Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
I cannot learn that they were ever printed, and among the voluminous MS.
remains of Sir Roger now in my hands, I cannot find the smallest trace
of them. Can any one your readers inform me what became of this
collection, which, by Sir Roger's statement, was finished and completely
ready for the press?
To this "Query" I may as well add a "Note," which may be interesting to
some of your readers.
In Sir Roger's MS. Journal of his persecutions by the Parliament, he
states:
"It is sayd King Charles subscribed the byll for taking away the
votes of Bishops, in y't very house where Christian religion was
first preached,--viz. St. Augustines by Canterbury."
LAMBERT B. LARKING.
Ryarsh Vicarage, Nov. 17.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_Honnore Pelle_.
Who was "Honnore Pell, 1684"? My reason for asking this is, I have a
marble bust of Charles II. of colossal size, most splendidly sculptured,
with the long curling hair and full court dress of the period, and the
execution and workmanship of which would do honour to any sculptor of
the past or present time. On the stump of the arm are the name and date
which I have given above, and I have in vain looked into biographical
works.
W.L.
_Bust of Sir Walter Raleigh_.
Is there an authentic bust of Sir Walter Raleigh in existence? and if
so, where is it to be found?
J.B.
_Motto of University of Cambridge_.
From what author, "chapter and verse," comes the motto of the University
of Cambridge, HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SAGRA? It is used as a quotation in
Leighton on St. Peter's Epistle, but in the last edition the learned
editor does not give a reference.
J.J.S.
_Family of Giles of Worcestershire_.
Can you tell me any thing of a family named "_Giles_," whose crest was a
horse's head? They were connected with Worcestershire.
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_Passage from an Old Play._
Can any of your many readers oblige me by informing me where the
following very striking passage can be found? I have seen the lines
quoted as from an "Old Play;" but a tolerable extensive knowledge of old
plays, and a diligent search, have not hitherto enabled me to find
them:--
"Call you the city gay, its revels joyous?
They may be so to you, for you are young,
Belike and happy. She was young in years,
But often in mid-spring will blighting winds
Do autumn's work; and there is grief at heart
Can do the work of years, can pale the cheek,
And cloud the brow, and sober down the spirit.
This gewgaw scene hath fewer charms for her
Than for the crone, that numbering sixty winters,
Pronounceth it all folly.--Marvel not
'Tis left thus willingly."
C.A.H.
Athenæum Club, Nov. 17, 1849.
_Dalton's Doubting's Downfall._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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