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 538 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. iv. DEC. 30, -99. existence, and also furnish me with the address of the same ? GEORGE A. FROST. 14, Abercrombie Street, Chesterfield. FRENCH QUOTATION.—Thefollowingpassage occurs in the dedication to Dryden's ' Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) :— " That which the French poet said of the temple of Love may be as well applied to the temple of the Muses. The words, as near as I can remember them, were these :— Le jeune homme a mauvaise grace, N'ayant pas ador6 dans le temple d'Amour, 11 faut qu'il entre; et pour le sage, Si ce n'eat pas son vrai sej'our, C'est un gite sur son passage. Can any of your readers give the author of these lines ? D. NICHOL SMITH. SALADIN AND THE CRUSADER'S WIFE.— " The Rev. JohnWakeford, preaching at Anfield, near Liverpool, the other Sunday, told the following story. In a little town or village in Gloucestershire there is a church which contains the mortal remains of one of the old Crusaders. In mouldering effigy he is depicted on the tomb, whilst by his side in cold eloquence is imaged the form of his wife. It will be noticed by even the casual observer that the female image is bereft of one of the hands, and the story runs that the Crusader, whilst fighting in the East, was made a prisoner of war and brought before Saladin, who, before executing judgment upon him, asked him if there was any reason why he should not be put to death. To this the knight replied that he was but young, and would leave a newly wedded wife who would bitterly mourn his loss. ' The love of woman is as a fleeting breath," retorted the Sultan. 'Your wife will forget that you have ever lived ; she will love again and marry another.' To this the sad knight could only reply that on her fidelity he could rest his soul. ' Well, then,' replied Saladin. ' I will promise on my oath as a soldier that if this man's wife will cut off one of her hands and send it to me I will set him free to go to her." By tedious and slow journeyings the message came, and she, in all piteousness for him who was her lover and her lord, caused her hand to be cut off, and sent it to the Sultan, who kept his word and set the Crusader free. A few years ago it was necessary for some reason to disturb the crumbling bodies in the tomb, and in verification of this story of wifely devotion it was found that one hand of the female corpse had been amputated at the wrist." The above is a cutting from a local newspaper of November 4. Can some one say where " the little town or village in Gloucester- shire " is ; also if any credence can be given to the story 1 RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston. WHIST WITH ONLY TWELVE CARDS IN EACH HAND.—This variation of the game of whist is generally believed to have been abandoned at an early date in the eighteenth century. Does not the following extract prove that it was played in the vicinity of London down to 1752? The letter was written by Horatio, Lord Walpole of Wolterton, to Robert Nugent, afterwards Earl Nugent:— Putney, Novbr. 1, 17S2. DEAR SIR,—I think my selfe extreamly unfor- tunate that I should be amusing my selfe in y* neighbourhood at a game of 12"1 whist, when you have taken y° trouble twice to call upon me.—Claud Nugent, ' Earl Nugent,' p. 250. W. P. COURTNEY. Reform Club. RECLAMATION OF TRAETH MAWR, NORTH WALES.—I shall be obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can refer me to the fullest account of the reclamation of Traeth Mawr. E. W. HERALDIC.—Will some reader of ' N. <fe Q.' kindly tell me to what family the following belong : Arms, Sable, on a pale or three porteaux ; crest, a dolphin haurient azure : motto, " Cautus sed strenue " : and where I may find further particulars of that family ? . CORNUBIAN. "FORWARD'S NEWGATE BANDS."—Ebenezer Cooke, in the 'Sotweed Redivivus,' a poem printed in 1730, refers to "Forward's New- gate bands." Who was Forward ? Was be some forgotten ruffian of the Jack Sheppard type? BERNARD C. STEINEB. GUILD MAYOR.—We learn that the present Earl of Derby, who is also Baron Stanley of Preston, has consented to fill the office of " Guild Mayor" of Preston for the conclud- ing year of the present century. What is a Guild Mayor? A. HALL. Highbury, N. HEADING TO A CHAPTER OF THOMAS 1 KEMPIS.—Quite recently a cutting of the Times of 31 October last was sent me giving a poem by the Bishop of Armagh with the heading 'Is War the Only Thing that has No Good in It?' One of the stanzas is as follows :— The faithful following of the flag all day, The duty done that brings no nation's thanks, The ama nesciri of some grim and grey A Kempis of the ranks. To " ama nesciri " is a foot-note as follows: " The heading of a remarkable chapter in the ' De Imitatione Christi.'" I have carefully examined the headings of the Latin of the 'De Imitatione Christi,' as also an English and German translation, but I can find no such heading. Further, I have consulted a friend who may almost be spoken of as a specialist of Thomas a Kernpin's Latin and translations. He tells me there is no such heading. Is it possible the Bishop has tripped!