Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Will some one of your readers favour me with an explanation of the meaning
of this insinuation? Is it really intended to say that "scandal" reported
Lord North to be the son of an illustrious lady of the royal family? It is
clear Lord North strikingly resembled George III.; did the latter "favour"
his father or his mother in physiognomy? Did George III. represent the
Guelphs or the Saxe-Gotha family?
OBSERVER.
_Ephippiarius._--What is the meaning of the word "Ephippiarius," occurring
as the description of a person in a Latin diploma of the seventeenth
century? Does it signify saddler, or, as has been suggested to me, esquire?
V.
_Nixon._--Can any of your readers inform me if there was a painter of this
name living at Brighton in or about the year 1806, what pictures he
painted, &c., and when he died?
JOHN GARLAND.
Dorchester.
_Tuebeuf._--Where is it? A royal charter to the town of Doncaster, given by
the hand of Master Eustacius, Dean of Salisbury, Deputy-Chancellor, and
witnessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury and others, is dated at Tuebeuf,
22nd May, 5 Richard I. (1194). In Miller's _History of Doncaster_
(Appendix, Deed No. 1.), the name is printed "Tuke or Toke," but on a
reference to the original document it appears as above.
J. E. J.
_Tooth of Sir I. Newton._--
"A tooth of Sir Isaac Newton was sold in 1815 for 730l.: a nobleman
bought it, and had it set in a ring."
The above has gone the round of the papers without comment, contradiction,
or illustration. Lest it should become matter of history, I wish to ask
whether it is a new story or an old one; and whether it is a simple lie, or
has any foundation in fact?
H. B. C.
U. U. C.
_Thomas Ceeley._--Who was Thomas Ceeley, who defended Lyme Regis so
gallantly with the famous Blake, the former being governor? His exploits
have been recorded in the _History of Lyme Regis_, &c. Probably we must
look to Plymouth for his residence.
Mr. Christopher Ceeley was with Sir Francis Drake in his third voyage into
the West Indies in 1572-3. The "Elizabeth Drake," of sixty tons and thirty
men, under Sir Francis Drake, when acting against the Armada, was commanded
by _Thomas Sealye_, another way of spelling Ceeley. There were Ceeleys,
Sealeys, &c., in Devonshire and Somersetshire.
G. R. L.
_Marigmerii--Melinglerii--Berefellarii._--In Pirri's _Sicilia Sacra_
(Grævius, _Antiqu. Sicil._, ii. 425.) four officers of the inferior clergy,
called _marigmerii_, are enumerated among the members of the cathedral of
Montereale: and, in the same work (iii. 921.), two officers in the
cathedral of Cifalu called _melinglerii_. Can either or both of these words
be misprints, or corruptions of some word answering to the French
_marguillier_, which in parish churches means a churchwarden, in collegiate
churches a keeper of the relics? And what is the derivation of
_marguillier_?
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