Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 | Page 9

kai rh?romenos dia nukta bebai?s."]
Then part of another,--
[Greek: "--autar eg? megalois klubboisin ebanchthên."]
I cannot but think that some Cambridge men know the whole, which would be invaluable to retrieve. There is nothing about it in Kidd.
C. B.
Alice Rolle.--Can any of your readers conversant with Irish pedigrees, if they remember to have met with this lady's name, kindly inform me where it may be found?
S. S. S.
The Meaning of "Race" in Ship-building.--In Hawkin's Voyages ("Hakluyt Society, 1847"), p. 199., he says, "Here is offerred to speak of a point much canvassed amongst carpenters and sea-captains, diversely maintained but yet undetermined, that is, whether the race, or loftie built shippe, bee best for the merchant;" and again, p. 219.: "A third and last cause of the losse of sundry of our men, most worthy of note for all captains, owners, and carpenters, was the race building of our ship, the onely fault she had," &c. Can any of your correspondents explain what is meant by "race"; the editor of the Voyages, Captain C. R. D. Bethune, R.N., confesses himself unable to explain it.
E. N. W.
Southwark, May 27. 1850.
The Battle of Death.--I possess a curious old print entitled "The Battle of Death against all Creatures, and the Desolation wrought by Time." It bears the engraver's name, "Robert Smith," but no date. The figures, however, which are numerous, and comprise all ranks, seem to present the costume of the latter end of the 16th century. There is a long inscription in verse, and another in prose: query, who was the author of the verses, and what is the date of the engraving? As I am on the subject of prints, perhaps some person learned in such matters will also be kind enough to inform me what number constitutes a complete series of the engravings after Claude by Francis Vivares; and who was "Jean Rocque, Chirographaire du Roi," who executed several maps of portions of London, also a map of Kilkenny?
X. Y. A.
Kilkenny, June 8. 1850.
Execution of Charles I.--Is the name of the executioner known who beheaded King Charles I.? Is there any truth in the report that it was an Earl Stair?
P. S. W. E.
Morganitic Marriage.--In Ducange, &c., the adjective morganitic is connected with the morgangab (morning gift), which was usual from a husband to his wife the day after their marriage. How comes this adjective to be applied to marriages in which the wife does not take her husband's rank?
M.
Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens.--Will any of your architectural or landscape gardening readers inform me whether any attempts were ever made by any of our English sovereigns or nobility, or by any of our rich men of science and taste, to carry out, in practice, Lord Bacon's plans of a princely palace, or a prince-like garden, as so graphically and so beautifully described in his Essays, xlv. and xlvi., "Of Building" and "Of Gardens"?
I cannot but think that if such an attempt was never made, the failure is discreditable to us as a nation; and that this work ought yet to be executed, as well for its own intrinsic beauty and excellence, as in honour of the name and fame of its great proposer.
EFFARESS.
June 24. 1850.
"Dies Ir?, Dies Illa."--Will any of your correspondents oblige me by answering the following Queries. Who was the author of the extremely beautiful hymn, commencing--
"Dies ir?, dies illa, Solvet soeclum in favilla Teste David cum Sibylla."
And in what book was it first printed?
A copy of it is contained in a small tract in our library, entitled Lyrica Sacra, excerpta ex Hymnis Ecclesi? Antiquis. Privatim excusa Rom?, 1818. At the end of the preface is subscribed "T. M. Anglus." And on the title page in MS., "For the Rev. Dr. Milner, Dean of Carlisle, Master of Queen's College, in the University of Cambridge, from T. J. Mathia--" the rest of the name has been cut off in binding; it was probably Mathias. As here given, it has only twenty-seven lines. The original hymn is, I believe, much longer.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON.
Queen's College, Cambridge.
Aubrey Family.--In Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, under the head "Aubrey," I find the following passage:--
"Vincent, Windsor Herald in the time of Elizabeth, compiled a pedigree of the family of Aubrey, which he commences thus:--'Saint Aubrey, of the blood royal of France, came into England with William the Conqueror, anno 1066, as the Chronicles of All Souls College testify, which are there to be seen tied to a chain of iron.'"
Can any of your readers give me any information respecting this "Saint Aubrey," whose name I have not been able to find in the Roll of Battle {73} Abbey: or respecting his son, Sir Reginald Aubrey, who aided Bernard de Newmarch in the conquest of the Marches of Wales, and any of his descendants?
PWCCA.
Ogden Family.--The writer is very desirous of