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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 8. No20., May 17.56. 
held in Lancashire. 
holds four bovates of the king, 
navit p finem belli.” 
Matthew, son of William, 
which “ disro- 
J. A. 
[The entry in the Testa de Nevill, p. 405., reads in ex- 
tenso, “ Mathzus filius Willielmi tenet de eodem (i.e. in 
capite de Domino Rege) IIII°r bovates quas disrationavit 
per finem belli;” z.e. he holds of the king im capite four 
bovates, or ox-gangs of land, which he hath claimed, be- 
cause the war is ended. The said Mathew held per servi- 
tium militare, or by knight’s service, and having so served, 
claimed the said land as by right of such service. “ Dis- 
rationare, or dirationare, rem aliquam rationibus sibi vin- 
dicare,” is one of the definitions of this word in Du 
Cange’s Glossary; i.e. to claim any thing for certain 
reasons or considerations. ] 
Goldsmith's “ Animated Nature.” — It would 
oblige me much to be informed in what year this 
work was first published, the publisher’s name, and 
the number of volumes ? J.J. Lams. 
Underwood Cottage, Paisley. 
[The first edition was in eight vols. 8vo., and bears the 
following imprint: “London: Printed for J. Nourse in 
the Strand, Bookseller to his Majesty. 1774.” Price 21, 8s. 
in boards. Goldsmith died in the same year. ] 
Nathan Wright of Dennington.— Can any of 
your readers give me any information concern- 
ing the descendants of Nathan Wright, who in 
the year 1657 left three acres of land at Fram- 
lingham, let at 10/. per annum, and seven acres of 
land at Kettleborough, let at 12/7. per annum, to 
be applied to the relief of the poor of the parish 
of Dennington, in the county of Suffolk ? 
The crest and arms of the said Nathan Wright 
would also oblige G. Buregss. 
| Sir Benjamin Wright, created a baronet in 1660, was 
son and heir of Nathan Wright, merchant and alderman 
of London, and for the establishment of his father’s gift 
of 75/. for the purchase of land for the poor, gave to the 
parish of Framlingham, in 1662, the additional sum of 
271. In Burke’s Extinct Baronetcies will be found some 
notices of Nathan Wright’s descendants, The account 
ends with Sir Samuel Wright, who died unmarried at 
Lisbon, Jan. 10, 1737-8, when the baronetey became ex- 
tinct. Arms: Azure, two bars, argent, in chief three 
leopards’ faces, or. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, or, a 
dragon’s head issuant, proper. } 
“ Post and Pan House.’—What sort of half- 
timbered house is meant by this expression ? 
CuTusert Bebe. 
[ The vertical timbers in the walls of wooden houses are 
called posts, and the style of work in which they are ex- 
posed to view, with the intervals filled with plastering, 
was sometimes called post and pane (Fr. pan.). Halliwell 
says, “A post-and-pan-house is one formed of uprights 
and cross pieces of timber, which are not plastered over, 
but generally blackened, as many old cottages are in 
various parts of England.” } 
——_—_—_- — 
Replies, 
SOURCES OF A GRACEFUL THOUGHT IN PRIOR. 
(1* S. vi. 430.) 
“ For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” 
Similarly, the visions (pavracia) of poets whose 
minds reflect the images of absent objects, and who 
are mentally engaged in travelling, voyaging, ad- 
dressing an assembly, expending money which 
they are not really masters of, are compared by 
Quintilian to reveries or waking dreams — otia 
animorum et spes inanes et velut somnia quedam 
vigilantium. Horace, describing the poet's vio- 
lations of uniformity, says: 
“Velut egri somnia vane 
Fingentur species.” 
So natural, so obviously dictated by common 
sense, are the words of Prior above referred to, 
that in this passage he can hardly be charged with 
borrowing the idea from predecessors. ‘“ Cre- 
dimus? an qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt ?” 
Stobzeus ascribes the words “ Tas éamfSas éeypnyo- 
pray avOpémwy dvelpovs elvac” to Pindar, Elian to 
Plato, Diogenes Laertius to Aristotle. To me 
there appears to be greater verisimilitude in the 
inference that the wishes of every human being, 
if not immersed in sensuality, are parents to this 
thought: the extravagant sallies of the imagina- 
tion evolved by desires after things unattainable, 
are not all who are susceptible of these, conscious 
that they are but waking dreams? In Harris’s 
Philological Inquiries are many examples from 
Arabian poetry. 
“The last line” [For hope, &c.], says Mr. 
Willmott, “is scarcely excelled by Pope’s descrip- 
tion of ‘ Faith our early immortality.’” Kuhnius 
in his Commentary on Azlian’s Var. Hist., citing 
the words of Synesius de Insomniis, ray todro, &c., 
omne illud (quod speraverat) est vera somniantis 
visio et vigilantis insomnium, &c., remarks : 
“Hine patet Platonem sept rHs amarnAjs éAmidos, de 
fallaci spe, locutum esse. At spes confisa Deo imécracis 
éAmigomevwv est, nec cum somniis ullam habet affinitatem.” 
Pope’s description may surely be traced to St. 
Paul's “Faith, the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen.” The Lord’s 
Day, as expressed in ancient Liturgies, ‘“‘ Domi- 
nicus Resurrectionis Dies,” reminds the faithful 
Christian that his is Dominica Resurrectionis vita : 
“A faith which boasts to be for humanity cannot test 
its strength unless ‘it is content to deal with men in all 
possible conditions. ..... We know Christianity will 
fail, it must fail in Birmingham and Manchester, if it ad- 
dresses the people in those places mainly as spinners and 
workers in hardware..... When thoughtful men say 
that a_working age of the world is about to begin, they 
mean, I suppose, an age in which those essential qualities 
of humanity which belong to working men as much as to 
all others shall be more prized than the accidents by which 
one class is separated from another. Mostimportant, then, 
