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the godchild, then the latter was probably born there, for Sir David Philipp's connexion with Stamford seems to have been due to marriage, and David Cecil], senior, must have been thirty to forty years old in 1506.

L. W. H.

BEX JONSON'S WORKS, 1616. Old errors die hard, and among them is the belief that the 1616 folio of Ben Jonson contained the por- trait of the poet by Vaughan. I am reminded of this by the words " no portrait " added to the record of a sale of this volume, together with the posthumous second volume, in The Athenaeum of 9 December. On this subject the late Mr. George Bullen, of the British Museum, wrote to me in 1879 as follows :

"We have two copies of Ben Jonson, 1616, fol. : one in the General Library, and one in the Gren- ville. The former has no portrait : the latter has one by Vaughan, the same tnat appears in the 1640 edition. Mr. Grenville in a note states ' I have added to my copy the head by Vaughan.' Now Vaughan, according to Nagler, * Kiinstler Lexikon,' was born in 1600, so that it is scarcely probable he could have done this portrait in 1616."

H. A. EVANS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

CARDINALS' PILLARS. In Narea's Glos- sary,' edited by Halliwell and Wright, occurs the statement :

" Ornamented pillars were formerly carried before a cardinal, and Wolsey was remarkable for keeping up this piece of state. In the stage directions for his solemn entry in the play of ' Henry VIII,' it is said, ' then two gentlemen bearing two great silver pillars.' This was from authentic history. He is so described by Holingshed and other historians. Cavendish, his biographer, speaks of these silver pillars, and of his cross-bearers and pillar-bearers. Skelton satirically describes him as going preceded by two cross-bearers :

After them followe two laye-men secular And eche of theym holdyng a pillar In their handes, steade of a mace. These pillars were supposed to be emblematical of the support given by the cardinals to the Church."

This account of Nares is responsible for a sense of the word pillar introduced in some modern dictionaries (chiefly of American authorship), "a portable ornamental column formerly carried before cardinals, as em- blematic of his support to the Church."

No authority, however, is cited for this general use, nor have I as yet found any refer- ence to pillars borne before cardinals, except in this case of Wolsey. Can any reader of

'N. & Q.' direct me to any other source in which the alleged practice is referred to or described 1 A historical student to whom I have applied is unable to answer the question, but says that it is the practice at Rome (in " correct " or Black households) for a cardinal to be received by two manservants bearing torches, and to be preceded by them to the reception-room. He suggests that the two pillars borne before Wolsey were merely two silver candlesticks. But this would evidently be quite at variance with the notion of Nares as to what the " pillars " symbolized. I should be very glad of any communications bearing upon the sub- ject, and if writers will, to save time, send them to me direct (address Dr. Murray, Oxford), I will forward them to the Editor of 'N. &Q.' J. A. H. MURRAY.

[Is it possibly derived from the lictors ?]

ENNOBLED ANIMALS. Can any readers of have been ennobled in a similar way to Caligula's horse, which was made Consul of Rome 1 If any artist has treated the subject, I shall be very grateful for information about the picture. * RUDOLPH DE CORDOVA.
 * N. & Q.' help me to cases of animals which

2, Pump Court, Middle Temple, E.G.

SCOTT AND CAREY : SCOTT IN IRELAND. Can any reader remind me where Sir W. Scott quotes the first two lines of Carey's play : Aldiborontephoscophornio, Where left you Chrononhononthologos?

That he was familiar with the play we know from the motto prefixed to the first chapter of 'The Antio-uary,' and by his nicknames for the two Ballantynes (Lockhart, vol. ii. chap, vi., near beginning). But I think he also somewhere quotes the above lines.

I have a further question to ask. In Carey's play the above lines are spoken by Rigdum- Funnidos (so spelt by Carey), and the pompous gentleman, whom for shortness we may call Aid., thus replies :

Fatigu'd with the tremendous toils of war. Within his tent, on downy couch succumbent, Himself he unfatigues with gentle slumbers.

Now, in a family closely connected with Scott's early friends John and Alexander Irving, the following lines have been handed down orally :

Fatigued in his tent by the toils of war,

On a downy couch reposing, igdum-Funnidos watching by. While the prince lay dozing.

Where do these lines come from? They are evidently a burlesque version of Ald.'s reply (itself a burlesque), couched in a different metre, and certainly forming no