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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 87. 



Stanh-idge or Standbridge Earls. — Can any of 

 yoiir correspondents give me any information re- 

 specting Stanbridge or Stanbridge Earls, near 

 liomsey, Hants ? There are the remains of a palace 

 of the Saxon kings still thei'e, many parts of which 

 a^re in good preservation, the chapel being now 

 used as the kitchen of Stanbridge House ? 



I have also read that one of the kings was 

 buried in this chapel, and afterwards removed to 

 AVinchester ; but, having no note of the book, 

 should be glad to be referred to it. 



Colly Wobbles. 



Montchesni, or Muncey Family. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform us what has become 

 of the Norman line of Montchesni, or Muncey, a 

 family which, like those of Maldebauge and De 

 Loges, held baronial rank in England for several 

 generations after the Conquest, though it is now 

 forgotten ? P. 



Epitaph on Voltaire. — The late Sir F. Jeffrey, 



in a review of the correspondence of Baron de 



Grimm, quotes an epitaph on Voltaire, which he 



States to have been made by a lady of Lausanne : 



" Ci git I'enfant gate du monde qu'il gala." 



Has the name of this lady been ascertained ? 



Henry H. Bbeen. 

 St. Lucia, May, 1851. 



Passage in Coleridge's T'able Talk. — In Speci- 

 mens of Coleridge's Table Talk (p. 165., Murray, 

 1851) appears the following : — 



" So little did the early bishops and preachers think 

 their Christian faith wrapped up in, and solely to be 

 learned from, the New Testament, that I reniemljcr a 



letter from * to a friend of his, a bishop in 



the East, in which he rhost evidently speaks of the 

 Christian scriptures as of works of which the bishop 

 knew little or nothing." 



My object is to know how this blank is to be 

 filled up — probably by the name of some well- 

 known father of the church. George Lewes. 



Oxford, May 28. 



'■'■Men may Hue fools, but fools they cannot die." — 

 These words are given in Young's Night Thoughts 

 as a quotation. Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me whence they are taken ? E. J. K. 



Etymology of Bicetre. — In a work entitled De- 

 scription routiere et geographiqiie de VEmpire 

 Franqais, by R.V., Paris, 1813, the following notice 

 of Bicetre occurs in vol. i. p. 84. : — 



" On voit bientot, a peu de distance a droite, d'abord 

 dans un bas-fond, arros6 par la petite riviere de Bievre 

 oil des Gobelins, le village de Gentilly, qui se vante 

 de quelqu' anciennete, et d'un Concile tenu en 767 ; en- 

 suite, sur une eminence, au bout d'luie jolie avenue en 

 berceau, Thopital de Bicetre, qui, fonde en 1290 par 



un Eveque de Paris, appartint depuis, dit-on, a uh 

 Eveque de Wincester ou Wincestre, d'oii par corruption 

 on a fait Bicetre. 



" C'est une chose assez piquante que cette etymologie 

 anglaise. Les auteurs qui nous I'apprennent cussent 

 bien du nous en apprendre aussi les circonstances. J'ai 

 consulte a cet cgard tout ce qui etait a consulter, sans 

 faire d'autre d^Couverte que quelques contradictions 

 dans les dates, et sanspouvoiroffriraucun ^claircissement 

 historique a mes lecteurs, aussi curieux que moi, sans 

 doute, de savoir comment un pr61at anglais est venu 

 donner le nom de son eveche a un chateau de France." 



Is there any warrant in English history for this 

 derivation of Bicetre ; and if so, who wSs the Bi- 

 shop of Winchester that gave the name of his 

 diocese to that celebrated hospital ? 



Henry H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia, June, 1851. 



Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott. — M. 

 Barbier, in his Dictionnaire des Ouvrages nno- 

 nymes et pseiidonymes, says that Michael Scott is 

 a pseudonyme for Theobald Anguilbert, and as- 

 cribes the Mensa philosophica to the latter as the 

 real author. Can any one tell me who is Theo- 

 bald Anguilbert, for I can find no account of him 

 anywhere ? and if there ever was such a person, 

 whether all the writings bearing the name of 

 Michael Scott, wTio, by all accounts, appears to 

 have been a real person, are to be assigned to the 

 said Anguilbert? Tyro. 



Dublin. 



" Suum cuiqiie tribuere" ^c. — Can any of your 

 readers tell me wliere tlie following passage is to 

 be found? 



" Suum cuique tribuere, ea denum summa justitia 

 est." 



All persons of whom I have inquired, tell me it 

 is from Cicero, but no one can inform me where 

 it is to be found. M. D. 



" * I have lost the name which Mr. Coleridge men- 

 tioned.' — Editor's Note. 



Minor dhuctit^ ^n^iacrets. 



Organs first put up in Churches. — In the parish 

 register of Buxted, in Sussex, allusion is made to 

 the time when the organs were put up in the 

 church, but which had been taken down. This 

 entry was made in the year 1558. Any informa- 

 tion as to the earliest period when organs were 

 placed in our churches will much oblige. 



R. W. B. 



[Our correspondent will find some interesting mat- 

 ter on the early use of organs in churches in the Rev. 

 F. D. AVackerbath's Music and tfie Anglo-Saxons, 

 pp. 6 — 24. London. 8vo. 1837.] 



Ignoramus, Comoedia, ^-c. — Perhaps some of 

 your correspondents can enlighten me on the fol- 

 lowing points. 



1. Who was the author of this play? The 

 Latin is sufficiently ultra-canine for his pedantic 

 majesty himself. 



