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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2» d S. IX June 30. '60. 



vesci vetitura est, sanguinem convertunt. Perlatum enim 

 ad aures nostras est, quod intestinis tanquam tunicis 

 ilium infarctum, velut consuetum aliquem cibum ventri 

 prsebeant. Quod tolerari non debere Imperatoria nostra 

 majestas rata, neque tam impio soli guise inliiantium 

 hominuin invento, nunc prrecepta divina, nunc reipublicos 

 nostras honestatem dedecore offici sustinens, jubet ne quid 

 id scelus, neque ad suum usum, neque ut emptores detes- 

 tando cibo contaminentur, nllo modo exercere audeat. 

 At sciat quicunque dehinc divinum mandatum contem- 

 nere, sanguinemque in cibum convertere, sive vendat sive 

 emat, deprebensus fuerit, se bonorum publicatione subji- 

 ciendum, et ubi in acerbum modum flagris coesus, ac 

 cute tenus fcede tonsus erit, perpetuo patria) exilio mul- 

 tandum esse." — Imp. Leonis Constitutio lviii., Corpus 

 Juris Chilis, Amsterdam, 1700, ii. 745. 



FlTZHOPKINS. 



Garrick Club. 



The Oiley Hero (2 nd S. ix. 345.) — Ajax, son 

 of Oileus, having survived the " slaughter " of the 

 Trojan campaign, and escaped any immediate pun- 

 ishment for his very unhandsome treatment of 

 Cassandra, whom (to say no more) he dragged 

 from the altar of Minerva, was sailing home, when 

 the goddess upset his boat, as some say by a thun- 

 derbolt — 



"Ipsa, Jovis rapidum jaculata e nubibus ignem, 

 Disjecitque rates, evertitque aiquora vends." 



JEn. i. 43. 



Virgil makes the thunderbolt kill the hero ; but, 

 according to better authority, he " 'scaped " the 

 " fire," when Neptune helped him to scramble to 

 a rock, and he would have been saved, had he not 

 presumptuously declared that, in spite of the gods, 

 he would escape the perils of the sea. Hereupon 

 Neptune split the rock witli his trident; Ajax fell 

 back into the sea, and almost in the words of 

 Nestor to Menelaus (Od. 8. 511.) died of drink- 

 ing water. 



v *Os 6 \i.kv ev9' airoktaXev, eTrei ttUv a\fivpbv vSwp, 



The allusion to wine, I cannot explain. 



C. S. P. 



Les Chauffeurs (2 nd S. ix. 449.)— W. D. will 

 find a very full and interesting account of " Les 

 Chauffeurs " in the first volume of the new edition 

 of the Causes Celehres by A. Fouquier, pub- 

 lished in Paris in 1857. J. H. W. 



Peter Basset (2 nd S. ix. 424.) — To the refer- 

 ence to this writer contained in Hall's Chronicle, 

 which I first pointed out in 1844, and which Mr. 

 J. G. Nichols cites at length, I can now add evi- 

 dence from one of Hearne's works that he was 

 also acquainted with Basset's writings. In his 

 Preface to Thomas Elmham's Vita et Gesta Hen. V. 

 (8vo. Oxon., 1727, p. xxxi.), he says : 



" Quemadmodum et Gallica item aliquam multa, hinc 

 inde in codicibus MSS. non paucis dispersa (Petri Bas- 

 seti et Christopbori Hansoni inprimis adversaria, potius 

 quam historiam, imperfecta, in bibliotheca collegii Fecia- 

 lium) susque deque habuimus," etc. 



The only entry in Mr. Black's Catalogue of the 

 Arundel MSS. in the College of Arms, which can 



at all answer to this description, is that of one 

 article in the volume of William of Worcester's 

 Collections, to which Mr. Nichols refers (MS. 

 xlviii. art. 66.), which is thus described by Mr. 

 Black : — 



" A History of Henry the Fifth's Wars in France, 

 f. 236. The two quires on which this article is written 

 were probably a portion of a larger work. This History 

 is divided into chapters : the first being entitled ' Com- 

 ment les ambassadeurs du Roy Dangleterre vindrent en 

 France, lesquelz sommerent le R03' de France de rendre 

 les terres appartenantes au Roy Dangleterre. En Ian 

 mil xiiij. ou mois de Juing.' The last chapter is entitled, 

 'Comme le Roy de France Charles mourut au bois de 

 Vincennes ;' and ends, ' son noble sane et lignage. ' " — 

 f. 269. 



If this be not the work referred to by Hearne, 

 can Basset's and Hanson's Adversaria be pre- 

 served among the more purely heraldic portions 

 of the library of the College ? W. D. Macray. 



Witty Renderings (2 nd S. ix. 116. 246. 332. 

 413.) — Hardouin, hominuin paradoxotatos, the 

 French scholar, theologian, and antiquary of the 

 seventeenth century, asserted that, with the ex- 

 ception of Homer, Herodotus, Cicero, the elder 

 Pliny, the Georgics, and Horace's Epistles and 

 Satires, all the classical works of antiquity were 

 monkish fabrications of the thirteenth century. 

 Consistently with this theory respecting classical 

 texts, he maintained that scarcely a single ancient 

 coin was genuine, but that all were forged by the 

 Benedictines. He farther maintained that each 

 letter on the inscription of a coin did duty for an 

 entire word. " Quite so," said an antiquarian 

 friend ; I see what you mean : — those words, con. 

 ob., which archasologists are such fools as to read 

 Constantinopoli Obsignatum, evidently signify, 

 according to your view, Cusi Omnes Nummi Ot'- 

 ficina Benedictina." Le pere Hardouin, it is 

 said, " sentit l'inouie, niais il garda son opinion." 



F. S. 



"There is an old maxim, de minimis non curat lex, 

 which, I think, may fairly be translated 'Do not legislate 

 for feather weights.' " — Earl Granville, House of Lords, 

 June 12, in the Debate on the Light Weight Racing 

 Bill. 



R. F. Sketchley. 



St. Madryn (2 nd S. ix. 445.) — In the. Supple- 

 ment to the British Martyr ology, this saint is thus 

 mentioned : — 



" June 9. In North Wales, the festivity of St. Madryn, 

 confessor. (Willis.)" 



In the Memorial of British Piety, London, 1761 

 (p. 79.), there is another saint commemorated : 

 St. Madern, or Madren, which name, if not the 

 same as Madryn, is as likely as it to be derived 

 from Makedranus, especially as there is a well or 

 fountain in both cases. He is thus commemo- 

 rated : — 



" May 17. In Cornwall, not far from the Land's End, 

 the commemoration of St. Madern, or Madren, confessor : 



