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Dupuy, is mentioned in the will of his great- uncle, Daniel Kemp (of the Mint), in 1 797 (P.C.C., Exeter, 172). I shall be obliged for any details of later issue and present repre- sentatives. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 6, Beechfield Road, Catford.

QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. " Quadrijugis per inane Venus subvecta colum- bis."

2. " Fortuna quod donaro dicitur, dum ostendit, aufert."

Can any of your readers tell me whence the above quotations come? They are re- spectively mottoes on engravings, which I possess, of Raffaello's ' Venus,' rising in her dove-drawn car, and Guide's 'Fortune,' rising over the world and bearing away a crown from a pursuing cupid.

I doubt whether either quotation is classi- cal ; but the second is capable, by division after the word "dicitur," of being made part of a sequence of iambic lines, and as such emanating from one of the Latin tragic or comic poets. But I cannot find either of them. RICHARD HORTON SMITH.

Athenaeum Club.

WEATHER. Who was the cynic who wrote " When the English summer set in with its usual severity '"? E. P. W.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Can any reader inform me why we are all familiar with the designation "Mary,Queen of Scots," but never with that of ''Mary, Queen of Scotland," although we frequently hear of "Margaret, Queen of Scotland " 1 F. S. E.

MANNINGS AND TAWELL. Who were these individuals ? They are mentioned in a letter written by Viscount Palmerston to Sir George Grey on 1 October, 1850, and occur in the following passage :

"Buonaparte received no insult at Plymouth, Soult was received [by the English people] with enthusiasm, Metternich, Louis-Philippe, and Guizot with courteous and kind hospitality ; but [General] Haynau was looked upon, no matter wrongly or rightly, in the same light as the Mannings and Tawell, and he ought to have had a couple of policemen to go about with him to protect him from the honest indignation of the mob."

L. L. K.

[All were murderers. For a full account of the Mannings see 'D.N.B.' under 'Manning, Marie.' Tawell, a man of respectable position, slew a woman under circumstances of such revolting cruelty as to defy description. He was a Quaker, and the reproach was greatly felt by the " Friends." He is said to have been the first criminal fugitive arrested by means of the telegraph. He was executed at Aylesbury, 28 March, 1845.]

BIBLE. At a meeting of the Bible Society in Norwich on 10 July the Dean of Norwich said :

" We are indebted to a man who lived in the fourth century, and whose name is dear, I believe, to the whole of us, for having given these thirty-nine Hebrew tracts in the Old Testament, and twenty- nine [? twenty-seven] Greek tracts in the .New Testament, the one composite title of the whole, Biblos, or the Bible the .book. It was St. Ghryso- stom who gave all these books that unifying designation."

Is this correct 1 Dr. Davidson (' Canon of the Bible,' 1877, p. 142) states that Chryso- stom does not speak of the canon, and never quotes the last four catholic epistles or the Apocalypse. Chrysostom's contemporary, Amphilochius of Iconiurn, excluded the


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, sc?7. &cta, this name for the Holy Scriptures can be traced back as far as the time of St. Chrysostom (Horn. ix. in ' Ep. ad. Coloss.'), and was commonly used by the Greeks of the fourth century."

Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q. ' will give a translation of the passage from Chrysostom referred to above. The questions are, Was Chrysostom the first known writer to use the term /?t^Aos for the sacred Scriptures, and to which books of those Scriptures did he apply that " unifying designation " ?

The 4 N.E.D.' does not support the attribu- tion to St. Chrysostom. JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

SHROPSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE WOOD- WORK. Is it known whence the carvers of the beautiful sixteenth and seventeenth century panels seen in Shropshire and Here- fordshire got their designs? These appa- rently resemble the frontispieces and tail- pieces in English printed books of the time ; but, in that case, costly books must have been common in very out-of-the-way country places at that period. What is the date of the earliest English carved woodwork in the Renaissance style ? Was Hampton Court the first work influenced by the Italian Renaissance in England, or is anything earlier known? Are the Malvern tiles influenced by the majolica patterns ? H.

CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL. A venerable clerical friend, a man of vast learning, asks ine whether there is any historical basis for the following story embodied in some poem. The besieged in a certain town, hard pressed, dismissed all their children to the mercy of the besiegers. The latter treated them