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 16 NOTES AND QUERIES, [w s. iv. JULY i, iocs. •wider afield than those indicated under No. 3. I am sorry I cannot help G. P. in his three other heads of inquiry. J. W. B. At 3rd S. iv. 528 appeared the following:— "Anthony Parker, B. A.Oxon, was elected a fellow of Pembroke Hall, CanibridKe, Dec. 15, 1606, and commenced M.A. in the latter University, 1608. He resigned his fellowship in 1618, and was buried at St. Dimstan-in-tlie-West, London, Feb. 21,1621/2. It is probable that he was of the family of Parkers, of Brownsholm, though he does not appear in the pedigree." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. NORMAN INSCRIPTIONS IN YORKSHIRE (10th S. iii. 349, 397, 476).—I can only guess at the sense of the motto, " Dieu temple y aide et garde du royne." It perhaps means "May God's temple give its aid thereto, and pro- tect the kingdom." Royne is a known variant of ref/ne, -which is L. reifnum. It is masculine in French, because it is neuter in Latin. There is not the slightest difficulty about alme. It is the usual O.F. form, substituted for the still older anme, used by Philip de Thaun. The Lat. anima became O.F. amne, then alme, and then dme. It is obviously a normal development, because nm was not a happy combination. WALTER W. SKEAT. As regards the intrusive I in alme, Littre says, "L'ancien mot etait anme, et par suite alme et memo arme." For the same reason our ancestors inserted a p in dampnum and toltmpne—easier pronunciation. SHERBORNE. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iii. 148, 197, 335).—6. " Les grandes douleurs sont muettes." Whoever the French author may be, it seems not improbable that the sentiment lias been derived front a classical source. See the line which Seneca places in Phaedra's mouth (' Hippolytus,' 607) :— Curse leves loquuntur, ingentes Rtupent. Cf. Psammeticus's reply to the inquiry of (Jambyses in Herodotus, iii. 14. EDWARD BENSLY. Lung' Arno Uuicciardini, Florence. ' THE LOVESICK GARDENER ' (10th S. iii. 430). —I enclose a copy of the words of the song inquired for by G. H. It is entitled 'The Horticultural Wife; or, the Broken hearted Gardener,' and is published by Metzler & Co. E. SMITH. Blundellsands. [We have forwarded the words to G. H.] LUNDY ISLAND (10Ul S. iii. 469).—According to Murray's 'Handbook for Travellers in Devon,' eleventh edition, 1893, the earliest recorded lord of Lundy is Sir Jordan de Marisco, early in the reign of Henry II. His island stronghold was declared forfeit and given to the Knights Templars, who were unable to get possession. The Mariscos led a piratical life thereuntil 1242, when William de Marisco was surprised with his accom- plices and hanged in London, an attempt, at his instigation, having been made on the life of Henry III. at Woodstock in 1238. Lundy was a favourite sheltering place for the pirates who haunted the bay in the reign of James I. In 1633 a Spanish man-of-war rifled the houses and carried off all the provisions. A Frenchman named Pronoville fixed himself there, a lawless and desperate pirate, in 1634. In 1748 a certain Thomas Benson, a wealthy merchant and M.P. for Barnstaple, obtained lease of Lundy from Lord Gower. Having contracted with Government to transport convicts to Virginia or Maryland, he took them to Lundy, where he set them to build and dig. Benson was a smuggler and a- " pirate"; he was at last obliged to take flight, having defrauded the insurance offices- by lading a vessel with pewter, linen, and salt, heavily insuring it, landing the cargo- on Lundy, and then, having put to sea, burning and scuttling the ship. The island was then sold to Sir J. B. Warren. The above, with a good deal more about the island, appears to come from a ' History of Lundy,' by J. R. Chanter. Among the "sights" of Lundy are Marisco Castle, Benson's Cave, and the Shutter Hock, on which, in Charles Kingsley's ' Westward Ho !' the Sta. Catherina struck. According to the ' Dictionary of National Biography' William de Maresco was outlawed for. killing one Henry Clement, after which he took refuge in Lundy. I have found the name Marisco spelt "Morisco," e.ff., in Stephen Whatley's 'Eng- land's Gazetteer,' 1751. The name, apart from the stories of pirates sheltering in. Lundy in the time of James I., and of three- Turkish pirates taking the island, «kc., in 1625* might account for the legend about Algerine- pirates living in Lundy. ROBERT PIERPOINT. My late friend Mr. J. R. Chanter, of Barnstaple, read a paper on this subject at a meeting of the Devonshire Association' held at Bidefprd in August, 1871. It was printed in their Transactions, voi. iv. pp. 653- 611, and in an enlarged form in 1877, from, which the following is extracted :— "On August 18th, 1625, the Mayor of Bristol reports to the Council that three Turkish pirates had surprised and taken the Island of Lundy withi