Oct. 25. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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object of my curiosity is tlie Latin epigram in tlie 

 Queen's hand, and sup])03ed (I suspect erroneously) 

 to be her composition. The lines are: 



" Sarpe mea? dixi ' tandem discede' puellce — 

 In gremio sedit protiniis ilia meo; 

 Saepe ' pudet ' dixi ; Lacrimis vix ilia retentis 

 ' Me miseram cur te,' dixit 'aniare pudet?'" 



The obvious reason for doubting ex facie that 

 this is the Queen's composition, is its masculine 

 character; but some of your many learned corre- 

 spondents may be able to say whether the verses 

 are to be found elsewhere, and attributed to any 

 other autlior ? 



I myself have not seen the volume for above 

 fifty years ; but the foregoing extracts have been 

 furnished me by a Iriend who lately examined it. 

 One curious particular, however, I remember. 

 The capital letters at the head of the several di- 

 visions of the work are, after the manner of the 

 time, ornamented with devices, and one of these, 

 which Queen Mary must have seen (\{ she, indeed, 

 wrote the MS. notes), is of a most grotesque 

 character, totally unfit for a lady's, or indeed for 

 any body's eye ; and I dare say that page was 

 not exhibited in 1849. C. 



:^tnor ^utrtc^ ^nstDcreJj. 



Meaning of Farlieu. — Devonshire leases for 

 lives often reserve a monev payment on the death 

 of each life as a "heriot" or "farlieu." Can you 

 inform me of the etymology and meaning of the 

 latter word ? it appears almost synonymous with 

 " heriot." Clericus. 



[Bailey, in his Dictionary, says " Farleu or Farley is 

 a duty of sixpence paid to the lord of the manor of 

 West Slapton in Devonshire, in the western parts ; 

 farleu being distinguished as the best good thing from 

 heriot the best beast."] 



^'History of Anglesey^ — I would be glad if 

 any of your readers car> afford me any inform- 

 ation ren^ardinfj the writer of a work bearinsr the 

 following title: — 



" A History of the Island of Anglesey, from its first 

 Invasion by the Romans, until finally acceded to the 

 Crown of England, &c. Serving as a Supplement to 

 Rowlands' JMona .'\ntiqua Ucstaurata. To which are 

 also added, Memoirs of Owen Glendower, 4to. Lond. 

 1775, pp. 8S." 



Watt, in his liihliotheca Sritannica, ascribes to 

 Dr. John Campbell, author of a Political Survey 

 of Great Britain, &c., &c., the authorship of a 

 little work entitled — 



" A true and exact Description of the Island of 

 Shetland, dc. 'J'ogether with an account of the Great 

 Wliite Herring I''isliery of that place, I'Jmo. Lond. 

 1750, and 2d ed. 175:!.'" 



In tlie preface the writer states that ho spent five 

 years in Siietland. Now 1 want to know if Dr. 



Campbell ever spent five years ia Shetland; for if 

 not, he could not be the author, tliough it wouhl 

 appear from vol. i. p. 679. of the Political Survey 

 that he had at least visited Shetland more than 

 once. Also, as I have only the second edition, if 

 any one would be so kind as to give me a copy of 

 the title-page of the first edition, and the number 

 of pages, I would feel obliged, as I suspect that in 

 both these respects the editions differ. Bopeaj. 



[The following is a copy of the title-paije of the 

 first edition of the latter work : — "An Exact and 

 Authentic Account of the greatest White Herring 

 Fishery in Scotland, carried on yearly in the Island of 

 Zetland, by the Dutch only. Tlie Method the Dutch 

 use in catching the Herrings, and an exact account of 

 their way of curing, and lasting, or casking them. 

 And a Method laid down whereby we may easily 

 engross that profitable branch of trade into our own 

 liands. To which is ])refixed a Description of the 

 Island, its situation, produce, the manners and customs 

 of the inhabitants, and their method of tra-ling with the 

 Dutch. By a Genileman who resided Five Years on 

 tlie Island. London; Printed for Joseph Davidson, at 

 the Angel, in the Poultry, 1753." Pp. '.'A, and a 

 Preface to the Candid Reader of three pages.] 



The Word " J^j'/e." — May I add to the East- 

 Anglian Vocabulary the adjective rz7e=: muddy? 

 " The water is too rile to drink" was the remark 

 of a servant the other day. The verb to rile is 

 given in Forby's Vocabulary. Charles Thiriold. 



Is not rile a corruption of the American collo- 

 quialism royle or ruil, to make turbid by stirring up the 

 sediment, or to make angry? Theodore de la Guard, 

 in T/ie Simple Culler of Aygawam, p. 2. a. d. 1647, 

 says : " Sathan is now in bis passions, he feeles his 

 passion approaching ; he loves to fish in royled waters."] 



WINCHESTKR EXECUTION. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 191. 243. 284.) 



The pathetic story of a person sentenced to 

 death for sheep-stealing, winning the heart of the 

 gaotjr by a long course of good conduct, and exe- 

 cuted at last on the "death-warrant" being found 

 in the oftitie, is utterly apocryphal. Tliere has not 

 been such a thing as a death-warrant in England 

 for centuries, except in London and Midillesex 

 (where the recorder coinmunicated the pleasure 

 of the crown to spare certain prisoners, and leave 

 others to their fate, in an instrument improperly 

 so called), and in the special case referred to 

 hereafter. It was necessary, when sentence was 

 pronounced by Commissioners of Oyer and Ter- 

 miner, that ;i ])rece[)t under their hands and seals 

 sIkuiM be made out; Imt in the ease of Commis- 

 sioners of (Jaol Delivery the entry on record of 

 the judgment of the court is suflicicnt; and though 

 a calendar is now made out, and delivered to the 



