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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Land S. No 94., Sunn 14. *56, 
of near a century from the time at which it was foretold, 
the mind is overcome with astonishment; and lost in 
amazement.” 
The Fulfilling of the Scripture noticed above, 
by the father of Fleming, is now a scarce work. 
The copy I possess (small 8vo., pp. 296.) unfor- 
tunately wants the title-page; but I think must 
have been written about the time of Charles I. 
It is altogether an ingenious well-composed pro- 
duction, and affords a remarkable proof of what 
1s sometimes seen. of the same faculty for observa- 
tion and reflection being transmitted by natural 
inheritance from father to son. G.N. 
_ “Titus Andronicus” (2"° 8. i, 353.) — The 
lines — 
“ The eagle stiffers little birds to sing,” &c. 
are from Titus Andronicus, Act IV. Se. 4. By 
the way, the old editions all, as far as I have seen, 
read “wings” in the third line. Mr. Knight cor- 
recis it to “‘ wing,” with the profound remark, that 
“the lines are meant to rhyme alternately.” Now, 
although — 
“ Rhyme the rudder is of verses, 
By which they steer, as ships their courses,” 
I think that we may, in this case, retain the 
grandeur of the plural without fear of any ship- 
wreck of the poetry: ‘To tear ote wing from An 
eagle, for the sake of 4 rhyme, is what Sir Thomas 
Browne would have called “a fallacy in preci- 
sion.” I may add, perhaps, a remark on Mr, 
Knight's classification of the Titus and the Pericles 
as “doubtful plays;” and that is, that if not 
Shakspeare’s, they are from the pen of some un- 
known dramatist of fully Shakspearian power. I 
cannot think or feel them to be “ doubtful plays” 
at all. Zwo Shakspeares, contemporaries, “ can’t 
” 
be. A Desutrory Reaper. 
Jersey. 
“The Reader's Maxim” (1* S, xii. 355.) A 
venerable old gentleman, some forty years ago, 
used often to repeat 4 similar maxim; but appli+ 
cable to eating, and, as I think, far more appro- 
priately. He gave it thus: , 
“ Learn to eat slowly, other graces 
Will follow in their proper places.” 
Whence derived I know not, but it sounds 
Hudibrastic. F.C. H, 
The Bustard (2™' 8. 314.383, 420.) — The Rev. 
Tuos. Wurrs, by the result of the premium which 
he unfortunately offered, brings down the exist- 
ence of the bustaid in the neighbourhood of 
Salisbury Plain to the year 1780. 
I remember being at Amesbury so long ago as 
the year 1805, and then making inquiries about 
the bustard. A gamekeeper of the Duke of 
Queensberry there, whom I was asking about it, 
told me that he himself had, a few years before, 
shot the last that had been seen thereabouts. 
That none had been seen for some time before, 
and that one day when he was out with a rifle for 
the purpose of shooting a buck, in walking alon 
a footpath through a corn field, he saw a bird’s 
head just above the level of the corn, which he 
knew to be a bustard’s. He fired at it, he said, 
without much hope of hitting it, but to his sur- 
prise he shot it. ; 
This I should have supposed was the end of the 
existence of the bustard about Salisbury Plain; 
but when I mentioned that I was about to write 
this, I was told by a friend that he had seen a 
statement in a newspapet last year that one had 
been shot thereabouts shortly before. What truth 
there may be as to the newspaper statement I 
know not. J. 5.8. 
According to a letter in The Times of Jan. 31, 
1856, signed “W. H. Rowland, Hungerford, 
Berks, Jan. 29,” a specimen of the great bustard 
(Otis tarda of Linneus), a male, and a very fine 
bird, was taken Jantiary 3, 1856, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Hungerford, just on the borders of 
Wilts and Berks. ARUN. 
The Harp in Arms of Ireland (1* §. xii. 29.) = 
Z.Z. asks, ‘“ When was the harp first used as the 
arms of Ireland, and when introduced in the royal 
achievement as such?” I find in the Numismatic 
Chronicle, vol. iv. p. 205., in an article on the 
“ Trish Coins of Hdward IV.,” that it is suggested 
that Henry VIII. on being presented by the Pope 
with the harp of Brian Borhu, was induced to 
change the arms of Ireland, by placing on her 
coins a representation of the relic of her’ most 
celebrated native king, 
I may add, that in the same paper it is alleged 
“we are entirely indebted to the researches and 
acute observation of the Rey. Richard Butler of 
Trim, for the information that the three crowns 
(found on the Irish coinage of Edw. LV., Ric. LIL, 
and Hen. VII.) were the armorial bearings of 
Ireland from the reign of Ric. I. to that of 
Hen. VIII.” Jos. G. 
Inner Temple. 
Manzy of Barnstaple (2" 8. i. 801.) —I do not 
see the name of Manzy in any list of the French 
refugees at this place. Ihave a list of 126 per- 
sons who came thither from Cork. It commetices 
thus: 
“ Catalogue véritable du nombre et de I’état des Fran- 
eais qui sont venus de Cork 4 Barnstaple et qui y sont 
arrivés le 14 Juillet, 1686, pot y demettrer. 
“Le Sr Jacques Thomas, capitaine de marife du lieu 
de Royau en Saintonge agé de 46 ans avec un de ses 
vaisseaux. Jeanne Guillet sa femme, agé de 40 ans; ils 
He 7 enfans, 3 garcons et 4 filles, savoir, Jacques agé,” 
tel 
As to the refugees at Exeter, tliere were 
