the public by M. Quicherat*, is a perfect contrast to Ronsard. His humorous, and sometimes too unbridled, genius discourses of every-day subjects, and his effusions interest us from the allusions they contain to contemporary events. The piece, for instance, entitled "Les dix Visions Baude (pp. 88-90.) is, under an allegorical form, a kind of political résumé, and we are able to fix very approximately the date of the "Dict Moral sur le Maintien de Justice," by a glance at the following stanza, which refers to the conquest of Guienne and Normandy over the English: "Qui augmenta le royaulme de France? The editor has subjoined, by way of appendix, a variety of documents relating to Henry Baude, and establishing certain leading points in his biography. He was born at Moulins in Bourbonnais about the year 1430, and died towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. Clement Marot borrowed most unscrupulously from the poems of Baude, whose place as a French writer would probably never have been ascertained but for the industry of M. Quicherat. Lacroix du Maine, Duverdier de Vauprivaz and Goujet do not make the slightest mention of him, although they have given, in their respective compilations, many a long column to poets far inferior to him in many respects. The third volume which we purpose noticing here contains two short pieces published now for the first time from a MS. in the Imperial Library at Paris. The Mémoire dv Voiage en Russie† is no doubt scientifically unimportant; but the anecdotes which the worthy sailor Sauvage has put together are amusing, and the second fragment, the Voiage dv Sievr Drach, is particularly valuable as a pièce justificative for one of the greatest events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The narrator has recorded several details previously unknown; and, as the learned editor, M. Louis Lacour, very aptly remarks, his journal completes the accounts given by Camden, Harris, Lediard, and Hackluyt. Since the celebrated publication of M. Quicherat, we may say that we are acquainted with all the particulars relating to the tragical death of the Maid of Orleans; but, on the other hand, the * "Les Vers de Maitre Henri Baude, poëte du xve siècle, recueillis et publiés par M. J. Quicherat." "Mémoire dv Voiage en Rvssie fait en 1586 per Jehan Savvage, Dieppois, suivi de l'expédition de Drake en Amérique à la même époque, publiés pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits de la bibliothèque Impériale, par M. Louis Lacour." Procès de la Pucelle, in the collection of historical documents published under the reign of Louis Philippe. incidents of her early life continue still, at least in their authentic form, comparatively concealed from the majority of general readers, as they are to be found only in the brochures of Charles du Lis, which have become positively introuvables. For this reason we are glad that M. Vallet de Viriville has reprinted the pamphlet* De l'Extraction et Parenté de la Pucelle d'Orléans, and the still more important Traité Sommaire. The appendix to his volume includes, amongst other documents, 1°, the patent of nobility granted by Charles VII. to the Darc family; 2°, another patent granted by Louis XIII. to Charles du Lys; and, 3°, two genealogical tables of the Darcs. M. Bordier's volume on the churches and monasteries of Paris† is a very welcome contribution to the topographical literature of our neighbours. We have here, in the first place, a correct and annotated reprint of the piece Les Moustiers de Paris, published already by M. Méon in his collection of tales and fabliaux. The next morceau is likewise a poem; but it is much longer than the preceding one; it contains a greater number of particulars, and is therefore of far greater value, historically speaking, than the Moustiers. The reader will find an imperfect extract of it in M. Jubinal's recueil. § The third text is a Latin notice, never printed before, of the lands possessed within Paris by the abbey of Saint-Maur, then called SaintPierre-des-Fossés. This curious description has been found by M. Bordier on a fly-leaf of a Bible of the ninth century, belonging to the Imperial Library. The concluding pieces, from the pen of the editor himself, are a succinct account of all the churches and monasteries which existed in Paris between 1325 and 1789; and a complete list of of their foundation.