Chapter 4

"Whereas many mischiefs and dangerous accidents, tending not onely to the highest breach of the peace, but also to the destruction of the lives of his Ma'ties subjects, have happend and been occasioned by Footmen wearing of Swords, for the prevention of the like evill accidents and disturbance for the future, I doe hereby order that no Foot-man attending any of the Nobilitye or Gentry of his Ma'ties Realms, during such time as they or any of them shall reside or bee within the Cities of London or Westm'r, and the Liberties and Precincts of the same, shall wear any Sword, Hanger, Bagonet, or other such like offensive weapon, as they will answer the Contempt hereof." Dated 30th Dec. 1701.

F.E.

_Speech given to Man to conceal his Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The maxim quoted by your correspondent F.R.A. was invented, if I may rely upon the _notebook_ of memory, by the Florentine Machiavelli. The German writer Ludwig Börne says:--

"Macchiavelli, der die Freiheit liebte, schrieb seinem Prinzen so, dass er alle rechtschaffenen Psychologen in Verlegenheit und in solche Verwirrung gebracht, dass sie gar nicht mehr wussten, was sie sprachen und sie behaupteten, Macchiavelli habe eine politische Satyre geschrieben."

Le style c'est l'homme!

JANUS DOUSA.

_The Character "&,", and Meaning of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.).--This character, being different from any of the twenty-four letters, was placed at the end of the alphabet, and children, after repeating their letters, were taught to indicate this symbol as _and-per-se-and_. Instead of spelling the word _and_, as composed of three letters, it was denoted by a special symbol, which was "_and by itself, and_." Hence the corruption, an _ampussy and_.

The word _parse_ is also derived from the Latin _per se_. To _parse_ a sentence is to take the words _per se_, and to explain their grammatical form and etymology.

L.

_Wife of Edward the Outlaw_ (Vol. ii., p. 279.).--With reference to the Query of E.H.Y. (Vol. ii., p. 279.), there seems to be much confusion in all the accounts of Edward's marriage. I think it is evident, from an attentive consideration of the various authorities, that the Lady Agatha was {319} either sister to Giselle, wife of _Stephen_, King of Hungary (to whom the young princes must have been sent, as _he_ reigned from A.D. 1000 till A.D. 1038), and sister also to the Emperor Henry II., or, as some writers seem to think, she was the daughter of Bruno, that emperor's brother. (See a note in Dr. Lingard's _History_, vol. i. p. 349.)

That she was not the _daughter_ of either Henry II., Henry III., or Henry IV., is very certain; in the first case, for the reason stated by your correspondent; and in the second, because Henry III. was only twelve years old when he succeeded his father Conrad II. (in the year 1039), which of course puts his son Henry IV. quite out of the question, who was born A.D. 1049. It strikes me (and perhaps some of your correspondents will correct me if I am wrong) that the two English princes _may_ have respectively married the two ladies to whom I have referred, and that hence may have arisen the discrepancies in the different histories: but that the wife of Edward the Outlaw was _one_ of these two I have no doubt.

O.P.Q.

_Translations of the Scriptures_ (Vol. ii., p. 229.).--C.F.S. may perhaps find _The Bible of every Land_, now publishing by Messrs. Bagster, serviceable in his inquiries respecting Roman Catholic translations of the Scriptures. The saying of the Duke of Lancaster is found in the first edition of Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, and in the modern reprint, iv. 674.; the original of the treatise from which it is taken being in C.C. College, Cambridge. (See Nasmith's _Catalogue_, p. 333.)

NOVUS.

_Scalping_ (Vol. ii., p. 220.).--W.B.D. confounds beheading with scalping. In the American war many British soldiers, it was said, walked about without their _scalps_, but not without their heads.

SANDVICENSIS.

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