In 'Lodge's Portraits' is an engraving of this statesman, a prominent member of the Cabal in the days of Charles II., from the painting by Sir Peter Lely, said to be in the "collection of the Right | Honourable Lord de Clifford at King's Weston." There is a diagonal patch across the nose, as though it had been slit, and in those times malicious wounding and maiming were by no means infrequent. The accompanying memoir mentions, however, that the earl had fought for Charles I. in the great civil war, and received several wounds, adding: "The black patch on his face, which appears in all portraits of him, and is, I believe, nowhere particularly accounted for, may probably be ascribed to one of his hurts, which perhaps left a disgusting scar" (Cabinet edition, vol. vi. p. 172). This statement, however, leaves the matter a slightly open question, for the Coventry Act, as it was called, was passed about that date, as Sir John Coventry had been attacked and his nose slit by some members of the royal guard, as it was supposed with the privity of King Charles II. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. The patch was to hide the scar of a wound which he received in a sharp encounter near Andover, where he was fighting as a volunteer in the royal cause during the civil war. In Charles II.'s reign, when Lord Arlington was out of favour, several persons at court took to mimic his person and behaviour, and it became a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch upon his nose and strut about in order to divert the king. See Birch's 'Lives of Illustrious Persons.' CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading. tion, which is given in Robinson's "History of Tottenham,' we may infer that her husband bad lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's, and that on his death she had probably moved to St. Andrew's, Holborn, where she died three years later. search for the will of Henry Scarlett, of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, about the year 1765, would probably give more information. A The arms on the Scarlett-Diodati plate are the same as those of the Scarletts of Essex, Suffolk, London, and Sussex (after of Jamaica), the latter being now represented in the elder line by my husband's branch (Abinger, arms and crest now differenced since the peerage) and the Scarletts of Gigha, N.B., and Sussex, who bear, without difference, these same arms and crest, as exemplified in the 'Visitation of Essex,' 1611. The supporters are probably the invention of the engraver, for in England, as a rule, they are only given to peers, baronets, or knights. The name of Henry is more common in the Norfolk Scarletts than in those of Essex, and I cannot find any clue to the family from which the above individual descends. I have large collections relating to the Scarletts of Essex and Suffolk, in addition to those of Sussex, and have looked through them in vain for a clue, as none of the names mentioned in Mrs. Elizabeth Scarlett's will occurs in our papers. There is a lengthy pedigree of Sparrow in the 'Visitation of Essex,' 1634, but none of the names is in it (Colepepyr, &c.). The arms described on the escutcheon of pretence are not to be found in Papworth's 'Armorials.' In 1707 the will of John Scarlett, of St. Dunstan'sin-the-West, gent., was proved, and he speaks in it of lands left to him by Sir William Humble. This shows him to have been John Scarlett, the third son of Benjamin Scarlett, of Eastbourne, who married Katherine, the daughter of Sir William Humble. This John Scarlett had four sons, John, He lived at William, Charles, and Francis. Stratford Langthom, in Essex, part of the Humble property, and in 1694 was of St. Andrew's, "Upon his return from his unsuccessful journey to Holborn. Dr. Diodati was buried at Totten "The Rebellion falling out, he followed the King's Army, and receiving an honourable wound in the face, grew into favour" (Evelyn's 'Diary,' Sept. 10, 1677). Holland in 1674-5......it became a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch upon his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, in order to divert the king" (Chalmers's 'Biog. Dict.,' s.v. "Bennet "). Lely's portrait, engraved in Bray's edition of Evelyn's Diary, shows the position of the patch very well. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. DIODATI, WHICKER, MORTON, SCARLETT, COLEPEPER, MASKALL (7th S. iv. 344).-Mrs. Elizabeth Scarlett, widow of Henry Scarlett, late of the city of London, "now living in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, but late of St. Dunstan's-inthe-West," owned land in Tottenham, called "Langford Lands," which she sold in 1765 to James Townsend, Esq. From the above descrip 1727. Berwick Lodge, Ryde. B. F. SCARLETT. BRAR be DUKE WITH THE SILVER HAND (7th S. i, 477; iv. 213, 338).