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COHTBNTS.— N»  27, 

!!70TE8  :^^SfrWftlter  Scott » 1— Shftkjsi(e*riftn4»  2— PoUt-Lort,  8 
_i>hiirtPl-"  Uving  On*'!  Ufa  over  A««ln  "— Saeczlii^,  4— 
•fhr  iL<shm»Ji— •*Exami««it"— Old  Fttnciml  Cn*- 

tf,, ,  WD—**  Bonnte  DuDdec,"  5— Curioiu  Xniwoa- 

|<iUKRIl»:— •*  lioAl*  bcftforhif  eoiry"— "Ublogihell/'  7— 

■      **^n  «!..., -^-FaJrnieL.  tUe  Ajiiit— Tlie  ** OirmBgiioIo "— 

Ht^  1 1  vw  Badite— James  Pajriani — Matciuj- 

**  D«cK«r-6ikv)»p  "—A  '*  W&ter'bUut^*'  £r. 

BBPLMS:  — TUe  Wonifworthi,  d  — Da  QalBcoy:   Goii|ch'« 

F»;*,   lO-Anloirfmph   ot   Bufoa :    **To  Termughtr  on  HiJ 

Btrtlt-Daf/  11— The  Jowa  in  KoglAsd— UAOglii^  &Dd  Uo«iu- 

1  '-TAriniA  Fentoa.  DuchttU  of  Bolton— P»toriul 

xtijQ  aad  KngU^h  <4iianUty— Heraldic— '*Th" 

;./'  A:c—"  There 'b  tomewhat,"  &c.,  JS— Mr*. 

sl.iik.  ii.^ire    Uoncottijuiee— Dr.    WlUlam 

marriflbge,"  &C.— Popular  V<!f»ei 

rl«ya  oa  "  Play  '—KoUi' Lore  of 

'•  M&rkey "  —  Younga   "Night 

-•D«ide«  —  SeLzini;   Ck)rpw»    for 

way ■— Buda— CowTwiT :  Trooper 

....,._     i  .  jwU»— Swam,  16— Claaiical  Sign- 

tioaitU  •  iianiuii  ul  VViriii«<*y— "  How  they  brou<{bt,'' ^c. 
—  TUc  SMnllowfr  ^  Sbotten  Herring  —  Thomaa  Ffyo  — 
"Uloody*  — T»-  xvut-ri-,.,  RMd  Peninsular  Medals  —  8t. 
CkUi«ria«  of  .^  V>  ell,  Wisat  Feltiju— dUrna 

aaaPoeWir— i  ie*Uo}ent.lS-"ilcguiAld 

Tnrot*  •  Tall;.  ^. :  Atilgate  :  B*dcllffe  Family, 

1ft. 


0aM. 

BIB  WALTER  SCOTT. 

Mr.  Glftdstone,  Ln  a  lecture  on  S^ott  delivered 

I  at  the  Ha  warden  Literary  Institution  in  February, 

^1>^68,  ?aid  that  we  did  not  in  theae  days  appreciate 

t   writer  as  w©  ought,  and  thiit   newer 

-  ibhioQi*  had  for  ii  whde  (hut  only  for  n, 

.whdi:)  obaaired  hii<  splendid  fame.      Mr.  Glad- 

letone  confessed   himself   a    devoted    admirer  of 

I  Bcott,  whom  on  another  ocaision  ho  termed  "  the 

^fimt  nmong   the   Bons  of  Scotland,"  and  I   dare 

Ray  he  ejioke  th«  above  words  more  in  sorrow 

I  than  in  anger.     ^ly  reason  for  alluding  to  them 

i.  ♦»..!    T   „;.i.   i.^  point  out  that  a  recent 

r  to  prove  that  Mr,  Gkid- 

■     uiflniiil-.     Ik,irt1f.     :,i-k,|      that 

loubt 

,  _  dood, 

ions  with  redoubled  my."    A 

Aitken»  kui  just  contributed  a 

'  Golden  Tre;ii>ury  tSerieBj"* 

and   tki8   bnok   purports 

of  the  choicest  lyricji  of 

mi  (H^rafHitent  to  form  an 

ule  with  much  good 

I  id  tlie  volume  quite 

Ul  ine  pt..)iit-c  «►!    iiH  utle  page  in  giving  \i< 

i  chousett  lyrical  iio^lrv  of  tScotlnndj  with,  how- 


ever,  one  notable  exception.  One  name  is  con- 
Bpicuously  absent,  and  that  name  is— Sir  Walter 
Scott'B  !  I  do  not  mean  that  Soott  is  absolutely 
and  literally  unrepresented  j  but,  on  turning  to 
the  index,  what  was  my  surprise  to  find  that 
amongst  the  two  hundred  and  ten  pieces  which 
make  up  the  volume,  there  was  only  a  aingle  one 
by  Scott,  **  Jock  of  Hazeldean "  !  I  at  first 
thought  that  perhaps  Missi  Aitken  did  not  con- 
sider that  Soott,  although  a  Scottishman,  wrot« 
distinctively  Scotch  poetry  ;  but  this  cannot  be 
her  reason  for  almost  entirely  rejecting  him  from 
her  anthology.  There  tire  at  least  three  pieces  in 
the  book  which,  although  written  by  Scotchmen, 
are  cjuite  as  much  English  as  Scotch  —Allan  Gun- 
ningbim'a  "  A  wet  sheet  and  a  flowing  sea,"  Hogg^s 
"  Skylark/^  and  Locan's  "  Ode  to  the  Cuckoo/^ 
Indeed,  the  first  of  these,  so  far  fiom  being  Scot- 
tish, h,is  a  particularly  English  flavour  about  it. 
Now  it  would  be  easy  to  name  six  or  eight  of 
Scott's  lyrics  which  we  might  well  expect  to  find 
in  a  collection  like  Miss  Aitken's — "  Kosabelle,** 
"County  Guy,"  **Soldierj  rest,  thy  wtufare  o'er,*' 
"  O,  Brignall  banks  are  wdd  and  fair,"  "  March, 
march,  Ettrick  and  Teviotdale,"  and  the  **  Red 
field  of  HarLiw/*  in  the  Ajitiquaryi  those  glorioua 
verses  which,  as  Sir  Philip  Sidney  said  of  '*  Chevy 
Chase,*'  stir  the  heart  like  the  sound  of  a  trumpet. 
Some  of  the  above  lyrics,  taking  lyrical  poetry  in 
its  most  restricted  sense,  tm  meaning  simply  a  Bong, 
have  perhaps  never  been  surpassed,  except  by 
Shakspeare,  Bums;,  and  perkaps  Tennyson  in  his 
Pfineeis.  Miss  Aitken,  however,  goes  still  further, 
and  says  (page  6)  that  Allan  Bamsay  is  the  second 
of  Scotland's  poet*,  Burns  of  course  being  the  first. 
Truly  Mr.  Gladstone  knew  what  he  was  saying ; 
a  generation  has  arisen  which  knows  not  Scott. 
Alas  for  Scotland,  when  an  accomplished  Scottish 
hwly  presents  her  countrymen  with  a  volume  of 
Scottish  lyrics,  and  yet  considers,  I  presume  justly, 
that  Scott  is  so  little  to  their  taste  that  she  need 
only  include  a  aingle  specimen  of  hia  verse  in  her 
book ! 

It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  Scotland  owes 
more  than  half  her  fame  to  Soott,  who  i^'as 
tlio  first  to  unfold  the  glories  of  her  history 
and  the  beauties  of  her  scenery  before  the  eyes, 
not  only  of  Britain,  but  of  the  whole  ciriliewl 
world.  Yet  how  little,  compiuiitively  speaking, 
does  slie  appreciate  him  ;  how  coldly  does  she 
repay  **  the  debt  luunenso  of  endless  gratitude  ** 
which  she  owes  him ;  and  what  a  half-hearted 
affair  w^aa  the  Scott  centenary  fete  in  1&71  ! 
But,  iis  Mr.  Gladstone  said,  "If  we  do  not  now 
appreciate  Soott  as  we  ought,  it  is  our  misfortune, 
not  his.  The  fashion  of  the  moment  may  prefer 
the  neweat  to  the  best  ;  but  as  the  calm  order  of 
nature  is  resumed  after  a  storm,  so  the  pennanent 
judgment  of  mankind  will  regain  its  equilibrium, 
and  will  reader  the  honours  of  poetical  and  literary 


KOTKS  AND  QUEll 


16* a  11  JLLtl,  T4. 


achievement  where  they  are  due/*  These  worrls, 
eouiing  from  bo  accomplished  a  scholar  as  Mr, 
Gladstone^  are  indeed  comforting  to  all  true 
lovers  of  Scott, 

I  do  not  know  if  any  of  your  readers  have  ever 
noticed  that  Mrs,  Browning,  in  her  splendid 
Visiuii  of  Fods^  in  whieh  she  marahals  the  noble 
array  of  laurelled  hards  and  causes  them  to  pass 
before  our  eyes,  each  one  introduced  by  a  few 
lines  of  appropriate  and  happy  description,  findE* 
no  place  for  Scott,  nor  does  she  make  the  smallest 
allusion  to  him. 

Notwithatandingy  however,  the  prevailing  dis- 
loyalty t<J  the  illuatrious  Scottishman,  I  am  sure 
there  is  a  till  a  remnant  left  in  the  land  who  have 
not  bowed  the  knee  to  the  false  deity  of  Kensation- 
aliam,  nnd  whose  feelings  towards  Walter  Scott 
may  best  be  expressed  in  the  words  of  Tennyson's 
artist- 1  over,  ^*  My  first,  !ajst  love  ;  the  idol  of  my 
youth  ;  the  darling  of  my  manhood.''  Perhaps  I 
may  be  allowed  to  finish  the  quotiition,  and,  re- 
membering the  wonder  and  delight  with  which 
some  of  U8  !ir«t  read  Scott's  poems  and  romances 
in  our  sweet  hour  of  primej  add,  "the  most 
blessed  memory  of  mine  age," 

JONATHAM'  BoUClttER, 

['*Amen!^*  to  Mr.  Bouchier's  quoted  wordi.  The 
admirers  of  Scott,  however,  need  not  fear  for  tLo  Rfoat 
object  of  their  admiration.  Mrs,  Browning  omitted 
Scott  from  her  Virwn  of  PotU.  So  Addi&on  left  SfatLk- 
speare  ttnnamed  in  his  Account  of  tht  Qrtatat  Engliih 
Potlt  {addre«ed  to  SacherereH).  ^o  much  the  worse  for 
Addison^  who  also  sneered  at  Chaucer  and  at  Spender  ! 
The  euccessive  cheap  cditionji  if  Fcott^s  Novels  are  so 
many  proofs  of  his  undying  Ttoiiulartty.  The  editions  of 
his  poems  for  less  thau  a  shining  show  how  thoroughly 
**  popular  *  ho  is,  in  the  best  sense  of  that  word»  Within 
the  Wt  four  or  five  years  new  dramas,  founded  on  his 
workSf  b^TC  been  successfully  placed  upon  the  sta^e. 
These  include  The  Lady  of  tht  Lak:,  Keniluvrtkt  /ran- 
koi^  and  The  Fortunes  cj  y'itfii.  In  tho  last  draxna  Mr. 
Fhc'lps  proved  his  line  nuality  as  an  actor  by  his  masterly 
performance  of  King  James.  For  the  coming  8€b*ou  at 
J>rur/  Lane  a  play  is  preparing,  which  is  dmwn  from  the 
same  inexhaustible  source,  nanielj,  The  Tatunnan.  The 
enthusiasm  which  the  novelty  aod  brilliancy  of  tho 
trtfiiaurcB  excited  when  they  were  first  delirered  by 
Scott  to  tho  public, —pOFseasions  for  ever, — has  subsided^ 
us  II  matter  of  course ;  but  there  is  a  wider  sense  now, 
and  a  prfjfo under  popular  appreciation  of  their  ines* 
timable  ralued 


8HAKSPEARIANA, 

Shakspkare's  Name. — There  would  have  been 
less  difficulty  in  arriving  at  the  derivation  of  tho 
niiiue  of  our  great  poet  had  it  been  viewed,  not  as 
one  of  an  exceptiomil  character,  but  as  belonging 
to  a  diBtinct  cIom  of  sobriquets  that  have  become 
hereditary.  Tlie  nicknames  given  to  lower-claa^ 
officials  some  centuries  ago,  mi3i  as  *"  tipstaffs  ^'  and 
"elearers  of  the  way/'  were  all  but  invariably  hits 
at  the  ojiciaus  ana  meddliwme  cJiatadtr  of  their 
duties.    These  duties  were  discharged  mainly  by 


the  display  of  the  symbol  of  office  which  they  held 
in  their  hand.  We  can  readily  understand  the 
crowd  outijiide  the  sacred  ring  poking  fun  ni  these 
well-ft'd  orticialii  through  the  mefiium  of  the  baton 
which  they  bore.  Various  cant  fcenua  were  em- 
ployed, but  the  ingredient  of  all  was  "wag"  or 
"  ahiike.^  Theee  terms  came  even  to  be  used  more 
generdlly.  A  silly  swaggerer  became  a  **  wag- 
fenther-'  (Halliwell);  a  woman  with  a  tmiling 
dress  a  "wag-tail"  (Halliwell) ;  while  Smith,  ''  the 
ailver-ton^ed  preacher,*'  says  of  a  "graceless 
boy  "  that  he  will  prove  a  "  wag-string,"  that  ia, 
like  a  bow  relaxed*  Thus  of  "  shake  "  also.  A 
bully  was  called  n  "shake-buckler"  (Halliwell% 
and  a  turnkey  a  **  shake-lock.'^  Let  us  see  how  all 
this  atl'ected  our  nomenclature.  Let  us  take 
"wag"  first.  "Robert  Wafrgeataff"  is  found  in 
the  Hundred  RoIIf,  "Richard  Wflge-ttiir*  in 
Proc.  ;ind  Ord*  Privy  Council,  and  "  Mabill  Wag- 
Hpere  '*  in  the  Coldin^hum  Priory  Records  (Surteeis 
yoc).  **  Wag-horn  "  still  exiatB.  It  was  Captain 
Waghorn  who  was  tried  for  the  wreck  of  th& 
Royal  George  in  17&2.  So  far  of  the  term  "  wtig/* 
Let  us  now  turn  to  "  shake."  "  l^imon  Shake-lok  '* 
occurs  in  the  Pari.  Writs,  "  Henry  Shake-hmnce  " 
in  the  Hundred  Rolls,  **  Hugh  Shake-shaft "  in 
8t.  Ann's  Register,  Manchester  (date  1744)«  and 
"William  Shuke-^pere '*  in  Dury  St.  Edmunds 
Wills  {Cam,  Soc).  Of  course  I  could  give  oth«' 
in.«tances  of  all  the  above,  but  one  I  think  will 
suffice.  You  will  see  that  "  Wag-spere  ■'  is  but 
synonynioubt  with  the  poet's  name.  William 
Shakspeare,  I  ciinnot  doubt,  was  descended  from 
some  officer  of  the  law,  or  one  who  held  service 
under  some  feudal  lord ;  while  his  name  must  be 
viewed  as  belonging  distinctively  to  the  nicknau>e 
class.  I  will  say  a  word  or  two  at  another  time 
about  tho  poet's  son  **  Hamnct/'  who  bore  a  purely 
Christian  name,  althougb,  if  I  be  not  mistaken, 
this  has  not  been  observed  before, 

Charles  W.  Bardslby. 

"  Mars  his  sword." — -  In  Abbott's  Shakt' 
*/wr<iWart  Qrammar^  §  217,  we  find  **"  Hu  was  some- 
times used  by  mistake  for  s\  the  sign  of  the  pos- 
sessive case,  particularly  after  a  proper  name/* 
Professor  Latham  {English  G-rammar^  "Pleonasm  ** 
in  the  Syntax  of  Pronouns),  however,  takea  hu 
in  such  aises  to  be  the  possessive  pronoun,  and  I 
conceive  he  is  right.  In  German  such  expressions- 
wid^mi  Professor tcinc Fran  f  "  the  Professor  his  wife" 
(dern  Profumt  being  the  dative),  are  commonly 
used,  though  only  in  conversation.  Again,  wo  find 
it  in  Dutch:  thus  in  the  Maayden  of  vondcl,  i.  1, 
we  have  Marnl  zijn  g^€$i,  "  Marsilius  big  ghost,-' — 
Van  Moten's  note  on  this  being,  **  As  at  the  pre- 
sent day,  in  the  language  of  conversation  for 
ghost  of  Marsilius."  Again,  in  the  works  of 
Fritz  Reuter,  written  in  the  Mecklenburg-Schwerin 
dialect,  such  expressions  are  to  be  found  in  every 


ff"  a  Ih  JoxT  4.  74-1 


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e  have  Frih  Bahlmmin^ji  sin  ?f"?fjif, 
lann  lib  sausage  " —  Ut  ^ic  FntnzoBai- 
iid,  j>,  :i:^.i  ;  Hn  oik  Moder  thr  i/a/f,  **  lii»  old 
mother  her  heikrt " — Id.,  p.  22() ;  fUn  Mijllcr  £^in 
yridrkh^  '*  the  iDLller  his  Fridrich,'^  poMim. 
H^rts  tsa  will  be  obierved,  the  noun  which  comes 
first  iH  in  the  genitive  or  dative ;  it  is  ditficult  to 
«iy  which,  a»  the  inflexions  are  the  same.  Agivin, 
int;  to  Quickbom,  by  Kk^j  Groili,  written  in 
DitLnwirsch  dialect,  we  find  such  expreasiona 
frequents,  us  uns  Htrr  sin  ffiw,  *'our  Lord 
hi»  House" — Quickhom^  sey^nih  edition,  p.  13^; 
Pock  dn  Fru^  "  Froggie  his  wife ''— M,  p.  197. 
In  this  diAle<;t  it  h  impossible  to  siiy  in  what  case 
the  firet  noun  is,  as  there  are  no  intiexions.  In 
theie  lan^ujigiet,  or  dialects,  it  is  quite  certain  that 
$€uif  or  nUf  is  the  pos^eesive  pronoun  and  nothing 
ol8» ;  why  then  should  we  hnd  a  difficulty  in  a 
dorrwponding  usage  in  our  own  lan<^age  I 

Mr.  Abbott,  in  support  of  his  view,  that  hu  is 
ttB«d  in  such  cases  by  mistake  for  ^s^  says,  "  Afler 
Ibe  feiuinine  name  Guinivere,  we  have  in  the  later 
text  of  Layamon,  iL  511,  *for  Owenayfer  hu 
l0Te»'  "    The  passage  at  full  length  is — 

**  Arthur  wm  in  CornwuUe 
Al  thane  wynter, 
For  Gwenayfer  hi*  love 
Womman  hirii  leofest."* 

It  ij^ms  to  me  possible  that  "  lore  "  may  here 
tfUJid  for  **  lover,"  as  we  have  *' mine  own  tnie 
loTl^  "  pwmm  in  the  old  ballads,  in  which  case  the 
inoanifig  of  the  line  will  be,  **  for  the  gi\ke  of  his 
kire  Gwenayfer."  This,  however,  I  leave  to  others 
to  decide.  F.  J.  \\ 

**  Lovt's  Labour's  Loht  "  (5**^  S.  h  3tJft.) — I  may 
fcry  Bofely  assert  that  there  is  but  one  authority 
for  the  assertion  intputed  to  Burbage,  that  this 
^Uy  would  please  t^ueen  Elizabeth,  viz.,  a  letter 
from  8ir  \\  alter  Cope  to  Viscount  Cranbome, 
darted  1R<>4,  preserved  in  Lord  Salisbury's  library 
at  Hatfield.  SpitniEXu  will  find  it  printed  (with 
no  very  commendable  accumcy)  in  the  third 
ft  of  the  Koyal  Commission  of  Historical 
ai4cripU|  1872,  p»  148.    All  Burbage  "wiyes" 

At 

"  ThtT  ys  no  new  pUje  that  the  queue  hath  not  aeene, 
hare  Retjrved  an  olde  one,  Cawled  Lovet 
rr,  nlijcli  for  wytC  and  mirthe  he  sayea  wiU 
excediugly/' 

Jabez. 
Club. 


FOLKLOBE. 

LK-LoaE  OF  THE  Tuoay  (5*^  S.  i.  347.)— I  am 

to  oifer  E.  J.  C  much  infomiation  in 

^Tfp!  first  piirt  of  his  query,  but  may  call 

'  Kirs  .  to  some  superstitions  obviously  re- 

*  1»  the  earlier  edition  it  ia  '^  and  al  for  ^Venhicuere 


hited  to  that  mentioned  by  him.     In  Suffolk,  to 
sleep  in  a  room  with  the  whitethorn  bloom  in  it 
during  the  month  of  May  "  will  surely  be  followed 
by  some  great  misfortune."     Aod — 
**  If  you  sweep  the  house  wit]i  '  '  1  broom  in  May, 

Y>c  sure  to  sweep  the  head  *'  away/* 

Chow  Js      -,  ,  .  i  Lont  p.  113. 

Turning  to  the  latter  portion  of  the  query,  the 
origin  of  the  superstition  in  question  is  part  of  a 
wide  and  curious  subject ;  but  three  points  seem  to 
deserve  special  prominence. 

The  first  is  the  connexion  in  the  minds  of  the 
primitive  Aryans  of  the  thorn  and  fire,  a  connexion 
traceable,  as  in  the  case  of  the  rowan,  &e.,  to  the 
red  colour  of  the  fruit  of  the  tree.  Much  infor- 
mation  as  to  ancient  notions  on  the  subject^  and 
the  conceptions  in  which  they  originated,  will  l>e 
found,  if  your  correspondent  cares  to  pursue  the 
inquiry,  in  Kuhn*s  treatise,  The  Decent  of  Fir^ 
and  the  Dnnk  of  th€  Ood»  (Berlin,  1859),  and  in 
Mr.  Kellys  Curiosities  of  Indo-Europmn  Tradi- 
tion and  Folk  Loi'€^  an  able  sketch,  not  so  well 
known  ns  it  deserves. 

The  next  point  is  the  association  of  the  thorDj 
as  well  as  rowan,  &c.,  with  the  celebration  of  the 
festival  of  the  returning  Sun,  May- day.  That 
festival  was  apparently  understood  to  miirk  the 
coming  back  ot  the  Fire,  through  its  supposed 
great  source,  the  Sun,  aft-er  the  durk  and  cold 
winter  ;  and  one  h  prepared  to  Hnd  the  tire  trees, 
the  thorn  and  rowan,  figuring  in  the  celebration.  In 
Westphalia,  the  herdsman  on  May-duy  ** quickens" 
his  heifers,  striking  them  over  the  haunches  and 
loins  with  a  rowan  sapling,  which  has  been  cut  at 
or  before  sunrise,  and  praying  that,  **  as  sap  comes 
into  the  birch  and  beech,  and  the  leaf  comes  upon 
the  oak,  so  may  milk  fill  the  young  cow^s  udder." 
A  kindred  practice  survives  in  the  county  of 
GriUway,  where  caorthann  gads,  i.e.  withes  of  the 
rowan,  cut  before  sunrise,  and  twisted  into  circlet*, 
are  placed  on  the  churn,  the  chum-dash,  and  the 
plough.  In  the  same  loc^ility  it  is  the  furze  (which 
is  expected  to  be  found  in  bloom)  which  is  used 
for  the  Dos-Bmltainc^  or  May-bush.  In  England 
the  whitethorn  was  expected  to  be  in  bloom.  **  To 
be  delivered  from  witches  they  hang  in  their  entries 
(among  other  thint^)  hay-thorn,  otherwine  white- 
thorn, gathered  on  May-day."  (Scott's  JJUcovery 
of  Witchcraft,  in  Brand,  i.  217.     See  also  i.  22U^) 

Kow,  if  the  thorn  was  thus  asaociated  with  the 
festival  marking  the  beginning  of  summer,  and  its 
blooming  connected  in  the  jx^pular  mind  with 
May-day,  it  is  conceivable  that  the  flowering  of 
the  tree  before  May  would  be  looked  upon  as  some- 
thing sti'ange  and  ominous,  and  we  should  have 
some  explanation  of  the  superstitious  notion  men- 
tioned by  E.  J.  C.  that  such  early  bloom  bodes 
misfortune.  It  may  be  noted,  in  connexion  with 
this  ide^  that  the  blooming  of  an  apple-tree  after 

th«  fruit  L.  ^lymyigllliygiy^^ 


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p*S.lI.JirLT4,74. 


"A  bloom  upon  the  apple  when  the  apples  are  ripe 
la  ft  Btira  tennination  to  somebody^  life/' 

( North&mptonahire,) 

An  old  Baw,  though  th^  couplet  embodying  it  is 
nmnifestly,  in  the  form  her©  given*  of  latS  dtde 
enough. 

Apnrtj  however,  from  what  has  been  said  as  to 
the  possible  reference  of  the  whitethorn  superstition 
in  question,  and  other?  like  it,  to  the  ancient 
chnracter  of  the  thorn  tU3  a  fire  tree,  and  its  con- 
sequent connexion  with  the  solar  festrvrd  of  May, 
ther«  18  a  numerous  and  well-knowTi  cla^s  of  jwpula? 
notions  which  throw  light  on  the  matter,  namely, 
those  which  associate  the  ideaa  of  the  soul  and 
death  with  various  irfttV^'  objects,  butteiHiea,  moths, 
lilies,  and  (white)  pigeons  and  tither  birds  {Clioice 
HoUf!,  pp.  17  and  til ;  DMin  UiiirfrHty  Ma^n- 
9ine,  Oct.  1873,  "  Folk-Lore  of  the  Lily" ;  and  Long 
Ago,  IR73,  *' Butterflies  in  Folk-Lore*').  Some 
cjurioua  items  of  folk-lore  in  connexion  with  thin 
tree  w^ould,  I  think,  be  found  aunriving  in  Ireland, 
where  it  is  often  found,  as  a  **  monument  bush,'* 
marking  old  places  of  sepulture,  or  planted  about 
ancient  rsiths.  Any  »uch  scmps  of  old  Celtic 
Buperatition,  if  got  from  the  lipa  of  the  people 
themsetvea,  and  not  from  so-called  treatises  on  the 
subject,  would,  I  should  think,  be  worthy  of  a 
place  in  **  N.  &  Q.;^  where  Irish  folk-lore  is  not 
particularly  well  represented  at  present. 

David  Fitzobrald. 

HimmernDith. 


Calomtil»— All  the  lexico^iphers  and  cfcymolo- 
gista  who  mention  this  word*  seem  agreed  that  it 
is  deriyed  from  K-aAcW,  beautiful,  and  /MAas^, 
bkck,t  but  they  are  by  no  means  at^ree^l  whtj  it 
was  called  so,  ^lahn  (in.  Webster)  tells  ua  it  \vm 
"in  iklhision  to  ita  properties  and  colour."  Un- 
fortunntely,  calomel,  inste^ui  of  being  of  a  bmuH/ul 
blachf  is  pure  irhiU,X  so  that  it  would  seem  as  if 
Mahn  had  never  seen  c^ilomel!  Littre  says 
cautiously,  "  ainsi  nomm«,  dit-on,  parce  que  le 
chimiste  qui  le  ddcouvrit,  vit,  dans  la  preparation, 
S6  cLoDger  une  belle  poudre  noire  en  une  poudre 
blanohe."§  But  is  it  the  fact  that  such  a  change 
takes  place  ?  I  expect  not,  but  perhaps  some  one 
of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  will  teU  us. 

*  S«Ter&l  etymologists,  u  Dlei,  Seheler,  Bmoheti 
Wedgwood,  and  Ed.  M tiller,  omit  the  word  Altogether, 
either,  I  suppowj,  bccuQBe  it  is&  techniciil  word,  or  becdUBe 
they  had  no  sattsfActory  explanation  to  offer. 

f  Johnson,  in  ?i>caking  of  the  dematton^  eajs  nothing 
more  than  "  calomelaji,  a  chymical  word." 
I  When  impure,  it  is  of  a  jt  11  o wish  white,  but  it  ta  ncrer 
Lof  any  colour  in  the  least  dejjrce  nppronchinji;  blaclr. 
I    $  When  lime  water  ia  added  to  CAJomel  a  blackish 
^■powder  it  thrown  down,  and  the  n^Jted  btaeJt  ipask  is 
produced.     But  hew  the  change  ia  the  conrerao  of  that 
noted  by  Littr6,  and  the  precipitate,  so  far  frr>m  being 
of  a  beautiful  black,  ia  retdlyiather  of  a  dark  grey  colour 
(mb-oxide  of  mercury). 


I 

Of, 

ledy 
la^B 


Pereim,    in    bin    Materia   Mtdica   (ed.    1849, 
p.  847),  speaks  a  little  more  explicitly.     He  tel 
us  that  **  the  term  calomel  .  ,  »  .  was  first  U8( 
by  Sir  Theodore  Turquet  de  Mayenne  (who  dii 
in  1655),  in  consequence;  a«  some  aay,  of  his  havi 
had  a  favourite  black  servant  who  prepared  it ;  orT 
according  to  other?,  because  it  was  a  ^ood  remedy 
for  the  hl/ich  bile.'' 

But  Hooper,  in  his  Medical  Dittionary^ 
us  what  I  conceive  to  be  the  true  solution  o 
difficulty.      His    words    are:    "This    name 
originally  applied  to  the  Aethiops  mineral  or  bh 
sulphuret  of  merrnty ;  it  was  afterwards  applied 
by  Sir  Theodore  Mayeme*  to  the  chloride  of  mej 
cury  [calomel],   in   honour  of  a  favourite   ne[ 
servant  whom  he  employed  to  prepare  it.**    Mai 
{op,  eit)  also  refers  to  Atthioptumncral^  ji,  it,  "  G 
rael,"  but  he  evidently  thinkt^  that  they  are  t 
different  names  for  the  same  thing,  and  therein 
is  m  (Striken. 

We  see,  therefore,  that  it  was  really  owing 
a  kind  of  joke  or  jeii  de  woNt  that  the  name 
t'a^otn^i=beautiful  (or  good)  hhrJc^  became  applii 
to  a  white  powder ;  and  confusion  and  error  hai 
been  the  resuU.  F.  Chakcb. 

Sydenham  Hill. 

*^  Living    Oj^ie's    Lifk    ovkh    Aoain,**— -The 
following  ia  from  Franklin^ m  Life:- — 

"When  I  retlect,  as  I  frequently  do,  upon  the  felici^~ 
I  have  enjoyed,  I  enmetiine^  say  to  nijstlf  that,  wefl 
the  trffer  made  true,  I  would  engage  to  i-un  again,  fro* ' 
bcgiiinln^  to  end,  the  same  career  of  life.     All  I  wou 
ask  should  be  the  privilege  of  an  author,  to  correct,  m^ 
second  edition,  certain  errors  of  the  first.'' 

W,  A.  C. 

S?tKEZfKG, — I  tmnslate  from  the   Pali   t<;xt 
the  Gagga  Jaiaka^   publii?hed  by  Fausboll  {T4 
Jatahas,   Tnibner,    1872),   the   following   curioua 
reference  to  a  very  ancient  superstition  : — 

"One  day,  Buddha,  while  seated  in  the  midst  of 
large  congregation  of  difciplcs,  to  whom  he  woe  prcacl 
ing  the  Law,  chanced  to  snreEC.     Thereupon  the  pri 
etcliiiming  May  the  Blesied  Lord  live,  may  the  Wulcoi 
One  live,  made  a  loud  noise  and  BcriouBly  interrupted 
discourge.     Accordingly,    Buddha    addressed    them    a# 
follows :  Tell  me,  pHests,  when  a  person  sneeaea,  if  the 
byatanders  say,  May  you  lire,  will  ho  live  the  l^'Wpcr  ( 
die  the  aooner  for  it  I- Certainly    not,   liord.  —  Thei 
Briesta,  if  any  one  sneexes  yon  are  not  to  say  to  hit 
May  you  live;  and  if  any  of  you  ehall  «ay  it,  let  hii 
he  guilty  of  a  transgression.     From  that  time  fos  ' 
when  the  priests  sneezed  and  the  bystandHrs  exclaims 
May  ynu  live,  Sins,  the  priests,  fearful  of  transgressini 
held  their  peace.     People  took  offence  at  thii :  Whi 
said  they,  do  these  priestly  sons  of  Sakya  mean  by  m 

*  Perciru.  fis  we  havc  secfn,  calls  thia  iianta  Mayenn^ 
but '^  \nnB^nCoftt^ftition$'Li^rifim{\Oihed\tioi 

1851  I)  find  the  name  given  as  Mayeme  (wilj 

the   a.tm    i.,.M  instead  of  1655),  I  preiome   thut   th 
latter  form  is  the  correct  one. 

t  Sir  Thtodorp  mu^t  bare  noticed  the  eontnuit 
tween  the  vrhitmas  of  the  powder  and  the  blaeknat  < 
his  servant 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 


I 


iflg  ft  word  when  wo  f»y»  May  yon  live,  Sin  ?  The 
rr  camo  to  Buddh&'s  can.  PriGft?,  he  said,  the 
laity  '^"  '>  ■  ">mer-«tone  of  the  chore h  ;  when  h&jioen 
my,  >  e,  i^iri,  1  grre  my  SBBflticm  to  your  reply- 

ing, o  you/* 

Fiv*fti  tliib  it  appears  tbut,  in  ancient  Hindust^m, 
it  Wfi3  customary,  when  a  person  sneezed,  for  the 
hywUoiden  to  excioiin,  **  May  you  live  !  *'  (jloa),  anti 
etiqtieite  required  tliat  the  sneezer  ihould  reply, 
**  Long  life  to  you ! "  (chiram  jivathji)-  The 
JftUka  Book,  firom  whieh  this  story  19  taken,  m 
part  of  the  Buddhist  Scriptures,  and  belongs  to  a 
period  far  antecedent  to  the  Christian  Era,  The 
lapentition  with  regard  to  sneezing  is  a  very  wide- 
•ptiiii  one.  It  would  bo  interesting  (if  it  has  not 
bfi^Ti  Mlr*i!*jlv  done)  to  bring  together  references  to 
it  fr  eraturesof  different  countrie?^.     For 

iqyiLi     _.  1    j^pening  to  look  through  Clodd's  Child- 
0/  the  frorld  the  other  day,  I  came  upon  the 
tng  pii^aage : — 
*•  According  to  mn  old  Jewish  legend,  the  cutitom  of 
myinsr  'Ood  b1e»  yoa'  when  a  perflon  sneezes  datea 
from  '       '       The  Kabbis  «ay  that  before  tbo  time  that 
J«r  n  raeeied  onc«,  and  that  wa«  ilie  end  of 

th«>ii  '::k  slew  them.     Thii  law  wai  sot  aside  on 

tk«  praver  **(  Jacob,  on  condition  that  in  all  nationt  a 
mamtm  uiould  he  hallowed  by  the  word*  *  God  bles»  you.' " 

R.    0.   CniLDKES. 

Ttne  FLYrNG  Dutchman,— In  the  narrative  of 
the  voyapea  of  H.M.  Khips  "  Leven  "  and  "  Barra- 
conta,'*  under  Captain  W,  F,  Owen,  ILN.,  in  the 
jwr  1823,  the  following  curious  story  is  published : 
**  In  the  evcninK  of  the  6th  of  ApHK  when  off  Port 
Danger,  the  Barracouta  wie  eeen  about  two  mites  to 
]«ew&nl.  struck  with  the  sitj polarity  of  licr  Ijuinp  so 
Hon  after  us,  we  at  tint  concluded  that  it  cjuld  not  be 
Imt  ;  but  the  peculiarity  of  her  rigging,  and  other  ctr- 
anDAtances,  convinced  ue  that  we  were  not  so  mistaken. 
Ifay,  to  diftinctly  waa  ihe  Hccn,  that  many  well-knoTm 
Am  could  be  ob«er?cd  on  deck,  looking  towards  our 
ihi^^  Aflef  keeping  thus  for  some  time,  we  became 
CBf^find  that  the  nuule  no  effort  Uy  join  us ;  but,  on  the 
eoQtfmry*  ttood  away.  Bot  being  so  near  the  port  to 
wbfeh  we  were  both  destined,  Captain  Owen  did  not 
Mlach  much  importance  to  thia  proceeding,  and  we 
•fOordtrjrty  continued  our  course.  At  sunset  it  was 
okae-  -he  hove  to,  and  sent  a  boat  away,  appa- 

iini  I'urpiDwe  of  picking  up  a  man  overboard. 

Jlttri:  a  . —  i'ji^Ut  we  could  not  perceive  any  light  or 
OliMrmdieation  of  her  tocaHty.  The  neitt  morning  we 
n^orod  in  Simon's  Bay,  where,  for  a  whole  week,  we 
w«w  lu  ftnxious  expectation  of  licr  arrival ;  but  it  alter- 
wifds  appeared  that  at  this  very  period  the  rsiirraoouta 
mttnt  TiftTf  biren  aboTC  three  hundrea  miles  from  ug,  and  no 
oUi^  ^^e  same  clan  was  ever  seen  a  bout  the  Cape*" 

'   of  the  narrative  disclaims  any  in- 
t4i  excite  the  supernatural  feelings  of  his 
Arr^ptin^  the  story  a«  true  {and  it  is 
t  f  -tible  weight  of  authority), 

,  out  of  all  the  Fhipa  sailinp^ 
lie  one  which  the  law  of  refraction 
tnjtired  np  in  view  of  the  **  Leven  '* 
:.r  snip^  own  consoit  in  n  deadly  and  perilous 
F.  w!  Chessox. 


"  Excumgent/' — I  have  not  heard  this  North- 
unibrianism  lately.  I  fancy  it  h  rather  slang  than 
a  provincial iam.  It  is  applied  to  a  person  or 
thing  "  got  up  "  more  emartly  than  usual^  *'  Where 
are  you  going,  you  are  quite  exctinigent/  " — **  How 
do  you  likemynewbonnct  ?"— "Oh,  it  is  quite  cx- 
cumgent."  Extra  gent(eel)  is,  I  presutnc,  the 
etyniologj%  It  is  among  servants  I  have  heard  it 
used.  P.  P. 

Old  FtTNERAL  Customs  int  Cape  Toww. — By 
an  old  colonial  Dutch  law,  now  almost  forgotten, 
when  a  man  died  in  debt^  leaving  a  widow  and 
family,  the  hearse  was  brought  before  the  door  in 
the  presence  of  a  largo  concourse  of  friends  and 
neighbour,  the  widow  came  forth,  locked  the  door, 
and  placed  the  key  on  the  coffin,  thus  being  ro- 
lexised  from  her  husband's  debts.  The  la^t  record 
of  this  ceremony  being  performed  is  as  fitr  back  as 
1823.  It  was  formerly  the  practice,  when  any  re- 
spectable person  was  interred^  to  have  white  sand 
strewn  in  the  street  from  the  house  door  to  tho 
grave.  This  ban  of  late  years,  in  Gape  Town  at 
least,  been  discontinued^  but  may  still  exist  in  tho 
more  remote  Dutch  villagea.  At  Dutch  funerals, 
in  olden  days,  two  respectably  dresaed  men  (ti-op- 
schlutera),  got  up  in  cocked  hats  and  black  fttlk 
stockings,  were  generally  engaged  to  form  tho  In&t 
couple  of  mourners  in  the  funeral  procession.  The 
popular  opinion  was  that  the  h\8tr  couple  took  all 
the  ill  luck  supposed  to  wait  on  the  last  conple 
into  and  out  of  the  churchyard,  no  friend  liking 
to  figure  last  at  a  funeral  Formerly  no  regpectablo 
family  buried  their  de^d  until  after  dark,  when 
each  mourner  was  attended  by  his  sUive  carrying  a 
lighted  lantern.  The  appeamncje  of  such  a  procession 
wjis  very  strange  to  meet  in  the  narrow,  and  then 
unlighte<i,  streets  of  ( Vipe  Town.  Hiitcbment*  of 
the  iirnifl  of  the  principal  deceased  otticials  of  tho 
old  Dutch  Government  were  formerly  suspended 
in  the  "  Oudo  Keerk  '■  on  the  Heercngnicht,  and 
presented  some  very  curious  and  interesting  speci- 
mens of  old  Batavian  heraldry.  They  are  now, 
however,  nearly  all  removed,  and  lie  rotting  in  n 
himber  room  in  the  vicinity  of  the  church,  in  com-- 
pany,  it  is  said,  with  a  few  valuable  pictureH  of 
the  Dutch  school,  long  lost  to  the  public  eye, 
Tliese  and  many  other  primitive  Dntch  customs 
are  gradually  disappearing,  and  tho  modes  and 
habits  of  English  domestic  life  have  almost  snper- 
Beded  the  quaint  and  homely  manners  which  pre- 
vailed in  the  City  of  Van  Riebeck  to  a  period  at 
late  as  the  first  three  decades  of  the  present  cen- 
tury. I  am  indebted  to  an  old  friend  and  tjuondam 
correspondent  of  *'  N.  &  Q.^'  for  some  of  the  id>ove 
interesting  notes.  H.  Mall. 

Lavender  Bill. 

**BovNiE  Duypitp:," — From  a  small  volume 
which  professes  to  teach  boy»*  tlie  history  of  Hcot^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIED 


P^-S.!!.  JuLr4,*7i; 


the  death  of  Lord  Dimdc^c,  written  in  a  »tjle 
ueiirly  as  stilted  as  that  of  the  mendndous  his- 
torian Wodrow : — 

**  CljVTcrliouflc  ncvpT  knew  that  ho  had  won  a  Tictory. 
He  fell  at  the  beginning  of  the  action  pierced  i>y  a  mns* 
l(Ct  ball,  wkich  entered  beneath  his  nrm.  When  one  in 
ii  pack  of  hungry  wolrea  i?  killedi  the  rest  turn  upon 
bim  and  eat  hirn  np,  ClaTerhoufle'e  own  men.  true  to 
their  savage  instinct  of  plunder,  stripped  hi§  body,  and 
left  it  naked  ULpon  the  field,  where  it  was  with  difficulty 
distinguiihed  from  the  other  bodies  of  the  fallen." 

Lord  Bundet^,  created  a  viseount  in  the  secoud 
year  of  JaDies  II.,  did  not  die  on  the  field  of 
Killiecninkie.  He  was  mortally  wounded,  but 
not  in  the  beginninjx  of  the  action,  and  w(ls  carried 
to  the  house  of  Old  Bhm*,  at  that  time  the  inn, 
where  J  (juite  aware  of  the  success  of  his  manter's 
troopsj  he  sank  the  next  mornings  and  waa  buried — 

** For  a  gable  shroud 

8bcathod  in  bis  iron  panoply/* 

in  a  vault  in  the  old  church  of  Blair.     Had  tbe 

Hij^hJiinders^  likened   by  the    reverend  historian 

to  Eun^r}^  wolves,  "  true  to  their  mvage  nature/' 

wished  to  treat  w^ith   such    l>rat*d  indignity  the 

pbodj  of  their   ve Derated    "  Black   John   of    the 

f  Battles/*  would  they  have  put  olf  time  in  doing  so, 

I  "when  they  had  Huch  a  tlock  of  runaway  sheep 

I  (without  a  .Hhephertl)  as  iVIackay-a  array  to   fall 

f  ttpon  'i 

My  friend  Mr*  Robertson »  of  Old  Blair,  has 
"kindly  furnished  me  with  the  following  curious 
tradition  : — 

'•My  information  regardinjjf  the  circuniBlances  of 
ClRTerhousie^H!  death,  was  derived  from  an  old  man  who 
died  at  Aldclune  last  winter,  about  the  age  of  70. 

*^  His  etory  waa  tliat  be  bad  t>een  told  by  an  old  troman 
who  lived  at  Aldolune,  and  was,  I  tbimk,  his  grand  auiit> 
that  her  father,  who  waa  a  boy  nt  the  time  of  the  battle 
©f  Killiccrankie,  lay  concealed  on  the  hill  above  Urrard 
niinrory)  during  the  engagement,  and  that  he  foil" wed 
Ihe  party  vfho  carried  Claverhouse  to  the  inn  at  Old 
Blair,  and  that  ChLverhou^e  died  in  the  inn  the  following 
Oay.*' 

A.  A. 

CcuiousTreasoxadle  Lktter* — The  man  who 
•  wrote  the  following  letter  had  been  Ioujt  suspected 
€»f  giving  treasonable  information  Uy  the  enemy  ; 
^»nd  Government  set  a  spy  over  him,  by  whos^ 
exertions  they  procured  the  letter  directed  to  a 
hou&e  at  Paris.  At  first  they  imagined  they  had 
bit  on  the  wront;  person,  when  a  few  dny^  after- 
wards a  second  letter,  directed  by  the  ajime  hand, 
to  the  same  person,  containing  only  the  fij^U'es,  as 
^  ander  it,  was  hrou^^ht  by  the  infonnaut  to  Govern- 
inent  ;  when,  after  a  little  considtation,  they  dis- 
covered it  was  a  key  to  the  tin^t  letter,  and  accord- 
ingly hud  the  writer  in  close  confinement  till,  at 
the  earnest  intercession  of  liis  friends,  he  was 
suilered  to  leave  this  country,  under  a  promise  of 
not  returning  during  the  war  : — 

*'  London,  April  6,  179S. 
Dear  Friend,— As  I  findtJiert  Man  opportunity,  1  write 
to  say  how  wc  mt ;  my  daughter  Mary,  who  vraa  fere^i' 


I 


t^en  last  week«  has  an  ofiTer ;  the  man  ia  a  mil  niakert 
honest  and  industrious ;  he  is  very  sober,  iind  o/re 
iible   family;   a;*  to  the  trade  we  do  not  object, 
workmen  in  that  lint  are  sure  of  employment.     My  \ 
has  been  almost  r^d^  to  go  distracted  with  pain  iU  1 
gtomach  ;  after  fluffering  for  aome  days*  *he  $oit  up 
sharp   matter,  which  greatly  relieved  her  hmd ;    i\ 
became  again  afflicted,  and  /tow  long  her  illness  r 
continue.  Heaven  knows.     Any  commatuU  you  may  hi 
to  execute  will  be  carefully  attended  to  by. 

YouTB  truty* 
4    1  8    S  5    9 

7    2  7    6  5    10 

3    3  7    7  3    11 

3    4  4    8  3    12." 

3    $ 
This  curioua  document,  together  with  the  pi 
ceding  particulars  regarding  the  detection  of  the 
-writer,  appears  in  the  Eurcfpmn  Magazine,  181-" 
vol-  IxTi,  pp.  21,  22.     The  first  column  of  figm 
indicates  tue  word«j  and  the  second  column  t\ 
lineii  in  the  original  letter.     The  words  convey tl 
the  treasonable  infomirition  are  printed  in  itali 
though  of  CfRirse  in  the  original  no  words  W( 
underlined,  or  otherwise  marked,  the  list  of  fi|^ 
which  followed  the  letter  admirably  serving 
purpose.     It  will  be  observed  that  the  infoniuiti 
conveyed  to  the  enemy  in  this  letter  was  **  Tb 
uit!  seVenteen  sjiil  of  the  line  ready  at  SpiLhes 
Howe  oomniaads."  W,  A.  C. 

Glasgow* 

Parallel  Passaoes. — 

"  Drydcn  says  prettily  of  Ben  Jonson's  many  imitath 
of  tlie  ancietitrt,  you  track  bini  everywhere  in  their  SKO^ 
.  .  .  .  Menage  adds,  that  ho  intended  to  compile  a  regu- 
lar treatise  on  the  thefts  aiid  inutations  ot  the  poets. 
As  hii^  reading  waa  very  cx^teusive,  his  work  would,  prob- 
ably, liaTe  been  rery  entertaining.'' — Warton's  Euay  oh. 
the  Otniut  and  Wriiin^i  of  Popf,  P*  80, 

"Let  us  see  bow  far  we  are  got  in  this  inquiry, 
may  say  of  the  old  Latin  poets,  that  they  all  came  oat  (j 
the  Greek  echooh.     It  is  an  true  of  the  roodcrni*  in  tn 
part  of  the  world  that  thev*  in  generiil^  have  had  thd 
breeding  in  both  the  Greek  and  Latin.     But  when  t*" 
queatioo  Is  of  ihny  particular  writer,  how  far  and  iu  wti 
instances,  you  may  presume  on  bis  being  a  profess 
imitator,  much  will  depend  on  the  certain  knowle^ 
you  have  of  his  Age,  Education,  and  Character,     Wiii^ 
all  these  circumstances  meet  in  one  man,  as  they  h»^ 
dotie  in  others,  but  in  none  perhaps  so  eminently  as  in 
Ben  Jfonson,  wherever  you  Imd  an  acknowledged  like- 
ness, vou  will  do  him  no  injustice  to  call  il  imitation,**- 
Bp-  liurd,  On  Poftu^ai  Imitation,  (Critical  Works^  ii.).J 

**You   track   him   everyAvhere   in  their  aoofl 
Were  these  words  of  Dryden'a  an  original  though 
or   did   he    recoUect   "  leporem  venator,"  &e., 
Horace,  Sat.  2,  lib.  i.  ?    Who  hiii<  been  supposed  ( 
have  translated  toHdein  vcrbH  an  epigram  of  Call 
machua,  a  translation  of  which  is  subjoined  frrj 
Dr,  WellesleTr^s  Antholagia  PoUjtjhtta,  cxni 
thi'?   question,  see    Fabricii    Ojmscula  Lit^rar 
p.  29  ;  Tnnafjuilli  Fabrl  Epiatolcf,  p.  229  ;  J, 
Scaligeri  Opv^cula^  p.  464  ;   UomC  I}€lpMnif\ 
Valpy:— 


wmm 


«»  8.  II.  JuLT  4, 74. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


"The  CiiACt'. 
llft^rk;  Bpicyde«,  Low  the  hunter  beard 

■TA  in  the  cbucc»  when  timid  hares 

itn^  he  tracks  throu}:;h  fro^t  and  tUQW, 
ttiti»  cchotniK  to  the  valea  below. 
L if  !■  it»e  clown  balKos  i  '  Here,  master,  here 
•otmg  &t  TOUT  feet  the  fitiickcn  deer/ 
llec  »a  becd,  hut  stirts  for  newer  game, 
^eh  ii  mj  love,  and  puch  hi«  arrow's  ifcitn, 
lTh»t  fellow*  etill  with  Bjo^d  the  flying  Mr, 
*  But  deems  the  yielding  slave  below  his  care." 

Mcrivnte. 
BjBLIOTllEC*iR,    ChETHAM. 


[We  miut  requett  correepondeniB  dcairiag  inf formation 
on  family  miitt«rt  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
naaiet  ind  addreesei  to  their  queriefl,  in  order  that  the 
smwen  may  he  addressed  to  them  direct.] 

**  BuitT  HEBE  FOR  1113  En  VY.'' — Ou  »  fomier  oc- 
aision  the  correapondf  nU  of  "  N.  &  Q"  gave  me 
efitet^nt  help  towards  the  interprelAtion  aad  elncida- 
tioD  of  **the  Grim  Feature"  in  the  Ninth  Book  of 
Parmlisf  Lost,  I  now  submit  to  them  a  difticulty  in 
the  Fir«it  Book,  unnoticed  by  Todd*  At  U.  258- 
26^Ly  of  first  edition,  we  read — 

''  Here  at  leist 
W«  ahall  b«  ffoe ;  tV  Almighty  hath  not  built 
Here  for  bis  envy,  will  not  dri?e  aa  hence  :'* 

lithe  reference  he  to  the  Imppy  nmnsioa  built  by 
iJxe  Almij^hty  in  Heaven,  which  mi^'ht  well  be 
aAld  to  hftve  been  built  for  the  env^  of  tho.-ie  who 
were  excluded  from  it,  one  would  expect  the  la>it 
line  to  tun  **  Here  for  our  envy/'  &c.;  as  it  h,  the 
envy  Li  jittributed  lo  the  piirty  in  possesaion,  and 
not  to  the  party  ejected  or  excluded. 

An  act-omplishcd  friend  suggested  to  nie  that,  in 
the  ftbovo  passage,  built  k  a  subfltantive;  having 
the  mn9e  of  o-kckto?,  i «.,  ft  mark  or  target. 
Obviously,  if  built  had  such  it  sense,  ha  use  here 
would  he  most  appropriate.  But,  unfortunat-ely, 
1  cannot  find  that  the  substantive  built  had  any 
oth^r  meaning  than  builds  which  meant,  and 
iiD«,  form   or  figure.      My  friend  referred  me 

^iJryden's  Annua  MirabilU  for  an  instance,  but 
I  piu^Sij^c  proves  nothing  to  the  point  ; — 

**  And  u  the  hvilt,  bq  different  is  the  fight ; 
Their  monntitig  ihot  is  on  our  sails  deiigned." 

Ortalnljt  if  biUH  he  used  hero  for  mark  or  object, 
tilt  M^nne  is  perfect  ;  but  it  ia  so  likewise  if  built 
taeikn*  (bo  build  of  the  ship  of  war  from  which  the 
•b'  'd.     Anotlier  instance  which  he  gave 

lilt  1 1  pie,  **  timber  proper  for  this  built/' 

il  ftt_Ui  uiLHij  doubtful  Having  collated  a  good 
nmojr  •diijons  of  Fatadiu  Lost  (including  the  first 
and  acocmd),  I  have  not  found  a  single  variAtton 
in  the  paasngc  in  question  ;  but  an  examination 
of  iruioot  versions  of  the  work  bas  repaid  the 
nmuh.     In  WilliJim  Hog's  Farnphrusis  Fodiea, 


*'  nulloque  prcinuntur, 
Colla  jvigo,  nuUam  omnipotens  livortg  uccrbi 
Materiatn  hie  ridet,  hinc  ideo  nunquam  ille  ref>ellet 
Agmina  nostra/'  &c. 

Kow  here,  beyond  «loubt,  we  have  the  very  sensft 
suggested  by  my  friend.  There  can  be  no  dotibt 
that  materinm  here  means  occasion  or  grouncK  It 
is  so  used  in  Suetonius,  who,  in  bis  Lift  of 
Galbn^  conveys  by  that  word  iht  occasiim  of 
yero's  jmlomy.  I  need  not  stay  to  in^ifit  on  the 
value  of  Hogg's  translation  as  a  contenipomry  evi- 
dence of  Milton's  meaning.  In  174<»,  Fatadiu 
Lod  was  *'  Attempted  in  Rbime  ^-  ;  and  the  author 
of  that  absurd  attempt  thus  renders  our  passage : — 

"here  at  least 
We  fiholl  he  free  ;  for  here  the  Victor  Prince, 
Built  not  for  Envy,  will  not  drive  us  hence/* 

80  he  took  Milton's  hDili  for  the  j^ist  participle  <yf 
huihh  In  1745,  a  still  more  absurd  version  wai 
puhlished,  viz,,  an  English  tranHhition  of  Ray- 
mond lie  St.  Maur's  French  version  of  Fatadim 
Lost,  The  re-tmnslator,  **A  Gentleman  of  Oxford," 
thus  turns  our  psissage  : — 

'*  At  leant  here  we  ah  all  ho  free,  the  Thunderer  Uttli 
not  built  this  Place  for  bia  Envy,  he  will  not  drive  ui 
out  from  hence,  *  ^c. 

m  be  tuok  built  in  the  same  sense ;  but  he  does 
not  remove  the  ditticulty  of  the  phmse  **  for  hi» 
Envy/'  which  his  predecessor  effecteil  by  omitting 
the  pofgsessive  pronoun*  We  have,  then,  sncee©de«i 
thus  far  only  ;  we  have  proved  that,  in  ^lilton'st 
day,  built  was  understood  as  a  substantive,  meaning 
occiision  cr  ground  of  the  Almighty's  envy  ;  but 
we  have  not  been  able  to  pmve  that  huih  wa«  usecl 
(unless  by  Milton  himself)  in  that  sense.  I  shftll 
bo  greatly  obliged  to  any  reader  of  this  note  who 
shafi  be  able  and  willing  to  furnish  me  with 
evidence  of  such  use.  Jabbsl 

Athenaeum  Club, 

**  Ublooahbll,*' — ^Woiild  some  of  your  Iriak 
readers  state  the  meaning  and  true  ?jpeUing  of  thU 
word,  which  occurs  in  Camden^s  Eemaimsf  ft 
seems  probable  that  it  is  some  strange  attempt  at 
giving,  in  Engli.Hh  language  and  letters,  the 
phonetic  spelling  of  some  Irish  word,  or  words,  in 
use  at  the  time  when  Camden  wrote.  Just  as  in 
the  State  Papers  of  the  time  of  Henry  VIIL  we 
find  a  word  written  **  Allyicgs^"  and  **  oylcgcags/' 
for  an  Irish  exaction,  explained  as  a  fee  said  to 
Live  been  paid  by  each  litigant  party,  both 
plaintiff  and  defendant,  to  the  Brehon  appointed 
by  the  Irish  Chiefs,  or  by  the  Anglo-Irish  Lords 
who  had  adopts  Irish  customs,  for  his  judgment, 
the  purport  and  etymology  of  which  is  to  b« 
founa,  aa  we  are  told,  in  the  Irish  words  iHUgh,  a 
Brehon  or  Judge,  and  tag^  payment. 

The  word  printed  "  Allyiegs,**  at  p.  558,  vol,  iL, 
of  the  St^ite  I*:ipers,  in  a  letter  written  by  Cinnond 
to  Sir  Anthnny  Sentlcger,  the  Lord-Deputy,  dmU^i 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[SI*H,lLJuLT  ,*71 


jiiund  and  Oas.  auioDg  ^'  like  exaccions  and  extor- 
tions/' would  apiieiu-  to  be  the  same  as  that  spelt 
**  Oylegeaga/'  which  wc  find  in  a  note  by  the 
editors  of  the  brief  substance  of  the  several  pre- 
aentments  made  by  the  juries  for  each  of  the 
counties  in  the  South,  except  Tippera-ry,  in  1537, 
where  we  are  told  that  according  to  the  Wuterford 
present  men ta,  "  the  Brehon  who  wil?  ordained/'  or 
appointed  by  the  Lady  Katharine  Poer,  took  for 
hiB  judgment,  called  "  Oyle^^eiig,"  I6d,  of  every 
mark  sterling,  both  of  the  pkintiH'  and  defendant. 
But  inatead  of  the  words  oihghy  or  Brehon,  and 
eajjf,  payment,  which  would  seem  to  liave  boea 
coined  for  the  occasion,  1  would  venture  to  aub- 
stituto  oUmtOir,  or  oUave^  a  judge,  a  man  of  educa- 
tion ;  and  easg,  or  nu(feacht^  as  the  Irish  for  hire, 
or  wiiges,  the  former  words  not  occurring  in  any 
Irish  Qkifldajry  with  which  I  am  acquainted  ;  whde 
we  find  a  clue  in  O'Donovan's  Supplement  to  the 
late  Edward  O'Reilly's  IHctionaiij,  in  which  Dul- 
cmiui  is  explained  by  tuaji  saetair  (for  which  he 
gives  as  his  authority  *'  an  oM  gloas^wy  "),  which  I 
t!ike  to  import  the  «aiue,  or  nearly  so,  as  tuack 
koMi^  the  price  or  reward  of  welfare,  and  »actar^  or 
in  more  modern  Irish,  saotar^  which  imports  work, 
labour,  or  dmdgery,  *'  Ublogahell ''  would  ^eem 
to  have  been  used  or  intended  (but  I  write  froiu 
memory,  not  having  Camden's  limiahics  before 
me  at  this  moment)  as  a  title,  a  designation  of| 
Bome  atone  of  inauguration,  or  place  of  meeting  of 
the  Iriish^  perhaps  like  Tullahogue,  where  they 
"  mado  "  the  great  "  Oneyll "  in  the  time  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  or  Kilmacrenan,  in  the  County  of 
Donegal.  J.  Huband  Smith. 

lUtjoX  Iriih  Academjj  DahUn. 

"No  WTTEK."— A  few  evenings  ago,  I  asked  a 
small  ho3^  of  mine,  of  three  yeans  and  four  months, 
if  he  had  been  "  crying,"  a»,  in  the  morning,  be  htid 
been  in  disgrace.  Hia  reply  at  once  was,  **I 
Liven'fc  cried  again  to  day  no  wlitaJ*  As  "no 
how"  and  "no  where*'  are  correct,  why  not 
'*  4WJ  wlieriy"  and  if  so,  has  it  ever  been  in  use,  or 
is  this  infant  to  be  credited  with  a  new  wortJ, 
though  in  perfect  ignorance  of  everything  but 
baby  language  ?  K, 

Falconet,  the  Artist, — Perhaps  some  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q,**  may  be  able  to  give  some  account  of 
Falconet,  the  artist,  who  resided  in  or  near  London 
towards  the  close  of  the  lust  centur}^  Are  there 
any  paintings  by  hiui  known  to  bo  in  e.xistence, 
and  if  so,  where  are  thej'  to  V^e  »een  I  1  po^iie*!* 
two  engravings,  by  different  bands,  after  a  portrait 
pftiDted  by  him  in  1768,  but  have  never  met  with 
any  of  hi^  works.  KtRjJV  Trimmer, 

The  Close,  Norwich. 

Thk  **  Carmaonole."— A  few  yeai«  ago,  I  asked 
in  **  N.  &  i)"  if  any  one  could  tell  me  where  I 
could  find  the  music  of  the  Cantiaffnok,  that  song 


and  dance  so  famous  in  the  French  Resolution. 
I  inquired  also  for  the  music  of  the  €a  ira.  The 
latter  I  received  from  your  late  respected  contrL- 
but<jr  F.  C.  H,,  but  I  have  never  yet  succeeded| 
getting  the  Cfi-nn4igiiol&,  I  have  the  words,  , 
least  some  of  them,  because  I  beheve  it  wins  wl 
is  called  in  these  days  a  "topical"  son^j,  and  ven 
were  added  from  time  to  time  to  suit  the  eveil 
of  the  day.  Can  any  new  contributor  help  me  i 
find  the  music  I  Dickens,  in  his  Tah  of  Two  Ciiii 
has  a  moBt  graphic  and,  1  should  think,  accurate 
descri])tion  of  the  Carmagnole  dance  :  who  was  lus 
authority  for  the  description  ? 

Jonathan  Bouchier,. 

**  The  Pilorim*8  Prooress.** — In  the  ( 
of  June  17,  there  occurs  the  following, 
of  the  Rev.  W.  J.  Stracey,  of  Buxt^jn,  Norfolk  3 

"  In  a  letter  I  have  by  mo,  dated  Jno.  26,  1S66,  I  > 

told  by  the  writer  that  *Mj«8  C haa  publiihed  a 

tranglatioD^  for  prirato  circalation,  from  a  French  MS. 
copy  in  the  British  Muacum  Libmry,  of  Thg  Pilgrima^ 
of  the  So^f^lc,  by  GuillauntQ  do  Ouiifcviilot  a  Churchmafi, 
who  tiouri«hed  in  tlio  fifteeath  century.  The  original 
work  was  txtuitlated  in  Kn island  seventy  years  before  the 
Keformiationp  and  waa  printed  by  Caxtrjn  iu  1483.  Misa 
C — —'a  object  in  pablinhmg  her  trandatioa  i«  to  ibow 
that  Bun  van 'fi  PilffrimU  Frogreu  U  nearly  verbatim  a 
copy  of  this  rare  work«  with  a  few  alterations  here  i 


ab<fl 


there  to  giTo  it  the  tinge  of  orii^inality/  '* 

Is  anything  known  of  this  book  ?    Is  the  ah 
a  correct  account  ?  E.  L.  BLEKKrKSorp. 

[See  a  letter  from  Mr.  Stracey  in  this  week'a  Guardian,] 

Rev.  Samtjel  Hardy.  —  He  waa  Rector  of 
Little  Blakeaham,  in  SutTolk,  and  Lecturer  of  En- 
tield,  in  Middlesex.  He  is  the  author  of  a  learned 
work  on  the  Scripture  jiocotict  of  the  nature  and 
ends  of  the  Holy  Euehiiriat  (17B4}.  I  should  be 
glad  to  have  any  further  information  respecting 
him,  and  to  know  whether  the  puVdication  ot  his 
Ixkok  attracted  much  notice,  or  Ciilled  forth  any 
reply.  In  the  Dedication  to  ibe  Archbishopsi, 
Bishops,  and  Clergy  of  the  Church  of  England,  he 
speaks  of  having  compoaed  it  amid  circumstances 
of  trouble  and  affliction,  owing  to  bodily  ailmettt# 
and  distres.s  of  mind  on  account  of  the  barba 
murder  of  his  sou.  E.  H. 

"  NKWtTK/'— Wiere  can  I  obtain  informatj 
as  to  the  derivation  or  meaning  of  this  surnaa 
There   is  a   novel    entitled    Ncidifi^    Jloma^ 
A.  E.  W.,  and  published   by  Simpkin,  Jfclar ' 
&  Co*  *Ayv6j^ia 

Bn[>KLL  OF  London. — Can  any  of  your  read 
supply  memoranda  relating  to  the  Be<iell  faj 
of  Lomion  ?      The  pedigree   is   recorded  in 
I'tsitntifm  of  LomloHy  liSlVA-A,     William  Be 
with   whom   this   pedigree 
tiutxny  Thonuis   Bedell   of  A 
who  msirried  the  daughter  i>t   ijuriiinu  ix;u»L-j 
Thurleigh,    and    Matliew  Bedell    of  Kemp 


>B.lI.JtJLT4,74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


9 


B^dfordshLre^  who,  by  Helen  Morgan  of  Torvey, 
li&il  a  eou,  Mathew  Bedell  of  Loudon,  Tlus 
Mat  hew  mjuried  two  wives ;  by  the  first,  Margaret, 
•  ciiiughter  of  —  Lawrence,  imd  widow  of  —  Weatby, 
he  hml  a  son,  Mathew,  and  two  daughters ,  Pru- 
dence, wife  of  Thomas  Thorold  of  London,  and 
Anne,  wife  of  Thomas  Mustard  of  London.  By  hi^ 
second  wife,  Anne  Boothby  of  London,  ho  bad  a 
floo,  Thomas,  and  three  daugbtenj,  viz.,  Elizti,  wife 
to  Herbert  AwLrey,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Samuid 
Awbrey ;  M&ry,'^  wife  to  Ralph  Hawtrey  ;  and 
IhfAitha,  wife  to  Eichard  TaYemer,  son  imd  heir 
of  Fiuncia  Taverner,  of  HextoBj  co,  Aliddlesex, 

J.  J.  Howjuid, 
Dftiimouih  How,  Blnckhcath. 

SiLvnt  Badge* — I  have  before  me  a  silrer 
badge,  of  which  the  following  la  a  description  : — 
i  *  -lA  circular  garter  or  scroll  surroundM  an  heraldic 
tideld.  On  the  one  side  this  escutchet)n  l^ears 
anwi  blaiioned  thus:^Or,  on  a  bend  gules^  three 
mijiL.t.  r.,.%nt^  Tp^th  the  badge  of  Ulster  (for  a 
b:i3  1*?  on  the  garter  are  engraved  these 

yfvi'-,- ,  :...-iiipfylde  and  Independence."  On  the 
ferene  side  the  ahield  is  occupied  by  two  right 
haixdB  chispedf  under  a  sun  in  gioij,  with  thi^ 
title,  **  True  Blue  Union/'  and  the  garter  surround- 
ing be&T9  this  motto,  **  Not  interest  but  inclina- 
tioiu^  The  badge  has  had  a  loop  for  suspension, 
is  one  and  a  half  inches  in  diameter^  and  is, 
Apparently,  of  eighteenth  -  century  worL  For 
what  j»olitical  event  or  purpose  was  it  designed  i 

Wimhiedon. 

James  Patzakt.— James  Payzant,  a  French 
rpfugee,  descendant  from  the  Bouen  family  of 
PayiAnt  de  Boiisgudlebert,  after  senring  for 
•eventy  years  in  the  Foreign  Office,  died  July  23, 
ITa",  aged  one  hundred  years*  Is  anything 
known  of  his  family  and  de^cendiints,  and  does 
may  proof  exist  of  kis  longevity  I 

Frkdkric  Lajifkxt. 

Cy^utta. 

MkBCURY-WaTBR.— What  was  it  ?— 
*'Soni«  IhioTee  hare  cat  off  their  irom,  and  fretted  off 
ihtkt  feitcr»,  with  jnerettry-maUr**  kc, — Fuller,  Jai€ph'i 
i^ifiViifmnd  Coat  (H^iO),  p.  l^  (od.  ISdT). 

F.  H. 

'—What  is  the  meaning  otpan  in  Panllcld 

ffeld,   two   enclosures    formerly  be- 

'  nuns  of  Wykea,  in  Essex?   {Motu 

,\  .J17J.     I  luive  met  with  the  word  Pan- 

I  as  a  load  name  in  scvenil  phices  in 

i^uc iiLUihire.  K.  P.  D.  E, 

"Goo  AND  THE  KiNo/'— What  is  the  book  so 
iaiilitkd  to  which  allnaion  is  made  in  Vbitation 


Articles  of  the  seventeenth  century  1  "  Whether 
doth  your  minister  teach  the  book  intituled  God 
atid  the  King  according  to  His  Majesty's  pro* 
clamationr'  E,  H,  A. 

ZiNZAN  Strbbt,— There  is  a  street  of  this  name 
in  Reading.  Can  any  probable  origin  be  assigned 
to  the  word?  C.  A  Ward. 

Majf&ir. 

**  Bagger-chrap.^ — 

"  Wfl  set  oar  wares  at  a  Tary  easy  price,  he  [the  dcvU] 
may  buy  us  even  dagger-cheap,  as  we  suy"— 6p.  An- 
drifwct,  Sermon  VI,,  Upon  the  Temptation  qf  Christ. 

"Dagger-cheap"  evidently  means  tie  same  m 
dirt-cheap,  but  why  ?        T,  Lewis  0,  DAVUta, 

Pear  Tree  Vicarage,  Southamptoo. 

A  **  Water-blast."— What  is  a  "  water-blast *'  ? 
I  was  asking  a  few  days  ago  concerning  the  ailment 
of  a  wuter-cress  gatherer  who  had  his  hand  tied  up, 
and  he  told  me  that  he  was  sutfering  from  a 
*'  water-bhist.'*  I  know  what  a  **  bone-blast "  is, 
but  a  *^  water-blast"  puzsks  mo. 

Tho8»  Batclcff e. 


1 


THE  WORDSWORTHS. 
(5"*  S.  i.  143.) 
The  note  of  your  distinguished  correspondent, 
the  Rev,  Robert  Collykr,  induces  mc  to  send 
the  foOowing,  which  has  long  lain  in  quiet  amongst 
other  north-coimtry  scraps.  The  colloquial,  familiar^ 
and  parenthetical  style  of  Wordsworth's  poem, 
Tlu  Excunion,  has  furnished  abundant  food  for 
humorists  and  parodists.  The  Smiths  had  their 
fling — at  leitat,  Horace  had,  a  wit  that  a  satirist  of 
the  day  described  as  one— 

" "  who§e  throat 

Coald  ape  ill  tuaeSr  without  one  native  note." 

Hogg,  in  his  Poetic  Mirror,  has  extracts  from  an 
*' unpublished  canto  of  The  Excurtion"  Many 
others  might  be  named.  A  good  deal  of  this 
waggery  was,  perhaps,  owing  to  Byron*i?  ill-natured 
remarks  in  his  Don  Jitan^  where  he  speaks  of— 
"  A  clumiy,  frowij  poem  c Ailed  I^  J^jnturpi^a, 
Writ  in  a  manner  that  is  my  av«rrioii." 

The  following  burlesque,  by  some  anonymoUB 
scribe,  appeared  in  thv  CJmfkt  of  ihncord,  a 
prirulely  printed  periodical— never  publislied — 
got  up  by  some  young  people  in  Kewcastle-on- 
Tyne  and  Durham  about  forty  years  ago,  for  I 
cannot  speak  correctly  as  to  the  exact  date.  The 
(*fmithi  was  never  finished  ;  it  stopped  when  it  had 
reached  the  forty-eighth  page  of  tne  first  and  only 
volume.  Its  di^olution  was  caused  by  some  of 
the  contributors  sending  articles  on  logarithms  and 
rnalhematicid  problems,  which  were  not  reiiidied 
by  the  literar^^  and  poetical  sobscribeis. 


10 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5'^  S.  a  Jptt  4. 7 


(Jhapkt  as  far  q&  it  went.  I  have  only  twelve  pages, 
a  few  of  which  have  the  story  or  episode  of  Pdcr 
HiompfiOii,  iV  by  no  meuns  bad  imitation  of  WoHsj- 
worth  :— 

"  PiiTBE  Tbompsox. 
*'  From  an  unptibluhed  ennto  of  TAi  ExcttrtiiMi. 
"The  Solitary  drew  hia  ruiilc  chair 
Bc.iido  the  Stratiger,  whom  be  thus  addresied  : 
'  8trang«r  !  If  e'or  thou  wert  in  Amblcftde* 
Thuu  must  hare  nmrked  a  well-known  Huitclrie 
Called  the  "  Blitck  Lion,"  k€|it  by  Peter  Thompson. 
The  s€ir«»me  inn  where  a  <iran)atic  troop 
f  A  utroIUng  THj^ant  band  from  Cockemiouth) 
Performed  Wat  T^ltr  many  years  iigo; 
At  which  time  it  wm  kept  by  laaoc  Lewthwaite, 
Father  of  Barbam  who  had  tlie  petlamb. 
And  C0U91Q  of  the  Ancient  MarincTt 
Whoso  tomb  is  seen  in  Gra$mere's  burial -ground. 
With  a  rude  rhyme  about  '*  afflictions  aore," 
And  how  "  Physician'*  skill "  was  "  all  in  vain." 

The  sire  of  Peter  Thompson  dwelt  at  Bristol, 

(An  ancient  city  in  the  We^t  of  England) 

And  was  by  trade  a  barber  and  a  blackimith. 

Early  in  life  he  married  Alice  Fell, 

(The  Uaujj;liter  of  a  stroirm^  manaf^er) 

By  whom  be  had  a  numerous  family, 

All  of  whom  died  when  young,  excepting  Peter, 

And  a  fair  ftister  known  a^  Tabitha, 

Who  tied  to  Gretna  with  a  corporal, 

And  never  aft^^rward  wai  seen  at  BrsatoL 

This  wa4  a  lad  blow  to  the  old  folk^  who 

DeUiihted  in  the  maiden.    Mr  Thompgon 

Lived  but  a  thort  time  after  ;  and  his  wife 

Biod  also— and  tbeir  property  was  left 

To  their  sole  heir,  the  aJore*aid  Peter  Thompeon. 

He  at  that  period  waa  bound  apprentice 

Unto  a  cattle- doc  tor,  Amoa  Bell. 

But  Peter  Tbampson  did  not  like  the  businesi, 

And  now  that  he  was  worth  three  hundred  pound, 

Left  Amoa  Bell  and  entered  as  a  soldier 

The  forty  second  regiment  of  foot, 

A  highkj.d  regiment  of  great  esteem, 

Wlicre  in  due  time  he  rose  to  be  a  sergeant. 

He  fought  in  many  a  battle  ivitb  BQCce««j 

And  never  got  a  eingle  acAr,  until 

Upon  the  fated  plains  of  Waterloo 

He  lost  hia  left  leg  by  a  cauDon  ball. 

And  so  wa3  rendered  quite  unfit  for  serrke. 

When  he  retum'd  to  Etiglaod,  he  inquired 
At  Bristol  if  Susanna  Foy  was  living ; 
And  by  her  brother  Nathan  was  informed 
She  was  the  chamber-maid  at  Ambleside ; 
At  the  Black  Lion,  that  aforegaid  inn. 
This  Susan  Foy  was  a  good  virtuous  girl. 
With  whom  the  soldier  bad  *'  kept  company/' 
To  use  a  bomely  phrase  our  dales'  men  use. 
She  was,  besides,  of  good  intelligence 
And  unbeclouded  iTitellect,  unlike 
A  fdlly  cousin  who  was  somewhat  soft, 
Confounding  owls  with  cocks,  and  night  with  day. 
The  love  that  glows  with  an  eternal  ilame. 
And  knowg  nut  change  or  mutability. 
Determined  Peter  Thompson's  onward  courte. 
So  without  more  ado  he  took  the  coach— 
An  inside  place,  for  he  waa  somewhat  proud — 
And  in  due  time  arrived  at  Ambleside  : 
There  went  to  the  Black  Lion,  where  lie  saw 
His  lovely  Susan  ;  but  she  knew  him  not« 
He  boldly  stumping  up  to  her,  would  fitin 


Have  ki»<ied  her  rosy  cheeks,  but  she  repuls'd  him.  I 

Saying,  "  Beg»me  from  me  !  thou  Iww-hred  fellow  If 

At  this  the  soldier  wept,  and  <taid,  "  C>b,  }>u*an  I 

Hast  thou  forgot  thy  etwee theart,  Peter  Thumpson  l1 

Then  did  *hc  gnze  into  lus  face  und  btare 

Inttntly  on  him,  and  excl&imM  *'  Forgive  me, 

Peter,  I  knew  thee  not:  that  wooden  leg 

Has  altered  thee  completely,  and  thy  face* 

Once  lair,  is  brown  witli  frauticles,  nud  sun-burut/' 

Soon  afterward,  ho  married  her;  and  n.>w 

There  is  no  happier  foul  than  Peter  Tliompsoii, 

The  cheerful  landlord  of  a  well-kept  inn, 

Blest  with  a  careful  hotisewife  and  a  pension.' 

Tlie  Solitary  cea9*d,  and  bade  *  Good  nigbt,' 

As  the  moon  rising  over  Langdale  pikes 

Was  silvering  G  rasmere  Vale  and  Rydal  Lake, 

-  W.  W,1 
The  heading  to  this  extenaion  of  Mr,  Colly; 
note  induces  me  to  ask  if  an  epitaph  in  Grasi 
Church,  coiumencing — 
"^  These  vales  were  saddened  with  no  common  gloonii 
k  by  Wordfiworth,  as  stnted  in  Hone's  Table  Bi 
It   18   on   }i  nmrbl©   Uiblet   in   memory  of 
Qui  Hi  nun,  the  tirsit  wife  of  a  gentleman  who  a] 
wardss  married  the  bite  Miss  Dora  Wordaworth. 
should  nlei>  like  to  know  what  are  the  '*rhym( 
that   Wordsworth  alludes  to  in  ati  etiriy 
thus : — 

"  Those  wittt/  rhymes 

About  the  crazy  old  church  clock, 
And  the  bewildered  chimes." 

What  Wordsworth  coni>idered  **  witty  *'  tniiBfe  ] 
worth  preserving. 


^'DE    QUINCEY:   GOUOH'S    FATE." 
(4*^S.  X.  S31,  418;  5^^  S.  i.  IIT.) 

TJic  Dog  of  HclirAlytK  During  Christnms  \ 
in  the  year  1 S04,  young  Guugh,  who  was  a  tjua . 
and  had  miidv  many  mtnbles  in  the  hill>!(  of  Cu 
berlind  and  Westmoreland,  aceorn|mnied  by  a  liri 
yellow  terrier  bitch,  named  Fid  a,  quitted  oofr 
morning  the  Patterdale  inn,  called  the  '*  King*d 
Arms"  (in  those  days  no  hotels  existed  in  the 
mountain  district),  with  his  dog,  intending  to  go 
over  Helvellyn  top  to  Wythhiirn.  The  day  was- 
stormy — hailing  when  he  set  out — with  snow  upon 
the  ground.  He  was  unable  to  get  any  ono  t< 
his  companion  over  the  mountain,  because  *'  We 
wood's  lioyal  Volunteers*'  were  on  duty  that  ( 
at  Muttenlale,  about  five  miles  distant,  »oi 
started  by  himself. 

More  than  three  months  after,  on  the  C5tli 
or  7th  April,  1805,  a  shepherd  named  Willia 
Harrison,  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Mounsey, 
proprietor  of  Pattcrdale  Hall,  was  on  Helvelj 
looking  after  sheep,  when,  at  the  bead  of  the  " 
Tarn,  and  near  Swirrel  Edge,  he  was  much 
prised  by  the  barking  and  nppeamoce  of  a 
m  that  remote  and  loneJy  place.  Ah  th«  8h<:^pherd 
approacheii  the  creature  went  on,  and  he,  folloM 
with  '^  bodin^j  thoughts/'  came  in  sight  of  an  obta 


to  Jm 
^e<ifl 

at  ^M 


S"8.  It  JvitJ.  7i] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


11 


on  th<^  grouad — n  shape  of  something  like  what  a 
TTi^n  hi'1  once  been.  The  dog  stopped  by  the 
V  rm.     The  ^hophe^t^,   awe-«truck,    dnred 

;  r,  iind  hastened.Tuuch  agitated,  to  Patter- 
d:ilc  Hy.iL,  iibont  three  miles  distant,  The  dop  did 
not  follow.     Harmon  having  procure^l  the  aid  of 

^  other  men,  caniG  hack,  und  the  body  wfts  carried 
lown  to  the  vilhijje.  Fida,  *^  wild  and  shjt" 
ef«5cd  to  be  caught.     She  went  in  her  masters 

jfetnain*!,  barked,  aod  defeoded  herself,  biting  the 

|iuaa  who  first  ^ot  hold  of  her.  She  was  with 
flifficulty  secured,  and  then  taken  in  a  basket  to 

^"Kendal  to  the  friends  of  Goiigh,  Her  future 
remains  unknown.  If  matchleas  fidelity  deserve* 
an  honourable  montimentj  hers  ought  to  be  a  noble 

*'  Butt  the  poor  dog,  in  Ufa  the  finpeit  friend, 
The  lint  Co  weicome,  foremost  to  defend ; 


Unhonouret!  fftlla.    Unnoticed  all  bii  worth." 
GiUigh  was  buried  at  Tirril,  near  Penrith. 

ft  api>ears  that  he  must  either  have  tried  to  go 
Tight  up  the  crags  of  Helvellyn  above  the  Red 
Turn,  and  fallen  firom  them,  or  have  slipped  off  the 
'  ofen  snow  at  the  summit.  His  body  lay  near 
iSwirrel  Edge.  Certainly  he  did  not,  as  is  generally 
mppo:^ed,  tumble  from  Striding  Edge.  Hia  hat 
waa  discovered  many  yar^ls  higher  up  the  rocks 
than  where  his  remainii  were  finind.  Hia  bodj^,  or 
kelcton,  was  in  the  clothes,  all  except  the  skull, 
rhich  lay  at  some  distiinc«» 

The  bitch,  poor  creature  I  had  whelped  in  that 
wild  and  solitary  ^pot — 

**  Far  in  the  boiom  of  Helvellyu, 

Remote  from  public  road  or  divelliog.'* 

To  shelter  herself  and  her  3'oung  from  the 
intense  cold  of  the  stern  region,  which  there  rises 
♦  '  H'ct  above  the  sea, — the  Bed 

\  "^1  st  of  all  the  Cnmberland  and 

Ai  r^nriMH  ,;ni.i  i;i K^^,— she  had  dug  out  a  burrow- 
in  the  fell-side.     In  it  wiks  found  one  whelp  about 
^ftix   weeks   old.     The   puppy  waa   dead,   but  the 
Uother  in  gooti  condition.     What  whe  could  meet 
^th  on  that  barren  mountain's  breast  to  maintain 
bcr  and   her  olfs^pring'B  life  for  no  long  a  time, 
"hrough   the   frost-s%  snowH,   rains,  and  storms  of 
winter,  is  doubtful.     Dead  sheep  may  have  been 
her  support.     Thcji©  not  unfrequently  die  on  the 
uouut-ains  by  disease,  falls  from  the  crags,  being 
aried    in    unow-drifte,    or  drowned   in  swoUen 
torrentjk,     I>e:id  fish  ure  occasionalJy  thrown  up  on 
the  moruina  of  the  mountain  tarns,     Moreover,  the 
^r ''*  black  ^lug  is  not  uncommon.     Foxes  live 
ii    on   field  mice,   beetles,   frogs;   and    there 
_nijgla  l>o  h*bbit»  or  other  food  a  dog  could  subsist 
on.     How   do  Uie   hill  foxes  and   ravens  lire 
gh  the  winter  ?    A  dead  sheep  during  a  hard 
Nroiild  su«ituin  a  little  dog  for  a  lengthened 

AiHIiHIlfeMilHilll 


^heep  are  brought  down  to  the  valleys  in  the 
winter  season,  they  are  not  always  so,  and,  at 
times,  the  poor  beasts  are  so  famished  they  eat  the 
wool  from  each  other's  bticks. 

There  are  people  who  assert  the  dog  devoured 
her  ma.ster.  The  supposition  is  not  a  probable 
one.  The  Ked  Tarn  is  only  about  three  miles, 
from  Putterdale  and  the  little  inn  which  the  ill- 
fated  wanderer  and  his  devoted  companion  left  the 
vfiry  morning  of  his  de^th.  Had  she  chosen  to 
quit  him, — had  the  loving,  enduring,  valiant  crea- 
ture not  been  indomit^ibly  true  to  him  and  faithful 
to  the  8j>ot, — how  easily  could  she  have  retmced  her 
stepa.  Tliafc  unfaltering  affection,  that  indomitable 
constancy,  is  inconsi.^tent  with  the  iden  of  her 
e-ating  the  body.  Moreover,  bitches  eat  their 
young  when  unable  fixmi  insufficiency  of  milk  to 
support  them  :  Fida's  little  one  was  untouched, 
though  dead.  Had  she  fed  on  her  master^s  corpse, 
it  could  hartlly  have  maintained  her  for  three 
months— setting  deeompo*iition  aside— yet  she  was 
even  in  good  condition  when  discovered,  The 
hill  foxes  and  ravens  probably  attacked  thtj  body 
while  the  poor  dog  wiis  absent  hunting  for  food. 
Ravens  scent  carrion  from  afar,  and  some,  most 
likely,  frequented  the  dark  precipices  of  Helvellyu 
itself.  George  R.  Jks^e. 


itk 


Autograph  OF  Burns :  "To  TgRRAUonTr  o>* 
His  Birth-Day'*  (5^  S.  i.  283.)— Having  been 
nnvious  to  know  the  history  of  this  autograph  of 
Burns,  I  applied  to  its  present  iwssessor,  John 
Taylor  Johnston,  Esq.,  of  New  York,  to  find 
whether  he  couhi  tell  in  what  way  it  had  come 
into  the  possession  of  his  friend  Mr.  Maxwell,  of 
Dalbeattie,  from  whom  he  had  received  it.  He 
has  kindly  furnished  me  with  the  following  par- 
ticulars, which  will  be  interesting  to  many  of  your 
readers.  I  ainnot  say  that  I  am  very  well  versed 
in  the  handwriting  of  Burns,  and,  therefore,  my 
opinion  is  comparatively  of  Httle  value.  I  am  in- 
clined, however,  on  comparing  this  autograph  with 
those  with  which  I  am  famQiar,  such  as  *' Scots, 
wha  hae,"  to  think  that  it  is  a  genuine  autograplu 
though  the  handwriting  seems  to  be  smaller  than 
that  which  he  genemlly  used.  A  friend  draws 
my  attention  to  the  line, — 

"  I  see  thy  life  is  stuff  O*  prief,** 
and  remarks  that  the  capital  0  is  scarcely 
what  Bums  would  have  used,  and  which  indeed 
does  not  ap{>e!ir  in  the  copy  of  **N.  &  Q.,*' so 
difficult  is  itj  with  all  the  pains  posaible,  to  give 
a  fac-simile.  Is  the  expression  found  in  any  of 
the  other  known  autographs  of  Bums ;  and  if  so, 
does  he  writ«  witli  a  capitid  1  The  autograph  h.m 
evidently  been  divided  into  four  parts,  and  hsut 
nin  many  risks  of  utter  destruction,  but  ha*  Mur- 
vived  them  all,  though  in  a  very  t:ittepe<I  *tatc, 

BHiaiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiittHli^ 


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^RlLJOLTl^Tl* 


*'  Dftlbeattic,  nc&r  Dum&iM,  2Uh  Aug.  1659. 
"  Tho  mawuscript  on  the  other  tide  hereof  belonged 
at  one  time  to  a  Miae  Muiter*  wbu,  it  is  well  kuuwn,  wiis 
an  iuiiiDate  acquAititance  of  the  poet  Buriiii,  atid  a  fre- 

Sttient  visitor  at  big  house  in  Dumfriea.  Tradition  Bay? 
hftt  it  was  a  gift  from  the  |>oet  himwiflf  to  the  lady  jibove 
named,  and  that  eUe  in  her  turn  bestowed  it  on  her 
rulivtive^  the  Rev.  James  Little,  M)ii]etime  miiii»t«r  of 
the  parish  of  Colvcnd,  in  KirkcudbriKht'bire,  From  bia 
son-iti'Uw,  Mr.  Bobtrt  Sutherland  of  Dalbcatlie,  it  vtub 
certainly  obtained  by  Mr  Thomas  Maxwell  of  the  aume 
pHace^  and  by  him  donuted  to  John  Taylor  Johnston, 
Esq*,  of  New  York.  It  has  been  in  noBsession  of  the 
fiubecriber  hereof  for  many  years,  and  been  compared 
with  some  of  the  poet's  uadieputed  autogmphsp  aa  well 
us  examined  by  several  pi^rtiei  fanulifti*  with  his  hand- 
writing,  and  been  infanahly  pronounced  genuine.  Dal- 
beattie having  fonned  purt  of  the  district  tiurvi^yed  by 
Bums  iB  his  capacity  of  an  Officer  of  Exciic,  he  was  in 
consequence  intimately  known  to  not  a  few  inhabvtanti 
of  thti  place,  and,  among  others,  to  the  eubkcnber's 
mother,  (Signed)  Thomas  Maxwell." 

The  question  arises  whether  the  original  addres.^ 
Bcnt  to  Terraiighty  is  lost ;  and  I  suppose  that  it 
must  be  so,  ua  Lord  Berries  htm  allowed  Mr, 
Fra»er  to  insert  si  copy  of  this  autograph  of  Mr. 
Johns  too  in  the  Book  of  Caerlaverocki  though  it 

is  not  quite  correctly  copied.  If  the  ori^^iujil  had 
been  preserved  in  the  Maxwell  family^  thia  auto- 
graph would  not  have  beea  resorted  to.  In  the 
copy,  which  I  ^ve  in  **  N.  &  Q./'  there  is  a  mis- 
print, arising  likely  enough  from  my  indistinct 

writinjj;,  which  it  may  l)e  as  well  to  notice.  In- 
stead of  "  Hoke  them  like  Sodom  and  Gomorroh,'' 
read  "  Rake."  C.  T.  liAMAaK. 

Thk  Jews  ly  England  (5***  S.  L  399.)— I  think 
it  cjxu  be  shown,  k  propos  of  the  very  interesting 
extract  from  the  Jewim  World,  that  their  earhest 
status  in  thii*  country  was  a  much  more  favoumhle 
one  than  h  there  descJ-iljed  ;  aud  that  it  was  this  that 
moved  the  cupidity  of  the  early  '^  Chriatiiin  "  prieeta 
to  *^  atir  up  the  fieople"  to  their  jiersecuLion,  and  will 
account  for  the  **»tone43'' of  their  '* crucify iug  Chris- 
tiau  children  on  Good  Fridays,'*  &c.  The  fullest 
investigation  upon  this  point  would  be  of  great 
utility  and  intoreat.  In  Holingiihed's  Chro,^  3^  15, 
and  Stowc'a  Anns,^  103^  it  is  stated  that  William 
the  Conqueror  and  Rufus  introduced  the  Jews  into 
Eo^%nd  to  assist  them  in  monetary  matters.  In 
BlomefieM's  Norfolky  6^  1 23^  and  Parkius's  Norfoll% 
8,  481 J  it  h  distinctly  eUted  that  they  were  hmd- 
owners,  and  lordsof  manors  as  well  as  money  lenders, 
Refereiice«  are  there  given  to  the  public  reconk. 
The  same  occurred  in  co.  Salop,  and  I  think  other 
counties  also,  about  the  same  jieriod  ;  and  it  ap- 
pears that  it  was  the  succeeding  kings,  particuhirly 
John,  wlio  sided  with  their  per»ecutors  aod  pocketed 
the  8]ioiIs.  It  would  seem  from  the  earliest  history 
of  Salop,  that  some  Jews  turned  Chri^^tians,  for 
the  following  (evidently  Jews),  with  Christiiui  and 
fiurmuuea,  oci^ur  there:  from  a.  d.  115<>  to  1301*, 
viz.,  John  Aaron,  Joseph  Aaron  (a  prieut),  Eiiaj* 
Jonas,  Ric.  Abel,  Adam  Hagar,  Hemtog  Sheakel, 


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and  Gdbert  Sadoc.  An  eqtml  number,  at  leaat,  of 
Jewish  names  aUo  occurs  in  the  early  history  of 
Norfolk.  These  names  (with  Christiaii  and  sur- 
name added,  and  without  the  **  de  ")  are  generally 
found  in,  or  about,  some  royal  demesne  ;  and,  it 
strikes  me  that,  as  the  Jews  aasieted  the  earJ 
Norman  kings  in  monetary  matters,  they  ni 
have  helped  them  also  in  managing  their  cro 
lands,  forests,  chaces,  kc.  The  names  occur  in 
the  forest  and  other  rotU.  The  seven  kings  of  the 
heptarchy  had  each  such  propertien.  They  woi  "" 
all  merge  in  Egbert,  tirot  monarch  of  Englai 
pass  through  the  troublous  times  of  the  Di 
tt)  the  Conqueror ;  then,  when  the  New  Forest 
near  to  the  old  capital,  Winchester)  was  complete 
they  wouhl  be  comparatively  useless,  and 
"  utilized  '■  for  the  Conqueror  and  his  son 
Jews.  What,  might  I  ask,  is  further  kno^ 
the  subject,  and  what  was  the  status  of  tlie 
in  A.  S.  times  ?  There  are  Jewish  names  us  la; 
owners  in  the  Confessor's  reign  recorded  in  Doim 
day.  C.  Chattock,  F.R.H.B. 

Castle  Bromwicb. 

Hanging  and  Resitscitation  (5**  S.  i*  44-t' 
In  reference  to  this  subject,  the  follow r^       ^'n 
from  a  paper  in  the  QuarUrly  Review 
1849,  p.  393),  on  ^"  Fontenelle,  aur  liu.vi.Ma- 
dee  Signes  de  la  ilort/'  confirms  the  stateiuei 
quoted  by  Cyril.     Mr.  and  ^Ira.  Manning  di 
on  the  gallows  In  November,  1849,  for  the  mi 
der   of  O'Connor.      Just    before   the   executii 
Manning  asked  the  fini.sher  of  the  law  if  he  shouli 
suffer  much  pain  ;   and  I  remember  thinking  9A 
the  time  that  it  would  have  been  a  solace  to 
culprit  could  he  have  read  the  article  in  questi( 
and  known  tliat  it  waa  a  positive  pleasure  to 
hanged  ! —  _ 

*^  An  immenie  number  of  persoriB  recovered  from  in- 
eeneibility  have  recorded  their  nensatioiii,  and  agree  in 
the  report  that  an  easier  end  (than  hanging)  could  not 
be  desired.  An  acquaintance  of  Lord  Bacon,  who  meant 
to  hang  himself  partially*  lost  hia  footing,  and  waa  cut 
down  at  the  lust  exircmity^  having  nearly  paid  for  hia 
curiosity  with  hiii  life.  Ue  declared  that  he  felt  no  pain, 
and  hid  only  senaation  wiis  of  fire  before  his  cyc«,  whi 
changed  first  to  black  and  then  to  aky-blue.  Tf 
colours  are  even  a  source  of  plca^mro.  A  Captain 
tagnac,  who  was  hanged  in  Fraiice  during  the  rcligi 
wupi!,  and  rescued  frutn  Lhe  gibbet  at  the  interoesflion 
Vidcount  Turtnne,  compliuned  tlmt,  havintr  lost  all  i 
in  an  instant,  he  had  lieen  taken  from  a  light  of  w 
the  charm  defied  vleaeription,  AikOther  criinirtali 
escaped  '  ^  "*     *       '  '  ''  -  cotd,  said  that,  afi 

second  it  ed<  ntid  across  it  the 

UaHti/iii  iv  IV,  of  France  teat 

physician  iu  qui<btii>u  hiui^iiikud  when  mention  waA 
of  a  pardon,  the  man  nna^er^d  cohily  that  it  wa« 
worth  the  asking.    The  n^  ■•-!*'  *.f'tho  de  ^'"^ 
renders  it  uselera  to  mult  ii  -),    Tbey 

in  every  book  of  Tnrd'rnl   ■  ■  c.     All  i 

the  unt:^ 
feeling 

hues   StuU    i^i^    .,.  ..-.^     .,,^:    .;-.r,.--^    -' -»    '^- 

boen  gased  ou  for  a  tririat  spAce,  the  rest  is  obli 


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Til  !  from  tbe  reality  of  tbe  eituntion,  la 

«ifL  e  moft  remote  from  thtki  whicU  fills 

tliL^  .^.  -:  .:.  ..j,.^cULtorf — the  vile  mbble,  ibe  bideouB 
gftlloiTi,  »nd  th«  struggliDg  form  th&t  twings  io  tbe 
wind/' 

H.  A.  Kennedy. 
Wi^rlo<>  Lodge,  Beading. 

"  Aug.  3"  (1805).  **  Walked  with  Fiiiii  round  tbe  gaol. 
Tbe  ipikllows  erecting  for  tbe  execution,  F.  meotioned 
tbat  ft  friend  of  his  had  often  (1)  inquired  of  a  perron 
f»ho  btul  been  turned  off,  mid  cut  down  on  a  repneTtt, 
Kvhitt  wtfre  bia  8en««tione.  He  ^lud  tbe  prepftr&ttOQS 
Mrere  dreadful  beyond  all  expresiion.  On  being  dropped^ 
be  found hifABelf  ami dit  fieldji  and  nrerg  uf  bloody gradcudlj 
atquirtng  a  greenith  tioge,— imagined  if  bo  could  reach 
a  certain  tpot  in  the  tame  be  fbould  be  easy, — struiEgled 
forcibly  to  attain  it,— atid  fett  no  more  !*' — Green's  Diary 
quoted  in  GftUteman's  Mageuiiu,  May,  1834. 

I  knew  one  who  in  like  manner  "babbled  of 
^jfeea  fields  ^  on  his  recovery  from  drowning. 

Qui  VIS. 

Lavikia  Fbnton,  DucnESs  of  Bolton  (5"^  S. 
i.  488.)  —  I  thought  most  sstudenta  knew  that 
Hogurtli  ptunted  one  of  hi»  best  portraits  from  this 
lady.  It  waH  engraved  by  G.  W  ataoD,  and  ta  now, 
or  wiifl  while  comprised  in  the  Second  Exhibition 
of  Nntionftl  Portraits,  1B67,  in  the  poasession  of 
Mr,  Brin^lcy  Marlay  ;  it  bore  the  number  240. 
It  bxH  been  also  enji^^ved  by  other  hands  than 
those  of  Wataon*  (Jack)  Ellys  likewise  painted 
her,  itnd  his  work  was  engraved  by  Faber,  l72Sy 
prtant  year  in  her  hiatoiy.  Hogarth's  like- 
IIW8  rather  more  than  a  buBt,  in  a  low  lace- 

_  'dre^s,  with  a  flower  in  the  bosom  and  a 
necklace  of  pearl;^.  The  ArtiDdel  Society  published 
II  fiurly  successful  plioto^iph  from  the  original, 
taken  while  that  work  was  at  South  Kensington. 
She  looka  about  forty  years  of  age,  and  proliably 
aat  to  Hogarth  in  1748,  or  about  that  time. 

F.  G.  S. 

Pastorini  (.5*^  S,  i  4<>6)  was  the  name  assumed 
by  Dt.  WalraAley,  a  bishop  of  the  Church  of  Rome 
la  England,  in  the  title  of  his  work  on  the  Eeve- 
Ution  of  St.  John*  In  it  he  predicted  the  de- 
jtraction  of  all  heretics  in  1825.  The  falsification 
of  this  prophecy  has  caused  his  book  to  bo  almost 
forgot t4jn.  The  same  befell  a  work  on  unfulfilled 
ffophecy  by  one  Fleming,  which  foretold  the 
VII  of  the  Puptury  in  1848  ;  and  also  a 
uptdet  called  Tht  Cirming  Siruggk^  which 
made  A  great  noii»c  just  after  the  cio^e  of  the 
Wiir.  S.  T.  P. 

hsBAK  ^  (5«»  S.  i.  4G9.)— This  word  is  Gaelic, 
means  an  adder.     Highlanders,  as  a  matter  of 
coonr^  declare  tliat  Giielic  is  older  thun  Hebrew, 
liartng  been  the  hinguji^je  spoken  by  Adjim  and 
Jive  ia  Pufndi^e.    1  quote  from  memory  : — 
•*  Wben  in  tbe  Wwcis  of  paradiae 
E%e  Unit  t«*t  Adam's  view, 
Tlie  ftrftt  wortj  that  bo  iaid  to  her, 


Of  coui^  the  ^;  the  lait  plita&e  is  not 

Celtically  corrci  r  the  benefit  of  your 

re^uiers  who  do  not  understand  Gaelic,  I  may  state 
that  it  means  **  How  are  you  to-day  1 "      J.  H, 

The  proper  name  of  one  of  the  sons  of  David, 
mentioned  in  the  lists  next  after  Solomon  and 
before  Elisha,  2  Samuel  v.  13-10  ;  1  Chroa.  iiL 
6  ;  xiv.  4-7.  It  aignifies  "whom  he  (sc.  God) 
chooises."  By  Jose^os  (ArUiq*  rii.  iii.  3)  it  is 
written  Jeban.  W,  Platt. 

Conserrative  Club. 

Latin  and  ENousa  Quantittt  (5*^  S.  i.  464.) 
— Something  might  be  said  in  defence  of  Byron'g 
**  tribanal,"  strange  aa  it  sounds.  Anyhow,  there 
are  many  Latin  words  of  which  we  English 
habitually  diaregard  the  Latin  quantity ,  owing  to 
our  fondnedss  for  lengthening  the  penultimate, 
like  auditor  and  inteTWcHt&r.  The  atory  is  well- 
known  of  the  Scotch  advocate  who,  upon  speaking 
of  airdtOTM  before  an  English  judge,  wa.s  reminded 
by  him  that  the  word  should  be  pronounced  curd- 
tors^  in  the  Latin  manner.  "  I  supposed,"  retorted 
the  advocate,  **  that  I  was  folio wiog  tbe  English 
proDunciation  ;  but  I  bow  to  the  decision  of  so 
great  a  nemtor  and  eloquent  an  ordt&r  tis  your 
lordship."  Jl  H.  I.  Oaklkt. 

Heraldic  (b^  S.  i.  449.)— In  answer  to  P.  0,  E., 
the  arms,  &c.,  belong  to  the  family  of  Wilson,  of 
Queenaferrj',  Scotland. 

Wm.  Jackson  Pigott. 

DandnuD^  co.  Down. 

''  Te'  berrin's  gone  by,"  &c  (5«*  S.  I  468.)— 
This  ftaytng,  exactly  as  Hermentrude  gives  it,  ia 
very  common  in  Craven  ;  but  it  is  chiefly  confined 
to  achool-boys.  At  Skipton  and  Cnrleton  Gram- 
mar Schools,  when  a  boy 

**  Just  arrired  in  time  to  be  too  late  '* 
for  a  share  of  **  toffy  "  or  *'  bull's-eye,"  he   was 
always  greeted  by  us  with  the  proverb.    I  never 
could  find  any  meaning  in  it.     Anthony  is  a  very 
common  name  in  Lancaahire  and  Oraveo. 

Stepeen  Jackson. 

"There's  somewhat  in  this  world  amiss" 
(G**»  S.  i.  468.)— This  is  in  what  is  now  the  third 
verse  of  Alfred  Tennyson's  pniem,  "  The  Miller's 
Daughter,"  p.  83,  edition  11S48  of  Po^nut  ;— 
"  Yet  fill  my  gbua  :  give  mc  one  kiss  ! 
My  own  sweet  AUce.  we  miwfc  die. 
There '«  somewhat  in  ibis  world  amiss 

^ball  bo  unriddled  bj  and  by, 
There  's  totuewbat  fiow<»  to  u«  ih  Ufe, 

But  more  is  taken  quite  awuy. 
Pray,  Alice,  pray,  my  dmrling  wife. 
That  wo  may  dietlie  f^-irmrue  dity. 
It  is  by  no  means  improbable  that  the  last  line 

tt:  "  ^ ^  suggested  to  Mi^s  Dinidi  ^^ 

t  ^ion  of  her  best  work, 


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p**  6.  IL  Jutt  4,  ti 


othtrrwisje  inemomLle,  if  it  be  true,  as  wu«  reportetl 
long  atro»  that  it  wus  brouglit  under  the  notice  of 
Queen  Victoria  l»y  *Mohniiy  who  iip^et  the  coach/' 
iind  by  its  winning  the  iwal  favour  was  tlie 
iinmediiite  occnBion  of  piiniuf,'^  for  TonnyBon  the 
newly  vacj*nt  Liinreatslup.  lu  the  first  edition, 
1833,  there  is  un  openiaw  ver^^e,  now  omitted  : — 
**  I  met  in  mil  tbo  close  green  vraya. 

While  vriilkinp  wUli  my  line  and  rod. 
The  we  alt  by  Miller'a  mealy  fiice, 
Like  the  moon  in  an  ivy-tod. 

He  h»oked  go  jully  uni  to  good 

While  Hiihinu;  In  the  mUl-dam  waterj 
I  laufihed  to  «ec  him  M  ho  stood. 
And  dreamt  not  of  tbe  Miller's  d&ughter.** 

J.  W.  E. 
MolRfihi  by  Ashfordi  Kent. 

Mrs,  -Cow den  Clarke's  Shakspearb  Co^s- 
coRDANCE  (5*^  S.  i.  485*) — It  is  a  curious  circum- 
stance thftt  it  would  he  inipoi<siblc  for  any  one  to 
verify  a  certain  well-known  Shakspeurlan  quota- 
tion— 

"  'Tib  in  ourfolvu  tbjit  we  ftre  tfaui.  or  thus/' 

OiktUo,  Act  L  flc.  3, 
by  referring  to  this  excellent  Concordance,  for  the 
reason  thtit  it  entirely  consists  of  the  simplest 
words.  These  the  accomplished  compiler  bus  nutu- 
ridly  omitted^  otherwise  they  would  have  swelled 
her  hmk  to  nn  enormouis  hulk. 

JonatHjVn  Boucriko. 

Dr.  William  Dudd  {Ty^^  S.  i.  488.)-'Seo  also 

•'  a  f\A\  .  . , ,  Account  of  tbe  life  and  trial  of . , , , 
Doctor  Dodd,"  Lc.     Lond,  [1777 1»  linio. 

'*  Genuifie  jMeinoirsi  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dodd  ;  containing 
manv  curious  anecdotes."  ....  bond*  [1777 J,  Svo. 

**Tbe  trial  and  the  life  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dodd.** 
tPtLJ    1777,  Svo. 

Allibone  refers  to  the  Memoirs  prefixed  to  his 
Thoughts  in  Pruon;  Jones's  Lift  of  Hornc;  Gen- 
tleman's Miuja::ini',  Ix.,  1010,  '66,  '77  ;  and  Boa- 
well*s  Life  of  Dr.  Johnson. 

Sparks  HEXDERsoy  Williams. 

IS,  Kenmngton  Crescent,  W. 

FLEtjR  DE  Lyb  (5"^  S.  L  480,)— The  old  name, 
flower  de  luce,  is  **a  pknt  of  the  genua  /mV; 
yellow  flag;  Iris  pmudacontii**:WoT€GHU>t's  Eng- 
lish Didimta'nj,  The  quotiition  from  ShakB^^eare, 
lltnnj  VI.,  Pt,  I.  Act  i.  Bi%  i.,  commonly  cited 
with  the  word  la — 

"  Cropped  are  the  flower  de  lucea  in  your  arms  ; 
Uf  Englnntl'a  coat  one  half  is  cut  uway.'^ 
The  word  is  still  inserted  in  dictionariet>  :  "  Fleur- 
deliser,  to  cover  with  flower  de  luces."— J.  E. 
Weisseley  8  French  Didionartj,  Routledge.  Flower 
de  lis  is  the  mode  of  spellin^r  In  Guillim'ti  DvtpUnj 
of  Heraldry,  §  iii.  c.  x.,  p.  143,  Lond,,  1660  :— 

'*  But  of  all  other,  the  Flower  de  lis  is  of  most  esteem, 
b&Ting  been,  from  the  firat.  bearing  the  charge  of  u 
Beg»l  eicocbeon^  ongin&lly  boroo  by  the  French  Kinga, 
though  tract  of  time  hath  made  the  bearing  of  them 
mof©  Tiilgtr." 

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"This    MAURIAOB   is  a    TERRtULK  tuis^o," 
(5*1*  S»  i.  488.) — Thc«e  Une8  appear  to  he  meant  i 
the  following  in  Hood  s  Miss  Kilmanscgif^  Part  [ 
**  Her  Marriage  '* : — 

•*  Yet  wedlock 's  a  very  awful  thing  \ 

'Tis  sonicthiiii^  like  that  feat  in  the  ringj, 

Which  requires  good  nerre  to  do  it  — 
When  one  of  a  '  Grand  EqueBtrian  Troop  * 
Makes  a  jump  at  a  gilded  hoopi 
Not  certain  at  all 
Uf  what  mav  befull 
After  hiB  getting  through  it  I '' 

Jonathan  Bouchier, 

PoptJLAR  Verses  bearino  Serious  Aliaisiohis 
(h^  8.  i.  380.)— Your  correspondent  (J.  W.  trn 
lie  glad  to  see  what  Mr,    J.  0,   Halliwell 
{Nuncnj  Ehymtis  of  England,  6th  edition,  p, 
concerning  **  8ing  a  Song  of  Sixpence  ^' : — 

"  The  firat  line  of  this  nursery  rhyme  is  quoted  in 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher's  Bofiduat,  Act  v,,  ic»  2.    It  is 
probable,  alfio,  that  Sir  Toby  alludei  to  this  song  in 
Twr.ifth  Ni'jhi,  Act,  ii.,  ic.  2,  when  be  rays,  *  Come 
there  is  a  tixpenc©  for  you  ;   let 's  have  n  song." 
KpHiano  ;  or^  ik€  Jialian  Banffuet^  1589,  i*  a  receipt 
make  pies  to  that  tbe  birds  may  be  alive  in  them  n\ 
flie  out  when  it  is  cut  up/  a  mere  device^  live   birds 
being  iutrcduced  after  the  pie  ii  made.   This  may  be  t' 
oriKinal  subject  of  the  following  song,  *  Sing  a  i?ong 
Sixpence.*" 

CtmiBERT  BbdeJ 

Plavs  oy  "Plat'*  {5^  S.  i.  423.)— A  plj 
culled  Thirty  Years  of  a  Gombk/s  Life  ib  oe^ 
sionally  on  the  bills  uf  the  Theatre  Royal,  ~ 
mingham  ;    this,  us  the  scene  is  laid  at  Paris 
suspect  to  be  a  translation  of  Tunic  Ans ; 
la   Vie  t^ttn  Joueur.     Among   plays  containii 
^amblintr    episodes     should     be    included 
Lytton  s  comedy,  Monty.  S.  FoxALi 

Edgbaston. 

FoLK-LoRE  OF  THE  Hare  (^j^^  S*  i,  427.)- 
Tlte  CliTonides  of  Mernf  Enfflantl,  London,  l^ 
Book  ii„  §  4,  is— "She  "  (Boadieea)  "had  a  an 
in  her  hand,  and  a  live  hare  \vithin  the  folciaj 
her  loose-bodied  gown,  which,  nl  the  end  of 
speech,  she  let  slip  for  f/oo(/  lucL''  The  italics  , 
mine,  J,  Manuel.1 

"Paws'*  (5*1'   S*    i.    460)  are    mentioned 
"  itinerant  broom -vendors— a  northern  name." 

have  not  met  with  this  word  oa  a  name,  nor  heard^ 

applied  to  broom -vendors,  or,  rat  her,  as  we  call  them, 
"  Eussuni-maekers.- '  Foa  was  the  name  of  a  tribft 
of  Gypsies  located  on  the  Boniers,  and  of  which  c. 
Will  Faa  was,  in  his  day,  the  kin;^.  Sir  Wall 
Scott,  I  think,  mentioni*  this  tribe  in  one  of 
novels.  The  name  seems,  at  one  time  in  the  bori 
country,  to  have  been  appbed  to  a  mischievQ 
pickle  of  a  child.  A  lady  of  my  ac»|uaint«tnce 
forms  me  that,  when  a  child,  her  grand  moth 
who  came  from  the  border  country,  occasiona 
reptoved  her  thus  :  "  0,  you  little  Ftui !''  It  woa 
be  used,  also,  playfully,  as  "0,  yoa  little  Gypsy  I  *'' 


8»a.iLJoLT4,'74.] 


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I 


occasion  (illy  to  l^e  lieurd  in  these  duys.  8ir  Wiilter 
has  Gabriel  Fua,  in  (rvy  Mtxnrmiuff^  aa  tht^ 
nephew  of  Meg  Merrilies,  J,  N, 

BiirDArii  Cmstlc. 

'*  Market  "  (5*^  S,  I  469)  may  refer  to  the  Isle 
of  Hsirken,  a  little  N.E.  .\jiisteruAm. 

R.  S.  Chabkock. 
Gnhy'i  Itin. 

Yorxo's  **  NiOBT  Thoughts  ''  (5«*  S.  i.  365.)— 
Tbe  above  poem  may  not  stiit  tlie  taste  of  the 
present  rery  stipe rior  age,  but  it  contuinA  a  re- 
iDHrkAble  number  of  pjiasagea  lit  for  quotation, 
I  would  instance  the  following  : — 

•'Humble  Love, 
And  not  proud  Eea^n,  keeps  tbo  door  of  Hearen.'' 
**  Tbe  spirit  w&lks  of  every  day  deceased, 
And  emil«s  Rti  anget,  or  »  fury  fi-owns." 
**  Fniib  buitda  &  bridge  from  tbia  ivorld  to  tbe  next* 
O'er  De&tb's  dark  gulf^&nd  all  its  borror  bides." 

That  tbe  i>oeti5  have  read  Night  HioughU  with 
aittention    and    sympathy  is    evident    from    the 

t  manner  in  which  they  Iiave  borrowed  from  that 
production.     To  cite  a  very  few  caaes  : — 
"  Man  wants  bat  little,  nor  tbat  little  long/' 
NigfU  iih, 
"Man  want! but  tittle  bero  below^ 
■  Kor  wants  that  little  long." 

■  Goldamitbi  Edmin  and  An^tiina. 

r         ''A  preTiQUB  bla«t  fortelA  tbe  rising  storm/' 
NiyfU  3rc/. 
••  Coming  erenta  cast  their  ibadows  before." 
Campbell's  Lochicl't  )Varninff. 
*'  Hit  crimen  forgive  !  forgive  his  virtues  too  !  " 
*'  Forgiro  wbat  seem'd  my  Bin  in  mo, 
w  Wbat  •cem'd  roy  worth  since  I  began.** 

■  Tennyson's  In  M'fnwnafn. 

T  J.  w.  w. 

CxfiBTTLED  BaRONKTCIES  (5**  S.  l  125^  1J>4, 
i52L} — ^W.  BL*s  objection  to  the  House  of  Lords 
deciding  claims  to  baronetoiea  is,  I  thinks  very 
well  founded,  but  some  of  his  remarka  are  scarcely 
accumte.  For  instance,  he  aays  that  tbe  Houito 
of  Lords  acta  as  referees  and  advisers  of  tbe 
Crown  in  peerage  cases,  and  that  peerage  cbims 
are  always  referred  to  them.  This  is,  of  course^ 
tbe  general  rule,  but  there  have  been  crises  where 
tbi!  clami  to  a  peerage  has  been  disputed  ami 
tliaalbwed  by  the  Peers  themselves,  on  the  jfrouod 
of  Want  of  power  in  tbe  Crown  to  create  such  a 
peervge^  a«,  for  instance,  the  creation  of  the  life 
pprtttge  of  Wensleydale,  where  the  House  declined 
10  allow  a  Peer  to  sit,  notwitlistanding  a  writ  of 
aittnmona  from  the  Crown.  Agiiin,  W.  M.,  in 
a^nswer  to  Mb*  tSTRATToN,  denies  the  analogy  of 
th»  cUima  to  Irish  and  Scotch  peerages  with  that 
of    '  '  T'Ut  the  Lord.s  certainly 

h  /  Crown,  taken  cogni- 


affect  themselves  as  a  House.     A  modern  case  in 

Cint  wa*  tbe  claim  of  the  co-heiresses  of  the  bUe 
»rd  Willougbby  d'Eresby  to  a  moietj^  of  the 
office  of  Hereditary  Great  Chamberlain,  and  tbe 
reference  to  the  Peers  in  cases  of  attainder  or 
abeyance,  in  view  of  those  disabilities  being  re- 
moved by  the  Crown,  supports,  to  a  certain  extent, 
this  ^-iew  of  tbe  matter.  W.  M.  also  rcmsirks 
that  a  baronetcy  can  in  Scotland  be  indirectly 
established  by  a  Decree  of  Ser\'ice,  and  that  a 
right  under  a  Ser\uce  of  1821  cannot  now  be  called 
in  (Question.  But  this  could  not  in  any  way,  I 
take  it,  affect  a  baronetcy  or  peerage  ;  for  it  is  an 
undeniable  rule  that  the  Crown  cannot  suffer  from 
neglect  or  laches,  and  that  no  enjoyment  of  an 
hereditary  dignity,  however  long,  can  give  an 
indefeasible  title. 

If  I  might  suggest  a  tribunal  to  decide  claims 
to  baronetcies,  I  should  certainly  fix  upon  the 
Probate  Court,  and  mainly  for  thb  reason,  viz., 
because  it  already  has,  under  the  powers  given  by 
the  Legitimacy  Declaration  Act,  the  power  of 
deciding  many,  if  not  most,  of  the  disputed  baro* 
netcies,  e.ff.^  Payne,  Vane,  Codrington,  Frederick, 
&c.  The  process  might  be  very  simple.  Let  the 
Garter,  the  Lyon,  and  the  Ulster  Kings^at-Arms 
draw  up  yearly  a  roll  of  the  baronets  of  the  three 
Kingdoms,  as  is  now  in  the  ciise  of  the  peemge 
done  by  Garter  and  Ulster.  Let  them  admit  to 
such  rolls  those  baronets  only  who  could  prove 
their  right  to  their  dignities*,  in  tbe  same  manner 
as  a  Peer  proves  his  right  to  a  i^Tit  of  summons  on 
the  death  of  his  ancet^tor,  and  give  them  the 
power  in  case  of  any  doubt  or  n\H>n  the  motion  of 
a  rival  claimant,  whether  to  a  dignity  on  or  off 
the  rolls,  to  transfer  the  consideriition  of  the  ease 
to  the  Probate  Court,  and  give  the  Crown  ]Kiwer 
to  attend  any  proceedings.  If  a  power  of  nppeal 
should  be  desired,  the  most  appropriate  would  bo 
to  tbe  Queen  in  Council,  that  is,  to  tbe  Judicial 
Committee.  This  is  not,  and  never  can  be,  a 
popular  question  ;  but  if  some  M.P,  or  Peer  of 
legal  training  would  introduce  a  well-considered 
bill  on  the  nubject,  it  is  difficult  to  see  what 
objection  there  could  be  to  its  being  carried  into 
kw.  E.  Passingium* 

W,  M.  says,— 

^'  If,  in  tbfl  cfise  of  Dick,  tbe  right  to  the  baronetage 
was  Yc  - !  son  90  recently  as  1 S21 ,  and  the  present 

claim  I  I  since  that  date  upon  tbe  mere  quevtion 

of  proj  ,  ^  1  !  that  person,  and  u  tfowi  in  t'tsei/f  tbd 
expense  ot  a  service  would  be  comparatively  triding.*' 

This  I  grant;  but  as  no  such  baronetcy  ever 
existed,  no  service  can  be  of  any  avail 

Setu  Wait* 

Sbizino  Corpses  for  Debt  (4**  S.  xii  158»  IQO, 
2m  y  5«*  S.  i.  49<».)— This  repulsive    i  '  'f^  to 

mind  Masstngcrs  Fatal ]Jon*ri/^\\\ivi 


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MATsha)  of  Burgundy,  whose  body^  ^^  Imving  died 
a  prisoner  for  debt,  is  arrested  at  the  prison  door, 
when  his  son  engages  to  satisfy  the  creditors, — 
'*  WiioflC  cruelty  denied  him  rest  in  deiith/* 

and  snirendew  himself  to  obtain  its  sepulture. 

The  supposed  instance  of  Sir  Barnard  Turner, 
in  17iS4,  was  imitated  half-a-century  later,  hut  do 
less  supposititioiisly,  I  hope,  as  I  heard  it  whispered 
at  tlie  funeral  of  a  friend,  I  remember,  however, 
an  epigram,  older,  I  believe,  than  the  poor  baronet's 
case,  when  the  privations,  the  afflictions,  the 
squalor,  suffered  by  robbers  and  murderers,  were 
heaped  as  heavily  on  debtors,  ad  pttnam^  as  being 
erpmlly  criminal  in  not  paying  their  creditors  : — 

**  Of  old,  to  debtorf  who  iiuol?cnt  died 
E^^'vpt  the  rites  of  sepulture  dented  : 
A  Jilfcrent  trmlo  euliglitened  ChristUiis  drirc. 
And  chftritftbij  bury  them  alive/' 

E.  L.  S, 

Sir  Thomas  Strang ewats  (5"»  S.  i,  127,  1»4, 
318.) — I  ought  to  have  taken  more  notice  of  the 
fact  that  J.  F.  M.  spoke  of  Viscounty  not  Lord, 
Beaumont,  My  reason  for  doubting  the  m:\rriage 
was  certainly  not  the  absence  of  grant  or  panion, 
which,  a«  J.  P.  M.  suggests,  would  disprove 
nothing.  It  was  the  consideration  that  I  had 
never  met  with  any  allusion  whatever  to  Katherine 
Neville  as  Livdy  Beaumoni  I  understand  him  to 
say  tkiit  the  marriage  is  proved  by  dociimcntiirj' 
evidence  ;  if  bo,  there  is  an  end  of  tho  cpiestion. 
My  note  of  the  pardon  contains  no  description  of 
Sir  Thomas  Strangeways ;  and  I  think  it  would 
have  done  so,  had  there  been  any, 

HE&MEKTRtrDlS. 

BuxjA  (5^  S.  I  287,  374,  417,  458.)— Is  there 
not  an  error  here  ?  It  is  not  from  personal  know- 
ledge, but  only  on  the  authority  of  books,  that  I 
speak  when  I  say  that  it  is  Btid^,  and  not  PeM, 
which  is  otherwise  called  Of  en ;  Anglic^  ovtn  or 
stofHs,  From  my  own  knowledge,  I  may  add 
th/it  the  equivalent  of  0/m  is,  in  Ec<^l.  Slavonic, 
Fi^^hfck,  and  in  RiiBsinn,  Fetch.  With  the  Polish  or 
Bohemian  variants  I  am  not  acquainted, 

W.  B.  0. 

CawpBR :  Trooper  (5^^  S.  i.  68, 135,  272,  316.) 
— If  the  following  letter,  wluch  appears  in  the 
Europmn  Ma^axine,  1814,  vol  Ixvi.  pp,  386,  387, 
does  not  materially  help  to  settle  the  controversy 
at  prenent  being  waged  in  "  N.  &  Q.,'*  it  may  prove 
somewhat  Interesting  in  showing  that  Kixty  yejirs 
ago  the  pronunciation  of  the  name  of  Cowjxjr  was 
a  subject  of  discussion  in  the  correspondence 
columns  of  a  popular  monthly  periodica! : — 

**  It  appe&ri  to  me  fAther  sin^lar  that  there  should 
oxitt  ft  diversity  of  opinion  with  regard  to  the  pronun- 
ciation of  the  lume  of  Cowprr.  That  a  gentleman  of 
tlmt  uwne,  belonging  to  the  HauBe  of  Commoni,  is  callcti 


Cooper^  instead  of  Cotrpn,  prtjves  nothing,  but  that  tfatt 
pronunciation  ia  errone'ous.  One  of  your  Correspondents 
jsiys,  that  he  knowBi  only  one  word  analogous  to  Cowper 
in  which  the  w  is  dropped  in  pronouncing  it,  imd  that  is 
Snowden ;  hut  as  this  word  is  evidently  composed  of 
tnow  and  dov^n.  (a  plain  upon  a  barren  bill),  the  tir^t 
gyllftble  ought  to  retain  its  original  eound,  Sno.  We  fay 
Sno'fnll,  nut  Snoo'hiilf  or  Snou-hUl.  For  the  some  reason 
Cowper  can  neither  be  pronounced  Coper  nor  Coopfr,  or 
else  we  mu^  also  say  Coatd,  or  Cooard,  for  Cowar\i.  The 
diphthong  f>w  is  pronounced  either  o  or  o»,  but  never  wj, 
119  far  u  I  know*  If  in  sumamei  it  were  to  eound  like 
00,  then  we  ought  to  pronounce  the  names  Bowles* 
Brownlow,  Crowder,  Howard,  Howland,  Lowtht'r,  Lowry^ 
Owen,  Rowley,  Townshcnd,  &c.>  Boolst,  Brmmlo*),  Cror^der, 
Hooardf  H(H>l^Hd,  Lootktr,  L&ory,  Ootn,  Rooteift  Toon^ 
tfundf  &c.*' 

This  correspondence  had  its  origin  in  a  manner 
characteristic  of  the  times,  not,  as  in  **  N.  &  t^.,"  by 
a  correspondent  quoting  a  verse  in  which  C'Owper 
was  made  to  rhyme  with  Trooper.  **  A  Constant 
Header  "  relates  that,  '*  sitting  otvr  tht  bottir  one 
day  with  some  friends,"  he  hnp|)ened  to  iu?k  a  gentle* 
nmn  whether  he  had  read  Uowper's  poems,  **  pro- 
nouncing it  as  if  it  had  been  spelled  Cooper,"  and 
his  friend  replied  that  he  had  not  read  Cowper's 
poems,  **  pronouncinfT  the  first  ayllnble  as  you  would 
pronounce  tho  quadruped  cow''  (*t<?). 

It  appears  to  me  that  the  **  ingenious "  writer 
(as  he  would  be  tenued  in  those  days),  who,  in  all 
likelihood,  has  been  long  since  gathered  unto  his 
fathers,  in  the  letter  I  have  given  above,  has  made 
a  very  good  defence  of  the  common  pronunciation 
of  the  name  of  Cowper,  The  fact  of  some  versifier 
having  made  Cowper  rhyme  with  Trooper  should 
not,  I  think,  be  any  criterion,  and,  until  I  see 
better  reasons  for  changing  my  opinion  than  liave 
as  yet  appeared  on  the  !*ubject  in  *'  N»  &  Q.,"  I  for 
one  shall  continue  to  pronounce  Cowper  **  as  you 
would  pronounce  the  (luadruped  cow.*' 

W.  A.  C. 

Oloagow. 

Watnkclowtes  :  Plooh-clowtbb  (6»**  S.  i. 
167,232,338):— 

"  In  riii.  moldbredes  (plough  mold  board)  empti*  xiid. 

*^  In  ii.  moldbredclontz  (iron  platee)  emptiA  xiid. 

**  In  xii.  clut'  cmpt'  xi\d. 

**  In  ii*  clout  naii  emp*  virf." 

From  Cmnpotus  of  y"  Sttimnt  of  Sir  John  de  Itard^ 
Mhnl,  33  Ed.  III.    (ftarh  Roll.  A.A.  31.) 

Felix  LAtrRE^cT. 

Saleby. 

P,S.  "  dottt :  aH  iron  pkte  to  keep  an  axle- tree 
from  wearing." — Johnson's  IHcL 

Swans  (5»*  S.  i.  308,  338.)— Jodrell,  in  hia  | 
IlluHrationJs  of  Enripidts^  after  having  considered 
the  ancient  idea  of  the  musical  quality  of  tho 
swan,  enumerates  the  authors  and  witnesses  of  1 
more  modem  times  who  acknowledge  and  support  I 
it,  and,  on  the  other  hand,  those  opposed  to  these  | 
authorities.     (lofi^  pp.  43-74.) 

BlELtOTaEOAR*   CHBTILAir. 


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IT 


Classical  Sigk-boards  (6*^*  S.  i.  20B,  395.)— 
When  a  schoolboy  at  Fulnec,  near  ljeed$,  wcU- 
"gh  sixty  years  ago,  I  retnemhert  on  ooe  of  our 
^•chool  excursion 8  to  Kirkstall  Abbey,  noticing  on 
the  liign-board  of  the  chief  inn  of  the  neighbouring 
village  the  short  Greek  motto,  rh  ^rrpiTrov.  Greek 
mottoes  on  the  sign- boards  of  our  villa^  inns 
must,  I  imagine,  be  mre.  Octis. 

Eifletj,  Beds. 

Bardolf  op  Wiumegat  (5*^  S.  i.  227,  293, 
41 R)— I  regret  to  say  that  I  cannot  answer  the 
qaeriei}  in  Cf.  A*  C/s  last  communication.  Perhapa 
he  will  find  replies  by  taking  the  advice  |»iven  him 
by  Tkwars.  '  Hermentrdde* 

"How   THET  BROUOHT  THE  GoOD   NeWS   FROM 

GmoiT  TO  Aix"  (5*  S.  L  71,  174,  298,  418.)— 
Mr.  Browning,  while  on  a  yachting  expedition  in 
the  Mediterranean,  w^as  once  lying  becidmed.  The 
&ncy  »tnick  him,  what  would  I  give  for  a  goo<l 
gallop  !  Aa  a  I'Jcvrc/io?  ttAo  it«E  he  wrote  the  ballad 
in  question.     I  have  heard  the  story  at  firBt  bund, 

F.  Storr. 

Tbb  SxnrpLowER  (^^  S.  i.  im,  256,  417.)- 
This  flower  is  called  gtrasol  in  both  Italian  and 
Spanish^  and  derives  its  name  from  turning,  girare, 
in  both  langnages.  From  one  of  tbe^e  languages 
comen  our  JeroBalem  artichoke,  which  has  nothing 
to  do  with  Jerusalem,  but  a  great  deal  with  its 
reHBubhinre  to  the  giratol,  or  sunflower. 

E.  L.  Blekkiitbopp. 

[ShOTTEK  Hebrino  (St**  S.  i.  146,194,276,449,) 
^    f  Taylor  s  WorhSj  iii.  5  : — 

"  Though  they  like  shotten-beiring*  arfl  to  we, 
Yet  rach  t&ll  Bouldier^  of  their  teeth  tbej  be 
That  two  of  them,  like  greedy  cormorants, 
Devour  more  than  sixe  Loneat  protestanta." 

Fredk.  R^le. 

^Thomas  Frte  (5^^  S.  i.  269,  3 J  6,  419,  470.)— 
the  portrait  of  the  Queen  of  Denmark 
\to  under  the  above  heading  i«  not  by  Frye. 
■iting  I  have  seen  a  reduced  engraving  of 
DO  sabject  by  Wataon  aft^r  Cotea,     I  was 
led  into  the  mistake  from  seeing  it  among  the 
by  Frye  in  the  Print-room  of  the  British 
Charles  AVtlie. 


"  (4^  S.  xii.  324,  395,  438  ;  r,^^  S.  I 
Ii7  377.) — Permit  me  to  ffugg<*Rt  tbnt  this 

cxpktitfe  lA,  like  most  or»tha,  of  the<»l  tn, 

lad   ui  nynonymous  with   the  obsoh  /v» 

ptcpervnd   in    Thjin   Aldrich^s   Bark    the   ^onny 
CVilteAiiftrA  iklU^  which  sound — 
'  r/y  jjTcat." 

Hexrt  Attwku* 


jam  PmissoLAft  M£04yi($>^ 


^^jyg^^^^ 


458,  498.)— Permit  a  final  paragraph  to  this  sub-  ] 
ject  to  recommend  a  perusal  of  vol.  ii.  of  Chris*! 
topher  Kelly's  History  of  ihe   Wartf^  where  the! 
reader  is  told,  and  quite  correctly,  that  **<ttfry 
individual  present  ^^    at  Waterloo    received    the 
medal  J.  W.  FLKMtsro. 

Brighton. 

St.  Catherhte  of  Siexka  (5«*  S.  i.  387,  433.) 
— I  copy  the  annexed  titles  from  various  cata* 
logues  I — 

1.  ''  Vie  de  Siiinte  Catherine  de  Sienne,  par  Raymond 
de  Capoae,  iuivie  du  Suppl6ment  da  Thomas  Gitflarini  et 
dcfl  terooignage*  dea   diicitilei  de  Sainte  Catherine  anJ 

Sroce*  de  Venise."    (Edition*,  Paris,  ISiSS  and  1859»1 
Raymond  of  Capun  waa  her  Confessor) 

2.  The  same  work  tr&nRtnted,  Dublin,  1S57. 

3.  "The  Life  of  Saint  Catbcrinc  of  Siena,  New  Yofk.'* 

0  By  Father  PormbjJ 

4.  "Catherine  de  Sienne.  Fioreti  utili»iml  extract!  J 
dal  diuto  Dval()go  vulgaro  da  ta  Seraphica  ipoaa  dt 
Cbristo  Saneta  Gktharina  da  Siena  del  tertio  ordin«  di 
Sco.  Domenfco  (A  la  fin).  Impresfte  in  Perrara  per 
Laxirentio  de  Eubei  da  ValenUn.  ISllj'*  in  Sro.  with 
portrait.  ■ 

5.  "  Catharina  SeneneiA.  Vita  ac  mtrneula  telectiora 
formia  aeneis  expresaa  Venitiia.  1755,''  in  4to.,  34  platea. 
Noa  4  and  5  ire  quoted  in  Catalogue  AlaiBODneave  etC**. 
Pans,  1870. 

E.  A.  P. 

WooLSTOK  Well,  West  Felton  (5"»  S.  i.  449, 
51^.) — The  local  traditions  are  singularly  meagre. 

1  have  never  heard  any  date  assigned  to  the  . 
building.  It  is  evident,  I  tliink,  that  the  cottage 
over  the  well  was  formerly  used  m  a  chapel,  and 
there  are  some  persons  in  the  neighbourhood  (tny- 
&elf  amongst  the  number)  who  would  be  glad  to 
see  it  restored  as  such.  The  water  of  the  well  ia  ' 
singularly  pure  and  clear ;  it  is  mid  to  be  good 
for  the  eyes.  I  hojK*  that  some  one  will  be  able 
to  discover  more  about  it  than 

The  Rector^s  Wife. 

SrER^fE  AS  A  Poet  (5'*^  S.  i.  388.)— I  copy  the 
following  from  the  account  of  C<»xwold  in  Gill's 
VallU  Ehorac^iuis : — 

'*The  following  piecso  of  original  ijoetry,  by  Sfcerna, 
has  been  handed  dnwa  in  Bueeet«on  from  the  com> 
poeer  tn  the  rev.  gentletnen  who  have  auooeedod  him 
in  the  living  of  Cox^old,  and  through  the  kindness  of 
the  Rev.  George  Scott  is  now  presented  to  the  public ; — 
The  Uwkkowk"  0. 
Verses  occa«ion*d  by  hearing  a  PftM>Bellj 

B>*  y-  Rev'.  Mr,  St a. 

Hark*  my  gay  Fr''  j*  eolemn  Toll 
speaks  y*  departure  of  a  soul ; 
Iii  gone,  y"  all  we  know— not  where 
Qr  how  y*  unbody*d  ioal  do's  fare. 

In  y^  mynterioaa  0  none  knowa, 
But  9  at<>ne  to  w"  it  goes  ; 
To  whom  departed  aouls  retttm 
To  take  y"  Doom,  to  niiilo  or  mourn, 
^^^^     Oh  '  by  v,^  t^Hmm'ririLf  liutit  wgvie 
^^^Bie  un'  ' 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5"  8.  IL  JULT  i,  74. 


God  baa  lock'd  up  y*  myetic  Pa^^v- 
Atid  curtiutL*d  dftrkiieaa  rguad  y"  stage  ! 
Wife  }^  to  render  Msrch  perplext, 
Hm  driivra  'twixt  y'  0  &  y'  next 
A  dftrk  unpenetrable  icreen 
AU  b«biod  w*^  is  yot  unsecoi  f 

We  tatk  of  8,  wg  talk  of  Hell  ; 
But  w*  yy«  loean  no  tongue  can  tell  I 
Heaven  U  y*  retiim  t?bere  angels  are, 
And  Hell  y*  cbaoe  of  despair. 

But  w'  y*"  awful  trttths  Imply, 
None  of  ub  know  before  we  die  ! 
Wheth**^  wo  will  or  no,  we  muet 
Take  y*  succeeding  0  on  tni«t. 

Tbls  hour  perhaps  o""  Fr"^  is  well. 
Death-struck  y"  next  he  cries,  Fazewell ! 
I  die ! — k  y"^  for  ought  we  see, 
CettAGs  at  once  to  breathe  &  be. 

Thu*  launch *d  f"**  life's  ambiguous  shore, 
TnguTpb'fi  in  Death  appears  no  more. 
Then  undirected  to  repair 
To  difttant  0*  we  know  not  where. 

Swift  flies  y"  1^,  perhaps  'tis  gone» 
A  thousand  Icikgnes  beyonil  y'  sun  ; 
Or  2"  10  thousand  more  3"  told. 
Ere  y"  forsaken  clay  is  cold  ! 

And  yet  who  knows  if  Fr*'^*  we  lov'd 
Tho*  dead  inay  be  ho  far  remov'd  ; 
Only  y*  vail  of  fl«sh  between* 
Perhaps  yy.  watch  us  though  unseen. 

Whibt  we,  y'^  loss  Uinentingf  say, 
They're  out  of  hearing  far  away  ; 
llnardians  to  us  perhaps  they're  near^ 
Conceard  in  vehicles  of  air. 

And  yet  no  notices  yy.  give. 
Nor  tell  us  where,  nor  how  yy.  live  ; 
Tho*  conscious  wliiUt  with  us  below, 
How  much  y""*  d««ired  to  know. 

As  if  hound  up  by  solemn  Fftte 
To  keep  v"  veoret  of  y^'  state. 
To  tell  y"'  joys  or  paina  to  none, 
That  man  might  live  by  Faith  alone. 

Well*  let  ray  suverdgn,  if  ho  j)Iease| 
Look  up  his  marvellous  decrees  ; 
Why  sh"*  I  wish  him  to  reve&l 
W*  be  thinks  proper  to  couceat  T 

It  is  enough  y*  I  believe 
HeaTen  's  bright  y"  I  can  conceive  : 
And  lie  y'  msJtes  it  all  his  csre 
To  istve  God  here  shall  »eit  him  there  • 

But  oh  1  w'  0*  shall  I  survey 
The  moment  y*  I  leave  y*  clay  t 
How  sudden  y'  surprise,  how  new  f 
Let  it,  my  God,  be  h^ppy  too,"  * 

J,  G.  B. 

Bar  Sikistkr  (5^»*  S.  L  268,  314, 4 L=*,)— Bogging 
Mn.  Stephen  Jackson's  pvrdon,  tho  mark  of 
illegitimate  descent  in  heraldic  bearings  is  not  a 
hmd.  sinister,  but  a  baton  amister^  the  latter  figure 
being  a  diminutive  (in  width)  of  the  former,  and 

•  ExplanaUon  of  the  ^rmbols,  kc.  :— ©  world ; 
^  He  ;  b  heaven  ;  1^  soul ;  y"*  th«mselv«8  ;  y  th  ; 
yy  they ;  y*  them,  fto. 


Ljing  tninctited  at  each  end,  instead  of  extending 
entii'ely  across  the  shield.  The  first  Dukes  of 
ClevelaDd,  Grafton,  and  St.  Albans,  natural  sons 
of  Charles  11.,  bore  hia  arms  with  a  baton  sinister 
over  all,  to  mark  their  illegitimacy.  In  tliose 
days,  such  a  mark  of  connexion  with  royalty  was 
considered  an  honourable  distinction  in  a  coat  of 
nnnt,  and  some  heraldic  authorities  write  with 
scorn  of  the  notion  that  any  marks  of  diBtrniee 
were  ever  inserted  in  heraldic  bearinp.  The  term 
"  bur  sinister/*  in  English  heraldn%  would  not  only 
he  a  misnomer,  but  would  involve  in  it  an  im- 
{Kissibility ;  for  as  a  bar  Is  a  horizonttd  figure, 
extending  entirely  acroes  the  shield,  it  could  not, 
as  a  whoic,  be  either  dexter  or  sinister*  I  think, 
however,  that  I  can  explain  how  the  term  *'  bar 
sinigter  "  has  crept  into  our  language.  In  a  curious 
work  on  heraldrj'  now  before  me,  published  in 
1724,  and  which  I  fancy  is  now  Bomewbat  rare, 
viz*,  Johnston's  Notitia  An^lic^nu  (see  vol.  ii. 
p.  54-6),  it  ifl  .stated  that  the  French  heralds  have 
no  "  bend  sinister"  in  their  heraldry,  but  call  it  a 
"  ban"  So  it  would  seem  that  "  bar  sinister  *'  is  & 
Gallicism.  Johnston  ridiculejs  the  idea  of  any 
heraldic  betiringa  lieing  pigniticant  of  dingnice. 
At  the  eaiue  time,  I  imagine  that  all  hernld«  admit 
that  there  are  de^ree-i  of  Iron  our  in  the  i>ositIon 
of  figures  in  the  field,  and  that  the  sinister  side 
of  a  shield  is  less  honounible  than  the  dexter. 

M.  ait 

Surely  a  *'  baton  8inist^?r  *'  is  also  used  as  n 
mark  of  illegitimacy.  It  may  be  ^een  at  this 
monient  pbiced  on  the  shield  of  the  Royal  arms 
of  Englund  borne  by  the  Fitz-Roys,  Dukea  of 
GrartoiL  John  PickforD|  M.A. 

Kewbounie  Eectoryi  Woodbridge, 

Welsh  Testament  (:>^  S.  i.  9, 173,  256,  393.) 
—I  opened  this  correspondence  in  order  to  call 
attention  to  imjportxmt  variances  between  the 
English  and  Webb  versions,  and  with  a  view  to 
ascertain  whether  the  New  Testament  Company, 
ID  collating  different  versions,  are  taking  any  notice 
of  the  Welsh  vension.  I  only  quoted  the  c^iae  of 
the  miracle  at  Cana  as  one  Instance  out  of  many, 
in  which  it  appears  to  me  that  the  Welsh  ia  more 
clear  and  forcible  than  the  English.  Possessing 
but  i\  Bupcrticial  knowledge  of  Welsh,  I  may  have 
been  mistaken^  as  pointed  out  bv  Mr,  IJnnone  and 
SKtMA,  in  tmnjilating  the  Wclsn  "mo'r*'  into  the 
English  7nore^  and  I  don't  dispute  their  correctness. 
At  the  same  time  I  have  this  excuse,  that  one  of 
the  dictionary  me^mings  of  the  W^elsh  '*mo"  i« 
jHorc  of.  However^  this  error  does  not  atfect  my 
main  contention,  that  the  W^elsh  version,  stating 
clearly  that  the  wine  ha<l  run  ahort^  is  more  ex* 
pressive  than  the  English,  in  which  it  is  at  least 
doubtful  whether  there  Ijtui  been  any  wine  originally 
provided.  Sioma  admits  that  the  Wethh  is  leas 
vagne.    My  object  now  is  to  point  out  two  in- 


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tftanc<?3,  in  the  next  chapter  (S.  John  iii.)j  where  the 
English  and  Welnh  are  strikingly  difi'erent ;  tlie 
difference  being,  in  my  opinion,  in  favour  of  the 
latter.  Verse  16^  "  Thnt  whosoever  believeth  in  him 
fihonld  not  perish,  but  have  everlastinf^  life/'  The 
words  *^  but  have  everlasting  life  "  are  thus  rendered 
in  the  Welsh  :  "  ond  caffael  o  fwno  fy  wyd  tmg)^- 
^ddol/'  the  meaning  of  the  latter  being  **  but 
ohlain  frovi  liim  eternal  Hfe/'  The  diflerence  is 
lilo€t  important^  Again,  in  verso  33  (English), 
*'that  God  is  inxc";  (Welsh),  **  mai  gcirtmr  yw 
Duw"  (that  God  i"*  iniih- »j)eaHnfj  or  truthful, 
literaUy  true  in  word).  The  difference  here  is  of 
special  iinportance,  as  i^eeeh  is  referred  to  in  the 
innuediate  context :  indeed  in  the  very  next  verse 
occurs  the  expression  (English)  **  speaketh  the 
words  of  God.  *  I  observe  that  in  the  Luther 
Bible  the  word  "  wahrhaftig '*  (tntthful)  is  used 
for  the  Bnglish  true.  It  itppeara  to  me  that  the 
English  word  is  more  genertd — not  to  say  vague 
— toan  either  the  Germnn  or  Welsh,  and  not 
nearly  so  expressive  in  relation  to  the  context  tm 
thektter.  M.  H.  K. 

*'R«/ji?rALD  Trevor:  a  Tale,''  &c.,  by  Ed- 
ward Trevor  Anwtl  (4i*»  S.  viiu  327,  462  ;  5^ 
S.  I  SC,  413.) — On'iiAR  Hamst  has  overlooked 
that  jjuvrt  of  the  note  of  Cymro  am  Btth  in  which 
Ihe  writer  remiirks  that  "  Anwyl  ■*  is  a  Welsh  aur- 
QAfne  as  well  as  an  adjective.  The  Cambrian 
Quarttrltf  Magazine  for  April,  1829,  in  a  review 
of  "Reginald  Trevor,"  speaks  of  the  author  as 
**  Mr.  Anwyl,^'  and  the  author,  in  tliat  name,  dedi- 
e*te«  the  work  to  Sir  Watkin  Williams  Wynn, 
Youp  anagram  matie  correspondent  does  not  think 
the  word  Anwyl  euphonioiLs  ;  he  Ims  never  heard 
fi  WeUh  mother,  in  caressing  her  baby,  call  it 
**  Anwyl  biich,"  or  he  would  perhaps  alter  his 
opinion.  He  is  puzzled  mth  the  signature  "  Cyitiro 
Am  Byth,'*  and  fears  there  may  be  some  hidden 
meaning  in  it.  If  he  will  refer  to  the  ULigazines 
af  the  day,  he  will  find  "  Cymry  am  By th  "  as  a 
motto^  under  the  trade-mark  (a  goat)  of  the  Ruthin 
Soda  Water  Works ;  and  the  meaning  of  the 
one  is  "  Welshman,"  and  of  the  other  **  Welshmen 
for  ever  I"  Anwyl,  as  a  surname,  is  not  nncomraon 
in  North  Wales  :  tht?  Anwyls  of  Bahi  are  the  de- 
scendants of  Evan  Lloyd,  a  friend  of  ChurchiU, 
Wilkes,  and  Garrick,  and  who  wrote  The  Mtiho- 
dut^  The  Foicers  of  Hit  Fen,  and  other  poems. 

A.  R. 

Crocfwyliui,  Oswetiry. 

**Anw7l  Biich" ^little  dear;  "Deux  AnwyF' 
=rgoi>d  God  !  a  common  expletive,  "deax**  being 
corrupted  WeUh« 

I  aiu  "  V  d  that  :iJiy  fioubt  should  exist  as 

tn  thi  proper  name,     I  have  often  p<ud 

tJiir)  i"  n  tIi  Anwyl,  who  formerly  kept  a  grocer's 
Ahop  in  Belgmvia,  and  waji  n  tax-gatherer  as  weU ; 


and  having  just  opened  The  Itoyfal  Red  Book  for 
1B68, 1  find  the  name  there  also, 

W.  J.  Bernhard  Smith. 
Temple« 

Arms  or  Miloate  :  Radclipfe  Family  (5*** 
S.  i.  227,  374.) — After  much  careful  study  and  in- 
vestigation of  this  point,  1  have  come  to  the  con- 
clusion that  there  can  be  but  little  doubt  of  thi-* 
ancient  family  of  Raduliffe  being  at  the  present 
time  directly  represented  in  the  male  line  by  Mr. 
Etidcliffe  of  Foxdentott  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Lan- 1 
CBLSten     Why  his  coat  of  arms  is  differenced  by  a  I 
label,  I  am  unable  to  say,  representing  as  he  does! 
the  main  stem.     There  are  three  families  at  the 
present  day  bearing  that   time-honoured    nanie^ 
whose  arms  are  underneath  described  : — 

L  Raddifle  of  Foxdenton  arms  :  Argent,  two 
bends  engrailed,  sable,  over  all  a  label  of  three 
points,  gules ;    crest,  a  bull's  head  erased,  sable,  i 
ducsdiy  gorged  and  chained,  azure  ;  motto,  ^*Caen>  < 
Cresai,  Calais/'     In  addition  to  Foxdenton,  this 
family  hius  extensive  estates  in  the  county  of  Dorset. 

2.  Radelitle  of  Rudding  Park,  Yorkshire,  now 
represented  by  Sir  Percival  Radcliie,  Bart.  Arm:!, 
argent,  a  bend  engrailed,  sable,  charged  with  a 
crescent  of  the  field  for  diilerence  ;  crest,  as  that 
of  Foxdenton  ;  motto,  "  Virtus  propter  se."  The 
name  of  the  first  baronet  was  originally  Joseph 
Pickford,  Esc[.y  who,  in  consequence  of  the  eminent 
services  he  rendered  to  Government  in  supprrHsin^l 
the  Ludditc  disturbances,  was  so  created,  with  the 
singular  honour  of  a  gratuitous  patent.  He  died 
in  lbl9. 

3.  Delmo  Ridclitfe,  of  Hitchin  Priory,  in  the 
county  of  Hertford-  Arms,  as  Radcltile  of  Fox- 
denton, aceording  to  Clutterbuck's  Hittonj  of 
HerifwdMre,  iii.,  22  and  23.  But  Berry  p. 
Encyclopedia  Hcraldica  gives  as  arms,  "argent^ 
a  cross  crosslet,  gules,  between  two  bendlets  en- 
grailed, sable  ;  a  label  of  three  points,  on  a  canton 
firgentj  a  cross  crosslet,  or/'  The  original  patro- 
nymic of  this  family  was  Delm^,  and  the  nameJ 
liadcliffc  was  added  m  1S(>2,  on  coming  into  pos*" 
session  of  property  in  right  of  his  wife. 

But  the  arms  of  Ratcliffe,  or  RAdcliffe,  Earl  of 
Sussex  in  the  sixteenth  century,  were  :  Argent, 
a  fess,  engrailed,  sable.     John  Pickpord,  M.A, 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridg«. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ko. 
KnglUh  Sehoot  Ctatticf.    Edited  by  Pranoia  Storr,  B.A.^ 
Arelwtunt  Mftiter  at  Marlborough  CoUege,  kc.  Cou^peri  J 
TatL    By  Francis  Storr,  B.  A.    Scoid  Lav  qf  ikg  Lagi  I 
Mimtrrf.    By  J.  8urteet  PhiUpotta,  M.A  ,  AemsUtit 
Muter  in  Rugby  School,  Itc.     (RivingtoDsO 
\» . ,   n;  T , .  u  »  may  be  eonpntu l«t«d  on  the  miknn ^^  r  i  ti  « l ,  u  Ji 
Hng  for  tchooU  a  good  tnuning  in  Ki < 
hoot  Cfmtict  <they  will  embrace,  h^ 
e£iujiieriitcd  aboto,  the  Statom,  Bac<mt  Estay*,   i»  <"^(*' 
}(orth'*  ExtstrniiH,  &c.)  ov^bt  to  find  its  w»y  into  Ktoti  uul 


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H&rrow,  and  aJl  our  ^eat  public  ecbooh,,  to  aay  nothing 
of  tbo  collepea  that  are  sx^iinging  up  €vervi*here  for  the 
odac&tion  of  girls.  Wc  caDnot  but  tnink  tbAt,  were  that 
TOeuial  tDiining  ndopted  vkich  the  etudy  of  our  greateat 
vritert  would  ussurtidly  provide,  iar  greater  and  more 
Ufieful  reealtfi  muat  be  attained  than  by  dri?ing  boys^ 
wLetbcr  tliey  like  it  or  not,  through  a  courac  of  cleiraiit 
9cr  >  )it0.     On  alt  handa  it  ifl  uffiruied  now  that 

to'  in  J?  attempted ;  that,  after  all,  the  ttio  rough 

kiL  I  few  aubjecta  ia  of  more  avail  in  after-life 

tb.>  LterLng  intelligiince  which  id  only  too  often 

pt  neloqueucotbbtia  offensive  by  its  ignorance. 

T}^  then  is  evidently  Mr.  8 torr* 9  mm,  for  he 

eu>.  acb  volume  contains  enough  for  otic  term's 

nviL.  iL  uutct}  ore  Burc,  by  their  freedom  from  dry- 
neSB,  to  create  an  intercft  aod  rivet  attention. 

The  Manwxh  Cln-'coru>n  :  a  Guide  fur  tkn  Hft^rati  and 
IMttnt  Ctl''  fiivint  Str^ej  the  Iloi^  Sticra" 

titfftitt,  atiiJ  of  i/u  Church.    Edited  by  the 

Rev,  P.  G.  Ltc.  L'A^L.,  F.aA.  {Hogg  L  Co.) 
Tuts  manual,  abridged  from  the  Dmctorium  Anoli- 
caitnni,  will  prove  ot  great  teirice  to  those  clergy,  lay 
feaders,  and  choirmastem  who  find  the  lawr  work  out 
of  th<  ir  reaeb.  Dr.  Lee  is  ao  well  known  lor  his  great 
knowledge  uf  tboae  ancient  ritual  airangemcnta  Vkhich 
arc  gradually  being  revived,  that  it  would  ahuost  at&m 
pre«urnptioii  to  critidxe  anythirt^r  thnt  he  may  tay  on  the 
fiubjeet ;    vsc  will,  tbcrcfi^  "iitentcd  wiih  cun- 

gratulating  our  letinied  <  iit>  not  only  on  tho 

method  «iud  atyle  of  lii^  L.„.  ,....,  Lut  ab*o  on  the  very 
exhaustive  manner  in  which  each  acrvicc,  oj  to  its 
ritual  arrjiTipemrnti?,  i*  treated.  Rec^tir?*-  nin§t  be  had 
to  the    /  '  '  <Ied,  for 

thei^in  .  nlficient 

reason  tl  :  ^  ,^  it  in  a 

couveuieni  purtAble  IWiu,  ajjd  i'  ^  'ie  price.  We 

xituBt  not  omit  to  add  that  the  ,1  :  urnisbed  ^ith 

an  &diuira1jle  glo&sary ;  and  it  ia  itoc  i  <o  iiiucb  to  aay  that, 
without  the  help  thus  ntforded,  it  would  bnAc  bcco,  to  a 
gi'eat  extent,  tinintelligiblc  to  tho*c  not  pretending  to  a 
very  deep  knowledge  of  the  fiubject. 

Mai  trials  for  tJi4  Hutory  ^f  ihi  A  thj^ian^  DonoeriKy  /V*0*n 

Hiii*iiv  to  PtricUi,    Collected  from  Ancient  Authors. 

lly  T.  Case,  M.A.,  Late  Fellow  of  BragGuo«o  CuUege, 

Oxford.     ( Parker  &  Co.) 

Clak^ical  authors  may  find  in  thi$  pamphlet  m&teriat 

whereon  tr>  fowiid  mnny  chnptera.     The  authorities  cited 

are  in  C 3  i  Led  to  a  certain  period,  are 

very  co  1 1  uf  i>olcu,  and  thij:  chang:ea 

made  by  '.„-;,,-__    „  . ^'.^^^i,  form  the  main  ba^ia  of 

ficverjd  injportaut  t^uotatioua.  V'oting  ly  lot  16  placed 
before  iW  a.c,  and  is  »bown  to  have  trGcn  generally,  but 
not  nccedoarily^  dumocmtic.  *'*  Litenc  Humaniores  "  and 
•*  TriptJ« "  men  may  peroae  Mr.  C&m'b  collection  with 
advantage. 

Slori€*  from  JfrrodotuSj  in  Attic  Ureel :  1*  iitory  of 
Hhanipfinitus ;  2.  Tli€  liattk  <t/ Maruthmu  Adapted 
by  J.  t5urteen  Phillpotta,  M.A.,  Aisiatant-Master  in 
Biigby  i^chwd,  and  formerly  Fdlow  of  New  College, 
Ox  lord.  (RivingtonB.) 
Aftkh  aecond  thoughts  few  critics  will  find  fault  when 
thev  «*©  the  revcr'-d  Hcrodotu?  turned  )uu.*  Atti<»  Gr«?^k 

M^    ^         ■■■ 

hi 

ti>^'-  --.-■-  '   --        --     ,  -  , 

very  iM^id  piugictis.     1«:l  nut  (<>  lie  Ui^ught  it  is  to  be 

deprived  of  much  cla»fiical  grownd-work.    How  i»  it  to  be 

mrv- '  ....  .^  -.-.■-■.  .  ....;.    ..^^ 

At:  CO 

rtu  I  — '     '  ■,  '  _.   ■    ■■  a. 

actUixig  iui^tii  thAU  "  lii^'udvlu^uiiuk  4?A*y  "  u  wauted 


—a  comparative  knowledge  of  dialects  had  to  be  gained* 
The  author  of  iiticcUoTLS  /rowk  Ximophoii,  SrUcfioriA  frmn 
Arrmn,^  Notu  qj^  the  **  Lay  of  (hf  Latt  J  h'tny 

and  VomfnoH^e&klth,  has,  in  SttfHa/rom  pre- 

pr"''^'  '""'lie  schools  ivith  a  book  which  mn  viji.uLirago 
1  :.  and  acholara  in  an  arduous  taak— begimuog 

TJie  Ilrraid  and  Genealooitt.  Edited  by  John  Gough 
Nichola,  F.S.A-  Parta  XLVIL,  XLVIll.  (Nichola  k 
Sont.) 
Wk  intend  no  di«re&f)ect  to  other  labourers  in  that  iidd 
of  antiquarian  literature  which  the  late  Mr.  John  Gough 
Kichvls  had  made  »o  ptcuiiarly  his  own  wben  we  e;tpreia 
our  conviction  that  it  has  been  wiaely  dotermiued  that 
the  Ucrald  r  '  '' '^yijti,  of  which  he  was  the  origi- 
nator, Bhoul<  >  Lo  a  cloie  now  that  ho  by  whom  it 
had  been  ao  conducted  htu^  gone  Ut  his  ro^L 
Not  less  judiciuu^  ixud  becoming  ia  it,  that  the  la«9t  nuti^ber 
of  tliat  journal  should  contain  a  memoir  of  its  accom- 
plitihed  editor,  written  by  a  loving  hand,  in  which  are  to 
!>e  found  not  only  a  full  and  det;iiled  account  ol  the 
numerous  literary,  historical,  and  ;[:cnea!f>}z:fcri!  norksifor 
which  the  World  are  indebtt  1  Itdgo 
and  untiring  industry  of  Mr  i^^t 

aliufiioiis  to  the  frieuda  and  t^ ...  .....i         ...  .i,  was 

often  cloisely  associated,  and  many  ^iimfifiea  ot  timt  antiable 
character  which  distinguish^'d  him  in  all  hh  domfsttc 
relations.     Mr.  Nichols'   "  '  '  'sltkc 

of  all  folae  pretences,  <>  or 

three  of  the  shorter  nui  ,    ^t^nt 

work,  the  last  which  h«:rckldic  Atudtiiis  aio  duetuicd  to 
receive  from  the  feitrleaj  and  independent  pen  of  John 
Gough  Nichols. 

BOOKS  AND  ODD  VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PURCHASE. 
PartieoJftri  of  Pri««,  Ac,  of  lh«  fallowlug  buok  to  b«  mhI  dinot  to 
the  ix^TvoD  hy  trbom  it  u  n»jL(iired,  wlM>i«  tuune  &ud  oddivM  are 

pKTVntjof  ThtviiLt  u&D»lat*d  f r^tm  U>c  Gtrtu&Q  of  1I«ZU7  U«la«:tj 

>Vaul«d  by  £dmard  t4t»twJ(,  BoiUmtotd  afaaor,  Ji^igs*  , 


Hatiai  to  Carrr^iianlifntil. 

Ovn  Correspond EWT8  mil,  xre  u-wi,  txaue  ottr  t^ 

fftsting  t(^  ihem,  loth  for  ih^r  .iakes  v--  -  '  ■  -  "nr  gwn — 

That  thty  should  write  dtarly  <x  /—and  on 

one  aide  of  the  paper  only — mart «/;  ,  >  r  names 

ajTit/ wordj  and  phrases  t>/  %ihich  k  ■  v  if 

rtffuircd.  We  cannot  vndrrtake  to  j  r'or- 
rtipohdaxi  itoit  Hot  tAM  vorih  tk^   w-/- -i^  ^v   ,^ttUnff 

U.  £,  S.  K. — ''  At  sUea  and  sevens  '*  Ib  a  phrase  In  The 
Widou\  Act  i.  *c.  2  (ltJ62),  n  piece  by  Jonaon,  Fktchor, 
and  Middleton.  It  became  a  popular  phFaee  Co  denote 
confuiion.  It  wa^,  bowovtir,  of  earlier  datL-,  hit  iUderi* 
vatton  haa  never  been  aatistactorily  accounted  (or. 

A  FoBEionRR.— The  pres&ca  you  apeak  of  are  rarely 
emccessfuL  Tbo  Work  reouired  would  be  done  more  aatit- 
foctorily  and  economically  by  any  respectable  phfiter. 

AOTICS, 
Editorial  Communlcationi  should  bo  addressed  to  "  The 
*"  ""   I  " — Advcrtieemenbi  and  Bupiooss  Lett«xrs  to  "  The 
er  *'— at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  Street,  ytnwid, 

I,,  \r.c. 

\Vt-  beg  leave  to  etate  thut  we  decline  to  return  com- 
munications which,  for  any  rciiAon,  vm  do  not  print  p  and 
to  Ihia  rule  we  can  r    '     -  —  ■ 

To  all  commaniL  nivme  nnd 

address  of  the  eenrj  ^         ^tion,  but 

as  ft  gttonuitoe  of  good  Wkih, 


I 


iP>  8.  II  Jdlt  11,  71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


21 


JtOMiMli^  SATU&UA  r,  JUL  y  11*  lis:*. 


CaNTENTS,— »•  28* 

irivn^  :— AtKhof   Pftfiittr  of  Worcc-terihlM,  81— \  Picture 
a*l  .   tl  TiU«i  of  liouor/' 

Ji)  Lord  CornwaliU  — 

Bull— V  ^iLiAn^^*    IrVi^yipfi  -  l.uiti   ou  a  daa'i>UI,   2&-^rJi« 

^ITKK  I   lander*    or   ZltijMn^    26— Cipiy 

*< . .  ^  rtio  Jiid^e«  Oft  Circull  -Qati«n 

At  I     MArkborough.    27  —  '*  Y«nge 

MxUiUj'  '  —  "  rb'-:  Uonny  HanAv  of  i*lrlie "  —  Fruncb 
]llaii4>Miu-|«i—TltiUra  Abtny-Mri  KlUnhelb  Moatigu — 
Ki'liittti  ^b'K.v  York*  —  ,\  Caaterbiio'  roim'liina— Henry 
jAtSH*  ttelUr«-^To»  Htif  '  Torpple/'  of  LnciioQ— Mr«.  J.  A 
8«i||f«lttt— '■  Muttir'-JutiAtb^a  £a«r»rai.  Of  Americ*^  2& 

•"REPfJES  :— SpftlUojt  Rrfrtrm*, '?9— Hjilpli  do  Ckkbham:  M*ry 
lie  K^im.  SO— Hyror)  :  W ychorK^f — *'  '!>»«  ftt  %ht  Hirihuiigbt 

B«tt. "  *[<--  .  Hi  —  '  PrfsLi  f  J  ihn     iiiid  tiic  Arms  of  iho  Sua  of 


Civ 
Tti. 


Sin 

vi  : 

^^ 

J. 
A 


isia— "  The  <jiarr  of  their 

-I bo  Swift  t«railj,  S3— 

lir    hc^lool   for  i^CAud^l " — 

•  Hu'libfM  '—Krglator  of  Jo**— Heraldic— 

^  wnti  (^iMwera  — Ibe  "  JttCDbiu" — La  Viho- 

JoLUttio  Drury  C^aoc,"  36— Bttd4— The 

;  —"  M\'i" — Arltbtot'tic  :  U«fitlng  out 

i>f   Wi^tnore—'*  VVhek"— Prlnccji    of 

-ii»e  l)»eof  inverted  CoQimas  —  liMC  itnd 

.t  -T)i«  [NipuUtkoD  Two  UuudrtKl  Ymin  Ago 

I  iMirt  in  *'  VuiiHiia,"  37—'*  Ue»ler**—  Ui^by, 

'  Wont*  in  174ld— Po«U  uid  Prapor  Namei— 

lUneko  JUiiera,  ^  -Puot  Scotut— Meraiulc— 


aSolm  on  Booki^  ifcc 


ABCHEB  FAMILY  OF  WOECESTEaSHIRB. 

My  attention  has  latdy  be^n  dniwn  to  the 
nestton  of  the  origin  of  the  Archer  family  of 
'arbo4oG8  in  the  seventeenth  century  from  htLring 
!cn  a  work  on  thi«  »urnj«ne,  which,  although  a 
;^uule  to  inquirers,  is,  nevertheleftSj  em- 
\ug  from  the  recurrence  of  misprint  or 
10*1  trrora,  which  might  have  been  obviated  hy 
sltj^htest  effort  in  the  correction  of  the  proof 
ihect*.  In  this  work,  althou<?h  frequent  suggea- 
iom  are  thrown  out  in  favour  of  the  Worcester- 
IbLfc  origin  of  this  family,  it  i»  evident  that  the 
or  hud  a  preference  for  Suti'olk.  A  careful 
sin  of  the  contents,  howei'er,  ftnd  collution 
other  nourcea  of  information,  will»  I  think, 
thai  th4:^v*i  were  Archers  in  Barbadoes  from 
ik,  and  Lincoln,  but  tbit  Edward 
umI  there  in  IH93,  was  none  of  those, 
I  wti*  li  a  iliritinct  and  Worcestershire  origin.  1 
^e\)  <\*^-!>rt>  how  little  rcliAocc  can  be  placed  on 
I  triMp  yet,   to  a  certiiin  extent,  they 

due  m  tdnefl.     The  descendants  of 
Archer  svre  at  ill  to  be  found,  not  only 
€a«  bat  in  Jamtiicar  where  two  of  hi» 
'    '    '  '""I,     In  both  branches 

ig  the  lup^e  of  time 

^M^^MiiMiiihriiiiii 


that  their  English  progenitors  were  BojaliatB,  and 
of  Uinber&lade  descent  ;  and  this,  too,  in  CiMoe  of 
the  facts  that  Sir  John  Archer  of  the  Be  Boys,  or 
E^ex,  fumily  was  himself  in  Barbadoes,  and  tb&t 
he  hiid  relatives  in  Jamaica  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  ihey  still  trea-sur»>  an  heirloom  trana- 
luitted  from  generation  to  generation,  whicli  would 
deem  to  strengthen  the  fir^t  part  of  the  tradition^ 
viz.,  a  locket  set  in  gold  of  the  period,  contaiauag 
a  portrait  of  Charles  1.  reading  I 

That  the  Worcestershire  Archer?  were  Royaliati 
there  can  be  no  doubt ;  tlie  children  of  Edward 
A  rchcr  of  Hanley  Castle^  eldest  son  of  John  Archer, 
of  WelLuid,  by  his  wife  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Richard  Frewen  of  Hanky  Castle,  were  di»- 
posscssed  of  their  estate.^  by  CrorawelJ.  We  find, 
about  1652, ''  William  Archer  and  William  Walter 
petitioning;  on  behalf  of  the  children,  hiing  miTwrg. 
Thomas,  George,  and  Anne,  of  the  late  Edward 
Archer  of  Hanley  Castle."  There  h  no  mention 
of  his  elder  children  in  this  petition  ;  they,  no 
doubt,  had  equally  incurred  the  Profcector'»  dil- 
ple^isure,  ThomaA,  George,  and  Anne,  being 
minora,  might  be  presumed  to  be  gtiiltleds  of 
politiciil  sj^mpathies.  Theae  WeUand  Archers 
appear  to  have  broken  up  entirely  about  lG-19, 
and  to  have  dispersed  in  all  directions,  their  large 
possessions  pacing  into  the  handa  of  their  Crom- 
well ite  neighbours —the  Lechmeres  and  others. 
Presumably,  the  Frewens — maternal  ancestors  of 
Edwiird  of  Hanley— were  also  Royalists,  for  we 
Hud  them  settled  in  Barbadoes  at  tlie  same  period 
as  Edward  Archer  of  1GJ)3,  aa  well  as  the  Thornes, 
Moo  res,  and  other  familiee,  with  whom  the  Wel- 
land  Archers  had  intermarried.  It  is  a  curious 
and  suggestive  fact  that  the  first  Barbadian  an- 
cestor of  Edward  Archer  of  1693  called  hh  estates 
"Cleobury,"  »*01dbury,"  and  '^Gretton."  Now, 
if  we  refer  to  Dugdale's  "  Pedigrees  of  Archers  of 
Umberilatle/*  we  find  that  Thomas  le  Archer — 
Edward    III,— married    Margarita,    daughter  of 

Clebnrie,  and  Rowland  Archer  of  Uniber- 

alade  quartered  the  arms  of  the  Mortimer-Cleburie 
family.  Again,  Old  bury  is  a  town  in  Worcester- 
shire. I  cannot  but  think  Uiat  a  deep  signihcance 
lies  in  the  Jiames  chosen  by  thia  branch  of 
Barbadian  Archers  for  the  litst  properties  held  by 
them  in  the  land  of  their  exile.  They  would  eerve^ 
not  only  to  keep  alive  the  cherished  memory  of  the 
mother  country,  but  act  as  landmarks  to  their 
posterity,  showing  the  liru  of  Umberslade  from 
which  they  derived,  as  in  the  case  of  Cleoburic, 
and  their  Worcester  origin  from  OUHtuTif.  Taking 
all  these  circumstances  together,  I  think  1  atn 
justified  in  my  preference  for  a  Worcester  instead 
of  a  Suffolk  descent  for  Edwjird  Archer  of  Bar- 
badoes. 

TV  '  I  Ht  Archen  mcjit*  -  "  tV  V.  ridi 
R.  Barbadoes    in  i. 


22 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


16*  8.  II.  Jin.T  11, 74. 


Nicholas  Arclier  of  Huatropp,  co.  Lincoln,  iind 
of  ^*  foreign  p**,"  His  wiU  is  recordetl  in  London. 
Sons,  Richard  Leon  (qj.  cont.  Leonani),  NtcholaSy 
and  Christ&phcr,  That  they  were  ulso  Crotuwellites 
and  Piiritansj  I  think  we  may  infer  from  the  bap- 
tismal names  of  their  children,  when  we  consider 
the  mania,  at  that  period,  for  Biblical  apfxjllations 
among  the  followers  of  the  Protector.  Kathaniel, 
Joseph,  Joshua,  and  Peter,  are  the  Christian 
names  we  find  bestowed  on  the  offspring  of  these 
early  Archers,  and  they  were  perpetuated  in  their 
descendants.  The  name  of  Edward  appears  but 
once  amongst  them  ;  one  Peter  Archer,  grandson 
of  Leonard,  called  his  son  by  this  name,  but  he 
was  born  in  1703,  ten  years  after  the  death  of 
Edivard  Archer  of  161>3. 

It  is  morally  impossible  that  the  latter  could  be 
descended  from  eitherof  the  three  brothers,  liirjinrd^ 
Leonurd^  or  Nichohu,  since  the  only  uiember  of 
their  respective  families  who  bore  the  name  of 
Edward  was  born  after  his  deniise. 

At  the  present  time,  baptismal  designations 
kive  no  signitication  ;  it  was  not  thus,  however, 
in  the  days  of  our  forefathers.  Let  us,  then,  turn 
from  these  Lincoln  Archers  to  Edwar^i  Archer,  of 
IG93,  and  his  descendants.  In  no  single  instance 
do  we  find  a  Seriptund  name  among.st  them,  but 
in  their  stead  wo  do  find  the  baptismal  names 
borne  for  centuries  by  the  Umbers  lade  Archerv — 
Thomas^  Edwixrd,  Rohert^  John^  and  William — 
names,  moreover,  borne  by  the  sons  of  John 
Archer  of  Wetland,  from  whom  I  ckim  descent 
for  Edward  Archer,  who  died  in  Btubadoes  in 
1693,  either  through  his  eldest  son,  Edward,  of 
Hanley  Castle,  or  through  Robert,  a  younger  son, 
born  1016.  We  know  that  tlie  formers  eldest  son, 
John,  was  in  "  foreign  p** "  (see  Nosh) ;  it  is 
possible,  nay,  probable,  that  his  other  "  dispos- 
sessed '^  elder  sons  were  also  emignmts,  Edward, 
of  Hanley  Castle,  was  born  June,  16tH\  Allowing 
thirty  years  for  a  genenitioa,  Edward  Archer,  of 
Barbadoes,  might  dearly  have  been  his  son  ;  were 
he  born  about  1630,  he  would  only  have  been 
sixty-three  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1693.  That 
some  members  of  the  Worcestershire  Archers  did 
emigrate  is  an  undoubted  fact  ;  for  among  the 
wills  of  Archers  in  *^  foreign  p** '"  we  find  those  of 
**  John  of  Worcester,"  Humphrey  Archer,  &c* 
The  former,  I  presume,  was  the  son  of  Edward  of 
Hanley.  I  :im  more  disposed,  however,  to  think 
that  Edward  Archer  of  Barbadoes  wa^  the  son  of 
the  younger  brother,  Robert,  son  of  John  Archer  of 
Welland  and  Eleanor  Frewen  of  Hanley. 

Robert  Archer  w.oa  baptized  at  Hanley,  April, 
1616.  He  married  Anne  Skinner  of  Ledbury,  and 
waa  the  father  of  many  children.  His  son  Robert 
was  "  Parson  of  Casde- Morton  "  :  he  married, 
1677,  Hannah  Moore,  daiUghtcr  of  Edward  Moore 
of  Suckloy  Court.  Two  short  tabulations  will 
show  more  clearly  than  I  am  do  by  words  my 


reason  for  believing  that  this  younger  Robert 
a  brother  of  Edward  of  Barbadoes.     That  Edwar 
Archer's   father   was    named    Robert,    I    myseij 
believe,  though  I  readily  admit  that  my  reason 
for  this  preference  will  not  satisfy  genealogists  i 
but,  in  the  absence  of  pmof,  let  the  following  fa< 
weigh  for  what  it  is  worth.     IHiring  the  hiirricanflj 
of  1831,   in   common  with  many  other  ancien* 
mansions  of  the  old  settlers  (or  "  Planters," 
they  were  called),  the  ancestral    honie  of   thl^ 
branch  of  the  Barbadian  Archere  was  destroyed  j 
beneath  the  foundation-stone  was  found,  by  M 
Edwartl  Archer  (the  owner),  an  exquisite  porceku 
cup,  on  which  were  the  initials  R.  A.  in  gold. 
is  nccefi.sary  to  explain  that  Mr,  Edward  Arch^ 
waa  innocent  of  all  genealogical  precise  inforn 
tion,  and,  like  many  othci-t?,  merely  relied  on 
fniuily  tradition,  without  any  misgiving,  and, 
the  same   time,   without    any  interest    in    sue 

K.  C, 

=iKobert  Archer,  aon  of=ATine 


(|uestions. 


John  Archer  nud  Elea- 
nor Frewen,  b.  Ifilti. 


K5kiimer. 


I  ia77. 

The  R€V.  Rol>ett  A  r-^*  Hannah,  da  ugh.  of 
c her,  Parson  of  Caatlo  I  Edw,  Moore  ol  Suck- 
Mcirtoa.  |  ley  Court. 

1  (~~"    i  i        M  I  r. 

Timothy.    Edward.     jElimheth,  Hannah,       Oihec< 

name  of  hU  oh.  an  childr 

brother's  infant.        nHniea.<j 

wife.  unknown 

Edward   Archer  of— f Elisabeth, 
Barbftdocfl,  ob.  101(5.  j 


11 
Robert, 
dii  in- 
herited. 


Edward= 


Tbo- 


Eliufc* 
beth. 


^Hftnnah,=  —  Aahtt 

probably 

called  ai^ter 

his  brother 't 

wife. 


I 
Edward. 


Joan. 


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recent  picture  sales  the  results  of  a  sale  by  auctia 
of  tho  collection  of*  Sir  Luke  Schanb,  which  tc>oJ 
phice  on  26th,  27th,  and  28th  April,  1758. 
three  days' side  comprised  118  lot^,  and  the  su^ 
realiined  was  7,784/,  ha.  Out  of  the  118  lots, 
recorded  in  the  QentJnnan^ji  Magazine^  vol.  xxvi 
p.  225,  &c.  (1758),  I  &hall  select,  the  names  of  iiboa 
forty  works  of  the  most  celebrated  masters,  with  t' 
prices  and  purchtisers  :— 

FtrH  Pa^*t  Snit' 
Lot  9.  W.   yandeTelde--A  calm,  U  15#.  (StL 
chaser,  Goremor  Saunders. 

Lot  10,  KujjH-A  landscape  Willi  rocks,  ^L  Of.    Pur- 
chascri  FitzwiUiami* 


l»aiLJotTll,7t.l 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


23 


L«i  11.  Oitade— A  kndic^po  and  figures,  7/.  17i.  C^. 
i  PtttctiAMr,  Mr  Cimptjini. 

Lol  14  CK  Fjor&in— A  li&Tid«eBpe  and  flgtires,  105/. 
f  PttrrbMcf,  DucUess  of  PortJand. 

IM  17.  J   Hiifi«»i)0— A  Holy  F&mllj,  13/.  2t,  6dL    Piir- 

,     1  •■  1  Low— Soldiers,  Ac,  17/.  17i.    PurchMcr, 

Li  i  _  ..  .  cronese— A  woiniui*B  head,  12/.  12f.  Pur- 
f  cbs^r,  Mr*  Vcmoii. 

Lot  25.  Domeoko— 8L  Barb«,  &$/.  16«.  Furcbaser, 
[  BicUiiril  Grasvenor 

L«i  3^,  Fr.  Mierii-Boy  with  a  jug>  amdl  onl,  e/.  lOi. 
[  Purcb4»«r,  Mr.  Stetntrd. 

f     L(>e  Rd.  P.  Potter— A  1iiQd«c&pe  and  figurei,  lU.  (hM. 
I  FiiT<!h»«pr,  Mr,  Reynolds 

L< ' '  * "  I  no  —  8 1 .    Catherine,  42L      Purcbater, 

>t  .n— A  ileeping  Yonuf,  18/*  7*.  6</.    Pur* 

•r.  Mi.  Mufterson. 

L  61  Gt»ercino~8t.  Sebastian,  54L  I2t.    Purcbaaer, 
I  Cottpcr. 

Lot    &4.    Giordano— A   elecping  Venu«   vitb   Cupids 

I MtUftiling,  11/.  11*.    ParcliMcr,  Mr  IJolditcb 

I  ^    Lot  r<5.  RubenB— A  Und^cupc  with  Our  Saviour  bc&l- 

I  inij  the  lame,  79/.  Ifu.     Purcljoser,  Duclican  of  Portland. 

Lot  5Q.  Correggir^—^igUuiunda  weeping  over  the  beart 

«f  Titnered,  104/.  6i.     Purcba^er,  Sir  T.  tiejibrigbt. 

Second  Days  Sale, 
Lot  8.  D.  Teta»que2  — An  old  wonum'i  bcad^  3  qrf., 
ItiL  13*.  6(/.     Purcbaaer,  Mr.  Dulton. 
I     Lot  11,  Holbein— A  woman's  bead,  S  qn.,  2/<  2i. 
I  Pq  rebuke  r,  H.  Poi,  E-«q. 

Lot  \2.  M.  A,  CarftTa^frio — A  man  playing  on  a  flute, 
It  7#*     Purchaser,  Mrs.  Child. 

Jk>t  25    Albert  DUrer— A  cracifixion,  15/.  15j.     Pur- 
r  Saunders, 
i  -A  Dutch  lady  at  ber  toilet,  22/.  lU  U. 

^^e.^  nevr,  figures  by  CanMci,  6^.  2<. 
c    if  Portland. 
J     He  tiihraudt— Admiral    Euyter,  16/.  5f.  6c/. 
f  Pureba#«r,  Mr.  Steward, 

Lot  £0.  Ann.  Caracci- Venus  at  ber  toilet,  63/.  Pur- 
<liaaar.  Lord  Cowper. 

Lot  51.  Guido — Our  Saviour  asleep  and  the  Virgin 
'vwtehing  OYcr  bim,  32S/.  VU.    Purcbascr,  Richard  QroB* 


Lot  62.  P.  de  Cortona-^Rinaldo  ftnd  Armida»  2SL  2t. 
I  Pnrchaier,  Admiral  Knowles. 

Ltit  fiJ.  VatidTke— Virgin,  Jesos  asleep  ia  her  lap, 
tSIl/  '  -      "-r^  aser.  Duchcaa  of  Portland. 

L*  ers— Boon  at  Cardt,  85/,  If,    PurcbsAer, 

|lii>r.i  !i. 

Third  Dayt  Sale, 
Lot  4.  Sir  P.  Ldy— Due  head  of  Port«moatb,  3  qra., 
1-4/.  7*.  H/i.    Ptifcbiser^  Richard  GrosTenor 
]     Lot  UK   Watteau- A  landscape  fluid  figures,  9/.   9i, 
pParcba«er,  GoTem or  Saunders. 

Lot  11.  .Tordaens— Man  piping,  children  about  bim, 
\  5f     Pufcl^Mcr*  Lord  Byron. 

vl     '    ''       ul—J(ympbs  bathing,  4/.  4i.    Porchaser, 

■Lifl, 

lisaln— A  landscape  and  fignrcij  67/.  ISt. 
[tclia^r,  ^  Rust.  Esq. 

tS.    K.   PouBsin—tts  companion,  23/,  2^    Pui^ 
'      '    ■  n*on, 

overmans— A  TiUage  camiTa),  SI/,  lOs, 
ei  ,     niiergutcb. 

4^5.  L*  Ufun— Departure  of  Rinaldo  fhrtii  Armida^ 
.  lOj.     Piscbaseri  Lord  Anion. 


Lot  44.  Rigaud— Cardinal  Dubois,  balf-le&gtb,  33/,  I2#. 
Purchaser,  Mr.  Tbompson, 

Lot  40,  MurUlo— Beggars,  32/,  11#.  PorcbaMr,  Richard 
Grtisvenor, 

Lot  52.  Carlo  Maratti— A  Holy  Family,  33/,  1*,  U, 
Purchaser,  Vaodergutch. 

Lot  60.  Raphael— A  Inrge  and  capital  picture  of  a 
Holy  Family,  703/,  10*.   Purchaser,  Ducheaa  of  Porthind. 

The  krpeat  purchasers  at  the  sale  were  (1)  the 
Durhes.^  of  Portliinrl,  who  secured  fourteen  pictiiTOi, 
119  folio WB  :— CL  Lorain,  105/. ;  Rembrandt,  32/.  1 U.; 
BamboGcio,  21/. ;  ElshcimeT,  171.  lis. ;  Guido, 
157f,  10^.  i  Kul^ens,  79/.  16«,;  Vandyke,  126/.; 
P,  Brill,  65/.  2.<f. ;  Yaindyke,  21 U.  1*,;  View  of 
Antwerp  by  P.  Brill,  Rubens,  GillisT  and  Brueghel, 
551/,  5*.  ;  Titian,  43i,  1*.;  Eli/,.  Siratii,  23/,  2*, ; 
Tintoret,  66/,  3s.  \  Raphael,  703/.  10*.  — Total, 
2,202f.  l&r.  (2)  Richard  (first  Eiu-l)  Gro^jvenor, 
Beventeen  pictures,  ^c: — Oescentia,  1(»/,  lOi, ; 
Domenico,  58/,  16*.;  Jordaens,  16/.  5j.  6<i, ; 
F,  Laura,  36?.  15*,;  nn  antique  bronze,  42/.; 
Guido,  328/.  13*.;  Sir  P.  Ltdy,  4L  7$.  firf.; 
P,  Veronese,  79/.  16«. ;  Holltein,  3/.  3*,;  Do., 
3/.  13^,  Gd. ;  Polydore,  36/.  15*, ;  Rubens,  25/.  4<. ; 
Borgo^rnone,  23/,  2*.;  F,  Bassano,  115/,  10*.; 
Murillo,  32/,  lU. ;  Tenier^,  157/,  IOj.  ;  Le  Bnin, 
127/,— Total,  1,101/,  11^.  6d  (3)  Sir  J,  Seabrigbt, 
A,  Corre^gio,  404/,  r»#.  .(4)  Governor  Saunders, 
fourteen  picture* : — Antolinl,  7/.  15^. ;  Vandevelde, 
5/.  15«,  6t/, ;  Badddocio,  15/,  15*.;  Gentilesehi, 
44/.  2.1. :  Albert  Durer,  15/  15*.;  A.  Kuyp, 
26/.  15«.  6rf, ;  HubcDR,  28/.  17s,  Qd. ;  Bo.,  15^  15*.; 
Gofredy,  6/.  6s.;  Wutteau,  8/.  18s,  (3^ ;  I>0., 
9/.  9*,;  Sal.  Ros,i,  7/,  7#,;  Do.,  4/.  4s,;  Rotteu- 
hamer,  16/,  5s.  6d.— Total,  213/.  Os.  6</. 

S.  H.  Harlowe, 

St.  John's  Wocd. 


"BEITLSH  AND  CONTINEXTAL  TITLES  OF 
HONOR,"     BY  A  TRAVELLER,  1842. 

This  interesting  work  was  written  to  show  the 
real  value  of  foreign  titles  of  nobility  (some  of 
wbicb  were  purchasable  at  the  moderate  figure  of 
30/,  [),  and  to  di&abuse  tbe  minds  of  the  ordinary 
class  of  travelling  Britona  of  the  idea  that  Con- 
tinental Counts  and  Barons  are  on  a  par  irith  our 
Earls  and  Barons,  and  therefore  superior  to  BaroneU 
and  tbe  nobiles  minora  of  Great  Britain,  the  fact 
being  tbat  tbe  majority  of  these  titled  gentlemen 
can  scarcely  be  considered  equal  in  rank  to  our 
Esquires,  The  following  conclusions,  drawn  by 
tbe  author  from  his  arguments  and  faotc^  are 
wortby  of  a  place  in  tbe  Peerages,  Baronetages, 
and  other  works  of  a  similar  character: — 

*'  1.  That,  notwithstanding  the  pofialar  distinction 
between  Ni»bility  and  Gentry,  no  one  who  goes  abroad 
and  *eho  rtalU  belong*  to  thi  nobiUt  minoru  of  Elngland, 
should  deny  thit  be  is  Noble, 

**  II,  That  it  ii  a  Tulgar  error*  to  suppose  that  a 
Commoaer  may  not  ba  Noble. 

*  ConclujiTely  proTed  by  tbe  fact  tbat  all  Uie  sons  of 
Peers  (iu  their  ktberf'  Ufetime),  thou^b  by  courteqr 


24 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIE8. 


[6^8,  n  ,JITiTn|7i; 


**  in,  Tliftt  the  three  ftr«t  title*  of  the  Ppcrftpe  being 
Princely  ilignitie*  and  the  two  |ft*t  of  hijfb  NobiHty.  no 
Engltehm&n  should  on  the  Continent  ftddren  a  Prer  ba 
M.  L©  Coint©,  or  M.  Le  B&ron;  for  these  are,  there* 
titles  nf  low  Nobtlily. 

'♦IV,  That,  in  order  to  diacorer  whether  a  foret^ 
Nobleman  mny  runk  with  our  Prers,  we  should  jfinti  out 
whether  he  \t  the  chuf  of  kin  fomtitf ;  utid  whether  hii 
anc'cttori  had  a  rittht  of  fi$T€dilury  evi&t  in  the  Diet  of  his 
country  ;  or  whether  he  ri.ay  be,  in  any  other  wny,  moked 
am^^nitet  tte  hi^h  Nubility. 

*•  V,  That  there  ia  a  marked  dtffcrence  between  the 
Britiah  Jcreer  Nobility  {or  Gentry)  an-l  that  of  Germany, 
Tia.,  tbut  the  Britiah  le«.*^er  Nobility  hftvc  been  from  time 
Imiuemoriat  called  iVc^MYit  in  LmIiu;  tb^t  they  hnte 
alwaji  bad  lb  ri|$bt  to  nh  and  be  reprenented  in  Parlia- 
ij>ent ;  and  that  they  miyht  intonuarry  with  the  hj«h 
Nobility^  iind  oven  with  the  blo^d  Royal;  wh^reii«  the 
teiser  Nobility  of  the  Etnpiro  were  n^-t  called  yuhtlt* 
before  the  fi^iurteenth  century-  nor  cou'd  they  sit  or  be 
represented  in  the  Diet,  imr  could  they  marry  i\itb  the 
high  Nobility,  nor  the  b!o<»d  Kmal  of  their  country, 

*'VL  That  the  only  Couiit^  who  coutd  formerly  be 
nunked  with  nur  Prerugo  were  the  Counts  of  the 
Empire,  icilh  right  of  teat ;  and  these  ure  now  ulniost  all 
titulux  Prtnceii.  Atio  that  the  only  Continental  Bi^rin 
who  could  rank  with  a  British  Bartm  i^as  tbe  old  tierman 
Dynasty  Baron,  who  hm  long  ceawd  to  exii^t* 

**  Vlf,  That  a  Bntiah  Baronet  haa^  at  leaftt,  a  ripht  to 
rank  wiih  a  titular  Count,  or  Grave,  of  Germciny,  «*« 
may  bt  chief  of  kit  family  ^i  and  above  all  those  whw  may 
sot  be  so. 

••  VIIL  That  a  British  Esqnire  who  ia  chiefof  afumily, 
the  head  of  which  fonnerly  held  a  Manor  immedi<it4;ty, 
without  bcim;  a  Peer  of  Purlinment,  may  rank  with  en 
immediate  Bttron  of  the  Ettipirc,  f^ho  is  head  of  hu 
Bouse,  and  whose  unccstor  bad  no  right  to  a  »eat  in  the 
Diet  of  hie  country. 

''^  IX,  That  a  British  Esoutro,  who  it  rcprraentJttlTe  af 
a  family  which  fomtrly  htid  a  Kilght'a-fee  imini  diately, 
may  rank  with  mi  immediate  Kiiight  of  the  Empire, 
who  may  be  alio  chief  of  his  family. 

"  X.  That  Barons  by  puteut  mast  rank  with  our 
Esquires  bv  patent. 

"  That  the  '  EdUnton  *  must  rank  with  our^ntlemen 
bearing  arms. 

*•  XL  That  the  common  'von'  (deHyed  from  official 
situation),  or  ' dt,'  must  t©  conndend  to  give  Nobiliiy 
equiraleut  to  Ibatof  those  persons  in  En>zla^d  who  ar*c 
Eii(]U]reB,  or  Gentlemen,  by  prfifc«9ion»uffic4\4c.,  aUbouj^h 
9ome  of  ihem  may  hare  precedence  of  Getitlemen  of 


Lord  Wkllssi^ey  and  Lord  Cornwallts. — 
In  the  rec^ntly-ptublisbed  correspondeDco  of  Lord 
Ellenborongh  (p.  172),  th^re  in  a  iiienioTandura  by 
Lord  Welledey  containin|j  an  extmordinaiy  mift* 
stvtement  about  Lord  CorDwaLlis. 

Lord  Wellealey  8»tb  that,  in  1797,  Lord  Com- 
wnllis  was  a  poor  old  maiij  with  one  foot  in  the 
grave.  So  far  ia  this  from  the  truth,  that,  at  the 
time  la  question.  Lord  Cornwania  bad  just  been 
appointed  both  Lord- Lie ut<?Dant  and  Commander 

matiy  of  them  are  Lords,  m  well  as  the  Baronete,  are 
commontTi,  i.*..  only  entithd  to  sit  or  be  represented  in 
the  House  of  Commomf, 

t  *•  Younger  sons  i»f  Foroipn  NobllitT  mntt  tank  with 
younger  sons  of  Euglish  Nobility  of  equal  grade." 


of  the  Forces  in  Ireland  ;  nnd  it  was  suh$tqumil% 
that  ho  was  uppointedf  for  the  second  tmiepl 
GoverDor-Generul  of  India  (which  did  not  ti»k« 
eflect))  andf  afterwards^  to  an  important  niilitaryl 
command  \  and,  several  ytan  later,  be  wns^  for  tbfl 
third  time,  named^with  general  approval,  Goremor-iJ 
General,  and  actually  succeeded  Loxd  Welle&ley 
himself. 

It  is  true  thatf  on  this  lae^t  occasion,  hiR  motiTca 
were  partljof  a  somewhat  trivial  personal  kind,  and 
he  )ca.i  then  physicaJJy  unfit,  but  his  mind  waa  a»1 
vigorous  lis  ever. 

All  this  may  be  seen  in  the  excellent  Mtmo 
of  Lord  Comw(dli$^  by  Mr.  Charles  Rosa, 

'Ihe  truth  of  the  matter  is  in  the  opi>osite  direc 
tion.      The   memorandum  was  written    in   JulyJ 
1842,  and  Lord  Wcllchley  died  in  the  following 
September.     It  has  but  slight  traces  of  the  .creafe 
ability  which  the  writer  had  as  a  yoimger  nian^l 
imd   I  happen  to  have  bad  some  perftf>nal  Inter 
course  with  him  some  time  previrius,  from  which  i^l 
was  clear  that  he  was  not  what  be  had  been.     His] 
second  nppointmentf  feTeral  ye^irs  before,  to  th 
Irish  Lord -Lieu  tenancy  rather  surprised  the  world,  i 
I  have  no  doubt  ho  either  mis-stated  the  dut^| 
or  bad  but  imperfect   recollection   of  what   ha" 
happened  forty-fiye  years  before.      LTTTXLToy. 

PoKGATTON  BY  FiRE.— It  may  not  be  «o  well 
known  to  the  Etiglisb  as  to  the  clasmcal  reader  J 
that  the  ordeal  so  commonly  resorted  tobyaccu* 
persona  in  the  Middle  AgcK,  in  attestation  of  tbeis 
innocence,  had  neither  its  rise  in,  nor  waa eflpecialJl 
characteristic  of,  those  times.     It  wa«  known  nnd 
in  use  centuries  before.     And  thus  the  8chob««tl 
upon  Sophocles,  in  tlie  Jn^i^Tic^from  which  (I 
uke  the  subjoined  ilkimtration — says:  "Kibil  in 
historia  notius,  quum  purgationes,  quibuB,  adhibito 
SAcrsimento,  rei  objecta  crimina  amoliebuntur, 
irmocentium  comprobabant/*  '*  No  fact  of  history  ia 
better  known  or  authenticated  thun  Unit  of  pvrga'} 
Hony  by  which^  under  solemn  appeal  to  hej^ven^j 
accused   persons   were   accustomed   to   rebut  tha 
charges  brought  against  them,  and  to  as&ert  their 
innocence  of  them."    Thus  in  this  play  (v4nhywe)| 
the  messenger  eent  to  announce  loCreon  that  ►ome 
one  had  sprinkled  dust  over  the  corpse  of  Poly- 
nioes,  offers,  on   the  p«irt  of  himself  and  fellow*! 
wiitchers,  to  undergo  this  ordeal  ns  a  test  of  iheiC 
inncHsence  and  igoornnce  of  the  deed  :— 

Hal  TTVp  ^te/JTTftV,  Hal  6'cov9  OpKMfAoTtiVf 

To  /ai}t€  Spdirai^  fiyJT€  Tf^»  ^rj'cifct'cu 

TO  Tpdyaa  Bovktvo'avTu  tt^nr  ci/jyao-iif im 

'  U264W. 

"The  msii  of  bnming  imii  In  nur  haniU 
We  all  »* ere  i  rompt  to  t»*ke,  ro  y  aiis  ibrou^h  CfC» 
Tm  ra'l  tlie  gods  t*ii  wtineAs  ^ith  firm  onth 
We  did  it  nftt,  we  knew  not  who  dt  si^ti'd. 
Or  who  perform'd  the  deed.**— i^etter. 


iPF.  It.  J  TOT  11, 74] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


25 


TIlS  sdioliast  seems  to  think  thnt  this  mnjhe^ 
,  ji^fhiip,  th-  earliest  intimutiun  of  triiil  by  orde^U 
that  i«c  hivve  on  record,     Tlu^y  abouistl  id  wtiat 
I  u«  caliad  **  the  Daxk  Ages.'' 

