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

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 ?dis 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 "Prutenic?"._--Will some of your correspondents give the derivations of Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenic?, 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, and another in the hands of a friend of mine, are the only specimens I have heard of; but they are not quite as old or as genuine as one could wish.
J.O. HALLIWELL.
_Origin of the name "Polly."_--Will you allow me to ask how persons of my name came to be called _Polly_?
MARY.
_Tomlinson, of Southwingfield, Derbyshire._--The parochial register of the parish of Southwingfield, in the county of Derby, contains, among its earliest entries (A.D. 1586), the name Tomlinson, as then resident therein. The family, to the present time, continues to reside within the parish, as respectable yeomen, and has thence extended itself to many of the neighbouring parishes, as well as to more distinct localities. Blore's History of Southwingfield makes no mention of such a family connected with the parish, as tenants or otherwise; nor does it appear that there is at present any family of Tomlinson bearing arms that can have been derived from any of the ancient lords of Wingfield. The wills at Lichfield, to whose registry Southwingfield belongs, are in a very dilapidated and unsatisfactory state, at the time immediately preceding the commencement of the Southwingfield parochial register. Probably some genealogist