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XOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<« S. IX. Jan. 7. '60. 



neither he nor Mr. Mitford makes any remark on 

 it ; an J yet surely the four last lines are at least 

 very like nonsense. Now I think it is easy to 

 make good sense of thjm by supposing them to 

 be a paraphrase of the Terentian Sine Cerere e.t 

 Liberofriget Venus which the Novice had "learned 

 in school." I would amend them thus : — 



" For long ago I learned in school 

 That Love's desire and pleasures cool 

 Sans Ceres' wheat and Bacchus' vine. 

 Xow, master, for the cakes and wine." 



At p. 104. we read: — 



*' But specially we thank you, gentle lord?. 

 That you so well have governed your griefs 

 As, being grown unto a general jar, 

 You chuse King Edward, by your messengers, 

 To calm, to qualify, and to compound: 

 Than!: Britain's strife of Scotland's climbing peers. - ' 



On this last line Mr. Dyce says, "There is some 

 mistake here." Mr. Mitford is silent. Would it 

 not be sound criticism to read the last two lines 

 as follows ? — 

 • : To calm, to qualify, and to compound 



TIC ambitious strife of Scotland's climbing peers." 



By the way, Guenthiav, the name of the Friar's 

 mistress, is the Welsh female name Gwenllian, and 

 it is properly accented. Thos. Keightlet. 



SSmcr Untcs?. 



Sir Isaac Newton on the Longitude. — In 

 a MS. Diary of Sir John Philipps, the fourth ba- 

 ronet of Pieton Castle (ob. 1 736), I find the follow- 

 ing interesting entry : — 



" Jan. 9, 1724, 1 waited upon S r Is. Newton with M r 

 Sender's book concerning y e Longitude. He said there 

 was no other way of finding the Longitude at sea, than 

 by improving y c "method whereby it is found by land, i. e. 

 by y c eclipses of the moon, and y c inmost satellites of 

 Jupiter; that the unequal structure of y e earth with re- 

 gard to y c magnetical veins contain'd therein was y c 

 occasion, of y c inequality of y e dipping needle ; that clock- 

 work was rather keeping y e longitude than finding it, 

 nnd that he believed no clock cou'd be so justly made and re- 

 gularly ordered as to keep yc ship's way for any considerable 

 voyage without y e loss of many leagues. That 'twou'd be very 

 difficult to measure the way of y° sea by any other me- 

 thod than what is used at present, because y c ship will 

 carry the surface of y e water along with it." 



What would Sir Isaac have said could he have 

 beheld the marvellous perfection to which the 

 construction of the marine chronometer has been 

 brought in the present day ? 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverford west. 



Relics of Archhishop Leighton. — Extract, of 

 a letter from Mr. Leighton Dennett, Woodman- 

 cote Place, October 16, 1859, to James Reid,Esq., 

 Wellfield, near Glasgow : — 



" With regard to Archbishop Leighton I am afraid I 

 ■shall not be able to furnish you with much information, 



more than is generally known to everybody who has read 

 his works. I believe you are aware that my father holds a 

 little farm at Horsted Keynes that was Archbishop Leigh- 

 ton's, which is in his possession, on account of his being 

 the nearest living heir. He has also his coat of arms en- 

 graved on a silver seal attached to a piece of the watch 

 chain that Archbishop Leighton wore, which is steel, the 

 impression of which I enclose. We have also a copper- 

 plate of his likeness, from which at different times there 

 has been a great many struck off, and the plate is now 

 much worn. It is about the size of a quarto volume, and 

 from its general appearance one would be inclined to 

 think it must have been the frontispiece of some work, 

 although it is not the same as we generally see bound up 

 ■with Leighton's works, but certainly the features in both 

 are similar — the inscription on the plate is as follows, 

 Bobertus Leightonus S.S. Th professor Primarius et Aca- 

 demiaj Edinburgenas Prsefectus, ^Etatis 46." 



The impression of the seal above referred to is 

 enclosed : would the Editor be pleased to describe 

 it to his readers. G. N. 



[The seal bears the amis of Leighton, alion salient, and 

 the crest a lion's head erased. It is not an archiepiscopal 

 seal, but was probably the seal of Leighton when a young 

 man, as the helmet is that of an esquire. The helmet 

 and lambrequin show it to be a seal as early as Charles I. 

 or earlier ; the colours are consequently not marked. 

 According to Nisbet the arms of Leighton are argent, a 

 lion salient gules.— Ed. " N. & Q."] 



Longevity of Clerical Incumbents. — A 

 Note in " N. & Q." (2 od S. viii. 53.) on this sub- 

 ject reminds me that when sixty years of age in 

 1848 I had occasion for a certificate of my bap- 

 tism, and on proceeding to my native town, In- 

 gatestone, co. Essex, after a lapse of half a cen- 

 tury, I found the same rector living, the Rev. 

 John Lewis, who was so at the period of my birth 

 and baptism, and had the custody of the old 

 Registers, there being no register of births in 

 those days. The old gentleman was still hearty 

 at the age of eighty-six, and recollected me and 

 my parents, and himself handed me the required 

 document. He survived only a few months from 

 that time. Jno. Banister. 



Charter-house, London. 



Carthaginian Building Materials. — Brixey's 

 private hotel at Landport, near the railway sta- 

 tion, has been partly built with the materials of 

 a house in Portsmouth recently pulled down to 

 form a site for the new barracks. One of the 

 chimney-pieces has been transferred to the coffee- 

 room. It is a fine specimen of marble-work, and 

 evidently had been constructed by a connoisseur 

 and traveller (Qy. who?). The frieze is of Egyp- 

 tian green marble in a bordure or moulded band 

 of white alabaster. Deeply engraved in well- 

 formed Roman capitals is — 



" BASILICA PTOLOE JLE ALEXANDRIA. MAK. 21. 



1801." 



On the north jamb immediately under the necking 

 and a patera is cut. "Carthage," and on the south 

 side in a corresponding situation " D. B. C 146." 



