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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



351 



Matthew siii. 14. : 



" And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, 

 which saith, By hearing^ ye shall hear, and shall not 

 understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not per- 

 ceive.' " 



This proverb seems to have been common to all 

 ages and countries. It is of frequent occurrence 

 in the New Testament (Mark iv. 12. ; viii. 18.; 

 John xii. 40. ; Acts xxviii. 25. ; Romans xi. 8.), 

 and, as in Matthew, is referred to Isaiah. But, in 

 the Old Testament, there is earlier authority for 

 its use in Deuteronomy xxix. 4. It occurs also in 

 Jeremiah v. 21. ; in Ezekiel xii. 2., and, with a 

 somewhat different application,^ in the Psahns, 

 cxv. 5. ; cxx.xv. 16. 



That it was employed as an established proverb 

 by Demosthenes seems to have been generally 

 overlooked. He says :, 



" Oi fih' ovTus dpwvTfs Tct TUf rirvxrixJiToiv (pya, 

 &a'Te TOTris TTapoifj-ias, bpwvm fx)) opciv, no} aicovovras fi^ 

 oKoi'eic. (KaTci- ' Apuno-y^irovos, A. Taylor, Cantab., 

 vol. ii. pp. 494-5.) 



It is quoted, however, by Pricfeus (p. 97.), who 

 also supplies exactly corresponding passages from 

 Maximus Tyrius (a. i>. 190), Plutarch (a.d. 107-- 

 20), and Philo (a. d. 41). Of these, the last only 

 can have been prior to the publication of St. Mat- 

 thew'^s Gospel, which Saxius places, at the earliest, 

 in the reign of Claudius. 



Hugo Grotius has no reference to Demosthenes 

 in his Ajinotationes in Vet. Test., Vogel & Doderein, 

 1776; but cites Heraclitus the Ephesian, who, 

 according to Saxius, flourished in the year 502 

 B. c, and Aristides, who, on the same authority, 

 lived inthe i26th year of the Christian era. Has 

 any other commentator besides Pricasus alluded to 

 the passage in Demosthenes ? C. H. P. 



Brighton, April 21. 



THE nOtrSE OF MAILLE. 



Tlie house of Maille (vide Lord Mahon's Life 

 e^ Condi) contributed to the Crusades one of its 

 bravest champions. Can any of j'our numerous 

 contributors give me informati(m as to the name 

 and achievements of the Crusader ? 



Claire Clemence de Maille, daughter of tlie 

 Marechal Duke de Breze, and niece of Richelieu, 

 was married in 1641 to tiie Due d'Engliien, after- 

 wards the Great Condc ; and Lord Mahon, some- 

 where in liis life of the hero, makes mention of the 

 princess as the "last of her family." 



Claire Clenujnce had an only brother, who held 

 *lie exalted post of High Admiral of France, and 

 ki 164C he commanded a French fleet which dis- 

 embarked 800O niea in the marshes ol' Sienna, and 

 fcamself slijortly afterwanls fell at the siege of Oibi- 

 tello. The admiral having died unmarried, the 

 Breze estates became the propei'ty of the princess, 



who transmitted them to her descendants, the last 

 of whom was the unfortunate Due d'Enghien, who 

 perished at Vincennes. 



Thus much is patent ; but I think it probable 

 his lordship was not aware that a branch of the 

 family was exiled, and with the La Touches, La 

 Bertouches, &c., settled in the sister kingdom,^ 

 most likely at the Revocation of the Edict of 

 Nantes. Their descendants subsequently passed 

 over into this country, and have contributed to the 

 lists of the legal and medical professions. Up to 

 the present century a gentleman bearing the 

 slightly altered name of Mallie held a commission 

 in "the "British army. Even now, the family is not 

 extinct, and the writer being lately on a visit to a 

 lady, probably the sole representative in name of 

 this once powerful house, noticed in her possession 

 a series of f(mr small engravings, representing the 

 Great Conde ; his mother, a princess of Montmo- 

 rency, pronounced to be the " handsomest woman 

 in Europe;" the old Marechal de Maille Breze ; 

 and his daughter, Claire Clemence. 



Our Bull Mall is,, I believe, derived froPi Pailee 

 Maille, a game somewhat analogous to cricket, and 

 imported' from France in the reign of the second 

 Charles : it was formerly played in St. James's 

 Park, and in the exercise of the sport a small 

 hammer or mallet was used to strike the ball. I 

 think it worth noting that the Mallie crest is a 

 mailed arm and hand, the latter grasping a mallet. 



Be it understood that the writer has no preten- 

 sions to a knowledge of heraldic terms and devices; 

 so, without pinning any argument on tlie coinci- 

 dence, he tlfOughtU not without interest. He is 

 aware that the mere fact of a similarity between 

 surnames and crests is not without its parallel in 

 English families. A New Subscexber. 



Birmingham, April 22. 1851. 



Meaning of " eign." — What is the meaning 

 of the word "eign" in Presteign, also the name 

 of a street and a brook ? Is it connected with the 

 Anglo-Saxon the gen qv theign? H. C. K. 



Hereford. 



T/ic Bonny Cravat. — Can any of your readers 

 give a probable explanation of the meaning of the 

 sign of an inn at AVoodchurch, in Kent, which is 

 "The Bonny Cravat," now symbolised as a huge 

 white neckcloth, with a "waterfall" tie? 



E. H. Y. 



What was the Day of the Accession of Richard 

 JZ/,.?— Sir Harris Nicolas, in his Chronology of 

 History (2nd edition, p. 326.) decides for Juiie 26, 

 1433, giving, strong reasons ibr such opmion. 

 But his primary reason, founded on a fac-smnle 

 extract from the IMcraoranda Rolls in the ofiice 

 of the King's llemembraucer. in the Exchequer of 



