Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 | Page 8

it he led. But
this, I hope, is altered now. I have often wanted to find out from
whence this term is derived, and I suppose that your paper will find
some among your numerous correspondents who will be able to
enlighten me.
T. W. N.
Malta.
"A Joabi Alloquio."--Who can explain the following, and point out its
source? I copy from the work of a Lutheran divine, Conrad Dieteric,
Analysis Evangeliorum, 1631, p. 188.:
"A Joabi Alloquio, A Thyestis Convivio, Ab Iscariotis 'Ave,' A Diasii
'Salve' Ab Herodis 'Redite' A Gallorum 'Venite.' Libera nos Domine."
The fourth and sixth line I do not understand.
B. H. C.
Illuminations.--When were illuminations in cities first introduced? Is
there any allusion to them in classic authors?
CAPE.
Heraldic Queries.--Will some correspondent versed in heraldry answer
me the following questions?

1. What is the origin and meaning of women of all ranks, except the
sovereign, being now debarred from bearing their arms in shields, and
having to bear them in lozenges? Formerly, all ladies of rank bore
shields upon their seals, e.g. the seal of Margaret, Countess of Norfolk,
who deceased A.D. 1399; and of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and
mother of Henry VIII., who deceased A.D. 1509. These shields are
figured in the Glossary of Heraldry, pp. 285, 286.
2. Is it, heraldically speaking, wrong to inscribe the motto upon a circle
(not a garter) or ribbon round the shield? So says the Glossary, p. 227.
If wrong, on what principle?
3. Was it ever the custom in this country, as on the Continent to this
day, for ecclesiastics to bear their arms in a circular or oval panel?--the
martial form of the shield being considered inconsistent with their
spiritual character. If so, when did the custom commence, and where
may instances be seen either on monuments or in illustrated works?
CEYREP.
John's Spoils from Peterborough and Crowland.--Clement Spelman, in
his Preface to the reader, with which he introduces his father's treatise
De non temerandis Ecclesiis, says (edit. Oxford, 1841, p.45.):
"I cannot omit the sacrilege and punishment of King John, who in the
seventeenth year of his reign, among other churches, rifled the abbeys
of {572} Peterborough and Croyland, and after attempts to carry his
sacrilegious wealth from Lynn to Lincoln; but, passing the Washes, the
earth in the midst of the waters opens her mouth (as for Korah and his
company), and at once swallows up both carts, carriage, and horses, all
his treasure, all his regalities, all his church spoil, and all the church
spoilers; not one escapes to bring the king word," &c.
Is the precise spot known where this catastrophe occurred, or have any
relics been since recovered to give evidence of the fact?
J. SANSOM.

"Elementa sex," &c.--Perhaps one of your readers, given to such trifles,
will hazard a guess at the solution, if not at the author, of the subjoined:
"Elementa sex me proferent totam tibi; Totam hanc, lucernis si tepent
fungi, vides, Accisa senibus suppetit saltantibus, Levetur, armis
adfremunt Horatii; Facienda res est omnibus, si fit minor, Es, quod
relinquis deinde, si subtraxeris; Si rite tandem quæritas originem, Ad
sibilum, vix ad sonum, reverteris."
EFFIGY.
Jack and Gill--Sir Hubbard de Hoy.--Having recently amused myself
by a dive into old Tusser's Husbandrie, the following passages
suggested themselves as fitting Queries for your pages:
Jack and Gill.--
"Let Jack nor Gill Fetch corn at will."
Can the "Jack and Gill" of our nursery tales be traced to an earlier date
than Tusser's time?
Hobble de Hoy.--Speaking of the periods of a man's life, Tusser's
advice, from the age of fourteen years to twenty-one, is to "Keep under
Sir Hubbard de Hoy." Is it known whether there ever existed a
personage so named, either as a legend or a myth? And if not, what is
the origin of the modern term "Hobble de Hoy" as a designation for a
stripling? Bailey omits it in his Dictionary.
L. A. M.
Humphrey Hawarden.--Information is solicited respecting this
individual, who was a Doctor of Laws, and living in 1494. Also, of a
Justice Port, living about the same period.
T. HUGHES.
Chester.

"Populus vult decipi."--
"Populus } { Mundus } vult decipi { et decipiatur, Vulgus }
{ decipiatur ergo."
Who was the author of the maxim? which is its correct form? and
where is it to be found? It seems to present another curious instance of
our ignorance of things with which we are familiar. I have put the
question to a dozen scholars, fellows of colleges, barristers, &c. &c.,
and none has been able to give me an answer. One only thinks it was a
dictum of some Pope.
HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.
Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire.--Where can any list
of the sheriffs for these counties be found, previous to the