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renewed every second day. If the day is to be 

 wet, the leech lies close at the bottom of the bot- 

 tle ; if the day is to be showery, it occupies a place 

 about the centre (upward) of the bottle ; but if 

 the day is to be fine, the creeping thing lies on 

 the surface of the water. A gentleman in this 

 town informs me that he has tried this for the 

 last, seven months, and found it accurately cor- 

 rect : ten times more so, he says, than any glass, 

 patent or otherwise. Is this thing known and 

 used elsewhere ? It is, I think, worth a Note, as 

 I have never heard of such an indicator before. 



S. Redmond. 

 Liverpool. 



Lord Clive and Warren Hastings. — A 



Saturday Reviewer, in an article headed " The 

 Agapemone in Chancery," has this sentence : — 



" History tells us how Lord Clive resolved, in the 

 midst of Indian conquests, to repurchase the paternal 

 acres." 



Should we not for " Lord Clive" read " Warren 

 Hastings" ? It does not appear that the Clive 

 patrimony (Styche) was ever sold out of the 

 family, though, on the Indian conqueror's second 

 return from the scene of his successes, he ad- 

 vanced a part of his fortune to relieve it of en- 

 cumbrances (see Malcolm, vol. ii. pp. 148-50.). 



But of Hastings we know, from Macaulay's 

 famous essay, that — 



" He would recover the estate which had belonged to his 

 fathers. He would be Hastings of Daylesford. When 

 under a tropical sun be ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, 

 his hopes amidst all the cares of war, finance, and legis- 

 lation, all pointed to Daylesford. And when his public 

 life, so singularly chequered with good and evil, with 

 glory and obloquy, had at length closed for ever, it was 

 to Daylesford that he retired to die." — Macaulay's 

 Essays, vol. ii. p. 182. (People's Edition.) 



In the case of Warren Hastings, the statement 

 of the Saturday Reviewer would have force ; but 

 with reference to Lord Clive, who had multiplied 

 estates before he closed his eventful life at the age 

 of forty-seven, it scarcely seems to be correct. 



Ariconiensis. 



The Lion and Unicorn. — I believe that 

 James I. was the first sovereign of this realm who 

 assumed the lion and unicorn as the supporters of 

 the royal arms. In addition to other evidence, I 

 have a note of a pageant in Cheapside in 1603, 

 where two chorister-boys of St. Paul's delivered, 

 in " a sweet and ravishing voyce," a discourse 

 wherein is the following allusion : — 

 " Where runnes (being newly borne) 

 With tin; fierce lyon, the faire unicorne." 



Nichols's Progresses of James I., vol-.i. p. 358. 



Now in a late vi>it to Corpus Christi Library 

 I copied an " Inventory of the Church Goods of 

 Ely Cathedral," taken in the 31st Henry VIII.; 

 amongst which was " a vestment powdered with 

 lions and unicorns." 



Supposing the evidence to be conclusive that 

 these animals came together for the first time as 

 supporters to the royal arms in James I.'s time, 

 can any of your readers supply me with an ex- 

 planation of the reason of their joint appearance 

 on what was doubtless an old vestment in the 

 31st of Henry VIII. ? Henry Harrod, F.SA. 



Old Finger-post Rhyme. — About forty years 

 ago a finger-post stood at a cross road near to 

 Bunbury, Cheshire ; on one arm was written : — 



" If you are troubled with sore or flaw, 

 This is the way to Spa." 



And on the corresponding arm, in the opposite 

 direction : — 



" If sore and flaw you've left in the lurch, 

 This is the way to Bunbury Church." 



Can any correspondent furnish the name of the 

 Spa, which I have forgotten. I believe it no 

 longer exists. U. O. N. 



©uertcrf. 



Latin, Greek, and German Metres. — Has 

 any attempt been made to reduce to a system, or 

 give rules for the rendering of Greek and Latin 

 into corresponding German metres ? If so, I shall 

 be obliged by a reference to the best or any book 

 upon the subject. Is there in any foreign lan- 

 guage a metre similar to that of Tennyson's 

 Lockdey Hall ? C. E. 



Dr. B- 



and Lather's Story. — 



" The B p of R asked Daniel to dinner, though 



he was contriving that he should be put in the pillory, 

 and took him by the hand at parting, when the chaplain, 



Dr. B , who said the grace, whispered to a person of 



quality who sat next above him, that this hand-shaking 

 on Palm Sunday brought to his mind the profane story 

 which Martin Luther tells of the Bishop of Bamberg's 

 fool. No doubt the chaplain would bave claimed the 

 same kindred as the fool, but for knowing that promo- 

 tion did not come from that quarter." 



The above is from a Whig pamphlet of 16 pages, 

 entiiled High-Flying Loyulty, with the date 1719, 

 but no place of publication. It is very acrimo- 

 nious, but now rather obscure. Probably the 

 initials and "Daniel" signify the Bishop of Ro- 

 chester and Defoe. Can any reader of " N. & Q." 



say who was Dr. B ? And what is Luther's 



story ? C. E. 



" La Schoi.a de Sclavoni." — In the pavement • 

 of the north aisle of North Stoneham church, 

 Hants, there is a large stone upon which is sculp- 

 tured a spread-eagle, around which is the follow- 

 ing inscription in Lombardic characters : — 

 " sepultura de la schola de sclavoni, ano dni 

 mcccolxxxxi." 



Will any of your learned readers favour us with 

 an account of the party whose burial this curious 



