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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. Vl. 165., Dec. 18. 'Sb. 



The Journey of Life "If life is a journey, 



then let us travel." AVhat writer has ^jiven the 

 foregoing aphoristic advice, with which Mr. Asplen 

 commences his Lively Sketch of a Trip to Killarney 

 and the South of Ireland ? Abhba. 



" Browning's Ride to Aix." — What are the facts 

 on which Browning's Ride to Aix, or How they 

 brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, is 

 founded ? H. 



Hastings. 



Vidley Van: its Derivation. — A small stream 

 in Hampshire has at its mouth a village called 

 Key-Haven (query, /Ce^ or Quai/-Avon). Close to 

 the village is a farm called Vidley Van (query, 

 Vidl-Avon). What is the meauiug of the first 

 part of this latter word ? E. K. 



Rush Family : Anthony Rush, D.D., Dean of 

 Chichester. — In Cooper's Athena Cantubrigiensis 

 there is an account of this divine, who was insti- 

 tuted to the Rectory of St. Olave's, Southwark, 

 June 27, 1569, which he held until his death in 

 1577. He was the first governor named in the 

 charter granted by Queen Elizabeth to the Free 

 Grammar School of St. Olave's in 1571, and was 

 buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Of what 

 family was he ? and did he leave any descendants? 

 and what were his arms, if any ? 



Samuel Rush, Esq. was a candidate for the i-e- 

 presentation of Southwark in Parliament in 1713- 

 14, and he petitioned against the return of John 

 Ladd and Fisher Tench, Esqrs. He contested 

 the borough several times, but never successfully. 

 He was a vinegar manufacturer in Southwark, 

 ■which manufactory was established by one of his 

 name in 1641. He died March 13, 1724, aged 

 fifty-five, and was buried at Clapham, Surrey, 

 where are monuments to him and his father and 

 son, both of the same name. 



In Manning and Bray's Stirrey it is said that 

 the heir of this family was Sir William Rush of 

 Wimbledon, a gentleman of large fortune. 



Any farther information respecting Dr. Rush 

 or the family of his name will oblige G. R. C. 



John Bentley. — Can any of your readers give 

 me any account of John Bentley, author of The 

 Royal Penitent, a sacred drama, r2mo. 1803 ? 

 Where was this piece printed ? * ' X. 



Elynellis, Quadrantis truncholis. — In the Boke 

 of St. Albans, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496, 

 g. ii. vo., in the treatise entitled " the lygnage of 

 Cote Armures," the authoress is describing such 

 charges as maunches, gurges, pheons, escallopes, 

 and she says among the rest, " Elynellis ben 

 callyd in armys four quadrantis truncholis." 



[* It was printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 

 for Button & Son, Paternoster Kow.] 



What can be the meaning of these phrases, or 

 whence are they derived ? The spelling is exactly 

 the same as in the earlier edition printed at St. 

 Alban's about ten years earlier. Can elynellis be 

 a misprint for lyenellis, the e and I being trans- 

 posed ; if so, it may mean lioncels f But then 

 what can "four quadrantis truncholis" possibly 

 mean ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Anonymous Dramatic Works. — Who is the 

 author of Thibaldus : sive, VindictcB Ingenium Tra- 

 gadia, 12 mo. 1640, Oxford; The Apparition, or 

 the Sham Wedding, a comedy, 4to. 1714, by a 

 gentleman of Christ Church College, Oxford ; 

 Germauicus, a tragedy, by a gentleman of the 

 University of Oxford, 8vo. 1775; The Cyclops of 

 Euripides, a satiric drama, by a member of the 

 University of Oxford, Oxford, 1843? 



Can any of your readers give me any informa- 

 tion regarding R. Allan, M.A., author of The Par- 

 ricide, a Tragedy, 1825 ? This play was acted at 

 Bath. 



Who is the author of Alphonso ; or, the Beg- 

 gars Boy, a comedy in verse, published by J. 

 Ridgway, London, 1827? This comedy (which 

 was partly written at Bowood) is dedicated to the 

 Marquis of Lansdowne. 



Who is the author of The Coach Drivers, a po- 

 litical comic opera, 8vo. 1766 ? The same author 

 published a poem called The Opera, 1766. X. 



Bishop of Sodor and Man. — I have a vague 

 recollection that on going through the House of 

 Lords, when a boy, a seat was pointed out as be- 

 ing assigned to the Bishop of Sodor and Man, 

 just within the bar, in compliment to his office, 

 but not conveying a voice in the deliberations of 

 the Lords. Is my recollection consistent with the 

 fact ; and, if so, has any such seat been assigned 

 to the bishop in the new House ? Y. B. N. J. 



Where does the Day begin ? — Every meridian 

 on the globe has a certain moment on which any 

 given day, say Sunday, November 28, begins. 

 What meridian is the one on which that day be- 

 gins at the earliest moment of absolute time ? M. 



Passage in Cainbrenses Eversus. — Can any of 

 your correspondents say on what authority the 

 following is founded, and when and where did it 

 happen ? 



" Three hundred Catholics were bound in chains and 

 carried off to a desolate Island near the Coast, whose 

 Death by cold and famine was inevitable, abandoned and 

 penned up there. All were starved to death except two, 

 who ventured to trust themselves to the mercy of the sea. 

 One of them sank to rise no more : the other, by hii? su- 

 perior strength, gained the mainland and told the tragic 

 story of his associates' fate." 



This is taken from vol. i. page 83. of Cum- 

 brenses Eversus, printed for the Celtic Society, 

 Dublin, 1848. S.N. K. 



