238. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 100. 



" August 15, 1817. At Dr. R.'s house, at Fraiii- 

 iiifham (a small village four miles from Norwich), 

 Mrs. R., who in 1804 had first brought him twins, 

 was safely delivered of four living children, three sons 

 and a daughter, who were privately baptized by the 

 names of Primus John, Secundus Charles Henry, 

 Tertius Robert Palgrave, and Quarta Caroline. They 

 were weighed with their shirts on by Dr. Hamel, 

 physician to the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, who 

 paid Dr. R. a visit a few days after the quadruple 

 birth, and were found to be 21 lbs. 2 oz. One lived 

 eighteen days ; the other three from eight to ten weeks. 

 Dr. R. being a grandfather at the time, the children 

 were born great-uncles and a great-aunt." 



They are buried in Framlngham Earl cburcb- 

 yard, where is a table monument over their re- 

 mains, setting forth the above particulars in full, 

 with the respective periods of their deaths. 



Dr. R. was Mayor of Norwich in 1803, and, as 

 J. R. states, an eminent physician of that city. 

 He was the author of An Essay on Animal Heat, 

 On the Agriculture of Framingham and Holhhnm, 

 and of other works on Midwitery, Medicine, and 

 Agriculture. He died Oct. 27, 1821, aged seventy- 

 three years. Cowgill. 



Winifreda (Vol. lii., p. 27. ; Vol. iv., p. 196.).— 

 Notwithstanding the MS. note referred to by 

 Dr. RiMBAtJLT in a recent number, I cannot 

 think that G. A. Stevens was the author of " Wini- 

 freda," as he had barely attained his sixteentli 

 vear when that song was first printed in 1726. 

 Neither is it easy to imagine that the common- 

 place lines quoted in Reed's Biographin Dramatica, 

 vol. i. p. 687., from Stevens's poem called "Reli- 

 gion, or the Libertine Repentant," and "AVini- 

 I'reda," could have been the production of the same 

 person. We learn also from Reed, that, owing to 

 a pirated edition of Stevens's songs being pub- 

 lished at Whitehaven, he in 1772 printed a ge- 

 nuine collection of them at Oxford. This book I 

 never met with. Should it contain Winifreda, I 

 shall be satisfied : if not, we may still say of the 

 mysterious author, " Non est inventus." 



Bratbrooke. 



Querelle d'Alleman (Vol. iii., p. 495.), not 

 (TAllemaiid, as your correspondent Mr. Breen has 

 written it ; this saying deriving its origin from the 

 Allemans, a powerful family of the Dauphine, in 

 the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and having 

 no reference whatever to the national character of 

 the Germans, as will appear by the following ex- 

 tract from the Revue Uistorique de la Noblesse, 

 voce Alleman : — 



" Durant le 13« et le 14' siocle, la region mon- 

 tagneuse qui s'eleve entre le Drac et I'lsere etait 

 presque en totalite le domaine d'une immense famille 

 de seigneurs qui portaient tons le nom (TAlleman. . . . 

 Jamais souche feodale ne produisit plus de rameaux, 

 et nuUe part les membres d'une raeme famille ne se 

 grouperent autour de leurs chefs avec un soin plus 



jaloux. ... lis se niariaient entre eux, jugeaient entre 

 enx leurs differends, et en toute circonstance se prc- 

 taicnt les uns aux autres un infaillible appui. Malheur 

 a I'imprudent voisin qui eiit trouble dans son heritage 

 ou dans son honneur Ic plus humble des Alleman. Sur 

 la plaints de I'offunae, un conseil de famille etait reuni, 

 la guerre votee par acclamations, et Ton voyait bientot 

 deboucher dans la plainc de Grenoble les bandes 

 armies qui guidaient au chiitiment de I'agresseur les 

 bannieres d'Uriage et de Valbonnais." 



Hence, from the ardour with which this family 

 avenged the smallest injury, came the saying, 

 '■'■ Faire une querelle d' Alleman;" to which Oudln, 

 in his Curiosites Franqoises, gives the folloAving 

 interpretation : — 



" Querelle d^ Alleman, fondee sur peu de sujet et facile 

 a appaiser." 



Having reference to the same family was a!?o 

 the proverb, known in the Dauphine, " Gare la 

 queue des Alleman, " applied to those entering upon 

 some difficult enterprise ; in other words, " mind 

 the consequences." 



In Le Rotix de Lincy's Livres des Proverhes 

 Franqais, vol. ii. p. 15., I find the following : 

 " Arces, Varces, Granges et Comiers, 



Tel les regarde qui ni les ose ferier, 



Mais gare la queue d' Alleman et des Brangiers." 



PHiLir S. King. 



Coins of Constantius II. (Vol. ii., pp. 42. 254.). — 

 Not being exactly satisfied with my Ibrmer reply 

 to Mr. Witton on this subject, I have made 

 further search on the subject in numismatic works, 

 and I would refer him to the following note in 

 Banduri, vol. ii. p. 418. : — 



" G.alll nuraismata Antiquarii olim cum nummis 

 Constantii Augusti confundebant ; sed Erud. Hardui- 

 nus numismata omnia Constantii Ca;saris (Galli) in 

 quibns pel. temp, reparatio. item ea in quibus con- 

 sTANTivs. ivN. appellatur, aut fl. cl. coxstantivs, ad 

 Galium nostrum pertinere ostendit ; in quilnis omni- 

 bus cum eadcm effigies expressa sit a Constantii 

 Augusti effigie plurimum diversa, et caput nudum 

 semper sit ; omnia numismata in quibus et caput nu- 

 dum, et idem qui in cieteris vultus conspicitur, ad eun- 

 dem Galium retulimus, tametsi eorum numismatum 

 nonnulla fl. ivl. Constantium appellent. Hand dis- 

 simulandum tamen dcscripta ab Oceone fiiisse numis- 

 mata duo Constantii Augusti, in quibus fl. cl. 

 Constantius nominatur, qua; inter numismata illius 

 Principis ex rere incertl moduli exhibuimus supra. 

 Caeterum hujus Principis nummi omnes ex argfnto 

 rari sunt, et desiderantur in Mediobarbo, excepto hoc, 

 quem perperam (licet ex Tristano) inter jrreos recenset 

 laudatus Mediobarbus, et duobus scquentibus." 



On the whole, therefore, T conclude, that we 

 may more safely assign to Gallus the hai-e head ; 

 the legends " constantivs ivn." and "fl. cl. 

 coNSTANTivs," and the diademed head, and the 

 legends, "fl.ivl.constantivs," and "constantivs 

 AVG.," to Constantius IL Those with " fl. val. 



