2 nd S. IX. Feb. 25. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



151 



seems probable, as in some measure a represent- 

 ation of one of Jansen's Noachian slips, these 

 must have somewhat resembled the class of vessels 

 which we still call " Dutch-built." 



Thomas Boys. 



Songs Wanted (2 nd S. ix. 124.) — The song — 

 "Somehow my spindle I mislaid" — was written 

 to an air by Monsigny ; and " A southerly wind 

 and a cloudy sky," was afterwards adapted to the 

 same. The composer of the music died in Paris 

 in 1817. Wm. Chappell. 



Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth (2" a 

 S. ix. 44.) — Your correspondent J. R. asks, 

 " What was the diplomatic effect, according to the 

 public law of Europe, of the excommunication of 

 Queen Elizabeth?" The following is an extract 

 from Bossuet's Defense de la Declui-ation du Clerge 

 de France, livre 4, ch. 23. 



" The Bull of Paul III. against Henry VIII., and that 

 of Pius V. against Elizabeth, were waste paper, despised 

 by the heretics, and in truth by the Catholics. Treaties, 

 alliances, commerce, everything, in a word, went on as 

 before, and the Popes knew this would happen ; still the 

 Court of Rome, though aware of the inutility of their 

 decrees, would publish them with a view of acquiring a 

 chimerical title." 



I am indebted for this information to the late 

 Mr. Charles Butler's Vindication of the Book of 

 the Roman Catholic Church against the Rev. 

 George Townsend's Accusations of History against 

 the Church of Rome. J. F. W. 



Sir George Paule (2 ud S. ix. 46.)— Though I 

 cannot afford any direct answer to Mr. Sansom's 

 Query respecting Sir George Paule, " Knight 

 Comptroller to his Grace's (Archbishop Whitgift) 

 household," yet I wish to call his attention to an 

 earlier edition of the Primate's life than the one 

 mentioned as published in 1699. I have a copy 

 of an edition of the work referred to, large 8vo., 

 " printed in London by Thomas Snodham, 1612." 

 As the Primate's death occurred in 1603, mine is 

 probably the first edition. On the reverse of the 

 title-page is a curious portrait of the archbishop. 



C. Le Poer Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



Treasubie of Similies (2 nd S. ix. 80.) — The 

 " sweete trefoile " must be the common melilot, 

 Trifolium officinale, which, when dried, is exceed- 

 ingly fragrant, as I can myself testify from expe- 

 riment : much more so than when green. It 

 retains also its fragrance; whereas while the plant 

 is growing the scent will vary according to the 

 circumstances of the weather : stronger, for in- 

 stance, in a Lot sunshine than in a cloudy and 

 moist atmosphere. Of course its losing its scent 

 "seven times a day and receiving it again" is to 

 be understood largely. The allusion is evidently 

 to Proverbs xxiv. 16., and is really a very pretty 

 simile. 



The " great castle gillofer " is, I suppose, the 

 gilliflower, or wallflower, growing on old castle 

 walls, Cheiranthus frvticulosus ; it flowers, how- 

 ever, ordinarily in May and June, and not so early 

 as March and April. What the writer means by 

 Marians violets I cannot discover, and suspect, 

 there is a misprint. Among the eight species of 

 violets, I cannot find, either in modern or old- 

 fashioned botanical works, a popular name such 

 as Marian. There is marsh violet, Viola palustris ; 

 is it that? There is also Dame's violet, or Queen's 

 violet, Hesperis inodora. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Old Graveyards in Ireland (2 nd S. viii. 

 539.) — I feel pretty sure I can answer the in- 

 quiry of your correspondent George Lloyd, and 

 in doing so correct some inaccuracies as to lo- 

 cality and expression in the inscription to which 

 he refers, and which was probably copied from 

 memory, and therefore imperfectly. 



The epitaph to which he refers, which has 

 often been noticed with surprise and animadver- 

 sion, might be read a few years since ; and if 

 shame has not removed the impiety, may still be 

 read on a slab inserted into the wall of the South 

 Chapel in the city of Cork as follows : — 

 " Hie Jacet 

 Sarg 4 Malone, A Merchant from France, 

 Who valued the Riches of this Life 

 As they secured him an interest in the next 

 And in ' The Lamb's Book of Life 

 Brought in Heaven A Debtor to Mercj', 

 And left the Ballauce on the Table ." 



Your Querist may rely that the foregoing is 

 not only "possible," but certain. A. B. R. 



Belmont. . 



St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Here- 

 ford (2'" 1 S. ix. 77.) —According to his history as 

 related in Bollandus {Acta Sanctorum, torn. i. Oct. 

 p. 539.), he was born at Hameltlene, a few miles 

 from High Wycombe, in the county of - Bucks. 



'A\tevs. 



Box called "Michael" (2 nd S. ii. 351.) — 

 Mr. Riley, alluding to the fact that in the north 

 of England a large box is called a michael, .and 

 that a name for a large box is also ark, asks, is 

 it possible that some punster might have given 

 the name michael t,o the box or ark, because 

 Michael is the Arch-angel (Ark-angel) ? I ap- 

 prehend the word michael, for a " large box," is 

 corrupted from A.-S. micel, great. Arkwright — 

 a maker of arks ; Micklewright = a maker of 

 michaels or mickles. R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



JonN Lloyd (or Floyd), the Jesuit (2 nd S. 

 ix. 13.) — Some farther account of the above, 

 under the name of John Floyd, will be found in 

 the Rev. Dr. Oliver's Collections towards Illus- 

 trating the Biography of the Scotch, English, and 



