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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...instances of "Tam Marti quam Mercurio " have been collected in 5Ih S. x. 269, 392; xi. 235, 258; 6" S. Hi. 256, 318; iv. 176, 474. It is the title of one of Owen's ' Epigrams/ first published in 1606, third collection, i. 60. W. C. B. See ' N. & Q.,' 5tt S. x. 269, 392; xi. 235, 258 for some notes on the subject of this motto. The articles are, however, far from exhaustive, and it would be satisfactory to know something more with regard to its origin and early use. Jonathan Boochibr. Bopley, Alresford. Charles Connor (7th S. ii. 248).--A few particulars of Connor's early life are given in the obituary in the Annual Register, 1826, p. 279. He is there said to have been "a native of Ireland," and to have been educated at Bristol, and at Trinity College, Dublin. Edward H. Marshall, M.A. Dukedom Op Cornwall (7th S. ii. 89,173,237).--I am obliged to those correspondents who replied to this query. But H. G. has fallen unaccountably into several strange errors, which I will ask him to clear up. I may premise that I take exception to his term "inheritance by patent," since it is contradictory, especially when applied to a new or direct patent. This by the way. But he says: "Upon the decease of Edward the Black Prince the title Earl of Chester devolved upon Richard II., May 13, 1322, from his grandfather Edward III. this I should have taken as a misprint for 1377 were it not for the month, May, while he did not inherit the title Prince of Wales by patent until March 9, 1337." But as Edward the Black Prince lived until June 8, 1376, and was only created Prince of Wales in 1344, there is some strange confusion here. I differ from H. G., also, in the date of Monmouth's creation, which my notes give as October, 1399, or i...
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