Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 | Page 7

affairs at the dissolution.
Also by 605, 606, and 607. The last two belong to the reign of Philip
and Mary, and contain an official account of the lands sold by them
belonging to the crown in the third and fourth years of their reign.
E. G. BALLARD.
The Royal Garden at Holyrood Palace.--I cannot help noticing a
disgraceful fact, which has only lately come to my knowledge. There is,
adjoining the Palace of Holyrood, an ancient garden of the old kings of
Scotland: in it is a curious sundial, with Queen Mary's name on it.
There is a pear-tree planted by her hands, and there are many other
deeply interesting traces of the royal race, who little dreamed how their
old stately places were to be profaned, after they themselves were laid
in the dust. The garden of the Royal Stuarts is now let to a market
gardener! Are there no true-hearted Scotchmen left, who will redeem it
from such desecration?
L. M. M. R.
The Old Ship "Royal Escape."--The following extract from the Norwich
Mercury of Aug. 21, 1819, under the head of "Yarmouth News," will
probably be gratifying to your querist ANON, Vol. vii., p. 380.:

"On the 13th inst. put into this port (Yarmouth), having been grounded
on the Barnard Sand, The Royal Escape, government hoy, with horses
for his royal highness at Hanover. This vessel is the same that King
Charles II. made his escape in from Brighthelmstone."
JOSEPH DAVEY.
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Queries.
"THE LIGHT OF BRITTAINE."
I should be glad, through the medium of "N. & Q.," to be favoured with
some particulars regarding this work, and its author, Maister Henry
Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq. He presented the said work with his own hand
to "our late soveraigne queene and matchlesse mistresse, on the day
when shee came, in royall manner, to Paule's Church." I shall also be
glad of any information about his son, Maister Thomas Lyte, of
Lytescarie, Esq., "a true immitator and heyre to his father's vertues,"
and who
"Presented to the Majestie of King James, (with) an excellent mappe or
genealogicall table (contayning the bredth and circumference of twenty
large sheets of paper), which he entitleth Brittaines Monarchy,
approuing Brute's History, and the whole succession of this our nation,
from the very original, with the just observation of al times, changes,
and occasions therein happening. This worthy worke, having cost
above {571} seaven yeares labour, beside great charges and expense,
his highnesse hath made very gracious acceptance of, and to witnesse
the same, in court it hangeth in an especiall place of eminence. Pitty it
is, that this phoenix (as yet) affordeth not a fellowe, or that from
privacie it might not bee made more generall; but, as his Majestie has
granted him priviledge, so, that the world might be woorthie to enjoy it,
whereto, if friendship may prevaile, as he hath been already, so shall he
be still as earnestly sollicited."
These two works appear to have been written towards the close of the

sixteenth century. Is anything more known of them, and their respective
authors?
TRAJA-NOVA.
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Minor Queries.
Thirteen an unlucky Number.--Is there not at Dantzic a clock, which at
12 admits, through a door, Christ and the Eleven, shutting out Judas,
who is admitted at 1?
A. C.
Quotations.--
"I saw a man, who saw a man, who said he saw the king."
Whence?
"Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again,"
&c.--Motto of Hyperion.
Whence?
A. A. D.
"Other-some" and "Unneath."--I do not recollect having ever seen
these expressions, until reading Parnell's Fairy Tale. They occur in the
following stanzas:
"But now, to please the fairy king, Full every deal they laugh and sing,
And antic feats devise; Some wind and tumble like an ape, And
other-some transmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes.
"Till one at last, that Robin hight, Renown'd for pinching maids by
night, Has bent him up aloof; And full against the beam he flung,
Where by the back the youth he hung To sprawl unneath the roof."

As the author professes the poem to be "in the ancient English style,"
are these words veritable ancient English? If so, some correspondent of
"N. & Q." may perhaps be able to give instances of their recurrence.
ROBERT WRIGHT.
Newx, &c.--Can any of your readers give me the unde derivatur of the
word newx, or noux, or knoux? It is a very old word, used for the last
hundred years, as fag is at our public schools, for a young cadet at the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. When I was there, some
twenty-five or twenty-seven years ago, the noux was the youngest cadet
of the four who slept in one room: and a precious life of