35, drew up an admirable account of his parish, which
is inserted in the statistical survey of the county.

The gentlemen of the county have formed a {302} _Vendace Club_, which meets
at Lochmaben annually on the 25th and 26th of July, when they dine off the
fish. I asked one of the members how long it had been in existence, and he
said about thirty years.

JARLTZBERG.

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Minor Queries.

_Ex Pede Herculem._--I shall feel much obliged if any of your
correspondents or readers can inform me of the origin of the proverb "Ex
pede Herculem." In what classical author is it to be found? I have looked
in vain through _Erasmi Adagia_ for it.

H. H.

"_To-day we purpose._"--Will any one be good enough to say where these
lines (quoted by Mr. Ruskin, _Modern Painters_, vol. ii. p. 188.) are to be
found:--

"To-day we purpose, ay, this hour we mount
To spur three leagues towards the Apennine;
Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count
His dewy rosary on the eglantine"

G. N.

"_God takes those soonest whom He loves the best._"--Where shall we find
the origin of this expression, so frequently occurring on tombstones in
almost all parts of the country? Or how far back can it be traced? The
following, in Rainham church, Kent, is of the year 1626:

"Here slepes my babe in silence, heauen's his rest,
For God takes soonest those he loueth best."

T. H. K.

Malew, Man.

_Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope._--At what period, and in what author
besides Veryard's _Tour in the Low Countries_, is the story of two Quakers
being imprisoned in the Lazzaretto in Rome, for attempting to convert the
Pope, to be found? Were they persons of any standing in the Society?

B. S. S.

_Whychcote of St. John's._--In one of the volumes published under the
foregoing title, in 1833, there is a striking story, evidently fictitious
in the main, but assuming, as an element of fact, the remembered existence
of a head-stone over a grave in the little burial-ground, under the shadow
of the venerable ruins of Tynemouth Priory in Northumberland, containing
the single word "Fanny." Does any one of the Tyneside readers of the "NOTES
AND QUERIES" personally recollect the actual existence of such a memorial?
Is the _real name_ of the author of the entertaining work disclosed in any
subsequent publication, or is it generally known?

J. D.

_Meaning of Rechibus, &c._--Among the rights claimed