. viii. DEC. 21, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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In pede ejusdem Obdisci.
Si lapis est unus, de qua siet arte levatus ?
Quod si surit plures ; die ubi congeries ? "
I have no record of the present existence of the above couplet.
According to Lieut. Schroeder, Domenico Fontana, of the village of Mili, in the terri- tory of Como, erected three other obelisks :
"One in the Piazza del Popolo is of about the same height as that in front of St. Peter's ; while another in the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterauo is the largest known, being still one hundred and five feet and seven inches high after having three feet cut or broken off. Both of these, however, are in several pieces, and the chief care was to adapt the fragments so as not to mar the stability or the symmetry of the shafts. The third, now behind the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is still mono- lithic, but much injured and of smaller dimensions, being only forty-eight feet four inches in height ; its pedestal, fortunately, being seventeen feet high, lends additional majesty to its presence."
ROBERT PIEKPOINT.
St. Austin's, Warrington.
MOTTO ON VENETIAN COIN (9 th S. viii. 385).
MR. MILNE does not give accurately the
motto on Venetian ducats. It begins with
the word SIT, and in its extended form reads :
SIT TIBI CHEISTE DATVS QVEM TV REGIS ISTE
DVCATVS ; " May that duchy over which Thou reignest be devoted to Thee, O Christ."
JOHN EVANS. Hemel Hempstead.
KNIFEBOARD OF AN OMNIBUS (9 th S. vii. 487; viii. 23, 127, 311). The evidence at the refer- ences given is valuable as to the specific use of the word " knifeboard "; but it should be noted that the human mind has worked on similar lines with a somewhat different application of the idea. According to the 4 E.D.D.' the " hay-brede " in North Yorkshire is "the ledge on the forefront of a wagon upon which the driver sits." "Brede" has several meanings, but its obvious suggestion here is "small board." The * Promptorium ' has "brede, or lytylle borde. Mensula, tabella" Similarly " breyd = a board " (' Tim Bobbin's Glossary '), the word being now usually applied to a shelf. If we turn the "hay" into " heah," as, for instance, " heah-seld " = a throne, we stumble by chance on an idea cognate to the " imperial " one (p. 128). " Hay-brede " would, therefore, be the high-board, or the knifeboard with a difference. ARTHUR MAYALL.
" ASK NOTHING MORE OF ME, SWEET " (9 th S.
i. 389 ; viii. 334, 394). Let me complete my reference and fulfil my promise on p. 335 by adding the name of the composer of this charming song, Mr. Theo. Marzials, who de- serves full recognition. No doubt it is to
him we owe the adaptation of the words, as
given on p. 334, when he was arranging the
music, and thus recreating as a love-song
what had been far less effectively designed
as an impassioned address to Liberty, when
published in ' Songs before Sunrise,' 1892, as
' The Oblation.' No one can surpass my own
admiration for A. C. Swinburne, our greatest
living poet and virtual Poet Laureate, beyond
all comparison our greatest. The volume
in which his ' Oblation ' originally appeared
is almost the only one that I do not possess
among my treasured first editions. I confess
that I prefer the rendering of the song, for
one hesitates at proclaiming adoration of
such a bloodstained idol as the of ten- belied
goddess of Liberty, in whose name, Madame
Roland reminded us, so many crimes were
perpetrated. The publishers of the music-
sheet were Messrs. Boosey & Co., London.
J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH.
SIR JOHN FRYER, BART. (9 th S. viii. 343). Sir John Fryer was created a baronet 13 De- cember, 1714. He was a J.P., Alderman of London, and Lord Mayor 1720. He married Isabella, daughter of Sir Francis Gerard, Bart, but by her, who married secondly Henry, first Viscount Palmerston, had no issue. Sir John died 11 September, 1726, when the baronetcy became extinct. He was a member of the Fishmongers' Company. See their records of a banquet he gave at their hall upon his election as Lord Mayor. VICAR speaks of his son, who died in 1724. I did not know that he had had a son.
GREVILLE E. FRYER.
Philadelphia.
Musgrave's ' Obituary,' Harleian Society's Publications, 1900, has
Fryer, John, son of Sir Jno. F., Bt., Aldn. Lon- don, at Wherwell, co. Hants, 16 Aug., 1724.
Fryer, John (Sir), Bt., Aldn. London, 11 Sep., 1726.
IWer, , Lady of Sir Jno., wife of the Aldn., 12 Nov., 1718.
Fryer, __ ? Lady of Sir John, Aldn. Lond., 17 Aug.,
Fryer, (Miss), dau. of Sir Jno. F., Aldu. Lon- don, 25 Oct., 1731.
There are various references cited for con- sultation, including the l Chronological Diary to the Historical Register' (25 vols. 8vo, London, 1714-38), P.P. 3407. For references to John Ball and John Evans consult the above named Musgrave's * Obituary.'
H. J. 1*.
ANCIENT BOATS (9 th S. viii. 366, 407). To uhose already recorded a recent find may be added, discovered over a twelvemonth ago at Tottenham, a little northward of Ferry
