2°4.S. IX. June 9. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Les Chauffeurs du Nord. — I should feel 

 obliged to any person who would inform me whe- 

 ther a history of these banditti has yet been 

 published in any language. All I know of them 

 is derived from the novel published in the name 

 of Vidocq, the French police spy. From that I 

 gather that they infested the borders of France 

 and Belarium during the confusion of the first 

 revolution. They were numerous, well organised, 

 and comprised persons from almost every station 

 in society. Among them were several females, in 

 particular Julia Maria, a woman of great beauty, 

 talents, and courage. For a while they plundered, 

 murdered, &c. with impunity, but when the poli- 

 tical tempest had subsided the French government 

 bad leisure to attend to the Chauffeurs. Vigorous 

 measures were then adopted; the bands were com- 

 pletely broken up, the members of them hunted 

 down, and numbers taken and guillotined, thirty- 

 seven in one day at Bruges, which had recently 

 been annexed to France. The above is stated in> 

 the preface to be true, or at least founded in 

 truth ; how far it is to be depended upon as to 

 facts I cannot say. I do not even know that 

 the characters are real. The Chauffeurs were «o 

 called because they used to apply the feet of their 

 victims to the fire to make them disclose where 

 their money and valuables were concealed. 



W. D. 

 [We believe there is no reason for doubting that the 

 Chauffeurs were real characters, or that some of their 

 leaders were apprehended and executed in due course of 

 ' law. One of the worst, Jean Buckler alias Schinder- 

 hannes (John the Burner) was executed at Mentz, Nov. 

 21, 1803. We would refer our correspondent to art. 

 Schinderhannes in the Biog. Universale, and to art. 

 Chauffeurs in the Encyc. des Gens du Monde. The former 

 article is by M. de Sevelinges, who tells us that he had 

 published, in 2 vols. 12mo., a Vie de Schinderhannes el 

 aulres Brigands dits Garotteurs ou Chauffeurs. With this 

 last work we are unacquainted. Leitcli Ritchie's Schin- 

 derhannes, the Robber of the Rhine, is a roniantic^tale 

 founded on the history of these banditti.] 



Conrad Cling, or Kling. — I purchased a 

 book entitled Loci Communes Theologici Reve- 

 rendi Viri D. Conradi Klingii Franciscuni, JEc- 

 clesice Erfurdiensis, printed at Paris, " apud 

 Joannem Macseum, in Monte D. Hilarij, sub 

 scuto Brittanise, m.d.lxxui." It contains 650 

 pages, is divided into five books. At the head 

 of the 2nd pfige there occurs the following : — 



" Profcssio Catholics Doctrina) Fidei et Religionis, ve- 

 nerabilis Domini ac l'atris Conradi Clingij, Ordinis S. 

 Francisci. Doctoris et Concionatoris apud Erfordiam in 

 Thuringia." 



It is bound in parchment with thongs of leather, 

 and in the binding between the parchment and 

 the backs of the paper is what appears to be two 

 nieces of illuminated manuscript written in Latin. 

 The characters used are somewhat similar to the 

 following : Ex. ff. rje fun&0 (nstruttO. It is 

 about 6| inches long and 4$ broad. I shall be 



very much obliged for any information regarding 

 the above. D. Watson. 



_ [Conrad Kling, or Cling, was a distinguished Fran- 

 ciscan monk, of whom it is recorded that, when the doc- 

 trines of Martin Luther had made great progress at 

 Erfurt, he alone (Kling) resolutely persisted in cele- 

 brating mass (1527, &c.) in the great "tlospital-Kirche," 

 and in the presence of a large congregation. Seckendorf 

 therefore, says Zedler, was under a mistake in asserting 

 (Hist. Lutheran, i. § 112.) that Kling was one of the first 

 to preach the Lutheran doctrine at Erfurt. The follow- 

 ing is the account given by Zedler, probably the title, of 

 what appears to have been a very early edition of the 

 Loci Communes: "Loci Communes Theologici pro Eccle- 

 sia Catholica, in quibus sedulo tractantur ac discutiuntur 

 articuli Christiana; nostra? Religionis nostris temporibus 

 maxime controversi," Coin, 1559. in fol. ; Paris, 1567. 

 Zedler adds, however, that the identical work appeared 

 previously (1554) under the title Catectismi [_Catechismi?~\ 

 Catholici. An edition of the Loci Communes (fol , Colon. 

 1559) appears in the Bodleian Catalogue.] 



Watson : Rockingham. — Where can I find a 

 pedigree of the family of Watson-Wentworth, 

 which held the title of Marquis of Rockingham ? 



Sigma Theta. 



[Consult Burke's Dictionary of the Peerages, 1831, 

 p. 558. ; Collins's Peerage, by Brydges, ix. 398. ; Baker's 

 Northamptonshire, i. 34. ; and Brydges's Northamptonshire, 

 ii. 335.] 



"Lacteur and Entendement." — In the Har- 

 leian MS. 7546, I find a dialogue with the above 

 title. Is " Lacteur " the name of the author, and 

 what is the date of it ? A. Z. 



[This is a MS. on vellum, in old French, the initial 

 letters gilt and coloured. It is Pierre Michault's Dance 

 des Aveugles, printed at Paris, by Michael le Noir, about 

 1500, in small 4to. The printed book does not appear to 

 have been copied from this MS., as there are considerable 

 variations. ] 



Bcplt'erf. 



MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

 {Comment on 2" d S. ix. 339.) 



A few remarks in addition to what Mr. Cockle 

 has said. 



1. The reference made by Barocius to " Gem." 

 In my copy of Proclus by Barocius in 1560, there 

 is no such marginal reference in p. 262. But in 

 p. 264. there is a marginal reference, in which 

 Geminus is given at length : " vid. et Geminum 

 in 6. lib. Geometricarum enarrationum." I take 

 the last word as a printer's mistake for effectionum, 

 if Ileilbronncr be right. Petavius is the authority- 

 for manuscripts of Barocius being brought to 

 England. If there be, as both Petavius and Ileil- 

 bronncr seem to state, n printed catalogue of these 

 manuscripts, it would be desirable to revive the 

 knowledge of it. But Petavius does not mention 

 the title of this imprinted work of Geminus : 

 all he says (Uranologion, Preface to Geminus, 

 1630) is that there is a " Catalogue librorum 