|| the present ecclesiastical buildings, with the date In finishing this short notice we would draw the attention of our readers to M. Aubry's Bulletin du Bouquiniste, a periodical issued once a fortnight, and deserving the patronage of all catalogues of bibliographical rarities, notices of littérateurs. Accounts of book-sales, annotated Bulletin particularly useful. Each number is enimportant new publications, render M. Aubry's * "Charles du Lis. - Opuscules Historiques relatifs à Jeanne Darc, dite la Pucelle d'Orléans, nouvelle edition, précédée d'une Notice Historique sur l'Auteur accompagnée de diverses notes et développements et de deux Tableaux Généalogiques inédits avec Blasons, par M. Vallet de Viriville." † Edit. 1808, cf. vol. ii. p. 287. Edit. 1808, cf. vol. ii. p. 287. Edit. 1842, cf. vol. ii. p. 102. "Les Eglises et les Monastères de Paris, Pièces en Prose et en Vers des IX, XIII, et XIVe Siècles, publiées avec Notes et Préface d'après les Manuscrits. Par M. H. L. Bordier, Membre de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France." In the ninth chapter of the Diable Boiteux, in the description of the madhouse, Le Sage tells us that Doña Beatrix postponed the prosecution of a cavalier who had killed her brother, because he intended to fight a certain other cavalier who had preferred another woman to herself. "C'est ainsi (he continues) qu'en use Pallas, lorsqu' Ajax a violé Cassandre; la déesse ne punit point à l'heure même le Grec sacrilege qui vient de profaner son temple; elle veut auparavant qu'il contribue à la venger du jugement de Paris. Mais hélas! doña Béatrix, moins heureuse que Minerve, n'a pas goûté le plaisir de la vengeance.” It is difficult to understand the meaning of the allusion which Le Sage here makes to the story of Ajax. Ajax, the son of Oïleus, is related to have profaned the temple of Minerva, by dragging Cassandra, though a suppliant, from the altar, and even, according to some accounts, by offering violence to her person within its holy precincts. For this sacrilegious act, he was, on his return from Troy, wrecked by Minerva on the Capharean rock, at the extremity of the island of Euboea, and struck with lightning. See En. i. 39., xi. 260. This punishment is not deferred, but follows speedily after the offence. It seems that Minerva could only have avenged herself upon Paris by causing Ajax to be the instrument of his death; but Paris was killed by Philoctetes at the taking of Troy with one of the arrows of Hercules, and Ajax had no share in the act. See Soph. Phil., 1426. In the tenth chapter, Le Sage illustrates some of his anecdotes by a reference to Villius, Bolanus, Fufidius and Marsæus, as mentioned in the second and ninth of the first book of Horace's Satires. The word Longarenus has puzzled the printer, who prints it in Italics, without a capital letter, whereas it is a proper name. Minor Notes. L. MS. Verses in the "Eikon Basilike." The following verses on Charles I., in an old hand, are preserved in a copy of the Eikon Basilike, formerly belonging to the library of an ancient Essex family. "Thus died this potent Prince and king of ours The ages past did ner produce a king For his diuinity read thou and see In's booke enough to saue thy soule may bee. Beeing company for Angels not for men." "Copied from a MS. on the fly-leaf of a little book entitled ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ. Printed 1649.” J. C. Thomas Sarsfeld's Petition to Bishop Lyon of Cork to present William Ffeld to the Rectory of Tempellosky ats Glenmeyr. — The following document preserved amongst the numerous MSS. of the Sarsfield family is curious, as exhibiting probably one of the first petitions addressed to an Anglo-Catholic prelate in the south of Ireland after the Reformation. The dignity and importance attached to the episcopal office at that period may be inferred from the terms in which a member of a very aristocratic and wealthy Cork family (existing here from the reign of Edw. I. to the present time) then addressed the first Protestant (born) bishop of Cork. "My dutie to yor good l'p alwey remembred, Understanding that yor l'p was to dep't herehense before sunday towards Rosse I thought it my p'te, now having a lytle helth, lesst sicknes might not p'mitt me to do the same hereafter before yr going, to writ and seale my p'nt'acon of Tamplelosky, w'ch I send yor l'p hereinclosed, with a blank therein, to nolate & appoint whome yor l'p shall thinke mete, assuring yor l'p if it were a better request disposicon; but in trouth I have writen syth the last inmyne abilitie serving thereunto it shold be at yor l'ps cumbents death to a kinsman of myne in lym❜yke named Richard Sarsfeld, an english man borne, who hath not taken of orders, that if it pleased him, getting yor l'ps good will, I wold willingly bestowe that pore lyving upon him for his better maintenance, syth w'ch tyme I understand from Mr Philip ffeld that my said kinsman will not dep't lym'yke & prayed me to p'ferr thereunto Mr Will'm ffeld, p'sen of Christs Church, who is my kinsman & friend, of whome or any other discrete man yor l'p shall appoint I shall very well lyke