2'"> S. VI. 132., JOLY 10. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



35 



The issue seems to be, that there were two 

 knights executed under Henry VIII. ; and the 

 only iinights recorded to have returned to Malta 

 on the second dissolution of the Priory in Eng- 

 land in 1559, are the two Shelleys, Sir Henry 

 Gerard, Sir Oliver Starkey, and Sir George Dud- 

 ley. Bosio says there were some more there, but 

 he does not give their names. Taaffe names also 

 Sir Edward Burrough, perhaps by mistake for 

 Sir Edward Browne, as there is no such name as 

 the former in the Records.* E. E. Estcodrt. 



Birmingliam. 



BYRON AND AESCHYLUS. 



(2"i S. V. 454.) 



J.R. has noticed the resemblance between Lord 

 Byron's well-known eulogy of Henry Kirke White 

 in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers : — 



" So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, 

 No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 

 View'd his own feather on the fatal dart. 

 And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; 

 Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel 

 He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; 

 While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest 

 Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." 



And the passage of ^schylus which he cites — 



JI\yiy€VT arpaKTO} TO^iJctji tov aierbl/ 

 EtTreti' l&ovTa fjirixo-vrii' irrepwjaaTOff, 

 TdS' ovx ^t' oXAioi/ dAAd rots aVTcoi' TTxepots 

 *AAt<T#e6fAe(T^a.*' 



Person, in his long note on the Medea of Euri- 

 pides, 139 — 40. (from which, as given in Dr. Ma- 

 jor's edition, I quote), has incidentally shown that 

 this phrase became proverbial, and gives several 

 references in proof; which see. Compare Diony- 

 sius of Halicarnassiis (ed. Reiske, 970.) : — 



" Ta5* ovx ^"■* oAAwi/, aAAa rot? avTwv Trrepots aA.iO"Ko;ie<r0a, 

 KATA THN TPArOIAIAN." 



Again, Eustathius ad Iliad. Z. p. 632—35=489. 

 1.: — 



*'6 npoiTO? £i)A.a£i} (irejUTre) rbi/ BeAAepo<tdi'TTj»', ypa/Lt^ara KaQ* 

 cavToG KOiLt^ovra, Koi raura ovx ^'^' 'lA.A.wi', oAAd rots avTov, 

 rpayuJiKw? eiTretr, aAt(ricop.evoi' Trrepots." 



And, lastly, the Scholiast on Lucian^ torn. i. p. 

 794.: — 



" Kai ovTw; rots oiicetot? aAwtrr; TTTepotj." 



I would suggest that the coincidence of 2E,s- 

 chylus's deatlx being commonly attributed to an 

 eagle letting a tortoise fall on his bald head, mis- 

 taking it for a stone, may have invested the pro- 

 verb witii greater significance, and given it a more 

 extensive currency. 



That Byron was well acquainted with .^schy- 

 lus his works testify ; but his admiration, and pro- 

 bably his knowledge, seems to have been confined 

 to a few only of that poet's plays. 



* Hist, of Order of St. John, iii. 310. 



In 1817, he wrote thus : — 



" Of the ' Prometheus ' of Jilschylus I was passionately 

 fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read 

 thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed, that and the ' Medea ' 

 were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes," 

 which ever much pleased me. The ' Prometheus,' if not 

 exactly in mj- plan, has always been so much in my head 

 that I can easily conceive its influence over all or any- 

 thing that I have written ; but I deny Marlow and his 

 progeny, and beg that you will do the' same." — Letters, 

 1817. 



Had he borrowed the beautiful metaphor from 

 iEschylus, we might expect that one so particular 

 in this respect would have acknowledged his obli- 

 gation to the Greek poet ; but, in truth, it seems 

 unlikely that he should have derived this idea 

 from a Fragment of a play with which he probably 

 was unacquainted. 



More reasonably might we suspect that the 

 metaphor was suggested by Edmund Waller's 

 beautiful lines [see "N". & Q.," Z'^'i S. v. 507.]. 

 The coincidence is at the least striking, but whe- 

 ther it amounts to a plagiarism your readers must 

 judge for themselves. John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



GOLDRIC, OR WALDRIC, CHANCELLOR Or HENRY I. 

 (2°'^ S. V. 45.) 



In Forester's edition of Ordericus Vitalis (Bohn's 

 Antiq. Lihr. 1854, vol. iii. 380.), it is stated, in 

 the account of the battle of Tinchebrai, which was 

 fought on Sept. 28, 1106, that, — 



" Then Baudri seized the Duke," — Robert of Nor- 

 mandy, — " and delivered him to the king's guards. This 

 man was one of Henry's chaplains, who, joining a body 

 of knights, took part in the battle. He was shortly 

 afterwards made bishop of Laon, but having deeply ag- 

 grieved the people of his diocese, he was killed by the 

 inhabitants of his own city, in a garden, on Friday in 

 Easter week, with seven dignitaries of his cathedral." 



And in a note at the bottom of the page, where 

 occurs the above notice of Baudri, or Waldric, the 

 learned translator of Orderic says : — 



" It appears that Baudri employed the wealth heaped 

 upon him for the capture of Robert Curthose to secure 

 his election by the chapter of Laon. But this profana- 

 tion did not last long. Public opinion revolted at seeing 

 a mere clerk attached to the court, who was not even a 

 sub-deacon, raised to the episcopal and ducal see of 

 Laon. By the king's influence, who probably was glad 

 to get rid of him, he was provided with a canonry of 

 Rouen, and received subdeacon's orders. However, it 

 was only by the intervention of Pope Paschal II., to 

 whom Baudri appealed at Dijon, that he was confirmed 

 in his see. But as he was grossly ignorant, associated 

 only with the military, and could talk of nothing but 

 dogs and horses, he became odious to his clergy, who 

 accused him of several murders and other acts of violence. 

 At last, having opposed the establishment of the muni- 

 cip.ility of Laon, he was massacred in a popular tumult, 

 on Tuesday, the 22nd of April, 1 . . 2, and his body having 

 been subjected to a thousand outrages, was left naked in 

 the public street till the next day. He was at length 



