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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. VI. 151., Xov. 20. '58. 



me to engage, that I am willing to concede any- 

 thing that is reasonable, anything that does not 

 involve a compromise of that self-esteem without 

 which life would be a burthen and disgrace. 



" Permit rao to repeat the unalterable recollec- 

 tion T cherish of your kindness, and to remain, 

 " My Lord Duke, 

 " Your very faithful ob' Serv', 



" Percy Bysshe Shbuley. 



" Coke's Hotel, Albemarle Street, 



" Friday Jlorning. 

 [Xo other date; not sent 

 through the post.] 

 " His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, 



" Norfolk House." 



SUMMAET OF TUE DECALOGUE. 



The following Latin summary of the Decalogue 

 comprised in three distichs will probably interest 

 biblical readers. It is appended to a Paraphruse 

 of the Psalms by Arthur Johnston, a Scotch phy- 

 sician of the sixteenth century. The annotator of 

 his sacred poems remarks that, though the author's 

 writings were distinguished for perspicuous bre- 

 vity, he seems here, in a manner, to have ex- 

 celled himself, and adds, "Nee satis mirandum 

 qua arte, quove ingenii acumine summam Deca- 

 logi, in tribus hisce distichis, complecti potuit." 

 If in the English version subjoined I have suc- 

 ceeded in showing that the merit of compression 

 claimed for our author is not altogether unattain- 

 al)Ie in our own language, and in terms proximate 

 to Bible phraseology, it is all I have attempted : 

 the stern oracul.ir character of the matter scarcely 

 a'imits of poetic beauty or the indulgence of fancy. 



" Decahgus. 



" 1. Jle solum venerare Deum ; 2. nee sculpe quod oras : 

 3. Impia nee vox sit ; 4. Luce quiesce i^acr.a: 

 .5. INIaiores reverenter habe ; 6. nee s.inguine dextrnm 



Infice; 7. nee sancti pollue jura tori : 

 8. Pura m.inus furti sit; 9. falsi nescia lingua: 

 10. XuUius optetur, verna, marita, pecus. 



A. J." 

 " The Ten Commandments. 



"1. Have thou no Gods but me; 2. Nor graven type 

 adore : 



3. Take not my name in vain; 'twere guilt most sore: 



4. Hallow the seventh day; 5. Thj' parents honour 



— love : 

 6. Xo murder do ; 7. Xor thou adulterer prove : 

 8. From theft be pure thy hands; 9. Xo witness false, 



thy word : 

 10. Covet of none his house, wife, maid, or herd." 



J. L. 



P. S. Johnston's translation of the Psalms in 

 alternate hexameter and pentameter verse, with 

 other sacred poems, is now rather scarce. Strahan's 

 edition in octavo, dated 1741, beautifully printed, 

 is now before me, nor have I ever met with one of 

 later date ; the earliest was that of 1637. 



A NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE BEIGN OF HENRY IX. 



Deeming it the duty of an author to communicate 

 at the earliest period to the purchasers of his work 

 any important addition to the facts he has stated, 

 or any correction of an error into which he has 

 fallen, allow me to take advantage of the useful 

 pages of " N. & Q." to add one more name, 

 hitherto unnoticed, to the incomplete list of Chan- 

 cellors of King Henry II. 



It appears from the undoubted authority of 

 the contemporaneous writer, Benedict of Peter- 

 borough, that Geoffrey, Provost of Beverley, who, 

 according to Leland, was Chancellor to the king's 

 son when joined with his father in the govern- 

 ment, became also Chancellor of England, and 

 that the office was purchased for him by his 

 uncle Koger, Archbishop of York, for the sum of 

 1 1,000 marks of silver. 



Tlie following is the passage of the annalist. 

 Speaking of Adam de Chircheduna under the 

 year 1176, he calls him — 



" Clericus Rogeri Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, qui vicem 

 Cancellarii in curia juvenis regis gerebat, loco Gaufridi, 

 Prsepositi Beverlaci (ad cujus opus priedictus Eboracensis 

 Archiepiscopus cancellariam Anglia emerat pro undecim 

 millibus marcis argenti.") 



No account is given of the receiver of the 

 mone}', whether by Geoffrey's predecessor for his 

 retirement, or by the King himself for the place. 



I have not met with any record that bears the 

 name of Geoffrey as Chancellor : but this may 

 be accounted for by the fact, related by Leland, 

 that he perished 'by shipwreck between England 

 and Normandy in the same year. (See Benedict 

 of Peterborough, i. 149., -ed. Hearne, 1735, and 

 Leland's Collect, i. 162.288.) 



The possessors of my volumes will therefore be 

 good enough to insert Geoffrey, Provost of Be- 

 verley, as Chancellor between Ralph de Warne- 

 ville and Geoffrey Plantagenet, in p. 1 64. of my 

 first volume : and I shall feel particularly grateful 

 to any of your correspondents who will be kind 

 enough to give me farther particulars relative to 

 this newly-discovered Chancellor. Edward Foss. 



Churchill House, Dover. 



HENRY PEACHAM S ' COMPLETE GENTLEMAN. 



In turning over the third edition of this work 

 (London, 1661, 4to.), I find the following pas- 

 sages ; of some of which I should be glad to re- 

 ceive an explanation, and the others may perhaps 

 interest a portion of your readers. 



In the first page the author alludes to the " whale"' 

 and " wirle-pool " as being first among fishes, and 

 the " pomroy " and " queen-apple " as most ad- 

 mired and esteemed among fruits. What fish was 

 known at that time as the wirle-pool, and what 

 fruits as the pomroy and qveen-apple? 



