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NOTES AND QUERIES. [1-2 s. m. MARCH 10, 1917

Hon. Bennet Noel, major-general, Jan. 26, 1758 ; lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Dec. 22, 1755, till colonel 43rd Foot, April 12, 1762, till he d. Sept. 21, 1766.

Robert Williamson, captain of an In- dependent Company of Invalids at Ply- mouth, March 5, 1746; d. before 1761.

John Dives retired November, 1741. Pre- sumably the Col. Dives whose son and heir was born August, 1740 (London Mag ). As John Dive was an Esquire to Lord Delawar when installed K.B., June 17, 1725. Of kin to Lewis Dives, 2nd lieutenant-colonel 2nd Horse Guards, Oct. 13, 1727. In 1734 " Mrs. Penelope Dive " was a Maid of Honour (300Z.) to the Queen Consort, as was " Mrs. Dorothy Dive " in 1737, while Miss Charlotte Dives held the same office to the Princess of Wales in 1734 and 1760.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

(To be continued.)

SAYING ATTRIBUTED TO CARDINAL POLE (12 S. iii. 70). According to the seventeenth- century Commonplace Book cited by PRE- BENDARY DEEDES, the words " Penes Reges est inferre bellum, penes autem Deum terminare,." were addressed to Henry VIII. by Cardinal Pole. It is remarkable that the same aphorism, though in a less concise form, occurs in the long letter, or memorial, written to Henry by J. L. Vives, and dated Bruges, Oct. 8, 1525. Was the keeper of the Common- place Book in error, or did Pole adapt the passage in Vives, or is it a mere coincidence that the two writers on different occasions urged the same thought on the King's attention ?

What Vives wrote is :

" Bellum in cujus manu est suscipere, non est deponere. Initia belli penes Principes sunt, exitus penes fortunam, seu verius Deum, cujus roluntatem erga nos non sine causa ignoramus."

See the letter to Henry VIII. headed ' De pace inter Caes. & Franciscum Galliarum Regem : Deque optimo regni statu,' column 89s in the ' Auctarium Epistolarum ex Lodovico Vive,' printed at the end of the 1642 (London) edition of Erasmus and Melancthon's ' Epistolae.'

But a similar sentiment is found in earlier writers. Sallust has :

" Omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere ; non in eiusdem potestate initium eius et finem esse : incipere cuiuis etiam. ignavo, licere, deponi, cum uictores uelint." ' Jugurtha,' Ixxxiii. 1.

And Aristides may have been indebted to this for his

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' Orat. Leuctrica,' V.,ii. 216s (i. p.474, Jebb).

I have traced these various forms of the maxim with the aid of Tobias Magirus's ' Polymnemon seu Florilegium Locorum Communium,' second edition, folio, 1661, my introduction to which useful book some twelve years ago I owe to the late Prof. J. E. B. Mayor. EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

Music TO SONG OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (12 S. iii. 149). Messrs. Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. published this song, with music by Malcolm Lawson, under the name ' Hereafter ' many years ago ; and there was a still earlier setting by Alice Mary Smith, but I do not remember the publisher.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

The poem of Christina Rossetti was set to music by S. Coleridge-Taylor. It is from ' Six Sorrow Songs,' published in Augener's ed. No. 8870. The song was sung at the composer's funeral in 1912. There may be other settings. J. S. S.

HERALDIC QUERY : SALAMANDER : FRANCIS I. (12 S. iii. 108). Probably Francis I. of France was the first to have a salamander as his device. He adopted it, or rather it was adopted for him, in 1504, when he was ten years old or in his tenth year, as appears from prints of a medal of that date. There is an inaccurate repre- sentaiion of the reverse of this medal in ' La France Metallique,' by Jacques de Bie, 1634, p. 50. The inscription has several errors. Both sides of the medal are given in ' Les Monumens de la Monarchic Fran- 9oise,' by Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, tome iv., 1732, plate xxxvi. The obverse has the head of Francis, with FRANCOIS.

DVC. DE. VALOIS. COMTE. DANGOLESME.

AV. x. AN. D. s. EA. The letterpress (p. 355) gives " au dixiesme an de son age.'" On the reverse containing the salamander the inscription is NOTRISCO. ALBVONO.

STINGO. ELREO. MCCCCCIIII.

The letterpress, separating " al " from " buono " and " el " from " reo," translates " ces mots Italiens " : " Je nourris le bon, & j'eteins le coupable." It appears to be suggested that " al " should have been " el." This suggestion is, I think, un- necessary. Montfaucon questions whether this medal was struck when Francis was