from the Greek emperor. Amongst the numberless facts and data relating to the great Bonaparte, I do not recollect to have heard what was the coat of arms of the Corsican branch: and whether there had been any change in it when they had settled in Florence, or even sooner. In the coat of arms line, nothing is perhaps so interesting as the stone armorials which stood engraved on the house where Göthe was born at Frankfort: winged lyre, surrounded by stars." Habent sua fata lapides. J. LOTSKY.

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"The Ordynal or Statut, concernynge Artyfycers, Seruauntes, and Labourers, newly prynted with dyuers other thing therunto added."

"Item. It is enacted by ye sayd statute made in the vi yere of kyng Henry the viii., the iii. chaptyre, that euery artyfycer and labourer shal be at his worke betwene the myddes of Marche and the myddes of Septembre before fyue of the clocke in the mornynge, and that he shall haue but halfe an houre for his brekefaste, and an houre and an halfe for his dyner at such tyme as he hath to slepe by the statute, and when he hath no season to hym appoynted to slepe, then he shall haue but one houre for his dyner, and halfe an houre for his noone meate, and that he departe not from his worke tyll betwene vii. and viii. of the clocke at nyght.

"And that from the myddes of Septembre to the myddes of Marche, euery artyfycer and labourer to be at their worke in the spryngynge of the daye, and departe not tyll nyght.

"And yf that any of the sayde Artyfycers or labourers do offende in any of these Artycles, that then theyre defaultes to be marked by hym or his deputy that shall paye theyr wages, and at the wekes ende theyr wages to be abated after the rate.

"And that the sayde artyfycers and labourers shall not slepe in the day, but onely from the myddest of Maye ynto the myddest of August."

being ȧváукn only. Comp. Plat. Gorg. 449. E., 450 C., 451. E., &c., where yàp closes the question, and where it is answered by the affirmative val, as it is in every case in the same treatise except three. J. O. B. CROWE, A.B. Professor of Celtic, Q. Coll., Galway.

Belfast.

The common Soldier in Coleridge's Friend. Mr. Emerson, in his recently-published book on England (p. 6.), tells us that he made inquiries about the authorship of a passage in The Friend (vol. iii. p. 56.), professedly taken from a common soldier's address to his comrades. Coleridge confessed that he had "filtered" the original, but gave no exact reference. As some among your readers may be as curious as Mr. Emerson, I give the full title of the pamphlet from which (p. 25. foll.) Coleridge's garbled extract is taken :

"Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance, or a Rebuke of that Evill Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and Actions. With a Discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their Waies, to the good Spirit and Minde of God. Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.

'But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest to all men.'-2 Tim. iii. 9.

London, Printed for Henry Hils, and are to be sold at his house over against S. Thomases Hospitall in Southwark, and at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West End of Pauls, neare Ludgate. M.DC.XLIX. 4to. pages 52.

Those who know Coleridge will not be surprised to learn that Sedgwick was not a common soldier, but an ordained minister. See Calamy's Account, pp. 114, 117.; Continuation, p. 155. He may perhaps be identified with William Sigiswick of Caius College, M.A., 1638. Calamy says that he was 66 a pious man, with a disorder'd head." J. E. B. MAYOR.

St. John's College, Cambridge.

Was Lord Bacon the Author of the Plays attributed to Shakspeare? — Mr. Smith in his letter to Lord Ellesmere (recently reviewed in the Athenæum) having opened the field to controversy, the following coincidence of expression may not be thought unworthy of a note.

In the play of Henry V. Act III. Sc. 3. occurs the following line:

"The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.” And again in Henry VI.:

"Open the gate of mercy, gracious Lord."

Sir Francis Bacon uses the same idea in a letter written to King James a few days after the death of Shakspeare:

"And therefore in conclusion he wished him (the Earl of Somerset) not to shut the gate of your majesty's mercy against himself by being obdurate any longer." CL. HOPPER.

SIR CHARLES RAYMOND, BART.

I am anxious, if possible, to trace the parentage of the late Sir Charles Raymond, Bart., of Valentines and Highlands, co. Essex, who was created a baronet in May, 1774. The title was conferred with special limitation to his son-in-law and kinsman, the late Sir William Burrell, who succeeded as second baronet, and was father of the present Sir Charles Burrell. None of the volumes of the Peerage or Baronetage give the ancestry of Sir Charles Raymond; but I believe the family supposition is, that his family originally came from Devonshire, but at what period, or in what degree Sir Charles was connected with the Raymonds of Devonshire, appears unknown. His arms, which were Arg. three bars sable, are the same as the Raymonds of Marpole, and thus confirm the belief of his Devon extraction. By his wife Sarah Webster he left three daughters and co-heirs, the eldest of whom married her kinsman, William Burrell, to whom the title was confirmed. Sir William was the second son of Peter Burrell, Esq., M.P., of Beckenham, Kent, by Amy his wife, eldest daughter of (Col.) Hugh Raymond, of Sailing Hall, Essex, and Langley, Kent; and was uncle of the late Lord Gwydyr. The degree of affinity between Sir Charles Raymond and Amy Raymond, wife of Peter Burrell, is not clearly shown, but it has been always understood they were cousins. From Mrs. Burrell being stated as the eldest daughter of Hugh Raymond, it is presumed he had other children. There appears to have been also another branch, also said to be cousins of Sir Charles, of which were, Jones and John Raymond, who it is said were brothers. John Raymond died so late as the year 1800, aged eighty-seven years; with him resided three maiden sisters, his nieces, of the name of Snow. In the Evelyn Pedigree it is stated that William EvelynGlanville of St. Clere, Kent, married as his second wife Bridget Raymond, sister and co-heir of Jones Raymond. Of this marriage were two sons and two daughters. William Evelyn, the eldest, succeeded to his father's estate; George Raymond Evelyn, the second son, was the first husband of the Lady Elizabeth Leslie, who succeeded as eleventh Countess of Rothes, and by whom he was father of George William Evelyn, twelfth Earl of

