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 10 s. XL JUNE 12, im] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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MARGARET OF RICHMOND : INSCRIP- TIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

IN ' The Antiquities of St. Peter's, or, the Abbey-Church of Westminster ' (accord- ing to Dean Stanley, by J. Crull), 3rd ed., 1722, vol. i. p. 99, is the prose epitaph for the composition of which Erasmus received 20s. (p. 101). Following that appears :

" The Inscription on the adjoining Table is as follows :

ELEGIA.

In serenissimae Principis & Dominae, Dominae Margaretae nuper Comitissae de Derby, strenu- issimi Regis Henrici VII. Matris Punebre Ministerium per Skeltonida Laureatum Oratorem Begium, 16 Die Mensis Augusti, Anno Salutis 1516.

Aspirate meis Elegis pia turma Sororum, Et Margaretam collacrymate piani," &c.

The last two of the twenty-six lines are : Hinc statuo certe periturae parcere Chartse, Seu Juvenalis ovet eximius Satyrus.

I call these two lines the last because they are the last in the Elegia proper, and they are actually the last of what appears in Strype's ' Stowe's Survey,' 1720, Book VI. p. 29.

Crull, however, has at the end :

Distichon Execrationis in Fagolidoros. Qui lacerat, violatque, rapit presens Epitoma

Hunc laceretque voret, Cerberus absque mora. Hanc tecum statuas, Dominam, precor, O sator Orbis,

Quo regnas rutilans Rex sine fine manens.

CALOX AGATON CUM ARETA REINPA.

According to ' Josephi Laurentii Amalthea Onomastica,' 1640, " Phagoloedori " were " convitia devorantes, et maledicta," "Voc. Eccl." ("convitia" sometimes appears for " convicia " ). In ' Stemmata Latinitatis,' by Nicholas Salmon, 1796, is " phagolcedorus, that swallows up insults," " Hier." Thu interpreted, the word, whether '" Fagoli- doros " or " Phagolcedoros," appears to be curiously applied.

Where and what was " the adjoining Table." erected seven years after Margaret's death ? Very probably the marble monu- ment was erected about the same time.

Concerning the tomb of Henry VII. and his Queen Elizabeth, Crull (ibid., p. 93 says :

" On the outside of the brazen Monument were not many years ago, remaining two antienl Tables in Writing, with many Verses compos'c by Mr. Skelton, Orator and Poet-Laureat to King Henry VII.... but these have been taken away of late Years."

On pp. 95-8 Crull gives the inscriptions on the two tables, speaking of one tabl

as " formerly adjoining to the Monument,'* and of the other as " fixed to the same Monument," i.e., of Henry VII. and Eliza- )eth.

What is the interpretation of the Latino- reek

Calon agaton cum areta reinpa ?

in the ' Amalthea Onomastica ' referred to

above " calon " equals " pulchrum " (also

' bonum " and " lignum ") ; " agathon "

not "agaton") equals "bonum"; and

' areta," " virtus." I suggest diffidently


 * hat " reinpa " stands for " requiescere in

aace." In that case I suppose that the

meaning would be "It is beautiful and good

with virtue to rest in peace."

This ' Amalthea Onomastica ' is a lexicon of words " usurpatae, usurpandae, e Latinis, Latinograecis, Latinobarbaris, Criticis," &c. ROBERT PrEBPOiNT.

DR. JOHNSON'S ANCESTORS AND CONNEXIONS.

(Condivrion.) (See 10 S. viii. 281, 382, 462; ix. 43, 144,

302, 423; x. 44, 203, 343, 465; xi. 103,

223, 363.)

Dr. John Turton. In the account I gave in my book of Dr. Turton (pp. 111-12), the celebrated physician who as son of Dorothy Hickman, the subject of Johnson's early sonnet, and grandson of Gregory Hickman of Stourbridge (the half-brother of " Parson " Ford, and whole brother of Jane Hickman, who married Johnson's uncle Nathaniel Ford), could claim various Johnsonian connexions I pointed out that his best title to fame, now that his purely professional successes have ceased to interest us much, lies in the fact that he attended Goldsmith during his last illness in 1774, and that he also attended some of the inmates of Johnson's London house.

Since then I have found evidence of his association with several other persons emi- nent in art and letters. Most interesting is the fact of his early friendship with David Garrick, with which, perhaps, Johnson had something to do. In a letter from Venice, dated 14 July, 1764, Joseph Baretti shows a sympathetic yet practical interest in the health of the great actor's wife ('Private Correspondence of David Garrick,' 1831, vol. i. p. 173) :

" As to the soap-plaister, I find Mr. Turton is not against it, and Mr. Righellini approved of it too. Nay, Turton says, that soap in sciatica! complaints is set down as a good remedy in an English Dispensary."