_Snow of Chicksand Priory_.--"A.J.S.P." desires information respecting
the immediate descendants of R. Snow, Esq., to whom the site of {352}
Chicksand Priory, Bedfordshire, was granted, 1539: it was alienated
by his family, about 1600, to Sir John Osborn, Knt., whose descendants
now possess it. In Berry's _Pedigrees of Surrey Families_, p. 83., I
find an Edward Snowe of Chicksand mentioned as having married Emma,
second daughter of William Byne, Esq., of Wakehurst, Sussex. What was
his relationship to R. Snow, mentioned above? The arms of this family
are, Per fesse nebulée azure, and argent three antelopes' heads,
erased counterchanged, armed or.
_The Bristol Riots_.--"J.B.M." asks our Bristol readers what
compilation may be relied on as an accurate description of the Bristol
riots of 1831? and whether _The Bristol Riots, their Causes, Progress,
and Consequences, by a Citizen_, is generally received as an accurate
account?
1, Union Place, Lisson Grove.
_A Living Dog better that a Dead Lion_.--Can any of your readers
inform me with whom the proverb originated: "_A living dog is better
than a dead lion?_" F. Domin. Bannez (or Bannes), in his defence of
Cardinal Cajetan, after his death, against the attacks of Cardinal
Catharinus and Melchior Canus (_Comment. in prim. par. S. Thom._ p.
450. ed. Duaci, 1614), says--
"Certe potest dici de istis, quod de Græcis insultantibus
Hectori jam mortuo dixit Homerus, quòd _leoni mortuo etiam
lepores insultant_."
Query? Is this, or any like expression, to be found in Homer? If so,
I should feel much obliged to any of your correspondents who would
favour me with the reference.