Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Number 179 April 2 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor

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J'ai ?t? pr?venu que Votre Excellence se proposait de venir au Parc demain dans la matin?e. J'ose esp?rer qu'elle voudra bien me faire l'honneur d'accepter le diner que lui offre un G?n?ral malheureux et vaincu, mais qu'il pr?sente de tout coeur.

Daignez, Monsieur le G?n?ral, agr?er l'assurance de la haute consid?ration avec laquelle

J'ai l'honneur d'?tre, de votre Excellence, Le tr?s-ob?issant serviteur, EMOUF.

EDWARD FOSS.

E. G. R.

QUERIES.

EUSTACHE DE SAINT PIERRE.

MR. KING'S inquiry reminds me of two Queries on the same subject which I sent you as far back as the end of 1851, or beginning of 1852. Those Queries have not appeared in "N. & Q.," and I was led to suppose, either that you had laid them aside for some future occasion, or had found something objectionable in the form in which they were presented. The following is a literal copy.

"The second point relates to the character of that occurrence. Some historians are of opinion that the devotedness of Saint Pierre and his associates was prompted by the most exalted sentiments of patriotism; while others assert that it was all a 'sham,' that Saint-Pierre was secretly attached to the cause of the English monarch, and that he was subsequently employed by him in some confidential negociations. To which of these opinions should the historical inquirer give his assent?"

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

PASSAGE IN COLERIDGE.

"Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799 with a party of English students from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom; afterwards in England he saw a much rarer phenomenon, which he described in the following eight lines. I give them from a corrected copy. The apostrophe in the beginning must be understood as addressed to an ideal conception:

"'And art thou nothing? Such thou art as when The woodman winding westward up the glen At wintry dawn, when o'er the sheep-track's maze The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze, Sees full before him, gliding without tread, An image with a glory round its head: This shade he worships for its golden hues, And makes that which he pursues.'"

J. M. B.

MINOR QUERIES.

DOMINI-CANN.

Canada.

Perhaps some one of your Lancashire correspondents may be acquainted with the sources of the learned historian's information. If so, it would much oblige your correspondent to be directed to them, as also to any of the Lancashire genealogical authorities referring to the district of Lonsdale South of the Sands.

OBSERVER.

UNEDA.

SHIRLEY HIBBERD.

The same coat is assigned by Dugd., p. 661. fig. 12., to the name of Knell.

J. W. S. R.

A. C.

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

AMANUENSIS.

The expression "celebris memoriae" might almost be held to indicate that John had lived to manhood, but is perhaps only a style of royalty; nevertheless, the passage altogether seems to lead to the inference, that the person had at least survived the age of infancy. King Robert's bastard son, Sir Robert Bruce, had a grant of the lands of Finhaven, in the neighbourhood of Rostinoth.

DE CAMERA.

A SUBSCRIBER.

PHILIP WEST.

"Communia placita apud Dublin coram fratre Rogero Outlawe priore hospitii sancti Johannis de Jerusalem in hibernia tenens locum Johannis Darcy le Cosyn Justiciarii hiberniae apud Dublin die pasche in viiij mense anno B. Etii post ultimum conquestum hiberniae quarto."

H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St. George.

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

R. P.

St. Ives, Hunts.

A. S. A.

Wuzzeerabad.

WARDEN S. HENDRY.

P. S.--Part of the chapel is now to be found under the floor of the "Old King John," Holywell Lane. The stone doorway into the porter's lodge of the priory still exists; but, from the accumulation of earth, the crown of the arch is six feet below the ground. I took a sketch of it, and some other remains of the priory, also under ground, about ten years ago.

W. S. H.

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS.

R. P. D.

JONATHAN PIM.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

J. S. A.

"But oh! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight!"

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

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