Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 | Page 8

intimating the
close connexion between the property and its owner. I am sorry not to
be able to copy out the Professor's collection of runic marks; but I trust
that the preceding lines will be sufficient in order to elicit the various
traces of a similar custom still prevalent, or remembered, in the British
isles; an account of which will be thankfully received at Berlin, where
they have lately been informed, that even the eyder-geese on the
Shetlands are distinguished by the marks of their owners.
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Minor Queries.
"Seductor Succo."--Will any of your readers oblige me by giving me
either a literal or poetical translation of the following lines, taken from
Foulis, Rom. Treasons, Preface, p. 28., 1681?
"Seductor Succo, Gallo Sicarius; Anglo Proditor; Imperio Explorator;
Davus Ibero; Italo Adulator; dixi teres ore,--Suitam."
CLERICUS (D).
Anna Lightfoot.--T. H. H. would be obliged by any particulars relating
to Anna Lightfoot, the left-handed wife of George III. It has been stated
that she had but one son, who died at an early age; but a report
circulates in some channels, that she had also a daughter, married to a
wealthy manufacturer in a midland town. It is particularly desired to
know in what year, and under what circumstances, Anna Lightfoot

died.
Queries from the "Navorscher."--Did Addison, Steele, or Swift write
the "Choice of Hercules" in the Tatler?
Was Dr. Hawkesworth, or, if not, who was, the author of "Religion the
Foundation of Content," an allegory in the Adventurer?
In what years were born C. C. Colton, Pinnock, Washington Irving,
George Long, F. B. Head; and when died those of them who are no
longer among us?
Who wrote "Journal of a poor Vicar," "Story of Catherine of Russia,"
"Volney Becker," and the "Soldier's Wife," in Chamber's Miscellany?
Did Luther write drinking-songs? If so, where are they to be met with?
"Amentium haud Amantium."--I should be glad to ascertain, and
perhaps it may be interesting to classical scholars generally to know, if
any of your correspondents or readers can suggest an English
translation for the phrase "amentium haud amantium" (in the first act of
the Andria of Terence), which shall represent the alliteration of the
original. The publication of this Query may probably elicit the desired
information.
FIDUS INTERPRES.
Dublin.
"Hurrah!" and other War-cries.--When was the exclamation "Hurrah!"
first used by Englishmen, and what was the war-cry before its
introduction? Was it ever used separately from, or always in
conjunction with "H.E.P.! H.E.P.?" Was "Huzza!" contemporaneous?
What are the known war-shouts of other European or Eastern nations,
ancient or modern?
CAPE.
Kissing Hands at Court.--When was the kissing of hands at court first

observed?
CAPE.
Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, temp. Charles
II.--Being very desirous to know where well authenticated pictures of
officers in the regimentals of the Foot Guards during the reign of
Charles II. may be seen, or are, I shall be greatly obliged to any reader
of "N & Q." who will supply the information. I make no doubt there are,
in many of the private collections of this country, several portraits of
officers so dressed, which have descended as heir-looms in families. I
subjoin the colonels' names, and dates of the regiments:
1st Foot Guards, 1660: Colonel Russell, Henry Duke of Grafton.
Coldstream Guards, 1650: General Monk.
3rd Guards, 1660: Earl of Linlithgow. 1670: Earl of Craven.
D. N.
Raffaelle's Sposalizio.--Will DIGITALIS, or any of your numerous
correspondents or readers, do me the favour to say why, in Raffaelle's
celebrated painting "Lo Sposalizio," in the gallery of the Brera at Milan,
Joseph is represented as placing the ring on the third finger of right
hand of the Virgin?
I noticed the same peculiarity in Ghirlandais's fresco of the "Espousals"
in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence. This I remarked to the
custode, an intelligent old man, who informed {596} me that the
connexion said to exist between the heart and the third finger refers to
that finger of the right hand, and not, as we suppose, to the third finger
of the left hand. He added, that the English are the only nation who
place the ring on the left hand. I do not find that this latter statement is
borne out by what I have seen of the ladies of continental Europe; and I
suppose it was an hallucination in my worthy informant.
I must leave to better scholars in the Italian language than I am, to say

whether "Lo Sposalizio" means "Betrothal" or "Marriage:" certainly
this latter is the ordinary signification.
I have a sort of floating idea that I once heard that at the ceremony of
"Betrothal," now, I believe, rarely if ever practised, it was customary to
place the ring on the right hand. I am by