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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 97. 



existence as "old wives' fables," or the production 

 of a disordered imagination. J. II. Kershaw. 



yEsop. — It may be said, at first sight, " Why, 

 every body knows all about him." I answer, 

 Perhaps abimt as much as modern painters and 

 artists know about Bacchus, whom they always 

 represent as a gross, vulgar, fat person : all the 

 ancient poets, however (and surely they ought to 

 know best), depict him an exquisitely beautiful 

 youth. A similar vulgar error exists with regard 

 to iEsop, who in the Eiicijclapwdia Britannicn is 

 pronounced a strikingly deformed personage. The 

 exact opposite seems to have been the truth. 

 Philostratus has left a description of a picture of 

 JEsop, whowas rejiresented with a chorus of animals 

 about him : he was painted smiling, and looking 

 thoughtfully on the ground, but not a word is said 

 of any deformity. Again, the Athenians erected a 

 statue to his honour, " and," says Eentley, " a 

 statue of him, if he were deformed, would only have 

 been a monument of his ugliness: it would have 

 been an indignity, rather tlian an honour to his 

 memory, to have perpetuated his deformity." 



And, lastly, he was sold into Samos by a slave- 

 dealer, and it is a well-known fact that these 

 people bought up the handsomest youths they 

 could procure. A. C. W. 



Bronipton. 



Nelsons Coat at Trafalgar (Vol. iv., p. 114.). — 

 Besides the loss of bullion from one of the epau- 

 lettes of Lord Nelson's coat occasioned by the 

 circumstance related by jEgeotus, there was a 

 similar defacement caused by the fatal bullet 

 itself, which might render the identification sug- 

 gested by .^grotus a little difficult. Sir VV. 

 Beatty says, in his Authentic Narrative of the 

 Death of Lord Nelson, p. 70. : 



" The ball struck the fore part of liis lordship's 



epaulette, and entered the left shoulder On 



removing the ball, a portion of the gold lace and pad 

 of tlie epaulette, together with a small piece of his 

 lordship's coat, was found firmly attached to it." 



The ball, with the adhering gold lace, &c., was 

 set in a crystal locket, and worn by Sir W. Beatty. 

 It is now, I believe, in the possession of Prince 

 Albert. 



The intention of my note (Vol. iii., p. 517.) was 

 to refute a common impression, probably derived 

 from Harrison's work, that Lord Nelson had 

 rashly adorned his admiral's uniform with extra 

 insignia on the day of the battle, and therel y 

 rendered himself a conspicuous object for the 

 French riflemen. Axfred Gattt. 



CSttnic;). 



JOHN KNOX. 



Li completing the proposed series of Knox's 

 writings, I should feel greatly indebted to Dr. 



]\Iaitland or any of your readers for answering the 

 following Queries : — 



1. In the Catalogue of writers on the Old and 

 New Testament, p. 107. : London, 1663, a sermon 

 on Ezechiel ix. 4., attributed to Knox, is said to 

 have been jirinted anno 1580. Where is there a 

 copy of this sermon preserved? 



2. Bale, and IMelchior Adam, copying Verheiden, 

 include in the list of Knox's writings, In Genesim 

 Condones. Is such a book known to exist ? 



3. Bishop Tanner also ascribes to him Exposi- 

 tion on Daniel : Malburg, 1529. This date is un- 

 questionably erroneous, and probably the book 

 also. 



4. Knox's elaborate treatise Against the Adver- 

 saries of God's Predestination was first published 

 at Geneva, 1560, by John Crespin. Toby Cooke, 

 in 1580, had a license to print Kiioxes Ansivere to 

 the Cauilkitions of ane Anabaptist. (Herbert's 

 Ame.% p. 1263.) Is there any evidence that the 

 work was reprinted earlier than 1591 ? 



5. The work itself professes to be in answer to 

 a book entitled The Confutation of the Errors of 

 the Careles by Necessilie ; " which book," it is 

 added, " written in the English tongue, doeth 

 contain as well the lies and blasphemies imagined 

 by Sebastian Castalio, .... as also the vane 

 reasons of Pighius, Sadoletus, and Georgius Sicu- 

 lus, pestilent Papistes, and expressed enemies of 

 God's free mercies." When was this Confutation 

 printed, and where is there a copy to be seen ? 



David Laing. 

 Edinburgh. 



116. " Eceda ministeria, atque ininis absistite 

 acerbis" (Vol. iii., p. 494.). — Will any of your 

 readers who may be metrical scholars, inform me 

 whether there is any classical example of such an 

 accent and CEesura as in this verse of Vida':* C. B. 



117. Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto. — The 

 Cornish arms are a field sable with fifteen 

 bezants, not balls as they are commonly called. 

 5. 4. 3. 2. I. in pale or. These arms were borne 

 by Condurus, the last Earl of Cornwall of British 

 blood, in the time of William I., and were so 

 borne until Richard, Earl of Cornwall, on being 

 created Earl of Poictou, took the arms of such. 

 According to the custom of the French, these 

 were a rampant lion guiles crowned or, in a field 

 argent : but to show forth Cornwall, he threw the 

 fifteen bezants into a bordour sable, round the 

 bearing of the Earl of Poictou ; but the Cornish 

 arms, those of Condurus, are unaltered, though 

 the coins are often mistaken for balls, and painted 

 on a field coloured to the painter's fancy. Can 

 3'ou tell me when the Cornish motto "one and 

 Jill" was adopted, and why? S. H. (2) 



