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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 100, 



" Feb. 21, 1748, was rung in this steeple a complete 

 5,040 of union trebles, never performed here before." 



" College Youths. — This society rung in this steeple, 

 Tuesday, April 10, 1787, a true and complete peal oi 

 5,040 grandsire triples in three hours and fourteen 

 minutes." 



A stone tablet in the bell cliamber of Ecclesfield 

 church records, that a few mouths ai;© " was rung 

 in this tower a peal of Kent treble bob major, 

 consisting of 5,024 changes in three hours and five 

 minutes." Alfred Gatty. 



Pope's "honest Factor" (Vol. iv., p. 6.). — If 

 any one ever made a rational guess at who this 

 factor may have been, he must have been still 

 more likely to have known who was meant by Sir 

 Salaam, at whose identity I have never yet heard 

 a guess. I suppose that hoih/actor and knight 

 were fancy characters. C. 



Belb in Churches (Vol. iv., p. 165.). — The 

 judgment stated to have been given by Lord 

 Chief Justice Campbell, was given by Lord Chief 

 Justice Jervis. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Virgil, Passage from (Vol. iii., p. 499.). — The 

 line of Virgil {Georg., lib. iv. 87.) quoted, 



" Pulveris exigul jactu compressa quiescunt," 

 and the preceding line, 



" Hi motus animorum atque hsec certamina tanta," 

 have been happily applied to the contr.asted quies- 

 cence of ^s//-Wednesday, immediately succeeding 

 the tumultuous carnival in Roman Catholic coun- 

 tries, when the cross marked by ashes on the fore- 

 head lulls to quiet the turbulent spirits of the pre- 

 vious weeks. J. R. 



Duke of Berwick (Vol. iv., p. 133.). — The Duke 

 of Berwick, born in 1671, and so created the 19th 

 of Maritli, 1687, by his father (natural) James II., 

 was indeed a Spanish grandee, which he was 

 made by Rhilip V., after his victory of Almanza, 

 in 1707 ; but the title was Liria, not Alva, which 

 belonged to the great house of Toledo, and was 

 rendered famous (or infamous) by its bearer under 

 Philip II. Berwick, however, transferred this 

 Spanish title of Liria to his son James, by his 

 first wife Iloncra de Burgh, daughter of William, 

 seventh Earl of Clanrickard, with the annexed 

 territory, or majorat. She was the widow of 

 Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, who conducted 

 14,000 Irish refugees to France in 1691, after 

 the surrender of Limerick to Ginkle. She died 

 of consumption, still young, at Montpelier, in 

 1698. The Duke of St. Simon, in his Memoires, 

 tome ii. p. 92., describes her as " belle, faite a 

 peindre, touchante — une nymphe enlin;" but, 

 though personally acquainted with her, he names 

 her the daughter, instead of the widow, of Lucan. 

 Berwick afterwards married Miss Buckley, one of 



the Queen Mary d'Este's maids of honour, by 

 whom he had several children, who assumed the 

 name of Fitz-James. Their descendants were 

 colonels or proprietaires of the Irish Brigade regi- 

 ment, called, after their founder, Berwick. The 

 Spanish branch still maintains its rank and estates. 

 Berwick was killed at the siege of Philpsburg, iu 

 Baden, the 12th June, 1734. His military talents 

 were of acknowledged superiority ; so far more re- 

 sembling his uncle Marlborough than his father, 

 whose dastardly flight at the Boyne he indignantly 

 witnessed. His Memoires, in two volumes 12rao., 

 were published from his manuscript by his grand- 

 son, the Duke of Fitz-James, iu 1778. J. R. 

 Cork. 



Nullus and Nemo (Vol. iv., p. 153.). — The in- 

 terpretation of "M.'s" woodcut will be found in 

 Ulrich von Hutten's elegiac verses, which are ex- 

 hibited in his OTTIS, Nemo. Your correspondent's 

 amusing conjecture about "nobody's child" was 

 quite correct, as these lines prove : 

 " Qua-rendus puero pater est : Nemo obtigit. At tu. 



Si me audls, alium stulta require patrem." 



I suspect that "M.'s" old 4to. tracts bear a 

 somewhat earlier date than 1520-30; but pro- 

 bably, this matter might be determined byBurck- 

 liard's Commentarius de Ulrici ab Hutten fatis et 

 meritis, or by his Analecta (Cf. Freytag, Adpar. 

 Lit. iii. 519.), or by means of Mlinck's collection of 

 De Hutten's works. I happen to have copies of 

 two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are 

 undated, must appertain to the year 1518. This 

 was not, however, the period of the first publi- 

 cation of the poem ; for the author, in a letter 

 addressed to Erasmus in October, 1516, mentions 

 it as having then appeared (Niceron, Memoires, 

 XV. 266.) : but the original impression of this 

 satirical performance is without the prefatory 

 epistle to Crotus Rubianus [Johan Jager], who 

 is believed to have had no inconsiderable share 

 in the composition of the celebrated Epistola ob- 

 scurorum Virorum. E.. G. 



G)'im.idi/ke (Vol. iv., p. 192.). — lean mention at 

 all events one other earthwork named Grimsdyke 

 in England — the great earthwork, viz., south of 

 Salisbury, which is called Grimsdyke. Mr. Guest 

 has stated his belief that it was not a Belgic work, 

 but a boundary line made by the AVelsh after the 

 treaty of the Mons Badonicus. W. S. G. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Coke, how pronounced (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 93. 

 13S.). — Respecting the pronunciation of the name 

 of Coke at page 138., I recollect having some dis- 

 cussion on it in 1812 with the late Mr. Andrew 

 Lynch, jMaster in Chancery, then a student at the 

 Temple, when he corrected me for calling it Cooke, 

 which he maintained should be called Coake. We 

 happened to dine that day at Mr. Charles Butler's, 