Edmusd  Tew^  M.A, 

Faratxel  Passages. — 

**  1  liii  i»  tlie  jro'den  chtin  of  Jove,  whereby  the  whole 
~~~ia*  11  •#  lioijid  to  the  thtotifi  of  the  Cre  tor/'^Arch* 
on  ili»f^*«  tertnon  on  The  Lam  uf  ^S^lf^Sucrijiee, 
^  An4  f»  the  whole  romid  w  orJtl  is  eTerj  wav 
BiMjcU  l>j  gula  cbAiuis  al»<iut  iho  f.et  .if  O.-d," 

Ttntjjftou'i  jl/trt  r*  W Arthur, 


''IfvtlHnlai  ii  ii  heiter  that  I  •honid  hnTt  nined  nwny 

''  '     "V  goldene*it  years,  **h«n  1  hm  ihmll  fo  the 

irii  fui  er  CYfs,  of  Alice  W-^^u^  than  thMso 

'ft  iMV-e-ft  venture    Bhould  be    loat;"— Eiin's 

.  kiMj  ii*u  iVtw  Vfar'i  Hvt, 

**  Tin  belter  to  hftTe  foTed  a»»d  lost 
Thim  never  to  havf  lov«  d  Mt  lilL" 

Ttfiifi;soi/t  In,  Memoriam, 
■  T*   •-  ^  -*  to  lore  wisely,   r«rt  doubt;    but  to  love 
I  fottt  r  th»n  Dot  to' be  able  to  lore  at  aU/' — 

1 1 1»»'-  itJei^nis,  chap.  vi.  vol,  i. 

"  A»  ti»«  trombJer  satd  of  big  d  ce»  to  love  and  win  it 
Ithe  1ie»i  (b'tii|(>  to  lore  and  lose  u  the  next  bcat.'^-^/'^w- 
dbaaiiy  chap,  u  vot.  ii* 


"  The  Tairu*  here. 
So  broad  and  clear, 
Blue»  in  the  clenr  tklue  nooa — 
And  it  lies  liKb% 
All  iilvi  r  white, 
TJf>der  the  tilTcr  moon  I  " 
^B4>l>ert  SoutUey,  quoted  in  C^tU's  Remini* 

**  Sllrer  nili  all  ont  of  the  west 
UAdet  the  siWer  moon." 

Song  in  Tennyson '■  PrUctu, 

^y<i»btrg  ran  be  more  unlike  than  the  ■impHcitT  nf 
^*^e  and  the  r}chi<eft  of  Ji  bnt-on.    *l  heir  ntv  I*  b  diflV r 
nil  cloth  and  l>rocade/*^Bu8v>eU'ii  JL'/«  oj  Jukn^vtij 
*,  toL  i.,  Midone't  edition.  Ib24. 
'  They  [Milt'  n>  pr  fc  writini^i]  wre  a  fverfrct  field  of 
Iclotb  t  f  gold.  The  it;  le  itfttiff  with  ^rgevus  etabroidtry," 

OtaiTfoir. 

p     f T(»  the  T«t  parallel  laar  be  ad.led  the  folToiwiflgf  :— 

'^  *^it  wbii  h  Prior  could  afford  he  kiie«v^ 

but   be   nsnled   the   i  ullioii   tf  But >r, 

>it  a  negli^nt  pr>lcLBion,  ci^rtaiii  ot  the 

^ri^klf  b«»&  4.af<teat  of  the  stamp.'— yuA4«#0A.j 

T«"     ^    -  -c-r   Irish  Bull,— In  the  following 
i>t»  leaiderin  the  Daily  News  of  a,  recent 

■'  ?  two  of  the  Ltt^t  Iriub  bulls, 
>  Iws  distirjoubhed  a  pemonrtLge 

^.: — ^..w  .ja  ex-Lo^i  Mayor  of  Bublm  to 

I:— 

1    two 

ur  fif 
»f|i|iii.n    1  tir '  Mh,  w  ia>  uaa    he.  n   i  Jn-zl    iKa^M^rfate  of 
l#ahlifL     The  stitiK  of  the  cai  togn^  miut  bare  gotte  deep 


ind*fd,  for  Sir  WTli'am  d''f3}^Tfd  in  court  that  he  nevvr 
gi»frfrrd  '  more  lotf^i^  f  ain  of  mind'  than  the  caricntnrea 
CNUsedbim;  ani  ii«  dcfinfng  tl  c  ntluUte  fcverfty  ol  the 
}  iciur^s  be  complntiicd  that  'one  imA  ert^i^  badf  anil 
the  other  *quaUg  worxc  ^  ** 

Glasgow. 

A  Strang  B  Epttafh  : — 

**  The  following  cun«  ti«  interipiffm  is  ern  a  fdmbitniie 
m  Bidtford  chmtshyur  J.  ro  the  memory  of  Cap tafn  Beitij 
Cljtrk,  of  ihat  tiMn,  who  appe  rs  to  hare  yit^ded  i40 
much  to  a  thusty  na'ure,  and  died  in  1886:— 
''Oar  worthy  fr»end  who  hew  beoeatfa  thiftfitooe 
Was  maattfr  *>(  »  ve»sel  all  his  f>WfU 
Bouse  Nnd  l«i»ds  hfd  be.  and  gold  in  stare  ;. 
Ue  «pent  the  whD!e,  nnd  would  if  ten  timet  mm^ 
For  twtfuty  ye*<rB  he  6C»irQe  «lept  In  a  bed ; 
Linbayn  iml  limekilna  tuiPd  hie  weary  bead 
H'  c  uie  be  would  n*d  to  the  poordKmse  go. 
For  hlA  proud  cpcrit  would  tioi  let  hlui  to. 
The  b'ackbir  I'fl  wht-tling  notes,  at  break  of  day, 
Ured  to  awfike  him  from  his  bed  of  bay« 
Uj»to  the  bridu'e  and  quay  he  then  repaired 
To  gee  what  shipping  up  tbe  rher  sleer'd* 
Oft  in  (he  week  he  n»ed  to  xicw  the  hay 
To  Bce  what  «bip«  were  comintr  in  frotn  sea* 
To  f^nptrdnt'  wives  be  brooght  tbe  weldooi*  nmwWf 
And  ti  tbe  reiutives  of  :dl  the  orewa. 
At  Tust  -pvtnr  Qa'nr  CI  vrk  was  tnken  ill» 
And  carHrd  to  tbe  WMrkhouse  'gaiwt  bu  iriU f 
But  being  of  this  mortal  life  aaice  tired. 
Me  lived  about  a  month  athd  then  expired**' 

As  tbe  aboTe  is  from  a  paper  edit^  by  the  B^v. 
Williiim  rirwkell,  MA,,  there  can  be  no  doubt. .t« 
to  itfi  genuioeDesa.  IT, 


Lines  ok  a  Sdk-dtal.— Thie  fblldwingii  i 
one,  on  a  white  timrble  cross,  in  Colleton  Chtnolt^ 
Devon  : — 

**  If  on  th^i  dial  fUl  a  rhada  the  time  roddem ; 
Pur,  hi !  it  piMiMrtb  like  a  dream* 
F^r  if  it  all  <  e  blank,  then  iitonmihT  lost 
Of  houri  uable?Sid  by  f  badowa  ftom  tbe  cross^^' 

Jony  BtJNYAN'R  PARBNTAaE,— A*  Iwna  (by  the 
courtesy  of  tbe  vicjir  of  the  parudi)  inspecting  the 
reifistera  of  Wootton  parish,  on.  Bedford^hir*^.  I 
came  across  the  following  entries  which  evidently 
allude  to  some  of  John  Bunyan'a  aDCCstom;  as 
Wootton  is  not  ro  very  far  from  ELtaWf — obon^ 
fire  miles,— and  they  may,  pcrhafia,  aTcatoaUy^ 
Icid  (0  the  discovery  of  who  were  hi«  parentis 
they  »<lso  do  away  with  the  supposition  of  thoM 
who  think  that  John  Buoy  an  may  have  hud  gipsy 
blood  in  his  veins  :  see  TAa  ^fero  c/  ElsloWf  by 
*M.'ime«  Copner,  M.A./'  "  Hodder  &  Stoughion^ 
MDcoct^xxiv,/'  p.  20:— 
*'  Tbe  Beg  i^or  for  Cliristenin^  h  borfallt  k  weddingaa 

made  bf  Richar  1  li»*ver<>ck  Vicare  of  Wottoo  from  the 

ft  iBt  of  8t.  >llcbael  m  the  3  ear  of  Oar  Lord  ISSl  aa 

following : — 

Oc^iher  Inipntnis  xx*^  dale  waa  Chriitcned  WUlai. 
Bunnioti 

>o»©mb«r  15$5  the  ix**    aie  was  baptiwd  EeiN^ai 
Bunion  (tie J 


NOTES  AND  QUER 


trie's.  I  LJcLiii; 


1583  xtUj""  dftie  of  August  waa  baptized  Kicliard 
Bunnion 

1689  Ocf^  xtiiij'*'  daie  waa  inaried  Ekhjird  Otiion 
(qy.  Bunion)  At  Margaret  Jepfon  _ 

1591  August  xTig'**  dale  was  bAptued  William  Burjion 
ibe  younger 

December  151^3  tbe  xrj'''  dale  was  baptised  Thomas 
Bunnion 

23  Maij  1604  .  .  .  Bunuion  ibe  soniie  of  Tbom&B 
buTinion  wm  buried 

21  Mag  1604  .  .  ,  Bunnion  the  wife  of  Thomaa 
Buntiliiti  wM  burkd 

26  Maij  1G04  »  .  .  Bunnion  tbe  Bonu^  of  Tliomaa 
Bunritim  wan  buried 

15  October  1604  WiUm.  Bmmiou  k  Elisabetb  Wright 
wore  married 

14  October  1621  Alice  y*  dAUgbter  of  Richard  Bunoion 
wa^  bjiptlxed 

9  Fi-b ru II rjr  1023-4  Henry  y*  aonne  of  Richard  Bunnion 
(br  Dinah  Vavan)  was  baptized  ( *ic) 

17  October  1G25  Wjrdow  Bunniou  was  buried 

September  17  1636  Dina  the  wife  of  Eicbard  Bunnion 
WM  buried 

6  September  ]S33  Eicbard  Bunnion  k  Alice  Draae 
WPre  marie d 

9  January  1644  G  Richard  Bunnion  k  Clixabeth 
Nichols  were  maried/*  DuDLEY   CaRY  Elwes. 

Tub  0*Mulconry. — How  few  recognitiona  Ibei-e 
will  be  in  tbe  Swcdenborf^ian  Hiwies  by  supposed 
ftncestora  of  their  supposed  descendants  I  It  ijs  a 
jiiomnful  reflection  that  so  jnuch  ingenuity  should 
fail.  The  writer  of  a  recent  article  in  one  of  tbe 
newspapers*  starts  with  the  following  observation, 
■whicb  I  quote  chiefly  for  the  reason  limt  it  ixlfordti 
another  example  of  the  erroneous  use  of  **ut" 
for ''of':- 

*'  There  ift  no  necesalty  to  aek  *  Garter  Principal  King- 
cif-Arms '  or  'Ulster*  what  is  the  sii^iJiciitioti  of  the 
dignily  about  to  bo  conferred  upon  Prince  Arthur," 
But  the  aume  writer  (relying,  perhaps,  on  Wuller  s 
definition  of  poetrj%  when  exinining  himself  to  the 
merry  inonaTch  for  a  Imd  laureate  ode,  or  jierhiips 
being  one  of  those  who  revere  '^  chiiiuj* ''  to  descent 
from  the  Counts  of  Percbcj  the  Earls  of  Che5t«r» 
or  the  patriarcbiil  Tbonuia  de  Brotherton,  and  blest 
with  lliat  lurgti  faith  which  is  redly  so  great  a 
coiviforfc  to  many  minds)  thus  continues  : — 

''  There  is  a  Baronet  livioK  in  Wales  at  present — Sir 

John  Conroy — whoso  lineal  arjcestord  used  to  nominate 

the  Kings  of  Conimuffbt.     The  Conroys  are  tbe  same  as 

the  Couftires^  and  tbe  Conaires  were  culled  in  the  eleventh 

'  century  the  O'Maolconmres,  which  Engliahmen  corrupted 

'  ftkto  the  O'Mukoniies ;  and  this  same  huuse^ which  has 

[  noiv  diifted  clean  out  of  Ireland— woe  paramount  in  thht 

province  of  Connaugbt  of  which  Prince  Arthur  is  to  be 

buke,** 

On  tumint^  to  Burke's  Peerage  and  Baronetage ^ 
J  find  no  re*il  reference  to  any  authentic  proofs  of 
a  linejil  tiescent.  The  warranty  by  Thomas  Preston 
of  forty-three  descents  ia  worth  nothing.  Charles 
Corny,  b.  1657,  seems  to  be  the  earlieat  reliable 
ancestor,  t    Again : — 


*  Dai  Iff  Telegraph,  Msy  27*  1874. 
rather,  bowercr,  rely  on  J( 
I  tbe  founder  of  the  family. 


f  1  rather,  bowercr,  rely  on  John  Conroy»  bom  in 
1701,  as '^^'       ''     -     •■  *" 


"Tliuf,  if  we  went  by  ancient  heraldic  tradition^ 
would  almost  ^eem  that  bis  Royal  Highness  tbe  Pri^ 
ought  to  be  making  matten  straight  with  tbe  O'JdalcoiJ 
otherwise  Conroy." 

The  value  of  such  old  chronicles  in  proving  on 
ancestry  would  not  be  c^tiniated  by  Mb,  Plj 
KERTON,  Anglo- Scot  us,  Hermeintrldk,  or  Tn 
Aik-,  as  they  would  bo  by  the  O'Maolconuii 
themsel  veis.  *^  Ulster  "of  coun^e  does  not  voucIj  { 
the  triiBtwortliiness  of  the  old  chronicle ;  he  mer 
refers  to  it.  The  liimily  itself  very  probably  ri^'hi 
estimates  the  would-be  greatDe«a  thrust  upon  it  * 
indiscreet  admirers.     Again : — 

"  But,  iu  good  truth,  a  live  Duke  is  better  than  a  ( 
Milesian  Goiiaire,  even  though  he  were  one  of  the  **  1 
Hofitiges/'  and  Monarch  of  Ire  hind  400  a.d. 

As  for  **  Niallus  Magnus  "  (a.d.  4fX)),  I  leare 

to  Mr.  PlNKERTON. 

My  object  In  drawing  attention  to  tbe  article  i 
question  is  to  suggest  the  advisability  of  separati^ 
general  introductory  remarks  on  a  Bumame, 
family,  from  the  special  pedigree  that  follows, 
nine  cases  out  of  ten,  these  Celtio  and  Kor: 
pedigrees  that  thunder  in  the  index  are  genera! 
found  to  be  trustworthy  only  from  some  sUrtin 
point  in  the  seventeenth  century,  when  Bo-and-a 
grand-son,  or  great-grandson,  b  bupposed  to  turn  J 
as  So-aod-fto  "  [jricked  high  sberitf,"  or  "  fined  T 
aHerman,"  who  leaves  a  will  from  which  dates  I 
true  foundation  of  the  faintly. J  S.^ 

A  Conjecture. — In  Cic.,  Ep.  ad  AU.  iv. 
we    read    **  Sed    nihil    tani    pusilhim,  nihil   ta 
sine  voce,  nihil  tarn  verum.   Httc  tu  tecum  habet^ 
Ernesti  coiifeases  that  he  cannot  reconcile  *'  t4l 
verum"  with  the    rest>      It   might,   perhapss 
altered  tliiis  :— **  Seti   nihil   tam    puaillum,   nil 

tam  sine  voce,  nibil  tain Yerum  bite  tu  teen 

babeto."  S.  T.  P.I 


[We  must  request  correspondents  desiriDg^  in  format] 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  thd 
names  and  addresiei  to  their  queries,  in  order    ' 
an&weris  may  be  addressed  to  them  dhrect.] 


Family  OF  Alexander,  or  Zinzan»— Conne 
with  the  Court  of  James  I.,  as  Et^ueries  and  Maj^le 
of  Revely,  were  members  of  tbe  family  of  Alexand^ 
or  Zinmn.  Of  this  family  I  am  desirous  to  obt 
some  information.  The  first  person  helongji 
the  family  whose  name  occurs  in  the  Public  . 
is  Robert  Alexander,  who  waa  "E^juery 
Stable"  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  This  person,  in  15l3 
was  employed  by  the  Queen  to  convey  to  **  T 
King  of  Scotts  "  certain  hordes  which  she  sent  hO 


X  Gambetta,  in  his  recent  funeral  oration  (f^e  Z)ti| 
T*U(pap?t,  May  27),  se tens  to  Lave  over- rated  the  i ' 
cestry  of  his  friend  the  Count 


6»8.1LJotTn,7A] 


NOTES  AND  QUEIUES. 


27 


as  II  gift.  In  April,  1594,  Robert  Alexander 
aod  another  equeiy  named  Ilicbartl  Monpeasoiif* 
received  »  royal  licenco  gmntinfj  them  and  their 
reprt'«ientaTives  the  aole  right  of  importing  *'  annis 
Hods  and  Fumacke  "  for  the  spnee  of  twenty  years, 
Atnong  the  knights  dubbed  by  James  I.  at  White- 
bitll  on  the  23rd  J  illy,  lfj03,  wiis  Robert  Ale  xunder 
Jt^^.^h*.!  ji*  **of  Herts."  Sir  Robert  seems  to 
\vi  1  G07t  for  his  son,  described  a-s  **  Ilcnry 

55i(i  Alexander/'  then  received  the  oflice 

.of  ry'*  in  succession  to  his  father,  de- 

Bcr,  Sir  Robert  Zinseun,  or  Alexanders- 

Henry  tvtiviaed  Ids  office  at  leiist  tOl  1638,  for,  on 
t^e  l«t  Muy  of  that  year^  there  ia  an  indenture  be- 
en hini  and  Joseph  Zinsm,  aliat  Alexander, 

ibeii  as  **  one  of  hi«  sons/' 
Sir  Sigismund  and  Henry  Alexander,  aliaA 
SSiiuxin*  ai'e  mentioned  by  Lsidy  Anne  Clifforfi  as 
roTal  eqneries  in  her  description  of  certain  fetes 
which  took  place  in  preeencc  of  Jumes  L  at 
Omfkon^  the  seat  of  her  father,  George,  Earl  of 
Cumbcrhind,  in  June^  1603.  From  16U8  till  1624, 
th©  brothers  Alexander^  or  Zinzan,  received  100/. 
j»er  annum  **towurdH  their  charges  for  running  at 
tylte."  The  **  tyke  "  was  run  on  the  24th  March 
annually.  In  1614,  Sir  Sigismund  and  Henry 
Alexander  receired  a  special  ^rant  of  1,(K)0?, 
Vnriou8  other  boons  were  from  time  to  time  oon- 
fenvd  upon  iheni. 
Other  members  of  the  family  of  Zinzan,  or  Alex- 
l  ander,  are  mentioned  in  connexion  with  the  Court 
f  of  King  James,  Alexi^nder  and  Andrew  ZLnKan,  or 
Alf  tender,  are,  in  May,  1607,  named  as  "onlinary 
•  »f  His  Majesty  8  stable ;  the  former  died  in 
iif-n  John  Pritchard  i^  named  a^^  his  j»uc- 
-r.  Andrew  Zinzan  is,  in  April,  16<J7,  described 
*  of  the  town  of  St.  AlbiiD  and  county  of  Hert- 
llbrd/  M  -^irvl  in  1624,  when  he  was  succeeded 
I  by  Zinzan,  alias  Alexander." 

1.,^,.  .    xi  i  further  reference  to  members  of  the 
faonAc  till  the  2Sth  Auguft,  17tl4,  when  there  is 
an    inJfnture   of    thb   dat^,   relating    to   certain 
.  between  **  Peter  Zinzjin,  alujut  jUexander, 
i»^%  Berkshire,  brother  and  heir  of  Henry 
Airjtander,  alias  Zinziin,  late  of  Tylehurst,  and 
Xicbnhu   Zinzan,   alias   Alexander,    of    London, 
Clerk.""      I  am  desirous  of  ft.*certaining  whether 
,  Zin£«n  h  ki\\{  known  as  a  family  name,  and  also 
lof  -  origin.     It  firi^t  appears  as  an  alias 

Jtoil  r  Alexander  in  16t)3,and  it  iscujious 

1  r  the  royal  cqueries  who 
'\9,  Rtyled  by  tumiJ  "  Alex- 
ia a««tT.  "r  /*rii/-iii      liwi  *'Zinziin,  or  Alexander.'* 
I.,  it  hi  weU  known,  was  in  the  liabit  of  do- 
ing hia  favourites  by  pet  names  ;    but  how 
nme  of  Zinzan  should  huve  been  given  as  an 
nntive   to   eaeh   ei^uery  bearing   the  family 
ue  of  Alexander  19  pu^zlio^ 

COARLBS  BOOBBS. 
QrmmpUn  todlgc',  Foreit  Htll,  BS. 


Gipsy  Names. — I  should  be  glad  if  some  one, 
who  bus  :vcce«s  to  them,  would  examine  the  oh  J 
rej^isters  of  Norwood,  Epping,  Ixiugbton,  and  Yet- 
holm.  A  ffreat  deal  of  information,  with  rei:;ard  to 
the  history  of  the  gipsies,  am  be  gathered  from 
their  Cliristian  name«.  I  have  made  ;i  collection 
of  about  ft  hundred  such,  many  of  which  are  not  a 
little  curious.  For  instance,  C4in  any  of  vour 
readers  explain  the  existence  of  the  name  GilJcroy 
in  a  family  of  gipsies  travelling  in  Oxfordfihire  j 
Was  the  hero  of  the  ballad  a  gipey  I 

J  should  aLso  be  much  obliged  to  any  ono  who 
could  tell  me  where  an  account  of  the  case  of 
Elizabeth  Canning,  mentioned  in  the  works  of 
Bright  and  Borrow,  is  to  be  found.  According  to 
the  hitter,  it  occurred  in  the  reign  of  George  11. 
Fkancis  H.  Groome. 

[The  moit  completi^  account  of  Elizabeth  CAnnfnfr* 
and  the  most  thorough  sifting  of  her  fttory,  mwy  be 
found  ia  one  of  tha  most  remHrkable  of  modern  books. 
Pariulox€i  and  rnzifei,  Jlitloricatt  Judiciat,anU  Lit€rar^, 
by  John  Pftgot,  Burriftter-at-Law.  Blackwood  k  Sons, 
1874, 

CnniSTY  Collections. — In  the  Christy  Col- 
lections  there  are  two  patens,  one  inscribed 
**  Feliciter  lo(|uere  *' ;  the  other  has  this  legend  : — 

-f    PDJCRESCONLCLAUEKT. 

What  does  this  mean  ?  They  were  found  with 
chalices  and  liturgical  spoons  and  seals,  on  St. 
Louis'  Hill,  Carthage.     Macksh2IC  Walcott. 

The  Judges  ox  Circuit,  —  Her  Majefity^s 
Judge.%  when  on  circuit,  never  interchange 
hospitaJity  with  the  Sheriti*  of  any  £ngli)<h  county 
except  Yorkshire.  In  the  Welsh  counties  this 
curious  custom  does  not  obtain  ;  the  SheritT  of 
each  county  is  always  invited  by  the  Judge  to 
dine  with  him.  Can  any  of  your  correspondent* 
throw  any  light  upon  the  origin  of  these  different 
customs  in  the  two  divi.Hions  of  the  country  ? 

It  has  been  suggested  that  the  custom  in  the 
English  counties  was  the  result  of  the  large 
judicial  powers  of  the  Sheriff  in  early  times.  The 
Judges  had  to  control  these  judicial  fimctions, 
which  were  often  harshly  and  improperly  dis- 
charj^ed,  and  it  became  necessary,  it  is  said,  tliab 
they  should  avoid  friendly  social  relations  with 
officials  whom  they  were  nent,  often  by  spe4;iat 
commission,  to  restrain.  But  if  this  is  the  rctd 
explanation,  why  was  Yorkshire  made  an  excep- 
tion I  Arthur  Williams. 
3,  Utrcoart  Buildingi,  Temple, 

QCEKK    AyjiK    AND    TTIB    DtJCHESS    OP    MaRL* 

BOROUOH.— Earl  Stanhope  says  (Rti^fn  of  Qft$mi 
Anru,  ch.  xi.)  I  hat  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough 
serif  fli»*  V»tieen,  together  with  a  U^r^r  ],ttof^ 
stn  cts  transcribed  from  the  '  ^tt 

of  ^  I  iilso  the  injunction  from  i  >/ 

Common  Fraytr  bidding  us  be  in  charity  with  all 


^ES  AND  QUERIES. 


men  buforo  the  Uoly  Cotninunioo  is  received. 
Misb  Btricklttod  {Life  of  (^hteta  Anne)  hfiviD^^ 
described  tbe  letter  (ihe  same,  I  suppose),  adds — 

"She  Ukewlfte  obliged  iUt!  Quecu  vritli  a  Prayer^bnok  ' 
interlinod,  and  a  cnj.y  of  Jcien  y  Tnvlor's  //*i/_v  ('^viH>f 
and  Dyiu;/,  wiih  tlie  Itr»vea  *»iarVeti  mid  turned  dowfii  of 
the  p«Mf«:ij|te!i  by  uLicki  her  Maji!gtvV  &oul  vtas  lo  |irutiL 
before  purtakin^  of  the  aucred  rttc.^* 

Which  la  the  authentic  accouQt,  or  ore  the^  botk. 

fcmol  >:. 

"  Yangtc  MoitBATr.^'"In  the  old  pnriah  registers 
of  Sbifford,  Essex^  h  the  foUowing  cnilry: — *'  Mut- 
gufeLt  Uiininion  iwas  baptized  oae  YaD^e  Monduy, 
1686/'     What  day  ia  signiiied  /  A.  H.  B. ' 

BreiiiwoocJ. 

"The  BaiiNT  HauSE  of  AmT.iE.'* — May  I,  for 
Uie  sake  of  obUiDiDg  mforiniitioo,  refer  to  »  note 
on  the abore  «tibj©ct  which  appeared  in  **  N.  &  Q./^ 
3^S»'Ti.  383?  An  extract  is  there  ^nven  from  h 
Bpeoob  of  the  Diikeof  Argyll;  of  which  one  piiSfuige 
runs  aa  follows : — 

"  I  h«Te  dltcorered  within  the  Tut  few  dnyf,  by  in<»re 
accident,  that  Ihb  celebrated  mid  '  (viz.  thut  in  ^vhich 
th0houte  of  ATrlie  was  deitroyedj,  **  whch  formed  one 
of  tliegrtvo  acotuatioMH  J^gnin^t  the  Mai  quia  of  Ari^vll., 
and  I  betiero  furmtd  part  uf  tlse  ucctiiiatior^  mi  whUli  be 
lo«t  his  bead,  woa  a  laid  tictivcly  «up^ortf:d  by  ilit;  grettt 
MjhrqyJA  of  MeattY>M9." 

Tiie  correspondent  who  sends  tbe  extract  justly 
callfl  thiB  *'  an  important  bint  on  u  point  of  his- 
tory/* To  nie  it  wppetirs  a  most  Bturtlifij;  liint^ 
and  most  difiicult  to  reconcile  with  nil  that  is 
known  of  the  bitter  enmity  between  Montrose  and 
Argyll,  and  tho  devotion  of  the  O^jtilvie  family  to 
tbe  groat  Marquis.  I  Tentnre,  therefore,  to  retuH 
aUention  bj  the  passage,  and  hhW  whether  uny  one 
caniBUpply  proofs  and  eKplanatiuns  of  Montrose's 
.aliWDMin  tbe  matter^  or  throw  any  iight  on  the 
miilery,  M.  L. 

Fkkhgh  DiCTJONARiRa,  —  What  is  the  beet 
Frenob  Dietionary  to  use  in  the  pern.'*al  of  the 
Etrly  French  writeni,  cfipeckUy  Monrni^jne,  Rjibe- 
Ui»,&c.?  A*  W.  BhYTU. 

TiTfTFRN  Abhrt.— Would  Mr.  Mackenzie 
Walcott,  Mh.  Fowler,  or  any  of  your  other 
kamed  correapondent%  kindly  infonii'  me  where 
I  can  find  the  be»t  and  fullest  account  of  Tin  tern 
Abbey  ?  Are  tliere  any  good  and  trustworthy 
local  gulde-bookfll  A  Foreigner.  ' 

Mrs.  Eltzabrth  Mohtagu. — I  have  of  this 
bidy  a<anioo  portrait,  or  portruit  in  relief,  in  a 
locket.  It  h  not  from  the  Zinck  miniature,  a 
ftiaaU  engraviog  of  which  I  have,  but  it  U  a  pmfiU 
portrait,  tjiken  at  a  nuich  Liler  dale  in  her  life, 
«bawiug  a  very  good  profile  and  ciu-,  tlie  hair  beintj 
roUod  bacli  from  tho  forehead.  CLin  any  one  tell 
hms  ftflythin^' about  it  ?  H.  F. 


KiRKfiTALL  Abrrt,  Yokks.— Gilbert  d© 
was  thiHeenih   AUhot,  circ-ii   1350  1401)— i 
BriLy  vol  vi     I  tiliall  be  glad  of  infiumHtil^ 
hitive  to  the  place  of  his  hirtli,  pArenta*.^c,  &c. 
he  of  the  famiiv  of  Cotele,  of  Camertoo,  Sotn 
or  Cotele,  of  Wilta  ?  W.  H.  Oottb 

Brixton,  8.W. 

A  Cahtbrburt   FouiTDLiKa.  —  Among 
Inoe  di,^played    this  year  at  the   International  ' 
placed    the   waxen  figure  of  a  baby,   with  ^ 
notice  attached  : — 

■*  This  i«  <  he  tttodel  of  an  Infant  left  on  a  d<>of) 
Canterbury  60  or  70  years  Mgi^  dre-)He>l  iMei.bfH 
robe!*.  Willi  armft,  an'l  tlntfiaioe  worked  into  lbe| 
Don  San  ittg*  de  Tahayut  Ta^juno/' 

The  child  was  never  claimed.      He  wm  ^ 
posed    to   have   been   the   last   scion   of  a 
"  Portutjueae  family/'     Can  any  one  say  wl] 
this  story  is  authentic,  and  give  further  p:irtica 

Priji 

Henrv  James  Bellars,  one  of  the  ele? 
fivc-sirai lists  of  njodern  tiiij£»s,  did  much  wurl 
for  the  lute  Mr,  John  Ciimden  Hotten  an<l  nt.hi« 
book  Hellers,  He  wrote  and  illuistratcd  a  ptmptile 
on  Conthology,  &c.  When  and  where  was  be  l»orn 
where  did  he  live  in  Loridon,  when  did  he  dw 
Any  hio-bibliognipbieal  facts  concerning  bim^ 
desirous  of  acquiring,  also  the  exiict  title 
above-mentioned  work  on  Concholo5[y, 

H.  S, 

The  Brig  **  Temple,*'  or  London.— Can 

correspondent  direct  rue  how  to  obtain  in  format  roi 
r©«>}>ecting  the  loss  of  this  vessel  (so  report) 
Lloyda  on  June  30th,  18250?  Althou-fc 
**  Teuiple  ^'  Wiis  lost  on  a  coral  reef,  the  cre« 
passeni^ers  did  not  per'wh  as  suppogcd,  for  I  wn 
one  of  the  latter,  and,  although  only  about  iiv 
years  of  iige  at  the  time,  not  only  have  I  a  distinc 
recollection  of  the  mtiuitrophe,  but  1  even  remeuibj 
the  flowers  that  grew  on  the  then  desert  iHln  "^ 
Little  Caynmn,  whence  we  made  our  way/ 
boat,  lo  Great  Cayman,  where  we  lived 
month,  until  rescued  by  the  **  Thetijs/*  of  Lotidui 
The  loj(  of  the  latter  ship  may  be  in  eKistenc 
if  so,  it  would  show  that  we  had  a  nairow  i 
from  capture  by  pirates,  off  Cuba,  iuuu&f^ 
after  our  rescue,  in  consequence  of  tbe  "  T' 
ninninij  on  a  ^-andlnank^  and  only  beinj^  sutHc 
lightened  in  time  to  get  off  the  bank  juiit  a^  tlii^ 
piratical  boats  were  close  upi>n  h*;rr.  I  am  niid< 
the  impression  that  there  is  no  detailed  account  < 
the  above  circumstanceB  at  Lloyd's,  but  po^ibt 
there  may  be  in  sotne  contemporary  aewepap^ 
(April  to  August,  IttSB).  b?-„ 

Mrs,  Jakb  Alice  Sargent.— She  U  aut 
the  following  works  :    SfntntU  and  other 
1&17,  Hackney ;  HiunHUtjd  Ahhtu,  or  the  $Str 
Gram  {a  tale);  i/t/4  of  ArckbuliQp  (Jnmmtr^  \ 


Jalfl^ 

inatToi 
rttf^ 

r  I  wii 

out  iiv 
distiiiG 
rnenibi 
diidB 

d  for^ 
Lotidui 

>DC^^^ 

w  ^^^1 
itHcfflH 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


29 


Jaarh of  ArCfn  phxy,  1840;  J%i ChriAiian'uSHnday 
Comp'tnion^  1h43.  Can  you  give?  me  the  dale  of 
iKitt  liMijr'*!  dentin  or  auy  biognipbical  in  formation 
rr;^ftrdiitg  iter  ?  K.  Inous* 


it  warn  i 


-    -- ii   did    thifi   title, 

_   no  com  Hi  on  I J  in 

.a,  .c,  coQLinue  in  use 

ung  the  clergy,  before 

er  "i    It  is  to  be  foundf 


^ft    for   itiaUinee,  teveriftl   times   in  a  Ttiropike  Act, 


I 


■   Que. 


3  G«o.    H,,  lis,   **Tke    Bererend    Master    John 
Pcnyston,"  Ed.  Maeshajul. 

Jonathan  Edwards,  of  America,— Can  any 
Aniericun  reader  tell  me  wh:it  arms  were  borne 
by  the  famdy  of  Edwards,  of  which  the  author  of 
Uie  treatise  on  the  Freedom  of  tfm  IV ill  was  a 
fiieiiiber  ?  The  family  is  said  to  have  been  Welsh. 
1  think  we  shall  find  that  Salop  was  the  coutiry 
from  which  it  spmng.  I  IsAve  not  met  with  any 
tueniion  of  its  using  arms  ;  but  it  is  not  at  all 
improhnbte  that  engraved  port  raitR,  seals,  or  monu- 
menU  may  have  been  so  marked.  The  following 
deacieiiL,  1  believe,  is  cotrect  so  far  m  it  goee:— 
I*  The  Rev.  Richard  Edwunis,  of  Oxford,  time  of 
^»u«cn  Elizabeth.  2.  The  Eev.  Richard  Edwards, 
"  London  ;  married  Ann  ,  ,  .  .  3.  William  Ed- 
K  of  America,  1610  ;  married  Agnea  .... 
4.  Richard  Edwards  ;  marri%;l  first  Elizabeth  Tut- 
hill,  and  second^ .  ,  . .  Taleott.  By  his  first  wife 
h^  had  a  son.  5.  The  Rev.  Timothy  Edwards, 
graduate  of  Har\'ard  College,  who  married  Misa 
Bc«cUiftnl«  6,  The  Rev.  Jon^ithan  Edwards,  the 
#Utrv  Preaideafc  of  New  .lersey  College,  author  of 
f^  r....i.^i  o/  ike  Wtif,  born  1703,  married 
Si»i  nt,  died  1758.     7.  The  Rev,  Jonathan 

£ci..—  -^,  -uc  younger,  D.D.  H.  B. 


Hi 

■    I    h: 


Hfpltrjf, 

8PBLUNO  REI^ORM. 
(5««»  8.  i.  421,  471,  511.) 

I  wish  to  explain  that  I  am  sorry  to  seem  to 
dbnent  from  Br.  Brewer's  view*  on  this  subject ; 
<>ji  flu.  i-niiTriry  what  I  intended  to  say  is  that,  to 
bf  be  changes  to  be  made  must  be  much 

a-  than  any  which  he  has  proposed. 

Ml  the  la<it  ten  yeans  in  reading  English 

^  KTy  date  and  in  almost  every  diiuect, 

I  h.'«niiy  require  to  be  told  that,  as  a  matter  of 
Ihcti  continual  changes  in  spelling  have  been  made, 

'  will  eontimie  to  be  made  hereaft<*r.     But  I  do 

Ibink  1>R,  Brewer  rises  to  the  height  of  the 

4ttgnfiiei!t.  I  was  perfectly  well  aware  of  the 
«ifMdhJ#  words  of  Professor  Max  Miiller  to  which 
he      '  '  lit  their  meiining,  1  believe, 

^•'  [ian  he  does.    The  problem 

4tmm  not  in,  uii  see  in  to  be  generally  understood. 
Spetkuig  generally  (I  do  not  need  to  be  told  of 


the  hosts  of  exceptions),  T  am  prepared  to  main- 
tain that  it  is,  on  the  whole,  tu>t  our  spelling  tliat 
b  in  fault,  but  our  pronunciation.     Those  who  do 
not  know  whiU  this  means  will  gain  some  light 
upon  it  by  consulting  Mr.  Ellis's  valuable  work 
u^M>n   Early  Enifluh  Pronunciation,     The  main 
result  is  this  :  that  wherea^^  in  olden  times,  spell- 
ing, though   by  no  means  uniform,  was  maibly 
regulated   by  phonetical   considerationB,  and   at- 
tempts were  made  to  spell  words  as  they  were 
pronounced  ;  everyone  knows  that,  at  the  present 
day,  the  sjiellinj^  gives  no  real  clue  to  the  sound 
of  the   word  which   it   represents.     Whyf    The 
answer  will  be  found  to  be  this,  that  pronuncia- 
tion has  changed  far  more  rapidly  than  the  s|x^UiDg 
has  done.     The  invention  of  printing  did  a  great 
deal  to yL  the  sfi€*lling  ;  and,  since  Gaxton's  time, 
the  changes  made  have  been  of  a  mild  and  timid 
character,  slowly  verging  towards  something  like 
a  generdl  uniformity.     But  the  pronunciation  has 
changed,  in  the  same  period,  very  largely,  till  at 
last  we  have  arrived  at  a  period,  in  1874,  when  we 
are  situated  in  a  far  worse  position  than  ever  be- 
fore ;  when  the  divergence  between  writing  and 
sound  is  m  great  that,  if  any  reform  is  to  be  made 
at  all,  nothing  short  of  a  tolerably  l»oId  one  will  at 
all  s^itisfy  the  conditions  of  the  problem  \  and,  to 
me,  it  seems  idle  to  discuss  points  of  minor  ira- 
poTtiince  when  the  whole  matter  requirt^s  to  be 
boldly  taken  in  hand.      Aiid  here  I  may  as  well 
say  at  once  that  the  conclusion  to  which  many 
who  have  considereil  the  matter  have  come  is,  that 
there  are  only  two  things  worth  doing.    Either  (1) 
to  leave  the  matter  alone  altogether,  tnisttng  to  tiie 
printing-offices  to  make  such  Blight  improvements  as 
may,  from  time  to  time^  seem  good  to  them ;  or  (2) 
to  propose  some  new  system,  more  or  less  phonetic, 
which  aball  be  aocepted  as  '*  good  "  spelling  eoneur- 
rtntly  with  that  which  all  the  best  printing-^fi&oea 
will  certainly  continue  to  use.  In  tt^e  third  course, 
which  conajats  in  mere  attempts  at  mending  the 
spellings  of  some  classes  of  words,  I  can  see  nothing 
but   the  elements  of  ^ikrc,  because,  what  one 
person  proposes  another  will  disapprove  of,  and 
the  net  result  will  certiiiiily  be  tluit  nothing  will 
be  donf*  by  eoiubined  individual  effort  onUide  of 
the  printing-offices,     It  has  been,  in  fact,  tried  by 
several  hands,  notably  by  Hare,  and  we  are  still 
where  we  were ;  and,  this  being  so,  I  sympathise  to 
a  great  degree  with  those  who  say,  why  not  leave 
the  whole  matter  alone  ?   And,  in  fact,  I  think  that 
what  I  call  ^*  printer's  spelling  ^*  requires  no  par- 
ticular alteration.     On  the  other  hand,  those  who 
can  rejvd  the  signs  of  the  times  will  discern  that 
the  problem  is  presenting  itself  for  solution,  and 
will,  ere  long,  push  itself  to  the  front  :  and  I  much 
sujjpect  that  something  will  have  to  be  done  in  tlie 
w.ay  of  an  admiaaible  concurrent  system  of  spelling* 
The  p.Hoo  of  the  present  day  is  tremendous,  and  we 
are  coming  to  this,  that  there  will  be  thou 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


wbose  interest  it  h  tole&m  to  read,  but  who  cannot 
fairly  B|Kire  the  time  to  master  that  iieculinr  system 
of  gniphy  which  is  useless  phonetically,  but  miiy, 
by  the  etymologist,  he  rightly  termed  "  ortho- 
pruphy."  The  whole  subject  is  too  vast  a  one  to 
he  auitable  for  furthor  discuasioD  in  these  pa^es  ; 
I  only  wish  to  repeat  that  I  have  no  wish  to  difiVr 
from  Dr.  BrtEWEU,  and  that  1  merely  intended  to 
say  that  1  doubt  if  he  will  be  successful,  unless 
he*  takes  a  sufficiently  extended  view  of  the  case, 
I  ieei  that  I  have  written  much  in  this  communi- 
cation which  can  eiwily  l>e  misconiitrued  and 
challenged  ;  but  it  ia  difficult  to  be  at  once  clear 
and  brief,  and  I  have  no  desire  for  controversy. 
Walter  W.  Skeat. 
Cambridge.      ^ ^ 

Ralph    db   Cobham  :  Mary  db  Roos  (5">  S, 
i.  208,  294,  397.)^!  think  it  advisflble  to  take 


notice  of  Hermentrudb's  comraunication  to  **  N^ 
&  Q."  at  the  latter  reference,  otherwise,  I  fear  i 
pedigree  of  the  Bmoae  family  will  become  mfl 
confused  than  ever.     Hermbntrude,  in  her  2soj{ 
aasertion,  says  that  Alina,  daughter  of  her  (Afa 
de  Roos^fi)  eldest  son,  married  in  1294.     Now  thj 
iippeartt  to  me  to  be  an  entirely  incorrect  aasertia 
for  Alina  was  the  daughter  of  William  de  Br 
who  was  the  son  of  her  husband  by  his  first  wil 
Ifebel  de  Cbre,  whereas  Mary  de  Rooa  waa 
third'wife.     Again,  in  No.  3,  her  third  son,  <^ 
''  leaving  his  son."     Now  this  would  be,  accordii 
to  Hermentrudk,  Richard  de  Braose,  who  died  J 
1294 ;  but  if  t!ie  inquisition  taken  ^m  his  death! 
examinetl  it  will  be  found  that  he  died  s.  p.,  i 
that  his  brother,  Peter,  was  found  his  heir,  aged  i 
Inq.  24  Ed.  I.  No.  38,  so  that  Km  son  Gile« 
myth.    I  believe  the  following  table  of  pedigree  i 
be  found  correct,  if  I  may  be  allowed  to  give  it  i 


Ifci^be],  dn.  of  Gilbert =1  Will  sum  de  BraosBf^Aeum,  da,  of  Ni-=MiU7,dft.  of  Wm,  de 


de  Cl&ro,  E.  of  Gluu- 
ceater,  1st  wife. 


died  TilJy,  Lord  of  |  cbdaa  dc  Moels,  \ 
Bnuiiberj  Ilc.  \  2iid  m(e. 


ilUDa,  d.  ofi= 

= William  de=ElM&1ieth. 

ThtJS,       de 

Brao^e,   d.     d  and  b,  of 

>tulton. 

132(5,  Lord     Rayntond 

1st  wife. 

of     Bram-    de    Sully, 

ber,  &c         2nd  wife. 

Roos,   3rd    wife,   d. 
1325-6,  l^q.  p.  m. 


Beatrix*  d.=SirGile«de=M&ad,  d. 


and  h.  of  I  Braoge,   d. 
John      de  I  1305. 
St  Elena, 
let  wife. 


of     Eu«- 
tiic«     do 
Witney» 
2nd  wife. 


Ricfaard 
de  Brao9e, 

d.  nu, 

uamar* 
ried. 


Peter  de 

BmosB,  m, 

Agnes, 

d.  m2. 


I 


Lucy. 


,  m.  12&4,  John  de  Mow-    Joan,  in.  Jamea 
jp;  2ndlj  Hicbard  de  Pee-    dc  Bohuo;  dau. 
bale ;  dan.  aad  oo-b.  and  co-k 

[  am  quite  aware  that  Mary  de  Roes,  the  widow 
of  Willtrim  de  Braose,  and  Mary  de  Bmoiic,  the 
widow,  first  of  Ralph  de  Cobham ^  secondly  of 
Thomas  de  Brotherton,  arc  two  perfectly  different 
personages.  I  believe  myself  that  the  latter  Mary 
must  be  searched  for  in  quite  a  difTcreiit  branch  of 
the  family^  viz.,  that  one  connected  with  Lincoln- 
shire. Ah  1*  am  compiling  at  this  moment  a 
pediffree  of  the  Braose  family,  to  insert  in  a  work 
that  I  am  preparinfjfor  the  press,  Caaiks,  AfauMmu, 
*Smf*,  (^c,  of  tht  \Vt^.<tcrti  Division  of  the  County 
of  iSu^ex^  any  notes  concerning  this  family  arc?  of 
great  interest  to  me.  D.  0.  E. 

5,  The  Crescent,  Bedford. 

Maria,  third  wife  of  William,  son  and  heir  of 
John  de  Braoae,  and  Margaret  Llewelyn,  was, 
probably,  a  daughter  of  William  le  Rus,  and  not 
of  William  de  Ros,  as  Dugdale  »tate».  William  le 
Rus  married  Agutha,  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Roger  de  Clere,  and  his  wife  Matilda  (Inq.  p.  m. 
34  Hen.  IIL,  No.  44).  She  inherited  from 
her  mother  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Brotidey 
in  Surrey.  WiiJiaiu  le  Rus  died  in  37  Hen.  111. 
{Inq.  p.  m.  No.  4 9) J  leaving  a  daughter  Alicia, 
married  to  Richarfl  de  Braose,  brother-in-biw  to 
Maria,  He  and  his  wife,  in  56  Hen.  IIL  (Blom- 
field's  Norfolk))  gave  to  William  and  Maria  de 


Jobn  de 
Braose. 


Maud.^ 


Brao»e    Bromley  in    exchan|;:e   for   iUfenham 
Suffolk.     Akenham,  however,  had  been  the 
pcrty  of  William  le  'Rus,  and    may  have 
gmnted  to  Maria  by  Alicia.     The  fonuer,  at  her 
deaths  in   10  Ed.  IL,  [>oa8essed  Bromley,  whi^h  i 
passed  to  her  grandson  Thoma.s  de  Braoi^e,  a^H 
aldo  Akenham,  which  reverted  to  Alicia^a  heir.  ^| 
is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  Maria  was  a  daughter 
of  William  le  Rus,  but  illegitimate  ;   for  at  the^ 
inquisitions  (34  and  37  Hen.  IIL)  Alicia  was  found 
to  be  sole  daughter  and  heiress. 

Some  writers  of  county  histories  have  confound 
the  above -named  Maria  with  one  of  the  same  nad 
alleged  to  have  been  the  second  wife  of  her  thu 
fcon,  William ;  and  they  have  also  said  that,  after 
William's  death,  she  married  Ralph  de  Cobham^ 
and  then  Thomiis   Plantagenet  (de  Brotherton)^ 
balf-broiher  to  King  Edward  IL,  Earl  of  Norfo,'" 
Mar?hid  of  England.     Records  prove  that  she  ' 
the  wife  of  Ridph,  who  died  in  19  Ed.  IL, 
of  Brotherton,  who  died  in  12  Ed,  IIL ;  but  they 
speak  of  her  its  a  Braose  by  births  tmd  not  hj 
ruarriage.    She  died  in  36  Ed.  IIL    The  foUowiJ 
are  extmcts  from  the  Inq.  p.  m.  (PU  2,  No.  9}  5 

*'  Maria  CnrnitiBsa  Norfolc',  uxor  Thoane  de  Brotl 
ton  Coiuitis  Norf'^  relicta  Radi  dc  Cubebaiu  miUtia. 

"  Thomns  de  Brotbertoa  deBpotuiavit  Moriam  de  Bii 
secundam  uiorem  suun. 


4 

thiW 

after 
ham^ 
ton)^ 

m 


r 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


31 


•M«riii  tenuit  de  ba?r£ditiite  Jobannla  CoWUam,  et 
Railulfl  CoUrham  pri^i  Tin  ejuedeni  ComitJ»i»  Tuaoc- 
riuin  <le  Anlitijutoiu" 

In  35  Ed.  Ill,  by  a  deed  dat^  at  Fmrnlinghara 
Cftsile,  John  de  Cobham  jrnint^d  for  life  to  his 
jnutber  (dotuinjp  Marite  de  Breuse)  all  tlie  manors, 
&:c,  which  he  had  in  BackiDgham*  and  other 
counties,  by  concesaion  and  feofnient  of  Ralph  de 
Wcdon  (BM  Cott  Juts.  c.  vii.  174),  Maria  held 
many  of  these  at  her  deiUh,  and  anion^  them 
Weflon,  To  a  bond,  executed  by  Maria  at  Wedon, 
A  wai  was  attached,  having  in  the  centre  a  heater- 
iliAp^d  *hield  (Plantagenet  amas)»  between  three 
circuhir  shields  (Braose  arms).     (JuU,  c.  vii,  174.) 

Felix  Laurxnt. 

Bmox  :  WrcKKRLEY,  &c.  (^^^  S.  i.*  164,  25*1.) 
— If  Wvrlii  Hpy  was  indebted  to  MassLnf,'er  for  the 
i«i*  d  in  the  passage  in  his  play  of  The 

Cou-  j'^^*^  I  weigh  the  man,  not  his  title  j 

'tw  not  the  king's  stamp  can  make  the  metal 
better** — he  has  most  decidedly  improved  upon 
the  originaL  Had  Mr,  Macgrath  added  to 
Iw«  cj notation  from   Masainger's   Great    Duke   of 

*  They  c«n  give  v^mltk  and  tittet,  but  no  virtues  '* 

I  the  words  which  follow — "  that  is  without  their 

^  power,'*  he  would  have  shown   an   aluioiit   exact 

ilel  to  Bnmss  well-wom^nes— 

**  A  prince  cnn  m&k  a  bctt«d  knight, 
A  marqais,  duke»  and  a'  that; 
But  an  hone«t  ntui'a  aboort  liia  might, 
Quid  faiLh  he  otauna  fa'  that !" 

^  TKii,  however,  has  been  pointed  out  before,  vide 

7ff'  Instructor,   1845,   vol.  i.,  p.  145.     But  it 

8  to  me  there  is  some  confusion  of  ideas  in 

illne^  by  Ma^sinfrer  alnoiit  the  atamp  on  "pure 

tad  try'd  j*old."      If  I    understand   I  he   pa?«i»ge 

aright,   Masainfrer  expresses  a  sentiment  directly 

the  opposite  of  Wycnerleya  "^tis  not  the  king's 

itfump   can    make  the    metal    better "  ;    Sterne's 

*  honour*,  like  impressions  upon  coin,"  &c.  (see 

\mj  note,  5***  8,  u  164),  ami  Bums's  "the  rank  is 

ihfi  guine*  stamp,"  &c,,  for  he  declares  that 

uizaro,    ^*  bemg    pure    and    try'd    gold,    any 

%jht  I>ttko  is  pleased  to  give  him  to  make 

I  current  will  add  honour."  I  do  not  see  any 

»  KUppose  that  either  of  the^e  authors  was 

1  to  any  of  his  predecessors  for  the  idea,-^ 

inly  not  to   Massinger,  who  does  not  seem 

^  hare  got  hold  of  the  right  idea  in  the  matter  of 

rtke  4an^p  on  **pure  and   try'd  gold."     What  he 

T  n)«(an«i  to  nay  is  evidently  that  the  Duke  would 

tint  utamp  any  man  with  his  approval  unless  he 

knew  hira  to  l>c  of  the  genuine  metal  ;  but  what 

hh*•oth^^  »!»thors  eicpress  is  that,  even  when  the 

^'hI  to  the  pure  gold,  when  virtue  is 

honour?,  tne  gold,  or  virtue,  is  not 

^cr«Jiunccd  in  value.     The  capricious  and 

ate  conferring  of  favours  and  honours 


by  princes  on  persons  devoid  of  merit  or  virtue 
has  been  the  theme  of  poets  through  all  timt%  and 
by  none  has  it  been  denounced  so  forcibly  as  bj 
our  great  dramatist : — 

**  Who  ah  all  go  about 
To  cosen  foriunG  and  be  honourab'e 
Without  the  stamp  of  merit }    Let  none  presome 
To  wear  an  unJeterved  dignity. 
O  that  iwintep,  dej^rees,  niid  offices 
Were  not  derived  cnrniptly ;  that  clear  honour 
Were  purohflsed  Ity  the  merit  of  the  wearer/'  ice, 
ApropoA  of  parallel  passages,  give  me  leave  to 
add  one  or  two  to  my  list  of  **  Poetical  Reaem* 
blatires  '•  (5***  S.  i.  164).     We  ^ve  seen  Burna*a 
lines — 

"  A  prince  can  mak  a  belted  koigbt,"  kc. 
pamlleled  in  more  than  one  instance;  but  I  am 
not  aware  that  a  ftimilarity  has  been  discovered 
between  them  and  three  lines  in  the  poet  Gower*» 
Vonjuno  Atrm-idu^  viz. — 

**  A  ktn^  can  kilt,  a  king  can  sare ; 
A  king  can  make  a  lord  a  knare  ; 
And  of  a  lord  a  knave  also/* 
In  the  cases  already  cited  the  power  of  a  king 
stops  short  of  conferring  virtue,  but  here  he  is 
credited  with  power  to  debase.  These  Iin?s  are 
quoted  by  D' Israeli,  in  his  Ar^ianliu  of  LiUraturt^ 
IlU  connexion  with  an  amusing  conversation  be- 
tween King  Charles  L  and  the  Marque&s  of 
Worcester.  It  is  needless,  I  presume,  to  infonn 
most  of  the  readers  of  *' N.  &  Q.'-  that  the  word 
hnave,  in  Gower*s  and  Chaucer^s  time,  and  for  long 
afterwards,  did  not  signify  a  low  or  dishonest 
person,  as  we  now  employ  the  word  fdlow  in  its 
contemptuous  sense,  but  simply  signified  a  serv.inL 
I  may,  however,  give  two  examples,  the  first  of 
which  is  curious  enough :  in  an  old  translation  of 
the  New  Testament^  the  apostle  Paul  is  descrilted 
as  **  Paul,  the  Innvd  of  Je*us  Christ"  (1  think  this 
is  noticed  by  Evelyn  in  h'm  IHary) ;  and  in  that 
fine  old  bcJIad  of  JRobm  Hood  and  Guy  of  Uis- 
homt  we  read — 

"  But  now  I  hare  flalne  the  master,  he  bmcs. 
Let  me  gee  atriko  the  knave/' 
Another  instance  of  simLhirity  of  idea  and  ex- 
pression :— 

"Silence  and  Darkaees,— iolemn  tisters,— twins 
From  uncirat  Night — who  nurse  the  lender  thought 
To  Reason,  and  t^i  Reason  build  Hesoive'^ 
That  column  of  Irwt  rnujtMtif  m  jvtciw/' 

Young's  Ni^kt  T%oushis, 
**  Come,  firm  Raotv€.  tak'  thou  the  van, 
TAiru  Hatk  <t*  ^ri  hrmp  in  fnaa.  ** 

tturaa,  Epistle  to  Davie,  a  Broiktr  Poet, 
The  Scottish  poet  here  seems  to  have  hcdpcd  him- 
self to  Youngs  idea  ;  it  is  well  known  Burns  was 
an  admirer  of  Young's  writings,  W.  A.  C\ 

Olasgow. 

"TWAS  AT  THE  BiRTHNlGHT  BaLL,"  &a  (5*  S. 

i.  448)  will  be  found  in  the  European  Magazine 
for  January,  1782,  where  it  is  entitled  **A  Piece 
of  Ingenious  Levity  ^*  :^ 


32 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


p'*  8,  n.  Jvut  ll/'Tl 


'''Twtti  iifc  the  Birihniglil  BalL  tlr, 

God  bleu  **ur  Gr»«tou»  Qu-i-n.  | 

Witf  rv  ]>i!(Tf>)e  greiit  At»ci  gtu^tli  fir, 
Ar«  cti  fit  ff*"tiii;»  imetu 

V  [rMm  France^ 

A  l:    —      -,  ea^w, 
Tho'  wci  *he  tiipp'd 
The  loiiy  •hpi*'d 
And  off  ihe  raitt,  her  slioe. 
1  h x)di«-dox.<dJ«-dMO. 
The  t*— — ili4it  litTthoe, 
Her  ni|(hne«A  Ut>p|i'dy 
The  fid  «leri  ftoi-pM 
Not  knowmg  «rh»t  to  do. 

Am  axed  iki  sucb  &  p&uFe,  «ir, 

'Jlip  d»nc«r«i  to  «  riiai>, 
Eax*!*  *o  htikf  tiie  oAute,  sir, 
Aruiitid  ihe  Priuces^  r«a; 
Jjiird  lit  rtlord  too 
Lii<<'  l>glHni»i|r  fleiv, 
An«I  Ih'^'  ijnn««d  in  tr.ickle, 
L  «i«l  down  hia  wund^ 
And  kftt  H  h»iid, 
fier  Hityikl  t«h4i«  tu  bueltle. 
Doudle-dijodlr-duo,  ^c* 

^•The  TeBtftl  mat d^  of  h'Honrr 
AUetiii%e  to  th*ir  Uuty. 
A]J  omv^ded  close  upon  iKt, 
The  i'linec  bu<  vey'd  tlieir  boMflty* 
A^liitired  rhoir  zeal* 
For'*  prtner*  heel» 
But  VtU  tbem  he  c  mi^tT^d, 
Tha*  >cuu  fidflc  ft^epi 
Mniitc  dait  i-repti^ 
TAt«  flior^  luUht  b«  rctrifTfld* 
D uud I e  doodle  doo.  ke. 
The  Princes*  eomi  was  ^hi'd,  «ir, 
An-j  njcm  the  d  a  rite  weni:  on« 
'Til  »«iid  Si  I  me  gum  diaii  Gi>d,  Mr, 
Came  di»wn  to  vet  it  done; 
Pi  fh  ^jifl  'til*  true, 
Old  KiihIa  d  tiio. 
Iff  ig])t  danco  from  n'glit  io  tlQOHj 
ll  8li|  e  of  Smtc, 
A«in»ng*t  the  f^i-eat. 
Ware  m  n^ied  h^iirmi  eooxL. 

p04>dtt"dno<l|r-d'H^ 

£gid  'lis  ve  7  true, 

iitr  Jftt^  «  r  ftiMin, 

TUi'.v'ro  nut  i.f  tane, 
And  know  doI  what  %a  do.* " 

Colli  Ks  Trelawkt. 

At  tbe  Gotirt  ball,  givcii  in  celebration  of  Queeo 
<;'liurlotlc'»  binbdiiy  (Jtmuaiy  18,  1782X  the 
Princeii8  Boyal,  di-riog  tbo  first  country  d^incc, 
eauyht  the  frioge  of  her  p^lticoHt  in  the  buckle  of 
her  shoe,  wbith  brought  I  he  dance  to  an  abrupt 
ternii nation.  This  incident  gave  risse  to  ihe  song 
incmireii  for  by  **  J*  C.  C." 

The  few  en  ty -four  persons  who  took  part  in  this 
meiuor&bio  dance  were — 


Prince  rf  WaJes, 
Bukf  of  rumherltutd, 
I)uke  of  Doiieti 
h»f¥*\  R4tclifutd, 
Lord  Otftluiini 
Mr.  GrotUlej 


Princess  RoywU 
Lrkdv  A.  CMm^ibell, 

Lsudy  Ht^iriiiont. 
hiuly  Fr.iurvs  Pinch, 


Mr,  N^nrtli, 
Coloiti-I  St,  Legate 
Mr  BccklJid, 
Mr  Went. 
Mr,  Luiidcy, 


>{iti4  Brodi^Hck, 
Mt»<<  North, 
MUi  North, 
Lady  C.  Talbot, 
Mi-s  Woiidlcy. 


The  first   nomber  of  the  Europran  Maga 
(J.anurirj,    1782)   contuina   an    enLT^aving  of 
Princess  Royal  nod  the  Prince  of  Wdes  aancind 
fxiintiet.  William  KayneO 

UiLTrin^n  Street ,  Hftniptt^iid  Eoad,  N.W. 

*^  Phestkr  John  "  and  the  Ahhs  of  tre 
OF  CmcBESTKR  (4^**  S.  xLi-  "poJisim  ;  5***  S,  i. 
177,  217,  359,  450.)— Id  reply  to  Ma,  Mackkni 
Walcott's  query  standi ng  at  the  head  of  his  last 
paper,  I  take  leave  to  ask  a  question  and  to  wake 
a  statemeut.  My  question  is,  if  the  sms  of 
ChriBtchurch,  Canterbury,  be  oot  a  "  pall,"  what 
Hre  they  ?  My  stat^ement  is,  that  I  hare  said 
notliing  whatever  of  the  arms  of  **  SL  P«ter*«, 
York.'^  Id  addition,  I  luaintain  that  the  arma  of 
the  See  of  Hereford  tire  three  leopard**  beadfti  and 
de-tcriH*d  by  Peter  Heylin  thus  : — "  Gules,^" 
Leopards  Heads  tetersed,  swallowing  aa  mi 
Flower-de-luces,  Or/'  Bishop  8purrow*«  desc 
tion  ia  identical.  As  Bishop  Canielupe  did 
occupy  the  See  of  Hereford  until  1275,  I  wo 
further  beg  to  ask  what  were  *'the  firms'^  befd 
his  time,  and  why  now  they  **  show  his  shield*! 
I  quite  accept  Mfi.  WALCorr'a  assurance  thatf 
meant  no  "  sneer  *|;  but  he  must  allow  me  in  J 
turn  to  **  rebut  tlie  impeachment^'  (if  it  be  such) 
of  "jesting  observjttiona  on  cathedral  armories 
in  general/*  or  that  what  I  wrote  was  "a  diversion 
from  the  original  subject."  It  was  a  manifest 
logical  sequence  for  which  Mr.  Walcott  is  re^ 
sponsible,  and  of  which  he  has  attempted  no  ex- 
pknatioD.  Edmdwd  Tew,  WLA, 

JoHS  LusoN  (5'^  S.  i.  449.)— Suckling  has  gi? 
a  brief  pedigree  of  the  Luson  family  of  Suffoj 
^^'illiam  LusoQ  was  lord  of  the  manor  of  Gun' 
in  1724.     Sir  John  Luson,  Knt.  of  Kenif  ia  mea- 
tioncd  in  Coll  Top^g.  ti  Om,,  vol  vii.,  207,  aa  'Jj 
fitraojiiT  in   London,    1595.'*     He  was  "JDep 
Lyuf tenant    and    Caprayne   of   314  trayned 
meyn."      Thomas  Luson  held  lands    in  '^*  Vln 
hanapton":    see   Lelanda   Notes  of  Stafford 
Families^  lb,  vol.  iii.,  34<).    The  name  often  < 
u^  Levison,  LeuMn,  and    Lewsoo.      The    na 
(Luson)  will  be  fouod  in  the  list  of  those  peral 
who  signed  a<*atQSt  ^*  any  change  of  the  Booh 
Common  Prayer,"  1662.     A  Mons*^  de  Lusaji 
Governor  of  Blois,    1591  ;    Lansd.    MHS.* 
f.  158.     Rok*rt  Luson,  wh«' 
Vaugban  is  recorded  in  the 
register,    17»il»   was  &on   f  ^     V>  u 

Jane  died  28th  of  May,  181  -ivanctd  i 

of  I  Hn  and  was  buried  in  i  LXiM,,.,   i  lelds,  '* 
bofw  the  oldest  person  interred  there":  see 
^ iK/l wt«,  vol,  i.,  317.  ^^'   WivTER 

WnUhatLkAbUj. 


>8.n.Jrtrll,7t.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


33 


f  S.  i,  4ho.) — Piiny  {H.N.)  would 

iv^  thdt   Uim   woitl   is   of  Giiuli.sh 

orj'^'ii.  *  •iiiiirii  sliows  that  iu  the  onci<?nt  British 
Kcirth  ii-DitiHi  **  u»l« "  (couf.  Wdiih  ctirch) ; 
ttud  it  would  be  inttrestiug  to  txscejrtain  whether 
tht*  ancient  GiiuJish  had  a  word  for  hurley  or  oats. 
In  ihv  ancit'iit  Britiiih  kun\  km-ut\  is  ale.  In 
lofKltrn  Welsh  cwrw  la  ale  or  stTOOfi;  heer*  The 
jVtml.  Lat  has  eerevitiay  cervvtia^  ctrvua;  the  luil, 
eervrtPi ;  the  Baiaq.  nnd  Sp.  c«rf*m;  the  old 
Frcoch  efvervfiue^  e^rvoite^  bi^re,  boiaaon.  Scbeller 
render*  oeritvitia,  ccrvi^ia,  **&  drink  made  from 
COfO#  which  many  derive  from  Ceres,  qu.  ctrctu^ 
«u."  According?  to  Eckeard  and  others,  certt^uia 
wtui  tmtiied  from  Ceref^  **  quasi  Cerebibiam,  quod 
Cen**,  id  cast,  fmmentum  coctum  bihatur/'  Aios- 
^orlb  gives  arcvisutj  qu.  cfrrrwia,  i.e,  cereiiHs 
hi\nor.  E.  S.  Charm ocs. 

Gnk^r'i  Inn. 

P..S.  Roget  de  Bellogiiet  (Glo$8,  Oauhis)  gives 
**o«revi«ia,  (.Una  Ulpien^  Di^.  33,  tit.  6.  1  9, 
notre  c«rvoiae  ou  bterej  en  K.  knrcf  on  kuruf^  Z. 
itprpf,  bi^re  forte  ;  Ar.  itorf/,  iuijourdh,,  Awi/r ;  C. 
k^r^,  Le  I;  none  ofiVe  encore  keirdi^  avoine  ;  Ai\ 
kmx'h  ;  Ckerk;  Ir,  JbirJt*  ;  E.  kork'' 

"TttK  GloRT  op  THEtR  TiMES  ;   OR,  THE  LlTES 

or  THK  PiUMiTivE  Fathers"  (5"»  S.  i.  408.)— Tbia 
work  is  by  Donald  Lupton,  and  will  be  found  in 
Lowndes,  who  mentiona  seTcral  other  work^  by 

hrr"       ^ in  not  be  regarded  as  scarce,  nor  as  of 

m  i  value,  but  it  is  useful  m  giving  the 

kvi .  .^  ..,  u  of  the  lives,  lists  of  works,  and 
layingt  of  the  Fathers^  much  in  the  luanner  of 
Fuiier's  Ab<l  MfxUvii^ug,  Another  work  of  a 
mtudar  chumcter  by  Lupton— "  The  EUtory  of  the 
Modtrn  ProUiiant  JJivina^  London,  by  J,  Oke**, 
Ut37»  l2«'«j'*  with  engraved  heads  from  Holland's 
licrooto^ia  and  Yerheiden's  £ffi)i^es,  is  of  great 
j4U-ity,  as  may  be  seen  by  the  notice  of  it  in  the 
PrefaK'e  to  the  Lrfe  of  Dean  NoweU,  by  the  Ven. 
Archdeacon  Ralph  Churton,  pp.  ix — riii,  and  in 
H^lfte'n  Antedotc»  ofLiUnUure,  vol  i,  p.  188,  edition 
1:- '  "  '  *' ;  ed.  1814.  Thf-re  is  a  copyof  this  volume 
iti  lu  Tite'a  iUitahgnt^  No,  1903,  for  which 

W  ^%^^i'  -IN  4b.  in  1856.  Br.  Bliss's  copy  became 
f»^ii)o  for  about  the  Siime  sum  at  the  »ale  of  his 
library.  It  contains  a  note  by  him  that  the  plates 
were  aflcrwHrdsj  used  for  Fullers  Ahd  liidivitms 
in  \fi;\  Writing  the«e  lines  from  Middleton 
Cl  *h  was  for  nearly  forty  years  the  home 

o'  ted  predecessor,  Archdeacon  Churton, 

J  V  my  tribute  of  respect  to  his  memory 

m*  and  odJ  attention  to  his  Preface  to  the 

L  £c  of  Nuwell  as  full  of  interest,  information,  and 
4iil»c%i0n.      The  terms   in   which    he    speaks    of 
,  OoQgh  arc  singularly  t«uder  and  touch  iD^^ 
W.  E.  BncitLEY. 

*Th«  anthor  nf  the  above  is  reputed  to  have  been 


with  a  tine  book- plate  in  it  ;  it  appeari^  to  be  pjtgcd 
wrong  from  p.  <i4,  jumping  to  p,  77,  but  there  i*  no 
matter  misiiing.  It  seems  t^  have  sold,  accord iug 
to  Bohn's  Lowndes's  BtbUoijrajtlirr' s  Mof^ttnl^  at 
various  prices,  the  highest  inentioueii  being  U. 
There  is  a  pencil  aot-e  in  my  copy  its  follows  ;-- 

"A  copy  (f  tine  scare*-  book  wm  n^UI  at  B*ir*on*t 
■aleitf  Mr  Bn&cebridgt;  sUbr%ry  in  Liverpool ,  April,  1818, 
far  2/.  5«.,  which  wai  cansidored  uaUer  lu  valve." 

D.  C.  K 

The  Crescent,  Bedford* 

"  The  Liohthouse,"  &c,  (5^  S.  i.  4C8.)'-T 
copy  this  beautiful  and  chriractensdc  spec im en  of 
Moore '5  style  from  an  edition,  i>oorly  printed ,  and 
carelessly  revised,  published  at  Piiiladelphia  in 
1827  :— 

*'  Tbe  icsne  was  tnorci  beantiful  far  to  mv  flf^et 
I  Tbim  if  day  in  ilM  pride  baJ  arrayed  it« 

The  land  br«eze  blew  u  ild.  and  tbe  Mzure-orchcd  tltj 

Looked  pure  ai  the  Spirit  tfiat  made  it : 
Tbe  murtiiur  rowo  soft  nn  1  silently  jf  ^led 
la  the  tLnidowy  warv«'  playlul  motion. 
From  the  dim  distant  bill,  tdl  ibe  Light-hoiuo  fire 
blaied 
Like  a  ctar  tn  the  CDld»t  of  the  ocean. 

No  longer  tbe  joy  of  the  eailor  l^'oy's  breast 

Was  he>ird  in  lii*  wddl|  breatbtd  rtun^b^rs, 
Tbe  sea  bird  bftd  flnvn  Ut  h  r  wiivc->{»rdled  oe«t. 

The  fisherman  HUtik  to  bid  ^lutnber^  : 
On*^  HKMikcnt  1  looked  frnm  tbe  biil'*|f*f«tle  slopes— 

All  hu'hed  wa«  the  liiltom-fVimnn'itiun,— 
And  ihoui^bt  th^t  the  I4Kbt-hoa*e  lou4ed  lovely  as 
hope, 

Tliat  fttur  of  life's  tromufoui  ocean. 

The  time  ii  long  past»  and  the  fccne  it  afar. 

Yet  when  my  he^id  re*U  on  itit  pilUiMr, 
Will  memory  som»;iime^  rekindle  the  *tar 

Thut  blazed  on  the  breast  of  th^-  bill>w  : 
In  life's  cttxiin^  hour,  wbert  the  tr  m  ilinfr  sool  flies, 

And  death  f'tilJi*  the  benrt^a  l«i«t  emotioa; 
O  then  may  tbe  seraph  ol  mere?  unee. 

Like  u  ittur  ou  eternity's  occan  !  " 

J.  H.  L  Oaklet. 

This  is  in  **  8acred  Pottry^  Edinburgh,  William 
Oliphanl,  1627.  Seventh  Edition/'  where  it  is 
given  to  P*  fiL  James, 

CflARLXs  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

The  Swtft  Family  (5W»  S.  i.  485.)-^ne  of  our 
kiKgs  shrewdly  observed  Ibit  he  comU  make  any 
man  a  lord,  but  that  God  Ahui^fhty  alone  could 
make  a  gentlemam  But  in  th's  our  day,  **  gentle- 
man "  bjis  declined  into  a  middle  term  between 
nqtiire  and  yeoman.  My  direct  ancestor,  God- 
win, the  possessor  of  GocJeriche,  was  lineAJly  de* 
stendeil  fmm  Sir  BoWrt  Swift  of  Rotherham 
(Imip.  Ell/.),  whose  son  was  crc;kted  by  Jame4  I. 
ViHcoutit  Carlin^fonl  ;  his  daughter  was  married 
to  the  Earl  of  Dumfrias,  the  ancestor  of  the  Mar* 
qui**  of  Bute.  His  elde«t  son  dying  withoui  is*uo 
male,  tlic  viscountcy  descended  to  his  second  son, 
thrmigh  whom  it  descend cd,  r/*  jMrr,  U>  Goilwin, 
(syBiaiJ  ftf  ltk&  Jjciab  Paialinatfj  >r'^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5**' a  XL  JlTLT  11/7* 


to  his  present  inheritor  by  the  firet  wife,  with  the 
title  conferred  a  few  weeks  ago  {baronialltf}  on 
Mr.  Fortescue. 

The  Goderiche  cstaite  was  devised  by  Godwin  to 
the  Rev,  Thomas  Swif^,  the  issvic  of  his  second 
iiKArriage.  In  his  heredit^iry  royal  ism  he  sold  a 
portion  thereof,  and  pre'^ented  its  purchase-uionev, 
three  thou«iinci  broxid  pi^^cea  of  goM,  to  Ohurles  1. 
in  aid  of  bis  conte«?t  with  Cromwell.  For  thiM  he 
was  rewarded  by  the  Round hend^  with  iniausage 
and  spoliation  ;  by  Charles  II.  with  verbiU  thank?, 
HiH  Mujesty  needing,  as  he  sard,  to  make  friends  of 
his  enemie^i,  whereas  Mr.  Swift  was  his  friend 
ready  made.  The  residence  of  the  Goderiche  estate 
came,  in  proeess  of  time,  to  my  elder  brother,  who 
(his  only  s^on  having  died)  levied  a  fine  and  devised 
it  to  bis  ^'rand-danghter  in  fee  simple.  The  young 
lady  survived  him  but  a  f<bort  time,  having  devised 
it  to  her  mother,  who  will,  I  suppose ^  leave  it  to 
her  son  by  her  former  marriage.  Thus  has  our 
ancient  family  estate  been  Bwept  away,  leaving 
me  no  remains  of  ^''The  Swift  Family*'  but  my 
patriarchal  race  of  children,  gnn;indehildren,  and 
OTiit- grand  children,  with  the  hononr  of  being  the 
head  of  the  second  branch. 

The  slovenly  mode  of  registering  the  Protest-iint 
denizens  in  Ireland  appears  by  the  said  '*  William 
Swift^  Gent,"  having  been  a  clrrgyman;  his  father, 
the  Rev*  Thomas  Swift,  and  himself  having  been 
the  rector*,  succeasively^  for  fifty- five  years,  of 
St.  Andrew's  parish,  in  Canterbury,  as  recorded 
on  their  nnonument  in  that  church. 

Edmund  Lestiiall  Swjfte. 

St.  Verdiaka  (&**>  S.  u  509.)— August  Potthant, 
in  hia  Bihlwihtca  HUiorica  Mtdii  Ai^i^i^  has  the 
fnllnwing  reference  to  thia  person  :^'*  Vita  S, 
Verdiana>  virg.  Castelli-Florentii  in  Etruria  .... 
ab  At  tone  episcopo  latine  scripta,  ,  .  .  AA.  SS. 
Boll.  L  Febr.,  i.,  p.  257-263 ;  cf.  commentar, 
pneviuB,  ihiil  p.  255-257.  K.  P.  D.  E. 

St.  Verdiana  would  seem  to  be  the  .same  with 
**  Viridianay  Ste,  FerdiVnn^,  V.  k  Florence  ;  en 
Itnlien,  Vml\/tna"  mentioned  in  the  Vomh, 
HitgiologitjHc  of  Mi^^nage.  Some  account  of  her  is 
found  in  Zedler  a  Lccicmi^  "  Der  Getlachtniss-Tag 
L^t  der  1  Feb.*'  R,  S.  Cbabnock. 

Gmy'B  Inn. 

In  Sacred  and  Lc^eiuJary  Art  is  the  following 
small  pkiijsuge  having  reference  to  St.  Verdiana  : — 
**  Arioth<?r  Saint,  who  is  sometimes  represented  in  the 
old  Florrntin*  piciun^s,  is  St.  Verdiana,  usunUy  dreMed 
M  n  Vallombrosian  nan,  but  flio  did  not  belong  to  any 
\  TDrder.  She  Is  rep  reseated  with  serpen  ti  feeding  from 
her  baakct." 

W,  J*  Macadam. 
Althorpe  Road^  Upper  Tooting, 

SuKaiDA^  AND  "  The  ScnooL  for  Scandal  '^ 
(5*^**  S.  i.  449. \ — If  we  may  believe  his  own  account, 
Michael  Kelly,  the  well-known  singer  and  musical 


composer^  snid  to  Sherid.^n,  "  You  are  afraid  of  ih© 
author  of  The  School  for  SvaudaL'^    I  have 
access  to  the  work,  but  Mr.  Matthkws  will  fti 
the  story  related  by  Kelly  in  the  second  volume  1 
hi.^  very  amusing  Hcminiifcmc^if^  edited  by  Theodo 
Hook.  T.  J.  Bknnett. 

*'  Had  nB  "  (5*^  S,  L  124,)"I  ace  that  no  one  j 
ynur  renders  has  thought  it  worth  while  to  expn 
either  assent  to  or  dissent  fi-otn  my  attempt  to 
plain  this  usage.     I  must  Buy  it  seems  to  me  ] 
stand  very  much  in  need  of  explanation.     It 
surely  un grammatical,  and  not  only  is  it  used  eve 
hour  in  common  life,  but  also  frequently  by  ( 
best  iwets  in  serioiis  passages.     I  do  not  find  n 
mentifin  of  it  either  by  Dr.^Iorris  in  hi»Acci(Uti 
by   Mr,   Earlc   in    his    Phihhgij   of  ihn    Englii 
Tongue^  or  by  Dr.  Abbott  in  hia  Shnkfspcafii 
Orarnmur.  F.  J.  V, 

The  "Vknoeur"  (5»»»  S.  I  5020— My  [_ 
father  commanded  the  "Culloden"  in  the  actii 
of  the  Ist  June,  1794.     In  his  Naval  CJironola^ 
vol.  ii,,  p.  2f58,  he  mentions  nothing  of  the  deta 
which  M.  Wall  on  and  Louis  Blanc  would  feij 
bcdicve  of  the  thinking  of  the  ship  ;    if  they 
right,  he  would  hardly  have  omitted  them  ; 
words  are,  "  Le  Vengenr  sunk  before  the  whole] 
her  crew  could  be  taken  out,  not  more  than 
of  whom  could  be  saved.''  Otto^J 

See  Jal    (A.),    Diction na ire    Critique   de 
graphic  d  d^ tiistoirt\  Paris,  I8fi7,  8vo.  ;  artic 
**  Andn^  (Saint)  {dii  Jean  Bon)"  and  *^  Keuuudfl 
(Jean  Fmn^ois)."  R.  S.  Turner. 

1,  Park  Square. 

[Tbe  groft  cx«ggen»tionB  of  Bftrer*  utid  Jean  Bon  I 
An*lru  ha?e  alone  tbro.in  a  douM  ojt  tbe  itciud  hero* 
of  the  crew  of  th*  '*  Veng^-ur  du    Peu}>1e  **    in   i\\ 
j^'dlant  flRlit  with  tho  "  Bniiiawick  "  on  "  the  glorloiit  ] 
of  June,'*  1794.     When  ihe  "  Vengt»ur"  yttm  reduced  ] 
a  complete  wreck,  she  dbpbived  a  Union  Jack  over  h 
quarter  us  a  token  of  Kubmisstori  (ittd  a  denire  to  I 
relieved.     Ai  loon  as  it  could  be  done,  the  bo«it4  of  tj 
**  Alfred  "  and  the  "Culloden"  repcnod,  it  i«  auid,  iib« 
4CiO  of  tbe  brave  French  crew^  and  amona;  them  the  **  V« 
ci?ur'f  "  captain,  Renaudin,  vrbo  did  not  rcraoin  with  t1 
few  who  were  left  aboard.     In  the  account  piven  »>y  Vr^ 
tain  Rcnaudin, — the  only  reidly  truthful  in; 
that  the  iribn  who  were  ttill  on  b^mrd  the  vt^  !t| 

could  not  be  Sitved  before  ihe  went  down^  '  . 
on  ponsMnt  des  crts  lamenUblee,  des  secoura  i]uili»  | 
ponvaient  plus  efpfirer.  ,  ,  ,  Nous  entendiona  en  no 
t'loignimt,  qui'lauef  uns  de  not  camarndcfl  fonner  cnea 
defl  va?U-T  pourleur  patrle.  LoHdcmicr^  cris  d«  ces  I 
fortunes  furent  ccuk  de  'Vivo  la  llcpubiiqne  !  * 
moururent  <rn  leu  pronon^ant."  The  *' Vengcur'a"  cr 
iurrendered,  and  aaked  to  be  saved  from  ficrishtii 
Ncnrly  all  tctrt  saved.  The  heroic  few  who  law  doo 
inevitable  met  it,  bke  the  bra^ve  saifor^  that  they  were. 
Thev  loie  no  honour  by  bavins  the  »tmpte  and  creiJitablt 
trucli  told  of  ihem  and  ibtir  rncttjontblc  galhmtrv  in  ih 
glorious  tight  belweirn  tbe  fbeti  of  llr^we  and  V'ilhinB 
Joyeuse  Victors  and  vanquished  were  of  the  stuff  ( 
true-hearted  men  ] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


35 


"Yale  College  Magazine-'  (5*^  S,  l  44a)— 
The  Rev.  Robert  Aikman,  a  presbyterian  clei^jy* 
tosLTL,  of  Miiiiison,  in  th*^  ntate  of  New  Jersey, 
living  in  1871,  when  the  last  Yule  triennial 
printed  A  letter  tvdtlrcssed  to  him  would 
oWbly  obluiQ  most  of  the  desired  informa- 
tioei.  The  Hon.  William  M,  Everta,  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  Yale  ColUge  Magazint^  ia  aaw  a  dis- 
tinguished hiwyer  in  New  York  City.  The  Rev. 
Churles  Rich  uas  bprn  at  Boston,  Sept.  12,  1809, 
and*  ivfter  fitting  for  college,  uiado  several  voyageii, 
Jk«t  Q&  a  sailor,  and  afterwards  as  mate  of  a 
el.  He  then  entered  Yale  College,  and^  in 
^_  f  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine,  graduated.  After 
Sludying  divinity,  he  wua  settled  as  a  minister,  firrit 
iti  Wft»hington,  D.C,  then  in  Nantucket,  Mas3,, 
And  finally,  in  Buffalo*  N.Y.  About  1853  he  gave 
>  preaching,  and  went  into  mercantile  busLnesa  in 
^Dwn,  Jliinoisf,  where  he  died  Oct.  31,  1802. 
i  Hdwin  Osgood  0:irter  ami  William  Smith 
ough  were  living  in  1871,  according  to  the 
triennia.1.  The  Rev,  Chester  Smith  Lyman  resides 
Haven,  Ct,  and  is  a  profeasor  in  Yale 
Frederick  Augusitua  Coe  was  a  lawyer, 
etised  hia  profession  in  New  York  City, 
^  where  he  died  Jaii.  9,  187U,  a^ed  fifty- three. 

John  Ward  Dean. 
fioit<m«  U.S. 

David  Llovd^  LLwyNRiivDowKis'  (r/'*  S.  i,  4?>.; 

— ^In  addition  to  the  pnrticnlurs  already  known  to 

T.  C.  U.,  this  eminent  Pre^byte^ian  (or,  more  pro- 

I  wtrlj'  speaking,  Unitarian)  minister  appears  to  have 

'  oeen  ednciiied  at    the  Carmaj-then   College.     He 

founded  nearly  all  the  Arian  congreg;\tians  in  Car- 

I  diganBhire  and  purts  of  Cfirinartheoshire.   wjis  a 

mun  of  sound  learning,  enlightened  political  ideas, 

^iM^considerable  ability  aH  a  poet.     I  have  now 

~        a  copy  of  some  of  his  poetical  workB, 

it  Carmarthen  in  1785,  being  about  seven 

\  after  his  death.     The  poems  are,  of  course, 

^  in  Welah,    He  is  said  to  Imve  been  thirty- six  years 

ill  Uie  ministry  when  he  died.  R.  \V. 

*^Hni>iiiitA9"  (5^^  S.  i.  4B1).)— The  astrologer 
Bitirigiyl  under  the  name  of  Siilrophel,  in  Butler's 
Hn'hf"-."  r-  '--r-ndly  believed  to  have  been  the 
m\  Lilly, 

_._  -  in  Dettinyt  d&rk  connsi^b  " 
I  in  the  leventeenth  century.     Charles  11.  la  said  to 
I  luive  fx«ii»uUed  Lilly  in  hlK  capacity  of  astralogvr 

ftXfitBTKR  or  Jews  f5«*  B.  L  480*)— The  follow- 

^  "         'V-  ^Tanual  for  th&  GtiieO' 

lB56y  stated  what  i^ 

*  eraofhirtbi,  itmrfiftgeB, 

mtid  ..  ™. - —  Uccn  cornctlj  ma^Je,  mtd 

cauinilj  pf«Mrred ;  tbc  bulb  is  entered  &t  tliolr  cere- 


moTiiul  on  tbe  ci^ljth  dny:  nnd  ftll  the  etitries  are  aore 
mtnuie  tbiiii  tbose  of  the  ChrlsTtiim  Church. 

"  The  ComtoitteeB  of  tbe  great  Synagogues  in  Bevla 
Mark«  and  l>uke'B  PlM$e,  Aldiirafe,  when  ttpplied  to  bjr 
the  CommiMionera  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  itftte  of 
KegiBtcrs  of  Births,  &c.,  in  li^^iS,  declined  to  part  with 
their  regi-^ters,  which  are  kept  in  the  Uebrew  Iftngtia^e, 
on  tbe  ground  tlmt  they  are  continuolly  required  for 
civil  &s  well  ««  reltgioua  purpoaci." 

As  Jews  after  the  Act  of  1753  were  able  to 
marry  in  their  cbapeb,  their  marriageiJ  are  more 
nuraenius  than  in  the  case  of  others.  J.  S.  Burns 
{Hid,  of  Par.  Rcffif^L,  p.  224,  Lomlon,  1862)  says:— 

*'  The  followijig  is  a  speciroen  of  tbe  entry  of  birth,  at 
the  JJamburj^h  Syim|?o^ue,  in  Church  Row,  FeruhurcTi 
Street:— Julia,  the  diiu^bter  of  Jonas  Lery  and  Matilda 
bevy,  his  wife,  of  Bevn  MRrks,  Saint  Marv  Axe>  wm 
boni  on  Wednesday,  the  i3d  August,  lii-'ti.'  '*—Ibid, 
p.  242. 

This  refers  to  the  period  before  the  parsing  of 
the  Registration  Act.  £d.  Mahshall. 

Heraldic  (5^*^  S.  i.  489.)— Ermine,  on  a  chief 
indented  azure,  3  fleurs  de  lis  argent,  are  given  by 
Camden,  in  his  VijtUati4»i  of  MuntingtlofuJdrc 
(Camden  Society,  184S),  a*  the  arms  of  Ap  Rhese, 
Ap  Rece,  or  Aprece.  Alpreaa,  whose  arms  Mti, 
Jay  inquiiea  for,  will  most  likely  be  another 
variation  of  the  same  mime, 

O.    D.   TOMLIWSON. 

Sprinkling  Rivers  with  Flowers  (5**>  S.  i. 
505.)— This  custom,  says  Reinsberg  Duringsfeld, 
Das  Fi:Mchc  Jahr,  p.  144,  is  nearly  extinct  in 
Germany,  but  stUl  lingers  in  some  parts  of  the 
Rhine  valley,  c  g.,  at  Bacharach,  ETc  aays  tlmt 
the  ceremony  always  took  place  on  the  Ist  of  May, 
and  cidlfi  it  Mtiibruunenfcst. 

Charlbs  SWAIHSOX, 

Highhurst  Wood. 

The  "Jacobus"  (5*»»  S.  i.  5()6.)— Richard  Pitt 
had  a  gnmt  of  the  office  of  Gun  Founder,  for  life, 
October  31,  1613,  See  Cal  Stat  Pap,  Dame^tk^ 
1011-1618,  ti.  204.  Edward  Peacock. 

Bot  tea  ford  Manor,  Bngg, 

La  Vienville  (5*'*  S.  i,  315,  457.)— Is  this  the 
correct  name  of  the  Miirquis  who  wa«  killed  io  the 
skirmish  at  Auldborn  Choiie  ?  It  is  commonly 
given,  I  think,  oa  Vieuville,  but  occurs  in  the 
Journals  of  the  House  of  Commons,  April  11, 
1643  (and  I  believe  elsewhere),  as  J)e  la  Vein  VilU, 

T.  W.  Webb, 

"The  Private  House  iw  Drurt  Lake"  (5**> 
S,  L  508.)— On  the  subject  of  private  theatres,  and 
the  peculiikrities  that  ^distinguii^hed  them  from 
those  that  were  public,  let  me  refer  Mr.  Ellis  to 
Thi  AnnaU  of  the  Stage,  by  Mn  J.  P.  Collier, 
Vf.l  lii  T»  335;  also  to  Malone's  account  of  the 
E  t  '  prefixed  to  his  edition  of  Shake^ptart, 

e<jii  _    iioswell,    1821,  vol  iii.      Mr.    Collier 

notices  seven  ^*  distingaiAhiDg  loarks  of  a  private 


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AND  QUERIES. 


[S-^S.IL  Jtrtt  II.  *ri.- 


pluy house,"  one  of  them  betD|jf»  "the  boxes  or 
rooms  of  prtVfite  thetitrea  were  rncloaed  and  locked. ' 
It  WAS*  fmiti  thi-H^  in  :ill  prob^ibility,  ihut  the  name 
WiW  derived.  The  Bhickfriani,  the  Cockpit  in 
Dniry  Line,  and  the  tbexitre  in  fcklisbnry  Ooart. 
were  private; ;  the  Globe,  Fort  line,  and  Bull  were  ' 
public  thesitreB*  Charugs  WruR, 

BuDA  (5*^  a  I  287,  374,  417,  458  [  il  16.)— Your 
correspondent  W.  B*  0.  is  undoubtedly  right  in 
fiayinj;  thcit  it  is  Buda  which  beiirs  the  name  of 
Ofen,  thoutjh  stninfjely  enoui^h  the  Slavonic  Pesth 
(pronounced  F6Jii},  with  the  mme  signification 
a**  Ofen  in  German,  is  upplied  to  the  other  bilf  of 
the  town.  The  name  probably  arose  from  the 
oven-like  situation  of  Buda. 

Buda  if^  a  Slavonic  word,  Hud  fomiFi  part  of  the 
nsme  of  mary  villages  in  Bohemia.  Its  meaning 
in  Tchekh,  [  believe,  is  dwellincj-plaoe,  habitation; 
it  lA  probably  connected  with  the  English  bide, 
abode.  AsHToK  W.  Dilee. 

W,  B.  C*  18  right  in  his  coirectiom  It  is  BudiL 
whTch  is  known  in  German  by  the  name  of  Ofen, 
although  the  latter  term  is  properly  a  tRinBlation 
of  the  name  of  Pesth*  whicn  in  Old  Hungarian 
(like  the  Old  Slavonic  p^Mhteh)  fii^nified  a  stove. 
I  vviia  led  into  the  blunder  by  a.  hasty  readinf^  of 
my  Hanqurinn  Dulloaary  (Farka.s),  in  which  I 
found  **Pest,  Pesth  (Stadtj  ;  Ofen  (venUtet),"  and 
understood  the  sentence  as  jjignifyinff  that  the 
name  of  Ofen  waa  now  obsolete,  whereas  the 
meaning  really  is  that  the  Hungarian  jjoit.,  in  the 
sense  of  stove,  ift  obsolete.  The  puzzle  in  how  the 
German  translation  of  the  nmne  Pe-^th  could  ever 
come  to  desiguate  the  city  (Buda)  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  river.,  H*  W, 

TuK  Emperor  Alexander  II.  (5**  S.  i.  464,}— 
The  word  Uar,  the  German  ifcat^r.  Barb,  Greek 
Katrapf  "  F3ub-emperorj  a  sort  of  viaier,"  Arabic 
htAf^ar^  are  corrupted  from  Ctuair,  The  ktter, 
which  Schlegel  derives  from  SiusskrtC  ktJshoh 
(A^Vi),  "the  hair  of  the  head,'*  is  probably  from 
Ptfpsiao  ffrtr,  bead,  top,  stimmtt,  a  genera!,  great, 
hij/heftt,  chief.  R,  S.  Charlock, 

Onhj'fl  Inn, 

"Sblb"  (fi*^  8*  L  228,  276,  318.)— It  would 
appear  evident  that  uU  is  not  the  same  in  mean- 
ifjjj,  if  it  be  the  atmc  in  oritjin,  which  is  doubtful^ 
with  ulio^  or  adion^  which,  in  En^iHsh,  is  called  a 
stitcf^  or  rut^ti  <yf  hind,  and  which  Spelman,  fol- 
lowed by  Bloimt  and  CowelL,  saya  waii  **  agri  portio 
sulcos  ftiiquot  non  f-ertos  continens^;  and  also  that 
it  wtM  calleil  ''  k  Gall  millon,  I  terra  elata  inter 
duos  snicns  {v.  selio)  "—facts  these  wbijch  are 
otherwise  well  eat^ibliahed. 

Therefore,  fdthough  Mr»  Dobson  geems  to  reject 
the  8tUo(  Prot  H.  Leo,  of  Halle  (p.  54],  I  incline 
to  receive  it  tm  the  moat  p«>b«ble  root  of  the 


place-name   *Me   soele,"  or  "le  scle,"  and    noj 
*'  seal,''  occurring  in  Grants  of  Land  to  Reich  all 
He  would  limit  the  signification  of  this  t^rm  t^\ 
dweXUng  exdfifimhf^  in  the  belief  that  Prof.  Ij< 
had  done  the  like,  which,  however,  he  baa  ti^ 
done  ;  and  in  this  way  h}v<i  arisen  what  I  presttn 
is  Mr.  Dobson's  misconception.     Leo  says  iW 
the  ancient  form  of  stif.  was   saly   the  primitil 
meaning  of  which  must  have  been  thus  general;  t% 
this  reason,  as  he  ^ys,that  **  wo  have  safjan  inGott 
meaning  mancTe^  divtrten^"  whkh  is  "nopnmitif 
word,^' but,  as  he  add«,  is  *' indisputably  derive 
from  I  he  same  root,"  viz.  mL     Then  no  one 
doubted  that  manrrc  (the  inf.  of  m'fnto)  is  the  ] 
of  mansuBj   the   meaning   of  which   tho   lenrni 
Spelman  says  is  "habitatio  vel  sedes  rustica,  nq 
n?dea   tauium   complectens,   sed   terras   etiam 
alendam   familLam   idoncas"  (GL  z?.  *'Mansta, 
Mansus  ") ;  who  also  (r.  *'  Mansi,  aellas '')  cites  < 
*'Adnuntiatio-'    of   King  Carolus,   apud    Pistl 
cap*  30,  where  the  **  hfereditates  colonornm" 
called  mama^  and  tho  »ella^  the  "  domiciiia  m 
sorum "    (colonorum    hereditatea    mnnsa    vo 
domicUia  mansomm  sella*),  where  also  this  pil 
hibition   is   contained,   *' Separarique    prohibet 
sellis    mansa,   ue    divenditis   terris  confundanti 
mansn,  subducantur  servitiii,et  de-stniantur  villin| 
and  where   this    statement  is   added,   "Retinu 
hwnc  morem  vetus  Angloruni  CEconomia  t**q««  i 
Henrici  2,  Eobatem;  ut  h  Garvaaio  Uqueat  TiJb 
iensi." 

Prof.  Leo  baa  said  that  "  If  ttU  be  tba  dwillin 
of  the  wealthy,  of  landowners,  eoUf  on  tbe 
hand,  indicates  the   abode   of  the  poorer  clnu 
(v.  "  Cote,"  p,  55)  ;  and  if  this  be  a  well-found 
distinction,  scle  may  be  ju3t  tantamount  to 
manor,   un(|U  est  ion  ably   a   derivi»tive   of  mowf 
which  is  the  interpretation  of  mJjan.     But 
says,  besides^  that  in  the  northern  dialect  aalu  I 
been  distinguished  from  »el,  the  former  men  nil 
an  "aides,  domus,  aula";  and  the  latter  a  **  tug 
ium  ffistivum/'  or  summer  hut  of  turf.      Accolj 
ingly,  there  is  a  strong  probability  that  9fU  ^=  k 
is  the  true  root  of  all  those  place-names  which, 
Scotland,  are  ciilled  Bhiels,  or  The  SheiU  (i.e.,  pla 
of  the  huts),  sheilinga  (L  smlinga)^  &c.^  a«  well  { 
of  the  stdU,  or  ateiU^  and  all  of  which  are  comtriO 
both  single   and   compounded  ;    <i.fy..   The   Sin 
{U  scd&?),   Lyand-si'heiles,   Oauld-ishiela,    A^h 
steil,  Bar-coed*isteils,  Birket-steil,  &c. 

Aritttmetic  :  Oastiko  out  Nikks  (5***  Sc  ». 
332.)-'Though  "  N,  &  Q."  is  hardly  a  medium  3 
mnthematic^d  communications,  yet, "'  the  ball  be^ 
set  a-roUing,'*  I  will  dvo  it  another  shove. 
Mortimer  Collins  ls  perfectly  correct  in  »dl 
says,  but  there  is  no  reason  io  the  world, 
economy,  for  Teatricting  the  operation  to  nines  i 
elevens.     The  reason  why,  in  casting  out  elevc 
we  take  tJie  difference  between  the  sum  of  the  < 


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tnd  the  nam  of  the  evpn  digit*  i«,  that  the  difference 
between  the  radix  (ten)  and  eleven  is  negative 
unity ;  hut  if  we  cast  oat  any  number  has  than 
the  ittdix,  the  operation  is  one  of  addition  only, 
taJcSog  care  to  write  the  number  operated  on,  as  if 
itA  ridix  were  not  ten,  but  the  difierence  between 
ten  and  the  number  to  be  cist  out.  Thu?^  take 
043^  and  cast  out  the  eights,  then  we  work  thua:— 
2-f3x2-l-ix2'+6x  2»=72; 
and  2  +  7  X  2  =  16  ;  and  6  +  1  x  2  =  8. 
That  ifi,  G432  ie  divisible  by  8  without  remainder. 
Or,  caat  out  tho  sevens  from  the  same  number^ 
then  — 

S+S^eS+lxa'  +  Cx  S»=  209  ; 
tedS  +  2  X  3*  =  27;  and  7  +  2  x  3  =  13 ; 
and  3  +  1  x  3  ^  6  ; 

thai  is,  6  la  the  remainder  after  dividijig  6432  by  7. 

Jabbz. 
Alli«Dftiim  Club. 

•   OF  WiOMORE  (5^  S.  i.   188,   234, 
)-Thot]^b  I  cannot  tell  T.  H,  who 
III  hecket,  or  Ragonu  Beehet,  was,  for  she 
tie  to  tne,  I  can  at  le.ist  teli  him  who 
not,  and  that  is,  the  wife  of  Roger,  fifth 
Bar)  of  March.     The  wife  of  Eurl  Roger^  Aliunora 
^  lent,  survived  him,  and  died  in  1405,  while 
i  was  liTing  in  1407^  and  was  then  widow  of 
/  Seya.     So  far  as  my  knowledge  goes,  she 
atvtr  diUed  Ragona  Mortimer,    but  K:igona 
Beebet*  Bomina  de  Mortimer. 

I  must  beg  leave  to  offer  an  apology  to  }*ouTiielf 
and  your  reisers  for  my  stupidity  in  msserting  that 
tli» Queen  is  the  heir  of  the  Mortimers.  Tewars 
liM  eaoght  me  napping ;  and  though  I  deserve  his 
rttrnke,  1  do  not  feel  entitled  to  the  sweet  envelope 
ill  whidi  he  has  wrapped  it  I  will  try  not  to 
^'dio  It  again*'*  Hsamsntrude. 

«Wtol«"  (b^  a  i.  347,  462,)— Stratman^s 
iKefmary  of  Old  Enfliik  gives  *'  whele,  A.-Sax. 
kfdi^  potredo."  The  Pr&mptorium  FarvHlorum 
lmm\akte»  the  word  by  pmtula.  F.  Storr. 

PftssrcKs  OF  THE  Blood  Rotal  (/>**  S,  i.  467, 
$lft.) — F.  EL  H.  is  too  hasty  in  his  reply  to  ray 
qamy.  I  am  well  aware  that  the  "  Dnke  of  Cam- 
bridge i*  the  grandnoT!  of  fJeorpe  HI.";  bnt  th:\t 
do«i  not,  on  "my  '  ng,"  explain  his  pre- 

etdmoe  over  the  ]>  of  Canttrhury  and 

tli»  groat  officers  ot  ^ime.  The  Duke  i»  the  i^rand- 
ma  of  m  king,  not  of ''  the  ^*  kinof.  The  diMinction 
it  innportnnt.  Middle  Temflar. 

Ik«dfbr^  Yorkshire. 

T  r  Tnterted  Come  as  (5**  S.  u  9,  75, 

liK,  i;,  455.) — Inverted  commas   are  fre- 

<|icmlj  £MU4)d  in  printed  ph^js  to  denote  passages 

OOiiUled  oo  the  stage  :  »ee  Lond  Lytton  s  Riehelim, 

J.  Bbakder  Matthews* 

htm  CoK  Nrw  York. 


Isaac  (akd  Joan)  FnANSTiAwt  (2«»*  S.  ti.  467.) 
— Ihaac  Franshtim  w.'w  elder  brother  of  John  Fran- 
Bbam,  a  linen-draper  in  Norwich*  Of  hia  history 
I  kijow  nothintc  more  than  is  recorded  in  the  in- 
sicription  on  his  tombstone  (quoted  above).  Nor 
can  I  tell  whether  they  were  related  to  ^*  the 
Norwich  polytheist,"  who  may  have  been  a 
nephew,  but  certainly  was  not  the  son  of  e'tiier  of 
them,  (Why  that  very  eccentric  person  waacalled 
a  polytheist  I  know  not)  The  younger  brother, 
John,  died  about  ten  years  after  Isiuk*.  I  hiive  a 
parc^^l  of  his  note-books,  ooosisting  partly  of  copies 
of  his  contributions  to  the  GetUiima^*^  J<fnrtutl 
(a  monthly  period  icjd  pubiisbod  in  London,  1H90- 
92),  for  the  most  part  in  vcr!ie,and  not  much  worse 
than  the  ruHbish  whieh  a  few  years  later  passed 
under  the  name  of  poetry  in  the  earlier  volumes  of 
the  Geitiletnan's  Ma^^ifie^  with  sundry  other 
eqncJly  uninteresting  compositions.  The  coHection 
i^y  however,  not  altogether  worthless,  for  it  confains 
also  hiR  correspondence  with  Daniel  Defoe,  of  whom 
he  uppears  to  have  been  a  great  admirer.  These 
letters  are  all  interesting ;  one  from  Defoe  eerpecially 
so,  dated  from  Edinburgh,  and  containing  an 
account  of  proceedings  there  during  his  mission  as 
secretary  to  the  Conimissioncrs  for  the  Treaty  for 
Union  between  England  and  Scotland.  None  of 
them  have  ever  appeared  in  print, and  I  shrUl  liave 
much  pleasure  in  sending  copies  for  publicntion  in 
"  N.  &  Q,"  as  soon  as  I  can  find  a  little  leisure  for 
transcribrng  them.  Fr,  Nokoai^k. 

17,  Btdfora  Sirtmtt  Covent  Garden. 

TjTE  Population  Two  Hundred  Years  Ago 
(S***  S.  i.  387,  495.)— Your  querist  will  find  some 
useful  information  in  HaUani  (Murray's  Eeprint, 
p.  22) :- 

**  The  rorthem  coun'ies,  etpe^'ially  Lancsuhire  and 
CumhedMnJ,  tHsiri^  vei  j  ill  pei»j»Ecd  ^nd  tb«  inhabitants 
of  LoTidun  and  vv«i  n<iiiFier  not  excepdini^  f^ixty  or 
seventy  tbnifan').'*  (Note  1.)  "  1  bo  poiioUtirm  fur  H85 
\§  entirtiated  by  coTrpttriti^  »  »ort  ofcen^uA  in  1378,  when 
tht<  inhal^itun*!  of  the  realm  fleem  to  have  amouni  d  to 
ahout  2,80<Mi<'0,  M-ith  one  still  mur**  lootiem  drrBHinboth 
io  1588,  witkh  wniitd  |^e  atKmt  4,40r%4K}0,  ninkifiiE  p^^me 
iitTowuDcefor  inore  mpid  It^crea**  in  iho  latter  per  od. 
Three  n^ilMiUa  iit  the  at  Ccsaiuii  of  Henry  VII.  ia  i4robabty 
not  too  low  t»u  ettimate." 

G.  LAUREycE  G6vaim. 

Marmiois  Herbert  ik  Mr,  Dl-^rakli's  **  Vtif- 
KTIA  "  (S^*"  S.  i.  140,  4<)0.)  -  In  reply  to  a  query  of 
mine  as  to  the  historical  charscter  represented  by 
"  Marmion  Herbert^  in  Disraeli's  Vemii^t^  a  coi^ 
re*|)ondent  wrote  to  you  to  say  that  SbeUey  the 
po«t  is  meant  I  was  for  many  reasons  diaiAtisfied 
with  that  answer.  I  have  junt  come  acrom  a  pa*- 
sage  in  the  last  chapter  of  Cuiccioli*«  Rec^Uteiion* 
of  Li>f(i  Bijroti^  wnich  gives  a  very  satisfactory 
aohition :  — 

**  n«  (Di*p*el?)  hat  given  Byron  (mo  indiwi^wiii*t% 
I#ofcl  C«iiiici»  re|irc»«Miit4  Byrmi  fr*  m  hit  i'lfnnev  to  the 
time  of  hit  m«rnA^e,  »nd  Mr.  Herbert  equmlly  reprebsnts 


38 


W  QUER 


[5«^B.U.JpLTll,*ri* 


Lord  Byron  from  tbnt  faUl  epocli  till  liis  dentil.  The 
selection  of  tvro  persons  to  repTcaeid  the  Bame  cliariLCtc'r, 
and  to  allow  of  Bjron's  simple  yet  conuplt-x  HAture  being 
better  uaderetood,  was  ft  very  happy  pbilosopliical  no- 
tion.** 

**Marmion  Herbert^  ifl  emmently  unlike  the 
poet  Shellej»  V*  de  S.  Fowke. 

*'  Dester  "  (5***  S,  L  148,  214,  365, 498,)—"  She 
(the  divorced  wife  of  Char-le-Mugne)  is  chilled  b}^ 
various  ttamea  in  history,  Desideria^  Desiderata, 
Herinengard,  and  Bertha/'  Extract  from  Hiatory 
of  OharUmagne.  Read  note  p.  135  instead  of  p.  146, 
SA  the  reference  to  the  authority  frotn  which  the 
afcatcinent  miuio  was  derived.  E, 

EioBT,  Paymaster  of  the  Forces  in  1768  {5**> 
S.  i.  428,  613,)— ^Ir,  Wilkes,  in  the  Nt>rih  Briton, 
No.  31,  closes  a  humorous  corupatiaon,  after 
Plutarch's  manner,  of  Mr.  Pitt  with  I^Ir,  Eigby  in 
the  following  words  : — 

"In  their  more  priTdte  chArftcteni,  both  Mr.  Pitt  and 
Mr.  Rr^hy  bare  generosity  and  spirit  f  in  other  things 
tbcy  differ.  Mr.  Pitt  h  abatemioun,  t<;mporate,  and 
regular:  Mr.  Bi^jby  indulges  more  in conTirial  ple&sure», 
M  an  excellent  bon-vivant^  ainiuble  and  engn^niiC.  Mr. 
Pitt,  by  the  most  manly  eenBe.  and  the  fine  sallita  of  a 
warm  and  iportir^  imagtaation,  can  charm  ibe  whole 
day  ;  andj  as  tbe  Greek  eaid*  hit  entertainmeuEs  pleate 
even  the  day  after  they  are  giren,  Mr.  Rigby  has  iiU 
the  gibes,  and  gambols,  and  datihes  of  merritnt^ntp  which 
»et  the  table  in  a  roar ;  but  the  day  after,  a  cruel  h cud- 
ache  fit  iea»t  fre(|uently  eucceedi.  In  aburt^  1  vfUli  to 
ei»etid  all  wy  days  with  Mr.  Pitt,  but  I  am  afraid  that 
At  ntjflit  I  ehohid  often  skulk  to  Mr.  Rigby  and  hia 
fmntU." — John  Tijubs's  AMcdcte  JBiOffrafthi^f  **  Lord 
Chatham,''  p.  UQ. 

J.  T. 

PORTR  AND  PROFKR  NaMES  (5**»  S.  1.  464,  513.) 

— The  prominciatiou  ofBohvjii  wasnutboritatively 
settled  by  CJhriatopher  North   SQinciclurc  in  the 
following  terms  : — 
*'  It  ia  wrong  to  say 

*Bold  Biraon  Boliror 
Hatch  for  old  OliTer/ 
It  abould  be, 

'  Who  can  deceive  or 
Baffle  Eoiirar*'  *' 

w.  a 

A  Jew*s  Will  (5^^  S.  i.  449,  406.) -Many 
thanks  to  three  respondents  to  my  query;  their 
replies  are  luost  interesting.  In  the  sume  will  the 
testator  bequeaths  thus:  **4ti?.  per  annum  for  the 
flupport  of  the  Jews'  synagogue  in  my  gjirden  in 
Magpie  Alley,  in  or  near  Fenchurch  Street "  ; 
also  ^  to  ten  Rabbies  to  read  prayers  every  day  for 
one  year  after  my  death,  in  my  said  synagogue, 
I  Of.  apiece." 

I  would  ask  whether  such  prayers  for  the  de- 
parted are  in  general  use  among  the  Jews,  and  if 
so,  what  is  the  form  1  Is  the  siiid  synagogue  still 
standing  ?  The  will  alluded  to  is  that  of  Benja- 
min Isaac,  of  Magpie  Alley,  merchant,  proved 


May  4,   1750,  a  native  of  Bounsall,  in  Bohemia. 
He  bequeathed  several  sums  for  charitable  uses  jft, 
London*     He  mentions  his  »on  Henry,  of  Fafl| 
church  Street  BuildingK,  mercliant,  and  threeSB 
his  sons,   Ephraim,  Hyam^   and   Isaa^.     Is   any- 
thing known  of  these  descendants?    Is  this  the  i 
Benjamin  or  Henry  Ism\c  who  possessed  a 
collection  of  paintings,  many  of  which  were 
graven  by  Boydell  ?     The  Lord  of  0u  Vtnctji 
by  Rembrandt,  was  one.  H.  T.  *" 

Ranckk  Riders  (5*^  S,  i.  203,  271»  4I9.)-:I 
may  be  allowed  to  say  so,  and  without  being  egotia 
the  best  description  of  these  ''beggars  ou  ho 
back"  U  to  be  found  in  Dekker's  i««f/ior7i^ 
Candle-light f  lfJ09,  a  book  on  thieves  and  thio^ 
tricks,  carefully  condensed  by  me  in  my  ShaJc^p 
Eiifjland.     The  passage  I  allude  to  is  the  foil 
ing  :— 

''  The  Rank  Riders  were  cheats  akin  to  the  Gcr 
guests  who  took  in  'mine  host  of  the  Garter.' 
gener&lly  went  six  or  seven  in  company,  their  punet 
weU-hllcd,  well  dressed,  booted  arid  spurred.  The  Inn- 
keeper they  cheated  tljcy  called  the  Colt;  the  galled 
far  mop  the  Snaffle  :  and  the  plunder  the  Ring.  Two  of 
ttiem  dr«:s«cc1  as  gentlemen,  and  the  rest  wore  blue  cnatfi 
aa  strTingnnfU,  Tbev  generally  entered  the  bcJt  inn  of 
the  place,  dirty  and  dusty,  linking  their  senranta  if  their 
footman  had  gone  Iwck  with  their  horses,  to  which  the 
blue  coats  answered  *yes.'  Here,  then,  they  stopped 
seireral  day.4 — living  in  clover,  keeping  the  rust  off  the 
spigotst  and  never  bating  the  reckoningn  a  penny— to 
show  they  were  gentlemen  of  noble  eatraction.  In  the 
meantime  their  servants  ascertained  from  what  county 
the  innkeeper  came,  where  the  ostlers  and  chamberlain 
were  born,  and  what  other  country  gentlemen  were  their 
fellow  guests.  They  then,  in  the  gaping  circles  round 
the  sea-coal  fires,  bragged  of  their  master's  estates  ia 
Bome  remote  and  unknown  shire,  described  how  many 
hawks  they  kept  and  how  many  hounds,  and  begNn  to 
fiWeur  that  they  had  come  up  to  receive  some  hundredi 
of  pounds  opon  land  which  tliey  htid  lately  sold,  and 
would  harbour  in  that  inn  (liking  the  situation  and  the 
host)  some  quarter  of  a  year  at  least. 

f*  These  reports  flpread,  and  widening  as  they  spread, 
the  betid  cheat  got  better  attended,  and  was  socm  dubbed 
your  worship  at  every  eentence ;  and  to  pleaae  Bonifi 
be  would  ri^fuso  to  fit  down  to  dinner  till  his  host  ' 
the  upper  place  at  the  board. 

*"  In  the  middle  of  supper,  juiit  at  '  the  pipptut  and 
ale,'  or  very  early  in  the  momiDg,  ruebed  in  an  aocom- 
plice,  dressed  m  a  running  f»jotman,  and  fiery  Ijot  with 
baste,  t«ent  up  a  message  thut  Sir  Somebody  Something 
had  wished  to  f>ee  hi«  worship,  and  that  he  must  be  with 
him  at  auch  nn  hour,  the  journey  not  being  more  than 
twelve  or  fourteen  miles.  Upon  receipt  of  tbif  message 
ifrom  so  dear  and  so  noble  a  friend),  one  who  stHnds  «o 
well  at  Court  louk  you,  the  chief  sweated  and  chafed  be- 
cause all  his  hor^B  were  out  of  the  way,  cursed  tho 
aending  them  back,  and  the  fool  who  proposed  it ;  o0ers 
to  give  any  sum  if  hii  cousin.  him*e]ft  und  hi-*  man, 
could  b«  reasonably  horsed.  Our  ho«t  provided  t\j^ 
all  horisea  (if  he  had  none  bimf^elf,  bori'ontng  theq 
hU  ncighboan*,  paising  his  word  for  thtir  fortbcoii 
in  a  day  or  two  i,  and  with  grace  cupi,  and  kii^ieij^ 
hands,  and  rtjflie  of  ril»bons,  the  ohaata  apurrcd  awa« 

"  Three  days  or  so  ha? ing  paased,  and  his  worahip  i 
yet  ntariiing,  the  host  began  to  tiaatl  a  trick.    He  i 


uuoea 

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Qp  and  doum  us  busy  u  a  cortitnble  on  Shrovo  Tuetdaj, 
with  ^  hue  nnd  cry  at  bi»  beels,  and  a  plentiful  store  of 
ikfout  cudj^Ii,  Biit  ala»  !  by  tliii  time  riur  frk^nds  bod 
rbfttiged  Ihetr  dresses  four  score  milei  off^  bad  fold  their 
hortet  Ibt  lonie  country  fair^  tiomted  away  half  the  money 
in  i«aji  of  wine,  and  eUrtcd  off  in  search  of  freah  con- 
fidittff  boiiifl  and  pleasantly  situated  inns.^ — '* LaHtfiorni 
and  CtindU-iiffht;  or,  The  BtU-matu  Setond  J^it/ftfi' 
wf''  •'•  ^hich  he  bring!  to  light  a  Brood  of  more 
»t  ifg  than  ever  were  iUTtbls  yeare  diicoTcred, 

X>  .  ■<'?  malum,  feciwe  nefandum.      The  lecond 

adiuub  liiwly  corrected  and  Amended.  London,  Printed 
for  Jfihn  BiuhT,  iind  are  to  be  »old«  at  bii  shop  m  Fleet 
Strttie,  in  Saint  Dunatane*  Church  yard,  100l>/* 

Walteq  Thornburt. 

Dtnre  ScoTTS  (5*>»  S,  i.  488.)— I  take  the  fol- 
lowing from  Brunet^a  Mamul  du  Libraire^  Paris, 
1864:-- 

•SoctTca  (Joanna  Dam). 

**  t  >.  pv-i..YitrFe  quodlibeticn  purgatae  per  Th,  Penkeih. 
r  ,  f «t,  M,  CO: c  1 X  X  m  T.    IJitc  A  (btftui  tgo  Sttn* 

B?  ri jrrtsti  {Vmtliu),  in  foL     Edition 

Tv  e»  routa:  Et  cunrra  rcn  d*Mcila 

{>  ant  par  un  index  de  5  ff.  Vend, 

tc  1  .:        .      id:  2  Uv.  2  lb*  Pinclli.  et  moins 

d'liuii,  rar  en  Rcwcnd  toutes  ccb  anciennea  ^itiona  dea 
tiaouloKiena  tcoljDuitiquei  aont  4  tr^sbaa  priji/' 

SpAHtc.^  Henderson  Williams. 

IS,  K«fiilngton  Crcficent,  W. 

Heraldic  (5**'  S.  L  348.)^ — The  arms  appear  to 
be  those  of  Walbunke,  of  Kixkbridgc,  &c.»  co. 
York*  The  coat^  ^lej  a  fesse  fiubatucd  urgent^ 
between  two  fmhires  in  chief  and  li  g&rb  in  base  or, 
b  quartered  by  John  \^'^illbanke  ChildeTB,  Esq.,  of 
CAOtley  ;  and  the  crest,  on  ft  g»irb,  a  bird  rising  or, 
k  borne  by  him  as  a  seoood. 

Charles  Jacksoj^. 

Doneaster. 

Pedigree  Tractko  (5"*  S.  i.  609.)— I  should 
adtiae  X,  to  purchftfie  a  copy  of  Siin»*s  Manual foi' 
(As  Oencaloffifty  Topograpktr^  Antiquarif,  and 
^  i^al  Professor.  He  will,  in  this  hook,  tind  an 
ant  of  most  of  the  public  records  likely  to  be 
service.  If,  however,  the  membera  of  the 
fiLUtily  whose  pedi^ee  be  wishca  to  trace  were  not 
i^nr.  T^  ..r  i-ijui  or  hoWers  of  offices  of  importance, 
1  '   the  work  neither  easy  nor  cheap.     As 

111:  . (  , u  of  the  information  soraelime.**  ati'orded 

by  the  Jnmtu,  Fo*t  Morttm,  I  may  say  that,  not 
lonjc  Jign,  1  found  in  one  of  these  documents  (taken 
in  1535)  the  eridence  of  nine  generations. 

H.  FiSHWicic,  F.S.A. 


I 


ffifrrllaurcrutf* 

KOTBS  ON  BOOKS,  kc. 

OUcTt  Aiy  fn  LkhfiitUi,  a.d,  164:!.  amd  eiktr  Skvrt 
fermi.  By  I  he  Rev,  R.  J,  BuddicoTn,  M.A,  Vicar  of 
1l|#r<AT}.  ^»tt»l^^>^c^r^^^«h.     ^Parker  &  Co.) 

trd  attractiTe.    Dork  deeda 
•T  yc^  ed  in  veraes  rf   pleoaant 

f<ta4rti^  '  vrho«e  namci  fjiU  »o  fanti- 

HaHy  on  lh«  ear  trum  ihfi  Churcb'a  calendar,  but  whoiie 
tetonci  af«  not  every  day  read,  are  depicted  without 


fentiment,  and  without  an  unmerited  tancUty  heHg 
attributed  to  the  or)Kinnl«.  The  inartytdunia  arid  per* 
aecutions  of  men  to  whom  innny  of  our  churchrf  nre 
dedicated  are  faithfully  told.  The  dayf  of  the  Baptini, 
St,  Chad,  Alphagc,  Abp*  of  Canterbury,  and  of  other* 
*' whoae  praise  "naa  once  in  all  tho  cburchea"  wiU  bo  i 
found  fur  from  tubjecti  of  dull  reading. 

Mainoc,  EpfliHe^  ttc.     {Pickering*) 
Tttt  author  of  thia  little  volume  of  poema  need  not  hft?e 
iuppressod  hi^  name.    He  may  fairly  claim  to  be  a  writer 
of  poetry.     Mainoc  can  hardly  be  faid  to  be  the  pro- 
minent feature  of  the  five  cantos  devoted  to  him.    Sitttil^a  1 
and  home  truths  are  inserted  to  a  grtat  extent  and  with 
aucceafl.     Mainoc  cornea  on  the  acene,  in  the  midbt  of  a 
atorni,  distracted,  and  the  very  imafi;e  of  despair.     "Ho 
la  a  dreamer  ever  of  that  which  could  not  be ;  a  phantom- 
lU'icked  and  wild  brained  being.     He  had  no  aenfe  of  i 
fault.     He  knew  no  friendahip.*'     Kvelino  h  a  pcniive»  « 
and  lonely  girl.     Her  deep  love  ia misinterpreted  ly  tho  | 
a^iiniring  jet  timid  Oic&r.     Both  pine  in  luneJineM,  but 
Time  ^ivea  a  voice  to  Reticence.    All  gloutny  tboughto  1 
are  at  last  a^roeabty  stilled,    Alcvone  and  other  short 
poems  close  thia  alluring  little  book. 


BtTiTAit's  "  PiLGRtji's  p£0<i&t:S8  "  (fi»*  a  11.  8.)— Tho 
following  ia  the  letter  in  the  Guardwht  referrtd  to  in 
the  last  number  of  "  N.  k  Q."  . — 

"  Sir,— After  two  daya  of  careful  research  at  the  Brittah 
Museum  Library,  I  can  perhapa  give  aome  further  infor- 
mation reapecting  the  Aubject  of  my  former  letters,  and 
\n  reply  to  two  letters  in  the  Ouaidmn  of  tbii  y^ttek, 

"It  appeara  that  Guiltaumo  de  Guilleville  wrote  his 
first  hook,  Le  Petcriftaqc  de  V Homme  for  de  ta  Vftt 
Ilnmainr)^  about  A.i>.  ^1330  to  1^35,  and  re-wrote  it 
in  1368. 

*'  Between  these  dates  he  wrote  two  other  hooks,  vit., 
£e  Ptlerina^e  de  VAttte  and  Ze  PtUnnagt  de  Jtms- 
Chrut, 

"It  is  to  ihe  jirnl  of  these,  if  any,  that  Bunyan  wao 
indebted.  To  look  for  coincidencrB*bet*^cen  TAe  I*yt* 
orimagt  ttf  the  ik^uti  and  Thi  Pd<friin'ii  Prwp^^t  is  use-  - 
less  or  nearly  aOf  as  the  lutter  Vncfji  where  thefumtef-i 
begina.  Bunyan  does  not  enter  into  th**  tutject  of  tho  j 
intermediate  ctato;  De  tJaUUviUe'a  ticond  book  treat*  I 
only  of  that.  | 

"I  find  that  the  rolutne  printed  by  Caxton  to  148S  ' 
containa  no  p^rt  of  De  Guillevilk's  first  book^  bat  begins 
with  his  lecond. 

*'  A  rt- print  of  the  Pilnrxma^t  t*j  Man,  waa  made  for 
the  Roxburghe  Club  in  14<69-  In  the  prefuce  to  thta 
work  it  is  stated  :— 

*'  *  It  is  not  within  the  scope  of  the  present  prrface  to 
discuta  a  queation  which  h>ia  been  raiicd  aa  to  how  fai- 
Eun>an  may  have  been  indebted  to  this  allegory  for  tho 
idena  atid  even  the  detaila  of  hia  /V^nw's  Pi'offru$^l 
But  it  10  at  Uast  worth tf  of  rtmark  that  «m  ike  fevtnt<mt^ 
ttntury  thfft  w«#  citpitd  and  atOiUttid  in  MS.  a  con' 
devttd  EmjtUh  wivion  of  (/,  d*  Guiilrtiiie't  Eirtt  Pit- 
ffrtmaffc.  .  »  ,  .  In  the  Univr— '*"  ?  *  -  r-  -*  * -'  l^jidge 
there  is  a  itmall  volume  of  J  cUaa  1 

mark  is  Ff,  0.  30. ,  .  ,  ,  It  !•  ,i  cTerf 

law  this,  or  th<r  Ghwp'  u  ^^Ii-muiii  " 

(Q.  2.  "151  (^r  the  MS.  i  volume  is 

mint-. I    i>»    i\^--a  In  i! ,_..  ..    ..   j-n'i  Cnllrge^ 

Cati.i  ]  I,  hvt  he  may  f*e  9<mt  Uiftt haw*  faiitn  <» 

ipi(/  ffith  that  dncrxbid,* 

**Mi<«'  ii-iH   rianitatiuu  and  ctmipurisfm  "     '       '    I 
upon  the   French  >IS.,  vrbich  Bunyan  i<i  nr\ 
have  sern,  nor  could  have  rtad,  aa  wc  are  told 
«tood  no  language  but  lib  o«vn.     There  are  stiU  »  few 
copies  of  thia  wurk^  botli  of  Uie  Pii{fr%tnagt  of  Man.  and 


m 


40 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5«*  B»  IL  Jolt  11/ 


of  the  &M1I,  to  bf  hiMl  lit  Ptckoinsr's,  TUe.  Piccadilly. 
Tliey  weie  prii  tcl  in  1858  and  18.W.  1f»jr,  each*  I  Jiud 
tliMtMr.  f^iHTHili,  in  hi»  Antr»fitt*^»  of  htt^iiurt.  refera 
tu  tbff  re*cni1il«in  e  bciwei-n  the  /'•Vf/fn*/f  J^*upiti4  nnti 
i^ti  4)ld  woik  by  l*itr*  Piawnuirv.  br.  Dit  d  n  «&>a  the 
/S'A/riwio<3M»  «/  rA<?  iS/**/  liii'l  the  lonTidiitod  of  (he 
Ptl,r»mr  Prf^jrttf,  nhicli  i^  ckftHy  a  nii-t«k«,  &a  I  h»ve 
8'nt>d  ftb>>ve,  6*  uthey  rjiVF,  *The  atime  ttile^orv  h<id 
of  tun  been  trtat'  d  tefort*  b  in.  Soft**  of  ihtte  way  A  ore 
Jatlrn  tu  littntfan't  vnyr  «"^  WinhJ^ti  fat  cithCepiioH. 
Vhirft  A«  iFifg  ftot  *viraif  of  mth  frjiutiitr.* 

*'  T  Clin  hardly  *«iik  you  tu  firi'l  hoom  for  f>n  Im'tr  a  loiter 
as  thi-*  without  cjipt' fBil»^f  my  th links  t'«  the  Libt^rian 
lii  •!  offici-T^  of  the  firiti-h  Museum  for  the  brip  they  §» 
nudly  and  courteously  havt;  &ifcrdi,d  me. 

"  W  J.  Sthackt. 

*^'  Buxton  Vlcarap?,  Konncb,  June  20. 1874/' 

Piii»ep»  im  '*  PiigrimV  Proirreaa  "  not  c«ipied  from  **  The 
PHgrinus»re  of  the  l?oul  '*  wi.I  h^  found  in  *'  X,  &  Q  /'  S**'' 
£J.  viii.  268»  37:^,  4M2.     See  alM>  3^  B.  viii.  46. 

"Tjiii  NortTntiMUEiLLASD  HocsM  Lioji.— Mr  Pmnk 
BtJck)ittMl,  ill  a  If  tier  to  Land  ut*U  IVufert  fKiites  tii»t, 
huppcnin)^  til  be  pai  inir  N'onhumber  aiid  B«>u»e  on 
Thiif'dny  ni*  the  li'^ti  iva«  beii'g  takm  <iowi>,  he  obtaijiiecl 
tiermiuiiiri  to  iii6|iept  it.  The  inscription  on  the  lion, 
Mr  BuckiA' d  Ba\«,  ni«  a  thus  :— '  aio  r  d  :  u  1749 
c :  If  Hkbt/  Under  this,  on  the  f^ast  Adt%  is  a  mmio^rarn 
i>f  the  letter  a  wih  an  s  tainted  into  it ;  on  Iht;  wrst 
«idt?,  the  It-tter  h  vnth  &  p,  and  hung^  i>n  to  ou*^  of  the 
«n»ail  )«f:B  below  ihi«  iii  a  cr^^sr,  %iz  .  a  1  oronct  with  live 
eynkep,  carrying  n^und  bftlla.  mil  uudnnratli  a  balf- 
tDoon  ;  on  thr?  niber  I  de  is  a  diffVrunt  puttem  of  a 
eoronet,  with  three  BCrawbf-nrT  lr«ve«  und  a  phcBn^x 
rbi  K'  from  the  flninest ;  the  ft>riiier  is  the  Karrn,  the 
la'ter  the  Ducal  corontrL  The  nira§uremctit  of  the 
litn  waa  an  foDows  :— From  lip  of  nose  to  end  *»f 
tail,  eleven  feet  it-ven  ;  tail,  four  f*et  three  ;  heiglit  Mt 
fth'MiTdfni,  five  feet  five;  round  the  Mime,  six  feet; 
vci^ht,  abiiit  one  nnd  a  hJf  ton«.  1  he  body  ie  le  id ; 
the  (ail  citppT,  There  are  three  ctiats  of  p  irnt  on  the 
titin :  ooe  La  bright  liiue,  IJe  wa<  puint«-d  blikc  in  1822 
by  the  tlit^n  clerk  of  ibe  work^.  The  iit»cripii<m  wtifl  tn^ 
terj^reted  10  Mr.  Buckkitd  a4  mcnDiog  '  Alv'crnon,  Dtike 
<>i  e^imeisiet.  174i>  (hi  d  tht)  Countess  Nortlmuibcrlnnii 
resiorod  '  Tbo  Hon  ro|ir6«eivts  the  f*iue  lion,  the  cre*t  of 
the  I'ony  family,  Karl*  of  Norihunjb^r'tmd*  The  stone 
on  wliieh  the  bon  »tood,  and  into  whiob  bis  pnwa  were 
faUc  tied  with  lonif  iron  roiis  ba  <ed  io,  rcpr^etnt*  the 
choptau  li'hortjftitr  of  the  cre*t/'— /^a//  kiuH  Oatttie. 

EoYAL  AncH^JLuorcAi.  iN^TiTtTTR.— J«/v  3.— ionl 
Tulhot  Ue  Malahidc,  Pieaidout,  iu  the  ibair.— Mr> 
<jr«  avea  reatl  *'Nute9  on  the  Ura^n^fl  on  the  Tomb  of 
KicholsB  KfjiTelon  m  Mu^ginEon  Church,  Derby-hire." 
—  Mr,  J.  H*  Pa'ktr,  C  B,,  g^xe  a  d  acourso  o  i  "  Archo*' 
*»b».ic<l  InveHiig^ititn-*  in  Kome  during  tlie  Winter  of 
187-74.*'  Till*  wii.'*  [[histruttd  by  tmnicrnusi  pTanj*, 
sketches,  and  pbi>togra|'bs.  — Mr  Bohn  exhibited  two 
poitL<<]ifi  of  frescoes  {'rt>ti}  Pompeii;  Mr.  Hiptii^lcy,  an 
anoii^  beiid  and  two  o'j  c\.^  in  lironze  ;  Mr.  GuMiniir« 
tU  roui  d- !•<  of  the  time  f-f  El  snbeth :  Mr*.  Gwilt, 
rutvbing  of  u  br  irs  in  ihc  church  of  8t.  JMhn,  Margate, — 
Mr.  Tirge  las  gains  an  out  ine  of  the  prof^sed  arrani^e- 
montfi  for  ihe  liipon  Mevtinjj;*  beg(imii*g  on  the  21et  in«t. 

PoBTft*ns  op  BiujtflficARK. — Mr  Hain  Friswbll 
writes:  "I  »ni  aliotit  to  i««>ue  a  nt'u  '  !  i  :  my  Uff. 
Piiriuiifj  uf  ShAkk*jitTt,      Ihe    fine  s  of  the 

p<utr<ita  will  he  repr<-duced  in  pcm  i  i  igrap})K, 

•rv«  ral  new  ones  being  added.  MrghC  i  a««  tiuy  4»f  vonr 
readers  nhn  have  oopieH  of  the  A!«libourne,  thr  Ketton, 
or  any  other  curious  poHraitn,  it  they  would  aid  m^  by 
letting  me  have  them  copied  I    The  greateitt  care  should 


be  taken  of  them  if  sent  to  me,  cnre  of  the  publishuflJ 
Messrs.  Sampson  1>ow«  Mar^tnn  &.  Co.|  188,  Fleet  8t] 
"  fair  Hume.  Bexky  Ho^iik" 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLUMES 

tl'A.%T£n  TO  rtJncrflASE. 
P&rtfoti1ftrft   of  Frlitc,   Ito  ,   nf  c^vry   br>ak   to   he    ««iit   4$d 
the   fh-r-itii   hr  «h"in   It    i«  Mquitttl,  «bo«t  iMtntt  ft«»d  addn 
firi^«i  f»'r  tliQi  iturpwBi'i— 

,  4L<   LiiiitT,  po  DahIlNMv    a  Scnoon  bjrL.  ( 

r  i  IfflHl, 

J  MS  of  was  vf  Ihe  Ko^eli  Mf  Vui  Lesuivp«  tke  Dfriteb 

^  maud  b^  S4immr4,  f§op>tk,  Boktmtard  Maawi 


BtiJB 


^oHrrff  to  € QtrtiponHtnti* 

pt*itn(j  ttj  CAtfwt,  ioih  /or  thtir  taixi  at  well  tu  our  Qwn-^ 

Tkttt  ihev  JthnulU  wirii*  clrarttf  and  distknrUtf — p|i4  Of! 
one  aide  of  tl  '  ' 

and  woidii  :• 

TfqU'iltd,      1 1  .  I 

rt'SfOhdettt   d<**:4  not   UkttJ^  wttrik  Un^  Ui^iukUi  0/  imfasyl 

1m.  Roy.— The  auth'ir  of  the  £l^t  Hiftfonqm  di 
At  ad  time  Eth'thtik  dr  Fttinet  w<is  M.  Per  rand.  Tba 
edition  pubbuhed  in  PariH  in  1314  waa  the  second,  The 
first  editioQ  waa  published  at  Katiabanne  fi«verftl  yoftTl 
before. 

C;  P.  S.  WAtcREK,— The  paasagie  al hides  to  the  project 
of  certain  Frtuch  reformeraof  a  generation  ago  to  divido 
society  into  phalanxes. 

N.— The  acre  varies  in  extent  in  En^rUnd,  IreTimd. 
and  ^<cot'ft^d,     121   Irish  acres  =  Kuglish,  aud  4S 

Scotch  =  61  En^ilitih. 

A.  L.  M  AYBiiW, — It  is  no  iaptvs  eatami  df  ours.  The 
line  etunds  in  Thf  Soeakrrg  Commentarif  aa  B.  8.  W,  giTca 
it;  aud  he  simply  uakd  how  it  ia  to  be  amended. 

F,  H.  O.^'*  Was  Hiinyan  a  Oip«y?  *  See  "  N.  k  Q" 
S-*^  8.  ir,  465;  t.  15.  3ia,  386;  vi.  07;  and  note  on 
Buuynn's  Paientage,  p.  25  of  present  ounibcr. 

R.  W.  P.  (BathJ.— The  London  FMtOjflce  D^rfdory 
gives  the  informatiou  with  the  exception  of  the  dales  of 
tonndation. 

B  P.  J.—TkewkoUAH  of  Tachtf^apky  :  or,  Short- 
kand  Wrdtfiff  made  Maiia,  &0.,  i*  not  considered  scarce. 

J.  B.— Tlie  subject  of  artbangeU  bse  been  discutsed  in 
"  N-  &  Q.,"  a^^  8  ix,  4t$2,  617 ;  x.  S4,  137. 

W,  — Wilbam  Curtis,  the  botanistj  naa  born  ia  ] 
and  died  in  17iJ9. 

L,  P.—**  Abraham  men.'*    See  **  N.  &  Q.,"  l**S.^ 

P .  D.— Yule  wa«  the  name  anciently  given  to  OhnttBiis. 

T.  C.  D.— Inquire  at  ihe  Lamb«th  Library. 

W.  R.  C. "We  cannot  ay. 

C.  SoTBKRAif.  -I'ou  shall  hear  1 

BiGMA,—*' Situate*  next  week* 

BwRATPM.  — Piij?c  518,  col.  2,  line  13  from  bottom,  for 
**  houjc- keeping/'  read  hoiM-keeping, 

IVOTWJi. 

Editorial  Communications  should  be  addrnsed  to  "  Tho 
Editi^pr  "—Advej  tisemente  and  Bu<^ine(ts  Lettt-ra  to  "The 
Puhlifiher  "—at  the  O0ce,  20,  Weliii.gtou  Hirc^t^  SttBnd, 
L      '       "'  a 

.ive  to  state  th:it  we  decline  to  return  i 
III  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  ptint ;  I 

to  i\n0  rule  we  can  make  no  exi'option. 

To  all  comntunioatiotip  should  be  affixed  the  name  and 
address  of  the  setid«r«  not  neoesiartly  for  publication^  but 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  f«vith» 


:4 

m,  for 

"The 
"Th© 

ttwida 


i^gigi 


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C>  R.  It.  JoLi  I«,  7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


41 


iMyooy^  SA r(mnA r,  julv  i«»  i-cj. 


CONTENTS.  — N-  29, 
*KUm"  in  CliaucftT,  41-Ji*Uli>gi  io  By-Waj-t.  4i^ 

9onam»t  ltttny«i--**TJia  FJower  ftu4  the  U»*f "— F*ttitr 
KamMe's  Rftod,  44— The  t^owagftr  Litdy  Tldiboro«— Pope's 
]lhjiii«»--Iron  Tnsf*— <Oia  Hohson'a  KplUph— The  "Umg" 
UlnUfcr^r— Bella,  4:^— MS.  Notet  in  Boolu— The  JiquoctilAii 
6Uiua  la  LeloMter  ^oara— OftpUlo  Baajsmla  bUrluj,  4tl, 


Qtrr 


r 

ll 


>t«d — lAary  i 

;:.rtrAlt  of  h: 


crIUb  ^plicopal  Seex 
'  —  Bdw«rd  Klo^  of 

^^ H 1  Thiftle—  Heraldic  - 
ir    Thcotlore  Ttirqaet  do 

<"i!il!s-."Qiil.l    hoc   »d 
Welsh 

iwlUii. 


1>iktf '  Ucun&D  CnUiulic  L^iDdcd  LieaLg',  temp.  Chiirlei  IL 

milJiiiiitc  ti.,4d, 

HEPIJXS :— *'T1ie  PilfiEim'i  Progiw," 4»-Sln8ltt  Bre-GlaMei 
—fijmm'B  *'  U^B  of  CoriDth«"  60— OruiU  of  NoblUtj  Ui 
For«kii«n.  £1—"  A  Stick  of  fieli"— Rogftrth's  **  M&rriAiio  & 
Ift  Mod*"— ftUnley  of  Btrraingbam— Robert  do  Wydif.  rtt^ 
**  BmIi  *•— •♦  Neir i J  n  '^  -  Zin  K»n  8tr««  t  —  "  BUunte, "  :>,^  -  FbI- 
«6ii^  tJip  \rttit -Cray**  '*  Elegy"^** Topn^raphia  Hibcmic*" 
of  >  i^ia— Ediranlc^  of  America— Tb«rf'C«ka, 

Ai  <  ly — Pniaciea  io  Bookj — Th«  A  lutnLllan 

i)t  .  r    Moreton  —  *'  M*ra    hLn    5^woitl  "—A 

*•  W*um  ror  AIoxaj]  ?  -^jarPort 

Tim,  A  t  of  tho  i>l.i  Uw  <il 

to««*to<t  '  i-An  Herali  i^-  — Tlie 

Abd   til"   I  logatoun  F*njily,  67  -  W'liqne— 

Fi  ;U  ad*l«U"— "8*  vomu  "Z," 


VoIot  on  Bookit  ftc 


"KIEE"  IN  CHAUCBR, 
In  Todd*a  Johnstm^i  Dictionnry^  wnder  the  word 
*'  Kick,"  we  are  told  that  Chaucer  spells  the  word 
^.-.   ._ii>:i    .1        accordingly,  under  the  same 
he  J  ly,  gives  a  4Uotation  from 

ikc  i-  ...  .->  ^  M..  >  xuU^\  6524:— 

**  T1i»t  we  n'm  kike,  for  that  he  saltb  as  doth/' 
T!  ling  can  hardly,  I  think,  have  been 

^gi*  ord  by  any  one  who  had  considered 

I  i5ait . li  I  -^^  ^:^ » iier  its  form  or  the  sense  of  the  possa^^ 
'  in  which  it  oc<;urs. 

'kick,"  with  its  short  i,  would  Bcem  to 
\  form  kikktn  in  Etirly  Englifih  ;  but  the  i 
i  lon^T  iike  the  tt  in  it#e/;» 
A«  to  the  sense  of  the  word,  I  think  it  clear  that 
'  it  has  nothing  to  do  with  kicking,  and  that  if  kick 
HO*  tttbatituted  for  kike  it  would  not  accord  with 
tkefood  wife'i*  argument. 
Here  ia  the  passage  in  full ; — 

^"  A  raanj  ihal  wynue  va  best  with  flaterye 

And  witlt  '    and  with  bisyneaae 

'  he  moore  ftod  lease 
it  we  luueu  beat 
» light  at  Ti  leitt 
ureue  v.t  M  cioro  tioe 
wiael  jitifj  no  thyug  nieo 


Ifauy\si  '  *    I  iwe  v«  on  the  «alle 

That  wu  b««  Kaith  va  sooth 

Assnyl  hiM±  u  ..J.,  ft  |j^t  SG  dooth 

ffur  be  we  nt  la  withlacie 

We  wol  been  h  :  and  clene  of  eynne.  ' 

This  is  from  the  EUegmere  MS.  The  five  other 
MBS,  publisher!  by  the  Cliauoer  Society  give  as 
follows : — 

limfrffrt.  "  That  we  nyl  likc\  for  he  seith  Vi  iooth/' 

Cafnbridffe.  ''That  wo  nolde  k^fhe  for  he  seyth  vi 
aoth/' 

C<»'ptii.  **  ^at  we  nyl  lake  or  he  fiei)i  ra  sofi."* 

PeimorUi.  ""^  )>%t  we  oj  1  /oAie  or  he  saye  vs  aoih.'* 

Zran*dowae^  "'  ji^it  we  a;l  /oi:^  or  he  (i«ls  |»t)  so^/* 

We  may  dismiss  like  from  consideration  ;  but 
though  it  may  be  a  inis- writing  either  of  Jtike  or 
loke,  and  not  a  true  reading,  I  think  it  gives 
appmximately  the  sense  of  the  piisnuge. 

Kike  (or  ktjkt)  is  evidently  the  modem  ke^ 
meaning  to  peep,  or  look,  which  is  now  used  only 
in  Northern  speech,  a  ktck  signifying  a  stolen 
glance. 

The  word  accordingly  appears  as  lokf  in  three 
MSS.  of  the  Wi/^  of  BtUk'n  Tale,  and  in  one  of 
the  MSS.  of  the  Miller"^  Tak  (L  3841):— 
EUamere,  "  In  to  the  roof  they  kiken"  .... 
Corpva^  *'  And  to  t^a  roof  Jjay  t4}ken,''  ,  .  .  , 

The  Langdowne  is  indeed  a  Northern  M8.,  and 
might  have  been  supposed  to  have  been  con  tent  with 
kike  without  trauKUting  it  into  loke ;  but  l^tkt  was 
go<Kl  Northumbrian  enough j  and  was  probably  in 
the  MS.  which  the  Northern  scribe  took  tm  \m 
original,  and  in  which  loki^  had  been  subgtituted 
by  a  scribe  to  whom  kQce  was  a  less  familiiir  word* 

Now,  as  to  the  sense  of  the  word  in  the  passage 
before  us,  what  could  the  Wyf  of  Bath  not  mean  t 
She  could  not  intend  to  say  that  tvcr^  woman 
would  *'kick"  every  man  who  would  tell  her  the 
tnitli.  That  was  a  violent  way  of  enforcing  the 
liights  of  Women  to  which  she  makes  no  preten- 
sion !  Nor  was  she  likely  to  use  the  word  **  kick  ^ 
in  an  Ln transitive  sense.  It  was  not  a  question  of 
rmjttititj  anybody  or  anything,  but  of  being  and 
looking  pleased  or  not  pJeased. 

The  sense  of  the  whole  paas«^e  seems  to  be 
rougldy  this : — 

**  Flattery  ia  what  pleases  at  all,  and  with  that  wa  are 
casieat  limed.  HoweT«r  froely  we  loa?  lire,  wo  don't 
like  bein^  told  of  it.  but  Ulie  to  hear  that  w«i  are  vrise, 
and  no  fool9  at  alL  >Vhy,  there  '•  not  a  womaa  of  at  bat« 
if  a  man  will  scratch  her  where  the  itohoa  ((»rai«s  her 
for  her  foible*.  T^^'i^taLps<i,  will  look  ely  (and  {il«'awd)j, 
because  forvf I  Let  him  try  only, 

and  ho  ahaU  i  iv  to  please.    How- 

ever bad  we  u-fiz,  v,c  h&j  i^  i.u  ui>tu^Ut  good/* 

The  "  keek/'  or  stolen  glance,  implies  a  certain 

cijj  -r-^^     '         nod  with  f'"    ■  '         and 

iti  Tale  we   i  lor 

Ui.  DttRitan  if  Bes>eDt*i  Park, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES^  ^^s?nl^vtWmf 


JOTTINGS  IN  BYE  WAYS. 

V,  GEORGE  PUTTEN ham's  DEFENCE  OP  QUEEH 
ELIZABETH, 

Harieian  MS,,  831,  is  a  scribe's  copy,  probably 
of  the  time  of  James  I-,  very  clearly  written,  on  | 
exceedingly  good    folio    paper,  and  within    red 
miirginal   lines,  outride  of  which  ure  occasional 
pyn optical  headings.     Its  lengthy  title  in — 

"An  Apologie  or  |  true  defense  of  ber  ^W*  hono'^  [  aud 
good  ronowne  iigamst  all  such  |  a^  h&iic  undiiolie  sought 
or- 1  shall  leek  to  blemkh  the  i^amc,  ]  with  any  miustice, 
crQeltie,  or  |  other  unorincely  behaviour  I  in  any  parte 
of  her  Ma"  |  proceeatnga  againet  the  |  lai«  8<^tiflh 
Qneeiie,  |  Be  it  for  her  first  Ftirpriace,  impriion-  ]  meut, 
process,  att-  1  aynder  or  death.' 

**  By  very  flrme  rcaaons,  auihoritiej,  k  \  examples, 
provcing  that  her  Ma  *"  hath  |  done  nothing  in  the  said 
action  a-  j  gamst  the  nilea  of  hono'^  or  amie«  I  or  other- 
wise, not  warrantable  [  by  the  law  of  God  k  of  (  Man." 

''Written  by  George  Puttenfaam  lo  the  j  seruice  of 
her  >Ia"*  Je  for  Urge  aatia-  1  faction  of  all  such  p'aons 
both  prince:  j  ly  &  private,  who  by  ignorance  |  of  the 
ca»e,  or  pariiBllitie  of  mind  |  i^hall  happen  to  be  irre- 
solute I  &  not  well  satisfyed  in  the  ]  said  cause:/** 

This  political  tract  hna  been  taken  aa  a  proof 
that  George  Puttenbam  wan  the  author  of  The 
Arte  of  Engluh  Pouit ;  but  whether  it  be  a  proof 
or  disproof  of  this,  it  was^in  i*ccon:Jance  with  the 
words,  **  to  the  seniice  of  her  Ma*^^  "—evidently 
written  untler  authority,  and  aa  evidently,  accord- 
ing to  the  French  plimse,  insj>ired.  Hence,  and 
«a  it  has  not  to  my  knowledge  been  printed,  I 
thought  that  its  vei'siori  of  the  Queen's  intents  in 
signing  Mary's  death  warrant,  and  delivering  it  to 
her  secretary ,  might  be  acceptable  to  the  readers 
of  "  N.  &  Q." 

Yet  may  it  be  truely  said  k  swome 
in  her  behntf  and  ought  to  be  be- 
leived,  that  her  ma*"  never  abso- 
lutely determined  her  plea«tre  in  it, 
more  then  by  aiibsignation  of  the  said 
Trarrant  in  ^etj^all  terraea  w"'out 
UmiCation  of  any  time  in  w'*"  the  feato 
ahoald  he  accompliahed^  and  more  then  the  deliu'y  of  the 
same  to  her  secretary  to  be  kept  In  a  readjness  k  not  to 
take  place  before  her  mn*'  Terrall  comandcm*  giuen  for 
Ttttificatio[nJ  and  dispntch  of  y'  same,  nor  indeed  that 
her  heart  could  euer  be  brought  to  like  well  of  that 
course  of  Jatiice/  nor  by  any  open  speeches  gaue  her 
consent  to  the  deed/  nor  p'aduenture  truer  intended  to 
haue  donoj,  though  for  some  respects  the  same  ivarr'  was 
Huffred  to  pass  fru  her,  to  the  intent  onely  oi  her  Ma'^' 
hath  been  heard  oftentimes  to  say  k  earnest! ie  to  p'tesi 
that  the  notice  of  it  to  her  prioy  couosell  should  satisfy 
them  and  her  nobilitie  for  her  steadfast  p'eenerance  in 
that  purpose  and  determination,  w***  they  had  with  so 
great  instance  pressed  her  unto,  and  that  the  gcn'all 
publication  thereof  w"''  her  Ma^*  was  not  unwilling 
shotild  be  made  and  brute d  abroad,  might  be  a  terror  to 
all  her  enemies,  and  an  expedient  meane  to  interrupt 
and  repress  ail  further  dangerous  attempts  w'^  might  he 
wrought  against  her  mat^*  by  the  tud  Scottish  Queenei 
favourers  in  hope  of  her  longer  life  and  aurrivour :  by 
her  Ma**  ouer  roach  lenity  and  patience,  the  heat  of 
her  Mn^*  indignation  as  it  might  be  conceaued  vt'^  hef 


'*The  declaration 
of  her  Ma"  intent 
in  signing  [y']  de- 
livery of  her  warr* 
for  the  Sk:  Qt 
txecution 


long  sufferance  by  litle  k  litTe  cooleing  and  declineing  tc» 
a  furgetfollncds  of  a  just  reTenge,[.l  For  cleareing  i' 
m'^  suspicion  it  pleased  her  Ma*'"  to  condiscend  to  th 
subscription  k  deliuerie  of  her  warrant  and  not  in  trold 
that  the  same  should  be  put  in  execution,  but  by  ha 
further  sdvice  and  privitio,  and  p*chance  not  w^'out  aonJ 
other  now  causes  of  danger  enforceiag  to  let  it  be  aceon 
plisbed.  And  so  being  otherwise  used  then  wua  ber  Ma 
meaueing,  it  could  not  for  all  that—seeme  to  deserue  ai 
blame  or  more  to  any  discredit  of  her  Ma"  privic  Cou 

J  cell,  who  receiving  the  same  warraj 
by  the  hands  of  her  Secrctarie  w*'*oa 
privie  Councell  I  any  such  notice  or  caution,  did  w^''  all 
blameless  in  the  \  dllligence  csufo  it  to  be  dispatcht  for 
matter  {  her  Ma**  finall  security,  whereas  if 

I  they  shoidd  haue  used  delay  by  de- 
tracting of  time^and  any  euill  consequence  had  happened 
the  mean  while,  their  loyalty  might  haue  been  called  in 
inestion  very  detfply:/ 

[  Now  neu'theles  how  good  a  sei 
h«r  Ma*»  grief        |  so  euer  it  Ije  likely  to  prove  both 
whythcwarr^wu^    her  self  k  the  realmc,  as  all  1 
exec u ted  so  |  fai  th  full  subjects,  &  wel  1  w  i  <  I ers  veril 

speedily  w'^out         trusty  yet  was  it  1)cyond  all  mi 
her  further  1  offensive  to  ber  Ma"'  to  baue 

advice  I  speeches  k  intent  so  much  by 

I  secretary  mistaken,  and  (as  sbee  a 
ceivoth  it)  to  be  so  spitefully  prcucnted  of  two  notn 
purposes  w^^  shec  htid  w"'  her  self  long  before,  bol 
rertuousty  and  prudently  determined.  One  way 
Ridering  now  by  the  said  Ladies  attaynd'  and  judge i 
finiaht  and  consumate  in  open  p'liam*  she  had  noi 
power  to  make  her  own  peace  and  safety,  so  as  if  sha 
found  it  by  any  litle  debiV  to  ensue  ^hc  might  make  her 
mercy  most  glorious.,  if  efiee  found  it  not  likely,  that  yet 
she  might  ti»e  her  advantsge  at  eu'y  howra  both  w"* 
bono''  and  good  conscience.  Then  agmn  by  spare  in  g  the 
feat  some  convenient  tyme  that  shce  should  not  a  liti"~ 
gratitie  many  forrayn  princes  Ler  go<jd  neiglibo' 
Frkuds  who  had  been  earnest  suito^*  for  the  said  Laii 
Life,  and  in  that  sort  haue  temp'ed  their  stomaciks  iti 
coroodiously,  k  re  leaned  them  in  uery  good  amity 
opinion  by  expectation  of  her  Ma'"  better  favo'^  to 
obtained  in  time,  giueiftg  the  ?aid  Princes  by  her  ni\ 
curteouB  k  gracious  dealcing  both  Leisure  k  also  g( 
cause  to  search  out  any  betor  security  for  her  Ma"'  if 
had  been  before  time  cither  offred  or  devised-  For  u^ 
the  uttonuost  pinch  of  extremity  her  Ma"*  was  right  w( 
assured  thut  all  y'  best  offers  in  any  match  be  comoi 
made  ^^  not  before-  so  as  if  upon  any  such  imaginati 
her  Ma*^**  taid  accretary  supposing  p'oduenturc  that  he 
saw  further  into  her  dangers  than  her  self  did,  or  then 
ber  heart  falwaics  replcniiihcd,  with  princely  to 
nanimity)  would  easily  he  made  a  fraid  of  and  thercK 
litle  more  then  became  him  mistrusting  sonic  routabilil  _ 
of  her  m*ntl,  would  secme  to  conceale  from  her  privy 
Councell  the  verity  of  his  verbal  1  comission  rcceiued  at 
y  delivery  of  the  said  wairarU  t»  his  kecpeing.  it  was  no 
doubt  a  great  ou'^ight  in  him  and  in  her  Ma^''  and  privie 
councell  none  at  all.    vea  whosoeucr  should  be   of  y* 

I  mind  to  think  it  a  fault  to  be  some* 
mutabillity  |  what  relenting  and  as  it  were  irre- 

toward  mercy  no  |  solute  (in  the  things  onely  that  tea 
fault  in  a  prince    |  to  mercy  k  forgiueoes  *)  it  may  ven ' 

I  be  reputed  a  princely  default, 
such  as  giueth  her  Ma'^*  great  hono'Jk  no  reproach,  s 
a  p'tc  besides  in  her  regaU  nature,  as  her  Ma'^"  ia  i 

*  B.  Chettle,  in  bis  England's  Mourning  Oa\ 
writing  after  the  death  of  Elisabeth,  gives  her  ilmi 
praise  for  her  merciful  disposition,  erring  on  the  side 
mercy. 


ben 


^&IL  JoiTlS,7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


43 


I  po<«d  b^rdJj  able  to  reform e  in  her 

Iftir  Ma"'  ill  »b!o  |  ielf  or  cuer  wilbe  during  her  Life. 

to  w'SUnd  y*  pita-  i  And  tbta  tbat  linth  been  »aid  of  her 

floa  of  merej.        |  Mvk*'  iatent  may  rery  well  be  bekivcd 

I  and  seemc  notbinj^untikcly  to  lucb  as 

know  Ik,  he  well  acquainted  w"'  hertfrucioujt  goinddisposi- 

tioiii  Mid  bow  iinde«erTedly  iibcc  hath  nlwftief  been  enured 

w**  the  gretkt  ingratitude  of  the  world,  aud  the  jswecteat 

buth  iiNo  taitvd  the  bitterest  p'te§of  Furtuue,  that  being 

now  longftioce  become  oMunitc  k  eencctes  as  it 

I  ftdrersity.  yea  ao  little  joying  in  the  transitory 

.  L.._-.  uf  tbija  world  or  glory  of  her  crown,  she  hath  l>ecii 

heard  ofcentimes  saye  she  had  resolued  w'**  her  self  rather 

to  hazard  her  p'*on  and  state  to  the 

bcr   Mm,*'   resola-     utmost  danger  w'''  p'rer^e  Fortune  or 

tioQ  k  upon  wbfct    the  malice  of  the  said  Lcidio  could 

•c*  work  ber  y*  residue  of  her  time,  t^ien 

to  bereaue  ber  that  poor  life  of  hers 

tlM  bad  so  many  yeares  taken  paynes  to  p'serue  from) 

other  meni  aitaulti,  and  took  it  for  no  Hile  comfort  Ac 

jctory  to  to  bauc  done.     And  tliis  intent  of  her  Ma"*  was 

tKjt  to  dose  or  secret,  but  that  manyubout  berhaue  been 

made  nrqunitited  w**"  it  hr  her  own  re^ll  mouth.     And 

if  it  were  olherwijie  k  coutd  not  be  witnesied  at  all  (w*^"* 

^^ht  reasoniiblte  haue  happened  in  so  weighty  a  case, 

^ttot  can  worke  ber  Ma' *  any  poynt  of  prejudice  whether 

'  it  be  Gonfest  or  denyed)  ik  were  suffi- 

I  That    her     Ma"'    cient  to  bu  by  ber  Ma'*  own  solemne 

<><qght  to    he  be-     p'testation  made  in  the  fear  of  God, 

lerved      lonehinf^    and  in  all  truth,  princely  honor,  and 

her      intent      k    integritie  auerred,  and  ought  right 

wherefore  well  to  a«tisSe  euery  p  ticular  p'son 

remaineing  ignorant  or  unsatisfied  of 

laer  Ma**  fucb  intent/' 

.  Brinsley  Nicholson. 


A  POEM,  BY  MISS  CATHERINE  FANSHAWE. 
PaiMTiri  yoR  PaivaiB  Cihcclatiok. 

Th«»  poem  (5'«»S,  i,  364)  by  W.  M.  Pmcd,  in  tbo 
ilA&za  of  which  "  Harver  "  la  erroneously 
for  **  Cobbett,''  eug^e^ted  the  follow iog  jcu 
']  br  MiM  Catherine  Fanabawe,  authoress  of 
ih  on  "  The  Letter  H/*  so  long  attributed 
Byron.  As  the  veraes  have  never  been 
utitislieilf  pcrhnpK  the  editor  will  allow  them  a 
.  in  •*  N,  &  Q.  ~ 

••  SrUKCH   OF  THK   MeUBEF.   FOR   OdIUH. 

••  *  Sleep,  Mr.  Speaker,  Cubbett  will  soon 
More  to  abmish  the  Sun  and  Moon  !* 
*  Btansas  to  the  Speaker  A«leep/ 

Morning  Foil,  March,  1S3S. 
*Kr.  C— b — t  a«k'd  Icrte  to  bring  in  Tery  ioon 
"  *1U1  to  abollBh  the  Sun  and  the  Moon. 
I  Bouonrab'e  Member  pr^cetded  to  atate 
p  arTTtmeTit^  n^'d  in  n  former  dehate. 

res.  Taxes,  Vcxaftonfi, 
T'  i  Old  Corpomiiong;— 

Tlj.    ^,^-.^,--_.  1 ,  ,  ..t.ii  those  upon  Earthy 

Had,  he  laid,  been  corrupt  from  the  duy  of  their  birth, 

With  irekleiB  profusion  expending  their  li^ht, 

Onaafitr  another,  by  day  and  by  itiKhL 

And  what  diuses  enjoy "d  it  I    The  Upper  alone— 

I7p«>n  jtti.b  tUcir  lind  alwayi  exclunrcly  thone ; 

Bti'  ever  cmittt-d  aBjiftrk, 

JTc  r  toil  umicrground  in  the  darkf 

Tlw  rff-iH*?  *«T  t.ugiand— the  Mincriand  Borers, 

Of  Atftb^a  hidden  treasuret  the  «kilful  explortrrs. 


Who  furnish,  by  grubbing  beneath  like  the  mole, 

All  the  Iron  und  Copper,  the  Tin  and  the  Coab 

But  their  minds  were  enlightening ;  they  leam*d  cir'ry 

hour 
Tliat  dbeufcftton  ie  knowledge,  and  knowledge  u  power. 
Long  humbled  and  crufih*dj  tike  a  Giant  they  'd  riiOi 
And  Dweep  off  the  cohweba  that  darken  the  ^krei ;  * 
To  Sun^lune  and  MoonBhine  their  duties  assign, 
And  claim  enual  rights  for  the  Monntain  and  Mine, 
Turn  to  other  departments— High  time  to  Inquire 
What  (ibuaei  exiflt  tn  Air,  Water,  and  Fire, 
— Why  keep  up  Volcanoes?  that  idle  display. 
That  Pageant,  waf  all  mighty  well  in  ita  d»y. 
But  the  reign  of  Utility  now  bad  cominenc*d, 
And  WiBdom  with  such  exhibitions  dispeni'd. 
When  »o  many  were  atarifing  with  coM,  it  was  cruel 
To  make  inch  a  watte  of  gQc^d  fire  und  fyel. 

As  for  Nature— how  little  experience  had  taught  her 
Appeared  in  the  adtntntstration  of  wnter 
Was  Bo  noble  a  Ca^iital  duly  employ 'd. 
Or  Wft«  it  t»7  few  (if  by  any)  enjoy 'd1 
Ponr'don  marahesand  fens^  which  were  better  without, 
While  paiture  and  arable  pcriflh'd  for  drought. 
When  flagrant  injuttice  bo  often  o«€ur«, 
Abler  handa  must  be  wanted,  and  purer^  than  bersu 
Not  to  Bpeak  of  old  Ocean's  intatiable  needi. 
Or  of  Sca«  so  ill-plough'd  they  bear  nothing  but  wced«. 
—  At  Bonie  future  day  he  perhaps  Bhottld  be  able 
To  lay  tlie  details  of  their  cost  on  the  T<iblo  ; 
At  present,  no  longer  the  Home  to  delaint 
He  ^d  confine  hiB  remarks  to  the  subject  of  Rain. 
Wa*  it  wanted 7— A  more  economical  plan. 
More  equally  working,  more  ueeful  to  man. 
In  this  age  of  improtcraent  might  surely  bo  found. 
By  which  all  would  be  sprinkled,  and  none  would  Ik: 

drown'd. 
He  would  boldly  appeal  to  the  Nation'i  good  senBe| 
Kot  to  sanction  this  useless^  enormous  expense. 
If  tho  Wind  did  but  Hhift,— if  aCload  did  but  lower,^ 
What  millions  of  Kaindrops  were  spent  in  a  Shower  ! 
Let  them  burst  through  the  Bbackles  of  wind  and  of 

weather^, 
Do  away  with  the  office  of  Rain  altogether. 
Let  the  whole  be  remodelled  on  [trinctples  new^ 
And  consolidate  half  the  old  Funds  into  Dfte. 
Less  than  half  was  sttJficient ;  the  surplus  applied 
To  Ste:am  and  Canals,  would  for  Commerce  proride. 
What  on  Earth  could  be  wanted  that  Dew  would  not 

gi«1 
Bafreshment  and  food  for  all  creatures  that  Uve, 
Just  moisture  enough  to  promote  regetation. 
And  supply  the  demands  of  this  Tiist  population  ; 
For  warmth  would  consummate  whnt  Dew  had  begun, 
When  Olonds  would  no  tonijser  offuacate  the  8un. 

Ho  hop*d  that  the  House  a  few  minutes  would  spare 
While  he  ofTer'd  Bome  brief  observations  on  A%r. 
To  plain  statements  he  mu$t  their  attention  be«>eech, 
For  be  never  had  yet  in  his  life  made  a  speech. 
Air  caird  for  his  censure,  nor  should  it  escape, 
Tho*  skill'd  to  elude  any  tangible  shai«. 
Not  the  Sun,  nor  the  Moon,  nor  Earth,  Water,  or 
Pire, 
Not*  Tories  themsekes  when  with  TVliigi  they  conspire  ; 
Nor  Churchmen,  nor  Statesmen,  nor  Placemen,  nor 

Peers, 
Nor  the  Emperor  Paul,  nor  the  Dey  of  Algiers, 
Were  half  so  unjust,  so  despotic,  so  bUnd* 


**  Old  Woman,  Old  Woman,  whither  bo  high  ! 
To  sweep  the  Cobwebs  off  the  Sky, 
And  I  will  be  with  you  agiiin  by  and  bye.*' 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


[5**S.lLJiri.tl8,74 


So  6f%f  to  the  cric«  and  the  claitnii  of  mankind, 
An  Air  »iid  hf*  vrJckrd  Prime  M^n^^tc^,  Wind— 
Goet  forth  the  Despoiler— coTi^ummi?  the  rfttiuiif, 
I)e!«iirnM  for  the  hmga  of  uu '  utions. 

Whf  t  a  vMtc  ot  the  Elcmci  t  itorra  ! 

At.il  ftU  thiB  <^arried  en  in  tl  Keform  ! 

Hnil,  Li([htniiMr»  and  Thunder  in  Vulkys  and  Peals, 
The  TropicB  are  trctiibling,  the  Universe  reels  ! 
Ocrtre  Whirlwind  and  Hurricane,  Tcnipcsta.  Toraadoea, 
Woe,  woe  to  Antigua,  Jamaioo,  Barbodoes  t 
rianUtiofii  uprooted,  and  Sugar  dUsolvM, 
Rum,  Coffee,  an^l  Spice,  \u  one  ruin  iutoWU 
And  while  the  Caribbee*  were  ruin'd  and  rilled, 
Not>  breete  reach'd  Guiana,  and  England  waa  itifled* 
The  quality  bad,  and  the  quiintity  bare, 
Our  Liff  's  ppf nt  in  taking  or  changing  the  Air ! 

Bate  all  that  exists  at  its  pmctical  worth. 
'Twaa  a  •yitem  of  Humbug  from  HcaTcn  to  Earth  ! 

Tbese  abuses  routi  ceaee — they  had  loxtrd  too  lorifTi 
Was  there  anything  right  f— was  not  eTerything  wrong  1 
The  Crown  wa»  too  cortly,  the  Church  wa«  a  ctirac  ; 
Old  Parlinmentfl  bad,  Reform'd  ParliamcuU  worw» 
All  rcTenu^B  iil-mDnng'd,  all  wants  ill-provided. 
EqunliiT,  Liberty,  Justice,  derided— 
But  the  People  of  England  no  more  would  endure 
Any  remedy  short  of  a  Ra4ioal  Cure. 
Ififitmrted,  united,  a  Nation  *if  Sages 
Would  look  with  contempt  on  the  vi»dom  of  agee^ 
Provide  ft-r  the  world  a  more  just  Legislature, 
Aiid  impose  ao  Agrarian  Law  upon  Nature." 

W.  M.  M. 


Macaulat  :  Spenser  :  BinfYAK. — 
**One  unpardonable  fault,  the  fault  of  fedionsneWj 
perradee  the  whole  of  the  Faery  Queen,  We  become 
gick  of  cardinal  Yirtuea  and  deadly  ei^^  and  long  for  the 
fociery  of  plain  men  and  women.  Of  the  personi  who 
rciid  the  first  canto,  not  one  in  ten  reaches  the  end  of  the 
first  book,  and  not  one  in  a  hundred  perseverea  to  the 
end  of  the  poem.  Very  few  and  Tcry  weary  are  tboae 
who  are  in  at  the  death' of  the  Blatant  Beaut.** — Lord 
Macaulay,  Eituyt,  **  Buoyan,"' 

When  I  flnt  took  tip  The  Faery  Queen,  I  read 
it,  to  the  excluBton  of  all  otber  books,  from  be- 
ginnin*?  (^  onH  and  within  six  months  I  had  read 
it  thr*  "1,  loving  the  poetry,  and  wholly 

inatt-er:  hf>  alleg^ory.     But  I  was  not  "  in  at 

the  denfh  of  the  Bktant  Beaat*'    The  last  thftt  I 
re^l  of  him  was — 

"  So  now  he  mnireth  throujth  the  world  agaio^ 
Ard  r«?eth  •ore  in  each  degree  and  state  t 
N*:  .  him  now  re«trjtin, 

F  at  and  itrf«nK  of  late, 

Bin     ^ 1  11  t but  htm  ♦lo  hate, 

A I  be  they  w<  I  r  ir  clear  of  crime  ir 

Ke  opareth  h*  o(\  wit*  to  rale» 

No  Bf  anrth  he  ihe  ^'cnue  poet'a  rime. 
But  retida  without  regard  oi  person  or  of  time.*' 

Ftitry  Qm«n,  bk«  vt,  c.  xlL  •.  40. 
I  iiiti  '  d  to  riccept  Macfliilny  a«  a  fi^ide 

tf>  r<"  I     iry.     In  hifl  essay  on  Milton  he 

aji ; — 

♦  W  itffficlT  r-ntild  we  enter  into  a  detailed  eiaminatinn 
<-  ^'Oi^m,  the  Paradise  Repatntd,vih%cht 

h  -.^  ecarcely  erer  mentioned  e accept  aa  an 

u  u..      iudneM  of  that  parental  affection  which 

Tn*n  of  Icttem  b'ar  townrda  fbe  rfftnrinp  of  their  in- 
tclleote.    Tbat  Milton  was  mlitaken  in  preferring  (hia 


workt  exrctlrnt  ss  tt  it*  to  the  l^arndUn  Lmt,  we  t»rj« 
readily  admit     But  we  are  rure  tbut  tlic  superiority  < 
the  Paradtfiii  Lo»t  to  the  Parudhe  liri/tttutd  i?  not  mor4 
decided  than  the  Koptrrority  of  the  /  <        '       "' 
to  every  poem  which  hni  since  niiidc  it 

And  this  wua  written  in  1&25  !       1'*;.  ujrtvi: 
Garriik  Club* 

"Tafi  Flowkr  AKD  THE  Leaf/*— In  < ' 

formerly,  though  wronj^ly,  attributed  tf 

is  a  passage  which  br'  '.tie  it«  date : — 

•'  Bke  there  be  kn  f  the  partof 

That  t/t  Aer  tirui  ....    ..^:.i  worthily.*' 

L-  520»  Fh'Wtr  and  LtaJ^  Aldine  ed.,  ir.  104. 
Thjit  is,  in  thtir  tinu^  these  knights  of  old  dii 
right  worthily  long  duys  agone,  loDg  before  thj 
irentle  lady  told  their  famous  story  in  the  bower  1 
But,  at  the  date  of  our  legend ^  eadi  old  knight's 

"  bone^  are  dtist, 
And  hia  good  sword  ruat ; 
Eia  aaul  is  with  the  eainta^  I  tmat.** 
"  Knighles  old  * '  must  mean  time-honoured  ] 
of  the  garter,"  or  "  knights  of  the  time-ho 
institution  of  the  garter,"  but  not  "  aged  kni^ 
for  the  chief  of  the  original  knights  (whOi^ 
have  been  referred  to  if  the  poem  waa 
about  1476),  the  Black  Prince,  died  before  he  vrt 
t\  "  knight  old  "  ;  neither  he  nor  his  fellows  U,  '/J 
Sir  W.  Manny)  were  (by  being  **lrni^ht^fi  old 
incapacitated  from  doing  "  right  worthily/*    Btl 
it  is  plain  that  this  line  can  only  me>an,  *'  th<ff 
were  also  those  knights  of  old  of  the  garter^  ' 
fathers  of  the  order,  who,  in  their  time,  in  i ' 
of  King  Edward   of  famous  memory,  per 
braTe  deeds  in  France  and  Scotland.** 

Cleiirly,    "  old  "     refers     to    the     compamtiv 
antiquity  of  tl  '       of  the  Garter 

cording  to  TA?  ffvme)  it  was  *  ll 

in  i34JJ  ;  accor'iirv^  in  >ir  John  Froiasari  ^\i>i.   i.| 
p.   125,  ed.  Johnea,  1839),  about    1344    (John 
gives  a  list  of  the  original  knights). 

If  Chancer  (or  any  one  else)  wrote  The  Fh 
and  the  Ltaf  about  1374,  i.  <f,,  thirty  years  aft^ 
the  "  knightes  old  "  had  been  made  an  onler,  id 
what  sense  could  he  have  meant  these  lines  to  havf 
been  understood  ?  In  none,  for  they  would  hav 
had  none  !  So  we  must  either  condemn  |x>or  olci 
Ueoflrey  as  having  written  nonstiuc  (the  knightJ 
eoter,  be  it  remarked,  with  the  "  Bouze  Paif»| 
and  Arthurian  knights  !)»  or,  less  improbabljn 
dude  that  this  poem  wha  written  about  a  hu 
years  after  the  time  of  the  knighta  old,  wheii^ 
the  doers  and  the  deeds  were  reiisonably  iintiq 

Harold  LrrrLKDAfS 

Father  Kemblets  HA?rD.— To  **  N.  &  O/*  th^f- 
have  been  many  contributions  regarding  tk«^  han« 
of  Father  AjTowMiiith,  who  wa«  executed  in  Mm 
chestej  in  the  reign  of  Que(?n  Eliwibeth,  aod  of  til 
cures  performed   by  it  to  thi^  Hay.      fn  a  ' 
called    7'  '  *  , 


i^lLU.J«ul8,7«.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


45 


Kerablcs^':— 

liT^Hi.  liiiclt  tjf  tUti  present  Ur.  Jolin  KembTe  vtm 

Priect.  in  ihc  reifr^i  of  CharloA  the  Vint.  lUi 

I  "'    re  tiled  fttiil  bnngtid.     The  place 

%  is  na*w  a  race-uround,  mul  wtks 

i>  ,  .  .  Uia  hiu\d  woji  cut  off,  itnd 

r.  i'l^etuiirt  K,  A  rcupeotibiQ  Romftn  CaihoUCf 

TtiiW  of  the  town,  iwid  ti  c¥eti  in  these  e»i- 

dujj  emplojed  .  ,  .  .  to  touoh  wenff,  lores,  Jtc. 

. .  hope   tbAl  H  poflHSfeWt  Hupematunii 


Bl  no  Life  of  the  ^ijeai  John  Kemble  that  I  huve 
Men  have  I  met  this  jmecdote.    Where  ia  itm  hmxd 
Father  Keinble  now  \ 

>liiCRicE  LsNtaAjr,  M.R.LA. 

;  DowACiEE  Lady  TicHBORWis,— Scmie  time 
k^  i'  Sir  Alfred  IHchbome^  hut  before 

ir  OrtoQ  ckimiog  to  be  Sir  Roger 
De  litui  exotted  any  mtere^li  a  «a]e  took 
^  n  lo(  of  miscellADeoua  ellectfi  at  TicbborDe 
wh  ich  wero  leTcni  reUgiovM  hooka, 
•  FrcDch  Jangiiage»  manj  of  thctn 
uiy   itchbome's  autograph  and   mujr^noJ 
Soiae  of  the^o  book«  were  descriptive  of 
rine  of  the   Virgin  of  Lourdoa  and  other 
I  pUgrimage  ptao^^f,  and  tho  ootids  in  Lady 
Eio'a  writing  pbiinly  showed  how  she  ex- 
i  niinKulous  iuteriwsition  of  the  Viiyin  in 
lint  of   her  )K)D.     The  books  in  qtaeslion 
I  parehiifed  by  the  propnetor  of  an  old  book- 
High    Street,   Porturiiouth^  opposite   the 
» to  C^uii bridge  B:u-r.ick8^  but  were  esteemed 

v;diie  and  sold  for  :i  few  pence  each.     1 

dlxf^TK  iber  the  notes  on  tho  Shrine  of  the 

Vii^w  '.:»  us  i^Lriking  ine  at  the  Ume  as 

iwn  T^sskAikMhie^  ei^|>eciully  in  oonnexioa  with  the 
Viu-lciioirii  events  tlmt  followed.  The  books  in 
^ttHion  1  fear  h^ve  beeo  loof  dispeivai  and  lost. 


p€irm*B  Rhihum.— To  looking  throogb  Pope's 
Stmjf  and  Satires,  I  hiive  been  ft  truck  with  the 
miBuer  of  rby  tnes  that,  to  our  earv,  seem  cKsentiiilly 
^ttltj,  I  uuftp^ct  that  be  often  made  his  rhymes! 
ptif|Knrljr  iniu^nnito,  for  varicty'a  ?Ak<?.  If  not. 
tfti|ltwitimciaii(in  of  many  worda  mn^t  have  greatly 
<iM|gefl  sbce  his  days.  In  two  instances  the 
illiBBiioe  hi  strangely  remarkable  (Em.  M.,  Ep.  i. 

♦•TWrt  Ihjit  and  rea-on.  Tkhat  a  nrco  barrfer; 
Pur  «iP«r  iBpante,  yet  fi»r  erer  near !  ** 
(Jf^wwl  BumfM,  Ep,  ii.  I  111)  :— 
'T1i«^litT  Anodjne,  and  n'ghtly  Dnuiiht, 
1V»  Ipdl  llaaw  fo«i  to  fair  ouot^  Time  tkoA  Thouerht.** 

&  T.  9 

kTMxbs.     '^  ■  ■-  -1  aloe  or  agavr,  palnte<i 
aa  acl^  :  suooeaa.     Bttch  pdantf^ 


dullest  and  most  prosaic  of  hotel*,  and  it  has 
occurred  to  me  that  the  idea  might  be  usefuUy 
developed  in  rows  of  iron  fan  paJma  (Palmyra),  and 
other  suitftble  trees  for  the  purpose,  on  those  snn- 
etrickcn  promenades  at  favourite  wutering-plaoe«. 
where  the  natural  tree  refuses  to  ^ow  ;  as,  for 
instance,  at  Brighton.  From  one  giX>d  model, 
avenucH  of  such  trees  might  bo  produced  tit  HtUe 
cmty  and  if  manufactured  carGl\iily«  with  i^  good 
effecL  a 

"Old  Hobson's  Epitaph.** —  ^ 

**  Here  Rolinon  lies  among  his  insny  betterv. 
Alii  '     ~C'd,  yet  a  man  of  Letters; 

LI  i  LS  well  known*  oft  bath  he  gona 

In  I  vvix-t  father  and  tho  fon  : 

Tiict«  'n  UVM  ill  Camhridgt^  to  his  pruiso  belt  spoksa^ 
Kui  may  remember  hiniby  eonie  good  Token* 
Fr«>iii  ub«(]ce  he  rtd  to  LoudoH  day  by  day. 
Till  <lcatb  beiiighting  him,  he  lost  bis  w»y : 
Hia  Team  wns  of  the  hett.  nor  would  h©  haw 
Been  mir'd  in  aay  vmy  but  in  tho  grave. 
Nor  ia't  a  wonder  thtit  he  thiut  it  goOf 
Since  all  men  know,  he  long  wa^  dmivingoo. 
lima  rest  in  pence  thou  everlasting  Swain, 
And  Suprcun  Waggoner,  next  Charla  hia  wain.* 

The  above  is  Epitjiph  Ko.  149  in  Witt's  E<€rta- 
tiont!  (or  Bccrmtion,  for  Ingtnious  Htad-Picets)^ 
1667.  The  same  book  contains  four  other  hii- 
QiorouB  epitaphs  on  tlie  carrier  (Koe.  63-6). 

J.  E,  Baiu&t. 

The  "Brao  •*  Mr?fisTRY, — In  turning  o^^r  the 
leaves  of  an  old  Election  ScrA|>-Book,  I  h;iv<?  found 
the  following,  which  will  prolnibly  be  new  to  moift 
people  :— 

'*  The  T^Iinintrj  which  was  formerly  called  the  Caha^ 
received  its  name  from  tho  initials  m  ita  leading  menft* 
ber«  forming  that  word :  and  it  w  a  fsct  no  lees  ilnimlar 
than  true  thut  the  initials  of  the  lesding  members  of  the 
preeeot  admiaisiratiori— 

B  roughani, 

EusscJl, 

A  Ithorp, 

Gi-ey, 
form  the  appropriate  word  Brag  t    By  traxuposmg  the 
urraii(;emetit  they  make   Garb  I  and  by  another  trsns- 
peaitton,  Qrah  /" 

The  writer  then  goe«  on  to  prove,  or  attetapi^to 
prove,  the  Utness  of  the  name  to  the  ministry  of 
1831 ;  but  with  his  arguments  I  will  not  tromUc 
yon.  The  name  of  the  newsDamtr  from  which  ih« 
[Mkragmph  is  cut  is  not  recoraed.  A.  R. 

CroeiwyUtt,  Oswestry. 

Bells.— The  bells  of  St.  Martin's,  Bpaom,  bear 
th**  following  imcriptions  :~ 

1.  Tbomns  Jnjiaway,  of  Cbebcik,  fecit  1781,  Muika  ««t 
mentis  nvedicinii. 

2.  Although  I  am  bat  tmidl,  I  will  be  heard  above  ibcm 
nlL 

$.  John  Siiirt  ^wA  John  Carter,  Cluiinslmar^us,  lf8l« 

I.  Jubn  l^hclps  Buuie  me,  1714. 

U.  hhuu 

«'.  Thotniui  Swaine  made  me,  1700L     Jolm  WMfbM 


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l^B,tLJttrn,*H, 


7.  Rifrliurd  Pliclps  tnmle  me,  173S.  Williiioi  Hoftre  and 
JoflhuiL  C)ti«ntiJilatu»  Cliurcbvirairilciia. 

8.  St  mud  Knij^ht  made  mo. 

In  tho  Beventh  yeur  of  Edward  VI.  there  were 
only  four  bells  *'  roruEiining  iii  their  (the  church- 
wardcDs*)  charge  to  the  kinoes  iise/' 

Gbo.  White. 

St.  BriaTel*8,  Epaom. 

MS.  Notes  in  Books.— L  In  Buhop  Buniei's 

Uutory  af  His  (htm  Time,  folio  edition,  vol  i., 

|i724  ;  vol.  iL,   1734  ;  immediately  following  the 

rtitle-|)agi©  in  vol.  u  is  thia  *'  Advert Laeni en t  to  the 

Eeader":— 

"  The  Editoni  of  the  following  Ilbtorj  int«Dd,  for  the 

.  fi&tisfaction  of  the  FubHck,  to  dep^osite  tbe  Copy  from 

'  wliich  it  it  printed  (corrected  and  interlined  in  many 

places  with  the  Author*  own  H&nd)  in  aoHie  pubMck 

Library,  as  loonas  the  §eeond  volume  ehallbe  publiahedM." 

And  on  the  verao  of  the  title-pa<:ye  of  vol.  ii,, 
with  reference  to  the  above  advert iseiiient,  h  this 
MS.  note,  within  a  spiace  surrounded  by  red 
printed  line.** : — 

"The  oripnal  raanufcript  of  both  Tolumea  of  thi.^ 
Hiitory  will  be  deposUed  in  the  Cotton  Library  bv 

•*  (Sigurd)        T.  Burnett."  (iic.) 

The  Editor,  according  to  the  title  to  the  life  of 
the  author  (end  of  vol.  iL),  was  Thomas  Burnet, 
Esq.  Qiierif--Wtis.  the  MS,  deposited  in  manner 
AS  above  recorded  / 

2.  Opposite  to  the  title-psige,  in  a  copy  of  lite 
I  Tryal  of  Dr,  Henry  Sai^hererril  he  fore  the  Roiise 
cf  Pecm,  for  High  CrhntJi  ami  iMindemeanours^ 
upon  an  Impeacfunevt  htj  the  KniffhU^  Citlxtm 
and  Bntgesae^  in  Parliament  Assevibkd^  folio^ 
London^  1710,  printed  by  Ton»oD  in  pursuance 
of  an  onier  of  the  House  of  Peers,  is  tlie  following 
MS.  note,  viz.: — 

"  Thu  Hooke  belongs  to  Thonuu  D'Aeth,  m  be  bad  the 
honnor  to  be  a  Membir  of  that  Hoiue  of  Commons  ai»d 
Vote  (nc)  in  thU  imp^achnient. 

*'  (8igncd>        Tho^  D'Aeth.^' 
Crescent. 

Vfifflbledon. 

Thk  E<jtrBsTttiAN  Statue  ik  Leicester 
Square* — It  has  never  been  decided  whom  this 
piece  of  sculpture  represented,  whether  George  I., 
George  11.^  or  the  son  of  the  latter  king,  William, 
Duke  of  Ciiiuberland,  who  waa  bom  in  Leicester 
Fields.  As  it  hiwi  now  for  ever  disappeared  from 
its  accuatomcd  feite,  and  will  never  more  be  a 
scandal  to  the  **  great  world  of  London '^  in  the 
eyes  of  Englishmen  jiud  foreigners,  It  may  interest 
someone  to  know  that  when  Wyld'B  "  tjrreat  Globe" 
ooctipied  the  Square,  the  figure  was,  with  ita 
pedoatai,  buried  several  feet  deep  beneath  the  spot 
on  which  it  had  dways  stood.  When  the  "  Great 
Globe"  waa  removed,  the  statue  was  disinterred 
and  FB-erccted,  "  very  little  the  wot^e  for  its  »ub- 
terranean  obacurity,"  so  I  am  told  by  a  gentleman 
who  was  one  of  Mr.  Wyld'«  Ethnojogical  Lecturers 


at  the  time.  My  infornmnt  further  tell*  me  th 
Mr.  Wyld  himself  wsis  most  anxious  to  linve  tlj 
figure  removed  to  ii  place  of  .'wfety ;  but  that  f 
could  obtain  permission  to  erect  his  '*  Ctreat  G\u\m 
only  on  the  condition  of  his  not  removing  tlj 
statue  from  its  original  site ;  hence  the  expedic 
which  he  resorted  to. 

My  ethnological  friend  tells  me  alilt»  thai  oae  i 

his   ct»-lecturer8  and    ''demonstrators"   wus 

Shirley  Brooks,  a  fact  in  that  lamented  gentlcmaQ 

histoiy  which  is,  I  tx^Ueve,  **  not  genendly  knowt 

S-  E.  T0WN8HEND  May  mi.  | 

Richmond,  Surrey. 

Cai»tain  Bknjampn  Stareet. — As  a  cont 
porary  with  Umbrella  Harvey  (mentioned  5**»  S. 
485),  j>emut  nie  to  introduce  to  your  readers 
ejttroordinary  and   well-known   chamcter  to 
natives  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne  sfjcty  years  ag 
who  was  said  in  early  life  to  have  been  the  hn 
person  who  introduced  and  wtis  accustomed  to  1 
an  umbrella  in  the  streets  of  that  town.  The  Otpta  _, 
was  a  small  man,  whom  I  well  remember,  alwajj 
dressed  in  a  well-worn  long  coat ;  he  was  of  son 
what  pompous  manner,  very  polite,  and  unusuall 
partial  to  borrowing  wixpences,  wliich,  of  cour 
were  never  intended  to  he  repaid,     Starkey  caLlo 
upon  a  merc^hant  one  day  with  his  u^ual  reuneil 
^"^  My  dear  sir,  will  you  kindly  oblige  me  with  tli 
loan  of  sixpence  l " — "  Well,  yeB,  Mr.  Starkey," 
the  reply ;  **  but  3'ou  must  give  me  your  promiK^oij 
note  for  the  repayment." — "  Cenainly^my  dear  f  * 
with  the  greatest  pleasure  in  the  world,"    The  pw 
misBory  note  was  drawn, duly  signed,  and  the  mon^ 
paid  (for  he  wrote  a  fine,  bold,  free,  commerci 
hand,   and   was   not   deficient   in   abQity).      Tli 
Captain  then  made  his  bow  with  many  thanls 
A  week  had  scarcely  elapsed  before  our  friea 
again  made  his  appearance ;  but  before  he 

make  hia  request  known,  Mr,  C addr 

him, — ^*  Punctual  man,  Mr.  Starkey ;    1  see  vc 
have  come  to  redeem  your  Dromissor)'  note.^'- 
*'  Excuse  me,  my  dear  friend,  1  have  not  forgott 
it,  I  only  called  to  in<[uire  after  your  healtb  ;  gc 
morning,"     After  two  or  three  attempts,  witn 
better   result,   the   Captain's   calls   ceased, 
note  was  kept  as  a  curiosity.     The  life  of  thl^ 
singular  character,  said  to  have  been  written 
himself,  was  published.      About  the  smnv  tiuu 
Mr,  H.  P.  Parker,  an  artist  of  eminent 
his  famous  local  picture  of  T}t4i  Eccentrit  * 
of  NttvemlU^  which  waa  afterwards  engraved, 
consisted  of  more  than  a  dozen  full-length  Hgur 
showing,  as  far  as  a  painting  could,  all  the  pecti 
liarities  of  the  peraons  portrayed.     Amongst  the 
Captain  Starkey  appears  ;  an  admirable  likene 
ivs  were  all  tho  others.     Why  the  Captain  had  na 
succeeded  in  life,  with  his  ability  and  fine  hand 
writing,  I  never  learnt.  iT,  B.  P. 

Barboumef  Woroeater. 


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47 


ttuflt  requeft  eorrcflpondents  dcmrin^  information 
rty  hiiiUqtv  of  onlj  private  interest,  to  aiBz  their 
and  uddfcam  to  their  qaeries,  in  ord«r  that  the 
f,  Mtukj  b«  Addntttd  to  them  direct.] 

^PkiiiAVii70s. — I  lately  picked  up  two  old 
KOgBf  ooncernmg  whicU  I  am  demroua  of 
3ig  the  names  of  the  artist  and  engraver, 
»f  publication,  and  uny  other  partictilars. 
Mgins  have  been  completely  cut  away.  The 
has  assumed^  I  suppoBe  from  a^e  or  neglect, 
I  brown  tint  Bize  of  each,  M)out  nixteen 
long  by  fifteen  inehea  high.  No*  L  A 
Q  in  a  famj-hoiiae^  with  some  of  the  family 
round  a  table,  enjoying  a  meal  of  sooie  kind 
idge.    A  man  with  cropped  head,  stout  Ieg9» 

Pfect,  is  busily  employed  with  a  howl  and 
IpAted  beside  him  is  a  young  woman 
B^  on  her  knee ;  the  child  boldij  h  spoon, 
woman »  the  gnindmother  probcbly^  is 
p  milk  out  of  a  jug,  or  jar^  into  another 
A  shock-headed  fellow  stands  in  the  back- 
I,  busy  with  bowl  and  spoon.  An  elderly 
its  at,  or  rather  on,  one  end  of  the  table,  and 
ently  tnakinj,'  some  pleitsant  speech  to  the 
woman  opposite.  A  large  hound  aita  imder 
ble  close  to  the  satyr's  legs,  and  a  oock  h 
I  on  the  window  shutter,  inside  the  room, 
upper  right-hand  comer.  No,  2,  The  same 
r  scene,  but  with  a  different  set  of  persons. 
tjT,  who  now  is  well  bearded,  is  standing, 
apset  his  chair,  and  is  addressing  the 
,  who  evide-utly  listen  to  him  with  attention, 
mid  and  cock  are  both  larger  than  in  No.  1, 
e  hitter  h  perched  on  the  top  of  a  wicker- 
ajm-chair,  in  which  an  old  wouian  sits  ;  a 
Died  girl,  wearing  a  high  crowned  hat,  and 
f  a  pitcher  under  her  arm,  leans  against  the 
titf  with  her  back  to  a  lattice  window. 
»wi]|£  in  l>oth  h  moat  life-like,  and  the 
iiig  adjnimble.  W.  H.  Pattkrson^ 

\mstr  £kolish  Episcopal  SEKa.— In  the 
lie  of  a  decree  of  Aethelheard,  ArclibiBhop 
which  is  dated  a.d.  803,  ktely 
I'Pahcogmphic&l  Society,  I  notice 
*  op  describes  himself  as  *^  archi- 
mU  civitatisJ'  Will  any  of 
nts  be  80  good  as  to  inform  me 
bbiflhops  of  Canterbury  ceased  thus 
^th^ir  see  I 

her  bishops  subecribing  the  same  docu- 

[''legorensis    civitatis  episeopus"  and 

k  ciTitAtia  epiiicopuB,'^    What  were  the 

m^  blflhopd  t    There  are  also  **  syddenKi^ 

5^  "  *' scirabumcnsiti  civitatis  epis- 

!  ecclesice  episeopus."     Am  I 

bppoimg  lucse  bishops  to  bo  the  bishops 

ictrrtgr,  Sherborne,  and  Sehea? 


It  may  be  well  to  add  that  the  other  subscribing 
biahops  are  the  bishops  of  Lichfield  (who  siguB 
next  to  the  Primate),  of  Worcenter,  of  Hereford, 
of  Winchester,  of  Ehnham,  of  London,  and  of 
Rochester.  (L  D.  W.  0. 

Authors  Wanted. — I  shall  be  glad  to  know 
where  the  following  lines  may  be  found  in  the 
literature  of  tlie  seventeenth  century  ;  also  to  be 
favoured  with  some  reference  to  where  I  can  lind 
not  ices  of  the  personages  whose  merits  and  de- 
merits  are  so  characteristically  depicted  by  the 
author  :— 

"  When  York  to  Heaven  shall  lift  one  •olctnn  eye, 
And  love  bi«  wife  beyond  Adultery, 
Whea  Godltnew  to  (jain  shall  be  prefer'd 
By  more  thttn  two  of  the  Right  KoTerend  Herd, 
When  Pa  Her  ihall  pronounce  upriKht  decrees. 
And  Nun^erford  refaM  his  double  fees, 
Wh«n  bonent  Prke  Bhall  trim  and  truckle  under, 
And  PoicU  give  a  Charge  without  h  blunder, 
When  Piuff  one  tinge r  free  from  bribery  shewi, 
And  ForUsfue  deserves  a  better  ho«e, 
When  £tfert  hia  haughtiaess  shall  lav  aside, 
And  Tracy*i  fOul  in  peneroufl  «ct4^  taJte  Pride, 
VVTien  Prat  with  Patience  sball  dispence  the  L&ws^ 
And  Kinrj  chall  partially  decide  one  cauce, 
Then  will  I  cease  my  Charmer  to  adore 
And  thiciJc  of  Lore  and  Politicks  no  more." 

T.  W.  W.  S. 

*'  And  wonderli)  with  a  face  of  foolish  proiio.'* 
Sam.  M.  Hahrison. 

A  hidy  of  eightv-eight  has   these   lines  on  a 
watch  running  in  lier  head.      Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  help  her  to  the  rest  of  the  words  ? — 
''  Little  monitor,  from  thee 
Let  me  leara  what  I  ihoald  be." 

z.  z. 

**ThKRE  18  NOTHIKa  so  SirCCKfiSKUL  AS  8U0CK8S." 

— I  have  beard  it  attributed  to  Napoleon  I. 

IT  N  EDA, 

Philadelphia, 

Mary  op  Bl'ttermeiie-—!  have  hunted  in  vain 
through  uH  the  vohimeH  of  **  N.  &  Q.'*  for  some 
account  of  this  popular  heroine  of  our  youth. 
Antecedently  to  experience  it  is  incredible  that 
she  should  not  be  mentioned  in  your  pages.  I  am 
desirous  to  know  (1)  what  her  real  name  was  ; 
(2)  when  did  she  die  ;  (3)  did  she  marry  again  ; 
(4)  are  any  of  her  family  still  ut  Buttermere  ?  De 
Quincey's  account  seems  to  1m?  the  only  one  easily 
accessible.  It  occurs  in  the  seajnd  volume  of  hia 
works.  The  Jit4^oUfeiions  of  the  Laka.  He,  how- 
ever, does  not  tell  what  Wordsworth  does  in  his 
Prelude^  B.  7,  where  he  mentions  that  "Mary** 
had  a  child,  and  that  it  died.  Any  particniars 
would  greatly  oblige  FiTZ  Hkoinald. 

Edward  Krsfo,  of  '^Lycidab":  Portrait  ok 
StiELLBY.— Can  any  one  infonn  me  if  there  exists 
any  portrait,  psiinted  or  engraved,  of  Edward  King, 


the  Ljeidaa  of  Miltoti's  poem  ;  and  if  ihefe  exist 
sueh,  where  it  is  to  be  seen  or  heurd  of?  A\&>^ 
where  the  fullest  account  of  hiii  cbnmcter  and  life 
And  appeamnce  is  to  be  found  ?  I  am  aware  of 
t.be  information  to  be  derived  from  Thomas  War- 
ton's  unequalled  edition  of  Milton's  P*y€v^s  on 
Swertd  i)€C(motis^  1 70 1 ^  and  other  dates.  I  also 
wieh  to  know  if  there  is  any  engraTO<i  ]>ortmit  of 
Shelley  of  a  aiite  larger  than  those  prefixed  to  most 
tH^itions  of  hia  poems.  I  have  inquired  hitherto 
without  saocetSy  but  perhaps  ^  K.  &  Q.*'  can  help 
me.  H.  S.  Skipton. 

Exeter  Gollego,  Oxford. 

MARLBonouoH  Familt  PicTURB.  — In  whose 
po«i!*ession  is  the  large  picture  of  the  Marlborough 
lamUy,  painted  by  Cloaterman  about  the  beginning 
of  the  hist  century,  in  which  were  represented  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough  (in  a  corner  behintl  a  thin 
curtain)^  the  Duchess,  their  Ron,  the  Murf^uit?  of 
Blandford,  and  their  four  daufjhters  i  This  picture 
13  mentioned  by  Boyer,  in  hia  History  of  Qit4^:n 
Anjif.  The  Dudiesa,  it  seems,  havin)^  been  told 
of  m  cftrcittb  remjirk  made  upon  it  by  the  Countess 
of  DorchiiteT,  wished  to  have  her  own  figure 
rubbed  out,  and  a  flower-pot  placed  instead  of  it ; 
but  at  last  she  resolved  to  leave  the  picture  on 
Mr.  Clostenuan'a  hjuids,  which  he  took  so  much 
to  heart  that  lie  went  melancholy  mad  and  pined 
aw»y,  Geo.  Cleohorn. 

D&URT  HousK, — I  suppose  that  the  Drury 
Hiovue,  where  the  ^'Committee  for  the  s&le  of 
sequeilarated  lands  "  sat  durinj;  the  Commonwealth^ 
was  the  one  in  Beech  Lanet  Barbican,  The  house 
was  cither  built  by,  or  belonged  to,  Sir  Drew 
Drury,  and  Prince  Rupert  resided  there.  I  shouM 
be  glad  to  have  further  authentic  particulars  about 
thia  houae.  Cunningham  only  slifrhtly  mentions 
it*  I  should  also  much  like  to  know  whether  there 
ia  any  print  of  it,  t^mp.  Charlon  I,  or  IL  Did  the 
house  hdong  to  Rupert  when  it  was  sequestrated 
bf  the  Parliament?         Henrt  W.  Henfrey, 

$,  Queen  Anne's  Oate^  8*W. 

Tms,  Blssssi)  TaisTL«.—Iii  Switzerland  the 
Omrduu*  B€al%i9,  or  Biased  TkisiU,  ia  said  to  have 
obi»tn«d  its  white  marka  from  the  droppings  of 
Hhi  Vir^'s  milk.  la  thia  legend  known  in  other 
parts?  A*  McRirniajf* 

Hi£BALDia — A  (entitled  to  be&r  arms)  leaves  a 
Hon,  B,  and  a  daughter,  0.  B  marries^  and  has  an 
only  daughter  and  heir,  D,  whose  children  are  of 
courae  entitled  to  quarter  their  mother's  arms. 
C  also  marries  and  has  children.  Can  the  chUdren 
of  C,  Jiftcr  the  death  of  B,  also  quarter  their 
mother'ti  arms,  or  do  the  heraldic  honours  descend 
to  D.'s  children  only  1  E. 

Baooms  anp  Powell  FAmxtvsL  —  Can  any 
^genealogical  atudent  point  out  whether  any,  and  if 


an* 

i 


any,  what  connexion  exists  between  the  family 
of  Brooke^  of  which  Dr,  Zachars'  Fninlr  who  waa 
elected  Margaret  Professor  at  V  [  n  ^sm- 

uary,    1705,  was  a  member,  an  uiily 

PowclJ,  many  mem  bets  of  whtoh  are  buned  in 
so-called  Huguenot  churchyard  at  Wandsworth 

B,  P. 

Sir    Throdore   TtrRQirrT    r>E   MAvru^jF  —I 
shall  feel  much  indebted  to  nny  per  III 

tell  me  what  were  the  arms  borne  by  tli  i  t  ed 

phyRician,  Ralph  N.  Jaxbs. 

Ashfgrii,  Ktnt. 

LoKDOK  CoatPANixs,  OR  GiTiLDS^^  Where  oan  I 
find  the  datea  of  their  faundotion?       R.  W.  F,^ 


"  Qri»  HOC  AD  Tphtcu  doves."— From  whenoa 
comes  this  proverb  T  It  is  used  by  Scott  in  the 
novel  of  Ktnilwortk^  chapter  ix.  Erasmus  doe* 
not  jjivc  it  in  his  Adaguu  The  oxen  of  Iphyclus 
are  mentiotned  in  the  Odyssty,  H.  C 

W.  W.  Story,  the  sculptor,  and  author  of  thi|_ 
exquistte  k>ok  of  poems  entitled  Orn  '!u 

Has  iherre  beien  a  portrait  publi^^hcd  o; 
man  ;  if  »o,  when,  where,  and  price  ?  uko  ol  Jie 
Perkina,  of  Haaworth  Fjirk,  the  Bibliophile  I 

GlBH 

Wrlss  Slaths.— The  names  given  to  the  Vi 
nbxM  of  slates  in  Wales  are  queens,  duchesses, 
QOtmtessee,  ladies,  &c. ;  and  I  aoe,  by  a  newspaper 
cutting  of  1839,  that  these  n.imes— 

''  Drew  frotn  the  iwn  of  the  Into  Mr.  Lejcasler,  wh» 
WM  tuaajr  years  «  j<*d^o  on  tho  \XAah  Circuit,  »  refy 
wittj  poem,  ef  which  ihe  following  Imoi  will  w^rr^  ia  • 
Bpt^etiueii : — 

*  Tbi*  eomteH  or  >m17.  thouf^b  crowris  may  be  prMeni* 
Snboiiti  t»  to  dreoed  bv  the  haadi  of  a  pcMuit ; 
And  you'U  Me,  whon  her  grmco  U  hut  odco  in  Ills 

dutches. 
With  howr  little  rcapoct  ho  will  handle  a  duchrts.' " 

Will  any  one  kindly  give  me,  through  the 
medium  of  "  K.  &  Q,,"  or  direct,  the  whole  of  the 
lines?  A.  E. 

Croeawjlan,  Osweetiy. 

Lord  GoLLiirowooD. — Neither  in  l%t.  ExUntot 
Furag^  nor  in  Tk*  Landtd  Gentry  can  I  fisid  aii7 
afiooiant  of  the  near  relatives  of  the  heroic  admiral 
He  had  &  aiater  named  Sarah,  who  married  a 
^ntleman  named  Barker.  Can  any  of  the  readern 
of  "  N.  ^  Q.**  afford  information  on  thia  Hubject  1 

Q. 

Mart  SoKBRTmLS.— In  the   Prr^^-^"^   J^rr^J. 
Z^diotit  of  Ihui  Admirable  lady,ut  p.  1 
ahe  tpeikkii  of  the  DtffrrrnL,  a  Oilr 
•*  now  sitpoisoded  by  1 1 
to  be  infomied  what  !<ii 
If  the  referencp  is  to  the  new  Algebra  four 
ProfeasorB  OfiyJey  and  Sylvester,  and  ex[» 
by  Dr.  Salmon,  I  see  no  senae  in  ih^  remark.    B^U 


|P8.11JirMl!i,I4.J 


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49 


iiasurpdljr  Mrs.   SomerviUe  was  not  a  person  to 
write  noniienic  on  any  maihematicftl  (|U&stioo. 

Jadez. 
Aibeiueuni  Ctub. 

'*  Thb  Milleknium/'— Cttii  you  mform  mo  who 
tf  the  author  of  thij^  dramatic  poem,  1847,  by 
•*0[oicron/'  author  of  EUmJtnts  of  Truths  Paulus, 
Pfid/t  and  Prejudk^r  &c,  J  11.  Ihglis. 

Proat,  Verb  Nkijteiu — 
h€t  not  lii  now  be  like  inllen  chickeoE,  whkh  tit 

.  ttig  antier  A  rottt^n  hed>(e^  or  priMtuut  under  an  old 

VQod'pilo,  when  the  hen  calleth  them. ""Thomas  FuUer, 
A  C^mmtni  on.  Ruth  (1030-1),  p,  HI.  ed,  ISSb. 

What  is  the  exAct  meaning  of  the  verb  praat^ 
And  what  ia  its  etymology  ?  F.  H. 

Jd&rUiford. 

RLTF^T  WooDcrr  WITH  a  Bati, — What  is 
of  the  woodcut   in   the  Bibliothetiue   de 
-ne  In  Briias^lB,  which  bears  tlic  date  1418  ? 
H.  FisnwicK,  F.S.A. 

HoMAjr  Catholic  Laxdkd  Okntrt,  temt. 
Cbarlbs  II.  AtTD  James  IL— Can  yoa  ^ve  me 

an-'  '•■♦'^-"Tition  re^pectinff  the  property  held  by 
i\  Ciitholic  hmded  gentry  about  the  time 

*'y^  IL  or  Jumes  IL  /     In  what  counties 

v.  most  numerous,  or  held   the  KToatesit 

qi  if  land?     Is  there  any  book  published 

vbjoh  givea  an  account  of  them  at  that  time  ? 

''THE  PILGRIM'S  PR0GUB8S.*' 
(5»J»  S.  ii.  8.) 

AmoAgit  the  numerous  adTaniages  which 
■*H.  h  i)/*  offers  to  literiiry  students,  there  i» 
cicwj  which  ia  very  liable  to  abuse — I  mean  the 
^pr..r. ,,„  f,.  ..♦*•., rded  for  resuscitating  old  and 
1  >  from  the  limbo  of  oblivion,  and 

pi\..,  I  info  a  temporary  vitality.     One 

«jcli  II  II  the  number  quoted  above. 

It  uri;»  inoQvmous  persi>nha3  writtea 

('-  '  to  a  clergyman  convey  log  the 

V  nation  that  a  cert^iin  Miaa  C 

hn^  publt»b»_*d  a  tmn^liition,  for  private  circulation^ 
*  from  a  Prt-nrh  My>,  copy  in  the  British  Museum 
t*(  "j£  of  fhf  .Sf*>ir^?,  by  Guillaume  de 

<•  md  that  "her  object  in  publish- 

in^   li' J    i;  is    to    phow  that    Bunyan't 

Ptlfr\7H*^    '  tienrly  rtrhiUim  a  copy  of 

ihia  rare   v.  '  sv  alterations  here  and 

IhcTv  to  ^n  ori;jjinality," 

1  car:     -  r  ^^vper  — 

"  ')  '  i  wbo  knowi  no  bettor 

1    ,V     |K»     l-.»i^.. 

Must  L 

T]i9  ftory  on  the  iuw  ui  ii  ia  idlo^tkei  aboard* 


Seeing  that  the  work  in  question  wa»  ttansl  tted 
into  English  and  t^rinted  by  Caxton  in  1483,  ope 

cannot  understand  why  Mi^  C should  have 

given  hen^elf  the  trouble  of  again  translating  it, 
particularly  as  her  laudable  dcaign  of  proving 
Bunyan  a  plagiarist  was  to  be  limited  to  a  **  private 
circulation.® 

This  wretended  discovery  is  raereljr  the  revival 
of  an  ola  fallacy  which  has  been  again  and  again 
disposed  of. 

Dr.  Dibdin,  in  his  Typographical  AniiquUiu 
(vol.  L  p.  153),  called  attention  to  this  volume, 
''  an  ejctraordinary  production,  which,  pe^ha^>s, 
rather  than  Bernard's  liU  of  Matt,  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  John  Bunyan's  PUgrim'^  Progress."  The 
learned  Doctor  apparently  meant  nothing  more 
than  that  the  idea  of  an  allegory  of  the  Christian's 
pilgrimage  might  (though  very  improbably)  have 
been  suggested  by  the  book  in  question.  The 
assertion  that  the  Pilgrittis  Progress  is  copied 
nearly  verbatim  from  De  Guilleville's  work  can 
only  be  accounted  for  on  the  charitable  supposition 

that  the  anonymouH  MissC-^ had  never  read 

Bunyan  s  immortal  allegory. 

Any  person  who  ia  curious  on  the  subject  will 
find  the  whole  matter  set  out  ut  length  in  Otfor's 
edition  of  Bunyan's  works  (vol  iii*,  p.  33),  where 
an   analysis   of  the   French   work,   with   copiuUH 
extmcts,  is  given,  which  demonstrates  thjit  there 
is  no    founi£ition   whatever   for    the   charge   of. 
copyism  or  phigiarism.     The  basis  of  the  older/ 
work  vi  the  adventures  of  the  soul  after  death  La^ 
purgatory  and  hell,  with  angels  and  penonifiedl 
attributes  for  the  dramatU  fttrsona.    The  drift  of 
the  two  works  in  utterly  diseimilar. 

In  the  last  number  of  "  N.  &  Q.'^  (p,  39)  a  letter 
is  inserted  copied  from  the  Cruardiati,  written  by 
the  Rev.  W,  J.  Stracey,  in  which  the  ground  is  , 
somewhat  changed.     It  now  appears  that  it  ia  not' 
the  Ptfltp-itiuige  of  iht  HovpU  but  Lt  Pchrinagt  d»\ 
V Homme  which  is  to  prove  Buoynn  a  pln^arisL  I 

Mis3  U ia  turned  adrift,  with  the  remsrk  that  j 

"  to  look  for  coincidences  between  the  P^rimag^A 
of  ifie  Smde  and  the  Pilgrim'^  Progrun  is  usetei^  J 
as  the  latter  enda  where  the  former  begins."! 
Would  it  not  have  been  as  well  to  have  ascertained  J 
this  before  nishing  into  print  with  so  serious  a 
charge  against  Bunyan  as  that  of  "nearly  ver- 
batim **  copy  ism  \ 

The  Book^  of  iht,  P^lgrima^e  of  Man  is  a  small 
brochnrc^  in  the  Lihrar^'of  Qucen'sf  "  ^  />  i  _* 
transUtedf  it  would  appear,  from 

dcCH         ^     '   i    stated  to  be  in  u,v  ^ 

Libr  :'.     I  have  not  seeii 

thestj  v.v. r, .,  - ;..  Offor  hv*    nv.^n  tl  ,[ 

titles,  with  eJctrjMJts  from  the  Ei  hich 

enables  the  readier  to  judge  i       .  .1   the 

contents.  The  scope  o(  the  tract— tor  it  is  nothtiig 
more— is  an  acc<Juut  of  Adam  in  Paradise,  of  the 
batlding  of  Babel,  of  Moses  and  Solomon^  of^the 


iM 


coming  of  the  Siiviour.  Then  commences  the 
pil^image  of  mankind^  **  which  entoreth  the  londe 
of  June  at  the  age  of  lx."  Mankind  are  then 
panided  through  the  different  months,  and  the 
book  concludes  with  a  hattle  between  Justice  and 
Vice,  when  Jvistice  finally  triumphs.  How  any 
rescmbUmce  can  be  found  between  this  and  the 
PilfjrinCi  Frogrefis  passes  my  com  prehension.  If 
the  mere  allusion  to  a  pilgrimage,  which  almost 
necessjirily  includes  an  allegory,  is  to  constitute 
plagiarism,  there  are  a  score  of  books  which  might 
equally  involve  Bunyan  in  the  accusation.  It  is  a 
singular  fact  that  these  charges  all  deal  in  ^Tigne 
generalities.  When  put  tt>  the  test,  I  am  not  aware 
that  a  single  passage  in  Bunyan  has  ever  been 
tniced  to  any  other  source.  Shakspeare  might 
erjually  he  accused  of  plagiarism,  because  his  plots 
were  derived  from  the  legendary  chronicles  of  his 
time.  If  there  had  been  any  such  close  resem- 
bUnce  as  is  attempted  to  be  shown,  it  is  incredible 
that  the  older  works,  so  long  since  translated  into 
English,  should  have  been  allowed  to  sink  into 
oblivion,  whilst  the  glorious  epic  (it  is  worthy  of 
being  called  Buch)  of  the  in.spired  tinker  has 
delighted  successive  genemtions  for  two  hundred 
years,  and  bids  fair  to  endure  aa  long  as  the 
iangija^  in  which  it  is  written.  J.  A.  Picton. 
Sundylcnowe,  Wavertree. 

The  poem  of  Gnillaume  de  GuiUeville  was 
published  in  London  by  B.  M.  Pickering,  196, 
Piccadilly,  1858,  and  entitled,  "  Lc  Pdtrinage  de 
X'i/ommi;  com  pared  with  the  Filgrini  8  Progress  of 
John  Bunyan.  Edited  from  Notes  collected  by  the 
lute  Mr.  Nathaniel  Hill,  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Liteniture,  with  Illustrations  and  an  Appendix.'* 
The  liooki'.  of  the  Pylgrtmnge  of  the  iS'orr/r;,  trans- 
lated from  the  French  of  G.  de  GuilleviUe, 
printed  by  W.  Caxton  in  1483,  was  published 
the  yeiir  foU owing  by  B.  M.  Pickering,  edited 
by  Kntherinc  Isabella  Oust.  The  MS.  before 
me,  from  which  the  above  was  taken,  is  in 
excellent  preservation.  The  date  appears  on  the 
last  folio  (1413),  in  rubric  : — **  Here  endith  the 
dreem  of  the  pilgrimage  of  the  soide  translated 
owt  of  frensch  in  to  Englysch.  The  yeer  of  oure 
lord  MccccxMJ"'^\  Verbifc  trans latoris,"  For  a 
review  of  these  works,  see  GenL  Mag.,  1859,  p,  582, 
and  the  Dublin  Frteman^s  JoitmaL 

W.  Winters,  F.R.H.5^. 

WnlthAm  Abbey. 

I  sh.ill  be  very  glad  to  lend  my  copy  of  Lc 
Pdtrinage  dc  VEmnmc  to  Mr.  BLENKiNSOPr,  if  he 
will  writ©  to  me  for  it.  A.  F.  C» 

Harringiijn  Rcctgryi  CwliAle. 


Single  Ette-Glassks  (5*^S.  i.  489.)— Some  good 
practical  obfiervation  on  the  advantage  of  double 
over  single  eye-glasses  and  opera-glasses  will  be 


found  in  Dr.  Kitchener's  Economy  of  tht  Eyes^ 
Loud.,  1824.     He  says,  in  pp.  15  and  Hi : — 

^^  SpectHcles  &re  always  pneftrrftble,  beeati«<d  both  eyes* 
by  being  kept  in  scdon.  ure  kept  in  health.  Vition  is 
brighter  and  easier,  and  the  labour  of  each  e.vc  is  cou- 
fitdermbly  IcfAened.  If  persons  will  lave  (l  ringte  eye- 
glass, let  them  take  care  to  use  it  without  partiality,  and 
put  it  to  each  eye  alternately.'' 

A  donble  eye-glass  is  better  for  the  eye«,  hut 
rather  cumbrous  slung  round  the  neck,  and 
troublesome  to  open  on  every  trifling  ocoasion. 
Being  very  short-sighted,  I  use  a  single  glass,  but 
apply  it  to  the  left  eye  with  the  right  hand,  and 
tice  varsa^  By  so  doing,  the  eye  not  used  is 
covered  by  the  wrist^  and  its  focuft  is  not  disturbed, 
I  believe  the  common  practice  of  sticking  a  glass 
over  one  eve  to  be  very  injurious  to  both. 

H.  B.  a 

U.  U,  Club. 

The  following  appeiired  in  the  Lancet  of  June 
27th  (p.  924),  after  Mr.  Ellis'^  query  was  pul>- 
iii^hed  in  **  N.  &  Q."  It  almost  seems  as  if  written 
as  a  reply  to  it ; — 

'*8i.'«oLK  Fa'E'Glassks.— Of  all  the  folliea  of  humini 
f^itbiori,  perhaps  none  is  more  ridiculoua  than  that  of 
placini^  before  one  eye  a  circular  piece  of  glasS}  through 
which  the  wearer  cannot  see,  and  which  he  cai^not  even 
hold  in  po«itioQ  without  considerable  facial  distort  ion. 
Ifj  however,  no  more  harm  were  done  than  thi«,  th« 
foolish  practice  mi|iht  be  left  to  bo  dealt  with  by  tho 
caricaturiBt.  Unfortunately  there  arc  person?,  wlio 
really  require  the  aid  of  lensef,  who  prefer  a  kiugle  eye- 
gliies  to  ordinary  *pectjiclcB.  Speaking  pncrally,  tlie 
use  of  £uch  glasses  is  to  be  condemned.  With  a  tingle 
eye  glftgs,  most  of  the  work  is  thrown  on  to  on©  eye ; 
while  the  opposite  eye,  from  disuse  or  want  of  correc- 
tion, becomes  gradually  deteriorated.  The  hannonioua 
woi'kinga  of  the  ocular  inu^cicf  are  interfered  with,  and 
weakncM  and  deviationa  of  the  muccles  ensue.  But, 
eren  optically,  single  eyo-jitlaafea  are  bud,  because  it  ia^ 
not  poM-ible  to  properly  adjust  tbem,  so  that  the  retinal 
images  arc  unfavoumldy  affected.  The  popula^rfallaciet 
conci-ming  the  us©  of  eye-glasses  and  spectacle*  are  in- 
numerable  ;  but  none  are  more  reprehensible  than  those 
Gonccming  the  single  eye-glass  and  the  ordinary  ^ince- 

S PARKS  Henderson*  Williahs. 

I  liave  used  a  aingle  glass  for  my  left  eye  for 
more  thiin  a  quarter  of  a  century.  I  find  the 
sight  of  that  eye  as  good  as  ever  it  was  ;  but  the 
rigki  eye  has  lost  its  power^  and  I  cannot  now 
read  with  it  tdone.  I  think  it  probable  that  this 
loss  of  seeing  power  results  from  noD-usef  and 
that  the  eye  might  improve  if,  from  any  cause,  it 
were  eaJJed  on  to  supply  the  function  now  dis- 
charged by  the  left  eye  solely.  I  have  tried 
double  ^flasses,  but  without  benefit,      F.  I).  F. 

Belfast 

Byron's  *'  Siege  of  Cohinth  "  (5»*^  S.  i.  465.) 
^The  first  quotation  is  not  from  the  "Biege  of  j 
Corinth,"  which  thus  begins  :— 
"  Many  a  vanished  year  and  age. 
And  tempett's  breatbi  and  battle  s  mg^/'  He, 


I 


S*'  i  U.  Jott  1«^  7«.l 


NOrES  AND  QUElUEa 


51 


— ^^t  fmin  *'T/mp-  hif^nde^i  for  the  opening  of  the 
Byron  wrote  in  imitation 
»I»el|'-   of  which  he  wiis  u 
^i\ii.i  4i>^itiii*it,     Tlitrn^  lines  ara  given  by  Moore 
m  hia  Life  of  Bijron^  *'  iis  too  full  of  chamcter  and 
•pint  to  be  lo4t,"  beginning  as  follows  : — 
"  In  the  year  iincc  Jeiua  died  for  toco, 
Eighteen  huodred  jenrs  and  tea. 
We  were  a  iifMUatit  company. 
Riding  o'er  Jand^  »nd  taillnjr  <ttr  seiL 
Uh  f  but  yte  wutit  merrilj  ! ''  kc. 

In  a  letter  to  Murray,  after  forwarding  the  MS. 
of  the  Sufie  of  Corinth^  referring  to  these  linei«, 
vrhich  were  written  in  December,  1815 — the  poem 
as  it  Wft»  publifllied  dated  22nd  Jtinaar^',  iyi<J, — 
b«  say*  :— **  I  hiid  forgotten  them,  and  ain  not 
»ai«  but  ibey  had  better  be  left  out  now  ;  on  that 
you  And  your  synod  can  determine."  They  were 
not  inserted. 

It  i^,  indeed,  as  Mn.  Suirti  says,  "a  strange 

'  ' '     "  ihi^  dating  the  Chriatian  year  from  our 

"leath  insteud  of  from  the  Nativity  ;  but 
..  ..  ..  nuW  Htnmger  blunder  that  he  Bhould  have 

tixed  bis  date  at  the  18U)th  year  after  the  death 
of  Our  Lord,  wh'ch  would  be  the  year  a.d*  1M3, 
f  cir  lU  yeara  after  Byron's  own  deiith  !  The  date 
IcttOFjot  have  reference  to  the  year  when  the  siege 
\t)(  Corinth  took  place,  namely,  1715  ;  but  the 
[lioeA  S4fem  t<»  allude  to  the  poet's  travclfl  in  Greece 
la  1810-11,  in  company  of  Mr.  Hobhouse. 

**  We  were  a  gall&ut  company," 
[be  oy0, 

.  «...  '^  of  all  tonguei  and  crcedi ; 
8ome  were  ilio««  who  eouutcd  ben^Mt 
SotM  af  moBque,  and  lome  of  cliurrli^ 
And  tome,  or  i  mit-tay,  of  neither; 
Yet  throui^h  tlie  wido  world  ye  may  eearch^ 
Nor  find  *  lootticr  crew  nor  blither.'* 

y  **  motley  crew  **  were  evidently  his  follower*, 

nt  whym  Virete  some  Arnaout^,  to  whom  he 

reference  in  a  foot-note.     Apropos  of  this 

I  Use  poen),  it  h.'iH  l>een  remarked  th^it  the  lines  in 

[Ooleridge'a     W(u     EfloQUt^   Firu   Famine^  and 

"  f  ^f.^..A  ir,  d  «vroin|,y  field  of  battle, 

-  and  ikutU  1  made  a  rattle, 
iL  tbe  wulf,  and  the  carrion  crow, 
AjfJ  ibc  L^irjclefi  dog,  but  tliej  vroald  not  go," 

may  hare    suggested    to  Byron  the  well-known 

1'^  And  he  taw  the  lean  dogi  beneath  the  wall, 
tiold  o'er  the  d«ad  thilr  carnival,''  kc. 
w.  A.  a 
I  doubt  whether  there  be  any  mistake  in  the 
liticr  m^mase  quoted  from  Lord  Byron's  Sitffe  nf 
Omimtk*     The  cujtom  of  neceiving  communion  in 
both  kjfida  wa     '     ^      .  umong  Koman  Catholiea 
inthf>£aai  K<i  had  been  left  ofi'  in  the 

I  WtM-     f  luive  iM»i  uii    Uink  at  hand,  but  I  think 
'  eontspondent  {onfliiltii  Webb's  VontinenUd 


EcdfMolog^  he  will  tind  a  notice  of  some  largo 
dialice^i,  wFiich  btwl  been  miide  for  this  purpose, 
lliat  are  stdl  preserved  at  ^'enice.     K.  P.  D.  E. 

GttAKTS  Ot'  Nomt^tTT  TO  FoHBIONERS  (5^  S.   J, 

447,  516.)— The  Dutdt  fiimily  of  Tulp,  created 
baronets  of  England  April  23,  1675,  is,  according 
to  Riet>>tap,  extinct.  That  of  Spcelman,  created 
baroncta  June  4  and  Bcpt.  i),  1686,  appears  to  l>e 
yet  flourishing  ;  their  family  arms  still  bear,  on  a 
cunton,  the  badge  of  Ulster,  but  I  do  not  know 
whether  the  present  representative  assumes  the  title 
of  bjironet,  or  is  content  with  the  rank  of  **  Jonk- 
hecr,"  conferred  on  the  family  in  September,  1817. 
His  name  does  not  appear  iu  the  latest  baronetage 
I  have  at  Jmnd. 

The  Dutch  family  of  Senserf,  now  extinct,  held 
an  English  baroaetcy,  and  bore  the  badge  of 
Ulster ;  and  as  this  indication  of  nink  still 
appears  in  the  arms  of  the  family  of  Kievit,  of 
Holland,  I  t\m  led  to  believe  that  it  wa«  similarly 
dignified. 

The  Mackays,  Barons  Reay  of  Scotland,  are 
baronets,  and  of  thei*e  titles,  Eneas,  Baron  Mackay 
d'Ophemert,  in  the  kingdom  of  the  Netherhinds,  i% 
the  heir  presumptive.  The  **  grants  of  nobility  "of 
the  original  query  (5***  S.  i.447)  were  wbfit  we  should 
call  "grants  of  arwu,"  not  of  peerage  nobility. 
Abroad,  every  artnujer  who  can  prove  his  right  la 
use  armorial  bearings  is  a  "  noble.'*  It  is  one  of 
the  modem  popular  errors  of  our  own  country 
to  suppose  that  nobility  is  confined  to  membera 
of  the  i>eeragc  and  their  children.  This  really 
utterly  absurd  and  entirely  insular  notion  haa 
been  most  ably  confuted  in  a  little  book  which 
deserves  to  be  much  more  widely  known,  especially 
in  these  days,  when  so  many  of  our  countrymen 
flock  in  search  of  he:dth  or  recreation  to  the  Con- 
tinent,—  I  mean  The  Nobility  of  the  £ngli*ft 
Gentry^  by  Sir  James  Lawrence. 

Many  ap(>otntment^  at  foreign  courta,  and  moiat 
milittiry  commissions  in  foreign  armies,  oould  only 
be  held  by  **  nobles  '*  :  and  the  grants  of  nobility, 
which  form  the  subject  of  the  quer}*,  gave  to  their 
holders,  whether  foreigners  or  Kngh.shmen,  the 
right  to  use  armorial  bearings,  and  so  i|ualitied 
them  for  these  offices* 

Simil.*ir  certificates  of  '* nobility**  have,  to  my 
own  knowledge,  been  required  within  a  recent 
period  from  aspirants  to  commissions  in  the 
Au'^trian  servioe.  Any  one  who  examines  the 
lists  of  graduates  at  foreign  universities  (say  at 
Padna  or  Hi  idelberg)  will  tind  many  English  and 
Scotch  men  correctly  designated  as  nobues  whoae 
parents  had  no  pretensions  to  peerage  dignity. 
Multitudes  of  foreign  barons  and  eounta  are,  in 
every  respect,  including  nobility,  the  inferiora  Ckf 
an  old  English  gentleman. 

JoilS   WoODWAHB, 
The  Parsonage,  Meotrote. 


I  am  aware  of  one  case  of  a  foreigner  baronet » 
f\%.y  Boreel,  of  the  Hague.  The  present  holder  of 
the  title  is  Sir  WOlem  Boreel  :  he  is  n  senator  of 
Holland,  And  ia,  or  has  heen.  n  Minister  of  State. 
He  was  born  in  ih&  year  l&MK  Curiously  enough, 
his  sister  miirried,  in  li»14,  Willenj,  Count  de 
Tv%  i^le-Ginkel,  the  Lwit  Karl  of  Athlone  in  the 
1  .  Liripje  of  Ireland,  whose  title  became  extinct  at 
hiH  death,  in  1844.  NuuMX's. 

The     baronetcy    of    Van    Coulster,    conferred 
kyebrnary  28th,  1645^  is  staled  (vi(U  Burke's  Exiind 
fSarondage^  1841^  p.  541)  to  have  become  extinct 
At  tlie  decease  of  the  first  baronet,  about  1065. 

G,  Garwood. 

**  A  Stick  of  Eels  "  (6"^  S.  i.  48!>.)— The  follow- 
ing  (|Uotatioa  furnishefl  tm  answer  to  the  query, 
liow  much  is  a  stick  f — 

**  A  itick  of  fish,  a  term  applied  to  eels  when  itrung  on 
arowr,  *  81C  dicta,  qmKi  trujectn  vimine  (quwl  gUc  dicimui) 
ConnectatjAntar  ';  t'ipeimaft.,  A  H>r.(i  doiisiisted  gf  25  etildj. 
and  W^lkix  xtLtde  &  bimie;  Gl&iir.  lib,  ii.  c.  9/' 

Tbis  ia  a  note  by  Sir  F.  Madden,  reprinted  in 
my  edition  of  Havclok  Ou  Dane,  fi.v.  Stacj  in  the 
Ciiossari&l  Index,  p.  144. 

Walter  W,  Skeat. 

Cintra  Terraee,  Ciimbridge. 

HoQARTH^a  **  Marriagf.  a  la  Mode  "  {4^^  S. 
viiL  164,)— RuoiiDuging  **N.  &  Q/'  for  scraps 
•►bout  this  Beries  of  pictures,  I  came  on  Mr.  W. 

iJBATBs's  querj^  accompanying  a  quotation  from 
"M.  F.  Wey'B  preciouf*  Lvndns  %l  y  a  CtntAiis,  The 
extract  and  the  quesition  which  arisen  from  it  refer 
to   the  existence  of  u  certain  Jkvr  dt  lU  m  the 

fourth  plate  of  **  Marriage  \\  la  Mode.'^  M,  Wey 
ne^erts — 

'All  del  du  tit  de  la  cotntefec  on  Toit  unc  Caorrae 
i!eiir  de    lb,   dont  In   vigiiif^cation    conHrnio   ajisez  Ics 

■iiitdisitnces  de  Tautfiur  de  CmtdK/e  sur  Jn  eociC-to  do  ce 

R"t«mp8-li,  m  tone.qutf  p-ur  i3n»bolt««r  lu  mCino  idcQ  chci 
nous,  au  lieu  de  rtcoui  ir  ^  IVcuasun  di?  Fmrice,  on  eUi 
I>luc6  d&nB  un  caJre  le  portrait  de  Chrbtophe  Colomb.*' 
Mr.  Batkb  inquirer?,  what  are  the  .sign ificiit ion 
twd  idea  alluded  to  iu  this  passacjo  1  I  cannot 
venture  to  nay  what  Hor^^arth  mifjlit  have  intended 
by  the  introduction  of  a  jf^/ur  de  I  in  in  this  posi- 
tion, but  ihc  fact  in  be  did  not  introduoe  the 
evmbol  ftt  all,  for  no  such  thini?  exists  in  the 
deaign.  There  is,  indited,  on  the  wooden  cornice  of 
the  bedhtciid  an  ornament  comprising  three  leaves, 
and  having  a  very  va^e  reseuibluace  to  a  y^«r  de 
lis^  but  it  is  only  such  a^  the  debased  tiiste  of  the 
Conotesi!  Kipuindertielda  upholsterer  produced  on 
the  model  of  a  Jhur  dc  tis^  and  long  after  the 
beauty  of  that  symbolic  flower  had  become  in- 
visible to  the  groji*  vision  of  the  tradesmun  and 
bis  customcrt*  Your  correspondent  says  that  he 
coidd  find  no  hint  on  the  subject  in  TruKler, 
Nicbob,  or  the  exhaustive  commentary  of  Lichten- 
berg*     No  wonder.     But  it  Mr,  Bates  cures  to 


track  the  steps  of  M.  Wey  in  error,  let  hini 
to  M-  Jansen's  AnahjMti  di  hi  BcauU,  &c.,  *'  do  i 
Hogarth,'  <Sfcc.,  *'  mii^k  d'urt^  fwticc  ckroriQla^H 
hutoriqiie,**  &a,  Paris,  An  xiu.,  1805,  il.  p, 
and  read — 

'■^  II  no  rcsto  plus  qu'ane  petite  ciroonst&nce  h  ob 
mftia  cctte  Imgatetle  e<t  uue  cspcco  d'^nigme,  Au  ci^ 
du  lit  do  la  coait^ase  on  volt  uae  gmtido  il«ur  do  \f 
Que  peuvent  aignlfier  let  amies  dc  Fraaoo  attaches  J 
lit  d  une  dame  Anglaue? " 

F.  G.  S. 


Stanley  of  BiRMiNGtiAM  (b^^  S,  L  388.)— Two 
of  Stanley's  tunes,  "  Montjromery  ■*  and  "  Dove] 
dale,"  appear  in  Waite's  naltrlujah  and  The  Ci 
grcgalioiial  Fsalmut  (Allon  and  Gauntlett^s),  ai 
most  other  collections  ;   the  latter  sometimes  as 
**  Stonefield."  E.  A.  P. 


Robert  de  Wyctjf  (5^*^  S.  i.  147.)— In  reply 
Mr.  Furnivall,  I  always  understood  that  Jol 
Wyclif  was  of  the  family  of  Wyclif  or  Wyclyffe, 
Wyclif,  CO.  York  (1) :  and  I  think  I  have  seen 
printed  pedigree  showing  it.    Probably,  this  villeii 
Robert  Wyclif,  was  of  tiiat  family  ;  because,  fi 
the  provision  made  by  law  that  a  nobleman  orfi 
man  might  volunt.arily  become  a  villein  by  acknoi 
1  edging  himself  as  such  in  a  Court  of  Record,  it 
not  improbable  that  many  sold   themaelve*^  ini 
villenage— younger  descendants,  for   instance, 
freemen   of  every  rank.      These,    as  far  as   i 
memory    carrier    me,  would   become    villeins 
gross.      The    females   were    called    neifa,  as, 
course,  Mr.  Furntvall  must  know.    And,  if  a 
villein  married  a  free  womiin,  their  issue  would 
not  be  thereby  enfntncbtssed  ;  but  I  think  the  old 
Reports  show  no  nettled  law  as  to  the  enfranchise- 
ment of  the  issue  of  the  marriage  of  a  nief  with 
freeman.     I  thought  this  singtifar  in  my  studei 
days  that,  as  late  as  Littleton's  time,  the  law 
unsettled  on  this  point,  and  I  therefore  rememl 
it,  I  think,  accurately  ;  but,  as  the  lord  of  the 
nief  would  have  an  action  against  the  freeman  for 
the  marriage,  1  think  it  pretty  certain  the  childrei 
if  not  the  mother  herself,  would  be  manumitti 
See  more  in  the  cap.  -^n  villenage  in  Littleton, 
copy  of  which  I  have  not  at  hand. 

The  information  Mr.  FtiRNivALL  has  previonsl 
given  is  very  interesting.  It  is  an  entirely  ne' 
fact  to  me  thiit  a  villein  cotdd  hold  any  part  of 
lordship,  I  mean  manorial  rights  over  estatos  in  tf 
|^>09 session  of  others,  as  welt  as  in  hiis  own.  TiH 
in  fact,  he  could  7iot  hold  theni^  except  on 
For^  were  he  the  villein  of  king  or  ^' 
manor,  lands,  or  other  e-st4ite^  would  instjini 
become  lii«  mjister's  ;  and,  if  he  sold  it,  the 
could  even  follow  it,  though  the  subject  could 
Therefore*  Robert  Wyclif  wns  the  mere  n^ni 
his  lord  m  the  purchase  of  the  r 
allowed  to  hold  it,  probably,  by  tS  *  of 

rent.  (I)    In  still  earlier  timenj  it  not  ub  late 


old 

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the 
for 

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ScJwoid  ilL  or  RIchani  IL,  certain  freemen  even 
(snch  as  tho?^  of  villein  de:%cent)  could  not  kold 
brdsbip  over  the  dotl,  tboagh  they  could  acquire 
land.  A  manoriiJ  estate  in  the  early  Plantn^net 
times  mnked  among  the  highest,  and  the  possessor 
of  throe  iimoor«  and  upwards  waa  e^toemed  a  nuijor 
hATon — ranked  with  tne  greater  noblea*  Thk  waA, 
of  course,  before  the  formation  of  the  Hotues  of 
PKrlmment.  It  will,  therefore,  be  undeiistood,  us 
Ibe  more  surprising,  that  Mr.  Furnivall  baa  fished 
Dp  the  t^vidcnce  he  has,  that,  about  a  century  after 
the  e«tabli&hment  of  a  regular  Parliament,  we  find 
ft  villein  in  possession  of  manorial  rights,  even  on 
coflemttoe.  H.  T. 

PA  Was  Dot  Eobert  WydiC,  in  fact,  a  trostee? 
Many  were  the  concealed  trtists  of  those  days^  and 
many,  too»  were  the  abuses  arif^ing  out  of  them. 
A  ntan  had  absolute  possession  by  one  deed,  and  a 
decJamtion  of  the  tmsts  in  another.  He  perhaps 
filed,  and  all  hi«  trust  property,  if  knights'  fees, 
were  sonietiuies  aceouoted  his  own  on  his  InquUi- 
timi  vmt  trwrt.  His  heir  would  still  hold  in  trust 
for  the  real  owner,  and,  perhaps  for  generations 
and  generations,  the-entail  (if  any)  would  never  be 
docked«  and  the  iiin;^^:?  fees  on  eivch  InqmMon 
p64t  nujtL  of  the  successively  dying  tniateea 
would  be  paid  by  the  ixecutors,  and  afUrwarde 
charged  to  the  tm^t  e^uite.  As  the  estate  was  not 
ftbown  ti6  that  of  the  owner  (or,  as  lawyers  say, 
<€*tui  que  iLifi),  so  many  in  those  troublous,  yet 
merryt  oA<i  tiiues  altogether  escaped  forfeiture. 

*•  BosiJ  '♦  (S***  S.  L  389.)— Kedhouse  renders  Urn 
Turric  //rWj,  empty,  vain,  useless,  and  hosh  hdirdt\ 
tionsfcnjie  ;  but  this  word  ia  iirobably  an  itbbi'eviH- 
lion  of  tho  felftn^  term  kihom  or  hjboah^  doubtless 
corrupted  from  cui bono*        K.  B.  Charnock. 

Gr*y'i  Inn* 

**  Ni5WT.T>- "'  i'l^^  S.  iL  a)— There  are  two  New- 
hnwi,  or  rather  St.  Newlyn?,  both  in  Cornwal!  ; 
<^T  '  ''  '  '  'lie  A  bctrough  of  Grampound, 
ti  h  of  St.  Paul  by  Pen/iince. 

Iii.,..u.>^  .i..^i^  Mii^iiL  I'uraiflh  au  answer. 

Ltttbltok. 

If  A*  £.  W.  have  not  coined  this  word  for  the 
title  of  his  novel,  perhaps  it  may  be  explaiaed  as 

Sgal   to   New    Linn*  which   latter  '     '     tch 

^  Miancs  render  by  **  precipice  or  1 

•MftUo  tlic  name  Newlinp  in  CrockUnu  ^  <  untal 
JHmUfry.  C.  F.  S.  Warrex,  MA 

ZiHZAS  8TILKKT  (S*"*  S.  ii.  i))  would  fieem  to 
hav#  iC«  name  from  a  Kurniuues.  The  IJiU.  Reading 
(l^ad.,  IM12,  p.  451 ;,  apeaking  of  the  prtttent 
•tale of  the  town,  flays  :  — 

**T\\*  i<hop  Laud  hftd  pro- 

)-  tho  ruw  of  bouiw 


between  Back  Lane  and  Sun  Lane,  but  thoso  which 
stand  bctivton  Fisbcr  Row  and  Butcber  ILow»  and  to 
have  made  Broad  Street,  in  wbieh  he  wa^  born,  a  very 
cxiennvo  street,  by  continDtug  it  tip  to  Mr,  Gor^y  now 
Mt«.  Zintan'fl,  at  the  end,  and  on  the  other  to  the 
'  Saracea'i  Head." " 

I  was  at  first  inclined  to  think  that  tho  name 
Zin^an  was  corrupted  from  8injin,  i,6.^  St.  John, 
or  allied  to  the  French  names  Sins,  Sinns,  Binsard  ; 
or  perhaps  derived  from  O.  Fr.  itjnxin^  cousin, 
parent,  alli^  (also  xyn^  Jt^r,  cousin,  cousine,  Ac): 
but  I  take  it  that  the  name  is  mthcr  from  Alex- 
ander, Amonjs  the  burials  in  8t.  Lawreoce'a 
Register  for  1625  is  *'  Mr»  Andrew  Zinzano,  clV$ 
Alexander";  and  among  the  marriages  for  1663  is 
**  Peter  Alexander,  oftti*  Zinzan,  and  Judith 
Gunter."  R.  S.  Charkock* 

Gray's  Inn.  I 

The  name  of  this  street  in  the  town  of  Reading  | 
is  without  doubt  atttibutable  to  the  fact  of  thes 
Zinzan  family  being  possessed,  for  two  or  three 
generations,  of  the  manor  of  Tilehurst,  and  of  other 
hinds  and  tenements  near  to  and  within  the  town 
of  Reading.  The  property  was  acouired  by  the 
marriage  of  Henry  Zinzan  with  Jncoba,  the  eldest 
of  the  three  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Peter 
Vanlore,  of  Tilehurst,  Kt.  and  Bart,  (as  I  have 
shown  in  the  Eer.  and  Gen.,  i.  371). 

From  a  monumental  inscription  formerly  in 
Tilehurst  church,  but  now  out  of  sight,  we  learn 
that  Ucnry  Zinzano,  alui^  Alexander,  died  on  the 
18th  November,  1676,  and  JacoV*a,  his  wife,  the 
22nd  June^  1677,  and  that  both  were  buried  at 
Tilehurst,  They  had  istue  a  son,  Henry  Zinzano, 
bom  2nd  January,  1633,  and  four  daughter*,  who 
were  all  baptised  at  Tilehurst. 

The  first  of  the  family  that  is  met  with  in  Eng- 
land was  Sir  Robert  Zinssano,  alias  Alexander 
(Haid  to  have  been  an  Italian  noble),  of  St.  Albans, 
HcrtH,  and  Bailiff  of  the  royal  Liberty  of  St. 
Albansf.  His  eldest  son  was  Sir  Sigismond  Zinzan, 
Kt.,  of  Molesey,  Snr-  -  -  V^  mairied  Margaret^ 
daughter  of  Sir  Phil  ,  Kt,,  of  co,  Notting- 

bum,  and  died  in  Ib^-..  Iwcy  had  i*sue  several 
children,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Henrj^  Zinzano,  mar- 
ried Jficoba  Vunlore,  and  became  of  Tilehurst  in 
right  of  bis  wife.  B.  W-  GftKExriKLO. 

BouthAmptoo. 

"SiTUATK*'  {b^  a  L  407.)-W.  E.  oaks,  "Is 
the  use  of  this  wortl  in  the  preterite  correct?" 
and  adds  that  "the  |">aat  tense,  according  to  all 
analog^',  ia  situaicd,  and  m  it  is  generally  u»ed." 
In  reply,  I  would  ask,  are  there  any  examples  of 
the  use  of  the  word  as  a  verb  bv  nnv  tt'<tH^ctable 
writ^-r  f    To  me  it  appeare  tt  rifde 

W.  ¥jk  gives  of  it  in  the  **  past  i  1.4  an 

odjecttTe  fallowing  a  substAntivc  verb  in  tho  pi^ 
tent©  :— 

**  A  goodly  orchard  ground  W9B  iUuaiit.'' 

It  ia  not  ^ttitfe  Qbviwa  mh^-  mUml^  ihwiM  h^^auk* 


TOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[ri'»'S.  ii.juu  i$.7c 


sidered  more  "  slipshod  "  than  adequate^  co7tunen' 
miraic^  sedate^  or  any  other  luijective  in  ale.  Surely 
the  term  is  more  upplicuble  to  aituakd^  a  partici- 
piftl  form,  auggefitive  of  a  siiuaUrf  one  who  situates. 

The  question  raised  by  W.  E,  is  based  on  an 
entirely  false  assumption.  In  the  sentence  quoted, 
"  situate  '*  is  not  the  preterite^  nor  is  it  a  verb  at  all, 
but  an  adjective,  and  its  use  as  such,  and  in  pre- 
eisely  the  senite  quoted,  is  perfectly  in  accordance 
with  well-established  usage.  In  law  papers  the 
udjeetive  situate  its  in  constant  use  in  thia  country, 
as  well  as  in  England,  though  its  use  otherwise  is 
much  less  frequent  here  than  there. 

GAaxoN  Djs  Bkrneval, 

FhilEbdelphiA. 

Is  it  not  Hither  W.  E.^g  own  expression  which 
is  **  slipshod  "  i  Does  he  not  imagine  a  iKirticiple 
and  then  invent  a  verb  for  it  }  Tliere  is  no  verb 
to  situati  in  Johnson,  nor  is  it  "  accord ipg  to  all 
analogy  ■*  to  form  our  present  infinitive  from  a 
Latin  past  participle.  H.  D.  C. 

Falcoxkt  tue  Artist  (5*^  S.  ii,  8,)— Falconet 
was  an  artist,  painter  and  sculptor,  employed  on 
the  statue  of  Peter  the  tlreat  at  St.  Petersburg, 
nnd  created  in  reward  a  noble  as  the  **  High  Bom '' 
—truly,  so  said  Falconet^  I  was  born  iu  an  attic. 
I  have  a  portrait  by  hiiu  of  his  wife,  or  declared 
to  be  so  in  the  catiilogiic— a  careful! y-finiahed, 
pleasant  picture,  which  has  iiadergone  the  criticism 
and  approval  of  many  celebrated  British  artists. 
I  bought  it  at  the  StRiwberry  HiU  sale, 

H,  P.  S. 

The  Gaithnian'A  Magazine,  1808,  voL  i.  p.  5, 
speaks  of  a  port  mi  t  of  a  Mr.  Kirby  psunted  by 
P.  Falconet.  The  ^<iime  pcriodiciil^  1790^  vol.  ii. 
p.  667,  i^ives,  under  July  1,  the  njiirriage  of  "John 
Lewis  Theodore  Depalizeux  Fidconet,  Esq.^loMisa 
Anne  Hunter,  of  Khode  Ishind. 

Edward  Pjcacx)ck. 

Pierre  Falconet  was  the  son  of  fitienne  Maurice 
Falconet^  the  celebrated  sculptor.  Ro«e  (Biog. 
IHd.  18!)7)  merely  says  he  was  a  painter  of  i»rtraits 
and  historicftl  subjects.  He  visited  L<jndon  in  1766, 
and  gained  two  prizes  from  the  8<iciety  of  Arts. 
Sparks  Hendeb^ok  Williams. 

Gray's  **  ElettV**  (5*^  S.  j,  466.)— Breen,  in  his 
Modem  EnqlUh  Literature^  p.  :231,  traces  Gray's 
stanm  to  the  Kntin  couplet  :— 

•*  PluriinA  gemma  lutct  caca  tellurc  c^pulta  ; 
Plurima  n^glccto  fmgrat  «hdore  rosa,"  * 

Biihop  Hall  has  a  ptimllel  to  the  first  two  lines  :— 

**  T])«re  ii  many  a  rich  Atone  laid  up  in  the  bowels  of 
the  eartlj,  m&ay  ft  fair  pear)  in  tlie  bo«9m  of  the  ieu^that 
never  wm  s«en.  nor  ever  will  be." 


The    last    line    occurs    in   the   same   words    in 
Churchill : — 

'*  Nor  waste  their  sweetoese  in  tie  desert  %\t,** 
And  also  in  Lloyd  :— 

**  Which  else  bad  waated  in  tbe  desert  air/* 
In  Habington's  Cattara  (Arbers  Reprint,  p.  28) 
the  following  lines  are  found  :^ 

'*  III  »  d:irkc  care*  which  never  eye 
Could  by  hia  subtlest  ray  descry. 
It  doth  like  a  rich  minerall  lye.'* 
In  Wallers  beautiful  song,  (?o,  lovely  iio»K  I 
find  a  parallel  to  the  second  half  of  the  stan?^  :— 
'*  Tell  her  that  *g  young, 
And  shuns  to  bave  her  f^races  spied, 
That  had'ftt  tbou  vprung 
In  deserts,  wbero  no  men  abide. 
Thou  must  have  uncommendcd  died." 
The  idea  also  occurs  in  Shelley^s  Utvolt  of  htoAS^ 
canto  i,  16  :— 

•*  There  was  a  woman,  beautiful  us  morning, 
Silting  boncutb  the  rock»,  upon  the  sand 
Of  the  waflte  sea, /air  as  oiuHoiDtr  adoriiiu^ 
An.icjf  wUdemeu.'* 

T.  Macorath. 

*'TopoQRAPniA  HraKRNirA** of  Gfralous  Cam- 
BRENsis  (ri***  S.  i.  389.)— This  work  was  translated 
into  Englisli  by  Hoi  ins  lied  j  but  perhaps  the 
translation  most  readily  procurable  by  a  Natu- 
ralist is  B(>hn*8  edition^  published  in  1863,  and 
edited  by  Thomas  Wright,  Strange  to  say,  no 
reference  is  made  to  it  under  the  name  of  either 
author  or  editor  in  Bohn's  edition  of  Lowndes. 
Gajbton  de  Bebkbval. 

Phikdelphia. 

Edwards,  of  America  (5***  S.  i.  408.)— I  en- 
close a  cut  of  the  arms  borne  by  the  family  of 
Jonathan  Edwardj*,  imthor  of  Tltr  Freedom  of  the 
WiU.  I  infer  that  the  Kdwardses  of  Salop  are  of 
the  same  family,  and  if  so  I  wonUl  bo  glad  to  oor- 
rcs^wnd  directly  with  U.  B,  in  re^^uni  to  the 
geuealogicjil  table  he  is  getting  up. 

We  have  but  little  information  about  our  family 
previous  to  their  emigration  from  Enghind  ill 
1640,  or  about  any  of  the  English  branches.  1  am 
a  great-great-grandson  of  Jonathan  Edwards. 

Wm.  B.  Edwards. 

Pittshui^gbi  Fennejlvanift. 

Therp-Cakb  (6^'  a  i.  4i4.)— Ma.  Fibhwjcb: 
has  quoted  two  lines  of  the  Visioii  of  Purt  Plow- 
man where  this  cake  is  mentioned  ;  and  siys  that 
in  Lancjishire  nre  cakes  cjiUed  thar  and  fAaiA-cakes. 
I  notice  this  to  add  that  in  Scotknd  are  cakea 
called  eaar-cakcif  (pr,  sic),  compounded  of  flour  or 
meal,  eggs  and  sugitr,  with  what  is  there  called 
hcaitic-milk,  which  is  that  taken  from  the  c*ow  tirnt, 
or  soon  aft^r  calving.  The  uiass  is  fired  on  a  girdle 
antl  then  used :  mac  Jamieson's  Dictioimnj,  under 
"  Care-cake,"  "  Skair-skon/'  and  **  Sooty-skou/* 
whcte  all  of  these  are  said  to  be  es^ten  on  Fasteea> 


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■  wur 

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j.;Vp  '"•  ^i^-ove-Tiiesday.  Also  "  Skirrin-fimsdAy/* 
ill'  \  before  Good  Friday  (Jamieaon).  C«m 

%n\         ^  ..  \vhether  the  adjectives  coar  and  b€a»He, 

Sualtfjing  milk,  aaaume  other  fonns^  and  what  is 
acir  origin  ?  H 

Rev.  Samtkl  Hardy  (5*^  S.  ii.  a)— For 
further  pnrticulam  rebting  to  hU  writings,  aee 
Omie's  Bihliothtcti  Bihlica^  AUibone's  Dictionary 
^f  Authority  and  Dr.  Watt's  Bihlv^ihcca  Britanidca. 
A  short  btogr»phiciil  account  of  him  is  found  on 
K  580  of  Pagers  History  of  Suffolk.  The  Anmial 
KtifuUr^  1783,  gives  an  account  of  his  non's 
wiunler  by  Mr.  Daniel  M*Ginni8,  who  stiibbed  him 
in  the  Itft  breast  with  a  bjiyonet,  which  entered  liift 
iie&rt.  This  unhiippy  accident  wiis  occasioned  by 
le  water  thrown  out  of  Mr.  M'Ginnis's  window 

Mr.  Hardy's  Bkyli^jht,  who,  going  upstairs  to 
remoDstrate  witli  Mr.  ^l^Ginnis,  words  arose, 
which  proceeded  to  this  fatal  extremity.  Mr. 
MHimnis  had  n  moat  excellent  character  given 
hhii  aa  a  quiet,  hiirtnlefis,  inoffensive,  and  humane 
p^rsoD,  by  gentlemen  of  high  nink.  I  find ^  again, 
in  the  Annttal  lic^utkr^  1784-.%  the  following 
pmgmph  :-^"  July  19th,  1785.  On  Tuesday  lust 
I)t.  Mjicffinnis^  who  was  convicted  of  stabbing  Mr. 
Hmtly,  the  hatter,  in  Newgate  Street,  two  yearH 
•go^  was  discharged  from  his  confinement  in  the 
King's  Bench,  and  set  off  for  the  Continent.*'  The 
Kev,  Suiiiuel  Hardy  died  m  1793^  aged  seventy- 
three.  OWLKT. 

PRETACES  TO  BooEs  (5*  S.  i.  357.)— I  have 
before  me  a  coj^  of  Tavemer's  EpUtlfs  and 
GospelJiM,  154(J,  which  has  '*Tbe  Preface"  and 
other  preliminary  matter,  comprising  four  un- 
nuinbered  leaves  ;  but  I  think  prefaces  were 
mdtuilly  introduced  after  title-]>ages  became  of 
neqnent  occurrence,  say  nbout  150(). 

Gaston  dk  Bernevau 

PhilAdelpbta. 

The  Australian  Drama  (5*^  S.  L  423.)— 
Additions  to  list  of  names  of  authora,  &.C.,  fur- 
nished by  Mu.  Ikolis  :— 

1.  Fntn£09ca  VoMn, »  imgedy  in  five  actif  by  John 
fjr- luthor  »Uo  of  ircflilses  on  Coloniftl  Law, 

'if  Maif,  a  Christian  drama  founded  on  the 
A'  ripid«,  corof>of«d  by  B*v.  Wm.  Kelly,  9. J.* 

U'\  14  at  Convent  of  Biitera  of  Mercy,  Mel- 

"fh  Sea  Si$tir*t  a  lyric  mafioae.  Is  the  work 
of  i  (crnie,  author  of  Orton,  ana  waa  tjsued  in 

lBQ6,  X  muiiih  or  two  subfequently  to  his  other  d'*«ma, 
^tamttktui  tk*  F^rt-Bringer.     Both  were  published  in 

^r  t  Dramatic  IHttib-aiions  of  Ancient  Hit- 
Ic^j  ^d  (m  far  «i  complete)  in  one  volume,  MeU 

Itenkf^  1H5,  And  include  the  following  :—,/w</i7A,  Tht 
Mwmmf  Makgfw  o/S^fpt,  Buryncme  ike  Orttl  Aiaidrn, 
QmAm^  M94iimr$k,   Baboon,  /fimrvud   ih4   Mi^htj^ 


bourne,  1873,  is  by  My  tea  MacFhail,  a  gentle  man  well 
known  in  Edinburgh. 

7.  End^rhif,  a  tragedy  in  Are  ftct«,  MeIbottme,nodate. 
1  cim  furniah  evidence  a§  to  the  date  of  thU  drama 
additiorml  to  that  already  givtn  (5*''  8,  i.  154),  if  Mu. 
IftOLis  desires  it. 

Stage  Criticisms  deser\'ing  special  notice : — 
^.  Tr<ij  /Tomtet  Madt  or,  the  Lucubrations  of  Mestrv. 
Smith,  Brown,  Jones,  and  Robinson,  with  in  trod  tic  tory 
preface  by  the  Editor  of  the  Argm  (from  which  they 
are  repruUcd).  with  writers*  names  attached:— Jamtra 
Smith,  Dr.  Ncikl.  arc  all  I  remember.  Thia  pamphlet 
wa«i  issut'd  iu  1863,  and  i«  a  valuable  addition  to  the 
theatrical  memoranda  of  Melbourne, 

9.  Brown  ihe  Or:at ;  or,  Preea  and  Stage,  a  Colloquy, 
by  George  Scott  Hough,  Melbonme,  1868. 

E.  A  P. 

Tub  Earl  of  Moreton  (5^*  S*  i.  508.)— May 
this  title  be  rh  error  for  Mortagne,  or  Mortain,  in 
Konnandy  ]  He  wa.**  half-brother  to  William  the 
Conqueror,  In  the  Appendix  to  Pennant-*  Brituh 
ZooitMjif^  vol.  ii.,  (540,  is  a  document  from  Biishop 
Lyttelton  8 Collections,  which  begins,  **  Johan,  comes 
^ioreton.*'  George  R.  Jessr. 

Robert,  Enrl  of  Moreton,  or  Moriton,  who  was 
also  Earl  of  Cornwall,  was  brother  of  Odo,  Earl  of 
Kent,  and  half-brother  of  the  Conqueror.  He  was 
associnted  with  Odo  in  the  imsaccesaful  attempt  to 
dethrone  William  Rufus.  In  addition  to  his 
estates  in  Surre}'^  and  Sussex,  he  held  a  oon* 
aiderable  part  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  William,  his 
son  and  successor,  was  deprived  of  all  his  GBtatei 
in  En^rhind  by  Henry  I.       C.  L.  M.  Stevtoi8» 

Guildford* 

^'Mars  ma  Sword '*  (5*^  S.  H  2.)—T.  J.  V. 
wiO  find  on  reference  to  the  Prliyer  Book,  in  "  a 
Collect  or  Prayer  for  all  conditions  of  men,*'  be- 
ginning, "  0  God,  the  Creator  and  Preserver  of 
all  mankinil,^"  that  it  concludes,  "And  this  we 
beg  for  Jesus  Christ  hU  sake."  Clarrt. 

A  "Watkr-Blast'*  (5**^  S.  iL  9.)— A  water- 
blast  and  a  wnter-blain  are  the  same  thing,  a 
swelling  caused  by  chilling  the  hand  in  water,  as  a 
chilbkin  ia  produced  by  ft  chiil  from  cold  air. 

a  A  Ward. 

Mayfair. 

The  Emperor  Alexander  IL  (5*  S.  i,  464 ; 
ii.  30.)— You  will  perhaps  allow  me  to  make  a  few 
remarks  on  Mr,  1>ilkk's  note,  which  appears  to 
contain  some  errors.  In  the  first  phice,  that  the 
word  tzar  is  derived  from  Ciesiir  is  now  admitted 
by  ail  the  best  Slavonic  schoUrs.  It  will  be  euffi- 
cient  to  quote  the  nam^  of  Schnffarik  and  Kopitiir 
as  having  held  thnt  opinion.  The  hitter  sav-^,  in 
his  GtogoUta  Clo^iianuSf  a  classical  work  to  all 
students  of  this  neglected  branch  of  bnguages 
(p*  ix.),  that  it  resulted  *'  francicA  medii  levi  pro* 
nuntiatione  Cieaaris."  In  the  Church  Slavonic  we 
get  the  foroi  Uitarm    X  uae  English  letters^  feAciog  . 


NOTES  AND  QUE 


lfs*a  n.JiTLTis.^ 


that  you  have  no  Slavonio  type.    There  i^  also  a 
Go^^nfite  verb^  meiitiing  *'  to  rule.'*  Uim  well  known  to 
iBcbolar^   that  there  arc  mnny  words  in    the    old 
Church  knguajro  derived  through  a  Gennaa  me- 
dium :   thu:*,   SI.  popCf   Genn.  jo/ajfc ;   SI    aliar, 
Gemi.  altar;  and,  as  very  similar  to  the  ca96*of 
^Gmar  and  Tmr.  I  m^j  add  Germ,  kirctt^  and  BL 
ftmh&v^  a  church* 

The  old  idea  that  Tmr  was  from  an  AssyriJin 
root,  or  something  of  the  kind,  the  same  im  we  find 
in  Belsbazzivr,  Nebuchadnezzar,  &c-,  is  now  quite 
exploded.  I  believe  one  geBtlemaQ  did  attempt 
to  prove  that  Belshazzar  was  only  bolahoi  Txar^  i.e. 
great  emperor ;  but  there  have  been  Slavotio- 
maniaca  as  there  have  been  Gel  to- maniacs.  This 
derivation  of  the  word  Tzar  is  found  in  the  notes 
to  Kararazin%  work  ;  but  the  lucubn^tions  of  tlmfc 
once  revered  author^  whether  historical  or  philo- 
logical, are  now  somewhat  obsolete. 

In  the  second  place,  I  must   enter  a  protest 
agnimt  the  use  of  the  word  Turanian,  a  very  un- 
fortunate expression,  belon^ring  to  the  infancy  of 
,  compamtive  philology,  and  now  bein;:;  ^.Tadually 
I  abaudone^J,  even  by  it»  chief  Bupporters.     It  wtis 
^  a^  b«3t  but  a  mere  Blovenly  name  for  all  the  odd 
laikguages  which  defied  claasificatton* 

W.  R.  MOSHLL. 

That  the  Byzantine  and  Gennon  words  for 
Emperor  are  derived  from  Coeaar  ia  indisputable, 
hut  I  should  be  glad  to  hear  somewhat  more  of  the 
reasons  for  deriving  Tsar  from  the  »ame  root  than 
Dr.  Charnock*s  tp«€  dixiL  I  have  neither  suffi- 
cient knowledge  nor  time  to  examine  the  details 
of  the  qiieijtioD,  which  was  quite  incidental  in  my 
note  on  the  Eiinx?riif8  title;  but  when  a  majority 
of  the  best  Riissian  authorities  have  come  round 
of  late  to  the  contrary  opinion,  1  may  be  excused 
for  considering  it  unproved,  at  least  till  some 
aigument  has  been  brought  forward  in  its  favour. 

ASHTON   W.   BlLK£. 

Sba-port  Town,  Afbtca  (5*^  S.  i.  4S7.)— In 
the  map  of  Northern  Africa  in  Tke  UliistraUd 
Atlas  (London,  J.  &  F.  Tallis),  the  town  of 
Mnhedia  is  marked  on  the  moat  easterly  part  of 
the  coast  of  Tunis,  but,  according  to  the  scale  of 
miles,  it  is  124  miles  S.K  from  Tunia,  in  a  direct 
Hue,  F,  A*  Edwabbb. 

"The  Ghost  op  thi:  Old  Empire''  (d^  S.  i. 
508.) — Til  IB  idi»a  is,  I  am  pretty  sure,  to  be  found 
in  Hobt»ci(,  but  I  have  not  hit  works  at  hand  to 
hunt  the  passage  «p*  K,  P.  D,  JE. 

UsK  OF  Ikvicrtkd  Cohkab  (5**>  S.  i.  9,  75, 
154,  217,  me,  455 ;  5*^  S.  ii.  37.)--Medweio  may 
rest  assured  the  use  of  inverted  commas  for  the 
purpoie  excepted  to  by  Lord  Ltttci/pok,  «<>  far 


from  belnjr  the  result  of  *"  half-education"  on  tbo 
part  of  either  writers  or  printers,  has  always  been^ 
iind  still  is,  the  practice  of  the  educate<l  of  all 
ranks.  I  say  nothing  as  to  the  expediency  of  the 
equivocal  use  of  inverted  commas,  and  incline  to 
agree  with  Lord  Lyttelton  that  the  more  laud- 
able practice  is  to  restrict  their  use  to  ca^es  of 
actual  quotation  ;  but  I  assert  that  such  a  restric- 
tion would  be  a  no\^ltj  on  estahlished  usage.  I 
am  not  going  to  crowd  the  columns  of  **  N.  &  Q.*^ 
with  illustrative  extracts  ;  in  fact,  I  meet  with 
auch  every  day,  in  both  old  and  recent  litcmture, 
I  give  the  last  instance  I  have  observed,  which  (g 
in  the  Timci  of  last  May  14,  p.  D— "We  should 
like  to  see  our  women  less  *  accomplished  *  and 
better  instructed/*  The  tirst  participle  is  not  a 
quotation  from  one  or  other  of  the  speeches  in  the 
Convocation  of  the  University  of  London,  to  which 
the  article  relates,  but  is  put  in  inverted  commas 
purely  for  contemptuous  emphasis, 

I  observe  another  early  instance  of  the  emphatic 
use  of  inverted  commas  in  Webster's  DutcJifss^  of 
Maify,  1G4(>5  the  last  two  lines  of  the  play  t>eing 
printed  in  italics,  with  "  opposite  the  first  line  of 
the  couplet.  I  have  not  considted  the  edition  of 
1623.  Jabjbz. 

Atheoiema  Cluh, 

The  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  century  examples^ 
which  have  been  quoted,  of  the  use  of  inverted 
commas^  for  emphasising  notable  passages,  or  those 
to  which  attention  was  desired  to  ho  apeciaJlj 
directed,  are  interesting  as  showing  how  certain 
peculiaritiea  arise  at  particular  pcjioda,  and  the© 
cease  ;  but  I  imagine  that  none  of  your  oorrespon- 
denta  bring  them  forward  to  show  the  propriety  of 
their  use  for  similar  purposes  at  the  present  day^ 
any  more  than  they  would  wish  to  hring  forward 
the  vagarious  spelling  of  the  same  epodm.  Custom, 
I  think,  must  be,  for  the  most  part,  the  arbitrator 
in  such  cases.  This  applies  equally  to  another 
subject  which  has  branched  out  of  the  above — I 
mean  the  mark  !  I  at  once  admit  that  *^  note  of 
exclamation"  is  a  better  term  than  "note  of 
admiration/'  because  the  former  would  include  the 
latten  as,  How  beautiful !  but  the  latter  would  not 
tdways  be  includetl  in  the  former,  as,  How  horrible? 
How  absurd !  All  I  contend  for  is,  that  this 
mark — whatever  name  it  may  be  called  by — 
exprcwes,  except  sometimes  in  the  case  of  irony^ 
an  emotion— mostly  twdden  — of  th£  mind.  And 
as  I  regarded  the  usual  "Dear  Sir,"  or  ''Gentle- 
men,^* as  conveying  neither  emotion  of  the  mind 
nor  irony,  but  as  simple  "  nominatives  of  address '' 
(not  "Wocatives "),  I  consider*'*!  nml  still  con- 
sider, the  use  of  such  a  marl  1  ignorance 
and  viUgarity,  and,  thereforL^  i /  could  uot 
have  existed  in  the  origimtl  manuscript  of  Law^ 
rence. 

T  have  neither  the  time  nor  the  opportunity  now 


I 
I 


fl»&n.JoiTl8,7i.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


57 


I  lo  if  if  it  were  cuatoraary  to  employ  this 

[  nj.i  1 '  asea  at  early  periods,  but  that  it  was 

[not  Fi>  :vi  LUi  latter  ptirt  of  the  eighteenth  century 
I  ia  clearly  iinpiied  by  the  Rev.  J.  Robertson,  whose 
I  learned  little  work  on  Pnnctufition  I  referred  to 
[on  a  former  occafiioa  when  speaking  of  the  first 
'  um  of  iJao  colon  (:) 

*'  A  note  of  exdftmation  may  he  placed  after  Sir  or 
Jfadaat  mhem  any  tudd^n  or  tn^mt  €moti4>n  li  cxpr*a$€dt 


Sir  t  this  langoage  amaMa  me  ! 
Madam  I  I  am  thnndentntck  !  " 

Foreign  examples  appear  to  me  beyond    the 

"    •■  -1      I  have  read  (though  I  do  not  vouch  for 

vj)  that  the  Gennans  invert  this  mark  at 

.-    ^lj4    of  a   sentence   to  expresa    Irony  ;    and 

[  Timperley,  who  we  know  waa  a  practical  printer, 

vs  ilu  Sninish  and  Portngnese  typographei^  do 

_%  hut  at  the  beginning  of  a  sentence^ 

^        I  vxcljunation  from  interrogation*  We 

I  know  no  such  instances  in  English.     Medwbig. 

Tka  (5^  S.  L  405,  47a)— Br.  Kitchiner,  in  his 
I  Codk^s  OrafU^  quotes  the  folio  win ;?  from  Sir 
I  Kenelm  Di^^by's  Cookery^  London,  lG6ti  : — 

"The  Jesuit  that  came  from  China*  a.d.  16i54,  tolj 

Hr  Walter  that  to  tt  drfiohm  of  tea  they  put  a  pint  of 

water,  and  fre<^««iitly  tuke  the  >olkBof  twottcw  latdegvcit 

"^rat  them  np  u  tth  u^  rnuch  fin©  augar  aa  ia  aufSctent  for 

Mil  atlr  all  well  together.    He  alio  in- 

it  we  let  the  hot  water  remain  too  lomg 

.  ..,--..  .he  tea.  which  luakea  it  extract  into  itftelf 

I  the  cariUy  part  of  the  herb ;    the  ivMter  must  remain 

Uf»on  it  tio  longer  than  tekile  yp\t  ean  tay  tht  Miterere 

i*4tUm  9fr  You  hare  then  the  spiritual  part 

©f  the  t*.  '  "rtion  of  which  to  the  water  matt 

be  about  u        _______  J  i\  pint." 

Think  of  the  Jesuit  misgionarieK  in  their  black 
and    whi»i^   lijtbita    reciting  in   penitential    peaha 
I  *•  tr*  fy,"  with  their  eyes  devoutly  tbced 

I  npo:  lOt!  Gbetsteiu 

Ak  Eeealdic  Mao.izine  (5**»  S.  i.  444,  496.)— 
I  Oiherfl,  highly  eligible,  lui,  for  instance,  Asglo- 
ScoTUs*   Mn,   Sinclair,   Mb.    Maidment,   Ma. 
EorT  -  -    *^r  PT.  Bkrtrand  Payne,  &c.,  might  be 
nan  junt  of  their  historical,  genealogical, 

ind  i<^ i  .i  i  i  1  -icqnirementFj  for  the  vacated  editorial 
ofaair  in  question.  Tewars  and  Hermekthodb, 
^^jlUie  real  names  are  unknown  to  ine,  must  be  ad- 
^^^H^  to  be  Hcond  to  ncne  as  reguds  snbstantiai 
H^Rficfttions  for  sucli  a  post.  S. 

Tint  Beo  akd  tuib  HAtrPENNr  (5"*  S.  i.  326, 
I32L) — I  urn  able  to  afford  some  infomiAHon  re- 
•^ectiEie  the  coin  "  la  mtuUe ,"  ita  >Tdue,  and  its  use 
iarr—  -'- 

1  I  ien*3  Ttaiie  d€s  Mon n  oi« 

«t  i'  h  C<*ur  deg  ATonnoifs,  en 

j       /»rr  '2  vols.  4 to.,  Paris,  1764, 

■\  oa  do   compte^ 


ri^TPC  parti 0  d'un  sol  toumoii.  La  Maifle  $e  (luhdMie 
en  deux  Htes,  et  chaque  Pite  en  deux  ften.i  t'itca.  ha 
Maillc  a  ct^  autrefois  unc  monuoie  courante,  et  la  plua 
pttitede  cellei qui  onteu  cours  en  PrMtice ;  mubsi  dtmntit* 
on  encore  te  nom  de  Mail  e,  parmi  le  peup'e,  au  denier 
toumob,  eouii  le  K-gno  d'Henri  IV,,  par  1  habitude  oA 
Ton  (!tiiit  d'af pellcr  de  ce  nom  lee  plu^  petite*  des  e»- 
jjccei  courante 8." 

Under  the  head  of  "Denicrs  tournois,"  the 
Dictionary  above-mentioned  mjs  : — 

**  Dculera  toumotf .  appe116s  ainpi  parceque  lea  premier* 
fureitt  frapp^fl  A  Tiuri;  petite  M*initoie  de  cuivro  eans 
ra^lenKe  de  fin,  qui  a  en  autrefois  icrand  couri  en  Frances 
Le  denier  tournoisse  subdirise  eti  deuxiiiaiY/u  ouob^^lat/' 
lie. 

At  the  end  of  the  Bictionfiry  are  tables  of  th^ 
various  muniea  struck  in  Franco  between  a.d* 
125H  and  a.d.  1726,  their  valuei^,  &c.  No  men- 
tion is  mtxde  of  **Maille8  de  Irorraioe,"  but  the 
*' Maillc  d'jirgent"  of  131(»  i»  given  aa  worth  |  of 
the  value  of  one  denier.  There  were  also  istiUfHi 
in  1315  **Mailles  Bourgeoises/^  valued,  per  maille,, 
at  i  a  denier  ;  and  *'  Maillea  Farisia,"  idightly 
higher  in  value,  vis^.,  |  of  a  denier.  In  1329  wero 
issued  '*MailleH  blanches'*  of  varied  values,  i.  c» 
some  worth  4  deniers,  some  worth  6  denfera,  and 
others  worth  X  sol  4  deniers  each.  The  last  royaJ 
edict  for  coining  ^'Mailles  tournoiaes^'  is  given  a» 
dated  on  Nov.  7,  a,d.  141 1,  and  the  vilae,  as  be- 
fore, 4  !i  denier. 

M.  de  Bazinghen  was  "  Conseiller  Commissaire 
en  la  Cour  des  Monnoies  de  Paris'* ;  and  his  work 
seems  to  me  to  be  worthy  of  all  respect  as  an  au- 
thority, being,  on  all  matters  connected  witb 
French  coinage,  a-ssays  of  precious  tuefnls,  lawa 
regulating  the  work  of  goldsmiths,  jewellers,  &c., 
full  of  quaint  and  well-«tored  information. 

It  seems  clear  enough  that  the  "  maille,"  when 
referred  to  in  any  proverb,  must  be  the  **  maUle 
toumoise,"  and  not  one  of  the  "  mailles  blanches  '* ; 
I  judge  .^o  not  only  from  the  saw  given  by  Mr. 
Ward,  "  Bonne  cat  la  maille  qui  sauve  le  denier/* 
but  from  another  proverb,  which  I  proceed  ta 
quote.  When  anytning  has  been  improved,  they 
say,  "  Qn'elle  vaut  mieux  denier  qu'eUe  ne  valoit 
tnaille,'*  evidence  that  of  the  two  pieces  the  denier 
was  of  the  highest  irapoitance.  FaiTe  Ui  honn^ 
nmilU  is  **garantir  que  le  oompte  y  est  jusqu'4^ 
une  inaille,"  and  "maille  k  partir"  ia  "avoir 
quorelle."  The.*<e  two  explanations,  and  the  pro- 
verb immediately  preceding,  are  extmcied  from 
the  IHctionnaira  de$  Frovtrbet  Fmmeakf  ISoMk^ 

Paris,  1758.  Ommamm. 

Wimbledon* 

r N'  FAMitY  (5i»»  S.  i.  208,  2f)l)^Thia 

is  ij   nsime  of  early  times.     Among  th« 

cha.iii-  injJ  family  papers  of  the  "Maxwells  of 
Pollok  '*  (vol  i.  p,  203),  the  nnme  appears  in  A 
charter  by  **  John,  Earl  of  Lennox,  and  Mfvtihcw 
Stew.nrd,    hig    son,    to    Sir    John    Munguiitry^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6-^  S.  11.  Jatt  18, 7t 


I 


Clogistonc,  notario  publico,"  16th  April,  1403  ; 
and  iigam,  in  u  ^ubj.equent  document  (p.  iJ<»5),  the 
niinie  appenrA  "  Bcbir  Alexander  (*hig5tone."  The 
name  of  the  inrxterDtil  preat -grand  fat  her  of  the 
present  Lady  (*ole  was  Clugston^  in  some  wuj 
connected  fi4»  a  public  officer  either  with  the  port 
or  county  of  Wigton,  His  daughter  married 
Captain  Acton,  of  the  old  Cutbolic  family,  the 
Actons.  I  believe  that  Cardinal  Acton  and 
CaTaliere  Acton,  Prime  Minister  of  Ferdinand^ 
King  of  Naples,  about  the  beginning  of  this 
centurj',  were  uncles  of  Captain  Acton.  The 
Cliigstons  became^  in  this  way^  allied  to  some  of 
the  oldest  families  of  England.  The  late  Lady 
Granville,  Maria-Louifia,  only  child  and  heir  of 
Emeric-Joseph,  Due  D'Alberg,  was  widow  of  Bir 
Ferdinand  Ri  chard  Edwarrl  Acton,  Bart.,  Aid  en- 
ham,  the  son  of  Cavaliere  Acton,  and  a  leader  of 
fashion  at  the  Court  of  Naples  about  forty  years 
ago,  where  I  hare  oft^n  met  him.  I  have  no 
doubt  that  Clugstoun,  like  man3''suc!i  names,  was 
derived  oriojtnally  from  some  place.  Not  long 
ago  I  met  with  the  name  of  a  piece  of  land,  Clogis- 
ton,  in  an  old  charter  connected  with  the  ahire 
either  of  Roxburgh  or  Berwick,  but  unfortunately 
I  did  not  take  note  of  it,  and  cannot  recall  to  my 
memory  the  charter  in  which  I  found  it. 

a  T,  Ramaoe. 

There  Is  n  family'  of  the  name  of  Clogsf  oun  now 
living  at  Wim borne,  Boi-setshii-e.  It  is  a  Scotch 
name.  G.  C, 

B^ziQl'E  (:,«»  S.  I  167,  233,  357,  41 IX)— I  have 
found  the  word  Ba^^ca  h\  the  I>izmiaru)  Uni- 
tenale  Critico  Enajdoptdic.o  ddla  Lingua  It^- 
liano  (leir  Abbati  D'Albcrti  di  l^iUanuova,  pub- 
lished in  Lucca,  Mnccxcvii*:— 

**  BAzzicA  un  gnico  di  carte  huK  che  li  guiocti  in  tra 
4>  in  quattre  persone,  e  si  donno  tre  ciirte  per  uiio;  clie 
<;eiitM»o  chufchedunn  il  iuo  numere,  e  le  ft^ure  centaiio 
dieci.  Lb  mtUa  eonta  n  piactmento,  dv  g:iociitc»ri  dull 
nno  al  died.  II  nutufre  at  quale  »i  che  glugfiere  per 
▼isiooe  la  posta  suol'  esiere  il  trent'  uno." 

This,  although  not  a  very  clear  description,  has 
no  reflembbnoe  to  our  game  of  B^-sique.     A,  S, 

Richardson  Family  (4**»  S.  x.  392;  xl  36, 
1G(>,  262:  5«»  8.  i  513.)—!  regret  that  I  am  unable 
to  give  RoTSSE  any  further  infonuution,  and  that 
in  consequence  of  the  number  of  the  fac-Hiuiile 
eopie«  of  the  charter  being  conhned  to  the  number 
of  copies  of  the  "  Chronicle  "  which  they  are  in- 
tended to  illustrate,  I  ^hnil  only  bo  uble'to  afford 
him  a  single  copy,  which  I  sljali  gladly  forward  if 
RoTSSE  will  say  to  what  address  it  mu.«5t  be  sent. 
The  fftC-simile  i*  by  the  anastatic  pioceas  of  Mr. 
Cowell,  of  Ipswich,  a  process  very  good  for  faded 
charters.  I  may  add  that  various  cireumytance* 
connected  with  the  eogravingn,  heliotynes,  &c.,  aud 
in  the  preparation  of  the  MS.,  have  delayed,  .^nd 


fire  likely  to  delay  for  a  considerable  time  loIlg<(^r, 
the  publication  of  the  Frcwisham  hi&tory,  in  whidi| 
all  that  relates  to  the  Rieliiirdsons*  that  is  neces»ar/, 
will  be  inserted  in  a  foot-note,  T.  Helsby*     ' 

York  Chamhera,  Manchester. 

If  S.  P.  A.  (4^^  S,  xi.  36)  has  succeeded  in 
meeting  with  the  arms  of  the  WarwicJcshire  family 
of  this  name,  or  any  account  of  them  in  that  county, 
1  should  be  very  glad  to  obtain  information  on  the! 
subject.  The  name  is  frequently  to  bo  met  with  in' 
the  neighbouriDg  counties  of  Oxford  and  Bucks,  aa 
well  as  in  Shropshire ;  but  I  have  not  yet  discovered 
it  in  Warwickshire,  and  I  am  inclined  to  think, 
that  if  there  were  a  Wanvickshire  branch,  it  musl 
be  in  recent  times.  The  only  arms  borne  b; 
faiiiilies  of  this  name  with  which  I  am  acquain 
are  aa  frdlows : 

Richard.Hon  of  London  (?):  emune,  on  a  cliiel 
azure,  three  lions-  heads  erased  argent,  laugued  gu 

Richardson  of  Norfolk  :  or,  on  n  chief  gu,,  threO', 
lions'  heads  erased  of  the  first,  quartering  erminci 
on  a  canton  az.,  a  sjdtire  ar. 

Richardijon  of  Shropshire  :  argent,  thr^e  chaplets, 
vert, 

Richardson  of  Durhiim  :  &able,  on  a  chief  indent, 
tliree  liooii'  heads  erased,  ermine,  langued  guJes. 

Richard  son  (Bp.  of  Ardagh,  Ireknd):  a  fSosi^ 
gultic  (?),  between  three  pheons. 

I  should  be  glad  to  know  of  any  others* 

BOTSSS. 

"SiBiLLA  Odalbta*'  (5"*  S.  L  489.)— About 
the  time  this  novel  appeared  an  Italian  friend^  a 
gentleman  well  versed  in  the  literature  of  his 
countr}%  informed  me  that  the  author  of  the  work 
was  a  8ignor  Verres^  who  sometimes  called  himself 
"  Vnrese,"  and  preferred  the  latter  appellation. 
This  is  my  only  authority.  The  -same  author  wrote 
likewise  La  Fulmizata  Ligurt,  It  ProttcrxHo^  and 
Prezima  di  Sanluri;  also  some  other  novels  which 
I  did  not  read,  and  whose  names  I  have  forgiitten. 
His  style  is  light  and  cheerful,  bis  language  good, 
and  his  plots  rre  sufficiently  interesting  to  induce 
the  reader  to  go  to  the  end  of  them  ;  and  his  books 
have  the  great  merit  (alas  t  too  rare  in  Ihe^e  days) 
of  being  safe  to  put  into  the  hands  of  the  young  of 
either  sex.  V arose  was  an  intense  admirer  of  our 
Walter  Scott,  and  published  a  clever  and  ingenious 
essay,  propcaing  to  show  that  Walter  Bcott  might 
be  considered  the  Rossini  of  literature,  and  Rossini 
the  Walter  Scott  of  music,  which  I  thought  worth 
translating,  and  it  appeared  about  the  period  abov5 
referred  to  in  a  magazine  long  since  defunct. 

M,  H.  R. 

*^S"  VBR8U8  "Z""  (S*** S.  i.  8S>.135, 155, 455,51S.)J 
— UxKDA  dm&  not  know  what  he  would  effect,  ii 
the  st>elhnf;  of  words  were  altered  to  suit  promiDCta-l 
tion.      A   langtiuge  would   be  simply  destroyed,! 
both  a!*  regards  iU  historical   character  and  the  J 


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6^8LU.jttii8,wj  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


<i9 


true  meaning  of  its  words.  Let  me  put  before 
him  tlie  remarks  of  Archbishop  Trencii  on  ihiB 
nubjeet,  with  which  every  person  of  ediicAtign,  I 
abould  imagine,  must  agree  : — 

*  A  wdrd  exiitc  m  truly  for  the  eye  is  for  the  enr,  and 
'm  Kii  hlxhl;  ft^lvaiiced  etatc  of  eoctety,  wberc  reading  is 
ftlmrtii  as  uaiveniLl  as  rpe&kJDg,  a.9  much,  pcrlitpi^  for 
the  firtt  9»  for  the  Iwt.  The  gains  con^reiiuent  un  the 
introduction  of  such  a  cbruige  would  be  very  ftnall^ 
while  the  lo8se§  would  be  enormonfily  grcaL  The  gainii 
would  be  the  fating  of  a  certain  amount  of  labour  in 
the  tcArmng  to  spell;  but  e?en  these  g^iiiu  would  not 
long  remain,  seeing  that  pronunciation  is  itself  con- 
tinually altering ;  custom  is  lord  here  for  better  and  for 
worse ;  and  a  multitude  of  words  are  now  pronounced  in 
a  different  manner  from  that  of  u  hundred  yeara  n,y[t}, 
mo  that,  ere  very  long,  there  would  ogain  be  a  chasm  be- 
tween the  spelling  and  pronunciation  of  wordA,  In 
pbonetic  spelling  lies  the  proposal  that  the  educated 
Kliould.of  free  choice,  plaee  themsekes  in  the  conditions 
and  under  the  dtsail vantages  of  the  i^n^orant  and  un- 
•du^Mtcd,  instead  of  seeking  to  elevate  these  lajt  to 
lh«  ir  own  more  favoored  condition." 

Mny  1  ask  Uneda,  would  he  have  Earl  Beau- 
tip  spell  his  name  **  Bechuiii/' or  fihoiilti  UIa 
:  of  Rutland  address  his  letters  from  '*  Bevor 
ile"?  W.  G.  K. 

Bove, 

Coroner  (/>*»>  S.  i.  4S1.}^A$  Y&u  Like  It^ 
Act  iv.  1 :  Koaalind,  spetiking  of  Leander  s  de^ith, 
»y#,  "  The  foolish  ckronidrrit  of  tkut  age  found  it 
wfts — ^Hero  of  Sestos."  Various  rrities  seem  to 
b«ve  suggested  "  coroner/'  but,  as  far  as  I  know, 
ibis  is  not  borne  out  by  finy  old  t'opies.  It  is 
evident  that  an  inquest  is  alluded  to.  Wuji  the 
word  fhronifUr  uaed  in  this  aense  in  Shakspeare  8 
lime  f  In  ilennj  VIIJ\,  Act  iv.  2,  the  word 
i^hronicUr  is  applied  to  Griffith  by  Queen 
KaiJierine  with  a  somewhat  Biuiihir  incoming. 

Z,  Z. 

TTit^  TiKiM  probablederivationof  this  word  seems 
It*  '  conies  from  the  J^atin  coronator,  a 

cr-.^■  *  * 

**Oqu  axd  thb  Kixo"  (S***  8.  ii.  a)~Thc  book 
H  eoiitled  Is  this,  now  before  nie  : — 

^Ood  k  the  Ring,  or  a  Dialogue  shewing  that  our 
SfOtTnlgnt  Lord  King  lames  being  immediate  vnder 
God  within  his  Dominions,  Doth  rightful]  v  claime 
vlteljoeuer  is  retjuired  by  the  Oath  of  Allegeance, 
11  ftp. ,  $!•%  London :  Imprinted  by  hii  Maiestie*!  fe|ieciali 
Priule<lc9  Aod  Command.    1615." 

I  h.ive  it  also  in  small  quarto,  isi^ued  by  com* 
inund  of  Charles  IL,  1663  ;  on  the  title,— 

*'  ^ '  '  ^V"  coioptlcd  and  printed  by  Speeial  Commiuid 
fit  s,  (of  blessed  Memory  :)   and  now  Com- 

mar  e  reprinted  it  publifhed  by  Uis  3Ii^esty's 

rivkdaanatjon,  for  the  Inttruction  of  all  H,  M/s 
I  la  their  Duty  k  Allegiance." 

I  that  Its  inculcation  by  the  ministers  was 
but  see  **N.  k  Q.,'  2"'*  S,  iv.  141. 
Alexander  GARDyxE, 
iltc^ney. 


^Urenatttoul. 

^OTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc 

Tki  Uistorv  0/  Mtaic  (  Art  atid  Scisnce},  Vol.  L  From 
the  Earliest  Records  to  the  Pall  or  the  Roman  Umpire. 
With  Explanations  of  Ancient  Syatems  of  Music. 
Musical  Instruments,  and  of  the  1'ruc  Physiological 
Basis  for  the  Science  of  Mumc,  whether  Ancient  or 
Modurn.  By  W.  Chappell,  F.8,A.  (Chappell  k  Co. 
and  Simpkiii,  3f  are  hall  A:;  Co.) 
SoMK  years  ago,  at  the  house  of  3fr.  Grote,  Ihst  great 
historian  suggested  to  Mr.  Chappell  that  he  might  most 
worthily  «pply  his  knowledge  and  Echolarfhip  by  writing 
a  history  of  music  as  it  was  known  Mid  pra«:tisid  among 
the  Greeks.  The  subject,  it  may  be  readily  supposed, 
was  not  a  new  one  to  .Mr.  Chappell ;  but  out  of  tne  sug- 
gestion on  the  part  of  Mr.  Grote  has  come  to  us  this 
lirst  volume,  complete  in  itself  luid  sufficiently  described 
in  the  title-page,  of  a  History  of  the  Art  and  f^cience  of 
Muf'ic  general ty.  No  living  man  possesses  higher  quali- 
ftcAtions  for  such  a  task  ;  and,  in  the  volume  before  us, 
Mr.  Chuppell  proves  the  excellence  of  his  qualificutiona 
by  the  way  in  which  he  arrests  the  attc>iition  of  the 
antiquary,  excites  the  admiration  of  the  scholar,  and,  by 
his  geniality  and  grace  of  style,  gives  new  delight  to  tike 
general  reader.  In  the  Introductory  Chapter,  Mr. 
Chnppe]l  demolishes,  good-humourcdly,  the  former  his- 
tories by  Hawkins  and  bv  llurney,  but  he  prefers  Sir 
J<»l)n  to  the  Doctor.  ^Ihe  latter  relied  much  on 
Boetbius,  who  *'  took  up  music  simply  as  a  branch  of 
arithmetic,"  and  who  ^'  could  not  even  tell  whether  a 
Greek  scale  began  at  the  top  or  the  botk»m."  Muste 
owes  less  to  Bgethiu!«  (and  to  those  writers  who  looked 
on  it  as  a  branch  of  astronomy  connected  with  the 
music  of  the  spheres)  than  it  does  to  Ctestbius,  the 
Egyptian  barber,  who  invented  the  hydraulic  organ. 
Mr.  Chappell  has  made  a  working  model  of  this  aneioot 
organ  to  test  the  principle,  and  "  it  answers  perfectly.'* 
Mr.  Chappell  gives  numerous  proofs  of  the  vast  antiquity 
of  the  art  and  «clence  of  music,  all  replete  with  interest. 
His  book  does  honour  to  himself  and  to  literature.  Itis, 
moreover,  well  illustrated,— from  the  frontispiece,  re- 
presenting a  ladies'  musical  party  in  Egypt,  about 
the  time  of  Moses,  to  the  caricature  of  another  party,  in 
mIi  '  ''  -c«  IIL  is  represented,  by  some  audscioaa 
I'  ray,  as  a  lion,  sweeping  the  lyre,  while 

CI  Ii  ,:iring  as  an  ass,  u  crocodile,  and  a  nonie- 

fciipt  aiiinikil,  proudly  accompany  the  Grand  Maestro 
among  musical  majesties.  Mr.  Chappell  ends  his  Tolume 
tn  the  good  old-fa<iinoncd  phrase  "  lAus  Deo  !  ^*  May  he 
be  well  sped  from  the  Source  to  which  he  offers  pratM  in 
the  renmmiler  of  his  ta^k,  with  liealthfortts  accomplish- 
ment, and  long  enju^rnient  from  all  accruing  honour. 
Aifount  of  l/ic  Errr*'if>r^  fif  fiirh/trrf,  fiishf^p  nf  T.n'ndfm^ 
1303,     ciwc*   iff  il      ;^  ■    ""  '     '     '    0/ 

Ex^itr,  1310.     \  the 

]H:»s.4«saion  of  the  1        ^  .'        '    '  .  ^^^d 

from  the  Archives  \ji  the  Ciij/  of  KjLeter     By  the  late 
Vcn.  Henry  Hale,  Archdeacon  of  I^ondon,  and  the 
Rev.   H.  T.    Ellaciimbe.    M.A.,   Rector  of   Clyst  8. 
George,  Devon*    {Printed  for  the  Camden  Society.) 
Tnit  surviving  editor  of  thl«  interemting  volume  needs  no 
introduction  to  the  reiulers  of  "  X.  &  Q./'  the  columns  of 
which  he  has  so  often  enriched  by  his  contributions. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Elkcombe  modestly  assign i  all  the  merits 
of  editorship  to  his  late  venerable  colleague.  Archdeacon 
Uale.     It  i«  only  for  us  to  say  that  jointly  they  have 
produced  a  volume  which  is  full  of  iliustrations  of  the 
episcopal  life,  professionally  and  socially,  as  it  existed 
in  the  lime  of  Richanl  de  Qnivesend  and  Thomas  do 
Button,  at  the  cto»e  of  the  thirteenth  and  at  the  be- 
ginning  of   the   fcHirisexith   csnturka     One   marked 


ISO 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


IS^"  fl.  II.  JuLv  18, 71* 


difference  between  the  two  prtflnteu  is  recorded  in  tie 
Inirodnction.  '*  The  garderote  of  Bi«hop  Button  w(ib 
filled  with  »idce«  and  grocery,  thmt  of  liij^boji  Ornresend 
with  boiika.  *  Archdeacon  U&lo  it  of  opttdoti  that  the 
vj*lue  of  money  when  thise  prelate*  lived  was  not 
firt^rcn,  but  only  three  times  ita  present  value ;  240 
pennies  af  full  weight,  making  20#.  in  tal^,  contained, 
flujB  the  archdeacon,  a«  much  oXyqt  as  ftftj-gevcu  Bbil< 
linga  imd  five  pence  ot  our  present  coin. 
The  Nt^  Quarkrl^  Ma^aLzintf  {qt  July,     (Ward,  Lock 

TnB  reputation  which  the  iVrtP  Qaarttrl^f  boa  aTready 
ftcquired  for  what  inny  be  called  its  *'perauna]'*  illuft- 
Irations  is  excclUntljr'  au^ta*ncd  in  the  July  number  iu 
•*ihe  Personal  ULitory  of  Lord  MftCAuUy/'  by  the  Kov. 
F.  Am^ild.  The  writer,  witli  rca<iy  ncknowleUjzmietit  of 
Loid  Miiciiulay's  great  power^^  rtctiguiiees  xbo  \m  weak- 
nenes  and  defecui,  and  lie  concludes  that  oritioism  not 
4iiigenrruui>,  and  evidence  not  to  be  gainsaid^  have 
aeriuuely  damaged  Lord  Maoaulay,  and  proved  him  to 
be  often  partial  and  unfair  in  hi»  stttttment^.  The 
•*  Student  Guilds  of  Germany"  helps  to  show  that 
4tii.lliMg  bus  become  more  *' burlesque '*  than  heroic, 
though  a  br&ve  young  fellow  niay  still  be  murdered  at 
it  by  a  fool.  The  other  articles  are  all  *'good*';  und 
ftill  higher  prake  ia  due  to  *'  Meliora  Latent,"  which  is 
trortb  more  than  any  score  of  the  noyels  of  the  day« 


M&.  Wm.  Jackson  wfit«a:— *'I  urn  compilinn:  a  pedi- 

jjree  of  the  Rkbraond  family,  of  UiKbbeat  '^  '  ' 'utn- 
berland,  from  wil]4?>,  pnri.sh  regiaterf,  and  ual 

sources,  and  am  very  de§iruu9  to  eeo  a  pri'  Jtcd 

book,  entitled  Tht  Life  of  tStr  Francis  Dnjdt,  H;iUi  soihc 
Amount  of  tht  JHchmond  FamU^  of  highltmd  CatiU, 
Will  any  poBsewor  of  the  volume  Jtindiy  allow  me  to 
infpect  tbe  tame  for  a  few  dajrsi 

'*  Fleatham  Huose,  8t,  Bees  by  Cam  forth/' 
|TniOLTrn  wishes  tbe  name  of  an  illustrated  work  con* 
Jining  the  cotit.  of  anni,  crest,  and  motto  of  all  person ■ 
irao  have  bad  them  granted  by  the  Henilds*Collegef  uid 
the  reasons. 

Goon  Nsw9  FftOM  Frawce. — Where  Young^i  Night 
Tfuruohit  and  Hervey's  Mtditatton*  were  once  »o 
popular,  we  learn,  with  gati^f action,  that  Cowpcr  Las,  at 
laat.  been  introduced  to  tbe  acceptance  of  the  French 

Cublic-  Thi*  has  been  done  by  M,  LC'on  Boucher,  in  a 
undiiomc  volume,  entitled  WUiiatn  Coftper^  *a  Corre- 
$pondaHce  tt  §es  Potixu. 

Mt3*  OF  LKTTStis  will  be  interested  in  tbe  new  re- 
search e«  on  the  history  of  the  discovery  of  the  VenuA  of 
ililo  which  have  bctn  made,  by  M,  Jean  Aicard^  among 
documeiits  hitherto  unpublished,  »nd  which  he  has  pub- 
lished uiider  the  title  La  IVnui  dt  Milo. 

We  thankfully  acknowledge  tbe  receipt  of  a  draft  for 
100  dollars  (18(.  4#.  4{/.)«  tlie  frenerous  contribution  of 
Mr.  Kesin  A.  Wight,  of  Kew  York,  to  the  fund  being 
nused  for  Mrs.  MoJcon. 


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ahtl  word*  ;  ' 

required,     \\\  .^  .,.„,     ^  ^  ,.,    ,-....  ._.,.:  u  fjui 

respondent  do€9  not  thmJt;  icortk  ihe  trtmbU  ^f  wrUin 

In  the  "Curious  Tr^asonnblc  Letter'  (5"'  Sr  it.  6)  i 
^cfcrence^  by  nurobtra  at  the  foot  of  the  letter  re 
spunded  to  tnc  italics  in  tite  written  letter ;  but  whc;ll 
the  letti?r  wa^  printed  tbe  tiun»ber«  no  longer  referred 
corrootly  to  tho  trceuonnblc  word*.  Thia  is  now 
ri^htud  below: — 

line         wor4 


word 

line          word 

i 

1  Thin    U 

5 

2  are         5 

11 

2  itVTfV*    4 

1 

li  teen       4 

11 

S  MuU     10 

line 

0 
10 
11 


.  tbe 

<'';hj**d_ 
from 


4  of 

6  lin< 

7  fwef  y 
7  ui 

pLTptFT  OaBUY  ELWE^.— \^-  ^ "  -^  **• 

ing  reply  from  a  well -401 
portrait  you  forwarded  to  ' 
14  a  portrait  of  Hans  Bolbtiu  the  yuuLger, 
picture  which  has  been  engruvcd  more  thdn  once.  Thf| 
crik^inal  (print)  of  the  enctotied  l«  not  known  to  mo,  bu 
other  copies  from  tbe  picture  are  known.  The  engra'v 
mime,  which  your  correspondent  gives  iia  *  I^ailin_^ 
or  some  such  name,'  is  probably  Benjumin  Iteading,  wb« 
worked  in  London  in  the  bitter  half  of  the  last  ccnturv. 

•*F.  G.  Stepdexs/' 

F*  E.  Hoe  (Sabibur^^)  will  And  a  large  amount  of  in-] 
forniatiork  concerning  the  origin  and  btbliogm]jbv 
Tfu  Poemt  of  A  fairs  of  SUtte  in  '*  i\.  k  Q./*  -4^*  S.  iL  ij 
244,  3f>l,  409,  470,  In  the  piipers  indicated  by  the 
references  the  hiitory  of  the  book,  and  ita  various  cdi-^ 
tions,  is  very  fully  illustrated. 

Wkstoate. — Such  false  inielhgence  is  nothing  new. 
David  was  told  that  Absalom  had  stain  *' all  the  king^ 
sons"  when  he  hod  slain  but  one^  Amnon^   and  the 
rest  were  galloping  tbcir  mules  towards  David^s  bottse,. 
But,  fast  as  they  galloped,  tbe  false  tiews  went  faster 

Jklesaweth.— See  "  N.  &  Q./'  T*  S.  xl  343,  3Tk:  3"^ 
S.    li.  104,   285;   4"'  S.  xii-  MO,  357.     The  vesselwatfl 
named  the  "  Uhkttou,'*  after  the  pansh  of  that  name  iai 
Bunta.    She  performed  the  exploit  in  1796.    See  Jam' 
Naval  Iliftort/^  vol.  i. 

W,  A.  a— For  articles  on  Rotten  Row,  B«e  "  N.  Ir  C 
1*'  S.  i.  441  ;  ii.  235 ;  v.  40,  360 ;  2-*  S.  iv.  JifiS ;  8^*  al 
213,361,443;  xii,  423,  500. 

George     Stepbekj     (Chcapingbavenj    DetmiiirlL)^ 
"  Bonnyclapper."    See  '*X.  &.  Q,/*  1**  8.  vi.  318;  %^ 
375:  4^8.  ix.  29*5. 

li.  S.  B.— Pleaao  subdivide  tbe  query ;  it  is  retume 
for  that  purpose. 

A>  DE  L,  U. — Probably  as  old  as  brides  and  sunsbiac.  ' 

Ve  WIT  AS.— Name  and  address  of  writer  wanted. 

B.  Y.  H.— Next  week. 

yOTJCE, 

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Editor  "—Advertisements  and  Business  Letters  to  ' 
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munications  which,  for  any  reason,  wc  do  not  ptint ;  1 
to  this  rule  wc  can  make  no  exccntlou. 

To  all  communications  should  bo  aihxed  tbe  nvme  1 
address  of  tbe  sender^  not  neccsaarily  for  publication,  I 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faitli* 


V&tt  J«LT^,74I 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


61 


tA^JTDON^  8A  TURD  A  T,  JUL  V  zs.  18^4. 


CONTENTS, --N'  30. 


^  Fsroytb,  the  Fiwt  Prindpwl  of  Bnseoaic  CoUei^^ 
64^1^fT»  Epttapli,  6J3 — Itmulttr  AoosntiiftUoni— 
l^LUnn^  rsralltli— IktokJi  of  Tr&vel— Maij  Q\]««d  of  SooIb 
■M  tt<r  AocoMti-^Kirclx's  Com«t  of  Iti^O  i7X  (MK 

— PoHw,  or  La  IlodW"-Pliii&liig— Clw-lc«  F*oiils'— 
of  WtUIuu  1 ,  67-^o«iiiift  Soutbcotc— SituUe  VVanled 
—••On*  raati'i  mMV"  Ac.— silver  Cmmwtll— *•  D«lii0log7" 
^Aslbof  Wftotod— Fhkm  Sir  B^^tnirt  WLl»OQ*t  Noto-Boolc— 
T1i«  BAlloU'The  Fyudani  Moo  urn  on  t  in  GMldriy  Clionsli, 
IK— Sebtpf*  or  Sibley— The  Willow  rattflm  —  "  Ptuket '^ — 
dem^**A  Wftlk  In  atiitluiii^"  6D. 

I;— The  FiffbUat  Uie  laches  of  Perth,  69  — "The 
Ptcbirt  GsmoTy/'  70— FfoW-Loro  :  Cwrr,  Inij,  Arc, 
ClSfh  of  Burnt— The  fimperor  AleiiAdor  II.,  72— 
— cv  Sdwud  MuU  Wlaglleld,  73— '*Tli«  Thr«e  IlMn"— 
*•  Pr»«hli«^  •  —  lloTCunr  Water  —  "  No  whon  "  —  MAfch 
O^i  — "  Pm**— Christy  CMl^ctlons^*'  Yaniry  Moniay  "— 
••Th«  Bona/  Hotiic  ^  ;,ow"— 

niah«th  Ouiniag  —  m,"  or 

niM  "Klbh*ocl"^TJi  -Drury 

Btmm  —  ■•  SoliiUdtf "  —  "  l^e  ciuin wy :  Gondii  li  Fiit*  "  — 
'*Fnl  lo  buck"— Gip«y  BurUb- Why  Adun  OMazii  North, 

fig«t>  »0d    West— fdri^atliUn    MoQOUiOA^Quoitfi  — 

/  flKftllT— "Th-  w ":  Bittern,  7«^Col-  in 

CM'fiU'-Prkcea  ct  Koynl  — 8.   CAttMrine  of 

— r^^l-nui  -(  it    AprO    SO,   l&a9— Rev. 

B  «  I  r,cull!ir  i^p'-IMoe  —  *' P«>nteco«t"*  m  a 

-A  Swale  F*mUy— Flogging  in  kichooU— 

TIm  9»ir.  <  ^impcoa  &  Co.,  7^^ — "l>mld"  —  The 


SPELLING  REF0RM8.— No.  IL 

I  I  would  next  invite  the  &tt4?ntion  of  the  rwideri 
mi  "N,  &  Q.y"  with  a  view  of  reform,  to  the 
Mfewin^  ruUa  of  spelling  r — 

L  MotDOS^rUAblea  ending  Id  oqc  con^naDt,  pre- 
oeded  Uj  odj  due  vowe^  double  tb€  luftt  letter 
when  a  suffix  Veg^nning  with  a  Tovrel  u  added. 

SL  DJaiyUablet  aoceDtod  on  the  kst  syMablo, 
Ibe  same  oondltioiUi  are  treated  in  the  same 


negatives  of  these  two  rules  are : — 

L  Monosytiables,  and  aliso  diissyUAblea-accented- 
«ft-the-last-8vllablef  enilitif^  in  a  single  consonant, 
db  not  double  it:  (1)  if  more  thun  one  vowel  imme- 
dm$^  preocdea  it ;  (2)  If  the  liD^t  l«tter  but  one 
tt  a  oonBonanto 

li.  Ko  diaiyUabte,  even  if  it  ends  in  one  con* 
Mmm^  ptecvded  bj  only  one  vowel,  doubles  the 
Jail  miat  oo  r^seivtng  the  now  part,  unless  the 
aoeml  of  tk»  word  is  on  its  final  sylinble. 

Tbii«  :  rttj^  end?*  in  orio  oonwniint,  and  has  only 
m»  if,  heni'o   w#^  are  to  WTit« 

^f  <-ed,  f/itn?<-ing^  &c» 

IJLiL\ii  na-  in   one  vowel    before   the 

Iteat  muQOUiM  i:^  BOt  to  be  doubled  under 

tiv  C0ciiinitau<'('-^  xi..uf:-d^ 

Eaiairr  hoi  not  a  vowel  at  all  preceding  tiie 


final  consonant,  so  the  nde  does  not  apply  to  words 
of  that  tj'pe. 

Similarly,  peter',  accented  on  the  la»t  gylkble, 
ends  in  one  consonnnt,  and  that  coasonant  is  pre- 
ceded by  only  one  vowel,  hence  we  are  U}  write 
df/etr-cdf  <hferr-'ing,  dtferr-ei,  ^c. 

But  DirVKR,  although  it  terminatefl  in  a  idmilor 
Wii)%  renifiina  unchanged  throughout,  becanse  it  is 
Dot  accented  on  the  la^t  syllable. 

In  like  manner  reveal'  uiukes  ret'f<^^  ^^  -  ^^?- 
in^,  &c.,  b^jcause  lAore  than  one  vov  i-* 

the  final  consonant;  and  disturb'  maL..  „.  ...6- 
ance,  lUsturb-eTf  disturb -ed,  &c.,  because  the  final 
consonant  is  not  immediately  preceded  by  a  vowel 
at  all 

There  seems  a  certain  method  in  these  rules,  and 
no  doubt  they  may  be  applied  to  many  words,  but 
they  have  these  ^eat  objectiona :  (1)  They  have 
so  manj"  ''ifs'*  and  "buts'^  that  it  is  very  hard  to 
teach  thera  to  childt^n  ;  (2)  There  are  »o  many 
exceptions  that  pnKttcally  they  are  of  very  little 
value  ;  and  (3)  The  whole  theory  is  based  on  an 
abmirdit^'. 

The  root  of  the  evil  in  this  :  we  have  most  iin- 
wisely  rejected  accents,  and  have  resorted  to  sundry 
shifts  to  compeneate  for  them  :  one  way  h  to  insert 
an  extra  vowel,  as  biT,  bier;  Utyfeet;  girts,  gooMe; 
rip,  rtfipy  &c.;  but  the  most  general  plan  h  the 
clumsy  addition  of  a  mute  e,  as  hiis,  rtousf ;  f^r, 
Jire;  fyl,//«,*  Ml,  idk;  w^d,  i(?i<&J ,-  fif,^f<?;  giSt, 
gaU^  and  so  on. 

Thus,  the  old  English  thin  has  the  t  short,  but 
th(n  the  i  long.  Hanng  abolished  the  accent  of 
the  latter  word,  and  wanting  to  show  that  the  % 
is  long,  we  have  added  a  raute  e  to  the  end  of  the 
word,  converting  thin  into  thine. 

This  very  foolish  contrivance  has  involved  us  in 
a  host  of  troubles,  and  practically  deprived  us  of 
the  valuable  service  of  a  final  t  or  «  sonant.  Thus 
we  cannot  in  English  express  the  Hri  me 

for  Juno  (ntr6)i  nor  Fhow  whether  ■>*:$ 

is  a  word  of  four  or  five  syllables,  y1^M/^';.w-v  of 
three  or  four.  The  kw  word  ^frra^munire  would  be 
pronounced  in  three  syllables  by  the  untaught,  and 
not  one  in  a  hundred  could  say  if  zancn  is  to  l>e 
pronounced  sm/ia,  or  zn-ncs.  I  question  wli»^hct 
any  of  the  raoat  learned  readers  of  "N,  &  Q," 
have  not  occasionally  stumbled  on  a  word  ending 
in  f  or  «  which  has  not  suggested  the  question, 
**  I  wonder  how  this  word  h  pronounced";  for  my 
own  part  I  candidly  confer  I  never  dare  utter 
such  a  word  in  public  till  I  have  heard  it  pro- 
nonnced,  or  have  solved  the  mystery  in  some  other 
way.  This  ought  not  to  be,  and  would  not  be^ 
but  for  the  reason  objected  to. 

What  hi»H  been  said  above  ia  only  half  the  cviL 
We  have  lengthened  the  once-removed  vowel  by 
lidding  U*  the  word  t  tnuk,  but  tind  this  lett-eir 
sadly  in  the  way  when  a  suffix  beginning  «vCVi*. 
vowel  la  retiulred.    T^e  lot  ^il»xcv^\^  ^<£.  v»3^>:vx^ 


^^i 


62 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I5*8.1I.Jetr2S;7l. 


word  cdr[i\].  Vie  drop  the  accent,  and  cornpen- 
ate  for  its  loss  by  t  muif,  converting  the  word 
tr  into  care  (an  oblique  case  of  the  original  one). 
7e  find  the  e  troublesoine  when  -f^,  -ing^  &c,,  are 
to  be  added ^  so  we  drop  it  out^  writing  car-cd  and 
ear-in^,  as  if  from  **  cxir,''  a  carringe  ;  we  pick  it 
lip  again  in  eare-fulj  care-kssy  &c.,  and  all  this  has 
to  be  maatered  before  we  can  spell  care  and  its 
compounds.  Probably  it  would  be  difficult  to 
introduce  back  the  di^cjirded  accents^  otherwise 
the  ob\dous  remedy  would  be  c<ir,  CKiredf  caring^ 
carfuUy  cArUsSf  but  if  the  e  mute  must  be  retained, 
the  next  best  way  is  the  one  ^ug^ested  in  the 
previous  pajjer,  car«,  cared,  cardngy  carefully  earc- 
l€4i$j  the  e  belong  merged  into  the  e  of  the  suffix  in 
the  ^cond  case,  and  retained  in  all  the  other 
compounds. 

Even  here  the  uiischief  ceases  not;  like  evetr 
lie  it  needs  a  blind  red  others  to  make  it  stand. 
Having  absurdly  enough  added  e  mute  to  lengthen 
a  vowel,  we  next  lulopt  the  rule  that  the  vowel 
precediurf  the  eon  sou  ant  shall  be  long  imlhout  the 
c,  provided  the  suffix  attached  begins  with  any 
vowel  whatsoever,  as  -ana'.^  -ant,  -uij?,  -ity^  -ol^  and 
so  on.  Tlius  taring  [car-ing]  is  supposed  to  have  </ 
long  ;  droning  [dron-ing]j  o  long  ;  driit-ing  nud 
driv-cr^  i  long  ;  and  so  on.  We  have  thus  driven  * 
oui'selves  into  a  corner  with  a  Urge  class  of  words 
**  ending  in  a  single  consonant  preceded  by  only 
one  vowel," and  to  meet  the  difficiilty  adopt  another 
shift,  fpite  as  absurd  as  any  of  the  preceding, 
which  13  this :  we  gJiortcu  a  vowel  once-removed 
by  doubling  the  final  consonant*  Thus,  as  skin- 
ing  is  already  assumed  to  be  shm-ingj  with  the 
I  long,  sin-ing  must  be  changed  into  sinn-ing  to 
show  to  the  eye  that  the  vowel  is  short,  j'et  have 
we  »muoii^,  inshmati^  shictry  slnltkr^  and  so  on. 

I  freely  grant  that  our  favourite  ''Anglo- Saxon  *' 
had  an  c  accidental  (not  mute),  but  then  like  u  it 
was  declensioniil,  and  marked  out  a  series  of 
suffixes  for  the  several  caaes  of  the  noun  ;  having 
abolished  inflexional  cases,  we  have  no  need  of  the 
declensional  sign. 

I  also  allow  that  our  ancient  English  in  some 
instances  doubled  the  final  consonant,  but  pro- 
bably all  such  words  ended  originally  in  double 
consonants,  one  of  which  had  been  sufiereci  to 
drop  out  of  tise :  thus  '*  bed ''  is  a  corrupt  form  of 
hedd,  **  den  '•  of  deuTiy  **  mim  "  of  numny  "  thyn  " 
[thin]  of  tkynny  '*  wit "  of  mtt,  **  wan  "  of  tcanHy 
&c.  So  tliat  our  obvious  plan  is  either  to  restore 
the  lost  consonant  to  the  primitive  word,  and 
retain  it  throughout,  or  to  drop  it  in  the  aimple 
word,  and  in  all  its  compounds.  As  the  matter 
now  stands,  we  blow  hot  and  cold  with  the  same 
breatL 

Let  ua  now  state  once  more  one  item  of  the  rule 

•  How  i*  it  tliat  driven  hu  o  ihort  e,  according  to 
ipdling  uiftIog7  ?  All  !■  pUin  in  the  original  drifC^n], 
to  drifc ;  dm/f  drove ;  drjftn,  driven. 


given  above.  DiasyUables,  unless  they  are  accente 
on  the  final  s^dlable,  never  double  the  last  con 
sonant  when  a  new  syllable  is  added  ;  they  do  i 
if  more  than  one  vowel  precedes  the  final  eon 
sonant ;  they  do  not  if  no  vowel  at  all  precedes  i^ 
they  do  not  even  when  they  end  in  a  single 
sonant,  preceded  by  a  single  Towel,  because  th 
accent  falls  in  the  wrong  place.  The  word  giv 
above,  by  way  of  illustration,  was  differ^  whidi  i 
compared  with  ik/er.  The  latter  being  acoento 
on  the  last  sj'llable  makes  dtftrr-td^  dtferr-ing^  &c 
the  former  not  being  accented  on  the  last  syllabll 
makes  differ -cd^  differ-ing. 

The  lii-st  palpable  observation  is  that  the  ruU 
will  not  apply  even  to  the  favourable  examp' 
selected,  for  dcfer-eac^y  de/tr*cnt%al^  are  as  mud 
under  the  rule  as  dcferr-cr  and  dcftrr-ed.     If  it  ( 
objected  that  the  accent  on  derercnoe  is  thron 
bock,  and  in  deferen'tial  is  thrown  fom'ard,  imotT 
condition  must  be  added  to  the  nde,  namely, 
lung  jis  the  accent  remains  on  the  same  syllable,^ 
rule  which  woidd  not  bear  the  slightest  examinatiQ 

We   have  nine   dissyllables    ending   in  p, 
accented  on  the  last  syllable  ;  six  of  these  ob 
the  rule,  and  three  are  nonconfonmsts.     For  ( 
ample : — 

Gos'sir  makes  gompp-tVy  gommp-td^  gossip 

Kic^KAr  makes  lcidiiajpp-€/ryhiana.i>p-td^  kxdnaf 
ing. 

WoRSHir  makes  tcorshipp-er,  wcrshipjt-cd^y 
Mpp~iiuf. 

Manifestly  accent   has   no  part  or  lot  in 
matter. 

The  six   conforuxin^'   words    are   fillip,   gall 
scallop,  scollop,  [delvelop,  [enjvelop,  and  wallop. 

Fillip  mi\kes  Jillip*ed^  jUHp-mg* 

Gallop  makes  galU^p^de^  ^awop-er,  gt 
gaUop'ing, 

Scallop  makes  scallop'tdy  seallop'ing. 

Scollop,  the  same. 

Wallop  makes  loallop-ery  icalhp-cd,  icall&v^in 

Dc  and  e»-VELOP  moke  dcvclott-ed,  dti^ticp 
dcvelop-ing;   and  "envelop"   follows    the 
example. 

As  there  is  no  eailhly  reason  why  the  first 
words  of  this  team  should  kick  over  the  ti 
let  them  be  at  once  reduced  to  order,  and 
gom]^€T^  hidnap'CT,  worship- er^  and  uniformly 
the  simple  word  intact  in  all  the  compounds. 

The  refractory  words  in  /  are  more  numerooa. 
There  are  altogether  seventy- two  words  of 
syllables,  accented  on  the  first  syllable,  nnd 
forming  to  the  conditions  of  having  one  consoni 
for  the  last  letter,  preceded  by 'only  one  voweh 
these  words  thirty -six  conform  to  the  nile, 
thirty-six  are  a  rule  unto  themselves. 

The  simplest  way  of  exliibiting  these  words  will 
be  to  put  them  in  vowel  order. 

There  are  twenty?  ix  in  aZ^  three  of  which  rel 
against  the  rule. 


t: 


&  n.  JoiT  26, 71.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


63 


Equal  mhkm  equall'tHf  eauaU-iti^,  nnd,  to  make 
BUkU^FB  worse,  equiU-itij^  aUhough  the  accent  is 
mittllt  to  the  last  syUable  of  the  simple  word, 

Maarhal  makes  mar$hall-cd,  manhaU*ti\  trwir- 
t^M-in^^  but  we  have  manhal'tiea^  matthal-ship^ 
l«  perplex  young  spellers. 

diOKAL  18  the  third  licentioua  word.  Tt  tnnkea 
ii^naU-^,  i%tp%fdl-ing^  &c.,  but  #i^ia/-»V. 

these  three  wanis  are  ontroted  by  tvrenty- 
they  ought,  without  farther  question,  to  drop 

t-niHrnitrnertvrj*  if. 

thpee  conform  in^'^  words  which  retain 
itKumils  the  original  form  are  hmtal^ 
"ntdt  fortnaif  frugal ^  loculj 
'\  tpfcialjVmal^  nnd  vocal; 
ttdd  tiuiftUil^  /tderal,  ifeneralt  Wtcral^ 
^iiaiional^  and  rational. 
tho*»e  ending  in  -d,  the  number?  nre  nearly 
rcverseil»  thirty  double  the  hust  /,  and  four  do  not, 
■o  here  ia  a  yeiy  nice  tnemaria  Ucknka  for  the 
yottM:— 

1.  Nercr  double  the  laat  lot  ten 

2.  Jn  the  twenty-si^c  words  ending  in  -al  there 
Vt  t^ —  >^^^  ^  -  ^,  which  must  be  learnt  by  rote. 

*^  liiree  words  ending  in  -«  there 

nf?  t't»'>u8,  but  it  will  be  more  easy  to 

leftTi  the  three  which  are  not  exceptions. 

4,  1-  ,--.  -IX  words  ending  in  -il  three  go  one 

Iwijr  md  three  another;  the  learner  mar  master 
b.  Of  the  eight  remaining  (in  -ol  and  -uf),  none 
wm  nfiiictory.  Our  examiners  are  surprised  that 
oor  children  spell  so  badly  ;  would  it  be  less  than 
j»  miracle  if  they  could  cram  all  this  into  their 
hmAt  at  the  age  of  eight  or  nine  ? 
Hi*  three  ending  in  -tl  which  remain  true  to  the 
toI*  are — 

CtttsRi^  ikiUl-tA,  fhiul-in^,  chistl-er* 


PaEat 

ti»  (one 
The   !: 
the  tin^i  >.v 

£3!r 


*l  [lir  ucctMK;. 

•nforming  won! a  which  double 

',  -^  Tn«/,  dtaptl  (not  c/www^-rf/), 

/d,  ((rivd,  {€in}lHiwdf  SOmd 

.J     ,,....,/     J,o..*v7    7...^./^ 


The  other  words  in  I  conforming  to  the  con* 
ditions  remain  unchanged  throughout :  as  CAEol 
makes  carol-ed^  earol-iiuft  caTol-rr;  consul,  eon* 
snl-ar,  coni^ul-aUj  &c. ;  oaitbol,  gamhol'ing^  gavi- 
hol'td^  &c. ;  sTMBot,  f!ymhoUis£^  symboUical^  &c. 

The  number  of  exceptions  in  p  and  I  are  just 
equal  to  the  number  which  conform  to  the  rule, 
and  the  question  is,  which  should  be  made  to  give 
\^'ay  \  There  cannot  be  a  doubt,  that  the  best  plan 
would  be  to  let  every  word  remain  in  its  simple 
state  throughouti  and  merely  add  the  sufHx,  espe- 
cially as  many  of  those  which  double  the  last 
letter  with  some  b affixes  do  not  double  it  with 
others :  thus,  aqimll-ing,  fqual-ize,  e^iuai-ihj ;  goi- 
pell-erj  go9j>d-izey  &c.  Even  if  we  except  the  suiHx 
izfj  we  have  the  rebellious  tranquill'Vus  to  con- 
tradict lis. 

The  sum  of  the  matter  is  this  ;  at  once  abolish 
the  supemumemty  p  in  the  compounds  of  jomj), 
kidnap  J  and  wordiip. 

At  once  abolish  the  supernumerary  I  in  the 
compounds  of  tqual  (half  of  which  go  one  way  and 
half  another),  rnarthal  and  tigncU. 

At  once  abolish  the  supernumerary  t  in  the 
compounds  of  bei'il  and  Hvet,  caril  and  tranqni!. 

There  will  then  remain  the  thirty  in  -e/,  and  I 
have  no  hesitation  in  saying  let  the  useless  letter 
be  dropped  without  remorse. 

By  this  means  we  lose  nothings  and  simplify  the 
spelling  of  a  large  number  of  wordn. 

£.  OoBiiAM  Brewer. 

Lavant,  Chichester. 

[Da.  Baswsa  s  replies  to  comments  on  hEs  "SpsUiag 
Keformfl*'  are  deferred  till  he  hu  concluded  the  main 
subject.] 

(To  hi  €0ntinutd.) 


)'md^  and  travd, 
i\  double  the  tiital  I  are — 
MKVisL,  k:t'Ut'€il,   bcnU-ing^    and 


1 

Bkviiu    and 
h^mH-inij. 

r 

1 

Thm  llir«9  wmfonni«t«  toe  civil,  civil-ian,  cm7- 

id,  r  :  ■ 
I' 


rranfiuilt^i:.^!^  &c.  (not 


^♦^nled  kidneys*'),  divil-idi, 


SHAKflPEARIANA. 
Measuek  for  Measure,  Act  i.  bc.  1,  IL  6-7 
(S^**  S.  i.  3t)4.)— Mr.  R  J,  Fuknivall's  nostrum 
is  but  a  colourable  variation  of  Mr,  Spedding^s 
**  I  add  Commission  ample,"  &c*  Both  commit  a 
fault  in  '*  /  add/'  which  pronoun  cannot  govern 
"  let "  in  the  next  line.  Theobald,  Hanmer,  and 
Tyrwhiit  avoide*!  this,  by  reading  respectively, 
**  you  add/'  "  yov  joyn/'  and  "  you  p^it."  If  these 
emendations  are  on  the  right  scent,  it  would  seem 
that  we  should  read — 

"  But  that  to  you  ■ufSclency  [you  take 
Thiiyour  ComniimonJ,  at  your  worth  is  able. 
And  fct  them  work," 
i, «.,  "  Ami  that  you  let  them  work  together  for 
the  public  weal"  Jabcz. 

Athenasum  Club. 

P.S.— 8.  T.  P.  (5*>»  S.  L  263)  will  find  Bddami 
for  "Bcdhim'*  (King  John,  iL  2)  in  Ingleby*s 
CompkU  VHt^  (ff  thi  Sh4tks}}crf  Controvi'nyt  18(51, 
p.  205.  The  word  al»o  occurs  in  the  sama  ^^a^^ 
IV.  2  ;  but,  all  the  same,  '*  BiB^^m"  \a  tnj^vV. 


m 


u 


JOTES  AND  QUERIES.  ts^an.Jn.tSp.'yc- 


Grkene's  **  UrsTART  CHOW." — I  do  Dot  remem- 
ber to  have  s^en  it  pointed  out  that  the  epithi't 
"  crow,"  applied  by  Greene  to  Shukspeare  in  the 
GrmUworih  of  Wii^  15d2,  had  been  previously 
applied  to  Greene's  opponents  by  his  friend  and 
fiily,  Eliote.  in  the  French  sonnet  prefiaced  to 
FfTvnitdes  ilu  BlaeksfniXh^  1588,  As  the  passage 
m  not  quoted  in  Mr.  Dycfi'a  Life  of  Grmifj  I 
pve  it : — 

*<CoiiTmgej  doBC  je  dis,  mon  amy  Greene,  covjnge  : 
M^priie  del  chiens,  corb-e»ux  ct  chathuans  U  rage : 
JBi  ({(lorieax)  endure  letir  muklignantc  furie. 
Zojlo  urricire,  arriere  Momus  ohien  enrage, 
Furieux  naiustin  hurlant  au  croiasant  argentc : 
Greene  jamais  Dnyre  sauroii  ta  calomnie.*" 

The  existence  of  a  lively  feud  of  some  years' 
standing  between  Greene  and  the  players  has  not, 
I  think,  been  sufficiently  considered  by  niaoy  of 
the  writers  who  h&ve  commented  upon  the  "w  ell- 
known  passage  of  the  Groaisimrth. 

C.  Elliot  Browne, 

In  Shakspeare's  play  of  Th^  Tempest,  Act  iv.  sc  1, 
Fertlinand,  in  replying  to  Prosperous  injunctions  as 
to  his  bebaTiouT  towards  Miranda,  says : — 

''  Ai  I  hope 
For  quiet  dayi,  fair  ietuei  and  long  life. 
With  rack  love  as  *tia  now,  the  murkiest  den, 
The  mof t  opportune  place,  the  etrong'st  tuggiiatioti 
Our  woTser  genius  can.  shall  never  mdt 
Mine  honour  into  lust,*'  ke. 

So  far  as  I  am  aware^  this  passage  baa  hitherto 
gone  unchallenged,  zmd  yet  it  seema  to  contain  a 
misprint  of  no  small  importance  «»  regaida  the 
cleame«s  of  the  idea  it  is  meant  to  express.  Is  it 
not  pr<»babte  that  Sbakspeare  int-cnded  Ferdinand 
to  say  that  no  conjuncture,  however  pressing,  of 
iimt,  place,  and  ijidmatimi,  should  overcome  his 
sense  of  duty  :  and  that,  oonseauently,  instead  of 
**  den,"  in  line  3,  we  should  read  e'en,"  or  "  gt'd." 
It  is  easy  to  see  how,  without  much  asaLatfl-nce  from 
bad  penmanship,  the  one  word  may  have  lapsed  into 
the  other.  It  is  not  easy  to  see  how,  in  such  a 
mind  afl  that  of  Ferdinand,  the  idea  of  a  "  den  *' 
should  at  all  connect  itself  with  the  supposition  to 
which  he  was  referring.  And  a  still  stronrjci 
argument  against  the  present  reading  is,  that  the 
tantoloCT  displayed  in  the  use  of  both  "  den  *^  and 
**  pliice^  indicates  a  slovenlinesa  of  composition, 
not  to  say  confusion  of  thought,  which  we  do  not 
often  find  in  8hak6pe&ie.  C.  T. 

Liverpool. 

Favour, — 

"  S]pe«dL  Is  ihe  not  hard-faToored,  Sir  ? 
Vol.  Not  10  fair^  boy,  aa  well-favoured." 

Tico  Omilemen  of  VwronOf  it  1« 

I  How  H^-^^  /'livttfr  in  the  old  writers  oome  to  bear 
bis    1  Is  it  a  oorruptton  of  faiturt^ 

atuic  .  ..  evidently  refers  to  features*  not  comr 
plexioD,  ais  the  above  passage  shows.       F.  J.  V, 


Was  HASiLfiT  FatI  (5***  S.  i.  484. V- If  Mn, 
KEifNEDir  refers  to  the  Cambridge  Shakmptare^ 
edited  by  MeF^rs.  Wright  and  Clark,  he  willUnii  he 
has  been  anticipated  in  the  suggestion  that  "fill** 
is  ik  misprint  for  '^  faint.''  I  have  no  doubt  of  imch 
being  ihe  cose.  Jatbxc 

Mr.  Spedding  has  just  sent  me  two  re^amuDtge- 
ments  of  passages  in  Lmr^  which  he  made  thirtyj 
two  years  ago,  and  which  I  agree  with  him  in 
thinking  manifestly  right.    The  tizst  is  nftneiMMiiJ 
as  a  pendant  to  its  foregoing  lines^ —  ^ 

"  They  flattered  me  like  a  dog ;  and  told  me  I  bad 
white  hairs  in  my  beard  ere  the  black  onei  weie  Hufv.** 

(A  reproof  of  the  flattery  must  follow  this.) 
second  makes  better  metie,  F.  J.  F, 

In  AWs  Well  that  Ends  Well  (Act  il  so.  1)  ^ 
find— 

"  Oft  expectation  fails,  and  moat  oft  there. 
Where  most  it  promisca."' 

Had  he  in  hi^  thoughts  the  character  of  Gftlbft  I 
represented   in   Ta^^itus  {RisL,  L   49)2 — *'"" 
privato  visus,  dum  privatus  fuit,  et  omniu 
sensu  capax  imperu,  nisi  imperAsset.''    It  is  i 
that  one  of  the  sayings  (cbtiv.)  of  La 
cauld  is  based  upon  it— "II  eat  plus 
paraitre  digne  des  emplois  rju^on  n^a  paa  i 
eeux  que  Ton  exerce,"  which  is  proved  eT€( 
to  be  true  of  the  political  world. 

0.   T.  EAMAfiB. 


MATTHEW  SMYTH.  THE  FIB8T  PRlNCrPAL  OF 
BRAZENOSE  COLLEGE,  OXFORD. 

Mr.  Churton,  in  his  Lives  of  the  FQund^sri 
Brazmose,  mentions  the  above  as  one  of  the  I " 
men  of  Bishop  Smyth,  but  he  was  unable  to  dl^ 
cover  the  exact  degree  of  rchUionship  in  wh*  "" 
Matthew  stood  to  that  prelate ;  for  (says  he) 
of  the  pedigrees  which  I  have  seen  acknoi 
him,  nor  have  I  been  able,  from  any  other  aij 
fully  to  authenticate  the  fact  that  he  was  of  1 
the  Founder/' 

By  his  will,  dated  December  11,  1547,  V 
Smyth  constituted  his  nephew  WiUiiu 
B.D.,  parson  of  Barton-in- the- Clay,  aiiu 
Morwent,  his  executors  ;  bequeatluog  a  tenemefl 
and  lands  in  Sutton,  in  the  parish  of  Prtscot, 
Lancaster,  to  his  nephew  Baldwin  Smyth,  and  I 
heirs,  on  condition  thjxt  they  should  pay  tw^en^ 
shillings  yearly  to  the  usher  of  Famwortn  school : 

"The  place  of  bis  birth  iLancashire),  the  sihjation  < 
his  cBtate,  and  the  term  of  hia  bequestg  (»> 
ton),  concar  to  proTe  him  to  have  been  a br: i 
Cnerdley  family.    If  his  nephews,  William  h 
were  the  two  brothers  so  named^  aoni  of  Bol 
as  stated  in  two  of  the  pedifrrees,  he  must  I» 
brother  of  ihe  Bishop  of  Lincoln  who  has  e&cuped  the 
r«eearchee  of  horalda  and  genealogist?. 

*' Baldwin  Smjth,  a  name  that  rarely  oocutr  eZsewkerer 
WM  an  asnstant  to  the  manciple  of  Braxenoae  CoUegev 


iMiA 


IPMI.  Jclt25,74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


m 


mad  mlao  groom  of  the  CoHej^e  in  the  ^car  1644  tmd 

Pmfivnr%td»:  but  wd  can  b^dlj  rappose  a,  penon  oe< 
cupjriDg  either  or  both  or  these  namofo  tliAioBa  to  hnro 
been  a  nephew  of  Uie  Priiicip&l.*' 

The  Baldiriii  Bmyth  here  referred  to  10  staCecl 
in  the  pedigree  extracted  by  Mr,  Chiirton  from 
the  apohivea  of  Brazenose,  to  hare  "married  in 
London/*  and  to  have  bad  "  divers  Issue  ^' ;  and  in 
another  pedigree*  he  has  two  dangbters,  Eliza - 

■  "beth,  wife  of  Robert  Cromp,  and  Bridget,  wife  of 
Edward  Thurland. 
There   is  also  another  Baldwin   Smyth,  who, 
with  bi5  brothers,  Hugh  (of  Cueitiley),  WUliam.^ 
nd  Thomaa  (of  Oxford),  id  mentioned  in  seveml 
I  of  the  pedigrees 

]     But  1  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  discov  er 
the  will  of  the  real  Baldwin,  in  a  collection  of 
[  Xjinca«»hire  and  Cheshire  wiHs  formed  bv  Ran  die 
Hohiie  in  the  Harl  MS.  No.  2067»  fo.  127^;  and 
Ijithough  it  does  not  enable  me  to  indicate  the 
f  in  wbieh  the  Princiiwil  of  Braiienose  wm  re- 
ft to  the  founder,  it  furnishes  some  infonna- 
\  not  ftlTorded  by  Mr.  Chorton'8  researchea. 
is  dateil  Feb,  27,  1565,  and  the  testator  de- 
faimself  as  of  Widnees,  in  the  county  of 
ler,  yeoman. 

•  a  religion?  preamble,  he  devises  to  liiB  son 

1  all  that  meeauage  in  Hit  it  on  ^  late  in  the 

BOn   of  William  Hill,  deceiLsed,  with  the 

Ibereto  belongin^^  to  hold  for  life,  paying 

vwly  to  Hichard  Bold,  of  Bold,  EHi[.,  and  his 

hoMf  tvpenhf  shillings  ti)  tht  mt  0/  an  mher  at 

#flim uvriA^  and  to  snch  other  uses  as  is  specified 

n|  vnl&^gB  of  award  ;  and  paying  also  yearly  to 

M^  4)fcMiilor*8}  wiie  two  Ahiliings  for  her  life  ;  and 

fnnaindeT,  after  the  d^th  of  the  aaid  Richard, 

Itia  (testotor^s)  son  William  Smyth,   and   hi^i 

t  for  tr&r,  **  if  the  mid  WUl*"  after  ray  deeeaM 

finale  Rftger  Hmjrth,  my  eldest  sonne,  with 

'    I^^emge,  and  appareli,  imtill  be 

tmvenient  livelyhood." 

01  hia  son  Richard  not  occupying 

iia^,  and  employing  it  to  his  own 

iiiuu  iir  J*? vised  it  to  bis  son  William  Smyth, 

Ma  heir«  for  ever  ;  naying  the  same  renta,  and 

to   i1.'«  ^  n-1   Richard  10/.  within  one  year 

Ef^fuse  to  dwell  upon  the  same, 

^^lid  William,  and  liis  heirs, 

t  in  a  certain  messuap^'C, 

M?  holding  of  Ralph  Hunt, 

ld9C«4«5i,   '*  if  be  keepe  ray  sonne  Roger  as  afore- 


^  II  tboctUl  be  meatioDcd  th&t  the  vnri oug  pedifcretif 
wr  OMi^d^mhlj  qoc  from  tbe  othf  r.  Id  one,  Bishop 
fclflli  ftiedM  ««i»»  -.<  /•-/-'  ^t,,iH.  ^f  Peel  Houie;  in 
•  taoODd,  pDft  f  jcrdley:  and  in  4 

•IliH.  eoo  of  J  V.     AndatthoMgh 

Hr. CliattoneaiK  Mtn  th'-  i-vrrth  --r.ji  of  Robert  Stnyth^ 
of  Ptoil  Orm^  Widnem,  in  tho  pmtuh  of  Pretcot,  co. 
'  Tfhe  ailmit^  that  he  hsu  onlj  adopted  from  the 
.pcdlgrcet  that  accoiuit  which  aeems  upon  the 
i  t9«al  eooitotent  and  probable. 


said/*  and  provided  that  he  suffered  the  wiffe  nod 
children  of  the  swd  Ralph  Hunt  to  oceu|iytfe 
same* 

He  gives  to  Sir  Thomas  Hill  2^,  to  pray  for  him : 
to  his  lm>tKei\Mr,  WUHam  S^ttytk^  20*, ;  to  his 
landlord,  Mr.  Ogle,  a  bti»bel  of  cmts  ;  to  hia  wlf^ 
huH  bhick  filly  and  a  bedstead  ;  to  his  throe  MP- 
vants^  twelve-pence  a  piece ;  to  Thomas  Rathbone, 
his  servant,  his  beat  hose-,  and  **  the  ruBset  claaCli 
tlj  f  f 'boater,  payingo  for  the  hewinge  mi 

d  1  reof " ;  to  Thomas  Ellam,  hia  **  nimett 

coau'  ;  uj  liig  Bon  William,  his  best  coat ;  and  lo- 
his  sons  Roger  and  Richard,  his  "  next ''  coat. 

The  reaidue  of  hi^  gootU  he  directs  to  be  di'?ided' 
into  three  parts,  one  of  which  he  gives  to  Mami^l, 
bia  wiffe,  another  to  bi«  daughter  EUen,  and  the 
third  equally  between  his  t)]rce  sons,  Roger,  Wil* 
liam,  and  Richard.  Hb  wife  to  have  the  keeping 
of  the  said  EUen,  and  her  share  of  the  goeda^  **m 
long  as  she  will  tarrie  with  her/*  The  **  seedkige 
thiii  yeare "  to  be  divided  iuuong  his  wil^  md 
child  pen. 

Finally,  he  appoints  bis  wife,  his  son  Willism^ 
and  Robert  Hichem>ugbe,  his  eiecutors,  and  hb 
brother,  Mr.  William  Smyth,  supervisor. 

H.  Stdnet  GaAZEBRoor. 
Stourbridge. 


Taaffk  Epitaph.— The  following  epitapli  of 
one  who,  in  hia  own  times,  must  have  held  a  veij 
prominent  position  in  a  family  of  groat  hktom 
uoto,  is  a  striking  im^tance  of  the  un  trust worlhiiiMi 
of  the  printed  and  MS.  t>edigree9  of  the  family  of 
Tiiailb.  The  papers  rebttlng  to  the  attainder  af 
Christopher  Tttitfle,  already  referred  to  in  "N.  &  Q.," 
and  the  genealogical  information  conveyed  in  than, 
although  of  the  most  important  description  (being 
connected  with  considerable  estatea),  have  been 
ignored  in  the  pedigrees  in  question,  as  any  one 
may  asoertain  who  goes  no  farther  than  the  pub- 
liEhed  rooorda  (Hib,  CanocU.}. 

Inatead  of  these  pedi^es  being  of  any  uae^ 
beyond  affording  a  ^naraX  idea  of  the  ramificsitiQnv 
of  an  extem<ivo  family,  they  rather  tend  to  obaonrr 
a  knowledge  of  the  subject,  by  the  suppression  or 
overiookuiff  of  pjraminent  members*  and  the  ailb- 
atitution  df  othera  of  leas  note,  if  not  of  younger 
branahaa» 
JSftUapk  of  Stephen  Taaftt  S»qKin,  m  DnMc  CkmtfL 

**  fn  the  bpaeath  tomb,  i^  buried  the  bodv  of  Btffphen 
Taaff,  Kiq.,  with  that  of  the  Honhle.  AlicePluaket,  <m^ 
of  thedaaghteraof  the  Right  Huxible.  Matt. Lord  bo wth,* 
bis  1*  wife,  who  died  in  the  year  17"7,  aged  3(J  jeanN^ 
And  of  the  Right  Honhle.  Mabd  Barnwell^  one  of  the 
duughters  of  the  Rijjbt  Honble,  Henry  Vigcount  Kifin. 
Und,  and  L&dj  Dowoger  of  Lowth,t  his  '2^  wife,  wdko 
died  in  the  year  1711,  ag«d  37— And  of  hit  father,  Law- 


*  3ffttthew,  lefcntb  liArcm 
f  Widow  of  Oliver 
only  sou  J  Matthew, , 


rod,  bi  'wViOTa.  ^% \i^%^ 


m 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


f.9'  a  n.  JtrLr2K.^4. 


re  ace  Ti*ff|  Em|.,  who  died  . «  .  .  the  ye&r  1709— And  of 
Bridget  Burk^  one  of  the  daughters  of  Sir  ....  Burkj,  hb 
3^  wife,  who  died  in  the  year  171<>,  aged  27  yeaw* 

''The  B&id  Stephen,  by  his  lut  will  and  toitamcnt, 
ftppointed  the  said  tomb  to  be  erected  in  i&emory  of  his 
s&id  lather,  and  aaid  wireg,  and  as  ii  burial  place  for  \m 
poflterity. — Ho  departed  this  life,  the  15th  of  August, 
1730,  aged  60  je»n,    Bequie^oat  in  pace." 

A  reference  to  the  Fterage  ami  Baromtage  will 
not  throH'  any  light  oq  these  luamagea,  or  on 
earlier  iutenuarria^'ea  with  the  FijigAll  family. 

Stephen  Taiilie*  had  two  sons— (I)  Theobald  (by 
his  firat  wife),  afterwards  of  Hanover  S<iiiare,  8t. 
George's,  Middx.,  whosfi  wife  Buaanna's  will  is  re- 
corded in  JaBiaicA  in  1754  ;  (2)  Jolin,  of  whoni  I 
know  nothing  certain. 

Stephen  Taatfe  appoint^jd  the  Earl  of  CarlLngford 
his  execQtor.  As  hna  been  ahown^  he  was  the  son 
of  Lawrence  Taatfe,  find  must  have  been  bora  aliout 
1670,  and  Jialf-brother  of  Henry  DowdaU. 

It  seems  to  me  that  Stephen  was  the  son  of 
La\^Tence  Taafte,  of  PeppiijnIstowD  (son  of  Peter, 
son  of  John  Taaft'e  and  his  wife,  Anna  Plnnket),  and 
uncle  of  Christopher  TuaJ!e,  son  of  Jame.*!,  of  Pep- 
pardstown  ;  but  that  the  Christopher,  son  of 
George  Taafte  (deceased),  mentioned  in  Stephen's 
wilJ,  Wits  the  stime  LliriMtopber  who  bequeathed 
hia  piatola,  &c»j  to  Theobtdd,  Stephen^s  son,  in  173t>, 

Finallj,  I  do  not  think  that  Sir  Wm.  Taaffe  of 
Smermor's  (will  1  Vt2G)  sons  —  Edward,  James, 
George,  Christopher, and  Ch»rles— have  been  proved 
issueless,  or  that  such  important  personages  in  the 
fiimily  as  Charles  Tfiatfe  and  his  wite,  the  Lady 
Susannah,  should  ho  excluded  from  th^^  ii^digrees 
given  in  *M  Hutonj  of  the  Family  of  Taaffe j 
Vienna,  1856,^'  fis  fh>ra  LHster's  records.         Sp, 

Iksttlar  AccEKTtJATiONS. — I  once  heard  a  very 
excellent  clergyman  and  popular  preacher  say  in 
the  pulpit,  "  hAlen,  hi^dee,  hiMee,"  for  **  holy,  holy, 
holy."     He  was  a  native  of  the  I^le  of  T^Ian. 

A  I'wiy  who  resided  several  jeiirs  in  Jersey  toM 
me  that  the  natives  there  accentuate  English  words 
very  strangely ;  i',g,y  a  man  said  to  her,  "  It  was  a 
▼ery  meldncholy  occiirr^nce.  He  died  of  an 
ap<ipl«ry/'  S.  T.  P. 

Literary  Parallels.— In  the  First  Part  of 
Sir  John  OldcaMlCf  a  dmma,  by  some  nttribtited  to 
Shakspeare,  a  quarrel  between  Lords  Herbert  and 
Bowia  in  the  streets  of  Hereford  is  described,  in 
vhicL  the  Welsh  retainers  get  very  noisy.  The 
Chief  Justice  (it  being  Assize  time)  appears  on  the 
scene,  and  the  following  dialogue  ensues  on  the 
Welsiunftn  otferiog  bail : — 

"  /atf^e.— What  bftil,  what  Buretiea  I  '* 

**Davy.—Ilat  cozen  up  Rhice,  ap  Eran,  up  Mortce, 
ap  Morgan,  ap  Lluelyn,  ap  Madoc,  ap  Meredith,  ap 
Griffin,  ap  Dary,  ap  Owen,  ap  8heukirt,  »p  Sbones." 

*\fudgt» — Two  of  the  moat  ftufficient  are  enough.** 

*  Hifl  town  houBe  wafl  in  King  Street^  Dublin* 


'*  5Am/f.— An  please  your  wonhip  they  af«  all  bii 
one  t " 

In  Wamba's  song,  "  The  Widow  of  Wycotiibe^l 
in  IvatiJwef  two  verses  run  thus  : — 
"The  next  that  came  forth  awore  by  blood  and  by  n»ib 

Merrily  eang  the  roundeley ; 
Hat's  a  gentleman,  Qod  wot,andbur>  linea^are  wa»of  Wale 

And  where  was  the  widow  might  say  him  nay? 

Sir  David  np  Morgan  ap  Griffith  ap  Hugh 

Ap  Tudor  ap  Rice,  quoth  hii  roundeley, 
She  said  that  one  widow  for  so  raany  wa*  too  few. 

And  ahc  bade  the  WeUhman  wend  hit  way.** 

A.  K- 

CroeswyUn,  Oiweitnr. 

Books  of  Travel. — **  Behold  what   Mravelal 
amount  to  1     Are  they  not  for  the  most  part  th 
records   of  the   misapprehensions  of   the   misin 
formed  r'    This  delicious  bit  is  in  an  article  b| 
Mr.  C.  D.  Wamer,  in  the  Atlantic  Mojtthtv  foi 
May,  1874.  W.  H.  P. 

Mary  Queen  of  Scots  and  Her  AccrsERS,- 
Mr.    Hosackf   in   commenting   upon   the   famou^ 
letters  to  Botbwell,  has  adopted  a  line  of  defenorf 
which    I  believe   to  be  quite  new.     Two  r>f  thflj 
letters  he  admits  to  be  genuine  letters,  written  bf 
the  queen;  but  he  supposes  them  to  have  beeq 
addressed,  not  to  BothweD,  but  to  Damley,  in  thij 
inter>^al  between  their  supposed  private  luarnago 
in  April  and  their  public  marriage  in  Jtdy, 
With  regard  to  one  of  the  letters,  this  iaitnpr- 
The  Letter  3  (the  same  which  is  Letter  8  in  ] 
TMjfsertalioii)  sLates  that  she  sends  it  by  Paris  wit! 
a  lock  of  her  hair  ;  and  further  on  she  speaks 
PariA  aa  one  who  was  thoroughly  trusted  by  hii 
she  is  addressing.     Now^  it  is  certain  that  Parti 
had  been  a  servant  of  Both  well,  and  continued  hid 
servant    until    January,    1567,   when,    upon   ih 
queen's    leaving    Cullendar   House   for   Gliisgovr,j 
Both  well  made  him  over  to  her  to  be  her  chiimbep 
lain.     The  i>erson  who  considered  Paris  so  trust 
worthy  could  only  have  been  his  former  masterJ 
and  not  Darnlev,  who  knew  nothing  al>out  him, 

J.  C.  M. 

Kirch's  Comet  of  1680(1).— In  the  old  paritii 
register  of  Alstonfield,  in  the  Staifordsbire  moor 
lands  (one  of  the  finest  and  best  presen  etl  I  luiv^ 
yet  come  across),  is  this  notice  of  a  coioet  whic* 
Haydn  tells  us,  terrified  the  people  from  its  ne 
approach  to  the  earthy  and  was  visible  from  Zn 
November,  IC79,  to  9th  March,  1G80:  — 

**A  very  atrang  k  fiery  Meteor,  in  form  like  a  Sword 
appeared  north-weut  by  West  in  Dec.  16^),  &l  contiftue' 
auout  6  wecki  ;  after  which  ensued  a  tediotui  k  Ion 
DroMht,  which  began  Aprill  the  10^\  1681,  k  continue* 
till    June  the  20'''  of  the   ?  '    ^        5  tUel 

Wiaeit  thought,)  procured  i  aaee^j 

OB  Agues,  strong  ffearoura,  .^m  aitit; 

tif  which  many  died  in  v*  Cvunir^y,  cLifeiy  in  great 
Cities  k  towns  corporate,' 

John  Sleigh. 
Highgaie. 


^  S.  a  Jtru  25,  74.] 


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[We  muit  request  correflpondenta  deffiiing  informiktioii 
on  fftmfly  mattcrfl  of  onlj  pHrate  interest,  to  tkSix  their 
!  tnd  fcddresjses  to  tlmr  queries,  in  order  that  the 
t  maj  be  B4dre88od  to  tbcm  dLrecC] 


PoBTKB,  OR  La  Roche.— (1.)  The  GentUmanU 
Ma^asirifi  records  the  death,  on  the  7th  January, 
1753,  of  Mrs.  Porter,  mother  of  Sir  Junies  Porter. 
Fh>lu  the  fiecount  of  the  refugee  family  of  D'Aubrcs^ 
or^  m  llie  name  b  now  spelt,  Daubrez,  given  in 
Mr.  Agnew^s  valuable  worJc  upon  the  exilea  from 
Fnincc'  in  the  reign  of  Louis  XI V.^  I  learn  that 
this  hdy  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  the  refugee 

W  dAubrc^H    and    sister  to   the  Rev.  Charles  ^^;^^_j^_(3^^  -^  ^  Ij     ^^^  ^,       j 

I>»abre2wn   l.ir.  Kector  of  Kotherham  m  York- ,  ,  ^^^,       .      ,^^  J.      u^^  i^„^  ^'      :^, 


(2.)  M.  k  Roche  (afterwards  Porter)  left  two 
sons  and  one  daughter,  who  died  UDmam><i    The 
elder   son^    Sir   James   Porter^    F,R,S,    (knighted 
Sept.  21,  1763),  British  Ambassador  at  the  Porte 
from  Sept.  22,  1746,  to  May  24,  1762,  and  subse- 
quently British  Minister  at  Brussels,  the  author  J 
of  scveml  works  on  the  Eitst,  died  (teste  Annual^ 
Reguttr)  in  Great  Marlborou'^h  Street  (qy,  Bath  or 
Lotidtia  if),  December  fl,  1776,  aged  sixty-six.    The 
yoini^or  son,  John  Porter,  belono;ed  t^  the  Salters* 
C/Oiiip:* tiy.  was  elected  alderman  of  Lime  Street  | 
W'Avd  Ajiril  6,  HriS,  and  died  dnt  prok  April  IL, 
175G,   in  the  year  of  hia  shrievalty  ;  he  was  tht» 
colleague    of    William    Beckford.      He    married 
Anne,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Claudius  Amyand, 


Family  tmdition,  as  well  ns  Mr.  Agnew, 
that   she   married  a    Monsieur  la  Roche, 


knoN*'  not  when  or  for  how  long  a  period,  M.P. 
for   Evesham,     Botli   sons  bore  the  arms    above  ' 


ICrV     .   '^''^     a    Monsieur  la  nocne     i,i,,^„,,^^     ^an  any  of  your  re.ulei^  tell  me  where 
French  refugee,  who  subsequently™ why  :md    ^^       ^.^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^j  ^.^^  ^^      ^^^  l^^^^j^^  j 
IS  unknown— assumed  the  surname  of  Porter^         "^  PcRnimip  T  a  »i>fvt 


fetaining,  however,  the  amis  of  La  Koche,  which 
Appear,  fn^m  a  bidly  engraved  book-plate  in  my 
poese&sion,  to  have  been  (no  tinctures  can  be  de- 
ciphered) *^in  Imse,  a  rock  (ntr  six  pointiJf,  over 
which  »  bird — I  believe  a  hawk — between  four 
wing^"  These  arms  are  certainly  of  foreign  ex- 
traction. Can  any  one  inform  me  where  I  should 
look  for  further  particulars  regarding  the  jmrentage, 
oamr,  date;!}  of  birth,  dcnth,  &c.,  of  this  M.  la 
Koche  t 


Frbderic  Larpext* 
Calcutta. 

Clarkz  Family, — Any  of  the  correspondents 
of  "  N.  &  Q.^*  who  would  aasist  me  with  cilhiT 
dates  or  localities,  or  any  other  suggestions  or  in- 
formation enabling  mo  to  continue  the  descentij  of 
the  annexed  pedigree,  would  oblige  mc  vety 
greatly.  The  anterior  portion  from  an  early  pericd 
is  fully  recorded  in  the  College  of  Anna. 

KOYSSE. 


Sunae]  Clarke,  of  Kinjf«tborpe,^=^Margarct,  dau.  of  Wm. 
CO.  Northampton,  D.D.,  born  Pcyt4,  of  Chefltcrton, 
1 4  Dec.  1585^  died  1640,  w.  Warwick,  Esq, 


Geo.  (Jterkc^=Parker. 
of  liondon. 


I 
Wni.  Clarke, 
a  merclant. 


Elizabeth 


ibetl 


Eleanor. 
Elizabeth. 
Mari^ret, 
Jane. 


Saml.  Clarke,:^ Eli  zth.|  dau  and 
heir  of  Geo. 
Knight,  of  Bray, 
CO.  Berks. 


KatheriFio,  married 
Sir  Rtchd.  Ravi 1 9- 
ford,  Kt,  Ban.m  of 
the  Exchequer. 


PtrxniNo:— 

*'  I'r.  BaiTton  waj  a  punster  to  tbe  backbone.  He 
■ud.  '  the  fellow!^  of  mj  college  ivished  to  have  an  organ 
fa  tJie  cliaiieL  but  I  put  a  stop  to  it ' ;  whether  for  the 
flake  of  (he  pun,  or  because  he  disliked  mmuc,  is  un> 
eertam.  He  invited,  for  the  love  of  puiininft^  Mr. 
Cr  '  ^Ir.  Rookc  to  dine  with  himj  and  having 

K  'Iniorc,  aiLother  |2:uest,  a  hint  to  be  rather 

b<i  >^n  his  appearing  he  said, '  Mr.  Rooke,  Mr. 

Onjm<t  I  beg  leave  to  introduce  one  Bird-more.^  He 
]iiame<l  hin  niece  to  a  gentleman  of  the  hopeful  name  of 
Biscklc.  The  enteriiri.*e  succeeded  beyond  hit  expecta- 
Iton.  M(^.  Buckle  wa^  jHlivcrcd  of  twini,  '  A  pair  of 
Bucktea  ' '  '  hoy  a  or  girls  :'  in  quired  a  congratulating 
^end.     The  answer  may  be  suppoeed.*' 

Off  and  on,  I  have  been  supposing  this  answer 
for  thr  Itt^t  fift^^en  years,  it  being  about  that  time 
tihte  I  first  met  with  the  paragraph  anent  Dr. 
E^fcTton  in  soiiie  "variety  column,"  The  York 
iinnid  haA  jnsl  revived  it  again,  and,  akft!  in  the 
bot  too  weil-remembcred  words.  I  am,  con*«e- 
t^acntly,  aupposing  more  vigorously  than  ever^  but 


would  gkdly  relinquish  my  suppositions  in  favour 
of  a  fact.  Can  any  one  tell  me  what  Dr.  Barton 
really  did  reply  to  **  a  congratulating  friend  *'  / 

St.  SwiTSiN, 

'      Medai.  of  William  I.— A  friend  has  latei>* 
I  given  me  a  medal  which  was  dug  up  during  the 
construction  of  a  railway  at  Chubb  s  Hill,  near 
I  Sevenoaks.     It  appears  to  be  of  bronze^  an  inch 
'  and  a  half  in  diameter,  and  Iniars  on  the  obverse 
'  the  figure  of  a  funereal  monument,  on  the  base  of  j 
'  which  is  a  bas-relief  representing  the  submission 
of  the  Saxons  to  their  Nonnan  victors.     Beneuth 
it  ia  the  following  inscription,  referring  to  William 
the  Conoucror,  *'  Nat .  1023  .  C-or .  lutKJ  ,  Mart  . 
1087."    The  revense  beara  the  bust  of  the  Con- 
queror^ helmed,  and  clad  in  ana  our  of  a  clmt^ic^il 
t^T^c ;   around  it   h  the  legend,  **  Gulielmtiu   1 . 
Oonciuftiitor  ,  D  .  G  .  Aug  .  Rex  .  C  .  L"     1  *^^sfcW^ 
be  glad  to  learn  ibe  ^nslorj  ^sl  ^^x^s  \w&^Ti2L%  ^Vw^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t5^8;If,Jri.T55,^t. 


it  wjis  atruck|  &c.   The  workoianahip  is  apparently 
not  later  than  the  last  century^    J.  Woodward. 
Monlrose. 

JoAiRfA  SorTHCOTE. — Is  there  any  meeting 
hmise  or  place  of  assembly  in  England  where  the 
followers  of  ond  l)elievers  in  Joanna  8«uthcotc 
lather  together  for  puqx^ses  of  religious  devotion  ? 

Ignoranoe. 

[In  Londoni  tho  followers  of  Joanoft  Soothcoie  u- 
aeoMe  at  97,  Trafalpir  Street,  Walworth.  For  a  full 
doioription  of  a  iDcetin^,  see  U^iortkodox  London  (TItLs* 
Itf  Bruther«),  page  267.  J 

SiKiLB  Wanted. — Sara  Coleridge  says  in  one 
of  her  letters  (Memoir,  yoL  h  p.  169) — 

*'  I  wish  Tery  much  thnt  some  day  or  othfir  you  mtLj 
have  timo  to  learn  Greek,  because  ilmt  luDguihge  is  an 
idin.  Krtn  a  little  of  it  is  like  manure  to  the  soil  of  the 
mind,  mid  mnkea  it  bear  ttowcra/' 

I  have  elsewhere  seen  it  stated  tluit  all  reading, 
whether  we  rememher  what  we  read  or  not,  is  like 
manure  to  the  mind.  Can  any  of  your  readers 
help  me  to  the  jMissage  T 

John  Chttrohill  Sikes, 

Lichfield  Housej  Anerley* 

"  OtiK  MAN-9  MEAT  IS  AJfOTHEH   MAN's   POISON." 

— In  illustration  of  this  old  sayini,^,  Thomas  Muflett 
sayfl^  in  Hetdth^x  Iinprovanent ;  or ^  Rules  Com- 
prinmg  and  Duect'ering  tht.  Nature^  Mdhody  and 
Manner  of  Preparing  all  torts  of  Fmd, — 

"What  Bouldier  kuoweth  not  that  a  roasted  Pigg  will 
affright  Captain  Swan  more  then  Ihe  eight  of  twenty 
SpaniftrdB  ?  What  Lawyer  hath  not  heard  of  Mr,  Tao- 
fiel'e  conceit,  who  ia  feared  an  rawch  with  a  dead  Duck^ 
aa  Philip  of  Spain  woa  with  a  liTing  Drake  ?  *' 

Who  are  the  persons  alluded  to  ?  L.  D* 

Oliver  Cromwell. — I  have  juBt  come  upon  the 
ioD owing  i^asaage  in  FrophcsitM  and  the  PrGjihdic 
Spirit  in  tfu  OmMiau  JSra,  by  John  J.  Ign.  von 
Dollinger,  translxited  by  Alfred  Plunimer.  1  am 
.inxiiouK  to  know  oa  whiit  authority  the  statement 
is  bftaed  :— 

"Gff9i&well  oftUBcd  events  which  he  intended  to  brinjj 
aUmt  to  be  inserted  in  the  almanack  before  handj  and 
the  astrologer,  in  consequence^  acquired  a  high  reputa* 
a«»n,"— P.  8, 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

*'Dkisology."— i>«ri7io%y;  or,  tJie  Union  of 
MeagtfH  and  Elegance.  Ls  there  such  a  work,  or  iV 
it  the  invention  of  the  Edgewortlis,  in  Essaij  on 
Ifith  Bulh,  p.  221  i  C\  A.  Ward. 

Mayfair. 

Author  Wastkd.— Will  Olphar  Hamst  oblige 
me  with  the  name  and  any  partieuhira  of  the  author 
of  the  following  work  : — 

"A  new  and  full  Critical,  Biographical,  and  Geo- 
mphical  History  of  Scotland,  containing  the  history  of 
iho  ■ufiCQSflion  of  theii-  Kiugs  from  llobert  Bruoe  to  Ihe 
proseat  time,  with  an  imporfeiiil  account  of  their  ooa- 


fitiintion,  genius^  manners  and  customs:  with  a  Qeo^ 
graphical  description  cf  the  seTeml  Counties,  their  cora- 
moaitica,  rarities,  antiquities,  and  commerce;  together 
witli  au  Appendix  of  a  short  hut  Just  history  of  their 
most  remarkable  writers  and  learned  men,  and  a  Map  of 
each  Coanty  In  Scotland.  Fro  Eege  ot  Patria.  By  an 
impartial  hand.  I^ondon :  printed  for  the  Author*  and 
sold  by  the  bookscUersof  London  and  Westnunster,  1719* 
All  the  prints,  engmvingaj  kc,  are  by  Boitard.'' 

Charles  Masovs 
3,  Gloucester  Crescent  Hyde  Park,  W, 

From  Sir  Robert  Wilson's  Note-Book.^^ 
Kt'mhle  always  pronounced  the  word  **  aches  *^ 
"  ar/c^t'-s*'  likethe  letter  h.  He  was  much  censured 
for  this,  but  Shakspeare's  puna  prove  him  to 
have  been  correct.  Much  Ado  aho^it  Nothing, 
Act  iii.  fic.  4: — 

'*  Btatrict.  Bv  my  troth  T  am  exceed ingly  ill — Hei^h-bo ! 
Marffartt.  {"or  a  Hawk,  a  Horoe,  or  a  Husband  t 
Bmtrirt.  'Tis  the  leittr  that  begins  them  alL** 
Antony  and  Clwpatra^  Act  iv.  bc.  7: — 
** Anton}/.  Thou  bloedest  apace. 
^ScariM.  I  baTe  had  a  wound  here  that  was  like  a  %  but 
now  it  is  like  an  U," 
Is  there  any  con'oboration  of  this  pnumndatioii 
in  other  authors  of  the  time  or  before  it  ? 

Herbert  Rajowlph. 
Bidmonth. 

The  Ealiols, — I  make  bold  to  ask  any  of  your 
correspondents  who  may  be  willing  to  undertabe 
tlie  tiusk,  and  who  may  travel  towards  Normandy 
and  Brittany,  to  learn  for  me— 

L  Whether  the  tomb  of  John  Baliol,  formerly 
King  of  Scotland,  is  still  in  existence,  and  in  what 
condition  of  repair. 

2.  To  send  me  a  description  architecturallj, 
heraldically,  and  MUth  local  tnidition. 

A  pholo^aph  or  careful  pencil  study  of  the 
tomb  woidd  be  greatly  prized  by  me,  and  would 
eventually  form  the  subjeet  of  an  engraving. 

I  am,  lastly,  anxious  to  know  the  condition  of 
the  tomb  as  to  repair,  and  its  iitness,  or  otherwise^ 
for  restoration. 

Cotman,  in  his  Uluatrated  description  of  the 
Churches  of  Normandy,  states  tliat  in  1827  the 
tomb  wa»  then  in  existenee.  1  do  not  think  ho 
relates  exactly  in  what  church  situate ;  but  if  my 
memory  serves  me,  I  think  he  states  thnt  John 
Baliol  was  buried  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Mofts 

or  of  Castle  Oaillard.     He  wu-  "^   ^'  Vccauip; 

and  not  improbably  in*  the  nei;  i  of  that 

toT^Ti  some  ridings  of  the  last  r-  ,       ^  of  this 

most  unfortunate  monarch  may  It   mI.      iK'd. 

I  address  myr^elf  specially  to  blLuIuu^  u(  BoUiol 
College,  of  wliich  the  iather  or  grandfather  vf  John, 
the  King,  was  founder.  J*  R.  Scott, 

Knells,  Beedtng,  Sussex. 

The    Ftxdern     Monument     is    Childrkt 
CHtTRcH. — \yhere  can  I  Had  a  pubiiabed  drawing  j 
or  description  ot  this  monument  ?  P. 

Cromwell  Crescent. 


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SxBLRTr»  OR  81BLEI-.— What  is  the  crest  of  (he 
aboTG  faioihr  ?  Of  Saxou  origin,  it  is  now  ?ett]ed 
in  Deronslure*  A  Constant  Beadbr. 

Tde  WiL.t.ow  PATTKnA'. — Will  any  render  of 
**N.  ft  Q.'  kindly  infonu  nie  in  what  publication 
I  eaa  find  the  story  of  the  Willow- Pat t4?rn  Plate  i 
Edward  C  Daviibb. 
Jonior  GArrick  Cluh* 

PlTBKBT ''  is  used  in  Suffolk  to  si^ify  a  pod  of 
I  can  find  no  mention  of  it  in  Sloor  s  Suffalk 
^otd>i^  or  in  Forby*s  Vocdlmlnrfj  of  Esd  Anglia. 
Is  it  merely  another  form  of  "  peascod  **  i 

C.  Davis. 
15,  C^unpdtin  Grofe^  Eendngton. 

Bqjxq, — 

"  I  Mnt  my  love  a  loiter^ 

But,  aX»a  I  sho  cann*  read, 
And  I  lQ*e  her  a'  the  better/* 
in  Sifhiag  Loicta^  by  Mrs.  CiiKkell,  as 
worda  of  the  lover  of  Jess  Mac  Fitrlane.'* 
er©  may  this  song  be  foiind^  and  who  was  the 
bor  of  it  ?  E.  T. 

**A  Walk  ix  SnETLAim/' — There  wjis  printed 
nt  KJfpil>!ir  'Ik  in  1831,  a  small  book,  entitled— 

Slietlnnd.     Bj  Two  Eccentrics.    B?  the 
Au  Jew  Exile  in  the  Hightuida  and  Islaad^ 

«fh 

'i  as  pttbl  iahed  in  Lond  on,  by  Eflingham 

Wikon,  in  1828.    Tlie  writer  appears  to  have  been 
A  in«rv  facetious  person.    Can  anybody  name  him  I 

A.  G. 


B  riOUT  AT  THE  INCHES  OP  PERTO. 
(5**»  S.  L  364,  469.) 
I   am   glad  to  find  from  Mr.  A.   M.   SHAW^l 
Uitcr  that  we  are  almo^^t  agreed  as  to  the  names  of 
tbo  [wuties  who  fo. 1-1.1   faf  the  North  Inch.     Mn. 
8tCAW  offen  thHom  1^  on  ray  communica- 

1100,  bnt  as  they  <i  t  materially  the  pointa 

which  1  wished  to  insist.  I  shall  merely  say,  in 
to  thetn,  thnt  the  older  writera  seem  to  have 
the  terms  parentela,  dan,  kin,  and  family 

Mr.  Shaw  is  right  in  supposing   that,  by 

IIt«  oldest  anthors.  I  met\nt  Wyntoun,  the 

of  Moray,  Bower,   Major,  and   Boece. 

after  making   allowance   for  the   rois- 

'  in  saying  that  the  com- 

nd  Clan  Qahelc.     One  of 

1  iine^  of  the  leaders. 

.;ti  Sha  Beg  or  Sha, 

ii  A  A,  and  Christr  John- 

,0  Clan  tt>uhele.  V^yntouu 

111  it*  viVi'T^Q  the  leaders* 

;  and  we  mast 

od  down  by  the 


»    "  of  verse,  nnd  that  no  eubsequent  author 

f  i  hifi  Hoeming  assignment  of  leaders. 

zL,  i\s  Others  besides  Mk,  Shaw  may  have 
heard  now,  for  the  first  time,  that  the  fight  was  a 
consequence  of  the  battle  of  Oasclune,  I  shall  give 
my  reasons  for  this  opinion  at  some  length,  as  they 
hare  never  before  been  fully  stfited. 

It  may  be  premLied,  that  the  fight  in  question 
was  a  diidlo  of  a  verj'  peculiar  nature.  Govern - 
luent  was  not  in  the  habit  of  asking  contending 
tribes  to  settle  their  differences  in  such  a  vi^y,  nor 
used  tribes  to  offer  to  do  so.  Indeed,  the  Scotch 
Goveniment  was  indiffexent  enough  to  the  inter- 
necine feuds  of  Highlaoden?,  in  which  they  inter- 
fered little,  espcciEiily  before  the  time  of  James  I. 
It  is,  tlierefore,  probable  thnt,  in  the  fight  on  the 
Inches,  they  had  a  special  object  in  view,  and  this 
object  is,  I  think,  sufficiently  indicated  to  iib  b j 
the  efirly  authorities. 

Two  of  the  four  names  that  appear  in  the  lists 
at  Perth,  Clan  Quhele  or  CheweU,  and  Sha  or 
Sheagh,  occur  in  the  roll  of  men  outlawed  for 
the  Raid  of  Angus, 

WjTitoun,  after  giving  an  account  of  the  fight  at 
Perth,  immediately  reverts  to  the  disaster  at 
Gaschme ;  and,  while  showing  supreme  indifference 
to  the  fortune  of  the  ckns,  regrets  that  the  loss  at 
the  former  combat  by  no  means  came  up  to  that 
which  had  been  siiatained  at  the  latter.  This 
reference  would  really  be  quite  objectleds,  if  the 
two  fights  did  not  stand  In  some  relation  to  each 
other. 

Bower,  Major,  and  Boece,  all  mention  the  fight 
of  Katerans  at  Perth  just  after  the  fatal  skirmish 
with  Kateraas  at  Gasclune.  As  the  one  followed 
tolerably  close  upon  the  other,  this  is  ooly  natural, 
and  would  not  necessarily  signify  very  much,  were 
it  not  for  the  specitic  statement,  which  has  been 
made  by  the  continuator  of  Fordun,  of  the  year 
1461,  in  the  Bodleian  (and  whose  work  haa  not 
been  printed,  unless  veiy  recently).  He  says  that, 
by  the  management  of  the  Earl  of  Crawford  and 
other  nobles,  the  tribes,  who  were  rava^jinj  their 
own  country,  w^re  induced  to  send  tl  cis, 

along  with  their  chief  and  more  influr:i  nU, 

to  go  and  alay  each  other  at  Perth  ;  lor,  owiak  to 
their  plundering,  the  whole  county  of  Angus  nad 
not  been  able  to  enjoy  any  peace,  and  not  long 
ago  those  very  wild  Scots  ipn  had  slain  in  the 
field  the  Sheriif  of  Angus  and  many  of  the  nobility, 
Buchanan  also,  in  1582,  ha\'ing  all  the  accounts  of 
prerioua  authors  before  him,  gives  us  expressly  to 
undenit^ind  that  the  combatants  at  Perth,  whose 
names  he  does  not  mention,  were  two  families 
of  robbers  concerned  in  the  Raid  of  Angus,  and 
he  conccivira  that  '■'*  '"--^  '"  ...♦.a..  r>if>ce  of  policy 
on  the  part  of  th*  1  i  of  Mora^j-^ 

as  they  could  not  ;u.  ,    l.  ^ ,,  ihem  in  their 

own  count r}'  without  the  risk  of  a  heavy  los«  of 
men,  to  persuade  them  to  alaiiLrhier  each  otber  ia 


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a  public  combat ;  and  they  fouDd  this  to  be  no  very 
difficult  matter,  owing  to  an  (old)  violent  (end  ! 
having  broken  out  between  them.  Old  is  Wyn- 
toun's  word.  There  ia,  therefore,  no  novelty  in 
the  conclusion,  which  has  been  forced  on  me,  thiit 
the  tight  at  Perth  grew  out  of  the  Raid  of  Angus 
and  out  of  the  desire  of  Government  to  Dunieli 
those  who  had  been  concerned  in  it.  Whether 
Government  in  this  merely  showed  its  weakness, 
or  whether  it  hod  any  object  in  view,  such  as 
affording  a  speckwk  to  the  Court  and  its  foreign 
visitors,  is  immat^riid  to  us. 

3.  To  what  district  did  Sheach  and  his  brothers 
and  all  Ckn  GhewLl,  if  all  of  one  nice,  belong  \ 

It  IK  nexirly  certain  that  they  must  have  lived  in 
the  Heights  of  Angu«  and  of  Al^erdeen,  The 
name  of  Clan  Chcwil,  m  the  Act  of  rarUanient  of 
1391  (the  only  name  of  a  chin  mentioned  in  the 
list,  by  the  way),  comes  after  Duncansons  and 
Macnaire,  and  other  Perthshire  names,  and  is 
followed  by  those  nf  Mowat  and  Cowter  on  Lee- 
aide.  It  is  really  of  no  great  importance  in  a 
general  sense  to  know  to  which  Uhm  Sha  the 
Little  or  the  mn  of  Feruuhar  belonged  ;  but  it 
is  of  some  moment  to  know  that  there  were 
in  Brae  Angus,  or  Braemar,  at  that  period, 
Shas,  sons  of  Fe^iuhar,  closely  allied  by  mar- 
riage to  the  LuncansoDB,  the  leaders  of  the 
Raid  of  Angus,  and  fmrther  that,  in  the  same 
district,  a  Ferquhar,  Ferquhar  Mackintoshy,  as 
early  i\m  1382  hiid  l)een  plunderiHg  lands  on 
Leeside  at  Birse,  t^  which  he  laid  claim. 

Other  facta,  tending  to  fix  their  locality,  are,  that 
the  Earl  of  Crawford,  himself  holding  iandts  Ln 
Angus,  was  selected  to  act  againat  them  ;  further, 
that  the  Act  of  ParEament  of  1391^  directing  the 
town  of  Aberdeen  to  proceed  against  the  outlaws, 
would  have  been  a  mere  hm turn  fulmctif  if  some 
conHiderable  portion  of  those  who  were  outhiwcd 
were  not  to  be  found  on  the  etistern  side  of  the 
Grampians.  I  shall  go  one  point  further,  and  my 
that  if,  as  we  have  every  reiison  to  suppose,  the 
tribes  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  Grampians  were 
closely  connected  with  their  immediate  neighbours 
on  the  western  side,  and  the  latter  were  involved 
in  the  feud  that  led  secondarily  to  the  fight  of 
the  InchcK,  it  was  natural  to  a^isociate  with  the 
Earl  of  Crawford  the  Earl  of  Moray,  a  more 
northern  potentate,  and  neighbour  of  the  more 
weistern  tribea.  I  hope  that  I  have  thus  made  out 
pretty  clearly  the  origin  of  the  fight  of  the  Inchej*, 
and  the  geographical  position  of  at  least  a  portion 
of  the  combatants. 

It  is  perhaps  for  the  present  premature  to  go 
into  other  questions  ;  for  instance^  which  party 
was  victorious  in  the  hard -fought  contest  at  Perth, 
about  which  point »  however,  there  never  haa  been 
reidly  any  doubt,  as  all  writers  who  hjive  men- 
tioned them  at  oil  arc  agreed  that  Clan  Quhele 
ne/v  victoTS^  or  at  whrit  period  the  mimes  of  Clan 


Sha  or  Clan   Chat  tan  appear  in  history  (Glen- 
quhattans    not  having  been  introduced  into  the  j 
combat  at  the  Inches  till  140  years  after  the  fight),  I 
or  whether  the   old  theory   that  tlio  Camerong 
fought  at  the  Inches  can  be  maintained, 

I   shall  be   thankful   for  any  light  that   Mn,  , 
Sha%v  may  be  able  to  throw  on  those  subjects  in  I 
his  forthcoming  work,  especially  such  jxj?  he  tells  I 
us  he  has  derived  from  charters  and  deeds,  which  1 
are  certainly  more  authoritative  than  family  tradi-  I 
tiona,  which,  in  the  case  of  Celtic  races,  are  almost  \ 
necessarily  tinctured  with  what  is  called  Highland 
pride.     But   I   would   venture   to  say  that   iiny 
version  of  the  fight  that  C4\n  be  accepted  must  not, 
at  least  in  my  opinion,  overlook  the  ascertained  j 
names  and  geographical  position  of  certainly  ono  I 
portion  of  the  comoatant^n,  or  the  influences  whiclij 
Je<l  them  to  engage  in  the  combat. 

Sows  MAcrflERSoN,  M,D. 

Curaon  Street,  W. 


"The  Althorpe  Pictuhe  GAixEar-^:  Maet 
J.  JouRDAJT  (5***  S.  i.  348,  435,  516,)— I  haTO 
much  pleasure  in  giving  Olphar  Hamst  the  in- 
fonnation  he  seeks,  and  a  little  more  which  doubt* 
\^m  will  be  acceptable  to  him» 

Lient.-CoL  Henrj^  Georf^e  Jourdan,  of  the  lOtJj 
Madras  Native  Infantrj''  Kegiment,  was  a  son  of 
John  Jourdan  (a  weaver)  and  Susanna  his  wife^  of 
Spitid  Sc[uai'c,  in  the  Liberty  of  Nortctn  Folgate. 
He  was  Imptized  at  Christ  (jhurch,  itiddlesex,  on  . 
the  23d  June,  17S4,  when  twenty-three  dnys  old.j^ 
He  was  a  cadet  of  1804  ;  lieutenant,  l7th  July^ 
1805;  captain,  14th  May,  1821 ;  major,  24th  May^ 
1828 ;  nnd  lieu  tenant- colonel,  tJth  July,  1.^33.     He 
retired  from  the  service  on  the  Itjth  February,  1838 J 
and  embarked  on  that  day  for  England  on  th^ 
**  Mary  Ann,"  he  being  apparently  the  only 
senger  on  board  of  the  name  of  Jourdan. 

His  first  furlough  to  Eiiro^K*  was  on  privjiti 
affairs,  and  he  left  Madras  in  the  **  Windsor*'  on 
the  13th  August,  l&Ui;  While  at  home  h\k  ^on 
Henry  Fmncis  Halcombe,  Wiis  boni,  3rd  Miin 

1822,  and    baptized    on    31at    May,    1822, 
Horsham,  Sussex.     The  baptismal  entry  dcsciib 
this  child  as  *'  son  of  Col'.  Jourdan  of  the  \ 
Army  on  Furlough,  of  32,  Hunter  Street,  and  ofl 
Mary  Johnson  Jourdan/'     As  Col  Jourdan's  ma 
riage  is  not  rec4>rdcd  as  having  taken  place 
India,  the  probability  is  that  he  married  soon  afU 
his  arrival  in   England   in    1820.     Another  son 
Alexander  Harcourt,  was  bom  0th  April,  IS 
and  baptized  at  Hor&ham,  Sussex,  on  31st  May] 

1823,  and  is  described  in  the  baptismal  entry  i 
"son  of  Col^  Jourdan  of  the  Madras  Ani»y  on 
furlough,  and  Mary  Johnson  Jourdan.'* 

He  returned  to'  Miulras  with  his  wife  id  th 
"  William  Fairlic,"  arriving  there  on  tlie  2nd  JillyJ 
1824. 

He  died  on  the  10th  November,  1860,  ftl 


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I 


Westboume  Park,  aged  s^aventy-seven  {see  Allen's 
Indian  Mail,  13th  November,  I860,  page  B48) ; 
and  by  probate  of  bis  will  of  6th  December,  18(>0, 
J^ne  Eliza  JourdiiDj  spinster,  and  Johii  Hobert 
JouTtbiD  were  his  executors.  His  widow,  Mary 
J.  Jourdan,  died  22tid  December,  1865,  at  19, 
Weatbaurne  Park  (see  Allea'a  Ijidia^i  Mail^  fJ7tb 
December,  1805,  p{\ge  086). 

Hta  son,  He  my  Francis  Ha-lcombe,  was  educated 
At  Midbur?t,  and  wil^  afterwards  a  ctidet  in  the 
Madra*  unny»  Sailed  in  the  "  Mary  Ann  '■  on  the 
*i  August,  1839,  for  Madras,  Died  3uth  August, 
E,  at  Secanderabad  (see  Time^t  12th  November, 
•2). 

The  other  »on,  Alexander  Harcourt,  was  educated 

Bexley  and  at  Midhurst.     He  too  wiis  ;ifter- 

"  I  ft  cadet  in  the  Madras  army.     Sailed  in  the 

li«wd  Kyd"  on   the  l&th  March,   1841,   for 

Madras.     Bied  24th  April,  1845,  at  MiVilrHS  (see 

Timai,  *Jih.  June,  1845),  Charles  Mason, 

Gloocciter  Creioent^  Hyde  Pftrk. 

Field-Lore  r  Carji,  Ing,  &c,  (4*^  S.  xi.  xii, 
pauirft;  5'*^  S.  i.  35,  131,  311,  376,  409.)— Will 
your  several  correspondent?,  who  have  given  en- 
couragement and  contributions  to  the  stock  of 
field -lore,  accept  my  thanks  ? — too  long  delayed 
while  trying,  under  invalid  dmwbacks,  to  illus- 
tnU€  our  old  words,  which  I  see  youn;^er  persons 
eaonot  know  &o  well,  and  strangers  oft^en  mist^ike, 
or  from  books  alone  misinterpret, 

Mft.  CoBDEAUx's  list  of  Lincolnshire  field- 
njkmes,  with  hia  interesting  description,  has  been 
jklready  replied  to  by  Mr,  Peacock  and  others,  I 
Ibink  ;  but  I  may  observe  that  they  seem  sng- 
gottive  of  an  influence  kindred  to  that  which  g^vve 
<nir  own  name^,  yet  modiiied  aa  the  circumstances 
of  the  district  would  lead  usj  to  expect.  Wonis 
have  varyin^^  shades  of  meaning  in  diiierent  phices ; 
and  however  well  we  may  know  our  omti^  for  a 
diatAnt  county  one  can  only  suggest,  with  safety. 
in^tiLncc,  ^^  groves  "  in  such  a  situation  as  that 
ibcd  would  idmost  give  an  idea  of  these  fields 
r  '  ' .twered  in  making  the  embankments. 
,  is  to  dig ;  grotcn,  that  which  is  dug. 
ur  felU,  are  culled  by  rustic  people 
;  pron^  gruives,  and  pitmen  gniivers.  The 
woog  fuggeatod  to  me  Dan.  vang,  a  field ; 
in  BoiwoHh  uoitg  is  A.S. ;  we  have  not 
rKiines,  Bridge  Carr,  Reedforth,  and 
11  the  tale  of  marsh,  the  tirst  in  Ian- 
:t  of  many  northern  counties.  Hag 
utting  here ;  pmt  Hag  in  synonymous 
.  *'  Gttun  on  like  a  man  haggin'  rice," 
in  1  have  heard  frcim  old  people,  to 
progre^  made  in  a  short  time,  as  of 
v^n  bnishwood  (Dan,  nw),  compared 
hewer  of  timber.  I  have  heard  it 
-  sense  of  one  who  causes  great 
'-•,     W6  have  also  the  verb  to 


u> 


Aain,  to  spare,  to  protect,  hedge ;  "  It  g«tB  nae 
baining,** 

To  K nf  for  notice  of  carr*  in  Norfolk,  and 

to  A-  J.  M.  for  ings  in  Yorkshire,  I  am  indebted, 
especially  to  the  latter  for  the  quotation  showing 
that  a  word  so  beautiful  in  its  associations  is  not 
neglected  in  ^*  contemporary  verse. ^'  This,  I  pre- 
sume, is  of  a  lociU  character,  and  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  the  title  of  the  book  in  which  it  appciira. 

Mr.  Dobson  mentions  ings  in  Durham,  and 
H.  T.  C,  a  list  of  field  names  in  Lancashire,  oon- 
taining  only  the  oft-recurring  carr,  which  I  recog- 
nize. But  what  is  F^?^/t,  with  which  it  seems  <*ynony- 
mous?  (We  have  name»  Flosb,  Flasa,  &c,,  which 
I  have  suspected  to  be  reclaimed  bog,)  "  Carr- 
dole,"  there,  might  be  a  divided  marsh,  perhaps, 
like  moss-da i<Jt,  in  Cumberland  ;  and  dti//-dike,  of 
which  the  responsibdity  is  shared,  a  hedge  or 
stone  wall.  And  what  is  the  derivation  of  Jiik, 
**  fittie  land,"  mentioned  by  Mr.  Cordeaux, 
which  is  beginning  to  be  written  Fiti  ?  M. 

CumberloJi^, 

Will  M,  pardon  ray  correcting  his  statemeirt 
that  the  word  ing  is  "wanting  along  the  West 
t'cwiat  of  Cumberland.*-  There  is  a  Ponsonby  Ing 
Fell  near  Calder  Abbey,  and  a  few  miles  south  of 
Whitehaven  we  have  a  gentleman's  seat  called  Ing 
W^ell.  I  would  also  suggest  that  the  provincial 
name  for  meadow  sweet  (Queen  o*  t'  Meddow  in 
West  Cumberland)  may  come  from  the  Fr,  "  Reine- 
de«-pres."  A.  MiDDLEToy,  M.A, 

School  House,  Kmg»bridg<!. 

In  an  old  map  of  property  in  the  parish  of 
Cheriton,  co.  Kent,  dated  1713,  the  following 
names  of  fields  occur  which  I  fail  to  trace  in  con- 
nexion with  any  recorded  owners  or  occupiers  : — 
"Bonyers,"  ^'Daniers  Church,"  ''  Great  Eastbinn," 
"  Little  Eastbinn.**  \Mience  are  they  derived  J 
Hardrjc  Morfhtn. 

I  do  not  think  that  there  is  much  chance  of  the 
name  Ing^  as  applied  to  a  meadow  on  the  bank  of 
a  river,  being  superceded  or  forgotten  in  Yorkshire. 
When  curate  of  Bolton  Percy,  in  that  county-,  I 
used  always  to  hear  it  applied  to  the  low  dying 
grounds  on  the  banks  of  the  Ouse  and  the  Wharfe 
in  that  parish.  Perhajw^  by  way  of  illustration, 
I  may  be  allowed  to  quote  a  paissage  or  two  from 
The  Lifc^of  Lord  Fairfax,  by  Clements  H.  Mark- 
ham,  Esq.  :■ — 

•'  From  Tftdcaster  to  itc  jaaoiion  with  the  Ouwj  at 
Nunappleton.  the  Wh&rfe  i^  a  hro&d  tidal  nrer,  wtth 
sides  covered  with  ootj  mud  called  varp,  and  is  subject 
trj  Hitodi,  The  \ovr  niejulotrs  along  itt  baiik»,  whicli  lire 
often  under  water  in  the  winter,  are  called  ingi/* — P,f»7. 

And  again,  speaking  of  Nunappleton  Hall,  onc€ 
the  property  of  the  Fairfaxes,  now  of  Sir  William 
Milner,  Bart.,  he  observes  : — 

**  A  noble  park,  trith  i|Jetidid  oak  tree*,  and  containiwi^ 
30O  head  of  deer,  ttrelcbtd  vwkm  \.q  >Xv%  t\qx>^\  ^V^ 


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[5^8.  ai^ntSf,^ 


on  ili«  «out1i  Bide  were  the  miBH  of  the  old  Dunnery,  the 
fiower-g^rden,  &nd  the  low  meadows  cnlled  ins*$  c^' 
tending  io  the  banki  of  the  Wlukrfe."— P.  366. 

Burkej  in  hiB  Hiitory  of  ifu  Commoners,  vol,  i, 
p,  32:2,  fljiya  thut  the  luges  of  Thorpe*  C/onstuntine, 
AQ  imcieat  family  in  the  county  of  8ttii!'ord,  derive 
eir  name  from  a  field  or  meadow. 

John  Pr?kford,  M.A. 
'  Newboumc  Rectory,  Woodbridge» 

AuTooRAPn  OF  BrRKS  (5<*'  B.  L  283  ;  ii.  IL)— 
The  point  involved  is,  whether  the  address  in 
MS.  *^  To  Termughty  "  on  his  seventy-first  birth- 
day^ which  la  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Johnston, 
iji  ftn  aiitogmph  of  the  poet  Burns,  It  seems 
to  be  iissnmed  that  it  h  ;  but  any  hypotheaia, 
in  niy  Wow,  more  groundless  is  Imrdly  con- 
<5eiviible.  The  handwriting  is  not,  in  any  of  its 
features,  like  any  of  BtimB^s  ob»er\'ed.  Tlie 
MS,  is  admittedly  not  the  original  ;  it  is  clearly 
not  the  ])oet'B  dnift,  but  a  capij^  by  whomsoever 
inude.  The  letters  of  the  >vTiting  throughout  are 
very  small  ;  bo  small,  indeed,  that  there  may  be 
rea^^onable  doubt  whether,  if  Burns  had  attempted 
to  write  in  such  small  characters,  he  could  have 
accouinliBlied  his  intent.  The  handwriting  ia 
like  thsit  of  a  female,  or  it  may  be  like  that 
of  those  preachers  who  were  in  the  practice  of 
compre&sing  into  ismall  iipjice  their  notes  in- 
tended ft>r  use  in  the  pulpit,  &c.  The  MS, 
may  thereforw  have  been  penned  by  Miss  IM niter 
from  the  original  draft,  or  a  copy,  or,  as  it  might 
be^  from  the  poet^s  dictation,  or  that  of  some  of 
his  family  at  his  house  in  Dumfries,  where  Mhs 
Muiter  was  accustomed,  it  h  said^  to  visit.  Or 
nerhaps  it  mny  be  the  handwTiting  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Little,  Migj*  Maitor^g  relative,  a  copy  from  the 
copy  (possibly  by  Bums)  said  to  htive  been  given 
him  by  Miss  Muiter.  There  is  a  great  abuse  of 
capital  letters  (i.  2S3),  of  which  there  is  no  example 
in  any  of  Bums's  other  MSS-  Thii^  abuse  is  no 
flagrant,  indeed,  as  to  establish  not  only  a  w^ant 
of  scholarship,  but  practice  in  writmg.  There  is 
al»o  an  entire  want  of  tK>inti*,  which  Burns,  who 
was,  indeed,  a  master  in  punctuation,  never  dis- 
pensed with.  Severjd  words  are  also  mis-spelt; 
«8  **acarBe,"  "meets,''  ** DeeL,"  "Gomorroh/  &c 
The  fourth  line  of  verse  two  has  been  first  written 
in  cnntinuation  of  the  third  line,  and  afterwards 
blotted  with  ink.  Could  Bums  have  done  this  I 
There  are  none  of  the  back-hand  strokes  forming 
letters  to  be  found  in  this  MS,,  which  occur  in 
most,  if  not  all,  of  Burns  a  MSB. ;  as,  for  example, 
the  last  limb  of  the  letters  p,  h,  m,  n,  &c.  On  the 
contrary,  every  letter  of  this  MS.  haa  the  usual 
regular  slope  from  right  to  left.  The  copyist, 
besides,  has  mistaken  the  iiuthor>  words,  and  tlie 
meaning  intended  by  him  to  be  conveyed,  "  Un- 
scoured  '*  appears  in  the  second  line  of  verse  one, 
while  *'tmsoured"  is  the  word  adopted  in  all 
accnanible  editions  of  the  poet's  works.     Either 


seems  unhappily  used  to  transmit  the  miihor'i 
meaning ;  luid  possibly  his  word  was 
*.  fi,  not  scored,  scratched,  harrowed,  or  lace 
Health  scoured  would  be  health  cle4kred,  wa 
cleansed » or  purged,  to  its  benefit  or  iniprovea 
while  health  moured  is  next  to  meaningless, 
import  of  the  fifth  line  of  verse  one  is  ambiguon«J| 
Burns  'meant  to  say  that,  as  n  uovv..  1u    w  .- 
spired,  and  hence  saw  that  T 
constitution,  or  frame)  was 
worn,"  inasmnch  as  it  was  **Btutf  U  prietV   ♦*< 
stufiT  which  was  proof,  or  probably  over  ifTOof^- 
more  than  proof  ("o'er  prief"), — a  fact  that 
established  by  the  more  than  patriarchal  Ji^ 
which  TerraugUty  had  reached.     Then,  the 
line  of  the  second  verse  is,  "  This  day  thou  9ncis(i| 
threescore  eleven."    But  Terraughty  did  not 
that  age  as  if  it  was  conimg  towards  or  confrontin 
him.      To   meet   signifies  to  come  together  fro 
different  phctii.     He  had  rather  come  up  to, 
with,  metedt  measured,  or  reached  that  age.  Three- ' 
score  and  eleven  years  was  then  the  measure  of 
his  days. 

Burns   never    committed   all,  perhaps  not 
one,  of  these  unscholarly  blunders  ;  and  therefoi 
they  must  be  placed  upon  the  shoulders  of  i' 
much  less  learned  and  less  practised  copyist. 

K.  M.  J. 

The  Empebor  Alexander  II.  (5'*^  S.  L  46^ 
ii,  36,  55.) — The  spelling  C-^ar  is  not  a  new  inv« 
tion  of  the  Engli.^h  press.     It  has  been  in  use  T 
in  English  and  French  for  at  least  fifty  years, 
never  heard  that  the  Russians  considered  * 
insult,  and  to  my  ears,  and  those  of  othefl 
Eic«|uainted  ivith  the   langiinge,   the  t;  givef" 
sound  of  the  Russtnn  letter  Wtter  than  the  s. 
K^licve  the  word  is  derived  from  an  old  Ta 
title,  Chazar^  or  Khnr.ar.     The  title  of  the  heil! 
apparent  is  of  more  modem  date.  T  )i(A\i 
probably  me^int  to  indicate  that  tb* 
peror  is  the  successor  of  those  of  t 
but,  though  wTitten  Cesarevith,  it  ia  usnaliy  ' 
nounced  in  Russia  Czart^vitch. 

The  mute  t  at  the  end  of  all  Bn 
ending  with  a  vowel  has  no  more 
