. ii. DEC. 10, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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sent by Sir Thomas Dale in command of fif t^
men to Virginia, in response to a reques
from the London Company that assistance
be sent the colonists.
I wish to discover the parentage of thi Thomas Pettus, with citation of authority for information offered upon this subject Any one supplying such information wil confer a great favour to many American descendants of the said Col. Thomas Pettus Please reply direct.
(Prof.) CHAELES JONES COLCOCK.
Porter Academy, Charleston, South Carolina.
KOYAL HUNTING. Is there any work which relates the hunting adventures of the kings and queens of this country 1 If riot, where should I find the best particulars on the subject ? Is the statement correct that Mary, Queen of Scots, was an accomplished horse- woman and rode to hounds 1 P. M.
BEN JONSON AND BACON. It is frequently stated that about 1620-23 Ben Jonson was a private secretary to Bacon, or one of his "good pens." Is there any authority for this 1 I cannot find it under Ben Jonson in 'D.N.B.' SEJANUS.
Philadelphia.
CROSS IN THE GREEK CHURCH. Will any of the readers of * N. & Q.' be kind enough to explain the formation of the cross commonly used in the Greek Church, having near the foot a cross piece slanting from right to left, and a similar piece near the top 1
W. W. P.
ROMAN GUARDS REMOVED FROM PALESTINE TO LINCOLN. I have been told that the Roman legion stationed at Jerusalem at the time of our Lord's crucifixion was afterwards removed to Lincoln. I should be surprised if evidence could be produced in confirmation of this statement. Can any one tell me its origin? EDWARD PEACOCK.
Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.
PHOENICIANS AT FALMOUTH. In the first of the two new volumes of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duffs 'Notes from a Diary, 1892-1895,' p. 48, there is this curious note under date 12 May, 1892 :
"At the Levee Mr. Theodore Bent mentioned
to me that a soapstpne ingot-mould which he had discovered at the Zimbabwe ruins was similar in form to an ingot which had been found at the bottom of Falmouth harbour, and is considered to have been the work of the Phoenicians."
Can any one give the date of, or any other particulars regarding, the alleged Falmouth "find"? G. L. APPERSON.
Wimbledon.
gtpftau
DOG-NAMES. (10 fch S. ii. 101, 150, 232.)
IN my reply at p. 233 are some errors. Col. 1, 1. 9 from foot, for " lepedissimus " read lepidissimus ; 1. 3 from foot, for " podogra " read podagra.
In "Anthologia Poetica Latina excerpta
ex Probatissimis Recentioribus Poetis, par- timque in Linguam Gallicam con versa. Auc-
tore M. Thevenot." Parisiis, 1811, are the
following in Pars Prima :
Catellus ad heram, causa scabiei rus ablegatus. Seventy-six lines of elegiac verse. The last couplet is:
Quod si nulla mese tangit te cura salutis, Plutonis stygias Pluto redibo domos. P. 141.
Plutonis catelli fatum postremaque verba. Eighty elegiac lines (p. 151). Towards the end of this lament the mangy Pluto says (11. 69 and 72) :
Forte mea absumpto restabit corpore pellis ;
Vestiat et niveas pellis amata manus. Catelli Polydori rheda contriti epitaphium. Six elegiac lines. Vivens semper eris domino, insuper inter amicos,
Omnis amor, custos, 6 Polydore, mihi ! is rendered thus in the French version : Tu vis, mon bon Poly, dans le cceur de ton maitre Jamais pour tes amis tu cesseras d'etre. P. 225.
De cane indico ad Eleanorem, Suecise Reginam, misso.
This dog's name is not given.
The author of the last is Heinsius. The others are anonymous.
In 'Anthologia Oxoniensis,' decerpsit Gulielmus Linwood, 1846 (pp. 266-7, Nos. 63- 34), are :
Epitaphium Canis. Zephyrus. In Villa, and
Aliud Epitaphium. Tippo. In Villa. Sixteen and twenty -six elegiac lines re- pectively, written by Lord Grenville. Deep Melompus, and cunning Ichnobates, Nape, and Tigre, and Harpye the skyes Rent wit roaring, Whilst huntsman-like Hercules Winds the plentifull home to their cryes. Seventh stanza of 'The Hunting of the ods/ See ' Westminster Drolleries, 3 edited y Ebsworth (Boston, Lincolnshire, 1875), iart ii. p. 67 ; also * Bishop Percy's Folio lanuscript,' edited by Hales and Furnivall London, 1868), vol. iii. p. 308. In the latter he names of the first three hounds are Vlelampus, Ignobytes, and Nappy.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
