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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. MAT, in&

WHALLEY ABBEY REGISTERS (12 S. iv. 73). The Chartulary is in the British Museum, Add. MS. 10374; abstracts relating to, Harl. MS. 2060, f. 146, and 7017, f. 13.

J. HARVEY BLOOM.

" WLNESOUR," A PLUM (12 S. iii. 510). This is a favourite plum for preserving, which is not ignored by the ' E.D.D.,' where one finds it defined as "a kind of large plum." I have heard that it grows abundantly at Sherburn in Yorkshire ; but whether that happy place be Sherburn-in- Elmet, or Sherburn, York, I do not know, though I think it is the former.

ST. SWITHIN.

POEMS BY LORD CHESTERFIELD (12 S. iii. 68, 119, 173).' Quiii's Jests' (London, 1766) contains, at p. 93, " Written in a Lady's ' Sherlock upon Death ' : by Lord Ch rf Id," four four-line verses, the first being

Mistaken fair, lay Sherlock by,

His doctrine is deceiving ;

Whilst he teaches us to dye,

He cheats us of our living.

W. B. H.

WILLIBAI.D (12 S. iv. 12). M. is quite right in distinguishing between Willibald the biographer of Boniface and Willibald, Bishop of Eichstadt ; but there is no ground for the supposition that the biographer was Boniface's nephew (see Levison's edition of the life and Robinson's translation), nor for stating that he was born at Crediton. It was Boniface himself who, according to a late and very doubtful tradition, was born at Crediton. E. W. B.

According to the ' Catholic Encyclopaedia,' Willibald, Bishop of Eichstadt, and his brother Winnebald, Abbot of Heidenheim, were the sons of St. Richard, commonly called the " King " ; their mother was a relative of St. Boniface. They were born somewhere in Wessex. It ,is quite an exception to find chronologies in which they are not " pooled " under the name of the elder brother Willibald. Such an exception is Sir Harris Nicolas's ' Chronology of History,' in which the bishop is distin- guished from the abbot, and their days in the calendar are given correctly as July 7 for the former and Dec. 18 for the latter. In an old Hungarian missal dating from the end of the twelfth century and one or two martyrologies in Germany the name is given as " Wnebaldus, Ab.," and his day as Dec. 18 ; whereupon Pilgram, the author of

' Calendarium Chronologicum Medii Potissi- mum ^Evi ' (Vienna, 1781), also mistaking the bishop for his brother, remarks that " nescio cur hac die." The abbot died on that day in 761. I do not think that R. T. Hampson mentions the younger brother in his ' Medii JEvi Kalendariura.' Is there another Willibald ? L. L. K.

DODSON, DODGSON, OR DOBSON FAMILY

(12 S. iii. 509). Dobson, cousin to Sir

Richard St. George (Norroy), had a con- firmation from him of a coat and crest in

1605 Dodsori had a grant from Sir

William Segar (Garter), May 6, 1617.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

STATUE AS WATER-FOUNTAIN (12 S- iii. 478, 521 ; iv. 27). Two only, of the dozen on the Continent, seem to need adding to those at Brussels, viz. : One (because of reference at iii. 521 to Charles V.) at Malaga, given him in homage by the Republic of Genoa. This is described, sufficiently if inaccurately, in ' L'Espagne, Splendeurs et Miseres ' (P. L. Imbert, 1875), p. 123. The other (because of its religious interest) at Saint-Etienne de Meaux, de- scribed and depicted in ' Les Seins a 1'Eglise ' (G. J. A. Witkowski, 1907), p. 158.

ROCKING HAM. Boston, Mass.

SPENSER AND ' THE SHEPHERD'S CALEN- DAR ' (12 S. iv. 12). MR. R. L. EAGLE asks whether

Vivitur ingenio : caetera mortis erunt, comes from an earlier source than Peacham's ' Minerva Britanna ' (1612).

The line is much older than this, being a quotation from the longer of the ' Elegiae in Maecenatem.' See lines 37, 38 :

Marmora Mseonii vincunt monumenta libelli: Vivitur iugenio : caetera mortis erunt.

The MSS. run the two poems into one, and some, with a courageous disregard of chronology, name Virgil as their author. They have also been attributed to Ovid, and the " Vivitur ingenio " line is frequently quoted as his, to the discomfiture of the ingenuous inquirer.

The prevailing view now is that the two elegies are by the anonymous author of the ' Consolatio ad Liviam,' and were written shortly after Maecenas's death in 8 B.C. They are included in Robinson Ellis's 'Appendix Vergiliana ' (1907), and in numerous other collections, such as the ' Anthologia ' of Burman, Wernsdorf's'Poetse Latini Minores,' Baehrens's ' Poet8B|Xatini