and §, No 24., June 14. °56.] 
fAinar Queries With Answers. 
Sir George Mackenzie. — Who was the Sir 
George Mackenzie on whom the following lines 
were written ? 
* Pingere vis qua fronte Cuto, titubante Senatu, 
Asserint Patri jura verenda sux! 
Pingere vis magnus quo Tullius ore solebat 
Dirigire attoniti linguam animamque Fori? 
Pingere vis quanta Maro majestate canebat 
Aut quali tetigit pollice //accus Ebur? 
Pinge Makenzeum Pictor namque altera non est 
Qu referat tantos una Tabella viros.” 
“Would you paint Cato, with what awful looke 
He did the wavering Senatours rebuke ; 
Would you paint Tully, with what voyce and face 
He ruled affections in the pleading place; 
Virgil, with what a majesty he sings; 
Or artful Horace, how he toucht his strings; 
Then draw Mackensy (sic), Painter, for there’s none 
But he that does expresse all these in one.” 
Copied literally from a MS. written on a half- 
sheet of foolscap, apparently of foreign fabric, 
bearing in its centre the lion of the seven united 
provinces of the Netherlands. The handwriting 
as well as the orthography would indicate the be- 
ginning of the last century. It is docketed in an- 
other hand, apparently of later date, 
« An Epitaph 
on Sir Geo. Mackenzy, 
Latin and English.” 
A. Mr. 
Frankfort. ; . 
[Sir George Mackenzie was an eminent Scotch lawyer 
and miscellaneous writer, born at Dundee in 1636, and 
died in London, May 2, 1691. Sir George so strongly 
advocated the doctrine of passive obedience, that he ob- 
tained from the Covenanters the title of “The Blood- 
thirsty Advocate, and Persecutor of the Saints of God.” 
The lines quoted by our correspondent is an epigram by 
Thomas Gleg, M.D., and placed beneath his portrait pre- 
fixed to his Works, 2 vols. fol., 1716-22. They have also 
been “done into English” by Alex. Cunningham, Profes- 
sor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh : 
“Painter, if thou would’st draw how Cuto stood, 
Fix’d in defence of ’s country’s laws and good: 
If thou would’st draw great Tully’s eloquence, 
When he inspir’d the bar with life and sense? 
If thou would’st draw Maro’s majestick lays, 
Or with what art and genius Flaccus plays? 
Painter, MACKENZIE draw, none other’s fit 
To represent such men, such sense, such wit.” ] 
Peter John Allan. — There was a volume of 
oems published in 1853 with the following title : 
The Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., 
late of Fredericton, New Brunswick, edited by the 
Rev. Henry Christmas. There is also a Life of the 
author by his brother. Could you inform me, by 
referring to the memoir, where the author was 
born, and what was the date of his death? BR. J. 
{Peter John Allan was born at York, June 6, 1825. 
The Biographical Notice prefixed to his Poems does not 
state the date of his death, but that he died at the pre- 
mature age of three-and-twenty. } 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
473 
Corderies. — What is the meaning of the word 
corderies, as used in the following sentence from 
the “Introductory Epistle” tg The Fortunes of 
Nigel, p.1. Sir Walter does not explain it in 
his glossary, nor can I find it in any dictionary or 
glossary: 
“T no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopo- 
lists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an 
unrespective shop-lad, hustled among the boys who come 
to buy corderies and copy-books, &c.”’ ; 
C. D. Lamonr. 
[The Corderies are elementary Latin books, formerly 
much used in schools, The author, Mathurin Corderius, 
spent his long life in teaching children at Paris, Bor- 
deaux, and Geneva, and published several books for the 
use of schools. Clarke’s edition of his Colloquies is re- 
commended by Dr, Johnson. ] 
The Feldon of Warwickshire. —In Treland’s 
Picturesque Views on the Warwickshire Avon, 
p- 167,, occurs the following passage : 
“From hence the river winding its pleasant course, 
affords a beautiful view of the Feldon of Warwickshire, 
called the Vale of Red Horse.” 
Having searched in vain to find the meaning of 
this word, perhaps some of your learned readers 
can enlighten me on the subject ? 
* J.B. Warrsorne. 
[Feldon seems to be a corruption of field and down 
(Sax. feld and dun), meaning an open country, formerly 
used by way of antithesis to frith, a forest. (See Todd’s 
Johnson.) Hence Camden says, “ Warwickshire is di- 
vided into two parts, Feldon and Woodland, or the field 
and woody country, parted by the river Avon.” 
Replies, 
WATCHFULNESS OF THE GOOSE, 
(2™4 S. i. 246.) 
Your correspondent Mr. Parznorr has under- 
taken to vindicate the goose against the charge of 
silliness, to which it is proverbially subject ; and 
to establish its courage, fidelity, and instinct. 
The most celebrated historical performance of 
this bird is the preservation of the Roman Capitol 
by its warning screams, when the Gauls were 
scaling the ramparts. Of this renowned story 
several versions, not materially differing from one 
another, have been handed down to us from 
antiquity. 
The account of Livy is, that the Gauls climbed 
the steep declivity of the Capitol in so noiseless a 
manner, as to escape the notice not only of the 
sentinels, but even of the does—an animal sensi- 
tive to nocturnal sounds. ‘They were not, how- 
ever, unobserved by the geese; which birds, 
being sacred to Juno, had been spared, notwith- 
standing the extreme want of food; and this cir- 
eumstanee saved the garrison. For M. Manlius, 
roused by their screams, and the flapping of their 
