June 7. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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praises to be suiiir by anotlier poet, and therefore 

 added this well-intended but feeble supplement. 



J. II. M. 



Cotirt Dress (Vol. iii., p. 407.). — There are no 

 orders of the Earl iMarshal, printed or manuscript, 

 upon the subject of court costume — it is not within 

 Lis department. It is more lilcely that the Lord 

 Chamberlain has notices upon the subject. In all 

 cases of court mournino;, his lordship specifies 

 the dress, and notifies the changes, not always, 

 however, strictly adopted or comjn^ehended. 5- 



Ex Pede Herculem (Vol. iii., p. 302.). — The 

 origin of this proverb is to be found, I think, in 

 Plutarch, who is quoted by Aulus Gellius (i. 1.) 

 as saying in substance as follows : 



" Pytliagoras ingeniously calculated the great stature 

 of Hercules, by comparing the length of various stadia 

 in Greece. All these courses were nominally 600 feet 

 in length, but Hercules was said to have measred 

 out the stadium at Olympia with his own feet, while 

 the others followed a standard of later days. Tlie 

 philosopher argued that by how much the Olympic 

 course exceeded all otlicrs in length, by the same pro- 

 portion did the foot of Hercules exceed that of men of 

 a subsequent age ; and again, by the same proportion 

 must the stature of Hercules have been pre-eminent." 



(The original is to be found also in Plutai'cld 

 Taria Scripia, ed. Tauchnitz, vol. vi. p. 393.) 



C. P. Pa***. 



Nomina Regum Angt post 



Witts conquestor regnavit p - 



Witts Eufus regn p - - - 

 Henricus primus regii p - 



Steplms regii p - - - - 



Henr sco^us regii p . _ - 



Henf ?cius regii p unu annQ impfectum & 



Ricus regit p . _ . . 



Joties regii p _ - . - 



Henr ?dus regii p _ . . 

 Edwardu? prim^ regii p - 

 Edwardus scdus regii p - 



Edwardus ?cius regfi p - - - • 



Ricus scdus regii p - - - 



Henr quartus regn p - - - 



Henr quint° regn p - - - 



Henf sextus regii p - - - 



Edwardus quartus regn p - - 

 Ricus ?cius regn p ... 



Henricus septimus regn - - - 



Henricus octav^ regn - .. - 



Edwardus sextus - - - - 

 Pliilil)us et I\Iaria ... 



Elizabetii regina nunc - - . . 

 Jacobus (jui liodie regnat 

 Carol us Rex. 



The Day of the Accession of Richard III. 

 (Vol. iii., p. 351.). — I have examined the original 

 inrolment of the entry upon the Ilemembrance 

 Roll ex jhirie CupituUs llciiiemoraloris Hihernice, 

 of the second year of Richard III., with the fac- 

 simile of that entry which appears in the Irish 

 Record Reports (1810—1815, plate 9.), and I find 

 that the facsimile is correct. The accession of 

 Richard III. is shown by the entry upon the 

 original record to have taken place on the twenty- 

 sixth day of June. This entry is, as I have 

 stated, upon the roll of the second year of 

 Richard III., and not of the first year, as stated 

 by the said Record Reports, there being no Re- 

 membrance or Memoranda Roll of the first year 

 of that monarch to be found amongst the Ex- 

 chequer Records of Ireland. Upon this subject 

 of Richard III.'s accession, I beg to transmit to 

 you the copy of a regal table which is entered 

 in the Red Book of the Exchequer, probably the 

 most ancient, as well as the most curious, record 

 in Ireland. Judging by the character of the 

 handwriting of this Tabula Regum, I would come 

 to the conclusion, that the entries prior in date 

 to that of Henry VIII.'s reign have been made 

 during the time of that monarch ; or, in other 

 words, that this table has probably not been 

 compiled at any time previous to the reifjn of 

 Henry VIII. J. F. F. 



conquestii Wifii Bastard. 



- XXI anil. Beried at Cane. 



- XIII anil. 



- XXXVI anfi. 



- XX ann. 



- XXXVI ann. 

 ideo non del5 scribi. 



- IX auii. 



- XVIII anil. 



- LVi anii. 



- XXXV ami. 



- XIX anii. 



- L anii. & cxlviii dies. 



- XXII anii. & c dies. 



- XIII anu. q3 qr?iu° ann. ^HUJ., Ii dies. 



- IX anil. & qr?iu^ anni lxui dies. 



- xxxviii ann. quind & iii dies. 



- XXII anii: xxxvii dies. 



- 11 anu. tti. 



- xxiii ann. & di sex sept. 

 •■ xxxviii an. 



- VII an. 



- v. 



- XI.III. 



- XXII plane. 



