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A.D.M

PRISON DISCIPLINE AND EXECUTION OF JUSTICE.

"TUESDAY, 21 .

SATIRICAL MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER.

The account is given by a Portuguese, called Fausto Rodriguez, who was a witness of the fact, has deposed it upon oath, and whose juridical testimony is in the process of the Saint's canonization.

EDW. HAWKINS.

JOHN AUBREY.

JOHN BRITTON.

INEDITED SONG BY SIR JOHN SUCKLING.

I am confirm'd a woman can Love this, or that, or any other man: This day she's melting hot, To-morrow swears she knows you not; If she but a new object find, Then straight she's of another mind; Then hang me, Ladies, at your door, If e'er I doat upon you more.

Yet still I'll love the fairsome ; And so the fat and soft-skinned dame I'll flatter to appease my flame; For she that's musical I'll long, When I am sad, to sing a song; Then hang me, Ladies, at your door, If e'er I doat upon you more.

I'll give my fancy leave to range Through every where to find out change; The black, the brown, the fair shall be But objects of variety. I'll court you all to serve my turn, But with such flames as shall not burn; Then hang me, Ladies, at your door, If e'er I doat upon you more.

A.D.

WHITE GLOVES AT A MAIDEN ASSIZE.

WILLIAM J. THOMS.

Was the presentation of the gloves a sign that the Judge was not required to sit upon the Bench--their colour significant that there would be no occasion for capital punishment? Embroidered gloves were introduced about the year 1580 into England.

Yours, &c. M.W.

Nov. 17. 1849.

P.S. Perhaps the "Lady-bird" in Suffolk derives its episcopal title, alluded to by LEGOUR, from appearing in June, in which month falls the Festival of St. Barnabas.

ADVERSARIA.

Sir,--Have the following contradictions in Cervantes' account of Sancho's ass "Dapple" ever been noticed or accounted for?

MELANION.

P.C.S.S.

INSCRIPTION ON ANCIENT CHURCH PLATE.

Mr. Editor,--Herewith I have the pleasure of sending you a tracing of the legend round a representation of St. Christopher, in a latten dish belonging to a friend of mine, and apparently very similar to the alms-basins described by CLERICUS in No. 3.

In Modern German the lines would be:--

In allusion, perhaps, to the eucharist of alms, to hold one or the other of which the dish seems to have been intended.

ANECDOTES OF BOOKS.

Edward Lee, who seems to have been the last of the name who lived in the neighbourhood of Southwell, died on the 23rd of April, 1712, aged 76.

And now, having given you a Note, I will add a Query, and ask, Can any one inform me what became of this library, or who were the representatives and heirs of Edward Lee, through whom this MS. may have passed to Mr. Conybeare, or give me any further particulars respecting this Edward Lee?

JOSEPH HUNTER.

Nov. 26. 1849

QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 3.

I have consulted, in search of it, dictionaries of various dates, the glossaries of our dramatic annotators, and the best collections of proverbs and proverbial sayings--but without success.

BOLTON CORNEY.

Q.Q.

When commerce was young, the Flemings were the great merchants of Western Europe; but these worthies were notorious, when furnishing their accounts current, for always having the balance at the right side , and hence arose the term. I am not at this moment able to say where this information is to be had, but have met it somewhere.

JUNIOR.

SCOTUS.

There is an old story that a Count of Flanders once gave an entertainment to some Flemish merchants, but that the seats on which they sat were without cushions. These "princes of the earth" thereupon folded up their costly velvet cloaks, and used them accordingly. When reminded, on their departure, of having left their cloaks behind, they replied, that when asked to a feast they were not in the habit of carrying away with them the chair cushions. Could this have originated the expression "Flemish account?" In this case the proud merchants gave such an account of a valuable article in their possession, as made it out to be quite worthless to the owner.

MUSAFIR.

ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES.

"And he and his wife and six children shall dailie praie for your Worship's health and happines!

"And shee shall accordinge to her bounden duetie pray for your good Worship in health and happinesse longe to continewe!

"And both your said supliants and their children shal be bound dailie to praie for your Worship's health and happines with increase of honour!"

"And he shall dailie, praie, &c."

This will probably suffice to answer B.'s Query.

CECIL MONRO.

Registrar's Office, Court of Chancery, Nov. 20. 1849.

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