2 nd S. IX. May 10. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



395 



gives the meaning of stalk, which confirms the 

 opinion that our translators used boiled hi the 

 sense now advocated. Lastly, Ainsworth, whose 

 annotations were published in 1618, says : "Boiled, 

 or in the stalke." This is enough for me, and I 

 hope it makes good my explanation. Ainsworth 

 at least ought to know. B. H. C. 



Passage in Menander (2" d S. ix. 327.)— The 

 Italian is misprinted, and I read the last word 

 sapore for ropore. It is not to be found in the 

 fragments of Menander, but Philemon (Sententice, 

 ii.) has a like sentiment : — 



"'AvTJp Si'kouos etTTLV, ovx o jUT; aStKuti', 

 clAA' ootcs, a5i*ceif 0vvo.fJLCvos, fir] /3ovAerai. 



• " A just man is not one who merely does not what is 

 unjust, but who, having the power of injustice, will not 

 commit it." Or, 



" A just man is not one who does no ill, 

 But he, who with the power, has not the will." 



T. J. BuCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Coronation, when First introduced (2 nd S. 

 ix. 346.) — There is no mention in Scripture of a 

 royal crown, as a kingly possession, till the time 

 when the Amalekites are described as bringing 

 Saul's crown to David. The Rabbinical tradi- 

 tions, however, connect the first crown with Nini- 

 rod, in whose title, Kenaz the "Hunter," some 

 persons affect to see the origin of the word " king." 

 According to the tradition : — Nimrod was abroad 

 one day in the fields, following the chase. Hap- 

 pening to look up to the heavens, he beheld there 

 a figure resembling what was subsequently called 

 a crown. He hastily summoned to his side a 

 craftsman, who undertook to construct a splendid 

 piece of work modelled from the still glittering 

 pattern in the skies. When this was completed, 

 it was worn by Nimrod, in obedience, as he sup- 

 posed, to the declared will of heaven ; and his 

 people, it is said, could never gaze upon the daz- 

 zling symbol of their master's divine right without 

 ri>k of being blinded. It was perhaps to this 

 story Pope Gregory VII. alluded, when he used 

 to hay that the priesthood was derived direct from 

 God, but that the imperial power of a crowned 

 monarch was first assumed by Nimrod. Perhaps 

 the legend itself may have been founded on the 

 literal rendering of the Hebrew passage, — inti- 

 mating that Nimrod was " the hero of the chase, 

 in presence of Jehovah." J. Doran. 



Milton's Sonnet to Henry Lawes (2 nd S. 

 ix. 337.) — Has not Mr. Husk made a slight but 

 fatal mistake in his otherwise valuable paper on 

 this subject? His point is this: — In perhaps 

 every edition of Milton's Poems, this sonnet is 

 addressed to Lawes "on the publishing his Airs." 

 It is found with that title in manuscripts, and 

 wiili the accompanying date of Feb. 9, 1645. But 

 Lawus's Airs were not published until 1653 ; aud 



Mb. Husk then proceeds to account conjecturally 

 for the anachronism. 



Is there not a mistake at the bottom of this ? 

 Was not the original title of the sonnet : " To Mr. 

 H. Lawes on his Aires." I find it thus printed 

 in the edition of 1705, and in one modern edition 

 of 1809, which are the only editions to which I 

 have present access. The omission of the words 

 " the publishing," alters the whole argument, and 

 converts the sonnet into an outpouring of pri- 

 vate friendship instead of a recommendatory 

 epistle. C. E. 



The English Militia (2 nd S. v. 177.)— Your 

 correspondent wishes to know what other regi- 

 ments of English Militia volunteered and served 

 in Ireland in 1798. As one of the two " still to 

 be accounted for," I would mention the Royal 

 Bucks Militia as one which served under the 

 command of the Marquis of Buckingham during 

 the Irish Rebellion. Jos. G. 



A Female Cornet (2 nd S. ix. 344.) — Perhaps 

 the following circumstances, related as happening 

 in the reign of George I. (not George III.), may 

 be those about which W. D. puts a Query. 

 Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, writes under 

 date of December 3, 1737, thus : — 



" I will begin the relation with Mr. Lepelle, my Lord 

 Fanny's [John, Lord Hervey,] wife's father, having 

 made her [Molly Lepel] a cornet in his regiment as soon 

 as she was born, and she was paid man3 r years after she 

 was a Maid of Honour. 



" She was extreme forward and pert ; and my Lord 

 Sunderland got her a pension of the late King [George 

 I.], it being too ridiculous to continue her any longer an 

 officer in the array." — Walpole's Letters (ed. by Cuu- 

 ningham), i. clii. 



R. F. Sketchley. 



Pontefract (2 nd S. ix. 343.)— On reading 4>.'s 

 Query, as to the locality of Pontefract-upon- 

 Thames, I inquired of an old resident of Sunbury 

 (Middlesex) whether she remembered any place 

 on the banks of the Thames of that name, and 

 was informed that there was a place by the vil- 

 lage of Shepperton Ashford, that she always knew 

 by the name of " Broken Bridge," or " Broken 

 Splash " (splash being a local name for bridge) ; 

 but that she had never heard it called Pontefract 

 or Pomfret. 



She also said that about twenty years back, 

 traces of a road (laid on piles) running directly 

 towards the Thames and crossing several small 

 pieces of water on its way, but stopping at the 

 brink of the river, could still be traced. 



Shepperton Ashford is about three miles from 

 Sunbury, and seven from Kingston. Chelsega. 



Notes on Regiments (2 nd S. ix. 23. 111.) — 

 The motto " Vestigia nulla retrorsum " was not 

 first adopted by the 5th Dragoon Guards. Hamp- 

 den in 1641 raised a regiment of infantry in 



