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 ii s. VIL JAN. 25, i9i3.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CLARENDON'S 'ESSAY ON WAR.' In thi rather commonplace product of his exile Clarendon quotes " Jugulantur homines ne nihil agatur " as the complaint of a philo sopher who knew not the restraints of Chris tianity. The same philosopher, he continues remarks on the madness of mankind, for whose protection Providence had separatee the lands by the sea, in " devising shipping and affecting death so much sine spe sepul tnrce," &c. I should be grateful to be put on the track of this philosopher.

In the same Essay he quotes " Servi tua est conditio, ratio ad te nihil," which looks like a line from Plautus, but I cannol find it, and should be glad of a reference.

THE AXE AND THE SANDAL TREE. In Sydney Smith's ' Essay on Bulls ' he says, " The resemblance between the sandal tree imparting (while it falls) its aromatic flavour to the edge of the axe, and the benevolent man rewarding evil with good, would be witty, did it not excite virtuous emotions." I should like to know who made the com- parison. C. B. WHEELER. [For ' Jugulantur,'&c., see post, p. 78.]

HAYTER'S c TRIAL OF QUEEN CAROLINE ' : DOVER HOUSE. The Morning Post of 10 January announced the gift by Lord Annaly, to the National Portrait Gallery, of the large painting by Hayter representing the scene in the House of Lords in August, 1820, during the discussion of the Bill to dissolve the marriage of George IV. and the Queen Consort Caroline. This work is well known, as it has been at the Gallery on loan for eighteen years.

It was completed in 1823 for Mr. Agar Ellis, afterwards Lord Dover, and it was at Dover House, Whitehall, from 1830 to at least 1860. Lady Diana Coke, in her book describing this house and its contents as they were in 1860. gives a very brief men- tion of the picture (p. 25) :

"Large Dining - Room. First Floor. On the left as you enter from the drawing-room the pictures are, the Infanta Maria Theresa, a head, Velasquez ; Henry Welbore, Viscount Clifden, G. Hayter (Engraved); below these a marble slab table. Large picture of Queen Caroline's Trial, G. Hayter, marble table below it." A foot-note adds :

" Sixth day of the Queen's Trial, Aug. 23, 1820- Engraved."

There was an earlier picture of the Queen's trial, which was painted by V. A. Revelli, and exhibited at 80|-, Pall Mall, in 1821. I cannot trace that Hayter's large canvas was ever shown under similar circumstances.

I shall be glad of any further information respecting the little book on Dover House. Was it published ? and does it commence with a half-title ? ALECK ABRAHAMS.

BAINBRIDGE : GORING : GIFFORD. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help me to the identity of Thomas Bainbridge, said in vol. iv. of the ' Victoria History of Hants ' (p. 77) to have been " burnt for heresy " ? I find no account of him in my edition of Foxe's ' Martyrs.' He was, apparently, grandson of George Bainbridge, who had a grant of the manors of East Tytherley and Lockerley, co. Hants, in 1496, from Henry VIL, and died in 1512. His grandson (?) Thomas Bainbridge (Chancery Inq. p.m., Ser. II., xxviii. 19) made a settlement of the estate on his " kinswoman Anne, wife of Richard Gifford," second son of Sir William Gifford, Kt., of Itchel (Chancery Inq. p.m., Ser. II., cxx. 47). The " Aiine " in question was daughter of John Goring of Burton, co. Sussex, whose sister, Constance Goring, Was wife of Sir John Kingsmill of Sydmonton, Sheriff of Hampshire in 1543. Sir John Kingsmill's mother was " Jane, daughter of Sir John Gifford of Erhill, co. Hants." I should be glad to know if this was John, eldest son of Sir William Gifford of Itchel in Crondall, who died vitapatris 1528, leaving a family by his wife Joan, daughter of Henry Brydges. Of these, John was of Itchel, and married Ely, daughter of Sir George Throgmorton.

In Metcalfe's * Book of Knights ' a Sir John Gyffarde who bore the same arms as Sir William of Itchel (knighted 1503) was knighted in 1501. Who could he have been ?

Any information as to the Bainbridges and Gorings will greatly oblige. F. H. S.

Romaey, Hants.

VICARS OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, LITTLE VlissENDEN. (See 11 S. vi. 209, 278.) [ should much like to know where the Rev. T, W. Hanmer was buried, and if any monument was erected to his memory ; also the exact date of the Rev. W. Haslam's death and the place of his interment. Par* iculars of the Revs. Ralph C. Morton, Frederick E. Pegus, and Thomas Staples Pepper, curates at Little Missenden during he vicariate of the Rev. T. W. Hanmer, will be much appreciated.

I desire to thank all correspondents who lave kindly replied to the query at the first reference above, both privately and hrough the columns of * N. & Q.'

L. H. CHAMBERS. Amersham.