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 9 th S. I. JAN. 8, '98.]

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Charles II. one of the four commissioners to reduce the then Dutch port of New Amster- dam, now New York. It is uncertain whether he left descendants, and his family name seems rare in old England. Some fruitless inquiries for his ancestors have been made in Devon. Will friends kindly aid by searches in episcopal or parish registers or otherwise, and by replying in these columns ? The name may, of course, have been formerly written Mauerick. H.

ENIGMA. The Standard recently had this in a review of the 'Life of Cardinal Wiseman': "He was a scholar and fond of composing in Latin, though whether the following riddle which he sent to his friend Walker was his own or not we do not know :

Totum sume, Suit : caudam procide, volabit : Tolle caput, pugnat : viscera carpe, dolet." What is the solution ?

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

'THE SONG IN THE MARKET-PLACE.' Can any of your readers tell me where a poem or recitation bearing the above title can be found? WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, S.W.

PLANT-NAMES. A small pamphlet entitled ' A List of Herbs used by the Halifax Medical Botanic Society, 1845,' contains one or two names which are not in any list of popular English names of plants that I know. One of these is "blackdoctor "(though it is misprinted "blackdocton"). This is a name still used in this neighbourhood by herbalists for fig- wort, Scrophularia nodosa. The Kev. W. Fowler tells me that the plant is used for poultices and turns black when boiled. I should like to know if the name blackdoctor is in use elsewhere. A greater difficulty is met with in the case of "chanifor or sam- phire." This is certainly neither of the plants commonly called samphire, which grow by the sea. Mr. Fowler's suggestion is that the plant meant is hemp, Cannabis sativa, and the name chanifor is derived from chanvre, the French form of Cannabis. The name samphire is only used owing to confusion, as it resembles chanifor in sound. Any information relating to the word would be appreciated. W. B. CRUMP.

Halifax.

DONNE'S ' POEMS,' 1650. I should be much obliged if any correspondent would favour me with the correct collation of this edition of Donne. In my copy, the ' Divine Poems ' end on p. 368, whicn has the catchword " To." Then come sixteen unpaged leaves (last page blank) of 'Elegies upon the

Author,' beginning with 'To the Memory of my ever desired Friend Dr. Donne,' which answers to the catchword on p. 368. Then follow pp. 369-392, beginning with 'Newes from the very Countrey,' and ending with the song " He that cannot chuse but love.' On p. 392 is the catchword " To," and I am puzzled to know to what it relates, as I have always believed my copy to be perfect. Mr. E. K. Chambers has given a copy of the title- page at p. xliii of his beautiful edition of Donne in the " Muses' Library," but no com- plete collation. The copy of the 1650 edition which he used was evidently differently bound from mine, as at p. 232 of his first volume he says that the song "He that cannot chuse but love " occurs together with Elegy xviii., between Ben Jonson's verses and the ' Elegies upon Donne.' In that case, p. 369 must follow p. 368, and the unpaged elegies must be at the end of the volume ; but this arrangement would leave the catchword " To" on p. 368 unaccounted for.'

W. F. PRIDEAUX. Kingsland, Shrewsbury.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

" Vino vendibili suspensa hedera non opus est." In Bartlett's ' Familiar Quotations,' ninth edition, it is ascribed to Publius Syrus, but is not in Ribbeck's edition.

" The penalty of injustice is not death or stripes, but the fatal necessity of becoming more unjust." Socrates.

Motto of Cambridge University : " Hmc lucem et pocula sacra." G. H. J.

[The origin of the motto of Cambridge Univer- sity has been vainly sought in ' N. & Q. ,' S" 1 S. vi. 316. It should probably be sought in the emblem writers, and is used as a printer's mark, within an oval border, in an edition of Camden's ' Remaines con- cerning Britaine,' &c., n.d., with a crowned figure holding a sun in one hand and a cup in the other.]

ST. JOHN'S WOOD (CO. MIDDLESEX) AND THE FAMILY OF EYRE.

(8 th S. xii. 461.)

I TRUST that W. I. R V.'s interesting note may be expanded into a fuller account of a district which has not yet found its historian. The particulars given by Thomas Smith in his 'St. Marylebone' are very meagre and inadequate. Originally the district probably formed a portion of the manor of Lilestone. It was formerly known as " Great St. John s Wood," to distinguish it from "Little bt. John's Wood," which was situated in the manor of Newington - Barrow, alias High- bury, in the parish of Iseldon or Islington.