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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.i. APRIL s.me.

with the poverty of other arts was from Franciscus Floridus Sabinus's ' Lectiones Subcisivse,' the dedicatory epistle of which is dated April 28, 1539. He quotes in lib. i. cap. 1 :

Dat Galenus opes, dat sanctio lustiniana, Ex aliis paleas, ex istis eollige grana.

In a communication that I received from DR. ARNOLD he agreed in thinking that the distich about which he asked must have had its origin in the Middle Ages, and that it would be very surprising if the author could be found.

I have since noticed that the leonine hexameters, " Dat. .. .grana," are intro- duced in the ' Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum/ ep. 15 of part ii. (1517), the variants being " Galienus " (for this form compare the French Galien), "et" for the second "dat," and the mistaken " Justiniani." Eduard Bocking, in his valuable commentary on the lines are taken from the * Vocabularius luris,' mentioned earlier in the same letter. The article ' Ars '. in that work concludes thus :
 * Epistt. Obsc. Virorum,' points out that the

" Et sunt quattuor scientie prse ceteris discende scilicet Theologia quae est anime Leges quse sunt egenis

pabulum. remedium.

Decreta sublimatio hu- Et Phisica morbi sub-

milium. sidium.

undo

Esurit ars, decreta tument, lex lucra ministrat. Pontifex [Bocking corrects this to Pontifical]

Moyses, thalamos Medicina subintrat. Dat Galienus opes et sanctio lustiniana. Ex aliis paleas, ex istis eollige grana."

The anonymous c Vocabularius Juris

Utriusque ' was composed after the accession

of Pope Eugenius IV., 1424. See Booking's

' Index Biographicus et Onomasticus ' to his

- edition of the ' Epistt. Obsc. Virorum.'

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY : THE MANSFIELD MONUMENT. -An interesting note on the monument in the North Transept is pro- vided in the following letter, addressed by the second Earl of Mansfield to Sir William Hamilton at Naples :

West Cowes, Aug. 29, '93.

DEAR SIR, Your recommendation determined me at once to give the preference to Mr. Flaxman. I wrote to him in the manner you advised, desiring him to make a model and to submit it to y(ou)r judgement and to purchase the marble at Carrar rt, informing him also that the money allotted for the monument would not exceed two thousand five hundred pound, and that I wished not to have more than three figures at most, bat was anxious that they should be in the purest

and comeliest taste. As I have had no answer to my letter, which was sent the end of June, I begin to fear that it has miscarried, and should be much obliged to you if you would repeat the sub- stance of it to Mr. Flaxman, and give him such further instructions as you think proper.

I am here with my whole family, and we all enjoy this comfortable retreat even more than we did last year. Tho it has nothing of the magnificence of the Bay of Naples, yet it has many beauties in an humbler style. The air is most refreshing, and sea bathing and constant sailing agree remarkably well with Lady Mansfield.

In less than a fortnight we shall return to Kenwood, where I am carrying on very extensive works, offices now absolutely necessary ; and as Lord M d [Mansfield] had so frequently recbm- mended to me the embellishment of Kenwood,! resolved that they should be ujpon a handsome plan. This draws on an addition to the house, &c. I had naturally an aversion to brick and mortar, but I doubt I am engaged now for life.

The improvement out of doors I shall delight in as that is a subject that in a degree, at least, I understand.

I purposely avoid politics as one can write with no freedom by the common post. We wait with anxious impatience for news from Dunkirk. Adieu, Dear Sir, our most cordial wishes ever attend you.

Yrs. most faithfully,

MANSFIELD.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their name's and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MADAME ST. ALBAN : MISSING BOROUGHS (v. sub ' Grace Dalrymple Eliot,' ante, p. 233). The suggestion in my Life of Gainsborough that Grace Dalrymple Eliot and Madame St. Alban were one and the same person is based only, as I state, on the note in Walpole, the accuracy of which is certainly impugned by MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY'S quotations. But more im- portant, as MR. BLEACKLEY says, is the fact that the portrait of Madame St. Alban has not been traced, and I should be grateful for any information concerning it, or of four other Gainsboroughs to which also I have discovered references. The artist's sitters in the autumn of 1782 included Lady Pris- cilla Burrell, whose husband Sir Peter Burrell (afterwards Lord Gwydyr) was the original purchaser of ' The Market Cart,' by Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery ; Lady Stormont, afterwards Countess of Mansfield, and younger sister of the Hon. Mrs. Graham, whose portrait at Edinburgh is by many regarded as Gainsborough's