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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-^ S. VI. 142., Sept. is. 'SS. 



tianisme," St. Augustin having been called in the 

 preceding page " le Ciceron." I beg to ask who 

 was " le Virgile," and from whence the lines are 

 taken ? 



"Puisqiie on voit tant d'enfans pour qui leurs saintes 

 meres 

 Portent sans cesse au ciel leurs vcoux et leni's priferes, 

 (2ui malgre tant de soins qui n'ont que Dieu pour biit, 

 Ne peuvent au Bapteme acquerir le salut : 

 Et tant d'autres con(;'us d'un sang illegitime; 

 La honte de leur mfere et le fruit de son crime, 

 Abandonnez des leurs, exposez aux passans, 

 Sont tirez d'lin fumier pasles ct languisans, 

 Et par des Strangers offers ii I'Eau sacre'e 

 A''ont regner pour jamais dans le claire Empyr^e." 



P. 76. 



Ph. H. 



Meaux. 



Wake Family. — Where were buried the father 

 and grandfather (both named John Wake) of Sir 

 Baldwin Wake, who was created a baronet in 

 1C21 ? also Sir Baldwin himself, and the next 

 two baronets, Sir John and Sir William ? And 

 do any funeral monuments exist to the memory 

 of these six individuals or their wives ? 



SiLVEBSTONE. 



Recanting. — I have somewhere read that when 

 one, whose name I do not remember, was con- 

 demned to make a recantation, he hit the etymo- 

 logy of the word, while he caught at tlie spirit : — 

 " If canto be to sing," said he, " recanto is to sing 

 again ;" and so he re-chanted his opinions by re- 

 peating them in his recantation. Who was he ? 



Abhba. 



Antiquarian Dinner. — In turning over the 

 leaves of a volume of the Inventor's Advocate, 

 dated Nov. 16, 1839, I find the following curious 

 paragraph. Perhaps some of your numerous 

 reaJfers may know who Lord B. really was : — 



" Lord B., well known for his love of everj-thing out 

 of the way, lately gave a dinner at the Baths of Lucca of 

 the following singular character: the me.at, fish, vege- 

 tables were all at least of two years' standing, preserved 

 according to the plan of Mr. Appert. The table was sup- 

 plied ■with sea-water nia(ie fit to drink by the process re- 

 centh' discovered ; the claret had been rescued, by the 

 assistance of the diving-bell, from a merchant vessel sunk 

 in the Thames more than a century ago ( ! ), and the 

 t>read was made from wheat some centuries old, which 

 the noble Lord had A/wsc//' brought from one of the pyra- 

 mids of Egypt, and had sown in England ! ! The dinner 

 gave the greatest satisfaction." 



Who is Lord B. ? Bellaisa. 



Jleatnn-Royds. — Can any reader of "N. & 0." 

 in Yorkshire, Cheshire, or Lancashire, inform me 

 of the exact position of this place? The name 

 does not occur in Lewis's Topographical Diction- 

 ary^ nor in the British Postal Guide. J. 



Marvellous Cures by Madame St. Amour. — 

 Information respecting this subject is much re- 

 quired. The alleged cures were performed in 



1828, at Nantes, France, and caused much ex- 

 citement in the neighbourhood. Is anything 

 known of the later career of Madame St. Amour ? 



T. J. A. 



Pisces Regales. — Will any of your learned cor- 

 respondents enumerate the " fish " mentioned in 

 the following paragraph : it has been taken from 

 an old charter of the reign of Elizabeth : — 



" Necnon omnes et omnimodas pisces regales, viz'., 

 sturgeon, balenas, chetas, porphesias delphinos reges et 

 graspesias ao omnes alias pisces quascunque niagnam sive 

 ingentara crassitudinem vel pinguietudinera in se ha- 

 bentes." 



Ee.4dy Penny, 



Crannocli. — Can any of your antiquarian friends 

 tell the exact measure of a " crannock." The 

 word is frequently found on the rolls of King 

 John. 



Ledwich says " it is a measure for corn," but 

 the precise quantity is desired. The word will 

 be found in the Glossary annexed to the Liber 

 Quotidianus Contrarotulatoris Garderobee. 



Ready Penny. 



High Sheriff's Privilege. — Does the circum- 

 stance of a person serving the office of High 

 Sheriff under a name which he has taken entitle 

 him to bear that name without a royal licence ? 



Vebna. 



Sebastiamts Franch. — I am anxious to know 

 who Sebastianus Franck was ? I have a work of 

 his called Die Guide Arcke. The only statement 

 of the place at which it was published is the fol- 

 lowing in the title : " Door Sebastianum Franck 

 van Word tsamen ghestelt." The date is 1551. 

 Any information of the book I shall be glad to 

 give to any of your readers. 



I should like to Jcnow who this man was ? If 

 his works are known ? and if so, are they of value, 

 and have they ever been translated ? F. E. K. 



A Curiosity of Literature : Sir Humphry Davy 

 a Poet. — The Rev. R. Polwhele, in his Family 

 Traditions, Sfc. (vol. ii. p. 326.), has a letter from 

 Mr. Giflbrd to his friend Dr. Hurdis, Professor 

 of Poetry in the University of Oxford, in which 

 he writes, among other things : 



" I have not got the Bristol Anthology, nor would I re- 

 commend it to any one ; a more miserable collection of 

 poems has not made its appearance for manj' 3'ears. The 

 only good poem is that addressed to S' Michael's Mount, 

 "hj a 3-oung man of Penzance [H. Davy], an assistant to 

 D'' Beddoes in chemical experiments. He is, without 

 doubt, very clever, and has given Beddoes ample satis- 

 faction." 



Will any of your numerous readers favour mc 

 with any information concerning this Bristol An- 

 thology, or of Sir Humphry's poem ? — for praise 

 from such a judicious critic as Gifford would 

 stamp a mint-mark upon anything assayed by him, 

 and assure its being sterling metal. 



James Elmes. 



