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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 86. 



we also find the name of John de Logis, who bore 

 az. a cinque foile ar. 



I think, therefore, that M. J. T. (p. 189.) is in 

 erroi- iu conCounding the family of Ordardus de 

 Logis with that of the Baron of Plugh Lupus. The 

 names of the Norman nobles were territorial ; and 

 it is probable that these wortliies were not related, 

 as the names were spelt differently. According 

 to the Doomsday Survey, Gunuld, the widow of 

 Geri de Loges, held the manor of Guiting Power 

 in Gloucestershire. 



The elder line of Ordardus de Logis, Baron of 

 Wigton, terminated in an heiress, who carried the 

 estate into the family of Lucy (I think in the 

 reign of Edward III.), Adam, the seventh and 

 last baron, having died without male issue ; and it 

 afterwards became the property, by marriage, of 

 the ancestor of the present Earl of Carlisle. The 

 descendants of Ordardus are still to be found in 

 the remote valleys of the north of Yorkshire, and 

 in parts of Durham: and I have been told that 

 the Rev. John Lodge, late Fellow of Magdalen 

 College, Cambridge, claimed to be of this family. 



S. 



Oxford, June 13, 1851. 



Epitaph (Vol. iii., pp. 242. 339.). — I have be- 

 fore me a 24nio. tract of forty-seven pages : 



" Nicolai Barnaudi a Crista Arnaudi Delphinatis, 

 Philosopbi et Medici, Commentarioliun in .'Eiiig- 

 maticum quoddam epitapliium Bonoiiia; studionim, 

 ante multa sccula marmoreo lapidi insculptum. Huic 

 additi sunt Processus Clia?mlci non pauci. Niliit sine 

 Numine, Lugduni, Batavorum, cio.io.iiio." 



The first thirty pages ai-e devoted to the epitaph 

 on jElia Lselia Crispus. "We ai'e told : — 



"Nee defueruiit alii, qui, ut audio, Animam liominls, 

 alii nubium Aqiiam, alii, ut hie iiitellcxi a viro de 

 litteris bene merito, Eunuchum quemdam, alii alia 

 varia, hoe epitaphio tractari pliantasmala suis scriptis 

 contenderunt. Ha;c ego cum intellexissein, eoium 

 misertus, qui abditioris philosophia; in castris militant, 

 operte pretium facturum me existiniavi, si trismegis- 

 ticura hoc epitaphium eis aperire conarcr." 



This he proceeds to do very satisfixctorily, as 

 the following specimen will show : — 



" ^Elia. Solaris, dubio procul, ut nomcn indleat, sive 

 solis filia, immo substantia, essentia, radius, virtus, ct 

 ilia quidem invisibilis solis nostri, ne qnis earn a sole 

 vulgi natam, perpevam cogitet ; neque tamen desunt, 

 qui earn ex Urani et Vesta; filio, Saturno, et Ope ejus 

 sorore, a qua cum plures Satuinus suscepisset liberos, 

 eosque vorasset, et e vestigio evomuisset, Jupiter ser- 

 vatus, ejusque loco lapis Saturno presentatus fuit, ac 

 si eum peperisset Opis, ab ipsis inquam, earn natam 

 esse cogitent ; at quidquid sit, iEi.iA, seu Solaris est, 

 neque tamen (tanta est ejus amplitudo), astro illo, 

 raundi oculo araicta incedit ; sed et altero, minoro lu- 

 minari, Luna, qua; sub pedibus ejus est comitata, ideo 

 etiam dicitur L^elia, quasi solis arnica, etc., etc." 



On a fly-leaf I find the following written by an 

 unknown hand : 



" Commentarios in hoc epitaphiutn scripserunt Jo- 

 annes Trevius Brugensis, et Kichardus vitus Basin- 

 stocliius, juiisconsultus Anglus cujus liber editus Dur- 

 drecti apud J. van Leonem Berawoul, Anno 1618. 

 Vid. et de hoc enigmate Boxhorn." 



If Mr. Crossley does not make this note 

 wholly superfluous, make use of it as you please. 



J. S. 

 Woudenberg, May 12. 1851. 



Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots (Vol. iii., p. 369.). 

 — The following version of this prayer, differing 

 from that given by Mr. Falconer, may be in- 

 teresting. 



In Archdeacon Bonney's Historic Notices in 

 reference to Fotheringay, p. 109., this note occurs : 

 " Seward asserts that the following lines were re- 

 peated by the Queen of Scots immediately before her 

 execution. They are set to music by the late Dr. Har- 

 rington, of Bath, and other musicians. 

 " ' O Domine Deus, speravi in Te I 

 O chare mi Jesus, nunc libera me! 

 In dura catena, in misera poena, desidero Te ; 

 Languendo, gemendo, et gennflectendo, 

 Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me.' 



TRANSLATION. 



' O Lord my God, I have relied in Thee 1 

 Now, O dear Jesu, set me, set me free I 

 In chains, in pains, long have I wished for Thee ; 

 Faint, and with groaiLs, I, bowing on my knee, 

 Adore, implore Thee, Lord, to set me free.' " 



I may add, that tlie Latin lines have recently 

 been very beautifully set to music by that eminent 

 composer, Mrs. Kingston. W. G. M. 



Your correspondent on the subject of the lines 

 said to have been repeated by Mary Queen of 

 Scots on the scaffold, furnishes a translation of 

 them in lieu of others, which he condemns ; and 

 his version has provoked me to try my hand at 

 one, in which I have studied rhythm more than 

 rhyme : the rhythm and the intensity of the 

 original. 



" Great God, I have trusted 

 In peril on Thee ! 

 Dear Jesus, Redeemer, 



Deliver thou me I 

 In my prison-house groaning, 



I long but for Thee ; 

 Languishing, moaning, 



Bow'd down on bent knee, 

 I adore Thee, implore Thee, 

 From my sins set me free." 



Alan. 



Aristophanes on the Bfodem Stage (Vol. iii., 

 pp. 105. 250.). — Finding that no correspondent of 

 yours, in answer to a Query which appeared some 

 time back, viz. : " AVhether any play of Aristo- 

 phanes hud ever been adapted to the modern 



