Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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U. J. S.
Sheffield.
_"By Prudence guided," &c._--Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." supply me
with the words deficient in the following lines, and inform me from what
author they are quoted? I met with them on an old decaying tomb in one of
the churchyards in Sheffield:
"By prudence guided, undefiled in mind,
Of pride unconscious, and of soul refined,
. . . . conquest . . . . . . . . subdue
With . . . . . . . . . . . . . .in view
Here . . . . . . . . the heaven-born flame
Which . . . . . . . from whence it came."
W. S. (Sheffield.)
_Lawyers' Bags._--I find it stated by Colonel Landman, in his _Memoirs_,
that prior to the trial of Queen Caroline, the colour of the bags carried
by barristers was green; and that the change to red took place at, or
immediately after, the event in question. I shall be glad of any
information both as to the fact of such change having taken place, and the
circumstances by which it was brought about and accompanied.
J. ST. J. Y.
Wellbank.
_Master Family._--Can you refer me to any one who may be able to give me
information respecting the earlier history of the family of Master or
Maistre, of Kent, prior to 1550: and any suggestions as to its connexion
with the French or Norman family of Maistre or De Maistre? This being a
Query of no public interest, I inclose a stamped envelope, according to the
wish expressed by you in a recent Number.
GEORGE S. MASTER.
Welsh-Hampton, Salop.
_Passage in Wordsworth._--Can any of your correspondents find an _older
original_ for Wordsworth's graceful conceit, in his sonnet on Walton's
lines--
"There are no colours in the fairest sky
As fair as these: _the feather whence the pen_
_Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men,_
_Dropt from an angel's wing_"--
than the following:
"whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing."
Dorothy Berry, in a Sonnet prefixed to Diana Primrose's _Chain of
Pearl, a Memorial of the peerless Graces, &c. of Queen Elizabeth_:
published London, 1639,--a tract of twelve pages.
M--A L.
Edinburgh.
_Govett Family._--Can you inform me for what town or county Sir ----
Govett, Bart., was member of parliament in the year 1669, and what were his
armorial bearings? His name appears in the list of members given in page
496. of the Grand Duke Cosmo's _Travels through England_, published in
1821. Is the baronetcy extinct? If so, who was the last baronet, and in
what year? Where he lived, or any other particulars, will much oblige.
QUÆRO.
_Sir Kenelm Digby._--Why is Sir Kenelm Digby represented, I believe always,
with a sun-flower by his side?
VANDYKE.
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