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 56 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. iv. JULY is, -m. passing as he wrote, for the latter, a history extending over six hundred years, he could lay nosuchclaim, and with regard to the particular event recorded absence of proof of his having been alive at the time leaves him oil the same level as an ordinary historian, whereas on such a matter of detail the evidence of one not only a contemporary, but an eye-witness, would be desirable. ME. JONAS thinks that the fact of David Jones's first visit to Paris haying been made in 1675 is presumptive evidence of his having been alive in 1649. That is matter of opinion. The reference to the stage of the undressing at which the waistcoat was reached, the bearing of which I have failed to make clear to MR. JONAS, is immediately connected with the question of the sort of garment it was. The waistcoat, described by another narrator as of rich red-striped silk, brocaded with silver and yellow silk, was worn immediately beneath the doublet. Jones says that Bishop Juxon unclothed the king to his sky-coloured " sattin wastcoat." The garment sold was described as " the beautiful pale blue silk vest worn by Charles I. on the scaffold." Jones's personal history is not very in- telligible. Dunton, who tells us, with other particulars, that he was honest and good- natured and wrote very well, and says that he was designed for the ministry, is not helpful as to dates. The writer of Jones's memoir in the ' D.N.B.' does not rate his credibility highly. He writes that Jones " certainly entered the English army, and is said to have become captain in the 1st or Royal regiment of dragoons soon after its formation, and to have been with that regiment in the battle of the Boyne." Yet Jones writes his usual letters from Paris in June and August, 1690, and comments on the rumours that reach him of the events in Ireland as a personal stranger to them. And I have in vain searched for his name in Dalton's 'Army Lists and Commission Registers." KILLIGBEW. JOHN BULL OF FKENCH ORIGIN (9th S. iii. 242, 378). — In Phsedrus, La Fontaine, and Croxall the animals of the fable which has been mentioned are an ox and a frog; in Horace, a calf and a frog ; in Bahrius, an ox and a toad. E. YARDLEY. KING CHARLES I. (9th S. iii. 25, 411, 478).— MR. MATTHEWS remarks that " something more nearly resembling evidence of the Jesuit story should be produced" in addi- ion to the authority of Bramhall, Ware, Prynne, Felling, Baxter, Du Moulin, Heylin, Atkins, Castillion, and Wordsworth • I will refer to two others therefore. One is Sir William Morice, First Secretary of State to Charles II. in 1673. The other is Sir Henry Ellis, F.R.S., formerly Principal Librarian of the British Museum. Morice writes to Dr. Du Moulin :— " But this I may say safely, and will do it confi- dently, that many arguments did create a violent suspicion, very near convincing evidences, that the irreligion of the Papists was chiefly guilty of the murther of that excellent Prince, the odium whereof they would now file to the account of the Protestant Religion." Pretty strong language for a First Secretary of State. If this is the " universal and heroic support" ME. MATTHEWS tells us was " given by the Catholics," the unfortunate monarch would have been better without it. That erudite historical student and writer Sir Henry Ellis remarks, "That the Roman Catholics gave a certain portion of aid to bring Charles the First to his ruin will be easily believed." These quotations will be found in Archceologia, vol. xxiv. pp. 144, 145. M.A. " DESEMEA " (9th S. iii. 448).—Is it possible that the name is an uneducated variant of Decima ? EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. EDMUND MALONE (9th S. iii. 429).—Why does this reference preserve the error—small as it is—so often repeated in writing of the eminent Shakespearian scholar as Edmund, when it should be Edmond, the way in which Malone always spelt it ? W. ROBERTS. ['D.N.B.'has Edmund.] LIDDELL AND SCOTT (9th S. iii. 466,493).—The epigram as I used to know it ran as follows :— This book is written by Liddell and Scott, Part is rot and part is not; The part that's written by Liddell is rot, The part that 'a written by Scott is not. ED. PHILIP BELBEN. Endsleigh, Suffolk Road, Bournemouth. [Very many variants have been sent in.] JANE SHORE (9th S. iii. 445; iv. 18).— W. I. R. V. should consult those excellent topographical books 'The Grasshopper in Lombard Street,' by the late Mr. John Bid- dulph Martin, and' The Signs of Old Lombard Street,' by my friend Mr. F. G. Hilton Price. The latter, in his note on No. 43, says, after examining the deeds, that no goldsmith's name is associated with this house. At the beginning of the former work we are told that there is no historical evidence whatever to support what has long been a tradition, that Matthew Shore carried on his business as a goldsmith on the site of the present