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 9* s. vi. DEO. 22, i9oo.) NOTES AND QUERIES. 489 ' Another Essence of Malone ; or, the Beauties of Shakspeare's Editor,' London, printed for T. Becket, Pall Mall, 1801, pp. 128 exclusive of title-pages. Who was the author ? E. M. DKY. St. Louis. [The author is George Hardinge, for whom see •D.N.B.,' Nichols's 'Anecdotes,' &c. See also 'N. &Q.,'2°"S. xi. 30.] QUOTATIONS.—May I ask the friendly aid of ' N. & Q.' readers for authors or passages of the following lines or sayings, which as yet I have not been able to trace to their source ?— 1. Fit scelus indulgens per nubila SEecula virtus. 2. Mira cano: sol occubuit; nox nulla lecuta est. 3. Est rosa flos Veneris, &c. The right reading and author required. 4. Ubi lapsus ? quid feci ? Quoted in Newman's ' Apologia.' 5. De male qusesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres. 6. Charles V. saying of Luther, " I war not with the dead." " 7. Pour tromper un rival, 1'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contre un ennemi. may remark that the first of these citations is peculiarly appropriate to the leniency shown to certain of the enemy in the present war ; and that the last is incorrectly ascribed by Fournier to Cardinal Richelieu (' Thuille- nes'). PHILIP NORTH. [3. Est Rosa flos Veneris; quo dulcia furta laterent, Harpocrati matris dona dicavit Amor. Inde Roflam mensis hospes suspendit amicis Conviva ut sub ea dicta tacenda sciat. From 'Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigram- matum et Poematum' of Peter Burmann the younger.] WYTILL BABONETCY.—Can any of your readers say how the Wyvill baronetcy be- came extinct ? NOTTS. "SAINT" OK "ST."—In France the almost invariable custom is to spell " Saint" in full. Frenchmen write and print Porte-Saint- Martin, Saint-Cloud, Saint - Eustache, &c. In England the contraction is so rigorously observed that I cannot get printers to pay any heed to my spelling of French names. When did this variance of custom begin, and is there any explanation of it 1 H. T. WAVERLEY IDENTIFICATION.—Can you refer me to any work which throws light on the original prototype of Bailie Nicol Jarvie t J. S. S. REFERENCE WANTED.—Who said, " I wish I could be as sure of anything as Tom Macau lay is of everything" ? I have seen it attributed to Lord Melbourne; and now on p. 67 of 'Newton: his Friend and his Niece,' by the late Augustus De Morgan (Stock, 1885), I find it alluded to as "Lord Lansdowne's (rumoured) gibe." D. M. LWe have always understood it to be due to George Cornewall Lewis.] Miss MARTINEAU'S ' GUIDE TO THE LAKES." —A friend has lent to me a copy of Miss Martineau's 'Guide to the Lakes' (1855). It is a quarto with coloured plates by Leighton Brothers. Can any correspondent say how many of these coloured plates there should be, as this copy contains four only ? I have the octavo guide, which is the same as the above, except in size, and that it bears the date 1855, and the plates are steel. The date in the octavo edition proves nothing, as there was a reissue in 1861 with still the earlier date on the title-page. S. L. PETTY. Ulverston. OLD CLOCKS.—Do the works on old clocks contain the names of makers or dealers in provincial towns ? I say dealers, for I suppose that formerly, as now, clocks as often bore the name of the retailer as that of the actual maker. I wish to know the age of one bear- ing the name " Nethercotte, Cnipingnorton." One in the trade says it is about one hundred and forty years old. The letters appear to be of the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury, and the name is in one word, as it was often at that period and earlier. B. B. USK CASTLE.—In Church Sells of 19 Octo- ber appeared an interesting illustrated article on Usk Church. Near the commence- ment was the following sentence: " The re- mains of the old castle, reputed to have been the birthplace of Edward IV. and Richard III., are still to be seen." I addressed a letter to the editor soliciting further particulars con- cerning this tradition, but it was merely acknowledged, and not inserted in the paper. I now beg to ask if any reader of ' N. & Q.' will kindly furnish me with any grounds whereon such a tradition could be based. I always thought it was a fact beyond dispute that Richard III. was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, on 2 October, 1452; and was not Edward IV. born at Rouen? JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. ACHILL ISLAND.—In all the standard books of reference this island is described as "Achill Island or Eagle Island," and in one instance " Achill Island means Eagle Island." I shall be glad to have the history and derivation of the word, i.e., how it is "Achill" comes to mean "Eagle." I have exhausted all the