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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. JULY 2, 'S

better would go into York Minster or King's College Chapel at Cambridge, where there is the finest stained glass in England, when the moon is at the full, and observe the effect. We should then have the evidence of ocular demonstration on the point, if he would tell us what he saw. JOHN PICKFORP, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

JUDGE FAMILY (9 th S. i. 348). I can give some particulars of the relationship men- tioned between the Judges and the D'Arcys of co. Meath from a pamphlet in my posses- sion, entitled 'An Historical Sketch of the Family of D'Arcy from the Norman Conquest to the Year 1853 ' (Miller School Print, 1882). Not being a genealogist, I cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy of all the details, such as dates, &c. ; but I believe them to be correct in the main :

"John D'Arcy, the eldest son of Thomas D'Arcy, of Lisnabin, born about 1700, married 1727 Eliza- beth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Judge, of Grangebeg, in this county. He was the first of the family who conformed to the Protestant religion, which took place before his marriage with Miss Judge. He died in 1758, leaving four sons.

" 1. Judge, born 1729, married in 1765 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard Nugent, of Robins- town, and died in 1766 ; by her he had a posthumous daughter, Elizabeth Judge D'Arcy, wno married Sir Gorges Irvine, of Necarne (Castle Irvine), county Fermanagh. On his marriage, the settle- ments being about to be signed, which entailed all his estates in the male line of his family, his father- in-law Richard Nugent suddenly stood up, and took his hat, saying, ' Mr. D'Arcy, Mr. D'Arcy, there 's my daughter ; you may marry her if you choose, but I won't settle an acre of my property, so I wish you good morning and a pleasant wedding.' and went away. He was, therefore, married without settle- ments, and his estates descended to his daughter.

" 2. Francis, born in 1733, who, on the death of his brother Judge D'Arcy, became heir male of Sir William D'Arcy, of Flatten, second son of Lord D'Arcy, Viceroy of Ireland ; and on the death of the Earl of Holderness, in 1778, heir male of John, Lord D'Arcy, and Norman D'Arcy. He married

Mary, daughter of Hall, of Somersetshire, and

died in 1813 without issue.

"3. Arthur, born in 1734, died about 1802, un- married.

"4. James, born 1740, entered the navy, and married in 1766 Martha, daughter and heiress of William Grierson, of Deanstown, county Dublin, and died in 1803, leaving three sons and five daughters."

S. A. D'ARCY, L.R.C.P. and S.I.

Rosslea, Clones, co. Fermanagh.

LATIN AMBIGUITIES (9 th S. i. 269). "Mea mater mala est sus." The ambiguity vanishes if a comma be put after " mea," and another after " mater," thus exhibiting the true sense, the first a in " mala " being, of course, long. The form of the puzzle familiar to me before

the date given (1856) was " Mea mater, mea pater, sus est jus," where, as in the above form, " mea " is a verb, and " est " the con- tracted form of "edit."

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. Bath.

I shall never forget my perplexity when, as a new-comer,! was confronted with the follow- ing "terrible bit of nonsense in Latin": " Mea pater in silvam tuum filium est lupus." While this sentence is not capable of two interpretations, I think it may be classified with that of your querist.

DALLAS GROVER.

Kansas.

Here is another ambiguity : " Mater rnea Hispaniam natura naturam vitium visum." Here is a Latin alliteration : " Sjepe cepe sub sepe cepi." E. LEATON-BLENKINSOPP.

I can remember another quite as funny : Malo, I had rather be Malo, in an apple tree Malo, than a wicked boy Malo, in adversity.

JOHN P. STILWELL.

Here are some bits of queer Latin :

Mus currit in campum sine pedibus ttix.

Mitto tibi navem puppe proraque carentem. (Are.)

Mens tuis occulis et ignis via.

J. C. P.

[These things, the list of which may be indefinitely extended, are scarcely ambiguities.]

MASSAGE (9 th S. i. 384). I was told at Aix- les-Bains that massage had been practised there in the time of the Romans.

ST. SWITHIN.

SIDESMEN (9 th S. i. 349). The sidesman's oath, for which by 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 62, sect. 9, a declaration is substituted, is " You shall swear that you will be assistant to the churchwardens, in the execution of their office, so far as by law you are bound." In the Canons of 1603 they are taken with the churchwardens by the expression " the Churchwardens or Questmen, see Canons 85, 88, 89, 90 "; and in Canon 85 there is,

"but especially they shall see that in every meeting of the congregation peace be well kept, and that all persons excommunicated, and so denounced, be kept out of the church ";

while by Canon 90 they

"shall diligently see that all the parishioners resort to their church on all Sundays and holidays, and there continue the whole time of Divine Service : and none to walk or to stand idle or talking in the church, or in the churchyard, or the church porch, during that time,"