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

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the Competentes begins, " Pray, ye candi- dates for baptism " ; and that for the penitents, " Pray, ye penitents." But the bidding prayer for the faithful, when the penitents have been dismissed, begins, " Let us pray," &c. : " Let us pray for the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church from one end [of the earth] to the other, that the Lord would preserve and keep it firm and unshaken, as founded upon a rock, unto the end of the world." Vide ' Prosphonesis ' in Riddle's ' Christian Antiquities,' 1843, pp. 382, 400-6, and 612; also Smith's ' Christian Antiquities,' 1880, s.v. ' Pros- phonesis,' pp. 1738-9.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SPLIT INFINITIVE IN MILTON (10 S. vi. 409, 473). I have made a careful reading of Milton's poetry for the purpose of observ- ing characteristics of diction, but my task did not result in the discovery of any example of this notorious form. I doubt its exist- ence in any of his works. Perhaps the in- quiry has arisen through confusion with regard to some popular poet of our own day.

W. B.

'THE CANADIAN GIRL' (10 S. vi. 448). No such books as 'The Canadian Girl' or ' The Jew's Daughter ' are known to English bibliographers. I am not able to find either in our national library under the above titles.

RALPH THOMAS.

VICTOR HUGO'S PROPERTY IN ENGLAND (10 S. vi. 488). The advice to a son as to getting money, and the quotation from Horace mentioned, remind one of a jingle which (?) once formed part of a popular song on getting rich quickly :

Get money, my son, get money if you can, And don't lose time in getting it ; Get money, my son, get money how you can, But don't (jet "time" in getting it.

R. S. B.

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (10 S. vi. 465). MR. PEET may like to know that there was a copy (printed by Zileti in 1580) of the original challenge in Shrewsbury Public School in 1836. See T. F. Dibdin's ' Remi- niscences of a Literary Life,' London, 1836, 8vo, p. 968. However, it may have been the private property of the head master, Archdeacon Butler, as Dibdin is too long- winded to be precise. J. CARTON. King's Inns Library, Dublin.

"OVER FORK: FORK OVER" (10 S. vi. 449). " Over, fork over," is the motto of the Cuninghame family, whose arms display a shake-fork sable on a field argent. Nisbet

has the following as to the origin of the motto and arms :

" Frederick Vanbassan, a Norwegian and a very confident genealogist, wrote a Manuscript (now in the Lawyers' Library) of the rise of some families with us, amongst whom is that of the Cunning- hams, whose first progenitor he calls Malcolm - the son of Friskine, who assisted Prince Malcolm (afterwards king, surnamed Canmore) to escape from Macbeth's tyranny; and being hotly pursued, by the usurper's men, was forced at a place to hide his master by forking straw or hay above him ; and after, upon that Prince's happy accession to the crown, he rewarded his preserver Malcolm with the thanedom of Cunningham, from which he and his posterity have their surname, and took this figure to represent the shakefork with which he forked hay or straw above the Prince, to perpetuate the happy deliverance their progenitor had the good fortune to give to their Prince. " ' Heraldry,' i. 192. HERBERT MAXWELL.

The arms are probably those of Sir Thomas Montgomery Cuninghame (Arg., a shake-fork sa. ; in chief a crescent az. ), whose motto is " Over fork over."

The following appears in Sir Bernard Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage ' :

"Van Bassen, in his 'History of the Kings of Scotland,' states that this family is descended from one Malcolm, son of Freskin, who, when Prince Malcolm fled from Macbeth towards England, after the murder of King Duncan, concealed the prince from his pursuers, by forking hay or straw over him ; and for this service King Malcolm, after his restoration, conferred the thanedom of Cuning- hame upon his preserver."

JOHN P. STILWELL.

Hilfield, Yateley, Hants.

See ' A Short View of the Families of the Scottish Nobility,' by Mr. Salmon, 1759,,

p. 48. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[T. F. D. and A. K. also thanked for replies.]

"OMNE BONTJM DEI DONUM " (10 S. vi.

448). See 1 Tim. iv. 4 and James i. 17.

W. D. MACRAY.

This is probably a contraction, in motto- form, of James i. 17 : " Omne datum, optimum et omne donum perfectum desur- sum est descendens a Patre."

FRANCIS KING.

This motto, " Every good thing is from . God," is borne by the old family of Boughton, now represented by the Rouse-Boughtons, baronets, of Downton Hall, Ludlow, Salop. RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. [MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL also refers to James.]

BELL-HORSES (10 S. vi. 469). Perhaps a few words on this subject from one well acquainted with the Sussex border of Surrey may not be unacceptable to C. M. In the-