gud §, No 16., Aprix 19, ’56.] 
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fAinor Queries. 
Scriptural Legends on our English Coins. — 
Can you throw any light on the rationale of the 
adoption of these scriptural passages, and their 
long continuance often through several reigns. 
The author of a serial, Rambles round Nottingham, 
in the course of a disquisition on some coins dis- 
covered there, says : 
‘« The reverse of Edward’s gold noble bears a strange 
inscription, viz. ‘I. H. C. Autem : Transiens : Per : Me- 
dium : Hlorum : Ibat’— But Jesus passing through the 
midst of ihem went his way. It is from Luke iv. 30., that 
is to say from the Vulgate, or some monkish version of 
the Scriptures; the words in the authorised version being 
without the initial letters. It may be remembered that 
when beginning to preach Jesus ‘came to Nazareth, 
where he had been brought up;’ but whilst all bare him 
witness, and wondered at the gracious words which pro- 
ceeded out of his mouth, they said, ‘Is not this Joseph’s 
son?’ Having told them, however, that ‘no prophet is 
accepted in his own country,’ the whole synagogue be- 
came filled with wrath, ‘and rose up and thrust him out 
of the city, and Jed him unto the brow of the hill whereon 
their city was built, that they might cast him down 
headlong ;’ ‘but he, passing through the midst of them, 
went his way.’ Such are the circumstances connected 
with the quotation. Jt is certainly difficult to suggest in 
what manner it could appropriately form the most con- 
spicuous motto on our English coins — not only on the 
rose nobles of Edward, but of his successor Richard II. ; 
and, indeed, we are not without traces of it on our broad 
gold pieces down to Elizabeth.” — Rambles round Not- 
tingham, part iii, p. 13, 
Is it to be supposed that these mottoes were 
adopted from some imperfect interpretation of the 
sense, and because it was the fashion to employ a | 
text of Scripture for the purpose, whether ap- 
plicable or not. The authority above quoted con- 
tinues to cite a number of equally strange Latin 
texts from our English gold coinage. S. M. D. 
Felo-de-se.—It appears, that in a charter of 
Edward VI., granted to one Thomas Wrothe, and 
under which Sir Thomas Wilson holds the manor 
of Hampstead, amongst other privileges is in- 
cluded the right to all property situated in 
England of a felo-de-se dying in that manor, in 
preference to the claims of the crown. Are there 
any other examples of such a manorial right ? and 
has the right in this case, or any other, ever been 
exercised ? T. Lampray, 
- What was the Origin of Pantomime ?—In a 
recent conversation, Pantomimes came upon the 
tapis, when the above question naturally suggested 
itself: Who composed the first Pantomime? 
From whose imagination emanated that everlast- 
ing plot, which, with a few slight variations, has 
ainused us for two months every year, from within 
the recollection of our oldest acquaintance ? 
_ Doubtless, some of your “ curiously knowing” 
correspondents can throw a little light upon this 
subject, 
Any information relative to the opening “ Here 
we are,” when the letter h was first dropped, 
any tradition with regard to the flight of the har- 
lequin through a window, and the subsequent dis- 
comfiture of the clown (without which no panto- 
mime is supposed to succeed), would be gratefully 
received by your correspondent. J.D. 
Poet’s Corner. 
* Like Madam Hassell’s feast,” §c.— What is 
the origin of the following proverb, which, to my 
thinking, embodies much quaint wisdom ? — 
“Like Madam Hassell’s feast, enough, and none to 
spare.” 
Query, who was Madam Hassell? and what 
was the festive occasion for which she made so 
thrifty a provision ? Joun Paine Puitxirs. 
Literary Forgeries.—I shall be glad if any of 
your readers will give me such particulars as they 
may be able to afford, of the less known of the 
literary forgeries and their perpetrators, in Eng- 
land and abroad, with references where prac- 
ticable ? T, Lampray. 
Ancient Writers quoted by Camden.—Who is 
the “ancient writer” quoted in Camden’s Remains 
(7th edit., pp. 2, 3.), who thus apostrophises 
Britain ? — . 
“ Britain thou art a glorious Isle, extolled and re- 
nowned among all nations: the navies of Tharsis cannot 
be compared to thy shipping... the sea is thy wall, 
and strong fortifications do secure thy ports. Chivalry, 
clergy, and merchandise do flourish in thee,” &c. 
What “old riming poet” sings of Wales thus ? 
(ut supra, p. 8.) : 
“ Terra foecunda fructibus, et carnibus, et piscibus, 
Domesticis, Silvestribus, Bobus, Equis, et Ovibus 
Leta cuncta seminibus,” &c. 
P. 14. Who was the poet flourishing ¢emp. 
Richard I. that wrote the verses commencing as 
follows ? — 
“ Mores antiqui Britonum jam ex convictu Saxonum 
Commutantur in melius, ut patet ex his clarius. 
Hortos et agros excolunt, ad oppida se conferunt, 
Et loricati equitant, et calceati peditant,” &c, 
Marx Antony Lower. 
Lewes. 
Facetious Writer. — 
“ This is the true meaning of a late facetious writer, 
who told the public that whenever he was dull there was 
a design in it.” — Tom Jones, vol. i. 
Who is “ the late facetious writer?” The idea, 
I think, oceurs in Tristram Shandy; which, how- 
ever, was not published until some six years after 
Fielding’s death. J. B. (8.) 
Family of Perry.—It is stated that George 
Dashwood, in the time of Charles II., married 
