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 ll s. VIL Animas, 1913.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 333 born about 1794, was student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1811-28, Rector of Wood- mancote 1838. He was Princi al of New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1847-66, to which he was appomted by his uncle the Duke of Welling- ton, who was then Chancellor of the Univer- sity, having been for the previous five years Vice-Principal under Dr. Cramer. He was also Rector of Hurstmonceux. He was a collector of drawings by ancient masters, some of which are, I think, in the libr of Christ Church-many certainly in theaxllni- versity Galleries, now a department of the Ashmolean Museum. I remember, as an undergraduate, often seeing him at Uni- versity sermon, where his fine head and re&ned features reminded you of the ortra-it of his father in Christ Church Hall. His second son, Richard Colley, was at Christ Church, B.A. 1865. All three were educated at Eton; the eldest and youngest also at Christ Church. J OHN R. MAGBATH. Queen’s College, Oxford. Lord Wellesley shall answer for himself. I copy the following from a note in his own hand, written on the back of his will, now in the British Museum (Add. MS. 37318. 5) : “ My Five Children within named were born of my Wife Hiacmthe Gabrielle Countess of Morning- ton before our marriage at the Places and on the days and_years following, and their several Births an Baptisms registered in the Bacptismal Register of the Parish Church of 8° eorge Hanover uare. Sqlitichard Wellesley born in Dean S' Park Lane 22° April 1787. Anne Wellesley in the same place 299' February 1788. Hiacinthe Mary Wellesley in the same place 25” February 1789. Gerald Wellesley in the same lace 3“ Ma 1790. Henry Wellesley born in ParkPLane 20“‘ .Iannary 1794. “ MOBNINGTON.” H. I. B. The ‘ D.N.B.,’ lx. 212, says z- “ He had married, on 29 Nov., 1793, Hyacinthe Gabrielle, daughter of Pierre Roland of Paris, who had lived with him for nine years before their marriage, and by whom he had had children. In the circumstances he did not think it ex- pedient to take her to India.” Presumably one of the “ lovely boys ” was Henry Wellesley (1791-1866), an accom- plished scholar and antiquary of Christ _ urch, Oxon, and incumbent of four livings ln succession. In 1847 he was made Princi- gal of New Inn Hall, Oxon, by his uncle the uke of Wellington, then Chancellor of the University. A. R. Bsvnnr. Hosrsn LANE, Wnsr Smrrnnnnn (11 S. vii. 249).-This street dates back beyond the year 1583, cited by W. B. S., as it is men- tioned in a Corporation Letter-Book of 1367; and there is a record of a “ man of court ” having been murdered there in 1437. From N icolas’s ‘ Chronicle ’ it appears that in fairtime many of the houses were “ made Publick for %Jppling and Lewd sort of pgople.” Mr. eatley’s‘Cunningham’may referred to as to this street. - ROMNEY (11 S. vii. 250).-Romney painted a portrait of Mr. Bryan, who is chronicled as having sat to him on 12 and 24 July, also 25 Sept. and 1 and 5 Nov. 1783; but he is noted as “ Master ” Bryan in two cases, and the diaries do not appear clear. The size of the portrait is not mentioned. _ W. H. Qusnamnr.. ADAM: A NIEDIEVAL Cononrr (11 S. vii. 270).-The explanation offered in the editorial note is so clearly the right one that further proof may seem supe nous. But as long ago as 1874 there was a communica- tion on the same subject in ‘N. 85 Q.’ (5 S. i. 305) by PBOF. SKEAT, rlgprinted in his ‘ Student’s Pastime,’ o. 97, ‘ Why Adam means North, South, East, and West! In this ll. 589-94 of the ‘ Cursor Mundi ’ and a passage from the ‘ Dialogue of Solomon and at1u°n,’ ed. Kemble, p. 178, in which dpxres, drives, dvafrohi, p.eo~q,u,3pfa, appeared in the wildly corrupted forms of Arthox, Dux, Arotholem, M insymbrfie, being described as four stars, were shown to be mutually explanatory. Pnor. SKEAT confessed with regard to the assage from the ‘ Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn * that he never expected to know what these names meant, and it is charac- teristic of his line of reading that he should have lit 'on the solution in the way he_ describes. For the answer lay ready to hand in a place which many searchers would feel was less remote from the beaten track :- _ “ Nomen accepit a Deo. Hebreicnm Adam in Latino interpretat ‘ terra caro facta,’ eo quod ex quattuor cardinibns orbis terrarum pugno con- prehendit, sicut scriptum est _: ‘ palmo mensuc sum cmlum et pugno conprehendi terram et conilnxi hominem ex omni limo terra: ad imaginem Dei feci il1um.’ Oportuit illum ex his quattuor cardinibus orbis terrm nomen in se por-» tare Adam: inuenimus in scripturis, per singulo! cardines orbis terra ease a conditore mundi quattuor stellas constitutes in singulis cardinibus. Prima stella orientalis dicitur anatole, secunda occidentalis dysis, tertia stella aquilonis arctos, quarta stella meridiana dicitur mesembrion. E! nominibus stellarum numero quattuor de singulis-