Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 | Page 6

and then called "very auntient") may be seen in the Harleian MS. No. 1971. (_Rosindale Pedigree_), though apparently not older than Elizabeth's time. With a coat of arms it was "wrought in backside work"--the meaning of which is doubtful. What is that of the motto, "Oderpi du pariver?"
A.C.
_Feltham's Works, Queries respecting._--
"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them like a merlin after Michaelmas in the field with crows."--_A Brief Character of the Low Countries_, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661.
What is the meaning of this proverb?
As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says, page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--
"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."
Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen Feltham's works. I have his _Resolves_, and a thin folio volume, 1661, printed for Anne Seile, 102 pages, containing _Lusoria, or Occasional Pieces; A Brief Character of the Low Countries_; and some Letters. Are these all he wrote? The poem mentioned by Mr. Kersley, beginning--
"When, dearest, I but think of thee,"
is printed among those in the volume I have, with the same remark, that it had been printed as Sir John Suckling's.
E.N.W. {134}
_Eikon Basilice._--
"[Greek: EIKON BASILIKAE], or, _The True Pourtraiture of His Sacred Majest? Charles the II_. In Three Books. Beginning from his Birth, 1630, unto this present year, 1660: wherein is interwoven a compleat History of the High-born Dukes of York and Glocester. By R.F., Esq., an eye-witness.
"Quo nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere, borique divi Nee dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum."
Horat.
"[Greek: Otan tin' Euraes Eupathounta ton kakon ginske touton to telei taeroumenon]."
_G. Naz Carm_.
"----more than conqueror."
"London, printed for H. Brome and H. March, at the Gun, in Ivy Lane, and at the Princes' Arms, in Chancery Lane, neer Fleet Street, 1660."
The cover has "C.R." under a crown. What is the history of this volume. Is it scarce, or worth nothing?
A.C.
"_Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest?_"
--Whence comes the sentence--
"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?"
E.N.W.
_Carpets and Room-paper._--Carpets were in Edward III.'s reign used in the palace. What is the exact date of their introduction? When did they come into general use, and when were rushes, &c., last used? Room-paper, when was it introduced?
JARLTZBERG.
_Cotton of Finchley._--Can some one of your readers give me any particulars concerning the family of Cotton, which was settled at Finchley, Middlesex, about the middle of the sixteenth century?
C.F.
_Wood Carving in Snow Hill._--Can any one explain the wood carving over the door of a house at the corner of Snow Hill and Skinner Street. It is worth rescuing from the ruin impending it.
A.C.
_Walrond Family._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the maiden name of _Grace_, the wife of Col. Humphry Walrond, of Sea, in the county of Somerset, a distinguished loyalist, some time Lieutenant-Governor of Bridgewater, and Governor of the island of Barbadoes in 1660. She was living in 1635 and 1668. Also the names of his ten children, or, at all events, his three youngest. I have reason to believe the seven elder were George, Humphry, Henry, John, Thomas, Bridget, and Grace.
W. DOWNING BRUCE.
_Translations._--What English translations have appeared of the famous _Epistol? Obscurorum Virorum_?
Has La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri (by Joseph Francis Borri, the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abb�� de Rillan founded on Borri's work?
JARLTZBERG.
_Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it refer to the fair and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the remarkable John Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and whose person is admitted to have been eminently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as to his character and conduct?
2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words, to his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July, 1689. All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point.
W.L.M.
_Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read:
"I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c.
I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von Sickingen,