Dec. 13. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



473 



The Eev. Dr. Rock had the politeness to an- 

 swer my Query respecting the Abbot Eustacius ; 

 perhaps he could oblij^e me by solving the present 



J. L. 



one. 



335. Jacobus Creusiiis (or Crucius). — Jacohi 

 Crtisii Theologi et Medici, Frisii, Victimas Hu- 

 munas. I should be greatly obliged by any informa- 

 tion respecting the author, or the book, which I 

 find so mentioned in a MS. of 1677. S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



336. Cleliit House— \\\ the will of John But- 

 tery of Bury, 1557, is this item : 



" My capitall mesuage, with the maltinge house and 

 the tenement called Banyards, with all tlie gardaines, 

 yards, and close, to tliem belonginge, — except the ij 

 tenements called the Clekit House." 

 What is the meaning of Clekit ? In the E.-An- 

 glian dialect, clicket is " to chatter." Phillips has 

 " Ci-icKET, the knocker of a. door, but Chaucer 

 uses it for a key." Burieksis. 



337. Ballad on the Rising of the Vendee. — Who 

 is the author of a modern ballad on the Rising 

 of the Vendee, of which the last lines are — 



" We crnsh'd, like ripen grapes, ^lontreuil, we tore 

 down old Vetier — 

 We charged then with our naked breasts, and took 



them with a cheer — 

 We'll hunt the robbers through the land, from Seine 



to sparkling Rhone. 

 Now ' Here's a health to all we love : our King 

 shall liave his own 1 '" 



D.B.J. 



338. Stanza on Spenser's " Shepherds Calender" 

 — In some of the early quarto editions of Spenser, 

 in the " Shepherd's Calender," June, there is a 

 stanza which in almost all the subsequent folio 

 editions is omitted. I shall be much obliged for 

 any information as to when and why it was left 

 out ; in the copies in which it appears it is the 

 twelfth stanza, and is as I'oilows : — 



" Now dead he is, and lieth wrapt in led, 

 (O why should death on him such outrage show?) 

 And all his passing skill with him is fled. 

 The fame whereof doth daily greater grow ; 

 But if on me some littk' drops would flow 

 Of that the spring was in his learned head, 

 I soon should learn these words to wail my woe. 

 And teach the trees their trickling tears to shed." 



The last line is a good specimen of alliteration. 



E. N. W. 

 South wark, Nov. 17. 1851. 



339. Prophecy respecting 1837. — I remember 

 seeing in tlie year 1837, 1 think in one of tiie 

 morning pa[)crs, the following lines, which were 

 said, as far as my memory serves me, to have 

 been taken from an old almanac, in wiiicli they 

 were [iroplietical ol" what should happen in the 

 above-natued year : — 



" By the powers to see through the ways of Heaven, 

 In one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 

 Shall the year pass away without any spring, 

 And on England's throne shall not sit a king," 

 Can any of your readers inform me whether 

 these lines were only composed after the events 

 related took place — that is, at the time the lines 

 appeared in the paper in which I saw them, or 

 whether they are really to be found in any old 

 almanac;' and if so, in what almanac, and in 

 what year? N.L.N. 



Maidstone. 



340. Lines on the Bible. — In a small volume of 

 Sacred Poetry, in the possession of a friend of 

 mine, the following lines on the Bible are ascribed 

 to Byron : 



" Within this awful volume lies 

 The mystery of mysteries ; 

 Oh ! happiest they of human race 

 To whom our God has given grace 

 To hear, to read, to fear, to pray, 

 To lift the latch, and force the way: 

 But better had they ne'er been born 

 Who read to doubt, or read to scorn." 

 Not having met with these lines in the works of 

 Lord Bynm, can any of your readers say whether 

 they are his, or not, or who is the author ? 



John Algor. 



Sheffield. 



341. En bon et pojjer. — The family of Cockayne 

 of Ashbourne, co. Derby, used as a motto u]ion 

 their seals, in the fourteenth century, the following 

 words, "En bon et poyer." This has been ex- 

 plained to mean, " Boni est posse," or " Right is 

 might." Can any of your readers suggest anything 

 to confirm or throw doubt on this interpretation ? 



Francis M. Nichols. 



342. " England expects every man" Sf-c. — For 

 nearly fifty years our countrymen have taught 

 their children Nelson's last signal — 



" England expects every man to do his duty." 

 Such was my impression of this emphatic form of 

 words. I am surprised to see upon the column in 

 Trafalgar Scpiare, 



" England expects every man will do his duty." 

 Pray is there any authority for the inscription 

 as it there stands ? 



E. N. H. 



343. Religious Houses in East Sussex. — Can 

 any of your readers refer mo to any sources^ of 

 information, printed or in manuscript, in addition 

 to tliose mentioned in the last edition of Dug- 

 dali;'s Monasticon, respecting tlie following religious 

 houses in East Sussex : Othum, Bayhani, Michel- 

 ham, Rohertsbridge ? F. V. 



344. Parish Registers — Right of Search — Fees 

 claimable. — Considerable attention has of late 



