Nov. 29. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



423 



2. Is there any list of persons holding this 

 office ; and if so, where may it be seen ? 



3. Is there any instance of an unmarried lady 

 having held it : for in the case before us we see 

 that a lady was able to convey it by inheritance to 

 her husband ? 



4. By whom was it sold ? Was it by the last 

 bereditarv possessor ; and if so, what was his 

 name? Or was it by the king, on the death of 

 one of the possessors, for the purpose of enriching 

 himself? 



5. Is it known wliether there is any other in- 

 stance of its having been sold : and when did it 

 come to be, as now, a ministerial office ? 



JouN Branfill IIaerison. 

 Maidstone. 



300. " No Cross no Crown." — Where did Penn 

 get the title of his well-known work ? St. Pau- 

 linus. Bishop of Is^ola, in allusion to the custom of 

 crowning crosses, has these lines : — 



" Cerne coronatam Domini super atria Christi, 

 Stare ciucem, duro spondeiitem celsa labori 

 Praemia : tollc criicem, qui vis aiiferre conmam." 

 " See how tlie cross of Christ a crown entwines : 

 High o'er God's temple It refulgent slilnes; 

 Pledging bright guerdon for each passing pain : 

 Take up the cross, if thou the cro«-n would'st gain." 

 Vide Dr. Rock's Hierurgia. Quarles says, in his 

 Esther : 



" Tlie way to bliss lies not on beds of down, 

 And he that had no cross deserves no crown." 



Mariconda. 



301. Dido and JEneas. — 



" When Dido found .(Eneas did not come, 

 She wept in silence, and was — di-do-diim." 



Who was the author of the above well-known bit 

 of philology? A. A. D. 



302. Pegs and Thongs for Bowing : Tortui-e 

 among the Athenians. — Dr. Schmitz (in Smith's 

 Antiq., article Ships) speaks of " the pegs, 

 (TK-iKuSi, between which the oars move\_d'], and to 

 which tliey were fiistened by a tliong, TfjoTrairri"." 

 What is the authority for two pegs, between which, 

 &c ? A single peg and thong, as still in frequent 

 use, would be intelligible! 



Dr. Smith observes (ap. id p. 1139.) tliat the 

 decree of Scamandrius, wliich ordained that no 

 free Athenian sliouhl be tortured, " does not aj)- 

 pear to have interdicted torture as a means of 

 execution, since we find Demosthenes {de Cor. '271 .) 

 reminding tlie judges that tliey had j)ut Antiphon 

 to ileath \iy the rack." Does it not escape Iiim 

 tinit Antii)iion was then an alien, having suffered 

 expulsion from the Lexiarciiic list. (See Dem. I. c.) 



A. A.D. 



303. French Refugees. — Where is the treaty or 

 act of parliament to be found which guaranteed 

 compensation to the French refugees at the end of 

 the war ? Is it possible to obtain a list of those 

 who received compensation, and the amount paid; 

 and if so, where ? S. Quarto. 



304. Isabel, Queen of the Isle of Man. — In 

 Charles Knight's London mention is made, amongst 

 the noble persons buried in the church of the 

 Grey Friars, of Isabel, wife of Baron Fitzwarren, 

 sometime queen of the Isle of Man. AVill you or 

 some of your correspondents be so kind as to tell 

 me who this lady was, and when the Isle of ISIan 

 ceased to be an independent kingdom ? Fanny. 



305. Grand-daughter of John Hampden. — Ac- 

 cording to the Friend of India of 4th September, 

 1851, there is at Cossimbazar the following in- 

 scription : — 



"SARAH MATTOCKS, 



Aged 27. 

 Much lamented by her husband, 

 JLieutenant- Colonel John Mattocks. 

 Was the grand-daughter of the 

 Great John Hamoen, Esq., 

 Of St. James's, Westminster." 

 In the following number (dated 11th September, 

 1851), the editor offers an apology for having 

 omitted the date of the decease of Mrs. Mattocks, 

 viz. 1778 ; and then i-emarks that — 



" As she was twenty-seven years old at her death, 

 she must have been born in 1751; it was therefore 

 impossible that she should have been the giand- 

 daughter of the great John Hampden, that died in 

 ]64:3, one hundred and eight years before her birth." 



Query, Can any cf your correspondents give 

 me any information respecting this subject ? 



Salopian. 



306. Cicada or Tettigonia Septemdecim. — In 

 Latrobe's Rambler in North America, London, 

 1835, vol. ii. p. 290., is a curious account of this 

 insect, which visits Pennsylvania every seventeenth 

 year, and appears about May 24. It is under an 

 inch in lenirth when it first appears early in the 

 morning, and gains its strength after the sun has 

 risen. These insects live ten or fifteen days, and 

 never seem to eat any food. They come in 

 swarms, and birds, pigs, and poultry fatten on 

 them. The female lays her eggs in the outermost 

 twigs of the forest ; these die and drop on the 

 jrround. The esffs ffive birth to a number of 

 small grubs, which are thus enabled to attain the 

 mould without injury, and in it they disappear; 

 they are forgotten till seventeen years pass, and 

 then the memory of them returns, and they rise 

 from the eartii, piercing their way through tiie 

 matted sod, the hard trampled clay, &c. Tiiey 

 a])pcarcd in 1749, &c., fo 1834, and are expected 

 in 1851. lias this expectation been fulfilled? 



C. I. R. 