Rothes. The christian name of the eldest daughter does not appear in the Evelyn pedigree, but she is stated to have married Langton, Esq., of Newton Park, Somersetshire; Sarah Evelyn, the second daughter, was wife of Chase Price, Esq., and their only daughter married Bamber Gascoign, Esq., and was mother of the late Marchioness of Salisbury. I should feel greatly indebted if, through the medium of your valuable columns, I could be informed where I might meet with a pedigree of the Raymonds of Devonshire, or whether there is any account of the family in any topographical work of Kent or Essex. The name is, I believe, still extant in the county of Devon, and also in Ireland, but the arms of the Irish family in especial are totally distinct from those borne by Sir Charles and the Marpole family. J. B.

men.

"Look at the census of Europe," says Mr. Parley P. Pratt, one of the twelve Apostles, "and even of the older states of the Union; see the hundreds of thousands of females more than of males."- Marriage and Morals in Utah, p. 7.

What is the fact?

Tonbridge,

Diocese or Diocess.

T. H.

What is the authority for

Anonymous Works. Who are the authors of the following: An Essay on the Oxford Tracts, Svo., 1839; Rufus, or the Red King, a romance, 1838; Gisela, a tragedy, by J. J. H., 1839; Night's Adventures, or the Road to Bath, a comedy in three acts, by Philo Aristophanes, 1819; The Ingrate's Gift, a dramatic poem, Edinb. 1830?

R. J.

Armorial. To what families do the following coats of arms appertain? 1. Gules, a chevron, vair, between three crescents; tincture of crescents uncertain. Crest, a stag's head cabossed. 2. Argent, on a chevron, between three trefoils, as many torteauxes. Tincture of trefoils, torteauxes, and chevron, not clearly defined. This coat is impaled with argent, a fess chequy, presumed to be Stuart. T. B.

"Quicquid agas," &c.-What is the origin of the proverbial Latin verse —

"To cry mapsticks."What is the explanation of the phrase "To cry mapsticks," as used in Swift's Polite Conversation, Dialogue I, ?

"Neverout. Why, Miss, you are in a brown study; what's the matter? Methinks you look like mumchance, that was hanged for saying nothing.

"Miss. I'd have you to know, I scorn your words. "Neverout. Well, but scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.

"Miss. My comfort is, your tongue is no slander.

grin?

What, you would not have one be always on the high "Neverout. Cry mapsticks, Madam; no offence, I hope." The meaning seems to be: " (I) cry mapsticks," I ask pardon,-I apologise for what I have said.

"Dr. Wittemback shewed me a book upon Mill-Wheels and Magnetism by one Rist. D. Rustigen, a High Dutch quack, who calls his scheme the noblest discovery of the whole world. He may well do so, if it is true; as he professes, among many other wonders to be effected by the combination of these powers, to make a ship without sails go faster against wind and tide than any sailing ship now goes with both in its favour. The plan has found believers, but the ship is not yet built." Letters from Holland and Lower Germany, by John Eyre, M. D., London, 1769, p. 76.

The author describes Dr. Wittemback as a physician at Leyden, to whom he had an intro

"The demands of Denmark being thus completely satisfied, it was thought expedient in the next place to enter into a fifteen years' treaty of commerce and mutual guaranty with the States General; and to this purpose, Gustavus Adolphus dispatched Van Dyck, a favourite minister with his father, in an Embassy to Holland, when the whole affair was concluded both effectually and speedily."

Can

any of your readers inform me what relation, if any, this Van Dyck was to the great painter Sir Anthony?

X. Y. Z.

The Great Comet of December 1680.-Wanted, notices of this remarkable comet, as it appeared in Ireland or elsewhere. Also, the time of its reappearance. JAMES GRAVES, Clerk.

Kilkenny.

Music of "Les Carmagnolles." - Can any one melody to this, the most sanguinary of the songs of your musical readers assist me in obtaining the of the first French Revolution? I have inquired of music-sellers in Paris, and at the foreign music shops here, and have examined the Catalogue of Music in the British Museum, but without success. J. H. H.