-DR. BREWER, it is feared, has been misled by the use of an inapposite title, the employment of which by him was quite enough to throw readers of 'N. & Q.' off We doubtless read of Dukes of Edom the scent. in the A.V., and we have also read of dukes and lords of Little Egypt. The prince concerning whom DR. BREWER was inquiring was certainly not a duke in any ordinary sense of the term, though he was, of course, a leader of men, for in point of fact he was King of Ireland. If DR. BREWER refers to the August number of the Anti FICTITIOUS IMPRINTS (7th S. iv. 88).—Why not make known the facts in each instance when ascertained? MR. WALFORD is probably familiar with an American book by Mr. Whitney, entitled 'A Modern Proteus,' which makes a wholesale exposure of one of the tricks of booksellers in publishing old books under new names. Fictitious imprints are entitled to like treatment. All our libraries, both in their manuscript and printed catalogues, give the correct imprint in brackets when it is known that the publisher's imprint is false. A most pernicious custom that has long prevailed is post-dating the imprint. So early as July and August I have seen books bearing the following year's date. When did this form of falsehood originate? Philadelphia, U.S. GASTON DE BERNEVAL. HENRY, LORD CLIFFORD (7th S. iv. 327).-MR. JOHNSON will find an account of Henry, Lord Clifford, the "shepherd" Earl of Cumberland, in Mr. Walford's 'Chapters from Family Chests,' vol. i. p. 144. MUS IN URBE. ORRERIES (7th S. iv. 348).—It may interest MR. VYVYAN to know that one of these travelling entertainments, mentioned by the Editor, was perambulated about this city within the last three years. It consisted of a large square box mounted on wheels; there were little windows all round through which you might gaze at the wonders of the solar system, the inside being illuminated at night, which had a very pretty effect; "and all for one penny." Glasgow. ROBERT F. GARDINER. Refer to the account of the boy's experiences at the "slow torture called an orrery," in "Birthday Celebrations," ch. xix. of Dickens's 'Uncommercial Traveller.' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. NELSON (7th S. iv. 367).—I can find no mention of this portrait in five different biographies of Nelson that I have searched (I have not Sir Harris Nicolas at hand); but if a guess be admissible I would hazard the suggestion that it was sent to Selim, the Grand Signior, in return for the chelengk, or plume of triumph, and the pelisse presented by him to Nelson after the victory at the ALL HALLOWS, BREAD STREET: JOHN MILTON (7th S. iv. 309, 378).-The tablet for which NEMO inquires has been removed to Bow Church, Cheapside, where I have just seen it. It has been inserted into the western wall of the church, on the outside, near to the tower. Beneath the tablet is the following inscription: "This Tablet was placed on the Church of All Hallows, Bread Street, early in the nineteenth century, as a memorial of the event therein recorded, and was removed in the year 1876, when that Church was pulled down, and the Parish united for Ecclesiastical purposes with the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bow." "MUNERARI" OR "NUMERARI" IN TE DEUX (7th S. iv. 147, 352).-I ought to have known that munus was a gift; but I have been misled by the early versions of Te Deum, printed by Mr. Maskell in the second volume of his 'Monumenta Ritualia.' These all translate munerari by "rewarded." Even now I do not find that authorities are quite unanimous in excluding "reward" from the meaning of munerari. Daniel, speaking of munerari, says, "Procul dubio in hac voce tenes primum occurrit in Brev. Italis v. c. in Franc. anni scripturam antiquissimam et genuinam._Numerari 1495" (Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' Lips., 1844, t. ii. p. 299). I have no doubt that munerari is the more ancient reading, but as a matter of taste I prefer numerari. The aim of the few notes that were printed last August was to point out the length of time that munerari had survived, and was still surviving, not merely in out-of-the-way places like the Mozarabic Chapel at Toledo, but in the Vatican Basilica itself, in choir books that were published only two or three years ago. Under these circumstances it can hardly be asserted with truth that HIBERNICISM: KIND (7th S. iv. 229).