Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 | Page 8

covered with cloth, leather, or other
material like our modern books, has had clasps, and is four inches long
and two inches thick.
The chapters are divided generally into four or five parts by means of
the first letters of the alphabet. The letters are neither placed equidistant,
nor do they always mark a fresh paragraph.
It is not divided into verses. There are a few marginal references, and
the chapter and letter of the parallel passages are given.
Crosses are placed at the heads of most chapters, and also throughout
the text, without much apparent regularity. It contains a few rude cuts
of the Apostles, &c. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. John are placed
before that to the Hebrews.

Letters are frequently omitted in the spelling, and this is indicated by a
dash placed over the one preceding the omitted letter. A slanting mark
(/) is the most frequent stop used. I will transcribe a few lines exactly as
they occur, only not using the black-letter.
"B. As some spake of the temple/ howe yt was garnesshed with goodly
stones and iewels he sayde. The dayes will come/ when of these
thyngis which ye se shall not be lefte stone upon stone/ that shall not be
throwen doune. And they asked hym sayinge/ Master wh[=e] shall
these thynges be? And what sygnes wil there be/ when suche thynges
shal come to passe."--St. Luke, ch. xxi.
Land is spelt londe; saints, sainctis; authority, auctorite, &c.
A. BOARDMAN.
P.S. It commences at the 19th chapter of St. Matthew, and seems
perfect to the 21st chapter of Revelation.
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Minor Queries.
Ravilliac.--I have read that a pyramid was erected at Paris upon the
murder of Henry IV. by Ravilliac, and that the inscription represented
the Jesuits as men--
"Maleficæ superstitonis, quorum instinctu peculiaris adolescens
(Ravilliac) dirum facinus instituerat."--Thesaur. Hist., tom. iv. lib. 95,
ad ann. 1598.
We are also informed that he confessed that it was the book of Mariana
the Jesuit, and the traitorous positions maintained in it, which induced
him to murder the king, for which cause the book (condemned by the
parliament and the Sorbonne) was publicly burnt in Paris. Is the
pyramid still remaining? If not, when was it taken down or destroyed,
and by whom or by whose authority?

CLERICUS (D).
Emblem on a Chimney-piece.--In the committee room of the Church
Missionary Society, Nos. 16. and 17. Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, a
curious emblem-picture is carved on the centre of the white marble
chimney-piece. An angel or winged youth is sleeping in a recumbent
posture; one arm embraces a sleeping lion, in the other hand he holds a
number of bell flowers. In the opposite angle the sun shines brightly; a
lizard is biting the heel of the sleeping youth. I shall not offer my own
conjectures in explanation of this allegorical sculpture, unless your
correspondents fail to give a more satisfactory solution.
ATH CELIATH.
"To know ourselves diseased," &c.--
"To know ourselves diseased, is half the cure."
Whence?
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
"Pætus and Arria."--Can you inform me who is the author of Pætus
and Arria, a Tragedy, 8vo., 1809?
In Genest's Account of the English Stage, this play is said to be written
by a gentleman of the University of Cambridge. Can you tell me
whether this is likely to be W. Smyth, the late Professor of Modern
History in that university, who died in June, 1849?
GW.
Heraldic Query.--A. was killed in open rebellion. His son B. lived in
retirement under a fictitious name. The grandson C. retained the
assumed name, and obtained new arms. Query, {220} Can the
descendants of C. resume the arms of A.? If so, must they substitute
them for the arms of C., or bear them quarterly, and in which quarters?

FRANCIS P.
Lord Chancellor Steele.--Is any pedigree of William Steele, Esq., Lord
Chancellor of Ireland temp. Commonwealth, extant; and do any of his
descendants exist?
It is believed he was nearly related to Captain Steel, governor of
Beeston Castle, who suffered death by military execution in 1643 on a
charge of cowardice.
STATFOLD.
"A Tub to the Whale."--What is the origin of this phrase?
PIMLICO.
Legitimation (Scotland).--Perhaps some of your Scotch readers
"learned in the law" would obligingly answer the subjoined Queries,
referring to some decisions.
1. Will entail property go to a bastard, legitimated before the Union
under the great seal (by the law of Scotland)?
2. Will titles and dignities descend?
3. Will armorial bearings?
M. M.
Inner Temple.
"Vaut mieux," &c.--The proverb "Vaut mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à
ses saints" has a Latin origin. What is it?
M.
Shakspeare First Folio.--Is there any obtainable edition of Shakspeare
which follows, or fully contains, the first folio?

M.
The Staffordshire Knot.--Can any of your