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_Christopher Flecamore._--Walton says that Sir H. Wotton wrote his
well-known definition of an ambassador at Augusta (_Augsburg_), in the
Album of "Christopher Flecamore." (Wordsworth, _Eccl. Biog._, vol. iv. p.
86., ed. 1839.) Can any of your correspondents tell me who this person was?
J.C.R.
"_Earth has no Rage," &c._--Can you, or any of your contributors or
readers, inform one where the following couplet is to be found:
"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd."
I do not trouble you idly, as I have a particular reason for desiring to
know the source of the lines.
W.T.M.
O. and C. Club
_D'Oyly and Barry Families._--Any authentic information, original or not in
the usual depositories, concerning the two great Norman races of D'OYLY and
BARRY, or De Barry (both of which settled in England at the Conquest, and,
singularly, both connected themselves with mistresses of King Henry I.),
will be thankfully received if sent to WM. D'OYLY BAYLEY (Barry), F.S.A.,
whose histories of both races are still unfinished.
Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire.
_Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham._--A collector of scraps and anecdotes
relating to Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, would be glad to know
whether, in the various MS. collections of our public libraries, there are
extant any letters either written by that prelate or addressed to him?
E.H.A.
_Epigram on the Synod of Dort._--In the _Biographie Universelle_, art.
GROTIUS, it is stated that the following singular distich against the Synod
of Dort was made in England:--
"Dordrechti synodus, nodus; chorus integer, �ger;
Conventus, ventus; sessio, stramen. Amen!"
Query, By whom was it made?
L.
_Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth._--Several years ago I met with a book
bearing this, or a similar title, upon one of the tables of the reading
room of the British Museum. A passing glance made me anxious to refer to it
at a future opportunity. But, although I have again and again searched
through the Catalogues, and made anxious inquiries of the attendants in the
reading-room, I have never yet been able to catch a glimpse of it. Can any
of your correspondents furnish me with the correct title, and state whether
it is still preserved in this national library?
J.E.C.
_Invention of Steam Power._--The following doggerel is the burden of a
common street-ditty, among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire.
"Jonathan Hulls,
With his paper skulls,
Invented a machine
To go against wind and stream;
But he, being an ass,
Couldn't bring it to pass,
And so was asham'd to be seen."
Now this Jonathan Hulls was the great grandfather of a man of the same
name, now residing in Campden; so that if there be any truth in the
tradition, the application of steam power to the propulsion of hulls must
be long prior to the time of _Watts his name!_
Can any reader of NOTES AND QUERIES throw any light on the inventions of
this man Hulls?
NOCAB.
_Mythology of the Stars._--I want (in perfect {24} ignorance whether there
is such a book) a "Mythology of the Stars." Considering how often persons
of sound mind express an enthusiasm for the celestial bodies, and exclaim,
of clear night, that the stars are the poetry of Heaven, it is wonderful
how little most of us know about them. Nine out of ten educated persons
would be quite unable to do more than point out the Great Bear and North
Star.
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