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 10 s. vii. JAN. 12, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Adams's ' Dictionary of the Drama ' states that Fanny married E. L. Davenport, the American actor. Which statement is cor- rect ? or are both right ?

J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall.

" Posui DEUM ADJUTOREM MEUM." I am anxious to know the origin of this legend, found on silver coins of Edward III. and many of his successors. It is usual, I think, to refer to Psalm liv. 4 ; but in the only Latin Bible at hand the wording of that text is " Ecce enim Deus adjuvat me," which is very different.

H. W. MONCKTON.

BEWICKIANA. Would one of your readers who " knows his Bewick " kindly inform me where Henry Kingsley's references to Thomas Bewick's work are to be found ? One is quoted in Austin Dobson's ' Eigh- teenth-Century Vignettes ' on Bewick's tail- pieces. WHITE LINE.

TOWNS UNLUCKY FOR KINGS. In The Edinburgh Review for last October an article on Christina, Queen of Sweden, contains the following passage :

"Tin- enmnat ion, \\liirli occurred six years after Christina li;id taken I In- oat li as " Kinjj;' of Sweden, oii^lit to have taken place at Upsala ; In it as there was no accommodation for foreign envoys in that small town, it was effected at the capital, despite, the saying that toilers crowned at Stockholm reigned hut a short time."

What other towns are supposed to be con- nected with the ill luck of monarchs ?

G. W.

" KING COPIN " : " ST. COPPIN." Who was this personage, mentioned in the Digby and Towneley Plays ? In the latter Caiaphas says to Jesus :

KyiiK Copyn in oure game/ thus shall I indew the, IVor a fa tur.

In the former " be sentt Coppyn " is used as a mild form of oath. H. P. L.

KENNEDY FAMILY AND MARYLAND. I should be much obliged if any person having access to records of the settlement of Mary- land would kindly say whether the name of Fergus Kennedy (son of Hew Kennedy, of Bennane), is mentioned, and if so, whether his wife and children are also mentioned.

C. M. K.

" BONE DEUS " IN EPITAPHS. I shall be glad if any of your readers can supply other instances of the interjection " Bone Deus " (" Good God ") in a monumental inscription than that on a tablet in the church of

Hollingborne, Kent, to the memory of Baldwin Duppa, 1737, and that on a tablet at Cuokfield, Sussex, to the memory of Daniel Walter, 1761. J. H. C.

" ESLYNGTON " : ISLINGTON. Machyn in his * Diary ' records (' The Diary of Henry Machyn,' Camden Society, 1848, p. 63) :

" ir>T>4. The xv. day of May Haknay prosses* syon to Powles ; and after cam sent Clements prossessyon ; and the Mayre and Althermen ; and ther wher goodly quersse syncing.

" The xvj. day of May cam to Powlles Eslyngton prossessyon."

" Eslyngton " is presumably Machyn' s phonetic rendering of Islington. Does it occur in this form elsewhere ? J. Gough Nichols, who edited the volume, does not attempt its identification, or include it in either form in the index.

The " prossessyon " was that of Corpus Christi, although the day of celebration was 24 May, when ther mony goodly pr(oss)ess- yons in mony parryches." For " quersse " read choirs not " quires," as the editor renders it. ALECK ABRAHAMS.


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JERUSALEM COURT, FLEET STREET. Can any reader tell me where the above was situated ? John Willis published his ' Art of Stenography ' in 1602. It was the first alphabetic system. Noble in his ' Temple Bar Memorials ' speaks of a Jeru- salem "ordinary" in 1628. The Bagford Collection contains the following :

"John Willis, K.I)., he put forth a Book he calls the Art of Stenographic, he saith it was the first I Hii'i | of thai, nature lie dwelt in Jerusalem Court in Illee) Street the 19 th Edition 1628." Lansdowne MS. SOS, f. 15.

1021. "John Willis, B. of 1)., he put forth A Booke he calls ye Art of Stenography he saith y' was y first of that nature he dwelt in Jerusalem Court in net Street t, y 19 th Edition 1628." From Sloane MS. ss;>, t. iV>.

Most Shakesperian commentators assert that the early quartos were produced from shorthand notes taken in the theatre at the time of representation. The ' D.N.B.' (art. John Willis) does not state where Jerusalem Court was. Arber quotes the Stationers' Register re John Willis. So far as can be ascertained, the only reference to where he dwelt " is in the above extracts. A diary (1607) in Willis's shorthand is in America ; and Trumbull has given an extract.

MATTHIAS LEVY. 45, Chancery Lane.

REYNOLDS'S PORTRAITS OF Miss GRE- VILLE. Northcote in his ' Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds,' published in 1816, mentions two