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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. VI. 131., July 3. '58. 



struggle of the Athenians and Lacedaemonians for 

 predominance in Greece, 428 B.C., Anaxagoras 

 was asked if he had any particular wish, as it 

 should be fulfilled if he would only give it expres- 

 sion. " Certainly I have," said the kind-hearted 

 old man ; "I wish to be remembered with pleasant 

 feelings by all schoglboys, and I only ask that in 

 memoi'y of nie, they may always have a whole 

 holiday on the anniv-ersary of my death." And 

 this was decreed accordingly ; and this fine, un- 

 selfish old fellow was not tlie mere recomniender, 

 but the founder of holidays for schoolboys — which 

 holidays, in further commemoration of his name, 

 were long known by the name of Anaxagoreia. 



J. DOEAN. 



Arms of Bertrand rhi Guesclin (2"*^ S. v. 494. 

 526.) — This celebrated warrior was knighted on 

 April 10, 1354 (N. S.), by a nobleman of the Pays 

 de Caux named Elatse du Marais, in consequence 

 of his taking prisoner Hue de Caverlc or Cavevley, 

 who was at the time in possession of Dinan. Tlie 

 arms borne by Du Guesclin are thus described : — 



"Bertrand portait d'argent, h, I'aigle de sable }>, deux 

 tetes et eploj-ee, becquee et membree de gueules, tenant 

 en ses serres una cotiee de meme mise eu bande, et bro- 

 chant sur le tout ; ce qui, joint a sa valeur, fit que sa 

 banniere re<;ut dans la suite le nom d'Aigle-Bretonne." 



Bertrand's clam, or luar-cry, was "Notre-Dame- 

 Guesclin." 



I quote from M. Manet's Histoire de la Petite- 

 JBretasc'ie, vol. ii. pp. 393. 396., and note, 129.; pp. 

 394, 395., St. Malo, 1834. W. B. MacCabb. 



Dinan, Cotes du Nord. 



Dr. Donne s Discovery of a Murder (2""* S. v. 

 68.) — The following version of this curious story 

 (taken from a collection of anecdotes, written 

 about the beginning of the last century, in Raw- 

 linson MS. 13. 258.) will be interesting to Mb. 

 Yeowell, in that, while it bears witness to the 

 general truth of the alleged facts, it confirms his 

 suspicions with regard to that part of the narra- 

 tive as found related by him which ascribes the 

 discovery to Dr. Donne. Dr. Airy was Provost 

 of Queen's College, 1599—1616 : — 



" Dr. Airy, Provost of Queen's College, Oxon., goeing 

 with his servant accidently throo St. Sepulchers church- 

 j'ard in London, where the sexton was makeing a grave, 

 observed a scull to move, shewed it to his servant, and 

 they to the Sexton, who taking it up found a great toad 

 in it, but withall observed a tenpennj' nale stuck in the 

 temple bone; whereupon the Dr. presently imagined the 

 party to have been murthered, and asked the sexton if he 

 remembered whose skull it was. He answered it was the 

 skull of such a man that died suddainly, and had ' een 

 buried 22 years before. The Dr. told him that certainly 

 the man was murthered, and that it was fitting to be en- 

 quired .ifter, and so departed. The sexton, thinking 

 much upon it, remembered som particular stories talked 

 of at the death of the party, as that his wife, then alive 

 and marled to another person, had been seen to go into 

 bis chamber with a naile and hammer, &c. ; whereupon 

 he went to a justice of peace, told him all the story. The 



wife was sent for, and witnesses found that testified that 

 and some other particulars; she confessed, and was 

 hanged." 



W. D. Macrav. 



Am with a Genitive of Time (2"'^ S. v. 493.) — 

 Aict TpiSiii -ijixepuv mean three prospective days. 

 (Matt. xxvi. 61.; Mark xiv. 58.) Three days 

 retrospective are expressed by awh rpir-nt ij/iepns 

 {Acts, X. 30.) Vigerus (ix. 2. 1.) does not draw 

 the proper distinction betwi.xt Sta StKo. trSiv and 

 Si(i iiKarov erovs, both which he Considers to mean 

 " every tenth year," and for the former quotes 

 only Xiphilinus, wlio wrote centuries after clas- 

 sical Greek had ceased to be spoken or written. 

 Matthiffi (583.) points out from Herodotus (ii. 4., 

 ii. 37.), Plato (Leg. viii. 410.), and Aristophanes 

 (Plutiis, 584.) the proper use of the orrfinaZ number 

 to convey the idea of the periodic return of an 

 action : — 



" Sonst dient es bey Ordinalzahlen dazu, die Wieder- 

 kehr einer Handlung nach einera bestiinmten Zeitpunkte, 

 Oder das Deutsche alter bey Cardinalzahlen auszudriicken, 

 wie Sia TpiVou ei-eos, alter drey Juhr, terlio quoque anno." 



The ordinal number may also be used with Sio 

 to express afterwards, as 5i' hh^KaTou er^os. (Herod. 

 i. 62.) - T. J. BucKTON. 



Mary, Daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon (2"'' S. 

 V. 515.) — In reply to your correspondent's Query, 

 I beg to inform you, through my MS. Index 

 Nominum, that the pedigrees of the Bacon famih' 

 of Garboldisham, and the Wodehouse family of 

 Kimberley, may be seen as to the former in 

 Elomefield's Norfolk, vol. vii. p. 165. ; but there 

 two daughters only are named. And as to the 

 lattei", on the fly-leaf to face vol. ii. of the same 

 family, p. 558. It does not appear there were 

 more than two daughters ; the eldest, Letioia, 

 married to Armine Wodehouse, and the youngest, 

 Mary, is described as single. 



John Nurse Chadwick, 



King's Lynn. 



Print by Wierix (2"'^ S. v. 478.) — I know no- 

 thing of the subject of the portrait. The meaning 

 of the inscription I believe to be " God permits 

 him to be king of the present (?) guild, and to 

 shoot the bird with his hand." 'AAuuj. 



Dublin. 



Dives (2""^ S. v. 415.)— Mr. T. Crosfield asks, 

 " where is Dives mentioned by an old author ? 

 and who first introduced the term in connexion 

 with the rich man mentioned in the parable of 

 Lazarus?" Dives is used as a proper name by 

 Chaucer, in the Sompnoures Tale : — 

 " Lazar and Dives liveden diverselj'. 

 And divers guerdon hadden they therb}'." 



J. Sansom. 



God save King James (2"^ S. v. 432.) — In the 



European Magazine for June, 1820, occurs the 



following, which no doubt refers to the song given, 



