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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°i S. IX. May 2G. '60. 



corps was distinct from the Bloomsbury corps, to 

 which a great many members of the Bar belonged. 

 In the Bloomsbury corps the late Mr. Justice 

 Allan Park, as be told me himself, was a corporal, 

 and Lord Campbell, the present Lord Chancellor, 

 was I believe a private, both being Benchers of 

 Lincoln's Inn. The St. Martin's volunteers were 

 The King's Own, because King George III. re- 

 sided in that parish. The St. Margaret's volun- 

 teers were the Queen's Own, because part of 

 Buckingham Palace is in that parish. The St. 

 James's volunteers were the Prince's Own, be- 

 cause the Prince of Wales, afterwards King 

 George IV., lived in Carlton Palace, which is in 

 the parish of St. James's. And the Temple Asso- 

 ciation was called The Devil's Own, because its 

 members were all lawyers. F. A. Carrington. 

 Ogbourne St. George. 



Proverb. — The subjoined from a contempo- 

 rary newspaper is worth preserving : — 



" Good Name Better than a Goldes Girdle. — 

 The lavish use of gold in many of the tissues now worn 

 by ladies reminds us, says a Paris journal, that a decree 

 of the Parliament of Paris in 1420 forbade the use of 

 golden girdles to women of loose character, but they did 

 not long observe the prohibition, and their costume was 

 soon just the same as that worn by respectable persons, 

 who were therefore obliged to abandon tbe showy style of 

 ornament above mentioned. Hence the proverb, " Bonne 

 renommee vaut mieux que ceinture dore'e " (a good name 

 is better than a golden girdle). 



Perhaps some Paris correspondent may be able 

 to verify or disprove the existence of the decree 

 referred to. T. Lamprat. 



Muffs, a Slang Name. — Some of our slang 

 expressions can be traced back a good many 

 years. I remember to have met in Pepys's Diary 

 with the expression of some one's nose be'int; put 

 out of joint. Lately, when reading the Travels 

 of Sir John Reresby in 1648, I was much amused 

 at finding him say that " the Low Dutch call the 

 High ' Muffes,' tint is etourdi as the French have 

 it, or blockhead." " Vixere fortes ante Aga- 

 memnona." There were " muffs " before ; but 

 perhaps we had better not particularise. 



H. V. T. 



Buffon and Madame de Sevigne. — Might I 

 be allowed to call the earnest attention of the 

 numerous readers of " N. & Q." to the following 

 account ? — 



M. Nadault de Buffon, great grand-nephew of 

 the French naturalist, has just published in two 

 octavo volumes the correspondence left by his 

 illustrious relative. This interesting work, in- 

 cluding all the letters collected by previous edi- 

 tors, has met with the greatest success, and the 

 first impression is now nearly out of print. I was 



fortunate enough to send to M. Nadault de Buffon 

 the copy of several letters preserved in the British 

 Museum ; but it strikes me that there must still 

 exist, scattered throughout various private and 

 public collections, many more documents of the 

 same character. Buffon, as every body knows, 

 was on terms of intimacy with the Duke of King- 

 ston ; he had been elected, besides, a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society, and accordingly could not but 

 reckon amongst his correspondents a good num- 

 ber of English savants. Now if this paragraph 

 should fall under the notice of persons, either 

 possessing MS. letters of Buffon, or able to give 

 me information respecting any such, I shall be 

 extremely obliged if they will by their kind com- 

 munications assist me in rendering as complete as 

 possible the second edition of the work I am now 

 alluding to. 



Messrs. Hachette, the publishers of Buffon's 

 Correspondence, are also preparing a splendid edi- 

 tion of Madame de Sevigne's Letters. In this 

 case, too, I venture upon an appeal to the lovers 

 of literature. The loan of a MS. letter, or the 

 smallest bibliographical particular respecting the 

 fair epistologmpher, will be highly valued and duly 

 acknowledged by Gustave Masson. 



Harrow-on-the-Hill. 



The Weapon Angol, or Angul. — It is sug- 

 gested by Kemble and Lappenburg that the name 

 of the nation of the Angles may have been de- 

 rived from Angol, or Angul, signifying a weapon. 

 Can any of your readers give me a description of 

 the form or shape of such weapon ? 



Henry Ingledew. 



Xewcastle-upon-Tyne. 



David Anderson. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any biographical particulars regarding 

 David Anderson, a Scottish poet, who is author 

 of a play on the subject of Sir W. Wallace, pub- 

 lished about 1821. A poem having the title of 

 Fergus II, or the Battle of Carron, by D. Ander- 

 son, was published in 1810. Probably by the 

 same author. X. 



Sir Thomas Tasborowe. — Of what family was 

 Sir Thomas Tasborowe, one of the Tellers of the 

 Exchequer in 1601 ? Any particulars relative to 

 him will be welcome to T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Britain 1116 B.C. — In the Chronicle of Eng- 

 land, by John Capgrave, recently published by 

 the Rolls Commission, appears at p. 37. the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" At the time of the death of Eli, the priest of the 

 Tabernacle, Brute, that was of Eneas [of Troy] King, 

 came into this land, and called it Britayn, after his name. 

 When he died, he divided his kingdom to his three sons. 

 The first named Leogirus; and to him he gave the land 

 from Dover unto Humber. The second son named Alba- 

 nactus ; aud to him gave he all Scotland uuto Humber. 