one  at  the  end  of  the  French  wordi*  w^t;  *itii;*4 
Probably  Mr.  Dilke  was  thinking  of  the  wow 
Czarieh,  as  it  occurs  in  the  first  line  of  the  Nation 
Hymn,  and  the  title  of  the  Russian  opera  (  ~ 
za  C  '  \  -  jmich  spoken  of  at  the  time  ( 
recc  I  -  ;  but  in  both  these  cases  it  1 

objecuv<j  ioirii  of  the  word  whi  '    "     "     ^       "^ 
is  the   formula,  "Emperor  > 
** a  gross  error,"     It  hajs,  of  t.\Mi,  e,  ....,..,i»;. 
ever  to  do  with  Rns^sia  in  Europe  and  Kn 

imited  under  one  ruler  as  they  now  arc     i  bive 


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73 


I 


*thb  iiionicnt^  before  Tne  »  mooUmation  rekting 
a  treaty  wj  ,  in  Kttfisioti  tmd  French, 

which  Hia  .  lajesty's  tities  are,  *'  Em- 

ir et  Autucratcui    dc   toiites  l$«  HituieSy  de 
^  irie,  KiGvie,  Wlfidamir  et  Novoeorod,  Czar 

%^  KasaD^   C         '  *  ei.  Czar  de   Sib^rie/' 

besides  about  iikedoma,  ditkedoms^ 

piincipalities,  .-mi  jiMu-^innsn 

AU-Rassiao  would  imply  that  the  Emperor  had 
&o  foTcign  hUtod  m  hU  veins,  which  ib  far  from 
bdag  the  case ;  besides  the  word  woald  theo  be, 
in  Bmebn^  V6i  or  VsJ^rooBsko],  whereas  it  ia 
Veinoossiaskitt,  a  genitive  pltual  form.  There  ia 
nothing  to  correspond  to  ifm^  only  because  there 
ure  DO  articles  in  Russian  ;  bat  m  Engli^  thej 
are  absolutely  necessary  to  the  sense. 

For  ins»tance,  take  the  following Husfil^in  sentence : 
Y»  (Ij  vilida  (ordered)  chelavok  (man-servant) 
pteeteet  (to  come).  Would  Mr.  Dilke  translate 
It,  **  I  otiiered  man-servant  to  come/'  or  *•  I  ordered 
I4«  fnan-seiTaDt  to  come"?  B.  Y.  H. 


^m     With  rc^iard  to  Mr.  Morfill^s  note  on  the 

^Mmtniion  of  the   word    Tsar,  I  think   that   its 

^f  imiireiiiJ  use,  not  only  at  the  present  day,  but 

■  a0  &r  bttck  afi  we  can  truce,  among  the  Russian 

'  |»eMaBtiy,  who  are  greatly  given  to  clinging  to  old 

dtlfiMy  and  among  whom  new  ideas  sain  ground 

bat  *lowlv.  is  almost  conclusive  proof  against  the 

the*  uoman  derivation.     1  believe  it  to  be 

A  cu '  moe  of  double  derivation,  of  a  dcri  va- 

tioti  littcd  on  to  a  word  already  in  uae,  and  arising 

dllielly  from  the  accidental  aimilatity  of  the  Polish 

fipetling,   r\iir,  with  the  word   Ciesar,      Tliough 

Imfiefrntor  has  been  the  official  title  since  Peter 

llie  Great,  I  have  never  heard  it  on  the  lips  of  a 

BufeBJAii  peosantf  and  a  large  part  of  them  consider 

•hort  of  an  abomination,  or  the  mark  of 

mt,  whereas^  if  we  accept  the  derivation  of 

■ '  mr,  we  mnni  allow  that  a  perfectly 

came  national  in  a  few  years,  and  so 

Lirpated  the  more  ancient  title-^i  as  to 

<sian  language  without   any   native 

^r  their  nder.     The  Emperor  himself 

nmy  be  eadled  as  a  witness  on  my  side,  for  it  is  not 

pnAmble  th.it  he-  would  give  up  his  claim  to  so 

that  of  successor  to  the  Cfesars, 

le  the  comparatively  unmeaning 

'  were-  not  assured  that  ^Tmr  (which 

by  the  way,  himself  seems  un- 

F  to  apc'U)   is  ft  native  word,  repre- 

tlowerthan  his  own.    I  may  mention 

f»*ian  peu^iint?  as  know  of  the  existence 

of  tte  Emperor  of  Austrm^  call  him  Tsesar^  and 

hkoovntry  TH*arhaiti^  with  the  idea  of  drawing 

«kuiy  the  distinction  between  him  and  their  own 

WliiJ*  Ikir. 

I  do  HOC  o6DAider  Kamm^iu  as  a  great  authority^ 
■ad  k  b  A<m  the  fashion  to  set  him  down ;  but  at 
UhI  he  VM  A  Russian^  which  ia  more  than  can  be 


Jmpf^^T^ 


said  for  Bchofikrik  and  Kopitar,  quoted  by  Mr* 

MOBFILL. 

I  grant  without  hesitation  that  I  deserve  the 
rebuke  for  the  use  of  do  slipshod  a  term  as  Turaoiao. 
I  should  never  have  used  it  to  express  any  form  of 
speech  ;  but  as  an  antithesis  to  Aryan,  and  to  show 
my  doubt  whether  the  word  in  question  was  Turk, 
Finnish,  Mongol,  Assyrian,  or  Babylonian,  I  think 
its  use  is  pardonable.  I  may  add  that  I  have  no 
wish  to  derive  it  from  Belahazaar  or  from  the  Car 
of  Sumir  and  Akkad,  dear  to  Hungarian  etymolo* 
gists  ;  but  I  must  express  my  wonder  that,  if  the 
word  really  came  from  Europe  to  Russia,  the  date 
of  its  importation  and  naturah^sation  should  not 
have  been  fixed  long  ago  by  one  of  those  many 
German  mvant4i  who  are  so  anxious  to  prove  that 
Sbvonic  barbarism  can  invent  nothing,  not  even 
a  mune  for  its  oppressor.  I  nuiy  be  wrong,  but  1 
have  as  yet  not  seen  a  single  argument  to  prove 
me  BO,  and  I  think  the  onus  probandi  lies  certainly 
on  the  other  side.  Ashton  W,  Dllkk, 

There  is  no  trace  whatever  of  tinj  native  Slavonic 
root  for  Tmr  in  Tauchnitz's  Dicttanary^  where  we 
find  two  forms  thuM  Anglicized.  1.  Tmry,  whence 
Tsarovit^chy ;  2.  Tsr^ari/,  whence  Tsemreffti^  T»$^ 
sarovitjch,  Tuetarcvna.  Of  these  fluctuating  ortho* 
graphics,  the  latter  is  very  near  to  the  original 

CCPSIU", 

The  strongest  reason,  offering  argument  In  ab- 
sence of  proof,  is  that  Byziintium,  whUe  ruled  by 
the  dynasty  of  Greek  Emperors,  was  called  Czar* 
gorod  by  Russians,  i.  <.,  the  city  of  Csesar,  when 
as  yet  the  chief  ruler  of  Russians  ninked  only  as 
Grand  Buke,  It  was  because  their  line  became, 
by  mrtrriage,  representatives  of  the  Greek Emperoi*, 
that  a  Rub^iequcDt  (J rand  Duke  assumed  the  title  of 
Cmr^  i.<f.T  Emperor  or  Ciesar.  A.  H, 

Sir  Edward  Maria  Wikopield,  1670  (5**^  S.  L 
48B.)— CoRKUH  jisks  whether  ** Maria"  may  not 
(in  Biu'ke's  History  of  the  Cammoners)  be  a  mis- 
print ;  if  not,  how  came  Sir  Edward  by  it,  and 
did  any  male  member  of  the  family  before  1G08 
bear  the  name  ?  A  passage  from  Camden s  Et- 
nuiints  answers  all  these  questions  : — 

"  But  two  Christian  names  are  rare  in  SngUtndt  and  I 
only  remember  tiow  his  Hajeitj.  whoivas  named  ChurleM 
Jama\  aa  the  Prince  \\\&  *onno  Bnirtf  Frederic;  and 
among  pri?atc  men.  Thomag  Mariv  )Vin£fUld  and  dr 
Tkomns  FotUiumuM  Uoblt/.  AUhongU  it  if  common  in 
Italy  t'^  adjoTne  the  name  of  some  Saint,  in  a  kinds  of 
devotion  to  the  Christian  name,  as  Johannes  Bavtista 
Spinuia,  Johannes  Francitcvi  B€ifrhomew,  Martms 
AniomiHS  Fiawiniui  ;  and  in  ^paine  to  adde  the  name 
of  the  Saint  on  who*c  day  the  childc  wr«  borne-"— 
Remoine^  coneerninff  Bniamt,  the  fiffe  ImprcMion, 
1637,  p.  49. 

The  following  extract  from  the  summing-up  of 
the  Lord  Chief  Justice  in  the  Tichborne  t'ase  is 
not  without  interest  : — 

'*  I  don't  know  whcUm  Kx.  «c»\^^  1^^^ 


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l§^BAlIvLi%ii 


but  it  is  a  fact  that  when  Arthur  Orton  ihvppcd  on 
h(mrd  the  Jessie  31  i Iter  to  go  home,  he  did  uot  ahip  in 
the  name  of  Arthur,  but  of  Joseph  31.  Ortou,  What 
does  JoBCTih  M*  mean  ?  What  does  the  M.  stand  for  ]  I 
Bu^npest  '  Mari«L*  There  is  no  doubt  that  it  is  the  «ime 
Arthur  Orton  who  signed  *  Joseph  >L'  This  i*  jul- 
milted.  But  when  he  came  to  London  he  was  Arthur 
drton  Again.  Tlie  change  of  religion  bad  serred  Lis 
mrpoie,  and  the  new  u&nie  waa  con§equently  dropped. 
ST^othing  IB  more  common  abroad  than  for  a  male  to  be 
(l>aptizeJ,  in  ndditiori  to  frouie  opdinarr  Christian  name, 
with  the  name  *  Marie  '  or  *  Maria.'  Ilierc  is  a  fumiliar 
instance  in  the  cauie  of  Jean  .Marie  Farina,  and  one  of 
the  gentlemen  who  received  Arthur  Orton  in  his  hou»e 
woa  Jo«e  Maria  Toro.  If,  therefore,  Arthur  Ortou  woa 
re-bttptt*ed^  Jose  Marm  Toro  wm  very  likely  to  bo 
his  godfather.  When  Arthur  Orton  signed  the  nnme 
'  Joseph  M./  he  would  Imve  been  the  laughing-stock  of 
the  sailors  on  board  if  he  ha^l  written  *  Maria.*  " — The 
TimetlUport.p.  5,  Feb.  17, 1874- 

Sir  Alexander  Cockbura  added,  "  I  don't  think 
[rioniai]"!  Catholic  Enfrlishmoo  tsike  *  Maria'  in 
JadditioQ  to  their  onlinury  CiiviKtian  nsime?.''  I  don*t 
Tijiow  whether  they  do  uow,  but  the  paaaage  I 
have  quoted  from  Camdea  shows  that  they  did 
once  upon  a  time. 

Sparks  Henderson  Williams. 
1$,  Kensington  Crescent,  W. 

"  The  Three  Bears"  (5**»  S.  i*  506.) -England 
obtained  this  favourite  nursery  taJe  immediately 
from  the  poet  Sou  they.  It  may  be  found  in  Tht 
Jtodor,  vol  iv.,  318.  A»  L.  >LvviiEW. 

Oxford. 

"  Drawback  '*  (5*^^  S.  I  r)()fi)-^Wlien  this  word 
wa^  found  at  the  bottom  of  the  title-pai^e  of  a 
Iwjok,  it  meant  that  the  hook,  being  for  the  good 
of  the  public,  or  of  the  nation,  was  entitled  to 
"drawback,"  or  an  allowance  or  return  of  the 
duty  chargeahlo  on  books  of  a  ditterent  chamcter* 
William  Blood, 

Liverpool* 

Mercurt  Wateh  (.5***  S.  ii,  0.)^Mercury  water 
is  doubtleB.s  water  with  quicksilver  in  it.  The 
water  does  not  destroy  the  corrosive  properties  of 
the  merairy,  the  powerit  of  which  are  shown  at 
the  Cinnabar  mine^,  where  wood  is  burnt  up  by  it, 
hrick  soon  destroyed,  and  the  iron  pans  and  con- 
densers ref|uire  constant  renewal. 

H,  A.  St,  J.  M. 

*'  Nu  WHEX  '■  (5^  S.  it.  8.) — An  expression  in 
constant  use  in  this  part  of  Sussex  even  aruoa^ 
fairly  educated  people.  I  have  always  taken  it  to 
be  a  proviacialibui,  Anif  itiken  aim  is  in  constant 
"Be.  Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Arundel* 

March  Ddst  {5*>»  S.  i.  5t>5.)— **A  peck  of 
:M5irch  dust  18  worth  an  earr*  itinsoni,"  and  "A 
bushel  of  Muivh  dust  is  worth  a  kinjr's  ransom/' 
may  be  **  common  saying-^  enough  '•  iii  Dorset^liirc : 
hat,  BO  Iwr  as  1  am  aware,  they  are  uoveltiea  in 


both  Devon  and  Cornwall.      Perhaps   the 
niinfall    in    the  two  south- we3t-<vm   counties 
hunced  the  value  of  the  du«t,  a»  the  *^  sayintf 
there  takes  the  form  of  **  A  pock  of  Mnn^h  dust! 
worth  a  kind's  ransom,"  Wm.  P^nazLLY*  1 

Torquay. 

"Pan**  (5«»  S.  ii,  a)— In  a  glossary  of 
Norfolk  Tvords,  at  page  51  of  the  lilosj^irlci* 
printed  last  year  by  the  English  Dialect  Socletj 
is  this  article  :  — 

**  Patif  the  flooring  on  which  the  cuUivAtod  ioil  hcf. 
Immediately  under   the   cultivated  soil^  a  hard  cr 
provinciRlly  '  the  pan,*  occurs  universally/' 

Possibly  this  may  explain  the  term  Paiifiel< 
but,  in  the  explanation  of  local  nameis  it  is  har' 
ever   possible   to   be   certain  except   after 
search  and  the  exerciBe  of  all  one's  critical  i 
Walter  W, 

1,  Cintra  Terrace,  Gftmhridgc. 

Christy  Collections  {ti^  S.  ii.  27.)-^ 
**I>ono   dederunt   Julii   Cre^conii   chirentissij 
True  it  is  I  can  find  no  instance  of  the  particip 
ID  this  sense;    but  Smith  giv^  under  *^ch 
the  meaning  *Ho  be  distinguished,  iilustrious, 
nowned,"         Charles  F.  S.  Warren,  MJUJ 

*'Yanob  Monday''  (5«»  S.  ii.  280—Prob«ih 
Gange  Monday,  u  e,,  the  Monday  before  Ascensfid 
Da5%  referring  to  the  beating  of  the  parish  bounj 
In  that  week.     Citarles  h\  S.  Warhkn,  M.A.  I 

Elleralie*  Bexhill.  HMttngs. 

"  The  Bonny  House  op  Airlie**  (S***  S.  ii.  2^ 
—It  is  well  known  that  J[ont  ri>5e  was  a  leader  i 
the   Covenanters,   and    su^yiected  to    liave    on 
changed  sides  from  jealousy  of  Argyll.     See 
Clarendon,    Book    IV.     Referring  to    Spalding 
TrauhUs  of  Sccdland,   we   find  him,   the  *'! 
General  ■'  of  the  Covenanters,  reviewing  five  Hu 
rlred  Argyll  Highlanders  on  their  joining  liis  i 
at  Aberdeen.    And  in  the  case  of  Airlie  it  app 
from  Spalding,  edit.  1830,  page  179,  that  ^lontr 
himself  had  Baled  in  an  attempt  on  Airly, 
that  the  estates  in   consequence    entrusted 
attack  to  Arg}'ll : — 

**  The   Earl  of  Airly  went   from  home  i 
fearing  the  troubles  of  the  land,  and  ibut  li 
pressed  to  eubecribe  the  Covenant  whether  1..   ..    .,, 
not,  whilk  bj  deeing  the  land  he  resolved  to  eschew  oji^i 
m  he  could  *  .  .  *  The  E^ttates  or  tables  h'^nnn?  ^f  hu  ^ 
parturOj  directed  the  Earls  of  Montr> 
to  go  to  the  place  of  Airly  and  to  take 
for  that  effect  to  carry  cartowa  with  t 
ciirta)  .  .  .  The  asgftilaiita  findii]|;  the  \nt^v  uiiwil 
by  tuituro  of  fcrcnt  strength,  without  great  fkulfl 
the  place  without  niickle  loss  on  either  t.ide,  t^ 
purted  therefro'  in  Jime. 

"  Xt)w  the  Committee  of  Eetate?,  finding  n*  coulf 
mcnt  in  thif  expedition,  and  hearing  how  i"  {| 

of  the  name  ol  Forbei  and  others  in  the  • 
daily  injured  and  opprost  by  highland  limniur^  rru*o, 
out  of  Lochab«ri  Clai^rcgor,  out  cf  Brae  of  Aik4 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


10 


Brme  of  Mar»  and  dUvene  other  phicci,  therefore  tbej 
gire  atden  to  the  Earl  of  Arg^fU  to  r»iae  men  out  of  hla 
own  couDlry,  and  firat  to  go  to  Airly  and  Furtour,  two 
of  tl^e  EaH  of  Airlj'd  principal  bouse i,  atid  to  take  in 
and  destroy  the  samen,  and  neict  to  ^o  upon  tUir  limnmra 
fttid  punuih  them  ;  like  as  conform  lb  hifl  order  he  nii««i 
mn  araiy  of  about  five  thotasand  men,  and  marches  to- 
vrmrdf  Airly:  hut  the  Lord  Ogil-rie,  hearinif  of  hi«  coming 
with  fluch  irreiutible  force,  reaoWei  to  ilcti  and  leave  the 
houie  maoleis ;  and  so  for  their  own  safety  they  witely 
fled ;  but  ArjcyU,  most  crueliy  and  inhumanly,  enters  the 
houac  of  Alrly^  and  b«ata  the  same  to  the  ground,  and 
riglii  Bua  he  dues  to  Furtour,  eyne  spoiled  all  within  both 
himt»,  and  inch  ms  could  not  be  curled  they  master- 
foUy  bmke  down  and  destroyed." 

W.  G. 

"  HiGR  AND  Low/'  &c.  {^^  a  I  46B.)— Words- 
worth's Ecderiasticat  SmiKcU.  F.  L. 

Eliza  B£TH  Oakninq  (5"»  S*  ii.  27.)— Mr. 
Gbooilb  wiU  find  a  full  report  of  all  the  proceed- 
ingB  in  rektion  to  thi»  wretched  girl  in  HowtdFs 
Sintf  Triah,  pp.  283-680  of  roL  xix.  The  dtite  is 
1753-^4.  It  iM  noteworthy  that,  althou^'h  the 
Jt  of  the  first  triril  (iu  which  CanninjT  waa  pro- 
ttijc)  woA  admitted  to  have   been  much    in- 

p^  .  3  V-  -' irjjiny  m^fiiir  representations  printed 
atn  I  I  '  (p.  274),  no  proceedings  were  taken 

for i-Ji^  of  C'ourt."      Middle  Tkmplail 

Bradford, 

TiNTERN  Abbey  (5***  S*  ii.  28.) — I   gave   Mr. 
Block  a  phin  (with  .*everal  others),  which  la  pub- 
It^htKl  in  the  la^t  edition  of  the  Guide  to  i^oidh 
II'«i/m  (1874).     There  is  no  local  Guide- Book. 
l^LkCKENZiE  R  C.  Walcott. 

Blot  "  RiBBOK,^  OR  Blue  "  Ridbaxd'^  (5*»»  S. 
I  i   606.) — In   the  curliest   editions   of   Johnson*« 
\iittiumam/,  this  word  is  given  thug  : — **  Riband  : 
""     Ruban,  fr.  (.sometimes  written  Ribon)," 

Ort^  by  the  following  quotations  : — 
■lint  in  green  she  shall  be  loose  enrob'd 
fflth  nbbandi  pendent,  fltring  ^bout  her  head.'* 

Shakspej&re. 
**  A  ribband  did  the  braided  tresses  bind. 
The  rest  was  loose/* 

Dryden'g  Knight's  Tali. 

"  S99  1  in  the  lists  they  wait  the  lrompet*i  sound ; 
6ouie  lore  dcrice  is  wrought  on  cT'ry  sword. 
And  erVy  ribband  beai9  some  mystic  word/' 

OrauTiUe. 
WiLLLAM  Blood, 
ItlT«rpooL 

Tm  "  HricAiciEa'a  Coithisntabt  "  (5***  S.  i,  ftOT.) 
-I*  The  omiasion  of  the  word«  "and 

[lets  ritly  a  lapsus  calami  of  the  conunen- 

|lAUif«     1  iiv  jiebrew  numeral  in  question ^S€r«7i/y. 
\Mi»  och^  reading  or  rendering  i^*  known. 

A.  L.  Mat  HEW, 
CblortL 

^ptCntT  House  (u*^  S.  iL  4S.)— An  engraving  of 
Bli|ier("«  Hou^,  Beech  LaQe^  Barbican,  is 


in  Thi  Antiquitm  of  London^  hy  John  TbomaK 
Snuth»  17!>i,  There  i»  no  letter-pre^s.  but  on  the 
plate  are  these  words,  **  see  P^nnant'fi  London.'* 
Thifl  reference  may  probably  as^mt  Mr.  H,  W. 
Kexi-'rev  in  obtaining  the  mrticulars  he  i»  in 
search  of.  Charles  Wylie. 

"Solidarity"  {5*^  S.  I  347,  492.)— There  i« 
no  mystery  whftteyer  about  iolidarity^  and  any  of 
the  usual  books  of  reference  would  doubtless  hare 
fumifthed  Jahez  with  the  refjuired  intunnation. 
Solidum,  in  Latin,  means  tht  whole  jmrn;  and  in 
Ita,ly,  when  two  persons  sign  a  promissorj'  note 
together,  the  common  formula  k  pagh€rci7w  injtkmc 
cd  in  solido^  each  being  thus  answerablef  in  case  of 
need,  for  the  entire  sum.  The  two  parties  are 
aoUdjirii^  or  Aolidali,  that  i*,  UnvH  per  tiilta  la 
$omnva>  Hence  soUdaAeta  in  Italian,  while  the 
French  forms  are  mlidaiTc,  iolidaritiL 

All  the  other  uses  of  the  word  are  metaphorical^ 
but  easily  refenible  to  the  ground -iden,  soluhr%t<' 
des  ptnpleji,  den  itUMU^  de^  t^le^  couromUes^  &c. 

H.  K. 

Archbishop  Trench  is  rij^bt  in  connecting  this 
word  with  the  French  Communbts— that  is  tbeir 
motto,  and  one,  indeed,  which  no  one  could  be 
ludiiuned  of ;  but,  as  D.  M.  thinks,  they  have  not 
coined  it,  ril though  it  is  not  of  much  older  dtite 
than  the  French  Revolution,  The  French  word 
mlidarite  appears  for  the  tirst  time  in  the  famous 
speech  in  which  Cuxotte  is  said  to  have  foretold 
the  fall  of  the  monarchy  and  the  decapitation  of 
Louis  XVL  Henri  Gausseron. 

Ayr  Academy. 

**  Be  QuiNCET  :  Gocoe'a  Fate^*  (4*^  S.  x.  331. 
418;  5"»  S.i.  117;  iL  m)--The  Dog  of  Echdhjn. 
A  dog  would  find  it  dLtHcult,  if  not  imposs^ible,  to 
hold  ita  own  .igainst  the  attacks  of  hungrj'  mvens. 
One  of  Landseer's  drawings  represents  a  fox  unable 
to  keep  the  IB  from  a  dead  red  deer, 

Scott,  Wordsworth,  and  Davy  visited  Helvellyn 
together  soon  after  the  discovery  of  Gough's  re* 
niiiins.  Scott  was  shrewd,  and  possessed  too  muoh 
knowledge  of  the  craft  so  often  found  with  the 
"clouted  shoon'*  to  be  imposed  upon  by  g^uides' 
tales.  Wordsworth  resided  in  the  Lake  country 
at  the  tiuie,  and  must  have  known  the  facta  of  the 
matter  and  the  belief  of  the  inhabitants.  He  was, 
like  Scott,  too  honounible  a  man  to  have  mis-state*l 
them,  and  Ids  verses  are  evidence  of  his  being  well 
acquainted  with  some  of  the  details  of  the  episode. 
Bishop  Watson,  in  the  letter  to  Hay  ley  (ouoteil  by 
Mr.  Oakley),  terms  Gough^s  companion,  *faitlt/fil 
dog/'    Professor  Wilaon  said  the  same,*      From 


•  *•  Christopher  Xorth  "  could  estn     *         v  ;;  at  his 
true  worth.    StG  '"  Chri«topher  in  hi  lackeL" 

**  If  erer^  in  thij  cold,  chanceful*  i IK  I  il,  there 

was  a  fricmlihip  that  might  be  C&IU4  «u^c.^i:ttt  V^  "^vrt^ 
ihat  which,  haif  a  ceiit\^T|  a^o  ittk^  ^^-wax^^  avCoivAft^. 


76 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^  S,  11.  JtTLY  25.  • 


Wordsworth's  lines  it  h  evident  that  the  creature 
made  aa  iin usual  cry  to  attract  the  sliepherd's 
attention^  und  then  led  him  to  the  reJice  of  her 
mivster.  There  is  gr>od  evidence  of  her  remaining 
upon  the  mountain  for  more  than  three  months, 
not  two,  as  Bishop  Wat&on  a  tinted. 

Oarefal  inquiries  have  been  made  in  Patterdale 
and  elflewhere,  and  information  received  from  u 
tmafcworfchy  sowcce — an  elderly,  intelligent,  and 
respectable  peroon,  of  good  position,  who  spoke 
from  old  personal  recollectionit,  having  resided  in 
the  vale  and  been  about  tifteen  years  of  age  when 
Gough  lost  his  life. 

Even  if  the  (^lant  and  devoted  animal  which 
remained  true  to  the  spot,  ho  useless  and  alone, 
exposed  to  the  rigour  of  winter,  and  **  biding  the 
pelting  of  the  pitile.ss  «tonn"  for  so  many  long 
days  and  long  nights,  had  been  driven  by  the 
excruciating  pangs  of  famine  to  touch  the  remains 
of  one  she  loved  so  weU,  it  would  btrdly  impair  her 
fidelity.  Nature  might  succumb  and  reason  fail 
under  such  a  trial.  Civilized  man  eat«  his  fellow- 
man  when  forced  by  hunger.  Let  the  loyal  Fida 
of  Helvellya  rank  with  the  life-saver  Barri  of 
St.  Bernard,  and  her  epit-aph  be,  "  Fidelis  ad 
Umam."  George  R.  Jksse, 

"Pttt  to  buck''  (5t»»  S.  i.  228,  29.X)^Th«  «^- 
pr^Bsion,  implying  to  be  delayed  or  hindered^  haa 
been  remarked  upon  by  two  correspondenU  who 
have  gone  a  long  way  back  for  a  very  imMttafiictory 
solution.  One  ^^  thinks  **  it  in  to  be  mode  to  tweaiy 
the  other  has  *'  no  doubf  that  it  means  to  huddc 
(as  to  put  on  armour).  The  origin  of  the  expression 
lies  upon  the  surface,  and  is  not  far  to  seek  :  it  is 
simply  a  corruption  of  put  n-bach  rapidly  uttered 
with  a  provincial  prononciatioiL  I  have  frequently 
heard  a  person  exclaim,  after  being  delayed  by 
some  unexpected  difficulty  or  hindrance,  **  I  never 
was  so  put  a-back  in  my  llfe.'^  E,  V. 

GirsY  Burials  (5«»  S.  i.  129,  212,  058.)— Two 
gipsy  ladies  are  buried  in  one  gnive  in  Beighton 
churchymrd,  Derbyshire.  Tlie  following  is  a  copy 
of  the  inseriptions  upon  the  stone  erected  to  their 
memory  : — 

''  Happy  tcmlj  thy  days  are  ended, 

ML  thy  mmiraifi^  dikyn  below  ; 

Go,  by  Migel  iruarda  attended^ 

To  the  ftight  of  Joaui,  go.'* 

''Sacred  *^Al«o 

to  tho  memory  To  the  memory 

of  of 

Matilda  Doflwcll,  Lucretia  Smith, 

tvho  died  Jan.  15,  1844^  Queen  of  the 

Aged  40  years,"  Oypifies, 

who  died  Not.  20.  18U, 
Aged  72  yeara." 

It  would  be  inteTesting  to  ascertain  the  exact 


b«twe«n  Christopher  North  and  John  Fro.  We  never 
had  a  quarrel  in  all  our  lives,  and  within  these  two 
monthB  we  made  a  pilgiimagc  to  hie  graTc.  * 


relationship  between  the«©  two  gip«y  ladles.   I  eop- 
pose  them  to  have  been  mother  and  daughter* 

Taoat^vs  Ratcli  ffe. 

Wrt  Adam  meaxs  North,  South,  East,  axd 
West  (5^  S,  L  305,  433,)— The  extnvct  from 
Hyam  Isa^ic/s  Cercuumi^  of  the  Jtvcft^  given  hj\ 
Mji.  Gomme,  to  the  etfect  tlikt  the  name  Adam  lsI 
composed  of  the  initial  letters  of  ^dam,  Il!ividy| 
and  Jlfesaiah,  seems  to  me  to  be  open  to  the  oh^\ 
jection  that  the  word  Aiidni  moat  have  exited  I 
before  its  lirsfc  letter  could  be  taken  for  the  for- 1 
mation  of  itself,  W.  W. 

CARFATUlAJf  MouKTAtSfs  (5***  S.  i.  328,  375,} — 
For  the  botany  of  tho  Carpathian  Mountains,  J 
H.  J.  B.  is  referred  to  Dr.  Wahlenbergs  F?<>rft  j 
Oarpatormri  Principalium;  and,  for  a  genenill 
description  of  the  region  traverBcd  by  them,  1«>I 
Kennan's  Jourti^ey  acroag  the  Carj>nthian  Aftwm-j 
tai?w,  Gaston  de  Berneval, 

QtTorrs  (5^^  S,  i.  428.)— The  book  wanted  » 
Routledge's  Handbook  of  Quoits  and  Bowh,  by 
Sidney  DaryL  18mo.  Load.,  I86a  See  ab(» 
Strut t's  Sports  and  Fa9tint*9f  edited  by  Hone. 
8vo.  London,  1831  and  1855,  p.  76 ;  TfiA  PhiMf^ 
ffround,  by  Rev.  J.  G,  Wood.  12mo.  Londouyj 
1861,  p.  167  ;  and  Wondtra  of  Bodily  Strmffik] 
and  Skill,  by  Charlea  RusaelL  12mo.  N.  Y.^j 
1871,  pp,  47-54.  Gaston  ob  Bee^sval. 

PhiliuldphiiL. 

SniRLKY  Family  (5^  S.  L  248,  2^  477.)— 
In  Burke*s  Peerage  for  the  current  year,  as  well 
as  in  previous  editions,  Sir  Hobert  Shirley,  first  J 
Earl  Ferrers  by  his  second  wife,  Selina  Finch,  left, 
inter  olio,  three  daughters — Selina,  wife  of  Peteri 
Bathurst ;  Mary,  wife  of  Charles  Tryon,  Eaq.s 
Anne,  married  to  Sir  Richard  Ftimese,  Baronet 
In   Burke's   Extirict  Baronetage,   p.  211^   artic 
''  Furnese  of  Waldeishan^  co.  Kent,'^  there  appears] 
no  l^ii  Richard  Furneae  at  all,  but  a  Sir  Robert] 
Fumeae,  married  (lat)  Anne  Balam,  (2nd)  Lad^ 
Arabella  Watson,  (3rd)  Lady  Selina  Shirley, 
wish    to    learn   which    is  correct.      Should    the 
Baronet's  name  be  Richard  or  Robert^  and  should 
the  lady  he  married  be  SciiTia  or  Anne  f 

NoVAVtLLA, 

"Tms  Night  Crow":  Bitterw  (5*^  S.  L  Si 
114, 293,457,  613.)— MR.  Jessb  quotes  from  t 
poets  (p.  293)— whose  names  he  omits — ^ooi 
ing  the  Bittern,  and  asks  for  other  qnotalioilil 
perceive  that  in  each  of  tho  three  that  h**  orivfin  tbi 
word  **  boom  "  is  applied  to  the  peculiar 
burd  ;  and  the  same  word  is  used  in  the  i 
lowing  quotations    from  three    poeta   who  wer9| 
decidedly  original,  and  not  copyists  from 
other : — 

"  And  the  Biitom  soand  his  dram 
Boomioff  from  the  ied^v  eh  allow,'* 

Soott,  Lady  of  ih€  Lakt,  Cwito  t,  ZV 


mm 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


77 


— This  gives  the  ex]jlim(vtion  of  the  local  term, 
the  '*  Mire  Druni.'^ 
"  Or  ndl;  listen  to  the  luneleu  cry 
Of  fiihiDg  jguU  or  clftiifEiag  iroIdeD-eje  ; 
Wh«(  Uttie  the  sea-bu-dB  ta  tbe  umreh  would  com«, 
And  th«  bud  bitkm,  from  his  bull-niBh  home, 
G%Y%  from  tbe  s^lt-ditch  side,  hta  beHowitkg  boom.'^ 
Cmbb«,  Thi  Borough,  22. 
'^  Ko  more  with  her  will  bear  tbe  Bittern  boom 
At  eTeoiDg's  dewj  clo«e/' 

£ben«zer  Elliott. 

Howitt  uaei  the  word  "boom"  as  jipplied  to 
**  the  soariiig  cockchafer."        CuTnuisRT  Bede. 

Mr, 

90- 
F: 

fVltti 

h  V 

Tl 

birti 


Je98z  uaks  for  the  derivation*   In  Eichard- 

ruMTffSuh  voce,  Datch  BuU>m-  is  given^ 

'f/f,  J5<w  taunts^  or  J?aa(ii^  f(tur«iiuj« 

X.  -12,  quoted  to  the  eftect  that  it  is  called 

ib^cxLUse  it  lows  like  a  buIJ.    TkU  reference 

^"  '  ^  •  y*H  Forcellini  givea  PlinVj  L 1  (\ 42. 

p8et3  the  derivation,  because  the 

ciiiien  ianrn4t^  And  not  Boatus  Uturinus. 

I  imkc  it  to  mean  simply  *m= bird,  bin  that  heati, 

hmdcm  or  humping  kern.     In  Northumberland  it 

il  failed  the  butUHmmpj  m  Lancashire  the  hitttr- 

Sow  a  few  jMUsa^es  in  which  it  occurs : — 
^  Whmrt  li»wki»  sea  owb,  and  long-tongued  bittours  bred.'^ 

Cba|»nan'fl  Odj/t.  v. 
"Sotbatacarce 
The  bittern  knows  hii  timo»  with  bill  Ingulpht^ 
To  ihake  the  lounding  manh.'^ 

Thomeon, 
"  Atid  M  m  ^iitcmr^  humbldA  in  tbe  mire." 

Wif  tif  Batiii*  TaU,  t,  0544,  Chancer. 
'*  And  m  »  btttottr  bumpe  within  a  reed*" 

Dirden. 

a  A.  w. 

jfair. 

I  filioidd  jmn^ine  thut  Bitterti  wa.s  the  EnjrliHh 
fbfiD  of  the  scientific  name  of  the  bird,  Botauruei, 
!«.,  Bootaorus,  given  to  it  from  \\»  hollow  boom- 
iflg  DOt^f  which  rei^embles  the  bellowing  of  an  ox. 
**""  rits  provincial  appellation  of  **Eull  of  the 
Oharlrb  Swai?»sox. 
It  Wood. 

^CoL-  IV  r*>T-Fox{5*^S.  i.  141,  2n»  371,  417, 
4aew)— ''  '  'f  the  birth  of ''  a  colly  foal ""  wsjj 

tolil  tec  V  a  Yorkshireman,  and  I  thought 

Imt  meant  a  oAi  foal  uotU  further  inquiry  showed 

bnc  that  the  new-comer  was  of  tli£  feminine  gander. 
Wh«ii  1  thereupon  asked  for  the  si^idoHtion  of 
^  ooUj,"  it  wa«»  explaiiied  to  me  that  it  meant  *'an 
udhliti,  ^  and  my  informant  promised  to 

teok  fcii  In  hiii  dirtiun.ary.     He  remarked 

lint  f>eopic  u:  i!vi  coUit  for  a  foa),  ju&t  w&  they  used 

I 6wMif  Ibr  »  rabbit. 
P€ff)bap»  co/ meivns  v  "        '       "  ,<  i^ 

irJ»&Qnroi»  mihI  his  t  ric 

aiMitrntiTy.  If  <w>,  coJ-Mnvr^  m**  t^iuim  or  pocket 
ladfcs ;  A  col- fox  i^  a  youjij^,  a  little  fox  ;  a  coUic 


iB,  aa  Mh.  Blk>kin&ofp  says,  a  whelp  ;  and  mj 
colly  foul  is  on  equine  baby.  The  snmamo  Col- 
cluugh  has  been  of  late  in  the  papers  ;  this,  ae-*  i 
eordinj*  to  my  interpretation^  is  liiUe  glen,  ravine^  , 
or  whatever  elae  chugh  may  be  said  to  signify. 
The  place  ColcJough  is  in  Stafford  shire»  "  in  which 
county/'  writes  Lower,  **  the  family  reiiided  temp. 

Edw.  HL"  fcsT.   SWITRIK. 

pRiKCKS  OF  THE  Blood  Royal  (5**»  S.   t.  467, 
ni6  ;  ii.  37.)— MiDDLK  Templar  wiU  find  that  th^ 
Duke  of  Cambridge  takes  precedenco  by  **  special 
Act":  vUe  "  N.  &  Q.,'»  4^  S.  x.  453,  in  an  ampla  ' 
article  by  Mr.  Wickham. 

O.  LAtJitsKce  OomtE, 

B,  Catbbrixk  of  SiENSTA  (5«»  8.  i.  3ft7»  4133  ; 
ii,  17.)— The  following  is  a  vety  interesting  work 
on  the  life  and  times  of  S.  Catherine  : — Storia  di 
S.  Cat<rina  <fo  SiennO'  t  del  Fopato  d$l  9UQ  Tempo^ 
per  Alfonso  Capelcelatro,  Napwi,  1856,  2  voli. 

W.  M.  M, 

Pastoriki  (b^  S.  i.  408  ;  IL  13.)— Fleming  did 
71  of  '*  foretell  the  downfall  of  the  Papacy  in  184rt,* 
His  woni.i  are,  "  But  yet  we  are  not  to  imagine 
that  this  vial  will  totaUv  destroy  the  papacy, 
though  it  will  exceed Lngly  weaken  it."  K»«f^ 
reprint  of  Eise  and  FcSl  of  Borne  Papain  by 
Robert  Fleming,  ed,  1848,  p.  62, 

C.  CaATTocK,  F.R.H.S. 

Castle  Brotnwich. 

Comet  Tistule  Ai^ril  30,  1530  (5"»  S.  i.  369, 
435.)— The  statement  of  the  Portuguese  historian, 
Don  Jean  Antonio  dc  Veia  et  Figueroa,  as  to  a 
solar  eclipse,  as  well  as  a  comet,  having  been 
visible  on  the  day  on  which  Isabel  died,  1st  May, 
153!>,  is,  therefore,  most  satisfiictorily  substantiated ; 
and  I  beg  Mr.  T.  W.  Webb  wiil  accept  my  best* 
thanks  for  his  great  kindness  in  tbe  matter,     K 

Rev.  STKFHiLjr  Clarkk  (5**  S.  L  206,  265,  298, 
438.) — I  beg  to  thank  your  correapondente  for  the 
information  given  respecting  the  above  divine. 
The  typographical  portion  of  my  que^  haii  not, 
however,  received  any  elucidation.  My  copy  of 
the  work  ia  nearly  identical  with  that  of  J.  U.  B«» 
with  the  foUowir-  -  -  -><^;  -  ♦>-  title  has  **six- 
teen  '*  discoursr  a  are  enume- 

rated, the  sixteti.  -.  .  .  ,,  ..  1- ~  Advantages  of 
Casting  our  Bread  upon  the  Waters.'^  The  title- 
page  ends  thus :  '^^  Second  Edition,  Malton^ 
Printed  by  Joshua  Nick^on  ^*  fn.  d.).  The  number 
of  pn;[:r-^  i.^  Lnvpn  Lis  ^^51,  bnt  sheet  Dd  is  erroneously 
]  ition  of  sheet  Cc,  thus 

--  <  to  the  volume. 

2^Uy   1  ery   about    the   Malton 

printer,  an^.  ho  above  volume? 

t^ABl^ES  A.   FSDEAISL. 

Bradfoid. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  p**8.n.JutT2$,7i. 


PECttLiAR  SpkIi^^HHK.  i.  405,  4bZ.)-Ridde 
far  ready  post  tenser,  mByron.  In  the  Malmt^bury 
Qfrrttpondtnre  the  following  passage  from  a  letter 
i«  quoted :— "  The  letters  ...  *  were  reddr  in  both 
Houses  of  Pftrliatiient."  Upon  which  the  editor, 
the  present  Lord  Malmeabmy,  remarkfl  i — 

"  Jiedde  t«  tiled  in  the  originjil  of  all  letters  of  tbif 
dute,  and  so  the  word  was  sptlt  in  the  days  of  ShaJce«p«re 
and  duriDg  movt  part  of  the  last  century.  Why  not 
spetl  the  paat  tenae  as  it  ia  pronounced  rtddt,  and  the 
preNnt  aa  it  U  now  written  read  t  This  would  at  leaet 
define  the  two." 

Is  it  not  aa  prolmble  th-ut  Byron  was  more 
familiar  with  the  fonii  redd^^  m  that  he  iwiopted 
this  from  iiiero  whim  ?  Is  it  not  u  positive  Iobs, 
too,  that  the  distinction  in  writing  the  past  and 
the  present  of  this  verb  ahoidd  be  misaed  I  Spen- 
ser Has  red  for  the  post  tense.  Inquirer, 

"  Pektecost"  as  a  Najie  (4t*»  S,  i.  568 ;  h^  S, 
i.  402,  472.)— In  the  Phiknthropic  Farm  School, 
Redhiil,  is  at  thiB  time  a  boy  of  the  nume  of  Al- 
bert Ponteco8t.  He  was  bom  at  Danehill^  Sussex, 
Dec.  15,  im2y  and  baptized  there  Feb.  1863. 
The  Vicar  of  Dane  hill  writes  :-;- 

"  The  name  •  Pentecost'  ia  a  famiUar  one  in  thii  plae« 
and  in  tbese  parts.  Four  miles  from  this  village),  ott  a 
place  called  'Flaw  Hatch/  livea  at  this  time  old  Jack 
Fenteoo«t  (S3) ;  and  John  Pentecost^  aged  76,  was  buried 
here  four  years  ago.  They  belou^  to  the  labouring 
clafi.  The  sons  of  old  Jack  Peotecoet  are  resident  in 
the  iitxt  pariahesj  Twryford,  ilartfield,  and  Maresfield." 

G.    L.    Cr. 

Tit»ey  Place,  Surrey, 

A  Jew's  Will  (5«^  S.  I  449,  4m ;  ii.  38.)— The 
Magpie  Alley  and  Fenchurch  Street  Synagogne 
is  probably  the  Hambro  BA-nagogue,  Norihum&r- 
land  Alley.  Mr.  Jacob  Solomon,  of  27,  Great 
Prescott  Street,  E.,  Secretarj-^  thereof,  can  probitbly 
give  all  information  about  it^  sind  of  the  Isaac 
family.  Partly  in  forced  xniitat  ion  of  the  mediaeval 
Catholics,  each  male  Jew  ref>eats  a  doxology, 
Kaddish,  for  the  first  eleven  months  after  his 
parent'ii  death,  and  on  the  annivers:try  of  the  same ; 
also  olfera  public  aims  on  Pui^sover,  Pentecost, 
Tabernacles,  and  Bay  of  Atonement  (vide  Jewish 
Festival  Prayers,  "The  Memoriul  of  Departeil 
Soids '').  The  Jntish  ilironidf  Offiee,  43,  Fins- 
bury  Square,  London,  has  publisJied  this  year  an 
interesting  history  of  the  London  Jews ;  and 
probably  the  erudite  author  of  the  same  will  give 
H.  T.  E.  a  genealogy  of  the  L*aacs  fumily  j  one, 
Alexander  Isaac,  was  grandfather  of  Sir"  Julius 
Vojjel,  of  New  Zeahind.  S.  M,  D. 

SwAXE  Fajiily  (5**»  S,  i.  1B8,  253,  297,  476.)— 
There  is  no  doubt  that  Sir  Solomon  Swale  had 
a  fourth  son,  Robert  Swale,  ]VLD,,  Pivdua,  aud  a 
licenthite  of  the  London  College  of  Physicians, 
My  aeorch  for  an  heir  to  this  baronetcy  is  now 
suspended  owing  to  other  occupations,    fhe  points 


I 


on  which  I  should  be  obliged  if  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents could  give  mc  information  are,  the 
parentage,  marriage,  and  issue  of  a  John  SwaJc 
(grandson  of  Rol>ert  Swale,  M.D.),  who  was  born 
in  17tX>,  and  lived  at  Windsor,  holding  some  post 
connected  with  the  royal  household. 

John  H.  CnAPMAK,  M.A. 
Crosthwoite  Park,  Kingstown. 

Floooiso  in  Schools  (6**»  S.  I  2S4,  415.)— 
A,  E.  is  "greatly  miatakem*^  Nothing  of  the 
kind  was  ever  used  by  his  "  ingenious  Amencaii 
cousins  "  ;  and  if  he  has  "  read  of  slaves  being  nent 
to  the  flogging  mills,"  in  the  whilom  slave-holding 
States,  he  has  only  missed  discovering  the  "  in- 
vention^'io  the  story,  G.  L.  H. 

Greenville,  Ala. 

The  Swift  Familt  (6^  S.  L  485 ;  ii.  33.)— I 
hope  Mr.  Swifte  will  pardon  me  if  I  take  the 
liberty  of  inverting  bis  statement  that,  for  the 
hereditary  royalisui  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Swift  in 
presenting  to  Clnirles  I.  the  purchase- monej  of  hin 
estate,  "  he  was  rewarded  by  the  Roundheads  with 
misusage  and  spoliation,"  the  fact  being,  with  stiU 
greater  credit  to  his  unwavering  loyalty,  that  the 
first  barbarous  plundering  of  his  home  by  the  Earl 
of  Stamford's  soldiers,  then  occupying  Hereford, 
took  place  in  1642,  and  bis  nuinificent  donation 
was  offered  to  the  King  at  Raglan  Castle,  after  the 
battle  of  Naseby  in  1645.  Heath  says  it  was  the 
produce  of  a  mortgage,  and  300,  not  3,tKK),  broad 
piecea  ;  and  this  seems  more  probable,  us  they 
were  carried  quilted  into  His  waistcoat.  Nor,  un- 
less he  crossed  the  Channel,  which  is  not  vciy 
likely,  could  he  have  been  rewarded  by  Charles  IL 
"  with  verbal  thanks,"  as  his  decease  took  place  I 
June  2,  1658.  How  cruelly  his  defenceless  famtly  | 
were  treated  by  the  Parliamentaty  ^v^ill 

appear  in  my  late  fathers  (the  Rev.  td>) 

Memoirs  of  th^  Civil  War  in  tJu  Coiumj  t>j  licr^ 
/onf,  whicJh  I  am  now  preparing  for  the  presft. 
One  of  the  cnftrops  with  which  this  noblt^-heartetl 
man  is  said  to  luvve  aiiised  the  ford  nt  Goodrich 
to  l>o  secured  against  cavalry  is  now  in  my  pos- 
^.     I  ^n.  T.  W.  Wfinn. 

Simpson  &  Co.  (5«»  S.  i.  49,  114,  197,  33a>—  i 
Adam's  Son  forgeta  that  W.  T.  RL  has  said  not  a  ' 
word  which  implies  that  he  is  not  well  aware  thjit 
all   old  families   bore  arms   before   the    Heraldn' 
College  was  ;  and  lie  conceals  the  fact  that  it  is 
just    these    old    families    whose   arms  are   mo*t 
certainly  recorded  there.     Very  few  of  the  families 
whose  arms  are  on  alttu?  tombs  and  corl>eIs  ha^t* 
managed  to  escape  the  notice  of  the  betnlds.     He 
writes  tij.  */ho  did  not  know  the  nde  in  her.ddiy, 
tlmt  ii  coat  of  arms  is  a  property  voMtod  in  the 
IdtXMl  iie*icendant^  of  the  ori^dnal  owner.     Hence, 
whoever  has  a  right  to  use  my  family  arms  ia  mr  i 
blood  relation.     He  would  not  object  to  a  don 


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79 


H       »|AtUS    IS 


I 
I 


iTeiigvF  pbciiig  the  Adam*8  Sok  aniis  on  his 
dtist-cart ;  aor  should  I,  or  a  poor  scavenger 
cither,  if  the  man  was  a  blood  relation  ;  neither, 
I  suppose,  would  any  one  who  is  above  the  mejin- 
naea  of  difiowniiig  a  relative  because  his  social 
»|Atus  is  inferior*  But  if  the  saivenger  wim  no 
relation,  and  was  the  honest  man  Burns  speaks  of^ 
scorn  the  falsehood  of  sneniking  Into  arm^ 
no  right  to,  merely  to  puff  himself  oa  being 
bom  than  he  wtia.  He  is  rich  enough  to  buy 
a  new  coat  at  the  College,  but  he  knows  it  would 
not  be  as  *'  genteel ''  as  the  Adah's  Son  old  one^ 
and  would  not  help  hira  up  in  society  as  well,  so 
be  paaaes  off  a  fraud  upon  society  nnd  claims  what 
10  not  his.  P,  P. 

I  once  used  to  be  of  the  same  opinion  as  One 
OF  Ai>Ait*8  Dbscenda^^tb,  hut  hiive  long  since 
bee"  .i"*i^>^*^ived.  Although  anna  similar  to  those 
of  are  to  be  found  at  Sawley,  Bolton, 

„.  .ail  of  a  very  early  date,  it  does  not 
Dw  tiuit  he  has  any  right  to  them.  They 
have  been  assumed  by  some  progenitor 
ignorant  of  the  necessity  of  genealogical  proof 
positive  of  descent  &om  the  original  bearer.  It  is 
ft  cue  of  ipse  dmt,  until  such  proofa  are  submitted 
to  the  responsible  public  authorities  on  such  ques- 
tions. Mere  usa^  and  the  presumption  of  a 
right,  derived,  say,  from  the  postewbn  of  an 
ancient  estate,  are  not  sufficient ;  for  there  ui-e 
many  instsnoes,  especially  in  Scotland,  of  strange ra 
of  the  mme  name  carrying  on  the  succession  of 
oatftm  labdB  without  any  blood  relationship^  and, 
oonseqnently,  without  any  right  to  the  pen^onal 
aims  of  their  predecessors.  The  assumption  of 
nna  without  the  perfect  geneidogical  proof  ia 
decidedly  illegal,  as  regards  the  Heralds'  College, 
and  tliia  illegality  is  not  affected  by  the  Armonal 
TiKK  Act,  which  refers  to  arms  *^  regiiitered  or  not/- 
tlie  object  being  mei^ly  to  prevent  evasions.  But 
tbe  Act  does  not  imply  that  the  payment  of  the 
tax  condones  any  henddic  offence.  It  is  simply, 
ill  it»  object,  liscjiL 

LiAtly,  DO  one  has  a  right  to  bear  arms  without 
tike  approval  of  the  heraldic  authoritiea  constituted 
hf  Act  of  Parliament.  He  may,  however,  have  a 
dormani  right,  but,  until  he  proves  it,  it  must  be 
oanddend  an  open  question.  S. 

**0R!7lD*  (5**  S.  i,  308,  435.)— It  is  obvious 
llkfti  both  Collins  and  Lord  Byron  use  the  word 
"  Dnitd  "  as  a  synonym  of  Bard  ;  but  can  this  be 
figjlit  I  I  cannot  think  thjvt  the  functions  of  bard 
nsMl  Htuld  were  the  same.  In  the  lustoTy  of  every 
liilloa,  tbe  most  important  events,  national  or 
ptfiOiiAl,  w^ere  first  chronicled  in  verae,  and  were 
imog  9X  ncred  festivals,  or  as  soogs  of  victory  ; 
b«jt  t&cAC,  though  uttered  by  the  Druids  in  their 
prUiUj  cjiancter,  seem  not  to  have  been  the  work 
m  llie  piicit,  but  of  the  bard.  The  I>ruid  pro- 
tkJan^  ibe  cotamand«  of  the  God  that  he  adored. 


Ho  might  explore  the  heavens,  and  draw  know* 
ledge  from  the  courses  oT  the  starss  ;  he  might 
impart  a  mysterious  significance  to  omens,  and 
predict  events  from  symbolical  .signs  ;  but  he  was 
not  the  bard, — certainly  not  the  bard  of  Celtic 
Htemture.  Omy  bore  in  mind  the  distinctionj 
and^  during  the  time  that  our  language  has  been 
carefully  studied,  there  has  not  been  a  dictionary 
published  in  which  "  Braid  "  is  made  synonymous 
with  bard. 

There  may  be  found  in  the  lays  of  Viliemarqiie 
some  good  information  as  to  the  **  Druid.*'  The  works 
of  Da  vice,  Higgins^Cj  ate  well  known  ;  and,  in 
the  To/tmn  of  D,  W.  Nash,  F.S.A,,  chap.  I,  it  is 
stated,  on  hi^'h  authority,  that  in  Druidism  the  bards 
were  a  distinct  class,  from  which  the  Druidfi»  as 
priests  and  judges,  were  chosen.  S.  H. 

The"  JAconus"  (5"»  S.  i.  506  ;  ii.  35.)^ Infor- 
mation concerning  this  may  be  found  in  the  Record 
Office.  Jonham  ben  Douiat»  King  of  Acheen  and 
other  parts  of  Sumatra,  in  a  letter  to  Jauies  in 
1616,  asked  for  **  ten  mastiff  dogF,  &  ten  bitches, 
with  a  great  gjun  wherein  a  man  iiuiy  sit  upright,'^ 
It  was  also  said  of  him, — 

*'  A  cnek  of  hot  drink  were  a  fit  present  for  hiin^  for 
lie  delights  greatlj  id  drinking  and  to  make  men  drunk: 
the  King  of  Jore  which  is  now  there,  aliboagh  he  bo 
his  prisoner,  do  often  drink  drunk  together." 

Memoirs  of  thiB  King  Cole  of  the  £a«t  might 
be  interesting.  George  B.  Jbsbe, 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ko. 
Tre  Shaksfearb  D&atb  Uasu., 

Iir  Serihner's  M<mtAlif  (m  New  York  periodicaj*  pub- 
liihed  also  in  London  by  Wame  k  Co.)  there  is^  In  the 
current  number,  an  article^  with  the  abore  title,  by  Prof. 
John  8.  Hart,  tome  account  of  which  wiU  interett  Shmk- 
fpe&riant.  Brieflj,  the  chief  poiata  put  forth  are  these. 
A  caet  of  the  f&co  and  forehead  of  Shakipeare  exiatt  in 
Oermtnj  which  was  tinken  by  the  sculptor  of  the  biut 
oTcr  the  poet't  graTe  aa  hie  guide  in  thmt  well-known 
productioD.  31  r.  P&ge,  of  New  York,  ha<  been  lately 
occupied  on  a  likeaew  of  Shakapeare,  whkh  ie  baaed 
on  photograpbfl  of  "  the  German  Mask/'  The  UkenoN 
thill  produced  doee  not  resemble  any  other  porttwit  of 
the  poet,  but  it  ii  **mucb  more  BUggeetiTC  of  what  we 
might  conceire  to  have  been  ha  earthly  dwcUing-placc." 
Prof,  Hart,  on  &  riait  to  Europe,  went  in  teaivh  of 
thii  mask,  of  which  the  world  hat  heard  not  a  little 
from  other  tourcet.  It  wae  foond  in  the  poaieitiqo  of 
Dr,  Eroeet  Becker,  Prirate  Secretary  to  the  Frinceia 
AUce  of  Hesee  IHrmetadt.  It  wai  ongmally  diecorered 
in  Maycnce  by  hii  brother  LudwJg,  in  1849,  who  ex- 
hibited it  to  TanoQt  person!  in  England  in  IS&Opand  who 
left  it  in  the  keeping  of  Prof.  Owen  for  ten  yearf.  At  the 
end  of  this  time,  Ludwig  Becker  having  died  ia  Aui- 
tnUi&j  the  cast  was  eent  to  hii  brother  ErneiL 

The  abore  are  the  introdactoty  pointa.  The  aeit 
poinU,  condemed,  like  the  abore,  from  Prof.  Ilart'M 
narratiTet  are  aa  foUowa 

At  the  Bale  of  the  deceeeed  Count  von  Kenelifcadt't 
effecti  at  Mayence  in  1649,  one  8.  Joiirdan  bought  au 


oil  pftinttng.  It  ropresetitM  a  man  Ijing  on  «  bod,  witli 
a  wreuth  round  hiB  bctd,  and  the  date  **  A.D.  I'Ja?  ^' 
nbore  his  left  aidu.  This  was  irmlitioTi&Ily  mid  to  be  a 
portrait  of  Sbakepcare,  who  died  io  10U*.  Ludwig 
Beeker  bought  thii  reputed  portrait  from  Jotinlan  in 
1647.  Subfl«queiitly  he  di^cotered  the  Death  Mask  in  a 
r«g  shop  in  M&veace,  and  bought  it  aa  the  cast  from 
which  the  KeiaelttiMit  reputed  Shokipeare  was  probnbly 
pftinted.  Woodcut  of  portrait  and  cost  are  giren.  The 
portrait  i«  unlike  any  existing  portrait  of  SLftk.«peare, 
and,  as  far  &■  our  judgment  goee,  the  mask  is  not  in  the 
leant  like  the  portrait.  Prof  Hart  thinks  otherwiee. 
Within  the  Ciist  is  inscribed  the  date,  ]616;  and  there 
are  ikomo  human  hairs  of  the  colour  of  thoao  of  Shak- 
flpeare. 

The  hTpothesis  act  forth  a  that  thia  cast,  used  by 
Gerard  Johnaon  when  executing  the  bust  of  ShiikBpeare, 
now  at  Stmtfordt  got  somehow  into  Germany,  and  that 
the  Keiselsiadt  portrait  waa  painted  from  it.  Not  only 
ia  there  no  reseniWn        v-  '»  i^  unknown  cast  and 

this  umdeiitified  K  .  but  the  Professor 

diatinctly  aays  tbut  •    : "!,  in  one  respect  or 

another,  from  every  rccoguiicd  likcDeaa  of  Shakspcare  *" ; 
and  yet  it  is  asserted  that  the  maik  waa  copied  ty  Gemrd 
JohoiOD,  the  gcalptor  of  the  iStratford  bust.  Prof,  Hart 
finda  various  reasons  to  account  for  the  difference«  be- 
tween the  nmak  and  the  bust,  tbe  conaidonition  of  which 
may  be  left  to  readers  generally,  "  Fanny  Kemble  on 
aeemg  if  (the  mask)  "  burat  into  tears."  Prof.  Hart 
then  fMiPinta  out  where  he  finda  reeemblances  between  the 
maak  found  in  the  rag-ahop  at  Mayence  aud  aculptur<!s 
and  paintinga  eaid  io  be  likeneaacs  of  Sliakspeare.  He 
aajt  of  the  terracotta  bust,  now  at  the  (Jarriok  Club, 
originally  found  in  the  ruins  of  the  old  Ltncoln'ii  Inn 
Field'a  Theatre,  or  rather  in  cleariug  away  the  premises 
(on  that  site)  of  Meaars.  8pode  k  Co  pel  and,  dealers  in 
ceimnic  ware»  that  ■*  of  all  recognized  likene^eeA  of  Shak- 
epeare,  there  b  none  that,  in  my  opinion,  cornea  ao  near 
to  the  general  character  of  the  Death  Maak/*  Prof 
Hart  finda  pointa  of  reBirmhlanre  between  the  aamemaek 
&nd  the  Droeehout  engraving  in  the  old  folio  i  to  moat 
eyes  no  rcaemhtonco  will  be  apparent. 

The  chief  points  of  the  Prufeaaor'a  earnest  article  in 
Sfribner'g  Monthlf/  have  now  been  stated.  Comment  ii  not 
IMeeaaary.  Full  credit  will  be  given  to  Prof.  Umri  on  the 
score  of  cajidour,  ilncerity,  and  (it  may  b«  added)  ingenuity. 
'*  K.  k  Q/'  concludee  by  making  note  c^  the  fact  that  the 
world  haa,  or  ia  to  have,  a  now  portrait  of  Shakapeare, 
founded  on  the  reputed  Keaaelatadt  portrait,  bearing 
date  16ii7»  and  a  Death  Ma«k,  of  which  nothing  what- 
ever IE  known  except  that  it  ia  said  to  have  been  found 
in  1847  in  a  Mayence  ra^-ahop.  We  tAj,  with  Lord 
Brougham,  *'  Non  liquet." 

Ukdee  the  title  of  Tl^e  Great  Convenerft  ^fcflsra. 
Triibner  k  Co.  have  pubUr«hed  a  capital  goaslping  book 
by  Dr.  Alathewa^  of  the  University  of  Chicnjro.  It  is  a 
collection  of  anecdotal  articlca,  of  which  tltoae  illua- 
trating  American  matters  are  the  most  novel  and  in- 
tercBting.  Here  la  one  aample  : — "  Some  yeara  ngo.  a 
clergyman  near  Boaton  aaked  another,  who  waa  noted  for 
his  prolixity,  to  nreach  for  him.  *  I  cannot,'  was  the 
replji  *for  I  am  buav  writing  a  aermon  on  the  Golden 
Calf/—'  That 'a  Jufft  the  thing/ waa  the  rejoinder;  *  come 
und  give  ua  a  fore  qnarter  of  it/" 

Msoaitfl.  LoiroMAHs  k  Co.  have  iiaued  a  noteworthy 
little  Tolume,  by  the  Rev.  Bourchler  Wrey  i^aviie,  culled 
Ap^ariUoM:  a  Narralxvtof  FaeU.  The  value  of  thia 
boox  liea  in  the  fact  that  the  author  ia  above  all  sua- 
picion^  and  the  conclugion  to  which  moat  of  tta  readera 
will  come  is  that  there  are  more  things  in  hearen  and 
earth  than  are  dreamt  of  in  our  philosophy. 


The  same  firm  haa  isfued  a  remarkably  attraetive 
book,  by  Miss  R.   H.   Busk,  namely,    Th(    VaUt^m  o^i 
Tirol :  their  Traditioni  and  Cattona.    Thie  volume  la 
nicely  illustrated,  and  in  every  respect  is  well  frat  trp 
Uood' ta^te  and  good  sense  mark  evenr  pogie . 
moreover,  there  ie  something  to  iiitereaieveryt 
the  scholar,  now  the  sfiunterer,  now  those  wL.  ...<_..  .. 
guide,  and  bide-at-homo  travellers,  who  only  need  an 
an^uHnjc  ^"^l  in*tntrttrf*  If-^nk,     The  Tyroles©  are  ecthu* 
s  f  native  local  beauty,  and  I 

V  ":'(,  volume   that  in  Tyrol  j 

ti,,,;  „,_„ — :.,  -,  ^  ,--..-  iL^  ownviUley* 


Thi  Swiss  !\frTiTTTrTA^   BnTATrrc   8oci£TT  meet  on 
Wednesday,  i  !  ^Ivtcs,  between  Mar- | 

ttgny  and    ^  ^nd),      TouriMtt    and  I 

atrangera  uic   junw^^.      ....,«x...utx..icatioas  are    soUoitedJ 
from  visitors, 

KcMis  writes:—" Where  can  the  following  work  b«| 
conauUcd  I — Jtutttutwnts  Clericorum  tn.  Comituiu  WU^I 
tomer,  ab  ann.  1297,  nd  ann.  1810,  2  vols,  folio,  ld^| 
Privately  printed  by  Sir  Thomas  PhiIliJ^ps,  Bart/* 

The  Rev.  Mackenzie  W.u.miT  ban  ^iveu  blf  MSI  \ 
collections  for  a  complete  Welsh  Mouaaticon,  with  plii 
to  the  British  Museum. 

Nkw  Histobt  of    Proteftaitttsm.— We    nnilcrstiad 
that  Messrs.  Cassell,  Fetter  k  Galpin  «  tetm- 

plati^vn  to  iaaue  shortly  a  work  dealing  ■  vtlf 

with  the  History  of  the  Keformed  ChurcL^^,     ^  <m^  wots  ^ 
will  be  entitled  Thi  Butoiy  of  Protatanlun^ 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLUMES 

WA.NTED  TO  PCIICHAFE. 

PftrtlculnrR  of  Priee,  Ac,  of  cTfTv  l-nok  to  b©  atnt  dtnMt 
tltc  petvoti  bf  vrhofli  it  it  reiiuircd,  w[jo*e  Etame  sad  *ddiiaB  I 
(TiTcu  for  thst  purpoie :—  ^ 

L*Pt  Maut  Wo»Tt»T  MojrtAftc'B  Lrrrut.    AnnaftaleS  1 

Wanted  hf  A«r.  J.  /r«rf*,S9.  IvUik  WllliBD  8C£««t,B.a^ 


fotfrrf  to  CcrreitfitonirnTti* 

AiKSTUBfi.—See,  in  Lord  Chesterfield'a  poems,  hU  A 
drem  to  a  Lady  in,  Aviumn  ;— 

'*  The  deiva  of  the  even  in »  most  carefully  sban; 
Those  tears  of  the  sky  for  the  loss  of  the  sun,** 

R.  R.^-Thcre   is  no  doubt  as  to  the  writer  of 
account  of  Captain  Starkey  in  the  K-c^ff'Buy  B^^\ 
namely,  Charles  Lamb. 

G.  L.  G.  deal  res  ta  thank  an  anonymous  ooi 
at  Norwich  for  his  interesting  communication i 

P.— No  one  could  aniMfer  the  queries  except  the  iioUi 
men  and  their  agents. 

J.  B.— The  word  bus  been  ooounon  in  SootlAnd  fo| 
centuries. 

R.  S.  B.— Too  Uto  for  this  week. 

S.  J. — A  libel  upon  Darug. 

NOTICE. 

Editorial  Commtinlcattona  should  be  addreaaed  to  •* 
Kditor*'— Advertiaements  and  Bu^inesa  Lettera  to  "IW 
Publisher  "—at  the  Office,  20.  Wellington  £>treet^  iS<mid, 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  com* 
municationa  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print  \  and 
to  thia  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  all  com  municationa  ahould  be  affixed  the  name 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub(t«atioii| 
M  m  gmmntee  of  good  faitU, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


81 


m^PHQlf,  SA  TURnA  r»  A  UGITST  1.  IK  4 


CONTENTS— N»  3L 


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K0nBI:—11w  Aid  of  At) no  :ti  fidiraird  L,  81— The  Ataeiit^ftn 
gUtM-'W  J.  R..  si  -8ir  Robert  Wilion's  Xot«-B<ioka,  1827 
'^ Potk-t/'"^  -'  ^' r  Botueflof  Sinvt&ndSuihetl&nd— Dr 
.  Borring—m  Dee's  CrysUl—Pfrrttllei 
1    of   Cromwell  —  J uniiin    aod    "*The 


k 


Q!7«RI©:— <3<wi»tTlo— Wy*tt.  or  Wyit,  Browne,  Tufnell,  87 

dar  Dtufechtfjj.  ■'^■\  •■  "  --■     '   |f:^  .-.-of 

til*   (ktlenkl     ^  '  —  ■■■-^1  -!'•■       --  M  ■  r'  -Ss- 

»>>,n_n...  ^.■,.       ■,.:  -:-t,-  -''.  M    '^  ..:::iu^:r: 

Ar  riUiic  — Histuin!.!!,.-,    Kin::  :,    isB  — 

M:  ■^— Sir  Johu    VVhithr-  .«»  ^ 

Tt^..,    — ♦ -i(^  in*rk— Poeio  t^  X.  JsL  li^..-..        Jitima** 

BCnilBS :— FeeaUsr  TrntnK^cit  nf  some  Wordi  in  Futin^ 
Hon  oo*  LmiiraaSQtO  snot  •  EqneatrlAo  filsliie 

ta   LtlOfiitef  Squ«re^  91—1  le'a   H&ml-'LtuiAf 

BbMmw— **  M*rf  eiy  Mur  <  '  ii»rIoi  1,  a?  a  Pool 

—Tha  BvU  Ey«— Dr  \r  V^Ush^a  and  8lr  H.  Halfofd— 
Aftto«vl«t«<l  PUoe-N^iiioes.  Ui  —  MUion'a  *' U  Allegro  " — 
Afdbor  K-niilv^WitAT  mirks— "LttUa  Monitor,"  ic,»  »1^ 
"And  *.  -"Thu  SiiMj^o"— "Lo  ProcOj,"  &«.— 

Tll«  lln^  'i  —The  BabstitutSon  of  I  tUfl  re  for  r— 

.i  ,  ,      .jnlil  Tit!e-i  of  HoBoar**— Tho  BloMod 

'  4  V4Uo«iUna«i«ii  Nan/'  9S^Th4  Bii^  " Tomplo"— 
Yoifk  to  HoATvo  "  —  Lofd  GoUlugwood  —  Shirley 
_>— 44»4rtn  ( t.ii»irtnkf^  nr  i  :utidi_Tiiiteini  Abbey— Tb0 
nperor  Ale^  '    e   8«ltelmore   nod   "  Old 

Mnftellly"  Pi  C.*jmtnjM-»-'*Iike"  *i  » 

CbiiJtoAcsir>T3  ",  /., rjuiei  prevalent  Lu  ITliter— 

*^e*'-f     I  ^       ^   .     tsirtl— *'lWi«r''— Tivtrn  I]ii«rl|>- 

nolai  Ofi  Book^  4«r 


TEB  AID  OF  AKXO  31  EDWARD  L 

It 'T****--  ri.ti   tniie  n  ill  if  uny  writer  on  Kent  hits, 

use  of  the  Aid  of 

for  the  mtiJcia^  of 

ioi  Caroarvon  u  knight),  or,  at  least,  cited 

jfeired  to  it  a*  nuh.      The  Aid  of  anno  2i* 

Itl  tie  vied  at  the  knighting  of  the  Bldck 

ifl  brought  forwiud  in  coiinexion  with  the 

iitv  of  the  manors  bjr  Philipot,  Horria,  and 

i  m  iucoession,  and  jet  this  equally  im- 

it  record— one,  tix*,  d.itlng  forty  ye»rB  eadier, 

ood  invA]  liable  for  tiettllug  the  descentg — seemt  to 

rity. 

iting  to  Kent  is 

•  '\xnr  '    aiL^ction,  No.  309y 

introduced  with  the  date 

•'■'^  ^     *i       irUe  of  the 

1  it  in  the 

,uod  to   the 


»tf 

*tf  »**.,■-  -•'     ..^..... 

Dcii  Aid  of  Like 
mdaf  oi  events, 
prmmbk.     But  the  i^oond  entry  of  the 

«|iiftv«  tw  aI  naot  wL  it  if  re  illv  ;>.  for  it  inform*  us 
Uiitatt^  i^'in  Hundred 

fiseiiiTAinuitte^Iii  M 

of  OauUemiFy  *';  iir. 

ifMBi^  and  l]i«  lUforxu^uoQ  ooiy  two  A 

of  Omtettntfy  of  the  name,  wlio  occur  iu  ,  ,    e 


proximity  to  each  other,  yU.,  Robert  Kilwnrdby, 
li!73-7S,  and  Robert  Winchelsey,  1293-1313. 
Moreover  the  second  of  them  muit  be  intended, 
because  no  other  Aid  of  that  character  took  plsiLe 
durintj  either  of  their  archiepiscopate^,  knighthotxl 
hiivio^^  been  conferred  on  Edward  Lon^'shanka  sa 
ikr  buck  oa  anno  38  Henry  IH.  (vid^^  fragment  of 
Aid  of  that  year  preserved  by  Kobert  Glover, 
Somerset,  in  HarL  >lS.,  No.  245,  folio  38).  Agnin, 
at  folio  123 of  this  Lansdowne  MS.,  we  have  a  copy 
of  the  veritable  Aid  of  anno  20  Edw-ird  IIL  (of 
which  Philipot  li'       '  Mn  hia 

Collections  for  Kr  lioStJ); 

and  if  any  one  wiii  iUKe  uie  inniuif-  ir>  <u»mpar© 
these  Aids  he  cin  hardly  come  to  any  other  coa- 
cl(Mioo^  I  think,  than  that  the  finst  of  them  is 
undoubtedly  the  next  preceding  one,  of  like 
auture,  to  that  of  anno  2U  Edward  III,;  and  it 
seemit  probable,  in  addition,  that  it  was  made  ii^e 
of  for  determining  the  assessments  of  the  latter. 
But  independently  of  such  indication?,  which  a 
careful  comparison  cannot,  in  my  opinion,  fail  to 
impress  upon  the  mind,  the  evidence  afforded  by 
au  examination  of  the  several  entries  thenvselvee 
corrobonilesv  and  to  a  great  extent,  the  date  of 
anno  34  Edward  I.  for  the  earlier  record.  For 
irLstance,  **  Henry  de  Gobham,  junior,*'  pays  aid 
for  Couling,  and  John,  hb  father,  did  not  die  till 
»Xk&o  28  Edward  I.  ;  the  date  must  necessarily  be 
posterior  to  that  year.  Bartholomew  de  Biidlea* 
mere  ^ys  aid,  but  his  Either,  Guncelin,  was  not 
dead  till  anno  2f>  Edward  I. ;  it  cannot,  therefore, 
be  earlier  than  the  latter  date.  None  of  the  CrioU 
of  the  elder  branch,  which  became  extmet  in  anno 
30  Edward  I.  by  the  death  of  Eertrand  de  Criol 
without  issue,  and  the  acceasion  of  his  sister  to  the 
estates,  are  mentioned  ;  the  date  lb,  consequently, 
later  than  this* 

On  the  other  hand,  Walter  and  Robert  de 
Vrvloi|^3  pifty  aid  for  Otham,  but  "  Robert,  the  son 
itf  Walter  de  Valoigns,  and  Robert  de  Valoign,s  *' 
(his  uncle),  were  declared  lords  of  that  place  m 
anno  9  Edward  II,  [iHd^  Parliamentary  Writs), 
prior  to  which  the  date  must  be.  Aijain,  Thomas 
de  Ley  bourne  pays  aid,  and  there  is  only  one  of 
the  name  in  tbo  Leybourne  [)ecli^  '     'he 

heir  to  Sir  William  do  Leybourni  te 

hi"  ^  *^  "  ]n  anno  1  Edward  11.  li-^'v,  ^^mcli 
foL  Mgument  of  any  date  to  the  document 

tliat  pr  V, 

to  TriV  I:  ■  -.,...,..■  ,  '_  .-.'j'n" 

al!  iuit  it  is  :  al  lh>^ 

m;t  d  of  Carii  ,  it  will 

be  seen  that  the  internal  evidence  of  the  few  I 
hnrti  cited  alone  «ufRee3  to  eonfine  the  possible  ei r^ 
of  its  compilation  to  the  interval  betw'eon  tinno  30 


•  His  father,  also  entered  ai  paying  aid,  oaly  « ic^v^-e^. 
him  two  reare,  dying  In  W^%  \««t  AlxK«:<)logifltQ*^'S>«~a, 
vol.  T.  p.  133,  kc). 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


iS^'S/II-Airo.  1,74 


Edward  I.  and  anna  1  Edward  II.,  or  a  period  of, 
at  most,  little  more  than  Bve  years. 

James  GjiEJRNSTaEKT. 


THE  AMERICAN  STATEa 

I  hare  the  foUowuig  cutting  in  a  scrap-book  of 
tlie    year    1840.      It    k    worth    embuiming    in 

**  OuaiN  OF  TBE  Nambs  of  the  Btatks  op  Amekica. 

I.  Id  sine  was  so  c&Ued  as  earl;  as  1633,  from  Moinej 
Lin  France,  of  -which  Henrietta  MariUj  Queen  of  Bugland^ 
f'm&s  at  that  time  proprietor. 

"2.  New  Hampanipc  waa  the  nanie  Riyen  to  the  territory 
conveyed  bv  the  Plymouth  Company  to  Capt.  John  Mason, 
by  patent,  ^ot.  7j  10:^9.  with  reference  to  the  pateidee, 
who  vru  Qoveraor  of  PortBmouthi  in  Hampshire,  Bug- 
laud. 

,i.  Vermont  waja  so  culled  hy  the  inhahitantB  in  their 
declaration  of  independence,  Jan,  16,  1777i  from  the 
French  vcrd,  i^reea,  and  mont,  mountAin. 

4.  MsAsachuaettg  derived  its  name  from  a  tribe  of 
llndians  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Beaton.  The  tribe  k 
I suppowd  to  Imve  derived  its  name  from  the  Blue  Hills 
rof  Milton.  '  I  have  J  earned,'  Ays  Roger  Willkms^  *  that 
'  the  MasmehneettB  were  so  called  from  the  Blue  Htlla,' 

5.  Rhode  Island  was  bo  called,  in  1641,  in  reference  to 
the  Iflland  of  Rhodes  in  the  Mediterranean. 

6.  Connecticut  wb«  bo  called  from  the  Indian  name  of 
it*  principal  riyer. 

7.  New  York  (originally  called  New  Netherlands)  wa* 
so  called  ID  reference  to  the  Dulce  of  York  &Qd  Albftny^ 
to  whom  this  territory  was  granted. 

8.  New  Jersey  (originally  called  New  Sweden)  wu  so 
^  named,  iti  1644^  in  compliment  to  tiir  George  Carte  re  t, 
I  one  of  its  oritrinal  proprietors,  who  had  defended  the 
[  Island  of  Jersey  against  the  Long  Parliament  during  the 
I  civil  war  of  England. 

0.  PennBylv&nia  was  ho  called,  in  1681,  after  William 
[  Penn,  the  founder  of  Philadelphia. 

IQ.  Delaware  was  so  called^  in  1/03,  from  Delaware 
Bay.  on  which  it  lies,  and  which  received  its  name  from 
Lord  0e  ta  Warr,  who  died  in  this  bay. 

II.  Maryland  waa  so  call  oil  in  honour  of  Henrietta 
Maria,   Queen  of  Gharlea   L,  in    his    patent    to   Lord 

[Baltimore,  June  30,  1632, 

I     12.  Virgin  La  was  so  called,  m  1534,  after  Elizabeth, 

Llhe  viigia  Queen  of  England. 

T     13  and  14.  Carolina  (North  and  South)  was  so  called, 

f  in  1664,  by  the  French,  in  honour  of  Cbarles  IX.  of 

fyrancc, 

15.  Georgia  was  so  called,  in  1772,  in  honour  of 
George  IL 

16.  Alabama  was  so  called^  in  lS17j  from  its  principal 
river. 

17>  Miaainippi  was  so  called,  in  1790,  from  its  western 
boundary.  MiasisBippi  is  said  to  denote  the  whole  river; 
tliat  is,  the  river  formed  by  the  union  of  many, 

18.  Louisiaua  woa  so  c&Ued  in  honour  of  Louis  XVI. 
of  France. 

19.  Tennesice  was  so  called,  in  179t5,  from  iti  principal 
river.    The  word  Tennessee  is  s&td  to  signify  a  curved 

^•poon. 

20.  Kentucky  was  so  called,  in  1782,  from  its  principal 
river. 

21.  Illinois  was  so  called,  in  1809,  from  ita  principal 
liver.    The  word  is  aiud  to  signifv  the  river  of  men. 

22.  Indianji  was  to  cilled,  in  1802,  from  the  American 
Indians. 


23.  Ohio  was  so  colled,  in  1802,  from  iU  soatbeni 
boundary. 

24.  Mlsfiouri  WM  so  called*  in  1S21„  from  Ha  princnpil 
river, 

25.  Michigan  w     so  called,  in  1805,  frcm  the  lake  oa 
iti  borders. 

26.  Arkansas  was  so  called,  in  1S19,  from  its  princip 
river. 

27.  Florida  wos  so  called^  by  Jn&n  Ponce  de  Leon,  i 
L562,  because  it  was  discovered  on  £aster  Sunday- 
Spanish  ,  PatnuL  Florida, 

28.  Texas  was  so  called  by  the  Spaniards,  In  1090,  w| 
that  year  drove  out  a  colony  of  French  who  bad 
lished  themselves  at  Mittagorda,  and  niAde  their  : 
permanent  settlement. 

29.  WisGongin  was  so  named,  in  1836,  from  the  rifi 
of  the  some  name,  when  a  territorial  goTemmeot  i 
formed. 

30.  Iowa  was  so  called,  in  1838,  after  a  tribe  of  IndiaDS 
of  the  same  name,  and  a  separate  terriloriaJ  gore 
formed.'' 

CoRirra  | 

[With  reference  to  Virginia,  we  may  add  a  note  wh 
is  of  interest  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.    John,  foi 
Earl  of  Dunmore,  was  the  last  British   Governor  i 
Virginia.    At  nearly  the  close  of  his  govemon 
youngest  d«ughter  was  bom  in  that  colony,  fron 
she  was  named  the  Lsdy  Virginia  Murray. 
ginia  was  siater  to  the  Lady  Augusta  Murray,  i 
wife  of  the  late  Duke  cf  Sussex.     The  date  of  Lady  ' 
gifiia'a  birth   was  about  1777;    and  in  Dcbrttt  or 
year,  1874^  we  find  recorded  as  now  surriving,  *'  Murra^ 
Lady  Virginia^  daughter  of  the  fourth  Earl  cf  Lunmore^ ') 


W,   J.    R. 

I  have  just  be«n  reading  a  rare  semi-poetic 
tract,  which  deaerves,  I  tnink,  a  brief  note 
your  columns.     It  is  a  small  4to.  of  twelve 
the  first  of  them  r«!i<ling  : — 

"September  1,  1850.  Fresh  Waters  from  a  Fresh 
Spring.  Wave  the  First.  W.  J.  R.  Price  6d,  Pub- 
lished by  the  Author.  Printed  by  T.  Smith,  d«  Bridge 
Court,  Westminster," 

The  hrockurc  opens  with  a  prose  article^  entitl 
*'  The  Siesta/^  written  in  a  %^in  of  juvenile  enl ' 
Biasm  :— 

"  Few  men,  he  they  as  commonplace  minded  as  they 
may,  but  have  pleasant  thoughts  occasional  It  llasluii| 
across  their  moncy-Ioving  beartF,  of  spen^ng  the  deqUof 
of    their  lives  amongit   the   hills  and  d^ea_ 
native  county.    For  my  x>art>  I  am  ever  dw« 
true  castle -building  intensity,  upon   the  tim«  ] 
shall  be  able  to  forget  there  is  such  a  place  ; 
and  when— 

'  Passing  rich  with  fifty  pounds  a  year/ 
I  shall  be  ahls  to  dedicate  myself  to  nature  and  my 
books,  and  leave  the  busy  arena  of  life  to  spirits  more 
calculating  and  cold  than  my  own." 

Further  on,  speaking  of  those  who  derote  them- 
selves to  the  rac€  for  wealth,  he  says  \ — 

*'  Heaven  help  them,  let  them  delve  on —I  envy  1 
not,  and,  dreamer  as  I  am.  I  would  rather  be  a  ffmliU 
vifionary  than  a  hardened  lump  of  metal,  with  a  V^ 
stamped  in  the  mint  of  crime,  bearing  the  kapr 
avarice  and  guilt.'' 


M>etid^| 
note  ^H 

Fresh 
Pub- 
ridge 

they 
iluni 

lea  qC^£U 

J  as  LfmSm,    ' 


mmm 


^ 


^ 


Doling  this  iMila  eomes  a  dream,  wHicb  15  told 
hi  recM.     First,  saji  he, — 

'*  I  eair«n  old  mm  gray  : 

Itift  ebc«k  wif  thin  uid  withered,  hia  flowing  beard  was 

white. 
And  hii  e;«  «s  tnum  a  OftTera  threw  out  its  pallid  light 

And  «Ter  on  the  rippling  wftTM  the  froth  green  buds  he 

WhttowftntoQ  windi  in  whiepera  their  woeful  dirgep  snng, 
'Whiibcr  mw»j,  Child,  wbttber?'    Wu  voice  was  stern 

mod  deep. 
*J  fOv'  Miu  If '  to  ntber  the  pe^rli  from  yonder  steep.' 
The  old  man  laugbed  a  noiwten  laugh, — *  They  h»?e  a 

brilliiLnt  hue, 
But  they'll  rantsh  ai  you  gnup  them,  they  are  but 

pearlj  of  dew." 

■  Wby  pluck  thoee  budleUj  Father  1    Why  caat  them  ibu« 

»w»y  t ' 
'  I  am  the  world*j  wide  waiter.  Child,  in  me  all  tbingH 
decay. 
bTbf«e  bud*  are  bot  the  emblems  of  cbi1dhood*e  early  joyi, 
llflych  ere  they  burst  to  blovaom,  youth's  early  care 
'     dcitroyB/' 

TliM  is  the  key-not^  of  the  pocnL  Again,  oa  a  man 

'1  of  power   and   riches,  ana   afterwards^ 

<i>nt  and  wrinkled,"  he  raeet«  the  old  Grey- 

Weoned  horn  the  vanitieu  of  the  world  h© 


"  I  tremblingly  withdrew, 

Ihe  path  that  led  to  lOTe,  more  bright  than 
fmrt»  d/  dew,'* 

Withevident  marks  of  juvenility  these  yerses  give 

|ifi»iii9e  of  poetical  power  and  expression.     They 

are  even  more  remarkable  for  their  enthusiasm  and 

kwr©  of  Nature  and  poesy.      AIbjs  for  the  high 

llOMt  of  youth  !  the  poet-dreamer,  the  *'  guiltleaa 

IJHOiiMyt"  ^a«  afterwards  known  to  all  nien  as 

^^BBftin  James  Hobson,  whose  frauds  upon  the 

PH^pal  Pakce,  to  the  amount  of  about  26,00<U., 

^l^^in    1666,   to  his  transportation  for  twenty 

DtTDLBT  ARMTTAGIE, 


am  KOBERT  WILSON'S  NOTB-BOOKS,  1827. 

I.  ••  When  Favraa  wat  condemned  at  Paris  during  the 
BiiTililtttioD,  Monnenr,  the  preaent  Louis  the  XVIIL,  was 
I  of  being  hie  employer.  On  the  da?  the  execu- 
I  waa  to  tike  place  Monsieur,  instead  of  dining  at  his 
1  hour  of  2  p  Ji.,  ordered  dinner  to  be  kept  buck  till 
I  for.  Between  6  and  7  o'clock,  his  at Je-de-camp 
^g^e^T^*-*^*  '  miclf  into  the  apartment,  and  in  joyous 
M^t'  li  out,  *  C'est    fait'     Monsieur  turned 

iBlDi>  irndant,  and  snid,  '  Qu^on  serve.' 

••  Iaxlh^,  till  he  mounted  the  scaffold,  r«lied  on  Mon- 
•inr^f  procuring  him  a  pardon  ;  and  Moniiear  was  kept 
to  9^pmj,  fearing  that  he  might,  in  hi«  despair  and  anger, 
make  an  aocusatorv  confeaiion/' 

^  "  General  Lallemande  saw  a  letter  in  Madame^s 
ttha  wife  of  Monsieur)  own  hmidwritin);!:,  In  which,  when 
rdattligthe  oommitto,!  of  tb*  (^ueLri  to  the  Temple^  she 
addc.  'IjB.  vuth'i  uu  sjhi  Itikliie  fn  Vj-Hiloit/" 

of  the  tiffair  of  the  diamond 

iio  du  Barry  wat  mode  the 

juiuxa^  prin?j*4j  Hk  rci&uon  of  it*  tltuftrated  with  the  moft 

utiiiin  «f»nacB^  and  trMttauttcd  a  copy  of  it  to  alt 


the  Courts  of  Europe.    Two  eopiet  are  now  at  Copen- 
hagen, and  are  called  '  Mons^*  edition.' 
'*  My  informant  saw  them." 

4.  *'  Pope  Sixtus  \.  published  a  Bull  of  Excommuni- 
cation agHinst  Henrr  IV.,  in  which  he  calls  him  '  The 
basturd  and  detestable  generation  of  the  House  of  Boor- 
bon.^R.  W." 

5.  "  Le  Pr^aident  do  Thou,  the  gretit  hlfltoria.n  af 
France,  relates  that  *  Franr^ois  dc  Guise  wished  to  aaaas- 
sinate  Antoino  de  Navarre,  father  of  Henry  IV.,  in  the 
Ch&mber  of  Francis  the  II.,  baring  engaged  ihLg  young 
prince  to  permit  the  murder,'  *' 

6.  "  Murat  said  to  me  at  Bologna,  in  Italy,  in  the  year 
1814,— 'Pour un  aoldat  tel  que  moi  qui  sest  missurle 
tr6ne  r6pC'e  h,  la  main,  on  no  peut  aescendre  que  de 
passer  au  torn  beau.'" 

7.  "  The  Diilicarlians  bad  by  their  fidelity  preserved^ 
and  br  their  valour  restored,  Gustavus  to  his  tnrone. 

*'  The  Eiame  DalicArlians  engaged  to  re-establkh  the 
monster  tyrant,  Christiem  IL  of  Denmark,  on  condition 
that  *  they  might  again  sing  their  Psalms  in  Latin ' — 
which  they  did  not  understand  — 'and  burn  every 
Lutheran,  without  dtstmction  of  age,  sex,  or  condition/ 
QustATut  himself  included,  l»ecause  tbey  had  eaten  meat 
upon  a  fait  day  ! 

'*  This  fury  of  ignorance  histed  till  the  peasant  found 
his  taxes  diminished  in  proportion  as  the  priests  were 
made  to  refund  their  usurpations,  to  restore  their  silver 
idols  to  the  mint,  and  their  superfluous  bells  to  the 
foundries," 

8.  "Gustavus,  when  working  in  the  mines  of  Dali- 
oarlia,  flattered  himself  that  he  had  taken  every  pre- 
caution against  discovery,  fiut  he  had  omitted  to  leave 
off  wearing  an  embroidered  Fhirt;  and  was  detected  by 
a  female  eye  or  Aant/— '  Honi  soit  qui  malypcnse.'— 
R.  W." 

9.  **  When  the  tenatora  of  Sweden  were  being  executed 
at  Stockholm  by  the  order  of  Christiem.  the  Bishop  of 
Linkoving,  when  directed  to  lay  bis  he^d  on  the  block, 
begged  the  commaDdlng  officer  to  break  the  seal  of  hia 
arms  which  had  been  nflixed  to  the  warrant  for  the 
arrest  of  the  Archbishop  of  UpsaK  Chriitiem  himself 
tore  off  the  seal,  and  found  underneath  a  little  note 
'  protesting  against  the  act  which,  from  fear,  he  had  been 
obliged  to  sign/  The  long  bead  of  the  bishop  saved  hia 
neck/' 

10.  "^  Had  Napoleon  but  studied  more  the  policy  and 
life  of  GustavuB,  he  would  have  reformed  the  Ckun^  ef 
Francd^  and  secured  the  conformity  of  Rngland  to  hU 
Imperial  Establishment.— R.  W." 

11.  ''Maasena,  on  being  aaked.  when  about  to  take 
command  of  the  army  of  Italy,  which  was  his  baggage, 
replied  by  taking  out  of  hi"  pocket  (me  shirt  and  a  map.*' 

12.  '^  Sir  Benjamin  Bloomfield  udvised  Lady  Cochrane 
to  introduce  into  ber  proposed  memorial  the  term 
sovereign  as  often  aa  possible,  *  Since  it  was  an  appel- 
lation which  much  pleased  His  Majesty/  " 

13.  "0.  III.  had  the  habit  of  unAwering  all  appUea- 
tions  by  the  phrase,  *I  will  think  about  it.*  Lord  Wal- 
singbam  one  day  answered  him  by  *  Then  I  vrill  think  no 
m<xTe  about  it.'  ** 

Herbert  Bakdolfh. 
qidmouth. 

folk-lore. 

Witchcraft, — Although  the  belief  in  witch 
craft  is  dying  out  in  proportion  to  the  spread  of 
educittioti  and  common-sense,  yet  certain  l^i^nds 
and  traditions  concerning  those  who  *^  trafficked 
with  the  devil''  are    stdl   circulated  in   maay 


AND  QUKKIES. 


[5»*S.1L  AW;1,« 


loc»Jitie».  I  heud  two  examples  of  these,  which 
perlnvps  may  interest  some  of  the  readers  of 
**N,  &  Q;'  The  first  bails  from  the  "  Kingdom  of 
Fife";  the  second  is  in  eoanerion  with  that  part 
of  West  Scotland  in  which  I  was  born  and  fetill 
reside.  The  first  tntditicn  is  as  follows  : — An  uged 
woman,  bearing  the  chiiracter  of  a  witch,  lived 
ulone  in  a  miperable  hovel,  situated  on  an  eicten- 
moor  iB  the  centre  portion  of  Fife-  Besides 
•aring  the  notoriety  of  being  an  "  uncanny  wife/' 
she  was  celebmted  in  the  district  for  a  wonderful 
breed  of  "dooB*^  (pigeone)  which  the  reared.  On 
a  certain  day  a  boy  made  his  appearance  at  the  old 
woman's  hut,  and  desired  to  purchase  one  of  these 
pigeons.  Being  suppUed  ajceordijiEj'  to  \dn  whhes, 
he  turned  his  steps  nomewajdn,  but  had  scarcely 
gone  a  mile  when  he  discovered  that  the  pigeon 
had  disappeared,  Scarcely  knowing  whnt  he  did, 
be  returred  to  the  old  hag's  hovel,  where  on 
entering  he  beheld  his  own  bird  sitting  amongst 
its  kin.  An  altercation  immediately  enaued  be- 
twixt him  and  the  old  wonianj  but  lie  eventually 
regained  possesBion  of  the  bird,  which  this  time  he 
carried  home  in  safety.  Next  momiug,  however, 
it  was  nowhere  to  be  eeen,  and,  after  a  search,  was 
a^ain  discovered  in  the  witch's  hut»  The  boy's 
pai^ents,  by  thia  time  becoming  suspicious  that 
there  had  been  some  supematunil  agency  em  ployed 
in  this  miruiculous  diBappeamnce,  applied  to  anolhf-r 
old  woman  for  aid,  vho  advised  them  to  send 
their  boy  to  the  witch's  habitation,  who,  unseen, 
should  cut  off  a  small  portion  of  her  petticoat, 
wliich,  on  the  boy's  return,  should  be  thrown  into 
the  fire.  This  waa  done.  No  sooner  had  the  rag 
cftnght  fire  than  a  great  noise  woa  heard,  and  the 
old  witch  appeared  at  the  doorway.  Exclaiming 
that  they  were  burning  her  heart,  «he  rushed 
forward,  seized  the  fiaraing  fragment  from  tbe 
bciiTth,  disappeared,  and  waa  never  again  seen  in 
that  district.  The  second  tradition  relates  to  a 
once  celebrated  witch,  Meg  Lang,  of  Dumbarton, 
who,  being  convicted  of  witchcmft,  and  a  dhy 
being  appointed  for  her  execution,  begged  the 
magifitiates  to  grtint  her  a  boon,  which  was  that 
one  of  their  number  should  be  sent  to  Glasgow  to 
purchase  two  pewter  plates,  whitih  were  to  be 
Drought  to  her,  but  on  no  ticcount  waa  either  of 
th(?m  t^  be  allowed  to  touch  water.  Her  request 
having  been  granted,  one  of  the  bailies  was 
despatched  to  Glasgow  for  the  plates.  Having 
made  his  purchase,  he  turned  homewards,  and 
about  half-way  began  to  feel  rather  thirsty.  At 
this  point,  happening  to  approach  a  beautifully 
clear,  cool  stretmi,  he  detCTmined  to  indulge  him- 
self with  a  drink  of  water.  He  tried  to  bend  his 
head  down  to  tiio  water,  but,  being  of  a  rather 
obefl©  eonfonnation,  was  unable  to  do  ko  ;  so  at 
last,  utterly  regardlcs*  of  the  instructions  which 
were  given  hiin,  he  filled  on«  of  the  plates,  took  a 
heaxty  **waucht,'  and  continued  hjs  journey  to 


Dumbarton,      On  the  day  appointed  Meg  Lang 
was  led  out  to  execution.     On  approitcliing  tl 
gtate,  she^  holding'  a  plate  in  each  hand,  con 
menced  to  flap  with  her  arms  a^  birds  do  wif 
their  wings,     hhe  mounted  a  few  y.ird8  into 
air,  when  one  arm  was  observed  to  find  her,  i 
whirling   round,  she   fell   to   the   ejixth,  and  tl^ 
execution  was  proceeded  with,  not,  however,  1 
it  wa^  discovered  that  the  arm  that  lailed  J 
held  the  plate  from  which  the  worthy 
drunk,  *D,  D, 

The  Bkll  akb  theGhavf. — A  r.n^iHb  fnnnir 
vicarage  was  lately  startled  by  the  i 
wonted  hour  ofthe  church  bell.  On  >^  N 

tain  theciusc  of  Ihc  disturbance,  an*' old  mhabitantj 
was  found  in  the  belfry,  who  had  been  engaged,  f 
the  absence  or  illness  of  the  u»ual  sexton,  to  dig^ 
grave.     He  said,  in  explanation,  thnt  in  hi? 
it  was  alwaye  usual  for  the  grave-d '  o\i 

bell  three  times  before  breaking  t. 
ground.  ,J,  it. 

"Star  dcmsoing  the  Mook''  (5^^  R.  i.  3S4:'- 
l^ome  years  ago,  an  old  fisherman  o' 
me,  on  the  morning  next  after  a  Tioi< 
had  foreseen  the  storm  for  some  tiinf,  aa  ht:  lu 
observed  *^  onu  star  ahead  of  the  moon,  towing  " 
uud  another  aatem,  chaaing  her.     I  know^dJ 
coming,  safe  enough."     He  had  simply  ootio 
moon  nearly  in  a  line  between,  imd  tomewli 
two  conspicuous  stara  or  planets. 

Torquay. 

Popular  Sitpkrstitionb.^A  striking  instmnd 
came   lately  under  my  observation.      Travellfa 
along  a  main  highway  in  East  Cheshire,  I  antic 
hanging  against  the  outbuildings  of  a  comfortable 
looking  farm-house  what  seemed  to  be  a  bundlj 
of  bones  and  hide.     On  inquiring  at  the  place,  { 
was  told  it  was  a  cufitorti  when  a  cow  **Flippedi 
her  calf  (that  is  when  the  birth  was  untiiiscly)  1 
suspend  the  dead  ctilf  against  the  cow-bouse,* aa  ( 
charm  to  prevent  the  other  cows  from  doing 
same. 

In  the  above  case  the  remains  of  the  calf 
stated  to  have  been  hung  up  during  twenty  ye 
and  were  brought  from  another  laxni  wmcb 
owner  had  previously  occupied. 

Some  people  say  that  the  cjJf  ppematurely  ' 
must  be  secretly   buried    in   another    townslit^ 
The   words   **  picking "  and   **  casting  **  are   m^ 
in  the  same  sense  as  "slipping.**     Few  ma 
prove  more  conclusively  the  euprii 
the  education  which  has  hitherto, 
rural  districts  than  the 
among  many  farmers  and 
ashamed  to  openly  avow  iinr 
are  privately  cherished  by  tti 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


9S 


The  Houses  of  Stdart  A?n>  SoTHBRLAifD.— 


IfttD  not  awnre  il'    '  "       M-^  -    .ra  that,  ac- 

cordiii^  to  the  tttf  representa- 

lior   '^-^  ''  Tise  oi  .HLi.  J  .J.   iii  have  sue- 

Cff'  throne  ol  on  the  death  of 

K\h^  L ,  Bruce  in  Ly, ., .-.. ;  ?it)f  the  House  of 

Stuiirt. 

T}w  illustriouR  King  Rohert  Bnwe  had  three 
^^ Marjory,  who  was  maiTi«d  to  the 
i  of  ScotlaDd,  and  who  waa  King  Robert's 
dbaxghter  by  hJ9  Jirst  wife.  By  his  ieaond  wife,  he 
iflii  tLin^  David  and  a  datigbtefi  who  Wfts  married 
to  the  Earl  of  ButherlAiid,  It  is  n  weU -known 
lepal  nile  that,  in  Kiiccession,  the  fuU  blood  ex- 
chi'  If.     The  Countess  of  Biitherlftiid,  or 

her  nts,  ou^ht,  therefore,   to   have    sue- 

cec<ic'l  ti>  tilt?  throne  on  the  death -of  King  David. 
.  Thig  was  f*o  clear  that  it  was  recoj^ntzed  and 
I  for  by  King  David  and  the  L<?gii^!uttire  ; 
fune^cpected  death  of  the  elder  son  of  the 
irnmedjately  after  attaining  iminhood 
Ducert^d  this  ftrraiifrenient,  her  other  9on  being 
in  infancy  or  little  more  ;  Jind,  on  King 
id's  dying  shortly  affcerwardF,  the  Steward  of 
IliTu]  ili^>  son  of  MttTJory,  ascended  the  throne 
rt  IL,  and  that  without  any  oppo- 
t  in  the  shape  of  war,  on  the  pari  of 
Ottse  of  Sutherland.  There  were,  in  the  cir- 
ttnces,  numerous  und  sufficient  reasons  for 
pferrin;?  the  Steward.  (1.)  Bcotknd  was  still 
an  nn'ipttlpd  stnte  after  long  wars  with  the 
Ai  nation  no  doubt.  cleiKfly 
ble  that  they  «honld  have 
in^'  iQ  nil  I  In-  >  i;;oiur  of  manhood.  (2.)  Ac- 
cording to  the  historians,  the  Steward  poesewied 
mftt  pergonal  qualihciitiona  for  the  office.  (3.) 
He  wms  of  undoubted  descent  from  King  Robert 
"  '  *'  ^  too,  by  his  eld^  (mughter. 
\vere  extremely  powerfnL  (5.) 
vxiitoriea  lay  in  a  ranch  more 
Bition  in  Scotland  than  did  those  of  the 
F^inls.-rl.MiuI.  r;  \  TlN.fr  exertions  had 
'  !*'■  independence 
I  '"^utliriiantj  had 
little  or  nothii  ji  that 

I  r,    might    be    :i  je,   at 

to   the    distance  of  the  county  of 
'in    the   chief  itcene  of  strife — the 
But  be  that  as  it  may,  there 
t  the  exertions  of  the  Stewards 
»  wdi  fic  iielri  to  jgive  to  th^ir  hotijsc  the  beet 
ia   the  cirtunkHtances,   to  incceed   U-*  the 
t«— n  ngbt  of  the  Kame  imMcemi.t 
m  tkiC  of  Kni»  E*jbcrt  Btvee  hiiiuelf,  w 


]lirw«ft  d- 
bad,  wi^ 
IIm  itnVt 
tbaL,  bef 
hit  dftu^: 


Toyal  family  or  .^t  4- 
Litfttivc  according  lo 
It  may  be  added 
irriage,  the  right  of 

uf  her  husband,  the 


9le«»r<(  md  of  their  diwceudantB,  to  succeed  to 


the  throne  was  recognized  by  the  Scottish  Legis- 
lature ;  and,  while  the  birth  of  Dnvid  II.,  lind  uf 
hi«  sifltcr,  the  Gountess  of  Batherland,  m*y  lie 
held  to  huve  8uj>erseded  tbi  -  — ......t-  r  -f,  it  m^y 

be  »Md  to  have  been  ultiur  t  to  ia 

the  Buooeeeion  of  Robert  IL  ..  ..i.  ...^  ..iuarroaoe 

Off  the  Legisbtfure,  Reicrt  Kiloodil 

Dr.  Dojtxb. — I  have  a  copy  i  '  Pottrnt 

Tonson'g  edition  of  1719,  on  the  \]  i  o  end  <i 

which  there  is  in  MS.  a  poem  ;>  ^<  1 1 1  !  1m.  I>otiai, 
of  which  I  send  a  copy,  If  t  hv  jh  l  u.  i  n  t  knowji, 
or  not  known  a?  Donne '«,  it  nmy  be  of  interest  to 
your  re^iders  to  learn  the  foUowifng  partiouhira. 
The  ink  is  a  good  deal  faded,  and  the  handwriting 
18  that  of  the  beginning  of  the  hL<?t  century.  The 
volume  had  the  book-plate  of  **  Marquis  Coro- 
walLis"  pasted  inside  the  cover.  On  examiniijg 
it  carefully,  I  thought  I  saw  some  sign  -of  thia 
phite  having  been  pasted  over  another.  I  mtsed 
the  Marquis's  book  plate,  and  found  my  con- 
jecture confirmed  by  the  discovery  of  an  earlier 
plate  of  the  Comwallis  amis,  with  a  barorl*8 
coronet,  and  with  the  following  inscription  en- 
graved under  the  shield  r  "  Cha  :  Cornwallia,  tfi 
Comwallis/*  On  referring  to  Brj'dges*^  CoWiiw, 
vol.  ii.  r>5ri,  I  find  that  Charles  *Oomwallis,  the 
fifth  baron,  succeeded  in  1721-2,  and  wiw  treated 
a  viscount  in  1753.  The  presumption,  therefore, 
would  be  that  the  MS.  poem  in  this  copy  is  in  his 
handwriting.  The  following  ia  a  copy  of  the 
inscription  or  poem.  This  poem  I  found  in  an 
old  m^muscript  of  Sir  John  Cotton,  of  Btmtlo% 
UuntingdoDahire  :— 

"Abuxos,  bt  J.  Doirxe. 
1. 
AlMoncc^  hear  thou  my  protestatioir 
Apkinst  thy  strength, 
Bbtanoe  and  length, 
Do  what  thou  canst  for  alteratton. 
For  Hcftrte  of  truest  MottiJ 
Abwnoe  doth  joyn  and  time  doth  wiUe, 
2. 
Who  loves  a  miitresw  of  such  qnality 
His  mind  hath  found 
Affieotioti's  ^roiiiid 
Btyond  time,  pkce,  and  »11  mortalttj'^ 
To  hearts  that  cannot  rary, 
Abeenee  U  pra«ent,  time  doth  Tarty. 
3. 
My  fenset  want  their  outward  iziotloa 
W(h)ilo  now  ivitbia 
Eea«on  dotii  win* 
Redoubled  by  her  «ecret  Nt»tion, 
Like  rich  men  that  tnko  nh?anire, 
In  hiding^  meM  than  handling  treamre. 

By  absence  Itii  j  ^ood  meitti  I  gaiit, 
Thftt  I  cftn  cwAeh  her, 

When'  rionr  cnn  wnteli  h^T. 
In  some  cl 
There  1  i 
AbA  fO  enjuy  nrr  vrniio  Tionc  miif>9  her." 


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[S'**  8, 


iira. 


BuRiJiNG  V.  BuRYiyo. — The  following  raay  be 
worthy  the  notice  of  those  interested  in  cremation. 
See  memoiri  of  the  Literary  arid  FkiloBophical 
Societif  of  Majushe^ttry  1793,  vol.  iv.  pt.  i.  p.  217, 
Plates^  being  a  eommunicjition  of  "An  Antient 
Mode  of  Sepnlture/'  from  Mr.  Alex.  Copland  of 
IJrr,  30  Oct.»  1792,  to  Dr.  Percival,  and  read  before 
the  Society,  30  Nov.    1792;  also,  vol.  iv.  pt.  ii 

&330,  a  p.*iper  from  the  same  {gentleman  to  Mr. 
arv'ev,  Secretary,  **  On  the  Combustion  of  Dead 
Bodies  formerly  practised  in  Scotland/' read  4  Oct, 
1793,  before  the  same  Society. 

Richard  Hemming. 
Warrington,  MX. 

Dr.  Des's  Crystal,— The  newspapers  record 
the  death  of  Commander  Riclmrd  Jamei?  Morrison^ 
the  compiler  of  ZadkitVi  Almanac,  It  will  be 
remembered  by  many  that,  in  a  trial  in  which  he 
was  concerned  several  years  ago,  it  came  out  that 
he  was  the  possessor  of  Dr.  Dee*s  magic  mirror,  so 
fia^moua  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
to  which  was  ansij^'ned  the  credit  of  having  made 
known  the  Gunpowder  Plot.  So  widely  was  this 
aasertion  believed,  that  it  found  its  way  into  our 
Prayer  Books.  In  one,  print^^d  by  Baskett,  1737, 
18  a  picture  representing  the  mirror  diaoloaing  the 
facts.  Surely  it  is  well  worth  while  to  see  that  this 
magical  relic  be  preserved,  and  not  left  to  be  sold 
for  old  lumber,  and  be  lost  and  forgotten. 

E.  L,  Blenkinsopf. 

Parallel  Passa^ses. — Correspondents  of  "  N. 
&  Q  "  have  quoted  parallel  passages  which  cannot 
be  reckoned  proofs  of  plagiarism.  The  most  strik- 
ing instance  I  know  occurs  in  Aristophanes,  Eipini;, 
L  948  :~ 

If  at  iivL^aipaVy 

KqX  Tl»P^t  TQVTiy  KQV^^V  to'X'^h  ff^"*/^'  TO  TTpofiaTOVf 

Compftred  ivith  Genesis  xxii.  7  : — 

"  Behold  the  lire  and  the  wood ;  hut  where  m  the 
lamb  for  a  bumt-offerlng  ]  '^ 

S.  T.  P. 

Anecdotes  of  Cromwell. — I  have  met  with 
the  following  anecdote  in  a  book  of  newspaper 
cuttings  collected  about  1788-1792.  I  do  not 
remember  to  have  seen  it  elsewhere.  Like  many 
anecdotes  of  the  great  Protector,  it  la  probably 
apootyphal : — 

"  ProTioiifl  to  the  battle  of  Marstcm  Moor,  Lieuteniint 
Cjk&eral  Cromwell  had  Mot  out  8pie«  to  reconnoitre  the 
king's  fore ea  under  the  command  of  Prince  Rupert.  Not 
oonfiding  in  their  report  of  the  dijipoflitiofj  of  the  enemy, 
and  detcrmiaed  to  g&m  personal  information,  unknown 
to  any  of  hia  officers  be  procured  the  habit  of  a  farmer, 
with  which  hanng  equipped  himself,  be  mounted  a  cart- 
horse, takes  a  circuit  from  the  camp  and  reconnoitres  the 
king's  forces  from  every  conyenient  point  of  view;  but 
being  observed  by  some  eentineli,  troopers  wore  sent  out 
to  take  him  prlioner.  On  coming  suddenly  upon  him, 
they  accosted  him  roughly:  Oliver,  pretendtag  deafness, 


naked  with  the  greatest  tranquillity,  For  what  porpose 
those  brave  men  were  armed?  On  being  informed  that 
they  were  the  king**,  and  that  the  opposite  troops  b«  ~ 
longed  to  the  Parliament,  'What!'  said  Oliver,  'han 
they  diflTered  tbenl'  The  Mmplictty  of  the  queitioi 
excited  laughter  among  the  troopcra^  and  Oiiver  wi 
permitted  to  proceed  to  his  camp  without 
molestation." 

I  also  not  loBg  since  read  another  Cromv 
anecdote^  which  was,  like  the  above,  new  to 
buti  as  FlueUen  sa^-s,  '"  it  is  out  of  my  pn 
where  I  met  with  it.  I  must  accordingly  te" 
well  as  I  can  from  memorj\  Cromwell, 
riding  one  day  in  Scotland,  was  fired  at ;  thel 
of  course  missed  its  aim.  Oliver,  without  eve 
stopping,  merely  turned  round,  and  crie<i  outj 
^'  Fellow,  if  one  of  my  soldiers  had  miased  stich  i 
mark,  he  should  have  had  a  hundred  lashes.'^ 

I  wish  to  end  with  a  query  a  prqpo*  of  the  reiL 
used  by,  or  attributed  to,  Oliver,     Did  floggin 
exist  in  the  Parliamentary  army  ?    I  think  it  vc 
improbiihle  that  those  grim  warriors  who,  aa  the 
great  leader  himself  said,  *'  had  the  fear  of  '^ 
before  them,  and  made  some  conscience  of  wh 
they  did,"  were  ever  subjected,  or  woidd  inde 
have  submitted,  to  the  indignity  of  the  laaL 

Jonathan  BotrcHiKii. 

Junius  and  *'The  Ministerialist.*' — Abooi 
the  month  of  October,  1783,  probably  soon  after 
the  publication  of  the  "booksellers*  edition*' 
Junius  had  revived  the  attraction  of  the  nnm«i 
Stockdale  published  a  virulent  attack  upon  th 
new  Govrernment,  entitled  The  MinukrHiluit^  1 
Junius,  with  the  t juotation  from  Macbeth,  "  Ca 
such  things  be?"  &c.,  as  a  motto.  In  our  day 
when  Junms  has  become  a  classic,  and  liis  styli 
familiarized  to  na  by  a  host  of  imitators,  it  it* 
matter  of  difficulty  to  believe  that  this  productioij 
could  ever  have  imposed  upon  anybody  ;  but  it  i| 
nevertheless  true  that  it  was  received  by  seven 
of  the  journals  as  a  genaine  work  of  the  **  mighty 
boar  of  the  forest." 

The   private    affairs  of   Fox    and    Burke 
handled  here  with  a  more  tlian  political  iinimoaity 
'^  A  grateful  countrj',"  says  the  ^Titer,  **  will  lop 
remember  how  cheaply  they  have  purchased 
appointment  of  the  Duke  of  Portland       '    ^ 
the  tried  in t^;rity  of  Messrs.  Sheridan  nii 
that  of  Lord  John  Cavendish,  of  Lord  i\i  pp  • 
Lord  Northington,  and,  above  all,  of  the  lligh^ 
Hon.  Mr.  Fox."    And  to  the  reference  to  Bat 
a  note  ia  appended : —  ^ 

' '  Exemplified  by  the  Opera-House  scconnts  of  the  onij 
of  wbtcb  the  Public  will  hear  more  in  a  court  of  Law] 
and  by  the  failure  of  the  other  in  Im  West  India  CoUei 
torship,  of  which  the  Public  ought  to  bear  in  the  i 
court. 

In  another  part  we  are  told  how  Fox,  "  out  < 
fine  feelings  of  humanity  for  the  sufferings  of 
ereditois,  coodeocexidGd  U>  receive  a  hourly  pittA&o 


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87 


foi  mmisterlDg  at  a  public  gaming-table^'^  which  is 
afterwards  explainea  in  ihis  way  : — 

**  For  the  infornmtioD  of  our  Eeadtn  we  mtist  state 
tliat  within  tfaeM  few  months  Mr.  F— x  held  in  wtDer* 
ship  with  two  other  gentlemen  a  public  Faro  Bunk  at 
BralcetX  a  game  so  notnriouBf;  fruudulent  that  It 
'  I  rappreoed  bj  Act  of  Parlitinient.    And  aa  a  com 


MMatioD  for  this  labour*  the  dealer,  an  ofRce  ivbicb 
nvquantlT  feU  to  the  share  of  Mr,  P.,  received  from  the 
loiBt  ftock  the  wages  of  fl?e  guineas  for  eTory  hour  thus 
MOotuably  spent/ 

Who  wn&  the  writer  of  thm  pamphlet?  The 
iTiiQitioa  hail,  of  course,  no  direct  oeanng  upon  the 
Jnmtis  mjaterj,  but  it  would  be  of  some  interest 
to  diacoTer  the  daring  person  who  at  this  eiirly 
diC0  Qaurped  the  uamCf  and  it  would  enable  us  to 
j|]dg9  how  far  such  usurpation  majr  account  for  some 
of  the  mystifications  connected  with  the  inquiry.  I 
infer,  from  the  criticism  of  the  Monthltf  Rsinew^ 
that  it  WHS  regarded  at  the  time  as  the  work  of  a 
mator  in  the  camjp.  **This  pamphlet,"  says  the 
WTTCwer,  "  is  not  ill  lATitteD,  and  would  have  gone 
off  well  enough  if  the  author  hiid  called  himself 
Jtdijui,  or  Juaaa,  or  anything  but  Junius." 

C.  Elliot  Browi^'e. 


[W«  nrast  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  fiMni]]r  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
Banes  and  aildre«se8  to  tiicir  queries,  in  order  that  the 
r        aaspeJS  may  be  addpeised  to  them  direct.  1 

■  — - 

^M  GosPATRtc, — Will  Hjs&mekt&ods  or  other  of 
V  your  obliging  readers  aaaiat  me  in  obtaining  the 
^LoBDoalogy  of  Gospatric,  who  appears,  according  to 
^H^Wtaker,  in  his  Laodu  d  Elmde^  to  have  been  the 
^HKn*  or  ancestor  of  John  le  Scot,  of  Sootty^  Hall, 
^^^Ster  Newton,  in  the  township  of  Leeds^  York- 
abirr  T  John  le  Scot  was  steward  to  the  Empress 
Maud  circa  114^. 

Snd*  Was  6oZf  Cob,  or  God  (a  name  appearing 
-  ^  ")  nmonymous  with  Gos  or  Cospatrick] 
me  minstrel,  book  i.  ch.  4^  has  the 
>.^.  „liich  may  aasist  in  the  inquiry  :— 

**Ring  Edirard  (Rdvr.  L)  paat  and  Cospatric  to  Scone, 
kwi  there  he  ^ot  homage  of  Scotland  soone, 
For  riofie  W4s  left  the  reaTm  for  to  defend. 
For  John  Ilaliol  to  Montroae  then  he  send, 
M.  put  him  down  for  erer  off  this  KiDgrjk. 
Than  Edwards  self  was  called  a  Royftd  ryto, 
Tkt  Crown  he  took  npon  the  self  same  stane.'* 

6|Makiiig  of  tHe  stone  at  Scone,  the  minstrel 

^fOOfieds:  — 

**  m«  Jtwel  he  got  tune  into  Enghind. 
la  Unulmi  it  set  in  witness  of  this  thing, 
By  oonquevt  then  of  Scotlaud  called  him  King. 
Wlim  that  stone  is  Scots  aje  should  Masteni  be^ 
CM  ehase  the  time  for  MargnrtVt  *  hein  to  see/* 


3rd.  What  is  the  meaning  of  the  first  line  of  the 
above  doggerel  ? 

4  th.  Was  the  name  of  Goz»  Coe,  God,  the 
equivalent  for  **  Ysgod/*  the  British  etymon  for 
the  Anglo-Saxon  **Scot-'?  As  it  would  appear 
that  the  surname  of  David  of  Huntingdon,  and  Ids 
progenitors  from  the  time  of  Malcolm  Eanmoie, 
was  that  of  "  Le  Scot/' — probably  from  his  im- 
mediate descent  from  the  royal  heir  of  Scotland, — 
does  any  known  connexion  in  way  of  descent  or 
near  alliance  historically  exist  between  the  family 
of  David  of  Huntingdon — whose  only  son  was  anr- 
named  John  le  Scot— and  this  Cospatrio,  the 
reputed  father  of  John  le  Soot,  stewartl  to  the 
Empress  ^f and  before  referred  to  ? 

liistly,  Wtis  GoRpatric  descended  from  the 
ancient  Earls  of  Northutuberhind  or  from  the 
Domesday  Earls  of  Huntingdon  (feifs  to  the  reatm 
of  England  held  by  the  Norman  Kings  of  Scot- 
land) and  Northampton,  or  was  he  connected  with 
the  ancient  Earls  of  Chester,  the  last  Palatinate 
Earl,  of  whom  was  John  le  Scot,  in  right  of  his 
mother^  Maud»  daughter  of  Hugh  le  Kevelioc  ? 

A^  I  find,  in  my  researches  into  the  family  his- 
tory  of  the  Kings  of  Scotland  and  their  immediate 
descendants^  that  the  name  of  Cospatric,  or  Gosl,  Ik 
frequently  found  in  some  connexion  with  them,  I 
am  anxious  to  know  in  what  descent  (if  any)  the 
connexion  exists,  pointing  to  a  descent  either  from 
Wiiltheof,  Karl  of  Northumberland,  and  through 
him  to  the  Earls  of  Huntingdon  and  Northampton, 
or  eke  through  the  Earls  of  Chester  from  the 
ancient  Saxon  Earls  of  Mercia. 

As  I  said  before ,  I  shall  be  emteful  for  any 
information  about  him,  or  the  locsdity  of  his  caput 
haronia;,  in  England  or  Scothind. 

J.  R.  Scott, 

Wtatt  or  Wyat,  Browne,  Tctfkell, — Con 
any  of  your  correspondents  give  me  information 
as  to  these  families,  and  more  narticularly  with 
reference  to  those  persons  of  tne  names  giren 
below.  John  Wyatt,  said  to  be  of  Wychwood, 
but  noMibly  of  Burford,  or  Minster  Lovcll,  Ox- 
fordaiiiiB  (son  of  George  Wyatt^  and  grandson  of 
George  Wyatt,  who  dietl  U>24,  the  fourth  son  of 
George  Wyat,  of  Boxley,  Kent,  by  hia  wife  Jane, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Finch,  of  EastweU),  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  Browne.  She 
died  6  June,  1728,  aged  fifty-six,  and  her  father 
died  13  February,  172t»,  aged  seventy-three.  I 
want  to  learn  the  date  and  pkce  of  maniage  of 
John  Wyatt  with  Elizabeth  (Browne),  the  dj^  of 
his  birth  and  death,  the  place  of  hia  burial,  and 
hia  occupation ;  and  also  the  same  facto  aa  to  his 
father  and  grandfather,  mth  the  names  of  their 
wives,  children,  &c.  I  also  seek  infotmatioti  of 
Samuel  Browne  ;  Captam  Edward  Tufnell,  maaon 


*  MamMl,  eldest  daughter  of  David  of  Huntingdon,    of  John  Baliol,  Ring  of  ScoUaiidf  and  of  bsr  present 
^mtx  «f  Jaha  la  Scot«  Earl  of  Chester  <12d7)f  ancestress  |  Mj^tj^  Qoeen  Victoria. 


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[5**aiL    ce.  i;*?! 


to  WestniinBter  Abbey,  who  died  2  September, 
17 19,  and  is  buried  in  flie  Abbey;  married  in 
l(f97»  at  the  Abbey,  Anne,  duugnter  of  Samuel 
Bfowne.  Is  anything*  known  of  the  ancestry  or 
dOBeendantB  of  Edwiitd  Tufnell  i 

Rkoinalt)  Stewabt  Boddington. 

Bavwrll  Court,  Su me rj^ki'.— During  the  re- 
aioTiition  of  tim  jtucient  tnaumon,  Hoiue  iew  moDth» 
ginoe,  ik  stone  corl>el  of  lurge  diiuenBiuoB  was  found, 
at  the  bottom  of  an  otd  foundation  ;  upon  it  is  the 
(bllowing  co«t :  on  a  chevron  three  esutdlopSf  the 
ooJoufB  not  indicattiii.  Aguin,  at  the  back  of  an 
old  Qiantelpiei^e  the  aanie  arnia,  impiilin^  those  of 
tJiG  ae©  of  Welk,  were  found  t!urved  on  a  piece  of 
Qttea  atone.  £«Jiwell  Court  was  formorly  the 
sBsideDoe  of  the  Biahopa  of  Bath  and  WeUa.  I  do 
not  tind  the  above  coat  as  belonging  to  either  of 
the  Biahoi»s.  Perhaps  gome  of  your  reailers  will 
be  able  to  infoi'm  me  to  what  family  they  belong, 
uid  how  they  come  to  be  mip&led  with  the  iinm 
of  the  ate  of  Wells*  Cearlbs  Wade. 

BanwttU. 

FaiEDRicH  Kapp's  **  Geschichte  dkr 
Bkutsohen  EmwANDERUNG  IN  Amerika.'' — Has 
this  work  been  tranfiiated  into  English  ? 

Jat  ArrcH. 

**  SUflbrdflbirc, — The  Widow  of  the  Wood,  an  authentic 
bftrmlive  c^f  tk  luia  remurktiblo  Tranaaction  in  ^tafTord- 
■hire.  riifitilj  Buppresi^d,  am.  Svo.,  calf  neat,  21  f.     1755. 

"  Every  copy  of  thiBextraordinury  tiarratiTc  that  could 
be  rounil  wiui  l)ougbt  up  and  destroyed  by  the  descoD- 
dftnU  of  the  ftunily.  To  Is  copy  cout&iug  MS.  notes,  and 
»  Key  to  die  cbaracters/' 

1  shall  be  nioeb  obliged  if  some  one  will  kindly 
explain  the  meaning  of  this  extract  from  a  eatu- 
logue  of  Mr.  Downing,  of  74,  New  Street,  Bh- 
mingham.  CiiAHLEa  F.  S.  Wakren,  M.A. 

EUendiej  Bexhill,  Hastings. 

"Htstory  op  tmk  Gexeral  Election  of 
1802J'—In  Suirth*s  FarliammU  of  Enffland,  vol. 
til.  p.  99^  there  ia  an  extract  quoted  from  tliis 
work,  page  149.  Where  can  I  see  a  copy  of  tliis 
book  f  Is  it  in  the  British  Mtiaeum^  imd  if  so, 
under  what  heading  /  I  have  seitrthed  for  it  there 
in  vain,  Aino,  can  any  one  inform  me  who  was 
elected  M.P-  for  Oaahel,  vice  Richard  Bagwell, 
reeigned  in  December,  l&Jli  I  have  a  MS.  note 
(tAk«n^  I  think,  fi-om  the  retiu-na  in  the  Crown 
Offloe)-which  givea  "  John  Bagwell,"  elected  I*e- 
comber  0th,  but  who  was  this  John  Bagwell  ? 
One  person  of  the  name  repreaent-ed  the  county 
(Tipperary)  at  that  time,  and  I  do  not  know  of 
wjotW  John  in  the  family  at  the  same  tijue  who 
wii»  eligible.  Alfred  B.  Beavek,  M.A. 

Prvaton. 

*'  SiNopLiL"--Ciiaaanji,  in  his*  chapter  on  French 
Heraldry^  gives  va-t  as  the  equivalent  for  this  word ; 


I 


but  on  refening  to  Hkiiiner,  E(ifiM>logicoH  Lifujut^ 
Aiiglicjxntr^  ed.  If57!»  I  find  it  thus : — 

**  ^inople,  »  Fr.  Siaople,  Iiuhr%ca  forte  m  Snioos  Po&ti 
urbe  undc  ohm  adveotum,  est  q.  d.  Terra  SbiopiOA.'' 

Which  is  rightj  or  haa  the  word  been  u^ed  \ 
both?  RorsBE. 

IVLfiKBKLSBOSK. — ^Waa  the    eminent    ooiii^ 
and  musician  any  descendftot  of,  or  in  anylj 
related   to,   Mose^    Mendelssohn    HT^n  st;' 
friend  of  Lesaitig  and  the  original 
Jew  in  the  latter's  drama,  Nathan  ^ 

Jat  Ajti^o. 

The  SociETT  OF  Ancie^jt  Scots. — TLI     '    *    / 
existed  in  1S21,  and  edited   Lim^  of  ti> 
ro€t4^  3  Tok.  IBuio.     To  the  different  nvts  ure 
merely  notod  initiaU,  as  follows ; — 

W.  A— B.  T.— E.  W.— B.  K.— R.  C— C.  a~R.  H 
D.  B.— a.  M-n.-J.  B.-J.  R.-E.  L-W.  M.-D,  C. 
8.  Y.^G,  G.— T.  M.— C.  H.— M,  M.— A.  S.  J.  L 
H:  B.-B.  1\-B.  M.-P.  B.-P.   R.-J.   E.-^E.   B. 

H.  s.-a.  t.^j.  m.— t.  c— h.  s.~a,  t.— a.  n 

R.  M.— D.  K^N.  J.^W,  C.--K.  F,— J.  G,— W.  W. 
W.  0.~A,  O.-O.  E.-l).  S.— W.  B.-J.  H.— P.  B.- 
T.  McN. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  give  the  key  ? 

Charles  Haines  Gunk, — He  is  the  author  < 
Di4uUory  MourSy  a  volume  of  verse  published  i 
Yanuiiutb^    1844,    dedicated   to    the    Hon. 
Hev,  E.  PeOew.     Can  you  give  me  any  informn 
tion  regarding  him  ?     He  was,  if  I  mittake  not,  i 
student  at  Cambridge,  B*  Inous. 

Latimer  :    Arukdel.  —  In    Burke's    Ej^im 
Feerage  it   BUttea  that  William  Latimer,  fourd 
Lord  Latimer  of  Dan  by*  married  the  Lady 
beth   Fit^-Alan,   daughter  of    Richard,    Earl 
Arundel,      From  the  dates  given  it  mn^t   cithc 
have  been  the  ninth  or  t«nth  Earl  whos  • 
was  married  to   Lord    Latimer.     In    1 
Fitz-Alan  in  the  Extinct  PeeriVfi^  I  could  ijyl  tin 
any  daughter  of  either  Karl  who  was  married  I 
Lord  Latimer.    The  Chi'islian  name  of  the  SQ 
Earl  in  alwo  EichanI,  but  it  evidently  wa*  : 
If  it  was  the  tenth  Earl,  the  Latimera  wc 
entitled  to  the  arms  ot  Fitx-Aian.      I  am 
interested   in   finding    out    this,   as    our 
•  [Uarters  the  armx  of  Latimer  with  thoFc  of  Nev 
W.  G.  TArTNTOs* 

Heraldic. — To  what  femily  appertains  the  fol- 
lowing coat — Asfi.,  a  eross  pat6e  between  fourflencs 
de  lis  per  saltire  orf  Q< 

Hemhikg,    King    of   Denmark,    reigned 
811-12,  aooording  to  Playfiiir^s  C^rwioZojfjr,  Ediji 
burgh,  1 784.    I  wish  for  a  reference  to  the  life  i 
reign  of  this  monarch,  and  the  mcantiig  of 
name,  if  any.  B.  H* 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERUCS. 


89 


y  be  looked  upon 

,;owhen?.  Anyone 

with  thii?  miormation  "off-hjini,"  or 

'  1 1  ion  t  o  t  work  of  tra^t  worthy  authority 

i  \j  doin^  me  a  servicf . 

fid  in  the  :iutu!iin,  and 

like  Uj  cukiviite  the  acqujiintance  of 

w  their  native  place,  so  shnll  be  ^'Imi 

tkuow  where  they  are  moat  likely  lo  be  easily 

'^  ;  with.  Leslib. 

Sir  Johs  Whitbrooke.— Who  was  8ir  John 

Hi  ^  1  1  Listley 

Street.  Feotiment  diited  3l>th  September,  9  Jamea. 
Burke*»  Arrtwry  mentions  a  coat  of  unus  f^nted 
tf>  tbiH  ntune  on  2nth  March,  22  Queen  ElizLibetk 
There  is  &  bouse  in  the  Low  Town^  Brid^norLb, 
iiufcfked  "  Whitbrook  Uouae  ''  on  the  map  of  1835, 
and  Uiis  may  have  been  his  residence* 

Wm.  p.  Philljibiorb, 
Soenton,  Nott». 

**  OuEssKs  AT  Truth.-' — In  this  work,  by  the 
bmUiers  Hare,  the  paragraphs  are  maiked  by  let- 
ters of  the  alphabet.  In  hia  Preface  to  the  reader 
Jtiliu^  311  y«»  *'  Such  of  them  lu*  rire  distinguished  by 
•omt»fsipit:»l  U^tter  I  have  borrowed  from  my  acuter 
fti^ndft."  U  Ap[>cA»  to  be  the  cleverest  of  the  lob. 
I*      ■  !  uho  he  was,  and  ttre  the  othem  kno wu  \ 

Jii'  -f  own  contributions  are  unlettered  ;  of 

llkeui  iit«  Kays,  *'  My  own  are  little  more  thun 
^fiamerinja^  I  bad  almost  said  dreams  of  thought ; 
not  ft  word  in  them  ia  to  be  taken  on  truHt/' 

C.  A.  Waed. 
Jfayfur, 

WATin^iUfcltiL — I  am   anxiotis  to  obtain   in- 
ane: the  water-mark  on  a  MS,, 
rnnl   evidence,  must  have  been 
^  v^^  of  the  reii^  of  Charles  IL 
'  oat,  the  de.^tgn  represent?* 
„  his  hand,  on  the  top  of  which 
[-like  hat.     On  the  head  of  the 
is,  to  appearance  J  a  foolVcap, 
him  the  lej^end  "  Pro  Patria." 
r-^igh  is  a  8ort  of  large  curb-chain 
I'he  size  of  the  MS,,  I  should  say,  is 
ap   r]Tiarto.     About  what   period  was   thb 
,  and  wa«  there  any  circumstance  in 
saggett  so  singiUar  a  water-mark  \ 

S. 

i*OEii  bT  T.  K.  nF.Fivr.v.— Some  seventeen  or 
iJ;:  \vaa  pabliished  by  tlie 

1^.  ,  o  Barker,  entitledf  The 

Th»m  iMy*  of  l^'ifulsydoU^.  In  this  book  he 
qttotei  tlic  foliowing  poetHf  attributing  the  same 


to  the  lute  Mr*  T.  K*.Herv%y.  I  am  ansLious  to 
know  whether  tlie  lines  here  gircn  iire  the  whole 
poem^  or  whether,  as  I  ?^tt«"«' -^  *here  are  more 
verses  which  ^Mr,  Barker  i  ven.     I  have 

searched  in  many  likely  ana   .„..  .    y  places  in  the 
vain  hope  of  discovering  the  original. 
**Tlirit  nuict  liind  i,vli£Tt>,  peril  paflt* 
'*  pose; 

'i  at  Ufit 

A    IJflllil  T'>r  UM  X'y-  \Sur'fi.  ; 

And  lowly  ^'■ri<'t'  and  lurdij  prid^ 
Lici  dowu  like  brotUeriii  aide  by  «idc. 

Tho  broftth  of  ilaoder  oaunot  come 
To  break  the  calm  that  lingers  there ; 
There  is  no  <  iho  tomb, 

No  waking  ii 
UukiudnM-s  t......  -,  .,  ...uad  us  more, 

And  &I1  earth's  bittemess  id  o>r. 

There  the  foaiden  weita  lill  her  lover  come. 

They  neirer  more  shall  part ; 

And  the  ttricken  deer  hath  fitted  her  home 

With  the  M-row  in  her  heojrt ; 

Aud  pa88]on''B  puUe  lies  liii«]jed  and  itill, 

Beyond  the  reacli  of  the  tempter'a  AkiU» 

The  mother— she  U  Kone  to  sleep, 
With  ber  babe  upon  ner  brewit— 
Bhe  ha6  no  weary  watch  to  keep 
Of ©r  her  infant's  roit ; 
H\»  alumbera  on  her  Ixxsom  fair 
Shall  never  more  he  broken— there»'* 

Anoit* 

**  Ultima  "  as  a  Ohbistiak  Namb.— In  a  eon- 
vcrSati  -'  ^  ^  -  V  n  few  days  ago,  with  ■  -^  ■  -^  '  lady 
of  L.I!  f»aid  that  the  ymitv  hter 

of  a  n  ,  ..iLi  ,.  wifts  family  WBs  nanK-v  v  .,LUia/' 
Is  this  a  solitary  instance  f  There  are  miiny 
ftuvttriml  Christian  names,  both  male  and  female, 
but  I  never  heard  of  an  **  Ultima "  before ! 
By-the-bye,  the  name  would  be  an  unfortunate 
one  if  an  Ultima  was  not  the  kiM,  but  a 
FtnniHma !  Richard  Baxter's  "  laat  words  *'  were 
obliged  to  be  followed  by  "  more  hist  words  !  ** 
Btephbn  Jackbox. 


Muse  :— 

ly  Mme  ^ntlo  MvM 
:  ucky  words  favoar  my  deitin'd  urai 
An  I  tk^h*  pu9c»  tnrn* 
And  bid  fair  mNU»  be  to  my  iablc  shroud, " 

Milton.  Lycidat,  19-21 
Is  there  any  other  inatance  of  a  gentleman  Muse 
in  English  poetry  ?  A.  L,  Mayhkw. 

OxforC 

GowT,  Ek«ravek, — I  have  an  engrared  pot- 
tniit  of  a  Gresham  Professor,  of  1644,  mjirked 
**rjrowy  del"  Who  waa  this  Growy,  and  where 
c^uld  'l  inform  myacif  about  him  ?  I^Tone  of  tho 
ctirrent  bio^^raphiciil  wuikn  of  painter?  or  en- 
gravers mention  that  B»  G. 

University  College,  Ll 


90 


NOTES  AND  QUEItlES. 


tP^aELAudjTI. 


PECULIAR  TREATMENT  OF  SOME  WORDS  D? 
PASSING  FROM  ONE  LANGUAGE 
TO  ANOTHER. 
(5^  S,  L  247.) 
ll  would  not  be  difficult  to  give  nmny  in- 
stances of  names  beinj<  entirely  diverted  from 
their  originttl  significations  in  parsing  from  one 
jAnguftge  to  another,  for  it  is  eo  very  natuml  for  un- 
educated and  illiterate  people  to  attempt  to  ^ve 
to  a  word  which,  to  their  minds,  conveys  no  definite 
ide&  a  sense  which  has  some  aignificanoe  in  the 
dialect  they  are  familiar  with,  that  such  instances 
will  be  always  found  where  two  languages  meet^ 
or  where  foreign  words  are  introduced  into  a 
language.  The  word  €i$paraqus^  corrupted  into  the 
English  Aparrow-gra&Sf  is  a  familiar  instance,  and 
many  similar  might  be  adduced.  Probably  on  the 
confines  of  England  and  Wales  other  changes  of 
names  quite  as  extraordinary  na  that  of  Yr  Eifi 
into  **  the  Rivals"  might  be  found. 

A  Welshman  or  Breton  would  have  little  diffi- 
culty in  remembering  the  names  af  localities  in 
Cornwall,  bcciiuse,  in  most  cases,  they  have  a  sig- 
nificance in  the  dialects  with  which  he  is  familiar. 
Penzance  =  Holy  head,  a  neighbouring  hamlet, 
Chyandour  (Welsh  Tt-an-dwr)  =  House  on  the 
water,  are  examples  of  this ;  but  the  Corni^hmen 
of  the  present  day  have  long  lost  all  knowledge  of 
the  ancient  Celtic  tongue  spoken  by  their  ance^ors, 
and  the  consequence  is  that  chimges  of  name  quite 
as  strange  as  the  instance  given  by  Mr.  Fallow 
01*6  not  uncommon.  The  name  of  Monsehole,  n 
fishing  village  near  Penzance,  is  said  to  be  a  cor- 
ruption of  the  Cornish  words  Moz-hayh^  the 
**  maiden's  brook,'* or Mm^fnd^ the  " sheep^s moor.' 
More  than  one  locality  in  that  county  bears  the 
extmordinarj  name  of  Weary-me-out,  evidently  a 
(x>rruption  of  some  more  ancient  appellation.  On 
the  eastern  border  of  the  county,  near  Plymouth, 
there  is  a  ferry  called  Penny-come- quick,  and  a 
legendary  story  has  been  invented  to  account  for 
the  name  ;  but  a  Welshman  will  have  no  difficulty 
in  Tecognizing  in  the  first  three  syllablea  Ftfi-v-tumi, 
=  the  "  Head  of  the  combe."  What  may  be  the 
meaning  of  the  last  syllable  I  know  not,  but  doubt- 
less it  has  one. 

English  ffimily  names  derived  from  a  Norman 
source  have  undergone  largely  the  proces.^  of  tnins- 
mutation  into  significant  English  words,  Churchill, 
it  is  well  known^  wasoriginaByi)*  Courceuil;  Beau- 
champ  became,  at  least  in  popular  pronunciation, 
Btcdiavi.  The  Norman  termination  vUle  was 
changed  in  numberless  cases  into  the  English ^/icW, 
fild^ot/dl,  Uranville  or  GrenviUe,  tntnemuted 
into  Greenfield,  may  be  given  as  an  instance^  and 
many  others  might  be  adduced. 

In  this  island  (Guernsey)  the  old  names  of  places 
are  all  French,  or,  to  sviak  mote  correctly^  Nor- 


man.    The  lower  classes  of  English,  who  come 
over  here  in   search   of  employment,   can   make 
nothing  of  these  names ;    but  whenever  they  ap^ 
proach  in  sound  to  an  English  word,  an  adaptation 
ts  sure  to  be  made.     Thus,  the  parish  c^Uled  L€ 
CiUd  is  always  spoken  of  by  them  as  the  Kettle  or 
Cattle  ;    the  bay  of  Rocqiuiine  is   changed   into 
Rock -end ;  UAncrtsite  into  Long  creai^  ;  La  TVA*- 
roiicrie  (an  old  word,  signifying  a  tannery)  becomes 
The    Cherry-tree ;    and    La    Hongut'k'U  Ptrrt-^ 
the  Ugly  Pier.     I  could  give  other  inatances,  but  | 
I  think  I  have  said  quite  enough  to  show  that  this  | 
"peculiar  treatment  of  words**  is  far  from  un- 
common. Edoar  Mac<7clloch. 
GaorDa«y, 

I  refer  Mr.  Fallow  to  Taylors  Wordi  a\%d\ 
Places  (the  beat  work  on  the  subject)  for  instances 
of  what  he  requires.  They  may  be  multiplied  I 
almost  to  any  number.  The  Focl^  the  hM  or] 
treeltM  hilli  in  Monmouthshire,  is  now  known  as  I 
the  Vale.  Br-  Cbirles  Lloyd,  some  seventy  year«  I 
ago,  called  a  well  in  Llanwenog,  Ciu-diganshirCt  [ 
A  qtta  Vitm ;  it  is  now  known  as  Ffynon  Gc/itt^t  I 
i,  €.,  the  well  of  the  house  of  sorrow. 

I  doubt  whether  there  is  such  a  Welsh  word  usi 
Yr  Eifl^  and  even  though  there  be,  I  doubt  whether  I 
it  can^mean  "The  Fork/'    The  Fork  is  not  at  allf 
a  name  likely  to  have  been  applied  to  thrtt'  hills  ; 
it  is  a  two-pronged  instrument,  that  with  thn 
prongs   being   quite  a  modern   Invention.     **Ytl 
efel,"  or  ^*  Yr  efail,^'  are  derivations  that  imme-| 
d lately  occur  tp  a  Welshman,  but  both  these  again 
can  only  apply  to  two  or  a  pair.     The  radical  &r 
of  these  words   has  a  ^,  and    ^tfdl^   or  (y*/«i 
(cf.    Lat,   gtmdht*,  Latin   m   becomes  /  or  v 
Welsh),  means  a  twin;  gtfail  is  a  pair  of  tones 3 
gefail  ijnaxi^  nut^crackers,  probably  from  gafoA^ 
to  lay  hold  of.     There  is  a  Toit-yt'tfail  in  Glamo^ 
gan shire.     Gafad^  a  holding,  is  a  word  whicb 
found  in  a  great  number  of  names  of  places* 

One  other  attempt  and  I  give  up.     Reading  tbii 
article  "Carnarvonshire"  in  the  Penny  Cydopftdii 
I  find  there  are  four  hills  or  summits,  \h.^  Craig 
Goch,  Bwlcb  Mawr,  Oath  Goch,  Rivdl  Apparentlj 
then  this  last  name,  which  does  not  look  roue 
like  Webb,  is  not  applied  to  three  summitSj  bu 
only  to  one.     We  have  four  summits  hearing 
distinct  names.     The  first  means  The  Red  '. 
(2)  The  Great  Gap,  (3)  The  Red  Carn,  or  Heap 
Now,  if  two  of  these  hilb  are  red,  I  conclude  \ 
may  be  wrong,  nsver  kiving  been  there)  that 
other  two  are  red  also.    If  sij,  I  should  say  **  RiTell^J 
is  a  corruption  of  the  Welsh  **  Rhufel,"  and  deriv 
from  "  Rhttf,"  of  a  reddish  hue. 

.  J.  C.  Unnonk. 


Perhaps  the  following  maybe  acceptable  to  1Mn 
Fallow,     In  parts  of  Canibridgesliire ,  *  1 

which  are  only  used  to  give  access  to  h- 
ture,  or  otherwise^  are  themselves  in  gtiiaB 


C>k8,U.Aoo.l,71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


91 


DMtare ;  Uiey  ftre  called  **  droves,"  smd  aometimes 
"driit-wajis   which  have  l>eeii  thought  to  he  the 

(Oeromn  trifl  =  pasture*  This,  I  sec,  ia  not  iin 
«x&ct  pomlJet  inasmuch  as  the  two  lunguages, 
Gcnuttn  and  English^  do  not  exist  side  by  aide, 
like  Mr.  Fallow's  Welsh  and  English*  but  it 
may  bo  tt?,eftil  to  him  for  all  that. 
K  a  F.  S.  Wahren.  M,A, 

"\ 
Cft] 
adc 
to 


I 


» 


^An  ♦  x.w'i  parallel  to  Mr.  Fallo'w*8  instance  of 

Yt  Eifl "  is  to  be  found  in  PeBnell'a  Hill,  near 
Cftbi.  Fen  is  the  Celtic  for  hill ;  to  thia  wilb 
added  the  Teutonic  hull  PenhuU  wa.s  corrupted 
to  Pennell,  tuid  when  the  meaning  of  this  word 
becMiic  innignificitnt,  a  third  hill  wiis  added. 

Other  inift4inces  are  to  be  found  in  Farrar's 
Origin  of  LanffUOfftf  p.  57,  seq.;  Max  Miiller's 
Stimee  of  L(m{fua^  ii.  53<.v,  aeq.;  T.  Taylor's 
JFi/rtU  and  Floftt^  p.  272,  aeq»  F*  Storiu 

M»rtba  rough. 

I  have  no  doubt  that  the  name  of  the  famed 
5;«:iHr.vv  FalK  near  Bettws  y  Coed,  luis  arisen  from 
iij  the  oiigioAl  Welah  name.      The  pro- 
f  the    name   Rhuiatir  y    Wmnol^   ^"  the 
r  of  the  Swallow/'  is  by  no  means  obvious ; 
Ehaiadr  Ewpx&g,  **  the  Fottming  Cataract," 
quite  apposite ;  and  the  pronunciation  uf  the 
I  two  Welsh  names  is  so  similar  that  the  snbBtitution 
f  009  for  the  other  would  he  perfectly  natural 

Sigma. 

I  hfg  to  add  the  inatances  of  Bhotover  Hill^  near 

1  {ChdUau  Ftfrt),  which  famous  Robin  Hood 

-  necda  have  **8hot  over";  beefeater  (buffeti^); 

^COtlQtJj-daDce    [canin-daiuii)  ;     and    Wormwood 

(«»rmit<A),     See  Latham's  Handbook  of  tAt  Eng- 

ktk  Language^  tifth  edition^  pp.  121-124. 

C  A,  FfiDERBR. 

BnMtfofd* 

Tn  Eqcsstrian  Statuk  in  Lricbster  Squark 
W^  8.  ii  46.) — Cunningham  says  it  was  of 
George  n.,  and  was  brought  from  Canons,  the  seat 
of  tile  Duke  of  Chandos,  near  Edgeware.  Of  the 
lalior  ikct  there  can  be  no  doubt,  and  thin  may 
seiTe  to  est^iblish  the  identity.  Cunningham  Bays 
that  the  print  of  the  Square^  1754,  in  the  edition  of 
*^  of  that  year,  is  mihout  the  statue.  There 
be  no  flppropriatenei«s  ia  placing  George  I. 
but  George  II.,  as  Prince  of  Wales,  lived 
in  1717,  and  in  1721  William,  Duke  of 
Brland,  his  son,  was  born  there.  If  the 
Aiiais  represented  either  of  these,  it  would  have 
htcn  ftfiDropriate.  Appropriate  or  not,  however, 
il  mofli  bave  been  of  George  I.,  for  in  Brewers 
Middkmz  it  is  said  to  be  George  I.,  and  he  is 
ilnijiliing  Qknon.*; ;  and  John  Timbs,  CuHontiu 
^  Lmtdoft,  p.  454,  sayt  distinctly  it  is  a  metal 
mofliU^'  of  George    I.,    modelled    by 

UBocikt:  Uuke^  and  brought  from  Canons 


in  1747,  when  it  was  purchased  by  the  inhabitimts 
of  the  Square.  It  was  "  finely  gilt."  Is  there  any 
record  of  thii*  purchase  /  This  all  seems  so  clear 
that  we  can  scarcely  doubt  it.  Does  a  sale  cata* 
logue  of  the  sale  at  Canons  exist  ?  If  the  purchase 
can  be  established,  how  can  we  account  for  the 
statue  not  being  erected  in  the  Square  till  1754, 
seven  years  later,  as  inferred  by  Cunningham  above? 
Tlie  history  of  this  statue  appears  to  be  almost  na 
curious  as  that  of  Charles  X  at  Charing  Cross. 
About  the  year  1 847,  perhaps,  Mr.  Moxey,  archi* 
tect  of  the  Hall  of  Commerce,  now  Uie  Consolidated 
Bank  in  the  City,  waa  treating  for  the  Square,  and 
had  absolutely  acquired,  or  supposed  he  had 
acquired,  the  right  to  remove  the  statue,  and  he 
offered  it  to  a  mend  of  mine,  who  then  lived  at 
Victoria  Grove,  Stoke  Newington,  if  he  would  cart 
it  away  ;  he  refused  it,  because  he  had  only  a  snudl 
garden  t^  put  it  into.  Some  years  since,  the  figure 
was  unhorsed  on  a  certain  Saturday  night,  and  on 
the  Sunday  morning  following  I  saw  it  lying  on  the 
ground, and  entering  the  broken  enclosure,  I  found  it 
to  be  of  had  J  and,  nob  knowing  then  anything  of  ita 
sculptor  or  modeller,  C.  Buchard,  was  struck  by  ita 
excellent  workmanship.  It  soon  after  disappeared, 
and  the  riderless  horse  followed  it  perhnps  a  year 
later.  I  iiiive  a  print  of  it  in  its  palmier  days,  appa- 
rently out  of  the  EuToptan  Mm^a'dne^  m  which  tnere 
were  some  excellent  papers  on  London  antiquitiei, 
written  by  Moser,  under  Bome  such  title  as  **  Col- 
lections and  Recollections,"  which  are  well  worthy, 
I  should  Bay,  of  being  reprinted.  The  Square  ia 
full  of  large  trees,  and  the  view  is  given  for  the 
sake  of  showing  Hogarth's  house,  which  was  the 
north  half  of  the  Bidibniere  Hotel.  Very  interest- 
ing was  thiB  house.  Hogarth  died  in  it,  Kosciusko 
died  in  it,  and  the  Counter  Guiccioli  resided  there. 
The  newly-built  Tenison  School,  transplanted  from 
Castle  Stn?et,  occupies  the  site,  and  is  so  well  de- 
signed that  I  wish  some  correspoiident  of"  N.  &  Q." 
would  name  the  architect.    Was  it  Hayter  Lewis  I 

a  A.  Ward. 
Mayfair. 

Having,  happily,  got  rid  of  *'  this  niece  of  sculp- 
ture," it  is  certainly  desirable  that  the  question  of 
whom  *Mt  represented  "  should  be  set  at  rest. 

The  matter  has  already  been  discussed  at  some 
length  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  k  Q."  (3"!  S.  i.  217  ; 
ii.  150,  170,  Am';  \^  S.  v.  578;  vi.  68),  but  aa 
doubts  about  it  «tiU  appear  to  exist,  I  repeat  the 
authority  I  have  l^efore  cpioted,  showing  that  the 
figure  represented  George  I.: — 

**IIU**  (George  Il.'i)  "«on  Frederick  affected  tbe 
MQifl  contradictory  fondnees  for  his  gmndfjLiher,  aod 
erected  tbe  Btatoe  of  Georue  I.  in  Leicester  Reld»,  wid 
int^  r  '  >  '-',..  iii^ii  come  to  the  erown,  to  ptiLce  a  moait- 
iDc  1  raorrin  St,  Paar*.'* — Metnoirt  a/  tkt  Re^fffk 

o/  '  bj  Horace  WiUpole,  vol.  iii  p.  315,  A^ 

peadix. 


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[5«»8.n.Avo.l»7l, 


Father  Krmule's  Hax©  (5*'^  S.  ii.  44,)— This 
unfortunate  priest  was  t>ot  hanged  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  L,  as  stated  in  the  book  quoted  by  Mr. 
Lknuian.  The  execution  took  place  August  22, 
1679,  at  Widemarsh  (not  Hide  Marsh}^  m  the 
outskirts  of  Hereford^  when  ho  was  fiir  iidvaneed 
in  years ;  and  1  have  repeatedly  seen  the  Lnnive- 
»tone  which  covers  his  retiuiinB  in  the  churchyard 
of  Welsh  Newton,  on  the  confines  of  the  counties 
of  Hereford  and  Monmouth.  His  sole  offence  was 
the  celebration  of  rnjiAs  in  the  chapel  of  Pembridge 
Castle,  at  a  short  distance  from  his  grave.  Not 
many  yeurs  ao;o,  a  Roman  Catholic  tenant,  who 
had  occupied  the  castle  as  a  farmhouse,  on 
quitting  it  locked  up  the  chapeU  and  carried  away 
the  key^  apparently  m  a  kind  of  sacred  truut.  I 
?*hould  much  like  to  know,  with  your  correspon- 
dent, where  the  hand  of  Father  Kemble  is  now» 
Hia  dying  speech  Is  in  my  possession.  I  have 
seen  it  stated  that  Walton*  has  told  us  how  tran- 
quiOy  he  suffered,  with  a  reference  to  the  Compldc 
A  ngltr^  but  I  can  find  no  notice  of  it  in  that  book. 
Can  any  of  your  readers  give  me  information  about 
the  '*  Kemble  pi^jc  '■  and  **  Kemble  cup"  ?  It  is  a 
Badly  interesting  story*  T*  W.  Webb, 

Lunar  Rjukbow  (5^S.  i,  427.)— The  phenome- 
non described  may  not  be  a  rainbow,  but  a  hido. 
The  conditions  under  which  a  rainbow  is  formed 
are  the  same  for  the  lunar  as  fof  the  solar  kind  : 
the  si>ectator  has  his  back  towards  the  luminary, 
nnd  the  bow  is  defined  against  the  clouds  opposite. 

Lunar  rainbows  appear  very  rarely  ;  one  Wiis 
»eeo  in  Birmingham  by  the  present  writer  about 
thirty  years  ago  ;  it  wai^  au  arc  of  white  light» 
slightly  tinged  in  parts  with  the  prismatic  colours, 
and  was  formed  against  a  dark  mass  of  clouds 
i^}jHy$itc  the  moon,  which  shone  in  &  clear  »pace  of 
blue  sk^'.  S.  FoxALL. 

Edgboftton. 

I  have  at  different  times  seen  as  many  as  a 
dozen  lunar  rainbowR,  suid  I  have  never  had  the 
slightest  difficulty  in  deciding  what  they  were.  A 
lunar  rainbow,  when  it  occurs,  is  as  easily  recog- 
nized as  a  solar  one  ;  the  principtil  difference 
being  ihb,  that  the  lunar  bow  is  ver}'  faint  us 
compared  with  the  f^olar  one,  and  the  colorrs  are 
not  very  distinct,  Besides,  your  correspondent 
speaks  of  the  phenomenon  he  T^itnessed  as  ctu:om- 
^(is$ing  ihQ  moon,  an  altogether  imfmsBible  position 
fur  a  rainbow.  Rainbows,  both  solar  and  lunar, 
are  invariably  directly  opposite  the  lummary  by 
whose  rays  they  are  caused  ;  and  the  spectator 
necessarily  turns  his  liack  t^  the  sun  or  Uioon,  as 
the  case  may  be,  when  looking  fuH-faco  u|K>n  the 
luinbow.  Wljat  Mr.  HKnui^fo  saw  wiw,  no  donbt, 
ji  lunar  halo,  a  phenomenon  altogether  distinct 
from  the  rainbow.  Joa,  BrM£s, 


I  saw  a  similar  phenomenon  from  Teddinct^n 
on  the  llih  or  12th  of  April,  but  the 
covered  with  a  ver)^  thin,  transparent,  lofi 
favourable  to  halo,  lunar  or  solar.     In  Lon^i^m  I 
should  Imve  calleil  it  a  cloudless   ^br ;   and  it 
doubtless  was  an  unu-sually  fine  display  of  halo. 

Having  seen  a  lunar  rkinbow  in  the  Vale  of  thd' 
Severn  two  yeai's  ago,  I  think  I  -  '     wiy, 

without  pretending  to  be  scientlti  n  is 

essential  to  its  formation  ;  and  thou- u  il  u<M.3notl 
eidiibit  the  seveml  colours  of  the  spectrum,  no] 
pturtake  of  the  gmnd  projiortion.s  of  the  N>lar  arch|  \ 
it  is,  nevertheless,  otherwise  subject  to  the   Biums 
natural  laws  of  refraction  and  refiecnitn  of  ilvj?  ott 
drops  of  falling  rain,  and  coniietpient  u  to, 

and  not  encircling  of,  the  planet,  n  1  by 

Mr.  Hebhino.  L.  H.  H.    | 

What  your  correspondent  saw  was  not  a  luita 
rainbow,  but  a  paraselene — false  moon  beside  tl 
true  moon.     A  lunar  rainbow  is  similar  to  a  eoh 
rainbow,  only  the  colours  are  so  faint  as  to 
acsrcely  visible*    I  have  seen  botk 

^^  Margery  Mar-Prrlat"  (5»^  S.  i.  48a.)— laj 
addition  to  the  tiuct  named  by  Mr.  Hailstoj 
I  have  copies  of  the  two  following : — 

1.  "A  Sermon   Preached  in   London  hy  l 
Minleter  of  Christ.     And   Perfected  hy  UStti 
ftot  forth  to  the  puljliko  View  of  «l),  for  tbe  J 
of  the  Truth,  and  cleftrtnfr  the  Innoccncrc  ot  hi 
inffering  for  it    Acta  5,  29.      We  oaght  to  tA 
rather  than  men.     Printed  by  Jtargery  Mat' 

2.  "Vox  Borcalls  or  The  Northern  Discoverfe: 
Way  of  Dialo^e  betireen  Jumie  and  Willie  " 

3.  *'Amid*t  the  Eabyloniftn*.  Printed,  by  Manteiy  M«r- 
ProUt«  in  Thwackcttat-Laoe,  sit  the  Signo  of  the  Cn*^ 
tree  Cadgell,  without  any  priviludge,  of  the  Onter^Ui] 
the  yeare  coming  oiij  1041. ' 

These  three  tracts  are  evidently  frr^m  oi 
printing  press;  they  are  very  peculiarly  firtnt'. 
and  the  type  is  rude  and  remarkrtV>le.     1 '  II 

tract  {Vojr  B&realu)  is  a  scurrilous  atta  d| 

bLshopSi  and  characterized  by  all  the  \  ii)It!Uc*}  ai 
bittfjrnoas  of  language  of  the  Mar-Prelate  tracts 
the  sixteenth  centurj-,  I  give  the  following 
dress,  *'  The  Printer  to  the  Reader;'  in  order 
explain  to  Mr.  Hailstone  the  reason  why  tl 
printer  aiisumed  the  name  of  ^Margery  Alar-Pi 
lat :—  — 

*'  TbK  PRUITBa  TO  TOK  E&A.I1XJU 

Mftrtin  Mar  PrcUt  was  a  bonny  Ijid, 

lit*  brave  adventares  iiiJide  the  Prelate  mud ; 

Thui^'li  hfr  le  dc:wi  Yct  he  Imth  left  bcWiid 

A  <•  -ind. 

y,  *ny  haaio. 

As  wv.a  ».^  ....    :.-.  .  ..  .^    i. . ,  loiU  to  paaM  I 

Tell  not  tbe  Itii^liops,  iind  you'a  know  her  Kamtf^ 

Margery  Mar-Prelat,  of  renowned  f^iue. 

Bat  now,  alag,  what  will  tbe  Prcbita  doel 

Her  Tippit  'a  loose,  and  Boreas  'gins  to  blow ; 


»•  a.  II.  Aon.  1,  74-1 


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I 


fihv«1  *ro\i\t\  in  Fritit ;  who1«  Volum^i  till  ihey  roarer 
*  '  fco  them  strangled  in  tbcir  goarc  ; 

-  blowtt,  ehet'i  put  hu  Wind  in  Print, 
Life  to  strike  their  latall  dint; 
much  for  South,  for  Eai?t,  or  West, 
.  \tiiturc  to  blow  at  tb<»  tieasi: 

ihe  Winds  should  jovne  ai  one, 
nee  on  tb*t  cursed  Throne; 
t  >  »ee  that  huppy  diiy, 
tied  to  blow^the  BetiBt  awny; 
h  E«nai  forth  u  luBty  gale; 
:^,  and  goc  hoyit  up  Sayle  : 
ve  you  to  the  Romij^h  C^oaat, 
- 1-  .  ihe  Pope  will  be  your  Host/'  kc. 


V, 


I 

'I 

Tile  W 

Bow  ( 
A    ': 
1 


I  doiibt  whether  any  information  can  now  be 
grrea  na  to  the  printer  or  publisher*  They  w^ere 
c*iriiiefitl)r  privately  printed.  About  ihia  period 
»iome  of  i\w  fcixuienth-centurj  Mar-Pi-elat*  Tracts 
v*vr*?  n>priiite<l  by  the  Paritiin  party,  in  order  to 
excite  hostility  agjiiost  the  biijhopg,  One^  "A 
DiiUogue  wherein  is  Phiioly  Libido  open,  the  ty- 
raninculi  deaJing  of  Lord  Bishops  figaiDst  Goers 
cbrjdtvn/  &c,,  which  fint  appeared  about  1580, 
wiw  reprioted  in  1C40.  On  a  (ireful  examination 
of  the  type  and  printing  of  thi^,  I  think  there  ia 
Mft  doubt  but  that  it  proceeded  from  the  same 
the  thre€  named  above  as  **  printed  by 
f  Mar-Prekt.''  George  W.  Napiek. 
•y  Edge. 

C^BAALKS  1.  AS  A  PoET  (o^^  S.  i.  3ii2,  379,  436). 
^Mft,  TnoaxBUHY  evidently  iridorc>e^  the  view 
that  King  Charles  waa  "  wectk  and  vaoiliutin|(/' 
Of  bb  **  weaknetis,"  ia  there  the  sli^ditest  evidence 
ffsoopt  what  IB  baBe<l  upon  ]mrty  and  sectarian 
fmaooQT  ?  As  to  his  *^  vacillation/'  the  extremely 
difficult  circtM'-^^  -v-^  in  which  he  waa  placed  la 
complHe  }m  r  any  hesitation  he  niii^ht 

exhibit  ;  for  i.^  ..,..;  .i  and  not  vacillation  is  the 
ironi  tbftt  ought  to  be  applied  to  Kin;^  Chfiiles's 
ct>Qduct^  and  neaitation  is  generally  the  offspring 
of  c««ition  and  wisdom,  and,  in  hia  case^  there  can 
b*  CO  dniibt  that  it  wajs  so.  It  was  very  easy  for 
Or'  be  very  determined,  when  a  cunnin;^, 

lit  ^ntTons  man  like  him  had  a  strong  pack 

of  I  I  ics  at  his  back,  rwidy  to  do  hia 

bill  t  consisted  in  putting  a  king  to 

dcifctli,  "T  ill  Li^  iiieriug  successive  Parliaments, — 
when  thr.^e  Parliaments  found  to  their  surprise  that 
tied  with  due  respect,  a«  they 
irles  and  King  James,  ac- 
.^viin  uf  the  English  Constitution, 
but  were  struck  down  at  once  and  extinguished  by 
of  military  usurpation,  despotism, 
ambition.      As  for  Cromwell's  bo- 
fortign  adminiatratiottT  it  simply 
the    iuit    that,     by     his     military 
xrmtnUnt  ihc  English  people,  without 
nt,    to    pay   to    him 
purpo««,    and    which 
j  ChArkki  and  King  James  could  never 
ooxutittztioQal  m£afu.    King  Charles 


had  better  objects  in  view  than  what  any  mere 
military  usurper  like  Crorawell  cotild  have  :  he 
(Charles)  wiahed  to  reign  constitutionally  if  he 
(x>ssibly  could,  and  "hesitated'^  to  do  anything 
which  seemed  to  run  count-cr  to  the  constitution, 
even  w*hen  strongly  provoked  to  do  so  by  the 
cunnm!.*.  knavery,  and  uns^cupulousnesB  of  bi« 
0]  n  wilfully  perverting  and  migapplyiog 

c  1  id  rules  and  forms. 

In  bhurt,  King  Charles  was  a  man  of  the 
greatest  honesty,  ability,  firmness,  and  accomplish- 
ments, placed  in  the  most  trying  circumstances, 
through  which  he  bore  himself  with  the  utmost 
dignity.  Hewrt  Kiloociu 

fidiDDurgh. 

The  Evil  Eye  (5*  S.  L  324,  374.)— This snprar- 
Btition  is  also  alluded  to  by  Persius,  Hat,  ii.  ;^ 
**  Ecce  arui,  ant  meiuens  diruni  ni&iertora,  cania 

Exemit  puenimf  froatemquo  {lique  uda  lube  11a 

Infanii  digito  tt  luetrahhai  ante  ftalivii 

Expiai,  unntu  oculot  tjUt&ere  ptrilaJ' 

Jabrz. 

Athenieam  Glab. 

Dr.  William  VAUonAN  akd  Sib  Hkkht 
Haj.ford,  M.D.  (4*''  S.  iv.  20.)— A  writer  signing 
himself  Tbwars  impugns  Mr.  Grosart's  accuracy 
in  numbering  WUliam  Vaughan  amongst  the  an- 
cestor** of  the  late  Sir  Henrys  Htdford,  the  celcbrat-ed 
physician.  He  observes  :  **  It  is  notorious  that 
bir  Henry  Haiford's  father.  Dr.  Vaughan,  was  the 
son  of  an  auctioneer  of  humble  origin";  and  he 
refers  to  the  Oetitkvum^s  Maga^ine^  May,  1844, 
p.  534.  Mr.  Grosabt  is  unquestionably  right. 
It  ia  not  a  fact  that  Sir  Henry  Halford's  father, 
Dr.  Vaughan,  was  the  son  of  an  auctioneer,  or  of 
any  person  of  humble  origin.  His  birth  and 
baptism  under  the  name  of  Jjimeft  (Vaughan)  took 
place  at  Leominster  in  174<).  He  was  the  son  of 
Henry  Vaughan,  a  surgeon  in  that  town,  whose 
father,  Henry  Vaughan,  had  been  for  many  years 
vicar  of  the  parish,  being  himself  the  son  of  Dr. 
William  Vaughan,  of  whom  Anthony  Wood  gives 
some  account  in  hh  Athena:  Oxonuatef.  The 
statement  in  the  Gaitleman'i  Magazint  is  possibly 
a  misprint ;  certainly  it  baa  no  foundution  in  fact. 
Since  the  error  of  the  Gcnthiitnn'fi  Muijiixinf  ia  so 
confidently  endorsed  as  truth  by  Tewars,  it  needa 
correction  all  the  moiv. 

H.   HaLFORD  VAtJOHAN. 
Upton  Ctatle,  Pembroke. 

Abbrbviatbd  Placb-Namks  (5*^  S.  i.  146.)— 
Pampisford  (Cambridge),  Paunser,  A  Cambridge 
Fellow,  riding  to  do  duty  at  this  place,  and  not 
being  sure  of  his  road,  inquired  of  nearly  every 
one  he  met  hii*  way  to  "  Pam-pi^-ford."  But  no- 
body had  ever  heard  of  such  a  place  in  all  Ids 
life.  Accordingly  the  bewildered  Fellow  rode  for 
many  miles  till  he  came  \Hv\ft  %  e^tVaaac^  V^iCsaM^ 
There,  fortune  beVii^  gwdom  \»  \;wss\yt  v<^v  vwb 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[S'^aiLAuQ.  1,71. 


theH 

"4 


usual  query  to  an  individual  of  superior  intelli- 

?mce,  who  straiebtway  answered — **  Oh,  you  mean 
aunxcr;  why  this  is  Paunser!"  and  "Paunser" 
sure  enough  it  was.        C,  F.  S.  Wahrkn,  M,A. 
EllersUe/  EerhQI,  Hoatingf. 

GholmonJely,  Clmmly;  Cliolmondeatone,  Cliumstoo; 
Davedl^mm,  Duneliam  ;  Ringwa>%  Run^  (g  «<*f 0 ;  Wen* 
Torhum,  Warchain;  WildbottTclouRh,  Wilbercluf ;  M&c- 
cktfieldj  Muifield  (by  some  old  peordo.  and  need  to  be  so 
spelt),  ichflahire).  Wavertree,  Wartry  (Lancaaliire)* 
ATcbury,  Abury  (Wilta).  Churchdown,  Chosen  (Glou- 
CMterflhirc). 

RoBKRT  Holland. 

Averham^  Alrham  j  Southwell,  Suthell ;  Cortlingstock, 
Cofltock  (Notta).  BcWoir,  Be«v«jr ;  Croxton,  Croxcn  : 
Quoradon,  Quom  (Leioesterflbire).  PelmcrBJiam,  Fen- 
ah»m  ;  Pjireiihain^  Pacion  ( Bed  ford  aM  re}.  Bicester, 
Bbtcr  (O^con.J.  Roth  well,  Row  ell  (Nortbainptonshire)* 
Uttoxetcr.  Utclieter  ^StaffonWiirc) ;  Hawarden,  Harden 
(FOntahire) ;  Launceflton,  Laanceton  {Cornwall)* 

F.   a   S,   WOOLLKY. 

8.  Collingharo,  Newark, 

Wedncsfield,  Wcdgefield;  St.  Tbomas,  Sentimus  (Staf- 
foFdflbirc|.  Ilopwaa^  Uoppua;  Alrewas^  Arlu« ;  Build- 
was,  BuilduB  (SbropBhire).  Temple  BnUall.  Bussle 
Temvl^  (Warwiokahire).  AlfreBton,  Arfaton  (Sum^x). 
Leckbaropton,  Lackington  (Gloucestershire),  Ditvetitry, 
Daintry  (Nortbamptonshirt').  Sltttigbani,  SUffliam  (Sus- 
sex). 

AY.  J,  Brrkhard  Smith, 

Temple. 

Rocester,  Roeatcr  (Staffordsbire).  Tideswell,  Tidaa 
(DorbyBbire).  Wolitunton,  Ussiton  (StaffordBbire).  Wy- 
bunbury^  Wimbry  ^CbeiMre), 

a  w.  N. 

Alderley  Edge. 

I  send  the  following  from  our  district  (Craven) : 
Appletreewick^  Aptrkk  ^BomoldBwick,  Barlick ;  Grass- 
ingtou,  Giriton ;  ilalham,  Maum. 

Stephen  Jackson. 

Milton's  **L'ALLEaRQ"  (5"»  S.  i.  406,)— I 
think  there  can  be  no  doubt  sl&  to  Milton*a  mean- 
ing in  the  Hne^ — 

"  And  every  sbepherd  tells  his  tale,'* 
though  Mr.  Ainoer  is  loth  to  give  up  the  poetical 
idea  of  the  lovers  for  the  more  prosaic  one  of 
eounting  tht  she^p.  It  should  be  borne  in  mind, 
tirsfc,  that  the  verb  "to  tell^'  was  ordinarily  used 
in  Milton's  time,  instead  of  the  more  modem  word, 
"  to  count.''  Thus  in  the  Patdms— "  Thou  tdhd 
my  flittings'^;  "  He  kUdh  the  numbex  of  the  stars/' 
&c.  To  this  day  a  shepherd  would  say  of  his 
»heep,  "  They  was  all  right  last  night  when  I  told 
'giu/'  Such  a  man  would  have  no  doubt  as  to  the 
meaning  of  the  line  in  question.  But  Udte  the 
context,  aa  Mr.  Ainger  proposes,  Milton  is 
describing  an  English  landscape,  such  as,  with 
little  excc'ption,  we  may  see  now,  with  the  usual 
incidents.  Now,  after  picturing  the  ploughman, 
the  milkmaid,  and  the  mower,  engaged  in  their 
jteremlrml  occupations,  it  is  as  diflifult  to  imagine 


the  poet  suddenly  jumping,  in  the  case  of 
shepherd^  to  an  i4mL  one,  as  it  is  to  suppose  that*^ 
every  such  person  should  be  making  love  when  ' 
ought  to  be  tending  his  shrep.     Milton  was 
well  luxjuainted  with  England  (not  Arcadia) 
make  such  a  nusUtke,  and  properly  reservoe  Uie 
pastime  for  the  rustic  holidnv  that  follows. 

T.  L  Beknett. 


Abcheu  Family  (5**  S.  IL  2L)— -Thomas  I> 
Archer,  parson  of  Elmsett  (co.  Stiff.),  in  4th  of 
Edward  III.,  held  one-third  part  of  the  lordahip 
of  the  mant>r  of  Bricett  Magna  (co.  Suff.),  Bf 
imd  Richard  his  brother,  in  1330,  presented  to  the 
church  of  Ridleswortb  (co,  Norf.),  and  held  that 
manor,  which  they  seem  to  have  inherited  in  right 
of  the  heiress  of  the  house  of  Bathonia,  or  Hathun* 

The  east  window  of  the  south  chaj>el  of  the 
church  of  Thaxted  (co.  Essex)  contained  the  anna 
of  the  Archer  family  \  ermine,  a  cross,  sable. 

C.    GOLDING. 

Paddington. 

Water-marks  (5*'"  S.  i.   88.) — By  consultiog^ 
Sotheby's  Frinnpia    Tfpoffraphica,   Mr.   Js 
may  find  information  a*?  to  the  water- marka 
early  paper-makers,       Gaston  db  Bkrneval, 

*^  Little  monitor  from  TttKE,**  &c.  (5**»  S.  iL\ 

47.)^ — The  lines  here  quoted — ^not  qu;^        t 
are  a  portion  of  a  "posy"  or  inKi  i 
amongst  others,  was  frecjuently  prin(«M   >- 
years  ago  on  the  '*  watch  papers,"  which  were  at  J 
that  period  uaualiy  inserted  between  the  inner  and 
outer  cases  of  watches.  The  whole  runs  as  foliowi:- 
*'  Little  monitor  impart 

Some  inatniction  to  tbc  beart. 

Shew  the  buiy  aod  tbe  gay 

Time  la  baf tiag  swift  away ; 

Pleasure  cannot  long  ondnre. 

Life  'a  uncertain,  death  ia  eure. 

Hftpny  they  who  wisely  learn 

Truth  from  error  to  diacem ; 

Truth  immortal  aa  the  aod. 

Firm  enduring  as  the  pole/' 

I  do  not  know  who  is  the  author  of  the  lineB. 

J.  A.  PtcTour* 

Sandy knowe^  WaTertrec. 

An  eld  eriy  lady,  although  on  this  side  fou 
has  pleasure  in  putting  into  my  hands,  from  thil 
oiemoriids  of  her  chUdbood,  the  answer  to  Z.  Z.*sJ 
elder  lady- friend's  asking  : — 

"To  MY  Watch. 

Little  monitor  !  by  thee 

Let  me  learn  what  1  abould  be  : 

Learn  thi«  round  of  Life  to  fill, 

Useful  nnd  pr^greadfe  stUi. 

When  I  wind  Thee  up  at  nighty 

Mark  each  fault  and  aet  Thee  right ; 

Let  me  search  my  bosom  too„ 

And  my  daily  tboaghta  review ; 

Mark  each  movement  of  my  mind ; 

Nor  be  eai»y  when  1  find 


i 


mt^ 


«»8.  lUAoo.  1,'74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


H  Latent  ern^rfl  riae  to  Tiew, 

^  Till  all  be  regulix  and  true/' 

I  remember  it  nniong  children's  current  poetry 
eaiiy  in  the  centiuy,  but  not  the  name  of  the 
writer,  which,  I  think,  went  with  it.         Erem, 

fA,  C,  tends  the  above  rendering  from  **  The  0<rVt 
Wmk'D^y  Bookf  hj  Dorothy  White, "  but  trith  the  two 
l(>llowiiig  lines  interpolated  after  the  fourth  :— 
H  *'  Thou  canst  useful  hints  impiirt 

H^  How  to  reguhkte  the  heart.  '] 

H[^  A»i>  woiTDER,"  Ac  (5«»  8.  il  470— This  luae 
^FsfinxM  run — 

■  •*  And  wonder  with  a  fooU»b  face  of  praise." 

H   II  ts  in  the  well-known   satire   on  Addlaon  by 

■  Ptope.  W.  W. 

•'Tbe  Savage**  (oti^  8.  i,  4SD.)— The  author 
iVMi  John  Robinson,  a  native  of  the  eastern  part 
of  Tennessee.  He  was  born  in  17^2.  In  early 
life  he  became  involved  in  a  fight,  originating  in 
political  tiifferencen,  and  killed  a  man^  which 
cftttsed  him  to  leave  the  State  and  remain  away 
for  several  years.  It  is  many  years  since  I  read 
tlleie  eesajs,  bitt  my  impression  is  that  they  dis- 
pliy  much  originality  and  vigoar  of  mind,  but 
arte  tinctured  with  sceptical  opinions,  not  incon- 
tifltent  with  the  character  of  an  Americin  Indian, 
imiixied  by  the  writer.  He  died  in  Tennessee 
thoat  the  year  1833,  in  a  house  in  the  woods, 
Voilt  for  him  by  the  students  of  Tusciilimi  College, 
end  U  buried  at  Greene ville,  Tenn.,  the  residence 
of  ex* President  Andrew  Johnson.  A  second  edi- 
iioD  of  Tht  Sav4ig€  was  published  at  KnorviUe, 
TeniL,  in  the  year  1835.  Unsda. 

rhiladelphia. 


I 


'*Lk  pRocfes  DEs  Trois  Rois"  (5*^  S.  i.  468.)— 
Tbit  curious  French  tract  inquired  after  is  usually 
^"  fibttted  to  Bontfonidor  {vide  Barbier) ;  but  in 
David^s  careful  hibliogmphy,  appended  to  an 
edition  of  Linguet's  Mrmoires  sur  la  Ba^Hlh^ 
which  appeared  in  the  BiblioUiique  Natioiiah  in 
1866,  the  work  is  attributed  to  that  author. 

William  E.  A.  Ajcos. 

Tins  Music  to  '*  Macbeth  "  (5"^  S.  i,  486.)— 
I  write  not  to  disprove  wliat  Mr.  C.  Wylie  has 
wKtten,  ^jetause  if  the  music  to  Macbtih  was  first 
n»'rfoMw»^d  in  1672,  that  fivct  puts  Richard  Lev^ridge 
virt,  as  be  is  naid  to  have  been  born  in 
U  1  finii  this  in  The  Imperial  XHcti^marti 
€»/  '  raphy  (Mackenzie,  London),  su\ 

f*f '  .  — 

*  in  Eowe'e  edition  of  Shahpcarft  the  masic  of  Mae* 
iiCi  it  mid  to  have  been  »ei  by  Lereridge.  Thia  ia  the 
tJiafming  witcb- music  which  has  so  long  passed  current 
a<i  Uw  wipotttion  uf  Matthew  Lock.'* 

Aed«  nth  rcct  "  Lock" :— 

•Th«  *rudo  and  wild  excellence'  of  his  music  to 
JftfeMA  U  a  cooftant  theme  of  admtratton  bv  mtuieal 
•ad  bittonaiit.     Bat  unfortunatetj  Look'i  music 


ie  lo§t.  That  so  popularly  known,  and  for  whieh  he  ^ta 
credit,  is  the  compofiiiion  of  Kichard  Leveridge^  thirty 
yewra  later." 

Falm^im  qiti  'mtruit^  fmrai.  Dates,  like  facts, 
are  stubborn  things,  and  biographers  should  heed 
both.  It  may  be  right  to  add  that  the  above 
biographies  are  both  written  by  **  E.  F.  R." 

Aahford. 

The  Sfbstittttion  of  "l"  axd  **w"  for 
*'  R  "  (5*»»  S.  i.  481.)— The  substitution  of  w  for  r 
is  usualiy  owing  to  organic  defect  or  inveterate  bad 
habit.  But  it  i^  seldom  a  distinct  i^  that  is 
uttered.  An  indescribable  soft  guttural,  which 
no  combination  of  letters  (unless,  perhaps,  ^^»jI?) 
could  represent,  is  heard  in  place  of  r.  Many 
schoolboys  may  recall  the  sentence  fabricated 
in  ridicule  of  this  failing : — **  Jnchuird  hit 
H'obetrt,"  &c.  A  gentleman  who  idolized  Lord 
Byron's  poetry  had  displayed  his  devotion  by 
writing  some  verses  addressed  to  him,  and  some 
wags  of  my  acquaintance  amused  themselves  by 
getting  him  to  recite  his  venses,  which  began — 
*'  Impeiriiil  mileie  of  the  trealmt  of  wime." 

S.  T.  P. 

"  Brttisfi  and  Contdtental  Titles  of 
Honour  ''  (5*^  S.  ii.  23.) — It  is  by  no  means  **  a 
vulgar  error  to  suppose  that  a  commoner  may  not 
be  noble."  The  eldest  son  of  an  earl  (to  take  an 
extreme  case)  is  certainly  not  noble,  by  the 
common  law  of  Engknd,  in  the  lifetime  of  his 
father  ;  for,  if  he  commit  felony,  he  will  not  be 
tried  by  the  House  of  Lords,  or  the  Court  of  the 
Lord  High  Steward,  but  by  a  juiy.  Why  \  Be- 
cause be  is  not  "the  peer"  of  a  Lord  of  Parlia- 
ment. On  the  other  liand,  he  m  the  peer  of  any 
common  jurj'-man  ;  else  is  Magna  Chart  a  broken. 
This  being  so,  how  can  he  be  said  to  be  *'  noble  "  i 
**  The  commoners,  though  some  are  greatly  superior 
to  others,  yet  all  are,  in  kw,  peers,  in  rt$p^t  of 
their  imnt  of  nobUityS—2  Co.  Imt,^  29. 

Middle  Templar. 

Bradford* 

The  Blessed  Thistle  (5*»»  S.  iL  48.)— Tlie 
legend  that  the  white  streaks  on  the  leaf  of  the 
Carduus  b^aitu  came  from  the  milk  of  the  Blessed 
Virgin  is  common  in  many  parts  of  England. 
Miss  Yonge's  Herb  of  the  Field  (Mozley)  will 
give  information  on  this  and  other  plants  named 
after  Our  Lady  and  the  saints. 

E.  L.  Blenkinsopp. 

^'A  Vallomrbosian  Nuk"  (5^»»  S.  iL  34.  W- What 
does  the  author  of  iSacred  oitd  Ligenmnj  Art 
mean  by  this  tenn  I  I  am  well  acquainted  with 
Vallombroaa,  and  I  never  heard  of  any  nunfi  either 
there  or  near  it.  The  convent  (now  dissolved)  was 
q/ccupied  by  monks,  Yallombrosa  lias  tiow  ^  v^t^ 
comfortable  hoteL  ^  atair  ^^jry.t  \>vxw&. 


96 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[^  S,  TL  AcG,  1,  •I?. 


The  Beig  "  Temi-le,"  of  London  (S^"*  S.  iL  28), 
208  tons,  built  at  IpBwich  in  1815,  was  owned 
by  John  Bourke  Ricketts,  of  LejukuliaU  Street, 
London,  and  Charles  Nichoks  Pallraor,  Norblton 
House,  KingBton-upon-Thames.  The  following 
notice  appears  in  '*  Lloyd's  Lbt "  of  30th  June^ 
1829 :— 

"  The  'Temple/  Midwinter,  from  Jamaica  to  London, 
was  wrecked  on  the  night  of  the  30th  Apnl,  off  the  oast 
enid  of  Caymftnes.    Cnw  and  pari  of  the  cargo  tavetL" 
EtESAAD   HoMB  GOLfiMAK. 

Brecknock  Rood. 

"When  York  to  Hj£Aven**  {5^  S.  ii  47,)— 
The  lines  qnotcJ  hy  T,  W.  W.  S.  Wong  to  the 
liteniture,  not  of  the  seventeenth,  but  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  They  were  written  by  the 
Duke  of  Wharton,  Foss  (Judges  of  England^ 
p.  245)  quotes  the  line  about  Tracy  differently 
from  T.  aV,  W,  S.,  thus — 

"  When  Trncy'fl  gencroua  soul  shall  sarell  with  pride.** 
I  have  not  seen  a  copy  of  Whiirton^a  poems, 
therefore  I  cannot  any  whid!i  is  the  more  correct 
version. 

All  the  persons  named  in  the  lines  were  judj^es, 
except  Hungerford.  Parker,  of  course,  was  Lord 
Mftcele afield,  the  well-known  Chancellor.  Pratt^ 
King,  and  Eyre,  were  the  Chief  Justices  of  the 
three  Courts.  Biogniphiea  of  aU  may  be  found  in 
Fosr's  Jndge^^  of  Entjlnnd. 

John  HuQ^erford  was  a  lending  banister,  and 
counsel  to  the  Ef^t  India  Company.  He  repre- 
sented Scwborough  as  a  Tory,  from  April,  1692, 
to  Msirch,  1605,  when  he  was  expelled  tlie  house ; 
again  from  1702  to  1705  ;  and  finally  from  Novem- 
ber, 1707,  until  his  de^th  (June  8,  1729), 

ALrRED  B.  BeaveNj  I^LA. 

Pratoo. 

Lord  Colltkowood  (5'^  S  ii.  48.)— He  was  of 
Northumberland  family,  and  hia  great-great-gnuid- 
father,  Ralph  CoUingwood,  married  the  niece  of 
Anthony^  Knrl  of  Kent,  seventh  in  descent  from 
Joan  Pliintjij^enet,  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent,  who 
waj*  wife  of  the  Black  Priuce,  He  went  to  scliool, 
at  Newcastle,  with  Lord  Stowell  and  Earl  Eldon, 
Hia  brother  was  Capt.  Wilfred  CoUingwood,  of 
the  **  Rattler.'*^  He  married  Miss  Saruli  Blackett, 
daughter  of  Q.  C.  Blackett,  of  Newcastle,  and  had 
two  daughters,  Sarah  and  Mary  Patience.  In 
8iU<itioiia  from   ike  Public  and  Private   Corrc- 

r^ndenc^  of  Vim^ Admiral  Lord  CoUingwood^ 
Ridgway,  Piccadilly,  182!),  a  great  u umber  of 
the  lettets  are  nddre^saed  to  his*  father-in-law. 
Mary  Patience  married  Anthony  Denny,  Esq., 
Rnd  died  in  1822  ;  and  Sarah  married  G.  L. 
Newnh&m  CoUingwood,  Esq.,  F.R.S»,  who  pub- 
Hfihed  the  selection  abore  niuned* 

C.  A,  Wahd. 
Mayfalr. 


A  brother  of  Lard  (>llingwood  lived  at  Churton,  i 
near  North  Shields  ;  his  son  now  Uvea  at  Lilburn  j 
Tower.  One  daughter  married  the  Rer.  Chri?-- 
topher  Reid,  Vicar  of  Tynemouth  ;  the  other,  I 
John  Frederick  CoUingwood^  Esq.,  of  G]antoti| 
Pyke,  aU  in  Northumberland. 

E.  L.  Blestkiktbofp. 

Shirlet    Family  (5"»  S.   i.   248,  294,  477  jj 
ii.  76.) — Lady  Anne  Shirley,  fourth  danghter  or 
Robert^  first  Earl  FeiTers,  by  hh  Countess,  SelioA 
Finch,  was  born  at  Staunton  Howard  May  24,1 
1708.   and   married   May    15,    1721)»   Sir   Robert  I 
Fumese,  of  Waldershare,  in  Kent,  Baronet.     Sb«' 
died    Febmary    25,    177D,   ami    wa^j    buried    ui 
GrosTenor  Chapel,  South  Andley  Street,  London. 
Ev.  Ph.  Shirlet. 

The  name  of  the  Baronet  ivho  married  Anne, , 
daughter  of  the  first  Earl  Ferrers,  wan  Sir  Robert-j 
Furnese.     Burke  (who,  by  the  way,  is  focilc  pri'n-»| 
ctps  amongst  incorrect  compilers)  makes  hira  M  PrJ 
for  Brt\mber  in  1698,  confounding  him  with  hisl 
father,  Sir  Henry.     Sir  Robert  entered  Parliamentj 
iis  M.P.  for  Truro   in   December,  1708,   sat   fof^ 
Romney  from  1710  to  1727,  and  for  the  countj^ 
of  Kent  from  1727  until  his  death  in  1733. 

Alfred  B.  Beaven,  M.A. 

LoNi>ON  Companies,  or  Guilds  (5**  S.  iL  48lJ 
— A  complete  li^t,  with  the  date  of  Incorporatioa 
the  situation  of  the  hall,  where  any  exists,  and  th 
amount  of  Uverj^  fine,  will  be  fimnd  in  Noorthouck^ 
History  of  London^  4to.,  1773,  p.  887. 

Virion  Niohtoit. 

TiNTRftN  Abbkt  (5*^  S.  ii.  28,  75.)— Mb-  Mac 
kenzie  Walcott  is  wrong  in  his  statement  (" 
there  is  no  local  handbook  to  Tintern  Abbey* 
have  myself  written  one,  contjwning  many  fi*shl| 
gathered  details,  including,  for  the  firat 
accurate  dates  of  the  erection  of  the  Abb- 
the  ruins  of  which  constitute  the  chief  rtnun 
the  monastery.    The  title  of  the  work  is 
Abbey  and  its  Founders.     It  was  reviewed 
Athtm<mim  of  August  6,  1670,  and  ha«  reached  a 
second  edition.  Johx  Tavloe. 

BHstol  Moseum  and  Library. 

Tjie  Emperor  Alexander  IL  (5**^  S.  I  4fT4  \ 
il  36,  55,  72.)^'nie  argument  adducod  by  A-  '" 
that  the  EussiaQ  claims  to  be  the  suooeesa 
of  the  Cji&sars  as  connected  by  marriage  with 
Byzantine  Emperorfl,  is  certainly  in  favour  of  lh« 
theory,  but  I  think  the  arguments  in  mj 
letter  apply  to  it. 

I  ilo  not  wish  to  deny  the  assertion  mnd^ 
B,  Y.  H.,  that  the  form  Czar  has  been  in  oso  1 
fifty  years,  as  age  is  no  excuse  for  tm  error,  j 
the  PoUsh  BpeUing  would  naturaUy  be  the 
to  reach  Europe,  and  Russians  wottM  be  os  fooH 


9*  &  IL  Acq.  1, 7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


97 


to  feel  inmlled  by  such  an  error,  as  EngUshinen 
wmM  be  it  Ihey  took  offence  at  the  "  Lord  Cllad- 
fltolM^*  and  **  Sir  Disraeli"  of  aomo  igtiomnt  French 
atMrgpapen.  The  title  of  the  heir-apparent  is 
Mfmdy  derived  from  that  of  the  Tsar,  and  would 
hwra  been  in  ose  as  long  as  the  hitter,  and  it  is 
hoUh  wriiteti  and  pronounced  Tsftrtvitch^  und  not 
l^MMieTYtch  or  Cesan^v'it-eh.  I  am  pleased  to  iind 
Ifctt  B.  Y.  H.  su^^reea  with  me  in  deriving  it  from  a 
nmk'Arjiin  root^  but  I  CJinnnt  accept  his  theory, 
Khii^ar  beinn;^  I  believe,  not  a  titles  but  the  naoie 
of  a  nirt\  wlia  were  almost  o€3rt^unly  not  Tatars, 

T  y  of  foreignerB  to  hear  or  pronotinoe 

tbtf  ihing  at  Ijia  end  of  many  Russi&n 

words  u  «b  tiominon  source  of  ainiiBement  among 
Busiians,  and  B.  Y.  H  seems  to  be  no  exception 
to  the  rule ;  but  can  he  perceive  no  dilierence 
(<|UoUng  his  own  exiuuple)  between  nn  and  unc  f 
I  W3Mi  eertainlj  not  thinking  of  the  lines  which  he 
quot4^,  and  am  weU  aware  that  Tsaria  is  in  the 
I  Czarieh  would  represent  no  form 
im  acfjuainted). 

*  translatioDf^of  Russian  official  d»cu- 

loriously  inaccuniU'.     I  have  a  large 

iij^ki," 
^  ..,_-..,..,..-.  ....  ^, .,.,.. ^  plunil 
not  end  in  kia^  but  in  klUi). 
V.  H,'fl  last  sentence,  I  ain  at  a  los!i 
(o  conainie  it.  If  he  thinks  that  ''  veliela"  (why 
tbi  fipmlnin^  I)  can  govern  the  nominative  "^  tche* 
}&mkf*^  be  b  mnch  ntbtaken  :  nor  is  the  ''  t ''  at 
tfaie  end  of  the  verb  ^'  priiti  *'  abaolutely  fanltlees. 
I  Imow  TciT  well  that  Runflian  has  no  article  and 
tJiai  Sugliui  hoAf  but  I  cannot  see  the  bearing  of 
thnee  fectd  on  this  question.  At  all  events,  sen- 
tences in  very  doubtful  Enssian  are  not  calculated 
•o  ctnsagthcm  the  wiit^-^s  authority  on  difficult 
fslllte  In  one  of  the  harda^t  lan^^niageft  of  Europe. 

ASHTOK   W,   DlLKK. 

The    B.vltimorb    and    **Old    Mortalitt'* 

Patbrsows  (4"*  8.  vi,  vii.  p<Ufim,)—ln  "  K.  &  Q." 

roruo  v«  ir^  aL'o.  I  i^ve  some  curious  infomiatton 

ily  of  *'01d  MortiJity/^  inves- 

f  the  statement,  which  had  been 

.   that  M.idanie  Jt^rome  Bonaparte, 

svr\^  drerr^nded  from  John,  the  eldest 

■  '■"    I  showed,  by  a  letter 

!^.   vii,  218),  a  friend  of 

I  .elieved  her  ancestora 

,  and  that  they  were 

h   till?  Scottish  PaterB(»fi!<, 

lied  (1874),  LHUrg  //>  JHs 

"  ' ntouj    D.JJ,^    with    a 

MJer  Anderson,  WeM 


To  W  m  Baltimore,  was  conrlcoosly  pennitted  lo 


examine  the  will  of  Madame  Jert'ime's  father,  I 
quote  the  following  pcuoogo  from  the  memoir, 
whioli  sets  the  question  forever  at  rest : — 

*'The  Rev.  Nathaniel  Pat^rwn,  a  son  of  Dr  Pateivon, 
ATid  minister  in  Martin  Town,  Oan&dai  visHed  BaUimore 
last  autainn,  found  Mr.  Pennington,  the  Uwjisr  who 
drew  out  the  will  of  Miwlame  Buonaparte's  father,  and 
wftA  peimitted  to  exftmino  it  for  himself.  From  Ihie 
doc  anient,  which  is  prefaced  hy  &  iliurt  autobiography 
of  the  testntor,  it  atmears  that  Matiiinie  Botmpurte'^ 
f&ther'e  name  was  William  ;  that  he  was  a  natiro  of 
Tanot,  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  and  brought  up  in  ctnk' 
nextoii  with  ti»e  Episcopal  Choreh.  After  aettltiitr  in 
Baltimore',  he  h&d  foren  sone  and  one  dauiehter,  whoiu 
he  mention*  nmler  the  name  of  Betsy,  and  us  the  wife  of 
Jcrcjune  Botmpartc?,  There  Beoma  no  reason  to  doubt  the 
statement  made  in  the  will,  efpecially  ia  view  of  the 
scanty  evidence  for  the  truth  of  the  ttory  oo  long  and 
io  widely  circulated." 

C.  T.  Bjmaqz. 

Interted  CoMitAS  (.*)**»  S.  tp<usim;  ii.  37»  56.) 
Sotting  aside  former  examples,  1  atill  feel  no  doubt 
that  in  all  good  modem  usage  inverted  commaa 
iviptjt  a  quoUtion  at  ]east ;  and  this  is  the  only 
modification  suggested  by  Jadez's  remarks.  Tbo 
quotation  he  gives  from  the  Times  seems  to  me 
quite  t^  iliuBtmte  this.  The  commas  no  doubt 
import  a  sneer  more  or  less.  But  they  also,  I  have 
no  doubt^  taking  this  example,  mean  this :  "  The 
education  may  V>eeomo  vhat  we  have  so  o/t4m  ietn 
dMicrihtd  at  lest  accompiuM,  but  not  therefore,** 
&c»  A  rtfermuia  ib  intenied,  and  so,  I  believe,  it 
always  ie.  Lttteltok. 

"Like"  as  a  Covjuvcrtov  (6*  S.  L  67,  116, 
157,  176,  237,  498.)— Here  is  a  clear  i;istance  from 
the  Shakspeare  part  of  Hennj  VIIL     The  Duke 
of  Norfolk  says  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,^ — 
*'  Not  a  man  In  England 
Can  advise  me  like  you/' — 
that  is,  **  like  you  can  advise  me.**     It  ia  true  that 
here  too  is  the  shrinking  from  setting  the  verb 
after  tike^  which  I  noticed  l»efore  ;  but  that  /tl'€  is 
here  a  conjunction,  and  not  a  preposition,  b  nn* 
deniable.  F.  J.  FdRNtVALL, 

P.S. — As  the  great  authority  with  whom  I  am 
at  iflsue  on  the  point  will  not  iwlmit  the  above 
instance,— he  says  you  is  in  the    '  .^com- 

pare **like  him."  I  add  an  inconti  :  ince  of 

the  conjunctival  use  of  Hke,  which  .^^cuimut  ?j  excel- 
lent ShaJcspere- Lexicon  referred  me  to  :— 

"Andkm^  '      kingdom  i^  without  a  head — 

l,iit  gi  I  z$.  left  without  a  roaf. 

Soon  fhl  your  noble  self.  *  . . 

We  thua  »ui>[uit  lUiio,— our  aovcreigu.*' 
PericUa,  I.  iii*  M, 
(Not  S^    '         re*  port :  probably  WilkJna'a.) 

Thid  coTifi  1  i  lanation  of  the  conjunctivaf 

use  of  the  adv(  m  nrr,  from  ^^  a^^^-:..  -  rfthe  i# 
tiuit  followed  it.  and  its  cor  of  the 

function  of  a*;  just  as  in  *.*.  —  ,....,,  ihe  odv 
Hht  lakes  the  prepottUoutiX  loTca.  c»l  to*    ^  's^ 


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[5"  S.  U.  At;a.  1,  74. 


"  N.  ife  Q/'  men  again  for  other  early  instances  of 
conjunction  like^  witli  tlie  verb  ejcpresst, 

F,  J,  F. 

Words  AND  Phiubes  Prevale:kt  in  Ulster 
(B^  S»  i.  245^  374.)— I  hATe  been  accuatomed  to 
hear  Ulster  people  use  the  word  "  Bcddy  ^  from 
my  earliest  recofiectbns,  and  never  with  but  one 
meaning,  and  that  none  of  those  given  by  your 
correspondentis,  or  the  authorities  whom  they 
quote.  The  sense  in  which  I  Imve  heard  it  usod 
lA  somewhat  akin  to  muaj^  yet  not  in  the  sense  of 
boldness  or  forwardness,  but  ralher  negntively  or 
defensively  ;  thus,  a  menial  scn-ant  who  would 
reject  food  served  up  a  second  time,  on  the  ground 
that  it  was  not  good  enough  for  him^  would  be 
considered  very  "  beddy." 

Gigit  (I  am  not  certain  of  the  orthography)  is 
another  Ulster  word,  which  signifies  elated  with 
the  novelty  of  anything.  It  may  be  a  corruption 
of  gigUt  or  giglot^  giddy,  light,  inconstant. 

Gaston  de  Beritbval, 

Philadtilphifl* 

"Crack"  (5^^  S.  i.  124,  175,  a32.)-It  is 
evident,  us  Mr.  Wedgwood  has  pointed  out, 
that  I  was  i^Tong  in  suggesting,  without  qualifica- 
tion, that  the  word  '*  wag  "  was  an  abbreviation  of 
**  wagtidl."  1  have  since  met  with  another  pas* 
flage  oonfirming  Mr.  Wedgwood's  derivation  of 
it  firom  "  waghalter  "  ♦  :— 

*'  Ohp  thoa  onftj  wMitrijtg, 
And  could'flt  thou  thii§  demde  me  i " 

Heywood'fi  ''  EDgli^li  TnTeUer/'  in 
Diike's  Old  Hays,  vi.  206. 

I  cannot,  however,  help  thinking  that  the  word 
^' wag^  is  sometimes  an  abbreviation  of  ^^  wagtail.'^ 
In  a  coU«ctioiL  of  sketches  of  Dutch  life  and 
manners,  entitled  the  Camera  Obsaira,  by  Hilde- 
brand  (Nicolaua  Beets),  fifth  edition,  pp,  252-261, 
I  find  a  gentlemaji,  by  name  Heer  Wiigestert 
(Mr,  Wagtail),  invited  to  a  dinner-party,  to  enter- 
tain the  company  with  very  indifferent  jests  and 
jokes;  in  fact,  he  exactly  correajxindH  to  the 
Mr.  Wagg  of  Peiidtmtit.     Now  1  cannot  think 

*  Dor  anoflctort  were  singuliu'ly  fond  of  tfaeta  oom- 
pliment&ry  aUurions  to  the  gallowi.  Thus  we  bare 
**  wa^balter,"  "  wagBtring/'  "cruckrope/'  •*  crwckhemp/' 
^g&lfowfl-birdj"  wLicli  ln«t  we  §tili  ratajn.  Betitlen  tlie<»ef 
in  Fletcher  alone  I  find  *' rope  runner  "— 
*'  Stand  farther,  friend  ;  I  do  not  like  your  rope-runnera.*' 

Coxcombf  ii.  9. 

AIbo  "elipstring  "  and  "  haltcrstck/'  in  Kin^  and  no 
Kinft.  il  % 

*'  nope^runner,"  I  concsire,  menns  "  one  who  has  run 
away  from  tlie  rope  ";  "  slipstring  "  will  have  nearly  the 
■atne  meaning;  "hattenack"  is  not  6o  clear,  but' pro- 
tmlily  the  idea  ii,  that  ai  a  tack  hat  a  halter  rtiund  its 
neck»  to  the  peraon  addresKd  deserroa  to,  aod  will  in 
duo  time  hare  otie  round  his. 

Besides  these  there  are  the  Sbakepearian  wordj  "rope- 
trie  ki  *'  and  *'  ropery/'  and  doubtl«ai  many  others  may 
\m  found  in  the  writingi  of  that  era^ 


that  this  coincidence  is  merely  occidentoL  As  the  I 
Dutch  connect  the  idea  of  jesting  and  joking  with  ( 
the  word  "  wagtail,*'  our  ancestors  may  have  done  j 
the  same.  It  seems  to  me  quite  possible  that  the  j 
word  **  wag  "  may  sometimes  have  been  an  abbre^l 
Tiation  of  the  word  "  waghalter,"  or  **  wagatring,"] 
and  sometimes  of  ^*  wagtail'';  and  that  in  a  short  I 
time  people  nsed  the  word  without  havitig  any  I 
clear  idea  in  their  minds  whether  they  meant* 
"rogue"  or  **je»ber,"  the  two  meanings  ranningj 
eiisily  into  each  other. 

With  respect  to  the  word  "  crack,"  I  ^^^  '^^th  I 
pleasure  that  it  is  not  quite  obsolete  in  its  Sliak-  > 
speurian  sense :  the  other  day  I  heard  a  bdy  say—  J 
"  There  was  only  a  crack  of  a  boy  in  the  sbop.*^ 

F,  J,  V. 

P.S.— I  find  that  in  my  former  note  on  thcj 
word  "  wag  "  I  have  followed  Professor  Latham  in  J 
giving  "  pert  person,**  whereas  above  I  liave  giretlJ 
"^^  jester ''  as  its  meaning,  the  latter  being  that  Ia] 
which  it  is  commonly  used  at  the  present  day*| 
The  two  meanings  are,  however,  as  ia  obvious 
closely  akin. 

LKOLrxK  :  Christabel  (5**»  S.  L  405,  515*] 
The  latter  name  would  seem  to  be  the  sun<^ 
(YisUibal^  the  Spanish  form  of  Christopher* 

M,  S.  Charkocic 

Gray's  Inn. 

"Ibhar'*  {&*^  S.  i.  469  ;   ii.  13.)— J.  H.  styi 

that  Ibhar  "  is  Gaelic,  and  means  an  adder,"  How 
comes  it  that  no  such  word  occurs  in  Armatmng's 
copious  Gadic  XHciiofiargf  and  that  it  does  not 
resemble  any  of  the  Gaelic  names  for  an  adder,  of 
other  serpent,  given  in  that  work  I         S*  T*  P. 

Tavkbn  Inscriptions  (o^  S*  i.  165,  274)— The 
following  inscription  stood  for  many  years  over 
the  door  of  a  tavern,  occupying  a  portion  of  the 
present  site  of  the  Wistar  Museum  of  Anatomy  in 
this  city  : — 

"  I,  Michael  McI>ermotfc*  lirea  herCf 
Aod  eella  good  Porter,  Ale,  and  Beer: 
I  makea  my  sign  a  little  wider. 
To  let  you  know  I  sell  good  Cider," 

In  quoting  the  foregoing,  I  have  thought  it  b«t 
to  preserve  the  syntax  of  the  poet  just  as  ho  in- 
dited it.  Gastok  de  Berskval. 

Phihidelphia. 

Rancke  Riders  (5*^  S.  L  203,  271,  411*  .  ti 
38.)— In  Memoirs  of  Vidacq^  written  by  himwrU, 
translated  from  the  French,  4  vols.,  London,  Lsill), 
vol  iv.  p.  210,  will  bo  found  a  description  of  a 
somewhat  similar  class  of  swindlers  to  thoHo  d. 
scribed  by  Mr.  Waltkb  TnoRNBuar,  ^li  i 
flourished  during  the  French  revolution,  liini 
reaped  a  golden  harvest  from  French  innkeepers^ 

Harrt  Bltth 

Barnstaple. 


i& 


d^B 


P'KU.  ADC.  1,74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


IHUcrnattrotur* 
NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  lea 

THB  COUNTESS  OF  NITHSDJLLS. 

In  tbe  current  nambar  of  ih^QtutrUrlflU^niw^ — 
a  most  attractive  number  for  the  importance  and 
yariety  of  it«  ftrticlee,  and  for  the  ability  with 
which  they  are  written, — the  old  and  ever  interest- 
ing story  of  the  escape  of  the  Jacobite  (and 
capit4itly*eonvicted)  Ean  of  Nith^dale  once  more 
challenges  and  wins  attention  and  sympiithy. 
Under  the  title  of  The  Book  of  Car  later  ocJc^  Lord 
Hemes,  the  bead  of  the  Maxwell  family,  has 
sanctioned  the  printing  of  150  copies  of  his  col- 
lection of  family  papera.  Tbeie  form  two  quarto 
Tolumcs,  which  are  not  for  sale*  In  this  collection 
axe  to  be  found  the  C *ounte88*8  narrative  of  how 
ahe  dfectetl  her  husband's  escape  from  the  Tower 
CQ  the  eve  of  the  day  on  whicn  he  was  to  suffer 
deftth  OQ  the  Hcaltbld/ 

It  has  never»  perhaps,  been  noticed  thiit  the 
means  employed  by  this  noble  daughter  of  the 
Herbert*  (she  was  the  younjje«t  daughter  of  the 
Marquis  of  PowLs)  may  be  said  to  have  been  more 
"^  (ly  t*'  "  '  I  ;i  to  succeed  ;  and  how  succesH 
irne^  pt  is  yet  inexpliciible. 

Lord  '  was  doomed  to  die  on  Wednes- 

day, ih  'uaiy,  1716,     On  the  night  pre- 

vionty  l-...f  ^^..,^dale  took  two  women  with  her 
into  the  Tower,  in  order  that  her  lonl  might  pojis 
out  aa  one  of  those  women.  Their  names  were 
Mrs.  Morcan  and  Mrs.  MiE's.  Mrs.  Morgan,  tall 
and  thin.  Tike  Lord  Nithisdale^  was  the  ^t  intro- 
dnced,  aa  a  viaitor,  into  the  EarFs  room^  where, 
having  depoiited  a  riding-hood  which  she  wore 
under  another  of  her  own,  Lady  Nithsdale  re-con- 
dntcted  her  to  the  stairs  (on  which,  from  the 
prisoner's  door  to  the  foot  of  the  stairs,  were 
Mvend  sentinels),  and  there  bade  her  farewell 
Thie  first  lady  had  thus  gone  in,  and  had  thus  de- 

Next*  Mrs.  Mills  waa  ushered  into  the  room. 
AiriTed  there,  she  and  Lady  Nithsdale  proceeded 
to  diagiiise  the  Earl,  so  aa  to  make  him  as  like 
Mrm,  Millfi  03  possible.  This  done,  Mra,  MiDs  put 
on  the  riding- hood,  which  had  been  left  behind 
for  th«  purpose  by  Mrs.  Morgan,  and  withdrew, 
pMiing  through  the  guards,  as  well  as  various 
peo]]le  about  the  landing  and  staiiB,  in  the  cha- 
nflUsT  and  similitude  of  Mis.  Morgan,  who  had 
hnsi  Been  to  come  from  my  lord's  chamber  some 
tkic  before !  Two  women  had  gone  into  that 
diamb«r,  and  two  had  left.  Ko  one  remained  save 
thm  Eoil  and  Countesa,  Kotwithstanding  this 
fiicl,  in  a  few  minutes,  the  Earl  issued,  dressed 
fUtbJIy  in  Mn.  Mills's  clothing,  and  through 
SQttdi,  aerrmnta,  and  warders,  sacceasfully  wended 
Km  «»y  tnKo  the  street,  and  got  dear  off.  Thus 
iff,  tw«  wocnen^  with  tne  Count^sa,  had  be«n  in- 
tipdoord  to  the  EarV^  room,  and  apparently  thru 


had  departed !  Subseciuently,  Lady  Kithedal^ 
herself  paaaed  out  unquestioned,  pretending  that 
her  husband  was  still  in  the  now  empty  chamber* 
That  this  little  drama  could  have  been  played 
out  successfully  without  collusion,  which  must 
have  been  well  paid  for,  seems  impossible.  Lady 
Nithsdale  remains  as  heroic  as  ever,  for  her  risk 
and  peril  were  undoubtedly  great ;  but  if  tdl  i\m 
guardians  of  the  Tower  were  not  confederatei, 
they  were  the  greatest  simpletons  that  ever  wor« 
a  uniform,  or  acted  as  gaolers.  George  I.,  who 
was  half  enraged  and  half  amused  at  the  incident, 
insisted,  nevertheless,  that  he  was  betrayed,  and 
that  the  escape  could  not  have  been  effected  but 
by  means  of  a  guilty  confedemcy* 

The  heroism  on  this  occasion  saved  no  hero, 
though  the  lady  strove  hard  to  the  last  to  believe 
that  nhe  had  a  hero  for  her  husband.  After  Lord 
NitliadiLlo  bad  reached  the  Continent,  disguised  as 
a  servant  of  the  household  of  the  Venetian  Am- 
bassador, *^Lady  Nithsdale,"  says  the  Quarterly^ 
"  for  whom  no  search  was  made,  remained  for  the 
time  in  London.'^  The  truth  is  that  she  baffied 
all  search,  and  lived  undiscovered  in  a  house  in — 
then  not  unfashionable — Drury  Itfrne.  She  seoma 
to  have  encouraged  a  report  that  she  re&Uy  had  no 
hand  in  the  ejicipe,  in  hopes  that  she  might  live  at 
liberty.  She  wisely  lay  hid  the  while,  but  search 
wofi  made  after  hex.  As  it  wa3  unsuccessful,  the 
Botioitor-Oeneral  xiiade  it  known  that,  as  Lady 
Nithsdale  had  the  decency,  as  he  called  it,  not  to 
appear  in  public,  the  Government  would  give  her 
no  further  trouble,  but  that  if  she  showed  herself 
outside  her  hiding- pkce  she  would  certainly  be 
arrested.  After  a  farewell  visit  to  the  family  ee* 
tat^  in  Scotland,  she  passed  through  London  and 
subsequently  landed  on  the  coast  of  Flandeirsi, 
where  she  was  detained  some  time  by  a  nuBc^riage 
and  dangerous  illnesa. 

There  was  never  a  more  selish  man  than  the 
husband  for  whom  Lady  Nithsdale  had  made  so 
many  sacrifices.  When  they  again  came  together 
at  Lille,  he  vexed  her  bouI  liy  hia  extmyaganoe, 
and  by  living  over  their  little  income.  He  nccuaed 
her  of  grudging  him  !  **  I  am  sure,*'  she  writes  to 
her  sister.  **  I  would  not  grudge  my  heart's  blood, 
if  it  would  do  him  any  service."  While  Lord 
Nithsdale  was  in  Italy,  his  wife,  in  Fiance,  en- 
dured the  sharpest  poverty,  but  felt  no  cross,  save 
that  of  having  to  bve  apiui  from  him.  Neither 
could  have  existed  but  for  the  charity  of  Lord  and 
Lady  Traquair.  The  ktter  waa  Ladv  Nithsdale  » 
sister.  Instead  of  acknowledging  the  kind  aid 
extended  by  Lord  Traquair,  Lord  Nithsdale  pro> 
tested  that  he  was  the  lender  of  money  to  Lord 
Traqoair !  What  the  former  Lord  got  he  spent 
on  his  own  pleasures.  ^'He  has  never  been  the 
man,"  is  the  mehmoboly,  ultimate  remark  of  the 
heroic  wife  who  had  onoe  thought  hinv  ti.  \afiws, 
"that  had  offeied  me  i^  lMi\flXk%^^^<i^^^*^ 


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[e»»aiLAml,74. 


h©  hm  taken  up  ;  find,  aa  yet,  all  h  §pent.'*  He 
died  at  Rome  in  1744  ;  lady  Nithsdalc  at  the 
«ome  place  in  174J).  Out  of  an  iinnnity  paid  to 
her  by  her  son  (in  pos«e?^sion  of  tbi»  fa  i    '  ■ 

she  dischjirged  all  ht»r  lord's  debts,  to 
tation.     lliis  should  have  been  dout^  f?\  im  M.,i. 
It  was  the  litst  of  the  noble  acts  of  a  noble  life  ; 
and  the  HpJiee,  it  is  hoped,  ia  not  w.i-«*f -'  wt.;,  |.  jr 
devotwl  to  the  Note  which  adds  notm  '  t-o 

the  details  of  the  story  of  the  Count^^as  vi  _     ..  side. 


Hkbkt  S.  Kma  k  Cow  have  added  a  ohiLrming  tolume 
tD  Fairy  Lore  in  ***S/arfjniiV  J'cwry  Tales^  C'otUctcd  and 
Truttiiattd  /r^n  the  IttusiaJK  Paiith^  Strriun,  and 
JBo^^eviitin,  by  John  T.  Nftakc,  of  th«  British  Miueum/' 
In  oontraKt  with  this  atti-iictiTc  book  of  sturtltng  fancy 
wft  foiiiarkabtc  atory  (from  the  same  firm)  of  domeatic 
life,  called  Softa  Time  (n  Irdawd^  a  Itecotltcti'on.  Thiii 
Ib  a  clererly  told  tioJe  of  Irish  lite,  free  from  ftU  exa^e^ 
ration. 

To  Messrs.  MACMiLt.AK  k  Co.  we  owe  a  handsome  and 
interesting  volume,  entitled,  '"  The  Balladt  and^ongn  of 
Scotland,  III  View  of  their  Influence  on  the  Character 
of  the  People/*  By  J.  CUrk  Murray,  LL.a  Br.  Mur- 
ray  ftnda  much  that  is  new  to  be  eaid  on  an  old  but  arct 
pleasant  iubject. 

Mn.  Tkqq  hns  added  to  his  reprint!  two  works  that 
have  charmed  the  grand-fiarenta  of  the  preeextt  geaorar- 
tlon,  and  that  will  obarni,  not  only  this^  but  Kucoeaaive 

fenerations,  namely,  Barrow *9  Mutrn^  of  tAc  B<m^y,  as 
ull  of  interest  as  Rulntt^on  Cruaett  and  the  fni3M»fn 
Ntstorp  of  a  Ship,  from  hrr  CradU  t&  her  Ormt,  Tills 
bistory  hn^  a  neecnary  supptement  at  to  ^team  and 
atiamehips^  tbinga  flcarceW  employed  in  the  Baercauttle 
marine  and  Boyj2  Navy  when  The  Hutmy  of  a  Ship  wa* 
firet  written. 

Mkssbs.  WAnn^  Lock  k  Titleb,  in  M.  nopcweir* 
Ltfffnds  of  the  Muiouri  and  Mwijfnppi,  bare  proTided 
^tiei'aJ  readers  tvith  above  two  dozen  very  readable 
utoriea,  which  refer  to  the  lands  about  the  two  j^eat 
Tiwers,  whe'u  none  but  the  Eed  Men  ovvD<;d  them,  and 
when  the  White  Man  and  Fire  Wutor  hod  not  yet  cum- 
menced  their  civilizing  proeefia. 


DvjLTn  or  Mr.  W.  P.  CnHiSTis,  C-B.—Evory  reader 
of  ^'  N.  k  Q/*  will,  we  feel  uasuretl,  aharc  the  deep  regret 
with  which  we  announce  the  dettth  of  a  fn-tjuent  and 
valued  contributor  to  ita  colnmna— Mr.  William  Doug»l 
Christie,  M.A,,  C.B. — which  took  place  on  Monday  last, 
41^  hit  reindbnce  in  Doraet  Square.  Of  Mn  Chrii^tie's 
vanouaiuid  uaefnl  parliamentary  and  dqdomatic  services, 
und  his  excrtione  a*  a  social  peformert  it  is  not  our  pro- 
vince to  treat.  We  would  rather  point  attention  to  the 
e»lengive  historical  knowledge  and  snurjd  critical  taite 
exhibited  by  Mr.  Chriiiiie  in  the  tuo  '  hi^d  works 

which  he  hai  ML     Uii  life  of  Uit  I  Shafte*- 

^KTv  (2  vole.,  1S71),  and  The  I  Mia*  A^^    . , .Si<;tttary 

WiUiamson,  lately  edited  by  him  for  the  OamdenSocitt^', 
furnish  coiicluaive  evidence  of  Mr,  Chriftie'e  intimate 
acquaintance  with  the  imncrtant  period  to  wliich  they 
relate ;  while  hia  admirable  edition  of  Dryden's  Po^mA 
(in  the  Globe  and  Clarendon  Beriea)  ma^ei  it  »  Bubjcot 
of  regret  that  we  have  not  a  fuller  and  more  complete 
edition  of  tlio  works  of  *'  Glorious  John  "  from  one  who 
wa«  BO  well  able  to  do  justice  to  hi«  genius.  The  Heath 
of  this  lamented  gentleman,  who  was  only  in  his  fifty- 
ninth  year,  will  cn^ate  a  void  in  a  wide  aociiU  and  literal^ 
circle. 


BOOKS     AND      ODD      VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PCTRCHASE. 

I'ATtieut&n   or  Price,  In,,  of  ct^it   hook  to  be    wnt  dtrest  be 

y\\v  '^ff*<ya  hy  vrbom  i(  ij  requircii,  wUott-  nunc  aod  •ddnw  aic« 

jici.t,V  Uau..    Bolt^u.    IT'ff. 

-> » > . ,.  of  %  YutttiK  €ren(leia«a  vlioet  B^mIh  eti 

i  '  .u.     IT  IS. 
rAiiJ«7  F^icatlj,  coDcemiof  Itie  Etialt  tt 

li'Li.i,*ujtTu'i  Lift  jf  IT.  Lhad<frtoii.    CAinbrid^.    I7ai>*  J 


^Dttrr^  to  Co trr^iionOritt^. 

RAri£--^Thc  epigram  in  tolerabh  ^^•_'l(  imown.  but  H 
ts  worth  repe.itiui;.     It  ia  laid  to  I  n  at* 

eertion  mode  by  Mr.  Froude  (at  ¥A  Mcall 

writers  are   not  truthful*   and  iu    [Miuitit;r    uy   tJ^anon^ 
Kingaley,   that  there  iA  no   truth  to  be  found  in  hif* 
torians,— 

"'  Froude  informs  the  Scottish  youth 
That  parsona  have  no  care  for  truth  ; 
AS* h lie  Cauon  Kingsley  loudly  cries 
That  history  i^  a  pack  of  liee. 
AVhat  cause  for  jadgmct*t  ^i  Taal!;^  1 

A  brief  reflection  «o'  tery ; 

For  Froude  thinks  Kin  ite. 

And  King-^ley  goei  tu  ^  i  ^  r  history.* 

If  the  above  be  the  epigram  inqulr  1  dr  '  r-  o  hawoill|  ' 
to  add  that  of  the  uuthurahip  notliin  ■  lurtlier  i«  knowi^^ 
vre  believe,  than  that  it  ia  of  Cambridge. 

Stkpuakus.— If  you  will  turn  to  Murray^a  JIandhd6k\ 
for  Ktnt  and  Sussex,  p.  205,  you  will  find  yoar  qoefjf  1 
thus  answered  : — *'  On  the  base  of  the  second  YiilMlM^  i 
N.  side  of  choir"  (in  the  ancient  church,  Mlfitler«  J 
Isle  of  Thanet),  **a  scratched,  in  lettora  of  early  (orm.  I 
'  EKscmt  qui  nescit  quod  Naihui  hie  requie^cu/  A] 
leaden  coffin  wa«  difecor  ^  ^  -  ^^j  in  the  ooufw 
of  iho  restorations,  po-  the  renmiua  of 

the  person  thuR  unflntt  rated." 

R.  P,— The  reference*  which  you  ^ek  are  prolNlUy 
famished  in  the  following  nucieTit  lines  : — 

"  Bemardus  vallfis,  oolles  Benediatus  amabat^ 
Oppida  FrandsGUi*  umgnai  I^atius  urbes." 
VT,  A.  C— There  is  no  pn-oof  that  8t,   Patrick  was  a 
Somersetshire  man,  and  little  probability  Uint  ho  wai 
an  Irishman.    The  question  of  his  birth[ilace  is  a  pcratti 
qwtio. 

W.  E.  thanks  our  correspondents  for  the  informftlim 
supplied  on  pp.  53,  54. 

J.  W.  B.— It  is  from  Plautiu,  *'  Homo  trium  Hterisntin  ** 
=^**  Fur/'  a  thief. 

Mii>nLK   TEttPLAiL. — The  allu&ion  woi^  dcnibtleM^  tij 
you  have  stated. 

H.  B.  P.— Th?  authorship  haa  not  been  dbpatcd  tel 
**  N.  k  Q. ' 

C.  O.  D,— Consult  the  life  of  the  Boiiitor  any  book  ot\ 
folk-lore. 

X.  should  state  the  case  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury. 

Editorial  Communications  should  bo  addrofled  to  ' 
Editor ''—Advertisements  and  Bu$<ine3s  Letters  to ''lli»  I 
Publialier  "'—at  the  Office,  2ti,  Wellington  Street^  Utmig  I 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  thttt  we  decline  to  return  cwd* 
municotiODS  which,  for  any  itu^or).  \\*.  i\o  not  print ;  «lld 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  ^ 

To  all  commUTiicatione  shoi  I  the  name  und 

addreea  of  the  tender,  notnecvr^iii  i.>  i.r  pnhlioitioii,  but 
M  ft  goarantee  of  good  ftiith. 


M^^diA 


E  *tt«.  8, 74] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


101 


r,  SAVmtOAT,  AUGUST  %  m4, 

CONTENTS.  — N*  32. 

-On  th»  l>«rfvfttloD  of  tbe  PTcnch  Word  Vtux,  101— 
A  Wotk  of  iiiM  B4U«nt7U«  Prcu,  102— Stiakn>ntrittnA, 
lairtA^  CiMii|»(B«ri  mod  PredeeeMom  — *'Keljitl*>n  of 
\f'  ifii—Worktof  EdpiT  Altftn  P«>e~**Mrw;l. '  105— 

il  aii«lley— Pftnl]«l  PM»s«m-PjiltadromQ 
rboiuM  FuUw— "Tb»  Piokwlok  PApera," 

Tb«  t^c  of  I>r,  Meftd's  Pictaroa  ia  U5i, 

h— SkAlIaf  Llt^ntnre,  TOT  »  Dr.  Tlidi.  Be«7e't 
k»  DfTOtlont ;  or,  m  CoUoctioia  of  Prmjfwre  *"— **  The 
aifCvftd*'— Wyftt,  WjaU,  umI  Wood  PMuiUc^  lOS 
aimpliiesl  De«eriptioii«  Wanted  —  Authon  Naihas 
— ;9)p«ftioletto — "Th«  9worcl  wtetttinir  out  tlw  8ci»b- 
IlAjrtiAa  Po«i— Oipfj  MiLirla^e,  109  — Osleauii  — 
toam*  fur  UtUe  R^^dere'  —  J  ChoichlU,  MP-— 
iStflooOBptuiA  -*'  KJd^  Cottl's  Levl^ "—The  Ternpl&n 
W§tHliitn^~*'Mj.  Fl7«  yo  K  info's  Coal  Port«r"  — 
la  AlotspTA,  DT  the  liuoler  Chief  "—LVsiL  Valentine 
i^8«adi»kh  Muidi  — "tiipi7  (^iiflui  "—Domingo 
B,  110. 

It— "KJke  ••  in  Chancer^"  110— "Poverty  p4rt»  good 
7"— A  rurlnua  Ii«Uc  of  Old  C«leuti«,  112— "Th« 
W«ittw5  t>f  *i irUe  "— •*  Thie  Altborpc  Picture  Uillaj  "  : 
,  Ji  ""      ^uet  du   Mayeme^To    Proat— 

B«'  "1  John  Porter— Tlie  Pynderu 

lAt  r.Ji  —  TliQ    Willow    PAttern  — 

9t  i»coii«na— "  Like  '  a*  a  C«DJ  unction—"  Hudl- 
l4-<tfiifle  gr«^lu*M— ZlnsftQ  Street  -"Ttie  litory 
'  Vmm" — 8«li«i  In  "Bokaby"- Kuijfbl  BU»m  : 
~^  "BH— BlAld'LoM  :  Carr,  loi^,  &o  — **lMtaAt«," 
,  tb»  JLrtiii — Inrfltied  Oom  mas  -  Charlaa  I.  an 
IkphfD  Clarke— Rer  ^muel  Hardy.  B.A.,  110 
■>•«  ol  Wi«iiion— Andeot  Ea^llAh  Kpiaooptd  8«6»— 
N-EUaakwth  Caaxtin£.  117. 

Booka*  Ao. 


Iber'ation  of  the  feench  woed 

TEUX, 

SB  IKriOTHJOfT  OF  1^  (OB  Tf)  VDR  THK  PlTltFO^ 
AUD  DIMIfflSBniO  THE  ABBUPTKEBS 

OF  triT«iAirc«. 
If«tta:  ia,  La  one  respect  iit  leiust,  the 
word  ihftt  J  am  acquainted  with. 
we  expect  to  find  nt  Iciist  one 
original  word  fix)m  which  it  is  de- 
^^  'in  i/t'W:^'  there  is  nut  a  nn*jh  kittv  of 
To^H^uj  (from  which  it  is  uni^'ersaJly  ad- 
b  be  derived),  for  the  two  u's  have  nothing 
If  to  do  with  it.  The  successive  steps 
k  me  to  %ave  been  about  the  following : 
peUm^  Qch^  oiU  and  oU^  fxU  and  ah^  eua, 
lit,  jfttUjX  wid  the  €u^  in  some  of  these  ex- 


luotieed  aa  ««  Iti  /f««^  or  i  mjl%^ 
moanocd  m  y  in  j^m. 

I  mti  prufca*  to  give  the  exmct  ie(|aenc«,  bnt  I 

il  tbc   rxrtm|>!cfl   in    tbe   moifc  intelUgiblo 

■  doubt  inlroduced  at 

:  I  iUkWG  BMsiiiued  to  it, 

.      .. .  :      „  oljo  occur;  and  by  the 

ib9  i  the»o  t^wMUo  490  aftd  imt.    The  e  in 

told  iie«iu  to  i«||ifei«tit  a  <»bortenuig  and 

Ittft  ot  {or**)  urrs.  iiphtbouga 

are  a  >ofittiyd  frirm  of  r;. 

^h|m  and  oe/i  1  have  l.  ^nth.     The 

^^K  wUl  he 


IT  (.' 

fW%k 


amplea,  aeenis  to  be  mefelj  another  way  of  ex- 
prei^aing  the  gound  of  oe  or  tr,  just  jis  the  «  in  ctil 
ut  the  present  day  hns  much  the  same  »i)und  hb 
the  ftt  of  yeux,  and  exactly  the  isame  sound  a4  the 
(^ii(  in  fkuiL  The  11  cannot  be  the  n  in  ornio»^  be> 
cause  it  ia  not  found  in  the  oldest  forms  ;§  besides 
which  a  short  Latin  vowel  in  the  position  of  the  u 
in  oruhs  invariably  diKappeara  in  Frent^h  (see 
Brachel's  Gramm,^  2nd  ed.,  p.  121).  Nor  is  the  u 
either  to  be  regarded  as  due  to  the  change  of  the  I 
(a  change  which  I  deny  ever  takes  pbee),  for  an 
accented  Lat.  short  o,  regularly  (or  ivi^iriahhj  as 
Braohet  haji  it,  ifn<L  p.  119,  note  1)  becomes  t^t  in 
Freack  Comp.  feu  from  fdcus^  jeu  from  jiwun, 
lieu  from  Idcta^  in  which  words  there  is  no  medial 
f,  and  no  one  can  say,  therefore,  thnt  the  h  in  tile 
correi^pondiiig  French  words  is  due  to  the  change 
ofaal. 

However,  it  is  not  t^  the  «  of  yeitjn  that  I  wish 
e,si>eciu]Jy  to  direct  attention,  but  to  the  i  or  1/, 
which  has  been  added  in  the  middle  of  oil^  and  at 
the  be>rinning  in  ytux,  and  which  in  the  hrst  case 
diiiiinisshei*  the  hiatus  between  the  m  and  the  M| 
and  in  the  second  gives  a  softMied  sound  to  the  ^u 
by  diminishing  the  abruptness  of  its  utteranccIF 

ThisTifi©  of  t  and  y  is  exceedingly  coninioo,  and 
to  be  found  in  a  great  many  languat?e8,  and  yet  I 
am  not  aware  that  it  hiie  ever  been  remarked  upon. 
It  is  imposgibJe  to  go  into  the  matter  exhaustively 
in  the  pages  of  **  N.  &  Q.,-'  and  I  will  therefore 
content  mj^elf  rather  with  pointing  out  where  the 
examples  may  be  found  Umu  with  giving  umny  of 
them. 

I  do  not  often  find  i  and  y  used  thus  at  the  be- 
ginning of  a  word,  as  in  ycitx.  Still  it  does  occur, 
and  especially  it  would  seem  in  old  French^  fl»  in 
ieri  (==«r*,  ».  *.,  €rat,  was),  ittt  (—eve^aqna),  ierbe 
(=/t«r&«).  Comp.  also  in  Ital.  jeri  (pronounced 
uK,  from  LaU  wri),  and  in  Span,  ytdra  (mf^  Lat, 
kt^iUra),  ycrba^  Lat.  herha^  And  we  might  almost 
comp.  our  y(Mtr{day}  with  the  Lat.  hesUmui, 

In  the  middle  of  words  i  and  y  so  used  are  very 
common  indeed.    In  French,  in  nM  (^m  nut). 


or  LJttr6's  Diet  In  ths  sing,  we  find  oi7,  otl^  al,  vel, 
ntiit  iJid  it  U  eaij  to  tee  how  the  present  Corm  ceU  has 
ariien  out  of  them.  The  u  in  the  la>t  two  fomka  h  not 
either  of  the  «'«  in  ocuium,     (See  text.) 

$  Burguy  my9,  that  oil  (or  oyl)  ia  the  oldest  lorawii 
form* 

II  I  do  not  thiuk  that  this  fifsl  osae  ia  aaarlj  so  com* 
mon  of  occurrence  aa  the  second. 

X  The  buccal  cuirity  or  tube  (a«  Max  MtlUer  cattt  it) 
is  much  narrowed  In  pronouncing:  i  (=e<  in /r^^  ^r  1  in 
pin)  or  y  (u  in  yam),  ikt  the  dernan  of  tl^  <  < 

Drought  into  c1o»c  proiLimity  with  the  paltvi' 
volume  c»f  breath  eiaitted  is  ooniidenihly  Ic^ 
softer  souiid  i«  produced,      Oae  is  thus  v  1 

down,  aa  it  were,  into  the  vowel  (or  conAunu^o . 
the  t  or  y.     The  stream  of  breathy  iastea^i  oi   (.v        ii 
the  w»y  alon^  of  the  tome  Tolamo*  b«T^i\»  ^o\W 
gradunlly  widens  «mt,    liSt  ift\t  atvto  Vte.x^Xv«i\  v^^r  "[^^ 


102 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I5*^B.lI.Acra8,74 


pud  (from  p€dem\fid  (fromfd),  bun  (from  bene), 
and  in  a  great  many  otber  instances.  And  so  in 
Italian  and  Spnuiab,  though  by  no  means  always 
in  the  same  words  as  in  French.  Tliua  the  Fr. 
membre  is  in  Spun*  miimbre^  the  Fr.  mcrh  is  in 
Span*  mierla.  And  bo  again  the  Fr.  flamnic  is  the 
It.  fiammoj  where  the  %  does  not,  in  my  opinion, 
result  from  the  change  of  the  L 

In  English  we  find  this  auxiliary  sound  likewise, 
though  it  ia  commonJy  not  written  at  all,  and  when 
written,  not  as  i  nor  v-  The  sound  occurs  in  mule 
(i=.myoole),  rtfusc  (c£  the  It.  rifitito),  rebuke^  dukt, 
&a,  but  is  not  written.  In  pew  (0*  Fr.  ptn,  mii^ 
or  piiy—hiUj  m  in  Puy-de-Borae,  from  Lat. 
podium),  the  sound  is  e^reased  by  e*  and  so, 
perhaps,  also  in  ntw  fcf.  Germ,  neu),  and  in  few 
(cf.  Swed.  /a»  Dan,  ftm). 

In  French  again  it  is  heard,  hut  not  written,  after 
Ih  when  they  are  mmtiWeSy  and  in  their  place, 
when  they  are  pronounced  like  y.  In  Itai.  the  i 
is  written  ftfter  gL  In  Span.  U,  and  in  Fort,  Ih^ 
are  pronounced  miimy  followed  them.  And  so 
1^  in  Fr.  and  Ital,  as  in  agneaUj  agndlo^  n  in 
Spaa,  as  in  aito  (year),  and  nh  in  Port.,  as  in  anho 
(lamb).  In  Butch  I  find  it,  as  in  nuuic  (^new). 
In  Swed.  it  occurs  also,  especially  after  k\  when 
foUowed  by  soft  voweb,  and  in  Irish  it  is  much 
heard  (though  as  in  Swed,  not  written)  after  con- 
sonants  followed  by  soft  vowels.  In  German, 
which  is  a  rohnster  language,  it  scarcely  seems  to 
occur,  though  I  seem  to  detect  a  little  of  the  sound 
in  ah  soft,  as  in  mikh^  ich.  But  what  need  to 
multiply  examples?  This  t  or  y  isj  donbtless»  to  be 
seen  or  heard  in  nearly  all  languages. 

F,  Chaxce, 

Sydenham  Hitl. 


THE  FIRST  WORK   OF   THE   BALLANTYKB 
PRESS. 

The  Minitrdty  oftht  f?cottuh  Border  is,  upon  the 
authority  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  universally  believed 
to  be  the  first  work  which  issued  from  the  famous 
Ballantyne  press,  and,  as  far  as  the  general  public 
is  concerned  J  there  can  be  no  question  that  this 
belief  is  founded  on  fiact.  But  the  readers  of 
Lockhart*s  Life  of  Scott  must  have  observed  that 
a  volume  printed  for  private  circulation  by  James 
BaUantyne  preceded  the  M%n$tr&Uy  by  three  yeais. 
At  p.  316  (first  edition),  Mr.  Lockhart  relates  a 
conversation  which  took  place  in  December,  1799, 
between  Scott  and  Ballantyne  relative  to  the 
latter's  trying  to  get  some  bookseller's  work. 
Ballantyne  said — 

'*  That  Buch  an  idea  had  not  occurred  to  him  ;  that  he 
had  no  acqiuietonce  with  the  Edinbiii^h  *  trnde ' ;  but, 

*  In  ItaL  aad  Spaa.  %  is  tometiines  uaed  with  the 
Mine  view  of  eoftenlng  and  preparing  the  way,  M  €.g,, 


if  he  had,  his  types  were  gtKxl,  and  he  thotight  he  couH 
afford  to  work  more  cheaply  than  town  printers.'* 

Scott,  with  his  good-humoured  smile,  said — 

''You  had  better  try  what  you  can  do.  You  harr 
been  praising  my  little  ballads  ;  suppoic  you  print  off  a 
dozen  copies  or  80  of  as  many  ae  will  make  a  punphlcli 
fiufficient  to  let  m?  Edinburgh  acquahitanoeB  judge  eir 
my  ekitl  for  tliemBeiTeB.'* 

Ballantyne  assented  ;  and,  I  believe,  exactly 
twelve  copies  of  *'  William  and  Helen,"  "  The  Fire 
King,-'  "  The  Chase,**  and  a  few  more  of  these 
pieces,  were  thrown  otf  accordingly,  with  the  Utk 
(idluding  to  the  long  delay  of  Lewis's  colloction)  of 
Apohgy  for  TaUi  of  ToTor,  1799.  Tl.T^  ^r^ 
snecimen    of   a    press    afterwards   so  <\ 

plea.'iied  Scott,  and  then  follows  the  pi  ^  i  jf 
the  MinsirtUy. 

As  the  Apology  is,  perhaps,  one  of  the  nir«t 
works  of  a  celebrated  author,  and  more  e^p«ciall| 
as  Lockhart  does  not  seem  to  have  seen  a  copf 
himself,  a  brief  description  of  the  volume  Tnay  W 
of  some  interest  to  your  readers.  In  the  first 
place^  then,  it  is  something  more  than  a  *^  pam- 
phlet,'' being  a  quarto  volume  of  6C»  pp.,  ftsd 
bound  (at  least  my  copy  is  so)  in  strong  boards^ 
the  name  **  Poems "  being  stamped  on  the  baclL 
The  title-page  is  as  follows  : — 

•♦  An  Apology  for  Talei  of  Terror.    '  A  thing  of  shreds 
and  patchea.'— Z/atn/eC     Kelio:    Printed  at  the 
Office.   179a;' 

It  will  be  remarked  that,  in  the  convcr 
with  Ballantyne  above  quoted^  Scott  wishes 
eopie;^  of  hin  own  ballads,  and  in  the  Lift^  p,  3tfl 
Lockhart  speaks  of  the  Apohgij  as  Scott's  *'  oi 
little  volume." 

Of  the  six  ballads  which  compose  the  book,  ] 
ever,  only  three—" The  Erl-King,"  "The  Cb 
and  "  William  and  Helen  "—are  to  be  found 
Scott's  works.  The  other  three  are  "  The  WaU 
King:  a  Danish  BallAd"  (qut^n^  who  is  tb 
author?),  " Lord  William,'' and  "Poor  Mar}%  I  _ 
Maid  of  the  Inn."  The  last-named  is  sUted  to  b^ 
by  Mr.  South ey,  but  his  authorship  of  "  Lord 
William  "  is  not  acknowledged,  and  the  others  t 
likewise  printed  without  the  name  of  the  writci 
"  Lord  William,"  and,  I  presume,  also  **  Po 
Mary,'*  were  written  for  Lewis's  Takjn  of  W\ 
and,  as  that  work  was  not  published  till  18()1| 
ballads  nmst  have  made  their  first  app 
the  Apology,  Scott's  **  Fire-King '*  is  no 
tained  in  the  volume.  It  would  be  intertsti 
know  the  reason  why  Scott  departed  from 
intention,  and  included  in  the  Apolo 
ballads  than  bis  own.  Perhans  it 
modesty,  which  was  not  the  least  pr>c»minent 
characteristic  of  the  author  of  WaverUy,  The 
translations  from  Burger  ftppear  in  the  Apoto^  in 
their  original  form,  t.£,,  with  all  the  false  rh^inta 
and  Scotticisms  pointed  out  by  Lewis,  and  1 
were  corrected  before  the  baUads  were  pric 


'ondt^ 


>logy  I 
was 


I 

) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


103 


tius  TaU*  cf  Wondsr,  It  only  remaina  to  be 
added  that*  as  a  specimen  of  typogmphy,  the 
Apohf^  is  worthy  of  idl  the  praise  bestowed  upon 
it  W.  B.  Cook, 

K«l«o. 

SHAK8PEARUNA. 
8&AK5PKARE'fi  Name  (5**»  S.  11.  2»)— I  thiok  tliSt 
"wc  amy  go  too  far  in  giving  to  every  name  the 
derivation  that  sseeins  most  natural.  WnghomT 
for  instance^  may  be  derived  from  Wigorn,  and 
Shukspeare,  like  **  Fewtarspeare,"  from  some  Nor- 
mAn  name  denoting  a  very  diflerent  origin  to  thj^t 
we  diotild  accord  it  in  English.  I  do  not  at  all 
disigree  with  Mr.  BARDSLBir^a  not^,  but  insist  on 
exoeptioDs.  Many  also  who  acquired  these  nick- 
name Kiimaines  were  not  only  servants,  but  the 
^ns  and  kinsmen  of  feudal  lords  ;  and  whatever 
the  oricin  of  Shakspeare's  name,  as  quite  as  pro- 
IkiKJc  ris  lt^  niiLriri  would  be  the  supposition  that 
the  first  who  bore  it  was  kinsman  to  some  feudal 
Jotd.  Men  of  Shakapeare's  appearance,  in  the  days 
of  onr  more  nncoutn  ancestors  and  **  wdd  Irish- 
men,''  did  not  usually  apring  from  a  mediteval 
Tuiduum,  True,  his  mother  was  an  Arden  ;  bat 
'la  specimens  of  rarious  animals  one  may  study 
in  these  better  days  (when  all  cbisses  are 
mixed),  I  do  not  think  the  coarse  grain 
be  very  greatly  improved  by  only  one 
:nt ;  at  all  eYenta,  Dot  bo  much  as  to  tarn  the 
brutal-looking  features  of  the  agricultund 
of  Elizabeth's  day  mto  the  retined  and 
fMitnres  of  a  Shakspeare.  Btill,  it  must  be 
1  that  long  before  Shakspeare's  time 
the  '3  (even  younger  sons  occjisionally) 

qf  feuajii  ionis  took  to  agriculture,  as  husbandmen, 
and  nuUTied  those  whose  origin  was  serfish,  so  that 
be  inferred  the  mixture  of  cla^^es  was  very 
lerable  in  Elizabeth's  time,  and  the   lower 
h  11  net     was     not     the     gross,     brutaJ,    or 
animal  of,  say,  King  John's  time. 
-L\,  however,  whatever  the  origin  of 
^ajik:«|xi*are*s  name,  I  decidedly  believe,  with  many 
'Ttu  --   that  two  or  three  hundred  years  before  his 
iiaJe  ancestors  were  more  likely  to  be  of 
iQ  of  villain  blood. 

:irlopi  the  Darwinian  belief,  animals  in 

'  t  are  much  the  same,  whether  biped  or 

-  d  ;    and  every  one  knows  that  when  an 

'         M    iiitJiider  beats  the  whole  field  in  a  race,  it 

I  id,  on  one  side  or  another  (usually 

I,  that,  however  far  back,  he  comes 

'^1  K:k.*^     But  the  accomplishments  of 

ijt  those  of  the  man.    Nevertheless, 

r^r-    -T*..,.  _t^|j^  development  uf  the 

l^e  race  is  animal  or  in- 

"'•"l*>rs  habits  conducive 

I  feet  forma  of  head, 

. .  i  __..,_  .  _  the  tine-bred  tapering 

ttaa  or  boiw*    A  gitM  deal  more  might  be  said 


on  these  matters,  for  either  horse  or  man  may  have 
(however  well-bred  the  dam)  quite  a  yokel-bred 
issue,  and  these  again  a  really  tine  breed,  becauaa 
some  "strain"  or  other,  imported,  perhaps,  in  re- 
mote times,  occasionally  "  crops  up/'  On  all  these 
grounds  (and  I  could  prove  that  there  is  nothing 
invidious  in  themX  I  say  Shakspeare  s  appearance 
points  to  a  far  better  origin  than  that  which  the 
bias  and  vanity  of  not  a  few  would  assign  to  him. 

X.  Y.  Z. 

WagstajT  and  Waghorn  are  without  doubt  local 
surnames.  Staff  is  from  nUd^  a  place,  Conf. 
Envestatf,  BickerstafT.  Horn  is  a  winding  stream. 
E.  S.  Charkoce. 

Oray'f  Inn. 

Is   Shakspeare   Right?  (5**^S,  i.  485.)— It 
appears  to  me  that  Shakspeare  is  right ;  tluit  the 
meaning  of  the  lines  in  question  is  easily  under- 
stood, and  the  grammar  correct.     The  lines  are^ — 
•*  OtHc,  How  i«'t,  Laertes? 
Latrie$.  Why,  ew  a  wcHxIcock  to  •  mine  own  ffpringc^ 
0»Hc; 
I  am  justly  killed  with  mine  own  treaehei7.^' 

//amlfe,  V.  2. 

First,  as  to  the  grammar  in  ^*  How  is  't,  Laertes  1" 
"  with  you  ''  is  omitted  ;  the  complete  expression 
would  be,  **Howi8't  with  you,  Laertes?"  Osric 
says  this,  and  Laertes  answers,  "It  is  with  me  (in 
relation)  to  my  own  springe  or  treachery,  as  it  is 
with  a  woodcock  (in  relation)  to  his  own  springe." 

Now  as  to  the  meaning :  a  woodcock  is  trained 
to  decoy  other  birds  into  a  springe;  first,  the 
fowler  places  him  just  outside  the  springe  ;  then, 
while  strutting  about  Just  outside  the  springe,  aEu 
calling,  and  by  various  arts  alluring  other  birds,  the 
woodcock  incautiously  places  liis  foot  in  or  on  the 
springe,  and  so  is  caught.  The  sprinfje  is  termed 
tlae  woodcock's  "  own "  springe,  not  because  tlie 
woodcock  contrived  it,  as  Zoilus  jocularly  suggests, 
bvit  because  be  standi  in  a  certain  relation  to  it, 
i. «.,  stmts  round  it,  with  the  view  of  decoying 
other  birds  into  it.  The  comparison  seems  to  me 
perfect :  the  woodcock  is  treacherous  towards  other 
birds,  and  is  caught  himself ;  Laertes  is  treacherous 
towards  Hamlet,  and  is  caught  himself. 

F.  J.  V. 

"Favoub"  (5«*  S.  ii,  64,)— "Favour"  is  still 
used  in  its  old  sense  in  Lancashire,  though  pro- 
nounced favvoT,  Thus,  when  a  son  resembles  his 
father  in  look,  or  gesture,  it  wiU  be  said,  "He 
favvors  his  father/'  "  Hard-favoured  "  and  '*  well- 
favoured  "  are  expressions  common  enough  in  the 
North  of  England*  Th^  cattle  in  Pharaohs  dream 
were  **  well-favoared  "  and  **  ill-favoured." 

E.  L.  Blknkinsopp. 

This  word  is  in  common  use  here  as  an  expres- 


•  The  qonf to  of  1676  r«»d»  '*  In  **  for  "  to/'  but  "  to 
teems  to  me,  at  least,  far  {ireferabk. 


104 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEa 


[{/'  S.  U.  A'ja,  ^,  *7k 


aion  of  wQiilitudo  between  parent  and  child ;  thus^ 
"She  fjivnura  the  father,"  and  "He  favours  the 
Doiherv'  ure  accepted  a»  meaning  a  reisembLancc 
"id  features,  F.  D. 

^olbitighnoL 

**  Lovers  Labour  's  Lost*'  (5«» S,  I  36S ;  iL  3.)— 
I  am  obliged  to  Jabbz  for  unswermg  my  query ^ 
but  he  IS  surely  wrong  in  attributing  to  Queen 

? Elizabeth  the  mention  of  "the  queue"  in  a  letter 
written  in  1604,  when  Elimbeth  Wiis  Ln  her  grave. 
There  can  be  no  quest  ion  of  an  error  in  the 
endorsement,   for    the    nobleman    to   whom    the 

lietter  was  addressed  was  only  oreiiied  Viscount 
in  August,  16()4.  Speriekd. 

[Jabes  iLcknowletlgf  8  the  error,  and  eintes  thut  Anne 
of  I)«fiitiArk,  wife  of  Jdmes  L,  was  the  Queen  to  whom 
referoQce  was  made.] 

"  Who  wrote  Shakspere  ? " — In  the  article  so 
entitled,  in  Fraser's  Magaxine  for  August,  1874, 1 
find  this  assertion  : — 

^Mr.  HalUwelt  obserres:  '  It  i§  remarkable  that  con- 
temporary writera  refer  to  them  (the  SonntU)  much 
ofiener  than  to  the  plaje/*' 

Knowing  that  "contemporary  writers,"  with  the 

^  single  exception  of  Meres,  do  not  refer  at  all  to 

3hakespeare'8  SotineU^  I  turned  with  aome  curiosity 

\to    Mr.   HaUi well's    Life  of  Shakespeare^    1848^ 

pp,  158-9,  which  is  the  foot-reference  in  Fra$er, 

found  there  the  sentence  quoted  in  Frtistr^  with 

jthe  exception  of  the  parenthesis  ;  and  in  Halliwell, 

the    prononn    "them"    refers    to    Shakespeare's 

j!Fwm«   {Vcnu»  and  Adonis,   and    The  Hope   of 

i^tcrect^f  which  are,  in  fact,  the  topic  of  this  and 

I  the  preceding  sentence. 

Seeing  that  this  sentence  is  employed  by  the 
writer  in  FroMer  to  discredit  the  poems  and  plays 
ISA  the  work  of  Shakespeare,  by  showing  that  the 
~^onntts  are  referred  to  by  Shakespeare^a  contem- 
aries  much  oftener  than  the  plays  (nothinff  in 
Ihia  place  beine  said  of  the  poems),  I  think  it  but 
fiiir  to  expose  tms  extraordinary  mist^ike, 

I  note  also  that  the   actual  assertion  in  Mr, 

HalliweU's   Life  of  Shakespeare  is  not    correct. 

-^hakespeare^s  contemporaries  mention  or  refer  to 

^liia  plays  much  more  frequently  than  to  his  poems. 

Jabez. 


BtJmfAN'B  COMPEERS  AND  PREDECB8S0EB. 

Doutscli,  on  the  Talmud,  says  :— 
*' Wt  (tltall  deroie  the  brief  fpace  that  remidni  to  this 
^  f^tt<l  for  a  E«iierai  picture  of  H  we  Bball  refer 

^  ,  wlio^  fpeakiog  of  his  oirn  book,  which — 

L  Jul,.,,  m^tttndu — is  Tery  Haggadistk,  nnknowinglr 
l4eseritMS  tlie  HagfmdaiK  as  accurately  m  can  be.' — 
^L%f4ntr^  Remaitu  ofSmanuel  DeuUck,  p.  47. 

euts^ch  then  gives  the  poetiy  of  Bunyan  prefiitory 
rifi  his  Ptlgrim'8  Frogrm,^  explanatory  of  the 
contenu  of  the  Bmggadah  to  be  found  in  tiie  work 


-41 


of  Bunyan.    Bunsen,  in  his  second  vork  on 
polytus,  comptires   the  authf-      ^*  **  ■    "  ?t»f 
HtrmAU  to  Bunyan  and  his  J  ^^^ 

In  the  use  of  allegory  the . . .sity  be- 
tween The  Pastor  of  Bciinas  and  Thf  PUftiiA't 
Progress  ;  and  there  may  be btl wif >n  thf  Ha»jgad£kk 
and  The  PilgHm'^  Pro^ts^ .  'r.  Deut*ch, 
such  an  authority  on  the  T".  ,  tnuse  be* 
tween  them.     There  are  but  it  lt,  ac- 

quainted with  the  JJoffgadah  or  '1'"  UoaitD 

compares  The  Sh^jih^ird  of  JJcrmoi  w  tlie  trilogy 
of  Dante  as  well  as  The  Pilgrim'jt  Progftm  «f 
Bunyan.  He  appears  to  put  on  an  equality  «f 
meJit  the  three  authors  and  their  works^  It  may 
be  asked  whether  Bunyan  could  have  bean  ae- 
quaioted  with  Eaggadah  or  Talnmd,  Shfphird  «/ 
Jlermas  or  Dante  and  his  p>oem,  or  '  *  ,  wiiijdi 
appears  most  probable,  he  only  v  une  «o 

the  same  subject,  as  all  write,  \'^  nowx]^ 

or  following  in  the  footsteps  of  e:u 

The  judgments  of  celebrated  wi  i 
of  others  hiive  been  recently  givr 
that,  but  variations  of  their  own  op: 
ent  times  on  the  same  auihoni  and 
po7<itionB. 

IreDtf^uB,  against  heroaiea,  at  one  time  qaots 
Bermas  with  approbatiaD,  when  he  siip|>orU  hi» 
views,  and  on  another  occasion  condenuia  him  oitd 
his  works,  when  contrary  to  him. 

Tertullian,  on  prayer,  aasunkcs  the  Soiipiiiiif 
dignity  of  the  book  called  TJt^  Sh^tsrd  o/ Si rmm; 
yet  in  another,  De  FndicUia^  when  the  taxi  if 
against  him,  he  treats  the  same  work  as  impose 
apocryphal,  and  scouted  by  all  the  churobea. 

It  is  curious  after  ao  many  ages  Buaaen  alia 
follow  the  eame  course  as  his  predeocacon  ui  1 
criticism  of  the  same  work.     BunsoD,  itt  liia  I 
book  on  Hippi^ljtus,  says  J7i^  Sh^v^"""^  ^^  Rm 
is  an  absurd  composition  ;  and  oi>  ttcaoi 

book   on   Hippolytus,  he   says    1 1  i^ 

shepherd  is  equal  to  Dante  and  ii 
yan  and  liis  PiUftim^s  Progtina. 
Ilerfnas  seems  to  have  been  a  niii 
in  the  first  ages  of  Christianity.     . 
was  used  by  the  earliest  churcheti  u^  «a  tic 
elementary  instruction. — E,  II. y  b.  in.  ch.  iiL 

And  not  only  this  may  be  said  to  be  the  ph 
of  Bimyan^s  Pilgrim's  Pro*;r«w,  but  it   may 
said  to  have  kept  it  in  popular  e&timatic 
Pa4tor  of  Hrrtfui^f  from  being  bound  uji  ' 
New  Testament,  accounted  Scripture,  and 
churche&f   fell  into   entire   di&iise.     Lately,   6001 
three  tiunslations  of  it  into  F    •'    '     .1.  —  tnay  [ 
thought  to  be  a  revival  of  int^  ur* 

V. .  J,  i^incn*  I 


**Bblatioji  or  England." — A  H«la 
this  title  wna  written  about  a.d»  15iX),  by  a«^ 
Venetian  in  the  suite  of  the  Ambttiavdc^ 
Venice  to  the  Court  of  England,    A  tnin» 


tP^  H.  II.  Av9. 6, 7iO 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


105 


of  thfff  ruHous  docrtment,  "wiUi  the  teit  at  fool,  waa 
pijl  tW  Cumitcu  Society  iu  18^17.     It  is 

r^r  iQ^%  atid  writleii  hj  a  man  of  good 

if  I  uou.    Amongst  many  interesting 

m:i  one  qiieation  that  perhapi:;  *oiae 

fmuf  r  Ml  .>.  tv  Q/'  ciin  settle^  viz.,  that  Julius 
Caasor  set?  the  three  sides  of  Eogland  at  %iH)(t 
i«ik«»  wliilKt  Bede  makes  it  3,000,  Who  m  right } 
The  rivf-rn  ahound,  he  says,  in  every  species  of 
Xian  fiih^  "  except  cjirp,  t^nch,  and  perct "  ("  ma 
^per<\  carponi^  o  temoh,  no  peradci").  As  to  the 
n,  it  ^*em9  there  is  a  disitich  in  Bakers  Oiro- 


iitd<.'— 


'  Hop*  and  torke^e^  carps  and  hew, 
"      "  1  a  year/* 


Came  into  England  all  in 

Now  Ron*lelet  (born  1507)  fiays  of  the  perch  tbut 
it  ahouociK  more  in  the  Po  and  in  Ent^land  than 
anjwh^'TV  else.  It  is  stranjie  thiit  before  the  middle 
of  the  century  it  should  have  been  abandaiit  if 
anknnwTi  at  the  commencement.  Leonard  Mascal, 
or  ^  of  Sussex^  is  said  to  have  introduced 

tht  It  1514. 

<  H  we  had  abuDdance  of  tceea,   but 

ntl  ^  nor  fir, 

\  luei,  loo  J  were  cultivated  ;  and  Bede  me  nt  ions 
fiiiejania.  The  Vale  of  Glouccater  waa  very 
favourable  to  the  vine,  and  Rkhard  II.  made  wiue 
in  ihi*  little  park,  Windsor.  It  is  anppoBed  that 
when  the  Enjrligh  had  po^nedsion  of  Uaacony  the 
choapn»*&.%  of  wine  thenoe  imported  destroyed  the 
home  manufacture ;  but  I  have  read  that  the 
cutting  down  of  the  forests  so  changed  the  climate 

i  t\n-  vliiA  would  no  longer  thrive.  Diaatforest- 
atly  the  tempemtnre  ol  a  district. 

1  u  makes  a  oarjooa  remark  tliait  the 

homn  oi  Enjjliah  oxen  are  mtich  larger  than  the 
Italian^,  which  proves  the  mildness  of  the  cbnuite, 
av  homa  iril]  not  bear  esoowive  cold  (**  impero  che 
il  rnmo  dA  toUera  freddo  ecoeasivo^). 

'f  tjiany  more  points  to  whidi  attention 

m..  a  if  any  of  tfie«e  lead  to  the  eetabli^- 

mwit  uf  fucL5  touching  any  of  them.  The  ftimple 
obaervationa  of  keen  observers  are  more  pregnant 


\h<  of  half  the  phikMOphers ;   and 

theae  jh  of  the  Camden  Society  have 

nr vr  -  '"  I  iinnk,  duly  searched  for  the  marrow 

tli  They   teem   with  facts  physical^ 

M>  I  political ;   and  if  a  man  could  bring 

•D  V  a^  that  of  lyjrd  Baoon  or  Btifibn  to 

ht-^.  .,  ,,  iiiii),  marshalling  all  that  is  of  vnlue  in 
them  into  nne  book^  I,  for  one,  fchould  value  the 
work  afl  of  hi/ln  r  price  by  fiir  than  all  the  aemi- 
Uiiiflricnl,  r-ophical    diaquititions    of 

Bume  «  «o-c: I  h  rj^  of  England. 

C.  A.  Ward. 
Jl«yfair. 

W<mK8  or  ElMiAn   Amjin   Pok. — Mr.   John 
Camdes  Hotl«n  npem  Um>  ''Preliminary''  to  bk 
(1&72)  with  the  alittAaient  that  "^  the  pre- 


sent edition  is  more  complete  than  any  yet  pub- 
lislied  in  i\m  country."  It  may  be  worth  while 
to  inform  English  readers  that  thia  edition  is, 
nev^rtheleas,  far  from  compkte.  In  fact,  no  com- 
plete oolbction  of  Poe'6  writings  has  yet  beon 
published  even  in  America,  IVIr.  Hot  ten's  edition 
wants  at  hsaat  one-half  of  the  matter  contained  in 
the  editions  of  lledfield  and  Widdleton  (New 
York),  which  contain,  I  believe,  all  of  l*of^^^ 
known  \x  rit  Jn,rM  excepting  hi*<  two  series  of  papers 
on  **.A  V  and  Onrp^ograpliy "  (publiKhod 

m  Gnt/  .:\"jaxim^  1841),  and  perhaps  some 

in  tnor  reviews,  Mr,  Hotten,  probably,  means  to 
clamr  thivt  his  edition  contains  more  of  Foe*a 
writings  (a  thing  cannot  be  either  taore  or  Uu 
tovitpUiU)  than  any  edition  previously  published  in 
EnjLilacd  (or  Bnt^iin) ;  and  this  claim  may  be  fully 
jiiMtifjod  by  the  facts.  But  he  follows  this  with  a 
sUitcment  that  is  not  thus  justifiable.  Thia  edi- 
tion, he  8jiy«*,  **  gives  the  whol€  of  the  poema  and 
storiefi  which  have  been  left  us  by  this  fine  genius,'* 
&c.  This  statement  is  so  far  from  true,  that  there 
are  jii«t  nineteen  ritories  contained  in  tlie  Amerioan 
editions  which  are  not  contained  in  Mr,  Hotten'c. 
Among  them  are,  the  **  Narrative  of  Arthur  Gor- 
don PyTii»''  which  is  by  far  the  most  lengthy  of 
Poes  tales,  and,  in  some  respectij,  tlie  iinmt  re- 
markable ;  and  "  The  Fall  of  the  House  of  Udher/' 
which  has  been  pointed  out  by  each  of  his  three 
literary  bio^rriiphen?  in  this  country  (U.S*A.)  as 
the  most  characteristic  production  of  Foe's  peculiar 
geni««,  and  the  l>efit  example  of  his  kighest  poweia 
in  the  department  of  prose. 

I  will  only  add  tbiit  of  this  author's  essays  and 
criticisraf!  Sir.  Hotten's  edition  contains  but  a 
fragment,  and  that  the  one  essay  which  has  called 
forth  the  most  unqualified  praise  of  his  critics, 
viz.,  '*  Eureka,'*  is  omitted.  G.  L,  H. 

Qrecnville,  AI&. 

"Streel.^- — There  is  one  word  in  common  mse 
in  Ireland  I  do  not  find  noticed  in  **  N.  &  Q./'  t,  c,, 
the  word  stre^h  It  is  not  in  Webster  nor  in  the 
Slang  LHttkynary^  although  its  derivation,  per- 
haps, from  the  Latin  itratumy  or  the  same  root  ti» 
the  English  ttntc^  may  be  pkin  enough.  It  *igni- 
Hqh  generally  to  ilrag  along  the  ground  in  a  care- 
less manner,  as  the  following  quotations  of  Dublin 
slang  will  ^bow  : — 

*'  Bg  fft reeled  hia  coat  all  over  the  Mti  but  conld  fOt 
no  one  to  trend  on  it.** 

"  She  it  a  dirty  athreel  f\.  e^  c»releBi  ia  h«r  diMi)/' 

"  Ue  Atreeled  me  up  the  CrM^mbe  and  up  and  down 
Francis  Street  till  I  tbougbt  1  d  dfarop  in  my  aUnnin.*' 

"bet  af  go  out  and  take  &  itrecl  (it  ttrotl?)  up  uidt 
djjwn  the  qtmy/' 

''  And  she  went  along  streeling  her  dirty  gowod  In  the 
gutter  behind  her.'* 

It  appe:ir%  to  be  a  very  expreeaive  word,* 

H.  U. 


•  Kbhlar  givct  the  wotd  \n  \iaa  GtrmiMb  bvdM«a.vn|* 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5**    .IL  Ac.i.  15,71- 


Blood.— The  want  of  preciMon  m  aonie  popular 
Ideas  ifl  often  very  perplexing.  I  refer  chiefly  to 
the  pride  of  birth.  Id  India,  there  is  a  strong  pre- 
jtidioe  againat  the  otispring  of  a  European  father 
and  a  HindusUmi  m  other,  or,  as  they  are  called, 
EiMn»ian8.  There  fieems  to  be  no  really  sound 
ethnological  reason^  however,  for  thi»  objection, 
and  the  Eurasian  ia  generally  proud  of  his 
paternal  origin.  In  England,  on  the  contrary, 
feuraaians^  especially  of  the  gentler  sex,  are  often 
very  much  admired.  One  of  the  most  Highland 
of  all  Highlanders  I  ever  met  was  a  mulatto,  the 
legitimate  son  of  an  Aberdeenshire  gentleman  by 
a  negro  mother.  Unfortunately,  be  took  very 
much  after  the  latter,  und,  for  this  accidental  cir- 
cumstance, he  was  unable  to  enforce  his  pretensions 
in  society,  to  be  considered  *'  an  armiger  "  and  re- 
pi^eaentattTe  of  a  good  old  family.  Hts  want  of 
sufficient  means,  however,  may  have  had  a  great 
deal  to  do  with  the  cold  water  thrown  on  his  just 
claims.* 

But  it  does  not  require,  after  all,  a  bond  fide 
Norumn  descent  to  make  some  men  the  **  proudest 
of  tht  proud/'  Some  of  the  most  fastidious  men 
I  have  ever  known  were  not  awure  that  they  had 
no  descent  whatever  beyond  timt  which  is  coromon 
to  all  ;  but  their  hallucination  had  the  good  effect 
of  making  them  courteous  and  honoumble. 

Again,  the  coromon  expression,  *'  aristocratic 
looking,"  is  equally  applicuble  to  occasional 
indiYidualfl  in  all  classes  of  society  where  a(!tual 
want  is  not  found,  and  the  converse  holds  good. 
The  **  indecent  clown  "  is  not  alone  found  in  the 
Helds.  S. 

Balzac  and  Shelley. — The  Clvrutian  World 
obaerves — 

''  In  Balxac's  talis  of  the  Feau  de  Chagrin,  the  possessor 
fmda  hifl  ataukt  sliTtnkingdfty  by  d&y^ond  as  it  contracts 
to  &  span,  BO  hie  life  ehrlitlu  away  in  equal  proportionii." 

If  we  turn  to  Shelley^s  Alastor^  we  find  some- 
thing very  similiur.  The  enthusiast  dies,  gazing  on 
the  moon — 

"  Still  ai  the  dmded  frame 
f>f  the  vast  meteor  sunk,  the  Poet's  blood 
Thut  ever  heat  in  mystic  wirinpatliy 
With  nature's  ebb  antt  tlow  grew  feebler  »tilL 

.....     'till  the  miiiuteai  ray 
Wm  quetich'd^  the  puke  still  lingered  in  his  he&ri" 

There  %b  no  plagiarism.  I  merely  allnde  to  the 
two  writers  to  show  a  similarity  of  ideas.  Shelley's 
conception  is  more  sublime  than  that  of  Balzac ; 
but  we  must  be^r  in  mind  that  one  occurs  in  a 
poem,  the  other  is  found  in  a  prooe  ronuinoe. 

although  he  eTidcntly  does  not  know  the  Irish  meaning 
of  it,  ma  he  tranilates  it  **  str&htea/'  to  beam  or  irmdijite. 
•  There  is  m  curious  sayirt{,'  in  tbe  West  Indies  tliat 
?nu  can  always  detect  bfack  blood  by  ttic  griitle  of  a 
man's  nofe^  ».  e.,  if  he  has  black  ancestry,  the  griffclv 
point  of  the  nose  has  no  division  in  it. 


■Sk 


PaRALLKL  PA88AOSS  (5**^  8.  L  466.)— 
*'  Full  many  a  flower  is  bom  lo  blnih  unseen, 
And  waste  its  sweetneta  on  the  de«ert  air." 

Compare  Waller's  song,  "  Go,  lovely  Kose,"  in  J 
and  3rd  stanzas: — 

'^Tetl  her  that '«  youn^, 
And  ihuns  to  have  her  graces  spied. 

That  bad'st  thou  tpning 
In  deserts*  where  no  men  abide, 
Thou  mujt  have  uncommend«d  died. 

Smalt  is  the  worth 
Of  beauty  from  the  light  rvtit^d  : 

Bid  her  come  forth ^ 
Suffer  herself  to  be  deetrec^ 
And  not  blush  so  to  be  admired." 

J.  w.  w, 

Palixdromr, — I  have  met  mth  the  foU owing  ' 
one  in  Oamden^s  Rfmainea,     Camden  says*^ — 

'*  I  will  end  with  this  of  Odo,  holding  Master  Df>ctoiir't  ^M 
mule,  and  Aune  with  her  table-cloth*  wliich  aM  the  ^M 
maker  much  foolish  labour^  for  it  is  a  perfect  rcr^e,  and  ^^ 
every  word  is  the  very  same,  both  backward  and  for watd. 
*  Odo  tenet  mulum,  madidam  mappam  tenet  Anna, 
Anna  tenet  mappam  madidam,  mulum  tenet  Odo/  " 

Fredk,  RrLK. 


Dr.  South  and  Thomas  Fullkr,^ — In  one  of^ 
South's  speeches,  as  Terr»*-filiti8,  at  the  Ojffowl 
Comroem oration  of  1657,  he  mentions,  amon pother 
droll  exuLggenitions  of  Fullers  person  and  cha- 
nicter,  that  he  was  once  nn  unsuccessful  eandidnte 
for  a  post  AS  sub-librarian  in  the  gift  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxford  :— *  ^ 

'^Unum  hoc  supereet  notatu  dignam,  quod  super 
Tacante  Inferior  is  Btbliothecarii  loco,  Acudemiie  noetrfe 
tuppHcavit  per  litenu,  ut  6ibi  iltum  conferret :  sed 
neimrit  Academiaj^  nee  ilium  admtait  BibliothecRrinm, 
ob  nunc  rationemi  ne  Bibliothecee  scripta  sua  ingcrerel ! ' 

WTiiit  position  is  here  referred  to,  and  is  the 
petition  extant  ?  One  refuFes  to  believe  that  the 
fnct  was  made  up  by  South.  It  is  noteworthy 
that  Heylyn  twitted  Fuller  for  this  veiy  speech, 
to  whom  the  latter  replied^ — 

*'  For  the  seventeen  years  I  Uved  m  Cftm^nV;^  I 
never  heard  any  Prevaricator  mention  his  jeaior  [South 
was  then  only  twenty-lour  years  old,  Fuller  double  the 
igej  bjf  name:  we  count  such  partfCulaHsmff  betiealh  au 
Untvernty.  ...  I  regret  not  lo  be  Aorile,  for  any  in* 
genioua  Nammtr  to  make  pleasant  mufiick  on;  but  it 
•ecms  my  Traduoer  was  not  so  happy."—  The  App^nl  o/ 
innir«d  It^noemet,  pL  L«  p*  28. 

J.  E.  Bailkt. 

"The  Pickwick  Papers."— During  a  recent 
visit  to  London,  I  remarked  with  snti-*  <^  ^«"t*  tliat 
tablets  have  been  affixed  to  many  n 
ex.  gr.^  Franklin's  house  at  Soutli  i  .  ^^ton, 
Drj'den's  house  in  Gerrard  Street*  Soho*  &c.  Re- 
gtinlinfj  this  as  a  most  pmiseworthy  act,  I  beg  to 
suggest  that  one  of  these  tablets  should  be  put  np 
on  the  wall  of  the  bouse  facing  Woods  Hot^^xl  (the 
nght'hand  entrance},  in  Fumival's  Inn,  Holbom, 


I 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


107 


IQ  jYcord  that  in  thAt  hoti^  Charles  Dickens  wrote 
Th4  Piekmde  Papen,  F.  D.  F, 

Dr.  Watts,— a  great  deal  of  fusg  was  njiwie 
lately  by  tkc  newspApers  bex^use  Dr.  Watts  (the 
bicentenary  of  whose  birth  has  just  been  celebrateil 
at  Southampton),  when  only  nineteen  years  of  age, 
gare  an  impromptu  description  of  the  first  miiaclo 
in  the  following  words  :— 

**  Modc«t  water,  pressed  by  power  dirtne, 
F%w  its  Lord,  and  blushed  itMlf  to  wioA."* 

Si  I  Watts  is  not  to  hare  the  credit  of 

Ui .  si  conceit.    Richard  Crasbaw,  the  poet, 

died  tweoty-four  years  before  Wiitts  was  born* 
Tbc  ktter  knew  Latin  well,  and  it  is  highly  pro- 
bible  he  wivi  iic*iuainted  with  the  Latin  poems  and 
epj^mms  which  the  fonuer  composed  while  resident 
ftl  Cambridge^  and  which,  doubtless,  were  more 
widely  read  during  Watts's  time  than  they  are 
now.  In  this  volume  we  find  a  reference  to  the 
miracle  thus : — 

*'  The  eofifcloua  water  law  lU  Qod  and  blushed.*' 

Wm.  Trant. 

The  SiCK  of  Dr.  Mead's  Pictures  in  1754. 
— The  quarto  sale  catalogue  of  Dr.  Mead's  pictures 
in  1754  is  very  scarce.  In  the  British  Museuui  is 
»  oopy  with  the  prices  marked  in  ink  ;  but  I  have 
ADOtiier  to  which  some  person  jittached,  many 
yeATv  since,  Tfic  Evening  AdveitUcr^  dated,  **  Lon- 
don, from  Thursday f  March  21,  to  Saturday, 
March  23,  1754.''  This  newspaper  was,  in  fact,  a 
penny  paper,  if  we  deduct  the  halfpenny  atamp,  as 
the  price  wa*  three  hidfpuce.  In  it  are  given  the 
following  particulars,  which  are  reprinted  from  the 
anginal  newspaper.  There  is  an  octavo  catalopie 
of  I)r.  Mead's  pictures,  published  in  1755,  but  it 
is  not  a  reprint  of  this  quarto  sale  catalogue  as  the 
pictures  are  placed  in  a  diflerent  order.  The 
former  is  ti  descriptive  eatalo^ue^  Many  of  the 
picture*  have  l>ecn  engraved.  In  the  above-named 
number  of  TA**  Etxntng  AdLHf\rtuer  are  recorded 
h^  death  of  Deistpade,  the  dancing  master,  and 
©enlence  of  **  Elizabeth  Newton,  for  breaking 
I  a  Hou^e,  to  be  uhipC^  Ralph  N.  James. 
bford>  Kent. 

bo  priced  catalogue  is  too  long  for  iosertioti.  We 
fnmj,  hitvifeTitr,  remark,  thai  we  collect  from  Tki  Bveninff 
Advartutr  that  Dr.  Mead's  hundred  and  eixty  pictures 
"  in  three  nighU*  fale  for  ;i.417t  ll#.  The 
ie«  was  realtied  hy  "  An  holy  Pamilj  with  two 
itteiidiag^  and  one  playing  on  »  Harp,  Cariti 
Mff-  V.  ]5#.    Thif  was  the  laat  lot  aold  on  the 

(hi'  lid  aext  hijrhett  price  wai  fetched  bj  *'Sir 

T»3  "-  '^'hmgih,  Rubens,"  U5Ll0g.   The 

W  A  Man'i  Head,  Com.  Jantea, 

I/.  '  went  wan  for  "  Mtt.  Barber  the 

nufi  -iter  Coluui-a,  1/.  9*."     A  thr«e-<]uarterB  of 

I)r.  ^  i.  1  y  KiieU«r,  went  for  2L,  and  Walker'i  Oliver 
CrukAwil,  ^Uxee-quarten,  for  two  guineas  and  a  half.] 


laurrM* 

[We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  infomiatioii 
on  family  matteti  of  only  private  interetti  to  affix  thair 
names  and  addrsssoa  to  their  querieti  in  order  that  lh« 
answan  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct.] 


SKATING  LITERATURE. 

Wilt  those  who  are  able  kindly  help  to  perfett 
the  following  list  I 

I  give  a  tmnacript  of  the  title-page  within 
commas,  followed  by  other  particulars  within 
brackets : — 

"A  Treatise  on  Skating;  founded  on  certain  principW 
deduced  from  many  years'  experience :  by  which  that 
noble  exercise  i«  now  reduced  to  an  art,  and  may  b^ 
taught  and  learned  hy  a  regular  method^  with  both  ease 
and  safety.  The  whole  itJustrated  with  copper  plates,  re- 
presenting the  attitudes  and  graces.  By  R^ohert]  Jones, 
LiGutenaQt  of  Artillery.  .  .  .  London,  printed  for  the 
author :  and  sold  by  J.  Ridley,  in  8t,  Jameses  Street* 

MtHTCLXXII." 

[Svo.,  pp.  xTi  64,  4  plates  and  2  figa.,  2s.  0d.] 

*'  The  Art  of  Skating,  practically  expl«ined«  by  Lieut. 
R.  Jones,  R,A.,  with  revisions  and  additions  br  W.  £. 
Cormock,  Esq.,  with  plates. ....  Loudon :  Bally  Brothers^ 
3,  Royal  Exchange  Buildings." 

("  Boily  Brothers,  printers.**  1855  ?  8vo.  pp,  40,  five 
pUtes.1 

"The  Art  of  Skating  practically  explained.  With 
plates. ....  London  :  Baily  Brothers,  3,  Royal  Exchange 
Buildings.'" 

[**  Baily  Brothers,"  printcri.    On  wrapper,  *'.,..  A. 

H,  Baily  «r  Co 186f).    Price  one  Shilling."    8fo., 

pp.  40^  5  plates.  This  pamphlet  and  the  preceding  one 
are  reprints,  with  slight  alterations,  of  the  1772  pam 
phleL] 

"Garcin  (J.),  Yrai  (le]  patincur,  ou  principes  sor  Tart 
de  patincr  avec  gr&ce,  etc.  Paris,  Delevptnasse ;  Be- 
Iftunay ;  Nercu  do  TAuteur,  181S,  iii-12.     1  fr.  fX)  c." 

This  I  find  as  an  entry  in  torn.  iii.  p.  256,  of 
Quii'mrd  (J.  M.),  La  France  Littemire.  12  totn. 
Paris,  1827-64.     4to.     I  have  not  seen  a  copy. 

"  The  Art  of  Skating,  containing  directions  for  be- 
ginners, learners,  and  good  skaters,  and  explaining  all 
(he  movements  and  figures.  By  a  Skater.  London: 
Basil  Steuart,  139,  Cheapride,  1$32.'* 

[*•  R  White  k  Son.  printers,  25,  New  Street,  Biihops- 
gate.*'  8?©.,  pp.  16.  7  plates.  Plate  1  wa«  ^*  designed 
and  lithographed  by  A-  Gordon,  145,  Btrmnd,"*] 

Who  was  the  author  ? 

**Thc  Art  of  Skating;  with  plain  dipections  for  the 
acquirement  of  the  most  difficult  snd  elegant  moTemenU. 
By  Cyclos,  a  member  of  the  Glasgow  8kattng-Clab, 
Glasgow:  Thomas  Murray  &  Son,  An?yl«  Strsat 
London  :   David  Bogue.      Edinburgh  :   John    Measles. 

MDCCCLir.'* 

[♦'John  Neilson,  printer,  Trongate,"  8to.  pp.  l-riii- 
80.    3  plates  and  a  liihog.] 

A  work  on  skating,  published  at  Belfast,  m 
noted  in  the  preface..    I  have  not  seen  a  copy  of  it. 

"John  CjcIoA,  mitglied  des  SchHttscbuhfahrerClubs 
SQ  Glascow,  die  kunst  des  8chlitt>chuhfarens,  mit 
deutlichen  anweisungvn  rar  erlernung  der  sohwierigsten 
und  grastoiesten  be wegungen.  Z  weite  vermehrte  aalegv* 
Mit  4  erliiutemden  ufehi.  Weimar.  1858,  Verlsg^ 
dnickt  und  litbo/raphie  von  B.  F.  Volf^." 

[Sto..  pp.  tiu-60. 4  |»\a\t%.^ 


m^ 


NOTES  AND  QUEPOES. 


[S*aiLAoo.8,t4.. 


1 


Tho  first  edition  of  thi»  txansktion  I  huvc  not 
seen. 

*'Tbe  Art  of  Skating ;  «ontftining  niAny  ^^ros  noTier 
prcTiouEilj  deeciibed,  with  iUuttmiiontt,  dift^ratnn,  and  ' 
pljiiii  directions  for  the  acquirement  of  the  niojit  difficult 
and  olegiiut  nioTtment«.  By  George  Audeiiaon  ('  Cychjg'), 
for  nuaj  Teikr»  |>r»«ident  of  the  GImrow  Skatiu};  Club. 
Second  edition.  London :  Horace  Cox.  346,  Htmud, 
"W  f^    HUM  " 

["Printed  by  Horace  Cox/*  8to*,  pp.  Trlil*72.  8 
plBt»«id2fig8.} 

^TLe  Art  of  skating;  contttinitig  ttiuij  figures  never 
preTiousl;  Ue^cribci],  with  illufltrations.  diaKrumt^,  &tid 
pMn  direct ioti»  for  the  acquirement  of  the  moet  difficu't 
afld  elegant  mcrrein^nts.  By  George  Anderson  {**  Cyoloi  *') . 
Tice-preiident  of  the  Cryital  P&la«e  Slmttng-Cliib.  Third 
edition.  London:  Horace  Cox,  S46,  Strand,  W.C, 
1873." 

[••Printed  by  Horace  Cox."  8vo.,  pp.  x-Sl  10 
plftteft  and  5  figi.,  3f.  6d,] 

''  T^yeiologie  du  patineur,  oti  definition  complete  dee 
principcs  et  de*  r^-gles  qui  fl*appliquent  A  rez«reiee  da 
patin  pur  un  ancicu  p^tiucur.  Paris.  Bentu,  Libratre* 
Edittiur,  l*alai6  Kuyal,  galerie  d'OrK'atls.  ISfe.  Tons 
droit«  r»a«rT««/ 

f*  Typogr»|>hic,  Monnoyer  Frtrea,  Au  M&ue  ^SartLe).** 
12ino.,'pp.  iT-lld,    6  Utliographs*] 

Who  wfts  the  author  ? 

<' Skates  (The).  ISmo.,  cL  75  cti.  Boston,  Maw. 
aaSoo.,  1864** 

An  entry  in  vol  i.  p.  193  of  Kel!y  (J.),  The 
American  Cat  of  Books  (Jan.,  1861,  to  Jan., 
1871).  2  Tola,  New  York  md  London,  1866-71. 
8vow 

I  hAYG  not  seen  a  copy,  but  suppose  it  to  be  a 
work  reLiting  to  tsknting.  Who  was  the  author, 
and  what  is  the  full  name  of  tbe  **  Moafi,  S.  S. 
Society"! 

"  out.  E.  L.,  Skater's  Mannal.  UeTitea  ed.  ISmo. 
pap.  10  cts,    K.  Y.    A.  Peck  k  Co.,  1S67." 

This  is  another  entry  in  Kelly's  Am,  Cai.,  vol*  il, 
p.  IGL  I  have  neither  seen  this  revised  edition 
nor  tJae  edition  of  ^vbich  it  is  i^  revision. 

**  The  Skater'a  Text-Bnok,  By  Frank  Swift,  champion 
of  America,  ntid  Marvin  R.  Clark,  tbe  noted  akaiing 
critic*     New  York/' 

("  Entered,  according  to  act  of  Coogreii,  in  the  year 
ISflS.  by  Wm,  H.  Biihop  and  Marvin  R,  Clark,  in  the 
clerk's  office  of  the  district  cotirt  of  the  United  States  for 
the  southern  district  of  New  York."  *'  John  A.  iJray  JSi 
Oreen,  printers,  16  aud  IS,  Jacob  Street,  New  York.** 
12ino,,  pp.  ii-ll€.  7  cuts  aud  3S  figs.,  pap.  50  cts.,  cl 
75  eta  1 

"A System  of  Figure-Skating.  Being  the  theory  and 
practice  of  the  art  as  developed  in  EnKluad^  with  a 
ghmcoat  its  origin  and  hintory.  By  H.fenry]  £<[uKene] 
Vanderrell,  and  Tfhomas]  AlaxweinVithsmj  meaihers 
of  the  Ltmdoii  Sktitii»g  Club.  London :  AlacmiJiuii  k  Co  . 
186a  The  right  of  tnmstation  and  reproduction  ia 
reaerrcd/* 

["  London,  IL  Clay,  Sons  k  Taylor,  printers,  Bread 
Stveei  HilL"  Svo.  pp.  xviit-266.  4  double  plates.  Si 
figi.    ^.] 

Thia  la«t  work  ta  sLraply  admirable.  The  Bom- 
mary  (pp.  98-99)  of  the  ei^ht  "  main  |>oints  that  will 
oonstitute  a  first-clas3  skaler,  a»  tTtttl«i  of  "*  in  tbe 


work,  h  probably  worth  more  than  all  that  Una 
previoualy  been  written  on  the  subject — worth 
moret  not  only  to  those  in  their  tyrociny  in  the 
art,  but  to  the  skater  of  many  winters. 

I  had  the  intention  of  transcribing  these  eight 
points,  for  they  are  contained  in  as  many  lines, 
but,  on  commencing,  I  felt  in  anticipation  so  like 
a  thief  that  I  delisted.  There  are  a  few  line* 
which  I  feel  free  to  t range ribe,-- these  ;  mi^  they 
bear  abundant  fruit,  here  or  elsewhere : — 

"  Should  there  be  any  readers  of  this  work  In  possessiaa 
of  any  authentic  information  that  would  tcTui  to  tfirow 
farther  light  upon  the  origin,  and  extend  t  of 

skating,  and  would  like,  ia  the  interests  io 

intruat  it  to  the  nuthors  with  a  view  tt>  i..*  ...,^.  .u>«i. 
should  thia  work  t;Ter  reach  a  second  edition,  they  will 
be  happy  to  receive  it^'  (p.  35). 

Besides  poaseasing  the  SyiteiH  of  ¥>■  '^^ 

the  third  edition  (1973)  of  the  Art  of  aid 

abo  an  American  work — that  of  Swift  iuid  t'Luk, 
if  there  ia  not  a  better  one  with  which  I  am  un- 
acquainted— should  be  read  ;  the  facts  (and  fal- 
lacies) will  then  be  before  the  reader,  and  his 
judgment  may  foUow. 

There  is  a  distinct  class  of  skating  literatnre^ 
the  "Specifications"  relating  to  skating—-"  PuV 
lished  at  the  Great  Seal  Patent  Office,  25,, South- 
ampton BiiildingSj  Holbom,''  which  I  can  only 
thus  refer  tc».  Frxo,  W.  Fo&t&r. 


Dr.   Thos.   Reeve's   "PtrnLiirE  Dwonom; 

OH,  A  Collection  of  Pratees,"  London,  12tiiat 
leSL-'I  should  l>e  glad  to  obtain  from  anv  owner 
of  this  book  one  or  two  particulars  of  it.  It  ia  not 
to  be  found  in  the  public  libraries.  Though  cata- 
logued in  the  British  Museum  Collection,  the  copy 
cannot  now  bs  found.  It  beare,  I  am  iiiformecj, 
an  **  old  Library  "  press-murk,  and  when  the  col» 
lection  wiw  re-marked,  more  than  forty  years  affo* 
it  was  missing.  It  seems  to  be  au  earlier  and 
unnoticed  edition  of  ^*  Pulpit  Sparks:  or,  Chmcc 
Form^  of  Prtwytr^  by  fieveml  lenrued  and  godly 
divines,  used  by  them  both  !»ctuh3  and  after 
Sermon,*  London,  12mo.,  1*^59,  a  copy  of  which  b 
said  to  be  aft  Trinity  College,  Cambridge.  An 
earlier  edition  of  the  same  book  apparently  ia 
found  on  the  regititer^  of  Stationers'  Ilall»  Feb.^ 
16B3-4,^**A  book  containing  y*  or.iyers  of  I>r. 
(lillingham^  Dr.  Reevf^^  Dr,  Holdisworth,  I>r. 
Tailor  (Jcrremy),  Mr.  Goddjird,  Mr.  FuUcr,  Mr. 
Harding,  Mi.  Machines t,  and  other  divines,  uaod 
before  weir  aermonB." 

'*  Tor  On^acn  Revived,''  by  J.  R,  16«3,  l2mo. 
— The  querist  wishes  to  make  a  reference  to  thi* 
scaroe  book^  and  would  begmteful  to  any  |)oasessor 
of  it  who  would  oblige  him.     Jomi  B,  Bails t. 

Stretfbrd,  MaaclMster. 

Wtat,  Wtatt,  akd  Wood  Faitiijks,  —  I 
should  be  glad  to  be  infonned  as  to  the  deccen- 


Us.  ILA0«.8t74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


109 


of  Isiiac  Wjat,  of  Bobbingwortb,  Eas4>x^  who 
led  Elizabeth  Kid|;e,  Mary  Preston,  and  a 
MfA  H»f»v  wbo«e  Daoie  I  do  not  know  ;  of  Edward 
Wv  Hiking,   EaseiLj   who   in:irried    Jane, 

nee*  >  r  :iiid  co-heiress  of  Wilton  Brown, 

of  !  X  ;  of  Edwurd  Wyut,  of  Rcat^ 

wh'*  iiik^  daughter  of  H,  Duigky,  of 

ChiulUai,  \Vurcy«ite.rshire  ;  and  of  Thoraa*  Wyat, 
of  Brivxt4;d,  Esaer,  in  1624^  who  married  Saj&h, 
'  Icr  and  heireas  of  Paid  Ambrose  Vincent^  of 
n,  goldmiiith.  Several  of  the  Wyat  faniily 
have  resided  at  Tillinghaiu,  Essex*  in 
nth  centur}%  Geor^'e  Wyatt,  of  SL 
fs,  Westminster,  son  of  John  Wyatt  by 
wife  Elizabeth  (Browne),  muTied  23rd  July 
^  at  p.  44>9),  1722,  at  St.  Paul\ 
n^  Hannah  Wood,  of  St.  Margaret^ 
but  of  her  family  I  have  gxeaned 
nothing,  nor  do  I  know  where  her  birth,  on  2(itU 
aber^  1703,  toi>k  place,  or  who  her  mother 
I  find  a  Thomas  Wood,  Vestry  Clerk  of  St. 
*»^  Westiuinater,  in  1733. 

REijiNALD  Stewart  Boddinoton, 
15,  M^rkhMn 


hU 


^ptember, 


BiBUooaAPnicAL  desciiptiona  of  tho  following 
woritt  are  r^iuested  :^ 

The  Russian  edition  of  J.  B.  dn  Halde*s  De- 
seriBiion  of  China,  Have  any  editions  of  this 
wodc  been  pobUshed  in  other  languages  besides 
Frenrh,  Entrliisli,  German,  and  Russian  l 

'/e  du  Gouiwrmmrnt  CJiinois^  Paris, 
nne  SilhouettCj  Comptroller  of  the 
LQ  Fmnce  in  17r>9.     Is  this  the  exact 
i  AS  it  been  translated  ? 

''>h   edition   of   Osbeck's    J^avehi  to 

ili'  Have  they  been    published    in 

Unjru  Piv^  niner  than  German  (17t>5}  and  English 

(I77i)? 

Hare  the  Ldtres  Edifianiu  been  published  in 

'^  other  than  French,  German  (Stockletz), 

I? 

SCTBSCRIBER   IW  THE  FaR  EaBT. 

AirrRORs'  Najtvb  wanted  of  the  following  :— 

I.  AbboM  of  ShaftBtbury ;  or,  the  Days  of  John  of 
GMaL    A  Tttleu     hand.,  Kivingtoo,  1846. 

IL  Abbatflinere.    A  Tale.    By  Miury  Gertrude.    Load.. 

II.  Acwlemic  Error*;  or,  Kecollectiani  of  Youth.  By 
a  Member  of  the   rniveraity  of  Cambridge.     Load., 

4  The  Acftdian  Cofle  of  Signals. ...  By  a  Prai^liciil 
fWUsfmplliit.  . .  .  Load,.  W.  L«wii,  St  Joba'a  Square, 
lSt7  (•£«  Qtfdtimiin^**  Magaxint^  part  L  p.  439). 

&  AM>9»|i1libe<l  Hypticrtte;  or.  Bran  Glitter?  mor« 

Hoi  O^hL     A  Moral  Tale iu  two  vols.    Ey  A.  U 

UmL,  a.  £,  Newman,  1822. 

6.  Acrofli  ilie  ChanaeL    By  Theophilat  Oper.    13^. 
Ulphar  Hamst. 

JM  BanMl,  Herts. 

Srasstourrro. — I  want  a  rompl««te  ILgt  of  this 
,  «MiraCel  pamters*  worits.     A  genilemfiu  of  mv 


acquaintance  has  pecently  purohasod  n  iv.iTiMMrf  of 
St.  Jerome,  which  represents  the  sairi'  ng 

position,  gazing  earnestly  upon  a  skull  .  _  :  tiu, 
on  an  aoclivity  of  a  cave  or  hermitage.  The 
picture  is  more  than  two  hundred  years  old,  as  the 
canvas  and  frame  are  of  very  old  manu^tore. 
The  reason  I  have  for  wantiog  a  list  of  Spugnoletto*8 
paintings  is  this,  viz.,  the  painting  was  bought 
under  nither  peculiar  circunistances,  and  was 
always  said  to  be  his;  my  friend  paid  rather  a 
high  price  for  it,  and  wishes  to  satisfy  himself  i\s  to 
ib*  authenticity.    Chalmers,  in  his  /■  'ad 

Didionarify  wjs, "  St.  Jerome  was  one  ^  ng 

subjects;  he  painted,  he  etched  him,  m  iiuuitTous 
repetitions,  in  whole  lengths  and  half  Bgures."  I 
shall  be  very  much  obliged  to  any  one  who  will 
kindly  give  the  list,  Frederick  Ovrrtok. 

*'The  Sword  wEARiN«t  out  the  Scabbard," — 
Lord  Byron,  in  a  letter,  uae^  the  erprcsiion  in 
reference  to  himself,  that  "  the  sword  is  wearing 
out  the  scabbard/*  Cnrlyle,  in  his  Lif$  of  John 
Sttrling^  says  tlmt  be  wore  l^ola  lu  the  oatmird 
case  of  his  body  by  his  restless  vitality,  which 
could  not  otherwise  find  vent ;  and,  in  a  bio- 
graphical notice  of  the  painter  Titian,  it  is  said 
that,  in  extreme  old  age,  his  soul  was  keen  und 
brilliant,  Uke  a  sword  which  had  worn  out  its 
scabbard.  The  expression,  with  little  variation^ 
has  been  frequently  employed  by  writers  sinoe 
ByroR'^  time.  Is  it  to  be  found  in  the  works  of 
any  author  prior  to  the  noble  poet  1      W.  A.  C. 

Gtaagow. 

Haytian  Poet. — I  have  a  cutting  some  yeara 
old  from  the  New  York  fribuntr  which  reads  :— 

"There  is  a  simple  and  beautiful  itftuaii— beautiful 
becauM  aimple — ^whioh  I  found  in  a  book  of  poems  by  a 
Haytiaci  author.  It  U  written  ;  of  course  the  origtoal 
{whi{:li  1  have  loit)  is  in  Freacfa,  bat  my  traxulation  is 
Tery  literal^  containmg  one  word  only— /(itn^y — ^wMoh 
if  noi  in  the  author's  verse  :— 

*  Last  Wisb  or  a  Motssr. 

O  God  !  Bhe  faintly  said,  ap«n  ber  dying  bed. 
If  I  have  followed  Thy  divine  baheil* 
As  my  entire  reward  grant  this  rcoaef  t : 

Makti  mo  the  guardian  angol  to  my  bab«s  when  dead  ! '  ** 

Can  any  reader  supply  the  orieinjil  and  the 
author's  name  ?  \V.  E.  A.  A* 

Gipsy  Marriage.— In  the  Tinww  list  of  mar- 
riages on  July  21,  1S74,  appeared  the  two  follow- 
ing curious  announcements : — 

•^On  the  11th  instant,  at  Valid  Herr^^«  Norway* 
Uubert  i^mitU,  E«q.,  the  authnr  of  Tin.t  L^h  vUk  Knffluh 
OipnifM  tji  3'onctiy,  to  Ksmeriilda,  the  fleroine  of  his 
bo9k/' 

*•  On  Ihellth  initant,  Adreg  ValUi  Philllaain,  Xorvray^ 
the  Rve  Hut*«rt  9aiiUit  E^t.,  romado  to  Tkrno  E^mef^ 
alda  Look,  who  pooken  covah  tiafa  to  law  Bomanj 
Palftr*/* 

'  lW>tTOW*»Rwn«wiLo,TolAA^*^ 


no 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*^  8.  IL  Aco.  8, 74 


"Oa  the  11th,  in  ifao  &e«,  Korw&y,  the  Noble  Hubert 
Smith,  Esq,, married  to  Tftroo,  kc,  whotftlks  bewitching 
words  to  laugh  at  her  Gipsy  hrethreiL'* 

Am  I  right  1  •  Pelaoius. 

OsTEMAN. — Win  some  one  be  good  enough  to 
state  what  is  the  meaning  of  this  tenii  i  To  what 
IMTofeBsion,  trade,  or  craft  does  it  apply  f  It  t>L*curs 
in  Bome  Chancery  proeeedinf^rg  in  1677,  in  which 
one  Thomas  Armorer,  of  Newcaade-npon-Tyne,  is 
described  as  **  Ostenmn/^  HalUwell  gives  "  Oust " 
(1)  as  curd  for  cheese  (north),  and  (2)  as  a  kiln  for 
ID  alt  or  hops  (Kent)*  Does  it,  in  the  present  case, 
signify  *^ maltster"!  John  Maclkax. 

HammcrBmitli. 

"Little  Poems  for  Little  READKR8."^In 
this  little  volume,  recently  published  by  Ront- 
iedge  &  Son,  there  is  one  called  **  The  Orphan  a/* 
the  fiist  line  of  which  is, — 

"*  My  clmiao  the  Tillage  inn  had  gained." 
These  simple  verses  I  have  known  for  forty  years, 
having  been  taught  them  by  mj  father,  five  and 
thirty  years  dead.     Can  any  one  inform  me  who  is 
their  author  1  JoeN  Bowes. 

John  CHtmcHiu^  M.P.  for  Newtown,  167a — 
What  authority  is  there  for  identifying  him  with 
the  great  Duke  of  IMarlhorough  i  Fosa  ideotifies 
him  with  Sir  John  Churchill,  Master  of  the  Rolls  ; 
bnt  he  was  knighted  before  1679,  and  woidd  have 
been  described  with  the  handle  to  his  name, 
Coxe  says  that  Alarlboroiigh  never  sat  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  Alfred  B.  Beavejj,  M,A. 

Preston. 

Albizzia  sericocephala.  —  Thia  is  a  tree  of 
Southern  Kordofan,  and  is  described  in  Dr. 
Schwcinfurth'a  Heart  of  AfriccL,  But  there  m  one 
point  in  this  description,  oa  it  appears  in  the 
English  translation  (1674,  2nd  edit.,  vol.  i.  p.  144)^ 
which  I  am  unable  to  comprehend.  The  translator 
thus  gives  it :  "  The  finely-articulated,  mimosa- 
like  leaf  consists  of  from  5,0<30  to  6,0110  particles." 
**  Particles  '^  cannot  be  right.  Can  the  proper 
word  be  pints  f  Jabez. 

AtheaoBum  Club. 

"  KiKG  CoAL*fl  Lkv^" — 1m  the  author  known 
of— 

"  Kinijc  Goafs  Lev^e,  or  G&olopcal  Etiquette,  with 
Explanatory  Notes,  and  the  Council  of  the  Metak;  also 
Baron  Baaalfs  Tour,  3rd  ed.  12aio.  1819," 

which  I  lind  in  a  recent  catalogue  1 

DUDLKY   ArMTTAGE, 

The  Templars  akd  Hospitajllerb.— I  should 
be  much  obliged  to  any  corre,'*pondent  who  will 
t^O  me  the  distinctive  symbols  or  badges  of  the 
Templars  and  Hospitallers,  Did  not  a  change 
take  place  in  that  (or  those)  of  the  Templars  \ 

T.  W.  Webb. 


•*  Mr.  Fry,  te  Ki:ng's  Coal  Porter.-' — I  haT 
a  miniature  portrait  in  water-oolours,  on 
inscribed  in  pencil  lis  above.  It  represents  a  mad 
with  aquiline  nose,  blue  eyes,  and  deep  hcdlows  i 
his  cheek.  As  the  face  is  in  profile,  one  cheek  onl| 
can  be  seen.  He  has  a  blue  e«at,  red  waistcoati 
and  white  neckerchief.  Was  this  man  a  celebrity? 
W,  H.  Pattersox* 

**  Haroun  Alompra,  or  the  Hunter  Chief/ 
— Who  is  the  author  of  this  drama,  acted  at  Pori 
mouth  Theatre,  April  19,  18241    He  is  said 
have  been  a  lit-erary  gentleman  of  Portsmouth,  i 
''  kmght  of  the  hincet.*^  R,  Inolis. 

Col.   Valentine   Wauton.  —  What   wb« 
name  of  the  father  of  Col  Valentine  Wauioo,  \ 
Walton,  the  regicide  ? 

Is  anything  known  of  the  present  whereabout! 
of  the  manuscript  of  the  History  of  fht  Cttnl  Wan 
which  Valentine  Walton  is  said,  by  Heame,  to 
have  written  (Heame's  Diary,  2nd  edit.,  iii,  108)?| 

OoRJfUB. 

Sandwich  Islands. — Wanted  the  date  of  bu 
and  death  of  the  lute  Princess  Victoria  Kamamahi; 
sister  of  the  two  former  kings,  Kamehameha  IV J 
and  V.  J  NO.  A.  Fowler. 

"  GrpsT  QrEEN.'^— Who  is  the  composer  of  i 
GipsTf  Quetn,  m  whlvh  ike  wonis  **  Ride  forth,  rid 
forth,  ye  rolling  thunders  of  the  night  *^  occur  I 

Carmenl 

Domingo  GoNSALEa* — Is  the  authorship  know 
of  a  curious  fiction  (of  which  I  have  a  copy  of  ih 
Bec:*nd  edit.,  printed  1768),  entitled  Th^^.  ^Stranff 
Voyage  a7id  A(h:entur(ia  of  Dmningo  Gorvnalet  ( 
the  ffVW  in  the  Moon  f  D.  A, 


"KIKE"  IN  CHAUCER. 
{5^  S.  ii.  41,) 
The  amount  of  learned  ingenuity  which 
been  expended  in  mystilication  of  the  clear  and 
explanation  of  the  simple  is  perfectly  amnzii 
An  eminent  instance  of  this  occurs  in  the  retuarfe 
of  Mr.  H.  H.  Gibus  on  the  word  hike  in  Chaucet! 
To  ordinary  readers,  the  passage  in  the  HV/V  oj| 
Both's  Tak  presents  no  difficulty.  The  knighti 
errant  is  sent  forth  by  the  Queen  to  ascertain^  o^ 
pain  of  death,  within  "  a  twelvemonth  and  a  dayij 

*•  What  thing  it  is  that  women  most  desiren.' 
In  answer  to  his  inquiries,  he  receives  the  mo 
cfkntlicting  opinions  ;  but,  by  the  aid  of  a  witch  ( 
fairy,    he    ultimately    solves  the   question 
factorily : — 

"  Women  detiren  to  bin  BoveruinetAe 
As  well  over  hir  huiboud  a«  hir  Iot», 
And  for  to  ben  in  inaidtrie  him  above,* 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


HI 


I 


This  I§  ihfi  kej  to  all  the  illiistmtroDs  of  femsile 
chAroct4>r  in  the*  iyifit  of  JJatfii  Tak,  and  will 
motcruiJty  aid  iq  the  expknution  of  any  doubtfal 
piummgiBA^  if  euch  there  be. 

The  vajioijB  fominine  proclivities  are  treated  in 
•P|idUtU«  panigr^phs,  beginning  ^^  Some  saiden'* 
tbiSi  tbdit,  and  the  other.  One  paragraph  is  de- 
voted to  women's  lore  of  flattery,  to  which  succeeds 
another  on  their  propensity  to  have  their  own  way, 
indopendent  of  reproof.  Mr.  Gibbs  takes  lialf  of 
the  farmer  para^aph,  and  reads  it  as  if  it  belonged 
to  the  ktt4;r,  with  which  it  ha«  no  manner  of  con- 
nexioHt  and  thu$  imports  a  factitious  meaninf? 
into  whttt  ia  atmightforward  and  easy  if  taken  by 
it0cl£  It  is  necesaarj  to  quote  the  whole  para- 
g»pli:— 

"  And  lome  mpn  saldeti,  thiit  we  Icrren  b«it 
For  to  be  free,  vid  do  right  ns  at  le«t, 
And  tb&t  no  nmn  repreve  u»  of  our  rice, 
Eot  tsy  thmi  we  ben  wise  Rod  nothing  nice* 
For  trewelv  ther  n'is  non  of  ui  all, 
If  any  wij^lii  wnl  claw  na  on  the  gtUl, 
That  we  n  11)  tiie,  for  that  be  eaith  us  ooth : 
AMay^  and  he  thai  find  it  that  bo  doth. 
For  be  we  nerer  bo  ricioufi  witbinne. 
We  wol  be  holden  wiie,  and  dene  of  sitine." 

Hit  meaning  of  the  panage  aurely  lies  on  the 
ntcfiioe  The  reference  is  sunihir  to  that  in 
HamUt : — 

' ••  It  touches  U8  not, 

Let  the  galled  jade  wince  \  our  withers  are  unwrung." 

Golly  Fr.  ^afe,  is  a  sore  place,  a  scab,  a  Riw  ; 
when  this  is  touched,  or  "  clawed,"  the  jade  will 
irijic**  and  kick.  So  says  our  text  ;  the  woman^ 
wbi  ition    is    daimd    in    a    sore    pliu^ 

mc-  ly  will  huh.    Let  any  one  tiy,  and 

he  &h'Ui  rnKi  it  that  so  dotL 

The  application  m  so  obvious,  that  very  powerful 
reasooi  would  be  required  for  giving  any  other 
interpretation. 

Mr.  Gibbs  «iy«,  "  Kikf  (or  hjkt)  is  evidently 
the  tuodeni  kuk,  meaning  to  peep  or  look  .... 
m  huk  signifying  a  stolen  glance/'  Subsequently 
ht  uiieipret«  it  as  looking  pleiiaed,  aod  so  applies 
ii  in  the  passage  in  question.  Kfeking^  then, 
wxittid  be  equivalent  to  ogling  or  leering.  Let  us 
see  how  thi*  view  is  borne  out  by  the  evidence. 

He  9tky»j  *^Our  Irvdt,  with  it^  short  t\  would  seem 
la  r«<}iiir<»  a  form  kikktn  in  Early  English  ;  but 
the  t  m  kike  is  long,  like  the  Ae  in  kuk,^'  Why  so? 
Hie  p<rofody  of  the  line — 

••  That  we  a  ill  tile  for  he  teitb  us  Booth/' 
fN[nlre«  the  final  e  in  kike  to  be  sounded.     It  will 
tie  fcmnd  that  the  short  i  suits  the  measure  much 
better  than  the  long. 

T  -ts  have  searched  a  long  way  round 

foi  ition  which  lay  all  the  time  at  their 

Tt-r  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  is 

d^i\  1  r  in  Cymric  tieiaii\  t-o  kick,  from  ciV,  the 
loot 

Tb«  old  Kagliftb  word  ke^k^  kttk,  or  hjkty  is  now 


princijially  confined  to  the  Scottish,  It  is  of  Low 
German  or  Scandinavian  origin,  Dan,  kige,  Swcd. 
kiki\  Dutch  kijken,  Flemish  JbJc^cH, allied,  no  doubts 
with  High  Ger.  gitckcn^  pli  having  the  primary 
meaning  of  the  English  word  **  peep,*' — as  Jamie- 
son  expkinB  it,  *'  to  look  with  a  prying  eye/'  **  to 
spy  narrowly,"  "to  look  by  stealth,**  as  in  the  follow* 
ing  examples  : — 

"By  double  way  take  kepe 
First  for  thyn  owoe  ettate  to  l^ke.^* 

Gower,  Can/,  A  mantti, 
"  Then  euld  I  cost  me  to  keik  in  kirk  and  in  market*^ 

Dunbar. 
**Keek  into  the  draw  well^ 

Janet^  Janet, 
There  ye  'U  see  yer  pretty  eel, 
My  jo  Janet'' 

Old  Scotch  Song. 
**  Conceal  yoursel  as  weel  -t  ye  can 
Prao  critical  disgection, 
But  leel:  thro'  every  other  man 
Wr  Abarpened,  sly  inapection.** 

Bama'i  MputU  to  a  Fating  Friend. 

A  ke^king-ginsSy  a  looking-^lass  ;  a  ^^il'-hole,  li 
peep-hole.  The  same  meaning  will  be  found  uni- 
forniJy  adopted  by  Chaucer  : — 

**  This  Nicholai  eat  ever  gaping  upright 
Aa  be  hod  kvkid  on  the  newe  moonc.'* 

MiU€r*i  Tale,  3445. 
"  loto  the  roof  they  kyken  and  they  gape.** 

Mttl€r'9Tat«,3ML 

In  none  of  these,  nor  in  any  other  passage,  can  I 
find  the  least  tiuce  of  the  sense  of  ogling  or  look- 
ing pleased,  Katber  the  reverse  ;  the  feeling  of 
anxious  gazing.  Jamie&on,  it  in  true,  gives  us  a 
secondary  meaning  of  keek,  **t.o  take  a  stolen 
glance  ^  ;  but  stolen  glances  fire  not  necessjArily 
amatory  nor  cheerful  ;  in  the  great  majority  oif 
cases  they  are  the  reverse, 

I  cannot  help,  therefore,  coming  to  the  con- 
clusion that  the  proposed  emendation  is  forced 
and  unnatural^  and  is  not  sustained  by  the  reasons 
brought  for^^anl  in  its  defence.      J.  A,  Pictok, 

Sandyknowc,  Warertroe. 

I  am  much  surprbed  nt  the  extraordinary  mean- 
ing assigned  by  IMr,  Gibbs  to  the  word  kike  in 
Chaucer,  It  simply  me^ns  to  kick^  and  nothing 
else.  The  mistake  hai*  ari^n  from  mistaking  the 
whole  drift  of  the  passage.  What  the  Wife  of 
Bath  really  wiys  is  thii*  :  **  Some  said,  that  we  are 
most  eased  in  our  hearts  when  we  are  flattered  and 
praised.  And  I  will  not  deny  that  such  a  one 
comes  very  near  to  the  truth.  A  man  will  beat 
win  us  by  flattery  ;  and  by  attention  and  constant 
waiting  upon  we  are  all  alike  caught,  both  the 
greatest  and  the  least  of  us."  So  far  we  have  ons 
opinion  ;  bat  we  are  next  introduced  to  an  opinion 
of  a  totally  diflerent  cbanictor.  The  good  hidy 
goes  on  to  say  :  "  And  somt  said,  that  we  like  best 
to  be  free,  and  to  do  just  whatever  we  please  ;  and 
that  no  one  ought  to  reptovci  xaiot  m\^  lax!i.V»\»LV 


119 


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p*ftILAiro,S/W 


ought  to  say  that  we  are  always  wise,  and  never 
fooliah.  For  tnily  there  ia  not  one  of  iis  all,  but 
— if  any  one  mbs  us  upon  the  &ore  placn — will  be 
sure  to'  kickj  merely  buciiaso  he  dares  to  say  the 
truth*  Try  it,  and  he  who  does  so  will  fi_nd  it  as 
I  sii}\  For  ho  we  vex  vicious  we  are  at  heart,  we 
like  to  be  considered  prudent  and  free  fipoin  sin." 
How  tbia  passage  can  be  forced  into  any  other 
ineaninjT,  I  do  not  understand.  On  the  one  hand, 
women  are  aaid  to  be  pleased  with  untrue  tlattery; 
|On  the  other,  they  are  displeased  with  unflattaring 
'truth*  The  one  they  receive  with  jjraciousiiesa 
And  smiles,  the  other  they  kick  at  and  resent. 

The  word  kike^  to  kick,  is  in  Wiclifs  Bible, 
Acts  ix.  5  ]  with  a  pait  tense  kikid^  Beut,  xxxiu  15 ; 
and  a  past  tenae  plond  kikidimy  2  Kings  yi.  6. 
Thut  Chaucer  also  employs  the  word  in  the  diJTerent 
sense  of  to  p^cp,  is,  of  course,  granted  ;  but  how 
the  sense  of  puplng  can  have  any  place  here,  1  do 
not  see.  We  have  no  smthority  for  niaking  it 
signify  to  look  vdth  approi^al;  it  b tin  ply  means  to 
[peep,  gaze,  or  look  about  seaixhingly  without 
either  approval  or  diaapprovaJ,  Surely,  too,  the 
galled  jade  winces,  not  poe^  about. 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 
Cambridge. 

"POVKRTT    PARTS    GOOD    COMPACT**    (5"^    S.    h 

2880 — This  forms  the  last  line  of  the  eighth  verse 
i>f  that  rare  old  Gkucestershire  baUiwl,  George 
Jiiflkfis  Oi'^en;  and  us  it  is  good  enough  to  be  more 
^  widely  known,  although  printed  in  HidliweJl's 
Froi\  and  Arch.  Dtc/.,  and  in  Dr.  Latbani'sj  Eng- 
Uak  Langtiage^  vol.  ii.,  it  would,  1  am  sure,  please 
the  taste  of  many  of  your  renders  to  see  it  given 
at  length  in  "N.  &  Q./"  where  it  would  be  in 
keeprng  with  similar  bnliad  litemture  to  which 
you  have  already  acconled  space.  It  is  remarkable 
that  a  society  of  charita  I  lie  aiui^  called  the  **  Glouces- 
tershire Society,"  meet  annuidly  at  the  White 
Lion  Hotel,  in  Bristol,  where  it«  meinbera  dine 
together,  and  retain  the  custom  of  Hinging  this 
song  of  Omrgc  li idler's  Orm  directly  after  the 
removal  of  the  cloth.  I  shoidd  like  to  know  the 
on  gin  of  the  society,  and  the  date  of  the  song, 
which  they  thus  so  pleasantly  perpetuate. — 

"GEOMtf  ElDLER'S  OVEN. 

1. 

The  Btowni  that  built  Georce  Ridler's  Oven, 
And  Ihany  geum  from  the  Bteokeney's  quor; 
And  Geor^se  lie  wur  n  jolly  old  nion, 
And  his  yead  it  gmw'd  above  his  yarc. 

One  thing  of  Genrge  Ridlor  I  rautt  commend^ 

And  thftt  if»ure  not  a  notablo  theng ; 

He  niQud  bii  brA^^  ftvoore  he  died, 

We  any  dree  brothers  hiM  zona  I'hou^d  zeng. 

3. 
There's  Dick  the  treble  and  John  the  meao. 
Let  every  nion  zin<  in  hia  au\ni  pkoce  ; 
And  Cieorgc  he  war  tbc  older  brothfcr^ 
And  thcrevoor«  he  would  ling  the  beosf. 


Mine  hotfcoft^a  moid  (ftod  her  neniiiii  *twnr  ^eU) 
A  prcttv  wenoh  anrj  I  lov'd  Iter  well ; 
I  li>v'd  htr  well,  good  reaoioa  why; 
Because  »be  lot'd  my  dog  and  L 

3(y  dog  lA  good  to  cftteh  a  hen^ 
A  duck  or  goose  is  rood  for  mtin  ; 
And  where  good  ootnpnny  I  soy, 
0  ihethergwoes  my  aog  and  I. 

My  rn '  I  I  whou  I  wur  yonngji 

If  I  di  10  strong  beer  pwoot» 

That  <..w-.«  ...  .*id  pruT  my  xuverdronry 
And  meauk  me  wov  a  threitd-bara  owoiU. 

7. 
My  dog  has  gotten  zHcb  a  trick. 
To  visit  moids  when  thauy  be  xick : 
When  tbaoy  be  zick  and  like  to  die, 
O  tliether  gwoei  my  dog  and  I. 

8. 

When  I  have  dree  zispenees  under  mj  ihumbi 
O  then  I  be  weleotne  wherever  I  oome ; 
liut  when  I  have  none,  O  then  I  pMt  bf, 
'Tls  poverty  pe&rts  good  company. 

9. 
If  I  tbould  die,  as  it  mav  hap« 
My  groauve  shall  be  under  the  goodyeftl  i 
In  rouled  carms  there  wool  ui  lit^ 
Cheek  by  juwl  my  dog  aiid  L"' 


Churchdown. 


F,  a 


"  When  my  o'erlay  was  white  as  the  foara  on  the  Umif^ 
And  my  pouches  were  eliukiu'  wi'  siller  wUhin  ; 
When  my  lambkuiB  were  blcatin'  on  meadow  an*  bi 
As  1  hied  to  my  sweetheart,  I  snog  a'  the  way  : 

Kind  was  &be,  an*  my  freens  they  were  free, 

Bat  Poverty  puirts  guid  company  ! 

We  met  at  the  fair,  and  we  met  at  the  kirk. 
Wo  met  i'  the  sunshine,  we  met  V  the  mirk  : 
And  the  a^mnd  o'  her  voice,  an*  the  blink  o'  her  e*«« 
Seemed  a  Pjiradise  opened  for  ever  to  me  ! 

Leaves  frae  the  tree*  at  Marti'mas  ilee, 

Aud  Poverty  pairts  gold  company  ! 

Wharever  I  gaed^  the  blythe  lasses  smiled  sweety 
An'  mlthert  an'  aanties  were  mair  than  discreet; 
While  kebbuok  an'  becker  were  »et  on  the  boskrd; 
But  noo  thejr  pass  by  me,  on'  never  a  word  ! 

8ne  1st  It  be, — for  the  warldly  an'  she 

Wi'  Poverty  keep  nac  coropimio  ! " 

A,  T. 
Bunfermliue. 

This  Bong  is  in  Allan  Cunninghu»u'«  *Songi^ 
ScMlajtd,  i  33i>*  It  is  called  '' Todlen  Ham 
and  begins — 

"  When  I  hae  eaxpenee  under  my  thumb.'* 
According  to  Cunuingham,  it  is  uot  luodem,  hm 
vcrj'  old,  0.  F.  S.  WAAaKN,  M.A. 

This  song  was  first  inserted  in  an  nnnuoli  a 
ship's  Offering,  Stkphk.v  Jackbom 

A  CtTRious  Relic  of  Old  Calcutta  (a^  | 
i.  4600 — T*>*^  second  verse  in  thi«  Teiy 


C«  8.11.  Ana.  8k7«.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


113 


intcraiiing  haUiwl-epiUiph  probably  refers  to 
rawnMDd't  earliest  recollections  of  some  locai 
Dier  between  the  Koundheada  and  RoyalisU 
(tlie  Iftit  days  of  Cromwell,  when  the  country 
t  in  a  disturbed  state,  and  Hucb  collisions  were 
[jucnt.  **An  Ashbumhttm  ! '^  **  A  Fairfax!" 
Woild  naturally  be  the  war-cries  of  the  different 
bctiooF,  even  if  these  two  leaders  were  not  actually 
prreeent,  A^hburnhom  (John)  being  one  of  Ohtirles 
Ub  moat  devoted  adbereota  and  followers,  and  Fair- 
lut  being  the  great  Parliamentary  leader.  From  the 
POffding  of  reifie  2,  I  ahoald  infer  that  J,  Towns- 
md  was  not  himaelf  engaged  In  the  fray  described, 
^  he  ia  sappo«ed,  when  dying,  to  refer  to 
^  early  recollectioa  : — 

*'  H»rk  how  the  Corflleti  ring  ! 
f  are  the  Blackamiths  out  to-day^  b«atijig  thoae  mea 
i  th«  fpring  !  "  ^c. 

The  ailuisiona  to  Fairlight  Church  and  Fairlight 

in  the  next  verse  point  to  Sussex  and  the 

*{id  of  Hastings  as  the  scene  of  Joseph 

early  recollections.       The   Aahbum- 

un  ancient  and  distingtiiahed  Sussex 

h  makes  it  all  the  more  probable  that 

joumham "'  would  be  the  representative 

L  of  the  Royalist  party  in  that  district. 

abmnoes  of  the  skirmish  in  verse  1  pro- 

diKTibe  an  event  which   happened  many 

before  the  seizure  of  J.  Townsend   by  the 

verae  2,  immediately  before   his   in- 

I  marriage.     No  doubt  ver^e  3  describes  (as 
^our  eomepondent  suggests)  the  rescne  of  two 

widows   from   the  funeral  pile  —  one  of 

[  infer  became  the  "  nut-brown  bride  "  of  J- 

t  and  the  mother  of  "  Young  Joe,"  who 

r  60  ^'  at  the  time  of  hia  father's  death 

i  86.  LiNDIS. 

^S.  Jo«*eph  Townsend  died  in  1738,  aged  86. 
riljinh.     Ho  was  therefore  born  several  years 

II  of  Mara  ton  Moor  and  Naseby 
and  one  year  after  the  battle  of 
.    His  earliest  recollections  could^ 

t^t  '  of  the  loctil  skirmishes  following 

^  iu  variouA  parts  of  Enghuid. 

BoSTXT  HotisE  OF  Aiblie"  (5»">  S.  ii.  28. 

I  beg  the  Editor  kindly  to  giant  me  a 

apace  in  his  valuable  pages  ]     I  am  aa 

puzzled  as  ever,  though  in  a  different  way. 

own  I  had  forgotten,  when  I  wrote  my 

the  destruction  of  Airlie  Castle  took 

ft  Montrose's    rupture  with  the  Cove- 

I  \d  ignorance  of  the  fact,  but 

iy  '  'ly  forjjot  it.     Of  course,  as 

[whom  1   !'►  -        Miani  for  his  kind  reply) 

aie,   it    V,     I    I    Ih-    quite    natural  to  iind 

ftji''    '•  ''  iji._'   tit    lyt    J^.t.-t    I'njHir^nt 

oi  '  lUa  1  l:iu:im|  fL'.ti'-i''  the 

ef  Ar^'ie  s   (Statement,  that  "  fh*^  nt'tl  wan 

§nppCfUd  by  Montrose,''  with  Hpoldingi 


account,  nor  with  iboee  quoted  by  Mr.  Mark 
Napier,  in  a  note  to  Montran  and  the  CovmaTUert, 
as  follows  : — 

"Biihop  Guthrie  recordft  that,  in  the  3rearl640*  Argyte 
per»uted  in  destroying  the  hoa»e  of  Airlie,  with  wham 
lie  wiM  at  personul  feud^  id  though  Montrose  had  put  a 
garrison  Into  it^  and  hbd  written  to  Argyle  to  that  effect." 

James  Gordon,  in  his  MS.,  has  this  account  :— 
"  Thus  far  is  certain,  that  ....  Montrose,  with  a 
party,  was  the  first  who  besieged  Airlie,  and  left  the 
prosecution  of  it  to  Arjryle,  who,"  A'c.  Here  follow 
Arigyle^s  atrocities.  The  passages  I  have  omitted 
contain  merely  a  discussion  whether  the  right  diito 
of  these  events  is,  1639  or  1641). 

If  the-  Duke  really  meant  no  more  tluin  this,  I 
cannot  see  why  be  should  have  spoken  of  it  a^  a 
new  and  accidental  discovery,  when  it  was  all  to 
he  found  in  Spalding  and  Guthrie,  and  more  easily 
in  Napier.  Still  less  can  I  underatand  how  he 
could  have  called  this  *' actively  supporting  the 
raid.'*  According  to  Guthrie,  Montrose  w;w 
directly  opposed  to  it ;  according  to  Spalding  and 
Gordon,  he  had  nothing  to  do  with  it,  but  his  own 
proceedings  against  Airlie  had  been  distinct  from 
ArgyleX  and  quite  different  from  themr-'« 
different  as  the  cbarsurtei^  of  the  two  men.  Still, 
perhaps  thL^  is  all  that  was  meant,  and  I  have  in- 
tortjreted  a  passage  in  a  playful  speech  too  literally 
and  seriously.  If  so,  mj^  excuse  m  my  dcMre 
for  historical  infonnation,  and  my  ten]  for  the 
memory  of  one,  the  details  of  whose  career,  I 
firmly  believe,  have  no  need  to  fear  the  strongest 
light.  M.  L. 

**TiiB  Althortk  PicraRE  Gallbut": -Mart 
J.  JouRDAN  (5*^  S.  I  348,  435,  516  ;  ii.  70.)— I 
wish  to  add  a  few  particulars  to  Mn.  Mason's 
accx>unt  of  thtf  -Juunlan  family,  which  may  interest 
him  and  (iLrnAtt  Hamst.  The  "  weaver,"  Jolin 
Jourdau,  was  the  grandson  of  Anthony  Jourdao, 
of  Toulouse,  who  was  one  of  the  band  of  noble 
refugees  who  sacrificed  their  property  and  their 
natiomd  ties  for  the  sake  of  religion  and  con- 
science, at  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes. 
Many  of  thens  established  themselves  in  the  silk 
trade,  in  consequence  of  their  connexions  in  the 
South  of  France,  Amon^  these  was  John  Jourdan^ 
who,  in  partnership  with  Mr.  D'Albiac  (grandfather 
of  the  Duchess  of  Roxhurfrh),  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness of  a  ailk'Weaver  in  i^pitalfielda.  Hia  wife, 
Susjinna,  was  the  third  daujfhter  of  John  Jacob 
Zornlin  (my  grandfather),  of  the  finu  of  Battier  & 
Zovnlin,  who  ranked  very  high  among  the  English 
merchants  of  the  last  century. 

Colonel  Jourdan  was  married  early  in  the  year 
1S15,  in  Java,  where  he  held  a  high  official  ap- 

S^intment.  Borne  of  his  children  died  young, 
enry  Francis  Holcombe  wn*  the  first  who  attained 
maturity.  The  amiorifd  bearing^  of  lU\^  Jci\«A3&.\k 
(or  Jourdnin)  familT  ate — ^\e%,  %  etos*  ^v\i«^  ^'i 


114 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[5*S.11,Ato.«,74 


crest,  a  mailed  anu  em  bowed,  holding  a  cutksa* 
It  is  Dot  in  my  power  to  j^ve  any  infonnation 
respeetmg  Mjiry  J.  Jourdan,  except  thut  she  was 
the  daughter  of  Colonel  Mokombt^  not  Haloombe. 

2.  Z. 

TURQDET  DE   M  AT  ERNE  (5^  S.  H  48.) — Ifl   thia, 

or  TuiNftiet  Mayerne,  the  real  name  t  It  appea,ra, 
1  believe  J  in  the  latter  form  in  a  volume  of  hia 
works  in  the  British  Museum  Libmrv. 

T.  W.  Webb. 

To  Proat  (5*^  S.  ii.  49.)— To  proat  is  the  G. 
protttHj  to  show  one's  ill  will  or  displeasure  by  a 
surly  silence. — Kiittner*  A  somewhat  ditfei^nt 
form  of  the  word  is  given  by  Hnlliwell^  "  Prutttn, 
to  be  proud,  to  hold  up  the  head  with  pride  and 
disdain."  The  origin  of  the  foregoing,  as  well  an 
of  the  CI.  trotzen,  is  to  be  found  in  the  interjection 
of  displeasure,  prut !  trut  I  representing  a  blurt 
of  the  mouth  with  the  protruded  lip«.  See  Pout  in 
my  Dictionary.  H.  Wjsdowood. 

Hiilliwell  has  pride,  "  to  wander  about  like  a 
young  ehild/-  and  this,  1  take  it,  is  a  f«rui  of  the 
word  for  which  F.  H.  inquires.  W.  T.  M. 

8biii3e1d  Gro?€. 

Mart  of  Buttermeue  (G*^  S.  I  47.)  — In 
"N.  &  qj'  !•'  S.  viii.  26,  under  the  heading  of 
"GossippiDg  Hisjtory/'  ia  ti  note  of  mine  on  De 
Quincey'fl  account  of  Hatfield.  I  have  nothing 
to  add  or  alter,  but  wisti  to  withdraw  an  opinion 
too  hastily  fomied.  I  said,  "I  do  not  blame  Mr. 
De  Quincey,  having  no  doubt  that  he  believed 
what  he  was  toid.''  When  I  MnAe  that  1  was 
Ttading  the  Boston  edition  of  his  works.  Long 
before  I  came  to  the  end  I  felt  thut  the  compliment 
waa  entirely  undeaer^'ed,  for  which,  I  think,  satis- 

ifactoiT  reaaons   are  given  in  "  Leslie  and   Dr. 

r^iddleton/'  1*»  S.  X.  33.  H.  B,  C. 

U.  U.  Club. 

Alderwan  Joun  Poeter  (S**^  S,  ii.  67)  was 
MP.  for  Evesham  in  pait  of  one  Parliamentj  vi?.., 
from  the  general  election  of  1754  until  his  death, 
[April  11,  1750.        Alfred  B.  Beaven,  M.A. 
rreston. 

AUibone,  in  his  Dictionary^  savs  that  Sir  James 
Porter  died  at  Bath.      C.  F,  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

Toe  Ftndern  Monument  in  Childrey 
CiiLitcn  (5^1*  S.  ii,  C8.)-P.  wdl  find  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  Fynderne  brasses,  with  a  copy  of  the 
inscriptionB  on  them,  in  Ashniole^s  Btrh(^  vol.  ii., 
pp.  20H,  2(H},  and  210,  of  the  edition  of  1711)  : 
al^jn  Chu'ke's  Hundred  of  Wanlintj,  pp.  7(1 
aiicr77.  C.  J.  Eystok. 

See  Eelton'a  Skdchu  of  C7ittrr/*<s«,  London, 
1843,  for  a  plate  and  full  descn^tion  in  the 
Hccompiiuying  text.     It  in  a  hnwa  of  a  peenlinr 


character,  the  crosses  of  the  figures  being  filled  witj 
lead.     The  figure  of  Sir  William  Fynderne  to 
knees  is  in  Boutell's  BroMes  antl  SlahA^  p. 
London,  1847.     A  description  of  the  monumeil 
wiJl  also  be  found  in  the  Oxford  Manual,  NJ 
168,  p.  61.  SiAMUKL  Shaw. 

The  Willow  Pattern  (5*»»  S.  ii.  60.)— S«ct 
Family  Friend  (Houlston  k  Stoneman,  Ijondoo 
vol  i.  p,  124.  H.  FisHwicE,  F.S.A. ' 

Vide  Benil^y'^i  Miscdlany,  vol  iii„  p.  61,  pu 
llshed  in  1838,  where  will  be  found  "A  Tn 
History  of  the  Celebrated  Wedgwood  Hieroglyp 
commoidy  called  the  WiUow  Pattern,"  by  Ma 
Lemon.  WiLLiAii  WlNU. 

Steeple  Aston^  Oi^ord. 

Histort    of    ScoTULNn    (5**'    S,   ii.   6ft.)- 
Ma.  Ma  SOX,  who  i»  goo<i  enough  to  apf>ea1  to  i 
as  to  this  work,  will  turn  to  that  admirable  Cd 
lo^ue  of   the   Printed   Books   in   tht    Adm 
Library,  now  printing,  on  p.  680  of  vol.  iL  he  ^ 
find  that  William  Dull',  M.A.,  waa  the  author  i 
the  work  he  inquires  for.     See  also  Lowndes  ' 
Bohn,  p.  2215.     Allibone  mentions  an  edition  of 
1750,  probably  after  Watt,  to  whose  Bihiiothica  ^ 
amnofc  refer   here.    I  take  thin  opportunity    ~ 
thanking  Ma,  Mason  for  Ixia  reply  on  p.  70. 

Olfoaji  Hamst, 

New  Bimet^  Utris. 

^'LiKE**  AS  A  Conjunction  (5^^  S,  I  67,  111 
157,  176,  237,498;  ii,  97.)— I  am   surprised  f 
Mr.  Furmvall  cannot  see,  in  the  jm^^ 
quote-s  from  Henry   VII I. ^  that  the  |   ^ 
which  goveniB  the  you  is  understood : — 
**  Not  a  ni&n  in  England 
Clin  adrisc  me  liko  [nHto]  you." 

It  is  a  parallel  paasage  to  that  whicb  I 
quoted  from  the  same  play  :— 

"  Said  I  for  this  the  girl  wiua  lilce  to  hi 
So  in  the  passage  from  Pmc/<**f,* — 
"  And  knowing  this  kingdom  i«  witboat  a  head. 
Like  [untQ  or  tu]  goodly  buildings  left  without  n 

In  Cowden  Clarke's  Concordance  thexe  is  a  refei 
Tan^mf,  Act  i.  bc  2,  "  like  to  a  nymph.*^     In 
only  Shabq^mre  that  I  can  refer  to,  being  a^ 
fn>ni  home,  I  find  the  to  h  omitted,  *'  Enter  Arji 
like  a  water  nymph."    To  what  edition  did 
writer  of  the  Coivcordanct  refer  I  Clariit* 

**HuDiBRAs^^  (51*"  S.  i.  489:  5t"»  S.  ii  3^.> 
The  Rev.  Dr.  T.  R.  Nash,  in  his  edition  of  HuJ 
hrm  (1835),  remarks  in  a  note  to  these  lin«s  f 
559-5G2,  Part  I.  canto  i.)  :— 

"Thu«  Clcvfiland,  pApc  HO,    *Tho  next  intrrr(!i'«nf  I 
a  diufnalis  plots,  horribb  plots,  mhich  wiM 
Mgocity  it  hunts  dry  foot,  while  they  are  i 

causes,  before  materia  prima  can  put  on  herMnor* 

Nichols  (LiUrary  Illtuh-atiom,  edition   182 


**8.11.  4li«.S>74] 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


115 


ToL  ir.  p.  246)  gives  a  letter  from  the  Rev,  Mon- 
tnini  Bacon  to  Dr.  Zachary  Grey  on  the  same 
eiibj<yrt : — 

**B««irord,  Aug.  31,1746. 
^  Bev.  Sir,— Going  by  tbis  way,  I  send  you  thi»  i&luta- 
tkn.  I  »m  much  ppe*Bcd  in  tny  jyurney,  othenviic  I 
might  p«rhftp4  venture  to  caU  upon  you.  I  eend  you  a 
pAMAgv  from  Regnier  (Sat.  1<J),  the  fftinoua  rrencb 
tfttiriftt,  whom,  I  am  sure,  Butler  bad  read. 
**  I  anil  rev.  Sir,  your  moit  obedient  bumble  aerrant, 

"  M.  lUvam. 
**  'Qu'mi  ttm  Globe  il  «  reu  bi  mAtiere  premiere.' 
^    ''8o  BudlbrM  aayi, 

'  Firat  matter  be  bod  seen  uodreia't, 
B«foro  one  rag  of  form  waa  on,* 
"  B^^ier  deikcnbcA  his  pedant  so. 
"So  llilton  {Far.  Lost,  hook  7)  detcribea  Light  at  fint, 
«a 
'dphear'd  in  a  radiant  cloud  (for  yet  the  sun  wna  not).'" 

In  a  very  rare  iittk'  book,  Note^  itpon  Hndibras, 
by  Zachary  Grey,  LL.D.,  1752,  there  is  a  note 
{p.  23),  timed  M.  B.  (Montagu  Bacon),  which  after 
quoting  the  above  line  from  llegnier  gontmuea:^ — 

"And  'ti§  manifeit,  from  tbo  Context,  that  Butltr 
meaiu  only  a  Ridicule  on  tbe  Utrtnelick  QiJbbtTukf  wbere 
there  i«  mucb  Talk  of  Fini  Matter,  and  Cha4u,  and 
F%r*t  MaUf  and  iticb  Stuff:  And  by  fHr$i  Matter  tbev 
miill  Materia  and  Forma  ;  whicb  appears  from  a  Book 
«ttlillid  A  tkoTi  Ihquirif  into  tAe  Jfrrmtttck  Artf  P.  79." 

The  lines,  then,  are  not  ^*  stipposcd  to  pomt  to  a 
iicuUir  individual,''  but  are  "only  a  Ridicule 
io  the  Hermetick  Gibberish." 

Sparks  Hendebsok  Williams. 
18.  Keoun^oQ  Crefcent,  W. 


I       OQ  t 


Siv,;r,i.-  Fve^Glasses  (5«»  S.  i.  489;  il  50,)— 
what  E.  D.  F.  says.    I  have  used  a 
ji  ft  eye  only  for  about  twenty  years, 
1  now  Hnd  that  in  shooting  I  invariably  fire  too 
'  1  to  the  lefL     I  have  tried  to  counteract  it  by 
ling  the  left  eye,  at  the  reooumiendatioD  of  an 
ent  gunmaker^  and  as  that  is  very  difiicult 
lys  to  do,  he  now  reeommendB  me  to  blacken 
L  iIm  left  gkss  of  my  shooting  speetpacles,— we  shall 
rith  what  result.  Black  Eye. 

ZlKXAV  Street  ip^  S,  ii.  9,  53.)— A  Reatling 

|rtMd*-Book  flays  tliat  "  Zinzan  Street  most  pro- 

hM^  .»-«.'-.  its  name  from  Dr.  Zinzani^  a  gentle- 

I  extraction,  who  had  a  residence  in 

_L — a_.^,  i  firing  the  laat  century." 

H.  JL  Kenxedt. 

'\Y  or  TUEiH  Times"  (5**  S.  I  408; 
k  that  is  often  priced  according  to 
I  it  at  the  «alea  of  famous  colIection»  ; 
uiwdly  to  l>e  had  at  iu  proper  value. 
cost   me  u   few  shillings.     The   same 
riiy  in  pn^ne  as  is  iu  D.  G.  E/b  copy 
''      I  take  to  be   i  -    '         t 
r»g  the  book  >i 
J  jji    <_i«j>i|ninion  volume  jitumi.    »Mf 
Uodtm<  ProttMtAifit  iHviufM  la  of  far  greater  nurity, 


but  I  have  seen  it  on  sale  at  much  less  priees  than 
those  named  by  Mb.  Bccklet,  the  copy  in  my 
possession  having  Wen  bought  for  about  one-fifth 
of  the  sum.  It  appears  to  have  been  acquired  by 
Mr,  Mitford  in  18i4,  and  he  has  added  the  dat© 
when  he  read  it,  vix.,  **Sept.  1836,'*  with  the  note, 
"  See  Brit,  Bibliog,,  vol  I  p.  47 S."  The  engraved 
front,  has  been  most  cleverly  imitated  by  pen  and 
ink.  J.  E.  Bailet. 

SoNOfl  IS  **Rokeby"   (5**  S.  I  428,  515.)— 
Writing  my  fonner  note  on  this  subject  hurriedly, 
I  omitted  from  it  the  moat  beautiful  of  the  songs: — 
"  0  Brignall  banks  are  wild  and  fair, 
And  Greta  woods  are  green ; 
And  you  may  gather  garlands  there 
Would  grace  a  summer  queen.'' 

Canto  iii.  ituixa  1^ 
John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Kntoht  Biorn  :  DifREE's  ETcHiKog  (5^  S.  I 
167,  215,  356,) — I  suppose  the  **  snare  "  mentioned 
by  Mr.  Holt  and  Mr.  Addis  in  the  **  Knight 
and  Death  "  is  the  curious  twisted  line  near  the 
hoof  of  the  horse's  off  hind  leg.  I  have  the  auto- 
type of  the  etching  before  me,  and  believe  that 
Mn  Runkin  and  Mr.  Addis  have  undoubtedly 
explained  it.  I  think  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q? 
would  be  gbd  to  have  the  picture  in  rjnestion  and 
the  MiUticoliaj  its  companion,  interpreted  on  Mr. 
Addis's  theory  by  that  gentleman.  The  one 
seems  to  me  the  type  of  **The  Steadfast  Wiiy 
the  Melmcolia  of  "  The  Intermittent,  too  versatile 
Will,** — tendencies  to  which  latter  the  artist,  if 
he  were  not  more  Ihaa  human,  must  have  felt  and 
deplored  in  himself.  Pelaoius. 

Field-Lore  :  Carr,  Ino,  &c.  (4'**  S.  xi.  xii.  ; 
5'^  S.  Lpaanm;  ii,  71,) — M.  inquires  what  is  the 
meaning  of  Flagfi^  and  suggests  it  may  be  re- 
claimed bog.  In  this  parish,  there  is  a  marshy 
place  in  the  bills  known  as  the  Flush- mow,  in 
which  peats  were  formerly  c^ist^  but  it  ha3  been 
surface- drained,  and  is  now  grazed  by  sheep. 
There  is  a  farm  of  the  same  name  near  Stewruton 
in  Ayrshire,  and  the  name  Flofh  occurs  as  the  de- 
signation of  two  or  three  pUices  in  Annandale. 
Halliwell  (fifth  edition)  has  FlmchCj  *'a  pit  or 
pool "  ;  but,  in  the  old  English  couplet  quoted  as 
an  example,  the  word  will  apply  equally  well  to  a 
marnh.     See,  too,  Flnsh,  Floih, 

I\at  hag^  also  mentioned  by  ^L,  is  a  common 
term  here  for  the  hollows  made  by  casting  peat. 

Another  name  applied  here  to  marshy  places  is 
coflru^  which  appears  to  be  the  same  as  carsc,  and 
to  have  some  connexion  with  carr,  W.  E. 

Riilewater,  Roxburghshirt. 

**8iTiTATK"  (5"»  S.  1.  407;  ii.  53,)— SioMA  aska, 
*'^  Are  there  any  examples  of  the  Uise  of  the  word  »» 
a  verb  by  any  respectable  writer  T*  Iipl  ^jni\ 
Labowr*$  Lo^^  Act  i.  ac.  ^,  XimtsAo  wbcj^^ — 


J 


116 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


'( I  will  TiBLt  thee  mi  the  lodge. 
Jarj.  ThRt'a  hereby. 
Arm.  I  know  where  it  ia  situate/* 
Again,  Com4dif  of  Errors^  Act  ii.  sc.  1,  Lucianft 
sajra, — - 

*♦  Wby,  headstrong  libertr  is  tash'd  with  woe. 
Tbr're  's  notbing  aituatc  under  HeaTen*B  eyv 
But  hath  hLs  boond/' 

I  Bhould  be  glad  to  know  whether  grammariaUB 
won  Id  call  "situate"  in  tliese  two  pru^t^iges  an 
adjrctivc.  H.  B.  Purton. 

Weobley. 

Faixonet,  the  Aetist  (5*^  S.  ii.  8^  54.) — Mn* 
TkiMMEa  will  find  Bome  interesting  and  mithentic 
facts  about  the  Falconets  in  Jal*6  IHctionnaire 
CHtique  de  Biographic  ti  tVRistoiri.  See  the 
Kecond  editionj  and  refer  also  to  the  corrections  at 
the  end  of  the  voluni«*  Olphar  Hamst. 

INVERTED  Commas  (5^  S.  i.  ptutnm ;  ii  37,  &6, 
97r)  — I  differ  very  much  from  Jabez.  I  have 
proved  (from  Timperly)  that  these  marks  were 
originally  used  (1496)  for  the  purpose  of  quotation 
only.  Other  writers  have  shown  that  tliey  were 
afu^rwivrds  employed  for  emphagixiog  aho,  but  not 
befui'e  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth ;  and  when  they 
cejued  to  be  used  in  this  latter  way,  Ym»  not  been 
decided. 

As  to  the  *^  modern  instance  "  from  tlie  Tim£M^ 
it  is  ({uite  clear  that  the  word  **  accomplished  "  is 
not  used  there  according-  to  its  real  meaning,  but 
aocording  to  its  misapplication ;  and  it  is  therefore 
quok'd  in  this  sense,  and  marked  accordingly. 

MsuwBia. 

Ohahles  L  as  a  Poet  (b^  B.  I  322,  379,  435; 
ii.  93.)— Before  this  subject  ia  dismisfled,  I  would 
he^  leAve  to  auote  a  possa^  ficom  the  late  Pro- 
fessor  Craik's  LikratuTe  and  Learning  in-England^ 
ed.  1845,  vol  iv.  p.  66:— 

''  It  ia  not  easy  to  understand  the  meftninc^  of  Horace 
Wal|iole'a  judKinent  on  Charlea'e  fityle*  that  *it  «m4» 
formed  bitwt^n  a  certain  portion  of  ieiuf,  diffuit^,  and 
perfmps  a  little  injtinetriitj.'  What  he  ray  a  of  a  co^iy  of 
vcrrcs  Raid  to  bare  been  "written  by  hia  mjijesty  during 
hlH  cnndnenaent  in  Cafi.^brook  Castle,  is  more  to  the 
pur|ki>8e  :  *  Thepo€trjfU  m&st  »ncotit/t  and  inharmonious; 
but  tfare  arc  strong  ihov^kh  t«  if,  #omf  ^ood  tense,  and  a 
Mtrain.  of  majeittic  pieti/.^  Though  uot  very  polished, 
iideed,  or  very  like  the  ppodaction  of  a  pructiscd  versifier, 
vbich  goei  so  far  to  forniish  a  preaamption  of  its  authtin- 
ticity.  tbia  coniposition.  which  is  entitled  '  MajeKiy  in 
Miftrry,  or  an  hnploraiiou  to  the  King  of  Kingi,'  mdi- 
calei  pnet^c  feeling,  and  an  evident  familiarity  with  the 
hi^be«t  models. " 

The  ahove  quotations  from  Horace  Walpole  are 
out  of  his  Koyal  and  Noble  Authors.     J.  W.  W. 

Key.  Stephen  Cuauke  (S^  S.  i.  208,  255,  298, 
438;  ii.  77.)~PtT»vincial  printing  if  a  subject  that 
has  diiinied  my  attention  for  a  year  or  two  pasi^ 
\)ut  I  ha  ye  at  present  failed  to  discover  an  earlier 
3j)ccimen  of  Mai  ton  printing  than  a  tract  quoted 


by  Archde.aoon  Cotton  in  his  Typo^phical  Ca 
Uitr,  of  whicb  the  following  is  a  collation  : — 

^'Modest  and  Candid  Retlections  on  Dr.  Mtddleton'i 
Examination  of  the  Right  Reverend  the  Lord  Biibap  ef' 
London'^  Use  and  Intent  of  Prophecy :  In  a  Letter  t> 
the  Honourable  O.  Lyttelton,  Eaq.,  from  Thomas  Cob- 
bor,  A^. 

**  Matton :    Printed  by  J.  N.  for  Mesara.  Eti 
Book  sell  er^i  in  St.  Paul't  Cburoh  yard,    m^scc^u 
One  8liillin^  and   Six-pence.!    12niOw  pp.  100. 
from  Eaat-Newton,  Feb.  3d,  1750." 

The  second  edition  of  Rev.  BteinbeiQ 

£>ijfcour««,  being  postlmiaous,  may  be  as  late 
later  than  this  :  it  is  certainly  after  1746,  for 
that  year  I  find  Mr.  Clarke  hubacribing  ll  Ot.  1 
the  Yorkshire  Astsociation. 

Mr.  RoViei't  Bavies,  in  his  Memoirt  of  the  York 
Prcfiity  tells  us  that  Nicholas  Nickson*  priiit4»r,  I 
came  a  freeman  of  York  by  patrimony  in  17* 
and  carried  on  business  till  1777.    What  relatifll 
was  he,  if  any,  to  Joshua  Nickson,  of  Mai  ton  f 

W*   H.   A1.LKUTT. 
Oxford, 

Rev.    Samuel    Hardi%    B.A-  (5*^   S.   iL 
55),  the  author  of  many  astronomical  and 
logicjil    works,   was  bom  in   172(>,   and 
a  Fellow  of  Emanuel  College-,  Canibridjfre. 
a  sermon  of  his,  entitled   The  E     '    ■  '  '    protfi 
io   he  a   MtUerial   Sacrijux;   an 
of  CoTtstant  Covirnvnion ;  proved  ft  ^fi^  <"'   N^it 
of   ilu   ChriMian  Coreyiani,    pretwibed  on  "  Go 
Friday,    April    the   8th,    1748,'*    I    find    he 
then  *'  Curate  of  L^yhamJ^     He  was  afterwan 
Rector  of  Blakenham  Parva,  Suffolk,  and  '. 
and    Master    of    the    Fre-e    School     at 
His   moat  important  work  seems    to   ba-f 
an     edition    of     the     New    Teetajiient, 
Bcholiifi   Theologicis    et    Philolopcis,"  pufc 
anonymously  in  1768,  and  a^in  in  1778.    A  tliil 
edition  appeared  in  182t>.     He  died  in  1793. 

Spares  Hendersok  Whjuaio. 

18t  Kensingrton  Croiceat,  W. 

In  my  copy  of  the  Account  of  the  Nahirc  nud 
E7uh  of  the  'Eoly  Encharifit:,  12mo.^  Htja,  I  fi^ 
the  following,   in   the  handwriting  of  llie  " 
Wm.  Lajlon,  fifty  years  rector  of  St.  Haiti 
I|>s\vich  : — 

"  Hardy,  Sam.  Etoan.  A.B.»  1741;  i«ctor  of  Blake 
Parva  17ti4  ;  niany  year*  lecturer  and  maiter  cf  the  1 
School  at  Enfield.     He  died  at  Tottetibam,  Dec.  1 1, 17 
aged  73." 

On  the  title  of  bis  book  on  the  Eucharist,  be | 
said  to  be  curate  of  St.  Clement^s,  Ipswich. 
believe  he  was  resident  in  this  town  many  y« 
consequently  he  oomes  into  my  collection  of  Ip 
wich  authors.     I  find  I  have  the  following  : — 

*'An  Answer  to  Mr.  Chubba  Enquiry  concerning  At> 
demption  ;  the  Substance  of  Niue  Sermons  at  L^lmii 
Suffolk.     8vo.     Ipswich,  1744." 

"  Not.  Testamentum  Graeenm  :  ciiin  aohollif  Tbed*<t 
Phil    2  vols.  Bvo.,  1768." 


^aU.Aoa8,7l.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


117 


**  A  TniMlAttoo  of  SeberSfif 'fl  Tr&Atife  oo  the  Emen- 
ifttt  -    *  'v  rtridil  Tdeicofvfs;  with ExflooAtory  2i{o4ea. 

pie  PrtifpheGi«€  :  compiired  atid  explftimd. 

Jahes  Kea.d. 
Ipvwich,  SI,  CbnhilL 

"T  ,.  OF  WiGMORK  (f)"*  S.  L  18S,  234, 

3:^  -  ;  iL  37.:h—The  chief  object  of  Mb. 

Stu>3:-  iQ^Liiry  S4?enis  to  be  whence  such  a  ein- 
Jar  title  as  Mortimer  De  Mortuo  Marl  could 
en  derived  ;  an  interestiDg  quefition,  atnd 
_ich  none  of  your  correspondent  baa  at- 
lf«d  to  answer,  Mr.  Ettoit  snyi  that  Ealph 
de  Slortemer,  to  whom  William  I,  ffave  Cleobury 
ftod  Wigmore.  carae  from  castle  Mortenjon  in 
Konaftody.  How  so  mimed,  I  did  not  atteniprt  to 
0QcpbiirK  i-xcf^nr  thnt  T  iviinti^sl  *iiir  flint  tli»>re  was 
ftt  dueai 

f»f«|   .  ^  ^  I  iijrtimer 

wiw  u  scion,  and  the  Kast»  Diike  Ko>>ert,  father  of 
Williiun,  went  on  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Lund, 
and  died  iit  Nica?a,  in  Bithynia ;  some  of  the  junior 
itietnberB  ol*  the  fornily  may  have  accompanied  hinu 
The  trreat  Eiirl  Ilo;j:er  de  Montgomery,  another 
iiiem>>**r  iif  the  family,  woe  no  exUled  from  \im 
castle  of  Mont^'omeri,  in  Norraandy,  the  mins  of 
which  nrr,  I  believe^  stUl  standing.  The  name  of 
ihi«  cu-Htlc,  lb*'  Mount  of  Gomer^  wxitten  in  Latin 
I  I>c  Alonte  <_romerico,  may  also  have  r^tilted 
^jrimage.  A»ra  Minor,  where  Duke 
13  said  to  have  been  r>eopled  by  the 
f  <;..,.-,,>.  tjjQ  ^jj  (jf  Jivpheth,  Gaul 
li(?ia,  one  of  the  provinces. 
■-•^  :.^  r-a..,l  in  ,v  1 ..  fanciful  and 

and  J  «'  if  a  more 

lots   rme  cv"  i  ,  ^  Ltd.     I  have 

Eibout  it,  and,  a  short  time  before  I 
E^s  query,  I  wrote  to  "  N.  &  Q./'  ask- 
j  if  it  wiiv  knoim  how  Mauley  or  Mawley  came 
br  written  in  Latin  De  Mtilo  Lacu.     This,  1 
mu&t  have  some  relation  to  De  Mortuo 
Mr.  Evton  says  that  the  Baton  name  of 
^vrlLV,  near  Cleobury,  waa  Melela,  and  that  it 
irranted  with  other  manors  to  the  Mortimens 
lt!i      V  Dr.  Ainawortb,  who  was  a  bit  of 

«ti  -  the  Latin  aynonymB  of  these 

llir«^'  pu liivtui'!^,  Avit  h  others,  at  the  end  of  his  hatin 
DidtSammy ;  and  I  bive  no  doubt  they  are  all  to 
he  found  tn  Latin  ohroniclea,  though  I  have  only 
nmi  with  Bern ortuomari,       William  Purtok, 

SH  Episcopal  Skes  (fl***  S.  ii. 

i   Haated  (History  of  Ktnt)  we 

the  Arcbbi*<hop«^  of  Cunterbuiy 

their  «eoA  a>i  ^*  dorobemencis 

time  of  the  Narman  Cdotjooftt, 

hi^^  ^aU  «Uii;tp,  c«n  It  (Cftfit^rbttry)  Portfmrm'a, 
0,  which  M  iald  to  be  id  uJd  atme.    Th* 


Saxoiw  called  thia  city  Ctmi-^arn-hifrtj,  iVf,,  the  Keatfib 
men's  city.  The  Lntin^  tifterwrird^  mod<!ttod  it  to  Can- 
twanVz,  and  the  EtU£)i»h  tci  iu  precent  iiauio  of  Ciinier- 
bttry,  by  which  it  bus  be«n  ta  general  caJHed,  from  about 
the  time  of  the  Normun  Conquest.*' 

Of  the  other!»,  two  are  quite  claar,  natnely, 
**  SciraburnenBis  ciritatis,^  and  "  sclesego  eccle«i£B 
episcopua/'  meaning  reapectively,  as  your  corre- 
spondent  supposes,  the  Whops  of  Sherborne  End 
Selsea, 

In  Dugdale  {MonoKih^oni^  voL  i.  p,  137,  loL 
16fi2)  wo  have  an  account  of  certain  epineopal  se^ 
founded  in  the  kingdom  of  Mercia— nve  in  num- 
ber— 4UQon£  which  occur  the  names  Ltogora  and 
Syddma^  which  seem  in  some  degree  to  answer  to 
ie4foreiiau  and  gytitUttMi^,  but  to  what  towns  these 
refer  I  am  quite  unable  to  gay.  On  "  dammucft? 
civitatifl  episcopus/'  unless  it  be  Doranoc— Dun- 
wich^  I  oin  throw  no  light  at  all.  Other  readea 
better  inibmied  may  do  better  for  your  querist. 

The  document  I  quote  from  is  headed, — 
**  Jj£  ponttfiaUi  »tdtt  guomodo  primitut  itainia  9U 
Wigomaj ;  «t  di  pos*tMi&hibnM  tpiet  a  rt§fbv»,  tuftrmvI^K 
€t  <k  bonmr^^ttdal  lonu  Ttru  dtita  Mtnl  W  igorzwmi  tedMim* 
Edmukd  Tinv,  M«A« 

GoDwiT  (5**»  S.  i.  129,  212.)— After  having  been 
80  buffeted  by  Ma.  Tkw  and  others  for  my 
explanation  of  Milton's  **Grim  feature/'  I  very 
humbly  venture  to  su^^gest  that  as  the  Knot,  the 
&liore- companion  of  the  God  wit,  is  undoubtedly 
named  after  Canute,  ho  the  God  wit  catriea  on  the 
fame  of  the  famous  Earl  Godwin,  of  the  Goodwin 
Sands.  Morris  {Brit,  Bitih)  gives  **  Godwyn  *'  as 
a  synonym  of  God  wit.  Pklaoius, 

Elizabeth  CASfKiwa  (5*^  8.  it,  27, 75.) — A  good 
summary  of  the  chief  points  of  the  evidence  on 
both  sides  is  given  in  the  Gmtlmaanti  Ma^asine, 
1754. 

It  is  singular  that  Mr.  Paget,  who  has  evidently* 
read  the  aooount  in  the  8tate  Trials  moet  carefully, 
should  have  overlooked  the  note  at  the  end  of  the 
volume,  in  which  the  date  of  Canninff^  death  is 
given.  Mr.  Paget  says  {JudiHal  Pumm,  p.  886), 
*'  the  la^  notice  we  find  of  her  is  contained  in  tIftB 
Annval  Regitterfof  1761  ";  whereas,  in  the  SUst^ 
Trxah,  he  might  have  seen  a  reference  to  the 
Gmtlrman'i  Magarme  for  August,  1773  (vol.  xliii. 
pp.  412,  413),  whi'-^  Tiifntiona  Cunmng^s  death  aa 
occurring  ut  "  Wt  i,  in  Connecticut,  Nortb 

Americji,"  on  the  ^„i  J  uly  in  that  year. 

By-the-way,  the  exinict  from  the  Anmial  Re- 
gistrr^  quoted  by  Mr.  Paget ^  represents  that 
*'  Elizabeth  Canning  is  arrivtd  in  Englandf  and 
i6oeived  a  le^cy  of  hml,  left  her  thi^e  ye^kn  «g9 
Ijy  «&  old  h^y  of  Newington  Green  ^';  whereas  tSt 
GmiUmum*9  Ma^txxmt  «iys,  ^In  Augost,  17^ 
she  waa  sent  by  her  friends  to  Kew  Enghnid,  mfcam 
ihe  ktu  resided  ever  tijuA,^ 

Ajlfrsd  6.  Beayix^  VLk^ 
Pfcaton. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*^  a  IL  Am  8,1* 


^cifcrtMIHw* 


K0TE9  ON  BOOKS,  lea 
LftUrii  adilre^ed  to    ThomoA   Htarne^  M.A,,,  of 

Edmund   Hall,     Edited    by    Frederic  Ouvry, 

M.A-  (London,  Privately  Printed.) 
The  late  Rev.  Joseph  Stevenson  haviog  made 
copies  of  certain  letters  among  the  Rawlinson 
31  bS.  which  are  preserved  in  the  Bodleian 
Library,  presented  those  transcripts  to  Mr.  Ouvry. 
This  geDtlem&ii,  whoee  litemiy  and  antiquarian 
taates  are  well  known  to  all  who  enjoy  his  friend- 
ahip  or  have  the  honour  of  his  acquaintance, 
believing  that  these  letters  are  of  considerable 
interest,  hm^  in  liberal  spirit,  printed  them,  and 
giren  copies  to  his  friends. 

The  collection  conaista  of  fifty-five  letters, 
extending  in  date  from  January,  1705,  to 
November,  173l>.  Among  the  writers  are  the 
names  of  Bishop  Wilson,  Henry  DodweO,  Hilkiah 
Bedford,  Dr.  Richard  Mead,  John  Anetis,  and 
George  Hcarae.  The  last  was  the  father  of  ThoniiLs, 
His  letters  are  by  far  the  quaintest  in  the  book. 
The  old  parish  clerk  had  a  hard  time  of  it.  His 
only  pride  was  in  the  scholarship  and  the  com- 
parative success  in  life  of  his  son^  from  whom  the 
aire  oceaaionally  asked  for  the  gift  of  a  pair  or 
two  of  stockings^  a  shirt,  and  some  comfort  against 
winter. 

Thorough  Jacobite,  sincere  and  savage  Tory  as 
Hearne  was,  he  was  on  very  good  terms  with 
numerous  Whig  friends,  f^ome  of  whom  apjiear 
also  to  have  been  on  equally  good  terms  with  all 
who  would  help  them  to  make  life  not  merely 
tolerable,  but  "joDy."  Among  the  illustrations 
of  the  manners  and  morals  of  the  day,  there  is  a 
striking  one  in  a  letter  of  old  George  Hearne-s^  in 
which  he  says  :— '*  At  Kerscomb,  Squire  AJdworth 
having  invited  some  Gentlemen  to  dinner  on  Bun- 
day  the  6th  of  March,  which,  I  think,  they  naid 
was  his  Birthday,  there  was,  among  the  rest,  Owen 
Buckingham,  Esq.,  of  Reading  ;  it  so  happened 
that  in  the  evening  Mr.  Aid  worth  and  he  had 
aom  words,  and  went  out  from  the  house  soni 
distance  and,  they  aay,  drew,  and  Mr.  Aldworth'a 
hard  fate  was  to  kill  Mr.  Buckingham  on  the 
spot."  Hospitable  dinners  and  angry  dif^putanta 
often  came  to  this  conclusion.  It  only  remains  for 
«a  to  congratulate  those  who  possess  copies  of  this 
book  through  the  generosity  of  the  editor. 


MacmUtanU  Maganiu.    No.  178,  August.    (MacmiUan 

&  Co.) 
Tuis  is  a  capita]  number.  The  Uadmg  articlo  on  "Victor 
Hugo*8  Dramaa'*  {by  Caraille  BarT<r«)  will  please 
drarri&tlc  reiuleis  ceneraUy,  and  the  ghost  of  Madame  d© 
S£rign6  in  particular;  for  M.  l^n^e  spe«k»  dia- 
para^ngly  of  Racine,  for  which  wc  too  mre  profound  I  jr 
thankful.  For  example  :—**  The  tragedies  of  Hacine 
are  abtolately  dull ;  and  the  few  spectator!  *BritannicaB' 
«in  master  now-adA7«  are  thow  who  nippoee  that 
Maciue  iB  juimlrable,  and  mast,  in  conaequcnoe,  be  yawned 


netd^l 
cefulB 


oyer,  with  due  respect  to  hii  great  but  unfettered  ^eniu^ 
What  can  be  more  dreary  than  the  emphaik  tirndet  or 
those  pompous  and  oxtra-humiin  persoDages  who  entwinal 
the  simplest  expresriitYna  with  pmphraset  and  cireum-^ 
locutions,  and,  insteitd  of  '  11  est  minoit/  give  ui  this 
cart  and  neatty  put  euphemism  ?— 

'  Du  haut  do  ma  demeof  e, 

Seigneur,  I'horloge  eoSn  Bonne  la  doozieine  heare.* 
The  lines  quoted  by  M.  Barr^re  rotnind  ut  of  a  Ktmlli 
stilted  passage  in  Saurin*8  tragedy,  Biveritf  tlatelj  w-j 
ferred  to  byoureioellcnt  French  coutcmponLry,  Vin' 
mediairti: — 

"C'ertunelettre, 

Qa*entre  tos  maiDSi,  Moniieur,  Ton  ta'a  dtt  de  reuiettre. 

M.  Barrtjre,  in  the  course  of  the  above  article*  in»»* 
takes  Edmund  Kcan,  "  the  great  English  actor/*  for  hii 
sou  Charlesi. 

Diu  Karl  Elzr  has  published,  at  Despati  (Loitd< 
Williams  k   Norgnte),  a  pretty  and,  \s  *  '  nl4, 

perfect  edition  of  Rowlej's  chroniclohi  '  T" 

IW   Sdi  Me,    V*.m  Know  Mf.^    Dr.    K  ,    '^'^ 

Introduction   and   Notes;    and   he  state*  i*f  Ikwwley' 
play,   with    its    boisterous    Henry   VIIL,  th»t  it 
aU  probability  serred  i^hake8pea^e  as  an  inducemenl 
dramatize  the  life  of  Henry  V^IIl."'    The  whole  vdai 
refiecte  the  greateit  cre-Jit  on  Dr.  Eh«  at  a 
scholar,  chronicler,  and  critic. 

Wb  have  onlv  space  to  make  farther  record  here  t/t 
Mr,  Cornelius  firown't  Noiu  upon  NotU  (Nottingbai- 
Formen).  which  is  a  most  amusing  rolume.  and  one 
be  used  for  reference  as  well  as  amusement.     To  tH>oktl 
on  London,  Mesera.  Bemrose  hare  added  a  tctj  graceful 
one»  illustrating  the  history  of  8t,  Bartholomew'^  l*\' 
Church,  with  pictorial  illustrations   by  0.    I 
and  last^but  not  least,  Messrs.  Ktng&Go.ha«i 
the  second  volume  of  their  handy  and  handsou..  l-l...  • 
of  Tennyson. 

THE  DEVELOPMENT  OP  THE  PEES8. 
1821—1874. 

At  the  recent  Festival  of  the  Printers*  Ponaion 
Corporation,  Mr.  Walter  spoke  of  th«  early  cfTortt 
of  his  father  as  a  printer,  and  expressed  I 
that  he  himself  had  not  been  practically  i 
in  the  art ;  and  he  referred  to  the  vast  inilut^u-.*'  oi 
machinery  in  promoting  the  development  of  the 
press. 

The  TimeSj  as  we  know,  was  established  in  the 
year    1788.      From    the    first    the    question    of 
luachinery  became  a  study,  and  improvetnent  at 
I'ejieated    intervals    has    been   the    result.      Tlio 
machinery  employed  Jifty  yean  a^,  1824»  o'ulil 
not  give  out  more  than  twelve  to  hfteen  hur»*iit'i 
copies  per  hour.     The  Applegarth,  or  "  mangU?  " 
machine,  introduced,  we  believe,  about  the  year 
1.H30,  was  a  great  improvement  upon  its  predecea- 
sors,  and  gave  a  decided  Htimulus  to   the  wd<*. 
With  the  present  machinery  (the  '*  Walter  "i  tlh 
«peed  is  at  the  rate  of  twelve  thtmsand  per  li 
It  was^   however,   the  fiscal   restriction   imp' 
upon  the  pres.^  that  retarded  Ita   progresa, 
have  looked  carefully  over  a  copy  of  the  Tifn*    i 
the  l8t  of  January,'  1824,  a  small  sheet  of  i 
pages  only,  and  have  arrived  at  the  conclusion  tii  a 
for  that  one  day*s  issue  its  proprietors  paid  no  l»:*i 


^i^tart 


m 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


119 


a  sum  tlian  IBlL  in  taxes  to  the  State.  Xo 
mitigiition  of  these  Uwd  took  place  until  1836, 
'when  the  advertisement  duty^  the  compulsory' 
stamp,  and  the  paper  duty  were  all  reduced.  The 
prosperity  of  the  uewspoperB,  of  course,  dates  from 
that  tirne. 

In  1824  there  were  published  in  the  United 
Kingtlom  266  papere  in  all,  thus  divided:  London, 
31  ;  ill  the  countiy,  135  ;  in  Ireland,  58;  in  Scot- 
land, 33  ;  in  the  British  Islands,  0.  In  the  present 
year  the  aggregate  number  is  1,585.  Eatimating 
the  news  sheets  printed  in  1824,  we  cannot  place 
the  number  at  more  than  thirty  millions  of  sheets. 
At  the  present  period,  we  do  not  doubt  that  the 
issue  m  sue  hundred  and  fifty  millions  of  sheets 
per  .annum. 

The  Post-Office  Directory  for  the  year  1824 
©Tea  the  names  of  136  master  printers  in  London. 
Tlie  present  year's  Directory  crives  the  names  of  777. 

We  subjoin  the  list  of  daily  piipers:,  morning 
and  evening,  published  in  1824.  The  curiousi  in 
such  matters  should  examine  the  li^t  of  weekly 
papers  issued  in  London  at  that  period,  and  also 
the  lists  including  the  country  papers,  and  for 
Trnl^inr].  Bcotland,  and  the  British  Islands. 

Dailtf, 


Ikitiih  Press, 

MomiDK  Advertiser. 
Public  Ledger* 

Chronicle, 

Post 

■KroeB. 

Herald. 

New  Times. 

I 


Daily  Evtmnt^. 
BHtiih  Traveller.  Star. 

Courier.  Staklman. 

Globe  and  Traveller.  Sun. 

From  the  Athencmm  of  /tUjf  25. 

In  continuation  of  the  alx)ve  a  correspondent 
ffives  the  list  of  all  papers  published  in  the  United 
Kingdom  in  the  ye&r  1824: — 

3fon4a!f. 
Fanner't  Journal.  County  Chronicle. 

Monday f  WfdnekUijf,  and  Friday, 
Mreulng  Mail.  London  Packet. 

Tuetday,  Thurtdayf  and  Saturday, 
£iiglith  Chroiuclo.  8t.  James's  Chronicle, 

Twfday  and  Saturday. 
London  Oaxetlc.  Hue  and  Cry^  every  3d  week. 

•  WedntAday, 

British  Mercury* 
Thurtdaif, 

Iaw  Advertiser.  Law  Chroniote. 

^m  Law  Gazette. 

Hrridi 

HSatiL 

h 


I 


Ga- 


WteJtly. 

jFriday—II&ldwin't  Journal.  Saturday  —  Literary 
ISaturday—Cobbett's  U^&B"  2ette. 

tor.  „    Museum. 

Idtemrj  Chronicle.  „    WestmiDSterGaiette. 


Dispatch. 
Engliehman. 
Britisij  Monitor. 
Ohaerver. 
BeU*fi  Mcjsengcr. 
John  Bull. 
The  News. 
Kxaminer. 
Bcirs  Life. 


Sunday, 

Sundaj  Monitor   and   Ee- 

corder. 
Ke&l  John  BulL 
Weekly  Regiatcr. 
t»       Gazette. 
Sunday  Times. 
Beming  B  Ej^preis. 
The  (juardiaa. 


CotKTRY  NkWBJ»APBE8  P«J»USHB1>  IK  182L 


Bath  Chronicle. 
^ ,    JoumaL 
„    Herald. 

f,    and  Cheltenham  Ga* 
zette. 
Berwick  Advertiser. 
Birmingham  Gazette. 

,,  Chroaiole. 

Blackburn  Mail, 

,f        Journal. 
BoUoa  Express. 
Boston  Gazette. 
Brighton  Herald. 

„        Oasette. 

,f        Chronicle. 
Bristol  Gazette, 

„     JoumaL 

»,      Mirror. 

„      Mercury. 

„      ObserTor, 
Beccles  Chronicle. 
Bury  Post. 

^    G«xette. 
Cambridge  Chronicle. 
Cambrian  (Smransea). 
Ciy-marthen  JouruiJ. 
Cajliale  JoumaL 

„        Patriot. 
Chelmsford  Chronicle* 

Gai»!tte. 
Cheltenham  Chronicle. 
Cheater  Chronicle. 

ff       Courant. 

„       Guardian. 
Colchester  Gaxette. 
Cornwall  Gaxette  (Truro). 
County  Chronicle. 

„      Herald. 
CoTentry  Mercury. 

„         Herald. 
Cumberland  Pacquet. 
Derby  MercuiT. 

„     Reporter 
DevizeB  Gazette. 
Devonshire  Freeholder, 
DorcUeBter  JoumaL 
Dorset  Chronicle. 
Don  caster  Gazette. 
Durham  Advertiser. 

n        Chronicle. 
Essex  Herald  (CbelmAford). 
Exeter  Flying  Post 

„      Gaxette. 

y,     News. 
Gloucester  Joamal. 
,f  Herald. 

Hampshire  Chronicle 

(Winch). 
Hamp§hlre  Telegraph 
{Portsmouth). 


Ad- 


Ad. 


Hereford  JoumaJ. 

Hull  Pocket. 
♦♦    Advertiser. 
,,    Rockingham. 

Huntingdon  Gazette. 

Ipswich  JoumaJ. 

kentish    Gazette    (Canter- 
bury). 

Kentish  Chronicle  (Caater> 

Kent  Herald  (Canterbury). 

„     Mercury. 
Lancaster  Gazette. 
Leeds  Intelli^nocr. 

,,     Mercury. 
Leeds  Independent. 
Leicester  Journal. 

fy         Chronicle. 
Litch&etd  Mercury. 
Liverpool    General  Adver* 
tiser. 

„         Advertisen 

ff  Saturday's 

Tcrtlser. 

,1  Courier. 

„  Mercury. 

1^  Mercantile 

vertiser. 

Moccleafield  Courier. 

Maidstone  JoumaL 

Gasette. 

ManchcBtor  Mercury, 

,,  Herald. 

,,  Chronicle. 

,»  Gaxette. 

ft  Volunteer* 

„  Guardian. 

Newcastle  Courant. 

„         Chronicle. 
Northampton  Mercury, 
Norfulk  Chronicle. 
Norwich  Mercury. 
Nottingham  Journal. 

„  Review. 

North  Wales  Gaietie  (Ban- 
gor). 
Ofwestry  Herald, 
Oxford  Journal. 
,,      Herald. 
Plymouth  Telegraph. 
Plymouth  and  Dock  Jour* 

nal. 
Pottery  Gaxette  (Hanky). 
Preston  Chronicle. 
Heading  Mercury. 
Rochester  Gazette. 
Sahsbury  Journal. 
Salopian  JoumaL 
Shrewsbury  Chronicle. 
Sheibome  Morcory. 


120 


I^OTES  AND  QUERTEa 


[5*S,n.Apa,l,7i, 


Sheffield  Iri8. 
„        Mercury. 

Southamptoti  Chronick* 

Herald. 
Stamford  Mercury. 

„         News. 
SUffon!abire  Advertiter. 
Stockport  Advertuer. 
Suffolk  Cbroniole  (IpRWich). 
Sussex  Advertiser  (Lewes). 

„      Chronicle. 
Tftunton  Courier 
WakeSeld  Journal, 
"Warwick  Advertiser. 

Guernsey  Qaxette.  Jcrtey  Constitutional. 

,f    '  Mercury,  Manks  Advertiser, 

,,        8tar.  „       8u«. 

Jersey  British  Press.  „      Man. 

„      Gazette  (Mourant*a). 

SOOTCJ]   FilPEKS. 

Aberdeen  Joum*].  Edinburgh  Star. 

f,         Chronicle.  „       Weekly  Chromcle, 

Arbroath     Review     (Mon-  „        Scotsman. 

trose).  M        Observer. 

Ayr  Advertiser.  Fife  Herald. 

„    and  Wigtonshipo  Cottt-  Obsgow  Courier. 


Westmoreland  Advertiser. 

Qaxetie. 
West  Briton  (Truro), 
Wjeatcrn  fjuniinary. 
Weymouth  G»xette. 
Whitehaven  Gazette. 
Winrls42ir  Express  and  Bucks 

Oaxette. 
Wolverhampton  Cbroniole. 
Worcester  Jou  rnal. 
Herald. 
York  Counmt, 

,,     Cbronicla. 

ff     Herald. 

,1     OaKette. 


ler. 
Cupar  ilenild, 
Dumfries  Journal. 
♦♦        Courier. 
Dundee  Advertiser* 

„       Courier, 
Edinbmigh  Caledonian  Mer- 
cury. 
fp        Evening:  Courant. 
„        Advertiser. 
^        G^isctte. 
„        Weekly  JoumaL 


Armaj^h  Volunteer. 
Athtoue  Herald. 
Del  last  Newsletter. 

„      Commercial     Chro- 
uiele. 

„       Irishman. 
Corloiv  Morning  Post. 
Caran  Herald. 
Cork  Mercantile  Chronicle. 
„     Advertiser. 
„    Conslitutlon. 
,j    Mercury. 
„    Sou  them  Reporter* 
Clare  Journal. 
Oonmel  Herald. 

,,        Advertiser. 
Connaught  Advertiser. 
Dublin  Antidote. 

„      Evening  Post. 

„      Freeman's  Journal. 

„      Sannder'a    Newslet- 
ter. 

yf     Morning  Post 

„      Correspondent 

,,     Goietle. 

„      Faulkner's  Journal. 

„      Weekly  Freeroan*8, 

„      Farmer's  Journal. 

,,      Hibernian  Journal. 

,^     JKrenJmr  Heralds 


Her»ld. 
'„        Journal- 
„        Chronicle. 
„        Sentinsl. 
Greenock  Advertiser, 
Inverness  Journal. 
„       Courier. 
Kclso  Mail, 

,,     Weekly  Journal, 
Montrose  Chronicle. 
Perth  Cuurier. 
Stirling  JoumaL 
Ibihs  Pafek9. 

Dublin  Evening  Mall. 
Warder. 


J,      Times, 

„     Commercial  Gazette. 

„      Weekly  Register. 

„     Mercantile     Adver* 
tiscr, 

„      Hue  and  Cry. 
Dro^heda  Journal, 
Ennis  Chronicle. 
Enniskillen  Chronicle. 
Gal  way  Chronicle. 

J,        Advorti«or. 
Kerry  Western  Herald. 

„  Evening  Post. 
Ivtlkonny  Moderator. 
Limerick  Clinmicle. 

,,        Evening  Post. 
Lein^ter  Juumah 
Londriiiderry  JotiraaL 
Mayo  Cnnstitution. 
Newry  Telegraph. 
Sligo  Joumjti. 
Strabane  Morning  Post 
Tuam  Gasette. 
Ulster  Chrouiote. 
Watorford  Cbrontclc. 

,t         Mirror. 
Westmeath  Journal. 
Wexford  Hsrald. J.  F. 


TsR  GoLPBN  BoBi.— Tliii  Talncd  compliment  from 
the  Pope  has  been  given  this  year  to  the  Baronue  ViglaTt 
formerly  Sophie  CruTelli,  aud'a  Queen  of  Song, 

The  *'  Sbrrwbburt  Show/' — This  remuout  of  tha  «] 
Corpus  Christl  festival  vraa  celebrated  this  year 
renewed  spirit  and  splendour. 


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fL\iiitt€  to  CarrftfpattGrnitH, 

R.  S— T.— Ravaillac  asserted  that  twice^  at  the  sign 
the  *'  Ecce  Homo,*'  near  Estampes,  the  idea  rame  ii 
bis  head  to  kill  Henri  IV.     Th<  liteg^d  br] 

RaTaillao  were  that  th«  king  atou!  J  I  ^uaieaP< 

the  Refurmed  Beligiou  to  become  II  .,.^-.  ..aho1iai»ai!i4 
thai  lie  tin  was  about  to  make  wsr  ''  against  God,  inas- 
much as  the  Hope  i:*  God,  and  God  the  Pupe."— See  the 
*'  Trial  of  Ravailloc,"  at  the  end  of  the  Mrmoirwdv  SuU^ 

M,  T.    Prbstow.— The   line   is   neither    PofMi'i 
Drydcu's.     The  former  bos  {Imit,  of  J^orace,  Bvok  \ 
Ep,  1)  :— 

*'  Praise  undeserved  Is  scandal  in  disguise  "  ; 
but  it  is  a  quotation  from  the  author  of  a  poem  To  Ih^} 
CtUbraied  Btauiiu  o/ifu  British  Court.  Dryden,  in  thei 
dedication  of  Don  Seboitian^  to  the  Earl  of  Lcicestef^, 
says— 

"Where  Praise  is  undeserved  'tis  Satire.*' 

Pal. — For  Strcater,  or  Streeter,  see  Pepyi^  Ptnkerton*. 
Redgrave,  kc.  For  his  work  at  St.  Michael's^  the  folH 
lowing  extract  speaks  for  itself ;—"  Ui72, 15th  November,! 
Ordered  that  Mr,  Streater,  the  Painter,  who  h^th  l\n' 
diucourBed  with  to  pjiint  Moses  and  A 
Commandments,  the  Beltefe^  and  Lord 
chancell,  and  hath  retjuired  for  it  ZoL,  L^ 
as  he  hath  proposed,  shall  hare  that  suiu.  itir  it. '  ^^ 
countM  qf  Par.  q/  Hi.  Michael,  ComlulL 

C.   A.  W.— C.  B.   T.  (Eton)  writes:— "The  arc 
of  tho  Tenifon  Sehool  was  Frederick  Momvble,  wL 
suddenly  last  year.      He  wa«i  the   first  ->''•• 
artthiitect  under  the  Metropolis  Local  M 
Hayter  Lewis's  work  in  the  square  was  ti.  .j,i.' 

J.  P. — The  first  article  of  the  sort  was  2voah'a  Arit^ 
Jafueb.— See  p.  6i  of  present  Tolurao. 

NOTJCW. 

Editorial  Oommunicutt-  ■  -^r^  ■'  1  he  addreced  to  **  The^ 
Editor  '■— AdvertiscroO'  mess  Letters  to  "Tlw  \ 

Publisher  "—at  the  Ofii  , .ing ton  Street,  Stroiid^i 

London,  W.C.  i 

We  l>eg  leaye  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  comj 
munications  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print ;  I 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  exicepdoiL 

To  all  communications  should  he  affixed  the  i 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pubUe»tloD,  boi^ 
at  a  guarantee  of  good  taith. 


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121 


yUfDOy»  SATURDA  r,  A UOUSr  H,  W4. 


CONTENTS.  — N«  33. 

kcAi  Itl— FUwrCktntflBiiriwilim*  1212 -Spelling 

tU  ,  1^— Ald«fia«ti  Sir  WilliAta  SUlnes,  134 

|0f«Ar  '  <  lOilmitig— B&tLle  of  Floddes^ 

tl<  t  f or  Mr,  Froudir't  Hlftofj— 

I  of  il        _  1  ar  the  Charchln]^  of  Womea," 

)|tti— Dr.  PriMtiey's  MftUrUlinn— Bon jiii*s  Gold 

but  mdefi  Kolfls  for  Hoaitb.  ISO. 

i  b«c*iii«  of  SetSMDi  Botliweli  Y  126'-8traQgo 
i  PtioAtlf  Cruelly— The  BolMrtaoQ  F»mUy^ 
•ad    »*The  Autiwotic   Rccowls,"    127— "Mr. 
ilt"»Babcicftl  Qtwry— Privf  CoiujcQ  Judff- 
i\  WeslertoD  — To  OopjiiU  — Uvy— Bev. 
ntfcb— A  i^ucsUoQ  for  AnttquAties,    1^— 
Leon."  a  Poeni  —  Lrii  (an  IsLand)  —  Tho 
«wberT7  LeairM— Hie  Piivate  Goronenihi|)i 
•d— l^e  Second  Crusade,  129. 

f— T     "  udi.  EarU  of  Wlntoo»  129-Macaulay 

II  130— George  Colman,  131— Adam'i 

Iffr—  Lrefor  hit  envy**— **Antlent,"  132— 

[Bttrr  and  bj^ll— "  Wiadom'i  betier  Uiau  money" 
p|*-_«'  A  Euwan-Tne,"  134—*'  I*mbard'B  Andeot 
OoOJMftQTO-^Old  Epgraviag*— T.  AUingtoo— Mary 
le  *- flenldJc  —  Dr.  JBarion^  Pans— The  Jodvee 
nit*  135  —  Mendelwobn  —  "  The  Widow  of  the 
—  WaUr-roarlc  —  "Shotover"  —  Dr.  I>e&'s  Mas^c 
Tlie  Scottish  Family  of  £d«at  —  Epkscopd  Tiblefl, 
[  Trevor  "  —  Mn.  Cowden  Clarke'fi  "  Shak- 
flce,**  LIT — Wiggp — Drtuy  Hoiuo— * '  Put 
^nfr-^Prononclatioa  of  "  Aches/'  130. 


,^ 


ubw\ 


CRICKET, 
ing  IS  abridged  from  an  article  called 
mtenuy  of  Cricket/'  by  Mr.  Arthur  A, 
and  printed  in  Tlit  Hour : —  * 
"otaxie^  of  cricket  are  aware  thai  this  year  is 
iftaj  of  that  Doble  game.  Cricket  ieems  to  be 
■  to  j^igload  and  the  Engligh  race.  Wlierevcr 
lb  noe  taJcoe  root^  there  to  a  certainty  cricket 
D  iiHliiutioi),  The  gftine  has  taken  d^i  root 
iSf,  bal  golf  cannot  be  forced  to  give  way»  and 
I  its  own.  Ireland  ha«  not  shown  any  great 
>xi  for  tbo  nme;  indeed,  I  do  not  know  that 
iQj  national  flport  except  huntiQg.  Cricket  is 
ko  be  identical  with  au  offshoot  of  a  game  cmUled 
lriii«h  wia  ptavod  in  the  fourteenth  ceatary ; 
|ite||P  17 i  4  that  cricket  wa«  an  ackaowtedged 
^^^Bgialated  for.  In  the  autumn  of  tLat 
^^^Bliobl«iQen  and  g«>ntlemen  formed  them- 
^nmi&itt:'  I^tUte  of  Dorset 

a,  ano  of  laws  for  the 

the  garni,  ^led  before  in  a 

ttltory  fortu.  le  fiwt  club  wa« 

nblcdon.  iniluij  it  was,  in  reality^ 

L    Coiein4n.  ivritmg  m&ny  Tears 
I  Lile  in  pheainntSy  cherries,  hof>B, 
ricketers/    The  game  ii  suppoted 
Iraui  the  8axon  word  '  cricc/  a  stick. 
Ian  ©id  EqgUtfa  word.  '  kri^et/  which 
IH^n*:  pr-^' -^        *i      .  ider  times 
%  a-  '  aycra  ore, 

All  i  e  caleodar 


have  their  anniTanaiy  and  centenary.  Why  ibould  not 
Saint  Cricket's  centenfirybo  held  I  I  do  not  think  the 
players  of  the  North  and  8outh  have  ever  met  with  their 
Btrongeit  teams.  Mi^ht  not  a  great  match  be  g«>t  up 
between  North  and  fc^outh,  each  side  tj  pick  out  their 
tttretity  litiL^t  menj,  the  names  being  then  sout  to  the 
M.C.C.,  the  committee  of  which  wotJd  chow  -t 

the  two  elevens?    The  cricketing  feaaorn  i^ 
certainly;  still  there  i«  tim^  to  get  the  tcau..  ^  „..<.. vi- 
and wind  up  the  season  of  1874  with  the  greatest  mitoh 
on  record." 

There  in  no  doubt,  I  apprehend,  that  cricket,  as 
a  regular  ffxme^  "  under  a  code  of  kwa/'  is  older 
than  Mr.  Gilmore  imagines, 

Sevenil  instances  of  the  early  Ujje  of  the  word 
have  been  given  in  former  numbers  of  "  N.  &  Q.*' 
It  had  found  ifcs  way  into  dictionaries  long  before 
1774.  The  earliest  instance  I  have  met  with  is  in 
Kersey^s  Engluh  THctionaiyj  third  edition,  1721, 
where  it  is  explained  to  be — 

**  An  idsect  like  a  grasi-hopper ;  also  a  lo^  stool  aach 
at  children  uaually  sit  on ;  also  a  sort  of  play  with  a  ball.' ' 

Fenninc'a  Royal  Engluh  jyidioiiary,  1741,  is 
rather  clearer  as  t<»  the  »ort  of  game  meant.  There 
we  are  told  that  cricket  means — 

*'  An  insect  which  frequents  fire-places  or  ovens,  and 
is  remarkable  for  a  continual  chirping  or  cro^kiitg  tiotse; 
a  game  which  is  played  witli  a  bat  and  a  ball/* 

The  Gentlemaivs  Magiuim,  for  September,  1743, 

?[Uote«  an  article  on  "  Publick  Cricket  Matche*," 
rom  the  BHtuh  Champion  of  the  8tb  of  that 
months  from  which  it  seems  that,  much  to  the  db- 
gust  of  the  writer,  "noblemen,  gentlemen,  and 
clergymen  "were  then,  as  now,  in  the  habit  of  joining 
with  their  social  inferiors  in  pLiying  the  game ;  that 
notices  of  the  matches  were  given  by  advertisement 
in  the  newspapers,  and  that  large  numbers  of  people 
used  to  flock  to  behold  them. 

This  certainly  indicates  that  the  game  had  then 
a  weil-undei'stood  constitutiotL  In  the  same  maga- 
zine^ for  October,  1756,  a  poem  i&  printed  which 
does  not  leave  much  room  for  doubt  that  crick  el 
wm  then  played  much  in  the  same  manner  as  it  in 
now.  I  do  not  think  it  boa  ever  been  reprinted, 
and  therefore  endose  a  transcript  for  your  colunms. 

"Tub  Qijcs  or  C&rcntT.    Ah  Exuactss  at  MsncHAirT 
Tatloeb'  School. 
Peace,  and  her  artt,  we  sing— her  genial  poir*r 
Can  give  tho  breast  to  pant,  the  tho*t  to  towY^ 
Tho*  guiltlen.  not  ioglorions  soub  inspires, 
And  ^asts  lest  eavage,  not  test  nobte  fires. 
Such  is  her  sway,  when  Cricket  calls  her  ttmln, 
The  sons  of  labour,  to  the  accustom'd  plain. 
With  all  the  faero'i  passion  and  desire* 
They  swell,  they  glow,  they  envy,  and  adnure; 
Despair  and  resolution  rcis^  by  turns  : 
Su^^ense  torments.       '  •  .:  -  ^,yJ^^J^ 

See  !  in  due  rank  *i  y  ttand. 

In  act  to  start— the  e  hand, 

Still  active,  eager,  sc^iu  coi^uiuJ  in  one; 
Tho'  (lit.  all  moving,  and  while  present  gone. 
In  ancient  combat,  from  tho  /»r--"  -    *»''<?fJ. 
Not  more  unerring  flew  the  ba 
Than  rolU  the  ball,  wUVv  ^arj  W  \ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


[5*^  S.  IL  Ata.  ISz-ri. 


^ow  Icveird,  wUizzing  o'«r  th«  tpritiging  blade, 

Now  tO!»'d  to  rise  more  fatal  from  the  groundj^ 

ExHct  and  faithful  to  th'  appointed  bounds 

Yet  Vttin  its  gp«ed,  yet  vain  iU  certain  aim ; 

The  wary  bataman  vratcbeft  o*er  the  game; 

fi«fore  hu  stroke  the  leathern  cirele  flies, 

Nowwbecli  oblique,  now  mounting  threati  the  ikici. 

Nor  jet  lets  Tain  the  wary  batsman ^t  blow, 

If  intercepted  by  the  circling  foe. 

Too  foon  the  nimble  arm  retorts  the  ball. 

Or  ready  fingers  catch  it  in  its  fall : 

Thus  Tarious  art  with  vary'd  fortune  strives, 

And  with  each  changing  chance  the  iport  re  rites. 

