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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s, VI. 146., Oct. 16. '58. 



Carnanton, Esq., Attorn ey-Generall to Charles the First 

 of blessed meraorj', King of Great Britaine, France, and 

 Ireland, who was interred the 12'h of December, A.n. 



1079." 



Can any of your numerous readers inform me 

 whether any representative of the family of Noye 

 still exists ? I observe in 2"* S. vi. 221., an ori- 

 ginal letter of John Noyes, describing the creation 

 of Henry as Prince of Wales {temp. James I.). Is 

 it possible that, despite the name of the latter 

 being spelt with a final " s," he may be of the same 

 family as the attorney-general above-mentioned ? 



Genealogus. 



Mandrake. — What were the mandrakes men- 

 tioned in Gen. xxx. 14. ? In the Testament of 

 the Twelve Patriarchs (Test, of Issachar), man- 

 drakes are described as "sweet-scented apples, 

 which the land of Aram bringeth forth in high 

 countries, by the water valleys." Bailey, in his 

 Dictionary, connects the word with the Greek 

 t-iav^payopas and the Latin mandragoras; which 

 latter word, in Smith's Latin Diet., is translated 

 " mandrake. Pliny describes two kinds, a mascu- 

 line white, and a feminine black : the first is pro- 

 bably the mandrake (Atropa Mandragora), the 

 second the deadly nightshade {Atropa Bella- 

 donna')." Is the former of these the plant referred 

 to in Genesis, and would it answer to the descrip- 

 tion of it in the Testament ? Libya. 



Bezelinus, Aixhbishop of Hamburgh and Bre- 

 men. — In an article in The Standard o{ Sept. 29, 

 1858, discussing the Stade Dues, their origin is 

 stated to have been a grant by the Emperor Conrad 

 II., in 1038, to "a certain Bezelinus, Archbishop 

 of Hamburgh and Bremen," of " the right to hold 

 a market in a place called Stade," &c. Can you 

 or any of your correspondents direct me to any 

 sources of information respecting the above arch- 

 bishop ? Tee Bee. 



GainshorovgK s Portraits of Geo. III. and Geo. 

 IV. — Can any of your readers state in whose 

 possession is the original portrait by Gainsborough 

 of George IV. when Prince of Wales ? The por- 

 trait is whole-length ; the Prince leaning on his 

 horse. Notice of the engraving is to be found 

 in Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved British Por- 

 traits. Similar information is required in refer- 

 ence to Gainsborough's portrait of George III. ; 

 the figure whole-length, and standing. Anon. 



Easter Bouquet. — The Easter bouquet of the 

 Irish at the present day seems to bear a strong 

 resemblance to the two irises, or rather, the inter- 

 laced triangles mentioned in 2°* S. vi. 214., and 

 the one may serve to elucidate the other. It con- 

 sists of a spherical ball of primroses carefully tied 

 together, and in the centre is placed a white six- 

 petalled anemone or'pasque flower. In Warwick- 

 shire they have very similar bouquets, except that 



the plume of the anemone is supplied by a branch 

 of the palm-willow. 



It would be highly interesting if a collection 

 could be made of all the local customs relative to 

 Easter. Perhaps some of the correspondents of 

 " N. & Q." may be induced to send an account of 

 any that have come under their observation, and 

 thus ascertain whether they have a common ori- 

 gin or have been derived from different sources. 



M. G. 



Parism.us and the Knight of the Oracle, — In the 

 Journal of Madam Knight of a Journey performed 

 in 1704 from Boston, N. E., to New York, which 

 Journal has lately been republished in Littell's 

 Living Age (a weekly periodical printed at Bos- 

 ton), I find the following passage : — 



"Hee entertained me with the Adventures he had 

 passed by late Rideing, and eminent dangers he had 

 escaped, so that, Eemembring the Hero's in Parismus 

 and the Knight of the Oracle, I didn't know but I had 

 mett w'h a Prince disguis'd." 



Can the editor of" N. & Q." or any of his corre- 

 spondents inform me where the story of Parismus 

 and the Knight of the Oracle is to be found ? 



Metacom. 



Roxbury, U. S. 



The Charlies. — What was the origin of the old 

 London watchmen being called " Charlies?" 



Haughmond. 



Browne's " Fasciculus Plantarum Hihernia." — 

 Patrick Browne, M.D., author of The History of 

 Jamaica, and other publications, left behind him, 

 with another MS., the following : — 



" Fasciculus Plantarum Hibemise ; or, a Catalogue of 

 such Irish Plants as have been observed by the Author, 

 chiefly those of the Counties of Mayo and Galway ; to 

 which he has added such as have been mentioned by 

 other Authors worthy of credit, the produce of any other 

 parts of the Kingdom." 



Dr. Browne died in the year 1790. Has the 

 work in question appeared in print ? and if so, 

 what may be its merits ? If not, where is the 

 MS. to be found ? Abhba. 



" Horace Walpole and Madame du Deffand." — 

 In a letter from Walpole to Mann, written in 

 1780, shortly after Madame du Deffand's death, 

 he mentions having " written to her once a week 

 for these last fifteen years." Have these letters 

 been published ? If not, are they still in exist- 

 ence ? M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



Marsolier's " Histoire de Henri Vll." — Chance 

 has lately placed in my hands a little work (in 

 2 vols. 12mo.) entitled Histoire de Henri VII. Roy 

 d'Angleterre, surnomme Le Sage et Le Salomon 

 dAngleterre, par M. de Marsolier, Chanoine 

 d'Uzes, Paris, 1725. Can any of your readers 

 inform me whether any other writer gives Henry 