of. And so referring the same to yor l'ps det'mynacon & good discretion wth my dutieful comendacon, I betake you to thalmighty, who graunt yor l'p all happines wth health both of body & soule to his glory, from my chamber in Cork this xxij. m'ch. 1593. "Yor l'ps to caond alway "THOMAS SARSFELD. "To the Rev'end father in god my verey good 1 the 1 whether it be a Campo santo like the superb one of Pisa, or where in England, of those who value or venerate the relics of the past. To him, by the bye, who enjoys the wild and the desolate in nature, we would say: Go, take your stand beside the Major's lonely dwelling (three or four miles from Bude) during a wintry storm; and thence contemplate the grim Black Rock in front, and the magnificently tumbling waves of Widmouth Bay. In the evening you might perhaps appropriately wind up, by the fireside, with reading a portion of Scott's tale of The E. WILKEY. Pirate. "The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." A few years ago I was returning home from Baden Baden, and stopping at Verdun (where the unfortunate détenus and prisoners of war of our countrymen were by the arbitrary mandate of Buonaparte placed in confinement in the early part of this century), I went up to la cimetière on the left of the road to Metz, about a mile out of the town of Verdun. There the Roman Catholics are buried within an enclosure, and those who died out of the pale of that church are buried separately on the outside. There were three or four stones erected to the memory of those who had died in captivity; but the stone itself was of so soft a nature, that time and weather were fast operating to render the inscriptions on them illegible. One was quite covered with the rude brier, but this removed, it was seen to be inscribed to Dr. Alexander Allen, and there was one to a John Wyatt; but the most distinct was " to Jack-possible in the process, one may picture the pleason Pearson, late Midshipman of H. B. M. ship Minerve, youngest son of Sir Richard Pearson*, late Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital; Died at Verdun, March 11, 1807; aged 21 years." Of one stone a large piece was broken off, so that the name was quite lost, and I left the ground, grieved that such "frail memorials" only should mark the spot where my countrymen lie. Φ. A Note of the Past. The following may possibly be interesting to some of the readers of "N. & Q.," royalist, if not republican. On the front of the "Tree Inn," at Stratton in Cornwall, is a tablet with the following inscrip tion: "In this place ye army of ye Rebells under ye command of ye Earl of Stamford, receivd a signall ouerthrow by ye Valor of Sr Bevill Granville and ye Cornish Army on Tuesday ye 16th of May, 1643." The words, "in this place," convey an incorrect idea of the locality of the battle: the tablet was originally placed on the field of strife near the town,-Stamford Hill, on which the remains of a circular fortification are still to be seen. Major Fortescue of Widmouth (now aged and infirm) raised, we are told, some years ago, small subscriptions from the inhabitants of the town, adding something himself, and caused the old tablet to be repaired and renovated with cement. This done, the tablet was enclosed in a frame of oak, and it was placed in its present position on May 16, 1843, - exactly 200 years after the date of the battle. As a preserver of an interesting historic memorandum, the Major is entitled to the thanks * This Sir R. Pearson was captain of the Serapis in the desperate combat with Paul Jones and his piratical squadron, on Sept. 23, 1779. Painting on Porcelain.-May I suggest as an amusement, the painting on porcelain by ladies. That tasteful class of beings seem capable of everything artistic, from a pair of Gothic bracers to a design for a cathedral: from a flower to a landscape, from a head to a scene in a tragedy; they excel in water-colours, and in all those products of the needle which require form and the arrangement of colours. If there be nothing im sure with which Mama would receive a service designed and painted by her dear daughters; or the brother accept a few ornaments for his "dear," the handiwork of his sisters; and Papa might even be coaxed out of his abhorrence to tobacco, "just for the sake of poor Charles, who likes his weed when we girls are out," by the present of a sweet china pipe-bowl, embellished with a medallion; or perhaps the nice young man who has done so well at college, and has just got his curacy, would feel a pleasure in contemplating a, or the, romantic landscape done by the hand of his betrothed, and which, being sketched on tiles, he has let into the wall over his mantelpiece, in perpetuam rei memoriam. Such monuments of skill might not be so portable as, but