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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. APRIL 28, 1013.


 * stellarum nominibus tolle singulas litteras princi

pales, de stella anatole a, de stella [dysis 5, de stella arctos a, de stella mesembrion /*: in his quattuor litteris cardinalibus habes nomen

The above is from the fourth chapter of the treatise ' De Montibus Sina et Sion,' in eluded in the appendix to editions of St Cyprian, vol. iii. part iii. in the Vienna ' Patrolog. Lat.,' vol. iv. col. 911-12. In PROF. SKEAT'S article the " four stars " of the ' Dialogue ' is said to be a mistake for " four quarters," but the Latin just quoted shows that the " mistake" was earlier.
 * Corpus Script. Eccles. Lat.' Cp. Migne's

A numerical symbolism also is extracted from Adam's name in the pseudo-Cyprianic treatise. Forty-six (a = 1, 8 = 4, a = 1, ^ = 40) is declared to signify the Passion, " eo quod sexto millesimo anno hora sexta passus, resurgens a mortuis quadragesimo die in cselis ascendit : uel quia Salomon quadraginta sex annis ternplum Deo fabricauerit." This last is a lapse on the part of the anony- mous author. Solomon's Temple was seven years building. The Temple spoken of in John ii. 19-21 was that begun by Herod the Great, forty-six years before.

After reaching the passage in the ' De Montibus Sina et Sion ' by another clue, I find that Thomas Gataker refers to it in his 'Dissertatio de Novi Instrument! Stylo,' cap. iii., as well as to Augustine, 'In Psalm. 95 ' and ' In Joan, tract. 9.' The explanation of Adam's name as compounded of the initial letters of the four quarters of the earth, to denote that man is an epitome of the whole creation and a microcosm, is cited by Gataker as a fit parallel to the Rabbinic tradition that in Zechariah xiv. 9 ("In that day shall the Lord be one, and his name one," R.V.) the final letter (dahth) of the Hebrew word for " one," as it stands for the number four, denotes that God must be Worshipped in the four quarters of the world. EDWARD BENSLY.

COMPANIONS OF GEORGE I. (11 S. vii. 268). -Although I am unable to give a list of the King's suite on his arrival in England in 1714, yet it may be not uninteresting to note that in it there were no fewer than seven members or connexions of the Schutz family, namely, George, Baron von Schutz, and his two brothers Augustus and Armand John Schutz ; the Marquis and Marquise de la Foret (nee Schutz) ; Count and Countess Bernstoff (nee Schutz) ; Fabric ius von Winterfeld, first cousin of the three brothers and of the first - mentioned Lady, and Armand, Count de Rossillon. their uncle.

Of the three brothers, the eldest had been in London before as Hanoverian Envoy in 1710-11. He came again in 1714 with the King, but eventually returned to Germany, and died there 16 June, 1740.

Augustus, the second, remained in Eng- land all the rest of his life, and died here 20 April, 1757. He Was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George I. ; Master of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse to George II. ; also, at one time, Avener and Clerk Marshal to his Majesty's Stables. He was, moreover, a friend and confidant of Queen Charlotte. He married Penelope, only daughter of Martin Madan of Nevis (10 S. ix. 509), and by her had thirteen chil- dren. General James Tyrrell, who had been his wife's guardian in her youth, and who was when he died (7 Nov., 1742) Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort, left him his estates at Shotover and Mere, near Oxford a fact which, with others, moved Horace Walpole to write to Mr. Fortescue in 1757 : " Congratulations to you and all other heirs of property. Old Schutz is dead, and can Wriggle himself into no more wills."

Armand John Schutz, the third brother, also lived for the rest of his life in England. He Was Master of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse to the Prince of Wales, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Golonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. He lived at Sion Hill and Clacton,' co. Essex, and Was twice married : first, to Rachel, daughter of Nathaniel Blakiston of London ; and secondly to a Miss Mary Hayes. He died 2 Feb., 1773.

I understand that, notwithstanding the large number of their children, the family of Schutz is now extinct (in the male line at all events) in England. ALAN STEWART.

THE RED HAND OF LLSTER (11 S. vii. 189, 275). The hand played a very con- spicuous part in the symbolism of the paper- makers of mediaeval Europe, and the water- mark of a hand embellished with all sorts of supplementary symbols was so common that it originated (so it is said) the terms ' Small Hand " and " Double Small Hand " applied nowadays to certain kinds of paper.

A writer in The Open Court (No. 678, ). 671) observes that

' the [open hand appears to have been univer- sally considered a symbol of friendship and peace. As such it tipped Ithe wands or ceremonial staves of the Egyptian hierophants."

In the West of England the village friendly societies used on certain ceremonial occasions
 * o carry emblem-tipped staves, and I bought