2»<» S. VI. 149., Nov. 6. '58.] 



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mon insuccfes, qui ne devait pas etre de longue duree, car 

 le soir meme je recevais cette lettre : — 



" ' Monsieur, 



" ' Je croyais n'avoir affaire qu'Ji un curieux indifferent 

 dont I'opinion me souciait peu ; fapprends que vous etes 

 journaliste et, comme vous pourriez dishonorer mon nom 

 en me pretant des sentiments indignes de moi, je viens re- 

 poudre k votre question. 



" ' Je ne chantais pas par bravade ni par peur, au mo- 

 ment de mon accident, je chantais naturellement, sans 

 songer a autre chose, comme pent le faire tout homme 

 qui fait sa malle, sans avoir I'esprit preoccupe. Je suis 

 malheureux, mais, aufond, je ne suis pas m^chant. 



" ' Je vous salue, 



" ' MONTELY. 



" ' Prison d'Orl^ans.' " 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Omyie ignotum pro vmguifico (2°'' S. vi. 311.) — 

 The words omne ignotum pro magnijico est, " every- 

 thing unknown is magnified or made important," 

 is not said " of our ancestors " by Tacitus, as the 

 reviewer in the Journal of Sacred Literature af- 

 firms ; for Tacitus has put this expression into 

 the mouth of Gaigacus, who applies it to the 

 Romans, not to the Caledonians or Britons ; for 

 the Romans, already at the extremity of the habit- 

 able globe, ignorantly, he alleges, afl'ected to con- 

 quer regions beyond the Grampian Hills, where 

 Gaigacus was then posted at the head of 30,000 

 men awaiting the assault of the Romans, whose 

 ground for the war was, according to Tacitus, the 

 desire of Agricola, his father-in-law, to find 

 therein one of the remedies for his affliction at the 

 loss of his son ! (Agricola, xxviii.) Tacitus 

 varies this phrase, and in speaking of the effect of 

 the rumour of the same Caledonian gathering 

 upon the Roman army (xxv.) says, majore fama, 

 uti mos est de igiiotis, where also he applies it to 

 the Romans, and not to " our ancestors." 



T. J. BuCKTON, 



Lichfield. 



Napier's Bones (2"* S. vi. 328.) — This contri- 

 vance did not come into use. All who have tried 

 it know that a moderate arithmetician would only 

 lose time by it. There are old sets to be bought 

 sometimes. I have a memorandum of the follow- 

 ing work : — 



" John Willan, A description of Napier's rods .... 

 Price, made of box wood, 5s. Gd. : ivory, 1/. Is. Manches- 

 ter, 1818, 8vo. (pp. 8.) " 



Napier was simply Laird of Merchistoun. His 

 Rabdologia (Edinburgh, 1617, 12nio.) is a small 

 (posthumous) work, containing many examples 

 with which the bones have nothing to do. It con- 

 tains something like an approach to the use of the 

 decimal point. A. De Morgan. 



" Belted Will." Lord Howard (1" S. x. 341.)— 

 The following extract from the Carlisle Journal, 

 cjuoted in 7'he Times last month, will contribute a 

 little to the scanty notices which, according to 



your correspondent James J. Scott, we possess 

 of this celebrated baron, if at least it may be relied 

 on : — 



" A few days ago, as old James Walker, the parish 

 clerk, was digging a grave in the burial -ground attached 

 to Brampton old church, he came upon the sidestone of a 

 ' thrugh,' or altar-tomb, imbedded in the soil, at a depth 

 of about fifteen inches from the surface. Upon the stone 

 were carved the arms of the De Multons, the Dacres, and 

 the Howards quartered with the Dacres; and near the 

 place where it was.found there was also discovered a spur 

 of the period — 



' Where mailed moss-troopers rode the hill, 

 And bugles blew for Belted Will.' " 



It will be remembered that it was by the mar- 

 riage of the heiress of Thomas de Multon, Mar- 

 garet de Multon, who was carried oS" in the night 

 time from Warwick Castle by Ralph de Dacre, to 

 whom she had been betrothed, that Naworth 

 passed to the family of Dacre ; and it was by the 

 marriage of the heiress of the Dacres that it sub- 

 sequently passed to Lord William Howard. Lord 

 Carlisle, who is now staying at Naworth, has 

 examined the stone, and has expressed his belief 

 that it has marked the grave of Belted Will, and 

 he intends to make further excavations as soon as 

 he obtains the consent of the Vicar. Naworth 

 Castle is in the parish of Brampton, and it seems 

 not at all unlikely that the parish church would 

 be selected as the burial-place of William Howard. 

 He died at Naworth in the year 1640, during the 

 ravages of the plague, and if, as has been alleged, 

 he fell a victim to that fearful disease, he would, 

 as is usual in such cases, be buried in his clothes. 

 This may account for the finding of the spur near 

 the place of the supposed interment. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Shand Familt/ (2-'« S. i. 389.; v. 31.)— Tour 

 correspondent X. X. asks for evidence that the sur- 

 name Shand was anciently written De Champ. At 

 p. 344. of the 2nd vol. of the Collections by the 

 Spalding Club of Aberdeen of the Antiquities of 

 the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, he will find a 

 precept by the Bishop of Aberdeen, dated 16 

 Jan. 1460, for presenting a successor in the pre- 

 bendary of Turriff to the deceased Magisler 

 Joannes de Campo. I presume there can be little 

 doubt that the name of the deceased was John 

 Shand. The name Shand or Schand was common 

 among the clergy in Aberdeenshire before the Re- 

 formation. Thus we find Robertu^ Schaivnd, per- 

 petual vicar of Caul, Aberdeenshire, in 1522. 

 Black Book of Arbroath, p. 436. Dominvs Alex- 

 ander Shand, a witness to a clerical protest made 

 in the parish of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, in 

 1538. Spalding Club Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 497. 

 Robert Schand, Rector of Alves in 1548, Ken- 

 nedy's Hist, of Aberdeen, vol. ii. p. 21. The spel- 

 ling was originally Schand or Schaivnd. In the 

 seventeenth century the c was usually omitted, 

 but on a large tombstone of the family of Schand 