they would be more useful and perhaps more durable and carefully preserved than, those at present encouraged. They would certainly offer greater scope for individual design, in consequence of the innumerable forms of which pottery is susceptible. Whether it would too much stimulate, or encroach upon, the existing trade, or whether the mechanical difficulties, as burnishing, &c., would be too great for amateurs, I do not pretend to know, but should like to hear the opinions of practical people. FURVUS. ritory because of having been its gift, and under its juridical control. Again, there is a Sunderland in Northumberland, which was formerly part of the domain of Bamburgh Castle, and stands on a jutting point of land at a distance from the privileged territory. This also favours the idea of Sundorlande meaning outlying land. The castle lands, in this instance, are freehold; and the township of Sunderland copyhold. own birth: "Qui natus in territorio ejusdem mo- build the monastery), without such lands having nasterii." In King Alfred's translation, the Saxon ever been permanently considered as Church prowords substituted for "in territorio are "of Sun-perty, although vaguely said to be within its terdorlande." Both the Latin territorium and the Saxon Sundorlande are, if we are to judge merely from their formation, words of a very wide meaning. Varro says of territorium "Terra dicta ab eo, ut Ælius scribit, quod teritur; itaque terra in Augurum libris scripta cum R uno. Ab eo colonis locus communis, qui prope oppidum relinquitur, Territorium, quod maxime teritur." And with regard to Sundorlande, it means obviously "land-sundered," but by and from what? is the question. Is it the idea that Bede was born on the lands-proper of the monastery, or on the lands appropriated, in feudal subjection, to the lay settlers outside of the ecclesiastical lands, but within the abbot's jurisdiction? On lands sundered from the waste and vested in the church as its own freehold, or on lands sundered by water or otherwise from the church's freehold, and used, with the church's permission, by its dependents and servants. To refer to Webster, are we to understand by the " territory" in question, "the seat of government," or "a tract of land belonging to and under the dominion of a prince or state lying at a distance from the seat of government?" 66 Lye quotes two passages from an ancient glossary in the Cottonian MS. (Julius A. II. fols. 5 and 152), in which Sunderland is rendered by separalis terra, prædium, fundus, territorium." Besides these and the passage already quoted from Alfred, no instance is known of its use, except in the names of several English towns; from the facts connected with which some principle of construction might possibly be elicited. Ex. gr. In the county of Durham there is a place called Sunderland Bridge, described by Surtees to be the extreme southern and outlying portion of the lands of St. Oswald, being sundered from the bulk of those lands by the Brun on the one side, and by the Wear on the other. This, if correct, favours the hypothesis that Sunderland means outlying land. Then there is Sunderland-near-the-sea, also in the county of Durham, lying on the south side of the river Wear, directly opposite to the site of the Wearmouth monastery, and separated from the monastic lands only by that stream. Some have thought this to be the Sundorlande referred to by Alfred; but against such opinion there is the strong fact that its tenures are ancient freehold, and not, as are the monastic lands, Dean and Chapter; and there is no historical record of their ever having been other than what they now are. This case, therefore, is adverse to the theory of feudal subjection, unless we assume that the lands now freehold were, when granted by the Crown to the Church, immediately regranted in fee to the original settlors (foreign artisans brought over to Then there is a Sunderlandwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, within a short distance from the ancient priory of Wetadun or Wettown; but I have been unable to ascertain whether it ever had any relations with the priory. And there is a Sunderland in Allerdale, and another in Craven (see Domesday). Communications respecting these localities, such as I have furnished relative to the others, might probably, when all the facts are put together, lay the foundation of a hypothesis that would decide an interesting historical fact — viz., Bede's birth-place. R. B. Minor Queries. St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1605-6., M.A. 1609, Fellow of his college 1610, B.D. 1616, Cambridge. C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. Family of Sir Humphrey Winch. — In the year 1624 died Sir Humphrey Winch, Kt., of