[Our correspondent will find a curious Note on Les Carmagnolles in our 1st S. iv. 489.]

or a monument to her memory, is, I believe, still to be seen at Christchurch, Oxford. She was, I presume, of Saxon origin. T. B.

[Frideswide, or Fridiswida, honoured as the patroness of Oxford, is said to have been the daughter of Didanus, or Didacus, a sub-regulus in these parts, who about the year 727, on the death of his wife Safrida, founded a nunnery at Oxford for twelve religious virgins of noble birth, under the government of his daughter. Frideswide being buried here, and afterwards canonised, the monastery was dedicated to her memory, and called almost always by her name. For the life of St. Frideswide consult Capgrave's Nova Legenda Angliæ, fol. Lond., p. clii. b.; Britannia Sancta, p. 207.; Butler's Lives of the Saints, Oct. 19.; and Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii. p. 134., edit. 1819.]

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WERE THE SILURES OF IBERIC ORIGIN?

(2nd S. i. 17.)

Permit me to tender DIMETIENSIS my sincere thanks for his response to the Query, wherein I requested a copy, if possible, of certain undeciphered inscriptions said to exist in Cardigan Bay. He concludes his remarks by asking for the proofs of my assertion that the Silurians came from Spain. To this I answer, that although we have no authoritative records testifying to that effect, yet the idea is supported by so many concurrent circumstances, and harmonises so well with what we know of the history of those times, that it may perhaps, without impropriety, be regarded as a tolerably established fact. The subject is neither uninteresting nor unimportant; and it may therefore be worth while to go into those circumstances, with, however, the utmost possible brevity. They are as follows:

1. The statement in Tacitus. Your correspondent regards this statement as a mere guess, but Niebuhr thought otherwise. Hear what he says on the matter in his History of Rome (vol. ii. p. 517., note):

"Their [the Silurians, Iberian,] origin is not an inference which he [Tacitus] himself draws from these circumstances, [the features, hue, and hair of the Silurians], but he looks upon them as proofs of the truth of a current opinion:"

2. The fact pointed out by myself some time since in "N. & Q.," that the Scilly Isles are called by Solinus Silura. This is satisfactory evidence that the Silurians inhabited those islands; and as they are 150 miles from South Wales (the head-quarters of that nation), on the direct road from Spain, their presence there can be accounted for only on the supposition that they were left behind by the body of their countrymen when voyaging from Spain to South Wales.

3. Several places in South Wales have Iberic Siluria itself is an Iberic word, and iden

names.

tical with Lusones; which tribe, as it was located on the precise spot whence the Silurians are most likely to have sailed, may reasonably be set down interchangeable: thus, Fusius and Furius, Vetuas the parents of the race: (r and s were anciently sius and Veturius, are identical. See Livy, iii. 14.)

4. The renowned story of the Milesian colony to Ireland may be regarded as affording some confirmation to the idea otherwise rendered probable, that a considerable portion of the British aborigines came from Spain. At least, it proves that a tradition to that effect was current among the Britons themselves.

DIMETIENSIS says, that he had supposed that the Dimetæ inhabited the "Lost Hundred;" where I have located the Silurians. His supposition is doubtless literally accurate; at the same time I may mention, that the Dimetæ, as well as the Ordovices (of North Wales), were subject to the Silurians and as subjection pre-supposes a conquest, my statement may perhaps be considered as equally accurate.

With respect to the Silurians in the Scillies, I may remark, that according to a saintly, but somewhat apocryphal authority, cited by Southey in his Common-place Book, a certain King Mark, who reigned in Cornwall in the fifth century, had subjects who spoke in four different languages. Southey offers some suggestions as to what these four languages were. His conclusions are not however either definite or satisfactory; and I would rather conjecture the languages to have been:-1. Cornish proper. 2. Cymric, or Welsh. 3. Gaelic; and 4. Iberic, which, as above shown, was spoken in the Scillies.

I have set down the Gaelic as one of the dif

ferent dialects on the following grounds. The Gael, or Gwyddyl, were undoubtedly the real British aborigines; and when the Cymri conquered Britain, they fled not only, as is well known, to Ireland and Scotland, but to Anglesea and Cornwall also. This is clear from the following verses of Golyddan, a Welsh bard of the seventh century:

"After the expulsion [of the Picts and Scots], they make a triumph,

And reconciled the Cymry, the men of Dublin,
The Gwyddyl of Ireland, Anglesey, and Scotland.
Cornwall, and the men of Alclwyd, to their reception
amongst us."

It will be well if, in our researches into ancient British history, we constantly bear in mind this diversity of race; for it will doubtless tend to illustrate some points which otherwise would remain hopelessly obscure. Thus, the fact of the Gaelic race existing in Anglesea, as a separate nation, down to the seventh century, may enable us to assign a satisfactory reason for an action attributed to Rhodri Mawr (A.D. 891), which is otherwise inexplicable. I allude to his transfer