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

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--
"Malefic? 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.
"P?tus and Arria."--Can you inform me who is the author of P?tus 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 readers give the history of the Staffordshire knot, traced on the carriages and trucks of the North Staffordshire Railway Company?
T. P.
Sir Thomas Elyot.--I shall be extremely obliged by a reference to any sources of information respecting Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, living in the time of Henry VIII., son of Sir Richard Elyot, Knight, of Suffolk.
I shall be glad also to know whether a short work (among others of his in my possession) entitled The Defence of good Women, printed in London by Thomas Berthelet, 1545, is at all a rare book?
H. C. K.
"Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c.--
"Celsior exsurgens pluviis, nimbosque cadentes, Sub pedibus cernens, et c?ca tonitrua calcans."
Can you oblige me by stating where the above lines are to be found? They appear to me to form an appropriate motto for a balloon.
J. P. A.
The Bargain Cup.--Can the old English custom of drinking together upon the completion of a bargain, be traced back farther than the Norman era? Did a similar custom exist in the earlier ages? Danl. Dyke, in his Mysteries (London, 1634), says:
"The Jews being forbidden to make couenants with the Gentiles, they also