Emblem  of  manj-colour'd  life— the  state 

&r  Cricket-rules  di^c rim i nates  the  great : 

TIu  onimird  nd(,  who  ptacc  and  profit  want, 

Watch  to  surprize,  and  labour  to  supplant : 

While  those  wim  taste  the  sweets  of  present  winnings. 

Labour  as  heartily  to  keep  their  inningM. 

On  either  side  the  whole  great  game  is  play 'd, 

LTotry'd  no  shift  is  left,  unsought  no  aid: 

8kill  vies  with  Kkill,  and  pow'r  contends  with  pow  'r, 

And  vptinX  tffd  prejudice  computes  iAs  icon. 

In  privstc  life,  like  ginpk  handed  plafn, 

We  get  less  notckfjt,  but  we  meet  less  care&< 

Full  many  a  lusty  effort,  which  at  court 

Would  fix  tbe  doubtful  isaue  of  the  sport, 

Wide  of  its  mark,  or  impotent  to  rise, 

Ruins  the  ra^h,  and  disappoints  tbe  wise. 

Yet  all  in  public,  and  in  private  strive 

To  keep  the  ball  cf  action  still  alive, 

And  just  to  all,  when  each  his  ground  has  run, 

Death  tipt  the  tcuht,  and  the  game  is  done/' 

Mabel  Pel\lock. 
Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

[By  consulting  the  General  Indexes  of  "  X.  k  Q/'  all 
who  are  interested  in  the  game  of  Cricket  will  be  refetretl 
t<t  passages  wherein  it  is  shown  tbat  long  before  1774, 
when  the  game  underwent,  as  it  has  often  done,  some 
modifications,  it  had  been  played  at  Eton  in  Horace 
Walpole's  younger  days;  that  Pope  had  alluded  still 
earlier  to  the  fact  that  **  Senators  at  Cricket  urge  the 
bair*;  that  it  was  mentioned  in  Swift's  John  Bull ; 
that  it  was  named  distinctly  in  a  song  by  Turn  DTrfy  at 
an  earlier  period ;  that  ''Cricket'*  was  noticed  by 
Edward  Phillips.  Milton  saephewjti  1685;  and  tbut  the 
acholanof  the  Free  School  at  Ouildford  pkyed  '*  Cricket  '* 
in  the  reign  of  Queen  EliKabeth.  Thta  is  the  earliest 
mention  of  the  game  by  its  modern  name.  That  it  existed 
long  previously  under  another  name,  may  also  be  seen  by 
all  mm  will  turn  to  the  word  "  Cricket    in  the  Indexes.] 


ULTRA.CENTENAHIAKlSM.--No.  $.• 
Mr8.  Mart  Arthur, — Miss  Cathertxe  Grear. 

As  the  centenarian  aeoaon  seems  to  1>e,  a^  Horace 
Wiilpole  84iid  of  the  sumtner,  **fteitiii^r  in  with  it» 
accustomed  severity,"  I  wiU,  with  your  pcnnisstont 
avail  myself  of  a  little  leisure  to  clear  off  a  number 
of  caae5,  more  or  less  authenticated,  which  have 
lately  reitched  me,  either  directly  or  through  the 
medium  of  "  N.  &  Q.'* 

Mm.  Mar}^  Arthur,  the  subiect  of  the  fii-st  of 
these  communications^  is  an  old  ttctiiiaintance  of 
mine.  She  was  introduced  to  me,  some  two  years 
since,  by  a  hidy  correspondent,  to  whom,  although 

♦  CoDtinued  from  ••  N.  k  Q^"  5"-  8,  L  221* 


I  have  not  the  advantage  of  her  peisonikl  aoquainti 

II  nee,  I  am  indebted  for  several  most  interestin 
photographs  of  au])posed  centenarians  and  notice 
of  their  claims.  The  case  of  Mm,  Arthur  was  oa 
which  I  was  quite  disposed  to  credit,— supported  i 
it  W!is  by  the  recollections  of  tbe  lady  in  que^-tio 
and  her  family  (to  one  of  whom  bo  Jong  since 
1799  Mrs.  Arthur  had  stated  her  then  age},— ha 
wanted  such  further  corroborative  evidence  of  t" 
from  the  parish  renters,  as  that  which  is  no 
furnished  by  my  friend  Sir  Jony  Macle 
whose  habit  of  sifting  evidence^  in  the  porsuit  < 
his  historical  and  genealogical  inquirieit,  has 
turned  to  t^ood  account  in  establishing  the  cent 
narianisin  of  Mil?,  Mary  Arthur. 

*^  Mrs.  Manj  Arthur.     Two  or  three weelts  Sjp(o] 
cut  the  following  panigmph  from  the  Itoyal  C(m 
iixdl  OazttU^VLwA  1  have  since  made  «ome  im^umei 
:i5   to  the  facts.     It  will  be  obficrved  that  Mr 
Arthur  i«  stated  to  have  been  bom  nearly  a  ye 
bi'fore  she  was  baptized.     This  I  am   un 
est^iblish ;  but  she  was  baptized  on  the  djiy  \ 
as   is  proved  by  the  following  extmcts  fron 
pirish  registers  of  the  parish  of  St.  Clement's,  nta 
fruro,  obligingly  sent  to  me  by  the  vicar.     I  giv 
tlie  baptism  of  all  the  children  of  Thomas  anfl 
Ann  Shear,  so  that  it  may  be  seen  that  the  baptism^ 
of  Marj'  comes  in  natural  sequence  i— 

'  1770,  Andrew  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  8hear«  2rof*2(^* 

1772.  Mar^,  daughter  cf  Thonuu  and  Ann  Shmr, 

Jan.  28. 

1773.  Ann,    daughter  of   Thomas   and   Antt   Sliear, 

Mar.  1^. 
1774^  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Sheir« 

1777.  Nancy,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Shear, 

Feb.  20. 

1778.  BctRcy,  iUughtcr  of  ThomM  and  Ann  Shear, 

'Oct.  26/ 

"With  respect  to  these  baptisms,  the  date  of  birlb 
is  not  stated  in  the  registers,  but  comtuenciorr  willi 
Oct*  5,  1783,  there  is  a  reoord  of  the  day  of  1 
as  well  as  of  baptism,  with  the  addition,  '  Du'\ 
paid  £i).  0.  3./  in  each  case  as  far  as  March  21, 
1784.  There  are  in  all  fifteen  entries  of  this*  kiiuL 
This  tax  was  levied  under  the  Act  2*4  Geo,  lllu 
which  provided  that  the  clergy m  in  idiould  diarjiv 
a  stamp  duty  of  3rZ.  upon  every  entry,  under  * 
IKjnaUy  oi  5l.  It  taime  into  operation  from  I  Oct, 
1783,  and  was  not  repealed  until  34  Geo*  HLar 
so  that  being  in  force  for  ten  years,  it  is  curio 
that  ther^  Hhould  be  only  these  fifteen  entries, 
is  atill  more  curious  that  in  all  my  ivc<iuaintA»c< 
with  parish  registeni,  and  it  hfi4&  been  g*ytiewhal 
extensive,  I  do  not  remember  to  have  noticed  aDj 
Bimilar  entries. 

"But,   returning  to   Mre.  -iiihur,    I    haH 
certained  from   another  clergyman  that  kIim 
married  in  1792,  as  stated,  and  as  to  the  date  < 
her  death  there  can  be  no  doubt     It  is,  therrfon 
clearly  established,  I  hope  to  the  satislactioo 


S*8.  II.Ana.15.7*.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


123 


mj  fri^il  Mr.  Thomfi,  that  the  old  lady,  on  the 
d»3r  of  her  death,  was  at  least  102  years  and  70 
dajTB  old. 

*  DiATu  or  Tinj  OutKsT  Irhabitakt  or  Cornwall.— 

The  mortal  rtmAini  of  Mrs,  Mary  Arthur,  ibe  oldest 

uilmbitent  of  i?omirftlI,  were  deposited  in  the  cemetery 

■I  Loftwithiel  on  MondAj  hit,  in  the  preaence  of  »  large 

number  of  those  amon^t  whom  she  hai  lived  for  the 

ervatcr  portion  of  a  century.    She  retided  at  Lq«twithie] 

^nr«   h^r  iTwrrin^  ther«^  on   NoTember  26,  1792,   to 

She  ma  the  daughter  of  Thamna  and 

ii«  bom  in  February,  1771,  was  baptised 

luirch  of  8t,  Clement,  near  Truro,  on 

Jtuttmty  2<,  1772,  and  died  at  Loatwithielf  April  14, 1874^ 

in  her  10  Uh  year.* 

JoHx  Maclkan. 
Eanmertmith.*' 

It  I 


racteri^tic  ot  the  tendency  to  make 
ihr  I  nuir^  niarvcliuus  that  the  Royal 

'"  :fow3  up  the  announcement   of 

m  on  January  28,  1772,  and 
I  nn   Apnl  14,  1874,  by  stilting  that  her 

it      1 1    !•  »k   |>lace  in  her  104th  year.     It  U  taid 
\^   v^as  lioni  nearly  a  twelvemonth  hefore  her 
*  m  ;  but  this  I  doubt,  aa  her  brother  Andrew 
been  baptized  only  fourteen  months  before, 
icly,  on  the  26th  Nov.,  177(». 

**  Mist  Cttth^rinf  Grmr, — The  following  slip, 
m  tla*  New  York  Timts,  of  Hay'  9tb,  1874,  may 
lllibute  U>  Mr.  Thoms's  invest tigtitions.  I  pre- 
the  materials  for  verification  are  ample : — 
i»H  or  A  P'-—-'  ■-"  V  ''^'  rine  Orcar 
Tu«tday.  v.  <  Jiidelphia, 

"Jjtars.     J  i4  a  natire 

city;  HjiTing  bceti  Loru  in  thg  year  17<J<*,  in  a 
1 8tAr  Alley,  near  Fifth  and  Cherry  ^treetA.    She 
G«rman  descent,  her  parenti  harin^  come  to  thii 
itjtry  in  the  cAriy  part  of  the  last  ceDtury.     Two  of 
■itt4*m  nrr  Ttnw  living,  one  a^ed  ninety,  and  the  other 
itv  li  third  died  two  yean  o^o  at  the  ad* 

ty.     Min  Orear  wa«  quite  strong  and 
.     Lin  a  fhftrt  period  of  her  deoeaie,  and 
diiiinctly  occurreiicei  that  took  place  durioig; 
(r  part  of  the  last  centory/ 

M.  B.  S. 
ic,  K.J.,  U.S.A." 

I  am  much  indebted  to  M.  B,  ^.  for  hh  courtesy, 
t  am  quite  unable  at  this  distance  from  Phil- 
Iphia  to  make  that  uearcbing  investigation 
would  be  neceasary  to  establLali  the  excep- 
»g«  of  106  yeois  claimed  for  Miss  Grear. 

WllXlAH   J.   TllOM.S. 


8PELLTK0  RBFORMS.-No.  IIL 
W*  bjivt*  now  made  the  following  anggestion.^  :— 
lI,  The  hi  wordH  don  veil  from  theLatin  cede 
be  all  ap^lt  alike,  hence  the  3  cicfption!*, 
fftocttd,   and   An<rcf4U   should    be    written 
piooede,  and  auccede. 
the  lift*  words  i*nding  in  c  mute,  which 
ntHlx  -w^ai,  only  3  drop  the  r  in  so  doin^, 
wotda  ahould  be  made  lo  conlbnu  to  the 


117    others,   and   should   be    apeit    ahridgcmtnt, 
ackiw^tUdycmmt^  and  judgement. 

o.  Of  the  1 80  worda  enaing  in  e  mute  which  take 
the  suffix  -abU^  some  reject  the  e  in  !h>  doing,  and 
^ome  retain  it.  All  should  conform  lo  one  rule, 
and  I  au^gest  that  the  simplest  plan  would  be  to 
retain  the  «  throughout. 

4.  We  have  672  wordn  aUoj»^tber  which  take 
the  sufliK  -Me^  and  208  which  take  the  «ulhx  -ihU, 
As  this  distinction  does  not  point  out  any  con- 
juffational  ditfcreDce  (for  between  60  and  l*X\  of 
those  in  -abU  are  not  of  the  first  conjugation),  I 
snggeat  that  the  miffix  -ibU  he  abolished,  a«  a 
delusion  and  a  snare,  and  that  all  the  88*»  words 
be  spelt  alike  with  the  termination  -able. 

5.  The  next  suggestion  is  this :  No  dissyllable 
accented  on  the  first  of  ita  ayllablea  shnll  double 
iu  final  consonant  on  receiving  a  suffix,  but  all  of 
them  without  exception  ahall  retain  their  simple 
form  throughout. 

There  are  9  of  such  dissyllables  ending  in  -p, 
H  of  which  double  the  p  on  taking  cert«in  sutfixes, 
vu,j  (fomp,  kidnap,  and  worship.  1  suggest  that 
the  extrai  p  be  abolished,  and  that  the  suffixes  be 
added  to  the  simple  word  without  any  alteration 
in  its  spelling. 

The  same  with  dissyllables  eodiog  in  -*7,  -d^ 
&c.  In  a  word,  no  dissyllable  accented  on  the 
first  syllable  shall  in  any  case  change  ita  original 
form  on  receiving  a  suffix. 

These  easy  rales  wLU  simplify  the  spelling  of 
some  ii,(KJO  words,  without  causing  any  striking 
change  in  the  apf>ea ranee  of  a  page,  and  certainly 
without  obscuring  the  etymolog>"  or  violating  any 
rule  of  spelling.  The  help  they  will  aflbtd  to 
simplicity  and  uniformity  will  be  very  graat,  and 
the  drawback  balanced  against  the^^e  advantages 
will  be  almost  ni7,  and  very  temporary. 

I  will  now,  with  penniasion,  continue  the  sub- 
ject, and  take  for  my  text  this  axiom  :  The  plural 
suffix  -€$  18  never  to  be  used  except  when  it  makes 
a  distinct  and  separate  syllable,  as  in  church, 
chnrcU'tA;  ga*,  (fm-fs^  &c.  Of  course  the  immediate 
reference  is  to  the  plurals  of  nouns  ending  in 
-/,  -ffy  and  -o.  The  present  plan  Lb  most  complex, 
confused,  and  absurd. 

The  roles  for  nouns  ending  in  -/are  these :~~ 

L  Ail  nouns  in  -r/  (except  thitf  and  ttandker- 
ehief)  form  their  plural  by  adding  ^,  as  belief, 
beliefs;  brief,  briaf*;  chief,  chic/s;  clef,  cle/i; 
fief,}t^/f ;  grief,  griefs ;  reef,  re«/>. 

2.  Similarly,  nouns  in  -tYand  -*/f  add  #,  as  — 
Bailiff,  bailiffs;  caititf,  caitifi  ;* calif,  ealif*  (?)  ; 

cliff,  rUffii;  coif,  rc/i/ji ;  mi^tllf.  mastiffs;  pliiiutiff, 
plftiiUiffs:    sheriiT/»fur  V.    $kiff$;    tariff, 

hiriffa  ;  waif,  icaifi ;  win 

3.  The  same  with  nou  nd  -off,  as — 
Hoof,  hoofs;  proof,    .                  proof,  reproof i; 

root,  roofs;  woof,  woo/*;  m:i>i\ 

4.  The  Mune  wvl\i  mM^m  vw  ^  .u\J,|**— 


^^^tfi^ 


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Cu^t  cT<jf* ;  huff,  huff» ;  muff,  mvffs ;  puff,  pvff»; 
ruff,  raffs  ;  snuff,  snuffs ;  stuff,  stuffs ;  gulf,  gulfs. 

5,  Asd  lasiljj  nouns  ending  in  -r/  foUow  the 
same  niJe,  as — 

Dwarf,  dwarfs;  scarf,  scarfs;  wharf,  wharfs; 
8urf,  surfs ;  and  turf,  turfi. 

Altogether  39  words,  only  two  of  which  are 
irregular.  Why  ia  the  plural  of  **  thief"  to  be 
thitres^  and  of  "handkertbief "  to  W  hamlker- 
chitves?  Of  course  "  thief  ^'  m  our  native  word 
thatf  which  makes  fhivfas  (thitfs)  in  the  pluiaJ^ 
and  could  not  by  any  possibility  change /into  tw, 
seeing  there  is  no  sucJa  letter  afi  t?  in  the  language. 
The  letter  v  is  wholly  Latin,  but  there  is  no  pxo- 
babitity  that  it  bad  any  resembhmce  in  Bcrana  to 
our  modem  letter  so-aiJled. 

A^in,  "handkerchief"  is  a  mule  and  an  ass 
Yoked  together,  for  hand  is  a  native  word,  and 

rchief  ia  French.     Why  should  this  hybrid  word 

»  still  further  deformed  by  an  imposiible  plural  ? 
Of  course  the  French  couvr'-chtf  mnkea  convr^-cJiefs 
in  the  plural,  and  ^'  handkercbieves  "  is  a  monster 
which  ought  not  to  be  tolerated  an  hour. 

Without  doubt,  therefore,  the  words  "thief" 
and  '^handkerchief^'  should  be  reduced  to  rule, 
and  we  should  write  their  plimds  ihitfs  and 
handhirchiefs,  conformably  with  the  37  other 
examples. 

Kow  for  the  reverse  of  the  medal.  Nouns  in 
-o/  or  -CTjf,  -alf  and  -c?/,  change  the  /  into  vts. 
Strange  enough,  all  these  nouns  are  native  wonlst 
not  one  of  which  makes  such  a  ptund,  or  indeed 
could  do  so.     There  are  11  in  all ;  they  are  :— - 

Calf,  mlves;  half,  hahu;  elf,  ehu;  adf,  sdves; 
shelf,  fihdves. 

Leaf,  haves;  aheaf,  shmves;  loaf,  lomtts ;  staff, 
staves ;  but  not  "  dist^V*  which  makea  distaffs. 

Now,  the  original  of  staff  is  ataf  plural  stafas 
(stafs).  The  original  of  loaf  is  hUif  plural  hldfas 
(hlafs),  and  so  with  the  rest.  To  tbe»e  may  be 
added  hitf  plural  bi^res,  which,  of  course,  mis- 
represents the  French  baiufs. 

Where  is  the  inconsistency  of  demanding  the 
restoration  of  these  1 1  words  to  their  normm  and 
original  condition  I  By  s5uch  a  restortition  we  should 
gtnn  thus  much  for  unifomiity  of  spelling  :  every 
word  ending  in  -/  would  form  its  plural  in  the 
regular  way,  by  adding  s,  and  not  38  in  one  way, 
11  in  another,  and  3  deviating  from  either  method. 

In  regard  to  -fc  the  caae  is  worse,  and  even  more 
absurd.  We  have  6  nouns  with  this  ending,  3 
native  and  3  borrowcnl  from  other  languages.  The 
native  words  are  knife,  life,  and  wife.  The  natii- 
ndize^l  strangers  are^/e,  strife,  and  safe  (a  closet). 

The  3  native  words  have  for  their  plunds  kjiires, 
Hvfs,  jind  mres.  The  three  oliens  fifes,  strife,  iind 
safi:s.  The  originals  of  the  first  three  are  cnif  Uf 
and  mf^  the  final  c  being  the  ridiculous  substitute 
of  the  accent.  It  need  not  be  added  that  the 
phiral  BD&ix  -res  finds  no  countenance  in  the  ori- 


ginal words.  Wif  and  lif  being  neater,  ane  sdik» 
in  both  numbers  ;  and  crnf  m&tB  mi/as  (fc»i/r " 
or  hiifes  without  the  accent. 

The  3  strangers  need  no  remark.     Wliiit  stdki 
me  most  forcibly  is  the  gratuitou*  disiortion  of 
JiFBt  3  words  ;  and  the  question  lu)  '    >  rKUH 

or  impediment  exists  why  they  t  be 

roduc^  to  the  general  rule,  so  thai  .  >li_>  vs^ni  in 
-/  or  -fe  should  iform  its  plural  by  adding  s  f 

£.  COBHAM  B&KVBR. 


{To  ht  contin%id*) 


ALDEB.MAN  SIR  WILLIAM  STAINES. 
In  Mr.  Thorn bury's  Old  and  New  Lrmdon.^  j\ 
stated  of  Sir  William  Staines  (Lord  Mayor 
tlmt 

"  He  began  life  lui  a  hricllayerU  lah<mrer,  and  by  pif^ 
BeTenng  stcailily  in  the  ptrremt  of  one  object,  occamulBliii 
a  large  fortune,  and  rose  to  the  state  coach  and  tha 
MftHfion  Houie/' — Vol.  i.  p*  412. 

I  lately  fell  in  vnth  a  very  interesting 
entitled  Economy ;  or,  a  Ptcp  at  Otir  Nci^hl 
purporting  to  be  a  narrative  of  six  month*' 
dence  of  an  English  family  in  0"    -    -  i: 
eunimer  of  1B44,  whore  a  different ; 
of    the    early  occupation    of    thu^    "^ 
dignit^ary,  which,  with  permission,  I  extrnct,  ni 
follows  :^ 

"It  is  w«ll  known  that  Aldenoftn  Stekiea  fcm  ^ 
fortune  from  his  having  been  employed  as  a  sUm*<^tUr 
at  St.  SflmpBon'i,  He  had  left  Englmid  in  hb  etfly 
youth,  came  to  Qaenuey,  and  to  earn  a  lirtng  hired 
himself  as  a  jiovriuyiTtan  s(on4-c%Uter  to  a  farmer  at  the 
Vale,  Returning  to  London  some  years  aftenfardi^  h* 
accidentally  came  to  a  street  they  were  t^kving  with  the 
Guernsey  stone,  and,  lookiog  at  it  as  be  would  at  hi 
Aisooiate  he  knew  well  and  loved  from  early  recciUectienM» 
he  saw  the  cluniey  manner  in  which  they  were  laying  it 
down»  at  the  game  time  pointing  out  to  the  workmtn 
how  they  ocmlJ  do  it  better;  and  whiht  bo  dof 
attraGicd  the  attention  of  the  contractor,  who,  et 
his  knowledge  of  the  buBinciia,  wat  glad  to  emploi 
hia  lerifice.  From  this  he  became  a  contractor " 
made  money,  was  elected  Alderman,  and  Hnnllv 
lite  a  gccond  Whittington,  Lord  Mayor  of  London^ 
fact  wae  unknoAtn  in  the  Island  until  Sir  Jthn  Doyte, 
when  gorernor,  dining  one  dity  nt  the  Mansiuo  Houi^ 
hnppened  to  be  seated  next  to  Alderman  Staines, 
opportunity  of  hearing  about  Guenuey  was  not  it 
re^isted^  and  he  said,^— 

*' '  You  seem,  General,  to  know  the  people  of  th*  iil 
toll  me  of  my  old  maater^— is  he  yet  alive, — the  woi 
farmer  of  the  Vale  l  * 

'*  The  GoTemor  knew  him  well. 

"'Then  tell    bim,'   said   the   Alderraan.   *that 
journeyman,    William    Staines^    learnt    ir*!^  '^-"* 
economy  under  his  rofif,  and  is  now  dotng^  i*  ^ 
will  be  happy  to  see  him  in  the  City  of  Lcjh; 
return  him  the  kindnew,  with  interest, he  nBCcixcd  al  hks 
hands/  '—Pp.  13*^-1^9. 

Apropos  of  Economy;  or,  a  Peep  at  iktr  Ntiifh' 
hours  (London,  John  OUivier,  1845),  can  any 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q/'  inform  me  who  i*  the  ftOthorJ 
— apparently  a  lady  of  good  pomtioQ  in  socaelfj 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


125 


-        '  leii  for  Fome  inonth.s  on 

-  the  title),  inGiieniRey- 
biPMM-.>  Ml  a  -tries  of  graphic  letters, 
IS  I  pither  from  int«nial  evidence)  to 
fy  man,  ABsiimin^  the  author  to  be  a 
Ha  a  highly- gifted  and  accomplished 
'lief  ocowiouiil  reflections  on  life  and 
lti<l  even  her  views  on  political  ques- 
lie  n  thoughtful^  inteOi^ent  and  smsiblc 
Iteibly  the  nutho?  is  now  well  known ; 
ftely  I  had  never  seen,  nor  even  heard  of, 
bd,  having  come  upon  it  by  chancei  I 
)  into  it,  and  became  so  interested  as 
(rough  at  one  sitting.  W.  A.  0. 


m  Grbat^s  Visit  to  Godalming  ix 

tay  not  be*  genemlly  known  that  the 

ited  in  the  Memoir  of  PtUr  tlic  frreatf 

brrobomted  by  a  no  le^s  eminent  cmt- 

thority  than  Peter  le  Neve. 
liiited  herald'9  account  difTcrs  aomcwhat 
[ven  in  the  Memoir  (from  a  letter  in  the 
9)Tary),  as  will  be  seen  on  comparisoR; 
ler  jwaiatiJ  us  in  filling  up  one  or  two 
Le  Neve*a  MS.,  a  ctipy  of  which,  by 
\j  in  preserved  among  the  Additional 
t  Mus.,  No.  548C,  under  the  heading 
I  MiBcellanies  and  other  Events  begin- 
6nd»  1694,  collected  antl  carried  on  by 
re,  E«qr.,  Norroy  King  of  Arras  " : — ' 
.— Ahout  one  month  before  "  {the  mcmor- 
ijrecedcs  it  fs  tlatcd  in  July  of  same  year) 
Mtifcovy,  beiri^'  in  England^  went  to  Porte- 
H  kiA  way.  Jay  at  Godalroin  in  Surry.  There 
it  at  table  at  iupper,  and  the  scrTarUn 
^"-^-one.  They  hml  tVn-  ^nn^-^r  [five  riba 
fee  stone,  cme  liing  fifty- 

ri  of  lamb,  It  istedond 

wltbbacon^  eight  i)uiiot>,  tour  couple 
dosen  of  sack,  one  dozen  of  claret,  and 
pnmnrtion&ble. 

ail  *  (the  following  morning  evidently) 
ntnet^en  pounds  of  laiub^  ten  ptilleta»  one 
\nM,  and  three  quarti  of  brandy/' 
thi»— 

NMk  mulled  at  nfgifat,  and  in  the 
I  of  egga,  and  [saladl  tti  proportion, 
to  jTil.*' 

James  GKKKirsTiiKST, 


BUDKN.— The  tv 
kt«Mr.  JU 

en     "'  ^' 


here  sup- 

3  **  List 

in  who  were 

I  :»i:3,''  printed 

VV- 

Sir 


Jiatt,^  KdinbuTgh,  1660  (printed 
■  Aion)»  p.  3, 
bth)   of  Cleland.      Life  of  ,^r 
,  B^Tt.,  Bdinburght  1872,  p.  li.  j 


For  John  third  Lord  Maxwell  read  fourth^ 
''  N.  &  Q/'  4^  S,  xi.  233, 

For  John  urond  Lorrl  Ro««  and  William  hi& 
only  aon,  read  firxt,  and  Nintan  his  eld$H  son* 
Rid de IPs  Bo&s  Fcdigrtc. 

To  the  list  of  **  escaped  "  add  Gib  of  that  Ilk. 
Life  and  Times  of  Hohtrl  Cih,  Lord  of  Carribher^ 
London,  1 874,  p.  /i.  J.  MAmTEi*. 

N  e  wcasfcle  'Upon-Tyne, 

Epitaph  at  Salzburg. — In  the  doistered  grave- 
yard belonging  to  the  Monast^ery  of  Rt.  ^m  -  *-n 
a  t  Salzburg  (which  con  titi  n  s  t h  e  t omb  of  I ' 
I  copied,  on  the  25tli  Aprd,  1871,  the  i  ..-.^.ig 
curious   inscription }  from    a  slab    in    the    pave* 
nient; — 

•'  Ah  mi  Viator 
Sine  kcrymia  ne  veni  ne  £ita 

Nam  «>culu§  ()ui  Patri 

Matrique  intempestiye  cxoidit 

Hic  Jacct 

Joannes  Baptigta 

Eellenbergier 

Snpra  aetate  maturtu  gravis  Puer 

Aot  O  ramm  I  duodennts  Vir 

Qni  cum  in  icholit  Co- 

Honam  Nemiui  cede- 

rct  MoTi  invida  ecripnit  efl  Jonfi  o  tmperio 

Kt  eola  flolio  movit 

Nunc  coeli  in  academla  Deum  audit 

docentem 

In  memoriam  niaTisaimi  Filii  mocsti  parentes 

3ton  ;  hoc  pp.  obiit  10""  April.  A.  164&/* 

V.HJ.LJ.C.LV. 

A  Fact  for  Mr.  Frohuk's  Hibtory.^ — About 
the  year  1^2  the  late  Rev.  Thomas  Newland, 
curate  of  St.  Peter's,  Dublin,  told  me  that  he  was 
then  visiting,  on  her  deatb-lfed,  an  old  woman,  who, 
when  a  little  girl,  had  been  one  of  the  Protestants 
shut  up  in  the  bam  of  Skullabogue.  When  asked 
how  ffhe  imd  escaped  being  burned  with  the  rest> 
she  said  the  Bomish  priest  had  got  her  out, 
bec4iU5e  her  life  was  in  a  lease  which  he  held, 

S.  T,  P. 

StRANOE     USB     OF     THE     "SkRTICE    FOR    THIC 

CHtrRCHtKu  or  WoMEK."— Sir  Thomas  Widdring- 
ton,  M.P.  for  York,  iu  a  speech  in  the  Houso  of 
Commons,   tells  an  extraordinaty  anecdote  of  a 
clergyman  who  was  his  friend  and  neighbour.    A 
butcher  in  the  parish  was  severely  gored  in  tha 
stomach  by  an  ox,  and   only  narrowly  escaped 
death.      Eventually,  the  wound  b< '  h  the 

butcher  desired  to  give  public  thanl  ii  the 

church    for   \m   safe    deliverance.      i  uf   pu/>zled 
clenryumnt  finding  himself  in  a  A%,  anxious  and 
vv^illin"    *-■-'    —tify  hia  pariRhioner,  and  yet  not 
know  I  ,'  authorized  form  for  such  a  public 

act,  iioL.. ...    .    -1  ^1"'  Pr«v.-r.  f, ,r  1  he  Churching  of 

Women,     (ra  /ol.  ix*  p,  455*) 

In  mv  own  ►  .  tv  to  an  unin- 


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[5^*S.  ILAvit.  15^74 


^  «li<scuil  pcw^  capacious  t\nd  high,  nt  the  entmnce 
I  of  the  churcli,  where  only  womea  woi^hippe<l  w  ho 
'desired  this  office  of  benediction.  One  SumkiTr 
Afternoon  three  Oxford  umleripraduates,  amving 
during  the  evening  service,  Laslily  took  their 
pUees  in  this  particular  pew  ;  when^  iiccording  to 
^aistom,  towards  the  close  of  the  service,  the  p^irson 
(wJiO  was  shortsighted),  looking  up  and  seeiug  the 
pew  occupied,  imiDediateW  proceeded  **to  church" 
these  visitors,  an  Jict  which  be  completed  to  the 
CODfit^mation  of  the  congregation. 

Frederick  George  Lee. 
All  Balntft'  Vicarage^  Lambeth. 

MisrHTSTs, — "  K.  &  Q/'  Im^s  froio  lime  to  time, 
directed  attention  to  absuiTi  misprints.  Pray, 
therefore>  find  n:>oui  for  the  fcjllowing.  In  the  last 
editinn  of  the  MonaJiticon  Anglicannnij  vol.  vi* 
prtTt  iii,  p.  152ij  is  printed  a  contract,  in  Englif<h, 
ior  making  certain  windows  in  the  church  of  the 
Grey  Friars,  in  London.  The  printer  has  not 
understood  the  contnmion  for  *'con,''  and  has  not 
once  only,  but  several  times,  represented  it  by  the 
Ji^ire  U.  Con seq lien t]y»  instead  of  "  reconsylej"' 
'*  contaynyth/'  and  *^  conquest,  we  have  "  re9syle/* 
^*S)tayDyth,"  "Squcst."  K.  P.  D.  E. 

Da,  pRntsTLEY's  Materialism, — The  unveiling 
of  Dr.  Priestley's  statue  at  Eiruiingham,  on  Satur- 
day, August  3,  may  perhaps  give  snflicient  interest 
to  the  following  epitaph  to  insure  it  an  insertion 

"  Here  lie  nt  rest 

In  onkeQ  chest. 
Together  packed  most  nicely, 

The  bones  &nd  brftini, 

Flwht  bloody  und  teins, 
And  toril  of  Dr  Priestley." 

It  ifi  »aid  the  Doctor,  when  he  read  it,  enjoyed  a 
hearty  laugb  over  it.  The  author,  the  Kev.  David 
D&vis,  of  Castle  HowlII,  yvoA  the  KUcx:essor  of  David 
ZJovd,  Llwynrhydowen,  lately  referred  to  in 
'*N*  k  Q,,'*  and  was  for  tifty  years  the  most 
celebrated  schoolmaster  in  the  Principality,  There 
18  a  short  account  of  him,  WTitten  by  the  Rev, 
Arthur  Mursell,  in  G<fod  WoTd^^  imz,  p.  41^. 

T.  C,  Uk>'oxe. 

BinrrAN's  Gold  Km&. — Who  now  has  the  gold 
ring  found,  1  think,  in  the  moat  near  Bedford  Jail, 
and  Bupposed  from  the  initial'^  to  be  Bunyan's  ?  It 
belonged  to  the  late  Dean  of  Manchester,  Dr, 
Bowers,  who  very  highly  prized  it.  Tlie  device 
wafi  ft  death's  head,  surrounded  by  the  motto, 
**  Memento  mori,"  and  with  the  letters  J,  B.  just 
tinder  the  skull.  Such  rings  were  often  left  as 
JegiuVie-s  at  that  time,  which  may  account  for  Ban- 
yan liaving  ao  expensive  an  article.  I  forget  the 
llean's  reasons  for  believing  it  to  he  bis,     P,  P. 

Cardastus  Rider's  Rules  for  Health.— 
Jiider's  Brithih  Merlin,  for  the  year  1769,  i%  ac- 


cording to  the  title-page»  *'  adorned  with 
delightful  and  useful  Verities  Htl 
in  the  Inland. H  of  Great  Britain^ 
was    *' compiled    for    bis    Country*  ii^^ij 
Cardanua  Rider/'      Tliinking  it  a  pity      ^ 
"  Verities  "  should  be   unknown  to  the  \>o<\^ 
this   sophisticated  age,  I  send  you  the  rule*  I 
health  as  they  appear  in  the  "  Obsenrattoiw  ^*  ;' 
each  month  : — 

**  JanvaiTf.—htt  not  Blood,  and  ufc  no  PhyskV.  uxM 
there  be  r  Necessity :  K&t  often,  and  Avuid  too  luV 
Bleep. 

**  Feh^an/.—Ue  paring  in  Phjsick,  and  lot  not  Bk 
without  absolute  Ncceeeity,  and  be  careful  of  cMth' 
Cold. 

**  JtfrtrcA.— Purge  aad  let  Blood  :  Eat  no  grom  UuL, 

'^.4;>ri/.— It  is  ttow  a  good  Time  to  bleed  an^S  telM 
Phyaick  :  abstain  from  much  Wine ;  they  will  oum^ 
Ferment  m  your  Blood,  and  ruin  your  Constitution. 

**  May. —The   Blood    and    Uumours    beir- '    '" 
Motion^  \Tc  must  be  careful  to  avoid  eatinL 
or  stale  Meats ;  fat  People  must  aToid  Excv 
of  any  kind. 

"  June. — €<x>1ing  Sallads,  as  Letuce,  8orreU  Pan 
kCf  will  prevent  too  great  a  Perspiration,  and  throw  ( 
feTcrish  Disorders. 

*^July.  —  Forbear    supertuous    Drinking.      tr§e  ei4d 
Herbs.     Sbun     boil'd,    sail,    and    strong    Meats, 
abstain  from  Pbysick, 

•'^Mj^if.  -This  mouth  use  moderate  Diet.  forUj-^ 
sleep  soon  after    Meat :    for    that    brin^:- 
Heftdacbfi,  Agup?,  and  Catarrhs,  and  other 
of  the   same   Kind.     Take  gjeat  care  of  »4ii<^j«un  kq 
after  Heat, 

September  contains  no  rule,  bo  it  ia  to  be  nn 
posed  you  may  live  as  you  like, 

"  Ocl&hfr^—AtQid  bettig  out  late  at  Night*,  of  In  foj  „ 
Weather;  for  a  Cold  now,  may  contmue  the  whole 
Winter. 

"  Novmher,^7hc  best  Phyeick  this  51 
Exerciae«  warm  Clotboa,  and  wholesome   I 
any   Diatempor  atUict  you,  finish   your    I  i 
Month,  and  so  rest  till  March, 

*' l)fcembtr.—0\d  Par's   Maxims  of   Healtk.     K« 
your  F«et  warm  by  Exercise,  your  Head  cool 
Temperance,  i>ovcr  cat  till  ^ou  are  ahungiy^ord 
but  when  Nature  requircB  it/* 

a  w,  &4 

[We  must  request  correspondent*  desiring  info; 
on  family  mattem  of  only  private  interest,  to  affiji  I 
names  and  addressee  to  their  queries^  in  order  thai  tlw 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct,] 


What  becamk  of  SKaaiiANT  Botbwkll  f 
The  Francis  Stewart,  grandsion  of  Queen  Ma' 
E;irl  of  Bothwell,  i«,  »b  we  all  know,  p^'ctuj 
by  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  Old  Mortality  as  n  pri 
in  the  Bcottish  Life  Guarda.  He  if  promoted 
the  grade  of  a  sergeant,  and,  at  the  interc^  ^^ 
Lady  Margaret  Bellenden,  is  promised  by 
house  ft  cornetcy  ;  but,  ere  he  obtains  his 
mission,  ^he  is  slain  in  flinglo  combat  by  Jol 
Bulfour,  of  Burley,  All  this  ia  m 
drzLmatic,  but  it  is  notoriously  quite  ^'un 


Tlie  real  Fnmcis  Stewart,  ^nindsou  of  the  Earl  of 
^iSotbwell,  was  a  private  in  ihu  Scottish  Horse- 
iiaidg,  but  he  was  promoted  from  the  ranks  to  a 

Etaincj  of  dragooDs.  He  certiunly  wiw  never 
cd  in  the  fight  at  Drtuiiclog,  since  ho  was  in 
Duunand  of  the  dnigoons  at  the  battle  of  Bothwell- 
J  and  he  seems  to  have  siinived  for  some 
Fnfter wards,  Claverhouse  was  never  his  com- 
n^lng  officer,  nor  was  that  brave  bad  man  in 
[>minand  of  the  Scottish  Life  Guards  at  all  He 
he  captain  of  an  independent  troop  of  horse, 
bth well- Brig jT  the  Life  Guards  were  headed  by 
"arquis  of  Montrose  {ncc  Atholl  disgraced), 
nd  Claverhoase  only  commanded  his  own  troop  of 
Tegular  cavaln'.  The.^e  facts  are  all  plainly 
cited  in  the  Memoirs  of  Captain  John  Crtichion  ; 
nd  it  is  at  a  period  after  the  accession  of  James  It. 
'  the  throne,  and  during  Monmouth's  rebellion, 
lit  the  Captain  incidenljUly  refers  to  the  death  of 
ftptain  Stewart  as  a  recent  event.  When  and 
ow  did  he  die  I  It  is  curious  to  remark  that 
Jir  Walter,  who  edited  Swifl,  who  bafl  edited 
eichton's  Memoirs,  should  have  so  deliberately 
verted  historj^  in  the  matter  of  Bothw ell's 
ndion,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  person  of 
ehiitscter  and  consideration,  seeinf^  that  bis 
i  iraa  sent  np  from  Edinbur^di  to  the  Govern - 
Ekt  hi  Loadon  as  that  of  a  military  Jiian  likely  to 
do  the  SUite  good  service  in  Scotland  a;;ainst  the 
*"  citerK   His  nomination  (probably  on  account 

I  myal  bclonofings)  received  instiiut  approval 
"he  ttuthoritieri  at  Whitehall  ;  and  he,  a  mere 
Life  Guardsman,  was  at  once  sent  for  to 
mrj^b,  and  entrusted  with  the  command  of  a 
of  horse,  in  which  Creiebton  wm  apj)ointcd 
pn(int,   Still  more  curious  is  it  to  note  that  the 
eristic  Sergeant  BotbiveLI  of  Scott^H  wonder- 
lion   is   not   Francis    Stewart   at    all,   but 
ally   Creiebton    bimself ;    and    but    for   8ir 
efn  evidently  inteni^e  study  of  the  gniphic 
i^tive   taken  down  from  the  old  persecutor's 
*  i|>8  by  Swift,  we  shoiihl  never,  probably,  have 
he  story  of  Old  Mortality.     All  the  fictitious 
JPs  impudence,  profligjicy,  lawlessness,  and 
9evil  bravery  are  to  be  found  in  John  Creich- 
I  own  character  as  drawn  by  himself.   History, 
vcver,  is  history  ;  and  it  would  be  scarcely  justifi- 
es even  in  the  greatest  of  hiatorical  novelists,  to 
i  thnt  Oliver  Cromwell  wa^  killed  in  sin^de 
by  Charles  L  at  the  battle  of  Worcester  ; 
pierre  waiS  shot  in  a  duel  by  Mirabeau  ; 
oleon  L  escaped  from  St.  Helena,  and 
lident  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
uncis  Stewart  (or  Stuart),  grandsrm  to 

""    hwtdl,  and  who— odd  coincidence— 

n^ed  the  left  wing  of  cavjdry  at  B(>tbweU- 
^must  have  had  a  veraciou*^  history  of  bis  own. 
f  my  one  tcJl  me  how  he  came  by  hi«  end  ? 

a  A,  HAUi. 


P,S.  There  can  lie  no  cause  to  doubt  the  autheu- 
ticity  of  Creichfcoufi  own  narrative  ;  and  the  his- 
torical accnmcy  of  his  allusions  to  Clave rhoase,. 
Dalziel,  Leslie,  Sir  Evan  Cameron,  and  other 
personages  of  the  time,  huA  never  been  called  in 
question. 

[Scott,  in  Old  MGrUttttH,  fliar*  that  the  "  Bothwcll  "  ©f 
the  novel  wft*  '*ile«sended  from  tUe  laat  carl  of  that 
nanitf,  not  the  'u'  '   vcr  of  the  unfortunate  Quuen 

Mary,  but  Kras  ,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  whose  tur- 

bulence and  rtj  ;i racial  embarrassed  the  early 

part  of  Jamea  V  L  &  r^igu,  and  wbo  at  length  died  in  exile 
in  great  poverty,"  TIub  earl's  son,  Scott  Btates.  '*  died  id 
the  utmost  indigence/'  The  "  BothwdP*  &f  Old  Mot- 
taliti/,  the  laAt  earl's  aon,  ia  thus  "  unhistorizcd  "  in  tlie 
first  note  to  the  4tlj  chap,  of  that  romance :—"  Tlie 
chnracter  of  Bothwell,  except  in  relation  to  the  name, 
18  entirely  ideal."] 

Strange  Btdry  ok  Alleged  Priestlv 
Cruelty. — 

''Reprieveg  may  al&«  be  ?^  nertsiitatf  Uffu;  an  wJierr 
ft  vroman  is  capitally  convicted,  and  pleads  her  pregnancy; 
tlioui;h  this  is  no  cause  to  stay  the  judgment ;  yel  it  is  t<^ 
respite  the  execution  till  she  be  dcUvcrtd*  This  iis  n 
mercy  dictated  by  the  law  of  nature,  m  /aoorem  protis  ; 
and,  therefore,  no  nnrt  of  the  bloody  proceedings  in  the 
reign  of  Queen  Mary  hath  been  more  Justlv  dete«ted 
tlian  the  cruelty  thtit  waa  exercised  in  the  iiland  oi 
Gueraiey,  of  burning  a  woman  big  with  child:. and 
when,  throuifli  the  vioience  of  the  tlames,  the  infant 
sprang  forth  at  the  itake,  and  ^vas  preserved  by  the  by- 
Btanders,  after  some  deliberation  of  the  prie«t«  viho 
nssisted  &t  the  sacrifice,  tliey  cast  it  tgain  into  the  hfv 
m  a  young  heretic." 

Thl^  piifisage  occurs  in  Blackstone's  chapter  oo. 
"  Reprieve  and  Pardon.''  He  cites  in  a  note  the 
mart}Tologi»t  Foxe  !  Is  ther*^  any  better  authority 
for  the  incredible  story  ?        Middle  Te^iplaR- 

Bradford. 

The  Robertson  Family. — The  crest  of  thir 
Robertson  fuinil}',  which  waa  once  the  Clao 
iJivnnachie  (or  Donnachee),  is  a  hand  holding  » 
crown.  The  coat  of  arms  resta  on  the  iignre  of  a 
man  in  chains  (not  a  (juartering). 

A  lady  belonging  to  this  family,  and  the  only* 
Fur\T.vor  of  her  bnmch  of  it,  would  be  gi'eailr 
obliged  if  any  one  eonld  expkin  to  her  the  origin 
of  tlieiie  artnoriai  bearings.  She  ijs  aware  thai 
there  h  some  legend  of  historic  interest  connected 
with  ihem,  ami  believes  that  the  incident  which 
pive  rise  to  them  took  pltvce  in  the  reign  of 
James  I.  (she  thinks  of  Scotland).  She  would 
ghidly  send  an  impression  of  the  crest  or  coat  of 
arms  to  any  one  who  is  disponed  to  investigate  the 
matter.  F.  Chakci:. 

Bydenhoni  HUl. 

Mrs.  Wood  and  ''  The  At?TnE3fTTC  Recohpu/' 
^A  friend  of  mine^  a  wcll-ltnown  man  of  lettcntt 
ha**  in  his  possession  a  copy  of  that  scaJidalotifl^ 
ehroniclej  Tlie  Authfiitic  Record*  of  tht  Cq^H'  '  '* 
England  for  the  lanl  l^tvcniy  Vears^  contai 
among  other  manuscript  notea^  ooft  ^Ti  \3la.<fe  \\\S*:- 


128 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEl 


IS^B^ILAvqA^IL 


pnge  which  states  it  was  "  Written  by  si  lady  of  the 
tiame  of  Wood,  who  vms  residing  in  the  poJiico. 
Suppressed,  bought  up  and  destroyed.  Very  few 
copies  in  existence/^  I  have  seen  Mrs,  Wood's  name 
OS  authoress  (pioted  in  a  bookseller's  catalogue^  and 
have  heard  her  spoken  of  in  the  saine  character. 
Wufi  there  ever  such  n  [kerson  I  If  t^tj  where  can 
I  learn  any  particulars  of  her  ?  It  hfis  been  stated 
that  neither  the  AuUieniic  Bccords  nor  the  enhirgetl 
version  of  it,  Tha  Sca-et  History^  5:c.,  was  publicly 
aold,  but  hawked  about  ut  night  by  a  mysterious 
female,  who  chtirged  very  lii^  prices  for  them. 
Certain  it  is  that  the  '^remainder"  of  the  Mccrd 
Hutortf  was  offered  one  evening,  by  some  such 
agent,  to  a  well-known  bookseller,  who  declined 
to  purchase.  Could  this  be  the  Mrs.  Wood  re- 
ferred to  in  the  MS.  note  'i  M.  W. 

"  Mr.  Fuller's  Complaint,^*— I  wish  to  ascer* 
taiu  the  collection  whence  a  poem,  entitled  aa 
above,  is  taken.  The  following  is  the  first  of 
soren  stanzas : — 

"  Englimd,  once  Europe's  Joji 
iMow  her  scorn ; 
AmbitiouB  to  be  forlorne, 
fid f,  by  self  torn; 
SUnd  amaz*d^ 
Thy  wo«B  are  bliu'd, 
By  MlcQce  best. 
And  waatiug  words,  even  wander  out  tbe  rest" 
J.  E.  Bailey. 

EoBRiCAL  QuERT.  —  In  Sir  Archibald  J. 
Stephen ^H  edition  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer, 
published  by  the  Ecclesiastical  History  Society  in 
the  year  1849,  tbe  first  rubric  touching  the  orna- 
ments that  were  in  use  in  the  second  yeai'  of  the 
reigo  of  King  Edward  VI.  is  scurod  across  in  blue 
ink,  and  in  a  foot-note  we  are  informed  that  '*  The 
40th  pace  of  the  Sealed  Books  commences  with  the 
words  *  Thk  Order,*  but  is  cancelled.  This 
*  Order  ^  does  not  appeur  in  the  MS,  Booky  Diihlin^ 
C.  R.  E."  On  refening  to  his  edition  of  the  Book 
of  Common  Prayer  for  Ireland,  I  find  it  as  he  says. 

My  query  is,  w:i3  tbb  rubric  intendeil  to  be 
omitted  at  the  last  review,  but  left  remaining  by 
An  overaight  ?  Edmund  Tew,  ]VLA. 


Privy  Council  Judgment:  Liddell  v,  Wes- 
TERToN. — In  Bayiurd's  (ed.  1857,  p.  128)  report  of 
the  judgment  of  the  Judicial  Comuiittee  of  the 
PrLv>^  Council  (Liddell  v,  Westerton),  delivered 
March  21,  1857, 1  read  :— 

"  Bat  by  the  time*  when  the  second  Prayer  Book  was 

introduced  &  ^reat  chiuigG  hod  takcD  place  in  the  oniaioii 

of  tbe  Erigliih  Cburch,  kod  the  consequence  was  taat  on 

ih«  revision  of  the  BeTTice  ihete  aever&I  mmttera  were 

I  completely  altered;  the  use  of  the  surplice  was  sybi^ti- 

l^ied  for  the  several  vcatments  preTionslj  enjoined,  ihi 

xtjferfor  citfutcratian  rjf  the  eUfH^mlx  van  omiiUd,  ihougk 

the  prtsent  Prater  Book  it  U  nHor^,  the  br«ad  and 

In  Tait    (Bishop  of  London),    Brodrick    and 


Freemantle'a  (ed.  1865,  p.  147)  report  of  the  vm^y 
judgment,  I  read  :— 

*^  ...  the  use  of  tbe  BurpUce  wat  «ab«titut6d  for  tht 
several  vestments  previously  enjoined,  mtUtrial  lU^fnUmi 
irer*  introdwitd  HI  iki  frrujftr  of  amteeraiicm,  the  hrwi 
and  wine/'  &c. 

How  could  '*  material  alterations  '*  be  i* 
in  a  prayer  that  was  omitted  ?  How  cou  I  > , 
if  not  omitted,  be  "  restored '-  ?  Which  i^  Liia 
true  report  of  the  jud^mient  delivered  1 

Utkum. 

To   Copyists. — Will    Hkrkbnthi  ni'    or    kdv 
other  expert  genealogist,  kiudly  rec 
experienced  person,  who  wo\ild  uui it 
for  mo  at  the  Public  Record  Office  and  Bntiaii 
Museum  I  X, 

[Letters »  prtpaid,  will  be  forwarded  to  oar  cwfe- 
spoodeaij 

XavT, — In  an  edition  of  Livy,  bearing  on  lU 
title-pace  "  Francoforte  ad  Mijenain  "  :is  ^  place 
of  publication,  and  dated  1678,  the  foUowiog 
passage  occurs  : — 

"PIcbs  tribunes  plebis  abaentca  Sex.  Tempantaflif 
A  Selium,  Sex.  Antietiatnj  et  Spuriliaiu  fecit,  q«ot  tl 
quo  oenturiombus  sibi  paefecemnt  Tempanio  aatbofe 
cquitea/* 

In  the  Oxford  classics  "Sp,  Icilium**  occurs 
for  "  Spunlium,"  Li\ii  iv*  42.  Which  of  these 
readings  is  correct,  and  how  is  the  diacrepanQr  to 
be  explained  ?  Is  there  any  tnontlon  of  a  HSpuriU^ 
elsewnere  in  Latin  authors  I  OiffioA. 

Eev.Timotht  K  ewmarcb.— Wanted  particukn 
of  this  clergyman,  a  Yorkshire  Nonjuror,  in 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  ceDtur}%  who  is*  > 
have  possessed  much  of  the  MS.  tt- 
the  "Kev.  Edward  Stephens;' a  r* 
juror  of  a  previous   generation,  {^oua-   ot   wiiox 
lettei-B  are  preserved  in  the  GiV»son  MSS.  in  Jjm- 
beth  Library.  Invks-huatob. 

A  Question  for  Antiquauies,— Tlu^  ^  n.^dm, 
is  extracted  from  the  Unitarian  Herat  < 
at   Mauchester.     By   giving   it   the   pi,.*.  ... 
*'N.  &  1,J;,"  we  umy,  perhaps,  obtain  ivn  answdr 
forF,  S,  A.:— 


*'  In  the  inicresting  volume  Utelj  publithed  by  Ma 
Le  Breton,  entitled  Memoir  vr^f>  i.  n.rrLiuhf,  :fir!inii*s 
Ldlers  and  Notices  of  her  / 
is  gi?en  addressed  by  the  P^ 
Dr.  Aikin,  when  about  t.. 
Warrington.    He  )?ivc8  him   u 
ia  post'Chaiies  as  far  ai  l^t     I : 
at  that  place  he  will  /*<' 
1768.    Can  any  of  your  ji 
eture  or  Cheshire  inform  u.  ..-^.-  „...-i,   ., 
firat  poBt-ch4i8c  ran  in  Stockport !    A  latiy  nut  tc  r 
deceased  informed  ine  that,  in  her  youtli,  a  pcr^i 
did  not  wiali  exactly  to  confess  having  oomc  on  iwi 
would  say  *  I  came  by  Stopport  chaise.'     Tlioru  mvxm 
to  bare  been  a  general  inclination  to  substitut«  mmt 
indirect  pluTi»e  for  tbe  simple  *  I  walked.'   A  Scotchinaa 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


129 


wotjld  Sftj^  *  I  rodo  oa  thank' f  naggu>     A  German,  ^  I 
f  p€r  pfdfs  ApotloloTum,*  F.  8.  A." 

SAI^KARA,^  MaRUATTA  BiLAJIiiANj  A*D,  1717.^ — 
"^  "  'i  koown  regiirdin^i^r  the  life  mid  writingd  of 

\  who  negocinted  the  trciity  between  the 

__Jttt)cn>r  Firokh  Sir  and  Biilit-ji  Biaha  Nath,  the 
fii*t  Peshwji,  in  1717,  by  which  the  rights  of 
Cbouth  and  Sir  D(^  Mukhi  were  ceded  to  the 

*JI>oir  Lieosr,  &  Poem  by  the  late  Lonl  Byron»  ic.    To 
vliaeh  U  added  Leon  to  Annabella,  an  epiatJe  from  Lord 
"*        I  to  Lady  Bjrron.     London :  Printed  for  the  Book- 
jtDoccLJtvi."    8to.    1  vol. 

Th€«e  two  poems  are,  of  course,  not  by  Lord 
Srroti*  Can  you  inform  me  who  was  the  author  ? 
Tae  ptthlbhers  name,  and  the  circnmstimces  of 
publication,  would  tiho  he  acceptable. 

H,  S.  A. 

Thk  Islahd  Iris. — Biodonis  Siculus  (v.,  32) 
i^^eftka  of  those  Britons,  who  inhiibtt  tt)v  oi'ofxa- 
{c^uAiofv  'Ipiv^  aa  being  cannibals.     Where  is  tliLi 

The  Sqllt  Islss. — What  is  the  earliest  ex- 
ttoipld  of  Vm  namef  and  why  were  they  so  called  i 

Pelaoius* 

Stkawbeaby  Leaves.— ^liy  were  these  leares 
L*ii  to  decorate  ducal  and  uther  coronets  7 

St.  Swithin* 

IE,  PbITATE    CORONEESHIl'S    OF   EnQLAND. — 

Where  can  T  meet  with  an  account  of  the^e,  I 
mean  such  as  were  attached  to  certain  manors  ] 
I  know  an  instance  in  which  such  an  otficc  waa 
^^      fordshire  Ump,  Henry  VI IL,  and 

of  the  propeJty  of  a  fdo  dt  u 

f^*^'  .iuyi  afterwards  remitted  by  the  lord 

of  [,     Have  such  privileges  ever  been 

alwu^"^^^,  -;  are  they  anywhere  in  force  now  ? 

T.  W.  Wbbbl 

Thx  Second  CarsADE. — I  remember  readinfr 

Ittmjr  years  ago  (I  think  in  a  modern  work  on  the 

f  Criwides)  a  H«t,  said  to  be  copied  frt^m  the  Annfds 

^Of  Waverley  Abl>ey,  of  the  knights  who  accom- 

'  Henry,  son  of  David,  King  of  Scot- 

cond  crusade.     I  have  since  referred 

^    rlitiona  of  the  "  Annjdes  Montis- 

in  Mr.  Luard^s  Annales  Alonua- 

.  .i  r    ach  liiiit,  though  the  crusade  is 

ioned.     Can  any  of  the  readers  of  your  in- 

ftblo  publication  inform  me  where  the  list  in 

qttistian  ijf  to  be  found  i  Miles. 


*  MumtaUa^-itl-L^dru  by  Klidfi  Eliia.  Fenian  text, 
' i  Indtca,  Tol.  ii,  p.  781. 


THE  DE  QUINCI8,  EAKLS  OP  WINTON* 
(4^  S.  X.,  xi.,  xii.  passim;  5«»  S.  L  98.) 

I  do  not  pretend  to  be  able  to  enter  into  this 
question  respecting  these  Earls  of  Winchester, 
which  has  been  argued  with  much  leiuming,  though 
their  early  history  does  not  yet  «eem  to  be  aatis- 
fcictorUy  cleared  up.  Having,  however,  been  led. 
for  other  objects,  to  read  over  a  number  of  old 
charters,  I  have  had  my  attention  drawn  to  refer- 
ences to  the  De  Quiucy  liuuily,  and  aa  I  do  not 
ftnd  that  these  have  been  noticed  by  any  of  your 
correspondenU,  it  may  assiut  Anolo-Scotus  and 
Mr.  SiiiTu  in  their  researches  if  I  give,  in  the 
briefest  manner,  the  purport  of  these  charters.  The 
first  to  which  I  refer  is  in  the  "liber  de  Dtj- 
biu*gh,"  presented  to  the  Bannatyne  Club  by 
Mr.  Spottiswoode,  and  there  at  Ko.  138  it  reads 
thus : — 

**  OtnnibiiM,  kc,  Eog«nii  de  Quinoy,  comes  Wintonle 
et  conBtabulanuB  Scocie,  eteniam  in  Domino  aaJuiem. 
Norerit  univtirsitu  T&stra  no«  divine  pietatis  tntuitii  et 
prosalntc  anime  nostre  et  Alyenore  Bponse  meeetpro 
amtnabus  AlanL  de  Galwytha  et  Helene  alie  sue  quondanL 
sponao  nostre/*  kc. 

Then  he  goes  on  to  say  that  he  gives  "  totum 
boscum  nostrum  de  Gleddiswod  "  to  the  Abbey  of 
Drj'burgh.  Like  idl  other  charters  of  this  chartu- 
lary  no  names  of  witnesses  are  given,  but  Mr. 
Eraser,  the  learned  editor  of  these  charter?,  thinki^ 
that  the  date  may  be  circa  12ik:i  This,  however, 
is  somewhat  too  early,  as  Roger  could  not  have 
assumed  the  title  of  Earl  of  Wmchester  before  the 
death  of  his  father^  Seher,  which  took  place  in  the 
Holy  Land  a.d.  1219,  as  shown  by  Mr.  Smith. 
The  next  charter  (No,  139)  is  **  super  piscaria  in 
lacu  de  Mertonn/*  which  Roger  gives  **  pro  salute 
anime  nostre  et  Alienorc  spouse  nostre,"  but  he 
does  not  refer  to  his  former  wife,  Helen.  Again, 
in  another  charter  (No.  141),  he  gives  to  the  Abbey 
of  Diyburgh  "  totum  toftum  meum  quod  habui  in 
villa  de  Hadyngtoun,  illud  scilicet  quod  dominus 
Willelmus  quondam  rex  Scocie  (1165-1214) 
domino  Kobcrto  de  Quincy  avo  meo  dedit,"  &c, 
Mr.  Eraser  attaches  the  same  date  to  this  charter, 
but  as  Wdliam  the  Lion  died  in  1214,  and  he  is 
here  spoken  of  as  *'  quondam  rex,"  the  charter 
muat  be  later.  I  shall  not,  however,  enter  into  Uie 
question,  but  merely  give  these  references  for  tlie 
consideration  of  Anolo-Scotus. 

Then  going  to  the  *'  Liber  de  Melros  ''presented 
to  the  Bannatyne  Club  by  the  Duke  of  Buccleuch 
in  1837,  I  find  the  name  of  Robert  de  Quincy 
(No.  39)  mer'    "    ^    i  a  charter  of  Robert  Avend, 
de  Escheda^  -  to  the  Abbey  of  Melrose 

"terram  me.....  .-.   ^..^t•hedale,  scilicet,  Tumlochec 

et  Weidkerroc."    We  arts  \:o\i  m  ^^  O^asxVtx  ^\^^ 
this  b  a  confttmaUoTi  ot  t\u&  ofvygaisl  ^gy«»X^'«^^^V 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[$**    ,ri.  Auc.15,74. 


him  (Robert  Avenel)  in  the  reign  of  ^lalcolm 
(1153-1165),  and  which  he  now  requests  his  Lord, 
William  the  Lion,  to  confirm.  Tlie  witnesses  to 
the  original  charter  are  the  foOoiring  : — 

"Ricartlufl  epiflcopue  SAncti  Andrce,  Engclrftmiii  epis- 
coptu  dt  Ol&aifue,  Gregoniu  episcopos  de  DnnkeK  (jAU- 
fridua  ibbbaa  de  dmnferliDe.  Jobanoes  ftbbas  de  kelcbo, 
Alnredtii  ablMU  de  strivelin^  Nicholauf  canccOarius, 
M&ttheus  iirchtd!acoiiu9,  Walleuus  conies^  Duaecanua 
cotnep.  Ported  gduim.  Malcolmui  come»,  Ricardu^  de 
morevill,  Wal tenia  filiii*  ftlAoi,  Darid  oUfurd,  Rohfrtus 
de  fjuincf,  Ricardua  ctmiin«  Bemardua  filiui  bricn, 
ll*jbertu*  de  berkele,  Wolteni*  clericiia,  Walteni*  de 
berkele." 

Thi?  recited  charter  is  nndnted,  hut  as  we  know 
that  Tn^elraiii  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Glasgow 
lat  Nov,,  11G4,  and  Malcohn  TV.  died  1165,  it 
^xes  the  charter  to  one  of  these  two  years.  Then 
again  the  name  of  Robert  de  Quincy  appears  in  ti 
charter  (Xo.  42)  of  Williaiu  the  Lion,  confirming 
a  grant  of  Robert  Avenel  of  lands  in  E»kdale  to 
the  abbey.  There  is  another  charter  (No.  49)  to 
which  I  would  dniw  particular  attention  : — 

*'  Omnibufl,  kc.  Era  quondanfi  uxor  Roberti  de  quinci 
Balutem.  NorerTt  uQiTersitaa  Testni  foe  via;ind  ftcru$ 
terre  arabilis  ernis<e  cnniiguai!  metis  gmngie  de  edmund- 
■tone  eC  eas  do,  kc^  pn'o  lAlute  domint  me!  Willelmi 
regis  Scocie  et  .  .  .  ,  pro  aniTnabiia  dominonim  m^onam 
Boberti  de  quincy  ct  Walteri  de  Berkeley  et  ftolandi 
fratria  niei  efc  Johannii  filii  mei  et  Chriatiae  Bororie 
mee»"  kc. 

Again,  at  the  commencement  of  the  reif^n  of 
Alexander  IL  (1214),  he  coniiram  nil  the  lauds 
that  had  been  j^ranted  in  former  rei;jn'^  to  the 
Abbey  of  Melrojje,  and  the  lirst  two  witnesses  are 
"  Willelmus  de  Boacho,  eancellarius  ineiL^,  SeiheruH 
de  Quinci  comes  Wintone."  Air^iin,  we  have  the 
sauie  Klnvr  Alexander  (No.  278)  condmiLng  a 
charter  gnxntin^^  the  land  *'  de  Rjisawe,'*  in  which 
the  name  of  no;jjer  de  Quincy  appeal's.  It  is  dated 
**  a  pud  R<^>ksbiirjEr  Anno  regni  douiini  regis  duo- 
decimo Septimo  die  Martiss,*-  i.  c,  1226, 

I  hfivc  a  tew  more  references  to  these  De  Qulncis 
from  other  charters,  but^  to  avaid  occupying  loo 
much  of  your  space  at  one  time,  shall,  with  your 
permission,  return  to  the  subject  in  a  future  paper. 

C,  T.  Ramaqe. 


MACAtTLAT  ON  IMlLTON  AND  SrEXSKR  (5*^  S.  il. 

44.)-^FiTZHnrKixs  objects  to  Macauhiy's  assertion, 
in  his  essay  on  Milton,  that  Paradut  Ritjained  is 
superior  to  every  poem  which  has  since  made  its 
appearance.  This  is,  I  am  well  aware,  considering 
the  great  poets  who  have  lived  Kince  Milton^s  time, 
a  strong  assertion  on  the  part  of  the  briOiunt  essayist, 
but  I  cannot  help  thinking  that  he  h  nevertheless 
right.  It  is  very  difUcult  to  speak  positively  in  a 
matter  of  criticism,  as  every  one  >viil  naturally  be 
guided  to  a  certain  ext^ent  by  his  or  her  own  personal 
tastes  and  predilections  ;  but,  according  to  my  own 
judgment,  the  greatest  things  whkh  English  poetry 
has  achieved   since   Milton's  death  are   Words- 


worth*«  Ode  on  Iniiinniiom  of  /wmarfaiifi/.  ftod  - 
parts  of  the  fourth  bix*k  of  the  E^fcutiiQjn. ;  ByronVj 
Address  to  the  Ocean,  and  the  stanzas  on  Walerloo»  i 
both  in  Ckikh  Harold;  Shelley's  Adomiif;  GrajRi 
£lf(jy;  and  perhnps  to  these  I  may  add  the  Battle  1 
of  Flodden  Field  in  Afflrmi<m,^all  written  befotvJ 
1825,  the  date  of  Macaulay's  essay.  Now,  b«| 
would  be  a  bold  critic  who  would  niiiintainl 
tliat  any  one  of  these  lofty  flights  of  the  Muse- 1 
is  equal  to  the  incomparable  f^  --*;  r  f,fj 
Athens  in  the  fourth  l^ook  of  Para  ttd,  \ 

a  description  which  is,  I  believe,  uii»  ,., .  tveuj 

in  the  pcetry  of  ancient  Greece.  Whm  wo  re* 
member  that  our  divine  Milton  never  siiw  Athens*! 
with  his  bodily  eyes,  our  adrainition  of  his  genius] 
is  lost  in  wonder  at  the  astonishing  power  of  J 
imagination  which  could  thus  assimilate  what  He  I 
could  only  have  known  through  books,  and  refiro-l 
duce  it  in  such  a  nmnner  as  to  present  us  with  a  I 
picture  of  "  the  eye  of  Greece,  mother  of  arts  and  I 
eh^quence,^  immeas^unibly  superior  to  any  evefj 
penned  by  a  traveller  who  had  actually  vinited  it,| 
The  poet's  description  of  imperial  T'  ^  'Ughl 

quite  worthy  of  ]m  genius,  is  h:ii  1  toj 

that  of  Athens.  Some  people  might  ari  i 
tn  wonder  at  this,  knowing  that  Milton  1' 
Rome,  whereas  he  had  never  visifced  Alhtii?  ;  Luv  ■ 
that  it  is  so  only  proves  how  detply  imlnie^d  th<r| 
poet  was  with  the  spirit  of  Greek  literature.  It  i«l 
alsf>  a  proof  of  the  fact  tlmt  the  eye  of  imaginatiottj 
really  sees  more  clearly  than  the  bodily  eye. 

FiTznopKiNS    differs    from    Macaulay    in    hil 
opinion  of  the  Facrir  Queme,  Macaulay  complaioy 
that  it  is  tedious.     I  am  so  ardent  an  athnirer  ' 
Spenser  myself,  that  I  am  only  too  ready  to  take 
up  the  cudgels  when  I  hear  him  depreciated  ;  an  " 
not  very  long  ago  you  were  so  kind  as  to  insert 
note  of  riiine  in   which  I  drew  attention  to  th9 
singnhir  fact  that  Sir  John,  now  Lonl,  ColeridgeJ 
in  his  lecture  on  Wordsworth  at  Exeter,  did  no 
even  damn  Spenser  with  faint  pmisc,  but  simpl/ 
ignored  his  name  altogether  in  speaking  of  ih^ 
greatest  English  poets.      Notwithstanding,  howJ 
ever,  my  iitrong  nppreciation  of  Spenser,  I  do  r»o^ 
feel  disposed  to  he  very  angry  with  !il;itiiidiir». 
feeling  certain  in  what  sense  he  meant  that  thoj 
Faerie  Quccm  is  tedious.     I  once  re4ui  the 
right  through  from  beginning  to  end,  but  this  is  i 
feat  which  I  have  only  accomplished  once.     Like 
FiTznoi'KiNs,  I  trouble  myself  very  little  about 
the  allegory,  and  only  read  it  for  its  poetry.     I  do 
not  suppose  I  sludl  ever  read  the  poem  from  he- 
ginning  to  end  again,  but  parts  of  it  I  have  res  *" 
(and  hope  still  to  read)  so  often  that  they  >**'<> lu  1 
be  inseparably  hound  up  with  niy  very  * 
e.  g.y  the  Bower  of  Bliss,  Una  and  the  \\ 
the  Cave  of  Mammon,  and  a  hundred  ot  i 
poetical  descriptions  scAtt-ered  through 
Having  thus  expressed  my  great   adhiUimoM 
Spenser's  poet^,  I  trust  I  ah«dl  not  b*s  considc 


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131 


I  to  him  Lf  I  Bay  thiit  I  think  the  Faerie 
h  tedious  to  rwul  right  tliroiigh,  at  any 
re«d  thn>tirrh  more  th(4n  once.  Its  length 
eat,  being  nearly  equnJ  to  that  of  the  Iluid. 
fittij^  and  the  Ailiuvl  together,  that  S{>en- 
•nius  would  Imve  hud  to  he  almost  super- 
to  eouhle  hlni  to  Bostain  so  great  a  work 
qnally  lofty  wiBg  right  through  to  the  end, 
er  booka  Jire  not^  except^  perhflpa,  here  and 
oual  t*.  the  e^irlier  ones. 

uhiy  terms  Spenser  tedious,  I  am 
^  only  nienn  it  in  the  sease  in 
fc  i^c«U  hman,  of  whom  I  hare  been  told, 
►cott  '^prohi,"  It  shows  no  disrespect  to 
Biriotui  novelist  to  feet  that  his  descriptions 
me  lire  tometimes  rather  long  dmwn  out ;  nor 
show  any  disrespect  to  him  who  was  ubove 
?ts  the  "Pfiet  of  the  Beriutifrd,  to  feel  that 
Ihof  arms  J  with  which  the  Fatrit  ^luetric.  so 
B  resound.^i,  at  length  palls  on  the  ear. 
pfor  myself,  I  would  gladly  exchange  some 
&  "hattjules  tierce  ^'  for  a  few  more  Bowers 
and  Garden,**  of  Adonis.  That  Macsniky 
ly  iiUve  t4j  Hpenaer's  ^^nt  merits,  la  suffi- 
©rinced  by  his  tenniufr  him,  as  he  docs  in 
f  on  Bunyanj  **  assuredly  one  of  the  greatest 
i_ev€r  lived."     Jonathan  Buuchier. 


I 


CoLMAN  (5*^  S.  i.  487.)— The  short 
*A  Reckoning  with  Time,"  consisting  of 
it&nzas  (in  all  seventy-two  lines),  was  puh- 
Iritli  other  fugitive  pieces,  in  1818,  under 
»  of  Fodical  VagarUi.  In  a  foot-note  the 
remarks  that  '*  Reckoning  with  Time " 
•cd  three  or  four  years  ago,  at  the  request  of 
^1  a  monthly  publication,  whence  it  was 
Bo  a  few  work>i  of  a  similar  description. 
W^iiB  fir^t  purposely  written  to  be  intro- 
J  the  present  tale,  viz.,  Low  Ambition;  or, 
^gml  Death  of  Mr.  Dan,  a,nd  has  been  seen 
■bts  a  little  n^ore  fugitive  (perhaps)  than 
Kthe  author  trusts  he  may  he  excused  for 
I  it  in  the  place  of  its  original  dei:tination.'' 
iinall  v<i!inn»'  mKo  contains — "  An  Ode  to 
k";  **The  Lady  of  the 
■ygig'';  "Two  Parsons; 
rSftle  of  a  Hhirt  ';  and  **  Vagaries  Vindl- 
I  Joeni  addressied  to  the  Reviewers. 

W.  Platt. 
Club. 


ik  the  enclosed  must  be  the  **  Reckoning 
fflie,^  by  George  Colman  the  Younger,  of 
our  corresfK/ndent  J.  C  H.  is  in  search. 
I  ;»ifMriM  1,1,,,  where  it  Ls  to  be  found,  but 
many  (oh,  how  many !)  ye^rs 
lace  book,  I  have  much  plea- 
a  copy,  and  shall  be  please<l 
dw ledge  it  with  real  name  and 
initials  beinf^  those  of  two  friends 


of  mine,  I  am  anxious  to  know  if  cither  of  them  ia 
the  appl leant. 

**A  RicKoiriKo  wiTB  Triti. 
Bj  George  Cotman  the  Younger. 

Come  on,  old  Time  !  nay  that  i«  staff; 
Gaffer  !  thou  coin'et  on  fas^t  enough  ; 

WingM  foe  to  feather'd  Cupid  ! 
But  tell  me,  Sftudrnwi  I  e*er  thy  grains 
Have  multiplied  upon  my  brams 

So  thick  to  make  me  stupid. 

Tell  me,  Death's  Joumevman !  but  no  ; 
Hear  thou  »ty  speech  ;  t  will  not  grow 

Irrev'rcnt  while  I  try  it. 
For  tliou^jh  I  mock  thy  fliglit,  'tis  said! 
Thy  forelock  fills  me  with  such  drfod 

/  n>er€r  takt  ihte  hy  %L 

List  thou  old  lit  Wtxtt  and  To  ht/ 

I  'U  state  teconnts  Hwixt  thee  and  me  :— 

Thou  fcav'st  me  first  the  meaAles  ; 
With  tcethiner  ^Tould'st  have  taken  m©  off, 
Then  mnd'nt  me  with  the  hooping-cough 

Thinner  than  fifty  weasels. 

Thou  gav'st  small-pox  (the  dragon  now 
That  Jenner  combats  on  a  cow) ; 

And  thetj  some  seeds  of  knowledge  ; 
Grainf  of  Grammar,  which  the  flails 
Of  pedants  thnuh  upon  our  tails 

To  fit  us  for  a  college. 

And  when  at  Christchurch  'twas  thy  sport 
To  rack  my  brains  with  sloejuice  port^ 

And  lectures  out  of  numl>er  ; 
When  Freshman  Folly  tiuftfTs  and  stni^. 
While  liruduate  Dulness  clogs  thy  wings 

With  Mathematic  lumber. 

Thy  pinions  next  (which,  while  they  ware. 
Fan  alt  our  birth^iays  to  the  grareji 

I  think.  eVr  tt  vtm  prudent, 
BttUooned  from  the  schools  to  towni 
When  1  was  parachuted  down 

A  dapper  Temple  student. 

Then  murh  on  Dramas  did  I  look, 
And  «»lighted  thee  and  jfrcat  Loid  Cot*^ 

Congrtvf  beat  Biachtont  hollow  ; 
Shakspeinre  made  all  the  statutes  stalc# 
And  in  mi^  crown  no  pleas  had  EuU 

To  supersede  Apollo* 

Ah,  Time  J     Those  raging  heats,  I  find. 
Were  the  mere  Dog  Star  of  my  miod — 

Hnw  c*>ol  is  retrospection. 
Youth's  ^audv  Summer  »olstice  o'er. 
Experience*  yields  a  mellow  itore, 

All  Autumn  of  rf flection. 

Why  did  I  let  the  god  of  song 

Lure  me  from  Law  t*!  join  his  tbronir, 

GaU'd  by  ^otikc  *li^ht  appLaases  f 
What's  Tcrte  to  A  when  versus  B  1 
Or  what '  John  Bull/  a  Comedy, 

To  pleading  John  RulVf  caoaes? 

Hut  though  my  childhood  felt  diteaset 
Though  my  lank  ptir^e,  tm^wolVn  by  feev 

Some  rag,'    '  '  .^  r>etted, 

Still  honest  CI  I  moat  true 

To  thee  (and  fiii,.       ,  ,  ys  foo| 

I  'tn  very  m\kQh  \nj^«l^Vb4^ 


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(5»B.n.  Atrial  15,71. 


For  tbou  Luist  miule  me  a^oMy  tough. 
Inured  mc  to  each  day  ihaX's  rougb^ 

In  hopefl  of  culm  to-morrow ; 
And  Vfhen.  old  Mower  of  us  aJl, 
BeDe&lh  thy  Bweeinng  «cyth«  I  fall. 

Some  ftv  dtarJrUiidt  will  wrrow. 

Then  thottgli  my  idle  prose  or  rhyme 
Should  half-an-uour  outlive  me»  Time, 

Pray  hid  the  atone-engrft?cr§. 
Where'er  my  iKnies  fiod  churcbyiird  room, 
Simply  to  chifcl  od  my  tomb, 

'  Thank  Time/or  all  hiifavomrt  /  * " 

Sam.  Bell. 

The  first  edition  of  hk  Poctiad  Votaries  was 
publislied  in  4to,,  Id  1812.  This  I  have  not  seen, 
but  the  second  edition,  smflll  fevo.,  Longmans,  181-4, 
is  now  before  nie,  and  in  it  I  find  LLe  piece  which 
J,  0.  H.  is  in  search  ol\  "A  Reckoning  with 
Tune,"  the  firat  lines  of  which  he  has  not  given 
quite  correctly  ;  the  true  readiug  is — 

*'  Come  on*  old  Time  !  nay  thftt  is  atuff; 
Gaffer  !  thou  com'st  on  fast  enougrh ; 
Wing'd  foe  to  fe^ther'd  Capid  ! " 

E.  V. 
Cfunbridgo. 

Adam's  First  Wife  (5**^  S.  L  387,  495.)^ 
Folck  Lebahn,  in  the  notea  to  Goethe'a  Faust, 
pp.  599,  COD,  gives  the  following  :■ — 

'*  Ala  Gott  im  Amfang  den  ersten  Ad&m  im  Pariuliej 
eiosam  f^schaffen,  hat  er  geaae;t :  Eb  ist  nicht  ^ntj  daaa 
dieBer  Meii»ch  olkein  sei^  bat  inm  dcsholb  ein  Weib  am 
der  Erden  gtsohnfTent  ihoi  gleich,  und  dieaelbigo  Lilia 
geheiisfteo.  Alsbiild  haben  diese  iwei  aii£efang«n  niit 
einander  xu  hadera  und  zu  zankon,  und  nat  4&.S  Weib 
jcesprochen:  Icb  will  dir  nicht  unterwUrfig  »ein;  und 
der  Mann  sprach ;  Ich  will  aucb  nicht  UDi«r  dir  aein, 
eondem  tiber  dich  herraclien,  denn  dir  gcbiibrt  unier- 
thMuig  lu  sein.  Da  antwortet  dfts  Weib :  Wir  aind  beide 
gleicb,  und  keinoa  iat  beAser  ala  daa  andere^  darum  du«s 
wir  beidc  aiis  der  Erde  gema«ht  Bind,  und  sind  also 
UDgebonnun  und  widorspUQEtig  gegen  einander  verblie- 
ben.  All  nun  die  Lilis  geteheo,  da^  cs  keine  Einigkeit 
zwiscben  ihnen  geben  werde,  bat  aie  den  beiligcn  Xamen 
^Schem  hamphortucJi  {dz&  Ui  der  heili|fe  Kamen  Gottea 
Jehova,  mit  aeiner  heimlichen  Cabali^tischcn  Auelegung, 
djiwider  Luther  mu  Biiclileia  gcichrieben  hat)  aus- 
geaprochen,  und  i^t  uhbald  damit  in  der  freicn  Lult  hin- 
weg  geflogen.  Ua  ppr&ch  Adam  zu  Gott:  Uerr  der 
ganxen  Welt,  daa  Weib,  da»  du  mir  gegeben  baat,  ipt  von 
mir  gefiogen.  Da  achiokto  Oott  der  Lilia  droi  Engcl 
na«h,  Senotf  Samenoh  Sanmanffefopk,  und  eprach  zu 
Ihnen  :  Will  sie  wieder  zttriick  kebren,  wobl  und  gut,  wo 
aber  nicht^  to  solkn  idle  Tage  hundert  von  ibren  Kin- 
dern  sterbon.  Alao  jageten  dieae  En^cl  ibr  nach,  uud 
crreichten  sie  iiber  dem  Meer.  da  ea  eehr  ungeatiini  ge- 
weaen,  ebeo  an  dem  Ort,  wo  die  Egypter  haben  eollen 
hemaeh  ertrinken^  und  Koigeten  ibr  den  Befehl  Oottea 
an.  AU  aie  nber  nicbt  geborchen  nnd  xurbckkebfen 
woUte,  aprachen  die  Engel .  Wir  wollen  dich  in  dem 
Meer  eraiiufen,  wo  du  nicbt  zurilck  kehreat.  Da  bat 
Lilia,  sie  ftollten  sie  doch  nur  bleibeu  laseen*  denn  sic  set 
nur  cr»ebaffcn,  dasa  sie  die  jungen  Kinder  vom  acbten 
Tag,  von  ibrer  Gcburt  her,  wenn  o^  ^'  ' '  ^cien,  und 
vom  jEwanzigsten  Tag,  wcnn  es  ?:  an,  pUgc 

und  b'jdte.    Ala  golehca  die  En^cl  I:  I'teu  bio  rIo 

mit  Gewalt  nehmcn,  uud  wieder  zuni  Adutu  fUhren.  Da 
gehwor  ihnen  die  Lilii  rinen  Bid,  daas  flo  oft  aie  ibren 


(der  Eiigel)  Nomen  odcr  Ge*tn!t,  n«f  firrfm  TJ^Jttfl.  1*<t- 

jKament  oder  anderswu 

keine  Gewalt  iiber  die  1 

thneiimcbtazuLeide  tL- .     .» 

und  diescn  Flucb  und  titrate  ericiden  woUe^  daw  aiie 
Tage  von  ibren  Kindern  bundert  *terl»«»Ti  «<»nt^fi.     E« 
■ina  also  bemacb  alle  Tage  hundfi 
Teofel  von  ihren  Kindern  gostorl> 
die   Ursaohe,  warutn  wir    dieae    i 
Kamca  odcr  PergamentZctttd  icLrcibeu  u\ 
iren   Kindern  anhangen,   dasti  namlicb,  wen 
dieae  Zottel  oder  Ge^cbriftaiebt,  aie  an  ihren  Lju  »:c(iLUJ^'.. 
und  den  Kiudern  keinen  Schaden  thuc. — (Brn  i$ir<f,J — 
Von  oincm  Teufelsgesptinat  in  Wcibdgestalt  verit  lirn  c5 
aach  die  Juden,  welche  in  der  Hammer  em 
terinn  inwendig  und  aurwendig  un  die  Th^ 
Wand  und  um  daa  Bctt :    Adam,  Cb^t*- 
achreiben,  d.  h.  Adam,  Eva,  heraus  dn  1 
'*  Adam  aoll  nacb  ficiner  Veratoiiaunj 
diese,  wider  seinen  liVlllen,  mit  der  Lili^  loiJ  JaIuc  hm;; 
lauter  Riesen  und  bJ>8e  Geiflter  gezeugt  haben. — (Geneiii 
v.1,2,3;  vi.l,2,3,4,r 

J.  C.  Glouoil 

Tiverton. 

"  Built  here  for  his  ekvt  "  (5***  S.  ii  7,)— 
Bentley  iiTitea  a  very  pregnant  note  upon  lhi»:-^ 

**  To  raise  sense  from  more  nonaenae  ia  much  tMUr 
and  surer  of  acceptance  than  to  ndae  atill  better  artu«e 
from  good  and  tolerable.    No  doubt  God  bml 
receptacle  for  Satan  and  hie  crew ;  but  to  tu 
it  not  for  his  own  tnvy^  aa  if  he  could  ever  wish  m  cuaijjt 

Xlacea  with  them,  isaomothing  eitravaganL  Let'a  reduce 
Liiton's  own  words  :— 

*  Th'  Almighty  had  KO  butt 
Here  for  hjB  envy;  will  not  drive  ua  hence.* 
No  butt,  no  object,  no  acope  for  his  envy  here  ;  hecAiuiol 
think  the  place  too  good  and  delightful  for  ua." 

Richardson,  in  his  I}iction€t;}'y^  gives  **  ^     '   ** 
n  neuter  substantive  equivalent  to  bu: 
cites  the  passage  from  Dryden's  Anni'     ^m  r 
Archery  and  niusketry  butts   are   alwa}*s  tbi»i:.^ 
builded  or  built,  and  it  would  be  y^ry  easy  t^ 
account  for  the  thing  huiU  becoming  synonyn"  i^ 
with  a  huity  supposing  we  could  find  an}'  such  u  v 
of  it  in  any  special  trade  or  local  dialect. 

C.  A.  Warp. 
Mayfair. 

and  also  applied  to  the 

fact  equivalent  to  our  ou  ^.  ,     .     , 

subaltern,  an  ensign.     It  is  used  more  tbitn  onoe 
in  Shakspeope ; — 

"  This  ia  Othello**  Qnclenl,  aa  I  take  it. 
The  same  indeed ;  a  very  valiant  fellow/* 

And  again  :— 

''  0(A,  So  pleaae  your  grace,  my  anckni ; 
A  man  he  ia  of  honesty  and  trust ; 
To  hia conveyance  I  assign  my  wife.'* 

Othdto.tl. 
J.  8.  Udai. 
Junior  Alhenieum  Club. 

Is  not  atieiint  or  antunt  equivalent  to  tAti^  f 
**  Lord  Westmoreland  Ida  ancvent  raiide. 
The  Dun  Bull  he  rays'd  on  bye"— 


i 


iri& 


V^&.U.A\iQ.U,  74] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I^js  the  f}]d  bnlLid  ;  luid  ut  n  later  date,  almost 

•  d  by  J.  IL  B.,  we  find  the  word,  used 

tiie  sense  of  ancieot  or  ensign  hearer, 

le  in  Went  worth  Church,  co.  York : — 

Auno  Domini  1(^67  :  hj  the  appomtment 

_  liurl  of  8traffbrdo  this  itono  U  kid  over  the 

Hr.  Elch&rd  Mftrrie,  whu  died  in  the  ;e&r  1635^ 

ir«rdl  and  ancient  to  his  lonUhip^a  cTcr  most 

f&ther  Thomtfl  Eorle  of  BtrAforde/' 

Clk, 

indent^  in  the  sense  noted  by  J.  H.  B.^  means 
MvdArd-ljearer.  The  word  ia  of  constant  occur- 
rence in  our  older  literature,  to  signify  an  heraldic 
etiK  "  -  ^  ittle  standard.  Fidatati'  says  of  his 
m*  r  y  are  "ten  times  more  diahonoumbJe 

ihiMi  .  u  hw^ed  ancimt" — 1  Hmry  IF,  Act  iv, 

«c.  2.     There  ia  an  order  in  the  Leycester  Cor- 
Rsipondence,  A.D.  1586,  for  "causing  the  foraaid 
fiotudgiprH  to  he  kept  under  their  auneicnta^^^  p.  17. 
The  balitvi  of  Tfi^  J^mng  in  fA«  North  tells  how-^ 
^£r1e  PercT  there  hli  aiicy<n(  aprcd^ 
The  Half^e-Moone  thininf  aII  to  f^ire  ; 
The  HoTiooA  anc^tat  bad  the  croiSt 
And  the  fire  wounds  our  Lord  did  btare." 

Edward  Psacocs* 

i  inttgn  in  modiani  phnyieolo^.  The  atUi^t 
[  Wm  the  juune  given  to  a  fstandjirdV  and  also  to  li^ 
I  bMrtr.  In  ShakBpetire  we  have  **  ancient  Pistol/* 
GolglftTe,  in  hia  IMdiofiary^  English  iind  Frendi, 
1960,  giveir  "  An  Ancient  or  Eoaigno  in  warres, 
£Djeigne";  and  under  *'EniM*igne/— **  An  Enyigne, 
JUintient,  St^uiiLkrd  hearer ;  he  that,  in  war,  carries 
},  goUquts  of  a  coni|XLny  of  foot/' 

JoffNSON  BaILY. 

ThJj*  is  a  religious^  and  not  a  military  term.  The 
mmiinU  in  **  Lord  Pett?rborough*a  regiment  against 
|||0  king "  wa8  no  doubt  a  Pnjsbyterian  deacon, 
eldfvrt  or  antieiit,  for  all  the:*e  terms  were,  and  are, 
still  u^d  in  Calvinistic  established  churches  and 
m  Englitfh  Dissenting  congregsitions.  The  term 
cifiltfn^  in  French  ancUn^  w  iu*ed  in  foreign 
Luthenui  and  Calvinistic  churches.  He  is  what 
the  Scotch  churches  call  a  deacon.  He  receive*  a 
fidnor  ordination,  and  hands  the  cup  in  the  admi- 
~'  The  Communion.    He  b  &ko  a  sort  of 

I.  and  in  iwme  con^r^jsfationii  is  found 
'  -onage. 

Th  t-d  and 

OUUpi.M  1^ I rj i;   i>:ipn.''i    ludiir^u-r  '»i   «,  aiuuringr,  said, 
*'  Tfiilk  to  me  of  your  Lonl  Bifjhopa  !    Lord  deliver 

mt*   *' '    '^    Tv:icon!"     The  IHciimiTtuire 

U>  Le  La  Chatre,  Paris,  1855, 

oiuL  -  .^^  ..  ii/'iiays: — 


I 


"ChtiUaC 


>md0nn6  ii  tm  certain  nombre 

nt  ^^nrmi  le  petiple,  lea^aelies 

I  tipoeedit  Je  ooiiai«toirc  qui 

>a,  et  ao  mMntien  de  la 


I^td  Peterborough's  ehaplAin  would  be  a  Cal- 


vinist,  and  an  aniient  or  elder  was,  therefore,  a 
necesaarj  Aid  or  asnstant  to  him. 

Jahks  Hekkt  Bixok* 

EAinsL  (Sl^  B.  I  388.)— This  form,  apparently 
foimd  only  in  Jeremiah  xxxL  15,  in  the  Englum 
verKLon,  may  be  a  misprint,  but  I  suspect  other- 
wise. If  I  understand  him  rightly,  Mr,  J^Iant  is 
WTong  in  saying  that  it  is  found  in  the  English 
version  only,  as  it  is  the  regular  form  in  the  Welsh 
veraion,  and  hencoi  perhaps,  we  may  arrive  at  its 
origin.  In  this  way,  I  thinks  it  will  be  found  that 
tliei"c  was  at  least  one  Welshman  on  King  James's 
Bible  Revision  Committee,  and  that  he  himself 
reviiied  several  portions  of  the  Old  Testament.  To 
him  I  attribute  the  form  in  question*  It  would 
be  inte resting  to  know  when  it  ^t  appeareii  in 
the  English  version,  J.  C.  Ukkokk* 

P.S. — Spurrell,  in  his  Cmmarihen  andiU  Neigh^ 
bourhood,  aays  that  Biahop  Richard  Daviji,  D.D.. 
translated  Joshua,  Judges,  Euth,  1  Samuel  ana 
2  Samuel,  in  the  English  Bible  in  1568*  and 
1  Timothy,  Hebrews,  James,  1  and  2  Peter,  in  the 
Welsh  New  Testament.  What  Ls  Mr,  Spume tl*s 
authority  for  his  first  statement,  I  do  not  know  ;  but 
the  authority  for  the  second  is  Saleabury's  Welsh 
New  Testament,  first  published  I5G7. 

The  form  "  Rahel "  is  warranted  by  the  Hebrew, 
the  letter  h  representing  the  Hebrew  letter  if eyth 
I  the  ^aUtural  /*;,  Hryin  is  (Uicays  so  represented 
when  initial,  **<;.,  Hannali,  Hermon,  Horeb,  Hophni, 
with  two  exceptions,  Enoch,  Eve ;  and  nearly 
always  when  in  the  middle  of  a  word,  «,  /?.,  Beth- 
lehem, Gehasi,  Ahasuerus,  Ahaz.  **  RaheV'  there- 
fore, is  more  correct  than  the  well-known  Maehel, 

A%  L.  Mayhew. 

Oxford. 

I  have  in  fiiy  possession  a  copy  of  the  Enjgllsh 
Bible  in  which  the  name  of  "  Bachel "  Ls  printed 
in  the  fifteenth  verse  of  the  thirty-first  chapter  of 
Jeremiah.  Gborge  Elub, 

St.  John's  Wood. 


more  accurate   form  of  the 

_    „  .,.1  ,.j  T^^chel,     In  the 

1  throughout^ 

..-,.-..  ,    ..m  of  1611,  and 

in  Jeremiah  xxxi.  15  only.** 

'jve  s  article  in  Smith's  />if- 

Vitk  also  a  foot-note,  t«v. 

J.  Manuel. 

4'^B.iiL220;  xiL  128.] 


"RaheP*  is  **thc 
familiar  name  el '  "^ 
older  English  \< 
butsnr^ivp-^  '"  + 
in  our  p^e^' 
—See  Mr.  C      ^      . 
iionanf  of  the  Mtbk. 
"  Rachel,"  p.  988. 

[8ee'*N,&a/ 

KxtniR  AKD  Spkll  (5"»  S.  i.  348.)— In  the 
Skiichesfrom  Cnmhri^ige,^.  13,  Mr.  Leslie  Stephen 
says,  *'We  have  now  every  game  that  lilies  the 
pages  of  BtlVi  lA/ty  except  the  profoundly  mys- 
tenons  knurr  and  spell/*  Bo  ]Mr.  Bi/:**^^  \*  iseis* 
alone  in  \m  c\\™%\ly  i^XymV  X^sa^  ^xel^.    l^^fw' 


134 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[5^i,lLAcc.  iri,7c 


I  take  It  to  be  tlie  same  ua  **  northern  spell,*'  tliousxb 
which  is  the  proper  name  I  eiinnot  guess  ;  and  for 
the  "  profound  mystery  '*  of  it  Mr*  Blood  (also 
Mr.  Leslie  Stephen,  if  he  cluance  to  see  this)  is 
referred  to  Strutt's  Sports  and  Pastimes^  p.  H>9 
(Hone*a  edition),  where  it  will  appear  that  the 
^i^ame  is  played  with  a  trap,  bat,  and  ball^  the 
contest  being  simply  who  shall  strike  the  ball 
farthest  with  a  j^fiven  number  of  strokes.  If  I 
remember  rights  this  tigured  in  the  Boy^  Own 
Book  I  used  to  read  twenty  years  ago, 

Charles  F.  *S.  Warrkn,  M.A, 

This  is  a  common  field  game  in  Craven,  and 
matches  are  played.  The  knurr  is  a  small  ball  of 
lignum  yiUt'j  which  is  struck  out  of  a  wooden  stand 
by  a  tiexible  stick  or  wand  thiit  has  a  bit  of  wood 
at  its  end.  This  stick  is  the  spell.  Some  philo- 
logists have  asserted  that  knurr  huH  uolhing  to  do 
with  the  wooden  bidl,  tin*  name  of  the  game  being 
a  corruption  of  "  northern  spell."  I  do  not  fall 
in  with  this  idea.  Htkphen  Jackson^ 

This  game  is  called  by  Strutt  *'  northern  spelL" 
Haliiwell  makes  knurr  the  small  ball  of  hard  wood, 
and  spell  the  trap  from  which  it  is  struck  ;  but 
Strutt's  spelling  seems  to  point  to  "  Norden  spiel." 

It  is  very  popular  in  the  clothing  districts  of 
the  West  Eidmg,  betting  on  the  crack  professional 
players,  and  the  conseipieot  drinking,  being  the 
attraction-  The  contest  i^  who  shall  strike  the 
b;dl  to  the  greatest  distance  In  a  given  number  of 
strokes.  W.  G, 

[See  "  N.  &  Q."  i'^  S.  i.  294,  325,  468.1 

"  Wisdok's  bettbh  than  money,"  &c.  (5^*^  S. 
i.  149.) — This  volume  appean  to  be  composed  of 
two  distinct  works.  If  so,  the  latter  is,  I  pre-surae* 
im  English  translation  of  a  work  by  De  la  Chambre, 
a  French  writer,  entitled  jL'. 4 rf  dt  Connotstrc  Its 
Homm€^^  and  published  at  Amsterdam  in  1669, 
the  year  of  the  authors  death. 

Gaston  be  Bkrneval- 

Pbikdelphia* 

The  Lancashire  Word  "  Areawt"  (S*"^  S.  L 
ltf3.)— ^J^^'  Entwible,  referring  to  Hones  com- 
mentary on  the  woixl  aroint,  <jUotes  his  or  Bou- 
chers allusion  to  the  Lancashire  word  areawt, 
which,  he  say.^,  signifies  *jd  out,  or  avmij  vnth  thcc. 
Mr.  Entwisle  {Sds,  in  a  note,  that  **  the  Lanca- 
shire equivalent  to  this  now-a-days  is  ger  cmtC 
Hone  or  Boucher  might  have  been  pardoaed  for 
the  mistjdie  here  made,  but  it  is  scarcely  excusable 
in  a  Lanciiahiie  man.  Arcmci  means  outside,  or 
out  of  doors.  It  has  no  connection  whatever  with 
the  word  aroints  Thus  John  Collier,  in  his  Tim 
Bohhin  \^lVorkSf  p,  58),  iwiys:— **1  re  no  soi>ner 
areawt  boh  a  threave  o'  rabblenient  wur  watch  in 
on  meh  at  t*  dur,"  which  translated  =  **  I  was  no 
sotmei  outside  than  I  found  a  rabble  crowd  watch- 


ing for  me  at  the  door."    Agsdn,  Samuel  Bamford, 
in  bis  ^'Wild  Rider"  (Hoimbj  IChjmfa^p,  74) says: 
*'  And  why  cornea  a  gentleman  riding  aToueT 
And  vthy  doth  he  vrander  tirtawt  i<uch  »  night  ?  '* 

The  wo nl  is  still  in  use  in  the  few  districts  in  Lan*l 
c^Lshiro  where  the  dialect  it?  sfxjken.  With  regard  1 
to  the  wor«l  arointj  I  am  pnzzled  to  determine  I 

whother  it  ever  was  in  common  use  i-  ^ hire. 

Although  given  in  some  of  otir  verj'  ol- 

lections  of  county  words,  I  have  jum  .......  ,..  ic  t'>-j 

discover  it  in  the  text  of  any  writer  of  the  dialect,  1 
and  only  one  of  the  thirty  contributors  engaged  J 
upon  the  Glossary  now  in  preptinuion  professes 
to  have  heard  it.  This  gentleman,  3klr.  T,  T. 
Wilkinson,  of  Btiniley,  a  close  and  conscientious  J 
observer,  haj*  heard  the  word  used  in  the  sense  of  J 
stand  aside  or  gel  att^y,  imd  he  suggests  that  it  ml 
connected  with  the  Icelandic  knind  and  German | 
i^tidc.  J.  H.  Nodal. 

Heaton  Moor,  near  Stockport. 

"A  Rowan-Tree*'  (5«»S.  i.  161)— The  word  I 
'•  rowan  *'  is  a  probable  inversion  of  om-w#,  or  it^  I 
root,  QptLv-os  ==-'  mountainous,  wild,  growing  wild.  ] 
A  propos  of  ** aroint,-*  we  tind  roinf  tfur^  aDdj 
araunte  thin' ;  and  there  is  the  Cheshire  rynti 
ihee;  and  we  have  also  arongt.  Jamieaon  renderal 
runt  the  "trunk  of  a  tree  ";  and,  as  a  third  me«n-| 
ing,  *'  an  old  woman,  t.  q.  a  withered  hf<^."  Bi*^ 
gives  abio  Scottish  runt^  **a  contemptuou 
tion  for  an  old  woman,*^  and  says  in  1 
hrund  in  explained  **  nuilier,"  but  particuhuly  huta  J 
the  name  of  a  heathen  goddess.  Again,  in  Scc»t- 1 
land  J  runt  is  an  old  cow;  in  England,  an  ox  or  cow  I 
of  giiiall  size.  The  Belgic  rund  is  a  bullock;  the  j 
Geruian  no**/,  an  ox  ttr  cow,  Jamieson  says,  m\ 
the  north  of  England,  a  woman  is  said  to  be  r«nt^| 
when  she  is  fifty  years  old,  it  being  a  questioul 
sometimes  put  to  a  son— **Is  your  mother  rtifi^afl 
yet?"  I  take  it,  however,  that  the  nropej  etynio-| 
logy  of  aroint  is  from  arry  awint,  which  I 'ot grave  I 
renders  "  on  afore,  away  there  hoe ;  from  ihtiJ 
carter's  cry,  arry,  and  kori  ho" 

R.  S.  Cbarsock. 

Gray'a  Inn. 

P,S, — The  Norman  arr  signifies  in  an-  «^  \^ 

arraigned  ;    arveii^   arreyn^  antut,  is   u i 
and  rcyntm  fi^ned;  ?«nf,  reint^  indicted,  .  . 
fined.   The  0*G.  haren  is  rendered  vocart^  ciamar 
and  haro,  clamor, 

Tliis  extract  may  possibly  throw  some  light  on 
the  derivation  of  **  ai^oynt "  or  **  aroint ": — 

*'*Aroynt  thee/  get  ye  gone^  bo  off!     In  Cbethin 

they  Bay  'rynt  yc,  witch' ;    and  m^^'  -'-^ * 

cowa,  when  they  have  done  milkii 

beauties*    (Saxon,  a-rennan,  run  <  ; 

Welsh,  rhiD,  a  cb&imel  for  vrtitcr,  ivbe&cc    iiLhincJ.  — (J 

Bictionaty  of  Phratu  and  Fahit,  by  the  Rev.  E.  Ooblli 

Brewer,  LL.D. 

MaDoC. 


» 8,  IL  Ado.  15,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 


148.) — This  was  not  the  first  book  prtntet]  from 
Saatoa  t  jpes*  at  lejwt  three  Saxon  books  havinrr  beeo 
prititi?tl  in  1567,  The  earliest  of  these  is  believed 
to  bc\— 

**  A  Teitimonie   of  ftntiquitie  Shewinit  thfi  ftuncient 
~Tlh  in  %he  Church  of  England,  touching  the  sacntment 
r  the  liodjr  mad  bInuJe  of   the  Jjord  here  publikeHy 
ebcd.  Mid  also  rece&ucd  in  the  Smxoni  iymct  abotie 
ytnm  ngoe  .  .  ,  Jmprinted  «l    London  by  John 
Dftj,  dvteUing  ower  Aldengate  beneath  8*  M&rtjus.' 

A  cojiy  of  this  curious  book  now  lie«  before  me. 
It  consists  of  seventy 'five  numbered  leaves,  in- 
eluding  title,  followed  by  thirteen  unnumbered. 

There  tire  some  |>ei'uliiiritie3  of  tbi.^  book  that 
tieem  to  hftve  ef^^ipetl  the  notice  of  bibliofjrapherji, 
one  uf  which  h  that  folios  7H-S6  contain  *' The 
Louies  |»rayer,  the  Crcede,  and  the  x  Commiiunde- 
mcntx  in  the  Snxon  and  JEnglishe  toiin;Te/'  with  a 
etrictly  liUral  ijitfTiinear  trandaHon,  Is  not  this 
the  cfirlicst  instJinc«  of  the  kind  extunt  ?  A  well- 
koowTi  t#«iirher  of  lanj?iK\ge.«T  named  Hamilton,  who 
floti  '  '  me  thirty  or  forty  years  af^o,  cbiinied 
to  inator  of  interlinear  tnvnsIatioDP^  and 

cTc  t.  me  system  of  teaching  biwed  on  tbem 

Ibr  li  r  1 1 1  rj  ian  syitem.  His  clftinw  to  originality 
were  ui^pultrd  on  the  ground  that  he  waa  merely 
the  i^n<i  to  'tpply  the  system,  but  that  Lo<*ke  and 
AjKjhsim  had  rteotnmtnded  it  or  something  akin  to 

!  it  Horf,  however,  b»,  at  this  early  date,  not 
mrr»lr  n  >ii  ^estion,  but  a  practical  cxompliHcation 
<»f  Hum il too,  after  a  lapse  of  nearly 

I  thrr  t  years,  claimed  m  his  own. 

Oafton  de  Bkrneval. 

rhiiAdciphiA, 

A  Conjecture  (5**  S.  ii.  26.) — Gronoviua  says 

MMMgC  : — 

2Um,  VtT^m  kax  t»  t^cun  hcJ^eh,  Sic  habent 
Watt  M8S.  Lambino  teste»  neque  etiam  Munatiui 
lsprt»baL  Bed  MftUsp.  »on  placet;  qui  ^uspkmtur 
h£md9m,  nihil  f*^m  rirfvm.  B  >*i!  Tectioncin  fvquitur 
JmAm.     6ed  a^'  f  tam  r€rum. 

ffitcim  tocwm  mam  lectio- 

arai  pr^chut)  *;  ,  r  in  libro  IV,, 

Qhmrt.  flap.  7,  •t  i^w  ab  aliurum  truatmnciB  matation- 
Ibot  laf  bUtam  bic  tcrravi/' 

It  appears  then  that  S.  T.  P/s  emendation  is  no 
coojectoppj  after  all,  but  a  reading  supported  by  uU 
th<i  MS8»  'To  my  mind,  ridum  is  no  bad  gue*s ; 
rertainly  more  applicable  than  rertim  to  audi  a 
prr»oti  lui  Antipho.  Edmuxd  Tew,  M.A. 

OtD  ExoRAVTNGS  i**)*^  S.  ii.  47.)— I  believe  that 
tlie  old  Cable  of  "  The  Siitvr  aod  the  Traveller  "  is 


tlie  rabject  of  the  i 
pATnmsox,  I  t 
DMnc  fif  tbe  pninh 
in  my  fioaM^i'Tu  I 
io  a  fn^fid.  ii 
and  tlio 


■'"■  inquired  for  by  Mr. 

have   told  him  the 

.raver,  for  copies  were 

ii^n  they  were  given 

f  .  V  vvofi"  disi)08ed   of, 

them,  the 

■  dt.     TbeiT 


was  an  inscription  on  the  margin  tindernciiih,  \n 
both  the  English  and  French  lungiuiges. 

John-  PicKFonitf  M,A. 
Kewbonroe  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

T.  AixiNfjToN  (5^»»  S.  i.  288.}— Mr.  Webb  as- 
sumes  that  evcrj'body  knows  AJJington'si  ^'ifmidl 
volume  of  |>ocms."  I  can  find  no  such  name  in 
Allibone  4  Dutionaiy^  nor  in  any  catalogue.  If 
Mr.  Wbbb  will  be  more  precise,  perhapsr  aotiie  of 
your  readers  will  be  able  to  supply  the  information 
he  asks  for.  The  same  remarks  apply  to  hiii  *|uery 
numbered  3.  OLrnAR  Hamst. 

JSLiRT  SoMERviLLE  (o^^  B.  ii.  48.) — It  apjiejirs 
from  the  **  Memoirs  "  that,  when  Mrs.  Somerville 
put  on  pitper  the  opinion  in  question,  she  had  J)een 
recently  examining  m,  to  her,  new  aubjecta  Seiret's 
Analyst  Supirieurt  and  Tail's  QiiatcrnionM,  Now, 
the  former  of  these  works  in  no  respect  trenches 
on  the  methods  of  the  BitTerential  Calcalu«,  but 
the  latter  avowedly  tends  to  rephtce  the  CarteBiaii 
Geometry  of  Co-ordinates.  A  hiptie  of  attention  on 
the  part  of  the  venerable  writer  would  account  for 
the  passage.  E.  C.  S. 

Hkraldic  (5**»  S.  iL  48.)— In  reply  to  K,  the 
henildic  honours  descend  to  B.'s  children  oidy. 

D.  C.  E. 
The  Cre#cent,  Bedford. 

Dr.  Barton's  Fvsa  (5*'^  8.  li.  (17.)— May  not 
the  answer,  which  St.  S with  in  sa_vs  he  has  been 
**  supposing  •*  for  the  luat  fifteen  years,  be  a  pifjwn 
paiT  f  Geo.  Rippox* 

Oxford, 

I  think  I  know  the  reply  ;  and  the  fact  of  its 
being  hardly  printable  in  these  day*  will  account 
for  its  being  le<l  to  the  imagination  of  the  reader. 
J,  Stores  Smith. 

The  Laurelf^  Chesterfield. 

The  JurM>E&  on  CjaruiT  ('t*^  8.  ii.  27.)— Mr. 
ARTnrR  AViLLiAMs  asks,  bow  is  it  that  Her 
Majesty's  judges^  when  on  circuit,  never  inter- 
clmuge  hospitality  with  th**  sberitl*  of  any  English 
county  except  Yorkshire  {  He  states  that  in 
Wales  this  cue  torn  does  not  prevail  In  Wales 
the  jadges  entertain  the  grand  jury,  and  the 
sheritf  is  invariably  invited  ;  and  for  ought  that  I 
have  been  able  to  discover,  there  is  no  reason  why 
this  should  not  be  also  the  caBe  in  England.  But 
it  is  quite  clear  that  an  interchange  of  hospitality 
would  be  wrong,  for  the  statute  13  &  14  Charles 
II.  c.  21,  provides  that — 

••  No  person  duly  ■worn  into  the  office  of  sheriff  .... 
sball . . .  .  in  the  time  of  the  acaixei  held  for  the  county 
or  shire  during  hi«  ih«rtff»lty  keep  or  maintain  or  cause 
to  be  mamtaine'l  one  or  moro  table  or  tables  for  receipt 
Of  Giitertainment  of  any  ptnon  or  persona  retorting  to 
the  said  aniies  other  tbnn  tUo»ve  that  shall  b«  ot  \\\%  tgrntii 
family  or  retinue,  nor  tbh\\  a\tvV<i  ot  wevA  w^i  ^v^***^^ 
any  Judge  or  Judices  ot  Sxixvtl'  kc« 


136 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(y*  8,  IL  Aco. 


The  necessity  for  thie,  as  set  out  in  the  preamble  of 
the  Act,  amae  "by  reason  of  the  g:mit  and  un- 
necessary charges  in  the  time  of  tisaijies,'*  which 
had  *'  of  late  years  been  retry  burdensome  to  the 
gentry  of  the  ReAhn.'^ 

Thw  Act  does  not  extend  to  the  sheriffs  of 
London  and  Middlesex,  the  sheriff  of  Westmore- 
land, or  any  sheritf  of  any  city- and -county  or 
town-and'County.  The  sheriffs  of  the  City  of 
London  inviirial>ly  entertain  the  judges  sitting  at 
the  Old  Bailey  Mr.  Williams  probably  con- 
founds Yorkshire  with  Westmoreland. 

J.  RoLAiJD  Phillips. 

Temple. 

MENnELsaoHN  (5*^  S.  ii*  88)  was  the  grandson 
of  Moaee  Mendelssohn.  See  The  ImiH^rial  Die- 
tioTuiTy  of  Univenal  Biography  (Mackenzie,  Lon- 
don), Fredk*  Kule. 

Half-a-hundred  correspondents  can  inform  Jav 
AiTCH  that  the  late  eminent  composer  (bom  Feb.  3^ 
18(H),  died  Nov.  4,  1847)  was  a  descendant  of  the 
almost  equally  eminent  philosopher.  It  htm  been 
recorded  of  the  great  musician's  father  that  he 
sometimes  spoke  of  himself  as  having  been  eompli- 
meDiCHl  in  his  youth  as  the  son  of  the  famous^ 
Mendelssohn,  and  in  his  latter  days  as  the  faihir 
of  the  famous  Mendeksohn. 

Henry  Campein,  F.S.A, 

*'The  Widow  of  the  Wood  ^'  (5"»  S.  IL  88.)— 
The  book  about  which  your  correspondent  innuires 
ia  siflid  to  refer  to  the  Wolseley  family,  of  Wolseley 
Hal!,  in  Staffordshire,  and  it  is  supposed  to  have 
been  written  by  Benjamin  Victor,  dramatist.  The 
"  widow  "  in  question  is  reputed  to  have  been 
Anne,  relict  of  a  Mr,  Whitley.  She,  according  to 
the  scandalous  chronicle  now  In  view,  induced  Sir 
William  Wolseley  to  manr}^  her.  as  pirt  of  a  com- 
plicated scheme,  which  it  is  not  needful  to  repeat. 
Your  correspondent  will  fin«l  a  copy  of  this  book 
in  the  British  Museum  Library  (U)81,  d.  13/2), 
with  the  title  *^  The  Widmv  of  ihc  Wood^  London, 
printed  for  C.  Corbett,  opposite  St.  Dunstan-s 
Churchy  in  Fleet  Street,  jfuccLv."  The  book  was 
suppressed,  but  it  does  not  appear  to  be  very  rare, 

F,  G.  S, 

The  anthor  of  this  work  is  said,  in  Bohn's 
LotvndeSj  which  see  for  note,  to  have  lieen  Benja- 
min Victor.  The  work  was  published  in  London 
in  1755,  12mo.  3^.  ;  and  reprinted  at  Qlnsirow  in 
1 7  69.  A  more  lengthened  account  of  * '  Th  o  Wi d ow  '^ 
will  be  found  in  the  Gentkman^s  ilfo^etstnCjVol.  xxv. 
(1755),  p.  nh  K  V. 

Watek-Hark  (5*"^  S.  ii,  8J>,)— The  paper  is 
Dutch  paper,  and  the  nmrk  on  it  represents  the 
genius  of  Holland  holding,  on  a  staff,  the  Hat  of 
Liberty,  which  long  precedefl  the  ^*«/do-clas»ical 
Phrygian  cap  now  used  with  the  same  significance. 


**  SnoTovER ''  (6*^  S.  il  91.) — Is  there  any  other 
means  than  conjecture  of  tracing  the  supposed 
relationship  of  "  Chateau  Vert'*  with  •VShotorer^! 
In  Dovfy^day  Book  it  appears  too*  'i   1)  j 

as  "Scotorne,"  with  the   other    re*:  -  off 

"Stanuorde,  Wodestock,  Coxnberie,  hKimuMie," 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Be.  Dee's  Magic  Mirroe  (5***  S,  ii.   H6,) — j 
This  celebrated  relic  of  the  absurdity  of  the  seven- 
teenth  century  is  quite   safe  and  sound   in  iho  I 
British  Museum,      It  is  a  pink-tinted  ghiss  hall,  | 
about  three  and  a  half  inches  in  diameter, 

Geoboe  Ellis, 

St  John*8  Wood. 

The  Scottish  Family  of  Edgar  (5*"*  S.  L  25, 
75,  192,  355,  430,  5(X).)— X.  applies  very  UB- 
parliamentary  expressions  in  his  last ;  howe 
special  pleader  must  be  excuseii,  I  ain  jur 
in  treating  his  remarks  on  two  missing  di 
its  a  skilful  diversion  to  give  a  general  character  ti>' 
his  criticism.  At  the  same  time,  I  am  sure  thst 
other  readers  will  not  find  the  omissionfl  of  wf 
he  complains. 

X,  says  that  it  is  **  quite  puerile  bringing  in  Ui«' 
Lyon  King  of  Arms  when  the  question  is  as  to  the 
judgment"  shown  by  the  author  of  the  work. 
Here,  I  think,  X.  is  a  little  disingenuous,  The 
retd  drift  of  the  whole  discussion  is  tx)  attempt  U^\ 
convince  the  public  that  the  Rev.  John  Edgar, 
Hutton,  was  the  heir  male  of  Edgar  of  Newton, 
and,  by  implication,  the  heir  male  of  Weddprlie 
and  the  judgment  of  the  an^l^' '•  ^»*^rris  to 
impugned  simply  and  solely  1  has  no^| 

professed  his  belief  in  such  ji.  but 

left  the  authentic  materials  which  b^ 
to  speak  for  themselves.     This  beiu;. 
object  of  X., — the  author  having  (as  may 
by  any  reader  of  the  '*  Account  of  the  8i 
Edgar'-)  refrained  from  passing  any  judgment^ 
maintain  (always  keeping  in  view  the  pretensior 
attempted   to    be   established)  that,  not  only 
there    nothing    puerile    in    pressing    X*    to 
crucial  test  of  the  Lyon  Office,  but   su  * 
is  the  only  one  worth  anything,  and  • 
tried  I  make  X.  a  present  of  all  the  rt' 
which  he  has  raised,  and  which  I   I 
him  well  employed,  at  any  rate,  until  An 

EpiscorAL  Titles  (4^*  S.  xii.  passim ;  b^  S.  i 
92,  310,)^Mr.  Tew  and  his  new  ally  are  f^rtniftljl 
not  at  one  on  this  subject.  Mr.  Tew  acl^  r 
the  power  of  the  Church  t-o  do  many  thii 
independent  of  Sta^te  authority  or  intertc 
and  declares  that  to  deny  this  *'  would  l)e 
ing  up  the  rankest  P^i 
Street's  Erastianism   i 

asserts  that  to  say  the  iJiiHiin  <iin  «-tMiM  i    n^n 
which  the  civil  power  may  or  may  not  enforce  i 


a  U.  Ana,  IS,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


137 


■  in  t 

mk 


rlmt  juridical  absurditjf  an  impt- 
He  then  proceeds  to  ask^ 
uh  ^"  and,  with  regard  to  the 
were  his  own  question  by 
on  that  it  is  "entirely  a 
;  and,  with  r^jard  to  the 
by  the  ahnost  equally 
llartliog  declai'utiim  tbiit  it  ifi  '^only  a  yoluntary 
4lgifiisaition  and  private  corporation  accordlngf  to 
tlte  \aw  by  whose  pennies  ion  it  exists/'  as  though 
in  the  dap  of  the  penal  statutes,  when  the  law  did 
nol  pennit  it  to  exist,  it  were  not  a  Church  at 
Jit  It  is  really  quite  usc4ei5s  to  argue  with  one 
iffco  seems  to  think  that  churches  only  exist  as 
portion H  of  the  State,  or  by  legal  permission.  To 
argue  such  questions^— which,  of  course,  lie  at  the 
loot  of  the  Church  t*  power  to  grant  titles,— would 
leo<!  tr.  Jf^tMissiona  which  are  very  properly  for- 
bh;  pages  of  "N.  &  Q." 

^i  ippeaiB  to  me  to  concede  the  whole 

irm  when  he  acknowledges,  "  I  do  not,  there- 
deny  to  the  Church  the  power  of  conferring 
titles  as'Lortl/  &c."  The  poiPtr,  then,  is 
flmied  ;  and  Mn.  Tew  only  denies  that  there 
AM  ever  been  an  authoritative  exercise  of  such 
power.  My  answer  is,  tliat  the  custom  of  cen- 
taiieA  13  liuffieient  proof  of  the  exercise  of  that 
power.  There  has  never  been  a  period  when 
titles  of  honour  have  not  been  given  to  biflhopt*, 
Skom  the  days  of  which  Binf^ham  wiite^  (Book  II., 
c&ap    '     '    '^r.  the  present  time  : — 

**  jicaki  in  the  uiual  phrase  and  style  of 

ilK>-  irnep,  when  be  calls  bishops  princts  0/  tA« 

J»*o/  it  wiu  another  u?iia>  title  that  wa9  givfn 

tben  irs  from  Optatus,  and  several  paMaget  in 

fli  JcTom»»,  HHOt  to  diftinKiilih  them  from  aecnlar  priiices, 
mnlly  stylee  them  prinjcipe*  EctUna^  priuca  of  ih4 

Mr.  Tew,  however,  requires  "  the  production  of 
ttbsoUite  ainon  of  the  Church  assembled  in 
council*"     I  cannot  produce  such  a  c4inon, 
fftn  ^fn.  Tew  produce  im  ubjsolute  law  by 
een's  right  to  the  title  of  *^ Majesty" 
wiL>  Clearly  the  pGwar  lies  in  the  State 

of  graatin^ — possibly  it  may  lie  in  the  sovereign 
of  Msumin^ — such  title,  just  as  the  p(m'€r  lies  in 
'  ■        '     f  trraji ting  titles  to  bishops.     But  the 
act  by  which  the  title  oi  '*  Majesty  " 
wa  or  even  assumed,  by  the  sovereigns 

^  1  entirely  wanting.     The  various  and 

cop'  ^  vmenta  made  by  writers  on  the 

•Bk  iire  clear  prooft*  that  no  valid 

•qlL —  -»n    lii^   ■4r^^MJ1ed;   and  eonse- 

qasiiti^.  .  custom  must  be 

Meepbtfl  \^  ^    L- exercise  of  that 

pvwer. 

JIf  lh«fl,  the  ^ihicen  h,i-  a  right  to  the  title  of 
^\tjiW'  V    she    has,   notwith- 

lini.  :   authoritative  law  or 

iitks  the  bishops  equally  have 
.   .idfiM,  oQtwilbataadiiig  a  similar 


^haci  eon: 


absence  of  an  absolute  canon  of  the  Church  aa* 
scmbled  in  genernl  council. 

I  should  much  like  to  achieve  Mb.  Tbw's  oon- 
yersion  ;  but  he  is  not  likely  to  hold  his  present 
views  without  reasons  which,  to  his  own  mittd, 
appear  unassailable,  though  he  has  now  conoeded 
much  ;  and  whilst  I  fully  appreciate  the  pleasure 
of  an  argument  with  him,  1  fear  that  if  the  dis- 
cussion were  to  l>e  carried  on  until  one  of  ua 
were  convinced  by  the  other,  the  readers  of  **  N. 
&  y."  would  become  very  tired  of  the  duel. 

H,P.  D. 

Surely  Mk.  Tew  is  uoreasonable  when  he  says 
that  nothing  will  satisfy  him  but  **  the  production 
of  an  absolute  canon  of  the  Chui*ch  assembled  in 
general  council."  Unreasonable,  I  say.  becftuse 
there  is  so  much  of  "  mofl  pro  lege  "  in  the  Church, 
that  if  everything  were  denied  unless  decreed  by 
a  gene  ml  council,  we  should  be  shorn  of  half  our 
wonihip  and  much  of  our  faith,  t.g,^  has  the  Atha- 
nasian  Oeed  ever  received  the  sanction  of  an 
absolute  canon  of  a  general  council  ?  The  title 
"  Lord,"  I  suppose,  rests  on  authority  very  similur 
to  that  which  gives  **  Countess  '*  to  tlie  wife  of  an 
Earl,  tuid  ■  *  Lord  "  or  "  Lady  '^  \o  the  younger  chil- 
dren of  Dukes  and  Marquises.  It  is  worthy  of 
note  thiit  when  the  bishops  of  the  Scottish  Epis- 
copal Church  addressed  the  Duke  and  Duches«  of 
Edinburgh  on  the  occasion  of  their  murring^,  the 
official  reply,  addressed  to  "  The  Right  Rev.  the 
Bishop  of  Moray,  Ross,  and  Caithness,'^  of  the  Prin* 
cess,  commenced  **My  Lord."*  Surely  this  is  an 
official  recognition  of  the  right  of  a  bishop  to  that 
title,  E.  L.  Blekki>'sopp. 

[This  discussion  is  now  closed.] 

"Reoinald  Trbvor''  (4**»  a  TiiL;  5"»  S.  L 
ptiMim ;  ii.  19.)— -I  suppose  I  must  now  consider 
myself  convinced  that "  AnwyP  is  not  a  pseudonym, 
but  a  real  name  ;  and  therefore  I  should  now  like 
to  know  who  was  the  author  of  the  above  work, 
the  bearer  of  that  name,  where  and  when  he  lived, 
and  when  he  died.  If  your  correspondents  will 
kindly  supply  this,  and  any  other  information,  the 
matter  will  be  beyond  any  further  doubt.  Not* 
withstanding  the  astonishment  that  is  expressed 
at  my  considering  **  Anwyl  '*  might  be  a  pBcudonym, 
I  do  not  see  there  is  any  matter  for  surprise.  Is  it 
quite  possible  for  the  most  ordinary  proper  tiame 
to  be  a  pseudonjTu  ?  Probably  Mr.  W.  J.  BERy- 
HARD  Smith,  who  e^ys,  on  p.  19,  that  be  is  "as- 
tonished that  any  doubt  should  exist  as  to  this 
being  a  proper  name/-  would  be  surprised  to  bear 
that  "  Smith  "  itself  is  often  a  pseudonym,  as,  for 
example,  when  it  is  adopted  by  Jeremy  Bentham- 

Olphar  Hamst, 

Kew  Bamet,  H«rt«. 

Mr«.  CJowdex  Clarke^s  **SH*L^%t^AU^  Ci<s»- 


138 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


II.AtJO-15,*J4.  1 


and  Mr.  Bouc^ffl^' MvinBlelrf  but  in  no  de- 
tracting spirit,  pointed  out  importttOt  omissions 
firom  Mrs.  Cowtien  Clarke's  SJmhipMrc  Concord- 
ance of  auxiliary  words,  siieli  as  **havin|ij*^  »nd 
"  tbu«/^  when  used  Bubstantively.  With  tbe  like 
feeling,  I  copy  fiom  my  note-book  the  following 
omissbns  :■ — 

1.  "If/'  JU  You  Lihi  It,  Act  r.  sc.  4,  L  106  :— 

"  Your  if  ts  the  only  peacemaker/' 

And  agftin  in  Richard  TIL,  Act  iii.  ftc.  4, 1.  77: — 

"  T*Ik»t  thou  to  me  of  ifa  i " 

2.  "ShjiU,"'  Coriolanus,  Act  iii.  se.  1,  L  88:— 

"  Mark  you 
Uie  absolute  shulL" 

3.  "Bat  yet,"  Antony  and  (JleopCLtra,  Act  ii. 
Bc.  5,  1,  52  :— 

"  But  yet  ifi  us  ft  jailor  to  bring  forth 
Some  monstrous  mulefactor." 

4.  **  Why  -■  and  **  wherefore,"  Vomtdy  of  Errort, 
Act  ii.  sc,  2,  1.  45  : — 

*'  Every  why  hatb  a  wherefore. " 

5.  *JNay;'  "ji  woman's  nay,'*  lUchard  III., 
Act  iii.  sc.  7,  1.  51  :  — 

**  PJay  tbe  mttitVa  part,  atill  anjwer  nay,  &nd  t«ke  it." 
Et  seq.  I  hefirtiJy  second  Mr.  Rclk's  suggestion 
that  the  nuuxlter  of  the  line,  or,  aa  I  would  add. 
even  the  pige  or  coUunn,  of  a  recognized  edition  of 
Sh4d'S]^earc  woidd  make  Mrs.  Clarke's  Conmr- 
daiict  a  still  more  *'  fiiithful  ^uide." 

Charles  Ed.  Rawlins. 

Boekmount,  EainhilL 

I  omitted  to  number  the  line  of  the  second 
example  of  the  word  ftarinff : — 

**  Your  age»,  of  what  having"  kc. 
Tbe  line  is  875« 

M  re^ardB  the  nimihering  of  lines  beinj^ 
omitted  m  Mrs.  Cowden  Clarke's  Voncordmia:^ 
the  lady  writet*  to  me,  and  say  a  i— 

"  I  think  you  will  ceafle  to  feel  any  regret  when  I  tell 
you  \t  was  an  omiision  advifedly  miwle.  No  two  editions 
of  the  playi  can  po^mbly  have  the  lines  numl^ered  alikcr 
and,  ft*  a  proof  of  this,  two  editioBfl,  published  by  the 
tame  bouie,  and  gupermtended  by  the  name  editors,  who 
advocate  tbe  lyitem,  have  nut  their  linea  numbered  alike. 
Now,  the  Concordnnct,  heing  intended  for  nd^ptjition  to 
all  editions  of  Bhakspeare's  Playa,  jjroperly  (iivc«  no 
numbering  of  lines.  We  ourselves,  having  Auperintonded 
Tarioua  oditiona  of  Shakspeare,  have  ample  eitperience  of 
how  worse  than  lucleii  for  reference  ia  numbering  the 
Hnea  in  hia  PUyi." 

Fredk.  Rule. 

«Wmoa»  (5»»*  8.  L  261,  474.)— If  **wig8'^  be 
extinct  in  Bnrbani  and  Nortbumberland,  I  wot  of 
a  shop  at  Grantham,  in  Lincolnshire,  where,  unlees 
I  greatly  mistuke,  toothsome  cates  under  that  title 
are  still  to  be  had.  If  you  ask  for  a  tea-cake  you 
will  be  served  with  the  ordinary  disc  of  currant 
bread,  which,  save  in  the  presence  of  **  N,  &  Q./' 
I  should  say  is  current  everywhere  ;  but  express  a 
wish  ioT  a  wicf,  and  you  will  get  a  confection  of 


dou^b  and  seeds,  not  round,  but  elongated,  after 
tbe  fashion  of  a  tea-c^ke  when  it  sees  its  face 

**  looking  wofully  long  in  a  spoim/* 
But  wigs  are  not  necesstirily  restricted  to  carrawa 
attractions.  Five  and  twenty  ye^rs  ago  all  Grani 
bam  juveniles  knew  "  Mrs.  B— - — ,  the  wig  woman^ 
who  frold  tbe  most  delicious  pennyworths  of  ind 
geation  I  can  now  c^dl  to  mind  ;  and  these  we 
what  we  should  in  these  days  call  plum  bu 
I  remember  lier  being  excessively  indignant  witi 
a  servant  of  our  family  who  callt-d  her,  as  I  belie 
everybody  else  diil,  "  tbe  wig-woman.^' 

St.  SwiTHis. 

This  word  is  not  so  extinct  as  Mr.  Blekkixbob 
supposes.  In  Hants,  a  snudl  oval  cake,  with  bonflj 
in  the  middle,  ifi  called  a  wigg.  On  St.  Audre« 
Day,  at  Leighton  Buzzard,  in  Bcdforrlsbire,  an 
buns  (something  like  Good  Friday  buns) 
yearly  made,  and  confectioners  go  round 
orders,  some  days  beforehand,  for  Tandry  Wigs,  i 
St.  Andrew's  buns.  Vnit  derivafur  '*  wig  "  witi 
this  meaning  i  T.  W.  R, 

This  name  is  still  giren  to  tbe  plain  halffien 
buns  sold  by  tbe  pastrycooks  in  Bristol.      1  Imt 
asked  for  them  by  that  name,  and  been  i^uppiio 
with  them,  as  long  as  I  can  remember,  but  1 
not  recollect  to  have  ever  seen  tbe  woitl  gpelt. 

DftiTRY   House   (5«^  8.  ii.  48,  750  —  1 
House  is  mentioned  by  Stow  (see  Stow*s  Sum 
by  W.  J.   Thorns,  p.  113),  and  so  called  of  T 
I'hewc  DrevrrU,  "  a  worshipful  owner  thi  -     ' 
was  of  old  time  tbe  town  house  of  tli  f  | 

Ramsey.  J.  T.  Smith  has  left  a  \aew  ii 
remained  of  tbe  old  bouse  in  1796.  I  do  nd 
think  there  is  any  print  of  it  at  so  early  a  date  I 
( 'harles  IL  There  is  no  evidence  of  it  ever  barit>|| 
belonged  to  Rupert.  Cunningham  suys  only  { 
he  lived  there.  I  should  hnve  thrjugbt  that 
Committee  for  Sale  of  Senueatrated  Lands  wouli 
have  sat  rather  at  Dnvry  House,  Dmry  Lane.  It 
jippears  to  have  been  a  grand  house,  and  ia  men- 
tioned by  Btrypo  as  the  aeat  of  Lord  Cmven.  The 
Olvmpic  Theatre  occupies  tbe  site. 

C.  A.  Wabp. 

Mayfair, 

A  view  of  this  bouse^  taken  in  179tl 
mention  of  tbe  occupants,  will  be  found  ir 
Londirdanat  London,  18i29,  vol.  iv.  p.  3ui. 

W.  E.  B. 

"Put  to  buck"  (5t»»  S.  i.  228,  293  ;  li.  TC.)— I 
have  many  times  heard  the  word  bucking  used  to 
Oxfordshire  by  old  men.  The  expression  '*  I  have 
had  a  good  hychu(f"  meAning  a  ^od  t»<H^£<njf. 
"Put  to  buck "  I  have  never  heard  in  Oxfordshire 
in  the  sense  in  which  £.  V.  osea  it^ 

G.  J.  Dkw. 

Lower  Heyford,  0*on. 


tffliHi^d^^ 


0*&ILAv«.15,7't.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


139 


PROKtnraATioK  of  *'  Acites  "  (5*^  S.  ii.  68.)^ — 

I  The  ]---■' '-  -;  of  ar^cj?  as  a  dissyllable  seems 

]io  1  led  to  the  cloae  of  the  century. 

'  In  \«rMu-  r  i_.j„.jr...ut  Eiigluh Hdwlar,  Loud.,  1087^ 
we  are  told  tlwt — 

♦  Ch  m  wordj  purely  Engliah  hive  a  iic^uUar  lound 
kiritK  them  both  before  and  after  vowelis,  ikfon*  a  vowell 
,  lo  chaoc«,  cheap,  chino,  choke,  churl :  nfter  a  vuweU  in 

aeli,  reach,  aioh,  roch,  fach  :  But  in  wordu  uf  a  Hebrew 

or  Qrttk  derivation  ch  flooDda  like  l\*  Slc. 

H  C*  Elliot  Beowml 

^L^b^£bisDiit«rJ9  Shepherd's  CahridaTf  the  following 
HHBMBURience  "  August ''  : — 
^■^^BffSi,  Perigwt,  what  shall  be  the  game^ 

Whertfore  with  mine  thou  dare  thy  rauBtc  match  ? 

Or  be  thy  bagpipei  run  far  out  of  frame } 

Or  haih  the  cranip  thy  joinU  l^numb'd  with  ache  ?'* 

W,   pEi«CtJBLLr, 

T<>rqoay, 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc 

P  m  MS,   or   "  Ont  MUTUAL  FRIEND,"  BY  CHARLES 
DICKENS. 

Ix  the  August  number  of  Scrihuers  ^fonthllt 

fWnnie  Si  Co.).  Miss  Kate  Field  tellH  u  curious 

jiectingthe  above-named  MS.     The  first 

rsis  story  isi  that  by  a  favourable  review  in 

tW  TiiM^  the  sale  of  the  book  was  greatly  in- 

CfOftied*  and  its  success  established  ;    '*  for  even 

svoins,"  saya  Miss  Field,  "  can  be  made  or  marred 

(tjr  the  pointed  criticism  of  clever  quills.''     It  in 

atuted  that  Dickena  presented  to  the  writer 

"S.  of  the  book  w  hich  the  letter  is  supposed  to 

**  maile"  by  his  **  clever  quill"  in  **  ^nitefiil  uc- 

ledgment    of  tkit  service.  The  writer  of  the 

question  does  not  seem  to  have  appre- 

I  AIS.  HA  highly  tis  he  did  the  merits  of 

_  in  it.     Mr.  Dallas,  the  critic,  who  is  said 

to  l>4vc"received  this  valuable  honorarium  for  the 

aemces  rendered  to  the  author,  p^irted  from  the 

llCttflure.     *^  And  now,  with  one  of  those  stnmge 

tunu  of   Fortune's  wheel,  whereby   everything^ 

or  h&tefj  get.8  upside  down,  this  manuscript 

the  Atlantic,  to  find  a  welcome  home  in 

th«  library  of  Mr.  Child."     This  gentleman,  weU 

known  and  much  esteemed  in  this  country,  resides 

in  FbikdeJphm,  and  is  proprietor  of  the  The  Fhit- 

adtinhia    Ledger.       Miss    Field    thuH    describes 

PictcnKS  way  of  employing  hia  pen,  ink,  and 

*'  A!mo4t  always  writing  on  thick  blue  note-paper  and 
irtth  blue  tuk,  Lickeiu  baa  been  faithful  to  hii  rule  in 
tjiti  manutcript.  By  unfolding  his  note  paper  be  has 
fonf«xt«d  ii  Into  large-sized  letter-paper,  and  by  pasting 
Ibk  «3ti  alitl  Urger-6ixed  und  thicker  wLite  paper,  he  has 
Siaula  the  two  Tolume«  as  dui-able  m  poiaible.  Townrdi 
tb«  eod  of  Volume  Firtt  there  i»  one  hit  of  iuanui><:rt;jt 
io  black  mk.  All  the  reit  U  in  blue  ink,  bat  not  always 
«f  i&f  bcd^  and  the  fineneta  and  cloeeneM  of  the  writing 


I 


are  enough  to  render  the  most  amiable  of  experienced 
printers  tem}>ortirily  insane.  There  ia  no  lorer  of  Dickens 
fio  urdent  as  to  willingly  read  a  page  through,  nor  would 
the  most  mercetiary  peruse  both  volumca  for  lew  than 
their  weight  in  gold.  Added  to  a  microscopic  chiro- 
graphy  is  erasure  after  erasure,  such  aa,  1  am  told^  can* 
not  be  found  io  his  earlier  manuscripts,  marking  either 
greater  care  or  less  fluency  of  thought.  Dcacriptiona 
undergo  most  correction,  and  so  deftly  does  Dickona 
cancel  himself,  that  I  defy  the  greatest  expert  to  de- 
cipher what  the  author  doeii  not  wish  to  hayo  read.  .  .  . 
The  eraaurea  at  the  beginning  of  *  Podsnappery  *  ar« 
absolutely  appalling.  The  entire  first  page  looks  u 
though  tt  hnd  been  cut  into  m  many  pieces  as  there  are 
linea^  and  then  been  carefully  darucd.*' 

Miss  Field  gives  several  examples  of  how 
Dickens  worked  through  his  story  and  its  diffi- 
culties to  the  end  ;  and  she  summarizes  the  ex- 
amples thus : — 

'*  Most  interesting  of  all  are  the  nine  notes  preceding 
the  novel  in  each  volume.  Dickens  takei  the  world  into 
his  confidence^  opening  the  door  of  ht^  workshop;  and  ii 
curious,  well-regulated  shop  it  ii.  After  thinking  out 
hia  ])lot  and  charActcrB,  Dickena  puts  down  on  the  right' 
hand  side  of  his  page  the  cliapters  with  dramattj  pertonet,^ 
on  the  left  he  tells  himself  what  he  ihall  dO|  or  asks  him* 
eclf  questions  about  the  doing,  which  he  answers  affirma^ 
tivcly  or  negatively,  either  at  the  time  or  after." 

These  matters  are  of  interest  to  us  alL  But 
nuich  interest  also  attaches  itself  to  the  story  of 
the  original  manuscript.  We  should  much  like  to 
know  if  any  other  "original'*  exists.  In  these 
days,  when  original  letters  are  supplied  according 
to  demand  of  the  market,  a  somewhat  fuller  story 
as  to  Mr.  Child's  manuscript  (which  we  do  not 
mean  to  dispnrage)  would  be  very  tieceptable. 


The  A  rdtitedtirt  of  the  CiJtUrciant.     By  Edmund  Sharpe, 

M.A,  F.R.I.B.A.  iSpon.) 
In  a  ouarto  form,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  printed  iit 
ft  bold,  clear  type,  Mr.  Sharpe  discusaes  and  explains  the 
principles  which  guided  tbeCibterciaiisin  planning  their 
con?entunI  hulldingd  and  in  dcHigning  their  churches. 
This  work  is  tho  substance  of  a  lecture  which  Mr. 
miarpe  delivered,  four  >ear»  ago,  at  the  Royul  luEtituto 
of  Britifth  Architects*  The  views  which  he  then  laid 
open  to  his  professlooal  brethren  he  now  ofiTers  to  tho 
general  public,  who,  by  the  aid  of  the  illustratione,  will 
thoroughly  comprehend  the  text,  and,  perhaps  for  the 
first  time,  will  bare  a  clear  idea  of  the  grandeur  of  eomo 
of  the  material  works  of  the  once  famous  Cistercian 
Order  Shortly  before  the  Refarmation  the  number  of 
dependencies  possessed  by  the  Abbot  of  Citeaux  it  Stated 
to  have  been  3;200! 

Hiiiory  of  ihi  Christiafi  CAurcH,  fr&m  (he  Apottolic  Affe 
io  the  Htfonmaiioiif  a.i»,  64—1517.  By  J.  C.  Robertaon, 
MA.,  Canon  of  Canterbury.  Vrd.  IV.  (Murray,) 
Tnrs  new  and  revised  edition  of  Canon  Robertson's  work 
is  now  half'Way  towards  completion.  The  period  covered 
in  the  prescDt  book  is  from  the  death  of  Charlemagne, 
^14,  to  the  death  of  Ametm,  llOi*.  Anselra's  method  of 
proving  the  existence  of  God  by  a  single  argument  (the 
ohJ€ct  of  his  Faith  ui  Search  of  UnderttaHdinq)  is  shown 
ill  the  prelate's  words ; — "  Uod  is  that  than  which 
nothing  greater  can  bo  conceived  -  and  he  who  welt 
understanda  this  will  understand  that  the  Dirine  Being 
exists  in  euch  a  manner  that  His  nA^-^^Vi^itnA^  ^;axnv:^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERII 


li*R'H.Aml5,Tf 


even  be  conceived."  Gannilo,  a  freely  inquiring  monk 
of  the  time,  objected  to  th\&.  '*  thiii  tlic  conception  of  & 
thing  does  not  imply  iU  estisteaee/'  Ctnoti  Koberisoa 
does  not  touchy  or  does  not  more  tlinn  touch,  on  the 
knowled^  Anflelm  u  said  to  haye  had  of  the  CfttMtrophe 
by  which  Rufus  was  got  rid  of. 


Teb  MtruiTHiAH  BocrETY. — This  Siriaa  Botanic  Ano- 
elation  held  thetr  fourteenth  annual  aasembly  on  the 
29th  of  July  olt,»  at  Ormercp,  a  imaH  town  between 
Martigny  and  the  Great  St.  Bernard.  Dr.  Faucormet» 
of  Nyon,  M.D..  the  President,  presided  at  the  business 
meeting,  and  was  the  chairman  at  the  dinner.  Numerous 
intereeting  papers  were  read.  About  a  hundred  members 
trcre  present ;  fifty  were  at  the  dinner.  The  death  of 
Dr.  Hoaenbetli  vtos  m«^ntioned,  and  a  deep  regret  waa 
expressed.  The  Asaocbtiun  is  in  a  healthy  conditionj 
though  it  has  sustained  Bome  heavy  lossoa  by  deathii. 
Hany  new  members  were  admitted,  and  one  lionorary 
and  corresponding  mcmbfT— Mr.  William  Gomersall,  of 
Oitarbum,  in  Craven,  The  third  part  of  the  Traju- 
stations  was  deliyered  to  the  members,  and  the  fourth 
was  said  to  be  in  preparation.  It  was  resolved  that  a 
photograph  of  Alurith,  the  *■  Limunus  of  the  Alps/' 
should  bo  taken  from  the  oil  painting  at  8t,  Bcrn4ird, 
for  the  use  of  the  members  and  the  public  in  general. 
One  of  Dr,  Husenbeth^s  last  acts  wa«  a  transmission  to 
Bi.  Bernard  of  some  ycry  interesting  letters  on  geology 
and  botany  that  Murith  addi'essed  i\j  him.  It  Is  much  to 
be  regretted  that  they  were  not  given  to  the  Britii^h 
Museum.  I  can  apeak  on  the  yalue  of  these  documents^ 
as  they  were  sent  to  me  to  hand  over,  and,  being  open^  I 
perused  tliem.  One  was  a  rery  ehiborate  aoc[>unt  of  the 
bunting  of  the  Dranse  glacier  in  1818.  Murith  visited 
every  part  of  the  devas^ted  scene,  and  de^ecribed  it  most 
iMCurately  (ind  ecieutifically  to  his  friend  the  **young 
priest/'  as  he  then  called  Dr.  Huscnbeth.  I  will 
endeavour  to  bare  the  above  important  letters  given 
to  the  world.  A  brief  biogmphy  of  Murith  has  been 
inserted  iu  '*  N.  &  Q./'  rhU  General  Indtac. 

J.  n.  Di3tON,  LL.D. 

The  Drtklofmekt  of  the  Phes?,  1S24-1871— Will 
,  jou  permit  mo  to  add  to  the  list  of  papers  pubtiahed  it* 
«N.  &  g.;'  6'^  8.  ii.  118,  the  folio wtn^^  f  They  are  not 
printed  in  the  Pott-OjHce  JJinctory  for  the  year  1S21» 
hence  the  omieion.  'The  papers  now  given  are  still 
fiourishingt  and  were  in  existence,  or  established^  in  the 
year  mentioned  i— 

North  Devon  Journal.  Bolton  Chronicle. 

Hampshire  Advertiser.  Belfast  Northern  Whig. 

Fermanagh  Mnil.  Eoscommon  Gazette, 

Wat«rford  JttaiL  Wexford  Independent 

JOHir  FftAKClS. 


BOOKS     AKD     ODD     VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PCRGHASE. 

FftrtiCTilaiit  of  Prtov.  *«,»   of  everj-  book   to  Lt   Mnt  dii««t   to 
th«  iNcrvon  by  whom  ik  is  rmulred,  wboie  n«ine  tud  addteM  arc 
glreti  for  tluii  i^iirpow  i— 
GriLiiM's  lixflLAttiiiT,     Edit.  icrs.   An  Unftttteot  co^t,  ponUiniut 

th«  PurtrftiM  of  Lord  BeaaarM  of  Worl4t>f«»  and  Sir  WUU&m  de  U 

Mon. 

Boeaai,  Th!oka».   The  Catholic  ]>ocirla«  of  tfao  Ciiiu«b  of  Satlaad. 
(FarlDN-aoo.)  *^ 

iS  In 

4to. 


TsB  I^iTtaufT  Ci.tAaxD.  «r  &  Vindioattoo  of  Caplsin  Jeba  Smith. 


Wanted  bj  Bdvara  P«iwci,  Boticsford  Maaar«  Briff . 


PA«ai«io}t*B  PandlJtu  TffRwtrii,  or  Uarden  of  PUuoat  WUwtn. 
I^ondoo,  ISSi-M, 

LtsDL»Tli  Gocra  aad  %Hiii«  of  Ocehidac>coiu  Plann. 

Wanted  by  P.  W.  BmrUdgt^  r,  Boutbamptvo  HtvtU  St»ad.  WX\ 


4 


fioti€t!i  to  CorrfipanHfttU. 

Oira  CowuMPOMBWiTB  vm'li,  T/v  tnt^i,  ernwe  our 
gaiinff  to  thtm,  hoik  for  their  saJta  as  wdl  ai  owr  otea-^ 

Thai  ihty  tkouJd  writt  tU^ir'u  aii'  diiliuctti/-^xtid 
one  aide  of  the  paper  only —  -  naiaeff 

and  words  and  phrases  o/  ^av  It 

ritjuind,  Wt  cannot  uacferux^c  (»  f">-.if  dim;  wvi^t  ot  Cw- 
t^potideni  dott  not  think  ^forlh  the  tftfubU  of  «rri(if^ 
pLtmly, 

Mb.  Chr.  Cookr  writes: — "The  useful  1 
papers,  3824,  published  in  "N.  &  Q*,"  No. 
12U,  rcmindfl  me  that  an  accurate  and  earcfi^ 
lag^ued  iiult-x  of  all  newspapers  is  required  m  Um^ 
Museum  Library,    showintf  distinctly  wlmt  n<«iir 
are  now  therein^    Thv*  catalogues  now  i 
to  new:q»apers,  incomplete  and  \m<]\v 
collection  of  these  periudioals  is  n/     ' 

CoF.   Al.— The  father  of  8oj 
Vigier),  the  opera-sii^er,  to  whoix.  ... 
have  sent  the  Ootden  Rose,  was  n  Pr 
named  Cruwel,  of  Bielefeld,  in   I'ru 
husband,  Baron  Vigier,  is  grandson  ot   the  31. 
who  made  a  fortune  by  establishitig  Uiose  fnmoui 
the  **  Bains  Vigier,"  on  the  Seine. 

Mjllveen  : — 

**  The  childhood  shows  the 

As  mornini;  ihows  the  day." 

Milton,  Par.  R^.,  iv,,  lines  220-1* 

WaTBE-MABKs  {5*''  S.  i.  88  J   ii.  94.)— I  thank 
Gastoh  »e  BimnEVAL  for  his  kind  reply,  and 
know  the   price   and    publisher's   name   of 
Prineipia  Typogi-apkim.  Gborqx  E.  Jm 

SouTBWAiix.— You  will  find  that  and  a  seoond  eniL, 
on.Hobeon,  the  Cambridge  carrier^  in  Wit  lUitmwa,  W, 
p.  201,  Camden  Hotten's  reprint. 

W,   GiiiMAMit.— For  the  personal    v:-'- 
deaih,  and  "  prophecies  *"  or  Mother 
General  Index  of  our  last  seriee.     Wu  g 

lines  quoted^  see  "  N.  &  Q.,"  4^'  8.  x,  450 ,  xL  ;l;w. 

pRDfCK. — Copies  of  the  work  are  to  be  found  at  the 
dealers  in  old  books;  any  publisher  of  clasdcat  workt 
would  answer  the  query  fully. 

J.  H.  H. — It  pofers  to  the  old  custom  at  this  time  •( 
the  year  of  making  a  pilgrimage  to  the  grotto  of  ^ 
James  of  Com|>oatella. 

P.  S.— Laviuia  Fenton,  Duoheti  of  Bolton,  the  utigiaal 
'*  Polly  Penchem/'  lies  in  Greenwich  Churchyanl, 

B,  on  T.— To  **drinL'  tobacco  *'  was  the  earlicfi  foria 
of  expressing  the  act  of  smoking. 

A.  11.— The  List  is  of  |iapers  existing  in  1524,  not  of 
papers  which  began  to  exiit  in  that  year. 

F.  J.  V.—"  Mars  his  sword,"  see  p.  2,  and  *•  Had  hr." 
p.  34,  of  present  volume. 

HKRMESfTR CUR— Letter  forwarded. 

E,  H,— Picton  was  killed  at  WaterloOi  June  IS,  1$LL 

W.  T.-^Unavoidably  deferred  till  next  Wfek, 

Editorial  Communications  should  be  addressed  to  **  The 
Editor  " — Advertisements  and  Business  Letter?  to  «*  The 
Publisher  "—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  Street,  J^trand, 
Ixindon,  W.C. 

We  heg  leave  to  itate  that  we  dedine  to  netuni  c»ib. 
munications  which,  far  tiny  reason,  we  do  not  print ;  ioA 
to  this  rule  wo  c: J  exception,  ~ 

To  all  comma  1  iild  be  aflix^  the  i 

address  of  the  s«l^ jcessarily  for  puhlioa^O&i  t 

aa  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


M^IMMi 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


141 


aAtmtpAT,  A  UGusT  2s,  i3r4. 

INTENTS.  — N*  34, 

tttca  br  Mn.  OUvIa  Serrai :  '*The  Book.** 
mii.  S7ov  IV.,  143—1110  Tttto  of  B«voir0iid 
tMfoi*  lb*  Hon/"  ix*_-ivr,Lii..i  rv.. ......_ 

of  Vtotntba—A  ' 

llffiiffcl  Victory =^  _.._;. L.,>-i i 

I  Um  CUn  Cb&tteQ— blh«ki|MAre,  Uinuc«;r, 

tham  Clninh  JSolb^Oennaa  BmicnnU  In 

alutj— An  AnwxicAn  lEmaj*  oi^  £iilc«7«  oa 
htoyiMt  Drmyton— P&lbGT  Lotils  leComte 
tOit-Cft«lto»l  WolMr  and  LvJi_i?i.k.. 
lor"*  **  Pi«<«ali  " :  Stmiuc'tf  ' 
»d  Abbe/«  Yorksblra-WUlia 
t"  — KomeiieliittT"  '  v..i  ,  ;,  ,^  ,.^^ 
mnb*— Sir  Of  r»r  :  iduacnddeu 

UloI  Brettoa  >1  j—"  Seeing 

i|*  — "Shot"  — '  V- .,  .4....ay  ju  Old  ju 
Savry  Day  "— Placiflo,  the  Cnb«ii  Po«t — 
*P..  18i»— Puiy  FamUy»  140  — "Mort» 
kbor  WimUd—*'  nrimp*, "  150. 
feting  **  for  Cui!&o  RaMei,  lAO  — Charles 
i  ^  OohUBbiis-'Oitemui,  153  ^  Milton's 
1i  Priioin,  163— MedAl  of  WillUto  I.— 
tknj— A  VjiUomhroiUn  Nun—'*  Llwbee'i 
*  AuM  Wif # '  h«ko  "  —  Whi*ky  —  Bonnie 
Knftve  "  —  *•  FaTonr"  —  '*  Dtituolofiy  "  — 
-♦*  Sinoiil«  '*— HeraldJc  —  Miuhb— "  Ooesicji 
Society  of  AtU'  HemoriJil  Tabtctft^iUpiy 
Ftuotly,  166— "Academic  Erron^-^HAytlm 
id  wwriaK  out  the  acabbard  "--SkftUnK 
^ftltotisA  Wftutoo— •*  La  ProvinrJAlM  *'— 
S  B«Uvys  "DictloiiMy-— •"  y---  '-•■■  -■ 
X,  lfi9--BlD9ll«h  SoniiiiMis— 
id*— Prtvj*  Council  Judgment 
catat  In  tli«  Brlttih  Miucuiu- v,  u..i  .."U 
m — Woidivnrth  and  Boeg^  167  — FurOe 
^d  BanudtAitoB — Ityroa:  Wyciierky*  dx;.. 


CEN  BY  MRS.  OUVU  SERllESr 

"THE  BOOK/* 

mt  correspondent,  Calcuttknsis, 

jinion  ("N,  &  Q;*  3^*^  S.  >lL   11) 

«  list  of  the  publications  of  Olivia 

miuld  be  a  desideritum,"      Thia 

ftliare«l  by  every  one  w]io  liax  paid 

Lory  of  Mi's.  HeiTc;?!,  or  of 

I    of  which   she   wtm   the 

tuiii  I  hAve,  during  the  lost  few 

no  oppnrtnnitj  of  securiii^  copies 

Is  for  exposing 

ions  m  I  have 

:l  with, 

*ecent  ttajuiiiitions  of  ihiw  character 


e  that   he   h:id    i*rinterl  it  in  thf. 


It  Will   occupy  m  your  , 
'*vusicd.     It  is  writteii  ou 


both  .-ides  of  u  half-sheet  of  quarto  letter-paper, 
und  is  iis  foUtJWS  : — 

**  Work*  rrntkh  "     ''    T      .:««#  OUvt  bt/are  $h^ 
rtii, 
L  FUjrhts  of  Ful.,,  ..   .   iuine  of  Poems,  including 

Til?  Ciistle  of  Avola  ^nn  Opera). 
ir.  St.  .rnltHii.  180*1 

III.  TTii    "  "     "         ^%  2  volumes. 

IV.  A  igb,  ISIO, 

V.  Oil  ^0  her  Danfbter. 

\1.  E^kj  OH  tU  Tpiuity,  IblS, 

"TnE  Book." 
Vn.  An  Eftsaj  in  Favour  of  the  Duke  of  York. 
VI IL  The  Lifeof  Juuiiu. 
IX-  The  Memoirs  of  the  lute  Earl  of  Warwick. 
X*  Mary  Ann  Lnia. 

*'  M¥2%€h  wid  by  Mr,  KtUy  ol  hit  Saio<m,  Pail  MaU, 

1.  0«d  6&r9  ilio  Prince* 

2.  The  Beggar  Boy. 

3.  Behold  in  all  the  pomp  of  Day. 

4.  Wcrter'e  (!)  Lost  Sen,  dcdiCfttcd  to  the  Duke  of 

Cambddge. 

5.  Loved  Niglit. 

*i.  Sweet  Lore,  tho  Moon  appe*n. 
7.  Adieu,  Adieu,  ye  hnuutA^  Adlea. 
And  othera. 

"  yew  rmdjf  (&  pMith  toAtii  rtmnd* 
Three  volume i  of  a  Hiitory  of  England,  in  ferpo  (■  full 

History). 
Three  Tolumei  of  Memoirs  of  Olive,  Prinoeiis  of  Cum- 

bertond. 
Three  volumes  of  ReUpous  and  31aral  Poemi, 
Two  volumes  of  Mranoars  of  tbo  Bake  of  Keot 
A  Book  of  Pnlmt  for  every  d»y  in  the  week. 
A  volume  of  Corroepondc&ce  Dctween  the  lfti9  and  pre* 

sent  Ministers  as  to  our  Birthright. 
A  volume  of  State  Recollections.'' 

In  transcribing  the  title  of  the  paper  Mr.  Cble- 
man  made  iin  omission,  of  some  importance,  of  the 
words  *'  before  she  knew  her  birth."  Kow,  though 
the  list  is  not  d.ited,  it  could  not  have  been  written 
before  1821,  the  yecir  in  which  Mrs.  Scrrea  aasume<I 
the  title  of  Princess  Olive,— a  fact  of  which  she 
beciime  aware,  avconling  to  her  statement,  in  May^ 
1815^ — yet  tliJHliKt  not  only  contains  a  book  which 
she  dtttea  in  181w  (I  think  erroneously),  but  one — 
the  iVfc77M>ir5  of  Lord  ly'arunck — which  was  not 
published  till  181  J) !  Like  almost  everything 
written  by  her^  the  fict«  which  the  paper  in 
intended  to  establish  contradict  each  other. 

As  the  works  of  this  extraordinary  womiin  are 
hy  no  means  common,  I  venture  to  add  dome  brief 
notea  on  such  of  tliem  as  I  have  hud  an  opportunity 

>/  Fanev  h  a  handsomely  printed 


Mni.  J.  T.  Serre«."     I 

..-..     -;,.-,       ,.jU><e    the    Vntji'tv    nf    Jimii.'H 

by  the  Lady  on  her  sact-  i 

lihy.      Tlie  vubimti   Is    '  i^e 


142 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEa 


(6*8.  It  Atc,  22,  Tl-^ 


foyal  descent.  The  dedication  is  oeuclied  in  very 
t  iiiimble  and  fulsome  terras,  which  contract  strongly 
I  with  the  BUit<?ment  made  by  her  in  1822,  "  that 
I  Bhe  was  a  lady,  intimate  from  infancy  with  the  late 
■  Earl  of  Warwick."  See  her  account  in  the  Gentk- 
n*tMagasin€  for  July,  1822,  of  his  apparition 

appeaiiDg  to  her,  her  daughter  (Mrs.  R}^es)^  and 

the  Kev,  Mr.  Grove. 

2.  SL  Julian,  a  Series  of  Letters  by  Mre,  J.  T. 
Serres,  was  al&o  published  by  Ridgway  in  the  same 
year,  1805, 

3.  Memoirs  of  a  FrincsUf  or  Firiii  Lo^:  an 
HiBtorical  Romruice.     In  2  vols.    By  Olivia  W. 

S ,  Author  of  The  Booh     (Maynard,   1812.) 

The  heroine  of  this  stor^^  h  the  unfortunate  Caro- 
line, Princess  of  Wales,  afterwards  Queen  Caroline ; 
and  the  story  it&elf  is  a  fine  specimen  of  the  pure 
Minerva  Press  style,  as  the  following  extract  will 
show.  Speaking  of  England,  a  Princess  writes  as 
follows  : — 

"  How  bleflsed  i«  thftt  land  of  Uberty  and  repoee  where 
no  tanffVrinury  tide*  o/h'fe*t  sacred  piialiiy  deioiaU  iis 
plaint," 

On  the  title-page  the  writer  describes  herself  as 
with    that    affectation    of 


i  tiUe-pag 
W,   §^ 


"OUvia 

mystezy  which  is  so  charactenstic  of  her ;  while 
the  Preface  is  signed  "0,  W.  Serres"  in  her  own 
himd  writing* 

4  I  have  not  been  able  to  see  a  copy  of  the 
Ldter  to  Lord  Va^threngh,  published  in  1810. 

5.  OHvia-s  Ldter  of  Adrice  to  Her  Baughter^ 
written  by  Mrs.  Wilmot  Serrei^  Landscape  Painter 
to  His  Eoipnl  Highness  tli£  Prinr.^  of  WalUy  Author 
of  "  FUghU  of  Fancy;'  ''SL  Julian^'  &c.,  published 
by  Ebers  in  180a  It  is  addressed,  not  to  her 
daughters,  but  only  to  Lavinia,  the  late  Mrs. 
Ryres,— Mrs.  Serres  ignoring  iit  this  early  period 
the  existence  of  her  younger  daughter  Britannia 
(Mrs,  Brock)  m  persistently  as  Mrs.  Rjrves  after- 
wards did  in  her  Appeal  to  Rmjalty  and  her  pro- 
ceeding in  the  Courts  of  Law.'  Mrs.  Brock  was 
living  in  1866,  nor  have  I  seen  any  notice  of  her 
death. 

6.  Esmy  on  the  Trtiiitit^  I  have  never  seen 
this  volume,  which,  although  dated  by  Mrs.  Serres 
1818,  is  probably  identical  with  that  described  in 
the  Omtkma7i*s  Magazine  (July,  1835,  p.  93),  iia 
having  been  published  in  1814,  under  the  title  of 
"  ♦S'i,  A  ihantisi'us'ii  Crixd  M^hxnidfor  the  A  dvantage 
of  Youth,  By  Olivia  Wilmot  Serres,  Niece  of 
I)r.  Wilmot^'  The  writer  of  the  notice  in  the 
Genikinan's  Magazine  adds  :  "  It  will  be  observed 
she  had  already  begun  to  traffic  in  assumed  names, 
for  that  of  Wilmot  was  not  given  her  in  baptism." 

7.  Of  the  Essay  in  Faiwir  of  the  Ihike  of  York 
I  am  unable  to  say  anything,  not  having  as  yet 
been  able  to  meet  with  a  copy. 

8.  which  by  a  pardonable  mis- reading  of  Mrs, 
Serres's  ill- written  list,  Mr,  Coleman  printed  as  The 

I^/e  o/  SSnurs^  is,  no  doubt,  The  Life  of  the 


Author  of  the  Ltttern  ofJuniuif^  the  Rev.  Jan 
Wilmot,  D,D.,  &c.,  hy  ki4  NiiOA,  Olima  W% 
Serres,  published  by  Williams  in  1813, — a 
fatal  to  the  claims  which  the  aatboresa  cah 
quently  put  forward,  oontaining,  as  it  does, 
menta  which  directly  contradict  the  story  of  her 
royal  birth,  and  place  her  case  in  this  dilemma^ ;  if 
her  first  statement  is  true,  her  second  is  f  " 
her  first  statement  is  false,  her  second  is  an 
of  credit,    Mrs.  Serres  makes  no  mention  i 
second    book    on    Junius,    Junius    Sir    Ph 
FranciM  daiied^  8vo.,  1817, — a  work  of  equal  irf^ 
portance  in  demolishing  her  pretensions. 

I  have  in  my  possession  a  copy  of  the  Lift  of 
Wilmot^  with  Mrs,  Serres's  corrections,  nufcde  for  s 
new  edition. 

9.  The  poper  title  of  this  volume  is  LtUert  of 
the.  late  Might  Hon.  Earl  of  Brooke  and  Warwiek 
to  Mr$.  Wilmot  Serres^  HlustraUd  with  (he  Pormt 
and  Memoirs  of  His  Lordship,  &c.,  Svo*  {Birktit 
&  ScottX  1819,  Taken  for  what  it  professeil 
this  book  is,  probably,  as  dull  and  twada  ^ 
volume  as  any  man  could  be  condemned  to^ 
through  ;  but  looked  at  with  reference  to 
history  of  Mrs.  Serres,  and  the  exti5 
events  with  which  her  name  will  ever  be  i 
it  contains  many  points  of  great  interest  i 
portance,  as  I  may,  at  some  more  oonvenie 
opportimity,  endeavour  to  demonstrate. 
"^VArwick  is  B/iid  to  have  told  Mrs.  Sen 
secret  of  her  birth  in  1815,  yet  here  is  hS 
published  in  1811*,  inserted  in  a  list  of  those  whid 
she  describes  i\s  having  been  written  befa 
hneiv  her  birth  !  In  1816  there  ap|)eared  _ 
work  coined  in  the  same  mint,  ot  forged  in  tk 
stithy,  professing  to  be  (as  it  is  entitled)  Narmtii 
of  the  peculiar  Case  of  the  Earl  from  Hi4  '^ 
ship's  oiim  Manuscript  This  was  alto  publii 
by  WOlianis. 

10.  The  "Mary  Ann  Letts'*  of  the  list,  si 
printecl  in  the  GmtUfnaWs  Magminey  is  "  Mmrii 
Anme  LaiSy  the  C&urte2an;  or^  Certain  lUust 
tio7i^.  A  Rotiumce.  By  the  Author  of  Tbk  B00K.J 
Small  8vo.  Rodwell,  1812.  But  tbrr  '  '  " 
page  the  writer  modestly  describe- 
the  author  of  The  Booh,  yet  the  satiii  . 
"  to  two  moat  injured  illustrious  characti 
subscribed,  like  the  Prefrtce  to  the  Mtvwir 
Princess,  with  the  autograph  of  O,  W. 
As  the  reader  will  probably  anticipate 
date,  &c.,  the  parties  so  distinguished  are  ih 
of  York  and  Mrs.  Mary  Anne  Clark,  wh 
actions,  and  feelings  Mr«.  Serres  probably 
took  to  describe  on  the  principle  that 

'*  8he  best  can  paint  them  who  shaU  feel  ihtim 

Those  who  remember  the  character  «! 
Mrs.  Serres^s  lat^r  productions  will  be  : 
reading   the    following   esttrwrt    from    this  litti^ 
trumpery  book :— 


S>a.II.A«i<i.9s;74.] 


fD  QUE] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


143 


*  lUeetpl  to  1/uiJU  a  t»#ry  9iituahU  P^ubikaiian, 

'*  Takt  of  iRVfutton,  the  utmost  degree  of  fabtkood. 


«iid  Hw  QXtnttiQ  of  calumny^  well  blend  tkese  two 
dmifMt  ootnpouDcU  ia  the  oil  of  audBciouioe^,"— 

And  so  on  for  a  whole  page. 

With  Mrs.  Serrea's  muaical  oampositiona  I  do 

not  propose  to  trouble  myself.    Keither  hove  I 

^Jljrtning  to    saj  with   respect    to    those  works 

libed  \>j  her  lus    **  ready    to  publish  when 

Probably  among  a  lorge  collection  of 

in  her  handwriting  which  I  possess,  there 

[An  Bomt!  frogmenta  of  her  SiaU  RecoUsctionSt 

\€&rrt*poti4en€4  wiih  MtnUtcrs,  Memoir    of   the 

*Jhike  of  Kent,  which,  I  fear^  will  scarcely  repay  one 

for  the  tronbJe  of  deciphering.     If  on  examinntion 

''  1  Mhould  find  any  thing  worthy  of  notice,  it  shaU  be 

^rea  to  the  world. 

And  now  I  come  to  one  entry  on  the  list  which 
I  have  advisedly  deferred  noticing.  I  alhide  to 
the  remarkable  unnumbered  article,  between  Nos.  6 
nod  7,  which  the  authoress  has  marked  with  in- 
Terted  commas,  and  doubly  underlined — **The 
Book/*  But  **  Thjb  Bck:>k  "  must  form  the  subject 
of  another  paper. 

In  the  mean  time,  can  any  correspondent  refer 
me,  either  through  "  N.  &  Q.'*  or  directly  to  roy- 
teU^  to  any  copy  of  "  Tbe  Book  "  by  Mr*.  Serrea, 
bearing  an  earlier  date  than  1813  ? 

William  J.  Thoms. 
40, 81  QeoiKe's  Sqo&re,  Belgrave  Boad,  aW. 


SPELLING  REFORMS.-N0,  IT. 

Come  we  now  to  the  pkimls  of  nouos  ending  in 

o;  they  are  about  1(X>,  and  may  be  beat  displayed 

nnder   3  groups  :    1.    Musical   terms  and  terms 

descriptive  of  the  size  of  a  book.    All  these  are 

Italian  words,  and  make  their  plurals  by  adding 

-    --    -'ffy-Sf  bastthf^  solo'Sy  Jlauto-8  piano-s^  and 

V-*;  canto-i^  Tondo-s^  &c.;   with  foUo-s^ 

J   i..      .,  tiCtavO'$,  duofhcinw-Sj  24m^-«,  and  so  on. 

As  this  group  is  consistent  and  without  exception, 

no  (tbii   tion  can  be  brought  ajroinst  it.    The  other 

are  about  equal,  30  of  one  make  the 

[  '»,  and  the  29  of  the  other  add  -«. 

Ail  Douns  endij^  in  -io,  *«>,  -vOj  and  -o,  after  a 

rowel,  make  the  plural  by  adding  -#,  with  one  ex- 

'  c  [)tion,  vijs.,  buffalo-rj.    1  bus  we  have  armadillO'it^ 

/' '^vf,  und  p^rrmiilh-s  in  -lo ;  protfUo-s  and  inr- 

>-^,  rdi6vo-s^  and  tcUvo-*  in  -vo ; 

.<,  oqI%o-«  or  oltVjt,  pi«tfuMo'S, 

■nitiii^ftf  raiio*^,  seraglio-*^  studio-Sy 

>f>-#,  ^c,  in  'O  preceded  by  a  vowel. 

i*>  luvy*^  ;ui(i  SIX  in  *f«,  uot  musical  terras  or  sizes 

of  b<>okH,  rli...  cmto-$^  (froth-g^  juntos,  wafunto-s^ 

- '"^  '"  -«,  and  itikttO'i^  with  all  such  proper  names, 

'0-*.     The  list  complete  contains  between 

'  wonls. 

I    •      i     ^   ;^'roup  consUts  of  29  words,  which 

iu.xUr  ihf:  ^.lural  in  -«.  and  I  have  no  hesitation  in 

K^g  that  the  i  should  be  expunged.    In  the  irst 


place^  we  never  add  -a  except  to  make  an  extra 
syllable,  as  ehurck-ei,  foz-a,  sath-^y  and  so  on.^ 
In  the  next  place,  not  one  of  the  words  haye  any 
etymological  claim  to  a  plural  in  -es. 

Let  us  take  them  in  terminationol  order.  1. 
'cho  and  -co,  as  e^ko,  c(UicOf  fruto^  •magniJicOf 
portico,  and  stucco  (all  having  their  plural  in  -«)• 
Echo  is  Greek,  in  which  language^it  has  no  plural ; 
in  Latin,  it  is  the  fourth  declension,  echo^  ecMiip 
and,  of  courae,  could  have  no  such  plural  aa  sdU>«t; 
in  French,  the  plural  is  icho»,  "Now,  in  the 
name  of  all  the  gods  at  once,"  Ignorance  excepted^ 
what  right  bos  this  word  to  the  suffix  -es  t  **  F^aco, 
mogDifico,  portico,  and  stucco/'  are  Itallim,  like  the 
musical  teniis  and  the  sizes  of  books  ;  and  there 
is  no  reason  but  caprice  why  they  should  deviate 
from  those  words.  "  Calico "  is  probablv  a  cor- 
ruption of  Calicut,  and  ought  also  to  be  deprived 
of  the  €. 

2.  In  -dO|  as  &rat?aio,  innuer^^  rotunda^ 
iomado^  and  iorptdo.  Of  these,  "rotundo"  is 
Italian,  often  wntten  rotwtwfci  in  Eoglish  ;  and, 
to  show  our  spirit  of  contradiction,  the  foreign 
words  broivaia  and  imtuida  we  make  "  bravado " 
and  "  tornado  "  ;  "  innuendo  *'  and  ^*  torpedo  "  ar« 
concocted  from  the  Latin  verbs  innuo  and  £orp^, 
so  that  none  of  these  5  words  has  a  right  to  a 
plural  in  «««. 

3.  The  words  in  -go  are  ca/rgo,  flamingo^  indigo^ 
mu7igOf  so^ro,  and  virago.  Of  these,  "cam, 
flamingo,  indigo,"  are  Italian.  **  Mango  "  is  Uie 
Indian -Talmu£c  word  truingo$;  "sago,''  the 
Malay  word  »aau,  in  Ftench  soj^ou ;  and  "  virago" 
is  Latin,  the  plural  being  viragincs.  So  tlrnt  none 
of  these  six  words  has  a  plural  resembling  its 
modem  English  fonn. 

4.  In  -nOj  the  only  examples  are  no-es  (peraons 
voting  "  no  %  albino-es^  doinino-cs,  and  vokano^M. 
Of  these,  ".ilbino^*  ia  spelt  both  ways  in  the 
plural,  (dbinoa  and  albinoes;  "domino"  and 
**  volcano "  are  Italian  ;  and  as  for  the  plural 
of  **  no,"  if  iio»  will  not  do,  write  fM>*^,  as  we 
write  I*s,  ra's,  and  so  on. 

5.  In  -ro  there  are  4  words  :  they  are  Wo, 
negrOf  tifro^  and  ztto.  **Hero,"  like  '*  echo,"  is 
common  to  Greek,  Latin,  and  French,  in  all 
which  languages  the  singular  is  htro&.  Probably 
we  borrowed  the  word  from  the  French,  where  the 
s  is  silent ;  but  there  is  not  a  tittle  of  authority 
for  h€ro€s.  As  for  '*  negro"  and  **zero/*  they  are 
Italian  ;  and  **  tyro,"  the  Latin  word,  baa  iyrotiu 
for  its  plural. 

We  have  now  gone  through  every  word  ending 
in  -0  except  6,  and  can  find  no  reason  why  the 
30  which  miike  their  plural  in  u  should  not  join 
the  60  or  TO  which  make  their  plural  in  -«.  By 
enforcing  this  uniformity,  an  enormous  difficulty 
of  spelling  would  be  removed,  nothing  would  be 


*  Those  ia  >/  tnd  -ft  changed  into  -vet  at«  obiected  to 
aBabaoimaL 


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loM,  and  every  word  would  be  consistent  with  its 
original  form. 

The  six  remaining  words  are  tBo«e  ending  in  -to. 
Of  the  12  words  with  this  termination,  6  go  one 
way,  and  6  another,  W©  have  already  noticed 
the  words  ccnto-fi^  ffrotto-s,  jimto-i,  TnemtntO'Sj 
p%7nmi(y'S,  and  diUito-g;  the  remaining  six   are 

jTototo^,  tomato-a.  Three  of  thea^*  are  Spanish  ; 
•'toosquito,  mulatto,  tomato'';  two  are  Italian, 
** motto"  and  "manifesto";  and  the  sixth  In  a 
comiption  of  the  American  Indian  wonl  haiatm. 
In  every  case,  the  saffix  -«9  is  an  abomination.  In 
even'  case,  therefore,  it  w  a  violation  of  correct 
spelUng,  an "  anomaly  in  English  orthography, 
where  -et  is  limited  to  words  cntling  in  -^,  -jshf  -ch 
hoTilj  and  -x  (with  the  single  word  topa>€S  in  r)  ; 
it  introdnces  great  confusion  and  difficulty  ;  has 
not  one  single  excuse,  and  ought  to  be  abolished. 
To  use  the  words  of  Lord  Lytton,  it  may  be  truly 
said  "  such  a  system  of  spelling  was  never  concocted 
but  by  the  Father  of  FaJseho^" ;  and  we  may  ask 
with  him,  *^  How  can  a  system  of  education  flourish 
that  begins  by  [such]  monstrous  falaelioods  ?  ^* 
E.  CoDHAM  Brewer, 
Lavaaij  Chiohnter. 

(To  be  e(mdudtd  in  our  nezt.} 


THE  TITLE  OP  REVEBENB. 
The  following  is  ^m  the  Tiftits  of  the  13th 
instant:— 

"  Sir,— Probablj  somo  of  youraiitiqaarian  re»d«ra  will 
be  able  to  mform  you  when  the  title  *  Beverend '  began 
to  be  ii£ed  by  the  clergy  ia  gen^^ral;  but  tbc  regisien  of 
th«  parish  of  T&m worth  contida  some  interesting  parti- 
coUrv  as  to  local  usage.  These  roisters  date  buck  from 
the  reign  of  Philip  and  Mary.  IU6.  The  first  title  given 
in  them  to  a  elergymui  it  tae  old  title  'Sir/  with  which 
8hak»peare  has  made  uji  familiar.  In  May,  1567f  we 
have  an  entry  *Sir  Peter  Strtngar,  curate,'  The 
clersy^an  who  suceeedcd  him  is  called  *8ir  Rieh&rd 
Walfcer/  but  there  are  other  contemporaneous  entries, 
•nch  aa  'ncerdoV  'olericue/  'preacher/  and  'verb! 
minlfter/  Theae  latter  leem  to  have  obtained  till,  in 
Kiag  Jamee*e  reign,  we  have  the  prefix  ^Diastcr/  whicb, 
aa  we  know,  waa  applied  to  the  great  dirine,  Master 
Hooker ;  and  thU  practice  Beema  by  our  roisters  to  have 
been  continued  through  the  Commonweal^,  though 
'Miniater  of  the  Qoflpell'  ii  lometimei  added.  We 
baTe,  however,  in  1667,  the  firat  nae  of  the  word  'Rev- 
erend,* evidently  in  thia  caae  as  a  iipeoial  mark  of  re- 
tpeet^  not  as  a  formal  title.  On  '11  June,  ]657|  was 
buried  our  Beverend  Pastor  Maater  Thoma*  Blake,  min- 
liter  of  Tarn  worth/  In  1603  we  have  a  clergyman  by 
name  Samuel  CoUina.  I  had  noticed  with  eoriotitv  an 
eraaure  before  hie  name  in  each  of  the  caaualtiea,  bap- 
^nnal  or  funereal,  recorded  in  our  regiater*  At  last,  m 
l7Ql.  I  waa  luckv  enough  to  find  an  unerased  ent^;  and 
it  appean  that  the  obnoxious  word  was  the  title 
'Bevd.*  (flo  written)  prefixed  to  hia  Mr,  However,  he 
!Sit  not  to  have  been  able  to  hold  to  hii  title.  One  of 
I  fihildren»  baptifed  in  1706,  is  baptiied  at  ibo  child  of 

?lain  Samuel  CoUim,  miuiiter;  and  when  he  died,  in 
706,  he  was  boned  witliout  the  title  *  Reverend '—as 
Mr.  (ue,,  l^hsXtT)  Samuel  Collins,  minister  of  Tamworth- 


Henceforward  the  tame  addreas  fs  TtFed  trll  Kovcsnber, 

1727,  when  we  have  the  haptisu' 

*ye  Bev.  Mr.  Kobcrt  Wilson,   - 

and  after  that  date  the  prefix  *  Iv  .viv..^    never  i 

io  have  been  omitted.     I  am  thanktul,  for  the  hei 

my  parish,  to  say  that  it  was  not  withheld  evei 

case  which  reminds  one  of  the  matter  ditcoaeedj 

Camborne  Conference.     It  fell  to  the  lot  of  \ 

predecosaors  to  bury  a  Nonconformist     The  ^ 

the  burial  is  as  follows.  1786-37:—*  10  starch,  1 

Kev.  Thomas  Worthington,  a  Nonjuror  of  ^ 

In  this  he  only  followed  tht:  example  of  an  earlier^.  _ 

who,  when  'Thomaa  FlaveU,  Presbyterian  teacbo  i 

Tamworth,'  died,  allowed  him  the  prdix  of  Mr»  (Uaile 

—a  prefix  used  with  great  partimonv  in  those  days. 

"BaooKs  LAjcBsat. 
•*  Tam worth/' 

\^.  P.,  writing  to  the  IVsisi  on  the  14th  iniL, 
iliat  the  term  *'  Nonjuror,"  as  applied  abvre,  did 
not  neoesaarily  imply  a  ^Nonconformist.  He  coi^cctai^i 
that  Mr.  Worthington  was  one  of  the  surnvon  of  the 
Carolinean  and  Jacobean  clergy  (the  date  of  hie  deaHi 
being  1736-7,  and  no  age  given)  who  had  dedincd  te 
take  the  oatbt  of  allegiaiwe  and  suprcmaey  to  Che 
Hanoverian  dvnastv. 

Mr.  Mafikell,  uuthor  of  Berkymgchtfrch^  Jwrfa  TVwtwl       ' 
on  the  15th  writes,  that  the  earhett  iii^'  '      %  ;.v 

man  being  entitled  "Beverend"  in 
Barking  Register  ii  ihe  following  nc  lv 

"1732,  December  17.— The  Rev.  Dr,  Jolm  i^tmt\h. 
Vicar'*;  that  previous  to  this  date  the  cle^lcy  ar«  ^Uri^ 
iiated  "Mr  ClericuB,''  ** Mn  JJoctor,**  and,  during  the 
Puritan  period,  **  Minister/* 

J.  R.,  of  the  same  date,  would  correct  ant  infi 
that  might  be  drawn  from  Mr*  Lamber*  h 

titles  "Sir*'  and  "Master"  were  cki 
wafl  not  tbc  case.    The  former  was  tbc 
the  name  of  a  U.A..  the  latter  to  that  o' 
is  notliing  more  than  a  translation  of ''  i 
still  ^ven  by  ihe  Uuiverstties  to  a  H,  A.,  us  qult  be  «c«o 
by  a  (reference  to  the  Tripos  Ltsta  in  the  CamJbriigt 
CaUndur,  where  each  column  ia  headed  by  the  abh(»> 
Tiated  form  **  !>«.'* 

g.  0.  O.  (the  Rev.  Lord  B.  Q.  Oabome)  baa  aliiM 
written  to  the  Timet  a  letter,  in  which  he  atiilee  tittt  t^ 
pretx  "Bev."  is  a  more  conventional  courle^,     1%t 
courtesy  seemi  to  have  been  originally  applied  ta, 
sisstics  of  the  higher  rank;  but  when  thcMe 
degree  came  to  be  coorteoualy  addreaaed  as  **  R( 
then  the  higher  dignitaries  were  rec 
**  Right  Reverend  "  or  "  Very  Reverend 
who  have  addreeaed  "  N.  k  QJ'  on  tb 
consult  the  General  Indexes.    They^  will  bo  led  tl 
to  much  valuable  information  on  tliif  matter.] 


m 


"Beat  the  dog  bbforti  the  lion.'— TKLb pro- 
verb occurs  in  George  HerherVs  Jticula  PruderA^ 
but  is  not  very  explicit.  Howe^-er,  brfon  Ib 
this  place  means  ^"t  '* 
i^iven  b}""  Gotgrave 
^*Batre/*  where  ht  ....  .^ 
chim  dtvaiit  le  lityft,  to  punish 
thepresence,  and  to  the  terror  < 

The  merit  of  underBtandiii 
it  will  explain  a  passage  in  t_ !  '  i 

in  Shak3i)eare,  viA,  the  following  ; — 

"  And  for  to  maken  other  be  war  by  mCj 
As  by  the  whelp  chastised  is  the  )e>oun.'' 

Chaucer^  S^,  Tal^,  PL  1. 


a  meanc 


person  ! 


m^ 


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A  \muhhmQnt  more  tn  policy  titan  in  mallco  -,  erea 
f  one  wfiiitd  beat  hia  oflfenc^tlesi  dog  to  frJglu  ui  im- 
UQn:*—Olhdto,  Vu  3,  27/i, 

If  anj  cf)iT€3j>ondent  cnn  iell  me  if  the  proverb 
k  found  in  Latin  or  Greek,  I  shjUJ  be  obliged. 
Walter  W,  Skkat* 
1^  Cintn  T«moc^  Ounbridfis. 

Pamallkl  Pass  ages.— Compare  the  well-known 
P  sUma  in  Gmfs  Mkgy — 

'  Full  many  iv  geai  of  purest  m;  serene 

The  dark  unfathom'd  c&vet  of  oc«ui  bear : 
FoU  nuioy  a  dower  if  bom  to  Ultuh  uuHen, 
And  wute  it<  fwectness  on  tl^e  desert  tir/' 

with  the  following  from  the  poems  of  Ossian — 
i     **  Whw  did  not  I  pass  away  ia  lecrot,  like  ifae  flower  of 
'  tkm  foek  tiiat  UIW  its  fair  head  imseoQ,  and  atrewB  Ita 
wilted  UaTet  on  the  blast  I  '*—Fiiit/uL 

'H.  T.  Blyth. 
Bamfltnple. 

"  T'^  ^.  -1 }  knows  nothbg  of  its  greatest  mm." 
'i  bill]  expression  of  Sir  Henry  Taylor, 

in  1  !  -      ^  *'rd4c  (Pi.  I.  act  I  sv,  6),  in 

not  (lat  we  find  in  the  follow- 

ing i  ~    ,.^  -.  I ---^,  L.^  {Les  CaracUre$,  c.  iL): — 
"'Ooinblcm  d*hoflnfnei  admirables,  et  qui  avaiont  de 
im  hmwL^  giniet,  soot  mortt  sans  qu'on  en  alt  parl^ ! 
Opobten  viTont  encore  dcmt  on  na  parle  point,  et  dont 
fio  ii«  parlcm  jamais  !  '* 

C.  T.  Ramage. 

I  may  nho  add,  as  a  pamllel  in  the  turn  of 

;ht  (&***  S-  ii.  25),  whAt  Charles  Lamb  says  in 

y  on  •*  The  Genteel  Style  in  Writing"  ;— 

"XoUiing  can  be  more  unliice  thmi  the  inflated  finical 

rlliqMiMliei  of  Shaftesbury  and  the  plaia  natural  chit-chat 

of  Tie»|>lc  ....  The  peer  seems  to  h&re  writteo  with 

his  coronet  on,  and  bis  Karl's  mantle  before  him ;  the 

MDUnoner,  in  his  elbow  chair  and  androsa.*' 

X  W.  W. 

In  tho  IkipHomphiskB  of  Athemens  some  iatx- 
tloas  deMmptioiifl  are  auoted  from  the  old  Come- 
iSatiB  4d  the  Satnmia  Rc^gna,  when^  &a  there  were 
m  msnmatMf  whatever  was  wanted  presented  it«elf 
iPOBtaiieooBly>  The  following  extract  is  from  the 
omMi  cj/  Nicophon,  a  comparatively  modern 
Indtatof  ii  the  ancients : — 

N4<^Tu»  /AC I'  dkcftirmSy 
i^aJca{cTO)  5*  aproitTiVf  vtrui  S*  ervet* 
|«s^io^  Sia  Twv  oSC*v  KvXnMrtii  Kpia' 

AtJ^n.  ItHpn.,  Lib»  VI,  o.  Wl. 

"  Ningat  polentis, 

rorMcal  panibQi,  pluat<|ue  pidto, 

jvaeuhnn  per  Ttsa  volvat  earnes, 

plac«ata  ipsa  coin«di  se  jubeat. " 

Tmnilated  by  Sehwelghaeuaer. 

Ill    Stttki{ie«re*8    Merry    Wix:a    of   Wimhor^ 

Am  ▼.  ic.  6v  we  have  FaUtaff's  reply  to  Mrs*.  Ford : 

*  W lh«  ikj  rain  potatoes;  let  it  thunder  to  the  tune 

if  Qw«  Sfoev^f ;  hail  kisainf^-comfita,  and  Btiow  cnn- 

p^l  Itt  tberv  be  a  tcmpcit  of  proTocatioa.** 

■Ibt  property  heti^  supposed  of  the 


see  Mr.  Collinses  note  on  a  jjassage  in  Trtnlus  nnd 
CreMiilaf  Act  v,  so,  2,  wtich,  on  account  of  ita 
len^h,  is  given  nt  the  end  of  the  play  in  Johnson 
and  Stoevens's  edition.  G.  S.  J. 

Bnth. 

Ebthing  Bundle  of  Pro^terbs.— I  hm%  at 
least  three  other  Bongs  that  are  entitled  "  A  Bundle 
of  Proverbs''  (see  b^  S.  i.  205),  all  of  them  be- 
longing to  the  eighteenth  century.  Here  is  one  an 
a  epeciraen : — 

Ilc.bakuk's  my  name,  it  *e  well  known  to  toy  friends. 
That  my  dittlee  are  made  up  of  (jueer  odds  and  ends; 
I  can*t  in  fine  cadence  your  heanmrs  asadl, 
Nor  wind  up  each  close  like  a  rattlesnake*!  talL 

Plain,  frank  and  free^ 

My  song  shall  be ; 
In  vain  for  fine  versee  mj  brain  I  would  thresh, 
For  '  What's  bred  in  the  bone  won't  come  out  of  the 
€esh.* 

For  •  What's  bred  in/  *c. 

Our  foes  on  the  ocean  sent  plenty  of  ships^ 
But '  It 's  not  the  best  carpenter  makes  the  most  chips ' ; 
They  promts'd  to  give  Britain's  sailors  a  beating. 
Though  '  The  proof  of  the  pudding  they  found  in  the 
eatiog.* 

The  Sans  Calottes 

!n  rafts  and  boats^ 
They  wouldn't  be  qaiet,  though  bsk'd  to  1>e  ciril, 
'  Set  a  beggar  on  honeback  he  'U  ride  to  the  devil/ 

Our  island  is  small,  vet  it  plainly  appears 

That  *  Fishes  [qu.  P'ttchenl  though  little,  have  eUn 

mat  ears.* 
The  FreTK;h  have  five  kingSj  but  their  threats  are  but 

froth. 
For  '  Too  many  cooks  do  but  rain  good  broth.* 

Their  eorVcigns  five, 

And  all  their  hive 
Are  welcome  Britannia  to  catch  when  they  get  her. 
For  *  Tho'  Brag*B  a  good  Dog,  yet  Holdfast  is  a  better. 

For  their  threats  of  invasion  we  ne'er  cared  a  ruth, 
'  A  bird  in  the  hand  is  vorth  two  in  the  bush/ 
They  may  think  open-mouth'd  to  devour  ua  like  sharks. 
Bat,  *  Tin  tho  sky  falla  wc  must  wait  to  catch  larks.' 
3Iy  friends,  if  wc 
Do  but  agresj 
Old  EngUud  her  bitterett  foes  may  defy. 
To  attempt  to  say,  *  Black  b  the  white  of  her  eye.*** 

J.  W.  K 
Moluahj  by  Ashfordi  Kent. 

A  Tradition  of  the  Pass  of  Kii-lijbcrankik, 

^Travellers  proceeding  to  the  upper  part  of  the 
Fms  of  Killiecrankie  by  the  lower  road,  will 
observe  on  their  right  a  deep  laviDe  (kaowa  by  the 
name  of  the  "Troopera*  Den'^),  Cfomei^  hy  the 
viaduct  of  the  llighland  Railway. 

Tho  erection  of  this  mass  of  mason^  Iub.  in 
i5ome  measure,  filled  up  the  lower  part  of  the  den, 
through  which  a  stream  (in  winter  a  torrent) 
rushes  to  join  the  Garry. 

Previous  to  the  formation  of  the  railway^ 
numerous  fniirnifTits  of  ruftty  iron,  the  remaina  of 
bits^  spurs,  j  ,^  occ«A\0TM3iX^  ts«A^  ^?h«a 


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[5»*a.ILA«<3*22,'7C 


diBCOvery  of  such  relics  is  accounted  for  by  a 
tradition  current  in  the  glen,  vi?.,,  that  before 
MAck»y  met  Lord  Dundee  on  the  field  of  Killie' 
crankie,  he  ported  a  regiment  of  cavuliy  on  the 
upper  bank  of  the  hollow. 

After  the  defeat  and  subsequent  retreat,  oyer 
the  hill  of  Tuhtch,  of  King  Williain^s  ^eneJ:al,  the 
Tictarioua  clansmen  came  down  in  force  on  the 
troopers,  who^  with  their  horsea,  perished  in  the 
nmne. 

Their  bodies  were  buried,  or  covered  over  with 
earth,  on  the  sloping  banks  of  the  brook,  but  so 
uupeiiciaUy  that  their  decay  produced  very  un- 
pleasant results,  to  obviate  which  a  Highland 
farmer  dammed  up  the  wat^r  of  the  rivulet  in 
aevenU  places  above  this  Aceldama,  and  when 
aufficiently  pent  up  the  torrent  was  let  loose,  and 
in  its  descent  swept  the  graves  and  their  contents 
into  the  Garry.  The  site  of  the  excavation  from 
which  the  earth  was  taken  to  cover  the  bodies  is 
still  pointed  out,  and  a  friend  of  mine  had  for 
aomo  years  the  frame  of  a  troop-saddle  found  in 
the  ravine.  D,  A, 

Wjixkeb's  "  Pronouncino  DicTioyARY."— This 
leiricographer  seems  to  me  scarcely  to  deserve  the 
repute  in  which  he  ha*  been  held,  except  as  a 
witness  of  the  pronunciations  current  in  his  day. 
When  he  attempts  to  argue  he  often  becomes 
absurd.  J^-j?.,  he  contends  that  rahin  should  be 
sounded  as  rcmon^  because  of  a  bad  pun  in  Shnk- 
speare  ;  and  he  seems  to  approve  of  sometimes 
pronouncing  rather  m  raijihcr.  The  sound  given 
by  him  to  either  and  neither  diifeia  from  that  now 
most  usually  adopted.  His  grammar  is  often  very 
faulty.  S.  T,  P. 

Lord  Howk*s  Great  Naval  Victory. — The 
following  note  by  a  correspondent  of  The  Naiy^ 
regarding  Lord  HoweV  famous  victory  over  the 
French  fleet,  on  June  Ist,  1794,  is,  I  think,  suffi- 
ciently int-erestiDg  to  merit  a  place  in  "  N.  &  QJ*i— 
*' After  the  battle  of  June  Ist.  Lord  Howe,  delighted 
ftt  hill  BHccesBp  offered  a  prise  to  tliat  sailor  who  ahould 
write  the  beet  verses  in  celcbmtion  of  the  event.  Many 
leeg^tny  and  more  or  leaa  elaborate  compositions  were 
iont  in  in  competition ;  but  that  for  which  the  prize  was 
awarded  wai  the  production  of  a  young  midshipman ^ 
whow  lines  ran  m  foJIowa:— 

'  If  Prance  can  e'er  be  tuught  to  fight. 

It  Rurely  must  be  now ; 
The  First  of  June  hath  set  her  right, 
And  ihe'II  remember  hefvie).'" 

•    w.  A.  a 

QlMgow. 

London  compared  with  Antioch» — I  have  a 
amnll  engraving,  8vo,  sijBe,  signed  **  Hollar,  fee."  The 
ftubject^  two  male  figures  in  the  foreground,  look- 
ing down  upon  a  walled  city,  inscribed  *'Antiochia," 
which  occupies  the  middle  and  bnckgronnd  of  the 
pUte  ;  underoeMh  are  the  foDowiog  lines  : — 


ThB 


**  B«hold  tbifl  ancient  Citty  from  wheQC«  otme 
Ab  from  y*  BAcrcd  Font  the  Ohmtianj}  n^me  : 
Heauen  grantc  y*  owr  once  famous  Lottduu  tuajr 
What  Antioch  gaue,  In  time  not  take  away, 

"  Jobn  Stafford,  Excu:  1657^  Jo.  Oo!'' 
W.    H*  PATTERSOy. 

Motto  of  rmt  Clan  Chattait* — ^The  Times, 
describing  the  costumes  at  the  ball  at  Marlborong' 
HouB€,  iiayii  :— 

''Lady  Florence  Gower,  air  the  Wtiite  Cat«  yn$ 
oourse  all  in  white  satin  and  soft  white  fur,  and  on  a  rt 
cat's  collar  round  her  neck  was  written  the  ClanClialti 
tnotto^  *  Toueh  not  ike  cat  bot  tntK  iKi  Ohve.* " 

Sir  Walter  Scott  says  :— 

"  The  County  of  Caithness  is  supposed  to  haye  ita  n 
from  the  Teutonic  settlers  of  the  race  of  the  Cottit  i 
heraldry  has  not  neglected  so  fair  an  occasion  for  that 
specieB  of  painted  punmng  in  which  she  used  to  delight 
Ttiuek  not  tk*  eat  but  a  glortt  in  the  motto  of  Mackintoih^ 
alluding  to  his  crest,  whtch^  as  with  most  of  the  now 
scattered  septa  of  the  old  Clan  Chattan,  is  the  Mountain 
Cat."*— Tfte  Fair  Maid  of  FertK,  note  to  chap,  xxriL     j 

Shakspkauk,  CHATJcm^  Fastolf.^ — 1,  On  the 
Coram  Eege  Eoll,  St.  Barthw,,  45  Henry  17" 
Merak  13,  Office  No.  of  Roll  117,  is  a  snit 
Bome   land  at  Pruslbury,  Gloucesterahire. 
verdict  of  the  jury  ia  all  that  need  be  given  ;  they 
say — 

"  The  hamlet  of  P.,  where  there  were  four  tenants, 
was  at  a  certain  time  an  escheat  of  the  king,  who  gare 
it  to  his  valet  8imon  Sh&kespeye,  who  afterwards  gave  it 
io  Consiantia  de  Legh,  who  gave  it  to  W*"  dc  Solar, 
the  Dft," 

It  is  useless  to  give  more,  the  above  showing 
thjit  Simon- 8  descendants,  if  he  had  any,  could  not 
be  traced  through  this  property. 

2,  In  a  workj  published  in  1&47,  by  M.  Julw 
Delpit,  called  CoUedion  Oinirah  d4s  Docum^ 
Francis  qui  se  trfmveni  en  Angleterrf^  p*  43»  ifl  » 
writ  of  Edward  II,  to  the  ConstAble  of  the  Tovrr, 
to  inquire  who,  in  the  City  of  London,  mole  i^  i 
the  Gascons  resident  there,  and  the  ret  1 1 

said  writ.     Amongst  those  who  thus  * 

Robert  h  Chaucer.     It  is  on  account  of  Lui:  uju^ir 

prefixed  to  the  name  that  I  mention  this. 

3,  On  the  Vascon  Roll,  1  Henry  V.,  M,  %  is  i 
^ant  made,  4th  February,  to  John  Faatolf,  Amni^er. 
of  the  ewatleand  lordahipofVeir^,  worth  a  hundn  ' 
marks  yearly,  the  grantee  to  siwtain  the  castle,  hi 
not  to  account. 

Vayres  is  a  commune  in  the  canton  and  arroi 
dissement  of  libonrne,  department  of  the  Girow* 
where,  in  n  large  chateau,  built  at  various  tinieSi 
are  numeroua  remains  of  the  ancient  cattle. 

It  is  impossible  to  speak  positively  on  such 
subject,  but  roy   opinion  is  that   this  grant 
equivalent  to  what  one  of  %000l,  a  year 
be  now.     My  study  of  Shakspeare  havin|_ 
limited  to  tlus  work,  I  am  ignorant  wheth( 
above  has  or  has  not  been  noticed  by  any  of 


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147 


comments tort*^  but  tho  fontradiction  it 
the  well-kTiowTi  rehtikc  of  Henry»  after  his 

tto  Falfttaff  i»  mivnifest.     \V.  Floyd. 
Mqnati  oimneipondeiito  desiring  inform&ilon 
7  matters  of  only  privAte  interest,  to  affix  their 
lid  addresses  to  their  queries,  id  order  that  the 
r  ^  Addressed  to  tbem  direct,] 


Church  Bells. — The  fine  ohl 
laddenhani,  in  the  Isle  of  Ely  (or,  as  it 
1  ancient  communion  dmllce,  ^^Hadnam 
I "),  and  from  whose  lofty  tower  were 
Ible  twenty-eight  piirish  churches  and 
iliedraliif  is  now  undergoing  h  thorough 
on,  though  funds  iire  atili  needed  for  its 
Ion  and  for  the  re-erection  of  the  tower* 
of  »ix  belk  are  of  various  dates,  from  16S7 
,  and  they  were  cast  by  at  least  three 
i  founders.  Two  of  the  bellt*,  the  fourth 
b,  bear  the  impress  of  coins,  in  relief,  as  if 
d  been  phhced  in  the  s^md  previous  to 
in  the  molten  metal.  On  the  fourth  is  a 
>y  of  George  II.,  and  on  the  fifth  two 
1,  one  of  George  I,  and  the  other  of  Anne. 
r  it  was  customary  thus  to  affix  coins  to 
thin  period  (1725-41),  some  une  better 
b  campanology  will  perhaps  explain  ;  but, 
sots,  tne  fact  is  worth  recording  in^*  N*  <&  Q," 
mring  inscriptions  ap[>ear  on  the  bells : — 

^TaOJCAS  ^XWXAIt  MAPS  MKS  :  1706." 

Be  the  period.     Also  on  No,  1 — 

WOvn  :  Q.Ytr 

No.  2— 

us  HooELF :  C.W.*' 

vn  :  8cAaBOKot;oB  :  Mm  :  I :  MoaaUf  R.  Esad, 

IfjjLDEVS :  LABOft :  Ipse  :  Voluftas  :  I  :  Eatr% 

>S :  Ftcit  1741/* 

I  the  halfpenny  referred  to  : — 


-^  OOLX  -f  AJrn  +  lOBN  +  PORTia 
p-  T»0  :  -f  XWWUAH  +  MAM  +  ME  4"  1725  + 
ShillJng  ShiUinic 

Hi  D.G.  Rex.  Anna  Regiaa, 

L  GLoar  BEB  TO  God  opt  Hr«H  x  Edward 
u  *  Dakiel  Goold  -  WAEDiKa  *  1657. 
|Bi>  fuin  '    *       iiiie  on  this  bell,  but  on 
Kre  r  W.G.  and  W.M.,  and  a 

Price,  vsiLij,  lu  Lhe  centre,  a  Latin  cro«8, 
ipper  comers  the  sun  and  moon,  and  the 
Co  ""'*  f^^  each  side  of  the  cross.  Some 
ni  be  recognized  as  the  foundei-'s 

H  ,  ,  lig  the  new  foundation  for  the 
^BnUiT  pit  or  weU  was  discovered,  just 
^ft%  four  or  ^ve  feet  deep.  In  it  were 
Ebi  of  sand  and  scraps  of  hell-metal^  as 
i  Itad  been  ased  for  casting  some  of  the!^ 
li  Mch  a  theory  tenable?  Are  similar 
wu  i     The  question  seems  to  me  to 


be  one  of  so  much  interest  as  to  lead  me  to  greater 
length  than  I  intended,  but  I  have  been  uk  concise 
OS  possible  under  the  circumstancea.         W.  U. 
Sarowsbury. 

P.S,  In  the  nort.h  wall  of  the  cbanoel  waa  dis- 
covered, on  clearing  away  tjxe  pLiater,  a  **  hagio- 
scope,'* or  squint,  in  eEcellent  preservation. 

i After  reading  the  above,  many  of  our  readers  maj  be 
_  uced  to  assist  the  rector  in  his  eodeavoar  to  raise 
funds  for  the  restoration  of  this  churck] 

German  Emigrants  m  the  EioiiTiiKNTri 
Century. — Under  what  regulations  were  German 
emigrants  permitted  to  settle  in  America  during 
the  previous  century?  In  Gentian  Pioneerf^  a 
Tak  of  th€,  Previous  Century,  by  Friedrich  8pie!- 
liftgen,  there  occutb  the  following  passage,  of  which 
I  should  like  an  explanation  : — 

**  From  the  peak  of  the  voisel  waved  the  Butoh  flag, 
but  the  cargo  was  Oermaa— foar  or  five  hundred  emi- 
grant* :  one  scarcely  knew  exactly,  for  some  time  pre ' 
vioua  the  weu  had  been  sent  on  shore  to  do  homigei  or 
twear  allegiance  Ihuldigen),  at  the  Senate  House  to  the 
King  of  Engl  And." 

This  was  in  April,  1768.  Jar  Aitcb. 

An  Amebicak  Essay,  or  Euloqy,  ok  Wombn. 
— Some  time  ago — ^about  three  years,  1  think — an 
octogenarian  lady,  now  no  more,  lent  me  an 
American  newspaper  which  contained  a  very 
humorous  essay,  or  eulogy  (1),  on  the  fair  sex.  It 
had  been  often  delivered  at  what  we  call  "  penny 
readings.^  It  contained  various  interruptions  and 
expostulations  from  the  audience.  On  a  Jiut 
delivery,  these  disapprovals  and  remonatrancep 
must  have  had  n  ludicrous  effect.  On  a  subHecpicnt 
delivery,  such  outbursts,  of  course,  no  longer 
deceive,  and  the  tjot-np  by-play  is  seen  through^ 
and  loses  its  effect.  I  remember  a  passage  some- 
what as  follows : — 

*' '  And  now,  huliei  and  gentlemen  !  allow  me  to  intro- 
duce that  paragon  of  her  sex,  and  of  all  the  virtues, 
Lucretia  Boreia.* 

'*  *  We  won  t  have  her  !  don't  want  to  hear  anytbiug 
about  her  ! '  cry  the  audience^ 

**  *  Well,  then,"  continues  the  lecturer>  *  allow  me  to 
brinjT  before  you  the  amiable  Mr  a.  Brovmrigg,  whose 
wholesome  discipline  towards  her  refractory  appreotioee 
led  to  her  martyrdom,  which^  unfortunately,  has  not 
been  followed  by  canon ixat ion  ! ' 

'*  *  We  won't  have  her  either/  cry  the  audience,  *  yow 
pais  on  to  somebody  else  1  now  go  ahead  ! '  ** 

The  essay  occupied  about  four  columns  of  a 
large  newspaper,  for  I  remember  the  journal  was 
one  of  those  mmistcr  pa^iera  that  we  only  find  in 
the  States,  I  should  like  to  know  if  the  essay  has 
appeared  in  a  separate  form,  and,  if  so,  who  is  the 
publisher,  anil  how  I  could  obtain  a  copy  ;  and  I 
should  also  like  to  have  some  particubirs  as  to  the 
author.  The  essay  was  anonymoun  in  the  joumal. 
I  do  not  believe  that  it  had  even  a  fiv^ga»l\vx^  «i*^ 
initiala^or  a  twmi  de  pUittu.    T«AiK^  ^2B&'to^** 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l^an.At?o.  22,74. 


Dr.  Colly kr  could  aid  my  mquiry,  and,  if  so, 
send  a  iiot43  to  ''  K.  &  Q." 

James  Henet  Dixok. 

CtiaisTOPHER  Dratton,  —  Id  a  raw  little 
Tolume,  entitled — 

' '  Lych nocanift  stva  Honlui  Ficvm  Emblem* ta.  Li^lt  ta 
Morail  Emblemfl.  Anthora  Hobtrta  FarUto  Scoto-Bn* 
tauDO.  Sir  luceat  lux  vestra  <£?  cei,  London,  Pritited  b; 
T%o,  Co(&,  for  Michael  Sparks  lunior,  md  are  to  be  eold 
ftt  the  blue  Biblo  in  Ortifn4  Arbor,  1638/' 

are  the  following  lines : — 

•*  To  the  Arahor, 
Mtroit  bright  tftinpe,  whicb  abe  on  S«itm  itnMAd, 
Set  up  to  be  a  marke,  by  which  mleht  land 
Her  ioir'd  Leandert  when  he  crost  the  Sea 
Of  ffelUtpont  ;  long  aince  wa»  outi  and  we 
Onely  enjoy  its  fame,  the  light  is  gone, 
ADd  tow'r  ia  buried  in  obliirion. 
Th'  Mfjmitian  Pkaro*,  which  waa  fam^d  to  be 
The  worlds  acjiv 'nth  wonder,  in  obscurity 
Lyes  niin'd,  and  that  miiltiplicit  light, 
Once  to  the  Marrinera  a  Snnne  bj  night, 
la  now  extinct ;  for  tie  decreed  by  fate, 
What  Art  doth  reare,  that  Time  shall  ruinate : 
Kay  holy  Writ  aitnref ,  at  the  laat  daT 
The  Btarrea  shall  fall  from  heaven,  tfie  snnnc  decayj 
The  Moone  be  tiimd  to  bbod^  those  which  God  made 
Firat  moat  resplendent  lights,  at  last  ahall  fade. 

U  But  thy  Lighta  most  tranaceodent,  can  no  hand 
Of  Time  or  Fate  (which  all  thinga  else  bath  ecand,) 
Put  to  these  Lights  an  end,  for  these  thai!  be 
Blight  ehinjng  Tspera  to  Eternity, 

**  Chntt<fpher  Drayton.' 
*I  dmU  be  glad  to  leam  if  there  is  anything 
Tmown  of  the  writer  of  the  foregoing,  and  if  he 
was  in  any  way  related  lo  the  ilhmtrious  poet^ 
Michf^el  Drayton.  S. 

Father  Louis  Le  Comte,  one  of  the  Jesuits 
Tfho  left  Fmnce  in  I^Inrch,  1685,  to  go  to  Ghin;^, 
and  the  author  of  the  wcll-kno'wn  Memoirs  and 
Obserwxiion*  .  ,  .  .  mad4  in  a  late  Journcij  through 
the  Empire  of  Chhuty  wrote,  on  p.  X  of  the  Edmr* 
{dammni  dc  la  TMnoyuiaiion  jaiU  a  N,  S,  I\  k 
Pope  ....  MDCC,  12mo,  pp,  32: — 

*  H  y  a  quatro  ana  que  je  donnay  au  public  lea  noureaux 
Midiiioirea  de  la  Chine.  J'eua  Thonneur  de  lea  pr^aenter 
au  Eoy,  aux  J-'T^quea,  h  toute  la  Prance ;  ct  oe  livro  fut 
ai  bien  re<^u,  qu'on  en  a  fait  sept  c'ditiona,  et  qa'il  a  etc 
tradnit  en  pluaieura  taogues  der  Europe  .  . ,  ." 

Will  some  one  be  good  enough  to  j(ive  me  a 
description  of  these  aeven  editions,  and  of  any 
others  which  may  have  been  since  published  in  the 
French  language,  and  of  the  various  trunalations 
of  l\m  work  I 

A  SUBSCBIBEB   IN   THE  FaE  EaST. 

Bun  van's  Ihitatobs.— In  the  Preface  to  the 

Whole  Works  of  Mr,  John  Bunyatiy  in  8  vols.  8vo., 

[published  by  Alexander  Hogg,  iibout  1780, 1  read: 

'*  When  thai  great  man  Dr.  Simon  Patrick  attempted 

I  to  write  the  parable  of  the  Christian  pilgrim,  ho  made 

■mmaelf  ridiculoua-^vnd  when  the  anonymous  scribbler 

of  the  third  part  of  the   Pilgrim's    Pnigreag  tried  to 

0btrade  his  stuff  on  the  world  as  the  production  of  Mr. 


Buuyan«  the  cheat  >Tae  eoon  diaeoTerad;  erery  Chri^tlaa 
of  taste  could  see  the  diB^ereuce  as  easily  at  we  can  diac^iii 
the  superior  excellence  of  a  Raphael  era  Tiii&n  from  the 

SToductionsof  a  common  dauber;  and  we  eaiiaa  easily 
iatinguiah  Bunyan  from  all  other  writera  oa  we  can 
discern  the  difference  between  the  finest  cambrick  and  a 
piece  of  hop  aackmg/" 

Where  can  I  learn  anytbing  furt«ber  of  ihebe 
two  works,  and  what  are  their  precise  titles  I 

J.  CiLvRLEs  Cox. 
Haselwood,  Helper. 

Cardinal  Wolsbt  is  said  by  Hasted  to  haviij 
been  Vicar  of  Lydd,  lind  it  is  supposed  that 
built  the  tower  of  its  church.     The  stvl©  of  i 
building  is  evidently  that  of  his  time,     Thft  J 
of  Lydd  belonged  to  Tintern  Abbey  (to  wh 
was  given  by  one  of  the  De  CLires).    It  i 
less  through  this  means  he  obtained  it.     Any  i 
formation  upon  the  above  would  be  of  venri, 
interest.  Artbihl  Fzmc» 

Weetbroke,  Lydd, 

Episcopal  Query.  —  One  John  Boner  Is 

scribed  as  "Buachudunei  epus."  in  a  record  date 
1440.     To  what  see  is  reference  thus  maile  ? 

Tatlor's  **Biaoksi8":  Straubs^s  "Old  Fajtb 
Asxt  New.'* — Have  any  specific  replies  been  written 
to  the  aboye ;  if  so,  by  whom,  and  where  pnh- 
lished?  T.  k 

Liverpool. 

Btlakd  Abbey,  Yorebhire.  —  I  want  the 
mimes  of  any  works  containing  accounts  of  thl^ 
Abbey  and  neighbourhood.  Where  can  I  ol  i.i 
the  best  information  respecting  the  names  of  tU. 
ancient  inhabitants  of  the  locality  l  J.  A 

William  McGtreoor  Logatt.— Cm 
favour  me  with  a  few  biographical  pur 
the  author  of  the  English  tmnslation  <*i 
ot  Der  Freisekuhj  first  performed  on  tl 
stage  in  1824  I  He  is  author  also  of  ' 
Fro7nue^  an  opera,  performed  at  the  < 
June,  1833,  and  'The  Comdj  an  opcFji, 
Mr.  Logan  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  in  h 

living  I  R»    iNGLla. 

"  MlNIOK.'* — 

'*  They  hare  erer  abhorred,  and  cannot  away  v*  i 
thia  day,  a  multitude  of  idols  and  ceremomcf.  v ; 
that  levity  of  ifitHtcJt^i  repreeentationa  and  Mii^omttV!  n 
iVc— William  Freake,  7%e  Dodrina  and  Prtu^ticct  :/  : 
Socidii  ofJetuita  (1630),  pp.  9, 10. 

Is  miymk,  "  frivolous,"  shortened  from  wm 
or  is  the  latter  based  on  the  former  ?    If  -m 
came  first,  and  horn  the  Old  High  Gennim  mu;>'\ 
whence  was  its  termination  derived  I  F.  ii 

Marlesford. 

NoBrEsci.ATTJRK  OF  Vericlks. — Suwly  araoflg 
the  contributors  to  **  S,  &  Q."  there  must  be  soiue 


ff»  &  11.  Aeo.  22,  Ti.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


149 


|»«f9ona  learned  in  Long  Acre  lore,  and  to  them  I 
appeid  fnt  tnfonuAtioii  regarding  the  why  and 
fmcreibro  of  the  mim&?,  and  th«  dates  of  Intro- 
doelion,  uf  the  following  vehicles,  rh.^  landau, 
Iitft«ln,  harouchc,  tdbary,  don  net  (?),  stanhope, 
dIuu:!  1    phiieton,   sociable  (or   t>M-«^vt</). 

OttT  IS  in  France  have  g^tveu  us  coupt^ 

and  L-aiTLoa-L  1  barouche,  too,  I  preaumeX  besides 
Olllifir  n&mea;  and  their  lively  wit  has  often  been 
Ctlijd  into  play  by  novelties  or  peculiarities  in  the 
gBDUi  eoAcn ;  er  ^.,  of  eighteenth-centary  date, 
1.  A  Bnull  ooftch,  which  carried  but  one  person, 
HSi  Ulflrefore  dubbed  *'a  misanthrope/'  2,  A 
luiduiey  coach  with  wooden  blinda  was  called  **  the 
^uaide  of  sinnerBiy'*  becftose  the  young  men  oarried 
^Bimr  muitreflses  to  a  couDtry  frolic  in  these  vehicles. 

■  WaibMini. 

TnrccKT  a>'d  Newcombe. — Can  any  of  your 
^Mgder^  fnrnLili  mje  with  replies  to  this  cmeiy? — 
^^^^Ber  Eev.  Willi^im  Vincent,  D.D.,  Dean 

^^^h''  r,  married  J  on  Ifith  inot  4bh,  as  at 

^^^ft409k  Aatfust,  1771,  to  Hannaii,  daughter  of 
P^H^B  Viyutt^  of  St.  M;irgaret's,  Wentminster,  by 

■  tff  wife  Hannah  (Wood)  i    What  descendants  of 
*tiac  Vincent  (Windsor  Herald,  1624,  died 

1625-6,  and  buiied  at  St.  Benet*a, 

j  are  now  living  ?     He  had  a  son 

ent,  of  Uffington,  Lincolnshire,  who  had 

who  married  and  bad   issue*      I  am 

making  out  a  pedigree  of  the  family  of 

scended  from  Miles  Vincent,  of  Swin- 

rehire,  in   1317.     John  Newcombe, 

William  Newcombe,  by  his  wife 

^.  1;,  bom  22d  February.  1725,  married 

beth,  i^iater  of  Dean  Vincent,  tut  where  and 

the   marriage  took   place  I  have  not  dia- 

cavigred.      I  much  wi^h  to  learn  the  places  and 

jKoct  dates  of  the  births  and  baptisms  of  their 

djtjii,—Samh,  bom  about  1752;  Eliziibeth,  born 

fft   1754:    and  William,  bora    10th   October,} 

Tli  i  Newcombe  became  a  banker 

;  bi  Praeds'),  and  had  a  resideiioe 

I  Trent  hick  in  Cornwall. 

RKGt5fAi*t)  Stewart  Boddinotok. 
IS,  Markliaia  Bqukre,  S.VV. 

Stft   Qerard   LTpFLETB. — Who  was  be?     He 
Elizabeth  Mowbray,  Duchess  of  Norfolk, 
bisginning  of  the  fifteenth  century*     Were 
» any  children  of  such  marriage  I         A.  C 

CtAClDfACtJDOE^f, — What  b  this  famous  stone 
k  ljiTertu?ss  ?  What  does  the  name  mean,  and  [» 
fe© any  legend?  D.  F. 


TuoitMB    Wr^ -  ^    OF    BaETToN    Hall, 

17  WhowJis  he/    He  had 

•yiaUn,,,..  .^.  .;x-pkt<s  of  which  I  have  a 

Thm  hi  an  obelisk  on  the  led  marked 


kno\dtihjty  formed  of  titpa  of  books,  sunnountecl  by 
a  bbizin^  star.  In  the  centre,  supported  by  (ignres 
of  ApoUo  and  Minerva,  is  a  taolet  bearing  the 
riu thorns  name,  with  the  price,  number,  and  date, 
entered  in  writing  ;  above  tbis  is  the  capital  of  a 
column^  with  figures  of  an  owl,  an  ink-bottle,  and  a 
trumpet,  with  the  motto,  on  a  flying  scroll  aboYe> 
each  thtir  oi&n;  below  these  is  a  globe,  map, 
piilette,  compasses,  &c.,  with  a  shield  bearing  crest 
and  arms ;  and  to  the  right  the  words  **"  Minerva 
manufactory," — the  whole  being  finely  engraved, 

Buenos  Ayres. 

"Seeing  wmiouT  PERCEivrwc.** — An  article 
with  this  heading  appeared  some  time  ago  in 
one  of  the  minor  periodicals.  An  indication  in 
"  N.  &  Q."  of  where  it  may  be  found  will  much 
oblige  an  old  subscriber  and  occasiojial  contributor. 


*'  Shot." — What  is  the  meaomg  and  derivation 
of  the  termimvtion  in  the  local  names  Alderahot, 
Brtgshot,  &c.  ?  Is  the  tennination  "  shot "  or  "  hot"  I 
If  the  latter,  is  it  a  coniiption  of  "holt"? 

C.  0.  B. 

"  CimiaTiANrTr  as  Old  as  Orjsation  ;  or,  the 

Gospel  a  Republication  of  the  Religion  of  Nature." 
— I  want  any  infomiation  as  to  the  name  of  the 
author  of  this  book,  published  tn  1700  (4to,  volume). 

E.  J. 

"  Sawt  Day/*— In  the  mining  districts  of  the 
north  of  England  the  pay  day  used  to  be  known^ 
and  probably  is  BtiU,  as  the  "  savvy  day."  What 
is  the  origin  of  the  term  ?     Stephen  Jackson. 

Pi*Acioo,  THE  Cuban  Poet,— Have  the  poems 
of  Placido,  the  Cuban  slave  (who  was  execQied  for 
*^  insurrection "  at  Hubana,  July  7th,  1844),  ever 
been  ooUecteil  I  I  am  anxious  to  see  the  original' 
of  the  celebrated  prayer  which  he  chuuiited  as  he 
wne  led  to  death,  and  which  has  been  transkted 
by  Whittier,  W.  E,  A.  A, 

Busholme. 

Thomas  Wilsoh,  M.P.  roa  Staftobd,  1812.— 
Who  was  he,  and  what  was  the  date  of  his  death  ? 
Alfred  B,  Beaven,  M^. 

The  Family  of  Pcrt,  or  Purjcy,  of  Tat^- 
ton,  GLoncRSTERSHTTtK. — What  connciuon  is  there 
between  the  Porys  of  Gloneestershire  and  the 
Pureys  of  Kirton,  Lincolnshire,  the  heiress  of  which 
married  Sir  Richard  Cast  ?  The  anna  are  the  aame* 
In  the  CoU44^t4iiiea  Topograpkka  tt  GenMh^fica  of 
Nichols,  voL  iv.  p.  105,  the  anns  of  Puiyare  men- 
tioned as  being  impaled  with  those  of  DanT«!ra  in 
the  windows  ot  St.  Duns  tan-in- the- West,  mentioned 
by  Nicholas.  Charles  Poreyqaarters as., a fess^ or. 
between  three  dnoks^acg.   Yah!Qfii^«xixa^%t^^^l> 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(5'*S.1LAUG.22;'74 


William  Danveis  was  JuBtico  of  the  Common  Pleas 
in  1488.  Is  there  any  pedigree  of  thfe  Pureys,  or 
any  account  of  them  ?  H.  Cust. 

"MoRi.K  ExcOM I CTH," — In  this  aatirical  work, 
r  the  celebmted  Emsmua,  who  La  the  person  named 
cotus  ?    The  personation  of  Folly  h  represented  as 
rjaying— 

**  While  I  am  acting  the  Divine  and  Tentaring  into 
their  pwlemick  difficultiea,  wiih  mjielf  for  aome  time 
anlmAted  with  i:icotua,  hi  a  briatling  and  prickty  soul, 
which  I  would  not  care  ho^v  afterwanlB  it  returned  to 
his  bcdy»  though  for  rcfincmeut  it  were  itoppod  at  ft 
purgatory  by  the  wjiy," 

A  curious  woodcut  of  the  most  humorous 
description  shows  the  purgation  of  the  soul  prior 
to  returning  to  the  body  of  Scot  us.  Why  "  briatliDg 
md  prickly  m\i\  *'  ?  '  J.  B.  P. 

Bftrboume,  Worcester. 

AuTOOR  Wanted, — 

'^  An  Arcbjcologkal  Episik  to  the  Reverend  and 
Worship  fid  Jeremiah  MiUes,  D.D.,  i>eau  of  Exeter, 
President  of  the  Society  of  Antiquirries,  and  Editor  of  a 
mipcrh  edition  of  the  Poems  of  Tliom48  Rowley,  Priest, 
to  which  in  annexed  n  Glossary  extructed  from  that  of 
the  Learoed  Dean."    1  toL  4to.,  pp.  1&,  Loud  ,  1782,  Is. 

Who  wn,^  the  writer  of  this  lampoon  on  the 
Kowley  controversy  ?  Richakd  HEMMiyo, 

Mutf,  Lib.j  Warrington. 

**Grimpe,"  jl  Gamis  at  Cards,— In  a  letter 
from  St.  Evremond  to  Harry  Jermyn,  Earl  of 
St.  Albans,  the  uncient  Epicurean  remarks,  talking 
of  the  pleasantest  manner  of  dying,  **  Une  vole  ii 
PHombre  ;  et  a  Grimpe  troia  iis  naturels  en  premier 
contre  tioia  neufs,  termineront  assez  heureuseiuent 
votre  vie."  What  was  **Grimpe"— a  modifica- 
tion of  "  Vingt-et-un "  f  And  why  the  mime  of 
**Grijupe"?  G,  A,  Sala. 

Brompton. 

P.S, — I  hear  some  talk  of  the  revival  of  the  once 
fashionable  game  of  Hombrej  or  as  it  is  misspelt 
(owing  to  the  non-pronunciation  of  the  h  in 
Spanish),  "  Ombre/^  But,  if  the  game  bccomea 
popular  agttin^  it  would  be  as  well  to  insist  upon 
the  hj  as  meiining  **  Hombre^'*  a  man  ;  as  other- 
wise "Ombre"  might  be  taken  in  its  French 
Biguification,  as  a  shadow. 


*' WORMING**  FOR  CANINE  RABIB8. 

(b*^  S.  i.  5<)5,) 
It  is  anything  but  an  enviable  task  in  Eng- 
lish folk 'lore  to  have  to  make  a  note  of  the  con- 
tinuance of  Huch  a  practice  i*s  that  of  '*  worming '^ 
dogs.  Unfortunately,  the  "old  Cheshiiv  gsir- 
dener  **  haa  jnany  town  and  country  cousins  litill 
living  who  equally  believe  in  the  '*  worm/'  which 
they  gravely  assert  to  exist  in  the  tongue  of  the 
do^.     Half-grown  pups  very  often  have  nn  irre- 


sistible desire  for  gnawing  everything  which  coma 
in  their  way;  and  people  who  would  scorn  the  id« 
of  restmining  the  exuberance  of  their  too-noiJ 
urchins,  by  attempting  to  emdicate  a  tongue  won 
here  see  a  very  ditt'erent  state  of  affaire*  and  havin 
discovered  a  preposterous  theory,  proceed  to  ex 
it  by  a  cruel  and  absurd  operation. 

The  origin  of  this  hypothetical  worm  is  a  fib 
septum  which  divides  the  tongue  into  two  htdvil 
in    a    vertical    d inaction,    and    which,  becomin 
thickened  on  the  under  surface,  presents  the  ap 
pearance  of  a  thin  white  ligament ;    this  is  to 
**  worm,"  which  is   forthwith  torn  out  by 
professional  or  amateur  wisejicre,  while  the 
excited  for  a  few  days  restrains  the  poor  animal 
from  any  desire  to  bite  or  bark,  or  even  to  eat. 
The  unnily  pup  is  thought  to  be  weaned  from  I  *  ~ 
wicked  ways,  but  in  nine  cases  out  of  tea  he 
turns,  however,  until  nature  performs  the  cure  i 
pushing  out  the  temporary  and  providing  the  ] 
manent  fangs. 

As  to  worming  being  of  any  use  in  preventi 
rabies,  it  is  only  an  instance  of  one  of  thf^  ...y-r 
popular  fitllacies,  and  of  the  pertinacity  ^v 
the  more  absurd  a  theory  is  the  more  pc  ^^^t.     -ii  , 
stick   to  it.      Who,   at   corn-cutting  time,   wheal 
some  yokel  has  accidentally  succeeded  in  nearly 
severing  a  limb,  has  not  found  him,  deliberately 
"letting  it  bleed  a  bit,  maister,"  thinking  that 
herein  hj  the  Urst  principles  of  cure,  and  inform in^^ 
us  for  his  reiison  over  and  above,  that  his  "  fanlier 
did  so  when  he  cut  hisaelf,  and  his  feythcr  'afore 
him.'' 

We  can  nndergt^nd   the  ultimate   nnalyuis  of 
reasoning  in  Goldsmith's  animal,  where — 
*'  The  dog«  to  gain  some  private  ends, 
Went  ijiad,  and  bit  the  man," 

when  we  meet  with  such  men  as  the   Chcshirti 
gardener,  with  his  "  lone  experience  *'  in  worming- ' 
It  is   stmnge  that   the   dog,  which   has  been 
the    faithful   ally  of  man   so   long  that  History  , 
cannot  remember  at   what  perio^i   of  her  Imby- ' 
hood  he    £rst    left    the  beasts  of   the   field,  t^l 
come    under    the    roof  as    servant    and    friendil 
should  still  be  bo  little  understood*     He  indei^J 
ought  to  be  possessed  of  nine  lives  if  Nicholai* 
Cox  is  correct  when  he  enumerates  in  his  GeniU- 
man*»  Eecreaiion  "seven  sorts  of  madnesses  whicli 
afflict  a  dog/-  He  gives  "  divere  cures  and  remediw 
for  biting  of  dogs,"  one  of  which  may  nof 
out  of  phice  here.     **  Against  the  simpK 
a  dog>  take  the  urine  of  a  dog,  which  i^ 
since  there  is  but  little  venom  in  those  woy 
To  lay  the  hair  of  the  same  dog  thereon  Iff 
much  tjdkt  on)  I  look  upon  as   ir         ''  np 
We  laugh  at  this  reitie<ly  of  two  \ 

ago,  but  the  various  suggestions  oLu*tJHM<i 
a  modem  crowd  around  a  dog  in  a  fit  .ixe  5 
absurd  and  ridiculous— lancing  his  mouth,  bh 
his  "  shoulder  veins/'  cutting  his  tail^  alittlng  i 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


151 


I 
I 


liis  tBi^  rubbing  his  nose  with  buckthorn,  tobacco, 
salt,  and  loatly  the  hiaty  truncheon  of  mme  intelli- 
geot  constAble,  if  he  am  be  found,  are  »ome  of  the 
cries  which  are  only  too  fu miliar  to  all  of  ua. 

There  are,  probably,  no  more  raad  dogs  about 
now  than  there  were  fifty  or  a  hundred  years  ago. 
Most  things  and  thoughts  revolve  in  the  cycle  of 

XI,  and  every  dog  ha«  bis  day,  though  those 
tied  to  the  canine  tribe  are  for  the  most  part 

Latterly  the  ciy  of  "  road  dog  "  has  again  been 
nifled,  and  in  many  instances  it  has  acted  like  the 
tail-tied  tin  kettle  on  Kome  poor  cur  who  was 
enduring  the  pain  of  returning  sensation  after  an 
ofdinaiy  fit,  and  who  only  wanted  to  get  away 
fram.  everybody,  and,  like  Mark  Twain's  horse, 
^lean  np  against  a  pist  and  think.*' 

In  the  second  volume  of  the  Citisen  cf  the 
World  U  an  article  on  the  ^*  Epidemic  Terror,  the 
dread  of  Mad  Dogs,  which  now  prevails  ;  the 
whole  oation  is  now  actually  groaning  under  the 
mali^ity  of  its  Influence,"  which  ia  an  outcry 
qniie  as  great  as  ours  of  1H74. 

Rabiea  ia  a  very  rare  disease  in  England  ;  and 
wlien  an  epidemic  breaks  out,  it  is  generally  found 
to  proceed  from  one,  or,  at  the  most,  two  cases  of 
decided  madness,  the  others  Ijcing  simply  lite  of 
an  ordinary  kind,  aggravated  by  hooting  and  hunt- 
ing, and  which  with  proper  care  and  common- 
sense  are  in  no  way  dangerous  to  man.  Of  the 
cause  and  tre:U,ment  of  rabies  nothing  is  known, 
except  tbit  irritation  is  likely  to  help  on  any  pre- 
di:9poaition  in  a  greater  degree  than  any  other 
cau«e  in  this  the  most  naturally  nervous  of  rdl 
AninnJjt.  J.  Devekish  Hoppus, 

The  ** thorough  ventilation"  of  the  subject 
hronght  forward  by  Junii  Nepos  will  be  best 
ffieetod  by  a  good  blast^  strong  enough  to  blow 
away  altogether  the  vulgar  error  of  worming  dogs. 
No  doubt  there  are  to  be  found  in  every  neigbbour- 
hood  men  who^  either  from  ignorance  or  dishonesty, 
are  ready  to  cut  a  puppy's  tongue  and  extract  a 
wappoaed  worm.  When  anything  is  really  taken 
oat,  it  is  the  duct  of  the  poor  animal's  salivary 
dand,  which  is  made  to  do  duty  for  a  worm. 
How  utterly  absurd  is  it  to  suppose  that  such  a 
cnnture,  even  if  it  existed  under  every  pupp/s 
tooffoe,  would  lie  there  quietly  for  years,  neither 
oncMi^ing  transformation  nor  changing  its  habitat, 
and  then,  at  last,  in  one  instance  among  a  hundred 
HKmfand  dogs,  would  cause  such  a  constitutional 
5  aa  hydrophobia  !  J.  Dixon. 


CttARi        ^T     ss  GiTNN  (5«*  S.  ii.  88.)— Charles 

BaliM  (i  es*')  Gunn,  after  publishing  his 

\  SmuUo.  -^    ^'-''   nt  Yarmouth,  became 

'LaoiUT  Language  and  Litera- 

[tovt^at  t«iv  J^.......  I  ..*  i . ,  .iiimsium,  Amsterdam*" 

IH^poUiilwd  in  liotterdam,  1859,  Th€  Hittoriml 


Et4}thT  and  Translator;  Exerci^fs  on  Archhi^top 
Whnkhy*  *' ♦Si/«ont/?rw,"  London,  ISCf);  ManutU 
iff  Modern  Engluh  Prose  Literature,  Haarlem, 
1862  :  Goldm  Treasury  of  English  Poetry,  Am- 
sterdam, 1862  ;  and  .4  Manual  of  Modern  Eng- 
lish Foetieal  Littraturf^  Haarlem,  1863.  These 
books  were  written,  their  author  tells  us,  for  uae 
in  "  those  Educational  Establishments  in  which  a 
well-grounded  knowledge  of  the  Language  and 
Literature  of  my  country  is  cultivated  and  appre- 
ciated.'* 

In  1864  appesared,  on  the  15th  of  each  month, 
Th4  Entjlish  and  American  Mmithhj  Etviewer, 
Conducted  by  C.  H,  Gunn.  Amsterdam,  Binger 
Brothers."  Twelve  numbers  only  were  published. 
Mr.  Ixglis  is  right  in  thinking  Mr,  Gunn  a  Cam- 
bridge man.  In  the  July  numWr  of  the  Eftnetoer 
appeared  the  following  lines,  which  I  should  like 
to  see  rescued  from  the  remains  of  the  extinct 
Amsterdam  Reviewer: — 

"Tea  AoiD  CANTi^a  to  bjs  Ootttoa  Cap  a»d  Oowir. 
Damao^a  quid  non  imminutt  diei  T->HoR. 

Ah  f  there  ye  bang^  my  cap  and  gown  ! — meroentoes 

of  the  past, — 
And  ye,  like  lae,  I  plainly  wee,  arc  fs^infi^  very  fait : 
S?ince  iaflt  we  beard  the  Proctor's  voice,  *  Your  Colleca 

and  your  name  ? ' 
We  'vc  changed  alike ,  my  good  old  friends,  and  nought 

remains  the  same  ! 

Ye  once  were  black  as  black  could  be,  but  DOW  a  ruMet 

brown  J 
Time  dulls  the  jet  wMch  once  was  yours,  my  College 

cap  and  gown  1 
And  I^  too,  share  as  hard  a  fate,— he  makes  tnei  too, 

his  prey, — 
Ye  saw  me  with  my  bright  jet  locks,  and  now  ye  see 

me  grey  1 

Each  College  scene  ye  bring  to  mind  of  Commons  and 

ofHAll; 
Of  scnimhling  to  the  Chapel  gate  at  winter  roon)£iig*a 

call: 
Aad  aA  on  you  I  paze  it  seems  that  College  days  return, 
And  &U  the  ardour  of  my  youth  afresh  begins  to  bumf 

Ob,  how  we  passed  the  bappy  time,  nor  feared  tb« 

Dons  a  bit, 
And  laughed  at  all  the  Dean  prf scribed,  in  jocmid  fun 

and  wit ! 
And  when  Commencement  week  at  length  brought 

beauties  to  the  town* 
We  thought,  I  Tear,  much  more  of  them  thasi  books, 

my  College  gown. 

But  now,  alas  !  those  College  days  are  gone  for  ever 

No  more  for  as  the  Tictor*a  bump,—'  Bt  John  *  and 

'Trinity*! 
Ko  more  for  ua  the  merry  meal,  the  hoax,  the  laugh, 

the  fun,— 
The  fleecingt  of  a  smooth-tongued  Gyp  who  charged 

us  three  for  one  t 

Ah  t  happy  days,  for  eyer  past,— now  Oranta*s  charroi 

are  o*er, — 
ThotJgh  Mem'ry— potent  sibyl !— lores  to  haunt  ibem 

as  of  yore ; 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L6»^8.  a  At?B.22l7» 


Down  Lethe  a  aMe  etfeAta  tkej  j^Mt,  7et»  gildings 

seem  to  «U7r — 
The  hop63»  the  )Qj9,  the  Ioto  of  youth,  to  clj««r  Life's 
darkening:  daj. 

Qtanta  !  these  icenee  are  freah  ftnd  fur,  inscribed  on 

McmWe  page ; — 
They  urged  the  luidour  of  my  youth  ^  imi2  now  they 

cheer  my  a^e ; 


Long  cherished  be   the   memVy  of   thy  lored   and 

nonoured  name, — 
Thy  ttreumi  of  lore  from  which  I  ahUied  my  youthful 

thirst  for  fame. 

Time  in  his  flight  has  borne  mo  on  to  farrowed  age,  it 


And  d&y  1^  day  I  *m  gliding  down  Life*i  ererflowing 

atre&ms: 
The  Ocean  of  Btemitj !— there  they   are  winding 

down,— 
And  I  muat  go  and  leare  you  here»  my  College  cap  and 
gown! 

"  a  H.  Gujnr." 
Sparks  Henderson  Williams, 
Kensington  Orescenti  W. 

Columbus  (6"^  S,  L  448.)— Columbut  died  at 
Valladolid,  May  20,  1506  (Ascenaion-djiy),  aod 
wns  buried  in  the  Convent  of  San  Franciaco.  In 
1 513  his  body  was  transported  to  the  Carthuaiaii 
Monaat^ry  of  Lata  Ousvnfl,  at  Seville.  His  son 
Fernando  U  buried  in  the  cathedral  of  thjit  cityj 
and  it  ifl  on  his  tomb  thut  the  well-known  motto — 
**  A  Caitillft  y  ji  Leon 
Mnndo  nnevo  dl6  Colon/' 
is  inEcribed. 

In  1636  his  body,  with  that  of  his  son  Diego, 
wag  removed  to  St.  Domingo,  and  there  interreS  ; 
but  on  January  15,  1796,  hia  booeJi  were  brought 
to  Havana,  and  deposit^  tn  an  urn  covered  by  an 
ereet  monumental  shib  on  the  left-hand  aide  of  the 
entrance  to  the  choir  of  the  cathedral.     The  in- 
scription beneath  the  bust  of  the  discoverer,  which 
forms  a  portion  of  the  monument,  is  m  follows  :— 
"  0  Eotta  BO  Imngen  del  Gnode  Colon  I 
Mil  ngloa  dnntO  goArdadoe  en  hi  Urna 
T  en  U  romemhniMB  do  Nucatra  Naclon  J  '* 

The  blazon  of  his  arms  given  at  the  reference 
above  is  a  curious  translation  of  a  part  of  the 
blazon  which  I  |3:ave  in  "  N.  &  Q^"  2«'*  S.  xii.  401. 
The  '*  Cope  of  Castile  and  Loon  "  is  the  same  thing 
as  **  Tescu  en  mimteau,"  &c 

I  may,  perhaps^  be  allowed  to  answer  my  own 

auery  at  the  latter  reference,  by  giving  the  bkzon  of 
le  augmented  arms  of  the  great  navigator.     They 
were — quarterly;    1.    Gu.   a  castle    or  (Caslik). 

2,  Arg,   a    lion   rwnp.   eu.   crowned    or  (Leon), 

3.  A  aea,  az.  seme  of  iiJands  aig.,  covered  with 
trees  proper,  and  strewn  with  crains  of  gold,  the 
blue  of  the  qmirter  surrounded  by  a  similar  repre- 
sentation of  a  portion  of  the  terra  firma,  4.  Az. 
five  anchors  in  saltire  or.  The  whole — mU  en 
pointf  Biury  wavy  aig.  and  az. 

John  Woodward, 
The  PariODsge,  Mon^oee* 


"4 


I   have   seen   tho    t<mib  of  Oolrnnbus   In 
eathedral  at  Havanti.     Both  the  cathedisi 
the  tomb  disappoint  expectution&f  especially 
former,  on   ooming,   as   I   did^  after  seeing  llw 
cathedral  in  the  city  of  Mexico.   There  is  a  wood 
cut  drawing  of  ea<m  in  Hazard's  Csiha.  nnbl 
in  1B71  by  Measfs.  Sampson  Low,  S 
Columbus  died  at  Valladolid,  20tii  I 

His  remains  were  removed  to  Seville  in  1513,  tb( 
in  1536  to  San  Domingo,  sod  in  179(5  to  Cuba. 
The  inscription  on  the  monument  is  very  poor  ini 
expression.  Thomas  Falconcil 

OsTfiMAK  (5***  S,  ii.  110.)— This  word  is  in  oom* 
moo  use  still  in  Kewcastle-on-Tyne,  twj  applied  to  J 
a  society  fstill  in  existence  there.     The  word  \mM 
spelt  "ostman  or  hostman"  by  Brand,  the  locdT 
untiquaiY,  who  traces  the  use  of  it  to  very  early 
times.    Hi|  derivation  of  the  word  from  tho  bar- 1 
barous  Latin  oustmanni^  i.  c,  the  es^tnii^n,  is  opSA  J 
to  question*     It  seems  much  more  si 
it  as  the  German  word  winwin,  or 
eastern  countries,  with  whom  we  muHi 
in   early  times  our  chief  trade  was  c:. 
John  Evelyn  tells  us,  in  his  Diary ,  that 
was  in  Antwerp  (October  4,  1641)  he  v 
Ot^ters  houit  belonging  to  the  East  Inti 
pany.    Our  word  iterUny  h  by  many  < 
to  be  only  a  oonuptiou  of  Omtcr/iJi^,  anoti 
stance  of  our  close  communication  with  f* 
in  business  transactions.    The  society  of 
or  boatmen  (says   Brand)   existed  as  a  gudd  OfPi 
fraternity  in  the  town  of  Newcaiitle-on-Tj^ue  ftcml 
time  immemorial,  and  appears  finally  to  have  beeaj 
incoTporat<?d  by  royid  charter  about  the  year  159^^ 
by  Queen  EUmbetL    The  society  still  lives  under 
the  name  of  the  Ostman^s  Oompiuiy,  and  anaoally 
elects  its  governor   and  stewards  on  the  4th  «f 
Januoxy.     Its  funds,  which  I  believe  Rm  not  warn 
considerable,  are  devoted  to  charitable  ami  be*- 
pitable  uses.  Francis  BitoiiL£T. 

at,  Anac'Sp  HewcsBtlo-on-Tjne. 

In  the  lAfi  of  Lord  Eldon  by  Twias,  there  ii 
the  following  note  on  this  word  (vol  i«  pi,  ^4, 
1844):— 

"  We  learn  from  Brwid'e  HiHory  of  N'emeaHti'amfTfm 
(17S9.  voL  ii.  p.  269)  that  »  society  of  ostmea  or  hoftmw 
liAd  existod  as  a  ^ild  or  fratemity  in  that  town  fhwi 
time  immeinoriAli  proriotis  to  their  InoorpocutkMi  b; 
ch&rtcr  in  IQQO  hy  (^ueea  EUzAboth." 

He  adds  :■ — 

"  The  csuie  of  their  ri  t^eemstol''  i 

in  the  Bubseqaent  statu  \  ,  cap.  9  <  \ 

'' Murchiknts  alieiui :      -..._    .    o    it  i«  ordk  .  . 
fltablUhed  that  in  everie  Gitie«  towne  and  porto  oi 
ioa  in  Eaglandi  where  the  aoide  marchantd  aXUm . 
strangeri  l^  or  thall  be  repairing,  sufficient  hooties  s (laii 
be  aatiffned  to  the  samo  inarohADti  by  tho  maior»  iheriffM, 
or  bainffea.  of  the  mid  cities,  townet,  and  porlea  of  the 
aea ;  and  tuat  the  mid  marohaates  aliens  attd  stnttgrfi 


dB. 


&  n.  Al»>.  23,  7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


153 


.  ia  fiane  other  p1iL9«^  bui  nith  tbeir  B&id 
tQ  b«  usigucd,  and  that  the  hudo  lioitcs  so  to 


I 


^  i  for  their  tr»T»iIe  in  the  itianer  aa 

fMeuiCauied  in  olde  time." ^StatuU*  by  Barker,  1567, 
▼ol.  I  p.  228. 

Bnmd  farther  states  thut  it  appears  from  tbe 
eailieBt  entries  in  the  booki<  of  thiH  society  of 
iMMfltmen,  that  the  stranger  arriving  ui  the  port 
d  TfM  to  buy  ccala  ia  ^ed  ''  iha  oaste "" ;  Bud 
h»  ^ves  an  engravinjr  of  "  The  Seiile  of  the  Fre- 
tcmity  of  the  Ostmen  of  the  Towne  of  Newcastle- 
upon-Tine,"  representing  the  hoastman  receiving 
toe  stiozjger  and  addresaing  him  tbua,  *^  Weloome 
my  oste. 

He  quotes  also  that — 

*■  Camden,  in  hia  BriianAia,  toL  il  foL,  1319,  gfTea 
the  following  «tjriiioii  r — 

*'  *  The  word  hottmeo  may  not  improperly  bo  t&ken  to 
be  trmden  into  the  ewteni  part«  of  Europe,  and  may 
hftve  their  name  from  the  Iditin  word  ouatmanni,  i.  €., 
the  eAftmen,  h  trading  into  those  part««  aa  well  aa  the 
nnttnianni,  L  €.,  the  eaitmen,  who  came  from  the  lea- 
oo««t  of  G«nnanv  into  Ireland,  where,  under  colour  of 
tradn  and  merchandise,  being  admitted  into  iome  of 
their  citiet,  in  a  ahort  time  they  began  a  very  terrible 
war/" 

H.   B.    PURTON. 

Weobtey. 

Ill  the  Chanoery  proceedings  to  which  your  cor* 
wpOiideiit  alludes  I  doubt  not  but  it  meanfi  'a 
mr^ml  seller.    Thus  I  find  :-- 

"  Jfo«f(-«9«iiY  an  ancient  guild  or  fraternity  (trading 
tiwaeoal)  at  Newcaatle."— Colea'a  JSn^uA  fXdi&naryf 

"Otif  or  DoU  (C.*),  a  vesicl,  on  which  hopi  or  malt  u 
diyod.*'— Keraeya  £n^luh  Dictionary,  1715^ 

*•  ^oojc-ntfii,  an  ancient  company  ,of  deaJert  in  aea- 
eoal  at  Newcaatle-apon-Tyne/'^Keraey'a  Sn^lith  2>i>- 
liMary.  1715* 

"0«j<  (S.C.)  (iouth  country  word),  a  kiln,**— Bayey'a 
bitilsiamm,  17^1. 

"  Ott^  Oottt  a  veeael  upon  which  hopa  or  malt  ii  dried." 
^BMtey'B  DtOionary,  1751, 

'  ihntt^Mmf  an  ancient  company  of  traders  In  aea*eoal 
il  2Ic«liaitku"->6aUey'B  Dietionartf,  1751. 

C    GOLDIHO. 

Paddington, 

In  Kent  the  Od^  or  OaM^  is  the  kiln  in  which 
ihc  liopi  are  dried,  and  the  Oatmaii  is  the  peraon 
etoployed  in  drying  them.  If  the  word,  as  Bailey 
givisi  it|  mean  any  kind  of  kiln,  then  Otieman  may 
01  properly  he  understood  of  a  drier  of  miilt  aa  a 
drier  of  hnp*.  "  Maltster  "  I  take  it,  more  properly 
aueuia  the  deiiler  in  tualti  or  the  master  for  whom 
the  OtUmcDx  works. 

Edituxd  Tew,  M.A. 

Odeman  =  *'  kiln-dryer,"  undoubtedly.  The 
Unftdte  wnrd  is  tut,  at^  m  icst ;  nnd  there  is  the 
'*to  kiln -dry."  Hopscame  to  ns^  I 
It^Htve^  Won  ilie  ^'eiherlands. 

JoRN  ADDrs. 

I  comaiiy  ygrd« 


From  osty  oo^^i^  oavi,  a  kiln  or  a  vessel  upon 
which  hopa  or  malt  are  dried  (see  Johnson,  Bailey, 
and  Wedgnnood's  Dictimiarm).  The  word  is  allied 
to,  and  it  may  be  derived  from,  the  Dutch  lUk 
which  ia  explained  in  Hexham's  Neifurduyki 
DictionairUf  4to.,  1660,  to  be  *^  a  pkce  where 
bioley  is  dr\  ed  to  make  malt  with,*  and  by  Kilian, 
in    his    Di  !    T^lofiico  -  Latinum^    n&, 

"Ustrina,  C-!  rua  fornax,'* 

Mabsl  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg* 

Mutton's  "  L' Allegro  "  (6^  S.  i.  406  ;  ii.  94.) 
—Mr.  Bbnkett  haa,  I  see,  very  nearly,  but  not 
quite,  put  his  linger  on  the  spot.  He  gives  you 
^  tell"  and  **told/'  I  will  go  a  step  further  and 
give  you  **  tale,"  the  word,  and  in  the  sense  Milton 
meant  it  The  three  words  are  still  in  use  on  the 
sheep  farms  in  the  Teme  Valley,  and  the  distinct 
meaning  of  each  of  them  will  be  apparent  in  the 
following  passage,  which  is  an  extract  from  a  work 
I  am  preparing  for  the  press  (not  on  "fblkdore," 
but  a  three- volume  novel)*  The  dialogue  is  be- 
tween master  and  man,  and  the  scene  is  a  night 
rescue  of  sheep  firom  the  flood,  the  aheep  being 
huddled  together  on  a  knoll,  the  water  rushing 
round  them  ;— 

'''Stop  a  bit,'  laid  Frank,  'and  well  tell  themorer. 
It  mar  ho  some  are  lost/ 

**  *  A  han  told  'em  aur/  iaid  the  wagoner,— who  had 
alreadv  counted  them, — as  he  acctured  one  ewe  and 
6trugglod  stOQtty  with  another. 

"  '  And  what  do  you  make  the  t&Ie  of  em  then  ?  * 

'"^Sivenan  forty  sur/  said  William;  *nointeen  Iambi 
an  aight  an  twenty  ship.' 

'* '  That 'a  right  then,  for  the  rest  arc  by  the  house.  So 
now  let's  go  to  work/  " 

Any  Teme  Valley  man  will  at  once  recognise 
the  above,  and  such  phrases  as  these,  as  nttenmces 
in  daily  use  :— 

"  Tse  agwain  to  tell  tlie  ahip  aur." 

'*  Tlicy  bin  all  roight  aur ;  me  and  Jem  han  told  'em.** 

*^  They  bin  all  theer  aur.    Ise  gotten  the  talo  on  *eni." 

Besides,  it  is  by  no  means  probable  that  Milton 
would  negative  his  claim  as  a  close  observer  of  the 
realities  of  rural  life — which  the  very  context  of 
the  line  {iroves  him  to  have  been — by  adding  to 
the  solitajy  and  matter-of-fact  occupation  of  the 
fihepberd  the  ideal  and  companionable  one  of  love- 
ninking.  I  must,  therefore,  agree  with  Mr.  Bek- 
>ETT*s  proposition,  that  Milton's  meaning  of  **  tells 
his  tale  "  is,  in  reality,  "  counts  his  flock." 

Shelslet  BEAUcaaMr. 

Paris  Prisons  (S*"*  S.  L  468.)— La  Maine. 
This  was  the  house  of  the  Premier  President  of 
the  Palais  de  Justice,  and  in  now  the  Pr^ectute 
de  Police.     It  is  near  the  Ste*  Chapelle. 

Le  Plessis  was  formerly  a  college,  known  during 
the  Revolution  under  the  name  of  "Maiaon  d'Arwt 
de  TEgalite,"  and  was  in  the  lu^^^AsicKYXTftisjcA  ^V^i^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


fC'*  a  IL  Atjr,,  22,  71- 


Ste.  Pelagie,  formerly  s,  convent  of  nuns,  was 
suppressed  at  the  Revolution  of  1789,  and  aftcr- 
wania  cod  verted  into  a  prison  for  debtora.  It  ia 
in  the  Rue  du  Pints  rHermite  and  Rue  Copeau. 

Les  MjMlelonnettea.  These  buildings  formerly 
belonged  to  a  society  of  nuns  ctdled  Les  Filles  de 
la  Madeleine,  who  devoted  themselves  to  the  re- 
claiming of  abandoned  women.  Since  the  Revo- 
lution of  1789,  tbey  have  been  used,  first  as  a 
prison  for  females,  and  on  their  removal  to  St. 
Lazare,  as  a  temponur  prison  for  men  and  boys. 
This  vuiison  d^arrtt  is  situated  in  the  Rue  des 
Fontaines,  between  the  Rue  du  Temple  and  the 
Euc  St.  ^fartin. 

Les  Carmes,  Rue  de  Vaugirard,  7iX  The  church 
still  exists,  and  waa  used  as  a  prison  in  1792  ;  but 
the  convent  which  was  attactied  to  it  has  been 
destroyed. 

St.  Lazare.  This  wa«  the  ancient  convent  for 
the  LaKariBta,  or  hospital  for  leprosy,  in  the  four- 
teenth century.  In  1652  it  was  given  to  St. 
Vincent  de  Paul  for  his  congregation  of  the  Pretres 
de  la  Mission.  In  179(),  it  became  *'  propriete 
nationale/*  and  in  1793,  a  prison. 

The  buildings  now  existmg  were  constructed  by 
St.  Vincent  de  Paul  or  his  successors,  and  are  tlie 
same  as  the  present  Prison  de  St.  Lazare,  1(>7,  Rue 
dn  Faubourg,  St.  Denis.  {Pai-ii  Quidf^  by  Jules 
Simon,  chapters  "  Lea  Ptisona  *'  and  "  Les  fegliaes 
de  Paris  "  ;  Paris  Guidf^  by  Galignani).  Much 
information  on  the  prisons  of  Paris  will  be 
obtained  by  consulting  Maxiine  du  Camp*a  Work^ 
Paris,  vol.  iii.,  and  Les  Fruoris  de  Parts  30U9  la 
Biwdution,  par  C.  A.  Dauban.     M.  Van  Ets. 

Medal  of  Willtam  L  (5**»  S.  iL  67.)— It  fomis 
No.  1  of  Daasier'a  Medah  of  the  Kin^s  and  Qiiecnf 
of  England^  so  common  and  well  known. 

J.  W.  Fleming. 

BrightoD. 

Insulae  Accentuations  (b^  S.  ii,  66,)— In 
conversation  with  an  American  the  other  day,  he 
said,  speaking  of  modern  "arras  of  precision/- 
**  any  soldier  now-a-daya  failing  to  advocate  some 
sort  of  protection  for  infantry,  in  the  shape  of 
a  narrow  iron  shieid  which  tx>uld  easily  be  carried 
in  place  of  a  knapsiick,  deserved  a  L  Qua  tic  Asylum." 

M,  W.  W. 

Brooks. 

A  Vallohbrosian  Nl'n  (b^  S.  ii,  95.)— The 
order  of  VaJlis  Umbrosa  waa  founded  by  St.  John 
Gualbert.  Of  this  order,  there  were  houses  both 
of  men  and  of  women  :^**  Suntque  illius  instituti 
plurima  monaster  ia  turn  viromm  tum  virgin um 
in  Italia."— Beyerlinck,  Mag.  Tluaintni  Viim 
Humanm^  vol  vi.,  p,  lOWL 

An  account  of  the  founder  may  be  seen  in 
Butler*8  Livu  of  the  ^xnti,  under  his  feast  day, 
tfaljr  JSL    Also  J I  beL'eve,  in  Surius,  Dc  Probaiu 


Sanctorum  HuioHu ;  the  Acta  Sanctorum  of  the  I 
Bollandists  ;  and  the  Ada  Snnctornm  ffrdinit] 
Samti  Benedicli.  In  this  bookless  region,  I  regret  J 
to  say  that  I  have  no  means  of  consulting  tiie| 
hist  three.  Edwabo  Peacock. 

Botteeford  Manor,  Brigg. 

*' Lis  abee's  Love  Story"  (5**  S.  i.  5£0),publl8he 
in  1865,  by  Messrs.  Hurst  &  Blackett,  was  writtei*  j 
by  Miss  Matilda  Betham-EdwardR,  though  issued  ( 
anonymotusly,  as  was  tdso  Jofm  and  /,  by  the  Faiue^j 
author,  in  1862.  Gaston  de  BEFiVFVAU 

Fbiladelpbia. 

**  AuLD  Wife-rake  ''  {5^  S.  i.  468)  is,  1  bclieve- 
an  annual  party  held  in  the  lake  district  nt  which 
married  women  of  distant  dales  meet  in  the  Ion 
days  of  summer,  and  where,  I  have  read  in  lo 
papers,  they  have  very  plcasitnt  gatherings,  now,  1 
perhaps,  not  confined  to  matrons.     Mr.  Ferguson 
has  "  /wLte,  a  convivial  meeting,  i>erha[ks  frt>m  Wcl. 
haig,  a  crowd."     In  this  sense,  the  word  is  un- 
known in  other  portions  of  the  county,  so  far  aa  I  j 
know.     It  is  probably  an  old  name  revived,  tut  ] 
I  do  not  remember  it  in  early  days.  M. 

Ciunbcrland. 

Whisky  (4^  S.  xi.  156.)— On  the  8th  ot  June,  j 
1723,  was  formed  at  Edinburgh  the  Society  ofl 
Improvers  in  Agriculture,  the  tirst  association  of  1 
the  kind  in  the  United  Kingdom.     The  Duke  of  j 
Hamilton  moved  imd  cju-ried  a  resolution  against  J 
drinking  foreign  stutf,  **  that  thereby  the  distillin|;C 
of  our  gniin  might  be  encouraged,  and  the  grcAt  | 
sums  annually  sent  to  France  for  brandy,  generally 
smuggled,  might  be  kept  at  home."     It  thus  and  j 
then  became  a  point  of  honour  to  drink  only  home- j 
made  whisky,  which,  becoming  popular  by  degrees,  i 
acquired  the  character  it  hiis  long  home  of  Deiii;g' 
pre-eminently  "  Scotch  drink  "  {GentleniafC^  Maga- 
siTW,  August,  1870,  art.,  "  The  First  Agricultniiil 
Society").  J.  Mancbl. 

"  Bonnie  Dundee''  (^^  S.  ii,  5.)— That  CUTe^  J 
house  did  not  die  on  the  field  of  Killiecrankie  in  I 
proved  by  the  fact  that  a  despatch  by  him,  iaj 
which  he  alludes  to  his  wound,  and  exi^re.sses  hopesJ 
of  his  recovery,  was  'WTitten  the  dajr  after  thcl 
battle.  This  document,  says  a  writer  in  thei 
Antiquanj,  YoL  iv.  (1873),  p,  289,18  now  in  ibel 
Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford,  together  with  tbcl 
other  letters  and  papers  of  Naime,  King  James  IL^a  1 
private  secretary.  It  was  published  in  Macpher-I 
son*s  Chriginal  Paper$t  1775.  Scott,  in  his  raic»J 
of  a  GrandfaUutf  says  :— 

"Obserring  the  stand  made  by  the  two  £r>g1U!ll 
regimeatd,  ht  gallop«d  towardg  tho  Claa  of  M««Don«]il«] 
and  vflj  in  the  act  of  bringing  them  to  the  chaixe^  wltlrl 
his  right  »nn  elerated,  as  if  pointii^g  to  the  'w»y  <if 
victory,  when  he  was  struck  by  a  bullet  bencnth  thd 
nrmpitf  where  he  wu  unprotected  by  hii  cuirnflg.  H«| 
tried  to  ride  on,  bat  being  tmable  to  keep  hh  Bttddle,! 


fell^  moTUdly  woa&ded,  and  died  m  the  eourt€  of  the 

After  receiving  his  wound  he  waa  curried  to  the 
house  of  Blair-Athole,  about  two  and  a  lialf  miJes 
ftom  the  field  of  battle,  where  he  died  the  day 
alter.  He  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Blair  ;  but 
it  is  annonnoed  in  the  Antiquary,  p.  56  of  the 
fiiune  yolunie, — 

Some  few  vears  ago  a  too  xealous  admirer^  in  some 
thcr- 


or  other — not  yet  explained— romorcd  the  ro- 
maliw  to  the  Scotch  Episcopal  Chapel  at  Old  Deer  in 
Aberdeenshire,  where  the  hero  now  Ue§,  and  a  stained 
^tflM  window  in  the  chapel  conunemorat^  the  fact." 

Brack's  FiciuT€9qu^  Tmirui  of  Scotland  (1873) 
sajTBi — 

*•  Not  far  from  Urrard  Honte  there  may  he  obBorred 
an  erect  stone  in  a  field  on  the  right  hand,  which  has 
often  been  pointed  out  as  a  rude  monument  to  Dundee. 
More  accurate  obaerration,  ho  were  r^  ha«  assigned  a  spot 
in  the  grounds  of  Urrard,  higher  up,  as  the  one  where 
the  hero  fell," 

F.  A.  Edwards. 

•'  Kkave"  (5«»  S.  ii.  31.)— Fuller,  in  hia  Churck 
HiUory  (1655),  book  iv,  p.  142,  says  : — 

*  About  this  time,  he  (Wycliffe)  ended  his  triinilation 
of  the  Bible  into  English  (afuir  copy  whereof  in  Qu€fn'i 
Colledg  in  Oxford^  and  two  more  in  the  Unirertity 
Ltbrary)  done  no  doubt  in  the  most  expressive  language 
of  Ihoie  dayeSf  though  sounding  uncouth  to  our  ears, 
Tki  Kman  QfJetut  C\riH,for  Servant 

The  existence  of  a  genuine  printed  Bible  with 
the  word  "  knave "  instead  of  servant  has  long 
>>een  disproved.  Wycliffe  does  use  the  word 
*  Knave -child  "  for  man  child,  or  male  childi  four 
times  in  hia  veruion  —  Ex.  i.  16,  Lev.  xii.  7, 
Bed  OS,  rxxvi.  23,  Apoc.  xii.  5  ;  and  "  knave- 
children  "  once — Ex,  L  18»  but  never  "knave"  for 
'  senrimt  (see  Madden  and  Forahall's  edition  of 
Wyclifle*8  Bible).  E.  K. 

Boston. 

"Favoitr'*  (6^  S.  ii,  64)  ifl  used  in  the  aarae 
tense^  ha  given  by  A[r.  Blenkinsopp  and  F.  D., 
11]     in  the  north  of  Scotland  generally, — a«j  for  in- 
stance, speaking  of  a  good-looking  man,   north- 
[  country  people  say  he  is  "  weel  fauitl."      E.  M. 

"Dkinologt"  (5^^  S.  ii.  68.)— A  book  with 
I  this  title  was  published  in  1789  : — 

•*  Deinologj ;  or  the  Union  of  Reason  and  Elegance ; 

l^fini?   TTjfltn lotions  to  a  Young  Barrister;  with  a  Poat- 

ag  some  Considerations  on  the  Viva  Voce 

^  f  Witnesses  at  the    English   Bar.      By 

lloruiiaiat.     [Hto.  London,  Rohiceons,  4*,}/' 

Under  **Hortentiua  [sic]^  Bup]>08ed  fictitious,'^ 
'  Dr.  Watt  mentions  an  edition,  with  the  same  title 
HM  above,  published  in  1801. 

Sparks  Henderson  Williams. 

Oliver  Cbomwell  (5"»  S.  ii.  68.)— The  maker 
©f   alcoanacs   alluded  to  apjiears  to  be  William 

iDy,  a  I»eicestershire  man  (bom  1602,  died  1680), 
wIMi  tuocofdmg  to  Stephen  Jones'a  Bio^raplikM 


^      C 
■of 

Hud 
1^ 


Dictionary  (London,  1805),  was  consulted  l.)oth 
by  the  King  and  General  Fairfax,  and  made  hLi 
fortune  by  favourable  predictions  to  both  [>artie.'j. 

William  Winu. 
Steeple  Aston,  Oxford. 

"  81NOPLE  **  (5^  S.  ii.  88)  ought  to  menu  red. 
See  Andrewa^s  Lai.-Eng,  Lexicon^  Hofmanni 
Lexicon  Universale^  and  Chambers's  Cyclopaidiaf 
ed.  1738.  In  heraldry,  however,  it  has  come  to 
mean  verL  Both  meanings  are  illustrated  in 
Dufresne,  Glouarium  Medus  et  InftnuB  Latinitatis^ 
ed.  l846,»nA  voce  "Sinopis."  Edward  Peacock. 

Heraldic  (S"*  S.  ii.  88.)— Jennour  of  Essex. 
See  Papwortha  Ordina/ry  of  British  Armorials^ 
p.  640.  J*  R. 

St.  Neot's. 

HusE  (5^  S.  ii.  80.)— 

'<  And  a«  h€  paaNs  torn. " 
He  must  be  a  misprint  for  sJu.     In  the  edition 
published  by  Messrs.  Nelson  k  Sons,  Mr.  Mathew 
wUl  find  it — 

"  And  as  $hi  passes  torn.'' 

W.  J.  Macadam. 

*' Guesses  at  Truth"  (5^  S.  iL  89.)— U.  is,  I 
believe,  Augustus  Hare.  I  have  not  now  by  me 
the  "Golden  Treaaury'*  edition,  which  is  my 
authority  for  this,  and  my  recollection  of  it  is  a 
little  fainfc  ]  but  I  rather  think  there  U  a  note  in  it 
giving  the  authors*  names. 

C.  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A 

The  Society  of  Arts'  Memorial  Tablets 
(b^^  S.  ii.  106.) — Certainly  Dickens's  house  ought 
to  be  marked  ;  but  why  la  Howth^s  house,  or  the 
site,  not  marked  i  Why  ia  not  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  ; 
Turner's,  at  47,  Queen  Anne  Street,  and  26,  Maiden 
Lane;  Count  EtimfordX  At  what  used  to  be 
45,  Brompton  Row,  the  balconied  house  ;  the 
house  where  Curran  died,  7,  Ameliti  Place? 
Unless  a  special  fund  m  mised  for  the  express 
purpose  of  setting  up  these  memorial  tablets,  the 
work  will  never  be  thorougMy  done. 

0.  A.  Ward. 

M&yfair. 

[There  is  a  tablet  bearinf?  Franklin's  name  on  the 
house  in  Crayen  Street,  Strand^l 

GiPST  Marriage  (6***  S.  iL  109.)  —  Eauni 
MirtUa'fi  vocabulary  required  "  friends  will  kindly 
accept  this  intimation'^  to  be  paraphrased  into 
*'  who  tells  these  words  to  aU  Gipsy  brethren," 
She  wished  them  to  laugh  with  her,  and  not  to 
laugh  at  them.  FkiUissin  is  a  tmnslation  of 
Herreffoard,  and  signifies  a  hall  or  mansion. 

T.  Crofton. 

WrATT  Familt  (5*  S.  iL  108.)— There  hiia 
been  a  family  of  this  name  located  for  many  years 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*^  a  II.  At70.  22,  74. 


at  To^enliam,  near  Moreton-in-Marsh,  Gloucester- 
shire.  As  one  (iiinily  Mr.  Bodhinoton  mentions 
is  described  of  somewhere  in  the  adjoimnt»  county 
(OxfordBhire),  it  may  chance  that  there  is  a  close 
relationship  between  the  two,  and  he  might,  there- 
fore, be  able  to  find  information  to  farther  enlighten 
him  from  the  parish  register  of  the  quiet  parish 
mentioned  above.  I  know  the  name  is  of  long- 
standing' thereabouts,  both  from  my  own  observa^ 
tton  and  from  what  my  friends  have  t-old  me. 

Dan.  Harrisox. 

**  Academic  Errors/*  &c.  (d^  S.  ii,  109.)— I 
have  seen  this  ascribed  to  Dr.  Valpy,  but  believe 
it  to  be  the  work  of  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Edward 
Valpy,  B.D.,  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  who 
Assisted  the  Doctor  in  nis  educatiomid  labours. 

A.  G. 

Hattian  Pokt  (b^  S.  ii.  109.)— Thia  stanza 
might  be  much  more  truly  called  "  beautiful "  if  it 
were  doctrinally  correct.  ** Simple"  it  certainly 
is,  and  in  more  senses  than  one  of  the  word  ;  for 
everybody  having  the  slightest  pretent^ion  to  any 
theological  knowledge  knows,  or  ought  to  know, 
that  the  souls  of  the  dead  do  not  beconio  angels. 
Equal  unto  the  angels  they  are,  no  doubt ;  but 
that  is  a  thin^  as  different  as  possible.  The  pre- 
valence of  this  error  is  rather  renmrkable,  Mr. 
Sabine  Baring-Gould  alludes  t«  it  in  the  Curioui. 
MytJu  (iu  292),  where  he  would  give  it  a  heathen 
origin.  C.  F.  S.  Warrkj*,  MJL 

"The  sword  wearing  out  the  scabbard" 
^6*>»  S.  ii.  109.)— In  the  ApopMh^gmi  of  EraamuB 
(1542),  Book  L  No.  191,  the  following  is  given  as 
a  saying  of  Diogenes: — 

"  Hauyng  » jromig  ikitiile^iig  of  a  vcraye  wet  fuioured 
nnd  honest  face,  v»jng  vnhoQ^st  communicacion,  Art 
ihou  not  aihwaed.  quoth  he,  to  drawe  a  Swoordc  of  lead 
out  of  an  ieuorie  iheathe?" 

In  the  some  Book  the  body  is  frequently  idluded 
to  as  **  a  sheathe  "  and  **a  peignted  sheathe," 

R  E. 
Bocton. 

Ittak  Wslton,  in  his  inimitable  ZAfe  of  George 
H$rheH^  records  that  *'  ho  would  often  say  [of  him- 
self] *  He  had  too  thoughtful  a  Wit :  like  a  pen- 
knife in  too  narrow  a  sheath,  too  sharp  for  his 
body.'''  A, 

This  query  immediately  suggests  to  my  mind 
the  well-known  lines  in  Dryaen's  AbsaJom  ami 
AchitophtJj  in  the  portrait  of  Lord  Shuflesbuiy : — 
*'  A  iicry  soul^  which  working  out  ite  wa^. 
Fretted  the  pigmy  body  to  decay. 
And  o*er-infornied  the  tenemeiit  of  clay," 

J.  W,  W. 

SpTiNG  Literature  (6«>  S.  ii.  107,)— 'There  is 
a  thin  4to.  pamphlet^  16  pp.,  not  included  in  Mr. 
FoBTSJi'BhBi:—*^CnrmuGia€ialif;   m,  ikoHng: 


A^m 


a  Poctiml  Sxmtf,  inscribed  to  the  clnb,  '*  O^ror 
Euro."  "  Har.:  Printed  in  the  Month  of  JimaBijy 
MDccLxxrr.*'  £^& 

I  don't  see  anything  jjoetical  in  Mr,  Foanx^ 
list.  There  is  a  short  poem,  entitled  Sha$inf^ 
among  the  translations  in  the  MiseeUantacf  J,  0^ 
IS  18,  a  privately  printed  book,  by  Jiitne«  Glasi-^ 
ford  ;  it  ifi  thei^e  trunHlated  and  given  with  I 
original  Oursus  Glaciixlis  of  Phil,  Frowde«  reprints 
from  Anglic*  Afttsar.  AnaltcUi.  A.  6, 


1 


Col,  TALENTiyi:  Waittox  (5***  S.  ii.  1 " 
papentaj?e  of  Ck)L  Wanton  is  niiknown. 
Cromwell,  CJ,B.,  appointed  liiin  heir  to  ; 
of  Sir  George  Wanton,  but  probably  th^r.   \v.  ^  . 
blood  relationship  between  them. 

Joseph  Kix,  MJ), 

8t.  Neot's, 

**  Les  Provinclales  **  (b^  S,  i  328,  37F,)— Is 
Mr.   Williams    aware  of   the  fiict   that    '  Pr. 
Ludov.  de  Montalto"  was  Blaise  Paiscal  hiu 
the  author,  and  not  the  translatorp  of  ^ ' 
Apparentl j^  not,  for  be  quotes  Watt  as  n  t 
for  assigning  the  first  English  transL 
person  of  the  former  nam©  ;  whereas 
does  is  to  assi^  the  authorship  to  Dr.  l.v^^^, 
being  himself  ignorant  of  the  real  authonhip  ifbt^ 
he  penned  the  entry  imder  that  word,  tboogb 
he  seems  to  have  asoertalned  it  when  he  reached 
the  word  "Pascal,''    The  fact  is,  that  Watt  sn«l 
Allibone    are    very    unsafe    guides,   though   th^ 
stupendous    work    they    have    accomplished  (or 
Englidi   bibliography    makes    it  appear   alauit 
UDgmcious  to  refer  to  the  vast  noniber  of  most 
with  which  they  abound, 

Gaston  de  Berneval 

Philadelphia. 

Lord  Chatham  and  Baiuet^  "T>H-noKARf1 
(5«»  S.  i.448,B14.)— If  itwill  a^ist  ^ 
in  arriving  at  a  more  proximate  dn^ 
of  Bailey's  UmverMot  Etymologic 
tionary^  I  beg  to  state  for  his  inlV 
have  a  copy  of  the  j^econd  edition*  in  i  vo 
published  m  1724,  which  is  an  earlier  edit'' 
either  of  those  referred  to  by  yonr 
or  the  one  in  his  otsti  poss^aioi^  ; 
dedicated  to  the  children  of  Geom  j  _ 
and  WQhelmina  Charlotte.    I  have  wo  &  4 
the   fifik   edition  of  the  second  vol., 
lished  in  1760.  B. 

Bradford. 

"  EVKBT  MAN  IS  THE  ARCHrTECT,"  &a  (4* 

514;  5"^S.  i,  471.)<" 

**  I  hare  long  been  in  search  of  a  passage  in  Gn«k 
frrlteti  parallel  to  thii  proreih,  Chn  a^iy  one  saili* 
me  I '' 

The  following  extracts  arcs,  I  think,  n^ 
the  remarks  by  which  this  qmry  is  accoi 


31 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


157 


and  the  proverb  vrhkh.  the  extracts  are  adduced  to 
illti&tmte  is  at  least  aaaiogoua  to  the  one  refeored 
ta>- 

•**Ai»do*«roc  *Av6pi5irov  ^atfiovwVs      PJinii   loouB 
hue  ptrtlii^t,  lib.  ii.  c.  7,    Natur.   BiMUmxe;  Hie  eit 


I  referendl  bcDCiniGrentibus  gmtiivm  moB,  ut 
t&les  numinibuB  adscribant.  Quippc  et  omnium  alionim 
oonuiMi  t3L  bominnm  riftta  font  montiB.  Et  Jurernfttis 
\r.  132]  Quidm^ntA  tibi  ffi  quia  Deus^  &tii  similii  liitB, 
£t  melior  fatiB  donaret  homuucio*    Pmvtrhio,  ZeaobiL'* 

I      Cfr.  Juv.  X,  365:— 

I     ''KttUnni  nuoien  abest,  si  ait  Prudentia :  nos  te, 
^        Nob  fwimiiB,  Fortune,  Deam  ctcloque  locamoi." 
And  the  notes  in  loc,  by  Gifford.    ^otfjipotrvvii, 
mens  stvmi  in  cori)oro  sano,  is  the  real  source  of 

CV6«<^OVIO.  BiBLIOTHfiCAR.    ChETHAM* 

Ekolish  SuBKAMsa  (5^  S.  i  262,  330,  352, 

391»  47<  »0— Mr,  Sala,  speaking  of  the  "  Macs," 

obeerres — "  Thus  also  from  *  Thomas  '  there  him 

L|jrobably  dropped   off  that   *  Ap,-  which  is  still 

IHIftiiied  by  a  celebnvted  living  harpist."    Kather 

ited  than  reUiined,  for  the  harpist  in  ipie^tion 

&e  only  one  of  the  faanily,  I  believe,  who  use  a 

I  the  Ap,     The  "Ap''  in  Wales  onJy  remuins  in  tbt 

I  c^mjptiona  of  Ap  Kichard  =  Pritchard  ;  Ap  Hupjh 

I  =  Pngb,  &c.,  and  the  harpbt  in  (question  seeniw  to 

I  tmve  wished  to  foreignize  hia  pMn  name  of  Thomas 

into  **  Aptommaa/' and  to  be  known  as  "Aptoma/' 

as  un-Welsh  a  word  as  possible.  A.  E. 

Groe»wylan,  OsfWettry. 

Allow  mo  to  challenge  Dil  Charkqck's  (p,  331} 
incidental  identification  of  the  surname  Ruhcr 
with  Hubert  J  for  which  there  is  no  warrant.  The 
forroer,  equivalent  to  our  Engl isli  word  "cotter/' 
"  Lihe  iniiuedinte  derivative  of  "  hub  "  =  niansui?, 
I  croft  or  piece  of  land  cultivated  for  his  own 
by  a  serf-  The  German  historian  Vonarx 
'  gtat^es  that  a  *^  hub "  generally  contained  from 
i^^rfy  to  forty  acjiea ;  if  it  exceeded  fifty,  it 
dved  the  name  of  **hof"  =  villa,  ^  The 
He  Hubert  or  Hubert  us,  of  immediate  French 
pamitAge.  though  nri;:nni«lly  belon^finff  to  the 
ftnmerous  class  of  Tcutoinc  names  in  "bert,"  has 
no  connexion  with  the  appellative  "  huber.'' 

C.  A*  Federer. 
Iford. 

That  bieats  Akkbo  **  (5*  S.  L  148,  255,  317, 
476.}— "  Akebo  "  is  probably  a  pia<:«,  sayings  of 
tbe  same  sort,  about  towns,  kv.,  not  being  rare.  It 
if,  perhapft,  Agliabo  {Archadh-bo'Caiftniyh)^  in 
9w?m*«  (>imty.  The  name  means  simply  "  cow- 
he  addition  of  "  Saint  Cainnech,"  to 
lie  plncc  fmm  others  of  the  same 
nai]  '"  ■\   " '  ^ot  of  Archadh-bi5,  is 

tic^  to  have  died  here  in 

5^8.      1  ii».  nnd-u  jrs  ri  x  i v ing,  howevcr,  h  "That 
bates  Bannghcr;  and  B?»uarrher  bate  the  DireL'' 

n  R 


k 


Tkk  AcActA  (4'^  S,  xii  pmim ;  6^  S.  i.  67, 
1S»7,  316,  457.)— A  note  in  The  Ckridian  Year  on 
the  noero  for  the  Fifth  Sunday  after  Eaeter,  on 
whici  day  the  lesson  is  read  descriptire  of  Mose^ 
seeing  the  bush  buminii;  with  fire  but  not  oon- 
fnimedf  mentions  that  "  tne  towering  thorn  Seneh 
is  said  to  be  a  sort  of  Acacia. ''  Mr,  GK>ve,  in 
The  Dictionary  of  the  Bible,  in  an  article  on 
"  Seneh,"  says  :— 

"The  mime  in  Hebrew  means  a  'thorn/ or  thora-boili, 
and  IB  applied  elBewbcre  only  to  the  momOTuble  Ihom  oif 
Horob;  but  whether  it  refen,  in  tliis  instnneo,  to  the 
shape  of  the  rc>ck,  or  to  the  growth  of  Stndi  upon  it,  we 
cannot  uscertaiu." 

John  Picepord,  M.A. 

rf  owboumc  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Privy  Councel  Judgment  :  Liddell  tv  Wes- 
TERTOK  (5*^  S.  ii.  128.)  — The  words  italicized 
in  the /orm^r  quotation,  denying  the  existence  of 
the  Prayer  of  Consecration  in  the  aecsond  Prayer- 
Book  of  Edward  VI.,  are  entirely  at  variance  with 
the  Him  pie  fact,  as  any  one  may  see  who  wUl  refer 
to  that  book.  The  Episcopal  Assessors  who  allowed 
this  misstatement  to  pass  were  the  late  Archbishop 
Siinmer  and  the  present  Archbishop  Tait.  The 
words  ita.licized  in  the  sccomi  quotation  are  oa 
astounding  fabrication,  no  such  words  having 
occurred  in  the  Judgment  of  the  Court.  For  tlus 
again  Archbishop  Tait  is  responsible,  as  it  ocums 
in  a  book  edited  under  his  rlirection  when  BiBhop 
of  London.  The  former  is  the  true  report  of  the 
**  Judgment  '*  delivered.  See  a  pamphlet  entitled 
Lord  SdhoTfU^s  Letter  to  tha  "  TimesJ'  B.  M. 
Pickering,  1874.  F.  S.  A. 

I  believe  it  is  well  known  that  Baytord's  is  a 
true  report  of  the  words  actually  used  by  the 
Judges,  though  (as  need  hardly  be  said)  they  are 
at  utter  variance  with  fact,  which  is  as  stated  in 
the  other  report.  And  if  this  be  so,  there  would 
bo  no  authority  for  altering  the  words  in  that  one. 
Charles  S\  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

purhcates  in  the  british  musetjm  (4^  s. 
X,  332,  399,  479 ;  6**^  S.  I  494.)~A  short  time 
since  I  purcba«ed,  at  a  moderate  price,  Ballard 'a 
Lcanuid  Ladiet,  0x1,  1762,  4to.  On  the  back  of 
tlie  title-page  occurs  the  old  Museum  preas-niajk, 
**  MVSBVM  BRlTANNicvM.— Duplicate  1804." 

W.   WlKTBRB* 
Waltliam  Abbey. 

WooLSTON  Well,  Wkrt  Fklton  (5*^  S.  i.  449, 
515;  ii.  17.)— I  Buggefit  this  well  may  have  been 
dedicate*!  to  St.  Wulfetan,  or  Woolstan,  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  Bisliop  of  Worcester  at  the  time  of  the 
Conquest,  and  who,  I  believe|  was  born  in  one  of 
the  Midland  Counties.  A.  K.  K. 

Wordsworth  axd  Hogg  (b^^S.  i.  143;  ii.9.)— - 
Hartley  C^:)leridgc  used  U>  t<i\BX^  vv  ^'ejsA  iSycin  ,*^^ 


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[5^an.ADa.22,T4. 


at  Bvdnl  Mounts  and  Wordsworth  showed  him  ull 
tbfi  liona  of  the  vicinity.  On  one  of  their  long 
walkB  Hogg  got  rather  tired,  on  which  Wordsworth 
said,  "  I  ff  just  show  you  another  lake,  and  then 
well  go  homewards/'  To  thifi  the  Shepherd  replied, 
^^  I  dinna  want  to  see  onny  mair  dubL  Let  'a  Atep 
in  to  the  public  and  hev  a  wee  drap  o*  whusky,  and 
then  we  ^11  hame ! "  Wordswort  h  used  to  tell  the 
story,  and  say  that  at  first  he  was  often ded  at 
hearing  his  Ukes  called  duhi  i  hut,  on  reflection,  he 
could  not  take  nmbrage— the  dubs  wa»  »o  chanxc- 
teryjtic  of  the  man.  The  Shepherd  contrasted  the 
small  English  lakea  with  the  large  Scottish  ones^ 
and  duhs  was  the  natunvl  consequence  of  the 
comparison  I 

Another  anecdote  has  been  recorded  which  meritg 
a  place  in  **  N.  &  Q."  It  was  duringHogg's  stay  at 
Ryda]  that  he  met  with  Byron.  Byron  was  an 
inmate  at  the  Salutation  Hotel,  and  one  day  he 
encountered  Hogg  propping  the  doorway  of  the 
Gmsmere  Inn,  of  which  the  late  Jonathan  Boll 
(named  in  Hone)  was  then  the  landlord.  It  is 
said  that  Byron,  accosting  Hogg,  said,  "  Your 
name  'a  Hogg,  I  believe  ;  my  name  is  Byron.  We 
ought  to  be  acquainted !"  The  story  goes  that  the 
two  poets  reached  their  respective  lodgings  in  a 
very  queer  state.  Bid  Byron,  when  he  visited  the 
l&keii  of  Westmoreland  and  Cumberland » ever  make 
the  acquaintance  of  Wordsworth  ;  and,  if  he  did 
90,  was  the  visit  aubaequent  or  prior  to  the  publica- 
tion of  The  ExcuTtion  f  N, 

Farob  Isles  (5"^  S.  L  329,  394,  438.)— For  a 
recent  account  of  these  islands,  see  T/ie  Proceedin^g 
of  the  Eojfal  Geo^a^ical  Soeieiyj  vol.  xviL  p.  312. 
EvERARD  Home  Coleman, 

Brsckaock  lUwd,  N. 

Haxgijco  and  Resuscitation  (5^  S.  L  444  ; 
iL  12.)^l3  Mr.  H,  a,  Kennedy  acquainted  with 
Southe/B  baikd  of  Ropreehi  th&  RMcr  f  It  is 
a  story  of  resuscitation  ^ter  hanging  and  gibbeting, 
and  ia  sai^  to  be  **  founded  on  fact.**  AvihroM 
Gwinndt  is  an  English  narrative  of  the  same  kEjxd. 
Roprecht  had  a  second  suspension,  and  he  richly 
deserved  it.  Poor  Gwinnett  was  an  innocent  man, 
and  lived  long  enough  after  his  hanging  and 
gibbeting  to  discover  the  real  culprit  and  return 
to  hb  roadside  inn  a  pardoned  man.  The  storj' 
has  been  dramatized  under  the  title  of  Ainbrom 
Omnmtt ;  or,  the  Munkr  at  tht  Roadside  Inn. 
I  forget  the  date  of  Gwinnett^s  trial  and  execution. 
James  Henry  Dixon. 

Btron  :  Wtcrerlet,  &c.  {b^  8.  i  164,  256  ; 
ii*  31.) — Twice  lately  by  your  correspondents  has 
the  fine  quotation  from  Wycherley—  I  weigh  the 
man,  not  his  title :  Ws  not  the  king^a  stamp  can 
make  the  metal  better  or  heavier  "—-been  referred 
to  The  Country  Wift  as  ita  source.  Some  time 
a^  (P^  8.  xii.  25)  I  gave  the  true  reference  in 


full.     Let  me  repeat  that  it  is  part  of  a  apeech  hj 
"  Manly  "  in  Tfc»  Plain  Dcal^,  Act  i.  sa  I.     ■~*   " 
name  alone  of  this  play  ought  to  he  a  sofficie 
reminder  of  the  place  of  the  quotatioxL     There  j 
nothing  at  all  idtin  to  it  in  Th€  Ctmntry  Wift, 

W.  A,  C.  does  not  quote  correctly.    What  ] 
singer  says  is  as  follows : — 

*'  But  in  our  Saaaz&rro  4ii  not  to, 
He  beiDg  putt  and  tried  gold  ;  and  anj  ttAmp 
Of  gr*ce,  to  miLkc  him  c^rrtni  to  the  world. 
The  Duke  i«  pleased  to  gire  hiia,  will  add  bonotir 
To  the  great  bestower;  for  he,  though  allowed 
Companion  to  hi<  maater,  *titi  pruervtt 
Hia  majesty  in  full  /lufre.** 

W,  A,  C.  in  closing  his  quotation  with  the  word 
"honour,"  in  the  fourth  line,  entirely  alters  the  senm 
of  the  passage.  I  confess  that  I  am  also  in  fauk  in 
having  misqiioted  " bestower "  as  ^'poeseffior," aa 
thin  perhaps  may  have  misled  W.  A,  U*^  aad  catLsed 
some  confusion.  What  Massinger  reallj^  says  is  in 
effect  just  what  Bums  says  t — 

"  The  rank  la  but  the  guinea's  stamp. 
The  man  'e  the  gowd  for  a"  tliat" 

T.  ALacoRATE. 


MiMttU&ntaiui* 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ico. 

The  Letters  and  the  Life  of  Fraficu  Bocofi. 
eluding    all    his    Occasional    Works,    namely, 
Letters,  Speeches;,  Tracts,   State  Papers,  Me- 
morials, Devices,  and   all  Authentic  Wrttinci 
not  already  Printed  among  his  Philosophical, 
Literary,  or  Professional  Works.     Newly  Col- 
lected  and  set  forth   in  Chronological  Order, 
nith    a   Commentary,   Biographical    and    His- 
torical, hy  James  Spedding.    VoL  VIL    (Long* 
mans  &  Co.) 
HsRE  is  a  noble  work  nobly  ended.     Mr.  Sped- 
dinj^  may  any  with  pride,  as  the  old  poet  ta^d, 
"Exegi  monnnientnm.'*     If  Mr,  Spedding  went 
forth,  after  writing  the  last  word  in  this  volume, 
as  Gibbon  did  after  the  accompliahment  of  \m 
great  undertaking,  under  a  mingled  eensatiou  of 
joy  and  of  regret, — ,joy  that  the  task  was  done, 
regret  that  such  accomplishment  had  terminated 
one  of  the  proudest  purposes  of  his  laborious  life,^ 
the  editor  of  Bacon  was  fully  justified  in  so  doing. 
The  amount  of  new  matter  of  Bacon's  own  com- 
position in  this  volume  amounts  to  about  forty-one 
pages.     To  this  it  may  be  added,  that  "  Elsing's 
notes  of  the  debates  in  the  House  of  Lords  ha?e 
enabled  me,"  says  Mr.  Spedding,  "to  throw  some 
fresh  light  upon  the  personal  history  of  Bac-'n"- 
imijeachment  ;  and  the  exi>osition  of  their    pii 
ceeding  as  a  Court  of  Justice  in   i        i      — 
which  has  not  been  attempted  befoi 
to  have  an  important  bearing  upon  tfie  aispuutoi** 
points    in    his    case,    some    of   which  are  rtrj 


I^MLAse.El.Tl.T 


KOTES  AND  QCERIKS. 


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malemL"    Mr.  Dixon,  in  liia  PerKmal  HUtortj  of 
Lmd  Bacon,  had  onJy  the  Lords'  JoumftlR  to  go 
by,  but  thcae  "tell  us  nothing  of  what  passed  in 
committee,  except  the  remilt  qa  embodied  in  the 
Bubaeqnent  action  of  the  Honse."    The  notes  are 
▼ciy  brief.     In  the  instractions  for  the  grave  cir- 
comstADCe  coming  on  (when  Bacon  was  expected 
to  b«  preaentX  we  find  the  Sergeant  directed  "  to 
cany  ais  mace,  and  to  show  it  him,  but  not  to 
tsriT  it  before  him,  as  he  did  when  he  had  the 
8eaL''  Tbe  propoaal  of  Sheffield  that  Bacon  should 
be  declared  incapable  "  hereafter  of  any  office  of 
judicature  or  councillor's  place**  was  "well  liked 
ot"     It  led  to  Southampton's  queation,  "Whether 
be  whom  thiB  House  thinks  unfit  to  be  a  constable 
ahall  come  to  the  Parliament  '^ ;  and  it  was  agreed 
thai  "  be  never  come  to  the  ParHament  again*" 
TbeM  and  similar  passages  in  the  notes  bring  the 
aeme  Tiyidly  before  us,   and^  a^  Mr.  Stiedding 
lanarkiy  **we  gain  from  them  a  tolembly  clear 
idea  of  the  manner  in  which  this  important  de- 
nberation  was  transacted."  In  amnming-up  Bacon's 
Quality,  chamcter,   and    conduct,   Mr,    Spedding 
tiunks  that  Bacon  himself  would  have  been  con- 
tent witb  the  judgment  contiiineii  in  the  following 
lines  of  Sir  Henry  Taylor's  hcuic  Cmmumis: — 
"  Yet  11  he p  in  iad  truth,  a  faulty  man. 
la  tlavitli^  tyrannouji,  and  turbulent  titnea 
He  drew  his  lot  of  life ;  and  of  the  times 
Some  deep  and  bloody  stains  have  fallen  ui>on  him. 
Bat,  be  it  B&idj  he  had  this  honesty, 
That  undesiroui  of  »  false  renown. 
Ha  aver  wiihed  to  pus  for  what  be  wis  ; 
Ooe  Uiat  swerved  much  »nd  oft^  but  being  still 
Pelibentely  bent  upon  the  right, 
Had  kept  it  in  tbe  main  *  one  that  much  loved 
Whatever  in  m&n  is  worthy  high  respect, 
And  in  bis  soul  devoutly  did  aspire 
To  be  it  all ;  yet  felt  from  time  to  time 
Tbe  littleness  that  clings  to  what  is  human, 
And  suffered  from  the  shame  of  having  felt  it." 

This  judgment  may  not  be  acceptable  to  those 
wb(>  think  Bacon  all  guilt,  or  to  tho«e  who  hold  him 
Ui  be  entirely  innocent,  but  it  probably  hitsi  the 
troth  exactly  ;  and  it  is  not  less  trtie  in  sentiment 
it  is  noble  in  expreasion. 


) 


mrt  or  St.  Johw  of  JsausjiLait.— K.  Z,  Z.  wishes 

to  record  that  an  investiture  of  knkbts  of  the  above 
ordar  took  pUce  in  the  church  of  Sonnenbur^,  on  St. 
Jfilin's  da>.  After  marches,  processions,  feasting,  &c., 
the  following  ceremony  was  observed:— "Tlie  knights 
who  w«ro  to  rrceive  tbe  Accolade  came  forward  now, 
kd  bj  ih*i  tT%i  marshal,  at  their  bead,  the  Grand  Duke 
af  Mecktenbur^-Schwerin,  to  tbe  throne  of  the  Herron 
Jitiftvr,  who  a«ked  in  a  clear  loud  voice--*  What  is  your 
imtnV — to  which  the  unanimous  answer  was  returned 
—'To  have  the  honour  of  being  received  as  knights  of 
juailca  Into  the  Baillnijc  of  Brandenburg,  of  the  Order 
ef  Saint  John  of  JeruSaJem.'  The  Herrcn  Meister 
(f^rtnea  Karl  of  Prussia)  replied— *  The  reception  is 
^rafitad  ■«>  yoQ>  if  you  promise  to  obey  tbe  laws  of  the 
cyfte*  and  to  conduct  yourselves  as  true  knights/  The 
Banan  Mdater  then  stepped  in  front  of  the  altar  steps, 
taair  lb«  nakad  sword  from  the  Captain  of  the  Order, 


and  touched  with  it,  according  to  ancient  custom ,  the 
shoulder  of  tbe  knight  kneeling  on  a  footstool  before 
him,  saying,  *  Better  knight  than  squire.'  Then  followed 
the  iuvestituro,  Tbe  ineignia  of  the  order,  the  white 
enamelled  cross,  with  the  gold  eagles  between  the  limbs, 
and  flurmouoted  bv  a  gold  crown,  suspended  from  a 
black  ribbon,  and  the  black  silk  mantles,  with  the  large 
white  cross  on  the  left  shoulder,  were  banded  by  the 
psges  to  the  a»aisting  commanders,  one  of  whom  banded 
tbe  croM,  whose  eight  points  typify  the  eight  bcurtitudes, 
to  the  Prince,  who  placed  it  rotind  the  neck  of  the 
knight.  Tbe  other  commander  invented  blm  witb  the 
mantle,  whose  oolour  typifies  the  camel's-h«jr  garment 
of  tbe  Baptist,  as  the  white  cross  does  purity  of  heart. 
The  Herren  Meister  then  drew  together  the  corda  of  the 
mantle,  which  symbolise  the  cord  with  which  our  Saviour 
was  bound  for  ui.  Then  followed  the  vow,  which  was 
read  by  tbe  secretary,  and  repeated  after  him  by  the 
knights.  After  which  each  gave  his  baud  to  tbe  Herren 
Meister,  the  Chancellor,  and  the  Commanders,  as  a  tciti- 
mony  that  he  would  maintain  a  contest  against  unbelief^ 
would  coasidar  the  care  and  relief  of  the  sick  as  the 
duty  of  a  Knight  HospitiJIer,  and  that  as  a  true  knight 
he  would  wage  constant  war  against  the  enemies  of  the 
Chmxh  of  Christ,  and  the  disturbed  of  the  peace  of  God 
and  man.  The  Ilerren  Meister  then  pronounced  the 
words,  *  I  wish  you  the  blesini|  of  God,  health,  and  pros* 
perity ';  and  tbe  *  Te  Deura' having  been  sung,  the  pro- 
cession returned  to  tbe  castle,  where  a  State  dinner, 
given  by  the  Herren  Meister,  concluded  the  day/' 

"Local  Orioik  of  the  'Retrosfectitk  Review.' — 
I  l&iel^  mndo  a  note  of  the  followini;  item,  which  E 
found  in  a  smaJl  volume  consisting  of  a  collection  of 
literary  papers,  &c.,  originally  nublithed  in  tbe  Afaa- 
ektster  Bxc^iun^t  Herald  in  lol5  and  1S16,  the  con- 
tributors being  a  society  of  local  gentlemen.  The  book 
in  <|ti6Stion,  which  is  in  the  library  of  William  Booth, 
Esq.,  of  Combrook,  is  entitled  Bihltographianjii,  and  waa 
printed  la  1817  by  Joseph  Aston,  Xo.  14,  St.  Ann  Street, 
only  twenty *four  copies  being  printed.  Tbe  fly-leaf 
contains  the  following  pencil  memoranda  : — *  The  Rdro* 
sptctive  RevUro  originated  from  this  work.  This  society 
was  instituted  by  the  late  Mr,  ^V\  Ford,  bookseller,  and 
was  held  in  his  establishment  in  St.  Ann^s  Square. 
All  the  articles  signed  M,  IK  (the  final  letters  of  his 
name)  (tic)  were  written  by  him/  *  Copies  of  thii 
little  volume  are  now  esttremely  scarce,  and  &re  likel^ 
to  remain  so,  ns  they  are  only  to  be  found  in  the  collec- 
tions of  a  few  noblemen  nm^  gentlemen  who  g^vc  very 
ej^travftgant  prices  for  them  to  Trip  hook,  Thorpe,  kc, 
of  London. — J.  Ford.'  The  worthy  President  of  the 
Chetliam  Society,  whoso  tiame  as  a  contributor  to  the 
Retrotpectivt  Etv%€w  has  been  omitted  by  Lowndes, 
could  perhaps  say  aomeUung  about  the  above  note. 
I  observe  that  Mr.  Grosstey  makes  a  commendatory 
reference  to  Bihliographiana  in  a  foot-note  in  bis  essay 
on  FoUer's  Holy  SiaU  (vol  iii.,  p.  51).  I  may  add,  thnt 
tbe  Free  Library  copy  of  the  Review  contains  in  writiiuc 
the  names  of  many  of  the  contributors,  the  late  W.  J. 
¥QXt  E^q.,  M.P.for01Jham,bcin§  amongst  the  number/' 
— JoBN  fi.  Bailet,  in  *'  Local  ^otes  and  QaerieSj'*  the 
Manchatfr  Guardian. 

AaacoRiAt  Book-plates. — Dm.  HowARn  (Dartmotith* 
Row,  Blackheath)  writes: — ''I  have  many  duplicates 
which  I  wish  to  exchange/* 

The  BAaoavTcT  or  pAVKt— An  anonymous  corre- 
spondent notifies  to  us  the  deaths  recently,  of  Sir 
Coventry  Payne,  Bart  This  gentleman,  of  ancient 
descent,  was  one  of  two  claimants  to  the  hereditary  title. 
The  other,  Sir  Saltasbury  GilUas  Payne,  asserU  that  his 
late  rival  was  debarred  by  ilkfjvtA'taa^l  vn.  ^>&ft  Xvf»a  \vnsv 


160 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[S«^ an.  Aero. 22, 74, 


vrhicU  he  descended.  The  P&ynea  lire  numed  by  Orderi- 
ous  Vitiklif.  THe  name  htm  gone  through  the  fonxu  of 
PftgAimflf  Fajen,  Payu,  and  Fa^me  ;  and  the  old  Xomuui 
family  is  weU  represented  in  the  rt^spective  clftimants  in 
Engiud  M  well  «a  in  l^armAudy, 

MlSPBnrtS. — Our  respected  contemporary,  the  Jievu^ 
MiMiogtupku/ue  UnhtrtdU^  says :  "  A  new  romance  by 
Lady  Georgiana  Fullerton  (and  not  Chatterton,  as  the 
Athmmtm  printed  it)  ia  m  the  prees."  After  this  eor^ 
rectton,  the  Remte  announces  the  title  of  the  novel  as 
On  Hi  WloMl! 

LA9CAtiTn!E.-'ThG  iame  Eivn^,  In  a  notice  of  the  third 
and  fourth  volume  of  the  Cortttpondanca  dt  Lninarttiu, 
points  out  the  errors  in  jp*&mmar  which  this  elegant 
irritcr  continually  committed;  und  which  h]3  editor  has 
thought  fit  to  leave  uncorrectt'd  in  this  edition*  Hero 
are  some  sjimpiea: — ^' Jg  no  t'envcrrai  pour  ma  soldo  de 
cette  aBn6e  que  700  fr.  {IIL  221);  si  j  &i  deux  jours  d 
disposer  (III.  308) ;  c#  Florence  .  . .  eiU  m'etonno  (III* 
354) ;  ma  femme  gouU  beaucoup  et  ut  Irii-ijotUte  par  la 
princesse  (III.  36<A  ;  une  pcrsonne  qui  nVst  ni  Fmi^-ai* 
ni  ItalUn  jIII.  37o) ;  chtrts  dfieombres  (IV.  C) ;  je  vous 
prC'vientirtti,  si  jo  U  saistIV*  57) ;  tii?otr  reit^  {IV*  246) ; 
j'ai  fiiu  dt  but  a  rkti  (1  v.  837) ;  la  society  tt&rii  s%r  nous 
(IV.  347}j  &c.  Un  ^ammoirieni"  adds  the  Mevue^ 
'^triplerait  cette  liste  de  ^olecismest  en  y  joigoant  de 
harou  barbarismes,  comme  rewLplat^abU,  mt^mjMntt 
emphyahU,  duxrboit  d4  pium,  imprhtayalt4"  &c. 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     YOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PUBCHASEL 

P»ttl<mlftn  of  Price.  A<j.»  of  «f«7  book  tA  b«  mdI  difwf  t« 
th«  p«rtoA  bj  wbum  It  li  rtq,ulrM,  wbost  naaat  uad  wldrfiw  are 
SlTtn  tot  that  parpoM  —  ~ 

BuTiut  AuujrACK  AXD  Covr^a  iom,  \$sst,  iSaO,  IB^L,  lS33t  1S34. 
Caxdcji  SoctKTT^  Prrjinptorium  Parvuloruni.    Vols,  II.  uad  III, 
STMOstv**!  DiatT  of  M&tgJic*  uf  Ro^  Armj. 

Wanted  by  Xdmxrd  PMcodt,  Botttafond  Slanor,  BxUm, 


Till   rOLLOWIK43  WOftlLA  BT  BaMTIL  TuBTaiTTJ;— 

A  PlottLTecquc  Toot  through  Hollands  BMkb(uit»  aad  Part  of  Plwac«* 

svodi. 
PMajreviac  Vlewvon  tbcRirarThAinoa.    s  tuli, 
Tb«  Plel.m-««iiuo  Beauties  of  t}u»  \\  arwielcsbira  Avon.    1  vol 
_  9!b«  P{e(ari!«qa«  BcaatlM  of  th«  Rl?«r  Btvarti* 
ISlie  PtQtu]-e«qaa  BflvaliM  of  ilit  Blrcr  Wjt, 

ParticuUr*  may  b«  fent  to  W,  S,  HfmitU^  Kirton  in  LindMy. 


SonatV  VkJotiutUs  vf  Fkmltlet. 
0craai^  Bsottiuv  of  tbi  PMnce. 

Waated  bj  Bm,  ilmrv  AtupiUimJ^hmAont  KJlmoro, 


Otrn  CoKRESFONDiNTS  mil,  tce  trv4ty  <xcus€  our  sug- 
ffuting  U>  them,  both  for  thdr  atUees  (w  vkU  a*  onr  own — 

That  thty  should  writt  deari^  and  disttHdlj^ — and  on 
one  aide  of  the  paper  only^morit  espteially  prtjper  noinos 
and  words  and  pniaaei  of  wAi*cA  eii»  txvmnation  mav  b€ 
required.  We  eanmoi  underiaki  io  pumi  oni  rchat  a  Car- 
rupi^iMUni  dots  7wt  think  vvrth  the  troubU  of  nfriHnf; 
piainlp, 

OoLOitrEitsis. — Amongst  the  many  good  works  being 
elated  by  Dean  b'tauley  in  WǤtiiiinBter  Abbey  are  the 
gradual  replacement  throu^ho<at  the  church  of  the 
gravestones— notably,  Sir  Isaac  Newton's— that  were 
removed  at  the  beginning  of  this  century^  and  the  re- 
catting  of  inscriptions  tl^t  have  been  obliterated  by 
wear  and  time.    Coursyei'B  grave  is  itois^.  marked  \  the 


muiml  tablet  close  by,  howefer,  haa  perhaps  eaoaped  the 
notice  of  ottf  corpespondont.  The  inscnpiioiji  on  "*^- 
former  is— 

Pierre  Francois  Le  Coniayer 

Bom  at  Rouen  in  Normaiidy 

November  17»  1€S1 

Oanon  of  the  Abbey  of  g  Genevieve 

Author  of  '*  A  Iiistortation 

In  Defence  of  the  Validity  of  English  Ordinatiom  ** 

Died  October  17- 1776 

Aged  95 

D.  h. — liatnpflond  was  originally  called  Hi_, 
the  old  way  of  spellin}?  Homestead.  The  prt-sent 
which  it  is  souglit  to  remove,  h;iLiei  no  connexion  « 
with  the  reign  of  Que- 1    "  t  only  dates  from 
The  inoroo&ing  neMs  h  require  am  onl 
church.  As,  then,  the  \^\                 lin^  is  extremely, 
without  a  vestige  of  antiquity  about  it^  we  can  wT 
understand  the  opposition  that  is  now  offered  io 
tuting  a  really  grand  church,  whose  lofty  spire  "b^     , 
be  a  landmark,  and  indeed  worthy  of  the  ma^m&oenii 
crowning  position  to  be  occupied. 

E.  Truelovb. — Our  corrcs|)ondent  adds  his 

to  a  fact  already  established,  as  to  the  sex  of 
Chevalier  d'Eon,  who  so  long  passed  for  ft  woman.  Xl 
Truelove  states  that  in  1610,  toon  alter  D*Bon'f  deadkp 
he  saw  and  examined  this  mysterious  ohatteter  ;  a&d  be 
asks  for  information  conoemiog  any  Ufa  of  this  oust 
famous  adventurer. 

TiKTiLLEEiESL— Voltaire  himself  has  sidd  that  Frenoh* 
men  were  represented  for  the  first  time  in  Freoek 
tragedy  in  hi*  oivn  iTtiirr,— alluding,  of  cottrse,  to  thi 
characters  of  Luslgnan  and  Nerest&n. 

J.  G. — We  cannot  give  an  opinion  on  the  legality,  Of 
othorwise,  of  wills.  Of  the  one  now  se&t,  we  cau  only  mj 
that  it  would  delight  most  lawyers,  and  dissipate  Ibo 
estate. 

J.  n.  C— Tlie  ballad  Thi  Farmtr'*  Son  ond  lh§  iWj 
Gay  is  printed  iu  ChappeU'a  well-known  volumea,  aMl 
still  sung  in  country  parts. 
O.  L.- 

"  Thoughts  that  breathe  and  wordf  that  bum.*' 
G^y.  I*fvi/r*jM  of  Poeif, 

F.  R.  S,      V    ^        ' 
Mud  ford,  I?  lOTtll 
TheFhth 

k  Lady  op  the  Prf^kkt  Cebtcry  ^ould  have  btr 
query  answered  by  writijig  to  Lord  Boktby,  Him 
Montagu's  representative. 

Q.  h. — It  i&  the  ha  ha  that  tsihe  sonkeit  pari. 
fence   (as  at  Delaval  Hall  and  elsewhere)  is  abote 
The  term  ia  common. 

A.   II.  writes:— "*D0velov^"^"<    t  fi,e  Prosi.' — ^! 
Oivftslrif  JliTold  was  discoiili 

.M.  T.— There  is  no  use    j 
books. 

H.  A.  B.— Forwarded  to  Mr.  Thorns. 

yOTwx* 
Editorial  Communications  should  be  addrawd  lo  ^  TIm 
Editor  "--AdvertiBementft  and  Bnsinots  Letten  to  ^T 

Publisher  "—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  8tr«et,  tit 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  retu 
municationB  which,  for  any  reuoD,  we  do  nol  j 
to  this  role  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  all  cownpunieations  ahould  be  affixed  the  nutie  and 
of  the  sender,  not  necesianly  for  pttbUeatiODi  I 

a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


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to  ua  reriewfl  < 


.  Ana.  29, 74] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


161 


W^mX,  SATfTRDA  r.AVQVST  ».  1«7«, 


li 

Spaniac  lUf onos.  No.   V.,    '. 
Jung*-  liKi— li*bel  And  Uizn 


GONTExxa— N*  as. 


162— 
thfi 
i.   to  4 
s    —The 


liiuf  BUiiop— A  BilrAcl«  la  lo,>' 

FInl  &u(Llili  Locomotive    ia    Kew   York,    100  —  Fandlel 

QUKRira:— llerrinit-Couiitijig— Tliis  two  Thie¥6»  jU  CAlvary 
-'*'Th«  Bird's  N«t "— Fly-Le»f  luH'riptionJ— "  Dramclog/' 
"^  »B0  Clera  mad  De  BratMe  Faaiilic<^— Abbes«eii  of  BliftrteA- 
'  -Tom  Qnsd  ftt  Chruit  Church—"  Ftoatit,  and  tdhvi, 
I  J«ani "— DuUUn   Tivam*  -^  JUdajue    RoUkd  —  **  Pm» 
'•—Vox  W*nj»^-^Eoiurta  Coin,  Itii— Dkkaiui**  **B4ttle 
o"— "Tooth  aod  J£«g "— Jetferson  Davti— "Ood  ble** 
^k  •*—•  •  K«aelmChiLUQgljr "— "  Eenttej  v  oua  " — Aa  Old 

SLEFLIES:— Tlie**GftniiAKiiQlc''  l(K»»Tha  Do  Qnindi,  Earli 
or  Win  ton,  170— Saojr&n'i  ConiMen  And  Predeceasom,  171^ 
Tli«  Suu-Flower  —  Svippo«ed  Pricstlj  Gni«Uj,  1T2  — The 
Tem^vLuT  anct  HosyiUliert— John  f'hTirchill,  M.I\ — '^Mf 
ch»lM  ib«  vUU^e  iDO  did  gal  "  '^'  'nngCoal't  Lavf'C— 
'  Tl*»   Hiiu*e4  of  StuArl   ao^J  —  "  atro«l "  ^  The 

fj^woeb  Wotxi  •'Yeiix'-Tl!  Stiit<^,  ITI-Goa- 

fe— Pocxn  by  T.    K,   HtrvLV^.-iiii  >     "    ^  •       "    -Pri%ry 
III  Judjinent—**  Christianity  a.*  Oli}  4:c. 

I  Emperor  Akxioder  11,— Mafv  of   :  J'ft— 

le  Batxifti,  ITti—Hyrfid's  "SiciJi^  <it  (_t>iii;ith"— 
-MAnntoD  Herbert— Eancke  llidera— bird  Ool- 
ITT- '*  YfcOge  MoO'Uy  "— "  Piui  "— *'  Xewlyn  "— 
•  tworf*— '*  AU'i  over/'  &c«— Rohert  de  Wyclif— 
•'W^iBtr  l7«-Pr.WAtt»— OoMm  CQl-Pox^Mr.  Froudc'i 
"Hkiory/*  179. 

llotii  an  BaokB,  kc 


SHAK8PEARE  t  BACON. 

In  Basil   Montai^iis    Works  of   Lord  Bacon^ 

foL  IT,*  facing  title,  is  an  engraved  portrait  of  hira, 

'  \  ftge  of  dixty-five,  aa  Montagu  tells  m  in  an 

iiUf  notice  at  the  conimenceinent  of  vol.  ii. 

that  chaotic  edition.      It  is   £roin  a  painting 

Van  Somer,— /*«!</,  I  suppose,  for  I  do   not 

lovr  whether  his  brother  Bernard  ever  came  to 

lagland.     It  deem*  to  be  a  fine  likeneKj^  and  tine 

|ft8  a  work  of  art,  thouf^h,  perhaps,  a  little 

His  portrait  of  the  firat  Earl  of  Devonshire, 

Kworth,  is  mid  to  be  eijual  to  Vandyke's. 

rjorlr^it  does?  not  appear  to  nie  to  be  taken 

rof  sixtV'five,  as  stated  bj  Bits  LI  Hon- 
would  be  more  like  fifty-two  or  fifky- 
C:in  Linv  retvder  of  'VN.  &  Q."  say  where 
\v  18  ?     Van  Somer  generally  dated 
tiLs  tx>riraits  ;  if  so,  this  rather  iui- 
sn  might,  be  conclusively  settled. 
r  pnssea  adds  more  and  more  im- 
n^  connected  with,  the  life  and 
icon.     The  attribution  to  him 
l*laya,  a*  the  rn*ji^mU,  or,  at  any 
irce   of  them,    h  growing  up  into 
'  '     '     Uentiou  is  drawn  to 
1  do  not  lit  nil 


refined  and  noble  features  of  a  Shakspeare  "  ;  does 
he  speak  of  the  Chandos  portmit,  the  Stratford 
buHt,  the  fancy  thing  in  the  Abbey  by  Koubiliac» 
the  mask  from  the  German  rag-shi>p,  or  what  I  I 
have  always  taken  the  Junsen  bust,  at  Stratford, 
for  the  only  authentic  one,  and  the  result  of 
physiognomical  criticism  applied  to  thiit  is  that  it 
was  modelled  from  a  posthumous  cast— that  the 
nose  is  Biniply  ridiculous  in  its  want  of  proportion. 
It  is  a  hop-o'-my-thumb  nose  ;  a  very  abortion 
and  abnormity,  phiced  as  it  is  in  cJoi*e  juxta- 
position with  the  frightful  and  giijantic  upi>er  lip. 
The  moustache  i^  moi^t  artistically  treated  ;  it  is 
shipped  like  a  mouth,  and  is  phtced  where  the 
mouth  ought  to  be.  The  mouth  below  is  a  small 
mouth  ;  but,  whenever  I  look  at  this  face,  I  feel 
persuaded  thjit  Malone  performed  quite  un  art- 
service  to  the  world  in  daubing  it  all  over  with 
white.  Get  any  artist  to  re-colour  one  of  the 
masks  liir  us,  and  I  doubt  not  but  the  whole  will 
become  absolutely  liideous,  so  ihigrant  is  the  dis- 
proportion. The  skull  in  large  and  well-shamm 
enough  to  satisfy  all  requirements.  Assuredly, 
however,  if  I  were  asked  whether  the  Van  Somer 
portmit  or  the  Jansen  bust  stood  nearer  to  the 
man  to  whom  was  due  the  miraenlouK  coinage  of 
the  plays,  I  should  decide  for  the  man  of  the  por- 
trait. Has  it  ever  been  .stated,  surmised,  or  au^- 
Rented  how  it  came  about  that  Jan^en^  one  of  the 
tu-st  jirlists  of  his  tiuie,  was  ever  empkyed  upon 
the  uiortmiry  bust  of  the  cs-manager  of  **  the 
Globe,"  who  bad  settled  down,  for  aome  years 
pre\'iously,  into  a  Warwickshire  farmer?  This 
appears  to  me,  like  all  the  rest,  paasing  strange. 
As  the  subject  is  thus  raised,  I  may  be  allowed  to 
record  for  what  it  i»  worth,  no  thin  <j  or  something, 
m  the  reader  shall  please,  a  kind  of  conviction 
tliat  has  always  thm.st  itself  upon  me  whilst  read- 
ing the  plays,  that  there  wjis  a  very  noticeable 
duality  throughout  them  ;  thiit  the  plot^  con- 
st rue  tion,  story,  and  philosophic  universality  of 
knowledge  and  of  mind  betokened  one  type  of  in- 
tellect, whilst  the  other  type  belonged  to  a  poet 
proper,  as  phrase-maker  to  the  multitude.  Let 
othera  contradict  this,  as,  of  course,  they  wiU  ; 
but  I  shall  stand  to  it  till  I  change  my  nature,  and 
with  it  the  convictions  that  Hpring  from  it.  It 
apf>ears  to  me  alwaya  a  moat  prodigious  absurdity 
in  modem  criticism  to  insist,  as  Schlegel  sind  all 
do,  on  the  constructive  faculty  which  distinguishes 
the  really  great  poet  from  tlie  minor  poet,  the 
lyrist,  &c.  Coleridge  b  equally  absurd  ;  Km 
intuition  often  saved  him  from  such  error,  but 
not  in  this.  Invention  and  creation  are  indeed  the 
poet's  faculties,  but  not  in  the  ^ense  of  construct- 
ing anything,  nor  of  building  up  a  total  out  of 
consecutive  acts,  of  pre-cahailatiDg  reason,  nor  the 
piecing  together  of  all  t  V  ,  '  *  ^ '  ^  M  *> 
on  a  subject  andbuil*  -^ 

plot  OUtj 


lady  wliat  waa  the  momt  of  Chrutahtt^  he  replied, 
''  Miidnm,  I  did  not  know  that  it  wanted  ii  moniL" 
The  fact  is^  it  has  none,  and,  still  worse,  it  has  no 
purpou  whatever ;  hut  it  is  one  of  the  Diost 
uniqae  bits  of  real  poetry  in  the  whole  worlds  for 
all  that.  It  thrills  a  competent  refider  in  every 
fibre  with  its  pathos,  its  weirdness,  its  dream- 
jMJT^er,  its  refined  aerial  melody,  which  wakens  up 
the  hidden  things,  remote  and  near^  lying  dormant 
in  the  wide  and  diflTiised  province  of  the  soul 
itself.  It  is  the  sublime  gift  and  felicity  of 
words  that  does  this.  A  poetic  soul  vibrates 
lan^age  so  as  to  awuken  movements  in  a  kin- 
dreS  aoul  that  the  word*,  as  words,  appear  not 
cjilculated  to  reach  out  to,  nor  to  toudi. 

If  Scott,  who  waa  no  jjoet  at  all,  as  I  reckon 
poetry,  could  have  worked  with  Coleridge  i\&  a 
narrator  and  thrcad-fumisher,  there  would  have 
been  nothing  since  Shakspeare'«  Plap,  Goethe 
not  excepted^  equal  to  the  birth-iKsue  of  that 
marnage  act.  I  fancy  this  was  known  in  the 
bd^ht  Elizabethan  day  when  young  thought  burnt 
^  divinely  clear,  and  that  Beaumont  and  Fletcher 
tried  to  accommodate  thenu^elves  to  a  then  recog- 
nized necessity,  as  Sijakspeare  and  some  other  one 
had  before  them  actually  succeeded  in  doing. 
Bacon,  I  should  think,  did  not  write  the  Plays  ; 
Shakspeare,  I  should  tliink,  did  not  conslruct  the 
Plays,  But  that  the  one  fiirnished  the  matter,  the 
thread*  the  catholic  knowledge,  and  mucli  of  the 
large,  cool,  reasonable  phiIoKoj>hy  to  be  found  in 
them ;  whilst  81i^kspeare  gave  the  melody ;  the 
phmse-making  was  his,  the  vibratorj'^  words*  and 
all  the  passionate  things  that  hang  libout  and  arc 
suggested  by  them.  If  minute  examination  can 
plausibly  introduce  Bacon  as  the  male  genninator 
tit  these  marvels^  whilst  Shaksiieare  enwombs  them 
plastically,  then  all  who  can  endure  uiy  view  wiil 
be  prepared  to  cordially  accept  the  new  thcon\ 
and  find  a  hitherto  inexplicable  wonder  si  tuple. 

One  word  more.  Burns  ciinnot  construct,  yet  is 
he  a  giant  poet.  Byron  cannot  construct.  Swin- 
burne says  he  is  no  lyrist  ;  I  say  he  is  nothing 
else,  and  the  greatest  of  them,  not,  perhaps,  alto- 
gether in  the  narrow  sens©  of  perfect  song  and 
perfect  ode  writing,  but  in  the  large  sense  a 
sublime  singer  to  the  universal  l}Te,  which,  great- 
gifted  as  he  is,  Mr.  Smnburne  himself  will  never 
be.  Homer  is  not  constructive.  He  Utisbes  a  SfK) 
year  old  tale  :  the  backbone  ribs  and  all  set  fonus 
are  given  him.  Milton  constructs  nothing,  or  very 
little  :  the  Bible  famishes  to  him  his  bone  frame, 
Dante  has  no  plot  nor  plan,  no  preached-about 
grand  construct iveness.  He  takes  a  supernatural 
walk  with  Virgil,  and  inscribes  about  its  path,  as 
he  goes,  incidents  sublimely  felt  and  softly  melo- 
dizedj  like  notes  floating  forth  from  the  harp  of  the 
golden  sun-god.  Harper  of  Harpists,  incidents 
in  the  shape  of  liard  beliefs  and  square-cut  mis- 
beJiefs,     There  crosvd  into  his  poem  fill  the  super- 


stitious folk-lore  fairy  dreams  of  the  strange,  \ 
igtiorant,  mediaeval,  Romano- Crothic,  bhie-ciirtai^ 
Italy  he  dwelt  in  and  loved  so  well.     The 
tualism  of  all  the  Church  phantoms  and  doe 
dreams,  and  the  concrete  devotlnnn!  fnncirs  r>f 
pctpulace,  and  the  whole  ph  ! 
book-lore  of  his  time,  with  1 1 1 
mental    sui)en\dded,    he    invvi?uvc^    in    tUiis 
sublimest  chant  of  the  saddest  and  loftiest  ch 
that  ever  lifted  a  hymn  devout  of  praine  to  j 
great  Witness  who  looks  down  in  sorrow  tm  i 
vast  drama  of  man's  misery  below.      If  By 
Milton,  Homer,  Da ntt%Cijnstruct  nothing,  bttt< 
vibrate  in  imlaon  to  the  harmony  of  the  sph 
and  tjo  convey  to  us  the  baser- born,  ns  prop 
might  and  vaticinators,  some  tiiste  of  M*"  ^*' 
God  as  it  pealed  through  their  ear 
think   I   Khali  not  gre.^tly  di  lu-nt* 
sspeare  if  I  despoil  him  of  tli 
his  plots  and  his  material  | 
him  amid  the  glorious  corop;iny  of  master 
through  all  time — the  men  who  cntwn  :•:• 
and  burn   for  ever  after  with  an  it 
because  that  in  their  day  their  ear  wli 
and  their  heart  was  bold  to  utter,  wi 
could,  or,  being  able,  dared  sum  U|' 
Canticle  of  Canticles,  C,  A.  v> 

Mayfair. 

JOHN  BUNYAN. 

As  our  old  dreamer  is  again  up  "    ' 
haps  you  will  allow  me  a  worti  or  i 
his  famous  book    Much  ha«  been  o., 
the  originality  of  the  PibjHuis  Prth! 
though  the  author  deeku'es''T:^  Jl  m^ 
will  persevere  with  their    i 
trary,  and  the  inspired  tinki  i 
sole  invention  of  his  matchless  oiiegory.     ^ 
swelling  the  cry  of  detraction,  if  one  of  t! 
dates  for  a  share  of  the  honour  will  hen: 
ill  its  favour,  it  is,  I  think,  Th^  TabUi  oj 
has  been  mentioned  as  probably  supply jti. 
to  Bunyan.     The  Greek  origimd  was,  of » 
sealed  book  to  him,  but  it  became  avail 
161t>,  when  John  Heoley's  translation  y^-. 
lishcd  \  and  it  wjis  upon  the  sop| 
little  book  might  have  ffillen  m 
the  late  George  Dfibr  made  his  5.I 

Bunyan's  biographer,  ht^wevi 
been  unaware  that  the  well-knov. 
Kidwelly,  publisdied  in  1670  a  ti 
and  as  his  works  were  pnncii);rJl 
the  people,  this  was  not  i 
into  Bunyan  s  hands.     If  in 
copy  of  his  £pictdu«  and 
folding  **  piece  of  sculpture  )| 

kst,  entitleti  ''An  Embleme,  01 
Humane  Life,"  he  will,  I  think, 
with  the  probability  that  it  had  cume  uni 
eye  of  Bunyan. 


5"»  a.  a.  Aco.  29, 7^.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


163 


The  picture  ^liBplays  a  roc'ky  eminence,  divided 

I  niM  ;  at  the  base  the  rising  genera- 

It  nil  towarda  a  ^te  presided  over  by 

^ijc^niy    '  ,   who   offers   licr   intoxicuting 

^lilet  to  >  a*4  they  pjiss  through  ;  while 

r  oil  III.  I    irln^  a  veritable  evangelist  in 

^  ttnce,  is  ittjl  r       the  crowd  to  be  temperate 

^fr  Ht-^ii,r},i  tji  (>lc;v.-ure.    Once  inside,  we  find 

1,  with  a  second  wicket,  in  the  up- 

Li,    at    which  stands   Genius  ngain, 

ting  im  open  bi:K>k,  towards  which  only  few 

jare  wending  their  way,  the  bulk  having 

de   on  their  first  entrance  to  the  by- 

ing  to  variouK  forms  of  vice.     The  next 

itflBf^li^nt  •'hows  the  same  passing  away  to  the 
faroad  Toaih  on  the  part  of  the  ruuUitude,  and  the 
«un«  iptttisity  of  pilgrims  holding  on  towards  the 
otxt  ascending:  wicket ;  the  nigged  obstructions  of 
tlb«  way  are  l»erp  indacing  a  reirognide  movement 
unotii:;  the  faint  -  henrted,  while  fewer  resolute 
-  ^  nglj  marching'  on  their 
I  picture,  with  the  a^aist- 
i.,T.i,ii>  i..,u.l.  is  Been  surmounting  a 
My,'  and  finally  attaining  the  summit 
rivt  d  by  True  Doctrine,  conducted 
urn,  and  there  cfowned.  The 
DA,  who  reach  the  goal,  are  the 
of  Banyan's  Christian  heroes,  in  their 
__  garb  ;  one,  indeed,  with  the  porten- 
t  **  burden  upon  his  back,"  is  defending  himself 
L  the  AtLacka  of  an  enemy* 

PtlgTiTn^i  ProffTc^  was  not  printed  until 

7%  while  BaviR*^  Cche^  appeared  in   IC70.     If 

i  hiid  taken  this  suggestive  book  into  prison 

a  m'uiii  like  his,  pondering  over  the 

and  it*  accompanying  text^  might  have 

been  brought  to  the  practicability  of  re- 

and  christianizing  the  old  heatlien'ss  em- 

and,   if  »o,  the  masterly  way  in  which  the 

tl.-A  it  out  and  adapted  it  to  hispuqiose 

uim  in  claiming  this  imperishable 

all  bb  own.^* 

Alexander  Gardtke, 
tUekoey. 

SPELLING  REF0EM8*— No.  V. 

now  ptt?3ed  in  renew  aome  2,2(h>  words 

ly,  a  thirtl  of  the  words  in  ordinary  une. 

reforms  have  been  the  reduction  of  ex- 

generail  rules,  and  in  no  instance  hnve 

'      "   •  e  dogmas  kid  down  for 


lilrni ; 


nmdr 


tlmt    between 


-    ^njst  be  done  to 

iiated  und  un- 

le  were  canrie«l 

would  remain 

.>i   not    be  more 

lalfout  and  hibm'. 


'%  Ncvtiung  mu^t  be  done  to  make  etymology 


more  intricate  and  obscure.  In  every  Cftse  but 
one,  we  have  pleaded  for  the  restonition  of  wortls 
to  their  etymological  ranks.  The  one  exception  Lh 
the  abolition  of  the  suffix  -i6Zc,  as  -able  will  do  oh 
well,  and  the  present  distinction  is  n  delusion  and 
a  snare. 

3.  Nothing  must  1>e  done  to  make  the  task  of 
learning  to  read  more  laborious  and  perplexing* 
All  the  reforms  proposed  would  render  the  task  of 
reading,  as  well  as  of  spelling,  easier,  by  removing 
exceptions,  the  great  stumbling-stone  of  learners. 

W  e  are,  no  doubt,  a  learned  nation,  and  have 
undertaken  to  educate  the  entire  population  ;  our 
literature  is  sec4:>nd  to  none  in  the  world  ;  we  arc 
extremely  sensitive  about  our  cla9,«?icjil  tiistes,  and 
no  dictionaries  make  so  great  a  point  as  ours  of 
giving  the  derivation  of  words  :  but,  with  all  thi^, 
our  spelling  is  atrocious,  and,  strange  to  fitiyj  is 
worst  in  those  very  points  in  which  we  pride  our- 
selves the  most.  We  am  not  open  a  dictionary  at 
random,  but  some  anomaly  stares  us  in  the  face. 
Let  us  try  : — "  Resistance,"  from  the  Latin 
rcJtiitcna;  then  why  not  '*  Resistense  *'  t  "  Ossicle,-* 
from  the  Latin  ossicnlnm ;  then  why  not  "Ossi- 
cule "  ?  **  Mantle,**  Saxon  mirntd^  German 
mantel ;  then  why  in  the  world  should  the  word  be 
trdmnwgrifytd  into  **  Mantle  "  i  "  ExERCiSAnLE,'* 
Latin  cxtrcirt.  "Flotaqk,"  French  Jlottagt. 
**  Floor,''  Ang.-Saxon  Jfore.  **  Florist,"  French 
fl^uri^tc  (flower  being  the  French  fleur);  then 
why  not  Jloioer  and  flowrritt  f  And  so  on,  by 
scores  Mid  hundreds.  If  any  one  were  now  to 
attempt  to  introduce  4  word  wrongly  derived, 
scholars  would  set  their  faces  against  it  like  a  flint ; 
yet  make  we  no  effort  to  f»tirge  from  existing  words 
the  leaven  of  solecism  and  barbarism,  but  rather 
stand  up  in  its  defence,  aa  a  mother  ifor  a  rickety 
child.     But  now  to  Hecuba. 

Wkit  I  would  bring  under  notice  in  this  paper 
are  the  suflixos  -ant  in  connexion  with  -mt,  -anrc 
in  connexion  w^ith  -enrf,  and  -anse  in  connexion 
with  -tn**\  Let  us  see  if  something  cannot  be 
done  to  simplify  this  six-fold  difficulty. 

There  are  256  words  terminating  in  the  suffix 
-ant,  and  nearly  70fi  in  -ent ;  219  endmg  in  -anccy 
and  226  in  -cticf;  1  in  -anst^  and  6  in  -etue. 
Altogether  1,508  words.  The  one  in  -anse  is 
e/i(rfl?if<:,  w^hidi  is  now  generally  written  with  a 
c,  and  ought  at  once  to  be  brought  back  again 
(French  trame). 

The  six  in  *€iuc  arc  ro    '  ^     ^«0i  dupfriH 

(dispenso),  upcnsi,  (expei  i  t  inmexisus), 

prfpm«<r  (pne|>endeo,  thi^  mjuim  ,  ;mii  rccti'mj^ensc 
(re — compenso).  It  will  be  Hcen  at  a  ghuice  tlint 
the  termination  'tfi»e  in  all  but  one  of  tbcse  wordn 
k  radical,  aud  cannot  be  touched  ;  not  so  the 
r  in  word^  ending  in  -encc.  This  might  be  changed 
to  J,  and,  indeed,  *boidd  be  so*  A  few  examples 
will  suffice  for  proof,  *' Acquiescence,**  why  not 
ac^iiiwcCTW  (acquiescens)  ]    «        " 


'Adolescence"  vi\x'% 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5'-»8.n.  AC0.1B.7il 


[not  adolescttiu  (adoiescens)  ?  " Cadence"  fcadens), 

[''coalescence"  (coaleacens),   "decencc'*   (decens), 

I "  effloreflcence  "  (efflorescens),  "  innocence  "  (inno- 

loens), "  licence'*  ^ioens),  "precedence  ^'  (pnvcedt^ns), 

liind  so  on.    In  other  cases,  the  -ce  represents  the 

'  Latin  -tin,  as  rthagn^ence  (magnificentia),  mnnifi- 

-^nce   (munificentm),   &c,  ;    but   it  would  be  no 

outiage  to  fipeli  these  words  munijicense,  magniji' 

t€ih$€.    If,  therefore,   the  little   mountain  of  six 

words  cannot  move,  Mahomet,  with  2 2(5,  may  go 

to  the  mountain^  by  which  means  a  very  great 

perplexity  will   be  got  over  by  the  abolition  of 

-cnc€^  and  the  invariable  termination  of  the  two 

groupa  in  the  one  Buffix,  -aise. 

The  same  may  be  said  of  the  suffix  -ancc.     Tlie 
one  word  in  -ansc  cannot  be  changed  without  out- 
raging its  etymology  ;  but  the  219  in  -anc€  might, 
and,  indeed,  ahould,  be  changed  to  -amt*    Let  tis 
take  a  dozen  words  at  random  :— 
"  Appeahanck,"  Latin  ajpparens, 
"  Baulnce,"  Latin  bilanx^  through  the  French. 
"  CouKTENAKCE^^'  Latin  cmitinai^j  through  the 
French. 

"Forbearance,"  being  from  our  motive  verb 
forhtjer-an^  is  free  to  take  either  c  or  *. 

**  Governance,*^  Latin  gnhemanM,  through  the 
French. 

"  MAnfTKNANCB,''  L&immamid—tmem,  thiough 
the  French. 

"  Performance/'  Latin  ptrformam. 
"Remembrance,"  Latin  rememorans,  through 
the  French. 
"  Eesohance,^*  Latin  rrjonajM. 
"  Valance,'*^  being  a  corruption  of  the  Nonnan 
valannt,  is  fiie  to  take  either  -ce  or  -j»c  in  the 
phiice  of  -t 

"  Vigilance,^'  Latin  vigilant. 
And  80  OQ  with  the  rest.  The  only  one  word 
wkich  ha5  any  show  of  right  to  end  in  -nnce  is  tlie 
monosyllable  "  lance  "  (Latin  Iancca\  in  German 
lanze.  Tim  may  seem  at  first  sight  somewhat 
startling,  but  so  it  ia.  The  other  monosyllables 
are  **djmce"  (Freoch  dunMr);  *^ glance"  (Dutch 
glam);  "trance"  (French  transe)^  &c.  The  re- 
duction of  the  four  terminations  to  two  would  be 
a  great  boon  to  young  speller??,  and  would  relieve 
many  of  older  growth  of  much  perplexity.  I 
would  ruthlessly  abolish  the  two  abnormal  ter- 
luinations  -ance  and  -ciuc^  which  at  the  best  have 
only  French  lenve  for  their  naturalization. 

In  re^iid  to  the  terminations  -ant  and  -ame 
f-ance],  if  they  are  meant  to  represent  the  first 
Latin  conjun^ation^  every  word  belooging  to  one  of 
the  other  three  conjugtitions  should  be  expelled 
from  the  group.  To  "the  general*'  the  ter- 
mination speaks  iin  unknown  tongue,  but  to  the 
scholar  every  word  jHirading  the  L-onjugational  a 
with  no  right  to  it  is  a  Trojan  in  Greek  armour. 
In  our  first  paper  we  showed  a  long  list  of  words 
ending  in  -aolc  not  of  the  first  conjugation ;  we 


will  now  do  the  same  with  the  suffixes  -ani  and 
-ancc :  ~ 

Admiitaneej  udmtttahlf^  omittance,  _ 
rcf(iittance^  but  ptrmimhh^  omimhW^  ttmi 
nmitttni  (mitt^re). 

Annoyanct  (noccre),  through  the  French. 

AppaidanU    depmdant^    pendant^   dfpendan 
also   appcndent,  dependent ^  pti\da%U   dr^ 
indipendentj   indepcndcmt  (pend^re).     The  "^^ 
form  is  the  older.     Some  modern  lexicog 
timidly  give  the  "e"  form  in  a  suggestive! 
but  if  derivation  is  worth  a  stntw  in  EngJiairl 
ing,  the  **  a  '*  form  ought  to  be  tabooed. 

Asctndantf  df^cmdmit   (the  noun),   dtsemdmf 
(the  adj.),  aseendahh  lait  dcicej\dihltf  aitcatdnu-\i 
but  ascendance,  (ascend^re,  descend^re).     C?un  inv 
thing  justify  the  vacillation  from  a  to  e^  and  ft' 
and  who  is  to  learn  spelling  when  folly  like  iL  ^  ■ 
tolerated  ? 

A  Mutant,  oMutance;  resUtant,  rtsiHaneM^  im- 
iUtance;  but  rtnatihU^  regidiHlity^  irreMSik^ 
irrcjdstibility  (asaist^re,  resist^re). 

A ttendmd^    attendance  ;    intenda nt,     '  — ^'^ ' " " 
but  sMptrmtcnd^nt^  miperintcndencey  int 
tcnnfy^  and  tmdency.     Conjugation  ia  ^^u.  ;.,>.. ^ 
regarded  here. 

Complaijiant,  complainahU  (com — plmgllt/i 
through  the  French.  As  if  from  complanOr^^^ifi 
level." 

Cowplauont^  complaisanet ;  coTnplianrf,  r 
pliant;  pltasancCf  pleasant^  unpleasant  (a  hyln  i 
&c.  (placere),  through  the  French- 

Connivance^  but  connivent  (connivere, 

Confidajit^  confident^  confidence;  diffideiU^  dtp- 
dcncc  (fidfre).     The  firet  is  French. 

Can  tri ranee  (conteri*re,  pfr/,  contrivj),  through 
the  French  controuver.  There  is  also  the  FnM 
wonl  coniritionf  more  rMralar. 

Cofivqtam'Cf  conve^aoiej  fonfej^onc^r;  pUTtef- 
anre  (veh«^re). 

Cofinisant^  cognisance;  ncognisant,  rccwpiisana*. 
recognisable  (cognoscere),  through  the  French. 

Coienant  (con venire),  through  the  FrencJu 

Ihfcndanl^  d^fcndMc,  drft^imtrn      {hnnvAxXht 

French) ;  but  defensible, 

DiHdant^  ditndable;  1  , 

Dorniant,  donnAncy^  tiomtar ;  with  dorvuFf 
donnit^yry  !  I  dormiiive  !  !  (dorm ire),  most  won- 
derful confusion  ! 

Mucrtant,^  m%g€rean<t  (mis — credere),  as  if  ftnni 
mis-crearc  (to  create  amiss), 

Nitiianre  (nocere),  through  the  French. 

Obei$ancc  (through  the  French) ;  but  ohtdtenif 
obeditmcc  (obedire). 

Poujno :'  -  V-  -i^fh  the  French) ;  bat 

pungent,  , 

Pit  Usiiii . .  /c  H  ^,  .„ , . , « .„^c. .  ^,^anc€  (iKMse),  throupk 
the  French. 

Fnrfmnli  pursuance^  pvrmimnt  (penequ 
through  the  French. 


^m^m 


lenequi)^ 


p 


e»S.II.Acc.  29, -Vt] 


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165 


ttsagc     (uiens)^    through    the 


PmUMni^  pwimuxnee;  apj^wUmmiM^  appttr- 
UnmUf  oho  ptrUfumty  ptfriinemu,  vmpmi*»*^>i  >m^ 
pmiinmct ;  app4ttmme»  (pertinereX    ^  5  * 

14  <tDpari€fia7tcey  th«  Lat  c^tpvienmr, 

Jlfp^nksnl,  repentante^  imrqmtiant:  but  peni- 
Untj pfnittner.,  imprniUnt  (piniteto).  The  wrotJg 
conju  gilt  ion  we  owe  to  the  Freiw^h, 

Kettiant,  rcxiaucc  (through  NoruittQ-Fne&cb) ; 
bat  re^siiJUnt^  TfJuUnc*^  rtsidtntiary  (reaidere), 

IluUUint,  TcrittancA ;  but  rt^iil»U,  rmiaUbiUiy 

i^uini,  itrjtant  (scrtire),  thn)iigh  the  French. 
Si  '^"  -     mjiaanci  (French),  «aJftr*thU;  with 
WJ  tieflC4^  fttjficifnnj  (j^utlicere). 

-^  -'^^A,    tttmntrt^f  tmaf^abU  (tenure), 

thr.. 

I  .,     ,..,. 

French. 

I^aliani  (vaJere),  tlirough  the  French. 
To  these  add  currnnf  (Corinth*   "  Connlhht^e 
OTie  '*),  and  verdant  (virunt)^  through  the  French. 

AlU»fe'cther  nearly  ItXl  word*  of  the  wrong  con- 
j  action. 

^ow,  one  of  two  things  is  obvious :  to  be  con- 

ftist^nt  w<^  should  either  cut  the  knot  altogether, 

**  have  done,  and  m&ke  one  univeraid 

v((^  regardleaa  of  conjugation^  or  else 

*'  r  back  into  its  con- 

[  jtlg''  [  plan  would  simplify 

^P^J*'"^  :'nu  as  we  feel  no  offence   in 

™   1*^*  '  <i  above*  why  shoold  we  start 

;,  .^.u  at  the  idea  of  othorv  following 

exiimple  ?     The  *'  let  alone  '*  syBtem  is 

XnrlHn  /     r-.ir,.in^    jy,    (jHO    ^tajT.       Thc 

'4  lonat  j^o*     Reform 

uie,  but   lie  rjiuat  be 

hat  cannot  see  the  htmdwriting  on 

t  thp  present  **  unhiBtorical,  tmsjBte- 

'  s  unt6achable»  but  by  no  means 

ntf  now  curreut  in  Enj^land." 

ALix  Midler's.     Ohuistone,  Kussell 

'  Irtto  Ivord  Lytton,  the  late  John 

'he  Inspectors  of  Schoois, 

:    our  Universities,  iind  a 

the  literary  cliLJ«s  huve 

!  reuce  u.nd  their  hope 

'w  iiriiahe*:!  the  few  jiAjn^m 

The  subject  i^  much  too 

I'l  all  I  sought  was  to  show 

'  reform  la  spelling  is  po«- 

'"'I'  ' '^' *Uire  or  shocking 

^^  1  I  Hay  I  do  Uitt 

,  nor  do  1  hope 
"',     I  crave  the 

,  iiriil  sliniild  }i«» 

U$  herve  even  jw  ;  I 

s.     The  new  ti..  :, 

•w  trans  for  til  sa  Mill  oi  our  .s|^h1K 

r   has   been   thuught  ix^Hsihle, 

LiiUT  is  most  hopeful,     I  have  no 


fgitifseid 

blin  : 
(the 


system  of  my  own  to  which  I  urn  wedded,  but  I 
have  eyes  to  see  and  experience  to  know,  aad^  like 
Demosthenes,  I  say  to  caviUer*,  "  Strike^  bat  hear 
me !  "  B.  CoBHjijtf  Beswisiu 

Lataat,  Chiobsilir. 


BuBDUA. — A  short  time  back^  a  Rnscijiii  friend, 
on  a  visit  to  England,  promiUgated  the  somewhat 
startling  proposition  that  Buddha  was  a  RnsBiaa. 
Knowing  the  haimlesi^  propensity  of  Shwimic 
etymologists  to  find  their  race  everywhere,  from 
CeyloD  to  WiUiihire,  for  both  of  which  Slavonic 
deriviitions  have  been  discovered,  and  lymng 
heard  uU  sorts  and  kinds  of  men,  from  Nebuchad- 
nezzar to  Prince  Bismarck,  not  to  mention  Prome^ 
theus  and  Alexander  the  Great,  claimed  to  swell 
the  glory  of  the  Slavonic  race,  I  'was  less  alarmed 
than  might  have  been  expected.  He  grounded 
his  theory  on  the  following  chain  of  arguments  :~ 
The  Shivs  were  Skyths  (which  is  probable),  ib^ 
Skyths  were  Sakie  (which  is  possible) ;  Buddha's 
early  name  being  Sakj'a-Mana,  and  he  having 
been  bom  id  India,  in  or  near  which  the  Siiktt^ 
niiiv,  or  may  not,  have  lived  aljout  that  period,  h& 
waj?  a  prince  of  thiit  race  (which  is  rather  wild)  ; 
also  he  found  a  considerable  Slavonic  tinge  in 
Bmldhii's  chimicter  and  doctrine,  in  which  I  agnse 
with  him.  I  paid  little  heed  to  his  ur^ments  ; 
bitt,  on  ca^uaiiy  glsincing  into  Mr.  WLnwood 
Beutle'a  book,  'Ilit:  MarUjnhm  of  Man,  shortly 
afterwariis,  I  saw  that  Sakya-Muna  took  the 
name  of  Buddha,  or  "  the  A  u^JcentJ,-^  I  am  not 
aware  in  what  language  it  has  this  meaning,  but 
snrelj'  it  is  a  most  niarvelloua  coincidence  that,  io 
Hiii^aian  and  Bohemian  certaiuly,  and,  I  believe, 
in  every  f!?lavonic  tongue,  budit  means  *^  to  wake.'* 

As « TON    W.    DlLKlG, 

"God  Save  thk  Kino/'— I  thought  thnt  my 
friend  Mr.  W.  Cbappell  had  nettled  the  dispute  as 
to  the  origin  of  our  National  Anthem*  But  I 
have  recently,  in  one  of  the  French  illustrated 
joumrtl%  reuil  u  French  claim  to  the  air,  and  also 
to  the  words.  The  version  of  the  latter,  par- 
ticularly of  the  stanza  where  we  have  '*  victoriotin  " 
and  **  glorious,"  apj)cared  to  me  us  the  clever 
forgery  of  some  wsg.  I  regret  that  I  have  lost  the 
cutting.  If  Mr,  Chnpjmll  has  seen  the  article,  I 
fihnuld  like  to  have  his  opinion  about  it.  It  wa« 
entitled  '*  French  Origin  of  Words  and  Tune  ufGod 
Sfirc  the  KintfJ'*  James  Hkxry  Dixox. 

[Mr*  Williatii  Chap^ell,  F.8.A.,  ha*  kindljr  fs?oure«l 
*'  N.  k  il"  with  the  fonowinjj  comment  on  ihii  natJoiutl 
lubjcct,] 

The  mistake  of  ^upposiug  (io*t  Sav<  tht^  Kimj  t*> 
be  French  cJiU  only  have  originate*!  with  y>me 
render  of  the  Sonvniin  d^  la  Marqum  dc  Cruiui, 
and  mistaking  that  work  for  history.  Its  r»«il 
chamcter  will  be  wen  by  TCt«mi4^\<i  ^<i  (^wwVrrVMi 


lee 


QUERIES. 


[5»  K  It,  A^.  ^S^ 


Jttneifi  for  June,  1834,    The  atoiy  of  Gi'«u«f  LHo*^ 

aauvt  Ic  Hoi^  composed  by  Lully,  and  sung  by  tlie 

[Kuns  of  St  Cyr  to  Louis  XIV..  is  imrc  invention. 

IFor  !i  further  account  us  to  how  Handel  is  tlit^xe 

aid  to  have  brought  the  National  Anthem  from 

France,  and  to  have  palmed  it  off  upon  the  Eng- 

Ilish  as  his  own  composition,  Ree  Ptyjmlnr  Mimic  of 

Wit!  Olden  Time,  ii.  692.      UnfortunaUdy  for  that 

itKirt  of  the  story,  Handel  never  entered  Fmnce^ 

his  own   God  Save   the  King  is  known  as 

TsABEL  AND  ELIZABETH. — When  Charles  II. 
aslied  the  Royal  Society  why  water  weitjhed  no 
heavier  with  a  fish  in  it  than  without^  it  is  siiid 
that  a  shrewd  member  of  the  society  presumed  to 
imiuire  whether  the  fact  were  so.  Since  that  time, 
one  >^Titer  after  another  has  drawn  inferences  from 
the  medifuval  custom  of  identifyinglsabel  and  Eliza- 
beth, but  the  shrewd  member  never  comes  forward 
to  demtind  the  proof  of  any  such  identiiiaitiun. 
Tliougli  I  do  not  claim  credit  for  ahixwdnes^,  yet 
allow  me  to  play  the  ]Mirt  of  the  memher.  I  came 
to  the  study  of  the  Rolls,  and  other  inediteval 
dociimentH,  with  the  pre-conceived  idea  that  I 
nhould  tind  the  fiame  person  constantly  nivuied 
both  liijibel  and  Elizabetli.  I  found  no  such  thing. 
I  met  with  out:  imtuncc  of  this  confusion  ;  aiid,  in 
another  passage,  I  found  the  same  person  called 
Margaret.  I  discovered  one  ca^c  of  the  same 
jjcrson  being  termed  Eleanor  and  Blanche,  several 
mixtures  of  Edmund  and  Edward^  and  some  dozen 
instances  of  the  interchangeable  use  of  Margaret, 
Margery,  and  Mury.  But  my  notion  of  the  ordinury 
exchange,  as  sATionyms^  of  Elizjibeth  and  Isabel 
faded  away  in  the  presence  of  facts.  I  wish,  there- 
fore, to  ask  why  viTiters  keep  repeating  this  asscr- 
tion  without  examination  (  If  tlierp  be  instances 
which  have  esniped  me,  I  shall  b-e  glad  to  hear  of 
them  ;  but  if  the  instances  he,  as  I  have  met  with 
them,  so  few  «s  to  be  mere  exceptions,  proving  the 
rule,  let  us  acknowledge  it  at  once. 

I  hope  I  tihall  not  be  answered  by  the  remiuder 
that  Isabel  ia  used  for  Elizidjeth  in  8puin.  1 
know  it  is  so,  but  I  am  sjieaking  not  of  Sjisanis'h 
use,  but  of  English.  .  The  Spaniards  use  Isiil^el 
because  they  have  no  Eliztibeth,  just  m  we  call 
two  of  our  Queens  who  were  Spanish  princesses 
t'-atherlne,  because  we  ha\  e  no  CaUdJna,  and  we 
were  ignorant  at  the  time  that  we  did  possess  the 
same  name  in  Kathleen. 

An  entry  on  the  Patent  Roll  for  8  Henry  V. 
seems  to  me  to  confirm  my  view  :— 

*'  Uxor  Nicltoki  Kyriell,  defancti,  Ch'r,  habuit  nomen 
EtLzabetha;,  et  noii  IsnbeUa?." 

Hod  the  two  names  been  considered  abj^olut^ly 
identical,  would  this  entry  have  been  written? 

HE&MEyTRlTDE. 

TnB  Devil  LiKEXEti  to  a  Busy  Bisaor.— In 
the  "Breefe  Notes  and  Remembraunecr"  of  Sir 


Jolin  Harington  {Niigtr  Antiqua^,  €>dition  17711 
vol  ii.  2'IH)  h  the  following  :— 

"  I  Ihya  day  heard  the  Kyngc  [James  I.]  di»lTTef  lii 
fit>eeche  totho  Commons  and  Lordes^an  I  t^^r.  l,  ,  .  -  ,    ,^^ 
thereof  therein  his  Majestie  calledo  t 
Bishtjpc,  eparyngc  neither  Inboure  nor  i 
of  London  tolde  mc,  he  thoughte  hia  Mnjf^tj. 
bttue  chosen  another  name," 

Neither  the  Bishop  of  London  nor  Sir  Jo 
Harington,  V>oth  learned  men»  .seem  to  have  bet*! 
aware  that  gentle  King  Jamie  might  have  quoteil 
old  Liitimer's  senuon,  The  Plougft,  a^  hia  aiithi> 
rity  for  this  phrase  :— 

"Who  i«  the  most  diligcnte^t  brRb<wi  and  P«tjit«  lal 
all  Englimd  J    I  will  tell  you:  U  uVhe  Devitl.    Itts  ii  T 
moii  diligent  pnuvcher-     He  ia  never  oat  of  hisdioc 
he  is  nerer  from  his  cure,  he  keepeth  resjdence  ftt  «ll 
tim^s." 

And  again  at  the  conclusion  of  the  *ermon:— 
"  The  devill  is  diligent  at  hiv  plough,  be  It  &0  HO* 
preaohiag  Prelate.'' 

H.  A.  KEyxs&r, 

Waterloo  bodge,  Heading* 

A  Miracle  jx  1656.— -The  Paris  eorrespoti 
of  the  Mtrt'unu/i  Politicus^  November  C,  ItVKiil 
sends  the  following  information,  which  may  notUl 
without  in te real  to  readers  of  Port-Roj'al  hl^torv: 

**  I  sent  you  word  of  n  new  Mir&cle  wroucbt  in  tli?  * 
Monastery  of  Port-Royall  in  the  City :  the  • 
Fostula  in  the  Eye  by  the  Touch  of  a  7/ 
(they  »fty)  was  taken  out  of  the  Crowri  -  ^ 
This  Miracle  growcth  famone,  lo  that  > 
identifuU  at  the  MouMtery,  therein  i 
Touch  of  this  Thorn  without  great  difficulty .' 

S. 

''Taking  a  Sioht.'*— The  mode  of  taking  a  I 
sight,  well  known  to  school-boys,  by  means  ofj 
applying  the  thumb  to  the  tip  of  the  nose  undl 
extendin<jf  the  fingers,  is,  I  find,  by  no  means  i1 
modem  invention.  We  find  it  mentioned  iaj 
Rabelais,  book  ii.  c.  19,  where  Panurge  cnconn*j 
ters  the  Englishman,  Thaumart. 

**  Pariurtrc  ^^udJcnly  lifted  up  in  the  a»r  his  rijfht  h*] 
and  put  the  thunih  thereof  into  the  nostril  of  tli.>  .ut 
side,  holdinj;  liis  four  fiDg^«;rs  straight  nut, 
orderly  ia  a  pandlelline  to  the  point  of  his  n^ 
the  left  eye  wholly,  and  nmkiitg  the  other  WinJt_ 
profound  depression  of  tlie  eyebrows  and  eyelidft*  " 
lifted  he  up  bi»  left  baiidl  with    InrJ    wruL^* 
BtretohinfT  forth  of  hia  four  fitu 
thumb,  which  he  held  in  a  tine  di  \4 

the  situation  of  his  right  hAtid,  v 
cubit  and  n  half  between  them, 
form  he  abased  toward  the  urouiHi  ,  nl  tin 

other  hand.     Ijnatly,  he  held  thecu  iu  the  uadat^  at  i 
ing  at  the  Englishman '»  nofc." 

E.   L.   BLCKttljrsOFF* 

The  First  English  Locomotivi:  is  Ni 
York.— 

**  Among  ilie  articles  deposited  in  the  corner  fton^a 
the  New  York  New  Coal  and  Iron  Exd    ' 

kid  a  few  we«k«  ago,  was  a  docunien 

following  curic>u«  scrap  of  hi«tory :— •  Th  < 

that  ran  on  n  roilroaa  on  this  Cantincnt  ^tu  uu^(^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


167 


(JFOfn  fingUnd  hy  this  company ;  wa«  ordered  in  England 
bj  H^ntio  Alien*  aaslatant  engineer  ,*  waa  shipped  from 
Mrefpool  April  3rd»  1829,  on  hoard  the  packet  ship 
John  Jiy ;  ixrtTed  in  Xevr  York  17th  of  May,  1821*  ,- 
Tu  serit  up  Ihe  river  to  Rondoat,&nd  arrived  the  4th  of 
JaJy,  1529;  from  thence  was  tran^orted  bj  canal »  Htid 
irnred  iit  HoQetdale  Juij  "Xin}.  1  S'29 ;  vad  on  the  Sth  of 
liupfit  nmde  the  trial  trip.  ThiEi  locomotive  %vaa  bailt 
ii  SUmrtridfe,  Enghmd,  nnd  the  boiler  ia  now  in  u«e  at 
Ov^Otulftle,  rexinfiylv&itiA/— TA«  Ewjinetr'' 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

Parallel  Passage. —  Prof.  Tyndall  finiahed 
[  hia  adtljreHH  to  the  nieTDl)eP5  of  tlie  British  Asso- 
I  ciatioD  Jit  Belfast  in  theae  words  ; — 

[  must  (juit  %  theme  too  prent  for  me  to  hxndle,  hut 
irhicli  will  be  h&ndlcd  by  (he  loftiest  mtmU  tif^eB  after 
\  you  &nd  I»  like  strei^ks  of  morning  cloudy  shall  have 
I  melted  into  the  inlinite  azure  of  the  past/* 

HuynuMin,  the  j^ipsy  [Qkuntin  Uunmrdj^  when 
I  ahi^Qt  to  l»c  hanged,  ia  asked  by  Quentin  wliat  he 
I  fxpccts  as  to  tho  future,  Hayraddin  answers  :^ 
Fo  b«  resolved  into  ibo  elements.  3fy  hope»  truit, 
pxfjeelAtion  U,  that  the  myaterious  fmitie  of  humRnity 
\  melt  into  the  general  m&m  of  nuture,  to  Le  recom- 
dcd  in  the  other  forina  with  which  the  daily  supplici 
I  which  daily  di*npp*''*''^  »"*f  return  under  different 
the  watery  I  1        '  '  '  atreauis  and  ahowere; 

hy  parti  to  i  fnothtr  earth,  the  airy 

I  to  wanton   ip  >        ,'e,  and  those  of  fire  to 

FfWTrBly  the  blaae  of  Aldiburstn  and  hia  brethren*     In  thia 
I  faita  have  1  lived,  and  I  will  die  in  it/' 

Hiivniddin  woiild  have  distinguished  himself 
[  at  Belfast,  but  he  was  before  hii*  time. 

E  DuoBUS. 

€Lutriti. 

I  We  must  request  coirG§pondcnt«  ile  siring  information 
n  f»Tiii!v  fuuttors  of  only  pri^Tvto  interest^  to  affix  their 
■An  refues  to  their  querief,  in  order  that  the 

nsf*  .  jiddressed  to  them  directs] 


fli^nnixo-CouxTtyo, — I  shall  be  glad  if  any 
he  thrown  upon  the  following  statement 
^nner  in  which  herring*  are  counted  on 
lur  I  of  Devon. 

A  .  Bucks,  Bideford,  Ilfracombe,  and 

M  f  m,  herriD^s  are  sold  by  the  "  maze  " 

I  or  *  f>12  tiiih.     This  nuniber  is  arrived  nt 

^l]  i;;  way  :  tho  hemn;i[x  ore  counted  by 

i  three  psh,  cnllcd  a  "cast^';  and 
1<>  "  castB '^  have  been  eountetl,  12u 
bare  been  n  ckoned,  ctiual  to  a  **  long  hun- 
T»  far-r,^  "'    ,ists"  are  counted,  und  the 
(III  of  theiie  3<*  more 
nn  calls  out  "  cast," 
nng  the  number 
fUf   I  roii  four  limes, 

ot   Ulii  ti  b,  licing^  four  times 
lip   the    ''luazo'*    or    **  mea^ " 
torn  is  a  very  old  one, 
m,  or  of  the  meaning 
ni       ni:»-'-*      «>r      me!v«s'  »eenis   to   Ije 
*Ca«t"  probably  me^ms  the  sanie  as 


"throw"— as  many  fish,  that  is,  aa  can  be  con- 
veniently thrown  or  handed  at  once.  The  nuinber 
153,  of  course,  recalls  the  number  of  fish  in  the 
miniciilous  draught  of  fishes  ;  but  this  suggestion 
when  offered  is  a  novelty  t^  the  fishermeo  of 
Cloveny  and  Bucks;  and,  tis  the  153  in  countinj^ 
the  herrings  is  not  arrived  at  by  one  reckoning, 
but  by  first  counting  as  far  as  the  "  long  hundred  " 
of  120;  then  lidding  li)  more  '^ca^ts,*'  that  k  to 
nay  30  fii*h  :  and,  histly,  by  throwing  in  the  odd 
three  fish,— the  coincidence  of  the  nuniber  with 
thitt  of  the  infraculons  dmught  of  fishes  imiyy 
probably,  be  only  accidental,  curioTis  n«  it  is*  At 
Yarmouth  herring'i  are  sold  by  the  "  la»t  '*  of 
1(MWX»,  und  at  Berwick  by  the  ".cran."  What  di. 
these  words  mean  ?  Frederick  Pollock. 

The  Two  TniEVES  at  Calvary*— Some  few 
yetirs  iigo  I  noted  down,  in  lecture  at  OxfonJ,  tliat 
the  mimes  of  the  two  thieves  cnicified  with  Chnnt 
were  Zorithoii  and  Camaiha.  Did  I  take  down 
the  names  correctly  !  What  are  the  authoritte)» 
for  the  tradition  ?  Perhaps  something  of  the 
history,  as  well  as  of  the  names,  of  these  two  men 
is  known*  G.  F.  B. 

*'  Ttib  Bird^s  Nest."— Where  can  I  find  this 
poem,  which  concludes  with  the*e  words  :  *'  It.*i 
little  beak  made  s^ ''  ?  G.  WoriiKaspooN* 

Fly-Leap  Inscriptions.— In  a  copy  of  Hyl- 
ton's  Scala  P^r/e#^f lo^aj*,  AVynkyn  deWorde,  1194, 
sold  on  Tuesday,  18th  August,  by  Messrs.  Sotheby, 
were  some  curious  M8.  note^  tmd  pmyei-i,  appa- 
rently MTitten  by  a  former  owner,  whose  name  wah 
thus  given  on  one  page :— -**  This  Boke  belongeth 
to  Dame  Jhone  Sewell,  Syster  in  Syon,  Pfe^^sed 
the  yere  off  oure  Sahiation  a  thousand  and  .syxc 
hundreth/'  The  ihiie  i-^  nerhaps  a  mistake  for 
15(><),  as  the  book  also  belonged  to  a  monk  of 
Sheen^  one  Grenehelgh,  in  HDO.  On  the  l>f»ck  of 
the  title-page  is  a  device  of  the  Indy :  it  connists 
of  a  kind  of  monogram  of  the  letters  J  and  S, 
with  *'  -ohanna  -ewell  "  alongside,  and  surrounded 
with  pious  invocations.  Alxtvc  this  inscription 
are  two  sets  of  verses.  The  first  U  Tieaded  : — 
"In  despuyng  of  y*  (lend  and  ghostly  eamye  tay  y*  bimn, 
O  tortuose  Serpens  qui  mille  per  meandros  fraudcsfjue/' 
with  five  or  six  lines  in  atldition.  A  pious  prayer 
addressed  to  Satan  is  certainly  a  curiosity.  After 
this  come<a— 

'*  Againat  vayne  dremes  or  faatosies  lay  y"  use, 
Pxul  o  p.cul  vaganta  portotita  9omnionim 
Prooul  eato  p.uicaci  prcttigiator  hasta.    Distcde,  to." 

Ih  any  MUch  charm  known  f  The  last  wordK 
seem  to  jxiint  to  a  continuation.  F.  K. 

"  Bnt^cLoo." — Will  liny  of  your  8c«utish  cor- 
re^ondents  kindly  say  in  what  collection  thi* 
hymn  tune  is  to  be  found j  and  from  what  pub* 


168 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6»*  a  IL  XuQ,  20,  71 


lUKer  it  can  be  procured,  or  whether  it  is  to  be  bid 
»cp«JTitely  ?  It«  moflic  runs  thfoogh  A  Jkxu^hUr 
of  mtJi.  T.  W.  C, 


Db  Clere  and  Pb  Braosb  FAHiUte.— In 
Vincent's  Misceltutiea  CotL  of  Ana^  B.  i,  fo.  71, 
maybe  found  the  following marriJiges  tabiiliitjwi:— 


Irnilimuft*  de  Brevofi&,  co^om&tu&^Mftiildis  T  '  Conutis  de 

GaiDf  obiit  Apud  B timbre,  lii  StiMcx,  I  CUre,  *]  i  •  Buronun, 

et  Bspoltua  in  Fnoratos  do  Selc,  I  Buck  in  j.  .: iiiti  acit  ut 


kc 


pAtet  In  Imj.,  ^c* 


I 

ditts  de  Brewocm  ante- 
'  iUonizn  dc  Wiiten- 
D,  in  com<  Su«acx,  unde 
Ut  Shirley. 


JoLiuincs  dc  Brewoaa^  de^tt^IargaretiL.  Dna. 
Brembre,  KiiAtip,  et  de  C&ntreselif, 
Gower.  Vido  Eecb.  a"*  &g. 
5Bd.  11.  No.  32. 


Rich«rdu«  de  Brefwoia«=.  , . ,  ^t«  «t 
Baro  duperRtea  1277t  I  nnft  birFiKl 
6  Ed.  L  KoetH     d<? 

1  Clert 


William  de  &rewo8tt.=I«abella,  filia  Gilbcrti  de  Clurej 
eo*  Olooc.  neptb  Gilberti  Ma- 
rescftlli,  Comb.  Fetnb. 


Jl<>w,  I  think  the  Above  will  puzzle  lUl  genen-  | 
who  hikse  OS  yet  maidled  with  tlie  De  | 
fttmily,  and  no  wonder  either  ;    but  my 
ient  object  is  to  find  out  who  Roger  de  Clere, 
ove  mentioned^  was  the  son  of.  1).  C*  E. 

5,  The  Croacetit,  Bedford. 


OF   Shaptesburt. — "Maria  AmiUi 

J«luuini»,   7   Dec,^   1    Ric.    I.,"   m  mimed 

I  (Rot.  Pat.,  21   Hen.  VI.^  Pars  Prima)  a.s  one  of 

I  the  Abhesiseii  of  Shaftesbury.     No  such  Princess 

^  t  on  record  iis  daughter  of  the  Empress  Maude,  or 

»ter  of  Queen  Kit  onore  of  Aquitaine.     She  may 

hATe  )»eeto  an  iUegilimate  daughter  of  Geoffrey 

FlaiitageDet.     Is  it  known  who  i^he  wait  7 

Hermentrude. 

Tom  Q0AB  at  CHRiar  Church*— Vast  openir 
tions  are  now  going  on  here,  wbieh  one  of  your 
nmny  Oxford  correspondents  might  be  willing  to 
cz^ain.  The  broad  gravel-Wiilk  is  being  lowered 
|«nd  JBade  much  narrower  ;  and  thuH  have  been 
Jo«ed  the  bases  of  the  buttresses  of  the  cloister 
[fihat  surrounded,  or  wa«  intended  to  surround*  tlie 
inadrangle.  I  am  sure  thut  some  authoritative 
ant  of  the  present  proceeflrngs,  and  also  of  the 
{tfeiiilt  they  are  intended  to  aim  at,  would  interest 
very  many  besides  Y, 

Mr.  BisRAELi's  ExpREssioK  OF  "  Flouts,  akd 
QtmES,  AND  JEERS.'' — Bv  Way  of  Variety,  and  ad  a 
slight  episode  in  the  jjarlinmentary  discussion  of 
the  Public  Worship  Eegolntion  Bill,  some  rather 
caustic  temaiks  were  passed  by  the  Premier  upon 
0e?tain  eanprwftions  uttered  in  another  place,  by 
bialtidiafiDeCFetary,  LoH  Salisbury,  Mr.  Disraeli's 
worda,  as  given  in  the  papers,  were  that  his 
coHaagae  wa«  a  man  given  to  **  iiout^,  and  gibes, 
and  jeers^"  Another  reading  met  with  in  a 
Loudon  journal  gave  the  last  word  as  **  sneers  ^ ; 
bat  pfwiblj  the  former  reading  is  (he  more  oor- 


•  This  William  wiui  the  one  who  wiu  it&rrcd  to  death 
in  WmdAor  Custle  by  King  John,  with  hu  mother  Maud, 
1210,  and  I  cannot  think  he  wiiu  baiT«d  at  StU  Priory, 
ihoiQgh  lie  may  hove  been  so. 


rect.     It  is  a  matter  of  interest  to  inqur 
**N*  &  i),'  whether  the  phraae  in   *{  ■ 
original  or  a  quotation,     it  hajs  n  rl a  i 
thing  of  the  ring  of  a  iiuotation,  lii:      it     ;  i    i 
terse  ;  perhaps,  then,  you  will  aLlo%   n   '     **    i 
as  a  question  to  your  readers,  whether  •  m*  ,    , 
ever  met  with  this  expression  before.  f 

Chtarchdawn. 

DuBLix  Taverns. — Can  aar  of  yo»i 
respondents  let  me  know  if  there  arr 
published  that  give  u  description  of  t 
taverns  and  their  owners  from  the  y* 
1779?  Wm.  Jackso*  in... 

Jhmdramj  go.  Down. 

Madame    Rolaxd,  —  Was  a   spurious    ^  T^i 
professing  to  l)e  her  Autobiogrjipby,  publisher i      I 
am  inclined  to  believe  so,  having  seen  in  an  Am  »  r 
can  newspaper,  published  early  in   this  ornuN 
references  to  poaaages  in  what  were 
Memoirs,  too  abominable  for  any  h^i 
written.  i  yt-v.i 

Phikdelphia. 

"  PiNA  Silver."— I  wish  to  know  til 
of  this  term.  It  is  applied  to  some  ^i 
bullion  captured  from  the  Spanish  in  U' 
it  also  stated  that  water  was  "  soked  • 
pitft  of  the  Pina  Silver."  What  6i>e^  -  i  lui 
mean]  H.  W.  H. 

'*Vox    DiAN.Y..*'  — Pn>f.    Petit,   in  his  leant 
work  on  Mary  Stuart,  has  gathered  togvtber  H»m«' 
interesting  contemporary  te»timonie«  to  the  t 
of  the  Queen  of  Soots.     One  of  these  is 
Dianw  !  God  bless  tluit  sweet  faiy*,*    <^ 
Where  in  Knox*ft  writing**  do  tbc«e  ^^ 
and  do  they  not  refer  to  the  custom  of  juoiutiu^  tin 
moon  ]  U.  F, 

HammfmiHrith^ 

RoMAK  Coin. — Any  information  reiiiifilitiii  tki-* 
coin  will  much  oVjlige.    On**? 
is  repre^nted  the  head  of  a  m.^ 
hodced  noee  and  projecting  ckin.     The  ktvk  id 


I 


II.AM.39,'71.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


169 


curlouslv  formed.      The  words  aximxts 

,  the  it  bein^a'  h^i  in  a  de^p 
M  ;  hea  comes  another  cracky  and 

nt  o  o  very  much  oblit^Tuted,  followed  by 
e  distinct  and  in  good  preseniation.  The 
tor  I  take  to  be  an  R  or  ii,  I  nit  c;mnot  Ije 
p$itive  on  thiit  print  The  other  letters  are 
Pgnizrible.  being  woni  down  almost  to  the 
ft.Thfi  reverse  represeotu  i\  woman  holdinj^ 
Dg  in  her  right  hand — what  it  h  I  can't 
he  only  ihing  I  can  liken  it  to  is  a  huge 
umbrella  \  Something  like  a  sword  is 
ed  by  Uer  left  bund*  The  lett^n  are  all 
*  "''  Hiis  aide,  but  I  think  1  van  yet  die- 
Tliere  are  suiall  putts  of  other 
....  ,„iug,  but  not  enough  to  identif)'  them. 

Eg,  IN  HIS  "  Battlk  of  Life/*  in  a  de- 
of, the   chan'jes  which   hivve  gr«iduBJly 
ce  oil  one  of  our  English   battle-fields, 
iise  of  the  two  following  reuiurkoble  psL^- 

no  t1Ui|(o  girl  would  drew  her  hair  or  boiom 
I  fweeUtt  flower  from  tkit  field  of  deAth>  and 
uiy  •  long  year  had  come  and  gone,  thf  berries 
M«rtf  won*  l,t£i4ved  to  Uavc  too  dttp  a  Uctin  o^i  (he 

e  were  deep  green  paicbes  in  the  ^n*o\nQg  corn 
th  it  people  looked  at  awfullj;  year  aft*?r  jear 
:  [  %ii  :  1,  and  it  wsj  knoivn.  that  undemeath 
•tA,  heaps  of  men  and  hones  lay  buriedp 
,  enriching  the  earth  ;  for  many  a  year 
r«.  H' 'Wn  there  were  cnlled  hnitlc-sheaTeft,  and 
^  ftod  no  one  ever  knew  a  battle-sheaf  to  be 
the  iMi  load  at  a  harvest  hoaie. '' 
here  imy  legends  respecting  the  iso-called 
l^eaf,  or  the  "  too  deep  ^tain ''  from  the 
owing  on  the  battle-ground  1  I  am  in- 
thio£  that  this  is  not  a  mere  picture  of 
%  imaginatioo. 

Jamjes  FsARaoyy  Juk. 

TH  AND  Eoo.*^ — This  name  is  often  npnlied 
is  nlsi'i  known  as  **  Britannia  metal."  Why 
ied**T€K>lUandEgg'»i  K. 

OK     Davis,— Is    the    ex-President    of 

ction  7      He  in  cbiimed  tm  a  relative 

tDw'iBei   in   CardiganahLre,  being  de- 

^llicyf  fitJiii  a  I^avis  who  emignited 

lity,  aad  settled  in  Virginia,  in  the 

imy.  T.  0.  LL 

iLR&a  THK  MARK."—  What  Is  the  origin 
Sbo-  of  the  8hak8[»earian  phrase.  "God 


U 


iufer 


es*  what  the 
iituf  of  Vcnia\ 


fa  purenlhetic  ftlKjh)gy  for  some  proCcme 


or  vulgar  word/*  The  other  commentators  give  no 
light  on  the  process  by  which  the  words  came  to 
be  BO  used.  Iota. 

Oban,  N.B. 

"Kexrlm  CHiLLrsoLT,"  voL  iL  375: — 
**  Fortunate  art  thou,  tny  reader,  if  thou  chanee  to 
liave  heard  the  popular  song  of  Mf  QiM/a  ning  by  the 
one  bdy  wlm  alone  can  ting  it  with  expresfion  worthy 
the  verse  of  the  paeteai  and  iba  mualc  of  the  compositton, 
by  tbc  aiatcr  of  the  eiquiute  tougitrasa" 

Wanted,  the  nauies  of  the  ladies  referred  to  in 
the  above  paragraph,  and  the  name  of  the  mib- 
lisber  of  the  music.  E,  T. 

*'  Rendbz-voub/* — About  what  period  did  this 
word  become  of  ordinary  use  in  England,  so  a«,  in 
fact,  to  become  an  English  word  I  It  appears  to 
have  been  a  very  favourite  expression  of  Oliver 
Cromwell's.  In  one  of  bis  earliest  letter*,  dated 
3rd  May,  1643,  and  addressed  to  **  The  Honourable 
the  Committee  at  Lincoln,"  I  find  it  use<l  no  leas 
than  f«mr  tirncj?,  and  in  the  later  pait  of  bis  corre- 
a^>ondence  it  fre^juently  occurs. 

K.  Fassikgham* 

An  Old  Claymore. — I  have  an  old  claymore 
which  ia  inscribed  along  the  blade  "'J.  J.  Runkel. 
Sohlingen."  Can  any  of  your  readers  kindly  give 
me  the  date  when  it  was  made  ?  Scot. 


THE  "CABMA.GNOLE." 
(5t»»  S.  ii.  a) 
In  reference  to  Ma.  Bouchikb's  rjuery  respecting 
the  music  of  the  Carttiagnoli\  which  is  a  well-known 
air  in  France,  but  which  I  am  not  able  to  prick  down, 
it  would  be  perhaps  int€reating  for  some  of  the 
readers  of  **  N.  k  Q,"  to  have  this  famouiJ  dong, 
not  with  its  *'  topical  *'  and  changing  form,  but  m 
its  original  andy  we  may  say,  dehnitive  words.  It 
is  as  follows  : — 

t. 
"  Quo  faut-il  au  E6pablicain  ?  flu) 
Da  plomb,  da  coour  et  puis  du  p^in :  (huj 
Du  plamb  pour  Tetrang^, 
Du  cceur  pour  sc  vcnger, 
Et  du  pftin  pour  sea  fri'res. 

Vive  Ic  mn  (hii) 
Et  du  puin  pour  ae«  frcrcs. 
ViYe  le  ion 
Bu  canon ! 

t^aiivonf  Ja  Cannagnolt  t 

Vive  le  *on  (hit) 
I>Hnians  la  Carmagnole  f 

Vifo  le  son  _ 

I>u  canon  \ 


Qu 


Vaut-U  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[5^5,  ILAITO.29,74 


Que  reclame  an  Rcpablicftlnl  (hir) 

La  mort  des  traitres  et  des  coquina,  (bU) 

La  piocho  dant  les  cachota^ 

La  torchc  daikH  le^?  chateaux, 

Et  la  paix  aux  cbaumiLTea; 

Vivo  le  aoti  (bif) 
£t  I*J|>A>ix  aux  chaumicr«a« 
Vive  le  son 
Du  canon  ? 

DttBfonH  Itt  Carmiignole  !  &c 


Que  recherche  iin  R^puhlicainT  (hU) 
Le  traTall,  la  ecience  ot  Ic  Tin :  (hi*) 
Le  travail  pour  manger, 
La  fcioncc  pour  8*<u'clairer, 
Et  le  vin  nlein  ton  rerrc  t 

Vive  le  aon  (hx») 
Et  le  vin  plein  sou  verre  ! 
Vive  le  son 
Du  canon  ? 

Dansona  la  Cnnnagnole  f  kc 


Quels  font  les  Dieux  Rdpnbljcaini  1  (hit) 
La  Xaturo  ot  le  Genre  H  urns  in  !  (U*) 
Le  ciilte  a  la  Patria  ! 
L«  Christ  A  la  voirie  • 
Et  le  Saint- Pi>ro  au  dlikble  ! 

Vive  k  son  (hU) 
Et  le  Saint-Pere  an  diable  ! 
Vive  le  aon 
I>a  canon  ! 

Danflona  la  Carmagnole  I  kc 


Que  desire  un  R^«pnbUcam )  (hi*) 
C'est  de  nionrir  sana  calotm^  ihi*) 
Un  fili  pour  le  pletirer. 
Le  peupk  pour  I'cluver, 
Le  resect  ^  sa  Mere  ! 
ViTfl  le  son  (bit) 
Le  respect  h.  aa  Mdrc  f 
Vive  Ic  son 
Du  canon  ! 

Dansona  la  Caimagnole  !  &c. 


ViTc  la  Commnne  dc  Paris  J  (hit) 
Vivent  nos  setitioiis  et  nos  districtB  J  (hi:) 
PJui  de  riches  sur  nous, 
]>e  pauvrca  li  gcnoux  ! 
Aux  faln(iaut4  la  upuerre  I 

Vive  Ic  son  (hit) 
Aux  faini>anta  la  guerre  • 
Vive  te  son 
Du  caAon ! 

Dansons  1a  Carmaj^ole  \ 

Vive  Ic  aon  (hit) 
Dansofia  la  Carn^agnole  f 
ViYc  le  aon 
I>u  canon !  ** 


Thus  was  ii^in  the  CarmagnoU  sijug  by  the 
people  of  Pans  during  the  Revolution   of  the  j 
18th  MarcL,  187l»  ^ 

Kjt  Academy. 


Hkkrj  Gau6€ER0>'. 


woulil 


>  lie  I 


THE  DE  QUmCIS,  EARLS  OP  WIJTTOK 

(4*»»  S.  X.  xi.  xii.  fomm ;  b^  S.  L  98.  im> 

To  continue  my  references  fri^ui  old  clmrtcrs  tnl 
wliicb  the  family  of  Be  Quinci  nppenrs, 
draw  attention  to  a  chnrter  in  the   ?■  > -^ 
lar crocks  which  has  been  hitely  pn 
by  Lord    Herries,   under    the  enit--      , 
Fntscr.     Hern  we  find  n  charter  bv  William  iBe] 
Lion    to    William    Giffard,   of    Thibu   (TealiDgX 
afterwards  the  property  of  the  Maxwells,  in  which 
tht^  names  of  the  following  witneis?^es  are  ottAched  ; 

*'  Reginaldo     Roesenai    epiacopo,    Comite     r>uncano  I 
justiciariOf    Itoherto   de  Qmnci,    Philippo    de   VRlnnil* 
ciimeraho^    Willclmo    Cumin,    Jolmnne    de 
Wiilelmo    de    Ilaiaj,  Haiiu1|>ho   Je  Soulia,    ^ 
Bcrkclny,   RoRero  dc   Mortcim'r,   PhKir^^^ 
Wiiltero  Miu*dac,  Rogtro  de  Kerlicl,  H 
$ir!;ill0p  apud  Monros  j^Montrose)  prirao  ui 

There  h  no  date,  but  Mr.  Fraser  places  it  between  I 
ll!)5"ll!}9. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  thnt  Soiher  waa  ?on  I 
of  Robert,  us  I  find,  in  the  volume  entitled! 
The  Chiefs  of  f'olqvhoun  and  ihrir  CourUr^l 
(l86Ji),  a  confinuMtion  by  Pope  Clctneni  ^ 
(il88)  of  ft  grjmt,  *'  ex  dono  Hoberti  de  QuiJ 
Seer  filii  ejuj*,"  to  Henry,  abbot,  and  the  C^o 
of  Newbot  tie,  of  the  Orange  of  Prestoun. 

That  charter  of  Alexander  IL  (15.1?^  ^n^ 
the  barony  of  Kylosbern  to  Ivan  t^      " 
which  I  quoted  (4^  S.  v.  ^62)  for 
name  of  Roger  de  Quinci  at«a<be>i  ti- 
diately  after  the  name  of  William  de  B- 
Chancellor  ;  but  he  does  not  atll  hiuiseli 
Wintonie.^     It  will  beobi*erved  that  there  aretw^| 
hdies  mentioned  in  these  charters  a^  wives  of  tho 
Be  Quinciii  of  which  no  notice  has  been  taken  ial 
the  discussion,  namely,  Eva,  wife  of  Il<ii.nl    nrulT 
Eleanor,  second  wife  of  Roger     I?  it  kf 
what  families  they  were  connected?     It 
if  Eva  had  l>een  previou>*ly  mrtrried  to  W  tiiter  dt 
Berkeley  liefore  she  became  thr  wife  of  Robert  d<l 
t^bdncy   and    had    a    6on    Jolin,   but   by   whift' 
husband  does  not  appear.    All  this*  ANOLO-f 
umy  be  able  to  clear  up,     We  have  thus  th 
thi^ee   generations— Robert,   Seher,   and   Rogc 
extending  from   about  A.D.    1143    i  l| 

when  it  i^eems  to  be  agreed  that  I' 
is,  from  the  middle  of  the  reign  of  J  *.i  \  u  *     M 
1153)  to  the  middle  of  (he  reign  of  Alexander  III 
(1249-12B5).      I    would    venture    to 
pedigree  of  those  De  Quincis  uientior 
above  charters  thus,  along  with  the  C*^^ 
tuny  be  csonMidei^d  eertain  : — 


6»an.AuAS9,7*.l 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


in 


Sether,  cai«ef=Mar^ret,  iiater  of 
1207,  died  i  FitJE-Parnell,  Earl 
1219.  (  of  Leicester, 


John. 


lit,  Hel«i=Boircr.  122^3, 1232^2Dd,  Elenaor. 
died  11>64. 

The  De  ^uinci^  here  mentioned  in  these 
rti«h  cluirtcrs  include  only  the  three  later 
iona,  bin  ;;ive  no  jissbtnnce  to  denr  up  the 
Itics  of  the  enrlier  irenerntionf*  goiini  tmck 
from  A.»,  1143.  I  would  rwk  An«lo-Scot[:s 
^  whether  a  witno^n  in  that  charter  of  De  Brus 
B  granting  the  church  of  Anntmd,  &c.^  to  tlie 
^L  Abbey  of  Gysehiirgln  circa  1141,  to  which  he 
^B^M  drawn  our  titttniion,  and  which  is  found  in 
^Hvn  A^Apendix  lo  llie  <.'lmrtuhiry  of  Gl[L^r;:oWf  may 
oot  give  ftonie  aswikt.ince.  There  I  find,  after  the 
name  of  Adnni  fir  Sf  vton,  the  foUowinj^  name  : — 
"  Willdmu-  \  1  di,  filii  8eyeri."     Here  we 

luive   three   .  dtiling  from  tthont  1141, 

which,  if  we  n;uy  judge  frOTn  the  Ii*ter  generation 
given  abovf^^  would  carry  the  l>irth  of  this  Seyer 
otor!  it  A^T).  U}2i.     This  would  suit  very 

we:  -L*yer,  who  is^  said  to  htive  come  over 

wli  rVie  Conqueror  in  1<KJ6,  as  he  would 

th«  :   :ry-six  yeiir^  of  at?e.     It  would  be 

thi«  ^--.»»i  »>i.o  would  give  for  ^*  the  soul  of  him- 
•vlf  und  his  ?on  Seyer '*  the  donation  to  Dunmow. 
*rh<*  i.^rf.wl  l.,.vi-->v.r  jit  which  he  lived  will 
scv  n-  the  husbund  of  Maud  St. 

Li.  n   de  St.   Lit/  the  first,  of 

wb  S.  xl  44H)  spealw,  who  wiia 

frr  ,  son  of  Riclmrd  Fitz  Gia- 

ml,   ^licondiy,   to  Heyer  de  Qninci.      It 
;o  me  that  it  must  be  the  second  Seyer, 
ttho  uhj^  ujiirried  to  Maud  St,  Liz,  daughter  of 
DuTTid  I. 'a  fjueen. 


Ir 


1  liiUjit  ii|K)iuyj>:e  for  *■ 
lftf>fi  of  wbtch   T  bnvp 


wife  of  Roger  de  Quincy, 

er  she  waa  fall  sister  to 

..I  jaEin  de  B:\liol,  Lord  of  Eem.*ird 

m  we  are  indebted  for  theoKI  bridj^^e 

"  '  if  Miirgaret,  danj^hter  of  Davtd^ 

fT»  be  not  her  motlier,  who  was 

.it'   tivf'^    ^' " '    btieu   ih(^   eldest 

ter  hu  d^i  became,  1  fiup- 

1i»  r      '  ju<    Scotiay'    in 

T>,  of  Galloway. 

'  y,  cin  ho  be  the 

A    of  Wiiiifim  the  Lion^  whose 

I  ten  in  the  **  Liber  de  Mclros  "  i 

nn'^  in  a  qnes^- 

knowledj^e ;  but 

on,  as  they  are 

rn,  and  I  shall 

cimrin;:  Up  the  obscure 

'l\\  0,    T,    R.UI AOK, 


Bt;KYA»'8  Compeers  and  pRatrKCESsoiis  (5** 
S.  ii.  104.) — Certain  Rtatements  in  thi:?  paner 
seem  to  me  so  contrary  to  fact,  and  to  involve 
clijtr^'es  so  grave  ag.*4iDst  two  of  the  moat  eminent 
of  the  early  Fathers  of  the  Christinn  Church,  th.it 
I  cannot  let  them  pasH  without  a  word  of  honest 
remonj^trance,  Irenfi'us  and  TertuUian  are  flatly 
charged  with  wilful  discrepancy  of  statement  to 
suit  their  own  ends.  Of  the  fonuer  it  is  said, — 
"Irena?UH^  against  heresies,  at  one  time  quotes 
Htrmas  with  approbation,  when  he  supjiorts  his 
views,  and  on  another  occimon  condemns  him  and 
his  works,  when  cgntrarj"  to  him."  We  should 
have  been  very  grateful  for  chapter  and  verse. 
Irenieus,  it  U  quite  true,  *' quotes  Hirjttas  with 
approbation,**  and  the  quotation  will  be  found  in 
Contra  Ihtrata,  Lib.  IV.  c.aj>.  X3C,,— "  Bene  ergo 
prominctiit  scriptura,  qu.a^  dicit :  Primo  omnium 
cralc^  quonimn  unus  Mt  Dent,  fjui  omnia  conslituUj 
d  constimmavii ;  d  /veil  t.i-  co  qnod  UGfi  entfj  ut 
f^ifiifd  omnia:  ovuiinm.  cajMt(\  d  'jui  h  nemine 
eapUUiit.'*  On  which  the  ffK>t-note,  —  "Hennas 
Fcmtonm  intellif^ct,  ex  cujus  lib.  ii.  mand.  1,  verba 
hie  cituta  desumpta  sunt."  I  tind  no  other  men- 
tion of  this  Hermas  ;  but  in  Lib.  XL  cap.  xxxiii. 
3.  2,  he  seems  to  make  allusion  to  Hermejt  Tris- 
magvitusj  as  an  advocate  of  the  doctrine  of  the 
trans mignttion  of  souls. 

**  TertuUian/'  we  are  informed,  *'  on  prayer,  as- 
^imes  the  Scriptural  dij^mity  uf  the  book  called 
TTic  Shepherd  of  Hcruinjt;  yet  in  another,  De 
Fiidicitia^  when  the  text  is  agatust  him,  be  treats 
the  same  work  i\»  impure,  apocryphal,  and  scouted 
by  all  the  churches."  The  pu-^sac^e^  I  pre^time, 
referred  t-o  a-s  ansunung  ^*  the  Scriptural  digaity  " 
of  thLs  book  is  this  {Dt  Orationt^  xii.) : — 

*^  Item  quod  aft^it^ata  omtiorte  ns«idenr!i  nio9  etC 
qtttbusdam^  non  ]>er«picto  ratioitetn,  nisi  ei  Hermits  ilt^, 
cujm  fcnpturafere  Pastor  inscrilitur,  traniacta  orationo 
noil  frapcr  lectam  jf«tedisBet,  termn  nJiad  quid  focueet, 
id  quoque  ad  obserr&tionom  rindicaremus.^* 

Whnt  assumption  is  there  here  of  **  Scriptural 
dignity,"  or  dij^nity  of  any  kind  ?  Hermes  only  is 
quoted  as  tea<'hing  a  reverentinl  attitude  in  prayer, 
not  a  word  is  aald  or  a  hint  dropped  a^  to  the 
nature  of  his  writin^^*.  Thi«  we  have  fully  and  in 
no  measured  term^  in  Lk  Fndinthi^  c.ip.  x,|  but, 
to  u)y  mind,  without  justly  subjecting  nim  to  fto 
serious  a  diar^^e  a,^  wilful  contrfidictton.  His 
attitude  in  prayer  TerUdlian  comiucnds,  but  cei^ 
tain  of  his  dotrtrineH  he  so  uttirly  reproltates  a«  to 
give  it  as  \\U  upinion  that  his  book  had  been  justly 
condonmcd  s\»  apocrjqjhnl  and  fal«c*  by  every 
Council  of  the  Church.  I  see  no  "variation  of 
opinion  here." 

Easeluus  does  not  go  «o  far  ns  to  «iy  that  "  it 
wa»  used  by  the  earliest  Churehes  as  a  boak  of 
elementarj*  instruction/'  but  only  that  ^rij  »om€  it 
wa««  judged  a  very  tjece***ary  book^  espe<'iaUy  for 
teaching  the  first  elem^tiW  <ti1  C\\t\»\Aa?&\\iv    ^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[S»S.IT.ltTc.t5;Tt 


