Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853, page 19 by Various Authors
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e the sun shines brightly; a lizard is biting the heel of the sleeping youth. I shall not offer my own conjectures in explanation of this allegorical sculpture, unless your correspondents fail to give a more satisfactory solution.
ATH CELIATH.
"To know ourselves diseased," &c.--
"To know ourselves diseased, is half the cure."
Whence?
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
"Pætus and Arria."--Can you inform me who is the author of Pætus and Arria, a Tragedy, 8vo., 1809?
In Genest's Account of the English Stage, this play is said to be written by a gentleman of the University of Cambridge. Can you tell me whether this is likely to be W. Smyth, the late Professor of Modern History in that university, who died in June, 1849?
GW.
Heraldic Query.--A. was killed in open rebellion. His son B. lived in retirement under a fictitious name. The grandson C. retained the assumed name, and obtained new arms. Query, {220} Can the descendants of C. resume the arms of A.? If so, must they substitute them for the arms of C., or bear them quarterly, and in which quarters?
FRANCIS P.
Lord Chancellor Steele.--Is any pedigree of William Steele, Esq., Lord Chancellor of Ireland temp. Commonwealth, extant; and do any of his descendants exist?
It is believed he was nearly related to Captain Steel, governor of Beeston Castle, who suffered death by military execution in 1643 on a charge of cowardice.
STATFOLD.
"A Tub to the Whale."--What is the origin of this phrase?
PIMLICO.
Legitimation (Scotland).--Perhaps some of your Scotch readers "learned in the law" would obligingly answer the subjoined Queries, referring to some decisions.
1. Will entail property go to a bastard, legitimated before the Union under the great seal (by the law of Scotland)?
2. Will titles and