Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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BENBOW.
Birmingham.
_St. Bartholomew_ (Vol. v., p. 129.).--Thanking you for the information
given, may I further inquire if any of your correspondents are aware of
the existence of any copy or print from the picture in the Church of
Notre Dame, at Paris, of St. Bartholomew healing the Princess of Armenia
(see Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_); and where such may be seen?
REGEDONUM.
_Sun-dial Inscription_ (Vol. v., p. 79.).--The following inscription is
painted in huge letters over the sun-dial in front of an old farm-house
near Farnworth in Lancashire:
"Horas non numero nisi serenas."
Where are these words to be found?
Y.
_History of Faction_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--In my copy of this work,
published in 1705, 8vo., formerly Isaac Reed's, he attributes it to
Colonel Sackville Tufton. I observe also that Wilson (_Life of De Foe_,
vol. ii. p. 335.) states, that in his copy it is ascribed, in an old
handwriting, to the same author.
JAS. CROSSLEY.
_Barnacles_ (Vol. v., p. 13.).--May not the use of this word in the
sense of _spectacles_ be a corruption of _binoculis_; and has not
_binnacle_ (part of a ship) a similar origin?
J. S. WARDEN.
_Family Likenesses_ (Vol. v., p. 7.).--Any one who mixed in the society
of the Scottish metropolis a few years ago must have met with two very
handsome and accomplished brothers, who generally wore the Highland
dress, and were known by the name of "The Princes." I do not mean to
enter into the question as to whether or not they were the true
representatives of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," which most persons consider
to have been conclusively settled in the negative by an article which
appeared in the _Quarterly Review_: but most assuredly a very strong
point of evidence in favour of their having the royal blood of Scotland
in their veins, was the remarkable resemblance which they
bore--especially the younger brother--to various portraits of the Stuart
family, and, among the rest, to those of the "Merry Monarch," as well as
of his father Charles I.
E. N.
_Merchant Adventurers to Spain_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--C.J.P. may possibly
be assisted in his inquiries by referring to De Castros' _Jews in
Spain_, translated by Kirwan, pp. 190-196. This interesting work was
published by G. Bell, 186. Fleet Street, London, 1851.
W. W.
La Valetta, Malta.
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