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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2** S. IX. 1'kb. 25. '60. 



Irish Members of the Society of Jesus (published 

 by Dolman, London), page 94. By this it appears 

 that Father Floyd was a very voluminous writer, 

 and a list of twelve works, the produce of his 

 pen, are given. In one of them, 



" An Apology of the Holy See Apostolic's Proceeding 

 for the Government of the Catholicks of England during 

 the Time of Persecution," 



he assumes the name of " Daniel of Jesus." 



J. F. W. 



Walk your Chalks (2 nd S. ix. 63.) — One of 



the classical masters at School, years and 



years ago, used to tell us, — in joke, doubtless, if 

 your correspondent's suggestion be correct, — that 

 this phrase had its origin in the slave-market at 

 Rome, where slaves newly arrived from abroad 

 had to stand with their feet chalked until some 

 one bought and walked them off. Certainly the 

 chalking of the feet is alluded to by Tibullus (ii. 

 3. 63.), 



" Nota loquor ; regnum ipse tenet, quem sscpe coegit 

 Barbara gypsatos ferre catasta pedes," 



and Ovid {Amor. i. 64.), 



" Nee tu, si quis erit capitis nieresde redemptus, 

 Despice gypsati crimen inane pedis" 



Also Pliny (Hist. xxxv. 17, 18.). J. Eastwood. 



Jennings Family (2 nd S. ix. 65.)— The fol- 

 lowing extract from Faulkner's History of Chelsea 

 may prove acceptable to Mr. Jennings : — 



"H. C. Jennings was the only son of James Jennings, 

 Esq.. of Shiplake in the county of Oxford, and was born 

 in 1731, O. S. He was descended from a very ancient 

 and noble family, the Nevila, and was accustomed to 

 reckon the celebrated Sanh Duchess of Marlborough 

 amftng his progenitors." — Vol. i. p. 87. 



In 1781, a Mr. Joseph Jennings, a dissenter of 

 Fenchurch Street, was buried at Chelsea. 



ClIELSEGA. 



George Gascoigne (2 nd S. viii. 453.) — George 

 Gascoigne, who was "in trouble in 1548," and 

 " Gasion the lawyer," who had "an old wife in 

 1551" (2 nd S. ix. 13.), could not possibly have 

 been George Gascoigne the poet, who married late 

 in life, and died, according to Southey, 7th Oct. 

 1577, " in middle age." Gaston and Gastone are 

 said by Fuller to be two of eighteen variorum 

 spellings of Gascoigne. If it were worth while 

 for Mr. J. G. Nichols to search, I think that 

 gentleman would find that Queen Mary's Knight 

 of the Bath was Sir Henry, second son of Sir 

 William (Jascoigne of Gawthorpe, by the Lady 

 Margaret. Percy, his wile. 11. \V. Dixon. 



Seatoti-Carew, co. Durham. 



Macaulay Family (2" d S. ix. 44. 86.)— I 

 think Fitzgilbert has fallen into error when he 

 says that the Babingtons claim descent from the 

 Macaulays, as I believe Mr. Irving is right in 

 stating that the first alliance of the two families 



took place on the marriage of the late Thomas 

 Babington, Esq., M. P. for Leicestershire, with 

 Miss Jean Macaulay. It is not, however, from 

 their relationship with the Macaulays, ancient as 

 this latter family may be, that the Babingtons 

 claim to be one of the foremost names on the roll 

 of England's untitled gentry. This ancient fa- 

 mily consists now of two great branches, the 

 Babingtons of Dethick, and the Babingtons of 

 1 Rothley. Amongst the forty coats of noble and 

 I illustrious families .which now decorate their an- 

 i cestral shield are to be found those of Ward, 

 ■ Dethick, Annesley, Stafford, Beaumont, de Quincy, 

 I de Waet, Baliol, the old Earls of Chester, Alan 

 ' Earl of Galloway, Morvile, Engaine, and many 

 ; others. In -addition, the Babingtons of Rothley 

 | bear four crests, three badges, ami have a right 

 to supporters. Rothley Temple came into pos- 

 session of the Babington family about the year 

 1500, and in due course descended to the pre- 

 sent Mr. Babington, late of Rothley, by whom it 

 was sold to his brother-in-law, the late Vice- 

 Chancellor Sir James Parker, to whose son it 

 now belongs. This branch of the Babington 

 family also possesses a privilege which I believe 

 to be unique. It is that at Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, there is a set of rooms belonging to 

 them, and except by the express permission of the 

 head of the family for the time being, no one but 

 a Babington can occupy them. J. A. Pn. 



Who was the author of Rothley Temple, a Poem, 

 8vo. (Cadell, 1815)?* It is a legendary story of the 

 time of Edward I., and is of interest at the mo- 

 ment, as it associates the names of Babington and 

 Macaulay at that early period. J. O. 



Samuel Daniel (2" d S. viii. 204.; ix. 90.)— My 

 authority for stating that this poet was not a 

 Somersetshire man born, is his epitaph. It oc- 

 curs in a printed collection in three volumes oc- 

 tavo, which I saw in the British Museum, but 

 the exact title of which I do not remember : — 



" At Beckington, Somerset, 

 Samuel Daniel, Esq., whose calme and blessed Spirit 

 needs no other Testimonie than y' works w* he left 

 behinde him. He was borne at Wilmington in Wilt- 

 shire, nere y c plaine of Salisbury in y« yeare . . . and 

 was buried at Beckington, in Somersetshire, y 6 H th of 

 October, 1G19." 



C. J. Robinson. 



Medals of the Pretender (2" d S. ix. 60.) — 

 Reading an article in your valuable paper headed 

 "The Younjr Pretender in England,' I am in- 

 duced to give a description of two medals of that 

 person selected from my series of medals (relating 

 to the Pretenders), published in the Numismulic 

 Chronicle, 1839. No. 1. Bust to the right of 

 Charles Edward, without drapery; legend, carolvs. 



[* Ascribed to Dr. Gisborue in the Gent. Mug. Dec. 

 1815, p. 521- Ed.] 