was,  no  doubt,  held  in  Ligb  esteem^  and  often 
quoted  A3  authority  by  ancient  writera.  It  hns 
always  j^eemed  to  me  to  bear,  in  niuny  parts  of  it, 
a  very  atriking  likeness  to  The  Piljf rim's  Progress. 
Edmund  Tew,  M,A. 

Thk  S UN-flow jer  (5*»»  S,  L  165,  256,  417  ;  ii, 
17.)^ — The  Jerusalem  artichoke  is  the  Helmnthus 
fuherosu$i  a  p^?rermiid  plant  of  the  same  family  as 
the  common  simtlowcr,  Avhich  is  an  annwtl.  In 
favouruble  seiwons  like  the  present  the  above 
artichoke  bears  liowers  almost  equal  to  those  of 
the  guntlower^the  Hdianthvs  aunuus;  but,  in 
general,  the  tJowers  of  the  tubcrosvs  are  of  an  in- 
ferior size,  iind  lack  the  ele^nce  and  bri^^ht  colour 
of  the  garden  sunflower.  The  name  *'  Jerufialem/' 
in  union  with  artk-hoke  is  evidently  a  corruption 
of  the  Italiun  word  ginuok^  which  means  "  turn- 
win."  Thanks  to  ftlu*  Blenicinsopp  for  tbii*  in- 
formation, the  tnith  of  which  is  to  me  self-evident. 

A   MURITHIAN. 

If  A  MuRiTHiAy  had  turned  to  the  iwges  of 
old  Crerard's  Herbal^  he  would  have  found  that 
aaoe  observer  taking  the  same  view  of  the  **  popular 
fallacy ''  m  Chtitdert  Bf.dh  ;  and  my  observation 
is  entirely  in  unison  with  that  of  the  quaint  herbal- 
ist as  a  matter  of  fact.    He  says:-- 

"  The  llower  of  the  Sunae  is  colled  m  Latino  F'iojt 
Solt'i^  inking  that  name  from  tboie  that  have  reported  it 
to  turae  with  the  Sunnc,  the  whicU  I  could  never  ob- 
wrre,  although  I  have  endeavoured  to  find  oat  the  truth 
of  it ;  but  I  rather  think  it  waj  f  o  called  because  it  doth 
retemble  the  mdiant  benmefl  of  the  Sunne,  whereupon 
iome  hare  called  it  Corona  Soliij  and  Sol  Indidntts,  the 
Indian  Sunflower/* 

No  doubt  the  notion  of  some  particular  flower 
turning  to  and  with  the  sun  **  is  a  very  ancient 
one,"  and  Ovid  says  of  his  suntlower  (transformed 
from  the  nymph  Clytia,  who  vainly  loveii  AiwUo) — 

"  Still  the  lov'd  object  the  fond  leaTea  pursue. 
Still  moYo  their  root  the  moving  «itu  to  view/' 

The  **  fond  leaves  "  are  what  liotaoiHtii  would  call 
the  petals  of  the  flower  ;  but*  though  Ovid  may  be 
correct  as  to  the  plant  he  had  in  view,  it  wa«  cer- 
tainly not  the  modern  Peruvian  sunflower  (Hdian* 
thus  anntiUis),  which  was  unknown  to  the  ancient 
world,  Ovid's  idea,  however,  was  too  good  to  be 
lost  sight  of,  and,  therefore,  modern  poeta,  who 
are  seldom  botanists,  finding  a  flaming  stintlower 
in  gardens,  which,  with  its  golden  rays,  i^,  tis  Lou- 
don says  in  his  EnnjchjMrdia  of  FlnnU^  a  **  com- 
plete idetd  representative  of  the  sun/'  iippropriated 
the  simile  of  Ovid  to  the  Peruvian  plant  without 
caring  to  verify  the  foct ;  though  when  planted  iu 
a  favourable  jjositton,  as  most  flowers  revel  iu  the 
bhy&e  of  day,  navu  of  the  staring  flowers  of  the 
Helianthus  would,  doubtlew,  Ikoe  the  solar  beams. 
Pr,  Darwin,  iu  his  Loir*  of  the  rianfii,  describes 
the  sunflower  as  watching  the  course  of  the  i»un 
rather  than  turning  round  with  it : — 


"  With  xealoQB  rtep  he  climbi  the  upland  lawYi, 
And  bows  in  homtj^e  to  the  riiing  dawn; 
Imbibefl  vith  eafcle  oje  the  golden  rav^ 
And  wfttchea,  as  it  moves,  the  orb  of  oav/* 

The  simile«  of  poets  arc  ofttr 

they  are  not  to  be  reive*  1  on  a.^ 

That  sunflowers  in  gardens  may  Lt 

sun  may  be  true,  but  to  say  that  .< 

Cowley  expresses  it,  "  follow  i  ^ 

he  turns,"  is   incorrect.     Pr- 

wjia  a  good  botanist,  has  atatvu  m 

four  flowers  on  the  Barae  stem  poiiir 

canlinal  points  ;  and,  as  I  can  texi..,, 

means   unoommon   in  a  ^roup  of  suiii 

perceive     their     staring    dial-like     coui 

rodiant  and  golden  as  the  petals  are,  poiniiiig  Uf 

every  quarter  of  the  compL«s» 

Edwik  Lkkb,  F.I*,8, 
Green  Hill  Summit,  Worcester 

StrPPOSED  PRIKSTLV   CaCKLTY   (5*   S,  H  1 27 J 

— Middle  TEMPLA.Rwill  find  the  story  n II u. 1.^1 
by  Blackstone  in  vol.  viii,  p.  2^6  iqo,. 
Acts  and    Monurnents,   edited   by    the    : 
Townshend,  M.A.      (Seeley,  Burnside  ^ 
London,  1849.)     The  authorities  there  quo^ 
Dicey's  Hiaiory  of  Qunrnsey,  p,  48,  and  Ha 
Survey  of  Guernsey  and  Jtrsey,     The  gist  ( 
matter  was  as  follows  : — 

In  May,  1556,  Katherine  Cawchea  and  Utf  ti 
daughters,  Guillemtne  Guilbert  and  Penjtin 
Massey,  were  trieil  in  Guernsey  for  theft  and  < 
honesty,  and  acquitted  t  but  the  - 
as  to  character  which  ass^isted  in 
acquittal  proved  also  that  they  wt  i 
to  the  commands  of  the  Roman  t_ 
They  were  consequently  taken  intocu  ^  , 
time,  and  kept  in  prison.  The  Bailitf,  Lieut 
and  Jurats  placed  the  matter  in  the  Imuds 
Dean  and  C unites,  and  the  accused  weit 
examined,  declared  by  the  clergy  to  l>c  ha 
The  Bailiff  and  Jumts  ordered  an  examh 
which  aceordLngly  took  place,  that  of  each  i 
being  mode  separately.  On  the  4th  of  iJulr  ' 
Dean  and  Clergy  delivered  to  a  full  Court  of  tl^ 
Btiiliff  and  ten  Jurats  their  act  and  sentenei 
namely,  that  the  accused  were  heretics  and  ahou 
be  sentenced  to  b«  burnt.  The  three  wotoen  ' 
then  sent  for  to  the  Court,  where  they  profw 
themselves  willing  to  conform  to  f  I 

n:tnces,   but    were    condemned    n 
They   then   appealed,  but   un  •• 
Crown.     At  the  time  of  c\i 
were  set  up.     At  the  n»  id  die  ; 
the  elder  daughter  on  the  n 
I  he  left.     They  were  first  t>trn   _, 
broke  before  they  were  dead,  and  thev  ir»>pp 
into  the  tlame^J,     Perotioe,  who  Wii«  dieu  in 
advanced  ntate  of  pregnancy,  fell  on  her  hide  ai| 
burst.      The  infant  felt  into  the   Ere,   and   oQ 
\\\  Houi$e,  took  it  out  and  laid  it  on  the 


y^ 


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I 


[TJM  child  wii*  tftltoD  to  the  Provost  (PrMt)^  and 
to  the  BjiililT,  who  ordered  it  to  1>p  carried 
tiiinin  and  cusi  into  the  lire,  where  it  waa 
urn  mother,  ,fi:randiiiotber,  lind  iiunt. 

I  Qce  of  thi*  pro<:eediiig,  Katherine's 

:vi;trthew,  appealed  to  Lbo  (JSueen  in  1562, 
the  Bean  wna  dkspoH^cssed  ol"  his  livings  and 
whereupou  the  Bailiff,  J  unit  a,  Deun, 
ititioned  for  pardon,  and  recei%'«?d  it* 
A,  DE  L.  Bammond, 

The  account  which  Blatkstone  rjiiotes  may  be 
found  in  Foxe's  AiU  and  Moniiiit4^HU.  edition 
ldGd<,  vol.  viii,  part  i.  p,  226.     It  is  headed — 

"  A  Tragical.  Lamentable,  and  Pitiful  History,  full  of 
ih*  mott  cniel  nnd  Tyrannical  murder  done  by  the  pre- 
tenMri  CtttKalie*  upnri  thre«  wunieu  and  ati  Infant ;  to 
wit  the  mother,  her  two  dftu^hters.  and  the  ohUd.  in  the 
!«)«  of  Oti^rniey,  fop  ChrisfB  true  ReUgton,  July  18,  the 
jmf  of  our  Lord,  15f>6." 

TV-  -»'"-^^  U  lamentable  enon^'b,  but  it  seems  to 
Oie  rary  to  the  nature  of  things  that  th<5 

imci':  _  -  be  tale  which  give«  to  it  such  exceed- 
ii^  hoiTor  can  have  happened  in  the  ordinary 
cotsrie  of  nature.  I  concUule^  therefore,  either  that 
th4>  ruiin  who  first  divulged  the  at^ry  lied,  or  that 
a  miracle  was  wrought  for  the  purpose  of  giving  to 
the  penecuiora  a  chance  for  additional  cruelty. 

K.  R  D.  R 

Tlie  best  thin$r  which  your  oorrespoodent  can  do 

b  to  resid  the  r*tory  in  Fore's  Acis  aud  MimuincnU, 
.er«  and  voudiers  appended  for  the 
ibters.  No  human  being  ever  wrote 
nt  (xaiid  hAve  written  a  work  of  that  siie,  derived 
chicflr  from  oral  evidence,  without  some  mistakes  ; 
bttt  the  more  I  use  his  works— «nd  I  have  done  so 
pretty  larjt^ely^the  more  thoroughly  I  am  con- 
d  of  the  perfect  honesty  and  general  tnist- 
liness  of  the  old  raartyrologist.  It  h  the 
to  sneer  at  Foxe  as  an  authority,  but  I  am 
aoff^r  to  see  that  «neer  in  the  pages  of ''  N.  &  Q." 

Hbrmentrudk. 

Turn  Tmrnrt^xm  a»i>  HosriTALtuRs  (5**  S.  ii. 
IKK) — The  distinction  in  dre^s  between  these  two 
ooient  was  thai  the  former  wore  a  white  robe  with 


croiMj, 


and  the  hitter  a  black  robe  with  a 
The   Templars  origiDally  had   no 
'     -  but,  wnen  their  order  received 
n  of  the  Council  of  Troyes,  in 
'^r•^^  adopted.     The  red  croaa 
^  IIL  in  1I4C.     The  Hew- 
:    oTHTftnization,  selected  for 
;ii  ii:    il  .[    i^^lio  with  a  white  cross 
;     ii    Ireast :  and  when  they 
I  d  du  Puy,  in  1 1 1 8,  as  a 
.'oially  enjoined  that — 
!  ^li^Jl  I  -jir  npoQ  their 
■  rd.  r  tli:u  tbcy  wiay  re- 
DL»rr  (o  LK-iir  in  ir>f.Mr  iicaiiv  tlie  oro«i  of  J^tui  Chriit 
I  adociiad  with  the  eight  virtoM  which  accocnpaiky  it/* 


&  ird 
wliite 
dblmcti- 

IIS^  a  ^. 
«aa  abided 


rob 


Alexander  IV.,  in  a  Bull  published  at  Anagni^ 
in  12r>9,  makes  a  distinction  net  ween  the  Knights 
of  the  Hospital  an<t  the  inferior  classes,  by  ordering 
thiit  they  shall  wear  black  miintles,  but  in  battle 
and  campaign  '^  surcoats  and  other  military  decora- 
tions of  a  red  colour,  on  which  there  aball  be  a 
cross  of  white  colour  sewn  on  in  acoordance  with 
that  on  your  standard."  The  servants  of  the  order, 
who  were  permitted  to  marry,  wore  a  demi-ccosB 
of  three  branches.  J.  CstARLES  Cox. 

U  axel  wood,  B«lp«r. 

The  H  "s— the  older  order— wore  a  black 

habit  V.  ute  cross  of  eight  points  on  tlie 

breast.  BuL  alter  the  suooessful  defence  of  Khodes 
ogninst  the  SamceiiB,  in  131 L  the  Grand  Master 
adopted  in  :i  '  :  '  '     '  ''     '     r  letters 

F.  E.  R.T.,fi  UfMiiL 

Those  of  tht-  uiun  ^iuk-m  I'^tjnu*^,  r'l    iiKUU-CTOSBe^ 

and  who  were  allowed  to  marrv,  wore  a  goldttli 
croas  of  ikrce  branches,  those  of  the  knights,  chap- 
laliia,  and  servants,  having  four.  Their  true 
badge,  boweverf  was  the  white  cross  of  eight 
points,  as  the  other  could  not  be  worn  without  a 
special  order  from  the  Grand  Mast-er. 

The  Templars  wore  u  white  habit,  to  which  Pope 
Eugenius  III.  added  a  red  cross  on  the  breast. 
Their  *"  banner —the  Btausrant — waK  of  black  and 
white,  inacribetiwith  the  motto,  JVo«  nobis^  Dfimint, 
uon  fwbi4,  6td  nomini  /tw)  da  jhrianu''  The  a^ai 
of  the  order  was  two  men  seateil  on  one  horse. 
Edmcnd  Tew,  M.A. 

This  paragraph  reminds  me  of  a  question  I  have 
never  been  able  to  answer.  These  knights  are 
always!  called  priests  ;  but  when  and  how  were 
theyordainett  t  Was  it  before  their  knighthood, 
or  after  I  Was  it,  as  a  matter  of  course,  by  the 
bishop  in  whose  diocese  they  were,  or  had  they  to 
seek  their  orders  from  any  particular  bishop  ?  And 
on  receiving  knighthood,  did  they  go  through  all 
the  minor  orders  at  once,  or  were  these  given  while 
they  were  squires  I  No  doubt  St.  Bernard's  liuUs 
of  the  Tcfiipk  would  answer  me ;  but  I  have  no 
means  of  referring  to  his  works. 

Charltm?  F.  S.  Warrkn,  M.A. 

John  OHUKCinLL,  M.P.  for  Nkwtown,  1879 
(5^»»  S.  iL  110.)— If  Sir  Bernard  Burke  (who  has 
lately  come  off  rather  badly  in  **  N.  &  Q.")  may  be 
trusted,  *'  in  1679  Marlborough  attended  the  Duke 
of  York  into  Flanders,  and  the  following  year  into 
iScothind."  C.  F.  S.  Warrex,  M.A, 

**  My  chaise  thb  viLiMas  i»y  did  o ai^c  '*  (5** 
S.  ii,  no)  was  written  by  Samuel  Roberts  of 
Sheffield,  a  manufacturer,  and  u  m.'in  of  grwt 
activity  and  benevolence.  It  was  entitled  Ttt^ 
iJrj>h/nt4,  and  was  sent  to  Jamc*  ^lontgomery, 
Sheffield,  for  insertion  in  the  SJuiffidd  IrLt,  This 
was  the  commencement   oC  th«  }fii^SL  ^Tc«^^j2wk^ 


1T4 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*aiLAco.»/74. 


which  afterwunU  exiftt^^d  between  these  two  good 
men.  The  lines  appeared  In  the  Iris  in  November, 
1804^  and  Mont^ottierj*,  in  a  note  to  the  ^mter, 
spettkB  of  **  the  ntfertinjjf  deii;^ht  with  which  he 
had  frequently  read  theiu*' ;  see  HolIand'M  Life  of 
Mont^OTitery,  roL  ii.,  p.  55»  The  ballaji  jipp4?;trA 
in  mtiijy  coliections,  and  is  stated  to  be  anon  vinous. 

1.  J. 

"Kraa  Coal's  Levee"  (b^  S.  ii-  110.)— Ihuve 
thU,  on  the  title  "  By  John  Scafe,  Esq,/'  12'\  pp.  3^, 
Alnwick,  Grahura,  i8l8»  with  a  Poeticid  Address, 
1  pfVjie  and  '*  Note.  The  i^oitmtitic  reader  will 
perceive  that  this  jca  tl^nprit  hoa  reference  only  to 
the  geologiad  feuturei*  and  order  of  stnitification  of 
England  and  Wales."  Of  this  only  twenty- Hve 
copies  were  printetl  lor  private  circulation.  The 
4t.h  edition,  lti'\  D^nd.,  1^20,  with  the  addition  of 
Conybeare  and  Buckland's  enlargements,  thelirst 
to  the  text,  and  the  hvst  to  the  notes,  extends  to 
pp.  119.     Ktnff  Coal  was  followed,  in  1820,  by— 

"  Court  News  :  or,  the  Peers  of  K.  C.  a.nd  the  Errant b  i 
or,  II  Survej  of  Briti&b  btratft,  with  Explaimtury  Notci. 
Anon." 

A-  Q, 

TiTE  Houses  of  8tfart  and  SuTHEULAxn  (:j*** 
B,  ii.  85.) — There  can  be  no  doubt  whatever  that 
Mn.  KtLGOiTR  is  mistaken  in  his  assertion  that 
"  the  House  of  Sutherbmd  ought  t«  have  succeeded 
to  the  throne  of  Scotland,  according  to  the  driH 
principles  of  le^al  representation,  on  the  death  of 
King  David  Bruce  in  1371,  and  not  the  House  of 
Stuart." 

The  succession  to  the  crown  was  expressly 
limited,  by  acts  of  Parliament,  to  the  isano  of  the 
Princess  Marjory,  eldest  dnu^'hter  of  King  Robert  L, 
failintf  his  ovm  male  iAsue,  or  that  of  his  ouly  son 
David ;  .so  that  it  is  doubtful  whether  even  u 
dau;j:hter  of  the  latter  could  have  succeeded  to  the 
Scottish  thn>ne.  King  David  II.,  througli  personal 
dislike  to  his  lej^d  heir-iipparent,  Hubert  Stewart, 
and  being  hopelessly  childless  hiinaelf,  did  attempt 
to  alter  tlie  succea«ion  in  favour  of  his  own  sister's 
son,  John,  eldest  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Suther- 
land, by  the  Princess*  Margaret  de  Bruce  ;  but  the 
consent  of  Parliament  was  never  given  to  this,  and 
the  young  omn  died  in  13B1,  at  Lincoln,  while  a 
hostage  there  for  the  ptiyment  of  his  uncle's  ransom 
Mto  England,  for  relonjie  frtira  captivity  thero  be- 
ween  134fi  and  1357,  Even  in  Llflli  another 
futile  attempt  was  m.ide  by  David  IL,  an  un- 
worthy son  of  the  gallant  Robert  L,  to  make 
Lionel,  Buke  of  Chijence,  secoml  son  of  Kinj^ 
Edward  IIL,  his  sucLt»R»(ir,  a  propjsition  indig- 
nantly rejected  by  the  nation  and  Parliament  of 
Scotland.  'A.  8*  A. 

liichtnonU*  * 

**StreeL'*  pt^  S.  ii.  im.)—Stnd  is  to  me  a 
quite  familiar  word,  although  the  dictionaries  do 
not  give  it,    "  She  went  stieelittg  ulotig  down  the 


street."  meaning  trailing  nlong  with  Hfr<?rtJ!^ti<*n^  | 
but  still  in  a  leisurely  fashion,  an  i 
kiml  of  zigzag  motion.  It  i«  .nppan  ] 
of  the  word  stroll.  The  Swiss  jfrj  o> 
about,  is  pven  by  Wedgwood,  accompaDicd  by*  1 
quotation  from  Bfvth's  iltfshandryj  1052,  in  which  1 
the  wonl  to  droyU  about  occurn.  Sfnuhf,  a*  longi 
and  lean,  is  given  by  Halliwell  as  a  Suffolk  word. 

a  A.  Warb. 
Mnyfftir. 

Br.  F.  H.  Strsitnunn,  in  his  Biiira{f$  tu 

WitTtttbuche  dtr  Englischcn  Sprachc^  Krefeld,  1$CB3 
notices  the  following  use    of  gtnrl   (not  CenikJ 
slmUn^  radiiirc)  by  Thackeniy :  *':    '^'  - 
train  thut  ftfrethd  after  her  like  the  i 
Vaaitfj  Foir^  L  '2U,     ^lany  modern,  i..^  ..i.d  ' 
vinciaiiams  are  entered  in  this  very  useful  Heitra/jr^'^ 

F.  J.  Y.    " 

An  instance  of  unnotice*.!  derivation  from  iLaliftit  | 

seems  to  me  to  occur  in  the  F    ^    " 

In  Antonelli's  Dieiionarij  (] 

for  oneof  itsme^ininj^,  **meditiuniLitii[in  im* 

A  man  star-gaziwj,  aa  he  walked,  might  wrll  H\ 

feaid  to  atroll  S.  T.  P. 

The  Frencu  Word  '*  Yecx  "  (5"»  S.  ii.  ini.Wl 
Dr.  Chance  says  that  ycux  in  in  one  i 
most  singular  word  he  is  acquainted  with,  i 

as  it  does  not  contain  a  single  letter  of  the  woi\ 
(iculuff,  fi-oin  which  h(*  belic-ves  it  to  be  deriv 
There  are  many  words  in  our  too;:;ue  of  wh 
same  may  be  sfdd.    Jonrual  is  fourth  in  ( 
from    Dies:    dies,   diurnus^    giomo   (Itol.), 
joumaL  OCTlt. 

Riaely.  B*ds. 

The  American  ^^tk-vv^  r.tu  g^  n  «§  ^— Tn  iI.aI 
origin  of  nimics  cf  -^  n  by  Cor. 

be  added  the  popui  .which!  *] 

Triibner'a  JAitrary  iUcordy  No.  i7,  Augnat 
1867  :— 

"Mttiiie  is  popularly  kaown  jis  Tim  Lumltror  Pi* 
Trr4   tStntr;    New   Hampshire  rs    T.*<f  ^rftni^f 
Vermoat  nn  The  Grtai  Afo  ^'1 

aft  Tht  liny  StaU  ;  Rbode  I 

ace  tie  lit  «js  Tht  Nutmm  "r    .'  \ 

OS  Thi  Emptrr  or  Ej-<-' 
KttfStofte  ^ate  ;  heh' 
.Stat^ ;    Vlrg'mia  u-    7       -         . 
Sfntfx  ;   South  <_'nr:.!ir!;i   -a^    !'■.■■    / 
CrtroliniiRa  Tht  nfJ  A"rfA  ■':■  7 
sifipi  aa  The  Batfoa  StaU  ;   J 
Ten^«f^fl€t;  iv»  The    Hit/  Bm 
Bigrdfyiltg  a  curv  "^    ' 

Th>  /:  n  ii*   rV    ' 

Ark  I*fwn  as  J 

CivliJ;..j...,:  ^^  .  ,...  L...,_,.    .LdU  ;  Tetiks  a^.  ....  i,^., 

It  will  be  ohscm'ed  that  only  twenty-four  of  I 
States  are  included  in  the  preseoit  list. 


6»8.  tl.  Aoa.20,74.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


175 


ftome  other  coi-respondent  can  suppler  the  populi 
aawps  r/f  the  remaimng  States.  E.  A.  P, 

iGosrATaic  (5**»  8.  u.  >^7.)— Your  correspondent 
M  be  rety  welcome  to  any  information  in  my 
;...,   \.,,,  T  „„>    nrrj^  t<»  «ay  thut  I  can  throw 
no!  „jx.    There  does  not  Appear, 

»i>t^    -   ...,.  L.,.      ,^t  extendi*,  any  connexion  of 
Oo9patric    with    the    Earls    of    Huntingdon    or 

ChC!»t<?r.  HEnStENTRlTDE. 

Poem  bt  T.  K.  Hkii%*ky  (5««>  S*  ii.  89.)— If 
An  OK,  will  turn  to  the  collected  edition  of  Thontus 
Kibble  Hervey's  Poemt^  nublislicd  ut  Bitston,  U.S., 
in  1S66,  Ticknor  &^  Fields,  he  will  fiml,  iit  p.  76, 
the  poem  he  ia  seokin;?.  It  is  entitled  "  The  Quiet 
L&Bd/'  and  consists  of  eijrht  stinzas  altogether. 
William  E.  A.  Axoii* 

SaHdwich  Islands  (5«^  S,  ii.  IKk)— Tlie  Prin- 
C0M  Victariii  KaAnianou-Koahoumanou  (K:tnmmaLi- 
Kiuihuuianu),  of  Hawai,  or  the  Sundwieh  Isles,  wj« 
bom  on  November  1,  1838,  and  died  in  ISVAl  ishc 
^  ma  iiiter  of  two  former  kings  of  those  ishinds  : 
iler  Liholiho  KajruJiamtha  IV,  (born  Feb- 
raiLtj  iK  ISMy  succeeded,  an  ** adopted  son,"  to  King 
Knm€h4im4ha  III.,  on  December  15, 1854,  and  died 
in  November,  1863),  and  Lot  Kartuhaineha  V.  (born 
Deceiober  11.  1834:»,  suoceeded  bus  brother  on  the 
'  "^  'or,  1863^  and  died  December  1 1, 

-  were  children  of  the  Governor 
■    neoftheduu^'hterRofKinjLj 
L  monai'ch  of  the^ie  iMlanda ; 
.,, — ^...  i  ,..,^c^a  wtks,  during  the  reign  of 
^brother.  Kameluiroeha  IV,,  Prime  Minister,  or 
DlKna  ninJ*  A*  S.  A. 


lar 


r  '    1  NCIL  JCDUMEKT  :   LiDDELL  t".  Wks- 

TKi  .  iL  128, 157.)— I  beheve  Utrum  will 

kfin^i  \ur  usiis  to  be  as  follows-  The  judgment  of 
the  Priry  Council,  iia  delivered  in  IS57,  asserted 
ijpt,  "-  *'  t-'cond  Prayer  Book  of  Edward  VL, 
Wmi*  '"T  consecration  of  the  elements  was 

BBt;  ..,  .;,  a^'b  in  the  present  Prayer  Book  it  is 
TtmU>T&L"     Unfortunittely  this  statement  of  fact, 
ring  in  a  solemn  judgment  of  the  iinal  Court 
al  in  ecclesiastical  causes,  was  false  ;  and 
irho  objected  to  the  Court  took  care  to  c;lI1 
iioD  to  it     It  wrw  jLirobably  for  this  reason 
iin  the  coHei'tion  of  Privy  Council  judgments 
Tail,  Mr,  Brodrick,  and 
joneotis  statement  U  cor- 
I    tiuili    -ubHtiiut*:*<l,  that  "material 
y  introduc*'d  in  the  prayer  of  uon- 


I  thank  F.  S.  A,  and  Mr.  WAiiRKiir  for  their 
kind  antl  lucid  ^oUitions;  of  my  difliculty.  I  am 
to  understjind  that;  the  former  (Sumner  and  Tait) 
wna  a  judicial  misstatement  of  fact,  and  that  the 
latter  (Tait  and  others)  m\A  a  privily  sub-stitated 
after-thuught.  Two  queries  present  themselvea: 
1,  Wa,s  not  a  fixed  table  or  idtJir  removed  on  the 
strength  of  the  former  i  2,  Was  it  rentored  on 
the  cr>nfe^aion  of  the  latter?  I  write  this  in  no 
polemical  spirit,  bat  piu-ely  in  the  interests  of 
honesty  and  trutk  Utrum. 

"  OuRISTlAyiTY  AS  Old  AB  CREATION^  &C.  (5*** 

S.  ii.  149.) — This  is  perhaps  the  best-known  work  of 
the  best'- known  of  the  Deif«tical  writens  of  the  early 
nart  of  last  centurj^^Matthew  Tindid.  There  is  a 
mil  account  of  it  in  the  Biographic  Britannko, 
and  I  should  think  in  most  other  dictionaries. 

Lyttklton. 

TuK  Bmi»ebor  Alexander  II.  (5'*»  8.  i.  464 ; 
ii.  3€,  55,  72,  96-)— t)  wing  to  ray  nbdenoe,  I  have 
only  just  seen  Mr.  Dilke's  reply.  Will  you 
allow  me  to  put  the  following  questions  to  him  ? 

(1.)  When  doe-s  he  imagine  that  the  title  Tzar 
was  ftrst  applied  to  the  Russian  sovereign  ? 

(2.)  Will  he  be  so  good  as  to  mention  any  rtcent 
Russian  scholar  of  eminence  who  has  denied  the 
word  to  be  Slavonic  1 

(3.)  Docs  he  wbh  to  assert  that  the  Polish  for 
Tzar  is  ihar  ?  If  so,  he  must  be  sent  again  to  hif* 
Lindr.  There  ia  no  such  word  in  Polish  \  if  there 
were,  it  would  be  pronounced  Otar.  The  true 
form  is  Car  (pronounced  T^tir), 

Mu,  Dilke,  who  no  doubt  is  acquainted  with 
the  modern  Russian  language,  thinks  that  either 
in  the  hurry  of  writing,  or  from  a  typographical 
error,  my  note  has  the  two  forms  Uar  and  ixar. 
Surely  he  knows  that  the  corresponding  Russian 
letter  may  very  well  be  expressed  in  either  way. 

W.  R.  jMorfill. 
Oxford- 

Mauv  op  BuTTKn>fERE  (5**"  S.  ii.  47,  114.)— 
Tiiere  is  a  short  accf^unt  of  her  in  A  Companion 
to  tht  hakts  of  Ciimhfjland^  IFtJitmorehnd,  and 
Lanof^ihire,  by  Edward  Baines,  Jun.  (3^1  edit., 
London,  18^1).  Froui  this  we  learn  that  her  name 
was  Maiy  Robinson,  that  she  was  the  irlaughter  of 
the  innkeeiier  at  Buttermere,  and  that  she  was 
seen  in  1792  by  Cu]>t.  Bud  worth,  who,  in  his 
Hamhh^  described  her  as— 

*'  An  eminently  beautiful  yet  simple  and  artless  |drl  of 

fifteeOf  nrhote  manner  and  app«iarance,  «o  unexpected  in 

such  a  spot,  hfld  channed  liiui.     This  panegyric  drew 

mnny  traTellers  to  Butte nn ere,  and  directed  alt  eve*  on 

I       ttifai  peasant     Flattery  enough  Vfos  adJre«sed 

'orriit  her  simplicity ;  but  Bhe  prewrvcd  htr 

■  :ii(^  and  tm^UFpeeted.     At  leugth,  iu  ttia 

n  as  deceived  into  niarriaife  by  an  outlawed 

name  of  Huttield,  wlia  had  for  pome  time 

A^'rV'  '  I  '*'^"f^''  ti^nircd  in  this  f*art  of  the  eoontry  under  the 

A.  C,       I  uaine  of  the  Honourable  C^loucV  R.«^,    ^%  VWl  ^Xvt 


IfB 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[F'S.II,  Ai?o,2J>,7i. 


ftddreis  mud  Ul«tit  to  tupport  his  Msuined  character, 
but.  heiag  ditoorervd,  b«  wm  ftpprehend«d,  tried  at 
Oftni^te  on  »  etiar^  of  forgerf,  and  banged  within  a 
ytuT  after  bia  murtttge.  Tbe  jo^^ag  widow  ucted  in  the 
most  becoming  manner  nndtr  her  misfortunes,  &nd  after 
eome  years  married  agnln.  This  match  was  happier 
than  the  former;  the  and  herhuiilmnd  for  a  coneldemble 
period  kept  the  inn  which  had  been  her  father's,  and 
uved  in  much  comfort.  AVben  I  inquired  about  her  of 
the  present  Landlady  of  this  inn,  I  was  told  that  she  had 
quitted  Buttcrmerei  and  now  lived  iu  a  village  near 
Bassenthwaite  Water;  it  was  added  that  she  htul  seven 
children,  and  was  in  comfortable  cireurattaneei.** — 
Balnea's  Companiant  pp.  179-180. 

F.  A.  Edwards. 

Through  the  kindness  of  my  friend  Frederick 
Reed,  Esq,,  of  Hassnees^  Butt^rmere,  I  am  enabled 
to  give  your  correspondent  Fitz  Reginald  the 
information  he  deaties  respecting  Mjuy  of  Butter- 
mere. 

Her  real  name  was  Mary  BobLnson,  and  nhe 
died  of  cancer  about  thirty  years  ago.  She  nmiried 
again,  a  man  named  KicbRrd  Harrison,  xind  had 
two  sons  and  three  daughters.  None  of  her  family 
are  now  at  Buttermere.  One  of  the  dimghters  is 
dead,  but  both  the  sons  are  still  living.  Little  is 
known  about  one  of  them  at  Buttermere,  aa  he 
"  went  down  into  the  shires  when  he  was  young," 
and  never  visits  his  native  county.  The  otber  son 
lives  at  Thiatlebottorn,  BoUoo  Gate,  in  Cumber- 
land, and  is  still  proprittor  of  the  Flfih  Inn  at 
Buttermere,  He  rents  a  good  farm  of  Lord  Lecon- 
field. 

Mr,  Keed  adds  the  foUowiog  particulnrs  : — 

*'  Mary  of  Buttermere  was  not  the  htautiif  she  is  repre- 
iVDted  to  hare  been.  She  carded  herselif  well,  but  got 
lo  be  coarse  featured.  Wordsworth  und  he  Quincey  are 
"both  Tery  romantic  on  the  subject  of  her  marriage,  kc, 
Wordsworth,  speaking  of  the  child  she  had  by  Matfield, 
Bays,— 

'  Beside  the  mountain  chapel  ileep«  in  earth 
Her  new  bom  infant.' 
l?ow  there  is  not,  and  never  has  been,  a  buriAbgrotind 
at  Buttermere,  and  it  would  pu««Ie  folk  to  moke  ifrares 
in  the  rook  on  which  the  present  cliap«L  stands,  and  the 
late  chapel  stood,  though  Wordsworth  repeats — 
*Thy  nameless  babe  that  sleeps 
Bflflide  the  mountain  chapeL  undisturbed.* 
Be  Quinoey  aayt,  '  I  know  not  whether  the  marriage 
was,  or  cfluld  hare  been,  ceTebrated  in  the  little  mountain 
chapel  of  Buttermere-     If  it  were,  I  pentuiide  myself 
that  the  most  hardened  ritlaiQ  must  have  felt  a  momen- 
,  tary  pani;  on  rtolating  the  altar  of  such  a  chapel,  so 
loncbingly  does  it  express,*  &:c.     Now,  marrtnges  were 
BOt  celebmted  in  Buttermere  chapel  until  alx>ut  nine 
'years  ajro,  when  I  procnred  n  licence  from  the  Bishop. 
Mary  of  Buttermere  was  married  iu  the  church  of  Lort<in, 
and  I  believe  by  the  then  clergymaa  of   Buttermere, 
whoM  name  was  Nichobon/' 

I  have  ventured  to  add  the  above  remarks  of  my 
informant,  in  the  belief  that  they  will  be  interesting 
not  only  to  your  correspondent,  but  l<l«o  to  many 
of  the  readers  of ''  K  «S;  Q."  C,  B,  Hicb. 

Thk  Scrname  Barnes  (4"»  S.  xii.  496 ;  5*^  S. 
i,  56,  97,) — Tewabs  cannot  suppose  for  a  moment 


that  I  ^*  gravely  assert "  what  he  says  ;   and,  in 
truth,  I  did  not  expect  him  to  **  rush  into  print " 
of  a  violent  type  on  m  small  a  provocatiotL     Th« 
asEertion  looks  less  *'  ivstounding  "  in  MS.  thao  J 
print,  and  particularly  in  italics.     It  would  \iav 
been  fairer  to  have  simply  put  theqn  v  ' 
the  usual  marks.     But  I  have  no  < 
form  Tbwahs  that  sis  no  Barnes  oi   ci 
of  which  I  wrote  was  a  knight  (as  erer^ 
like  Tewaju?  must  know)»  the  T>hrase>  **  fArtV  i 
were  h(uk(d  off  in   tru*i  ftunal  ftishlon"  is, 
course,  a  mere  rhetorical  tiourisfa,  which  Tew^ 
not  justified  in  tJourishing  in  my  face  an 
done.     As  to  the  second  part,  **  aW  riw/ 1 
of  their  e^xigtence  mui  enuof  from  Uu  mrrM  j 
of  the  heraldt,"  I  say  that  if  such  had  been 
case  by  "  judicial  sentence,"  it  would  have  i 
them  very  well  right.     But  whoever  heard  of  i 
a  easel     I  aiu  certain   that  Tewars   ney« 
therefore  I  think  Tbwars**  question,  as  be  i 
is  not  at  all  pertinent^  but  veiy  imp^srtinen 
have  now  to  explain  that  in  a  oonvertation  wit 
the  late  lamented  Mr.  King,  a  herrtl-    * 
perience  at  the  College  of  Anns, 
through  aU  their  records   in  vain   .-. 
relating  to  ^  Barnes,^'  he  entirely  concurred  in  mjj 
suggestion  that  everything  might  have  been  Uttm 
from  the  books  on  their  attainder  of  high  trawov. 
But  the  aaaertion,  as  I  put  it,  is  too  tNiKitrve  far  ^ 
Tewars.    I  did  not  think,  as  I  hnn 
how  "grave"  "'assertions**  may  ^t 
most  insignificant  matieiB}  so  I  mui»l   :> 
But  if  Tewars  will  only  consider  for  n 
that  a  too  oonspicuous  and  nobori' 
they  had  been  for  generations  in  8er:i , 
county  like  Middlesex,  coidd  scarcely  liuTc  ls 
the  eyes  of  Heralds'  College^  like  scores  of  faniili 
of  even  very  large  estates  in  remoter  count' 
will  probably  admit  of  the  existence  of  a  ^ 

f) resumption  that  at  one  Visitati<in  *  *V 
east,  the  Barneses  genealogy  was  il 
If  Tewars  wnll  nho  consider  for  ai^ 
he  wiU  also  probably  admit  that  the  V'  ri  i  -  ?  ^  if  | 
hemlds  (whether  they  felt  it  or  not;  wuuiii 
w^th  indignation  at  such  treason,  and,  to  hbd4 
their  affection  to  the  new  order  of  things,  tuil 
public  hangmen  for  the  occasion,  and  bum  •? 
scnvp  of  paper  I'clating  to  the  famUy, 
I  have  now  to  put  a  question  !<' 
whether  he  can  show  that  the  genc;. 
who  conspired  along  with  the  Barnes  aic  mt 
the  regjiBters  of  the  Hendds  /  And  if  so,  ^ 
each  of  tho^e  n  '    '  ' 

notorious  for  t 

And    if  so,    whi'iiici-    iJi-    1-1    Muiv    ui;iL     11 

pedigrees  remain  untouched  had  not  *' 
court/'  to  U3e  u  vulgarism,  or  that  the  j.^i 
pedigrees  be  may  find  did  not  escape,  at  tho  tin 
the  notice  of  the  heralds  ? 

In  cooclusion,  I  will  observe  that  wb^n 


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were  ftHAintM  in  blood  to  the  extent  they  were, 
there  U  nothing  t«o  **  sjstounding''  in  the  **  as- 
tounding statement,"  nor  so  extmordinfiry  in  the 
**  cxtraoniinary  proceedings,"  that  should  htive 
ItaliAnized  the  pen  of  Tbwars  so  completely  in 
the  heated  eloquence  with  which  he  brings  forward 
this  very  grave  qneetlon*  T.  H. 

Btk'j1i*8  "SiisoB  OF  Corinth"  (S***  S,  I  4«J6  r 
ii,  m)— W.  A,  a  writes,  **  The  first  quotation '^ 
(▼iz.^  "  In  the  year  since  Jeans  died  for  men  ")  **  is 
'\  horn  the  Siege  of  CoriTttJi:'  Htul  he  snid  that 
lines  were  not  in  the  edition  of  IHlfi  he 
fcve  been  right,  but  they  most  cert*iinly 
oera  to  thnt  jioem  in  the  fine  edition 
I  und  in  all  sabsequent  ones  I  have  seen 
by  Murray.  In  cheap  and  incomplete 
^by  other  publisheni  they  are  often  omitted ; 
ow  not.     W.  A.  C.  adds,  **  Lines  which 

I  in  imitjition  of  CoIeridgeVi  Cltrisiabd" 

?  will  find  in  the  foot-note  of  the  edition  I  have 
before  me,  vit.,  IS.^7,  that  Byron  "  had  never  read 
(^rutuhd  at  the  time  when  he  wrote  these  lined." 
William  Whistos. 

Mm.  Srrrbs  (6*>»S.  ii,  141.)— In  his  interesting 
of  Mrs*  Serre.^  worfci,  Mr.  Tboms  (p.  142, 
,  6)  quotes  the  OtntkmanJt  Magazine  in  refcr- 
^  Ui  her  ftssnmption  of  the  name  of  WiJmot. 
Tki  BioQTafthital  Didhnanj  of  Liring  AnihorSj 
'916'  ^  xnl.nm.^  it  as  follows  :  "  It  is  proper  to  ob- 
e  her  separation  from  her  husbaml, 
nence  of  the  ill-trejitment  which  she 
hM  ♦xjivrifyneed,  she  ha^  conmionlj  colled  herself 
p^^iimot.'*  1  hope  Mr.  TnoM8  will  be  Buccessfid 
la  iirocttiing  those  works  he  hain  not. 

Olpiiar  Hahst, 

Marmimbt  Herbert  (5">  S.  i.  140,  4(M»j  ii.  37.) 
— H'i^*v'-r  (lnl>iiU]<  tiiNV  h:\vp  been  iSIr,  Dismeli^a 
f^eate  the  character  of 
ii   ^  I  : ,         It  of  Vfnetifi  was  cer- 

intended  to  represent  that  poet,  and  not 
Brrr>n.  In  Book  ii.  c.  4,  of  Vcndiat  Marmion'a 
pBT*  mnce  is  thus  dpscribed  : — 

''  '  rTi&fice  vfta    of  iinjKuUr  lovelineu  &nd 

wwcr.  ,  .  ,  On  each  side  of  the  cle&rnnd  open  brow 
now  Ii  Jul  et<n  (o  the  i^boulder^  the  cluBterini;  locks  of 
^ildcB  b*ir :  while  the  (^jes  larg«  And  jet  deep  beftmed 
wHh  •  ifiiriluil  ener^.'* 

Tljt<  tvirTv^rMrriil  ultli  the  descriptions  of  Hhellcj 

hf  )  Mcdwin,  Trel;iwn*»y,  and 

flib*  if  ani'lv  ill  any  respect  to 

Ix^r  i  rri  hair,  and  was 

the  novel,  many  of  the 

■  nre  recorded  ;  and  epcak- 

ithor  says,  **  thry  were 

tried."     Now,  every 

I'M  wiis  the  populiirity  of 

Hki  iheix  first  appeai^ance ; 


while  the  masterpieces  of  Shelley  were  neglected 
by  the  mass  of  readers,  and  derided  by  the  critics. 

Byron  was  not  a  **  violent  republican,"  nor  was 
he  **  tirst  an  atheist,'*  afterwards  *'  a  Pbit^nist,"  nor 
was  he  **  fond  of  quoting  Greek."  These  were  the 
chttnu'teristica  of  bhelley. 

If  Mr.  Fowke  has  read  that  splendid  poem^ 
Laan  and  Cythna^  or  The  EttoU  of  Jilam,  as  it  wa* 
ttfkerwimls  ill  named,  and  will  compart?  it  with  the 
following  description  of  Herbert's  poem  in  the 
la»t- mentioned  chapter  of  Vtmiia.^  he  will  discoTer 
an  analogy  between  them  not  to  be  mistaken : — 

"  Herbert  celebrated  that  fond  world  of  hij  imagina- 
tion, wliich  he  wished  to  teach  men  to  lo^e.  In  ituixae 
glittering  >Nith  the  mott  refined  imagvfl,  and  re«oiuuit 
with  the  moflt  lubtle  Bymphonj*  he  c&Ued  into  creation 
that  societr  of  imDiacal&te  parity  and  unbounded  enjoy- 
ment which  be  believed  was  the  natural  iaberiKance  of 
UDAbackled  man.  /a  thi  htro  hi  pietuftd  a  phH69opk«r, 
iftmmf  und  ffijttd  aa  ktmattf:  iu  the  hermn*,  kit  uUa  of  a 

ptrftct  woman The  public  read  the  hf-tfiry  ftf  an 

ideal  world,  and  of  creiiture$>  of  exquisite  1  '  I  in 

iangUBge  that  alike  dawled  tlieir  fancy,  *«  .d 

their  ear.  They  we  re  lost  in  a  delitjious  mnzt:  :  i__.  -  hof 
and  nmfie/* 

This  kind  of  praise  applied  to  anjr  of  Byron'a 
poems  would  be  absurd,  as  it  would  imply  a  t<ptal 
ignorance  of  the  character  of  that  great  poet's 
goniua. 

In  the  eighth  chapter  of  the  sixth  book  of 
I'endia^  Cadurcis  aska  Herbert — 

" '  Wh&t  if  poetry  but  a  lie^  and  what  are  po»fct  bui 
liar*  1 ' 

*■  ♦  Yoo  ape  wrong,  Cod  arc  i«/  snid  Hcrtiert,  '  po«t$  uri 
the  KjtttchioitUd^ed  leffulat&rf  nf  Ott  world*" 

lliese  are  the  very  words  of  Shelley  himself  in  the 

last  sentence  of  hia  Lkftnct  of  Podry^  and  the 

queation  of  Cadurcis  recalls  the  lines  in  Ihm  Juan : 

*'  Poeta  are  such  liars, 

**  And  take  all  colours  like  the  handa  of  dyert/' 

After  all,  it  is  questionable  whether  Mr.  Disraeli 
has  been  moro  successful  in  describing  Byron  than 
Shelley.     Many  will  regard  both  as  laihires. 

W.  T,  B. 

Raiickk  Eiders  (5^  S.  L  203,  271,  419  ;  ii.  a?, 
98.)— 

"  And  on  hii  match  as  much  the  Western  horseman  lays. 
As  the  rank  riding  Scoti  upon  their  CSalloways," 

IXraytou's  Pal^olhton,  the  Third  Song. 
George  R.  Jesse. 

Lord  Oollinowood  (6«»  S.  ii.  48.  9a)— The 
last  note  on  this  subject  is,  unfortunately,  no  reply 
to  the  ori^nnal  query,  re»pettinp  Captain  Barker, 
who  married  Sarah,  sister  of  the  j^nreat  admiral* 
Since,  however,  the  lineage  of  the  family  lia*  been 
brouiiht  into  the  quealion,  I  am  unxvillinf?!y  in- 
duced to  deny  that  the  admiral  was  descended 
from  a  "  niece  of  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent."  No 
proof  whatever  has  been  adduced  in  support  of 
such  an  assumption ;  but  if  the  evidence  ^lis^ 
and  is  produced  {j&  l\\^  ^^Mv^^  Vtk&  tb^  t\^v  Xft 


178 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


fS^S.n.  Aua,a»,7l. 


exjwct  when  such  fi  clttim  is  put  forwnrd),  I  ahnlJ 
be  only  too  luippj  to  retract.  In  the  nieantuiie, 
however,  my  scepticism  is,  1  think,  fullv  justified. 

S. 

"  Yakgb  Monday  "  (5«»  S.  ii  28,  74.)— I  have 
little  doubt  that  this  means  Gang  Monday,— that 
is  the  ilonday  in  Rofr^tion  week.  The  Bog:atir)n 
d«y8  i*'ere  called  Gatm  darfos  before  the  Norman 
Conquest,  and  Gang  <iiya  they  are  stiU,  rm  I  huve 
understood  in  the  folk-speech  of  the  northern 
counties.  Bishop  Jewell  uses  the  word  in  his 
Exfosiiwn  upon  the  l^teand  EpMt  U>  ihi  ThtMa- 
huiatis^  chap.  ii»,  **  They  have  used  in  Ivome»  in 
iheir  geneml  processions  in  tjanQ-weckj  to  go  to 
these  seven  hills," — Purker  Soe..  edit.,  p.  Ulb, 

Henry  Machyn,  citizen  nnd  merdmnt  lay  lor  of 
London,  tells  u;*  in  his  diar^^  under  the  year  l^&\ 
"In  gainic  wyke,  c^Uyd  Hogasyon  weke,  they 
whent  a  preaessyon  with  baners  in  dyvera  pkues.*' 
—P.  236. 

Many  more  examples  of  the  use  of  this  term 
raAy  he  found  in  Ellis'a  BratuTs  Fomilur  Auti' 
quit  It  jr,  1813,1.  172.  Edward  Pbacock. 

Bottesford  MAnor^  Brigg. 

"Pan  »  (5"^  S.  ii,  9,  74.)— Pan  in  Panileld  may 
be  a  slight  coiruption  produced  l>y  u  trivial  vowel 
change  in  the  Celtic  Pen  ^=  a  sham  or  peaky  hill, 
hence  the  *' Pennine  chain"  of  hiJis,  the  **  Apen- 
nines," &c.  Tlie  spellioff  of  the  second  syllnbte — 
thus  **ffeld" — takers  us  back  to  a  time  anterior  to 
the  !!p|x^Uation  *•  hard  pan/'  as  applied  to  the  sub- 
soil by  agriculturists.  When  Jie?a  was  spelt  **  Held," 
it  had  not  the  coutnict^d  sense  now  associated  with 
it^  but  generally  represented  a  large  tract  of  open 
land,  or  campus,  deai-ed  of  timber, 

a  Chattock,  F.RH.S. 

Cmtlc  BromwicU. 

In  my  note-book »  I  find  the  following  meaning 
of  this  word  in  connexion  with  a  proverb  i— 
**  Weal  imd  wciaati  canaot  pan* 
But  woe  mud  wo  man  can. 
♦  Poll.     Expression   ti*ed    in   tlio   Eastern  GotmtteB 
when  the  Barface  of  the  soil  is  so  closely  welded  together 
thni  uo  ordinary  effbrti  of  liuibandry  can  make  any  im- 
presiiun  on  it."— From  Uphill^  a  novel,  by  Lady  Wood. 

A,L. 

Panfield  may  be  a  conruption  of  Penfield  or 
Penfold.  R.  S.  Charnock. 

Gray'B  Inn. 

**Kkwlyk  *'  {b^  8,  ii.  8,  63.)— The  "derivation 
or  meaning  "  of  this  name  does  not  appear  to  be 
certainly  known.  The  late  Rev.  Dr.  Bannister,  in 
hi."*  Ghssary  ofContuk  Nanu.^^  defines  it  as  '* New- 
pool  "  ;  but  adds,  on  tlie  authority  of  Gwnvjis  of 
Penzance^  who,  with  Tonkin,  prepared  a  vocabulary 
in  the  eighteenth  century,  "  =  ni«/-i^(,  in  a  fog  or 
mist "  ;  and,  in  a  foot-note,  quoting  Dr.  Pryce, 
author  of  Mineraloifia  Comubiefms^  1778,  **  The 


o|;»en  or  naked  (nouth)  hike  (/j^i) ;  and,  quotiotr^ 

Mr.  R.  Edmonds,  author  of  Z^   ^      ^ 

^c,  '*near  {ua)   tho  like."     J 

**  the  chiuch  of  ^'citdyn  Ea^t  w.^.- 

to  Si.  Ne^vdina ;  that  of  Newhjn  '  ,  to] 

St.  Peter."  Wm.  I -lt, 

Torquay. 

'^  Mars  nts  sword  "  (5***  S.  ii.  55.) — Somft 
remarks  on  this  subject  will  be  found  in  Ait^h 
bishofp  Trench's  Engli-ih^  Ptut  and  Pn^cftt,  p.  11' 
of  the  tirst  edition.  In  reference  to  the  pa»>ui^o  ii 
the  pniyer  for  all  conditions  of  men  mentioned  b 
*  'laruv,  the  Archbishop  w  rites  :— 

**  I  cannot  think  that  it  would  exceed  the  n'l*^"— •*-  -f"^ 
our  University  Presaes  if  so  palpable  and  * 
ungramniatioil   form  were  rcmoTcd  frnm    i 
Bouk 8  which  they  put  fartb,  oa  II 
is  Bupprest  by  many  of  the  clergy  i 
would  be  only  ueing  here  a  libti:,    ;..„... 
already  oaaumed  in  tho  cuee  of  the  iiible.     in  all 
editions  of  the  aMthori?e<l  Vf^p^ion  it  stood  oriifii 
1  Kings  XT.  '24,  *  Nevt  rL  ^  hut  heart  was 

with  the  Lord  ';  it  ir;  t  now.      In  the 

way  Nordicai  hit  inftti  lii.  4)  bos  been 

changed  into  *  Mordtcuts  m&iiisti ';  and  in  sonae  m< 
Gdltion»j  but  not  in  all,  *  Holofenut  hU  head  *  ( Juditbi 
xiii.  9),  into  *  Holof'trMs't  bead.'" 

T.  Lewis  O.  Davikbl 

Pear  Tree  Vicarage,  Southampton. 

**  All's  over  and  tbr  child's  KAKB'a  Ay*l 
thony"  (5*^  S.  I  46t^;  ii.  13)  is  our  veruon  ofi 
this  puzzling  saying  on  a  too  late  arrivid.  1  never  I 
hcstrd  it  explalneii.  M. 

Cumberland. 

Robert  db  Wycltp  :  Villenage  (o**>  vS,  i.  I-iTfl 
ii.  52.)— H,  T.  is  wrong  in  saying  tlmt  "  so  hit  as ' 
Littletons  time  "  the  law  was  "unsettled  aa  to  th# 
enfnmchif«ement  of  the  issue  of  the  marriage  of  a 
niefe  w  itb  a  freeman."    Littleton  is  expitss  upon 
this  point.     He  says  : — 

*'  Also,  if  a  viUelae  taketh  a  free  woman,  to  wifi 
httve  issue  betweene  tliein,  the  issues  sh&ll  b«  rlT. 
But  if  a  niefe  tnketh  a  freeman  to  her  husband, ' 
issue  shall  be  free." 

And   Bee  Coke's    comments    on    this 
Co.  Litt.^  123a.     He  cites  as  authorities 
and  others  of  our  oldest  writers  on  law.     In  ( 
wall  there  was  a  peculliir  cuptom.     **Ibi  pmtlt! 
Kunt  pueri  inter  libera  m  pat  rem  et  dominiim  uxori* 
viilaua\"  The  really  floubtful  ]>oint  in  wbeth<:'r  thJ  j 
marriage  enfranchised  the  nuft  for  evrr,  or  onlf  \ 
during  the    continuance    of    the 
Co.  Liii.^  loc.  cit.,  and  tlie  note  b}  _ 

authorities  there  cited).         Middle  Tjiiiii^Aii, 

Bradford. 

"  WiGos"  (,V*»  S.  i.  2<U,  474;  ii.  138.)— Wiga^ 
are  still  to  be  had  nt   nrintlunn.  in  Linmln* 
They  are  nmde  with  111 

supposed  the  name  > 
Anglo-Saxon,  which  meaua  whey,    ^In.  lUffiiJ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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I 


llieT  KxptTi€ntcd  Ilonsck<fprr^  17711,  p*  274.  gives 

n  receipt  for  mnking  "Light  Wi^^s/*  ^Irs.  Oia.sse, 
in  h<*r  AH  of  Cooh:rif^  1778,  p.  27Q,  instrucU  the 
un^  "      »w  to  make  "Very  goodWi^";  und 

T^  Econmnut,    bv   Mra   Smith,    lhir>, 

p.  L'4<>,  t^ive.^  u  receipt  for  "Whig?/* 

Louisa  Julia  Kormak. 

Dr.  Watts  (b^  S.  ii.  107.)— Mr.  Tra^t  very 
corrf'<  ilv  i*store»  to  Richartl  rniahAw  the  credit 
of  A\\l  verses  descriptive  of  the  mirftcle 

at  *  I  tiiink,  however,  the  line — 

**  The  coQflcioua  wa,tcr  saw  ltd  God,  and  blusbed  " 
— iji  jgfeneRilly  Attributed  to  Dryden,  who,  when  a 
ichooUboy  iit  We'rt minster,  j^eeriH  to  hnve   been 
ijnpressecl  by  Cniishuw's  example*     Am  I  right? 
Crosbaw's  lines  run  thus  i — 
'*  Fnfle  nilK>r  Testrw,  et  non  lua  purpura  lymphiB 
■  rcaa  miraDtcs  turn  nova  uiutat  aquas  ? 
t:  fcotiTiTO})  pnD&eita  sLifnaacite  Xuuicn  : 
^^jinplbii  pudica  Deum  vitlit,  et  crubuit." 

Hic  ET  Ubiqck, 

Wlio  was  first  in  the  field  to  imitate  Crashaw, — 
the  author  of  the  Bury  Bit,  or  his  contemponirj', 
Aaron  Hill,  whose  lines  on  the  turning  of  wuter 
into  wine  I  append  ? — 

V     ri  Cbriit,  at  Cnnu'i  feast»  by  power  dirine 
I  ri.'d  cold  water  with  the  warmth  of  wine* 
: ,,     crv'd  tliey,  wliile  in  red'ninur  tide  it  gushed. 
Ihc  bMiiful  ftteam  hath  seen  iU  God  and  b)u&h*d." 

W.  W. 

Cot-  IK  CoL*Fox  (5*^  S.  i*  pansim  ;  ii.  77.) — 
If  St,  Swithin's  acceptation  be  lulnussible  (p.  77), 
what  are  we  to  make  of  col-pi'itphd  f  Is  this  n 
"young/"  ** little/'  *'  new-bom  "  prophet  {  I  snb- 
Qut  tlmt  this  rendering  will  not  do.     Turning  to 

ilisy,  I  find  **  colly  (of  coIe»  or  cnul),  Ihe  black  or 
on  the  outride  of  a  pot  or  kettle."     Wedg- 
1   sjivs,  "A  shepherds  dot;,  from  having  its 
tt:'  '.     Sw.  huUvg^  koliig,  without  boms, 

ir>i  e  meralKT  that  ought  to  be  there.^ 

'  iLTinal  question,  an  able  contributor  to 

till  ;d,  Mr.  IvALrn  N.  Jame-s,  suggested 

to  me  ftumc  time  ago  the  French  mlc,  which  Bo3^er 
rriHlcrs  **ftkim,-*  and  gives  us,  ha  a  synonym  of 
ht^urdt  —  *'  a  fib^  tt  lie,  or  slmm."  This  would  do 
qait*  well  for  col^fox,  or  col-propkef.  CoUy^  in  my 
fypiaion,  comeis  jfrom  quite  a  ditferent  root. 

Edmu?;d  Tew,  ^I.A. 

It  ii  atAt^d  in  the  Rev.  J.  G,  Wood's  Natural 
liiff^^f,  p.  21>r»,  that  the  tails  of  some  sheep-dogs 
^r-  i  in  early  youth  on  account  of  the  now 

01  i  wliich  refiii?ed  to  acknowledge  any 

iiog  j^-         J''  [>  .Ii>L.  ur  to  exempt  it  from  tax, 

T  '    lend.^  to  confirm  Mr.  Wedgwood's 

iri,  h   laws   extended   to    8coth*nd   were 

a^i'-Lvvi^  UL  to  the  wop<l  collie^  and  caused  the  mati- 
alluded  to.  GEORiiE  H.  Jesse* 


Mr,  Froitdk's  "History"  (5«*  S.  ii.  125.)— 
Allow  me  to  remind  8.  T,  P.  that  this  so-called 
"  fact  "  is  hearsiiy  *'  double-distilled."  Possilily 
it  may  not,  on  that  account,  be  out  of  place  in  IMr. 
Froude's  HUtortj.  Middlk  Templar. 

Bradford. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Rteord*  of  the  Past  hehuj  Sngluh  ;  7*ra' . /'  '  ihe 

Assyrian  and  Efjypliaii  MoAumentji,  Pi  t  1 1  - 1  >  I  >  under 
the  Sanclion  of  the  Society  of  Biblicii  Au  iia  oJogy, 
Vol.  IL  Egyptian  Texts.  (Bagster  k  Sons.) 
Tuisaccond  tolumo,  like  the  former,  takes  un,  in  Tory 
trutbt  into  the  far,  far  past.  It  is  no  fiHi^bt  privilege  to 
read  in  modem  type  the  ete-nta  of  bygone  nf^e^,  rcveiLled 
liJtherto  only  in  hieroglyphic  and  btenitit:  cbarnctcrsu 
When  wc  consider  how  mutilated  the  papyri,  and  how 
iHejcrible  the  inscriptions  of  recent  date  often  become^ 
the  value  and  impurtancc  of  theso  Hocorda  cannot  be 
lowly  estimated.  Fulsome  flattery  bestowed  on  monarcht 
19  not  wanting*  and  probably  to  the  lo«  of  importattt 
chronicler,  but  even  flattery  is  here  a  boon.  The  events 
narrated  nre  clearly  citpre^Sfd.  It  teemt,  too,  that  the 
Eftjptian  kingi  had  gencratly  five,  and,  in  aomc  oaiet, 
iix  titles  and  names.  Two  of  the*c  only  are  hi*toricaUy 
important ;  the  first,  or  the  pr:enomen,  beinir  the  aolaV 
or  divine  nfirn       "'  -  'the  ftimily  or  birth  name. 

The  great  nii  records  make*  us  feel  that 

we  are  really  ;  '  <  '  j»ast.  while  the  authority, 

public  and  poUiic^l  iu  kind,  causes  this  book  to  be  a  pro- 
duction rich  in  truth  and  hiitury.  Many  unaccountable 
dificrep  ncics  will  probably  hereby  die  a  natural  death, 
and  Bib  ical  interpreters  will  welcome  the  new  life  with 
wliicb  history  is  being  inspired.  Wo  cannot  speak  too 
highly  of  both  these  volnmca.  They  are  national  contri- 
butions.  The  remaining  uupubUiihed  inscriptitin«  may 
be  looked  for  with  pleasure,  initiating  us,  as  they  will, 
into  many  mysteries  of  the  oldest  literature  in  the  world* 

Tl(t  Civil  SfTvice  JTaiulhook  uf  KngUih  LiUrature.    By 

II.  A.  I)ob«on.  (Lockwood  k  Co.) 
This  work^  though  not  the  only  one  of  its  kind,  ade- 
quately serTes  its  end.  It  indicates  sourees  of  information 
to  student*.  Candidates  for  cicaminiitions  m»y»  by  means 
of  this  work,  with  liitto  labour,  make  a  rapid  and  healthy 
digest  of  the  rise  and  progress  of  English  Literature.  In 
a  volumi:  of  some  290  pages,  all  philosophical  researches 
are  excluded.  It«  concieo  form  and  cln  '  '  !  nr- 
rangcnipnt  cnhnnce  the  vigour  of  the  )  ful- 

ness.   The  hiugraphies,  terse  in  their  <i  1  bo 

appreciated  by  readen  restricted  U*  time.  iJJViJoJ,  con- 
ventionaUy.  into  eight  chapter?,  the  various  periods  are 
^|,.;  o.r.,  A...r^jjg(|  Qyj  (^p  njemory.  The  ^..-.T-ifc  ..r  this 
J  i  ill  not  be  diminished  by  the  r  liat 

\  I  1^  the  editor  of  The  Civil  S'  /  <>/ 

7:  J    ;.ija/,  iuid  atsiitant  editor  of  Th4  CivU  6ar><c  C/eo- 

/^ftjfuE.  Aftei^t  and  Modern.    By  Jolm  Piggutt,  F.S, A^ 

RO.a,  FILG  S.  \  King  &  Co,) 
HovrKVFit  many  may  bo  the  demerits  of  thii  book, — they 
are  for  the  most  part,  perhaps,  m  Oriental  orthogranhy. 
—  jti  merits  are  nut  a  few.  It  lajs  hold  of  that  at  which 
it  has  grasped.  *•  There  is  a  demand,'*  says  the  writer, 
**  for  information  respecting  the  land  of  the  Shall."  Mr. 
Piggott  has  met  this  demand  for  information  by  pre- 
senting the  public  >»ith  a  supply  of  details  compilcdfrom 
the  best  authorities  on  aubjects  concerning  Persia.  The 
author  exhausts  no  small  part  of  a  vast  theme.  Briefly 
touching  on  the  ancient  and  legendary  period*,  be  ^ak^a 


180 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5''an.Atrc,2Sl.7i 


the  reidcr  into  the  modem  hiitory  of  the  country*  He 
then  plcMiintly  idlures  hioi  into  an  acquaintauce  with 
Peraift'B  religion,  literAture,  conimerce  and  products,  orti 
mod  acieocefi,  aumjj  eduofttion  and  Janguage,  wayt  of 
truYeUbg,  spurts^  wowen,  crown -jewek,  coalfields^  and 
the  iilustrioui  monarch  recently  a  Tisitor  at  Buckingham 
Palace,  Every  clmpler  is  full  of  iuitnictii>n ;  »o  liiU* 
that  wfl  must  refrain  from  quoting  from  itA  300  pvges, 
and,  instead,  recommend  a  perusal  of  its  muny  attractioiu, 
Pertiat  Ancient  and  Modtrn  ought  to  find  a  pUc©  at 
once  on  the  gheUes  of  public,  lendLng^  and  free  libraries. 

Local  Oaiai*  ok  the  *' Retbospectivb  Rkview." — 
A  writer,  under  the  initial  *'C/'  (which  b  that  beginning 
the  name  of  an  old  and  honoureil  correspondent  of 
"  N,  &  ^.,"  3Ir.  Jamks  Crossley),  states,  in  the  Man- 
ckttter  OuardiaHt  that  there  is  no  foundation  for  the 
aflwjriton  that  the  Retrospfctive  Aprun;;  from  the  Mnn- 
dijester  Bihlinf/raphiana.  Mel  Cro^slet  waa  one  of  the 
writers  in  the  itc(rotp*'ditV(,  and  haf  "  surrited,  it  ia 
beli4:fvcd,  all  thoae  odsociated  with  him  in  the  llrat  tcries 
of  that  work/'  which  appeared  more  than  half  a  century 
«go. 

DuftHAK  CATiiKi>UAL.— The  excaTatioDi  made  on  the 
rate  of  the  Chapter  Uouae  have  brought  to  Light  many 
reUcs  of  mcdi»ral  interments.  A  itone  coffin  covered 
by  a  alabf  but  without  any  inicription,  was  found  lately 
in  the  centre  of  the  Chapter  House,  a  few  feet  below  the 
original  floor.  The  slab  waa  raised  in  the  preeence  of 
the  ]>eun  and  other  gentlemen.  Iniide  the  coffin  was 
found  the  skeleton  of  a  womao^  four  feet  six  inches  in 
length,  which  presented  the  appearance  of  having  once 
been  wrapped  iu  liuenj  some  traces  of  which  remained. 

The  Saxon  Chubcu  At  Bbacpordox-Avoj?.— Tbia 
invaloable  and  unique  retic  of  early  Christianity  in 
We^sex  ha«  now  beeti  purchased,  and  m  permanently 
secured.  Tl)e  work  of  reparation  and  preMrvation  hai 
been,  on  the  advice  of  Sir  Gilbert  Scott,  itnintsied  to  the 
care  of  Mr.  J.  T.  Irvine.  About  5t)0/.  Lave  been  cpent 
in  the  cost  of  purchase.  As  the  funda  in  hund  nre  almost 
exhausted,  and  some  800^  are  still  required,  intending* 
donors  will  do  well  to  forward  their  contributions, 
without  delay,  to  the  Vicar,  the  Rev.  W.  U*  Jones. 

Tub  grave  of  Leonardo  da  Vinci  has  been  diacovered 
within  the  Castle  of  Amboise.  It  was  covered  by  a  slab 
beoriug  the  great  artiste  name.  The  body  was  found  in 
£Ood  preservation. 

The  "  Young  Roscius,"  Master  Betty,  who  set  England 
in  a  foolisli  frenxy  at  his  acting  sixty-nlne  years  ago, 
died  on  Monday,  aged  S3. 

The  ARCiTiK?lscorAL  Lidbary  at  Lambeth  Palace  will 
be  closed,  for  the  receas^  for  six  weeka,  from  tl^o  end  of 
August.  ^ 

BOOKS  AKD  ODD  VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PURCHASE. 
Putl«u)ar«  of  Prk«,  ac.,  of  «very   book   to  be    trnt  ilirtct   to 
tile  peTKo  ^T   vlium  it  ii  required.  wb«M  hkihc  aad  Addrewi  m,t* 
Civen  for  that  purpoM  :— 

Amik   BARTiiiLifut    Misciiit     (8t.   Leser].   Notice   Raifoea^**   d«s 

liisT  of  '  i(v  Thouiuvd  Pound*  <<tTi.aied  ht 

Hix  uvt  of  hu  Tralj  Uij&l  A»d  tadf- 

scut  I 

\SBiii[«-i]  t'y  ii,^i.uutii  /y.iri.^A:,  Bott«aford  Muior,  Briftg^ 


Tin  Book.  %  work  w  tntiUed  writtea  by  Mia  Serra,  and  pubUiU«d  la 

orberoreiftls, 
TuK  Book  ,  Tin  DiurutK  IxravriOATios.    OopiiS  of  Sitiicr  of  the 

aboYC  beuring  d&t«  anteiiiu-  to  ISLS. 
Jfaa.  OtJvtA  W.  f$iEaRr»-    Anf  wurki  vrritUD  bv  ber  oudtr  that  Qani«. 

and  aoT  writteo  bjr  her  undtr  the  title  of  rriuoeitf  oUvc  uf  €am- 

bwlaaa. 
Vsaled  hi  VTitlMirt  J.  Tfum^^  £«i? ,  <io.  St.  GMns't  lMiuare»  Bclgrare 


gtiting  to  thim,  b4>th  for  Ut^ir  Baku  <u  %>tll  oi  oar  v<w>  — 

Thait  th«y  shovM  ^rriff  drcrfy  and  «fa<t  •u^/jr-^and  oa 
one  aide  of  i  ^/t«ctV«//y  prt>|»fif  iiaasi 

a  nd  words  a  erptanatii0m  mat  ht 

retjuired.     t: .  .^ ^. .  .*.^.  .^  fmMoi  tmt  mimta  CvT' 

rttpond€ni  doe*  not  thnnk  w&rth  the  trouhU  of  writaig 
ptainlif^ 

S.  T.— The  best  answer  we  can  give  is  iu  slAtins  afi 
The  church  authorities  in  Italr  have    itiAt   rtuiwiS  .. 
inscribe  the  name  of  Prince  Otho  von   f     — — ^^  Wi  flw 
baptismal  registry  of  San  Giovanni,  a.^  -  ik 

child  of  aiib  lieutenant  Tonfani,  on  the  j.'r  i%naf. 

''Sciant  praL'terea  parochi  .  .  ...  nc»i  cs»o  adiuitteim 
intidoleiaut  heroticos  ....  neque  qui  ignormnt  rodimeBti 
fidci." 

W.  J.  J.  asks  if  ''Neither  your  brotb«r  nor  I  vii 
aware  of  the  fact"  be  a  graramattcal  orpreaeioD,  or  t! 
the  '"was "should  be  *'were-**  The  "was*'  i 
right,  and  cannot  be  changed  for  "were" 
terrible  bruising  of  the  often-battered  head 
The  above  expression  is  tantamount  to  "Neither  was 
your  brother  aware  of  it,  nor  was  1."  A  referetice  le 
what  any  grammar  says  on  difjunctire  conjunctiguu 
would  profit  our  querist. 

J,  P.  li.— The  subject  of  the  dea-ivat-  i   -''  '' '■ 
and    Judy'*    has    been    discussed    an< 
•*X.   k  Q."     See  General   Index  to   i 
4»*'Sene8of"N,  &Q." 

E.D.— 

''  Meteor-like,  of  stuff  and  form  perplext, 
Whose  what  and  where  in  dispiiiattpii  it*" 
Look  for  it  in  Cowley. 

P.  8.  (Marlboroagh),-"The  Heralds  ftod  PtirsuivanU 
named  still  officially  exist  There  are  three  Kingi  "f 
Arms,  six  Heralds,  and  four  PunatTanti.  See  Boolell't 
H^frndry^  for  details. 

W.  G.  T.— The  eixtcen  ^u  '  u:>d  WM  flWr 

eeparate  noble  de»ceni«.     l  e  Dokv  ^ 

Northumberland  ia  said  to  iui_    . .  .,.- 

H.  P.  P.— The  body  of  Henrr  VI  %s 
in  Chertsey  Abbey.  Ktchard  IlLremov 
where  it  is  now  said  to  reat. 

S.  begs  leave  to  thank  O.  and  Mr.  R.  X,  Jaitssr<9r 
tbcir  aiisweiia  to  his  query. 

£.  X.  H.  (Hillield).— See  p.  131  antt.    Thanks  all 
same. 

C,  V,  ii  thanked  for  hit  courtesy  in  sending  to  il 
publisher  the  duplicate  of  an  old  number  of  **  N.  k  (j.** 

0.  P.  (Margate). — The  lines  are  a  translation  of 
of  an  ode  by  Horace,  Ode  10,  Bk.  iL, "  Beclioa  rf  te«/^( 

W.  T.— ^ot  only  did  French  gentlemen  then  w«ar 
rings,  but  they  also  used  muffs,  and  olten  carried  faMi| 

J.  T.— As  many  cities  as  bishops. 

G.  R.  Jksse. — Not  received. 

Editorial  Commonications  should  bo  addreaasdlo  ^1 
Editor  *'— Advertisements  and  Buaineas  Leiton  lo  **1 
Publisher  "—at  tlie  Office,  20,  Wellington  dtMet,  f 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  thnt  wo  decline  to  return  < 
munlcations  which,  for  any  reaaon^  we  do  not  pdni  ;  I 
to  thtf  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  ali  communications  should  be  affixed  Uit  i 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarilj  for  pubB 
as  a  gviarantee  of  good  faitlu 


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idtiu 


jV.  8JkTURDAi\  SSPTSilBSR  B»  1874 


GOJiTBNTa— N*  86. 

iLcKttlHIes:  Scotlmnd.  ISI^lTltTA-Canie- 
tn.  t,  WSfc-llDU,  Wych,  fcnd  8«U  Workt,  183— 
|V*'Cic«baIUmi  «t  A  Mode  of  Iiii«nneat»  ud  KcUted 
h  ISI^OnTMM  Entombed  in  WilU-SunnlijU  In- 
lfl^"T^rMa/*  ie&— "  DiphthonK,"  **  Ophth*lmi»," 
UIA'*— Afflilnvtt  Kirldeiaee— Bew  %ad  Wine,  and  Beer 
MwWmiton  K^gisteim.  B«da-Sijr  WlUiua  Tern  pie— 
^  -"*       BftUol :  BftUlBQl,  196. 


i  Atm*-OiboiTie  Family,  187-Iri*h 

t*,tr..it  i'h.M..r*_^-,.i^iun_'*Qi4  LoDdon  Fortlfloi- 

'i«Jii— Leofrlc'f  Hiaia]— f^'Ania 

f  TboiDM  Pftl&ft— Heraldic — 

^  .^itman^  tbe   Leper— A  Gmnd^ 

r  f  I  '  L— Portrait*  of  OuitaTtu  Adolpbiu 

or  Weir,  the  EdtobuiKh  Maiflclan,  ISti 

^^^  i .^     or  ''Tbo  Three  Barena  "— V  Uage : 

mpf—-  -'  ^>ie  OombaUBte  at  Perth  is  ISOfl.  ISO— 
B^  ' '  ^^At«  i>orooenbipa  of  Eadaad,  191 — 

Kl  l  itmfMMlniA  la  ](ieQ_8{ie^K{iT|pf,  ig3_ 

^»  i7iiuiMif-i.it-    "'  "*'-     li     —-'«      >.,.<-  rin^eu*' 

l»  8Mllk«0»«--.^  Knt. 

-JUSdUrlil.  ]v*i- 

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fluted. 

llAN  LOCALITIES:  SCOTLAND. 
per  and  north-west  end  of  the  parish  of 
and  Stewartry  of  Kirkcudbright  is  a 
ant  some  three-quarters  of  a  mile  in 
^tbree-qu&rtets  in  breadth,  and  within 
BOitM  diitasce  from  tbe  Hhore,  is  an 
and,  circnkr^  and  of  about  Km:>  fe^t  in 
It  \sL  the  site  of  one  of  those  curious 
Ima  they  are  called  in  Irelnnd,  find  eb^ 
likeKiweUinga,"  which  has  been  reared,  as 
IVCtnn*  ugniiily  if  not  almo&t  always  are, 
I  VtHiCBliy  placed  and  cro^s  beams.  This 
cdM  Lorn  ATihur^  also  Loch  LotuR,  or 
t  and  in  d  MS.  description  of  the  Stewartry 

".  JjUOeg    Vm    pTY^-^*  rvi  .1     iirn.k.u'     the 

WvocMeu'  LiIt  ader 

twrr,"    Thf'  i-,  or 

tim,"  Arthtir,  who  liourisiied.  in  the 

Ih  and  fii^t  h.ilf  of  tho  sixth  centur}% 

ler  of  the  <  d  Britons,  or 

ahria  or   i  ..ie^  is  siiid  to 

Jimt  of    liis   tvviUe    renoMoed 

e  Ftifiin  Siixons,  united  with  the 

_,  at  the  mouth  of  a  water  ciUIchI 

fiionum  of  Nennitis).     Mr.  Skene* 

the  Four  AthC,  Books  of  Wal4St 

bur  AdTimced  from  the  boulh,  some 


part  of  the  English  border  or  soutli  t!nn  >r,  into 
Scotland,  or  that  part  which  lie*  ween 

the  two  Konum  walls  "on  the  w*  tliaa 

by  fJae  cjwt  coiiat,  or  through  the  enemies  country, 
Bimicia,  At  this  time  the  large  diiitrict,  extend** 
ing  frmji  the  river  Nith  on  Uie  south,  to  Loch- 
ryan,  or  the  Rhyns  of  Galloway  on  tbe  west,  was 
in  the  oociipation  of  the  Galwtjdd^  said  to  b©  » 
Pictittb  colony,  and  hostile  to  the  Cymri.  Thi^ 
pariih  of  Ni^w  Abbey  is  within  this  district,  now 
known  as  Galloway,  aJthou^^h  situated  at  ittt  Tery 
eastern  extremity,  bordering  on  the  cj»tuiir>*  of  the 
Kith*  And  here  m  a  water,  aa  well  aa  an  extern- 
sivu  tmcl,  both  called  Glcn^  the  "wnter,  after 
forming'  a  junction  with  New  Abltey  Pow  and 
various  streams,  embouchinj^'  into  tiie  Nith  }mme- 
diately  west  of  Caerlaverock  < Jastle.  Mr.  8kene 
(Mr,  Stuart  Glennie  concurring  in  his  Tiews),  in 
attempting  to  identify  the  site  of  Arthurs  twelve 
battles »  adopts,  not  this  water  Glen,  but  one  whicli 
falb  into  the  Irome  at  Darvel,  in  Ayrshire,  as  the 
scene  of  the  first  kittle,  a  place  an  far  advanced 
to  the  north-west  as  to  be  far  within  the  (southern 
frontier,  and  nearly  in  the  centre  of  that  wide 
district  lying  between  the  walls.  It  is  also  even 
yet  comparatively  a  wild  mountainous  reiarion, 
abounding  in  moraasefl^  and  one  imq^i  '1\ 

into  which  it  would  be  dongcrom*  to  1:1 
face  of  a  hostile  army,  if  backed  by  the  iiilKiuiuiJiLs. 
Besides  this  the  question  nrLsey—Is  it  probable 
that  Arthur  was  allowed  to  advance  thus  far  before 
the  hostile  occupants  of  the  intervening  district 
made  a  stand  and  gave  him  battle  I  In  con- 
descending on  the  Glen  water  at  Darvel  Mr.  Skene 
nmy  not  luwe  known  of  the  Glen  water  situated 
here,  and  m  not  far  from  the  starting- point  of 
Arthur's  westward  advance,  or  of  the  lake  Cfdled 
IfOch  Arthur  and  Loch  Lotus^  the  artificial  island 
within  which,  if  it  was  occupied  by  Arthur, 
according  to  the  load  tmdition,  would  account  for 
the  name  now  given  to  the  loch. 

Eegarding  Loch  Lotu&,  the  other  name  of  this 
loch,  we  lietir  of  Arthur  after  his  twelve  battles 
(the  last  of  which  was  Badon  Hill,  in  51(>  A.D.), 
and  his  great  success  thereby  in  subtiuing  his 
Pagan  enemies,  the  united  Saxons,  Pict«  and 
Scota,  dividing  the  conc[uered  territory,  or  a  large 
IiortioQ  of  it,  nmonff  three  brolhera— f/riVr^  LUw^ 
and  Annvn;  but  now  he  did  *m»  we  learn  not. 
Llew,  also  caUed  Lothns.  i< 
I^othirin  ;  and  as  he  is 
traditions  as  having  bee 
may  htwe  hud  those  of  < i.  i  1  >  ^ 
UTider  hh  ^way,  im  well  u^  n 
who,  it  is  allowed,  at  tlii*  tii:i 
Mn<l  whom  Arthur  is  a^id  i^> 
the  ;  •  v 
or   I 

Lot":  una    11   M-eiiv-.    Tim   ::. 
thtit  the  ifttter  had  origin  m  \ 


-1        Lt.lM 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


[S^  8.  IL  Saw,  5. 74. 


I  Pictuii  1di^)eC,  whose  d&oghter  Thenaa  was 

'  er  of  S«iiii  KeQtigem,  &od  wboee 

^  or  Mckdred,  rtsing  in  rebellion  with 

w  kttder  of  the  array  against 

.iillnr  Al  the  l»ttk  of  CftmlaHf  in  537,  the  site  of 
w^atA  m  atqnoaed  to  be  Camdon,  once  a  Boman 
tovm  «B  tlie  CWftoii,  in  which  both  Aithur  and  he 

^  ii  k  also  proper  to  mention^  o&  the  south 
^id  OBWlii-wesi  this  parifih  of  New  Abbey  is 
iMniHih'  hw  a  abort  chain  of  hi^h  hilk,  the  hill  of 
Lwti%  ImIdv  which  la  Loch  Lowtis  (alias  Loch 
Latam  and  Lodi  Arthur),  being  on  its  south- woit 
end,  and  Cfi^yi  on  the  south-east,  both  high 
at«cp  roc^  esunencei^  Mr.  Skene  and  Mr.  Stuart 
41liiiiiie  have  fiukd  to  DOtioe  this  as  an  Arthurian 
loadi^,  and  htnee  mj  object  in  now  directing 


tTLf&A^IBXTBSA&IAKISM.— Na  7.* 

dm  Wjj^bcc,  I06L— XAT&urm.  Bicanov^,  Kft,^ 
Mmn  LtaTWWurjp,  UL— BisarrcB,  lOL 

Ommi  Wmidi^—U  wiH  be  conTenient  to 
■iyinti  Ms.  (Thavck's  communication  into  the 
l»o  paita  into  which  it  natniallj  fidk,  and,  in 
diiing  ao^  I  will  gire  pncedenoe  to  what  he  desires 
to  ngr  nmding  Ooimt  Waldeck  and  the  108 
jHHi  lo  wfeidi  he  bjs  daim : — 

'  I  oopr  the  ioDowing  from  the  Paris  Figaro  of 
the  IMi  Mazdb  ^h&Sed  the  ISth):— 

'Avttl^hiv,  It  OoBlit  4s  Waldsek,  fStait,  au  milkit 
JPwm  eaa will  d'lsai^  k  10^  anaJfusMje  da  la  naiaanrf , 
^  euBciAuft  awe  k  ^tc  di>  ie  Mam 

•X.  k Oaato  da  Waldggk  n*<^  sjawmwiiBl  mimi: 

tdiiwasb  11  Tcaaift  de  ckaaitr  an  air  dTopfiim  avae  aat 
I'lf  Bi  ^tiMaanla  yor  cet  to  si  aiaiici. 

•"•Maagrmad^tee  a  ttomqa-A  lO  aM»*  boos  a>l41 
<ll. -«ft>  iHb  W  S*  ecBin^  da  Maftsilk  !  ** 

•  II  fsB  f#e«a  fM  k  Tk  hanaiM  daiaaa  lova  kt 


ovuft 


■i  MiB  afina  aad  is  md  keakh  1 

llMlkrMB.THo»!- 


I  iBtt  aa  if  I  Dvgkt  to  a|okctaa  to  the  f«adm  of 

>K.ft  Q.*lbr  tmli4g  the  pRtoMiMM  to  center 

■ttkakm  4if  Oriiold  gttkwini  aa  IT  the j  wm 

lai'iihiilri  af  hk  Hfe  ate  to  moj,  awl  ipfitM^ 
aoo«riBid,tkittk7«mto  iM<Mo?ir^ 
that  Iktj  ikMid  Bol  be  aoeaiD{Maied  bj  eiM  Mft# 
dHiy-Hwvcddato;  telhcqgh  it  k  staled  thai 
ht  WBB  beni  at  Pr^^  m  the  lOh  Mmh^  ITW, 
M  cvidnea  hsa  bees  pntAMdia  amiat««rtl*l 
BMliMlkMtalL  HTksakHto 
onacir  af  the  old  FMe  Sk  Jfaatt» 
1799;  to  hsw  bMtt  vwittikd  at 
m  1906,wbaftsg^oagaas€bptoittof 


Hussars ;  to  hare  been  pensioned  by  L'floole  dea 
Beaux- Arts  in  1826  ;  and  to  have  married  in  185a 
when  eight j-four  jears  of  sge^  In  all  this  bushel 
of  assertion  there  is  not  one  grain 
although,  through  the  Timti  of  thi  raa 

last,  I  challenged  some  Parisian  believer  m  (Joufl 
Waldeck's  presumed  centenananism  to  fur 
confirmation  of  anj  one  fikct  adyanced  bj  hin 
and  reported  hy  Galiffnani,  not  an  atom 
such  confirmation  has  ever  reacbed  me, 
I  hare  received  priyaie  communications 
ing  grave  doubts  as  to  the  accuracy 
Count' t  rtcoUiciiofu.  One  gentleman,  who 
known  the  Count  between  thirty  and  forty  je 
sets  his  age  down  at  about  ninety-four  or*  ninety 
five.  Until  something  confirmatory  of  the  Voxmfi 
ckim  is  produced,  I  shall  beg  to  decline  troub 
mjself  farther  with  the  question  of  the  real  agQ  < 
Count  Waldeck. 

I  feel  confident  that  hk  claim  to  be  irip  will  be 
cetabtished  bj  precisely  the  same  t     '  s  tlml 

which  pttwes  there  have  been  U\  en  lu- 

narians in  hk  fiuniljp  and  that    ms    >rneraKI< 
gnuMlfiither  attained  the  slightly  exceptional  :igc. 

of  les. 

SathatM  Bidbiofid.— The  aeoond  case  brought 
forward  by  Mm,  Chajtcb  k  one  fisr  better  deserving 
of  attention : — 

**  In  a  note  of  mine  in  *  N.  &  Q/  in  .1 
(3^  S.  L  454X  I  called  the  attention  «>l 
Lewis  to  the  case  of  a  penaioner  in  Cht  U..t  Hus-i 
pital,  whom  I  had  seen  tnere  in  1861,  and  who  wail 
then  said  to  be  106  years  old  ;  but  if  SirCJ.  C. 
Lewk  did  make  any  inquiries  about  hnn,  he  <ii<i 
not  oommimicato  the  icsult  to  the  n^aders  of 
'N.&Q/  I  saw  thft  death  of  this  old  nio 
xeooided  in  the  newspapers  two  or  three  yoBff 
alter  the  dale  of  my  visit  to  the  Hospital,  and  h^ 
was  then  stated  to  be  Ilkb  or  li>9  years  old.  Un- 
fioitttnat^,  I  omitted  to  take  a  note  of  hh  nnm, 
but  of  coittae  hit  tniist  sHU  be  well  rem€ui}>er6d  »i, 
the  Hoipitai  It  mn^  to  be  eesy  to  make  ^ 
whether  he  rcoUy  atladned  the  age  clAimed  foi 
him,  and  perhaps  Mb.  Thqms  will  undertake  t' 
inquuT.  F.  CuAJfci. 

Kalhaaiei  RirttinnBil,  for  snch  u  the  : 
the   penawmer    ia    qvertaooy    died     in 
Hospital  on  the  t9th  of  Htty,  1763,  at  the  i 
^ge  oC  Ityr.    I  looked  into  thk  case  as  Ion 
sa  1571,  but  was  ttnahte  to  come  to  any  i 
coMlissioii  as  to  the  ml  age  oC  the  old  m»ti. 
fim  pkce  of  evideoce  sa  to  hk  ao^  U  thi%t 
ttkhta  hr  him  at  the  ttai^of  hL^ 
theiediDMOMimtks  aotlA^ 
he  seena  to  hftye  siatod  hk  i^  9:  nun\ 
Gctlably  a  bmbI  aiceptkqal  m  for  a 
•■Ikl  m»  a  dnfooa  itsiiaaiL    If  an  ^rmrP 
MMt  fnMtfy  BOt  cttt  to  wbkk  Bldimona  wai  s 


AM 


M 


'&U.8>n.S,7«.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


183 


p«liT,  but  Hither,  I  sospect.  An  error  on  the  p<ijt 
of  the  clerk  who  wrote  thirty-eight  for  twenty- 
eight.  But  there  exist  discrepancies  iu  the  olilcuil 
reoordi ;  for  while  at  hia  enlistment  he  is 
described  as  thirty-eight  in  1794,  which  would 
make  1756  the  year  of  hia  birth,  ho  is,  in  another 
feoord,  described  as  fifty  in  1B08,  whiuh  would 
give  1758  as  the  year  m  which  he  wiis  born« 
Hathaniel  Richmond  stated,  on  his  enliatment^ 
he  was  bom  at  Tatnwortk  In  1871,  a  friend 
ing  there  had  the  register  examined  for  the 
'  of  hia  baptism,  but,  althon|»h  it  was  searched 
for  twenty  years  each  way  from  the  date  of  his 
supposed  birth,  the  only  entries  of  the  Richraond 
family  recorded  in  it  are  tho  baptisms,  on  Slat 
January,  1767,  of  William,  son  of  Nathaniel  Rich- 
mond ;  June  19, 1769,  of  Thomas,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Ann  Richmond  ;  January  12th,  1771,  of  John, 
and  of  the  burial,  in  1773,  of  Ann  Richmond,  My 
frtend  suggested  that  the  old  man  was  really  either 
William  or  Thomas. 

It  has  since  been  found  that,  in  one  of  the 
reeckrds  of  his  service,  Richmond  is  described  as 
bom,  not  at  Tamworth,  but  at  Wigginton,  near 
^un worth ;  but  I  am  informed  thai  an  application 
for  information  from  the  baptismal  register  of 
Wigginton  has  not  met  with  any  response. 

So  the  real  age  of  Nathaniel  Richmond  remains^ 
It  this  moment,  a  vexed  question. 

P*om  the  many  communications  which  I  received 
on  the  subject  of  the  Tring  Centenarian,  it  is 
evident  that  Mr.  Piggott^s  confident  and  pre- 
tentious account  of  Betsy  Leather!  und  and  her 
111  Twirs,  which  appeared  in  the  Tunes  of  the 
-nist,  has  been  copied  into  nearly  all  the 
d  joumals.  As  the  same  publicity  is  not 
iikcjy  to  be  given  to  the  contradictions  to  this  im- 
pfotnble  story  given,  by  a  late  rector  of  Tring,  in 
the  Time§  of  the  20th,  and  by  Mr.  Loosley,  of 
Berkhamneteadf  in  that  journal  of  the  22nd  August, 
and  as  >lr.  Piggott  has  not  thought  it  necessary 
to  take  any  notice  of  the  points  in  the  case  to 
which  I  ventured  to  call  nis  attention  through 
the  same  channel,  I  desire  to  put  upon  record 

(the  fact  that  Bet«y  Leather! und's  111  years  rest 
upon  no  better  foundation  than  her  own  state- 
ment and  the  gossip  of  the  neighbourhood. 
I  am  the  more  anxious  to  do  this  since  the 
iirriter  of  an  article  "  On  Longevity,"  in  the  Satur- 
^auMfview  of  August  S22,  seems  to  treat  the  case 
tl  Betvy  Leatherlund  as  one  of  which  the  facts  and 
vooehttTs  are  forthcoming  in  due  order ;  and  having 
toio  to,  proceeds  by  an  easy  transition  to  the  case 
«la  man  ;  '  ^'Idritch,  aged  104,  brought  for- 
,       ward  l'>  a  Gibb  in  the  Anthropaloffical 

JaurmaL  *  ur^-ne  to  speak  with  all  respect  of 
I  Dr.  Oibb*a  medical  oommenta  on  this  case  ;  but  I 
I  ho^  I  taxj  say,  without  offence,  I  have  no  coni- 
I      deooe  in  Ins  treatment  of  evidence.    He  flpeaks  of 


I 


the  various  centenarians  who  form  the  subject  of 
his  essay  as  **  undoubted  examples,"  and  of  there 
bein^  "  not  a  doubt  of  the  accuracy  of  their  ages,** 
yet  in  this  very  case  he  does  not  seem  to  have  as- 
certained  even  the  ChriHtian  name  of  Eldritch,  the 
precise  place  of  his  birth  (for  Gloucestershire  in 
rather  a  loose  statement),  nor  even  whether  it  took 
place  in  July  or  December,  1767,  Science  is  not 
advanced  by  deductions  bai^d  on  such  imperfect 
premises,  William  J,  Tuohs. 

I  With  rof[&rd  to  one  statement  in  the  paragraph  re- 
ferring  to  the  Count  de  W«ldeck'»  manigeni^nt  of  tbe 
VoTte  St  Martin  Thentrc.  it  i«  to  be  obserTrd  that  ibe 
Prvnch  Oncra  Houm,  which  wai  near  the  Porte  St.  Martin, 
was  clo»ea  to  1798,  It  had  been  the  French  Opera  Hoiuie 
iLDce  1781.  It  wit  not  opened  as  the  Theatre  de  ta 
Porto  St,  Martin  till  1S02.] 


HALL,  WYCH,  AND  SALT  WORKS, 
The  names  of  phices  in  England  terminating  ir> 
idch  being  the  site  of  salt  works,  and  the  prefix 
Hall  under  similar  circumstances  in  Qemiany, 
open  up  an  interesting  inquiry  as  to  their  origin 
and  relation. 

We  may  first  inquire,  whether  the  temiination 
wichj  widely  scattered  as  it  is  over  the  country^ 
and  applied  to  many  hamlets  and  townM  which 
never  had  anything  to  do  with  salt,  can  be  shown 
to  have  any  connexion  with  the  manufacture.  I 
believe  there  is  such  a  connexion,  but  it  is  in  an 
indirect  and  rather  circuitous  manner.  The  radical 
wrtdt,  or  viCf  is  very  widely  spread  throuffbout  tbe 
Aryan  languages.  We  find  it  in  Sao  wit  Pes' a 
(the  Sanskrit  i'  being  the  equivulent  for  the 
guttural  in  other  tongues);  Greek,  oticov;  Lat., 
vic-iiM  t  Goth.»  rcifu ;  GaeL^  Jlch ;  Cyni.,  gwi^ ; 
A.-S,,  wic;  Norse,  rig.  The  original  meaning 
appears  to  be  that  of  an  abode  or  dwelling-place. 
In  this  application,  we  find  t^urJk,  or  tvtdt^  as  a 
suffix  in  every  part  of  the  country  ;  Barwiok,  KI- 
wick»  Warwick,  Adwick,  Osbaldwick,  Ktlnwiclir 
Wickham,  Wickford,  &c. 

When  the  Danish  and  Norwegian  pirates 
ravaged  the  coiists  of  Great  Britain,  they  ran  into 
the  little  bays  and  creeks  for  shelter,  and  ettab- 
lished  themselves,  sometimes  temporarily,  some- 
times permanently.  These  vigs^  or  hamlets,  being 
usually  in  an  inlet  or  bay,  the  term  t^ig  came  to 
signify  the  bay  as  well  as  the  hamlet.  We  have 
thus  mtks^  wichts  and  vig^  all  round  our  coast, 
Dunwich,  Harwich,  Sandwich,  Northwich,  East- 
wick,  Ray  wick,  Berwick,  &c  In  Scotland,  Wig- 
ton,  Wick,  Uig  Bay  in  Lewis,  Uig  Bay  in  the 
Isle  of  Skye,  &c. 

When  many  of  these  bays  afterwards  became 
used  for  tbe  manufacture  of  salt  from  sea  water, 
the  term  vig^  wick^  or  (Ci/cA,  was  naturally  tt«sQ* 
ciated  with  the  pbce  of  the  production.  Subse- 
quently, when  brine  springs  were  discovered 
inland,  the  familiar  name  of  tryc^,  identified  with 


184 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


f5**s.1T,%itlT;%,^ 


the  salt  manufactture,  vtbjs  applied  to  them.    The 

salt  pan3  were  rn^'  -*  ^h  houses*     In  Domesday 

Hoak%  we  hjiYe  to  salt  works  at  Wich, 

IJpewich,  Midiil,  .r- .,,  ^inwich,  Droitwich,  nil  in 
Worcefitershire.  Hence,  also  Northwich,  Middle- 
^widi,  Nuntwich,  in  Cheshire.     Wick,  therefore,  in 

roundahont   sort   of  way,   has   undoubtedly   a 
bilological  connexion  with  the  salt  niBnuiiif'tiire. 

When  the  salt  works  became  established  inland ^ 
a  difference  waa  found  to  exist  >>et\veen  the  salt 
jua^Je  friiin  the  brine  aprings  and  that  from  the  aea 
-water,  the  latter  being  coai'acr  and  stronger.  From 
l>eing  made  in  the  vics^  or  bajH,  on  the  coaat,  it 
acquired  the  name  of  *'  bay  salt,"  a  term  which  is 
stlD  continued  in  the  trade,  but  more  applicable, 
at  the  present  day,  to  the  salt  made  from  sea  water 
abroad. 

Another  element  in  the  nimies  of  places  con- 
nected 'with  the  salt  manufacture  is  Hall. 

Hal  and  sah  are  the  terms  for  salt  in  the  Latin 
and  Teutonic  langua^jes,  Hals  and  Hall  in  the 
Greek  and  Keltic,  Now,  it  is  a  fact  that  we  find 
the  words  Hall  and  Sah  strangely  mixed  together, 
ontl  intersecting  each  other  in  the  names  of  places 
in  Teutonic  countries.  Halle,  in  Prussia,  stands 
on  the  River  SaaJa  ;  Halkiyi^  m  Sakburg,  stands 
on  the'  River  Salza  ;  Hfichen-kaU^  in  Bavaria,  is 
on  the  River  Sak ;  HiMadt  is  in  the  Sak  Kam- 
mergut.  We  have  Ln  En}:Tli\iid  many  names  of 
plaoes  compounded  with  Hall.  BahaH^  in  Lan- 
■  cashiTe,  presents  the  same  combination  of  the  two 
-elements  just  mentioned,  and  is  situated  on  a 
jnarsih  near  the  sea  coast.  At  Haling,  on  the 
Hftiup»lure  coast,  salt  works  still  exist.  We  have 
idso  Halstead^  Hal  wick,  Halton,  and  others,  tdl 
pointing  in  the  same  direction. 

It  is  impossible  to  resist  the  conclusion,  that  in 
remote  times,  before  the  immigration  of  the 
Tetttonio  race6  into  Crerraany  and  England*  salt 
was  manii£ictnred  in  these  localities  by  the  Keltic 

habitants,  who  have  recorded  their  memorials  in 
ftho  names  left  behind  them.  Th«  Welsh  name  for 
lit  is  hd^  and  for  a  salt  pit,  heUdd,  Hence 
Vj'MlulU,  the  m\%  pools.  By  the  Welsh,  Nant- 
l-wich  is  called  luledd-wcii,  the  clear  salt  pits  ; 
jKorthwich,  heUdd-ddu^  the  dark  salt  pits. 

The  light  cast  upon  our  loeal  nomenclature  and 
Pthe  migration  of  racei*  by  associations  of  this  kind 
is  interesting,  and  worth  being  placed  on  record. 

J.    A.    PlCTON, 

Swidjknowt,  W^vortree* 


FOLKLORE. 
DEVONsniRE  FoLK-LoRE. — L  A  toad's  leg  tied 
I  round  the  parts  aflected  is  a  cure  for  the  king's 
[  evil.  2.  If  yoLi  have  a  mole  on  your  back,  you  are 
tfiure  to  be  murdered.  X  To  cure  a  sty  in  the 
ti|^e.  rub  the  part  three  times  all  one  way  with  a 
""^-^iing  ring.    4.  Another  cure  for  a  sty  is  to 


rub  the  part  with  a  tom-cat's  tail  5.  If  you  ineet 
a  flock  of  sheep,  it  is  lucky  to  v  "*  *  ^  '     ^^  the 

Sfjn  is  calle* J  by  the  same  na!  ,  one 

of  the  two  will  be  killed,  or  di^^  ,.^..-.^..,1. 

J.  C.  CiXlOOlL 
Tiverton. 

WilATIlEU  pROCJXOSTtCS  (5***  S.  I.  3S4,)— I  ofttQ 

heard  the  following  weather-rhymed  in  Coren 
in  my  boyhood  : — 

''  An  aut  [atmiborlyl  wind  4Uid  a  1^ 

Bring  aa  eMt  wind  home  tniig.** 
^*  A  (o^  and  n  imaU  moon 

llring  nn  casiorly  triad  MOfi 
"  Fritljiy  nad  the  week 
Are  aeiaom  aleek  [iklike].*' 

Torxja^, 

Superstitions  of  Yorksiciee  Fiefummor.- 

At  Staithes,  in  Cleveland,  if  a  fisl]-  I'ptti^ 

to  meet  a  female  first  on  leaving  hi  i^ipnt 

out  to  sea,  he  will  turn  back  again,  as  no  nnaly 
believes  that  all  his  luck  would  ne  woiled  for  (M 
dav.  FLORKtrCS  CLKVXLJUrO. 

dtokeslej. 

Thunder. — Popular  weather  sajing  in  Kent 
«*  If  it  sinks  from  the  north. 

It  will  double  itt  wniih. 

If  it  iinki  from  the  south. 

It  will  open  it4  mouth, 

If  it  fllnla  from  tho 

It  is  never  at  reft. 

If  it  Btaks  from  the  east. 

It  wlU  leave  us  in  peace.'' 
Berbkrt  Ba: 
Rlngmore. 

OcTRB  FOR  Consumption. — Th^ 
tin}?  from   the    Wcittm  Mail  ne 
2r>th  June,  1874,  deserves  perpetual  pfeici>4;J 
in"N,  clQ.'»:— 

'*  CirnK  voa  Cokbumptiok.— An  AmericMi  p«|i 
that  &  family  at  Lewiftton,  Mune,  hfiving  loet  9< 
its  memben  by  conaumption,  recently  had  tli'.' 
tbo  lart  one  who    died  dwinturred  and   ri 
downwanhi.    This  "nae  in  accoFclance  with 
to  flop  the  TVmigim  of  tha  dlieaee  in  the  fanuj  v  n  ^^  «i>if 
neeeMaiy  to  bury  tiM  kil 'Vkt^  face  dosrnwardt/* 

K.  .S:  M, 

Cremation  as  a  Mode  of  LxTEiiiitM,  anp 
Rklated  StrnjECTS. — A  cor 
writersr  have  discussed,  from 
ipiarian    points  of  view,   the   whulo 
ftepultui'e,  burial  rites,  and  funerftlH.     J 
cyclopadias,  travels  in  India,  Kgypt,  lJai»i 
and  books  on  manners  and  custotoit  geneml 
among  the  older  authoritieB— 

BoBio«  IM  Roma  ^Soffomnm  (ateo  la  Aria^hr*  Htm^ 
Sotttranfo.) ;  Gutherius,  Dt  Jwr*  Manimm,  fit  IThnwa* 
Toliv  T.  and  x\\. :  Kircbmanaae,  Xk  #Va<rtf  MomstUfmMS 
Laurentiufl,  Dt  Funeribvis  Antipwrum,  #te.,  Ae  Qt^Mti^ 
rot  xi. ;  Meurtias,  Di  Funert^  in  GroiwHu,  TOl.  SiL; 


Mf,74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


185 


— ta  Menrmifa,  Optra;  Montfaucon,  Lt*  /^VnnU 

'  voL  v.;  aitd  Supplement^  aJ«o  voL  t.  ; 

^*  Fur^hns  (It  toutti  Us  N^ation*  i  and 


pulcHi  He 
find  VtUttA 


^i  by  L 

'   PAI)TCIlill<>. 

Hanfys  :    Pomay, 

Porcacahi,  Fan- 

\  4h«r  1  tmttBlaiiQtl ;  Kl 

V^*^  ■   ■-.  /"?itorj.'iu,  Tol.  xi,  t  ^"i--.......,  -<.i..r,,^  ...  ..u- 

«erfitKi|^  Burial,  or  Do  Sepultiinii  in  hie  Worki ;  Spon- 
ttmv^  CoftneCma  S^cra. 

A   luor©  modern    dUcussion   of  the   sepulture 

^ueetioo  arose  in  France,  chiefly  during  and  after 

e  Fwach  Revolution,  with  reference  prinoipAlly 

the  »ame  evik  which  occasioned  the  English 

tigatioas  and  consequent  enact- 

t  half  a  century  later,  viz.,  the 

li^j  oi  i.u'.iiiii  j(L  in  or  under  church  edifices  and 

the  mid-'it  of  towns.     The  authority  most  cite<i 

^_A  tMs  discussion  wa^  the   Italian  Piattoli,  who 

RnveatigJkt^d  the  subject  by  request  of  the  Govern- 

Tjuetit  of  Tuscany,  and   whoae  work  was   mostly 

tmnaferred  (with  acknowledgment)  by  the  French 

-.1.^    -'^-^n,  W<v\  ii'Azyr,  into  hia  own  publication 

■b  led  Eii(xi  mr  Us  Licux  tt  Uji 

^^^  res,  in  voL  vi.  of  the  CEuvreii 

Icq  d'Aiyr.     Other  authorities  for  this  Btatfe 

lh*»  diPcu'^'iion  are,  Cambry,  Rapports  surks 

I  rard,  De9  Tomheaux^  on  dr  VInjincnct 

■<  Fun^hret  sur  li&  Mftiurs;  Maret, 

rMimoiic  Kur  i  Usage  WEnkrrer  Us  MorU  dans  Ujf 

'-tf,  &c*  ;  other  works  by  Navier^  a  physician 

ulons  (1775),  Haguenot,  a  professor  at'Mont- 

_e  nukteriftl  of  Piattoli  ag  used  by  Vicq  dAzyr 

I  Hied  agikin  by  Dr.  Allen,  of  New  York,  in  a 

— hlftt  titiKli«li*..i  1.V:.  \.;^  \j^  th»t  city  in  1822, 

lis,  of  New  York,  in 

i-  .-, ,   :tred  in  1823,     Both 

m(r  other  authorities,  to  a  report  in 

of  the  New  York  City  Board  of 

'     i.ido  by  Dr.   Miller,  Mr.   John 

f    ^Ir    Vfin  Zandt,  on   interment    in 

'     N    V  York  publications  were  with 

fi 'i^^^il^riy?  to  cholera  or  yellow- 

lificuRsion  nf  the  question  of  intra- 
nt is  presented  pretty 
Parliamentary  com- 
S — one  by 
by  Lopda 
^,    auu    i^ii,    V  ijiiiUwick    and 
th. 
„...ient  authorities  above  quoted 
I  **  (or  bumintj)  of  the'  dead  i«  dis- 
in  a»  111  .fr^rirrd  manner,  as  one  of 
I  the  reruains.     The 
Jiwft^''  i-h  diseus^ionB  next 

to  i*alj^  di^iiil  with   i(   incidentally  or  by 
^^_^      iotj  ;  what  they  sought,  aoii  have  obtained, 
WM  ilie  nsG  of  rural  eemeteries  instead  ©f  city  or  i 


**  intm-tnural  **  burialj.   The  renewal  of  the  general 


que4ition  of 
present  in  ]i 
''Oretnation  .  ... 
view,  see  Grimm, 
Leichen/^    in    the 


'  of  the  dead^  wliich  is  at 
speciUcally  directed  to  the 
.LinainB,  For  this  particular 
'  Li  eber  daa  Vcrbrennen  der 
Tramactio7iji  of  the  BcrHn 
Academy  of  Scknces^  1849  ;  Jamiesou,  *'  Origin  of 
Cremation,"  in  Tran4a4*iion8  of  Royal  Society  of 
Edinburgh  for  ISIS  ;  "The  MeriU  of  Ch^mation," 
a  paper  by  P.  Frazer,  jun.,  in  the  Penn  MontJkly 
of  June,  1874,  reprinted  separutely. 

The  following,  on  ix>ints  connected  with  inter- 
ment, may  also  be  consulted:  Rossi,  l^mn  Sot- 
teranc^^  Rome,  1864,  &c.,  a  transktion  and  com- 
pilation from  Kossi  by  Northcott  and  Brownlow, 
London,  1SU9  ;  '*  Burial  of  the  Dead,"  an  essay  by 
Dr.  Jaeob  Bij^elom-,  in  his  Modern  Immiriu; 
Feydeiiu,  **CtTcucU«  et  Inhumations  au  Moyen- 
Age/*  in  Annahj^  Archiofogiqnc^  vols.  14,  15,  for 
1854-5;  Ranch, //i^ro-AfuroZ  fnfxnrunts^  pamphlet^ 
Chidigo,  1BG6*  C  W.  Suttox, 

CoRPBEs  ENToitBKD  vs  Walls.— I  lately  met 
with  somewhere,  it  may  have  been  in  *^  N.  &  Q.,-' 
a  notice  of  a  corpse  found  embedded  in  the  wall 
of  a  church  under  restoration.  The  circumstance 
teemed  to  have  created  much  surprise,  and  to  be 
regariied  as  one  of  rare  occurrence.  This  may  be 
the  case,  and  yet  there  is  strong  ground  for  the 
belief  that  it  is  a  custom  that  has  prevailed  from 
very  early  times.  Though  tolerably  well  acquainted 
with  the  works  of  Bede,  it  was  not  tO]  the  other 
day  that  I  read  his  history  of  the  Abbots  of  Wear- 
mouth  and  Jarrow,  in  which,  at  chap,  xv*^  I  c&mo 
upon  the  following  passage : — 

'*  Utraqiie  in  una  tbeca  led  «i«fto  parieU  dii»i»a  reet^- 
deni,  inUiB  m  eadem  ecdeiU  ju«ta  corpm  Ueati  patris 
Beaedicti  composuit." 

The  bodiea  were  those  of  Easter  win  and  Sij^jfrid, 
Abbots  of  Weannouth  and  Jarrow,  the  dates  of 
whose  deaths  being  respectively  a. r>.  686  and  a.d, 
689.  Hence  the  custom  can  be  traced  back,  ap- 
parently, close  upon  twelve  centuries,  and  probably 
farther  stiU.  Edmpnd  Tew,  M, A 

Su:k-dial  Inscriptions. — It  should  be  made  a 
note  of  that  the  inscription  on  the  sundial  at  All 
Souls*  College,  Oxford,  is  taken  from  Martial, 
B.  v.,  ep.  20,  Lite  connexion  in  which  the  words 
occur  being — 

*'  bdnoR<]ue 

Soloa  cfiTugere  ntqiie  abtre  Ben  tit ; 
Qui  nobis  p<ir«uiii,  et  imputmitur*'* 

BtOIL 

"Tureen.*"— -This  word  is  an  instance  of  the 
innovations  so  often  produced  by  carelessoena  or 
caprice.     In   every   dictionary   to   which   I   liave 
access  it  is  spelled  terrinc^  aa  b^\ww  \3a\v!^n  TsssAfe 
of  earthenwaTe.  ^.  \,  ^ . 


186 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[5<»  8.  a.  Smn.  5^  IL 


**  DiPHTHonG^"  "Ophthalmia,"**  Nafhtha-*' — 
In  these  and  similar  words,  English  people  pro- 
nounce pk  a«  p.  The  Greeks,  who  had  better  ea-ra, 
purposely  miide  it  i^  U>  match  the  &.  Walker,  a 
►  very  incompetent  judge,  defends  the  English 
practice.  T.  H,  R 

ArriDAVTT  EvtDKKCB  :— 

*'  The  queiiion  of  an  entirely  reformed  sjatem  of  jnrit* 

pmdence    i«   prominently    before    the  public    at  this 

'moment.    At  present  the  rulee  uDdcr  which  the  iystem 

III  to  be  worked  hare  not  l>een  seen.    All  who  t&kc  an 

f.Sfitereat  in  the  adminktration  of  justice  will  remember 

Lthe    strong    commenU    called  forth   from   Lord  Chief 

[justice  Bovill  on  the  occ&bIoq  of  the  firet  Tichbome 

[trial  by  the  wny  in  which  evideucew&s  given  byaffidftTit 

[in  the  Court  of  Chancery,    The  Epping  Foreet  cane  now 

rbeing  heard  before  an  eminent  judge  of  that  court — tbe 

I  Halter  of  the  BolI«— ia  provoking  aimilar  commente 

IttBOn  the  affidarits  put  in  by  the  Lordi  of  Manora.    On 

I  Tuesday,  for  int tance^  during  the  croaa^examinaiion  of 

[the  defendant 'a  witDeetet,  h«  expreiaed  himaelf  Ihuf : — 

F  *  Bad  ai  our  gyatem  of  affidavit  la,  it  doea  not  generally 

break  down  like  this ' ;  and  again.  *  up  to  the  preeent 

I  moment^  we  hare  not  got  a  witneu  who  knows  what  ho 

r&aa  a  worn  to  in  his  afiBidarit.'     It  ia  to  be  hoped^  in  the 

I  intereat  of  tnith,  that  affidirit  evidence  will  be  put  an 

L#nd  to  IB  con  tested  pauaeSj  lO  that  every  ftc  titty  may 

r  ibe  given  for  the  croM-cxamination  of  deponentit  not  by 

llkvour  of  the  presiding  judg^e^  but  «8  the  right  of  the 

Lfluitor.    It  ia  encouraging  to  find  the  Master  of  the  Roili 

fpeaking  plainly  upon  ibe  subject^  for  the  Equity  Judaea 

00  not  often  look  with  disfavour  upon  a  ayetem  m  which 

they  have  been  rearedjand  which  aavea  them  trouble/' — 

OloU,  July  16, 1874. 

The  coraplaiDt  is  not  new  : — 

"  A  defendant  in  Chancery  having  heard  his  aniwer 
read,  said.  There  were  some  things  in  it  not  true ;  however^ 
since  it  wa«  engrossed,  be  would  swear  it  as  it  waa, 
rather  than  give  the  clerk  any  trouble  to  alter  It/' — 
P«  23,  Mr,  AtgiWt  Dtftnct  upo-m  ku  Exputdon.  from  the 
Bo%it  ofCommontj  London,  1712»  8vo,,.pp.  88. 

An  Inner  Tkkplaii, 

Oxford  Cirottit. 

Beer  akd  Wihe^  AifD  Beer  and  Cider.  —  I 
reeently  met  at  table  a  Dative  of  PrusBin,  who, 
h&ving  taken  a  gksa  of  beer,  paused  on  being, 
asked  to  tnke  wine,  and  then,  repeating  the  lines^ 
"  Bier  auf  Wien, 
Das  las  sem ; 
Wcin  a^f  Bier, 
Dai  rath"  ich  Dir,"* 

iaid,  "  I  will  take  some,  if  you  please/' 

The  Pmsaian  maxim  reminded  me  of  the  fol- 
lowing fiimikr  one  frequently  henrd  in  Devonshire 
and  Comwull  :— 

'*  Cider  on  beer  is  very  good  cheer. 
But  beer  upon  cider  ^s  a  rider/^ 

By  a  "  rider  '^  h  meant  that  it  does  not  mix  with 
the  previous  beverage,  and  thus  produces  un- 
pleasiintnesa.  Wm.  Pbngelly. 

Torquay. 

WoOTON  Registers,  Co.  Beds,— The  following 
curious  notice  of  Holland,  which  I  extracted  from 


f  ooui»     ^ 


the  above  registers  whilst  se^^biog  for  entries  af 
the  Bedell  family,  may  be  thought  worthy  of  a 
nook  in  '*  N.  &  Q/'    The  writer  of  it  Is  of  ooun* 
unknown : — 
''  In  Holland  y  Earth  is  better  y-  tlia  aar. 

Profit  more  in  request  y*  Honour: 

V^licre  y'**  more  sense  y"  Wit, 

more  good  nature  y"  go»d  Humonr 

more  wealth  y"*  pleasure  ;  where  a  man  waoJd  ehuae 

rather  to  travel  y"  to  live  :  May  find  more  tliiiigi 

to  observe  y"  desire  and  more  pcraona  to  catao  f 
love/' 

I  think  it  was  written  between  the  J9»n  1675 
and  1705.  D.  C,  K 

The  Creacent,  Bedford. 

Sir  WtLLiAit  Temple.— A  phmae  made  cuxmX 
in  our  day  by  Mr.  Matthew  Arnold  is  to  be  mM 
with  in  Sir  William  Temple's  essay,  eiititled^y 
Fottryy  where  he  says — 

"  Homer  bad  more  Fire  and  BaptvM, 
Virgil  more  Light  and  SweetneM.*' 
The  fine  conclusion  of  the  same  essay  is  echoed  is 
Shelley's  8tan:sat  Written  in  Dtjtction  fMtir  Napfm. 
Compare  the  two  :— 

**  When  all  ii  done,  Human  Life  ia,  at  the  greatNt  mA 
the  bcst^  but  like  a  fro  ward  child,  tbat  mutt  be  filay'^ 
with  and  Humour'd  a  little,  to  keep  it  quiet^  till  it  falk 
asleep,  and  then  the  Care  is  over/^ 

"  I  could  lie  down  like  a  tired  child^ 
And  weep  away  the  life  of  care 
Which  I  have  borne,  and  yet  must  bear, 
Till  death  like  sleep  might  steal  on  ma.'* 

J.  w.  vt. 

Beaxe  :  Baillie  :  Bai^iol  :  BArLi^ci..- 

fact  may  establish  a  theory.    The  lact  ia, 
Scotland  ray  name  was  changed  from 
to  **Beale/'    The  theoiy   is,  that  Beale,  Balll 
BaMol,  Bailleul,  are  derived  from  Baal.     The  So; 
is  Baal,  great  celestial  niler  ;  hence  Bailli, 
Balivua,  little  terrestrial  ruler  ;  BaiUeul,  Bsflioj 
Uie  baillidom,  territory  ruled,  town,  place, «' 
of  power,  or   seat  of   government,  whea0 
Bailli  de  Bailleul,  Be  Bailleul,  De  Boliol,  : 
Baillie,  Beale,  Beal,  the  litentl  transfor 
Baal,  the  prototyixj.     Possibly  final  €  made  ' 
at  one  time  dissyllabic,  as  if  Baily,  the  abbrevia- 
tion of  Bailiff ;  but  Beal  became  monosyUabic^^ 
if  Beel  in  England,  and  Bail  in  Scotknd. 
c^rpts  recently  taken  from  the  Haddintrton 
gistera  in  Edinburgh,  and  now  before  vu 
my  fact  and  partly  confirm  my  theory. 
1621,  Bakie  ;  1623,  Bailxe  ;  1624,  BaiUi^^ ;  j 
BMlzie;    1642,     Bailie;    1644,     Bailke  ; 
Bailie;    1687,    Bailive ;    1687,    Bailyne ; 
Baill;    1728,  Baile ;    1794,  Beale;    1811,  Bali 
and    intermediate    orthography,   e 
pricious,  exemplify  the  transfonmit 
elusion  is,  that,  whether  aa  Le  Ba; 
The  Bailiff,  Do  Bailleul,  De  Baliol, 
the  surname  Beale  implied,  ab  tJtit^,., 
power,  and  dignity.  J,  BsAUL  ^ 


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187 


Mt  eorretpondenti  desiring  mfnrmation 
t  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
HM  lo  th«ir  queriei,  in  onkr  that  tb« 
I  iddreiMd  Ui  them  direct.] 


*  UNAUTHOEIZED  AKMS. 
t  correspondence  in  "  N.  &  Q/*  insiating 
Qegality  of  persons  using  arras  by  *^  im- 
I  castom "  only,  is  very  annoying  and 
tg  to  many  who,  like  my  family,  have  long 
IS  wluch  have  never  been  granted  by  a 
i|t]eg9,  and  whoM  honour  hjiB  been,  and 

SSbtlnuous  subscriber  and  an  occasional 
x>r  to  "  N.  &  Q»"  oi  initio,  perhaps  I  may 
itted,  by  the  mduJgence  and  courtesy  of 
7Tj  to  tell  the  little  I  know  about  the 
"fleur-de-lys  and  chief  ermine,**  and  to 
|i  thereon. 

Us,  Xicholas  Dixon,  Rector  of  Cheshunt» 
|i  arms,  as  above,  were  sculptured  on  a 
DfatlTe  brass,  still  to  be  seen  on  the 
loor,  though  hardly  discemible  ^m  age 
Mt.  This  is  the  first  record  of  the  arms 
on. 

ft^later  than  Nicholas,  and  probably  hb 
John  Dixon,  of  Furne^a  Abbey, 
^  who,  by  Anne  Roos,  of  Witherskck, 
nd,  his  wife,  had,  with  two  sons, 
Miles,  a  <iftiighter,  Margaret,  wife  of 
of  Uawkshead  Hall,  mother  of 
a)  Edwyn,  Archbishop  of  York, 
of  the  *^  Barons  Sandys  of  Om- 
*of  the  Vine."  West,  in  his  Anti- 
*,  ed.  1805,  p.  334,  says  :— 
f  late,  in  the  north  wiadow''  (Uawkibeiid 
"  there  were  painted  \u  gla^s,  quarterly  (as  I 
ined  hjmn  ancient  perfton)^  the  3&ndya'  aad 
ini;t  and  cm  a  Jabcl,  *  William  married  Mar- 
ti a  note  at  foot, '  f  Margaret  Diion'«  arms  are 
flfur-delia,  with  a  chief  erm/'  * 

^  Dr  Whi taker,  in  his  Hi^toyy  of  Leeds^ 
K  •*  Dixons  of  Heaton-Royds,"  &c.^  arms 
^  no  doubt  because  the  fir^t  Dixon  in 
rree  was  a  grandson  (though  not  so  stated) 
Lnd  Anne,  ut  »upra. 

7,  Robert  Dixon,  of  Dublin,  son  of  Richard 
iohop  of  Cork  and  Cloyne,  1570,  by  Mur- 
"  r,  hi&  wife,  and  grandson  of  William, 
^n  of  John  and  Anne  Dixon,  ut  twpra^ 
phcr  and  clerk  of  the  Crown  and  Peace 
and  the  cos.  Wicklow  and  LoutL 
ed,  hb  wife  Maude,  nit  Bee, 
her  arms  with  **  sable,  &c.," 
i^Liicato  in  Ulster^s  office.  This  is 
'  of  the  differeneed  arms  of  the 
but  the  differencing?  was  probably 
rp'f,  to  distinguish  his  progeny  from  the 

E  Dixons, 


above  differencfd  arras  to  Sir  Robert  Dixon,  Knt, 
(grandson  of  Robert  of  Dublin),  with  the  motto 
**  auxiliuni  iiieiim  ah  alto/' 

In  1711,  died  Thomas  Dixon,  of  Little  Wood- 
bouse,  Leeds  ;  and  on  his  tomb  in  the  choir  of 
St  John^s  Church  (of  which  his  late  son.  Bright, 
had  been  incumbent),  his  arms  are  recorded  by 
Thoreaby  as  "  sable,  a  fiower-de-lia  or,  and  a  chief 
ermine," 

Having  said  my  little  "say,"  will  some  com- 
petent authority  kindly  tell  me  how  to  escape  im* 
paliment  on  the  horns  of  a  dOemma  ?  Am  I  to 
continue  to  perpetuate  my  lily,  which  some 
Scottish  ancestor  very  probably  won  on  a  French 
battle-field,  under  a  kinsman  (Keith  or  Douglas), 
in  the  fifteenth  century,  or,  am  I  to  discontinue 
its  use  until  I  ctow  rich  enough  to  pav  Boi, 
more  or  lesa,  for  the  distinguished  nonour  of  being 
permitted  to  bear  it  by  leave  from  the  Heralds' 
College  ?     **  I  pause  for  a  reply." 

R.  W.  Dixon, 

8eaton  Carew,  West  HartlepooL 


Osborne  Family. — The  Osbomes  of  the  county 
of  Waterfbrd  have  been  an  influential  family  there 
since  the  reign  of  James  L  Richard  Osborne,  of 
Knockmoane,  finished  building  the  house  of  Ballin- 
laylor  in  1619,  and  woa  created  a  baronet  in  1629. 
The  representiition  of  the  famOy  paased  thrice  to 
heirs  gen  end,  Lord  Harberton  and  Mr.  Ueaher  of 
Cappagh  being  heirs  of  the  third  baronet,  a-i  I  am 
of  the  Hflh,  and  Mrs.  Bemal  Ofiborne  of  the  ninth: 
but  the  male  line  still  exists,  the  present  being  the 
eleventh  baronet. 

The  origin  of  this  family  has  long  puizled  Irish 
genealogists  ;  but  on  looking  over  some  of  the 
curious  impers  belonging  to  Sir  Greorge  Osborn  at 
Chicksands  Priory,  I  found  a  letter  from  his  kins- 
man John  Osbom  of  Stackallen,  made  Prime 
Sergeont-at-Law  in  Ireland  by  Charles  II.,  where 
be  says : — 

"  There  ii  a  rich  numoroiu  familj  in  the  county  of 
Waterford  in  Muneter,  of  which  Sir  Richard  UBhorne, 
wboae  father  waa  a  baronet.  U  chief.  But  thej  came 
hither^  as  I  hafe  heard,  with  Sir  J.  I>aTii,  Attoraej 
Geneml  to  King  Jaioee  in  Ireland,  and  were  of  the  wett 
country  in  England,  in  which  parts  there  are  le trend  of 

5e  namej  who  give  for  their  armi,  as  did  alio  ihoea  of 
lorthamptonahiro,  quarterly  ermiae  and  aiure  a  croa 
engrailed  or/* 

These  arms  were  used  by  the  Waterfbrd  family 
at  that  time,  but  they  now  use  an  unusual  coat 
ascribed  to  Osborne,  sheriff  of  Dublin,  who  died 
in  1624.  father-in-law  of  the  well-known  Sir 
George  Sexton,  secretory  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

Sir  John  Davis  waa  of  Wiltshire,  and  his  mother 
is  stated  to  hare  been  a  Benett  of  Pythou<»e.  I 
shall  feel  very  grateful  to  any  correspondent  who 
can  add  to  the  information  given  in  this  old  letter. 

GORT. 
Olinda,  East  Oowei. 


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[fi*S.II.8Kpr.Bp7t 


iRian  BtJixa*  - —  Miss  Edgeworth  and  her 
father,  Richard  Lovell  Edge  worth,  wrote  a  book 
on  thiB  subject,  and  Sydney  Smith  a  review  on  it. 
lij  there  any  other  work  devoted  to  the  same 
topic,  or  to  the  subject  of  bulla  in  gen  end  I  Also, 
ia  there  any  work  containing  a  hirge  collection 
of  bulb,  ftjicient  and  modem,  in  literature  or 
tradition,— from  that  early  bull  in  Hierocles  of 
the  matron,  her  son  l>eing  nearly  drowned  in  bath- 
ingi  who  threatened  him  with  the  severest  chaBtise- 
ment  if  he  ventured  into  the  wat^r  again  before 
he  hjid  learnt  to  swim,  down  to  the  advertiser  of  a 
washing-machinCj  in  these  words,  "  Every  man  his 
own  wai<heni>07iMii*"/  C.  A.  Wajid. 

MAjfiir. 

StrPFOLE  CHARTEns.— In  several  Suffolk  charters 

k,-^0f  the  fourteenth  century,  recently  innpected,  I 

'     Ibivc  met  with  the  surname  "le  I>enc3-s,"  t.g,^  Koger 

\e  Deneys.     The  K*me  sumnme  also  occurs  in  the 

Hundred  Eolk.   TVTiat  does  it  mcfin  1  Is  it  another 

wav  of  spelling  k  Dunou^=the  Dane  ? 

Epic.  HAM. — 

*' Who  ite&lf  a  gooBo  from  off  a  coiomon 
Ifl  counted  for  a  rogue  or  worag ; 
What  should  be  thouglit  of  man  nr  wonuui 
That  e^t^ftla  tbo  common  from  the  gooie?*^* 

Can  any  of  your  readers  give  the  correct  version  of 
an  epigram  directeti  against  the  encloseis  of 
commons,  which  runs  somethiDg  as  above  i 

J,  W.  A 

"Oli>  Losdow  Forttfioatiosb.— '^  Fac  simile  '  of  a  Ket 
of  1>r*vrmi?a^  »bewing  the  fortification*  round  Londont  ai 
directed  by  the  ParliJimetit  in  1643,  20  pl&tes— oue  a 
View  of  Lcindon,  40  inches  bj  8  inches,  ahewiiig  the  old 
walb  and  gati^s/* 

I  have  cut  the  above  from  a  recent  .second-hand 
bookseller's  catidogue.  I  am  anxioua  to  know 
where  the  original  drawings  from  whidi  these  fac- 
similes have  been  executed  may  be  seen, 

CoBNUB» 

Alexaxder,  Lord  Popham. — I  hare  been  told 
that  Colonel  Alexander  Popham,  afterwards  one  of 
CromwelP^i  Lords,  received  some  medub  from  the 
Parliament  for  his  serAieea  in  the  Commonwealth*^ 
cause.  If  so,  where  are  they  now  ?  Any  part  iculaiis 
would  be  very  acceptable  for  my  NnmmrmM 
Cromicdiiana  ;  oTj  the  MtdMic  Rhf^tnj  of  OliiYr 
CromiirlL  Hesry  W.  Henfrey, 

5,  Queen  Aunt's  Gate^  S.W. 

Leokric's   MJSHAi. — Is   there    any   reprint  of 
"  iStis  MissaJ,  the  MS,  of  which  is,  I  believe,  in  the 
Bodlejjui  Library  ]  H.  A.  W. 

Name  of  a  Poet  Waxted.— WTio  is  the  poet 
lieferred  to  by  Mjurvell  in  the  following  aside  ? — 
i^  A  poet  indeed,  by  a  dash  of  his  pen,  ha  via  j;  once 
ilieen  the  cause  of  a  war  agaimt  Poland,  but,'*  &c. 

A.  B.  GnoaAat. 


Portrait  of  Thomas  Paikk,— Id  77i.f  Xt/f  oI 
Thomas  i*a*HS  (political  writer),  wriUen  by  hi^ 
friend  Clio  Ridcm&n,  publishea  IB  19,  ibe  * 
in  his  Preface  says : — 

*'  The  enffra?ing  of  Mr.  Ffune  by  Shirp,  prefirt  to  iblii 
work  19  the  only  true  Ukene(f«  of  him ;  it  It  trim  Ijfi i 
portrait  by  Romney,  and  le  perhapii  the  great 
ever  taken  by  ati^  painter  :  to  that  omineDi 
troduced  bim  in  1 1 92,  and  it  wos  by  my  eamaii  yx 
that  ho  mat  to  htm.'* 

Can  you  say  what  has  become  of  BotnuQr^' 
painting?  E.  TbI7£LuV&. 

2G6,  High  Holbom. 

HfiRALDia — upon  an  old  house  tti  SidRift 
there  was  n  shield  bearing  on  a  chevron.  ^  -' -r  -^ 
three  bears'  hmds  couped  and  muzzled,  f ' 

rising,  with  the  date  1659,     To  what  f. ..^    - 

this  coat  belong  1  C.  J,  P. 

"The  Wild  iRisnauis'.'- — Who  fist  gate  tl«  I 
limited  mail  train  frpm  London  to  Holyhead  iki>  { 
name?  A.  fi. 

Cro«swylui^  Oivrestry. 

Naaman,  the  LiTSm.— **  Tradition   says  Meat  i 
Ktmman  the  SjTian  was  the  man  who  *  drew  n  botr  j 
at  a  venture  and  smote  the  King  of  Israel/ "   I 
came  across  this  note  in  an  old  MS.  of  mine*  to- 1 
day.    "Where  did  I  get  this  infor?  ru,€C] 

rather,  from  what  source  did  my  ii:  I 

E 

AGraxti-tut  i;titrr  OF Edward HI, — I sbottld 
be  great  I  lo  HKHMEUTiitrBic,  or  any  of 

your  cori'   ,  ^  who  could  tell  me  the  niun 

of  the  eldest  daughter  of  Isabella,  daughter  d  (Wf 
Edward  IIL,  liTid  In^T'T^ni  de  C<»\icy.  In  M» 
Green's  Frinr  ',  she  is  cJilW  Mary, 

and  states!  to  L  cd  to  a  L>«kc  olBair 

But  in  a  genealugiuii  viktrt  1  myself  made  oui 
years  ago  her  Uiune  is  inserted  as  BnrVmrm  ai 
IS  represented  to  have  marrieil  a  <  *  "1 

by  Ibim  to  have  been  the  mother  o: 
Emperor  Sigismund.    I  think  iVIiss  r!>iriciijj 
my  authority.  A-  St 

Portraits  op  GrsTAvnrs  Adolphub  ako  «• 
Officers.— These  portraits  are  still  prrrrrrrrfte 
the  Castle  of  8k(ig  Kloster,  Sweden.  J 
of  the  artist  who  painted  them  kn 
Edward  Creasj*,  in  his  Hcro*^^  of  llt^  Sixcuit^i^ 
Cattnry,  mentions  that  he  failed  to  prociif©  pW^ 
graph Ji  of  them.  0.  S*  K. 

Ejihati  Lodgv,  Soaihgate,  N. 

l^LvJOR  Weir,   i 
It  i»  stated  in  8ir  ^ 
Si-oituh  Border ^  ed.  isGl,  ii.. 
Iftoa,   that  is,    13t)  yeare  air 
sorcery,   no  one  had  btHfn  1*  •   i 
hous^  of  Major  Weir,  the  Eii  n 
This  house  stands,  or  itOOd^  1  believe,  i-erv  :  ^ 


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189 


^Ciyitlt*    I  am  anxious  ta  know  irhether  it  is 
i  in  existencci  and,  if  so,  whether  it  is  titill  an* 

tnluibitcsd  ?  CORHUB* 

"TweTwa  <  OR**  The  Three  EAVfiNs." 

— A  YnYi-Ad  Ti  ^e  titles  was  printed  by  Sir 

W.:  I    io   the  Mimtr4*tf  of  tU  Scottish 

Bin  .,  1861,  ii.  367-3eOr     The  Scottish 

Tcrsiufi,    ''The   T^Mi   Corbies/'   was   taken   down 

fpoitti  tmdition.     The  English  vereion,  **  The  Three 

'*  1    Ravenscroft's    Mdumata^    as 

I  RittRiD  in  his  AiicUni  Songs^ 

1  niiiiW  b€  much  obliged  to  any  one 

fh  t  inv  attention  to  other  versions  of 

uH.^L.4J,  either  in  print  or  manuscript 

Edward  Peaooc;|c. 

"Tjaj^oR :   YiSAOEB*— In    what    connties   were 

Iht^    families  se^ited  t     Amis^  ^lu  a  Mulmon  in 

fip.;  rrrj,  a  dolphin  in  fease  nr»     Beside  the 

Lities  of  the  nbove  families,  the  diflerent  varin- 

'    ''    T       '''   liases'')   under  which  their 
nm  tctl.  XIX. 


Br{»ltrtf. 

FAXES  OP  THE  CO^IBATAI^XS  AT  PEILTH 
IN  1396. 

(5"»  S.  L  364,  469 ;  iL  C9.) 

I  nm  aorrv  thai  Dr.  Macphbrson  do«B  Eoi  Gon> 

icisms  (i.  469)  on  hi^  note  (L  364)  as 

rifilly  the  jxtints  on  which  he  wished 

'  tii>i.si.  ni;cAtme  unless  wu  can  come  to  some 

i^lisenient  on  these  criticisiiii,  or  at  all  events  have 

aodae  ttuderet'tr •»:"-'  -    ♦'•  ♦>'"  p-nts  on  which  Dr. 

Hactbcmon  1  Ciinnot  eee  that 

w»  afft  ever  111 ^-^^      ^..    ...:,,    mjain.    Hia  reply 

to  thctn,  viz.,  that  'UUe  older  writers  seem  to  have 

^iMd  the  tenn»  parentela,  chn,  kin,  and  family 

^^^W^reolly;'  b*  not  only  not  a  reply  to  them  at 

^^P^Sbtit  is  acliudly  &  sign  thitt  he  in  to  some  extent 

^PE^OOiViTt  to  my  view.    Thu^,  on  p»  365,  he  8petdcB 

K  ^  pSTfnfftf^  ?!•*  "  closely  allied  races  "  and  "  allied 

^  sfit  i  suggest  that  alliance  by  blood 

k  ti  T«>d  by  the  word  parenUltr ;  and 

QOm  >  to  coincide  with  me 

hf  rtnUla  was  used  in- 

dir  II,  liin,  and  &mi]y.    Kow,  in 

ipCii  ins  in  the  abstract,  we  should 

hf  no  iu-_Tiiii  fM.M:i!«*arily  suppose  them  to  be  allied, 

«ttlwr  hf  Wood  or  othem^iie ;  and  therefore,  if 

|»ni^|ji  and  clan  were  used  indilierently^  there  is 

na  Ton*an  why  we  should  suppose  the  pi u ml  of 

fmrwni^im  any  more  than  that  of  dcm  to  indicate 

•llt^tM^      I  pn«unR\  therefore,  that  X)r.  IVIac- 

kwrnmrnif  jeives  up  hi§  idea  that  the  combatant 
llaiM  w#ff  '*  cloftoly  allied  "  in  any  way. 
t    WttB  regard  to  fiur  being  ^'almost  agreed'*  as 
Is  til*  names  of  the  parties  at  the  North  Inch^  I 


can  only  say  that  w©  appear  to  be  fully  agreed  as 
far  as  this — that  the  names  given  by  the  two  con- 
temporary chroniclers  are  Clan  Quhewil  and  CHan 
Ua  or  Kay.  But  here  our  agreement  ends  ;  and 
if  Dr.  Macphersox  wUl  re-peruse  my  reply  on 
page  469,  especially  under  head  5,  he  ivHI  ko^  ihat 
there  is  not  the  femallest  sign  of  our  hat 

Clan  Ha  was  Clan  Shaw,     I  repeat  f  i  <  'ne 

of  the  clans  had  been  called  Clan  Sha  (Gael.  ikih% 
its  name  could  not  possibly  have  been  sounded  as 
Ha  ;  and  (2)  that  the  ClanShaw  had  no  existence 
until  after  the  fight  at  Perth,  and  were  not  even 
known  generally  by  the  name  until  the  latter  piirt 
of  the  rnieeuth  oentury. 

Before  proceeding  to  examine  the  portion  of 
Dr.  Macphkrsoit's  reply  which  has  any  bearing 
on  my  criticisms  on  p.  469,  vix.,  on  the  conneTion 
which  be  assumes  to  have  existed  between  the 
battles  at^ftskclune  and  Perth,  I  must  renew  mj 
protest  against  the  title  of  either  Major,  Boece,  or 
Buchanan  to  be  regarded  m  in  the  smallest  degree 
authoritative  or  trustworthy  in  themselves  on  any 
|K>int  connected  with  the  fight  at  Perth.  Not  one 
of  them  wrote  until  more  than  a  century  after  the 
event,  and  all  obtained  their  information  from 
either  Wyntoun  or  Bowar.  Even  Bowar,  the  con- 
tinuator  of  Fordun  (whose  work,  I  may  state  for 
Dr.  Mactherson's  information,  was  printed  at 
Oxford  in  1722,  andat  Edinburgh  in  1769),  did 
not  write  till  about  half  a  century  after  the  battle, 
and  he  probably  owed  most  of  his  information  to 
Wyntoun,  who  alone,  hieing  a  grown  man  in  1396, 
is  entitled  to  any  real  regard  as  an  authority  in 
this  matter. 

That  the  chroniclers  should  mention  the  Perth 
fight  imracdintely  after  the  fight  at  Gaskclune  (in 
the  Paid  of  An^iR),  Dr.  Macpherson  admits  to 
be  only  natuml,  because  the  one  event  followed 
closely  after  the  other.  But,  he  points  out^ 
Wyntoun  refers  to  the  disaster  at  Gaskclune  at  the 
clo'se  of  bis  account  of  the  Perth  combat,  saying 
that,  althongh  nearly  all  the  Highlanders  at  Perth 
were  killed,  there  viere  more  of  his  own  compatriots, 
the  Lowlnnders,  killed— 

"  lu  th»i  day^fi  irork  timt  was  don^ 
Ai  ye  before  heard  at  Gaekclune/* 

"  This  reference  of  Wyntoun V'  I*R-  Macphekson 
says,  **  would  be  quite  objectless  if  the  two  fights 
did  not  stand  in  some  relation  to  each  other,'' — n 
conclusion  which  to  me  seems  very  far-fetched,  if 
not  somewhRt  abBurd,  For  what  We  the  facts  of 
the  case  ?  Wyntoun  is  writing  of  two  occurrence* 
wliich  hnjiji^ned  within  a  few  yettrs  of  each  other, 
both  concerning  the  Highlanders.  In  the  first,  the 
Hi-«  1  tv  ^—  had  killed  many  of  the  J-'"'  "'^-^r^  ; 
in  d,  they  killed  a  few  of  s; 

arj  ri  mtTidy  wrhes  as  if  re^L. ,_    .hut 

th<  I  ;ii _  ti .  J Msclves  had  not  been  as 

grr  I    wiijch    \iv   has,  a  few  lines  before, 

described  them  as  having  made  among  the  Law- 


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[$«ka  iLSxpT.  5,71 


I'finders.  Just  in  the  same  way,  an  English  writer 
of  the  sixteenth  oentary  might  have  expressed 
reKTet  that  the  lods  of  the  Scots  at  Flodden  wab 
not  eo  great  as  that  of  the  English  at  Bannockburn. 
Coming  now  to  Dr.  Magphbrson^s  quotation 
from  Bo  war,  whose  work  in  the  Bodleian  that 
gentleman  my 9  has  not  been  printed,  unless  very 
•  recently,  1  regret  that  I  am  not  at  present  able  to 
-  conatilt  that  work  ;  but  I  shall  niake  a  point  of 
doing  so  at  an  early  period,  and  of  stating  the 
?e<9alt.  As  I  was  ignonmt  uf  its  existence  until 
Dr,  Macpherson  mentioned  it,  I  am,  of  course, 
'  ttnahte  at  present  to  judge  as  to  the  amount  of 
authority  due  to  it,  aa  either  an  original  by  fiowar 
himself,  or  a  transcription  by  some  later  hand.  I 
therefore  withhold  any  remarks  upon  it  for  the 
present.  There  are  two  Harlcian  MSS.  of  Fordun 
and  Bo  war,  both  differing  somewhat  from  the 
original,  and  both  the  work  of  a  Magnus  Mac- 
kulloch,  tlie  earlier  bearing  the  date  1483.  Alto- 
gether, there  are  some  seven  or  eight  MSS.  of 
Bowar ;  and  it  seems  somewhat  stmnge  that  the 
lengthy  passage  referred  to  by  Dil  Macpheeson 
as  connecting  the  Perth  light  with  the  Raid  of 
Angus  should  have  been  overlooked  by  both 
Hearae  and  Goodall  in  their  editions  of  1722  and 
ti759  respectively. 

The  next  authority  (?)  given  by  Dr.  Macphkrson 
is  Buchanan,  m  15B2— nearly  two  centuries  after 
the  event.  Without  waiting  to  ask  how  Dr.  Mac- 
PHKRSON  knows  that  this  historian  *'had  before 
hira  all  the  accounts^  of  previous  authors"  when  he 
wrote  his  own  account,  I  would  suggest  that  if  he 
hHAi  all  these  accounts  he  is  less  to  be  depended 
upon  than  ever,  for  it  wilt  be  evident  to  any  one 
who  may  read  his  account  with  those  of  his  prede- 
cesisors  that  he  has  departed  far  from  their  sim- 
plicity, and  has  stated  things  which  are  not  to  be 
found  in  their  writings  at  all.*  Compared  with 
the  account  of  Wyntoun,  or  even  with  that  of 
Bowar,  Buchanan's  beautifully  written  and  almost 
"*'  tlowery  "  account  reads  like  what  we  should  ex- 
pect froQi  the  writer  of  an  historicfU  novel  In  the 
same  way,  as  in  the  earlier  chapters  of  his  history, 
lie  baa  put  vitality  into  the  dry  bones  of  the  fabu- 
lous Scots  kings,  so  in  his  account  of  the  doings  of 
1391-6  he  has  strung  together  the  events,  detached 
.and  biire  as  they  were  related  by  the  chroniclers, 
^aod  hiis  made  of  them  a  connected  nnd  interesting 
-*tory,  the  only  fault  uf  which  is  that  few  of  its  details 
are  correct.  But,  as  I  have  i>ointed  out,  be  did 
Dot  write  till  nearly  two  hundred  yeara  after  the 
event  which  he  describes,  and  he  can  no  more  be 
regarded  slh  an  aviJwrity  for  what  look  place  than 


'  The   first   edition  of    Buch»iiati*i   hiBtorv— /f^rttm 

Scoiicantm  Hutoria—vim  pruitea  in  folio  at  Kdinbargh 

in  1582.    ThR  evfltitf  of  Vm  I1  will  be  found  at  folio  103 

I  flf  the  work,  whicb  h  in  the  Hritiah  Museum.     A  tr&uB- 

^  lation,  fii  nearly  aa  po««ible  literal  (tlso  in  the  British 

KuMtim),  woa  printed  at  Loadao  in  IddO  (pp.  328*5}. 


can  Tytler,  or  Scott,  or  any  author  of  the  present 
day. 

I  can  scarcely  imagine  that  Dr.  MjlcpBBSSOiI 
would  be  prepared  to  follow  Buchanan  in  f       ' 
that   the  combatants  at  Perth  numbered 
hundred  on  each  side. 

In  the  h&t  sentence  of  his  communication  BiuJ 
Macphersok  sneaks  of  the  "ascertained  ttametj 
and  geographical  position  of  certainly  one  portioaj 
of  the  combatantB/*  t. «.,  Sheach  and  Clan  Qnhewi! ;  1 
but  as  regards  the  geographical  position  of  thcae  he  ^ 
is  only  able  to  say  that  **  it  is  nearly  certain  thai  J 
they  must  have  lived  in  the  heights  of  Angus  and  i 
of  Aberdeen/*  principally  because  in  the  Act  uf  j 
1392  their  names  occur  among  certain  Perthnhirej 
and  Dees  id  e  names.     (Dr.  Macpherson  will  i 
however,  if  he  will  ghmce  again  at  the  A'-'^    f^* 
the  Perthshire  nnraea  he  quotes  occur  l» 
leaders,  while   Sheach  and  Clan  QuLe 
among  their  followers— cUioi  9U0$  aSurentM^  ^c^i 
No  do\ibtf  among  the  forces  with  which  DutiOkal 
Stewart  descended  on  the  fertile  districts  of  Augosj 
and  the  M earns  were  to  be  found  many  of  the  High* 
landers  belonging  to  the  parts  mentioned  by  Dr.  I 
Macpherson  ;  perhaps  even  these  composed  th*  1 
bulk  of  the  marauding  host ;  but  at  the  s&me  iimt 
there  were  others  firom  more  distant  parts,  suchssl 
David  dc  Koae,  or  Ross,  from  beyond  Iuvernc«,j 
Stewarts  from  Athole,  and  Mathiesons  and  RurywO 
(Mac  Buari)  "cum  suis  adhsrentibus,"  who,  if  j 
from  EoBs  and  Argyle,  might  have  been  ft-om  aaT-J 
where,  and  airaply  sons  of  a  Matthew  or  a  Roty.l 
We  kiiow  that  Duncan  Stewart  suoeeeded  to  th«^ 
influence  of  his   father,  the  Wolf  of   V:  ..Uu'li. 
among  the  Highlanders,  as  well  as  to  h'- 
tive  propensities  ;  and,  while  it  is  scari 
that  he  would  appear  alone  among  the  tribes i 
eastern  Grampmns  bordering  on  the    Low! 
and  make  up  an  army  to  harry  the  Lowlands! 
from  among  them,  it  is  in  the  highest  dejzrce  l 
that  he  would  he  accompanied  by  some  folio 
from  the  central  HighlandB,  especially  from  B»d* 
noch,  where  his  and   hm  fathers   influence 
greatest.     Sheach  and  Clan  QuhewU,  as  I  pro] 
at  a  future  time  to  show,  were  of  the  Chin  Chalta 
who,  for  some  time  before  1391,  had  a  consid 
able  footing  in  Badenoch  ;  and  thev  ^     '    ■     im 
connexion,  necessarily,  with  the  b. 
and  Aberdeen  than  had  the  Rofl>k.i,  .:..... a  is,  < 
Mathiesons  named  with  them  in  the  Act* 

When  Dr.  Macpuzrson  says  that  it  in  c  f  n.  1 
importance,  in  a  general  sense,  to  kotv 
Ckn  Sha  the  Little  belonged,  does  he  nn; 
of  the  fact  that  this  is  precisely  one  of  tiir 
points  at  issue  I    And  when  he  H&ys  that 
were  Shas,  sons  of  Farquhar,  in  Bnie 
Brae  Mar,  at  the  period  in  question,  doesl 
forget  to  give  bis  grounds  for  the  statement  I 
he  speaks  of  Shas  in  the  plural^  I  presame  ha  i 
prove  the  escistenoe  of  more  than  one ;  but  it  1 


C»* an.  Sift.  5, 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


191 


ntber  siiaDge  that  the  sons  of  a  person  named 
F&rquhftf  should  be  known  as  SHaa.  I  am  willing 
to  admit  that  a  Fajqaliar  MackfntoBh  may  have 
plundered  lands  on  Deeside  io  1382, — the  Mackin- 
tosheft  of  those  days  were  no  better  than,  their 
neighboaiv,  and  plundered  more  places  than  one. 

And  now  to  conclude,  I  observe  that  DiL  Mac* 
FitKRsoK  continues  to  speak  of  the  fight  as  on  the 
Inches  at  Perth.  This  ia  perhaps  to  be  regretted, 
because  man  j  readers  have  no  doubt  very  properly 
A  respect  for  matters  of  detail,  and  sometimea  carry 
this  respect  so  far  as  to  judge  of  a  writer^s  whole 
work  or  yiews  by  hia  regard  or  disregard  of  detail. 
Dn.  Macphekson's  last  communication  was,  how* 
eTer^  probably  written  curren,U  ctdamo,  which  may 
ikcoount  for  his  continuing  to  apeak  of  the  Indus, 
aa  weU  as  of  the  Act  of  1391  instead  of  1392  ;  of 
the  Ecarl  of  Crawford  instead  of  Sir  David  Lind- 
say ;  of  Ckn  Ouioil  instead  of  Clan  QubewO  in 
toe  Act  (for  although  the  words  are  identical,  the 
ftrm  Cktmll  occurs  only  in  an  Act  of  1594)  ;  and 
of  the  I>uncansons  aa  Me  U€tderji  of  the  Raid  of 
Angus,  when  it  is  well  known ^  and  is  stated  by 
Buchanan  himself,  that  Duncan  Stewart^  son  of 
the  Wolf  of  Badenocb,  was  the  leader, — the  Dun- 
canaojia*  Patrick  and  Thomas,  being  only  two  of 
iIm  principal  persons  with  Stewart,  CowUr^  as 
the  name  of  a  Deeside  family,  is  no  doubt  a  mis- 
print for  Cowts,  or  Coutts. 

Alexander  Mackintosh  Suaw, 

See  Loft  of  (h4  Detr  Forest^  hr  J.  S.  and 
C.  E.  Stuart,  Edinburgh  and  London,  1S48,  in 
which  (vol.  ii,  p,  472)  is  a  long  note  on  the  subject. 
George  R.  Jesse. 


BRICAL  Qttert  (5*  S.  ii-  128.)— I  think  it 
/be  distinctly  said  that  there  is  no  appearance 
firhatever  of  an  oversight  in  the  retention  of  the 
r'*0niument6  Rubric."  Mr.  Tew,  in  examining 
I  Stephen's  Prayer  Book^  appears  to  have  overlooked 
I  the  fact  that  the  cancelled  rubric  is  in  what  never 
I  could  have  been  meant  for  its  riglit  pkce,  the 
I  middle  of  the  Tables.  Now  if  Mr.  Tew  will  pur- 
'  sue  his  researches  as  far  as  pp.  303,  3i)4,  of  Stephen, 
he  will  find  as  follows : — 

*'  Tlie  /iard  page  of  the  Sealed  Books  is  btwifc,    TTie 

irith  n»g«  commenoei  with  the  words  '  Tlic  Order."    The 

^^  lemf  forming  the  jKSrd  and  Stih  pages  hu  been  inserted." 

^m  From  thi^  alone  it  would  seem  clear  that  the 
^Bicibric,  having  got  by  some  means  into  its  wrong 
^B|)lAce,  was  cancelled  and  reprinted  to  get  it  in  its 
jVtight  one,  i.  e.,  immediately  before  Matins,  where 
"  we  have  it  iit  present ;  as  is  very  clearly  shown  hj 
the  Bishop  of  Carlisle  (who  bases  his  remarks  on  the 
LUly  Sealed  Book)  at  pp,  127,  128,  of  the  First 
\Meport  of  the  Ritual  Commiiaumers. 

iut  this  is  not  all.    Mb.  Tkw  need  not  of  course 

reminded  that  though  the  Sealed  Books  are 

called  the  standard,  yet  the  last  appeal 


mtist  be  to  the  actual  MS.  Prayer  Book  itself  at- 
tached to  the  Act  of  Uniformity.  This,  it  is  well 
known ^  was  for  a  lon^  time  considered  lost,  but  at 
last  discovered  in  the  manner  explained  at  the 
reference  (p.  128)  given  above.  There  it  ia  said — 
*•  An  inspection  of  this  MS.  Prayer  Book  has  proved 
that  'The  Ordor^'  kc,  is  identical  ia  all  respects  with 
that  which  \a  ordioarily  prefixed," 

And  yet  further,  if  Mr.  Tew  would  Imve  ocular 
demonstration,  he  may  have  all  that  can  be  had 
short  of  the  original  itself  by  referring  to  the 
Ftyurik  of  the  RiJhLol  ReporU,  pp.  1  d  seq.  There 
it  is  said, — 

*'  The  existing  Rubncs  In  the  left-hand  column  are 
printed  exactly  from  the  MS.  Prajer  Book.** 

And  at  p.  9  stands  "  The  Order,"  ^c,  exactly 
as,  and  in  the  very  same  place  where,  we  have  it 
now.  In  this  last  court  of  appeal  there  is  no  dis- 
crepancy (so  to  say)  of  any  kind  whatever — ^not 
the  least  pretext  for  attributing  any  sort  of  "  over- 
sight "  to  the  editors  of  our  Prayer  Book. 

Charles  F.  S.  Warrek,  M.A. 

In  reply  to  Mr.  Te w'a  queTT,  "  Was  this  rubric 
intended  to  be  omitted  at  the  last  reView,  but  left 
remaining  by  an  oversight  ? "  I  would  say  that  it 
is  simply  impos^^ible  that  this  matter  was  an  over- 
sight. If  it  had  been  an  oversight,  the  rubric  would 
be  identical  with  the  rubric  in  the  preceding  edition 
of  the  Prayer  Book.  It  ia  not  so,  it  is  made  more 
explicit  Aft  it  formerly  stood,  a  question  might 
have  been  raised  against  any  or  all  of  the  orna- 
Tuents  of  the  roiDiater,  e^g,,  surplice,  vestments, 
&c.  As  it  BOW  stands,  no  such  question  can  be 
raised  with  any  show  of  reason.  On  such  subjects 
a  most  uiieful  book  for  Mr.  Tew  to  consult  is  The 
Book  of  Common  Prayer  of  1636,  with  the  Altera- 
Hotu  made  by  Convocation  in  1601,  Photographed 
by  Sir  Henry  James's  process,  folio,  1871.  Pub- 
lished for  Her  Majesty's  Stationery  OHice.  Such 
questions  are  there  answered  at  a  glance. 

B,   M,   PlCKBRINO. 

1  have  examined  the  officially  certifie<l  copy  of 
the  Sealed  Book  of  Common  Pniyer,  preserved  in 
the  library  of  the  Cambridge  University,  and  I 
find  the  Ornaments  Rubric,  whith  is  placed  be- 
tween the  "  Table  to  find  Ezister"  and  the  "Kalen- 
dar,"  cancelled  as  in  Sir  A.  J,  Stephen's  edition  ; 
and  it  evidently  is  so  because  it  occurs  again,  un- 
cancdM,  immediately  before  the  Order  for  Morn- 
ing Prayer.  Stephen^s  edition  of  the  Sealed  Book 
is  quite  correct  in  this  particuIfU".  Although  it  is 
canceUcil  on  page  184,  Mr.  Tew  will  find  it  given 
on  page  3<>4,  in  the  place  where  it  is  usually  printed 
in  the  modem  editions  of  the  Prayer  Book. 

E.  V. 

The  PRfVATE  CORONERSHIPS  OF   EnOLAKD  (5'* 

B.  ii,  1211/)— The  following  passage  from  Jervis, 
fM  tJte  Qjfi^e  atid  Duty  0/  Cot<rtv,«nf*,\It^ii^  e<!)^\Qfa^ 


TES  AKD  QUERIES. 


[y»8,aS«iT.5^7k 


p.  3,  gires  nn  occcmnt  of  coroners  vho  hold  thdr 
po»U  by  charter  or  c^DmmissioD,  not  by  right  of 
electioQ  or  virtue  of  office  : — 

"  Coroners  by  ch»rt«r,  commiBdoo,  or  prfyilege,  are 
tboi©  within  pariiGular  libertiea  »nd  fmnchiisB^  OTtr 
which  tho  IdmU,  or  he&da  of  corporationf,  nre  empowered 
ht  oharitr  to  Mi  tb«nfilT«s»  or  to  create  their  own 
Cforoners.  The  Crown  taaj  dJum  thii  privikgc  by  prc- 
■cription,  but  the  frwicbi«e  i«Qf  so  high  a  mture  tbat  no 
subject  can  cl&im  it  otherwise  than  by  a  grant  from  the 
Grown.  Thii  prbilcg«  ii  expreealy  exempted  from  the 
operation  of  tb«  Statute  'JM  Bdw.  8,0.  tJ,  which  confirmed 
to  the  county  the  power  q£  electing  Coronen,  and  from 
thai  of  the  subeequent  etatutea  relating  to  the  election  of 
county  Coronert  *  and  therefore  the  <jueen,  within  certain 
preeincte,  and  tn«  lords  c*f  franchisee,  in  all  causes  in 
which  they  were  before  the  passing  of  the  act  em- 
powered to  nominate  and  appoint  their  own  Coroners, 
may,  not  with  itandinff  the  proriuona  of  those  statu  tes^ 
exerttJie  the  Mmc  authority  at  thia  day» 

**Tbuji  the  Mayor  of  London  is  by  charter  Coroner  of 
London ;  and  the  Cinqut  Portia  from  their  great  an- 
tiquity, hiiTc  their  own  Coronor.  The  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Westminster  hsTe  their  own  Coeontr,  who  by  their 
appointment  is  Coroner  for  the  city  and  liberties  of  West- 
Ini»4t'^n  So,  likewise  the  Bishop  of  Ely  has  power  by 
charter  to  mikke  Coroners  in  the  isle  of  £ty ;  and  in  the 
stannaries  in  Cornwall  the  AYardens  are  Coroners.  The 
matter  of  the  crown  office,  or  clerk  of  the  crown,  is 
Coroner  of  the  Queen's  Bench,  and  has  jurisdiodlQn 
over  matters  arising  within  the  prison  of  thai  oonrt. 
He  holdi  his  o8!ce  by  letters  patent  under  the  great  eeaL 
In  addition  to  which  there  are  many  exclusive  jorisdic- 
tioQd  and  corporations  for  which  Coroners  are  appointed/' 
Mabel  Pkacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brig;g. 

These  privileges  still  exist.     The   Crown  and 

cert^iin  lorda  of  franchises,  having  a  charter  from 

the  ( 'rown  for  tbn.t  purpoae,  mny  uppoint  coroners 

for  certain  precincts  by  their  own  mere  grant, 

bout   election.      See   23  &  24  Vict,,   c.    116, 

ct  9.     I  should  recoiUDiend  Mr.  Wkbb  to  con* 

'salt  Comyns's  IHgeitf  title  "  Oflicer/'  g. 

Middle  Tkmplab. 
Bradford. 

The  I>e  Hoghtons,  BiiTonet«,  are  coroners  for 
their  M:mor  of  Walton  le  Dale,  and  exercise  the 
right  by  a  deputy,  F.  P. 

Fathkr  Kghble  (5<*  S,  ii.  44,  02.)— The  fol- 
lowing interesting  account  of  Father  Keonble  will 
be  new  to  many  of  your  readers.  It  occurs  in 
Bishop  Challoner^a  Memoirs  of  Musionary  Fricsts^ 
ed.  1^3,  vol  ii.  pp.  411-414. 

"  On  the  same  day  aa  Father  Wall  was  executed  at 
Worcciter  for  his  priestly  character,  and  his  relitrion, 
Mr.  KemMe.  a  priest  of  the  secular  clergy,  suJTert'd  at 
ITr '  '■  T  ^  '  r  the  fame  cause.  He  was  eighty  Years  old, 
*^*  a  *hort  prmted  account  I  ha^fo  of  him*  and 

^'  -  ;  riest  and  a  missioner,  in  a  great  variety  of 

tinji:*,  Jou3  -and*fifty  year*.  I  find  in  the  diary  of  Douar 
CoDcge,  anno  1625,  John   Kimble,  of  the  dinceso  o'f 

Hereford,  ordained  pneit  tho  ^Hrtl  of  FcV ^'injj 

his  first  nia«  the  2nd  of  M&rch,  and  tho 

BYiglish  mission  the  4th  of  June,  wherr  icncc 

ma  hi  bis  nativa  county  of  Herefordshire.     In  the 


miseion  he  waa  always  eateeaed  ft  veir  pietta  and  1 

labourer.    The  following  account  of  hlmwvaai 
fromawf'Tt:  u  kiiig|diintt«t 

from  the  i]  1  i  known  him :—  J 

**'!  have  liiiiL^c:   iMt   L,,„   .U.J..XX.,.   .  could  ^«t^: 
Kemble ;  what  1  could  learn  from  those  wbof 
knew  hiTn.  h  n^  fnllow?  — He  was  tnk*Mx  at 
Caatk-  •"  He 

byCi  hei 

of  s..^'  ......^  ^. ---  but      ^ 

acccjj  coune  of  nature  he  had  but  1 

to  h\\  V  it  would  Ke  ftn  adrautago  to  luia  1 

solFer  tur  liia  r**ligioo  i  Tore,  he  wcNild  Bat  I 

scond.    Ha  waa  comn  1  ereford  gaial ;  mh 

after  some  time,  he  wa5<  -to  Lon^lon.  »vn<!  il 

remitted  back  again,  to  iaka  hiA  trial  I 

that  journey  he  suffered  more  than  a  a*  1 

account  of  a  great  indiflpoiitioii  he  had^  ^ui«  d  wtmid  h 
permit  him  to  rida  but  lidawai^ ;  ind  it  WM  00  huMm- 
back  he  was  compaUad  to  perform  the  jotmity,  at  lagt 
great  part  of  the  way.     After  hi  1 

gaol,  he  was  frcouently  Ti&ited  l y 
children*  whom  r     •-    "  ?  ^rith  vr^n.^.^.  *.v  «.*-  .    . 
was  good,  sent  li  i  tinds ;  and  being  mtkt4,  v^h? 

he  graTG  all  to  t  snade  answer,  bttCMM  tk»a 

father  was  the  bcit  friend  he  had  in  the  world. 

**  *  He  was  executed  on  Wigmaxah,  by  Hereford.  Uk 
headway  c^i^  • '^  ^'^  body  was  V -^'''i  liv  Kik  Ti»i>titw, 
Captain  Ri  Ic,  who  put  nH^ 

it  to  Wclf-  ;  uricd  it  in  i^t^. 

and  erected  n  t^iub  over  it.    SoDU'  tiiut  :  evrl 

that  CJaptftin  Scudamore's  dauiihter  In  •  -v 

throat,  which  was  apprehended  dangt 
adri«ed  by  a  devout  Catholic,  who  had  pre^r  ■ 
in  which  ft^.  Komble  was  hanged,  to  put  t 
her  neck,  upon  the  application  of  it  she  waa  iimucam    "t 
cure  J.     8oTiie  neigh  bour'mg  Catholics  resort  to  his  t<'itJ' 
on  thv  22nd  of  August,  the  day  on  which  he  toffered,  tc 
pay  iheir  devotions:  once  I  myself  being  preaent,  aiti\ 

three  or  four  of  the  family  of  U ,  and  eotaa  oth<n. 

Mr*,  ''    '  i^cudamore,  who  for  some  tiiv  *    *  ' 

extr;i  fif,  und  at  that  time  waa 

some  ^.f  which  she  could  not  be  HI  f 

by  reaftua  of  har  deafness,  stayed  at  her  pra>c:i  by  ? 
tomb,  after  tlie  rest  of  the  company  were  retired  for  tK<.r 
refreshment  to  an  inn,  not  <"•-  '>-'-  »>  -  ->■""-**  vru-l. 
and  when  she  came  to  thern.  '  \^A^ee 

recoTcred  my  hearing ;  nnd  <  ■'^'' 

aa  any  one  in  tho  company*    Tlicse  ivre  -  »' 

I  could  learn,  more  than  that  he  waa  rJ 
zealous  good  luiisioncr.'     So  far  my  ri^.  1  -  .  .  ■ 

respondent.  The  following  speech  wa*  published  ia 
print  not  long  after  Mr,  Kemble'i  execution.— 


" '  Tk«  Itut  tpteeh  of  Mr,  John  Krmhl< ,  n  cltmmA  , 
he  fftale  i»  the  cart  upon   f>Vjjwai#A,  }^jf  Hir^'ard, 
A%i'jiiit  22,  WW. 

*'  *  It  will  be  expected  T  fhon!d  «ny  something:  W •• 
I  am  nn  old  mjin,  it  c  1  not  having  tfff 

cernccm  in  the  plot,  r  <'llefitt||  tl«l*  w 

ativ      niiti'4  rinsl  Ik'.i]!  cWnre  m*  wUh 


I  beir  ttf  Mil  whvttt  I  Uiivc  ' 

word,  or  deed,  to  forgive  rn 

all  those  that  hare  been  m-nu  mhiluh^^  ^u  u  -i^vu*  ui  *u; 

dcJith.' 

**  Th«n  iomftiig  to  the  cxeeultoner.  he  took  blm  bv  (^ 
band,  and  calling  him  hy  hit  naine   ff^m  ^wMei^ 


Jfa 


rg.U.8vT.6,74] 


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193 


[  Anthony,  1$  n^  a/raid  ;  do  tk^  9^Ut, 

I  with  nli  mjf  ktartf  thou  mti  do  me  a  grtaitr 

on  d\McourUiv,    Then  be  drew  bia  cup  orer 

»  ind  after  &  little  meditation  upon  his  knees,  &nd 

;  hmts^'tf  up  to  Almighty  God,  oe  told  them^  they 

■<^ct  when  they  pletised.    In  conclasion, 

ice  repefttcfdj  with  great  ferrour,  those 

J  handij  0  LiJtd,  I  ammend  my  tmrit,  the  cwrt 

iwn  ftw«y»  and  he  hnaged  at  least  half  an  hour 

»  be  wai  quite  dead,  the  Jmet  of  the  rope  not  bebtfr 

)'  apfilicd ;  though  tbis,  as  it  ]£  belieTed,  bappeoed 

er  by  accidet^  than  deiign.     The  Protetlanta  that 

t  ipe^tort  of  the  exit  acknowledged  that  ibej  never 

one  die  eo  like  a  gcaUeman,  atid  bo  like  a  CbnstLan/* 

Challoner  says  that  ho  derived  his  info rmat ion 
om  **Mx.  Kemble's  printeti  speech,  the  Douaj 
■***  -*^-l  the  testimonies  of  those  that  knew  him/' 
Edward  Peacock. 

iLADtVEDVSA  w  1090  (5**  S.  i.  4(>6.)— Tn  Sir 

*  m  Inj    rii.'hv'g  JmtTtial  of  a  Voyage   into    iht 

in  1628,  printed  by  the  Ciimden 

^Ifind:— 

'We  were  all  day  becalmed  in  m^\\i  of  the  Island 

ftnft««o.     By  tbie  iifand  is  another  litlc  one  called  Lam- 

:.  which  dwelt  no  pertons  (according  to  the 

by  some  of  my  men  tbat  had  bin   there 

mcs  with  the  Turkey),  but  there  i^  a  lampe 

kUy  btinuDg.     The  Turkes  beare  great  re  Terence 

placet  and  atlwayea  leave  oyle  or  bread,  or  some- 

Td  them  {through  demotion),  but  they  know 

Om ;  and  it  hath  proTe<l  very  fatal!  to  oarry 

log  from  thence,  aa  well  to  ChriBtLans  aa  to 

lr«f,  only  one  may  safely  water  there/* 
flich    rrmntip    informntinn    nbout    thia    isknd 

ufc   on  ttid" 
i  Hey  wood 
_lit;,  m  A^Licii  ho  endfiivour*  to  ulentify  Lam- 
pedttBa  with  Prospero's  Island.  H.  ^\.  B. 

Sluprwrcck  of  Ro^ro,  the  Pagiui  King  of  Sicily, 
tlte  lakud  of  Lipadosa^  between  the  town  of 
tea  and    Malta,  and    his    conversion   to   the 
an  faith    by  the  unod   hcrnnt,  who   liyed 
Ittring  the  reign  oi  '  /ne  : — 

_k  ffom  tlie  tossing  eu  J  i  ven's  oomroanda, 

[Jpmi  the  dreary  cliff  Eogero  aLiiid* : 
Around  tbe  Mrage  shore  he  roll*  liie  eyea  ; 
Anti.  K(fe  itoiij  !.ea.  Mfw  Ct'iirn  >>y  land  arisc: 
Ttu  lire  coast  to  lie 

1  ab&re, 

!  ^91 


^  C"j>^fgiw»  thnf.  with  tt^p*  ♦ftdittA  jind  »low, 


*FCTr  iRurrt,  juujjier,  luiu  iu^iljc"  i^reen, 


With  spreading  paJm*trees,  grn  I  y  scone ; 

Whose  mingled  shade  a  liquid  I  4s, 

That  down  the  rook  tta  munnunn^  u-urrtnt  leada< 
Near  forty  years  had  past  since  fint  the  sire 
Forsook  each  worldly  pleasure,  to  retire 
To  this  re<3«9a,  where,  by  his  Saviour  blessed, 
Hfli  led  hit  days  in  purity  and  rest. 
For  wholesome  food  the  gather  d  fruits  he  took ; 
To  quench  iih  thirst  be  sipp'd  tbc  crystal  brook; 
And  BtroTiff  in  bealtb,  and  free  from  care  and  stril^^ 
He  reached  the  extremest  verge  of  human  life." 

Book  XX.  OfUmdo  Furiosoj  by  Ludovico  ArioEto> 
tianslAted  by  John  Hoole. 

Was  Rogcro,  the  Pagan  Prince  ol  Sicily  of  the 
poet  ArioHto,  who  died  a.d,  1533,  the  one  of  timt 
Qjime  to  whom  EdrLssi's^*  great  geograohicai  wofk, 
called  after  him  Kitdb  E^tgiojr^  or  Boolt  of  Koger, 
is  dedioited  ;  and  what  accounte  are  obtainable 
in  the  Mediterranean  regarfling  the  good  hermit 
of  Lipndosa,  and  the  battle  described  in  the  Or- 
lando Furioso  as  having  been  fought  on  that 
island  %  E, 

Skeeziko  (4^  S.  ii.  4.)— Allow  me  to  quote  two 
passages  from  Greek  classic  writers  in  illustration 
of  sneezing  being  considered  a  lucky  omen.  One 
of  them  is  from  a  poem  of  veiy  hoar  antiquity, 
namely,  the  Odyucy  of  Homer ;  the  other  from  «^ 
rutber  more  recent  production,  the  Anahem^  d 
Xenophon : — 

"n?  t/>aTo'  TrjkifLa)(os  Si.  fdy  hrraptv"  dfiif}i  Sc 

(TutpSaXiov  Koi'ot/^r/o-e*  yiKa<rtr€  <5e  ni;v<Ao7r<ia* 
ai\I'a  8*  (xp  Kvftawv  *ir€rt  Trre/weiTa  Tr/Kjwi'^a* 
E/);yc«>  ILOL,  Tov  ^ctt'ov  ivnvTtov  tSoc  KdAeo-fro*'. 

ot;^  opar^^t  o  ftot  vlo^  cTrcTrra/Jc  iraa-LV  c^-co'O'ti'; 

Tfji   K€   KuX  ovK   areX^s   Oavaro^  fii^icrrrjpfTi 

ytVOLTOr 

Trda-i  udk\   (ivSi   k€  Ti5   Odvarov  Kol  Kijpas 
aAv^ou 

Odyttm  Bk,  xtU*  line  641  d  <*;?. 
And^—  ^^ 

rovTO  Oc  kiyoiTo'i  aiVov  Trrdpi^vrm  rts^  a*cov- 
cratTC?  ^  ol  (rrparmTfU  irui^i^  fiia  op^^  TrpofTtr 
Kv%'T}Q-av  Tuv  ntnv,—Aniibans^  lib.  iii.  c.  11,  1>. 

See  also  **K  &  QJ'  1«»  S.  vlii.  121;  v.  364, 
51X),  572,  599;  viii.  3G6,  624;  ix-  C3,  250;  and  x, 
451.  Jomf  PicKJ-oRD,  M.A, 

Newboime  Keotory^  Woodbridgt. 

In  India,  nt  the  present  day,  one  mav  obser^'e 
thi  1  of  the  cross,  which  a  Hindu  makes 

sb  ince  to  sneeze  while  performing  his 

mornmpTH  ;ir>iution3  in  the  Gauges.  Hav?'"  -  ^  -  ^p^d 
his  forehead)  nose,  cIuUt  and  cheeks,  v  p 

of  Ir    +^-  '  -    \^"  -f  '   -^TtienceH  bin  pra)ti..  i*  ....  tUa 
ver  I  do  so  nts  oftx'n  as  they  are 

inh  ...i. tuition.     I  have  read  some- 

will  ont  Romans  made  oblations  to 

the  ^-^  J^g*  ^^* 

*  Edristi,  vol.  h  p.  C^  D^Herhelot,  EVU\«^3aJtmsi^ 
Orientalei  4to.,  1?27* 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[5*8.n.8«rt5/Ti. 


Et1HK3»K  DE  SlLHOUKTTE  (5^^  S.  \L  lOO*)— The 
ei^BCt  title  of  £tienne  de  Silhoaette^s  work  as  given 
hj  Quc^rard  (La  France  lAUdraiTt,  Paris,  1838) 

lA — 

"  Idee  g^n^r&Ie  du  gouTememeni  ct  de  la  mortle  det 

Chinois,  tir^e  p&rttcuHensment  des  ouTiuges  de  Conf uctus, 

«i  r^ponse  h  troU  crUiques.    8«c.  ^dit.,  Porit,  Q%%UaM^, 

1781,  iii.l2/' 
M.  Qu^rar«l  Ls  good  eDoagli  to  add — 
**  La  prenderc  edition,  pubU6e  en  1729,  m  Ten/trmi  pat 

i$t  ripontM  avjT  criiiquea*' 

The  Biographie  Univerulh  says : — 
''  Cette  Mi  don  [1731]  cit  iiugmoiit6e  d'une  r£p<)n8«  de 
Tnuteur  h  troie  critiques  qui  av&knt  p&ru  da  son  Vim. 
L'ouTTSge  n'eat  qa'tm  eztraii  assez  mperficiel  des  6crit< 
det  muMionnairea  sur  la  mtune  m&tiere  et  dei  trftductionB 
l&tines  <iu'i1s  Arnioat  doniiecs  des  lirret  de  Coofuciug  et 
4e  ftes  disciples." 

Sparks  Henderson  Williams, 
Keoaingtou  CreBcent,  W. 

"Little  Poems,"  &c.  (5*^  S.  ii  110.)— Mr. 
Bower  will  fiod  the  poem  in  the  Lfrical  Ballads 
-of  Wordsworth,  N. 

*^ Gipsy  Queen"  (5"»  S*  ii.  110,)— Carmen i 
iiOiidea  to  the  recitative  and  air,  "Rage,  thou 
juigiy  stomi "  in  The  (Up^y's  IVaTning^  muaic  com- 
posed by  Sir  J.  Benedict.  W.  Phillips. 

Joanna  Southootb  (5***  S.  ii,  68.)— There  are 
Bereral  places,  both  in  town  and  country,  where 
the  Soutncotians  assemble.  They  call  themselves 
"  Christian  Israelites,"  and  they  observe  the  Jewish 
Sabbath,  and  follow  in  many  instanceB^  such  as 
selection  of  food,  the  Mosaic  Law.  They  dress  in 
drab,  and  have  clothes  somewhat  resembling  those 
of  the  Quakers.  But  the  wearing  of  beards  dis- 
tinguishes them  from  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends*  One  of  their  leading  and  most  learned 
ministers  used  to  be,  and  may  be  still,  the  editor 
of  a  popular  weekly  periodical,  N* 

Alderman  Sir  William  Staines,  Knt.  (6^ 
S.  il  124.)— 

^*  A  Pftvlour  and  a  Stone-mason  made  a  fortune 
honorably,  and  marned  bis  cook-maid. 

"  His  mannerM  may  be  judged  from  the  following 
anecdote.  At  a  city  feast,  when  Sheriff,  sitting  by 
General  Tarleton,  ho  thus  addreftaed  him  :  ^  Eat  away  at 
the  pines,  Geiiemi,  for  vre  must  pay  all  the  eame^  eat  or 
not  eat ! ' 

**  Ho  was  Sheriff  in  1797." 

The  above  I  copy  from  a  curious  work  (second 
edition,  LSCM))^  called— 

"  City  Biography.  Containing  Anecdotes  and  Memoin 
ef  the  Rise,  Progrcsa,  Situation,  end  Character  of  the 
Aldermen,  kc,  of  the  City  of  London." 

H.  s.  a 

LivY  (rt^  S.  ii.  128.)— The  following  quotation 
from  Smith's  IHdi&tianj  of  Grtek  and  Mommi 
Mythology  fiurniahea  a  reply  to  the  query  of 
Omega  i— 


n 


"Spurilia  Oenir  only  known  from  coini  for  the 
Snurilius,  whose  name  oecnra  as  a  tribttne  in  taam 
edittona  of  Liry  (ir.  i%  is  in  all  the  more  modem  eMana 
3p.  Iciliua." 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

The  Sctlly  Isles  {5^  S.  ii.  129.)— (l^ 
Bevan,  editor  of  the  Herefoixl  Mappa  Mun 
date  of  which  he  supposes  to  be  1275), 
thus  on  the  word  SHlla: — 

"  We  have  to  notice  a  SvUU  off  the  lOutbetA  ptnai  of  ^ 
Ireland,  which  may  posaibly  hare  some  refercDec  to  theli 
SciUy  Isles." 

He  derives  the  name  from  ScyUa,  the  famed  lock 
between  Italy  and  Sicily. 

(2.)  William  Botoner,  commonly  i''  '  "'^  tliam 
of  Worcester,  thus  mentions  the  Sci  n  his  I 

ItintTariuvi  site  lihir  memortibilirim  ^r  ttt.  ^r.  in 
viaqio  de.  Bristol  tuque  ad  mofUtrnf  SL  Michadii 
(dated  1478):— 

'^Apparicio  Sancti  Michaelis  in  monte  Tumba  antes 
Tocatale  Hore-rok  in  the  wodd;  et  fucrunt  tarn  boacoi 
quam  prata  et  terra  arabilis  inter  dictum  montem  e* 
insulas  Syllye,  et  fuerunt  140  ecclesi»  parochlales  iofcef 
iitum  monte Di  et  Sylly  snbmerte.'* 
See  Mailer,  Giips,  LiL  344.        A.  L.  Mathxw. 

Oxford. 


■SUM 

* 


Supposing  Scilly  to  be  an  accommodation* 
corruption  of  the  Latin  word  SiluTU,  the  na 
given  to  these  inlands  by  Solinus,  we  fiist 
with  it  in  Tacitus— as  far  as  my  reading  9tsrf» 
mG—{Afm.  xii.  32),  applied  to  certain  counties  in 
South  Wales.     Silurus^  from  StAorpo«,  moat- 
bably  the  derivation,  meaning  a  kind  of  ri 
— some  authorities  say  the  chad — it  is  not 
that  both  these  localities  took  their  iism«« 
the  fact  of  their  rivers  beii^  especially  fAmooi 
this  kind  of  fish.  Edmukd  Tew,  3LA. 

Haddenham  Church  Bells  (.5**  S.  ii.  147.) 
The  square  device  on  the  sixth  bell  of  Hnddc 
Church,  consisting  of  a  Latin  cross  between  ti»1 
inttialB  "  G.  O.,^'  surmounted  by  a  cresceut  and  »  J 
star,  is  the  mark  of  George  Oldfield,  a  bell-foander  | 
of  Nottin^^rliatiL     George  Oldfield  the  elder^  who  i 
cast  many  bells  that  are  still  extant  in  Nottingham*  I 
shire,  Derbyshire,  .and  the  adjacent  count  iea»  wisJ 
the  first  to  adopt  this  mark,  the  crescent  and  fctar,l 
which  appear  in  the  municipal  seal  of  Nottingham, 
being  symliolical  of  that  town.  He  flourished  about 
the   middle   of  the   sixteenth   century.     He  wn* 
succeeded  by  his  son  Henry  Oldfield,  who  ined 
the  same  mark,  except  in  the  sul>stitution  of  *''  H*" 
for  "  G."     The  earliest  beU  bearing  hb  nmrk  h« 
the  date  158J>.     Henry  Oldfield  was,  in  his  tuni,  . 
fiuccee<lcd  by  his  son  George,  the  founder  off* 
bell  in   Question,   who   naturally   i-     ' 
mark  to  liis  grandfather.     The  lat 
his  mark  is  said  to  beat  Crosswell  !>.-.:..,,  -^  16 
and  the  earliest  at  Bunny,  in  16:^0. 

J.  Charles  Cox. 

H  axel  wood,  Belper. 


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I 

I 

I 

t 


**  ABSE3ICB,"  BY  Dm  DoNKK  (5^  S.  iL  85.)— See 
tlut  poem  In  the  Fuller  Worthies'  Llbrarj  edition 
of  the  complete  Poems  of  Bean  Bonne,  with 
rebtive  notes  (vol  ii.  pp.  238-9,  360). 

A.  K  Grosaet. 

SoUGS  IK  **EoKEBY*'  (5*^  S,  L  428,  515  ;  ii. 
115.)— "A  weaiy  lot  is  thine,"  canto  iii.  stanm 
xxTul  ;  ^*  Allen-a-dale/*  c&nto  iiL  aUnza  kxx.  ; 
**  The  harp/*  canto  v,  stanza  xviiL  ;  and  **  The 
CaTftUert"  canto  t,  stanza  tx.^  were  all  set  by 
Maiwei,  second  Marchioness  of  Northampton, 
but  I  believe  were  never  publiBhed.  In  the  same 
MS.  collection  Is  a  ietting  of  **  Brignall  Banks,'' 
**,ij#,.T..,]  frv.rji  Biahop^s  set  by  Lady  Compton" 
(Lo':  impton),  from  which  I  conclude  that 

it  ^♦J^  |^.„!j..  Ued  to  music  by  Sir  H.  Bishop.  There 
WM  abo  a  setting  of  the  "  Cypreas  Wreath/'  canto 
T.  stanza  xlil. ;  but  I  cannot  at  this  moment  find 
it»  8o  I  do  not  know  whether  it  was  by  Lady 
Hofthanipton,  or  by  her  sister,  or  from  some  other 
•Oltroe.  A  setting  of  the  song  ^*  Summer's  eve  is 
eime  and  past^'^  canto  v.  stanza  Tii«  ix.»  as  a  glee 
for  three  voices^  by  T,  R.  Hobbea,  was  published 
by  Robert  Birchall,  133,  New  Bond  Street,  with- 
Ottt  date.  A.  CoaiPTON. 

"  Chribttanity  A8  Old  as  this  Creation,"  &c 
(5*^  S.  il  149, 175.)— The  author  of  this  book,  Mat- 
lliew  Tindal,  LL.D.,  was  the  son  of  a  DevonEihire 
clergynuin,«nd  an  uncle  of  the  Rev,  Niclioks  Tindal, 
ih^  tiansktor  of  Raptn's  Histmy  of  England.  After 
taldag  bis  degn^  at  Ox/oid,  he  joined  the  Church  of 
Home,  which,  however,  he  soon  left.  He  was  the 
aothor  of  numerous  controversial  works,  but  h  now 
chiefly  remembered  by  the  one  above  named  (the 
fiiat  edition  of  which,  by  the  way,  was  published .  not 
in  170<>,  OS  stated  by  E.  J.,  but  in  1730),  and  by 
his  Hi^hti  of  thf  Chrtitian  Church  as$ertal  tufainal 
thf,  Motnuh  and  all  other  FritsU  (8vo.,  1706), 
Dr.  Watcrlnnd  wrote  a  reply  to  the  former  (en- 
titled Scripture  Vindicated,  &c.),  but  it  seems  to 
liave  been  more  distinguished  by  abuse  and  ex- 
BffBWttOns  of  contempt  for  the  unknown  i^Titer  than 
for  «oundnes«  of  argument.  At  all  events,  it  was 
severely  handled  in  a  Letter  to  Dr,  Wattrland^  by 
Cony  ens  Middieton,  who  exposed  at  considerable 
length  the  injustice  of  many  of  Waterland's 
[e«,  and  then,  after  havinc,  to  a  great  extent, 
lish(>d  the  criticisms  of  his  antagonist,  went 
teach  him  how  he  ought  to  have  dealt  with 
t,  concludiM  hit  letter  with  a  masterly 
nf  tisc"  rv^alTv  we^ik  nolntn  in  Tindurs 
-^^  !  the  work 

avo,  ii  red  unjust 

i,  and  to  expoiie  tbe  erron*  of  so  eminent  a 
T  orthodoxy  as  Wnterlaud,  seems  to 
I  more  notice  than  bin  own  refutation 
vhicli  Watcrland  had  overlooked,  so 
he  shortly  afterwards  found  it  necessary  to 


publish  a  second  letter  in  order  to  defend  himself 
from  the  charge  of  favouring  an  attack  on  revealed 
religion.  Frbd.  NoRGATJk 

lit  Bedford  8tr«et,  Covent  Garden* 

Matthew  Tindal  was  about  seventy- three  when 
he  published  Chrutumity  at  Old  09  tht  Creation  z 
and  when  he  died^  in  1733,  he  left  a  second 
volume  in  manuscript,  by  way  of  general  reply  to- 
all  his  answerers,  the  publication  of  which  was  pre- 
vented  by  Gibson,  Bishop  of  London.  One 
hundred  and  six  answers  are  said  to  have  appeared 
by  1700,  and  Farrar  (Crit  Hi^t.  of  Free  Thouoht) 
remarks  that  it  was  the  book  to  which  more  thaii 
to  any  other  single  work  Bishop  Butler's  Analogf 
was  designed  as  a  reply. 

Sparks  Hendersost  WiLLiAMa. 

Kensington  Crescent,  W. 

l^Iatthew  Tindal  is  referred  to  by  Voltairo^ 
in  his  LetiiT  io  tht  Princt  of  WaUs  ccnctmin^ 
those  Persom  who  Jiave  Ijttn  Accused  of  AUack- 
ing  the  Chrinttan  Religion,  It  b  said  he  left  in 
MS.  a  second  volume  of  tliis  work,  but  it  has 
never  been  published.  Ellcsb. 

Craren. 

"  British  and  CoimKEKTAL  Titles  of 
Hokour"  (5*^  S,  ii.  23,  95.)— Middlk  Templar^ 
in  denying  that  it  is  "a  vulgar  error  to  suppose 
that  a  commoner  may  not  be  noble,"  has  fallen  into 
the  equally  **  vulgar  error  *^  of  confounding  iJo^tiic^ 
(or  peerage)  nobSity  with  nobility  of  blood.  How 
can  the  son  of  a  nobleman  be  leas  noble  than  his 
father?  He  may  not  possess  the  political  privi- 
leges enjoyed  by  the  father,  and,  therefore,  not 
being  the  "  peer  ^'  of  a  Lord  of  Parlianient,  he  is 
only,  in  the  eye  of  the  law,  "  the  peer  of  any  com- 
mon juryman,'*  but  how  does  this  affect  his  real 
nobility?  As  Meddle  Templar  quotes  Coke, 
allow  me  to  remind  him  that  the  lame  great 
authority  says,  "  Every  Gentleman  must  be  arma- 
gei-eiu^  and  the  best  trial  of  a  Gentleman  in  blood, 
which  18  the  lowest  degree  of  nobility^  is  by  bearing 
arois"  (2  Irutit.  on  tlu  StaL  of  Addiiiont).  In  the 
opinion  of  any  herald  a  gentleman  of  blood,  being 
already  noble,  cannot  be  further  ennobled  by 
being  raised  to  the  peerage,  though  his  fank  and 
privileges  are  thereby  au  men  ted.  Blackstone, 
who  quotes  Coke,  that  **  Commoners,  &;c.,  are  in 
law  peers  in  respect  of  their  want  of  nobility,"  a 
few  lines  further  on  speaks  of  the  gentry  as  an 
order  of  **  inferior  no6t7{f  1// '  and  also  decides  that 
Irish  peers*  are  by  law  esquires  (and,  therefore, 
fommoners).  From  these  fi^ts  it  is  evident  that 
both  C*oke  and  Blackstone  meant  (though  I  fully 
tidmit  they  have  expressed  it  badly)  that  the  Lords 
of  Parliament  were  peers  in  respect  of  their  poli- 
tieal  nobility  (i.  e.,  right  to  an  hereditary  seat  and 
all  the  privileges  attached  thereto),  and  that  com- 


•  This  was  vn  E^a^^^Ti^  bt  Jwt  ^^^  ^ws^k. 


196 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


moners,  whethei'  nobte  or  othenrise,  were  peers 
of  &aioh  other  by  reiia<>ii  of  their  want  af  it. 

In  France,  the  old  nohhsse^  v?hoae  anct'atore  were 

Eeers  6f  that  country,  have  never  lost  their  no- 
ility*  though  they  no  longer  poaaesa  political 
privileges ;  and  should,  unfortunately^  any  Eoglish 
statesman^  after  "  thinking  ihriee  **  on  the  subject, 
deem  it  expedient  to  abolish  our  Upi^er  House, 
and  Kucccfd  in  doing  so,  our  Lords  would  not  be 
ieais  noble,  though  then  only  politically  immaQturs. 

Sytban  Lodge,  South«»te,  N. 

Your  correspondent's  remarks  on  the  maimer  in 
which  pewons,  not  members  of  the  Houfl€  of  Lords, 
are  tried  when  charged  w^th  Mony^^  are  beside  the 
<^ue8tion-  Sir  Edward  Coke's  judgment  on  the 
point  iii  conclusive  as  to  the  opinion  of  hia  own 
day,  and  has  never,  I  believe,  been  seriously  called 
in  question.  He  says,  "Every  Gentleman  must 
be  armagzrtns^  and  the  best  trial  of  a  Gentleman 
in  blood  (which  is  the  lowest  degree  of  nobility)  is 
by  bearing  of  arms-"  Then,  after  quoting  Juvenal 
and  Cicero  as  to  the  customs  of  the  Bomana,  ho 
continues,  "In  these  days  the  rule  is  Nobiles  sunt 
qui  insignia  Gentilicia  generis  sui  proferre  possunt." 
^IiuiiL  Part  II.,  ed,  vi.  p.  ()G7. 

Mabel  Pejloocc 

Boitesford  MAnor,  Brigi^, 

Akchee  Family  (5«*  S.  ii.  21,  94.)— Thomajs  !e 
Archer,  parson  of  Elmsett,  co,  Sutf-,  and  Richard 
his  brother,  were  aoua  of  Archer  of  Tanworth 
(Umberslade),  co.  Wan-.  This  fact  is  fully  estab- 
lished by  the  authorities  given  in  MS.  additions 
to  MemoHah  of  the  Surname  Arcfur  (Brit.  Mus.). 
The  arms  in  Thaxted  Church — "  ermine,  a  cro«8, 
uable" — to  which  Mu.  Golding*  refers,  are  those 
of  the  distinct  family  of  Ik  Boy*,  whereof  was 
Simon  de  Boys,  esquire  to  Henry  V,,  whose  sur- 
name, by  special  royal  eommand,  under  the  king^s 
seal  (etiU  preservedt),  was  changed  to  that  of 
ArdicT,  (See  remarks  on  this  subject  in  the 
Herald  and  Gmealogid.)  Early  last  century 
these  two  families  of  Archer  were  connected  by  a 
marriage,  fully  explained  on  a  handsome  monu* 
ment  in  the  church  of  Hale,  near  Salisbury. 

The  arinoriid  seals  of  the  early  Suffolk  and 
Norfolk  Archers  still  exist,  and  have  been  descril>ed 
elsewhere. 

I  may  observe,  m  pasiant^  that  there  is  a  w^ork 
on  Derbyshire  (the  reference  to  which  is  amongst 
Archer  M8S,,  Brit.  Mus.)  in  which  a  curious 
error  may  be  noticed,  as  regards  the  arms  of  these 
two  families. 

There  was  a  very  early  coioiexion  between  the 

*  I  shonld  liks  to  draw  Ma.  Goldtng's  attention  to 
the  ooiacidetice  timt  thore  ii  recorded  ia  B&rbivdoa  tlie 
wUl  of  a  Mr.  Qolding  Archer  early  last  century.  Who 
was  ho? 

f  8,  P.  0. 


Domfront  Archers'**^  and  Essex. 
notes  on  Ordericus  Vi talis  :  **  Kec^ 
Domsday,"  and  the  rKlnts  »eal  of 
Hare,   the   animal,  ^*cher'*^ — is-^^r 
additioD>s  Ui  Dugdales  irant'i. 
Lastly,  advertinfT  t)  H.  C 
observations  on  tli« 
ward  Archer,  of  Bi 
ready  to  admit  that 
lineai^e,  in  the  work  : 

satisfactorily   disposed   of,   uad,   imieeii^    nixitirdy 
over-ruled.     R.  C/a  nr^nnicnt*  convitt«*¥»  nr*^ ; 
on  looking  into  the  >>  '  i  ' 

is  additional  evideni 
As  tniffi  is  the  object   (►!  i^ene  u<  guni 
one  need  not  hesitate  to  admit  an  error. 

Autograph  of  BrRNs  (6*^  B*  i  283 ; 
72,)— On  Thursday,  I8th  June,  1863»  1  atli 
a  sale  of  books,  autographs,  &c,,  at  Branch'! 
tioo  Rooms,  Hanover  Street,  Lirer|ioo!.    At 
the  books  were  many  ape 
Ja4^.obit€  IMici,  Tht  r^v 
bald's  ChroiiicU  o/  >^ 
0/1715,  Patten-si?< 
of  1745,  Currie's  eduivjii  vt  iinrii- 
the  autographs  were  "No.  90,   1: 
fuU  poem  in  Author's  Iwndwritin^jj,  u)  i 
on  his  Birth-day/'     "No.  Dl"  (*t>,  oltiion 
lowing),  *'  a  Leaf  out  of  a   Ladies  Pocket" 
with  ^IS.  Epijframs,  by  Burn?,  om  of  iken^i 
pithUshed"     ^'No.  98,  A  Copv  ni  r.  P.u.m 
Syme,  certified  in  BuruBs  hiui 

I  find  that  I  have  hastdy  wj  r  iie  time cc 

the  back  of  my  catal<^guc,  which  i  have  now  be- 
fore me  : — 

**Tlii«  WRS  the  wle  of  tho  books,  «utographt.  ke.,9(^ 
Mr  Maxwell,  nephew,  or  sou,  I  believe,  to  the  MaxirtU 
of  Termugbty,  tw  whom  Bums  uddreased  that  poen,  sod 
hence  the  »utt:>graph8  of  Bums." 

I  have  also  copied  tL  '  —  he  tm- 

published,  and  which  d  ^ill 

agree  with  me  does  not  hn  tv  ^'^  i  n.  un    — 
"  Grant  me,  indulgent  Heaven,  that  I  may  Utc 
To  sec  the  miscreants  feci  the  jfains  they  gife : 
Deal  Freedom's  sacred  treaaurcs  free  m  air, 
TiJl  Slave  and  Despot  be  but  thingi  that  were," 
—the  reference  being,  I  presume,  to  slavery*.    Till 
first  lot^  **  n6^"  was  sold  for  205.  ;  the  sccund  faj 
18*,  M.;  the  purchasers  I  do  not  know.     I  g»^ 
15«.  for  the  third,    I  have  no  doubt,  on  mmp 
the  words  "To  Mr.  Syme  fiom  tin   :      ' 
the  writing  of  an  undoubtedly  if 
Burns  in  my  wife's  collect i^ 
March  2,  1788,  addressed  to  ' 
Sylvander),    that    these   woru-    v 
Burns.     It  wa^,  I  belie vcj  stated 
the  words  written  in  a  tliird  hand,      ,  .., 
2,  fo.  285,"  were  in  the  writing  of  Cun-ie,  i 


^  I  issame  them  to  hare  been  fdenUes!. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


197 


feed  tkrougli  his  hands  when  preparing  hk 
pQ  of  Bums,  which  I  do  not  possess,  and, 
"^ore,  cannot  say  whether  they  refer  to  the 
'.  c^py  or  not,  WiL  Jacksox, 

FiCsiTLiAn    Treatme^tt  or  Boms  Woftns   in 

^ABSnrO  >  !    TO  A  NOT] 

fM7 1  ii.  '   frequent  1 

'ill,  in  pfta^aii,^  from 
II  known  j  and  your 
iinerans  examples  of  it. 
ri    any  lUlusion   to    thut 
"'^  •  which  is  pncKluced 
'W  this  is,  aod  to  be 
,  1    ^w..  merely  mention  one 
ULtnge,  which,  amongst   many 
id  in  the  Teme  Valley  district, 
is  the  change  produced  by  the  aJteriition  of 
i"  to   *Hhttn/'   which   is   common   with   the 
wh«ii    speaJdng   of   things  nod 

*  •'U*  hup  i*  thun  orchard  but.*' 
*■  Arter  u2  fell  tbun  oak,  ul  fall  thun  Mh/' 
*  lae  Agwain  to  liU  thun  hule  hup  sur/* 

This  habit,  when  applied  to  numea  of  places 
I,  conyert^,  in  the  course  of  yeurs, 
ijsiines  of  the  Orchard,  the  A^b,  the 
tiwi  iiw   Hole  farms,  into  the  m*^aniugkss 
xling  ones  of  the  Norcburd,  the  Njiah,  the 
6,  and  the  Knoll  farms,  by  which  names  they 
now  known  ;    the   last-named   farm,  by  its 
*^d   designation,   forcing   those   unacquainted 
local  dialect  to  the  supposition  that  there 
bere  been  sope  convuliiion  of  nature,  causing 
Btnerly  (by  inference)  upheaved  knoll  to  bo 
>  hollow,  far  below  the  level  of  the  ground 
'og.      I  could  multiply   examples    of   the 
'^Hct  of  the  dialect  of  tLit  quarter,  but,  as 
is  valouble,  Butlice  it  to  say  those  who 
ions  in  the  matter  will  find  plenty  of  them 
reference    tt>    Graniky    Crrang^    (Tinsley 
b),  in  which  work  I  have  carefully  repro- 
them.      I  should   say,   however,  tnat   the 
of  "the"  to  "thun"   in   peculiar  to  the 
fewest,  or  Herefordshire  side,  of  the  valley  ; 
when   it    h   heard  on   the   north-east, 
er^hire  side,  the  speakers  are  invariably 
men  who  have  come  there,  or  people 
such    men    have    long    associated, 
too,  13  confined  to  words  beginning 
,a,and/i.;  and  m  by  dialect  (wood,  ^ood). 
in  that  locality  for   many  yeara — during 
Ftote  I  waa  brought  professionally  into  daily 
the  working  clashes — I  was  enabled 
difference  ;  and  I  obnerre  the  distinc- 
I  tJie  works  referred  to.    In  G^rnvtltij  Granfjii 
nn'*  is   not  once  named,   the   lomlity   hciug 
Sii    ■    ■  '       ■   '  -''  invari- 

But  in  -^  1  see  the 

i  H  ift  in  €«<"«.  snstancM   --up   i    nimi  ^x^d  wi' 


thun  esses,"  iSLc,  the  locality  being  aonth-weat; 
a  distinction  which  will,  I  expect,  make  the  critics 
fall  foul  of  me  for  **  careless  writing,"  but  I  prefer 
to  cliance  a  cutting  up  to  being  locally  inaccumte. 
The  only  other  peculiarities  not  common  to  both 
aides  the  valley,  are  (south-west)  "uz*'  for  he's 
and  her's— hiij  being  '*his,"  and  her  "bur";  "ul" 
for  he  'II  and  1 11 ;  and  the  excess  of  phrase,  *'  how- 
sumbe  howivir,"  **  ho wivir  on  it  possible,"  *' may- 
hap an  mebbe,"  &c.  The  extra  o  (goo\  and  a 
(waant),  the  *  f«>r  e  (nivir),  the  e  for  i  (*  ^'  '    Tie 

a  for  **  I  "  and  ^*  he/'~except  w*hen  cui  u 

'*  I "  and  "be/* — being  tised alike  by  Ilrit  ■  MMiMiiio 
and  Worcestershire  men  ;  as  also  the  excessive  use 
of  negatives:  *'a  dunna  not  lo)*e  not  no  toime,  a 
don*t,  nirir,  ef  he  do/'  Their  exckmations,  too, 
arc  singular :  "  Ah  1  look  at  that  now  1  '*  *^  8ure  ! 
an  it  be  curus,  werry  much  so  '' ;  *'  Sure-ly  now !  an 
the  Lord  suffered  it  I  '■  "  Sartin  sur  I  now  be  it- 
well  I  **  kc.  Altogether  they  are  "  a  peculiar  people" 
in  tliose  hop  and  apple  district*,  full  aa  they  are 
of  odd  phrtues,  quaint  sayings,  and  su|ierstitionfi, 
Shelslet  Beaucuamf. 

**KrKE"  (5«^  S.  ii.  41,  110,)— I  think  Mr. 
PicToK  and  Mr.  Skeat  much  more  likely  to  be 
right  in  their  explanation  of  Cbaucer^s  meaning 
tlian  I  am,  and  1  only  Return  to  the  question 
because  neither  of  them  h.'is  adverted  to  one  of 
the  difficulties  which  I  found  in  the  matter.  If 
we  had  only  the  EUesmere  text,  the  case  would  he 
as  simple  as  Mr.  Picton  thinks  it  ;  but,  wrong 
as  my  roDdering  seems  to  have  been^  all  the  Bcribea 
of  the  other  five  texts  erred  with  me.  He  of  the 
Hengwrt  did  not  apparently  know  the  word  kik« 
in  either  sense,  and  substituted  a  word  which  gaTe 
the  passage  a  like  sense  to  that  which  I  supposed 
it  to  have.  The  other  four  understood  bike  to  be 
hetkf  and  boldly  changed  it,  as  one  of  them  had 
also  done,  in  the  passage  in  the  Miller's  Talej  into 
look.  They  eviJently  did  not  know  the  word 
Jttj-^^rjtidt,  which  existed  none  the  less,  as  Mr, 
Skeat  shows, 

I  cannot  agree  with  Mft.  PiCToy  that  a  short- 
sounding  letter  suits  the  second  syllable  of  the 
second  iambus  better  tlmn  n  long  one  would  have 
done.   *  He5RT  H.  Gibbs, 

Aldenh&mj  Herts. 

Shotover  (5t»*  S.  ii.  91,  13fi,)'-What  is  the 
evidence— not  mere  assertions — that  Shotover  is  a 
corruption  of  Chdtenu  rtrt ;  and  when  did  the 
change  take  place  ?  In  the  Patent  Roll  for  1 1  Edw. 
L  (128^-3)  I  find  "  Foresta  nostra  de  Shothouere." 

Hermesttrude* 

^'Plaoal"  (S*"^  S,  i.  329,  415.)— From  phga,  a 
blow=irAi7y7J,  Dor.  Trkaytx  k  TrAvJo-o-o*,  to  strike. 
I>u  Cange  explains  it  *^  Modus  toni  musici,"  and 
gives  reference  to  Autinln&,  T\l^TL'r>^AQlVv.^s^\>Kstt«^*^ 
from  the  Btiikmo  iW  e\\ot^?v  oi  ^?xx\Ts.^J5L\^vr^- 


198 


NOTES  AND  QUEREES. 


[B»aitSwT.S,7i 


ment*     Hence  al^o  pkdrum  =  that  hy  which  the 
chords  arc  atnick*  Edmuitd  TW,  M.A. 

**  Etym,  TTXayipc,  dfl  c6i6  pAre«  que  k  quftrte  ie 
troure  plac6e  a  c6t^  de  1»  tonique*  auinnt  d^Ortigue, 
Dictionnaire  d*  Plain-Chant ;  mail,  luiTant  Lafag^,  parce 
que  les  mod^sptagaax  sont  mains  dii«el«fl  que  leaautben- 
ticjucB  qui  donnent  ime  gamine  tcmto  nftturelle/*— liittrc, 
DttLioJinaiTt  cU  la  Langue  Fran^Ue, 

A.  L.  Mathew. 

Oxford. 

Bar  Sinister  (5«»  S.  I  268,  314,  418  ;  ii.  18.) 
— The  assertion  of  M.  H.  U.,  that  the  term  bar 
nniikr  cornea  from  the  French  heraldry,  is  cor- 
roborated by  the  article  *' Armoirie  "  in  Viollet-le- 
Duc*a  Bictionnair^  Eauonn^  da  rArehiUctur€f 
Tol  L,  in  which  a  bend  sinister  h  tenned  nne 
barre.  G.  A.  B, 

8L  John* A  Wood. 

Rahel  {5«*  S.  i.  388  ;  ii.  133.)— If  Mr.  Uknone 
will  refer  n^in  to  my  little  book,  CaTmarth^n  and 
iU  Neiijhbo\irhood^  he  will  find  that  the  note,  in 
which  it  is  said  that  Bishop  Richard  Da  vies,  D.D.» 
bBaalated  Jof=hna,  Judges,  Rufch^  1  Samuel,  and 
2  Samuel,  in  the  Ea|rlish  Bible  of  1568,  and  1 
Timothy,  Hebrews,  damej,  1  P^ter,  and  2  Peter, 
in  Sidesbury'a  Wehh  New  TestametUf  1667,  is  a 
tranalation  of  the  inscciption  on  the  monument  to 
Biflhop  ilavie«\s  memory^  erected  iu  Abergwilt 
Chumi  at  the  instance  of  Bishop  ThirlwalL 

W.    SrURRELL. 
Canmartben. 

In  the  "  Breeches  ^*  Bible,  that  is  the  edition  of 
15S>4,  the  form  **  Rahel  "  is  fcnind,  and  a  long  note 
also  prints  and  refers  to  **  Bahel "  in  Jeremiah 
XXX  L  15.  Neomagus. 

March  Dust  v5*»*  S.  i.  505  ;  ii.  74.)~A11  parts 
of  this  island  appear  to  have  appreciated  March 
dust.  In  Scotland  *'n  peck  of  March  dust  is  worth 
itfl  weight  ijn  gold  ";  in  the  North  of  England  the 
same  quantity  is  said  to  be  '*  worth  a  king's  ransom.'' 
To  have  dry  and  fair  weather  in  March  is  so  essen- 
tial, as  a  rule,  to  the  prcpamtion  and  sowing  of  the 
earth,  and  so  often  has  it  been  the  forerunner  of 
bountiful  crops,  that  we  need  look  no  further  for 
the  origin  of  this  widespread  saying.  L  N. 

Barnard  Cutle. 

The  value  of  March  dust,  I  always  understood, 
is  estimated  by  the  difficulty  of  getting  it :  Ist, 
because  Mfirch  is  generally  not  a  dry,  and  there- 
fore not  a  dufity  month  ;  and  2ndly,  because  it  is 
to  be  beaten  off  the  hedges,  which  are  not  often  in 
leaf.  E.  L.  BLK:tKiNsopr. 

**CARDtitrs  Bekedictus,"  not  "Beatus''  (rit*" 
S.  iu  48,  95.)— I  have  been  familiar  with  the 
"  legend,"  tn^litionally,  from  childhood,  and  have 
heard  it  referred  to  by  many  persons  in  many  parts 
of  England.  Herbert  Randoltu. 


"  Petjtecost  *'  as  a  Name  (4**»  a  i.  Srj8  ; 
S.  i.  4412,  472  ;   ii.  78.)— A  **  Pentecost "  fan 
has  resided  in  this  neighbourhood  for  manr  ; 
post.  F. ' 

Noiiinghiun. 

Authors Wakted  :  "When  York  to  Heateit^ 

(fi^  S.  ii.  47,  96.)— The  **  York''  referred  to  in  1 
first  line  is,  no  doubt,  Archbishop  Blackburn,  wh 
WiUpole  credits  with  having  been  a  buccan© 
and  still  keeping  a  seragho.  The  otlier 
satirized  are  all  judges,  with  the  exception  ci  Hii»^ 
gerford.  Price,  a  judge  of  the  King's  Bench,  i 
in  especially  good  reptite  for  his  honesty  tad 
courage,  Powys,  another  judge  of  the  sameoauctf 
was  no  lesB  famous  for  bis  dullness.  Page,  a  judge 
successively  of  the  Exchequer,  the  Common  Pleu, 
and  the  King's  Bench,  was  known,  in  bia  time, « 
the  hanging  judge.  Fortescue  (who  took  hit 
mother's  name  of  Aland)  was  also  a  judg9  in  iU 
three  courts,  and,  on  his  retirement,  was  ci^eated  i 
Peer  of  Ireland.  Tracy  was  an  Irish  judge  trant- 
ferred  by  William  IIL  to  the  English  Beiu^h. 

C.  T.  B. 

Batb. 

L0N1>0N   COMPANl^  OR  GuiLDS  (5*^   S.   il  4S, 

£^6.) — ^The  arms  of  sixty- two,  and  dates  of  the 
foundation  of  sixty-five,  of  the  companies  ma?  he 
f#und  in  The  Neiv  View  of  London^  published  by 
Robert  Knaplock  at  the  Biahop^s  Head  in  St 
Paul's  Churchyard,  1708.  By  the  liist  of  the  com- 
panies given  in  the  City  Almanac  for  the  camat 
year,  I  find  that  the  "  Silk  Throwers^  are  da&nctr 
and  that  the  following  compimiea,  which  were  not 
in  existence  in  the  year  1 708,  are  now  to  be  foond 
among  the  Companies  of  the  City  of  London,  vir.^ 
Basket  Makers,  Carmen,  Fan  Makers,  Fellow  Ik* 
Porters,  Glass  Sellen,  Gold  and  SQver  W)fe 
Drawers,  Gun  Makers,  Playing  Card  Makers, 
Needle  Makers,  Spectacle  Makers,  Tin  Pial« 
Workers,  Wheel wri^ta,  and  Woolmen. 

EvERABD  Home  Colkmax. 
71 1  Brecknock  Eoad,  N. 


^iifrn&ntauf. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
Th4  ConMitiUiotu  and  Canons  Ecdejfinjffiral  pfihf 

Church  of  England  referred   to  '      - 

Sources^  and  IlLustraUd  tcifA  Exj' 

By  Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walcott,   BM.     (Fiirktr 

&  Co.) 
There  is  not  a  more  indefatigable,  induairtOtti» 
useful,  and  painstaking  writer  than  the  above 
reverend  gentleman,  Prre^entor  and  PrebendaJT  of 
Chichester.  He  must  have  the  rare  secret  of  how 
duly  to  partition  out  im\(\  ^  r  '"^  --v/u  ^.,< 
plish  the  work,  which  ne\ 
Amid  his  many  labours,  -M.  W  ^:  ,.  .„.-;  l<j 
to  send  occasionally  a  contribution  to  ^^  N.  < 


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hey  are  always  weleoroet  and  fully  appreciated  ; 

M  onljwiah  there  were  more  of  them, 

[Mr,  Waloott  eogftges  in  so  many  labours  that, 

senily  aa  this  **  handy  volume ''  haa  appeared, 

i  Me  by  no  meaoa  con^dent  in  aaaertlng  that  it 

kteat.    However  this  may  be,  there  is  no 

IS  to  the  value  of  the  present  volume. 

!in  he  baa  collected  scattered  material,  out 

which   he  has    constnicted   a  goodly  edifice. 

iitherto  no  attempt  hns  been  made  to  trace  up 

r  existing  Canons  to  their  origintd  sources.'*     So 

fites  the  author^  and  he  naturally  expresses  his 

!  at  the  fact.     To  many,  the  very  able  and 

eresting  Introduction  to  the  volume  will  prove, 

srhapa,  more  valuable  than  all  that  foOows.     It 

^jiuffularly  able  paper,  exhibiting  remarkable 

f  Of  condensation^  and  serving  as  a  chapter, 

J  up  to  this  time,  in  Church  History,     Mr. 

riloott  states  that  one  principle  of  the  Cburcii  of 

giand  is  **  comprehension,"  not  "  compromifio/' 

!  illustrates  this  by  the  directions  of  St.  Gregory 

Augustine  :— **Milii  placet,   sive   in   Romana 

^^,  Galliarum  seu  in  qualibet  EccleaiA  ah  quid 

i,  quod  plus  omnipotent!  Deo  poaitit  placere, 

eliga^^  et  in  An^lorum  Kcclesia  quee  adhuc 

[  Mem  nova  est,  institutione  pnecipua  quas  de 

eccleaiis   colligere  potuisti   infundas ;    ex 

ergA  qutbusque  Ecclesiis  qua?   pia  quie 

a,  Qu«  recta  sunt  eligc."    This,  perhups,  is 

.  01  advice  which  everybody  coram  ends  and 

;  follows.     A  French  author  had  it  in  his 

irhen,  some  half-dozen  years  ago,  he  proposed 

ffible   the  union  into  One  of  the  Jewish^ 

9  and  Moslem  belief  !  Where  canons  and 

are    at    issue,     Mr.    Walcott    has    no 

alty  in  explaining,  if  not  reconciling  them, 

Lly,  his  book  on  the  Canons  does  what   he 

'the  Canons  themselves  do,  namely,  "  They 

Htute    in    their    successive    developments  a 

J  of  the  growth  of  Doctrine  and  Discipline 

I  the  Church  of  England,  and  especially  as  they 

1  or  enforced  by  the  Rubric."  We  sincerely 

%ie  Mr.  Walcott  on  this  most  useful 


jtfUu  fi^iirvutry  and  Chapel  of  tin  EoMpilal  and 
^  ColUot  o/  St.  John  th€  Svanatlift  at  Cambndff€.  By 
\  Charlei  6krdale  Bfthiagton,  MM,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  Pro 
IfiMnr  of  Bot*ny  in  the  UniTerstty  of  Cambridge. 
[(Giiabndge»  D«ightOD,  Bell  k,  Co.) 

mtet  an-1  F._llow«  of  St.  Jolin's  have  done  wull  in 

ry  of  tb&t  ancient  Hospit&l  which, 

ofNig'ellufl,  Buhop  of  Ely  (a.d. 

if  I,  uiui  pnivea  to  be  but  the  precursor,  through 

jirt^  of  Margmret  of  Richmood,  of  the  lecond  most 

knt  collcire  ta  the  tJaiTcraity.    The  Professor  of 

handi  the  work  of  compU»tion  was  cn- 

cortgratulftted  on  havuig  produced  a 

^'■f-A  its  way  into  the  baokabelTea  of 

1  young,  who  enjoy  notbing  better 

It*  ea  should  be  stirred,  from  time  to 

r  a  tTnjuiaLrMiCC  of  old  oasociationa.     The  little 

iforv  U4  oo&t&ius  uot  oidy  an  account^  with  plans 


and  phDtogimphic  vtewSt  of  the  old  buildings  that  had  lo 
make  way  for  Sir  G.  Gilbert  Scott's  magnmcent  chapel, 
hut  al«o,  by  way  of  uniting  the  past  with  the  prescntp  a 
full  description  of  the  tatter  structure.  To  our  mind  Pro- 
fessor Babington  b&s  adduced  perfectly  valid  reasons  for 
the  style  of  architecture  (Early  Decorated,  jl.i>.  12S0) 
adopted  by  its  eminent  designer.  We  lately  recorded 
with  pleasure  the  recntting  of  no  mean  name  on  a  grsre- 
stone  in  the  cloisters  at  Westminster;  it  will  then, 
doubtless^  be  a  Mtisfaction  to  our  readers  to  know  thut, 
whilst  the  monomeDts  hare  been  removed  from  the  old 
to  the  now  chapel^  the  slabs  covering  the  graves  of  those 
who  were  interred  in  the  former  have  been  left  in  their 
places,  and  that  the  foundations  of  the  old  obapel^  not 
Laving  been  removed,  mark  its  site,  and  so  form  sn  ea- 
clasure.  Can  any  one  give  a  reason,  for  it  *'  is  not  ap- 
parent," why,  to  quote  the  Professor**  words,  *'  so  eini* 
uent  a  man  as  Eudo  de  la  Zouch,  the  first  free  Chancellor 
of  the  Univertity,  A.n.  1396|  was  buried  in  the  Chapel  of 
St.  John's  Hospital"  1 

On  Certain  Bnglhk  SwmamtM,  and  their  (keanonal  Odd 
Phaiu,  ithtn  geen  in  Oroupt.  By  C.  L.  Lordan. 
(London,  Houlston ;  Komney,  Lordao.) 
The  name  of  Lordan  will  recall  to  the  mind  of  many 
persons  the  same  aathor*a  CoUof/ma  on  PoHry  and  PmU^ 
which  Mr.  Lordan,  who  ts  a  printer,  composed  at  once 
in  types»  without  written  copy.  This  singular  volume 
has  had  a  success  which  is  not  at  all  bevond  its  merits. 
The  present  work,  which  is  most  creditable  to  the  coin- 

Sller  s  own  press,  is  also  creditable  to  his  taste  and  in- 
ustry.  Some  singular  names  ore  to  be  found  in  these 
groups.  We  fail  to  find  "  Freshwater "  among  his 
**  Liquids/'  and  it  would  be  well  to  note  that  "Christ,'* 
ftfl  a  surname,  is  German,  and  means  **  Christian,'*  A 
great  deal  of  "  fun  "  may  be  got  out  of  some  of  the 
names.  The  Introduction,  "  On  Some  of  the  udd  Phases 
of  our  Surnames/*  ihows  liow  well-qoahfted  Mr*  Lor^n 
is  to  handle  this  subject,  and  that  he  can  be  as  much  a 
humourist  ss  a  scholar. 

Le  Cktwd  tt  30%  Cavalier,    Par  le  CoBite  J.  de  Lagoa- 

die.    2  vols. 
L€$  Chevaus  dm  Pur  Sana:  Phytionmnit  da  Eenritf  dts 

CouruM  Fran^aite*.     Far  le  Baron  d'litreillcs  (Ned 

Pearson), 
La  Pluit  et  le  Biau  Tempt. 
L* Aquarium  d'Eatt  DouUt  d'Eau  d*  Met.     Par  Jules 

Pixsetta.  (Paris,  Rothschild.) 
This  is,  in  many  respects,  a  canons  collection  of  French 
books.  Three  out  of  the  four  works  show  how  U  wport 
is  progressing  in  France,  and  how  it  is  lending,  if  not 
permanently  adding,  new  words  to  the  French  language. 
Tlie  whole  are  eleganUy  got  up,  and  are  profnaelv  iUns- 
tmted  with  woodcuts.  In  the  first  two  works  there  !• 
much  interesting  information  about  the  hone  and  hti 
rider,  and  useful  instructions  as  to  riding.  The  volume 
on  Bain  and  Fine  Weather  recommends  itself  by  its 
simplicity  of  treatment  to  every  class  of  readers.  The 
Aqnari^tm  is,  perhaps,  likely  to  be  the  most  popnlar.  U 
is  exce&tively  interesting.  On  this  side  of  the  Straits  of 
Dover  a  young  student  may  at  once,  by  the  use  of  this 
pretty  book^  improve  himself  in  French  and  NatumI 
History. 

English  School  Clamet,  edited  by  Fr&iicis  Storr,  B.A., 
Assistant-Master  at  Marlborough  College  (Rtvingtons). 
The  following  are  now  before  us : — SimpU  Poims,  which 
includes  well-known  specimens  from  various  authors; 
Sdections  front  Wordtworth;  the  First  Book  of  Tkt 
Excurnon:  The  Wanderer;  Thomson's  Se^toiu! 
Winier;  Baoon^s  Eaayi,  and  Paradiie  Lott  (Books 
I.  and  II.  J,  edited  respectively  by  Messcv  ^vK^axa^ 
Turner,  Bnght^  und  StQTT.    W  \i  ^i^i  tMb«s«Mun  ^  ^^ 


200 


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3 


UiAtthe  marilof  Uli^iiriMl^lHpMntiimcd  m  the 
rolumefl  enumeraiid  ftbore.  Wr  lAn  olt^  wish  Mr.  Storr 
aU  the  tuecefiB  that  bis  o Sorts  deserve.  Sdectioiis  from 
the  Spectator  and  Burnf'a  J^oems  ure  pnmmcd.  From 
Meurs.  Rlriniftoii  aJjo  come  A  Book  qf  Metrical 
Litanies  and  A  Book  of  LiUtmes,  M«ir\cctl  and  Prou, 
with  an  Eveninr;  S^rri^,  which  are  well  adapted  to 
the  Seasons  of  the  Church.  Sonm  of  Many  Seaiom 
(Pickering)  is  the  title  of  a  §Tn&ll  volume  of  poemSi 
whichj  embmcing  Kome  that  have  already  appeared  in 
The  P«oplt*t  Magazine  and  in  Evening  Bourt,  C.  H.  has 
done  well  In  putting  with  others  into  a  collected  form. 
The  following  lines  occur  in  From  Jtnisahm  to  Emma  v^  : 
'<0h,  itmnKC,  sweet  journey  !  Is  it  thus,  dear  Lord» 
That  troubled  wanderers  throujgb  earth's  psjasing  day, 
Seeking,  yet  doubting  still  Thy  saving  word, 
Are  found  by  The©  upon  their  sorrowing  way  1 " 

"Tehple  Bail,'*  in  an  article  called  ''Bought  and 
Sold  in  the  Last  Century,"  has  a  sample  worth  qtioting 
of  the  journalistic  style  of  the  period*  A  newspaper, 
after  noting  the  death  of  Eowe^  the  Poet- Laureate,  in 
1718,  adds : — *'  He  is  to  be  interred  in  Westminster 
Abbey,  where  Cowley,  Chaucer,  Ben  Joneon,  and  the 
rest  of  thoee  people  lie.'' 

"  MACMiLUiir's  MAOASiim*'  will  flutter  the  Shak- 
Bpeariatis.  *'  Who  Wrote  our  Old  Plays?"  is  the  title  of 
a  learned  and  elaborate  paper  by  Mr.  Fleay,  in  which 
Im  ftstigns  a  great  part  of  Henrtf  V/II,  to  Fletcher. 
€SfmheUn€  is  believed  to  have  been  written  at  periods 
Wide  apart,  as  the  word  "  Posthumus  is  di£Ferently 
accented.  **Pdsthumua"  and  **Po«th6mua"  But  so 
is  *'  BuiislntLiie  "  in  Macbtth  ;  aad  ]>rydei&  makes  the  hero 
of  his  tragedy,  Cleom^oea  and  ClMmSnes  indifferetitly, 
but  without  le&diDg  to  tba  eoneluiton  that  the  drama 
was  compoied  at  two  jwrfods. 


JDr.  Chahlis  MACEAt  is  preparine  a  work  for  pub- 
lication, to  be  issued  as  soon  as  a  aufllciieat  number  of 
SDbflcribers  is  obtainedt  entitled  The  O attic  Etymohgp  of 
tkt  I^tmqmiaffet  o/  Wuitm  Murope,  and  more  eupccuititf 
pf  the  Enatiik  ai^d  Lowland  *^cotcK^  ami  t/uw  Canif 
Slunfft  and  Coltoquial  Dialectt.  The  work  will  bear 
thia  sirntlicant  epigraph :— '*  Without  a  considerable 
knowledge  of  Oaelic  no  person  can  make  any  real  pro- 
ficiency iu  Philology* — Dr»  J/wrray,  Proftstm-  of  Oritntal 
Lang^i^agu,  Bdinmirgh.**  Dr.  Mackay  demands  in  the 
Prospectus  of  this  work  due  recognition  of  the  ma- 
ternal cluiracter  of  Gaelic,  as,  to  a  large  extent,  the  source 
of  Greek,  Latin,  Italian,  French,  Spanish,  and  eepecially 
of  the  English.  He  traces  its  rise  from  the  far  East, 
and  claims  for  it  a  greater  antiquity  than  any  InagUAge 
now  spoken  m  Europe.  It  is  not  liaely  that  subscribers 
will  be  wantinir  for  a  work  like  this  by  a  scholar  so  com- 
petent as  Dr*  Mackay. 

Great  ^ames  excite  sufficient  respect  to  authorize  us 
in  noticing  that  a  descendant  of  the  Comnenl  who 
reigned  at  Constantinople  ha^  distinguished  herself  at 
an  educational  examination  at  Aix*  This  young  hidy 
^^Colorab  de  Comneno — is  only  sixteen  yean  old. 

Dtma^it  Cathsdkal. — In  reference  to  a  pangiapb  in 
"N*  k  Q.,"  6"«  8.  ii.  ISO,  J.  T,  F.  states  positively  that 
the  skeleton  there  described  as  that  of  a  woman  wag, 
when  carefully  examined  by  Professor  Rolleaton  and 
others,  pronounced  to  be  that  of  a  boy,  a^ed  about  twelve 
or  thirteen  years;  The  local  eeerelanes  of  the  Society 
of  Antiquaries  are  prefNuing  a  full  account  of  all  the 
reoent  discoveries,  and  it  would  be  a  pity  to  forestall  that 
by  any  further  remarks. 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     V0LUMB8 

WA2STED  TO  PURCHASR 
FaKIcuIaii  or  iMoe,  hn.,  ot  etvfr  bodk  to  bt  Bisil  dtreoA  U.  -^^, 
pentoa  bjr  nrhoia  »  li  ni«iilr«d.  «buit  uaot  aod  a<Mt«M  u^  0?^ 
for  th*t  purptwe  :— 
Nicriou>*a  Bflaiotb«««  T^pocnplUea  BMIanaicai   V^  ▼II^  m  Wm 

WftDled  by  W,  ii.  Demode  hkuh^^  if^  CvmXtf  Ifcta4.  OlJM* 


^atftrtf  to  Cotrc4{ranirritU« 

G.  P,  B.  (p.  167.  afit«K— See  *'  N.  A:  o     '  '-  ^   - 
433,  450).     Mr.  Nobuati,  at  the  la^t 
that  the  earliest  mruiion  of  the  mtxiic^ 
factors  occurs  in  the  apocryphal  Gospel  oT  ZVictJ 
otheririse  culled   The  Acta  of  Pilate;   they  arc 
called  Dysmari  and  Gestaa. 

W.  B.— We  cannot  find  room  for  4hia  Ic 
munication,  but,  if  the  writer  pI«Bf«a,  we  ^ 
It  to  the  gonttoman  to  whose  jocose  paper  it  ia  i 
as  a  reply.    Our  own  wisli  is  not  to  carry  the  jjoke  any 
further. 

Clkf.— "  Hope  told  a  flattering  tale."  The  words  of 
this  ballad  arc  by  "  Peter  Pindar"  (Dr.  Wulcot).  Tb 
music  of  Pray  Good^f  was  published  ae  Dr.  Anie%  \ 
it  has  l»een  repeatedly  claimed  as  Rouseau'g. 

J-  P,  M.— The  after-piece,  77k:  Camji,  was  nmee  ^ 
lished  in  Sheridan^a collected  works;  but  Moore  sfcowl^J 
in  Thf.  Lift  o/  Sheridan^  that  it  waa  by  TickeU. 

Mr.  TRtriLovE  states  that  it  waa  not  he,  bot  (M 
Kickman,  whom  he  was  quoting,  who  examitscKl  the  bo4f^ 
of  the  GbeTalier  d'Bon. 

J.  C.  P.— See  Murray's  Handbook  for  ^cmtrMl,  Car 
the  legend  of  Darrell  of  Littlecots,  and  for  half'«'daMa 
references  to  other  authorities. 

W.  J.  M.-"  Sleeps  like  a  top  '*  has  its  emurtlent^  no* 
only  in  the  Italian  **  Donne  come  nn  topo,  but  sjiso  hi 
the  French  '*  U  dort  coumie  un  taupe,''  or  donnoiui^ 

J.  E.  P.  L.— We  cannot  help  in  ^e  matter  of  Oe«t|e 
IV.*s  amours,  or  of  his  pecuniary  doings  with  Jews* 

J,    W.  W,— An  application   to  Mr.  R liinailf 

would,  no  doubts  receiTe  a  courteous  reply. 

LocKWooD  k  Co.— See  p.  ^3  of  the  last  t«liuiie  flf 

H.  H.— The  book  is  nntntstworthy  in  every  itite' 
ment. 
G.  A.  8. — Our  best  thanks  for  your  thoughtful  kindtieis. 
Q.— Epitaph  in  Sidbury  Church.     See  ante,  88,  Ifll 
B.  k  Co.—"  Every  kind  of  f«^te  "  is  the  corroci  fons< 
K.  P.  D,  E.— Forwarded  to  51r.  Thoma. 
S.  M.— D.  S.  P*  =  Decepsit  sine  prole, 

Nov confirms  rather  than  refutes. 

Akqlo-Scotus.— Next  week. 
CmTTiuj»Rooo,— Next  week« 

NOTICE. 

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Editor "' — Advertisements  and  Business  Letters  to 
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London,  W.C. 

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muuications  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  notpcint ;  and 
to  this  nde  we  oau  make  no  exception. 

To  all  communications  should  be  affixed  Uu  natuf  Rnd 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  rrWifttknij  biU 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faiUu 


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CONTENTS.— N-  37. 


}— f^coenl  Fox  on  Chftrlei  JAmei  Foi  And  ffolUnd 
jpcariuift,  203 -'An  OlH  Claricftl  Anecdote-- 
9(N— Tmnvlt  o(  Vcnw— Oliver  LYomwcll'a   Ilc*fl 
0otiie.    LeicMler    Fieldi  —  "Montiear*    &Dd 
i«"— Th«  Antbonhip  of   ^'Anld  fiobijt  Gr»T  " — 
»   oon  LuoeiuiOt"  :i06^**D«fetid«tr  of  Lbe  F&ltb" — 
"flUMUfH*  *&d  "St«lUag**^TIiomu  Campbell^**  Sconce/' 


QJDSEIES  :~IniiSO  Jonci  Mid  PhlUp,  Enxl  of  rembroke-- 
Md,  207— "Prl¥*t«  History  of  the  Court  of  EngUnd  ■*— 
BMI  JontoQ,  Jan. — The  Blue  Plonrer  of  GbaxeeiKire  —  Two 
CHudbct  in  Od«  CbarcbyMd^  toe— Bev.  Ur.  Singleton^  of 
Sl^by— Fletdin^'i  Proverb*— Oil  PikiJitinf— Old  encr&vin^— 
SdnntiN)  Blount— Six  ATtUurGoTfe--Plnicy—**  Iron  Virgin," 
9iii«Dlieig— J«ioc«  Mh|«I*oo,  Abp.  of  Annagb^  S0O. 

EEPLIES ;— Domingo  (Tootftlcs,  90ia— Bob«rt«on  Funllj- Tbe 
Ulaad  Iri«— Privy  CVouncll  Jiiit|ia«ata :  Liddttll  r  We«- 
latoo.  01-"  Worming"  for  GuiiA«  B«bLes»  212—"  Touch 
boi  tli«  CS*t"— Btmy&n't  ImlUton— Bytand  Abbey  — Epi- 
Mml  Q««7— TbouiM  Wentworth— "  The  Bir^r*  Neat  "^— 
**  wlQr  **  at  Kti  Expletive,  21S— Lettera  by  "  An  English  mua  " 
— €li«kii«ea4d«n  —  "  Rei^Uon  of  EnglAnd  "  -^  Fly-Le&f  In- 
»'«  Bmrt  At  Str»Uord.  214—**  God  blei« 
crk  "  —  a«tTiiifK3oDBtlng  —  Ittbel  and  EUfAbeth  — 
PWMte— **OUi  T'—'' "  »'-tl flection*."  ns-"  Diphthong  " 
—Ml*-  S«tT«ft— v>  ird— Arbitrary  of^  Conventional 

Woi4'l^raialir>T  (  an ning— Stogie  ^e-Qlasiif's — 

ZlAJtt.    ?^-*  ^^i'''  — Rev.    8.   CUrkc— The 

Jvdfei  •!  ir  bi«  envy  "  — Self ing 

Oospicafi^  1  fiction,  217—**  Wljieafler 

tta  KvBUV   —    ^.»M  <  ^j*^   ^    ul^ke  a  bri<ttfe  of  gold  for 
m  lariDf  enemy  "»J>r.  JJw'i  Magic  MifTor»  SI& 

Vote  OB  Books,  ^c 


OB!rBEAL  FOX  OX  OHABLES  JAMES  FOX  AND 
HOLLAND  HOUSE. 

the  unpublished  correspondence  of  Leigh 

tnl  io  my  hnndfi  lofit  year  by  Thornton 

kiir  '  !  letters  from  the  bte  Genenil 

\h  Hunt  se€ms  to  have  submit t4?d 

hi-  MMi  *<JT  on  Hollaiod  House,  about  to 

in  Jlowtfhold   l^ord.i  (voL  Lx.),  and  sub- 

ally  re-issuc-ti^  in  book  fonii,  tis  Tfu  Old  Cmirt 

Hth. 

Of  the  thr€<?  moat  important  letters  I  »end  yoii 

nfi    any    p<irticulai9    reapecting    Holland 

,  and  any  records  of  tiic  life  and  death  of 

Jiioies  Fox,  from  the  pen  of  one  of  his 

en,  :ir<>  of  interest  to  Englishmen,  whether 

a*  to    nmtters  of  fkct  or    merely   Ibiully 

lltion#. 

'  les  in  Household   Words 

;j  and  to  Tfie  Old  Court 

ill    ijow  i^ig\i  Hunt's  littention  to  many 

1  Fox'a  memoranda  in  the  first  of  the.^ 

It  10  fttnnge,  however,  thitt  eume  of  the 

•  aoggeatwl  were   not  adopted  in  any 

ihe  book,  if,  as  it  is  rcry  probable  was 

■H,  ihej  were  received  too  late  to  bo  of  u^e 

^mMkold    W^ord*.    But  it  is   possible   that 

Hufitf  who  wafl  most  poijistakiiig  in  his  e&r 


deavoiir»  to  be  accurate,  or,  as  his  son  Thornton 
better  puts  it,  "a  very  conscientious  M'orkmnn, 
who  would  state  nothing  that  he  had  not  veriHed  " 
(Corrutpandence  of  Leigh  Bunt,  vol  iL,  p.  168), 
had  good  reason  for  distruHting  even  eo  high  an 
autliorlty  in  mich  matters  us  the  General  may  be 
considered ; — 

"  St.  Leonards  on  Sea,  39  Jumai7, 1854. 

"  Dear  Sir,— I  regret  that^  being  abaent  from  home 
vi siting,  I  did  not  get  your  letter  till  I  returned  last 
night.  1  return  it  by  this  post,  aa  you  are  in  inch 
husie  for  it. 

''  I  have  made  a  few  pencil  memoranda^  bat  hare  not 
been  able  to  make  a  proper  revioicnL  There  are  leveral 
orrori  in  the  local  deccriDtion.  There  are  no  old 
Garden!  and  Fbwer  Beds,  want  there  are  were  made  br 
njy  mother.  There  ia  do  expiatory  altar  to  Lord  Camel- 
ford.  There  was  a  little  antique  AUar  pkced  on  the 
spot  where  ho  fell,  at  one  time,  but  it  haa  ditappeared 
for  3(>  ^ears.  I  am  not  aware  of  any  pic^turea  of 
Alighien  or  of  Ciesar  Borgia.  There  are  mmiatiirei  of 
Aitieri  aad  his  wife^  the  Duchess  of  Albany,  and  one  of 
Kobespierre.  The  latter  was  bequeathed  to  my  father 
by  the  late  I^ord  Lansdowne.  The  portr^ts  of  Sterna 
and  Gar  rick  arc  no  longer  at  H.  House.  Mr.  Fox  was 
at  lea^t  IS  or  19,  and  his  Aunts  23  or  2i,  when  the  large 
picture  of  tbeui  by  Itevnolds  was  paint^L 

"At  p-  5  you  give  a  Ii*t  of  lodgers  in  U.  H.  I  ncTcr 
heard  of  these,  but  I  conclude  you  have  some  autliority. 

"  P»  6.— The  present  L*>rd  Kensington  is  a  very  worthy 
man  and  a  captain  in  the  Navy  ;  and,  though,  of  course, 
it  re  n  J  aim  with  you  to  act  as  you  like,  1  think  the  ex- 
pression of  more  dLBtinguished  Hace  might  as  well  be 
omitted. 

'*  1  hope  ymi  will  forgive  the  freedom  with  which  I 
have  mud      '  U:a, 

*'  Vutjr  ritainsj  I  beUeye,  all  that  can  be 

li^leaned  l<  nd  House, aad  will,  I  have  Qodoubt, 

amuse  tbt:  readcra  of  Houuhold  Words, 

"  I  thall  try  to  see  you  when  I  rotom  with  Lady 
Mary  to  Addison  lload*  k  regret  to  hear  of  your  having 
been  so  unwelL 

**  In  haste,  very  truly  yours,  C  Fojl 

''  In  my  Father's  time  the  Library  was  ^fUUd  over  the 
bookcases  with  portraits  of  politi(»l,  literary,  and  pri* 
rate  friends,  and  aUo  Family  Portraits,  now  chiefly 
remoyed  to  other  rooms,  and  some  left  away  to  Friends 
by  my  Mpther.  There  were  portraits  of  Canning,  Sir 
K.  Walpole,  J.  H.  Frere,  Lord  Darnley,  Drydon, 
Addison,  Lord  Th&eet,  Krskine,  Eomilly,  Francis,  Lord 
Essex,  D.  of  Bedford^  Moere,  Kogen,  Grabbe,  and  many 
more- 

"In  the  Drafring  Eoom  there  is  a  fine  portrait  of 
Talleyrand  by  Sc belter,  and  one  of  Napoleon  at  Fontaine- 
bleau,  by  Gerard. 

"  To  Leigh  Hunt,  Esq^J* 

•*St.  Leonards,  3  Fehry.  1854. 

"  Dear  Sir,— I  return  the  proof  theeta  I  have  acribWed 
some  memoranda, 

"  My  father  did  not  die  of  Dropsy  but  of  Gout  in  the 
Stomach-  He  had  n»t  a  very  strong  coostitution,  and 
had  fits  of  Oout  from  rery  early  life,  augmented  by  leaving 
off  exercise  after  his  marriage.  He  was  before  a  very 
eager  Sportsman  when  iM  had  the  opportunity,  &  tifl 
within  20  years  of  his  death  tited  to  fish  whfr-  - '  »  -1 
an  opportunity,  and  also  play  at  tennis  at  V  ,1 

London ,  of  w  hich  he  was  devotedly  fond ,  aa  >v . 
though  neither  of  them  *rreat  performers.    It  wii^  vjrj 
comical  to  aee  Mr,  Fom,  I  ha^^  V»ks4^  ^Xa.Yo^^^'^^^ 


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fat  figure  ftnd  f!&nnel  drtss,  &c.,  yet  very  acttve.   George 
Selwyn,  w  you  tuY,  wm  &  great  Iriend  of  Hftirj*  Fox. 

'*  George  8.  bad  a  strange  (but  not  uncommon)  paiuion 
for  Meiog  dead  bodirt,  especially  thc*«fl  of  hi«  friendj'. 
He  wouJd  go  any  dietance  to  gratify  this  pursuit  Lord 
^Hollfind  was  laid  up  very  ill  at  H.  H.  shortly  before  his 
deatli.  George  Selwyn  sent  to  ask  how  he  w«s,  and 
whether  he  would  like  to  tee  htm.  Lord  Holland 
aiujTsered,  *  Oh,  by  all  means ;  if  I  am  alirc  to  roorrow  I 
«liali  be  delighted  to  see  George,  and  /  imow  that  if  I  am 
dead  be  will  bo  delighted  to  see  me  ! ' 

"  I  never  heard  of  the  Ejiitaph  you  allude  to  of  my 
Pfcther. 

"  Youra  iincorely, 

"To  Leigh  Hunt,  Esq..  "C.  Fox. 

"  7,  Cornwall  Terrace,  Hammersmith/* 

With  respect  to  the  second  letter,  it  will  be  ^een 

that  I*ei|^'li  Hunt  uses  the  epii^nmnifilie  message  of 

Lord  Holland  to  George  .Sclwyn  from  his  Ueath- 

ted  ;  but  of  the  other  corrigenda,  mnny  were  in- 

J  advertently  or    intentiomiily  wmitted    by  Leiirh 

(•Hunt.     For  in  eta  nee,  in  IIouMthofd  IVordi  and  in 

^The  Old  Court  SHhnrh  the  cnma  of  Chariot  Jiunea 

[Fox's  death  remains  *' dropsy"  (p.  171,  Grd  edit.), 

J  and  his  **  strong  constitution'-  is  still  referred  tt>. 

On  the.se  pjinta  Lei^^h  Hunt  ccrUiinly  hnd  better 

^  ftiithoritjthan  the  Genend.    Lord  (Vilchester,  tlien 

'  Mn  Charles  Abbot,  and  .'is  Speaker  of  the  House 

of  Commons  likely  to  be  well  mfonned,  stated  that 

Ton  Monday,  March  3lst,  IM^G^  Mr.  Fox  was  taken 

^111  in  the  House  of  CommonK.     He  adds  "  to-day " 

(Wednesday,  April  2n(i),  **  Cline,  who  had  been 

called  in  as  a  surgeon,  entertained  ti   very  l>ad 

opinion  of  his  case*  ,  *  .  His  lega  swellint^  at  night 

and  not  recovering  their  natural  toize  in  the  morning ; 

and  general  symptoms  appearing  of  a  dropsicsd 

habit ^'  (Diarif  and  Co7'res2}ondinicj\  vol.  li.  p.  48), 

On  the  day  folh>wing  this  entry  Mr.  Fox  was  in 

his  place  in  the  House  of  Commons  as  Foreign 

Secretary,  and  continued  to  attend  j-e^ularly  until 

June  19th,  when  he  drank  tea  with  the  Speaker^ 

who  records  it  liS  "  the  hi^t,  or  very  nearly  the  Iji^t, 

time  of  Mr.  Fox  attendin|f  the  House  of  Commons" 

ilhuL  p.  71).    Lord  Erskine  informed  the  Speaker 

on  the  27th  of  June  that  JVfr.  Fox^a  complaint 

**  wuA  not  dropsy  ,  .  ,  .  but  hydropicid  symptoms  " 

{Thitl.  p.  73).     On    the    following   evening,  Dth. 

Baillie,  Moseley,  and  Vaughan  had  u  consultation* 

and  Mr.  Abbot  describes  hia  state  *4o  be  that  of 

an  actual  formation  of  water  in  the  chest ;  the 

mass  of  his  blood   broken  and   debilitated ;    no 

regular  secretion  of  the  kidneys  ;  and  the  stronge^it 

^medicines  for  expelling  the  wati^r  have  failed.    His 

I  Btate  of  body  is  also  such  as  to  render  it  impossible 

^  to  give  vent  to  the  water  in  his  legs  for  fear  of 

'ttWitiitcation,  ....  Lord  Grenville  had  leen  him 

yijilerduy  in  good  spirir:!?^  hut  w^as  not  aware  of  the 

progress  of  his  iUne^a  to  the  extent  that  I  related  " 

(p.   74).     Lord  Holland,  in  his  Mevioin  of  the 

r  nhig  Party,  vol.  I  p.  265,  says  that  Fox  was 

'  tapped  '*  for  his  complainf  on  the  7th  of  August. 

flc  was  then  at  Godolphiu  HQUae,  Stable  Yam  (on 


the  Site  of  which  stands  Stafford  House),  and  bow 

the  operation  patiently,  whilst  his  Lcm  '  '  dj 

aloud  the  eighth  book  of  VirgiL     Oii 

Sept^ud>er,    when  at  Chiswick    Hou^,   u» 

*' tapped"   for  the  second  and   last    time 

twelve  days  after,  naraely>  on  the  13Lh 

month,  he  died — of  "  dropsy,"  aa  the  two  opei 

of  "tapping'*  fiufficiently  prove,  and  aa  all' 

jiiemoirs,  diaries,  and  corresfxindences  wdiich  t^taJ 

of  that  period  unequivocally  stat*?  ;    aiJ  tbr^-ti 

many  of  them — notably  Lord  C 

not  been  published  when  Leigh 

may  be  fiurly  assumed  that  Leigli 

in  rejecting  his  correspondents 

though  that  correspondent  was  a  sod  iji 

I  should  mention,  on  the  other  hand,  >- 

supporting  General  Fox's  view,  that  L" 

Kav;!,  early  in  June  Fox  was  at  tricked  wit 

at  ism  in  the  thighs  *"  {Manoin  of  ' '     ' ' 

vol.  i.  p,  '240)  ;  and  the  Annual  L 

\\  ni2,  makes  Fox  say  to  a  frieriu,      x  i 

liiiuk  my  complaint  not  unlike  Pitt*s  ;  my 

has  been  long  discompoaed,  and  I  feel  my  «»• 

stituLion  dissolving."    Again,  Wraxall  {HiMmmi 

^f^mo^^»^  vol.  ii.,  p.  14)  says,  *'  \is  rnrlv  i^  1 7>i  Mr. 

Fox  was  already  attacked  wit ' 

of  the  bowels  and  stomach  at ti 

Sir  Nath:miel  wrote  this  in  1813,  about  v^vvajmn 

after  Fox's  death,  and  by  the  tisc  of  th«  irPBi 

"already  ^' implies  that  it  was  un  aifcction  of  ihf 

"stomach  and  bowels"  which  pr*>Tpd  fntfiL 

As  regards  the  General's 
Hunt's  reference  to  Fox's  "^i 
is  really  frivolous,  if  not  actujuiy 
own  mention  of  Fox's   playing 
authorities  testify  to  Fox's  f  ' ' 
stamina ;  agreeing  with  Wnix  i 
had  conferred   on   him   a  coij.^l^lulm.i 
capable  of  prodigious  exertion." 

"Addison  Road.  "'  ^r, 

'*  Dear  Sir,—!  take  blame  to  mysst : 
written  before^  but  the  fact  ia  that  I 
the  liwit  day  or  tiro  been  able  to  read  y-  ux  ua 
11.  IJ.  with  Attention,     1  hare  now  done  iu,  and 
yuu  before  permitted  me^  point  out   a   few 
which,   though   not  very   important^   stilb   in  a  (o 
graphical  de«JrHptl<^n,  ought  to  be  c^rrecft  d.  I  •htniL 

"I  will  1  '  i"e  With  matt  ,y%i 

one:  yon  1  House  is  j 

myself  dit!  u,  and  If! 

people  will  ttl6»>.     The  South  Froiitj  ly 
East  Entrance,  and  tlie  whole  pile,  1 
some  of  its  eort,  hut  this  is  rr  :  ' 
When  yt>u  stftte  that  except  a 
nothing  Micioiit,  I  think  you  for.. 
and  paintfit  in  Jame*  the  Firat's  tiuio. 

"  The  Targ«  Elm  Tree  is  not  on  the  Lawn  or  on 
— it  is  lurrouudcd  bv  hieh  T'^-  -^  '  •  -  *  i  -.  ~  i  , 
SJoulh.  nut  the  Wesl    Tin  1 

3  ttidcB,  X<,  E.,  and  West,  •  l  i 

tmmo  the  open  undulating  i;ruuxid,  a^id  ir,  c^iivU 
thttn  Lane, 

"  Lord  Cametford  did  not  gire  the  roiuKin  you  atatt. 
nlw^yt  hare  henrd  that  ho  f^uarrdled  with  mr.  Vk<A  f^l 


tit  In 


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r  Winj^  ft  celebrated  aliot  would  not  decline  fighilng). 

Mu.   h^    «r..,.,r    L„t   ttiia  [is]  iv^hftfc  I  Ueard.     Lord 

II  ID  the  Kary,  and  went  rtmml 

iser  when  yottti^.  who  was  a  very 

_^o_Hii jcr.  tMii^l  wlijm  Lord  C,  I  liaTc  heard,  horao- 

years  aftennr;irda.      Lord  C.   himself    wad    a 

J  taut  hand  whtri  he  cotnmfttided  a  ship. 

r**I  WM  a  Mtdihipmun  ia  1811,  with  G&ptain  Stewart^ 

Uie    Seahorse    Frigate,  who  had   gone  round   the 

with  Lord  €.,  and  was  much  attached  to  him. 

i«  however,  wa/I, 

Tdo  not  k&ow  which  watAhewQ  yoa  u  Charles  Fox*a 

oom" 

*  Hij  Father'*,  X  thinks  I  ihewod  you,  ou  the  ground 
or 

f'*  I  neTer  heard  the  ftory  of  Champagne  for  Slieridftji, 
ynntljer  u*ed  to  order  a  aervant  to  open  the  door 
Treqtiently  durinsr  ^he  nightj  aa  Sh*  had  a 
\>\ng  BraiiJy  at  hia  bedside. 
^i'A  excuae  all  detail. 

**  Very  truly  you rt,      C.  Fox. 
'To  Leigh  Hunt,  Esq™,  Hammersmith." 

^  Of  the  several  emendations  in  this  third  letter, 

i\^h  Hunt  seems  to  have  used  but  few.  Probubly 

.  the  matters  to  which  they  refer  are  accurately 

aled   in  the  Princess  Liechtenstein's  recently- 

iblished  account  of  Holland  House,  which  I  have 

seen*     If,  otherwise,  possessors  of  that  book 

.^r,   bv  help  of  "  N.  *Sc  Q.,"  correct  it  on  the 

Ithorify  of  General  Fox  ;  who,  however,  in  writ- 

to  Leigh  Hunt  on  the  17th  of  July^  1855,  to 

knowledge   the  first  volume  of  Tfu  Old  Court 

Ubnrb^  deciared   hiH  own  unused  corrections  to 

'  nut  of  mnch  consequence.** 

S.  K.  T0WX8HKND  Mayer. 
Richmond,  Surrey, 


SUAKSPEAElANi. 

[The  earliest  copy  of  a  play  shows,  of  a  particiular 
Kt.ii  r<  .tdin^  which  the  next  copy  deserts.    Every 
'   copv,  edited  or  uneditetl,  down  to  the 
y  and  hour,  chiming  in  with  the  desertion. 
^Ueiuatid   the  restored  reading  of  the  earliest 

be  opening  of  the  Fourth  Scene  of  the  First 

in  Shaks^peitre's  tm^edy  of  Ma4:bdh  gives  birth 

it  appeal.     1  copy  from  the  page  of 

I  dilating  editors,  18Gj  (that  earliest 

jiiUfi^'  r  vrr[,rt«i),  the  universally  current  reading: 

'  Dnftcnn.  li  execution  done  on  Cawdor?  Are  not 
br>«"e  ifi  comtniuioQ  yet  retum'd  ? 
Moladm,  '  My  liege, 

I  They  are  not  yet  conxe  back*     But  I  have  spoke 
ritU  one  thnt  saw  him  die." 

rhilsi  in  the  Folio,  1623,  the  authority  for  the 
'»y,  the   Kin^^'s  twofold  questioning  lies  before 
mis- measured,    but,    I    dare    avouch,    well- 
[iexl,  iu— 

•*  !•  execution  dome  on  Ca  vdor  t 
Ur  uot  thti*e  in  commiMlon  yet  retum'd  T' 

rjvering,  in  the  cuiTent   reiiding,   with  the 
HUOiliMtiable  rectification  of  the  measure,  the 


more  than  questionable  nmtation  of  a  word — for 
"Or  not/'  ^'Are  not/' 

The  metrical  order  set  straight,  therefore,  and 
the  old  wording  recovered,  we  shall  have,  for  the 
right  rejiding  of  the  Kings  two  questions  ; — 
•♦  I«  execution  done  on  Cawdor  ?    Or  not 
Those  in  commiaaion  yet  returned  I  *' 

I  tmnshite^  in  hirge  paraphrfise,  the  imi>ort,  as  I 
receive  it,  of  the  cited  question  and  answer,  after 
the  so  resusci tilted  text  of  the  first  Folio.  The 
King  asks : — 
"  The  ientence  pronounced  on  Cawdor,  is  it  executed  .' 
**  Or  does  it  happen  that,  thoae  to  whom  the  overBight 
of  the  business  was  committed  not  being  returned,  you 
cumiot  yet  reply  to  my  inqtiiry  ?  " 

To  which  the  Prince  exactly  makes  answer : — 
"  The  commisdoTiers  are,  indeedi  not  yet  returned,  hut 
1   am  able,  nutwitljMUnding,   to  satisfy  your  inquiry, 
having  ipoken  with  one  who  was  preaent  at  the  death'" 

A  lof^ical  chain  of  four  sound  links,  whicb  in  the 
established  reading  we  miss. 

I  own,  in  the  King's  second  question  so  given, 
to  a  harshness,  in  the  ellipsis  of  the  mere  con- 
struction ;  froru  *^  in "  of  the  first  c|uestion,  you 
having  to  infer  "  are  "  to  the  second  t^ 

"  Or  (arc)  not  tho«e." 
But  this  harshness  of  the  brevity  proper  to  verse 
is  miide  good  to  your  ear  by  the  energy  crowded  in 
on  every  side  to  the  elocution  of  the  small  subject 
fought  over—**  Or,"' 

Yon  have  lo«>ked  upon  it — interpreting  it — as  a 
grammarian.     Look  on  it  now  as  n  prosodist. 

L  Of  the  five  syllables,  carriers  of  the  metrical 
emphasis,  it  is  the  closing  fifth. 

Lord  Monboddo  coiiimenting,  a  hundred  years 
ago,  on  the  precept  of  the  Greek  critic,  Dionysius 
of  Halicarnassus,  that  you  .shall  procure  U}  yofU' 
verse  a  grace  of  simulated  prose,  by  not  letting  the 
verse  and  the  sen.^e  end  toj^ether  {exam pled  in 
verse  after  ver^e  of  tlie  FanuliM  Lost)^  opportunely 
asks,  What  sliall  protect  the  verse  from  going  a 
step  beyond  the  intention,  and,  in  courting  a 
fiavour  of  prose,  becoming  prose  ?  His  answer  is 
a  lesson  of  high  aiguificauce  and  of  high  con- 
sequences. **  Lfjok,''  he  says,  **  and  you  will  find 
that  the  veree  from  which  the  sense  m  runs  over 
ends  in  a  word  of  marked  emplmsis.  Such  a  word 
naturally  draws  after  it  a  momentary  pause ;  this 
intercepts  between  verse  and  verse,  and  shuts  up 
the  antecedent  verse,  safe  in  its  musical  unity/* 
These  are  not  precisely  his  words,  but  this,  in  e fleet, 
is  critically  his  instruction ;  valid  just  now  for  us, 
allowing  us  **  Or"  set  in  a  place  of  power. 

2,  The  ciesuni  falls  in  this  tirst  verse  in  the  ninth 
interval,  setting  ofi  our  two  little  terminal  mono- 
syllables, cfainted  together  for  the  sequent  hemi- 
siich,  to  Imld  good  the  retj^ired  metrical  replication 
to  the  nine  syllables  of  the  prior,  mnintiuning  the 
equitable  l>alance  of  the  verse. 

You  may  think  that  m  ^V  \Xiva\  w^^oaL^scwj, 


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[5*''8.ILSoT.l«7* 


weight  on  a  mere  py^iejin  heail»  \inn\it  for  mn- 
Ltmning  it — a  tiny  di^vjunctive  conjunction.  But  it 
^mtist  bear  more  yet.  It  hiis  dmmAtic  meaning  and 
iTJoment.  It  is  a  king's  "  Or/*  who  inquires  into 
tbe  discharge,  by  bis  semints,  of  his  84?rTice.  Can 
he  he  informed,  or  must  he  longer  await  the 
ftssumnee  tbfit  his  ortler  given  has  tjiken  occom- 
|)Jishment  ? 

The  ttage  king  must  rule  bia  Toioe  to  h 
mesiaurable  pitch,  and  forbear  tPespoRsing  on  the 
ears  of  Ms  auditors;  but  three  aspects  these 
are  under  which  be  has  to  oonaider  in  one  the 
81^  of  his  altemAtLTe,  weighted  on  tbe  tongue 
accordingly. 

With  a  fourth  our  eloentionisti  are  familiar;  not, 
tluit  I  know  of,  our  metrists,  whose  art  it,  however, 
chanicteristically  concerns.  It  is  the  inlet  of  the 
vocaI  rise  and  fall  on  the  musical  scale — therefore, 
of  music  proj>er — into  the  poet's  making — say,  into 
bis  hearing — of  his  verse. 

In  thetse,  the  King's  ven»e»,  hovering  round  our 
ears,  I  understand  the  rise  (')  and  fall  ('),  for 
affected  to  the  more  significant  aryllables>  as  I  here 
note  them : — 

*'  Is  L'xeoijtion  dime  on  Ciwdor?    Or  nilt 
Thoflc  in  commimioii  jH  reiVLTudi" 
The  step  brings  int4>  conjparison,  one  with  another, 
themselves,    our    two     little    bemisticbal    mono- 
syllables^ the  musical  tone  filling  on  "  Or,^  and 
rising  on  "not": — 

The  royal  mind  entertains  two  thinkings :  one, 
that  regiirds  tl:e  ordered  act  of  justice  ;  one,  the 
return  of  the  miniatering  commissioners.  "Or" 
reflects  no  part  of  the  one,  or  of  the  other.  It 
stands  out  as  the  tie  between  tbe  two.  But  it 
reflects,  in  the  mind  of  the  speaker,  the  questioning 
which  of  the  two  rightly  conjectures  tbe  infonnation 
that  he  shall  receive  ;  therewitb,  a  state  of  tbe 
mind — doubt.  Thus  it  becomes  peculiarly  the 
pergonal,  or,  as  we  learn  to  tenn  it,  tbe  subjective 
element,  in  so  much  of  the  speaking  as  lies  under 
our  inquiiy.  To  this  purport  in  the  word,  I  bud 
an  accortiunt'e  in  tbe  deei^er  and  more  inward  tone 
of  the  grave  accent, 

"  Not "  is  all  otherwise.  It  is  a  part,  substantive 
and  commanding,  of  the  second  tbinkiug.  It  ii^ks 
the  question  with  rather  an  expcctittion  of  tbe 
affirmative  answer,  and  the  vivacity  of  tbe  rise  on 
tlie  ftcale  suits  it. 

One  ijuestion  yet  presses  itjeelf  on  me  for  answer; 
How  did  "  Or  '^  of  the  first  Folio  become  **  Arc  "  in 
,  Ibe  second  ? 

We  lind  ourselves  remanded  to  the  first  Folio 
and  its  reading. 

The  printer  of  the  second  has  before  him  not  our 
**  Or  not,''  invested  witli  tiignificance  and  with 
power  by  metrical  phtce  and  office,  but  our'* Or 
not  ^*  transplanted  from  the  end  to  the  beginning 
of  a  verse,  or  of  a  line  viewed  as  a  vctse,  and  in 


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the  removal  divested  of  the  -Iiruifictncc 
power  which  it  owed  to  the  j 

But  bow  did  tbe  meajjur.  iiroken 

I  can  imagine  but  one  answer.  Tbv  play  hi«, 
some  stage  between  the  pen  and  tbt  eye, 
transferred  from  copy  to  copy  by  the  voices  ¥vt 
myself,  in  so  many  of  these  plays  I  have  foand 
witness  of  tbis  i>erilous  trTinsfer,'that  I  hav«  pre- 
sumed it  of  all ;  and  have  rested  in  tbe  *unui*<r^ 
which  I  dhould  be  glad  to  have  conltnned  or 
proved,  of  the  usage  in  our  youthful  press  that 
read  the  copy  and  one  set  the  types.  Admit 
for  all  tbe  plays,  or  for  any  one  play,  so  widi 
as  you  admit  it  you  lift  tbe  punctuation  from  ti 
page.  It  is  the  oopyist'a  guess  of  a  meaning 
the  pauses  or  tones  of  bta  reader,  or  of  a  require 
ment  in  the  sense.  But  just  now  we  are  dealini 
with  only  a  com5equcntly  spoilt  lueaaure.  In  llii» 
way  tbe  reader,  in  our  instance,  has  read  our  tfn 
first  question  at  a  breath,  and  it  is^  acoofdindj, 
heard,  and,  by  an  unacanning  ear,  set  down  for  a 
\-erse  : — 

"Is  eieentioa  do  at  on  Cawdor  1** 
The  second,  similarly,  at  a  breatli,  and  h  if,  stmi- 
larly,  set  down  for  another  : — 

''  Or  those  in  commisBion  not  yet  rektm^d  V* 
So  treated,  the  interdependence  of  the  two  qocs- 
tions  vanishes,   and   the   temptation   of  infuidag 
a  clear  sense,  which  finds  its  own  att ruction  in  1)m 
occasion — 

"  Art  not  those  in  commisnoa  yet  retom^d  V" 
was  irresistible,  E&bm. 


Ay  Old  Clerical  A:xe<:t)ote,— 

**  Thcrfnr  this  arguroente  ri^cth  of  wrongo  undeftUn^ 
Inge,  m  the  Vicar  of  Trumpenton  umkr^tw.lt'   EH  Hi. 
lumjilizabataDi  [jitr].     When  he  red   t' 
P&ltne  l^t)day,  when  be  came  to  that  r 
and,  calleuig  the  churchwanJeii^  ut**, 

this  geare  miifte  be  amcttded.     I !  in  tbe 

hooke.     I  asauro  you,  if  any  L.  •  i  -  inOff* 

and  tee  it,  hee  wiU  have  the  bookt.    Thcitiore,  hj  mm 
a^iviae,  we  shall  scrape  it  out,  and  jml   in  odro  o«at 

townes  name,  Trumpington.  '*'^ *   •     l^maliinlMC- 

tani.'    They  conaentcd,  anii  -«  ha  ttukt- 

stoda  no  Grewo.'* — An  II  u^A/h//  aarf 

Trev€  iSulij€i:iu  (Straeborowe,  i^lti*},  ai^,  G  C;  t.  0  4  t. 

**  Grewe,**  t.f.  Greek,  here  denotes  any  for 
language.  Tbe  expreasion  "heathen  Cirfct** 
the  same  sense,  ia  its  successor.  F,  R* 

Mariesford, 

'*  H AL9E  "  =  Hazbl.  —  I    reeentl  v    h«!ard 
working  man  inform  another,  in  tli  »jI  kl» 

bad   put  a   new  ^aUc  handle   int:  luoitt'. 

After  some  inquiry,  and  with  the  tiiii  ol  ru  inU 
pretcr,  I  found  tluit  hnxti  wi\»  meant,  and  that^i 
at  least  lluit  part  of  Devonshire  which  skxif 
south-cast  of  Dartmoor,  the  prevalent  cqiu' 
for  ha7.eJ  wood  is  'aUen  ^ood^      Wii.  PEVai 

Torquay. 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES- 


SOS 


Tiussrr  or  Vkijits, — A  monumental  tablet  of 
lilliCe  marble,  in  the  form  of  a  scroll,  h  on  tbe  wal] 
of  Si,  MichAers-ia-the-Hamlot  Church,  nojir  Liver- 
pool,   l*f)on  it  there  la  the  following  inscription: — 

"  Vtrnu  in  tolt  vIm,  Xovember  24,  1639. 

In  Memory  of 

JniiiMr4fi  Hounox,  t-ne  of  the  greateit 

AftniDq-nierft  thta  KiDgiJom  eirer  prodQced 

Barn  in  Toxt«th  Park  in  1619 

Died  \U\  tged  22 

HJi  obMmiioDS  were  matle  at  Boo  tie 

8  milea  from  Preston  where 

He  prwKcted  And  wia  the  firnt  perflon 

Who  nw  the  tmtittt  of  Venus  over  th« 

Sao 

Tbit  memorial  wae  erected  hj 

M.  UolJea  Afttn^oomer 

A.I>.  1826." 

M,  C,  J. 

Oliver  Cromwkix's  Hrad.— Thronjjh  the  York- 
tk%(t€  GastiU,  Aug.  8,  1874,  I  get  the  followiii>; 
lOBaoemefit  from  the  Bmldci' : — 

Crofiiwvll*!  bodj  WW  dag  up,  uid  hii  hemd  pot  on  » 
I  and  exposed  at  Ch&ring  Croii.  This  bead  ii  aaid  to 
e  h««ii  dupoeed  of^  and  after  pasung  through  scTeraJ 
da  It  «M  offered  for  sale. a  few  jeart  a^  to  Mr,  K.  G, 

IL  aometime  M.P.  for  Tlilrtk,  who  wa<  a  lineal 
lit  of  OUfer  through  his  daughter.  Lady  Rich/* 


'  ThU  head  ^  is  very  suggestive  of  there  Wvim 
other  heads  about,  which  aI«o  belonged  to  Oliver 
Cromwell  \  St.  Swirnm, 

Lkicbsteb   Hocse^   Leicester    Fields.  —  In 

Faithome's  Map  of  London,  l.'ios,  we  find  the 

•outh  wall   of  the   front   conrtyard   of  Leicester 

Hotj-«'  ;ilr»ii.-f  on  a  line  with  the  north  side  of  the 

pr^  Street;  that  is,  much  in  a  line  with 

the  Qgs  of  the  sqiuare  as  they  stand  now, 

only  that  the  £K)uth  wall  of  Leicester  House  fore- 

oonrt   trended  a  little   to   the  north-east,  in  the 

I  direction  of  Newport  House.     The  building  itaelf 

J  wotild  therefore  be  about  the  middle  of  tbe  square, 

fjM,   indeed,  it  !ippears   in   Faithome.     And   that 

^ther*^  H*f»>  ImiWm;^  there  is  proved  by  the  dis- 

the  late  alterations  in  the  enclosure, 

! Wundations,  as  Mr.  Tom  Taylor  was 

Mr.  Knowles,  the  architect  of  tbe 

Vow,  as  the  Leicester  House  of  the 

'-'^  in  I7(X*  stands  some  dintanee 

^1  Hide  wail  of  the  squiire  which 
.  .iL  front  of  Savile  Houfte, — so  far 
■!  to  l>c  apparently  on  a  line  with  the 
.r  r.i^l(^  .-^rr..,  t, —this  could  not  be 
^  Ifii'^  ind  1658,  but  »  later 

•taction,  1  arise,  Wben  wa«  the 

Ma  hxmm  femorcd  i  Wlio  built  the  new  ?  Ig 
timt  extent  a  palotm^  or  en;;ravin;2r,  or  any  picture 
or  4kK^»  hc§ide  that  in  Faithome,  *jf  the  fonner 
haiaam  f  P^riiup^  Vertue>  orijjrinal  drawing  of 
Lneester  flou«^  in  the  [Kmoexiiiou  of  Jilr.  Gardner, 


**  MoNsiBrR  *  AND  *'  3Iadame.^' — The  following 


«  AtJu'mnim  of  the  3t>th  of  May, 
pkce  in^'N.  &Q,'':— 


extract  from  the 
1874,  deserve*  a 

"  It  is  generally  fuppOMd  that  the  custom,  now  almost 
itniTeml  in  France,  of  addreMing  ererj  one  yon  meet  as 
'  Mrmsieur  *  or  '  >ladanie '  dates  only  aa  far  Lack  as  the 
great  Preach  Iterolution*  when  every  one  waa  '  Citoyen ' 
or  *  Citoyenne/  afterwards  conrcrtcd  into  'Bionsieur* 
and  *  Madame  ';  but  the  uniTersality  of  the  latter  de^ig* 
nations  datee,  at  leaat,  us  far  bftck  a»  tbe  lime  of  the 
'  Grand  Monarque/  and  was  then  noticed  by  travellers, 
as  appears  from  a  passage  in  one  of  our  own  dramas  of 
the  period.  We  iillude  to  '  The  Qtutm-  and  Concuhine: 
a  Comedie,  by  Richard  Brome  :  London,  1659/  Jn  this 
the  discarded  Queen  Eidalia  is  a4Jdre«8tid  by  one  of  the 
characters  a^i  *  Madam.'  To  which  the  replies,  '  Talte 
becd  gocMl  neighbours ;  beware  how  you  give  dignitle  or 
title ;  therein  you  may  traosgress.'  And  she  is  answered 
Lhus :— 
'  No  whit,  good  Madam.    Obserre  the  dialect  of  Pnuic€j 

And  you  «Uall  find  Madam  given  there  in  courteste 

To  womeu  of  low  fortunes,  unto  whom 
Tis  held  a  poor  addition,  though  great  Qucena 

Do  graos  md  make  it  royaL' " 

EvERJLiiD  Home  Colemak, 

71,  Bwclmock  Eoad.  S, 


mm^  light  on  the  subject. 


Qt;l  Tam. 


The  AuTHORsnir  of  "  Auld  Robin  Gray.*' — 
It  may  not  be  univereally  known  that  this  charuiing 
and  popular  air  waiS  composed  by  the  Rev.  Wm. 
Leeves,  who  for  nearl?  fefty  yeara  prior  to  May, 
182N,  was  Eector  of  Wriugton,  in  the  county  of 
Somerset. 

Wrington  is  alfio  remarkable  aa  the  birthplace 
of  Locke,  and  as  containing  Barley  Wood,  for 
mcmy  years  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Hannah  Mote. 

The  verse*  were  written  in  177i)  or  1772  by 
Lridy  Anne  Lindsay,  eldest  dauffhter  of  the  Earl 
of  Balcamui,  and  Mr.  Leeves,  bayinff  receiTed  a 
copy  of  the  verses  from  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Bjron, 
immefliately  set  them  bo  music  Many  persons 
have  thought  the  air  to  have  been  an  old  Scottish 
ballad,  but  such  ia  not  the  ca8&  It  k  stated  that 
(chiefly  at  the  request  of  the  dbtingalshed  vocaliat, 
Miss  Stephens,  who  knew  and  venenvted  the  com- 
poser) Mr.  Leeves  published  the  ballad  with  his 
name  in  1S12,  together  with  some  sacred  pieces 
also  composed  by  him.  C 

CliftoDj  near  BnstoL 

"Lrccs  A  yoN  LucENT>o.** — As  I  have  never 
seen  it  hinted  anywhere  that  Latin  Iwti*^  a  grove, 
might  be  derived  from  Gr.  Ai'ien?,  a  wolf,  I  send 
you  the  sngi^eiition  for  what  it  is  worth,  Lucus, 
thence  derived  (root,  /«Jt),  might  primarily  have 
meant  a  wolfs  lair,  or  as  we  .should  say,  a  likely 
place  to  find  a  wolf  (looks  wolfish).  The  root  luJfc 
is  pre-Sanscrit,  and  from  it  are  derived  many  Greek, 
Liiin,  Hindustani,  and  Engligh  words;  amoojl 
the  last — light,  lynx,  luck,  laugh,  wolf,  througb 

td]X^irti^t  vulpu^  and  the  ^trtirnomtng  Luke  and 
^ucy,  through  the  Latin  gms  name  Lucius. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5'*  8.  IL  SCIT.  lS.71.1 


*'  Dkfendee  op  TiiK  Faith." — We  are  gencmlly 
led  to  understand  thtit  the  title  "  Defender  of  the 
Faith "  was  conlerrt»d  upon  Henry  VII f.  by  a 
Bull  of  Leo  X.,  5tli  October,  152L  Whether  it  wiis 
io  I'onferred  (one  might  aay  confirmed)  Is  with  me 
u  question.  Amongst  the  charters  relatinfj  Uj  the 
manors  of  vurious  ancient  ffunilies  of  Yorkshire, 
is  one  in  the  possession  of  Martin  Farquhar 
Tiijiper,  Esq.^  which  placea  the  mutter  in  a  now 
li^ht.     It  commences  thus  : — 

"  This  Indenture  maide  the  xxij*^  dayc  of  .Tanuarj  in 
the  Bccond  yea  re  of  the  reague  of  Hinge  Henry  the 
Seaventhc  by  the  Graice  of  God  Kin^e  of  EngUnd 
ddtndtiure  of  Uu  faithe,  &c.  Betivixt  Christofer  Kktlife 
of  Hewicke  In  the  CowTity  of  Yorke  Eatjuiere  on  the  one 
|>'ty.  And  Richard  Loftbouse  of  Eklacke  tn  the  saidl 
Cownty  Yeoro&n  of  the  other  p«ty." 

It  is  merely  a  life  lease  of  some  farm-biiildingB, 
orchards,  pnstura^,  &c.,  and  is  signed  "  Xsu'ofer 
Kadclym    Jan.  23^^^  1487." 

The  only  doubt  Is  a«  to  its  genuineness.  It  is 
iu  the  hand\rriting  of  the  period,  sia  I  hare  stated. 
Had  it  been  a  forgery,  the  object  of  which  I  cnnnot 
Bee,  the  detection  would  have  been  certain,  as  it 
h  merely  a  life  lease,  and  by  the  latter  end  of  the 
reijQi^u  of  Henry  VIII.  would  have  been  valueless. 
Had  the  scribe  erred  in  writing  Henry  VIL  instead 
of  Henrj'  VIIT.,  that  would  only  have  transfeiTed 
the  difficulty  witliout  exphdninr;  it  away. 

There  am  be  no  doubt  aa  to  the  identity  of  the 

ant^r.  In  20  Henry  VL,  he  married  a  daughter 
of  John  Stalford  ;  the  marriafre  settlement,  in 
Latin,  I  think\  atill  exists.  His  name  also  up- 
peoTs  in  another  small  document,  dated  1489. 

J.  S.  Stafford* 

"Stealing"  and  " Stellino,'^— In  Canon 
Kingsley'fl  pleasant  volume  f»f  essuxys^  just  col- 
lected and  publidied  with  the  title  of  Hmtth  and 
Education,  is  a  sketch  of  that  stern  old  Scotch 
patriot  and  |>oet,  George  Ijuchanau*  Bescribiiig 
the  visit  paid  to  Bucluinan  in  his  last  illness  by 
tlie  Melvilba,  Mr.  Kingsley  says  :— 

"They  found  tlie  old  sage,  true  to  his  school  mas  terV 
instincts,  teaching  the  Hornbook  to  his  eei-vani  kd,  and 
he  told  them  that  doing  that  wu  better  than  etealing 
sheep  or  eiitiug  idle,  which  was  as  bftd." 

Mr.  Kingsley  follows  the  common  stereotyped 
version  of  the  atory.  All  the  biogniphical  dic- 
tionaries, Scotch  hiatoriea.and  memoirs  of  Buchnnan 
have  th  La  phrase  *•  stealing  fsheep.'*  But  in  the 
original  MS.  of  James  Melville's  Diary,  Jn  the 
Advocates'  Library,  and  printed  by  the  Wodrow 
Society,  the  passage  stanch  thus  : — 

"When  we  cum  to  hij  [Buch&n&n'eJ  chalmer,  we  fand 
htm  fitting  in  hie  chaire,  teatching  his  youii^  man  that 
aervifc  him  in  hia  clialuicr  to  spell  r,  h,  ab;  e,  h,  cb,  &c. 
Efter  wilutation,  Mr,  Andro  wiyea, '  I  sie,  air,  yie  are 
nocht  ydle/  *  Better  this/ quoth  he,  'norsteUingaheipe, 
or  sitting  ydle,  quhiik  is  tils  ill  ! ' " 

Kow,  to  Btcll  is,  in  old  Scotch,  to  plac€^  to  $et, 
**  Stell  your  feet,"  fix  your  feet  firmly.    "  Stell 


Fishings  '•  arc  salmon  fishings  where  nets  Jie  \kt* 
manently  fixed.     Old  George  had  fonr 
enough  to  teach  his  '*chalmer  boy"  hi^  1 
still  he  thought  it  was  better,  less  hopNtde* 
ateUinff  or  placing  sheep  where  it  was  wiKhi* 
should  remain.  Every  one  acquainted  with 
matters  knows  how  difficult  is  this  task 
may  illustmte  it  by  a  humorous  story  w] 
heard  the  late  Scottish  judge,  Lord  Robertson 
the    famous    "  Lord    Peter,"  or  ''  Peter    o'   ti  _ 
paunch" — relate: — A  certain  Highlaml  fiheep-l 
farmer,  known  as  Corrychoilie,  wa«$  one  evenii 
seated  with  his  compeers  over  their  toddy,  ani 
boasting  of  his  numerous  flocks  and  berd^,     H4 
admitted  that  Prince  Esterhazy  bad  more  shi 
than  he  himi?elf  had,  but  then  the  Prince  had 
rent  to  pay.   After  some  gasconading  of  this  kini 
one  of  the  fraternity  interpoBcd :— **  Come,  Co 
choilie,  vou  are  roakiag  yourself  as  gr^ 
Duke  of  WeDington;'—"  The  Duke  of  W . 
replied  the  other;  "it  was  easy  for  the  DuUi 
put  doiiTi  his  men  at  Waterloo — a  reginient 
und  a  regiment  there  ;  they  would  all  stand  !    Btil] 
let  him  trj^  to  put  down  ton  thou&and  sheep,  fo^i 
bye  [besides]  black  cattle ^  at  Fidkirk  Trj'Bt,  an<i 
it's  my  opinion  he  would  make  a  very  confused 
buzzness  of  it."  C. 

Thomas  Campbkll,  though  ao  careful  a  i»oelJ 
ha«  made  a  strange  mistake  in  his  FUoMwrm  ^j\ 
Hope : — 

"  ThuB,  white  EUJah's  bumittg  wheels  prepare 
From  Cartners  heights  to  sweep  the  fields  of  ^ttJ* 

Elijah  ascended  from  the  bank  of  the  Jofdon, 
opposite  Jericho, 

Camplwll  'svrote  a  better  Irish  national  poem, 
0*Connor)f  (luld^  than  any  Irishman  ever  pr^ 
duced.  Yet  he  showed,  in  a  little  matter,  a 
curious  ignorance  of  Irish  custom.  He  calls  hb 
"  Hari)cr's  dog  Tmy.^  I  have  never  known  thai 
name  given  to  any  dog  in  Ireland* 

In  the  same  ballad,  he  made  as  great  a  blanker 
as  any  Hibernian  could  fall  into  ;   when  he  pt 
into  tile  blind  mivn's  mouth,  **  nor  refaseil  my  tut 
crust  to  bis  pilifnl  fact** 
In  Campbeira  Thcodric— 
*'  Blindfold  hij  natire  hUls  he  coold  hare  trod  ** 
may  be  paralleled  by  Guarini,  /^Po^faj'/'ido,  v.  I  :— 
"  Se  ne'  eonfini  tuoi»  madre  gentile, 
Foss'  io  ^unto  a  cliiuii  occhi^  anco  t*arrei 
Troppo  ben  conosciuto*^* 

S.  T.  P. 

'*  Sconce." — A  fort  or  bulwark  ;  a  catidloetick  | 
affixed  to  a  wall,  the  movable  socket  f^f  i\  caiul 
stick  ;    slang  word  for  the  head- 
English  dictionaries,  to  which  I  hav 
the  forms  of  this  word  in  various 
guages,  but  no  derivation  ;  Ogilvic 
derivation  aa  **  uncertain,'*    I  thini^   i   • 
come  upon  it  accidentally  in  a  pa£:sage  ii 


'&tt8iw.M.7<.i  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


firmnc's  Consiituiiont^  circa  1072  (Wilkins'd  Con- 
€iHa,  t.  i*^  pp.  347,  348,  qaoted  in  Willis's 
Conventual  Buttdings  of  Vanierbury^  p.  89,  n,)i — 
"Tunc  emm  acceDea  candela  in  abaconsa,  unus 
eonun  iniionnitorio  deb<?t  ciicumire  loctos  omniurn, 
et  omnift  aedUia  in  necessariis,'^  Ie«t  any  brother 
fthould  be  found  dozing  when  he  ought  to  be 
j^^  .....»;....  Ahnoma  here  ia  evidently  a  lantern 
in  candle  is  huldtn  for  protection,  hence 

~  s.    '■   ,u-:-Ji.   So  a  protection  to  those  besieged. 
•*  icsonce "  lUJiy  hare  got  applied  to  the 
the    sense   of   lantern  (so  "caniatcr''), 
ably  with  reference  to  a  lurtiip  htnhnu     In 
solnshire,  n  tire-screen  is,  or  waa,  eddied  a  "  fire- 


Bitfteld  Hal],  DtiriiAm, 


J.  T.  F. 


(We  mu«t  request  correspondeuiB  deainng  information 
on  family  maiten  of  otdj  private  intorcat,  to  affix  ihctr 
I  and  addi'eiies  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
1  WAf  be  Addrettdd  to  them  directs] 


Ikigo  Jones  and  Philip^  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
^I  am  shy  about  differing  with  Dr*  Rimbault 
on  such  ft  point,  but  I  have  never  been  able  to 
ifttisfy  myself  that  he  w.i8  right  in  so  confidently 
averting  C^N.  &  Q./\4**  S,  x.  117)  that  the 
wiiter  of  the  ALS,  notes  in  a  certain  copy  of  Ini^o 
JoneuH  Stonthcngc  lifstond  was  " undoubtedly 
InigtVg  ol<l  rival,  iiir  Balthazar  Gerbier,"  KDr, 
RiMUAULT  bus  seen  the  volume,  and  identifies  the 
handwriting,  my  doubts  will  be  greatly  shaken  ; 
but  even  then  there  are  certain  points  in  the 
ncril    '  which  I   should  find   it    difficult   to 

re*  li  hiB  theory. 

I  j»  ii>  uj;a  morning  I  myself  knew  nothing  more 
ftbout  the  volume  than  ia  stated  by  Walpole  at 
p»  411  of  liiii  Aneaiotes  of  Painting  (Womuurs 
etlition) ;  but,  while  turning  over  the  leaves  of 
Onbonie'a  Harleiim  (■utalogne,  I  unexpectedly 
imme  upon  the  following  uotict*,  which  I  susiiect 
tellit  more  than  has  hitherto  been  generally 
known  :— 

**  Tbii  Itook  has  it-*  njar^infl  If^iiles,  topi,  and  bottomB, 
bi  maoy  (eavet )  almost  written  throughout,  with  lome 
of  ttic  fetratigeit  notes  perhaps  to  he  met  witli,  no  wayt 
nlftliag  to  tin?  ^  ■  "^  -tier,  nor  to  one  another  except 
bi  one  or  t\<  o  ;  .  book  is  ii)»eril>ed  by  J.  WebU 

to  Pliilip,  Ear  i:e  and  Montgomery,  aomciime 

I^"^  -T  Charles  I.,  and  Chttiicellor  of 

Oi  II  Lia  own  copy,  for  the  Baid 

,  "L^i^i,  writ  Ilia  own  un-r"^    «i.;.o,  j^ 
1)  hand  with  that  in  ^^  i  ^e 

'f  hit  memory  and  inui  rf* 

boiJM.'  lul lowing  po«a«B8or;,  or  r 

ha^,  diJCOTering  the  said  wriling  to  be  ' 
liM  written  in  Ch«  margin  r^'^f^i  not  fhU  namct  -■   -  -      <^  , 
Mtui  iff  Ffmirokt  and  M  tnu  ihB  ^trxter  oj 

JicN  ^d  ntdt*,    A.  MV  /e  ttuttHfed  kttn  tk 

MUimg  Aim  a  Mttdmutu,  thnn  i^  to^^y^fj  ftt  ko*  illiterate 
I  mud  e«mid  aof  tortttf  his  namt,    Thd  noi«s  aix  written  in 


Latint  French^  and  Engliah,  in  pro«e  and  verse,  000* 
laluing  truth,  fiction,  trificp,  matteni  of  useful  intclli' 
^cncc;  tome  enough  to  make  you  merry,  others  melan^ 
choly.  Ue  seems  to  hare  been  under  the  diaple&rnra  of 
Cromwell  and  hia  daughters^  Of  the  former  be  fays, 
'  RaYilliac  Cromwell  is  to  bo  pulled  a  pieces  with  wild 
horsea  upon  London  streets,  and  then  to  be  hanged, 
drawn,  kc,  not  decapited  (rie)  in  je»t.'  In  the  tame 
page  where  he  hus  ^vrit  his  name  be  liaa  these  worda, 

*  If  he  be  mad^  is  my  lady  Hanrood  sais  (whose  tongue 
ia  no  slaunder),  it  is  rather  for  wanting  the  10,00(V,  a  ^enr 
his  father  promised  to  jfire  liim,  than  that  he  thinks 
0,000/.  a  year  too  much  for  htm  to  manage  with  Wiilon 
and  Jiavuhurtf;  for  he  is  yery  learnedly  proud,  and 
proudly  learned.*  Ia  soTcral  places  he  baa  mentioned 
Inigo  Jonea,  I  be  King's  Surrey  or,  nffirming  in  one  placs, 

*  He  had  for  twenty  years  together  sixteen  thousand 
pounds  a  year  for  keeping  the  king's  houAos  in  repair, 
and  yet  they  lay  worse  than  any  house  in  TumbulL 
Street.'  But  la  one  place  he  augments  his  salar^r  very 
much  when  be  says,  'llinnico  Jones,  alias  Iniquiiy 
Jones,  a  justice  of  peace,  and  of  th«  quorum ;  i  and 
cuitoB  rotulorum ;  hath  for  keeping  the  king's  houses  in 
repair  deux  r/m  mil  tic%  prr  an,  threescore  thoosand 
pounds  iterltng  a  year,  \  and  well  paid  :  He  is  fourscore 
years  ould«'  '* 

I  at  first  thought  that  the  body  of  the  book,^iSi^ 
was  not  unlikely  iu  those  troubled  times,  had  beer 
print^3d  off  some  years  before  the  date  of  the  title* 
page,  and  that  the  writing  mighty  after  aH,  be  that 
of  Philip  the  fonTih  earl ;  but,  on  looking  more 
narrowly  into  the  volume,  I  see  that  it  waa  un- 
doubtedly put  together  after  Inigo  was  in  his 
grave  J  aod  he,  it  is  known,  survived  this  earl  by 
some  two  yean*.  But  why  may  not  the  notes  be 
the  work  of  PhOip  the  fifth  earl,  to  whom  the 
book  is  dedicated  \  He  was  turned  out  of  the 
Cockpit,  the  moist  desirable  residence  in  London, 
by  the  daughters  of  Cromwell ;  and,  00  hia  attain- 
ing  the  earldom,  he  is  exceedingly  likely  to  have 
had  a  long  architect's  bill  pre.sented  to  him, 
Charles  IL,  too,  thought  him  mad  in  his  latter 
days,  and  I  am  not  sure  that  t'larcndon  does  not 
hint  the  same  of  him  a  good  deal  earlier* 

The  descriptions  in  the  Harleiau  Catalogue 
are  known,  in  many  instances,  to  have  been  writ- 
ten by  Samuel  Jobniion  before  bis  stylo  had  as- 
soraed  the  stately  march  of  the  ItamhUr  and  the 
Idler.  In  the  above  extract,  d<K*3  not  the  "mar- 
ginal eruptions  of  memory  and  imagination  "  carry 
a  little  of  the  Johnsonian  flavour  with  it  I 

CniTTKLDROOO. 

Field.— Under  the  heading  "Pan"  (N.  &  Q.»" 
5***  8.  ii.  178),  it  was  incidenUdly  remarked  that 
'*  Mvhen  JUUI  was  spelt  ffcU  (with  two  /a),  it  hatl 
not  the  contracted  sense  now  associated  with  it^ 
but  generally  reprei^eoted  a  large  tract  of  open 
hind /or  campus,  cleared  of  timber." 

^  in  only  find  JUUI  fipelt  ffM  in  MSS.  of  the 
[ith  centiiry.  Can  any  corretspondent  tell 
]ij>"  Mi  earlier  iostances  i  I  except  instances  in 
which  the  appnrent  double  /  is  really  a  capital 
letter.  The  common  A,-S,  spelling  hfcktj  with  a 
single  />  as  iti  German.    Can  any  one  kindly  point 


S08 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


to  a  single  acnip  of  direct  eWdence  in  any  old 
author  for  the  belief  that  the  word  meant  specially 
a  piece  of  "  et eared  ground  "  /  The  A.-S.  fdd 
occurs  in  Bent,  xrxir,  8,  where  the  A.  V.  haspZainJ, 
hut  it  is  not  aatd  that  thes^  plfiins  had  'been 
fonued  by  (Uaring.  I  am  cnrions  to  know  if  the 
oommon  idea  of  connectinii:  fidd  with  the  verb  to 
fdl  can  be  substantiated  by  any  evidence  beyond 
mere  guesswork,  Wjlltkr  W.  Skeat. 

"Private  History  of  thb  Couut  of  Eng- 
ULND." — Can  any  rotidcr  of  **  N»  &  Q.  "  familiar 
with  the  flAtirical  and  saindaloUB  Itteritture  of  the 
Georgian  era,  say  who  was  the  author  of  a  little 
work,  in  two  volumes,  published  in  XWS  under 
the  title  of  Th4  Pfivaie  liiitory  of  tfu  Court  of 
England  f    It  professes — 

*'  To  give  a  ekelch  of  the  priirate  life  of  Edward  IV. 
and  hLs  coart  before  the  death  of  Henry  YI.,  till  whose 
death  be  cert&iiilj  could  not  be  eaid  to  enjoy  the  croim 
in  perfect  i»eurtiiy»  thouf^h  there  ia  every  reason  io  atyle 
him  the  Heir  AmREXT  to  the  throne  of  Euj^land," 

The  "  Heir  Apparent "  whose  stor}-  is  related  is,  of 
course,  the  Princie  of  Wdea,  afterwanls  George  IV, ; 
And  as  the  writer  ia  a  pHiTtiiMUi  of  his  unfortunate 
wife,  the  tone  of  the  wonc  may  eaaily  be  anticipated. 

P.  H, 

Ben  JonpoNj  Junior.— 

*'Tho  Poems  of  Ben  Johnson,  Junior.  Being  a  Mi§- 
celaine  of  SeriouEneag,  Wit,  Myrth  and  My^terie.  la 
VulpoDe.  The  Dream.  Iter  Bevoriale.  Songi,  &o., 
composed  by  W.  8.  Gent,  Lond.^  1()72L'* 

This  eccentric  production  hjxs  been  usually 
placed  by  catalogue- makers  under  the  name  of 
JonsoD,  and  has,  in  coaseciuence,  often  been 
cribed  to  a  suppoHititious  son  of  the  famous  Ben, 
llthough  it  m  plain  from  the  title-page  that  there 
•was  no  intention  to  deceive.  The  ]»ook  possesses 
some  Shakspearian  interest,  owing  to  its  allusions 
to  the  Lucy  family,  and  it  is  desirable  to  discover 
the  name  of  the  author.  There  is  a  poetical  dedi- 
cation to  "the  Rt,  Hon,  Walter,  Lord  ^\ston/' 
whose  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Lucy  of  Charlcote,  in  the  conrae  of  which^  alluding 
to  Sixall,  the  writer  says  : — 

"  Here  I  my  noble  ancestors  of  old. 
Tracing  the  steps  of  charity,  heboid 
By  Lore's  fair  hand  to  mine  own  cradle  led 
Alton  and  Lucy  joyaed  in  one  bed.'* 

And  again f  in  another  poem,  To  all  the  anciint 
Famihf  of  the  Litrifeji,  and  to  all  thir  honourahh 
cxtractitm^f  h«  tells  us  that  — 

"  From  thia  clear  spring,  I  am  a  Utile  streun/' 
so  that  he  would  seem  to  have  bet'u  a  member  of 
the  family.  At  the  end  of  the  book^  but  apparently 
part,  of  it,  is  the  following  curious  advertisement:— 
*♦  A  new  found  medicine  for  maladies,  not  haairdous, 
deaperate  or  fiolent  ^  but  saJe  and  aure,  pleasant,  paUt- 
*l>le  and  comfortable  ;  not  putting  nature  to  any  strcBa 
ttt  greatly  strengthening,  relieving  and  enj^>ltng  her  to 
'encounter  with  her  maJignant  enemies,  ic  Found  out 
this  instant  ,  1671,    By  the  great  c»tc  and  study  of 


A  B.  C.     H.   Item-  There  may  be  had  pie 

itiei  for  the  preventioo  of  di^eaee*.  ^ »  -'  — 
fulness,  improvement  of  diet  and  ^ 
From  Mr.  Wadde?, 


i. 


in  White's 
U,  Wtiaws 
i  yvQ  issy 


Enqmre  at  Mr.  Homer*i  at  the  K 
Alley  in  Chaiiccry  Lane  for  C*|«l 
any  morning,  and  from  eleroi  till 
hare  farther  information." 

I  can  find  no  clue  to  tlw  authorship  in  tiic  cnb 
lection  of  Stiall  J*o€try^  edited  by  Mr.  CMurd, 
but  there  was  a  copy  of  the  work  in  the  Scull 
Library.  C.  Elliot  Beowvk, 

The  Blue  Flowsk  of  Ghaskkpoiul — Pedttw 

iK»me  corre^jKindtint  may  be  able  to  give  tie 
botimical  name  of  the  small  cerulean  blue  flower, 
which  I  have  only  noticed  j^tOhazct  [  ^  "'  nnpU), 
where  it  is  found  mixed  with  the  <  of 

that  beautiful  hiwnlike  canlonuitivL 
with  elegant  Ccuuarinwi).  This  flower  is 
like  that  of  a  Kalmia^  grows  dose  to  the  _ 
and  imparts  its  own  hue  to  the  wide  expaxuBe 
^rrnasy  pkin.  Its  texture  and  colour  resembk  llie  j 
blue  Ncmovhih.  Its  stem  and  leaves  aw 
small,  and  bear  no  pwoportion  to  the  ai«e  of 
blossom.  The  latter  fades  away  entirely,  and 
disappears  under  the  increasing  heat  of  the  9tin,  « 
that  no  ventige*)  of  it  arc  ever  seen  '  A-** 

From  diWTi  until  breakfiist-time^  or  dew 

is  still  on  the  ^und,  the  plain  h  blue  wiih  il« 
myriad  blos.^otUH,  but  it  cannot  bear  thift  woiihiOT 
If  brought  t<j  England^  it  would  be  a  ««i 
embellishment   to   Jawna,    provided  it  caM  It 
acxjimatized.  6w 

Two  CiirRCHRs  m  OsTE  Churchyard. — Vam 
instances  of  this  occur  in  the  Eastern  Coaiiti«« 
viz.,  1.  At  Bmy  St.  Edmnnds,  where  the  laf|?paod 
impofiing  churches  cf  *St.  James  and  St.  iUrf  i 
stand  but  a  short  distance  from  each  other  in jm 
extenaive  churchyard,  to  which  the  fin©  oM  ^^ 
man  tower  serves  as  a  Htting  pnrtnL 

2.  At  Swaflhmn  Prior,  ^  liw  j 
churches  of  St.  Mary  and  St  dm  I 
proximity  in  one  churchyard,  the  furiucr^  Lywewfi  j 
being  now  in  ruina, 

3,  The  churchef  <  P  "'      * 
in  the  parish  of  \N 
St.  Cybristcpher,  at  \^  ijiiti^;ij 
buOt  in  the  same  enclosure.     1 
last,  Morant,  in  liis  iZit/f-  " 
churches  of  these  two  A\ 
same  churchyard,  the  ren 
remaining  4jows.^     Po^ 
of  **  N.  ^  Q."  may  be  ali 
the  sin^fuhxr  practice  of  erect 
auch  close  contiguity.    Are  u 


*  Lord  OomwalUs't  ehmic  nooomevi  bI 
middle  of  the  plain,  and  contaiai  »  ilab» 
think,  by  Fl&xman. 


>  a.  IL  San.  12,71.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


209 


Knfsland  ftimikrly  situated  t  If  »),  it  wotdd  be 
Mc  to  hovc  a  list  of  them*  if  your  retiders 
llurniftUit  Tnos.  Bird, 

Riev,  Br.  STyotKroK,  op  Rdgbt.— In  Pile's 
Mutitif^  Hovse^j  p.  123,  is  the  foUowing 
1  ; — '**  He  (Bennett)  obtained  a  tutorship 
I  lie   tjiraily  of  X>r.  Sin^tdon,   the  tjedtd  head 
of  Hughy  HchooV    No  dnte  is  given,  but  I 
lie  that  Singleton  was  sl  Puritan  placed  over 
BchooL  in  the   time  of  the  usuqiiition,  and 
♦'1^'   "ti  St.  Bartholomew *>i  day.     There  ia  no 
\t  respecting    hiin    at    Eugfby.      Poiisibly 

be  a  funeral  ^rnion  relating  to  Single- 
on  in  the  Britis^h  Mu.*euiii  or  Dr,  Williams'sj 
libmj,  if  any  one  will  kindly  look.       J.  R.  B. 

Ttxumi!to*B  PRovF.nns,  —  The  compiler  of  this 

-   the  hite   William   Henry  Ireland,   of 

^e  forpcry  notoriety.     Ireland  waii  in  dis- 

ni  Llie  time  of  its  publicfition,  and  it  wa.n  an 

pi  to  niise  the  wind.     The  proverbs  came 

nut  the  *,%nie  time  iia  Irel.ind^s  translation 

litaires  Pncflle  d'OrUnm.     The  lat^  M.  A. 

fttn,  of  Piersbridgc,  produced  a  very  superior 

ton  Proverb*!.    He  quotes  F'iehlinj;,  not  bdui; 

I  tliHt  Ireland  wrw  the  author,  but  supposiu^ 

Ithc  bof»k  waa  by  the  author  of  Tmn  Jones  and 

\n  Wild.    Is  Olphar  Hamst  aware  of  the 

ore  IJicts  ?  Stephen  Jackson. 

iL  Paintixo. — I  have  an  oil  pmnting  on  a 
ler-plate,  size  12  x  15  in. ;  Rubject,  flower*  in 
backgn^und  a  stone  reces»  ;  aiuon^ 
!  a  number  of  buttertlies,  eaterpilhirs, 
?  flowers,  and  particularly  the  insects, 
'  done  with  ;;reat  fidelity,  and  are  of  exquisite 
]t  !^  V   r,<  (1  C,  V.  Bert^he,  or  Bertie  (the 
V.  in  r  ,  and  dated   1G17.     Can  any 

D*  give  tj  tion  nl»out  the  artist  ?        L. 

Diiodee. 

Or     '  I    h    ,1    !iN!y  pir^ked  up  an 

^Id  t  \'.Jni  li  1  -liMiild  likt:'  to  Ifjirn 

lifinitikdly  executed  in 
ti  boy  ami  girl  (evideJitly 
.y,    .i.       -  ;.v<.  ..Lh-centuiy  costume;   the 
"IfidiniT  and  playing,'  with  a  fawn,  round 
^  which  he  seems  about  to  place  a  garland 
rre  ;  the  jfirl  seated,  with  a  King-  Charles 
jtn  her  I,  I  TV     The  dog  is  i*narling  ai  the 
Villi].     The  scene  is  the  portico 
a  I  jKirk  in  the  distance.     The 

^obouL  ftiAteen  inche.<  hif^h  by  ten  wide, 
ijiip-n  being  entirely  gone,  there  ia  no 
biiitory.  W.  H. 

rtbttTv. 

lutely  i«een  an  old 

lit  t  lie  middle  of  the 

ftnitrfiili    v^Ettilury,  primed    upon    vellum    or 


parchment  by  one  Edmund  Blount.  If  any  reader 
of  *'  N.  k  Q/'  can  tell  me  where  this  Edmund 
Blount  lived,  and  when  he  died,  it  will  enable  me 
to  assign  a  dale  to  the  paint  tug.  H.  S.  G. 

Sir  Arthitr  Gorge. — I  have  a  letter  from 
Francis  Foster  to  "Sir  Artbure  Gorge  at  Dun- 
kerque,''  dated  1634,  in  which  is  the  following 
p>astkag«: — 

"  My  Lord  Stanford,  who  ia  gon  po«t  to  Paris,  had 
order  from  hia  Matie  to  atop  yoa.  I  met  also  with 
another  gentlcttiiui  who  had  ye  same  matter  recomoicficl 
unto  hhn  from  noble  friend*.  You  must  needa  dr*we 
yuur  relaiioQ  conipl^atly,  and  send  to  England  bj  the 
^Tft  to  ftonie  of  voar  noble  fnendj  to  di«poBieaae  them  of 
other  relations.' 

To  what  does  this  refer  1  Spkriend. 

Piracy.— Can  any  one  tell  me  the  name  of  the 
vessel  the  crew  of  which  was  tried  for  piracy  oU' 
Jamaica  /  The  first  Marquis  of  Sligo  appetired  as 
a  witness*  on  oath  in  the  case.  Veritas. 

"  Iron  y  iRfiiN,"  N(trembkro. — Where  shall  I 
find  any  historical  account  of  this  instrument  ? 

Geo.  C. 

James  Margetson.^  Archbisiiop  of  Armauh. 
—Who  wiw  his  wife  ?  K.  P.  D.  K 


mepiicis. 

DOMINGO  G0N8ALES. 
(5'^  S.  ii.  110.} 

I  wonder  your  corresj>otident,  in  his  cjnery  con- 
cerning the  authorship  of  TW  Strange  J  oifage  and 
Adrcniures  of  Ikimin'jo  Gonsaks  to  (he  World,  in 
the  Mootif  2nd  edit.,  17<>8,  did  not  refer  to  the 
following  paragraph  on  p.  5  : — 

"Itiain  this  Ifiknd  [St.  Helena]  that  the  Scene  of 
that  notable  Fancy,  called  Thr  Man  tw  fA^  Mmm,  or  a 
Digfoune  of  o  Voyrnjc  thttAcr,  by  Ik/mtn'/o  Goiuaiet,  tS 
Jftid,  written  by  a'  learned  BUhop,  ^aith  the  ingeDiom 
liiirhop  Wiikint,  wlio  callB  it  n  fdcKBant  and  well-con- 
triTtd  Fttney  in  hi^  owu  Book,  iniituled  A  Di^cunt  of 
the  A  fir  World,  tend  tufj  to  ^o^€  (Aid  if  >  pottibU  thin 
nut  tf  Iff  anothn- /ntf*itatfte  l^  orld  in  t/u  Moot*.  ...  Now 
this  snmll  Tract  having  po  Worthy  a  TefRm  to  vouch  for 
it,  and  many  of  our  Effjluk  lltBtorians  baviog  publi«bed 
for  Trtitb  %^hat  is  almost  as  itsprobable  oj  thi^.  as  Sir 
John,  Mandavxl,  in  his  Traveli,  and  others,  aud  thia  hav* 
ing  what  they  are  utterly  deatitate  of,  thnt  i^  Invention 
mixed  with  Judjgment;*and  ^rt  '  v  to  be 

Xiieeused  fifty  yemw  ago,  and  not  hereby 

it  would  be  utterly  loat.    I  hare  :  .-„  i'Ubhsh 

tUe  Substance  thereof." 

The  book  ia,  in  fact  ("  the  second  edition  "  of), 
a  modernized  verbion  of  The  Man  in  Vte  Moone : 
or,   a   Diicmne  vf  a  Voyage  thither  hrj  Dominrjo 
(JonsalcB,    the   Spcnfy   McMcn^er^   Loi 
Thia  clever  ^torj^  waa  written  by  *'  a  pi  ^ 

lover  of  vencn\ble  antiquity  and  <d  all  ^imhI 
literature/'— Br.  Fnincis  Gmlwiri  (Bishop  of 
Lhindatr  in  l(R»l,  and  Of  Hereford  1<;17),  **  while 


NOTES  AND  QUERIED 


[5»*8,iLsiFt*i*,rrt 


he  was  a  etudenfc  of  Ch.  Ch.,  under  the  feigned 
name  of  Donimgo  Cronzales,  and  piiblishe<l  some 
years  after  the  autbora  death  br  E.  M*  (of  Ch. 
Oh^y'—AUiciu  Oxon.,  ed.  1815,  ii'.  55?. 

Diinlop,  in  his  History  of  Fi4:tion  (ed.  181 0^ 
Hi.  394), mentions  "the  Spanish  work  of  Domintco 
Oonziiles."  He  takes  Dominic  for  the  real  author 
of  (he  **Spaniah  "  work  ! 

Hallara  {LiUraturc  of  Enropf,  ed.  1854,  iii., 
108)  says  that,  **by  some  internal  proofs,  it  must 
have  been  [written]  later  than  159!>,  und  before 
the  death  of  Elizabeth  in  16(>3.  But  it  was  not 
published  till  1038.**  Watt  and  Ailibone  are 
mistaken  in  sayinr;  the  book  was  published  in 
Perth.  *^London»  Printed  by  John  Norton,  for 
loshua  Kirton,  and  Thomas  Warren,  in38,"  ia  on 
the  titlc-pa^c.  It  was  tnmf^luted  into  French,  and 
published  in  Paris  in  1048,  under  the  title — 

*'  Ij' Homme  dan*  la  Lune,  ou  le  Voynge  Clilmiirique 
fait  au  mumie  de  la  Lunc,  nouvillcmcnt  dccouvett  |ar 
Doriiitjiquo  Gonzales  ATantmicr  Kspftirriol,  autrcmciit 
dit  le  Counier  Volaat,  luia  in  nostra  Lftngttc  par  J.  B.  D. 
[Jean  Baudoinl." 

This  tnmslation  was  reprinted  in  166B  and 
1731.  Cyrano  de  Ber*^^enKs  the  author  of  the 
Votj*igt  to  the  Moon  and  Huiory  of  tht  Mmpirt  of 
the  Sttjt^  *^  hud  modern  fictions,  especially  the 
Voijtujt:  to  the  Moon^  by  Godwin,  .  ,  .  which  be 
had  evidently  read,  to  iuip  the  win^s  of  an  inven- 
tion not  perhaps  eminently  fertile  '*  (Halkm) ;  and 
it  is  to  De  llergerae  thiit  Swift  i^  Biiptioyed  to  be? 
indebted.  I  rather  should  think  Swift  borrowed 
directly  from  Bishop  Godwin,  particularly  in  his 
Voijogc  to  Laptitn, 

Wood  (Athcn.  Oxon.)  observes  : — 

'*Tbia  book  (wliich  hath  before  the  title  of  it  the 
nictyrc  of  n  man  taken  up  from  the  top  of  a  i»ountain, 
by  %n  engine  drawn  up  to  the  moon  by  certain  tljxag 
birds) " — 

(This  curious  engraving  is,  however,  p.  15,  the 
letter-preBs  being  continued  on  the  back  of  the  leaf.) 
"  was  ceni»»red  to  be  u  Train  sa  the  ot>inion  of  Coper- 
nioufi.  or  the  strange  diicoursea  of  the  untipcdcft  ^>  hen 
first  heard  cf.  Vet  since  by  a  more  irLquiflitirc  search  iu 
iiura?c1Hng  thos^  iritrioactes.meti  of  aoliil  judgments  have 
&ince  funrid  out  a  way  to  pick  up  that  which  utay  mid  a 
very  considerable  knonlcdf^eand  advantA|^f't*>  posterity  f  [] 
Aniong  which  Vr.  Wilkin^,  sometimes  lithhop of  Chester, 
complied  by  hints  tlu-nce  (fiven  ias  'tis  iLought)  a 
learned  piece,  called  A  Ihgcovtry  o/ a  iVru*  Worttl  tu  the 

Either  Wood  had  not  rend  this  "lenrned  piece," 
or  he  did  not  believe  Dr.  Wilkins  ;  for  the  Bishop, 
at  the  end  of  his  Ducova-ij  (5ih  ed.,  1708,  p.  Ki3), 
says  : — 

**  Having  lhu»  fitiieliifd  this  Dificour^c,  T  chanced  upon 
a  late  Fancy  to  I  hie  purpose,  under  the  feigned  name  of 
Itoun'ngo  Uontuk*^  written  by  a  lute  Hevcrend  and 
Learned  Bbhop  :  Jn  which  (be&ideH  isundrv  Partioulars 
iffhcreiQ  this  Utter  Ch«pter  did  unwitlingfy  agree  with 
it)  there  i»  delivered  a  very  pleasant  and  welhcontrived 
Fancy  concerning  aVo^aife  to  this  cxther  World.  Uo 
suppoieth/'  kc. 


Both  bookii  were  published  anonymoiialy  in  16<l^ 

The  1768  edition  professes  to  be  **  thm  ) 
edition ''  of  "a  tnvct  licensed  lil'ty  yean  j 
in  1746  the  modern  version  of  Bi>"fi*>u 
lKX»k  had  lM*en  reprinted  in  the  ei 
the  Harliian  MisaUany^  without 
the  author^  or  a.^  to  the  existence  of  i 
version,  under  this  title  :^ 

'*  A  View  of  SL  Helena,  an  Island  in  tlie 
Ocean,  in  A  mtrica,  now  in  Pop««s¥i'>n  of  tb*' 
i'kixt  Indta  Company  J  where   '  ' 

in  their  Indian  VoyagiML 
admirable    Voyage    of    Xto 
Spanianl,  to  the  World  in  lk«  Jdwoii, 
several  Ganm^s,  or  larg«  Geese.     An  i 
written  by  a  late  learned  Bishop,    X/mc^u  <  ^i^ 
Ing  forty- three  Pages." 

In  the  re-is9ue  of  the  Harleian  MifctHany  ia  1 
1811  thi!^  is  again  reprinted  with  the  same  titb  $t 
before  and  the  heuding,  on  the  lf>i»  "if  •  •>  b 
**  Wilkins*B  Views  of  St.  Helena,  H" 
the  Moon.'^     In  a  note  to  the  w  ^^ 

fifty  year^  ogo  '*  the  editor  says^  "  The  oidy  pP^l 
cedent  edition,  which  the  editor  has  utet  with,  ill 
in  1«38,  8vo.,  inritled  The  Man  in  ih<  J' 

Why  did  he  not  point  out  tlmt  he  wxin  t 
not  the  old  story,  but  a  modem  and  spoilt  ^ 
And  why  attribute  it  to  Bishop  Wilkin?,  w!l 
the  text  (I  have  already  given  the  passiigt) ' 
ingenious  Bishop  Wilkins"  is  quoted  as  aHtih«t'| 
in<^  the  book  to  another  prelate  / 

Although  I  am  afraid  I  have  taken  np  too  i 
spiice,  I  would  COD  elude  with  Hallam^s  opintoii  of| 
the  book : — 

*•  Godwin  ....  had  no  prototv'pe,  as  far  ae  T 
Luci&Q.    He  resembles  [him  and  Swift]  in 
itnd  Tcracioufl  tone  of  hid  lies.    The  tiction  s 
g<?nioua  nnd  amusing  throughout ;  but  the  most  i 
able  part  i»  the  happy  conjectures^  if  wo  xamv  i 
mnre,   of  his  philosophy.      Xot  only  ''" 
dtfclaro  pofitiF«?ly  for  the  Copcmican  >[■ 
uncommon  at  that  time,  but  h^  hft«  ^ 
etond  the  principle  of 
po<cd  that  the  cartL 
distance.     Nor  is  the  :  ^   , 

*  I  mu^t  let  you  understand  that  tii«  gtobv  ul  the  1 
is  not  altogether  destitute  of  ru  attractive  pow^r  ;  buL 
b  far  weaker  thnn  that  of  the  earth  ;  a^    ' 
fprinp  upwards  with  h11  his  force,  ns 
tiaey  show  tbcir  activity  by  captrin^,  h 
mount   6fiy  or  liity  feet  high,  and  tht^u  h* 
hcjond  all  attraction  of  the  moon/     By  this  dttic 
fionmlex  returaa  from  Ilia  sojourn  in  tt 
it  required  a  more  complex  one  t«  I 
'  The  moon,'  he  olecrtcs,  '  i-?  cnrnn^j^  % 
the  parts  which  seem  s*mM  r 
dry  land/    A  contrary  hyi 
prevail;  but  we  mutit  not  ■u.^^vw  .  ,^.  . ,.. 
ingenif>us  young  student.** — Ltieraturtoj  Evr^fff^td 
lb64,  ill,  168. 

Sparks  Henderson  WiLLUlffi. 

18,  Kensington  Crescent,  W, 

P.S.— Bishop  Wilkins**  book  is  roviewed  b  1 
Etiro^ptctixc  lUviciVy  1823* 


S»  an  Sift.  12, 711 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


211 


RoUKRTSON    Family    (5*^   S.    ii.    127.)— The 

BabeitaoDs  of  Stnum  id  Perthsliire  for  anns  carry, 

ovie*,  3  wolres*  heads  crsLsed,  argent^  armed  and 

^^ri^?  .>-,j^y ;  cmst,  a  dexter  hand  holding  up  an 

IlD]  vn   proper;    motto,    inrUUis   gloria 

iM«ri     .      _-.    lirst  of  this  family,  as  Nisbct  undcr- 

^  stood,  was  A  litincan  MacdoDalvl,  who  bid  a  grant 

tl>f"  StTOjm  (Btrowan)  for  kiliiug  wolves  ;    and  a 

Robert  by  name,  kiving  apprehended 

^ftCrtie  murderere  of  James  I»  of  Scotland — the 

'^mtiidcr  haviBg  been  committed  within  the  monas- 

'  tery  of  the  Hlack  Friars  at  Perth  in  February, 

1436 — if  not  the  chief  instrument  in  the  ius&assina- 

.  tiou.  Sir  Robert  Gndiam,  the  family  have,  on  that 

f  abccouQt,   ever  since   borne   a  wild  man  chained 

[tiiider  the  escutcheon  of  their  arms.     While  Sir  G, 

Iteijxie  would  view  the  horizontal  position  in 

this  man  is  placed  tis  equivalent  to  what  is 

in  bluxonry  a  *^  corapartmentv*  Nisbct  con- 

Btheman  as  a  dtvim^ox  ** honourable  supporter/^ 

cacJcts  of  this  famdy  have  a<lopted  the  same 

but  With  *' ditt'erences"  ;  as  FaskaUy,  MuLr- 

^ewbi^ing,  I'mnent,  Ji:c.  (Niebet'^  iiydcmy 

323,  ii,   135  ;    Mackenzie's   ikience,   chap.  31, 

ipu  »5»  Plate  p.  ^U  ;    and  Seton's  L.  and  F.  of 

[  Mtraldry,  p.  277).  L. 

A  full  account  of  the  Robertsons,  or  clan  Dona- 

Lchu««  i»  given  in  Andersoa^s  ScoiiUh  Nation,  Edin. 

[and   LomL,   \&j3.     From  this  excellent  work  I 

BQOte   the   following    interesting   account   of  the 

ricol  incident  (.-oinmenjomted  by  the  crest  (*'  a 

anu  erect,  holding  a  rcg:d  crown,  all  ppr."), 

[  the  lingular  external  additameut  to  the  diield 

af  a  wild  man  lying  in  chninB  thereunder  : — 

**F  '       -'►n   ('.*'.,   I>uncni»'i,  lord  of    EiLnndck) 

Molty  ^rimthd),  who  tuceceded  birn,  the  cl»ii 

dbrii  NC  of  Robertson.     Tbia  Kobert  was  noted 

for  c  y  incuffiioni  into  the  Lowkmda,  and  if 

bill  vrn  h$  the  chief  >4ho  arreited  and  de- 

Lj|.  L.;  ihe  vengeance  of  the  government  Robert 
I  liml  the  Ma«t«r  of  Atholl,  two  of  the  raurdtrcra 
D(M  l.f  for  ^bkh  he  ivaa  rewarded  with  a  crown 
dated  in  U51,  erecting  his  whole  lands  into  a 
Krony.     lie  alio  received  tlio  honourable  augmen- 
ti-nifi  of  a  naked  man  manacled  under  the 
li  the  motto  rirttitii  gloria  taerca.     Me 
i?n<!ef1  in  the  head  near  the  village  ttf 
li   Robert   Forrj-Btcr  of 
difipute  regarding  the 
..  Ling  up  hia  head  with  a 
doth,  he  rude  to  Perth,  and  obtained  from  the 
I  new  grant  or  the  lands  of  !^t rowan.    On  hit  re- 
)  he  died  of  his  wounds).     He  bad  three  ion  it, 
ibb\   Bobeft,  aud  Patrick,     Iiobert»  the  second 
[  In^  ancestor  of  the  earla  of  I'ortmorc,  a  title 
Ktiaet/* 

Cmftn}  Artftory  has   the   story  thus^ 

w  of  Robert,  cliief  of  the  chin, 

oura^e  and  intrepidity  appre- 

the   ttim-itireiTB  of  Jamei^  L  of  Seotlandf 

IL  ^*raott;d   to  his  family  "the  cre^t  and 

•oU  *'  iha  man  lo  chains  lying  under  the 


escutcheou  of  the  arms  was  also  adopted  in  com- 
memoration of  this  event.**  C.  S*  K. 
Kythan  Lodge,  Soathjpfcte,  N* 

The  Island  Iris  [r^^  S.  ii.  129)  of  Diodonwi 
Siculua  is  the  Hibernia  of  Ciesar,  Tacitus,  and 
Pliny,  the  Juvcrna  of  Mela  (iir.  fj),  and  CeUarius 
(Orbis  AntxqMi^  L  449),  and  the  lema,  upi^y,  of 
Stntbo  and  Aristotle  {Dt  Innnd^  c.  3),  names 
ohviously  deriving  their  origin  from  the  nativo 
appellation  of  Ir,  Eri,  or  Erin.  Strsiho  (iv.  c.  5, 
par.  4),  after  describinjr  lerna  oa  an  island  "  of 
great  extent,  lying  parallel  to  Britain,  towards  the 
north,  long  or  rather  wide,^'  confirms  Diodorus 
Sicuhis  by  stating  that — 

**  Its  Inhabitants  are  more  savage  than  the  Britons^ 
/<r«/ni<7  Oft  A« man /<^*A,  and  enormous  eaterf»  and  deem- 
ing it  commendable  to  devour  their  deceaatd  fatherg. . . . 
This  we  relstej  perhaps/*  the  author  further  states, 
"  without  very  cumpetent  authority,  although  to  eat 
haman  tle^h  is  said  to  be  a  Scjthian  custom,  and  during 
the  severities  of  a  fiiegCj  even  the  KelL*  and  IberUns, 
and  many  others^  are  reported  to  have  done  the  like/* 

The  inhuman  custom  of  eating  a  deceased  parent 
is  likewise  related  by  Herodotus  (lib.  i.  216)  of  the 
Mas<iageta%  and  the  Issedoni  (lib.  iv»  26). 

History  records  three  examples  of  a  people  being 
driven  to  the  extremity  of  eating  huaian  llesh  :  the 
Gauls,  during  their  wars  with  the  Cimbri  and 
Teutonew  (Ctcsar,  lib,  vii.  c.  77);  the  inhabit;mtg 
of  Numantia  when  besieged  by  Scipio  (Valerius 
Maximus^  lib.  viu  c,  6)  j  and  the  city  of  PotidiEa 
during  the  Peloponnesian  war  (Thucyd.,  lib.  ii* 
c,  70).  William  Platt, 

Cottserrative  Gub* 

This  is  Ireland.  Dii  Cange  tells  ns,  *'Irmsi^ 
Hiberni  apud  Grden  Vitalis,  lib.  ii.  and  12,  nostris 
Irois,  A  vuee  Hitrc  vel  /re— *quiu  iis  populis 
Occidentem  sonat,"'  By  Ordericus  Vitalia  the 
Hiberni  are  called  Iren?e^^  by  our  people  /roi>, 
from  the  word  Hure  or  Ire^  which  among  that 
people  means  the  AVest.  Ptolemy  named  it  Brit-- 
annia  Parvaj  while  other  ancient  writers  havo 
variously  called  it  Jcrna^  Juvirna^  Iru.  From 
the  last,  no  doubt,  we  get  Eriiij  Inland^  and  Iruli\ 
Edmund  Tew,  M.A 

The  word*l^t"5  in  Diodoms  Sicuhis  is  a  form  of 
Eri^  the  Gaelic  name  for  Ireland.  Late  researches 
have  rendered  it  plausible  that  Eri  or  Erin  is 
connected  with  the  Sanscrit  *4rj^,  the  natne  chosen 
for  themselves  by  the  settlers  in  India  in  contra- 
distinction to  the  nomadic  races.  The  etymological 
Mgnitication  of  Arya  is  thought  to  be  **one  wha 
ploughs  or  tills  "  ;  in  later  Sanscrit  it  means  nobU^ 
vr!l-hf>nt.  See  Midler,  Scimce.  ♦/  Lnngtiage^  u 
23P.-247.  A  L  Mathew. 

Oxford. 

PfijvY  Council  JrDCMENTs :  Liddell^  Wks- 
TKRTON  (5^  S,  ii.  12S,  157,  175.)— It  aeema  to  me 
that  the  case  of  the  alteration  mode  in  the  |ud^- 


212 


NOTES  AXD  QUERIES 


inent  of  the  JndkiaJ  Committee  should  be  stated 
in  fnlrness  with  the  dute  oi  it«  being  made^  and 
the  authoritj  for  it,  to  aroid  the  sunnises  which 
have  arisen. 

The  jud;»i2jont  was  delivered  on  Ala-rch  21, 1957, 
by  the  Hon,  T.  Peniberton  Leigh,  afterwards  Lonl 
KingHdown.  In  the  same  year  an  authenticated 
report  of  the  St.  Paurs  and  Rimabaa  causes,  *'  fi& 
heard  and  detemuned  by  the  Cunaistoiy  Court  of 
London^  the  Arches  Court  of  Canterbury,  and  the 
Judicial  CommiUt^  of  the  Frivy  Council,"  by 
E.  F.  Moore,  M.A,,  Barrister-at-Law,  was  pub- 
lished by  Longmans  &  Co.  (London,  1857^1.  The 
Preface  is  dated  August  21,  and  contains  these 
very  important  statements  by  Mr.  M»x^re : — "  I 
have  had  the  advantage  of  submitting  the  final 
judgment  to  the  learned  Jud^e  who  delivered  it, 
who  huf*  obli«;in^ly  made  one  or  two  tyjjognipbical 
emendations/'  I  am  **  the  professional  reporter  of 
the  C4WieH,"  and  **  the  only  pwa^essor  of  the  materials 
of  which  an  authentic  report  of  this  important  cjtse 
t^uld  be  formed.'' 

At  p.  197  there  is  this  note,  which  explains  the 
matter:  — 

**  The  reporter  has  been  requeiied  to  add  the  follow- 
ing note:— A  correctron  hun  bten  introduced  of  an 
erroaeouB  pasBaite  whicb  in  the  jad||:ment  us  delivered 
atrtod  tlnw  :  that  the  PruTcr  for  the  coneecratioQ  of  the 
clcm<^nt8  wa»  oiuitted.  tlmutfU  in  the  preieDt  Prayer 
Bouk  it  is  reatoreJ.— T.  P.  L." 

The  words  inserted  in  the  judgment  instead  of 
the  above  are—**  Mate  rial  alterations  were  intro- 
duced in  the  Prayer  of  Consecration." 

It  appears,  therefore,  that  the  alteration  wa.s 
made  by  Lord  Kingsdo^wu,  within  tive  months  of 
the  judgment  being  delivered  by  him,  before  the 
publityition  of  tlie  authentic  report,  tbtit  it  is  cer- 
tified by  his  initials^  and  authenticated  l»y  the 
reporter.  Tlie  mistake  was  publicly  acknowledged 
by  the  Judge  who  made  it.  It  is  not  improbaldc 
tliat  the  other  meml>ers  of  the  Committee  oidy  saw 
the  draft  judgment  before  it  wa»  delivered. 

Ed.  Mausiuxl, 

Swidford  St.  Martin. 

The  way  in  which  the  two  prelates,  Bumner  rind 

Tait,  fell  into  the  error  of  declaring  that  the  Prayer 

of  Consecmtion  was  left  out  of  the  second  boi>k  of 

Edward  VI,  is  probubly  this:    being  profoundly 

ignorant  of  Liturgiology,  they  took  up  one  of  thof^c 

ibnoka   which   compared    the   two    Liturgies,  and 

I  placed  them  side  by  side  in  iwiraliel  robiTuni*.     In 

I  tlie  first  liook  the  Prayer  of  Coni»ecration  comes  at 

]  an  earlier  stage  than  in  the  second,  accordingly  the 

I  column  of  the  second  is  blank.     Without  looking 

further,  they  concluded  thiit  it  wan  wholly  omitted  1 

In   the   Purchas    judgment  the  Archbishop  of 

York  made  an  equally  inexcusable  blunder.     On 

rthe  question  of  the  mixed  chulice,  the  iJean  of 

'Arches  iiiled  that  it   is  not  allowed  to  mix  the 

ehjilice  in  the  middle  of  the  office,  but  that  it  mtiy 


be  Lawfully  doizie  in  th#  Sacristrv  ht^ne  tli»« 
meaopment  of  ''-  -^^  ^'^     *"^-    ^—  ^ 

comicnmed,  &:• 
in  any  branch  <>*  ,.,.      ..  i  oat, 

after  the  delivery  of   t!i  o  fia 

from  being  an  unknown  ,  '  fgdar 

order  in  the  Greek  Church, 

It  would  have  been  well  if  thesr  nkoet  rovgwoi 
prelatee  had  followed  the  example  of  medivfil 
times,  and  colled  in  the  fid  vice  of  learned  mcft, 
usually  called  iJimfl^gwfii^  before  giviiae  jud^BMflL 
Had  they  done  so,  suck  blunideri  woid d  !»?»  b«i 
avoided.  E.  L.  Bt-nnajcsorf. 

"  WoRMTuri "  FOR  Canixe  Rabiesi  (T***  S,  I »«: 
ii.  150.)— Had  Juxii  Nepos  consulted  tlie  iraib 
of  the  most  eminent  wTiters  <r       '  "      n^gx, 

he  would  have  found  that  '' 
gross   error.      Not   a    few    pn juMtn.^    nn.:.ts  is 
Cherihire,  the  lenet- in  formed  county  in  E&^inl. 
The  **  Old  Cheshire  Gardener  "  is,  perhsps,  m  ih 
establishment  of  a  certain  Justice  of  the  Pr^'   ' 
these  parts,  who  publicly  awerted,  not  long  ^mr^ 
at  Quarter  Sessions,  that  **  it  was  only  the  dop  of 
*  loafers  *  who  went  mad,  not  the  dog*  of  n^prct- 
iible  jieople."     What  would  Buckle  say  ' 

Delabere  Blaine,  W'ho  was  first  an  nr: 
and  subsequently  the  ablest  vet*'' 
and  probably  of  any  cotmtry  in   i 
us — 

"  Worming,  therefore,  I  Tv^sitwlr  affirm,  if  »•  •ft* 
gu»rd  whnterer  against  ral'  i<tletflfHk 

Tint  creditAble  to  otir  presei:  olf  loCDra^* 

tion."— Ctiftinf  PcUhdogy,  i 

Youfitt,   Blaine^s  pupil  And  ftucoenon;  «rp  < 
'*  worming^-: — 

**  For  tbe  eake  nf  htitn&nity,  as  well  »a  to  atoid  ikil 
charge  of  igrior&iice,  it  ie  to  bo  hoped  thai  Uite  i>rM 
wiH  e|>eedily  cease. ''^TAtf  IM^,     By  WiUiam  Y« 
London,  18<j4. 

ISkf ayhew's  opinion  is : — 

**  People  who  talk  of  m  worm  in  the  tongue  of  a  te 
only  ftJiou  f  '  ^  tng  it  ilu«» 

be  reuiov. 

'*  As  to  V      .  'Ad 

teotioa  in  cubC  ru>l>ic^ 
*o  prcfwisteroufl  tliat  1 
Dog*:  ihtir  MtLtiiuji i^tt u i ,    i.j  j^^+^^^i-^.^  ^.4Mt+L«. 

Sixty-six  dog^  have  been  massacred  Ihia  \ 
London  streets.    In  fixty-tive  thcrt 
of  mbies  ;  the  other  cum'  was  doi 
son  has  died  of  hydrophobia  this  } 
recently)  in  any  bospitnl  in  the  nu 
other  hand,  there  have  been  in  i 
two  instances^,  at   leu.st,  of  men  <i 
fear  of  the  disease  ;  one  in  Munrt 
Hospital,  and  another  in  Liverpool  fi 
is  very  questionable  if  the  epidemic  tr- 
by  penny-a-liner?,  panic-mongers 
has  not  caused  directly  more  poi^ 
(to  say  Bothing  of  ill  health  and  nervou<&n4.d»)  1 


^^^n 


J^&IL8inT.lS;7<.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


213 


_»U  the  rvjkHr  Tunt!  dr>^i  in  the  country.     '*  Riibie? 
kntiiu  '*  I  unknow^n  in  innnj  lands,  and 

ml,,-  .  A»  yet,  one  of  the  rarest  of 

GRonnR  R.  JitssE, 

^  THE  Cat/^  &c.  (A"*  S.  iL  146.)— 

ibe  orijfinal  and  correct  way  of  wordin^j 

otto  18  "  Touch  not  tlie  cnt»  but  a  glove/ 

nf  i»  Scotch  for  ttithout.     To  most  people, 

fiiDjar  would  Dot  be  clear,  so  there  is  no 

in  altering  it  to  **  Touch  not  the  cat  without 

Thomas  Strattox 

BmnfAsr's  Imitators  (5*  S*  iL  148.)— -Symon 
"  ely  Bbthop  of  Chichester  and  Ely, 
«  a(  GdinAborough,  Lincolnshire,  in  1628, 
I  at  Ely,  1 707.  A  Ust  of  hia  works  niay  be 
I  in  Bohn's  edition  of  Lowndes's  BibluffP'aphfr's 
^famut^l  Thi  Farahlc  of  the  Pilgrim^  uritUn  to 
^^^Kbnd,  Wiis  ptiblLshed  in  1665,  in  4to.,  and  hafi 
^H^ni^^enJ  times  reprinted, 

Th»  aboY«-quot«d  authority  informs  us  that— 

**  tleia-^mlled  Third  Part  {oiTht  Pilgrim  t  PTo*jrfM*\ 
flnl  prittted  m  101^1^  and  of  which  m  flixth  edition 
>pptre<1  in  1705,  ia  b  epuriout  and  contemptible  pro- 

Edward  Pkacock. 

XD  A±5nEY  (5*^  8,  ii,  148.)— See  "  Obser^ii- 

the  IILstorj'  and  Structure  of  the  Abbey 

Bletjsed  Mary  of  Byland,"  by  John  Riehani 

D»   in   the   Frocctdingg  of   the    Yorhhirt; 

I  Socittif^  1864.  CoRNun. 

*i«!  n  r/nod  account  of  By  land  Abbey  in 
oraceimi*t  JJi^tory  an(^  Autiqnitus 
and    it4    ^ci^Iihourkooil^    1852, 
.  iul  iii,  Sajiurl  Shaw, 

Of  this  gneat   Cistercian   abbey»   founded    by 

^Of^  de  Mowbray  in  the  year  1 134,  ample  ac- 

iinl«   will    )ye  found  in   Ihigdale   {Monasticoii^ 

■    i,  pp.  775  and  10*27,  fol  1CS2),     As  to  the 

hood,  and   the  "  naine^  of  the  ancient 

I  jiresunie  the  bf«t  sources  of  infor- 

i  woitJd  he  loc»l  and  topographical  histories, 

Edxcttd  Tew,  M.A. 

rxh  Qrernr  (r»**  S.  iL  14&.}— In  134>S, 

Gilbert,  Bishop  of  Enaghdoeu  or  Enack- 

led  the  restored  church  of  Selrt,  or 

ing,  in  Sostfcx.     The  see  was  svihse- 

rbed  into  the  dioc«e  of  Tuam. 

J.  R.  B. 

,  now  AunAgluh>wn,  and  part  of  the 
Tttam,  to  whidi  it  wan  tiniteti  kiiti*, 
8<?e  Archdeacon  Cotton's  Fa*t.  Efcl 
^g»k»  IT.  5L        CnARLES  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

H^Titic  Tnojtvs  Wextworth  (5'*»  S.  il.  149)  of 

^MUm  Hall,  inquired  after  by  P,  N.  L.,  must 

!•¥«  twso  Sb  Thomas  Wentworth,  baronet,  son  of 


Sir  William  Wentworth,  btironet,  by  his  wife 
iHana,  dau<:hter  of  Sir  William  Blackett,  of  Wal- 
lin^^oD,  CO,  Northumberland,  baronet.  Sir  Thoma« 
Wentworth  died  unmarried  at  Bretton  Hall  on 
the  9th  Jtilv,  1702.  See  Hunters  South  York^ 
$hirr,  vol  il'p.  244.  K,  P.  D.  E. 

*'TuE  Bird's  Nest"  (b^  S.  iL  167.)— The  pajj- 
Sfige  to  which  Mr.  G,  Wothrrspoon  desires  a 
clue  will  be  found  in  Hurdis's  Pt/ia^e  Curate,  p.  43, 
It  runs  as  follows  : — 

**  But  mo«t  of  all  it  wioi  my  ftdmirstion^ 
To  Tteir  the  Biructurv  of  thi  §  little  work, 
A  bird's  tieat.     Mnrk  it  well,  within,  without ; 
No  too!  hod  be  thnt  wrou^rht,  no  knife  to  cot, 
Ko  nail  to  fii,  na  bodkia  Co  inj>eri, 
Ko  glue  to  join ;  Am  liuU  fi*ol'  trfu  «!/, 
And  yet  how  nctiti     '       '  ' '  *    "  '  ^  ^i  5  hsadp 
With  ere ry  impl*i 

.^nd  twenty  jear-  t, 

Could  make  me  luch  anotlier  i  Fondly  thi^n 
We  boast  of  eicceltenoe,  wbose  noblest  skill 
Inttinctif  e  genius  foils." 
Hurdis,  as  a  poet,  is  ahuost  forj^otten.  These 
days  of  sensationidisra  on  the  one  hand,  and  metn- 
pbysical  obscurity  on  the  other,  are  not  f;ivourable 
to  the  calm  quiet  desert pti on :^  of  mral  scenery  and 
conntr)'  life  which  fonn  the  staple  of  his  work*. 
Yet  there  is  much  of  true  poetical  inspiration  in 
his  productionn.  Those  who  delight  iu  the  works 
of  Nature  in  their  varied  aspects,  of  the  changing 
seasons  of  the  year  and  the  daily  vicissitudes  of 
the  sk}^  and  the  earth,  with  the  nuinl»erless  asso- 
ciations connecting  them  with  human  life,  will  find 
a  rich  storehouse  of  beauty  in  The  FavtmrUe 
Village  and  Hn  ViUage  Curat*. 

James  Hurdia  was  born  in  1763,  and  graduated 
at  St,  Mary  Magdalen,  Oxford.  He  was  tutor  to 
George  Pelham,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Chichester, 
afterwards  Bisbc'p  of  Bristol.  In  171)1,  throuv^li 
the  interest  of  the  Chichester  family,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  livinjj  of  Bishopstone,  in  Sussex^. 
In  1793,  he  wiis  elected  Professor  of  Poetry  in  the 
ITnivetsity  of  Oxford.  He  died  in  Beceraber,  18< Jl, 
at  the  H^e  of  thirty-eight. 

His  Villagt  Curate  was  published  in  1788,  and 
met  with  a  verj^  favourable  reception,  ha%'iniJ 
passed  through  four  editions  within  a  few  years. 
Tlie  Favour  iu  Villagt  was  printed  at  his  own 
private  press  in  18(K).  He  was  also  the  author  of 
t^ir  Th&iHOJi  Mort,  a  Tragtdy^  and  several  proie 
works. 

His  poeticjd  works  were  issued  in  a  collected 
form  in  181*t,  forming  two  volumes,  edited  by  the 
author^s  sisters.  In  tlie  correspondence  of  the 
poet  Cowj>er,  numerous  letters  will  be  found  ad- 
dressed to  Hurdis,  who  was  on  the  most  friendly 
terujs  with  the  recluse  of  Olney. 

J.  A.  PlCTOK- 
Sandylmowe,  Warertree. 

a  isv^HY  ••  ^  j^y  ExpLFmT!  (J^  8.  L  386.)— Tlie 
habit  of  employing  expletive  ^VvnM»^  %^f^T«D»5ct 


214 


NOTES  AND  QITERIEJ 


t5»ff,ILB»T.l,7i. 


■witth  a  view  of  arresting  or  iixmg  the  attention  of 
a  hearer,  is  very  common  in  fill  partB  of  the  countrr; 
f*  gr.,  nrnnj  persons  prelii  such  a  phraeK?  as  '*  look 
ye/*  "  mind  ye,"  and  ^o  on ;  while  others  adopt 
another  form,  and  place  at  the  end  of  the  sentence 
some  expreissions  of  analogous  import,  snch  as 
*'  d'  y'  see  ? "  or  "  d'  y-  hear  \ "  In  some  of  the 
northern  parts  of  Ireland  it  may  be  observed  tlmt 
when  two  persons  are  engajjed  in  earnest  conversa- 
tion, perhaps  in  vehement  altercation,  almost  every 
plintse  is  rounded  tall'  with  a  final  "  dear  !  *'  while 
in  the  extreme  south  the  term  **  why  "  is  similarly 
employetL  Now  the  suggestive  note  of  S.  T.  P. 
on  the  use  of  this  latter  expletive  induces  me  to 
pmpose  a  pjiir  of  queries.  May  not  the  northern 
expression  (which  does  not  Hlways  sound  like  a 
term  of  endearment)  be  simply  a  nipid  colloquial 
contraction  of  "  do  you  hear  ? "  and  may  we  not 
seek  for  tm  explanation  of  the  southern  "  why  ■'  l>y 
tracing  it  to  a  very  slightly  corrupted  form  of  the 
old  word  *'^  oyez,"'  a  term  still  presented  in  (?oriie 
law  forms  ?  E^fSu 

Dublin. 

Letters  by  *' Ak  Englishman  "  (6***  S.  L  408.) 
—  I  believe  the  name  of  the  author  of  these  Ietter?5 
has  never  been  publicly  di\nilged.  The  editor  of 
the  Tinwi  acknowledgetl  that  the  letter?  were  in- 
I  tertedj  contrary  to  their  usual  custom,  without  the 
name  and  addre^^ts  of  the  author  being  known*  The 
excuse  for  departing  from  this  rule  was  because 
the  letters  displayed  such  UQUsual  power  and 
ability.  They  were  afterwards  published  in  n 
separate  form  by  Jlr.  H.  G.  Bohn.  UjcnRA. 

Clachnacudden  (5**»  S.  ii.  14a) — This  is  a 
large  stone  near  a  w*ell  whereon  i>ersons  going  for 
water  rest  their  water-st^ups.  The  stoup  is  a 
bucket  or  pitcher,  made  of  Ktiives,  two  of  which  arc 
longer  than  the  others  ;  through  the  t^p  at  these 
a  wooden  pin  piiHi^e.s,  and  answers  for  a  hantlle. 
The  bottom  is  larger  than  the  top.  Chidi  (stone) 
na  (of  the)  cudainn  (water-stoup)* 

Thomas  STRATToy. 

"'At  the  door  of  tho  Towu  Hall  i;Iiiveraea8)  is  a  bine 
lozenge-shuncd  Bione^  called  Clacb-aa-Cudden,  or  *  itoac 
of  the  tubs,  from  its  having  nerrcd  at  a  restintrpliiee  for 
the  wouicn  carrying  water  from  the  river.  TLia  ii  tho 
pBilladium  of  the  town,  and  ha«  been  carefully  iireserTcd 
since  the  time  of  iJonald  of  the  lalci,  in  1410/'— Black's 
i^iV^«r«Y««  O'uidi  to  f'kotiandj  17th  cd.,  IStifi,  p.  502. 

J,  Manuel* 

The  Stat.  Ac,  Scot,  renders  Cla<h-na-mdden 
"  stone  of  the  tubs'*  (mtainn,  a  tub  ?). 

H.  S.  Charkock. 
Groy'g  Inn, 

"Eelation  of  Englaijd"  (5*  S.  ii,  1(>4)— 
Xi€onard  Miusoill  is  said  to  have  introduced  carp, 
ujid  pUiced  them  in  the  moot  surrounding  hia  man- 


sion, Flumpton  Place,  which  still  retains  its  moti 
and  its  carp.     Lower  says  in  a  note  : — 

'■  This»  however,  may  well  be  doubted,  oa  Dame  Juliua 
Bemera  inentionj  the  fieh  in  her  ^'  ^'  ■  '  '^''  Alf*ism'i,  in 
the  previous  ceatiiry.    She  descr  'dajirt^fnii 

fyifihc.  but  there  ben  but  few  iii  ,  uid^  thcrt* 

foroj  I  wrrte  the  lesse  of  bym/   —  J^M^jry  of  StMtr* 
ToLii,  p,  101. 

The  Bole  was  publi&hed  in  1496,  and  ilia  date 
assigned  for  the  introdoction  of  carp  is  ciroot  ldS5» 
Haydn^s  Dictionary  of  Lhle^,  inb  it>e^,     TiiAe^ 
are  said  to  have  first  been  brought  into  EnglftQ 
temp.  Henry  VIIL,  who  forbade  brewers  to 
hops  or  sulphur  in  brewing  beer.    Ca?sar*s  tUU 
ment  is  supported  by  modem  authorities  r — 

**  When  the  actual  cunratare  of  the  coa«t  Is  tn<«^ 
and  the  opposite  sides  of  Hi  estuaries  ore  included,  tbt 
perimeter  if  found  to  bo  not  Un  than  2,000  miiei."^ 
Black ie'a  Imperial  OozdUer,  1S55. 

'*  Includiug  the  principat  indcntattonSp  tbe  emd^Vi 
TOeosures,  at  leait,  2,000  milei."— P.  U^  rtrt-Motk  f 
OeoffrupAy,  by  James  Douglas,  Ph.D.t  187:1. 

'*  The  co&st-Uno  of  Great  Britain  h  " 
of  auy  other  country  of  equal  area,  hi  I 

of  coaat  to  twenty  s^^iuare  miles  of  &^i 

Caftehum  of  OoitrtU  Geography ^  12th  ed. 

This  latter  gives  the  arexi  as  5B/KH)  squnpo  i 
Meaby,  at  57/ hK>  ;  Stewart,  r»8,32(i ;  bf»t  Bla 
stiites  "  the  true  area  is  now  understood  to 
57,S12  st|uare  miles/'     Juliua  Ciesar  would  { 
to  have  given  us  the  minimum^  while 
the  maximum  **  in  round  %are«." 

JnO,   a,    FOfWLIlL] 

FLT-LE.VP  iNSCRrrxioN  (5**'  S.  ii,  107.) — In  I5li 
Constanciji  Browne  was  elected  Abbess  of  Ly 
and  among  the  names  of  the  sifters  of  the  ftbb 
at  that  date,  occurs  the  name  of  Joan  tSactHi  i 
doubt  the  owner  of  the  book  nmiied* 

Samuki.  SbaW, 

AndoTer, 

Shakspeahe'S  Bust  at  Stratford  f'^f!,! 
161.)— Mb.  C.  a.  Ward  writes  at  tld*  : 

**  Haa  it  ever  been  stated,  Bunuiaed.  or  hs  _liI 

it  came  about  that  Jansen^  ow/  o/r 
timti  was  ever  employed  upon  the  nv 
ex-manager  of  *tiie  Globe/  who  bftd  r.  nu 
acme  years  previously,  into  a  Warwickshire  farmtr! 

I  answer,  unhesitatingly,  it  has  not.     ^" 
iit  all  wonderful  that  no  one  has  e\  • 
pursued  that  inquiry  ;  for  assuredly  no  -_ 
anything  to  do  with  the  bust.     Mr.  Hiun  Fi 
{Life  For  traits  of  Sftakejtptartf   1^G4,  pp. 
says ; — 

"  The  name  of  the  acnlptor  of  the  Stmtfonl  tm?^ 
Gerard  Johnson.     *Wc  lenm   t 
Knight,  *  from  Dugdalc'i  Currr 
Mr.  Hamper  in  1527/    Of  hiti^  .  ^  /./..... 
fad  rtcorded,  and  that  he  carved  ilIs«  H 
figure    of  John   Combe,  a  hcftTy,  Btiff,  r 
hlock,"  kc. 

For  **  nothing,"    howeveFp  we   should    r 
read  litiU;  and  that  HttU  proves  that  J 


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215 


I  ixras  s  poor  tomb-maker  (a  Hollander),  liting  in  the 
'  vani  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle, 

Where  did  Mb.  (\  A.  Ward  obtain  the  state- 

tnctnt  that   Shukspeare,  on  retiring  to  Stratford, 

J  took  to  farniinjj!'  /     Is  this  assertion  as  tnist worthy 

InA  his  tittribution  of  the  biiiit  to  "one  of  the  finest 

I  artists  of  h  m  time  ? "  Jabez. 

Aihexucum. 

"Got>    BLESS   THE    MARK"   (5**»    S.   iL    169.) — Is 

'not   thf  phnise  equivalent  to  **  God  forgive  nie*'t 
ft,  gives,  *^  Marque  =  L€t(rt!^  de  rcprt^naUk^, 
—-  U»er  dr  repr^jtaillt^"    Tq  the  fragment 
©f  -  i  (EJ'IT.S.),  tlie  verb  merUn  seems 

^1  I  nse  (*'  too  merken  hem  care,"  1,  284  j 

ujiirk  pe  teene/'  L  497),  thotigh*  perhaps,  the 
aing  of  7imH:  there  goes  no  further  than  **  to 
p,  to  brand."    There  is  a  quibble  in  The  Two 
aneii  of  Verotia  passage  (iv.  4,  IS).     The 
I  is  used  niostlv  wnen  a  comparison  is  made. 
^,  in  the  Othdlo  pfusjiage  (i.  I,  33) — 
%  in  good  time,  must  his  lieutenant  he^ 
And  I  (God  bles«  the  murk  !)  bis  Moor-aLip^B  ^nctent." 

evens,  in  the  Variorum  of  1821,  &ay8  on  thift 
"  Kelly*  in  his  comments  on  Scots  pr»i- 
8,  observes  that  the  Scots,  when  they  comi.*are 
[  person  to  person,  use  this  exclamation."     He  goes 
[  on  to  qnol4?  from  Churchyard  : — 

*  Kot  beauty  here  I  olaime  by  this  my  talke. 
For  browne  arid  Uacke  1  was,  God  blease  the  niarke  !" 

]  in  which  ])iUH^if^'e  the  comparison  h  between  beauty 
I  and  swarthi!U4»,  The  comparison  is  generally  a 
ItKinteniptuous  distinction.  Thus  the  fop  (1st 
^[rnry  IT".,  i.  3,  56)  talks— 

**  So  tike  fk  wiiUmg  gentlewoman. 
Of  gaiu  ftnd  dnitoa  and  wound.<^." 
lbs  and  exckmations  are  ditficult  things  to 
fte  and  explain.  John  Addis, 

fEnniso  Cot^TfTTKO  {5<*»  S.  ii,  IGTO'-Tho  fol- 
ring  may  supply  Sin  Frederick  Pollock  with 
nc  new  facts  : — 
I,  J/rrTjf ,  ft  mciutire  of  500  herringf . 
,  A  burden,  or  weight. 
r  o<f  mqiackt  herriogn,  18  barrels. 
j  of  hcxrinpis.  tea  tbousand — CQlea*a  E$igliiK  Die- 
tiiiftnty,  liJS5, 

Mit'  M€i€f »  tneuure  of  heniuiKB  containing 

-  d . 

bttrd<;n,a  certain  weight  or  measure.— Kersejr's 
Enfjluh  Dictionary 1 1715. 
bo  ; — 

r  {[Gaelic)^,  n  mcature. 
iw^-^>-y*ffadain  (Welsh),  five  icore,  or  6^0  of  herrings. 
— Owen>  Wehh  DicHtmmry. 
'>  is -riff}  (rri*!h),  n  tnaiae,  500  fishes. 
"      I         ,  500  herrings. 

ndinaTian),  500  hemn;i». 
i.^j,  14  harrela.— Seweire  D¥i(h  Dictionary, 
17*>S, 

t — By  Slftt  Edward  I.  a  lait  of  herrings  wat  io  con* 
tain  10|OOQ»  At  sLzacore  to  the  hundrtd. — Fronu  Pr, 


Lvut  of  white  bcrringa,  12  barrela. 
Luit  of  red  herrings,  20  cades  or  thousands. — Tomlin^i 
Law  Dictiotiaiy^  1835. 

At  Great  Yarmouth  (co.  Norfolk),  by  the 
19th  Edward  III,  a  last  of  herrings  imported  was 
to  pay  a  niurajje  rate  of  twopence  ;  exported^  to  pay 
Iburpence.  [A  muriige  rate  was  a  rate  for  sea- 
cotKst  walLs^  or  beach  rate.]  By  31st  Edward  III* 
no  last  of  herrings  to  be  bought  at  a  higher  price 
than  40*.  C.  Goldixo. 

Paddington. 

Isabel  asd  Elizabetu  (5***  S.  ii.  1(W.) — The 
following  are  from  the  Haddington  registers  ; — 

1-  Robert  Balllie.  Isobell  namilton  a  aon  Robert 
borne  20th  March  bap.  ll"*  Aprrlo  1671. 

2.  Hobcrt  BjtiUie.  Eliz«heUi  Uamittun  a  g,  William 
born  3rd  bap,  24th  October  IfWL 

u.  Robert  Duvid.  lasobell  Hail  He,  two  Bnughters 
Elizabeth  and  IiiSobeU  borne  2JtU  bap.  2Vnh  Jaauary 
V6ii. 

1  and  2  exhibit  an  acknowledged  interchange 
of  BailLie  and  Baikie,  but  a  doubtful  interchange 
of  Isobell  and  Elizabeth  ;  because  3  shows  that 
there  was  an  understoofl  distinction  between 
Eliisabeth  and  Issobell,  tlie  Latter  name  being 
variously  spelt,  ns  Issabell,  Isabell,  I^3obell,  Sic, 

J.  Beale* 

Buddha  (5"^  S.  ii.  165.) — Buddha  is  jsaid  to  be 
from  tlie  Sanskrit  buddfia^  wise,  sage,  from  bttddh^ 
to  know.  Mr.  Dilke  says  tliat  badil  means  to 
wah^  in  Kussian  and  Bohemian.  Now  the  English 
word  bud  is  from  the  Bohemian  word  boi^  a 
prick  or  goad  (see  Wedgwood),  Our  word  bodkin 
origiiiany  meant  a  pricking  instrument ;  **  when  he 
hiniself  might  his  quietus  make  with  a  bare  badkin^* 
proves  it.  The  French  poindre  da  jour  (Wedg- 
wood) is  titst  bursting,  piercing,  or  germ  of  day. 
Erachet  says  that  the  French  bouter  is  from  bozen^ 
Geniuin  for  pous.ier,  '*  Bouton  ce  qui  pousse,  ce 
qui  lionte  aux  pluntes."  So  that  in  this  we  get  at 
the  primary  idea  of  Buddha^  iuh  the  germinator, 
not  the  oiraI:&}icr  from  sleep,  but  the  budder  into 
life.  The  engrafter,  or  in -pricker,  from  whose  in- 
cision the  bud  of  all  life  springs  out,  and  not  life 
only,  but  u*ts<fi9?H /which  is  little  else  than  spiritual 
awakenment.  This  shows  that  Sanskrit  it  self  is 
3'oung  coniptred  with  the  triditeml  roots  that  still 
live  in  Euglish.  From  what  I  have  Siiid  those  who 
have  studied  the  Phallic  emblems  will  now  fully 
understand  the  physical  meaning  of  Buddha, 

0.  A-  Ward, 

Mayfair, 

'*  Old  LosDoy  Fortifications"  (5"^  S.  i.  183.) 
— If  CoR3<rB.  will  refer  to  *^  N.  &  Q.,"  !•»  S.  ix„ 
he  wLQ  find  that  the  drawings  in  question,  which 
were  said  to  have  been  executed  by  a  "  Captain 
John  Eyre  of  Crom well's  own  regiment,'*  were 
then  (1854)  reported  to  be  in  the  possession  of  the 
corporation  of  London  ;  and  I  have  heurd  It  ^tAt^ojii 


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NOTES  AND  QUE] 


thAt  in  consequence  of  the  ciiscussion,  which  sro»e 
as  to  their  gennitieness,  and  m  to  the  existence  of 
sQch  an  ol1ic<?r  its  Captain  John  Eyre,  the  corpora- 
tion declined  to  purchase  them.  L.  F. 

"  Diphthong;*  &c.  (b^  S.  ii.  186.)— I  whoUy 
demur  to  the  st^itcment  of  T,  H.  P.»  that  Eoj^lish 
people  geneniUy  pronounce  the  ph  in  these  words 
uci  if  it  W9S  p,  I  conceive  it  is  mere  slipalop, 
seldom  done  by  educated  persons.    Lyttbltos. 

Mrs.  Serres  (5*^  S.  ii.  141 »  177.)^The  name 
of  Robert  Cole^  Eaq,»  F.S.A,»  may  not  be  unknown 
to  Mr.  Th*jMS,  and  it  is  in  a  catalogue  of  his 
once  valuable  collection  of  autof^raphs  and  mauu- 
scripts  I  iind  mentioned  other  works  by  Mrs.  Serrea 
in  jwldition  to  those  noticed  by  Mr,  Thoms.  They 
are  as  followa  :— 
The  Prmcesa  of  Cumber  land  ;  Statement  to  the  English 

Nation.     vSieTietl  Olive,  1822. 
The  Royal  Oliiiplain.     Maiiascript,  octavOp  2dii  pages. 
Hiatory  of  I»on  Pedro  Tolenger,  of  Valladolid,  quarto, 
r       445  p«gefl,  in  tbe  Autograph  of  the  Pnncew. 
\T\it  Footman,  a  folio  m»nuscript.  132  ptgei. 

My  father's  collection  contained  a  naml>er  of 
interesting  letters  and  documents  connected 
'  with  the  case,  but  these  are  the  only  books  I  can 
find  which  would  be  any  help  to  Mr.  Tiiomb. 
Toignmoatb.  *  Emily  C-ole. 

William  Mitdford  (5"*  B,  ii.  im).)— Mr.  Mud- 

iford  die<i  March  10,  1B48.      In   1849  be  is  de- 

l«cribe<!  iis  *'the  LU^  William  Mudford^  Esq./*  on 

I  the  title-page  of  hi  a  Talta  aiful  Trifit^y  fr&rti  Black- 

wowTs  and  other  2\ypitlar  Ma^jtizinrs. 

F.  R.  S.  «ay8  he  is  the  autbejr  nf  Thr  Ftvf 
KmmkU  of  8L  Albans  ;  isboald  it  not  be  *'  The  Five 
Ni^fh  U  "  ?         8 r A  RKs  H  E  N  der&u  n  W  i  l  li  a ms. 

[In  the  Cat  of  the  Edin.  Pbit  Inst.  Lib.  (1857)  both 
reiidings  are  given.] 

ARBlTRARy   OR   CONVENTIONAL   WoED-FoRMA- 

TIDN  (4^^  S.  vii.  riZZ;  xl  461.)— An  excellent 
example  of  this  highly  irregular  and  almost  ignored 

,  mode  of  word-fonii.ition  is  presented  to  us  in  the 
Germ.  Fiflihn^^  the  ordinjiry  equivalent  of  our 
rord   spill.     Muhn,  in   hia    Untentu4:hunf€n,   ».v. 

[  **  Pedante  "  (p.  105),  tells  us  tliat  Fidibm  h  made 

•  ot  fid{dibui  /riUr)ibv»^  Aeyen  letters  in  the 

■  .    i   beln^  dropf^iL      In   Larchey's   Diet  de 

fT Argot  Paritien  (Paris^  1872)  a  somewhat  different 
account  m  gireiL     He  says  that  in  the  German 

I  Tiniversities  the  oflicijd  athuonitions  to  studcntH 

^  begin  with  the  wortls,  ^^  Fid*^^  (pour  fidtUbus) 
dUcipulii  nnitf.rsUatiSf'&c,,  and  that  the  students 
^ing  in  the  habit,  by  way  of  bravado,  of  lighting 
theij*  pipes  with  the  paper  on  which  these  notices 
are  written  or  print^'d,  any  piece  of  p»per  uwd  for 
lighting  a   pipe    came    to    be    called   a  fidihuA, 

[  5L  Larchey  i«,  however,  a  less  trustworthy  autho* 

'rity,  especially  in  reference  to  a  Cferman  word, 
than  Mahn.     Littn^  doe«  not  give  the  wirrd. 


See  also  Larchey  (op.  ciL\  <.n  ^  Rama,'  whcfi  hi 

quotes  a  passage  from  Balzac  '^^  «  »^i  '^  ^^-^  '-'-ra^t 
is   used  =  mnti,   the   mnm  i    htm 

diorania,  and  having  come  int.  if*  finrt 

instance  in  artisti?'  studios)  at  a  t  im  ;  .inuw 

were  a  novelty.     In  a  aimilar  way  11:-  m 

that  mar  (r/.  r.),  wliich  he  regards  as  the  i 

ratnny  w«5,  about  the  yefir  li540,  fnrqnr 
to  the  end  of  words,  complete  or  1 1 
cafenmr    was    used    for    cri/i?,    l 
bouhiHgery  epicnriar  for  *^ icier ;  and  hv;  i^uote^  m, 
example  fi'om  a  book, 

Tbe.*e  compounds  differ  from  .r?  "' 
in   that  they  do  not  ficem  to  h; 
whilst^rfi^u.?  is  a  recognized  dictionurv   worn  ,  lut 
they  are  valuable  as  showing  the  tcD^enoy  of  tk 
human  mind  to  form  such  words. 

I  do  not»  of  course,  include  the  ca&es  in 
as  in  the  French  oui  from  hoc  illud  (^oc  ttt,, 
0   il^   oU^  oi,  oui)y  two  words  which   wci 
together  have  regularly  coalesced.      F.  Cu 

S^denhiua  lltU« 

Elizabeth  CAirin NO  (5"*»  S.  Ii,  I'T,   : 
Since  writing  ray  former  note,  I  J  i\ 
Paget*s  ent^jrtaining  and  jmggcstive  *- 
Paget  is  clear  and  lucid  in  his  account  > 
what  complicated  case.     But  wil!  ' 
for  saying  that  he  appears  eomt 
Canning's  favour,  and  that  he  unu' 
looks  some  of  the  strongest  gronnil 
her  story  ?     To  give  only  one  instai., 
&ays   more   than  once   (Pumhs    and 
pp.  321,  336)  that  Canning's  story  n  n 
fjice  of  it,  so  improbable  a»  to  be 

it  k  almost  impossible  to  say  t«t  

balance  of  evidence  inclines,  &a  (scd  ciV,  p.  S39^ 
But  he  lays  no  stress  upon  the  cxtmortluiwt 
phyaiologitvil  difficidty,  that,  according  to  her 
story,  Canning  lived  for  twenty-eight  dayt  oa  » 
quartern  loaf,  a  mince  pie,  and  a  piU'ber  of  water! 
Putting  aside  all  the  other  improbabilities  of  Uk* 
tale,  surely  this  may  be  pronounced  **  so  improbiblt 
m  to  be  incredible'^*  Midulj:  TxaiPJ^t. 

Bradford. 

SiNOLK  Eye-Gla88KS  (5"'  S.  I  489  ;  iL  50.  II.\| 
— I  onoe  beard  the  Rev.  Stowell  Brown,  of  1    ' ' 
pool,  in  a  lecture  on  **  Manlinet^s/^  ^nr  thnf 
who  wore  an  eye-glass  evidently  di 
Script ural  idea  that,  when  one  nici 
other  menibers  suffered  with  it,  or  he  would  wtar  ^.1 
honest  jxiir  of  ftpectacles  !  A.  R. 

Croiwwylan,  Oawcttry. 

ZlNZAN  (5^^  S.  ii.  9,  2fi     r>X   n:,  i— T  haro  mr^t 

with  thin  name,  ali^^  A^ 

the  Civil  War^  and  in 

ship.     I  think  it  occurs  m  i 

about  1H43.     The  remark, if  1 

unlike  the  comiption  and  ulii  «uhl 


1 


S»&n.90T.lS,7«.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


217 


?  of  tlie  niime  of  the  diurch  of  San  Giovnnni 
p  BiDlci  into  Z(mtipQh.  T  W.  Webb, 

Adam's  First  Wife  (b^  S,  i.  387,495 ;  iL  132.) 

-According  to  Dn  Margoliouth,  in  bU  Filgrivmgc 

"  r  Laxid  of  my  Fathern  (vol  L  pp,  451,  2\  the 

i  of  Tunis  believe  that  Lilith  ih  the  wife  of  the 

,  luul  that  «he  has  a  speciiil  spite  aj^iuBt  new- 

They  use  a  sing^iilar  written  amulet 

tp  her  at  bay  ;  and  Dr.  Margoliouth  quote* 

i  fellowing  story,  which  was  told  him,  as  to  the 

gin  of  the  custom : — 

"  When  Adam  and  Etc  were  thrown  out  of  Eden,  tho 
former  wad  ca«t  on  the  Isknd  of  Cejion,  and  the  latter 
an  Mount  Anifa,  near  Mecca,  one  hundred  and  ieTenty- 
live  yeart'  journey  from  each  other.  Poor  Adam  felt  ttic 
aepamtioo  very  much,  for  he  wa«  a  aociuble  chamclcr 
»fi<r  all ;  be  piaed,  therefore^  on  accouni  of  hii  tolitudc. 
I^ilith  kn^'w  t  hi  a,  to  with  her  lord's  consent  she  offered 

It^      '  lied  widowtT  huT  coDipanion«hip,  which  he, 

t  n  lie  WU8,  frladly  accepted.      So  Adam  and 

L  I  iind  loTcd  together  throKijErh  many  a  chang- 

11^  K}«-iii»/     Iluwerer,  at  last  Adam  met  with  Ere ;  the 
raT«  of  their  first  lore  iUuiutnAtcd  their  eye*  to  such  an 
"  ' '    t  the  tcalei  from  Adam^i  eyes  fell  off,  and  he 
once  more  in  all  the  attractive  lorelineM 
:3  he  looked  upon  her  >»hen  she  was  longer 
I  ihan  be  liked,  and  therefore  again  exclaimed — 
'  My  faircAt^  my  e^ouAed,  my  latest  found* 
Hea Ten's  last,  best  gift,  my  ere r  new  delight, 
Sole  Etc,  associate  sole,  to  me  beyond 
Compare,  tboTe  all  liring  creatures  dear.'^ 
[  "lilith  could  not  brook  thi^i  insult,  eipeclally  when 
informed  her  that  she  might  now  seek  another 
for   he   would  hare   no    time  to  pay  any 
her.     In  frenxied  ra?e  she  flew  and  swore 
land  earth  that  every  child  of  man  that  should 
I  she  would  de«iroy.     To  prevent  the  jealous  and 
ed  lady  from  putting  her  dire  throit  into  execution, 
)o?e  amulet  is  ported  on  the  doors»  windows, 
nneys,  and  bed  of  confinement,  to  as  to  prcTent  the 
a*a  tMtf^nw  in  any  way  whaterer." 

St.  Swtthin. 

IT.  STEPHEy  Clabite  (5^^  S.  i.  208,  255,  298, 

; ;  ii  77,  U6.)~In  Tht  Life  of  Mr.  JliomasGcni, 

4r  of  York,  written  by  himseLfi  is  the  follow- 

lider  t lie  year  I  73»j  : — 

hit  year,  on  the  4  th  of  May,  I  took  Stephen  Clarke 

tny  apprentice :   he  was  the  son  of  the  ReT.   Mr» 

ph«n    Clarke,    M,A,,    rector    of    Burytborpe,    near 

Jton.  who  icaTe  mo  with  him  twenty  ponnda.     The 

utli    l*on«?«tIy  served   his  time,  and  went  to  London, 

igg  I  wish  him  all  the  good  fortune  that  ho   can 

^^  or  desire,  according  to  his  roerita," 

ther  of  Tliomas  (ient's  apprentic?«s,  about 

II  was  a  Joseph  Nickson,  who  prol>ably  was 

r  aatnc  person  as  the  Joshua  Nickson,  printer  of 

otd  edition  of  the  Rev.  S.  Clarke's  :krmons 

^l  by  Mr.  Fedeher,  J.  G.  B. 

^Ttrp  Jri*atH  ox  Circcit  (5**^  S.  ii.  27,  135,)— 
Fafin^rtfin  pnp<?r<,  published  by  the  Chethnm 

f'LotU  Book  IV.  I   deem  these 

iu!i  of  my  infonoant's  original, 
'  which  the  narrator  »poke 
-.jce." 


Society,  giye  a  rery  tnmons  account  of  the  exp^nites 
sheriffs  used  to  be  subjected  to  in  entcrtainin;^  the 
jndges,  and  the  di^^pute  which  arose  upon  that 
iwint  in  Lancashire  in  16^,  P,  P. 

"  BriLT  hehe  for  his  envy"  (^V**  S.  ii.  7,  132.) 
— Satnn  attributCis  to  the  Almighty  a  deiire  to 
excite  envy.  This  appears  to  me  to  be  the  sense 
of  the  pussHge.  Nowhere  in  Paradise  Lod  does 
Milton  use  "  built"  asa  mbstantive.  I  think  what 
Satan  says,  Book  IL  iO-25,  throws  light  on  (he 
above  |>asBuge  : — 

"  The  happier  state 
In  Ilear'n,  which  follows  dignity,  mij^ht  draw 
Envy  from  each  inferior ;  but  who  here 
Will  cnTy  whom  the  highest  place  enpotts 
Foremost  to  stand  ngainst  the  TImnd  rer's  aim. 
Your  bulwark  ? " 

A  T. 
Bamet. 

Seizing  Corpses  for  Debt  (4*  S.  pasffim ; 
5^^  S.  i,  491) ;  ii.  15.) — A  curious  instance  of  this 
revolting  custom  has  recently  been  detailed  in  the 
Derbygkire  Timxs.  A  tombstone  in  the  church- 
yard at  North  W infield  (Derbyshire)  bears  the 
foUowLng  inscription  :^ 

**  In  memory  of  Thomaa,  son  of 
John  and  Mary  Clay,  who  departed  this  life  I>ecember 
Idth,  1794,  in  the  40th  year  of  his  age. 
What  thoup:h  no  mournfull  kindred  stand 

Aruund  the  solemn  bier. 
No  parents  wriog  the  trembling  hand. 
Or  drop  the  silent  tear ; 

!io  costly  oak  adorned  with  art 

My  weary  limbs  enctoee, 
Ko  friends  impart  a  wtnding-shoet 

To  deck  my  last  repose?' 

These  strange  verses  are  thus  explained  by  those 
who  have  heard  the  circumstances  narrated  at  first 
hand.  Thomas  Clay  was  a  man  of  intempenite 
luibits,  aud  wo^  indebted  at  the  time  of  bi^  death 
to  a  viUiige  publican  of  the  name  of  Adiington  in 
the  sum  of  201.  Adiington  resolved  to  f^lze  the 
body,  but  the  parents  of  the  deceased  were  careful 
to  keep  the  doors  locked  till  the  day  of  burial. 
But  no  sooDer  were  the  doors  opened  than  Adiing- 
ton niahed  in,  seized  the  corpse,  and  placed  it  on 
a  form  in  the  open  street  opposite  his  mother'^ 
house.  The  relatives,  however,  refused  to  pay  the 
debt^  and,  after  the  corpse  had  been  thus  exposed 
for  several  days,  Adiington  was  compelled  to  bun^ 
it,  and  it  was  committal  to  the  ground  in  an  old 
bacon  chest.  Another  instance  from  8pr*rsholt  in 
Berkshire,  of  the  year  16S9,  was  given  by  me  in 
4^  8,  X.  271,  but  it  is  indexed  under  the  title 
**  BuriiU  in  the  Churchway*" 

J.  Charles  Cox. 
Hazelwood,  Belpcr. 

^  Lnm  "*  A«  A  CoxjuwcTiox  (5**  S.  i.  pamm ; 
ii.  97,  114.)— -Clarrt  haa  not  copied  the  line  9» 
it  is  given  in  Mra.  C-owdea  Claikfi'ft  Cwat»Td«wa*, 


MM 


* 


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MOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


p*  S.  IL  Skft.  12. 71 


if  he  had,  he  would  have  seen  that  the  reference 
was  not  to  the  sUige  directioo,  **  Enter  FRe^enter] 
Ariel,  like  a  watcr-Dymph/'  but  to  Prosperos 
order  a  few  lines  above  : — 

"  Co,  make  thyself  Hlcc  to  a  nymph  o'  the  les  : 
B«  subject  to  no  ngbt  but  mine/' 

Here  the  fin*t  folio  reads  *^like  a  nymph'*  ;  the 
second*  third,  Jind  fourth  folios,  ^^like  to  a  nympK" 

Mrs.  Co  Wile  n  Clurke,  in  coinpilinf^  her  Cone<yr' 
tlanc^y  did  not,  it  scrims,  confine  hei"self  to  the 
text  of  any  one  edition  of  Shnkjspeare  :  she 
mentions^  in  her  Prefaee,  **  the  twelve  ye^iru' 
writing,  and  the  four  more  l>estowed  oti  coUaHng 
^cith  rcctitt  editions  and  correcting  the  press." 

Spark3  Hexderson  Williams. 

18,  Kecnilngton  Crescent,  W, 

"  Wise  after  the  Event"  (5^*^  S.  i.  409,  514.) 
— This  proverbiid  expression  may  lie  tniced  back 
lit  least  to  i\w  end  of  the  six  teen  th  century,  as  I 
find  it  in  tlie  Sa7nmlun{f  Teid$cher  SpruchiriirteTj 
by  Dr.  Knypius,  printed  at  Frankfort-oD-the- 
Mayne,  159L  It  appears  under  a  Latin  form, 
*'  Snpere  post  fnctn,"  In  what  way  it  is  illustmted 
may  be  judged  by  the  introductor}^  sentence  of  the 
commentary  of  Knypiiis  : — *'  Nach  der  hocbzeit 
erkennt  man  desn  Weibs  boiwheit/'  In  the 
Ffmikffivm  of  Christophenis  Lehman  (p.  IX ^l)^  in 
1()4(),  it  appears  na  *"  Post  jiKila  pntdcns"  and 
"  Jiebus  peractis,  Prometheus,"     U.  T.  Ramaoe. 

"IVU^-A-LoST**  (5"iS.  i.  3S5,  433,  490.)— The 
fame  of  tbia  owl  incident,  wherever  it  may  have 
really  o-cciirred,  would  seem  to  have  spread  verj^ 
widely,  for,  iifty  or  f?ixty  years  ufio,  the  following 
wa*s  the  usual  description  of  the  loud-speaking  of 
a  nutn  or  woman  :—  *'  He  (or  she)  bowted  like  th' 
owlet  o'  G  Hint  ley  Gmnge,"  Thija  was  near  the 
tou-n  of  Derby.  T.  Eatcliffk. 

*'  Make  a  bridge  of  gold  for  a  flyij^o 
ENKMY  "  (4*^  S.  i.  434,  547  ;  ix.  397,  492  ;  x.  17.) 
— I  have  met  with  this  singuLir  proverb  three 
timea : — 

''  Oaurex  touiicniw  »  tos  eonemys  toutoa  let  porte»  et 
cliemina^  et  phistost  lenr  fuictea  unjf  pout  d'ftr}^eTitj  affin 
tie  lea  rciivoyer,*' — KabsUis^  Oarpantu^,  lir.  L  chEp.  43. 
'"  El  cuhI  no  t'ltne  condidon,  ni  es  ile  pareccr  de  loi 
Hwe  dken  que  at  criemii^o  que  buye,  lioccrle  la  pueute  de 
plata,"— Cervantes,  Doti  Quijote,  part  iL  cap.  5ii. 
"For  a  flying  f' 10 
Dii«reet  and  provident  conquerors  build  up 
A  bridge  of  gold." 

Ma«8inger,  The  Quardtattt  Act  L  ic.  1. 
Other  example.s  would  oblige,  (r.  A.  B, 

8t  Jahna  Wood. 

Dr.  Dee's  Magic  Mirror  (6">  S.  il  86,  13(1) 
— There  is,  I  beUeve,  no  evidence  that  the  ball  of 
^  smoky  roek  crvBtnl  (not  griass)  in  the  British 
*'Iu8eiim  was  ever  the  property  of  the  alchemist  of 
iiche8ter  and  Mortkke,  though  some  yeai^  ago 
it  uaed  to  be  ticketed  as  "  Dr.  Dee's  Show  Stone,'' 


It  is  engraved  by  John  and  Andrew  Vaii  Rrmsduld 
Pictors,  in  their  ouaint  folio  abont  some  wf  iW 
curiosities  in  the  faritisb  Museum.  Lomlon,  KTtt 
but  with  no  mention  of  the  Doctors  nanie* 
is,  however,  in  the  National  C^ollection  a  disk^ 
or  coal,  inscribed  with  characters,  which 
lb  ink,  supposed  to  have  been  his, 

W,  J.  Berxhahd  ButTBf 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac. 
Fourth  Hfpori  of  fh  Royal  Comvt 
torical    Manntcripts.      Part    L 
Appendix,     Part  II.,  Indeau     ^^Hcr   i>tajc! 
Stationery  Office,) 
This   interesting  Report  contains  an  accounl 
sixty  collections  of  manuscripts  in  the  posscsaiao  < 
various  corpcjmtions  and  individuals.    rbirtyH^*^ 
are  English  collections.     Seventeen  an?  Sot^ 
Ireland  furnishes  five.      They  are  of  vct)' 
intere«^t,   whether  they  refer    to   national  or  H 
individual  interests.      Among  the  latter    i^rt  in- 
cidenta  referring  to  some  of  the  most  etn 
in   iingliiih  history.     There   is  an  altr 
rcgJird  to  one  document  in  the  Tov  : 
to  identify,  in  an '*  Ednumd  and  i 
of  BumleVj  the  parents  of  the  greut  poet 
Knowles,  the  author  of  the  Report  of  the  Townli 
Collection,  makes  an  assertion  tov'     ' 
the  attention  of  our  fair  and  aci 
tributor  Hermen'trude  : — "Isabel 
says  Mr,  Knowles,  *'are   substani 
na me.     1  n  Moreri 's  Did  ion  nairt  i i  ^  -  f *  ?  j   - .  t  Lc; 
J I  re   continually  used  synonymously,  and»  at 
events,  their  identity  is  sufficient  t^*  1'  »^ '-  i^sf ' 
Siienser  in  linkiug  his  mother,  suii 
name  was  Isabel,  with  his  wife  ana 
the  sonnet  in  which  he  praises  the  ^most 
letters'  thiit  compose  that  *  happy  name' : — 
*  The  which  three  times  thrice  happy  bfttU  me  nude, 
With  gifta  of  body,  fortune,  and  of  mind. 
The  fli*3t  niy  hbmg  gave  to  rae  by  Itind, 
From  mother's  womb  dcrivM  t).v  due  deseent ; 
The  aecoad  is  my  soveroi^^n  t^ueen  moit  kitid^ 
TlHit  honour  and  lar^o  richc"^  totue  lent; 
The  third  my  Love^  my  life's  last  ornauieni.'  '* 
Among  the   illu  tit  rations  of  a  lat^r  and  h 
poetic  life,  we  come  upon  a  ciiriou3  letter  £wB 
Home  Tooke  to  Wilkes,  in  17(56,  in  which  \ 
is  told  of  an  attempt  to  prove  Lord  Harb 
an  idiot.     Counsel  on  both  Kides  relied 
sanje  circumata,nce — a  box  could  not  lie 
Lord  Harborough  told  tlie  sen^ants  to  do  i 
i\8  they  did  wilb  oysters,  viz.,  "  to  put  it  in  iM 
fire  and  it  would  gap  -' !    A  letter  of  about   '^ 
.stinie  date  refers  to  **the  excellent  iJirenllon 
steel  pen^." 

Next  to  being  possessor  of  al I  the  ml  i 
which  belong  lo  so  many  owners,  tmd 
\  described  and  qtioted  in  these  volutadSi  %kv  m>A 


»»  a  It  ssre  12. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


219 


desirable  tbing  is  to  po^scjss  the  volumes  them- 
selres.  They  open  uji  t\  thousand  by-\viiya  in 
pablic  and  aIbo  in  privute  hmtory. 


Ttny  Trtii/tU.  By.  J.  Ashby-Stcrry.  (Tlntlcy  Brothert.) 
Tbf  nutlior  of  The  Shuttkcocl-  Papa-t  has  thorotiglily 
mcc^edeil  in  bb  endeavour  to  provUle  ft  *'  latUby " 
for  tb«  wcftry.  If  wc  mistake  not,  not  milj  will  the 
tr«rell«r,  llt«  tiuthor'a  ipcci&l  care,  whom  he  depicts  &« 
not  impowibly  "  j*ded  '*  bj  the  erudition,  tho  figurei, 
the  *:f'-''"'"*^'"MTeneM  of  other  writer*,  prove  to  he  Mr. 
Aihb  .'btor,  but  alio  thoi«  many  otljcrs  who, 

•*  n  r  »  toil,  whether  mental  or  bodily,  will,  in 

their  dcfirc.  by  other  mrani  than  wine.  Ui  smooth  *•  eon* 
tAclae  MTift  lrroati«/'  have  recourse  to  this  yde&aaTitly- 
wt-ittrn  vtjlume.  In  Tiny  TravfJf,  now  we  are  treated 
ter  in  which,  with  *'  K«r)y  to  bed/'  &c.,  as  a 
L  idy  ft  itron^  CU4>  is  maiie  out,  at  leatt  to  the 

wrii<:r  s  inind,  for  the  foundation  cf  »  "Society  for  the 
•QI»|»rfn}on  of  AncienI  Proverb<>/'  it  being  roundly 
Mserted,  with  regard  to  most  of  ihc»e,  that  they  are 
*'pleaMantIy  phrased  lit?**'— that  their  principles  are 
•*  wroniT,  and  their  teachinj^  invariably  unjuit";  and 

r   --   '       - '    •  v,y  ^ijg  E^t  Wind,    but,  In  *pite  of 

rot«st  against    Canon   Kin^sleya 

tinable  blaBt,"  merrily.     The  de- 

tiouung  bzily  "  Up  the  Thame*  "In  glorionsly 

f,  nA  contrasting  with  and  following  on  that 

.^  -,v     ?'•""  l-'^ij.'hton/' might  well  be  expected  to 

prove  oo  Bi  lor  the  better  to  writer  aa  well  as 

reader ;  hm  iftrr  rxlf,  \%  lul  for  it  i«  not  needed, 

togaih  Sterrrwrit**  even  when 

rtcooTi    iij;  .1-  i/a]ini^btlon>fl>ctween 

hi4  o*n  Ltrtttx  .'cif  vv,iL.....^  ,    ^.^  Ui  sleep,  and  \iv%  wone 

KJf  absolutely  refusing  to   do  anything  of  the  kind. 

These  several  paperSj  then,  on  various  iubjects, — too 

varioo*  to  l>e  h^ro  enun^crjited, — are  bo  nmny  delightful 

cotnpsuiiori*,  ard,  thf^t  1  cin^'  the  case,  no  further  wordj 

are  needed  to  comincnd  them. 

Tkt  PtrluMtratwn  o/  (Jrtttt  VarmoHtk  tpitk  Garletfoa  and 

S^tAto*ffk.      Bv  Chdrles   John    Palmer,   F  S.A.,  an 

Honorary  Member  of  the  Genealogical  and  Historical 

Society  of  New   York,     Vob   II.     {t-ireat  Yarmouthi 

Nail) 

Wk  congmtufftte  the  goM  people  of  Yarmouth  on  tho 

ap(7eiuiuiee  of  thii  second  ]>ortion  of  their  accomplished 

townsman'*  valuable  contribution  to  the  hiitory  of  their 

ancient  boroofh.      Wc  call  it  a  *' contribution   to  the 

V    ■   ^"  "        '   --■'-''  '■  *ho  history'*  which  it  really  ia,  in 

r'a  modest  title;  for,  aswc  showed 

t  xr.lnmo  {*'  N  -  k  Q."  4'"  S.  ix.  4=^7), 

V  done,  the  sources  of 

led,  that  he  must  b« 

,,,  ,. ,,  .  .    ,.  .   ...  «-    "'tyiplcmcnting  the 

Itratiun  ot   Varnioutii  ,  of  it.     Like  it* 


wiil  lind   h)B  '•wandering  steps  '   ony- 

,"     Wft   Rh4U   look    anxiously  for  the 

c  of  A  work  which  i«  at  once 

it  «(>  vahiable  nn  addition  to 

.1.   By  Mark  Antony  Lower, 


as  an  Emperor,  nor  Btemarck  as  a  Prince,  for  neither  of 
them  has  a  rightful  claim  to  such  a  title/'  Neither  are 
there  wanting  tmits  of  audacity ;  **  My  wife  and  myself 
visited  several  newly-made  lady  friends  (in  Copenhagen), 
and  I  kissed  six  of  them,  without  a  singie  blusli  amon^ 
the  eight  of  u&  I  "  Mr.  Lower  doe#  not  nil  to  record  the 
results  of  his  observatlona  in  natural  history.  "  The 
sheep,"  ho  saySi  ^*are  small,  and  wear  the  fong  tails 
which  were  bom  with  them.  They  are  curiously  marked 
on  their  backs  with  red  and  crimjoo  ochre,"  The 
traveller  aljo  records  "a  curious  fact,  that  bagpipes  wer© 
invented  in  Norway,  and  thence  imported  into  Scotland 
during  the  period  when  a  portion  of  that  Cfinntry  fell 
into  ScftudinavioQ  hands/'  This  little  volume  will  nlTord 
ail  readers  much  amusement, 

Tfie  Afa8a{/€  to  Archipptu  is  the  title  of  a  sermon 
(Rivingtona)  preached  at  an  ordination  held  on  behtilf  of 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  ptibli^hed  at  his 
request,  by  the  Rev.  C  CajMsl  Cure,  M.A.  The  recU>r  of 
Btuomsbury  urges  the  candidates  to  show  thai  they 
**  can  look  through  the  pomp  of  wealth  and  the  misery 
of  rags,  and  see  that  the  real  diffierence  between  mnn 
and  man  lies,  not  in  hts  rank  or  in  his  purse,  but  in  the 
manner  in  which  he  fulfils  the  duties  of  las  station,  and 
in  his  obedience  to  God's  will*" — SucratntJitdi  Confrfsion 
Eramined  6y  Pastoral  Experience,  by  the  He  v.  C.  F.  Low- 
der,M.A.  (Rivingtons).  Asonoof  the  4S3  priests  who  signed 
that  now  celebrated  Memorial  to  Convocation,  the  Vicar 
of  SL  Peter's,  London  Bocks,  addrefses  thU  letter  to  the 
Bishop  of  London,  and  in  the  course  of  it  affirms  that 
not  only  does  confe&sion  '*  harmonise  with  the  tnic  spirit 
of  the  Church  of  England,"  but  that  *' its  growth  syn- 
chronizes with  the  revival  of  what  is  most  apostolic  and 
catholic  in  the  faith  and  discipline  of  the  church." — A 
Letier  to  a  Frand  on  tht  Stundardi  of  iKi  Nrv;  Code  of 
Iks  Education  f)e'^>artmintf  by  John  M(*net,  M.A,,  Vicar 
of  Hockerill  (Kivingtons).  This  pamphlet  deserves  most 
careful  reading  at  the  present  time,  Mr.  Menct  raises 
the  whole  nucition  of  "standards,"  the  otTspring  of 
"payment  for  results";  these  *' standards"  he  would 
aboiifh,  and,  every  child  in  a  scliuol  being  examined, 
would  eubstitrito  payment  jer  class  for  that  per  head. 
The  effect  certainly  of  the  present  system  of  infrpcction 
would  aecm  to  be  to  find  out  rather  what  a  certain  num- 
ber of  picked  children  have  been  mode  to  accomplish 
than  what  a  whole  school  is  worth  as  an  institutinn. 


A  Natiotjal  TnBATRi:.— The  Cornhiil  ^fff4Ja2^nt  for 
September  has  an  article  on  **The  iNinish  Nation*] 
Theatre,"  to  which  the  attention  mav  be  directed  of  all 
who  are  desirous  of  seeinjj  a  Xatinnal  Theatre  in  Eng- 
land worthy  nf  the  name.  Thi^  iiriplies  Pacta  of  lofty 
intellect,  and  Actors  able  f  c  their  sentiments. 

Tho  end  in  view  is  immo  It  of  attainment^ 

but,  as  the  writer  of  the  reu..ii  ».,,._  .nticle  named  above 
says,  "  Of  all  the  small  nations  in  Europe,  Denmark  is 
the  only  on©  that  Itas  sueecedtd  in  founding  and  pre- 
serving ii  truly  ruitionnl  dnunaiic  art,**  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  there  may  bo  yet  ettablithed  in  England  what 
Milton  called  a  *'  well  trod  stuge  "  :— 

"  Then  to  the  well  trml  stage  anon, 
If  Jon'on's  lenmcd  *f>ck  be  on, 
Or  -iiwcetejit  i^hakcspcare.  Fancy's  eUild, 
WaiM.*  liii  native  w  jud-notes  wild," 


f   Tkt 
r,   hat 


.^ I  II*  •iiujMMjiiY,  It    iKH':?  rini    uvrt  rurn,; 

Lower  sara !— ♦• !  will  never  acknowledge  W 


(.itVLJi.'"!     wi;i 


id  male  of  flannel,  and  trimmed  with  amlyit  ^\VW, 


Ai^ 


220 


lOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[fi^^aiL&cpT.ntt 


Tliere  was  no  ring  on  the  finger,  nor  *nr  tlgn  to  elioir 
that  it  WM  the  corpse  of  a  pricit  or  bkliop.  The  face 
wore  iti  naturAl  colour,  saire  a  snmW  part  covered  irith  a 
kind  of  white  mould.  Many  of  iht  old  tnhabitauU  who 
came,  haviui^  knovrn  the  Bishop  in  life,  recognised  him 
distinctly  id  death.  The  body  wai  suWquenilj  rein- 
terred. 

Th«  Blocnts  or  MAPtu-DrwHAM.— The  following 
extract  Lb  from  the  Obituary  of  the  Tima  of  Tuesday, 
the  8th  of  September  :—•*  On  the  3rd  intt,  Michael 
Henry  Blount^  E«<1.,  of  Mapledurhani,  Oxfordshire, 
aged  S5.  Krijutescat  in  pace.''  The  deceaied  gentleman 
was  a  family  representative  of  the  Blounts — 
"  Martba  brown  and  Teresa  fair  ** — 
of  MaplcDurli&m,  to  whom  the  ^eat  poet  Pope  ad- 
drMMd  some  of  his  most  elegant  and  channinc  epistles. 

HsNRT  BL  Feibt. 

Cheyelcy  Villa,  Croydoiu 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLUMES 

WANTKP  TO  PimCHASE, 
ParticmTam  of  Prtn«,  *«.,  of  rmrr  i*wk  la  W  nmt  4irt«t  to  tb* 
penon  by  vhom  il  i»  i«4uirc(l»  vtwM  laatiis  and  addrfw  &r«  Biveu 
far  thAit  purpnae;^ 

Dinnjv't  Typo  Afil^.    Vo!«^  tit.  iwd  IT. 
J^AVATiB'fi  AplMrbuu  of  Mml    S  folfl.  37^  ex  17M,  ItDio.    Vol,  IL 

T«o  vofAm. 
Purr's  LiUr&TT  Cwm&foodtntt^    Iftmo  ,  ITM.  t  t**!*.    I.  It,  rV'. 
T.  W tjs  ii*fc  CoU««tian  ef  fftf taptu.    a  »(*!■. .  i  rra.    Vol  n. 

M  aa««d  bjr  •/.  IT.  Jm-na^  Kw.  i\  CbAclM  b^nart.  Bvxtoa,  K. 


A  IHirTin»AaT  ov  Pije«ra  Bi,4pg  (AfrqitW    PvMJslMd  la  FEvseh  aad 

En<lUU  ty  J,  Canid«a  BvitiGU 
The  llcvot^j  er  LiatrTSitAav  Bru.!.,  eealataiai  sn  Aaeeiznt  of  iht 

€«ptur«  of  St.  tsbasllaii. 
WaBtf4  hj  E.  J^riMf^MK.  Ihlsiet  «f  W«,k«  laa,  (^aitel4f9  Tova^ 
F&mboroueb  Stktioo. 


OABPtif  ta^A  Zola  Country. 

T.  FBiiroi.t'«  ReiidefiM  In  South  AltioA. 

Wk&toO  hs  Mr.  n,  HtMli,  4,  Olyudc  T«rfao«,  L»vead«r  Hill,  8.W, 


"Prat  Goody,*'  asd  •*  Hort  Told.'— With  referenee 
to  these  songs  (p«  200),  Mr.  William  Cbappcll,  and  there 
could  be  no  better  authority,  M-rites  as  follows : — **  *  Pray, 
Goody,  please  to  modern te  the  rancour  of  your  tongiie/ 
is  No.  11  of  the  vucal  pieces  in  the  opera  ol  Midui,  In 
the  original  book  of  words  to  this  opera,  the  music  of 
*  Pray,  Goody/  is  atated  to  be  *  A  tune  in  Qvuen  Mmb* 
The  music  /<»-  tbe  pantomime  of  i^mttn  Mob  wm  com- 
posed by  Dr.  Barney*  '^  Hope  told  k  flattering  tale  *  was 
written  [l>y  Peter  Piodar]  to  supply  the  demand  for  Eng- 
lish w«raj  to  Paisiello's  exquisite  air — 
'  li«d  cor  piii  non  mi  scnto 
Brilkr  la  giorentu.* " 

We  will  only  add  to  the  oblijpng  communication  of  our 
much  valued  correspondent,  that  as  mut^ic  to  panlmnjmca 
is  almost  inrarittbiy  selected  mtisic,  Dr,  Buruey  may 
have  borrowed  *'  Pray,  Goody/ *frt"m  Rousseau,  for  whom 
the  air  has  been  claimed.  "  Pray,  Goody/*  was  aUo 
published  as  Ame's  by  Button  k  Whitaker,  St.  Pfturs 
Churchyard*  1818.  The  ton^  with  musie«  now  bc-foro  ub^ 
is  thus  titled :  **  Pray  Goody.  The  much  admired  btillad. 
As  Sung  with  the  greatest  Applause^  by  Mr.  Sinclair,  at 
the  Tlieatre  Eoyal  Co  vent  Garden,  In  the  Burlctta  of 
Midas.     Composed  by  Dr.  Amc.'* 

/'Sleeps  mu  a  tor."— Profcwor  ATTWtLt^  ^Barnes) 
kindly  fomiahes  iitki>i,jr>r  aenv»ttau  lor  tci^  caying 
