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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. FEB. 12, '98.

fluit" (Vultwnus, the river); (2) "caudam procide, volabit " (vultw, the bird) ; (3) " tolle

inus, a wound), supplied by as many correspondents to the same journal on 13 December. As they are both more poetically and classically expressed than the above, you will perhaps give them a permanent place in your pages. "F. H.'s" runs as follows :

Totum pone, fluit ; caput aufer, splendet in armis ; Caudam deme, volat ; viscera tolle, nocet.

" A Johnian's " variation is nearly as good : Caudam deme, volat ; caput aufer, surgit in armis ; Totus in Italia Iseta per arva fluit.

The solution in the last version, it will be seen, contains only three parts, the eviscerat- ing operation not being required.

JOHN T. CUBBY.

The solution is : (1) Vulturnus, (2) Vultur, (3) Turnus, (4) Vulnus. I have not read either the review or the correspondence which has appeared in the Standard. F. ADAMS. [Very many replies are acknowledged.]

CUEIOUS MEDAL (9 th S. i. 67). Ralph Bride- oake was one of the three sons of trie Right Rev. Ralph Bridecake, Bishop of Chichester, by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall, of Okenden, Essex. He was a Fellow of Winchester College, Rector of Craw- ley, Hants, Archdeacon of Winchester, Rector of St. Mary's, Southampton, and Canon of Hereford. In his obituary notice in the Gent. Mag. for March, 1743, it is stated that " he rebuilt his parish church and parsonage house at his own expence." G. F. R. B.

Doubtless some Southam pton correspondent will describe the restoration of St. Mary's Church in 1722 : I must confine myself to Ralph Bridecake (not Bridecake, though Allibone has got the same misprint). The dates of his birth and death are given on the medal : he was of New College, Oxford, B.A. 1685, M.A. 1688 ; Archdeacon of Winchester, 1702-43 ; Prebendary of Hereford, 1721-43 ; and doubtless also Vicar of St. Mary's, South- ampton. Probably he was son of Ralph Bridecake, D.D., of New College, 1660 ; Canon of Windsor, 1660-78; Dean of Salisbury, 1667-75 ; Bishop of Chichester, 1675-78 ; died in the latter year : and father to Ralph Bridecake, also of New College, B.C.L. 1730. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A.

Longford, Coventry.

TRANSLATION WANTED (9 th S. i. 47). The Irish or Scottish Gaelic motto referred to by

MR. FERET, " Lamh foistineach an uachtar," means literally "the resting hand upper- most." I suppose it would be freely trans- lated "the steadfast hand will gain the mastery." JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

" Lamh foistineach an uactar," pronounced lawv fwishthinack an oocther, means literally " the prudent (or steady) hand (is) the cream," i. e., ' the prudent hand uppermost." This motto resembles that of O'Brien, " Lamh laidir an uactar," " The strong hand uppermost."

BREASAIL.

"FIVES" (8 th S. xii. 506). Is MR. RALPH THOMAS quite correct in saying that " fives " is " four ale " and " six ale " mixed ? " Four ale " is a single ale ; " six ale " is a mixture of one at fourpence a pot with one at eightpence a pot in equal proportions. There used to be a " stock " ale brewed, which was sold at sixpence a pot, and a mixture of this with porter was sold as " five-half." In some parts a mixture of porter with a " dash " of bitter or Burton is sold as " five-half." AYEAHR.

EAST ANGLIAN PRONUNCIATION OF "PAY" (8 th S. xii. 346, 413). East Anglians certainly do not pronounce " pay " to rhyme with "high," indeed they are never weary of poking fun at low-class cockneys about their ladies and babies. MR. ADAMS and others who wish to learn something about East Anglian dialect can hardly do better than consult 'An Etymological and Comparative Glossary of the Dialect and Provincialisms of East Anglia, with Illustrations derived from Native Authors,' by John Greaves Nail, 1866. The preface and introduction, making nearly one hundred closely printed pages, are extremely interesting and instructive.

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

CLOUGH (9 th S. i. 28). Peter Garrick, captain of a recruiting regiment, fascinated a Miss Clough, daughter of one of the canons of Lichfield, where the pair settled shortly after the birth of their second child David, on 20 February, 1716 (Temple Bar, vol. xi.).

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

She is described in Murphy's 'Life of Garrick,' p. 6, as the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Clough, one of the vicars in Lichfield Cathe- dral. GEORGE T. KENYON.

'THE RODIAD' (8 th S. xii. 467). Some inquiries with reference to this poem were made in a contemporary of ' N. & Q.' several years since. Beyond, however, the suggestion