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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 87. 



which have been sent, it may, perhaps, be worth 

 insertion. I was told by a printer tliat the phrase 

 had originated among tliose of his craft, since 

 young compositors experience great diificiilty in 

 discriminating between the types of the two letters. 



E. D. H. 



[A correspondent has kindly suggested a new version 

 of this saying, and suggests that for the future our 

 readers sliould be reminded to mind, not their i"s and 

 Q's, but their N's and Q's.] 



Banks, Family of (Vol. iii., pp. 390. 458.). — 

 In No. 81. R. C. H. H. asks if John B;inks the 

 ])hilosopher was descended from Sir John Banks, 

 Lord Chief Justice in Charles I.'s reijiii. 



As a grandson of the former, I take great in- 

 terest in this, but am sorry to say that 1 can give 

 no information at present on that branch of the 

 subject. The philosopher's family weie settled lor 

 some generations at Grange, near Keswick. I 

 should be obliged if R. C. H. H. would communi- 

 cate the name and publisher of the book on the 

 Lakes which he quotes from, as I am exceedingly 

 anxious to trace the genealogy. Bat. 



Liverpool, June 19. 1851. 



National Debts (Vol. iii., p. 374.).— The follow- 

 ing extract from La Cronica di Giocanni Villain, 

 lib. xii. c. 35., appears to have some reference to 

 the Query made by F. E. M. : 



" E nel dettomese di Febbraio, IS44, per lo comune 

 si fece ordine, che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere 

 dal comune per le prestanze fatte al tempo de' venti 

 della balia, come addieto facemmo menzionc, che si tro- 

 varono fiorini cinquecento-settautaraihi d'oro, sanza il 

 debito di Messer Mastino della Scala, eh' erano presso 

 a centomila fiorini d'oro, che si niettessono in uno re- 

 gistro ordinatemente ; e dare il comune ogni anno di 

 provvisione e usufrutto cin(|ue per ccntinaio, dando 

 ogni mose la paga per rata ; e dipntossi a fornire il detto 

 guiderilone parte alia gabella delle parti, e parte ad 

 altre gabelle, che montava I'anno da fiorini ventianque 

 mila d'oro, dov' eiano assegnate le paghe di Messer 

 Mastino ; e pagato lui, fossono assignati alia delta satis- 

 fazione ; il quale Messer Mastino fu pagato del niese 

 di Dicembre per lo modo che diremo innanzi. E 

 cominciossi la paga della delta provvisione del mese 

 d'Ottobre 1345." 



R. R. M. 



Monte di Pieta (Vol. iii., p. 372.). — In reply to 

 your corres])ondent W. B. H., requesting to be 

 informed of the connexion between a "Pieia" aad 

 a " Monte di Pieta," it may be observed that there 

 does not appear to be any necessary connexion 

 between the two expressions. The term " a Pieta" 

 is generally used to denote the figure of the dead 

 Saviour attended by His Blessed Mother : for 

 exam[)le, the celebrated one in St. Peter's at 

 Rome. The word " JNIonte," besides its significa- 

 tion of " montagna," expresses also " luogo publico 

 ove si danno oi si pigliano denari ad interesse ; " 



also " luogo publico altresi dove col pegno si pres- 

 tano denari con piccolo interesse." 



" Pieta," in addition to its signification of " de- 

 yozione," or " virtii per cui si ama ed onora Dia," 

 &c., which would apply to the figure of the dead 

 Saviour, expresses " compassione amorevole verso 

 il suo simile." 



Monte di Pieta would therefore be a place where 

 money was lent at interest, on such terms as were 

 in unison with a kind and compassionate feeling 

 towards our neighbour. This species of establish- 

 ment was first commenced in Italy towards the 

 end of the fifteenth century, by IlBeato Bernardino 

 da Feltri, who carried his opposition to the Jews 

 so far as to preach a crusade against them. The 

 earliest Monte of which any record appears to 

 exist was founded in the city of Padua, in 1491 ; 

 the effect of which was to cause the closing of 

 twelve loan banks belonging to the Jews. 



From Italy they were shortly afterwards intro- 

 duced info France. 



The first legal sanction given to these establish- 

 ments was granted by Pope Leo X. in 1551. 



R. R. M. 



jRegistiij of Dissenting Baptisms (Vol iii., 

 pp. 370. 460.). — From the replies to my Query 

 on this subject that have been published, it is 

 plain that in all parts of England Dissenters have 

 wished to procure the registry of their children's 

 births or baptisms in their parish churches. In 

 some instances they have been registered as dis- 

 senting baptisms ; and then the fact appears fi'om 

 the Registry itself. In other instances, and pro- 

 bably far the more numerous (though this would 

 be difficult to prove), they were registered amcmg 

 the canonical baptisms; and the fact of their being 

 performed by Dissenting Ministers is only dis- 

 coverable by reference to the Dissenting Register, 

 when it happens to have been preserved. So in 

 the instances referred to in p. 370., the baptisms 

 are registered without distinction from others in 

 the Registry of St. Peter's Church, Chester ; but 

 a duplicate registry as on the same day was made 

 at Cross Lane Meeting House, which is, I believe, 

 not in St. Peter's parish ; though, I presume, the 

 residence of the parents was in it. D. X. 



Eisell (Vol. iii , pp. 66. 397.). — I am not aware 

 that the following passage has been quoted by any 

 of the disputants in the late "Eisell" controversy. 

 It occurs in Jewel's Controversy loilh Harding, 

 pp. 651-2. of vol. ii. of the Parker Society's edition 

 of Jewel's works. 



" A Christian man removeth his household, and, 

 having there an image of Christ, equal unto him in 

 length, and breadth, and all proportion, by forgetfulness 

 leaveth it there in a secret place behind him. A Jew 

 after him inhabiteth the same house a long while, and 

 seeth it not ; another strange Jew, sitting there at din- 

 ner, immediately espielli it standing open against a 



