NOTES AND QUERIES.
[12 S.V.JAN., 1919
I have since read in an article by a well-
known sporting writer I think it was
Gareth in The Referee that it had been
suggested to him that it really meant " all
of a lather " ; but if I remember right, he
Teoeived the suggestion without comment.
CHARLES -BERE.
Milverton, Somerset.
EPITAPH TO A SLAVE (12 S. iv. 323). Such tombstone memorials to slaves are very scarce, and until reading that copied by MR. FAWCETT I knew of but one other, to which my attention was directed about a year ago by my friend Mr. H. W. Lewer, F.S.A. It is in Essex, on the north side of the churchyard of Little Parndon, and reads as follows :
Here | lieth the body of | Hester Woodley who died | the 15th of May 1767 aged 62 | this stone was Erected by | John Woodley Esq r of Cork Sfc. London | As a grateful Remembrance of her | Faithfully discharged[ing] her Duty I With the Utmost Attention and Integrity | in the service of his late Mother | Mrs. Bridget Woodley to whom she | belonged during her life and | after her Death to her Daughter | Mrs. Mary Parsons by virtue of a | Reciprocal Agree- ment made between | the said Mrs. Bridget Woodley | and her son John Woodley | whose Property she Would otherwise | have been at her Decease ] These are Facts.
In the word " discharged " the " ed " has been erased, and " ing " inscribed above.
Mrs. Bridget Woodley was the wife of William x Woodley of the island of St. Ohristopher, and this slave was probably therefore from the West Indies.
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
Fratinsr, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.
Somewhat similar memoiials occur at Hillingdon, co. Middx. (Toby Pleasant, d. 1784) ; at Hampton, co. Middx. (Charles Pompey, d. 1719) ; and at Great Marlow, Busks (Geo. Alex. Gratton, " the Spotted Negro Boy," d. 1813). M. .
HERALDIC : CAPTOR AND KIS CAPTIVES' ARMS (12 S. iv. 188, 251, 334). An instance is given in Izacke's * Memorials of Exeter,' 1677, p. 72. He tells us that, in the begin- ning of King Henry V.'s reign, " a Knight named Ar agonise ["a certain knight- errand of Arragon," says Prince in his ' Worthies of Devon '], who in divers Countreys for his Honour had performed many noble Atchieve- ments, at length visited England, and challenged many persons of his Rank and Quality, to make trial of his skill in Arms, which Sir Robert Cary accepted, between whom was waged a cruel encounter, and a long and doubtful Combat in Smith-field, London ; where this Mars vanquished this Aragonise, for which he was by the King
Knighted, and restored to part of his Father's
inheritance ; And by the Law of 'Heraldry, who-
soever fairly in the Field conquered his Adversary,
may justifie the wearing and bearing of his Arms
whom he overcame, and accordingly he takes
on him the Coat Armory of the said Aragonise,
being Argent on a bend Sable, three Roses of the
First, and ever since born by the name of Cary,
whose ancient Coat of Armory I find to be Gules
a Cheuron Argent between three Sicans proper, one
whereof they still retain in their Crest."
Is anything known of this " Araeonise " ? R. PEARSE CHOPE.
,LE GATEAU: CAMBRAI (12 S. iv. 269). The writer of the Second Diary of the English College at Douai under the year 1577 records :
" 2 Martii, qui idem dies fuit sabbatum 4 temporum ineuntis Quadragesimse, R mo Camera- censi generates ordines aptid Castrum Cameracesii celebrante, ex nostris theol. studiosis viginti sacris initiati stint, quorum quatuor ad sub- diaconatum, ad diaconatum quatuordecim, etduo alii, videlicet D. Cocksuset D. Stokes, ad ordinem presbyteratus sunt promoti."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iii. 510 ; iv. 32, 62, 287).
1. Quinque sumus fratres, uno de stipifce nati.
The fivefold division of the rose's calyx did not escape Sir Thomas Browne, who saw quincunxes in the heaven above and the earth below : " But nothing is more admired then the five Brethren of the Rose, and the strange dispose re of the Appendices or Beards, in the calicular leaves thereof," &c. (' The Garden of Cyrus,' chap. iii.).
Wilkin in the notes to his edition of Browne's works gives the following " rustic rhyme " On a summer's day, in sultry weather, Five brethren were born together, Two had beards, and two had none, And the other had but half a one.
The references to ' N. & Q.' which ST. SWITHTN was unable to furnish may be found in the late E. H. Marshall's notes to The Garden of Cyrus ' in the ' Golden Treasury ' edition : 6 S. iii. 466 ; iv. 73. EDWARD BENSLY.
(12 S. iv. 331.) The good we wish for often proves our bane.
These words form the first line in the recitative preceding the bass solo {Manoah) " Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue " in the libretto of Handel's oratorio ' Samson.' They are evidently based, on lines 352-3 of Milton's ' Samson Agonistes ' :
(Manoah log.). . . .Nay, what thing good, Pray'd for, but often proves our woe, our bane ? There is a similar idea in lines 63-4 of the same poem :
(Samson loq.) Suffices that to me strength is
my bane, And proves the source of all my miseries.
JOHN T. PAGE. [Ms. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT thanked for reply.]