-Though kind as cited by MR. BONE may now be a Hibernicism merely, it is very old English. In the 'Romance of William of Palerne,' of date 1350-1360 ('Spec. Early English,' part ii.), the werwolf was not a werwolf at all, For þe kud king of spayne, was kindely his fader; and William himself, stating his own parentage, says: A kowherde, sire, of þis kontrey, is my kynde fader and my menskful moder. is his meke wiue. It means "natural" or "by kinship," and is said to be derived from Anglo-Saxon cynd, nature. For its use in Scotch see Jamieson's Dictionary.' Compare 'Hamlet,' I. ii., a little more than kin and less than kind "-i. e., less than natural; and II. ii., where, in the same uncomplimentary sense, he calls his uncle a "kindless villain." G. N. Glasgow. ALEXANDER MONCRIEFF (7th S. iv. 328).—I am able to inform F. N. R. that this person was minister of Scoonie, in the Presbytery of Kirkaldy. His quarrel with John Gibson (Lord Durie) and the various episodes thereof can be found most graphically detailed in 'Lamont's Diary.' Both seem to have been sufficiently pugnacious, and other "tuilzies" of the minister are mentioned by Lamont. There is an account of a battle royal (in church) on July 22, 1655, "which day being the Sabath......Moreover Durie desyred the Minister to hold his peace, and the Minister desyred Durie to hold his peace. On September 26, 1654, Mr. Alex. Moncrife (Lamont is capricious in his spellings) "denounced from the pulpitt, in his sermon, ane absolute judgement of destruction and ruine against the house of Durie, without any condition of repentance." 1662, Agust 14. By order from Mr. James Sharp Archbishope of St. Androws, Mr. Johne Ramsay was admitted Minister of Scony in Fiffe, to succeid Mr. A. Moncriefe at that tyme under processe before the parliament att Edenborroughe." On which occasion "there was delivered to Maister Ramsay the bibell, the keys of the Church doore and the bell tou; and Dury was required to be assisstant to him, which he undertooke to doe......After that they went and tooke possession of the manse and glibe." The Rev. J. W. Taylor states that Mr. Moncrieff was minister of Scoonie, and refers to the leading events of his life. In a memoir of his grandson, the Rev. Alexander Moncrieff, of Abernethy, one of the fathers and founders of the Scotch Secession, by the late Rev. Dr. Young, of Perth, the Scoonie minister is prominently noticed, and the "misery upon misery" that fell upon Gibson and others of his household is narrated. United Presbyterian Fathers 'Memorials of Moncrieff and Fisher,' pp. 5, 10, 11, Fullarton & Co., 1849. WM. CRAWFord. Edinburgh. See CANNON CURLS (7th S. iv. 367).—Would not the cannons at the ears of the "powdered wig" (about the date 1800) be so called from their general resemblance in shape to the ordinary cannon of warfare? Hanging before me is the life-size portrait of a clerical ancestor, who had a vicarage of a thousand a year, a rectory in addition, and was also chaplain to a nobleman. I conclude, therefore, that the clerical costume in which he was so skilfully depicted in crayons by John Russell, R.A., was in the most correct fashion of the time. The date would be about 1790. The white powdered wig has on either side two rows of roley-poley or " 'cannon" curls, arranged five deep and very neat and cylindrical, the hollow through each being more than half an inch. They begin on a level with the eye, and fall over the ears to the shoulders, gradually increasing in width as they descend. Thus, there are twenty of these "cannon curls on the wig. Other clerical portraits, of a slightly earlier date, are also before me; but in these the clerical wigs are fuller, larger, and more dishevelled. CUTHBERT BEDE. 66 No doubt these curls were so named from their cylindrical form. Ladies wore their side hair twisted into vertical cylinders circa 1830. At one time they were worn with the back hair in "giraffe bows." The popular name was sausage curls." The horizontal curls at the sides of men's wigs, worn during the last century, might also, from their cylindrical form, have been called J. DIXON. cannon curls. The etymology of the word cannon, which should be logically spelled canon, is the provincial canon, pipe. The word has been applied, as can be seen in Littré's Dictionary,' to the most varied sorts of "pipes,” viz., to all sorts of instruments, weapons, pots, bones, ornaments, &c., in form of pipes. The canon, frequently alluded to by Molière, was worn on the leg, just under the knee. The ribbons had the general appearance of a tuyau (pipe), hence the designation of canon. The English cannon (curls in a cylindrical form) has certainly the same origin. JOSEPH REINACH. Paris, [Other replies are acknowledged with thanks.] modern Roman he is called "a Roman citizen." It is uncertain when he lived. In his 'Life,' written by an historian of the seventh century, he is said to have been sent into France by the Apostle St. Peter, in company with St. Sixtus, the first Bishop of Rheims, and St. Denys, of Paris. But a later writer, in the ninth century, Alman, a monk of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, in the diocese of Rheims, says that he was sent by St. Clement of Rome. Alban Butler, however, in whose 'Lives of the Saints' A. H. has not searched with due dili gence, probably from forgetfulness that St. Menge is commonly known as St. Memmius, claims Flodoard as his voucher that he was contemporary with St. Sixtus, Bishop of Rheims, in A.D. 290-that is, when Caius was Pope; and adds that the whole province of Champagne was the theatre of his apostolic labours. POTTLE (7th S. iv. 365).