(p,  2U0).     "The   i^remA  equivMent  ii>  '^l-sps  like  a 


top '  would  be  '  comme  une  titupti  *  (a  tap),  ralhtr  1 
*une  taupe*  (a  fn&le).     The  fatniliar  fiLMirc.  howeter 
*  il  dort  comme  on  mboL*    (The  wfx>1 
sccm^  furnished  coDrenient  material  ^■ 
top  ;  hence,  or  possibly  from  the  mere 
the  two  thingH,  this  secondary  meaning.' 

Since  receivitjK  Professor  Attweli 
another  of  eimtlar  import  baa    ' 
Henhi  Gaussxhon  (Ayr),  with  ti 
way,  dormouse  means  '  loir '  in  Ik t-nci^ ,  >k4tu    im*A.^ 
the  Etiglisli  moU,** 

Crkmatiow  {6^^  a  ii.  184).— Ma.  C.  W.  ewrow 
state  that  the  abore  note  is  a  quotAtion  from  the  L 
of  the  Boit&n  (U,S.)  Public  Library  of  July  Taat.     Us  ] 
anxious  to  l«t  it  be  known  that  it  is  roaily  tfawflcli 
the  excellent  librarians  at  Botton.    Hhi  aetkoril^  \ 
inadrertently  orer  looked. 

Mr.  James  Piuislet  writes  that  "Sir  Tboma* 
PhiUipjpt's  /rtfifitnh'nneg  Clericorum,  which  NtrmiS  to- 
quires  for  fJ  '  "  SO),  is  in  the  Cheltenham  Ubm, 
where  he  ilcome  to  consult  it,  if  he  ihottM 

erer  be  in  '  la." 

EsoRj.— The  passage  from  Walter  of  Coventry  ii  iJ 
wellknown  11  lustration  of  medieval  ''Life  in  fjtmdou'a 
but  there  is  no  parallel  to  be  drawn  between  Johannetl 
Benex,  w!io  may  hare  been  a  brarc  old  fellow,  and  Fal- 1 

A.  D,— As  stated  in  the  Gv^rdian  of  this  wttL  « 
have  strongly  urged  tbe  recovery  and  replaetmeinT  i 
tbe  Cathedral  of  St.  Asaph,  of  the  brass  nmoturiail  f  * 
to  Bishop  Barrow.    See  "  N-  &  Q."  4^*  S.  tUL  Je27«  I 
full  account  of  the  inaeription. 

KoELL  BiDCLirrf^.—U  ■eemi  to  ut  that  jofor^fMfy  J 
was  most  effectually  a.nswered  by  our  esteemed  oofft*  J 
spondent  Mr.  Crobslet,  in  "  N,  A  Q./'  i^  R  xii.  2S)1 

P.  MAiueQtrnr*— Dr.  Jenner  was  born  in   17*?,  MtAj 
died  January  26,  1823;   Capd  LdTt,  bom  1T5L   " 
May  26,  1824. 

Ctti^uK  SutTM.— Tbe  often-quoted  line  belongt  U 
Thomas  Paine,  who  said  of  Mr.  Budte,  **  Am  he  foeefikt 
the  rocket,  he  fell  like  tbe  stick/' 

Topoo,— There  were  two  places  called  *'  nockhytn* 
the*Holc."  On©  in  ClerkenweU,  the  other  in  BedlW 
shire, 

BEi.tSAKit7S.— See  Mr.  Wiluah  Chafpsli*  on  *■  Gfld 
sare  the  King,"  in  our  last  number. 

J.  P&AR»otr,  K.  P,  D.  B.,  and  F.  A.  Ei>waRI«.— fo^ 
warded  to  Mr.  Thoxs. 

8oxi:p SET.— Both  the  epitaphs  on  Hobeoo  the  Cmm 
are  by  Milton. 

W.  PtATT  (ConserratiTe  aub).-*Forwmrded  ie  Plti- 

DiAMoiri»  Digger. — Next  number.  Tbe  ^mmM9t  IT 
any,  will  appear  in  due  course. 

H.  KiL<K)CJR.— See  p,  93,  ante, 

HiBERMCUS. — Next  week. 

NOTIOB, 

Editorial  Communications  should  be  addroned  to  "  The 
Editor  ^'— A drertisementfl  and  Bufineee  Lettete  te  *' The 
Publisher  ''--at  the  Office,  20^  Wellkigtoa  Birvet,  Sennxl, 
London,  W.C. 

AVe  beg  leave  lo  state  that  we  decline  to  return  ceO' 
municatlons  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  notprini  ;  ftni 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  GEception. 

To  all  comniUTiicationi  should  be  affixed  the  ouBi  ioi 
address  of  the  sender j,  not  neceasRiily  for  pttbUoRtiQa,  hut 
u  »  guarRutee  of  good  faith. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


221 


Is— OD&MemtioQ  of  CIiun:h  PUte,  2il— Scotch  Peem- 
'  Cbrl«tll«£   Nanie^,  ^22— Bftrb'trlU^a  :    Ailmitilitmioa 
T.iw  \n  irpTantV  *?*?-*' \\:i)n«cii'd   Widow  "-^**  As 
■0Dt3«j  '       ~   ,   11^04 — Laverton  Church, 

SK  -  '>o    DpiV4il|>on  —  guec^ti 

jGirijj  ryof   MArri4^e  in  Chftl- 

Tiritb  Kfg1iit^r«— I'liris    i'risont,  S25 — Jofin  Viccart, 
-  18ebolar-'DenibleGbiliti«a  NAmes-^A  PoetluU 


L  Hlohi«rt  Church  **in  Peril  of  th«  Sea"  dmt 

fte  fiKgllidi  rcMMeisloof — Authors  and  (.jaoUtlona  Wanted— 
AM^  22T— Vllllen :  De  ViUien  —  Vom [nW<%\^-.Fl e tcher, 
of  BaUovo— Ftetdiflr,  BLiboir  of  Worcester-  <  WagM 

^UittrgiM  of  Ed wMd  V  L— BiWlcAl  Evld.  t  iobert 

f^Oier— Eftri  f.^T.,nL^fhv_'M.iv,...  .,f  tht>  h;uiiil.  bj^ajta  "— 
Sir    Edwv  m"ii    "  Dream    of    Kalr 

IKutamtt '  ^Adii6edl«  Street  —  Joha 

r ^v  ,...,..,  i>._.,  .ix»-air  RkLAid  PMlliiit 

ir  MafaxtiMi.''  ii^, 

,1  n   rnrnpimlc?,    or   Huitrl?,    !*2fl  —  Spelling 

I— Incorrect 
J  :idt  Drake« 

t»f?<l    in     WiJli^^l'Liry     family,    <  .laucealenhlTO— Mr. 
ntttveU'i  £zpt««loo  of   '*  FloutD   nnd  ((ib«  uid  jen-s " — 
••TfcltJiig»Sl|!ht '— LeComteB  '"  Nouvtaoi  MCiBulTC^^  fU  la 
Odntt,"    234  —  *'Miuick"  —  Nomcnclatare  of 
**Shot**    jut   n  TerminaHon  —  Beer  And    ¥ri> 
Qucitednci,  23&— lubolftad  EH^KbBth— BHlph  •> 
liliiry  d«  ftoo«,  236— The  French  Word  *•  Yeoji ""-  LhriaLiiin 
KftniM-TIlileni  Abb^— BtlwMil  J«*rfai  WinpHeid,    2:J7 — 
r^Uier   Kembltf— Archbkbop   Mai^eUoti  —  Privy    CoqqcU 
JudgmcoU:    Liddell  c  Weatertca  —  Tho   Two    Thieves— 
]EAb^  288— Th0  Blened  ThUilo— Bobcrtaon  Family— Monej 
tiMflfiMWSof  War,  2S». 

KolM  on  Bookc,  &a  « 


Sir    E4 

ft 


i 


I P.ATIOX  OF  CHtmCH  PLATE. 

T>  f  ihp  com  muni  on  plate  beloni^ng  to 

1  'I ham  b«m  the  followring" 

Parochiali   de  Strethftm 

'  v.D.  IfiRG/' 

liop  Laud 

I  ..inniy,  j'jj,  _■< 'j-3)  timt  in 

cJ  '*  conaecTtite  &f)me  plate.'' 

. ,  I  .n,r  ti'.^  "in  qII  ages 

ine's  time^ 

..     .   ..uredvcgseh 

Ives ';  Init  he  detues 

M/  iti  his  ciLse,  as  was 

I,  ''  acixirdiiig  to  tlie  iovtn  m  Mimali  FarvoJ* 

thjit  T  tr^rd  wa-?  according  to  the  copy  of  the 

'ii>p  of  Winchester,  Biahop  An- 

)f\^  ny  uie  to  be  Been,  and  which 

*    That  fomi  is  given  in 

liop  A  r   Works,   pp.    liMi-163  : 

iC  1  by  the  Lo:  Bishop  of 

"Church  Plate  of  the 

<*\  \\  (Mf  ;  "  (tlie  circumstance.^ 

lius  to  ftct  in  Worcester  ( 'athe- 

'     '    but  the  word 3  uf  LuulL 

hich   I  this  time,"  imply  that  it 

I  the  Lw       ...  ^ .  liup  Andrews  to  conaecme 

Ihe  church  pLat^, 


I  have  :^een  i\  considerable  list  of  the  church 
plate  so  consccnvtcnl,  but,  unfortunattdy,  I  cannot 
Liy  my  hand  upon  it  just  now.  The  fomi  drawn 
up  by  Andrews  becatne  the  model  by  which  similar 
consecrations  were  conducted  by  other  bishops  in 
the  seventeen Ui  century*  Thus,  at  Ciinterbury 
"  all  the  vessels  undenvent  a  solemn  consecnUion/' 
And  Archbishop  Bancroft  consecrated  the  altar 
plate  which  hmi  been  given  by  Loni  Digby,  for 
his  friend  Kettlewell^  iu  Cole  ah  ill  Church,  In 
Warwickshire,  in  the  first  year  of  King  James  IL 
**  The  inanner  whereof  being  somewhat  rare  and 
extraordinary,"  a  description  is  |(iven  of  it  in  the 
Life  of  KtUltwtll^  pp.  r»C^  57,  which  is  too  lon;^'  to 
be  repeated  her©  ;  it  will  be  enough  if  1  say  that 
it  is  clear  from  it  that  Andrews'^  Form  wtia  used  * 
(see  also  Editor's  Preface  to  the  Form  in  **  Anglo- 
Catholic  Library")* 

I  conclude  that  an  effort  was  made  by  the  Kon- 
jurors  t<)  revive  and  perpetuate  the  custom,  since 
Sancroft  and  Kettle  well,  and  the  donor  of  the 
Stretham  chalice^  were  all  Nonjurors.  This  last 
was  rtichard  Oldham,  Fellow  of  8t.  Jolm*s  College, 
Canibritige,  and  Rector  of  Strctham  from  1678 
untLl  he  wsis  deprived  in  lODO.  Who  consecrated 
our  chalice  is  not  known  ;  it  may  have  been 
Francis  Turner»t  theu  Biahop  of  Ely,  who  himself 
became  a  Nonjuror. 

It  would  be  verv  interesting,  I  think,  if  tlirough 
**K.  k  Q/'  a  collection  could  be  made  of  the 
places  where  church  plate  was  originally  conse- 
crated since  tho  Reformation,  where  such  con- 
secrated plate  has  been  melted  down,  or  exchanged 
for  more  modem  plate,  and  where  dso  it  still 
remains.  It  would  give  additional  interest  to  such 
a  list  if  instances  where  so  reverent  a  practice  has 
been  observed  in  recent  times  were  recorded  in  it. 

I  have  been  t^ld  that  the  old  altar  plate  at 
kSi.  Catherine's  College,  Cambridge,  was  C43nsc- 
craterl ;  but  the  present  set  is  modem. 

I  will  only  add  here  that  Bishop  Andre ws^s 
Form  provides  also  for  the  consecration  of  the 
candlesticks  and  of  the  censer  too.t 

HUOH   PlOOT. 

P.S, — Bishop  Patrick,  of  Ely,  used  a  Form 
(I7t>4)  for  consecrating  churches  dniwnup  by  him- 
self, in  which  there  was  a  prayer  for  the  consecra- 
tion of  the  communion  plate  (see  Frocicr  on  Book 
of  Common  Fraycrf  p.  155). 

irve.  given  in 
'lion,  p.  1£»L 

aner  of  •'  the 

U  collections*'  of 
I  unier,  which  wer© 


*  Thf  r 
Warren  ^ 

t  Js  it  ,-.,.-..^ 

literwy.  aniiquiinan,  ari4 
Georg«  Harbin,  cbrtplnin 


'   -'Ts,  I'tittick  &  Simpson  in  tho 
>,  18731    Thcfie  might  throw 


ttdvtrtiec'tl  for 
Guard i fin  of  5 
fiomc  liKht  oc  Ti 

X  Btshcrp  Andrfiwa   had  in  his  chafiel  ' 
Center  '*  (sec  list  of  artiiclef  in  his  chupeb  ^  -^^i 

vol.  iv.,  xcriii*  xcix)»  wherein  the  Clerk  putunu.    vx^wt.- 
incense  ot  the  reading  of  i\i«  tmt  \i«!iftQ^r 


111 


222 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[y*  a  n.  Sew,  10, 74 


SCOTCH  PEEES. 

A  Bill  Ims  been  sjiokeii  of  to  inquire  into  the 
Scotch  and  Irish  Peerage,  It  would  oe  more  clear 
and  simple  to  have  a  separate  inquiry  into  each* 
In  17tv7,  at  the  Union  between  Scotland  and 
England,  it  was  most  unfairly  settled  that  only 
sixteen  Scotch  peers  were  to  sit  in  PiurliiMnent 
instead  of  the  whole  number.  All  the  English 
peers  sat  in  the  combined  House  of  Peers.  An- 
other imfuir  thing  was  tliat  all  Scotch  peers  of  each 
order  were  to  have  rank  and  precedency  next  to 
and  after  the  youngest  English  peer  of  the  same 
degree.  They  oii^^^ht  to  have  mnked  according  to 
the  date  of  creation  of  each.  At  the  Union  the 
Scotch  peers  numbered  154,  and  soon  after  other 
nine,  whose  names  bod  l>een  accidentidly  omitted, 
were  added  to  the  roO.  At  present  the  Scotch 
peers  number  eighty-four  ;  of  whom  forty  are  also 
peers  of  England,  or  of  Great  Britain^  or  of  the 
United  Kingdom^  and  are  thus  qiuJiJied  to  alt. 
From  eighty-four  tidce  forty^  and  tnen  the  sixteen 
representative  peers,  and  we  have  twenty-eight 
remaining  out  in  the  cold,  altboiighj  in  the  nature 
of  things,  they  have  more  right  to  ait  in  Parliament 
than  any  of  those  persons  whose  peerages  have 
been  credited  since  1707.  Nearly  all  the  Scotch 
peers,  who  are  also  pcera  of  Great  Britain  or  of 
the  United  Kingdom,  are  tmfairly  given  a  rank 
one  or  two  degrees  below  the  one  they  hold  in 
the  Scotch  peerage.  It  is  an  aftVont  to  the 
whole  Scotch  nation  that  a  Scotch  duke  should 
have  to  record  hift  vote  under  an  alinf,  as  Kirl 
Something  ;  and  that  a  Scotch  earl  should  have  to 
register  hi.s  vote  under  the  disgidse  of  Baron 
Whatsbtsname,  AYhat  is  wanted  is  that  all  Scotch 
peers  should  sit  as  such  in  the  House  of  Lcjrds ; 
and  that  in  the  three  countries  the  individuals  in 
each  grade  of  the  peerage  should  take  precedence 
amono;  themselves  acco^ng  to  the  date  of  creation 
of  each. 

At  the  Union,  what  was  the  reason  that  only 
Bixteen  Scotch  peers  were  allowed  seat«  I  At  that 
time,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  there  was  an 
intention  to  bring  in  a  bill  about  the  succession  to 
the  crown.  iMany  of  the  Scotch  peers  were  Jaco- 
bites, or  were  suspected  to  be  so  ;  and  there  is  an 
idea  that,  tXB  their  way  of  voting  might  have  been 
inconvenient,  this  was  the  reason  of  limiting  the 
number.  This  notion,  probably,  had  some  weight; 
at  the  same  time  this  theory  does  not  account  for 
the  unfair  displacement  of  many  Scotch  peers  by 
the  unjust  rule  inflicted  on  tbem^  that  the  oldest 
Scotch  peer  of  each  grade  wns  to  have  precedency 
next  to  and  after  the  youngest  English  peer  of  the 
same  order ! 

From  the  inaccurate  way  that  the  matter  is 
soraetunes  referred  to,  it  would  seem  that  some 
persons  forget  that  there  are  five  kinds  of  peers  : 
(1)  of  Scotlind  ;  (2)  of  England  ;  (3)  of  Ireland  ; 
(4)  of  Great  Bntain ;  and  (5)  of  the  United  King- 


dom.     The  subject  is  interesting  in  a 

point  of  view,  nnd  it  is  only  in  this  way  thai  it  i 

humbly  referred  to  here, 

Thomas  fiTaArroi. 
Stoke,  Devonport. 


GIPSY  CHICISTIAN  KAME& 
This  is  a  subject  which  has  been  eatlier 
over  or  far  too  brietly  handled  by  the  yarious 
who  have  discu88e<i  the  origin  and  history 
English  (jipsies,     Gipsies  are  very  conservj 
the  mattei  of  Christian  names ;  and  in  many  of  t] 
which  are  current  amongst  them  at  the 
day,  we  can  see  tmces  of  the  route  adopi 
the  Romani  mce  prior  to  iU  arrival  m  Ef 
The  following  names  have  been  coll^ 
at  diflerent  times  and  in  difl'erent  p:  .  ^ 

but  I  can  myself  indicate  the  source  uf  but  few 
them,  as  I  know  little  or  nothing  of  the  history 
Christian  names.  Possibly  some  of  the  neaders  of 
*'N,  &  Q."  may  be  able  to  throw  light  on  the 
origin  of  the  rest. 

I  purpose  to  divide  these  names  into  Gttfkf 
German,  and  French  names  ;  into  n- •'^-  - 
tiiin  origin  ;    names  existing,   th 
England  ;  Biblical  names  ;  and  hu : . . , 
Puritan  origin. 

1.  Greek  names,  3fa?€:  Dlmitii  with  tlieTu^ 
Tchinghian^s  Dimftri,  Plato,  Pyrati  i 
ik  as  t.  Fem<iU:  Angelina,  the  T<  \: 
lina,  Bosia,  i.  c,  Theodosia  j  cf.  the  Tclungh* 
names  Dcishi  and  Theodosi. 

2.  German.     MaU:  Oscar. 

3.  French.    Male:  Emeline.    Femaic:  Mtui^^ 
Itilne,  R^^n^e. 

4.  Names  of  uncertain  origin.     Males  Anido 
(commonly  pronounced  Wanseir  "' 
Farden.    ^Female:  Cilli(lCe' 

Lolli,  Liberina^  Mallndi,  Mank],  ^  n  iinm^,  injuu., 
Rjchenda,  Kia  (?  Mjiria),  Sago,  Sinaminti,  Stor- 
lina,  Synti,  Tiiini  (?  Diana),  Zyra. 

5.  Uncommon  English  names.  Jfafe.*  Adolpbos, 
Ambrose,  Arnold,  Christopher,  Lancelot^  Lwurenoft 
i}\  i  ver,  0  wen ,  Sy  d  ny ,  S  vl  veater.  Fan  ah  :  Annalx-I, 
Britannia,  C:imelia,  Ethel,  Lavinia,  LementiuA, 
Lina,  Lucretia,  Leonora,  Mabel,  Korah,  BempixtBiAp 
Therewi. 

6.  Biblical  names.  Of  these  there  are  a  perfert 
host,  of  which  I  give  a  few  of  the  mo«t  curiotu. 
Mate:  Gabriel,  Goliath,  Lazarus^  ^le^hai^h,  Ohc- 
diah,  Sampson,  Shajdnicb,  Sylvanus,  UrialL  F#- 
vuilc:  Athidiah,  Delilah  or  Beliiah,  Tiyphi,  Li* 
Tryphena, 

7.  Puritan  names.  MaU:  Liberty/ Beoo&cilf* 
Wisdom.  FtmaU:  Patience,  Providence,  abhre* 
viated  into  Videy,  Prudence. 

To  these  may  be  added  the  following  namtt, 
which  I  could  not  well  bring  under  any  of 
above  heads.    Male :  Gilderoy^  SilvezthanL 


1 


9>  &  n.  8*n.  19,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


11223 


male :  Cinderella^  Justerius.  The  nniue  GUderoy, 
^liidi  I  have  met  with  in  Oxfordfihire,  is  curious^ 
_bjQ2gv»tA  the  questioD  whether  the  hero  of  the 
a^  '*  Gildetoy  was  a  bonny  boy,"  &c.,  was  a 


r&  connexion  with  these  names,  I  would  suggest 
that  any  ODe  who  should  c-arefiilly  ex/imine  the 
4>ld  Elatow  registers,  if  they  still  exist^  would  pro- 
hably  be  able  to  determine  the  question  whether 
Banyim  reidiy  wiui  whnt  Mr,  Lehind  asserts  him 
U>  hare  been,  **  a  Rom  of  the  Rommimy."  The 
ttvery  of  such  a  name  its  Pkto  or  Dimiti  in  the 
fan  family  would  clearly  prove  that  such  was 
'  '  '  >  case.  Much,  too,  renxains,  I  believe,  to 
I  cx)nceming  the  old  Gipsy  fhuiiliea  from 
^  tera  of  Norwood,  Epping^  Yetholm,  and 
sf  places.  Francis  Hindes  Groojck. 


BAEBABITIES:  ADMINISTRATION  OP  THE 
LAW  IN  lEELAND. 

I  In  »  former  number  of  **  N.  &  Q."  attention  was 
^^.dii^ected  to  the  frequency  of  capital  punishments 
^fin  England  dnring  the  last  centuiy.  The  Irish 
I  noonk  of  the  last  century  show  that  not  only 
was  there  little  respect  for  human  life  in  Ireland, 
Imt  '  -  h  waa  inflicted  under  circumstances 
Iwhi  led  still  i^freater  barbju'ity  tlmn  pre- 

fTa.ilt'M  lu  i.ngland.  The  crljne  of  murder  was 
aishcd  dimply  with  death,  as  in  Euj^laod ;  but 
Ivation  of  the  life  of  the  criniiual  was,  in 
a,  accompanied  with  many  of  the  horrora 
to  high  treason.  It  will  lie  also  seen, 
when  robbery  waa  punished  with  death,  that  not 
I  ma  hour  was  given  to  the  criminal  to  prepare  for 
^biii  pasaage  &om  thi»  life  into  eternity  I  As  to 
^Bnitior  offences,  for  which  no  higher  penalty  than  a 
^pnBail  fine  is  now  imposed  in  London,  they  were 
^  (m  the  following  notes  will  prove)  followed  by  a 
inai«  aevere  whipping  than  is  now  administered  to 
m  bffita)  gniTotter  tn  England. 

Til  il  extracts  jire  taken  from  an  edition 

Ipf  ti  and  Gfntkmnn*a  Magazine,  pirated 

I  linrjiifi  prLnt4»r  named  Exshaw,  who  had  aa 

ne  and  remorae  in  appropriating  to  hia 

I  Inbours  of  others  as  a  Yankee  pub- 

m^Tork  or  Boston  now  has  in  spoliating 

Twithor. 

GihhetUjtg  :— 

•*  July  l<Jth-   At  the  Aastzea  of  Clonmel,  niaetcon  men 

mra  cDnd«tntied,  of  vrhom  were  one  Mam^bin  two  aons  and 

^  bft>ther,  who  wore  to  be  gibbeted  for  murdering  &  {ledler 

t»boul  «ix  moritba  im£0." — London  Ma^aiintt  vol.  x.  p.iKM, 

*  Juty,  1741  (Exihftw'i  Dublin  eaitioa). 

2^  ^f  and  gihhttiin^  : — 

*  r  r     John    Bodkia    FitxoliTer,  Dominiek 

Bodk..^ ^    -i.a  Uog&n,the  shepherd,  were  brought  to 

thmhr  trUI*  at  Tuam,  Tbej  teTemHj  plcftded  guilty, 
ft  aad  riNreiiriid  aeotcuce  U>  be  hanged  uid  gibbeted  the 
^Kmut  day.  .  .  .  The/  were  nil  very  penitent  ftt  the  pl»oo 
^Bvf  exccntioQ.    After  they  had  bong  for  h  few  mlnutefl 


they  h&d  their  heada  cut  off^  and  were  gibbeted  on  the 
road  to  Gftliray»  in  sight  of  the  bouse  where  the  murder 
was  committed.'*— 7Bi(i»,  toL  i.  p,  521,  October,  1741. 

Hanging  and  quartering:— 

**  At  the  CommlsBion  of  Oyer  and  Termluer*  Bichard 
B&llai'd,  Bryan  Meeban^aud  Terence  Reilty  found  icuUty 
of  murder  ftnd  robbery,  to  he  hanged  and  quartered." — 
Ibid.,  p.  521,  October,  174L 

Boman  Catholics  hatnng  Jirt-arms : — 
*'  October  21  it.  At  the  Commission  of  Oyer  and  Ter- 
miner, Wilttam  and  J.  Murtagh,  two  brothers,  were  tried 
and  found  guilty  for  carrying  arms,  being  Papists,  and 
were  fined  each  £Z0,  and  are  to  be  imprisoned  for  one 
year."— /tiff.,  p.  fMG,  October,  1745. 

A  Shor.  Shrift  for  Footpa^a : — 

"November  25th*  liaurence  Sherry,  Denis  Murphy, 
Peter  Neaglc,  anil  Thomas  Kerry,  tried  at  His  Majesty's 
Court  of  King^s  Bench,  for  several  robberies  committed 
near  Dublin,  were  found  guilty  and  received  sentence  of 
death.  A  gallows  was  erected  for  tbem  near  Brumcondra. 
and  they  were  carried  from  the  Court  to  the  place  of 
execution.  Tbis  was  dona  in  order  to  put  fin  end  to  the 
robberies  which  hare  frequently  been  committed  for 
some  time  past/' — Ihid.,  p.  6i6. 

**  18th  February-  Three  footpads  wore  tried  for  street 
robberies,  and  being  convicted  were  ordered  for  imme^ 
dtate  execution,  and  accordingly  hanged  in  8tepben*i 
Green/— /iw^.,  vol.  xvi.p.  104,  Febroary,  1747. 

WTiipf^^mg  a  Woman : — 

''  At  the  Quarter  ScMions  at  the  Tholnel.  Catherine 
MulUn,  of  Swan  Allc^,  in  Cook  Street,  for  keeping  a 
bad  bouse,  to  be  whipped/^  —  Ihid.,  toU  xi.  p.  365, 
October,  1742. 

mipping  a  carnian  for  insolenctt — 
"About  the  same  time"  (Augnit  3)  "a  drifcr  of  a 
hackney- chai»e,  who  refused  to  go  with  a  fare  though  not 
lured,  and  for  great  abuse  offered  to  the  person  who 
wanted  to  engage  him,  was  found  guilty  of  an  a&sauU  (1) 
and  was  whipped  round  Stephen's  Green  pursuant  to  his 
sentence." — lUd^  toI  xi.  p.  365,  August^  1742. 

miippin^j  a  hackney  (coachman : — 

"The  same  day"  (August  5)  **Paal  Kew,  driver  of 
coach  Xo.  47,  was  whipjped  through  the  city,  from  New- 
gate to  College  Green,  lor  giring  abusive  language  to  a 
gentleman,  and  refusing  his  just  hirtJ'—lUa.,  vol,  xri. 
p.  347,  Auguat,  1747. 

Hanging f  dvattnng  and  quariering — v?oman 
brirjied : — 

"AtAthy"  (were  conricted  and  sentenced)  "James 
Lawier  and  Catherine  Bingbam,  his  motber,  for  the 
murder  of  Richard  Bragban,  {tic)  of  BrtlI>'Tasji,  her  second 
bosband,  to  be  hanged,  drawn  and  ciuartered,  nud  she  to 
beborned."— /WJ,,  vol,  xr.  p.  376,  July,  174(5, 

Httsfxind  and  xcife  hung  for  the  same  crime: — 
"July  11th.  Edward  and  Mary  CosteUoc,  husband  and 
wife,  were  executed  at  St.  Stephen's  Green  for  filing  and 
diminishing  tbe  gold  coin.** — Ihid*i  tob  xix.  p.   880, 
July,  17M), 

Bhooting  peophfor  crying  ^^  Shame  !^^: — 
••  Angust  5th.  Wednesday  last  the  Sub-Sheriff  of  the 
Co.  of  Publin.  attended  by  a  party  of  Constables,  and  a 
detachment  of  soldienfrom  the  Poddle  Guard,  under  the 
command  of  a  Sergeant,  went  to  the  Commons  of  KU- 
mainham  to  prerent  the  assembling  of  people  to  see  tbe 
races  to  b«  run  there  that  afternoon  as  bad  been  done  the 
days  preceding.    To  do  this  cffectualt^  ^^id&Ta'vct^  ^wst 


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t5»ait  B^n 


to  puli  ilown  the  liorithM,  and  breixk  tbe  barrelfl  in  which 
were  strong  hiiuoif),  which  wag  puiicti]all]r  executed; 
Knd  the  popuhice  expressing  their  diHipprobBlion  iit  tuch 
procoe<itngi  by  crying  out— ih  ft  me,  shame^  or,  as  some 
say,  a  etc»ne  haTJniE  beeo  thrown,  the  Boldiers  were  coni- 
wanded  to  fire,  which  they  did,  iind  killed  one  miui  who 
died  on  the  root,  and  wounded  three  others,  who  died 
80on  after/*— /iirf.,  toI.  xti,  p.  347,  Augnitj  1747* 

Beyond  the  fact  that  the  coroner's  inquestfi^ 
both  ID  the  county  and  city  of  Dublin,  returned 
verdicts  of  "  Wilful  murder/'  there  does  not  seem 
to  have  l>een  any  one  prosecuted  or  pujiished  for 
thcise  unprovoked  homicides. 

Tbef^e  extracts  suffice  to  prove  that  cruelly  as 
tbe  crimintd  law  was  enforced  in  En^4ind  in  tbe 
eighteenth  century,  it  was  in  Ireland  characterized 
by  biirbjvrism,  or  it  was  held  in  abeyance  by  those 
on  whom  its  due  administration  devolved. 

Wm.  B.  Mac  Cabe. 


"  WaPPEN^D  WIDC^W." — 
"  That  makes  the  wa^n'd  widow  wed  again.** 

Ttmon  of  AthtfUf  Act  iv.  ic,  S. 
)r*  Stmtmann  quotes,  in  support   of  the  word 
<!ppmd  (clothetl  or  wnipped  up)^ — 

"  his  bodi  is  wappid  a1  in  wd,'* 
from  the  Song^  and  Car  oh  edited  by  T.  Wright 
for  the  Percy  Soa,  voh  xxiii*  p.  38.  A  friend, 
referring  to  this,  says :  *'  In  Skrdton's  poem,  en- 
titled IVo^jfuUy  Arnydj  occurs  a  similar  expres- 
aioDj — 

*  Thus  wrappid  all  in  woo/ 

In  a  MS.   of  thi.s  same   poem,  published  in  the 
Atficnaium,  29th  Nov.,  1873,  the  line  is  given, — 

*  Thus  wrappyd  all  yn  whoo/ 
In  vol.   jii.    VariortLm   Sfial^mre^    1821,  p.  21, 
occurs  the  following  (juotntion  from  one  of  the 
ancient  mysteries : — 

*The  fende  of  hell  that  la  vour  foo, 
He  bhall  be  wrapp^  ami  ^(niudyn  in  woo.* 

^ow  (ptery,  is  the  word  wappid^  quotcil  by  Strat- 

[^manii,.  a  true  word,  or  is  it  only  a  contraction  of 

he   urrajypyd  or  wrappid  of  Skelton  /     Take  a 

arallel,  or  what  I  suppase  to  l>e  a  parallel  ca*e. 

our  old  books  we  frequently  find  known  and 

[andoubted  words  contracted  ;  for  instance,  depend 

we  find  written  or  print-ed  drpcd ;  but  no  lexico- 

apher  would  think  of  lieiiding  an  article  with 

pcd^     If  it  can  be  shown  that  imppid  h  merely 

[a  contraction  of  jn-apind^  the  support  which  Dr. 

3tfatn]ann\s  quotation  aflbrds  his  article  ivajipaid 

him,  and  its  confirmation  as  a  true  word  b 

yet  to  seek."     Thnt  jtrap  will  corrupt  to  ivap  is 

proved  by  the  provincial  word  impe^  to  wrap  or 

cover  up  (see  HaUiwell).     We  find  the  r  dropped 

in  other  words,  hh  Frenc!h  doi,  from  Latin  dorsum. 

^he  woril  might  also  come  from  tbe  provincukl 

I  KMtpCf  pale,  or  from  Saxon  tcfljp^n^rf,  wtepned,  weep- 

Idng  («'«>au,  p.p.  wepm^  heu^fKHj  to  weep,  mourn, 

I  ^^pendtiCf  mournful,  lamentable)*     I  take  it,  how- 


■iifc 


ever,  thai  the  most  reasonable  conjocttin'  is  1 
from  wappejCd^  "worn,  ^      *        i  cordiug  I 

Grose,  a  Uloucester^hire  ^  **  retUMi 

fatigued;  spoken  of  a  mi  *v  |".a,m)     ,  whiQ 
compare  with  nhapcy  used  by  Sj*enaer  for  to.^ 
or  deject  {impid^  troubled,  soiT'tv^nnl    in  < 
and  with  the  old  French  m  l>ona»  ^tu| 

perdu  sa  force,  sans  vigueUTj  b        ^       .  >J4tU  1 
foible,  dtjbile,  qui  exhale  mauvaise  odcu 
inaipide   en  gout ;  esprit  porte  au  maJ, 
cceur,  vapidus  "  (see  Roquefort). 

R*  S.  Obabsiogs. 
Qray's  Inr. 

"As  SOUND  AS  A  TROUT." — I  ^ti.1  ihi^  pHrwp" 
early  in  the  fourteenth  century  in  In; 

lish  versions  of  the  Cu  rmrMuvdi  w  ;  i  :  1 

Morris  is  editing  for  our  1 
Society.'  Two  doctors,  at  the  i 
son,  make  a  tutth  of  pitch  and  Lirim»U>ne  tw  tui 
the  dise^ised  and  stinking  king  in  ;  and  they  t**!! 
him  that  when  he  comes  out  of  it — 

'*  >ou  m1  be  hale  eum  ani  trut©.'''^r*^f#fm  MS. 

**  t>a  s&l  be  hal  ats  ani  troute," — G^  S: 

'*  ]}ou  sal  be  bale  as  a  tronte.'^ — F^^ 

**  |?ou  shal  be  hool  aa  any  troate."—  >'. 

This  book  is  full  of  quaint  and  ust  I 

F*    J.     r  L  ilM  'ALL 


i 


Singular  Tenoreb. — I  made  a  not*  of  ilic 
following,  which  {inkf  alia)  are  to  lie  foiijid  in 
Edks  of  Liieratxirr,  edit.  1823,  pp.  152,  3:— 

"King  John  gave  ievenikl  lands  at  Eeppert^n  aaJ 
Atterton»  in  Kent,  to  RoUrmon  Attefeld,  to  b*  h^h\  1'? 
this  singnlar  tt!    "         '  1'  '     '  '        '  '  ' 

pleased  to  cro*<^ 
should  be  obli^-' 

luadi  if  there  shuuld  bo  ucciu-iun  ioi  it,    li 
dhould  be  seasick  ' ;  and  it  appears,  by  the  r 
Tower,  that  thia  frame  otBce  of  h\  '  '  '    '  -' '       u  i^  uliuwi^^ 
performed  h\  the  reipm  of  Edw&t 

"William,  earl  of  Warren,  I  rrJ,  in  ibc 

time  of  KinET  Jvhn,  while  etandii  ^ 

eaw  two  bulls  fighting  in  the  ca^i 
butcher  dogB  pursued  one  of  the  ..,^,.. 
the  noise  of  the  multitude)  quite   lb- 
The  Bight  p!efi*cd  the  earl  so  much   '■. 
eastio  nxau'.  r.  the  duel  of  the  ^ 

oomniou  r  t: r*  of  the  town,  l;  : 

wfti  niowu_.     „       ,  dition  that  they  cL   :.  .  „„_  .. 
hull,  the  day  six  weeks  before  Chnstmae-fiay,  lor  tibe 
continuance  of  ihni  ^-porf  for  ever," 

"The  town,  r  '  "       '         '  '       '  f  ,  ^^vA 

to  the  sheriffs  <  -Ai  »p9 

to  be  baked  in  t .       \  .  .  'ti  de- 

lifered  to  the  lord  oi  tlie  mtiuor  ul  lu.  oha  i« 

to  convey  them  to  the  kin^.    And  1  <  onon, 

Thom«s  de  Per'     '    '        -^    i>i-,.  ,    |^^ 

thirty  ncres  of  i  coiialj 

of  Norfolk,  by  i^  kinj, 

^vlRTi-ver  be  ^tiuulii  bo  iu  Eitglaiidj  ii^cuiy-four  |i*etiei 
of  fredh  herrings  at  tlieir  fimt  coming  in-" 

Fredk-  Bnju 

Lavertoit  CifuncK. — Whilst  driving  round 
Laverton  (Somenei)  I  looked  m  at  Ui*  qn  ' 


^tUm^ 


*  B,  n*  gEPT,  19,  71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


225 


Je  chtirtli  Trhich  is  nnder  repair.     The  floor  of 
beil-chnmbcr  had  falleni  and  one  of  the  bells 
ncktMl    nno  with   an    inficription  in  an  oM 
FStarACtcr)  wtis  being  put  into  a  wuin  to  be  tiiken 
[lo  the  foundry  to  be  broken  np*     In  these  days  of 
eolo|^cal  i-esenrch  porhops  some  umluous  c^m- 
^lowinn  may  try  to  prfservc  iin  object  which,  if 
:  TiH  rise,  is  worth  notice  na  having  hang 

lunches  in  the  patronaj/e  of  TI.K.H. 

li/nice  oi  t'omwilll.  Ela  SboID. 

kington  Castle. 

**  S!IRET*.lxchor/'  thnt  ts,  ** .s^oot-anchor  ^* : — 

L"yof  Imely  of  lUl  men  be  f^  my  rhrefc  banker 

"iformeAt*  Midmopo  niefe  ehootAnker." 

Udall '»  RoitU  i  t\  1 55S»  A  rber  8 

...........  11. 

The  t^rm  ppobably  had  reference  to  shoaling  the 
Dain  anclior  out  at  the  bows  of  a  «htp. 

J,  T.  F. 
llAtAeld  H«]l,  Durlinm. 

ARcnuEACox   Desv'alpok. — The  following  in- 

'  scription  on  ei  meraoriitl  sltib  upon  the  floor  of  tho 

south-west  chapel  of  the  church  uf  Dorchester- 

t  nprjn-Thame,  Oxon,  may  be  worth  preserving.     It 

I  commemomtea  a  di^^uitary  of  the  Galliaui  Chureh 

I  of  the  bst  ce.ntur\',  who  died  in  exile  :— 

"  To  the  memory  of  the  Rev. 

Micltael  Thoomin  Dcavalpoti 

Apred  02 

jyj).  Be  C  Jj.  Arch  Deacon  and  Vicar- 

Generul  of  Dol  in  britany 

A  H«n  conspicuonn  for  hi  a  htep 

Knowledge  and   hirt   >f'  ral    Virtuea 

Exiled  since  17:^  '   liifion 

sad  his  King,    1  ] deceived 

by  the  En^..  ..- n. 

DeoeMed  at  Orery  March  '^d  1798 
gretklly  indet'tr*!  ti  the  Frimilv  of 

Mr  Davev,  itiI  ' 

Omrcb  at  tbe  K-  6 

of  the  BeTd.  Dr.    -„....,  „,       .rden 

of  Nor  ColieTO,  Uxtm* 

R.  I.  K- 

[  D^veVB  of  Dorchester  are  an  old  Roman 
olic  wmily,  and  their  residence  is  culled 
ery'^  or  ^'Overies." 

Frkderick  George  Lee, 

^tnccx   CAROLrxE, — There   is    a    siDguIiir    in- 

*jjr  in  Mrs.  SoTOerville's  Personal  liecoUcc- 

with  regiird   tu  Qaeen  Caroline's  appeal  for 

ion  Ut  the  nn  wiifi'^n  fif  rnr^TL^o  1V»     On 

t  dar,  I  was  y\.  r  of  Great 

p  ^^trr<^t  whirl  1  lire  view  of 

d   the  royal  pnicer*atun,  and  I  saw 

10  drive  po^t  the  house  on  her  wny 

y,  and  al8<)  od  her  return^  after  her  ill- 

nipt.     It  took  phuiQ  rather  early  in  the 

'  houra  before  the  pageant  of 

Lordfi  made  iU  ^low  progress 

i^fi  further  attempt  was  made  by 

rid  th«*  whole  of   the  prooeedinga 


pfi^ssed  oft'  poAceably.  Tliere  were  a  few  hisses 
raiiicd  by  the  crowd,  when  the  majestic  Lord 
Londonderry,  in  the  full  robes  of  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter,  passed  by  ;  but  thc«e  were  immediately 
silenced  by  the  hirije^c  citst  by  his  almoner  among 
the  |»eople.  There  was  no  disturbance  at  the 
banquet  in  the  Hall,  or  ut  any  of  the  ceremonies, 
A  friend  of  mine,  who  was  pi*esent,  told  ine  that 
the  never  witnessed  a  more  striking  scene  than 
when  the  king  stood  up  and  totv^ted  Jiis  people, 
amid  the  acekmations  of  all  present  The  appli- 
cation was  made  by  the  Queen  before  the  coro- 
nation, the  claim  being  that  she  \vji3  entitled  to 
share  in  that  rite.  An  admission  to  the  HaU  after 
the  ceremony  could  not  have  conferred  any  titular 
benefit  upon  her.  Z.  Z, 

"  FANATta" — It  is  alwaj^s  interesting  to  notice 
the  introduction  of  new  words  into  a  lanjjua^e,  bnt 
it  is  renuisitc  that  the  testimony  to  their  novelty 
should  oe  trustworthy. 

Olu'  ever-ddij;;htful  Fuller,  speaking  of  the  word 
"  Fanatics,"  calls  it  a  "  new  word  coyncd  within 
few  months  "  (Mixt  Coutemplationn,  lG6c\  Part  IL, 
I  p,  77).  He  mentions  a  Hebrew  and  Greek 
etymology,  but  adds,  **  most  certainly  the  word  is 
Liitin,  ftomfanum,  a  temple." 

The    word    occurs    in    illnsheu's    (htUh    into 
Tongues^  1G27,  where  it  is  defined,  '*  mad,  fran- 
ticke,^'  itlso  inspired  with  **  prophetical!  furie." 
William  E.  A*  Axo^r. 

CrRtous  Ektbt  op  Marriaqe  in  Ohalgrafs 
Parish  Reolsters.  Co.  Bedford,  during  the 

CoMMONWEALTn,  1655. — 

"  Henry  Pisher  and  Sarah  Newson,  of  Limve,  pub- 
Ibhod  three  ieTerfLll  Lord«  dajes  in  our  psh.  Mttiinrf 
NoiU€  caled  th^  church  ended  the  xxtij'''  of  Septb.  atwi 
D0«  excepton  made  agairtit  it,  and  the  Baid  Heniy  Ftther 
and  Saiun  Neirson  wiw  married  tbe  xxix'^  of  September, 
80  by  eertificat  doth  appearo  by  Fninciea  AuFtercs,  Esq., 
and  in  piontB.  of  Will:  Martin  and  Abraham  Newaon/' 

D.  0.  K 

The  Crescent,  Bedford. 

Paris  Prisons  (5^^  S,  i.  468;  ii.  153,)--I  »ay 
be,  perhaps,  allowed  to  complete  some  of  Mr.  M. 
Van  Ers's  statements  about  the  Prisons  of  Paris* 

The  "College  d«  Plessis,'*  which  became  a 
prison  durin;^'  the  first  French  Revolution,  wan 
founded  in  1^17  by  GeoflVoi  dn  Plessis,  apostolic 
notary  and  secretary  of  Philippe  V.,  **  le  Lon|r,^* 
near  the  **Coll(^gjc  dc  Clermont,"  since  "Lycee 
LotiiS'le-Grand,"  which  stands  Rue  Saint-Jacques. 
The  building  has  lieen  used  since  for  various 
scientific  purjxn^es,  and  received  at  different  times 
the  *'  Ecole  Kormalo  '^  and  the  *'  Faculty  de 
Th^oJojkrie,  dea  Lettres,  des  Sciences/'  and  **dc 
Droit." 

Bainte-P<^kgiei9D0wBaedelaClet  It  c^fuied 
several  years  ago  being  a  prison  for  debtois. 
Clichy  was  then  assigned  4o  ^risc^t^^v%  ^i  N^sAu 


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[5«aU*8EPf,l&/T4 


description,  until  the  prison  for  debtors  was 
aboHsbed  in  France.  During  NapolfK>n  IIL's 
reign,  journalisU  nnd  politioil  writers^  when  con- 
demned for  a  "  delit  dc  presse,^*  used  to  be  shut  up 
in  Sainte-P^lagie. 

Les  Madelonettes  was  a  prison  as  late  ns  18G7. 
At  that  time  the  prisoners  were  transferred  to 
another  building,  situate  near  the  Observatory,  not 
far  from  the  Boulevard  Montpamasse. 

Henri  Gaxisseron. 

Ajr  Academy. 

John  Yiccars,  the  Oriental  Scholar* — 
John  Viccars,  who  published  his  Bccapla  »n 
Fifdmoif  &c.,  in  1639,  i«  Raid  by  Anthony  a  Wood 
to  have  been  "  a  most  admired  linguint,  and  the 
best  for  the  Oriental  hmgmigea  of  bis  time."'  I 
shall  Ikj  glail  to  put  on  record  in  the  pages  of 
**  N.  &  Q."  a  discovery^  which,  I  believe,  I  have 
I  made  as  to  the  birthplace  of  thia  worthy.  The 
■nccount  of  Dr.  Henrj-  SarapHOn  in  the  Non- 
conformists' Manoriul  saya  that  he  was  son  of 
Mr.  Willitim  Sainp&on,  of  South  Leverton,  co, 
Kotti?,  and  nq)}mv,  by  the  ihotli^g  ddc,  to  those 
two  eminent  Hebrew  scholars,  John  and  Samuel 
Yicars.  Hariufj  discovered  from  Thoroton  that  a 
Gregoiy  Vickera  wa-s  a  freeholder  at  Treswell,  a 
neighbouring  parish*  in  1012,  I  appliei.1  to  the 
fl^ector  there,  and  he  coiirtt_^ously  giearched  his 
legisters  for  me,  with  this  result : — 

**1601|  Helino  ViccarB,  d.  of  Gregory  Viccara,  bapt, 
25tb  Dec." 

*'  1604,  John  Viccura,  son  of  Gregory  ViccftW,  bfipt. 
SOtU  Oct'/' 

*'  1G07.  Samuel  ViccRrSj  uon  of  Gregory  Viccara,  bapt. 
13th  ApriL** 

These  were  the  only^  entries  of  Viccars  found, 
but  there  can  \te  little  doubt  tliat  they  refer  to  the 
two  learned  brothers  and  their  sister,  who  married 
%Villiam  Saiu|xson  of  South  Leverton.  I  should 
he  glad  to  know  more  concerning  the  two  Viccarses 
than  whiit  h  contained  in  the  works  uUnded  to, 
and,  idso,  whether  William  Sampson  can  be  the 
poetical  writer  of  that  name  who  was  their  con- 
temporaiy.  Clk. 

DounLE  CuRiBTiAy  NA!ffE8.— The  Fdll  Mail 
G<mtk  of  10th  August,  1874,  refers  to  the  ''  Table 
Talk  "  of  the  Guardian,  which  n^ks,  "  What  is  the 
earliest  example  of  a  double  Christian  name  in 
England  t  *'  It  cites  one  from  the  Register  of  T.im- 
worth  Church,  l-it  Nov.,  1^)80,  which  records  the 
baptism  of  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  Dooley  Pyp. 
But,  says  the  PaU  MaU,  Anthony  Ashley  Cooper, 

^Afterwards  first  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  was  born  l«i21, 
nd  it  is  not  likely  that  the  Thom^m  Dooley  Pyp 
aforesaid  was  born  earlier.  Is  there  anything 
fixed  about  thia  by  antiqaariea^  The  remark, 
of  course,  applies  only  to  private  Englishmeri, 

I  Sobriquets  like  Phintagenet  must,  bowerer,  have 
been  civen  to  many  knights  aa  well  as  to  those  of 
foral  lineage,  and  they  would  have  this  peculiarity. 


that  they  would  be  inserted  between  the  surrtJTjng 
and  Christian  name.     Ashley,  howevc 
representative  probably  of  property.     1 
it  would  take  the  position  of  the  sobri^u 
between  the  Christian  name  and  surname  { 
bequeathed,  it  migtit  follow  the  Rirname, 
convert  that  original  surname  into  what  is 
culled  a  Christian  name.     I  do  not  know  wlmt  ] 
the  origin  specially  in  the  case  of  Uie  Shaftesba 
family,  and  have  no  leisure  to  seek  ;  but  i 
the  readers  of  **  N.  &  Q.''  can,  of  coui'se, ' 
thus  much,   if    not   able   to   lix   the   ftrstJ^ 
definitely.  C.  A-  WaKD* 

Majfair. 

A  Poetical  Will. — The  following  quaint 
cluiracteristic  production  was  writ^ '^^  ^'"'  ^^^   ^ 
Cooper  Grooott,  an  oi'togeuarinn  Lt 
recently  deceased.     Mr,  Grocott  w.i    . 
An  Inder  of  Familiar  Quotation^  .i 
Modem,  a  work  which  has  [>assed  thr 
editions  :— 

"A  Lawte&'s  Will. 

26th  Jauuarj,  IS35. 
ThLa  ia  tny  la«t  Will  and  Testament : 
Road  it  according?  to  my  intent. 
Hy  gracious  God  to  mo  liath  ffiv'n 
Store  of  good  thiiign  that,  under  bear'n. 
Are  lov'n  to  those  •  that  love  the  Lord, 
And  hear  and  do  Hia  eacred  Word ' ; 
I  therefore  tjivo  to  ray  dear  Wife 
AIJ  my  Estates,  to  keep  for  life. 
Ileal  and  Pertonul,  Profit4,  Rentf, 
Mesaaages,  Landi,  and  Teaementa; 
After  her  death,  I  give  the  whole 
Unto  my  Children,  one  and  all. 
To  take  as  *  Tenants  in  Comtuon '  da, 
Not  as  *  Joint  Tenant*,'  *  per  mie— p«r  to«t* 
May  God  Almighty  bleis  His  Word 
To  all  my  '  presents  from  the  Lord,* 
May  Ue  Hu  bloAstngps  on  them  shed 
When  down  in  skep  they  lay  their  head. 
I  give  ali  my  *  Trust  Eatatea '  in  fee 
To  Charlotte  my  Wife  and  Derive. 
To  hold  to  her,  on  Tnist»»  the  ttkme 
As  I  now  hold  them  Iti  my  name ; 
I  give  her  power  to  convey  the  fee, 
As  fully  as  though  'twere  done  by  me. 
And  here  declare  that  from  ail  *  cbarsea  * 
My  W  jfe*9  '  Receiptt  are  good  </t>*c  barges/ 
And  now,  my  Wile,  my  hopes  1  fix 
On  tbeoj  my  Sole  Executrix — 
My  truest,  beat,  and  to  the  end 
My  faithful  Partner,  '  Crown/  and  Friend- 
In  Witness  whereof,  T  hereunto 

My  Hand  and  Seal  have  set, 
In  presence  of  thone  whose  uamcv  below 
Subscribe  and  witness  it 

J,  C.  G.        (i.3L) 
This  Will  was  published,  senled  and  dgn*d. 
By  the  Testator,  in  his  right  misd, 
In  preecence  of  us,  who,  at  hit  request. 
Have  written  oar  namea  these  facts  to  attaH. 

S,  a  D. 
J.  M, 

J.  C 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


22T 


i  nqneit  correspondent*!  deiiring  iiifonn»tioii 
iljf  QiAttent  of  only  priTKte  iniereet,  to  liffix  their 
uid  mddnnet  to  their  queries^  in  order  UiAt  the 
I  iDfty  bft  ftddnned  to  them  direct.] 


BIicttAKL*s  CnuHcn  "m  Pekil  of  Titr 

AJJD   ITS   English   Possessions. — In   the 

id  Chartukiy  of  this  Abbey,  the^e  m  a  ^prant 

mry  I,  of  England  which  I  have  not  seen 

'       liere.     He  gives  to  the  monks  **  duo- 

t  eire  inDeneveaira  in  manerio  meo  de 

1^  in  escambio  duarum  ecclesiarum  suarum 

£jmv&  et  de  Calsiiv  quaa  dedi  et  conc<?s3i 

e  ae  Badinguis  in  elemosina/'  &a     In  an 

in  the  SatMrtia}/  Eemcw  of  2oth  July  last,  on 

!^  of  the  great  battles  between  Alfred  and 

tnes  on  ^Escesdun  in  1(X>G,  mention  is  made 

^*  ijiln.jpr   cliurch,"  called  Cholsey,  not  fiir 

■rd*  wliich  **  was  given  by  Henry  I^^ 

ominster,  as  a  cell  to  hia  newly- 

d  Abbey  of  Reading."     Is  this  the  Calsia 

Mont   St.   Michel  charter,  and  where  is 

mvs,   or   is   it  the   Banie    as    Leominster? 

!g!i  is  donbtless  Budleigh,  in  South  Devon. 

rigtnal   g:rant  of  these  two  churches,  thus 

Tom  Mont  St^  Michel  and  given  to  Reading, 

,ot  appear  in  the  Chart ulary  ;   nor  have  I 

L  the  fact  of  this  Noniian  ab)>ey  holding 

n  Devonshire  in  any  of  the  county  histories. 

Held  St.  Michad's  Mount  in  Cornwall  by 

'  Edward  the  Confessor,  which  Robert   of 

n  afterwards  confirmed,  and  added  farther 

T  Willi ;  while  "  Liuricos  "  (»o  the 

►p  of  Exeter,  freed  them  from 

A  L-        1  by  himself  or  his  successors 

i  of  Pope  Gregory  VII.     A  farther 

interesting  grant  was  made  to  this 

}>y  Couiin,  Duke  of  Brittany  and 

lond,   of  the   manor  of  Wath,  in 

ikie^  Inrfore  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  cen- 

The  Duke's  two  chartera  are  recorded  in 

hj&nd  than  the  body  of  the  Chartulary,  and 

Iresaed  to  his  steward,  constable,  and  chani- 

"  liis  barons  and  knights,  and  to  all  his 

,  Britannis  et  Anglict%''  showing 

iijceiy  Htate  kept  up  at  Richmond  Castle. 

XL  confirmed  the  gift  of  Con  an,  who  was 

""•'<  of  the  old  Dukes  of  Brittany,  by  a 

h  his  son  Geoffiy,  styled  "  Comes 

.  .. ,      .J  married  Conan's  heiress,  is  a  witness. 

vc  not   obaen^ed  this  Yorkshire  property 

in  any  account  of  the  English  poaeessions 

t  St.  Michel.    The  Chartulary  of  the  Abbey 

t  inr^restTTijijrecordof  itsNorman  and  Breton 

tainingas  itdoes  so  manyof  the 

►Tor's  loUowers,  is  well  worthy 

L'Ush  antianaries.     It  h  said 

[isle^  of  Yalogneii,  the  eminent 

liogist^  contemplates  printing  it. 

Anolo-Scotus, 


Authors  and  QtJOTATioxs  Wanted. — 
"A  daup;hter  of  the  gods,  divinety  tall  and   most 
divinely  fair." 

F.  K 

Poem,  "  Mak." — It  commences — 

**  Lik€  OS  the  d&maik  rose  you  see^ 
Or  like  the  blossom  on  the  tree/' 

A.  F. 

^  Before  her  face  her  h&ndkerchief  she  Bpronit 
To  hide  the  flood  of  tei^rs  she  did  not  »M,'* 

James  T.  Pheslet. 

What  French  poet  thus  beautifully  and  epigram - 
matieally  expresses  love  —  mutual  love  at  Mrst 
sight  i — 

*'  Et  comrae  tm  jeune  ctour  est  bientdt  enitamme  ; 
II  me  vit«  il  m'aima ;  je  le  rti,  je  I'nimai.*' 

— Fp*edic.  Rule^ 

"  Hkc  Itber  est  in  qao  qunerit  sua  dogmata  qnisqaOi 
luTenit  et  pariter  dopmaU  qutsque  sua," 

Some  time  ago  I  published  the  subjoined  imitation 
of  the  above  in  one  of  the  fugitive  publications  of 
the  day.  I  knew  at  that  time  who  Wiis  the  author 
of  the  original  linos,  but  I  have  now  cj^tdt©  for- 
gotten :— 

"  Motto  for  a  Slave-ovn^i  Bihli. 
This  is  the  Hook 
Into  which  we  all  look 
For  the  doctrineji  to  which  wo  *re  a  mind ; 
And,  when  we  to  look 
Into  this  Book, 
Such  doctrines  we  all  of  us  find.** 
BayHWfttor.  SE?fEX. 


**  Bolda&d  erect  the  Caledoaiati  stood ; 
Old  wna  bis  matton  and  hii  claret  good. 
'  Let  him  drink  port/  the  Erlgliih  atateiman  cried ; 
Ue  drank  the  polsoo,  and  his  spirit  died/' 

R,  H,  Wallace. 

"  B^^hus  et  legibuf ,  Scotlci  const&ntes, 
Yos  clypeii  et  gladiU  pro  patriis  nuirnantea^ 
VeBt™  est  Tictoria,  Testrt  est  et  glorm. 
In  cantu  et  hlBtoriftj  perpcs  est  memoria  I " 

These  lines  arc  quoted,  without  reference^  in 
Sir  Waller  Scott's  Minstnhy  of  tht  ^coiiish 
Border f  edit.  1861,  vol.  i.  p.  353.  Cornub. 

Ajlesia. — ^  this  common  female  Christian  name 
of  the  Middle  Ages  to  be  regarded  as  standing  by 
itself,  or  as  a  corruption  of  some  other  name/ 
Dugdale,  and  all  modem  writers  after  him,  t^ike  it 
for  granted  that  the  name  is  a  variation  of  Alice. 
I  think  this  Bup]x>sition  is  effectually  disposed  of 
by  the  fact  that  in  medifeval  documents  the  two 
names  are  always  kept  distinct,  and  the  sjime 
person  is  never  called  both  Alesia  and  Alicia, 
unless  by  a  patent  slip  of  the  pen.  The  same 
person  is  called  Agnes  and  Annis^  Ami  eta  and 
Amia,  Alianom  and  Elienora,  Matilda  and  Maude, 
Thomasia  and  Thomasina,  Avelina  and  Alina  ;  but 
it  is  worth  notice  that  the  former  appear  to  be  the 
Latin  terms,  and  the  latter  tlwi  fetviXiOck,    ^^sX. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[B^aiT.  SsrfitSi 


Aloflia  and  Aliciii  ar^  never  confounded,  I»  it 
poaaibla  th^  Alesia  (in  French  docuinentfi  com- 
monly rendered  Aleys)  ia  the  original  form  of 
Louisa,  as  derived  from  the  old  Italian  spelling, 
Aloisa  or  Aloisia  }  Or  is  it  also  |>08sible  that  it  ib 
connected  with  H^loise  ?  At  thi*i  time,  while  Louis 
wfts  eomtnon  enough,  Louisa  was  not  domiciled  in 
France,  unless  it  were  under  the  form  of  Alesia. 
I  think  the  name  was  introduced  there  by  Louise 
of  Savoy.  With  regard  to  Hcloise,  there  ia  no 
more  unlikelihood  of  such  a  derivation  (Hekwif^e 
^H^loise^Alesin)  than  of  another  which  in  cer- 
tainly the  case — Hadewise^=Hawisia^Avice.  I 
flubmit  both  suggestionsi^  merely  na  suggestions,  to 
the  judgment  ox  your  correj^pondents. 

Hbbmentbcbe. 

ViLLiERa  :  Da  VitxiERS.^One  of  the  most 
widely-spread  families  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope 
is  that  bearinjif  the  nauie  of  Ik  I  illiers.  Its  mem- 
bers are  all  descended  from  three  brotliers  of  that 
name,  who  fled  from  Fi-nnce  to  Holland  after  the 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  and  came  thence 
to  the  Cape  with  many  others  of  their  Protestant 
countryiijen.  I  have  heard  the  arms  of  the  family 
Tamely  described  as  a  lamb  bearing  a  smaU  stand- 
ard; bat  I  believe  there  is  some  difference  of 
opinion  as  to  what  their  armorial  bearings  really 
are.  It  ia  said  that  the  family  came  fiiim  Rochelle.  I 
should  like  to  know  :—  ,^ 

L  Is  anythinii^  known  of  the  De  Villiers  family 
before  this  em  ignition  l 

2.  Are  there  any  representatives  of  this  family 
still  living  in  Fnmce,  and  in  what  part  ? 

3.  If  so,  what  are  their  armorial  bearings  ? 

4.  Are  the  names  Be  Yilliers,  De  Villera,  De 
Vilhirs,  those  of  difi'erent  families,  or  merely 
diifercnt  forms  of  the  same  name  i 

5.  What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  Villiers, 
which  serves  as  a  suffix  to  so  many  of  the  names 
of  places  in  France  (just  as  in  England  -wick,  -ton, 
&C-),  aa  Baugain villiers,  &c.  ? 

6.  What  is  the  origin  of  the  Villiers  family  in 
'  England  ? 

1  he  name  was  borne  by  the  Duke  of  Buckingham 
in  Charles  I.'s  time,  and  ia  now,  I  believe,  borne 
by  the  Earl  of  Jersey.  Are  they  descended  from 
the  De  Villiers  famOy,  and  are  they  of  French 
,  origin  (  "  DtAiiowD-DiooEB. 

DoatiNicALS,— The  rectors  of  AllhaUows  on  the 
Walla,  ^Marj"  Stejas,  and  Mary  Arches,  in  the  city 
of  Exeter,  have  summoned  a  number  of  the  in- 
habitants of  that  town  for  the  non- payment  of 
**  Dominicali!."  The  origin  of  the  custom  in  Exeter 
is  not  known.  It  has  been  supposed  to  be  "sacra- 
ment money,'*  and  to  have  been  levied  by  the 
priests  in  Roman  Catholic  times  for  administering 
'  the  **  Corpus  Domini;"  The  amount  now  claimed 
by  the  Exeter  clergy  ia  a  weekly  payment  of  one 


l>enny  and  an  extra  payment  of  fourpenoe  at  EoiUr* 
It  ia  now  claimed  from  each  h<  '  '  ^  r  wlitD  tlit 
house  does  not  pay  tithes,     li  -  find  tlHt 

twopence  was  demanded  from  i^i  ^i.'  vrotvhifppin 
in  the  churches  on  the  days  on  which  the  L(»d*i 


Suppf*' 


nioistered,  whether  the  puties  iud 


or  a  ..;;..:  payment,  and  i«  the  payment  of 
'*  Dominicals  '*  a  custom  which  has  the  force  of  lar 
aU  over  England,  or  merely  a  local  import  ?  Th» 
magistratea  of  Exeter  have  decided  t !  roittj 

ia  ]>orfiectIy  legal  ;  and  it  is,  I  un  ukdtr 

to  be  enforced  on  all  househol  '  ur.    C«i 

any  of  your  readers  give  a  ^  i  int  of  the 

origin  of  these  curious  imposts .' 

EoBBRT  BaBCLAT, 
Hillside,  Belgihie. 

Fletcher,  of  SALTotiK.— Where  can  I  find  a 
good  pedigree  of  this  family?  In  the  Enrvd*^ 
pccdia  Brilannica^  it  is  stated  that  Andrew 
Fletcher  "  was  descended  from  an  ancient  fanulj* 
who  tniced  their  origio  to  some  one  of  thp  f-^l- 
lowera  of  William  the  Conqueror."  In' 
EncyclopmUa  it  ia  said  that  his  ^ther,  ^- 
Fletcher,  wiis  ^*  the  fifth  in  the  direct  line  ir>3m  Sii 
Bernard  Fletcher,  of  the  county  of  York.*'  Tl» 
pedigree  in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry  only  com- 
mences with  Audrew^a  grandfather,  Sir  Andre* 
Fletcher,  of  Innerpeffer,  an  eminent  liwyer. 

Fletchkb,  Bishop  of  WoRCESTr.B,— Where 
can  I  find  any  biographical  or  genealogical  infitf- 
mat  ion  concerning  him  ?  W.  G.  D.  F. 

Justices'  Wages.— Under  an  old  Act,  juati'^^ 
attending  (piarter  sessions  were  entitled  to  n  f o* 
of  four  shillings  ju^  diem.    This  papuent  w;»-    ■ 
rendered  throughout  England  in  the  y^ar  i 
when  a  select  committee  reported  out! 
high  sheriff,  and  complaints  were  tmtd^ 
wages  often  fell  upon  the  sheriff.     Wht  t; 
payment  enacted,  and  when  disused  ] 

J.  Charles  Coj^ 

Haselwoodj  Belpen 

LiTURCJiKfi  OF  Edwailb  VL — The  fiwt  Pi^jfW 
Book  of  Edward  VL  was  confirmed  by  Ftfli*- 
ment  on  4th  November,  1548,  by  Act  2  Ed.  VL, 
c.  i.,  and  was  first  used  on  WTiitsun  D»y>  im 
June,  1549. 

The  second  Prayer  Book  waa  confirmed  hf 
Act  5  &  6  Ed.  VL  (1663),  and  waa  first  VM^ 
1st  November,  1562. 

Is  there  any  record  of  a  third  Pntyct  Book 
having  been  intended,  but  prevented  by  the  ^mih 
of  the  king?  I  tin^k  this  question  aa  alut  *»- 
history.  S*  Wl 


BlBLI 

of  the  J 

law  of  evideaoe  i 


•  5CE.— Ia  tliera  a  book 
iLuoea  aocordint!  to  tha 
What  judge  said  that  the 


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futiu 

tiiiifl 
lleI«Nl^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


229 


) 


tociioa  of  JesUB  Christ  is  certainly  proved  according 
to  Uie  strictest  kws  of  evid£Qce  ;  and  where  \a  the 
.  leoorded  i  Minucics. 

tocmT  FcTLLiR. — Burinj?  the  kt^  restomtion 
of  ^  lir(!*8  Church,  Holbom  Viaduct,  were 

An>  tntal   remains  discovered   indicating 

the  hwrial  of  this  man  temp.  Hen,  yill.  ?  It  is 
feported  that  "he  bequeathed  his  body  to  be 
buried  in  Corpus  Christi  Chapel  in  St,  Sepulchre-a 
Church  without  Newgate,  London/' 

W.  WrNTEIlS, 
W^lUimm  Abbey. 

Earl  Gonixosbt. — T  should  be  gkd  of  any  in- 
fonnation  regarding  the  faniOy  of  Earl  Coning^^by 
fthe  title  Li  now  extinct),  whether  Humphrey^  born 
in  1681  at  Bodenhaiiif  and  a  Humphrey  who  died 
At  North  Mynina,  were  one  and  the  aame  person  ; 
whether  be  was  ever  married;  and^  if  ao^  what 
he  had.  G.  W.  C. 


■*  Lives  qf  thb  English  SAnrrB."— Can  any- 
one give  tOB  a  complete  list  of  tLi>  authors  of  this 
aeriis— one  of  the  beid,  productions  of  the  "  Oxford 
DOYement "— \vith  an  indication  of  their  respective 
<90iDtTibutioas  I  I  have  hunted  in  vain  for  such  a 
Ikt  Jamss  BaiTTEN. 

BrltUb  JToieaiit. 

Sir  Edward  HtrxomiFORD. — ^Who  was  the  wlfia, 
I  of  Sir  Edward  Hungerford  of  Farley,  called  the 
Bpendthiift  1   He  had  a  datighter  married  in  lf>B4. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

9*£!orrsoN'a  *'  Dbbam  op  Fair  Wommu  '*  (ath 
from  end): — 

— "  I  WW  her,  who  ctotp'd  la  her  last  trance 
Her  mtirder'd  father' b  h&Ad.'' 


Who  u  she  i 


Jomc  Addis. 


TfTf-  Old  Ladt  in  Threadnbedle  Street. — 
How  came  this  name  to  be  given  to  the  Bank  of 
'  ^  t  and  bow  long  haj3  it  been  in  u^  ?     The 
ored  to  Threadneedle  Street  in  1732. 

T.  Lewis  0.  Da  vies. 
P*»r  Tfee  Vicarage,  Soathamptoa. 

Jofiy  Hooper,  Bisnor  op  Gloucestbr  A:n> 

I  WoRCB»TBR,    AND    GeoRCE    HooPER,    BiSHOP   OP 

IBATa  aud  Wells.— Is  there  a  pedigree  of  these 
loxiiiting^  and  are  any  of  their  descendants  now 
'linBgi  J,  H.  H. 

yt"^  '   period   was  thh  prolific 

^rf!  nthhj  Moffoxiiui?     If  thi^ 

r  Mn  Timbs,  I  think  be 
u^-  to  answer  this  inquiry; 
tf  ffv,  1  am  sure  would  do  so.  S«  B^  P. 


LONDON  COMPANIEB,  OR  OmLD& 
(5*fc  S,  ii.  48,  96,  198.) 

Mo,  Coleman  (p.  198)  has  given  a  lidt  of  com- 
panies  which,  he  says,  "were  not  in  existence  in  the 
year  1708,  but  are  now  to  be  found  among  the  Com- 
panies of  the  City  of  London."  This  ia  clearly  a 
mistake  ;  the  compiler  of  the  ^<fw  VifAc  of  LoiuUm 
may  not  have  considered  them  of  such  importiince 
aa  to  be  worth  mentioning  in  his  list,  but  they  were 
certainly  in  existence.  On  the  other  hand,  I  may 
misunderBtand  Mil.  Coleman,  and  he  may  mean 
thaty  in  many  cases,  these  companies  possessed  no 
'*  Livery  "  at  this  particalar  time,  or,  if  they  did, 
that  the  number  of  itA  members  was  exceedingly 
small.  I  am  aware  that  the  acceasions  in  tmB 
respect  have  (with  sevend  of  these  companies) 
occurred  in  more  recent  timfes. 

The  majority  of  their  charters  date  from  the 
seventeenth  century,  but  many  of  them  doubtless 
belong  to  an  earlier  period,  though  their  records 
may  be  lost,  and  we  are  thus  unacquainted  with 
their  history  prior  to  the  respective  recognitiona 
by  the  State,  Mr,  Colei^an  begins  with  the 
Basket  Makers.  It  is  true  that  we  possess  but  a 
meagre  account  of  their  fraternity,  but  they  must 
have  existed  here  from  time  immemorial.  Wickecp- 
work  and  basket-making  is  no  modem  invention ; 
and  the  practice  of  any  particular  trade  or  craft 
by  a  numoer  of  persons  naturally  leada  to  a  union 
among  them  for  the  protection  of  their  trade 
interests,  and  other  scnemes  of  mutual  benefit. 
The  oompapy  is  mentioned  as  early  as  the  year 
1540f  and,  in  the  year  1665,  we  hear  of  them  pro- 
viding for  adverse  times  by  the  careful  storage  **  of 
six  chaldrons  of  coals.^' 

The  Carmen  were  constituted  a  fellowship  by  the 
Court  of  Common  Council  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
Till.,  and  by  Letters  Patent  of  James  L,  1606,  ther 
were  incorporated  with  the  Fuellers,  under  the  title 
of  Woodmongers  ;  but  in  1668  a  dispute  occurred, 
and  the  charter  was  thrown  up,  the  Carmen  being 
re-appointed  as  an  independent  fellowship  by  the 
Court  of  Common  Council  Their  rules  and  regula- 
tions possess  considerable  interest,  and  will  well 
repay  perusal. 

The  Fan  Makers'  Company  is  the  only  one  whose 
charter  dau  bear  date  later  than  the  year  1708. 
It  was  conferred  by  Queen  Anne,  19th  April,  1709. 

The  Fellowship  Porters  possessed  a  hall  near 
Billingsgate  ;  they  had  neither  livery  nor  even 
a  coat  of  .'wrnis.  Nevertheless  their  proceedings 
were  of  sufficient  importance  to  be  directed 
by  the  Court  of  Aldermen.  In  December,  1619, 
an  Act  of  Common  Council  ordered  that,  "for 
the  better  directing,  settling,  and  establishing 
the  Company,"  no  measurer  of  com,  &c.,  nhould 
meiifiure  grain  without  the  assistance  of  the  Fellow- 
ship Porters  under  a  ^nalt^  ^1  %^\.   \\i.  ^i^oR^  l^^ssai 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*8.IL8iK.l§,Ti. 


164G,  they  were  incorporated  ns  '*  tackle  and  ticket 
porters,"  and  t!ie  aldennttn  of  BiUingsg&te  Ward 
wa«  appointed  governor. 

The  Glass  Sellers  were  granted  a  charter  in  the 
reign  of  Charles  II,,  25tb  July,  1664.  Besides 
the  Commonalty^  there  is  a  Master,  Warden,  a 
Court  of  Assistants,  and  a  mtmber  of  Hyery  men. 
A  good  iUustration  of  their  coat  of  arms  is  included 
among  those  recently  inserted  in  the  new  stained- 
glass  window  lately  pat  up,  under  the  direction  of 
the  London  and  Middlesex  ArchiH)lo^ical  Society, 
by  the  Corporation  in  the  New  Library  at  Guild- 
hall. 

Gold  and  Silver  Wire  Drawers. — KiDg  James  L, 
in  the  year  1623,  granted  Letters  Patent  to  the 
Company  ;  but  soon  after  there  were  grievances 
against  them,  which  were  reported  on  to  the  House 
of  Commona  by  8ir  Ed\rard  Coke»  He  said  that 
as  parcel  of  the  Goldsmiths'  Company  of  London, 
the  citizens  of  that  trade  were  forced  either  to 
enter  into  the  guild  or  resign  their  business, 
which  "  unlawful  restraint  brought  in  no  bullion"  j 
and  the  commodity  was  dearer  than  before,  so 
much  50  that  there  was  f^d,  first,  and  after  4d. 
0.  B.,  imposed  upon  everj'  oimce.  After  thb,  the 
Act  brought  in  to  ratify  the  Kings  Charter  was 
rejected.  A  new  grant  was,  however,  made  by 
Willijim  and  Mary  in  1693,  the  title  being 
**  The  Master,  Wardens,  Assistants,  and  Com- 
momdfcy  of  the  Art  and  Mystery  of  drawing  and 
flatting  of  gold  and  silver  wire,  and  making  and 
spinning  of  gold  and  silver  thread  and  stuffs  in 
our  City  of  London." 

Gunmakera, — The  charter  to  this  company  was 
conferred,  in  1638,  by  Charles  L  Maitlaiid  states 
that  they  possessed^  in  his  day^  neither  livery  nor 
hall.  It  anpeari*,  however,  that^  in  17 28,  the 
Court  of  Aldermen  endorsed  a  grant  as  to  liveiry- 
mtm,  and  limited  the  number  to  a  hundred.  Some 
of  the  most  celebrated  gunsmithi!  in  London  are 
now  members  of  the  guild. 

Phiying-Card  Makers. — This  fraternity  had  a 
charter  from  Charles  L  in  the  year  1629  ;  by  it 
they  were  to  enjoy  all  the  usual  privileges  con- 
ferred on  the  civic  companies.  It  does  not,  how- 
ever, possess  much  significance  in  the  present  day, 
thougn,  in  the  Registration  List  for  1862  of 
persona  entitled  to  vote  for  Members  of  Parlia- 
ment in  the  City,  it  returned  names  to  the  number 
of  twenty-five. 

Needle  Makers.^ — This  is  a  company  which  has 
until  recently  been  forgotten  ;  it  is  now^  though, 
beginning  to  revive.  It  is  the  only  civic  guild 
which  possesses  a  charter  direct  from  Oliver  Crom- 
well. It  WAS  incorporated  by  him  under  Letters 
Patent^  lutb  November,  165*3,  and,  curiously 
enough^  this  was  aften^^ards  confirmed  by  Charles 
IL  The  number  of  their  livery  was  limited  to 
fifty,  but,  by  a  recent  application  to  the  Court  of 
Aldermen  from  a  number  of  gentlemen  interest^ 


in  the  resuscitation  of  the  company,  this  number 
has  been  increased  to  a  hundred^  aad  the  company 
bids  fair  to  prosper.  A  gathering  of  its  member? 
recently  took  place  at  the  "Albion,"  and  among 
those  present  were  many  individuals  eminent  jdLke 
in  literature  and  art.  The  excellent  speech  upon 
the  occasion  by  ^Ir.  Parkinson,  the  senior  warnen* 
will  be  remembered  by  all  ttr^^pnt  It  wk  w^U 
reported  in  the  Cihj  Fres,^ 

Spectacle  Makers. — Inc  i  -  L, 

16th  Mav,  1630. 

Tin  Plate  Workers. — Their  charter  dates  from 
the  reign  of  Charles  IL,  29th  December,  1670. 
Thev  have  a  coat  of  arms  with  the  motto  **  Amoie 
Situs  Uniti," 

Wheelwrights. — Incorporated  also  by  Charles  IL^ 
3rd  Febniary,  1670.  In  a  return  of  the  Livery 
Register  before  quoted,  there  were  as  many  as 
seventy 'three  names  given  in  as  entitled  to  T0t& 

Woolmen.— Of  this  company,  Allen  wiiCee  ;— 

"  The  antiquity  of  this  Society  may  rr -  >Jr  be 

supposed  to  be  equal  to  that  of  the  -  ia 

this  Kingdom,  yet  it  is  onJy  a  fratt ;.,...  ;  ,  prt- 
scription.  However,  it  is  one  of  the  City  Com- 
panies, and  is  distbguished  by  the  name  of  **  The 
Master,  Wardens,  and  Assistants  of  the  Fr*tejnity 
or  Company  of  Woolmen  of  the  City  of  London." 

All  hist'Orians  agree  as  to  the  great  antiquity  of 
the  City  companies.  As  regards  their  origin,  we 
must  be  careful  in  affixing  dales.  The  earlMi 
charter  which  any  of  them  possess  but  lak€i 
after  all,  to  a  period  when  tney  received  a  reooig- 
nition  of  a  certain  kind,  and  their  earlier  rules  and 
ordinances  have,  in  many  cases,  per  '  '  TUeir 
origin  is  probably  to  be  sought  in  t)  i na- 

tions which,  in  a  commercial  country  MKe  i-nuiin, 
jrrew  up  from  influences  that  for  four  centuries 
had  been  gradually  imported  from  Rome,  In  «o 
long  a  period,  how  great  must  have  been  the 
infliience  of  Roman  laws  and  institutions  upon  the 
customs  and  habits  of  the  people  of  this  country* 
The  **  Collegia  "  of  the  Empire  were  analogous  to- 
our  present  trade  corporations ;  and  that  they 
flourished  in  Roman  Britain  hits  been  shown  by 
various  discoveries  which  have  been  luadei 
inscription  found  at  Chichester  immortaliiea 
Colkgium  Fabrorum  (Carpenters)  ;  another 
Caatle  Cary,  Scotland,  the  "  Image  Makers,** 
Colkgium  Ifignifcrorum ;  and  a  third,  found 
Bath,  commemorates  the  "  Smiths,"  or  <7<  *' 
Fahricieiuiuvh 

That  they  survived  the  Roman  occupation  and 
passed  down  to  us  through  Saxon  times,  has  beeft 
abundantly  proved,  >&.  Kemble  quotes  a  de- 
faced charter  of  Ealhere,  of  the  seventh 
which  refers  to  **  cniahta  geakian,"  and  Hi 
mentions  a  **  guild  of  knights  *'  as 
A. P.  860-866.  In  Domesday  ther^  is  men! 
a  "  guild  of  clerks  "  possessing  house  prop 
Canterbury.     The   analogy  of  ffuch  mstitutloBi 


I 

I 

I 


P»  8,  U.  S«M.  1»,  7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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^jdtb  tiie  Roman  *'  Collegia  *^  it  la  unneccaeary  to  go 
ttto  here  ;  il  has  been  ao  fully  and  ably  done  bj 
H.  O,  Ooote,  F,S.A.»  in' bis  valuable  paper 
rjt  lied  by  the  London  and  Middlesex 

Society,    entitled    Ordinance    of 
likcular  Gmld$  of  Lojuhn,  IS^-l-Uae. 

JoffH  E.  Price,  F.S.A. 

Sm  £caufi«  0/  'Mnghind  and  Waks^  vol  x., 
it,  p*  344  ;    also    Herbert's  Hutory  of  the 
5  Qmtt  Livery  Companies  of  Londoit.,  2  vols., 
J  1837  ;  also  ^4  Lut  of  (In  Tiliolt  Body  of  iht 
ixfryimn  of  Londxin^  &c,,   London^    1792   (see 
'  a;*_i^K^«<fe*,  p.  nm\    if  R.  W.  F.  wonld 
re  a  loan  of  the  Htst-named  work,  I  shall 
>lend  Uim  my  copy, 

Francis  M.  Jackson. 
Portland  Street^  M&achegter. 


SriLLUfO  Rbfobms  (5«»  S.  L  421,  471,  511 ;  ii. 
'>.)— I  fannot  think  that  Dr,  Brewer's  elaborate 
TOPoaahi  (6«»  S.  i  421,  511 ;  iL  61»  123,  143,  163) 
ill  1  '     accepted.     His  ideas  of  reform 

!i.  There  are  ejiger  advocates 
y  iuit\  tr^ii  rjLumid  system  for  money,  weif^hta, 
measures ;  to  them  I  reply  tliut  decimal 
on  iB  a  barbarous  deduction  from  the  accident 
I  children  and  savages  count  with  their  ten 
ad  that  if  we  are  to  have  a  reform  we 
iuce  tmht  as  our  radix  of  notation, 
Dtdd  goon  learn  a  new  multiplication-table 
in  which  eiyht  times  nine  woidd  be  sixty.  The 
vast  advanta^rej  of  such  a  notation  are  manifest, 
Soj  I  loy  in  reply  to  Dr.  Brewer  that,  if  we  are 
to  JMkVe  a  refonu  in  spelling,  we  mast  begin  by 
ing  the  alphabet.  There  are  seven  priraary 
\  in  our  language,  no  one  of  which  has  a  fixed 
representative.  The  vowel-characters 
ah  have  no  settled  meaning  :  the  words 
lirae  are  identical  in  pronunciation,  and 
I  both  15  neither  e  nor  w,  but  the  urvocal 
nd  tt,  as  sounded  by  elementary  gram- 
marians, are  diphthongs.  It  is  a  rernarkable  proof 
of  the  errors  which  ensue  from  this  awkward 
mrangement  that  Profe^ssor  Sylvester  {Laws  of 
Vene^  p.  50,  n.)  states  that  "  in  general  a  diphthong 
cumoi  be  reversed  as  such  ;  i\  e.  in  the  act  of 
reriBSa]  it  becomes  a  vowel  sylkble,'*  On  the 
contraLTy,  it  is  impossible  for  a  reversed  diphthong 
_to  become  a  pure  vowel.  You  might  as  well  say 
-  the  reversal  of  a  tiompoaite  number  makes  it 
Tho  diphthong  in  yard  is  the  diphthong 
'the  diphthong  in  oysttr  reversed  that 
thit  pronouns  tie  and  yon  are  diphthongal 
reversed*  A  matbematioLan  could  never 
mftde  such  a  muddle  if  he  had  only  been 
hi^  -1.1  v,.^.  ^^^  jjp  Qjj^  ^^er  is  taught 
that  iis+'fitl  rning. 

In  oonjioi «>.... ,. ,_  .i;ive  redundance  and  deficiency, 
iving  k  and  #,  of  what  possible  use  is  the  epicene 


c?  X  ia  hs.  G  and  j  woidd  be  both  useful  if  they 
were  kept  to  their  profjer  functions  ;  if  one  were 
always  hard  and  the  other  always  soft.  But  our 
chief  disgrace  is  that  we  have  thrown  away  the 
noble  0  of  our  great  forefathers — have  represented 
ridiculously  by  ih  thiit  letter  thorn  which  no 
Frenchmn^n  or  German  could  ever  yet  pronounce. 
I  strongly  protest  against  any  reform  of  spelling 
which  does  not  restore  the  symbol  of  that  softest 
of  consonantal  sounds. 

A  reform  in  spelling  is  not  half  so  much  needed 
as  a  reform  in  speaking.  Orthoepy  shoiUd  precede 
orthography.  Our  orators  are  becoming  inarticulate  ; 
our  poets  would  l>e  in  a  sad  ^n  if  they  had  to 
read  their  comi>osition3  aloud  to  such  an  audience 
!is  listened  to  Horace.  Imagine  what  it  must 
have  been  to  hear  Aristophanes  act  a  pf^rt  in  on© 
of  his  own  plays,  no  professional  actor  being 
courageous  enough  to  undertake  it !  Every  syl- 
lable of  that  musical  Attic  was  fitted  into  its 
place,  and  shone  like  a  gem  in  the  coronet  of 
Athene, 

It  is  well  that  "  K,  &  Q,'*  should  encourage  new 
ideas,  and  be  tolerant  to  even  the  eccentricities  of 
literature.  But  I  should  just  as  soon  believe,  with 
Mr.  Ward,  that  Bacon  contributed  to  Shakspeare 
^*  the  beggarly  elements  of  his  plots  and  his  material 
philoaopmes"  (whaiij  Shakape&re's  material  philo- 
sophy ?)  as,  with  Dr.  Brswsr,  that  aught  can  be 
gained  by  writing  jUvm^iii  instead  of  ftorigt^  or 
dame  instead  of  dance,  I  should  hail  a  complete 
alphabetical  reform  (which  would  not  interfere  with 
etymology,  if  etjmiology  were  taught  orally)  even 
as  I  should  hail  a  reform  of  our  arithmetical 
system  by  adoptiog  twelve  fts  the  radix.  But, 
though  Dr.  Brewir  tells  us  "  we  are  a  learned 
nation,"  we  have  not  arrived  at  a  point  when  either 
of  these  reforms  ia  even  conceivable. 

Mortimer  Colliks. 
Enowl  Bill,  Berks. 

General  Fox  and  Charues  James  Fox  (6**» 
S.  ii.  2Ul.) — Mr.  Mayer  has  fikllenintoa  singular 
error  in  fancying  that  the  late  General  Fox  was 
the  son  of  the  great  statesman  Charles  James  Fox^ 
inrjteiid  of  being  the  son  of  his  nephew,  the  third  Lord 
HoUaod.  This  is  not  only  a  well-known  and  indis- 
putable fact,  but  might  have  been  gathered  by  Mr. 
NIaver  from  the  letter  of  3rd  Febmary,  1854, 
But,  in  spite  of  this  extraordinary  blunder,  the 
letters  are  not  without  interest  on  their  own  ac- 
count, particularly  with  regiird  to  the  portraits  of 
eminent  men  which  once  adorned  the  Library  at 
Holland  House,  I  am  surprised,  however,  to  fin<l 
General  Fox  saying  that  his  "  father  did  not  file 
of  Dropsy,  but  of  Gout  in  the  Stomachy"  as  this 
altogether  dejstroys  the  story,  first  told,  I  believe, 
by  ilr,  Croker,  in  the  Quarterly  Revicit^j  of  tho 
epitaph  which  he  composed  for  his  own  monument : 
— "  Here  Ilea  Henry  Vassall  Fox,  Lord  Holland.^ 


&c,,  who  was  drowned  while  sitting  in  his  elbow 
chair.^^  He  speaks  very  vaguely^  iibo,  when  he 
sap,  **  Mr»  Fox  was  at  leAst  18  or  19,  and  his 
Aunts  23  or  24,  when  the  large  picture  of  them  by 
Reynolds  was  pjiinted."  One  of  the  Lwliea  was 
his  cousin,  not  his  imnt  ;  and  Jamea  Watson's 
grand  me^^otint  fi-om  the  painting  bears  the  dat^ 
of  1762,  when  Fox  w«s  not  more  than  thirteen. 
The  General  was,  no  doubt,  thinking  of  Fojc^s  ap- 
pearance in  the  picture,  but  his  bushy  eyebrows 
a.nd  manly  expression  made  hiiu  look  much  older 
than  he  really  was*  Chttteldrooo. 

Geneml  Fox  wfl«  the  eldest  son  of  Lord  Hol- 
land, but  born  before  his  father  married  his 
mother  (then  Lady  Webster).  I  suspect  that  the 
originals  of  the  letters  you  have  printed  were 
sijjfned  "  C.  R.  Fox,''  and  not  *'  C.  Fox/'  as  the 
itenerai  was  in  the  habit  of  uniting  the  K  with  the 
F  in  a  monogram,  which  was  not  very  perceptible 
to  those  who  did  not  know  his  initials. 

Henry  B.  Wheatlet, 

Charles  James  Fox  had  no  children  by  his 
nmrnage  with  Mrs,  Armitatead.  Rogora  tells  us, 
however^  that  he  hiid  a  natural  son  who  was  deaf 
and  dumb.  I  am  not  aware  of  any  record  of  what 
became  of  this  son.  W,  F,  E  ae. 

lyCORBBCT  noMPlLERS  OF  Ge\*81AL0OIES  (5^  S. 

iL  96.)— Mk  Beavbn*8  remarks  on  this  subject 
are  qnite  true  and  justifiable.      In  Sir  Bernard 
Burke's  Fcermjefi  and  Barondngts  of  tht  Unikd 
Kinffdovi  there  is  a  most  unintelligible  genealo«iy 
given  of  the  Fitss  Geralds  of  Castle  Ishin,  co.  Cork, 
who  are  set  down  as  the  descendants  :md  repre- 
sentative? of  the  Baronets  of  the  same  nam©  seated 
at  Clenliah,  in   Limerick,  until  1691,  when  Str 
John   Fitz   Cleraldj   Baronet,    went   abroad   with 
Jamefi    IL     These    Clenlish    baronets    were    lui 
entirely   diBferent    branch   of  the  Gemldine   tree 
from  the    Fitz  (Jcrald  (kni^'hts)  of  Cloyne,  who 
idso  o\vned  Castle  Ishin,  or  (Castle  Lissen,  in  1612. 
[In  1679,  Maurice  Fitz  Edmund  Gerald,  younjjer 
on  of  Sir  Edmund  Fitz  Gerald,  Knight  of  Cloyne, 
I  by  Honora,  daughter  of  Lord  James  Fitz  Maurice 
[(who   brought   the  Spaniards    to    Ireland    trjfip. 
I  Elizabeth),   was   owner    of    Castle    Ishin.      This 
IHaurice  Fitz  Eilmund  Gerald  wiis  not  a  knight 
iMniself,     He  married  Lady  Honorn  Mac  Carthy, 
land  had  a  son  Garrett,  of  Ciistle  lahin,  who,  by 

I  the  sister  of  O'Brien,  Lord  Clare,  had  a  son  James 
kFitz  Gerald,  who  was  married  and  ownt^t  of  Castle 
Plshin,  cirai  1693.     This  pedigree,  as  far  as  it  goes, 

I I  have  traced  and  found  to  be  correct  by  wills, 
Ijiisitions,  &c.,  at  the   Record  Office,  and  old 

npornry  records  in  private  collections.     But, 
my  extreme  surjjrise,  I  find  in  Sir  Bernard 
Burke's  Barmitiatje  this  lineage  transferred  whole- 
r«Ble  to  the  Clenlish   baronets  and   their  repre- 
flentatire    by   some    eqtmlly  mysterious  process} 


of   transfer   settled    at  Castle  Ishin.      Tht 
branches  of  this  ancient  stock  need  no  fftbria 
or  amplification  of  their  geneidogie*.     The  ( 
knights  were,  to  say  the  least 
their  Clenlish  namesakes,  who 
title  of  Baronet.     1  do  not  s.» v  r  \ 
Baronet  of  Castle  Ishin  is  not  the 
representative  of  Sir  John  Fitz  G^       i, 
Clenlisli,  who  went  abroad  with  Jam-      i  I 
or  thiit  his  honours  come  under  ih*^  hi  jt 
ful  baronetcies";  but  if  he  ifl  ;    i   :      i   r,  i 
fectly  cerUtin  that  Sir  B.  Burkt  in  -  luis-st 
pedigree    Ln   the  most  extraordinary    way.      Ssi 
Edmund  Fitz  Gerald,  Bart.»  of  Clenlish,  m  164 
was  not  the  father  of  Maurice,  of  Castle 
between  that  year  and  16711,  not  even  his  fori_ 
fourth  cousin.     Sir  John,  the  OlenliBh  Barone^l 
who  went  abroad  with  James  IL,  is   said  to  h&n 
been  killed  at  Oudenarde  in  1698.     The  on" 
that  I  can  account  for  his   descendttnts 
Castle  Ishin,  if,  indeed,  they  do  own  it,  is,  t 
branch  of  the  Cloyne  knights,  who  ce 
own   that   place    until    1092,   mar 
extinct  in  the  eighteenth  ecntun . 
riisi  the  ex Ued  and  attainted  baroriL; 
managed  to  obtain   the  lands  nnd  to  pass^j 
penal  tinif.s  as  members  of  the  Castlr  Tvliin  ^ 
who  had  not  forfeited  in  1088.     1 
unlikely  ;  and  in  any  ease,  the  aii- 
pedigree  in  Burke  ought  not  to  stand  in  print 
sliall  be  extremely  obliged  if  any  of  the  accunitd| 
genealogrsts  who  read  **N.  &  tj."  would  kind^j 
help  to  clear  up  this  puxxle,  which  lias  points  \ 
interest  for  the  historian  as  w«dl  as  the  genealogist. 
The  fine  tomb  in  Cloyne  Cathcdr?d  of  Sir  »lohti 
Fitz  Gendd,  Knight,  who  dierl  1  *  un^r 

estates  in  1611^  and  who  wm  ' 

Maurice,  of  Castle  Isldn,  in  Itj^.f.  *    ii 

restored  at  the  expense  of  the  Mn  t  i  l^ 

it  ill  J'^  14.,^  J  v_  Life* 

Thx  Arms  of  Sir  Fraucis  Duakh  (4***  -^  tL 
464,  514;    xii.  S5.)— Being  anxious  to  f^?' 
qtiestion  of  Sir  Francis  Drake'^  i\rm^  ^atlnf  h 
settled,  I  have  followed  the  il 
pages  into  the  Herald  and  < 
heard  from  experienced  men  tliat  iliv 

fmper  printed  in  the  Journal  of  Otc  Eoi 
ogiml  Institute  will  be   the  fiitnre   suiuiard  ui 
reference.     Very  few  will  now  listen  U*  th»*  in- 
credible story  told  by  Prince,  when  old  n    : 
errors  are  being  daily  exploded*  notv 
Sir  WdL  Drake's  special    ^      '-  :. 

Cook's  memorandum,  i  by  Dr.  H-  B- 

Dmke  in  the  College  <!  -ntu..,  records  that  Sir 
Francis  might,  by  pin^rogative  of  birth  and  right 
descent,  bettr  the  ^'^v^or"  'ulr-*  nt .  r  r.r.A  ^botie 
the  fipeciiU  royal  i>irdm 

words,  ^*  a»  I  avi  en        .:     .  Amimf 

I  of  Barnard  Drake,  Sc,^  and  otken  n^  th(a  f^mih 


6»&n.BBT.l»,74.I 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


233 


,  and  ]\  i!' 


I  deckratioD,  recorded  for  the  heniid^a 
i^c«?.    Sir  Willifim  eecms  to  foi^et  that 


PT 


tl 


of  wonMp  tmd  good  credit**  What  can  be  deoxer 
or  more  posiiiTe  i 

Dr.  Drake.  Tiowtvpr,  in  his  reply  (aee  HeraM 
and  Genealog  !  fen  into  a  imp  bj  diacussmg 

Sir  WiUiBin'i^  ion  that  the  entry  was  one 

prcpomd  for  inBtrtion  in  the  royal  gmnt,  when  on 
the  hrr  nf  it  it  wa^  nothing  of  the  sort*  but  simply 
nn 
ofik 

Tjietimes  made  for  reniAdcahle 
iceii  were  of  BuflicicEDt  mag- 
'  '  's  1^  w  coat  w«A  granted  in  ooni- 
/f  -  i[  optional  to  discard  or  con- 
I  '  innga.  He  states  that  there  is 
t  >  r  Francia  using  the  wyvem  in  Sir 
i  I '  0.  Thien  what  is  the  meanbg  of 
i  i<  h  he  seeks  to  support  I  And  lie 
I  ranciA  deaiied  to  connect  hiiiwelf 
e  of  Afth :  but  we  find  that  Richard 
named  his  own  son  and  heir  Francis, 
which  goes  to  prove  that  the  honour  pointed  the 
other  way.  The  improbabilities  betray  hiui  into 
contradict  ions ;  we  desire  nothing  but  the  truth, 
and  not  to  nm  from  pillar  to  post  for  it.  Sir 
Williara  has  advanced  only  his  own  private  opin- 
ions, which  appear  prejudiced  and  without  weight 
in  face  of  the  facU  published  in  the  Arehm)U>gical 
JoumaL  The  only  fact  he  offers  to  our  considera- 
tion is  that  the  wj^vem  appears  on  the  tomb  of  Sir 
Bernard's  father  instead  of  the  chevron  and  battle- 
axe",  the  distinguishing  coat  of  Ash  ;  but  even 
that  does  not  say  mach^  as  the  tomb  may  have 
erected  by  8ir»Bemjird,  who,  Dr-  Drake 
s,  **  changed  the  coat  of  Ash,"  A«  no  men- 
if  t)u'  tomb  was  made  by  Dr.  Drake  before 
th^  ihiralogical  Society  at  Exeter,  has  he 

ov<  ;  I,  or  has  he  any  explanation  to  offer? 

Of  Clin  Sir  William  produce  any  grant  showing 
that  the  wy^*em  belonged  to  the  family  of  A^h  and 
to  no  other  1  '    Queby, 

ll-  r  Calexdars  <5*»>  S.  L  5, 58, 1 79, 257, 

3fi^  iOBt  convenient  means  of  i-eferri ug  to 

the   almimae   of  the   current  year   is   to  have  a 

calendar  in  one^j  pocket-book.    It  would  ap];iear, 

r,  that  the  value  of  a  mnemonic  will  depend 

I OO  lit  a|)pliGabiUty  to  otfu^r  years  than  the  present, 

'""      »  1      "        of  old  date  are  never  at 

hile  those  of  future  years 

..  .^lied  ;  it  is  here,  therefore, 

unemonic  is  a  real  desideratum. 

of  having  a  ready  means  of 

ntj  date  within  the  present 

lu  the  habit  of  adopting  a 

I  would  now  recommend  to  your  corre- 

' -Letter  plan  ao  long 
«»*'  cbrities  of  Dover  haa 

hfld,  fur  Uiiuij  ;ij*«.ia,  my  full  approval,  I  8till  think 
ihal«  fof  {mmlical  pttipoaos,  a  mors  simple  and  a 


l^j—^^ 


better  mode  of  arriving  at  a  date  might  be  made 
to  coDBist^  (1)  in  fixing  the  week-day  on  whidi  the 
Ist  January  of  the  required  year  falls,  has  fellen, 
or  shall  fall^  as  the  case  may  be  ;  and  (2)  in  tinding, 
by  reference  to  a  mnemonic,  if  necessary,  the 
number  of  the  earliest  day  indicated  by  the  iom^ 
week-day  in  each  of  the  remaining  eleven  months. 
The  rest  is  obviously  a  matter  of  very  simple  cal- 
culation. 

The  plan  I  would  suggest,  for  any  year  in  the 
present  century,  is  the  following: — 

(1)  To  the  year,  add  its  fourth  part.,  omitting 
fractions,  and  divide  the  aum  by  7.*  If  the 
remainder  be  1,  Monday  is  the  1st  January  ;  if  2, 
Tuesday ;  3,  Wednesday ;  4,  Thursday  ;  5,  Friday ; 
fj  <  .tv,,.].,^  If  there  be  no  remainder,  Sunday* 
(i  &tep  in  the  performance  depends  on 

tliL  ...  .  .;...!,  on  whateverweek-day  the  1st  January 
falls,  the  same  week-day  will  be  5th  February, 
6Ui  Miircb,  2nd  April,  7th  May,  4th  June, 
2nJ  July,  6th  Augustj  3rtl  tSeptember,  Ist  Octo- 
ber, 5th  November,  3nl  December,  My  mnemonic 
for  these  numerical  fixtures  is  as  foUows  : — 
New  Year'f  Dny  luxi  October  the  /rVif  being  reokoned, 
In  July  and  in  April  that  dsiy  ^ill  bfl  second ^ 

8epteiiil>er  the  Ourd,  untl  Decemlter ; 
Tlx© /otortA  day  of  June  {old  King  G(?orgo"B  birthday), 
Fi\ftA  of  Feb.  and  of  March,  and  the  gunpowder  day, 
Tlie  tijcth  day  of  Au^Bt,  the  sc9*ntk  of  Mav : 

Tbsse  are  all  that  you  have  to  retneiDQer  ! 
Emvfvple. — What    divj  of   the  week  was  the 
2(5th  June,  1815?— 

To  the  year  1815 

add  OQe-fourth        453 


divide  by  7 


2268 


St24*0  =  Sunday. 
Therefore,  June  4,  11,  18,  25,  were  Sundays  ;  and 
20  =  Monday. 

In  applying  this  rule  to  a  bissextile  vear,  it 
should  be  recolleGbed  that  the  *'  remainder "  re- 

fr^ents  only  the  months  aftmr  tJie  inUrcat^ry  day, 
n  mch  years,  January  1  and  Febniary  5  will  fall 
one  dav  earlier  in  the  week  than  the  day  indicated 
by  stioh  remainder. 

.fiicompk— On   what  week-day  fell    the   29th 
January  J  1796? — 

To  the  year  ,  1796 
bdd  une-fourth  U9 
ploal  1 


divide  by  7 


224a 


320  *  6  ==  Saturday. 
But,  that  year  being  bissextile,   the    first    two 
months  are  di^>lai3ed  backwards   by   one    day  * 
therefore,  January  1,  S,  15,  22,  29  =  Friday. 

Carl  Dban. 

Dublin. 

*  For  any  year  in  the  eighteenth  century*  add  to  the 
year  iu  fourth  part  pluM  I,  aad  divide  by  7t  sa  la  tJiia 
other  case. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5«8.n,SRr.M,T«. 


1 


Meecctry  Water  (5*^  S.  ii  9^  74)— I  am 
imable  to  find  this  in  any  of  the  old  phunaacopixnas 
or  chemical  works  ;  but  I  eutertam  no  doubt  that 
it  wa»  either  a  spirituous  or  nuueous  solution  of 
chloride  of  mercury  (corrosive  suclimate).  I  made 
a  saturated  solution  of  it  in  spirits  of  wine»  and 
another  in  water,  aided  by  chloride  of  ammonium 
(sal  ammoniac),  and  placed  a  small  needle  in  eticK 
The  aqueous  solution  Imd  corroded  it  entirely 
away  in  less  than  two  hours,  and  the  spirituous 
aolution  did  its  work  equally  well,  but  toi»k  more 
than  double  the  time.  The  name  "  water  '■  is 
somewhat  of  a  misnomer,  but  the  old  chemists  ap- 
plied the  term  to  numerous  substances  having  any- 
thing of  the  appearance  of  water,  notably  aqua 
fort  is  and  aqua  regia.  In  old  Acts  of  Parliiiment, 
too,  spirits  are  called  "  strong  waters  "  ;  whilst  the 
French  have  their  eau  do  vie,  and  the  Scotch  have, 
or  had,  their  aqua  vitie  ;  and  conventionalism 
seems  to  have  perpetuated  the  name^  of  eau  de 
Cologne  and  lavender  water.  But,  after  all,  it  is 
not  worse  than  the  term  "  alcohol  "  as  applied  to 
wine  or  grain  spirit. 

It  h  flimoiit  needless  to  observe  that  H.  A.  St. 
J,  M,  15  entirely  mistaken  in  supposing  that 
mercury  itself  nossesses  any  corrosive  properties, 
and  he  has  onlv  to  try  a  simple  experiment  to 
convince  himself  that  it  is  quite  msoluble  in  water. 
Certifcinly  it  will  amaJgamate  with  several  metals — 
gold,  ftUver,  lend,  tin,  &c.,  but  iron  ia  not  one  of 
mem*  Indeed,  it  is  exported  and  kept  in  iron 
bottl€«>  Medweig. 

Corpses  Entombed  in  Walls  (5*^  S,  ii,  185.) 
— It  is  stninge  that  Mr.  Tew  could  tranacribe  the 
passage  whicn  he  has  sent  to  "  N<  &  Q."  with  the 
above  heading,  without  perceiving  the  odd  mistake 
which  he  has  made.  Bede  speaks  not  of  a  coffin 
in  the  middle  of  a  wall,  but  of  a  wall  in  the  middle 
of  a  coffin. 

Apn/pog  of  this  kind  of  intramunvl  interment, 
the  side  walls  of  the  exiension  eastward  of  the 
chaptar^house  at  KirkstalJ  Abbey  hiive  built  into 
them  a  considerable  number  of  coffins  ;  from 
memory,  I  should  say  at  least  a  do«en.  Except 
one,  all  have  been  broken  into,  and  are  therefore,  of 
course,  now  empty  ;  but  I  think  they  must  once 
have  contained  bodies.  The  chapter-house  was, 
amongst  the  Cistercians,  the  most  honourable  place 
of  burial.  And  it  is  probable  that  these  coffins  at 
Kirkstall  were  originally  placed  under  the  floor, 
but  were  disturbed  when  the  place  was  altered, 
and  both  economy  and  decency  suggested  building 
them  np  In  the  new  waUs  nn  the  best  way  of  dis- 
posing of  them.  They  are  only  in  the  side  walls, 
BO  that  they  lie  east  and  west.  Each  has  its  lid  on, 
and  appears  in  the  waU  as  two  great  ashlar  stones. 
J.  T,  Mjcei-etmwaite, 

PuRT  Family,  Gloucestershire  (5"*  S.  iL 
249.}^If  It  should  happen  that  Eudders  EtsL  of 


Gloucestershire  has  not  been  searched,  the  following 
members  of  the  family  of  Puiy  are  mentioned  there 
under  "Tainton**:— 

ThoniM  Piii7,=Bwb&r»  Kyrle.  of  Wilford^ 


died  1693, 
aged  7i. 


Hereford,  died  l^^SS^  aged 
65. 


BftrbaTa,=ThomflJ 
difd         liugginB. 
16&4. 


Sorcdv,  died 
unm.  1709, 
aged  fii. 


Elizabeths 


■  Whit- 
I  tln^too, 

Sluniiet,  died  1724, 

aged  42. 
Ed.  Marshall. 

Mr.  Disraeli's  Expression  of  '*  Fi-octs  Ayi> 
GIBES  AND  jeers"  (5*^  S,  11.  168.)— Wa«  Mr. 
Disraeli  thinking  of  some  such  line  as — 

*' .  ,  .  doai  thoo  jeer  and  flout  me  in  Uie  ieetli  1  ** 
Conudy  of  £rror$,  IL  ii,  22, 
or — 

**  Scambling,  out-fftcmg.  faabion^monginK  bajri. 
That  lie,  and  co^  and  dout>  deprare  and  aUnder, 
Go  antiquely/"  kc. 

Much  Ad0  a5<M*(  Nothing,  x,l,H. 
John  Addis. 

"  Taking  A  Sight"  fS**^  S.  ii.  166.)— This  pmctice 
is,  I  suspect,  a  good  deal  older  than  ^^**  ^'"'^  of 
Rabelais.     If  my  memory  serves  me  )  is 

a  figure  on   the  Nineveh  obelisk  in  _     :Lah 

Museum  thus  engaged.  The  exempia-ry  Panum^ 
however,  is  described  as  etfecting  what  is  calwd 
"a  double  aight,^'  while  the  Nincvite  content* 
himself  with  a  single  one,  or«ask^JH«k^«^  (I  llunk) 
has  it^ somewhere  i|r\  ^LSt^^*^^^^ 

Lj^        "'He  f^NiiSi  no  wor<rW  mdic&t^a 


i 


no  wora  i#  indic&t^a  d<iubt, 


Bu^puyiiii  thumb  unto  hii  nosei,  and  ■^•tohji  his 
^Dgerfl  out." 


H,  A.  Ki^'XEDT, 


Waterloo  Lodge,  Reading, 

Le  Oomte's  "Nouveaux  M£moires  de  la 
Chine"  {b^  S.  ii.  148.)— I  hare  not  been  able  to 
see  a  copy  of  the  fiist  edition  of  this  book.  I 
believe  it  was  published,  in  two  volumes,  in  Pftrif^ 
in  1(>96,  and  that  Bmnet  is  mistaken  in  saying  it 
appearetl  "  Amsterdam,  1693  ou  98,  on  17<.U»  3  vol 
in- 12."  I  can,  however,  give  your  ScHscRmsR  i% 
THE  Faji  East  the  exact  title  of  the  next  edition : 

*'  Nonreaux  Memo?  res  lur  l*ctat  iiri«ent  de  U  ChiJWu 
Par  le  R.  P.  Louis  le  Comte  de  la  Cofopaipiie  de  J^sof^ 
Math6maiicten  du  Hoy.  Eartoht  de  Figuret*  StnTaui 
la  Copie  de  Paria.  A  Amsterdam,  ie&7.  (2  torn,*  Ithneu)" 

The  "troisieme  edition,  corrig^e,^*  was  published, 
also  in  Amsterdjim,  in  1698 ;  and,  in  1701,  na 
edition,  "in  three  Yolumes,"  appeared*  Qu^ctnl 
says  : — 

''  On  a  r^lmpnml  &  la  tuiie  de  cea  tn^moitiM  dens 
4:>QrrRgcB  da  P.Charles  Le  Gobien :  le  ^rr  —  \---~'''-*\\- 
V  '  Histoire  de  Vedit  de  Tcmpereur  de  la  < 
de  la  religion  chrctienne/  qni  arait  par^  m 

12,  et   le    second  intituI6 :   **  ^:clairciK«emeuU  ivx  \m 
honneurs  que  Ub  ChinoiB  rendent  4  Confudits  ct  ins 


^ 


ff>&ILSBFS,I9,'74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


235 


morii/*  impr.  en  16^.  La  rii^imprcanon  de  cen  deux 
oamgei   formeot   Ic   tome   troiiiirnie   dei   youpeaux 

As  to  Englisli  transktions^  a  translation  ap- 
peared in  London  in  1697,  with  the  title — 

*'  Memoirs  and  Obflervfttioiu)  TopoiyriiphicaJ,  Phyiical^ 
MathMUftticftl,  Mechanical,  Natural,  CitLI,  and  Ecclenas- 

IticAl.  Mftde  in  a  late  Journey  Tbrougb  the  Empire  of 
China,  And  Published  in  acverul  Letterf.  Particularly 
upon  the  Chinese  Pottery  »  .  .  [Itc.  &c.]  By  Louis  Le 
CoTT  -  *  ' ' '  •  ^  •  T  to  the  Dutcbe*s  of  Burjfundy, 
ontf  I  itictant,  and  lately  Misaionary 

into  -<,     Translated  from  the  Faria 

BditJot»,  ttud  iiiuatruUd  with  Figures." 
"A  New  Translation  from  the  best  Pam 
Edition  ■'  waa  published  in  London  in  1737,  and 
republished  the  next  year  with  a  new  title-jMge 
aud  two  additional  plates.  Neither  Watt  nor 
AlliboQe  menlionfl  Le  Comte  or  his  tmnslations. 

ISPAJlKfJ    iiSNDEBSOX   WiLLlAMS* 
fieosington  Creicent,  W. 
I  hare — 
**  Hi»tory  of  the  Empire  of  China,  being  Observfttions 
of  aboTe  Ten  Years'  TraTcla  through  tbut  Country,— by 
Lewii  Le  Comte,  Jesuit,  Confessor  to  the  Dutches*  of 
Burgundy,  &c,  ^c.     A   new  Translation.    The  Second 
£dition.     London  :    Printed  far  Jamea  Uodj^ea,  at  the 
Looking  GUm  on    London    Bridge,  17;j9.     Price  Six 
Shillings." 

It  15  an  8to.  yolatxie  of  536  pages. 
■       Paddiugton. 

"  **  Mrjrioc"  (5*^*  S.  iL  1480— This  word  may  be 
A  diminutive  of  the  Keltic  min,  mun  {fuvvo^)^ 
smoU  ;  like  manikin  and  monkty  from  nian.  It 
may,  however,  be  a  misprint  ftjr  mimick. 

R.  S.  Chars ocK. 

Minich*'  in  the  passage  quoted  by  F.  H.  is  np- 
parently  a  mLsprint  for  mimicked  and  \mih  nothing 
to  do  with  minikin  or  Old  Hii:b  German. 

William  Aldis  Wright. 

Omhrtdgs. 

KonKscLATURK  or  Vehiclks  (5*^  S.  ii,  148.) — 

The  ruitiie*  Landau,  Statdiope,  Brougham,  Tilbury, 

Kiflcn:.  Dennetj  are  derived  from  proper  names. 

The  conich   i^  siiid   to  have   had   it«  name   from 

Cot 7-0,  now  Kitsee,  prov.  Weieelbui'g,  Hungury. 

It  may  however  come  from  ci^um,  which  EiddJe 

rendct^  **  u  kind  of  light  vehicle,  a  chaise"  (men- 

tiocptl  by  Cicero  and  Auaonius).     The  Britfika  is 

probably  of  Kussian   or  Polish   origin.     Qu.  the 

Poli*^h  hrzky^        '      'I     See  further  "  K  &  Q^; 

tny    IVrdwt    J  ;   Mr,   Aug*    Goldsmith's 

' '  H-u     ,o'C,  Antiq.,  1873  ?) ;  and  per- 

.  and  Koel  et  Carpentier  (DicL  dt4 

E.  S.  Charnock. 

r'a  Inn. 

,  it  h  well  known  that  a/y  b  a  large 
,  on  hire.    It  may  be  worth  noting, 


I 


in  connexion  with  tlie  above  qucr^%  that,  in 
Guernsey,  they  have  a  ^tfiall  carnage  on  hire, 
which  is  always  caUed  a  midijc.  PosBibly,  as  a 
friend  of  mine  once  insisted,  a  fly  is  so  called 
becatise  it  goes  so  slowly  ;  but  if,  as  I  believe,  it 
is  from  the  insect  of  the  name,  it  is  obvious  why  a 
small  tiy  should  be  called  a  midge,  A  Guernsey 
midge  ia  like  a  large  Bath  chair,  on  four  wheeb, 
with  a  horse  j  it  can  only  carry  two  persons,  and 
the  driver  has  a  box  just  hirge  enough  for  him- 
self in  front.  A  midge  doed  go  quickly.  It  Is  the 
common  means  of  conveyance  to  evening  parties  in 
Guernsey.  J.  F,  S. 

"Shot''  AS  a  Termination  (5*^^  S.  ii.  149,)— It 
ia  shown  by  the  termination  *''  hot,"  in  such  names 
as  Bagshot,  Aiderahot,  &c.,  that  the  districts  bear* 
ing  names  ending  in  that  way  were  once  covered, 
or  partially  covered,  with  timber,  the  teraiination 
being  etiuivalent  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  **  holt  "^  (Ger- 
man hotz,  a  copse).  The  remaining  syllable  or 
syUables  in  eacn  name  refer,  of  course,  to  some 
special  peculiarity  distinctive  of  each  pHtticuLw 
district ;  thus  Bagi:hot  tells  us  of  a  wood  infested 
with  badgers,  Aldersbot  of  a  thick  growth  of  alders. 

A  termination  of  somewhat  similar  sound  occurs 
in  Bagshaw,  and  it  has  the  same  force,  being  de- 
rived from  the  Anglo-Saxon  acmga^  a  wood  or 
shtuiy  pkce.  Care,  however,  must  be  taken  not 
to  confuse  "  abaw  "  with  **  hlaw,"  Anglo-Saxon,  & 
mound  or  rising  ground,  to  which  we  are  indebted 
for  the  termination  of  HounsJow  :  and  also  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  "  haw,"  a  derivative  of  the  German 
f}t)iaii\  signifying  a  pkce  where  the  trees  have 
been  hewn.  C.  FAtTLKK-WATLiNCt. 

Shot,  ns  a  termination,  is  from  A.S.  holi^  a  grove. 
Conf.  Calshott,  Hants  ;  Oakshott,  Surrey. 

R.  S.  Ckarkock. 

Gray'i  Inn. 

Mr,  Taylor,  in  hia  Wtyrdi  and  Flatu^  p.  38(>, 
says: — 

"  The  bure  heaths  to  the  aouth-weit  of  London  seem 
to  have  b«cn  at  cmo  lime  covered  with  forest.  This  ii 
indicated  by  the  termination  K*jU  (German  Ho{z\f  which 
we  tind  in  the  names  of  Dagah'jt,  Oadahot,  Ewshot,  Lod- 
8hot,  liramshot,  Aldershotj  Alderaholt," 

A.  L.  MATiiKW, 

Oxford, 

Bekr  and  Wine  (5"^  S.  ii.  186,)— The  two  pro- 
verbs on  beer  and  wLne  and  beer  and  cider  remind 
me  of  the  following  French  saying  on  wine  and 
milk ; — 

"Viniur  Lnit 
Bien  fait ; 
Lait  iur  Vin, 
Malsain/* 

Henri  GAtrssKRON. 
Ayr  Academy. 

Sixteen  QiTARTERtNos  (5**»  S.  ii.  ISO.^^Tb^ 
coats  of  arms  wliicb  ts^  iamu^  tsaxv.'^  \i^  «oSA<Nft:^  V» 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t5*aiL8aBT.l8t71 


quarter  huve  bo  connexion  whattvcj  with  what  is 
termed  the  ttcizc  qnar  tiers,  or  sixteen  quart  era  of 
deganL  When  we  hear  of  a  (Jerman  Graf^  with 
his  **  sixteen  qnarterings/^  it  simply  means  that  he 
is  able  to  exJiibit  a  fjene^ilogical  table  showing 
that  his  sixteen  immediate  ancestors,  oijtcht  in  the 
paternal  and  eij^ht  in  the  maternal  line,  were  all 
nohk  in  the  Continental  senee  of  that  word,  i.  f*, 
were  all  entitled  to  bear  arms. 

It  may,  therefore,  happen  that  a  person  may  be 
able  to  produce  his  tth^  ^plariur$^  and  yet  not  be 
entitled  to  a  single  arvKn-ial  quartering ;  while  on 
the  other  liand,  although,  as  the  Editor  remark*, 
the  Duke  of  Northumberland  **  is  said  to  be*' 
entitled  to  a  shicdd  of  8!>2  quarterings,  it  by  no 
means  folloivf  that  the  present  posaeasor  of  that 
dignity  ia  able  to  trace  a  true  nisx  quartiers, 

H.  S.  G. 

Isabel  and  Elizabeth  (5^  S.  ii  166,  215.)— 
It  appears  to  me  that  the  entry  on  the  Patent  Roll, 
8  Henry  V.,  from  which  Hermentrude's  quota- 
tion is  an  extract,  cuts  both  ways,  to  use  a 
homely  expression  ;  for  if  it  prove  that  in  a.d. 
1421)  some  person  or  persons  unknown  were  of 
opinion  that  the  substitution  of  '* Isabella*'  for 
"Elizahetha*'  in  a  patent  was  suthcient  to  render 
the  instrument  inoperative,  it  also  shows  that  some 
other  person  unknown  had  substitute*!  the  former 
name  for  the  latter,  either  by  miatuke  or  from  a 
belief  that  the  two  names  were  synonymous.  It 
would  obviously  be  iineafc  to  assume  that  the  sub- 
stitution in  question  was  of  necessity  due  to  error  ; 
and  even  if  it  could  be  shown  that  this  was  the 
case,  we  should  not,  I  think^  be  warranted  in 
attributing  to  a  similar  cause  all  the  earlier  in- 
Stances  of  like  aubatitutions  dlegcd  on  very  high 
ftuthority  to  exist  in  the  Inquisitions  Post  Mortem 
of  Edward  I.  and  Edwarrl  111.  The  two  names  might 
very  well  have  been  employed  tiynonymously  in  the 
thirteenth  and  fourteenth  centuries^  whUe  in  the 
iifteenih  the  ilistinction  which  is  now  established 
between  them  might  luive  been  beginning  to  make 
its  way.  But  there  is  no  test  of  a  theory  so  satis- 
fttctoiy  as  a  numericid  test ;  and  some  such  pro- 
cess as  the  following,  rough  though  it  be,  would 
provide  ^uch  a  test  in  the  present  instance. 

Let  Herme??trude  take  a  sufficiently  large 
number  of  Inquii^itions  Post  Mortem  of  Edwiird  I. 
and  Edward  lIL,ttnd  count  the  instances  in  which 
any  one  Christian  name  is  substituted,  obviously 
by  clerical  error-^  for  any  other,  omitting  sub^titu- 
tions  of  Isabel  or  Elizabeth  for  Elizjtbeth  or 
Isabel  respectively.  Call  the  ratio  of  the  numbtr 
uf  such  instances  of  obviously  erroneous  gubstitn- 
tion  to  the  whole  number  of  repetitions  of  Chris- 
tian names  in  the  documents  examined  the  "  Index 
of  Error."  It  will  represent  roughly  the  chance  that 
a  meditcval  scribe,  tidcen  at  random  in  the  reigns 
of  Edward  I,  and  Edward  JIL,  would,  in  repeating 


Christian  names,  wnte  any  one   for  Miv  olksTf 

omitting  the  suhMtitntions  in  question,     Nm%^ 

her  take  a  sufficiently  large   number  of  sintilar 

docmnents  of  the  same  reigns,  in  which  the 

Isabel  or  Eliznbeth  occurs,  and  count  the  * 

in  which  the  one  name  is  suh^t\tni^A  far  i\u>  ni^gr* 

Call  the  ratio  of  the  number  «  ^s  of 

substitution  to  the  whole  nuui 

the  names  themselves  "  The  Ici 

It  will  represent  roughly  the  ^ 

rem]  scribe,  taken  at  random  in  the  r«jgn»  a 

named,  would,  in  repeating  either  of  the  namcfl 

Isabel  or  Elizabeth,  substitute  the  one  far  the  oth( 

from  whatever  cause.     Now  it  seems  to  t%w  that  ij 

the  theory  which  HER>rEN"TRUT  f 

be  true,  and  the  substitution  • 

for  Elizabeth  or  Isabel  respectivf  ly  Ma-    awM^-^ 

to  mistake,  the  former  "  index  "  ought  to  be 

nearly  equal  to  the  latter.    If,  on  in  ^    •  -  *"^  com- 

put.ation  indicated,  it  shotild  turn  th# 

latter  "  index  "  is  larger  than  the  I  hink 

we   may  safely  adhere  to  the   th<  lonly 

accepted  on  high  authority,  that  t„ 

were,  at  legist  in  the  reigns  of  Edward  I.  iukI 

ward  III,,  believed  to  be  synonyiuoue. 

FitASK  Scott  Hatdox, 

Merton,  Surrey. 

Ealph  pb  Cobham  :  Mart  dk  Roob  (5"^  S.  ; 
208,  294,  397  ;  ii.  30.)— ^Ir,  La0Rext's  noU  < 
this  family  (p.  30)  is  a  most  valuable  one  ;  bat  i 
am  sorry  he  should  have  *    ' 

daughter  (as  I   have  n- 
William  de  Ros,  was  an 
William  Ic  Rus.  I  have 
otherwise,and  that,  merely  .  ^  .^    ^.^ 
two  brothers  married  wives,  the  nam  <  *  i;- 

ilc  Ro6,  the  name  of  the  other  k  i:     .  ue   *! 

my  reasons  are  as  follows : — 

In  Close  RoU,  20  Edwanl  XL,  m.  7,  it  J*  st ain.!—  ^ 
^'  The  king  has  learned  b}'  Inquisition 
wife  of  William  de  Braose  deceiiPtMl  Im 
Yorki^hire  of  WiUunn  dc  lion  of   f 
E&cheator  is  not  to  intermeddle  w^i 

Feet  of  Fines,  5(5  JUymj  III.,  No,  73,  is  ttj 
to  be  "  Between  Richard  dc  Ereotis  &  Aliise  1 
wife  and  William  de  B.     The  former  groat, 
latter  &  Marj'  his  wife,  the  manor  of  Akeal 

t4dl." 

This  manor,  however,  in  Inqnisitioti  on 
de  Braose,  19  Edward  IL,  No.  90,  is  gtu     * 
held  of  the  heirs  of  Giles  de  Brewosa  {\ 
?on  of  Richard  and  Alice),  and  alter  ii»-r 
the  manor  did  descend  to  his  heirs. 

I  was  wrong  in  my  supposition  as  to  the  da 
of  this  Mary  do  Braose'a  death,  wbirh  I  thoug 
might   have   taken   place   in  10  Flu  u,!    TI 
I  find  it  was  20  Edward  II.  (see    ' 
of  William  de   Ros,    5«>   a    i. 
am  on  this  subject,  I  should  like  to  wnduiB 


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237 


I 


with  a  quety*  What  pTouf  is  there  of  b  Wil» 
liam  do  Brao^e  bivvina"  married  an  Eleanor  de 
Bftvent,  fts  stated  by  nearly  :ill  geoeaJogistB  that  I 
horc  httd  access  (o;  and,  if  .such  a  marriage  did 
tuke  plju'p,  wlmt  proof  iis  th(?re  that  he  Wii^  son  of 
WiT  '  !      *'     V  dc  R008,  and  brother 

to  ; '  i  argil  ret)  de  Brnose  if    1 

I  <--\Y^niwj^  nifut  him,  and  as  to  tbe 

if  eh  Peter  de  BraoFe  (stjited  to  be  tije 
iji),  and  hia  wife  Joan,  became  pos- 
manor  of  Wistoneston,  the  property 

of  ti.    ^> Is,  it  seems  to  have  been  a  grant  by 

thfj  king  to  Peter  and  Joan  his  wife  for  a  fine  ; 
id  the   riiiinor  liofoTe  that  appeara  to  haTe  been 
I  :  by  Roger  Bavent  Fitz,  during 

'\  and  not  to  have  descended  hy 
d^;^'  <d  by  Mr.  Lower  in  the  descent  of 

W;--  -tijc,  Ardi,   Coli,  vol   v.  p,  5,  who 

ilioiitiit^  that  WiUiiini  de  Braose  died  in  12&\ 
I  tbould  be  Ye  17  glad  to  receiTe  proof  of  thi». 
At  pratient  I  cannot  fijid  any  mention  of  this 
WiUiain,  unleaa  the  /«*/.  ;>,  w.,  35  Edward  II L, 
|K  f,  *  ^  X,  No.  10,  on  John  de  Mowbray,  of 
A3  i  iii^etl,  alludes  to  him  :— Sussex,  **He 

lioiti  rn  »»;i^8iD^on  2  vlrgiiles  of  land  which 
WiUiam  fU  Br^cauM  [held  of  liini],"  If  so,  it 
piOTsfl  he  did  not  die  in  13(>(».  Suppi>«ing  him  to 
oe  At  stattdf  it  Ib  curious  thnt  hiii  biijther^  sli<>uld 
aH  die  so  verv  long  a  time  before  him, — his  eldest 
hilf-brather,  XVillinm,  H>  Edward  IL  ;  his  next 
Sir  GileSj  33  Edward  L  ;  his  own  brother, 
d,  24  Edward  I.;  and  Peter,  5  Edward  IL 
there  wrts  a  William  born  in  this  branch 
Aware,  from  Coram  Rege  Roll  Trinity,  10 
IT,*  m.  26,  and  that  he  was  born  between 
JUMJ  14  Kdwnrd  L,  most  probablv,  but  I  think 
be  wttB  dead  before  Edwnrd  I1L*»  reign. 

Dudley  Cart  Elwes, 
5,  Tho  CresJcnt,  Bedford. 

Tire  Frrttch  Word  **YEt:x"  (5»^  S.  iL  101^ 
J4.) — It   15  extremely   dis^b'  "i^f ^lin  r   ulnn   mho 
'  (  one'B  meaning  so  thoroi  i  <\ 

Bile  has  been  by  Outis.    j  u 

Mm  and  jonmal  is  so  entirely  and  so  obviously 
4iflgfent  from   that  between  ocuhs  (octilus  i»  a 
int*)  and  i/n/j',  that  one  wonders  how  the 
of  words  can  ever  for  a  moment  have 
'  ijen     There  arc,  at  least,  two 
n'tween  (lieM  imdjmimal  (OurtB 
in  descent  from  duj?*'), 
,  and  it  is  from  the 
Df                   :r  rill,  vii,,  tUurimh,  and  not 
rnal  immediately  comes;  and 
■'  '    -    •'-  My,  at  least,  four 
ween  ocidostkiid 
i— 1  ;  oculos  id  the 

•  IVm^h  Dount  ha?'*  bf^fu  furmed  from  the  a£€tu<ttt*f, 
id  BU>t  front  t^  v.',  of  the  cotreBiKinding  Latin 

Jif^  Br  nm.,  2nd  edit,  pp.  101,  IC2, 


immediate  Latin  progenitor  of  yeux,  and  the  two 
words  have  not  one  Bingl©  letter  in  common. 
OuTis  must  try  again*  F.  Chance. 

Sydenham  Hill. 

CnRisTiAN  Names  (4*^  S.  isc.,  x.,  xi.,  xu, passim.) 
— Hiiving  recently  had  occasion  to  search  the 
regi.'iterB  of  the  parish  churchea  in  this  town,  I 
availed  myself  of  the  opportunity  to  **  make  a  note 
of-*  curious  Christian  mimes  as  they  crossed  my 
examination.  I  now  pend  them  for  publication, 
just  premising  that  I  believe  I  have  struck  out 
of  my  list  all  the  names  that,  in  connexion  with 
this  eubjex^t,  have  hitherto  appeared  in  **  N.  &  QJ* 
S  ion,        D  dautjftUr, 

Addom«?nt    s  1776    Oriiiell        »  1784 

Adrian  s  1766    Heysa   ... B  1790 

Aloftus  9  17fil    Iphngenift    b  1773 

Alrara  s  I7«0   Jcthro ...     8  175S 

Amanda        ,,.     .,.    i»  180f»   Jnssowny  ,  .     s  1724 

Andromecba       ...    D  174^9    Jaf^tinn. ..     ,  i>  U'JT 

Anaeftia  ...  ..  r  l'^*^  '  K'.  !nia3  _,  _.  p  1709 
Afierm  .„     ,„     ,.,    i>  17^  lone   ...     ...    n  1763 

Bellm ,  .    p  IT  >. d  1799 

Bernpna       n  17;>^    ^inttiiittm    ...     ,.,    j>  18nf2 

Boniflmiiio   s  17Cf7    Monica.  .     ...      ..    D  1792 

Biirdla.. n  17&3    Nirnrod..,     s  1741 

C)d&miui»    .,.     ...»  17155    Onetnmui    8  1729 

CaeSRiidra    ,,.     ...    n  1758    Paliuitme     s  1798 

Carlovin s  1807   Pater    a  17S5 

Clamado    ' D  1765    Pfttriettit      B  1759 

Ckopatra  r»  176»    Phineaa...    „.    ...    s  1783 

Corbetb  n  174.'i   Salacia 1)1784 

Cyiithia  i«  1743    Sapphini      ...     ...    U  182D 

Doncy  s  1783    Selfany B  1761 

Ede  t>  1765  Serena d  1761 

Ednev  D  1754   8«mu«  ...     8  17S3 

Edutt*    U  1799   geitua .,.     s  17»0 

Emery b  1762   Twjy      ...     ..,     ,.    d  1786 

Enny     ., n  1761    ThomMin     ...     ...    n  1760 

Eptbvcnia    n  177«   Triophtnc    ...     ...    »  18*n3 

EaaebiuB      ...     ...    fl  1765   Tiyoe h  1778 

Ejtupcrius    8  1790    ZndtM:k...     ...      ..    8  1793 

GfuevoTa      ..     ,..    i>  1750   ZUpah ..    x>  1775 

Gleccc  ,,.     ...     ...     s  1758    ZipporaU      n  1760 

R  D. 

Nottingham. 

Allow  me  to  cull  attention  to  two  very  un- 
common names,  the  former  esjiecially  so,  Aminda 
juid  Violetta,  both  occurring  on  tombgtonea  in 
Clrtverdoo  churchyard,  Warwickshire. 

A.  O.  M.  Jay. 

L«D«dowae  Terrace,  L«aminKtoiD. 

TiKTBKK  Abbkt  (5«*  S.  ii.  29^,  75,  96.)— A  very 
intr— ^-"  -  -*  -*'T -^*-**"  i^v..,.    " 'f-Tnpanied 

wii  und  in 

Ri ,.^:  .i. .......  ,,,,,.  ;,.,:.:..,,  ,./  :...^.v  i.^,Mdn^  by 

William  and  Mary  Howitt,  2  vol*.,  4to,,  Loud., 
1862,  published  by  A.  W.  Bennett. 

Gaston  de  Berhetal. 
Philadelphia. 

Edwabd  Maria  Wikcfikld  (5"*  S,  i,  488  ; 
it.  73)  wfts  ii  member  of  the  firat  cxmncit  appointe^l 
for  the  govenunent  oC  Vit^unax  \i^  >}Qfc  \j*ytA<3isi. 


238 


Company,  in  1606.  I  hare  a  copy  of  Mivdame 
P'Aubioy'a  JJUioirc  d'HypoHk^  ComU  dt  Dnglm^, 
which  Wtts  evidently  a  school  prize,  though  a  very 
odd  sort  of  one.  It  bears  iiiipressed  on  ita  side,  in 
gilt  letter:?,  '^John  ^Inna  Forster.  Pnr^mium. 
1750/'  The  celebrated  uctreas  GeoTfjc  Anne  Bellamy 
will  be  remembered  aa  rin  instaDce  of  a  raiiscn|^e 
name  applied  to  the  other  sex« 

Gastok  db  Berkeval. 

PhtladelphiA, 

Father  Kkhble  (5«*  S.  iL  44,  92,  192.)'-I 
have  seen  a  grave  slab  with  a  cross  on  it  in  the 
churchyard  of  Welsh  Newton,  inscribed — 

**I-   K. 

hTSV  THE  22*** 

OP  AVOVST 

Anso  q  3  i>o 
167&/* 

The  cross  ia  a  plain  Latin  one,  on  three  steps, 
pierced  lozenf^e  wise,  with  a  slight  ornament  in  the 
way  of  a  scroll  above  it.  The  sbb  has  beea  brolven 
aerofiSf  but  united  by  two  iron  clamps.  I  found 
two  mysterious  characters  between  the  anno  and 
the  DO.  "  N.  &  Q."  cannot  be  expected  to  repro- 
duce them,  but  they  may  be  described  as  a  Roman 
P  revereed,  and  an  Italic  li  or  Greek  fJ,  They 
were  choked  up  with  mossj  and  the  cler^'mau  of 
the  pariah,  who  kindly  pointed  out  th^  gnwc  to 
Die,  tiad  not,  I  think,  noticed  them,  but  I  easily 
cleared  them  out  with  the  end  of  a  pencil.  This 
was  in  185L  I  do  not  remember  to  have  heard  of 
the  hand  as  being  preserAeti,  but  I  did  hear  that 
John  Kemljle  and  his  sister,  I^Irs.  Siddons,  hod 
paid  a  visit  to  the  grave  of  their  relative. 

W.  J.  Been  HARD  Smith. 

Temple. 

Archbishop  Marqetsos-  (5**  S.  ii,  2(>9.) — The 
wife  of  this  prelate  was  Anne  Bennett,  but  of  what 
family  I  do  not  know,  Gort, 

Pbivt  Council  Judgment:  Liddell  r.  Wes- 
TERTON   (5ti»    S,    iL    128,    157,    175,   211.)— Mn, 
rMARSHALL's  apology  for  the  falaification  of  this 
>'  judgment  in  the  Report  published  by  Tait,  Bro- 
drick,  and  Freemantle,  does  not  hold  good,  because 
the  falsified  report  simple  and  per  se  was  first  given 
by  Tait,  &;c.     It  is  true  that  Moore  did  relegate 
the  report  of  the  judgment,  as  delivered,  to  a  foot- 
note, and  though  it  is  not  given  so  properly  as  by 
Bayford,  still  it  is  given,  and  attention  is  thereby 
drawn  to  the  error,  while  in  the  Tait  volume  the 
leal  or  genuine  judgment  is  not  given.    A  falwified 
Tersion  ia  there  substituted  in  its  stead.    As  to 
rany  jndge  having  authority  to  revise  the  judgment 
after  he  had  delivered  it,  such  a  course  ja  unwar- 
rantable.   In  casea  where  a  man  htis  had  judgment 
pronounced  against  him  for  murtier,  and  before  his 
\    xecutton  has  had  hia  innocence  established,  does 
'  the  judge  revise  Ha  sentence  J     I  contend   not. 
The  man  on  whom  judgment  has  been  passed 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,  r5«»s,ii.g«rt:iff,% 

receives   "a   free  pardon,"  clearly  showing  thi|^| 
tampering  with  a  judgment  after  delivery  i»  im-^^ 


known  to  the  theory  of  English  law. 

E.  M.  PicKBRnro. 

196,  Piccftdilly. 

The  Two  Thtih-es  (6**  8.  iL  167,  200.y-' 
name  of  the  repentant  robber  is  commonly  «id 
Ikj  Biraaa,  or  Dismas.    It  is  not  i 
Roman  ^lartyrology,  March  25,  or 
the  "  Commemoratio  bancti  I#atronia 
obsen-'es  in  his  note : — 

'*  Pi  mam  hio  pleiiquc  appellftnL  Bod  <|iioi|it«Bi  lil  €i  ' 
tpocryphis  proditur,  €&  de  cft,im  nio  tun/ktu  pTOpHom 
cotiiulto  pnctermiAsum  videtur/* 

The  sourcea  of  apocryphal  legend  are  aUo  stated. 
Ed.  Marshaix* 

For  the  literature  on  the  aubject,  flee 
Dictionary  of  tht  Bible.  The  fol* 
nanips  given ; — Penitent^ — Demn^  <  a 
Matha,  Vicirans  ;  Impenitent— -Gi 
Joca,  Justinus,  The  name  Disnii 
ground,  and  **  St,  Bismiis  takes  L 
hagiology  of  the  Syrian,  the  <> 
Latin  Churches.'*    Of.  also  Jame^^'  ■         ^, 

Our  Lard,  London,  1864.  A*  L.  Mathsw. 

Oxford. 

In  TIu  Apocryphal  Kew  TataTJunt  (Londoi^ 
W.  Hone,  1820)  there  are  two  Gospels  called  • 
Infancy  of  Jesna  Christ."    In  chapter  eight  j 
first  of  these  Gospels  it  is  told  liow  Ju^ep' 
Mary,  with  the  infant  Jesna,  during  theif^ 
from  Eot>^  ^^^  among  robbers,  two  of  who 
named  xitus  and  Dumachus.     Titus  hod 
sion  on  the  travellers,  and  desired  to  allow  I       _ 
to  go  free  ;  but  Dumachus,  refusing  to  do  »0,  was 
bribed  by  his  coiupanion  with  forty  groaU  to  con- 
sent to  their  escape,  the  rest  of  the  gang  being 
asleep : — 

*'  6,  Then  the  Lord  Jesaf  aniwcred,  and  iaJd  to 
mother.  When  tUtrty  yean  are  expired,  U  molher^  C 
JeWR  will  crucify  mc  at  Jerusalem  ; 

'<  7.  And  the*o  two  thieTes  ihall  be  with  mt  at  1 
Bamo  time  upon  the  cross,  Titu«  on  my  right  I 
Dumftchua  oo  my  left,  and  from  thfi.t  iimfl  Titus  shall  | 
before  me  iato  Paradiio.'* 

Longfellow  has  introduced  this  incident  in 
Goldm  Legend.  H.  A.  KenkkoT, 

W&terloo  Lodge,  Ecadins. 

Rahel  (5«*  S.  L  388  ;  H.  133, 198.)— Kkomaotj* 
says,  **  in  the  *  Breeches  Bible,'  that  ia  the  Bible  of 
i5f»4."      My   edition   is   that   of   1599.   and    tin- 
doubtedly   **  Breeches,"  imd    therein    '■• 
reading  **  Rahel"    The   15th  verse  ol  i 

xxxi.  runs  thus  in  the  edition  I  have  beiitn?  i 

**  Thus  raith  the  Lord,  A  Toyce  woa  heard 
mourning  ernd  bitter  weeping— T^oA*!  weeping  j 
children,  refused  to  be  comforted   for  her 
because  they  were  not*' 

It  ia  as  well,  while  on  the  Bubject,  to 


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I 


8t.  ^fatt,  cIl  ii,  verse  18,  and  not«  the  difference 
ill  the  reading  as  set  out  in  the  **  Breeches  Bible"  ' 
of  \bm  to  tWt   of  the  text  now  in  use.     The 
fmAsage  in  the  older  edition  runs  thus  : — - 

■•  In  lihama  waa  a  Toycc  heaird,  mourning,  and  we«p- 
ingt  •^nd  howling ;  Rachel  wiping  for  her  children,  and 
wtmld  not  be  comforted  because  they  vHn  not/' 

It  will  be  noticed  that  while  in  both  passages  in 
the  o\i\i*r  CHJition  the  hist  word  but  one  in  the  verse 
i«  "  were,'*  in  the  modem  text  the  Old  Testament 
has  "loffr^"  and  the  New  Testament  **are.^*  I 
fajiTe  not  hud  time  yet  to  ascertain  when  this 
altcfution  took  ptnce. 

C«n  NEOMAQta  tell  me  how  many  editions  of 
the  *'  Breeches  "  Bible  were  issued  ?  that  of  l&9i] 
in  my  poaacssion  is  pictohaL     Hic  et  ubiqcte. 

The  Blissbd  Tbtstlk  (5"^  S*  ii*  48,  D5,  196.) 
— The  plnnt  to  which  this  wide-spread  legend 
attaches  is  neither  Carduua  heatuji  nor  C.  hnc- 
dkiu$f  >>ut  another  species,  C*  Marianns. 

James  Britten. 

Robertson  Family  {5^B, iL  127, 211,)— There 
were  many  ramifications  of  the  family  tree  ;  but 
who  hi  now  the  Lineal  reprenentative  and  bead  of  the 
dan  Dunachie  I  Information  on  this  point  would 
no  doubt  be  acceptable  to  many  rexiders  of 
"  N.  &  y.-*  Celto-Scotus. 

Keniingtoo* 

MoTfKY  the  Sinews  or  War  (4*^  S.  xi.  324, 
M^y  472 ;  xii.  18.) — "  Coin  is  the  sinews  of  war  " 
Babelais,  Bk.  I.  c  cxlvii.,  where  it  is 
iXitet  as  a  proverb  or  a  quotation,  for  it  is 
E.  L.  BLENKrNsorr. 


tock  **  perhfips  from  the  British  *gwaum,*  a  moun- 
tain meadow,  and  *  tacawg/  a  tenant  in  viDemige, 
— ^  the  mountain  meadow  of  the  tenants  in  rillen- 
age/''  Althongb  the  name  exists  as  a  suraame,  Mr, 
Bardsley  giTea  no  instance  of  it.  As  to  its  mean- 
ing, we  Jiccept  the  one  given  by  Mr.  Nichohj.  He 
is  probably  right,  too,  in  believing  that  the  Belgic 
Britons  held  this  wild  district  before  the  Roman 
period.  We  enjoy,  with  the  author  for  guide,  a 
splendid  panoramic  view  from  Wikneek,  the 
loftiest  point  of  Quantock.  One  distinction  of  the 
range,  he  tells  us,  is,  **  it  is  the  last  home  in  Great 
Britain  of  the  wild  red  deer,''— but,  for  Great 
Britain^  we  should  read  **  England."  More  in- 
t<?resting  is  it  to  know  that  to  this  home  of  beauty 
once  came,  and  long  tarried  here,  Wordsworth, 
who  could  speak  on  everything  save  phvaios  and 
politics  ;  and  Coleridge,  who  oould  speak  on  both 
subjects  and  everything  else  besides.  What  is 
better  still,  both  have  dwelt  upon  the  Quantocka 
in  their  poetry  ;  and  some  of  that  poetry  was  bom 
of  Qujmtock  influences.  This  part  of  the  subject 
is  admirably  treated  by  Mr.  Nichols,  and  ho  ivill 
send  many  a  reader,  perhaps  to  the  Quantock 
district,  certainly  to  the  poets  with  whose  great 
names  that  of  the  place  is  so  closely  associated. 
The  Appendix  is  as  valuable  and  as  interesting  as 
the  boolc  itself,  and  the  whole  forms  a  Yolnme 
which  will  be  welcome  to  all  readers  with  refined 
tastes  and  appetite  for  useful  information. 


^fiicrnanfautf* 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS.  &c.  ^ 

f%M  Quantoda  and  their  Atsociaiions,    A  Paper 

read  before  the  Members  of  the  Bath  Literary 

'      '        By  the  Rev.   W.    L.   Nichols,    M.A, 

1      ;te<l  for  Private  Circulation.) 

Twj;  icverend  author  of  this  interesting  volume, — 

for  the  after-dinner  paper  of  the  Bath  Literary 

CI  ■     '  led  to  a  pretty  and  a  prettily- 

fl.1 1  — hits  the  mark  exactly  when  he 

-  ^^hire  mountain  range  that 

0   of  Quantock   scenery   is 

^fr,  Nichols's  description  of 

;i.>nda  with   his  own   desig- 

nr.Tlimt/    t.\n    In?    more    piC- 

tni  f  the  lovely 

**<  .  ^  .    :  i^emlly  do,  at 

ijes  to  the  sea-shore,  break  the  outline  of 

iinliun  range  into   -  Heads ' .  .  .  and  these 

cf.  Been  from  the  Brijstol  Channel,  gave 

dayi  of  yorB  to  the  Keltic  name  of  the 

t^oaciciclcB,  «.€»,  the  water  headlands.^^    It  is  here 

|0  bt  obMonred  that  Mr.  Edmunds  derives  Quan- 


CawtrigM  Scimttfiqwt,  DicouverUM  et  Invtnticnt,  PrO' 
ijvii  dt  la  Science  et  de  VInduiiTh*  TrtisiJm^  AnnM* 
Par  Henri  de  ParrJlle.  iParit,  Rothicbild) 
YouKO  (y&ople  used  to  rcaa  Joyce's  ScUniUlc  Dialoguu 
with  an  idea  that  they  were  furaiahed  with  science  for 
life,  Joyce  now  it  not  more  up  to  the  present  nark 
than  a  laet-ceutury  almanac  la  to  the  present  year* 
M.  de  Parville*B  book  is  one  of  those  which  shows  the 
periodical  progress  of  science  in  every  direction.  One 
of  the  most  mtcreating  chuptera  is  that  which  describes 
the  tmiltray  by  which  the  Righi  is  now  ascended  and 
descended.  It  will  disgust  the  Alpine  Club  to  hear  that 
French  engineers  are  projecting  exoursion- trains  to  the 
Mer  de  Glace,  and  "  return  tickets  "  for  the  summit  of 
Mont  Blanc  and  back  by  rail  are  among  the  things  that 
remain  to  be  accompliahed. 

PetUi  RtvuM  deM  Bihliopkilu  Daupkinouj  ou,  Cotrt- 

tpondance  €iUre  Umt  Um  Afaoteari  tkmplvmoiM  q%i  oai 

ijtui*fit4  Quciiiofi  d  poMwr,  ^udq%€  ReponM  a  fairer  ok 

qydqwt  Trouvadh  ou  CurUmU'  a  tianaler.    MHaHfftB 

MiiUiriquet  *t  Litterairu.    (Grenoble,  AHier.) 

Thb  greater  and  the  most  interesting  portion  of  the  last 

number  of  this  publication  is   devoted  to  dociiio6Dt» 

which  show  the  condition  of  the  French  Hugueooti  ia 

Grenoble  in  the  last  qimrter  of  the  last  century.     Tliere 

ts  aleo  ft  list  of  the  names  of  Hu^ruetiota  dwelllnR  in  that 

city,  with  such  remarks  against  their  names  as  <*  Mediant 

Huguenot,"  kc,  and  recommendations  that  some  money 

should  be  given  them,  and  they  should  be  driven  out  of 

the  place.    Several  of  the  ladies  are  described  as  "  pro- 

cureuse.'^  meaning  wife  of  a  ^'procureur/'  or  lawyer. 

One  lady  is  entered  tis  •*  Lr  Dam"*  Gondrau^  ifiiv*.x«.  ^ 

Tavocat  de  ce  nom,"  and  %b&  \a  tax^Sb^vc  ^jKax^QaaNft^  v^ 


240 


NOTES  AND  QUERIKS. 


[5*aiL8«fitl»,74, 


Tax  NxxEi  07  TBS  CD4BifXL  teAXML^A  correfpon- 

dent  Bettdft  the  foHawing  lioUdiij  ideitg  on  tlie  uhore 
subject : — **  Being  recently  on  u  tour  in  tLo  Cbftunel 
Jslanda,  I  found  the  people  deme  tbe  namei  thti«; 
Jervey  from  Ctr'tiTea;  Guernsey,  GrAm-t-iie  ;  and  AlJer- 
nej  from  ^-1  i«.W^A^.  I  suiEgeBt  ih**  denvation  us  folloivs : 
the  early  colooifita  would  naturally  oome  out  from  St, 
OerxQitms,  vrhich  la  about  thirty  miJefl,  or  'a  day's 
journey '  from  the  mainhotd.  They  would,  on  arriTUig, 
Miy  'jour-d,'  that  is  tia  jour  in  (one  day>  journey) » 
Jersey.  They  would  go  on  anothor  thirty  tiiileii,  and 
find  another  big  inland ;  and  re^^arding  ifi  as  another 
daily  mileatone  uoin  home,  thr-y  wouM  si*y  'jour^t -un- 
ci *  (two  day's  journey),  Guernsey.  The  laat  big  inland 
of  the  group  would,  of  course,  be  called  '  Le  dernier,* 
*Al  dernier,'  Alderney.  Wiotber  the  difficulty  of 
landing  at  Sark,  end  the  still  great- r  ' =*^  ' ^  ,  ,f  getting 
away  fWm  it  aipiiii  owing  to  the  ciu  li>  its  dig- 

coTcrerv  abjure  it  with  the  exclauju  I  aui  not 

iioitc  sure;  but  this  is  certain*  Jcrda^'  t\jlk  who  try  to 
aay  mere  InTariably  say  '  sark  '  to  thiti  day;  As  to  the 
nomenclature  of  Jethou,  Brechou,  and  Hcrm,  I  can  offer 
no  suggestion.'* 

M.  GuTZOT,  who  died  on  Saturday  eveoing,  the  12th 
inst.,  at  his  residence,  Val  liidier.  Xormand?.  at  the 
age  of  eighby-eeven,  waa  buried  on  Tuesday,  'thu  Dean 
of  Westrainster  ana  Lady  Augusta  Stanley  were  among 
the  mouruers  who  fallowed  him  to  the  grare.  Such 
mourners  were  numerous ;  but  the  Orleans  princes  and 
M.  Thiers  were  not  among  them.  A  little  more  than 
eighty  years  before,  M,  Guitot's  father^  n  Protestant 
lawyor/waa  guillotined,  and  the  sou  ne?er  seemed  fairly 
to  hare  gptaway  from  tho  shadow  of  that  great  calamity. 
it  ^Te  him  that  air  and  expression  of  dignified  sorrow 
which  cftused  Mdlle.  Rachel  to  exclaim,  after  hearing 
one  of  M.  Guistofs  parliamentary  ipeechcs,  **  I  ihould 
like  to  have  that  man  net  with  me  in  tragedy  ( "'  He  lias 
won  for  hima«lf  a  great  nam*:  in  literature.  As  a  statea- 
man,  hia  inflexibility  of  principle  often  barred  tbe  way 
to  healthy  political  nurpoae,  lie  let  a  royal  fabric  fall 
rather  than  it  ehoulu  be  repaired  by  hands  which  seemed 
to  him  not  duly  apprenticed  to  the  work.  An  impartial 
history  of  M.  Guijcot's  political  administration  would 
hare  its  deep  and  gloomy  shadows  as  well  a^  it«  bursts  of 
sunlight  t  but  he  will,  nevertheless,  remain  one  of  the 
Great  Men  of  France. 

The      PrIBCE     JuiK-AKTOJXB-LASOARlS-AlfaE-FLAVE- 

CoKKKNE-PALloUKiUH  died  near  Turin,  J^^Hept,  2,  a^d  fifty* 
eight.  The  Prince  is  described  aa  the  lai»t  male  dcscien>- 
daut  of  tbe  Grasco-Koman  Emperors  of  Constantinople. 
As  heir  of  Oonatantine  the  Great,  be  claimed  tho 
•* patronage"  of  various  palaces  aud  churches  in  Home, 
wnich  were  founded  by  Constantine.  This  last  of  a  noble 
race  was  Grand  Master  of  the  "  Angelic  C'onstantininn 
Eqoeif Irian  Order  of  St.  George,"  perhaps,  says  the 
Ji^Hi^  "the  oldest  order  known. " 


BOOKS     AND     OBD     V0LUMB8 

WANTEti  Tt>  1>CKCMA.^E. 
Farticnilam  of  Prie«,  Aa.,  of  every  l<<?ok  tu  htt  fcnt  dirtot  U>  the 
tH^pon  by  wh9m  It  li  reKtvfroi.  wboM  awn*  «<id  addn»  am  Etvoa 
far  tl»t  purpo*©*— 
E«  1  rii  r  1 .4 1 K  m  D  nrnm  t  .    Bti&Mti. 
tMiTii's  1M.-Itfiri*ry  of  Uie  Diblfc    4  Vol*. 
i'  >  jlo-Haxon  DlcUonary,    (LtmgnuDft.) 

<  L1B&.    Fftlrholt.    (LA«t  Kdiilon.! 

IJiaiAK  l>OJiuTrc  EcojiuHT.    (ilcudeDl. 

Wa&Ud  b;  JL  liutk,  n,  Aihltj  Haas.  &W. 


jttlt." 


Succeeded  In  111 


OUK  CoRRcsF  7,  v€  tmM,  txewm 

That  thr 
one  side  ot 

aNcf  words  uiiii  ^unir-v^F  ^  mit^i.iui  .-^t 

requtrtd.    Wt  cannot  unden  '.(  cui  ithmi  a  ( 

rupofidetU  doe*  ntfi  think  n  ^rovMe  nf  i 

B.  T.  8.— Pope's  line  i«— 

** One  truth  b  clcttr;  whmte¥«r  is,  i«  nghu* 

Bp*  L.  L  5 
In  Ep.  liL,  1.  30i,  occurs  the  line — 

**  Whate  er  is  best  administered  is  best" 
In  Dryden'a  (Edipus^  Act  iil.,  sc,  1,  you  witi  find  ih 
line : — 

**  Whatever  is,  is  in  its « 

G.  G.— In  the  lift  of  tbo  ''  ^ 
Nicolas's  IJUtvHc  Ptermj* 
prolatea  are  reguf te red :  •  *  1 1   , 
in    Normandy,      Consecrated    Uv* 
Ascelin,  a  Monk,  Prior  of  Dorer. 
ob.  Jan.  2,  1147  3." 

Erkji   writes :— '*  I   bnve  to  nsk  pardon   for  an  xm^  | 
pardonable  piece  of  carelessness  in  a  mis  trauacripti 
(5*'*  8.  ii.,  p.  204 ;  the  second  column).     For — 

*  Or  those  in  commission  not  yet  returned  1* 
read — 

'Or  not  those  in  commission  yet  returned!  *** 

W.  H.— Many  of  the  brareft  soldiers  who  fbu^t  x 
Elliot,  at  Gibrsltar,  had  been  London  tailors.     Th*  f»<*»1 
ii  alluded  to  in  the  once- famous   Ttaytd^  /or    froi 
Weather  ;— 
**  A  brahamida.  His  mien  is  noble  and  bespeaks  lh«  lalloi^| 

Not  of  the  dunghtll  and  degenerate  race. 

Bat  such  as  the  bravo  Elliot  led  to  battle." 

"DfitJMCLOG  *'  f.V''  i^.  ii.  It57.)— LiECT.'CoL   FLurjc 
writes;— **  If  T.  W.  C,  should  not  h:* 
prucuring  thisi  psalm  tune,  T  »hall  be 
copy  of  tbe  simple  air,  but  r         '    '      ■    .ui-thn  cB 
by  which  the  *  Daughter  of  !  to  have  adapl 

the  flimiile  tuno  to  all  kind.*!  '  iiicct/ 

Bi'J  KT  UniQUK  will  find  a  good  ace4>unt  gf  tbe  nUag#J 
of  Horacll,  or  Uorshil    ^from    tbe  Saxon    Hortft), 
Black's  (Jmdf  to  (As  NtAtori/,  Aniiquiti^Mf  u»Mf 
graphy  of  the  Cmtnt^  of  ,Siirrtift  p.  62SI. 

OutsbT: '    IlKAn  (f/"  S   •=    ""^^  '     ^  - 

al6ol*'S.  V  1  ;  ix.  496; 

T-  E.  T.  informs  J,  A.  tiiat  he  v 
Byland  Abbey,  Yorkshire,  in  //. 
the  Heir.  W,  j^aitmcad.     Peat.  Thiras,  i--^  , 

•  *  ♦.—The  Oxford  Bible,  1717,  in  the  bead-Knt  ow 
Luke  xaii^,  had  the  word  ** vinegar"  lor  "vmaysnl" 
Thence,  **  Vinegar  Bible." 

K.  (liangwathby.)— We  ore  always  glad  to  hetf  ifoo 
you. 

^1  be  addrevscd  to  "  Tbe 

iness  Letter?  to  **  The 

I  imgtou  girael^  Stzviil^ 


yOTIOE, 


I?di  tonal  Communion 
Editor  "— AdTertitemc 
Publisher"— at  the  On 
London,  W.C 

We  beg  leave  to  state  tlwt  we  decline  to  rt tnm  rti 
raimications  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  notprt&t : 
to  thie  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  allcommunicatione  should  be  afllred  tit*  siai  sftA 
address  of  the  sender,  not  neoesa^ily  i^  pllblifliliiai|lsti 
as  a  guamntee  of  good  faith. 


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i/Ur/XUr.  SAT  CRD  A  l\  S'SFTEMSmt  iU  S94. 

^^^  CONTEICTa  — N*  $'X 

^^^^Kffinir  Tutor  of  th«  Olden  Time,  J4'J-^li«i1dAn  &d<1  Sir 
^■Mb  SookUng.  SU^Hoir  OM  vii%%  Mndcrfn  7  24 r*  ^  Mies 
^r  BlAon  -^  giptiagmwriMiiwB  —  '*  CcHriih  Mj«i<Mty  *'  —  Tta« 
■    Belva  FftttUr-^Old  JtaS^  to  Mend,  or  Tulle  uut  Tatters, 

^UBETEB :— rkM  lUllAd — Boh  an  am]  Boiroe  FAmllSvii— ^leortrti 
W«lkw  %n^  John  Miebelboume,  147— Modem  Latin  &Dd 
Gunk V««»— •* Fyemarteii " ;  ** Viisin "— KoiHuiitiiiff— 1« 
aX3^m«»  of  OuiAtiu  KftBM  Po«ibl«;^"  What  Is  &  Potiad  ir  ^ 
Wcbtnl  ytlm***-^^  '^'''  T>>»*i»t  Back— The  Corwid  Sword 
— "Bknr^  Blbk  upon  tlw  Sta««,  S4S-"  Attn- 

dov  "—*'  dmv  !  I  «H  bf  W,  T.  — "  Klbc^ton  "  or 

**  fitlbdtOO  '^'-A  ue^Grifflohoofo— Tl)«  Rev.  T. 

IsOlsai  ]lARtN|«  or  B^^iothal  Oulon,  SMA, 
BSLIBi ;— 'HaXlt  Wydi.  aad  Salt  UToHcb,  24i><-"  !%«  Arch.^ifo^ 
Mfltf  BpMlt  to  D«Aii  Millet,'*  251 -- Bihlioin^phT  of 
"ujilM  —  Wattwf »  **  Pronouooing  Dicllon*ry,"  252  —  A 
Onatf^lMaiflltfr  of  Kdw&rd  III.— Field  Lore :  Oarr,  Arc,  2f#3 
—JBe*li»OU^r^'*St«iBg  without  percMiTlnif "— Wj-Att  and 
Woodr— ^coicoiiig,  KloR  of  ricnin&rk~Biihop  Ricbjurd  I'&vii 
^**Dil^<l<ir  of  the  f-**'  MTrha«l  Baoifii  —  BanweU 
Gmirt,  fSotatanei  ( Aim^  <t.Tt  iht  King, "  254^Sir 

Gecwd  UII1«t*— M*dftTi  i  >«  Clere  and  D«  Broofo 

<   jiiLjiwii    —' EendM-ToM"—" Tooth 

n  SitfUt/'  i'^.'i— Boni»n  Ootn  —  Mr. 

«>l*i  Claymon*— *'  TuTwm  " — **  Morto 

i-:roiDWuU  *Dd  the  C4itkedLnl«,"  2Sd— 

-Kof  lUh  Snniimcs— *'Tb«  rtloiy  of  thpir  Timea  "— 

tlu  So^tj  or  Arts'  MemoiUl  TliUeti— The  Gttl»  of  tha 
OArtsdh,  S&7— Old  Bngrmvingi— Lonl  Ch«thAin  Mid  BalleT^i 
**IllelicmafT*-."Toira'i  HiD"  — *'The  Night  Crow": 
imicfK ->  Nmhuw  tli«  Leper,  2fiS  —  Saffolk  Charters '- 
'  I  OldCaecio&l  Anecdote,  *2f»9. 


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Xola  on  Boobi,  &«, 


■Itiia,  1 


MICHAELMAS. 

at.    MICHAEL  AND   ST,    OKOROE, 

*  SL  George  for  £ii|jUuid ! "    No  doubt,  it  was 
_•  Bfttianjil  cn% 

**Su  Michiiel  for  London!"    Quito  ns  certain, 

if  nn*  t}it?  i?iy  of  the  Cttj%  was  the  City  seoti- 

iiicii^  City  gjwe  it  practical  iipplication. 

V  tc>  he  mcaaiiped  by  **  DedictitioiL*' 

1 1*?,  St.  Gteori^e  wus little  thouj^ht 

Kired  with  St,  Mich u el.     As  a 

ill  for  the  archan^'el,  and 

;  the  beatified  warrior. 

h  of  St  George  in  South- 

ithout),   (where   Bonner, 

"re  bniied,  and  where 

with  the  one  little 

•-mr.iti^  ilftdicated  to 

d  to  him 

ys,— in  the 

the  Great  Fire  the 

•4  jcBTs,  were  weU 

h|>oil,"    8m  writes  of  the  church 

1  ne,  JnliT!  Stowe.  who  wan  bom  in 

in  1525.     The 
II      ..   .  r  died  in  1606, 

■^^Ui  adHrii  to  the  sleepera  in 

^^H^i  '.'  Lord  M&yar,  FoEuuui, 


James  Muniford,  T.^n  >-iirrr^n  t^  King  Henry 
YIII.,  and  other  en  /ens. 

One  church  in  tl;     '  .   ?L  Oeurge,     Tbef^ 

were  ei>fht  to  St.  Michael     f  <  was  that 

of  SL  Michael,  Aldgate.     Ol  r  Ounning- 

hani  saya  :  *^  Close  to  the  Paiup,  uud  beaefttb  t£o 
pnvement  of  the  tttreet,  ia  a  curious  chapel  or 
crypt,  part,  it  is  said,  of  the  diurch  of  St.  Midiad, 
Ald^'Ate/'  Second,— SL  Michael,  Basinghdl,  or 
*'.*it  Bassing's  Hall,"  or  '*  Bassin^'^'s  Haugh,"  or 
"  Biissiflhaw/'  names  which  keep  up  the  memory 
of  the  tViTnily  who  had  their  "  Hall "  close  by.  Some 
of  them  were  borons  of  the  realm,  and  &eejned  too 
numerous  »nd  mi^dity  to  condescend  to  die  (mt. 
Third, — SL  Miehaer?*,  Cornhill,  outside  which,  in 
Edward  ILL'S  tiiae,  city  matrons,  attendeti  by 
mm d -servant*,  basket  on  arm,  crowded  to  buy  their 
poultry  of  ponlterera  who  were  free  of  the  City, 
but  were  not  sho|>kee|^»ere.  Non-freemen,  vending 
rabbits  and  poultry,  stood  at  **  the  Carfukes  of  the 
Ledenhalle.*^  This  waa  the  "Carfax,^'  Mr,  H,  T. 
Kiley  (Msnstoriob  of  Lonrf'm  Life  in  the  Xlllih^ 
XI  FfA,  and  X  Fth  Ccntv  tures  tiial  there 

was  pmbably  a  four-fu  .  n  here,  on  the 

spot  where  Gracechurch  Suvct  and  Letidenhall 
Street  meet.  *'  Let  those/'  siiys  an  Ordinance  of 
the  year  1357,  quoted  by  Mr.  RUey^  "  who  wish 
to  carry  out  their  poultry  to  sell,  stand  and  expose 
the  same  for  sale  along  the  wall  towards  the  We^t 
of  the  ( 'hiuH^h  of  St.  ^lichael  on  ComhiU  ;  nnd  let 
them  be  foimd  nowhere  clse^  either  going  or  stand- 
ing, with  their  poultry  for  sale,  on  pain  of  for- 

fehnr..     .,r     mII      <nrh     >J.nlfrv'»       To     SL     Miclmers 

wnl'  niBci^ive^  and  their 

mu:'  ;  tlnan  nnu]ii  V  ;  and 

n  ^^  Michaelmas  G  •  con> 

ncxion  with  the  h  sold. 

There  was  a  John  Uxt»niord  id  the  p;vrii^h  at  that 
time  who  left  a  house  to  his  iriend  Adam  Fraunoeys ; 
aJso  some  money,  wherewith  Adam  was  to  hive 
masses  said  for  the  f^ood  of  John  Oxenford's  soul 
The  money  would  not  purdiase  mjtny,  and  poor 
Adam  bitterly  complained  to  the  authorities  thiit, 
althoufijh  chiipliins  were  forbidden  by  law  to  trJce 
more  than  five  marks  for  celebratiti;:  ma'w  for  the 
sold  of  any  person,  he  oould  not  ;j  *  -  '  -- '  n, 
at  St.  IVlicJuiers,  or  elsewhere,  for  : 
t^  (,,j..i.r-  ,T,.  i\,^  tjiQ  ^^yy^l  Qf  John  *  ^  V.  ,,.'...  ^-id 
yet  Oxenford   had  bequeathed   money 

for  '  ...^  -     .1  of  divers  churches  that  Iiav.-  1m. n 
levelled  to  the  ground  by  the  temJx^ 
How  it  would  have  fared  with  John 
soul,  it  is  ^  hard  to  say^  had  not  the  V  i 

Mary's  Hospital  undrrtnl<f^n,  for  "  lo  [^  - 

ling  « ,  ,  ,  to  find  1 1  !i?3  to  celebr»ttj  lur  the 

soul  of  John  Ox»  snld   fV>r  f^ne   Trh^^lc 

year"      Fabyan,  tht  ^ 

church,  with  the  father  . 

Philip  Nye,  the  curate  *' wulx  the  thaiLkv -^.  vt^*^ 
beard,"  lies  in  the  ^gevusniu  6(i^t^     ^^3fie^— ^ 


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St.  Michnel's,  Crooked  Lane,  An  old  edifice 
(tlie  second  churcli)  perished,  like  so  many  othere, 
in  the  Fire,  and  "Wren's  church  (the  third)  waa 
swept  away  when  the  roiid  to  New  London  Bridge 
was  about  to  be  miide.  Sir  WilliEm  Walworth 
was  buried  in  the  ancient  edifice.  He  had  trouble- 
some neighbours  in  the  p^irisk  One  Alice  Godrich 
(1379)  accuijed  him  aloud  in  the  street  as  a  cheat 
and  embezzler,  for  which  be  indicted  her  as  a  warn- 
ing  to  "  such  scolds  and  she  liars,*^  Alice  was  con- 
demned to  imprisonment^  the  **  thews,"  or  pillory, 
and  40L  fine  ;  but  Walworth  went  "  begging  and 
entreating^  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen/^  and  thereon 
she  was  (Slowed  to  go  free  of  all  pain  and  penalty, 
upon  ber  good  behaviour.  The  whole  stoiy  of 
Walworth,  a-*  told  by  Stowe,  illustrates  the 
chronicler's  honesty  and  truthful  nesa.  Of  the 
social  life  of  this  parish^  various  examples  will  be 
found  in  Mr.  Riley's  excellent  book,  to  which 
reference  has  ali-eady  been  made.  Tlie  principal 
persons  buried  in  the  churchyard  were  **  stock- 
fishmonKcrs,''  One  of  these,  John  Lopkin,  four 
times  Mayor,  built  the  handsome  second  church, 
which  took  the  place  of  the  first  homely  budd- 
ing ;  and  Sir  William  Walworth,  Mayor,  was 
some  time  servant  to  the  said  John  Lopkin. 
Fifth,— St,  MichaePs  Patemoeter  Eoyal  wii^s  the 
church  in  which  Wbittington  waji  as  often  buried 
aahe  had  been  Mayor.  The  parson,  in  Edward  VL^s 
time,  deapoiled  the  grave  in  search  of  treasure, 
disturbed  the  body^  carried  off  its  leaden  sheet, 
and  then  reburied  the  corpse.  In  Mar/a  time  the 
parifibionera  were  compelled  to  find  fresh  lead,  and 
rebury  the  renowned  Richard  as  he  was  aforetime. 
Whittington^a  noble  grant  of  land  for  the  rebuild- 
ing of  St.  MichaerB,  Crooked  Lane,  is  one  of  the 
most  interesting  documents  in  Mr,  Riley's  voluuie. 
Sixth, — St.  Michael's, Queenhitho  ;  "a convenient 
church,"  says  Stowe,  **but  all  the  monuments 
therein  are  defaced/*  Cunningham  says  of  the 
church  built  by  Wren,  "  the  vane,  in  the  form  of  a 
ship,  is  capable  of  containing  a  bubhel  of  grain," 
the  great  article  of  traffic  still  at  Queenliitbe, 
Seventh,— the  Com  Briar ket,  in  the  Ward  of 
Farringdon,  gave  to  St.  Michael's  Church  there 
the  additional  name^  of  "the  Querne,"  **ad 
Bladum,''  and  "  the  Come."  Anciently  there  was 
a  right  of  foot-way  across  one  portion  of  this 
chiu-cb.  In  1378,  the  incumbent  and  wardens 
waUed  up  the  doors  of  ingress  and  egress,  but  the 
public  cried  out  acainst  old  rights  being  thus 
dealt  with,  and  the  law  sided  with  the  i>eoplei  and 
forced  the  "  parson  **  to  demolish  the  wall  and  pay 
the  costs  I  This  was  one  of  the  churches  not 
rebuilt  atler  the  Fire,  Eighth,— St.  Michael's, 
Wood  Street,  ioas  rebuilt,  by  Wren.  The  old 
church  once  possessed  the  head  of  James  IV.  of 
Scotland,  The  body  of  this  king  was  brought 
from  Flodden  and  buried  at  Sheen.  When  that 
church  property  feU  to  Grey,  Puke  of  Sulfolk,  the 


royal   corpse,  tightly  bpped   in  lead, ^ 

among  useless  lumber,  where  it  was  got  hold  ^fbf 
some  workmen,  who  cut  oflf  the  head.    On©  Yc 
glazier  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  took  the 
him  to  his  house  in  Wood  Street,  and,  ^ 
was  tired  of  keeping  it,  he  gave  it  to  the  sei 
SL  MichaerSjwho  duly  bu  ied  it  among  commo 
bones. 

The  above  are  but  a  few  out  of  numerous  iUa 
trations  of  the  history  of  the  old  chureiies  dedic 
to  St.  Michael  in  the  City  of  London.    St,  QtoT\ 
turn  did  not  come  till  the  Geoigiaii   erai 
mencing   with    the    accession   of   the   House  of 
Hanover.     St,  George  the  INlartyr,  Queea 
Blooumhur}%   was   indeed    named    in    hou 

neither  the  saint  nor  the  king,  but  in  comil 

to  Sir  George  Btreynsham^  once  Goremor  of  Foi 

St.  George,  India,     St,  George  s,  Hanover  Sqn 

buUt    about    171J>,    was   a   compliment   to 

mo  march  and  warrior,     Stv  George's  in  the 

(1727)  hououred  George  11.  as  well  as  the  fiftia 

St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  consecrated   1731, 

loyal,  and  so  royal  in  its  purpose  f'  '  uild 

clapt  not  the  saint's  but  the  kin.  a 

top  of  the  steeple.     Before  this  t  i 

uot  a  common  Christian  name.     It  li    1  \     a| 

by  "  M.alniscy  Clarence,"  and  there  wcxc  aj 

the  same  name  among  the  Berkeleys ;  but  7 

was  never  a  more  popular  baptisiu.d 

George,  George  and  Georgina  wen 

meat  to  commonphice  kings.     Tht  i 

tional  disrespect  to  the  saint.  People  knew  no 

of  Gibbon's  theory  that  George  of  Cappadocia  ^ 

contractor  of  bacon  for  the  army,  and  m  "^ 

honest  tbau  such  contnictors  usiuallyarc.  Th« 

fts  little  of  Mr,  Baring-Gould's  idea,  that  St  ( 

tlie  Dmgon,  und  the  Virgin  meant  the 

piercing  the  storm-cloud  and  rcsi 

When  the  good  WhigglsJi  people  oJ 

the  possible,  and  later  the  actual,  :\ 

George,  the  churches  began  to  be  > 

saint  of  the  same  name.     The  JaL'>..n.rr-»  n'jwey^t ' 

bad  their  Chevalier  St.  George,  and  saw  in  him  a 

king. 

Still,  it  will  be  said,  "St.  George  for  Eng 
was  ever  the  war-cry  in  battle  and  in  '  , 
Well,  when  Edward  IIL  gained  the  fatnooA  ] 
battle  at  Sluys  on  Midsummer  Day,  13>1U,  I 
brated  the  event  by  issuing  the  new  coin  c*llrf 
the  "  Angol,"and  the  figiu-e  impressed  thereon  iwi 
that  of  the  Archangel  St,  Michael.  Ea 


A  TRAVELLING  TUTOR  OF  THE  OLDEN 
TIME. 

Richard  Lassels  was  of  a  gCM>d  family,  and 
in  1603,  at  Breckenhorough,  a  small  place  betuMi* 
Thirsk  and   Northallerton,  in  York«ldtis.    Afte 
studying  at  Oacford  he  removed  to  Douid,  i  " 
he  pursued  his  studies  in  the  English  Bon 


fl«&II.Es»t.26,7<.l 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Catholic  Coileire,  and  at  length  beainie  a  secular 

|itieit.      Laiisek  enjoyed   in   ii   high   degfreo  the 

OOitfideDce  of  thi»  principal   Konmn  Catholics   in 

I  Great  Bs  f  ,.  wishod  him  to  become  Pre- 

Itident  of  o  jifc  Doujii,  and  their  a^^ent  at 

ll^me.     li    i>  iv(  u  m\\d   that   he  was   oHered  a 

Q^iahopric  ;  hut,  ns  Anthony  h  Wood  informs  us^ 

^lf>,vi-  ,^,.^^  delight  in  Feeing  foreign  countries, 

I  i\B  tutor  to  .several  of  the  English 

,     .  ..^    J^ntry,   whereby    obtaining   great 

rlcdge  of  places,  men,  maitners  and  cuatoma, 

r%iis  esteemed  the  best  and  surest  guide  and 

or  for  young  men  of  his  time," 

Lasneb  died  at  Montjiellier  in  September,  166S, 

Iftbout   05  years  of  age,  and  woa  buried  in  the 

JChnrch  of  the  Barefooted  Carmelites  by  the  care 

icf  Ralph  Sheldon,  of  Beoly,  a  friend  of  Anthony  k 

I  Wood.     Of  the  gfime  family  was  Cornet   Henry 

rldkt^-  '  I  Charles  II.  to  escape  after  the 

Imli 

The  iH' IV  i,,,ni  which  the  following  extmcta  are 

made  i«  eridentlr  the  source  from  which  many  h\ter 

'tte'     "  ^ '  ? y  liave  drawn  some  of  the  mformation 

With  the  view  of  showing  the  state 

.^... ..  language  about  1C50, 1  have  adhered 

uUy  to  the  spelling  in  the  original.     The  title 

I  tbu« : — 

"  Th«  ^oy»gc  of  Italy  by  Richmrd  Luiels,  Gent,  who 

»t«l)ed  thrnuffh  Italy  PIto  Timci,  m  Tutor  to  several 

l«rftlit  Kn^li?h  KobiUty  and  Gentry,    Printed  at  Paris, 

U«70.    Sparta  8^•* 

Thii4  book»  which  is  now  very  scarce,  wa.«i  pub- 

f  1i«bM  nfter  the  death  of  Lassels,  from  the  manu- 

left  by  his  will  to  his  pupil,  Lord  Liimley, 

'  f  Wrtterford,  and  prewired  for  the  press 

IV  ^,  \>  il-iou,  who  8\iccceded  Lassels  as  tutor  to 

that  nohU  iri:»n.     It  contains  remarka  which  give  a 

"        'Tjsl^iht  into  the  manners  of  the  different 

he  viflited  in  the  middle  of  the  seven- 

.-..,...  ■  uitury. 

La^«.*^h  paied  so  much  of  his  life  on  the  Con- 
tin, m  nf  Hiirone  that  he  apologires  for  hia  English 
J.,  "  Three  long  voyages  into  Flanders,  mx 
'  e.  five  into  Italy,  one  into  Germany  and 
made  me  live  half  of  my  time  in 
itys,  to  the  disturbance  of  my  own 

After  two  slaps  given  in  passing  to  two  rivals 

—Mr.  Wnrcup,  who  "writes  much  of  Italy  and 

kal*^  lit  til',"  nnd  Mr.  Raymond,  "  who  writes  little 

Lit  much" — Lafsek  dwells  on   the 

i>e  derived  from  travelling  in  foreign 

,  r/nd  points  out  among  othera  the  fol- 


fdkcn  mj  yotJtig  nobleman  four  notchet 

f-cQQoeit  and  pride.     For,  whereas  the 

t  Tjprcr  tftw  anybtKly  hut  hii  Father's 

ion,  ftod  never  read  anything  but 

<l ;  tbidkfl  the  Liikiiij«end  to  be  the 

»  <ti  i :    urMi  mat  all  eolid  mreatncM,  next  unto  a 

F^fiy*  ootitiiia  in  a  ^reat  Fire,  and  a  great  estate. 


HTiercM  my  treTelling  young  Lord,  who  both  seeo  bo 
many  gretter  men,  aod  EjstAtes  thati  his  owd,  comet  home 
far  more  modest  and  civil  to  hit  inreriours,  and  farr  leas 
puft  ap  with  the  empty  conceit  of  his  own  greatness," 

Citing  the  Queen  of  Sheba  as  an  example  of  the 
advantages  of  travelling,  our  author  next  shows  tut 
how  to  travel  with  protit. 

To  enable  youth  to  obtain  that  very  desLrable 
result,  he  evidently  thought  there  was  no  specific 
equal  to  *'  a  good  gouvemour,"  and  he  enters  ao 
fully  into  the  different  good  ingredients  necessary 
to  compound  **a  good  gouvemour"  that  it  is  evident 
he  hikd  one  Richard  Lasiels  in  his  mind  when  he 
enumemted  them. 

To  every  picture  there  is,  however,  a  reverse^ 
and,  in  this  instance,  it  is  "the  bad  governour,'* 
whose  portrait  is  ao  happily  drawn  that  I  cannot 
do  better  than  quote  our  author's  own  words. 
After  stating  that  the  "govemour"  should  be  **an 
Engliahman,  no  stranger,"  he  adds  : — 

"  I  speak  this  not  out  of  an  e&fy  to  strangers,  bat  out 
of  a  loTe  to  my  own  Country  men.  For  I  have  known 
divers  English^gentlemen  much  wrwaged  abroad  by  their 
tiovemours  that  were  strangerp^  Some  I  hare  known 
that  led  their  pupil  to  (Jenevap  where  they  got  lomo 
French  language,  but  lost  all  theii  true  Engttch  alle- 
giance and  re  «pect  to  Monarchy;  others  1  rftvo  known 
who,  heini?  married  and  haring  their  eettlements  and 
interest  lying  at  Sonmar,  kept  young  gentlemen  there 
all  the  time  they  were  abroad ;  and  mode  their  Parents 
in  England  believo,  that  all  good  breeding  was  in  that 
poor  town»  where  their  wivci  were  breeding  children. 
Others  I  have  known  who,  having  their  mistresses  in 
the  country,  persuaded  their  pupik,  men  of  great  birth, 
that  it  wuB  fine  living  in  a  Country  house,  that  i»  fino 
carrying  i*  pun  upon  their  neckf  and  walking  a  foot 
Others  have  been  observed  to  sell  their  pupils  to  Masters 
of  Exercises,  and  to  have  made  them  believe,  that  the 
worst  Academies  were  the  best,  because  they  were  the 
best  to  the  cunnmg  Govemour,  who  bad  ten  pound  a 
man  for  every  one  he  could  draw  thither.  Others  I  hare 
known  who  would  have  married  their  Puptia  in  France 
without  their  Parents  knowledge,  and  have  sacriSced 
their  great  trust  to  their  sordid  avarice.  Others  I  have 
known  who  have  locked  their  pupils  in  a  chamber  with 
a  wanton  wotnan,  and  taken  the  key  away  with  them. 
Nay,  this  I  can  say  more,  that  of  all  those  stnmgeri 
that  I  have  known  Govemours  to  young  Noblemen  of 
England  (and  I  have  known  seven  or  eight),  I  never 
knew  one  of  tliem  to  be  a  Oentlemaa  bom  ;  but«  for  the 
moat  part,  they  were  needy  bold  men,  whose  chief  parts 
were,  their  own  language  and  some  Latin ;  and  whose 
chief  aim*  was  to  serve  themselves,  not  their  pupils.*^ 

Passing  on  a  few  pages,  we  cooie  to  "  what 
should  and  what  should  not  be  learnt  in  France, 
Italy,  Germany,  and  Holland  ^^ ;  and  it  is  cimoua 
to  notice,  after  the  great  political  changes  which 
have  ocxiurred  in  the  last  two  hundred  years,  how 
much  has  remained  unaltered  in  each  country. 
Speaking  of  France,  Laaseb  says  : — 

*'  1  say.  make  true  use  of  France.  For  I  would  not 
have  my  youni;  Traveller  imitate  all  thingn  he  sees  dune 
in  France,  ot  other  Foreign  Couotreys.  1  would  have 
him  ieam  of  t!ie  French  a  handsome  confidence,  but  not 
an  Impudent  boldness.  He  must  learn  of  them  to  come 
Into  a  Eoom  with  a  *  Bonne  mitM  J  Wl  ^^  Vi  xMsfKiV'Q^^  «» 


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[5*aiL8KlT,3^% 


mans  cb&mbt^r,  rut  tliey  do,  witltout  no  much  ts  knocking? 
4t  the  l>«or.  He  muat  lean*  of  them  to  daiue  well,  to 
ntfe  a  soimI  gmce  in  w&lking  and  saluting,  ma  tkey  do,  but 
ne  nu0t  oot  dftUBe  aa  lua  walks,  oa  many  of  them  do. 
He  must  leam  of  the  French,  to  bccomo  ftnjr  clothes 
wet) ;  bat  he  mnai  not  fcJlow  them  in  oil  their  Phantoft- 
tical  and  fanfiu^n  clothings.  He  nmst  lenm  to  fence 
well,  as  they  do ;  hot  1  would  bave  hU  iword  stick  faster 
in  the  scabbard  thvi  theirs  do.  In  fine  I  nvould  have 
hitu  open,  ainr  and  gallant,  as  they  are ;  but  not  a£footing 
to  be  the  GaliaQtB  of  all  I^es,  as  they  do.'* 

So  in  Ifcaly  : — 

*'I  would  hare  him  learn  to  make  a  ftne  house; 
but  I  wonld  not  hftre  him  learn  of  the  ItaUaoa  to  keep 
a  good  houiie.  He  nmy  leurn  of  them  to  b«  tober,  and 
wise  :  but  I  would  not  hare  him  learn  of  thom  to  be 
jealous  and  difltnistfuL  I  would  hare  him  learn  of  the 
ItaliaoAp  to  receire  those  that  Tisit  him  with  ^reat 
oiriltty  and  reipei;t ;  but  I  would  not  hare  him  stand 
upon  all  their  Uttle  forms  incommodious  punetiUioa.  I 
would  hare  him  to  be  free  of  his  Hat,  a£  they  are;  but 
I  would  have  the  heart  to  go  with  the  Hat,  as  well  as 
the  hand. 

''  In  Gennany,  I  would  have  him  team  to  offer  a  man 
a  cup  of  wine  at  his  coming  in ;  but  I  would  not  have 
blm  presse  to  much  wine  upon  him  as  he  shall  not  be 
able  to  go  out  agaiot  a  a  they  often  do.  I  would  have  him 
learn  of  tJunt  to  go  freely  to  warre  for  the  defence  of 
his  country :  hut  I  would  not  bare  him  learn  the  custom 
of  these  vendible  souls  there^  who  carry  their  Uvet  to 
market,  and  serve  any  Prince  for  money.  I  like  well 
their  shaking  hands  with  you,  when  you  first  enter  into 
their  houses  ;  but  I  like  not  their  quarrelling  with  you 
for  not  pled^ng  a  health  a  yard  long,  which  would  nun 
youri*  I  like  very  much  their  singular  modeuty  and 
chastity,  which  allows  not  bastards  to  be  freemen  of  the 
meet  ordinary  trudes  :  but  I  like  not  their  endless  drink* 
ing  in  feaits,  which  is  able  to  make  them  freemen  of  all 
fleet. 

**  In  Hollund,  also,  I  would  have  him  learn  to  keep  his 
houie  and  hc&rth  neat ;  but  1  would  not  luive  him  adore 
his  hearth,  as  not  to  dare  to  light  a  fire  in  it,  as  they  do. 
I  would  haTo  him  leam  of  them,  a  B|>are  diet ;  but  I 
wovld  not  have  him  drink  so  much  as  would  keep  him 
both  in  good  dyet  and  clothes,  aa  they  do,  I  would  have 
him  leam  of  them  their  great  industry  and  oeconomy ; 
hut  not  their  rude  exacting  upon  noblemen  strangers  in 
ibelr  Inns,  for  their  <Liuality'fl  sake  only,  as  they  do.  I 
would  have  him  leam  of  them  a  singular  love  of  hb  coun- 
trey;  but  be  must  take  heed  of  their  clownish  hatred  of 
nobUitr.  Thus  in  all  oountreys  I  w->uld  have  my  young 
Traveller  do  as  men  do  at  a  Great  Ftjwt,  where  there 
is  no  fear  of  starving;  that  is,  not  eat  greedily  of  all 
that's  before  him,  but  fall  to  the  best  meats,  imd  leave 
the  worst  for  the  waiters." 

I  will  now  notice  Rome  scraps  of  infomiatioii 
that  are  to  be  found  here  aod  there  in  the  book, 
the  bidk  of  which  consists  of  descriptions  of  places 
and  things  generally  known, 

Aa  regards  the  number  of  idiots  in  L»  Vall^, 
he  obeerves,  ^  which  rattkes  me  think  it  no  vulgfir 
erronr  which  is  commonly  said,  that  the  cHmats 
that  (ire  most  a p tilted  Mnth  winds  produce  more 
foob  then  other  climats  do."  This  agrees  with 
the  results  of  modem  statistics  of  insanity  in 
Europe.  Of  the  five  roads  by  which  he  went  into 
Italy,  ho  sjiys  he  thinks  the  best  waa  then  that 
from  Ljona,  by  Mount  Cenia,  to  Turin. 


gmlM«%^ 

KbefluiiM 
*  buJdb  il      ' 


Speaking  of  what  he  saw  ai  Genoa,  he  remackB  :-* 

**  The  tops  of  their  houses  are  made  with  erpen  { 
whore  the  women  sit  together  at  work  in  clnsl 
where  also  they  dry  their  hair  in  the  tun  after  tbcf  I      _ 
washed  it  in  a  certain  wash,  a  purpose  for  to  makt  il 
yellow,  a  color  much  affected  here  by  all  women." 
As  the  Venetian  women  did  the  same  thmg^ 
shows  how  genend  the  fashion  was  io  Ital^i 
how  long  it  ksted.    He  mentloiu,  alflo.  that 
Spanish  fashions  prevailed  at  Genoa,  aaa  tbai  < 
ladioB  wore  enormous  gnardinfantas. 

At  Novi  he  was  obUged  to  take  a  guard  of 
brigands,  to  whom  he  paid  three  piaioka  t^  pro* 
teet  him  on  the  road. 

He  remarks  at  Piaceii2% — 

*'  I  observed  in  this  town  aoolabte  peeea  of  tkiifHaw 
used  by  the  Gentlewomen,  who  make  no  scntpJe  to  be 
carried   to    their  countrey  boutes  nc  wa  in 

coaches  drawn  by  two  oowea  yoaked  'he* 

will  carry  the  Signora  a  prettyrouodtfu.  ,„,.  ..^i  Villa: 
They  afford  her  also  a  dish  of  their  milk,  and  athtrui^ 
ktion,  bring  her  home  again  at  night  without  fpcadiug 
a  penny." 

At  Bologmi,  uxinong  tlie  articles  of  ttaffio  h* 
mentions  *'  little  dogga  for  Ladywi,  '  '  -  ^  i^*  aw 
50  little,  that  the  Ladyes  carryiDu  tbar 

mulfs  have  place  enougn  for  tli  ' ' 

leaving  Bolognn,  he  hiul  to  pi ' 
Botdtina  di  Hanila  to  emihii^r  uijja   v^  iruiv*    »"■ 
State  of  Florence. 

Of  the  little  town  of  Poggi  B^t^I  1.^>  finyt— 
"  famous  for  perfumed  Tobacco  in  hich 

the  Ituhang  and  Spanianls  take    :  -_  e  fee- 

•  luently  than  we,  as  needing  neither  Cuikdk  Wt 
Tinderbox  to  light  withal ;  nor  using  any  oliUr 
Pipes  then  their  own  Noftes.'^ 

Ealtb  N.  Jjpoe. 

Ashford,  Kent 


!>  iciaa 


SHERIDAN  AND  SIR  JOHN  SUCKLIKO. 

One  of  the  moat  interesting  portions  of  Moo»> 
L\f€  of  Sheridan  is  to  be  found  in  the  sketches  of 
plays  and  skeletons  of  scenes  which  the  biogn*ph«r 
found  among  Sheridan«  papers.  In  tIic  pretty 
edition  recently  pabliBhed  by  M*  "  o  i 

Windiis  of  The  H  Vib  of  Richard  B, 
there  is  lUso  a  collection   of  these    "  Ui 
Phiys  and  Poems,"    Among  the  iinfinli* 
we  have,  says  the  editor,  Mr.  Sto 
scenes  of  a  drumu  without  a  name,  >^ 
in  haste,  and  with  scarcely  any  conectioi^t 
subject  is  described  as  "  wdd  and  immail 
Mr,  Stainforth  is  not  inclined  to  attrib 
the   early  probationar}'   time   of    Sheridan  as 

dmmatist.     From  this   -  -i     !■        ' -' 

extmcts  are  given.     Am 

part  of  a  dialoa:ue  betwe<,ii  .,  -. .*.  .  - 

named  Reginella : — 

**  HuntM.  Instruct  me  bow  X  IDA  J  apprca^lt  thtt 
address  thee  and  not  oflfend* 


^mmk 


l)C«p^||^ 


«»8.n.a»T.2fl.74] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


.1^5 


»*  !ii^   * >b.  how  my  ^ntil  would  hAng  upon  lho*e  Lipi  I 

■pet"  ■  ^  '  ink»  be  thou!'  '     aJ  80— 

wLv  iHi4B«d«  1  ciur  \. 

*"  ;  ct^,  I 'mture  t !  ratBot 

*'  /;*'/.  Alt  thou  nut  lie  to  whom  1  told  my  imme^ aod 
dtil*A  fcuou  dot  saT  thina 


blesMd  b«  ttie  name  that  tlien   thou 

een  «ver  fiinco  mj  charm,  &Dd  kept  me 

T^nt,  may  I  a*)c  how  auch  aweet  eat- 

f Lid  in  guch  a  pluce  i 

-for  such  as  thoii  I  nmrer  saw 

J7^<t*  Nor  like  thee  eyer  sfajilL     But  would*8t  thou 

tliii  place,  and  live  with  me  aia  I  am  \ 
Uf^  Why  may  not  yoo  Iitc  her©  with  such  aa  I  ? 
^  iiunU.  \«t— bat  I  would  cury  thee  whtii*e  all  above 
an  asttre  c&aopy  extends,  at  ukht  bedropt  with  gemfl* 
ftad  0{i«  more  glorioui  lainp,  that  yields  iuch  hwhful 
lll^t  *a  [or»  ei^joy« — while  underaenth  a  carpet  shall  he 
ipread  of  flowera  to  court  the  preasore  of  Ihy  step,  with 
■wli  iwect  whiftper^d  iriTitationa  frooi  ihm  UtkVUB  of 
ilMdy  iT'oiL'^  or  murmuring  of  ttl?er  ilNftiiii^  Uiafethou 
iha]  1  art  in  P^di«e. 

1 ! 
*'±i, •>','».  j\y,  and  ni  watch  and  wait  on  thee  nil  day, 
and  cull  the  choicest  flowera^  which  while  thou  hiud'iit  m 
the  ttijiteriotiB  knot  of  love,  I  Ml  tune  for  thee  no  rulgnr 
lftj»4  but  t^H  thee  talea  to  make  thee  weep  yet  please 
tbee— white  thai  1  preaa  thy  hand,  and  warm  it  thus 
vHh  k&twi." 

I      Compare  with  the  above  the  following  portion 

of  ♦'t  ^ I  :#.... ..  Re^nella  and  Oreabrm,  in  Sir 

Jo )  J  '  y  of  The  Oohlins  : — 

••  U-,     .^...  ^ct  me  in  what  form  1  must  approach 

thee. 
And  how  adore  thee, 

*  Mffiinelh,  I  know  not  what  I  im; 
Hot  like  myself  I  never  yet  law  any. 

*'Qmihr\H^  Nor  ever  shall    0?  how  came  you  hither  1 
Sort  jou  were  betray 'd.    Will  you  Itavo  thia  place, 
Aad  ui«  witJi  »ucb  aa  I  am  I 

*•  /Sa^'n^f/o.  Why  may  not  you  live  here  with  mc  i 

•*  Ori^ih,  /n    Tf«;  but  I  *d  carry  the©  where  there  Is 
Ae^  :  where  all  aboTc  la  iprcad 

A  CA  lod  with  twinkling  g«mii. 

Beaut !/< mi  ii-i  lo rers'  eyet ;  and  underneath 
Carpeta  of  flow'ry  m«iidf  to  trend  on  : 
A  thouittDd  thouiaod  plea«uree»  which  this  place  can  ne'er 
AtTurd  thee. 

*^  Rfrf^'nfJla.  Indeed! 

^Orpaf-       ^^       ndeed.    Til  bring  thee  nnto  shady 

I  proT  til  silver  purling  atreamc, 

"  reather^d  (juiristera 
I  r  own  accord* 
1,  ilowen; 

'  Ai>«3  i  it  them  up  myiteriout  waya, 

f  I  'II  ilea,  and  aigh  by  thee ; 

I  Xkajg  prc*!i  Lh)  huuj,  And  warm  it  thua  with  kiMM.'* 
Mr    St^mfnrth    qnotes    other   passages    foooi 
ly,  the  originnls  of  which 
fi^'  i  from  Sucklin^*8  GobliriM. 

that   "thU   singular   tlmma 


havi.^   been   liniaheii  ! 
do  when  be  ml*ii»tp«l 
scenes,  it  wouiu  be 
is  far  more  curious 


t^  tliot  m  SucicHiig't  OoiAins^  we  Had  the  getm 


whence  sprung  Sheridan'^  famous  IwUlatl,  "  H©fe '» 
to  the  maiden  of  boahfiil  fifteen, '"  In  Stidtling 
the  biUhul  begins — 

**  A  health  to  the  nut-brown  law* 
With  the  haxel  eyes.    Let  it  pasR^  kc 

Ab  much  to  the  lively  grey«  le/* 
with  some  rhymes  that,  b^fv  ■   '* -^^a.^.^i.^,,.. '>  ..i^y 
be  consulted  by  those  who  u  r  i  i>r 

of  saucy  ballads.  In  Sheridan  .  ..„,-_.  -i .  _  ,.  . .ua" 
there  is  a  fragmentary  glee  on  woman*  but  the 
echoea  come  &om  SuckBng,  for  ahe  id  thwft  il«- 
acribed  : — 

*^  She  'i  %  savour  to  the  glaa^ 
Aa  cxciiia  to  make  it  pais." 
ThAt  the  ballad  in  T^c  School  for  i^candal  jfrew 
into  its  well-known  perfection  from  the  seed  ftung 
abrodd  by  Suckling,  there  can  be  no  doubt. 

There  is  neither  room  nor^  indeed,  reMon^  for 
comment  on  this  verj'  <iLn<^^alar  and,  hitbfiHck» 
unnoticed  circum^itance.  It  umj  well  be  included 
among  the  Curiosities  of  Literature.  £d. 


How  Old  was  IVLlckxin*  ?— In  the  Conttm- 
porarff  Rineio  for  this  present  month  of  September 
13  an  article  by  Mr.  Fairfax  Tiiylor,  entitled 
"Longevity  in  a  New  Light,"  in  which  that 
rjentlemandws  more  tlian  ju^stice  to  my  endeavoure 
to  put  the  question  as  to  the  averag:e  duration  of 
human  life,  not  only  in  a  new  but  a  true  lights 

In  treating  of  that  part  of  my  book  on  Thi  Lon* 
fjtmtif  of  Mail  (pp.  48-9)  in  which  I  seek  to  prove 
tluit  tombstone  inscriptions  cannot  be  received  as 
trustworthy  eddence  of  the  agesiof  those  they  com- 
memorate, and  in  which  I  state  that  Macklin's 
monument  in  St.  Paul's,  Covent  Garden,  gives  his 
age  as  107,  whereas  his  ooffin-plate,  discovered  a 
few  year:^  since,  made  him  only  97,  Mr.  Taylor 
calls  niy  attention  to  some  evidence  as  to  the  reid 
age  of  Macklin,  which  I  had  certainly  overlooked. 
It  is  contained  in  Smith's  Life  of  NolUhiutt  iL 
276,  and  is  m  follows  :-— 

**  Wlien  Macklin  died  the  persons  who  conducted  his 
funeral  differed  widely  sa  to  hisag<*,  though  many  pcr- 
§on§  bad  been  applied  to  to  ascertain  the  period  of  hi* 
birth.  My  araiabio  friend,  the  late  Thomas  GrisiMm, 
attended  the  funeral,  and  just  as  the  ruen  were  lowering 
the  coffin  into  the  vault,  a  Utter  tunUitnit^g  a  caoy  of^ 
r^gUUr  €>/ hix  birth  waa  put  into  the  hauda  of  the  chief 
ntourner,  who  immediately  took  out  his  penknife  ^nd 
«cnitchod  upon  the  blank  space  '  107."* 

Difficult  as  it  may  appear  to  reject  a  statement 
so  precise  as  this,  the  authority  on  which  what  I 
saia  was  founde<i  (and  which  I  )iad  Inadvertently 
neglected  to  quote,  ^N.  &  Q./'  3"^  S.  i.  143)  19 
still  more  precise  and  condosivew  The  oorrespon'- 
dent  who  details  the  circumstance  of  the  fimlin^ 
of  the  coffin -plate,  and  sends  the  inscription  on  it, 
which  I  have  quoted,  says  clearly  : — 

"  Tlie  age  it  there  stated  to  be  97.  I  obtuiiad  &  ^^% 
from  the  beadle  of  the  p«m\M  t^  c»ttw:^:d«»  c2^  ^^ti»^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6"  a  IL  Seit.  26,  71 


is  att«ited  by  the  three  church wurdeii a  who  siipcrin- 
t«iided  the  removing  and  rcpUcing  the  coffina." 

I  limy  add  that  infurmatlon  to  the  same  effect 
was  given  to  me  by  one  of  the  officials  in  quostion. 
In  the  face  of  so  plain  a,  statetnent  as  the  above, 
taking,  too,  into  considenition  the  fact  that  the 
discrepancy  between  the  ages  attracted  the  atten- 
tion of  those  by  whom  it  waa  discovered,  I  think 
there  can  be  no  doubt  that  97  is  the  correct  aoje, 
and  that  the  opportune  arrival  of  the  baptismal 
certificate  and  the  scratching  with  a  penknife  the 
date  of  1()7  on  the  coffin  are  incicfenta  having 
their  origin  in  the  innuiiinvtion  oithur  of  Ndlekem 
or  his  biognipher.  From  what  1  have  heard,  I  sus- 
pect the  "  ornamentation  "  of  the  story  is  due  to 
the  hitter,  William  J,  Thoms, 

Mii^s  Bacon, — Miss  Bacon  wan  not  a  practiciil 
joker,  but  a  devout  believer  in  Bacon  and  lifdeigb 
being  the  joint  author^?  of  Shakspeare.  8ht*  <*acri- 
ficed  every  earthly  considenition  for  the  support 
ajid  defence  of  her  creed  ;  and  ahe  l>ecaine  palpably 
insane  (at  Coventry,  I  believe),  and  soon  after  died 
in  this  conntr)'.  Lord  Pdnierston's  belief  was 
founded  partly  itpon  his  own  researches,  and  partly 
upon  those  of  Mr.  W*  H.  Smith ;  and  in  idl  pro- 
bability he  bad  never  heard  of  Miijs  Delia  Bacon 
or  her  big  book.  Jabujc, 

Athcnscum  Club. 

Septingenarian'ibm. — In  a  country  churchyard 
in  the  county  Tyrone,  I  have  just  copied  this  in- 
scription on  a  headstone  :— 
I,  H.  a 

nSRK  .    LT£TB    .  TIUE  . 

BOPT  .   OF   .   TSAOM  ,    O 

DUmS  .   WHO  ,    UKPAaTKl> 

THIS  .   LTFE  *    SKFTICSIEKR  , 

THE  22th   1752  .   A(iEI> 

709  TEARS. 

The  rustic  stone-cutter  intended  to  inscribe  79, 
but  did  it  by  carving  70  and  then  adding  9.  I 
may,  however,  observe  that  in  this  county  8<)  and 
W  years  are  very  common  uges,  and  that  I  re- 
member two  persons  who  said  that  their  ages  were 
respectively  Hi}  and  112.  But  there  are  no  old 
registers  to  refer  to.  S.  T,  P. 

"  OzARisn  Majestt." — This  &eenis  to  have  been 
the  tenu  by  which  the  Empress  of  Russia  was 
spoken  of  in  the  British  papers  in  1737,  The 
following  interesting  poiisage  illustrutes  the  use  of 
the  tenn  :— 

"  Edinburgh,  Feb.  W.  On  the  16th  ult.  the  Rt.  Hon. 
the  Earl  of  Crawford  received  a  letter  wrote  by  order  of 
her  Cxarish  iMjueBty,  inviting  his  Lordship  to  enter  into 
Iho  Mtucorite  B«rvice,  and  in  such  case  prumiaing  him 
the  Oommand  of  a  Regiiueut,  the  Rank  of  Lieutenant 
O^nenJ.  and  Remittances,  for  enabling  him  to  take  the 
Field  with  an  Etjuipage  suitftble  to  hia  Quality  und 
Merit:  bat  that  his  Lordghip  had  returned  for  answer, 
That  he  was  no  wibc  disponed  to  enter  into  the  aorric*  of 
any  Sovereign  other  than  th*t  of  Lis  Britannick  Majesty, 


ni  least  in  a  C&pacitj  sajierior  to  a  Volunteer ;  ma  tacU 
he  had  reeolred  to  make  another  Campaign  at  hi4  ( 
Chargo  agamst  the  InfideK  nnJer  the  Rumibd  Bam 
and  was  ready  to  mount  the  Theatre  of  War  with  i 
firat.'' 

W.  H.  PATTutaoSi^ 

TffE  BoLETN  Fa^uly.— A  few  years  ago  ^ 
had  some  notices  of  tlie  Irifdi  branches  of  ih 
family,  but  I  do  not  remember  to  have  Bwn  an 
account  of  a  tombstone  in  the  courtyard  of  tli 
ruined  Castle  of  Clonona,  in  the  parish  of  Gtdlec^ 
in  the  King^a  County,  about  four  miles  froa 
Banagher.  It  is  a  Hat  stone  supported  on  fottr  loi 
pillars,  and  the  letters  are  fiiirly  cut,  in  the  styk  ( ' 
the  last  century.  There  is  no  date,  and  I  Ci»n  add 
no  particulars  to  those  in  the  inscription,  whic 
mns  thus ; — 

"  Hereunder  1ie6  Elizabeth  and  Mary  Builyn,  Daughted 
of  Thom&f  BuHyn,  son  of  George  Bullyii,  the^o  i  ' 
Oeorge   Bullyn,  Viscount    Rocheford,  aon    of 
BuUyn,  Erie  of  Orrnond  and  Wiltshire.*' 

I  copied  it  exactly,  J,  A*  Crosciir, 

Old  MSS.  to  Mend,  on  Tulle  AN*t>  TATtEMi.j 
— In  the  rofmir  of  very  dilapidated  but  perhap 
valuable  MSS.,  it  not  uniretiucntly  biinpens  tbn 
to  preserve  the  writing  on  both  sides  o(  a  leaf  i«  i 
matter  of  the  utmost  difficulty.     For  iit.<:i 
have  lately  Kpent  some  time  in  endea 
repair  an  ancient  parisli  register,   niiii!; 
puK'hment  leaves  oi  which  were  reduced  to  memi 
crumpled  shreds,  of  less  consistency  tluin  blotting-l 
p!\per.     The  entries  were  to  be  deciphered  by  thdl 
depression  left  by  the  ink  where  it  had  eaten  inUJI 
the  pxirchment,  ndher  than  by  any  rematni  ofl 
blackness  of  the  ink  itself;  and  a«  the  H?»e^  on  " 
either  side  happened  to  be  chiefly  in  c- 
aitioR,  the  corrosion  of  the  ink  had  simpf 
the  leaf  into  tattered  strips-     Tiss« 
case  seemed  to  be  altogether  unsuit 
of  uniting  the  fragments,  though  i- 
l>e  used  succes^sfully  where  writin 
nevertheless,  I  should  hesitate  to  ; 
most  transparent  to  faded  MS.,  fen  J 

sequent  thicitening  or  obscuration.  t; 

leaf  without  biding  some  of  the  aim-  t  -i  h  irjii 
entries  appeared  to  be  utterly  impi^  ih  if 

was  almost  ready  to  give  up  the  task  u- 
when  it  occurred  to  me  that  with  the  hv\[ 
very  fine  net  I  might  be  iible  to  get  over  the  ailit- 
eidty.  Having  experinientt?d  with  some  upon  a 
scrap  of  newspaper  purposely  torn  into  piecei^  ami 
finding  it  answered  i>erfectly  well,  I  eomrneaced 
to  pftste  one  side  of  the  i  i  I«f 

of  the  register,  and  after  .te-lj 

in  position,  bid  on  them  u  iJirci-    > 
than  the  page)  of  that  delicate  n^; 
call  ^H/i<^,*' carefully  pressing  it  down 


*  Tulle  is  to  be  procured  of  rariouf  dc-  leia  I 

Tlmt  which  I  selected  as  bein^ mot t suitable  inr  nie  pur- 1 
poAG  may  be  purchaaed  at  one  ehiliing  per  janL 


^A 


^^i 


F 


'8.n.8vr.26»7l.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


247 


knife^  and  when  sufficiently  dry  to  prevent  its 
stickiDg  to  other  surfaceft,  added  a  heavy  weight. 
The  expedient  proved  to  be  effectual  aa  simple,  and 
SQOoeoded  beyond  my  expectation ;  for  whilst  the 
net  ffireB  to  the  leaf  a  considerable  amount  of 
tougnness-^to  be  injCieaaed,  where  neoiis^ry,  by 
laying  it  on  both  aides — it  does  not  in  the  slightest 
degree  obscure  the  most  fiided  writing ;  in  fact, 
yon  have  to  look  dosdy  to  pei^ve  the  net  at  alL 
In  Ui0  hope  that  this  suggestion  may  be  the  means 
of  adding  useful  years  of  existence  to  many  a 
deervpid  MS»,  I  have  ventured  to  trespass  upon 
the  valuable  space  of  "  N.  &  Q.** 

Ggorqe  B.  Millett. 
PeoMaee. 


[We  mwi  rtqutflt  eorregpondentf  dcflruiK  io/onn&tion 
on  familj  mutten  of  oolj  priTmte  iDterest^  to  affix  their 
D«me4  mtid  t^ldnme*  to  their  queries,  in  order  tb^t  the 
lanren  maj  be  addreiaed  to  them  direct,] 


uo  Ballad. — ^I  send  a  copy  I  made  of  an  o!d 
'  given  to  me  many  year«  jigo  by  n  friend^ 
lake  myself,  was  much  interested  in  anti- 
'  quartan  research.  He  told  rae  that  hs  had  found 
it  in  a  collection  of  ancient  bsdlads,  bearing  the 
date,  OS  far  M  I  can  recollect,  of  1701  or  1702,  but 
purporting  to  contain  specimens  of  early  Engli^fb 
poetnr  from  the  time  of  Chaucer  to  Shakspeare 
•ad  Morbwe. 

I  ahoald  be  glad  if  any  of  your  correspondents 
could  help  me  to  fix  its  probable  date.  My  friend, 
who  died  some  years  affo  in  India,  believed  it  to 
be  very  old,  as  he  said  the  origiDal  spelling,  whleh 
he  altered  to  suit  my  comprehension,  pointed  to  an 
early  period. 

Iliere  seems  to  me  a  tenderness  of  sentiment 
and  a  delicaite  fancy,  as  well  as  its  antiquarian 
value,  which  recommend  the  poem* 
"Loan  £ll£rj£. 
'  Fer  thy  tonl*?  sake,  Lord  EUeric, 

A  fid  ret  for  thy  fovl'i  imke, 
Codo  the  irmng  tboa'ftt  done  to  me. 
Before  my  bcAri  »hall  break.* 

'  For  my  toul't  take,  Mnid  Mtijorie, 

And  yet  for  my  •oul'i  take, 
I  ken  no  wrong  I  We  done  to  thee. 

Nor  why  thy  heart  should  break.' 

*  For  Ihy  fouri  take,  Lord  EJIerie, 

And  Tct  for  thy  «oiil*i  sake. 
Perform  the  tow  thou  mail'it  to  me^ 
lK>  noi  thy  troth- word  break/ 

*  For  my  wvA*»  take.  Maid  Marjone , 

And  yet  for  my  soul's  sake, 
l^ae  troth -word  m  thy  ear  spoke  I, 
5ae  promise  do  I  break/ 

*  Aod  ktn*si  thou  not  the  broad  hiU-Btde 

Where  the  broom  grows  fair  to  see. 
And  the  low  sweet  words  at  t ?entide 
Lord  EUerie  spake  to  me  \ 


*  The  natliDg  birches  could  not  hide 

The  whispered  words  he  said, 
For  the  marii  sang  them  close  beside, 
And  the  lar'rock  oferhead. 

*  God  heard  that  tow  as  it  was  giTen, 

For  the  lark  his  an^eln  told, 
And  they  spake  it  out  aloud  in  Hearen, 
And  Bware  that  tow  should  hold. 

'  On  Earth  no  word  is  said,  I  wean, 

But  it  registered  in  HeaTen  ; 
What's  here  a  jeat  is  there  a  ein 

Wliich  may  neTcr  be  forgifen. 

*  For  thy  soul*s  sake,  Lord  £lJerie, 

That  it  may  with  thee  be  well. 
Make  not  what  God  has  sworn  a  lie 
To  d»g  thy  soul  to  Hell.' ^' 

J.  S.  D, 

BomiN   AKD   BowNE  Favilxes, — Can  any  of 

your  readers  supply  me  with  infonnation  lending 
to  prove  the  identity  of  the  family  names ^  or 
families,  of  Bohun  and  Bowne  \  I  would  submit 
the  following  evidence  in  confirmation  of  this 
theory : — In  the  College  of  Anns  iis  a  pedigree  of 
Bownct  <^f  Bakewell^  which  corresponds  in  the  first 
four  genenitions  with  one  of  the  family  given  in 
Thoroton'a  AniiquiUti  of  NoitinQhmtimirt,  Ac* 
cording  to  this,  they  bore  ax.,  on  a  bend  lirg*,  cot- 
tized  or,  between  six  lions  rampant  or»  three  escal- 
lops go. 

These  arms  are  the  same  as  tho^e  borne  by  the 
BohunSj  EjirU  of  Hereford,  Essex  and  North- 
am  pton»  differenced  by  the  three  escallops. 

In  Burke's  Artnoary  they  aro  ns«igned  Ui 
Bowne  of  Herts,  with  a  mascle  gu*  in  place  of  the 
three  escallops. 

In  this  work  the  arms  of  Bowne,  or  Bowyn,  are 
given  tta  ax.,  a  ltoss  or ;  while  the  Bohans,  Baions 
of  Midlmrst^  bore,  or^  a  cross  az. 

In  the  Ckdlege  of  Arms  b  preserved  an  aceonnt 
of  a  visit  nwnie  to  the  (^'funiac  Priory  of  St, 
Pancras,  at  Lewes,  by  n  hemld  named  Benolte, 
who  held  the  otfice  of  Clarencieux  from  1516  to 
1534,  in  which  he  noted  down  the  varioua  monu- 
ments he  saw  there. 

In  describing  that  of  Richard,  third  Etirl  of 
Arundel  and  Surrey,  and  Eliz:ibeth  Bohun,  his 
wife,  he  calb  her  daughter  to  **  Lord  Wyebowne, 
Erie  of  Northe  Hampton." 

A  man  holding  Benolte-a  office  would  not  l>o 
likely  to  make  a  mistake  in  spelling  one  of  the 
great  historic  family  names  of  £o gland,  and  we 
may  fairly  asiume,  therefore,  that  at  his  time 
Bohnn  had  been  modernized  into  Bowne. 

By  simply  omitting  the  A— M'hich  may  haro 
been  silent— Bohun  becomes  Bonn,  which  waa 

Srobably  pronounced  in  the  same  way  as  Bown  or 
lowne.  Osgood  Field. 

15,  Pall  Matk 

George  Walker  and  John  MjcHELflotrRNE,^ — 
In  or<ier  to  verify  what  1  believe  to  ba  ismI^s^xw^^ 


m 


248 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[B*S.Xl*8n*.3C,71 


I  wish  to  learu  whether  George  Walker  liad  a  son 
or  grandBoii  of  the  same  name ;  whether  John 
Midielbounie's  father,  or  any  other  near  relation, 
WW?  named  Thomas,  I  had  hopes  of  finding  some 
information  in  a  book  lately  publiahed  on  the 
Dtfence  of  JJtrry,  but  I  only  found  a  bitter 
aectarian  tirade  against  Widker  b  memory,  i\nd  «n 
atteiijpt  to  exalt  Il^Iichelboarne's  fame  at  the 
expenie  of  hi§  conmide^s  renown  and  jwrsonal 
character  for  veracity,  S»  T,  P. 

MoDERK  Latik  abtd  Grkek  Verse.— Will 
liOEt)  IrYTTKLTOK,  OF  some  other  of  the  imiuy 
cUaaical  Hchohirs  who  contriljute  to  **K.  k  Q,," 
oblige  with  a  list  of  translations  into  Greek  and 
Latin  veree,  as  well  as  original  Latin  and  Greek 
vereCjby  modem  and  medi-t  val  writers  ?  I  have  the 
foDowiii^j  but  would  be  gbid  to  iiTcrense  my  stwe, 
riz.y  hord  Lyttel ton's  Comus  and  Sa^tson  Agotiutfs, 
Holden's  Folia  SilvnUr^  Sertmti  CartMotianumf 
Shreimbury  Greek  VfritcMy  Hayman's  Latin  and 
Greek  Verse^  C.  R.  Ketmed^^'s,  ^Itirshairs,  ^leri- 
rule's  Keai^t  Hyperion,  Buchamm,  J/of(/-  TfTiTiy- 
sonitmf^;  and  I  have  aoeess  to  Lor^i  Grenville-*i  and 
Lord  Wellesley's  collections,  Loni  Lyttelton'a  and 
Mr-  Gladstone's  joint  work,  and  the  ArnndiJies, 
Sahrino!  Corolla,,  the  Orford  Anthology^  Vincent 
Bourne,  and  Calvcrley.  E.  G.  B, 

Adelaide,  8,  Auatralin. 

^^Fttemarten":  "Virgiic/^ — In  MS,  Sloane^ 
5(K>8,  i,s  the  following  passage,  under  the  dat*  of 
February  22nd,  1582 :— "  We  went  to  the  Theater 
io  se  a  scurvie  play  set  owt  ul  Ity  one  virgin, 
which  ther  proved  a  fyemiirten  without  voice,  so 
that  we  stayd  not  the  mutter." 

Will  you  aasibt  mc?  in  the  int-erjiretation  of  Uie 
term  "  fyemurten  "  i  Does  the  word  "  virgin " 
here  mean  a  female  singer,  or  ia  it  the  name  of  a 

J.  O.  PjiiLLiprs, 


solution  I 
finition  'I 


Whervin  Im  the  difficulty  of  a  ^ 

IL  T. 


entittv 

FroL... -.-...-. 

printed  anywhere  in  the 
date,    11m  4,   is   written 
cont^raporaty  hand*    Is 
man  I 
WiUbuD  Abbey. 


T  h- 


frnuJl  YohUM  1 

.•WtrfW  til  liPI  I 
n-tiTii*    T«   110(1 


annhing  known 
W,  Wi 


t    Loudoun  HouBef  Byde. 
Fox-HuiffTiNO. — I  shall  be  glad 
atl '         '        *     * 
fo: 
pa 
foi 
oh 
Ul 
• 
■Si 
:"" 
: 


to  have  my 
attention  directed  to  descriptions  of  the  s])ort  of 
fox-hunting  as  practised  in  the  early  tmd  middle 
parts  of  the  last  century.  Anok, 

Is  A  Change  of  CmtrsTiAN  Name  Possible  i 
— If  possible,  what  is  the  pro|>er  course  to  adopt 
for  a  father  to  alter  the  Christian  name  of  his 
child  I  In  the  case  I  have  in  view  the  child  is 
tinder  four  years  old^  and  the  Either  is  desirous  to 
substitute  the  Christian  names  of  his  own  father 
for  those  by  which  the  child  was  christened* 

"What  is  a  Pouxn ? -'—During  a  debate  on 
Ihe  currency  in  the  House  of  Oommonfi.  the  late 
Sir  R.  Peel  put  a  questisn— **  What  is  a  Pound  f*' 
What  led  to  this  apixtrently  simple  <|Uery,  but 
which  nevertheless  posed  the  House,  nnd,  accortl- 
iag  to   political  wiiters,  has    never    received   a 


StR  James  Back. — I  have  only  i 
gentlenian*s  name  onoe,  n/»,  in  a  ti 
t  ween    Prince    Theodore   Pala^ologi 
buried  at  Landulph)  and  the  Duke  oi 
the  celebrated  favourite  of  Charles  1.      . 
I  gather  from  the  letter  of  PaLTo]otrii»,  i 
have  been  in  the  service  of  tiio  king  ^ 
dnke. 

The  Curved  Sword,— -Can  you  tell  me  at  wW 
date  the  curved  sword,  or  hanger,  was  iotiddnced 
into  Kuro|>e  l     I  am  desirous  to  a:*certain  the  diilfl  J 
of  a  work  of  art  (probably  Ficncb)  in  which  %^ 
sword  of  this  shape  is  introduced.  Z*  2. 

"Blow's  Bible,*'— Mr,  Aitcliison,  bookseUir^ 
Castle  Phit^e,  Belfast,  has  obtained,  and  It^ 
exhibiting,  a  copy  of  the  long-dis|    '^      *^ 
Bible."     It  is  in  excellent  condit 
with  fine  engravings,  full  page,  an^  n.^- 
lowing    imprint    on    the    title-page  :     * 
Printed  by  and  for  James  Blow,  :(f»'^   f^^ 
Grierson,  Printer  to  the  King's  > 
Majesty  at  the  King's  Arms  and 
Essex  Street,  Dublin.    MDCcri/'    Tl 
4to.,  margins  cut  down ;  the  eugrtiv  ?  i 
plate,  of  tlie  usual  Biblical  chmaciter.      F*  D. 

Belfast 

Women  upok  the  Staok.— Mr,  Collier  p 

1C29  as  the  date  of  the  first  r>^' 
femide  pei*formera  {Amiah  o 
p.  22)^  Imt  I  am  inclined  to  t 
not  unknown  even  to  the  1^ 

shall  be  much  -*'^' ^   to  auv 

dents    who   im  me    wit  I 

notices  upon  til-  ,    t.     The  e.i 

ipiaiiited  with  is  that  in  C^>ryays  ' 

but  probably  written  tome  time 

the  famous  'Tom  was  at  Venice,  he  wt^t  t* 

theatre,  and — 

"Here  I  obiervtd  certain  tl: 
before.  For  I  saw  women  ncte,  u 
before,  though  I  have  hci»nl  that 
used  hi  London,  and  they  yeri 
grace,  actioo,  gesture,  iind  wLa- 
plajcr,  as  ever  I  baw  any  m 

I  quote  from  the  edit  t 


ToL  ii 


i^Mddfci 


»»an.8trr.»,'?l.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


**AsTmocs.*' — This  strange  fonn  is  used  by 

^^y.   \\  .if*.r  Sc5ott,   apmrently  for  ** astute,"    in 

Dvirward,"   H'otA'»»  "Library  Edition," 

,^K  15 L     It  is  not  to  be  found  in  Richard- 

Dr  evt^  in  that  most  cxhaustire  of  English 

liarie«i|    Latham- a    Johnson.     Ls    there   any 

ilheT  authority  for  it,  or  is  it  an  invention  of  8ir 

Tjdter's  I  Middle  Templar. 

Biftdford* 

"  CiMoCRivM^."— The  Spedaim,  No,  2406,  has 
article  entitled  "  Ciuioiirdain  in  the  French 
ttibly  "    Can  ony  one  explain  the  allusion  ? 
A.  L,  MArnKW. 
,  Oxford, 

Ballads  by  W.  T. — In  the  Mcmthly  Catalogue^ 
ust,  1716,  there  is  this  entry:  "All  the 
_j  made  by  W.  T,  in  the  Marahabea*  With 
additional  Son^s  and  Poetn*?  not  yet  made 
flblick."  Wliat  do  thi^ae  ballads  refer  to,  and 
bere  can  copies  of  them  be  seen  I 

W.  E.  A.  A. 
Busholme. 

"Klijotos**  or  **Held6ton."  —  We  have  in 
Jpper  Wlv-''^^  ^'^  ^' raven,  a  round  bill  called  as 
'  ove.     I  i  !  the  name  pronounced  both 

,  und  V, ..,...,   liiti  aspirate*     The  o  is  always 
Dr.  Wtiitaker  makes  the  ''El"  to  be  an 
iation  for  "elf,"  a  fairy;  but  he  does  not 
pt  to  interpret  the  "  boton,"    Can  any  philo- 
ftcholar  explain  why  the  hill  is  called  a« 
re?  N, 

Lease. — In  Januarv  last  tlie  ncwa- 
'  d  that  an  order  Iwwl  been  made,  at 
he  in-'umce  t»i   the   F  ^    '    M^al  Commissioners, 
•  thd  production  ot  idren  at  the  door  of 

'  iirch  of  Much  ^...m between  the  hours 

J  re  and  two,  in  connexbn  with  a  lease 
in  1  SI  1*1  Lv  rliM  PJ  li<tp  of  London,  to  a 
pr  '   hi»  three  children, 

1^  case  ?      D,  A. 

^OMrriKtioont,— Thia  curious  name  occurs  in 
«*x,  nt  Safftxm  Walden,    Can  its  origin  be  traeed 

tftlli  C.   A.   W^ARD. 

yfair, 

|TitK  RfcT.  Thomas  Gab u.— This  gentleman  was 

in  the   early  ptirt   of  this  century  at   the 

Jtc  vh»TH*5  nniH*  att^^clied  to  Manor  House,  at 

itithor  of  some  curious 

'  I  I  shall  be  glad  to  l«yim 

EL^^x-  — LiWng  at  Constantinople,  it 

ill  am  able  to  »ee  your 

Miay  I  make  use  of  the 

yoiit  *x»luiiHiJi  to  a^-t  if  any  one  can 

I  may  find  a  small  book  of  twelve 

ich|  or  some  of  which,  were  originally 


preached  during  the  assizes  about  the  year  184(\ 
in  some  town  in  England  ?  I  thought  the  name 
was  Le^B  Twelm  fkrmonsj  but  from  inquiries 
instituted  through  my  booksellers,  Messrs. 
Hatcharfi,  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  the  little 
book  under  that  title.  My  object  in  obtaining  a 
copy  of  this  work  is  to  re-peruse  the  sermon  on 
"  Justification,"  a  subject  more  clearly  treated  in 
that  sermon  than  in  any  other  work  on  the  same 
subject  I  have  since  met  with* 

George  H.  Clifton. 

"  Petronius  Arbiter.*' — I  have  a  copy  "  Am- 
sterodami  Apud  Guiljel.  L  Civsium,  1626."  Is 
this  a  sciirce  tditlon  ]  I  do  not  think  it  is  in 
BniDeL  B. 

Pblsorin.— In  a  South  American  paper  there 
iM  on  anecdote  of  an  "  Abate  Pelegrin,"  who  wrote 
a  play  entitled  Fclopce^  which  was  hissed.  The 
same  night  he  received  this  letter ; — 

"  P.  P.  P.  P.  p.  ?.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P." 
A  "  kind  friend  "  thus  exphtined  its  meaning  >— 

*^Pdapte  produccior  pCiiina,  presentada  por  Pedro 
Pelegrin,  pobre  p«quefio  poeta  proveniat,  presbitere, 
pATttvifco  perfoctamente  premiada,* 

Is  there  any  foundation  for  this  1 

DUDLET   ARMYTAGE. 

Indiak  Marrlage  or  Betrothal  Custom. — 
A  friend  of  mine  baa  seen  in  a  book  of  travels,  the 
name  of  which  he  cannot  recall,  an  account  of  an 
Indian  marriage  or  betrothal  ceremony,  in  which 
tiie  woman  puts  her  hand  through  a  window,  or 
some  such  aperture,  and  indicates  her  acceptance 
of  a  lover  by  kindling  a  light  from  a  light  held  in 
his  hand.  Can  any  reader  of  **  N.  &  Q."  favour 
me  with  a  reference  to  the  work  describing  the 
above?  B.  F- 

HAmmcmaith. 


HALL,  WYCH,  AND  SALT  WORKS, 
{5^  a  ii,  183.) 

An  indirect  beneficial  operation  of  "N,  &  Q.* 
has  been  to  inculcate  the  necessity  of  a  habit  of 
close  reasoning,  and  of  ascertaining  the  real  taetA 
in  any  investigation.  Free  discussion  is  an  excel- 
lent thin^T  for  counteracting  our  natural  tendency 
to  substitute  fancies  for  facts,  and  falLicies  for 
argument.  Mr.  P:cton'*s  paper  gives  certain  fects, 
or  assumed  facts,  but  does  not  embrace  all  the 
facts.  In  the  first  place,  it  is  assumed  that  tdck 
means  an  abode,  and  that  it  occurs  in  this  sense 
in  Warwick  and  several  other  names.  To  decide 
this  point  we  have  evidence  positive  and  negative* 
Of  a  positive  kind  we  have  the  fact,  a*  I  believe  it 
to  be,  that  place-names  involving  wick  occur  in 
connexion  with  spots  mwrlssA  Vs  ^  ^T^»ia^'^fc^^='^ 


QUERIES. 


[5»fi.asEw,M,7i. 


peculiarity,  like  the  Bitufttion  of  Warwick^  in 
Warwickshire,  for  Laataiice  ;  uml  on  the  negative 
side  is  the  fact  Umt  a  pkce-namu  iDvolving  mkA, 
or  any  of  its  dozen  variationSf  is  nowhere  to  be 
met  with  in  a  situation  where  such  physical 
characteristic  is  absent.  Now  if  wick  really  meant 
an  abode,  like  Jia7n  and  ion,  we  should  have  a  right 
to  expect  to  find  it  applied  in  all  sitiiatianii  indis- 
criminal ely^  ajs  the  latter  terms  are.  The  Buppoai- 
tion,  then,'  that  such  ia  its  meaning  is  completely 
upset  by  the  fact,  as  I  affirm  it  to  be,  that  place- 
names  involving  it  iire  oonHned  to  spots  having 
limilar  physical  cbunicteriatica  with  the  town 
ftbove*mentLoned,  Pa^Bing  over  as  inconceivable 
the  supposition  that  mck^  a  house,  caine  at  len^^h 
to  si^ify  a  piece  of  water,  as  a  derivative  sense,  I 
am  also  compelled  to  question  if  it  ever  had  any 
properly  **  philological  connexion "  with  the  salt 
nmnufiicttire.  I  do  not  ipiestion  that  the  huts 
where  the  salt-pans  were  situated  were  called 
tt>i/cA^houses,  but  I  nevertheless  deny  that  a  wtjch- 
house  =  a  «a^f-house.  That  the  inhabitant's  of 
such  places  as  Droit wich  and  Nantwich^  seats  of 
the  salt  manufacture,  should  associate  ^eu'h  with 
fi&lt  is  natural  enough  ;  but  an  association  of  ideas 
in  the  popular  mind  is  far  from  com? titu ting  a 
phiiologiml  connexion  between  the  words  which 
esqprefis  them.  If  wfek  implies  s^ilt,  what  are  we 
to  say  of  such  names  as  Norwich,  Crostwick^ 
Keswick,  Wickmere,  Norfolk,  the  Wickhams  near 
Ctoydon^  Surrey,  and  numerous  other  "  wicks " 
flimiJarly  sittiated,  wliich  have  not,  nor  ever  pos- 
aibly  could  have  had,  anything  to  do  with  salt  i 

I  am  sony  to  be  oliliged  to  dissent  from  Mr. 
Picton's  A-^iew  also  in  referring  hal  and  hall  to 
Halt.  RIy  belief  is  that  in  no  instance  hjis  hal  iu 
place-names  any  connexion  with  salt,  except  in  a 
lew  comparatively  modem  names,  and  those  in 
exceptional  situations  ;  and  it  appears  to  me  that 
^Ir.  Ficton'S  case  is  sadly  weakened  by  such 
random  references  as  Halstemi,  which  he  mentiona 
without  specifying  whether  the  place  intended  is 
in  Kent,  Essex,  or  LeiceMershire.  But  it  is  of 
*  little  consequence,  since  let  ua  take  which  we  may, 
in  which  of  them  can  it  be  shown  that  there  is 
now,  or  ever  Lis  been,  a  salt  manufacture  i  "At 
Haling,  on  the  Hampshire  coast,  salt-works  etiat," 
But  if  the  name  Hiding  is  to  be  taken  to  imply 
L  salt-works,  what  can  be  said  respecting  Ayling^ 
now  Ealing,  Middlesex ;  Ajrlesbury,  Bucks  ;  Ayl- 
^  merton,  Aylaham  and  HaJes,  Norfolk  ;  Hayles, 
Gloucestershire  ;  Halcsworth,  Suftblk  ;  and  Hail- 
fiham,  Sussex  I  To  infer  the  existence  of  salt- 
works from  a  mere  place-name  is  like  quoting  the 
'  name  of  Hammersmith}  on  the  Thames,  as  a  proof 
that  they  used  to  make  and  mend  hammers  tiiere, 
as,  according  to  the  serio-comic  popular  myth,  was 
the  case, 

I  have  to  make  one  more  objection  yet.    Mb, 
PiCT02f,  in  support  of  hm  yiewa,  states  that  hel  is 


Welsh  for  salt.    There  is  no  more  serious  falUcj 
than   the    assumption    that  modem   Wekb   andi 
Gaelic  may  be  taken  as  safe  guides  in  the  inter*] 
pretation  of  ancient  names*     It  f*iirs*\n-^;  t^   mai 
highly  improbable,  and  I  affirm  it  t 
with  their  custom,  that  the  ancle  n 
tingukh  a  particular  bay,  Pwlheiii,  a&  Saitp 
where  all  the  bays  and  pools  were  siilt.     Tb^  J 
no  part  of  Britain  in  which  local  name»  har^  ^^" 
so  generally  metamorphosed  in  order  to  adap 
to  modern  meanings  as  Wales, 

To  recur  to  i/n>l-,  it  seems  to  me  dcstiBlile  i 
tnice  back  the  history  of  thi-         * 
ascertain  at  what  time  writer*  i  1 1 

it  to  mean  an  abode  or  village,     i 
idea  is  due  to  some  medifeval  et 
being  fanuliar  with  Latin  only,  br^ 
to  that  language  as  a  standard » im<\ 
viais^  he  at  once  set  it  down  for  hau...  , 

Having  thus  questioned  the  acciinicy  of  Mb. 
Picton's  view  of  tnVJt,  I  beg  leave  to  otfer  mj 
own,  which  ia,  that  it  means  simply  a  u^tr.  To 
quote  Barwick,  Ardwick,  d  omnc  quod  €iU  w 
-wick,  as  instances  of  untk  in  the  sense  of  '*  Iowa" 
is  like  adducing  instances  in  which  the  mftix  -fr^ift 
occurs,  under  the  impression  that  **w 
means  a  town,  especially  as  it  is  found  i 
town-names,  as  Bbckwater,  Loudwater,  ii^ii'ig^ 
water,  and  Bayswater,  W.  B. 

The  following  passages  are  taken  from  Wcr^A 
and  Places^  by  the  Rev,  Isaac  Taylor,  M^? 
Macmillan,  1SG4 : — 

P.  16£*  — **  The  name*  of  Northwich,  MJddlf  ^^-^'  ^'  »"'' 
TTleb,  Droitvricb,  Netherwicb,  Shirleywicli 
ftud  perhaps  Warwick,  althoui^li inland  places 
iodircictly  from  the  Norse  tr^c,  a  bay/ and  u 
A.S.  iciV,  ft  viilaife.     AIJ  these  places  are  tv 
production  of  Bait,  which  was  formerly  obt'' 
oTaporution  of  sea- water  in  shallow  iricA«  ci 
word  bajsalt  toitifies.     Hence  a  place  for  l 
came  to  be  called  a  v^ch-houM,  ftnaNantwich,  l>r  ot 
and  other  places  where  rock  salt  was  found  look  tror 
Damei  from  the  wych-housea  built  for  it«  pirpafati'K 

P.  391.—*'  Domeadny  Book  enumerates  no  less  ih>.ri :  \' 
BoJtworka  in  the  single  county  of  Sussex.     But  ll><  n: 
denc«  of  names  enables  08  to  prove  th  "  -        - 
eaUworkt  were  worked  before  the  adrt  i 
race.    ThiJ  we  can  do  by  means  of  th 
salt;  which  we  find  in  the  name  f 
pools/  in  Carn&rroDfhire.    In  the  salt 
of  Germany  several  towns  wh"="  ^ 
Celtic  root  hal  stand  on  rivera  wb  1 
iTnonymia/«     Thus  J7aU«  in  Pru 
the  river  .Saa^o  (salt-ri«r) ;  i^hWuTi  Hall  in  Bf.vir 
aUo  on  a  river  Sale;  Ilallein  in  Sotxburg  stands  <»='  i^.'^ 
Sa  ha.    We  find  town b  cal  ted  IJall  nea r  t  h , .  «il  1 1 1  i  r 
the  Tyrol  of  Upper  Austria,  and  of  ^^ 
Haifa  in  RavetjaberiJ ;  Ilnifn  and  //' 
Hor         ■      '      ''■  -      '  :: 
whi 

a  jjlii' ;..i!-_   .:.u  .:.  ' ;     ■    , 

laton  ia  Laucashire.** 

Nottingham. 


Doulvtless  the  origin  of  many  wkh  is  as  Mr* 
PlCTOJff  says ;  bat  is  there  not  another  origin  for 
many  others  ?  There  are  several  outlying'  villft^'eH 
from  larger  villAges  or  towns,  called  after  the  Letter 
with  the  addition  of  mck.  Three  that  occur  to  me 
at  the  moment  are  Bray-wick,  near  Bray,  Eton* 
wick,  near  Eton^  and  Egham-wick,  near  Ejrhani,  in 
the  counties  respectively  of  Berks,  Bucks,  and 
Surrey,  but  within  a  few  miles  distance  of  each 
other.  Laycattma. 

**Whcn  the  Diuiith  and  Norwegtun  pirfttea  r&TAg«d 
the  eoasti  of  Great  Britain,  they  ran  into  little  boya  Knil 
creeks  for  shelter,  and  established  themaelves,  sometime  a 
temponkiily,  tometimes  permanently.  These  vi^f^  or 
ba^aleti,  t>einf;  usually  in  an  inlet  or  bay.  the  terui  vitj 
e^me  to  signify  the  bfty  as  well  as  the  haralet/' 

Dane  and  Norwegian  brought  with  them  the 
term  nJl,  to  signify  a  bay. 

•*Vfk,  f.  tittuf  TOrtra/*— BjfilMon,  Lexicon  Poiiicum 
Antiques  Lingua  S€pt€HtnonaUt.    xi>cccLtv. 

Erbm. 


'  the  archaeological  epistle  to  dba^ 
milled;* 

(5^  S.  iL  15(K) 

Tbia  has  been  attributed  to  the  Rev.  William 

Ma9on«  Grav's  friend.      In  the  British  Museum 

Catalogue  it  is  ascribed  to  John  Baynes^  of  Gray's 

Inn,  and  a  MS.  note,  in  a  copy  of  the  book  in  the 

I  Library,  says  : — 

**  By  [fpace]  Buynei,  a  Barrister  viho  died  at  a  Terr 
earlt  age.  Infortned  by  Mr.  Douce,  J.  H,  [Joseph 
HaiJewood]."* 

In  another  copy,  a  "  Bowleinn  "  has  written  : — 
**  Let  US  for  a  moment  grant  that  the  Poems  attributed 
to  Rowky  were  the  productions  of  Chattcrtou  ;  we  know 
that  they  must  have  been  eomposed  at  the  Age  of  twelve 
or  13,  Wc  hftre  here  the  Attempt  of  a  learned*  a  well 
educated,  and  an  experienced  writer  and  no  mean  Foet^ 
to  Imitate  Lbem/^ 

Mr,  Baynes  (if  he,  indeed,  was  the  author)  does 
I  not  "'  imitnt^^*  ;  he  wTote  a  burlesque  on  them  ; 
I  bat  the  MS,  note  continues  : — 

**The  belt  Stansaof  this  Epistle  is  as  much  inferior 

rst  of  Rowley's  as  a  hop  [i]  tack  is  coarser  in 

■  ■li  than  geaoa  velvet.     The  sprightleness  of  the 

'he  keenneas  of  the  Ridicule  mnst  be  admitted  ; 

Mkd  tt  fnu^t  iilso  be  admitted  that  it  has  had  great  In- 

llneoce  in  tixin^  the  public  opinion.     It  is  not  the  art  of 

\  obtaining  Truth,  bat  Victory/'  kc. 

The  iMXik  was  noticed  in  the  Gentleman^s  Maga- 
\un<    ^'■-'    1782,  p.  129:— 

Poem  thi«,  oecaAioned  by  the  foregoing 
F  work  ,  ^^t^.i  Ju;ile5*«*  Ponns  tupptutd  to  have  heev,  Writitn 
\tU  ^ritlot  »it  tfu  Fi/ttaUh  Ctniury^  by  Thomtu  Howlty, 
f  /*nff  ff  f^c.  With  a  Commentary,  in  which  the  Antitjuity 
of  t'  ntidered  and  defended/  1782]^  and  ex- 

't  in  Howleian  language/* 

"  V  ►em  'Hhia  ki*ipoon/' 
as  a  bitter  por?onal 
tit,  feelings,  and  in- 


tended only  to  distress  and  degrade.  Assuredly 
thLs  ^ood'humonred  burles<{ue  is  not  a  lampoon. 
The  Preface  concludes  thus  : — 

*'  I  have  lately  conceived  that,  as  Dryden,  Pope,  kc., 
employed  their  pre&t  talents  in  translatini;  Yir^l, 
Homer,  kc,  that  it  would  be  a  very  commendable  em- 
ployment for  the  poets  of  the  present  age  to  treat  fome 
of  the  better  sort  of  their  predecessors,  such  as  Shalc- 
spoare  and  MiUon.  in  a  similar  manner,  by  putting  them 
into  Arcbfeolo^cal  language.  This,  however,  I  would  not 
call  iranslalion,  but  transmutation^  for  a  very  obvious 
reason.  It  is^  I  believe,  a  settled  point  among  the  criUc?, 
with  Vr.  Johnson  at  thtir  head,  thjit  the  greateAt  fault 
of  Milton  (exclusire  of  bis  political  tenets)  is,  that  he 
writ  in  blank  verse.  See  then  and  admire  how  eaiily 
thifl  might  bo  remedied  :— 

"  Paradi'u  Loti,  Bovl  I. 
*  Offb  TTianncs  fyrste  bylcrous  volundo  wolle  1  singe. 

And  offe  the  fraicte  offe  yalte  caltysnyd  tre 
Whose  lethal  taste  into  thye  worlde  dydde  brynge 
Botho  morthe  and  tene  to  all  posieritie/ 
How  very  near  also  (in  point  of  dramatic  excellence] 
would  Sbakspeare  come  to  the  author  of  J^lla,  if  aome 
of   hii  best  pieces  wore   thus    transmuted  !      Af,   for 
instance,  the  soliloquy  of  Hamlet,  *  To  he,  or  noi  toht*  i — 
*  To  blynne  or  not  to  blynne  the  deuwere  is ; 
Qif  It  be  bette  wythin  the  spryte  to  beare 
The  bawsyn  fioes  and  tackeli  of  dystreue 
And  by  forloynyng  amenuse  them  clere/ 
But  I  throw  these  trilles  out.  only  to  vrhet  the  appetite 
of  the  reader  for  what  he  is  to  feast  on  in  the  subsequent 
pagefl.  Vale  ei/fwirt* 

"  Mile-Ead,  March  15th,  1782/* 

The  poem  commences — 

"  EpiiklU  to  Z^tmtre  MifUa, 
I. 
As  wh&nuo  a  gronser*  tvith  ardurous^'  glowe, 

Han'  from  tho  meei''  lichc*  iweltrie*  sun  ariit,* 
The  lorflyjige''  toade  awhaped'  creepethe  slowe, 

To  liilte''  his  groted'  weam"*  in  mokie**  kistei*; 
Owlettes  yblentci'  aljche  dooe  tLizio'^  awaie, 
In  irye-wympled*^  shade  to  glomb*  in  depe  dismaie. 

11. 
So  dygne*^  Doane  Myllo«,  whanne  as  thie  wytte'^  lo  rare 

Han  Rowley's  ameniised'  fame  cherysed,'' 
His  faemenne*'  alle  fork t te *' ib eyre  groffish  gare'^ 

VVbychc  in  tbeyre  houton  sprytes^ theie  handevysed, 
Whanne  thee  theie  ken'  wythe  poyntel'^  in  thie  honde, 
Enroued'  lyche  anlace"'  fell,  or  fychc  a  burly-bronde"/' 

After  describing  Warton— 

'*  Thomas  of  Ojtenford,  whose  teeming  brayne 
Three  bawsin*  rolles  of  olde  rhyma  historio 
Ymaken  banne  wythe  micklo  tene^'  and  payne/* 
— he  comes  to  Percy,  another  "  Anti*Rowleian  ": — 


"  StanxaL— *  A  meteor.  ^  Burning.  "^  Hath.   *  Meadows 

•  Like.  '  Sultry.  *  A  rose^  *•  Standing  on  his  hind  legs, 
rather  heavy,  sluggisb.  '  Astonished,  or  terrified. 
■^  Hide.  '  Swelled.  •"  Womb,  or  body-  "  Black.  *  Coffin. 
!•  Blinded,    or   dazzled.     '*  Fly   away,      '  Ivy-mantled. 

•  Frown.*' 

**  Stanza  II-— '  Worthy,  or  glorious.  ^  Wisdom,  know- 
ledge. '-  Dimiiiiahed,  lessened,  or,  metaphorically  here, 
injured.  ''  Restored*  or  redeeujed,  *  Lnemies.  ''  Give 
up,  or  rermquisli.  *  Rude,  or  uncivil  came.  **  Haughty 
souls.  '  See.  *"  Peru  ^  Brandished.  "*  Sword,  "  Furious 
fiilchion/* 

"  •  Big,  or  bulky.    *'  Labour,  or  sorrow." 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEl 


t8*S.  n,SCTT.26»74 


Deane  Percy,  alL»eTtW  ihou  be«  a  Detiiit, 

0  wUatt«  arte  tli'ou  whAnne  plicered'  with  dygne  Deone 
Mjlle  i 
Jieto  botte  »  groffyle"  Acol ytbe'  I  wecne  ; 

Inne  autityiknte  barganette'  lyes  alle  tUie  akylle. 
Beane  Percj,  8ftbftlu»*  will  haiiuti  thy  aougble, 
Q'lSfno  thou  do«8t  Maate''gretc  Eowley'i  yellows  rolle." 

There  are  in  all  twenty-one  sianam.  I  am  not 
surprised  a  second  edition  of  the  little  book  was 
called  for,        Spakks  Henderson  Willlims* 

EemiEigton  Creacenti  W. 

The  Rev.  Jeremiah  MiUes  was  a  Cornishtijan. 
This  being  kuown^  all  we  Live  to  do  is  to  refer  to 
a  book  which  I  have  not  yet  found  wanting  in 
information  on  the  minutest  points,  namely,  Boase 
and  Courtney's  Catahffu^  of  t}t4i  Writings^  hoth 
Mt>.  fimi  PHnkd^  of  Camimm^n,  Under  MUle^ 
in  the  BthHotkcca  Coi-iinhicnsu,  p,  356^  the 
AfthcBological  Epistk  inquired  for  by  Mr,  Hem- 
itliro  is  attributed,  not  without  some  doubt,  to 
John  Barnes.  If  the  BihUoffuca  is  not  in  the 
*'  ]VIu«.  Lib.,  Warrinj^fton/'  it  will  be  found  a  mo^st 
invaluable  addition,  or,  indeed,  to  any  library*  It 
in  the  most  trustworthy  and  thoroughly  biblio- 
graphical work  yet  published.    OLrnAR  Hamst. 


Bibliography  of  UxoriAS  (4**»  S.  xi.  51D; 
xii.  pamm;  5*^  S.  i.  78,  237.)— To  the  lists  of 
works  of  this  character  wiiicb  have  been  furnished 
by  myself  and  other  con tribu tors,  I  have  now  a 
few  more  to  add.     They  are  :— 

"  Geranla :  a  Ncrw  DIjcoTerv  of  a  Little  Sort  of 
People,  ancientlf  diacoursed  ot,  called  PyguiicB.  By 
JuEfbua  Banies,  B.D,     12uio.     Loud  on,  litij^/' 

*'  A  Supplement  to  Lord  Anson's  Voyage  Round  tbe 
World,  containing  a  Discovery  and  DeBcription  of  th«? 
laland  of  Frivola,  By  the  Abbij  Coy  or.  To  which  is 
prefixed  an  Introductory  Preface  by  the  Traualator. 
hrft,    London,  1762/' 

["A  Batirical    romance   on   the    French   nation/' — 

**  Anticipation ;  er,  tbe  Voyage  of  an  American  to 
£n^a«d  in  the  year  IW9,  in  r>  ^-  ,f  Letters. 
Hmmorooiljr  dueHbing  the  Suppi  m  of  this 

Kingdom  at  that  Period.     London,  t  r  W.  Lane, 

Leadcnball  Street,  17S1." 

'*  Some  Account  of  tbe  Great  Astronomical  Discoveriea 
lately  mnde  by  Sir  John  Ucrscbel  »t  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope.    r2mo.     Second  Edition,     London^  1S3G.'' 

This  last  clever  brocJiurc  was  first  published  in 
the  United  Stdtes^  and  being  couched  in  the 
sober,  technical  phraaeologj'  of  a  scienttfic  treatise, 
with  much  detail  of  the  method  of  research 
employed,  the  American  press  in  genend  took  it 
nii  fstrieuj;^  and  congratulated  the  world  upon  the 
importance  of  the  discoveries  therein  brought  to 
light.  It  in  principally  deviated  to  a  close  de.scrip- 
tion  of  the  lnn»r  surface,  including  itn  animal  and 


"Stanxa  V,—  '  Match^,  or  compared.  *OroTelling, 
or  moan.  ^  Candidate  for  Deacon's  Ord«n.  ^  Ballads* 
•  The  Devil,    *  Derogate  frem^  or  Ie«en.*' 


vegetable  life  and  its  human  nice,  the  Taffptfrlil^ 
homo. 

"A  Tract  of  Futnre  Times;  or,  the  Redectioni  of 
PoiJterity  on  the  Excitement,  Hypr>cri<r¥,  atid  Idolatry  «( 
the  Kinoteenth  Century.    By  Rabort  tiareiideci* 
don. 185L" 

Tlie  writer,  in  his  lifth  chapter,  giveH  a  ?iew 
ne^^tive  rather  than  positive— nif  tlie  moml  per* 
feetion  at  which  our  country  has  arrived   at 
time  when  the  work  is  supposed  to  be  written* 
which  he  places,  with  too  great  hoj       '  only 

two  cenluriea  later  than  the  date  i  i tie- 

page. 

**The  Air  Battle:  a  Vision  of  the  Fatnre.  Bj  Scr 
mann  Lang.    London,  185i>." 

*' Annals  of  tbe  Twenty -nintb  Century;  or^  the  Auto* 
biography  of  the  Tenth  Pr<aidcnt  of  tbe'World  EepaUk^ 
3  vols.     London,  1874,*' 

James  T,  Prsslxt, 

Cheltenham  Libvary. 

Walker's  "Pronouncing  Dict^. 
S.  ii,  146.)— S.  T.  R  i«,  I  think,  r 
his  sweeping  censure  of  the  great  <  i 
the  three  words  cite^l,  it  appears  to  me  only  the 
word  rauin  is  a  blunder.  Walker  seems  to  haw 
luisunderatood  the  pun  in  Shakspeare.  KaUlAff 
declares  that  "  if  reasons  were  a^  plenty  as  black- 
berries, I  would  giv*^  no  man  a  re:\*on  on  com- 
pulsion." This  pun,  '\\*alker  sa^-a,  **  evidently  Bbftw* 
these  words  {rakin  and  reason)  Were  j>r  ' 

exactly  alike  in  Shakf?pearo*s  time."     I  ■ 
that  a  pun  is  necesstirily  meant  in  tnl 
there  may  be  reasoTHf,  u8  one  mi»;.    i  i   I  , 

'*  plenty  as  blackberries."  Bnt  '  - 
it  is  probable  there  was  h  vuIl 
the  word  reason,  as  my^on,  in  ^ 
indeed  still  obtains  among  tli 
Ireland  and  in  some  [wirts  o! 
thought  rainn  was  pronounce! I 
word  rca*oa,  and  in  this  he  has  i^ 

Believers  ia  this  great  master  ot  orlhwpy  ^wf 
1  am  one)  will  fineely  admit  tlmt  he  wa«  wrong 
go  fio  much  out  of  the  way  for  ,tn  authority. 

With  re^^ani  to  the  second  word  cited  by  S.  T*  t* 
I  do  not  know  that  Walker  is  far  wrong* 
S,  T,  P.  would  carefully  read  the  note  appnd( 
to  the  word  raUur^  he  will  find  tht 
given,  according  to  analogy,  as  ra  t 
fat  (we  now  pronounce  the  a  in  rathn  ;< 
far),  the  word  being,  according  to  I>r.  J< 
the  commralive  of  ratJi^  a  Saxon  word,  si| 
soon.     The  pronunciation  of  this  word  i\& 
he  distinctly  says  is  merely  coll  ^m si i: J    ^'  ;»> 
Udk  when  we  wiah  to  expn 
same  mAnner,  when  rafA/;f  «igi 
we  lenjrthen  the  first  vowel,  and  pronounce  it 
and  Blender,  as  if  written  raytker/^     S.  T.  P. 
have  fre<piently  heard  both  Udlt  and 
familiar  conversjition  :  it  is  eometimea 
fiiUy  even  by  highly-educAted  peo^ 


m    ceneml    stickler    for    correct    pronunciation, 
nd  of  prontmciation  W^^lker  jiiBtly  calk 

Vt  the    third  word  with  which   S.  T.  1\  finds 

hxkiu  tuither,  which  Walker  srivcs  a»  if  written 

"    '  '      '  '    lhj\t  it  is  still  a 

unced  lutther  or 

;i!ji/n  I  ,  Hit    laLkti  13  ;i  i.uiii|i.u;i i j velj  jii*xiern  pTx>- 

nUQciation. 

S   T   T' 


.L,n 


Kfl.,^^    discover  other  words  io 
I  their  orthoi'py  since 
_    ._     .  riiiMt  }.o  fi^w  find  in- 

Even  the  <  1  words 

dsAiiged  within   ti  ir.;   for 

exASaplet  all  words  endings  m  -ic^  as  ran^^  puhlir^ 
9BC,f  ^^  ^*'^1^  iTi  Walker  (my  copy  is  dated  1838) 
fwt^  V  >.     Walker  s  Principles  of  Eag- 

iisli  a  are  not  yet  obsfilete  ;  on  the 

contrarv,  the  orthoepy  of  all  modern  dictionaries 
IB  baeea  on  these  Principle^^,  and  in  cases  where 
modem  dictionaries  dili'er  from  Walker,  it  will  be 
fotmd,  for  the  most  part,  that  Walker  \»  right,  and 
iiuA  the  ixmoTationa  have  been  introduoed  oy  some 
iPOiUii-be  orthoepist,  probably  to  give  hk  com- 
|iilAtioii  an  appemauioe  of  originality. 

W.  A.  C. 


A  6iuun>DAUoHTBR  OP  Edward  III,  (5""  S.  ii. 
188.^1  am  not  awwre  of  any  reai4on  to  doubt  the 
of  Mrs.  Everett  Green  (usually  a  very 
writer)  that  Marie  de  Barro  waa  the 
^  dttOgliter  of  Isabel  of  Enghitid.  Anderson  & 
JSofoZ  Ommlop€8  gives  her  name  as  Marie.  I  do 
BOi  find,  by  the  index  to  the  Liwt  of  th^  Q^em$, 
tfaal  Ml«;.<i  Stricklnnd  <^et¥  her  down  as  Bftrbam, 
ONmie^  -  she  says  so  elsewhere, 

Mki  &L  .  a  most  unsafe  guide 

flKL  IfneMogiCHi  matters.  .She  is  mistaken  in  sup- 
pMnw  tlwt  Marie  was  the  Lady  de  Coucy  who 
mm  Mistress  of  the  Hou^^ehold  to  Queen  Isabelle 
of  Fttnce,  widow^  of  Richiird  IL  ;  and  Mrs.  Green 
[i  jiIbo  in  error  in  supposing  that  this  lady  was 
Iftne'ii  sister,  Phillppa,  Duchess  of  Ireland.  The 
oonleciponiry  State  Fupers  several  tim&s  call  her 
Mttttlv^  i£ua  identifying  her  with  the  wife  of 
Wlluuti*  nephew  and  heir  male  of  Ingelram  de 
Obqct,  Earl  of  Bedibrdf  and  hofiband  of  Princess 
IflU^eL  I  do  not  i^et/  why  it  should  be  suptwsed 
UtflA  eilher  Marie  or  Philippa  wa;*  Laily  de  Coucy 
la  lier  own  rit^bt,  nti'?  I  very  much  doubt  any  «uch 
r^d^t  on  the  her.     The  fact  that  hi^  wife 

ft  called  "  31  /  ><ym%7ia  dt  Coney  "  geenii*  to 

imilaLte  that  w  ilLaiti  inherited  the  title.  Of 
^bftl  family  Margaret  waa,  I  am  ii^Mionmt ;  can 
jmtXConmuotuA^u'  '      '  Edward  III. 

fM  06t  13«.  4«/.  II  for  ncwa  of 

llari«d#Cor— '  No  name 

kinrai,  but  i  were  mur- 

nu  an  Jtil>.   ^^>  ,   ^  >m  in  1360 

'L4Ni]tf  M  Mane^  mihur  entry 


concerning  Philippa  ;  but  the  marriage  of  Robert 
de  Vere  was  granted  to  her  parents  for  her  beneftt, 
OctobtT  IG,  1371*     She  died  in  September,  14IL 

HlCRlfZKTBUDlE. 

Ingelram  de  Coucj*  married  Isabel  Plantagenet, 
dftughter  of  Edward  III.,  and  bec^une  Eurl  of  Betl- 
fnrd  1366.  He  v  '  i  —  nor  at  the  battle  of 
N  icopt)lis ;  died ;  !  ia,  1 8th  Febnmry, 

13Q0-7,  and  the  Li.r  .,.  ..^.^  .  vUnct. 

He  had  no  son,  but  three  dau^ht^rs,  co-hcirB. 
The  tirst  two  by  his  first  wife,  Isabel  Plantagenet ; 
the  third  by  a  secontl  wife.  By  bis  first  wife, 
Marj^  married  Henry  de  Bar ;  PhOippa  was 
Dueheas  of  Ireland  (no  issue).  By  his  second  wife, 
Isabel  mfirried  Philip  of  Bu^^undy.  See  Pierre 
Anselme,  vol  viii.,  5-^*    K  G3BHAM  Bilew^r. 

LaTuit^  Chichester. 

Field  Lore  :  Carr,  &c  (4**'  S.  xl  xiL  ;  5«»  a 
i.  piuHm;  ii.  71,  115.) — (L)  Fltuh  eeems  anothet 
form  of  Flush^  assuming  al»o  the  forms  of  Flesh, 
Floss,  Flosh,  or  Floscbe.  In  Dairy  (Ayrshire)  h 
a  farm  name,  locally  pronounced  Flesh- wood^  and 
ako  Floih'ivood;  and  in  many  farm  towns  in 
flouth-wffitem  Scotland  are  places  called  Tlu  Fla^h^ 
which  i«  descriptive  of  Witt^ring-placess  or,  at  least, 
of  Euch  as  are  wd,  or  overspread  with  water.  (2.) 
Peat  haq  is  referred  to  by  M.  and  W,  E. ;  there 
\&  abo  the  mo^-hag.  Hack  seems  another  form  of 
ha^,  and  both  ih  that  part  in  mosses  which  is 
naturaUy  or  artificially  cut,  hoUowed,  hagge<l,  or 
hacked;  naturally, by  waler  runlets  forming hollowa, 
and  artificially  by,  among  other  means,  the  cutting 
and  removal  of  peat.  Hag^  having  the  same  mean- 
ing, is  similarly  applied,  as  gill  (c.  j?,,  Moss-j^^ill^ 
Guis-land,  Oills-yartl,  &c.),  which  is  a  water-hol- 
low or  channel,  wet  in  winter,  and  dry  in  summer 
(Jam.  8,  THrt.,  t\v.  "  Hack  "  and  '*  Hngg  ")•  (3.) 
*'  Grove,*'  "  Grave.'*  A  portion  of  hind  at  Paisley 
is  called  now,  and  for  lonfj,  GTav<S'hind^  which 
jj,.,,-  :.,... ..^t  htnd  duy^  and  if  dug,  cuUivatcd;  or  if 
11  V  such  as  was  owned  or  occupied  br  the 

(;. . ...  ,  a/,  or  i2e<?t>e  (A.S.).  (4.)  Wong  (in  Htdl- 
wong)  and  I'ang.  The  miang  at  Beith  (Ayrshire), 
a  street- name,  may  have  its  origin  in  woag^  A.S., 
or  rrt?i^,  Dan,,  both  signifying  a  Jkld  or  plain^ 
this  sib©  being  naturally  a  broad  terrace,  or  pkt» 
form,  in  the  slope  of  a  st^ep  bank,  (."j.)  Ing», 
What  is  the  origin  of  the  many  Inglis-touns, 
or  Inglej-touns,  place,  or  farm-names^  in  southern 
Scotland,  and  especially  in  Galloway  from  the 
Nith,  on  the  south^  to  the  Rhins?  Towns,  or 
dwellinffs.  at  or  by  the  meadow  place  f  (G/l  Fittic 
/,,    V  '  J  V  such  as  miiifht  be  footed^  travelled 

*  I  iTu  and  dry.     Bums's  *\0Hc  hn^  ** 

(V  ...-;.M\s'as  &-  '^'-—  '*"  *^^"  ^^' *■-  on 

fl  ^,  which /<  iied 

by   v:....  .uiine  from  iL^    .;..c.,    -  ,  „.l.^  the 

furrow.  '^ 


254 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^^8.n.StK,24T4t 


On  the  bordera  of  Statfordshire  and  Derbyshire, 

^  on  the  Axe  Edge  range,  between  Leek  and  Buxton, 

(IB  a  village  ia  the  former  county  called  Fl^&h, 

'which,  according  to  Smiles's  Lira  of  iht  Engitutri^ 

gave  ita  imme  to  pedci^lnan  buwkers  who  "  squatted 

on  the  waste  lands  and  commons  in  the  d  is  trie  t^ 

and  were  notorious  for  their  wilrl  balf-lmrbarouii 

maimers  and  brutsU  paatimea.     Travelling  about 

[  firom  fair  to  fair^  and  usioc^  a  cant  or  slang  diidect^ 

they  became  generally  known   m  *Fkshmen/" 

The  names  Flaah  Gate,  Flash  Back,  Flash  Head, 

Flash  Bottom,  also  exist  near  the  rilhige.     Near 

Macclesfield,  on  the  Stock]X)Ft  Koad,  is  a  &mall 

inn  called  *'  The  Flaidi/*    Flasii^  or  PUisli^  means, 

in  Che-ahire,  a  shallow  piece  of  water. 

Geo  ROE  H,  Jesse. 

MoTUETi  Oliver  (r>^  S.  i.  289.) — A  note  to 

Qmnge^^{Chara€tcTs  of  Ranarhshk  Persons^^xmes, 

Caullield,   1820)   portrait  of   Mrs.    Creaswell    (a 

*  notorious  procuress   of  the  time  of  Charles  11.) 

I  ieems  to  sufficiently  indic^itte  the  position  of  this 

I  lady  :— 

"  Mother  Eoaji^  Mother  Bennet,  Mother  Moseley,  a.nd 
lilotlier  BeauHe,  liourislieilj  or  ratber  decayed,  un  iMf 
reign  ^  but  of  thew  mfttroni  we  hftve  no  portraits. 
Kor  bare  we  any  of  Mother  NeedbAni,  Mother  Rawlina  of 
Deptford*  Mother  DonglaM^  Mother  Eastmead,  Mother 
Pb-tpSy  and  several  other  Mother  Strumpets  who  deBerve 
to  be  remembered  oi  well  as  Mother  CresawelL 

Marcus  Clarke. 

The  Public  Libr&ry,  Melbourne. 

I  For  Mother  PhilEps,  see  a  ciiriouB  &ccoutit  in  Grose's 
Bi^iioJiar^  of  Siang,~\ 

"  Seeing  without  perceiving  "  (5"*  S.  iL  149.) 
— ^An  article  with  thia  heading  read  backwards — 
"  Perceiving  without  Seeing '* — appeared  in  Good 
Words  for  January  1,  1869,  pp.  45-53.  It  had  a 
eeoond  title  of  "  A  Romance  in  Astronomy/'  and 
ynm  written  by  the  Rev*  Charles  Pritchard. 

Wm.  Penoellt. 

Torquay. 

Wyatt  and  Wood  (5^  S.  iL  108,  ISS.)—!  gave 
(p.  im)  the  date  of  the  birth  of  Hannah  (Wood), 
wife  of  George  Wvatt^  as  the  2eth  September^ 
1703 ;  it  Bhould  be  i28th  October,  1698.  I  still 
neek  for  any  information  touching  the  family  of 
Wood.  REoiy.u.D  Stewart  Boddington. 

Tidey,  Herefordihire. 

Hemming,  Kino  of  Benmark  (5*^  S.  ii.  88.)— 
R.  H.  will  lind  this  king  spoken  of  under  the 
years  810,  811,  812,  in  Einhard's  Aitnak^,  pub- 
liahed  in  Pertz's  "Scriptores  Renim  Gennani- 
canim^'  (Hahn,  Hanover)^  and  doubtless  in  all 
other  collections  of  German  and  French  mediiis?val 
historians.  Hemming  is,  I  believe,  Frisian  as  well 
sa  Danish  ;  possibly  its  meaning  may  be  found  in 
Miss  Yonge*a  HUiory  of  Ctiristian  Names, 
'  F.  MT, 


Bishop  Richard  Davis,  D.D.  (5*^  Sv  tL  133^ 
198.)— In  Edwards^s  edition  of  Browne  WiH'  * 
Survey  of  8t,  Asaph,  1801,  vol  L,  p.  133^ 
stated  : — 

"ThiB  Bifihop  (Richard  DaTics,  S.T.P.)  wm 
Man,  and  one  of  the  TranalatoT^  of   the 
English,  nvhich  he  did  from  the  Beginning  of  Joehoa  to 
the  End  of  Samuel ;  and  some  of  St.  PftuFa  Eptsllcs 


e  wiiiyH 

im  iMsnlH 
Bible  bS^ 


Welsh." 


Spttllc»ai» 

"  Defender  or  the  Faith  *'  (5**»  S.  ii.  2<KJ.; 
In  the  Epifitle  Dedicatory  to  the  High  and  Mi^! 
Momirch  King  Charles  I.  prefixed  to  Ixaa^  B»] 
Samkdge  Arraigned  arid   dyndemntd^    Loi 
1668,  there  is  this  marginal  note  : — 

"  Tis  a  grofiB  Error  to  think  th&t  thfl  Kings  of  Ee^ 
land's  Title  of  liefender  of  the  Chtircli  ia  no  older  iwBt 
King  Henry  VOL  For  300  years  ago,  in  the  <U  Wriii 
of  K.  Rich.  II.  to  the  Sheriffs,  the  old  fityle  nc  ~ 
cle«ia,  cujus  nos  Defensor  sumus  et  ease  TolumYUu'' 

Johnson  Bailt. 

Michael  Banim  {AS^  S.  xi.  134.)— In  1S78 

asked  if  Michael  Banim  were  living,  but  no 
was  given.  Upwards  of  a  year  after  I  mm 
a  subscription  was  being  got  up  for  his 
{The  Times  of  24tb  and  25th  May,  1874).  In 
note  above  referred  to,  on  page  135,  I  gaid  I  pt^ 
sumed  Michael  was  still  living,  a?  he  would  onlf 
be  seventy-six.  Now  we  have  just  had  his  deitk 
announced  (August  3u,  1874),  aged  "eightT-<rt»" 
Will  some  one  kindly  oblige  me  with  his  real  sgtJ 
If  his  brother's  biographer  is  correct,  Michael  wis 
only  seventy-eight.  Mr.  Murray  say*?  that  ^lirbii*! 
was  bom  "  in  August,  1796  "  {Bin  '  ;  • 
Banim ^  p.  13),— in  the  city  of  Kjlk< 
I  may  also  observe  that  there  seems  lo  ue  *oni»^ 
doubt  about  the  date  of  the  death  of  John,  wm 
piitttDg  it  on  the  1st,  and  others  on  the  4th 
August,  Olphar  Hamst. 

New  Bsmet,  Usrtsi. 

Banweix  Court,  Sombrset  (Arms  at>  (B*  i 
il  88.)— Bedford,  in  The  Blazon  of  T       '      /.I 
p.  19,  gives  arg,  on  a  chev.  sa.  three 
the  first,  as  one  of  the  alternative  blazons  oi  utn ' 
arms  of  Oliver  King,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  WA 
1496-1503  (translated  from  Exeter),  on  th« 
thority  of  Iziicke's  EMitt^  and  MS.  Brit  Mw 
Add.,  12,443. 

The  discovery  of  the  stone  at  BanweU, 
these  arms  impaled  with  those  of  the  See  of  W«l 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  they,  and  not  thc4( 
which  Mr.  Bedford  puts  in  the  first  place  on  ihi 
authority  of  Cole's  ilS.  (Brit,  Mus.  Add.,  6,atf 
are  the  arms  really  borne  by  BLshop  King. 

JOHK  WooDWAsn. , 

Montrose. 

"God  Save  the  Kino"  {5**»  S.  ii,  165.)— 1 1 
surprised  with  the  story  of  the  ^^ench  origin  < 
€iod  Save  th^  Kin^  on  reading  llioanat  Botkc^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


255 


Jounml  (new  edition,  1858^  with  a  good  index). 
"n  tbe  tirat   voliiiue,  at  p.    174,  he    gives    the 
^  Cit^Qi  "  Bton\  and  quotes  the  reraea. 

OtrHAH  Hamst. 

— -nD  Cfflete  (h^  S.   ii.    149.)— Sir 
Gil  ',  or  Usflete,  the  third  husband  of 

EIL  .jwbrftY,   Duchess    of    Nortblk,  was 

d•^^,  t  ;  vaii  John  do  Ugflete  and  his  wife, 
Lor;i,  M  L  I  eLta,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Gerard 
de  Furaival,  of  Munden.  He  was  a  knight  of 
some  note  in  the  days  of  the  fifth  Henry,  and  was 
At  Agincourt  with  "  ix  lances  and  xxxiij  archers/* 
I^Mia  will,  dated  13th  Sept^jmber,  1420  (as  well  as 
'^ Withers,  also  Sir  Gerard,  5tb  Septeraber,  1405), 
be  found  in  the  firat  volume  of  Ti^tainenUi 
xcnaiaj  published  by  the  Surtees  Society. 
The  last  Sir  Genird  (the  husband  of  the 
Dudies?)  lefl  no  issue,  and  the  estates  of  the 
family,  situate  at  Usefiete  (now  Ouscfleet),  Swun- 
ii  nt'ftr  Hull,  and  elsewhere,  came  to  his  four 
I  and  co-heiresses,  wlio  ujnrried  respectively 
tlie  familiea  of  Beauchamp  of  PaTv-ykei 
jrltou  of  Wigbill,  Bozun  of  BaiTowby,  and 
I*  nil'.-  nf  Haldenby.  The  Uslletes  bore  for 
•n  a  fe«se  azure,  3  fleur  de  lis  or. 
.  of  the  name  may  be  found  in  the 
WHiai  sources  of  genealogical  information,  but  a 
Inistworthy  pedigree  seems  still  to  be  a  desider- 
\  mtHBL  There  is  an  account  »f  the  faniDy  by 
i  Hopkini»on,  in  HarL  MS,,  4630,  but,  like  most  of 
I  Ilk  descents,  it  probably  needs  revision.      Clk. 

JklADAiiE  Roland  (5"»  S.  iL  168.)— The  "Me- 
\  moirs"  referred  to  by  Uxeda  are  siiid  to  have  been 
written  by  Mndauie  Roland  during:  her  imprison- 
ment (Muy-Xovember,  1703).  The  inost  com- 
plet'^  * -Tir  .  n  j^  that  forming  part  of  the  memoirs 
rel*  French  E evolution,  under  the  title 

r  s   de    Madame    Roland,   avec    une 

Viev*  with  noies^  1820  (vide  Populor 
";,  F.  A.  Edwards. 

I     1)»   CtBEE  A5D  Dk  BbAOSE  FAMILIES  (5*^*    S. 

ii.  1Gh,)>^D.  C  E.  mtxy  find   some  information 
[•peijpecting  the   Clci"e   family  in   Dugdale's  Moti- 
aMuojK  iv.  275,  and  Hot.  de  Finibii«,  15  JoL, 
|Ju  478.  F,  L, 

^KzifZLM  CniLLixGLT"  (5»^  B.  ii.  ICD.)— The 
nn*^r  of  the  eong,  My  Qvcm,  referred  to  by  Lord 
Pi  till*  novel,  was  composed  by  the  hite 
n(*i.^  Popham,  of  Littlectjte,  Wilts.     I  am 
'  it  Mrs.  F.  Popham's  setting  of  Mij 
r  been  pMUhed^  though  it  has  been 
ted  in  MSS.     If  it  hus  been  pub- 
r  be  very  recently.     The  same  words 
i    v'>    music   by   B  lumen  thai    after    Mrs, 
%m*9  death,  but  her  setting  has  nlways  re- 
the    mo^t    popuhir   version.      The   lady 
to  by  Lord  Lytton  m  **  the  one  lady  who 


alone  can  sing  it.  with  expression  worthy  the  verse 
of  the  poetess  imd  the  music  of  the  composition  " 
is  the  late  Mrs.  F.  Ponham's  sister,  Lady  Sher- 
borne. The  words  of  the  song  were  not  written 
by  Mrs.  F.  Popham,  though  they  are  by  a  hwly. 

LiifDis. 

"  Kendez-vous  "  (5">  S.  ii.  169,)— I  do  not  find 
an  instance  of  this  word  older  than  HaHu)t 
{VoyagUf  ii.  285). 

Charlbs  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

This  word  was  used  also  by  Clarendon  and 
Burnet ;  and  antecedently,  in  the  following  from 
Raleigh^s  Apology : — 

'*  A  commander  of  many  ahipfl  should  rathor  keep  liii 
fleet  together  than  hftTc  it  severed  far  asutider  ;  for  the 
attendartce  of  meeting  them  again  utthc  next  rtndavoHi 
would  consume  time  and  victual/' 

— Also  Bacou  : — 

"The  philcaopher'a  s^tone  and  a  holy  vrar  are  but 
renderj-oiu  nf  cracked  brains,  that  wear  their  feather  in 
their  head  instead  of  their  hat  " 

William  Blood. 

Liverpool. 

"  Tooth  and  Eoo  "  (5^  S.  ii.  169.)-'Thi8  i^  a 
corruption  of  TuUtiague^  or  more  properly  Tuttnafff 
which  is  sm  alloy  of  copper,  zinc,  and  nickel.  It 
was  ori^nally  introduced  from  China,  where  it  is 
used  in  the  manuiiicture  of  gongs,  giving  to  them 
their  peculiar  sonorous  properties.  As  it  takes  a 
fine  polish,  and  does  not  readily  tarnish,  it  was 
adopts  as  an  imitation  of  silver,  and  is  really 
what  is  called  German  silver  under  another  name. 

The  term  TutJiie^  or  Ttdie  (whence  derived  I 
know  not),  was  long  ago  employed  both  in  Ft^ince 
and  England  as  a  name  for  the  droes  adhering  to 
the  walls  of  furnaces  where  zinc  is  contained  in 
the  ore  smelted.  It  was  used  in  the  olden  time  in 
njedicine.  Cotgrave,  a.d.  16,10  {nth  roce*^Tuthie^'), 
describes  it  as  **a  mcilicinisytle  stone  or  dust  said 
to  be  the  heavier  foyle  of  Brasse,  cleaving  to  the 
upjjer  sides  and  tops  of  Brasse  melting  houBca," 

J.  A.  PicroN, 

SnndyktiOTrc,  Wavertree. 

This  is  doubtless  a  corruption  of  TuUnag^  the 
name  of  a  well-known  Chinese  alloy,  sometime* 
called  "  Chinese  silver."  Tutcnag  is  an  alloy  of 
nickel,  very  simikr  in  composition  to  the  white 
metal  known  as  German  silver. 

P.  Le  IS^EVE  Foster. 

See  *'  N.  &  Q.,"  2"^  S.  vii.  476,  510  ;  viii.  38, 
78 ;  X.  144,  214.  W.  G.  Stone. 

**  Takiso  a  Sioht  **  (5*»»  S.  it  166.)— In  one  of 
the  Latin  dramatists— either  Terence  or  Pliiutus — 
occurs  a  phr.tse  .somewhat  to  this  ett'ect : — "  He  m 
a  low  fellow,  and  put5  his  tinger  to  his  nose.'*  I 
am  quoting  from  memor\%  and,  therefore,  cajmot 
recall  the  original,  nor  be  cettaitL  «a  Xjo  \ks[  ^wci^«^* 


itig  of  the  pai^ftge.  Some  years  ago,  in  a  lecture 
which  I  delivere<i  at  the  request  of  some  reverend 
friends,  I  alJudeil  to  the  |>assage,  and  considensd  it 
to  b^  liD  old  allusion  to  **  taking  ft  sight/'  By  nay 
subsequent  travelling  in  Ituly,  I  have,  however, 
been  induced  to  think  that  the  dramatist  may 
refer  to  a  custom,  prevalent  in  It^ily  at  the  present 
day.  I  allude  to  the  placing  a  forefinger  to  the 
right  side  of  the  nose  when  enforcing  an  m'ffttment 
The  only  thing  against  the  idea  is  the  "  low  fellow," 
for  the  modern  custom  is  n?od  by  grave  divines  in 
the  pulpit,  by  advocates  at  the  bar*  by  judges  on 
tLe  benchf  and  by  senators,  as  well  as  by  the  pro- 
fanum  imlgus,  Jakics  HESfBY  Dixon. 

BoMAN  Conr  (6*  S.  iL  168,)— The  projecting 
^chin  is  Teiy  characterifitio  of  the  portrait  of 
iHaximinua  1.  a,d,  236-238.  I  suggest  that  the 
obverse  inscription  reiwls  thus :  maximisus  ;  rius : 
AUG  :  GERM.  The  woman  holding  something  like 
a  "  huge  family  umbrella  "  may  possibly  be  Peace 
holding  an  olive  branch,  with  the  reverse  legend, 
FAX  :  AUousTi  :  s,  a  W.  G.  Stone. 

The  deacription  by  J.  G.  is  not  very  intelligible, 
but  1  think  it  may  be  a  coin  of  Maximinns,  a.d. 
235-238.  If  I  am  correct,  the  legenil  would  be 
MAXiMixvs  pivs  Avo  GERM.  His  portrait  has  a 
very  prominent  thin ;  reverse,  Victory,  with  a 
shield  and  spear  ;  legend,  pax  avgvsti.  I  have 
one  in  my  caoinet  as  above,  and  another  inspection 
of  the  coin  may  enable  J-  G.  to  see  if  the  proposed 
reading  will  HO  up  the  vacant  spiices,  and  tally 
with  what  remains  legible  on  it, 

SAlfUEL  SuAW, 

Andover. 

Mr.  Jbffersoh  Davis  (5**  S.  ii  16O0 — I  have 
Lpo  recoUection  of  having  heard  the  ex-Pre«»ident 
Mate  tkii  he  was  of  WeGh  extraction  :  but  he  has 
prften,  in  my  presence,  referred  incidentally  to  it. 
VOn  one  occaision,  during  \m  recent  visit  to  Eng- 
land,  in   describing   some   operations    in  a  slate 
liuariy  in  Wales,  he  cxprcflsed  astonishment  at  the 
large  number  of  workmen,  whom  he  likened  to 
awarms  of  flies,  saying,  he  never  thought  ho  **  had 
80    many  coiiflins,"    Should    your  correspondent 
desire  a  more  direct  answer,  I  will  write  for  it  to 
the  fountain  head.  M.  D. 

Ay  Old  Clatmoiie  (5»^  S.  ii  169,)— I  am 
afrftid  the  particulars  which  Scot  gives  of  the 
claymore  are  scarcely  sufficient  for  fixing  the  date 
when  it  was  made.  "  Sohlingenj*'  or  **  Solingen," 
is  the  well-known  town  in  llhenish  Prussia  famed 
for  its  cutlery,  rapiers,  swords,  ifcc,  "J,  J, 
I  Bunker*  might  be  the  maker*3  name,  although  I 
►  doubt  whether  there  is  such  a  name  in  {i?olingen, 
and  Sis^st  the  renowned  firm  of  '*  J,  A.  Henckeb," 
which  being,  perhaps,  obliteiuted  on  the  claymor*, 
reads  as  "  J,  J,  Runkel"  Hermit. 


**TrRKEN"  (5*1*  S,  iL   185,)~-It  would  U 
teresting  if  S,  T.  P.  would  favour  us  with  a  lat  i 
^^  all   the   dictionaries  to   which   he   haa  meetm 
Turun  is  to  be  found    in    the     '  nm 

Worcester,  Webster,   Richardson,  hm^i 

and,  in  Jodrell's 


tionary,  1820,  the  v 
**  A  hollow  ve^isel  fui 
ing  quotation  : — 
''  At  the  top  a  fricfl  ^ 
At  the  bottom  Vi.i- 
Qoldsmith,  J 


LIU  the 


„.i  K,....^  ^^^  ieoig 
Mng  tuweo.** 

Po-ms,  p.  2!»,edlrt7. 
It  is  worth  noting  that  this  illustratioii  has  I 
copied  by  subsequent  lexicographers.    Rt/fenoomt 
or  examples  of  the  nse  of  the  word,  wtmld  he 
interesting,  P.  H. 

Dr.    OgUvie's    Imptrial  Dietioncuv   docji    nrp 
"  Tureen  (Fr.  fijrriTW!),"  W«Migwood  give 
Tureen.     Fr.  krrintJ"    Thus,  when  wr 
silver  soup-tureen,**  it  is  a  direct  c^  is^ 

J    ■     ...    ..  .:  r.Ifc 

"MoRu^i  E?rcx)MnrM*'  (^^  B.  iL  ISO-j—TO 
can  mean  none  other,  I  should  imagine,  th.in  Jcb 
Buns  Scotu^s  called  the  **  Subtle  Doctor.'*    Ftilk 
(Cliurch    History)   says — **  fc^ome   ^»'lf    ^•"-'^   »'f'^^ 
called  Scotus,  ob  profundUHinmtn 
takmt  from  his  profound  obscun 
Tliis  "  obacnrity  "  the  Latins  often  c\ 
the  word   qnnosug  =^  thorny ^  priclhi^ 
clearness  and  perspicuity.     Thus  < 
iiL  1,  3) — ^"  Nostracpe,  ut  miht  \ 
oratio.    Stoicomm  autem  non 
liU^  vel  tpinosum  potiiis,  dis> 
I  take  it,  Is  a  fair  answer  to  the  t^utr^  — "  WiiJ 
bristly  and  prickly  soull "    EDacTJND  Tkw,  M.A 

The  quotation  is  a  very  firee  translation.  Th» 
original  runs  thus : — 

**  Fortaase  magii  convenict  op  tare,  ut  mteriai,  to 
thenlogum  agOj  f>er(|tie  has  spinM  iogredior^  Seotl  toiaa 
liAuHeper  ex  iua  Sorbona  in  meum  pectiu  dnoi^^ 
qaovis  hintrice  Atque  eriniuseo  ffpiaoitor,  moicoiio  nsK* 
gret  quo  labebit,  vel  i^  KopaKaQ^'^'^Bratmi  nntm^ 
Moria,  it  3S4  (Tauchnitz). 

The  allusion  is  evidently  to  the  *-»"^"^  "/^^wj- 
man  and  thcologlnn.  Johannes  *S 
native  of  Ireland,  who  lived  at  the  ^  i.ji' 

the  BiUd  in  the  middle  of  the  nin(  Ui 

took  an  eager  part  in  all  the  t!  ^.  i  cdb* 
troversies  of  the  at;e,  arguing  on  the  muoooDtftic 
side.  Tlie  hrisihj  soul  refers  to  the  polemical  m^ 
ofScotup.  A.  L,  IbtATKIW. 

Oxford; 

Oliver  CRoinvELL  anc  the  CAraKDaAua  {^ 

S.  viii,  1<'^'  '  .,>^irr?,)— I  wa«  i'>^iv  «^^UUig  tlii 
bran-nesv  ipe,  the  cl  -o  ofSaKi' 

bury  Oaii:^   -.1 ,  .:id  on  my  cui  .^  ;. ..  i.  Jdiying^ 
it  was  too  gaudy,  the  verger  replied,  **  that  It 


a 


9»aiI.8w«.S6,7«.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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fxaetly  liJse  the  origmaU  as  they  had  found  a  copy 
c»f  what  it  was  before  it  had  been ,  defltroyed  by 
C^mwell  s  commissioners, ''^*'  Thoinaa  Cromwell," 
*^  **  I*  ^  the  time  of  Ht^nry  VIIL,  more  thmi  a 
*  Ypars  before  Oliver  CromwelL"— *'  Well, 
«r."  d  the  verger,  **  1  hiw©  ftlwayji  under- 

ft<»  Oliver  Cromwell,**  and  some  of  the 

by-  t?ined  to  confinn  his  view. — "Make 

in'i  vour  canons/*  I  added. — **Well  we 

0  ciueatiou  now,"  said  the  i^m* 
nl  he  went  on  describing  the 
Slbj^rrh  m  me  jnc:wie.  Thus  is  verj^er'5  history 
eoiitiBue<l.  On  th»*  previous  Sunday  I  had  heard 
oni»  of  the  canons  prej^ch  a^nst  "  scientific  tmth/* 
80  well  as  I  could  mnke  out  from  his  indistinct 
Utlemace.  I  hop©  historical  truth  is  not  equally 
OOlldAiimed  in  the  precincts.  Clarrt. 

BtmnHA  (5***  S.  ii.  165,  215.)  — Would  Mr. 
AsHTox  W.  DiLKTc  kindiyadd  to  the  infonjiation 
aheady  obligingly  communicated  to  the  readers  of 
**  N,  $c  Q."  such  farther  partictdars  as  he  may  be 
mble  to  obtai  'rig  the  parentage^  life^  and 

death  of  the  upfioMa  to  he  identitiuble 

witli  the  Saxuii  jh. uk,  .Salcya  Mtmi^  styled  Buddha, 
the  awakened,  a  highly  important  historical  cha- 
facUr,  regarding  whose  date  nothing  at  all  poftltive 
caji  at  present  be  said,  owing,  peraaps,  to  uncer- 
t^intv  tirL,inL^  out  of  the  same  title  being  applicable 
I  lo  1  Hirsonl 

^^''  I  ti  Buddha  connected  in  any  way 

I  villi  the  town  Buda,  called  OBen  or  Oven,  in 
iHltngarT,  the  rojral  cuatle  of  whii?h,  according  to 
[  j*   ^  A^Hiiic  Cliiefx,  vol.  i.  p.   189,  was 

rbtiil  IV.,  JLD.  1225-70?  E. 

ExGLtSH  Surnames  (S***  S.  i.  262,  330,  352, 
301,470  ;  ii.  157.)— I  take  it  we  have  at  least  100 
fkamei  prefixed  by  the  Welsh  ap,  ab.  Among 
otli«ra  are  Abethdl,  Bethell,  Apted,  Apjohn  (by 
oofniption  Upjohn  and  Applcjohn),  Bew,  Pew, 
Pne,  Bevan,  Beavan*  Bilfin,  Bowen,  Benyon, 
Bmyon,  Parry,  Penry,  PoweU,  Pro^'^'rt,  Probyn, 
Prodger,  Pomphrey,  Pumphrey.  The  French 
pflme  Hulivr  (which  is  not  \incommon  in  France) 
h  without  lionht  corrupted  from  Hubert,  from 
k^O0  and  br^eht.  Wachter  renders  h(h€,  hufe  (Med. 
I^  h^ba^  huha^  hou^iti^  hioha^  hohixnria^  (*ba\ 
runticUB  (also  modus  vel  mensuriv  agrij : 
knhtfT^  eolonu3,  posseMor  hul*a^  and  the 
ne  lltibner.  R»  S.  Chaknock. 

Qiay'i  Ian. 

T  OF  THKiR  Times  **  (5***  S.  i.  40S  ; 

I  have  before  me  the  work  cited 

iudon,  Ui4o),find  TAf  Marrow  of  EccUsi- 

!wtory,  by  8am ur  I  Clark,  third^  edition, 

Both   books  aro  adorned   with 

**  of  the  worthies  whoac  lives  are 

note  to  the  Address  to  the  Header  in 


the  lirat-mentioned  work  says : — *'  Most  of  their 
Effigies  were  obtained,  as  they  are  placed  before 
their  Works :  some  out  of  divers  Books  of  holy 
Orders,  where  they  be  figured  for  Saints,  othere 
out  of  several  Libraries  and  phices  of  Antjquitie." 

All  these  portmita  are  copietl  without  acknow- 
ledgment in  Ckrk*8  book,  with  the  exception  of 
those  of  S.  Bionysius  Aneopagita,  S.  Clemens 
Alexandrinua,  S.  Amobina,  lACtontiua,  Eusebius, 
S.  Hilarie  Pictavius,  S.  Ephrem  Synis,  8.  Epi- 
phanius,  S.  Gregorius  Nyssenus,  S.  Theodoretus, 
S.  Cjrril,  S.  Petrus  Chrisologiis,  S.  Fulgentius, 
S.  Isidorus,  S.  Damaren.  Theopljylact»  Nyce- 
phorus,  Anselme,  Peter  Lombard,  of  whom  noticea 
are  given,  but  no  effigies,  Gi-egory  Thaumtvturgus 
and  Rupertus  are  honoured  by  Clark  with  neither 
portrait  nor  life. 

The  nimbus  Ls  omitted  throughout  in  the  Mar^ 
ron\  &c.,  and  everj^  trace  of  monastic  or  eccleat- 
a^ttcal  costume  csrefidly  eradicated.  Compare,  for 
example,  in  the  two  bookj*  the  portraits  of 
8.  Athsinaaius,  S.  Chrysostou},  S.  Auibrose,  S, 
Augustine.  S.  Ambrose,  in  the  later  work,  loses 
his  beehive  ;  S.  Jerome,  hla  lion  ;  S.  Augustine, 
his  attendant  angel  ;  S.  Bernard,  the  all-seeing 
eye,  —  emblems  which  accompany  them  in  the 
earlier  book. 

Nimbus,  mitre,  eccleswstical  robes,  emblems, 
monk's  cowl,  all  are  carefidly  eliminated,  as  one 
would  natiindly  ex|>ect  them  to  be  in  a  book 
written  by  iyimuel  Clark,  and  recommended  to  the 
world  by  Eduitind  Cahimy,  Simeon  Ash,  and  John 
Wall,  ^Vhence  were  the  other  I'dtenesse^  in  the 
Marroic  obtained  \  Johnson  Bailt. 

Pallion  Vicarage. 

The  SociETT  of  Arts  Memorial  Tablets 
(5">  S.  ii.  106,  155.) — The  suggestion  to  raise  a 
fund  for  this  purpose  is  a  gooil  one,  and  I  hope 
that  the  editor  of  *'  N.  &  Q.''  will  lend  his  influence 
to  thfit  end.  I  should  be  glad  to  see  the  following 
houses;  marked  :  Dr.  Johuiou's  in  Gough  Square, 
and  William  Bkkes  in  Brood  Street,  Camaby 
Market,  or  in  Fountain  Court,  Strand.  It  would 
be  useful  to  register  in  *^  N*  &  Q."  a  complete  list 
of  all  the  houFes  at  present  bei\ring  a  memorial 
tablet.  I  only  know  of  these  :  Lord  Byron's  in 
Holies  Street,  Dr.  Fmnklin's  in  Craven  Street,  Sir 
J.  Reynolds's  in  Leicester  S<iuare,  Dryden's  in 
Gerrard  Street,  Soho,  and  Fbxnmn's  in  Bucking* 
ham  Street,  Fitzroy  Square*  J»  W.  W, 

[A  tabUt  la  a^xed  to  the  bonfte,  le,  Kine  Sfereei;* 
St.  J&mei*«,  in  which  NapoUoa  111.  one«  retideo.] 

TiTE  Grxfi  OF  THE  Garioch  (4**  S.  xii.  206, 
254,  337.) — A  report  juat  issued  by  Willuim  Don- 
nelly, E»q.,  Regiritrar-Genenil,  on  agricultural 
statistics  in  connexion  with  Ireland,  contains  a 
most  vtdnable  apneudix  on  the  "extirpation  of 
weeds,'*  which  mii^ht  be  st^di«d'm\.Vv  ft4^TiSii»^>s\ 


258 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t5*S.IL8iFT.2(J/74. 


every  one  who  may  he  in  any  way  connected 
'with  the  cultivation  of  land.  The  following  extract 
beiups  on  the  question  of  the  "  Gale  of  the  Garioch/' 
Litely  diBcussed  in  "  N,  &  Q,"  Mr.  Donnelly  is 
quoting  "  that  eminent  man  and  real  patriot,  Sir 
John  Sinclair,  tirtst  President  of  the  Board  of 
Agriculture/'     He  saysj— 

"  In  Ifenmark  there  i*  a  law  to  oblige  the  farmers  to 
root  up  the  com  marigold,  chryaintk^mum  JN^ii4fi,  But 
the  oldest  re^ktion  for  that  parpOM  was  probably  In 
Scotland  :  a  statute  of  Aleiander  II.  about  the  je&r  1220 
harine  been  direct^^d  agauiAt  that  vrtted,  which  woa  con- 
sidered to  b-o  pe<;urn»rly  pemiciotiii  to  cora-fielda.  It 
d€fumnces  that  man  to  bi  a  traiior  *  vKo  pouoHt  ike 
Kin^'i  landt  with  'weedt,  and  introduce*  into  thim  a  ho*t 
o/«iMmief/  Bondsmen  who  had  this  plftot  in  their  corn 
V€t€jintd  a  ihtepfor  each  xlalk.  Under  the  authority  of  | 
that  law,  Sir  WilUani  Grier&on,  a  Stottish  baroo,  was 
accustomed  to  hold  Qoul  courts,  for  t be  express  purpoAe 
of  fining  the  fanners  in  whose  crops  three  heads  or 
upward  of  that  weed  wore  found.' 

W.  H.  Patterson, 

Belfast 

Old  Engravings  (5**»  S.  ii.  47,  1.^5.)— I  have 
both  the  GngrayingB  described  by  Ma.  Patterson^ 
and  both  have  been  cut  pretty  c1of<?,  but  enough 
margin  is  left  on  each  to  furnish  the  pttrtioukrs 
naked  for,  viz,: — 

No.  1.  ^'  live,  lordaens  invent  :—Iacobu9  Neefs  scnlpslt : 
— A*  Bloteling  Excudit  Cum  Priuilegio/* 

and  the  following  motto — 

"Quern  mlmbarift  fiatu  modo  pellere  frtfrus 
Agricolam  Capripes,  nunc  quid  iuepto  fugia : 
Sic  opus  eet,  tiatu  iiniiii  fujjiit  ecce  calorein: 
Os  ardmusque  duplex  sunt  inimica  niibi/* 

My  copy  is  also  of  a  deep  brown  tint,  and  I 
think  from  iu  uniformity  that  it  is  the  original 
colour  of  the  paper. 

No,  2.  "L  lordaena  pinxitt—Vontermtnj  Scalp:" 
and  the  following  motto : — 

*•  Isle  fripfUfl  k  ardorem 
Flaiu  peUit,  liitic  teporetn 
Rebm  sepcr.  ingeret/* 
Scroieaper  hunc  horrescit 
Dnm  nee  calet  nee  frigefcit 
Et  quem  DeuB  doseret." 

The  paper  of  this  is  white,  slightly  creamed  with 

age.    This  has  doul^tloaa  been  in  the  collection  of 

a  connoisseur^  as  it  hws  on  the  inar^in,  in  pencil,  a 

reference  to  Bmnde,  vol  i.^  p.  338.     I  have  not 

this  work  at  hand  to  verify  the  reference,  and  if 

Mr.   Patterson   can    inform   me   whence   these 

I  mottoes  nre  quoted,  or  any  particuhir^  of  the  fable, 

'  I  should  be  glad.  Francib  M,  Jackson* 

Portland  Street,  Manchester, 

Lord  Chatham  and  Bailet-s  "Dictionart" 
(5*^  S.  i.  448,  514  ;  ii,  ir^d)— I  have  a  copy  of 
Bailey,  which  Iin><  every  appearance  of  being  of  the 
first  edition.  The  dsite  im  lT2i»  There  is  no 
intimation  on  the  title-paj^e  of  any  previous  edition. 
The  dedication  is  the  satnc  an  that  mentioned  by 


B.  B.    But  there  i«,  also,  an  advertisement,  whicll 
perhaps,  is  not  in  any  other  edition  ;  it  seems 
likely  to  come  from  a  writer  making  himself  I 
to  the  world.     It  is  on  the  last  leaf  of  the 
duction,  on  the  sjime  page  as  **  Abbreviationi| 
use  of  in  this  following  Work."   It  is  an  fo\h 
"Youth  Boarded  and  Taugbt  the  /f«&rwr,  *7n 
Latin  Languages*  in  a  Method  more  Ea«v  -  •  ' 
than  is  common;    aliio  other  Schoo!  ' 
A  u(Aor  of  this  Dktionarit^  to  be  heard  < 
Bookseller  at  the  sign  of  the  Dove  io  ratcr-HQcUr-l 
&c. 

s.  8.  a 

"Town's  Hall"  {b*^  S.  I  285,  439.)-Thq 
say  "Towu  Hali"  in  Manchester,  but  they 
and  write,  and  print  *Hhe  towns  water" 
speaMug  of  the  wuter  supplied  by  ihe  Corp 
The  sign  of  the  possessive  case  is  comrnoB, 
out  in  Lancashire,  in  the  West  Hiding,  and  i 
Peak  of  Derbyshire.     I  once  ^ranted  some  infoj 
mat  ion  from  a  Mrs.  Taylor,  who  lived  a  liti 
north  of  Buxton,  and  on  inquiring  for  hen 
I  was  answered  by  a  rustic  youth,  *^  Dun 
Jonathan  Taylor  wife  or  Sam  well  Taylor  widow  1 

Ellcbe* 

Craven* 

*'The    Nionr  Crow":    Bittern   (5^    S. 
pawim;  ii,  76.) — I  return  my  best  acknowle 
ments  for  the  kind  replies  concerning  the 
and  am  sorry  that  my  memory  does  not  ret; 
names  of  the  authors  of  the  hrst  two  quotj 
the  last  was  from   Hemy  Kirke  Wliite's 
Tim^  Gjsoroe  R,  Jii 

— "  at  eTening  o*er  ihe  Swampy  pU 
The  Bittern's  boom  came  far/' 

is  in  Thalaha,  Fifth  Book. 

In  Wales  the  bittern  is  called  aderyn  y 
(the  bir<i  of  the  hollow  cry,  or  sound),  and 
y  gors  (the  boom  of  the  marsh). 

George  M.  Trahsritk 

Naaman  the  Leper  (b^  S.  ii,  188); — 
"  By  hiui  the  Lord  had  given  ddiTeranee  unto  i 
—2  Kiaffs  V.  L 

"  And  wlieu  tbey  sought  to  kUl  Ahab  alone,  1 
not  find  him,  thore  waa  a  yotmg  nobtetnoti  belon 
King  Uenhadad«  wbo^e  name  wM  [Aman]  Ntoi 
drew  hia  bow  against  the  enemy,  and  woujtded  I 
throuf^h  hia  breastplate,  In  his  lur^gA."*— 1^ 
Joscphui,  Tiii.  c,  36,  §  5.  _  __ 

C.  R.  IkLl 

Hudson,  in  hia  edition  of  Josephtir;,  v.  .1 
(Oxonii,  E  Theatro  Sheldoniano, 
the  following  note  on  the  passti- 
(Antiq,  Bk  viii.  c.  xv,  §  6); — 

'*  Undend  nomen  *A/j«ivoc?     Apud  Kosl  t  Iniiti'^fift 
Bcribitar  fnisse  Nuamati.    An  hoc  idem  rot n 
(|Ui  JudaTcaa  trsditiones  aliquando  tnii^cct] 

Johnson'  t>An.i. 

Pallion  Vicmmge. 


•&IL8nT.a6,7«.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


259 


r.  Grove,  in  Smith's  Didi&narit  of  the  BibUy 

ir«r9  to  the  tradition  as  derived  firom  Josephus, 

remarks  that  it  is  "  a  Jewish  tradition,  at  least 

old  ua  the  time  of  Josephus^  and  \vhich  nmj 

weU  be  a  genuine  one.^     Ed.  Maebqall. 

VBeing,^  writes  Bishop  Patrick,  "the  person 
I  the  Jiw^  say  in  Midrasch  TthiUim)  who  drew 
n  l>ow  at  adventure  and  killed  Al^xb^'—iCominmit. 
jw*  2  Kin^ii  V.  L)  EjDMU^fD  Tttw,  M,A. 

StTFFOLK  Chartehs  (5*  S.  il  168.)— The  con- 

cture  of  S.  D.  G.,  respecting  the  origin  of  the 

D6   **  le  Deneys  ^^   U   in   accordance   with   the 

^marks  of  the  latest  authority  on  the  subject. 

Ir.  C\  W,  Bards  let,  in  his  careful  treatise  on 

iinmmes,  observes  : — 

•»  EntriM,  like  *  WiUmm  le  Norrii/  or  *  Walter  Ic  Nor- 

Bis/  or  '  Roger  le  Daoeis/  or  'Joel  le  Danevs/  are  of 

Dtiitant  occurreDce.     These,  added  iu  the  othera,  tzia; 

mentioned  as  bringiug  before  our  eyea  the  broadeat 

uita  of  European  immigration,  and  with  scarcely  an 

exception  thej  are  found  among  the  EngUah  Bumames 

«f  to-daj."— C>»  Enaluk  Samamtm,  tfnir  Sourca  and 

tieations.  (LoudOD,  Chatto  k  WinduA ;  ii.d. ;  Preface 

lUoT..  137a.) 

■  the  occurrence  of  Danish  names  of  places  in 
J^orfolk  and  Suffolk,  Mr.  Isaac  Tuylor^j  IVords 
md  Places  may  be  consulted,  p.  165,  Lond.,  1B65* 

Ed.  ^Larshall. 

EpioRAif  (5*J*  S,  iL  188,)— The  following  foot- 
note occurs  ftt  p.  Ifi  of  j4  Shttf'k  of  the  Hut&ry  of 
the  OxfordtJiirc  Militui^  by  John  M.  Davenport, 
Esq.  (i869)  :— 

---!  Trial  in  1831j  whiek  onsuod  upon  the 
M  JO  of  the  coimael  for  the  defence  face- 

|ti  c  following  stanza  :^ — 

'  The  fault  id  great  in  man  or  woman 
Who  itealj  a  gooae  from  off  a  common ; 
Bat  who  can  plead  that  nian'tf  excuse 
Who  ftieaU  the  common  from  tlie  goose  T 

Cotivtyti>i€tt*t  OnideJ' 
Lower  Heyford,  Uxon<  G,  J.  Dew. 

The  correct  lines  are  : — 
"  The  crime  is  small  In  man  or  woman, 
Sahould  they  a  goose  steal  from  a  common  ; 
But  what  can  plead  that  man's  excuse 
Who  steals  a  common  from  a  goose  7  '* 
-and  form  the  reply  of  " Hodge*'  (the  commoner} 
**  the  Justice  who  inclo«'d   the  waste  '*  from 
irhich  Hodge  **  stole  a  goose  hy  famine  led  "  ;  see 

*  The  Cottnger  *'  fanon.)  in  the  Humourisfi  Mia- 
"  HI/,  "  Crosby  &  CV>.,  London,  mU:*    There  is 

swer  to  *'  The  Cottager "  commendinix  the 
tion  of  wastes,  ending  something  like  this: — 

*  And  twenty  (cattle)  feed  where  one  goose  fed  before/' 
Bttt  I  cannot  lay  my  hand  on  it.  G.  S. 

Ax  Old  Clerical  Anecdote  (6^^  S.  ii  204.)  - 

IJjiiler  tbia  heading  F.  H.   notes  "  Ore  we,   i.  *'. 

Brwk.'*    This  I  tiSce  to  be  true,  but  not  in  the 

m  tntended  byj^.  H.     Is  not  "no  Grewe" 

U/  the  Greek  oroc  yp?,  **not  a  fylkble/*  **  not 


a  bit."  "  He  did  so,  because  he  understood  nothing 
about  the  matter."  Featley  (-4  Case  for  the  ^pcc- 
iadeSf  London,  1638)  uses,  at  p.  G,  the  Greek  idjom 
in  its  Latinized  form,  **  But  as  touching  the  contro- 
veraie,  Ne  gry  quidem."  I  do  not  remember  to 
have  met  with  the  phntse  fuUy  Anglicized  as  here  ; 
but,  prt>b:ibly,  some  correspondent,  better  read  in 
early  seventeenth-century  literature,  may  be  able 
to  give  an  example.  Johnson  Bailt. 

Fallton  Vicarage. 


MiMttUKmBui* 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
Journal  of  th^  Royal  Huiorical  and  Arckfrological 
Association  of  Ireland.  Froceedings  and  Paper n 
of  the  Royal  Historical  and  Arch(EologicalAsiio* 
ciatioJt  of  Ireland;  originally  founded  as  the 
Kilkmny  Arckfrological  Society  in  the  Tmr 
1849.  Vol.  IL,  Part  II.  Fourth  Series.  (Dublin, 
M^Glashan  &  Gdl.) 
There  is  no  hiatorictd  and  archaeological  society 
that  furnishes  more  v.iluable  results,  or  more  in- 
teresting iMicoiints  of  how  those  results  were  at- 
tained, than  the  above  '*  Association  of  Ireland.'' 
Here  U  a  large  Hvo.  volume  of  about  4()t>  pages  ; 
it  is  filled  wit  h  "  Proceedinp  "  very  weO  condensed, 
and  *' Papers"  exceedingly  well  written.  One, 
"  A  Kamble  round  Trim,"  by  Mr,  Eugene  Conwell, 
contiiins  i\s  much  as  an  ordinary  volume,  and  is 
much  more  anuising  than  umny  volumes  which 
chronicle  similar  rambling  experiences.  Much  of 
the  history  of  Ireland,  ancient  and  modem,  is  to 
be  found  here,  including  church  iind  social  history, 
manners  and  customs.  We  observe  it  recorded 
that  Bigby,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  ub.  172(J,  flourished 
fls  a  successfid  amateur  painter  of  miniature 
portraits  in  water-colours,  and  that  his  talent  for 
taking  likenesses  helped  him  to  the  bishopric  !  A 
curious  custom  is  noted  as  prevailing  in  County 
Wexford,  namely,  the  hanging  on  old  trees,  near 
churchyards  und  at  cmsi*  roads,  wooden  crosses, 
formed  by  nailing  together  the  corner  pieces  cut  off 
the  top  and  bottom  of  coffins  in  the  making.  Some 
trees  are  laden  with  such  cr^js^es.  Among  epitaphs, 
there  is  one  in  the  old  biirying-ground  at  New- 
town, Trim,  which  merits  notice  for  its  auaintness. 
It  is  in  the  form  of  a  cross,  and  is  aa  follows  :■ — 


L  H.  9.    __ 
Edmond  Max 
An   His  Mary* 

Pray        ' 

For 
Uinise 
Lf  And 

nu  wif 

Bes  Fox 
Who  Dyed 

In  ma. 


260 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[a^aiLswcse^^m 


It  is  not  wiid  wh«T  "  His  Man- ''  ^iw.  The  volunw 
u  4idmirab1y  ilJustrated ;  particulir  {mviae  is  due 
^  the  ijortmit  of  the  Fuir  Goraliime. 
In  Ex/i^ayjetii^Ti  o/j4?tnV>/f  Tt'7i«jc  arw/  Mr4XSttrts 
of  Land  WM  aomt  Accfyfint  of  (^hl  Tmun^. 
Collect<?<l  ATiii  ConipiJed  frmii  Various  Soun^es, 
and  Arrsvn^'ed  in  Alphabetical  Order.  By 
Pliilip  H,  Hore,  of  Polo  Hore,  C^,  Wexford. 
(Pipkering.) 

TiTHix  six  dozen  pii^^f^  Mr.  Hore  has  comprised 
one  of  the  most  useful  of  hiindliooks  explauatory 
of  ancient  terma  and  lucttstirca  of  hmd.  The  com- 
piler hfia  the  rare  quality  of  oondensntion ;  lie 
packs  a  large  amount  of  matter  into  a  very  small 
spaee,  which  reminds  one  of  the  i)acking  of  a  pair 
of  Limerick  long  gloves  into  a  walnut  ^helL 
Measures  of  land  varied  much  in  different  counties; 
sometimes  in  the  same  district  of  one  cmmty»  There 
are  ancient  raeasureis  which  are  nowunascertainnble; 
for  example.^  *^  Worthine/*  which  is  derived  from 
the  Saxon  U'^orth,  a  ftum  or  country  hou»e.  Dr. 
Cowel  thinks  that  we  get  from  ircorth  the  "  noun 
so  often  used  in  the  pluml  to  distinj^uish  men  of 
«B€?ful  and  estimable  tjualilies/*  When  we  re- 
member tliat  '*  pecuniary  "  comes  from  pfcuf^  and 
that  in  Low  Latin  "^^  baccularius/'  as  Professor 
Stubbs  tells  us  in  the  Glossfvry  to  his  Select  Char- 
krs,  was  originally  the  owner  of  a  **  baccadaria,"  or 
grazing  farm,  from  haira=^vacca^  a  cow,  we  get 
quite  ft  new  idea  of  the  old  meaning  of  a  wortliy 
bachelor  ^ith  pecuniary  means ! 


H  t«ei  n«  of  lh«  R<v  Jiyhn  BiitekUs«6tt.    KItticr  ItM  QHltffeU  MtSUaQ 

Of  lU*  Rrprtm  «r  I9l«, 
n.  A,  Hoftjitit  '■  AtAtiit)c«a  A«oaunt  of  WlftvMk. 
I««  ci,i  and  atHer  TiMm*  hj  *'  A."    INcv 
£itAi<i HT  a  (M.)  Ilittorr  of  tbe  dcoictt^  Of  our  E^MiAl  ViiJirrtil 


Ws  have  tlie  greatest  gratification  id  rtfcrring  our 
readers  to  tho  aQuounccmcnt  on  tho  Imck  pftjc^  of  the 

Ere«€nt  number.  The  name  of  '•  Halliwcll  "  Lm  lonj? 
ccTi  honoiimbly  connected  with  that  of  Sbakapeare. 
Increase  or  re[Huttitinn  i)^  likelj  to  revult;,  if  the  Hch 
ptomiso  contained  in  the  list  of  content!  to  tho  fint  part 
of  Mr.  Ualliweirs  Illuntrationt  of  Ihf  Life  of  Shalsf/tare 
be,  aa  we  do  not  douht  it  \n\l  be,  idealized  to  the  letter. 
The  liat  itself  is  full  of  information,  and  whets  the 
appetite  for  tho  feast  we  are  to  enjoy  in  a  few  weeks. 

OcR  old  correspondent,  Mr.  K-  W.  Dixon,  of  Seaton- 
Carow,  Durham,  informs  m  that  many  of  bia  best  effoita 
are  abottt  to  be  incorporated  in  Tht  Bumlet/  Tune  Book, 
under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  Thomas  Simpson,  of  Bum- 
ley,  organift  and  ohoirniaater.  This  work  will  be  pub- 
lished early  next  year, 

A?rjiQKAM»— *'  By  transposing  the  letters  in  th€  nama 
of  *  The  Marquei»'of  Eipon  '  the  following^  anagram  b 
found  to  result:— '"EJ.P.*"  quoth  FrccmaaoM  ! *  "— 
SaTuiders'B  (DMin)  NevfUttUr. 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLUMES 

WAKTEIt  TO  PURCHASE. 
Fartieulu*  of  Prtoe,  &o..  of  rrcry  Itook  to  be  icnt  dii^et  to  Iht 
iMTiHvn  bj  wbom  U  ii  itqiiJr«4,  wfaoic  luja*  tad  adinn  *re  ffivrEt 
for  tbjit  pujpoM:— 

GHarrov  CBOKta'B  PftUj  LcfOMli.    Pftit  I.  Sieaad  Editl()a» 
Cooi.a*sDioc«MofMMtb.    Vol.  L 
BftAWDoir^  Puiib  Cihuj>Qls«».    VoL  XL 
rai.Kt^  Hjatofj  of  Uie  Cbanfa  of  Ea«lanil    VoL  f  11* 
Wanted  bj  Mm.  B.  S.  Bttuktr.  t.  Pusioq  BiiUdiagB^  Oalli  Koad, 


bilftKVAii**.'*  l>m»i{tg-lnx»k  IHetfoiitfT« 


Uimsir  RiiAiiTJU.    iter.  W.  TniU.   i$1«.   CoUiait  Cilai|«ir 

TuK  CoxvKKTEb  Ijntincu    Rj  H»rriik 

W«]it«d  by  J.  R  EltrtK  r,  R«dcrow  Street, 


n«<i  Ii n  Tfi^  Woriuk    Stale  ^U<  of  muttnHotik 

Wanted  bj  mmpton  ^  Aom^  iit*po€i  VmgaM^ 


llDtUrit  til  Ciirrrf)imtlJrtt». 

Mil  J.  0.  PniLLirr!- — ^'nr  r*tr^ct:tr.Ml  r^rrerpondMld^^ 
itp.  2iS,  aeksa  qtn-Pti  raniai 

of  •*  fyemnrten/*     Wc  "ffi 

marten "  IB  akin  to  the  i ... :     ..    .,    ,  .   ..  ~"* 

if  not  identicab   uiay,   perhapi,   ite    the    Fou 
northern  England,  a  name  often  applied  tvi  ihft 
{Muitela  FuroU  and  to  the  pnkcnt-rcrret     Tlie 
cornea  effpccialJy  under  the  designation  of  a 
thing. 

M,    P.   T.— The  "Angelic  Conetantinltn 
Order  of  St.  Georjje/*  of  which  the  late  Prltiee 
Pal%ologa£  waa  **  Grand  Master,"  was  otherwiM 
"  The  Angelic  Knight*i  of  SL  George.'"     Thia 
aaid  to  hare  been  founded  by  Constantino  (olv 
Another  order,  the  An^felici,  was  founded  by  the 
peror  Angelus  Coiunenufl,  IlUl. 

Mn.  MoRTiMiR  Collins  directs  attenttcn  ' 
in  punctuation   (fl'"  S.  ii,    231):—'*!  wmt 
Reform*) — the  words  serpt  nnd  ftttr^e  are 
pronunciation,  and  the  vowel  in  both  is  oeithar  4j 
bat  the  urvocal  vowel.     /  itnd  h,  at  souttded  Iqr 
tary  grammuriana,  are  diphthongs/' 

Eplalib,— The  line  inquireil  for  runs  Ihiw :  *•  FawnUa 
fronte  patct,  Yir  pectore,  carmine  Mufa."*    It  U  said  t4j 
Imve  been  written  by  Julea  Janin  on  OoorgC'  S«nd  (Mi 
DudeTantj, 

Mr.  F.  Rule  kindly  writes:— *«1  shall  T 
copy  Richard  Fletcher'a  biography,  if  yourc"  ■ 

cannot  obtain  It,  aad  forward  it,  if  W.  G*  l>,    *'  wil 
favour  me  with  hi«  addreaft," 

F.  G.  W.—«  Again'*  rhymes  properly  witt  '*pm'' 
**  vain,"  &c, 

L\.  DoN.^A  drama,  in  five  acts,  entitled  BoH^mM^ 
acted  at  ilie  ThMtre  Franyais  in  1824. 

Ever  Iuqcisitivs.— Xext  week.    We  Itave 
tides  in  typei,  and  hope  to  liml  room  for  all  in 

OcTHBEAT  B£t>E. — Many  thanka. 
A'oncE. 

Editorial  Gommonicatioua  should  be  addrenad  (o  ^  1 
Editor"— Adrertifementt  and  BuaiziMi  Iiottett  te^l 
Publisher  "—at  the  Omcc,  20»  WeUii^gton  Sir^t»  i 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  wo  decline  to  ' 
munioations  whichi  for  any  rcacon.  we  do  DL>^ 
to  thia  role  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  allcommuaicationt  ahotdd  1^  affixed  tho  naiae  iuid 
addreaa  of  tho  aender,  not  ticoeiBarily  for  piibll«allon») 
ai  A  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


lOJrDOA\  SAtO&DAr,  OJTOBSR  X  IW4 


CONTENTS.  — N"  40. 


I 


u.t..i.  TJi.,*  >oticluded\ 

■■\  iUlw    Wft*   A 

itmcUuD  for 
,,—  ,  I .  ,,  ^ ,  ...t.4jaory— "Tbe 
I  Cnckot.  >Am«  of— Cbirles 
QujLkt^ra— The  Course  of  tlie 

^BU«n'i  AUa»— i;aorge  IV,— MlwaJ— PronnBCi*- 
7 — Bynm'i  BirthplAcn  :  "  A^D&iTenarjr  Calandar" — 
,— Clock'HtriJcing— '*  U^nvclittu  Rldenc  at  tx  DiAlogpt 
baiveen  *Jert  «id  E«ro<«t/"  Ac— Carouo  :  lotai^U^^The 
Feet«g«  ftad  Ikup&aiagc-^Condarus,  E&rl  of  ComiraU— "  A. 
Modem  Aocount  of  Scotland."  &c.—V^n  MiuiufAoturen — 
&7inbol  laStAlDed  Glas*— Sir  Franciii  Swift— Johel  deTotti«i 
— Diaanii*!  "Tancred/*  2(tH-4<eretiteenUi  Ovntury  Toketis— 
Kogttt  dt  Qulnoy— Freoch  Bjttu^teM^Tht  *' Cdeiitiiriita  "— 
VioIuil4  4c.— 2!onjlin  Fumily— PotM><Ilc«  Mooe^  Orden  ia 
ITOL-^ohn  Weder'a  Edition  of  Thotnaa  A  Kempis,  269. 

REPLIES  ;— Pina  Silver,  2e&~"The  Ardiioologlc&l  Epistle  to 
Ifem  M1I1«8,"  270— Dnnbl?  Chrisliiin  Nftmea— "  Aald  Bobia 

Onij,"  271— The    ' -   "  *'  '  t— "Lucug  a  non 

IbmwimJo"— Un*ui  r  Weir,  tbo  Edin- 

boi^h   MaglijUn  or    *'Th«   Three 

—  Lomifjn    vc^mp  LTta     wjui    Antioch  —  "  Unac- 

AB  1  am;*  &c.— UeredlUr}-  KnlgfaU  of  the  Order 

«f  St  Jolm,273— "  A4  Sotind  &«  a  Tr^ut  •*— Ttaiwlt  of  Venui : 

Jsrcoiiah  Hoirocki — *'  IroB  V^irgtu,"  Nuremberg  —*'  Orewe," 

i,  r,  Greek— '^Monsletir"  and  "  Madame  "—Queen  Caroline 

^llfblfcul  Kridenofr-Sliotov^r ;  CbAfteau-Vatt,  274— ''Bou" 

''^  the  Tntnk-maker— aliaddoiigabe,  276— MouiaigQea 

-Owper  :    Trooper  —  Welsh   Toitamoot,   270  — 

— '*  PrlTate  ftlsiorf  of  tlia  Oouit  of  England  '*— 

LUK  K«/onn4 — **ArtiIot" — "  Knaire  "— George   Coltnan, 

"Gueaaa  at  Troth  "—Princes  of  the  Blood  fioyal  — 

"—A  '•  Tract;*  278— 'Put  to  Buck,"  271^. 


A  TRAVELLING  TUTOR  OF  THE  OLDEN 
TIME. 
fCoruiufted  from  p.  244.  ^ 
It  ap|>eaw  from  the  scL-ond  part  of  the  book 
red  inPnrr  '  -^  •     .  nt  dii  Moutier, 
167'^  th;i  ;t8  in  Borne  in 

L  Jubilee,  1«.;m  ,  ,ui  >iitich  occasion  he 
liw^lnnocc  nt  X.  wash  the  pilgrims'  feet, 
"  ^*"    '   t  Poussin,  the  celebrated  artist,  resided  nt 
*  I  Roiut%  and  Lass^b  quotes  his  opinion 
ad's   Bafth  of  ConskmHiic  was  **the 
f  tliUig  in  the  world  for  design." 
Ipenkiug  of  the  £reac*>efl  in  the  Loggiii  of  the 
he  gives  also  what  was   no   doubt  the 
I  of  Pous^in  and  t  he  connoisseurs  of  Rome 
5f)  ;— 

Tlmt  of  Adam  and  the  ore&tioQ;  that  where  Adam 
r.3  the  aheop  drink,'  tliat  where  Jacob 
'  t'  that  where  Moseg  shows  the  Laws  lu^ 

}tnu\r.c^\    T    rV.ir.        Thftt    of  thc    DclugC 

1  Calf  lu-e  of  the  haod 

■  Jofiie  coiaiuands  the 

'  '  :^  aroof  the  hand 

j<uiot  bad  Rome 

^        „       J  lidoro).    Thfttof 

^•Wkiiitf   tUe   rock;    th^t  of  the    Judgment    of 

jnd  iom«  others  ore  of  the  band  of  Julio 

That  of  the  Baptigm  of  Ohrwt,  with  other 

I  like^  Are  of  the  hand  of  Pellegrino  div  Modena.  Yet 


hcoauflc  in  all  tho*c  pictures  Kjipbnel  Urbin  gurc  either 
thd  desi^,  or  some  touches.  Urn  g%\icry  ia  onlled 
Kapbaera  gallery." 

In  ilh'  Fjirtieae  Palace  he  says  he  saw  "divor» 
exc<  '^Ti8  of  the  same   Ilaphuel,  and   of 

Mi<  1  i"  ;  that  eaiieciitlly  of  hia  Judgment." 

A  little  turtber  on  he  saya,  apeaking  of  the  cere- 
mony of  a  Bede  Viicante^  when  a  Pope  dies  :— 

'•  Uf  all  the  had  compUmento  that  ever  I  he&rd  made, 
I  Lik«  none  flo  dl  ojb  that  of  a  noble  man  of  Germany, 
urbo  being  asked  by  Pope  lutiocent  X.  whether  he  had 
seen  all  the  ceremonies  of  Kome,  answered,  that  he  bad 
seen  all  but  a  Sede  VMcantc ;  as  if  ho  had  eaid^  Holy 
Father,  I  bsire  seen  all  the  fine  Bighta  of  Rome  hut  jour 
death.  A  horrible  Tramontane  coaiplirnentt  which  put 
CTen  the  Pope  himself  to  a  smile. " 

Lagselii  &i\j8  that  the  price  diartrcd  by  a  vttturino 
for  the  journey  from  Rome  to  Naples  and  back, 
with  traveller's  board  and  lodging  on  the  road 
(but  not  at  Naples),  and  the  use  of  the  horses  for 
two  daya  at  Naples,  waa  then  fourteen  or  fifteen 
crowns. 

He  was  at  Naplea  a  few  years  aft^r  the  revolt 
under  Masaniello,  and  observes^  speaking  of  itj 
"  They  shewed  mo  the  house  of  this  fisherman ; 
but  the  other  houses  shewd  me  his  fury.  Thou- 
sands have  not  yet  recovered  tho3e  ten  daiea 
tumults."  On  the  way  back  to  Rome  he  comphiins 
bitterly  of  the  ('u  atom -House  officera  at  Pumli : 
"*  For  to  some  they  pulled  oU'  their  boot^  ^earclied 
their  pockets,  breeches^  doublets  :  nay,  even  their 
Baddies,  horses  tiiils^  and  the  very  horses  feet," 
At  Venice,  LaaHcls  tells  us  there  were  then  twenty 
thousand  gondolt\,s^ — that  the  trade  with  Aleppo 
alone  brought,  in  some  yearSy  four  millionii  of  gold 
—probably  crowDs.  Speaking  of  the  Venetian 
Qobles,  he  observcg  : — 

"They  wear  olwaies  in  the  town  a  long  block  gtjwn,  a 
black  c»p  knit  with  an  edging  of  black  wool  ahwut  it 
like  0.  frinjy;e ;  an  ancient  and  manly  vreur,  vrhicli  makes 
them  look  like  Scmitoni.  Thtir  hair  i»  gerjerall?  the 
best  I  ever  taw  any  where;  tbc*e  tittle  cupi^  not  presJing 
it  down  as  uur  hats  do ;  and  Ptrywigs  are  forbid.  Under 
their  gowns  (ivhich  tly  open  bi'forel  they  liave  baudsome 
block  auitea  of  rich  stuffd  with  stockings  and  g&rters,  and 
Spaniab  leather  ahooea  ncutly  made.'* 

On  the  Venetian  ladies,  he  remarks  :- — 
'*  As  for  the  women  here,  they  would  gladly  gtt  the 
same  reputation  that  their  husbund?  hare,  of  being  toll 
and  band»r.nie  ;  but  they  overdo  it  with  their  horribl© 
CioppiTii^  or  highahooe^,  which  I  have  often  seen  to  he  a 
full  half  yard  high.  I  confess  I  wondered  at  first  to  see 
women  go  upon  Atilts,  and  appear  taller  by  the  head  than 
any  luaji ;  and  not  tu  be  able  tu  go  any  whether  without 
resting  tbtir  hands  upon  the  shoulderi  of  two  grave 
matrons  that  usher  them  ;  but  at  lost  1  perceived  that  it 
was  good  policy,  and  a  pretty  ingenious  way  either  to 
clog  women  at  home  by  such  heavy  shoes,  or  at  least  to 
make  tbem  not  able  io  go  either  far,  or  alone^  or 
invioibly/' 

Speaking  of  the  famous  glass-houses  at  Mnrano, 
Lfi3sels  eays  that  they  then  funii?*hed  almost  nil 
Europe  with  drinking  glaases,  **  and  all  our  T>a<liejs 
cabinets  with  looking  gjaaai^^* — ^OoikX*  ^'e^  '^^  xa^XKt 


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[5*aiLCkT.^T4. 


here  forth  two  hundred  thousand  crowna  worth  a 
year  " : — 

**  For  the  High  Dutch  they  h»vo  high  cliuseH,  called 
Flutes,  &  full  y&rd  long.  For  the  English  that  love  toaits 
witli  their  drinlu,  thev  have  curious  Tankards  of  thick 
Chrystal  f;l&88,  juat  like  our  silrer  tankardg.  For  tho 
Italians  tlmt  lore  to  drink  letgurely,  they  have  glasBies 
that  are  almost  as  lar^e  aud  flat  as  silTcr  plates,  and 
almost  as  uneasy  to  drink  out  of,  and  so  for  other  nations. 
In  one  shop  they  were  making  a  set  of  glasses  for  the 
Emperor,  of  five  crowns  every  glais  :  They  were  drinking 
glasses  with  high  covers  made  like  spread  eagle?,  and 
finely  gilt." 

After  speaking  of  a  numher  of  ships,  orgaiuj, 
and  castles,  made  in  glass,  he  adda  : — 

"Here  also  I  saw  them  make  those  vast  Looking 
gtaraes.  whose  bnttleneea  sheweib  Ladies  themselves^ 
more  than  their  reiection  doth.'* 

It  is  very  clear^  therefore,  that  ahoiit  1650 
foreignei^  were  id  lowed  to  see  the  mamifacture  of 
glass  at  Murano. 

Of  the  Italians  of  hu?  time,  Laasels  says  that 
they  were  usually  grave  and  ceremonioiip,  and 
very  proud  of  their  equipagcii  and  horses^ — that 
even  the  boys  treated  one  another  with  politoneaSi 
and  that  be  never  heard  *' two  women  scold  or 
man  and  wife  quarrel  in  words,  except  once,  and 
then  they  did  it  privately  and  secretly,  and  scolded 
in  a  very  low  tone." 

As  to  their  customs  and  manner  of  living,  he 
iays  they  usually  married  without  having  scarcely 
seen  or  spoken  to  their  future  wives,  and  goes  on 
to  say  : — 

"  They  make  children  to  go  hareheaded,  till  they  be 
four  or  five  years,  hardning  them  thus  agfiinst  rheums 
and  catarrhea  when  tUey  shall  be  old.    Hence  few  people 
in  Italy  goe  so  warm  on  their  heads  as  they  do  in  France; 
men  in  their  houses  wearing  nothing  upon  their  heads 
but  a  littk  calotte;  and  women,  for  the  most  part,  going 
all  bareheaded  in  the  raidat  of  winter  itself.     The  men 
throw  (jf  their  hata,  cuffa^  and  bands,  m  well  as  their 
cloaks^  at  their  return  home  from  y'nits,  or  businesii,  and 
put  on  a  gray  coat,  without  which  they  cannot  dine,  or 
stip  ;  and  I  have  been  invited  to  dinner  by  an  Italisn* 
who  before  dinner  maJe  his  men  tak  off  owr  hats  and 
l^loaks,  and  present  every  one  of  ua  (and  wo  were  five  in 
Iftll)  with  a  coloured  coat,  and  a  little  cap  to  dine  in.     At 
■  dinner  they  serve  in  the  best  meat  first,  and  eat  back - 
I  Vards,  that  is,  they  begin  with  the  second  course,  and 
nd  with  boyld  meat  and  pottage.    They  never  present 
m  with  salt  or  the  braines  of  any  fowie,  least  they  may 
«tn  to  reproach  unto  you  want  of  wit.    They  bring 
I  drink  upon  a  Sottoooppa  of  silver  with  three  or  four 
!  upon  it.    Two  or  three  of  which  are  strait  neckt 
jlasses  (called  there  caraffa'a)  full  of  several  sorts  ef 
Tiriiies  or  water,  and  one  empty  drinking  gtasse,  into 
[^bich  you  may  powr  what  quantity  of  wine  and  water 
^*"ou  please  t*j  drink,  and  not  stand  ty  the  discretion  of 
_  be  waiters  as  they  do  in  other  countries.     At  great 
Aasts,  no  man  cuts  for  himself,  but  several  carvors  cut 
up  all  the  meat  at  a  side  table,  and  give  to  the  waiters, 
to  be  carryed  to  the  Guests;  and  every  one  hath  tlie 
very  same  part  of  meat  carried  unto  him,  to  wit,  a  wing 
&nd  a  legg  of  wild  fowl,  &c»,  least  any  one  take  excep- 
tions that  others  were  better  used  then  he.    The  carvers 
never  touch  the  meat  with  their  bands,  but  only  with 
iliejr  knife  und  fotkj  and  a  great  eilrer  spoon  for  the 


•Mi 

wfWHff 


sauce.     Every  man  here  eats  with  his  fork  and  knife, 
and  never  toucbeth  any  thing  with  his  fingen,  bat  hii 
bread :  this  keeps  the  liunen  neat  and  the  fingerv  iweet. 
If  you  drink  to  an  Italian,  he  thanks  yoo,  with  h^**'" 
when  you  salute  htm,  and  lets  you  drink  quietly  1 
fas  wo  do  in  England)  to  thank  you  again  when  yi 
drunk  :  and  the  tirst  time  he  dnnks  after  thai  wifl 
you,  in  requital  of  your  former  courtc«y." 

After  mentioning  that  the  Italians  counted  the 
hours  up  to  four-and-twenty,  and  the  habit  they 
hiid  of  addressing  persons  by  their  Christian  nAmea, 
Lassela  says  that  "  people  of  quality  never  visit 
one  another,  but  they  send  fiiit,  to  know  when 
they  may  do  it  without  troubling  him  they  intend 
to  visit."  He  then  remarks  that  **  husbands  tad 
wives  are  ^eldome  seen  together  in  the  name  ooadt^ 
because  all  men  do  not  know  them  to  be  so." 

Ralph  K,  Jaxbbl 

Aahford^  Kent. 


THE  FOLEY  FAMILY, 

Hi  chard   Foley,   the   founder  of  the   ennol 
family  of  Foley,  was,  says  Sir  Simon  Degge,  ** 
a  seller  of  nails,  afterwards  a  forge-master, 
a  verv  honest  man  at  Stourbridge  in  Worc< 
shire/*     He  died  on  the  6th  of  July,  1G57,  aged 
seventy-seven,  and  was  buried  at  Oldswinford  on 
Thursday,  the  9th  of  the  same  month. 

A!l  the  pedigrees  that  I  have  seen  make  him  a 
native  of  Stourbridge,  and  the  son  of  one  Edwr* 
Foley  of  that  place.     This  I  think  must  be  a 
take  ;  for  not  only  is  there  no  trace  of  this  Ed' 
Foley  in  the  parish  registers,  but  the  very 
Folev  entry  therein  is  the  baptism,  on  July 
lC3l",  of  ''  John  *  the  son  of  Richard  Foley.'' 

In  the  year  IGlfj  a  Richard  Foley  was  Mayor 
Dudley,  and  in  that  capacity  signed  a  petition 
the  magistmtes  assembled  in  Quarter  ^         "- 
Worcester.     In  1G34  the  name  of  Rii 
of  Stourbridge  appefira  in  the  list  of  "  1> 
at  the  Heralds'  \  iaitation  of  Worceistci^hij 
in   that  year ;  and  I  imagine  that  he 
Stourbridge  about  the  year  1630,  when  hv  pur- 
chased the  manor  of  Bcii€ok(ue.  Stourbridgo)  feito 
the  Sparry  family. 

The  Rev.  Robert  Foley,  Rector  of  Oldswinfoi 
in  a  letter  to  Br.  Na«ih,  the  historian  of  WorttMj 
shire  (dated  May  13^  1781),  e^iclosing  an  itoi>eTt( 
list  of  the  Foley  entries  in  the  parish 
remarks : — 

"  There  are  numerous  cntriei  both  of  baptisms 
burials  of  the  Foleys,  of  which  name  there  have  bee  J 
and  »tiU  are  many  very  poor  familids  in  this  pariili  J~ 
the  neighbouring  ones  of    King's    SwinforJ,  Dadl 
Kowley,  ^c.'* 

And  he  adds : — 

**  I  have  only  glanced  my  eye  cursorily  «**£f  J*  (< 
register)  and  transcribed  such  as  offered  <""^      ^""" 

•  He  was  Rich&rd*8  youngest  son.  tnd  w  > 
married  in  16S2,  aged  fifty  {Vn,  Wore,  K.  4,  in  * 
Arm.). 


^^H^^Ui 


^  8.  n.  Oct.  S,  74 1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIE? 


noiict  bj  being:  written  in  capitala,  on  lamented  with 
flourUbcfj  or  dLBtinguishcd  by  '  Mr/  or  '  Mrs/  in  frotiL" 

Mr*  Foley's  letter  is  mijileadiDg ;  for  the  Foley 
Bines  are  not  rcry  nuiuerou.*:,  and  I  ttiu  enabled 
[to  ainte  pofitivciyf  tVoiu  a  very  careful  examination 
jof  the  regtBterSi  that^  with  very  few  exceptions, 
|lh«^  ull  rtibte  to  Kirhnrd  and  his  descendants, 
ItniUi  ft)>out  the  middle  of  the  lost  century,  when 
orne  of  the  neighbouring  poor  fnxnllies  to  which 
[^  refers  put  in  an  ftpijefirance. 

Kow  it  appears  to  me  that  Richard  Foley  was 
not  d  native  of  Stourbridge,  but  of  Dudley.  We 
'  Bve  seen  that  a  Ricimrd  Foley  was  Mayor  of  that 
[town  in  1016,  and  I  find  that  in  1627  Richard 
IToley  of  Dudley  purchased  lands  in  Stourbridge 
I  from  John  Sparry. 
JUfci635  Richard  Foley  ot Dudley,  yeoman,  pur- 
""""^ji  rent^hzLt^e  on  lands  in  Dudley ;  and  in 
Mid  1640  Richard  Foley,  the  younger,  of 
Jey,  yeoman,  acquired  land  a  there  which  (in- 
Icltiding  the  rent-charge)  were  afterwards  the  pro- 
fpertj  of  Thomas  Foley  of  Witley,  Esq.,  son  of 

Finally,  Richard  Foley  of  Stourbridge,  by  his 

irLU,  dated  1056,  gave  a  rent-charge  of  6/.  to  be 

apJoyed    in    the    maintenance  of  a   lecture  at 

udley,  and  also  of  a  certain  building  to  be  em- 

I  ployed  ivs  a  echoob  house  there. 

Richard  Foley  was  twice  married.  The  nimie 
_f  his  tiret  wife  appears  to  be  unknown,*  but  by 
her  he  had  a  son,  Richard,  who  was  thrice  niairied, 
l<itt©  of  liis  wives  being  Margaret,  second  daughter 
•of  William  Brindley,  of  the  Hyde  Kinver^  co, 
Staffor^i,  sister  of  his  father's  second  wife,  Alicct 
]ko  waa  the  eldest  daughter  of  the  said  William 
ey.  In  a  pedigree  of  Brindley  compiled  by 
Ue  Holme  (Harl.  MS.  2119,  fo.  67*),  from 
I  derive  this  information,  Richard  Foley, 
ir,,  is  described  as  **  of  Dudley,  co.  Worcester, 
I  of  Richard  by  his  first  wife."  And  it  appears 
Ithftt  Johnniui,  the  third  daughter  of  the  same 
iWilliam  Brindley,  was  first  marrieti  to  nii  Edward 
iToJey,  of  "Briatow,"*  and  secondly  to  Thomas 
IJuclraDD,  of  the  same  place.  This  pedigree  was 
Ji»mpiled  in  the  year  1637. 

**  Mrs.  Alice  Foley,  the  second  wife  of  Richard 

'  '      the  eider,  was  buried  at  Oldswinford,  March 

8tli,  1663,  aged  seventy-five,  so   she  was   only 

yearn  her  husband's  junior.     It  is  evident, 

ifore,  that  he  must  have  married  his  first  wife 

early  age  ;  and  it  is  equally  evident  that 

the  son  must  have  been  much  younger 

i  hU  wife  Margaret,  his  stepniother^s  sister. 

Shaw,  in  hiii  Hutory  of  StaffoTthhire^  speaking 

^  \V,^  TU»de  in  Kinver^  or  Kinfare,  says  :— 

pfiirt  from  a  pedigree  of  Roberta  of  Sutton 

"   !      /-i  Leicisttrithirt,    that  a  *' Richard 

^y  lire"  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 

.    ii^.-.,  iLoberta,  Rector  of  Stony  StnuntoD, 

bo  diffd  in  1^^. 


**  Here  wM  the  first  niill  for  rolling  and  tptitting  iron 
that  WI19  erected  in  England.  One  Brindley,  whose 
pcMitcrity  enjojed  it  till  about  twenty  years  ago,  wont 
into  Genn&Qy»  there  ucted  the  part  of  a  fool,  and  from 
thence  brought  this  excellent  machine,  which  has  been 
m  eerviceabie.  and  has  brought  so  much  money  to  this 
country." 

Kow  the  very  same  story  is  related  of  Richard 
Foley  ;  and,  without  pretending  to  decide  a«  to 
who  was  its  real  hero,  I  conclude  this  already  too 
long  paper  with  the  following  extract  from  Scri- 
venor's  History  of  the  Irmi  Trcwie,  1841,  p.  120, 
where  it  is  said  to  b^  taken  from  Coleridge's 
letters : — 

"  The  mott  extraordinary  and  the  lot  etltaUd  inBtaoce 
of  enthusia«ni,  exiiting  in  conjunolion  with  perseveraDcv, 
is  related  of  the  founder  of  the  Foley  family.  This  inan, 
who  was  a  fiddler,  living  near  StourbridgCf  was  often 
witneas  of  the  mimcn*e  labom'  and  loss  of  time  caused 
by  dividing  the  ro^ls  of  iron,  necessary  in  the  process  of 
making  nails.  Tho  disooverpr  of  the  process  called 
fviitting,  in  works  called  ^ItUino  miiUf  wai  made  in 
Sweden,  and  the  conaecraenoes  of  this  advance  in  art 
were  mo«t  disastrous  to  the  mantifacturers  of  iron  about 
Stourbridge.  Foley,  the  fiddler,  was  shortly  missed  from 
his  accustomed  rounds,  and  was  not  again  seen  for  many 
yearf.  He  had  mentally  resolved  to  ascertain  by  what 
means  the  jirocess  of  splitting  bars  of  iron  was  accom- 
plisbed ;  and  without  communicating  his  intention  to  a 
single  human  being,  he  proceeded  to  Hull^  aud  thence 
without  funds,  worked  his  passage  to  the  Swediah  Iron 
Port.  Arrived  at  Bweden,  he  begged  and  fiddled  his  way 
to  the  Iron  Foundries,  where,  aJ"ler  a  lonff  time^  he 
became  a  liniversal  favourite  with  the  worxmen;  and 
from  the  apparent  entire  absence  of  intelligence,  or  any< 
thing  Jijce  ultimate  object,  he  was  received  into  the 
works,  to  every  part  of  which  he  had  acceei.  He  took 
the  advantage  thus  offered  to  him,  aud  having  stored  his 
memory  with  observations  and  all  the  combinations, 
he  disappeared  from  amongst  his  kind  friends  as  he  bad 
appeared— no  one  knew  whence  or  whither.  On  his 
return  to  England  he  communicated  his  voyage  and  its 
rebults  to  Mr.  Knight  and  another  person  in  the  neigh« 
bourhood,  with  whom  he  was  associated,  and  by  whom 
the  necessary  buildings  were  erected  and  machinery 
provided.  When  at  length  everything  was  prepared,  it 
was  found  that  the  machinery  would  not  act ;  at  all 
events,  it  did  not  answer  the  sole  end  of  its  erection — it 
would  not  spUt  the  bar  of  iron.  Foley  disappeared  again, 
and  it  was  concluded  that  shame  and  mortincation  at  bis 
failure  had  driven  him  away  for  ever,  i^of  so :  again, 
though  somewhat  more  speedily,  he  found  his  way  to  the 
Swedish  Iron  works,  where  he  was  received  most  jointly, 
and»  to  make  sure  of  their  fiddler,  be  was  lodged  in  the 
irplitting  mill  itself.  Here  was  the  very  end  and  aim  of 
bis  life  attiiined  beji^ond  bis  utmost  hope.  Be  examined 
the  works,  and  very  soon  discovered  the  cause  of  his 
failure.  He  now  made  drawings,  or  rude  tnciugs;  and 
having  abided  an  ample  time  to  verify  his  observations, 
and  to  impress  them  clearly  and  vividly  on  his  mind,  he 
made  his  way  to  the  Port,  and  once  more  returned  to 
England,  This  time  he  wa^  completely  succofsful :  and. 
by  the  results  of  bin  experience,  enriched  himself  and 
greatly  benefitted  his  countrymen." 

It  is  a  pity  to  spoil  so  good  a  story  by  suggesting 
any  doubts  as  to  its  entire  accuracy, 

H.  Sydney  Grazebrook. 
Stourbridge. 


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F0LK*LORE. 
THE  8EVES   WHieiXERS. 

Tliese  sapposed  wamers  of  evil  to  come  ikre  on 
the  wing  agmin,  and  their  shrill  aknim  still  Btrikea 
terror  into  superstitious  soula.  In  "N.  &  Q.'^ 
(4***  S.  viii  68)  record  was  made  of  their  having  been 
henid  in  Lciceatershire,  also  of  Spenser'3  illusion 
to  "  The  whistler  ahrili  that  whoso  heara  doth  die," 
and  that  the  develin  or  martin,  the  swift,  and  the 
plover  were  probably  of  the  whistling  fraternity 
that  friijhtened  men.  At  page  134  it  was  ahown 
that  Wordsworth  had  spoken  of  one  who^ — 

"...  the  seven  birdB  h«ih  seen  thatncTer  part. 
Seen  the  Scren  Whiefelen  in  their  iu£hU?  round*. 
And  counted  tbeni/' 

On  the  same  page  the  swift  is  said  to  be  the 
true  whifitler  (but,  aa  noted  at  page  1&6,  the  swifts 
never  uu^e  nightly  rounds),  and  the  fiupcrstition 
is  said  to  be  common  in  our  Midland  eounties. 
At  page  268,  Mr*  Pearson  put  on  record  tlmt  in 
Lancashire  the  plovere,  whistling  as  they  fly,  are 
accounted  heralds  of  ill,  though  sometimes  of 
trivial  !iccident,  and  that  they  are  there  called 
"  Wandering  Jews,"  and  are  s:ird  to  be»  or  to  carry 
with  them,  the  ever-reetless  souU  of  those  Jews 
who  nssisted  at  the  Crucifixion,  At  page  336  the 
Whia tiers  are  chronicled  as  having  been  the  har- 
bingers of  the  great  Hartley  colEery  explosion. 
A  correspondent,  Viator,  added,  that  on  the 
BoBphoma  there  arc  flocks  of  biKls,  the  size  of  a 
thrush,  which  fly  up  and  down  the  channel,  and 
are  never  seen  to  rest  on  Itind  or  water.  The  men 
who  rowed  Viator's  caique  told  him  that  they 
were  the  souls  of  the  danmed,  condemned  to  per- 
petuid  motion.  The  Seven  Whistlers  have  not 
fiu-nished  chroniclers  with  later  circumstances  of 
their  tuneful  and  awful  progresi^cs  till  a  week  or 
two  ago.  Several  kind  contributora  have  for- 
warded to  us  copies  of  the  following  paragraph, 
which  has  been  going  the  "  round  of  the  papers  ":— 

"i?uri*R3TiTioN. — On  Monday  TOorninp  larpo  nurabers 
of  tho  miriera  eiiipli>yiuj  nt  some  of  the  Bcdwrirtb  ci'llieries 
in  North  Warwickshire,  giving  ivay  to  a  superstition 
which  has  long  prevaiJed  among  their  ct&sa,  refused  to 
desoead  the  coal-pits  in  which  they  are  employed.  The 
meti  are  credulous  enough  to  believe  that  certeiQ 
nocturnal  souudA,  which  are  doubtlesR  produced  by  flocks 
of  night'btrds  in  their  pa ss&ge  across  tlie  country*  are 
harbingers  of  aome  impeudinif  colliery  di*t»6tcr.  During 
Sunday  niglit  it  was  stated  that  these  tsoundis,  irhich  have 
been  de^ienated  *  the  seven  whistlers,'  had  been  diatinctJy 
heai^  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Bedworth  ;  and  the  result 
wa*  that  on  the  following  morning,  when  work  should 
have  been  reamncd,  many  of  the  men  positivt'ly  refused 
to  descend  the  pits,  and  were  to  be  seen  on  Monday 
idling  about  the  atreets  of  the  town»  The  recent  colliery 
accidents  at  Bcdworth  and  the  'sounds'  by  Hlijt^b  thev 
are  said  to  have  been  preceded  seem  to  haVf?  aiip'tuctited 
rather  than  diminished  thin  sttperstitioufi  behef." 

We  have  to  thank  a  correspondent,  T,  V.  L.,  for 
directing  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  Wliistlers 
Am  heurd  itnd  feared  in  Portugal,     In  the  Xew 


m 


Quarterly  Ma{fasvnej  for  July,  there  was 
interesting  record  of  trsi veiling  experic  i 
country.  The  following  extract  is  an* 
tration  of  this  subject  :— 

*'  *  I  see  your  ExooUcncy  laughs  at  the  ghoste Imt 

if  these  are  lies,  there  is  no  lie  about  the  Berea  Whiitkily 
for  many  a  tnan  beside  me  has  heard  them^' 

"  *  And  w  ho  are  the  Seven  Whistlers  1 ' 

***  Yes,  to  be  Bare,  who  are  they  I  If  vee  knew  iheW 
the  priests  could  ex(»rcise  them  so  that  they  thooldA't 
frighten  honest  folk  at  duik  on  winter  njghta/ 

"  *  And  you  have  seen  them  yourpelf  ?* 

**  •  Not  ieen,  thank  heaven^  or  I  should  not  be  *Ht« 
tell  yottr  E^iccllency  the  story ;  but  I  hftve  heard  tli4 
plenty  of  times— beard  them  whistling  and  iKrreattuiif 
the  air  close  over  my  bead.  Some  BAy  they  are 
ghosts  of  children  unbaptized,  who  are  to  know  ne 
till  the  judgment  day.  Once  lastwinter^  the  night  befofi' 
the  New  Year,  I  was  going  with  three  donkeys  and  a 
mute^  laden  with  flour,  to  Caia;  the  ro«d  pairecs  by  the 
bank  of  the  river  nearly  all  the  way,  and  t  stopped  to 
tighten  the  mulo*B  girth.  Just  at  that  moment— Holy 
Virgin  !  I  shook  all  over  like  a  milho  leaf— T  -ay  ju«t  st 
that  moment  I  heard  the  accursed  Whistlers  e(»0tiflC 
down  the  wind  along  the  river.  I  buried  my  head  uodtf 
the  mulo*s  Ifclly,  and  never  moved  it  until  the  daofir 
was  over;  but  they  must  have  passed  very  near,  for  I 
heard  the  flap  and  rustle  of  their  wings  as  clear  as  t 
beard  the  tread  of  our  horses*  feet  on  the  ground  at  tins 
moment.' 

*'  *  And  what  was  the  danger?' 

**  *  The  danger  ?  Only  that  if  a  man  once  looks  up  si 
them,  and  sees  them,  heaven  only  knowj^  what  will  not 
happen  to  him — death  and  damnation  at  the  very  least^ 

'*  '  When  I  think/  said  I,  *  that  I  have  seen  them 
scores  of  times  ! ' 

"  Francisco  clearly  did  not  believe  me.    *  And 
did  your  Excellency  do  r  he  asked,  after  a  paaae» 

**  *  J  shot  them,  or  tried  to*' 

"  *  Holy  r^Iinhtr  of  God !  you  English  are  an  aw^ 
people.     My  father  and  mother  have  told  ftoHeS 
your  nation  that  I  never  believed  till  now.    You  9iM 
Seven  Whistlers?' 

'*  *  Yes ;  we  call  them  marecos  (test  or  widgeon^ 
country,  and  shout  them  whenever  we  can*     They  srr 
better  to  eat  than  wild  diicka.^ " 

Ka 


ab^^J 

!noa^^ 


**  Willie  was  a  Wanton  WxaJ* — In  UiAt 
beautiful  selection  of  Scottish  song,  by  MiM  Majv 
Carlyle  Ait  ken  (Macmillan  &  Co.,  1ft  74),  I  obscne 
that,  while  Miss  Aitken  gives  the  atttiions  of  all 
the  lyrics,  bo  far  tm  they  are  known  to  her,  th9 
adds  the  following  note  m  to  this  song  i — 

"Mr,   David   Laing    inclines  to  thi:  vriHsxni 

Hamilton  of  Gilbertficld  (Boro  ItJSO  i    i  '  h*  t 

wise  called  *  Wanton  Willie/  is  the  uu.»w.  ,»  v**^!!  ai 
hero  of  this  song/' 

I  have  before  me  sotnn  "INT.^    nntp=;  nn  thp  hM 
Douglases,  of  >lorton,  in 
of  the  family,  and  I  see  ' 
is  a  tradition  in  the  family  thai   i 
liero  of  this  song  was  the   cclel 
Douglas  of  Finglnnd,  tho  suitor  ot 
and  author  of  tiiat  Scottish  lyrir, 
Latiric.    Is  it  known  at  what 
wixs  first  circulated  in  Scotland  ? 


{■, 


5"  8.  n.  0<T.  3, 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


265 


was  born  about  167S,  and  was  suitor  of  Annie 

q:,     I  ,_  .|  .    ,^5^  handed  down  in 

lo  to  that  recorded 

r.  ui  quarrd,  being  one 

his  ttnie.     He  fought  a 

-   „/4CSt^   A  nei^/^i^' ii'i'  which 

laL     At  the  in  t  the 

fought  ;i  not*       ^  ntnal 

1  and  diflAnned  him,  le^s,  as 

ii,  by  akill  in  fence  than  by 

i's  *'  herce  and  squinting  eyes/*     All  this 

to  8iut  what  we  mi^ht  expect  in  such  d 

iBter  as  in  shown  in  the  linee  : — 

*•  Hifl  hi>oU  they  ire  re  made  of  the  j^* 
\^  lit  to  the  weapon«ch*w, 

Ui  n  n&uo  durst  him  brag, 

li.v  ..v><...  D>  a  Mie  among  them  &*/* 

J  further  light  be  tbro^vn  on  the  author  of 

'  dd  mng  I     In  regard  to  wkit  Miss  Aitken 

\  done  for  Scottish  lyrios,  she  baa  shown  great 

in  her  selection,  choosing  only  those  that 

(  won  their  way  to  the  heArt«  of  the  Scottish 

:  and  dwelt  there.  C,  T.  Ramage, 

The  Earlt  Ekqlish  MS.  Cowtraction  fob 
Ffcsca.— Thi*j  la  either  Jhc,  Jhu,  or  Jhfi.  We  all 
'  now  that  the  h  got  there  from  the  Greek  H  for  >/ ; 
at  the  question  is,  how  Early  English  scribes 
lider9tiM>d  the  contraction,  and  how  we  ought  to 
»nd  it,  I  have  fdways  maintained  that  if 
)  ecribes  write  in  full,  as  they  occasionally  do, 
s,"" we  ought  to  cjcpand  "Jhc"  as  " Jhf^a/' 
"**Jha"  as  **JhMu.''  Some  friends  of  mine 
kf  Ko :  h  was  for  c  ;  therefore  write  «,  and  expand 
Jmis*  Jtm,  On  the  same  principle,  they  would 
BApive  to  alter  all  the  early  wrong  ffpellings  of  proper 
^Mtne«  into  the  right  ones.  But,  luckily,  their 
^^Koscience-^  are  too  good  for  that.  As  I  have  just 
^Ket  with  two  in<*tance8,  in  14  lines,  of  the  spelling 
^P  Jb«««s/*  on  leaf  72  of  the  Trinity  MS,  of  the 
"  Eifly  English  Cwr^or  Mundl,  I  print  one  here  : — 
"  For  ho  mijt  not  fyude  ihesus  .... 
So  he  wtiudG  to  de  Jhegos  . . , ." 

I  bave  seen  many  similar  instances  in  this  and 
'ler  M8S5,  F.  J.  Fctrnivall. 


OUABDS  OF  CuAKhES  I,— The  question  of 

■frfMmq.  fir  at  any  rate  a  portion  of  them, 

|73!  I  asylum  in  Barbadoea  being  raided 

«  V  '.f(iT*  I  beg  to  offer  the  following 

'  tifcr^ncef : — 

On  the  l£th  May,  1639,  the  Lord  Chamberlain 

the  King's  troojw  at  a  review.     [CaL 

jSerie-?,  1639,  No.  !fll.] 

Uoughbydefen  '  m  person, 

be  poets  day  u.  i  attiK*ked 

AyMcue.     [Uluody  ^twd  frt^m  the 

; .  *Mu]3.  Cat.,  K.  C.^5/10  ;  Ayscue, 

Broad  A  rrow,  Ang.  S,  15, 1871, 


idiid^ 


1654,  883  f.  29 ;  also  Acta  of  Assembly  of  Barba- 
does  from  1648,  B.  Mus.,  23  d.  3.1 

Some  Memoin  of  tJw  Fird  Sdthment  of  Barba- 
dot%  i*:iken  from  Anttctit  Records  (174)- — Brit. 
Mu^,,  1196,  b.  33.  In  the  above  work  it  appears 
that  none  of  the  otticers  mentioned  as  afterwards 
in  the  King's  Life  Umuds  and  Foot  GufU'ds  were 
then  amongsi  the  inhabitants^  a  list  of  whom  is 
given,  t 

In  the  Cat.  Harl.  MSS,  are  the  following  re- 
ferences, which  I  have  not  examined  :  Barhadoes^ 
vol  ii.  96, 1610,  133 ;  98, 1511,  33;— TF.  L  hlandsy 
vol  i.  345,  640,  36  ;  vol.  ii.  142,  1583,  59  ;  316, 
1898,  5  ;  vol.  iii.  308,  5910^  38  ;  370,  6494,  15. 

I  am  myself  inclined  to  believe  that  Lord  Wil- 
lougbby  was  accompanied  or  followed  by  a  con- 
siderable number  of  the  troops  in  question  ;  and 
that  they  were  not  local  militia  who  bo  severely 
repulsed  Sir  George  Ayscue's  first  atttick  on  Car- 
lisle block-bouse.  Sir  Geoi^e  himself  bears  testi- 
mony to  the  remarkable  gallantry  of  the  opposing 
force.  There  wag  evidently  great  esprit  ne  corps 
amongst  the  latter.  J.  U.  L.  A. 

A  Feat  of  Memory  : — 

'*On  tho  occasion  of  Professor  Pawcett's  speech  at 
Brighton  the  other  day,  the  report  of  which  occupied 
moTo  than  two  c<>lumna  of  the  ScoLnman,  a  curious 
instance  i?aa  afforded  of  memory  such  as  ii  not  olt«,'a 
equalled.  A  gentleman  who  went  down  to  Brighton  in 
order  to  report  the  speech  for  fourteen  newspapers  c&Ued 
upon  the  Frofeesor  some  time  before  its  deliveryj  and. 
explaining  the  natore  of  his  buainesi,  re{|ueBted  the 
fjivour  of  a  statement  of  the  principal  points  of  the 
speech.  Professor  Fawcett  very  courteously  propo«cd 
not  only  to  give  him  the  subitance  of  his  speech,  but  to 
rehearse  the  whole  of  it  for  him.  This  be  did,  luad  the 
reporter  took  it  down.  Later  on,  while  the  speech 
proper  was  being  delircred,  the  origimil  copy  made  at 
the  rehearsal  was  checked  over  word  for  wora,  and  from 
beginning  to  end;  so  perfectly  had  the  speech  been 
committed  to  memory,  there  was  not  one  aingle  mistake, 
except  thut  in  one  place  a  word  was  substituted  for  ita 
tquivalent  in  the  noUa^^^—SeoUman, 

Ferliapa  "  N,  &  Q."  may  not  object  to  preserve 
the  above  extract  quoted  in  a  London  paper  :— 
"  Fiiwcdl,  an  haeo  oliiii  meminiBSc  jurabit" 

F.  Phillott. 

*'The  Old  is  Betteh,"— Not  altogether  for  our 
own  sakei^  for  we  are  ourselves  growing  old,  and 
will  soon  remove  to  other  scenes,  bat  for  the  sake 
of  the  generations  to  come,  it  i:^  very  painful  to 
witness  how  increasingly  the  gaudy  is  tikking  the  .  - 

place  of  the  neitt,  the  showy  of  the  mm^i,  and  ob-  jMJmi^ 
trasive  decoration  of  modest  refinement.    Without '        *' 
\ioiuff  into  other  questions,— and  there  are  many 
such*^  in  which  I  feel  a  lively  interest,— to  prove 
my  point,  I  would  sunply,  in  this  note,  refer  to  the 
style  in  which  our  books  are  got  up.     Compare 


f  Tljia  fact  is,  to  some  extent,  confirmatory  of  R.  C,*s 
argument  about  Robert  Archer  (Provost- Marshal  of  the 
Army  in  Earbadoci  in  167S  :  ee«  "  ^*  &^  ^^1*  tvRiix. 


ixtdk^ 


266 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[fi*  8.  IL  Oct.  S,  ' 


Pickering's  Aldine  Edition  of  the  Poets— pmjer, 
type,  Lindin^,  the  absence  of  tawdry  illustrations, 
iUid  all — willi  any  recent  editions  of  the  Rame 
authors,  and  my  ineaoing  Ls  at  once  made  plain. 

There  is  an  Auieriain  poet  in  whoae  worka  I 
take  great  delight, — Longfellow ;  but  I  cannot  buy 
any  new  copy  of  his  poems,  without  beinjj 
offended  with  a  glaring  cover  and  a  number  of 
ridiculous  wooflcuts,  which  do  not  at  all  Ci>nvey 
the  sense  of  the  text.  Or  if  I  want  to  give  ii 
present  of  Milton,  or  Pope,  or  Cowper,  the  same 
result  nieet«  me.  Why  should  these  things  be  i 
Has  the  ago  grown  hopelessly  vulgar,  or  is  there 
any  prospect  of  a  return  to  the  sterling,  quiet, 
subatantiiil,  unpretending  excellence  of  our  fore- 
fathers I  J.  W.  W. 

Game  op  Cricket,  Name  of, — 

"  T^d'h,  ^y\ltli  do  jou  call  it,  when  the  ball,  sir,  hits 

**FHhon.  Why,  out. 

"  Tut<h.  Even  i»  ftm  1 ;  out,  out  of  all  Lope  ever  to 
come  In  to  crown  my  po^r  age  at  Lis  table." 

Two  Matds  oj  Mou-clach  ^leot*),  p.  32. 

This  passage  points  to  the  inference  that  a 
critikci,  or  stool  with  four  legs  (see  Nares,  ,?.  r.), 
served  in  early  times  for  wickets,  and  that  thence 
came  the  name  of  the  game.  F*  J.  V. 

Charles  Lamb. — In  Mr.  Carew  Hazlitt's  re- 
cently publiBhed  work^  Mary  and  Cluirks  Lamb 
(p,  106)^  there  is  mention  of  a  MS.  dialogue  in 
I  Hazlitt's  handwriting  **  between  Lamb  and  himself 
I  on  the  question  whether  people  take  an  interest  in 
L^ood  for  its  own  sake."  ^Ir.  ( ".  HazHtt  does  not 
:  seem  to  be  aware  that  this  piece  hsia  been  printed 
Ljind  forms  part  of  tSk^khes  and  Eisai/iSy  hj  JVillmm 
'  Hadiii^  colkdctl  by  hU  Sori^  Load.  1839,     A.  und 

B.  are  the  chief  interlocutors,  and  D.  i?,  I  suppose, 
meant  for  Ljunb.  The  quotation  from  Hairt/  JV. 
given  by  Mr.  U  Hazlitt— 

*V.  L,  Thia  JBthe  strangest  tale  that  o'er  I  heard. 
C»  L.  It  15  tlifl  strangest  fellow,  brother  John." 

— forma  the  concliii*inn  of  the  dialo^e  in  its  printed 
form,  but  the  initials  iire  here  given  as  J.  D.  and 

C.  D.  If  Mr.  Hazlitt  is  right  in  conjecturing  this 
quotation  to  refer  to  **  something  which  appears  to 
have  passed  between  Charles  and  John  Lainb^*' 
there  m  of  course  some  probability  that  the  dialogue 
was  not  entirely  im:tginar)\  While  upon  the 
subject  of  Charles  Lamb,  may  I  ask  if  it  13  known 
who  wrote  the  sketch  of  t)yer  in  the  Public 
Charaeterw  of  17»8-9  t    Was  it  Lamb  ? 

C.  Elliot  Buowxb. 

John  Locke  and  the  Quakers. — In  a  pam- 
phlet issued   by  one  of  the   Society  of  Friends 
there  m  a  letter  by  John  Locke,  which  is  a  rather 
J  ciirioua  jumble  of  sweetmeats  and  sanctity.     As  it 
*•  ia  shorty  and  has  not  been  included  in  his  Life, 
perhaps  you  will  find  a  comer  for  it  :— 


**  A  Letter  from  the  cftlobratod  John  Lockn  to  B«b 
ColHcr  and  lUchael  Brecken. 

'^Gtmys  Irui,  Nor,  21  «t,  KOI 
"My  Sweet  Friendf,— A  Paper  of  fliTcctm^ats  by  I 
bearer,  to  attend  your  journey,  come«  to  teitify 
sweetness  I  found  in  your  society.  1  admire  uo  ccmti 
more  than  that  of  Christian  freedom  ;  I  fear  1 
like  that  of  pride  and  prejudice ;  I  now  see  acqa 
by  eight  cannot  reacu  the  heii^bt  of  eiyoymei 
nCfiuaintance  by  knowledge  arrivet  to:— outward  I 
may  misguide  ub,  bnt  internal  knowledge  canitut 
We  have  aomething  thereof  what  we  shiiU  haTij  bena 
to  know,  »n  we  we  known,  and  tbu«  we,  with  ourcfc] 
friendi^j,  were  even  at  the  first  view  mutual  partakei 
and  the  more  there  is  of  thia  in  the  life,  the  le**  we  ne( 
enquire  of  what  Country,  Nation,  Party,  or  Penuaaioii 
our  Friends  are'f  for  our  own  knowledge  in  more  mst 
than  another's  is  for  ua ;  thua  '  we  know  whom  wt  bare 
believed/ 

"  Now  the  God  of  alt  grace  grant  that  you 
faet  that  rare  grace  of  Lore  and  Charity— tmtia 
unbounded  lore  which,  if  it  decay  not,  will 
mightily,  m  the  waters  of  the  inner  saTjctunrjr; 
nnd  higher,  till  you,  with  the  tttii¥er»al  Ch'tv 
tO(^elherin  the  ocean  of  Divine  love.    Womand 
had  the  himuur  first  to  publish  the  resurrection  \ 
ilod  of  lore, — why  not  again  the  reeurrectioa  i 
«|>irit  of  love  1    And  let  all  the  disciplet  of  our  ! 
rejoice  therein,  as  doth  your  partner,       Jottis  Loccx 
"[The  a  bore  letter  wae  eeiit  to  Bebeccn  Co 
Mectinj?  in  Loudon,  with  a  paper  of  su- 
another  for  her  companion.     The  great 
was  at  the  Meeting,  and  took  particuiar  uutice  c^ 
them/j" 

I  add  the  full  title  of  the  tra. 
appear  to  be  in  Smith's  Quaker  h' 

*'  A  Copy  of  a  Letter  from  a  Clergyimtu  iu  Etigiaud^ 
Pfttiencc  lirayton  ;  to  which  is  added  a  Letter  from^ 
celehfiited  Joha  L<>cke  to  Rebecca  Collier  and  Ra  * 
Hrecken ;    and  abo   Reflections    on   Death.      Cb« 
Trinled  by  T.  Oriffitli,  Bridge  Street.     1823." 

This  letter,  although  unimjjortant,  is  not  1 
interest,  as  showing  the  great  philosopbe 
Platonic  flirter  with  two  fair  friends.     It 
abo  seem  to  show  that   he   liad  some   diawin 
towjirds  the  Quakers.      WrLLiAM  E.  A.  Ajtosc.] 

Eusholms. 

The  Coursk  of  the  Nile. — 

*'  Vere  ergo  Nilus  ex  hoc  priorc  lacr.  f    '       '  12  j 
situs  est  versus  At  I  tare  tic  um   Polum,  c  and 

altissimt  montea  Ca'fates  dicti,  Aphron; 
fodloit  clari.     Descendit  turn  per  4CK)  luiii.  lu  Mtitij 
trionem,  aliumque  lacum  subit,  quern  Maiii  rocabuioj 
magnitudincm    iuoolic    dignantur.       L;ttitudio 
pTtihcndit    220    mill,    sob    linea    titus.      De   fa 
ccrdores  nos  facere  Auiichaui  Congitanig  vicini  1 
merctie  iisdem  noti.     Addunt  iidom  hoc  in  L&cii  l. 
cjei^ere  quoe  narigiis  utatur,  scrihere  norit,  tnt^ttiuram  1 
pondera  sciat,  sedilicla  ex  lapide  et  c?»i  "  ^K-vK.^i^tjH    ' 
Coagitanifl  peregrino.  Qua  ex  re  propii 
Johannts  ternn  considerari  potest.     1 
dicto  lacu   Nilus  in   Merotn  teodit  m)| 

iatulnim  Incumque  240  mill,  nostratiuvi  1 

alii  tiurii  procurrunt,  ncmpe  Aumeu  <.  ..  j 

limttes  Meliudjo  Bitum.     Circa  Meroeu  ^xivm 
ramoe  abit,  ierramque  aJtiorem  Meroe  dictam^ 
Ad   dextrmm   Meroas  reraus   onentem   aiunis  i 
oritur  ex  laca  Bracloa  iendens  juxt*  Pr»abyt«ri  Jo 


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267 


insulam  frupradicUni.  A  Bmiatra  alii  rivi 
^  „  _*r  quoe  Sambco  citatuTf  fluviua  nui  le  in 
i  iiem  exonomt  per  iBthiopiam  delaUUp  tfyse  Nil  us 
odam  circa  Sienes  inmilam  e  pnecipiti  cataractiL 
^tM»to  itropitu  ut  Ticiois  populia  uuditum  imminaat 
'  fttetnque  qimmJiim  couimuo  tinnttu  mreraL  iSgyptus 
I  eum  Buscipit,  patrem  &c  faecuriditate  uberi  gratis* 
i;  htuic  rig&t  ac  per  ostiA  multiplioia  elatus  Mare 
rvneam  subti.  Ofltionunduo  prseclarisBima  «UDt ; 
nempe,  qaod  diei  tmiu«  itiner«  ab  Alexandria 
et  Pelofiii  mine  Damiatos.  ErKo  conclusione 
_  iacr^metito  Nili  ^gypti,  ac  Zftiri  In  CongiUno 
__Q0»  Niiriquc  in  ^Ethiopia  catuani  dant  eodem  pene 
lefRpofe  coDtinai  tmbres  per  menAca  quinque  in  Ooogo 
^ii^qiie  Tictnioribas  terris  decidui.  * 

The  above  extract  is  taken  from  the  work  of 
'.  u,  the  Dutch  voysiger,  a  Latin  translation 
was  printed  in  1599.  I  have  a  copy  in  a 
Li'd  State,  owing  to  a  tire.  There  fire  several 
arious  old  maps  and  other  interesting  pktes. 
omc  of  your  readers  may  like  to  compare  the 
te  extract  with  the  accounts  of  8peke,  Boilon, 
T.ivin  -sfnne,  and  Sir  Samuel  Baker.  The 
to  Odoardo  Lupo»  a  Portuguese,  aa 
Ifi  K  H.  A. 


jyf%  must  requcit  correBpondenia  desiring  information 
I  lAcaUj  matters  of  only  prirate  interest,  to  af&x  their 
I  and  addreaiei  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
I  may  be  addressed  io  thiBm  direct,] 


Blaeu's*  Atlas.— On  Blaew's'*^  Map  of  the  Ork- 

-   ^  ^  ^iUiThentmm  (}rhu  Tirranim^  tive  Allan 

rUra  Va.  AniBtela?damj,  apud  I,  Blaev,* 

opposite  the  cape  on  the  west  coa^t  of 

iland  of  Hoy,  called  by  him  **  Rora  Head 

f",^'  but  on  modern  maps  Eoray  Head,  there  h 

I  note  : — **Tl)e  Stour  wher  buildet  that  excellent 

foul  called  the  Lyer."    I  shall  be  glad  to  know 

Vhat  ihii*  eea  bird  is  which  seems  to  nave  been  so 

nuch  thought  of. 

The  infonnation  given  in  moat  of  the  maps  of 
he  Highknds  and  west  cf)aat  of  Scotland  in  this 
arions  old  Atlas  is  Btated  to  he  on  the  authority  of 
'  noth.  Pont.  When  the  wild  state  of  the  Higb- 
nds  at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century 
\  remembered,  the  general  accuracy  of  the  details 
pricing.  One  is  inclined  to  ask  how  did 
Pont  get  his  information,  for  it  is  not 
tit  to  imagine  the  sort  of  reception  he  would 
ely  to  nieet  with  had  he  presented  himself  in 
'  ■  is  of  the  Macgregors,  or  Macleods,  or 
hes,  with  the  surveying  chains,  levelling 
other  instruments,  with  the  drawings 
L  And  *^  GuUjelmiia  Bbieu  "  ornament 

Tliat  he  is  not  always  trustworthy,  may  be  seen 
^efensncc  to  his  map  of    Kin  tyre   (CmUyra 
^       rta,  Chntyr  a  Dtmie-ylnnd)^  where  Loch 
in  tome  plaoea  little  over  half  a  mile  in 

~%  ^Rkfi  nftme  li  spelled  both  ways  in  the  Atlas. 


breadth,  according  to  Keith  Johnston  is  shown  as 
an  anil  of  the  seit,  many  miles  broad.  In  this 
case,  and  in  some  others,  I'imotby  must  have  gone 
by  hearsay*  Any  particulars  regarding  this  Timoth* 
Pont  would,  I  think,  be  interesting. 

A.  FBRorssoN. 
United  Service  Club,  Edinburgh, 

Geoege  IV.^I  have  lately  been  told  by  an  oKl 
gentleman  that  it  is  a  mistake  to  suppose  that 
King  George  IV.  died  without  illegitimate  isEite. 
He  informs  me  that  his  father-in-law  (now  dead), 
ft  gentleman  well  acquainted  with  some  members 
of  the  hidy's  family,  told  him  many  years  ago  that 
George  IV.,  when  a  young  man,  hatl  been  aipti- 
vated  by  a  beautiful  Jewess,  and  that  the  result 
was  the  young  lady  gave  birth  t4>  a  son.  This  son, 
it  appears,  was  passed  ofl'  aa  the  child  of  a  poor 
Jew,  who  had  charge  of  him,  and  no  doubt  thi« 
was  done  to  save  the  "  fair  fame  "  of  the  mothers 
family,  who  are  Siiid  to  have  been  people  of  great 
weiiith  and  eminent  position  in  London,  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  and  beginning  of  the 
nineteenth  centuries.  My  friend  says  that  an 
allusion  to  **tho  captivation  of  the  prince  by  a 
pretty  Jewess  "  is  made  in  some  memoir,  but  he 
cannot  remember  the  name  of  the  publicjition. 
Can  you,  or  any  of  your  readers,  give  me  the  title 
of  the  memoLr  alluded  to  i  Or  perhaps  some  one 
who  sees  this  letter  may  be  able  to  alfortl  some 
information  on  the  subject.  There  is  a  rumour 
that  the  son  of  the  prince  enlisted  aa  a  soldier, 
attained  high  rank  as  an  officer,  and  died  greatly 
respected*  The  whole  history,  its  I  have  heurd  it, 
is  quite  romantic  ;  but  as  the  lady's  family  very 
naturally  hushed  up  the  affair,  and  mystified  mat- 
ters,  it  is  probable  that  it  may  be  difficult  to  prove 
it.  Perhaps,  however,  some  light  may  be  thrown 
on  the  interesting  history  by  some  of  your  readers. 
Ever  Inquisitive. 

MissAJL. — I  want  information  of  a  Missal  I 
have,  printed,  so  far  as  I  can  nuike  out,  by 
Joannis  Winterburgcr,  in  the  yt^ar  1512,  at  Vienna. 
The  following  is  Lis  rhyme  of  hiniaelf  and  hm 
mark: — 

"  Signa  Tides  lector:  hjliema  ex  aree  Joimnis 
Anguineafi  inter  jaeulum  atnentabile  spiral. 
Anguls  ut  etatem  :  carioaaA  illo  litoraa 
Comiti  in  invidiam  gerit  artia  tela  decorem.^ 

I  confess  to  being  unable  to  make  these  lines 
quite  intelligible  to  myself,  I  should  say  that  the 
text  of  the  Mis.Hiil  puzzles  me  most.  It  is  unlike 
any  with  which  I  have  compared  it.  I  shall  be 
glad  to  show  it  to  any  one  learned  in  old  editions 
of  the  Missal  j  to  write  some  of  its  peculiarities 
would  take  up  a  great  deal  too  much  of  your  space. 

PRoxrNciATiON.^Howshoidd  the  words  hfavm^ 
prayer f  mtre,  be  pronounced  in  singing  or  chant- 
ing— as  if  one  or  two  syUables  (  IcL,  fi^*^  * 


^^^^tfbtflfi^AH 


NOTES  ANB  QUERIES, 


t5tt&ILOcT*S,74 


DAR.'^ — An   inquiry  as  to  th*    poet's   birthplace 

appeared  in  **N.  &  Q."  !■*  S.  iL  410,  jmd  the 

Editor,  on  the  authority  of  Cunningrham'a  Hand- 

Ihook  of  London^  stated  that  he  wrta  l>om  at  24, 

[Holies    Street   (Cavendish   Square).      In   aevenU 

f  biographical  works  this  street  is  mentioned  as  the 

locm  in  quo,  but  without  the  number.    In  the  Life 

by  J.  W.  Lake,  prefixed  to  the  Paris  edition  of  the 

poet's  works  (1828),  the  place  of  birth  is  stated  to 

I  06  Dover.     In  the  sinnhrrsarif  Calendar ^  Natal 

1^00^  and  UniixrsaJ  Mirror^  2  vok.  Stro.  Lond. 

j1832t  under  date  22nd  January,  Loudon   (only) 

appears,  but  a   ?  followg.     The  compiltT  of  this 

work  poasessed  a  wonderful  fund  of  infomiation, 

and  he  must  have  had  some  doubt,     I  therefore 

ask,  where  was  the  iioet  born  ?    I  have  some  faint 

HBooUection  of  having  been  told  several  yeai3  since 

that  the  compiler  of  the  kust-nientioned  work  was 

I  a  gentleman  named  Dixon.     Can  and  will  any  of 

your  readers  inform  me  ?  Geo.  White, 

St  Briaveri,  £piom. 

Chklssa. — Passing  by  the  old  parish  church  of 

Chelsea,  a  short  time  since,  I  entered  into  conver- 

iaation  with  an  old  man,  who,  amongst  other  things^ 

■  told  me  that  he  used  to  live  in  Lewis  Buildings, 

Lawrence  Street^  adjoining  Cheyne  Row.     When, 

and  by  whom,  were  Lewis  Builmngs  erected  (they 

iiave  been  pulled  down)  i    Vim  there  any  family 

raamed  Lewis  connected  with  Chelsea  in  the  seven- 

lleeiith  century,  or  does  the  name  occur  in  the 

ppofish  register  prior  to  17tX)  ?  S, 

Clock- Striking, — In  passing  throiij^h  Ham- 

hxxTg  I  observed  that  the  clock  in  the  lofty  tower 

L  of  St.  Michael's  Onirch  strikes  each  hour  three 

times.     For  example,  when  nix  o'clock  h  past,  at 

I  a  (marter  past  six,  it  strikes  one  for  the  quarter, 

I  and  then  seven  times  ;  and  at  half-past  it  strike*^ 

Itwo,  and  then   seven  ;    but  singularly  at  three- 

I  quarters  past  it  strikes  three  only  ;  then  at  seven 

[ly'clock  it  strikes  four  for  the  qnarters,  and  then 

I^Beren.     Are  there  any  other  clocks  that  strike  like 

this  ?    And  why  does  it  not  strike  seven  at  the 

three-fjuartera  past  1        Josun  MiLL»n,  M.A. 

Berlin, 

*'  IlBaAcLiTPS  RiiiBKs  at  a  Dialogue  between  Jost  and 
EamcBt  coDcerning  the  Tiroes  t  London^  printed  for  6. 
Tooke,  No.  1,  Feb.  1, 1681,  to  No.  82  (aad  lft«t  ?),  16S2." 

Who  wjw  the  author  or  editor  of  this  single- 
leaf  iveekly  publication  1  Is  it  of  any  curiosity  or 
authority  ?  H»  Y, 

Camso  I  Iin'AaLio.— Abont  the  word  intafflia 

there  ca&not  bo  a  doobt,  cither  as  to  its  meaning 

I  or  derivation  ;  and  with  the  conventional  meaning 

I  of  camr4}  we  are  equally  fiLmiliar  ;  but  whenr 

lit  derived?     From  the  Italian  cammtowe  <i 

no  information  as  to  its  origin.     Whence  Li>,.x.  - 

the  Italian  word  I    I  aAk,  as  usual,  to  be  informed 


by  some  of  the  valuable  contributors  to  a  work  Ui 
which  I  have  never  b^en  disappointed  inapMaliij^ 

W.  ifiLT. 

TnE  Peerage  and  Baronetage,— In  Umiavf 
and  Dietrichsen's  Almanack,  the  annual  pablscfltiott 
of  which  is  now  discontinued,  the  peuragrt  were 
enumerated  according  to  their  cnEttlion.  and 
simihirly  with  the  baronetcies  and  knighthooda, 
This  showed  at  a  glance  the  number  of  ereatiow 
of  each  in  each  reign,     la  there  'imtiaa 

that  gives  the  information  in  Uu  > 

JNAi^rwicH. 

CoKDORUs,  Earl  of  Cobjtwall, — 

the  arms  (if  any)  of  Condoms,  last  Saxon 
Cornwall?    Burke's  ^nwory  does  not  giv 
I  thank  HERMENTRunR  for  having  kindly  stmt 
the  FitZ'AIan  pedigree,  W.  O.  TAUxroy. 

"  A  MoDRRir  Account  of  Scotlajid,*'  Ac— 
This  is  apampWet  n^  >  ^  -^    -  T     ■ '     »    --  -  V^-^^  - 
poem  on  the  same  : 
for  J.  Roberts  in  Wt*. ..  -.  x.  -  x.. 
In  ink,  upon   title-page,  "Datt  1 

By  Defo***''     I  shall  feel  obliged  by       -  „    ifd 
if  the  dat«  and  authorship  are  rightly  stated,  i 
if  the  pamphlet  is  of  any  rarity,  J* 

Fak  Manufacturers.— About  l77iK  a  : 
detder  in,  or  maker  of,  fans  lived  on  Ludgate  II 
named  Clarke.  Are  there  any  records  of  him  in  I 
historical  or  an  artistic  point  of  view  1        8t.  Cj 

Symhul   in   Stajned    Glassl— %V1bat    is 

meaning  of  the  following  symbol,  which  ap 
in  painted  ghi#<»  in  the  cast  window  of  the  d 
at    Whitchurch,   near  Stratford-on-Avon,  rii.,J 
human  head  with  the  tongue  ban^iig  out  of  1 
mouth  ?    There  is  one  on  either  side.     I  cano 
tell  the  date,  but  it  is  ancient,  B.  P. 

Sir  Francis  Swift  is  reported  to  have  been  1 
staunch  royalist  m  the  turbulent  times  of  Clmrieff 
To  what  family  did  he  beJoog  I     W.  Winters. 

Waltham  Abbey. 

JoHKL  DB  ToTNEfi.— Where  can  I  procure  ] 
authentic  account  of  this  individual  and  his 
scendants,  also  of  his  Dossessionji  uiul  what  I 

of  them  I     Was  he  a  Nonnari  ^^^ •   ^^ 

the  Conqueror,  or  was  ho  a  '"- 

of  this  country  before  the  Con  ,  ...         : 

The  Crescent,  Bedford. 

Disraeli's  **  Tancrro,'' Book  Vt.  (' 

Is  the  beautiful  description  of  Tancn 
the  Que-      •    "       ^ 
that  re  1 1 


iigio7t. 


vc,   and 
.. .. ...acy  to  M;i      ,  x     .  . 

As  the  latter  has  be^  pn 


] 


»'S.IL0«r.3,'*l} 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


269 


TaTicroL  it  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  fur 
the  r^im^  Mini£^ter  has  anticipated  Max  MiiUer  iu 


hii.  *'  new  "  science. 


G,  Laurence  (]rOMja^ 


SRVK^fTBEyTH-CENTURT  T0KRN8. — W,  Bayiie» 

in  )         '     rruble  work  on  these  tokens,  deacribes 
lb.  ,  which  he  attributes  to  Penkridgie,  in 

jfiiMiirf,  viz* : — 

. — loan  .  PircLLiPCs.— The  Mercers*  Arms.    (In  the 
field.) 
Ber. — tB .  PACBiiKjjE ,  16d5.— HIS  -  bai^  .  pikt. 

Ah  t1i4.  ^|x^ctmen  in  my  pofise^ion  distinctly 
rt?  rDUE»  may  not  the  pkce  of  issue  be 

in  I  St.  Hancraa,  Panend^  being  a  cor- 

FUption  i     ^I'nlt'  Tbnbs's  Curiosilies  of  London^ 
pp,  I  Wand  'j.-^tK)  HKsar  Christie, 

KoGKR  DK  QtJtNCY,  brother  of  Robert  and  son 
of  Seiher  by  Margai'et,  daughter  of  Robert  de 
Mellent.  How  can  this  be  reconciled  with  the 
ViUiiu  of  Matilda  do  OoIIund  to  the  manor  of  Hals 
(Pltcita  f/t  Quti  H'aranto,  p,  550)?  She  traces 
from  Koh«?n  do  Mehm,  Earl  of  Leicester,  through 
AmuiiJ  nnd  Cecliiajhia  daughters  find  heirs  ;  from 
t  ]'  ^  rf,  son  and  heir  ;  from  Robert  to 
\il  ,  Bon  and  heir;  from  Roger  to 

«i....^..»>..  .Old  heir^  &c.,  aa  if  Amicia,  not 
Margaxet,  were  wife  of  Seilier,  and  Roger  hie 
gnuid^n.  B.  R. 

Fnmxcn  Bbpuoeks. — How  can  I  obtain  infor- 
mation respecting  thoae  who  came  over  to  Ireland 
in  the  reign  of  William  IIL,  relative  to  their 
iKUneH,  the  gi-ants  made  to  them,  &c.  ?        H.  B. 


oblij^  for  a  I 

Wrr 


Ts/* — I  should  lie  much 
kU  of  the  *'  5Pt  t  of  the  Caleu- 
occui-8  in  Charles  Liimb'B 

l„.l...  ..,1.1  :„  fftith,  did  vou 
^Tnjftn  ?  You 
-J  aect  of  the 


CiltntUiisU,*  —  '  All  FwA's  LuVr"  Euaifg  ef  MUa^  by 
diarka  Lunh,  p,  55,  new  edit.,  1868. 

O*  H. 

VlOLAHTX,  YOLAKTK,  loLAXTHA,  loLXKT.— Are 

bti6  f^tiUj  ooly  different  forms  of  the  same  female 
Mml  J.  Woodward* 

XoRifUjff  Family. -If  Z.  Z.  {^^  S.  ii,  113)  can 

■-    '  p  any  information  respecting  "  Rosina  lilaria 
and  "Mr?.  Zomlin/'  who  wrote  at  the 
■^  this  century,  I  Bhall  he  much  obliged 
e  to  me,  Owhar  Hahbt. 

FoAT-OFncK  MoKET  Ordkrs  lie  170L— Lack- 
the  booksdJer,  writes  on  the  subject  as 

Jin  lli«  country  fmrnd  it  difficult  to  rcmil  imall 
I  wore  lindcr  bunkers'  noU»,  wlucU  difficutly  is 


uDw  done  aivfty,  as  th«;  poat-maaiers  receive  emjdl  lumi 
of  money,  and  give  drafts  for  (he  s&ooe  on  the  poet-oSice 
in  LoDdon." 

What  was  the  sj-'st^m  and  the  scale  of  ch&i^ges  ? 

George  Ellis. 
