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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<»S. YI. U8., Oct. 30. '58. 



dual lie will oblige — with any other particulars 

 respecting his family. He was descended, accord- 

 ing to the above work, from William Lyons, who 

 purchased considerable lands in King's County 

 from Lord Dunsany, and died 1633, leaving issue 

 Charles and other children, of whom any account 

 would be acceptable. Some of your genealogical 

 correspondents in Ireland can inform me where 

 the will of William Lyons, dying in 1633, in 

 King's County, would be likely to be found. 



E. L. 



Martinellis House of Medici. — The insertion of 

 the following Query in " N. & Q." would oblige 

 many historical students in this city, and might 

 render a signal service to Italian history, if the 

 required information should fortunately be ob- 

 tained : — 



By commission of Leopold I., Grand Duke of 

 Tuscany, Martinelli, who was the author also of a 

 History of England, wrote a voluminous " History 

 of the House of Medici." When the MS. was sub- 

 mitted to Leopold, it was found to be far more 

 frank and outspoken than suited the Grand Ducal 

 ideas of propriety. For this reason it remained 

 unpublished. Now Litta asserts in his superb 

 work, Fam. Med., tavola 19., that this MS. was 

 sold to an Englishman, and taken to England. 

 Can any reader of " N. & Q." throw any light on 

 the present probable hiding-place of this valuable 

 work ? T. Adolphus Trollope. 



Florence, Oct. 15, 1858. 



Cannon Family, co. Hertford. — I should feel 

 obliged to any Hertfordshire genealogist inform- 

 ing me where I can find a pedigree of the Cannon 

 family ; they are supposed to have descended from 

 a family of that name in Scotland [Qu. Was there 

 a family of that name seated in Scotland ? if so, 

 in what part ?], and settled at Barley, co. Herts, 

 about 200 years since, and from this family de- 

 scended the late Edward Cannon, gent., of Great- 

 Hormead Bury, co. Herts. I should also feel 

 obliged by any information respecting the Cannon 

 arms, crest, and motto. T. M. 



'■^ Auld Reekie :" ^^ Modern Athens." — Can any 

 of your correspondents inform me of the earliest 

 occasion in which these names, as applied to the 

 city of Edinburgh, appear in print; or supply any 

 information as to how or by whom they were ori- 

 ginated. David FoKSYxn, 



Glasgow. 



Blondeaii: Gougeon. — Information is desired 

 relative to the history of the families of Blondeau 

 and Gougeon. They are no doubt of French 

 extraction, but when they came to England I have 

 not been able to ascertain. Lewis Augustus 

 Blondeau married Denise Gougeon. They had a 

 son, William Nevile, born in the year 1740. Soon 

 after, I believe, Mr. Blondeau died. Mrs. Blon- 



deau, afterwards Lady Hart, wife of Sir William 

 Hurt (Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in tiie 

 reign of George II.), was Mistress of the House- 

 hold at St. James's Palace for more than fifty 

 years in the reigns of George II. and George HI. 

 Esthere, or Hester Gougeon, her sister, married 

 Daniel Cornelius de Beaufort, grandfather of the 

 late Admiral Sir F. Beaufort. I believe that the 

 families of Gougeon and Guizot aie in some way 

 related or connected. H. C. II. 



Attack on the Sorhonne. — 



" When Zeus was 3'oung a rakish course he led, 

 Invaded Daniie's tower, Amphitryon's bed; 

 Knock'd down Titians, burnt-out Semele, 

 And bore Europa splashing through the sea. 

 Sow'd his wild oats; then sought another home. 

 And changed his name and character at Rome. 

 Grave and majestic, lived a sober life, 

 Fear'd bj' the bad, respected by his wife. 

 A cycle more, grown corpulent and old, 

 He watch'd the weathercock, and shun'd the cold ; 

 Used stronger spectacles, spoke thick and slow, 

 Lov'd his arm-chair, and nurs'd his gouty toe; 

 Thought pleasure troublesome: The Sorbonne thus 

 Thunder'd about the unigenitus ; 

 Pierc'd Paschal's metaphysic crust, and saw, 

 With gimlet eye, each Augustinian tlaw. 

 And zealous, practising the zeal which strikes, 

 Drove out one Arnald to the land of d3'ke3. 

 Now feeble, sunk in gluttony and ease, 

 Requires all candidates to — pay their fees. 

 With senses duU'd by simonistic jobs. 

 Smells not Gassendi, passes over Hobbes. 

 Bullied bj' Beaumont, mistresses, and lord^. 

 Humbly permission craves to eat its words ; 

 And vows, with voice between a groan and squall, 

 He saw not heresy, when writ so small." 



The above lines are from Ari Epistle in Verse 

 addressed to the Rev. R. O. C, by G. C, small 

 4to., London, 1756, pp. 32. Perhaps it may be 

 desirable to print the first part as introductory to 

 what follows ; but all which I ask is an explana- 

 tion of the attack on the Sorbonne. M. E. 



Plato. — There is an ancient, not infrequently 

 quoted, simile of a statue in an unhewn block of 

 marble, which exists indeed, but appears to men 

 only when discovered and developed by the crea- 

 tive mind and hand of the sculptor. I believe the 

 image is in Plato, but am unable to lay my hand 

 on the passage. Can any of your readers refer 

 me to it ? M. A. 



The Metcalfe Family. — Can any correspondent 

 inform me how the late Lord Metcalfe, Governor- 

 General of India, was descended from that Thomas 

 Metcalfe who was Chancellor of the Duchy of 

 Lancaster about the time of Henry VII. ? 



A. M. W. 



Andrew Morison. — There was printed (Edin- 

 burgh) at the foot of the Horse AVynd, 1719, An 

 Abstract of the Art of Defence ; showing how it is 

 to he played. It is dedicated to Sir James Kinloch 

 of Kinloch, and is subscx'ibed " Andrew Morison." 



