Cambridge, Jan. 1. 1850. 
E. VENTRIS.

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Ancient Motto.—­In reference to a query (No. 6. p. 93.), and a reply (No. 7. p. 104.), permit me to remark, that St. Augustine, the celebrated Bishop of Hippo, was the person who caused to be engraved on his table the distich against detractors.  Possidius, in his Life of that Father (S.  Augustini, Opera Omnia, Paris, 1690, vol. x. part ii. p. 272.), gives the verses—­no doubt an adaptation of Horace—­thus:—­

   “Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam
      Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi.”

The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings of the pentameter:—­

    “Hac mensa indignam noverit esse suam.” 
    “Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi.”

LLEWELYN ST. GEORGE.

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Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford.—­At p. 157. of the “NOTES AND QUERIES,” your correspondent “B.” inquires about a pamphlet relating to the marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford.  “P.C.S.S.” cannot give the precise title of that pamphlet in question; but he is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts (Biblioth.  Brit.), and on that of his old friend Sylvanus Urban (Gent.  Mag. vol. xvii. p. 543.), that it was published in London, towards the end of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable and very disgraceful transactions to which it refers were afterwards (in 1749) made the subject of a novel, called Dalinda, or The Double Marriage.  Lond. 12mo.  Price threepence.

The gentleman who was the hero of this scandalous affair was Mr. Thomas Estcourt Cresswell, of Pinkney Park, Wilts, M.P. for Wootton Bassett.  He married Anne, the sole and very wealthy heiress of Edward Warneford, Esq.  As it cannot be the object of the “NOTES AND QUERIES” to revive a tale of antiquated scandal, “P.C.S.S.” will not place upon its pages the details of this painful affair—­the cruel injury inflicted upon Miss Scrope (the lady to whom Mr. Cresswell was said to have been secretly married before his union with Miss Warneford)—­and the base and unmanly contrivance by which, it was stated, that he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives at the same time.  Miss Scrope appears to have retained, for a considerable time, a deep sense of her injuries; for in 1749 she published a pamphlet, in her own name, called Miss Scrope’s Answer to Mr. Cresswell’s Narrative. (Lond.  Baldwin.  Price 2s. 6d.)

If “B.” should be desirous of further information, he is referred, by “P.C.S.S.,” to the General Evening Post of Oct. 3. and 31. 1747, to the Gentleman’s Magazine for that month and year, and to the same work, vol. xix. pp. 192. 288.

P.C.S.S.

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