St  John's  Wood. 

JoHJT  Weslzt's  Edttioit  of  Thomas  a 
Kempis, — Some  time  since  I  boujfht  a  book,  of 
which  there  is  not  a  copy  in  the  Boilleian,  nor  ia  it 
mentioned  by  Lowndes: — 

"  An  Extract  of  the  Christi&n'g  Pattern  ;  or,  a  Treatise 
on  the  Imitfttion  of  Christ.  Written  in  Latin,  by  Thomoa 
ii  KempiR.  AbriJgcd  and  published  in  English  by  John 
We»ley,  M,A.,  London.  17»3." 

It  ifl  in  Hvo.  sheets,  but  is  only  4  by  24  inches 
in  Hize.  Pp.  97,  98  are  wanting.  There  is  a  Pre- 
face on  the  manner  of  using  the  book.  Will  any 
one  feYOur  me  with  a  transcrijit  of  the  mining 
leaf?  Ed.  Marshall, 

Sondford  8t.  Martin,  Oxon. 


PINA    SILVER. 

(5«»  S.  ii.  168.) 
Having  passed  many  years  of  my  life  in  Chili 
and  Peru,  I  have  seen  ihaplatajnha  manufactured. 
It  is  thus  :  the  silver  ore  having  been  crushed  to  a 
pulp  in  li  mill  reitembling  a  mortar  mill  on  an  iron 
or  granite  *oi«TO,  is  then  transferred  to  a  cylinder 
with  four  radial  anna  revolving  inside  of  it,  and  a 
stream  of  water  running  into  it ;  a  certain  quantity 
of  salt  and  quicksilver  its  then  thrown  into  the 
mass,  and  the.  muddy  or  earthy  particles  haYing 
been  washed  out  at  the  top  of  the  cylinder,  or 
barrel,  the  mercury  takes  up  the  sdver  particlefl 
which  settle  at  the  bottom,  and  ia  conYertea  into  an 
amaJgum.  This  amalgam  is  then  put  into  iron 
mould-,  'ly  six  inches  across  the  bottonii 

three  n  <^  the  top,  and  nine  inches  liW 

intemjili},  "i  an  hexagomd  shape,  having  a  stmrn 
hole  at  the  lesser  end  ;  the  amalgam  is  beaten  in  at 
the  big  end  with  a  wooden  mtiUet,  and  the  excess  of 
mercury  falls  through  ut  the  small  end  into  an 
earthen  pot  to  receive  it  ;  the  mould  hi  then  luted 
at  the  bottom,  over  an  iron  plate,  with  clay,  an 
inverted  tube  luted  over  the  hole  at  the  top,  its 
lower  end  reaching  down  into  a  vessel  of  water, 
and  a  strong  cbarcoid  iire  apphed  all  round  the 
mould.  By  this  means  the  mercury  is  evaporated 
and  condensed  in  the  water,  and,  after  a  certain 
time,  known  to  the  manipulator  by  experience, 
the  fire  is  extinguished,  the  tube  removed,  and, 
when  cold,  the  contents  of  the  mould  shook  out ;  a 
moss  of  spongy  silver,  called  plaia  piltiiy  or,  more 
pro{>erly,  piita  (pronounced  pecn-yii\  fr»>m  itR 
refieinblance  in  shape  somewhat  to  a  nine-apple.  In 
this  porous  state,  it  will  imbil*e  a  large  quantity 
of  water,  and,  to  pre  Yen  t  fraud  in  thid  respect^  it 


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is  now  generally  melted  down  into  2^^^i'<*  barra, 
and  exported  to  Europe  in  this  sbape.  In  steameiB 
I  have  comnmnded  on  tho  west  coast  of  South 
America,  I  have  carried^  from  time  to  time,  many 
tons  of  ailver,  both  "  pina  "  nnd  "  barra,"  from  the 
intermediate  ports,  both  to  Callao  (Lima)  and  Yid- 
paiuiao  (Chili),  representing  millions  sterling.  When 
the  Duke  de  Pakta  wits  apjwinted  Viceroy  of  Peru, 
the  streets  through  which  he  passed  on  his  entry 
into  Lima  were  hteraHy  paved  with  bars  of  ailver, 
valued  at  some  sixteen  millionB  sterling,  which 
had  been  collected  ready  to  ship  on  botird  the 
nert  galleon,  vid  Panama,  for  Spain,  and  the 
commonest  utensils  were  formerly  made  of  silver. 
George  Peacock, 
Pioneer  of  Siemm  N&vigatiDD  in  the  Pacific. 

The  following  extract  is  from  E.  Chambers's 
Cyclopedia ,  .  *  of  Art*  and  SeienceSf  2nd  edit., 
1738:— 

"  Pinea,  or  Pine,  in  commcpce,  a  term  ui©d  in  Pery 
and  Chili,  for  a  kind  of  light,  poroaa  maMea  or  lompi, 
formed  of  a  miiture  of  tnercurvand  tilver-duBt  from  the 
mines.  .  .  .  The  c»re  or  mineral  of  silTer,  being  dug  out 
of  the  veins  of  the  mine,  10  first  broke,  then  ground  in 
mills  for  the  piirpoBe»  driven  by  water  with  iron  peitles 
of  two  hundred  pound  weight  The  mioeral  thus  pul- 
verized i«  next  aifted,  then  worked  up  with  water  iiito  a 
jMtt/e,  wliich^  when  half  dry,  is  cut  into  pieces  called 
euerpo'jt,  a  foot  long,  weighing  each  ahout  two  thouAand 
five  hundred  pounds.  Each  cuerpo  is  again  kneaded  up 
with  Bea-calt,  which  dlBaalving  incorporates  with  it. 
They  then  add  mercuryj  from  ten  to  twenty  punda  for 
each  cuerpo,  kneading  the  paste  a^freah  until  the  mer- 
cury be  incorporated  therewith.  Thii  office  being  ex- 
ceedinglj  dangerom,  by  reason  of  the  noxioua  qiialitiei 
of  the  mercury,  is  the  lot  of  the  poor  Indiana.  .  .  .  Thia 
aiQnIgamation  is  continued  for  eight  or  nine  days :  fl<»me 
add  iimet  lead,  or  tin  ore,  &c.|  to  forward  it;  and  in  eome 
minea  they  are  obliged  to  use  fire.  To  try  whether  or 
no  the  mixture  and  amakamatlon  be  aufficient  tbe^ 
wash  a  piece  in  water,  ana  if  tbe  mercury  b«  white  it 
hfia  had  iti  efect,  if  hlack  it  must  be  further  worked. 
When  enough  it  is  sent  to  the  lavrntories;  which  are  lea^e 
buofu  that  empty  euccosaively  into  one  another.  The 
panto,  kc,  being  laid  in  the  uppermost,  the  earth  is  tlien 
washed  from  it  into  the  reat  by  a  rirulet  turned  upon  it, 
an  Indian  all  the  while  stirring  it  up  with  hia  feet,  and 
two  other  Indians  doing  the  like  in  the  other  basons. , .  . 

"When  the  water  runa  quite  clear  out  of  the  baaona 
they  find  the  niercurv  and  silver  at  bottom^  incorporated. 
Thia  matter  they  ciJl  petta,  and  by  thii  they  form  tho 
phuas  hy  expressing  as  much  of  tho  mercury  aa  they 
can  ;  first  by  putting  it  in  woollen  bajgs  atid  pressing  and 
beating  it  strongly;  then  by  stamping  it  in  a  kind  of 
wooden  mould  of  an  octagonal  form  at  bottom,  whereof 
is  a  braas  plate  nleroed  full  of  Utile  boles. 

"  The  matter  being  token  out  of  the  mould  ia  laid  on  a 
trivet,  under  which  ia  a  Large  vessel  full  of  water ;  and 
the  whole  heing  covered  with  an  earthen  head,  a  fire 
ia  made  around  it. 

'*  The  mercury  still  remaining  in  the  maaa  ta  thus  re- 
duced into  fumes,  and  at  length  condensing  is  precipitated 
into  the  wat^r,  leaving  behind  it  a  maaa  of  silver  grains 
of  different  figures,  which,  only  Joining  or  touching  at 
the  extremes,  render  the  matter  very  porous  and  tight. 

•*  Thia,  then,  is  pinea*  or  pwna  which  the  workmen 
end^aTour  to  sell  secretly  to  the  vessels  trading  to  the 


South  Sea ;  and  from  which  thoae  who  have  ventured  to 
angage  in  so  dangerous  a  commerce  have  made  such  Tast . 
gatns.     Indeed  the  traders  herein  must  be  verr  canfol^l 
for  the  Spanish  miners  are  errant  knaves,  and  to  mak»  ] 
the  p\gntM  weigh  more  make  a  practice  of  fiUiog  ika 
middle  with  sand  or  iron." 

Mabel  Phacock, 
Bottesford  Manor,  Bngg. 

Pina  silver  ia  silver  in  the  shape  of  a  wi^  loaf,  J 
a  form  which  it  a^iimes  during  the  process  of  the  ! 
aepumtioQ  of  the  pure  metal  from  the  ore,  and  J 
before  cast  into  bars,  when  it  is  as.sayed  at  thai 
king's  stAinping  hou^,  and  a  mark  set  ■ 
uccording  to  its  fineneBS.  This  may  )>< 
from  a  work  in  great  estimation^  On  th>.  _ 
and  Moral  History  of  tM  East  and  HV^f  i»di«r,J 
by  Joseph  d^Acosta,  the  original  editions  of  whic^ 
were  published  at  Seville  in  1590,  4to«,  and 
Barcelona  in  1591,  8vo. 

After  describing  (cap.  v*  d  teq,)  the  differenil 
stages  of  tho  purilication  of  tlie  ore,  by  means  t 
heat,  Wiishing  in  water,  and  the  partial  eicpiilsioa 
of  the  quicks Uver  by  the  pressure  of  the  ma&  ' 
cloth,  the  author  proceeds  to  state  that — 

*'  The  rest  of  the  ma*a»  in  form  lile  a  tuffttr  tpaf^  1 
coTered  with  an  earthen  pan  of  thai  Jkapt;  and  a||rea 
firo  haTiofj^  been  kindled  around  it,  all  the  quicksilvtttl 
runt)  out  at  a  pipe,  aa  distilled  water  from  a  lembick,  and 
the  silver  remains  in  tkt  tavie  tkapi,  sknd  of  the  MOte 
bulk,  but  in  weight  less  by  four-fifths,  and  <*/(  IxH  a 

which  explains  how  the  water  wa«  *^8oked  Mid 
gott  into  a  part  of  the  Pina*  silver." 

William  Platt. 
CoDservatife  Club. 


"The  Arch-^ological  Epistle  to 
MiLLEs"  (5tt»  a  ii.  15t),  251.)— I  am  in  II  ] 
to  state  most  confidently  that  Tht  Ardux^ 
Epistk  was  written  by  John  Baynes,  My  auti 
is  that  learned  and  accurate  scholar,  the  late  Fi 
Douce  J  who  had  known  Baynes  intimately,  '• 
always  spoke  of  him  in  the  highest  terms. 
member  his  once  repeatrog  to  m©  a  dictum  ' 
Baynes's  on  the  sin  of  publishing  a  book  witho( 
an  index.  Lord  Campbell  would,  I  believe,  hav 
been  contented  with  hanging  the  otfender  ;  not  1 
John  Baynes,  whose  judgment  went  far  beyoo 
this.  Those  who  rememoer  my  venerable  fner 
and  know  the  ore  rottmdo  with  which  he  delivc 
the  following  Shanda^an  curse,  will  readily  believd 
that  every  shelf  in  that  beautiful  Ubnu^  in  Gow«^ 
Street  trembled  at  the  sound  :— "  Sir,*'  Job* 
Baynes  used  to  say,  "  Sir,  the  man  who  pub 
a  book  without  jm  index  ought  to  be  damn6 
thousand  miles  beyond  hell,  where  the  devill 
get  for  stinging  nettles  I  ^ 

Mr.  Hemming's  query,  and  the  replies  of  yoti 
correspondentSi  have  served  to  recall  to  tny  1 

•  Pina,  in  Spanish,  signifies  '*any  itone,  ttakfi  * 
other  thing  like  a  sugar-lotif/' 


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tDimy  pleftsajit  hours  spent  in  that  "  perfection  of 
ft  library "  nt  the  foot  of  the  Gumaliel  who  had 
formed  it,  and  many  good  and  ripe  scholars,  whose 
2icqiiaiDtAn6e  it  was  my  good  fortune  to  make 
within  its  walk  during  the  seven  years  from  1827 
to  1834,  when  I  was  a  privileged  visitor  to  it. 

Amoni*  these  were  the  late  Mr,  Singer,  whom, 
he  told  me»  ^*  N.  &  Q/*  called  from  a  literary 
ment  which  had  lifted  many  years ;  Sir 
kcifl  (then  Mr.)  Palgrave  ;  the  late  ^Ir.  James 
He^ood  Markknd  ;  Sir  F.  Miidden  ;  Sir  Henry 
Ellis,  then,  as  to  the  end  of  hia  long  and  useful 
life,  full  of  information  and  racy  anecdote ;  and  last, 
though  not  least,  one  who  contributed  in  no  small 
dcigree  to  caD  forth  that  spirit  of  historical  investi- 
gation which  has  characterized  English  literature 
during  the  last  half  century, — I  mean  the  learned 
author  of  The  Ouiio^itie^  of  Litcraiure, 

I  first  saw  Mr.  D'lsraeli  in  Gower  Street  about 
1S27,  and  my  last  interview  with  him  was  in  the 
libmry  of  the  Athena^um,  in  the  aiimmer  of  1839. 
Two  incidents  have  served  to  fix  that  interview 
strongly  in  my  memory.  The  Jii-atwus  the  warm  and 
drttt^ring  manner  in  which  he,  a  Nestor  in  litera- 
ture, waa  kind  enough  to  speak  to  me,  a  mere  tyro 
in  Dook-w*ork,  of  a  little  volume  which  I  had  just 
edited  for  the  Camden  Society,  and  showed  his 
earnestness  by  urging  me  to  bring  out  a  second 
Tolume,  and  pointing  out  where  I  might  find 
some  materials  for  it.  The  Bceond,  which  has  a 
special  and  painful  interest  for  me  at  this  time, 
was  his  describing  to  me  the  peculiar  form 
which  the  loss  of  .night,  with  which  he  waa  shortly 
after  visited,  was  at  that  time  assuming. 

William  X  Thoks. 

BorBLE  Christian  Names  (S**"  S.  IL  226.) — 

Ward,  referring  to  a  query  in  the  Fall  Mall 

_^  ^        -of  loth  August,  in  which  a  case  is  cited  as 

Fmentioned  in  1680,  and  the  question  is  put,  **  What 

is  tJie  earliest  example  of  a  double  Christian  name 

^Sngland  i "  asks  for  further  notes.    I  find  several 

of  double  Christian  name,  or  double   sur- 

one   surname   being   used   as   a  Christian 

name,  though  very  possibly  not  given  to  the  child 

to  church  at  the  time  of  baptisuu     I  believe  thait 

•odi  nami^s  were  much  commoner  than  is  supposed  ; 

'r  thrit  r]HA-  have  commonly  been  omitted  by  the 

Makers,     The  first  case  is  that  of  Sir 

uent  FLiher,  of  Packington»  in   the 

Warwick,  born  somewhere  in  the  six- 

Iltury.    The  next  are  the  son  and  grandson 

'mhf!T  I>ilke  of  Shustoke,  in  the  county  of 
iWarwick,  who  was  bom  in  1595.  He  married . 
lEybil  Wimtwortb,  and  his  son  was  called  "  Fisher ; 
|I>ilke,  otherwi«*e  Wentworth,**  of  Wobton,  in  the 
Icoiinty  of  WarwicliL  He  was  born  probably  about 
ll63ci  The  grandson  is  eddied  Fisber  Dilke  Went- 
lihe  pedigrees.  He  was  born  in  1655,  and 
Iftt^ustoke.  b. 


The  subject  of  early  double  Christian  names  was 
discussed  in  Malone's  Inquiry  concerning  Ireland's 
Shiikspeare  forgeries,  1796,  Svo.  pp.  226,  et  acq., 
where  he  says,  and  gives  reasons,  **that  in  the 
beginning  of  the  last  [seventeenth]  century,  and 
long  afterwards,  persons  of  the  first  rank  in  Eng- 
knd  were  contented  with  one  Christian  name." 
Ho  was  evidently  not  aware  of  what  appears  to.  be 
one  exception.  "  Many  of  the  English  Bibles, 
printed  from  1578  to  1620  and  after,  are  supple- 
mented by  **  Two  Right  Profitable  and  Frvitefvll 

Concordances Collected  by  R.  F.  H."    The 

Preface  is  dated  and  signed  "  this  xxij  of  December, 
Anno  Domini  1578.  Thine  in  the  Lord,  Robert 
F.  Henry.'*  Thomas  Kerslakk. 

BriBtoh 

In  an  article  on  "  Parish  Registers,"  by  R,  E.  C. 
Waters,  reprinted  from  the  Honue  and  Foreign 
EemtiCj  it  is  stated  that  "  Henry  Algernon,  fifth 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  whose  household  book  is 
well  known  to  antiquarians,  was  bom  January  13, 
1477-8,  and  his  double  name  appears  on  his  garter 
plate  in  St.  George's  Chapel."  Mr.  Waters's 
essay,  full  of  curious  information  vivaciously  con- 
vey^,  is  well  worth  reading.  The  folly  of  re- 
duplication of  Chrisftian  names  became  manifest 
when  such  an  entry  as  the  following  appeared : — 

"Burbago,  Wilts,  1?S1.  Charks  CaracUcas  Ostorius 
Maximilian  Gustaviu  AdolphuSj  sod  of  Charles  StonPj 
tailor,  bftpt.  2SJ  April" 

That  tailor  must  have  imagined  a  glorious  future 
for  his  son  with  the  sesquipedalian  name. 

Mortimer  Collins, 
Knowl  Hill,  Berks. 

**AcLD  Robin  Gray^'  {5^  S.  iL  205.)— The 
remarks  of  C.  on  this  subject  require  some  qualifi- 
cations and  additions  to  present  the  actual  facts  of 
the  cQ£e. 

His  general  statement  seems  to  imply  that  the 
btdlad  was  not  originally  written  with  reference  to 
an  existing  air,  but  was  first  set  to  music  by  Mr. 
Leevcs  forty  years  after  the  words  were  written. 

This  is  not  correct.  The  circumstaoces  ore  fiilly 
set  forth  in  a  letter  from  the  authoress,  Lady  Ann 
Lindsay  (then  Lady  Ann  Barnard),  to  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  in  1624,  printed  with  the  song  by  the  Banna- 
tyne  Club.  The  song  was  wTitten  with  special 
reference  to  an  old  Scottish  air,  **  The  bridegroom 
greits  when  the  sun  gaes  down,"  the  worda  of 
which  were  rather  coarse.  Lady  Ann  was  pas- 
sionately fond  of  this  melody.  She  says,  '^I  longed 
to  sing  old  Sophy's  air  to  different  words,  and  give 
to  its  plaintive  tones  some  little  history  of  virtuous 
distress  in  humble  life  such  as  might  suit  it,''  &c. 
Hence  the  beautiful  ballad,  which  has  touched 
with  a  tender  feeling  thousands  of  hearts  from  that 
day  to  this. 

For  forty  years  it  was  eung  to  the  oci^nskl  ^\  \ 


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[ip  8.  n.  ocf:s,^ 


bub  it  must  be  acknowledgetl  that  Mr.  Le^ves's 
melody  baa  worthily  supenseiled  it. 

The  old  air,  however,  is  usually  snag  to  the  first 
i»tikn)ia  m  an  introductioti  to  the  theme,  and  will 
generally  be  found  preiixcd  to  the  publii?hed  copies 
of  the  music,  I  am  not  aware  that  it  iy  any  new 
discovery  that  Mr.  Leevea  was  the  composer  of  the 
modern  air.  It  will  be  found  usually  attached  to 
any  notice  of  the  song  :  see  the  Book  of  Scoiiuh 
ahttg^  published  by  Messrs.  Blackie  &  Son,  1840. 

J.    A,    PlCTOK. 

BAndjknowe^  Wavcrtree. 

It  may  interest  C,  or  other  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.," 
to  know  that  the  ballad  Auld  Bobin  Gray  wa« 
originally  sung  to  an  old  Scotch  air,  called  The 
Bridegroom  GraL  I  fjincy  Mr.  Leeves'«  air  is 
not  the  only  one  that,  without  any  real  claims,  is 
popukrly  supposed  to  be  Scotch.  To  cite  one 
i;aseT  the  present  muaie  to  lyithin  a  MiU  of  Edin- 
burgh Town  was  composed  by  Mr.  James  Hook^ 
of  Norwich,  the  father  of  Theodore  Hook.  Here, 
too,  as  in  AtUd  Mobin  trray,  there  is  an  older  air^ 
modt  probably  Scotch,  now  seldoiu,  if  ever,  sung. 
W.  J.  AIacadaj*. 

Althorpe  Bottd^  Upp€r  Tooting. 

The  Americak  States  :  IVfAiKE  (5**»  S.  ii.  82, 
174.) — In  an  article  copied  into  **  K.  &  Q./' 
August  lat,  it  is  stated  that  *'  Maine  was  so 
called,  as  early  a5  1633,  from  Maine  in  France,  of 
which  Henrietta  Maria,  Queen  of  England,  w;i8  at 
that  time  proprietor.'* 

This  derivation  is  very  frequently  given  as  the 
true  one,  but  it  is  evidently  wrong,  us  Mr,  Tuttle 
has  proved  in  an  article  'priuted  in  the  Bodon 
Evining  Tnmsrripl^  June  8,  1872,  from  which  I 
make  the  following'  extract : — 

"The  name  of  Maine  was  firat  authoritatiTely  and 
deliberutoly  applied  to  that  part  of  tbe  State  lyiD^f  west 
of  the  Kennebec  RiTer  in  the  charter  of  the  great 
Counoil  for  New  Enj^land,  granting  thi**  territory  to  Sir 
Ferdioando  Gorgee  nntl  Captain  J^jlm  >la»on,  dated 
August  iO,  1622.  In  this  churter  it  is  Atyled  the  '  Pro- 
vince of  Maine/  This  event  was  nearly  two  years 
before  the  Princef^  Henrietta  Martu  of  Prunes  was 
tbooght  of  foi'  a  wife  to  Prince  Charles  of  England.  At 
the  time  thia  name  was  inserted  in  the  chttrter,  a  mar- 
rtage  treaty  was  pending,  and  had  been  for  some  years, 
between  the  Courts  of  England  and  fc^tmin,  having  U\r 
its  object  the  marriage  of  Prince  Charles  and  the  Infanta 
Maria,  daughter  of  Philip  III.  of  Spain.  A  niRrriiigo  of 
these  royal  partiea  Wiw  expected  until  early  In  the  ycjir 
lti-4.  it  is  clear  from  tbis  luid  other  circu nut anees  that 
could  be  mentioned,  that  tbe  nfiudng  of  Maine  liad 
nothing  to  do  with  Henrietta  Maria  of  France^  as  alleged. 
1 1  mny  add,  in  this  connection,  that  I  expect  to  «how»  in 
\my  Liffof  CapUiin  John  Matrnt,  ioon  to  go  to  press, 
th»t  tbia  Spanifih  Infanta  wm  deeignedly  complimented 
about  tbia  time  in  the  naming  of  a  district  in  New  Etig- 
luud,  granted  by  the  great  council  a  curioua  fact  over- 
looked by  bUtoriaas. 

"It  itoemf  rciijonably  certidii  that  tbe  State  of  Maine 
owei  its  name  to  no  European  state,  province,  or  peraon- 
%^  hot  to  ita  own  unique  geographical  features.    Years 


before  the  name  appeared  in  this  charter  to  Ooriges  i 

Maaon,  ita  territory,  or  t\>.>  Vtn.^nA  i^^rf  .,i  ;«    w^ai 

monly  designated  by  1 

Main,' variously  spelt, 

parts  lying  off  the  shore.    ThiH-iriguiof  ibc  namf#^ 

posed  long  ago,  seems  to  bo  the  troe  ane.*' 

One  of  the  ishinds,  Monhegan,  was 
an  early  dat^.     Mr.  Folsom,  of  New  ^i 
author  of  the  Hutory  of  Saro  and  Bid^**jirt 
an  address,  September  6,  1646,  before*  tlie 
Historical  Society,  saya,  in  K'fereac^  to 
vation  : — 

**  Unfortunataly  for  its   acctfracy,  *>"^    ?* 
Maine  iu  France  did  not  appertain  to  '  irictls 

Maria,  but  to  the  crown  [of  France]  ;  ih  <  of  li- 

able that  she  posoossed  any  interest  in  tht-  pro^inc«.'* 
John  Wabd  Deax 

Boston,  Massachusetts,  U.S.A, 

WigcoDsin  is  called  the  "Badger  Stntp' 
that   animal    being  found    there  ;    K<  «! 

**  Silver  State,"  from  the  great  nunibi  el 

uunes  in  it»  JNL 

"LUCUS  A    SION    LtTCEKDO"   (D*^  S,    11       -f''   ^ 

would  su^''gest  **  lux  in  tenebris  "  aa  the 
fication  of  the  Latin  luciUf  and  its  nt.ir 
equivalent  to  be  our  word  ^lad^^ 
by  the  I>e8t  authorities,  referred  to  ^i 
"  to  lighten  up,''  understanding  liy  it  a  alin  ?' 
green  sward,  open  to  the  sun'a  rays,  in  the  lu 
of  a  wood.     Suoh  a  locality  seema  to  hure  he^^^n  i 
the  mind  of  Livy  when  he  wrote  (Lib.  xxiv»,  cap*  3 
^'  LuctiB   ibi,   frequent!   silva   et  proceri^   abtet' 
arlx)rib«s  septus^  beta  in  medio  pusouu  habuit  ^ 
for   liicti^i  here    connects   itself    better   witb 
pasture  than  with  the  surrounding  wood  ;  but 
knguuge  is  not  exact.     Cicero,  on  the  coot 
describing  a  grav«  covered  with,  aa  well  as  1 
in,  by  a  thicket,  leavea  no  doubt  of  bi«  i 
"  Septum  undique  et  vestitum  vepribus  ei  i 
sepmcbrmn  "  (Tmsc,  v.,  23).    Is  not  the  foeii 
lucui  being  held  sacred  unfavoumbic  to  Ibe 
gested  derivation  from  the  G nek    \rKoq(     liy 
in  the  chapter  just  cited,  prtj'  ;  eak  of  I 

aacred  tlocks  as  "nuuquuin  i  iurunit  i 

frande  violati  hominum."  This  .statement,  tbot^ 
not  to  be  taken  for  more  than  it4»  worth,  militAbes 
strongly  ngainat  the  supposition  that  ft  htaut  wu 
commonly  regarded  aa  a  covert  for  wolves. 

Some  derive  lucus  firom  Xvyif,  darkness,  glooH 
shade,  obscurity ;  or  from  Ao^o?,  an  ambtu' 
(Ao;^)ui>^,  a  thicket,  a  place?  proper  for  an  amb 
ca.d«j.  It  is  most  probably  from  lucns,  L  q.,  I 
from  the  light  sliining  in  at  the  entrance*  y%  , 
would  seem  to  come  from  aktuTrrj^,  tbrougfil 
FaXuiTTrj^.  R.  S.  CitARNOCir. 

Grays  Inn. 

Unauthorized  Aiucft  (5*^  S.  iL  IfiT.)— ' 
can  be  no  doubt  that  there  are  many  tiimlies 


«w|^l 


6<»  8. 11.  001.3, '74.] 


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hesa  firms,  nnd  who  have  done  so  for  severttl  cen- 
tarieci,  Mliich  no  record  is  to  be  found 

in  tht*  li  allege. 

The  folio wiai^  instances  are  fresh  in  my  memory: 

1.  A  sergeant  !it  law,  Virin^  m  the  eurlier  part 
of  the  fieveat^oiith  century.  He  came  of  a  family 
who,  for  Neveml  t^enerutions  bfick,  had  been  calletl 

lUemen  in  olficird  d»X'tmienU.    His  amis  appear 
ft  eoTitrniV'**^''"^^'  hcntldic  work  relating  to  the 
OMinty  of  which  he  was  a  native  ;  and  one  edition 
"  not  more)  of  a  book  pubHshud  by  hiiu  contains 
on  the  back  of  the  title.     No  record  of  a 
coniirmation  of  armi^  to  any  member  of 
!y  b  to  bo  found  in  the  Heralds'  College, 
The  coat  has  every  mark  of  antiquity.     Few  Eng- 
bearin«^  are  ip '^"  -««Mi.le. 

2.  A  di«tin*i^ii  i  in  the  Parliamentarian 
Ini  n.'uur^.             I  war.     His  father  and 

^j,  \ft*rf   men  of  good   position   in   the 

riLi  lid  of  London  ;  he  hove  his  armf5  on 

his  seal,  evidently  n  signet  ring,  impaled  with 
thooi^  of  his  wife.  The  coat  is  a  very  Bingidar  one, 
does  not  belon;^  to  any  other  English  family,  and 
is  very  unlikely  to  have  been  invented  in  the 
.seventeenth  century.  These  arms  are  not  on  the 
Herald.*'  tipgiater. 

3.  A  member  of  a  well-known   family  in   an 
m  county  held  an  othcial  position  in  the  reign 

Elizi\beth.     The  arms  of  the  famUy  Imd 
n  in  the  Heralds'  book^.    TbiH  member  of 
le,  however,  used  on  his  seal  another  coat, 
which  is  not  regLHtered.    This  coat,  I  was  informed 
«otne  ten  year*  ago,  by  the  then  representative  of 
the  family  (himself  an  accomplished  genealogist), 
not  the  arniA  of  some  ancestress  which  he  had 
adopted,  but  a  bearing  which,  though  never  ad- 
mitted by  the  hendds,  had  been  used,  in  various 
forms,  by  other  members  of  the  fondly,  at  earlier 
ami  later  period.^ 

4.  A  fiimily  who  have  been  in  the  rank  of  the 
itry  from  the  reign  of  Richard  III.  or  earhcr. 

ir  arms  existed  in  stained  gla^s,  till  about  sixty 
rears  agoi,  in  the  windows  of  a  church  where  they 
Dtmed  their  dead  in  the  fifteenth  century*  They 
M9  mentioned  by  one  nf  our  great  seventeenth- 
Cf  r*  "'  '  TiJdic  writf^rs,  and  their  coat  appears 
D[  plate    piirebiused    in    1C53,   yet   the 

b:  „..+  i,;t.  ,  of  them. 

'^  I  hiiv©  carefully  investi- 
g  wt^re  aeedfQl,  iidd  many 

««!  Axoif*  ' 

>La  nuiiGH  Magician  (5*^ 

8^  iL  1  vements  in  the  neigh- 

wjod  of  Uui  W  <st  iiow,  Edinburgh,  '^near  the 

e,"    have    swept    away   all   vestiges    of   the 

haunte<i "   anrl   ilm k    aWle  of    thij*    notorious 

IDdiridual.  aad  the  nite  i^  covered  by  a  building 

(3  the  Seee^fiou  Chuick     A  woodcut 

"  is  given  in  Chiunben^s  Minor  Tro- 


ditiom  nf  Editdturghf  1833,  where  it  is  shown  as 
within  a  courtyard,  approached  from  the  Bow  by  a 
narrow  covered  entrance  still  Rtanding,  and  which 
forms  the  subject  of  a  vignette  in  Mr.  Wilson's 
Memoriah  of  Edinburgh  iti  Uit  Olden  TinUf 
Edinburgh,  1848.  J.  Manuel, 

Newdwtle-opon-Tyne. 

Major  Weirds  house  was  not  near  the  castle,  but 
in  the  Bow,  on  the  right  hand  coming  up  from  the 
Grass  Market*  I  have  constantly  i^&s&sd  it  as  a 
child,  and  was  always  very  glad  to  get  out  of  its 
vicinity*  Tliere  was  a  tradition  that  Major  Weir*8 
carriage  used  to  rattle  down  the  Bow  at  12  o'clock 
p.M,,  and  also  that  his  stick— said  to  bo  a  witch — 
could  and  did  go  t-o  fetch  hia  snuif  from  a  neigh- 
bouring shop*  On  a  wooden  door,  painted  green^ 
I  distinctly  remember  the  words  '*  no  admittance 
except  on  business."  What  the  business  was  I 
never  inquired,  bein^,  as  I  have  jwiid,  very  glad  to 
get  away  from  the  plaoe.         Isabella  Swifte, 

"The  Twa  Corbies,*' ok  "The Three  Ravkits*' 
(5^  S,  ii,  189.)— Mr.  Peacock  will  find  another 
version  of  **The  Twa  Corbies,"  taken  from  Mother- 
wells  Collection,  at  p.  227  of  Tft^  Legendary 
BallafU  of  England  and  Scotland,  edited  by  J.  S. 
Roberts  (London,  Wame  &  Co.), 

Alexakdkr  MACKiNTOsn  Shaw. 

London  compared  with  Antioch  (5^  S.  ii, 
146,)  — The  tetnuitich  was  written  by  Jofhn] 
Qu[arle8].  Tlie  plate  itself  waa  prefixed  to  Thomaa 
Fuller's  four  aerraon«,  16»^7,  entitled  Th€  Be$i 
Name  on  Earth;  the  tirst  being  on  the  text,  '*And 
the  ilisciples  were  called  Chriiitiims  first  in  An- 
tioch/*  I  am  anxious  to  learn  whether  John 
Stafford  (whose  name,  as  the  publisher  of  tho 
sermons,  is  on  the  plate)  used  the  same  enmving 
for  any  other  work.  A  copy  of  The  Best  JVarae  is 
now  before  me  ;  but  some  Holhir  collector  has 
laid  violent  hands — *'' convey  the  wise  it  call** — 
on  the  frontispiece,  which  is  also  missing  in  other 
copies  that  1  have  seen.  I  shall  be  grateful  to 
Mr.  Patterson  for  permission  to  copy  his  engrav- 
ing for  my  forthcoming  edition  of  Thomas  Fullei's 
Collected  Sermom;.  Jomr  K  Baxlet* 

8tr«tford,  Mancheftcr, 

*'  Unaocostomrd  as  I  am  to  Public  Speak- 
ing'* (5***  S.  t.  367,)— Ovid  places  Ajox  in  this 
position : — 

**  Sod  nfio  mihi  dic^re  promptom ; " 

MeL,  Lib.  xiii.  10. 
F.  Dandy-Palmer, 

HERKDITART    K^flOHTS   OF   THE   OrDER   OF   St, 

JoHK  (5**^  S.  i,  468.)— In  the  Onler  of  8t.  John 
there  were  formerly  Hereditary  Knights  of  the 
Grand  Cross  who  had  the  right  to  transmit  that 
dignity  to  their  descendants.  This  favour  wiu* 
very  rarely  conferred,  and  w^  \J&&  \ss^^\^^\h«e:^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[B-S.IL0cr.Jt7*. 


1 


great  aervices  rendered  to  tihe  Order.  In  France 
the  fimiilies  of  Notiillea,  St.  Simon,  Vignaoouit, 
&c.,  were  thus  diBtinguished.  I  have  never  heard 
or  read  of  Hereditary  Commanders  or  Chevaliers, 
but  such  may  have  existed,  and  the  extract  given 

hy  D s  may  be  taken  as  evidence  that  this 

was  the  case.  J.  Woodward. 

31oatrofe. 

"As  sotriiD  AS  A  tbout"  (5«»  S.  il  224.)— 
"  As  sound  03  a  roach  ^*  is  a  Tery  common  proverb 
in  this  county^  and  perhaps  elsewhere.        E.  B. 

Bottoti. 

Transit  op  Venus  :  Jeremiah  Horrocks  (5^ 
S.  ii.  205.)— Costard,  in  hm  HUtoryof  Astronmny, 
calls  Horrox,  or,  as  hia  name  should  rightly  be 
spelled,  Horrochf  "  a  young  clei^^man "  ;  and 
Thomaa  Heame,  in  his  Antiquarian  Notes,  says 
he  waa  **  minister  of  Hoole,"  which  is  about  five 
miles  from  Preston,  in  Lancashire.  I  think  a 
record  of  the  fact  tliat  the  Erst  observer  of  the 
transit  of  Venus  was  in  holy  orders,  and,  at  the 
time  he  made  the  observation,  iind  when  he  died, 
curate  of  St.  MichaePa,  Hoole,  should  not  have 
been  omitted  from  the  epitaph  to  his  memorj^, 
erected  by  HoWeu,  the  aatronoiuer.  This  epitaph, 
as  quoted  by  M.  C*  J*,  says  the  observations  were 
made  by  Horrodcs  at  BootU.  There  is  a  mistake 
somewhere.  Is  not  Booth  a  misprint  for  Hoole  '\  I 
should  mention  that  a  very  interesting  notice  of 
Horrocks,  baaed  on  What  ton's  Memoir^  will  be 
found  in  the  Qucmvv&rt  FarUh  Magazine^  for 
Sept.,  1874,  Considering  how  much  astronomers 
are  indebted  to  Horrocks,  I  am  surprised  to  find 
no  mention  of  him  in  any  of  Mr.  R.  A.  Proctor's 
books — The  (Sun,  Light  ikiencefor  Leimrt  Sours j 
or  Other  Worlds  than  Ours — all  of  which  treat  more 
or  less  of  the  approaching  transit. 

S.  R.  TowNSHEND  Mater. 

Sbeendalt^  Hkbmondi  Suit«j. 

"Iroh  Virgin,"  Nuremberg  (5*^  S.  ii.  209.) 
— See  **  The  Kiss  of  the  Virgin,  a  Kanative  of 
Researches  mode  in  Crermany  in  1832  and  1834  for 
th£  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  Mode  of  Inflicting 
that  Ancient  Punishment  ....  by  R.  L,  Pejirsall,^ 
in  A  rc}i(Fologiay  voL  xxvii.  p.  22&.  This  paper  is 
illustmted  by  engravings  of  the  machine.  The 
writi>r  had  only  succeeded  in  seeing  one  instrument 
of  this  k j  nd,  but  had  heard  of  se vei^  more.  1  believe 
that  others  are  now  known  to  be  in  existence.  I 
shall  be  obliged  to  any  one  who  will  point  out 
where  any  of  them  may  bo  seen*  Mr.  PearsaO'a 
paper  was  rear!  before  the  Society  of  Antiquaries 
IB  1837.  I  shall  be  gbid  to  be  referred  to  engravings 
or  books  of  an  earlier  date  in  which  the  Jungfem- 
htus  in  delineated  or  described, 

Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Muior^  Brigg. 

See  *'N,  &  Q.''  4^  B,  y,  35,  151,  255.    There  is 


an  interesting  article,  caUed  "  The  Maiden**  Ki»,** 
in  Chamherds  Journal,  for  Dec.  26,  1863. 

John  Pickford, 
^ewboume  Reotoryj  Woodbridge. 

"Grewe,"  le.  Greek  (5*^  S.  iL  204-)— la 
Ulster,  the  country  people  call  a  greyhound  a  j^vcir. 
The  late  Mn  Richardson,  in  his  V  ■-  '•  '  •••-  >^ok 
about  dogs,  calls  the  greyhound  <  nd 

conjectures  that  it  derived  its  iiu:*..  :,...,  ...;;;  of 
Greek  origin,  S.  T.  P* 

"  Monsieur"  and  "  Madajmb"  (5«>  S.  ii.  a>5,)— 
The  following  extract  from  a  journal  of  1738  shows 
A  curious  us^  of  the  word  Madame : — 

"  Paria,  Feb.  23,  1738.—*'  The  marriftgc  of  the  Mni 
AtAd&me  of  Prance  with  tbe  Infant  Don  Pbil'tp.  and  vf 
the  second  Madame  with  tbe  icoond  son  of  the  King  of 
Sardinia,  were  declared  jeaterday  at  Veraaillet.'* 

W.  H,  Pattersok. 

Queen  Caroline  (5^  S.  ii.  22o,)~Her  appear- 
ance at  his  coronation  was  forbidden  by  George  IV.^ 
but  its  possibility  rendered  him  jminfuUy  nervous. 
I  wtia  told  by  Sir  Thomas  Mash  that  the  report  of 
her  object  haviug  been  partly  accomplished  Wl  fo 
agitated  His  Majesty,  that,  had  not  a  glass  of 
brandy  been  at  hand,  he  could  not  have  gnne 
through  the  royal  solemnity.  My  own  responiiible 
office  gave  me  occasion  to  know  that  c*  i  les 

of  plute,  and  aooessoriea  of  the  corona  t  Let, 

had  been  appropriated  by  persons  \w\\m<i  loyal 
feehngs  had  maae  them  desirous  to  po^ess  me^ 
mo  rials  of  that  event ;  one  lady  had  been  seen 
pocketing  a  spoon,  and  declined  its  restoration, 
which  being  insisted  on,  she  exclaimed — oompal- 
sion  also  hinted  at— ^*  2kian,  lay  a  finger  on  lue, 
and  I  will  scream  my  heart  out ! "  Aware  of  the 
consequence  of  any  alarm,  the  attendant  suffered 
her  to  carry  off  her  booty. 

Edmukd  Lsitthali*  Swifts. 

Biblical  Evidence  (G***  S.  ii.  228.)— Dr.  Th. 
Sherlock,  Bishop  of  London,  piiblisbed  Tht  Trial 
of  the  Witntuu  of  the  Euurrection,  London,  1729. 
It  has  been  pubfished  with  "The  Sequel  of  the 
Trial "  in  Chruiian  Literaiurc^  Bohn,  1S48. 

Ed*  Marshall. 

Shotover:  Chateau-Vert  (5**  S.  ii.  91,  l^i 
197.) — The  following  entry  in  the  earliest  Pip« 
Roll  (31  Henry  I.,  a.d.  1130-31),  which  occnn 
under  the  account  for  Oxfordshire,  seems  to  show 
that  the  corruption  of  **  Ch4teau-Vert  '*  into  tome- 
thing  very  like  "  Shotover  "  must  have  begun,  if  it 
ever  took  place  at  all,  less  than  fifty  years  after  the 
compilation  of  Domesday  Book  ;  sunposin^r  that 
the  entry  does  not  tend  to  prove  that  the  d' 
of  "  Shotover  "  from  **  ChiUeau-VeTt "  i^ 
more  than  a  conjecture  founded  on  aituitiiiKy  vi 
sound : — 


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^ 


"Hueo  foreftariuf  de  Sotora  reddit  Gompotum  de  x. 
tolidia  die  Teteri  Centu  forette  de  Solora." 

The  won!  "  Sotora  ^'  occurs  in  the  same  toU  in 
the  Euscoimt  for  Gloucesterahire  : — 

**  Monichi  Gloeoeitrie  rcddunt  conipotum  de  c.  llhtia 
pro  tismi  de  Sotoi^  quam  Kex  eis  coacesslt" 

Now.  the  Monastery  of  St,  Peter  at  Glouceater 
po^cesed  land  in  a  place,  the  name  of  which 
fipiMiora  ia  the  Hwtoirand  Cartulary  of  that  house 
piiolished  in  the  Rolls  Series  (voL  i,  p.  12),  under 
the  form  '*  Sottcshore/'  and  which  is  identified 
with  "  Shotov  er  "  hy  the  editor  in  the  index.  In 
Botnesduy  Book  (f,  154  b),  uoder  the  heading 
"  Oxenefordacire,"  there  is  a  notice  of  a  royal  forest 
in  **Scotome,"  which  is  most  probably  identical 
with  "  Shotover.'*  If  it  be»  the  derivation  of  the 
liitter  from  "  Chateau- Vert "  is  out  of  the  question^ 
unless  we  suppose  that  the  Normans  had  forgotten 
their  own  language  only  twenty  ye^Pi  after  the 
battle  of  Hastings.        Frank  Scott  HAYDoy. 

Mcrtou,  Surrey. 

**  Boss  "  (5"i  S.  i.  221,  253,  356.)— 
**  Adown  the  blaclc  and  craggf  bou 
Of  thftt  huge  cliff,  whoic  ample  Torge 
Tradition  calla  the  Hero's  Targe/' 

Id  these  lines,  quoted  by  F.  D.,  boss  is  plainly 
the  name  for  the  projecting  stud  or  ;wint  on  a 
Soottiah  buckler  or  targc^  fi^iutively  applied  to  a 
pecmliarly-ahaped  rocL  The  edition  of  Webster 
brought  out  by  Meaars,  BeD  &  Diiidy  gives  the 
following  etymology : — 

'*  French  loue,  ProTeo^ral  hoisa,  Italian  hozaif  from 
Qermaii  luu,  buLxn,  something  cloddy  or  stumpy,  point, 
tip ;  Old  High  Oennan  boxo,  tuft,  bunch  ;  Uutiih  fww, 
boaoh.  tuft ;  Old  High  Gcnnan  pv^an,  p'zjan,  Middle 
Bl^ti  German  hCzetii  New  High  Germiin  bosteyit  to  beat/' 

(2.)  Bm,  5ojt-^e,  which  Tauntoniensis  has  heard 
in  Someraet^ahire  applied  to  "  oxen,  cows,  or  calves," 
can,  it  need  hardly  be  said,  have  no  connexion 
with  the  foregoing  word.  It  looks  like  a  rcpre- 
seDlatire  of  the  well-known  Celtic  word  for  a  cmt\ 
Imh  6o,  Wel^h  butcch,  Scottish  Gaelic  />o,  kc.j 
which  is  the  relative  of  /^ou^,  hoUf  a  root  which 
may  very  well  have  been  oDouiato^poetic*  It  is, 
however,  urged  on  the  other  hand  that  if  bo  well 
expresses  the  bellowing  of  the  be^ist,  the  b  becomes 
a  in  Skr.  gi\  Zendish  gdo,  O.  H.  Genu,  chuo,  Eng* 
eou\  all  which  forms  possibly  lure  variants  of 
one  root  found  in  Tauntoniensib's  bos,  inter- 
rea  of  b  and  g  not  being  unfrequent. 

(a.)  I  think  Crescent  has  given  ua  the  true 
«ff^in  of  the  American  word  "  boas"  in  the  Butch 
David  Fitzgerai^d. 

i:  Trunk- MAKER  (5**  S,  I  3<>B,  43a)— 
Tai  i  I  cations  issued  from  the  press  on  the 

uw<  Percy's  claim  to  the  earldom  of 
1   ^.   from    the    deuth  of   Josceylin 
vj.  .>.*    ^i.i.ifith  earl,  May  21,  1670,  till  the 
j  dmm  WM  decided  adversely  by  the  Lords  in  1669. 


His  own  petitions  on  the  subject  extend  from 
1G70  to  1694.  For  full  information,  see  the  fol- 
lowing : — 

•*The  Petitton  of  James  Percy  to  Hi*  Mnjcsty  for  the 
£<Ut«^  ai  being  next  Heir  to  the  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land.   167y,  fo," 

"  The  Ctairn,  Pedigree,  and  Proceedings  of  James 
Percy*  now  Claimant  to  the  Karldom  of  Korthumberlttad, 
humbly  presented  to  both  Houses  of  Parliament  Lond^ 
l»>80p  fo/' 

**  The  Case  of  James  Percy,  Claymant  to  the  Earldom 
of  Northumberland.  With  ao  impartiid  account  of  the 
Proceedings  he  hath  made  in  the  several  courts  of  Juf- 
lice,  10  order  to  the  proving  and  obtBiniog  his  rl^ht  and 
title  to  the  faid  EarJdom.    Lond.,  1685,  fo.,  pp.  12." 

In  Sir  Egerton  Brydges*9  Eutituia,  vol.  liL 
pp.  619-528,  will  be  found  a  most  interesting 
review  of  this  case. 

*'  Short  Account  of  the  Proceedingf  of  James  Pcrcy^ 
late  ^f  Ireland,  in  purBuance  of  hia  right  to  the  Earldom 
of  Northumberlandi  fo.  n^d,,  but  contempomaeouB.'* 

I  quote  from  one  of  the  statements  that  "  the 
claimant^H  adversaries  procured  to  be  published  in 
the  gazettes,  that  the  claimant  was  an  impostor; 
and  declared  that  hu  7tam^  was  not  Ferqf," 

In  1689  the  Lords  aentenced  him  to  wear  a 
paper  in  Westminster  Hall  declaring  him  *'  a  fahse 
and  impudent  pretender  to  the  Earldom  of  North- 
umberland.^* Notwithsttinding  this  Lord  Chief 
Justice  Hale  is  reported  to  have  said  to  the  Earl 
of  Shaftesbury,  *'  1  verily  believe  he  [the  claimunt] 
hath  aa  much  right  to  the  Earldom  of  Northum- 
berland m  I  have  to  this  coach  and  horses  which 
I  have  bought  and  paid  for."  See  also  CoUins's 
Peerage^  edit.,  1812,  vol.  ii.  p.  357  ;  Masters's  £ia- 
tory  of  BcneH  College^  CambridgCj  p.  355,  For  a 
brief  iiccount  of  the  suifetings  of  his  son  Anthony, 
Lord  Mayor  of  Dublin,  see  Archbishop  King's 
Stats  of  Ike  FroUsiants  of  Irdajul,  edit.,  1691, 
pp.  1 38  and  179*  Gabton  db  Berneval* 

Fhihtdelphia. 

Shaddonoatb  (5**»  S.  i.  328,  395,  517.)—**  To 
get  at  the  origin  of  a  local  name^  we  should,"  ac- 
cording to  Max  Muller,  ^*  go  back  to  its  earliest 
spelling,"  and,  as  this  was  not  done  by  the  querist, 
of  course  all  interpret/itions  **  may  be  held  as 
dubious."  However,  I  am  prepiired  to  fortify 
my  definition  of  this  word  by  some  pretty  good 
authorities.  I  stated  that  "Shad"  was  the 
Frankish  CAo^i^^war  (see  Grimm's  Ikuischc  Gram" 
matik)^  not  that  Ca^  had  been  corrupted  to  Shad^ 
but  that  the  Celtic  Cath  was  equivalent  to  Shad  or 
Chad.  That  they  were  originally  the  same  is  moat 
probable,  lor  the  Saxon  d  was  equivalent  to  tk^ 
and  8  and  soft  c  were  interchangeable.  A  very 
simikr,  and  perhaps  more  correct  definition  of  the 
word  Shaddongate,  may  be  thus : — the  repetition 
of  the  d  may  be  a  redundancy;  as  Br.  Latham 
observes,  in  liis  English  Language^  p.  157,  **  the 
redupUcation  of  the  consonant  after  a  vowel,  as  in 
^oUedf  merely  denotes  that  the  i^t^cfcto^^  -s^s^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


is  short "  ;  then  the  on  in  Shadon  nmy  be  a  cor- 
ruption of  the  Saxon  plural  in  en  ("  N,  &  Q."  i,, 
ii,,  2M)  or  of  an  =  a  district  (Beale-Poste,  Aneiertt 
Britahi^  242),  In  fact,  thia  trivial  vowel-change 
would  not  be  a  corruption  at  ail,  for,  **  In  deriva- 
tion, aU  the  vowels  may  be  treat-ed  as  one  letter  " 
(BoBworth's  A.-S.  G^amtnar).  I  do  not  find 
Shaddongate  upon  the  Ordnance  Miip,  but,  if  it 
hj  or  WAS,  near  Carlisle,  there  can  be  no  doubt 
hut  that,  being  upon  the  Border,  the  meaning  is 
th«  wftT-gate,  or  entrance.  Gate  here  must  be 
taken  in  the  general  and  geographical  sense,  and 
not  in  the  contracted  form  now  used.  There  are 
several  names  near  this  part  of  the  Border  quite  as 
indicative  of  war  and  Btnfe,  viz.,  Wigton,  Warwick, 
HarrabyH,  Harwich,  and  many  others. 

When  (which  Beldom  happened)  a  place  name 
was  adopted  from  a  prc^per  name,  it  waa  generally 
the  name  of  some  one  more  renowned  than  he  M-ho 
"  lis  mitl  to  hare  been  brother  to  8t.  Patrick/' 
C.  Chattocic,  F.R.H.S. 

Cattle  Bromwkh. 

MoNTAioNE's  "  Essays**  (5^  S.  I  2(>8,  275.)— 
Surely  this  idea  (were  I  to  live  my  life  over  again, 
I  ahould  live  it  just  ils  I  have  done)  has  occurred 
to  most  of  us.     I  think  it  bus  been  put  in  a  most 
ooDciflo  form  by  a  poet  of  whom  very  few  of  the 
readers  of  **  N,  &  Q/'  have  heard  :— 
•*  I  'Te  had  m J  share  of  trouble,  and  I  *Te  done  my  shoro 
of  toll ; 
And  life  ii  short,— the  longest  life  ii  span. 
I  care  not  now  to  tnrry  for  the  com  or  for  the  oil, 
Or  the  wine  that  nii^koth  glad  the  heart  of  man. 

For  good  isadone  and  gifti  miMpeat,  and  reflolution« 
vaiDj 

Til!  somewhat  Ute  to  tarry. — Thii  1  kaow, 
I  would  liYc  the  aame  life  over  if  I  had  to  live  again. 

And  the  cbancea  are  I  go  where  most  men  go/* 

The  author,  the  late  Mr.  Adam  Lindsay  Gorflon, 
was  well  known  in  Austndia  aa  a  tine  spirit,  a 
good  comrade,  and  a  gallant  horseman.  Major 
Whyte  Melville  quotes  some  of  his  verscH  in 
Satandla,  M.  C. 

Helbourae,  AuBiraUtt. 

"  Though  I  think  no  man  can  lire  well  once  but  he 
that  could  lire  twice,  yet  for  my  own  part  I  would  not 
live  over  my  hours  pMt,  or  begin  again  the  thr«iid  of 
my  days :  not  mito  Cicero'a  ground  because  I  have  lived 
them  well,  hut  for  fear  I  should  live  them  wome."— ^S*V 
Thomat  Brownt. 

W.  A.  C. 

CowpKR  :  Trooper  (5'*  S.  I  68,  135,  S72,  316  ; 
ii*  16.) — I  know  nothing  of  the  poet's  gene-alojsry  ; 
but  if  he  waa  descended  from  a  iJurhani  or  North* 
umbrian  stock,  ho  would  certainly  be  a  Cooper, 
We,  in  the  counties  of  Durham  and  Northuuiber- 
hmd,  call  a  cow  a  coo^  and,  therefore,  Coi(^}er  would 
he  X^optTu  A  tribe  of  north-country  potters  is 
known  um  **  Cooper's  gtmg,"  but  I  cannot  say  any* 
thing  about  their  orthogmphy,  for  I  have  known 


theni  fij^ire  in  jioluc  rtporU  as  Cooper*5  and 
Cowper's.  *'  Dun  Cow  Lane,'*  in  the  city  of  Dor- 
ham,  is  popularly  "  Dun  Coo  Lane," 

Names,  as  to  tlieir  pronunciation,  vary  in  dif- 
ferent localities.  Take,  as  an  ejtample,  "  Wal&h." 
This  is  a  common  name  in  Craven,  and  it  ia  in- 
variably pronounced  WotsK  In  Durham^  we  have 
the  same  name,  but  it  is  id  ways  pronounced  a» 
writt'Cn,  "Walsh/'  In  Craven,  we  have  ^  aoi^ 
where  "  Cooper  '*  in  a  rhj^ne  to  **  trooper  " ;  liiiti, 
as  I  never  saw  the  song  in  print,  I  cannot  say 
whether  the  hero  is  a  Cooper  or  a  Cowper.  I  have 
known  numerous  Cowper^^  but  they  were  all  C<K>p*r». 
I  should  consider  it  very  pedantic  to  csill  a  Cowper 
otherwise  than  Cooper.  In  these  matters  the  real 
guide  is  not  so  much  corr<rd?*ew  as  custoffu 

James  Hekry  Dixoy. 

We  have  had  Cowpers  (Coopers)  in  the  land  for  i 
mimj  generations.  They  are  an  historic  familj,  J 
and  have  filled  i-arious  offices  of  Stiitp  fmit»  the  I 
Lord  High  Chancellor  (grand-uncle  «  ,  in 

1707,  to  the  First  Comiuissioner  of  ^  .lur 

own  day.     Yet,  to  humour  W.  A,  C.  in  his  notion 
of  altering  an  orig:inal  till  it  resembles  its  portrait*  1 
they  are  now  to  call  themselves  somehoay  ebe  I 
Would  it  have  surprised  a  "  Glasj^^ow ''  man  to  hear 
George  Stepberuwn's  "  So  much  the  worse  for  the  i 
cw  "  (cow)  ?  H,  D,  C 

Dursley, 

Cowper  is  a  mere  corruption  of  Cooper^  and  it  has  * 
always  been  pronon need  by  country  people  Cooper. 
In  idl  very  ancient  documents  it  is  usually  written  I 
Coop^  or  Covjp^  ID  the  contnictod  form.  The  pn>-  ] 
nunciation  never  altered  with  the  srpelling,  init,j 
like  Darby  for  Derby,  Barkshire  for  Berkshire,  I 
Barkeley  for  Berkeley,  &c.,  held  its  own.  Still,  I 
like  W-  A,  C,  I  prefer  that  the  poet's  mime  should  I 
not  be  vulgarized  into  Cooper,  though  sentiment 
is  one  thing,  truth  another.  Z.  Y.  X, 

Welsh  Testament  (5^^  S.  i.  pamm;  U.  la} 
The  suggestion  of  M,  H.  II,  i^s  tn  the  desirable 
of   the    **New    Testameot    C^omuii^t-f  '    Kf^rif^^l 
among  them  a   scholar  c;*paVjle  of  tbe| 

Enghsh  version  with  the  Welsh  is  ^'        ,    ^  -on- 
sideration.  There  are  many  passages  which  iippcikr,! 
to  a  WelshTjian  at  least,  more  forcibly  rendwd  itiJ 
the  hitter  than  in  the  former,     M»  H.  R.  is  noi/ 
however,  hnppy  in  the  illuat  rat  ions  he  gives  of  thu 
readings  in  the  Welsh  TcHtauient.    In  the  passagi% 
"  Fel  na  choller  pwy  by  nag  a  gredo  ymJdo  ef,  ond  i 
mffcLtl  o  hono  fy wyd  trugwyddol "  ( Jolm  nu  lh)A 
the  wonls  italicized  do  not,  tut  lie  supposes  tbcijfj 
do,  mean  "obtain  from  him/'    Th* 
boilied  in  the  phrase  "o  bono"  r< 
liynng,"  whosoever;    to   him   who    xpiuin 
eternal  life,  not  to  Him  frt)m  whom  he 
obtain  it.     The  text  is  an  example  of  a  ^ 
Welsh  constractionf  in  which  a  verb  in  the  ialfinl-^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


277 


^  tir©  is  cnnirnnf.1  to  a  finite  yerb,  contmry  to  a 

I  rule  of  ]  !)tax.     This  idiomMtic  nsn^e  is 

[of  firequ*  rence  :   thus,  in  Dcut.   iv.   25, 

1  *'  Pan  }j;euiat:dJycb  feibion,  ac  wyrion,  a  hir-drigo 

lo   honoch  jn  j  wind,  ac  fnnlygTU   o  fimioch^  a 

\  gumttithu^  o   honoch  ddelw   gerfiedig/*  ^'Wlien 

thou  ghiilt  y^^f't  ♦"hilflren,  and  children's  children, 

land  yt  >'  ned  long  in  the  land,  and 

)  $hnll  ffrri  ,  Lind  makt  a  graven  image.^ 

'  OijfF"  /  '         0    Ls  eiiuivalent  to  tty-havc  of  him  = 

\his  ^^  his  hating;  "a  hit  arlgo  o  htmoch 

md  '  "lin  of  ^ii  ^=  your  long 

%init<  SiOHA* 

**  Sl3?npLE ''   (b^  8,   il   m,   155,)— pn  Cange 

mjB  :■ — *^*  Sinoitis,  color  vtridis.     Galli  in  teaseris 

armaniB  vocant  SinopU.    Green  color,  which  the 

Freoch,  in  beraldry,  call  Sinople"   Chambers  does 

nol  aay  it  "ought  to  mean  red^'*  but  only  that 

"Pliay  and  Isidore,  by  rdor  prfwinrts,  or  ginople^ 

a  brownish  red,  such  as  that  of  onr  ruddle," 

Iff  aaid  for  himself  just  before,  **  SinopU^  or 

H(y  in  heraldry,  denotes  vni,  or  the  green 

■»  in  armories."     Coates  says  (IHctionaty  of 

Wry) : — "  Sinoph  is  the  word  used  by  the 

French  Heralds  for  green,  which  we  call  vertj'    It 

vras  callcsd  Sinoph^  he  telhs  lis,  "  from  a  town  in 

the  Levaot  where  the   best   materials  for  d>ing 

grten  an  found,"  Edmdnd  Tew^  M,A. 

»**PKrVATE  HlSTORT  OF  THB  CoURT  OF  EnO- 
Z.AJTD*'  (5*^  S.  ii.  208.)— It  would  certainly  be 
intereating  to  know  the  author  of  tho  work,  but 
•till  more  so  to  have  a  key  to  its  assumed  names. 
Many  permnagefi  mentioned,  such  as  Mrs.  Fits- 
lierbej^,  Mrs,  Robinson  (Perdita),  &c,,  are  easily 
recognizable,  but  there  are  others  of  less  note,  for 
the  discovery  of  whom  a  key  would  b©  very  uae> 
fnL     Ferhap6  P.  H,  will  fumiah  ns  with  thia, 

H.  S.  A, 

8PELLTKG  Reforms  (5*^  S-  i.  421,  471,  511  j 

jiL  29,  23L) — I  quite  agree  with  Mr.  Mortimer 

ICoLLors  (p.  231)  on  the  desirability  of  introducing 

r  a  character  to  represent  the  Greek  th^  and  I  think 

^thia  might  he  done  without  disturbing  our  pre- 

i  at  alL     If  th,  as  it  ia  in  tkick^  tfiintjt  &c,, 

the  present  form,  and  the  Greek  th,  ty* 

ha^i   a   line   through    it,  we   should 

J  oieful  distinction.     So  also  .something 

4<me,  l>y  very  simple  contrivances,  to 

:  the  most  stion^fly  pronounced  dill'erences  of 

'  I  ;  but  all  this  belongs  to  tliat  cUjss  of 

irbich  may   b^    deferred  till  something 

mftx  ^'f  ^T^cllinir  Im^  lu:on  ngreed  upon. 

T~  ndy/onV^  if  the  cliange  I 

fin>\'  \N0  words  alone,  I  cannot 

Gooorivc  ui   any   i.u;4;4ostron   more   friFolfm^   and 

iiBVfiithy ;  hut  thr  rcnl  question  is  this — i«  it  not 

BUMt  destmhle  to  reduce  to  uniformity  all  words 

bebogin^  t<>  one  and  the  same  group,  and  not 


whether  it  is  desirable  to  spell  d/tnce  with  tt  f  or  ^  f 
The  question  affects  some  1,500  worda,  of  whiah 
"  dance  "  happens  to  be  one,  and  as  the  French  is 
dansiT  and  not  dancer ,  1  fail  to  see  that  **  we* 
have  not  arrived  at  a  point ''  when  such  a  change 
"is  even  conceivable,-'  although  Mr.  Collinb 
seems  to  think  it  conceivable  that  children  may 
be  taught  that  **  8  times  9  is  60." 

£,  CoBHAH  Brewer, 
LaFAQtj  Chichester. 

«  Aroint  ^'(5«>S.  i.  163  ;  ii.  1^4,)— The  diffi- 
culties besetting  this  Shakspearian  word  are  not 
likely  to  be  lessened  by  persistence  in  mistake.  I 
fancied  I  had  said  enough  at  the  first  reference  to 
save  the  arougt  of  Heame's  print  from  being  misread 
arongt ;  yet  we  have  now  Dr.  Charnook  coolly 
asserting  that  **  we  have  also  arongt**  We  certainly 
have  that  word  in  a  mislection  of  the  trumpeter's 
cry  in  Heame's  print,  but  nowhere  else.  Dr. 
Charkock  also  rcTiiarks  that  *'  we  find  roint  thee 
and  araunte  thceJ^  Where  do  we  find  the  latter 
word  ?  I  have  seen  it  only  in  a  spurious  (and,  I 
think,  raiaprint<!d)  extras;!  from  a  non-existing 
book,  which  was  relied  upon  by  the  Rev,  Joseph 
Hunter,  in  his  IlluiiraiionSf  but  has  been  uni- 
verstdly  branded  as  a  spurious  quotation. 

Meanwhile,  we  have  aro*nf,  as  a  verb  active,  in 
some  northern  dialect.  Here  are  two  modem 
examples  of  its  use  : — 

**  Whiakerod  cats  arointed  flee.** 

Mrs.  Browning. 
"What  wonder  thftt  the  vermin  fi&d  aroinlid,'* 

From  The  Animal  World,  toI.  v.,  No.  63,  p.  28. 

I   have   no  doubt   the  word  arongt  in   Heame's 
print  meant  get  out ;  and,  if  so,  it  is  almost  tho 
■?aiue  word  hb  the  Lancashire  anawt.        Jabez. 
Atkeaiaeum  Clab. 

"Knave"  (5*»»  S.  ii.  31,  155.)— Having  some 
knowledge  of  vernacular  Irish,  but  none  of  philo- 
logy, my  ear  is  often  caught  by  English  and  other 
words  which  invite  inquiry.  I  identify  knave 
with  the  Irish  knab'rtj  a  lad,  a  boy  ;  in  dictionary 
Irish,  a  jester,  a  scoffer  ;  and  should  like  to  know 
which  is  the  older  word,  InaTt  or  knah're.  The 
"  festive  hoard,'-  which  the  lad  or  boy  sen'cs,  is  no 
lem  suggestive.  Irish  bordk^  a  table  ;  ItordSn^  a 
tablet  or  small  table.  Which  is  the  root,  if  either? 
The  (fai>,  or  raised  place  of  honour,  comes  in  too* 
In  Irish  dais^  a  pile  or  heap  ;  d^m  (the  e  almost 
inaudible),  neat,  proper,  decent ;  c/<;fWira,  to  settle, 
to  aminge,  to  adorn ;  rfeosaim,  to  stay  (settle  down), 
to  remain.  Which  is  the  root,  if  one  or  other  ist 
I  should  feel  much  obliged  for  a  clue. 

lONOEAMCS. 

GKon^iE  CoLMAN  (:>»*»  S.  i.  487 ;  ii*  131.)— The 
lio honing  with  Tivu  is  so  much  in  the  manner  of 
Hood,  that  I  think  (if  it  be  not  by  him)  it  must 
have  suggested  mmt  of  ht«  ^uwvw^^^scm»  V^RfeSJoto 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^8.  ILOcii.3,71. 


p<5€iu  by  Hood  called  A  TUtrospcdive  Be  view).  In 
the  Taks  of  Womhr  of  Lewis  is  a  contribution  by 
Colman,  called  the  *^  Water  Fiends,"  where  we  find 
some  very  good  plays  upon  words,  equiU  to  any 
that  ever  were  perpetrated  by  Hood.  Take  the 
following  aa  specimens  : — 

"TheMi*or, 
Like  eyery  other  moor,  wai  bUok." 
"  No  curtaiMd  sltt^  Imd  Bbe,  because 
_  She  had  no  otriainM  to  her  bed  f  " 

'*  I  was  not  *//,  but  in  a  w?f//, 
I  tumbled  backwards  and  wa«  drowni>d/' 

Cowper,  in  his  John  Qilpm,  has  a  very  good 
calembourg : — 

'*  My  h&t  and  wig  will  soon  be  here — 
They  are  upan  the  road  J  " 

But  in  Praed's  Bed  Fishcnnmi  we  have  some- 
thing that  beats  Cowper : — 

"  The  startled  Priett  struck  hcAk  kit  thwht. 
And  the  Abbey  clock  ttntti  On4/*' 

N. 

[Our  oorrespondent*!  last  example  tni j  be  cupped  by 
Hood's  line*  :— 

"  Th^pj  went  and  told  tlie  sextooj  and 
The  Miton  tolled  the  belK'^ 

"  Gci»sK9  AT  Truth  "  (5"*  S.  n,  89, 155.}-^Mn, 
Warren  is  in  error  in  assiffmng  the  articles  signed 
U.  to  AuguMus  Hare.  In  Mn  Phuntre's  "Memoir," 
prefixed  to  the  **  Golden  Treasury''  edition,  it  is 
said  (p.  XX v) : — 

"  In  the  first  edition,  the  Gutttt*  contributed  by  Au- 
gustus were  ooniidered  bj  Julius  fy»  the  main  lubstance 
of  the  book,  and  wcre>  therefore,  left  without  any  special 
sign  of  authorship.  Thosne  which  ht:  /u'tojc^/"  contributed 
were  indic-ated  by  the  initial  U.  Tho»e  by  his  brotbera 
Francis  and  Marcn*  are  indicated  bv  B.  and  A.  respec- 
tively." 

The  second  letters  of  their  names.  E.  V. 

Anjarustus  Hare's  contributions  have  no  signature 
at  alL  Those  which  are  signed  U.  are  by  JuUixa 
Hare.  The  plan  followed  with  the  signatures  was 
to  give  the  second  letter  of  the  name  of  the  writer. 
The  Cruejfsex  by  Francii?  and  Marcus  Hare  are 
signed  E.  and  A,  respectively ;  and  those  by 
Maria  Hare  are  signed  a,  J.  W.  W. 

PnmcEs  OF  THE  Blood  Royal  (4^  S.  x.  453  ; 
i5*^  S.  i.  4f)7,  516  ;  il  37,  77.)— I  am  very  much 
obliged  to  Mr.  Oomme  for  his  kind  reference  to 
Mr.  Wickuam^s  instructive  note,  but  ray  quei^y 
remains  unanswered.  Me.  Wickitam  does  not 
say  that  the  Duke  of  Cambridge  takes  precedence 
by  "  special  act."  On  the  contmry,  he  says  that 
he  has  the  style  of  *'  Royal  Highness "  by 
"  especial  favour  of  the  kincj,"  and  now  (aa  it 
would  seem)  by  force  of  the  Letters  Patent  of 
1864!  I  again  ask  how  any  patent  can  over-ride 
the  express  provwions  of  31  Hen.  VIIL,  c.  10.  I 
suspect,  however^  that  the  Duke's  precedence  is 
settled  by  some  private  Act  of  Paruament ;  and 


I  shall  be  indebted  to  any  correspondent  who  can 
refer  me  to  auch  Act.  I  should,  perhapei,  apologia 
to  your  readers  for  taking  up  the  apftce  of  **  5< .  ^k  Q*' 
with,  what  may  seem  to  many  of  them,  a  virf' 
trivial  matter.  But,  in  view  of  the  happy  mcreoia 
of  the  royal  family »  the  question  may  heneaiter 
oome  to  be  of  much  importance  ;  and,  veiy 
possibly,  in  time  to  come,  the  "  especial  favour  '* 
accorded  to  the  Duke  of  Cambridge  may  be  drawn 
into  a  precedent.  Middle  Templail 

Bradford. 

"  Field  "  (5»»»  S.  ii.  207.)— Dr.  Ogilvic  ^   ^ 

field  =  feld,  is  **  probably  level  land,  a  p^ 
Danifsh  velkn^=to  fell,  to  lay  or  throw  down. 

I  have  a  charter  in  my  possession,  temp,  Henr 
III.,  in  which  field  is  spelt  "veld'*;  but  I  tliink^ 
slight  study  of  the  fac-stmile  of  Doomsday  and  tlii] 
Ordnance  maps  will  confirm  the  genendly  receiviedj 
opinion  that  field  is  from  the  verb  ftld.     If  V 
Ogilvie  is  right,  the  well-known  Danish  scttlementi 
on  the  coast,  and  all  the  country  north  of  Watlb 
Street,  ought    to    be   literally    ** covered"    witi 
"fields";  but  such  is  not  the  case  any  more  thoill 
in  other  parts  of  the  kingdom.     The  pbce-nanKai  ^ 
containing   Stok,  Stock,   and  Stoke  are   usually 
attributed  to  a  similar  origin,  viz.,  land  cleared  of 
timber  with  the  exception  of  the  stem  and  rools* 
Hatton,  Haddon,  and  the  like,  are  also  oonsideiedL 
corruptions  or  contractions  of  A*S.  Haih4 
Heath-Town.      By    reference    to    the    Or 
map    it  will  at   once  appear  that   the 
^ Afield"  in  a  pbice-name  never  occurs  in 
primeval   water-meadows  on  a  river   bank, 
generally  in  close  proximity  to  land  formerly 
and  woodland.     The  best  county  histories  {\ 
are  made  up  principally  from  the  Public  Records^ 
and  public  and  private  charters)  confirm  this, 
Dugdale^a  Higtory  of  Warvn^kshire  it  is  stater^ 
part  of  this  (Castle  JBromwich)  hamlet  was  fot 
called  "  Wody-bromwic,"  and  I  have  chartjcrs  i 
deeds   in  my  possession   from   temp.   Henry 
(without  a  gap  of  forty  years)  to  the  present  tim«| 
clearly  proving  that  four  of  its  fields, — viz.,  Hun ' 
feld  =  Woodfteld,   Brockhurstfeld  =  Ba<igefwo 
field,  Bockenholtfeld  =  Buckwoodfield,  and  Ho 
stonfeld,— have  been  carved  out  of  land  fomierlji 
covered  with  timber.     Three  of  thest*  fields  nti 
now  so  named  in  the  reference  book  of  the  Tilh* 
Commutation  Map  of  the  Parish.     The  other  bai 
been  divided  into  the  Four  Days'  W^ork^  the  Fir 
Days'  Work,  &c.     In  my  note,  under  the  bend 
"  Pan,"  I  referred  not  to  the  double  /,  but  to  T 
absence  of  the  t  in  "  field/' 

C.  Chattock,  F.R,H.S, 

Caatlo  Bromwloh. 

A  **  Tract  "(5^*^  S.  L  3550~Many  thanks 
H.  A.  S,  for  his  information  liixmi  JJanttji  Tt 
**  Tract "  is  surely  but  a  contraction  of  "  tr  _ 
tiori,"  a  handling  or  drawing  out  of  a  subject 


(which 


^^^ 


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279 


find  in  BichaLrdson  the  quotation^  '^  I  would  not 
teeme,  in  tuy  tmctatioD  of  antiquities,  to  trouble 
my  reader  with^"  &c,  (HoUnslied,  Description  of 
Britain^).  Doubtless  in  modern  use  it  is  re- 
strict^ to  a  small  pamphlet,  but  there  seems  no 
tea^-       "        iU  etymology^  why  it  should. 

/  >:  stands  on  much  the  same  ground. 

It  lii  rrainiLriiy  restricted  now-a-days  to  the  print 

opposite  the  title- pnge  ;  but  being  derived  from 

'      "  the   front  of  a  houBe/'  the  present 

litiaiy  enoagh.  Pblaoiub. 

**PuT  TO  BtJCK  "  (5'»>  S.  i,  228»  2<»3 ;  ii.  76, 138.) 
— I  think  E,  V,  has  *^  gone  a  lonf(  way  back  for  a 
very  unsatisfactory  solution  "  of  this  term.  "  Put 
to  hook  ■ '  was  the  description  given  to  the  process  of 
'  swearing  in  *'  witnesses  by  a  gnmd-juiyman,  a 

tyeoraan,  and  uncle  of  mine,  born  about  a  century 
ago.  The  saying  was  very  common  in  this  locality 
quite  recently,  as  alao  "I  swear  it  on  my  hook 
oath.'*  C.  CaATTO<jK,  F.R.H.S. 

Cutis  Bromwieh. 


* 


I 


KOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 

Maman  Imperial  PtofiliA ;  hting  a  Seritt  of  mmt 
than  (hu  Hundred  and  Sixty  Lithographic  Pro- 
jilfA,  Enlargt4l  from  Coins.    Arranged  by  John 
Edward  Lee,  F.G.S.,  Author  of  I»c^  Silurnmj 
and  Translator  of  Keller's  Lake  Dwdlingi.  (Long- 
mans &  Co.) 
A  ooLLEcrroN  of  ancient  coins  is  one  of  the  objects 
ntany   worthy  people  long  to  accomplish  ;   but, 
*"*"  non  cui^'is  confingjt  '* ;  and  it  often  remains  an 
object — unaccomplished.     But  here  b  Mr.  Lee,  to 
urbom  the  public  with  a  taste  for  ancient  learning, 
manni  rH^&t.,  is  idready  hirgely  indebted^  pre.senting 
us  With  such  a  collection,  or,  at  all  events,  with  the 
next  best  thing  to  it, — the  lithographic  presentment 
of  a  hundred  and  sixty  Roman  miperial  profiles. 
Th©  book  is  more  than  useful  and  interesting,  it 
is  also  in  a  high  degree  amusing.     They  who  study 
character  in  feature  and  expression  have  here  a 
field,  and  never-ending  cause  for  astonishment, 
ftcn  doeji  the  portrait  belie  the  popular  idea  of 
imlividuaL     This  volume,  moreover^  will,  as 
Mr.  Lee  anticipates,  be  found  very  useful  by  "coin 
ooikctors/'  especially  those  who  are  beginning  to 
numismatics.     The    drawings   have  been 

Jy  made  from  coins  by  Mr.  Croft,  of  Torquay, 

and  the  correctness  of  the  likenesses  has  been 
raoogoized  by  experienced  numismatists.  Brief 
notes  of  the  Lives  of  the  Emperors  and  Empresses 
add  very  mtich  to  the  value  of  this  most  acceptable 
" '  ri  hour  of  delight  will  be  enjoyed 

t  i  _  long  evenings  in  turning  over 

..-.    lu  Uiem,  the  first  of  the  Cx*sarB  looks 
iljjy  a  man  with  a  purpose.    The  last  of 


them,  Romidus  Augustnlus,— no  doubt  a  rather 
conventional  portrait, — has  the  "  cut"  of  an  Italian 
tenor  singing  the  mournful  ^na/<;  to  a  long  and 
stid  opera,  and  he  has  the  air  of  a  man  who  is  being 
hissea  by  his  audience.  Pompey  the  Great !— "Oh, 
how  unlike  my  Beverley  J " — is  a  Bnub-nosed, 
vulgar,  unheroic  person,  resembling  the  popular 
idea  of  a  small  tradesman  who  has  cleaned  him- 
self and  bnished  back  his  hair,  to  take  tbc  chair 
at  some  parish  meeting.  Brutus  has  no  little  the 
aspect  of  a  patriot  that  we  should  take  him  for  a 
sharp,  plausible,  unscrapakms  member  of  th© 
modem  profession  of  "  Promotcra."  Some  of  the 
heads  are,  of  cotirse,  supremely  grand,  little  short 
of  god-like ;  but  when  the  imperial  heroes  begin  to 
wear  whiskers,  the  majesty  goes  out  of  them ;  they 
remind  us  of  amateur  actors  out  of  tune  and  time 
with  their  subjects.  Valerianua  might  be  a  rich 
railway  director  at  a  modern  fancy  ball.  The  illus- 
trious women  are,  for  the  most  part,  natund,  lovable, 
human  creatures.  Cleopatra,  indeed,  has  a  strong 
w^oman^s-rights  air  in  her  Cfice,  yet  is  not  an  unhand- 
some virago.  Agrippiua  is  a  lady,  in  spite  of  her 
sayings  and  doings.  She  is  as  tender  and  womanly 
as  Livia,  Julia,  Antonia,  and  Orbiana.  Octavia 
has  a  rather  cold,  fashionable,  "Vere  de  Vere*' 
expression.  Tnmtj^uillinji  nmst  have  been  a  Roman 
blue- stocking,  and  she  strikes  us  as  about  to  make 
a  cutting  reply  to  a  speech  then  in  course  of 
delivery  at  some  Roman  School  Board.  There  is 
something,  however,  especially  attractive  about  all 
these  ladiesL  They  show  that  there  is  a  beauty  for 
every  age.  There  is  an  exquisite  charm  in  their 
simplicity.  The  arrangement  of  the  hair  must 
have  been  a  delight  to  the  sculptor  or  engraver, 
and  a  contemplation  thereof  may  be  wholesome  to 
more  modern  ladies,  to  whom  the  graceful^  cleanly 
f^hion  of  the  ladies  of  the  Roman  world  has  been 
hitherto  unknown. 

Memorials   of  Manehe^Ur  StrccU.    By  Richard 

Wright  Procter.  (Manchester,  Sutchffe.) 
In  a  handsome  volume,  with  clever  and  interesting 
illustrations,  Mr.  Procter  has  given  us  a  readable 
and  amusing  book  on  Manchester.  He  takes  us 
through  the  streets  of  the  industrious  city,  and 
t^Us  a  succession  of  stories  as  he  goes.  Mr.  Proc- 
ter does  not  forget  to  rectify  established  errors. 
For  example,  be  assigns  to  a  ISIfinchester  man,  T* 
Noel,  **  The  Pauper's  Drive,-*  which  is  commonly 
attributed  to  T.  Hood.  We  allude  to  the  linea 
beginning  with^ — 

"  There  *■  a  grim  oue-horse  hearse  in  a  jolly  round  trot^ 
To  tbe  churchyard  a  pauper  i§  going,  I  woL 
The  ro*(l  it  ia  rough,  and  the  hcar«e  hiM  no  spriQgs» 
And  hark  to  the  dirge  that  tbe  iad  driver  tiogs : 
Haiti e  hit  booet  over  the  stonet. 
He  'i  ofdy  A  pauper  ^hom  nob<»dv  owns.'* 

We  heartily  congratulate  Mr,  Procter  or  th»? 
choice  contribution  to  Manches^ter  history. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


TU  Clan  BaiUt  at  Path  in  \^m ;  an  Episode  of  High- 
hnd  llmtorv  ;  f:d,  .<n  fnrfuir^intQ  iu  Causa,  and  an 
Attempt   to'  Id'  'tn*   Engaced  in  lU     By 

Alexander  Mac  .v.     (For  Private  Circula- 

tion.) 
TUK  bulk  of  the  matter  ooniameil  in  this  «inaU  pam' 
phbt  form*  u  chftpt<?r  of  »  lw«er  work,  TU  JIutory  of 
ike  UvuMt  and  Ciati  of  MackTHtoAh  and  pf  ifa  Clan 
ChinUan,  vthitih  tbc  wnter  hu  in  hand*  Readers  will 
remember  the  rreont  controYcnsy  on  the  subject  in  our 
eulnmns  between  Diu  MACPQEKJ^if  and  Mk.  Suaw. 

A  V%tti  to  Archliiffiop  Loof  and  the  Old  Catlwlic  Chtirr^h 
of  Holland.  By  T.  >l.  Fallow,  M.A.,  St.  John's 
College,  C&mbridge.  (Edinburgh,  J.  &  J.  Gray.) 
In  view  of  the  recent  conference  at  Bonti,  tbiH  paper 
Cftoaot  feil  to  bo  interottinff.  It  is  a  reprint,  with  Bome 
alight  moiiific&tiona,  from  tlie  ScoUiih  Guardian.  It  will 
not  be  forgotten  that  we  were  able  to  give^  \u  our  la»i 
volume  (p.  lS2),ii  table  of  the  succeesion  of  the  Daioh 
(Janaemtt)  Church  from  1724  to  lbl3, 

PAL^ou»dt7». — S.  writef  aa  follows : — "  The  roeeiit 
deaitb,  at  Turin,  of  *  Prince  John  Anthony  LaBcarta 
PalieolojpiB/  h««  called  forth  ao  many  leaden  in  the 
daily  prew,  that  one  ii  led  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
Priaca  wai  a  personage  of  more  importance  than  might 
bave  been  soppoaed,  Gonsiderin^  all  thut  had  preTiously 
been  said  of  the  name  in  periodical  publications.  The 
deceased  gentleman  v&s  an  illeyitimaie  son  of  u  member 
of  the  Houae  of  L)iicafi,  and,  prior  to  his  adoption  of  the 
name  of  Palaeologus,  was  known  as  Prince  I>tt»c&ri8.  The 
writers  referred  to  do  not  seem  to  be  aware  of  tho  fuct, 
that  his  Bote  heiress  was  no  other  than  Mai iJi  Maillet*  a 
voung  lady  whom  he  adopted  as  lik  daughter  (t'eb.  11, 
1869),  and  who  haa  been  hitherto  known  as  the  Princess 
Lascarit.*' 

SiiAiiSPEARE    ANi>    MiLTON. — Mr.  *J.    0*    HalUwell 

Sr^imiees  us  hia  reaaons  for  believing  that  Shakspeare 
16S.  may  be  concealed  in  an  ancient  nouse  belonging  to 
Lord  OverstoQe.  We  are  the  more  encouraged  to  hope 
that  this  ma?  prove  a  fact,  as  one  of  Miiion*s  common- 

?tace  book«  has  just  been  discovered  in  the  house  of  Sir 
rederick  Graham,  at  ^etherby.  It  contains  letters  to 
Milton,  entries  by  Milton,  in  63  pages,  and  extracts 
which  appear  to  have  been  made  for  Milton. 


BOOKS     AND     OPD     VOLUMES 

WAXTEU  TO  PUHCHASE. 

PsTt^iniTftrt  of  Ptiee«  &C.,.  of  eri*ry  Iwult  to  b«  vmt  dittet  to  th« 

f^cTMij  hj  whom  ii 
Mt  lh>t  JlUrpOM.'— 

SaiiUBiAir'i  Plxtv.   Orlfliukl  Lood  > 

tJHoas.  aiul  iiiat^t  Cuplct  of  «ll  A 

Waalied  br  J.  Brnttii^  MaUk 


I^cTMij  itj  whom  U  ii  tvjoircd*  wboM  auD«  Mad  uddrai*  art  drcc 


Edl 


ConniTT,  Bcfraej  Asd  Reifs  of  Georse  the  Foatth.    i  rots.,  IBSO. 
t^iABv  or  Tm  TiVEi  orGEORCi  tub  FouRTn.    VdU.  1I1«  and  1 

Tun  hi<iL.    Bj  if ra  iX  V>.  Serrec.   isu  «r  lUa. 

Tut  l[C(M>]raft  or  thc  Fsjiicmi  Ourt;   Bj  Hits  Macaakr«   lStt> 

Faciv,  a  Lcitcr  to  ih«  Eari  of  W- — ,    IbiS. 

Waalad  hj  WUUofm  J.  rkoma^  *i,  at.  Gmt$^  Sgaai^ 
B«ifiaTtfi4iad.SwW. 


l»'Esva«a«s^  (Haiaonl  BitUay  «f  Ike  SdfD  of  Kiai  duu-Los  L   ISBB 

Miix'i  (W.  n.)  ChiiiAiaii'i  A4ve«iit  PabUsalieoa,  1841-9. 
FcLFi?  IbveiT«4TroMt.   Cr.  Sva    Edlabeiigh«  Mt. 
fleifTii¥  0|>cm  Poathnaia.    £iL  Colli.,  1717. 
flemiat*!  Ooaunon-PUoe  Book.    Btiit^  I II.  soJ  TV. 

WttDMd  t<7  J,  jr.  BuOit^  SU«t£)ra,  lUoiolicstsr. 


^DtUfi^  tu  Co rrfJJ^cmOfiiU. 

Jnx,  Wak. — Sir  Cliristopher  Wren  was  cho«eu  On 
Mastorof  tlie  Freemft'»<>n?,  !«f*>i.     In  17H  four  ' 
lodges  united  at       "'  '     ^ 

Co  vent  Garden  (: 
nmde  complaint  ' 

(ho  was  then  eighty -Lhf«tv/,  ttmi  clcctvd  n  *jmf»d  Ma 
for  the  lime.  Their  choice  definitively  fell  on  the  T 
of  Montague. 

E.  A.  D.,  referring  to  *•  Dominicali"  (f/**  S,  ii 
aptly  reminds  all  who  are  interested  in  the  ^nlvi'  «'^t 
*'  Au  aGOOont  of  the  probable  origin  of  tbc 
payment   called    '  Bominicals  *    will  h<*    fo't 
I"  Series  of  *  N.  k  Q  ,'  vol.  iii.  p.  C 
article  I  have  mot  with  no  staten 
induce  mo  to  alter  my  opinion  th^r 

Mr.  Sparks  Heki>eb50N  Williams  writes  :  **  Barliam, 
and  not  Thackeray,  wrote  the  linefl  misquoted  by  Mi 
KiuririDY  (p.  284).     If  he  tuma  to  Sdl  Vooi  ' 

Ingoldib/s  legend  of  the  **  Bark  Entry  *  at  • 
he  will  see  that— 
**  The  Sacristan,  he  taya  no  word  that  indicnttr  u  J    jt.t 

But  he  puts  his  thumb  unto  his  noscj  and  sprcaa.*  liiS 
fingers  out ! " 

Miu  G.  C.  LoifGLVTt  Maitland,  Oatario,  CanAdi^  aaSa 
'^' where,  and  at  what  price,  books  relating  to  Fr 
Spain,  and  Germftnyj  siuiLr  to  Burke's  BntUK  I 
can  be  obtained." 

A.  G.  P.  aiks  for  particulars  of  any  essays  writi 
or  against  the  opinions  expressed  in  Lord  M 
Hittory  of  Unfftafui;  and.  also,  of  any  book  (i 
written  on  the  Abbeys  and  Castles  of  Scotland. 

F.  K— (5'"  S.  i.  ar.tJ)  Pela'SICS  refers  you  to  the  H«lhK 
typo  Compauy'it  Office,  221,  llcgent  Street,  fur  fac-strntlai 
of  Diirer's  etchings. 

X.  S.— Here  is  a  proof  that  "  Rev."  was  apnliad  to 
judges.  Thc  NtM^  Xatura  BrfViuvt  of  tki  Mtai  Rtnmthd 
Judge,  Mr.  Anthoi^y  FitiktrhrrU  siith  edittoo,  ITIH 
Also  •*  the  Rev.  the  I'rivy  Council "  occurred.  Ump*  EUxft' 
beth. 

M,  T. — Zavier  de  Maistre's  works  liave  been 
lated  into  English,    Any  good  biograpUical  dictioiwi 
mav  be  consulted  for  his  life,    tie  died  iu  Iti5i2, ' 
eighty-eightli  year. 

♦♦. — *'  In  infancy  our  hopes  »nd  feai9  '*  ij  an 
Ariaxtrxet,  by  Dr.  A  me.    '*  Water  parted  from  tba  d^ 
is  from  the  same  opera.     Words  and  music  by  Amcu 

A.  A- — Will  yon  be  good  enough  to  add  to  your  wa- 
tribation  thi^  name  of  the  source  from  which  it  is  talent 

W,  D.  S.  ask*  for  particulars,  with  publisheff*' 
of  the  best  works  on  Cryptography. 

GI4ASG0W  inquires  when  Rome  was  first  liglit«d 
gas. 

PEiiffCR.— "  Vinegar  Bible."    See  a%U,  p.  2Ul 

G.  D. — The  Sullclk  epitapb  has  been  often  pnoiciL 


yoTWE. 

Editorial  OofBmimieations  should  be  addrewcd  to  * 
Editor  ^'—Advertisements  and  Budtieas  Letlen  to  ' 
Publiethcr  "—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  &Ut^  \ 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  conn- 
municatlone  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print ;  ud 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  exception* 

To  all  communications  should  be  afllxed  tba  nMBt 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pnblicailloi^  1 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


281 


09,  aATVmJAT,  OCffJBKR  lO.  iSFi. 


,    ^^gt—Tbe   r>eriag    Rnll    */    Arms     Ivrrooeotttljr 
It   "ACW**    Roll,   J*"'  -  irnMn^— 

tfSagillib  Tul^uiim'  in  HaxiU 

piBi  of  PUntt— N«:w  .  .  ik.«peariiMi 

TSO— **Mau  iIq  Vie.     iS^-Cuiii>u>  HJ«tori«&] 
rtb-pkoe  of  John  Bunjan,  H^ 

he    Sftugor    '  I  iu:nr«    \d 

irn   witii   tt,  Kelpie  — 

In  I  Tthim]  .,.j.ia  (Scot* 

'  *  no*,  of 

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.    TuanjiOD — 
inoPniater,  hh 


— -UodierD  LfttJn  ftJDd  Gr«ek  Y«rM,  S89 — '*S«onoe/ 
dd  Lidy  o£  J  hr.  ilu-mlle  Street— Ancltnt  Eii«lifh 
^Chttn^r-  <  hjwrd,  2Jl— Th«  Er^aestrian 

Lflleitter  Irlih  Executiofu ^Fletcher, 

r  Won:e»f  '..inl    Ituni^Lif  r»l— Juttlcea* 

loraijiicni  r    l^&ttve 

Oiiuifc'o  ui  .  jj— "Bk 

4fe©  — **  IjJt*-'  U>  Liiv  il-iiUiiiiW  rt>4«s  you  swHi '  —  Rnbol  t 
If  tlie"1WecfaQft  '  Bible  <-Oireyl&ljk,2fl0-Uiu«tUwl 
IS'A  J«»'»  Will :  rT*3rers  for  th«  De^t  207— 
*MM3i>«th"— Laoftr  JEUinbu^irx— Corpftec  Entombed 
Bem^  29S-'*'Takii3g  ft  atghl "— BnJI- 


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JIfltrf. 
rs  "DICTIONARY  OP  ARTISTS/* 
SATSnS)  THE  CARICATURIST. 

i>rnTtrihlv    II I  in  h   better  kflowm  as  a 
U  'lid*  f^ives  him  a  place 

_  i  >/}  than  as  rin  atto^ney- 

^  js    Receiver  of    the   Sixpenny   Writ 
ml    M:ir-f]nl  of  the   Marshalse^i   of  the 
M  the  Lt>rd  Treov*arors  Ue- 
Tht^ne    olhcea    hiive   long 
1  -suepL  u.way,  I  believe,  and  the  liinryers 
pccly   recovpird   the   cxhilamting  effectB 
the  uncient  uaiue   of 

Ki5o\\}i    nuu    foT  his   worka    as    an 

%l   is,   his   caricatures.     To   his   con- 

• '     to  hiive  been  tmknown,  for 

1 1  <  d  in  different  wuys,  uml  his 

.  .   ,      iLber^f  as  I  whall  snow.     His 

I  weru  all  piiblinhed  anonymously^ 

prciK^rillv  ^i   IK  1   iho  curiciUtire'i  thtit 

I  Ib.     It  is  remark- 

111    hiive  been   m 

tt*^  i'  I  tli«>  lynx  eye*  of  the 

i.  '  IHi-Honary  of  Living 

to  h!i\*e  known  most 

IT  day.  They  attribute 


Jatuea  Sayers^s  works  lo  "Edward  Snyer,"  a 
barrister. 

W<^  are  told  thnt  Sayers  continued  his  political 
caricAtures  until  Ills  death,  which  took  place  (Mr, 
Redgrave  informs  us)  in  l^*23,  and  he  woa  buried 
in  the  vaults  of  St.  Andre^^'i*  Church,  Holborn.  No 
recorrl  of  the  event  is  to  be  found  in  the  Genil&' 

Mr,  Kedj^ive  uaVB,  "  His  father  hnring  lefk  him 
a  Amall  fortune,  he  did  not  continue  to  practise  in 
the  profession  of  an  ftttorney  "  ;  but  he  quotes  no 
authority  for  this  Bt4itement.  I  do  not  dispute  but 
that  it  may  be  roughly  correct,  though,  at  the  »«iiiie 
time,  if  he  did  not  actually  practise  iis  an  attorney, 
he  held  profe-ssional  posts,  to  his  deuth|  which 
brought  him  in  a  considenible  income  (?)»  t^tid 
rendered  a  private  income  not,  at  least,  tt  matter 
of  necessity, 

Sayers  was  of  a  Yarmouth  faimily,.  and  I  find, 
from  the  Law  List-s,  that  a  James  Snyers  practised 
there  as  an  attorney  as  early  as  1779,  and  continued 
to  the  year  1825,  when  hig  name  disappeitrs.  In 
1821,  he  took  Christopher  Sayera  into  partnership. 
I  suppose  this  James  Sayers  to  have  been  a  brother 
of  James  Sayers  the  caricaturist^  as  the  hitter  is« 
in  the  Law  List,  amongst  the  London  attomcya 
frouj  the  year  17BD  to  the  year  1802,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  years  1785^  1787,  and  1789,*  an 
omission  the  following  t^uot^tion  will  explain.  It 
is  rather  long,  but  I  think  it  is  fully  justified  by 
its  interest inij  character,  and  its  being  from  a  book 
seldom  met  with  now,  namely,  the  RctonU  of  My 
Life^  by  John  Taylor,  author  of  Monsieur  Tonsofi, 
1832,  vol.  i,,  pp.  42  and  VMt  :— 

*'  M  ' '  "  I  >tr,  James  Snyert,  well  known  for  hit 
Utemr  Ik  cancaturiU,  mnde  a  ludicroua  draw- 

iair  «t  '  '*  i"  the  heroine,  .%nd  published  a  print 

of  it  cULc'd  hy  him^Lf.  lie  also  made  a  dra^inut  of  Mrs. 
Abington,  ia  the  cb»nicter  of  Scrub,  which  sbe  degraded 
berietf  by  performiog  oa  one  of  her  bene^t  nights.  Mr. 
Sayorj  wa^  so  wel!  known,  and  so  much  admired,  for  his 
knoTrledge  nnd  tnleiits,  that  I  mu»t  pay  a  short  tribute 
to  hii  memory.  Ue  was  an  attorney,  and  in  partaarship 
with  another  in  Gray'i  Inn*  but  his  partner  was  so  fond 
of  uiijitHng  that  h?  ne^lect«d  all  business  to  inditlsc  him- 
self ill  his  favourite  diversion,  and  Mr.  Sayers  deemed  U 
pr»ppr  in  di<?«>lre  the  connoxioti.  Mr.  Sayer*  was 
r  lAtamirie  humoar,  aud  for  hii  fertility 

in  sarcastic  verses,  a«  well  at  for  his 

it.,..  ■■-  draw'iiigA,  which  he  engraved  himself, 

and  they  constitute  a  very  large  coUectiotu  He  was  a 
very  shrewd  maa^  a  warm  politician,  and  a  sealous 
Pittite.  Qis  moit  popular  print  waa  published  at  the 
time  when  Mr,  Foi  brought  forward  bis  meiiKirable  East 
Itnlia  Hill,  after  hi*  coatition  \'.;tlj  L^rd  North,  which 


dc-'troyed  the  rcputiition  of 

This  print,  which  difplayed  l- 

represented  Mr,  Fox  a*  '^' 

the  fiuie  of  which  had  i 

in  Leaden  ball  t^treet,  J  j< 

tSayers  publiahed  many  other  vv  <rk 

and  all  in  favour  of  the  Pitt  admisi 


itical  inte^ty. 
ty  and  hutnour. 


*  Xo  Iaw  Lists  (then  a  private  speculation)  wcm  i^uJi^ 
liihed  for  the  yean  17^6  auiY;^, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Sntinmte friend  of  tbe  BoydeU^JSUtcted  inAny  of  the 
iubjectg  for  the  artists,  when  tbode  ehterpnsin^  patrons 
of  paiBttingr  in  conjunction  with  my  hite  witty  friend 
Mr.  George  Nicol,  the  bookieller  to  Hia  Mftjesty, 
iustitiit«d  the  8hakape&ra  Gallery  in  PftU  Mall.  On  the 
death  of  Mr.  Pitt,  Mr.  Sayers  published  a  poem  entitled 
.  £Ujah-i  MithUe,  which  waa  very  popular  at  the  time, 
[  antf  has  since  been  erroneously  attributed  to  Mr.  Can- 
'  ning.  The  fertile  imaginfttmn  of  Mr.  Sayers,  and  his 
tareastic  humour,  remained  inexliauated  till  bis  death. 
One  of  hi8  last  publications  waa  an  heroic  epistle  to 
3Mr.  Winsor,  the  celebrated  founder  of  the  Gaa  Company* 
This  poem  abounded  in  wit,  humour,  and  MtLre,  and 
might  fairly  be  compared  with  the  memorable  herok 
epistle  to  ^ir  William  Chambers  [1773J»  the  uuthor  of 
which,  like  Junlui,  has  never  been  discovered,  but  is 
now  generally  euppofled  to  have  been  Mr.  [William] 
Ma^on." 

Mr,  Taylor  goes  on  to  aay : — 

•*  I  knew  Sayers  in  early  life,  and  notliing  interrupted 
our  friendship.  The  last  time  I  had  the  pleasure  of  see- 
ing hiin  was  at  a  dinner  at  &ta|>k  Inn  UalL  lie  was  a 
member  of  the  society  of  that  Inn  of  Court/*  * 

The  partner  Tiiy lor  refers  to  was  named  Lettenyt 
and,  in  all  probabilit}^,  he  com  plained  to  his  friend  a 
of  v^ayera  riding  his  hobbies,  jiist  as  Bayers  seems 
to  have  complained  to  that  interesting  and 
garrnlous  old  scandal-monger  Taylor,  They  were 
partners  for  nhout  a  year  or  two,  1782-3,  and  dis- 
solved about  1784,  in  which  year  Sayers  was  ap- 
pointed Marsha]  of  tlie  Marshalseii  of  the  Ex- 
che(juer.  This  I  find  from  the  records  kept  dt 
the  Public  Record  Office,  Fetter  Lsine.t  His 
name  h  not  in  the  list  of  attorneys  for  17S5,  nor 
until  the  year  179<-» ;  it  then  occurs  re<?ul:irly 
except  IROl)  until  1802^  when  it  disappears. 
(Whether  he  pmetised  during  his  tenure  of  public 
office,  I  cannot  say. 

In  the  Carkutnrc  History  of  the  Gcorrjcj^  •  *  •  t>y 
ThomjiS  Wright  ,  .  ,  (1868),  I  find  Sayers  men- 
tioned at  p,  tJlO,  and,  in  A  IJutf^rtj  of  Caricnture 
ajul  Grotfiique  in  Liltrature  mid  Arf^  liy  the  same 
uuthor  (1665),  on  p.  453-6,  we  have  the  following 
account,  which  tlu-ows further  li^jht  on  the  .subject: 
''James  Soycr  fiici  is  known,  with  very  trifling  ex- 

,  eeptione,  as  a  political  caricaturist.  He  wan  the  son  of 
m  captain  of  a  merchant  Bhip  at  Yarmouth*  but  was  bim- 

I  ielf  put  to  the  profession  of  an  nttomer.    As,  however, 

^  lie  was  posaesicd  of  a  moderate  intlependence,  and 
appears  (now  ij  to  have  hud  no  great  taste  for  the  law, 
he  Deflected  hia  business  [ia  John  Tavlor  the  authority 
for  ihiB  fj,  andf  with  con  a  id  crab!  o  talent  for  satire  and 
caricature,  he  threw  himself  into  the  political  strife  of 

I  the  day.  Sayer  wb«  a  bad  draughtsman.  ...  He  made 
the  acqutdntance,  and  gained  the  favoiu*,  of  the  younger 

**  Thli  is  a  mlstAke;  Staple  Inn  is  an  Inn  of  Chancery, 
not  an  Inn  of  Court, 

f  As  I  had  a  great  deal  of  trouble  to  find  thi?,  and 
spent  many  davs  searchiDg,  I  will  be  particular  with  the 
references.  The  appointment,  in  the  room  of  William 
Buckle,  dtfceascd,  will  be  found  in  June.  I7ii4,  in  the 

^  8i^iet  Office  Docket  Book.  Every  possible  facility  is 
^von  lit  the  Kecord  Oflice  ;  but,  unless  you  know  exactly 

\  vhat  yttu  want,  and  where  to  find  it,  tearching  there  fa 
a  fortiiidnble  adairj  and  may  well  be  compared  to  the 
inuiitional  search  for  a  needle  in  a  btmdle  of  hay. 


William  Pitt  when  that  statesman  was  aspiring  to  power ; 
and  be  began  his  career  as  a  caricaturist  bv  attacking  ih» 
Rockingham  Ministry  in  1782,  of  course  m  the  tnlereii 
of  Pitt,  .  .  .  (who}  gave  the  earicaturiat  the  n^t  un- 
lucrative  offices  of  Marsha]  of  tlie  Court  of  Eaeheipiex^ 
Receiver  of  the  Sixpenny  Duties^  and  Cursitor.** 

I  have  several  remarks  to  make  about  these  4 
tracts  and  Sayers 's  biography,  which  I  had  betti 
reserve  for  another  note.  Olphab  Hamst.I 

New  Bametf  Herts,  N. 


shakspeaeiana. 

*'The  Tempest'*  (Act  iv,  sc.  1).— 

"  Thy  banks  with  pioned  and  twilled  brimA." 
SteevenF,    after    referring   to    Chapman   (OfiJ 
Banquet  of  SejxUj  1625) — 
**  Immortal  amaranth,  white  aphrodill. 

And  cup4ikc  twill-pants  strew*d  in  Bacchus'  bowtn.*' 
(See  Reed's  Shalipeart.)  \ 
saya^  **  If  twill  be  the  ancient  name  of  any  floirj 
the  old  rending,  j?i^nc4  and  iwiUrd^  may 
A  triend  inlbmis  me  that  in  Warwick^'  ' 
the  adjoining  counties  he  has  heard  pa 
nounced  2>.V<^».v)  used  for  the  mat^h-mangoi 
tivill  for  the  rush.  Let  iia  examine  the 
evidence  on  the  subject.  The  common  word  iu 
or  tir€^l^  is  to  weave  in  ribs  or  riiJge*  ;  usa 
weave  cloth  in  a  particular  manner.  To  qu 
plait  or  to  form  with  small  ridges,  like 
reeds,  and  is  generally^  if  not  i 
nounced  hcill.  In  the  North  of  i 
need  for  quill,  a  reed  j  and  UiUhj  la  to 
reversely.  Bailey  gives  "  a  Umld^  a  rmiU,  a  i 
or  spool  to  wind  yum  on  for  weavinc,  jf .  C'* 
Dutch  fmil  is  a  j^arland,  and  tidlfjc  is  a  noiegajil 
little  gadand  ;  the  Alt-Friesi»ch  twict^  tmw^  f 
rendered  *^  zweimal.'^ 

Roquefort  gives  the  0.  French  word  douU^  i 
dounlf^  dovnk    (which   would   comipt   to 
daubU,  t^pata  (from  duplrj).     The  word 
sometimeii  called  tlie  **  ruah-lenved  daffodil^*^ 
abbreviate  or  corrupt   to  quil  or  quilK 
Tennyson  calls  a  lady's  tumed-np  no^e  **  Un-lma 
like  the  petal  of  a  flower,''  with  wliLh  the  J 
tiPilUd  might  be  connected.    (Il  of 

fmm  jn7iculuSj  a  diminutive  of  j 
rush.)     The  word  brim  nmy  have  no  refc 

the  edge  or  margin  of  a  Kank  or  river,  htitl 

brim,  margin,  or  lip  of  a  plant.     It  would  con 
from  ]i/rlni^  primes  for  primroH.     T  UAf'  it 
we  pro.se  the  whole  pomgniph,  we  i 
"  Ceres,  thy  hanks,  which  Fpuii_ 
command,  betrims  with  pa^oned  j'  1 J 

to  make  chaste  crowns  for  cold  n 
it  we  ought  first  to  ascertain  with 
in  question  would  be  likely  to  bo 
it  is  not  fair  to  decide  V"*^  ;'...;' 
also  accounting  for  the  j 

panU,    The  wor^l  jffanfe  w    „  .    .^  ,  ......^^  ^ 

planU^  or  p<yinU,    Boqueiott  rendcn*  |HIsiI,^ 


,n.  Oct.  10, 74.] 


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_pflMi«":  and  pnfn:f^panine^  "ventre,  groa  ventre." 
|.jii«'n  there  is  the  old  English  word  poune,  jmn,  the 
"head  (in  Cttnirrr  j>.in,  ihi'  top  of  the  bead),  which 
Imightbr  iTeT\deT?-pen(e^pnntt\ 

r**thr'dcMi  I :,  slope nesae,  or  slope 

111'  ;i  lull,  Uiti^L,  I'uufe,  (Sec;  also  a  place  of 
.  an  inclining  towurds  a  fall,"  Bobt<j 
jcmicr^  punt^'  '*  cluvpelet  de  jj^tites  coquilles 
Ihlanches  ;  toile  de  crln."  Roquefort  renders  patif, 
I  •'  il  pcnse,"  One  of  the  meunings  of  the  Romance 
wjfMntau  \n  «outi  ;  and  ianci  ia  the  French  numo 
I  for  the  marigold.  There  is  also  the  French  »anw, 
Ij>a7n^  the  panic- ilo wen  Then  ngain,  tmU-pant 
Vinight  corrupt  from  tulij.mnt,  the  old  form  of 
Iftiitp^  so  called  from  its  resemblance  to  the 
Ifuhft'i'tf  «>r  hithant^  found  in  Bailey  for  the  tuThan^ 
|A  ^^  ^  from  the  Persian  dvllmnd. 

iers  to  the  marigold,  I  would  write 

j^tts.    I  do  not  believe  that  brims  has  any  local 

ding ;  and  looking  to  the  term  tmll-2)antHj  I 

bmk  iinll-hnmn  may  have  been  the  name  given 

|lo  some  well-kno^vn  plant,  who^  apex  resembles 

the  edge  or  top  of  a  qidU,     It  may  first  have  been 

l^ttill^  then  twills  tmUd.     My  attention  Vftis  not 

I    the    article    on   "  New    Shakflpeacian 

/'in  the  Edinburgh  /?mnr  of  October, 

^#  -:,  until  after  the  writing  of  the  nWve  notcjs. 

R,   S.    CUARNOCK. 

*<S»r  roiy.  WherefofTfl  are  these  thio^  hid?    Wbisre- 
fr  llAT*  tn^ge  ^fts  a  curtain  before  'eta  ?    Are  they 
I  to  lycc  duft  like  Miiireu  Maira  picture  1  "—rire//£A 
WigiU,  Act*  L  BC.  3. 

Tliis  baa  been  said  to  be  an  allusion  to  Mary 

Phth^  oUfiJS  Mall  Cutpurse^  an  Amazonian  botuir 

|rt>&a.     Probably  it  was,  she  being  as  well  known, 

MolJ  was  common  for  ao  common  a  name  as 

But  why  "  take  diist  like  her  picture  •■  ? 

vcnhiH'    Of]   a    possible   explanation*      In    The 

iMo'  I  iguereUc  U  an  aged  lady  in  waiting 

EHj  £ ;  -.     But  in  Act  v.  ac.  i.  we  have : — 

■  Fa*.  . .  .  Thcre'i  Mugucrelle,  oldest  bawde,  and  a 
erpetttJiU  begjcur.    Did  you  never  heare  of  her  tricke 
t  be  knoi^ac  in  the  Cittie  ? 
"Bit.  Xevcr, 

"  /%tj.  Wby,  she  ^tt  all  the  picter-m&kcrs  to  draw 

■1 :  when  they  have  done,  she  most  courtly 

:f  with  them  one  after  another,  and  never 

They,  in  revenue  of  this,  execute  her  in 

doe  in  Germanie,  and  bang  her  in  their 

inehnea  ebc  ii  better   knowne   to   the 

katdjt  Uiuii  if  ibee  had  beene  five  time«  carted  ! 

*  iOL  Fore  God,  an  esoelle&t  jiolicie  !  ** 

Now  this,  though  quit«  conaiatent  with  Mague- 
lie  a  more  yoatldul  and  more  age^i  character,  is 
|U»t«   incouwist^nt   with    her  position    at  Court. 
»T  I  apprehend  that  JVIarston  here  introduced 
.  n   story  ;  and  it  is  clear  that  he  was 
f  '.fa  Court  when  htj  wrote  "  knowne 

iM»r,    and  "  five  times  cartetl."     My  fur- 
bi>r  iupfio«itiou  is  that  Sir  Toby  is  referring  to 


the  same  st<>rywhen  it  waa  still  known,  but  older  j 
nnd  when  the  exposed  and  uncared-for  pictures 
were  somewhat  dust-covered  as  compared  with  the 
other  specimens  of  each  portrait-painters  art. 
That  his  word  is  picture,  and  not  pictures,  can 
hardly  be  considered  an  argtiment  of  any  force  ; 
and  if  we  accept  the  reference,  there  is  his  usual 
under- sarcasm  J  visible  to  all  but  Sir  Andrew  him- 
self, when  he  likens  the  hitter's  vaunted  accora- 
plifthinents  to  the  caricatured  featurea  of  Mistress 
MalL  B.  Nicholson. 

Thk  Expulsive  Power  op  a  New  Affection 
(5'»»  S.  i.  405,)— 

*'  Even  aa  one  heat  another  heat  expels. 
Or  oa  one  nail  by  itreugth  drives  out  anoihcTi 
8o  the  remembrance  of  mj  former  love 
Ii  by  A  newer  object  quite  forgotten, 
la  it  her  mien,  or  Tolentmas'  pruiae  1 

Methiokfl  my  zeal  to  Valentine  is  cold ; 
And  that  I  love  him  not,  as  I  was  wont'* 

Two  Oefiiiemm  o/  Verona,  it  4. 
"  Great  is  the  choice  that  growes  in  youthfuU  rninda 
When  Ijonour  fulles  at  variance  with  affection. 
Nor  could  tt  yet  be  knowne  or  well  defined 
Which  pAsaion  keeps  the  other  in  subjection. 
Both  do  aliurOi  both  do  the  judgment  blinde. 
Both  do  corrupt  the  heart  with  itrong  Infection. 
Yet  loe  sometimes  theae  hurt^  procure  oiir  wealej 
Even  ae  one  pojaon  doth  another  heale/^ 

B.J,  Harrington,  Trans  h  England's  Parnassia, 

On  what  ground  does  Allot  here  ascribe  to  Mich, 
Drayton  a  oassage  at  a  later  period  univei^ly 
supposed  to  oe  Shakspeare's,  viz,, — 

*'  This  n^VftU  throne  of  Kings,  this  peentrcd  ylc, 
TbiEi  earth  of  maioetie„  thi«  seat  of  Mare, 
This  other  Eden,  thia  demi-paraduc/' 

Atchurd  II.,  Act  it.  1. 
BlBLlOTeECAR.   ChETHAM. 


THE  DERING  EOLL  OP  ARM9>  ERRONEOUSLY 
STYLED  THE  "ACRE"  ROLL. 
The  valuable  collection  of  3iJ4  coats,  in  trick, 
which  occurs  in  Harleian  MS,  No.  0137,  from  fo. 
fin^  to  97^,  was,  doubtless,  derived  from  one  and 
the  same  authority  referred  to  in  the  Villare  Can- 
tianum^  in  numerous  places,  aiii  the  **  regis ter,*' 
"  cjitalogue,"  or  "beivd  roll,"  which  says  the  author 
at  p.  123  "  comprehends  *'  (V.  n,,  indudesf)  the 
names  of  those  Kentish  gentlemen  who  were  with 
Richard  I.  at  the  siege  of  Acre  (old  name  Aeon) 
in  Palestine,  it  being  cited  in  the  margin  tlirough* 
out  as  an  ancient  roll  of  Sir  Edward  Dering's. 
The  copy  in  the  Harleian  MS.  was  taken 
apparently,  as  likewise  the  one  which  succeeds  it 
in  the  same  volume  (i.  #.,  Kent  roll^  tnnp.  clows  of 
Edw.  IL  fo.  98-99,  m  coats,  but  probably  un- 
finished), by  John  Philipot,  Somerset,  and  is  headed 
(in  a  later  hand  ?)  *'  A  very  good  rowle  of  Kentish 
Amies  &  som  others."  Its  identity  with  Sir 
Edward  Bering's  list,  which,  thatdbt^^  Toa,^  \i^ 


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held  to  biive  comprised  arms  as  well  as  name*,  is 
forced    upon   us   by  many  considerationu.      The 
uthor  of  the  ViUarc  gpeaks  of  Wm.  de  Say  as 
einL'  **  in  the  front  or  van  "  of  this  Aeon  register, 
ad  niB  ahield  is  in  fjict  the  first,  that  is  uJ'ter  the 
iiiigle  fi4^mi-regal  une,  in  the  roll«     It  is  singuUir 
that  ftll  the  names  he  mentions  as  ocjiurriug 
\  it  are  to  be  found  now,  with  but  trifling  excep- 
tions,* agreeably  both  a,s  to  Chri«tian  iind  surnjime, 
r5n  the  Harleian  copy.   Again,  the  suppo&ed  con- 
nexion of  the  **  very  good  lowle  of  Kentish  Armes," 
&c,,  with  the  siege  of  Acre,  has  strangely  enough 
attadied  to  it  even  to  the  present  day,  although  a 
very  superficial  exam i nation  shows  Papwortti  to 
hare  been   correct    in  estimating    {Ordinary  of 
Brituh    Armorials)    tkat^    though    assigned    (by 
tradition?)  to  the  year  llSti,  it  is,  in  reality,  of 
much  more  reeent  date.      "Richard  fiz  le  rey," 
moreover,  whose  shield   (gu.  2  leopards   passant 
gardnnt  or)  heads  the  series  in  the  roll,  is  obviously 
not  the  rebellious  son  of  Henry  IL,  but  rather 
f  Eichiird,  baae  son  to  King  John,  who  took  the 
[  name  of  Fitzroy  and  maiTied  the  Lady  Rohesia  de 
[Dovor,  of  Cbilham  Castle  in  Kent    The  justice  of 
r  this  will  be  easily  seen  on  reference  to  the  Ttsta 
tU  Nevill  (p.  207)  where  he  is  designated,  in  like 
manner,   Ridmrtl    *'fdii   ^^^^,*^    his  name  being 
coupled  with  that  of  "  Roys  uxoris  sue,'*  the  Indy 
alluded  to.f     There  can  be  little  doubt,  I  think, 
that  the  occurrence  of  these  singular  anus  at  the 
heiwi  of  the  roll,  so  nearly  alike  the  royal  coat  of 
the  time,  enhanced  by  the  iDeculiarity  of  the  words 
**  fiz  le  rey,"  affixed  to  the  name  of  the  bearer,  has 
all  along  been  the  reason  of  its  attribution  to  so 
I  early  a  date  a«  that  of  the  tlurd   C'rusitde  ;  anti- 
['Ouariefl  of  the  seventeenth  century  having  taken 
[U  for  granted  that  the  Richard,  *'8on  of  the  king  ■' 
in  question^   couM   not  refer  to  other   than   the 
obdumt^  but  gallant  son  of  Hen?}'  II. 

The  majority  of  the  name^  in  the  roll,  too,  are 
I  those  of  men  of  much  renown  in  the  lattt*r  part  of 
ihc  reign  of  Henry  IIL  ;  the  subjoined  Dotes,t 

*  These  excepttoua  fti-e,  Rob«rt  de  Houg^faAin,  who  at 
p.  195  is  fltated  to  luve  been  at  Aeon  with  Etlward  L, 
irhioh  in  probably  a  slip  of  the  pen  for  Kiclutrd  I.,  tui  he 
Igures  lathe  roll;  and  Robert  de  Septuua^,  mcTitioa^d  At 
p,  342,  but  who  Ls  doubtless  tbe  blundered  ^'  Robt  Sccu"1 
_  \qy.  J^euend)  affixed  to  cue  of  the  earlier  coat«  which  is 
"leli  blank.     With  respect  to  tbe  coat»  of  Lucy  ami  AJ ore- 
worthy  wc  are  informed  iu  the  Viltarf  tliat  tbe  connexion 
of  their  reipectire  owtiera  with  tbe  Flo!y  War  wa^  tbe 
_  eauae  of  the  introduction  of  tbe  cr 
paternal  coatA  (!);  another  sugge^ 
referring  to  tbe  record  under  consil 
sro  to  dilTerencM  in  tbe  roll. 

f  In  "Gloir^r'fl'*  Roll  of  Ilcnry  HI.,  the  ■nni  h©rc 
»ilo|ted  to  bim  are  ntcribed  to  Riehftrd  dc  DoTor,  who 
Iftibficquently  married  his  widow,  und  Appears  to  haTe 
iBdoptcil  his  coat  Hkowiae. 

I  The  references  in  bracketa  are  to  tliQ  fo.  and  shield 
in  the  roll. 

Roberts^B  CalnuL  QtnttUogicum, 
1^  8L  i2a//NormMinle  [««••  lb],  Inq.  ?.  M.— Ub  son 


collated  from  the   records,   respecting  ceitAin 
them,  sufficing  to  show  that  none  floiinahed  ca~* 
than  that  rei^n,  and  some  few  so  kte  as  th4?  < 
mencement  of  the  next  (Edward  L)»   horn, 
middle  of   which    the    original    docitmeAl 


TboukOF,    tged   '2j   jears   oxdj   (Kent).     Ann.   4:!^ 
Hen.  llL 

m.  1Viii.  Le  Bretiin  or  Breton,  Inq.  P.  lA.—JtH 
he  Breton  [i^^'  71  ion  and  heir,  21  jian  of  age. 
Hen.  Ul. 

lia  Robert  de  Giitton.  Inq.  P.  M.--Zra« 
•on  find  heir,  aged  2i  (Surrey),     Ann.    43 
Philip  de  Arcy,  or  Darcy,  Inq.  P.   M-— Sir 
[93^  ]H],  6on  and  heir,  aged  28^  and  upwar^n 
Hen.  III. 

111.  Roger  dc  Quency.  Comes  Winton,  Inq.  P.  K— 
His  «on  Bohrrt  |Mf>.lO|  died  in  bis  lifeiimCj  and  lift 
iMUc^  tw<    '  'uly,     Ann.  43  Ren.  III. 

130.  M  no'rc.  Inq*  P.  M.— Sir  Rogrt  \ 

kencre  ['J'.  .nd  hcii^  aged  26  (Esaex).     A&IL  I 

Hen.  llL 

1S>6.  Emricui  de  Hcri»  196-151  Inq,  P.  M.— John,] 
brother  and  heir,  jiged  30  and  upwards  (Xotti.  ' 
Derby).     Ann.  1  Edw,  1. 

20S.  Andrcaa  Pcvercl,  Inq.   P.  M.— Thomas  [P2»  i 
8on  and  heir,  aged  30  and  upwardi  (Susies)* 
Edw.  I. 

211  GilbertuB  de  Preston*  loq.  P.  M.— Laorenti 
nephew,  sun  of  his  brother  WitliaHi  [96^  ll]*  bk  1 
Ann.  2  Edw.  I. 

234.  Tho3.  Abelin,  Inq.  P.  M.—X\r. 
and  heir,  jiged  30  and  upward*  (Kent  i  Ij 

252.  Fulco   Peyforer,   Inq.   P.  M.— 
fon  and  heir  of  full  age.     Ann.  5  Edw.  1.     /ttUp 
load  [f*l-lS],  a($ed  30  and  upwards,  next  heir  ' 
Fulco  held  in  bis  wife^s  ri^ht.     Ann.  5  Edw.  1. 

27^.  JhAficM  de  Pcnebrigj?  [tJii-lOJ,  Inq,  P.  H.- 
Fulco,  son  end  beii ,  a^td  only  8  years.    Ana.  7  Edm.l 

2»S.  BaHh.  de  Suley  [93'^  1],  Inq,  P.  M.— Joha  ^ 
Sttlev,  his  heir.    Ann.  8  Edw.  L 

308.  /tot/.  Tailk'boif  [95-161,  Inq.  P.  M.— Looul 
boiit^  bis  beir,  aged  23.     Ann.  ^  Kd^v.  1. 

585.  John,  eon  a  ml  beir  of  Jtoiph  Httsard  [t5^ 
aged  21  {*'  prwb.  «t*t."),  Oloster.     Ann*  15  Edw.  L 

Htnry  de  Cobbam  [90-7]*  of  fionndal,  son  of  Jriba4 
Cobbam,  senior,  who  was  living  in  ann.  35  Hen.  t^ 
The  arms  in  the  roll  are  adopted  from  thofc  of  8te]»b 
de  Penceatre,  whose  heireea  be  mnrried.  Henry  da  T 
hum,  of  Roimdal,  died  in  the  middie  of  the  reign  i 
Edward  lb 

\Vm,  de  Ueurc  [90''  7]  was  Sheriff  of  Xent  patt  i 
ann.  1  and  «ntu  2  Edw.  1. 

Ptrt*  de  Huntingfield  [&K1]  w»s  Sheriff  of  K«nt  yirt_ 
of  ann.  1 1, 12,  and  part  of  aon,  13  Edw.  L 

lioK.  de  Sootto  [90''  19]  waa  Sheriff  of  Kent  atta«  I 
Edw.  h  ^ 

Wm.  de  Valoignes  [9019]  wab  Sheriff  of  Kent  ami 
4,  5*  and  part  of  ann.  fi  Edw,  I. 

Wm.  Monchensi  |9M6]  attained  bl»  majority  in 
year  of  his  father  Warine's  deathj  ann.  c(^  Uen.  I 
(Duffd.  Bar.) 

Hhity  de  Malmainft  [91-15],  ?«n  to  K 
was  a  minor  in  the  band*  o!  Itertram 
Hen.  IIL     (Kol»ert*'-  "         "       '         ml  i..jk 

Ju/iHr  do  Borne  [^l  i  of  Kent  iiaH^ 

ann,  22,  2^1,  and  pan 

Rohrrl  de  Creveqii"  :  i> 

3uer,  junior,    and   (ji 
revcqucr,  who  died  u.iu    -.^    uli.    in.,  tf^e  »svd  ( 
24  at  the  time  of  his  gmndfatlicr's  deatb* 


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./., 


rea^mahly  W  KTirmiacil  to  Imvo  ilalotl.    The  record^ 

t  [>osaibly  have  hud  any  relatifiu 

I   to  Acre,  or  Palestine,  either 

if  ii.»ni  i  dur  de  Lion  or  Edward  Lon;i- 

Th«j  Isitter  le<l  «n  unsiit.'e4?ssful  criHade  to 

'    '^'  i,  aa  w«5  know%  in  the  hist  year  of  his 

fnd  n'hcn  mmnj  of  the  notithxHim  uf 

^'•'jsfti,  IVs  will  be  perceived. 

lents  ID  the  Viilnrt  as  to 

uf  KentiHh  fjimilies  huvinj^ 

a  engngcd  iix,  Aeon  as  com  pan  ions  in  amis  of 

'liird   I,   tiivist  be  looked  upon  throughout  sis 

T.c?d  by  a  false  as^suiuption  us  to  the 

tj  1*1  roll  in  question,  and  as  not  having 

^iiijtihtti*t  fouBdation  io  f»ct ;  the  persons  of 

nmnes  huviug  been  contemporariejs^  indeed, 

one  another^  iis  the  records  show,  not  in  the 

iga  of  Richard  I.,  but  quit«  kulf  a  c^itury  later, 

ibit  of  Henry  HI,        Jamzs  GRiSKaifiiiurr. 


VfCTOftfA,  AS  A  SuRNAiiEj  oc^urs  in  the  list  of 
*  G«ntleweomen^*  who  went  with  Henry  VIII.  and 
>ttern  Katherine  **  to  Cantorbur)%  and  Hoe  to 
I  and  Guisnes,  to  the  Meeting  of  the  French 
"     '•  Mrs.  Victorm/'  HarL  2210,  leaf  4, 

F.  J.  F. 

Kxrn  AKT>  Enolish  Vulgarisms.— The  un- 
BJiiatical  slipslop,  "A.  with  B.  W€tt  so  and  so/* 
nft«»n   noted   in  careless  or  ignorant   Enjjfli^h 
H-rtr7>.      It   is  curious   to    find   it    delibersitely 
'U   a  French   author  of  great  repute: — 
avec  le  jeune  due  ,  .  .  .  ac  rendlrent   a 
Vl\\niUA*i-v  "  ("Say,  tk>vrs  ('OmpUt  ttlLeonvmu  Poli- 
pqut^  Pt.  ix.  vol  ii  p.  5/iOj  third  edition). 

Lyiticlton, 

WTRENCBs   Family    tn    HA:siTs.~Some  years 
I   c/jpied   the  following    epiUiphs    (if   my 
iftrenoe  be  correct)  in  the  Church  of  St.  Cross, 
'  Win  ton.     They  are  in  Roman  capitala  :— 

"SCtiJLKA   LAVUK^CE 
VA8  CAKNK   VALIKS 

A  fleih  prevailinif  Yesiel  fovntl 
Ikarttti  d  to  l^-e  vrider  erornd. 

vixiT  m:<%  13,  ltJ47, 

AKVUtlT  JAK.  18,  1650.** 


"OiaoilOlVS  LAVRINCS 

^  Effii  vti  LftvrcTiP 
I  Vndcr  Iv  us  Invivl  dry. 
Vixit  Uetob.  14,  Itifiii. 
DBriiit  gep.  lf>,  165L" 
K.B. — In  the  Jourjud  of  th<  Housa  nf  L^rds, 
'  I'll,  we  tiutl,  referriiiii  to  tl*©  subject 

r  of    the    no«pti,d   of   St.    Cros*. 
it  '  '  -re:*    Tho  ktter 


1574} ;  and  amongi^t  my  nteiuonmda  I  Imd 


the  will  of  a  MartjJiret  Lawrence  (P.  C,  Win.)^ 

firo.  Au^just  29»  1G*J!)  (her  reliitivcs  are  named 
iarton,  West,  and  Sylvester)  ;  and  the  marriaye 
at  Holyi*o*Kl  Churchy  t;outbampt/iu,  of  Richard 
Lawrence,  of  All  Saints,  and  Sarah  Tomkins, 
widow,  on  April  2rith,  I68fj. 

There  are  doubtless  a  jjreat  many  more  notice* 
nf  this  family  to  be  found  in  the  registries  uf 
Hants,  Sp, 

VcLOAR  Names  of  Plants,— The  derivation 
of  Jenisalem  Artichoke  from  GLnisol  reminds  me  of 
a  similar  ause.  T  met  a  woman  a  few  days  since 
with  a  bunch  of  "  Shjdiing  8tilly,"  as  she  ctdled 
the  purple  Loose  Strife.  The  plant  h  the  Lytkrum 
nalicaria  of  Sowerby,  and  the  Halicarui  v^ulgaria  of 
Ray.  Collectors  of  vulgar  names  should  note 
Budi  comcidencet*.  P.  P. 

New  Readings, — Hor.  i<at.  i.  3,  107.  Many 
years  ago  a  friend  showed  me  a  pocket  edition  of 
Horace,  printed  in  London  some  time  in  the  last 
centurj^  naving  a  readini^  evidently  unique  :— 

''  Nam  fait  ante  Helen&m  sanadon  teterrimft  belli 
CaiUA." 

In  Doering's  Horace^  reprinted  in  Glasgow^  182B, 
*'  deterrima  "  is  given  instead  of  "  teterriraa" 

S.  T.  P. 

A  Sharspeariak  Ckitici8m  op  1720,— 'In  the 
Goldtn  Medley y  London,  1720,  it  is  related  that 
Apollo  held  a  **  Visitation  "  of  Pamassua,  to  turn 
out  a  number  ot  small  pieU*  who  had  obtaitMHl 
admittance  under  false  prttences  :— 

**  You  may  eoe  several  haughty  Proteaden  roarcbinis 
away  with  'doleful  fiwca,  (lad  bearing  off  the  heavy 
Tolamcfi  of  their  works,  Beaumont  and  Fletcher  beia^ 
only  saved  by  two  of  their  comediea,  nor  by  thoae  could 
bfi  rais'd  above  the  lowest  Rank  of  them  that  wcro  per- 
mitted to  stnj ;  aad  if  U  bad  itot  been  for  Shakest^ear's 
Ttmpeti  ho  would  »ctiree  have  been  allow'd  a  pta«se 
among  the  Dramatfck  Poeta,  'Tis  trae,  his  admirablv 
dmughte  of  the  MtniH^crt  would  have  tecur'd  him  u 
residenoe  in  this  Plikce,  yet  only  tK  a  Dialogist;  others 
were  recdiv'd  only  for  one  I'oem,  as  Denhara  for  his 
CiiQpfVJt  nut.  I  must  observe  one  thing  for  tlie  Honour 
of  our  country,  that  Ben  Jolnmon  tK>re  the  Prize  of 
Comedy  from  tho  Ancients  and  moderns  of  all  Kations,*' 

Again,  in  the  same  l>ook,  in  a  Tk^^^-ription  of 
New  Athttii  in  Terra  Aiutralu  hic/>gnita^  the 
traveller  diBCUSses  the  subject  of  the  drama  with  a 
native  :— 

*•  I  informM  Hemi"pefYeP,  *>no  of  the  Society  of  Poets^ 
oftl     '^    '     '  ■  '        '    losp«Mir  in  all  hl«  Plays; 

an«l  '  uencc,  I  translated  many 

of  lu      I    ,  ^  I ji;pe,  which  p!cB«'d  them 

intinttQiy ,  but  I  told  him  that  this  poet  was  euttrely 
i|icn(rrant  of  the  Roles  of  the  Drama,  and,  therefore,  that 
all  bit  PI  '  it  fo  tn:iUy  Pieces  of  Utatory,  which 

by  cooro'j  i  bare  do  Moral,  and  wore  of  Utile 

use  orhij; 

C.  Elliot  Browne, 

*'EAcr  DE  Vie.*' — It  is  the  general  impression 
that  this  term  means  "  water  of  life."    Wc  find 


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[5**  a  IL  Oct,  10, 7i. 


the  exact  renderinj;^  of  it  in  the  CJaelic  uu^t-hcathu 

(heaths  from  vita)^  whence  twitubattrih   and,   by 

LcomiptiuDj    whukij ;    but,    according    to    French 

tauthoritieH,    i>i^  is  corrupted    from    Ijatiu    tnfur, 

[Bescherelle  eaya:  "  Etiu-de-vie,  et  Ljit.  aqna^  ena  ; 

■  vitiif  de  la  vi^o,  ot  non  v%t<e,  de  la  vie,  coiunje 

l-quelquea-uns  le  pretendent/'    Indeed,   Oot^ive 

(1660)  renders  "  eau  de  vie  '*  aqnarite,    Dafresne 

idmBclf  aeema  to  doubt  the  usuftl  etyniolo^'y^  for 

he  says :  "Aqmi  viti?^,  pro  uqiia  vitit*,  Gdl.  caw  dt 

vU:  nisi  ita  voceturquod  tsit  vinum  ifjne  Ktillatum. 

Tract.  MB»  de  Re  mUit.  et  nuicb.  bellicis  avp.  147. 

Hahmntnr   mn^cipulm  Aqua    %ntu   balnentiVf  d 

post&a   liijdur   cia  Juniculug    mtlfure   unctus^   et 

acccndatur  funkulus^  &c.    Occiirrit  pneterea  iipud 

fBarelet,     8erm.   I.   in  Boul  L  Quivdrag."     The 

ItiiliuD  arqimi^tCj  which  in  Delhi  CriTscii  is  rendered 

**  vino  atilliito,"  .seems  to  agret^  with  this  ;  whilst 

the  Spanish  aqaardiadc  (Portuguese,  agoartJ^nie) 

is  rendered  *'i»qua    ex  vino   i;^ne  elicita*'  (from 

aqua,  water,  and  ardiaik),     Agsiin,  the  Basque 

hiis   uTictqnift^   from   uray  aquit,  icequiaf  ardena  ; 

whilst  the  Armoric  haa  gum  anla^tt. 

R.  S.  Chaknock. 
Gny'a  Inn. 

Curious  Historical  Relations. — The  Coii- 
Uur  Vaudois  of  Lausanne  publishes  the  following : 

^'  Tbe  followtiiK  etr&age  Dikrrativo  ia  found  in  tbe 
Sutory  of  ike  Sniu  Re/ormationt  by  Be  Eucbai  It  is 
not  iDd«rt«d  na  a  joke,  but  gifen  in  aober  SGriouane^s  I 
lu  1479  the  viclmty  of  Lausume  w»a  infeited  by  cock- 
obafein.  Thej  were  so  niiiucrous  luid  destructive  as  to 
be  ft  veritable  pest.  3Ir.  Kichardt.  the  then  Clmncellor 
of  fierne,  adTifled  tbat  a  Liwetilt  should  be  comuaenGed 
u>,ratnBt  them.  HiM  iidviee  waa  followed,  and  after  three 
proceasioni,  the  insects  were  cited  to  ujipear  in  the 
Bbhop'fl  Caurt.  For  counsel  tbey  bad  uisi^ncd  to  tbeni 
one  Perrodet,  who  bad  been  dead  six  months  f  The 
accused  and  tbeir  advocate  not  apyieftrinir*  the  Court  gave 
judgtwent  by  default.  The  Bcntence  is  in  Latm,  and  is 
preserved  in  tbe  arcbivea  of  Lausaime.  It  I'xcotii- 
inunicatf^s  the  hiBecta  in  the  name  *^f  the  lljly  Trinity 
and  til  r  I'leaaed  Virgin,  and  tbcy  nnd  their  descendanta 
arc:  ordered  to  quit  for  ever  the  dichce^^e  of  Lausanne." 

The  excoiDniunic4ition  does  not  seem  to  liave 
hiftd  much  elfcct,  for  at  the  present  day  the  ban- 
Detons,  or  cockchafers,  constitute  the  ^Teatest 
annoyance  to  which  the  Yimdoia  farmer  is  sub- 
jected. The  work  of  De  Ruchat  contiiius  another 
strange  story : — 

••  In  13G4  the  Church  of  Chattens,  in  tbe  t-'orot  Hilla, 
pOBWMMed  a  miracuJoiia  image  of  SJt.  Paticritce.  A  pig 
itArini^  dettroytd  a  child,  theaforeaatd  image  was  bnmghi 
out,  and  the  child  was  restored  to  life.  The  pig  was 
cited  to  appear  in  the  Bishop's  Court  at  Lausanne.  It 
waa  foynJ  guilty  of  wilful  laarder^  and  aentenced  to  be 
destroyed. 

De  Buchat  says  that  **  the  executioner  was  a 
park-kuicher,'^  The  historkn  does  not  inform  us 
what  the  finisher  of  tbe  kw  did  with  the  culprit's 
body  I  Although  Do  Ruchat  gives  dateii,  &c.,  and 
refera  to  d(>cumentfi,  &c,,  which  no  one  hut  him- 


self nppears  to  have  consulted,  it  h  dtificult 
arrive  at  any  other  conclusion  thnn  *^"  '^  *^       *  ^ 
narratives  are  to  be  chissed  wit)j 
in  the  works  of  Munchhauscn  and  .■^..  j. .  ^.,.^ 

Birth-place  OF  John  BrNYA.v. — Tl 
letter,  here  abridged,  recently  appeaix'd 
fordshire  Timts: — 

I   have  always  been  sceptical  as  to  the  fuaertcdf 
that  John  Bur^jan  was  bom  in  Ehtow  parif^^   "^  *  *' 
a  deed  I  have  in  my  possession,  between  a  ! 
an  Androwes,  both  of  the  parish  of  Cbali^i  jh 

county,  dated  'J'J  KUzhbeth,  15th  March,  I  hare 
to  e^i, limine  the  register*  uf  that  pariah  tburoU}{li 
results  lead  to  a  presumptioQ  tliat  Job"  v.  "= 
parish  of  Chalgrave,  and  was  there  bn 
June,  1626,  makin;?  him  two  year^  f)\"- 
supposed ;  but  I  think  this  wouM 
more  completely  than  the  M*iual!y 

it  docs  away  with  the  dilhculty     .    -..  

young  when  he  entered  the  army. 

Supposing  that  this  was  John  Banyan  htmaelf.  I  fhii 
from  the  dates  of  the  baptisma.  Jkc,  we  nitv  rcci 
assume  a  table  of  pedigree  for  him  as  annexed. 

In  the  deed  in  my  possession  Robert  BonyuTi, 
worth,  in  the  nariah  of  Chalgravcj  yeoman, — Rotx 
yan,  late  of  Wing<'feilde,  in  said  parish,  deceased 
to  said  Robert,^ Joane  Booyan,  now  wif'  ■      ^  *  ' 
and  Henry  Bonyon,  of  Wuigcfcilde,  >  l 
ftnid  Robert,  are  nientioned.    Date  or 
March,  which  would  bo  l£iTy-SO  accor  1 
year.     In  the  registers  amonest  the  1 
Joanne  Boijnyan,  daughter  of  Robartt  ,  ^..^l.,., 
feildt^  22nd  Out,,    15!^7,  and  another  t^ne  of 
Bunnyon,  sonnc  of  Robartt.  MoUlfr,  Srd  Aug  ,  16 
DuiiUrv  CARt'ELwr^,  I 

5,  Tbe  Crescent,  Bedford,  14th  August,  1874. 

CHALQUAVB   aEQltJTili 

In  163©,  when  these  regiBtera  '..  the 

two  parishi  oners,    one   William    ....  ' 

Richard  Bon  yon,  both  having  children 
think  that  we  may  make  the  foUowin 
able  from  the  dates  of  the  dilfert  i 
William  Bonyon,  of  CbalgraTo,  1 

children;  he  himself  was  ji-..  .  ^.  1  _.  . 

grave »  In  1550. 

1.  Alice  Bonycm,  bapticed  25  Nov,,  15C0,  bein^  Choi 

grit  entry  iu  the  register  book. 

2.  Sysley  Bonuon,  bapti2ed  30  Jan.,  15i|,  buried  SI  I 

154j(. 

3.  RoBABTTR  BoxYON.  bapti»ed  la«t  dsie  t*f  June,  15 

buried  IS  April,  1615,  and  then  described  aanh"" 
holder. 

This  latter  was  probably  father  to  the  foilowi«g:— 
L  liobartto  Bonnon,  baptized  29  Nov.,   1571« 
and  had  a  family. 

2.  Hcurye  Buyan»  baptiied  21st  July,  1574,  burkd  \ 

February,  35&4. 

3.  Ellen  Bon'oyn,  baptized,— October,  1576, 

4.  Jonne  Bonyone,  baptised  11  August,  1577, 

5.  Elizabeth  Honnon,  tmptixed  2ath  .Mareb,  15S1. 

6.  John  Bonnyon,  baptiited  3rd  Nov.,  15S;i,  buried  If 

July,  1684. 

7.  \ViLL9AM  BoNKTON,  baptized  4th  April,  IuS$»  i 

and  had  a  family,  as  given  below 

8.  Jonne  Bonny  on,  baptized  Jjth  3'      '    '  "'<\ 
t*,  John  Bonnyon,  Impdied  17  I"  X 

The  seventh  child,  WiLLUic,  \  i-t  fal 

the  following ;— 


fi^  a  II.  Oct.  10,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


287 


1,  Etiab«th  Bonyoti,  b«piiied  9  April,  1619,  buried  10 
I         MArcb,  WI^. 

I2L  Ilcnrr  1»<^nvoD,  baptized  10  March,  1620. 
•    *  'n,  baptixed  30  Xor,,  1623. 

s,  bftDtized  17  Jujie,  1626  (probably  the 

The  rilgrim'B  Progreaa  "). 

Tj,  baptized  loth  February,  162S-9. 

-  ill  this  early  book  d»te  from  1539  to 

tlR*rd  are  ^  baptiinia,  12  niBrria|^e«,  aud  20 

orded  of  members  of  the  above  family,  possibly 

D.  C\  E, 
1  Aognst,  1S74. 


<auertfit. 

fWe  Timst  rcqaeit  coirespondents  deairing  informatioQ 
I  on  f  n  of  only  pri?&to  intere^,  to  affix  their 

[xiiui.-  Lre«e«  to  their  fjueries,  in  order  that  the 

i  uai^crfi  may  oc  addreued  to  them  direct,] 


Tns  S,\rGOR   Post-Bag, — In  about   the   year 

\  1B34  ail  excitin;^  incident,  fmught  with  interest  to 

ti.,.  r.L.„ttf^  public,  occurred  in  t  be  wreck  of  an 

iiU  steamer,  attended  with  circuniatanr4*3 

.  -,   ^  a  fine  opportunity  for  the  muse  of  the 

^jBtirist,     The  London  letters  were,  it  seeniSj  saved, 

r1>ttt  in  It  wet  and  diunnged  state,  and  transferred 

to  a  «^amer  on  her  wuy  tip  from  Sangor,  the  scene 

cif  the  rjT?;i«ter,  to  Calcutta  ;  and  the  scandal  ran 

he  transit  the  letters  were  scattered 

k,  and  extensively  pried  into  by  the 

ngt  nsi,  who  were  all  of  the  elite  class,  retnrn- 

om  the  re- invigorating  breezes  at  the  Sand 

la.     The  happy  ideti  of  turning  the  rumour 

[lo  luxjount    Btruck   a  barrister    of  the   name    of 

I  Thackeray,  a  brother,  I  believe,  of  the  novelist ; 

land   i\    series   of  epistles,   in  the    Anstey  vein, 

rimraediatcly   appeared   in   the   ifi/rA'<irw,  to   the 

[no  fnmll  anmsfuiicnt  of  the  public,  in  which  the 

I  Government  were  wigged  from  Leadenhall  Street, 

opalar    %\ibjects    humorously    handled,    private 

from  Lidics  on  furloagh  to  their  spouses, 

moAt  matters   of  interest   to   us   Tui  Hyes, 

jlingly  inverted  and  burle9t[ued.     Desiring  at 

Aer  period  to  go  through  the  Savgor  Post- 

f  Rgain,  and  under  the  belief  that  these  dever 

found  a  more  permanent  and  accessible  form 

Ltbebroadshects  of  the  Indiiin  journal,  1  nhaU 

I  it  pointed  out  by  one  of  the  many 

lread"K&Q."  J.  0. 

MOTABLE  FlQUBES    151  BoOKS.^Which    IS   the 

.<;,.  u....]^  in  which  figures  were  cut  out 
!,  by  moving  them,  to  illustrate 

.,-,,,.  :  I  know  of  Cowley^s  Ferspcf- 
tfw^  1766|  asd  Harrington's  Sdmce  Improvtdf 
i774.  a  Y. 

^'Dow*  WITH  turMpo:  or,  Rea«ona  for  SupprcMing 
Houic.    Humbly  o0er'd  to  the  ConBidemtion 
^'amezit  of  Ott%%  Britain.      Printed  for  J. 

lu  Jannarr,  1717,    there   waa    published    this 
ci.     To  the  aJvertiaement  I  have  seen  a  MS. 


note  which  states  that  the  pamphlet  was  wdtten 
by  Sir  H.  Mack  worth.  To  what  hiis  it  referaDce, 
and  where  can  a  copy  now  be  seen  I 

W.  E.  A.  A. 
Etiaholme* 

Slooan:  Kelpie.— What  are  the  derivations  of 
these  words?  Have  they  any  relations  in  the 
cognate  languages?  A.  L*  Mayhew. 

Oxford. 

Takgibr. — Some  years  ago,  at  one  of  the  London 
book  Sides,  a  large  volume  was  sold  containing 
views  and  plans  of  Tangier,  the  latter  being  those 
made  by  the  Government  engineens  during  the 
time  of  the  British  occupation  (1662-1C83),  Can 
you  inform  mt*  at  what  sale  this  collection  was 
disposed  of,  and  in  whose  hands  it  is  at  present  1 

T.  Blackmore- 

The  Holliea,  Wandsworth. 

English  Tranblations,— Are  there  English 
transhvtions  of  any,  or  all,  of  the  foUoiving?— 

EpictetuB  (in  iiddilion  to  Higginson'i,  publiihed  bt 
Boston,  U.S.). 

Plutarch,  Af&ralia, 

Jamblichus,  Vila  Pytk&^ortr. 

Barrutba  Epistola  (£z  Cod.  Siaait). 

Uertaif  PuMtor  (either  from  the  Greek  [Ex  Cod»  Sinait.jt 
or  from  the  ^thiopic). 

Ken  IN  GALE  Cook, 
Redhillj  Surrey. 

2nd  Royal  Dragoons  (Scots  Greys), — This 
regiment  bears  the  anti-British  emblem  on  it« 
cartouches  of  an  eagle  with  outftprejwiing  wings, 
resembling  greatly  the  Imperial  Eagle  of  Fmnce. 
What  is  the  reason  for  this  ?    J  no,  A.  Fowler* 

Glenullin. — In  Lochiel's  Wanting,  is  this  the 
title  of  a  real  Highland  chieftain  ;  if  so,  where 
was  his  territory  I  S.  T.  P. 

The  Marriage  of  the  Adriatic  and  the 
Doge  of  Venice. — What  was  the  form  of  thiR 
ceremony  ?  According  to  Ixird  Ly tton  (Ladif  of 
Lyons),  the  ring  was  recovered  after  the  wedding, 
leiulin^  to  the  supposition  that  a  string  must  have 
been  tied  to  it,  and  hauled  in  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  solemnity.  George  Ellis. 

St.  John'*  Wood. 

AfiSEs'  Braying.— How  to  alienee  it,  by  tyinff 
a  stone  to  their  tails.  I  quote  (from  a  ouotation) 
this  recipe  from  the  Abbe  Hue.  I  have  looked  all 
through  his  two  volumes  of  TravtU  in  Tariary^ 
Thibet^  and  fjhina,  and  cannot  find  it.  Can  any- 
body direct  me  to  it,  there  or  ehie where  7 

H.  K 

Heraldki — I  ask  for  Ibe  fiunily  anus  of  the 
two  Archbishops  of  Annagliy  BrambftU  and  Mar- 
get^D.  G,  D.  T, 

Uuddenfieid, 


288 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[s»^s.iLO«,  o/n. 


"  TopsY-TURVT.''^ — Mr.  Wedgwood,  under  thU 
word,  givea~"from  iopBidtt  f other  way;  it  is 
written  tapn'-tarerway  in  Searches'  LigfU  of  Na* 
turt.'* 
Is  not  **  topj?y  "  an  abbreviation,  not  of  "  top- 
de/*  but  of  **tlxe  upside."  Cfr.  the  expression 
'  upaide-down  ^'  and — 

'*  There  found  I  all  vrns  uptv-turvy  turn'd,'* 

Orflcae*^  Javtti  1 V.  (ed.  Dyce),  p*  206,  caL  2. 
F.  J.  V, 

"Ths  Aoti^r's  AasiffTAifT;  being  an  Epittmiy  of  y* 
Wliole  Art  cf  Anglings  whorem  is  Shewn^  ftt  one  View, 
J*  Hftfbours,  Seai»nnfi;  and  Depth*  for  Cutchins  all  Sorts 
of  Fish  uguaiily  Angled  for.  Ako  tbe  Various  Bait*  for 
each,  fi  '  digeffbed  as  to  contaia  the  Essance  of  all  y* 
Treatiaea  ever  Wrote  on  the  Subject,  exempt  from  tlieir 
SuperHuitiee  which  tend  more  to  perplex  than  Instruct," 
{At  the  foot)  '*Sold  by  C,  0ston9on/2O5,  Fleet  Street 
Fr.  Ur 

I  Imve  in  my  posscasion  an  engraved  broivd- 
flheet,  meiisuriDg  about  124  by  7 J  Lnches^r  entitled 
I  above,  within  i\n  elabora^te  and  appro priiite 
order.  As  there  \&  no  date  to  the  sheet,  I  shall 
be  ghvd  to  know  from  some  angling  reader  of 
"  N;&  Q."  when  it  was  publisheii  S. 

WiLLtAM  DE  Rofl,  OF  YoLToN.— Who  was  Wit- 
liam  de  Ros^  of  Yolton,  parish  of  Alne,  in  York- 
shire, to  whom  Edward  L,  in  the  thirty-fifth  year 
of  his  rei^,  gnve  permission  to  luive  a  weekly 
market  and  annual  fair  within  his  manor  of  Halt- 
whietle,  in  Northumberland  ]  Wns  he  the  swme 
with  William  de  Ros  who  hud  Kendal  Castle  from 
his  mother,  Margaret,  one  of  the  sifters  and 
co-heiressei*  of  Peter  de  Brus,  Lord  of  Skelton,  in 
Oleveknd  ?  E.  H.  A. 

Material  for  larpRBSsioKS  of  Seals. — What 
is  the  best  material  for  impressions  of  monastic 
^caU^  either  to  keep  or  transmit  by  post  ?  I  cjinnot 
meet  with  j^titta-percba  .sufficiently  unadiiltenited 
to  make  a  good  imprests  ion,  and  even  the  best 
becomes  brittle  after  a  time. 

Alfred  H  kales. 

Streatbam. 

Toe  CoMMUiriON  Table. — It  is  said  that  there 
are  several  churclies  in  England  where  the  holy 
table  remains |in  the  nave  of  the  cbaR^h,  as  in 
^imes  paat,  and  has  not   been   removed   to   the 

I  ^^fifitem  end  of  the  chancel^  or  placed  altar-wise. 

[Informntion  is  requested.    Edward  Hailstone, 

William  Lord  RrasBLL. — Where  was  Lord 
'^VQlAin  Russell,  who  wiis  executed  for  his  alleged 
Cffflnplieity  in  the  Rye  House  Plot,  Ijorn  i  I  cun- 
iiot  find  the  house  mentioned  in  Lord  John 
Russeirs  Life  (fourth  edition,  1853),  nor  in  Lady 
[BachePs  Letter*  (Miss  Berr^-'a  edition,  1819  ;  and 
'  Lord  John  Rus^elPs  edition,  1853). 

S.  R.  TowNsiTEKD  Mater. 
Eichmond,  Surref, 


Arthur  MAi^nrARi:^^,— 

*' Arthur  Mainwaring  waa    a  Cominii*ion«r  of   t)i« 
Customs  and  auditor  of  the  ifliprMt''  (about  IJiHfi. 
Macaulay's  EtMay  on  Boiweit't  /oAiu<}a. 

Where  can  I   tind  anything  about  liis  lift 
writings?  F,  & 

A  Scotch  BARoyETcr. — To  what  n  '* 
original  or  otherwise,  must  I  refer  in  ot 
cover  the  particulars  of  the  creation  oi 
baronetcy,  now  extinct,  in  the  reign  of  Charl 

J.  w; 

Ak  Old  Bookseller, — la  the  AMin^  M/h 

zine^  for  1838-9,  there  are  some  article*  pntith 
*'  Letters  to  my  Son  at  Rome,"  in  the  '*  T 
niscenees  of  an  Old  Bookseller.**     In  one,  he  «aj 
he  is  the  author  of  Fifty  Yeats'  RKolUctiond  < 
an  Old  Boohsdler.     Is  this  a  septinite  public4iktioii, ' 
and  who  is  the  author  1  Olphar  Hakst, 

Geometrical  Reform  : —  \ 

"  A  body  of  men,  able  mathematidanf,  mr  iiow  wow* 

ing  together  with  a  view  of  improrinr  ^'    ? 

geometrical  teaching." — P.  ix„  An  /. 

EUintnifof  JSueiid, ...  by  tine  Rev.  ^.  ii*«ttc>,  Aiifj 

. .  .  Load.  \  . .  1874. 

The  names  of  this  "  body  of  roen^'*  aod 
cuhirs  of  their  pr<3posed  courae  of  action,  w«>uld 
very  acceptable.  F,  W.  F 

CHANCELi9      PlJiCKD      WkSTWARB. — ^Tle 

Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walcott,  in  Sacrf.d  Atcf^d 
states  a  curioua  ecclesiological  fact,  that  the  Jc 
make  a  rule  of  pkcing  their  chanceb  ^ 
fll^ainat  the  general  pi-actice  of  Westei^  ' 
dom.      The   fact   seems   undoubted,   but, 
reason  is  unknown  to  many,  will  some  render  ( 
"  N.  &  Q/'  kindly  inform  me  through  its  medium  I 
Wm.  BLACJCBrajt. 
Montreal, 

"  The  Poet  "  :  Tektitson.— A  dispnte  lo 
me  to  agk,  what  is  the  meaning  of  the  folbn 
two  lines  in  the  firat  verse  of  tliifi  poem  '/ — 
"  Dowcr*d  with  the  hate  of  bate,  the  acorn  of  soom,  ] 
The  lovo  of  lo?e,*' 

Jons  Addis.  { 

IxfMuyiTT  FROM  Beath,— HaJi  the  famo 
AH(/d\  found  a  sucx-e^sor  ?  It  would  ikfppeir  ( 
from  the  following  mysterious  ann^iuics«iii«ni  J 
the  Titm^  ^^  ParHamentary  IntelUgenoe ''  of  Jd 
23  la£t  :— 

**  Lord  O'Neill  [in  the  ^  i 
petition  from  the  Rct*  Tri 
of  St,  Nicholjw  WithtT     '' 
be  tfiken  to  hare  an  \ 
which  he  supprrt-  I 
from  death  im^l 
hns  been  avail;! 
they  would  oul,    .^  ,,,  ,, 
devotion  aniouritin>;  tu  a 
i«acri£U:e*  syokeu  of  bytS> 


ff*  S.  H.  Oct.  10, 74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


289 


wbich  foraifl  he  prM«ati  to  the  Houae  nlong  with  hit 
petition.*' 

Jam£s  T,  Presley. 

SSRRXS,  THE  MaRDTE  PaHTTEII,  HIS   MeMOIUS. 

—Can  Mr.  Thoms,  or  any  other  reader  of  "  N.  & 
""pj**  teU   me  who  wivjte   the   Memoir  of  Jokji 
Serves^  laU  Marine  PamUr  to  Hu  Ma- 
'  a  Friend,  182(>,  8vo.  pp.  52  ;  also,  whether 
.  account  of  Serres*s  excaraion  to  Scotland 
'a^ut    1805,    illttstrated   with   "  muny    excellent 
hea  titkcn  by  him  '*  in  the  couree  of  it,  and 
I  he  proposed  to  pubiiah  (m  written  by  Thomas 
■■■riecot,   Grntlcman,    and    lUu^tnited    by    Don 
fOiovAnm  Serrcs,  is  Btill  in  existence,  and  if  ao, 
I  whew?  S.  T.  M. 

TiTK  Capitai,  op  Kent. — Is  Maidstone  or  Oan- 
Iterbury  the  capital  of  Kent?  The  geographies 
[differ  on  this  8iibject|  I  belieyc,  and  I  shall  be 
I  glad  of  any  certain  authority.  6.  H. 


Er^Itrf. 

MODERN  LATIN  AND  GREEK  VeESE. 
(5«^  S.  ii,  248.) 
E.  n.  B /«  list  may  be  li^rgely  extended,  and 
I  no  '  li  more  than  I  know  of.    I  note  some 

l«)bvi  ons  :^ 

l*fc*Utiivh'ft  Afrim  (besides  Epistles  in  Latin 
^\  whif^h  the  author,  with  the  frequent  baUaci- 
inrs  about  their  own  works,  preferred 
lt<>  ^i  aud  Vanwne. 

3iiiton  s  translations  ;  by  some  reckoned  the 

^ofaU. 

Gri'r'    ' —  Vi lions. 

4.  Jftj!  ^  translations  ;  of  whom  it  was 

*  tt.t  ui'ir^x  he  grew,  and  the  more  troubles 

liities  he  bad,  the  more  he  wrote  Latin 

mm ;  an  admirable  anonymotts 

!tjon,  from  which  Et^n  boys  U8«i  largely  to 

I,"  imd  I  presume  do  still. 

Jortin'f*  LuAVi  PoduL  Theiw?  I  do  not  know^ 
IKul  I  wjM  t^ld  by  the  lute  Dr.  Hawtrey  that  they 
•re  rery  gixni.  He  quoted  to  me  a  most  graoefiii 
line  about  the  waxinj^  of  the  moon  : — 

*'  Lonaqne  mtitatsc  rcparat  diapendU  forma*." 
f^  The  Sftiii  Dr.   ILiwtrej's  Trifoglio  (I  mean 
pmi  nf  it),  marked  by  the  exquisite  tasto  which 
WM  ifiyeparuble  from  all  he  ever  wrote. 

Straia  Fodim  (Dr.  Kynaston) ;   sroall^  but 

Blr.  Jf' '  '  '    tons;   unsurpfis- 

in  skill,  iKirt  in  beauty, 

torne  m  mtMn  ui-iv  jhui  ipi  l>e  called  rather 

J.  tL ;,..,.   ...  1.      4;rny*B  Ehgy^hy 

,  Lord  Riivens- 

^^  ■"    ^  "-"^t  of  the  great 


schools  publish  annual  sets  of  Prolusiones  or  Prize 
Exercises.  There  are  also,  I  think,  seTeral  volumes 
of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Prize  Poems,  The 
earlier  Person  Prize  Poems  were  collected  in  one 
volume.  There  is  a  most  interesting  Latin  version 
(from  the  gpeciaUy  of  the  iHastrious  author  huving 
Iain  elsewhere)  of  a  version,  by  Sir  John  Herschel, 
in  his  extreme  old  a^e»  but  I  liave  mislaid  it,  and 
Gin  not  recall  the  subject, 

12.  Among  modems,  I  feel  well  assured  that 
En^land^  in  this  department,  excels  all  other 
nations.  Bub  I  am  acqnamted  wi^  a  most 
masterly  Greek  version  of  Goethe's  Iphiffmia^  by 
Theodore  Kock, 

13.  Comut  was  translated  (very  ill,  aa  I  think) 
by  a  Mr.  Glasse,  about  eighty  years  aco  j  and  both 
that  and  Sofruon  Agonigtis  by  Mr.  Greswell. 
I  have  adverted  to  the  latter  in  the  Preface  to 
my  translation.  He  was  a  perfectly  sound  scholar, 
but  his  versions,  though  accurate,  are  somewhat 
cumbrous  and  unattractive. 

14.  A  beautiful  little  posthumous  volume^  by 
Mr.  Jjimes  Riddell  of  Oxford. 

I  may  mention  that  a  few  additional  attempts 
of  my  own,  besides  what  E.  G.  B.  notices,  are  to 
be  found  in  the  second  series  of  mj  Ephemera, 

Lttteltok. 

The  following  tnedi{t\Til  and  modem  books  are 
now  in  my  possession  : — 

1.  OweVs  Epigramg,  By  Jno.  Owen,  of  OiLford. 
Etovir,  1647. 

2.  Lyrics  of  Matthias  Casimir,  Antwerp,  1646. 

3.  Golden  Verse*  of  Laurentius  Massorillus* 
These  are  mediievnl  hymns.  (He  was  bom  June, 
3rd,  1490,  at  Fulginia,  on  the  river  Topinus.) 
Printed  at  Fulginia,  1537.  Any  infornation  on 
the  subject  wiJU  be  thankfully  received.  The 
book  is  neither  in  the  BofUeian  Libmr)'  nor  the 
Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin. 

4-  Moral  Economy  of  Utt  Clerpj.  Author, 
Gummarus  Cranius.  Printed  at  Lovanc  {tic).  Date 
sterns  to  be  1630.  A  curious  book,  in  prose  and 
Leonine  verse. 

5.  Lift  of  ihf  Mod  Holy  Father  Benedid. 
Florence,  1586.     Elej^iac  verse. 

6.  EdofT^UJi  of  Utnatm  Bajfimt*.  Lugduni 
Batavorum,  1672. 

7.  Pmlms  of  David,  Transiat-ed  by  Arthur 
Johnston.  With  Kote*.  Lomlon,  1741.  In  Ele- 
giac Verse.  Originally  published  in  the  time  of 
ttenry  VIIL 

8.  Poari^  of  Theodore  Bexa,  Marcos  Antonins 
Muretus  and  Johannes  Secundus,  In  1  vol 
Lugdununi,  177D. 

9.  J<ico6t  Vanierit  Pradium  B^aticum,  Paris, 
17H6. 

These  bat  two  are  Barbou^  editions, 

10.  ia/irt  Focm^r  of  AbmhAUxG^i^Vfif5*  l«aroA»ts 
1678, 


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[S*  8.  U.  Oct.  10. 71 


I  9 hull  bo  very  glad  of  inrornmtion  on  the 
Bubject  of  liny  of  iliese  books*  If  any  of  your 
correspondents  wish  for  extracts,  I  shall  be  happy 
to  furnish  them.  Owen  is  weU  known,  m  also 
Beitii,  Cowley, and  Johnston's  P$alm^.  Caaimir  is  the 
most  successful  of  our  modern  imitators  of  Homce. 
But  of  MttssoriUus  and  Guniniunus  I  know  nothing, 
except  from  their  books,  which  ore  very  curioue, 

I  share  in  the  wish  expressed  by  your  corre- 
spondent E.  G.  B»,  that  some  of  the  excellent 
classical  scholars  who  contribute  to  *'  N*  &  Q." 
would  att'^mpt  a  list,  with  some  bibliojrraphical 
account,  of  translations  into  Latin  and  Greek 
verse  executed  and  published  in  England.  And 
it  is  now  the  more  necessary,  a,s,  in  the  present 
diiy,  classic  versification  is,  comparatively  speaking, 
BO  little  attended  to»  Yet  these  pages,  of  course, 
are  not  the  place  to  discuss  its  axlvantiiges  and  its 
diBadvantages.  I  have  seen  most  of  the  books 
quoted  by  E.  G,  B.,  and  can  add  three  or  four  to 
fiifl  lilt  which  are  in  my  own  [x^ssession  : — 

"MuftOD  Anglicanjc.  Londmi  ex  Officina  J.  and  R. 
Tonson  and  J,  Watts,  jcdccxli*  (2  vols,)  *Editio 
Quint«,*'    Vlmo, 

"  Carmina  QimdrfigCAimAlia.  Oxonii,  e  Th«fttro  Shol- 
donmuo,  Miicoxxjii.and  MitccxLTtii.    (2  yoIs.)"    8iro. 

"  Sclocta  Foem&ta  Anglorum.  Editio  S«cundft  Emcn- 
datior,  Londini:  Prosiant  Venale*^  apud  J.  Dodiley, 
jltoCLXxix/' 

"Mudie  Etonrases.  Londini  excttdit  J.  SUfford, 
1795.  Three  Vols.  (Tbe  third  coasutt  of  Greek 
Versci  onlirely,  and  there  urc  only  two  copies  of  Imnblcaf 
amongst  them/*)    8ro. 

**  Aiitouit  Alfopi,^  j'Cdig  Cbriiti  oUm  Alamiii,  Qdarum 
Libri  Duo»     Loadinij  mdwlii/*    4to» 

In  an  amui9ing  book,  Fire  Years  at  an  EnglLnh 
Uinversity,  by  Charles  Astor  Bristed,  publiHhed  in 
1852  by  Putnum,  of  New  York,  is  an  account  of 
the  difficulties  the  author  of  it  surmounted  at  Cam- 
rldge  in  acipiiring  verse-writing.     He  aucceedcti 

.  mixsterin^'  the  art,  and  won  the  necond  place  in 
^the  Second  Class  in  the  Classical  Triposes  in  1845. 
Mr.  Brii^ted  died,  I  believe,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
present  year.  John  Pickfoed,  SlA. 

Newbourne  Rcctoryi  Woodhridgc, 

**  Miltoni  Pabutaj,  Samson  AgoniBtea  el  Gomus,  Gnece 
inter?,  est  Edv.  Oreswdl,  S.  T/P.,  C.  C.  C*  Oxon.Sociu8. 
Oxon.,  1832." 

•' Coleti  Tnrquia,  Carmen  Oratulat.  Atcalc^in  D.  R 
Bchola  recitat.  ab  11.  Kfnaaton,S.  T.  R  Lond.,  Fellowei, 

*  This,  from  tbe  initials  V,  B.,  appended  to  the 
Preface,  would  icem  to  have  been  edited  by  Vincent 
Bourne*  of  claMic  fame,  who  died  in  1747. 

f  Was  a  proper  c«>py  of  Greek  lambios  ever  composed 
JQ  modem  times  bcfuro  the  dayi  of  Kichard  Porson  7 

I  Alsop  was  educated  under  Busbv  at  Weitminster^ 
waa  a  student  of  Chnitt  Church,  and  is  alluded  to  by 
Pope  in  the  DunHad ; — 

"  Let  Freiod  aflect  to  mak  a«  Terence  anoke, 
Aini  AJsqp  newer  but  like  Horace  joke.  * 


"  Cantica  CoIciinA,  QuoUd.  AnniT.  Centon.,  AnctU* 
Kynaston.     bond.,  FeUowes,  1807.** 

Ed.  Mambjulll. 


ttttti^ 


rhicbl 


mtberl 


"  ScoKCK ''  (5*^  S.  il  20(5.)— J.  T.   F.  haa 
been  able   to  make   his  etymology  of  this 
or    his  exposition   of   the   chiuse    iu    1 
Cormtituiions^  very  clearly  exact  or   s;*! 
(1)  There  cttn  be  little   hesitation  in  coiil 
that   **^  ahsconsa"   in  the   clause    quoted, 
game   domiciliary  utensil   with   that  now 
as  a  **  sconce,"  wbici  is  that  in  or  within 
a  candle,  when  lighted,  is  often   pl/iced,  and  h] 
means  of  which,  front  itJ«  structure  or  fonn*  t' 
Citndle  is  virtually  ahKO^idtd  or  en^corw^d^    It  mo| 
fdso  import  a  la7itemf  beciuise  it  acts  as  a  shade,  or^ 
screen  from  the  wind  to  a  c'tndle  when  li^'htcd,   X 
fiTt-$conct  is  clearly  the  equivalent  of  a  /■ 
Sconce  nuiy  also,  in  a  secondary  sense,  V 
properly  to  a  fortified  position,  to  the  biUw^ir] 
and   ramparts  thereof,  necause  by  the-**e  the   * 
fenders  within  are  concealed,  hidden-  \ 

protected.     It  is  a  tenu,  however,  -  t 

is  not  properly  given  to  a  candkMick,   n  mv 
of  one,  inasmuch  as  both^  of  themselves, 
expose  than  screen,  or  protect,  the  cnndle, 
gconci^  placed  against  walls,  pillars,  &c,»  now  ij 
use,  are,  no  doubt,  so  called  from  having  gencmlV 
a  wide  circular  phme,  or  base,  with  a  tumfnl 
encircling  rim^  within  which,  near  the  centre,  1 
candle-socket   is  placed,  and  which  acts  so  ni 
receive  and  enclose  the  falling  airJe,  as  well  as 
wax  or  tallow  of  the  candle,  thereby  prev^'ntii 
them  dropping  upon  what  may  be  imdenicnth,    ! 
such  a  utensil,  the  candle  is  within  a 
ahsconce.    It  is,  being  so  placed,  virtually 
or  etutconcedi  the  former  verb  being  deriv 
aha^  from,  and  condo,  to  hide  ;  and  the  latl 
III,  in  or  within,  and  couth.    A  scoin 
quently  in  use,  is  a  pretext  or  ?: 
when  it  is  said  uf  one  that  he  is  sfOHmi'j. 
that  be  is  finessing,  acting  under  cover^  or  in  « 
hidden    or    conceded    manner      AhAttyr"  ^  "      "i 
anatomy,  is  the  hollow,  or  cavity,  in  a  b 
which  the  head,  nr  end,  of  another  roru^^i- 
(2)  The  clause  fn>m  Lanfranc*?*  '  ,  i  m  ,  i 

—the  whole  of  which,  however,  n  -  vr^,,,, 

raiher  to  point  to  the  duty  ot  some  oni>  of  the 
brethren  within  the  dormitcny,  whicli   wiw^  ihib 
candle  being  first  lighted  in  the  "  ahsconsa^*"  to  e^jM 
round  the  couches  of  all  the  inmat458i,  atjtl  nil  Xm  ^ 
iccds  or  hmcJitSj  to  see  that  they  were  pri  i 
necessariis,''  u  c,  in  all  things  neceesaiy*  < ' 
to  their  u»e,     (3)  While  a  sconce  in  some  jKirt     '1 
the  kingdom  may  be  |>ossibly  applied  to  a  cotrnmi 
fur  the  head,  it  is  far  from  clear  how  it  cun  b«  de* 
aignative  of  the  head  itself;  only  it  is  jti»t  poMRble 
that  the  brain  maybe  held  as  abscondoa  hriU 
bony  covering,  the  cnmium^the  sconce.         R. 


I 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


J.  T.  F.  no  doubt  is  right,     Du  Cange  gives 

!**  Sterna^  CiPoi  lucerun^a  tkrk  liintcrn,"and  adds, 
under  Ahttcoiua^   **  qua    MonacUi    ut    plurimum 
Tituntiir  in  obeundis  donnitoriis*"    I  have  seen  one 
of  these  lAnterns  at  i\  neighbouring^  houiie.     It  is 
quite  rounds  and  of  the  size  of  an  onlinjirj'  football 
I  should  iuxa^ine  **  the  term  *  sconce  '  got  applied 
[  to  the  head ''rather  from   the  shape  than  **with 
'  n?fer«hc<?  to  a  tuTfiip  lantern^''  although,  in  many 
case*,  the  hotter  might  not  be  an  inappropriate 
deriration. 

Permit  me  to  wsk  how  **  Bconce  "  comes  to  mean 

I  tkfin*^  or  forfeit     In  ray  day  at  Oxford,  If  a  man 

i  i;uo«>d  Greek  or  Latin  duriog  "hall/*  the  butler 

waa  ordei"cd  to  "  sconce  '*  him  in  a  gfUlon  of  ale. 

'  Biuley  mentions  thia  custom,  but  gives  no  satia- 

fjMtory  explanation.  Eoaio^ND  Tew,  JI.A. 

A  hintcrn  wiui  colled  Mt^nta  in  English  mediit-val 
ilihtin  :— '*  J^consttS  .  .  .  numjuam  Prior  vel  Abbas 
I  hal>uit,  nisi  illaju  qua*  omnium  cj^mmunis  fuit.''— 
[Bu  Frtiene,  Glogs.  MethtF.  et  Infirm^  Laiiniiaiis^ 
[qiiotin^  MonmtUon  Anglicanum,  iii.,  171,  331. 

K.  P.  D.  K 

Tif  s  Old  Ladt  or  Thrkadneedle  Street  (5*** 
I S.  ii.  22!>0 — A  vulgar  name  given  to  the  Director 
I  i>f  the  Bank  of  En^and  by  William  Gobbet t,  pro- 
•f  the  PoUliml  RcfUtery  because  they 
re«l,  with  their  financial  broom,  to  stem 
laiitic  waves  of  national  progress.  This 
figure  of  fij^ech  was  founded  upon  an  anecdote 
introduced  by  the  Rev*  Sydney  Smith  in  an 
addrautt  upon  the  Reform  Billf  delivered  at  Taunton 
on  or  about  the  11th  of  October,  1831,  to  the 
following  eflfect : — 

'*  I  di>  not  mean  to  be  diire«pectfii!,  but  the  fttt«mpt  of 

ilie  LortU  to  ttop  the  proi^re^a  of  Reform  reminds  me 

TCffj  f  rr  ibiv  of  the  great  ftorm  of  Sidmouth,  Kud  of  the 

1  the  excellent  Mrs.  Partington  on  that  occasion. 

iter  of  1B24,  there  §«t  in  a  greftt  flood  of  the 

"'  *^'^e  row  to  an  incredible  height,  the  wavef 

'  hoa«et|  and  eveiythine  wa«  threatened 

ri.     In  the  midat  of  this  aubHtne  And 

r>ame  Partintrtou,  who  lived  upon  the 

1  ;it  the  door  of  her  house  with  mop  and 

i  ,  L  rikT  her  mop,  squee ^injf  out  the  sea  water, 

mnd  Ti^ffjT^unly  i>u9liiag  away  the  Atlantic  Ocean.     The 

iktlantic  Ural  rnu-icd :    Mrs.  Partington's  spirit  was  up, 

Miii  f         '  tell  you  that  the  content  was  unequal. 

The  ceiui  heat  Mr^.    Purtini^ton.     She   wiis 

•EC*  p  or  a  puddle,  but  she  should  not  hare 

med  i  tempest.     Gentlemen,  be  at  ^oar  ease — 

te  'i  '  kdy— jou  will  beat  Mrs.  Partiogton.** 

jic».  .-ytinty  Smithes  irorjt*,  vol.  iii.  pp.  75-76. 

William  Platt. 

Onotrfttilve  Club. 

A5CIB9T  EvoLrsu  Sees  (6**  8.  ii.  47»  117.)— 
i^gvrmtiM,  "Lei^ra  cirita^  in  AngllA  mediterrmneli.^' 
LySuiria,  Legoria,  Loicovtcr  {\fon.  Ui*t.  Brit,,  &J2, 

JDmmmuett^  Dunimuc,  Dtmwich  in  8u0otk. 


f^idnachester  sear  Gainsborough  {Afon*  Miti*  BrU*,  222* 

The  bishops  of  Sherborne  {Sctrabymetmtjy  and 
Selsey  (Sthit/fi)^  and  Elmham  Mith  others  sign 
this  itct  ut  Cloreshoas  (Keinble  Cothj-  IHplom.^  n. 
Mxxtv.^  vol.  v.  p.  65),  St.  Duns  tan  is  called 
"  jVrchiepiscopus  in  Can  in  ana''  iT^i</.  vi,  p.  126), 
and^Cn'stesCyrcean  onCantrabyrig"  is  mentioned 
by  Cnut  (p.  170).  In  901  it  appears  as  "^^ccle^iie 
Christi  in  Dorobemia*'  (lb,  p.  44),  Florence  of 
Worcester  uses  the  term  "  DoR>bemen9L8  eccleisise/' 
but  Henry  of  Huntingdon  has  "  Archiepiscopatiis 
Cantuariie/'  William  of  Malmeabury  gives  the 
history  of  the  sees  : — 

"  FlurcB  episcopattu  Ofia  in  Mertiis  fcccnt,  et  Orien* 

tal'" -^       r  r-i:     -   -f^  eorura  Ethelbrih"^     -r—^mt. 

E|  II  ali:(L8  translati  (L  -Jts 

in  I  alteris  uniti.  ut   i  k^^ls 

in  •  iiiituiia  non  extAnt,  ut  Leipicc^itreasis 

et  -Lib.!,  p.  16. 

'  ^^ .  V  -i^u.,..  .vi«^  extulerut  loco  qui  Scleslge  dicitor 
...  4  Mltigaridus  mutavit  scdem  In  Ciccstram." — Lib.  II. 
p.  206. 

"In  divisione  West  Saxonict  episcopatus  ....  qui 
Sciburnice  sedcrct.  haberet  Wiltunensem^  I>arsatoiisemp 
Herruchemem,  Sumer^etendem,  Denmoniensom,  Comu- 
bienaem.**— Lib.  IL  p.  175. 

"Council  of  London,  1075*  Concessum  est  epi«c«pis 
de  villi*  tranaire  ad  c imitates  Henmano  dc  Sirabuma  ad 
Serisbenam  Stigando  de  Selengco  ad  Cicestram." — Lib. 
I.  p.  08. 

As  Dover  (Doroheniia)  became  important  the 
ancient  name  of  Canterbury  (Dorooemia)  was 
dro|>i>ed.  Instead  of  Castellum  Drofense,  iJofera, 
or  Do  vera,  it  becomes  **  Dorobernia  litus  Cantuarue" 
(Lib.  V.  p.  377).  Hoveden  uses  the  old  term, 
when  he  8|K?aks  of  the  degradation  of  '*  Stigand 
Archiepiscopuii  Dorctberni.e  "  (ed.  Savile,  p*  452), 
and  Eadmer  also  gives  the  title  to  Anselm  (Hist. 
Nov.^  Lib.  TIL  p.  G7\  whiht  Richard  of  Hexham 
(ap,  X.  Script. I  p.  324)  adopts  Cantuariiu  The  de* 
duct  ion  may  be  safely  made  that  the  latter  designa- 
tion was  fixed  about  the  first  <|uarter  of  the  twelfth 
century.  In  the-in<7/o-^'«.rott  tTi  ron k^^j  Canterbury 
appears  as  Cantwarabtirh,  and  Dover  as  Dofere 
and  Dofre.  Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walcott. 

Two  Chttrches  in  one  Cburcrtard  (5*^  S.  ii. 
208.)— The  following  h  contribut^Mi  in  continuation 
of  the  list  lately  commenced  in  **  N.  &  Q."  of  places 
having  two  churches  in  one  churchyard. 

1.  Of  Westbury  on  Severn  Sir  Robt.  Atkyns,  in 
the  Antunf  ami  Pregtnt  8t€Ut  of  Olosttrshire^  1711, 
p.  799,  writes  :— 

**  The  Old  Church  with  an  handsome  wooden  Spire  at 
the  Wett  end  is  yet  standing  in  the  Chorch-Yard.  It  was 
deilicated  to  St,  Ptt^r  ;  there  has  been  an  handsome  new 
Chare h  built,  1530,  in  the  same  Church  Yard,  for  the  Use 
of  the  Parishioners.  It  ha«  an  lile  on  each  side  aup< 
ported  by  PillarJ,  and  is  dedicated  to  the  Virgin  Jifary.** 

An  engnu  iug  of  Westbury  Court  is  given,  which 
shows  the  two  churches,  the  more  recent  one  beiny; 
to  the  south  of  the  oUV  one,  ^\i\c\i \is>Si  c^^^  ^x^sr^ 


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sroull  naye  attached  to  a  lofty  spire  ateople.  At 
present  the  steeple  only  remiiins  of  the  old  chureh. 
2.  Berkeley  muy  be  placed  in  the  Ibt,  for  the 
tower  there  stands  at  the  north  boundary  of  the 
churchyard.  Of  this  church  Sir  It.  Atkyns,  p.  270, 
aays  :— 

"  It  hftth  a  strong  Tower  ftt  ft  dUtBUCe  id  the  Charcli- 
Yftrd,  when)  nrobubly  the  old  Church  dtood.  It  u  dcd:- 
csted  to  the  Virgin  Mary," 

By  some  it  is  stat^  that  the  present  building 
of  St.  Mary  wub  the  conventual  church,  while  the 
tower,  rebudt  In  the  last  century,  belonged  to  the 
parochial  one.  A  curious  legend  is  sometimes 
related,  that  when  the  religious  were  engaged  in 
erecting  this  chnrch,  the  devil  removed  the  steeple 
QM  Boon  as  it  was  built,  and  continued  so  doing  as 
often  ad  it  was  replaoed,  until,  caught  one  night  in 
the  act  by  one  of  the  fraternity,  ttemgh  fright,  he 
let  it  faO  where  it  now  is. 

W.  P.   W.  PHlLLrMORE. 

Nottliighaim. 

At  Ilrshara  there  are  two  churches  in  one 
churchyard.  William  Wixo. 

Steeple  Aston,  Oxford. 

The  churches  of  Alvingham  and  North  Cocker- 
inglon  (near  I^utb,  Lincolnshire)  are  in  ooe 
churchyard.  ¥,  L, 

At  Trindey,  in  east  Suffolk  (witKin  one  mile  of 
Felixstowe),  there  are  the  churches  of  St.  Martin 
and  St,  Mary  in  one  churchyiirfi.  When  living  in 
the  neighbourhood,  I  was  informed  that  these 
churches  were  built  by  two  sisters. 

Richard  SrErffENa. 

I  sent  "  N.  &  Q.^*  (3^^  S.  xii.  197)  an  instance  of 
two  churches  undtr  one  roo/— Pakefield,  SuH'olk. 
Charles  F*  S»  Warbkn. 

At  Overstrand,  near  Cromer,  Norfolk,  the  new 
church  IB  contiguous  to  the  old  church,  whiidi  is  in 
ruins ;  and  at  Antingbam,  in  the  same  county,  near 
North  Wakham,  a  similar  instance  occurs. 

Hic  ET  UniguE. 

At  Heponatali,  in  Yorkshire,  are  two  churches 
in  the  churcbyawi  (see  "  N.  &  Q.,"  3'*^  S.  viii.  330). 
In  thin  case  the  cause,  I  believe,  was  that  it  was 
thought  cheaper  to  erect  a  new  church  than  to 
renovate  or  restore  an  old  one.  Would  that  a 
aimilAr  course  had  been  followed  elsewhere,  for 
thus  many  a  tine  old  church  Ixad  not  been  fiwept 
away.  H.  Fishwick. 

At  Reephnm,  in  Norfolk,  there  were  three 
churches  in  one  churchyani,  and  two  remain.  At 
Fulhournt*  near  Cambridge,  there  were  two,  of 
which  one  only  remains.  I  look  upon  it  as  an 
early  form  of  foumiing  chantries.      In  all  these 


1*  31  a.  WAaaEN  writes  that  one  church  was  removed 
in  lTi6  bjr  Act  of  PiurJiameotJ 


cases  they  were  separate  parislics,  and  the-  piona 
founder  established  a  priest  in  his  new  chufi-h,  anil 
gave  him  a  special  district  to  1  •  '  '<  -  - 
in  Liter  times,  a  chantry  was 
the  church,  and  the  parish  ju.v  ..  — .  ,. 
frying  special  sen' ices  therein.  At  Ely^ 
Trinity  Church  was  in  the  same  yard  wit 
Cuthednd-  The  church  was  ptilled  down  alniuf 
two  hundred  years  ago,  and  the  parish  now  i 
the  lady  chapel  of  the  Cathedral        W.  31,  F. 

The  Eq^esthiak  Statfe  rx  Letcf^ster  JvirAiiil 
(6'^  S.  ii.  40,  91.)— The  following  is   offenhi  as  i 
contribution  to  this  subjects 

1.  In  the  Timts  recently  appeared  this  lelttr 
from  *'  Anti<|uarian  "  : — 

'*  In  the  year  1748.  on  the  ooncltimoo  of  the  peftce « 
Ail  U  Chap'eUe.  the  following  paragraph  appears  in  U)«l 
Cr^figman  of  April  10  : — 

*  Leicester  Fields  13  going  to  be  fitted  up  in  a  veif  I 
elegnni  manner.     A  new  wall  and  raila  to  bo  erected  wt  j 
roaad,  and  a  hafrn  in  the  middle,  after  the  mttoner  fi 
Lincoln's  Inn  Fi< " '  i       W  done  by  a  Tolunl&ry  sv^* 

scriptton  of  the  ir 

*'  A  few  days  ai .  ,  .  „  _  nek.  Prince  of  Walet,  | 
tnnaqucrade  at  Leicester  House.  The  liberality  1 
irdmbitantBorigintited^prohablT,  ?n  nHeairotn  pn9 
«ach  fashionkible  restart.  In  31  "  ne  wo 

employed  ivre  deforibed  »«  eaueitrks  ij 

statue  of  George  the  Fir»i^  v  j»t  tmni  U» 

country  residence  of  the  Duke  of  OiiuudtMi. ' 

2.  Tijnbs's  Lojidmi,  edit.,  1S55,  p.  454^  f^  ro0 
"Leicester  Square,"  informs  us  : — 

**  In  the  centre,  upon  a  eculptiired  atone  pedeataJ^  U  ift 
equestrian  metal  ttatae  of  George  the  Finf,  niocbllttl 
by  C.  Buchard  for  the  Duke  of  Chandtw.  and  brou^bt 

from  Canon*  in  1747,  when  it  v    - ^         *   ty  the 

inhabitants  of  the  squjire.    Thi  bcca 

described  as  that  of  the  Duke  of  •  •    hero 

of  Culloden,  ^hieh  may  have  artat^n  from  ih^ 
birth  At  Leicefler  Houfe  b  1721;" 

.1.  On  the  other  hand^  Cui 
edit.,  1850,  p.  2^5,^6  vacc  *'L 
forms  us : — 

"  The  eaucitrian  etattte  of  George  the  Stemd^  in  \ 
centre  of  tae  square,  came  from  Canona,  In  all  lik  *" 
erected  about  1751." 

—But,  at  the  aame  time,  informs  us,  p.  206|  la* 

voce  **  Ooldrn  Square  "; — 

''  The  Btatue  iti  the  centre  was  brongitt  fh>m  fht 
Duke  of  Chondos's  teal  »t  Cauonii,  tmd  repreaait%  it  ii 
Skid,  George  the  S'futid.** 

JOOX   PtKS. 

I  feel  pretty  con tid out  that  the     '   ' 
feet  enou<^h  when  it  vanishetl  IveU' 
at  the  time  of  the  erertion  of  the      '.jr  -v   ij^ 
Its  mutihvtion  took  plac^  a/tf>r  the  demolW 
that  building,  but  ht/om  it  waa  n  -   -v. 
its  pe^le^tsd,  which  wjia  adorned  \vi 
sculptured    devices.      What    has 
latter  /  W.  Jp  BkrxhaRD  2^1tlTB.T 

Temple. 


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293 


jT«ri  TJ^TKrrTTnvs  (o'^  S.  il   223.)— Towards 
century,  when  Irbh  rebellion 
of  Defendcriem  (I  have  not 
Xen  itsoiiaaes — Whiteboys,  Peep-o' -day  Boya, 
Irisbmen,  and  so  on,  down  to  FenintiH), 
^  Us  over-active  members  was  tried  and  con- 
at  the  Triju   Assizes,      The  verdict  wtw 
ered  late  in  the  day  ;  sentence  of  Death  nro- 
ytX  ;  the  Defender,  with  a  large  escort,  har- 
[  Imck  to  the  gaol,  and  hanged  by  torch-light* 
Some  year  or  two  later,  one  Jemmy  O'Brien,  a 
'*dcal  inforii:      '  le,  and  of  course  moiiatly 

by  the  '  .  I-,  was  eon^-icted  of  a 

nfl  -^    r  ^  he  gallows  by  a  triumphant 

'  hifi  body  out  of  the  cart 
iOn  iU    "V.    '  '     -i.^^i..^  Hospital  for  dissection, 
ore  off  the  tingers,  and  carried  them  about  the 
itreet  in  their  mouths  like  Dudeens, 

Earlier   in  that   uncompromising  century,  two 

aeti  wcjro  ci>nvicted  of  a  highway  robbery,  and 

■Sentenced  to  death  by  Chief  Justice   Caultield  ; 

Sfhen   the  elder  criminal  turned   to   his    felluw- 

prisooer,  and  exclaimed — "  This  ia  all  along  of 

i;  if  you   had  not  hindered   my  taking  that 

foUow\t  life,  he  would  not  have  been  here  to  swear 

Ivor  lives   away."     *'The   next   blood  which  you 

liihed,"  said  hia  Lordship,  "be  it  on  my  heail ! — ht 

Ifthall  be  spared,  but  you  shall  not  see  ^mother  day." 

I A  carpenter  was  sent  for,  a  frallows  was  erecte<i  in 

lihe  dock,  and  the  dcsjierate  \vretch  was  Ixanged  in 

It  he  |iresence  of  the  Judge  an<l  the  full  Court. 

Edmund  Lenthall  Swiftk. 

LBTCHBR,  Bishop  of  Worcester  (5**^  S.  ii, 

fc) — This  diBtingiiished   man  was  Buccessively 

Bil^p  of  Bristol,  Worcester,  and  London,  in  the 

mgn  of  Elizabeth.     He  was  a  native  of  Kent, 

L  studied  at  Cambridge,  and  after  having  enjoyed 

I  for  many  yeara  the  Queen's  favour,  fell  suddenly 

ilc  to  a  aexjond  marriage,  Eliziv- 

_  of  an  elderly  clergyman  and 

wed.     He  was  suspended  from 

|hl«  uQ^;  for  six  months,  but  at  last 

'T^-J  'v^noured  him  by  a  visit 

^i  15,  1596.     (See  /fr*- 

.  ill  Biography,) 

Neomaoub. 

Jnder  "Beaumont  and  Fleteher/'  in  the Impeiial 
[Ditstionary  of  Vnivcrml  Bioyrajthyf  W.  G,  D.  F, 
find  particulars  relating  to  this  bishop,  who 
I  the  father  of  John  Fletdier,  the  dramatist. 
Frsdk.  Kule, 

Lambeth,  Dec.  14,  1589, 
Jio  the  aee  of  Bristol  ;  tranahvted  in  1593  to  Wor- 

nr,  ni\d  t',v.i  Tr:\.T'.  nhf^r  to  London.     He  has  a 

,    I857t  but  a   fuller 

i    in  Chsilmers's  CVcti, 

jiiipilcd  from  the  Bioff.  BHi. ; 

/  C  C,  C,  CamhHdgt;  Stirpe's 


Wl'^fnifr  rm,  322,  399,  418,428;    Harrington^s 
Br  nd  Neal's  Puriianj*.    See  also  *4fA<7t. 

O'  -    .  a  1815,  vol  L  p.  146  ;  vol  ii.  pp*  225, 

43(5,  im^  ba5. 

Sparks  HisyDERSosr  Willtams. 
Keiulngton  Cfoflcent,  W. 

Srn  Edward  Ht-KfiEnronD  (5***  S.  ii.  229.)— 
K,  B.  D.  E.  will,  1  think,  have  a  correct  answer  in 
the  accompanying  copy  from  a  coffin-plate  which, 
in  170t\  was  on  one  of  the  coffins  in  the  crypt  in 
the  Chapel  of  Farleigh,  Himgerford,  co.  Somerset : 

**  The  body  of  the  Lady  Jiuie  Uuofperford,  wife  of 
Sir  £dvrard  Hungerford*  of  Fitrley^  Huneerfordj  co. 
Sota.,  nnd  dAughter  and  heir  unto  Sir  John  Het«,  of 
Wnnburv.  in  tba  oo.  Devon,  Kt.,  who  doceased  18  day  of 
May^lC^i.' 

Sir  Edward,  who  sat  thirty-three  years  in  Par- 
liament, sold  at  the  same  time  Iwenty-eight 
manons,  and,  with  an  income  of  30,(Xx  if.  per  annum, 
lived  to  the  age  of  11  n,  supported  by  charity,  and 
even  )>egging  the  last  thirty  yearns  of  his  life. 
Sir  Edward  died  in  London,  and  wrus  buried  in  the 
old  church  of  St,  Martin-in-the-Field.-^. 

Bkckington. 

JtiBTtcas'  Wages  (5«»  S.  ii.  S28.)— The  ancient 
allowance  wan  abolished  by  18  &  10  Vict.,  c.  126, 
B,  21. 

For  this,  and  the  history  of  the  appointment 
and  office  of  Justices,  see  Stephen's  Ctmmicni^vrim^ 
Book  IV.  pt  L,  vol  ii.  p.  681  et  jie^.,  sixth  edition, 
London,  186S.  Ed.  Marsh  all. 

"LrvKa  OF  the  EifousH  Saints"  (5"'  S.  ii. 
229.) — Some  years  ago  I  Triade  out  the  following 
list  of  the  lives  of  the  English  saints,  published  by 
Toovey,  and  their  authors,  to  the  best  of  my  know- 
ledge : — 

St.  Wulstan,  R.  W,  Chnrch  ',  St.  WiUiam,  E,  A.  Coffin; 
St.  Aelred,  J.  D.  Dalgaim* ;  St.  Ninian,  J.  Bftrrow ;  St. 
Paulinas,  St,  Edwin,  St,  Ethelburga,  St.  Oswald,  St 
Oswin,  St.  Ebba,  SL  Adamnam,  and  8t.  Bepa,  F.  Faber  j 
St.  Au^niAtine,  F,  Oakeloy;  St.  Gilbert,  W.  L<5ckhart» 
and  J,  D.  r»algaim«t ;  St.  Gemiftn*  J,  Walker ;  St.  Ricbardf 
Kg:.,  St  Wttljbiild,  and  St.  Walburgu,  T.  Mejrick ;  St. 
Ednmnd,  M.  Fttttlsoa;  St.  Richard,  Bp.,J.  D.  Oikl^irna, 
or  W.  Lockbart ;  St.  Walthcof,  and  St.  Robert,  J.  D. 
Dttlgftirn^;  St.  GundkaR,  J,  H.  ^<rwman;  St.  Helitf, 
J,  D.  DalgaifTiB;  St.  Herbert,  Qy.;  8t,  Edelwald,  J.  H. 
Newman;  St.  Bcttclon,  prose,  J.  H.  Newman,  vene, 
J.  I>.  Datttairna;  St.  Noot»  J.  A.  Froude;  St.  Bartholomew^ 
Mid  St.  Stephen  Harding,  J.  D.  DalRaim*;  St.  Stephen 
LanfTton,  M,  PattiHon  :  St.  Wilfred,  K  Faber;  family  of 


St.  Richard,  T.  Merrick. 


J.  B,  B. 


DomNicAts  (5«»  S.  ii.  228.)— The  following 
appe«u«d  in  the  ExtUr  and  Plymouth  GwsttU  of 
the  12th  ultr— 

'*I«icke,  in  his  .Wmon'o^,  iay«,  *The  cagtom  touching 
the  Duiiiioicali  hero  waa  tried  in  the  Kinj^'a  Coxtrt.^UftWL 
at  the  Gultdbttll,  aad  a  TreriACS.  ^cjuw^^^^  VN^t  ^\t«a?Cv^  * 
Whereby  the  coatom  waa  ^t\d.  ^ooV  •,  .  .  .  tv^*.  ^^««^«as. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[I?>  a  IL  Do*,  10,  74. 


vru  William  Ratcljff^  the  owner  of  hotue  property  iti 
tlie  poriili  of  St.  Paulr  who  lued  John  Byuhope,  the 
Rector  of  that  Parish,  for  £5  diLiii&ge<t  for  dem&iidJDg, 
from  one  of  hu  ten&ntB,  an  excessiTe  sum  for  Dominicals 
(lie  wanted  threepence  ft  week),  &nd  proceeding  a^inst 
bim  in  the  Court  of  Christianity  for  its  recovery.  The 
proceedings  are  in  Latin  ;  but  I  subjoin  a  tranflUtion  of 
10  much  as  eSecta  the  i^ueetion  of  the  custom  : — 

"  *  Ci(y  of  £r£t€r.— J iihn  Bysahope,  clerk*  waa  attached 
to  anawer  to  William  Eiitclyff  of  a  plea  of  trespaa^  on 
the  caee.  And  w heroupon  the  same  WllLiam,  hy  Richard 
Buke,  bla  attorney,  complains  that  whereas,  in  the  city 
of  £ateter»  and  in  the  suburbs  of  the  same  ctty,  such  a 
Cditom  is,  and  from  time  thereof  the  memory  of  man  i« 
not  to  the  contrary,  baa  bceti  thnt  every  Hector  of  any 
pariBh  church  within  the  city  aforesaid  for  the  time 
being,  for  bis  support  Jind  maintenance  weekly  {Sfpfimo- 
natim)  in  the  year  should  perceive,  and  ought  to  per- 
ceive, on  Sunday,  of  every  peruon  being  the  tenant  of 
any  tenement  called  h  "grounded  hall,"  one  penny,  and 
of  every  tenement  called  *'  an  hygh  hftli,*'  one  halfpenny , 
called  *'  Dominical  oblations,"  and  this,  so  long  as  thoae 
tenements  shall  be  litted  with  tenants,  and  not  other- 
wise^  according  to  the  custom  aforc^d,  heretofore  used 
and  approved.'       *'  Yours  faithfully, 

**  Ua£TU0L011£W   C.    GlDLEt/* 

"Exeter." 

H,  T.  E. 
[S«e"N.  &Q."l«8.iii.25.] 

Vtllers,  ViLLiKRs  (5*^  S.  iL  228.)— The  Dames 
Villejr9j  Villars^  aod  Viliiera  are  different  forma  of 
the  same  appelhition,  derived,  according  to  La 
Eoqiie,  Traiti  dc  l-thiffim  dts  Noms^  p.  54 ^  from 
the  Latin  ritkHum,  As  might  be  expectc'd  from 
this  origin,  the  name  is  widely  spread.  The  aj- 
moriids  contain  the  arms  of  more  than  thirty 
distinct  families  of  one  or  other  form  of  the  mime. 
No  one  of  thoae  whose  lirms  are  mvftn  in  Rietstiip's 
AmioHal  USniTal  henn  the  pasoml  lamb  and  flag. 

The  chief,  and  best  known,  famihes  of  the  name, 
are  those  of  the  Dukes  de  Villars,  Dukes  de  Lau- 
ragnais,  Marqueases  Villei'a  la  Faye,  Marquess 
ViOers^  Comte  de  Grignancourt,  Yifliere  de  11  ale 
Adam,  &c.  The  Eti^liKh  Villiers  family,  Dukes  of 
Backingham,  Earla  of  Jersey,  &c>,  were  of  old 
Korman  descent,  and  claimed  kinship  with  the 
last  mentioned,  but  bore  entirely  different  iirms. 

J.    WOODWABD. 

MontroM. 

GipsT  Kativb  Names  (5«*  8.  L  325.)— The  fol- 
lowing Gipsy  surnames  are  probably  of  Oriental 
origin  : — 

Oipijf.  Hindu,  Bnglith, 

Graata  ...     .,,  Greh^t    ...     ...  Domestic, Household. 

Nona     „.     ...  No     Nine. 

Satona  ,..     ...  Sath Seven, 

Toula     Toula       ...     ...  Measured. 

Donea   ..,     ...  Dhanea    Wealth. 

Oawino..,     ...  Gau ,.,  Cow. 

HatMggau    ,..  Hateegaw     ...  Cow  friMn  market. 

Lundio  ...  Lundi      ...     .^.  Monday. 

ClVlLIS. 

GirsY  Christian  Names  (5"»  S.   ii.   222,)— 
Me*    Gboome  shoald   read   Tent  Lif^  (^lefean. 


King  &  Co.),  by  Mrs.  Hubert  Smith.  My  god- 1 
child,  Esmeralda,  the  heroine  of  that  book,  since  J 
married  to  its  author,  is  a  genuine  ^"^  Bom  i 
Romraany,'*  and  her  brother's  names  are  No  ' 
Zftchariah.  I  found  a  gipsy  family  near 
Heath, — tm  veiling  near  Ascot  Heath  I  mean,- 
the  Christian  names,  or  rather  prr  t^h 
do 7a,  Plato,  Jemima,  Tobias,  Jack, 
and  Britannia;  and  I  shall  neT'eTfoi;^ 
phant  air  with  which  ** Britanyer,  sir,'  was  gi^^*! 
as  much  as  to  say  that  **gii>sy  though  we  be,  1 
we  're  patriotic  folk,  and  have  no  objection  to  rule  I 
the  fsea.  Your  correspondent  will  iind,  I  think,/ 
that  contact  with  '^gorgioa*'  hua  gone  some  war  1 
towards  obliterating  the  distinctiveness  of  gipsy  ^ 
pramomina^  and  that  certaia  tribes  iLnd  locaibtie* 
favour  certain  names.  S.  B.  James. 

Northmarston. 

A  gipsy  tells  me  that  she  gives  all  her  duldreo 
"Bible  names"*,  one  son  being  called  '*GolUi* 
[Goliath]  ;  another  "Dybrees"  [qu.  Dives  n, 
a  daughter  *'Viriamcnta."     Joseph  Bice,  M.D. 

St.  Neot'B. 

The  name  of  Gilderoy  Scamp  occurs  at  FoIk&-j 
atone.  Rardrig  Morpbt^. 

Double  Christian  Names  (5"^  S.  il  226,  271.) 
— It  has  since  been  stated  in  the  (hiardiany 
the  date  **7th  February,  1679  (79-80),''  (not 
Nov.,  1680,''  as  Mr.  Ward  gives  it),  is  an  enoLi 
It  abould  bo  157!*,  There  would  liave  been  m 
extniordinary  in  a  double  Christian  name  in  1679, 
Recently,  in  i\  note  on  Sir  Edward  Maria  Wing 
field,  I  quot-ed  a  paragniph  from  Camden,  in 
he  teUi*  us  what  he  knew  about  "two  CJ 
names  in  England  '^ ;  and  I  again  transcribe 
several  papers  have  discussed  the  subject  withoat,* 
aB  far  as  I  have  seen,  mentioning  Camden's  nemurk 

*'  But  two  Chriatian  names  are  rare  in  Englnnd^  9hi 
I  only  remember  now  his  Mejeatj  who  was  naiaedi 
Charlet  Janus,  aa  the  Prince  his  sonne  Henry  Fredtne; 
and  among  prirate  men,  Tkonttu  Mann  Win^iUidf  tiul 
sir  Thomas  Pottkvmus  Bobby.  Although  it  ii  couiti 
in  Jtahf,  to  adjoyne  the  name  of  some  Saint,  in  a  kii 
of  dcrotlon  to  the  Christian  name^  08  Johannet  Bapi 
Spinula;  Johanna  Francucm  BorkomruM,  Mm 
Anioniut  Flamimnt:  and  in  .sytaitK  to  adde  Ibe 
of  the  Saint  on  whose  diiy  the  childe  wa«  bome***'^-^  Bt^ 
metin4t  concerning  BrUaine.  .  ,  ,  Written  by  Williim 
Chmdon,  Bsquire,  CJarenceux,  King  of  Armef,  Surnamtd 
the  Learned.  The  lift  ImproMton.  ...  By  the  indualry 
and  care  of  John  Philipot,  Somenei  Herald.  Loocktt 
...   1637."     P.4i>. 

With  regard  to  Thoma.s  Dooley  Pyp's  claims 
a  donble  Christi:in  name  in  the  middle  of  the  « 
teenth  century,  the  Saturdijiy  lUvicw  mikkea 
following  observations  : — 

*'  It  see  ma  that  the  Tarn  worth  regie  ter  .  ,  .  cqqI 
or  is  paid  to  contain,  an  entry  of  a  doublo  Clmttian 
which  waa  fint  faid  to  bear  date  in  IttTd^  ^nd  aCWiwtf^ 
by  a  bolder  flight,  in  1&7U.    The  uncooaeioaa  nitjvct  ti 
i&x.  fticvi^U  it  reported  to  hear  the  nmmfj 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


TUomu  IkioUv  Pyp.  u  wortUy  fellow  of  Geoffrey  CUeeso- 
«od-breiid»  am<1  HuKerua  t)«;us  suivet'iloitiinu.  >Ve  sLould 
lik*  to  know  if*b«t  the  tiatue  wt>uld  redly  turn  out  to  be 
if  brought  before  the  cyva  of  anv  one  who  c&n  I'ckU 
nimnuBcript ;  for  we  know  very  well  wliiit  may  come  of 
the  imp«taoua  zesl  of  a  newly  a^vpointed  incumbent,  wlio 
oflen  nerer  fKw  a  register,  before^  And  who  natui-ally 
IUmIs  woaders  in  the?  register  wUich  \»  put  under  lais  owu 
keeping.  One  wbo  can  read  mauiucriptB  of  all  a^^ea  haa 
tiiBdQ  ib9  gatM  that  the  reading  nuij  very  likely  be 
^TboiBoa  Dooley,^7.  pcp,'—'fkl\u6  populi '  beintj  a  com- 
njion  way  of  entering  members  of  the  clas^  which  took 
in  Williani  the  Conqueror.  Ther*  is,  therefore,  a  fair 
ckdnco  that  thii  bearer  of  a  double  Chriatian  name  at 
Tamworth  iii  1579  may  turn  uut  to  be  on*'  of  those  bas- 
tard Blips  whicK  according  to  the  apocryphal  writer, 
I  to  Ur.  t^baWt  in  the  dayit  of  Edward  the  Fifth,  are 
\  likely  Ui  take  root.  Thouiafl  Dooley  Pyp  may  be 
_  Uy  Mt  a^ide  till  we  know  more  about  him^  and  ne 
nmy  rest  tati^fied  for  a  while  with  the  undoubted  cn»e 
of  Anthony  Ajhlcy  Cooper,  more  than  forty  years  t&ter/* 

Or  Hither  with  the  undoubted  cases  of  Thnmua 
MnTia  WiDjirfield  and  Thomas  Postbumus  Hobby, 
Sparks  Henderson  WtLLiAiTs. 
Keneingtoti  Crescent,  W* 

Aitet  all,  "  Robert  F.  Herry  "  may  have  been 
I  only  another  way   of   writing    "  Robert    Harri- 
1  «>a  •' ;  the  '*  Fr  stfljKiing  for  *^  Fiiz  "  or  "  FUiua.'' 
I  HucU  variutions  of  this  imtiie  had  not  yet  fallen 
out  of  prjKtice  in  that  tige^     W.  Harrison,  author 
of  the  IhArriptiOH  of  Britain  preHxed  to  Holin- 
shed,  has  l>ecn  observed  to  hjive  written  his  name 
I  as  **  Hfin"i5<on  "  :ind  "  Henryson,^*  bt>th  in  the  siiioe 
t  author  of  the  concordances  the 
ert  Harrison  the  Brownist  f* 
TiioMiVS  Kerslake, 
Brtsiol 

Is  Fisher  Bilke  Went  worth  a  case  of  a  double 
f  Cbriifrthin  name  at  all  i    Is  it  not  a  case  of  a  double 
r  of  that  rarer  form  still  main- 
v^  etiquette  bv  some  of  the  old 
-  /    This  gentleman  was  ri^ifhtly 
I  Ftjsher  DUke, otheTwise  Wentworth,  Le.alitu. 
in  the  sauie  county,  we  have  Hamon,  or 
bnnion,  alUt*  <  'larke,  of  Willoughby,  Clarke 
I  HamoDi  the  generations  alternatLng, 

H,  C. 

b«  PaU  Mali  Output,  of  the  5th  inat,,  layB :— '*  A 

oiident  in  Derbyshire  writes :— The  records  of  the 

*  rrtnrt<<  r^f  r>»-Tby»hir»e  fointain  an  example  of  a 

umame   (probably 

lest  yet  remarked. 

uccura  among  the 

'■r«caipi4ttt-iicti  \n  the  third  year  of  Philip 

a  flrreat  inquidtion  of  the  Ubertie«  which 

!'-:*k  ciiiittied  to  h   ■  '  ]u  those 

LiM  and  how,  an  i  t  time 

t       At  un  earlier  i  j.  taken 

i^uc  iu  the  flinteenth  year  of  Edward  I.^  the 

I  mostly  disttnguiahed  by  *  place-naine*/  such 

[  of  Longiden,'  *  Clement  of  Ford," '  Peter  of 

bat  there  i»  al^  '  William,  son  of  the  Smith 

'  Tlie  -writer  wishea  this  to  be  conaidfired  na  a  coo- 
I  of  hlM  naVSf  ante  p.  27LJ 


of  Bradwell,*  on  the  same  paueh  There  are  families 
l»eiiring  these  names  at  the  present  time  h)cated  in  Der* 
bynhirc  ;  ar^d  it  is  not  improbable  that  the  same  habit 
which  changed  '  Clement  of  Ford  '  into  Clement  Ford, 
altered  the  ttyle  of  *  William,  son  <;f  the  Smitii  of  Brad- 
weil '  ioto  the  compound  name.|AV'illiam  Smithson  Itrad* 
welL  Extended  reseirch  amorig  old  records  would  pro* 
babty  reveal  «'arlior  itiinianGea  of  compound  uame«  and 
Khow  the  pruceaa  through  which  they  were  engrafted 
upon  Eugliah  nomenclature.] 

Is  A  Change  of  CimisTiAN  TCamr  Possible  ? 
(5**»  S.  ii,  24R.) — By  a  Constitution  of  Archbishop 
Peclvham,  a.d.  12Sl|  the  name  of  a  child  might  be 
altered,  under  certain  circumatanceR,  by  the  Bishop^ 
at  Confirmation.  See  Johnson's  Coli  of  Ecc* 
Laws,  vol  li,,  con.  3,  A.D.  1281,  In  the  note 
annexed  ia  the  following  : — 

"Of  old,  the  Bishopt  at  Confirmation,  pronounced  the 
name  of  erery  child  or  peraon  coLkJirmea  by  him«  and,  if 
he  did  not  approve  of  the  name,  or  the  Person  himself, 
or  hi«  frienda^  desired  it  to  be  altered,  it  might  be  done 
by  the  Biahop  i>ronottncing  a  new  name  upon  his 
miniate  ring  this  Kite^  and  the  Common  Law  allowed  of 
the  Alteration.  But,  upon  the  Kcview  of  the  Litarg:y  at 
King  Charlet'a  Restoration,  the  Office  of  Confirmation 
ia  altered  aa  to  thta  point.  For  now  the  Biahop  doea 
not  pronounce  the  name  of  the  Person  confirmed,  and 
therefore  cannot  alter  it." 

How  far  the  learned  canonist  is  correct  in  his 
conclusion  h  atjuestion  which  must  be  left  to  those 
who  are  more  learned  ia  ecclej^iastical  and  com  in  on 
law  than  I  am.  I  should  add  that  the  alteration 
in  the  Contirraiition  Service  was  made  in  1552,  not 
in  1662. 

M.  D.  wiU  find  much  very  interesting  informa- 
tion on  the  question  propounded  by  him  in 
MaskeU'a  Monnmcnta  Ritualut,  voL  i.,  **  Diaser- 
tativ)a,"  pp.  216-19.  Amongst  other  authorities, 
he  (luotes  Lord  Coke,  who  says  :-^ 

' '  If  a  man  be  baptised  by  the  name  of  JTUnuu,  nnd 
after,  at  hia  Confirmation  by  the  Bishop,  ho  is  named 
John,  his  name  at  Confirmation  &ball  atand  good.  And 
this  wan  the  caM>  of  Sir  Francis  Gawdie,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleaa,  whose  name,  by  Baptism, 
waa  Thomaf,  and  hia  name  of  Confirmation  Francit;  nnd 
that  name  of  Francia,  by  the  advice  of  all  the  Jud^a, 
he  did  bear,  and  afterwarda  uaed  laall  hia  purchasea  and 
granta."— 1  Init  8.  CHted«  Bum'i  SccL  Lav,  vol  il, 
p.  10. 

Bum  observes  upon  this  case,  "  This  aeemeth  to 
be  altered  by  the  Form  of  the  present  Liturgy,*' 
and  then  quotes  the  iwte  froiu  Johnson,  which  I 
have  given  above.  Maskell,  however,  sivyi  that 
"  Dr.  Burn's  conclusion,  that  because  a  Bishop, 
according  to  our  present  Book,  does  not^  and^ 
therefore,  cannot^  if  he  sees  just  reason,  pronounce 
the  name  at  Confirmation,  seems  io  have  no 
weight.''  If  you  will  give  me  space,  I  will,  in 
another  number,  state  an  interesting  case,  wliick 
occurred  in  1707.  E.  C.  Harikotonv 

The  Cloae,  Exeter. 

A  Oinstian  name,  that  is,  a  HAme  given  In  bap- 
tism, can  only  (if  at  all)  be  chaxv^^  ^X»  w>tsS\T«jac- 


mm 


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[6»  8.  U.  Oor.  10. 74. 


1 


tion  ;  but  it  seetus  doubtful  whether  any  bishop 
would  now  conseDt  to  do  it.  In  the  Sarum  Offic*^, 
and  in  the  fir!*t  reformed  one  of  1549,  a  Chri^tiiin 
name  wis  used  in  confirmation^  thus  givinsi  oc* 
cftsion  for  a  chiinge.  In  15o2  tlua  iwe  was  removed ; 
but  the  practice  of  cbtinging  the  Ufime  stil!  con- 
tinii«i,  though  rare  ;  tlie  hist  two  inaLauces  known 
are  in  1707  and  1761.  See  Blunts  Book  of 
Church  Law,  p.  58, 

Charles  F.  S.  Waerjen,  M*A. 

"Hic  LIBER  est/'  &c.  (5*^  S.  ii  227.)— The 
epigram  is,  I  believe,  Scaliger's,  It  is  quoted  in 
Sir  W.  Hamilton's  i>iacuMiOfts,  &c.,  in  the  originaJj 
but  I  cannot  lay  mj  hand  on  the  passage. 

F.  Storr. 

Is  Senex  aware  of  the  following  lines,  ainiilar 
in  sense  to  his  own  : — 

**  One  day  nt  least  In  crcry  if^tk, 
The  BtcU  of  every  kind 
Their  doctriae§  here  ftre  ture  to  te%k, 
And  just  OS  iure  to  find.'* 

They  are  to  be  found  in  the  Preface  (by  Prof.  De 
Morgan)  to  th^tt  interesting  work  From  Maihr  to 
Spirit f  by  G,  D,  Tu-sa-fcj, 

"  Like  to  tfie  damask  ro6e  you  sek  ^'  (5^  S. 
ii.  227)  is  by  Francia  Quarles.     It  begins  thus  : — 
"  LUco  to  the  daniiuk  rofo  you  fee. 
Or  like  the  blosiom  on  tha  tree, 
Or  like  the  dainty  iowera  of  May, 
Or  like  the  moral ng:  of  the  day. 
Or  like  tUe  aua^  or  like  the  Bhades^ 
Or  like  the  f^ourd  which  Johm  had, 
Ercii  euch  is  man,  whose  thread  it,  apxm, 
Drmwn  out,  and  out,  and  so  m  done. 
The  roee  withe ra,  the  bloAftom  biejalethi 
The  ftower  fades,  the  morning  wastolh. 
The  sun  setip  the  shadow  fllei. 
The  gourd  Goniumes,  and  man  he  dies*'* 

A  lively  parody  upon  it  will  be  found  in  the 
Iloxhurghe  Odlection  of  Ballads,  i.  208,  and  in  the 
Balhul  Society's  reprint  of  them,  Part  IV.  p.  12. 
The  fact  of  a  parody  arj:^He«  a  certain  amount  of 
popularity  in  the  original  production. 

Wm.  Chappell. 

Rahel  :  Editions  of  the  "  Breeches  ^*  Bible 
(5«*  S.  i.  388  ;  ii.  133, 198.  238.)-  Hic  et  Ubique 
givea  his  "Breeches'*  Bible  (15r>!)  edition)  credit 
or  thi«  word  in  Jeremiah,  ch.  xxxi,,  v,  15,  I  have 
ien  different  editions  of  this  version,  more  pro* 
perly  called  the  "Genevan  Version/'  in  all  of 
which  it  may  interest  him  to  know  the  word  is 
rendered  Eaheh  It  is  so  spelt  in  the  first  edition, 
15G0,  where  **and"  before  "bitter  weeping"  m 
in  iUlic5,  ji3  also  in  the  15J»9  edition,  which  your 
correspondent  has  not  noted  in  h  is  quolution.  In  the 
second  edition,  called  "  Bodley's"  { 1562),  it  is  Ridjel, 
and  "and"  is  in  bnickets.  The  third  edition, 
**  Crispin's  **  (1568  or  Ibm),  is  as  the  first,  A 
Me  edition   (1611)   \mA    "EiLhd''  also.     When 


Keomagcs  can  supply  the  information,  I  fcliai! 
glad   to    learn   through    "  N.  &  Q/*   bow    man; 
editions  there  are  of  the  "  Breeches  "  Bible, 

Francis  Fur* 
Gotham,  Bristol. 

I   am   sorry  to  be   unable   to  answer  Htc 
LTbique's  query  regarding  the  "  Breeches  Bilaleu^ 
My  edition  (1594)  hiiH  a  very  elaborate  fronti; 
and  bears  "  Imprinted  at  London  by  the  Ik*; 
of  Christopher  Barker,   Printer  to   the 
most  excellent  Maieatie,  15f>4,"  and  ha*  ai 
to  it  the  "  Whole  Booke  of  Psalmes,  Collect 
Euglish  Meetre  by  Thomas  Sternhold,  lahn 
kina,  and  others,  conferred  with  the  Hebrue|. 
apt  notes  to  Hing  them  w^ithall,"  and  is  prini 
*'  John  Windet  for  the  jrVssignes  of  Ricliard 
15 94."     Hr'  rt  Ubiqub  quotes  from  Matt.  iL  lei^ 
— "In  Rha mn  wa^is  a  voy ec  heard ,  t i n . a r n i n 
weeping,    and    howling."     My  edn 
"  Rhama/'  "  RamiX  "  ;  and  for  **  ^  " 
lamentation/^      I   should   be   glad,   like    iiic 
Udiqce,  to  know  how  many  editions  were  is«ue< 
I  may  draw  Hic  et  tTnigiTE's  attention  lo  an  ad^ 
vertisement   which  appeared   in   "N.   &   if  J* 
Aug,  29  last,  of  a  "  Breecbes  "  Bible,  date  157 
for  s,ale.     There  seem«,  therefore,  to  have  been 
least  three  editions.  NfioKAnrs. 

Tlie  Genevan  Version  of  the  Holy  Scnptnwit  c 
the  coiuuionly  called  "  Breeches"  Bible,  was  isMe 
in  numerous  editions.     Anderson,  in  hi  a  lift  up- ' 
pemled  to   The  EnglUh   Bible,   1845,  gives    1S9 
editions  to  the  year  Ifill,  and  hr    kv^.  "  we 
safely  assert  that,  by  1616,  lU 
the  Bible  and  New  TesUimen  i 
"  but    the   Genevan   Bible   still   i^ontinued  to  ' 
issued,  and  by  the  King's  printer,  as  well 
Edinburgh  and  Amsterdam/'     He  name*  i 
in  1613,  1614,  1615,  1616,  1633,  1640,  and 

"In  1(34&,  the  present  Version  wa»  printed  wH 
Genevan  Notes  by  way  of  iiuslaatf  it  into  faroa 
about  this  poriod  it  prevailed,  and  took  the  placol 
occupied  cTcr  since* 

Samctel  SaiJi&i 

Andover. 

In  my  "  Breeches  '*  Bible, "  Imprinted 
by  the  Deputies  of  Christopher  Barker, 
the  Queens  mf>^^  ,.^   ,  n.  ,.t   \i  ,.»,..    i 
miah  xxxL  15  i 

says,  "  In  Kaiu.    ^      - 

weeping  and  great  lamentation  :    ' 
for  her  children  and  would  uol  1 
cause  they  were  not,*'  and  not , 
says  it  is  in  his  edition,  "  wei|'  _ 

Clark?*/ 

CERKVLqi^  (5t»>  S.  i.  485  ;    ii.  33.)— T- 
well  to  supplenicnt  the  remarks  of  Dr,  ' 
by  pointing  out  what  Zcuss  has  imid  upD^^ 
Celtic  woni.     The  author  of   tho  Grami 


fi»  &  11.  Oct.  10.  74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


CV/fuxt  (first  edition^  pp.  135  and  7H.S)  ghows  tliat 
\  tlic  c  IB  ccrr  b  only  the  secondary  form  of  m,  Jind 
tliat  wf»  Trjfiy  Jtcoordingly  take  coi-vi-^  rrirm-,  iw*  the 
priit  I    of  the   n^juie   of  the  Celtic  beer. 

AtL  itr'tpfiit  ;   Dioisw>ridea,  tcovfifti ;  the 

old    latm  Uretik    Glosaury    of    Ptuloxenus    and 
TJlpian,    ciirmai.      To    these    nocient   evidenceB, 


pbint-ttfimM^  &c.,  laan y  fra^ment-^  of  the  old  <  I . .  L  i 
gives  the  word  as  **  eurmi  or  c(!:rvu(t.*-  The  ttlu<  r 
Welsh  niid  < 'OniiBh  forms  cited  byZeues  (which  do 
not,  howevtr,  go  further  buck  than  the  twelftli 
centnr\';  are  kurtf^  kuruf  ("©  curroi,  ccTftia*% 
f^jTuf  and  ^ore/. 

May  I  btj  pennitted  to  remark  that  Dr. 
I  CllARJfOCK,  in  his  4UoUtion  from  the  fAhnogenU 
Oauloi^ty  has  omitted  the  Iriisb  and  Krse  fomis, 
vhich  :ire  duly  t^^^'^Q  ^7  I**^  Bellognet  I  The 
omision  ia  important,  for  the  iTiali  form  is  coirm^ 
tnirm^  gen,  corma,  juid  this,  it  will  be  seen^  by 
preserv'intf  ihe  nidicat  m,  keepa  nearer  to  the 
priniarv  *fnrHi  lliaii  any  of  the  vaj-ialions  in  the 

!l  the  ending  (if  the  word  (cerv-ino, 
f-iaa)  lo  rje  explained.     Is  it  not  poaaible  that 
n  key  to  its  meaning  ii*  prei^erved  in  the  old  Irl«^h 
fWom  aSf  aitSt  given  by  O'Reilly  iis  a   name  for 
l^drink  of  any  kind,  "  such  as  milk,  ale,  beer,  water'*  ? 
lie   Gallic   word    etrri<ut  (which    seciaH    the 
able  »pellinji,0  ^'^^^^  hardly  liavt*  anything  to 
I  far,  tit  lej4*t^  ns  doriviition  is  eour^rned,  with 
,  an  Italian  deity,  unknown  to  the  Gauls  b}'' 
iln.li  h  it  is,  of  course,  possible  that 
<i  and  tcrvuia  contain  a  root 
Md  of  grain. 

ilaninjersmiih. 

UksRTTLBD   BAROKJtTClKS    (6**   S.   i*   125,   194, 

^£52;  ii.   10,)— Mr.  Pa^misgiiam  havli  1 

out  the  fiUlfuy  of  W,  M,  h  idea,  that 
inciireetty  established,  under  a  iJecree  ta  i-<i>n:e 
in   iKiJl,  cannot   now   be   adied   in    tjiie^tion,   I 


ab 


noiher.and  i^till  more 
ith  the  same  object, 

,.   .  a  to  an  hereditary  title 

from  Uio  crown  decided  by  t\  jury  of 

ng    country    gentlemen.       Were    the 

It*  of  Liniitations  of  utiy  Avtx'd  in  such  cnie.'?, 

.  ^f,  infi'r  ,  wh;«t  would  be  easier  tlian  for  a 

r  means  and  dit?cretion,  so 

,  that  at  the  expir;ttion  of 

iLi  iiud  he  might  "and 

•o  vrn  of  one  of  :  .iire**  ! 

L  ul  tiUii?  could  be  suflii  i»_rjl  to  msike 

nt  any  mle  &*  rc^pi^ly  heredAt^;ry 

I  imtoBoe  how  the  mil  man  may  bo  igno^^d, 


I  111  ay  mention  the  following  ciwe  of  *'  multiple 
poinding,"  decided  in  a  court  of  law  bo  late  tts 
1872.  A  testator  made  a  special  remainder  in 
favour  of  his  natur^il  »on^  a  »ur^feon  in  the  army, 
and  this  remainder  eventually  fell  due  to  him* 
fiut  he  hiid  left  the  service  many  years  before,  and 
had  last  been  heard  of  ut  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope. 
Ko  inquiries  were  instituted  by  the  next  legal 
representatives,  who  simply  daimed  the  remjiinder 
And  gained  their  suit,  in  the  absence  of  any  one 
n  presenting  the  lost  intended  beneficiary*  Here, 
Lhcn,  was  a  ciise  legally  decided  iu  favour  of  inter- 
lopers ;  and  if  the  true  residuary  legatee  should 
turn  up  to-morrow,  and  has  not  the  means  where- 
with to  recover  the  money  in  question,  who  can 
doubt  the  result  I  If  this  can  luippen  by  a  legal 
process,  arising  from  a  will,  what  might  not  happen 
where  a  claim  was  mnde  to  a  dormant  or  abeyant 
title  ?  My  own  opinion  is  that  Mr.  Passi  no  ham's 
suggestion  is  a  good  one,  but  that  the  proceedings 
in  such  cases  should  be  of  even  u  much  more  public 
character  than  his  su^^gested  procedure  woidd 
imply  ;  and  thftt  due  preliminary  notice  of  the 
adjudication  on  the  claim  should  l>e  published  in 
the  principal  home  and  colonial  newspapers  for  six 
months.  S, 

A  Jew'8  Will  :  Praters  fob  thk  Bead  (5**» 
S.  i.  44S),  49G  ;  ii.  38,  78.)— Prayere  for  the  deiid 
are  usual  amongst  the  Jews* ;  they  are  mostly  said 
on  the  Sabbath  for  a  year  after  a  death,  a  sum  of 
money  being  given  to  charity,  or  townrda  the 
synagogue,  on  each  occasion,  by  the  person  who 
requests  their  being  read  ;  it  is  conttideretl  com- 
plimeDUry  amongst  the  Jews  for  one  i>er»on  to 
have  them  read  if  a  friend  luis  lost  a  relative  ; 
they  are  said,  aa  is  usual  in  the  Jewish  service,  in 
the  Hebrew  language.  The  reason  of  there  being 
ten  Rabbis  m«ntioned  in  this  will  i.v,  I  auppofcse,  tlmt 
the  testator,  being  a  verj*  religious  man,  thou'^bt  it 
would  fuid  to  the  solemnity  of  the  pra^cns  if  they 
were  read  by  more  than  one ;  but  it  in  only  usual 
for  the  ofljciiiting  minister  to  read  them. 

B.  G. 

Prayers  for  the  dead  are  in  regular  us©  among 
the  Jews.  The  first  notice  is  2  Mncmbe^  xii.  44, 
"  For  if  he  hfki  not  hoped  tkit  they  that  were 
alain  ehould  have  risen  again,  it  liad  been 
superfluou'^  aud  vain  to  pray  for  the  deiid/'  Next 
we  have  the  '  '  '  V  hut  probable  one*  of  St.  Paul 
pniyin-  for  is  (2  Tim.  I  18).     A  full 

acct5unt  of  pi  it--  i^tv  the  desul  among  the  Jews 
w^Jl  be  found  in  Bu\t<>rf  r  Sijtiagoga  Judaica^  cap. 
idix.,  from  whence  I  give  the  following  epitome : 

"Children  mourn  for  their  jmrtnt*  for  •  whole  year. 
They  oujjlt  to  recit<?  a  pmytr,  called  u-*"i"^  cncin  day, 
for  Wwy  1»elieve  that  the  f*tbcr  ta  frecil  H  -ry 

cm  tins  confUtion,     Jm|ijoa*  men  remuiii  ly 

for  twelve  vholo  monthit;  the  more  pious  tiiey  fcrcj  tiie 
logtier  tbey  are  dclifcrod  from  iC 


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[5^  S.  IL  Oct,  10, 74. 


In  the  Talmud  it  is  written  {Eoih  Hcwc/tanaA, 
foh  17,  1):— 

*<  Sinners,  Inraelites  at  well  as  GentUef,  deBcend  in 
their  own  body  to  Gehenunh,  and  there  for  twelve  months 
suffer  torment  The  body  is  consumed,  and  the  Boal 
reduced  by  fire  to  u«bc5,  whicb  the  wiud  by  itg  own 
blast  puts  under  the  feet  of  the  ri^'bteoua.  As  saitb  tbe 
Prophet  (MftL  iv.  3),  iinnters,  traitor*,  apostates,  &c., 
remain  in  it  for  crer  ;  where  their  worm  meth  not,  and 
their  fire  is  not  (xueuohcd." 

Not  only  the  son  prays  for  the  dedd  every  Sab- 
bath, but  also  tbe  whole  ayna^^ogue,  chbfly  for  those 
who  have  given  much  alms  and  done  good  deeds. 
The  prayer  is  as  follows  : — 

"Kemember,  O  God,  for  good  tbe  aoals  of  Rabbi  N. 
or  Lady  N.,  who  has  pono  into  Jife  eternal,  with  tbe  soul 
of  AbrmbaiD,  Isnac^  and  Jucob  [or  if  it  be  a  woman ^ 
Sarah,  Bebekah,  Hachel  and  Leah],  wbo live  in  Paradise; 
since  K.  N.  or  L.  N.,  bi*  son,  or  bis  neigbbottr,  is  ready 
to  give  04  much  as  hia  intention  woufd  determine,  in 
almsy  or  in  oil  for  the  lamps,  kc^t  for  the  expiation  of 
his  BOul|  and  may  Iua  God  rcmcmlier  for  good ;  may  God 
bestow  on  him  rest,  that  it  may  be  well  with  him,  and 
that  his  soul  may  be  bound  up  in  the  bundle  of  the  living 
in  life  etemah  in  paradise,  under  the  throne  of  ^lory. 
May  he  rise  in  tbe  time  of  the  revival  of  the  dead,  wad 
sing  with  the  rest  who  are  sleeping  in  the  dutt,  as  it  is 
written,  *  Thy  dead  men  sbnil  live,  my  dead  bodies  shall 
rise ;  awake  und  sing,  ye  that  dwell  In  the  dust/  And 
to  N.  bis  son,  or  neighbour,  or  friend,  grant  a  pood  reward^ 
and  a  prosperous  life^,  in  this  world  and  in  tbe  world  to 
come,  Fidfll  tbe  prayers  of  his  heart,  and  of  our  hearts, 
for  good ;  Ml  ay  «at  ration  shortly  spring  up  in  him  and  in 
us.     Thy  will  be  done,  AmenJ 

This  pniyer  is  chilled  *'  The  ^lemorial  of  Souls.^' 
E.  L*  Ble:«kinsopp* 

MtrsTc  TO  "  Macbeth  "  (6**»  S.  i.  486  ;  il  95.) 
— All  the  dictionaries  and  biographies  »|i[iote  from 
one  another,  and  verify  nothing,  so  that  an  incorrect 
assertion  once  made  gets  to  be  believed  from  it«Ki- 
tion.  In  the  Diettonary  of  Miidciatig,  2  vols.  8vo., 
published  by  Messrs.  Sainsbujy  &  Ca,  1824,  it 
suys: — 

**  It  is  well  known  that  Lock  was  the  composer  of  the 
music  to  Shakspeare's  pluys  of  MacheiA  and  The  Tempeit, 
as  altered  by  tSir  William  Davcnant.'* 

Unbickily  it  giveis  uo  date.  In  Haydn's  Uid. 
Biog.j  it  is  said  that  ht?  composed  the  music  for 
Mai'heth  in  1G72,  and  died  in  lfi77.  In  the 
Universal  Bioijraphy  it  s^iys  that  *'  the  time  of  his 
death  is  uncertain/'  Mr.  Chappell,  in  his  Popular 
Music^  &c»,  x>.  479,  eaya  that  the  music  to  Mai^bdk 
was  not  printed  to  Lock^a  lifetime  j  but  in  1666,  in 
Mu^c'i  Ddi'jht^  there  is  a  tune  called  '^Macbetb^ 
**  J^gKj'  ^^^it  ho  is  reported  to  have  comjiosed  the 
music  to  MfJ4:bdk  in  167(1,  i.e.  four  years  later.  As 
to  its  having  been  lost,  not  a  word  is  said.  At  any 
nite,  it  is  only  the  music  of  the  second  act  that 
has  ever  been  attributed  to  Leveridge.  The  music^il 
dictionary  referred  to  above  seem.s  to  consider  that 
this  is  only  a  mistake  made  by  Rowe  in  his  edition 
of  Shakfiiieare,  and  out  of  which  mistake  all  this 
blundering  and   doubt  and  reiteration  of  error 


seems  to  hare  sprung.     Again,  Rowe's  exprc^sioq 
is  that  it  was  "set"  by  Jjeveridge.      Now  thil' 
might  very  well  mean  only  a  transposition 
re-setting  to   suit   the   voice   of  Rome 
singer,  or  even  for  a  part  to  be  sung  1^ , 
for  Leveridge  was  extraordinarily  vain  uf  hla  voiu 
and  oflered  in  173(>  a  wager  of  IfK)  guineas  to  «in 
a  ba^s  song  against  any  man  in  Enghmd.     " 
published  his  pocket  volume  of  songs  in    173 
The  internal  ev^idence  of  those^  I  should  fai 
would  wholly  dispose  of  his  claim  to  Lock's  musie 
He   appe^irs  to  have  been  a   bud   poet,   a  j 
musician,  and  a  coarse  singer.     InX'k  wus  a  1 ' 
musician,  a  pupil  of  Gibbons,  tmA  recognij 
excelling   in   dramatic   music.      One   can 
doubt  who  was  the  real  author.     Jivcobs,  or^ 
of  the  Surrey  Chapel,  re-arranged  the  music 
Macbeth  for  the  voice  and  piano.     C  A.  Ward. 
Mayfair. 

LtTNAR  Rainbows  (5"»  S*  L  427  ;  n.  :j:i ;— Mr. 
Symes  speaks  a  little  too  positively  when  hv 
asserts — 

"  Rainbows,  both  solar  and  lunar,  are  Invariably  dif  (^tlf 
opposite  the  luminary  by  whose  r&ys  they  are  cauftd : 
and  tbe  spectator  necessarily  turns  his  back  to  tbe  joki 
or  moon,  as  tbe  cuse  may  be^  when  looking  full  face  uputi 
the  rainbow.'* 

The  possible  number  of  rainbows  caused  1^  the 
same  min-cloud  is  infinite.  The  two  nc^arest  to 
the  source  of  light,  and  generally  the  brightes^t.  are 
opposite  that  source.  But  the  third  ;*;  '  ' 
are  formed  around  the  source  of  light, 
tinue  thus  in  paira.  The  conditions  ol 
of  the  third  and  fourth  bows  I  will  not  attempt  td 
discuss  in  **N,  &  Q."  For  myself,  I  have  ^tem 
but  two  lunar  rainbows  in  my  life.  Both  tht^ie] 
were  opposite  the  moon.  Jabkz. 

Athenseum  Ctub. 

CORPSKS   ENTOifBED    IN   WaIXS    (5**'   S.  it.  18 

234.) — I  detected  my  blunder  after  it  was  loo  hil^ 
but  I  thank  Mn.  Mtckletiiwaitf.  ull  the  mme, 
He  will  not,  I  hope,  take  it  amiss  if  I  point  out  i 
him  an  **  odd  mistake  which  he  has  nn  '-  '  ' 
He  says,  in  the  eotirhtsion  of  his  first  j 
**  Bede  speaks  not  of  a  coffin  in  the  ini.  .i 
wall,  but  of  a  wall  in  the  middle  of  a  coJHu" 
italics  are  mine.  Wliat  can  be  meant  **  liy  a  i*ti 
in  the  middle  of  a  coffin  ^'  ?  What  Bede  says 
this:  **  Utraque  in  una  theca  aed  medio  pariet 
divisarechidens"— two  corpses  buried  in  one  grav 
but  divided  by  a  partition  wall ;  not  **  u  wall  ' 
the  middle  of  a  coffin,"  which  is  nonsense,  bnt  I 
wall  between  two.  Edmitxd  Tiiw,  ^LA* 

Mrs.  Skrrks  (5«^  S.  ii.  141,  177,  SiaV— 1 
Mr.  TnoMS  is  on  this  subject,  I  ho;     ^ 
it  with  the  thoroughness  he  gcni 
what  h«  undertakes,  and  give  us  a  ii?i    •!  ^viirjtjj 
about  the  "  Princess  "  as  well  a&  by  licr.    In   * 


6"  8.  n.  Oct.  10, 7*.) 


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I 


Britl&h  Museum  h  the  following  work :  I7i^ 
Wronf/s  of  the  Prin^t$ji  Olive  of  CHmb€rland^  by 
Eliziibctli  Wright  Macaulay,  London,  1833,  8vo. 

Olphab  Hamst, 

[Mb.  Cbk.  CToocb  itatea  tbat  this  peraon,  about  Mtr 
yeftrft  «mc«.  wrote  ftevenU  astrological  ariickf,  which 
were  publiihed  bj  Raphael  in  hUAitrtUocertkc,  signing 
lier  naiue   aa  *'  Uiive,   PrinccHa  of  CamWrland."    Mlt. 

r  Coo  ft  £  WW  infonaed  bj  the  lato  Commander  Morriaon, 

f  JK.N.»  UtMt  he  powMBflied  her  horoflcope,  and  that;» 
l^eving  the  ctaiind  of  her  daughter,  JjaTinin,  in  he  Jast, 
he  prtpftrod  her  Appmlfor  RotfaUy,  lak  li^fiS,  selecting 

\  doeomentf  from  the  Morning  Po$(,  kc.^  for  this  purpoise, 

I  before  the  ie^  proceedings  occurred  J 

"Taking  a  Sight''  (5**^  S.  ii.  166»  234,  255.)— 
The  crriginal  of  Db,  Dixon's  cjuotation^^ — memoriier 
— of  a  jwutsage  "in  one  of  the  Latin  drnnmtists, 
either  Terence  or  PkutUB,"  is  given  in  the  Fseu- 
dolus  of  Plautus,  Act  iv.  sc.  7,  i  46  (edition  Wetse), 
aa  foUowB:^ — 

"  Atqu«  in  banc  ictende  digitimi ;  hie  leno  etst.'* 

From  the  subjoined  qiiotationsy  it  will  be  seen 
that  the  middle  finger— hence  called  "  famosus " 
(aB  the  third  was  called  *'  mcdicusj''  or  **  medic  in  [ili.s/* 
from  its  supposed  unatomiail  connexion  with  the 
lieart) — used  to  be  jjointed  as  a  token  of  insult 
And  contempt,  and  the  /or«-tinger,  **  Index,"  to 
direct  attention  to  some  notable  person  or  thing  :— 

1.  Isivi.  Iviii.  9— 
'  If  tboti  take  away  from  the  tnidtt  of  thee  ....  the 

finiting  forth  of  the  finger" 

2.  Juv.  Sat,  X.  53— 

••  Mediumque  ostenderet  ungueoi:" 

3.  Mart.,  Lib.  ii,,  Epig.  28,  1|  2— 

**  Kideto  muUum    ........ 

iJixerit,  et  dlgitum  porrigito  medium." 
(CI  Lib.  vL,  Epig.  70,  5,  *'  ostendit  digituni/') 

4.  Pere.  ii.  33— 

*'  lafuni  digito  et  luitralibtu  ante  s&liris.*' 
1*  Per^.  Sat.,  I  28— 

^*  At  imlcrum  digito  monfltrari  et  dioie>r  '  bio  «■! ! '  ^* 
Hor.  4,  Camt,  iiL  21-22— 
**  Totttzn  niiineriH  hoc  tui  eat ; 

Quod  moMttor  digito  praetereuntinm.** 
S«   At  ft   feast,  to    point   out    any    unnoticed 
loothflouie  diJihes  (Hor.  2,  SaL  vVil  25,  2«) — 
**  Nomcntaauft  ad  hoe,  <^ui  »i  t]\nd  forte  lateret 
Indk-G  uionitraret  digito/' 

I  Would  submit,  however,  that  us  no  allusion  m 
in  any  of  these  p^issogeB  to  putii^t^  tfu 
to  tht  noiif,  neither  to  the  tip  nor  yet  t^  the 

,-;,j..    ,t'  Mv.    ,..,..-.    •i.T  . -nnot  even  freely 
tic  'if  a  iightJ*    The 

jKa-  he-  *n  rendered, 

%f  ■    'ii,ui  li    .in    >  ..[ujexion 

H,    B.   PURTOK. 

XiiLL  i^MTiyo  (5»*S.  i.  1S2,  274^  312,  455.)— 
The  I  wo  buDads,  "Wedneabury   Cocking"   and 


**Diirlaston   Bull-bait,"  were  written  by  a  Mr. 
Probyn,  a  gun-maker  at  Birmingham.     H.  S.  G* 


NOTES  OK  BOOKS,  ito. 
NOTES  FROM  THE  OCTOBER  PERIODICALS. 
Thk  N*»  Quarterly  Magazine  has  its  aaual  attractiva 
variety  of  fact  and  fiction.  ^Ir.  Latouche,  in  his  **  Notes 
of  Tra?el  in  Portugal/'  conununioates  a  fact  which  maj 
not  be  widely  known.  *'  The  Christian  era  wm  not  in 
general  use  in  Portugal  till  about  the  middle  of  the  fif- 
teenth century.  Till  then,  the  Portuguese  unially 
reckoned  from  the  conquest  of  the  Peninsula  by  the 
Romans,  b.c?.  33.  .  .  .  In  all  dates  on  Foriii  uu- 

mentfl  or  charters  before  1470  or  1480,  u  is 

apparent  reason  against  it,  it  is  safe  to    i  rty- 

cight  vearfl/* — In  the  Cornhilt  (besides  that  power- 
ful and  thoroughly  original  novels  •*  Far  from  the  Mad> 
ding  Crowd"'),  there  ia  a  brief  paper  on  ''FormoBa,'* 
which  contains  as  much  information  as  many  a  volume. 
One  Formoaan  regulation  will  startle  some  readers, 
namely,  "  the  law  vi^hieh  provides  that  no  child  bom  bo* 
fore  its  mother  has  reached  the  age  of  thirty^seven  shall 
be  allowed  to  lire/' — From  ever-amuBing  Temple  Bar  ytt 
gather  that  the  librarv  of  many  thougand  volumes  left 
t»y  Kapok  on  1.  to  the  people  of  JKlba  as  a  free  library  is 
in  a  wretched  condition.  **  Numbers  of  volumes  hftTe 
been  lost,  others  are  so  wcrmenten  and  otherwise  in* 
jured  as  to  t>e  unreadable ;  they  are  now  left  to  moulder 
on  their  flhelved,  no  one  being  allowed  to  read,  or  even^ 
unless  by  special  fjirour,  to  see  them." — Macmi/lan 
would  be  eagerly  read,  wore  it  only  for  Profes^njr  Huiley  s 
article  on  *'  Priestley."  There  is  one  point  in  it  well 
worth  noting  ;— **  Though  Priestley  did  not  belicTe  in 
the  natural  immortality  of  man,  he  held,  with  nn  almost 
jiaiife  realiitm,  that  man  would  bo  raised  from  the  dead 
by  a  direct  exertion  of  the  power  of  God,  and  thence- 
forward be  iraraortaL"  iVof.  Uuxley  quotes  puMSges 
from  Archbishop  Whately  tind  from  Bishop  Courtenay 
(Kingston^Jumivica)  toKhowthnt  the  opinionshcldby  those 
prela  tt!s  were  $ub:< U n  tial  ly  ide  n  tlcal  with  those  of  Pri^tley. 
The  Uit  named,  among  other  reforms,  ndvocAted  that  of 
the  *' Thirty-Nine  Articles"  by  removing  thirty-eight 
of  them  t  **  It  is  a  reproach,"'  he  said^  ""'to  any  Chris- 
tian establishment  if  every  man  cannot  claim  the  benefit 
of  it  who  can  say  that  he  believes  in  the  religion  of 
Jesas  Christ  as  it  is  set  forth  in  the  New  Testament." — 
The  Popular  Sdenci  Remeio  lias  a  capital  article  lyn 
**  The  Song  of  Fishes,"  by  Mr.  Galton.— The  *SL  Jamti'tt 
Magasint  tempts  it5  readers  by  a  yery  interesting  article, 
"  Leigh  Hunt  and  Dr.  Soutbwbod  Smyth/'  by  Mr.  S,  H. 
T.  May*3r.  From  this  we  make  a  note  of  a  fact  recorded 
in  a  letter  from  Dr.  South  wood  8myth  to  Leigh  Himt,  who 
had  attended  or^e  of  the  great  physician^s  leoturea^  in 
which,  says  Mr.  Mayer,  "he  desired  to  give  women  an  en- 
lightened knowledge  of  the  laws  of  health,  and  a  deter- 
mination to  pay  them  a  rroHonable  obedience,"  Dr. 
Smyth's  letter  I*  du ted  in  18^2.  **  Several  years  ago/'  ho 
sayt^  **I  gave  tho  first  Ici^ture  that  had  ever  been 
delivered  on  such  a  subjict  in  I^trndon.  Now  the  ladies 
form,  I  think,  half  the  nudicnce."— The  most  Mrioofl 
j»rticli?  in  tbf*  S\  .^'t...irV.i,  |,v  M^it^r  Kvtin?  P>fl!,  on 
-  V       .  ■    ,      ,  :.  ij,^^^ 

p,..  it 

V  i  ut 

pu,      .      .  ......    dc- 

FCripUL'n  .[  ii^-toiA,  t'v  ji  Ui^lnriuti,  t„hfiK-ly,  ^  Mr. 
Froude ,— **  It  often  s-ctm*  to  me  ms  if  lii^tat^  v.«&\SiA  "^ 


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[5»»S,IL  Oct.  10,74. 


child's  box  of  leiiere*  vtith  Ti-bich  you  can  pt><?)I  nnr  words 
you  pleitie.     Wc  hare  only  to  pick  ciiit  surt  wc 

want,  arrftnge  them  a;  we  like,  und  :si*}  (  it 

ibcmivbich  do  not  suit  us."    A  curirms   -      ,  Ik- 

lore  comes  to  UB  from  an  arttele  on  "  Present  iJustouiA  in 
j^outb  Germany,"  wbich  la  «ipprnpr!»te  to  tbi*  scAson  : — 
"  In  many  placeg,  tbe  Batter  lea-  '  '  ^  t  of  corn 
standinjif  in  the  field,  ami  the  t;  .  on  the 

tree.      '  Tliat  is  for  Wo<len,  f «  ^  he  j^nys 

myffterioiiflly,  when  questioned,  ll  thm  ati  uf  piety  be 
nrglected,  the  grouna  or  tree  whence  all  has  been  taken 
will  bovr  no  fruit  next  ye»r/'~-VVe  coucltide  \riih  a  word 
of  warm  praife  for  the  2i!nd  Part  of  Old  and  N^nt 
Ltmdon  (CajiicU,  Petttr  it  Galpin).  Tlie  illiistrationji 
nlnne  are  worth  all  tbe  money.  Tbi«  niim1:>er  keepa  us 
in  and  about  Newiu'^ate.  We  supplement  Mr.  Thorn- 
bury  s  ajccount  of  the  once  famous  Dr*  Sacheverell  by 
itatiiig  that  we  recently  met  with  an  account  (f  the 
arret t  of  a  boyish  malefactor  of  tbe  old  Jacobite  period^ 
vrho  bore  ^e  b«ptiflroal  namet  of  **  Doctor  So/chevertU 

TramiatioM  from  ike  RahxyU  AhduU4it  (Bin-  Ahdui- 
kufitir),  Munthi.  With  Comroenti  by  J.  T.  Thcwason, 
F^K.G  S.,  Author  of  Some  OlimpuM  itdo  Lift  in  (Ae 
Far  EatU  ^c.  (H.  S.  King  &  Co  ) 
AiiTiULLA,  it  Appears,  wot  a  Mabomedan  and  a  British 
^uVtject,  Ijoni  in  Malacca  in  Yi\i*l.  '*  He  hod  the  vignurr'* 
to  quotf  Mr.  Thomson's  own  words,  "and  priJe  of  the 
Arab,  llie  perseverance  and  subtil ty  of  the  Hindoo ;  in 
languMge  and  nation&l  qrmpathy  only  was  ba  a  Malay. 
But  the  translotions  will  better  illustrate  tbe  man, 
modified  undoubtedly  a#  h'la  cbnractcr  waa  by  contact 
with  superior  Eunjpenn  and  Aiuericnn  intellecta,  eueh 
as  Kafiles,  Mibif;  and  North.'*  Abdulla  baring  been 
persuaded  by  a  friend  to  compile  hjs  autobiography,  we 
here  hare  toe  result,  thanks  to  Mr.  Thomson,  who  so 
far  back  as  184^3  undertook  tbe  onerous  ta^k  of  presenting 
it  in  a  readable  shape  to  the  British  public,  but  was 
compelled,  from  rnrioua  c&uBes,  to  delay  the  commence- 
ment. For  tbiij  delay  wo  are  tjuite  compeniiated  by  the 
much  fuller  notes  that  the  translator  has  been  able  to 
give  at  the  end  of  each  chapter.  Tbe  character  gi?en 
of  Colonel  Ffkrquhar,  as  being  **sJow  at  faultfindings 
haTing  an  i^qual  bearing  to  poor  as  well  as  to  rich, 
'  holding  neither  tbe  one  lower  nor  the  other  highert" — 
the  observation  that  Sir  T.  Stamford  RafUc8/ao  well 
known  for  bis  anxioas  desire  to  advance  the  welfare  of 
the  native  population,  was  courteous  alike  to  European t 
and  natives^  only  prove,  if  proof  were  needed,  "  how  un- 
feigned and  unfalliti}:  esteem  may  be  genemted  in  the 
native  mind  by  jui<t  conduct  and  refined  manners." 
There  is  a  capital  account  of  an  elephant  hunt ;  and 
altogether  Mr.  Thomson  has  contrived  to  give  us  a  most 
amu.«>ing  and  interesting  book;  consequently  we  look 
forward  to  the  appearance  of  "  tbe  remaining  untrana^ 
lated  portions/' 

'*  FrR  MARTm'*  (pp.  248,  260}*  W.  G.  ronmrks. "should 
he  *  free  martin/  a  female  twin  calf,  which  is  barren.  See 
Bewick's  Natural  Oitlory  of  Qifadrvptd^,  which  notices 
this  fact.  The  meaning  of  tbe  rqiitbet  is  obviously 
tincomplimcutary  to  tbe  ladjr  singer, "—R,  G.  (Aberdeen) 
writes  ^  "  I  have  heard  the  word  used  as  ooe  of  vulgar 
abuse/* 

William  Jekdak,— Our  old  correspondent,  tbe  Risv. 
JoHK  PrcKFORD,  M.A.,  Tcctor  of  >'o*vbourne,  Suffolk, 
infonoft  us  that  a  tombstone  has  reCL-ntlv  been  erected 
in  the  churchyard  of  Rusheyf  in  Hertfonwhlre,  over  the 
grave  of  William  Jerdsn^  at  whoie  funeral  he,  as  an  old 
friend,  ofBciAted  some  years  ago.  There  is  upon  the  one 
ff/dn  ihff  fo}iowiBg  iJiBcnpiion,  in  Roman  capitals:  "Wil- 


liam Jerdan,  F.aA,,  bom  at  Kelso,  April  1^.  17*?,  dtfd  < 
at  Eushevt  Julv  17,   ISfiO.      Founder  of 
GatttU,  and  its' Editor  fur  U  Year*," 
'•Erected  as  a  Tribute  to  bis  Metimrv 
and  Associates  in  the   Society  of  -li." 

William  Jer^lan  was  tip  to  the  last  u  iiof  I 

to  our  coluni  1 1         '      ' '  '  *  h —  4 

the  place  y\ .  ,  'mt,  I 

He  was  the  :  xtut\ 

tbe  tatter  bad  gLotjMr.  PerctiiVHt,  tbe>  l^riuie  3iuu*ier,  uij 
the  lobby  of  tbe  Honse  of  Commons,  181  i. 

*'  BAEnY  Cornwall,"  Ie««  widely  ■  "     T 

Waller   Procter,  is  the  most  proTi 
week's  obitu»«ry.     This  poet  of  a  i  u. .      .  _ 
school  vras  born  eighty- five  years  ago,  at  the 
out  of  the  great  French  Revolution,  which  \a. 
gress. 

BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  FtTRCBJUe. 

Ihtrtlrufart  of  Prfor,  *o.,  of  t^wrr  tfook  to  t>#  teat  dlffcel  la  lie 
p<T»nD  bj  wtHtm  it  Jii  r«iiulnKi,  «h4»e  it*nte  tud  stklraM  aft  lIVM 
for  ih%%  pturpo**  ;— 

ArtLiMuV  HcsootUIb  of  Clt jtou  familf.    ISar. 
Aut.UiX4ir«V  Tow  of  Ei3Kli«h  F^ket     INSl, 
Af  ucnorr^i  Acoouot  of  Li<n«n  CUurcb.    JQIP, 
BmADFOKD't  (John)  £x&mlu»LJob  httttt  V^  Lord  CliUMMtlor. 
Collie  Mil  (Joel)  Mtuie^t  TrmTrlr    IBIB. 
01.4  til  fc'i  S«rv«y  of  Kuf  1  kli  Lain  es.    178?, 

Wanted  \fj  luteal. -CM.  FitimiUk^  Oftcr  Hal.  RocMata 


^atirrtf  to  Carrr^ponQnttf, 

J.  B.  refers  to  a  report  tlmt  tbe  mi«tT<s«ii,  and  sob- 
sequently  wife.  t>f  Tnileyrand,  the  I'  '  '  decile prt* 
vbusly  known  as  Mrs,  Grant*  or  <  i  l*e  widow 

of  Lieut.  Symes,  who  died  1786,  ft  1  la  Mao- 

Chester.  Prcviotie  to  this  lant  dutf,  the  lady  was,  hi 
India,  the  wife  of  M.  Grant  Francis  admired  her  then 
in  1778.    She  came  to  Europe,  made  thr  ♦ja« 

of  Talleyrand,  lived  with  him,  was  divoi  r,iot 

in  17l'S,  and  married  to  Talleyrand  at  tl  the 

10th  Arrondieaement  in  Paris  in  18i)2.    ^  w  is 

Raid  to  have  been  an    EngUehwoman   <  ifa«d 

Counties.  Mndiime  Grant  wa^  born  at  Ti..l.^,^«. .  ..v^  and 
was  of  FlecDLsh  descent.  We  do  not  see  how  she  can  be 
identified  with  the  vridow  of  Lieut.  Symea, 

El>.  3lARgnALL.  —  "John  Wcfley's  Abridgment  dt 
Thomas  k  Kempis'' (d"-  a  »i.  2m>K    Mit.  F/8cTtniig 

WiiiTK  writer:— *■  My  copy  <jf '^       ' ^ 

to  tend  to  Mr.  Maiuhi a Ll^ 
communication  with  me,  but  ^ 
rather  too  long  to  copy." 

J.  P.  asks  for  the  title  of  some  work  Ukely  to  prove 
practical   worth  and  interest  to  an  intending 
sc>j(>uruer  at  Tangier  who  has  never  been  tn  Ji^ 
before. 

EniuTnii.-'Piige  265«  ooL  3,  ninth  liBeftom 
for  "  usual "  read  iw^tt/* 

KOTICK, 

Editorial  Communications  should  be  addrased  to  "  Tba 
Editor  "—Advertisements  and  Ba»ioeiia  Letttrs  to  *^lli*J 
Publbher  "—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  Stfvet,  i^tnad  J 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  coin*  { 
munications  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print ;  and  J 
to  this  mle  wc  can  make  no  exception. 

To  all  commnnic&tions  should  be  affixed  thir  nuM  ttidf 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pabUcatloii,  bui 
as  a  guaraateo  of  good  faith. 


!  be  hapyy 
ii^lf  into 
:  wiiltea  ii 


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*0ox  «4  tu^^s  r.  oeftiBt»  tr.  M9H. 


CONTB5IT8.-5»  «2. 


iM  "^ttlWIMOll*  Wk 


fLwmyvuntt  Poem— SoAdfty  Sb^vtag— TlUi  lidt 
iIm -^  **  pTov1d»ikc«  on  the  Side  of  th«  Oriftl 
'— &  CtaaOikl— Oowiilmrtiaiii  on  ih«  M«rrlM« 
iain>whrtiii<,  ITTft:  McmnMsr,  307— Artkw 
|li«s— "Bonragkrteimh  *"  -^  l>nrii«M  of  Ma^ 

olftw  «fid  EAdtior  BikroQlw^  90a-^KJf«c&  of  SUn 
vt**— JUtar  Kills  Covered-AltDf  punm,  30». 

HaU,  Wreh.  Aod  aalt  W<w1b.  9M»-«itrre7  Pro- 
P«litMto  ol  NobWlgr  to  IforalcMn,  912 -Privy 
ipiMDt:  li4dda  ".  WatUttoo.  SU^ifox-hiiat^ 
inaiB  Chtirdi  Bells-^PtoaBBK^Aitoo— **  Am  Soaad 
■••^R  J.  BeUuft— Bunyui's  Gold  Riii|— 
I  Widow/*  31i— QQotationi  Wimted— Tenartoa't 
Fkir  Wnaea' —  WollBiion'i  *'R«tiRk»9  erf  Naim« 
'— y.  K.  R  T.«  Sl«— JVuotoon'i  SMllolilal  W»|«r- 
ilv  Tteww  — Sir  mdkBi4.  FhJlliiM  tud  Hm 
Mtatftgfn«''—«cot»  Qgt^*^**  Hie  ltb«r  mI,*'  Ac— 
riMlaB  Haiaes  —  AxcbbAi^iaii  Uaivvtioo  —  A 
n*  Miue^  S10— Dominkftla,  SJ7— Roj*l  Heads 
Imic  of  tbe  *'  Cwmacndb  "— Tbo  TemplArv  aihI 
1^**  iMndvr  of  tbir  Fftilb  "-^akxUiif  Lltenture 
HlrtBiT  af  tte  C6iirt  of  AnJAod,**  sm 


^  ffftftf. 

KjSWUfUU  HOREOX. 

HjAtift  fpiiifiditiona  of  m&u  of  scieoos 
^p  foiiils  of  tJii»  globe,  waidua^  for 

^mfy  b«oomiog  to  bring  forwMd  the 
I  latirmliire  farmet'g  son,  who  was  born 
I  of  J«]a«0  2^  And  who^  io  the  reign  of 
Mim  Cweldii^wilaeaMd,  ind  detcribed 
fDMtMll^  to  heboid  whiob,  in  the  reign 

^ience  has  gone  forth  with  a  pomp 
fty  which  contrast  smgularly  with  the 
1  tmd  the  simpk  means  in  the  little 

his  poor  lodging- houi«  ftt  Hoole,  near 

im^ool  atotaon,  near  wheie  the  bfook  »ri 
0  mto  the  MenseT,  w  the  site  of  the 
^ich  Jeremiah  Horrox  waa  born,  in 
,  Fteton,  in  hh  MtviCrUds  of  Limrpooly 
Ji  veMon,  this  date  to  the  coinmonij' 
Dfi  of  161  9l  The  cottage  ir^  Bwept 
It  oooiUwston  of  the  Runcorn  niilir&f, 
it  m\s*}it  liA-vi;  been  at  thi^  jimotiifte  the 
vbich  i^vtronomens  and  ujathettilidAiis 
B   raortod   -*' ♦^     .  ...  .»ui   ^iff^^r.^^^ 

Q  faauer'' 

m  liovw  Lut.^-    ,..-:.......  .\.i«^.,  .,,uid 

oaurtgr  oducation    to    his  ison.     Hut 


Jcremiuh  hAYing  Icumt  wh&t  conld  be  taught  at  a 
YiUieo  school^  i4K)k  tlie  stjurnr  world  for  hi3  lxHftk» 
asd  amdioii  the  heavens.  He  was  bom  ti  inafeh»- 
nuitieh' :  :  i  u  are  bi^^m  poote.     Urn  mtm^ 

tered  I  in  early  youth  had  Mod  hJa 

mind  uim  n.c  i.  rumcr  truths  and  IdeoA  he  foaad 
in  iW  Lutln  i:r»uti^*«  <j1'  Loneabeiig,  Tyeho  Bcuhi^ 
aad  K«[]ivr  At  the  axe  of  iftoen^  that  is,  in  1632, 
Horrox  wan  to  bo  ^tn*  a  humble,  self-den yiag, 
deep-9e<trching  aizar  ut  Euimanuel  Cotlege^  Uiuu- 
bridge.  He  was  soon  In  cQEroepondeooe  with  tha 
kadiag  aetioooisiexit  roathiMnaticiiiDg,  and  geoii>»- 
Irteiana  of  the  day,  and  aotahlj  with  Ahnham 
Ch^afatree.  On  leaving  Cambridge,  Hortox  entered 
into  Holy  Orders,  and  was  appointed  to  the  cumcy 
of  HooW,  about  eight  miles  from  PrestoiL  It  U 
said  that  the  fact  of  Horrox  beJag  ordained  and 
appoiDteii  to  this  curacy  was  only  discovered  by 
the  bite  Prof.  Rigaud.  la  the  seomtioa  of  Hooliv 
Horrox  studied  the  aatronomtcal  tablei  0f  tht 
great  teaohe»  in  aetroaoii^,  a«d  he  found  liboti 
not  to  his  mind*  AaoOflWiiljr,  he  ihaped  rude 
inalnunente^simple,  aknoat  t^lihe^far  MmBelfy 
and  he  made  his  own  obeervations,  and  found 
(what  a  And  for  the  unknown  farmer's  boy  !)  a 
niiscalcuhitlon  in  that  acute  calculator,  Ke^ii&r, 
As  the  orbits  of  Metoury  and  Vemia  ai«  bolween 
the  Earth'g  orbit  and  the  Bun,  theae  planele  eoea- 
■ionally,  but  very  rarely  —  thrice  in  a  oonnle  of 
hundied  years,  perhnpa— pais  between  the  Karth 
and  the  Sun,  and  thue  seem  (o  travel  acron  the 
8nn^  disc.  Kepler  had  foielold  the  transit  of 
¥ew  for  sometime  in  1691 ;  Horrox,  alter  long 
study,  fixed  the  event  for  Kowinber  24, 163&  He 
communicated  with  Crabtree,  and  tequealed  hot 
co-o|>eration.  For  what  took  pUoe  in  the  pawon's 
fittle  parloui-  at  Hoole,  we  tum  to  a  page  in  Mr. 
Eapinanse  a  Lancatkire  Worthtu : — 

"  As  the  time  drew  nigh,  Horroeks  was  all  anxiety  and 
expeetatioti,  aa4»  to  make  aMafanee  doubly  mre,  he 
befMi  te  mOeh  on  the  finaooon  of  tho  23rd.  His  simple 
apfaiataa  wu  a  tekteope  a^juatod  to  an  apertire  nwda 
Lq  a  darkcoed  room,  so  that  the  imaipe  of  the  saa  should 
fall  perpendicularly  on,  and  eiaotly  til,  a  circle  of  about 
UJL  Litcuei  m^cribed  on  u  piecs  of  paper,  and  divided  into 
the  ufual  390  degreei.  In  hit  fntereftfn^  little  Latin 
tract,  the  Vmm  ta  ioU  vi#<t»  lywrflowiog  with  a  beautiful 
eaikusiaam,  a  poetry  and  (genaifie  devotocl»SMS,  which 
give  it  a  iingakr  cbiariQ,  Ilorroclu  has  doscribsd  what 
Mras  Keni  or  at  Iea»t  ob««rred,  by  oo  eyes  but  hie  own 
and  Crabtrec'a  From  noon  on  the  23rd,  so  long  as  the 
van  vra»  above  the  faorison,  he  watched  for  four  and 
twenty  hours  with  oafy  «at,  and  that  one  a  dgiiiieaBil» 
iirtanaiision.  In  leS^,  the  2Alh  of  £tc»vemher  fall  an  a 
jjuadav.  and  he  duerlhes  hlmiclf  as  watching  on  that 
day. '  from  sunrise  t«  nine  o'clock,  aail  alio  from  a  little 
bciure  ten  until  Tioon,  and  at  one  in  tli«  afternoon,  being 
called  away  In  Ibe  intervals  to  matters  of  greater  ho- 
whioh  finraudh  eaeondary  oeeapatioao it  voaM 


Ce  oettainly  bcea  bnpre^  to  aagiecl  joMm  iaaeerrffcai 
fiecii.it),''    In  pojai  of  fact  the  IUy>  Jarsmiah  Horrocki 


had  to  pcrfb'rm  morning  and  aflemoon  service  to  his 
limple  and  scanty  flock  m  the  nwisi4  cburcb  or  chav^l 


fOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[S'^S,  ILOer.lT,7i. 


at  Hoole  :  and^  for  once  in  bia  Ufe,  it  m*j  be  siupectedf 
he  vas  a  little— a  rery  little— ^la(i  when  both  were  DTer, 
and  he  could  rush  bAck  to  hia  darkened  room,  with  ita 
teletcope  and  disc  of  paper,  *  At  fifteen  minutes  pait 
ibree  iu  the  aftemooti;,  wo  en  I  first  had  leiwre  again  to 
renew  my  obserration^,  the  cloudi  were  entirely  diA- 
peraed,  and  invited  my  willing  self  to  make  use  of  the 
opportunity  afforded^  it  might  aeem  by  the  interposition 
of  liearen.  When  lo  I  I  behdd  a  most  delightful  spectacle, 
the  object  of  bo  many  wiahes :  a  new  spot  of  unuiual 
magnitude,  and  of  a  perfectly  circular  shape,  so  com- 
pletoly  entering  the  left  limb  of  the  sun  that  the  limbs 
of  the  sun  and  the  spot  precisely  coincided,  forming  an 
angle  of  contact.  Not  doubtiDf?  that  tbis  was  really  the 
shadow  of  Venus,  I  immediately  set  to  work  to  obserre 
it  fleduloualy.'  The  happy  Horrocks  was  reward^,  and 
for  half  an  hour,  until  the  aun  began  to  aet,  he  made  hia 
unique  and  fruitful  obeerrationa," 

Soon  aft^r,  in  1640^  this  now  honoured  Hon  of 
Science  died.  He  hiid  done  enough  ;  he  had  cor- 
rected Kepler,  and  his  Lheory  of  limar  motion  was 
afterwards  adopted  by  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  Strangely 
enough,  the  poor  Hoole  curators  ohaervations  re- 
specting the  transit  of  Yenua  were  not  publiBhcd 
till  long  after  his  death*  and  then  at  Divntzic^ — 
"  Vmiit  in  ioU  in^a,  anno  1639^  d>  24  Novemk 
St.  F.  Liverpohffij  a  Jeremia  Horroxio  ;  nunc 
priroum  edita,  notisque  illustrata.    Dantzig.    FoL 

The  church  at  Hoole  contains  a  hraaa  and  eaet 
window  in  honour  and  to  the  lastiDg  memory  of 
tbia  pioneer  through  astronomical  problems.  The 
window  represents  him  receiving  the  SuE*a  disc  on 
a  sheet,  with  the  motto,  "  Venua  in  sole  visa,'*  and 
hiR  own  exchimatioo,  "  Ecce  gratissinTum  specta- 
cnlum  ct  tot  votonim  materiem!"  An  epitaph 
on  this  true  Lancashire  worthy  has  been  already 
printed  in  ''  N.  &  Q./'  p.  205. 

Five  years  after  the  puhlication  at  Dantzic  of 
the  observations  mude  hy  Horrox,  Casaini  dis- 
covered the  diurnal  rotation  of  Venus.  In  the 
following  century,  Moakelyne,  an  old  West- 
minater  and  Cambridge  man,  and,  like  Horrox,  in 
orders,  observed  the  transit  of  Venus,  from  a 
station  in  the  island  of  St.  Helena^  In  June,  1761, 
Mo«keIyne  was  then  Astronomer  Royal.  In  1769, 
Cooke  landed  in  Otaheite,  from  the  **  Endeavour," 
at  the  head  of  an  expedition,  the  cost  of  which 
waa  defrayed  by  deorge  III.  The  transit  mn 
great  risk  of  going  unobserved,  for,  the  day  before>| 
the  natives  stole  the  quadrant,  and,  while  the 
planet  was  passing,  the  s^iilors  stole  a  hundred- 
weight of  nails ^  and  caused  a  dangerous  riot. 
After  the  lapse  of  more  than  another  century,  the 
transit  is  to  be  observed  with  a  sort  of  pomp  and 
state  of  Science  ;  as,  no  doubt,  will  that  of  1882. 
But  the  pomp,  the  state,  and  the  results  cannot 
draw  us  away  from  a  sympathizing  memory  with 
the  yoimg  lonely  Lanaishire  clergyman,  and  the 
revelation  for  which  he  watched  so  anxiously,  yet 
confidently,  on  the  November  Sunday,  1639,  in  that 
humble  chamber  in  the  village  of  Hoole,       Ed, 


JOHN  CLAEB,  THE  NORTH  AM  PTONSH  IBB 
POET, 

I  here  publish  a  copy  of  a  letter  wntteii  hj  this 
poet  to  ilr.  Joseph  Weston,  the  editor  of  the 
literary  remains  of  Robert  Bloomfield,  author  of 
The  Farmcr^s  Boy,  The  autograpih  copy  now  in 
my  possession  consists  of  three  pages  foolscap  : — 

"  Helpfitone.  Maitsh  7, 1821 
**  Dear  Sir,— In  uiiwer  to  yours  of  tb«  third,  I  mm.  tony 
to  say  that  I  poseeaa  but  little  of  the  correepondiaiee  of 
my  departed  *  brother  bard  * ;  what  I  do  pomem  yoa  an 
welcome  to,  and  as  to  my  letters  to  him  jon  may  do 
witb  them  just  aa  you  please.  I  deeply  reerei  that  01 
health  proTented  our  correspondence,  for  I  lo^ed  tht 
man  and  admired  bis  genius,  1  had  been  lo&g  anzioot 
to  make  a  journey  to  spend  a  day  with  liim,  and  on  my 
Be4Tond  Tisit  to  London  I  intended  to  have  stopped  ftt 
Biggleswade  on  my  return  home*  bat  I  had  got  too  near 
the  bottom  of  my  puree  for  a  stoppage  on  the  rtAd,  and 
it  was  too  great  ii  didtunoe  for  me  to  walk  home.  Thiir 
with  other  matters,  prerented  me  from  feeing  liim,  aD4, 
one  of  my  family  being  ill,  I  hastened  my  rettim  boms^ 
WhiiteTer  causes  bis  friends  may  hare  to  regret  \ai 
death,  fame  is  not  one  of  them,  for  he  died  ripe  forta- 
mortality;  had  he  written  nothinii?  but  jRickard  vd 
KfUf,  th&t  fine  picture  of  rursl  life  is  sufficient  toe*- 
tiibU^h  his  name  as  the  English  Theocritua,  and  firel  of 
rural  bards  in  this  country.  And  as  Paabion  (thtf 
feehle  subetitute  for  Fame)  tad  nothing  to  do 
exaltation,  its  neglect  cannot  affect  hii  mesM 

built  on  a  more  solid  foundatioo*  and  time  will 

owti  reward  to  the  farmer's  boy.  I  beg  you  wiO 
the  kindneaa  to  take  car^  of  the  fnanuserif>t^  and  n 
it  when  you  have  done  with  it,  as  I  wish  to  preserre  ^ 
Bcr&p  of  his  handwriting.  The  copy  on  the  other  mUt 
is  A  note  that  acoompftnied  his  present  of  3f o^-dty  «>iJtl 
the  MuMti;  I  gave  the  original  to  Allan  Ctuifsui|:!iiD, 
the  poetf  who  has  a  high  respect  for  Bloomfield's  gmi^ 
and  whose  request  on  that  account  (to  possen  a  temp 
of  his  writing)  I  was  proud  and  happy  to  gratify.  Soon 
after  the  poet*B  deaths  I  wrote  in  a  melaueholy  feeHf^ 
three  sonnets  to  his  memory.  I  was  not  aware  thut  tiif 
Rtinaim  would  hare  had  such  insertions,  or  I  thoulil 
ha^e  sent  them  to  his  daughter  I  will  fill  this  sitegt. 
with  them  for  your  perusal,  though  I  expect  thej  n 
find  a  place  in  the  volume  now  in  the  press  that  will 
published  this  S^pring.  Wtth  my  best  withes  tliat  JO 
friendly  labours  for  the  memory  of  tho  d«ptrtad  pM^ 
may  meet  with  the  success  they  deserro, 
•*  1  remiun, 

"  Yoan  wry  faithfully, 
*'Mr,  Joseph  Weston,  **  Johk  Cuhi-" 

"  12,  PfovidcTice  Kow, 
^'  Finabury  S(|uare, 
"  London." 

Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Bloomfdd,  aeoompomyittf  i 
" Mayday  fdih  M<  Mum$^** 
"  Shefford',  Bedfordshire,  May  3rd«  ISSSL  i 
*'  Neighbour  John,— If  we  were  still  nearer  neighbor^ 
I  would  see  you.  and  thank  you  personally  for  ili«  l 
volumes  of  your  poems  sent  me  so  long  ago.    1 
with  such  labour  and  difficulty,  that  I  cannot  rvi 
to  praise  or  discriminate  like  a  cnCic,  but  must  tuolf  m 
you  have  given  ns  great  pleasure. 

'*  I  beg  your  acceptance  of  my  just  pu 
Toltime,  and,  sick  and  ill  as  I  continually  IV 
you  heartily  in  your  exclamation,  *  What  i«  urc  1 
"  With  best  regards  and  wii '       ^ 
'*  I  am  yours  aim 

"B.ovt,  BLooartiUk.1 


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Tkrm  SQnnttt  on  MoomJUld* 

Sofine  feed  on  HtId^  fame  with  eo^iBciooB  pride^ 

And  in  tb«t  gay  ship.  Popularity, 
They  ttem  wit^  pointed  oara  the  ballow  tide. 
Proud  of  the  noise  which  flattery's  aids  supply, 
JoitiM  with  tO'daT'a  sian  gilded  butterfly, 
The  breed  of  Paahlou  haughtily  they  ride, 
Ai  tbo'  her  breath  waa  immortality, 
Which  are  bat  bladder  puffii  of  common  air, 
Or  water  bubbloi  that  are  blown  to  die, 
Lei  not  their  faacies  think  his  masefl  fair 
While  feeding  on  the  public's  groaa  supply; 
Time's  wares  roll  on — mortality  must  ihare 
A  mortal's  fate— and  many  a  fame  ebal]  lie 
A  dead  wreck  on  the  shores  of  dark  posterity.*' 

IJ. 
8weet  unaMuming  minstrel  I  not  to  thee 
The  dasslioc  fashions  of  the  i^ny  belong* 
S^ature's  mild  pictures,  field  and  cloud  and  tree. 
And  quiet  brooka  far  distant  from  the  throng 
In  mormur»  tender  as  the  toiling  bee 
31ake  the  sweet  music  of  thy  touder  song. 
Well,  Nature  owns  thee — let  the  crowd  pa«i  by. 
The  stream  of  fashion  Is  a  tide  too  strong 
For  pastoral  brooks  that  gently  flow  and  sing  ; 
But  Nature  if  their  source  ;  and  earth  and  sky 
Their  annual  oflerings  to  her  current  bring. 
Thy  injured  muse  and  memory  need  no  sigb, 
For  they  shall  murmor  on  to  many  a  spring. 
When  their  proud  streams  au-e  summer-bumt  and  dry.'* 


*'  The  tbepherd  mttstng  o'er  hi^  meadowp  dreanui 
The  May-day  wild  flowers  in  the  iummer  graai^ 
The  fanshine  tparklinf?  in  the  Talley  f  treams, 
The  singing  ploughman  aud  hay  making  hism, — 
Ttiese  lire  the  summer  of  thy  rural  themes^ 
Tby  green  memonals  theio,  and  they  surpass 
The  cobweb  frame  of  fashion.    Every  May 
^   Sbsdl  find  a  native  *  G  ile.H  *  beside  his  plough, 
H  Joining  the  iky  lark's  song  at  early  day ; 
^^  And  summer  nestling  in  the  ripened  com, 
H  ShAll  find  thy  native  loves  as  sweet  as  now, 
^^P  Offering  to  Mary's  lips  '  the  brimming  horn/ 
^r  And  Seasons  round  tny  humble  grave  shall  be 
Fond  lingering  pilgrimB  to  remember  tbee." 

The  letter  and  the  three  sonnets  are  not  vcr- 
haUm,  but  nearly  so.  Thinking  they  may  not  be 
oxnceeptable  to  re-aders  of  the  works  of  John  Clare, 
^le  KorthamptoDBhire  poet,  I  publish  them  in 

K.  &  Q.**  Walter  Bloompikld, 

139,  Paddngton  Street,  Islingtoii* 


PARALLEL  PASSAGES. 


'  Tbat  looms  the  world,  and,  as  a  traveller, 
Ooes  to  diKover  countries^et  unknown.'* 

Marlowe — Edvard  IL^  near  end* 
*  T\w  ttodiacorer'd  country  from  whose  booni 
Ko  tnteiler  returns." 

Hamlttf  iii.  1.  79- 
II. 
**  fler  feet  beneath  her  pettieoat, 
lAe  little  mice,  stole  in  and  out 
Aj  if  they  fear'd  the  light/* 

Suckling— £a^/aakp<m  a  Widding. 


«  Her  pretty  feet 
Like  »o&iles  did  creep 

A  little  out,  and  then, 
As  If  they  played  at  lH>*peep| 
Did  soon  draw  in  agen.'' 

Herrick — Upon  M,  Susanna  S<mlK^tU  ; 
herFut 
111. 
**  Alas,  I  had  rather  be  set  quick  i'  the  earth, 
And  bowl'd  to  death  with  turoins  I " 

Merry  Wiva  of  II  md#or,  iii.  4,  85. 
**  Would  I  had  been  set  in  the  ^onnd,  all  but  the  head 
on  me,  and  had  my  brains  bowled  at." 

B.  Jonson— ^artAofoww  Fair,  iii.  1. 

IV. 

"  Which  he  disdaining,  whisked  his  sword  about. 
And  with  the  wind  thereof  the  king  fell  dawn/' 
Marlowe— i>tc^o,  iL 
"  But  with  the  whifl'and  wind  of  his  feU  sword 
The  unnerved  father  falls." 

EaviUi,  ii.  2,  451* 
"  When  many  times  the  e&ufcive  Grecian  falls^ 
Even  in  the  fan  and  wind  of  your  fair  sword. 
You  bid  them  rise  and  live." 

TroUiu  and  Grettida^  v.  3,  40* 
**  Mad  and  outrageous  with  the  pain. 
He  whirl'd  his  mace  of  steel : 
The  very  wind  of  sue b  a  blow 
Had  made  the  champion  reel.'' 

Percy's  HdiiTuaj  "  Valentine  and 
Ursine/'  L  6a. 

**  Oanit  thou  not  minister  to  a  mind  diseased  ?  ** 

Machflk,  V.  3,  40* 
"  Nature,  too  unkind. 
That  made  no  medicine  for  a  troubled  mind.'* 

B.  &  V.—rhUtuter,  iii.  1. 
"  4 .  . .  Ah,  but  none  of  them  will  purge  the  heart  1 
No,  there 's  no  medicine  left  for  my  diseaK." 

Spanuk  Trttgtdy,  iv. ;  Dod«ley,  iii.  154. 
*'  I  think  she  has  a  perturbed  mlnd^  which  I  cannot 
minister  to/* 

Two  N6U€  Kintmen,  W.  3. 
*'-...  phvtic  yet  hath  never  fotind 
A  remedy  to  oure  a  lorer's  wound/' 

Ford— iJroIen  HeaH,  I  3. 
**  It  physics  not  the  sickness  of  a  mind 
Broken  with  gritsfs." 

ford— Broken  Heart,  il  2. 

*' though  art 

Clan  find  no  comfort  for  a  Broken  Heart.** 

Ford— ^rot«n  Ifeurt,  t.  5. 
"  No  physic  strong  to  core  a  tortured  mind." 

Ford — Lore't  Sacrifice,  ii.  3. 
'*  But  where  that  herb  or  science  can  ye  iSnd 
That  hath  the  virtue  to  restore  the  mind  T' 
Thracian  Wonder,  iv.  2 ;  Hazlitt's  Wdnier* 
"  0  ye  Gods,  haue  ye  ordeyned  for  euery  malady  a 
medicine,  for  euerv  sore  a  salue^  for  enery  palne   a 
playster,  leaning  only  loue  remedilesse  t '' 

Lyly's  £upku«$,  Arber^i  cd,  p.  61. 
*'  I  've  that  within  for  which  there  are  no  plasters." 
Oarrick's  Prologue  to  She  Stoop*  to  Conquier, 
**  So  can  ho  heill  Infyrmytee  of  thoght, 
Wich  thj^t  one  erdly  medesyne  can  noght ; 

On  to  his  core  no  medesyne  is  found.** 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


"  For  where  no  hop^  w  left,  m  left  no  fear," 
Milton — Parad^it  Re§uimdj  iii, 
"  Whftt  thcaldfit  tboa  fmm,  tlmlfMtlMot  what  to  hope  1 ' 
Miifin  8mm$  ^  A  rUmr,  \.  4. 
*  Be  tbftrt  H  wifboat  Uat  fi  wfChout  hope. " 

Webrtcr— i>rtTtri  Z<np-Ca*r,  ii.  3. 

**  Let  in«  ifi  tWi  life  feur  no  kiuii  of  ill 
Tbftt  have  ni>  food  to  hope  for/' 

Webster— i>«?ifV  Luw-Castf  iii.  3. 
**  In  me  hiUU  Grief  isl&in  Fear/' 

Two  NohU  Kin*¥mn,  lii.  2. 
"  Th«i»  to  fei/r  wbMi  ho^  U  frattleM, 
Were  to  be  decpcmtetj  miserable." 

Ford— /»<riltii  Jr«r4«^  iii  2L 

JOHK  ABD18. 


INTERNATIONAL  TITLES  OP  XOBILITY. 

A  very  ciirioas  practice  has  b<?en  in  vogue  for 
many  years,  ami  it  seefos  to  tue  to  be  of  sufficient 
importance  to  be  made  the  subject  of  a  note.  I 
refer  to  titles  granted  to  British  subjects  by  foreign 
princes,  and  which  are  derived  from  some  British 
locality.  Setting  aside  ecctolaatkil  lilies^  which  it 
m  wisdom,  or,  at  any  rate,  diacretian,  to  let  alone, 
we  find,  for  example,  the  title  of  *'  Count  de  Lan- 
castre/'  "Lancaster"  h  one  of  those  sincient 
titles  absorbed  by  the  Crown  of  Enghmd,  imd, 
therefore,  it  aeeni^  a  sort  of  presumption  on  the 
part  of  a  foreign  power  to  bestow  it,  Bowever  dis- 
guised, on  a  Briti&h  subject.  To  do  so  i^^  to  make 
international  some  of  ihe  anofnalies  of  the  Irinh 
Peemge,  mich  as  that  of  "  Earl  of  Fife  in  Ireland," 
a  mielendiiig  designation.  But  I  merely  seek  in- 
formation, and  as  I  have  accidentally  fallen  upon 
the  title  w  "Lancaatre,"  I  should  be  glatl  to  know 
on  what  plea  and  by  whom  it  was  coofeired. 
There  are  sevend  other  titles  of  the  same  deaciyp- 
tion,  but  one  example  will  tn&e.  With  ull 
respect  to  individuals,  I  do  not  myseK  approve  of 
the  practice  in  question,  for  it  tends  to  confusion. 
On  the  same  principle,  a  man  witbont  any  right  to 
the  coat  armorial  of  an  Earl  of  Chest-er  might  go 
to  Brazil,  and  induce  the  authorities  there,  in  their 
ignorance,  to  grant  him  "  azure,  three  garbs  or," 
whereupon  he  mi^bt  return  to  Ecj^Iand,  and,  if 
questioned  about  his  lineage,  he  might  truthfully 
say,  **  See,  I  hear,  by  authrtrity^  the  anuM  of  my 
ancestor.**  Nine  persons  out  of  ten  who  knew 
nothing  of  the  mibject  woidd  be  deceived,  and  yet 
no  charge  of  falaity  could  be  brought  againtit  the 
eqttivocator,  for  the  responsibility  would  He  on 
the  foreign  Government. 

If  it  were  an  established  international  usage, 
that  what  a  man  oould  not  obtain  in  his  own 
oonwtiy  he  might  get  in  another,  and  then  bring 
home  with  htm,  I  shoald  not  have  considered  these 
remark*  ntceaaity  ;  but  the  fact  is  <mr  Govern- 
ment does  not  create  forei^  territorial  titles  in 
theptsttota  of  foreignen,  and,  therefore,  I  cannot 


understimd  wL>  ior^iou  Govcrfimcnta  dioidd  I 
such  liberties  wiLh  us. 

This  subject  induces  me  to  exlend  uy  remafia 
to  the  cosniopolitfin  n<^Uity  <if  noT  kuumiaii,  ih 
author  of   'Ae  ^^obilit^   ^f  ik^  Britisk    (?« 
ThiH  writer  failed,  I  think,  to  i^cogome  tkn  < 
tine ti on    between     tiniverBal    costom    asd 
usages.     Like  anothei"  ( 
Banks— Lftwreooe  wis  1%^ 

hh  own.     He  was,  Aoreow,  apt   to  take  lnr< 
premises  for  granted,  and  then  bnild  npcm  tliem 
excellent  arguments.     He  did  not  at^,  in  Bone 
instances,  to  prove  these  premiaes,  and  aeexiied  td 
lidopt  the  fallacious  idea  that,  because  fio  foRien 
nobleman  has  any  legal  right  to  a  highei    '   ' 
than  that  of   esauire  in  Enalaiid,    an    Ek. 
esquire  must,  on  tlie  other  hand,  be  equal  in  mau 
to  a  foreign  nobJeman  in  his  own  eotinfrr.     ?  ri: 
inclined  to  believe  that  Lawreiice  - 
political  with  the  genealogical.     .^ 
ever,  is  not  to  dispute  his  general  <x>rr<jLtncs:i.   lie 
was  a  well-read  man^  of  *^  warm   emutioiiB  **  oo 
things  of  the  past,  and  ^enercir      ^  ■    ^     v      ^'^ 
while  I  admit  the  merit  of 
Brrtuh  Gmtry,  I  cannot  bui  .11.^,,.    l, 
work  liable  to  foster  imaginary  self-imp 


Prof.  Stu bus's  **  Cokstitutionai*  Hnroxror 
Englai^d^^  and  TBS  BiflHOPiiic  OF  £acsm«— 
The  Saturday  Re^iiew  of  S9tk  August  bfll  fnifti 
out  a  date  in  which  it  alleges  the  Profesnr  ha* 
gone  wrong.    The  reviewer  says  :— 

"  lo  pftge  282  1m  tpeaki  of  titriaiii  lri«hi|wla%  faifer 
among  them,  »■  bei^g  ia  the  liaiidi  of  formjpttn  la  ftf 
jrear  1070  ;  we  need  not  go  fuiilier  than  hk  own  Mmittnm 
Sacntm  An^licamum  to  ahvw  tbai  Leofric  k«filiiitf*a 
biBhopric  till  lOTl** 

If  the  charter  now  to  be  quot^  is  iMtlifmti/, 
and  there  is  no  error  in  its  dates  Leofric  wm^ 
have  kept  his  bishopric  till  I0S5.  There  is  a  gWDt 
recorded  in  the  Mts.  riiurnLirv  nf  Moi  ^ 
Michel,  by  Robert  of  Mtn 
Mount  in  Cornwall  to  1 
varimis  lands  specified.     The  grant   is 

William  the  Conrmeror,  Queen  Mathildis,  1      

three  sons,  in  token  of  their  approbation  of  til 
grant,  and  the  freedom  of  the  monks  from  all  pi 
of  the  Crown  except  hoinicide,  and  witnessed  1 
many  distin^iished  persons.    Alter  these  18 1 

"Pirmnt  '  cart*  fcnno  iM^Iji 

(1085)   fib  indictioiie   xi!f 

currente  ill,  .uii,.  .*._,,  xaj.,..*  j.,  ucvescl.    *^    ^ 
cettrie  epi.  4*     ^go  quidem  itnricus  tit 
cpificopiiB,  juftione  ci  exbcTt.itfone  drmi  > 
tiMimi  Cfregorii  1  r   .u 

que  optimatutD  i  1 1  >  1 1 

be»iiti  ArchaniZtl  .-         ../aLuii    1 

officio  ©t  niiniatr  creiiitur  atque  c 

conaecmri  ac  BaM<  ■■^. (.eiiiu C'&oi sb  on^ 

Ttre.  potestaie.  seu  futjconone,  Itberai^m  At^v 
quod  «t  £Miere  tocaoi  ckri  aoftre  conseD&u  et 


B"  8.  U.  Oct.  17, 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


905 


domir 

^^  ei^rin 
■  Cckiulc 

m 


diitulu    Libero  quant  mm  «l  ftxuo  nb  omni  «t^'upft]t 

diominfttioiie tHbJMlioiie  lo4{iuitfeiidjiiie^  et  iwutibM*  Hha  qui 

11] Am  ecctefiam  tuk  com  b«ii€fie&i»  mi  oieeniMiuii  expe- 

ei^rint  ct   TiBit&Terint  t«rtihm    pftrtem  Ti«tut«ntiarum 

Ccuulonamiu.     Et  at  hoc  inconrulaiUD  <t  munobile  H 

ioviiilabileaia^teouji  (jirl  perniitaieftt  exaucftoritate 

ia  et  fllil  et  epiritus  ^ancti  othdiIula  itottri«  miccessor- 

interdicimufl  tie  ^liquid  coiiLni  hoc  d^cietom  uaur- 

ptfi  pre«aiiuuii." 

As  the  Queen  died  in  1083,  thie  confinuation 
ajid  \ts  dfde  must  exclusively  refer  to  the  act  of 
the  Bishop  of  Exeter  He  speaks  no  doubt  of  the 
Queen  iia  giving  her  *'  order  and  exhortatioD,"  and 
not  as  if  she  hi>d  died  ;  but  this  doea  not  invalidate 
the  app^irent  fact  thiit  Lioric,  or  Leofric,  Bishop  of 
ExetiT,  i«  asserted  by  the  monks  to  have  confiirmed 

T  in  the  fortieth  year  of  his  episcopatej  he 
n  consecrated  in  H>46.    The  correctness 

:i?e  of  the  date  is  worthy  of  being  tested 
by  Prot  Stuhbs  or  his  critic.  I  have  given  it 
i^xactly  as  in  the  MS,  Anolo-Scotits. 

Ps&cr  Foi^io  M8.  Bai.laj38  and  Rouanctrs. — 

-la  vol,  iii,  p.  2C)2,  Jaatt  line  of  **  The 
ui  the  King"  Measna.  Spottlswoode's 

i  liftve  iDftde  an  odd  "  pie  *'  of  the  words  in  the 

»e.     These  were — 

*  Will  reede  itt  Bsjfast  as  youU  ffmng  by  the  way/* 
In  the  Tfolume  they  appe^ir  tts— 

*  Will  retde  itt  ae^a/«  ^mMt  m  y^^ftg  by  th«  way." 
L  651,  p.  1«X),  18  (eighteen)  h  wanted  by  the 

'  meiiv  for  6— 

'  I  gftue  the«  S  p«iioe  a  day,"   . 

^^  mod  as  there  may  be  a  1  in  the  MS.  at  the  foot  of 

^■ihe  long  f  tthove,  I  think  wc  mav  safely  read  "  18." 

HP*  111.  h  418,  for  "&  "  read  *^a," 

H     Vol  ii.*  p.  159,  I  7,  for  "  1569-^  read  "  165ft"; 

^|i.  307,  L  M,  for  "come"  read  "came':  p.  214, 

L  1 18,  for  **  liuME"  read  "  Dukne''  (the  m.  is  for  nn, 

see  nt*t(  2,  p.  215,  &c,) ;  p.  22<>,  1.  ri5,  for  *^  many'' 

IW4l  v'*;  p.  222,  1.   h  for  "Layde'^  re^id 

'*Li  -.  224, 1.  2,  for  **fore"  rend  **8ore"; 

^^s,  L  i:j,  for  "?iweeuens"  rt?ad  **  sweauens^'j 

273,  1.  57,  for  "  said  "  reaii  "  aayd  '^  p.  275,  L  2, 

"  at "  refui  "  att ";  n.  293,  I  72,  "  verry  "  njay 

*Iiott"  (which  makes  better  sense)  ;* p.  295, 

127,   for  *^said"   read   "then  said*';    1.    130, 

'loUye"  mnv  be  **Follye":  h  143,  ''thai"  may 

";   p.  504,  I.  67,  for  "hee''   t^mmI   "he," 

L'  all  the  mistakes  1  found  in  recollating 

,  i^*ti«ds  in  vola.  ii.  wnd  iii.  for  the  forthcoming 

iiOD  of  my  friend,   Prof.    F.  J.    Child,   of 

F.  J.  FriiNiVALi,. 

JBetTAJrit*^ — Tlie  following'  t^pit-nph  iit  transcribed 

inral   UV^I  Parii^b    Church   of 

Ulo  t',    aiid    i«    sont    to 

yti**  with    the    b  »pt    that  it   nmy   pi'Ove 

injBf  to  the  many  readers  of  tbit  valuable 

f  fkU  tha  Cr^aturos  w^*  (jod  loade  undor  ilie  6ati 
^ii  soaa  lo  nuAerabk  a*  Man.    ¥ot  all    l>umb 


Creatures  have  ao  mUfortuni-  i  horn  Imt  wliat 

comc4  bj  Nature, 'but  Man,  tbi  vu  knoirkdge, 

brin£«  himself  into  a  Thousand  j,-.. ..  . .  lii  of  Soul  and 

Body. 

**  Af  for  Example. 
Our  Father  bad  two  children,  and  aj^iaet  his  knowMge 
he  committed  the  Mn  of  IdtilHtry  upon  u«.  For  hiul  Our 
Father  done  hi»  du'"  ^  >  .-i-  -      i  i  ,,*     Tn    i    -t  m  a 
Thousand,  a^  he  diu  iod 

to  »pare  our  live*,  ^t  J>ut 

God  iit  a  jealous  Ood^^uid  puni^lieth  the  fault^j  of  Farcott 
upon  their  Children. 

'*  Tho'  the  tins  of  our  Father  hare  deprived  Uft  of  the 
light  of  the  SuD,  ibanki  b^^  to  God,  we  a^joy  moi«  gmftt, 
more  tweet,  more  Blegeed  Light,  which  is  j*  prfigence  of 
Ood.  y*  Maker  of  all  Ligbts,  to  Yvhom  b«  all  Honour  UKi 
Glorr. 

♦*  Beneath  tbi«  place  lye  tlie  Bodiee  of  John  aud 
Elizabeth  Maroutie^  in  tbti  Memory  of  whom  their  Father 
caused  this  Monument  to  be  put  up.  Elisabeth  Died  in 
1708.  nged  G  ;  John  Died  in  1711,  n^ed  5. 

**  Their  Father,  a  poor  rajui  horn  in  the  ProTiuce  of 
I>ophtn  (sic)  in  the  Eiagdum  of  France, he  beUe7ei  thai 
hie  sun  were  the  Cause  that  Qod  took  t^e  ^feB  of  hie 
ChddiHjn/' 

SnoLTo  Vere  Hark. 

Almondfbury,  GloucesterBhire. 

Hybrid  NoiiEycLATURE.— The  luibit  of  en- 
in%ftin^  Latin,  or  other  languages,  on  Greek  forms 
has  bec->me  oftensively  common.  It  is  no  wonder 
if  geologisti*  contend  with  each  other  when  they 
have  taken  to  military  studies,  which  we  xnuat 
infer  from  their  new  term,  *' ^^rahgraphitiid.^  If 
they  must  coin  a  word,  why  not  make  it  titaU' 
graphical  \  Then  such  compounds  ok  oleogn)|ih, 
pistolgtiiphi  &c,«  are  beneath  contenmL 

S,  T.  P. 

jFyiFER,  PRIU\I»FXPHrA,  AND  PbIWP — XaMXS 

OF  WoMEN.^Whilst  gtrolling  through  the  church- 
yard of  Liakeard,  Cornwall,  a  few  days  sincci,  I 
wa»  reminded  thnt  a  query  and  replieB  appeared 
in  ^^  N.  &  Q,^  some  years  since  on  **  Jenifer,  u 
Woman'u  Name  *'  (4"*  S.  ii.  36,  ^6),  for  in  front  of 
me  stood  ^  headstone  "  In  affectionate  remem- 
brance of  Jenifer,  the  beloved  wife  of  Thoimuj 
Roberta  ....  who  departed  thb  life  on  the  22«ni 
of  December,  1872,  ftged  61  years," 

In  the  same  churchyard  I  noted  a  headetone 
^^  To  the  memory  of  Philadelphia  Lyne,  d&nghter 
of  John  and  Jane  Lyne  ....  who  drf  -*  ■'  'hi? 
life  on  the  1 1  th  day  of  April,  I860,  ttge< 

Carew^  in  hi*  M^urrcy  of  Cort%wtiU  M-xi.i,*v'U, 
L*)ndop,  17G9,  second  book,  p.  1U2),  twioe  8peak» 
of  one  of  hifi  ancestresses,  who  bore  the  name  of 
Philip.  Wm.  PenoRLLT. 

Torquay. 

Cipher. — How  old  is  the  practic*  of  writing  in 
cipher?  Moren,  in  bin  7*  -  --  />  twcf 
"BatJHta  Porta,' j»ays  that  1  <ikiii  on 

tht»  occult  signs  of  letters,  "  ii     .  ;e«  dm 

lettrcs,'  and  the  manner  of  wi a  vo^x  >^nto 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t5»*S.  I  LOOT.  17,71 


held  the  key,  and  aho  n  method  of  interpreting 
cipher.  These  were  published  jit  Strasburg,  l^HL 
He  sftva  fchiit  Porta  grefitly  aiirpasse<i  nil  that  had 
been  ^one  by  TrithejnuSf  Abbt'  of  Spanheini,  a*Dv 
14U2-1516*  Hifl  treatise  oa  stegauography  appears 
to  have  been  very  curious.  He  designated  some 
of  hisaigna  as  ^r%tu$  diumtaxid  stpintus  noctnmi, 
and  Boville,  to  whom  he  showed  it,  accused  him, 
on  returning  to  Fmnce^  of  dealing  in  the  hliidi  art 
and  of  conversing  with  demons.  Pmbfibly  the 
good  Abb^  was  only  one  of  many  employed  upon 
the  like  mgennity,  which  is  acting  out  the  witticism 
of  Talleyrund,  in  xiaing  kngiiage  to  conceal  our 
thoughts*  Practically,  I  suppose  we  may  consider 
hieroglyphics  aa  the  earliest  description  of  gipher- 
writing,  0.  A.  Ward, 

Mayfair, 

Ladics  asd  Lionesses.— In  the  Midland 
Counties,  the  once  popular  belief  still  prevsiils, 
that  eveiy  third  Year  is  nousually  fatal  to  women 
in  childbirth,  and  ihat  these  triennial  perknls  are 
(coincident  with,  and,  in  some  mysterious  way,  con- 
sequent upon,  the  accondmmnl  of  a  great  lioness 
Tvhich  ia  kept  in  the  Tower  of  London,  and  which 
.  gives  birth  to  a  whelp  regularly  every  three  ytiars  ! 
The  year  1874  is  supposed  to  be  one  of  the  *'lion*s 
years."  P.  E,  B. 

Burton-on-TteDt. 

Fictitious  Maariagks, — I  came  across  a  some- 
what extraordinary  announcement  in  the  Gmih- 
man*^  Maga:nne/ for  December,  1838,  p.  656, 
bottom  of  col.  1,  of  a  marriage  :^*'  George  Caswal 
Newman,  Esq.,  to  Wilhelminti,  3'ounge«t  daughter 
of  Sir  Henry  Montague,  Bart.,"  which  is  contra- 
dieted  in  the  following  volume  for  1839,  Jnnuaryj 
p*  2,  col.  2,  where  they  say  there  is  **  no  such  person 
as  the  party  to  wliom  he  is  etnted  to  be  married." 
Have  many  su^h  announcements  of  marriages  that 
have  never  taken  place  been  made  ? 

Olphar  Hamst. 

**La  Napoleon iknnb.^' — As  a  memory  of  the 
past,  the  following  is  worth  preserving  :— 
'^Salut,  Bulut,  orgneil  de  notre  histoire. 

Ou  va  ton  vol  1    Au  Rhia ,  h  I'Ocean  1 
Kamdne  aux  preui  let  fronds  jours  de  la  gtoire. 

Qu'ftdmire  ainsi  ton  regard  fr^miasant  { 
De«  6traJigero  la  trsice  ineffacuc  I 

La  tntbuon  n'enchalDc  plug  not  bmft. 
C6*ar  n*cft  plua^  Ayguate  a  sa  pens€c  i 

Pfttrie,  5  Franco,  encore  tu  {n^adira^. 

Reprendfl  le  sceptre,  et  reminrf?  du  Monde. 

La  palx,  ia  paix  atns  hontc  dcsoniiaU  ! 
J'entendj!  la  voix  de  ta  foudre  qui  |<;rotide : 

Guerre  Aans  tr4"fe  k  qui  ne  veut  la  paix. 
Le  peuDle  et  Dieu  tVot  aacr6  legitime  ; 

Qtii  done  pourrait  m6confiattre  t€B  droits? 
Nobl«  vengeancfl^  licro'i^ine  sublime : 

L'Aiglc  a  wi'jTe  Ig«  peupJe8  et  lea  Row, 

A  rhonion,  riwe  H  brOhinte  aurore, 
QmI  beiitt  solcU  sononce  tea  gpleudeun  \ 


^  Bu. 


J  Bit. 


Fill  du  tniTail,  oh,  o'ett  pour  voui  encore. 

Que  r%  a'ouvtir  un  iiecle  de  unuideura. 
Sam  toip  que  lont  lea  gloirea  de  la  Tie, 

Religion  ?  k  Tombre  du  Dn^peau, 
Triomphe  auwi.  Mere  de  la  Patrie : 

Au  front  d'lm  fils  tu  ceiadraa  le  ba&devtt. 

8ur  Dog  cit6g,  nir  no«  plaineit  ai  belles. 

Oil  fier,  heureux,  r^gae  le  peuple-nyi» 
Puiaeant  O^nie,  etenda  tea  ra«tea  aites  : 

N&poleoD,  tu  commanded  la  foi  ; 
Nom  cber  au  del,  aymbolc  de  puisaaTice  ! 

Vaillant  aoldat,  gln^reux  labourcur, 
VoB  soureQira  ont  fait  notre  cap^mnc^  : 

VouB  rcverrez  lea  tempe  de  PEmpereur/* 


HuouENOTS.— The  origin  of  this  name  see m^  to 
be  buried  in  obscurity,  for  we  find  various  e\^ 
tiona  given  of  it«  rise.  Whether  it  wna  gi- 
the  French  Protestant*  as  a  tenn  of  reproa 
their  enemiesj  or  adopted  by  themselvess,  Wl 
yet  to  learn* 

It  has  been  said  to  have  been  given  to  Ui«  Fr«odb 
Protestants  aa  an  injurious  appellation,  u^-  I 
sijfnify  the  eaemies  of  the  Church,  and  to 
arisen  from  a  Provost  of  Paris,  Hugo  Aubrui* 
(Aubriot),  who  lived  in  the  reign  of  Charles  V,, 
and  who,  having  made  himself  obnoxioua  t'  ♦^^ 
members  of  the  University,  was  cited  befj 
eccleaiai!tical  tribunal  as  a  heretic.     He  wil 
demned  to  dentli,  but  the  sentence  was  imti;.    -J 
by  the  Court,  nnd  in  the  following  year  Jm 
releiised  bj  the  populace,  and  died  in  1382  ; 
tion  from  the  Gmtktjuin's  Ma^axiiUj  third  ei 
1814,  vol  i,  p.  55). 

*'  Being  grown  numerous  in  the  city  of  Tours,  an -^  "V 
permitted  to  eiyoy  the  liberty  of  asaeniblmg;  witLi 
walk,  the  J  held  their  meetings  at  a  Tillage  not  fa 
for  tlieir  public  devotions;  the  way  to  which  Itadiiig 
through  the  gate  of  8t.  Mugo  ia  thought  to  hare  ooa»' 
sianed  the  name  of  Hugonots,  wbich  oth«r«  think  Lj 
baTe  been  given  tbera  by  re&aon  of  their  frei  ( 
meeiinga,  reaemblcd  by  tbe  French  to  the  v 
njght-apiritj'which  they  caU  Si.  Hugh,**— He ^ 
o/iAi  fttformation,  Ecc,  Hiit  Socy.,  vol.  ii.  i 

"  There  have  been  aeveral  fanciful  deriTfe(.>i>i>n 
word  Huguenot.      It  is   now  mppoeed  to  bare   :.<^-\: 
orij^inalij  KidgmoittUi  or  oifociated  by  oath,  the  t 
assumed  by  the  CalviftiatJc  party  in  Geneva.  J 
contest  with  the  Oatholica.     From  Geneva, 
penetrated  into  the  Bouth  of  France, and  took  ...... 

Che  ap{>ellat)on  of  Egaote,  or  Hugueoota*' — l^ngiifUr 
Riitory,  1838,  vol.  viL 

**  Some  etymologiaU  auppose  thi«  term  <  I 
Uuguon,  a  word  uaed  in  Touraine  to  signifj  [ 
walk  at  night  in  the  atrecta.    And  aa  the  fir^c  l 
like  the  first  Christ btia,  nv&y  hare  choseti 
for  their  religioua  aaaembliei,  through  the  i 
secution,   the   Dickoatse   of    Hugaeaot   may,   i^tur»Uj 
enough,  hare  been  apnlied  to  them  by  their  cnetniia 
UthepB  are  of  opinion  that  it  wa*  derived  from  a  French 
and  faulty  pronunciation  of  the  Oerman  word  r%dyfnw$%^ 
which  aignilies  ^on/edfrntf.^,  and  had  been  originally  tbf 
name  of  that  valiant  i  '  Mjc  city  of  Uenava  wlAek 

entered  into  an  alliati  <  S  wisa  Caiitona^  fit  ordof 

to  maintain  their  Ubert  i      .^  ...^lA  the  tyranaicftl  I 


I  •  a.  II.  Oct.  17, 74.1 


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307 


Ch&rleA  IlL,  Duke  of  SaTO}'.  TbeM  confederates  were 
eignoii,  itnd  from  thonco,  reTj  pnib«bly,  wm 
J  ihe  UTonl  Ilncucnota.  Tlic  Coant  Vilkrs,  in  a 
(Vntten  to  the  king  of  France  from  the  ProTtnce 
[edoCf  where  he  wa«  lieutcDAnt-^nenl,  and 
11th  Noverober,  1500,  cftUa  the  riotoua  Cftl* 
of  the  CeTenneSp  Huguenote^  and  this  U  the  first 
this  tenn  is  found  in  the  registers  of  that  pro- 
appUed  to  ihe  Proteftantf/' — Mot heim't  i?ccf.  Hat, 
MaclaLne'i  tnuulation,  1837»  Book  IV,,  part  ii.  p.  104, 
note. 

S.  W.  T. 


I  that t 


<fturtirif. 

[Wa  miiat  request  correspondents  desmng  information 
familj  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
DM  and  addrenses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
users  jnoiy  be  addreoed  to  them  direct.] 


Airoimfous  Poem.— I  have  long  been  anxious 
ascertAm  who  was  the  nuthor  of  the  following 
liM  poem.  I  cut  it  out  of  a  newspaper  in  or 
>ut  the  year  186i>  :— 

"TITE  old  INQUBQ  MAVOA^BOUfK. 

It  dawns  in  the  manor-garden ; 

The  air  is  blue  and  calm ; 
The  blaclr  yew-hedge  if*  gray  with  dew. 

The  balsam  tweet  with  balm ; 
The  lilies'  silver  chalicfl 

Brims  orer  with  last  night's  rain  ; 
The  blackbird  #ings  his  golden  tune. 

Then  tries  it  o'er  again. 

The  fountain  times  its  music  faint ; 

The  scent  of  herb  and  flower, 
Tlie  bloom  of  the  dew,  the  stioshine  plotoj 

The  season*  nay,  rhe  hour — 
All  help  to  make  a  Paradise 

Of  thitt  Eden  mined  now. 
Spite  of  leares  in  the  nest,,  and  moss  on  the  wbll^ 

And  canker  on  the  bough. 

The  house  is  a  stately  ruin  ; 

Though  the  park -gate*}  standing  still, 
Growned  with  gilt  spheres  and  motto — 

'  The  river  grows  from  th4  riU '  ,• 
And  over  the  barren  stubbles 

Yon  hear  the  partridge  call, 
And  the  screaming  hare  flies  from  the  stoat, 

Eound  the  warren's  old  mossed  wall. 

Tba  home  of  the  brave  dead  gentlemen 

!■  now  but  a  heap  of  stone ; 
Th«  flesh  if  gone  from  its  stalwart  limbs, 

And  left  but  the  ghastly  bone. 
Hie  wall>flower  in  the  chimney  blooms, 

The  ^man  on  the  window  sill, 
Tet  stiO  on  the  gates  runs  the  motto  proud — 

*  TU  rirtr  grmn  from  tJU  riliJ  ** 

Anon. 

kT    Shavixg.  —  The    church  wapdens    of 
parish  paid  htdf-a-crown  for  a  bond  in 
\{^  ^  bound  theni'*elves  " not  to  ahivye 

the  morning."     This  was  in  the 
ilK   \V  t-Ti:  auch  b<jnda  common  ftt  this  datet 
were  thej  found  eH'ectuai  in  CJirrying  out  the 
t  obtervftnce  of  the  Sabbath  Day  } 

Thos.  Eatcliffr* 


The  Late  Johw  Marplss. — 

"Ds^tH  OF  a  CsLEBKiTT.— Died  at  Baslow,  30th 
August,  aged  BO,  Mr-  John  Marples,  millwright  Mr. 
Marples  claimed  to  haro  planned  and  modelled  the 
Crystal  Palace,  in  Hyde  Parkt  London.  Previous  to 
that  he  planned,  modelled,  and  superintended  the  con- 
stniotion  of  the  lily  house  and  great  conservatory  at 
Ohatsworth.  Though  these  acnicTements  laid  the 
foundation  of  Sir  Joseph  Paiton^s  greatness,  Marples 
receired  but  30j.  per  week,  and  but  for  the  kindnesa  of 
the  Duke  of  DeTonshire,  who  allowed  him  a  pension,  his 
latter  days  would  have  been  spent  in  comparative 
poverty,"— /^erfcytAtr*  Covritr, 

It  would  be  interesting  to  hear  if  there  is  any 
truth  in  the  claims  made  byMr.  Marples, 

William  Andrews* 
Cftughey  Street,  Hall 

**  PaoVIDEXCE  ON  THK  SIDE  OF  THE  GEBAT 

battalions/' — I  believe  this  well-known  saying  is 
due  to  Wnllenstcin,  but  I  should  begkd  of  a  more 
exjict  reference.  Meanwhile,  in  a  little  book  which 
I  boujtjht  in  Paris  «oriie  yej\ra  ago,  entitled  ConU^ 
d  £pi4p'a7}tmM  par  k  CiL  *  ♦  *  *  ♦  ("Gobet" 
filled  in  in  ink),  a  Paris,  Vende^mmire,  An  VIII., 
is  an  epigram  in  which  the  same  idea  occurs  : — 

"L'AVAKTAOB   DU    NOHBEI. 

Kous  n'avons  que  peu  de  soldats, 
Et  nous  aureus,  disait  un  pieux  nouvelliste, 
De  nombreux  enncmis  au  printemps  sur  les  bras; 
Mala  nous  serous  Tainqucurs^  si  le  ciel  nous  assiste, 
Et  sil  repind  sur  nous  sea  bdnddictions. 
Ne  voutt  y  fiez  pas,  dtt  un  vieux  militaire, 

J 'si  toujours  vu  Dieu,  diins  ta  guerre, 

Du  cdt6  des  gros  bat&illons." 

Who  was  the  **  pieux  nouvelliste,"  and  who  was 
Citizen  Gobet  himself?  My  copjr  of  the  Ixfok  has 
various  MS.  corrections,  which,  it  would  almost 
aeeni,  must  be  by  the  author.  H.  A.  B. 

Edward  Cranfield  was  appointed  by  Charles 
IL  Lieut.-Gov.  of  the  province  of  NewHampahire, 
in  New  England,  in  the  year  1682,  He  came  here, 
and  remainetl  until  1685,  when  he  went  to  the 
Barbftdoes,  where  he  was  for  some  time  Collector 
of  Customs.  He  is  said  to  have  died  in  England 
in  1704.  Can  any  one  give  me  any  further  infor- 
mation of  him,  or  designate  his  origin  ? 

aw.   TtlTTLE, 
Boston,  U.aA. 

Co NBI DERATIONS    ON    THE   MaRRIAOE    OF    THE 

Duke  OF  Cumberland,  1772 :  Bioarrirtt, — Who 
waa  the  author  of  this  pamphlet,  published  by 
AJjnon  in  1772,  and  of  which  the  full  title  ia, — 

"Considerations  on  the  Indij^ity  Suffered  by  the 
Ct\>wn,  and  the  Dishonour  brouj^ht  upon  the  NalioD,  by 
the  Marriage  of  His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Citm- 
berlaod  with  an  Eaglish  Subject.  By  a  Kings  Friend. 
4to,"? 

The  author  advocates  such  a  chaoge  in  the  law 
lus  was  carried  out  in  the  same  year  by  the  Royal 
Marri.Hge  Act.  In  the  course  of  it  he  speaks  of 
the  chjiracter  of  the  young  Prince  as  b«vD%  <%bimil 


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[S^aiLOcf.lT^Tt 


aU  hurry,  flutter,  and  biyarriehj.*'    What  is  biffar- 
rMKr.  totd  where  else  does  the  word  ocetirT 

C.  D.  C 

AnTHTm  FoKBBS,  OF  BRtTX.— Who  wns  this 
"  Pamxi  of  T:  '  '  -n  Scotland,  who  is  not  One  of 
ihDfit  caller  ,'  who  wrote  *'An   Epitaph 

wptm  ih«t  i  oii.ii.x  ►Servant  of  the  Lm^,  Robert 
Barolky,  of  Urie,"  prefixed  to   the  ivorks  of  the 
bUer  (1692)  I    He  sjiys*  and  with  ^^ood  resiSiOTL — 
"  I  do  Confess,  my  Mind  I  caniiot  K&tra 
To  gnre  the  Defuact  hia  dewrvcd  Priuse.*' 

Has  the  pmolfciiiiAio  mocentutLtioB  of  dlfvmd 
bcmehsemdelsewtee?         Y.H.I.L.LaLV. 

"  BoRoiroH-ENaLisH." — Id  whiit  plooes  does  the 
cMtotn  of  "  Botrmgh-Englkh  ^'  obtain,  of  has  it 
oblMmed  ?  F.  S. 

Sl^K»KBS  Gir  Maalboroug^h  and  Quksn  Ahkb. 

— BHi  Stanhope  says  that  the  DiichemtEMifevibed 
MUMiry  pusfmi^es  from  the  Wh4>h  Dutf  €f  Mmij 
and  also  the  Injunction  from  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer,  biddiDi^  ua  be  in  ebiirity  witli  all  men 
before  receiving  the  Holy  Couimanion,  and  sent 
them  to  Qitneii  Anne*  Wm^  Strickland  Biiys  that 
it  WIS'  3etf!my  Taylor's  Holy  Livintj  and  Dyiiiff 
thiit!  »he  sent.  Which  is  the  true  account,  or  are 
they  both  true  ?  Where  ia  the  original  anecdote 
feund  ?  '      C.  P.  E. 

Aribto,  iui  H;ddi2i  or  Physiciiin  at  the  Court  of 

Akbm*,  AJX  I55ti-1605,  p.  642,  v.  i,,  Ain  Akbari^ 

I  tmofibteii  by  H.  Blochmnno,  >LA.     Was  he  one 

]  of  tlie  somi  of,  or  otherwise  related  to,  the  poet 

Ludovico  Ariosto,  the  author  of  Orlatido  Funom^ 

wh»  died  in  15aa  i  E. 

A  **  WABttiN&Ton  Mkdal.*' — Having   in   vain 

I  Mragjii  for  information  about  n  curiouH  medal  of 

Wuliijigto%  in  the  posseselon  of  a  gentleman  of 

I  IJiia  dliy,  who  has  owned  it  for  nearly  forty  years, 

i  I  mtton  tora|>{ay  to  ''  N.  &  Q.'' 

I  enclose  a  rubbing  of  the  medal^  which  will 
convey  to  j(m  a  better  notion  o£  what  it  is  than  a 
mere  description.  The  tradition  that  accompanies 
the  medal  is,  that  there  are  only  three  or  four 
copies  of  it  in  eristenoe,  that  it  wm  made  in  Eng- 
land by  an  English  artist,  and  that  the  dies  were 
broken  at  the  tV>urth  imprewsion,  E.  A.  D. 

Ontvereitj  of  MaryJ&nd,  Baltimore. 

pfe  alioU  be  glad  to  forward  the  rubbings  referred  to 
to  nqr  oorraflpivfident  likely  to  Btipply  the  infbrmAtioD 


Seals  in  Two  Parts.— In  a  charter  granted  to 
^thfl   borongh  of  Hedon,   22  Edward   III.,  it    is 
that,  for  the  quiet  and  tmnquility  of  the 
■6S,  as  well  UB  of  mexdmnts  resorting  to  the 
f  th§tf  wiere  to  have  a  seal  to  he  ordniued  by 


the  king  in  two  puits.    The  m<tf>r  part  of  dm  add 
seal  was  to  remain  in  the  cuAtr*-  lOft^or  Cor 

the  time  being,  and  the  miiufj  »«  said  tMl 

in  the  custody  of  a  clerk,  to  be  '  ll 

king,  "  &  q'd  7najor  pan  sigilli  illii 
custodia  p'd  c'i  majoris  q'm  p'tempore  i  u  jl  i.v  3 
jMTn  ejiisdem  Rjgilli  in  eiiatodia  eujusdam  clid  fi« 
uos,''  &e.  ^ 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  m^jor  part  sn4j 
minor  part  of  the  seal  ?     Is  it  to  be  undo 
that  the  seal  was  in  two  parts,  and  hod  < 
Joined  together  every  time  before  it  coruld  bal 
If  io,  how  was  it  divided,  or  doe«  it  mmtk 
there  were  two  seals,  the  one  larger  than  theothsfi 
Are  there  any  similar  instances T    G.  R.  Pasjc 

Gkoob-APHIcau— \niat  part  of  the  world  iriD 
firat  see  the  dawn  of  {t.  g,)  the  25tli  Becembei, 
1874  ?  Many  of  the  best  authorities,  I^nflh  »»i 
English,  giving  n*>  hint  towards  the  answw  of 
that  question,  I  entreat  a  line  from  »ome  conr^ 
spondent  of  geographical  proclivities.     R.  K  A 

*'  E.  S.,  1807,"— Who  ifl  the  poiotor  indicate 
by  these  letters  and  date  ?    The  sabj««5e  is  a  Lioct 
soApe    with    cowg,   and    from    the    execution 
evidently  English,  probably  of  the  Crome  tscho 
though  i  cannot  find  the  name.     Wm.  HuenK?- 

Author  Wanted.— Who  is  the  author  of  i 
little  poem  illustrative  of  that  sublime  philosophy 
(Christianized)  which  the  le^irued  Sir  Thoraa* 
Browne,  in  his  EtU^io  Medici,  thus  boldly  avoiKJ 
his  faith  in  ? — 

*'The  ecvere  BchooU  ihall  nerer  lau^  me  cut^tk 
philo*opbj  of  Hermes,  that  this  risible  wm  i 
picture  of  the  itivisible,  wberoifi,  a«  in  »|>r>r 
are   not  truly,   but  in  •qiilvocal  tbape*,  iti. .  —  ^-i 
counterfeit  aom*  real  subfUfiGS  ia  that  ian»Uile  tt^tkJ' 

I   give   the  first  of  the  seren  staiusss  of  lb 

poem : — 

*'  This  world  I  deem 
But »  beautiful  dream 
Of  shftdowi  which  are  not  what  they  >eem  : 
Where  Tiiioni  r«e, 
Gmng  dim  lurmiaa 
Of  Cho  things  that  shail  meot  our  wokins^t yoa  ' 
Jajtes  T.  Fewley* 

Chtilienham  Library, 

T0T»B8  A»D  RAP?fOR  Barokiibs. — Will  sowie  »f  l| 
your  contributors  kindly  infr**^"  ^*'  ^*hy  the  obovf  i 
baronies  are  not  mentioned  :  lie  poengl^    j 

not  even  in  Nichoks's*  or  C'  ♦!  Buai>*fT 

yet  I  believe  there  were  »\^ 
the  following  Fine,  extrnotea 
Devon,  7  John,  119f>-6,  to  be  un^i 

*'  Fine   between    WitUaii^  de  J^r  'v  »f 

Niinani  toMchinfi  the  iniT' 
remain  to  each  of  them,  i  ■ 

the  Goatle,  port,  and  town  '-•    V'-.t-.r,,.  »»*,  »  —.^^.^c^  :-^^ 
Jt^htfh,  mfe  ofmiti  Hcfiiy,  Iter  dower  la  M%d  darw^«" 


'a  II.  Oct.  17/74] 


NOTES  AN©  QUERIES. 


B  froi  . 


*■  allowing  charter,  ^ximcUd 
'     It  iii  diited  3rd  Jtrne, 

i  to  WWam  de  Braom  of  all 
:  couu*e4i,  And  which  ht>  ih^K 
»  Welik  •neraiea^  in  iuercaiia  of 


D.  a  E. 


TIm  CfiMCeutt  Bedford. 

KpFwrr  or  Stars» — ^When  a  child  of  not  more 

eight  tmd  u  half  yeiirs  of  age^  and  probably 

I  yt>utigcr,  I  well  remember  fixing  my  eyes  on 

A  star  (or  pki.net),  and  being  somehow  impressed 

with  a  »eii»t*  of  its  tli^tanc^,  and  with  a  certain 

Iti^ing  of   eamomnieation  or  commumoD,  which 

1  feo  thrill  me  with  anxiety.     The  feeliD^hafi 

I  oooarfed  since.     Is  the  senwition  known  to 

>  imd  h«ie  it  anything  to  do  with  the  preya- 

►  of  the  belief  in  litrolog^-  \      Asa  Ebbth. 

**  Tnic  Slave."— Was  thb  poem  written  by  Tom 
Moofe  on  the  death  of  Creorge  III.  /  I  have  heard 
lltnt  Lbe  subject  of  it  ^m,  Frederick^  Buke  of 
Yoak,  but  other  accounts  say  it  referred  to  the 
King.  Ymiu. 

Altah  Rails  Covhrbd.— It  ib  the  custom  in 

Svmjfleld  Church,  Lincolnshire,  to  lay  li  long  nar- 

r  white  linen  cloth  over  the  whole  length  of  the 

mils  whenever  tht're  \&  a  celebmtion  of  the 

Comma nion.    Con  any  of  your  correspondents 

'w  Any  light  upon  the  hi^itory  and  aigaificance 

of  thi^  custom,  which  appears  to  ha,ve  beeA  handed 

down  £r«.i  i    fonmLtion  timcA,  and  therefore 

to  have  <  .z  before  altar  rails  were  iiitro- 

ducfid  by  iJi^ijop  Wren  ?  Hugh  Pioot. 

Ai*vs  DiSBES. — In  N4}rwa^^  braA»  lytns  dishos^ 
worn,  UD  J  pur|K>rtiiig  to  be  anci^nti,  caa  be 
*  in  «ame  of  the  shops  of  the  chief  towna, 
itjoit  &vourite  derico  in  the  centra  of  the  dkh 
l»  Jofihim.  and  Ciileb  cairyiii^  a  hirge  bunch  uf 
goipei  belivi90&  ^lem  on  »  stafr.  The  writer  po»<^ 
mtmcB  Gnm  of  tlieae  akM  djabe^  of  antique  app«ar- 
met,  ajad  boB-iiig  a  muck  dfuced  rcpre^ntatton  of 
dl»  Aimmieiation.  Are  these  dishes  likely  to 
^B  be  ^Dtkine^  or  counterfeit  antiipiities  ]       0.  K> 

^B     XffiA/m  of  the  kind  described  afa  tiispictoasly,  m  rcgu-d 
^■"ifrtlteir  BenahieatMt  oomroon  m  Londbn  ahopt.J 

H  Eesliftf. 

H  HALL,  VTYCH,  AND  SALT  WOliKB. 

H  (j^«^  3.  il  183,  24a.) 

^P    I  im  glad  to  find  that  my  HpecuhitioiU!  on  these 
Vtema,And  their  coniu^ion  with  pLiee^oiiTueQ,  have 
m  faftd  Uba  rfll*ct  of  bringing  out  replies  from  thn« 
corrwponderju.    I  do  not  And,  however,  thiit  much 
■ddJtSoDn!  T'.'.lhf  hi-  ret  hrrn  throTrn  nrt  the  qTir>- 
lli^n,  whi  ' 

i«  a  l:ii-  ■.  ■  !' 


f  ofthi 


which  may  not  be  without  its  influfince  on  our  un- 
derstanding of  names  of  places  in  other  positionis. 

I  quite  agree  with  W.  B.,  that  **  fi^ee  dimmimion 
\n  an  excellent  thing  for  ooontcracting  our  nataral 
tendency'  to  substitutTe  fknciefl  for  facbi^  and 
fallacies  for  argument.''  It  l9  an  amnaiiig  tHiis- 
tmtion  of  this  sage  dictum,  that  W.  B.  canHiides 
his  letter  by  atx^csting  that  ^cick  means  waJUr. 
He  might  as  well  have  suggested  that  it  mean« 
a  pot  of  beer.  There  is  just  as  much  authoritr 
for  the  one  as  the  other,  that  is,  abfiolately  ntf, 
except  his  own  assertion.  I  never  heard  of  any 
language  in  which  wich  means  water ;  certainly  no 
languayje  erer  spoken  in  the  British  islands, 

I  wish,  with  your  permission^  to  ft>llow  up  the 
subject  a  little  more  in  detail*  It  ift  not  without 
its  diffieulties,  which  can  only  be  oTercome  by  a 
close  attention  to  existing  &c^  and  aubmission  to 
whatever  results  a  fair  and  reasonable  infeceutte 
may  lead  to.  I  have  no  theories  to  maintain,  and 
am  prepared  to  admit  whatever  coacluaicnw  mny 
be  warrunted  by  a  rigid  analysis  of  the  iScts 
before  us. 

TJie  problem  we  haTB  to  solve  ia  this  :  it  there 
any  etymological  connexion  between  the  suflbc 
icicK  found  in  the  nomea  of  several  places  where 
salt  is  made  and  the  manufacture  carried  oa? 
Let  uij  examine  the  facts. 

First  then,  we  find  scattered  over  the  face  of 
the  country  a  nitnabcr  of  places,  the  names  of 
which  are  compounded  with  the  prefix,  or  suillx, 
ivick  or  wich.  In  the  interior  they  are  not  very 
numerous,  but  they  abound  round  tlie  coast  Knc, 
Eis  we  shall  presently  see.  Those  in  the  interior 
are  principally  in  the  midland  districts  neopledby 
the  Angles,  Worcestenshire  having,  probably^  the 
greatest  number. 

I  suppose  it  will  be  admitted  that  place- names, 
when  originally  applied,  had  a  meaning,  and  that 
this  meaning  is  to  be  sought  for  in  the  language  of 
the  people  who  occupied  the  localities  when  the 
names  were  given,  in  an  Anglian  or  Saxon  dis- 
trict we  may,  therefore,  usually  look  for  an  exphir 
nation  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  tongue.  I  have  carefuHjr 
examined  the  works  of  Bosworth,  Somner,  Hicdts, 
Lye,  and  Stratmann,  as  to  the  Anglo-Saxon ; 
Wachter,  Griiff,  Grimm,  and  Schiller,  as  to  the 
High  German  connexion  ;  Meidinger,  Drcfenbach, 
Ettmidler,  Gabeleotz,  and  Loebe,  as  to  the  Teu- 
tonic languages  ^nerally  ;  Hire  and  Cleasby-Vig- 
ftisson,  a»  to  the  Norse ;  and  Bopp  and  Benfey,  aa  to 
the  Sanaidit  roots,  with  other  ^v^irl-tt  r%.1fttincT  u^  fhe 
minor  dialects.    Whatever  «'  ^e 

authorities  may  be^  in  oul*  e, 

that  the  A.-S.  Ttrtc  meaiis  n 
the  eouivulent  of  S;l^J^^k.  )>  - 
Or,  ofituv  (v, 
Goth,  tstiht:  i 

mjk;    Cym ,    fwh<;    Bittou, 
Slavonic,  vricz  or  wCt:.. 


13 

;  Lutin,  ^k-U4t 

m,  xvik;  Dttt^jh, 

qicik;   Gael   fUhi 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(P*  8.  n.  Oot,  17, 74, 


It  m  found  m  the  Platfc-Deut&ch  in  such  namea 
as  Juiichy  Wittlich,  Zulpich ;  and,  in  Nieder 
IXeatscb,  In  Maurick^  Waahcyk^  Oosiinvyk^  Kait' 
wjfkf  &c.  If  a  conaensas  of  all  who  Imve  ever 
examined  the  subject  ia  of  imy  value,  wich  means  a 
dwelling  when  applied  to  the  A.-S»  names  of  places* 

We  now  come  to  the  numerous  suffixes  in  -tt?%ek 
or  -tdchi  extending  like  a  fringe  or  border  round 
our  coasts.  It  wiB  be  observed  that  these  are  to 
be  found  exclusively  on  the  coasts  Tisited  and 
settled,  permanently  or  temporarily,  by  the  North- 
men. BeginniDg  at  Berwiclt,  and  ninuing  down 
tho  east  coast,  we  find  five  in  Northumberland, 
two  in  Durham,  and,  on  the  Yorkshire  beach, 
where  the  Danes  are  known  to  have  settled  per- 
maoently,  there  are  no  fewer  than  thirteen  u^icks. 
In  Norfolk  and  Essex  they  are  numerous.  On  the 
Thames,  which  we  know  was  frequently  rav^ed 
by  the  Vikings^  we  have  Greenwich,  Woolwich, 
ChiawJck,  Hampton  Wick.  Sandwich  is  not  far 
from  the  mouth  of  the  Thames.  After  leaving 
this,  the  mck^  become  very  mre  on  the  southern 
coast,  which  was  better  able  to  protect  itself  against 
the  rovers  ;  but,  after  rounding  the  Land^s  End 
and  crossing  the  Bristol  Channel,  we  find  them 
very  frequent  in  Glamorganshire  and  Monmouth- 
ahire.  La  the  barren,  rock-bound  coast  of  North 
Wales  they  are  not  met  with.  In  Lancashire  and 
Cumberland  they  are  again  found  up  to  the 
Scottish  border,  and  beyond.  In  Scotland  we 
find  tliem  wherever  the  Danes  penetrated,  as  IVickj 
AbtrbroaUi-wichj  Uig  in  Lewis,  Uig  and  Alt^jridg 
in  Skye.  In  Orknev  and  Shetland,  we  have  Lcr~ 
wickf  Sandu^ck^  Ukanneneickf  &a  In  Ireland 
they  are  not  numerous,  but  are  found  where  the 
Danes  settled^  as  Limerick,  He! wick,  Smerwiek, 
Wicklow.  In^  Norway,  vig  is,  of  course,  very 
common,  as  in  Laarvig^  Brevig^  Lundmg^  &c. 

In  the  Norse  language^  the  primary  meaning  of 
vig,  or  vik,  is  a  creek  or  inlet,  generally  of  narrow 
dimensions,  in  which  the  small  Norse  skiffs  could 
securely  harbour  themselves.  This  description 
more  or  less  applies  to  all  the  coast-liDo  toichs. 
The  creeks  have^  in  many  cases,  been  silted  up  or 
obliterated  by  the  fluctuating  action  of  the  sea 
and  land,  but  the  pkvces  so  named  are  always 
within  a  short  distance  from  the  sea. 

We  have  thus  one  set  of  itnch,  or  wichtSj  of 
A.-8.  origin,  meaning  a  dwelling,  and  another  set, 
of  Norse  origin,  signifying  a  small  creek  or  inlet. 
Is  there  any  connexion  between  the  two  terms  in 
their  etymology?  Boawortb,  whose  remarks  are 
|jenerall)r  characterized  by  good  sense,  thinks  there 
IS.  He  supposes  the  primary  meaning  to  be  that 
of  security^  ?ciV  being  often  used  for  a  fortress  or 
castle,  and,  in  like  manner,  the  Danish  vig  wj*8  a 
placo  of  security  for  vessels.  There  is  another 
word,  xoig^  meaning  war,  or  battle,  but  the 
radical  is  different.  Several  other  authorities  coun- 
teniaice  the  same  view. 


Let  ua  now  turn  our  attention  to  the  salt  witku. 
The  principal  seats  of  the  salt  manafaciaro  in 
England  are  in  Cheshire  and  Woiceeterskire,  and 
they  are  almost  entirely  confined  to  the  places 
with  the  suffix  widi.  When  the  salt  duty 
repealed  in  1824,  there  were  i«eventy*five  i 
where  salt  was  made  from  brine  springs,  or 
salt,  the  whole  of  which,  with  the  exception  of  twx^' 
in  Durham,  of  recent  discovery,  were  located  at 
the  Wiches  of  Cheshire,  Droitwich,  in  Worcester- 
shire, and  Shirley  Wich  in  Staffordshire, 
cumstances  remain  much  the  same  at  the  preaail^ 
day. 

The  earliest  seat  of  the  salt  msnu/actnre  in 
England  was  in  Worcestershire.  There  have  been 
extensive  Roman  remains  found  at  Droitwich,  and 
some  have  placed  there  the  Boman  town  of  Snlinfi, 
The  earliest  post-Roman  notice  is  a.d,  81  G,  when 
Kenulph,  King  of  Mercia,  gave  ten  hous^  in 
Wick  (now  Droitwich),  with  salt  furnaces  (salinie), 
to  the  Church  of  Worcester. 

In  Domesday  Sun^ey  there  is  a  remarkable 
difference  between  the  entries  of  the  wits  and  th«j 
vnches.  Many  of  the  ordinary  townships  wh- 
there  Is  no  reference  to  salt  hfive  the  terminntioaj 
'Wic  or -rte,  as  Willingewic,  Celdwic,  &c.,  but,  li 
every  instance  where  salt  works  are  mention 
whatever  be  the  name  of  the  township,  the  Mit] 
works  are  called  unch.  In  Childeminatre  Manorij 
with  sixteen  outlying  Beracickg,  or  hamlets,  nonft: 
of  the  names  of  which  end  in  mc,  the  gei 
assemblace  of  salt  works  is  called  rdch^  now 
rmch.  The  brine  springs  (pntei)  are  described 
three  portions,  Wicn,  Mi  dole  wic,  and  a  third  not 
specially  named.  There  were  five  putHj  and  136 
salt-pans  [salintf)*  In  the  reign  of  Henry  VII, 
Leland  describes  the  same  works  as  Upwir*^ 
Middlewich,  and  Netherwich. 

The  Cheshire  salt-works  are  described  in  Domes* 
day  in  much  the  same  terms  : — **  Temp, 
Edw.  erat  ia  Warmundstrov  Hund,  unum  Wit 
in  quo  erafc  puteus  ad  sal  faciendum";  "la 
Mildefivich  Hund.  erat  aliud  Widi"  &c.  ;  **Ili 
eo^iem  Hund,  erat  tertium  BWA  quod  voostttr 
Nor-wich  ;  consuetudinea  erant  ibi  qute  emnt  in 
nJiis  Wichis^'*  &c. 

In  1345,  according  to  Matt.  Paris^  Henry  11 
in  order  to  distress  the  Welsh,  who  had  made 
irruption  into  Cheshire,  **  puteos  fecerat  de  W\ 
obturari  et  everti/'     In  the  reign  of  Edward  I„ 
a  pipe  roll  of  the  expenses  of  conveying  the 
robe  of  the  Princess  Elizabeth  by  way  of  Ni 
wich  and  Macclesfield,  the  entry  is  ^^Le  Flj 
Cest^  Wiz  et  Maclesfield.'* 

Brine  springs  have  also  been  worked  at 
vdch  lind  Fouhoich,  in  Broxton  Hundred*  and 
Shirtey  IVich  in  Staffordshire. 

It  appears  from    these    statements  to    be 
established  fact  that,  from  the  time  of  the  Mcrcisil' 
Angles,  the  inland  salt-works  have  been  known 


not 

136^ 

richjj^l 


6»aaoot.ir.'7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


311 


> 


by  the  distinctive  appellation  of  mchei,  and  that 
nilt  has  been  made  nowhere  else.  It  in  an 
Additional  confirmation  that  the  honses  containing 
the  salt-fMuu  have  always  gone  by  the  name  of 
tryck  boufles* 

A»»axniiic  these  &ct8,  whence  ia  the  name  de- 
rired  I  Following  the  lead  of  Mr,  Taylor  {Words 
and  Pla€u\  in  my  fonner  article  the  view  I  stated 
was  that  the  terra  waa  *'  derived  indirectly  from 
the  None  vig"  the  inlets  ao  called  having  been 
the  primitive  »eats  of  the  salt  manumctnre^ 
Further  research  liaa  convinced  me  that  this  theory 
cannot  be  maintained.  The  tcnu  wich^  used  in 
816  to  describe  the  Worcentershiro  salt-work^, 
ooiild  not  have  been  thus  derived^  for  the  North- 
men had  scarcely  set  foot  in  England  at  that  time. 
Further,  the  salt  works  at  Hay  ling  Island  and 
eliewhere  on  the  coa^t,  mentioned  in  Domesday, 
are  always  called  ^a/iw^F,  never  vnck*  But  if  not 
so  derived^  whence  came  the  term  \  It  cannot  be 
*aid  that  it  was  given  by  the  Cymry  before  the 
arrival  of  the  Saxons,  for  wich  has  no  such  me/in- 
ing  in  the  Cambrian  tongue.  The  brine  springs 
were  known  in  the  time  of  the  Romans,  and  we 
know  not  how  long  before.  Is  it  beyond  the 
bounds  of  possibility  that  the  name  may  hstve 
existed  before  the  Celtic  immigration  into  Briiiin, 
and  is  a  relic  from  the  Euskarian  races  who  pre- 
ceded the  Celts  ?  In  the  Basque  language  gaiz 
is  the  word  for  salt.  I  have  not  at  hand  the 
Pinnish  or  Lappish  equivalents.  Perhaps  some 
philological  inquirer  may  supply  this,  and  throw 
some  light  on  the  solution  of  a  question  which, 
thoagh  of  limited  extent,  is  attended  with  con- 
nderahie  difficulty. 

Amongst  the  extensive  MS.  collections  belonging 
to  the  Corporation  of  Liverpool,  I  hare  met  with 
an  account  of  the  sidt  works  in  Cheshire  drawn  tip 
about  thp  middle  of  the  last  century,  by  Mr. 
He?  ens,  who  was  largely  engaged  in  the 

trti^  1  . » was  himself  a  Low  German  by  birth. 

He  duiivc%b  the  term  ujtrA  from  Low  German  wijck 
or  ttn'cra,  sacred,  devoted,  alleging  that  the  Northern 
luitioDS  attached  great  sanctity  to  salt  springs  from 
Iheif  hiftlliig  qualities. 

In  jhsferenoe  to  hol^  hcUle^  and  ftalkin  in  connexioD 
with  the  salt  manufacture,  I  have  very  little  to 
Mid*  Mr.  Taylor  refers  to  Prot  Leo,  and  to 
fieoder,  Mahn,  Grimm  and  Gamett,  in  support  of 
hit  views,  I  will  quot€  a  few  words  from  tne  last 
writer  (Phil.  Eim^fg,  p.  149):— 

**  H&lte  ftod  HaUein  &ra  DB.meB  of  Tanous  plices  io 
Poutherti  «t)d  Middle  OerciKny  poneniiig  nJt  worka; 
and  in  some  JcM:]ditief  KaH  in  used  «•  fttimpleappellatife, 
'  '":  ^  ftiiY  pUce  where  ialt  is  m&nafaciiired.  It  is 
II  tisai  Southern  Germany  was  long  occupied 
I  tril«e,  raany  of  them  emigrants  W)m  Gaul, 

isMd  ihU  at  ouct  polnu  out  the  Cymric  and  Armorican 
|Aa/>  ia^ntj  nit,  ai  the  etymology  ^  lueh  places,'^ 

Oms  word  with  W.  B.  before  parting.  He  is 
evkleiiily  not  accaitomed  to  philological  inquiries. 


or  he  would  not  have  penned  such  a  sentence  $» 
the  following : — 

'*  There  it  no  more  sertous  fallacy  than  the  aasampMon 
thjit  modem  WeUh  and  Gaelic  may  be  taken  aa  safe 

guides  in  the  interpretation  of  uncient  names, There 

is  no  part  of  Britain  m  which  local  names  hare  been  to 
^nerally  metamorphosed  in  order  to  adapt  them  to 
modem  meaniDgs  as  Wales." 

I  would  merely  ask  if  a  modem  language  is  no 
guide  to  the  study  of  its  mother  tongue,  where  are 
we  to  find  such  a  guide  ?  As  to  the  place-names 
in  Wales  having  been  metamorphosed  as  W.  B. 
describes,  my  own  experience^  which  is  now  of 
some  standing,  is  to  the  direct  contrary.  There  ia 
no  country  in  Europe  in  which  the  names  of  places 
are  more  easily  interpreted  than  the  Principality, 
Pwlhelli  is  not  the  **  salt  pools ''  because  of  the 
salt  water  in  the  sea,  but  because  of  the  salt-pans 
or  lagoons  in  which  the  sea  water  was  evaporated. 

J.   A,   PlCTOK. 

Saadyknowe. 

Mr.  PicTON  is  undoubtedly  right  in  regard  to 
the  use  of  iHch  as  a  place-name.  In  the  many 
trieki  and  t/wib  in  Devonshire  there  Ls  no  inference 
tu  the  nature  of  the  locality  or  to  water.  The 
word  simply  means  "  habitation."  The  wot  means 
to  **  enter,"  to  **  arrive,"  in  Sanscrit,  where  already 
it  served  to  designate  a  dwelling.  In  Norse 
Viljt.1  means  to  go,"  to  ** traverse''  fcompare 
German  irc^^  English  way),  and  it  is  probable  the 
Northmen  appli^  this  root  to  their  fiords,  calling 
them  the  way,  the  path  (compare  the  Greek  name  of 
the  sea,  poittoff,  the  path).  The  Northmen  (FtZi- 
iii^s)  gave  the  name  to  similar  inlets  which  they 
frequented  in  England,  and  where  in  many  cases 
Midt  was  made ;  hence  the  connexion  of  tekk  with 
salt-works. 

With  regard  to  the  halt  and  sals,  it  is  neoeasaiy 
to  be  very  cautious.  In  German  both  forms,  hal 
and  sal,  are  used  for  a  building,  from  a  very  general 
root,  meaning  to  "  cover.*'  Nor  need  we  go  to  the 
idea  of  salt  for  the  explanation  of  the  names  of 
rivers,  such  as  Saal,  &c.  In  Sanscrit  mUi  =  run- 
ning water:  root  #aZ=:to  ^.  It  is  more  likely 
that  the  name  salt  was  denved  from  that  of  the 
sea,  from  the  above  root  (Greek  aAy,  halt),  than  vic6 
vtral  C.  O.  B. 

Tlie  name  of  the  Essex  Halstead  is  said  to  he 
from  hcrt-gttdl—  healthy  place,  which  agrees  with 
its  situation.  Eallein  is  found  in  Latin  Halla; 
and  HiiUe  (Latin  Hula)  in  Saxony,  according  to 
Lamartinifere^  was  originally  DobrAotxt  or  Dobrt' 
talii^  which  he  renders  Bon  Set;  bat  perhaps  a 
better  translation  of  DobresaLi  (which  would 
seem  to  be  a  Slavonic  compound)  is  "  good  hall** 
Wachter  renders  hall^  saUna  ;  and  hall,  domus, 
polatium,  no  doubt,  i.q.  ted,  domus,  temptum^ 
aula,  pal  at  i  urn,  curia.  We  have  Halle  in  Anvers, 
Brabant,  Gelderhind,  Brunswick^  axyl  WvjefcsjBa2e*.% 


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t5*arLOttrI7^7C 


tat  I  dowbt  whether  any  of  these  had  their  n&mes 
from  salt  mines  or  works.  Agaia,  there  is  an 
ohjectrion  to  Kelto-Teutonic  compoimde,  unless 
part  of  the  compound  is  from  a  ri^^r  name.  Eu- 
ropean river  names  ue  generally  derived  from  a 
Keltic  word  signifying  **  wnt^f '*  or  *Vriv^/'  or 
from  such  ii  word  and  &  irooable  denoting  the 
quality  of  the  water ;  but  not  UAually  from  a 
simple  word  signifying^  for  instunce,  "  salt," 
*'  black,"  '*  whiie/^  "  red/'  ''  great,"  ''  tittle."  Saal 
ui  the  appellation  of  two  rivers  of  Bavaria,  and 
4)ne  in  Pomeramiu  There  is  the  Saale  in  Saxony 
and  Sakburg  ;  the  Saalach  in  Bavaria  ;  the  Saal- 
biLch  in  Baden.  Theae  namea  aru  probably  from 
KelHo  al,  ilj  *^  water^"  preHxed  by  sigma*  The 
aamo  root  h  found  in  the  river  names  Bil,  Bill^ 
Till,  Bdl,  Gille,  Willy,  Bille.  IL  S.  GHAttNOCK. 
Graj'i  Inn. 

I  gather  from  Miss  R,  H.  Busk's  Valkys  of  Tirol^ 
p,  149,  &c,,  that  there  were  Sidt-works  in  operation 
m  the  neighbourhood  of  Hall^  North  Tirol,  as 
early  as  the  eighth  century  ;  and  that  even  in  the 
present  day  its  chief  industry  la  manufacture  of 
the  Kalt  brought  from  Sabburg.  ''  The  Hallthal  " 
is  "otherwise  called  the  StdtxthaL"  Miss  Busk 
quotes  Weber's  derivation  of  Hall,  from  a\%  salt, 
remarking,  ^^  though  tr/^^  it  should  have  been  dc^ 
riv^d  from  the  Greek  he  doejs  not  expkin.'' 

St.  SwiTHiN. 

fTMs  dIacuifiOQ  is  now  olofed.  ] 


SunniijY  Provincialisms  (5^  S.  l  361,  434, 
517.)^I  kive  often  thought  of  writing  a  note 
about  provincialimns^  in  the  hopc^  that  it  might 
leiul  to  more  care  on  the  part  of  those  who  writ^» 
abomt  them.  I  regret  to  say  tbnt  I  huve  repentedly 
aein  nwds  put  down  as  provincialisms  limited  to 
a  particular  county  when  I  well  knew  that  they 
were  in  use  in  other  uuuntics^  Nor  is  this  all ; 
''  N.  «&  Q."  has  not  unoommonly  b«en  favoured 
with  words  as  provincialisms  which  are  goed  Eng- 
lish words,  and  used  by  standard  authors*  Now, 
the  use  of  "  N.  &  Q/'  in  this  maitter  depends 
entirely  upon  the  a<'curmjy  of  the  statements  as  to 
the«c  words,  and  where  such  errors  iis  I  have 
referred  to  are  made,  uncertainty,  if  not  mistake, 
is  likely  to  be  occasioned.  A  very  long  and  not 
inattentive  observation  leads  me  to  think  that  it  is 
a  moat  hazardous  thing  to  iissert  that  any  word  is 
limited  to  a  particular  district.  In  the  evidence  in 
Jessie  M*LachIan's  case  at  Ghwjjow  I  yma  not  a 
little  surprised  to  see  sundry  words  and  cxprerfsions 
^whifth  were  couiraon  in  the  Midland  Counties, 
The  first  time  I  went  to  Whitby  I  was  equally 
^  Stupruied  to  hear  not  only  Derbyshire  words,  but 
a  great  similarity  in  tone,  whilst  I  never  observed 
anything  of  the  kind  at  Harrogate.  I  am  so 
impressed  with  the  difficulty  of  fixing  the  locality 


!  aroidc^l 


of  any  word,  that  I  would  never  YtmfOt^  \ 

more  than  say  that  such  a  word  was  u&ed  in 
particular  district,  and  that  can  lead  fn  tro  mi: 
chief,  whether  the  word  is  used  eh*' 

The  article  last  referred  to  at  th 
note  supplies  me  with  plenty  of  illutttrati 
what  I  mean  ;  and  I  tni»t  uiis  note  may 
supposed  to  be  written  foi  '    r  purpoofr' 

to  point  out  the  errors  T  i  to  sec 

Cfi(iHi9e^  **  to  scold  vioifiitiv,  is  very  cotiMnoa 
in  the  Midland  Counties,  and  is  a  gvxKt  &gUil 
word, 

'*  That  r  may  pour  my  spirits  Iti  thino 
And  c}iajihi$fi^  irifK  the  r(Uo»r  of -m^  ttyi 
All  that  imped w  thcc,"— *SA«ib|waww 
The  word,  like  its  original,  co#f»yc»',  mi 
tion  with  words  as  well  ss  with  a<?tiB* 

Sher^,  **to  prop  up,"  is  very  cmnmoti  m  tht 
Midland  Counties,  and  is  a  good  English  won! 
(Johnson's  Dictimianj) ;  and  so  is  the  substaittive 
shore^  which  denotes  not  only  "  a  buttrow^" 
anything  by  which  a  building,  &c.,  is  sllofed  isp^ 

Sfmt,  *^to  get  rid  o£,"  is  not  on'  '<,«  i 

the  Midland  Counties,  but  also  n  '^gW 

word.  Johnson^s   DteHona/nj  givee      ria 
meaning. 

Use,  *'  to  aecnstom  to,*^is  comroon  in  the  IfMted 
Conn  ties,  and  a  good  Bn^^lish  word.  JohniuMi't 
Dii'tionartf  ha«  "  to  aecustom  to,"  ^  to  habtiuatn.** 

Ja*%,  ^'^  exactly,**  "  accurately,"  is  common  la 
the  Midland  Counties,  and  a  good  Mngliah  woni 
Johnjion's  Dirtiomtfy  hoa  **ppopeily,"  **iiaaetlf," 
*'  accurately." 

Pemi,  '^'lively,"  **  brisk,"  is  comm<m  in  th«  Mai* 
land  Counties.  **  Market  peirt,**  a  man  isdttd 
by  liquor,  dnink  at  a  market,  Pfeart  ia  only  ihe 
vulgar  pronuncLition  of  pert  [  and  attraly  lbs 
vulgar  pronunciation  of  a  word  doe»  not  eoamobr 
a  prc»\'incial  word. 

A  deaf  man,  "  hard  of  hearing,**  is  commoii  ii 
the  Midland  Counties. 

Spilt  is   merely   the  vulj^r    prontimdatioQ   of 
spoilt,  just  as  loike  is  of  like,  the  o  being 
in  the  one  and  inserted  in  the  other. 

I  have  said  enough  to  point  o»Jt  what  f 
and,  therefore,  will  add  notliing  on  other  pares  of 
the  note  to  which  I  have  referred.  C.  ft,  S* 

The  word«  amtndtr,  ammdtmmiif  nas  tiied  iM 

French  with  the  same  meaaiag  aa  am«n4mmii  M 
Surrey.  The  French  have  also  tha  loeutioti  *^4iat 
d'oreiUe,'*  whicli  answers  to  the  Bmr^yiam  **  hud 
of  hearing,"  said  of  a  deaf  man. 

AjT  Ac»d«my. 

GfiAirps  o»  Noftn.TTT  to  Foamawfaa  (B^  S. 
447,    516  ;    ii    51)     '"'  "    ""*     ^ 

Uogelander,    Hoi  I 
baron  et  pair  d'Angi^  -->  ♦*u 
pns  ^t^  confirm^,  Jonklieer ) "  i 


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] 


-?f  du  Armoiri^ 
lies  dt  I* Europe^ 
pjur  J.  B.  Kut^tup,  Gouda,  IbOl,  The  prevalent 
Engliib  notion  (juatJy  <leiicTibed  by  Mr,  Wood- 
wAttO  as  "  utterly  absurd  '*)  that  nobility  is  con- 
fined to  peers,  ani  Mich  of  th^ir  sons  as  bear  the 
conr*"  •  •  ''  '  '  ]  i]:.j>cars  to  me  not  to  be  so 
rnji  I  we  find  it  countenanced  by 

thtj  i-vAi.vuc.  i.i  J\L,<iij,ci  smd  BarondageSy  whoy  by 
nioBt  people,  are  deeraed  authorities  on  auch 
safn\'rL^  A  nnpiilir  uork  of  tliiti  deiicriptioii  now 
b**!"  r  J  article  on  the     Nobility 

u:  ;     ^   ;       which  commences — 

^Heraldic  twtborifclea  divide  the  nobiiitj  of  thii  king- 
^  into  two  onJerSj— the  grtater  and  tiio   i^w,— the 
nirr  ooniittlng  of  idji  the  degreet  from  a  baron  up- 
dt  Aiid    inclikeiire ;    the    latter,  of  tb«  baronets,* 
fhta  m^tninm,  md  ^otJeniffft/* 

;ied  editor  bad  been  flattsfied  with  the 
er  '  I  nation  of  what  in  mount  by  nobility^ 

t  V  ■  been  better  than  to  publish  vulgar 

rr<  subject,  as  follows  : — 

"  Pnctkmtly,  Iioireyer,  the  onlj  recognti ed  noblemen 
iifiiOBgit  m  sre  the  peera  ipiritual  and  temporal,  and 
tbnee  who,  by  eourtety,  bear  titlei  in  virtue  ol  their  im- 
mediate  coimexioo  with  noble  b«iij«i." 

Again  ; — 

**  Praaiioally,  the  degfeea  of  the  aobility  .,.  are  fire : 
Dukes  {kc.^  to  Baroiu),  ta  which  may  be  add^d  a  ttxth^f 
m%,f  Archbiihops  and  Diihopi.'^ 

The   public   having   been   Informed   ai   to  the 
*^  pmcticftUy  recognized  noblemen/'  are  then  en- 
lii^htcned  iis  to  the  mm- practice  I  nobles  ;  the  title 
of  e«qutit!  i«,  we  are  told,  of  right  due  to  ■'  all 
L  D  ' practically    recognized  'J    nobleuKJUs    yoiinger 
^' ;  that  the  oilier  of  baronets  **  k  now  a  dignified 
of  heredihtry  disitinction,^  whatever  thsit 
/  meiin  ;  tl      '  have  their  precedency 

from  baronet  wiyes  have  not,  thi^ 

beiii^  hni  a  tempuniry  ai^nity,  and  the  other  an 
kerilaibto."  After  reading  this  (juotation  from 
Niit»et,  we  turn  to  the  **  Table  of  Precedency  *'  to 
«ee  the  position  of  baronet^sj^es,  and  find  that 
them  !adie»,  the  wive«  of  younger  sons  of  barons 
mad  YimsOfmtBy  and  maids  of  hooour,  are  all  placed 
i^/ltr  wives  of  Knights  of  the  Gfirter,  and  of 
Numefttn  royal,  in  the  teeth  of  Niabef  s  authority, 
**a  write?  of  minut'e  research"  !  Such  want  of 
mr  if  care  in  the  compilation  of  *^  Tables 

€>f  i  y  "  i*  not  confined  to  the  vTork  quoted, 

AQd  the  &Ame  tendency  to  ignore  the  nobdity  oi 


•  The  editor  omits  to  notice  that  "hemldlu  autho- 
riile*"  are  not  agreed  a«  to  whether  horonete  belong 
to  the  prrit^'r  vT  le??  nnbitlty  {^de  Colltni*H  MnglisL 
B'i  /r).     The   Committee  of 

thr.'  lisierted,  with  apparent 

ed  was  the  Bixth 

ii^refore  of  Dobility 

I  tho  tSHtijb  Empire  ;  and 

"    "I  by  a  feat  in  the  Lordj 


the  British  gentry  may  be  traced  in  other  works 
hujxu  gen^rii,  C.  S,  K, 

pRnrr  Ooitkcil  JaDOKKirr  :  Lfdhell  v.  Wes- 
TERTON  {h^  S.  ii,  128,  157,  175,  211,  238.)— I  can 
only  describe  Mb,  Pickeriko^s  mode  of  reasomng 
upon  legal  subjects  as  "perverse."  To  be  sure, 
judgments  cannot  be  altered  after  they  are  recorded. 
But  the  ftict  \&  quite  irrelevant  to  this  discussion, 
Mr.  PiCKERiNa  must  distinguish  between  the 
judgm^yU  imd  the  r&tuons  for  th^  judgvvmt  There 
is  nothing  to  prevent  a  judge,  who  has  passed 
sentence  of  death  upon  a  man,  from  afterwards 
correcting  a  mis-statement  of  fact  in  the  printed 
report  of  his  address  to  the  prisoner,  Ijaymen 
who  dogmatically  lay  down  ttiat  such  and  such  ^ 
course  of  proceeding  is  "unknown  to  the  thtK»ry  of 
the  Eoglish  bw,'  should  be  quite  certain  that  they 
understand  the  legal  force  of  simple  technical 
terms,  such  as  '^judgment/' 

Bradford. 

Tltia  discussion  reminds  me  of  fi  section  in 
Blacks  tone,  pat  enough  for  a  parallel,  and  (pimnt 
enough  to  bear  repetition,  where  other  minds  than 
those  of  lawyers  may  muse  over  it,  and  be 
amui^ed  by  it  : — 

*'  If  a  man  eoanterfeit  the  King's  jrreat  or  priry  eeal, 
this  iff  ateo  hi^h  treaaoa.  But  if  a  man  tekei  wax  bear- 
ing tbe  iinpre«iion  of  th*  fcce»t  seal  off  from  one  paitent, 
and  fixes  io  another,  this  19 held  to  be  oAly  an  abuse  of  the 
Msal.  and  not  a  oounterfeitinf  of  it :  at  woe  the  case  of  a 
certain  chaplain,  who  in  such  manner  framed  a  diipeniift> 
tion  for  non-residence.  But  tbe  knavish  artifice  of  a 
hiwyer  much  exceeded  tbii  of  the  diTino.  Otir  of  the 
clerks  in  Chancery  gJaed  together  two  piece<t  of  pM«h' 
mentp  on  the  uppermost  of  which  he  wrote  &  patent,  to 
which  he  rezularlj  obtaiaed  the  ^v&ht  weal,  the  label 
Ijoin^  throufcn  both  the  skins.  He  then  dissolTed  tto 
cemenfc ;  and  taking  off  Che  written  patent,  on  tbe  blank 
akin  wrote  a  fre»h  pateat,  of  a  different  import  from  the 
former,  and  published  it  as  true.  This  was  held  no 
counterfeiting  of  the  great  seal,  but  only  a  gieat  mis- 
prision; and  Sir  Edward  Coke  (*5  luiL^  1€)  mentions  it 
with  some  Indignatioa,  tbiit  the  party  ws«  living  at  that 
dsy," — C<mim*niariu,  Book  iv*,  ah.  6y  t»  5,  ed.  1796^ 
?oL  iT.,  pp.  [83]  [84]. 

A  question  was  further  iiaked  by  another  corre^ 
Bipondent,  to  tbe  etfect,  if  measures  w«re  taken  to 
enforce  the  real  but  wrong  judgment,  either  before 
or  after  the  promulgation  iu  its  place  of  the  more 
correct  but  counterfeit  judgment,  what  would  be 
the  congeciuence  ?  Let  Blackslone  speak  agaia^ 
vol  iv.,  p.  [393]  :— 

"  When  judjrment,  prononncfd  npogt  conricti'^ii,  ie 
falsified  or  reversed,  ail  former  proeeeolii^  aro  absolutely 
set  aside,  and  the  f»aj-ty  Atandji  as  if  he  had  never  been 
accused.  .  .  .  But  he  still  remains  liable  to  another  pro^ 
secution  for  the  same  offence :  for  the  first  being 
erroneous,  he  xwver  was  in  jeopardf  Ihsreby/* 

This,  too,  is  an  apt  parallel  What  was  done 
in  **Liddel!  n  Westertoiv^l 

3 ,  "^^  ^^yKMato- 


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[fi«*g,aOcr,l7,*?l. 


Fox-HiTKTiNG  (5^  S,  u.  248.) — Axon  ia  no 
doubt  familijir  with  the  Tory  fox -hunter  who, 
**  always  living  out  of  the  way  of  being  better  in- 
formed/^ said  that  there  had  been  no  good  weather 
for  his  sport  since  the  Revolution  ;  and  **  affirmed 
roundly  that  there  had  not  been  one  good  lnw 
passed  since  King  Wiiliam^a  accession  to  the 
throne  except  the  act  for  preserving  the  game/* 
(Addison's  Freehold/^rj  No.  22,  1716,  a  paper  which 
for  delicate  humour  is  equal  to  any  of  the  Coverley 
^p€ctat<>rs).  The  doora  of  Sir  Roger  de  Coverle/s 
stable  were,  it  will  be  remembered,  '*  patched 
with  Noses  that  belonged  to  Foxes  of  the  Knight's 
own  hunting  down.  Sir  Roger  showed  me  one  of 
them  that  for  Distinction'  sake  has  a  brass  Nail 
struck  through  it,  which  cost  him  about  fifteen 
Hours*  riding,  carried  him  through  half  a  dozen 
Counties,  killed  him  a  Brace  of  Geldingfl,  and  lost 
aWve  half  his  Bogn''  (Spectator,  Ko.  115,  1711). 

J.  E,  Bailey. 

[Addition  shows  he  was  no  fox<hunter^  or  he  would 
hiivc  said  **  hQund*"  not  "*  dogs*" J 

Haddbnham  Churcth  Bells  (5*"*  S.  ii,  147, 
194.)-For  "CrosfiweU"  (p,  194)  read  CropwtU. 
For  information  respecting  the  Oldfielda  and  their 
bell  01  arks  J I  would  suggest  reference  to  **  Notes  on 
Nottinwliiimshire  Campanology  "by  William  Philli- 
more  W.  Sliif  (now  Phillimore),  whicli  appeared 
in  the  Rduiimry  in  October,  187:2  ;  the  Belb  of 
JJcrbifshire^  by  Llewellyn  Jewitt,  F.S.A.,  appear- 
ing in  the  Heliquartj ;  Deering^a  Nottinghamia 
Vetun  d  Not^j  1761,  and  works  relating  to  Not- 
tinghamshire.     J.  Potter  Briscoe,  F.R.H.S. 

Nottiagham. 

pRONFNciATiON  (5^  S.  11.  267.)— I  think 
H,  A.  W.  must  be  aware  that  the  three  words 
which  he  has  mentioned  are  only  specimens  out  of 
a  very  large  list.  But  the  precise  question  which 
he  puts  is  irrelevant.  In  *  singing  or  chanting,'^ 
as  is  notorious,  one  syllable  may  be  indefinitely 
multiplied  into  any  number  of  syllables* 

He  probably  assumes,  however,  that  the  pro- 
nunciation in  singing  is  the  same  as  in  spe^iking, 
or  rather,  as  it  is  the  only  relation  in  which  the 
question  is  important  or  even  perceptible,  in  jtoelry. 
In  this  view  I  apprehend  that  miVf,  firr^  ^mr«,  &c., 
are  always  monosyllables.  Prayer ^  I  bdui^e^  is 
strictly  a  diay liable,  but  is  almost,  if  not  quite 
always  used  as  a  monoayOable.  That  it  was 
originally  a  disyllabic  tuay,  probably,  be  proved 
by  a  consideration  which  applies  to  the  other 
word  h^avet^^  and  te  a  very  great  number  of  others : 
that  when  in  verse  they  appear  as  a  monosyllable, 
it  is  stiU  usual  with  some  writ  en?,  and  wfis,  I 
think,  universal,  to  write  them  with  an  apostrophe, 
thus,  **pray'r/'  "heaVn.**  I  think  the  partial  dis- 
continuance of  this  practice  is  due  to  the  belief  that 
we  are  at  liberty,  without  indicating  any  change 
in  writing  the  word,  to  pronounce  it  either  "way. 


Among  the  few  innovations  which  survived,  in  ' 
the  abortive  attempt  of  Archdeacon  Hare  itnd 
others  to  reform  our  spelling,  was  the  word  "firr/ 
which  he  always  wrote.  **  Ftery '^  is  no  doubt  inde- 
fensible on  any  theory  i  but,  much  as  it  looks  like 
a  trisyllable,  it  has  never  been  used  but  as  a  di- 
ayllable.  Lyttkltoit. 

"  As  SouyD  AS  A  RoACHE  "  (5^  S.  iL  274.)— 
St.  Roche,  not  the  fish,  is  spoken  of  in  the  pro- 
verb. He  was  invoked  against  pestilence  {see 
Eecon'fl  Faihway  unto  Frayer^  i.,  139),  Roke'<H 
Roque's,  or  Rook's  Hill,,  near  Chichester,  still  bears 
the  name  of  this  devoted  man,  who,  at  Piacenza, 
ministered,  like  Charles  Borromeo  at  I^lilan,  and 
the  famous  Mompesson  of  Eyam,  to  those  suffering 
under  the  scourge  of  the  plague  :  he  died  Aug,  10, 
1327.  He  is  nsutiUy  represented  pointing  to  on 
ulcer  in  his  left  thigh,  which  was  bealed  by  his 
*^  good  angel  ^'  Gothard, 

Mackeksie  E.  0,  Waloott, 

H.  J.  Bellars  (5***  S.  ii.  28.)— The  title  is 
lUuMrat&d  Catalogue  of  British  Land  and  Fruh' 
rmter  Shelhi^  by  H.  J.  Bellars,  Hon.  Sec.  and 
Curator  of  Chester  Nat,  Hist,  Soc,,  publi*ihed  at 
Chester  by  Messrs,  MinshuU  &  Hugli,  1858.  The 
work  is  8vo.,  contjiining  thirty  pages  and  four 
plates.  Bellars  also  drew  upon  a  large  stone  "  The 
Historical  Numismatic  Atlas  of  the  Roman  Em- 
pire "  ;  it  contains  216  heads  of  Emperors,  with 
their  dales  and  comparative  rarity  of  their  coins, 
and  was  published  by  Peter  Whelan,  of  London. 

A.  W.  W, 

Leeds. 

Bunyan's  Gold  Ring  (5**^  S.  iL  126.)— I  donat 
know  who  is  the  present  possessor  of  Bunyan's 
ring,  but  any  one  who  feek  an  interest  in  the 
relic  wiU  find  a  long  account  of  it,  with  two  wood- 
cuts, in  Jttbez  Allies's  A  ntiquitie$  and  Folk-Loft 
of  Wt/rcfJsUrMre^  2nd  ed.,  1852.  H.  B* 

"  Wappen'd  Widow"  (5^  S.  iL  224.)— WiU  the 
following  bit  from  Oower  help  to  throw  bght  oa 
the  meaning  of  the  word  i  In  the  commencement 
of  the  Sixth  Book  of  his  Confessio  AmanlU^  be 
describes  '*  drookeshyp  "  at  some  length,  and  with 
considerable  humour,  ending  thus ; — 
*'  He  drynketb  tho  W3rne,  but  at  latt 

The  vvyne  drynketh  hiiUr  »nd  hjnt  htm  fast. 

And  {€jth  hym  dronke  by  tho  w&lle 

As  hyraj  which  is  bis  bonde  thralki 

And  %\1  in  his  subiection, 

And  lyche  to  sucht  condicion 

Ai  for  to  speke  it  otherwyse, 

It  fnlkth  that  the  most  wyso 

Ben  other  whyle  of  love  adotcd. 

And  HO  biichappid  and  acioted 

Of  dronken  men*  that  oeuer  vet 

Was  none  which  half  so  lost  hii  wytte 

Of  drynke,  am  they  of  such  thyngas  do, 

M^hich  cleped  is  the  iolyfe  wo.'* 


4 


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I 

1 1 


I 
I 


In  tbe  Glostarj  to  Speight's  Chaucer^  1602,  the 
meaning  of  "  wapped "  is  given  as  **  daanted." 
Gower  appears  to  have  meant  by  it  atupified, 
entlinillea,  of  an  absence  of  free  agency. 

R.  R. 
Bofton. 

Smrelj  the  word  "wappen'd"  has  reference  to 
the  arms  or  escutcheon  borne  by  a  widow. 

Arthur  H.  Browic» 
Brentwwra* 

QtroTATioNs  Wanted  (5*'*  S.  il  227.)— "A 
daughter  of  the  gods,"  &e..  ia  from  Tennyson's 
I}nam  of  Fair  Womai^  twentieth  verse.     F.  L. 

Bat  who  is  **  a  cavalier  that  bore  a  lady  from  a 
leagner^d  town,"  in  the  Bame  poem !     F.  Stohr. 

It  is  aaid  of  Helen  of  Troy.  D.  M.  S. 

*'  Before  my  lace  my  handkerchief/'  &c.,  occurs 
in  Pope^s  tranalation  of  Chaucer's  Prologue  to  the 
Wife  q/BoUi'b  Tale,  F.  Baxter. 

**  Bold  and  erect,"  &c. — The  qtiatmin  inquired 
after  by  Mr.  Wallace  wrs  written  by  the 
lUiT,  Jolm  Home,  author  of  Douglm^  a  Trnfjtdtf. 
1  tisnacribe  the  foUowinfj  from  Chambera's  Bio- 
ympiUcal  IHciionary  of  Eminent  Scotmnen- : — 

**  Mr»  John  Homo  had  the  old  Scottisb  proponeisioa 
in  favour  of  daret,  and  utterhr  detcBted  port.  ^Yhen  tlie 
fortner  driak  was  cxucllcd  from  the  market  by  high 
dutiM,  be  wrote  the  following  epigram,  as  it  haj  been 
^led.  thoagh  we  coafeaa  wti  are  at  a  Io»s  to  observe 
aaythiog  in  it  but  a  uarmtive  of  Buppr>s6d  facte : — 
*  Fiirm  and  erect  the  Caledonioti  ttood^ 

Old  waa  hu  mattoDj  and  hia  claret  good  ; 

*'  Let  htm  drink  port,"  an  English  «tAtesmati  cried, — 

He  drank  the  poison,  and  hii  spirit  died/ 
Darid  Hume,  who  to  bb  latent  breath  contiuued  the 
•aioe  playful  being  he  had  e?er  been,  made  the  following 
altiition  to  the  two  controversiea^  io  a  codicil  to  hU  will, 
dated  only  eighteen  daji  before  hia  death:  'I  leave  to 
my  fnend,  3lr,  John  Home,  of  Kildyff^  ten  doien  of  my 
old  c?nrct.  nt  hia  choice,  and  one  otber  bottle  of  that 
otlir  lod  port.     I  also  leave  him  six  dozen  of 

jKirt  Ijat  he  attetti  utider  his  own  haod,  aigoed 

Johu  V,  ,  ..,  LUat  he  hu  himeelf  alone  finished  that 
bottle  at  two  littings.  By  this  concession  he  will  at  once 
tenutoate  the  only  two  differences  that  ever  aroae 
between  us  in  temporal  matters/  '' 

It  may  here  be  stated,  that  although  the  two 
fiends  spelt  their  names  differently,  they  pro- 
nounced them  in  the  &ame  way— a  castom  that 
yet  prevails  in  some  parts  of  Scotland, 

James  Hogo. 

SItrtlng. 

An  account  of  the  circumstances  under  which 
iliia  epigmm  waa  called  forth  will  be  found  in 
W^  S.  xu.  293  ;  3'^  S.  viiL  39,        J.  Majcdel. 

176w«MtJtapon-Tynfl. 

TE»!rY9os<'8  "Brxam  of  Fair  Women*'  (5>*  S. 
ii.  229.) — Thia  toinewhat  obncure  passage  probubly 
to  Margaret  Boper,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 


Kfem  1 
Mm. 


Citthbert  Bbde* 


Mr.  Addis  will  find  the  following  extract  in 
Fosses  Livu  of  the  Judges:— 

"  His  (Sir  Thomas  More's)  body  was  buried  In  St. 
Peter's,  within  the  Tower,  but  was  at  last  removed  by 
his  daughter  Margaret  to  the  tomb  in  Chelsea  Church, 
which  be  had  prepared  during  hi*  lift!.  Hi*  head^  aJTter 
remaiDing  for  some  time  exposed  on  London  Bridge,  a 
diagusting  evidence  of  the  ingratitude  of  princes,  oime 
also  into  the  poesession  of  his  affectionate  chlld^on  whosa 
death  it  was  ouned  in  her  armi  in  St.  Dunatan's,  Can- 
terbury." 

B.  M.  S, 

A  Correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q/'  (I't  S.  iii.  10) 
thinks  that  the  ppet  alludea  to  Margaret  Boper, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomaa  More.  Cf.  Mackintoah, 
Hist  of  England,  li  185»         A  L.  Mathew, 

Oxford. 

The  allusion  here  is  to  Mdlle.  de  Sombre uil,  the 
daughter  of  the  Comte  d©  Sombreuil,  who  instisled 
on  sharing  her  father*3  prison  during  the  Reign  of 
Terror,  and  in  accompanying  him  to  the  guillotine. 

LlXDlS. 

A  similar  tale  to  that  of  Margaret  Roper  is  told 
of  the  young  Earl  of  Derweotwsiter^  whose  head 
was  exposed  on  Temple  Bar  in  1716,  and  obtained 
clandestinely  by  bis  young  widow.  The  two  tales 
are  almost  identical.  E.  Cobham  Brewer. 

L&vantj  Chichester. 

WoLLASTON'a  "Religion  of  Natijrb  Dk* 
linratbd"  (S"^**  S.  iv.  381).)— Can  any  learned 
correspondent  explain  the  following  extract  from 
the  Catalogue  (compiled  by  the  possessor  himself) 
of  ^^The  Engliah  Portion  of  the  Library  of  the 
Ven.  Francis  Wrangham,  MA.,  F.R.S.,  1826 
[Only  Seventy  Copies],  Unpublished  "  ?^ 

*'  (WoIltt«ton-6)  Rilujion  of  Haturt,    1722. 

**  The  two  Hebrew  words,  subscribed  to  this  Volume — 
with  the/na/*M.  N. — remain*  1  helievejyetunexplained.'* 

In  the  seventh  edition  by  Dr.  Clarke,  1750, 
8vo.,  who  translated  the  notes  into  English,  these 
Hebrew  words  are  thus  Engliahed :  **  Who  is  like 
unto  God  ?'^  and  "  Praised  be  Gjd." 

Bibliothecar,  Chetham. 

F.  K  R.  T..  THE  Order  of  St,  John  (3^'^  and 
4**  S.  p<w«tm,)— After  aU  that  baa  been  isTitten  in 
the  last  two  series  of  "  N.  &  Q,"  upon  the  motto 
F,  E.  R.  T.,  and  the  (mythical)  relief  of  Rhodes,  it 
is  surprising,  and  a  little  aggravating,  to  find  Mr. 
Tew  writing  thus,  onte,  p.  173 : — 

*'  After  the  successful  defence  of  Rhodes  agaiosl  the 
Saracens,  in  ISll,  the  Grand  Master  adopted  in  addition, 
as  his  device,  the  four  letters  F.  E.  B.  T,j, meaning  Fortu 
tudo  tju§  Hhodum  Unuil. " 

I  might  make  several  inquiries  of  Mr.  Taw 
with  regard  to  this  surprising  statement,  but  will 
content  myself  with  one.  We  have  been  told 
again  and  again  (untruly)  that  the  House 
of  Savoy  adopted  the  arms  ot  l\tfi  Ci'i^t^  ^^^ 
St.  John;  wiU  Uu.  'tx.^  \ji^  >4&  5i\!L  n^wsS^*  «a.* 


316 


NOTES  AND  QUEREEa 


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I: 

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9(|iitUT  >*aUI'old»  of  thi 
rtmnd  to  ihr  lu  i  *  ' 
connt*i^l  till'  tlirti 


or  %•  M»r  oilH^r » 

tfiiMariWuid.u 


i£ii«lr  luivttl  itatemeBt, 
Um  Ofd«r  attuned,  and 
device  of  Um  House  of 

Jottir  WOOOWAAXI, 

AT  Watkilloo  (4*^  S. 
In  tnmiiijT  nvw  mti  old 

i     ^  MSfllfold. 

.  to  View 

lui.'  is»  isiri.     LoadoD, 

elh%    l*ntcrno«t€r   Row^ 

rs  li  lofty, 

lie  boxed 

and 

.: ....   .  : .,1  the 

.  cocked  hilt,  is  sun'eymt 

<f«>iit'  :   Mnme  mounted 

lietcaMd.    I 


RiNat  LAn  Tr!I01iib(^  aa.  iMJ^Kivg  Jo^*s 
gnuii  of  b&d  in  K«hI)  «mi  IIm  «tt*si]kBttB  tamtre, 
•i  moImI,  •mm  lo  bftve  bMtt  tfci>i|iii  HMk  <k 

Ite  BMMMr  U  Anbers  i\^urt  wu  «beld  by  G. 


m^  (Im^  Ww.  m\  wiib  Ibis  oaoditioiu 
Ibviiffmol  o«FiMrorowMfa  AmiU  bold  tbe 


SiQwMiky 


ibliMbti 


bTtb« 
bi  oblie^  to  tobU.' 
ttmrni^  papcct^i  to  ay 

a 


I  nmf  KidbMM«Mi»a  ibe  ir«Mu^ 

lor  F 

Ib» 


Seig^mtCliMlieEwartcf^T'"—  -'-  ^i^iii 
Qom,    In  commemor&ti'  .  tbo  T 

of  tne  "Eogle"  wa«  cotitc...  .  ^,i  .„..  ,:A;oto^ 
And  Bergeant  £wart  was  promoted  U>  an  en 
in  the  3rd  Vettnin  B%itialion. 

HENRr  F.  PoKMMair. 

In  the  memorable  ekaj]ge  at  Waterloo  of  tbe 
Si^ots  Grejs,  in  which  wneral  Pottw>fibjr  «■« 
killod  (and  which  so  forcibly  struck  "'  u  thjtt 

he  said  to  Lacostc,  the  Belgian  G  i  rtci\i 

by  hia  side,  ^  Ces  tenibks  cbovBUx  gns  :  conune 
ik  tj^vailient  1"),  Sergeant  Ghavin  £«rMft^ol  ^ 
Reigiment,  captured,  alter  a  tnool  i 
the  Ea^le  of  the  French  45th  E^^mkeoly  i 
were    inscribed    the    words    **Jeiia,    A 
Wagrara,  Eybu,  Fricdland.** 

WiLuav  pLasT. 

11^  PicoAdiUj, 


Mil  Storr  is  mistaken  in 


DMisnik,  BmO,  8yol»  1788,  IM, 
■  W .  Hsmitoii  oaotei  ab«  «■» 


lines  are  hj  Scaliger ;  Umj  on  hv 
(&  WmtMmi  DMisnik,  BoA 
liL  p.  aeS).    Sir  W.  Hsmiton  ^aota 
tban  once,  tbougb  nc^ei;  I  tbinb:,  in 
nomt;  and  be  qoolea  Ibcfli  oboc, 
aoooalx,    Tbejr  ran  tbns  in  tbe  4  ' 

•'BklibM^eiltaMoi 

larfo^  el  fomr  itgineta  fol^e 

DorvLX  Cbsistiax 
wboMooeedBdiD  tbe  title 


WiLuav  FLasT.  J 


*»8.n.OeT.17,  7*.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


317 


Mmwrimm  pMum  in  wliicli  Lf/eidm  fitst  i^ipeMed, 
I  ifid  Ibe  liiiet  thiui  |niiited  ; — 
*•  Bo  tnmy  gome  gestle  Muse 
Wilh  lucky  wordg  farour  my  destin'd  wm. 
And  M  be  paMci,  tarn 
And  bid  £ur  peace  be  to  my  sable  shroud." 

P,  20, 
There  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  correct  rending. 
Tkt  &et  U,  "Maac"  is  her^  put  for  *^poet"  ;  as 
m  llto  Fmrie  Quem4,  B.  IV.  c  xi.  st.  M  :— 
^Mj  nothpT  Oafsbridge,  whom  ai  with  a  crownc 
Bt  dolb  adorne.  and  it  adorned  of  it 
Willi  txmmf  %^«tUU  «iii«e  and  wmnj  a  learned  wtl," 
Sbakspeiue^s  Slst  poanet  begins;, — 

**tk>  ia  it  not  ivith  me  as  with  tUiit  miiM, 
Stirred  by  a  pamtcd  beauty  to  hu 


I 


Sharp-jiidging  Adrlel,  the  mims'  friend, 
Himietf  a  muse.** 

^l&«iiom  and  Achilophel^  Part  I.  (Scotia 
/>r^rfc».  1821,  ToL  ii,  p.  243). 
Ydr  lefiereaoes  to  the  above  exAniples  of  this  ii^ie 
of  llie  word,  I  am  indebted  to  u  note  of  Mr.  J.  W. 
Hdet,  co-editor  of  Bishop  Percy's  MS.  folio 
ilxmffrr  Englitk  Foerm,  1672),  on  line  iriS*  of 
Speofiers  Prothalamion : — 

'  JIad  great  Eliaiee  gilodoiw  oame  may  ring 
TlirMigh  al  lite  world,  fil'd  with  thy  wide  Alarmes, 
WIUeH  amne  brare  muse  may  sing 
9»  agei  following 
¥p(tt  the  Brydale  d^y,  wbJeh  ia  not  long.'' 

Bl*AKKS    HkUDSRSOK    WlLLIAMB. 
Kcixntigtoa  Cretoetit 

In  Bpito  of  Mr.  Macadam^s  reply  to  the  sibovc 
qaery,  I  have  no  beMttJition  in  saying  that  he  la  no 
misprint  for  ilu  in  the  puasa^  referred  to.  It  is 
clearly  he  in  the  origiDiil  MS.  (preserved  in  the 
library  of  Trin.  Coll.  Cambridge),  in  the  printed 
cdiiioiM  of  1638,  1645,  &c,,  ond  in  all  others  that 
1  hmr^  ever  seen.  Muse  heit?  means  poet;  and 
llwogii  the  use  of  the  word  in  this  sense  ib  rare, 
Uie  ini^tiince  in  Lycidm  is  not  a  solitary  one.  For 
HI  exam iniit ion  of  this  and  other  pnAaoges  in  the 
mid  pcjcm,  I  would  beg  le^ive  to  refer  the  ciuerist  to 
wy  noent  edition  of  the  L-^dcLn  ivnd  Ejnteiphium 
U&mottis,  published  by  Messrs.  LoDgnians. 

C.  B.  Jerram. 

DoMMflCAK  (!•«  S.  iii.  25;  5*^  S.  ii.  228,  280, 
ii0L)—The  Dominical,  Mass,  or  Sacrament  penny, 
W9M  paid  on  Sunday  by  parishioners  to  the  curate, 
ill  oroer  to  psovide  the  £uclmri«tic  elements. 
LfodvMd  nays  tliat — 

"  Aftiioea  «4  negotiat(Tre«  Civitatti  London  ex  ordh  a* 


K 


tjoiiA  obecrvftftt    t^ueritur   m^/u    DomtHiciM 
d&laf.  ft  in  pri».'  ir,..]Li,,,.  f, -rs.  et  8.  Apoeiolorum  et 
lur,  oj^trt€  yro  iiDgulis 
jLiam  Inhabitant    unitm 
^uiiilxt  fidcliB  tcnetor  in  Dominieia 
eialtk  feettria  diebu«  oUcrre"  (Lib.  liL,  tit  xtII. 

p.3ca^ 

Tbo  fwiuiy  was  a  conventional  offering  (Willcine, 
iL  163);  hsiyee  the  proverb,  ''  No  penny  no  pjit<'X' 


oo«ter''  (Goverdale,  ii.  259;  Bradford,  ii.  250). 
Somner  gives  a  record  of  131^7,  showing  that  the 
cuAtom  at  Canterbury  was  identical  with  that  of 
London :  **Antiqua  et  rtttionabiUs  oonauetudo  tim 
in  nofltra  civitate  quiim  alibi  per  totam  civitatem 
London'  antiqultiiii  observata  et  legitime  prat:- 
scripta."  And  in  another  record  of  a  suit,  1457, 
it  h  stvid  that  the  vicar  of  S.  Dunatan's  '^  victoriam 
obtinait  in  aisu  eonsimili/*  over  a  recalcitrant 
parishioner,  ^*  per  sententiam  definiiivom  '*  (Som- 
ner 3  Canlerburif^  -^PPi  46&-471).  *'  CuBtom  in 
other  cities,"  says  L'Estrange,  **  hath  established  a 
not  much  different  proportion  "  (J^iaac^,  ch.  vL 
(180),  p.  276).  The  allusion  is  probably  bo  York, 
Worcester,  and  Exeter,  where,  in  1515,  Iznack^ 
in  his  M§nwriodgf  atatee  that  there  tvas  a  miit 
about  the  custom  called  Dominiciilfi  in  the  Guild* 
hsill.  They  seem  to  be  included  under  7  &  B 
Will  III.,  c.  6,  with  ^*&ll  ofi'erings,  oblations,  and 
obventions  due  in  their  sever:il  parishes,  according 
to  the  rights,  customs,  and  prejicriptions  commonly 
used  within  the  said  parishes  respectively,"  It 
will  l>e  seen  that  this  Sunday  payment  differed 
from  Easter  dues  and  those  of  the  four  offering 
days.     Its  object  was  as  follows  :— 

The  present  Rubric  and  Canon  XX.  of  1604 
(which  I  have  grouped  in  my  recent  annotated 
edition  of  the  Canons)  agree  with  regard  to  the 
proviBion  of  the  *'  Bread  and  Wine**  "  at  the  charge 
of  the  parish.''  In  15.52,  1559,  and  1604,  thia 
rubric  followed  : — *^  And  the  parish  shall  be  dis- 
charged of  such  sums  of  money,  or  other  duties 
which  hitherto  they  have  paid  lor  the  name,  by 
order  of  their  houseB,  every  Sunday*"  la  1549 
the  rubric  wiuj  :— 

"  Fortotnucli  »€  the  pastors  and  Caratei  within  this 
realm  Bhall  continually  find  at  their  costs  and  chargea 
auSicient  Bread  and  Wine  for  the  Holy  Communion  [ai 
was  ordered  by  the  IL  Council  of  ^acon,  585,  c  4],  it  ia 
therefore  ordered  that  in  reeompence  of  each  eoet»  and 
ohargea  the  parishioneni  of  every  pariah  shall  offer  enery 
Sunday,  at  the  time  of  the  offertory,  the  jiui  value  and 
price  of  the  Uoty  Loaf^  with  all  such  money  and  other 
things  a4  were  wont  to  be  offered  with  the  same,  to  the 
use  of  their  pastor  and  curate,  and  that  in  etioh  order 
and  course  a^  they  were  wont  to  find  and  pay  the  said 
Holy  Loaf"  (Keeling,  p.  2S4). 

The  "  other  devotions  of  the  people  ■'  are  »t ill 
distinguished  from  the  "  alms,''  and  certain  sen- 
tences of  the  offertory  relate  to  maintenance  of  the 
clergy.  Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walqott, 

I  venture  to  tend  yon  my  views  on  the  origin 
of  this  curious  charge,  which  one  would  have 
thought  would  have  become  obsolete  in  the  pre- 
sent day. 

Acoording  to  Tertullian,  Q.  S.  F^  in  his  work^ 
.4^  VxoTtm^  the  matron  of  a  (amily  was  allowedl 
to  carry  home  a  piece  of  the  oonseorated  bread,  <»r 
wafer,  in  those  early  days  of  Christianity,  from  th© 
church,  to  be  taken  privately  in  time  of  ^CT*«^3<aL.- 
tion,  and  perhaps  ucViKsa^  ia  ib^  «wst^  UiXvrmflia, 


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[5*  an.  Oct.  17,  74. 


A^^ 


It  was  placed  on  the  hand  by  the  priest  in  a  linen 
cloth,  which  was  taken  to  receive  it  on  Sundays  ; 
and  the  handkerchief,  or  couvre-chtf  itaelf,  whicli 
waa  always  kept  in  tke  bosom,  eventiially  took 
the  name  of  "  Dominical,"  May  not  the  priest's 
fee  of  one  penny,  on  the  occasion  of  supplying 
a  piece  of  the  sacred  bread,  or  wafer,  called 
Eucharist  m  those  days  (the  early  part  of  the 
third  century),  have  been  the  orii^in  of  this  strange 
fee  of  the  present  day  ?  Geo.  Peacock:, 

Eegeat  Uoufle,  Starcrowj  Devon. 

KoYAL  Heads  on  Bells  (4^^  S.  ix,  76, 2bi\  3D9 ; 
xiL  85;  5*^  S.  i.  235,  4170— The  aet^ond  bell  at 
Stoneleigh  (near  Kenil worth)  has  on  it  two  royal 
headB  like  tho«e  found  at  Battisbani,  Cambridge- 
shiie  ;  it  has  also  two  shields  and  this  inscription  : 

A  *  FKTEKTE  .  BEMONE  .  TV  .  UftltA  /' 

Henry  T.  Tilley. 
Augartus  Eoad^  Edgboeton. 

Music  of  tiie  "Carmagnole"  (5^"*  S.  ii.  8, 
169.J— Ko  doubt  Mr  Bouchikh  could  get  the 
music  of  the  CannagnoU  by  application  to  the 
"  Chef  d'Orchestre  "  of  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  as  it 
was  very  effectively  sung  and  danced  on  that  stage 
