May 31. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of the third line. — The word should be "mind," 

 not " course." 



The lines iU'e under the enc;raved bust of Fox, 

 prefixed to the edition, in elephant folio, of his 

 History of the eai-Jy Part of the Reign of James II., 

 and the word there given is " course " In 

 mv copy of tliat work is inserted a letter from 

 JMiller, the publisher, to a deceased friend of mine, 

 who was an original subscriber at " Five Guineas, 

 boards ! " 



That letter, so far as is materi.al, is as follows : — 

 " The error in the engraving of the writing was 

 certainly a very bad one, and not to be remedied, but 

 it is a satisfaction to me that it was Lord Holland's 

 mistake and not mine. I have his lordship's original 

 writing of the four lines to clear myself. W. Miller, 

 Albemarle Street, June 6, 1808." 



Q. D. 



JEjmdem Farina (Vol. iii., p. 278.). — This 

 phrase was nsed in a disparaging sense long before 

 the time of the " scholastic doctors and casuists of 

 the middle ages," as may ap])ear from Persiiis, 

 V. 115-117., where he is showing that an elevation 

 in rank does not necessarily produce a more ele- 

 vated tone of mind ; and says to an imaginary 

 upstart : 



" Sin tu, cum fueris nostra paulo aiite/'ir/nffi, 

 Pelliculam vetereni retines, et fronte politus 

 Astutara vapido servas sub pectore vulpem," &c. 



It is needless to add that the metaphor is taken 

 from loaves made from the '•'■same hatch" of flour, 

 where, if one be bad, all the others must be e(jually 

 so. J. Eastwood. 



Ecclesfield Hall. 



Stephens, in his Thesaurus, under the head of 

 " Farinae," states — 



" Proverbiales locutiones sunt, Ejusdem Faring, 

 Nostra; farinae," 



but makes no allusion to its being a term expres- 

 sive of baseness and disparagement. Nor does it 

 seem to be so used by Persius in v. 115. of his 

 5th Satire : 



" Si tu, cum fueris nostra? paulo ante farinas." 

 We emjjloy a somewhat similar expression, 

 when we say, " both of the same kidney." C. I. K. 



This expression may be traced beyond " the 

 scholastic doctors and casuists of the nriddle ages." 

 Erasmus, in his Adagia, says, — 



" Ejusdem farinae dicuntur, inter quos est indiscrcta 

 similitudo. Quod enlm ::(]ua ad a(|uain collala, idem 

 ad fariuam farinx. I'ersius in .5 Satyr. 



"' Nostra; paulo ante farinae, 

 Pelliculam veterem retines.' " 

 And again, on the proverb " Omnia idem pulvis," 

 he says, — 



" Quin nobis omnia idem, quod alunt, pulvis : allu- 

 deiis ;id defuiictoruin cincrcs, intur quos nihil apparet 

 diKcriniinis. Cuniinu itli quod alio demonstravimas 



proverbio, ejusdem farinas. Siquidem antiqui farinam 

 poUinem vocahant." 



Is. Casaubon, in a note on the above passage of 

 Persius, says, — 



" Proverbium Latinum ad notandum similltudinem, 

 ' est ejusdem farin.-e,' proprie locum habet in panibus." 



Though the expression is generally, if not always, 

 used disparagingly, as the corresponding expres- 

 sions " birds of a feather" and " of the same 

 kidney," yet I should doubt whether the term 

 " iarinoe" is itself expressive of baseness, anymore 

 than "feather" or "kidney." By the way, what 

 is the origin of the latter of the above expressions? 



E. S. T. T. 



The Sempecta (Vol. Iii., pp. 3-28. 357.). — I have 

 to return many thanks to Dk. JMaitland for his 

 kindness in so promptly answering my Query. The 

 reference to ]\Iartene has enabled me to find the 

 ])oem in question. It is in Martene and Durand's 

 Thesaurus nocus Anecdotornm^VAvh, 1717; and will 

 be found in vol. iii. col. 1333. The poem forms 

 caput iii. of the second book of the Ilistoria 

 Monastcrii Villariensis in Brahantia, ordinis Cis- 

 terciensis (a title which shows the monastery to 

 wliich the old soldier-monk belonged instead of 

 Croyland), and is headed "Iiicipit vita beati 

 Franconis." I think there are few of your readers 

 who Vvill not thank me for calling tlieir attention 

 to it, if they will take the trouble to refer to 

 Martene's work. H. R. Luard. 



Trin. Coll. iMay 5. 



'■'■ Nulli fraus tuta latehris" (Vol. iii., p. 323.) will 

 be found in Camera? . £mblcm., cent. ii. 40. Q. Q. 



Voltui7-e — where situated (Vol. iii., p. 329.). — 

 If the Querist will look to the Critical Essays of 

 an Octogenarian, by J. R. (the learned, venerable, 

 and respected James Roche, Esq., of Cork), he 

 will find, at p. 11. vol. i., that there is no such 

 place, the word "Voltaire" being merely a trans- 

 position of the name of the party assuming it as 

 a designation. Tlius, he was called Arouet Le 

 Jeune. Transpose the letters of Arouet L. J., and 

 allowing j, u and i, v to be used for each other, 

 you Iiave Voltaire. K. 



By the Bye (Vol.ii., p. 424.; Vol. ill., p.l09.).— 

 In further illustration of this phrase, I would ad- 

 vert to the practice of declaring by the bye, which 

 prevailed in the superior courts of common law, 

 befoie the Uniformity of Process Act (2 A\'ill. IV., 

 c. 39.). The following extract from Burton's 

 Exchequer Practice, 1791, vol. i. p. 149., will suf- 

 ficiently explain this happily ol)solete matter: — 



" By the old rules it is ordered, ' That upon every 

 defendant's a])pc'arance, the plaintilf may put in as 

 m:my diclaratiojis as he will against every such defen- 

 dant, provided they all he put in at one and the same 

 time.' If thrre he more than one declaration delivered 

 at the same time against the same defendant, every 



