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NOTES AND QUERIES.

2nd g. NO 24., JUKE 14. '56.

of near a century from the time at which it was foretold, the mind is overcome with astonishment, and lost in amazement."

The Fulfilling of the Scripture noticed above, by the father of Fleming, is now a scarce work. The copy I possess (small 8vo., pp. 296.) unfor- tunately wants the title-page ; but I think must have been written about the time of Charles I. It is altogether an ingenious well-composed pro- duction, and affords a remarkable proof of what is sometimes seen of the same faculty for observa- tion and reflection being transmitted by natural inheritance from father to son. G. N.

_ " Titus Andronicus " (2 d S. i. 353.) The lines

" The eagle suffers little birds to sing," &c.

are from Titus Andronicus, Act IV. Sc. 4. By the way, the old editions all, as far as I have seen, read "wings" in the third line. Mr. Knight cor- rects it to " wing," with the profound remark, that " the lines are meant to rhyme alternately." Now, although

" Rhyme the rudder is of verses, By which they steer, as ships their courses,"

I think that we may, in this case, retain the grandeur of the plural without fear of any ship- wreck of the poetry. To tear one wing from an eagle, for the sake of a rhyme, is what Sir Thomas Browne would have called " a fallacy in preci- sion." I may add, perhaps, a remark on Mr. Knight's classification of the Titus and the Pericles as "doubtful plays;" and that is, that if not Shakspeare's, they are from the pen of some un- known dramatist of fully Shakspearian power. I cannot think or feel them to be " doubtful plays" at all. Two Shakspeares, contemporaries, " can't be." A DESULTORY READER.

Jersey.

"The Reader's Maxim" (1 st S. xii. 355.) A venerable old gentleman, some forty years ago, used often to repeat a similar maxim ; but appli- cable to eating, and, as I think, far more appro- priately. He gave it thus :

" Learn to eat slowly, other graces Will follow in their proper places."

Whence derived I know not, but it sounds Htidibrastic. F. C. H.

The Bustard (2 nd S. 314. 383. 420.) The REV. THOS. WHITE, by the result of the premium which he unfortunately offered, brings down the exist- ence of the bustard in the neighbourhood of Salisbury Plain to the year 1780.

I remember being at Amesbury so long ago as the year 1805, and then making inquiries about the bustard. A gamekeeper of the Duke of Queensberry there, whom I was asking about it, told rue that he himself had, a few years before,

shot the last that had been seen thereabouts. That none had been seen for some time before, and that one day when he was out with a rifle for the purpose of shooting a buck, in walking along a footpath through a corn field, he saw a bird's head just above the level of the corn, which he knew to be a bustard's. He fired at it, he said, without much hope of hitting it, but to his sur- prise he shot it.

This I should have supposed was the end of the existence of the bustard about Salisbury Plain ; but when I mentioned that I was about to write this, I was told by a friend that he had seen a statement in a newspaper last year that one had been shot thereabouts shortly before. What truth there may be as to the newspaper statement I know not. J. S. s.

According to a letter in The Times of Jan. 31, 1856, signed "W. H. Rowland, Hungerford, Berks, Jan. 29," a specimen of the great bustard (Otis tarda of Linnaeus), a male, and a very fine bird, was taken January 3, 1856, in the neigh- bourhood of Hungerford, just on the borders of Wilts and Berks. AEON.

The Harp in Arms of Ireland (!* S. xii. 29.) Z. Z. asks, " When was the harp first used as the arms of Ireland, and when introduced in the royal achievement as such ? " I find in the Numismatic Chronicle, vol. iv. p. 205., in an article on the " Irish Coins of Edward IV.," that it is suggested that Henry VIII. on being presented by the Pope with the harp of Brian Borhu, was induced to change the arms of Ireland, by placing on her coins a representation of the relic of her most celebrated native king.

I may add, that in the same paper it is alleged " we are entirely indebted to the researches and acute observation of the Rev. Richard Butler of Trim, for the information that, the three crowns (found on the Irish coinage of Edw. IV., Ric. Ill, and Hen. VII.) were the armorial bearings of Ireland from the reign of Ric. II. to that of Hen. VIII." Jos. G.

Inner Temple.

Manzy of Barnstaple (2 nd S. i. 301.) I do not see the name of Manzy in any list of the French refugees at this place. I have a list of 126 per- sons who came thither from Cork. It commences thus :

" Catalogue veritable clu nombre et do Mat des Fran- cais qui sont venus de Cork a Barnstaple et qui y sont arrives le 14 Juillet, 168G, po r y demeurer.

" Le S r Jacques Thomas, capitaine de marine du lieu de Royau en Saiutonge age de 46 ans avec un de ses vaisseaux. Jeanne Guillet sa femme, age' de 40 ans ; ils ont 7 enfans, 3 ga^oiis et 4 filles, savoir, Jacques age," &c.

As to the refugees at Exeter, there were