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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 103. 



221. " Kings have tJiei?- Conquests." — I have met 

 witli a passage coiiiinencing thus : 



" Kings have their conquests, length of days their date, 

 Triumph its tomli, felicity its fate ; " 



followed by two more lines expressive of the in- 

 finity of Divine power, as compared with human, 

 which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to 

 be found ? James F. Absalon. 



Portsea. 



222. nrijden — Illustrations hj T. Holt White. 

 — The late T. Holt White, Esq. (who edited and 

 published in 1819 the Areopngitica of JMilton, 

 adding a very ably eom[)osed jireface, erudite 

 notes, and interesting illustrations), had compiled 

 in many interleaved volumes of the works of 

 Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir 

 AValter Scott, when he had turned over the leaves 

 of a few volumes, closed them, and is reported to 

 have said, " It would he unjust to meddle with such 

 a compilation; I see that I have not even straw to 

 mahe my hrichs ivitk." Can any one of your corre- 

 spondents inform me if that compilation has been 

 preserved, and where it is? iEGROTUs. 



22-3. Pauper's Badge, Meaning of. — In the 

 Churchwardens' Accounts for the parish of Eye 

 for the year 1716, is the tbllowing entry : 

 "22 July, 1716. 



" It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibhons 

 hath refused to weave tlie bad^/e, that she he not allowed 

 the collection [i. e. the weekly parish allowance] now 

 due, nor for the future w'' shall he due." 



Can any correspondent inform me what this 

 badge was, and also if it was of general use in other 

 places ? J. 13. Colman. 



224. The Landing of William Prince of Orange 

 in Torhay. Painted hy J. Nortkcote, R. A. — Can i 

 any of the readers of "Notes and Queries" in- | 

 form me who is the owner ol' the above-named 

 painting, which was in the E.xhibition of the \ 

 Ivoyal Acadeniy at the end of the last century, ] 

 and afterwaxds engraved by J. Parker ? i 



A. II. W. 1 



22.5. The LoioyofTunhridge. — Lambarde (Per- \ 

 ambulation of Kent, 1596, p. 425.) says, that round 

 about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory 

 commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient 

 records written Leucata or Leuga, which was a 

 French league of ground, and which was allotted 

 at first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was 

 natural brother to Richard, second Diike of Nor- 

 mandy of that name), in lieu of a town and land 

 called' I3ryonnie in Normandy, which belonged 

 to him, and which Robert, eldest son to King 

 William the Concjueror, seized and bestowed on 

 Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know 

 if there is at present any trace of such a terri- 

 tory remaining. E. N. W. 



South wark, Sept. 28. 1851. 



226. Pones of Birds. — Some naturalists speak 

 of the hollowness of the bones of birds as giving 

 them buoyancy, because they are filled with air. 

 It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I 

 sliould suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow 

 bones, (jidte empty, would be more buoyant than 

 if filled with air. Perhaps one of your cor- 

 respondents will kindly enlighten my ignorance, 

 and explain whether the air with which the bones 

 are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in 

 the more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied 

 by a gaseous expiration of less specific gravity 

 than the rarefied atmosphere ? 



Although of a different class from the queries 

 you usually insert, I hope you will not think this 

 foreign to the purpose of your useful miscellany. 



An Aeronaut. 



227. '■'■ Malvina, a Tragedy ^ — Can any of your 

 readers afford any inform.ition about (1.) Malvina, 

 a T?-agedy, Glasgow, printed by Andrew Foules, 

 1786, 8vo., pp. 68 ? A MS. note on the copy in 

 my library states it to be written by JNIr. John 

 Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) Iphigenia,a Tragedy 

 in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est. — Ovid. 

 MDCCLXxxvii. My copy has this MS. note : " By 

 John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," in the 

 handwriting of Francis, seventh Barcm Napier. 

 Neither of these tragedies is noticed in the Bio- 

 graphia Dra?natica. J. Mt. 



228. Rinuccini Gallery. — I see, by a late nimiber 

 o( ihii AthencBum newspaper, that the splendid col- 

 lection of pictures ])reserved in the Rinuccini 

 Palace at Florence will be brought to the hannner 

 in the month of May 1 852. It; has been stated, 

 that amongst the works of art at one period e.xtant 

 in the Rinuccini Palace, were a niunber of paintings 

 made by Italian artists for the Cardinal Rinuccini, 

 when on his Lcgatine mission to Ireland in the 

 middle of the seventeenth century, and represent- 

 ing his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in Novem- 

 ber 1645. It has also been asserted that these 

 interesting historical paintings were wilfidly de- 

 stroyeil from a very discreditabie motive. The 

 importance of these cartoons, as illustrating a 

 period when Ireland became the final battle-lield 

 of the contending parties which then divided the 

 British dominions, will at once be acknowledged; 

 and at this period, when so many foreigners arc 

 assembled in London, perhaps some reader of 

 "Notes and Queries" may be able to set the 

 question of the existence or destruction of these 

 cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person 

 al)out to seek the geniid air of Italy during the 

 winterinay bear this " Query" in mind, and for- 

 ward to your valuable paper a "Note" of the con- 

 tents of the Rinuccini Gallery. I need hardly say 

 that the person so doing will confer a favour on 

 every student of Irish history. James Graves. 



Kilkenny, Oct. 11. 



