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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[><i S. IX. June 30. '60. 



de Louvain : imprime' h Bourdeaux chez Jacques Mon- 

 giron Melanges, Imprimeur du Roi et du College, avec 

 approbation et permission, m.dclxxxvi." 



Thos. Gimlette, Clk. 

 Waterford Cathedral Library. 



Eev. George Oliver, D.D. (2 nd S. ix. 404.) 

 — The following is a list of the works of the above 

 learned and venerable divine, which was furnished 

 by himself: — 



Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries of 

 Devon, 8vo. 1820. 



History of Exeter, 8vo. 1821. 



Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon, 3 vols. ; a fourth is 

 expected soon to appear. 



Collections for a Biography of the Members of the 

 Society of Jesus. 



Cliffordiana, privately printed, 1828. 



Collections towards illustrating the Biography of the 

 Scotch, English, and Irish Members of the Society of 

 Jesus. 1st edition, Exeter, 1838 ; 2nd edition, London, 

 1845. 



Monasticon Exoniense, 1846. 



Collections illustrating the History of the Catholic 

 Religion in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, 

 and Gloucestershire, 1857. 



Dr. Oliver had also much to do with editing West- 

 qpte's MS. View of Devon, 4to. 1845, and with the Liber 

 Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, pub- 

 lished in 1847. 



This indefatigable author is ready now to pub- 

 lish the 



Biography of the Bishops of Exeter, with the History 

 of their Cathedral : also, 



The Civil History of Exeter, with the Biography of 

 its Worthies. 



No portrait has ever been published of the 

 venerable Dr. Oliver. F. C. H. 



Tyburn Gallows (2 nd S. ix. 471.) — In the 

 year 1785 William Capon made a sketch of this 

 locality. At the foot of a drawing made by him 

 from this sketch in the year 1818 are the following 

 notes in his handwriting, which confirm the sug- 

 gestion of your correspondent J. D. as to the 

 position of the gallows : — 



" William Capon del. 1785. pinxt. 1818. 



" View looking across Hyde Park, taken from a one 

 pair of stairs window at the last house at the end of 

 Upper Seymour Street, Edgeware Koad, facing where 

 Tyburn formerly was. The Eastern end of Connaught 

 Place is now built on the very plot of ground, then oc- 

 cupied by a Cowlair, and Dust and Cinder heaps, &c. 



"The shadow on the right in the Edgeware Road is 

 produced by one of the three Galleries which were then 

 standing, from which people used to see Criminals exe- 

 cuted. They were standing in 1785, at which time the 

 original sketch was made from which the picture is 

 done. 



" There were then five rows of Walnut Trees in Hyde 

 Park running North and South ; they were ven T old, and 

 growing much decayed, were cut down about 15 or 20 

 years since, and gun stocks made of the wood of them. 



" There is a cowyard in front with wooden buildings 

 covered with tiles — a wooden post and rail separates it 

 from the Uxbridge Road, and beyond on the other side 

 of the road is Hvde Park wall." 



J. H. W. 



Vestigia nulla Retrorsum (2 nd S. ix. 170.) 

 — With reference to the communication of Dr. 

 Doran, I beg to explain that the above is not 

 the family motto of the Earls of Buckinghamshire, 

 who are Hobarts by descent, but is now borne 

 by them in lieu of their paternal one, " Auctor 

 pretiosa facit," as the acknowledged motto of 

 Hampden, it having been assumed, together with 

 the name, by the fifth earl on succeeding to the 

 estates of the last Viscount Hampden in 1824; 

 the fourth Lord Trevor having been so created 

 in 177G, assuming the name and arms of Hampden, 

 " in compliance with the last will and testament 

 of John Hampden of Great Hampden in the co. 

 of Bucks, Esq." {Vide Debrett, ed. 1819, vol. i. 

 p. 398.) In this edition the translation given of 

 the above motto is, " There are no traces back- 

 ward," certainly more correct than that given in 

 later editions, and the words acquire a peculiar 

 significance when viewed as " the motto of the 

 celebrated Hampden," from whom they have 

 doubtless descended to us, and in connection with 

 whom the later applications of them lose much of 

 their originality and force. 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Huntercombe House (2 nd S. ix. 327.)—" The 

 Old House of Huntercombe, or Berenice's Pil- 

 grimage," is the title of a story which was Miss 

 Jane Porter's share in a work entitled Tales round 

 a Winter Hearth, and published by her and her 

 sister jointly. I have often wondered that it has 

 never been reprinted. It is many years since I 

 read it, and have quite forgotten how Hunter- 

 combe House is introduced. The story is of the 

 time of the Crusades, and the scene is chiefly, if 

 not entirely, in the East. Miss Porter owned 

 that it was the most interesting to herself of all 

 her works, for it took her with her heroine to 

 Mount Olivet and Jerusalem. E. H. A. 



Law of Scotland (2 nd S. ix. 446.) — Querist 

 may be informed that by the law of Scotland a 

 person may assume any name he pleases, provided 

 he does so with no illegal object. He will find 

 authority for this in the thirteenth volume of Shaw 

 and Dunlop's Reports, pp. 262 — 3. ; but what 

 Querist alludes to, as to a man adding his mo- 

 ther's name to his own after her death, is a thing 

 quite unknown practically in Scotland, except 

 one is under an obligation to do so on succeeding 

 to a mother's property. G. J. 



Four-bladed Clover (2 nd S. ix. 381.) — J. 1ST. 

 asks some corroboration for belief in this incanta- 

 tion, and I may mention that in the West as well 

 as in the " far North" of our country, although 

 the belief has not fairly died out, it is in a rapid 

 state of decay. Boys and girls in their summer 

 rambles in the fields may yet sometimes be dis- 

 covered carefully searching for the four-leafed 

 clove?; not however as an object of superstition, 



