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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. JAN. 28, 1911.

Palace. Admittance every day of the week, Is. The Public is admitted on Sundays after Divine Service. Free Admission the whole year (Sun- days and Holidays included) for Members of the Society and their Friends."

This looks rather like a hoax. One does not see how the ship could be intended to travel from city to city, and yet be on exhibition the whole year at Kensington. The advertisement may have been suppressed .after the second date named, on this account. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

SWEETAPPLE SURNAME. The surname Sweetapple (see ante, p. 3) occurs in the oldest remaining -Episcopal Register of Chichester, that of Bishop Robert Rede. Richard Swetappell, Swetappull, or Swet- appyll (the name is thus variously spelt), was a vicar-choral in the Cathedral, and was ordained priest by Rede on St. Matthew's Day, 1398, at the presentation of the Priory of Boxgrave (now Boxgrove). He attended the Bishop's Visitations of the Cathedral in 1397 and 1409. At the former a complaint was lodged against him, Philip Goldston, -and Richard Juldewyn, " that they are too quarrelsome and pugnacious." They are warned to behave better in future under penalty of 20d. to be applied to the common fund of the vicars. In 1407 he has become a notary public by Apostolical authority, and subscribes as such to the formal election of Dean Hasele in that year. He was employed &t Boxgrave in 1409 on the election of a Prior there.

In the churchwardens' accounts of St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum (Salisbury, 1896), I note the following :

1586/7, p. 134. For pewes. It'm for James Swrebaples 12d.

1587/8, p. 136. James Swete Apple for mending of a pin and nayles 5d. [Other items follow.]

1624/5, p. 181. Sam Sweetapple and his partner for iiij days sawinge of Timber 9s. 4of.

[Other items.]

The name is to be found in the ' Clergy List ' of the present year. CECIL DEEDES. Chichester.

" CHARTUARY " : " TALE." W. Rastell in 1534 printed in Fleet Street

" these xii. bookes, that ys to wyt Natura breuium, The olde tenures, Lyttylton tenures, "The new talys, The artycles upon the new talys, Dyuersyte of courtys, Justyce of peas, The chartuary, Court baron," &c.

The book with the inviting title ' The new talys ' turns out to be ' Noue narrationes,' and the following book is the ' Articuli ad narrationes nouas pertinentes formati.' The

' Chartuary ' (pp. 361-89) is a collection of precedents of charters, bonds, acquittances, and the like. I note these words for the Supplement to the ' N.E.D.' Q. V.

" HlC LOCUS ODIT, AMAT," &C. 111

collected by Nathan Chytrseus, 2nd ed., 1599, s.v. ' Brixiana,' p. 254, is the following :
 * Variorum in Europa Itinerum Delicise,'

In Palatio Capitanei.

Hie locus odit, aniat, punit, conservat, honorat, Nequitiem, pacem, crimina, jura, probos.

Exactly the same words appear in ' Select ae Christian! Orbis Delicise,' by Franciscus Sweertius (Sweerts), 1608, p. 177, s.v. ' Brixiana,' probably copied from Chytrseus. Each verb governs the substantive lying under it.

I find almost the same lines in an old commonplace book, viz:, Hsec domus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,

Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, probos.

In this extract from some newspaper or book (no date, probably put in some 60 years ago) it is said that they " may be read in front of the Town-hall in Leipsic."

The lines according to the Chytraeus version, excepting that the words " Nequi- tiam, leges," take the place of "Nequitiem, pacem," are given in Murray's ' Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy,' 9th ed., 1875, p. 184. There they are said to be behind, and above, the seats of the judges in the court of the Podesta in the Palazzo Pretorio in Pistoia.

Baedeker's ' Handbook for Northern Italy,' 7th ed., 1886, p. 370, confirms Murray's book, and gives 1507 as the date of the inscription.

I have found no mention in either Murray or Baedeker of the lines as existing at either Brescia or Leipsic. Probably they were frequently used as an epigram in courts of justice.

I add another version which I had noted but forgotten : Hsecce domus dat, amat, pmrit, conservat, honorat,

JEquitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos. 1620.

i.e.,

This court does right, loves peace, preserves the

laws, Corrects the wrong, honours the righteous cause.

This epigram (presumably in the Latin only) is given as an inscription on the sessions house at Spittle-in-the-Street (Line.) in Stephen Whatley's ' England's Gazetteer,' 1751.

It may be that there are other versions of the epigram in other places.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.