Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 | Page 8

all proper, thereby intimating his
descent from the Vaughans of Porthaml Trêtower, &c., in the county of
Brecon.
J. P. O.
Quebecca and his Epitaph.--
"Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.
When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will
say to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John
Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.'"
Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was,
and where the epitaph may be found?
E. HAILSTURE.
A Monumental Inscription.--Near the chancel door of the parish-church
of Wath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab inscribed to the

memory of William Burroughs. After stating that he was of Masbro',
gentleman, and that he died in the year 1722, the monument contains
the two following hexameters:--
"Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus, Deposuit cineres,
animam revocabit Olympus."
The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus
Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel
translated. It has been conjectured that Itermus must be derived from
iter, and hence that Burroughs may have been a traveller, or possibly
an orthodox itinerant preacher: surely there can be no punning
reference to a journeyman! The lines have been submitted, in vain, to
some high literati in Oxford.
A. G.
Ecclesfield.
Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I. (Vol. iii., p. 157.).--My
friend, who is in possession of the original MS. of this work, is desirous
of ascertaining whether the volume published in 1702 be a complete
and exact copy of it. I will transcribe the commencing and concluding
passages of the MS., and shall be obliged if MR. BOLTON CORNEY
will compare them with the book in his possession, and tell me the
result.
"S^r,
"By your's of the 22d of August last, I find you have receaved my
former letters of the first and thirteenth of May, 1678; and seeing 'tis
your further desire," &c.
"This briefe narrative shall conclude with the king's owne excellent
expression: Crowns and kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour
and reputation--those must have a period with my life; but these
survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone: a
good name being the embalming of princes, and a sweet consecrating

of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity."
The present owner of the MS. has an idea that an incorrect copy was
fraudulently obtained and published about 1813. Is there any
foundation for this supposition?
ALFRED GATTY.
Ecclesfield.
Comets.--Where may a correct list of the several comets and eclipses,
visible in France or England, which appeared, or took place, between
the years 1066 and 1600, be obtained?
S. P. O. R.
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Natural Daughter of James II.--James II., in Souverains du Monde (4
vols. 1722), is stated to have had a natural daughter, who in 1706 was
married to the Duke of Buckingham.
Can any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of
her mother? Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her
husband, and of any children?
F. B. RELTON.
Going the Whole Hog.--What is the origin of the expression "going the
whole hog?" Did it take its rise from Cowper's fable, the Love of the
World reproved, in which it is shown how "Mahometans eat up the
hog?"
[Sigma].
Innocent Convicts.--Can any of your readers furnish a tolerably
complete list of persons convicted and executed in England, for crimes
of which it afterwards appeared they were innocent?

[Sigma].
The San Grail.--Can any one learned in ecclesiastical story say what
are the authorities for the story that King Arthur sent his knights
through many lands in quest of the sacred vessel used by our Blessed
Lord at His "Last Supper," and explain why this chalice was called the
"Holy Grail" or "Grayle?" Tennyson has a short poem on the knightly
search after it, called "Sir Galahad." And in Spenser's Faerie Queene,
book ii. cant. x. 53., allusion is made to the legend that "Joseph of
Arimathy brought it to Britain."
W. M. K.
Meaning of "Slums."--In Dr. Wiseman's Appeal to the Reason and
Good Feeling of the English People, we find the word "slums" made
use of with respect to the purlieus of Westminster Abbey. Warren, in a
note of his letter on "The Queen or the Pope?" asks "What are 'slums?'
And where is the word to be found explained? Is it Roman or Spanish?
There is none such in our language, at least used by gentlemen."
I would ask, may not the word be derived from asylum, seeing that the
precincts of abbeys, &c. used to be an asylum or place of refuge in
ancient times for robbers and murderers?