Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Home-made Wines._--It is stated in _The Times_ of this morning (Feb. 17)
that-- {329}
"We know from old chronicles that most of the wine drank by Englishmen,
under the Plantagenets, was of home production."
Can any, and if so what, authority be shown for this statement?
J. SN.
_Inscription on a Clock._--Under the curious clock in Exeter Cathedral are
inscribed these words:
"PEREUNT ET IMPUTANTUR, sc. horae."
I have been told that they are the concluding words of a longer inscription
on some foreign clock. Can any of your readers tell me if they be so?
J. W. HEWETT.
_Inscription on the Tomb of Peter the Hermit._--At Huy, on the Meuse, is
shown the tomb where Peter the Hermit was buried: it is in the shape of an
obelisk, and has an inscription on each of the four sides. Of this
inscription, which is curious, and which I copied when I was there, I have
lost the greater part: can one of your correspondents supply it for me, or
tell where the lines are originally to be found, as I fancy they are
adapted to, and not made for, the monument.
The part of the inscription which I have runs as follows:
(INSCRIPTION.)
"Soldat du Pape Urbain, aux cris de 'Dieu le veut,'
Il a precipite l'Europe sur l'Asie;
Le peril arrive, sa sainte frenesie
N'a plus trouve qu'un cri arrive 'Sauve qui peut.'
Dieu,
L'intolerant l'outrage, insulte a sa grandeur,
Tel masque qu'il affecte, il n'est qu'une imposteur."
Another two-lined motto is headed "Les Illusions;" and a third, "La
Liberte;" but neither these, nor a longer one (which I fancy introduces the
names of Moliere, Rousseau, and Fenelon), am I able to quote.
H. A. B.
_Wife of James Torre._-James Torre, the Yorkshire antiquary, married for
his first wife Elizabeth Lincolne (see _Ducatus Leod._, p. 119. Whitaker's
ed.); can any one inform me who was that lady's father, and if there is any
pedigree known of the family?
I have little doubt that the Rev. William Lincolne, rector of Halton,
Lincolnshire, mentioned by Walker, in his _Sufferings of the Clergy_, b.
ii. p. 295., was of the same family.
EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun.
Bottesford Moors.
_"The Bear's Bible."_--In the library of Queen's College, Oxon, is a copy
of the Spanish version of the Bible, by Cassiod. Reyna (1569), with the
following inscription:--
Ampliss. Antistiti. ac Dno R^{mo} D. Edmundo Grindalo, archiepiscopo
Cantuariensi, et totius Angliae primati digniss. _Ob erepta hujus
Hispanicae versionis sacrorum librorum Scripta ex hostium manibus_
Cassiodorus Reinius ejusdem versionis author gratitudinis ergo et in
perpetuae observantiae pignus D.D.D."
What are the circumstances here alluded to?
H. H. W.
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