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 336 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.Yin.APKiL23.i92i. tk THE HAVEN UNDER THE HILL " ( 12 S. viii. 228, 275, 314). MR. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT remarks, inter alia, that Tennyson does not say '" where at Clevedon the ha:en ... is to be found." I should say at Walton Bay, just past it to the north, where ships and steamers often anchor before going into Avon- mouth docks. During the war it was full of transports and other vessels bound for Salonika and the Dardanelles, and is seldom quite devoid for long of some. As regards Clevedon it is true enough to say that The stately ships go on To their haven under the hill, for they all pass it up the Channel and this haven is under the hills of Walton. J. P. L. CHURCHES OF ST. MICHAEL (12 S. viii. 190, 231, 298). The following extracts on the subject of the dedication of churches to St. Michael are from Anthyme Saint - Paul's ' Histoire Monumentale de la France,' p. 88: Le culte de saint Michel fut un des plus populaires, independamment des diverses ap- paritions et des miracles qu'on lui attribue. ! La raisoii principale de ce culte pourrait etre dans 1'analogie que les premiers Chretiens gaulois crurent remarquer entre saint Michel, un des messagers de Dieu, le vainqueur de Satan, et Mercure, le meurtrier d' Argus, le messager de Jupiter et le patron national de la Gaule paienne. Les missionnaires venus de Rome accept erent i cette analogic et en profit erent pour dedier a 1'Archange les lieux precedemment consacres au dieu ai!6 de I'Olympe. De meme que Mercure etait adore specialement sur les hauteurs, ce fut sur les hauteurs que fut honore saint Michel. II existe encore dans toutes les regions de la France un grand nombre d' elevations de tous degres, buttes, mamelons, collines ou montagnes, | que couronnent des oratoires portant le vocable de Saint-Michel. Saint -Paul mentions two examples of churches in this position : -Mont Saint- ; Michel in La Manche, which is well known, and the less well known church of Saint- : Michel -d'Aiguilhe in Haute Loire. This; latter is perched upon the top of a ! natural obelisk of granite 85 metres in j height, and is reached by a stairway of j 270 steps cut in the rock. BENJAMIN WALKER. Langstone, Erdington. AUTHOR or QUOTATION WANTED (12 S. viii. 294). It would appear that the authoress of The Tragedy of Fotheringay ' has made the mistake of running two remarks into one. Here is Camden's account of the matter : Inter has anxias cogitationes, quae Reginam adeo solicitam et ancipitem habuerunt, ut soli- tudine gauderet, sine yultu, sine voce subinde sederet, et saepius suspirans, " Aut fer aut feri," et, e nescio quo Emblemate, ' ; Ne feriare, feri," sibi immurmuraret ; Davisono e Secretariis alter! literas sua maim signatas tradit, &c. ' Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Annales, regnante Elisabetha,' Pars III. p. 489, in the Elzevir edn., 1639. The words " Ne. feriare feri," which are here said to be the motto of some Emblem, and which form the beginning of an hexa- meter, illustrate the principle laid down in Camden's ' Remaines concerning Britaine,' ed. 5, p. 341, where he writes that the body of an Jmprese " must be of faire repre- sentation, and the word in some different language, witty, short and answerable thereunto ; neither too obscure nor too plaine, and most commended, when it is an Hemistich, or parcell of a verse." Such " parcells of verses " are at times quotations, at times coinages for the occasion. If the motto " Ne feriare feri " was devised by an emblem-maker, the maxim of getting in one's blow first ought surely to have found some earlier expression in literature. EDWARD BENSLY. Much Hadham, Herts. ABNEPOS (12 S. viii. 229). Wolfflin's ' Archiv,' iv. 577, and the ' Thesaurus Linguae Latinae ' show, by reference to Glosses, that " abnepos " has been some- times incorrectly used as equivalent to " films nepotis " instead of bearing the meaning of great-great-grandson ("films pronepotis "). EDWARD BENSLY. VARIATIONS IN GRAY'S 'ELEGY' (12 S. viii. 249). The Pembroke MS. was not the first draft of the ' Elegy.' The MS. which has been named the ' Fraser ' or ' Mason ' MS. was, it would seem, a rough draft and earlier than the other MSS. of the ' Elegy/ See John Bradshaw's edition of Gray's 'Poems' (Macmillan, 1891), p. 101: As this [i.e., the ' Fraser '] MS. seems to have been the rough draft, and contains a greater number of original readings and alterations, the other two [viz., the Pembroke College and the Egerton MS. in the British Museum] ap- parently being made from it by Gray when he had almost ceased correcting the ' Elegy,' I shall refer to it. . .as the " Original MS." Mason must be used with caution. The best authority for Gray's text in his chief poems (except the 'Long Story') is, pre- sumably, Dodsley's edition of 1768. EDWARD BENSLY.