Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 10.djvu/226

 218

NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. x. BBH. is, 1002.

Surgeon-General Sir John Campbell Brown, K.C.B. Retired (Bengal) 1876.

Major-General Andrew Browne, UK, son of late A. Browne, Moyville, Gal way, MJ'. Served in Crimean war : in China war 1860. Knt. Leg. Hon. and Medjidie.

Major-General Charles Frederick Browne, late Bengal Staff Corps.

Maior-General Henry Ralph Browne, late 63rd Foot, J.P. Flintshire. At Agra 1875-80 as brigadier-general.

Major-General James Frankfort Manners Browne, C.B., RE., son of Hon. and Very Kev. H. M. Browne, Dean of Lismore (son of second Lord Kilmaine and Hon. Catherine, daughter of first Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency) ; b. 1823 ; Knt. Leg. Hon. and Medjidie ; Governor of Woolwich Royal Military Academy from 1880.

Lieut.-General (late Field - Marshal) Sir Samuel James Browne, V.C., K.C.B., &c. Served in Punjab campaign 1848-9, at Chillianwallah, Goojerat, &c.

General Walter John Browne, C.B., Bom- bay Infantry. Retired 1878.

RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

" ENDORSEMENT " : " DORSO - VENTRALITY ' (9 th S. ix. 64, 212, 331, 415 ; x. 93). As you have returned to this subject, perhaps I may call attention to Rex v. Bigg in 1717, where a prisoner was indicted for rasing out an en- dorsement on a bank bill (a felony by an Act of 1697). The jury found that since 1696

" the way that was only used was to write all the payments of any part of the money paid upon these notes upon and across the writing of the said notes

and that such inscriptions from 1696 hitherto

have been and are commonly called indorsements."

Prisoner's counsel argued strongly before al the judges that such writing could not be an "indorsement." This being, said he, th plain signification of the word in the common use of it, manifestly implied from its deriva tion, how, then, can it signify any thing written on the face and inside and not on the bad side of the note 1 Nevertheless, prisoner wa convicted, sentenced to death, and trans ported. The case is reported 1 Strange, 18 and much more fully 3 Peere Williams, 419. HERMAN COHEN.

TEDULA, A BIRD (9 th S. ix. 389, 433, 516 x. 53). Apart from the fact that tedula ha not been proved to be a genuine word, ther is no "common element" -edula, etymo logically, in the bird-words quoted by ME C. S. WARD. All that is common is th diminutive suffix -u-la (Indo-European -LO Fic-ed-u-la, little fig-eater, has two stem

-suffix; moned-u-la and nited-u-la (if from noneo and niteo\ one stem + suffix. Querque- ula is said by the unreliable Ainsworth to e a diminutive of the Lat. form of the ecus, of Kep/a's C? Kep/cos) ; but the above ex- mples will suffice. H. P. L.

LATIN VERSES (9 th S. ix. 447; x 16).- Aulus Gellius (xix. 9) quotes these verses is by Valerius J^dituus. In Martin Hertz's arger edition of Gellius (1885) they are jjiven thus : Qui faculam prsefers, Phileros, quae nil opus nobis?

Ibimus sic, lucet pectore flamma satis, stam nam potis est vis steva exstinguere venti

Aut imber cselo candidus prsecipitans, At contra hunc ignem Veneris, nisi si Venus ipsa,

Nullast quse possit vis alia opprimere.

In his smaller edition of 1886 Hertz reads non, not nam, in the third line. Even should bhe reference for the quotation have already )een supplied, it may possibly be of interest to have the lines in full.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.

" TRESSHER " (9 th S. x. 47). I would seek to connect "tressher" with "treasure," a com- mon patronymic, he acting as a sort of clerk ^parish clerk) to the incumbent, who appa- rently was non-resident, perhaps as an absentee on account of religion. The date given of 1560 is just at the commencement of Elizabeth's reign, when the influence of Queen Mary would still be current among the clergy. ABSENS.

MALLET USED BY SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (9 th S. ix. 346, 493 ; x. 17, 136). I should be sorry to think that the proofs in support of the assertion that Sir Christopher Wren be- longed to the Masonic body are inconclusive. The weight of testimony is in favour of the generally accepted assertion that he was elected Grand Master in 1685, and so con- tinued (with the exception of one year) until the death of King William III. in 1702, whilst there is probability that he remained in office till a later year. Sir Christopher's star de- clined after the death of his patron, friend, and brother-Mason King William, and dis- putes became acute between the former and the commissioners for rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral, the commissioners having the material advantage, and succeeding in effect- ing the dismissal of Sir Christopher from his office of Surveyor of Public Works in 1719. One Benson was appointed to the office, but was afterwards dismissed in disgrace, and his only fame is to be found in a passing allusion to him in the ' Dunciad.' The statement has