ona §, No 6, Pup, 9.756.) 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
113 
But there is no copy of this in the British Mu- 
seum. 
At the end of the MS, in the British Museum, 
is the following testimony, apparently written by 
the king's French master, Belmaine ; the perusal 
of which will eratify your readers : — 
“Tout ainsi qu’un bon Paintre peut répresenter le 
visaige, regard, contenance et corpulence d’un Prince, 
Ainsi par les escritz, parolles et actions d’un Prince on 
peut facilement entendre quel Esprit est en luy, et aquoy 
Tl est adonné, comme on peut veoir par les Escritz de ce 
Jeune Roy, Lequel composa et escrivit ce Livre, n’ayant 
encores douze ans accomplis, Et sans l’ayde de parsonne 
vivant, excepté des propos qu’il avoit ouys de plusieurs, 
et la souvenance qu'il avoit des livres qu'il avoit leuz. 
Car des ce qu’il commenca & escrivre ledict livre, et jus- 
ques & ce qu’il l’eust acheyé, ledict livre a tousjours esté 
en ma garde jusques 4 présent.” 
Joun Goucu Nicuots, 
OLD ENGLISH ALBS. 
In Mores Catholici, I find the following passage: 
“ The priests of England bore upon their albs, on the 
left shoulder, ‘ Quasi socipes de panno serico super as- 
sutas;’ the upper closed, in sign of their being but one 
faith; but the lower divided, as a sign of their having 
been twice converted to the faith: first by the mission- 
aries of Pope Eleutherius, and, secondly, by St, Augustine 
(Chronicon Monasterii, S. Bertini, cap. i. par. 1.; Mar- 
tene Thesaurus Anecdotorum, tom. iii.).” — Booki. p. 11., 
edit. 1845. 
Can any light be thrown upon this ornament of 
the alb from any existing sepulchral monuments, 
brasses, or stained glass windows? Do any En- 
glish liturgical writers notice it, or can we find 
any clear allusion to it in our numeral lists of albs 
belonging to English churches and cathedrals ? 
An allusion to it is made in the Compendious 
Treatise, or Dialogue, of Dives and Pauper, as 
follows : 
* ¢ And the same [i. e. the duty symbolised by the two 
pendants of a bishop’s mitre, of a bishop to teach with 
the tongue of deed, and the tongue of speech, the know-. 
ledge of the Old and New Testament] betoken the two 
tongues hangyng behynd on the aube on the priestis 
shulder... . Div, ‘It is a common saw, that the two 
tongues on the prestes shulder betoken that this lond hath 
been twyes renegate and peruerted.’— Paup. ‘That is 
false. For syth this londe toke Pel the fayth, the people 
ar renegate.’” — The Eyght Command., cap, Viii. 
Dr. Rock, without mentioning the socipes above 
referred to, and merely speaking of these tongues, 
explains them as the pair of higher apparels, worn 
like a short scapular, when, as was often the case, 
six apparels were worn on the alb in this country, 
i.@. one on each sleeve; one before and another 
behind, at the feet; and one on the breast, and 
another on the back of the alb. (See Church of 
our Fathers, vol. i. pp. 444—448.) But this ex- 
planation does not seem altogether satisfactory. 
CryrRer. 
SAinsr Queries, 
“ Courage Rewarded.” — Who is the author of 
the following political piece, Courage Rewarded, 
or the English Volunteer, a political drama, by 
Mr. A. L. G., 8vo., 1798? Dedicated to the Vo- 
lunteer Corps of the Kingdoms of England, Scot- 
land, and Ireland. R. J 
Wm. Clapperton. — Can any of your Edin- 
burgh readers give me any account of Wm. Clap- 
perton, author of Guarini’s Pastor Fido, translated 
into English blank verse, 12mo,, Edinburgh, 1809; 
a French translation of the Vision of Mirza, Edin- 
burgh, 1829; Zhe Aneid, from the versions of 
Christopher Pitt and John Ring, with additions. 
Published in 1834, in 2 vols. 12mo., Edinburgh ? 
Mrs. M. Holford. — Can any of your Chester 
readers give me any account of Mrs. M. Holford, 
a lady of Chester, author of Fanny and Selima, a 
Tale; with Gresford Vale, and other Poems, 4to., 
1798; and First Impressions, or the Portrait, a 
novel, London, 1801? She also wrote two come- 
dies, one of which I believe was acted in Chester, 
and published in 1799. R. J. 
Pope Martin V. — In a recent historieal work, 
entitled England and France under the House of. 
Lancaster, p. 242. 1st edit., occurs the following 
passage : 
“He [Pope Martin V.] actually conferred the Arch- 
bishopric of Canterbury on his nephew, a boy of fourteen, 
who also held by his uncle’s appointment fourteen 
benefices in England. Henry showed so much favour to 
the gpe's nephew as to allow his holding the preferments 
bestowed on him.” 
What does this refer to? What foundation has 
it in fact? And what preferment did this pope’s 
nephew hold? It is, I imagine, pretty certain 
that the archbishopric was not amongst these pre- 
ferments. But if so, who was the archbishop ? 
W. Denton. 
Proverbs. —What is the sense of the following 
proverbs ?— 
“Old maids lead apes in hell” [which occurs more 
than once in Shakspeare. | 
“ A black shoe makes a merry heart” [exercise gives 
health? ] 
“ Honest millers have golden thumbs.” 
“ He has bought a brush, 7, e., he has run away.” 
“ He that shoots always right, forfeits his arrow.” 
J.P. 
William Kennedy.—Can any of your readers 
favour me with information of William Kennedy, 
author of a spirited lyric called Ned Bolton, or of 
his other writings? or tell the where I may get 
sight of his volume, published about twenty or 
twenty-five years ago, called The Arrow and the 
Rose ? Partricius, 