—The "pottle" of Shakspeare and Ben Jonson will always live; but the "pottle" in connexion with strawberries will soon, says MR. WALFORD, "pass out of remembrance and become extinct." The word, however, will be found in the Rev. J. Wood's edition of Nuttall's 'Dictionary' (1886) as being "a small A church was built in his honour in one of the basket for holding fruit." The real thing, though faubourgs of Chalons, called Buxerie or Boissière ; pretty enough to look at, was always a swindle- and an abbey close by, which bears his name, stale and smashed strawberries at the bottom, with existed in the seventh century, and was inhabited a few fine fresh ones to crown the edifice of impos- by monks. Later on the abbey church was served ture. The word exists for us in "comic" literature, for some years by the Secular Canons of the Cathein the shape of a small shilling book, published by dral of Chalons; but about the year 1125 the D. Bogue, Fleet Street, London, 1848, 'A Pottle abbey was given to the Canons Regular of the of Strawberries, to beguile a Short Journey, or a Order of St. Augustin, who held it up to the SupLong Half-Hour,' by Albert Smith. It was got up pression. The principal feast of St. Menge is in the style of his popular" Natural Histories" of celebrated on August 5; on December 16 is com"The Gent,' 'The Flirt,' 'The Ballet Girl,' &c., memorated, in the martyrology of the French and was profusely illustrated by Henning and Church, the translation of his body from its others, six of the illustrations being by Sir John original resting-place in 868, by order of Charles Gilbert. The vignette on the title-page represents the Bald, to the new church; and on the 21st of a simpering young lady holding a pottle of straw- the same month is commemorated his arrival at berries; and the cover is a very graceful design, Chalons, that was attended by so many blessings. printed in colours, of wreaths of strawberries and For further details, see 'Bibliothèque Sacrée,' par a pottle filled with the fruit. In the same year, Richard et Giraud; Bosquet, 'Historia Ecclesiæ 1848, Albert Smith issued-through Mr. Bentley, Galliæ,' p. 2, lib. v. p. 1; Gallia Christiana,' as publisher-another shilling book of oddments, tom. ix. ; S. Gregorii 'Turonensis Opera,' ed. Ben.; entitled 'Comic Sketches from the Wassail Bowl,'Martyrologium Romanum Usuardi,' edidit J. with twelve admirable illustrations by John Leech. Baptiste Sollerius; 'Mabilloni Analecta,' tom. ii.; CUTHBERT BEDE. Tillemont, tom. iv. p. 498; 'Les Vies des Saints,' MATTHEW PRIOR (7th S. iv. 228).—The birth-composées par Adrien Baillet, Paris, 1704. place of Prior has been amply considered in N. & Q.' already, without leading to any definite conclusion. See 6th S. i. 172; iv. 186; ix. 209, 278, 455; x. 357. J. MASKELL. MENGES (7th S. iv. 348).—St. Menge, called also St. Memie, in Latin Memmius, is accounted to have been the first Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne. St. Gregory of Tours styles him the patron of that city, and records several miracles that he is reported to have worked (Liber de Gloria Confessorum,' cap. lxvi., "De Memmio Catalaunensi Episcopo"). He is not mentioned in the ancient martyrology, styled Martyrologium Vetustius Occidentalis Ecclesiæ D. Hieronymo a variis Scriptoribus tributum," but is included in those of Wandalbert, Usuard, and Adon; and in the WILLIAM COOKE, F.S.A. Joanne gives St. Menges in the Ardennes, but ST. SOPHIA (7th S. iv. 328, 371).-This query might, one would think, have suggested to some accurate and well-informed person a note on the Christian relics lately discovered in the cathedral of St. Sophia. No such person having appeared, I beg to say that a closet or small vestry has been found in the interior of the church, and within it a crucifix and certain other sacred ornaments and vessels, all which it is supposed were hurriedly placed there during the siege of 1453, and they have remained there ever since. Nor have they even now been disturbed. "The Turks have not dared to interfere with them," says a friend of mine, who was at Constantinople last year, and who then saw the vestry and its contents. My friend is an able and competent witness; and as I make this statement on his authority it will not (thank Goodness!) be open to any contributor to charge me with error. A. J. M. BEEHIVE HOUSES (7th S. iv. 203, 369).