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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. JUNE 24, 1911.

bane, a member of this family, emigrated to America, in the eighteenth century, and left numerous descendants.

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN. Anglo-South American Bank, Old Broad Street.

' LIZZIE LINDSAY.' I am anxious to obtgin a copy of the complete version of this ballad, and to know its origin and history. Will some correspondent kindly tell me of some book in which it is pub- lished ? It is not in Percy's ' Reliques,' nor i-i Scott's ' Minstrelsy of the Scottish . Border ' at least, not under this title.

A. G.

[It is No. 226 in the one-volume edition of Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads,' Hough ton. Mifflin &Co., 1904.]

' KENILWORTH ' : " MANNA OF ST.

NICHOLAS." Is not S-cott guilty of an

arachronism in employing the " Manna of

St. Nicholas " in ' Kenilworth ' (see end of

chap, xii.) ?

Aqua Tofana, which was the same poison, was perhaps known at the time treated of in the novel, but apparently it was at least half a century later that the reputed daughter, Giulia Tofana, of the in ven tress Teofaiiia di Adamo, sold the liquid at Rome and Naples under the name of " Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari " a "miraculous oil" held in great esteem in Naples at that time for curing diseases. At any rate, it was much later than Elizabeth's reign that this viola- tion of a sacred name roused the clergy, and finally led to the putting to the rack and the strangulation of the wretched woman who sold the phials of poison.

Has this point been observed before ? C. NELSON STEWAKT.

MATTHEW ARNOLD ON MODERN HURRY. Can any one give the reference to a passage in Matthew Arnold's essays or prefaces in which he says (in effect), with reference to the " sick hurry " of modern life, that it matters very little how fast one can travel between Islington and Camberwell, for example, but that it matters very much what kind of life people live when they get there, or before they start ?

C. E. BYLES.

17, Narbonne Avenue, Clapham, S.W.

PALLIUM AT CANTERBURY. In a small work on ' The Coronations of the English Monarchs ' (no date) it is stated that " In the archives of Canterbury there is preserved an ancient pallium supposed to have been worn by Cardinal Pole." It seems hardly

probable that such a small vestment would have survived the troubles of the last three centuries, but possibly a copy of a pallium may be preserved there. Can any one in- terested in the subject tell me whether such is the case ? FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

ELIGIUS MORELIUS, SCHOOLMASTER AT OUDENARDE, AND GILBERT MASIUS, PRINTER AT Lou VAIN. Information is desired regard- ing the author and the printer of a book in this library which appears to be unknown to Panzer ('Annales Typographic! '), and to M. Vanderhaegen (' Bibliotheca Belgica ').

" In Erasmi Be constructione octo partium ora- tionis Hbellum Commentarius,autore Eligio Morelio, ludimagistro Aldenardensi. Gilbertus Masius excudebat anno MDXXVII calendis februarii Lou van ii."

Quarto: a 6, b i 4 , k 6. Pp. [88]. a6 r : 38 11., 155 X 95mm. Black-letter.

On the last leaf are printed five " Scho- lasticorum Morelii disticha." The admiring pupils place Morelius on the same platform as Lily (' N. & Q.,' 6 S. ii. 441) and Erasmus : Texuit Anglus opes, doctumque exploravit ad

unguem Hollandus, nubes Flander abegit atras ;

or, as " Richardus a Platea, Londinensis,"

puts it : '

Albion est mater, felix Hollandia cultrix, Flandricus haud niodicis frugibus auxit ager,

The copy bears the shelf -marked book- plate of the Duke of Sussex, whose books were dispersed in 1844.

P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

BURIAL INSCRIPTIONS. I should be glad to know if the following inscriptions have ever been taken down :

1. St. John's, Westminster, church and burial-ground.

2. St. John's Wood, do.

3. King's Road, Chelsea, burial ground.

4. Chelsea Hospital, do.

G. S. PARRY.

MIERS, MINIATURIST. Is he the same as Meyer, the portrait painter in enamel to George III. ?

I have a profile, in black enamel on a white ground (IfV inch by | inch), of a young man with hair dressed in the style of the latter half of the eighteenth century, signed " Miers." I thought it might have been painted from a silhouette of Lieut. Samuel Lutwidge, R.N., who died from wounds in a hospital in Calcutta ; the hair at the back is like that in a clasp, which