Qnd §, No 13., Mar. 29. °56.} 
one in 8yo., entitled “4 New Catechism for the Use of the 
Swinish Multitude, necessary to be had in all Sties -— 
‘Grundibat graviter pecus suillum.’ — CLAupr0s. 
By the late Professor Porson. From The Examiner. 
London: published by R. Carlile, 183. Fleet Street.” No 
date. Another edition in 12mo., with the same title, to 
which is added, “A Dialogue between John Bull and Pre- 
sident Yankee, on Monarchs and Republics. Published at 
1, Shoe-lane.” No date. ] 
Countess of Monmouth.—I enclose you a fac- 
simile of writing’ on a pane of glass lately in a 
house of a relative at Watford. Can you, or any 
of your readers, give me information concerning 
“the good Countice Elizabeth Monmouth” here 
mentioned, who is stated to have died at Watford, 
1640. In The Illustrated London News, with 
reference to the above, the house is said to be 
now pulled down, which is believed to be an error, 
and the countess to have died in 1610, which does 
not agree with the above date. C. M.*L. 
[The “good countice” was the wife of Robert Carey, 
first Baron Carey of Leppington; created Earl of Mon- 
mouth, Feb. 5, 1626. Sir Robert was a great favourite 
with his royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth, till he rashly 
committed the offence of wedding a fair and virtuous 
gentlewoman, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Hugh Tre- 
vannion of Corriheigh, Cornwall. In his. Autobiography 
(p. 61.), he says: “I married this gentlewoman more for 
her worth than her wealth, for her estate was about 5002. 
a yeare jointure, and she had betweene five and six hun- 
dred pounds in her purse. The Queen was mightily 
offended with me for marrying, and most of my best 
friends, only my father was no ways displeased at it, 
which gave me great content.” Soon after the accession 
of James I., in 1603, Sir Robert says: “ My wife waited 
on the Queen [Anne of Denmark], and at Windsor was 
sworn of her privy-chamber, and mistress of her sweet 
coffers [mistress of the robes], and had a lodging allowed 
her at court. This was some comfort to me, that I had 
my wife so near me” (p. 159.). To the care of Lady 
Carey was committed the “baby Charles,” when the 
royal infant was between three and four years old, and it 
was to her sensible management that the preservation of 
Charles I. from deformity may be attributed. “ When 
the little duke was first delivered to my wife,” writes Sir 
Robert, “he was not able to go, nor scarcely to stand 
alone, he was so weak in his joints, especially in his 
ankles, insomuch many feared they were out of joint. 
Many a battle my wife had with the king, but she still 
prevailed. The king would have him put into iron boots, 
to strengthen his sinews and joints; but my wife pro- 
tested so much against it, that she got the victory, @md 
the king was fain to yield.” Again, Sir Robert tells us 
that “at the queen’s death in 1619, her house was dis- 
solved, and my wife was forced to keep house and family, 
which was out of our way a thousand a year that we 
saved before.” In the second year of Charles I. Sir Robert 
was created Earl of Monmouth, and died April 16, 1639. 
Both the earl and the countess were buried in Rickmers- 
worth Church; but the monumental inscription in the 
chancel of that church does not state the date of the 
death of the countess, ] 
Oxford Almanacs. —1 wish to obtain some in- 
formation respecting the Oxford Almanacs. Will 
you kindly inform me of the date of the first with 
the views of colleges, &c.? And at what period 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
255 
Vertue commenced his series of those engravings 
which have been continued by subsequent en- 
gravers to the present day ? JUVENIS. 
[The first Oxford Almanac was drawn up by Maurice 
Wheeler, minor canon of Christ Church for the year 1673, 
in 8vo., and was ornamented with hieroglyphics. Robert 
White engraved the sheet almanac in 1674, with several 
mythological figures; but the prints in forty-seven of the 
earlier numbers were mostly engraved by Michael 
Burghers. From 1723 or 1725 to 1751 inclusive, were 
mostly engraved by Vertue, who introduced portraits of 
the founders and benefactors of each college, with the im- 
provements in the buildings which were at that time 
meditated, and of which plans and elevations had only 
been designed. For fuller accounts of these A/manacs, 
consult Vertue’s Anecdotes of Painting, by Walpole and 
Dallaway, vol. v. p. 280.; Ovoniana, vol. i. p. 178.; and 
Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 1xi. p. 207.] 
“ Delivre nous du malin.” —This is the transla- 
tion given (St. Matt. vi. 13.) in the French ver- 
sion of the New Testament, published by the 
British and Foreign Bible Society: the corre- 
sponding passage (St. Luc. xi. 4.) is translated 
“du mal.” What is the authority for the reading 
“du malin” ? H. D. 
[* Mais delivre nous du malin,” is also the reading in 
the translation of James le Févre of Estaples, from St. 
Jerome’s version, printed at Antwerp by Martin L’Em- 
pereur in 1534, which is minutely described in Bibl. 
Sussex, vol. ii. pp. 128—131. See also the Paris edition 
of the New Testament of 1805. ] 
Epistle to Pollio.— Having looked into several 
“complete” editions of Milton’s Works, without 
finding his “ Epistle to Pollio,” can you oblige me 
by telling me whether any edition contains it, or 
if it is obtainable separately ? G. A. P. 
Barnes, Surrey. 
[Our correspondent is probably thinking of Miltonis 
Epistola ad Pollionem (Lord Polwarth), dedicated to 
Alexander Pope, fol. 1738, by the facetious Dr. William 
King, the celebrated Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 
and author of The Toast, The Dreamer, §c. See Chal- 
a Biog. Dict., and Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, ii. 
607. 
Replies. 
MAJOR ANDRE'S EXECUTION. 
(1* S. passim.) 
As a constant reader, I have observed in “N. 
& Q.” three different notices of this unfortunate 
officer (1* S. viii. 174. 644. ; 2°¢S. i. 33.), sent by 
your correspondent Srrviens. Desirous as he is 
of obtaining further information, I send the fol- 
lowing notice of Major André’s execution, which 
I have taken from Harper’s Magazine for August, 
1855, pp. 419, 420.: 
“On ‘Independence Day’ we took steamer for the 
county of Rockland, determined to pass the Fourth in 
peace and quietness, and desirous of refreshing our pa- 
triotism amidst scenes hallowed by the sacred memories 
