Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 | Page 7

a niche of
which stands, in full proportion, a man in armour, his head bare, with
moustaches and a tuft on his chin; in his right hand he holds a
truncheon, and by his side is his sword; his armour is garnished with
gold studs, and his helmet stands on the ground behind him; from his
right ear hangs a gold frog.
This monument was erected in memory of Sir John Poley, of Wrongay,
in Norfolk, knight, who died in 1638, at the age of upwards of eighty,
having served much abroad under Henry IV. of France, Christian King
of Denmark, &c., and in Queen Elizabeth's service against the
Spaniards.
"Illius ante alios cepit cum dextera Gades Militis Angliaci, et fulmina
sensit Iberis."
I send you this detail, in hopes that some of your correspondents may
be able to explain the ornament in his ear, whether it be the badge of
any order, and whether any other instance is known of its use. There is
in Boxstead Hall, the seat of the very ancient family of Poley, a portrait
of Sir John having the same ornament.
D.
_Singular Motto._--Being at Cheltenham in the summer of 1811, I saw
a chariot standing in an inn yard, on the panels of which, under a coat
of arms, apparently belonging to some foreign family, was the
following on a scroll, in the nature of a motto:--"oemn3--ononoe.7
ano--7 emn3." If any of your correspondents can inform me what is its
meaning, and if it be a motto, to what family it belongs, he will oblige.
P.H.F.
Stroud.
_Sir Stephen Fox._--Will any of your intelligent correspondents inform
me whether Sir Stephen Fox, the ancestor of the present Lord Holland
and the Earl of Ilchester, had any brothers or sisters, and if so, whether
they had any children, and who are the legal representatives of those

collateral branches, if any?
VULPES. {215}
_Antony Alsop._--Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me who
Antony Alsop was? A thin Quarto volume of Latin Odes was published
in 1753, with the following title: "Antonii Alsopi Ædis Christi olim
Alumni Ordarum Libri Duo," Londoni, 1753. They are extremely
elegant, and deserving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. I have
also another volume, "Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of
Trinity College, Oxford," Quarto London, 1738. In this latter volume,
with but two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find
one or two of Alsop's odes in it. Could any of your readers tell me if
both volumes are by the same author? Was Alsop at Trinity College
and subsequently a student of Christ Church?
R.H.
_Derivations of "Calamity," and "Zero;" and meaning of
"Prutenicæ"._--Will some of your correspondents give the derivations
of Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenicæ, used by
Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical work on the _Motions of the
Heavenly Bodies_?
F.S. MARTIN.
_Jew's-Harp._--What is the origin of the term Jew's-Harp, applied to a
well-known musical toy?
MELANION.
_Sir G. Wyattville._--J.P. would be glad to be informed in what year
Sir G. Wyattville was knighted?
_Sparse._--As I am "less an antique Roman than a Dane," I wish to
know what authority there is for the use of this word, which is to be
found in a leading article of _The Times_, January 8th, 1850?--"A
sparse and hardy race of horsemen." I should like to see this among the
Queries, but I send it as a protest.
"Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem."
C. FORBES.
_The word "Peruse."_--I find the word Peruse employed as a
substantive, and apparently as equivalent to _Examination_, in the
following part of a sentence in the martyr Fryth's works, Russell's ed., p.
407.:--"He would have been full sore ashamed so to have overseen
himself at Oxford, at a peruse."

Can any of your correspondents cite a corresponding instance of its use,
or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any academic
exercise?
H.W.
_French Maxim._--Who is the author of the following French saying?--
"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu."
R.V.
_Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi._--If "S.W. SINGER" can give
information as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters Ave Trici
and _Gheeze Ysenoudi_, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state
themselves (or are assumed) to have belonged, he will much oblige, by
doing so,
H.L.B.
_A Latin Verse._--Everybody has seen the following quotation--
"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,"
and everybody thinks he knows from whence it is taken. Which of your
readers can verify it?
E.V.
_Table-Book._--Can any of your readers refer me to a museum
containing a specimen of an ancient _table-book_? Douce had one,
which was in Mr. Rodd's catalogue, but now sold; and Hone also
possessed one. These two,