J.E.B.  MAYOR.

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Genealogy of European Sovereigns.—­I send the full title of a book which I would recommend to your correspondent “Q.X.Z.,” (No. 6. p. 92.):—­

     GENEALOGIE ASCENDANTE,

JUSQU’AU QUATRIEME DEGRE INCLUSIVEMENTS, De tous les Rois et Princes de Maisons souveraines de l’Europe actuellement vivans; reduite en CXIV.  Tables de XVI.  Quartiers, composees selon les Principes du Blazon; avec une Table Generale.

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“La noblesse, Daugaux, n’est point une chimere, Quand sous l’etroite loi d’une vertu severe, Un homme, issu d’un sang fecond en demi-dieux, Suit, comme toi, la trace ou marchaient ses ayeux.”  Boileau, S.v.

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A BERLIN: 

Au Depens de l’Autheur:  se vend chez Etienne de Bourdeaux, Libraire; imprime chez Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel.

MDCCLXVIII.

I presume that it is of some rarity, never having met with any other copy than the one from which I transcribed this title.

Some of your correspondents may, perhaps, be able to give the name of the Author who, as far as I have had occasion to refer, seems to have done his work carefully.

T.W.

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Sir Stephen Fox.—­I have seen it stated in some biographical dictionary, that Sir Stephen Fox was a younger brother of “John Fox, Esq.,” who was a devoted Royalist at the time of the great Rebellion, and fought at the battle of Worcester, {251} and after the Restoration was Clerk of the Acatry, in the household of Charles the Second.

Mr. Suckling, in his History of Suffolk, claims for a family some time seated at Stradbrook, in that county, a consanguinity with the descendants of Sir Stephen.

On an altar-tomb in Stadbrook churchyard are inscribed notices of many members of this family, but without dates.  One is rather extraordinary, making the lives of a father and son together to amount to 194 years.  Amongst them is this:—­

“Here is hourly expected, Simon the next descendant, with his son Simon, who died young, tho’ still preserved to be interr’d with his father at the earnest request of his pious mother the Lady Hart.  And also Major John Fox, with his issue, who during the late rebellion loyally behav’d himself, undergoing with great courage not only the danger of the field, but many severe imprisonments.”

The arms on this tomb differ from those of Lords Ilchester and Holland, being simply three foxes’ heads erased.

Should this note supply a clue for your correspondent “VULPES” to identify Major John Fox with the brother of Sir Stephen, on knowing that he has found the scent I shall be able to assist him in unearthing the whole litter.

VENATOR.

French Maxim.—­The maxim inquired after by “R.V.” (No. 14. p. 215.) undoubtedly belongs to Rochefoucault.  I have met with a somewhat similar passage in Massillon:—­