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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 96. 



account of De Missy will be found in Chalmers's 

 Blngraphical Dictiondry, under De Missij ,- and a list 

 of his works in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, art. 



Miisi/.'] 



F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor (Vol. ii., 

 p. 263.). — "An acre sown with royal seed," &c. 

 Would M. W. kindly say where the passage in 

 Beaumont is to be found ? C. P. E. 



[The passage occurs in the poem entitled " On the 

 Tombs in Westminster Abbey." See Beaumont and 

 Fletcher's Works, vol. ii. p. 709. edit. 1840.] 



" Carve out Dials." — 



" ■ Carve out dials, quaintly, point by point. 



Thereby to set the minutes, how they run, 

 How many make the Hour full, complete; 

 How many hours bring about the Day." 



Where is the above quotation from ? It heads 

 an advertisement of the Sam Slick Clocks. 



G. Ckeed. 



[It will be found in Shakspeare's King Henry VI., 

 Part III. Act Ii. Sc. 5.] 



Log Book. — What is the origin of Log Book ? 



G. Creed. 



[Tlie Log honrd no doubt gave rise to the Log honh, 

 as being more convenient for preserving a record of the 

 ship's course, winds, and weather. Consult Falconer's 

 Dictionary of the Marine.l 



Lord Clydesdale. — Would you kindly inform 

 me who was the "Lord Mar. Clydesdale," or 

 "Clidsdale," whose name appears as a commoner 

 of St. Mary's College, Winchester, in 1735 ; and 

 in other Rolls about tliat date? 



Mackenzle Walcott, M.A. 



P. S. May I in your columns beg all Wyke- 

 hamists to send to me, under care of my publisher, 

 any information concerning their old school ? 



[James, Marquis of Clydesdale, was afterwards fifth 

 Duke of Hamilton, and second Duke of Brandon. 

 See Douglas' Peerage of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 473. 722.] 



" Ti7ne is the Stuff of which Life is made" — 

 There is a phrase, " Time is the stuff that life is 

 made of," which has been taken for a line of 

 Siiakspeare. A reference to Mrs. Clark's Con- 

 cordance shows that that supposition is erroneous. 

 Can any of your readers inform me where tiie 

 plirase may be found ? H. 



[It occurs in Dr. Franklin's JForks, vol. iii. p. 454., 

 edit. 1806, in the article "The Way to Wealth, as 

 clearly shown in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania 

 Almanack, intitled. Poor Richard Improved." He 

 says, " But dost thou love life, then do not squander 

 time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor 

 Richard siiys." Franklin may have quoted it from 

 some previous author.] 



"Yet forty Days" (Jonah iii. 4.). — "Yet 

 forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown." — 



Septuagint (Baxter's edition): ""En rpeis rjfiepui," 

 &c. : " Yet th7-ee days." — How is this ? Nedlam. 



[Tpeis is the common reading of the LXX. as 

 D"'j)inN of the Hebrew. We know of no variants. 

 J. H. Michaelis' account of the matter is, " Perperam 

 vero LXX. hunc quadragenarium dierum numerum in 

 triduanum commutarunt."] 



The Empress Helena. — Most readers of general 

 history are aware that the parentage of the re- 

 nowned mother of the still more renowned Con- 

 stantino has been claimed for two widely different 

 sources, — a Bi-itisli king on the one hand, and an 

 innkeeper of Bithynia on the other. In favour of 

 the former, we have Geoffrey of Monmouth, Carte 

 the English historian, and modern Welsh authors; 

 for the latter, Gibbon and his authorities. The 

 object of the present Query is threefold: I.Will 

 some one having access to Geoffrey be kind enough 

 to favour me (in the original or a translation) 

 with the exact statement of the chronicler to 

 which Gibbon refers ? 2. Are writers of intel- 

 ligence and credit quite agreed that the tradition 

 vifhich assigns to the wife of Constantius a royal 

 British parentage was " invented in the dai'Iiness 

 of monasteries?" 3. Wnere is the question — one 

 of interest in many ways — fully and satisfactorily 

 discussed ? H. 



[The statement will be found in Geoffrey's British 

 History, book v. ch. 6. : — " After the decease of Coel, 

 a petty prince of Caercolvin [Colchester], Constantius 

 himself was crowned, and married the daughter of 

 Coel *, whose name was Helena. She surpassed all the 

 ladies of the country in beauty, as she did all others of 

 the time in her skill in music and the liberal arts. 

 Her father had no other issue to succeed him on the 

 throne; for which reason he was very careful about 

 her education, that she might be better qualified to 

 govern the kingdom. Constantius, therefore, having 

 made her partner of his bed, bad a son by her called 

 Constantine." Thus far Geoffrey; and with him agree 

 Baronius, Usshcr, Stillingfleet, and Camden. The 

 learned Lipsius' opinion of tliis tradition, in his letter to 

 Mr. Camden, will be found in his Epii-lles, page 64. 

 The tradition, however, is not mentioned by Gildas, 

 Nennius, or Bede. Our correspondent will find a long 

 discussion on this disputed point in Alban Butler's 

 Lives nf the Saints, August IS, Art. " S. Helen." See 

 also Tillemont, Hist, des Empcreurs, t. iv.] 



MeiilicS. 



ROYAL LIBRARY. 



(Vol. iii., p. 427. ; Vol. iv., p. 69.) 

 I have delayed contradicting the stories told 

 about the Royal Library in the Quarterly Review 



* This petty king is probably the hero of the old 

 popular ditty : 



" Old King Coel, 

 Was a merry old soul," &c. 