Everton, Beds., one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, who had previously filled the office of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and who appears to have been celebrated for his learning and uprightness. In an account of his career and sudden death while putting on his robes to attend the court in Hilary Term of the above year, it is stated that he had theretofore been styled "De La Winch." Of his descendants down to the present time pretty clear information is obtained; but, in order to elucidate some points in the history of the Winch family, it is desirable to obtain some authentic information as to the members of the same prior to the above-named Sir Humphrey. From the appellation given to or assumed by him of "De La Winch," it would appear that his immediate predecessors were foreign-probably French or Norman, and it is conjectured that some information relative to himself in the early part of his life, and those from whom he immediately descended, is attainable; and finding from the pages of your amusing and instructive journal much information, which it were vain to seek elsewhere, and knowing the resources of information at your command, I have troubled you with this, and would thank you for any information, or the knowledge of any means of procuring it, relating to the above Judge, or any of his ancestors. I should, perhaps, mention that the arms and crest of the Winch family are both composed of an "escallop" shell, the former in a shield, the latter on a scroll, without motto. Should it not be in your power to aid me to the desired information, it might probably be in that of some of your numerous correspondents. A SUBSCRIBER FROM THE FIRST. Daniel Malden, of Queen's College, Cambridge, was B.A. 1640. His note-book, dated 1657, and wherein he is described as Medicinæ Candidatus, is in the University library, Cambridge (Dd. vi. 82.). It contains receipts arranged alphabetically, a catalogue of his books and notes in Latin, of two treatises "de Medicina" and "de Functionibus et Humoribus." There is also a brief Pharmacopeōia, with the English names of some of the herbs added. Any farther information respecting him will be acceptable to C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. "To make search amongst the records in the Tower of London, and at Westminster, and other places of England, to see if he can find any relating to the said Order of St. Lazarus, or other Orders Hospitalier and Military, Secular or Regular, at any time heretofore established in France, that he may give the said Commanders and Knights an account of the same.” ber of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Graham, 1843 ? IOTA. Translations of the Classics. In what part of Dr. Parr's works shall I find the following? "If you desire your son, though no great scholar, to read and reflect, it is your duty to place into his hands the best translations of the best classical authors." RESUPINUS. Chronogram at Rome.. I enclose a chronogram copied from the floor of the church of S. M. degli Angeli at Rome. The words " REX IACOBVS. III. D. G. MAGNAE . BRITANIAE. ET . c." are in a circle round the words "FELIX TEMPORUM REPARATIO." The first word "Rex" is on the circlet of the crown, which surmounts the inscription. The length of the marble lozenge on which it is inscribed is sixteen inches, its breadth eleven inches. Can any of your correspondents inform me what was the "felix reparatio that the Jacobites connected with the year 1721; also what is the meaning of the last C., which for chronogrammic purposes was obviously needful, but which I cannot complete satisfactorily? Scotus. Nicol Burne. Will any gentleman having a copy of The Dispvtation concerning the Controversit headdis of Religion halden in the Realme of Scotland, &c., 8vo., Paris, 1581, kindly inform me if it contains "Ane Admonition" in verse? and if so, its exact position in the volume? for, although my own answers precisely to Herbert's description, and there is no perceptible hiatus, it has no such rhyming tirade against the reformers as that reprinted by Sibbald in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, professing to be derived therefrom. Another authority (Lives of the Scottish Poets, 1822,) calls the Disputation a rhyming attack upon the Kirk, which it certainly is not; for, however My Query is, was the result of his investiga- ministers of the Deformit Kirk, the book is in severe the pervert Nicol Burne may be upon the tions ever made public? prose, and that too of the richest old Scots stamp. J. O. Cork. R. C. Euripides.Who is the author of The Cyclops of Euripides, a satanic drama. By a Mem Snake Charming. Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." tell me who is the earliest author that |