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NOTES AND QUERIES.

ISS. II .OCT. 7, 1916.

THE REV. WARD MATJLE (12 S. ii. 227) was the eldest son of John Templeman Maule, M.D. Ho was at Tonbridge School, 1849-50, and afterwards at Cains College, Cambridge ; S.C.L., 1854; LL.B., 1870; Trinity College, Dublin, ad eundem graduin, LL.D., 1876. Ordained 1856. A chaplain on the Bombay Establishment at Colaba ; also acting Arch- deacon and Commissary, and senior Cathe- dral Chaplain ; Fellow of the Bombay University. In 1892 or 1893 he was residing in France. His brother, Amold Maule, was also at Tonbridge School. After being in the Royal Mail Service he was in the Woods and Forests Service, India. LEO C.

He was son of John Templeman Maule, surgeon Madras army ; born Mangalore, Sept. 1, 1833 ; educated Warwick, Ton- bridge, and Caius College, Cambridge ; LL.B., 1871 ; LL.D., Dublin, 1876 ; played in Cambridge University cricket eleven, 1853 ; incumbent of Church of Ascension, Balham, London, 1880-82 ; died Sept. 23, 1913. FREDERIC BOASE.

" PANTS, AMICITLSC SYMBOLTJM " (12 S. ii. 128). Pope St. Gregory the Great (' Dialog.,' lib. ii. cap. 8) tells how one Florentius, priest of a neighbouring church, being envious of the virtuous life or the happy estate of St. Benedict at Subiaco, wished to put an end to him. With this intent Florentius sent him a poisoned loaf or cake quasi pro benedictione by way of a friendly present or token of good- fellowship, and St. Benedict accepted it cum gratiarum nctione with many thanks, as a man of to-day might say. The custom sending a cake to a friend must have been common enough for Florentius to have been able to count on the unsuspecting acceptance of his deadly gift.

St. Benedict himself, in forbidding the exchange of presents without permission ('Reg. Monach.,' cap. 54), uses the Greek wore cuAoyia, which monastic tradition under stands to be the equivalent of the benedictio of St. Gregory's story litteras, aut eulogias vel quaslibet munuscula accipere aut dare.

Reference to the Vulgate Bible a Gen. xxxiii. 11, 1 Reg. ( = 1 Sam.) xxv. 27 4 Reg. ( = 2 Kings) v. 15, will show the wore benedictio used to mean very substantia presents mostly in kind.

S. GREGORY OULD, O.S.B.

Poujoulat, in his life of St. Augustine, says :

"Saint Paulin envoyait a Saint Augustin......

un pain en signe d'union et d'amitie". C'^tait alors 1'usage que les e"veques et les pretres

nvoyassent a leurs amis des pains, en signe e communion ; le plus souvent ces pains vaient 4te benits a table. Une marque particu- id-re d'honneur, c'etait d'envoyer un pain sans le >enir, pour que T^veque ou le pretre qui devait le ecevoir le benit lui-meme. En adressant un pain

Augustin, Saint Paulin le priait d'en faire un ain de benediction."

What is his authority (1) for the bread ieing usually blessed at table ; (2) for the ending of unblessed bread as the greater jompliment ? PEREGRINUS.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 229). The v-ords " Etsi inopis non ingrata munuscula iextrse " have a dedicatory air. Is it certain hat they are a quotation ? In any case the expression seems suggested by Catullus, Ixiv. 103-4 :

Non ingrata tamen frustra munuscula diuis Promittens tacito succendit uota labello.

EDWARD BENSLY.

(12 S. ii. 249.)

I believe that the lines are due, in an amended version, to Jonathan Swift. As I remember the epigram, it ran:

Can we believe, with common sense, A bacon-slice gives God offence ? Or that a herring hath a charm Almighty vengeance to disarm ? Wrapt up in majesty divine. Doth He regard on what we dine ?

ST. S WITHIN.

SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STEWKELEY (12 S. ii. 89, 137, 251). I would point out that the Visitation of Hampshire, 1622-34, states definitely that Barbara, wife of William St. John of Farley, was " of Wallop in Com. Southton." STEPNEY GREEN.

F. H. S. will, I think, get at the identity of " Catherine Ogle " by consulting vols. iii. and iv. of the ' Memoirs of the Verney Family ' (original editions, 1894 and 1899). The indexes contain many entries about the Stewkeleys. Your correspondent mentions four sisters, Gary, Carolina, Isabella, and Catherine. It can hardly be a mere coinci- dence that Gary Verney, daughter of Sir Edmund Verney (the Standard-Bearer to Charles I.), by her second marriage to John Stewkeley, had daughters Cary, Carolina, Isabella, and Katherine. DIEGO.

TINSEL PICTURES (12 S. ii. 228). MR. ANDREW J. GRAY may care to know, if he chances to be collecting, that there are two perfect specimens of tinselled portraits of actors in a small curiosity shop on Kew Green (the end nearest Kew Gardens). The pictures are overlaid in parts with velvet and silk as well as -with tinsel. As I saw them