-Such huts I have just seen on the borders of the Shiel river, in Argyllshire. One was in course of construction. I saw this finished in the six days that I remained in the neighbourhood-walls and roof all of thick turf and "shaped like an elongated beehive." HAROLD MALET, Colonel. CHINA PLATES (7th S. iv. 227, 334).-The communication from R. N. reminds me that I have a china bowl of the same kind as he describes, which was given to me some years ago by my uncle's widow. She died about seven years ago, at the age of ninety, and she told me it was the only piece she had of a tea-set which was made for her uncle (who was in the navy) when he was in China. The bowl is of plain white china, with a coat of arms and crest painted on it. HENRY DRAKE, there was a learned controversy on this curious topic. Some one at last took it into his head to examine the child and the tooth, and then it was made out that the tooth had been artificially covered over with a thin leaf of gold. Even then it was not sure that the child had been born with any tooth at all. Fontenelle concluded, so far as I remember, "On écrivit les dissertations; et puis, on consulta l'orfèvre." This story was called to my mind by Amiens he saw above one of the entrances to the MR. VYVYAN's question. He says that at Law Courts buildings "Salle des orores." He inquired in these columns about the meaning of the word orores, and he did get explanations. I do not know the word orores-no Frenchman would understand it; and I wonder that a word could be placed over an entrance to law courts buildings of any country that should not be intelligible to the people. Such inscriptions are generally devised to have a meaning, and a very plain one, and not to be puzzles. MR. VYVYAN says he asked many French friends. Why did he not ask the porter of the building? I never was at Amiens, and I have seen neither the Palais de Justice nor the inscription; but I strongly suspect that where MR. VYVYAN has read "Salle des orores "there must be "Salle des ordres," and that it probably refers to the " procédure des ordres et contributions," to use a legal term. See 'Code de Procédure Civile,' part i. the general index to Les Codes Français,' s.v. liv. v. titre quatorzième, "Del' Ordre." See also H. GAIDOZ. HISTORY ALL AWRY (7th S. iv. 221, 289).-I do not wish to make any rejoinder to MR. RYE'S reply to my criticisms of his account of the Wal-"Ordre." poles. Indeed, his reply is no reply at all. I only wish to assure the readers of 'N. & Q.' that before I wrote I had not even heard of MR. RYE's article in the Norfolk Antiquarian Magazine on the Walpole pedigree. I may be allowed to add that more than three months ago I gave privately the same positive denial to MR. RYE. H. S. WALPOLE. Stagbury, Surrey. ORORES (7th S. iv. 247, 358).—I am obliged to MR. H. DRAKE and A. H. for their replies. They have given some elucidation to the meaning of the word, but I am still at a loss to know why no French dictionary, and no Frenchman with whom I am acquainted, has given or has heard of the word. A. H. says "Cicero has the word oror, whence the plural orores." I wish he would kindly tell me where in Cicero this is found. I have hunted in every Latin Dictionary, but have failed to find the word. EDWARD R. VYVYAN. Fontenelle has told somewhere a nice and suggestive story. Towards the end of the sixteenth or in the beginning of the seventeenth century a report was heard of a child born with a gold tooth. Physicians and students engaged in natural philosophy took the matter into consideration, and immediately undertook to explain the phenomenon. Of course they did not agree, and 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris. Is it possible that if your correspondent had put a pair of spectacles on his nose he would have read "Salle des ordres"? K. Will your correspondent A. H. kindly state in which of Cicero's works he has met with "the form oror, whence the plural orores"? No such form is given in any Latin dictionary that I have been able to consult. Oreur, herald, is given in Roquefort's Glossaire de la Langue Romane. Is this of any use to your querist at the first reference? F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. STRONNAY (7th S. iv. 327).-Is not this Stornoway? The transposition of the presents no difficulty, I think. JULIAN MARSHALL. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. iv. |