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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-4 S. IX. May 19. '60. 



the reverse of the book is quarterly, 1st and 4th, 

 an eagle displayed, or ; 2nd and 3rd, vair ; on 

 an escocheon of pretence three leopards' faces, or. 



Blake Family. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents favour me with information on the following 

 subject : — 



1. Of what family were the brothers William, 

 Benjamin, and Nicholas Allan Blake, whose wills 

 are recorded in Jamaica. Were they not the de- 

 scendants of Nicholas Blake (a brother of the 

 celebrated Admiral), who was styled a " Spanish 

 merchant"? B. 



Shirley. — Can you inform me if there is any 

 pedigree of the Shirley family, in which occurs 

 the name (maiden name) of Alice Shirley in the 

 seventeenth century ? Q. 



William de Vernon. — Guillaume de Vernon, 

 Prince, &c, founded and endowed the church of 

 Notre Dame, &c, at Vernon, Normandy. Wanted, 

 reference to any works that will, throw light upon 

 De Vernon ? W. H. Overall. 



John Wythers. — Can any correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." direct me where to find the will of 

 this individual, who was Dean of Battle, in Sus- 

 sex, and who died and was buried there in 1615 ? 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



C&uerferf foftfi <8nsiiBtvsS. 



Bible, 1641. — Will Mr. Offor kindly say of 

 what degree of rarity the following book may be? 

 A Bible " printed at London by Robert Barker, 

 Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majestie ; 

 and by the Assignees of John Bill, 1G41 " ? C. T. 



[After giving a very long description of his book (too 

 long to print), C. T. omits to state its size. It is one of 

 a series of editions from about 1620 to 1650, of which 

 very great numbers were printed. The Genealogies — 

 Prayer-Book — Way to True Happiness — Brief Concor- 

 dance — Form of Prayer — and the Psalms versified by 

 Sternhold and Hopkins, and Prayers — were appendages 

 which any purchaser might have bound up with the 

 Bible of the 8vo\ size, or any of them as he pleased. 

 My copy of this 8vo. edition has the words " of God " 

 omitted in 1 John v. 12. Barker and Bill's Bible, 4to., 

 1641, the book which has Bnnj'an's family register writ- 

 ten in it, has those words. All these editions of our ordi- 

 nary translation are of common occurrence; but if C. T.'s 

 copy, with its additions, is fine, clean, perfect, and large 

 margin, it is well worthy a place in any biblical library. 

 All that it appears to want is the Prayer-Book, and the 

 title to the Genealogies. — George Offor.] 



" An Essax of Afflictions." — I have seen a 

 little privately-printed volume in 16md., en titled : 



" A Short Essay of Afflictions, a Balme to Comfort if 

 not Cure those that Sinke or Languish under present 



Misfortunes Written from One of his Majestie's 



Garrisons, as a private Advice to his onely Sonne, and by 

 him printed to satislie the Importunity of some particular 

 Friends. 1647." 



Is there any other instance of this peculiar use 

 of the word "garrison," which is generally con- 

 sidered a noun of multitude ? I should be glad 

 of some information about the book, which, in a 

 recent sale-catalogue, was ascribed to J. Monson ; 

 but Query, upon what authority ? G. M. G. 



[The authority for attributing the book to Sir John 

 Monson, or Mounson, of South Carleton, co. Lincoln, is 

 Wood's Fasti (by Bliss), ii. 41., who states "he hath 

 written An Essay of Afflictions by Way of Advice to his 

 Only Son. Lond., 1661-2. Written in the time of the 

 unhappy wars."3 



The Castle and Town of Haverford. — I 



find from Madox's Baronia Anglica that 



" King Edward I., in the twenty-fourth year of his reign 

 (1296), by a Patent Letter of his Great Seal, committed 

 to Hugh de Cressingham the Castle and Town of Haver- 

 ford, with the Seal of the Chancery there, to be kept by 

 him during the King's pleasure, at a rent to be rendred 

 by Hugh to the Executors of Alienor, late the King's 

 Consort." 



Was this the town now known as Haverford- 

 west ? Who was Hugh de Cressingham ? And 

 did the castle and vill form a portion of the dower 

 of the Queen Consort? John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



[The above reference is to the present town of Haver- 

 fordwest, a name which is generally supposed to be a 

 corruption of the Welsh Hivlfordd. We have failed to 

 trace any notice of Sir Hugh de Cressingham.] 



Idioms. — Can you refer me to any work on 

 the idioms of the Greek and Latin tongues ? My 

 inability to trace any in the catalogues at the 

 British Museum will plead my excuse for troub- 

 ling you or your correspondents. 



George Lloyd. 



[The Library of the British Museum contains several 

 editions of Vigerus, De prcecipuis Graces Dictionis ldio- 

 tismis ( Viger's Greek Idioms'). For Latin idioms we would 

 refer our correspondent to Tursellinus, De particulis 

 Latino: Orationis. This work will be found in the Read- 

 ing Room, appended to the second volume of Bailey's 

 Forcellini, press-mark, 2113. e.] 



Poet quoted by Seneca. — Seneca, De Ira, 

 lib. ii. cap. 16., Opp. torn. i. p. 36. (Gagronovii), 



says : ■ — 



" Fere itaque imperia penes cos fuere populos, qui mi- 

 tiore ccelo utuntur: in frigora, septentrionemque vergen- 

 tibus immansueta ingenia sunt, ut ait poeta, ' suoque 

 simillima cailo.' " 



What poet does Seneca quote from ? 



George Lloyd. 



[By Seneca's " poeta " are we not to understand Ho- 

 mer? "Poeta communiter dicitur; omnibus enim versus 

 facientibus hoc nomen est ; sed jam apud Graecos in 

 unius notam cessit. Homerum intclligas, cum audieris 

 poetam." Sen. Ep. lviii. Is it not possible, then, that the 

 words " Suoque simillima ccelo " are a translation from 

 the Greek?] 



St. Govor's Well. — In Kensington Gardens, 

 not far from the palace, is a public well lately 