in  the  performance  of  Webster^s  well-knoH  n  dnirim 
of  the  Dead  Hmri,  H.  H, 

Lavender  Hill. 

Tee  Templars  and  Hospitallers  (5'^  S,  iL 
110,  173.)— The  red  cross  of  the  Temple  was 
similar  to  the  present  eight-pointed  Maltese  cross. 
The  original  cross  of  the  Order  of  Saint  John  of 
Jernaalem  was  u  patriarchiil  cross.  On  the  dis- 
fiolutiou  of  the  Order  of  the  Temple,  with  all  its 
property,  rights,  &c.,  it  was  transferred  to  the 
Knights  Hospitallers  of  St.  John,  then  KnightiS 
of  Rhodes,  and  s'dterwards  Knights  of  Malta. 
These  hist  assumed  the  red-cross  banner  of  the 
Temple,  aad  eventually  made  it  their  favourite 
flag.  The  war-banner  of  the  Temphirs,  "  half 
black  and  half  white,  called  Beaus^ant,"  is  de- 
scribed in  the  Huf&ry  of  Uw  KnighU  Ttimplar$.\ 
Knight  of  Somerset. 

"Defender  df  tbe  Faith"  (S**^  S.  ii,  206, 
254.) — An  interesting  note  on  this  subject,  by 
Christopher  Wren,  Dean  of  Windsor^  m  preserved 
by  Peck,  in  **  A  Collection  of  Divers  Curious  His- 
torical Pieces,^'  etc.,  appended  to  his  Matioirs  of 
VromweU^  4to.,  1740,  p.  m  ;— 

'*  That  KinK  Ilenrv  VIL  had  the  titlu  formerly  of 
Befender  of  the  Faim,  appears  by  the  regiater  of  the 
Order  of  the  Garter,  iu  the  hlack  book  [eic  diet  a 
t«giiiine ;  now  io  my  hands  by  office],  whicli  huving 
allowed  to  K.  Charier  L,  he  roccived  with  much  joy; 


•  Thia  is  &  word  of  1^  letter*.    I  cannot  make  it  oat. 
f  Vint  edition,  p.  &0 ;  second  edition,  p.  67.    "  Le 
Ba^uceut  de)  Temple  d'ar^ent  ui  chef  du  sable,  a  uo 
crtf^M  de  gouleg  pAaMDt'—Lel.  Coll.  vol.  L,p.  ftU. 


r  in        ' 


DOthing  more  pleaiing  him,  ihea  that  the  ri^t  of 

title  was  fi^ed  in  the  CrowQ,  long  before  the  Pope^i  pre- 
tended Donation /' 

There  ia  no  date  to  this  memorandum,  but  Daut 
Wren  was  made  Registary  of  the  OnJer  m  1635| 
and  died  in  1658.  Edward  Sollt. 

Sutton^  Surrey. 

Skating  LtTitRATtrttK  (5^  S.  IL  107, 156.) — Th« 
following  extract  ia  taken  from  A  Biblio^raphittU 
Lid  of  Worh  on  Sicimming^  by  the  author  of 
Hrnvdhook  of  Fictitious    Nama,    Lood.,  J. 
Smithy  1868.     No  notice  is  made  of  this  work  io 
Mr»  Foster's  list  of  works  on  skating  : — 

"Family  Herftld  Handy  Booka  How  io  Swim  aad 
How  to  Skate,  Loud..  1863,  16mo.»  43,  M. 

"What  ia  not  copied  from  Th«Tenot,  PrxMt,  and 
Franklin  (without  acknowledgment),  like  ori>;inikl  mattefi 
in  moflt  of  the  handbooks,  is  rubbish.  It  was  in^de  ap* 
no  doubt,  to  accomoany  the  pagei  on  tkatlll^.  If  there 
ia  anything  that  tue  publie  avoid  at  ekatm^  time,  I 
should  say  tt  is  swimming.  It  gives  some  mott  ndicalooi 
'futtM*  to  govtm  peraons  who  have  fiUen  into  deep 
water." 

W.  p.  CorRTKKT. 

15j  Queen  Anne's  Gate^  8.W. 

"  Private  History  of  the  Coitrt  of  Est* 
LA.N-D"  (5"^  S.  ii.  2<>8,  277.)— This  work  is  by 
S.  Green,  a  native  of  Ireland,  the  Biogn 
IHdiofiary  of  Living  AnthoTi^  1816,  infoi 
but  I  should  be  gkd  of  aome  biogmplilcal 
ticukrs.     I  have  deven  anonymotiB  works  ' 
in  my  list,  the  last  written  in  1622, 

Olfhar  Hamit. 


^fjjrcOftiifiiutf. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
Tilt  Life  of  Tho}}ia4  Fulkr,  D,D,  Witti  N^tit 
of  his  Books^  his  Kintnun^  and  hut  Frimdi^ 
By  John  Eglington  Bailey.  (London,  Pickering ; 
Manchester,  Day.) 
This  long-expected  biography  is  now  before  tl 
public,  from  whom  it  is  certain  to  have 
lietirtiest  welcome.  Fuller  has  never  been 
thoroughly  dealt  with  as  by  Mr.  Bailey,  wj 
with  indisputable  taste  and  judgment,  make« 
hero,  as  far  aa  possible,  tell  his  own  story.  Whej 
this  is  not  possible,  he  narrates  it  for  him  with 
ubility  and  corresponding  success.  Mr.  Bailey  hftS 
trod  all  the  ground  that  Fuller  trod,  read  and' 
meditated  upon  all  that  Fuller  ever  wrote^  and 
h^is,  so  tn  apeak,  wrapt  himself  in  the  atmoepih)^ie 
in  which  Fuller  lived.  He  tidces  the  reader  * 
hnnd  and  leads  him,  too,  over  that  charmed  _ 
he  looks  with  the  reader  over  FuUer'a  pages^iuid* 
light  upon  them  where  he  looks  ;  and  the 
almost  from  the  very  first  page,  is  ajs  OODI] 
*^  atmo^pherized  ^  as  the  author,  and  ns  uii 
love  with  him  who  waa  one  of  the  mocit 
bmve,  earnest,  and  merry  Eugliahmen  of 
meutoos  time.     That  time  spread  over  uiorti 


a»8.ttO«.17,7«J 


ES  AND  QUERIES. 


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I 


the  first  half  of  the  BeTenteenth  century.  We  are 
with  him  in  hi»  Nortbimntonshire  home,  where 
Fuller  was  bom  in  16(^8,  We  partake  of  Ms  Cam- 
bridge experiences.  We  sympathize  with  him  as 
a  preiLoher,  and  we  have  a  warm  peitonal  interest 
in  him  when  he  starts  as  an  author ;  but  particu- 
larly when,  in  1640,  he  sends  forth  his  History  of 
th4  Holy  War,  We  welcome  him  to  London,  and 
we  admire  the  boldness  with  which  the  Cavalter 
puuon,  on  the  occaaion  of  the  king's  absence  from 
London  in  1643,  cave  out  his  famous  text  from 
the  Westminster  Abbey  pulpit,  2  Samuel  xix.  30 : 
— "  And  Menhibosheth  said  unto  the  king,  Yea, 
let  him  (Ziba)  tiike  all,  forasmuch  as  my  lord  the 
king  is  come  again  in  peace  unto  his  own  house.^^ 

Fuller,  we  know,  lost  all  except  honour  and 
courage.  These  he  manifested  during  the  dark 
sind  troubled  days.  But  the  better  time  came  to 
him  at  last,  when  ho  proved  to  what  goo<i  end  he 
had  ppent  the  adverse  period,  not  having  altogether 
looked  bm^k  from  the  plough  to  which  he  hiul 
early  apphe^l  his  hand.  When  lie  died,  in  1661, 
his  countrymen  were  familiar  with  his  Davurn 
HeinO^is  ifiTi,  his  Mofy  War,  his  Holy  and  Fro- 
fan4  StaUj  his  Pii^iA  Sight  of  PaUMin^,  his 
Abel  Itidimims^  and  his  pleasant  Church  Hi$lortj 
of  Qrcat  Britain ;  but  they  were  not  acquainted 
the  work  which,  perhaps,  more  than  all  othens, 
Mftde  his  name  so  popolarj  The  Worthies  of 
England,  It  la  "  gossiping,'*  as  it  has  been  called ; 
but,  only  for  such  exquisite  gossip,  a  thousand 
things  worth  remembering  would  have  perished. 
For  such  a  man,  we  share  in  Mr.  Bailey 'a  admlr- 
aiton  and  enthusiasm.  The  volume  is  excellently 
got  up  in  every  respect,  and  it  belongs  now  and  for 
ever  U)  Englisih  literature.  It  is  in  itself  a  Fuller 
library  as  well  as  a  life  of  Fuller,  a  history  of  the 
times  as  well  as  of  the  mam  It  is  most  appro- 
priatdy  ill  net  rated,  and  has  a  fair  Index.  Mr. 
Bailey  makes  full  acknowledgment  to  all  who  have 
helped  him,  much  or  little,  m  this  great  work, — 
acknowledgment  which  closes  with  this  gracefully 
cxprt^ssed  passage  : — **  Finally,  the  work  has  been 
throughout  furthered,  in  no  small  degree,  by  the  co- 
operutioQ  of  my  devoted  wife/' 


I 


That  be  may  bear  the  strict  nod  learcbing  soan 
Of  hii  own  conscience,  so  it  be  but  tru6  I 

And  the  more 
An  honest  msn  wilt  search  him»eir,  the  more 
A  sensfi  of  imperfection  w<rtg;lvs  Hm  dovrn. 
And  bringd  him  in  humility  to  God.'^ 
We  have  received  the  followiag  i— From  Measra  Long* 
man,  Latin  MxwrcUa  on,  Barbaritvi /or  Junior  Studmtt, 
by  R.  M.  Millington,  MA.,  which  urns  well  at  effecting 
its  purpose^  lie.,  to  prevent  the  jiie  of  wordi  not  properly 
Latin,  us  **  conji^care"  for  "  to  confiBcate";  And  of  good 
Latin  words  in  meanings  they  do  not  bear,  aa  **inietUio  " 
Inite&d  of  com/tKm  fckr  an  *' iDtention.— In  Rhfuutfor 
the  Titnttj  by  R.  H.  (Pickerinjt),  will  be  found,  as  its 
njLme  implies,  much  to  amuse  the  general  reader. — The 
Jlagician :  a  Drama  m  #Vw  Acts  (Pearson).  What 
success  would  attend  the  production  of  this  play  in  a 
London  or  provincial  theatre  one  naiumlly  heaitiUea  to 
foretell;  the  writer^  however,  anticipat«a  for  hii  work 
•*  the  uiual  fate  accorded  to  unaccredited  dramatic  pro- 
duction!,^' and  avers  "that  syBtematio  indifference  to 
every  nttetnpt  like  the  present"  must  be  one  chief  cau»a 
of  tbe  retariJment  of  **the  rehabilitation  of  the  British 
Drama." — The  Eiujlak  Lan<piafjt  Speittd  ai  Pronounced , 
by  George  Withers  (Triibtier),  le  a  plea  for  a  simple^oon- 
Btatcntf  and  unifonn  method  of  epelling. —  The  Artfjel  of 
Love,  ajw/  otJter  Pmm$,  by  Zero  (Birmingham,  Conw, 
Kylett  k  Mec).— TA*  Circk  andSiraigU  Lint  (Montreal, 
Lovell).     Parta  1,  2,  and  3,  with  aupplement. 


An  Old  Lwend  of  St.  Pautt.    Bv  the  Rev.  George 

Broadley  Howard.  (H.  8.  King  &  Co.) 
On  the  principle  that  the  amateur  who  aketches  a  spot 
that  has  formed  the  subject  of  Bome  great  artlat'« 
painting,  dote  not  theriby  infringe  on  the  righta  of  the 
latter,  Mr,  Howard  thinka  himeelf  guilty  of  no  impro- 
priety in  having  selected  a  naaago  in  the  Legendi  of 
Kinn  Arthur^  although  they  have  already  been  treated 
bv  the  Poet-Lattreaie.  Here  are  some  Bam  pies  from  Mr. 
llowatd*B  tneafloret  i— 

*'  In  our  middle  life 
Tmie  aeeisB  to  spare  ua  for  a  little  while, 
Aa  If  r«lentit}g  aomewhat'' 
AndaiEain:— 

"^ffbat  man  ii  there  that  lives  and  sinneth  notl 
And  who  wo  inaocent  and  pure  within^ 


Barrv  CofLifWAiL  baa  given  uncertainty  to  hiA  real 
name,  Procter  or  Proctor.  Indeed  liin  combined  names 
have  been  put  to  confusion.  The  dally  papers  have 
called  him  Procter;  some  of  the  weekliea.  Proctor. 
Public  Opi7iion  registered  him  aa  Bryan  Wallace  Procter. 
Look  for  him  in  Vapereau,  and  you  find  the  tirAt  uame 
converted  into  Byrad  !  In  the  TiturJi  it  is  recorded  that 
from  "  Br; an  W  oiler  Procter  "  may  be  made  the  ana- 
gram *'  Peter  Barry  Cornwall,*'  but  Mr.  Procter  never 
called  himself  Peter.  In  '*  Bryan  Wailer  Procter,"  the 
author  of  Mirandola  himflclf  found  *'  Barry  (Cornwall, 
Poet/'  but  with  a  auperfluoua  letter^  that  could  not  he 
UBed.  In  Favourile  English  P&emM  and  Poett  (LoW|  1870), 
there  ia  **  The  AngeVa  Story,"  by  Adelaide  Anne  Procter 
(Barry  Cornwall's  daughter)*  but  in  the  Index  the  lady's 
name  is  apelt  Proctor.  To  the  prefatory  remarks  to 
his  Mejficir  of  Cfiarte*  Lamb  the  author  aigna  hU  name 
**  Bryan  Waller  Procter/*  and  the  name  b  ao  spelt  in  all 
the  books  of  London  addretses.  The  moat  satisfactory 
solution  might,  perhapa^,  be  found  in  the  poet^s  auto- 
graph aignaCureSj  unless,  indeed,  he  were  like  the  late 
MiM  O'Neil,  the  actress  (Ladv  Beecher).  who  spelt  her 
Irisb  name  in  all  the  variety  or  which  it  is  susceptible. 

Turn  obituary  of  this  week  records  the  death  of  one 
who  has  been,  from  a  Tcry  eorly  period^  an  able  and 
valued  contributor  to  the  Be  page*,  the  Hon.  Ed  w  a  up 
TwiSLETox,  who  died  recently,  aged  aixty<«ix.  The 
deceaied  gentleman,  who  \vas  a  brother  ot  Lord  Saya 


and  Sele,  had  filled  many  important  official  poit^  an 
others  that  of  Chief  Uommtssioner  of  Poor  Laws  in 
Ireland*  and  more  recently  that  of  a  Civil  Service  Com- 
miiaioner.  But  when  bis  eminent  nublic  eerviccs,  and 
Eocial  qualities,  are  no  more  remerooered,  his  name  will 
be  held  in  wel  I -de served  esteem,  not  only  for  his  clever 
little  book  lately  noticed  by  as,  Th*  Tonpue  not  Eueniial 
to  Specchf  but  atill  mf»re  for  the  honest  spirit  and  energy  in 
which  he  went  into  the  Junius  question,  and  the  liberality 
which  he  displayed  in  bringing  those  views  before  the 
public  in  hia  magnificent  quarto  on  The  Bandteritina  of 
JuHiu4,  noticed  by  us  in  "  N,  k  Q."  of  the  13th  May, 
ISTI.     We  do  not  share  the  views  of  this  lamented 


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15*  &  n.  Ckf ,  17, 71* 


f»ent1ein«n  at  to  the  aavOionliip  ^f  th«  lett«ra  of  Junlui, 
but  hii  work  ■bowed  kim  to  b«  an  h<»n««l,  efttneft  in< 
eoircr  after  truth,  wboie  moTnof}-  will  be  held  in  affec- 
tionate remembrance  by  &II  who  ©Djoycd  hii  friendship. 
Mn.  JoHK  Tims.— There  is  a  taaii  down  in  the  buttle 
of  life.  He  is  cme  wboie  whole  life  has  been  a  battle, 
Aod  at  the  age  of  seTcntyfrmr  he  fdlls  to  the  tn^und, 
not  vimqiililMd,  bui  exhrniiKted.  A  little  help  will  enable 
Mr.  IMinbe  to  renew  the  stmj?ul^*  fo*"  hi§  will  ii  good  for 
wotK  and  he  needi  only  the  meani  to  recoirer  health 
»nd  ftreogth  in  order  aj^ain  to  addre«9  himseir  to  labour. 
Thii  indufttrioui  man  of  letters  bos,  in  Rvbttance^  con- 
tiibttted  between  one  and  two  htindred  Toluinet  to 
litenttttre.  Will  kind  synipatbistm  generoualy  retpond 
to  Lbd  iMHSttion  coaveyed  in  the  words  "'  D&te  obolum 
Betario"t 

Th«  TraOfWATlON  "t"  its  the  NAUtH  0¥  PLACPn,— 

On  thU  subject  a  correspondent  of  the  JtUerniidiaire 
writes,  **  tbmt  the  final  j/  rtpreients  the  Latiu  6iml 
4uun,  in  foeh  wofrdi  a«  Douay,  Dnacum ;  Tourna,y, 
ToTMumm  ;  Oambray,  Camixracvin,  &c. ;  bnd  tbjit  acum 
11  from  the  Sanfcrit  acat  whence  the  Latin  a^wm,  wuter.** 

Bnoa  ef  eor  readem  ai  took  an  interafft  in  the  papers 
on  "Hatinab  Liehtfoot"  and  ''Dr.  Wilmot'd  Polish 
Princew/'  which  appeared  in  our  columns  some  few 
yearm  since,  BiAy  care  to  know  that  foon  after  the  scpa- 
nkle  puUtcfttkiu  of  those  pkikts,  Mh.  Tkom^  purchaeed 
a  lergfl  number  of  oripoal  Letters  and  documents,  t^nA 
thut  on  examiofttion  they  are  found  to  contain  &o  much 
curious  mutter,  that  be  is  prepaiing  ft  volume  illugtrutive 
of  the  career  of  the  eelf-ftyJed  (Kitc,  Princess  of  Cum- 
berland* and  some  of  her  oasociatee  in  that  impudent 
impcisture. 

Mb.  C.  a.  Rbaii,  M,  Loughboroujib  Rosd,  Briztan, 
writes:— "I  am  at  present  emgeged  in  compiling  a  \Ui 
^  books  treating  of  Christian  names,  or  in  which  tn^ 
formation  oi»  the  subject  ie  lo  he  found  Will  any  of 
your  readers  kindly  help  me  to  make  the  list  as  perfect 
ae  possible?" 

BOOKS     AND      ODD     VOLUMfiB 

WAJCTEB  TO  PtTSCBASfi. 
Parti«tt1i»  «f  Prte«k  ka..  of  ^rrj  book  to  be  moI  dfnct  tn  IW 
ecrvoa  br  «%««b  ft  tt  mmirad.  wtu^xr  a«in«  aod  ftddrtia  art  givca 
fcrltetsttpaaa:— 

««ft  %M  Kft-Minov  Fiu?(r;4ttft.    hm  Priaeaa>    t  Valf. 
isn 

I  juw  QfliaiH.    lit  eieriM,  3tid  VoL 
A  Pu*#  or  homvo*^  sboot  A.ti.  17». 
Wanted  Irj  J.  BvmAitr,  Jfog. .  t,  Stattify  TiUu,  ]lal«r  R«a«li,  f^^ 


PatvnfttVa  BlfteVT  sad  An«qnltie«  of  Hif b«r»t«, 
ftjflBOAta    Avr  Brnihs,  PampliUtB,  «r  Fiiabi  Klatiag  ta. 

ILtaiit'f  WaodwfU  aad  E««tatcie  If  uaram.    Odd  Vols.  Af  llils  er  any 
similar  WviIul 


APasi^akt  pafaUiaad  tbiHr  f^n ato  bjr  mwanka * 
Wanted  hr  tlM  ll«t  R.  &  Bmwim;  M^rvaaalnr,  OecnwalL 


Hxniuaa  e>r  ifotiir  Txoxm  Scaan,  tftt«  MaHoe  PaloteT  to  flla 


HWJJJJ^, 


IfeeFiNirtli.   tVoU.    Ma. 
bt  WmkmmJ.  f^Ma^  «•.»!,  G«itse^  f$euaftt.  iieUiav* 


'aTkV 


^otfcrji  tn  fTorrfiiionlifiitt* 

Tbj  Kw?.  F.  Mant  (Egbam)  writes:—**  A  ifirl  dug  np 
in  a  potato  garden  lately  a  coin  of  Charles  I.,  apparently 
a  half  crown.  The  figure  is  on  hone-back,  with  the 
interip^on  'Garolua  X».  o.  x.  a. . . .  bt  rib.  nsx/  On  the 
rererse  the  royal  arms,  with  the  arms  of  France  quar- 


tered with  the  arms  of  Rngland^  a*  c.  a«td  m.  ooeupyiair 
either  side  of  the  shield,  the  legend  itha^ .'  '  f  iiaiiifM  AXt* 
6?fCK  KJtono.'    There  i«  no  dabt  t>  Z  do  nil 

suppose  that  this  is  an  uncoamKni  <  •  the  nake 

of  the  Under,  I  should  be  j^^n  >    •  ,,  « ri«Uiar  it  it 

worth  any  more  than  its  wer^  'tw.** 

N."The  f me  reading  of  ti  .  KiiU^tOdiUm 

Ni^ktingaie  is  this  : — 

"  CooFd  a  long  age  m  the  deep^elved  eartlt/' 
The  last  line  of  the  same  ttanaa — 

''  And  with  Ihne fi^le  away  mto  the  fov«si  tfiiii**— 
will  not  hear  to  hate  *'  awny  "  elitninated*  KealeM  not 
ooBot  hie  syllables  on  the  Angt^ra.  Tbe  •niirtiilHlf  HiMn 
of  tbe  Btanioj  of  this  Tery  ode  are  of  tan.  elearaoi,  and 
twelve  syllables  indifferently  ;  but  not  one  of  them  wmiJd 
be  otherwise  than  marred  t>r  alteration  in  any  way. 

S,  W.  T.— The  prorerb  of  **  Robbing  Peter  to  pay 
Paul*"  was  applied  in  1550,  on  the  cvccasion  of  the  appro- 
prialion  of  some  of  the  estates  of  Wettmiiif  tor  to  nff  np 
the  needs  of  London.  A  oorreapondent  has  OMnUoood  Hi 
use  in  Thomas  Nash's  Savi  wlk  ^om,  (e  Ai/raa  flWJen^ 
\im  (!''  S.  zii.  166) ;  but  Canon  Eoberteon  haa  poi^ 
out  that  a  siuiiUr,  though  not  cKactly  tbe  eaine.  ezproMMi 
is  found  generally  applied  at  far  b:ick  tut  the  twalflh 
oentnry :— *' Tanquam  si  <)niB  cr.^  '  ndduai   «t 

redimeret  Petrum  "  (Herbert  of  ti  - 

J.  8.  W.— The  Count  de  Charolai^  (iiticrwarJaC 
the  Bold,  Duke  of  Burgundy)  was  twice  mafriad 
firat  wife  was  Isabella,  daughter  of  th  -  Duke  of  1 
The  daughter  of  Charles  and  Isabella  was  the  oetebialed 
Mary  of  Burgundy.  Charles's  second  wife  waa  IIbT' 
garet,  daughter  of  Kichard,  Duke  of  York. 

Tnn  Rbt.  Em  MAfisnAtL,  Sandford  St.  MarlS«, 
Oxford,  aaks  for  tbe  dote  of  the  7": "  -  '>—  rnpn^ 
in  which  occurs  the  speech  of  8r  his 

coTigtituente  on  being  appointed  U,  in 

which  the  land  question  is  discuaaed. 

T.  Eekp  (Brighton),— In  Psalm  xui.  20, jrm  wmf 
read.  **Thou  slialt  keep  them  secretly  in  a  Pariuon  from 
the  etrif e  of  toturnes.  '*  The  passage  is  hardly  app^ci^ 
to  the  Cbureh  CongrMs. 

B.  H.  BtAPBa.— The  custom  referred  in  is  n«l  nan* 
fined  to  the  Town  Clerks  of  London.  See  *•  Jf .  Ik  tJ./J^ 
S.  vii.  136,  191 ;  TiiL  11^ ;  and  4>^  S.  xl  17,  I«0. 

Qui  Tam  (ants,  p.  205).— A  correqwodent  refers  jna 
to  an  article  in  tbe  Saturday  He^itv  of  the  ^th  ef  ^^ 
tember. 

F.  D.  (5ottii)gham).— "  It  *s  all  one  side,  like  Brides- 
north  election,''^  Bee  *'  X.  &  Q,"  4'^  5fl,  Tii.  I#,  HI. 

Louisa  Wnmiftr  it  respectfully  referred  to  her  hnrtlMii 
for  enlightenment  on  tbe  shuig  adages  which  tninris  htf. 

Bow. —On  the  publication  of  banns  in  the  tnarksi- 
place,  see  our  last  volume,  pp.  87,  !£&- 

B.  (Blackrock).*— References  on  the  aiblnol  hMii  nl> 
ready  been  i^ven.    Ba«  4' **  &  Ix.  tfSi. 

CviiES  O'Lyss.— See  oaUr,  p.  21 ». 

A.  J.  M.— If  possible,  nert  week. 

Editorial  Communicatioiis  sfantild  be  addrsBsd  lo  *  Vhi 
Editor"— AdTertisements  and  Busizmm  LsIMn  lo  "Ha 
Publisher  "—at  the  Office,  20, "'  Mtrmftm  Bfrsiil,  ffl^tkJ, 
London,  W,C. 

Wc  beg  leare  to  state  that  we  deeUne  to  i^tnTft  ten* 
munications  which*  for  any  reason,  we  do  notprhit;  aal 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  all  commnnioatianB  shoutd  be  olExed  thn  mm*  nnd 
address  of  the  sender,  not  neoeasaxii^  for  pnhUanibnt  bnt 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faitL 


4 


4 


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OTES  AND  QUERIES. 


SSI 


LOSTDOy,  8AfVBl>Ar,  OCTOBEk  fi,  1874, 


CONTENTS.— N*  4S. 

by  Mn.  Senvs,  «Ad  otbvr  8ttm 

uo^cnjr,  S24-<-Tht  Boottkh  Addii««i« 

1  —  o^.uiiu  -- HtigsMiioli :  Iteland  —  •*TerreUft**  — 

Wotdi  —  CtnlMi  SlitiiP^  in  dAvarder  C3»ud)— 


<f  8b«it«rr  luad  "Sou  t 


(Jute**— •' 


auifttit« 


Bo 


Cor 


in  the  S«TeDt««iith  Centurjr  — 

— PrtTttiKUefo  CkKln— Who  wrote 

^'TiTopahiits   Willi— "IViB 

-"  PluritDa  Kemam  Uiet " 

irnt*"  — An  Old  Song  — 

'Tiring  and   Fo0trf— 

VATiA— J,  Bcrbftft 

.  lifciid  to   tb«   dark 

»   — iif-'iwrminy— Auiuora  v^  anted-'Armorisl,  KO. 

Ab1m»rf%t<$d  FUee-NftOiei^  SSO—Tba  Chpltol  of 

'-    '        D«4icati<n)»—Ioigo  Jones  and  Pkdlip, 

i  — DeyoDiliin  SKfijag*  S82— "  Wtut  if 

v.iih  the  Mxig"  4ic,-*Thib  Itev.  TbotnoA 

Bfabop   of   Glonccfltor — 6Lr    FnincU 

ir  Luio-Joliel  do  Toiiie«->BQfi^Bh 

^  amUy— "  TojimX'tvgvj  "  —  gy^mbol  in 

"■  L't"  :  Tennyson— Cf dfiioboof«— 

it^foy— Transit  f>f  Vebus  :  Jere- 

the  ru&rk/'  S:i5^"  Likt»  to  the 

tvc.— Pticutijir  Tnnimeut  of  some 

J  Quo  LAugiuge  to  Another— Bun yAii« 

nmrffif.  33e-^Bu  maiaH^—Lijlund 

"  T"r   IUmt  •ft,"    &c— SeifinB 

i  in  WaUfl^Modero  Lfttln 

.  — ••P«troBitt»  AibiUsr;" 


*t6. 


*'  THE  book;"  by  mes.  sbrbeb,  and  othek 

8EE&ES  BOORC^. 

JIo  one  likes  to  Le  baffled  j  and  I  liave  to  con- 
tlial,  up  to  this  time^  I  have  failed  in  my 
ipAvoiiiv  tu  ascertain  wliat  was  the  work  which 
my  '  'aa  Mr.  Jesse  called  Mrs.  Olivia 

W li  I  >  pu  Wished  on  or  before  1812,  under 

the  title  of ''  The  Book." 

When  I  printed,  in  "  N.  k  Q."  of  the  22nd 
August  last,  the  list  of  works  written  by  this  ludy 
"  beft>re  ahe  knew  her  birth,''  in  which  list  "The 
Book  "  makes  a  conspicuous  ficjiire,  I  had  reiison 
U>  hope  I  hud  a  clue  to  the  work  to  which  nhe  re- 
lemo,  and  stated  my  intention  of  making  *'  The 
Booic  "  the  subject  of  a  ?*C'pjLr.'ite  communication. 

I  fajire  been  disappointed.     But  fiahing  for  facts 

[  til  like  all  other  fishing.     Sometimes  we  are  luckj'j 

1  have  a  good  day's  5p<jrt ;  sometimes  we  hiive 

I  contented  with  a  day  plea&tmtly  spent,  but 

*^  (ind  sometimes  we  knd  bigger  and  better 

tried  for  or  expected.     So  it  htks  been 

\  ill  ilih  cn-ir.     No  eamedt  tearch  after  any 

U-d,  and,  in  my  endeavours 

r[^  as  to  "The  Book,''  of 

^which  jVlr*.  Strixs  cluims  the  authorship,  I  have 

oUected  scitne  curious  matcriahi  for  a  history  of 

(^TltS  3^"  *'  Thi  Gtntti/M  Book,"  aa  it  is  some- 


times called,  well  calculated  to  furnish  a  new  oad 

amusing adtiirv-^'  '•'  '''>■   '' -'-     -  'Lit^ftture — 

a  little  toohn  t  *'K.  &Q," 

Being  thu.^  ....    ..  ..  ^  ..i..    ,.  ...li  is  not,  as 

I  hope  to  show  hereafter,  alto^'ether  devoid  of 
pubhc  interest,  I  tm&t  you  will  allow  me  once 
more  to  appeal  to  your  readers  for  any  information 
they  can  >;ive  tvs  to  this  mysterious  volume,  I  nwd 
not  Biij  that  it  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  British 
Museum,  and  that  I  hare  extended  my  inquiries 
into  every  quarter  from  which  I  could  hope  to 
obtain  any  result. 

Having,  firom  long  experience,  learned  not  to 
place  any  confidence  in  tiie  statements  of  Mrs. 
Serres,  had  she  only  claimed  the  authorship  of 
"  Thk  Book  "  in  the'list  printed  by  tne  at  ]).  141, 
I  should  have  been  inclined  to  mive  Hdde<:l  that 
statement  to  the  many  other  Inaccuracies  of 
which  the  lady  has  been  guilty  ;  but,  as  I  haTO 
before  me  two  books  published  b}^  her  in  1812  (the 
year  bcfoit?  the  press  teemed  with  reprints  of  the 
real  Book)^  on  the  title-paffes  of  \\iiich  she  dis- 
tinctly de»cribea  herself  an  ^  The  Author  of  *  The 
Book/''  it  is  clear  that  dbe  Irad  really  ^ven  to 
the  wodd  some  work  m  entitled.  In  the  finit  of 
the  workB  alluded  to,  viz,,  Mmmn  qJ  «  Frinum ; 
ar,  Fivil  Lom^  ahe  de»crih»i  henielf,  on  tke  tifle- 

pqtfe,   a«   ''Olivia   W.    8 ,   Author  of   *Tfce 

Book,' "  while  at  the  end  cf  the  Preface  «mMf 
the  words,  **  The  Autiior  of  '  The  Book,' "  wfeck 
arc  followed  by  her  aiitogmph,  **  O.  W.  iknrrmJ* 
On  the  title-piige  of  the  neooad,  Mmrit  Amm 
Lain,  the  Courttzaii,  she  mevely  detcnbes  llir- 
96k£m  "The  Author  of  *  The  Book,' "  and  the 
Dedkation,  which  is  dated  Aug^iMt  12,  1!^12, 
is  signed,  in  her  oAvn  writinj^,  "  O.  W,  Serres." 

Ha\i^ng  thus  shown  that  no  reason^ible  doubt 
can  exist  that  Mrs.  SeiTes  did,  early  in  the  ^lear 
1812  or  before,  publish  a  work  entitled  "  ^ait 
Book,"  I  hope  some  reader  of  "  N.  h  Q.''  will 
solve  this  little  mystery,  and  piint  out 
copy  of  "  Thk  B*3ok  ^'  cxist«  and  may  be 
suited*  It  may  be  oon^enient  that  I  should  state 
that  the  real  Book  (the  proper  title  of  which  is 
T/m:  Froci.c<lmgii  and  C»rr4ipondau€  «pon  1^ 
jSyftjw:^  of  ilk€  Inqutnf  into  ike  O&fndtui  of  Bm 
Emfal  Hi^hntAH  the  Prin^^e^  of  }r<  '  I  ed 

in  1807  ;  was  reprinted  in  many  i  ier 

various  titles  in  1813  (I  have  four  ur  nw  ^hhkum 
editions  now  before  me) ;  but  I  have  been  as  yd 
unable  to  truce  a  copy  of  any  work  bearing  the 
title  of  "The  Book''  with  an  earlier  date  thau 
1813. 

And  DOW  I  wiU  go  a  little  further,  and,  as  th^ 
"  give  and  take  **  principle  has  always  been  one  of 
the  chanicteri6tic>^  of  "  N.  &  Q./'  I  will  follow  up 
the  list  of  works  nublished  by  Mrs.  Sexres  "  before 
she  knew  her  blrtli  ^  by  ae  complete  a  li«t  as  I  huve 
been  able  to  compile  of  those  omitted  by  her  from 
that  list,  and  those  published  by  her  afLer  she  as- 


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a.  U.  Oct.  2^, 


m 


1 
I 


TOUied  tho  purple  and  created  herself  Prmceas 
Olive  of  Cumberland* 

This  I  do  in  the  hop«  that  Mr.  Axon,  Mr. 
Bates,  Mr.  Cbossley,  ^Ir.  Maidjiknt,  and 
such  other  of  my  friends  lut,  when  tired  of  wander- 
ing over  the  beaten  paths  of  Hisboiy,  sometimes 
stroll  into  its  by-ways,  will  correct  any  errors  and 
supply  any  deficiencies  in  it. 

I  begin  with — 

A  Nmrativt  of  Qu  Fiodiair  Cau  o/  the  LaU  Earl 
0/  Warvicktfrfmk  Eis  Lordtkip^i  Ottn  ManmcripL  Sto. 
{Williftmi),  1815. 

A  volume  of  104  pages,  professedly  written  by 
Lord  Warwick,  whose  name  appears  at  the  end  of 
the  Introduction,  but  which  we  leam,  from  a  pre- 
liminary notice,  was  "  intended  to  Imve  been 
published  in  the  lifetime  of  the  noble  EarL"  Any 
one  who  reads  it  will,  I  think,  agree  with  me  that 
the  author  wtva  Mrs*  Serrea,  and  not  the  noble 
E(4rl,  from  whom  she  may  possibly  have  beard 
some  of  the  information  on  which  it  is  baaed. 

FcKli,   A  Letter  to  the  Ear!  of  W .   12mo.,  181<i. 

This  letter  is  addressed  to  the  successor  of  the 
Earl,  vihDBQ  "  Narrative*'  has  just  been deiscribed ; 
and  is  an  appeal  or  attempt  to  obtain  from  him 
certain  debts,  which  the  writer  alleges*  to  have 
been  owing  t^  her  from  !iis  father  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  It  is  dated  lat  September,  1816,  and 
is  signed  on  the  24th  page  "QU via  WilmotSerres." 
I  am  veiy  desirous  of  procuring  a  copy  of  this 
truct.  I  am  indebted  to  the  courtesy  of  a  gentle- 
man, a  comparative  stranger,  for  the  loian  of  the 
copy  now  before  me. 

Juniu*.  Sir  PhiUp  Franetj  denied.  A  Letter 
Addresnd  (o  the  Brituk  Natim.    8vo.  (Williarai),  1817. 

A  pamphlet  of  twenty-f^ve  pages,  subscribed 
"  Olivia  Wilmot  Serres." 

These,  it  will  be  seen,  are  additions  to  the  list 
of  works  pubiii^hed  by  Mrs.  Serres  "before  she 
knew  her  birth,"  though  it  may  be  remarked  that 
she  says  she  was  informed  of  it  in  1815,  and  these 
were  published  in  the  following  year  ! 

I  wLU  now  mention  the  books,  &c.,  issued  by 
her  as  a  royal  author  :— 

The  Princess  of  CumbeHand't  Statement  to  the  English 
Ifation,  at  to  the  Appi\c€it\aji  to  Minuter t,  with  the 
Lettere  Addruud  to  the  Duke  of  York,  the  Secretarv  of 
SUiie,  Lord  Etdon,  Sir  Benjantin  Btomield,  <tc.,  indmding 
CertiftcaUfM  and  Confrmaiiont  of  the  Princese  Olive'e 
Rojfoi  Parents'  Marriage  and  Her  EirlK.  8to»,  1822, 
pp.  11^3,  Introduction,  pp.  x. 

AH  the  copies  that  I  have  seen  have  the  Princess's 
autograph,  Olive,  at  the  foot  of  the  title-page.  My 
copy,  which  was  presented  to  me  by  my  kind 
friend  Dr.  Dalton,  F.S.A.,  has  inserted  in  it  several 
curious  newspaper  cuttings  respecting  the  "  Prin- 
cess," but  unfortunately  the  names  and  dates  of 
the  papers  from  which  they  have  been  taken  are 
not  given.  I  regret  to  add  that  the  same  may  be 
said  of  a  number  of  similar  cuttings  respecting  Mre, 


Serres,  which  have,  from  time  to  time,  come  inb(»< 
my  posseasion. 

The  Firtt  Part  of  the  A^Uhmiicated  Prt>oft  ef  ikt 
Legitimacy  of  Her  Eoval  Highnut  OHwe^  Prittete*  rf 
Cufiiberlandj  and  by  Virtue  of  Hie  Late  Mniettye  Com- 
ma-nd  and  Koyal  Atdhorifv,  DitcKeu  of  Lanckfi^,  Dtdi^ 
cafid  to  the  English  Natioj),.  Loudon  *.  printed  for  Bcr 
HiRbncss  Princeea  Olive  of  Cumberland,  bjr  Lake,  60, 
Old  Street,  near  the  Cifey  Eo&d.     Sro.  32  pp. 

This  pamphlet,  which  is  not  dated.  waB,  I 
believe,  issued  in  1830.  My  copy,  wnicb  was 
given  to  me  by  my  old  and  accurate  friend  Sir 
Henry  Ellis,  has  on  its  title-page,  in  his  band- 
writing,  *'  Received  March,  1830,  H.  E.-*  ;  and  in] 
the  author's  handwriting,  "  With  the  Pnncess'd 
compliments  for  acceptance";  and  on  th5  last 
page,  "  The  Princess  being  at  Crawford  St.,  No.  7, 
(may)  be  seen  any  morning  at  one.*'  In  a  note 
to  her  Dedication  the  writer  says  :  ^  The  first 
edition  of  this  work  was  published  some  yean 
since,  and  was  Dedicated  to  His  Eoyal  Highaen 
the  late  Duke  ©f  York.'* 

I  should  much  like  to  procure  a  copy  of  thii 
first  edition,  which  1  have  never  seen ;  and  evco, 
to  obtain  a  sight  of  it. 

Can  suck  things  he, 

A  nd  overtake  us  Itie  a  summer  doiidg 

Without  onr  especial  teonderf 

The  Wfongs  of  Ber  Royal  Highness  the  Prineeu 

of  Cwnherland ;  heing  a  ptain^  unvarnished  Staifmetd  ef 
ike  unparalleled  Oppressions  injli^ed  v^oa  that  dm- 
Hngui^ked  Lady.  Second  Edmon,  dedicated  to  the 
Mefortned  Parliament,  and  addretsed  to  the  Briiith 
Nation,  by  Miss  Mucaulaj. 

The  trodden  \coi-m  7cill  oft  arise. 
And  by  new  Life  its  Foes  turprtte, 

London:  Furkess^  Compton  Street;  and  (oIdb>J 
CbnJton  Street,  Somers  Town,  and  the  printer, 
PliLCo,  Kew  EowL    8vo.,  1833,  26  pp. 

The  Dedication  is  signed  "Efe  Wright  MiC- 
uulny,-'  and  is  dated  from  52,  Clarendon  Sqi 
Soiners  Town. 

According  to  the  postscript,  the  first  edition  bod' 
been  in  hand  for  several  weeks,  but  some  **  Ee^ 
porter,"  belonging  to  one  of  our  popular  joanmlbv 
hiid  been  trying  to  suppress  it. 

My  copy  is   unfortunately  imperfect 
pp.  13  to  IG  inclusive),  and  I  am  very  i^ 
prociu-Ing  another  copy,  or  of  completing  iul-  mit  1 
possess,  and  of  freeing,  if  possible^  a  copy  of  th< 
first  edition. 

Documents    to    prove   Mrs.    Oliiia  Serres  to   he  Iftf  j 
Legitimate  Danffhter  qf  Henry  Freda  kk,  the  tafe  Dmk$ei' 

Cumberiand, 

A  quarto  sheet  without  date,  containing 
teen  certificates,  which  occupy  three  pages, 
printer  was  A  Scale,  1(50,  Tottenham  Court  i 

I  have  in  my  possession  the  following  clrcu 
issued  by  the  Princess,  all  printed  in  quarto, 
first  is— 

1.  The  Princess  Olive  to  Ike  Engiisih  NaHon. 

This  appeal  occupies  two  pages.    Its  object  i 


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ttvite  the  nobility,  clergy,  gentiy,  merchauts,  &c., 
^  "  11  Toluntju-y  subscription  towards  a  loan."    It 

duted  from  **4,  Park  Row,  Mill^s  BtiOdings, 
Cnightsbridge,  August  l«t»  1829";  and  in  it,  in- 
tead  of  ber  baving  the  secret  of  her  birth,  and  the 
Kipere  connected  with  it,  communiaited   to  her 

1815  by  Lord  Warwick  and  the  Duke  of  Kent, 


*Oii  examining  the  papers  of  Pr.  Wilmot,  Tarious 

romenU  of  an  importjiiit  stato  tendency  were  dis- 

[^vorered,  among    which  certificatci  of    the   Pulce  and 

Ducbaw  of  Cuwberlaud'ft  marriage,  and  mjr  birth  and 

baptinn,"  &c. 

2,  To  tkt  Naval   and   MaritijM    Qffietri   of   Oreat 

In  which  the  Princess,  writing  from  No.  2  (not 
Ko.  4),  Park  Kow,  invites  members  of  the  Kaval 
profession  to  view  the  modebof  an  improved  com- 
poas,  the  result  of  her  scientific  attidies. 

3.  A  prospectus  on  one  page  quarto  of  a  work 
t4)  be  called  The  Eoyal  Olive  Branchy  to  be  written 
aod  published  **  in  weekly  papera " ;  but  this  is  cor- 

Liiect^  in  the  copy  before  me  in  her  own  hand- 
LwTttin]2[,  into  "in  Four  Volumes,  at  Two  Guineas." 
~"  >  Jioyal  Olive  Branch  wius  to  consist  of  no  leas 
ten  distinct  works,  of  which  the  title*  are 
D^  besides  Essays  on  various  subjects. 
I  hare  not  added  to  the  list  of  Mrs.  Serres's 

J%§  Avihentic  Record*  of  the  Court  of  England  for  ike 
|lwr  Snynfy  Ymrx,    Svo.,  1832,  pp,  394. 

&r  the  enlarged  rifacimenio  of  it,  publiflbed  in  the 

I  year,  under  the  title  of — 

t€t\Hi*ior}f  of  th(  Court  of  England,  from  the  Aeee$- 
»  of  Oeorai  the  Third  to  th^  Bmtk  of  George  the 
itftA,  &c.    Bj  Ludy  Anae  HamOtoa,  ^c.  2  Tola,  Sto., 

-oiuse  as  Lady  Anne  Hamilton,  who  did  not  die 
lill  fourteen  years  after  its  appeanince,  namely, 
1846,  never  repudiated  the  authorship,  and  Mrs, 
Berre^  never  claimed  it,  though  her  handiwork  is 
risible  throughout,  I  prefer  to  leave  the  discredit 
Ittacbcd  to  it  in  the  mystery  in  which  it  is  at 
at  involved, — at  least  for  the  present,— and 
at  myself  with  referring  my  readers  to  the 
as  article  upon  this  subject  by  Calcuttensis, 
'  N.  k  Q.;'  3^  S.  xu  p.  196. 


The  soggfetlOQ  of  so  skilled  a  bibliographer  as 
)LPi]  AR  UXusT  has  almost  the  force  of  a  command, 
ud  I  venture,  therefor**,  to  add  to  this  a  note  of 
^  ks  m  I  am  aware  of  which  illustrate  the 
I  ';Lini8  of  Mrs.  Serres. 

i  .f-L  .imoDg  these  is  the  following  life  of  her 
afortnnate  and  infatuate*!  husband  : — 

oaV#  of  John  TJiomaf  Srrret,  hfe  Marine  Pamter  to 
iajfsty.     Hy  9i  Friend.     8to.,  1826. 

i*i  a  k»ok  wliich  deserves  the  seriouM  ut- 

on  *»f  ull  w)io  would  know  the  real  character 

Itmordinary  woman.   I  say  this  advisedly, 


having  lately  discovered  a  remarkable  confirma- 
tion of  one  of  the  most  startling  incidentii  re- 
lated in  it.  It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  it  was 
published  eight  years  before  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Serres  ;  but  during  those  eight  years  no  attempt 
was  made  to  impugn  its  truth. 

Between  the  2uth  May  and  the  16th  September, 
1848,  a  serios  of  articles  were  published  in  The 
Morning  Post  in  support  of  the  claims  of  Mrs. 
Kyves  to  succeed  to  the  honours  which  Mrs.  Serres 
had  claimed.  Anything  more  illogical  than  the  argu- 
ments, or  more  preposterous  than  the  assumptions, 
brought  forward  by  the  writer  it  is  impossible  to 
conceive.  Yet,  in  1858,  these  papers  were  col- 
lected and  republished  under  the  title  of — 

A  n  Appeal  for  Royalty.  A  Letter  to  Her  Most  Ora^rioue 
Maiatjt  QvL€tn  Victoria  from  Lavinia^  Princeu  of  Cum- 
herlanU  and  Dueheu  of  Lancaster.  S?o.,  1S58,  pp.  92. 

It  was  this  "  Appeal "  (of  which  a  second  edition 
was  published  in  1866)  which  first  called  my  at- 
tention to  this  singular  case.  It  was  given  to  me 
by  a  distinguished  friend,  out  of  regard  to  whom 
I  had  it  handsomely  bound,  and  with  it  another 
pamphlet  on  the  same  subject. 

The  latter  was  one  which  had  been  privately 
printed  at  Aberdeen  (I)  some  few  years'  before,  the 
impression  being  veiy  Limited,  and  consisted  cbiefly 
of  a  reprint,  (if  I  am  right  in  my  recollection,)  of 
Sir  Robert  PeePs  memorable  exposure  of  the  case. 

At  the  time  of  the  Rp'os  trial,  I  lent  the  volume 
to  an  official  friend  who  attended  the  hearing,  and, 
by  some  accident,  it  was  lost  I  should  be  very  glad 
to  recover  the  lost  sheep,  which  I  much  prized ;  and 
even  if  that  should  not  be,  to  learn  the  full  title  of 
this  latter  p^unphlet. 

The  next  work  on  the  subject  is  a  amall  pam- 
phlet, by  one  who  knew  well  what  he  waa  wnting 
about : — 

Tki  Priitceu  Olive  of  Cumhtrland,  Hannah  Lightfoot, 
and  Uu  A'^Uhor  of  Oie  LeiUrt  of  Junius.  Heprinted  from 
the  Etif/lithman  Ntvtpaper  of  Jane  23th,  18(56.  8vo. 
Calcutta,  pp.  Ifi. 

This,  it  will  be  seen,  was  almost  contemporary 
with  the  Ryves  trial,  which  took  place  at  the  com- 
men  cement  of  June,  1866. 

The  result  of  the  Ryves  trial,  in  1 866,  was  not 
C4ilculated  to  please  Mrs.  Ryves  or  her  supporters, 
and  their  diss.atisfaction  found  vent  in  a  small 
pamphlet,  entitled — 

Mytea  versuf  tht  A  ttomev-Oeneral .  Waa  Justice  done  t 
A  Qu£stion  to  6e  Anjiwtrtdhtfihe  Briiiak  Nation,  Lon- 
don, 1866.    Price  Sixpence.    8vo.  pp.  16. 

I  am  indebted  for  a  copy  of  this  to  the  kindness 
of  Mr.  Hyde  Clarke,  who  sent  with  it  an  octavo- 
page  prospectus,  with  names  of  Committee,  &c.,  of 
a^ — 

Fund  fvr  ih*  Private  Benejrt  of  Mrs.  L.  /.  H.  Ryvee, 
dvring  htr  AppetU  to  the  Houst  of  Lords, 

This  is  dated  August,  1867,  and  it  ia  ^x^gas.'i^Vs^ 
^*  Edward  West,  tfon.  ^^^.^  \^^\i5X  hswSl  "^^^oSs^ 


324 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[5«*aLlLOct.2i7l. 


.Street,  E.C„"  the  publisher,  I  presumo,  of  the 
eding  brochure. 
I  close  this  commanicatioa  with  a  notice  of^ 
A  Su]spret*td  PrinOMi.  T5U  Auihthtic^  Roma/hiliet 
(md  Painful  HutoTM  <if  ««  Mxcludtd  M^rnh^r  of  tki 
RbytU  Family^  By  Landor  Pra«<L  Reprinted  from  tbe 
NfiecattU'Gn-Tyne  IVetkly  Ckrcrf^idt.  London.  Priee 
Twopence.    4to,  pp.  8. 

This  little  **  history  "  bears  no  dniB ;  but  though 
it  appeared  in  the  Nai-caatU  Chronuh  of  Decem- 
ber 5,  1SC3,  I  have  reftson  to  belieye  it  was  not 
reprinted  until  1866  or  1S67. 

TkiE  ia  ad  complete  a.  list  of  the  separate  workfi 
by,  or  relating  t43,  the  Princess  Olive  and  her 
clkima  as  I  have  been  able  to  compile.  One  ad- 
vantage of  its  appearing  in  "N.  &  Q."  will  be, 
thtA  iha  samd  kiiidly  feeling  on  the  part  of  its 
eontiibaianif  which  ha^  Hone  so  much  to  coinplete 
my  collection,  will,  I  am  sure,  letui  those  that  can 
to  give  completeness  to  this  bibliography  of  tho 
Series  aeandai  Wiluam  J.  Thoms. 

40l  Sk.  Qmavt'B  Sqmm,  aW. 


P,S.  My  clofiing  words  have  proved  prophetic. 
Sinc4:5  they  were  written  1  have  received  from 
A.  G.J  an  occasional  but  always  instructive  con- 
tributor to  "  N,  &  Q.,"  not  only  the  firtt  edition 
of  the  Fint  PaH  of  tk^  Anthcnticatid  Proofs ^ 
with  ft  Dediaition  to  the  Duke  of  York,  dated 
'Rules  of  the  Kmg^s  Bench  Prison,  November  26, 
1835,^'  but  also  a  separate  publication  of  which 
I^X  had  never  heard, — 

The  S^Ml,  or  tJ^6  Wonderhd  Ptanetaiy  Ptedictiont  of 
82«  and  1827;  Ewntfui  ftar^  e^mcied  witk  iU  Fate 
^  Enrope.    Bj  Pthob'menois  O.     London,  1820.    8vo.^ 

It  is  illustrated  by  four  prophetic  plates,  "  rmb- 
liahetl  June  1,  1826,  as  the  Act  directs.'^  Mrs, 
Serrea's  name  does  not  appear  in  it^  bnt  there  can 
be  no  doubt  of  the  authorshii) ;  not  only  was  she 
ai  th»  time  engaged  in  aiitroiogicid  studies,  as 
shown  by  her  contributions  to  the  Astrologtr  of 
the  Nineteenth  Centunj,  and  elsewhere,  but  on  the 
title-poge  of  this  copy  of  The  ^ybill  there  U 
written,  in  her  well-known  scrawl,  after  the  dates 
1826  and  1827,  *Mmtill  1 830.'* 


BIBLE  CONTROVERSY. 

"Belfiit  itill  fltronj?  in  all  the  arts  of  pMce^ 
DeMrrea  her  Dame  viho  vfos  tbe  ejc  of  Greece." 

If  there  is  any  credit  to  be  derived  (and  I  believe 

there  is,  and  I  wish  to  seviu^  if   f^^-  my  native 

I  town)  from  Belfast  having  first  ;  n  edition 

\eS  the  Authorized  Version  of  tin       l  ^     ires  in  the 

ngUsh  tongue  in  Ireland,  I  feel  most  deairous  to 

ecu  re  it»  and  give  every  assistance  in  my  power  to 

it  beyond  all  doubt  or  coniroveiiy  for  the 

btnre. 

The  latest  discussion  upon  the  subject  the  reader 

will  ^nd  in  Dr.  Madden'a  rerj  painstaking  volumes 


oi  Irish  Pcriodkal  T.ifrnirur,    niiT^TI4K.d  in  18<S7;. 
and  as  they  are  e;i  rfer«iicc,l 

need  only  refer  to  j   _  f*  t  he  fin 

volume^  in  which  the  . 
devoted  to  this  controvei 

Dr.   Madden  ia   evid<  it-need    by 

statements  of  the  late  n  in<l  vf-rj  c^n 

petent  scholar  and  antiquiuian,  Mi 
whose  name  is  traceable  in  many  ) 
Q./- but  whose  prejudice  on  tliis  pomt  i  vtai! 
to  c4iU  in  question,  and  <iiscreetly  to  refute. 

On  Mr.  Pinkerton^s  hist  visit  to  Bdihat^  n 
time  before  his  decease,  he  made  no  con^ 

in  expressing  his  oonvrction  thn '  ^  '^  -  -  • 

smy  Bible  whatever  ;  that  thi 

name  were  printed  elsewhere.  ....,,_, 

cellent  En^sh  Bibles  were  then  pnnfrit  \n 
land,  and  Belfast  may  have  been  iQppijed 
thence." 

Astounding  as  this  testimony  is,  it  is  the  nitirv 
rcmfirkable  in  doubting  the  eirpre^s  .ttte-'tation  ut 
the  imprint  given  on  the  tille-pafrr.  m^    v_-i:tt  nf 
tbe  end  of  the  prophets,  **  Belftist,  I 
For  James  Blow."    I  have  seen  mv: 
of  the  Bible  with  this  same  imprint,  di 
They  are  lvU  quarto  size,  and  onp  of  them 
the  Apocrypha,  which  ends  w'  '  '     hisl 

"  Printed  by  Daniel  Blow,  In )  et, 

h.vcclxxviil/'  and  he  was  »uu  atiu  j-uecessor 
James. 

In  "  N.  &  Q."for  November,  18f?5  ^-^  r  — ^  Fnr 
cominunicateB  he  has  a  Bible  pn  ium*f 

Blow,  dated  1 755 ;  and  the  three  copk.  ^^.^,.  ..UuitoJ 
to  ore  all  in  Bel&flt  at  this  mofHeAi,  ftod  oo^  d 
tbem  is  in  the  posaesgion  of  Willam  Bloir,  a  fnnl- 
son  of  Daniel. 

In  Trinity  College  Library,  Dublin,  there  b  t 
small  folio  edition  of  the  Bible,  printed  at  DuMb 
in   1714,  which  was  considered  the  first  Engli«k 
Bible  printed  in  Ireland.     This  impreiKsion  mufl 
now  be  cancelled  by  overwhelming  t^timouy.    A 
Bible,  qujirto  size,  has  been  discovered,  and  it  ii  at 
present  in  tbe   book-shop  of  Mr.   AiUilu5?on,  in 
Cattle  Place,  Belfast,  and  the  title- poge  bfta  tbi 
following  imprint : — 

"Belfftnt. 
Printed  By  And  F<»r  JtmoB  Blow, 
And  for  George  (jricr'nTt,  PriTitrr 
To  the  King's  Mfi>i  if. 

At  The  Kitijc»  Arru  s 

In  EsMx  Street,  Du. ..... 

Now,  I  would  ask,  would  any  san*:   [m  < n 
t)m  truthfulness  conveyed  in  the  :.i^    ^       n  i 
What  purpose  could  it  serve  to  p^'V[  -  i  r  I  > 

and  profanation*  to  induce  Blow  t  < 
hood  on  the  title-page  of  the  Bil' 
cogBtzance  of  the  "sovenirm ''  of 
was  his  partner  in  the  pr  ; , 

To  be  brief,  I  leave  li  a]  i.    h   uLsauu. 

before  the  public  wiilroir  ,i  L.    liitiou  of  tlm^  <t)0' 
viction  of  its  truthful ulv-. 


m 


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335 


I 


I  tlunk  it  an  ^iinwi^ite  coneluRion  to  jjjive  your 
rvaders  a  qii  ,  i  I>r.  ^Imiden's  vohiriie:^ — 

"  LMt  wl*c'k:  ,  rt  illness,  died  ia  Belfiut  Mr. 

Jmman  Fl  r,  who  dtiTing  the  courac  of  •  Tery 

long  lift'  ty-tl4re«  yean  of  age,  mntntaiiMHl  a 

fftir    -  ^  'Jo  was  a  trtuty  good  nuai, 

•n*^  >^ly  pious,  imd  odiidaont 

ia  t  J  tiutiea.     He  waa  of  n 

liuxnase  ood  gfiiicrixtua  ULspo&ition,  ftnd  remarkAblj  re- 
nowned for  his  libenility  iis  a  Uetiafaotof  to  th«  poor, 

It  !«  remarkAble  that  ho  ^as  the  first  in  this 

kfaigdom  who  printed  the  Blble^  of  which  ho  pubUghed 
— —  cditioTn. ' 

jiiirarJTRpli  h  extracted  from   Faul- 
■  ifL  Joitrnixh  foT  August,  1709. 
Henht  Greer, 
A  DclfMt  BooJcMlkr  uf  Octogen&rtAn  Maturity. 

The  Nijrrilurii  Jilti^  (Belfast)  hu^   been   pub- 
"^  *  B^  tt  volimiinoiLS  correspondeact;  on  this  sab- 
suice  it  was  revived  in   "  K.  &  C^>.,"  and  the 
,tt»  I  'I'Ks  not  yet  s^eiii  settled  satisfactorily*    It 
fe  t  I  of  many  that  the  so-called  **  Blow'fi 

Bii  II it  printed  wholly  in  Belfast,  but  tLit 

Blow  uiitviitied,  by  purchnse,* or  m  a,  trade  onJer, 
pnnted  sheets,  to  which   he  pretixed   title-pagee 
with  hi*  own  imprint.    The  NorUiem  Whd^  of  the 
15lh  iiHt.  hjw  the  following  nate  on  this  point : — 
•  A  little  volume  wn?  brought  to  our  office  yesterday, 
wilh  ttto  following  mther  remarkable  imprint  :— 
V'^  '      V    ''lintecl : 
And  Ti-  I  by  Jaiies  Butw 

The  i'liU  of  the  booic  is  *  A  glimpfie  of  Eternity.  Tery 
uwfol  u>  AwAk*n  ^mnem  and  to  Comfort  SAINTS  :  By 
Alir         '  "'  ng:  dedication,  partly  printed 

«i>'i  I   the  b«ok  of  tne  title-pEigc : 

iTli'     ,  Piitiif  being  a  j^reftt  Help   to 

ti»tio»i  lis  with  it,  rtsligiuiin  Respect  Keeommended  to 
"  Worthy   Friend    Mr  Vfilliiini    M'tHiwU   By  Jam'?a 
m  VMh  Mfty  ITfi^.'    The  wording  of  the  imprint  ii 
v«fy  miiwml,  uid  8u^^«t«  the  poenbllily  of  Blow  having 
r»-iMned  London- printed  f  heeto,  •  hypotbeoi*  which  ba* 
been  maintained  ae  to  the  mooh-diBpaied  Blow's  Bible.'* 
^^___^^         J.  D.  I. 

**THE  SCOTTISH  ADDISON;* 

Few  reiid«n  of  "N.   &   Q/'  are,   I   iompne* 

aaacrjtiainted  with  Addison's  admirable  paper  on 

T*r  Its  ID  the  *Spedatt^i:     The 

foil  -a  of  the  epithet  in  n  wider 

**  A  mw>  who  hns  been  bfonght  np  anaonff  bookf,  and 
li  able  to  bJJc  «'!»,  i«  i%  Tory  indifftirent  cotn* 

paiii<m,  i»f>d  n  I  a  pedant.     But,  me  thinks,  wo 

aluvuld  iM.iaf->  ,_,  auii  give  it  to  every  ono  tliat 

ilo^"  '<>  tliink  out  of  lis  profession  and 

pari  . ;' 

Uanry  iiiick.uvie,  who  mnU  Miy  half  a  ccn- 

a£irr  Addi^on^  hniJi  h  i^assnge  on  the  same 

a  ptLper  in  the  Mirmr,   which   is   so 

exp<t4iiott  thnt  it  in  difficult  lo  acquit 

"dalibemt^  plniriuriMnj  of  th©  nboye*    He 


"  PodiLntry«  in  tbo  common  sense  of  the  word,  means 
■Ji    ikbHurd    i>iiteritatiun    of   Iuanuti)i:<  and    etitTaeAs    of 

Ehmseolo^y,  proce<*ditip  from  a  misguided  knowledge  of 
ookfl,  iwid  a  total  ii"  •  mcrh     iJut  I  have  often 

thought  that  we  n  1  \i»  sigcniheation  »  i»ood 

deal   farther,  and,  ;  ^VV^y  it  to  ihtki  failiog 

which  diipoeea  a  per^^iu  to  obtrude  upon  others  suk^ecta 
of  oonversatiou  relating  to  hi^  own  bufiinaoa^  studidVi  or 
amusement" 

The  Spedaiory  thtmgh  not  exactly  the  tint 
]>eriodical  of  its  kind  (having  been  preceded  by 
the  Tatlcr^  which  first  ap  pete  red  in  ITtlS) — ^thft  year, 
by  the  way,  of  Dr.  John^on^s  btrth^  whi^  was 
thus  distingiiished  by  whrxt  may  truly  bo  teemed  a 
revolution  in  modem  literature),  wm  the  precumor 
of  numerous  publications  of  a  Himilar  chanwler,  of 
which  none  were  more  professed  imitators  than  the 
Mirror  and  the  Lonmft^r^  oondncted  by  Henry 
Mfickenzie,  and  published  in  Edinburgh.  Sir 
Walter  Scott,  in  his  dedictition  of  the  "first  heir 
of  his  invention  ^*  in  the  realms  of  prortc  fiction — 
Wai^erUyj  the  forerimoer  of  a  nohio  brooil !— - 
t-enus  the  author  of  the  Man  of  Feeling^  and  other 
"  tales  of  sensibility,"  the  *'  .Scottish  AddiBou,"  and 
the  title  may  he  allowed  if  a  servile  imitation  of 
the  literary  style  of  the  creator  of  Sir  Roger  de 
Coverley  may  alone  be  deemed  smificient  to  nusc 
him  to  an  intellectual  level  with  his  orreat  model. 
It  appears  to  me,  however,  that  the  title  is  at  beat 
far-fetched.  In  Mackenzie's  writings  there  in 
nothing  piirticulurly  Scottish, — on  the  contrary, 
hid  litemry  cliaracteristics  are  pre-eminently  Eng 
lish,  B^runger  is  calletl  the  French  Burnt?,  becauae 
his  genius  rejsembled  that  of  the  illnatrious  Scot* 
tiiih  }>easiint,  while  he  was  intensely  natiooaL 
Samuel  F.->ote  U  sometimes  termed  the  "  English 
Aristophanes,"  and  not,  perhaps  without  reason, 
for  that  facetious  personage,  in  whosd  p^e^^;nce 
even  Dr.  Johnson  could  not  maiutiun  hiH  ^^vity, 
possessed  many  chanicteriistics  in  common  with  the 
celebrated  Athenian  s^itirist  and  comedian.  Wash- 
ington Irving  has  been  dubbed  the  **Americ4in 
Goldsmith,"  and  he  deservej^  the  title,  for  not  only 
did  he  form  lua  style  on  '*  Goldy  s  ''  channing  and 
elegant  model,  but  his  cast  of  mind  bore  a  striking 
resemblance  to  that  of  the  brilliant  author  of  the 
Citizen  of  ifi4  IVorld.  He  imitate*!  Goldsmith's 
Chhitsc  Letters  in  a  short-lived  pcriodic^jJ,  entitled 
Sfthiittjnudi,  but  the  matter  was  entirely  his  own, 
and  he  ridiculed  the  foibles  of  his  countrymen  i\s 
happily  and  good-naturedly  as  did  the  ima|,amiry 
i'hine^e  philoBopher  those  of  the  Enfrliah  p«#ple. 
Mackenzie,  on  the  other  hand,  resembleii  Addison 
only  HO  far  as  he  successftdly  imitated  his  style ; 
but,  in  my  opinion,  he  bcked  orinjinality,  and  yr 
not  to  be  wm pared  in  point  of  genius  to  his 
Qhislriou^i  master.  But  I  have  no  desire  to  lower 
M  iKmitiou  in  KogH^h  Uteniture.     Hi* 

w<  ,  1  fcor^  but  little  rend  now-a>days,  and 

aciircely  known  to  the  younger  gcnenklion  of 
readers.    The  test-t'Ciitt^rj  ia  ui»sV5  ^jm-^^sA..^ 


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I5»8.ILOcfT.24.7i. 


and  there  is  e¥enr  likelihood  that  he  will  ere  loBg 
be  forgotten  by  til  but  students  of  our  literature. 
It  should  not  be  forgotten  that  Mackenzie  was  one 
of  the  firet  to  recognize  the  poetical  genius  of 
Baraa  ;  and  thut  the  critical  notice  of  the  first 
volume  of  Buma'a  poems^  in  the  97th  number  of 
the  Loungtr^  for  December  9,  1786,  waa  from  the 
elegant  {»en  of  the  author  of  the  Man  of  Feding. 
This  critique  (which,  by  the  way,  I  should  like  to 
see  reprinted,  and  thus  rescued  from  the  oblivion 
of  neglected  Loung^iQH  old  book-stalls)  is  written 
with  considemble  judgment  and  generous  candour^ 
and  was  calculated  to  introduce  the  gifted  plough- 
man to  the  literary  ojid  fashionable  circles  of  the 
Scottish  capital.  At  the  close  of  the  frnper  a 
hope  is  expreased  that  meajxs  might  be  found  to 
render  it  unnecessary  for  the  poet  to  *'  seek  under 
a  West  Indian  clime  that  shelter  and  support 
which  Scothind  had  denied  him'*;  and  in  all 
human  probability,  but  for  Mackenzie's  generous 
pleading  in  this  critique,  Britain  would  Imve  lost 
one  of  her  manliest  sons,  Scot  hind  her  greatest 
poet»  and  our  ballad  literature  would  not  now 
include  the  choice  iM>etry  contributed  by  the  genius 
of  him^^ — 

"  Who  walked  in  glory  and  in  joy* 
Besido  hia  plough,  aloDg  the  niounUm  side," 

W.  A.  C. 
Glugow. 

Tied —  BoaND.— Said  a  gentleman  to  me,  *^  If 

you  have  visitors  in  the  country,  you  are  b^iund  to 

have   the    Fikc    Country  Baflads^   the    Heathen 

Chinee,  and  such,  on  your  sruoking-room  table/' 

This  American  use  of  the  word  bound  I  am  sorry 

I  to  see  becoming  so  common,  both  in  conversation 

land  in  newspapers  ;  for  it  "  was  an  excellent  good 

I  word  before  it  was  ill -sorted ;  therefore  ivriters  had 

hieed  look  to  it."     A  few  days  ago  I  was  t^ilking 

^ith  a  gipsy  from  the  north  of  Northumberland. 

*i  thought  I  ought  to  remembei'  the  name  of  the 

who  was  Miister  of  the  Hounds  in  those 

parts  some  time  back,  but  whose  name  he  had  for- 

^tten.     On  my  fading  to  refresh  his  memory,  my 

mend  repeatedly  exclaimed,  "  Oh  !  you  're  tied  to 

know  him,  sir."     Now,  is  this  use  (jf  tied  common 

in  Northumberland,  or  elsewhere  ;  or  was  it  only 

an  affected  paraphrase  of  hound  ou  the  part  of  the 

gipsy?  A.  FERQU8S0K. 

Unit«d  SurricB  Glab^  Edinburgh, 

HnouENOTS :  Ireland.— The  following  is  from 
the  Bdfast  Newsletter  of  1739  :— 

"  On  SAturdav  lost  search  vrnM  m&de  for  gunpowder  in 
the  bouse  of  the  Widow  Query,  whoie  liQibiind  woh  a, 
French  Hu^onett.  and  «old  gunpowder  ood  thott,  in  a 
httle  chop  in  Chnst-Church-Yard ;  hut  the  widow  being 
A  papitt,  iind  coiiBijquotitly  di»ga«dified  for  that  trade, 
between  20  and  ^^0  |ioiinds  weidcbt  of  gunpowder  was 
Hi  ere  seised,  and  brought  to  Hb  Majesty's  stores^  m  the 
Ufr  directs/* 

W.  H.  Pattkrson. 


"  Terrella." — This  word,   quite   new  to 
occurs  in  Byche's  LHciionary^   1773, 
preted  :    **  a  load-atone  made   into  a  . 
spherical   form,   and  so    posited    that   iXh.  p^jU 
equator,  &c.,  exactly  correspond    to    the 
equator,  &c.,  of  the  world."     Tliis  is  rei 
germ  of  Professor  Rirlow*«  ingenious  ooq 
of  an  eiectro-imignetic  sphexe   to   repn 
pohirityof  the  Earth.  S.  T.  P. 

Suffolk  Wohds, — The  following   < 
my  notice  durini^  a  recent  visit  to  Suflv 
they  are  not  to  be  found  in  the  Glos-saric*  Uy  Ma 
and  Forby^  you  may  perhaps  deem  them  wori" 
of  a  corner  in  "N,  k  Q.'^   Bigoiy,  proud;  Bong 
borHe-chestnut ;   Pitskei^  pod  of  pea«  ;   Itaek 
idle  tale,  superstition  ;    Wahpti.%  mouth  ;  a 
lemptuous  term,  e,  g,,  "  Shut  up  yar  great  wahp 
hoTj- — an  obseiTation  I  heard  addte^fted  to  a  no 
boy.  C  D. 

CtTRious    Epitaph    in    Clavrrley  Cftfi- 
iSHRorsHiRE.— The  following  extract  is  fr»'iij 
Wolverliampton    Chronich^    September    9,    '.n 
paper,    by   "K.    H-,    Wolverhampton,"    enud'-i 
**  Wimderinga  in  Shronshire/*    He   describe*  ihi 
fine  church  (very  well  xnown  to  me)  of  Ul.irerlcj, 
ShropBhire,  and  says  :— 

''Amonirst  the  many  epitaphs  ia  and  amuud  tbe 
church,  that  teach  the  rustic  tDoraliat  tn  dte.  tf  il>« 
(juaifit  following,  (sk)  which  Is  near  the  cominaidoD 
table,  in  the  ai»le  of  the  manorial  chancel,  wnttea  In 
capitidSj  on  a  large  blue  alnh  : — 

*  Come,  Lei  tie  Go  See  Mans.     But  A  Fasbion. 

Here  Dyed  One  Whilst  lu  Mis  Statioo, 
Who  Joumey'd  Lonj?,  Long  Joumers  Alio  M«reliU 

Buahtug  luto  L>eath,  LeaTing  Every  Yard 
Near  To  Bis  Home  and  l»ear  Kclatioti, 

Here  For  To  Seat  Hia  Habitation.' 
This  ia  without  either  risible  date  or  name,  ii  i 
I  edged  to  be  of  great  antiquity,    it  so  mulilaN 
coTered  vtith  dujt  as  only  to  be  traceable  by  black  1 
and  until  ver^  recently  was  aupi>o*ed  by  most  i 
local  antiquarians  to  be  part  of  the  church/' 

CtTTHBRRT  BKnt 

Epigram  :— 

**  A  loarcod  prelate  of  thift  land. 
Thinking  to  make  Religion  atand^ 
With  equall  poi^e  on  either  side, 
A  mixture  oi  tbeui  thus  he  try'd : 
An  Ounce  of  ProtcBtant  he  singleUii 
And  then  a  Dram  of  Pttpiet  mtngktht 
With  n  scruple  of  the  Purit&D, 
And  hoiJed  them  atl  in  his  brain-pan : 
But  when  he  thought  it  vr^  digost. 
The  scTKple  troubled  all  the  rest." 
Who   h  the  nuthor,  and  who  was  the  prebi*' 
Heylyn,  lfio6,  says  that  it  was  made  on  iheoc-j 
easion  of  the  controversy  about  the  pOBition  of  tk  1 
altar,  "  or  the  like  occasion/*  J,  E.  B. 

Butler's  "  Hudibras."— It  wri  r^  V    ""  "^" 
to  BpeaJc  of  fin}'  work  in  more  conti 
than  those  which  M.  Taine  haa  eiu^n 
book  on  English  Literature,  when  treatingof  ifttofi 


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broM.  Voltaire  bcld  it  in  higher  estimation,  and, 
cerUinly,  Voltaire  was  a  judge  of  wit.  He  says  : 
**  There  is  one  English  poem,  the  title  of  which  i& 
Budihras,  I  never  met  with  so  mnch  wit  in  one 
single  book  as  this.** 

Dr.  Johnson  testifies  as  follows  :  **  If  inexhaust- 
ible wit  could  give  perpetuftl  ple^ure,  no  eye  could 
leave  half  re^  the  works  of  Butler^  for  what  poet 
has  brought  together  ko  manj  remote  images  so 
happily  T  Ukeda. 

Philadelphia. 


<EkurrUtf. 

[We  must  request  oomiipondenia  desiring  infortnation 
o&  family  xiuitt«ri  of  only  prir&te  interest,  to  afEx  tlieir 
namefl  and  addreooi  to  their  queries^  m  order  that  the 
amwers  maj  be  addreoed  to  them  direct.] 


I 


Travelling  Tutors  in  the  SEVENTEENTit 
Cexturt.— In  the  reigns  of  Mary  and  Elizabeth 
few  English  youths  visited  the  Continent  of  Europe, 
altlioui^'h  many  young  Scotchmen  sought  their 
fortunes  abroad.  Yet  soon  after  the  accession  of 
s  I.  to  the  throne  of  England^  and  still  more 
Prince  Charles  went  to  Spain,  it  becaitie  the 
ion  in  England  to  look  upon  **  The  Grand 
Tour  of  Fmnee  HTid  the  Giro  of  Italy  "  aa  necessary 
to  complet-e  the  education  of  a  gentlem.in.  The 
marriage  of  Charlee  with  Henrietta  Maria  of 
France  gave  additional  strength  to  this  opinion  ; 
and  aubsequently  a  desire  that  they  should  escjipe 
from  the  influence  of  the  Commonwealth,  or  pro- 
vide for  the  future  by  paying  court  to  Charles  II. , 
induced  hundreds  of  Englishmen  to  send  their 
children  to  the  Continent,  whose  gnindlathers 
would  have  thought  it  almost  a  ain  to  have  done  so« 

Under  this  new  system  of  education  there  grew 
up  a  class  of  men  known  as  "  travelling  tutors/' 
many  of  whom  possessed  conaidemble  literary 
*c<iuirements,  and  a  knowledge  of  men  and  things 
which  must  have  rendered  their  influence  very 
powerful,  for  gixwi  or  evil^  over  the  raw  youngsters 
~*-isted  to  their  care.  I  shall,  therefore,  feel 
indebted  to  any  person  who  will  point  out 

ies  which  I  ought  to  jvdd  to  the  following  list 

of  tatont  of  the  seventeenth  century,  who,  I  believe, 
TTrivclled  with  their  pupils  ou  the  Continent  of 
Ascham,  Hobbes,  Thos.  Murray,  Robert 
i,  BramhalL,  LaiiseU,  8 ir  Leoline  Jenkins, 
Locke  [l[h  Drvdcn  (?},  Richaut,  Alexander  Gill, 
the  Ablw.^  Montague,  Sir  William  Alexander, 
Gailhar^i,  Birch,  Gerbier,  Raymond,  Peacham, 
WiiFvup,  8pon,  Wheeler,  Howell. 

Ralph  N.  James. 

Baron  WAypKSFOKD, — ^^  Houghton 
f  prints   enprraved   after   the   most 

ri->  11^  tlh     ^  II  (tion  of  Her  Imperitd 
i:.i..pfcH    1  I:;;  .ia,  lately  in  the  pot- 


session  of  the  Earl  of  Orford,  at  Houghton  Hall  in 
Norfolk,  1788."  One  of  the  above  prints  represents 
a  middle-aged  or  elderly  figure  seated  in  a  chair  ; 
according  to  the  letter-preiis  at  bottom,  he  is  stated 
to  be  "  Lord  Chief  Biuon  Wandesford.*'  The  MtUti 
Walpoliana;^  a  description  of  the  collection,  1752, 
ran  thus,  '*  No.  50,  Lord  Chief  Baron  Wandesford, 
head  of  the  Castle  Comer  family.^*  I  have  looked 
into  a  peerage,  Burke's  Landtd  Gentry ^  Maunder, 
&c.,  hut  with  no  success.  Can  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents oblige  me  with  information  as  to  this 
person,  with  any  particular  concerning  him,  or  as 
to  where  any  should  be  Bought  for,  or  likely  to  be 
met  with  I  Burke^s  Landtd  Gentry^  1868,  gives  a 
heading,  "  Comer  of  Fitzbead,  county  Someniet,'' 
but  makers  no  mention  of  "  Castle  Conner."  It 
seems,  also,  there  is  Wynsford,  Somersetshire  ; 
Wandesford,  Northamptonshire  j  Wansford,  York- 
shire. CURIO. 

PoRTUOUESB  Coin. — A  relative  of  mine  hfis  in 
her  possession  a  small  coin^  apparently  of  brass, 
rather  larger,  and  somewhat  lignter,  than  an  Eag- 
lifcih  half-sovereign.  On  the  obverse  is  a  bust  of  a 
man,  the  right  side  shown,  laurel-crowned,  and 
with  long  hair,  and  the  legend  "  joannbs  v  d  g 
PORT  REX  1748.'  This  ia  evidently  John  V,,  the 
spendthrift  King  of  Portugtil,  the  builder  of 
Mafra,  the  Chapel  pf  St.  John  the  Baptist,  and 
other  works,  and  predecessor  of  the  monarch 
Joseph,  to  whom  the  celebrated  Marquis  of  Fombal 
was  minister.  On  the  reverse  are  the  words,  in 
English,  ''njxr  shillings,"  in  two  lines  right 
across  the  coin,  and  in  letters  about  one-eighth  of 
an  incli  long.  The  edge  is  rudely  roughed  rather 
than  milled.  Can  any  of  your  readers  tell  me 
what  this  coin  is  I 

In  the  Mlmoirei  du  Marquu  d^  Fombal  there  is 
mention  miide  of  a  statement  that  John  V.'s 
treasury  wa^s  so  depleted  that  some  membeiB  of 
the  royal  fiimUy  received  their  stipends  in  copper. 
Were  coins  of  this  sort  made  specially  for  them  1 
The  English  sovereign  is,  at  the  present  day,  a 
legal  tender,  and,  practically,  the  only  gold  coin  in 
use,  in  Portugal 

Cyprlan  a.  G,  Bridge,  R.N. 

Who  wrote  "The  Bctttbrflt's  Ball"? — I 
have  in  my  possession  a  well-preser^^ed  copy  of  the 
first  edition  of  The  BuUerp/^  Ball  (Harris,  St. 
Patil's  Churchyard,  Jan.  1st,  1807).  On  the  paper 
cover  is  printed,  '*  Said  to  be  written  for  the  u?e 
of  his  children.     By  Mr.  Roacoe." 

In  tlie  lUroUe^tioji^  of  Mrs.  SomrrvUle  mention 
is  made  by  her  of  Miss  Catharine  Fanahawe  as 
the  authoress  of  the  vkatadt,  {])  on  the  letter  '*  H," 
and,  if  I  am  not  mistaken,  of  The  Butttrfit^n  BalL 
Many  years  ago,  I  remember  seeing  it  ascribed  to 
the  pen  of  "the  Princes  Mary"  (afterwards 
Duchess  of  GloucestetL    Gwi  W£^  QEiTt«s^KfsA«^^ 


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of  **  N,  &  Q."  throw  further  light  on  the  subject  1 
My  copy  is  what  I  fanc^  would  be  described  os 
qnartf*  duodecimo.  There  is  no  letter- press.  It 
iijis  fourteen  rllu5?tnitions  (with  the  words  ubove 
fcliem)  and  a  title-page,  nil  copper-plat^?.  TIil* 
(xrver  alone  i»  printed^  Jind  has  two  woodcuts  of  a 
b^ittK?rfly  and  a  ^Tas.^hoppcn  This  elcgnnt  little 
work  W!L*N  the  forerunner  of  scvend  others.  I  h:i\"e 
early  copies  of  TJir  Peacock  at  Home  and  Th€ 
IA<m't  Mm<meTad4,  both  by  "A  Liidy."  Were 
th€9e  Miss  Fanshawe's,  though  I  think  they  were 
attributed  to  a  Mrs.  Dorset  \  Z.  Z. 

SaBOPsniRE  WiLiA — It  is  stated  in  Siina's 
MmbUalf  **'  that  there  are  no  less  thAn  ^72  oouits 
of  f«oiilki»  thixjughout  this  country  where  wills 
are  preieiTed.^  Will  some  one  kindly  give  uie  a 
lijii  of  ike  places  where  Shropshire  wilU  miiv  be 
fousd  ?  &, 

*'  Tam  o'  Shaktbr,"  ajxd  "Soutbr  Johnny.''— 
Where  are  the  origijml  fi^^ures  of  them  which  were 
exhibited  in  London  in  1626  I  S*  N. 

**Plurima  oemma  latet.*'— Where  are  these 
Latin  lino?  (6^  H.  iL  54)  to  be  found  ? 

STiernxsr  Jackson. 

Ipoiksa  QtJAMOCLiT.^In  Hindu  mytholo^, 
this,  [)eriiapa  the  most  dellciitely  beautiful  of  all 
the  Ipomctm^  i»  sacred  to  Kamdj  the  i^od  of  love, 
and  I  imagine  that  the  first  syllable  of  the  specific 
notuo  of  the  plant  is  thus  deriyed  ;  but  I  qau 
inake  notliing  of  the  second,  i>  e.  ocUL  Can  any 
ooiveapoikdent  oblige  me  bj  exiihuiung:  ?  Not 
poMeBsing  a  Hindustani  dictionary,  I  do  not  know 
(hiii^iig  forj(otten)  whether  Komia  is  spelt  with 
<Juiirif,  Karili*  or  Khya.  S. 

"  Adulziemexts."— T  find  thia  word  in  Bishop 
Hall^fi  Cmikmplation^,  bk»  xx.  contem.  2,  It  is 
not  in  Bailey  nor  in  Kersey.  What  does  it  mean  ? 
Whence  i*  it  derived  t    The  passage  stands  thua  : — 

*'&o  do  they  1i&«te  to  proclaim  Jehu,  that  they  Bcarce 
stay  to  tnatch  un  their  garments,  wbkli  they  Iiad,  per- 
h«ft,  l«ft  betitnil  them  for  flpeed,  had  they  not  meaaCj 
with  theae  rich  abuUleruentflf  to  garaiiih  m  atato  for  their 
new  sovereign/'  ^c. 

Bi«]io[)  Hall's  wTitings  are  worthy  of  study,  were 
it  only  to  observe  his  quaint  language  and  meta- 
photr?,  and  to  find  obsolete  w^ords^— words  and 
niet;i])hor»  iM?rh«pf*  existing  then  only  in  East 
AiJi^liii.  Tljiis,  in  the  eurne  Otmteuj  plat  ion  in 
which  we  find  this  word  "abulzienient,"  we  have^ 
**  Nothing  is  more  dangerous  than  to  be  imped  tn 
a  wicked  family,** — where  ** imped  '  means  either 
"^fted"  or  inserted  as  a  new  feather  into  the 
quiU  of  anuki  one  cut  oft",  the  qudljitill  remaining 

♦  If  Kania  he  spelt  with  thi*  letter,  a  very  oyri(MU 
f  oucstioii  might  be  « tar  ted— if  not  alrteady  inoot«d — u  to 
ILo  der]T»tk)n  of  the  word.     I  fthould  be  glad  to  know 
whether  the  subject  has  been  inrestigated. 


attaebed  to  the  bii'd'i*  wing- 
1        '       I*  we  httve,  **Oit: 
t  IS  both  in  tin 

iu  iiiL'  >;iiiiL'  we  havCj  *'Fwi3    nm  _ 

1  Imn  it  will  want  Iru^/i^  of  terror."     Hen?  **  bu^ " 
is  used  as  in  the  old  translation  of  Ps.  xcL  5* 
E.  L.  Blenkiks 

Ay  Old  Son o»— Can  any  of  yom 
give  me  inforuiation  whereby  I  mti% 
of  a  Bong,  of  which  the  only  words  i 
are: — 
"  Let  lords  and  fine  ladies  look  round  ibem  and  see 

If  e'er  one  amaim  them  »  blither  than  me ; 

I  «t  at  my  wheeUe  and  ring  through  the  day« 

And 

Sac  twirl  the  round  wbe^^li^,  I  w^  hciw  things  font, 
And  I  think  it  a  folly  joum; 

If  we  wndnu  mak'  ^\  e  Ktna\ 

The  world  Avad  run  i-iu     .x.  .  .._.._. .  lud  with  Qi  ^*S^ 

Somewhere  occure  the  line — 

**  The  epoke  that 't  at  bottom  oonijet  i 

As  I  am  nnitious  to  obtain  a  copy  of  tl>e  ftOft^ 
above  alluded  to,  I  am  willing  to  paj  sinj  fwisoi 
able  price  to  get  it.  W.  O.  Craw. 

Herald  Office^  Dtimfriet. 

Archbishop  Tenibon. — Was  he  in  ««rijr  life 
incumbent  of  Cottenham,  CHmbri'l  and^ 

if  so,  by  whom  was  he  iwe.'wuted  iv  cj  \ 

Ahistotle  on  Daucjiws  and  PorTBT.— ' 

any  of  your  learaed  correspondent*  give  me 
exact  reference  to  the  patisage  in  Aristotle 
he  classes  dancing  and  poetry  together  1 

H.  Bscraou 

BoBERT  Hkrrick^s  vctstts  '^  To  Anthea'^ooi 
mence  as  follows  : —  _ 

"  Bid  me  to  live,  and  1  will  lite 
Thy  Protcitant  to  be/' 
What  does  he  mean  here  by  tbe  word  * '  Protosi 

C.  D. 

Mary   de    Braose.^ — Will  some  f:< 
contributor  to  *'  N.  &  Q/'  kindly  infort 
this  mo«t  puzzling  lady  wa^  the  daugbt^^t  of  ?    I J 
have    collected  much  concemink^  her   from    thl| 
Recoid  Office,  but  at  pnesent  a  ajrrect  elation 
her  parantnge  is  sm  unknown  tn  me  hs  pc^iih' 
and  I  am  beginning  to  thinl:     '        '     wm  not  I 
De  Braose  by  birth  at  aU,  bia  ausfl  haH 

married  a  De  Brao^i^e  durinti  the  mun^  betii 
her  marriage  with   Ralph  de  Cobhatu  afid 
subsequent  one  with  Tliomafi  de  Brothertoiisj 
appears  to  have  been  a  great  aciqairer  of  j 
but  to  have  poagiesBed  none  of  her  own  i 
I  am  led  to  the  above  conjecture  from  i 
inquisitions  on  her  death,  whern  it  it>  atiitcJ 
Thomas  de  Brotberton,  after  C. 
wife  Alice,  man-ied  Maiy  de 
wife.'*    At   the  end  of  the  iii4ui8itiu0i«  mi 


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proncH y  held  hy  }ur  in  dower  are  two  documents, 
iwJe  on  her  death  between 
y  ivnd  MnrgJiret  hi«  wiie^ 
I  lid  Joan  hia  wife,  dAii^hter 
L  rind  Alice  were  diiugbters 

I  - .  D.  a  K 


TjkRiA, — Who  was  Elizabeth  Fell  ?  She  is  mcn- 
tioaed  m  Allibone's  Dictionary  aa  author  of  poems^ 
London,  1771,  1771,  1777. 

Can  any  of  the  contributors  to  "  N.  &  Q."  tell 
me  anjthm;,^  of  Schom berg's  letter  to  I/ord  Shel- 
bumc,  publi^ed,  I  tbmk,  Ln  1767  I  What  was  its 
sa^ect  I 

Where  can  I  find  any  aocount  of  (he  old  Dukes 
ofr  *\kc.l    WhAt  crast,  ajnifl, 

and  r  i 

W^hu  weiif  iliti  LiiiLunis  de  Buchold,  and  where 
can  I  ^U  any  account  of  them  I  Otto. 

J.  HfiRBBBT  AHD  L  L,— I  should  be  glad  of  in- 
fcocuitioii  respecting  these  artists  of  the  seventeenth 
m  m0kt^9anih  century.  The  former  is  said  to  have 
«C)p^-*^''  '  "vdidlion  ivortrait  of  Oliver  Cromwell ; 
jui'i  is  I.  L,  are  found  upon  a  BJnall  por- 

U&^t  — .-  ^ .  .lie  fiAme  person. 

HbKRT  W,   HKSTF&fiY. 
^  q^mm  Anne'a  Q^U,  aW. 

**  Mj^R&RAULTfL^^ — ^Mar  1  be  allowed  to  enter  a 
ainst  the  use  of  this  barbarous,  unmeaning 
on  of  the  present  French  Government, 
I  hy  euch  respectable  papera  as  the  Daxhj 
\  the  Spcdatar^  and  applied  by  the  latter 
I  to  Spain  also  ?    **  Septennate/'  though 
II J  weak,  is  in  one  point  descriptive  of  the 
lit,  and  so  far  is  superior  to  *^  Mai^halate/' 
I  aarpffenes  nothing  more  than  a  purely  adveu- 
i  ct'T'-'""-*^  i"*"e  connected  with  the  President. 
'As  wdl  *   Government  of  the   United 

:  r  be  called  a  "  Generahite/*  or 
roment  of  London  be  denominated, 
;  lie  worshipfiil  company  to  which  the 
:>r  i'  r  TJi        i.e  being  belonged^  a  *' Finh- 
>r  '  6]i- Macleniaterate,*^  or  any  other 

id  ever  lieen  uaed  in  the  same  way 
in  ft  p'f'  ?»T         '      "'  accession  to  power? 

U'  i^'ning  to  it  only  the 

M  ..  *  ui<iQiU',  charge  do  mar^cliaL'^ 

FiJRIST. 

iLANP  TA  Tur  dark:  tower  cajie." 

^  lie  meaning   of  this   line  in  Edgar's 

in  Lear  (Act  iiL  ac.  iv.  adjinem)  f     Is  there 

' legend  to  whir*h   it   refer?  ?     Mr,   Browninj^ 

UtSodcd  % 

{ of  th«t  kind*  J ,  U.  D  u  u  u  l\^  . 

Qly^w. 


**HoGMAXT.'' — Having  heard  some  discussion 
lately  as  to  the  right  spelling  of  this  word  (a 
Uftage  described  in  tae  second  volume  of  Hone's 
Ercry-Daif  JBooJt),  some  maintaining  that  the  cor- 
rect word  is  "Hugmany/^  I  should  be  much 
obliged  by  any  information  on  the  aubjecL 

H.  a  B. 

Authors  Wanted. — 

Avon  :  a  Poem  in  three  p&rta,  Binmagham,  pnated 
by  John  BaakervlLIo,  175  S,  f»n.  78, 

The  Uiitory  of  Aydt?r-Ali'khan.  Nabob  Bnhader ;  or. 
New  Memoirs  concerning  the  East  indiea,  with  lliAtorij^ 
NoU»  by  M,  M.  D.  L.'T,  2  vols,  bro,,  pp.  264,  198. 
Loudun,  J.  Johnson,  72»  8t  Paul's  Churchyard,  1734. 

A  Short  History  of  English  Tr«ii8actionfi  in  the  East 
Indies.    Cambridge,  J.  Ahnon,  1776, 

Memoirs  rf  C.  M.  T&llevnuid  de  Perigord,  Private  and 
Public  J.  nefl  in  Boudoirs  os  well  as  in  CabineCs. 

2  Fols.  '  Jolm  Murray,  1S()5.    By  the  Author 

of  the  IL^^ — ..y  riutarch, 

BicBARD  HsMinsrG. 
Mm.  Lib. J  Warriagtou. 

Armorial. — ^EngraTed  on  an  old  son-dial,  in  a 
garden  in  Hambledon,  Hampshire,  are  the  follow- 
ing coats  of  arms : — (1)  argent,  a  chevron  engnuled 
gules  between  mullets  pierced  vert ;  (2)  argent, 
barry  of  four,  vert.  The  house  and  property 
belonged,  in  1651,  to  Mr,  Thoma.^  Symonds,  who 
sheltered  King  Charles  IL  for  one  night  in  it 
(13th  Oct.)  on  bin  flight  from  Worcester.  From 
the  Symonds  family  it  passed  through  the  Conduit, 
Hyde,  and  Seymour  (Lord  Hugh)  families,  to  the 
present  possesaors  in  1798.  The  stin-dtal  hfiA  been 
tliere  aiooe  that  time.  To  what  families  do  the 
cools  of  antu  belong  ?  E.  L, 


Hqjltrtf. 

ABBBEVIATED  PLACE  NAMEB. 

{o^  S.  i  14G  ;  u.  93.) 

Many  nnmbera  of  "  N.  &  Q."  might  be  easily 
fiUed  with  examples  of  this  kind.  A  few  of  the 
moat  prominent  instances  within  my  own  know- 
lc5dge  will  serve  to  show  how  common  the  practice 
is.  In  my  own  district  of  East  Anglia,  for 
instance,  we  have  Hunston  for  Hunstanton, 
Hai^bro*  for  Happisburgh,  and  Mauby  for  Mautby 
or  MaJtby.  The  little  villii^e  of  Blundexvtone,  on 
the  borders  of  Suffolk,  where  David  Copperfield 
passed  the  earliest  days  of  his  childhood,  is  in- 
variably pronounced  Blunston.  Alnesbome,  also 
in  Sulfolk,  is  known  as  AJborne.  Berwick  Bernea, 
in  £s^x,  is  contracted  into  Bemes.  In  £eni,  I 
found  Womcoswold  for  Wilmiogswold.  In  Wilt- 
shire, the  parish  in  which  the  famous  Dnaidical 
remains  oi  Ave  bury  (pmnounced  Abury)  are 
situated  was  originally  called  Ambrosebiiry  ;  it  is 
now  spelt  Ambre^bury,  and  pronounce*!  Amesbuiy, 
I  m*y  m  well  tjike  this  opportunity  of  calling  at- 
tention to  an  absurd  error,  which  I  \i.Qiv<:ft^  wsnsa 


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[!r*S.  TtOcT.21,' 


years  ago  in  TIu  Engliih  Votmiies  Belineaied^ 
where  ^lotile  coafuseB  Sfconehenge  with  the  Ies»- 
known  but  far  more  extensive  remains  at  Ambres* 
bury  ;  they  are  many  miles  distant  from  each 
other^  and  Tcry  different  in  character*  I  know  few 
recopiized  books  of  Teference  wherein  a  more 
bountiful  luirveat  of  blunders  may  be  reaped  than 
the  work  above  named.  In  the  same  county, 
Liidgershall  i»  Lugfjerahall,  and  Heytcabury  often 
Hatehbury.  In  Gloucestershire,  Cirencester  is 
Cicester,  In  Devonshire,  Bathanipton  is  Bampton, 
In  ComwalJ,  Ipostwithiel  is  commonly  pronounced 
as  if  written  Lost- with- all.  During  my  geological 
rambles,  I  have  found,  in  several  ootinties^  Overton 
on  the  maps,  and  Orton  in  the  mouths  of  the 
people  ;  indeed,  most  pe<lestriana  must  have  ex- 
perienced a  ditficnlty  in  making  the  peasantry  un- 
derstand the  names  of  pkcea  when  pronouncing 
them  as  they  are  printed  on  the  maps.  I  once 
wanted  to  find  Stanton  St.  John  in  Oxiordahire, 
and  the  man  to  whom  I  applied  declared  em- 
phatically that  he  had  lived  in  the  neighbourhood, 
man  and  boy,  for  over  fifty  years,  and  had  never 
"  *eerd  tell  o'  the  plaace/'  However,  after  several 
vigorous  etforts  on  my  part,  a  light  dawned  upon 
him,  and  we  eventually  came  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  villiige  in  which  be  had  spent  all  the  days 
of  his  life  wa«  the  very  place  I  was  asking  for ;  but 
I  can  tliink  of  no  combmation  of  letters  which  will 
convey  any  idea  of  his  version  of  the  name,  I  will 
only  add  one  more  instance,  which  occurs  in  Cum- 
berland, and  is,  perhaps,  the  most  unaccountable 
transformation  of  alJ^ — Burgh-on-the-Sands,  where 
the  first  Edward  died,  is  invariably  pronounced  as 
if  it  rymed  or  rhymed  with  "  rough." 

C.  Faulke-Watlinq. 

It  is  odd  that  this  subject,  mooted  by  me  un- 
Bucoeeifiillj  a  whole  volume  ago,  sliould  have  be<en 
taken  up  now.  Encouniged  by  such  a  mark  of 
public  favour,  I  beg  to  add  to  my  fonuer  note  the 
following  list,  which,  for  the  most  pjirtj  I  owe  to 
certain  unknown  correspondent*. 

Agmonditham,  Amenfaam  (Bucks) ;  Atfmton,  Offerton 
f Derbyihire) ;  Bmkknoll,Binoll  (Wilts) ;  Bwwood,  Brwd 
Staffordshire)  ;  Cawardcn,  Garden  (Cheeblre) ;  Eaxton, 
Exton  (Lanciishire)  ;  Foxcot^,  Foscote  (Bucks)  ;  Harin- 
gvkj^  Horn^ey  (Midcilofex) ;  Kington^  Kineton  (Warwick- 
shiru) ;  Mildenhall,  Minall  (Wilts) ;  Nutahalling,  ^uriling 
(Haiit«);  ItudcUff,  Riitky  (Buok«)^  Kutilipp  RuAlip, 
(Middkiex);  Hawbridge  worth,  Saps  worth ;  ShmfteBburj, 
Sbftftton  (Wilts) ;  ShalBtoae,  Shawson  (Bucks  and  Oxoq)  ; 
SilTeratone,  SiUttio  and  Silaon,  (Northanta) ;  St  Ann's 
Hill,  Tawii  Hiil  (WilU ) ;  St.  Botolph'»  Claydon,  Bottle 
Claydon  (Bucks);  Totlaad,  Tolland  (Isle  of  Wight) ; 
WaTerham*  Wareham  {Chegbire);  Worksop,  Woraop 
(Notts) ;  Wyrardisbury,  Wrajabury  (Buck»)« 

A.  J,  M, 

Tempk. 

The  following  occur  to  m©  m  addition  to  those 
mentioned  by  Mr,  Munby.    Where  the  ahbrevia- 


tion  is  used  both  orally  and  in  writing,  I  httre  pn^ 
fixed  an  asterisk  to  the  name  : — 

Alnwick,  Annik  (Northumberland) ;  *  Breeknoekp  Bre- 
con (Brecknock) ;  *  Brigbtbelmntore,  Brigbton  (8a 
*  Cbapel  Allerton,  Chapeltown  (Yorkehire) :  CbalTil 
Cbiuiton    (Suwex)  ;    •Crediton,    Kirton    (Deroi  ' 
*Kiiig8ton-upon-HulI,   Hull    (coanty  of  itacif) : 
ceston,   Larmgton   (Cornwall) ;   *  Moor  AUerton,    MoofT- 
town   [YorkahSro);  Penrith,  Perith  (Cumberland);  •St, 
Botolph*8,  Buttel*  (SasBCx) ;  Sclmeflton,  Simpsoii  {Su»ei), 

Besides  these,  ought  not  Gloucester,  Southwadk, 
Southwell,  Worcester,  and  other  simiUkr  towm,  Co 
come  under  the  head  of  places  whose  names  are 
abbreviated  in  speaking  ?  T.  M.  Fai^low. 

Chapel  AllertoD^  Leeds. 

AlTeat^m,  Oleeton  (GlouoesterBbire) ;  MiTdknhallt 
3Iinall  (Wiltahire) ;  Bagworthy,  Bcdgery  (Devon). 

Brighton  is  only  a  short  form  for  Bri^thdm* 
stAine.  Fahjl 

Oxford. 

Eaat  GarstoD,  Argafion  (Berks) ;  linkenholt,  NigDOwl 
(Hants). 

Herbert  Rakikjlpil 

Affebridgo,  Abridge  (Essex) ;  Erdington*  Yco^oa 
(W&rwicksbirc) ;  Folkoatonet  Foson :  llappishii?s)h* 
Hiiiaboro*  (Norfolk):  Heveningiiain,  Henrngbam  (Sif* 
fr>!k);  riaii9tow,  Plshstow  (Essex);  Sohbull,  SillU 
(Warwickabinj} ;  Southall,  Sutbal ;  Uttoxcter,  I7s«ler 
or  Ucheter  or  tftseter  (Staffordahire). 

Jabiz. 

AthenR?um  Clul>» 

I  send  the  following  from  Shropshire  :  Eatllns;- 
hope^  Eatchup  ;  Ponteabury,  Ponsbuiy  ;  Ponf 
ford,    Ponaert ;    Cardeston^    Carson;     Condon er. 
Oundor  ;  Pulverbach,  Powderbitch  (ihia  is  a  oot- 
niption    rather  than   an   abbreviation,    but    tif 
similarity  of  the  first  two  ayllables  in  each  i»' 
it    doubtful   which   vaa    the   original    ifj^M 
Nobold,  No  but ;  Eardiston,  Yarson  ;  A" 
Aberton.     Also,  AudJeni,  Aulum  (Chest 
Browood,  Brood  ;  Walsall,  Wassle  ;  and  ^>  eimt^- 
bury,  Wedgebujy  (Staffordshire).  W.  H. 

Shrewsbury. 

Towcestcr,  Towstcr  (Nortbant*^  ;  Turweston,  Ta»oo 
(Bucks);  Eversley,  Imley  (NortbantaJ :  Hetnptoii,  i 
hnmlet  of  Beddington,  Yum  (Oxfordshire). 

William  Wnio* 

Steeple  Aston,  Oxford. 

To  Mr.  MuNBT*fi  list  of  the  above,  the  followiiui, 
which  I  have  picked  up  in  my  ramblos,  may  ht 
added  : — 

AbcrgaTenny,  Aborgenoy  (ilonmoitlhshire) ;  Beo* 
fiington,  Benson  (Oxon)  ;  Bicester.  Bf^ter  fOtwil: 
Brighttngsea,  Hritttesea  and  Bn- '  Cliori 

sey,Che8*ey  (Surrey)  J  UaYentry.  !  i'    ' 

ahtre) ;  Devjlstone,  DiJston  (Northu 
Elstree   (Middlesex  and  Herts);    Uvertoo    j 
Long    Orton    (Hunta) ;      Sjiwbridtr<'wortb, 
(Eiscx);      Towceiter/    Towiter       "       ' 
Wymondbam,    Wyndbam     <Not 
Wrayabury  (Middlesex)  ;  Yealhar  ^ 
I  Tonthire), 


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To  which  nii\y  he  added  the  more  popular 
Glcjeter  (Gloucester)  ;  Worst^r  (Worctjster)  ; 
Proater  (Frocester) ;  Chofttre  (Cholcestre),  &c- 

W.  Phillips. 

I  beg  to  add  a  few  sp^ectmens  from  Scotland  : — 
JiiiatrDtli«r^  Aniter;  AuchtermtichU.  Muchty;  Ben- 
iloelij,  Betietbj ;  BaHingr?,  Binary ;  BorrowatownneiB, 
E(^ne«i;  CtmbuinethftD,  CumnGthim ;  OulrtMs,  Guro«s ; 
Edinburgbt  Embro ;  Kilconquban  Kineuchar;  KU- 
iD»muck^  Kiltie  [  Kingoldrum,  Klngotfarum ;  Methven, 
Mefian;  St.  Mttdoea,  Simedores;  St.  Niniaa's,  St. 
Bingejif ;  Yethotm,  Yetam. 

Chaklgs  Eoosi%& 
GrmmpiftD  Lodge,  Forest  Hill,  S.E. 

Permit  me  to  mention  a  few  peculiarities  in  the 
locd  pronunciation  of  some  Americiin  pkce-names. 
Cincinnati  and   Indianapolis   are   ge Derail j   mis- 

S[t)nounced  Cincinnatta  and  Indianopolis.  New 
rleivns  becomes  a  trisyllable,  Newerleens.  As  for 
Arkansaa*  it  is  jet  in  doubt  whether  the  proper 
pronnnciation  is  as  written,  Ar-kan'-aas,  or 
Ark'-an-saw/  Several  Congressea  ago,  the  two 
senators  from  that  State  held  opposing  "views  on 
this  nu  est  ion,  find  the  Vice-President  gracefully 
jw»lve*i  the  difficulty  by  alwaj^  recognizing  one  as 
^  The  Senator  ffDm  Ark'-an-saw»^ "  and  the  other  as 
**  The  Senator  from  Ar-kan'-saji*** 

J.  Beakdsji  Matthews. 
Utdt  Club,  New  York. 

[We  ■hikll  forward  direct  all  farther  commumcationi 
^_«i  this  rol?ieci  to  A.  J.  31.] 

f     The  Capital  of  Kent  (5"»  S.  ii.  289.)— Maid- 

^  stone  formerly  was  of  little  repute^.    The  as-sfzes 

were  formerly  held  at  East  Greenwich,  Dart  ford, 

Milton    next   Graresend,   Sevenoaks,   Rocheater, 

M&idjstone,  and  Canterbury ;  but  during  the  reign 

of  Bichard  IL  they  were  most  frequently  held  at 

'^        rhnry,  and  it  waa  one  of  the  grievances  of 

;  Cade  and  his  followers  (a.d.  1450),  that  they 

»  tnuel  from  the  farthest  part  of  tctst  Kent 

be  mst  to  attend  the  sessions  of  the  peace, 

ling  men  some  5  days'  journey,''  and  they 

**that    for  the   better  administration   of 

i  the  county  should  be  divided  into  2  parts." 

■ "  of  Kent,  vol  ii.  p,  384*     After  the  Ke- 

i  the  town  of  Maidstone  became  the  aasise 

and  as  the  assizes  ceased  to  be  held  at 

fbiiry,   Maidstone  must  be  considered  the 

ttmnty  tou^n  for  all  civil  puri>o8e8*     Canterbury 

WMB  made  by  Edward  IV.  a  county  per  se^  and  is 

'  |mte   exempt   from   all   the  jurisdiction  of    the 

ounty  of  Kent     Rochester  also  is  a  city.     Can- 

n  eccieaisstical  purposes  may  claim 

id  of  Kent,  and  for  all  civil  purposes 

H^mnt'  i<  I  he  county  town  of  Kent.     I  do  not 

thiit  I  can  better  dedne  these  two  pLices. 

I  wero  asked  onli/  which  is  the  capital  of  Kent, 

Maidstone  or  Canterbury  I  I  should  answer  Can- 


terbury.     Lewin  says  Canterbury  has  been  the 
capital  of  Kent  from  the  time  of  the  Romans. 

Athford,  ROBT.    FURLET. 

Extra  Profuse  BfiDicATioys  (5^  S.  i.  164.)— 
D'lsraeli,  in  his  (^imonties  of  LiUrature  {§  Dedi- 
cations), mentions  other  instances  of  authors  who 
**  carried  literary  mendicity  pretty  high.** 

I  possess  a  volume  that  might  also  be  cited  as 
a  further  example.  It  is  a  somewhat  extraordinary 
book,  entitled "  Kwinter  Vivoa^  mc  inter  Moriuot, 
Neither  amongd  the  lAvintf^  nor  amongst  the 
Jkad,  Or  an  Improvement  of  the  Sea^  upon  th4 
Nine.  Nautical  Verim  in  tk^  107  PacUvi."  By 
Daniel  Pell,  Preacher  of  the  Word.  Lond.,  1659, 
8vo.     It  is  tirst  inscribed  r — 

''  To  the  Klght  Honourable  John  Lord  Bestorouffk, 
one  of  biB  Highn«iiei  most  Hoooorable  Priry  Council* 
Otorgt  Lord  A/witi%  OoYemoar  of  8&>iland,  and  aole 
CommiLndQr  of  atl  the  Forces  in  it.  Otorot  Lord  Mtmnt- 
^jptf*  GenemI  for  the  Narrovi-Stai  ;  ana  Oeorff€  Atiiw, 
Kijigbt»  and  General  fo.  the  Northern-Seat.  To  the 
Right  Honourable  CoromiMionen  for  the  Navy,  and 
Admiral t J  of  Sufflandf  Colonel  Sdvfard  Sutmony  Col. 
John  CUrk,  CoL  JtoheH  BmA,  Esquires/'  &c. 

He  acquaints  "my  Lords  and  Gentlemen^  of 
the  precedent  of  St.  Luke,  who  dedicated  his 
Goflpel  and  Acts  to  "  that  honourable  and  noble 
person,  Theophilus " ;  says  that  his  **  worthless 
yet  painful  piece  "  was  written  entirely  at  sea, 
and  gives  them  to  **  undorstnnd  how  hard  it  was 
to  write."  After  a  furtht^r  dedication  "to  the 
Right  Worshipful  Mr.  Matthew  Giley,  Esq.," 
there  follow  three  separate  dedications  to  mem- 
bers of  the  Hungarford  famiiv,  the  author,  who 
writes  from  **  my  study  at  my  Liidy  Hungarford's, 
in  Hungarford  House,  upon  the  Strand^"  being, 
apparently,  a  dependant  upon  it  (1).  "To  the 
much  Honoured,  Vertuous,  and  most  worthy  Lady, 
the  Lady  Margjiret  Hungarford,  Wife  to  the  Right 
Worshipful  Sr.  Edward  Hungarford,  now  de- 
ceased'* ;  (2).  ''To  the  Right  Worshioful  Mr. 
Henry  Hungarford,  Esquire,  and  one  of  the  Mem* 
bers  of  the  Hononrabfe  House  of  Parliament  "^ ; 
and  (3)  "  To  the  Bight  Worshipful  Mr.  GUes 
Hungarford,  Esquire." 

An  epistle  then  succeeds,  addressed  "To  all 
the  honeat,  Godly,  sober,  pious,  and  ReHgioos  S^a- 
Captains,  whether  within  or  without  the  Crommon* 
wealth  of  England."  We  have  next  "  The  Epistle 
to  the  Chris tian  Readers,  whether  at  Sea  or  on 
Land."  After  one  more  address  to  the  **  Reader," 
and  a  long  "Proei^mium,''  the  author  strikes  saU, 
and  falls  to  his  subject.  The  volume  itself  is  a 
remarkable  production,  and  is  not  altogether  un- 
worthy the  attention  of  those  who  are  seeking  to 
ameliorate  their  condition  that  ^'do  btisiness  in 
great  waters."  J.  E.  Bailst. 

Imoo  Jones  and  Philip,  Earl  of  Pembrokk 
{^^  S.  ii.  207.)— The  Philip,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
who  made  the  MS.  notes  on  a  copy  of  Siaiuhxxv^*, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


tflF8,ILacT.2^7l* 


Eesiored,  by  Jtdgn^Htii  was  most  |Trobably  the 
ODe  to  whoiu  an  GxtmonlinaTy  will,  a  copy  of 
wlikh  I  give  below,  ia  attributed.  I  copied  it  from 
A  broadside  bound  up  into  a  volume,  with  other 
broflrfiside^,  and  with  pJiiupMets,  &c.,  which  volume 
WVL&  in  the  library  at  We^t  Dean  House,  Chichester, 
a  library  tli&t  wiia  sold  by  auction  last  year : — 
"  The  lasi  tnll  and  tattxmetU  of  the  Earl  of  PmJbroht. 

"  h  Philip  late  Earl  of  Pembroke  luid  Montgomery, 
now  Knight  for  the  County  of  Berka  being  (aa  I  am  told) 
very  we&k  in  Body,  but  of  pf^rfect  Memory;  for  I  n- 
member  tbiB  time  Five  Years  I  guve  the  ca«tmg  Voice 
to  diip*kh  eld  Ciinterbury :  and  this  time  Two  years  I 
▼oled  no  Address  tu  be  maiJe  to  my  Master ;  and  thte 
tlDM}  Twelve  Moneih  eww  bim  brought  to  the  Block ;  yet 
because  Death  doth  threaten  and  atare  upoo  me  (who 
itill  bAve  obeyed  all  those  that  thrcjitened  mc)  t  now 
make  mj  la^t  Willi  and  Teatament. 

"  Tmprimig»  For  mv  Soal,  I  confeu  I  have  heard  very 
much  of  Soula,  but  what  they  are,  or  whom  they  are  for, 
Ood knows,  I  know  not;  thej  tell  me  now  of  another 
World,  where  1  never  wM.  nor  do  I  know  one  foot  of  the 
way  thither.  While  the  King  itood  I  was  of  his  Beligion, 
made  my  3 an  wear  a  Cuisock,  And  thought  to  make  bim 
a  Bijjhop ;  then  came  the  Scots^  and  made  me  a  Pres- 
byteriou  ;  and  since  Cromwell  entered  I  have  been  an 
IndependenL  These  (I  believe)  are  the  Kingdom's  Three 
Bitatee,  and  if  any  of  these  can  save  a  Sv>u].  I  mmj  cUim 
one ;  therefore  if  my  Executore  do  find  1  have  a  eoul,  I 
give  it  to  him^  that  gave  it  to  me. 

"  Item,  I  give  my  Body,  for  I  cunnot  keep  it:  you  see 
the  Chirurgeou  u  tearing  oflT  my  PJeah;  therefore  bnry 
me  (I  have  Church  Landa  enough)  but  do  not  lay  me  in 
the  Church  Porch ^  for  1  was  a  Lord,  and  would  not  be 
buried  where  Colooel  Pride  was  born- 

"  Item,  my  Will  is  that  I  have  no  Monument,  for  then 
I  mint  have  Epitaphs  and  Verse<ijr  but  all  my  Life  long 
I  have  had  too  much  of  them. 

**  Item,  I  give  my  Dog*  (the  best  Cnra  that  Man  laid 
Leg  o*re)  to  be  divided  among  the  C!ouacii  of  Btate. 
Mjtoy  a  ^ir  I>uy  have  I  followed  my  Doi^e,  aod  followed 
the  State  both  Night  and  Day;  went  whitUer  they  sent 
me,  sat  where  they  bid  me,  aometimea  with  Lords,  \ome- 
timcs  with  Commons,  and  now  can  neither  go  nor  sit; 
yet  whatever  becomes  of  me,  let  my  ptior  Dogi  not  want 
their  AUowaoce,  nor  come  within  the  Ordinance  of  One 
Meal  a  Week. 

"Item,  I  give  Two  of  my  beet  Saddle  Horaes  to  the 
Earl  of  Denbigh,  for  I  fear  ere  long  his  own  Lej^  will 
fail  him ;  but  the  talloAt  and  Btrongest  in  all  my  Stables 
I  give  to  the  Academy,  a  a  a  Yault'mj?- Horse  for  tall 
Lovers  of  Vertue.  All  my  other  Horaes,  I  jrive  to  my 
Lord  Fairfax,  that  when  Cromwell  and  the  States  take 
a  way  hia  Cdmmiaaion,  be  may  have  some  Horse  to  com- 
mand. 

"  I^em,  I  give  my  Hawks  to  the  Earl  of  Carnorfon ; 
hii  Father  woa  Master  of  the  Hawks  to  the  King,  and  he 
luw  Wit  so  like  hta  Father,  tli*t  I  begg'd  his  Wardship, 
lest  he  in  time  should  do  eo  by  me. 

"Item,  1  give  all  my  Deer  to  the  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
who  I  know  will  preserve  them,  because  be  denied  the 
King  a  Book  out  of  his  own  Parks. 

*•  Item,  I  Kfv*  my  Chapbitna  to  the  Earl  of  Stamford^ 


ill  regfii 

Earl  < 
beget  iL! 

"  Item,  1 
I  give  him,  r 

'Item,  To  ni 


er  used  to  have  any  bat  his  8oa  the 
':ing  both  Spiritual  and  Carnal,  may 

:  to  the  Lord  Say,  which  Legacy 
tvill  bestow  it  on  the  Poor. 
'  oiifiteatcs  (my  Sister  and  my  Wife)  I 
now  ^ve  leave  to  enjof  their  Eatatea;  but  mv  own 


Estate  t  give  to  my  Eldest  Son,  char^dng  bim  on  mf 
Blesding  to  follow  the  Advice  of  MtobMl  Oldsworth ;  fe 
though  I  have  had  30,0o0/.  petr  uufkimL,  y«t  I  die  not  I 
Debt  above  80,0001. 

"  Item,  Because  I  threatened  Sir  Henry  Mtldinvr.  bu 
did  not  beat  him,  I  give  Fifty  Pounda  to  the  Footn 
that  Cudgeld  him. 

"Item,  my  Wdl  is,  thai  the  said  Sir  Harry,  shall  nolj 
meddle  with  ray  Jewels;  I  knew  him  when  he  i 
the  Duke  of  Buclcingham,  and  aince  how  be  bandT 
Crown  Jewels ;  for  both  which  Reasons,  I  do  no* 
him  the  Knave  of  ^'  '- 

"  Item,  To  ToT  e  Pate  I  broke  heretofai 

ftt  a  Ma&que)  1  j^i.  .  liin^.    I  intended  him  mm 

but  all  that  have  &een  hui  History  of  the    Pariia 
think  Five  Shilliuga  too  much. 

**  Item,  To  the  Auihar  of  the  Libel  against  Ladiea  ( 
Kewa  from  the  E3cchaT4ge)  I  give  Zd.  for  inve 
more  obsoeoe  way  of  scribbling  than  the  Wo 
knew ;  but  aimee  lie  throwa  what  'a  rotten  and  : 
divert  Xamea  of  Unblemiahed  Honour,  I  leave  hu  1 
mcnt  to  the  Footman  that  paid  Sir  Harry  MUdo  , 
Arrears,  to  teach  him  the  differtrnce  betwixt  Wii  ^id 
Dirt,  and  to  know  Ladies  that  are  Noble  and  Chftet,  fr^m 
downright  Roundheada. 

"  Item,  I  give  back  lo  the  AMoai%  of  Divini^  tfadr 
Classical,  Proviiwsial,  Oongwiitional,  Kational,  whack 
words  I  have  kept  at  my  own  Cliarge  above  Seven  YmOt 
but  plainly  find  they  *I  never  come  to  good. 

*'  Item,  As  I  restore  other  Men's  worAi.  to  1  gift 
Lieutenant  General  Cromwell  one  word  of  fl^ae,  Itittnie 
hitherto  he  never  kept  his  own* 

''  Item,  to  all  the  Citiaens  of  London,  to 
tcrians,  as  well  as  Cavaliers,  I  give  advice  to  i 
Throftti,   for  by  order  of  the  States,  the  tjarrij-fi   ^ 
Whitehall  have  all  got  Ponyazdi,  and  for  New  la^ttta 
bought  Dark  Lanthoms. 

"Item,  I  give  all  my  Speeches  to  these  1' 
lowitig :  vi«.  That  Speech  which  I  made   i 
Defence  when  the  Seven  Lords  were  nr    • 
TreasoQ,  I  give  to  Sergeant  Wild,  that  1 
know  whit  is  Treason,  and  what  is  not. 
I  made  Extempore  to  the  Oxford  Scbolur^,  1 
Earl  of  Mmnchester,  Speaker  pro  tempore  l'^ 
of  Peeri,  before  it'i  Reformation,  and  Cbait 
tempore  of  Cambridge  Univeraity,  since  ite  K 
But  my  Speech  at  my  Election  (wh!f*h  ir   : 
without  an  Oath)  I  give  to  tl 
ment,  becauee  no  Oath  hai  ] 

ray  other  Speechea  (of  what  „.  .  ._   _      ,  ^ 

Academy,  to  help  Sir  Balthaaare  An  of  Weij  bpoftkug. 

**  Itemji  I  give  up  the  Ghoet. 

**  Concordat  cum  Originali* 
"  Nathaniel  Brent" 

H,  A.  St,  J,  It 

Devoxshibis  SATiiro  (V^  S.  11. 12ini  — **  Thut 'f 
extra,  as  the  old  iromazi  ^n  r 

This  ancient  note,  oonii  ^^ 

Frtiser  some  eighteen  ye 
have  been  sattflfactorily  i : 
drift  of  the  sairing  may  be  arru'cii  :. 
difficulty.     The  name  of  Eicrter  or 
pronounced  **  Extra"  by  T 
Devon ;  at  all  events  in 
districts  of  the  county.     Vv  v 
therefore,  that  the  old  lady  rt  i 
her  way,  for  the  tirst  time  in  hei  ..ir,  tu  inn  .  luu.^j 
town^  and  having  reached  tht  grand  old  chait:h  i 


ff»8.IL0cT.24.71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


8d8 


I 


Krrinn  n"*rpJitnn V  wliuh  B^jeoied  a  verj"  cathedral 
he  admiringly  exclaimed 
iiduag,   for  the   momeut, 
Ihot  her  '    m  end,  onlj  to  findj 

»lasl  tLiiL  riJ  -  ijr  eight  miles  ^^extni^' 

to  lrad|{e.  T*  Htraiiss,  F.S.A. 


"WiTAT  ts  A  PotrSTD!"  (5*>>  S.  ii.  248.)— It  is 
^'i^nt'nJlv  iin.h  r^ion^l   fljrit   iiu  diillcultv  fiurrouiida 

aow,     A  pound  is  a 

sins  of  ffolJ  22  carats 

fioe,  »nd  thm  wna  adopt eti  by  the  Ballion  Report 

iBiAde  to  the  House  of  Commons   by  a   special 

|. Committee.  Wiluam  Blood. 

••BoirK    WITH    TBR    MtKi  ;    OR,   UBASONS    FOR 

Sdppebbsing  the  Mctg-Hocse,"  &c.  (f»***  B.  il 
^287,) — This  refers,  perhaps,  to  the  Mug-Hou3e 
I  Club  in  Sftlisbmy  Court,  for  pullinj;  down  which 
a  boys  were  hjinged.  The  amj^-iiou«rs  of  Lon- 
mid  WeBtminBter  are  fully  «nd  «rau^mgly 
fdwcribed  hj  the  author  of  A  Jotirntij  tkrovi)h 
f/land  in  1724,  and  his  account  of  them  is 
k extracted  in  ray  Popuhir  Mittic  ofi}\€  Oldvn  Timt, 
lil  fii4.  Perhaps  the  following  part  of  it  may 
for  W.  E.  A.  A.  :— 
*  The  mug-hooje  clubij  in  Long  Acre,  Che«p!idc,  &c., 
U«menjr  Uwyera,  and  tradesmen.  U3«<I  to  meet 
a,  MMom  under  a  hundred.  Thej  hud  & 
>  late  in  an  arm-chair  some  steps  higher 
Pc«t  of  the  company,  to  Jceefj  tUo  whole  room 
or.  A  harp  played  all  the  time  at  the  lower  end 
'— ^'  'tTid,  every  now  and  then,  one  or  other  of 
0,  and  entertained  the  rait  with  a  loag, 
/,  Bomo  were  good  masten.  Here  wna 
hut  ale^  and  every  genlleman  had  hia 
I.S  Liicli  he  chalked  on  the  tahle  where  he 
..  ..„  brought  in;  and  everyone  retired  lu  he 
pleased,  aa  from  a  cafiec  hoaee. 

••  The  rwm»s  were  always  io  direrted  with  »ngs.  and 
drift ^  'ine  table  to  another,  to  one  aaother't 

h^l  ^re  wa6  no  room  for  on}  thinji;  that  could 

mr  '  nation/* 

On  the  acce3i*ion  of  George  L,  some  of  tiie 
I tiipiiilK-'rH   inirrxlimHl   iM>lith\al  songs,     Thev  wcro 

:^,  ready  on  all  oc- 

,1 1 1'ssion  of  mobs  on  the 

vitc  side.     Many  an  encounter  they  had,  and 

were  the  riot?t»  till  at  last  the  clubs  w^ere 

own  by  Act  of  Parliament.     A  collection  of 

^hon*e  «M>ng3  Wiu  jjrinted  in  the  early  pivrt  of 

ry,  from  which  a  few  were  transferred 

•  u.  Wat.  Chappell* 

TftB  Err.  Tuomas  Gabd  ih^  8.  ii.  249.)— The 

iou»  Ifticttf/'  whose  titltjs  T.   K.   wishes  to 

aro   probably  coat4uned   tu   the  following 

**Ftaiia  ^fTVfnidif ;  or,  Difrjuisilions  concerning  The 
Aati^Mily  Mid  Beieatilio  finJ  of  the  great  Fyratntd  of 
Giaik  «r  aii^*til  Memphis,  In  %ypt,  And  of  the  ftnt 
^'     '     t  of  Linoftr  Mettiam.    Ako^  &  Coiii|iiate  Deacrip- 


tion  of  Solomon*?  Teraplis,  of  which  tLo  Trac  Dimendoni 
.  .  .  -  [&c.]     ^'  foundry 

CcmtroTcrtcd   '\  .now  tjt 

Symmetries     ^k^tu^u.x.i^...  .  .  .  l^^v.         ^.,     w«c    Kev, 

Thomas  Gabb  :— 

*  How  rcTenend  in  the  face  of  this  tall  pile, 
^Hiose  .  .  .  [kc.y 

Congreve*ii  Mtmrn*  Br. 
R«tford  :  nritiied  by  W.  Peart ;  sold  by  Mr.  l^lor, 
o9>  High  Holbom;  .  .  *  [Itc.J,  vid  the  ootmtrj  ^ook- 
nellerd.     1806," 

Pp.  284  and  8,  at  the  end,  ^ve  the  *'JJA 
of  bubacribera."  The  Ihike  of  Norfolk  is  dow» 
for  ^^  4  Fine  Copies.''  The  book  is  dedicated  to 
Hie  Grace  in  an  "  epistle  **  dated  *'  WorkBop, 
November  3(t,  1805."  Sotxie  oopies  have  not  the 
imprint  '*  lietford,  1806,^  but  London,  published 
by  the  aforesaid  Mr.  Taylor,  ^vithout  any  date. 
Sparks  Hkkdeksok  Williams. 

He  is  described  as  of  **  Ketford,  Kotts,"  in  the 
BiogTO^hical  Dict^  1610,  and  the  only  work  men- 
tioned is  hiB  FinU  Pijramidis,  publitshed  in  180G. 
When  did  he  die  i  Ulphar  Hamst. 

Jonn  Hoofer,  Bishop  of  Gloucester  (5**» 
S.  ii.  229.) — There  arc  descendants  of  hLi  now 
livin$^.  His  Bible  is  still  fuiid  to  be  a  treasured 
family  relic  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  WiUiam 
Hooper,  of  Cheltenham*  W.  F.  P. 

WoottonT 


Sir  Francis  Swrrr  (5*»»  S.  ii.  268.)— The  sou  of 
my  lineal  ancestor.  Sir  Robert  Swift,  was  created 
by  James  1.  Viscxmnt  Carlingford.  Dying  with- 
out issue  nude— his  daaghter  or  sister  (I  have  not 
our  pedigree  at  hand)  nad  marned  the  Earl  of 
Dumfries,  the  ancestor  of  the  present  Marquiu 
of  Bute— the  viscountcy  fell  into  abeyance  till  as- 
sumed de  jitre  by  Godwin  Swift,  the  grandfather 
of  the  young  inheritor  of  the  family  estates,  ex- 
cepting that  only  in  Herefoidshire,  which,  more 
than  two  hundred  years  aj^^,  had  been  entailed  on 
the  second  branch  of  our  family,  and  posae^^ed  by 
Sir  Edward  fciwift,  who  is  chronicled  among  the 
county  magnates  at  some  especial  asaemSlajje. 
How  it  was  redu<^  by  the  extreme  loyalty  of  the 
reverend  Tk^mau  Swift,  and  requited  by  the 
sensual  and  eelHsb  heir  of  the  Martyr-King,  need 
not  recapitulation. 

The  proximity  of  date  and  the  eomitial  identity 
lead  me  to  ,si?o-^+>t  *SSir  Francis"  being  a  mis- 
nomer of  "  rd  Swift."  Assuredly  the 
pi^nomen  "  appeal's  in  no  part  of  our 
genealogy  ;  neither  did  1  ever  hear  it  mentioned 
among  us.  About  fifty  years  ago  a  Sir  Somebody 
Swift  wa.<?  Sheriff  of  London.  He  had  been  a  ahoe- 
maker,  And,  for  aught  I  know,  was  ehristeaed 
"Fiancis."  Be  that  as  it  may,  the  #uf^  tiltm 
cTepidam  wis  not  of  oar  fauilly. 

While  on  this  subject,  X   btg  a  smaT' 
whertin  to  correct  my  smn  kaSbf  uul 


334 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[S'*  a  IL  Oct.  24,  74 


lapmi9  txdami  (6**  S.  ii»  33),— the  aid  presented  by 
mj  ancestor  having  been  three  knndral  (not 
wyuBand)  broad  pieces  to  bis  sovereign ;  and  a 
lapmu  preliy  for  ^*  residence  "  read  ruidu4. 

Edmund  Lsnthall  Swtftb. 

A  Singular  Lease  (5^^*  S.  ii.  24Q.)— There  is 
nothing  unuaual  in  a  lease  being  granted  to  one 
man  for  the  life  of  aoothcrj  jf>wr  auter  v^U,  m  it  is 
called.  The  eider  for  the  produetion  of  the  chil- 
dren ma  prohably  made  under  the  provisioos  of 
statute  6  Ann.  c,  16.  It  is  therein  enacted  that 
any  person,  having  a  daim  in  expectancy  upon 
the  determination  of  an  estate  pur  auter  i^  may, 
upon  affidavit  that  he  has  cause  to  believe  that 
cestui  qtit  vie  (i,  e.  the  person  for  whose  life  the 
estate  was  granted)  is  dead,  or  that  his  deiith  is 
conceided,  obtain  an  order  from  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor for  the  production  of  such  cestui  qtu  vie.  If 
the  order  ia  not  complied  with,  then  cestui  que  vie 
is  to  be  taken  to  be  dead.      Middle  Templar. 

Bradford. 

This  is  a  curious  heading  to  an  inquiry  about 
an  ordinary  eeclesietsiieal  hoMS  for  three  live^^  of 
which  there  were  thowsands  by  bishops  and  pre- 
bendaries until  recent  legislation.  W,  G, 

JoHEL  DE  ToTNBS  (5**'  S.  iL  268.)— The  Exon 
Domesday  contains  numerous  entries  regarding 
the  poeseasions  of  this  extensive  Devon  landowner. 
He  was  neither  a  Nornmn  nor  a  Saxon*  but  a 
Breton,  as  his  name  indicates.  Johel,  Hoel,  Jud* 
hael,  or  Judicael,  variations ,  apparently,  of  the 
same  word,  was  a  common  Christian  name  among 
the  early  Breton  princes,  one  of  whom  is  said  to 
have  founded  the  first  Cathedral  of  Dal,  in  honour 
of  St.  Samson,  its  patron  saint,  Johel  of  Totnes, 
styled  **son  of  Alwred,"  founded  the  Priory  of 
Barnstaple,  and  doubtless  built  the  cjistle  there. 
He  became  a  "  religieux  "  in  his  own  priory,  and 
is  said  to  have  bestowed  on  it  a  church  built  out- 
aide  of  the  castle  (^*en  dehors  de  son  chateau"). 
Henry  I.  confinued  this  foundation,  sty  ling  the 
founder  ''  venerabilis  memorie  Johel."  The  county 
histories  of  Devon  will,  probably,  show  some  ac- 
count of  his  descendants  and  the  destination  of 
his  posaeflaionn,  Anglo- Sckktus. 

English  Translations  (6'*  S.  ii.  287.)— Arch- 
bishop Trench  says  there  is  an  Engli.sli  translation 
of  Plutarch's  Afora^wi  by  Philemon  Holland,  pub* 
UBhed  in  1603,  and  reprinted  in  1657  (vide  IHu- 
tarc\  hit  Life,  his  Furalld  Livat^  and  kin  MoraU, 
Five  Lectures,  by  Richard  Chenevix  Trench,  D.B.^ 
second  edition,  1874,  pp.  92  and  93),       Yllut. 

The  Naii&ncd  Encydop<rdia  states  that  a  trans- 
lation of  Bamabas's  EpistU  was  printed  by  Arch- 
bishop Wake.  This  is,  doubtless,  in  his  English 
Versian  of  the  Oennine  Epistles  of  the  Apo$tolieal 
J^ai^Sj  puhhahed  in  16d3.      F.  A.  Edwards, 


Epictetue^  translated  by  Elizabeth  Oiuter«  2  rok, 
8vo.,  1807.  Jamblichus,  Life  of  Pytha^orm^  traos- 
kted  by  Thomas  Taylor,  8vo,,  1818. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

Bedell  Family  (6***  S.  iu  8.)— Possibly 

HowAKD  may  be  bterested  in  the  following 
tmcts  taken  from  the  jjarish  roister  of  WooUaa} 
Beds  :— 

**  Baptisms. 
166$.  Oct.  2.  AIu  BedelU  daughter  of  Thoaa.  Bed^lk. 
H     Feb.  10.  Thoaa.  Bedells. 

1571.  July  20.  Uenrie  Bedellt. 

1572.  Oct^*ber  2.  Frances  B«deUa. 

1575.  June  16.  Susan  Bedells. 

1576.  April  7.  Judeth  BedelU. 
„       March  11.  Alii  Bedelli. 

1577.  March  7.  WilUam  BodcUa. 

1579.  April  20.  Mrit  Bodies. 
„      March  2,  Nataanael  Bedles. 

1580.  Aug.  21.  Cbaritio  Bodell 
I58L  Kov.  3.  Heary  son  of  H«nry  BedeBii  , 

„       Not.  10.  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomaa  BMti$r 
15S2.  March  31.  Thoas.,  son  of  Henrie  Bedelli, 

1585.  Jan.  25.  Francit,  ion  of  Henrie  Bedella. 

1593.  Not.  25.  Marie  Bedolk.  . 

1594.  October  20.  Wvuefred  Bedells.  I 

1595.  Not.  30,  Nlcholm,  son  of  Thomw  BedeUi. 
1597.  Augt.  20.  Susan,  daughter  otG^rge  Bedllft 
1599.  Feb.  15.  Susamia,  daughter  of  George  BlddeDt 
1603.  Sept.  6.  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomai  Beadlei^ 

"Marrietge* 
1603.  June  6.  Humphrey  Totna  and  Mfttia  Beadalf. 

'*  Buriali. 
1532.  Maj  30.  NatbaDiel  Beddles. 

1586.  Feb.  1*  Franotfi,  ion  of  Henrie  Bedella* 
158S.  Dec.  3.  Susan  Bedell,  wife  of  Henri«  Bedelli* 

1594.  Augt.  30.  Marie  Bedells. 

1595.  March  10.  Henrie  Bedella 
15m  June  23.  Jane  BedJelti. 

1602.  January  25.  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  BedeH* 

The  name  was  spelt  in  a  variety  of  T  -*      • 
Bedell,  Bedells,  Beadles,    Bedles,   Ben 
Beddles,  ns  I  have  given  it  above, 
Henry  Bcdelk,  of  Wootton,  Gentleman 
March,  1595,  was  proved  in  London 
1597.     He  names  his  brothers,  Mathew, . 
and  William,  and  bis  late  brother.  Thou 
wife,  Jane  ;  and  sons,  William,  Thomas,  Hc 
and  George.    All  then  under  age.     His  daughttf%^ 
Susan,  Alice,  Mary,  and  Charitie,        Y.  8,  M. 

"  ToFSY-TURVT  "  (5*^  S.  11,  2S8.)— The  foQowuji 
occurs  in  Spenser's  Fturie  Queene^  B.  v^  f, 
a.  xlii.  :— 

"At  last  tbej  have  all  overthrown  to  grouiid 
Quite  topside  turrej.'* 

Wjf.  PssTQuxr*  I 
Torquay. 

SnfBoL  IN  STAiifED  Glass  (fi***  S.  iL 
The  human  face  with  **  lolling  tongue*'  is  i 
commonly  met  with  as  a  device  in  bonei^ 
bell- founders'  stamps,  fStc. ;  and  I  doobt  its] 
any  particular  symbolical  meaning, 


^ 


«b 


L IL  Oct.  24,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


* 


Ljatlier  as  simply  an  outcome  of  tbe  m«diaBTal  lave 
|of  the  grotesque.  J«  T.  F. 

H*tflo)d  BiUJ,  DarhMn. 

"  Thk  Poet":  Tkknyson  {5"»  S.  iL  28a)— The 
most  obvious  uieaning  of  this  paaaage  would  seem 
to  he  the  tnieat,  viz.,  that  the  poet  is  gifted  with 
the  hi^^^i*'^^  "n^ljties,  or  jjowera,  of  hate,  acorn,  love. 
Ku  ;  liuroughly  hates  and  acorns  all  that 

is  e^  -c  ;  no  one  more  thorou^hlj  loves  all 

that  IS  loveworthy.   So,  in  less  pi}^tiail  but  kindred 
^^^aae,  w©  aaj,  **  A  Toiy  of  the  Tories/*  &c. 

■^^  R    B.    PtrnTON. 

^^^niFPuniooFB  (5^  S.  ii,  249)  seems  to  explain 
^^^Br,  **  the  earls'  court "  (D.  grdvcn-hnf).  ConL 
^^^Rrciiend  (Kent  and  Cornwall) ;  Gravensteen, 
Tondcm  (Denmark) ;  Gravenhagen,  Lippo  (Ger- 
many) ;  S'Gmvenwezel^  Anvera  (Belgium) ;  S^Gra- 
veQpoMer,  Zeeland  (Neth.)  :  S'Gravezande,  S'Gra- 
venLige,  SXimvendeel  (S.  Holland). 

R,  S.  Chakxock. 
Gruy'i  Inn. 

American;  Reprints  {5*^  S.  ii.  223.)-'It  is  all 
very  well  for  Mr.  MacCabe  to  slip  in  a  side  slap 
at  the  American  publlsbers,  by  whom  he  has  pro- 
bably auifered,  but  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that 
everything  Auierican  considered  worth  reprinting 
h  forthwith  reprinted  in  England  ;  for  example, 
Peter  Parley's  books,  and  UncU  Toms  Cahin^  and 
all  the  ao-caUed  comic  things  we  have  had  for  some 
I  years  imst.  See  AUibone's  IHdiouary,  under 
r*' Goodrich^' and  *^S  to  we,"        OLpriAE  Hamst. 

"F.  BoNXEFOT*'  (4^  a  xiL  110.)— Evidently 

»    t  for  F.  Bartolozzi,  R.A.,  the  only  engraver 

I  to  the  full  honours  of  the  Royal  Academy 
^44.  -j.^ae  recently,  and  who  did  engrave  the  por- 
fmit  of  the  Hon,  ^li^  Bingham,  alluded  to,  in 
1788.  L.  a  H, 

TttiunnT  OP  Vjikitb  :  Jeremiah  Horrox  (5"» 
8.  iL  3t)6,  2740— A  copy  of  the  epitoiph  erected 
in  St.  Michael-a  Church,  Toxteth  Park,  near 
Livdpool,  by  Mr.  Holdcn,  is  given  on  page  78  of 
WhaUon's  Mtmair^  from  which  it  is  clear  that 
there  i»  ft  mistake,  as  Mr.  Mayer  remarks,  in  the 
copy  of  the  epitaph  as  transcribed  by  M.  C.  J.^ 
BootU  having  been  printed  for  HooU.  This  is 
not  the  only  memorial  existing  of  this  remarkable 
vouDg  astronomer,  for  his  name  and  discoveries 
tiave  ako  been  commemorated  in  the  church  of 
St*  Wchael,  at  Hoole-,  where  he  officiated  as  curate 
from  the  spring  of  1039  to  his  death  in  January, 
i(iil,  by  tne  erection  of  a  chapel  dedicated  to  his 
memotfj  in  which  thirty  sittinga  are  appropriated 
fur  the  u»e  of  the  poor  for  ever.  A  memorial 
niiKlav  is  placed  in  the  chapel ;  also  a  mural 
tftblet^  with  a  long  hut  appropriate  epitaph.  It 
Bmy  he  remarked  Lcie  that  {lennisaion  has  Litely 
^ibtl^ed  from  the  Dmn.  of  WeBtmioater  for 


Ui 


the  erection  of  a  memorial  tablet  in  Westminster 
Abbey  to  the  memory  of  Horrox,  as  the  first 
observer  of  a  transit  of  Venu.4  over  the  Sun's  diac« 
The  necessary  funds  have  been  provided  by  a  few 
admirers  of  his  astronomical  genius- 

Edwin  Dcsrimr, 
Kenwyn,  Kidbrooke,  S.E. 

"God  bless  the  mark''  (5*  S.  ii.  169,  21&.)— 
The  remark  (a«  given  by  Iota)  of  the  Cambridge 
editors  on  this  expression  is  not  strictly  correct. 
In  three  of  the  five  instances  of  it,  which  occur  in 
Shakspeare,  the  word  to  which  it  is  ap|>ended  is 
neither  **  profane  '*  nor  "  vulgar  "  : — 

'*  I  saw  the  ^eovnd^  I  nw  it  with  mine  eyos^ 
God  iave  the  mark  !  "  * 

Borneo  and  Julut,  Act  iH  ao.  St,  I.  52. 
"And  talk  so  like  a  waiting-gen  tie  womiui 
Otgunt  and  drumt  and  wmndt,  God  save  the  mark  \ " 
Itt  fftnrjf  /r„  Act  i.  K.  3, 1.  57. 
''And  I,  Ood  bleu  the  mark  f  hii  Moonhip*i  tmcitnt,^ 
Otfullo,  Act  i  »c.  1,  L  33. 

Id  the  passage  from  The  Two  GenUemen  of  Verona 
the  wortl  La  vulgar ;  in  that  from  the  Merchunt  of 
Venice  it  is  profane.  These  five  words,  however, 
have  one  point  in  common,  i.  e.  they  express  souie- 
thing, which  the  speikker  wishes  to  be  preserved 
from,  viz.,  wound,  guns,  drums,  and  wounds,  being 
an  ancient  instead  of  a  lieutenant,  and  the  devil. 
Of  the  highly  indecorous  word  used  by  Launce  in 
The  Two'  Gentlemen  of  Verona^  I  will  only  say 
it  expresses  something  from  which  everj"  one 
would  wish  to  be  preserved,  at  least  when  in  polite 
society,  as  was  the  case  with  Launce's  dog. 

With  respect  to  lago,  it  may  be  remarked  that 
he  was  past  praying  for :  he  was  already  an  an- 
cient, not  a  lieutenant ;  therefore  his  "God  save 
the  mark  ! "  is  used  carelessly  for  "  Would  that 
God  had  saved  me  from  it  ! " 

The  conclusion  I  come  to  from  a  comparison  of 
these  five  passages  is>  that  our  ancestors  conceived 
that  by  mentioning  a  ctdamiiy  they  rendered  them- 
selves liable  to  a  visitation  of  it,  and,  therefore, 
tried  to  avert  it  by  some  pious  ejacuhition.  **  God 
save  the  mark  ! "  will,  then,  be  equivalent  to  the 
quod  abominor  of  the  Koman8.t  Then  arises  the 
question  how  this  meaning  am  be  extracted  from 
the  expression  "  God  save  the  mark  ! "  On  this 
point  I  venture  to  throw  out  a  suggestion,  in 
which,  however,  I  have  no  great  confidence. 

May  it  not  be  that,  during  the  visitations  of  the 
plague,  our  ancestore  were  in  the  habit  of  saying 
**  God  save  us  from  the  mark  ! "  meaning  thereby 
the  mark  of  the  cross  J  on  the  door,  which  Indicated 


*  Mr.  Staunton,  io  ft  note  on  thii  pAMftge,  iays :  "  In 
the  quarto,  15^7,  hisiead  of  *  God  mve  the  mark  ! '  we 
Lave  '  God  suvc  thf"  Mimple  ! '  an  expresuon  eiiually 
obscure,"  I  do  tiut,  howcTcr,  find  this  reading  dt«d  in 
the  Cambridge  edition. 

f  It.  to  cAe  toloa  %i  CUJo, 

I  Properly  atJied**Uod'fttnixW* 


336 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5»*S,  lLOcT.24,Tt 


that  the  house  wsa  infected  ;  that  thence,  io  ooiiiBe 
of  time,  the  expression  came  to  meiui  God  aaT©  ns 
from  any  evil,  whatever  evil  it  might  be  the  speaker 
was  gpenking  of ;  also  that  in  time  ^^  God  s&ve  me 
from  the  mark !  **  waj*  corrupted  into  **  God  save 
the  mark  1"?  Also  "  God  save  the  sample'"  muy 
mean  Ckni  save  me  from  being  an  example  in  this 
reapect,  t»  c  in  suH'ering  from  wounds. 

Ab  we  ftod  Hve  in^Umces  of  this  phrase  in  Shak- 
spcftre,  we  may  suppose  that  at  least  fifty  are  to  be 
found  in  the  writings  of  hia  contemporaries.  Now 
the  only  way  of  arriving  at  the  meaniog  of  any  doubt- 
ful word  or  phrase  is  to  compare  as  many  paasagea 
iifl  possible  in  which  it  occurs  ;  therefore,  if  the 
reiiderB  of  "  N.  &  Q."  who  come  across  thb  phrase 
in  any  writers  of  that  age,  will  send  such  passages 
to  "N.  &  Q.,-'  it  will  doubtless  soon  appear  whether 
my  explanation  be  right  or  wrong,  and^  if  it  be 
found  to  be  wrong,  a  more  satisfactory  one  will 
present  itselfi  F.  J.  V, 

**  Like  to  thk  d  ah  ask  hose  you  see,*'  &c.  (5*** 
S»  ii.  227,296.) — Mr.  Chappell  informs  us  that  the 
lines  commencing  thus  are  by  Francis  Quarles. 
In  every  collection  in  which  I  have  met  with 
the»e  lines,  tbey  nre  attributed  to  Simon  Wastell. 
In  Blaokay's  A  Thousand  and  One  Gems  of 
Poetry  they  are  siiid  to  be  from  the  Microbiblia^ 
1623.  Mn.  Chappkll^s  version  seemii  to  be  in- 
correct in  making  "  flowers'*  and  "shades"  plural. 
The  latter  is  obviously  wrongs  being  supposed  to 
rhyme  with  "  had."  Who  was  Wiistell  ?  This  is 
the  onlv  mention  I  can  find  of  him.  J.  J, 

Sheffield. 

[3«7er&I  correepondenU  write  to  tlie  «ain«  effect  « 

J.  J.     They  add  that  the  poem  maj  bo  found  in  The 

lilmtraUd  Bot>l  of  EnglUh  Songs  froin  the  Sijrtunth  id 

C/U  NineltenCh  Century.     Fourth  edition.      Loadon^  H. 

Inptun  k  Co.  [no  djite];   and  4   ffomfhold  Book  of 

Mfiffluh  Poetry  (MMmiiUan).  leleot^d  and  arranged  by 

I  Archbiahop  Trench.    S^-e  •*  X.  k.  Q.,"  ii''^  «.   lii.  3&f). 

k4£d,  wh«r«  the  poem  U  attributed  to  John  PliiiJipott. 

IJhL  E.  CoBUAii:  Bakwkr  sayfi  that  the  diatich  cited  by 

I  A.  F.  (p.  227}  14  one  of  the  many  imitatiouB  of  a  poem 

CaUed  Lif€  by  Hetiry  Kinj^,  6 i shop  of  Chichester  (1591* 

1610),  commenetng  :— 

"  Like  to  the  falling  of  a  star. 
Or  aa  the  flights  of  eagles  are/*  ke.\ 

Pbcullak   Treatment  of  Some  Words    in 

FABSiNa  PROM  One  Language  to  Anotiter  (5*'* 

S.  i.   247  ;  il   IKJ,  197.)— The  following  remarks, 

I  cooipiled    from    the    lat«    Rev.    Dr.  Baouister  s 

\Qlo»sary  of  Comhh  A^amca,  will  serve  to   show 

I  that  the  derivation   of  some  of  the  "  Corniiib " 

'"Words  mentioned  by  iln,  Edgar  MacCullocu  is 

by  no  nieanfl  settled  : — 

"  Penjsanc«,  holy  (««rw)  headland"  (Dr.  BanDiater); 

,  "  The  saint*s  head  "  (Carew,  161)2)  ;  *'That  this  is 

I  the  right  name  appears  from  the  amis  of  the  town, 

which  are  St.  John  Baptist's  head  in  a  cbarj^er'' 

(Bishop  Gibsons  Camdin) ;  "  Head  of  the  Belfa, 


&r  Sacred  («i«i»)  district"  (Rev   w    r...Ti 
of  the  Bay  (mns);^  (Tonkin, 
Price »  ei^hteLnth  contury) ;  ' 
(Whittaker,  18tU) ;  ''Head  - 
den);  **Heail  of  tlie  Channri   , 
eighteenth  century). 

*'  ISIoiisehole,  horn  a  large  carem  ncrrr"  fBi;  bnp 
Stattbrd);  "Maid^s  {mm)  River  (^ 
Edmonds)  ;  '*  Maid's  (tnos)  or  she- 
(/wi^,  or  river  {luitji}"  (Dr.  Bannister) ; 
of  the  Cuttle-fifih  (mousheol)^*  (Mr.  J.  C* 

"  Pen iiy-cam©-c| nick,  head  of  the  Creek:  <ju't(t~ 
Valley  (cHm:);'  (Mr,   J.  Bellows)  ;    "  Of  th« 
tracted  {ctichf)  valley  or  dingle'*  (Mr*  Daviet*  G9 
bert)  ;  or  of  the  cuckoo  (coj^,,  Gaelic  /^lach) ' 
(Dn  Bannister). 

I  may  add  that  Peony-oomeH|aick,  near  Plyinoutl 
is  not,  iia  Ma,   MacC^olloch  supposea,    on  th 
eastern  border  of  Cornwall,  but  near  the  WMten 
border    of    Bevonihire,    and    is   at   the   bead  ' 
•*  Stooehouse    Pool,"   which   separates   Plymontl 
and  Stonehouse  from  Devonport.     It  m  very  ditf 
cult  to  suppose  that  a  ferry  ever  existed,  or 
have  been  needed,  there.     Prior  to  I66t>,  tiwtov 
now  known  as  Fidmouth  bore  the  name  of  Pen&ft 
come-quick.     The  internal  shell  of  the  cutilcnE 
w*a8  always  called  "  musahel  shtU  "  in  East  Ca 
wall  in  my  boyhood.      Though  a  nativt^  of 
county  and  aiw«yg  familiar  with  it,  I  r.« 
the  name  of  Wmrtj-me-out  applied  to    i 
in  Cornwall      Dr.  Bannister's  Gloxnanj  c  ih 
no  such  name.  WiL  Pkngkli 

Torquiiy, 

^cre  d-oTfft  scorns  to  me  a  curious  instrance  oC  ft 
change  of  words.  Originally  made  i     ^^     '      V   "^ 
called  **  burnt  BUjjar/*  it  was  imp 
and  translated  to  **  sucre  briik^" 
England,  it  wjis  called  "  barley  ^ 

sound  of  ''  brulc^";  then  again  impL..^  a  .>  i ..^ 

it  was  translated  to  **  sucre  d'orge.'^ 

H.  A,  &r.  J.  M. 

Buntan'b  Imitators  (5*^  S,  ii,  148,  2ia>-I 

have  the  Third  Part  of  Tht  FiJu:      '     "   -^ 
published  by  Meijurs.  Henry  Mozl. 
1829,  "wherein  are  set  wrih."  a?   tue   riijt-|flv^^      ^ 
states, — 

"  Tbo  flcTeral  di^fficulties  and  dan^m  he  met  witK,*nd 
the  many  Victories  he  obt^iined  over  tbd  WoHdi  ll* 
FlciKj  and  tlie  Devil :  to^jnthev  with  bU  hsppy  lOftit 
at  the  cebfltial  city.     By  John  Booyon,^' 

The  work  contains  a  prose  Preface  «tgnil 
'\L  B.,''  and  a  poetical  address  to  '*his«ortliy 
friend^  the  author,''  by  **  B.  D."  ;  also  sora^  \um 
'*  humbly  recommended  to  the  reader  (written 
upon  the  perusal  of  the  book),''  by  "  L.  C/' 

A,  R 

Croeswylao,  Ofwdstry. 

BiTRNlWO   ^,  BrRTiXG  (o***    ^>.    M,    ^6.)— Thfl 
int<*rested  in  cremation  will  find  a  great  deal  ' 


Igect,  both  lustorical  and  descfiptiYe,  in 
i  JtU^A  of  Fuuiral,  Aneiemt  and  Modttn^ 
led  1*7  Lorraln,  London,  1683,  8vo,  See 
tery  interesting,  though  brief,  Bihliography 
Tn-ifV,>..  in  Bulletin  No.  30  of  the  Boston 
Gaston  de  BEit^SYALi 


SnfisTKii  (b^  S.  I  268,  314,  418 ;  il  18» 

'^  '  vkT  M.  H.  R  has  inuch  to  learn,  ao  far 

hie  «ci^nco  of  hhizon''  is  conceraod. 

Dn  iJone  is  a  mark  of  iUegitimaey,  why 

Snfirv  absent  fmin  tlie  coat  of  the  Duke 

'  i     I   should  )>e  -liid  if  M.  H,  E. 

iiah  me  with  any  anthrutic  example  of  u 

Rnms  Bo  rlitn^oncod  in  En;j^knd,  save  in 

e  of  the  illegitimate  descendant's  of  royalty. 

fie  fonrteentli  century  ixt  lexst  the  baton  did 

note  illegitim.'icy.     The  fact  is  that,  strictly 

ig,  there  ia  no  niaik  of  baflturdy  in  English 

ry.     These  so-cailed  marks  are  simply  dif- 

f ;  and  notwithstanding  M.  H.  R/s  correc- 

iia>  Jacksox,  it  Is  certain  that  the  ngurd 

tcf»  fv*?ifTiied  to  an  illegitimate  son  during 

and  ieventeenth  centnriea  waa  a 

%  of  which   there  ore  seveial  ex- 

in  I  ho  V'isitation  Books. 

the  preiient  day,  corttm  ^«eial  differences 

^  in  the  nature  of  what  the  old  heraldic 

\  odled  "  abatements '')  are  aaaigned  to  Jin 

»««*^  ^  n,  when  the  name  and  an?ij?  of  the 

r  are  taken ;  and  these  diUbrenc^s 

,  (»vpr  l»r  *»livf.rv:Ation,       Such  diffcF- 

mui  the  shield  of  a 
use  he  does  not  bear 
mt,  and  has  not  been  directed  to  bear  the 
>f  kia  reput<?d  father.  B.  G,  S. 

Aitumr  (5«»  S.  IL  148,  213.)— J.  A. 

best  account  of  By  hind  Abbey  in 

inge'8  VctU  of  Mowhray^  publiahed  at 

1B5!).     Some  information  on  the  same 

alBO  contfiined  in  Jeffer:5on's  Mktmy  of 

ibltelied  at  TMrsk  in  l?2l. 

CiiARLKs  A.  Fedkrer. 

DKMAB  (b*^  S.  i.  jmttvm  ;  \\.  37,  56, 

practice  of  enipnasr^ing  n  passage 

of  inverted  cuinnms   prevailed   even 

hui  I  ?ut>po«ed.     In  Drant^a  free  version 

t%  tbiri  ^tire  of  the  Second  Book   I 

iifli4«  DO  ■aliie.  to  raf  »  KM>tli, 


■•  lU  to  ijoordo  thy  goodei^ 
iil  liif  fttM  Wft  fttlMfe, 
Vtfian  itevitJdite  brntow  Uuna  os 
■I  anuuntc  pllfenii^v  thocfe/' 

•oesttim^  qaatmina  are  veaJly  bfoken 


Up  I 


couplets,  the  „  serve  here  to  emphaBize  three  lines. 
This  trash  is  mesnt  to  represent — 

^^  Quid  oQim  differt,  b&rjithroiw 
Donci  quidquid  Imbc^j  ati  tiimquutn  utiu«  pwfttitr* 

and,  therefore,  the  ,,  do  not  serve  to  mark  off  one 
speech  of  the  dialogue  from  another,  for  all  this  m 
spoken  by  StertiniuB.  Jabi^. 

Athenaeum  Club. 

"Hic  LIBER  EST,'*  &c.  (.5«»  S.  il.  227,  296,  316.) 
—This  distich  is  by  Professor  Wahrenfels  of  Basle. 

W.  T.  M. 
Shtnfidd  Grove, 

See  "  N.  &  Q,,"  P»  S.  xi.  27,  73  ;  1L^  S.  L  140. 

Joseph  Rix,  M,D. 
St.  Ncofs. 

SEiJjmo  CoRPSus  FOR  Dbbt  (4***  S.  piMwm;  6*^ 
S.  i.  49<» ;  ii.  15,  217.)— I  Have  just  chan^    '  ' 
across  the  original  of  the   tonibstoof  t 

given  under  this  head,  in  the  Annual  K'^i^Ut  i^r 
1766  (viii.,  294),     It  is  as  follows  : — 

**  Epitaph  for  %n  Infant  whoso  suppoicd  Paretitf  were 
Vap!*nt«.    By  tb©  Bev.  Mr,  O-  of  NorthacnptoTisbire  : — 
"  When  no  one  gave  the  cordial  draught, 
No  healing  art  was  found, 
Mj  God  thti  M>vVei^  balsam  brought, 

And  death  reliev'd  the  woutid. 
What  though  no  mournful  kindred  itand 

Around  tht$  solemn  bier, 
THo  parents  wrint?  the  trembling  hand 

Or  drop  the  tender  teftr, 
No  ooatly  oak  adoro'd  with  art 

M^  infiuit  limbe  enclose. 
No  friends  a  winding  sheet  impart 

To  deck  my  laat  repose  ; 
Yet  hear,  ye  gr«at  ones,  hear  yc  this. 

Hear  lh>i,  je  niighty  proud  ! 
A  apotlej*  life  my  coffin  19, 

And  innocence  niy  shroud. 
My  name  ttnlmowD,  obscure  my  birtbf 

No  funeral  ritee  are  gi^'n, 
But  thf»'  deny'd  God's  courts  oa  earth, 
1  tread  bis  courts  in  heav'n/' 

C.  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

CoRPSBS  Esfci^osKD  IK  Wall?  :  "  Utraque  rx 
miA  THKCAv'  &c.  (5^  ^.  ii.  185,  234,  2l>6.)— I  can- 
not  iee  that,  in  writing  "  a  n^U  in  tfn!  viiddle  of  a 
cofflm,**  I  have  made  any  mistake,  orld  or  otherwise, 
Thtm  is  not  tlie  gmve,  as  Mr.  Tew  renders  it, 
but  the  coffin  ;  and  the  me^^ning  of  the  passage 
ia  that  the  two  bodies*  were  enclosed  in  one  coffin, 
but  there  was  a  partition  or  wall  along  the  middle 
of  it,  separating  them,     J.  T.  Mickletdwaite. 

MootBRN  Latin  ahd  Grjcek  Verbs  (S***  S.  ii, 
348,  tm.) — Long  as  is  T-^^,.  t  yi-p£LxoN'9  eatA- 
logiie  of  modern  classi I  ,  it  may  still  hv> 

fupplemented  in  a  few  p„. ..        ,  ^ : — 

1.  Ihrpa^Auvi  Smnrri  (Tna.  C<dl.,  Dublin). 
Rivingt^ms,  18fj7. 

2.  Hfn'o'  Tinuy$^nian(if^  Ed.  A.  X  CThorch. 
Macraillan^  lb7<** 


^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIEa 


[B»*  8.11.001. 31.  •14 


3.  Kottabos;  an  ingenious  periodical  devoted  to 
thin  subject,  and  isfiuin]^  from  Trin.  ColL,  Dublin, 

4  Moore,  William ^  M.A.  Fetieula  UrbL^f  &c» 
LongmikQSt  1871. 

Wbile  I  am  writiog,  may  I  call  attention  to  a 
curious  slip  on  the  \m.vt  of  the  same  correspondent, 
in  his  interesting  notes  on  the  "ScopuUia  Greg- 
gianua"  in  the  Contemporarij  Rtvitw  for  Sep- 
tember^  of  which  I  am  reminded  by  his  note  on  an 
inBUince  of  loose  grammar  in  your  cun^nt  number  I 

In  that  article  {loc.  cit^  p,  656)  I  read :  **  Mr. 
Mill  aa.id  that  the  raeinoiy  of  the  departed  wa«  to 
him  a  religion  ;  but  this  is  scfiftu  tralatiHo " — 
evidently  intended  to  mean  in  a  metaphorical  or 
derivative  sense.  But  surely  the  tnie  meaning  of 
trahtici%i«  is  just  the  opposite  of  this :  it  always 
means,  so  far  as  I  know,  at  least  in  good  authors  — 
(1)  tnulitiooid,  (2)  customary »  (3)  commonplace. 
**Hoc  tmlaticium  est.^*  says  Cicero  {Ad  Fam., 
ilh  8)  ;  and  in  Ad  Aft^  ilL  23,  v.  21,  we  get 
tdidumf  or  caput^  iralaiicinni^  in  the  one  ease 
speaking  of  a  clause  such  an  was  tdways  on  such 
occsaaions  inserted  in  the  resolutions  of  the  Semite, 
and  with  a  similar  meaning — the  ususd  edict— in  the 
other.  Finally,  Pha>dru3,  by  bis  *'  Di  sunt  locuti 
more  tramlntido'^  (V.  viL  24,  Weber),  idludes  to 
the  conventional  mode  of  representing  the  goda  on 
the  Koman  etage. 

Still  your  correspondent  may  have  authority  for 
hia  ULse  of  the  expression,  uud  if  this  be  so,  I  shall 
be  happy  to  be  connected. 

Ernxst  0.  Thomas. 

Trinity  College,  Oxford, 

There  should  be  added — EpigrammaXum  Opus- 
imUum  duGbus  Ubdlis  disiiyittum.  Quibm  ,  ,  , 
lomeri  Batrachmnyorrnaehiti  Latino  rarrninc  red- 
dita  .  .  .  svbjnngitnr.  Londioi,  162!>,  8vo.  By 
Huntingdon  I'lumptre,  MJ).  There  is  a  notice 
of  Dr.  Plumptre,  of  Nottingham,  in  Blra.  Hutch- 
inson s  Memoir  of  Colonel  Hutchingon.  This  lady 
abused  him,  but  Thoioton  says,  "  he  was  eminent 
in  his  profession,  and  of  great  note  for  wit  and 
learning,  and  the  author  of  a  book  of  epigmms/' 
Hd  was  the  ancestor,  I  believe,  of  the  many 
persons  of  the  name  of  Plumptre  who,  even  to  this 
aay,  have  been  eminent  scholars.  T.  F. 

Fioiculi  Chdtonicnses  are  selections  from  the 
Cheltenham  College  Prize  Poems,  1846-1860. 
These  were  partly  edited  by  me  in  18G7>  at  the 
request  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Barry,  then  Prmci|ml  of 
the  achooL  The  book  contains  some  pieces  of 
considerable  merit ;  and  there  are  some  valuable 
remarks  in  Dr.  Barry-s  Preface  upon  the  study 
and  practice  of  Latin  and  Greek  versihcation. 

C.  S.  Jkrram. 

**  AsTucious  "  (5«»  S.  ii.  249.)— I  find  tliis  word 
in  Spiew^B  En ffluih- French  Dictu^tary,  Paris,  1869, 
and    in    Fhigei's    En^luk-German    Dictumary^ 


Leipzig,  1847.     The  latter  tmnslnfj-^  if  Lv'^i.;^. 
terltstig/'  "  listig/-  "  verschbgen." 
c  V  i  den tly  the  Fre  nch  adj  ecti ve  a> '   .        ,   ^ :  „ .,, . 
wily,  cunning. 

Sparks  Henderson  Wuxjamb. 

^^Petronius  Arbiter"  (5"*  S,  iL  249.)— T1» 
following  is  the  only  jiotice  1  can  find  of  this  edi- 
tion : — 

"[T.  Petroni  ArhitriJ  »tyrlcoii :  cum  nberioribii^ 
commentani  inst&r,  notiB ;  concinniu^  multo  et  oobi» 
modiui  quam  ante  ditpositie  (ed.  J.  a  WouMrerisii).  0^  B* 
fLugdunum  BatarorlJj  ex  off.  Plant.  EapheleiAgii,  liSOi 
12mo. 

'^2  leaves  of  preliminary  matter,  uid  $84  pigfL 
Repeated,  L.  B.,  J.  Main,  lt>23,  12mo.  AmU,,  G»tm, 
1626,  or  34.  24mo."— Ebert'a  BtJtlio,  Did^  Uxfori 
1837. 

Sfabxs  Henderson  Williams. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  &a 
Th4  Lift  of  John  Holland^  of  SluffiM  Park  Frm 
Num^om  Lcttrrs  and  other  Do^irnent^fnmitiki^ 
by  his  NepJifw  and  Ext^utor^  John    Bollfokd 
BrammalL     By  William  Hudson.     With  For- 
tniit  and  Illustrations.    (Longmans  &  Co.} 
There  are  no  books  more  interesting  thiui  tboff 
which  deal  with  the  life,  struggles,  and  career  4 
self-made  men.     This  is  one  of  the  very  br  t  nf 
such  books.     It  is  a  social,  literary,  and  reli^ 
biography.     It  is  as  full  of  interest  as  a  novel 
carries  with  it  what  many  novels  hick — an  cjcl*  i 
moml.     Mr.  Holland  is  chiefly  known  in  liter 
by  his  seven  volumes  of  The  Mevuntg  of  M 
gomtry  fAc  Foet,  a  work  which  wiH  alwn 
attractive  for  its  interesting  details  of  o  ' 
man,  who  lived  tliroughout  a  remarkable  j 
is  to  be  regretted  that  "  N.  &  Q/'  has  space 
to    recommend    a  volume    so   worthy    of    1 
generally  read  as  Mr,  Hudson's  namitive  of  i! 
tnglisb  worthy.   We  may,  however,  iuhU  thiii  Mi 
Holland  was  descended  from  a  clergj^ian,  of  wliuiii 
we  the  mther  make  mention  as  there  has  l>e«fl 
some  dieeuBsion  lately  on  the  prefix  "F       '    "'' 
clergyman  in  question  lies  in  his  grave  i 
parigh  church,  and  over  it  is  thi^^  ^  * 
'*  Under  tiiis  stone  is  placed  and  V  i 
of  Mr.  PiObert  Holland,  Vicar  of  Slit........  ....  ..^.. 

Aupist,    1597."      Mr.    Holland's   father    was  an 
optical  iniftrument  maker,  and  the  son  Tbom  uj 
1794)  began  very  early  to  work  with  the  til 
He  says  of  his  mother  :— "  It  might  intHr«'.si 
young  wives  to  be  told  that^  befci 
all  her  household  duties  in  an  ext  \ 
my  dear  mother  spun^  not  only  the  cun^ 
ticks,  and  coverlets  of  her  beds »  for  tEi 
but  also,  in  early  life,  most  of  her  own  duiL;i^. 
The  Hpinning-wheel  was  a  dear  memorial  of  Lcr* 
kept  in  the  house  af^er  her  death, — a  relic  sanctitierf 
by  her  labour.     The  Volume  contwna  aome  ex 


^^^^^^^JM 


.001.21, -7  4.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


339 


K>eLmens  of  Mr,  Holland's  poetical  poems, 
pie  of  his  lighter  vein,  we  ctinnot  refnun 
ting  the  following,  in  proof  of  his  Benaibie 
t;— 

le  Unt  nmnber  of  this  curious  sencB, 
by  week,  huTC  each  one  duly  read, 
J  SaturdJiy  the  Notta  and  Qutriet 
Idle  to  me  at  my  daily  brciid. 
et»  abound  and  flomeumes  ouriooi  theorieB, 
Bt  and  aoBwert  that  I  must  etijoy  ; 
IS  lolT'd  a  grave  historic  doubti  and  here  is 
"d  a  ohanning  literary  toy. 
ot  williagly  exchangG  for  gold 
Bet  enjoyment  of  this  silent  hour, 
»rai  to  ripen  rather  than  grow  old« 
;h  lapse  of  years  iti  11  teeming  with  fresh  flowers.*' 
d  and  honoured  contributor  passed  awny 
**  His  life  was  bright,"  says  Mr,  Hudson^ 

0  he  new  the  secret  of  true  contentment*" 
)  knowledge.  Of  him  who  possessed  it, 
daon  hjiA  produced  a  thoroughly  capital 
ly — wholesome  English  reading,  eveiy  leaf 

1  ^tht  Anfan  Lanquaqu^  with  Notts  and 
faiicn*.  By  Henry  Attwell.  (Williaiua 
rgnte*} 

me  has  clapeed  since   Professor  Attwell 

id,  in  the  form  of  a  wall-map  for  the  use  of 

collegeflf  and  lecture- rooms,  a  table  of  the 

Dr  Indo-Eiiroj>ean  langiaages,  showing  their 

ition  and  affinities.     This  map  or  chart 

in  highly  corainended  by  such  high  au- 

I  Bs  Dr.  Latham  and  Dr.  Schmitz.     It  is 

fadaced  as  a  manual^  with  important  ad- 

^Vtofeisor  Attwell's  Tahk  is  an  excellent 

mrards  extending  a  knowledge  of  com- 

^  philolo^%  a  science  whichj  as  the  author 

1 1  immature.     In  the  generolizationB 

presents,  the  author  admits  there 

yet  something  wanting;  but  that,  as  he 

IMerres,  ^Ms   no   rcjwon  why  the  young 

ihould  be  kept  in  the  dark  aa  to  the  re- 

between   his   mother-tongue   and    the 

Greek,  Latin,  German,  French, 

lowed,  erroneously,  to  regard  those 

he  cannot  fail  to  notice  as  simply 

derivation."    We  have  only  to 

ifeasor  AttwelFs  Tafde  is,  in  fact,  a 

of  tables  ;  first,  of  the  Aryan  lan- 

corafju'ict  but  clever  histories  of  each  ; 

blcs  of  ii  lustrations  of  word-changing  ; 

ble  of  what  is  called  **  Grimm's  Law," 

a  young  ^tudont   may  be  enabled  to 

bAtwpcn  kindred  and  derived  words  ;  and 

r        '         '  '  mges,  which  is, 

%   though   per- 

{»iriiJ<T.  :i]iipirr;jiK.  m  this  valuable 
^hi^lp  the  student  will  do  more  than 
ITItnow  what  he  is  saying— desirable 
m  thcHi^  days  of  long  speeches,  weari- 
if  Jiod  a  luera  pinch  of 


Thk  Ascitnt  JswsL — A  much  esteemed  correspon- 
dent writes  to  the  editor  of  the  J€vUK  World  :—'*  As  I 
hope  shortly  to  Ihi  in  a  position  to  produce  some  inter- 
etttiig  items  reepecling  the  early  status  of  the  Jew«  in 
Eniyland^  I  should  l>e  obliged  by  the  assistance  of  some 
Hebrew  scholar  for  replies  to  the  following  queries,  to 
facilitate  that  object: — 

"1st.  The  nam©  of  a  certain  Rabbi,  who  lived  about 
65  B c,  is  variously  spelt  Simon  ben  Bchet4M:h  and  8imon 
ben  $hetach«  which  is  the  correct  spelling,  or  are 
they  botli  correct  ?  It  appears  so  to  me*  or  rather  that 
the  soft  c  after  «  crept  in  as  a  redundancy  in  some  traa* 
pcription  in  the  Anglo-Norman  period. 

"2nd.  r?  not  this  name  Schetacb,  or  Shetach,  the 
same  as  Sadoc  modified  by  legitimate  letter  chaagesY 
Such  a  modification  was  frequent  in  the  infancy  of  our 
language,  and  consequently  to  be  looked  for  in  copyit^ 
others  from  dictation,  or  in  simple  transoribiog :  for 
instance,  c  became  c4  in  Banish,  Norman,  and  Saxony 
and  'Crist'  and  'ciLd*  became  'Christ*  and  'child.' 
As  for  the  «x,  f,  and  o,  all  vowels  are  interchangeable  in 
deriration,  as  the  Professor  of  Anglo-Saxon  observes, 
and  the  readers  of  Anglo- Baxon  and  old  English  must 
have  frequently  experienced.  The  d  and  i  are,  or  were, 
BO  legitimately  interrhangeable,  that  in  a  moderately 
lengthy  document  of  that  period,  d  was  made  u«te  of  for 
C,  and  i  for  </,  at  least  half  a  do^en  times.  This  is  in 
accordance  with  that  inrariable  rule  of  grammar  laid 
down  by  Dr.  Latham,  viae.,  "the  letters  most  closely 
allied  in  phonetics  are  the  most  fret^uently  interchanged 
in  grammar.*'  It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  this  rule 
not  only  applies  to  phonetics,  but  actually  to  the  cah- 
graphy  of  the  Anglo  Saxon  alphabet,  for  in  it  the  d  and 
t  are  scarcely  distinguishable.  The  application  of  this 
phonetic  principle,  and  of  c  Incoming  cA,  applies  to  the 
varied  Fpelling  of  Richard  and  Ricart,  a.4  instanced  in 
theAirijA  World  oT  'itSth  June  last,  p.  7;  and,  what  is 
more  curious  irtill,  T  obserro  that  the  old  Hebrew  i  and 
T  have  a  similar  affinity. 

"  3rd.  The  name  Zadok  (of  the  old  Testament) ^  Zedek 
in  Zedekiab,  and  Sedec  in  Molchisedec,  are^  I  presume, 
tynonymoas  with  Sadoc=jtut. 

"4th.  Was  Sadoc,  the  founder  of  the  Sadducees  (who 
is  said  to  have  lived  about  250  B.C.),  the  Sadoc  men- 
tioned in  the  genealoj^-  of  Jesus  ?  According  to  the 
then  age  of  a  generation,  it  would  appear  so. 

'*6th.  How  early  did  Jewish  proper  names  become 
names  of  continuancG  in  a  family ;  and  about  what  time 
were  two  names  first  used  among  the  Jews  ? 

"  C.  CUATTOCK,  F.R.H.S. 

*'  Castle  Bromwich,  Warwickshire." 

Transits  of  Venus  :  Kkplkh  aki>  Horrojc. — On  this 
subject,  Mr.  W.  PsNtiELLV  writes—'*  Kepler  predicted 
the  occurrence  of  the  transit  on  Doc,  6th  iN.S.),  1631, 
and  it  took  place  during  the  night  between  the  6th 
and  7th  of  December  Kepler  stated  that  Venus  would 
notagiiin  bo  seen  on  the  Sun's  disc  previous  to  \liM  ;  but 
Ucrrox.  by  an  exact  caloiilatjon,  found  that  another 
transit  would  occur  in  W^),  on  NoTCmber  24th,  O.S. , 
and  on  that  day  he  and  his  friend  Crabtrce  had  the 
gratification  of  witnessing  the  phenomenon,  and  were 
the  only  persons  who  did  so,  or  were  aware  of  its 
oct!urrence.  Those  who  are  deairous  of  further  in- 
formation on  this  interesting  queation  will  do  well  to 
turn  to  Grant's  MUtonf  of  Ph^tkul  Astronomy, A S52. 
pp.  4U-432." 

Barrv  CoRirwAix  (&"  a  li.31»>.— Mil.  8.  R,  T.  Mavxr 

writes  : — "  You  -  -    -    '  " "        -     ::  a  solution  of  the  doubt 
is  to  he  found  to  hii  letters,     I  huve 

thirty  or  forty  i  ina;  from  181 S  to  lvt>9, 

and  each  one  is  sigacd  '  H.  VV.  i'rocter/^never  with  his 


ChfiitMa  o&me  in  folt  He  vnu  very  careful  in  wntln^ 
hit  tkAtDet  k>.nwiTi|r  that  no  context  could  gire  a  ctue  to 
it;  ittd  Iftfr  ^    cruneriil   writing  iviwt  very 

feeble,  be  t  tittke  tiisBign&turrc  distinctp 

and  alwuyb  v, .  .^  .-  ...  »..-  .tft-hand  lower  corner  of  his 
envelopM.  As  1  liaro  hait-a-dozeu  of  hia  aufcographe  to 
gn&re,  I  aball  be  glad  to  give  them  to  ilb  m&ny  readers  of 
'N.  it  (^'  >vbo  may  care  to  have  them/' 

William  Jx51>aic  (5*''  S.  ii.  300)  waa  iwe  founder  of  the 
Literary  Oatette.  He  begaa  editing  it  at  iU  twcnty-«ixtb 
Kjnunber^  bis  first  contributiun  baring  appeared  in  tlie  pre- 
lirfoua  nnniber  (see hii  Autobw^raphytVoL  11=., pp*  175, 1 1 7}* 
ind,  alluding  to  tbe  Literarif  Oaz^Ate,  cm  p,  160  be  sayi, 
*Tlil»  new  periodical  bad  been  quoted,  witb  approbation^ 
in  Che  Sun  of  Febraary  lUh  [according  to  Jerdan'g 
GUftom,  tbe  precine  year  U  teft  to  the  imajcuiBktion  of  tbe 
rMder]j  whea  I  luad  no  idea  of  erer  being  coDcemed 
with  it/'  Olpuak  Hambt. 

T;he  Quskf^  BiPViBXAi  NAitK&— It  may  interest 

numy  to    know  that   tbe    Duke   of   Kent  wished  bis 

t^ugbier's  names  to  be  Aiejcaadriaa  Georgiatia,  tbe  first 

in  compliment  to  the  Emperor  of  Kutsia,  who  was  to  be 

P  the  princess's    godfather.      But    tbe    Regent  told   the 

f  Biassi&n  ambassaidor  that  tbe  name  of  Geargi&na  could 

rljc  second  to  no  other  iu  thi*  country,  and,  therefore, 

[file  could  not  boar  it  at  all.    Tliis  is  made  a  note  otirom 

the  OrtviUi  Memoirs t  jiut  published. 

Mil  JoRif  TiMBS.— We  hsve  to  acknowledge,  with 
tbanks,  tbe  receipt  of  the  following  sums  for  tbe  benefit 
of  the  above  gentiemati,  now  incapacitated  for  literary 
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1A'ett«DltiJt«r. 

lK'aat«d  \ty  \r.  M.  BmiMt^  Klrton-ta  Uiid<Ay. 


ToKMiiArtitcAL  JkIU«?lUtii«.    London,  I7M^    4lo. 

Wsiit«d  bf  Btv,  H,  A.  SiotMli,  BrcftdMlL  RMteqr* 


H.  I*,  T.— 

"  Most  wretched  men 
Are  cradled  into  Poetry  by  wrong  ; 
They  leani  in  suflering  what  they  teach  in  aong.** 
Shelley,  Julian  and  Maddah, 
*'  We  Poets,  in  our  youth,  begin  m  glAdnesa, 
But  thereof  comes  tbe  end,  despondency  and  imidneH.'* 

Wordsworth,  Jitsolvtian  attd  Ind^ip€iid£nc€. 
J.  L.  M.— Be  Courcy,  Lord  Einsale :  Lords  Forester, 
Sonax,  and  some  others,  had  the  privilege  of  wearing 
their  hats,  if  thoy  chose,  in  the  sovereign's  pretence. 
Aj,  in  most  oaaes,  the  privilege  was  granted  be<mn«e  they 
gtiffered  fram  king's  evil^  thetr  descendants  are  probably 


not  proud  of  it. 

luid  sit  in  her  presence  "  becntiFC  of  ln>  goedlbies^'* 

—**  The  coin 

'tp.3^,a»> 
re  tliafi 


Queen  Eliiabctb   tol4  Bin^le^  be 
shou' 

A  much-respect*^  Corrc 
mentioned  by  the  Hk\*.  F. 
less  in  very  fine  coudit: 
old  silver.    I  do  nu\ 
on  tbe  reverse,     'c  . 
Mjl  Mant  wrote   'a  t  iaid  k, 
•*The  varieties  of  Ciiarlci    L- 
numerous,  and  some  of  them  rare, 
tween    *rare'   and    *ci>mmou*  are, 
minute,  aa  only  to  be  s*t!»ible  to  experts^  iitiii  Ma,  \ 
cannot  do  better  tbau  show  the  piece  Ln  qaarttan  It 
some  respectable  London  coin-dealer*'" 

Toe  Rev,  E.  MAii5iiAT.t  writes :— *'  Mt  tioat  tli«iikie» 

MjL  F.  SCHITMAK  WlMTt:,  MR-  GAKDTTIK,  %{%,  P»  M.  JACK' 

SON,  and  Mk.  W.  Ci.  Diok^ivscin,  by  whose  puUtc a*m<jtsi 
I  have  been  enabled  to  complete  my  evpy  of  WmIi]^ 
Thomas  ^  Kempis/' 

E.  R.  W.— We  mu?  "'  Am««l#dW> 
corum,  by  Dr.  F.  G.  !  ar  cobtnoms; 

or,  better  stilU  to  th     *i«iii,  by  lis 

same  author.   The  former  wortc  is  tounded  on  tW  taittf. 

S>   W.    K—Tbc  sign   of  "  The   Naked  Man  "  w«  • 

satire  on  the  oontiQU&l  change  of  faabiou,  and  rtmtmlfnA. 

a  man  who  was  uncertain  as  to  what  attirs  he  diooU 

put  on, 

M.  W.- 

**  as  sweet  and  tmiiiiea] 

As  bright  Apollo's  lut^,  strung  with  bis  hair/* 
Shalupoare,  Lo^i  Labour  '#  LfisU  Act  tv.  se.  & 

MfiSSAS,     Go!  ! 

and  General  >I 

*  What  class  of  £-,-... i, „.-.,.   .. 

pith  taken  oat  of  cattle  boms  f  ' 

J.  A.  CRoziiStt.— Mr.  Wm.  Jackboot  Pioott  refert 
to  "  N.  &  Q.,**  5"'  8. 1  45,  for  a  descripUon  of  tlie 
inscription  in  tbe  old  castle  of  ChAoonv,  and  alio 
onoe  to  portraiti  formerly  in  Birr  Castfe. 

F.  8.  Vf.^The  Lo^inytr  vfhi  publisbed  in 

1785^787.  Henry  Mackenzie  contributed  betwMilit 
and  fifty  papers. 

J  APPIER. —Miss  O'Keil  (the  celebmtsd  actress)  muvd 
Mr.  (afterward  Sir  Wm.)  Becher  (Bart.),  in  DeceBAcr^ 
1819. 

H.  B.  PmiTON.— "The  Seven  Whistlepa/*ie«  "K.*V 
for  October  3,  p.  264. 

The  communioatian  on  Gipsy  ChrisUan  Kaniet^Aitl 
p.  294,  wfkS  from  cur  old  Gorref):iondent  Bu.  KtX« 

T.  B.-~An  Acci^tni  of  On  L%te  and  Ttma  iff  Mitmi 
Calamy  was  pnblished  many  years  ago. 

A.  L.  M.— We  are  seeking  for  an  emrlier  cspetaioft  if 
that  proverbial  saying. 

J.  R.  Scott  asks  where  a  copy  of  the  Chnttuk  4 
Simon  of  Thtrham  may  be  seen. 

C.  D,  F.— Letter  forwarded  to  QcKsr. 

H.  A.  8.— Next  week. 

XOTtOE. 

Editorial  Oommunications  sboold  be  addnflwd  lo  *' 
Editor"— Advertisements  and  Buiintii  Latl^ftlo'*^ 
PobUaber  "—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  Btfteet, 
London,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  fftate  that  we  decline  to  ratem  «o^ 
municationB  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  tKrtpflnt ;  •*» 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  ezceptioCL 

To  all  communications  should  be  afflxcd  Cbi  aiflW  **^ 
address  of  the  sender,  not  neoeaarHr  for ywMiiliiM^  bat 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  fsith. 


0*8. 11.  Otm  SI,  71.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


MUnmtft  SATtrKDAT,  OCTijBEB  31,  187^ 


COXTBNTa  — N»  44, 

...f   tilt'  «;3,,rgy»"— 


^RfLIKS  :— Cilpff   Names.   o^I^—ShAlupwins :    ItAican, 

— C> 


P*rts 
Ac— 

ritliim 
1 


fiatti. 

TDOMAS  TRKGOSSE, 


1  hivf*  1  *mi!l   V'^li 


of  sinenty  pi  it-  con- 
>/  TTtom 

r ;  and  Home  Lilt*  is 

•  h,    London,  PnntM 

lxxl'    JNlr.  Tregnsse  was  n  Parittin 

lit  SL  Ives,  nea.r  t\w  Laod*3i  End, 

^      4e»  Oxfowl, 

mimstry, 

lor  and  ^i  , 

J  until  Biltu  ,.  .  .  ,  ..,.  .^.i 

;   removed  to  IVnryn.^  in 

1 H  ' ^  c» aver t^  '^   in    1 660  ; 

eciition   at   the  hands   of  the 

i  in  Janiiivry,  1670.     Mj  copy 

Hpt  correction«y  and  tiie 

on    the   title-pag^,  "  By 

Galewaaan  emiofut 

rnjin,  and  the  author 

rR%  hut  DO  rcfer- 

I  mts'rt  ItRt,     The 


letters  were  written  to  some  on<?  who  l^elouj^^^d  to 
Devon,  but  who  wft»  abAent,  fot  they  !§]x»ftk  of 
*^yoiir  friends  nt  Cretliton,  Chimly,  and  Scmth- 
molton/-  und  '*  heartily  wish  (hnd  the  wbe  Loud 
seen  it  Ilf)  your  Bt^ition  had  been  fixed  in  your 
native  soil."  In  another  letter,  Oct^>Wr  ?»  1 070,  he 
&fly8,  "  1  am  a  SympathizMr  with  you  in  dear  ^Ir, 
R.'«  loa?  of  so  choire  n  mite/*  Mn  Gale,  on  his 
return  from  \m  truvcU  tus  tutor  to  Lor<l  Wlmrton'a 
-nns,  beciimo  liH^iisUmt,  und    ;  '       .      -1.    .  -^^ 

tM   Mr.  John  R<twe,  who  1  -t 

ikdborn.  This  ;^''  *  ■  1  ,.  .1.,  -i*-,.,i  ^  ..  liiut 
Mr.  Gale  W;i5  the  I  the  letters,  and  pro- 

bably the  writer  oi    i.         ^i.iphy. 

Several  instances  of  "  npt^cial  Providen*  > 
DAiTAt^  in  th^  \^x*k.  The  Tregos«es  are  «!' 
to  be  of  noblo  blood,  bcm;:^  more  ancient  in  Britaii? 
than  the  Nornmn  Compipfit,  ami  having  a  Barot 
John  Tref^o?«e  under  the  Conqueror,  :i  Biiroo 
Henry  Tre^opse  in  the  Piirliament  of  35  Edward  L, 
and  a  Robert  de  Trej;oHs<»  amon^  the  lords  whr 
aided  with  Simon  de  Montfort  u^;ttnat  Henry  II L 
The  downftdl  of  the  family  is  thu%  accounted  for  i— 

*■  One  Mr    Rinrtuhi^v^  ffoing;  in  PilfrriruR^e.  hia  Wife 
bad  in  111       "  '    '  '  "  u,  at  his 

returu,  J  t&te  on 

some  Fii-  ^u,  le«t, 

after  Ills  Ut^atlit  th^i  ILir  at  O.»uiiiioii  Law  i>iiould  (urn 
hb  Wife  and  Chi  Wren  *nit  of  rfoor*.  Mr.  Rofcadd^m 
embriKtnr  ^  •  ••  ■  -  ^  :^  i  \  x^^  ^^^  ai:ce|)t  of  tliiitru^t, 
i,f  hich  a  [istoiidof  n  Dc«d  in  ttuft, 

be  niAil  aiiil  iri-^  Heirs.     As  Boun 

08  '^'  :.  A  tt',^&  JluJ^  the  fdid  i'  ctitPed 

on  '  ind  tafhcd  hii  Wife  1  out  of 

du  '   .  r,.^  titite  lay  in  a  i  "  "^-ry 

riM  on  tho  dniksrhtL  t  et 

iui^  iikccfttice  of  Oi'd  ■  Itii 

Otit:^.     Allci  tLtr>  time  the  Ju^^  l!y 

Bppeiirod  iv;^iinxt  tbi'*  Family;  1  ^g 

from  his  horse  in  u  fair  way.  hi   „,  .  1.  .       .-. .  of 

biti  isiue  carrie  to  mi  undtuely  dJeiith  :  and  a  curt^  halib 
reniaiDed  on  the  c«ta4e  ever  tince.  This  Mr.  TbnnMM 
Tregogie  (wbo«c  Life  we  now  relnU)  was  »o  gr«»Uy 
sensible  of,  as  that  it  coat  him  iranj  Prayen  for  the 
remoTiag  of  this  curse,  as  be  hioiftlf  assured  me.** 

Has  thia  story  been  related  in  any  history  of 
Cornwall,  or  other  Ixwk  ? 
Another  special   Providence  is^  related  a  few 


t  St, 

:  V. 

rid 

rif 


'\\    I 'J  i  lie  r^H' 


4" 


'  r  the  book  was  rnillv 


I'M'        .\\i\    out- 

-v  Gale  / '  The 


Page  a  farther  on.  When  Mr.  TriL'os^o  tUn!  ; 
res  there  waa  a  f^ure  Ln  \\n 
He  advised  a  day  of  prayer  and  : 
Xh^»  wjw  held.  Next  day  an  imiii'^ 
mlchurds  api>eiired,  and  ther<?  wa^*  a  _ 
The  next  year  theie  wa*  h  gri  at  catch  uf  [^ilLiiiiitla 
on  a  Saturday  night,  and  tJie  fishermen  w*»re  fmay 
drying  their  nets  next  day,  Humlay,  ^^  ~  -^ 
told  them  (hey  h.^d  prtivitked  tbe  L  ii- 

draw  hi8  M-  '  an<l  "hn'i    rhat 

time  to  t!ie  1  M>n,  thf»y  luui  not 

''  -  their  Nets." 

ed  Pimrynj  Sep- 

"  At  this  Assiic  at  Kxo^  I  waa  caiV^Vjo  m1t^^J^C^^^» 


342 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[S^BALOcT.Zir 


no  persecutor  appearing  to  giro  eridence  against  mflj 
my  Jury  acquitteml  me»  and  a  Verdict  of  not  gmlty  waa 
returned*  Gtorye  Smith,  the  Deputy  major  of  7*omng(on, 
when  the  CoDT^nticle  nvaa  eurpntfd  (and  the  grand 
Eucmy  in  tbia  i^air)  vrta  at  Le»t  Assise  attending ;  but 
tlid  Trial  being  put  off,  by  thi§  Aitizo  God  disfiblod  liim 
for  such  a  journey,  he  having  received  in  a  drunken 
yoyage  a  fall  from  hia  Horse ;  by  which  his  shoulder- 
bone  18  diilocated,  and  he  rendered  unable  to  dresa  or 
nndreaa  himaelf ;  and  bo  like  to  abide  to  the  day  of  his 
death.  Hia  Wife  atao  (that  violent  Woman)  died  of  a 
Timpfeny,  a  fearful  ipectacle  to  all  beholders;  abe  de- 
parted hence  the  night  of  that  Lorda  day  in  which  I 
exe relied  at  Torrington,  m  my  joumeving  now  to  my 
home.  I  suppose  you  heard  of  the  bad  end  of  another 
peraecutor  there,  one  DenySy  tSmith  Brother  in  Law, 
vrbo  BO  much  rejoyced  when  our  meeting  vols  broken  up,t 
affirming^  the  aurpriial  of  the  Conventicle  did  him  more 
good,  and  more  rejoyced  him  then  all  bis  loflflca  did 
sadden  him :  hti  Wife  also  bitterly  bekhM  forth  tbe»e 
worda  concerning  me,  bang  the  Kog^ue ;  hang  him  at  the 
8igQ-poat,  or  next  Tree^  and  never  eend  him  to  Mxon : 
Tbia  poor  wretch  did  hang  himself  in  his  own  Study,  and 
thereby  hia  Estate  is  forfeited  to  the  Town.  Many  much 
take  notice,  how  signally  Gods  hand  hath  been  ogain^ 
them  tince  that  Meeting." 

J.  H,  A.  B. 
Cierdand,  Ohio,  U.S. 


ROLL  OP  XORTHERN  AEMS,  TEMP. 

RICHARD  II. 

(Harl.  MS.  No.  65S9,  Fo.  309.) 

I  ftm  not  aware  that  this  important  record  has 

ever  been  noticed,  except  cursorily  in  the  39th 

vol.  of  the  Ar€}i(toiog^i<if  where  it  is  alluded  to  in 

a  recital  of  the  contents  of  the  above  well-known 

MS.  as  iin  inserted  leaf  not  in  Charles^  band, 

but  without  nny  intinmtion  respecting  its  contents^ 

date,  or  value,  obsen^ations  npon  which  T  hope  to 

I  €>lfer  in  &  future  article^  contenting^  mjaelf  niean- 

irhile  by  simply  publiRhiog  the  roll  exactly  m  it 

Btands,  except  in  so  far  aa  contracted  words  are 

concerned  J  wnicli  I  have  extended  in  full  : — 

1-  Joho    de    Blencowe,   dc    goulei,    a    vno    quater 
dWgent. 

2.  John  de  Newby,  port  de  fable,  a  me  feea  d'argcnt, 
k  3  Roses  de  gouk« 

2.  John    do    Lcirinton^   de  goulz,  sur   mc    chooron 
1  d*argent,  3  .  .  .  sable. 

I      4.  Tho:  Allanby,  d'argeni^  a  "me  chemron  plaine,  k 
bordnr  azur  engrale. 

5.  W"  Fe their,   dc  gouls,  a  Tne  cbeuron  d'ermyne^ 
k  3  plumes  d'arccnt.* 

6.  Baph  dc  Thirkowald,  de  goula,  a  r&e  cherron  k 
3  teste  du  ainglcur  d'orgent  recopeet. 

7.  Rie'  do  Kyrkeby,  d^az^entj  vne  feea  k  demi  de 
aablf ,  a  quater  d 'argent  me  ferdomoleyn  de  aablea. 

8.  John  de  la  more,  dc  gouk,  a  me  oroyao  pat  tee  et 
Tne  ftcalloppe  deraunt  d'argent. 

9.  John  de  Skypton,  port  d  argent,  a  me  acre  (ncj 
de  aable. 

10.  Hamond    Monceaux,    de    gouU,    a    me    croyae 
fMfircelle  d'or,  et  rue  acallop  d*or  en  la  quarter  a  moni* 

•  la  the  margin,  added  by  the  copyiat^  *•  after  Thtrke- 
wald  0,'*  he  haTing  apparently  miaplaced  it  from  iti 
jpofiiion  in  the  roll. 


wald  Q, 


n,  W"*  Bealieu^  d'argent,  a  Tue  cb«iinni  dati»e« 
{ticj  k  3  teate  du  oysell  da  aable. 

V2,  Roger  Salisbury,   de    goulea,  a  TOd  er^ifK 
d  argent,  k  4  teste  du  leopard  d'or* 

13.  Roger  Ncwera,  d*azur,  a  too  fees  d'argent,  < 
garbei  d'or 

14.  Tho:  Brmybrooke,  port  d'argent,  a  6  loaeti^e*  i 
goulea* 

15.  John  Chamborlayne,  de  goula^  vne  feel  4Si 
lopea  d'or. 

16.  John  de  Wystowe,  d*argent,  a  me  cbeuron  , 
pellottz  de  goulz. 

17.  Roger  de  Well^  d^or,  a  une  griffbti  nuDpmi 
vert, 

18.  Le  Boron  de  Skirpenbeke,  de  gotilt,  fut  croia  | 
d'argent,  cheif  d'axur,  et  Tne  leopard  paMsnt  d'or  to  le 
cheif. 

19.  John  de  Slererbaisett,  dc  gouli,  a  troia  '^^If^Sw 
d^argent 

20.  John  de  Egleafyld,  d'argent,  a  3  egjet  di^iViytt 
de  gouh. 

21.  John  de  Cottingham,  de  sable,  vno  cheTrtiii  eogiak 
k  ^  plumes  d'argent. 

22.  Robert  yieglites,  de  Legburn  en  Lmcoln^tftk  ^ 
goulz,  xne  chouron  k  8  croiaea  recerselea  d'4>r. 

23.  Mousire  de  Scrembyi  d'aiur^  a  3  barren  k  tse 
bend  d'or. 

24.  John  Shandos,  de  goulz,  a  rne  pui»c  fytche  d'tr< 
gent. 

25.  W"'  de  Randford,  ermyno,  a  une  cbeif  de  gealL 
^  2  teste  du  singler  d'argent. 

2il  Irjby,  d'argent,  a  deux  caterfoyllei  k  rat  qvifter 
de  goulz. 

27.  John  LytbcRrBynfe,  do  goal*,  a  mo  «iootc^ 
voydz  d 'argent,  et  la  bend  d'or. 

23,  [Benrjjf  de  Mekton,  de  sable,  a  me  leoti  rampant 
d'argent,  coronne  dor,  et  en  anne  de  goaU,  mi  vrte  dtl 
marlotts  d'argen^. 

29.  John  Wyehamj  de  sable,  a  me  fe«8  It  6  mailotli 
d'argent^ 

30.  Esmond  de  £vard,  d^argent,  a  cheif  de  goaU,ltl 
molletts  d  argent, 

31.  Rarth :  deNaun^  "  -«*-  =- '  )o,  a  3  marbtta  d'argait 

32.  John  do  Buckt  ,  a  Tue  cbtirrv)  lampMl 
de  sable,  le  teste  et  i:h                 i  irgentt  lea  cronea  wst 

33.  John  Biel&nst  Kikirte  (sic),  port  d'argent^  a  tnp 
rooke  de  chesae  de  sable. 

34.  Roger  de  Somcrryle,  port  barule  de  goulz  k  d*tr 
gent,  ou  Tne  bordur  d'azur  as  marlotta  d'or, 

85.  Esmond  Montague,  port  d'azur,  a  vne  grrffp 
rampant  d'or. 

36.  William  Story,  port  d*argent,  a  me  tygre  de  par 
pur,  a  Tne  croislott  aur  le  apaule  d'argent^  ovee  la  covi 
freashe. 

37.  John  Wellesby,  port  d'arg;ent,  ampde  de  aaUc^ 
a  Tne  leonard  pasaant  d  or  du  cheif. 

38.  Hobert  de  Bynchestree,  port  de  goatea,  on  te  «hiif 
battayle  d'orgent. 

39.  W"*  Wyrcll,  port  de  goulea,  frette  d'or,  OTee  1 
quarter  de  goulea. 

40.  Walter  Burdon,  port  d'nzure,  a  troia  b^rdoiilrtl 
champ  poudree  de  croiaktts  d'or  uglitrede. 

41.  John  fit*  neell,  port  d'argent,  a  troya  palea  da 
gQuIea«  et  Tne  fees  d'aaur,  k  Z  marlotta  d'or  en  la  feea 

42.  Robert  Teyaa^  port  de  goules>  a  me  fees  et  3  nul- 
lotta  d'or. 


f  The  Christian  name  added  in  another  hand. 

I  EquiTalent  to  Parly].  i 

of  the  same  term  in  Jenyn^ 

(HarL  6f>89,  p,  94),  "Mr.  IUi.,.c  u.  V..:^;....  «  „, 
Axure  amp'ty,  le  cheif  croieelee  d'or/* 


tm 


i 


0*  &  n.  Oct.  81, 7*.l 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES? 


343 


-'  Mnrftley,  port  de  goolet,  ft  troys  testes  da 

51,  fn 


cbe^  '  m^e«,  frejrtie  do'inbJei 

44  I  icpcriratt,  p<^  d'ftxufe,  &  trois  gemeaz  k 

,  cblef  d  ar^iuut, 

*r».  Ricbanl  JHftllctt,  port  do  iftble,  me  chearon,  k 

iSffr---  '*' * 

[tort  de  goulefl^  a  rne  fees  dftuoce 
<i!l<?  d'or* 

ort  de  sable,  t  me  cheuroa  & 


4i 


^    1 1  de  nbU,  A  me  bend  ot  deux 
fit. 
..,  port  d*argcnt,  a  me  bend  dauoce 

rcy,  jjort  d'argent,  a  yne  chief  de  goulei, 
iti  gU'S^intorif  port  d'aiur,  a  rue  rasa  perce 

52.  Benry  Byssbopbery,  port  d^argent,  a  Tne  fees  ct 
I  deux  costicea  de  a^ble. 

5.1.  Ttioinaa  Pyxe,  d'axiir,  a  me  fees  ei  6  crosieleitfl 
fyiebet  d*or  en  la  champ. 

M.  John  Maadytt  port  pale  ounde  do  6  d*or  Jc  de  sable, 
65.  Tbuinfts  BoBville^  port  d'argent^  a  T«e  fuselle  de 
goaIef«  k  3  crola1ett«  de  nble, 

li^,  Thouiftf  Cobbam,  pore  ermyne,  a  troys  cre«sants 
de  *roulp«,  on  '*  hc^ivnU,* 

'">rt  de  goTile*^  a  deux  moletts  d'or 
r  ermyne. 
..*,....   Mortimer,  port  d'or,  a  3  fleure  de 
able. 
Whti  .^ytpelbv,  port  d'ftiur»  a  «5  marlotti  d'or. 

^I'Arjfcnt,  a  me  fees  daunsce 
lies, 
^..j  u  icke.  d'argent,  a  Tne  frette  k 


citon.  pott  d*azur,  a  T&e  feei  goub, 
I  ilL-  iu:o.^  dtir. 

bn  Tcrebv,  port  d'argent,  obeif  luttr,  a  3  bousset 
I.?©*?  estoyll  d'or  au  cbamp. 

John  Aglomby,  d'argent,  a  deax  bam  de  »ab1e,  a 
^  Z  marl  at  t«  a  meairie  fncj  au  cheif. 

<55,  W-*  Uoton  de  fore«t\  de  goules,  a  Tne  fees  sable,  & 
3  oryellien  d'argent, 

Jaites  Greknstreet. 


^ 


ILLUSTRATIONS  Of  SCOTTISH  HISTORY: 
maroRicAL  error  regarding  robkrt  de  brcs, 

TBB   **  competitor/' 

In    187i),   the   Rev.   Joseph  St^yenBon   edited 

far  tlie  Rolls'  aeries  of  pablicationii  twa  volumes 

of    Ih^cMffuntM  Ilhutrativc    of   ScottUh    Hiiiory 

"^-"   *     '  M6,  which  embrace   mnnj  very 

In  vol.  i.  p.  22,  a  document 

..ml,   ^....f.>„Ker,  1286,  styled 

tiand  and  Eng- 

-   .    tnl,  I  susjiect,  by 

odaiid  (vol»  i.  pp.  64-5), 

!  refiice  (p.  xxxviii)  founds  on 

ihi*  ivMeged  mntxiai  Bond  as  showing — 

rdioiii\!  prtrty  at  teait  had  formed 

>  rod  to  take  advantage  of 

1  a  path  to  the  throne  for 

>  wi  the  family  of  Bruce  lost 

and  him  a  powerful  body  of 

whom  wae  held  at  Tumberry 


fro 
iut> 

iij.iMi  L..    1 
•^  Bond  of  c« 


**  iha.t   all-  f»>]v 

an; 

*  new  cJttUiiii-'' 

Oil  tiine  iti  ^ri 
adlicraita,  a  r* 


Caatle,  in  order  to  concert  a  defimte  line  of  action.  A 
Bond  of  mutual  defence  waa  executed,  wlich,  while  it 
made  it  impossible  for  anyone  of  the  contracting  parties 
to  withdraw  from  tbeconfederac^y,  pledged  each  member 
to  act  In  obedience  to  the  decision  of  the  majority ;  in 
other  wordfl,  to  support  the  claim  of  Robert  Bruce.  It 
passes  over  iu  silence  tht^  bereditary  title  of  the  Maiden 
of  Norway ;  hf::r  nume  is  not  mentioned  in  the  instrument ; 
but  it  ftSBumea  that  the  throne  will  be  occupied  by  one  of 
the  Royal  DIood,  who  shall  obtain  it  sc cording  to  the 
ancient  custt^ms  hitherto  approred  and  observed  in  the 
realm  of  Scotland/' 

And  be  add»^  §  12  ; — 

**  It  would  appear  that  this  conTention  never  came  to 
the  knowledge  of  the  King  of  England,  although  it  was 
joined  by  his  own  son-iu-law,  the  Earl  of  Gloucester;  or 
if  it  did,  he  treated  it  with  indifference.'' 

With  every  deference  to  Mr.  Stevenson^  whose 
learned  labours  in  the  elucidation  of  the  histofy 
of  the  Middle  Ages  are  well  known  to  all  scholars, 
be  lias  entirely  mistaken  the  drift  of  this  Bond* 
It  is  unnecessary  to  repeat  it  at  lenjjth,  but  it  is 
simply  a  **  Bond  of  Man-rent,"  well  known  in 
Scottish  Charter  cbcnts,  by  which  **  Patrick  Earl  of 
Dunbar,  Patrick,  John,  and  Alexander  Ms  sons, 
Walter  Stewart  Knrl  of  Menteith,  Alexander  and 
John  his  sons,  Robert  de  Bnise  Lord  of  Annandate, 
and  Robert  Bnise  Earl  of  Carry k  and  Richard  do 
Bruse  his  sons,  James  the  Steward  of  Scotland 
and  John  hia  brother,  Anpns  the  son  of  Donald 
and  Alexander  his  son,"  hind  tlumsdves  on  thtir 
oath  with  their  whok  power,  to  astUt  Fiickard  de 
Burgs,  Earl  of  Uhter,  and  Sir  Thomm  de  Chwt^ 
aqainxt  all  the  lattcr^t  adt*er«art«»,  easing  their 
allegiance  to  their  respective  sovereigns.  And  so 
far  from  their  being  any  mutual  obligation  between 
the  Scots  and  the  Englishmen,  the  former  ore 
bound  under  very  gtringent  conditions  to  assist 
the  latter  only  ;  there  is  not  a  word  of  any  re- 
ciprocal obligation  by  Clster  or  De  Clare  to  the 
Scots.  As  a  learned  writer ""^  has  pointed  out,  how 
could  such  a  Bond  forward  the  claim  of  Robert 
Bruse  to  the  throne,  when  he  and  his  two  sons 
expressly  declare  their  allegiance  to  the  person  who 
shall  obtain  the  Scottish  crown  ?  It  must  be  re- 
membered that,  although  the  Maiden  of  Korway 
had  been  recognized  as  heir  to  the  crown  on  Feb.  5, 
1283,  there  was  a  reservation  in  favour  of  any 
children  whom  her  grandfather,  Alexander  III, 
(a  man  only  forty-three  years  of  age),  or  the  widow 
of  her  Bon,  just  dead,  might  htive,  and  that  when 
this  Bond  was  signed  Alexander  himself  was  but 
six  months  dead,  and  it  was  believed  that  his 
widow  was  with  child  (Fordun,  xi,  c,  3),  There- 
fore  the  general  terms  in  which  the  heir  to  the 
Scottish  throne  is  indicated,—"  jtui  regnum  Scotie, 
mtione  sanguinis  felicis  reoordationis  Domini  Alex- 
andri  f^gis  Scotie  qui  ultimo  obiit,  adipisoetur  et 
oblinebit,  secundum  antiauas  consuetudines  hac- 
tenus  in  regno  Scotie  approbatas  et  risitatas,"  dec, — 


3U 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


are  perfectly  correct  in  the  above  circumstances, 
and  the  omission  of  the  Maid  of  Norway  f^y  navu 
proves  nothing.  In  no  cjise,  at  any  rate,  was 
Rol>ert  Bruce  the  elder  the  heir  %  thful  to  the 
throne.  The  Baliola  and  the  Comyns  (the  latter 
as  the  heirs  of  an  eider  dynasty)  hud  a  far  better 
right,  though  **  their  star  paled  before  that  of 
Bruce,"  Air.  Stevenson  makes  another  sinjj^ilar 
mistake  in  culling  Thomas  do  i 'lare  the  son-in-lnw 
of  Edward  I.  He  hn>5  clearly  confounded  him  with 
GiJha't  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  a  very  different 
personajte. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  second  eon  of  the 
Competitor  k  named  *^  Ridiard/'  This  name  1^ 
not  known  in  the  Bruce  family,  and  I  waa  inclined 
to  think  it  a  mistake  for  **  Bernard,''  which  appears 
to  be  the  readin^f  of  one  of  three  MStS.  of  the 
**Bond"  in  the  BritiBh  Museum.  But  on  con- 
sulting the  best  of  these  three  (MS.  Addit.  15,G44X 
it  is  undoubtedly  "  Ricardua,"  and  therefore  may 
be  due  to  the  copyist.  This  MS.  is  a  strange  col- 
lection of  documents  made  by  an  Augustine 
Steward  of  Lakynheath,  co»  Norfolk,  about  the 
latter  half  of  the  s^ixteenth  century.  Where  he 
got  them  it  13  impossible  to  divine,  as  they  are 
often  totally  unconnected  with  that  county,  the 
only  bond  of  union  being  thnt  they  genendly  make 
mention  of  some  person  of  the  surname  of  Stewart. 
One  of  them,  which  is  noticed  liy  M.  Michel  (Lcs 
Jico^ais  tn  France^  i.  p.  f*2),  m  a  very  siniu'ular 

rant  of  arms  by  Charles  VI.  of  France  to  an  Andrew 
Stewart,  which  is  twice  blazoned  in  the  volume, 

k  knight  on  foot  ligbting  with  a  lion,  the  Stewart 
chequcrn  hnnging  above  his  head.  The  idea  closely 
resemblL-s  the  wfll-known  seal  of  Roger  de  Quinci, 
Constable  of  Scotlandj  fighting  on  foot  with  a 
aimilar  animal.  *  Anglo-Scotus. 


EXAMINATION  OP  PHASER  OF  BRAY. 

The  following  has  been  copied  from  a  IMS. 
evidently  a  transcript  of  one  much  older.  The 
original  orthogrjiphy  has  been  presen-ed  : — 

**  Ane  Acmmpt.  of  what  pa*t  btiwAt  y*  Lord  H^Uofu 
i^yrd  Dundonatd,  the  LaiM  nf  Bruy  (Ftoitr),  and 
ArchhUhop  Sharp, 

"  HatiiM.  What  mim  of  bnJe  are  joa  ? 

*'/?mv.  Yn  Lordahip  wold  expliUDe  wh*  you  mean 
by  a  hnilo. 

**IIaHoH.  Arc  you  an  heritor? 

"  JJray.  If  that  be  ihe  thiii]^  yo'  Lo.  meins  by  «.  had«* 
I  am. 

*'iiaUon,  Whor  lyci  yo'  LAndil 

"Bray*  In  Eomc. 

**ffaltofL  Are  you  a  preacher ! 

*'  Bray.  Tho'  I  my*,  by  not  ncknowledrini;  this^  put 
your  Lo.  to  the  trodble  to  prore  it,  I  will  irite  y^  Lo.  a 

clear  evide^oce  of  my  tn :'*■'  '"■      -  *•     -  7-  freely  y*  I 

do«  p reach,  and  tho'  I  I  1 1 1  tr.gc  the  r 

despicable,  yet  I  glory  i  in^;  God  in 

the  Ooapell  of  hij  Sone,  thaii  in  any  othtr  thing  I  can 
pretend  ta. 


"  IftiUoiu  Arc  you  in  orders  1 

•*  Bray,  A»  to  q*  concern***  n- 
sees  1  have  been  very  free  in  m 
made  me  culpuble  liy  y*^  Lawe- 
6ircuniV4  ntt  d.  kiit  for««iiti(i  \hf  ! 
acknowlerlcfed  I  breach  without  u 
Bihhop.  But  aa  to  q*  coneemei  otUi  rs,  r  rnnv  1 
brin^  tht  m  on  the  »tuj:e,  yo'  Lo/  will  excuse 
lavinji  aiiytbiug  in  ;t. 

*' IlattOfL.  Itt  you  glory  ao  much  in  y*  Mttgti 
doe  yt>u  not  owen  U,  why  doc  you  not  owen  y'  pi 
y^  is  not  ingenuity  at  all  H 

**  Brai/,  J   rCMpiett  y'  Lo/  to  hare  no  spmelienMcif}  ( 
me  at  ail,  but  aa  of  one  tnoet  irgcnuoui,  bttt 
owcned  my  pereon*  miniitry,  and  other  prmelf 
po»o  me  upon,  you  ihall  find  me  very  free 
yo'  Lo/  an  accomp»  of  tlem,  but  why  I  ^ould  not  1 
y'  question  directly,  I  have  given  yr.  Lo'  ane 
allrendy, 

**Mar;?.  Thk  Gentleman  seemee  O"^  ii  - 

with  uit,  poflFibly  he  wold  bo  more  fro- 
6tait  he  fitocMi  in,  q'^' U  not  ordinary,  ti   „-   ..  .i  1. 
pendciouB  principle*,  dettructive  to  all  kynd  of  U' rci^i 
mentt   and  withal!  is  very   active  iu  thr?f.  *»-»   n»  y  k 
ecarce  a  conventicle  I  hear  i.f  hut  it  I-  tfi^r 

y*  U  tho  preacher,  and  lyktvysc  i*  at  ■  ^ir  to 

bo  a  man  of  Learning  and  pairt»,  Sc  y  f m  .,.  .„  .c  to  bi 
taken  notttce  off,  «emg  pairta  y*  way  improvou  are  nuit 
dangerous. 

'*  iifay.  1  knowe  no  pen  i  '  '      '■      1     ,1 

as  yau  mean  niay  concern  t 
loyalty.   A»  io  the  first,  1  f:  v 
eiitabli»*hed,  I  have  a  very  nfcat  avtr- 
to  my  Loyalty  1  wold  not  cure  much  tl 
q*  were  in  my  heart  c 
ofy'^,  I  have  boin  pr  ; 

to  amend  y' waycs  ari  1  ^       , 

pernicious,  I  confesse  luyw^ii  nuijty  oi  it. 

♦*  Sharp,  The  greatest  heritick  will  Ukj  wo, 

"  Broy.  It  \&  not  ^ityinj?;  but  doiufj. 

"Sharp.  The^e  are  fyiie  princ'*^^'  you  hold^  y*  alJ  |*»»i 
n- 1  of  yo' judgement  it  is  law  full  to  cutt  \'  vW, 

*' Bray.  If  you  can  produce  any  t 
(fahc  ones  you  may)  y*  will  gay  y^  ever 
iuch  doctrine,  I  am  content  ttj  die  presci  li>. 

*^  Slnirp.  But  you  hold  y'  the  people  may.  q'«verth«| 
think  y'selves  wronged^  make  a  pretence  of  reii^oo  h 
ry^  up  Bg*  ye  iMagrat«« 

**  Bi^y.  1  have  read,  pro  and  contra,  Dpon  Uie  ftilnMl. 

both  Loyalist  and  Comonewealth  men,  ^ .  .  *     r 

read  or  heard  oft,  1  never  knew  one  y   ' 
(upon  q'*'  Hatton  mid  3  in"  others  fjj 

f'utq'rui-; 
-t  Lo>'ali«t 
.  ,_,,.-,  „.,..  .  Utisyre  not  U  ..^,  >v  ,.- .. 


n  q" 
we  lw\d  c^  ■ 
frttm  the  i 
but  y'  IB  :i  Li 
at  thia  tym. 
••  JIaitim. 


Did  you  ever  pre»^eh  tn  the  fte!<!t* 

**  Bmy.  Yo'' Lo   knowca  :  ""     > 

Cnminall,   and   I   am   nof 
acuser.     It  ig  enough  my 
it  not  by  my  owen  hand.     I : 
y',  bring  my  accaBer«  and  ^  1 

*' Sharp,    Tho'  thia  be  t'  ;,  .^  r, 

they  most  not  be  taken  trtMn  u  i 

"  I) undo n ri Id.  8 i r,  you  w < j !  1 1  .  - .f  the 

Committy  by  being  in^^nuoufr  i«fur* 

you  none  of  ua  have  any  ill  mil  1*  t  takt 

any  adratitage  of  you  or  any  of  y   i>i*M  ij  iroui  nuj  ihlQC 
y'  ye  «ay. 

"  iSiTiy.  I  thank  y'  Lo^ 

**  HattoH,  Did  you  ever  prea<;h  tn  Lathgow  1 

'*  Bray.  It  may  be^  I  bare. 


6«  8.  n,  Oct.  31, 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


345 


f     *'  Sharp,  Yt's,  Sir,  you  h»Te,  and  io  tlie  fitltU  m  grant 

'*  Brtiy.  I  Retype  y*  mfty  be  proven, 
-•  llntinn.  Yon  scctne  to  be  tt  wnife,  Jfc  one  j*  bath  not 
mn  in  at  the  *l'>rc  but  ut  tlip  wip.dnvr, 
"  A'nTy.  If  I  IihaI  a '  y'  1  lijid  not  bvin  in  ordtr  yo'  Lo 
00  hiul  been  jgood,  q**  I  a'  I  could  not  iuik^  y^ 
■  o''  Lo/  (»n  not  nrjiue  from  tbe  negittire  &f  if 
.  ..-'^  .    .u 
**  i/alitm..  But  you  are  infcf  r-communed. 
«  /?r,T»/.  When  F  vat  outUwed  I  wm  ]2rt  mylla  frum 
<y  my  citatiojj  vftu  gtTen,  «o  y'  it  wa»  not 
>r  me  to  tvu^'  it,  and  it  wui  upon  preU'nded 
^._u  .      .y  in  not  n.p}.>cftring:. 
**Mt>Uon.  But  why  did  you  not  move  in  it  aince  1 
Ijjfrity.  I  <H»«}td  not  Timvo  in  it  Ain<*e,  b' can9«  I  hml 


I  out  of  )uy  Uai'd. 
'  iiaUon.  Ihd  yoa  crer  conycrse  witb  Mr.  Forreit4?r  ] 


*«/r 


|TMt«r. 


i  be  biijd  stilly  tince  he  went 
CO  by  letters,  and  yo  are  hia 

Lord  Uatton,  j^elnf;  tbe  Bishop  tares  so,  I 

u*ly  T  hud  neicr  hoil  any  from  Mr.  For* 

,  no  not  M  niueU  m  eAchftri>rt:d  ^t  word  nith  him. 
'  ffriff/yr-.  Y"Ti  '■•ctrie  to  be  of  tht*  Quakers'  |iriuciptci. 
II?  our  civiliticiS,  yet  My  Lord  Sint- 
\>'.  baa  plcoacd  Lo  honour,  you  j^irc 

^  „  - „    :ni  ffives  you.    Ho  givta  you,  Sir,  but 

f<m  (ttvo  him  nothing,  y*  i«  not  citility. 

*lISfatf,  1  am  not  heir  to  justifie  my  good  breiding, 
oniirtt  i  am  a  rude  man,  but  for  that  I  have  no 

A.  A. 


PARALLEL  PASSAGES. 
ChihU  Han^  f  -  ..  ^..  IT   .t...,  .,  viilr- 
^Yetif,  P^  id,  there  bo 

A  laiiii  Lhle  t-horfij 

To  ibNmc  litv)  iii-'Ctrif^t:  u]~  tba  ^iidducce 
Aud  $ophifltiip  roadty  vain  of  dubious  lore." 

;  instmcts  me  to  compare 

i^ui^  jioniiu    .Munibui    locu^,   ei  tit   sikpieutibaa 
,  non  cum  corporo  exftttnguuntur  magnm  untmie/' 

Erem. 
Sir  Wolt-er  Scott  niakes  HOTnebody  describe  Ilnl» 
*  "  r»'.  I'  h'iA  fr,r  LLv^^M^fT,  and  o*er  ;^ude  for 
from  Oomeiile  ?  who 
LCT  hla  dcath^ 
»•  II  a  fait  trop  de  bien  pour  en  tUr«  dn  mal, 
II  »  fAit  trop  de  mal  pour  en  dire  du  bien." 

a  A,  Ward. 

In  n  copy  of  Plnutus  in  my  libniry  there  is  a 

Inoie  to  the  hand  writ  in  j^^  of  tuy  ^Taixdfatber  in  the 

Iftitii   gencnition — HorhtTt   Iuiinh>Iph — aboiTt    the 

end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  to  the  following 

it  iv.  tc*  2,  99 — *  Ad  caput  amni*', 
kqttiv  I  r  «ub  aoHo  Jims.*    Tiri^:  SLev,  xxii.  1 

I — 'Am.    V  -. -  i..»5  a  pure  river  of  water  of  life,  clear 

[•«  crystal,  proceeding  out  of  the  throne  of  God  aad  of 
)  th«  f  Aftib.' 

'  Q,  Undt  hoc  in  ment^tn  poettv  dcsititi  f  ^' 

Herbert  Rastdolpii. 


"  S<>  faylniic*  be  (the  Dnke  t>f  Ork'nn?)  *!rcw  bi«  sword 
from  ita  scabbnnl,  anJ  flung  i«  .^c.    It  went 

thf  ngb  the  air  like  m  utrcam  ,  and  sunk  in 

the   tlnsbing  WAters,  which  sjit;    ..r  c    ...d  over  it."— 
Scott,  Qnenlin  Dui-vMtd,  eliap.  xv, 

•  ♦  Thtn  quickly  rose  Sir  Bcdivere      .... 
And  clutcbtd  the  sword, 
And  stn)ntfly  nheeUd  and  thr^w  it,    Tbe  great  brand 
Mode  lightnings  in  th«      '      '  f  the  moon   .... 

6o  flatted  and  fell  tbe  i  '  ibur/' 

Tci  i  ,  ,(€d' Arthur, 

Jonathan  Bouchier, 

With  the  passa^  quoted  by  Dr  Ramage  (5**»  S. 
ii.  145)  from  La  Bniyere,  *'conibien  d'hommes  ad- 
mirahles  ....  soiit  tnorts  sans  qu'on  en  ait  parlt*," 
may  be  compared  the  well-known  stanza  in  Horace 
{Odes  IV.  ix.  25-29)  ;— 

'*  Vixer«  fortes  ante  AjjamcmnoTa 
MqUj,  8od  omnej  illncrymabiles 
Urgentur,  ignotique  longA 
Jfocte,  carent  quin  rato  Eacro.** 

Yonr  correspondents  (5**  S.  ii.  lOfn  146)  have 
fsuled  tomldiice  aniotiti-cnsarktible  paralleJ  pu&jiage 
to  iJrt*/R  *'  Full  many  a  jjem/'&c.^  in  a  now  «lmo«t 
entirely  forgotten  poet  of  the  previous  century  : — 

** spent 

Lik(?  beauteous  flowers,  which  Tainly  waste  the  scent 
Of  odors  In  utibanted  dcsarts,"  &c. 

Cbamt^crlayno'fl  Ph^ronmda,  bk,  U.  p.  ©4, cd,  1<560, 

C.  W.  BnreaAM. 

Ha*  the  following  been  notinl ! — 
"  Woe  to  thee,  O  land,  when  thy  king  ia  a  child  !** 

EccUritiite*  X.  16. 
•*  Woe  to  that  land  that  *s  gorern'd  by  a  child  ! " 
10 chard  II L  Act  ii.  ic.  3L 
Laycauma. 


♦*  The  Otirt  Conr^rt ;  t  or  a  |  Sincere  Sorrow  for  Bm 
Faitbftilly  I  Traveri'd;  |  Expressing  the  Dignity  of  a  I 
'fJ.,,.^  T  .  ,,;f..,,t,  I  Drawn  in  Little  by  Un*\  wbost*  Mani-  | 
f,.]  es  Abroad  hare  rei»*ler'd  I  him  Xecea^itated 

tu  iieltcr  Here:  |  by  Deilicatinn  himself,  and 

tbis  -Titall     I'oem.  I  By  H.  A.  Oeni,  |  Printed  for  the 
Author.  I  ** 

Sn  runs  the  eomewhat  eni;nnAtical  title- page  of 
a  very  mn^W  book  now  lyine  before  roe.  Besides 
the  title,  it  contains  an  ^*  Epistle  Dedicatory,*' 
2  pp.,  and  the  poem  iteeif,  '24  pp.,  numbered  J>  to 
32.  The  mte  is  small  8vo.,  not  18mo.,  m  Lowndea 
(e<Htion  1834)  has  it.  H.  A.  Gent  Aibscribe*  hina- 
aelf  in  fall  at  the  foot  of  the  **  Epistle  Dedicatory," 
as  Henr>'  Anderson.  Byeo  doinj^c  he  has  certainly 
preserved  his  name  from  total  oblivion,  whicli  the 
merits  of  Im  "Poem"  would  hardly  have  done.. 
Yet,  bad  as  it  h,  it  scema  from  Lowndes  that  the 
p:itcrnity  of  it  is  claimed  by  anotbi?r  individual 
equally  unknown  to  farao.  "Some  conie-H,"  he 
H.'iys,  '^  of  this  poem  have  Iho  name  of  Audley  as 
the  author."  But  the  curious  thing  about  the 
book,  and  that  which  alone  entitles  it  to  the 
honuur  of  a  resurrection  in  tK^  \«\%^?i  tA^^'S.^^-V 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


f^**  s,  n.  Oct.  ai,  74. ' 


reinams  to  be  noticed.  The  "  Epistle  Dedicatory  " 
is  h<?Aded^  "  To  the  HoiioiTred;*  foUoiri-d  by  a 
blankf  which  In  my  copy  has  Lecn  very  neutly 
filled  up,  by  pen  und  ink,  with  the  name  of 
'*Bir  John  MuQwayi-ing^  Bjirt.*'  It  would  thuf* 
itppear  that  the  poeuj  vvils  delibemteiy  intouded  to 
l>e  uiicd  ii3  ft  kind  of  Leggini^  letter,  to  be  dedicated 
in  tutn  to  any  one  and  evcny  one  who  was  deemed 
likelj  to  relieve  the  poet's  want>i.  As  might  be 
supposed,  the  ^''  Epistle  "  Itself  is  in  very  generiil 
teruis.  It  merely  atta  forth  that  *^  the  Aiithor*3 
coodition  beiag  at  present  on  a  Level,  and  the 
Basis  of  hlB  former  Fortune  ovorthrowii,  to  get 
elear  of  the  Dilemma,  and  prevent  his  future  Inter- 
ment in  the  lluinis  ;  Hmubly  takt^s,  leuve  to  Dedi- 
cate thi;3  small  Poem  (the  Otfispring  of  a  Peony- 
less  Mu.'ie)  to  your  kind  Acceptance  '*;  ami  then, 
of  the  dediaiteo,  that,  '^  believing  the  »Spirit  of 
(inodneas  and  true  Humibty  resides  in  your 
Generous  Breast,  a^  a  Rich  Geniiii  in  i%  Noble 
Oftflcate,  he  (the  Author)  is  eneourajj^d  to  Lay  this 
the  aforesjiid  3rat  at  your  Hospitable  g.tte/''  kc. 
Sir  John  Mainwaring,  of  Peover,  in  Cheshire, 
jiucceeded  kts  jiither  im  second  baronet  in  IGSD, 
and  died  1702,  which  fixen  the  date  of  our  author's 
llourishintf,  coniirmed  ns  it  iii  by  the  appearance  of 
nap.^r  and  type  and  geneml  get-up.  My  cop}% 
being  di^ified  untb  a  fair  cover  and  p:ilt  edges, 
miifit  have  been  the  very  copy  used  to  dniw  upon 
8ir  Jobn*B  purae.  Nothing  but  such  mi  intent 
caa  e%pkin  its  being  thought  worthy  of  such 
jidomment. 

Can  it  be  that  both  Anderson  ind  Audley  were 
partners  in  thia  ingeuioua  system  of  begging/ 
The  "  H.  A.*'  on  the  title-pa t;e^  the  blank  ^pace 
for  the  name  of  the  "Honoured"  patron,  and  the 
circumstance  mentioned  by  Lowndes^  make  it  not 
improbable.  If  ^o,  neither  of  tlieni  mny,  after  all, 
have  been  tbe  author.  The  ''  Poem "  wtw,  per- 
haps, boDghfc  complete  from  some  beg^injj- letter 
writer.  The  ^ammar  and  diction  of  the  **  Epistle  " 
are  siiBpieioUB.  No  doubt  there  were  "sereevera  of 
fakements  "  in  London  two  hundred  yerirs  agt). 

H.  A.  8. 

BrendsftUj  Derby. 

_l'  "Sons  of  tkb Cleiioy/*— The  following;  extract 
tfom  an  entry  in  one  of  the  Patent  Ho  Us  of 
Edward  L  m  not  without  interest: — **  Amic"  Jil' 
maj^dstri  Huf*onis  perdinnre  ccclesiiw  de  Hones- 
worth'/*  Whether  *'Amic*"  was  a  son  or  a 
daughter  cannot  be  decided  by  means  of  the  entry 
ifcselit  But  the  important  potnt^  the  pnteraity  of 
the  panon,  is  quite  clear. 

The  above  is  the  only  decided  instimce  which  I 
have  met  with  of  pjirsomc  paternity  in  the  Patent 
Holla.  There  are  plenty  of  such  descriptions  as 
"  Kobertuji  filius  Petri  clic^,"  in  which  it  is  doubtfid 
irt ether  "  Kobert  Fitz-Peter,  clerk,"  or  **  Robert, 

ifon  of  Peter  the  clerk,"  is  intended.    But  *'  Hugh, 


the  parson  of  Honesworth,'*  mu*l  hare  had  a  i 

or  daughter,  real  or  putative.  F.  B.  H. 

Merton,  Surrey. 

RAC*MA3r*9  RoLLi  OR  Rbw«. — A»  ihh  phr 

used  so  often  in  early  English  lit ^ 
not,  I  believe,  been  of  late  years  i 
quote  Archbishop  UdaJ's  explamr 
his  translation;  in  1542,  of  Enmtuus 

**  In  th«  time  while  the  Triumuirat' 
Lt^ndtu,    and    Antonius,    all    three    i 
thempire  of  Home  iu  tli»ir  Liisjd^H  n*  lu , 
Au£u»tuB  had  written  a  gi 
be  *oung  on  PoHio  in  dt  i 

naxne.    At  the  same  timt,  \h 

hold  toy  p«aee.    For  it  is  i 
mnter  of  iupOf  to  write  riih' 
persone.  in  whoie  handea  it  lielh  iq  write  ft  m»ti  oirt 
ttU  that  euer  ho  Imth." 

'*  There  waa  in  Compania  a  toune  called  Ft** 
the  first  hihabltaunteB  whereof  issued  from  the  AlLr%i 
ffis*S>r?/tw^  reporteth).     In  this  toune  was  first  imij 
the  ioylitee  of  minatrelfie,  ftt*d  fingyng  merit  «m 
rimeB,  for  makyoir  J&ughter  and  ^porte  at  ntarrij 
like  aa  i»  now  vsed,  lo  syng  eoages  of  t}'^  V 
Xunne,  with  other  temhiablo  merie  ie^: 
:tnd  other  fea^tyngres.     Afid  theie  »ot: 
cause  their  oricinttll  bcginnyng  i-  i 
wcr  called  in  Latiiie  Frscmjiina 
rt/thiuif  or  Ver^jt.     IMifche  I  doc  ..  - 
ing  to  our  English  prouorhc)  a  rtgT  at,  l 

bille.    For  so  dooe  we  call  a  lon^  itttc,  i^th  ( 

any  pcrfono  by  name,  or  touebeth  &  b^jdtua  huaestee  ' 
fiomewhat  nere.** 

The  above  k  Utken  from  a  sheet  *  f  ' 
the  edition  of  LM>4,  which  Mr.  J 
of  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  has  now  it 
for  which,  I  tmst,  he  win  lind  2 

among  the  readers  of  '*  N.  &  Q."    Ti. . ;a 

ciuainl  and  intereating.  F.  J.  FmsiVALl*. 

Mari'  i-JiTEKX  np  Scots:  **PARTir/— Th< 
a  very  geneml  prejudice  against  the  word  "*  1* 
need  for  a  peraoa  ot  individual, 
imagine,  in  the  use  of  it  by  a  t. 
buaineas  men,  who  seek  to  give  ^  h 
mystery  to  their  mther  commonpUc**  h 
I  was  suqirised  to  find  the  word  us. . " 
in  a  copy  of  a  letter  written  at  Invr 
by  Mar}'  Queen  of  H 
gentleman^   by  nau 
purpose  of  giving  inui 
beneath  him.     The  Qiie* 
you  aduertisement  .  ,  .  b»  ■  ...^  j  <   .. 
to  be  of  the  stewartis  blude,  .  *  . 
your  self  to  na  party  in  mareaw  \\\ 
and  quhill  we  declair  our  opi 
your  self  tharanent.'*    The  ora_ 
letter  h  said  to  be  in  the  possession  of  the  :?hci»ff| 
Clerk,  Kirkwall.  Alex,  Futmxrsso^, 

[The  Queen  may  have  intended  Taionj  '*\(f  "p^'J 

B0R1AL8   IN  AN  ErECT  PoSITIOJf.— T^ 

ha^  often  been  referred  to  in  the  pages  of 


KOTES  AND  QUERIEST 


\n\t  to  the  best  of  my  belief  "  the  reasoa  why  "  has 
titver  been  gntlsfjictoriljr  accounted  for.  I  can 
j^dfjri  no  reu*on  cxceot  a  desire  for  u  peculiurity 
in  the  mode  of  sepulture.  The  Clapharas  and 
Muuleverers  are  ^aid  to  Jiave  been  interred  in  thi& 
lu&DDer  in  Bolton  Abbey;  and  in  1S58»  the  vault 
of  the  Powlettfi,  Barons  Bolton,  in  Wenaley  Church, 
in  YorktUire,  beinpr  openecl  for  a  burial,  I  entered 
it,  ftnd  saw  the  leaden  coffin  of  the  Marchionees  of 
Winchester  in  an  erect  position.  It  waa  placed  at 
the  east  end^  and  on  Hh  top  was  deposited  a  sinidl 
leaden  case  conUitning  the  heart.  She  wa»  a  natural 
daughter  of  Kinanuel,  Lord  Scrope,  Earl  of  Sunder- 
land, and  brought  the  Bolton  estates  into  the 
Powlett  family  by  her  marriage  with  Charlest 
Marquia  of  Winchester,  who  was  created  by  King 
WilUaiu  IIL  the  first  Duke  of  Bolton. 

Janit  PicKFORD,  M.A- 
Ncwboame  Keciory,  Woodbridge« 


[We  must  request  correfpondenti  desiring  information 
on  famijj  m&tt«rA  of  otdj  prirftte  interest,  to  affix  their 
xkionei  and  addrei««i  to  ihmr  queriei,  m  order  thut  the 
I  m^  be  addrewed  to  them  dimet.] 


Jjlmes  PtKKCK,  1726* — In  a  recent  ponigraph  in 
Libc  Tim€4  it  was  stited  that  there  was  a  dispute 
j  in  lT-2i1  sEinil.ir  ia  that  raised  now  as  to  the  rij^ht  of 
I  a  T>  *.QT  to  the  title  of  "  Reverend  "  t 

'li-      -  ,  -   ,  ,,:^L.mtcd  Presbyterian  tiiinistcr,  Jaraei 
ect  tbe  founder  of  Unttarinnbm  in  tike  Wcft  of  Eng- 
p  was  interred  in  the  cbnrcbjard  of  St.   Leoaard'a, 
The  rector  dteapproved,  in  tbe  fu*8t  initance,  a 
Bfiption^  which  bad  been  written  for  tbe  tomb- 
I  WM  then  propofed  to  euhsititute  tbe  simple 
fttenee  *  Here  ]lie»  tbe    r«Terend,  learned,  find  piou^ 
[  Mr.  J«Tnc8  Pierce  * ;  but  of  thit  tbe  rector  diaapproved 
**■■-■'■-  '^    ■^  \Ii.,  Pierce  was  not  revereiKl,  for  be 
ined;  not  learned,  for  be  was  not  n 
iveruity,  and  not  pioufcf,  f*»r  be  taught 
fix^Orl  niivts.     AUf  therefore,  thit  vt%a  allowed  to  bo 
rlbed  on  tbe  Kood  man's  gmre  wa«    '  Mr.   James 
e"8  tomb,  172a-  '* 

Wbrre  can  I  obtain  any  further  genealogical 
-*  f  -'.  rs  of  this  Mr.  James  Pierce,  and  what  rf- 
^  he  to  **  Samuel  Eyles  Pierce^'  a  famoiiH 
._.-„.. .i    of  Honiton,  related  to  the  Chilcotts  of 
|Kxeter,   bite    preacher  at   Ebeneiier   Meeting    in 
[Truro,  Cornwall,  author  of  i>wcoi(rst>'  om  ihcLonrs 
'^vpptr^  published  I79C  ?  R,  J.  Ftkmohe. 

Shei*ley.— The  song  wliich  commeiic6&— 
*•  I  rise  from  dreftmi  of  thee 
In  the  flr»t  iweet  Bleep  of  uight/' 
by  Percy  B.  Shelley,  is  entitled  Lina  (o  rtn  Indian 
liA     Where  in  the  air  to  be  found  I 

O.  A.  Ward. 

'  PADt»y.** — I  suppose  that  tliis  derisive  appella- 
-i  of  onr  Irish  brethren,  like  *' Sawney  "  (Alex- 
'      ol  08  Scotch,  k  a  mere  abbreviatioD  of 


Patrick,  the  aaint  of  their  country,  I  would  in- 
quire when  it  first  appears  in  this  fomi,  I  have 
been  led  to  nuike  this  inquiry  from  finding  the 
name  anion;;  the  witnesses  to  a  charter  of  Affrica, 
daughter  of  Ed^ar,  in  the  reign  of  William  the 
Lion  (11 65- 121 4) J  ii^nting  to  tbe  Abbey  of  Mel- 
rose "  unam  quartam  partem  plenarie  viUe  in 
territorio  dc  diinseor  "  (Liber  de  Melros,  No.  199), 
Among  the  witnesses  are  found  "GiUenberet  filio 
padi^  padi  Mac  Cunig/'  and  the  other  witnesees 
are  *'  Johanne  Slacduftbij  Giilcristo,  filio  GOlennil, 
GUlid  judice."  They  seem  all  to  be  of  Scoto- 
Irish  extraction.  Can  any  earlier  example  than 
the  above  >>e  given  1  C.  T.  Rahaok. 

Henry  Hyde,  of  Purton,  Wilts. — Can  you 
give  me  any  particular.^  relative  to  the  family  of 
the  father  to  the  celebrated  Lord  Clarendon  ?  What 
were  tbe  arms  of  Hyde,  of  Purton  I        Lltsclts. 

[Henrv  Hyde  iimrrted  Mary,  daugbter  of  Edward 
Langford,  cf  Troi*brld>re.  Edward  Hjde,  Earl  i>f 
Clarendon,  inArri^d,  in  1(^21),  firstly,  a  dAughtcr  of  Sir 
George  Ayliffe,  Wilts,  wbo  died  six  months  after  mar- 
rift;;e  ;  secondly,  in  1632.  Francce,  daugbtcrof  Sir  Tbonms 
Aylesbury,  By  the  Intter  be  bad  six  cbildren,  four  bu&b 
and  two  dauglUerg.  Henry,  s^ecof>d  Earl  of  Ckrendon, 
died  170&;  Lawrence,  Earl  of  R<M!beater,  died  1711; 
Edward  and  James  died  unmarried ;  Anne  nnarried 
James,  Duko  of  York«  and  was  tbe  motber  of  Queens 
Mary  and  Anne;  Frances,  married  to  Thomfts  Kcigbtlj. 
of  Uertingfordbury.  Lui^cr^fi  desires  to  know  whom 
Henry  and  Lawrence  married.] 

Armorial.— There  i»  a  coat  of  arms  quarten^ 
by  the  Taunton  family  (I  mean  the  Tfumtcns  of 
Hilfield),  and  I  cannot  find  out  to  what  family 
they  belong.  The  arms  are^  quarterly,  arg.  and 
gu.j  live  crescents  counterclianged,  one  in  each 
quarter,  and  one  in  the  precis  middle  point.  The 
curious  part  of  it  is  that  another  family  of  Taunton 
bears  the  armfi,  quarterly »  arg.  and  gu.,  /oiir 
crescents  cotinterchunged,  very  nearly  the  same  at 
the  coiit  quartered  by  us.  I  have  long  tried  to 
find  out  how  we  came  bv  them,  but  have  failed. 

W.  G.  Tauntox. 

Grotesquk  Mkdlkval  CARvmos. — Is  there  in 
English  or  French  any  sepamte  work,  or  portion 
of  a  work,  devotecl  t^  the  subject  of  the  grotesque 
and  satirical  car\dng5  so  common  in  the  ecclesi- 
nsticfJ  architecture  of  the  Middle  Ages  1  It  would 
be  of  some  interest  to  tind  ont  aho  the  connexion, 
if  there  really  wa^  any,  of  the  Freemasons  with 
these  carvings,  I  have  taken  pains  to  discover 
some  authorities  on  the  matter,  but  ro  far  fruit- 
lessty  ;  perhaps,  however,  some  of  your  re^iders  may 
be  able  to  refer  to  help  me.  A.  O'C. 

Ambroise  Be^^kt,  of  Blxlstrook,  Bucks. — 
Who  was  this  gentleman  t  He  got  into  some 
difficulties,  politic^d  or  pecuniar}%  in  1671,  and 
went  to  Jamaiwt,  where  he  died  soon  after.  His 
wife  was  Rebecca,  fourth  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES, 


HtimptoD,  Kt.,  and  AMonnftn  of  London,  uho 
rciunmed  in  En^jland,  aod  died  in  16iK5.  I  strongly 
suapect  he  waa  a  near  rektive  of  Lord  Arlington, 
the  tiotoriotid  Miuister  and  Secretiiry  of  Slate  to 
Chiirle®  II.  J.  H.  CooKK. 

pHiLoeopnicAL    Fireworks    from    Ikflam- 

iBLE  Air. — In  the  Tima  newspaper  of  the 
17th  of  May,  IHCK^,  is  an  advertisement  of  ^Ir, 
Cartwright's  Exhibition  ut  the  Lyceum  Theatre  in 
the  Strand,  which  nnnounces  "  A  grund  dif^nluy  of 
Philoeophieal  Fire  Work?  from  Inflamniahle  Air, 
that  undergoes  a  variety  of  changeSj  and  produces 
several  thouj«tnd  ttames.  The  whole  without  nmoke 
or  gun|>owder";  and  also  states  that  **The  Theatre 
will  he  illuminated  by  a  most  curious  Aeroferic 
Branch,  which  is  lighted  and  extinguished  in  a 
moment." 

la  anjlhing  known  of  the  means  employed  to 
produce  the  effeets  described  f    Gkoroe  Ellis. 

St.  John's  Wood. 

Paul  Jones's  Action. — I  have  in  my  possession 
a  painting  of  much  merit,  representing  thi^  des- 
perate isea-fight,  which  took  place  iJi  October^  1779| 
off  Bridlington.  Captain  Pouraoo,  of  the  **  Senipi.^* ' 
frigate,  together  with  a  ^loop  adled  the  *' Countess 
of  Scarborough,"  defender!  himself  against  three 
loi^o  American  vesseb,  sailing  under  French 
colours,  and  couuuanded  by  the  well-known  Paul 
Jones.  The  Jiction  was  of  n  most  gallant  chameter. 
It  was  fought  by  moonlight,  and  kated  many 
hours^  during  two  of  which  the  **  Berapia  "  fought 
with  the  muzzles  of  her  guns  almost  touching  those 
of  one  enemy,  whilst  another  kept  Bailing  round 
and  delivering  brotulsides.  Captain  Pearson  did 
not  surrender  until  his  ship  was  on  fire  and  in  a 
sinking  state,  having  lost  sixty  killed  and  many 
more  wounde*1.  Can  any  reader  of  ^^  N,  &  Q." 
tell  anything  of  the  subsequent  career  of  the  gnlhmt 
Gttptain  R.  Peamon,  of  the  *'  8empis  "  ? 

E.  ELToy. 

Scots  Greys. — Can  any  one  inform  me  when 
the  2nd  Dragoons  finat  rode  grey  horsej^  and  at 
whiit  dnt^  they  bccnme  familiarly  known  a«  the 
Scots  Greys?  In  the  records  of  the  regiment  there 
i«  not  a  scrap  of  information  on  the  subject.  Any 
early  information  aliout  the  **  Royal  Scots  L»ra- 
goons  "  will  be  thankfully  received  by  me, 

Gbo.  Clkgiiorn. 

13,  PittTille  Parade.  Cheltenham. 

The  Old  Roman  Roads  (Ermine  Street), — 
In  Haydn's  Dictiona'nj  of  Daki,  1868,  the  deri- 
Viition  of  Ermine  Street  is  thus  given  :  "Ermin 
Street,  from  Irnumsiil,  a  German  word  meaning 
Mercury,  whom  our  Genuaii  ancestors  wor^hipi^ti 
,  under  that  name/'  In  a  small  octavo  volume  of 
he  *'ltintnary  of  AiitnnihU)(^  printed  for  R.  & 
r  poOaley,  Ptdl  Mall,  175G,"  the  old  rt>iMi  **is 
derived  from  Here,  in  Sax.  an  army ;  and  Herinan, 


a  soldier^  so  tliat  Herman  St,  h  nothing  e!»©  but 
a  military  wav,"    I  should  be  glad  to  '  *         '■ 

**N.  &Q."  ^vhich  of  the  two  der 
more  trustworthy,  and  abo  where  tli 
map  can  be  obtained  with  the  olil 
and  stationa  marked  out  on  the  BriL...^ 

F,  d: 

Nottingham. 

SOM  ASTER  AND   K  ELI  AND  FAMlLIE8,^Gatt  afi] 

one  lejimed  in  Devonshire  geneulogie^  tell  me 
f  here  was  any  connexion  between  the  fiUiiilie* 
Somaster  and  Kelland,  of  Painsford,  in  Asl 
prington  ?  Ly^ons  says  that  the  heiress  of  Somant 
married  a  KLdland,  but  1  doubt  thi'  •-  '^  f  f* 
statement.     The  Sonuviter^  were  li  1 

ford   in    !G34,   when   Dorothy,   diii.^u...     ^i 
Samuel  and  Lady  Frances,  was  baptized  ;  and  ii 
1679,  John  Kelland  of  Pafnsfoitl  was  iMiHt  ,1   il 
Afthprington,  aged  seventy-one.     This  J 
land  had  married  Susiiunah  Fownes  ;  m 
motheXj  who  umst  have  l^een  married  before 
been  a  sister  of  Sir  Samuel  Somaster^  who 
the  Visitation  in  1G20,  when  he  had  thi 
and  two  daujjhtei's  alive  (who  mny  jdf  hu 
without  issue),  it  is,  at  least,  r  ■ 
name  does  not  occur  in  the  StM 

John  Prouz,  1664. — John  Pronz,  of  Cbagford,! 
Devon,  is  stated^  on  his  monument  in  r'      '^ -* ' 
Churchy  to  have  been  the  last  heir  m 
family,  and  to  have  died  IDth  M:'"     ' 
he  leave  any  daughters,  and,  if  ho 
they   marry  ;   or  did   the  re]iT«  s* 
ancient  family  devolve  on  his 
Phiiippaj  married  Richard  Con 
in  Laiiivet,  CornwaU,  Cth  June,  1037  i 

EDMtJND   M.   Bottfc 
Kock  Woodj  Torquay. 

Sir  William  Davenant*— 

"The  Inrk  now  leaTcs  his  wftl'rvnest. 

And  cliruhiag  pbnkes  lilt!  'k>vv  wiflga; 
He  takes  tbid  window  !■ 

And  iu  ioiplore  your  i  ^s. 

Awftke,  awake,  the  nmrn  «iii  iitvtr  rise 
Till  flhc  can  dre-as  her  bci^uty  at  yuur  etci. 

The  inercl>ant  bo^         '      '  n'sttar. 

Hut  Ktill  the  lovi  I  I  cy  are 

Whu  look  fur  duy  Utur^  Ltd  tui&tr«ti  waket. 
Awake/'  kc. 

I  have  seen  the  above  beautiful  lin* 

Sir  William  Davenant.     Are  they 

in  what  edition  of  his  works  aa^  tliey  lo  ii*  Utii 

If  in  one  of  his  plays,  in  which  ?  CD. 

Mrs.  Mart  Lutwyche.— Is  anything  recorile 
of  this  hwiy,  as  to  whom  I  fin-^  "  ^' ^"  ^  the"  " 
iqnery^   when  did  he  die  1} 

tSupplcnunt  to  the  LittratuTe  a: 

1856,  p,  26 :  she  waa  "among  the  nolablea  of  i 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


349 


^]i.-  }vm\  -ilwivs  moved  in  the   i^v^x   -u  iety, 
Ljn  coiirta,  wht?a  presen- 
'i»  ntiw  . .  .  ii  good  lingnist 
. .  c^  i  herself  by  her  trjuiftljitkm  of 

''a,  and  also  of  the  Chevalier 
^Isgekeia  (*tc^  Trav<U  in  Swcdrn^'F 
Both  thei*e  w<jrks  ure  by  the  same  uuthor, 
niely^  P.  M.  L.  de  Bouplin  tk  Kaultt.  The 
Bt  15  entitled  Anckfit  and  Modtnt  Malfit ,  .  , 
'  1C8  .  .  .  1H(>4  ;  the  second,  Travfh 
rk  and  Swidtit  ...  in  two  volumes, 
,  iHMM  in  riuurto,  Hnd  no  mention  is  mude  of 
clog  tmnsiiitions. 

I  works  were  published  onginally  in  EnjCflisb, 
1  pre.sume  5lrs,  Lutwyche  tmnalated  from 
(jUn'j*  luiinuscript.  But  what  nuthority  is 
for  th(»  J  They  were  afterwiirda  tmnslnteil 
"French,  and  published  in  France  (Quemrd, 
r  Trnncf  Litttraitt), 

Virih idin  will  be  found  in  th©  Bio^aphual 
^  IRIG,  and  in  VfniVn  Bibhothfca 
'.  Both  give  incorrect  and  abbreviated 
ages,  hut  the  works  thetnselves  are  in  the 
I  Libmrj-  at  the  British  Mu^ciiw- 
Tna  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lutwyche,  who  published 
k€  Ihokm  Vttsc  in  ISltJ,  any  relation  of  the 
>^  Olphar  Hambt. 

*  B*met,  Hert»,  N, 

I  Office  and  British  Museum. — What 
i  Catalogues  of  the  Records  in  the  above 

X. 

jt .,...,  r  ,^^. — Would  somebody  kindly  translate 
ng  into  heraldic  English  ?— 
,"U\  A  un  6eu  d'&r{;ent  en  cteur  atuc  bfttoni 
tftsey  d'or  pa^sor  en  croix  ct  uii  B&utour^  et  far  t« 
«nt  &u  ciiTftlier  armt  de  sable/' 

Otto. 
'  A  Tax  :  "  Kuper^s/'-^ 

**T\im(^  who  contHlmte  to  the  tiuc 
Ofi  tea,  aud  chocolate,  and  wax.  * 

:T      '  hut  *'ttix"       '  I  tJe? 

\n   a   Ih  yitfr 

'^'w,^...^    uY  n    <'     '  [   in 

?52.     In  the  same  .  !e  of 

bygone   nlacc   of   4.,..,,.^u..  ui,       Imj^h..  ^.        Im 

i  known  wnere  this  place  wfis  f 

E,  Walford,  M.A. 
I  H&snpfieftd,  N.W. 

N'. — It  is  said  that  there  is  a 

rn  (it  ij5  (.•ailed  a  Glastonbury 

^       tdnight  on  Twelfth 

I  ishouM  like  to 

I..   ■»    -M  ^..-viiit^d  for,  whether  by 

Arr  there  other  thorns  havint^  n 

r?  T.  C.  U. 

iCOA^D  BRltTLKT,  THE   MaSTER  OF  TRHnTT. 

SLnj  of  your   refuiern  inform   me  whether 
tt  pedigree   of    the   family  of   Kichard 


Bentley  the  critic  ext.int,  and,  if  so,  where  it  ca  i 
be  consulted  i  I  think  I  have  jieen  it  mcntione  I 
that  there  is  a  family  of  the  same  name  descended 
frotn  him,  now  existing  in  Yorkshire.  ^. 

Royal  Chaplains.  — Is  there  any  register  of 
the  appointmenta  of  clei^men  to  be  chaplains  to 
royal  and  noble  persons ;  if  ko,  where  I  The  appoint- 
ments of  chaplains  to  the  sovereign  are^  I  itssiuae» 
recorded  in  the  Lord  Chamberlain'*  Department. 

OcB.  Cog, 


GIPSY  NAMES. 
(S***  a  i.  325  ;  ii.  222,  294.) 

With  the  same  idea  n%  Mr.  Groome,  Dr.  Smart, 
of  IVl {inch est er^  and  myself  were  led  to  make  a 
similur  collectioo.  The  results  did  not  equal  our 
expect;! tions.  In  tbi^  countTv  we  fiiul^  in  15<>6,. 
Anthonius  Gawino  (Simaon,  Hutortj  of  tht  Qxinici^ 
London,  1865,  p.  D8) ;  c,  1512,  Giles  Hather  and 
Queen  Kit  Calot  (Samuel  Rid,  AH  of  JaggUng, 
UM2) ;  in  1540,  John  Faw,  Sebastiaue  Lalowa,  An- 
teane  Donea,  Satona  Fingo,  Nona  Finco,  Phillip 
Hatseyjjgaw,  Towla  Bailyow,  Grasta  Neyn,  Geleyr 
Bailyow,  Bernard  Beige,  fiemeo  Matakalla  {or 
Macskalla),  Notfaw  Lawlowr  (?  Lalowe),  Martine 
Fenunc  (Sims.,  ini);  in  1541,  John  Faw  and 
Sebastiane  Lnlow  (Sims.,  106') ;  in  1546,  Phillipe 
Lazer  (Archa'ohgiaj  xviiL  127) ;  in  1549^  John  Ro- 
land and  Babtist,  Amy^  and  George  Fawe  (Lodge's 
Illustratwn^  of  British  Hi^tom^  L  135);  in  1554, 
Andro,  George,  Robert,  Anthony,  and  Johnne 
Faw,  Andrew  George  Nichoah,  Gt'orge  Sebastiane 
Colyne,  and  George,  Julie,  and  Johnne  Colyne, 
James  Haw,  Johnne  and  George  Browne  (Sims.» 
lo7) ;  in  IB24,  Helen  and  Luoretia  Faa  (Sims., 
U8).  On  the  Continent  the  earliest  examples  are 
Michael,  Andreas,  Zindelo,  Panuel,  Johannis,  and 
Pctrus  (Hoy kind,  Histortoil  Surx^ey  of  the  Otu- 
toms,  t^c,  of  tht  Gipsies^  York,  1816,  p.  57). 

The  present  tritxil  names  are  simply  the  com* 
mon  surnaTiiea  of  their  adopted  country  (see 
Putt,  I)i    '-"  .  &c.»  Halle,  1844,  i.  51  ;  for 

French  t  r  .>ig  Guuk,  Paris.  18G7,  iL  1 113^ 

1120  ;  fur  v.iiijuui  Gipsies,  Liebich,  Die  Zigewier^ 
Leipzig,  1863,  r»p.  80-iX>;  for  Turkish  Gipsies, 
Paspati,  Lfs  Ta(inghfant%  Constantinople,  1870, 
p]>.  fii?^^-6rU  ;  fur  Itulifiu  Gipsies,  Aacoli,  Zigcim* 
cri^^hti^,  Halle,  l>Hfl5,  pp,  128,  129).  In  En^d  m-1 
wo  find  Boswell,  Coo|)cr,  Heme,  Lee,  L 
^tjinliv.  T.ivlrjf,  Young,  &'c,  (see  Cnibb,  i  : 
(U^  London,  1832,  p.  4S  ;  Harriot, 
/r  ^}it  Oriental  Origin  of  the  Bom- 
iiicfuil,  IvovU  Asiatic  Soc.  Traru.,  London,  1830, 
p.  522  ;  HoyLind,  sujyra,  1G5,  1S4-5  ;  "  N,  &  Q.,*' 
4^  S.  iii.  4<J5,  4C1).  The  English  tribe  Winter  is 
extinct   (Hoyland,  94).      T\k  Va^  txTrd-^tit— ^ 


350 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


pugilist — is  immortiilized  by  Hood  in  his  ode  to 
Spring.  There  is  a  Geniian  tribe  of  Winters 
(Lieb.,  90).  In  Scotland  we  find  Fm,  Oonlon, 
Blyth,  RutliYen,  Sic,  (SimB.,  117;  HojLmd,  94; 
"  N.  &  Q./'  2"J  S.  xi.  190) ;  m  Ireland,  Docherty, 
McCurdy^  l^IcCUoskey,  McGnire,  McKay  {Sims,, 
3/>8) ;  in  Wales,  Jonas,  Roberta,  Williams,  Woods. 
These  names  were  probably  a^auuied  soon  after 
the  Gipsies*  iininigrutioD,  from  owners  of  large 
eftUtes  on  which  particular  hordes  usually  en- 
camped (Borrow,  llomi^no  Laiv-lilf  London,  1874, 
p.  227),  or  from  prnte^itors  of  the  proscribed  mce 
(8ima.,  117,  note).  ^lany  of  these  names  are 
TougUy  rendered  into  Eoumnes  (cf.  Sims,^  Slf^. 

An  old  gipsy's  account  (qmtntum  val^t)  of  these 
tribal  names  is  not  devoid  of  interest  : — 

**Thc  Hertiea  and  Bo^wells  is  the  oldest  fanitly.  The 
Lcci  ttTO  only  two  hundred  jean  u  family.  Thev  »re 
nixod  nigger  Mid  Bengauleraa  you  can  flee  by  their  hlnclc 
fa^es  &nd  curly  hair,  and  the  Bontellg  has  loug  Rtrai>i^ht 
buir,  men  aod  wamoti.  The  Stanleje  ain't  real  ^'ipaiee. 
They  origined,  I  tbiuk,  in  Lr>rd  Derby  over  there  [p^tinitnK 
m  th«  direction  of  Knowflky] about  two  hundred  years  Kgo 
[cf,  Sims.,  177,  notel  The  Smiths  h  Iri^b,  biv.  I  mean 
a«  thoy  came  from  Iro]and  about  two  hundricd  years  OKf^* 
bnt  I  bfllieve  as  they  is  a  real  old  family— /o^rAo  fiomajitf  '* 
[cf.  BiniB.j  9S,  noted 

The  foOowing  records  of  ttotne  of  these  names 
are  arranged  chronolo;;ically  :— IRfi?^  Robert  Hem 
iind  Elizabeth  BoKwell^  king  and  queen,  buried  ut 
Camberwell^  Surrey  {Blachvood'i  Mag(mru\  xcix., 
article,  Review  of  Simson'a  Hutory  of  the  (ripdcit); 
Henry  Bozwell,  kmf^,  buried  at  Wittering,  Sussex 
(Hubert  8mith,  Tait  J^i/«,  London^  1873,  p.  52(i); 
17ti8,  James  Bosvill,  king,  buried  at  Doncaster 
(**  N,  &  Q.,^'  4^  H,  ill  5.57) ;  1756,  Francid  Heron, 
king,  buried  at  Hartlepool  (Blackwood^  v.  supm)  ; 
177ii,  clothes  of  Diana  Ijoswell,  queen,  burnt  after 
her  fiineral  {Aimual  Ht^uUrj  xvi.) ;  1774,  Inverto 
BoBwell,  ktDg'a  s^nn,  buried  at  Calne,  Wilts  {Tmi 
lAfcy  52t>) ;  1783,  Asbena,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
GreenleAf  Boswell,  buried  at  Stretham,  Cambs. 
"N.  k  Q,,"  5^  S.  I  129) ;  1780,  Heniy  Boswell, 
king,  buried  at  Ickleford,  Herts  {Tiu  Farm  Topo- 
grapher, I ;  i5efc  **N.  &  Q.,'*  5^"^  8.  i.  212). 

Their  Christian  names  (sec  Pott,  i*  51-2)  are 
sometimes  outlnndi.'ih,  though  generally  euphonious. 
Some  seem  traditiomd,  but  usually  they  are  chosen 
for  their  sound.  A  gip6V*s  ear  is  captivated  hy  a 
fine  sonorous  name,  io  the  same  way  tbat  his  eye 
is  caught  by  the  bright  colours  of  a  gay  bandanna ; 
c.^.,  on  telling  a  gipsy,  in  answer  to  nis  inc|uirjes 
about  tt  watch  chain,  that  it  was  made  of  Alum i- 
ntuwi,  he  at  once  remarked,  **  What  a  fine  name 
for  a  child!"  Bibhciil  name-s  are  especially  in 
favour  with  them,  Mr,  Borrow  (Roniauy  Bye^ 
f London,  1857,  L  03-4)  gives  several  examples  of 
jue©r gipsy names^ the  mofstpeculiar being Culvato 
Claude),   and,  feminine,    Pakomovna,    Sanpriel, 

eviathan^  Clementina,  Orlanda,  Mikailia,  and 
(98)  Tamo  Chikno;  also  {Lavo4\l)  ArtAros  (Ar- 


thur), Canairis,  rinprrdla  f  ?  Cinderella),  Fenella  (< 
Vmntl^  Lieb.,  ^       i         v-i^  La«ho  (Lotiis)^  ~ "' 
Nurilla,  Sacki  221)  AgamcmnAn, 

Leland,  English  (tipyuf,  Ivondon,  1S7^ 
Dighton,  58;  Horfeni^,  Horfcr  (OrpH«Uii), 
Knight,  247;  Wacker,  WackerdoU,  57? 
Wantelo,  67* 

Omitting  those  given  by  Mr.  Gtioovis  (' 
Q.,"  rA^  S.'ii.  222),  we  have  met  with— tnWj 
— Earth i,  Bendigo,  Bruce,  Bvr-^'^v  >  tnr  ..T^ 
(IJchovah),  Kali,  Xisha  (Eli 
(cf,    Mnnxili,   Tarh   Gnirh,       ,      ,. 
Mansfield,  Merifil  (.'  ^^e^ivale),  'M6tch> 
(Timothens),   O'Connor,  Persuvius,    M- 
'Snbius   f"  a  burning  mountain,  Sir,"  V 
PhoBnix  (abbr.  Fennik),  Biley,  Sant^-Na-tl 
(ITasso),  Tobias,  Trafidgar  (abbr.  "  ^ 
(Tornapo,  Borrow,  Lavo-hl^,  Wnll 
'Westiirus  (Sylvester)  ;    ? 
Alma,  A  maline,  Barbara,  1 
(abbr.  'Leo da),   Delia  [t  t'ohiniii,  jum 
Elderifa,   EldorTa,    EUaffa,    Ercilhi    (i   - 
Cilli),    Eva,   Floa  (f  Flora ;    cf.    Ff     - 
Laro-Ur}^  Gravaliux'i,  Horentia,  Jul 
Kensilla,  Leah,  Lilla,  Lurena,  Minti 
(Esmendda),  Pamela,  Ponic'ina,   P 
Bhurensa  (jtbbr,  Shuri),  Srdm  (abt :. 
common  amongst-   the   BozweUs,  cf.   1' 
Cifmr\}y  SolivitUfc  (for  Solforino) ;    B\im\ 
Union,  t^rsub,  ZQbB,  and  ZubL 

H.  T.  Vmrtor. 

MaiicheBt«r. 


$od 


hodft, 


Shakspearb  :  Bacoh  (5*»»  S.  ii.  16L)— I  few 

Ma.  Ward's  remarks  on  this  subject  an  >-i  -i-  ^ 
give  a  weak-minded  reader,  or  even 
worked  student,  an  attack  of  ^v.t^ru  < 
no  proof  of  Bacon  ever  bavin;. 
Shakfpeare,  and  yet  would  ni:  ;   . 

*'  B&con  fieri psit  fabuUi,  6hak«fpe&re  vortit  bverlort/ 
How  could  *'  the  attribution  of  plays  groT, 
a  llteniture  **  ?     The  "attribution"  midu  I. 
subject  of  a  number  of  works  sufficii 
(which  is  far  from  being  true)  a  li- 
sense  of  that  word.    As  for  the  word  "  m 
ner  sc^  I  doubt  that  it  is  English.    If  it 
lute  fact  that  Jansen  did  fashion  the  p 
why  go  out  of  the  way  to  say  thftt  it  >s  v 
such  an  artist  did  do  so  ?  Mo\' 
traits  enough  to  prove  that  th 
speare  suggested  (1)  Genius,  {"j)  i. 
and  gentle  blood  ?     How  anyone 
ideiis,  fancy,  and  philosophy  C'S  *^ 
j^peare  from  the  mnguage,  I 
had  always  thought  that  tht  :^j  -..i^. 

merged  in  the  language,  that  ?  jujuimm 

was  quite  hidden,  like  the  ^^iL-..^,     .  aaUiTt,  froBB 
our  weak  mortal  sigbt.     A  proof  of  tliii  is  the 


B«»  an.  OCT.  31, 71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


lonie  dullness  of  any  pamphnise  of  the  hne  poA- 
'    '    i^eiire.    As  Mr.  Ward  huB  refused 
conviction  on  this  point  until  he 
iiiiiim-    iri^   nature   (rin   ambiguous    expreatiion), 
kiTgunicnt,  I  fe<in  will  be  lost  tipoo  Him.     On  the 
jt.    I   n  ,,   ti,.*  ^\^Q  **many"  will  prefer  **the 
■  y  of  Scblegel"   (!),   atid    the 
t  T'nlcridge,"  who  ma.y  well  cry 
ads.     I  observed  Bevcnd 
I  ,  IS  iu  Mr.  Wabd^s  paper, 

«eatence  '*A  poetic  soul  vibrates  Ian- 
^,  .  ,  .  touch."    I  was  not  aware  that  in 
vibrate  was  a  transitive  verb.      Poor 
^       t  with  in  six  words,  and  then  we  Imve 
liologicai  expreusion  the  "  birth  i^sue  of  this 
;e  act,"^    A  logiwd  mind  would  be  incHued 
inAt€   hirih   and   acl,      T\Tiat   "vibrtvtorj^ 
»nd  *'  the  sublijne  sioger  to  the  aaivcraal 
I  know  not. 
ler  is  nothing  if  not  oonstnic- 
Vfeature  to  adviiic  Mr.  Ward  to 
Aristotle's  treati^  on  poetry  in  the  original, 
Ibcre  he  will  see  a  good  conception  of  Homer 
Homer's  constructive  and  dramatic  |>owcrs 
his  chief  beauty.   With  the  buld  materioJs 
w  Btoriee  of  adventure  and  war,  he  has  pro- 
two  splendid  tragedies,  in  which  the  plot  ia 
and  the  episodes  managed,  wito  Ibe 
it  judgment.     What  does  this  gontleman 
[pan   by  "  He  tlflshea  a  3CX)   year  oM   tale ''  I 
lately  the  non-Bible  element  in  Milton  far  ex- 
dn  the  Bible  element. 

Whrit  does  Mr.  Ward  moan  by  "vibrate  in 

<  the  harmony  of  the  gpbere"?    What  ia 

nee  between  a  prophet  and  the  suspicious 

'*  a  ^*ati dilator.^'     1  fear  Byri:)n  conveys  to  us 

of  the  mttsic  of  the  Devil  thnn  the  muaic  of 

Finally,  I  would  note  the  tautology  involved  in 

for  fver  after  with  an  dtnial  glory." 

I  perhaps,  be  mainUiiued  that  much  leiirn- 

,^  ^, ...  miike  Mr.  Carlyle  nmd,  but  surdy  hiii 

imitatom  are  oot  subject  to  the  same  caiiee. 

Bx«(cr  €(»t]fiise,  Ozfotil* 

**  BiuTisH    AMD     Continental     Titles     of 
Honor  K''  (5»*  S.  iL  23,95,  105,)— C.  S,  X.  iind 
Misv    ['K\ru_K  fail,  I  think,  to  see   my   point. 
\ij    r.ntrfjhi.n  is  simply  this^  that  **  political  (or 
nobility  "  ia  the  only  nobility  known  to 
iintnon   Jmw  of  Engknd.     I  speak  under 
■^  '    \  e  aivrays  undenftood  that  it  is 
i<^  of  the   heraldic   theory  of 
'  '  ""  art?  equal,  i.r.  "j^ecra." 
it  theory,  any  aniiiger  is 
...    .      ..rliivment.     But  the  kw  of 

^■8  that  the  fnimgrr  is  not  the  peer  of 
Therefore  I  conclude  that  our  law  does 
the  heraldic  theory  of  "nobility  of 


blood.'*  I  may  clench  the  argument  by  remarking 
that  Mjss  Pkacocic  ia  misiiiken  in  supposing  that 
it  is  neccHt<ar>'  to  be  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Ijords  to  be  entitled  to  trial  by  that  House  in  a 
case  of  felony.  Scotch  and  Irish  non-Tepre«enta- 
tive  peers,  feumlepoci^,  peers  un^b  r  >-  n  possess 
this  privilege.     Again,  it  is  vim  mt   to 

observe,  tliat  if  a  peeress  by  m ^,   :use  her 

huBbatJii  and  innrry  a  commoner,  she  loses  also  all 
priviliL.;  I'T  r*t  vrr i.'o  'Co.  JAtLj  16  b).  But  if  a 
ail-  a  baron,  she  continues  a 

dun  ys  Blackstone,  quoting  this 

paijwage  of  Cukv'j*,  '*  all  the  DobUity  are  parAs^  and 
therefore  it  is  no  degradation."  I  admit  that  the 
pfissage  cited  by  C.  S.  K.  and  Miss  Peacock  from 
the  Sirond  liiMitntts  is  diflicult  of  interpretation  ; 
but  I  refuse  to  «dmit  even  Lord  Coke  as  an 
authority  .ag^iinst  him.selfj  and  in  contradiction  to 
elementary  principles  of  law.  The  law  of  England 
no  more  recognixes  the  nobility  of  a  "  gentleman 
in  bbod"  than  it  recognizes  the  title  of  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Wejstminster,  or  (to  take  C.  B.  K.'s 
ilhistration)  than  the  modem  French  law  recog- 
nizes the  nobility  of  the  old  vohkssc.  C.  S.  k. 
may,  if  he  pleases,  say  that,  for  all  that,  the 
**  gentleman  in  blood  "  possci^ses  ^*  real  nobility/* 
I  nave  no  wish  to  dispute  such  a  statement.  I 
would  oulyoWn'e  that  a  "nobility"  carrying  with 
it  no  h^lil  privileges,  and,  indeed,  carefully  ignored 
by  the  law,  sceuw  to  nie  to  be  imaginative  rather 
than  "  real,'*  and,  at  tiny  rate,  to  bt  of  very  little 
practical  importance.  Middle  Teuflar. 

Bradford, 

Bealk  :  Baillik  :  Bai.iol  :  BArLLEiTL  (5*  S. 
ii.  186.) — Mr.  Braj^r  is,  in  my  opinion,  incorrect 
in  bis  theory  attributing  the  origin  of  the  Norman 
name  Bajio'l,  or  Bsdteul — a  town  in  Norm.andy — 
to  Baal.  The  origin  would  appear  to  me  to  be 
Balliuuij  the  r.,iitin  equivalent  in  early  English  of 
Bailey,  or  Baily,  meaning  the  bailey  or  ballium  of 
a  castle,  and  from  whence  we  get  our  term  "bailiff," 
as  applied  to  the  officer  who  formerly  kept  watch 
and  ward  over  castle  gates  and  approaches,  a  por- 
tion of  which  WH^  teimed  either  the  ballium  or 
bailey ;  hence  Old  Bailey  in  London,  situate  in  the 
old  London  wall,  and  evidently  a  postern  gate  in 
that  wall,  with  its  ballium  and  watch-tower ;  or 
the  badey  street  at  Castle  Acre,  in  Norfolk,  or  at 
Cardiff,  in  connexion  with  the  old  walls  of  the 
Cfistles  at  these  places.  That  the  Nonnan  name 
of  "  De  Buliol "  and  the  early  English  name  of 
"  Le  Baily  "  were  synonymous,  is  proved  by  refer* 
ence  to  the  hii^torieal  MSS.  recently  published  by 
the  H.  M>^>^  r,ii,nrjirs.,  in  which,  under  the  head 
of  Balli'  there  appeara,  that  in  an  obli- 

gation oif  ,  [It,  **PttiJlK'n  de  Bttlliol,"  rector 

of  th^  Church  of  Mitfor  liumberland. 

In  a  further  grunt  to  1  J  lege,  circa  1283, 

one   of  the  witnesses  to  the  deed  of  (pft  wai 


mak 


MMk 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5'8.  n.  0ct.«,T4 


i 


"  Stephen  de  Biiilly,"  risctor  of  tkt  Church  of  Mit- 
ford. 

Again,  in  a  third  document,  dated  Tuesday 
before  the  feast  of  St.  Mar  gar  d  the  Virgiii,  a.d. 
1283,  the  above  uiun  m  described  tis  Stephen  de 
Eure>  ftcior  of  tht  Chvrch  of  Miffm-d, 

I  may  mention  that  the  family  of  BaiUieSj  of 
Jerriawood,  ctiLim  their  descent  from  the  Baliol*, 
although  thiit  descent  has  never  been  fully  eatiib- 
liahed. 

It  may  likewise  be  mentioned  that  the  Buliob 
were  lordu,  for  a  short  time,  of  the  Honour  and 
Castle  of  Mitford,  in  Northumberlimd, 

In  the.^e  hifltoricnl  M8S.  (Balliol  College)  a 
query  arises,  whether  John  do  Baliol,  who  even- 
tually miirried  Devorgilda,  daughter  of  Mnri^aret 
le  Boot,  and  Alan,  Lord  of  Galloway,  hi\dprtHomltj 
been  married,  ioasmuch  aa  an  expression  in  one  of 
these  MSB.  would  lejid  to  this  conclusion,  and 
which  1  recommend  accordingly  to  the  genealogists 
of  to-day,  thus  ;  In  a  small  parchment  deed  in 
Latin,  whereby  Stephen  de  Euer  (or  De  Baliol 
elsewhere  in  tliese  records),  rector  of  the  Church 
of  Mitford,  binds  himself  to  the  Scholars  of  BjiIHoI 
Colle^,  and  to  ensure  payment  under  thia  obUga- 
tion,  and  olfens  the  aecurity  of  Sir  Hugh  Kuer  (or 
Eure,  Eu,  Ew,  or  Buliol,  under  idl  of  which  alifj^ci 
this  Hugh  elsewhere  appears  ia  the  Ballinl  College 
records),  **  his  brother  by  his  father  s  side.'* 

If  my  conjecture  is  correct,  a  good  deal  of  mys- 
tery as  to  the  family  of  John  the  founder,  with 
bis  wife  Devorgilda,  of  **  Balliol  "  or  **  Lu  Bailly  '* 
College,  ttkiy  be  cle^tred  up.         Ja8.  E.  Hcott. 

The  Imperial  CoKSTANTiniAir  Oimen  of  St, 
Georqk  (S"*  S.  ii.  200.)— As  there  app^aus  to  be 
some  confusion  on  tht.s  subject,  perhaps  some  of 
the  readei^  of  *'N.  &  Q/'  may  be  able  to  furnish 
an  accurate  list  of  th«'  various  works  treating  of  it. 
By  **  the  Inte  Prince  Comnenus  Palfeologus,**  is 
Prince  Pala^ologus  (so-called),  who  died  ktely  at 
Turin,  meant  ?  S. 

Chancels  Placed  WEfirwARo  (5«*  S.  ii  288.) 
— A  curious  question  arose  in  India  many  yenrs 
ago  about  the  jil.ncing  of  chancels,  t,  e.  on  Dr* 
Middleton^  the  first  bishop,  being  appointed.  It 
was  thin,  that  if  the  chancel  were  placeil  to  the 
ea^t,  it  did  not  face  Jenisalem,  but  the  reverse. 
It  was^  I  believe,  solved  by  tlie  f?ttpf  osition,  that 
the  orienLation  of  the  clKtncel  did  not  rpfer  to 
JerusrtleiD,  but  to  sometliing  else,  but  I  for^ret 
Mhat.  The  chancels,  therefore,  in  our  Indian 
churches  weix?  then  built,  as  they  have  been  since, 
facing  the  east.  '  CiviLis, 

GfiORaB  IV.  {^*^  S.  il  267.)— In  a  westero  city 
in  which  I  was  born  during  the  Regency,  it  wiis 
currently  believeil  that  a  landowner  of  the  neiftb- 
bourhood  was  the  king's  son,  the  mother  being  a 
inarrwd  woimm.     Of  course  there  were  details  of 


the  liaison  which  it  is  not  desinibje  to  reproiluodj 
DOW.  A  peerage  given  to  that  l.indownet  9a\y 
setjuent  to  the  death  of  George  IV.  did  but  OOO' 
firm  the  long  previously  current  story.  When, 
nearly  forty  ycarts  since,  I  lived  in  the  Gity^  it  wna 
believed  by  the  commomdty  that  an  eminent 
brewer  of  London  Wiis  a  sou  of  George  IV.  I] 
each  of  the  two  cases,  personal  likeness  was  hrli 
to  confirm  the  popular  story*  C  W.  E. 

Ever  Inquisitivk  was  probably  ven 
informed  '*that  it  was  a  mistake  to  maji 
George  IV.  died  without  illegitimat4?  chiidrfu.''J 
I  personally  knew  two  reputed  sons  by  ditfereTiil 
mothers,  one  a  pious  colonel  in  the  Army,  and  thtl 
other  a  midshipman,  or  perhaps  clerk,  in 
Boyal  Navy.  One  is  dead;  the  othrr  may 
alive.  For  obvious  reasons,  I  cannot  publi«lll 
names.  J.  C  H^ 

Home. 

Seals  in-  Two  Parts  (5*^  S.  ii.  a08.)— Th«l 
language  of  the  charter  is  certainly  very  obscuril 
(and  apparently  is  not  transcribed  quite  accurately) f| 
but  probably  the  meaning  may  be  as  your  ror- 
resiKJndent  suggests,  "  that  there  were  ( ^ 
the  one  larger  than  the  other."    The  <  * 
Privy  Seals  used  by  the  Crown  may,  pi*rJr»p%  f-^ 
referred  to  as  **  aimdar  instances."  T.  J,  A 

CttAP-BooK  Literature  (4**  8.  iv.  215.)— II 
Mr.  Kinoslrv  still  cnre^  (<•  ^*^>-^  -i   rutiv  nf  7%ii 
ATemjand  Dinrtififj  Etji'  n/in] 

(Stirliog,  printed  for  the  i  ,  i  willj 

gladly  lend  him  one,  juat  obtained,  on  receipt  offtj 
note  to  that  effect.  J.  MAKrEL. 

K^wciiHtld-upon-Tyne. 

"There  is  ko  (rtJTUHK)  rAXo/*  iK-   ^^*'' 
2R5.)— The  line* are  from  Byron's  M 

sc.  i.  '  l\l..,    ..    i. 

**Thi8  world  I  DBEV,"  &c,  {6^  B,  ft.  30a> 
Unless  my  memoiy  plavs  me  fab 
Mr.  Preslet  inquire:^  about  are  b  '  iim 

Bailey^  and  I  think  from  his  FaUi^.       it   A.  S. 

Breadsall,  Derby. 

"  Avon  :  a  Poem  in  Three  Part^,* 
(5*^  S.  ii.  329.)^ By  the  Rev.  .Trhri 
Bohn's  edition  of  Lowndes's  Sh 

t  .    . 

"Tkrriclla*'  (5**  S.  ii.  326}  'Ma  a  LnorW 

turne<i  into  an  exact  8p^ --^   i/  ,..--.    i   - 

plated  that  its  Poles  and 

to  the  Pides  and  Eijuatot  ui  ..,,.     — .        , 

Ihrfionm^t,  MoRTiMtrn  CoLusrs. 

Kuowl  liiM,  Berks. 

Who  wrot«  **TnE  BrTTBnrr.T'*  Bali<'T(5^ 

8.  ii*  327.)  -It  may  interest  Z.  Z.  to  know  that 
have  the  best  living  authority  for  believing  thai 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


iUustmtionn  to  this  little  work  were  by  Mul- 
if.  li  it  not  proLobk  tkit  Wiiliiuii  Gtitlwui, 
tttlreadj^'tt  nlly  tit  tliiti  perioil,  wrote  the  tt?xt^  us 
DO  limi  written  tbut  tjow-very-»ci*rce  biogrivpby 
The  LookiuQ  dim,  i*>ndon»  1805?  F,  C».  S. 
tUer  ffipbea  on  Uiia  ffubject  irilt  appear  next  week,] 

fWNEMOKJC  Caulk DABJ»  (5*^  S,  L  passivi ;  ii. 

Time  b*lKj  mf  lonl  &  wnHet  at  bit  b«ck 
"*'bcrfiii  he  put«  atms  for  oblirion, 

grot  six«d  monster  of  ingr&titadet. 

^      iMif*pi  lire  good  deeds  pwt,  wbich  arc  do  vour'd 
^t  M  thoY  are  iciade,  fortrat  aa  toon 

y  not  "  N.  &  Q."  bo  likened  to  this  wallet, 

according   to  Ulyasea,  Time  htitb  at  bi» 

/     Upwnnis  of  a  score  of  years  ago,  wben  I 

k  contributor  to  the  Fmi  Series,  I  took  some 

ith  a  Mental  Almanac,  as  old  a^  Venemble 

hich  I  expliuned  and  nnxiitied  to  embrace 

cnicjt,  all  years,  all  centuries,  and  all  varieties 

Old  ivnd  New  Styles  ;  and  now,  in  1874,  af^er 

" '  a  bundrt'd  volumes  of  "  N.  &  Q."  bave  been 

ibJi^bed,   I  bave  encountered   by  accident    the 

en  by  y  i- nt  Cakl  Dean  to 

that  von  Almanac  of  all  its 

uref ,  in  -     .  ;  i  m  n  i  m.i:  a  wort  bless  diput 

of  bifl      VI  .      lie  would  divide  by  4  all 

figures  oi  li  ii,tu%  add  tbe  result  to  the 

d  divide  the  whole  by  seven  !     I  did  tbe 

Ipon  thf  tvv  hut  fi/fvrcs  of  the  date  only, 

ferenee  hem<^  tbut  whi»rciiH  not  one  person 

Mnieand  woubi  or  com  Id  perfonn  those  pro- 

trpon  four  iigures  witbout   writing  tfiem 

>rcely  one  in  a  thousand  would  bave  any 

slty  in  doing  «o  u[n>u  ft'O  fibres.     Next, 

of  g^oinjLjf  direct  to  the  month  required,  be 

lOt   g*t  to   any   month  without   first   bavlng 

rurwp  in  Junuary.  Lastly,  be  maket*  no  provision 

'iturieSj  or  change  of  atyk,  except 

d    preference  for  the   eighteenth 

'  '1  add  1,  leaving  all  tbe 

selves. 
M.  1.  ,»  lUiit,  if  Carl  Dean  bad 
1  the  Almanac  of  Venerable  Be^ie, 
..,    [lUt  bi«  own  bald  and  imperfect 
|aU«txi|ii  in   competition  witb   it  ;    and   yet  it  is 
hiuM  e«juiJjv    .liili'ult  to   reconcile   tbe  simUar 
I  tbe-ie  two  lines  :— 
1  imd  Vulcuttne'a  day, 
k^JiXi  q{  FcUuuy,  a&d  of  MaFcb»  and  tbe  Gunpowder 
dny.*' 

A.  E.  B. 
Oti^mtcy. 

iw^  — I t\ .*.._.  f^f  (,,j,  „ij  cO'rretBondent. 

Hvil)  bo  found  in  *'  N*  ii,  Q.*' 
:.ld 

.-.►lotixo  (4^  a  ii.  4;  5»^  B,  II  1!>3.)-Rti.b- 
turucJ  writepH  tell  iM  llmt  '*iiMei?3!ing  wan  a  mortal 
tUfpi  oven  froni  tbe  fimt  iium  tuitil  it  was  taken  olf 


by  tbe  i^pecial  fiupplication  of  Jacob.  From  wbence, 
ad  a  thankful  ucknowled^mcat,  this  salutation  firat 
begiin,  and  was  after  continued  by  the  expi'esBion 
of  Tobini  Cha iim,  or  vita  bona^  by  standers  by, 
UDon  all  occasions  of  sneezing  "  (see  Buxtorf,  Lex. 
Uialtt).  Aristotle  mentiona  tbe  omen^  **  why 
sneezing  from  noon  to  midnight  was  good,  but 
from  night  to  noon  unlucky."  And  the  ancients, 
says  St.  Austin,  *'  were  wont  to  go  to  bed  again  if 
they  sneezed  while  they  put  on  their  shoe,"  Eos», 
in  his  Arcana  Microncitmi^  says  : — 

'*  Prometheui  was  the  firft  that  wi^ht  well  to  tbe 
lueezeTj  wben  the  man,  which  be  had  made  of  cluy,  fell 
into  a  tii  of  «t«smuUfctioM  upon  the  approach  of  itiai 
celestial  £Lre  which  he  Hole  from  the  «un.  This  gave 
original  to  that  costome  among  the  Geutiles  in  saluting 
the  Bneeser.  They  ueed  al»o  to  worship  the  bead  in 
gtcruutation,  ai  being  a  divine  part  and  seat  of  tbe  aemet 
and  cogitation." 

A  writer  in  the  Gtnt.  Mag,  (ApriJ,  1777)  informs 
U8  that  "  the  year  750  is  commonly  reckoned  the 
era  of  the  custom  of  saying  *  God  bless  you '  to  one 
who  happens  to  sneexe.  It  is  said  th:it,  in  tbe 
time  of  the  Pontificate  of  St.  Gregory  tbe  Great, 
the  air  was  filled  witb  such  a  deleterious  iniluence 
that  they  who  sneezed  immediately  expired." 
Pliny  inferred  that  to  sneeze  to  the  right  was 
considered  fortunate  ;  to  tbe  left,  and  near  a  burial 
place,  the  reverse.  Creech^  i^a  bis  translation  of 
the  eighteenth  I dy Ilium  of  Theocritus,  mentioni 
the  custom  r— 

''  O  bappy  brideeroom  !  Thee  a  lucky  oieexs 
To  Sparta  welcomed.'* 

Again,  in  another  Idyl  bum  : — 

"Tbe  Lovet  tneezed  on  Stutchid." 
It  is  said  that  when  the  King  of  ^lesopoiamia 
sneezed,  luud  acclamations  were  made  in  all  parts 
of  bis  dominions.  Tbe  Persians  looked  upon  tbe 
custom  as  being  a  very  bippy  one ;  and  tbe 
Siamese  wished  long  life  to  all  sneezers.  There 
waSf  says  Langley,  in  his  Abridgment  of  Polydore 
Vergil — 

"  A  plague  whereby  many  as  they  nceied  dyed  iodeynly, 
wcrof  ifcgrew  into  a  ciwtome  that  they  that  were  present 
when  anv  man  i  ■  '  '  '^  tv  '  G<id  heipe  you/  A 
like  deadly  pla.-  in  vawrning,  wherfore 

metine  uaed  to  t  .  %rtth  the  eig^i  of  the 

croite:  botht  wUicU  cu^tuiucs  we  reteyne  ttyl  at  thla 
day." 

One  finds  a  little  relief  bo      '  in  a  good 

hearty  sneeze  :  as  an  old  writi  ,  **  two  or 

three  neses  be  bolwm '' ;  but  -^  mtc  so 

often  tnken  witb  such  violent  i  that 

they  find  it  nee»e^ary  to  "-»  •  r  n> 

do  it,  in  order  to  give  iwV 

A  writer  in  the  ^Wkh>^  -  ;  .   s  15 

his  readers  to  perform  tbe  act  in  a  veiy  unpoiite 
mxinner  :— 

**  Wben  run  would  sneete,  strait  turtle  yoursetf  into  your 
rieibour'R  face : 

As  for  nty  part,  wbtreln  to  tneeie^  I  luiow  no  fitter 
place; 


mmmmim 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[5^*  S,  IL  Oct.ffLlt^ 


It  if  an  ordcTj  frben  you  nieeze  good  men  uriU  pray  for 

jon; 
M&rle  him  that  doth  bo,  for  1  thlnke  he  10  jmir  friend 

moat  tme. 
And  tbiit  your  friend  may  ktiow  who  meczea,  and  may 

for  you  pray, 
Be  sure  you  not  forget  to  sneexe  ftill  in  his  face  alway. 
But  when  thou  hear'st  another  sneeze,  although  he  be 

thy  father, 
Say  not  God  bless  him,  hut  Choak  up,  or  some  such 

matt«r  rather/' 

Howd  Hays  {l€59),  "  He  thnt  liath  sneezed  thrice 
turn  him  out  of  the  hospital.'*  Bishop  Hall  alludes 
to  the  custom  when  Bpeiikini^  of  n  superstitioinj 
person,  "when  Lg  neeseth,  thinks  them  not  Mb 
friend  a  that  uncover  not/' 

W,  Winters,  F.E.H.S. 
Waltham  Abb«y. 

Pennit  ine  to  add  to  the  passages  quoted  the 
following  from  Herodotus  and  Aristophanes  : — 

"  Kot  ol  ravra  SteTro vrt  €7rT}K$€  7rTaip€iv  re 
Kal  P^i^at  fjLi(6vms  Tj  m  toj^cc." — Merod,  vi  107* 

**  «^>//i^^  y*  vfxtv  opvts  (rrrif  Trrapjutov  t  o/>i't£?a 
KakuTtJ* — Aristoph,  Av*  7'2(K 

Eimc^HD  Tew,  M.A. 

"Slekp>?  like  a  Top*^  (5"^  B.  ii.  2(m:),  220.)— It 
is,  I  believe,  of  John  Philpot  Ourran  that  the 
following  anecdote  is  told.  In  his  last  illness  be 
wjta  very  restless^  and  unable  to  sleep.  His  pby- 
dcian  gave  him  r  strong  sleeping;  draucfht,  and^ 
nfter  ho  hnd  tnken  it,  said  to  him,  *^  There,  Mt. 
Cnrran,  now  you  irill  sleep  like  a  top/' — **  Ah,-' 
said  Curran,  *'  I  know,  Just  as  usual,  keep  on  turning 
round  and  round.**  H.  A»  8t.  J.  M. 

In  analysing  popular  sayings  like  the  abo\^  we 
muet  not  be  so  raatter-of-fuet  aa  to  loftu  sight  of  the 
rough  huuiouT  wbitli  underlies  tbem.  In  *'To 
sleep  like  a  top,'*  **  Dormir  conime  im  mbot/' 
*'  Etrc  Bourd  comnie  un  pot,"  **  To  be  dead  as  a 
door-nail,"  **  Deaf  aa  a  post,*'  i&c,  the  principle  at 
work  l»^  I  contend,  a  voluntary  confusion  between 
absence  and  priiraUon.  A  logician  would  say  that 
»  negative  term  (or  idea;  h  considered  m  if  it  were 
privative.  Thus,  i\.  door- nail  is  Lifeless,  and  we 
tiilk  of  it  a«  if  it  were  dtnd,  that  ia,  as  if  it  had 
loiit  its  life  ;  a  post  cannot  hear,  and  we  ti)M^  of  it 
as  if  it  were  atHicted  with  deafness.  In  attempting 
to  reduco  these  expressions  to  common -.sense  we 
destroy  what  little  merit  they  have,  H.  K. 

*'  To  HE  WISE  AFTER  THE    EVENT'*  (5*^  S,  L  409, 

514  ;  ii.  218.)^ — How  eouminu  a  topic  this  was 
may  be  illustrated  hy  the  following  additions  to 
the  citations  by  Br.  C.  X.  Ramaoe  :— 

fy€\$€v  ^e  Tf  \fTj7rw9  tyvoi. 

Horn..  ///,  xrU.  32. 
avTttp  6  S€^afi€vo^,  ore  Srj  KaKop  €i\*,  cvoijtrc. 
flciiod,  Qp.  €i  dim,  v.  79. 

Ibid.'w.  20SL 


Soph.,  ^A%.«  r  V2T<>< 

/jtcyaAoe  fif  koy<n 
fi€yaka^  wkffya^  tuii*  vjrcpat*^ti># 

a7roTi<ran-€f, 
yifp(^  TO  4>'pov€iv  tSiSa^av, 

*'  Eveutuff  ttultomm  itte  riia^eler  eft** 

F&biuf,  Lir,,  rxiL  39.  | 

**  Scro  iapiunt  Phrtgef/* 

FettUB^  Cic.',  Fttm.,  vit,,  Ep.  HL^ 
Ed.  Marshall.  ^ 

Sandford  St,  Martin,  Oirford. 

This  proverb  may  be  traced  back  a  little  1 
than  to  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  eentnry.  Ua 
the  form  **  Post  mala  pnidentior,"  it  occurs  in  the- 
'*  Epitome  chilia^lutD  adagiorum  Emetiu  Roterdami.  id 
commndiorem  atudioaorum  usuni  per  UnxlriuTittm  Bir- 
landum  <;on»cripta.     Basilea;  Anno  mdxxviu." 

It  is  twice  cited  at  p.  55,  and  again  at  n.  5J)5. 
JoHXso^  Bailt. 
Fallion  Vicarage. 

The  Italian  form  is — 

"  Delia  sai:gcz£a  di  poi  eon  piene  le  fosa^/' 

H.  K. 

Is  A  Chakoe  or  Christian  Kamk  P^jestnit  f 
(5"»  S*  ii.  248,  295,)— In  accordance  with  r" 
promise,  I  send  vou  an  interesting  ciise  on  it' 
above  subject,  wliich  occurred  in  17<*7.  ii  i* 
given  in  Muskell's  Monnmaiia  liitualia^  I>i*s/f- 
tation,  p.  218  :— 

*^  I   happen  to  pOflflesB  fwrites  Maskell]  a  Cemfnoo 
Prayer  Book  (4to,,  1702).  interleaved,  and  filled  Trtih 
manuscript  not«s  and    ob*eriratu>n«  by   Di«ho|)   v,  tt: 
Kenrict.     He  givea  a  case,  Aince  U1G2,  very  mucfi  1  •  1 '^ 
pniivt  in   question '.  *  Conftrmntiou    mem.     On  -^'ir. .  i 
Dec.  21,  1707,  the  Ld.  Bp.  of  Lincoln  confirmed  a  ; 
Iwd  in  Hen*  VII.'*  Chapel^  who  itpon  that  cercnufti'v  ♦.*.> 
to  change  his  Christian  name;    and  acct^rdini^lr  Hj^ 
ppoiiior  who  preicnted  him,  delivered  to  tSi-    Ri'-r  « 
certificnte,  which  hi*  Lordihip  *igned.  to  in 
had  confirmed  eucli  a  person  by  ^uch  a  i: 
order  the  pnri^h  minister,  tlien  pretent,  t<< 
person  in  the  Pariali  Book  under  that  nanjr 
done  by  the  opinion,  undprh'imch  of  Sir  fidwu 
and  the  hko  opinion  "'  '      '       if  Justice  Hwt,  f 
on  the  authority  of  1  Ooke,  who  tftyi- 

the  Common  Law  of  L  ^        . 

Maskell  adds,  with  reference  to  the  opinion  of 
Lord  Coke,  quoted  by  mo  in  mj  previous  com- 
munication : — 

"I  am  bound  to  remaj-k,  that  in  tho  cam  gt««n  W 
Lord  Coke  (not  knowmg  the  circumstance^^,  we  ' 
argue  from  the  later  one  of  White  Kenn^tt    the    ! 
appeafi  to  have  exceeded    the    auti  ' 

ancient    Canon  Law  would   have  nil  jiivi 

law  permitted  a  name  which  bad  beeti 
to  te  changed,  only  if  it  was  improper  vi  •> 
'Attendant  Mcerdotee.  ne  lascira  nomina 
mtttant  parvulit ;  et  fii  contrariuni  fiat,  per  > 
epibCopoB  corrigatur/  But  to  change  ? 
J'ranciM  conld  only  have  ari*en  from  «oiiio 
ference  to  another  name;  and  fuch  alone  c»u^hi  utitr 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


355 


to  be  ullowed  u  m  Just  region  for  ciMtiii]^  aiide,  utterly 
mnd  for  ever,  «  first  nKme.  in  itself  good  Mid  proper, 
vrhicU  hftil  been  '  «iiiictlfied/  &«  Biihop  Keniiet  iAy«,  in 
the  adimniatratioQ  of  tho  B&cmntent  of  BaptUm." 

The  Bbbop  of  Lincoln,  in  1707,  was  Wuke, 
previously  Dean  of  Exeter,  and  subsequently 
Archbijihop  of  C{interbun\     E,  C  HARiKQToy. 

The  CIqm,  ExeUsr. 

Fletcher,  Bishop  of  Worcester  {6"*  S.  iL 

228.  2i>a>— llie  prejudice  felt  by  Queen  Elizabetli 

agaiiLfit  tho  B^cond  luiirriage  of  t  letcher,  Bishop  of 

Woitester,  was  not  unreasonjible,  seeing  that;  a 

^i^comi     marriage    was    regarded    as    "bigamy." 

"    ',    in    bis  Htmains   Concerning  Britain^ 

of  the  nificriage  of  Edward  IV.  to  the 

vvju  '      "^  '  ;:  Gray,  describes  the  opposition 

of  i  r  to  the  matcb^  on  the  ground 

.Ki       (Ijady    Gray's)    "widowhood 

lent  to  restrain  him,  for  that  it  wan 

..,^..  .,..| — ^^cment  to  a  king  to  be  dishonoured 

Willi  bigamy  m  liis  first  marriage.'*         E»  fl.  J. 

"Sbot  "  AS  A  Termination  (5**>  S.  ii.  149,  235.) 
— All  your  correspondents  aecm  to  think  the 
termimition  referred  to  is  not  "  shot "  but  "  hot,"  a 
corruption  o{  **  holt.'*  But  is  this  so  sure  I  Why 
is  the  ** » ■'  fdwAys  prcfient  t  t^  hereas,  when  the 
t^rmrnntfofi  *' holt  '  ap^jears,  the  *'8**  seldom  if 
tvcr  it.    Then,  ail  the  "holts"  are  in 

wo«-  ctf,  but  the  "shots'*  apply  to  liigh 

L  h<^ath V  Luuui.^,  chiefly  reuiarhablc  for  a  totid  absence 
fc©f   tr^'es.     In   one  instance   at  least  the  **  h  '*  is 


plncod  by  "  c  " — Aficot . 
the  nHtiie.^  of  some  [ 
1     root  —  1^1 
Scotora  *')» 


HJl  (J    S       J  J  UIj       .'TXtrHU\  rl" 

In    Devon&hii'c    some 

vo  at  present  a  ttrmina- 

spelt  as  *'  sheat  •'  or 

meed  by  the  common 

'   0.  0.  B. 


« '  the  Ki-Nuti  OP  England  ('i^^  S.  i. 

♦S*^  The  regal   crowns  of  England,  from 

Pe«rlj  Uuu's  to  the  present,  are  described  and  en- 
igtwred    in    BoutelT*    Hnaldri/^    Iliitoriml    (tnd 

Fopular.  J.  Woodward. 

**  ToK>oit.vrHiA     Hibkrmca"     OF     Gift  ALDUS 
(Cambreksis    (5">    S.   i.   389 ;    iL   54.)— In   Mr. 
\nnnal    Report,   for   1B73^    on    Fac- 
tonal  Manu-*icripts  of  Ireland,  photo- 
..  At  the  Ordtmnce  Survey  Office,  South- 
I  the  Thirty-Fifth  Annual  Report  of  tho 
ipr   ..f  the   rublic  Reoordu,   ^L'vrch, 
he  give*  a  portion  of  the 
IfT  ^      men  of  Du  Barry's  style, — 

1^4  T  >rd-tjby,  \m  power  of  language, 

am!  I  :— **i^ot  the  least  entertaining 

mmum^  thti  tiubjecU  of  interest  in  this  collection  is 
Uie  twelfth    century   MS,    of   tho    Topographia 


Hihcrnka  of  Gerald  du  Bj\rry,  preserved  in  the 
King's  Library  of  the  British  Museum. 

BiBLlOTIIECAR.   CHETnAM, 

Cloostottn  Familtt  (5*^  S,  u  208,  294  ;  ii.  57.} 
— The  CloRStoun  family  are  decidedly  of  8ootch 
origin.  The  pedigree  must  be  in  th^  Hendds* 
C>ffic€.  They  are  entitled  to  supporters.  Arms  : 
Or,  on  a  bend  ^ules  a  ram  pa,<^nnt  ;  on  a 
cAnton  ermine,  a  demi-savaj,^,  nude,  holding  a  club 
erect  in  the  dexter,  a  chain  in  the  sinister  hand. 
Crest  :  on  a  mount  vert,  an  eafrle  crowned,  rising. 
Motto  :  "  Turria  raihi  fortia  Deus.'*  W,  F. 

*<  Grkwe,^*  i.  r.  Greek  (6"^  S.  ii.  204,  259,  274.) 
— The  derivation  of  greyhound  ha«  puzzled  ety- 
mologistii.  According  to  the  older  and  the  younger 
Xenophon,  it  seeni^  this  species  of  dog  did  not 
exist  in  Greece.  The  greyhound  is  perhaps  of 
Celtic  origin. 

Robert  de  Brunne,  Chaucer^  R.  Fraunees,  Ed- 
mund de  Langley,  William  Brocus,  Sir  Chrii^topher 
Warde,  Baiue  Julyana  Berners,  Dr.  Caius,  and 
Stanihuist  in  Holinshcd,  write  grekound,  or  ^^et- 
hounds 

Calus,  in  his  book  Z>e  Canibus  Britannteii, 
Londini^  Anno  1570,  says  : — 

"  A  Gre  quoqua,  Grehunde  ftpud  nusti^s  iavenitnom«tt, 
qu/Kl  previpui  gradLU  Inter  canoe  sit,  ^  prim»  generoii- 
ttfctie.    Gre  ouim  &pud  nostro^  gradum  deaotat/ 

Sir  David  Lyndsay  .speaks  of  "  Doggis  in  the 
hyeat  gre."  Bellenden  write*  "  grew."  Harring* 
ton,  in  his  tran«lation  of  Orlando  Furioso;  GoldJng, 
in  hkOriW  published  in  1567  ;  and  others,  **grewnd,'* 

May  not  the  name  have  been  ori i;\nnl\y  grthtind^ 
and  meant  the  noble,  ^?rcat,  or  choice  hound  ? 

Dan«ey'e  learned  translation  of  the  Crregeticus 
of  the  younger  Xenophon  (publif^hed  by  Bohn, 
1831)  has  an  elaborate  note  on  this  subject.  Per* 
bans  some  of  the  contributors  to  *'  N.  &  Q."  are 
able  to  thn[^w  more  lijifht  upon  it,  and  nienlion 
early  documents  in  which  the  name  occurs  of  this 
beautifully  majestic,  gentle,  pn"Acefu!,  surpassingly 
awift,  and  courageous  creature.  By  Canutes 
Laws  of  the  Forest  no  mean  person  was  allowed  to 
keep  greyhounds.  Perhnps  some  ancient  copy  of 
them  exists  somewhere.         Geo  roe  R.  Jesse, 

Mr.  Richardson's  Can  w  Grains  for  th'  n  " '  ud 
does  not  show  that  iti*  origin  was  Grt  •  ro 

than  graioj  Itah  for  l>adger,  would  3h(»>v  mc  vnvjck 
to  be  of  Greek  origin,  unless  we  could  make  out 
that  everythinfj  grnj  was  Greek,  As  Hosiod 
(Wedgwood,  ^»/ A  rofv)  says,  *Hhe  j^ratai  were  80 
called  from  being  born  with  gray  hair," — a  most 
delectable  ftict.  Or  let  us  amuse  ourselves  with 
canuM  canii,  greyhound.  It  is  Minsheu*s  wiiHlom 
that  greihouud  is  Grecian  hound,  because  ftrrt 
used  among&t  them  (Richairdson's  IHctiotiary), 
Pennant  is  more  laughable  than  anybody  about 
this,  for  he  say  a  CanviU  W\.  liftXxtA^  ^mA^^  ^^kj^^ 


356 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^i 


degree  (y(  n  gentlemtLD,  keep  a  grdiound^  quod  pre- 
dpui  gradtls  sit  inter  canes.  This*  fool  in  ji  was  never 
surpassed  even  by  etymolorriet*.  Skinner  Btigtjetits 
fofof  Grtrcus  as  the  orr^iQ  of  i^ey,  and  Wehster 
^vea  ypalo^y  aged,  ^^rey,  ua  if  it  had  to  do  with  it. 
But  when  we  have  the  German  grav,  Dnt-«^h 
fjraauw,  Danii^h  graa^  French  f/rw,  jind  Englisli 
gray,  grrij^  I  fancy  we  c^m  easily  see  where  grew 
conies  froin^  without  a  trudge  to  Athens  to  interro- 
gate Minerva,  Richardson  rouiavks  that  in  «cime 
old  writers  greyhound  is  contracted  into  tfriwrnL 

H»7fjiir. 

Gryw,  pronounce^i  «jrewe,  tind  =Oreek,  ie  com- 
mon  enoii*i:h  in  old  Welsh  book'^.  In  Dr,  Bavied'3 
IMionary  (i.  c.  Jo.  Davies,  SS.,  ThJ>.),  *"'*  txicf 
**  Gryw/'  i  find  it  exphiincd  **  lingua  Gneco,"  with 
this  iUustrfition,  *^Gwir  fu  'ngrryw  uc  Ebryw  gael, 
L,  G."  ;  and  from  the  index  of  authors  at  the  end 
I  find  L.  G.  are  the  initials  of  "  Lowya^  alinA 
Llywelyn  Qlyn  Cothi,  1450."  In  the  Latin- Welsh 
part  of  the  LHdionary.  sub  vocii "  Gnwus,"  I  End  "A 
Derthyn  ir  groeg,  a  bertbyn  ir  grijw,'*  The  date 
of  this  dictionary  is  torn  out  from  the  title-page, 
but  1632  is  given  at  the  end  of  the  Preface, 

T,  a  U. 

*'  BlTTLT  HERE  FOR  U13  ENVY  "  (t5**'  S.  ll  7,  132, 

217.) — I  think  the  pasaafje  cjin  be  explained  in  the 
foUowio}^  way.  The  chief  point  in  qiieiition  liet^^ 
accordin^T  to  my  estimation,  in  the  word^i  "his  envy." 
r"  Envy  ■'  ineana  more  than  **  vexation  at  another's 
good  "  or  "  malice."  It  implies  also  **  anger/*  In 
the  latter  sense  it  occurs  in  The  Fa^e  Qiuene^ 
canto  iv.  s.  44  : — 

**  Wlotli  Cambfill  seeing  much  the  rame  enryJc. 
And  ran  at  him  witli  aU  \n§  inight  and  nmine.'' 

'Envyde**  means   here,   wa«  angry,    indignant, 
rhereiore  we  must  read  the  passage  in  «|ueation 
tbus  : — 

"  The  .Almi«hty  Imth  not  built 
Here  forAi*  envy." 

He  has  not  built  this  place  in  order  to  become 
angrj"^  hitmdf^  not  for  hui  vexation,  for  his  anger, 
but  for  ours  ;  therefore,  be  sure,  *^he  will  not  drive 
us  hence/'  but  will  make  us  remain  hero  ever- 
hLstin^ly.  Theodor  Marx. 

Ingenhcim,  Germany. 

If  I  have  not  been  anticip«kted|  may  I  remark 
'that  Jabez  seems  bent  on  discovering  an  abstmse 
pneaning  instead  of  a  plain  one  for  this  mssage  1 
[^o  wonder  that  Todd  does  not  notice?  any  difficulty 
i-in  it.  The  only  obscurities  which  exist  in  it  are 
J^und  in  the  expression  **  built  "and  the  sentence 
J  •'here  for  his  envy."  With  regtird  to  the  former 
I  of  these,  it  ahotdd  be  noticed  that  the  pot't  hsi;*  nil 
[along  in  his  mind's  eye  the  classical  treatment  of 
the  fall  of  Vulcan  from  Heaven  while  describing 
the  fiiil  of  Satan.    See  /,  Par.  Loit,  r.  45,  and 


csptHiisdly  738-7*")!.    The  idea  of  building  it  ! 
ascribed  to  Vulcan  : — 

^*  t\oT  ought  iLVftiled  Itim  nom 

To  hnvc  built  in  he«v'ii  hijeh  tower*. •* 
**  but  wi«  bca']lunir  gQtii 
With  bis  iiidustriotu  crew  to  build  iii  bell  " 

In  2.5n»  Milton,  tnmsferring  this  imag^^r 
makes  him  nientidly  contrast  bis  own  1 
the  prototype  of  the  heathen  Vulcan), 
735,  especially  732  : — 

"  His  hand  wn*  known 
In  heav'n  by  many  a  towor'd  simcture  ^  -  '^  " 

— with  God'«  building,  the  notion  of  bii  i ' 

from  bis  own  oeeuj>ation  the  leading  ot  n  xr«i  i  Mt 

in  Satan*s  (Vulcan's)  mind.     Therefore   "Iwih" 

either  means  "caused  to  build*'*'       .-.i....J  m**! 

to  build},  or  else  is  equivalent  to 

chief  occupation,  His  interference  V  i 

of  things,  is  not  here,"  i\«.  He  works  in  hi«fM|, 

and   hi^  nothing  to   do  with   this  place.     Whh 

regard  to  "here  for  his  envy,"  the  *e!i 

if  envy  be  understood  to  mean  (as  t> 

*'  jealousy  '* ;  and  this  is  a  sentiment  which 

chantcteristiciUy  would  ascribe  to  Go<L    Tl^' 

sentence  means,  the  Almighty  hath  not 

to  build  down  here  so  as  to  leave  tnr 

His  being  in  the  future 

as  to  tling  me  out  even 

Almighty  has  reared  n<> 

in  heaven)  which  His  jt 

to  my  production?^,  and  Jtam  l..  in^    .^  iMi  »  .i 

me  from  here.    The  point  lies  in  the  word  "  */ 

wnd  the  character  of  jei'l  oj^v  viliir-h  Satan  v- 

to  fix  on  God.     Will  J  ve  me  if  I 

his  dilht'ulty  aoTiiewhat  "  [he  proce«]ii' 

a  cuttlc-flsh  I — it  loses  itself  in  the  abundance  d 

its  own  ink.  Prlaoicts. 

Richardson  Famtlt  (4**»  tS.  x.  3d.  p*u^m ;  h^ 
S,  i.  613;  ii.  58.)— Rotssb  will  find  that   th  i 
was  an  luieient  family  of  this  eurname  i^n  Wiu 
shire,  if  he  refers  to  Add  M8„  Brit.  Mas.,  4^^\ 
p.  33S,  where  is  the  follow im?  t-ntry  :** 

**  Jobn    '^  '  "  \   '.f.-il*. 

county  of 

flon  of  Ji  lui  :...:; ...  

if  Warwick,  Gent.,  ilird  ^errtember  'I^k 
Elennr.  eldest  dauKbter  of  Willinm  }h 
in  Eagknd,  Gent.,  by  whom  he  I 

This  is  a  book  of  extriKts  !  ' 

Entries.     I  am  not  snre  th  i 
vcrhadm  ei  literatim^  nor  hfl^ 

I  beg  to  refer  Korssg  t 
which  he  will  find  that  the 
of  Rich  Hill,  CO.  Armit'i' 
Sfible,  three  leopards'  1. 
I  need  not  repeat  the  , 
the  descent   from   the 
Worcestershire.  Tlio  ai  l 
Office,  May  2,  1647,  as  those  of  OpUun  gaiter 


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Mnjor)  Edwurd  Ricliartif*on,  who  ncquired 
be  Rich  Hill  estiite  by  hh  nvirriiige  with  Anne, 
ixh*  child  !ind  bf^rr  of  Francb  SHch<*vert>ll,  Ejr*|. 
ThfScfii  'v  ofRidiardson,  oneof  whom, 

rilliaui    I  tt  E^'Jm  b«MM*ttie  owner  of  tho 

kngher  eitait,  co,  Tjmne^  by  hia  marriAge  with 
lary,  elder  duu^^hter  and  co-heir  of  the  Rev. 
liil  '  f*  Mae  of  Rosadry,  co.  Tyrone  (not  as 
it-tjtj  «Sfc.,  ^^tArrhilmM  Richardson, 
Mr  daughter  of  Sir  James  Erskine  '*), 
[for  their  nrms  *^  azure  on  a  fesa  argent^  an 
^■dls  furled,  In  chief,  and  in  ba^e  a 
head  couped  or" — m  slightly  con- 
It.^  „...  4.  . lua*     See  *'  Bimbnry,"  Bart* 

Y,  S.  M. 

,  Fullisr's  "  PrsnAn-SiGiiT  of  Palbstixe  "  (5**^ 
L  203,  271,  3n»,  4in,)^Hank-Ridtr»,^Chfi\> 
i  ft  happy  use  of  the  phnise  us  the  trans- 
imtiTopi'i  iTTTTfiiv  ("  urgers  of  horses'')  in 
lllunU  i\\  3ai)— 

♦*  The  rtml'todif  CftdiucAns  much  itic«ii&'d.' * 

(Knight's  edition^  toI  L  p.  112). 
Ti">  ^>n;^u..+  ^i^.<  fiiyg  used  earlier  th&D  Dekker's 
nnslation  of    the  passage   is 

/'  vol.  i.  p.  90.     Derby,  the 

r  of  debate,  ijives  the  phrase  an  unexpected 

nljao  receivea  rlkistTntion  from  Chapman^ 
Stts  renders  the  line  (Iliad^  xi.  675) — 
Xaol  fSc  7T€pLTp€(Tav  dypoLiZrai : 
*•  All  the  doty}  bore*  with  tomir  fled." 

(Vol  i,  p.  247,  fld.  Knight,) 
leriviile— 
**  The  tQor^  the/  quaked,  and  all  their  vpirit  broke/* 

lerbj* — 

'•  Terror  ieised  th«  ruttie  crowd.  ** 

(line  772,) 

Knight's  editor,  Dr.  W.  0.  Taylor,  has  a  comment 
b  the  line  in  question  that  is  qiiite  in  keeping 
pth  the  wonK     It  is  tis  follows:— "Dorp,  *nn-< 
*l '  (!),    JJor^  or  *lorft  ( !)»  in  an  old  Saxon  name 
\  butU^  whose  '  drony  flight '  ia  proverbially 
bicm  (jf  stupidity."  (!)         J.  E.  Bajley, 

Watkr-Marks  (5»^  S.  i.  aS;   11.  94,  140.)— 
/v.,...,'.,;.,    T»,,.vi..,|,;,{^y^  yf^^  published   in 

Samuel  Leigh  Sotheby, 

.   uieA  imperial  <|nnrto,  the 

whirh  is  devoted  entirely  to  the  subject  of 

f,*H  Intuiiv.     The  book  is  scarce,  as  the 

'd  of  but  250  copies,  of  which 

^  nine  guineais  each.     Copies 

illy  procured  at  from  tive 

i>  to  binding,  iStc.     Per- 

]    procure  a   copy  from   Mr. 

IU8TOX  DE  BjSRNEVAL. 
KPhi3ad«l|ihta. 


"BoNNtJC  Duxdek"  (5«J>  a  ii,  5,  154.)— The 
inscription  j^'iven  below,  which  is  copied  from  a 
^tra5f  tipon  the  fioufh  side  of  the  altar  of  the 
'  I  Church  of  8.  Droslan,  Deer,  Aberdeen- 

o.Nsibly  tbjit  referred  toby  Ma.  Efj  warps. 
IJLiiiJc^  the  inscription,  the  brass  bears  a  carving 
of  the  Gmhani  arms,  nUo  the  initials  I.  C  :  V.  D, : — 
"  -f  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  John  Graham  of 
Ciaverhouse,  ViBcount  Dundee,  who  died  in  the 
arms  of  Victory^  and  wh»>se  bnttle-cry  wa.^ — ^Klng 
James  and  the  Church  of  Scotland,'  -4- " 

I  believe  it  is  quite  true  that  the  st/fr-^^^^' 
remain*  of  Viscount  Dundee  were  clande  • 
removed  fronj  the  family  burial  vault  iit  i!^  ,. 
Athol,  and  depo.sitcd  within  the  Einsnopil  ChuTLih 
at  Old  Deer.  1  may  add  that,  both  internally  and 
externally,  this  is  one  of  the  handsomest  places  of 
worship,  for  its  sisie,  in  the  North  of  Scotland. 

B. 

*^  Lk  pROcks  DKS  Trcjis  Rois  '*  (5»h  S,  I  468  ; 
ii.  J)5.) — OcTTis  askft  for  the  name  of  the  author 
of  this  work.  It  was  written  by  "  BimfThnidnr, 
Attache  a  a  Chevalier  Zeno,  autrefois  A 1  r 

lie  Venise  en  France."     Such  is  the  11  n 

I  find  in  the  Didionnaire  dfJt  Onvraj/€Ji  Anouifvics 
.  .  .  par  .  .  .  Barbier  .  .  .  1806,  vol  ii.  p.  *^27, 
No.  5730.  It  may  be  that,  in  the  second  edition 
of  1824,  Barbier  gives  some  further  infonmition ; 
hut  I  cannot  refer  to  that,  for  a  very  simple 
reason,  I  haven't  got  it ;  and  the  third  edition^ 
which  I  have,  ^oes  as  far  as  L,  in  December^  18T3» 
and  has  stuck  there  ever  since. 

Olphar  Hambt* 

Pronunciation  (5*^  S.  ii.  2C7,  314.)"Idare  say 
Lord  Lyttelton  15  right  in  saying  that  '*  ttery  is 
no  doubt  indefensible  on  any  theory^;  but  suppose 
we  try  to  defend  it  on  facts.  Inasmuch  as  the 
High  Dutch  is  /eutr^  and  the  Low  Dutch  is  wr^ 
it  would  seem  thnt  the  very  tisual  spellinrr, /er,  in 
our  old  writers,  yielding  the  fi«^  of  Spenser  and 
Dn^den,  had  something  to  say  for  itself^  even 
though  the  Englisc,  or  *'  Anglo-Saxon,"  wjis  fir  or 
fyr,  V.HJ.L.iaf.V. 

PnivY  Cotrsfcit  Judgment  :  Liddrll  t*.  Wes- 
TKRTON  (r,^  S,  iL  128,  157,  175,  211,  238,  313.)— 
To  Middle  Templar's  objection  I  would  reply 
that  there  is  no  exact  pamllel  for  Privy  Council 
Judgments  ;  they  are  commonly  the  work  of  one 
or  two  lawyers,  and  four  or  live  "  laymen,'*  who 
know  as  little  of  law  as  the  averace  country 
magistrate.  The  nearest  pandlel  to  tbe  case  in 
point  is  where  a  judge  mi»directd  the  jury.  Does 
Mjddls  Templar  mean  to  tell  me  that  the  judge 
could  correct  his  misdirection,  after  a  verdict  had 
been  given  in  conformity  wit.h  such  misdirection, 
and  still  hold  to  the  verdict  il  I  think  he  would 
soon  find  the  verdict  ouashed  on  the  ground  of 
misdirection.     The  misoirection  in  tUla  <:;«*£*  ^^^  ^^ 


358 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


the  most  ftagmnt  description.  The  facta  were 
eiiaily  ascerUdnable,  and  the  asaeasora  were  bound 
to  know  the  facta,  or  to  admit  the  jprosse^t  ignorance 
of  their  professioa,  unless,  indited,  Middle  Tem- 
plar prefers  to  credit  them  Avith  vi  ilful  perversion 
of  truth*  B.  M,  PicKEiiijro, 

106,  Piccadilly. 

A  GnAND-DAUGIlTER  OP  EdWAUD  III.  (5*^  S.  11. 

188,  253.)— I  am  much  obliged  to  HEUMEXTRtJDE 
for  her  answer  to  my  query.  She  is,  as  usual, 
actmrate,  I  haye  carefully  searched  Miss  Strick- 
knd's  Livfs  of  the  Qnrcnx,  and  find  that  it  waa  not 
from  her  iiuthorlty  I  had  supposed  the  danpjhter  of 
Inf^elram  de  Coucy  and  Isjihelb  of  En^dand  to 
have  been  Barbaui,  wife  of  Count  Cilly,  and  I  have 
no  notes  by  which  I  can  trace  out  ray — probably 
inaccurate — authority  for  the  idea.  A,  S. 

Old  Enqravixos  (S***  S.  ii,  47,  135,  258.) — Lc 
8aty}-  tl  U  ViUft(fcou  is  bjPierr©  Maleuvre,  from  a 
painting  by  l)ietric3^  Maleuvre  was  a  French 
engraver,  bora  in  Paris  in  1740,  died  in  ISOL 
He  finjt  studied  under  Beauvarlet,  and  afterwards 
wont  to  London  and  placed  himself  under  Sir 
Robert  Stmn^e.  J.  Le  BoUTiLLtER. 

Ciocma&ti,  U.S. 

"  Down  with  the  Mito,"  &c.  (5»t>  S.  ii-  2H7, 333.) 
—Of  this  Jweobite  tnict  a  second  edition,  *'by  Sir 
H.  M,/'  ctvme  out  in  17 17,  and  was  immediately 
foOowed  by— 

"  The  Mug  Vindicated :  To  which  is  prufix'd,  An  Ac- 
count of  the  Rlae^  Progress,  and  Constitution  uf  llio»e 
Loyal  Societies  ;  b^ing  an  Anawcr  to  the  J*o|>uiar  Objec- 
tions of  the  Faction  ng&mstthtrRi  contftia'd  in  Sir  H.  M.'a 
Malicbuft  and  Scurrilous  Libel  addrePi'tl  to  the  Farlia- 
txicnt,  and  entitled  Doicn  ifiUi  the  Mug  ;  or,  Rmtonvjor 
Stipprasing  thi  Mmjhousu** 

**  King  George  for  ever  "  w/u*  the  ^luf^'house  cry, 
anil  the  coffee -ho  uses  where  the  Muggites  met 
were,  by  their  partisans,  called  l^Cunseries  of 
Loyalty  ;  the  Jacobites,  on  the  other  hand,  called 
them  Wliitjgish  Garrisons,  and  cried  *'  Hidi  Church 
an<l  Onnond  ;  no  Presbyterians  ;  no  Hanover  ; 
down  wuth  the  Mug/'  I  do  not  know  whether 
these  tracts  are  all  scarce.  W.  E.  A.  A.  is  wel- 
come to  the  use  of  my  copy,  if  he  wishes  it. 

Joseph  Rix,  M.D. 

St  Neot'a. 

"Touch  not  the  Cat  but  (or  bot)  the 
Glove  "  (rji>^  S.  ii.  146,  213.)— Mr,  Strattox  is 
quite  right  in  explaining  that  "but'*  or  "bot" 
means  without  in  Scotch,  "^wi  and  hai'*  the 
house  mean  within  and  without.  I  cannot  agree 
with  him,  however,  that  it  is  allow^able  to  fdter  the 
idd  motto  of  the  Clan  Chattan  to  "  unihoid  a 
glo/e/'  instead  of  *'bot  the  glove,"  the  original 
fording.  This  would  be  sacrSficing  too  much  in 
'order  to  make  the  motto  generally  understood.  To 
those  of^yoar  renders  who  are  fauiiliar  with  Scotch 


balbds,  the  use  of  the  word  but  in  the 
wiihoui  muat  be  "well  known.     In  Allan  Cu 
ham'B  well-known  verses,  beginnings 

•♦  Thoy  hMt  awom  by  thy  God/' 
these  lines  occur  : — 

"  Come  here  and  kneel  wi'  me, 
Tbe  morn  is  fu'  o'  the  preeonoe  o*  myOod* 
And  I  CBUna  pr»y  but  thee." 

Some  families  of  the  name  of  Unddsny  have  for 
th-oir  iDofcto  "Love  but  dread  ''=^Love  without  f»r. 

S.  T.  P. 

"Sconce"  (5«^  S.  ii.  206,  20O,)-Thw  b  t 

peculiar  use  of  thia  word  in  The  >  '  '  / 

Act  V.  sc,  3.    SavU  says  to  Young  I 

'^  If  you  consider  mo  in  little^  I 
Am,  with  your  worghip's  reverence,  sir,  a  rwcal ; 
One  that,  upon  the  next  anger  of  your  brother* 
Muit  raise  a  tconct  by  the  highway,  and  sell  ■witeheiL** 

Dyce,  in  a  note,  says  that  "sconce  '*  b^^*^  *"^'"* 
to  mean  some  sort  of  iiall  on  which  tbe  ' 

were  to  be  displayed.     Mr*  Tew  will  

"  to  sconce  "  =  "  to  fin©  ■*  is  explained  by  Ri chard- 
son,  ifivoct^  Middle  Tsmplar. 

Bradford. 

It  seems  I  must  explain  that  "  Necessarium,^  b 
monastic  phrascolog}%  is  tbe  carderobe  or  jokcfi 
which,  at  Csiuterbury,  was  playfully  called  tb» 
"Third  Dormitory,"  from  the  habit  which  tb« 
monks  had  of  doxing  in  its  recesses.  One  of  llic 
duties  of  the  rirca,  or  watchman,  waa  to  go  rvtur.d 
at  night,  lantern  in  hand,  to  examine  rJl  \h. 
"sedilin,^'  and  gently  wake  up  any  ! 
mifsfht  find  there.  I  do  not  see  what  > 
can  possibly  be  clearer  or  more  satisfactory  tti-it 
that  of  the  ti^rm  "  sconce  "  from  "  ab^ccmaa,'  or 
"  sconsa,"  a  lantern.  In  a  question  of  dcriTaJtloii, 
it  is  quite  immaterial  whether  the  term  bt 
etymologically  applicable  in  all  ita  later  uses. 

J    T   F 

Hatfield  Hall,  Durham. 

"Tam  o'  Shantkr'*  akd  ••Soutkr  %ToH^r* 
(5^  8.  ii.  32S.)— I  believe  I  am  correct  in  ^tatjn^ 
that   the  originals   of  Thorn's  figures  uf  Tam  i» 
Shanter  and  Souter  Johnny  are  those  d* 
the  interior  of  Bums'a  monument  on  11 
the  Boon,  Ayrshire.  Charles  Kur.r.i.^, 

Gmmpmn  Lodge,  Forest  Hill. 

[Thete  itatuea  were  exhibited  in  fie^ent  Street 
LoodoiL] 

ZiNZAS  (5^  S.  ii.  9,  20,  53,  115,  216.)— IcjuoH 
the  following  from  Tht  JournuU  of  the  Homh  of 
Commom,  vol.  vii.,  p.  387  : — 

"  Tuesdny,  the  2lBt  of  November  [1654] Ths 

humble  petition  of  Mary.  Countess  of  Steriitis.  Kiid  Join 
Blunt,  her  husband,  ^ir  Robert  Croke,  knight*  muA 
Dame  Sa.<iiui,  hia  wife*,  Henry  Alexander,  al|a«  ZiMJui^ 
and  Jacoba,  his  wife;  Sackrile  Glemhnm  and  F^ttf 
Glemham,  the  said  Couotesa,  Dame    Sutaii^   Jsc^U, 


^^ 


t  It  Oct,  SI,  711 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


359 


Edward  Peacx>ck. 


It,  and  Peter  QlcmhMD,  bein;  grandchildren  of 
ter  Vanlore  the  elder^  de«e«M^ ;  juid  jour  peti- 
,  the  eaJd  Countem,  D&cue  Susan,  luid  Jacoba. 
ilio  the  right  beirs  of  the  mid  Sir  Peter,  und  of 
M»ry  Powoli,  her  daujarbtcp,  lute  the  mf*i  of  Sir 
d  PowetU  deceased ;  that  i«  to  snjt  daughters  and 

K  Peter  V»&lore  the  younger,  dccenacd,  only 
CKE  AND  THE  QUAKERS  (5*^  S.  il.  266,) 

8  letter  has  frequently  been  printed.  A  cor- 
opy  of  it  will  be  foand  in  Thiatlethwayte*s 
in  of  BUhop  Baihursiy  and  again  in  tbe 
ian  Br  former  foT  1854,  p,  691.  Your  cor- 
ident's  copy  is  printed  from  n  MS.  copy  twice 
ice  removed  from  the  orija:ina]^  and  cootains 
1  errors.  The  Unitarian  Locke  would  never 
rritten  "  the  resurrection  of  the  God  of  love  ^'; 
iginal  letter  baa  it  *^  Lord  of  love." 

Ctril* 

UCRAPHICAL. — What  part  of  the  wor4d  will 
lee  the  dawn  of  {(.  g.)  the  25th  December, 
(5«*  S,  il  30S,)— For  us  Englishmen,  who 
Greenwich  our  zero  of  longitude,  the  division 
ys  occura  at  the  180th  dcc:ree  east  and  west 
that  point,  80  that  those  who  live  in  eastern 
to  ISO**,  as,  for  example.,  our  newly- 
aa  fellow^citizens,  ore  nearly  twelve 
txUfj.d  Kti  us  in  time^  and  may  be  sjiid  to  be 
•St  to  see  the  dawn  of  any  given  day. 
me  who  live  in  western  longitude  close  to 
ire,  of  course,  nearly  twelve  hours  behind  na, 
early  twenty-four  beliind  the  Fijians  in  time; 
m  any  Saturdflv,  the  dweller  in  179"  GJ>'  59" 
might  eti^iiy  kick  or  be  kicked,  if  not  into 
aiddle^  at  all  events  into  the  begLnning,  of 
reek  in  eastern  longitude. 
i,  E.  A.  sihould  ever  *ail  eastward  ivcross  long!- 
16^>^  he  will  hear  the  captmn  of  hia  ship 
a  day  to  be  added  ;  if  weatwajd^  to  be  sub- 
dfc  in  order  to  bring  the  reckoning  right. 

HBdy  **  (4^  S.  xii\  ;  5">  S.  i.  pasnm  t  ii.  17.) 
»  writer  of  one  of  the  ^*  Whirligig  Papere  '*  in 
London  Skttck-Book  for  April,    1874,  p,   25, 
hat  the  word  "  bloody,^'  in  the  sense  in  which 
ilgur  use  it,  is  not  derived  from  blood  at  all, 
rom   a  word   in   the  old  language   of   the 
.1   T^nfnns— the  Celtic^  Cymric,  or  Gaelic. 
Illoiik^  or  Bloif/hd,  which  signifies  a 
,,   lent,  a  bit,  or  the  adverb  **  rather,^ 
John  Churchill  Sikes. 
I  HouM,  Anerley. 


^Ufctdattfouf* 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 
The  Gomel  according  to  St  Lnke,  vt  An^lo-Saxcn 
and  Northumbrian  Versions,  Synoj}fimll\f  Ar- 
ranged.    With  Collations,   exhibiting   all    the 
ReadingB   of  ail  the   MBS.     Edited    for    the 
8vndies  of  the  University  Press,  by  the  Her. 
Walter  W.  Skeat,  M.A.,  late  Fellow  of  Christ^s 
College,  and  Author  of  a  ilavso-Gothic  Giossary. 
(Cambridge,  Deighton,  BeU  &  Co.) 
The  above  fore-leaf  happily  makes  clear  to  all 
the  book  and  what  is  therein*     The  name  of  Mr. 
Skcat  is  of  itself  enough  to  give  proof  tb&t  the 
work  is   throughout  well  done^      Sixteen  years 
have  gone  by  since  Mr.  Hnrdwick  finished  the  late 
Mr.  Kemble's  work  on  the  first  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
Gospels^that  of  St.  Matthew.     Three  years  ago 
Mr.  Skeut  gave  to  those  who  had  long  looked  for 
it  the  Gospel  of  St.  Mark  ;  and  now,  thanks  to 
his  careful  oversight,  we  have  a  third  book,  with 
the  Gospel    of  St.  Luke  in  the  tongues  as  they 
were  once  fspoken  hj  Anglo-Saxon  and  Northum- 
brian folk.     "  Careful ''  is  the  word,  for  greater 
care  could  not  be  shown  in  such  a  work ;  and 
"  oversight  "  is  also  the  fitting  word,  for  it  never 
seems  to  have  been  lacking  from  one  end  of  the 
work  to  the  other.     One  may  follow  Mr.  Skeat 
through  this  book  tiU  Anglo-Saxon  and  Northum- 
brian become,  as  it  were,  each  a  mother-tongue. 

An  Introduction  to  the  Studij  of  Earhj  EngUsfi 
Hutory.  By  John  Pym  Yeatman.  (Longmans 
&  Co.) 
A  fiTNfiurjiR  book — singular  for  the  ill,  rude, 
almost  frantic  temper  in  which  it  is  written.  To 
sweep  the  Saxons,  their  laws  and  literature,  out  of 
existence,  and  to  make  us,  our  kw^,  and  pretty 
well  everything  eke,  as  being  originally  Britijshy 
is  a  task  any  one  may  attempt ;  h\ii  why  he  should 
rage  over  it,  and  roar  down  Protestantism,  and 
kick  his  opponents  on  the  shins,  is  beyond  con- 
jecture. As  a  sample  of  Mr.  Yeatman's  gentler 
style,  we  give  the  following :— "  Dr.  Whi taker  is  an 
author  of  whom  it  is  not  rash  to  say  that  neither 
Stubbfl  nor  Freeman,  Creasy  nor  Maine,  ever 
read  a  line.'*  In  a  subsequent  page,  Mr.  Yeat- 
mun  refers  to  **  the  great  works  of  Mr.  Freeman 
himself,  though  the  author  has  not  read  a  line  of 
them."  The  above  is  a  Rpecimen  of  the  slipshod 
style  of  the  book.  Mr.  Yeutnian  does  not  want 
ability  to  stat-e  a  case,  but  lie  sadly  lacks  temper, 
and  !in  argument  set  forth  in  a  whirlwind  ot 
pa.ssion  is  no  argument  at  all. 

Tht  Aiifny  hut  of  thi  Boundheads  and  Cavaliers, 
Containing  the  Narnes  of  the  Officers  in  Ou 
RoifiA  and  rarlianuniary  Awms  of  1640. 
Edited  by  Edward  Peacock,  F,S.A.  (Chatto  & 
Windua.) 
This  is  a  second  ©ditionj  revised,  corrected,  and 
enlarged,  of  a  work  whioh  is  **  to  serve  ^'  (as  the 


French  say)  to witcdg'WBBWblet iou  of  a  liisLory 
of  the  live«  of  thoefe^raow^re  engaged  on  both 
aides  during  tfie  great  civil  war,  Mr.  Pencock 
remsvrks, — **  It  is  doubtful  wliether  nny  of  those 
«iigriged  on  either  side  iu  that  uiemorable  strife 
ever  understood  what  is  now  lueant  by  liberty,"' 
This  will  seem  si  bold  saying  to  pftrtl^^jtiis,  but  not 
to  thoj^e  who  hjivo  gone  into  the  subject  with  the 
impartiality  of  a  jud^o.  We  iire  bound  to  Miy  a 
word  ia  recognition  and  pruisc  of  the  Index, 
**  The  Index/'  says  Mr,  Peacock^  **  is  mainly  the 
work  of  my  daughters^  Florence  and  Mftl»el"  All 
honour  to  these  ladiea,  whose  co-operation  has 
made  this 'volume  perfect.  When  we  add  that 
there  are  above  two  thou^^iind  five  hundred  entries 
in  thia  Index,  we  are  yure  that  all  who  know  the 
preeioua  value  of  such  help  to  ready  acce«s  to  the 
text  will  lift  their  caps  in  homo^^e  to  Mr.  Peacock's 
daughters,  and  re-echo  our  words,  ^*  All  honour  I" 

Wm  bavo  to  Minounce  a  forthcoming  reprint  of  the 
WtitjniHMitr  Drotlay^  1671,  16i2»  As  represeiitaliire  of 
ilie  lyrics  of  the  first  twelte  yenrs  after  the  Rc5t«jrAtioTi» 
it-  -  l!ed.  AfiwofitB  -  '  tire  too'*  free'*; 
li  'id,  th€  mirtli  m  u^'b    *' fitst  aiid 

fvs  kitt  of  a  sort  to  nt  A  huudrcU  ivnd 

•«T€iity-v*ii4;  iong»  are  here  7>re«t^rvtU.  A  lartje  proportion 
mre  uf  an  amatory  cSavs.  To  this  colloction  aii  lotrtjduc- 
tioa  htti  been  prefix*?(J  on  the  literature  of  tbt  Drotltrifs, 
nnd  nn  Appendix  girci  such  notes  ns  arc  dceaied  useful 
in  illuftmtion  of  the  text^  regariiing  authorship  and 
variety  of  rendiiigs  The  impresaiou  will  be  limited  to 
450  oopie«,  fcap.  t^vo.,  10^.  G«^»;  fifty  eopiea.  lur^o  paper, 
demy  Svo.,  \%s,  Subicribcrs*  names  should  be  sent  to 
Robert  Roberts,  BoBton,  LincolEshire. 

L«ian  HcKT,  YsitSGa  on.— To  my  forthcoming  edition 
of  Letifk  Uunt'f  liemuin^,  consisting  of  hi»iiiedited  corre- 
spoiidenct',  liteitiry  frugUJtntjs  in  proso  and  verse,  and  big 
hithert>  uncollected  writing*,  I  propose  to  prefix  a  col- 
lection of  Corauicmlatory  Vtrses.  Will  retidens  of  "  X.  & 
Q,,**  who  know  of  such  poutical  tribute*,  published  in 
England  and  America,  kindly  point  them  fmt  to  tmCj  and 
when  in  Transfttlantic  sources  difficult  of  acceft?,  send 
me  copies  of  tbeni  ?  S,  K  Totiv&shk&i>  Maykju 

Richniondy  Suri-«y, 

The  Bklfast  Bibls,  lTO-2  or  1751.— G.  B.  -irritcs: 
"The  discovery  of  n  Belfast  printed  Bible  having  md'?cii. 
on  the  title-page,  if  cax>able  of  proof,  would  be  a  very 
interesting  ffMCt,  as  the  earliest  Bible  printed  in  Ireland 
<in  Dublin)  h  said  to  be  dotted  17U.  I  have  seen  this 
iiJlogcd  Mi»(xii.  Bible,  and  a  general  view  of  it  certainly 
seems  to  conflmi  the  aocun»cy  of  the  stutement;  but 
cther«  sav  thut  the  last  i  but  one  was  nriginally  an  l^ 
making  the  edition  mdccli*  tlie  faint  or  lovrer  part  of 
the  L  bikTiug  been  worn  away  by  use," 


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Bkit.  Mtr8.~"The  King  (Georirv  IV.)  liad  e»«i>  4 
design  of  Bcllirtr  *'"''  iii..«.  *  .  ..ii->.  r.  .1  Kv  iI...  u.i- t^f 
but  thia  he  w.>^  i  :;t; 

and  the  royal  (.  ?< 

acandalous  a  traniacLion  It  \iii-,  thortljjr,  prt.*ic(iled 
to  the  British  Museum/' — See  the  GrtniU  Mfm9ig% 
vol,  i.  p*  t>5. 

8,  0-  M.— Swift,  pcrhap«,  wrote  his  Conner  but  ir% 
epigram  with  the  followini^  pas«vg«  froco  the  tnaa^ 
of  Sumnna  in  his  memory: — 
**  Midut7i.  TJhi  volnntaa  prompta  estj  ri  nihil  est  Ofim 

jSw.  Qui  1  '    Olio  [ 

i/i.  Si    1  ria  n-^uiinti,  nemo  Tim  fjACtel  tfti* 

Kit  iui,  Xutanna^  Act  L^  ee,  S  U599)l 

MjL  H.  T.  TiLtKT  Bays,  that  by  the  kind  n^Uii^nct  rf 
Mft,  EtLAcoiriJE  he  is  enabled  to  ifivc  the  proper  JtT^n 
of  the  Stoneteigh  b«ll  ^  it  should  bo  thud  : — 

"MICHAKtK  .  TB  ,  rVLSAKTi:  .  WYltClIKWrTJimA.M  .1  < 
FETKKTK  .  liftHOHE  .  TV  .  LIBRA/* 

S.  T. — "  n  pftfle  FraU';aiR  comme  une  rMsHc*  Ik* 
pagnole/'  explains  it«elf  in  this  varied  form  of  tibii 
popular  sxytng  :— "  II  parle  Frai}9MA  comme  une  B^M^ 
Espupiolc/' 

W,  ir  ("Charles  Lamb")  is  referred  to  pp.  210  t»l 
2S0  of  the  present  volume  of  •*  N.  k  Q."  for  mntmen  U 
his  queries 

H.  B.  C.  should  ftrst  wntc  to  Dr.  Cummin^  U^knpirU 
that  gentleman's  speech  Kvas  jipoperly  rep*t  ud 

n.  J.   ht\s  only  to  rrnd  ntt entirely 
JuHuf  Caf-ar  to  sntlsfy  himself  oil  the  i> 

S.  II.  should  address  her  i[uery  to  tho  aaltior  of  thi 
paper  in  which  the  Une>s  first  appeared. 

J.  i^UorBKimoN  (Perth  Oonibftt«iilt}.^A<  m<m  m 
possible. 

\\  8.  €AK£Y.--¥our  note  sludl  be  forwvdcd  to  1^ 
proper  quarter* 

Db,  Drake  and  Rkv*  Dr,  Holdkk.— Next  wsei, 

Y*.  S.  M«  now  corrects  Bennet  (p.  31 G)  to  Benn^K, 

AOTtcg. 

EdttoriBl  Communications  should  be  ftddf«aBed  to  **  Tkit 
Editor  "— Advertisements  and  Bu^ness  Letieri  to  *'T1^ 
l*uhli*her  "—at  the  Office,  SO,  Wellington  Street,  Strang 
Loitdon,  W.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  vtm- 
municattons  which,  for  any  ren^rtn.  we  do  notprinl ;  ^ 
to  this  rule  wt  can  make  no  > 

To  all  communication!  sb  ^ed  the  name  sti4 

address  of  the  sender*  not  hl^^.^^  .,,  .jt  publication*  M 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


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LOKDOW,  SATURnA  V,  NOV E USSR  T,  urt. 


OONTENTR  — N«  45. 


t 


ipoffdar  Plot,  301— BMhf  in  the  Mld^lla  Agei, 
LtlMt*,  3t$3— S«ckftiTti  OB  Sod  they —^rres,  &c. 
hU  Tr«iut«toi«^  354 —  '*  Anecdote  Uve*"^ 
Ukroftm  Lawi  *1  the  Qm  «  OwtitTy  Aifo— "  Boberaiac  "— 
Idn«a  Vlae^Tbe  YeirlWa  mi  r«io«wick— "  The  FroJtlesa 
Boqulfy/'  adti— DwtVAtioni  of  Names  ^  Lftrfe  Oek— Btil- 
looalng— Waj|to4  «  dreat  "ToetoUt"  Po«i— KpitApb— An 
'       BltuuS<:f  of  Thackeray,  SOtJ. 

[USRIES^^-^rigiii  of  the  Boy&l  Btrase  of  StuArt— Marriages 
in  t«ni-"Tb«CT7of  Nature*"  Aa— HfraWic— TbeTbamei  : 
WL  Faol'ior  Liwiiibetb™'*  School  Dialognei  for  Boya"— Wont- 
worth  :  Gawoytie,  367— Klrby*s  "  Wonfloiful  and  Eccentric 
MoMam "— Bridf(ford  Family— Reginald,  Qtrant  de  VaUe* 
iorta — **Onr  aifecitoiis  and  pauioa»/'  .tc  — a«vent«enth' 
Century  Toketia— StandArd  Wcightft  and  MeJUurcA  of  Scot- 
hatd — **Gale"~The  Towell  Family  of  Radnorvhire — Camit 
Von  der  Mufc— "  Oakld^t}  For^t  Code  "— iUog  gtephen— 
Vtameh,  PTonundaUon— Worrh  in  an  Old  MS.,  SJ^— Pro- 
tiitami    '*Tlie  BatUc  of  tlie  Nile*'— Eastrntnilcf,  S60, 

BSPUES :— MedisTft]  ftnd  Modern  Latia  and  Greek  V«n«. 
M9— Sir  Chiiitcpber  Waadeeforde,  Lord  C^tlcooiser.  370— 
The  Arms  of  air  Pnncia  Drake,  S71  — '*The  Butt«rf1r'a 
B«IU*'  S7£— "Like  to  the  daiaaak  roae  yoa  «e«/'  &c.,  37:i— 
**  AbuJlylenienli''— Artlmr  Maimvrariiig^  374— Percy  Fotio 
MSL  SaUadi— The  Early  fSn«^li»h  Contr»ctioit  for  Jeiiii— The 
B&CMtlita  of  MAple  Durham— A  "  Wasblogioo  Medal/'  37.'*— 
TbftNftme  Jenifer— Str  WiJllam  Davenaot~Dr.  Dee'«  Maffic 
lOtftJr- '^  Chriitianity  as  Old  lu  the  tTeaUon/'  37«-''  Field  ^ 
— XArdOoUiiifnirood— ^'Kake  a  bridge  of  ffold" — RLr  Henry 
Cb«cre»  the  SlAliMry^-Parii  Pri»oi)«,  377  —  *"  Antient ''  — 
IfUioo'i  "I-'AUefro  — "The  Grim  Feature."  3Ri— Eidinton 
BsCTi««  — •*W^)peii*d  Widow"— "The  a*r»ge"  — akating 
-"  ,87». 


Koiet  on  IBookt,  to. 


OUKPOWBER  PLOT. 

Tbuisdar  last  vras  tlio  SODth  anuiversary  of  tbe 

LaUeiDpt  called  sometimes  the  '*  Gunpowder,"  8ome- 

TCiiiies  the  "Popish/'  and  often  the  *Meauit3*  Plot." 

Tbe  main  object  of  the  consptnicy  was  to  destroy 

Janiea  L  by  the  ^ame  process  as  that  by  which  his 

|ifit]ier|  Dora  ley,  had  been  got  rid  of.     Not  only 

James,  indeed,  but  bis  family,  friends,  ministers, 

'4^  tind,  in  them,  Kn^4und,  sis  far  as  it 

1  to  the  rcli^on  of  Protustiintism. 

The    story   nced«  not   to  be   re-told.      Its   old 

itelluig^  rec-TLlh  to  mind  how  the  chief  actor  in  it, 

f  t  he  grave  old  Vork  proctor, 

:<  in  St.  Clenient'fl  Baoes, 

r  iiom  his  bouse  in  the  Horae- 

h,  and  how  the  plot  was  checked 

<  'f  time,"  and  the  chief  aj^ents, 

ins,  through  ext:cs-4  of  reli;Lrious 

ivi.  f<  rl   and  -^rntenced  to  die. 

].  and  they  sug- 

d}u'j:  coiiiraent. 

I  is  how  1 1  I .     We 

ipnrnplil  lOxncUr 

m    oj    ikt    hUe 

i>an(.     A  copy  of 

'^  dt^HcribedJn  a 

.htc  '*  with  the  amis 


of  Catesby,  Percy,  Gnint,  Rokwood  (sk),  Bigby,  and 
Tresham,  illutiiinated  in  gold  and  colours  within 
elegant  borders,  painted  on  the  sides  of  cover/* 
The  publijjber  Wiis  "  Jeffrey  C!horlton,  at  his  shop  at 
the  great  north  door  of  St  Paurs,  160C.'' 

This  pamphlet  hits  been  recently  reprinted^  with 
modernized  spelling,  in  the  MiHcdhmca  Antiqua 
Anglieana  (Beeves  &  Turner).  The  author  says 
of  the  accused  conspirators  tlmt  **  in  the  time  of 
their  impriKonment,  they  rather  feasted  with  their 
sins  than  fasted  with  sorrow  for  them  ;  were  richly 
appurellefl^  fared  deliciouBly,  and  took  tobac-co  out 
of  measure,  with  a  seeming  carelessness  of  their 
crime."  In  the  Star  Chamber,  before  they  went 
into  Westminster  Hall  (they  were  brought  by  boat 
from  the  Tower),  several  of  them  suioked,  one  or 
two  were  **  doj^ged  " ;  others  **  forcing  a  stem  look, 
iis  if  they  would  fear  (frighten)  death  with  a  frown." 
Shortly  after  conviction,  Bigby,  the  elder  Winter, 
Grunt,  and  Bates,  were  drawn  on  hur^lles  from  the 
Tower  to  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  where  they  were 
hanged,  drawn^  and  quartered.  On  the  following 
day,— but  here  the  contemporary  writer  may  best 
describe  the  scene.  The  description  is  only  slightly 
sibridged : — 

"  The  next  day,  Imng  Priday,  were  drawn  from  the 
Tower  to  the  Old  Falucfi  id  YVealtniniter»  over  against 
the  Parliaificnthouso,  Thoirias  Winter,  the  younger 
brother,  RookiNood.  Key€?«,  and  Pawket  the  miner,  justly 
called,  the  DotiI  of  tbe  Vault* 

"Now  Wintcrt  frrst  being  brought  to  the  scaiTold, 
made  little  speech,  but  with  a  very  pale  and  dead  colour 
went  up  tbe  ladder,  and,  after  &  awing  or  two  with  a 
hftlter^  to  the  quartcring-block  wa«  dbawn,  and  there 
rjaickly  dispatched. 

"Nex:t  him  cunie  Hookwoodj,  who  made  a  speech  of 
some  longer  time,  confessing^  hie  offence  to  God,  to  the 
King,  to  the  wbole  state.  But  last  of  all,  to  mar  all  tbe 
f>otage  with  owe  fiUby  weed,  to  mar  this  good  prayer 
with  an  ill  conclusion,  be  prayed  God  to  make  tbe  King 
a  Gatbolic,  he  went  ud  the  ladder,  and,  hanging;  till  be 
was  altnost  dead,  was  drawn  to  the  block,  where  he  gave 
his  last  gasp. 

*'  Afttr  him  came  Kcyes,  who,  n'ing  little  B,'>eeob,  with 
small  or  no  show  of  repentance,  went  stoutly  up  tbe 
bidder ;  where,  not  staying  tbe  bangman'ii  turn,  h© 
turned  hit/jself  off  with  fucIj  a  leap,  tbat  ^\  ' '  '  "  ng 
he  brake  the  bailer,  Imt,  nfter  bis  tall,  way  \  a 

to  the  block,  nnd  there  was  quickly  divi  .  ftir 

parts, 

**  Last  of  ail  came  the  (rreat  Devil  of  all,  Fkwket,  alias 
Johnson,  who  sbotifM  '  -  -  it  fire  to  tbe  nowder.  Hil 
Ixidy  being  wenk  t^- i  t  id  sickness^  be  was  scarce 

able  to  go  up  the  In  b  tnuch  ado,  by  the  help 

of  the  hangman,  \v<  cK 

with  tbe  fall :  who  i  "t^ 

serming  to  be  sorrv  .^'*  »«*-  -..<-t.-v,  ...,« .  ^  .,  -.-.i  .1  ti>r- 
givene-s  of  the  Kui^  antt  the  state  lor  bis  bloody  intenip 
and  with  hij»  eros^*  tind  hih  cftiemonics,  made  his  end 
upon  tbe  gallows  and  tbe  block,  to  tbe  great  joy  of  the 
beholders,  thai  tbe  land  wns  ended  of  so  wicked  a  villany ." 

The  writer,  nnttcipntin;^'  expresaiona  of  horror^ 
aska  :  "How  can  thei^e  people  be  thought  to  hav6 
been  cruelly  used  that  could  intend  and  practice 
80  horrible  a  vilh\iny  a^i  IUm  dLt^V\k  qS^  ^^q  '^^aav^^ia^^. 


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[5*aii.iroT.1 


King,  Queen,  and  Prince,  so  noble  peers ^  and  the 
ruin  of  30  flouriahing  a  kiogdora.'*  Each  one  who 
suffered  thought  himself  justified,  inasmuch  as  the 
deed  was  done  lor  what  he  thought  to  be  religious 
purposes. 

In  reference  to  this  plot,  we  have  the  following 
from  a  learned  correspondent  :^ 

"Go'powiiKE  Plot.— Ift  there  any  iu?tance  of  such  a 
plot  being  succeflflful  ?    In  Murray *a  Hixndhook  of  France 

i third  edition,  p.  455)^  in  de»cribin^  the  Fi&Uce  of  the 
'opes  »(  Avignon,  the  writer  Bftya :  *  A  atoDe  BtaircMe 
letds  to  what  wu  once  tho  gre^t  hall  of  the  p&ltoe, 
oUled  8»lle  Brul6e,  over  since  Pierre  de  Lurfe,  P«p«l 
legate  la  1441,  cauied  it  to  be  blown  up,^  with  the  gucstfl 
amembled  in  it,  consisting  of  tbo  nobles  of  Avignon,  in 
revenge  for  the  murder  of  bis  nephew,  a  young  litjertine, 
who  had  outraged  them  by  hia  cxceaaes/ 

*'  But  ft  very  different  account  is  giyen  in  the  Ptrcu 
(U  Vllistoiri  d'Amtjnonf  publiahed  at  AvignoOp  1S62, 
vol.  ii.  p.  7:  '  Lo  7  Mai,  1J13,  un  violent  incendie  con- 
tuma  la  grande  Mile  d'audience  du  Palaia*  lea  cuiaines  et 
leB  oliicea.  On  Tappflllait  la  aatle  briil6e,  et  Poti  faiaait 
un  conte  a  ce  sujet.  On  diaait  que  Benoit  XIII.  (Fierro 
de  Lune,  Antipape)  y  avajt  invito  k  diner  les  chefa  dea 
principalea  famiUea  d'Arignon,  et  que>  pendant  qu'ili 
^taient  i  t»ble^  i\  s'etait  retird  sous  un  protexti?,  et  avait 
fait  aauter  lea  convives.  Aucun  hifltorien  tie  pjirtc  dun 
fait  pareil,  et  il  aer&it  aaaez  important  pour  qu  on  ue  I'etit 
pu  V*sf^  aous  alienee/ 

•*  The  difference  between  thcae  two  stories  seems  to 
indicate  that  both  rest  merely  on  tradition.  I  have  not 
been  able  to  find  any  mention  of  either  f^tory  in  nny 
biatory  of  the  Uvea  of  the  Popes,  nnr  ia  it  alludad  to  in 
the  life  of  Benedict,  thirteenth  Antipope,  In  >Ugno, 
JfowKU4  Bne^d,  TheoloffiqWf  torn.  L  coi.  -190,  la  the 
whole  a  mere  popular  myth  ?  J.  B." 

*'  Temple/' 

With  regard  to  the  variety  of  Gunpowder  Plots, 
we  may  aptly  quote  Mr.  Dixon's  words,  from  his 
history  of  the  Tower.  After  stilting  that  the  power 
of  cutting  off  an  enemy  by  a  clmrge  of  powder  was 
familiar  to  the  mindH  of  the  conspirators,  many  of 
whom  had  seen  sen' ice  in  the  war  of  engineers, 
beyond  the  Straits, — "in  the  trenchea  before  OHbeml 
whole  companies  were  conatftntly  blown  into  the 
air," — Mr.  JDixon  goes  on  to  my : — 

"A  train  had  been  laid  Sxi^ainst  Famefie  in  the  streets 
of  Antwerp.  A  second  such  train  bad  been  laid  against 
the  Protincial  Council  at  the  Hngue.  Not  once,  but 
many  times,  the  gveat  Queen'a  life  bad  been  threatened 
bv  w  powder  plot.  One  euch  attempt  was  umde  by 
Michael  JSloody;  andj  in  Later  times,  Thomas  Moody, 
a  pupil  of  Father  Owen,  had  oifered  to  carry  out  the 
scheme  in  which  Moody  failed." 

Mr,  Dixon  states  that  before  Queen  EHmbetb-s 
denii&e  two  Papal  breves  were  received  in  England, 
"one  addreisseil  to  the  Archprieat,  George  BlackweU, 
and  the  Catholic  clergy  ;  the  other,  to  the  nobility 
and  commons,  in  wmch  hnevea  the  children  of 
Rome  were  enjoined,  on  their  salvation,  to  admit 
no  Prince  but  such  aa  the  Pope  should  appoint 
to  reign  over  them.  These  breves  were  not  to  be 
published  till  the  Queen  was  dead/'  When  Garnet 
heard  that  James's  acceasion  was  greeted  with  a 
^ueml  J07,  "he  took  the  Papal  breves  from  his 


desk,"  says  Mr.  Dixon,  "  as  things  too  dangerous 
to  be  kept,**  and  dropt  them  in  the  fire.     There 
muBt,  in  this  case,  have   been  duplicate  copies 
The  project  of  cutting  off  the  King  and  his  progeny 
was  so  hopeless  of  success,  that  **  the  Jesuits,"  says 
Mr.  Dixon,  **  dared  not  commit  t1i-^^' -•  U'^s  * 
publication  of  the  breves,"    Ultini; 
instmments  were  found,  and  the;,    i.^-  1, 
the  consequences  which  are  narmted  above. 

BATHS  IN  THE  MIDDLE  AGES. 

Dr.  Lyon  Play  fair,  in  his  address  to  the 
Science  Association  at  Glasgow,  stated  that  **f<^ 
a  thousand  years  there  was  not  a  man  or  wo 
in  Europe  that  ever  took  a  bath."  This  astound 
assertion  seems  to  have   been   accepted  withoal*" 
hesitation  *  but  tliat  it  is  without  foundation,  may 
readily  be  shown. 

To  begin  in  the  north.     It  appears  in  Lurthh 
tSttga,  that  SadiDgadiil,  the  residence  of  thf^  hh 
Gudruna,  was  much  fre«piented  on  account  of  ii- 
hot  baths,     I  have  rea<l  somewhere  "^'  *  Tii-i^,-  : , 
who  was  entrapped  in  a  bath  and  ^ 

There  is  a  chapter  in  Olaus  JI  ;, 
baths  of  the  Northmen,  and  another  «m 
monial   baths   of  brides,  which  were 
with  much  formality.      He  says  that  bath-     - 
much  more  necessary  in  the  north  than  in  f 
and  that  *^  tbernue  tarn  privatse  rjuam 
optimo  ordine  cum  oiimibus  requisitis  in 
dispositiy  reperiiintur/*   In  my  copy  (Roun,  1 
this  13  illtistruted  by  a  view  of  the  interior    5 
public  bath,  showing  much  appamtus  of  floats  • 
great  water- jet,  and  a  man  with  hia  fcfl  in  hui 
water,  and  a  tremendous  ale- horn  at  his  moiiH  , 
good  cure  for  a  cold.      Swimming  and   dr  r 
matches  were  often  made. 

In  Ducange  we  find  Balnearius,  Balnat4>r    1 
and  that  somewhere  everj'^  batJier  gave  the  tau       . 
keeper  an  egg  a.^  lils  fee,  I 

In  tho  Black  Book  of  the  Treasure  IT*  n,  TI.  it     1 
appears  that  4f?.  h  to  be  allowed  f 
bath,  except  on  the  three  annual  i' 
would,  judging  from  the  next  paragrjipli,  get  liu     J 
buth  gnitis).  \ 

In  MSS.  quoted  by  Fosbroke  {BntUh  3r 
chum)  we  learn  thut  E<ister^  Christmas,  an  I    ' 
Nativity  of  the  B,  Virgin  were  the  three  T 
when  the  chamberlain  of  the  monast-enr  v* 
provide  baths  for  the  monk^.      II 
chamberlain,  a  tailor,  and  two  balti 
him,     The  monks  were  to  go  to  1 
the  superintendence  of  the  vice-ci 
their  clothes  were  to  be  overhauled  ;  ,  .. 
When  the  chamberlain  was  absent,  the 
berlain,  with  the  consent  of  the  prior^  n.,, 
the  use  of  the  bath. 

Id  romances,  the  authors  of  which  descrilicd  1 
manners  of  their  timCj  we  find  the  liulie«  of  1 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ses 


cattle  pi^pariDg  the  bath  for  the  errant  knight.  I 
need  only  refer  to  Sir  Tristram's  bath^  which  was 
of  such  "serious  consequence  :  **Upon  a  day  the 
"|Uene  and  la  b<?ale  Isoud  mayde  a  bavne  for  Syre 
Qtrist,  (sic)  and  when  he  waa  in  his  hajme, 
quene  und  Isoud  her  daughter  romed  up  and 
pwne  in  the  chamber/'  and,  exuinining  hh  sword^ 
ed  that  he  was  the  knight  who  bad  slain 
ihnus.  whereupon  the  queen  "  mahed  to 
lliiii  where  he  sat  in  hU  buyne." — A.  Sitzbad* 
there  WHS  a  lady  enchanted  in  a  dolorous  tower 
bo  had  been  kept  a  long  time  in  boiling  water. 
pSir  Livncelot  went  into  tlie  chamber  that  was  as 
ot  duj  any  sieiceJ* — La  Morte  d: Arthur, 
I  take  it  that  "  to  be  in  a  stew,"  "  to  get  into 
Dt  water/*  **  to  put  one's  foot  in  it/'  are  all  derived 
Dm  the  hob  baths  of  our  ancestors. 
la  Leckinfield  Castle  was  a  chamber  called  "the 
^Northuviherland  Homehold  Book, 
I  instancea  have  occurred  to  me  in  half-an- 
bt's  reference  to  such  bo^>k5  as  were  at  hand ;  but 
aw  comes  it  that  Dr.  Play  fair  has  ignored  the 
able  military  Order  of  the  Bath,  and  is  un- 
nted  with  the  cerexiiODiotis  and  symbolical 
Blng  and  drying  of  a  postulant  of  the  order  of 
aighthotidl  W.  G. 

^  [In  one  of  the  Tolumci  publiihcd  by  the  EatIj  English 
Vxl  8i)cietj.  ther«  *re  instructions  to  a  acrvAiit  bow  to 
>  hit  lUAfter'a  bath,  arr&age  hia  ipougei,  ^o.] 


8HAKSPEARIANA. 

**  ROMEO   AND   JULIET"    IN   SPAIN. 

dflrincM  y  Monteses ;  Tragi-Comidia.    By  Frey 

Lope  Felix  De  Vega  Carpio.      Translated  by 

F.  \V,  Coi^ens.    (Printed  for  Private  Circulation.) 

Df  Bandoji  dc  ['etmia,    Moni€scoi  y  CapclcUf,    By 

Francisco  De  Rojiw  y  Zorilla.     Englished  by 

F.  W.  Cosens.    (Printed  for  Private  Circulation.) 

Thck  the  Hon.  James  Howard,  in  the  reign  of 

barles   II.,  took  Shakapcare  in  hand  and  '^ini- 

foved ''  the  national  poet's  dignified  tragedy  by 

imvertLng  it  into  a  comedy,  he  probably  waa  not 

B  that  the  great  dramatic  poet  of  Spain  bad 

before  him  in  that  work,  and  had  given  a 

tyden*  hilarious  Juliet  to  the  theatre  of  Madrid. 

"he  two  great  dramatists  wen*  contemporaries. 

Jfist    Jis   Otway,    after    Howard,    "improved" 

akspeare's  dainty  story  still  more,  by  moving  it 

,>  cold  classical  region,  and  calling  it  Cairn 

$f  so  Rojaa,  some  little  while  Jifter  De  Vega, 

f^  course  different  from  that  in  the  earlier 

u  liomto  and  Juliet  as  diJferent 

\h  U  predecessor's  as  Otway's  young 

iuid  Lavinia   Metella   are   different  from 

nrp*-  pair  of  young  lovers,  who  have  drawn 

FiBM.  rliy  and  ao  many  toars^ 

^1q  1  .   rbled  version  of  De  V<^'s  play 

nruei   -M    the   Garrick's   H^.   Catherine 

I  Strand.    About  a  hundred  years  kter,  Mr. 


Cosens  translated  the  Spanish  pky,  as  such  a 
Spanish  scholar  only  could  translate  it ;  and  he 
liberally  gave  copies  to  his  friends.  The  impression 
must  luive  been  a  large  one^  if  ail  iir,  Cosens's 
friends  were  included  in  his  liberality.  Lope  de 
Vega's  dramatized  version  of  the  old  story  varies 
from  Shakspeare's.  There  is  no  n\anifestation  of 
genius,  less  display  of  taste,  no  niceness  of  judg- 
ment. We  have  no  sympathy  with  the  young  lady 
who  has  two  ears  for  as  many  lovers  at  a  time,  and 
who^  escaping  from  the  tomb,  frightens  her  father 
to  death,  as  die  ghost  of  herself.  At  the  end  the 
lovers  are  wedded,  though  Hoselio  (Homeo)  has  a 
narrow  escape  of  being  united  to  Dorot^a,  the 
sister  of  Ottavio,  who  is  one  of  the  two  lovers  of 
Julia  (Juliet). 

In  Rojas's  version,  the  County  Paris  is  wedded  to 
Romeo's  sister,  Elena,  and  may  be  called  a  perfect 
**  brute  "  in  his  deport metit,  for  he  not  only  ill  uses, 
but  wishes  to  rid  himself  of  her,  that  he  may  marry 
Julia  Capelete.  The  Capeletes  and  Montesoos  are 
at  feud.  Romeo's  father  had  killed,  at  a  touroa- 
meat,  Julia's  brother,  and  bad  been  slain  in  con- 
sequence.  Romeo  rushed  thereupon  to  the  Capelete 
mansion,  to  kill  the  sire,  but  he  stubbed  a  servant 
instead,  and  tried  to  slay  Julia's  falcon.  But 
Julia's  eyes,  seen  for  the  first  time,  nearly  slay  the 
rude  intruder,  who  recovers,  however,  and  the  two 
young  people  are  ns  hard  and  fast  in  love  as  young 
people  can  possibly  be.  In  the  very  hottest  of  it 
all,  the  ignorunt  old  Capelete  proposes  that  Julia 
shall  marry  Andres,  All  that  follows  is  a»  bustling 
as  the  very  busiest  of  Spanish  comedies.  The  lovers 
meet  and  exchange  vowa,  and  feel  hopeless  ;  while 
old  Capelete  is  willing  to  throw  over  Andres  and 
give  his  daughter  to  County  Paris^  if  that  ex- 
emplary gentleman  can  only  obtain  a  divorce  from 
Romeo's  sister.  Subsequently  he  leaves  Julia  to 
choose  between  Andres  and  Paris,  and  the  lady*s 
answer  is  that  she  will  take  neither,  but  that,  for 
good  or  ill,  young  Romeo  is  lord  of  ber  heart. 
There  is  some  fun  with  some  lighting,  and  a  great 
deal  of  comic  business,  tUd  Julia,  wearied  of  lifs 
and  in  despair  for  her  love^  swallows  a  phial  full 
of  poison,  and  seemingly  dies.  The  sire  and 
County  Paris  unceremoniously  deposit  her  in  a 
church  vault,  where,  having  swallowed  only  a  sleep- 
ing draught,  she  naturally  awakes.  In  a  confusing 
scene,  amid  complete  darkness,  she  is  carried  off 
by  Andrds,  supposing  him  to  be  Romeo,  who  bears 
off  his  sister,  Elena,  believing  he  Iijuh  got  Juliet ! 
The  business  becomes  a  mixture  of  burlesque,  melo- 
drama, tragi-eomedy,  and  pantomime.  There  is 
hide-and-seek  in  a  wood  after  Julia,  who  is  ulti- 
mately carried  off  by  her  sire  to  his  castle.  Romeo 
and  his  allies  storm  the  fortress  with  artillery,  and 
being  the  conqueror,  the  lady  is  yielded  to  him  as 
lawful  and  joyous  prize. 

There  are  some  pretty  lines  in  both  the  Spanish 
plays,  and  there  is  a  touch  more  of  dv^t.^  \^\!cn»^ 


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[5»aiLNov.; 


Juliet  of  RojftB^s  drama  thim  in  the  same  kidy  of 
Be  Vega*s.     When  tho  former  prefers  that  Eonieo 
fphould  fjither  hate  than  forget  her,  she  supports 
the  ijentiiwent  by  saying  : — 

*'  He  who  doth  hate,  »ti*l  boUy  hateth  too. 

E'en  in  his  bating  doth  reniemWr  love. 

Wbile  he  who  baaelj  doth  forget  hU  1oy« 

Ib  hateful  in  hit  own  forgetftunesB. 

1  'd  rather  know  the  hatred  of  my  Ioyo 

Than  fe«l  obliyion's  shumeful  Alight.*' 

To  which  Roraeo  replies : — 

And  jet  all  women  bnYe  ni»intain*d  that  hate 
It  but  revenge,  disguised." 

It  is  remarkable  that  the  two  Bpanl^  dramntist.s 
should  have  fidled  to  see  what  Shakspeare  saw^ 
that  a  tragic  catastrophe  wau  the  only  jwetically 
just  conclusion  to  this  dramatic  story  of  love, 
fervent  indeed,  but  ill-regiihited*  Eb. 


Beckford  on  Southet. — In  a  copy  of  Southe/M 

b  **  Vision  of  Judj^ment/'  once  iu  the  possession  of 

f  Mr,  Beckford  of  Fonthill,  there  are  the  following 

eomments  in  that  fjentieman^s  handwriting  at  the 

pAssoges  indicated  below  ; — 

"  Socthet's  Vision  op  Jut»gmfnt.    (4 to.  edn.) 

"XIV.  Quite  the  reveree,  but  the  Duncery  of  this 
d*y  will  Approve  the  Poet  Lfturefite'fl  crambo. 

"  XX.  Bed  hot  thunderbolts  levelled  a^inst  Inscivioua 
Poets— the  corruption  of  public  mottils— Men  of  dUejwted 
hearts  and  depraved  imiiKiDations— K^^bols  ngaiuBt  the 
holiest  ordJcLQjiceeof  humun  society^ the  Moores,  Byrons^ 
and  other  gr&du&tes  of  the  Sfttunic  scbcvoL 

•'  XXI.  Not  only  the  wriiert,  but  the  purchasers  of 
such  publications,  impious  negleoters  of  the  pare 
8oatbcy'«  Utter  wriiitigs^  would  be  atiAthematixeil, 
branded,  banished,  and  perhaps  burnt  uuHtraiigled*  were 
the  Defender  of  the  Faith  to  be  armed  with  proper 
avenj^tt]^  pQwer8>  and  those  powers  delegated  to  his 
faith  f ul  Xaurcatc. 

**  2.  from  far  G 1  cramar, 

Bleacrag  and  MsJdeamaur,  to  Grizedal  and  westennost 
Withon. 
Suo'bus  and  Incubus  ugly  atich  names  Ruit 
Better  than  mountains  in  my  poor  O-pinion. 

"9.  The  Ghost  of  Geo.  3''  askin^r  the  Ghost  of  Perce- 
Tal— What— what  of  his  ton — 

*  Firm  in  hit  father's  steps  hath  the  Regent  trod  was 
the  answer.' 

''20.  A  Guiltypair— squinting  Wilkes  and  iron  Ttsored 
JuniuS;,  swtin^  into  blaclcest  Hell  for  i!anderin^  their 
holv  immaoulato  Bore  reign.  Bons  of  ftictiun  be  warned^ 
ana  ye,  ye  slanderers,  learn  ye  justice. 

♦•  13,  A  grand  angelic  Ho, 

*'22,  Another  Ho. 

"Notes.     63.  We    have    the    Laureate's    word    that 

chemistry  is  one  of  the  aubjecu  of  which  he  is  contented 

to  be  if^orant.     More  ^ood  company  in  Heaven  than 

•might  have  been  expected,  considering  tlic    rules  of 

bdmtsdoa  as  by  Bible  cstabli^iied    3Iaj^nific«ut  Edward, 

^ion  hearted  Richard,   matchlcBs  Jiliiza,  the  Hero  of 

flssy  (rather  of  Poitiers),  certainly  not  of  Limoges^ 
loha  Dtiko  of  Marlborough— 'alike  iu  all  virtues  accom- 
"*pli^fld,  public  or  private,  he,  the  perfect  soldier  and 
statetnuui.'  Miltoo,  HoRarth,  8ir  Joshua  Reynolds, 
and  numy  others  one  is  happy  to  meet,  but  could  scarcely 
hare  Tcntuied  to  look  for. 


"  I  am  rather  surprised  that  instead  of  being  whirled 
into  Hell,  '  he  of  the  cast  of  eye  oWiqne '  hnd  r.nt  made 
one  of  the  blessed  party,     ^outhey  c  '-"<  btte 

forgotten  tliat  this  Lord  of  Misrule,  f,  haj 

apyttafifiaed  from  his  early  yi -•  -i-  ' -^  i.j.,  ...^  ..d,  likt 
himself,  the  fruits  of  reyi  U  gone  tretiuciitif 

to  Court,  and  been  emDcd  '.  . mg  Gf^oTpe  the.v^ 

the  pattern  of  all  purity.  iNL'tltiii!^  ia  more  bhuding 
than  fanatical  self  complacency,  boutbcy  conSdcs  iu 
his  own  lalvation,  and  damus  poor  dquinting  Wilkes  t» 
all  eternity.  W.  B." 

fX  B. 


SsKRBS,  &c.— In  th©  Catalogue  of  the 
Library,  Ijritish  Museum,  I  find  mentionsd' 
**  Liber  NauticuiSy  and  InMrucior  in  thi  Art  (^ 
Marine  I  halving^  with  plates,  foL  Loud.,  I9Mt 
By  Dominick  Serres,  R,A.,  and  John  ThooMt 
Scrres.'*  Also,  209,  h,  10,  the  Little  S^a  TwA  tf 
B&ixgardj  by  John  Thomas  Serrea,  Manner  Psaitar 
to  H.M.  Geo.  III.,  a  large  folio,  a.ix  ISOL 
A  Gniik  to  Filots^  with  numerous  Views  of  Li|^ 
houses,  &c.,  being  a  translation  frr»m  the  Fpiodi 
work.    In  the  old  Cataloj^nie  <>l  '^'4,  ^ 

are  mentioned  "  PicturtMpu  J  dpif 

Alonumtnts  in  the  Ctmttcryoj  I'-rti  la  CVfau^,  mar 
Pai-ig^  with  a  Yiew  of  the  Panicle te  efvoled  hf 
Abelard."    The  new  Catalocn  h  dunlictfD 

t.opita  of  the  Mtrnmr  of  J.  it«  Mttnr 

Pttiuter  to  His  Majesty,"  aak  *  "'^,  ^t^. 

by  a  frienrl,  5»J  pages.   A  relative  o' 
a  valuable  marine  painting  by  thijs  .*^^,^..  ^sy^^'iUfL 
a  shipwreck  in  a  storm  at  sea— li  I&ige  pantUeJognow 

Cbr.  Coovl 

London. 

Dante  and  his  Translators. — The  aui 
of  the  book,  Holland  Moitse,  there  quoting  ihite 
verses  of  the  Diviiia  tJommedia,  L  ^' mle^f 

adjoined  to  them  the  answerinj^'  IjfOf^ 

fellow's  version  ;  and  on  the  page  *-i  ^xi  ^  witicvta 
the  numbex  of  the  Quarterly  litvUw  for  Octo^bcf 
of  last  year,  are  the  two  quotations  reproduced, 
they  here  follow.  The  guide  of  the  poet  Vi 
speaks,  and  to  him — 

Z)aa/«. 
**  Orai  so  innanzi  a  mo  nulla  a'  adomhrn* 
Non  ti  m&ravigliar  piit  che  de*  cieli, 
Che  I'uno  all*  altro  il  raggio  non  ingombra," 

"  Now  if  in  front  of  me  no  shadow  falls* 
Marvel  not  at  It  more  than  at  the  heaTona^ 
Because  one  ray  impedeth  not  another^.** 

You  construe  and  comi>are.     The   firt«t 
comes  out  all  right  and  the  second.      Fi 
thinl  Engliiih  the  very  peculiar  sen-*-  -^^  '> 
Itidian  has  escaped   altogether.  t   the 

one  (heaven)  to  tne  other  (heaven)  . 
the  ray, — in  one  wo\t],  that  the   one   bi 
translucent  to  the  other, — you  have  *^  rajr 
peding  ray/^    Nothing  more.    HeaTeo  moA 
have  vanlahed. 

You  love  and  honour  our  brother  beyond  Ib^ 


8»&TI.Sov.?.74.I 


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¥ 


|ReAl  waters,  and  are  disquieted.     Take  comfort. 

Two  readings  of  the  line,  Ji  better  nnd  a  worse,  are 

ID  currency.     You  hiive  seen  the  better.     From  an 

r>>»Iijsh  edition— Pickerinff,  ls23— read  the  worse: 

•*Cbe  I'ufio  »ir  altro  ragglo  non  iQgombr&,*' 

lie   distinguished   translator,   by  nushapj 

!  rfore  him,  has  tnily  rendered.     In  two 

ieitt'iN  mi^inj^,  two  worlds  missing. 

Of  an  o<id  enigma,  twice  salient  in  our  literature 
the  day's  bringing  forth,  the  unriddling,  now 
'  here,  will  hardly  be  thought  misiimed  or  niiB- 

S-— The  verses  are  28-30  of  the  third  canto, 
■  IVgatorio*'* 

"  AxECT>f>TE  Liv^Bs.'^— In  the  second  volume  of 
Uiis  work  (p.  OO)  we  are  told  that  **  Witticisms 
are  often  attrlV.nti  .1  t,,  the  wrong  people*';  and,  in 
illtiAtnition  oj  jsm,  we  are  informed  that 

*^  It  was  L<inl  I  Id,  not  Sheridan"  (where  ia 

it  attributed  to  bhoridan  ?),  **  who  said,  on  occasion 
of  m  certain  marriage,  that  '  Nobody's  son  had 
•married  evei7lxKly'a  daughter.'"  The  "wit"  of 
'thi»  h  not  very  obvious,  and,  in  relating  the 
anectiote,  the  author  has  shown  that  **  he  can  mar 
n  curioua  talc  in  telling  it/' 

The  original  story  is  as  follows :— On  the  mar- 
fia^e  of  a  natural  son  of  Mr,  Lock  (formerly  of 
liorbtiry  Park)  with  the  daughter  of  Lady  Schaub, 
who  had  been  rery  gallant^  Moraine  WalpoU  said, 
**  Then  every  body"*  3  daughter  is  married  to  nob^y'a 
S5on"  {Life  of  Eiimunti  Malom\  im^K  p.  371).  In 
the  same  volume  (p.  66)  it  is  stated  of  Rogers  that 
*•  be  envied  no  man  of  his  time  any  saying  so  much 
as  be  envied  Lord  John  Russell  that  admirable 
definition  of  a  proverb — *  The  wisdom  of  many  anil 
the  wit  of  one.'"  Yet  just  previously  (p.  41}  the 
mune  saying  is  attributed  to  Arcbbisliop  Whately ! 
Traly  "witticisms  are  often  attributed  to  the 
wron^r  people.'*  Who  Vt'ns  the  originator  of  this 
definition  J— which,  notwitb.standing  Bogeis's  ad- 
miration, »eems  tnuTeable  to  Pojje'g  Tine — 
**  What  oft  naa  ihoughtj  hut  ne'er  lo  well  expreued." 
Charles  Wtue. 

DrvoRCR  Laws  at  the  Cape  a  Cexturt  Ago. 
— In  Thunberg,  who  visited  the  Cape  in  1774,  we 
read  the  foUowLng  curious  divorce  c^c  (voL  ii.  127): 
'•Th«  wife  of  one  Fardyn,  who  had  been  a  ioldicr 
ttaen  je&rs,  and  at  tbi«  time  kept  ft  publichoiOBe  and 
"  "^foom*  for  the  reception  of  common  people,  wa« 
in  Coart  by  the  eridenee  of  two  witnesses,  to 
,-.;..,;..„ I  ^„.,.,.^r  _,  yriih.  &  dnimmer  The 
',  to  part  with  hii  wife, 
all  farther  pvmighmont ; 
klniry,  win  tloggtyd.  and  g«nt  to 
K*t  iulfefcd  tu  receive  tho  leut  benefit 

frot'  , ,, 

1  '  iifle  of  i^iieen*s  Prrnrtor  intervening 

ih  ..  .. .,,,.. nee.  and  ^hows  plainly  that  the  old 
»ut©h  Ea^t  Indio  mlew  of  the  Cape  had  a  «shjirp 


eye  to  the  morality  of  its  serfs,  as  the  colonists 
truly  were  before  the  conquest  of  tlie  Cape  by  the 
British  Covernment.  Even  at  the  present  day 
divorce  cases  are  very  rare  in  the  Cape  law  conrts. 

H.  H, 
La  render  HilL 

"Bohemian/* — ^ Allow  me  to  protest  in  the 
columns  of  "  N.  &  Q."  against  the  modern  and 
utterly  senseless  use  of  this  word  to  denote  a  free* 
and-easy  living,  roving  artist,  or  literary  man. 
It  ia  dear  to  our  novelists,  and  enables  them  to 
air  a  scrap  of  imperfectly  acquired  French,  ^^  Bo- 
hemian*'  may  very  well  be^ir  this  sense  in  French, 
where  the  word  already  meant  a  gipsy  or  vagrant ; 
but  when  abruptly  thrown  upon  English  ground, 
without  parenUige  or  belongings,  it  has  the  air  of 
a  ridiculous  intruder.  Tlie  French  themselvas, 
who  better  understand  the  use  of  words,  rarely 
play  such  fantastic  tricks  with  their  lang 


Id.«lik  Vine.— Scott,  in  The  Lady  of  the  Lakij 
seems  to  have  made  a  botanical  mistidcein  mjiking 
this  plant  twine  on  a  Scotch  highland  lodffe  of  that 
period.  The  Vacciniiim  Vitu  Idm^  is  a  httle  bog- 
plant.  Was  he  thinking  of  the  Camidian  creeper, 
which  lA  bot4inicalIy  allied  to  the  vine  \  It  could 
not  have  been  then  known  in  Scotland. 

S.  T.  P. 

Thk  Yew  Trees  at  Painswick.— An  elderly 
lady  tells  me  that  at  Pains  wick  Church,  near 
Stroud^  there  are  ninety- nine  yew  trees,  about 
which  there  is  this  great  peculiarity,  that  their 
number  cannot  be  increased.  It  has  been  tried 
over  and  over  again,  but  always  with  the  same 
result  ;  when  tho  newly -plan  ted  tree  grows,  one  of 
the  old  ones  dies.  The  old  lady  has  seen  the 
trees,  and  very  naturally  comes  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  legend  must  be  true,  T*  C.  U. 

"  The  Fruitless  Enquiry.*' — Towards  the  close 
of  the  last  century,  and  during  my  sebool-boy  days, 
a  book  having  the  [ibove  title  came  under  my 
observation,  and,  I  must  confess,  wis  eimiy 
perused.  The  story  related  to  a  married  lady 
whose  son  had  been  lost,  and  the  only  hope  of  his 
being  restored  was  by  getting  a  shirt  made  for  him 
by  any  one  of  her  femide  friends  or  iicquaintaneea 
who  could  not  accuse  herself  of  having  made  a 
false  step  in  a  mond  point  of  view.  After  various 
applications,  each  one  had  to  confess  that  she  was 
nut  qualified,  and  to  relate  the  circumstance,  without 
:iny  reservation,  of  the  cause  thereof.  At  this 
length  of  time,  I  have  forgotton  how  the  stoiy 
ended,  whether  the  son  had  been  restored,  or  if  it 
resulted  in  the  disappointment  of  a  simihir  story 
told  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  the  poem  of  Snltnua 
Solinmuo  in  ^search  after  happiness.  Not  having 
seen  till  very  lately  Sir  Walter's  poem^  it  btQu^si 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[S*S.ItNon 


to  my  recollection  the  story  of  the  lady  and  her 
Bon  ;  aod  it  may  be  a  matter  of  consideration  for 
tlie  numerous  readers  of  *'N*  &  i^/'  whether  be 
iiiuned  his  story  thereon,  or  took  ft  Ijint  ft-om  J^a 
Camiscia  Magica,  i\  novel,  by  Giam  Battista  CastL 

J.  P.  X. 

Bbrivations  op  Names* — The  names  of  several 
textiues  of  cotton  nre  held  (and  without  doubt 
correctly)  to  be  of  Eastern  origin.  For  instance^ 
calico  19  held  to  be  derived  from  the  Indian  town 
of  f  •alicut,  and  muslin  from  the  town  of  Mo^ul,  on 
the  TigriB.  But  I  have  never  heard  the  texture 
cniled  gingham  asaif^ned  to  what  I  beHeve  is  its 
true  oriwiD,  viz.^  the  Indian  word  guighdm.  In 
Sir  J.  Wilkin  son's  work  on  Egypt,  the  word  is 
held  to  be  of  Egyptian  origin  ;  but  the  Indian 
texture  ffinghdm  is  exactly  the  s:\mc  as  our  English 
jringhiun,  India  maij^  in  intercourse  with  the  Red 
Sea^  have  imported  a  texture  bo  called  from  Eg>l)t ; 
but  it  IB  aa  likely  (if  not  more  so)  that  the  texture, 
both  in  its  fabric  and  name,  is  of  pure  Indian 
origin.  CivtLts, 

[Gingliam  is  aomctlmca  »nid  to  be  derived  from  Gulu- 
gamp,  a  town  in  Franc e.j 

Large  Oak. — Allow  uie  to  pluce  on  record  in 
the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.-*  the  dimensions  of  an  oak- 
tree  which  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  is  the 
largest  iji  England^  even  exceeding?  in  size  the 
eelebrated  one  at  .Cowthorpe^  near  Wetherijy,  in 
Yorkshire.  They  have  been  supplied  by  a  geotle- 
mjiD  who  resides  near  the  place  in  which  tlie  tree 
is  situated^Murtonj  a  township  in  the  parish  of 
Prestbuty,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and  about 
three  milea  distant  frooi  Congleton,  The  ^irth 
round  the  foot  of  it  is  G4  feet  /j  inches  und  the 
diameter  inside  varies  from  lu  to  12  leet.  The 
Mar  ton  oak  is  now  careful  ly  preserved,  and  fenced 
round  by  a  railing,  but  in  former  years  it  was  used 
as  a  pigaty,*  and  before  that  time  was  the  resi- 
dence of  a  bull.  Could  the  old  tree  speak  like 
Tennyson's  "  Talking  Oak,"  what  legends  could  it 
tell  ;  though  from  once  having  been  devoted  to 
the  above-mentioned  useful  purposes,  the  Marton 
oak  can  scarcely,  like  it^  aay — 

"  And  I  liiiTi*  sheltered  m&ny  a  group 

tJf  beftuties  that  were  l>oi  n 
In  teiicu|»  tinioa  cif  liood  and  hoop, 

Or  wliilc  the  pntch  waa  worn*' 
Surely  drawings  or  photographs  of  this  giant 
ought  to  be  made,  in  order  to  preserve  a  record  of 
it,  und  aa  yet  I  am  not  aware  of  the  existence  of 
any.  JonN  Pick  ford,  M.A. 

Kcwboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Ballooning. — The  reeeot  ballooning  in  Csdais 
brought  back  upon  my  memory  the  year   17cH4, 

*  *'Ip8e  ruit,  denteMue  SalielUeiis  exacuit  lui*, 
1st  pede  proButigu  tcrmm,  fricat  arbore  custHA* 
Atqu«  hiiic  litque  iUinc  humero»  ad  vuln«iii  durai.* 
Oeorifieon,  lib*  iii.  v.  255|  «i  mq. 


when  Lunardi  made  kis  first  oftcent  tn  EngUnd. 
Over  the  chimney-piece  of  my  grandmnthrr' 
nursery-room  (which,  being  then  ^eveii  ye-ir-  '  . 
I  had  vacated  for  my  day-school  le^on^  \.h  u 
good  city  of  Worcester)  was  pasted  an  f«'i;u<'  1 
soudl  pictures  on  a  single  sheet,  delinejitiii^  the 
histor)'  of  a  balloon,  each  being  underlined  wiib  a 
descriptive  hemistich : — 

**  A  puffing  at  the  air-balloon/' 

"  You  now  behold  it  filled  quite  adod/* 

**  The  people  Btare  to  tec  it  fl»-" 

"  Zookf  !    ti«  got  fturprifiing  liigh  ! " 

**  The  man  in  the  moon,  but  not  ftstoep."* 

(Stiting  viih  hu  pipe  and  pot  ^f  aU.^ 

"Old  Catafogo  Cakci  a  p<*ep/* 

•*  Tlie  clowns  are  startled  at  the  ti^ht** 

"  'Tiii  burst  ]  atid  now  it  comes  down  quite/* 

Edmund  Lenthall  Swiftk. 

Wanted,  a  Great  "  Teetotal  "  Port  — I/>t*J 
NeaveS)  in  T?/e  trr<'<'A':  j4«//io/o^y  (whirli 
twentieth  and  concluding  volume  of  tli 
series  of  "  Ancient  Classics  for  English  Il^iaaei  / 
published  by  Messrs.  Blackwood),  remarks  of  the 
couplet : — 

**  Wine  to  the  poet  ia  &  winged  steed  : 
Those  who  drink  water  come  hut  little  tpeed,** 

that  it   is  "a   favourite  nentiment—  i>erhap>  tw 
much  so — ^^witb  the  old  poets";  and  he  addf/'^  '*- 
great  poet  has  existed  in  our  day  who  wa*  n 
exception  to  this  alleged  rule**  fp.  1130),     Wi..  ,        . 
the  "  great  poet  of  our  day  "  here  referretl  to !  I 

By  the  way,  Moore,  I  think,  has  sj»un  «lu»  ahnw      1 
couplet  into  the  following  linens : — 

"If  with  water  you  fill  up  your  gluses, 
You'll  never  write  anything  wise  ; 
For  wine  is  the  horse  cf  Parn&seut, 
Which  hun iea  a  bard  to  the  ftkiea.'* 

Moore,  it  seems  to  me,  has  couiiidembly  we*k*nfti 
the  epijj;rammatic  force  of  the  original  in  ihu 
translation,  or  paraphrase.  W*  A.  C, 

Glasgow. 

Epitaph. — There  is  an  old  tablet    in  Bf]wn 
Cathedral,  with  an  inscription  (of  whieli  I  t 
copy)  in  memory  of  Hugh  Ripley,  who  died 
It  record.s   the  good  uses  to  which  he  pti'.  lii 
wealth,  both  in  Eii>  will  and  during  hu»  life.    U 
says— 

«  Nor  didftt  thou  broi>ding  o'er  it  tit, 
Not  making  use  till  death  of  It.** 

S.  T.  F. 

An  UxcoNsciotrs  Blunder  of  t 
"  The  Four  George*/*  CorrUiiU  M 
voU  ii»  p.  181 ;  and  the  separate  ptibin.aLxi»u  tu  ?>  j 
Smith  &  Elder,  1801,  p.  64  :— 

*'  I  read  that  Ladj  Yftrmoulh  'm — —-*  rc'liffiaiil  «■ 
gructouA  Kiri»t*t«  fuTi  urite)  jMild  a  r  Ji&ttrfffWM 

For5,(KX>/.  OhebclU-tl  him  r>,LXK^i/  r^&M  Blttbt 

miide  A  biahop,  and  ho  Io$t  and  paid  Ler)#" 

It  i^  remarkable  that  the  author  ncrer  dtBOOfure^ 
that  according  to  the  terms  gf  this  bet,  as  jiUt«4| 


m 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


367 


if  the  dergyman  became  a  biuhop,  he  woa  the 
winner.  U.  0— n. 


taurrtrC 

[We  mtut  raqueat  correspondents  desiring  iofarmfttioti 
on  fnmilj  nutters  of  only  prirnte  interest,  to  affix  their 
DABiei  Mid  a4dre«Ki  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
mafwen  may  b«  addreued  to  them  direct.] 


,  i)ElOiy  OF  THE  ROTAL  H0U8E  OF  StUART, — A 

volame»  by  Mr.  Cosmo  Innes,  entitled  Con- 
nimj  ^otri^  Scotch  SumameJij  printed  in  1860 
[(ft>ot-Dote»  p.  4),  contains  a  reference  to  the  pedigree 
I  of  the  Royal  House  of  Stuart.    "  Alanm  dapifer,** 
I  ibis  uulhor  says,  **  whom  we  now  know  (thanks  to 
[Gt?orge  Chalmers)  to  have  been  a  son  of  the  great 
l^onn»n  family  of  Fitz-Alan."     Mr.  Innes  here 
pliunly  intends  the  reader  to  believe  that  he  who 
(Jtit  indicated  the  authentic  pedigree  of  the  Scot- 
flab  House  of  Stuart  wna  the  author  of  Caledonia. 
\Ai  p*  lfJ7  of  Mr.  Innes'a  Leciuru  on  Scotcl*  Legal 
yAntiqmtitfi^    Edinburgh,    1872,  he  repeats    the 
IttAtement  in  a  more  direct  form  : — 

*•  Tbe  i»h»rtuTiiry  of  Paialej,"  he  there  Informi  iii^  "is 

I  ling  the  etrliett  record  extant  of  a 

procedure  of  which  1  must  spt-ak 

'/idty,  as  iupplyinff  the  mat  trials 

iMra'«i  *nAUcti  tftunjt  Chalmeri  to  prow  iht  detctnt  of 

1I4  Roifai  StvatU/ronh  (A^  ^'orman  PiUalant,  instead  of 

^ffom  iJector  Botce'i  imaginary  pedigree  of  BanquoV 

hancii  of  Locbaber.'* 

It  would  appear  from  another  account  which  I 

hfli'e  reo;d,  that  John  Finkerton^  and  not  George 

li'halmtrg,  was  the  first  to  point  to  the  true  origin 

of  the  royaJ  line  of  Stuart.      The  statement  to 

r^liwli  7  refer  occurs  in  a  paper  contained  in  the 

ffs  of  the  Scottish  Antiquaries  at  Edin- 

inmunicated  by  Dr.  J*  C.  Roger»  a  mem- 

'  **i  that  body.  ^  The  title  of  Dr.  Roger's  paper 

;  "  Notices  of  Ancient  Monuments  in  the  Ruined 

[fourth  of  St.  Mary,  Rotbe^Ay."'     The  passajce  in 

;|ueation  will  \te  found  in  vol  iL  of  the  Froa^dinffg, 

47<'.     It  is  this  : — 

*T.'»  1he  acute  perception  of  Pinkerton  we  are  in- 

"  the  firflt  glimpie  of  the  Butben tie  origin  of 

ti  family.     Penetrating  through  ihe  fltjM*  of 

kv:-  ^->ii/   ubulooa  hlat<iriaDB  into  the  regioas  of^unex- 

[ttniDcd'aiitiqvityf  thitt  incredulotu  antiquary  w«a  led  to 

^•Ofxe«t,  •!  its  original,  th<?  great  Anglo-Norman  family 

qf  Fita-Atan,  an  opinion  the  truthfulness  of  which  has 

beta  dcmonstratea  by  Chalmers  iu  the  |>ages  of  CiUc' 

WMk,  therefore,  in  Mr.  Roger's  account  Chul- 

-1 — •"  '^hiiie  in  the  transaction  ia  freely  admitted, 

^  in  neither  caae  makes  any  mention  of 

of  Pinkerton,      If,  aa  it  would  seem, 

oa,  and   not   Chalmers,   was    the    actual 

terer  of  the  Stuart  pedigree,  although  his 

may  have  been  confirm^  by  the  latter,  it 

t  hartllv  fair  that  he  should  be  altogether 

1^lm*ed — paifntun  ^i  fMTuit  ferat.    It  is  one 


thing  to  discover,  and  quite  another  thing  to  foQow 
up  the  RUi^fi^estions  of  another. 

I  shall  be  much  obliged  If  some  contributor  of 
"  K.  &  Q/'  will  thn:>w  any  light  on  this  matter, 
especially  as  regards  the  tmdt.nct  on  which  the 
claim  of  Pinkerton  depends.  E.  D. 

Whitehall,  Essex, 

Marriaoks  in  LENT.—'^Tien  was  it  first  for- 
bidden to  marry  in  Lent  ?  T  ask  this  not  aa  a 
polemical  but  ns  an  historical  question^  and  want 
simple  factH,  Am  I  th^ht  in  supposing  that  it  was 
the  practice  in  En  Poland  till  nemrly  the  close  of  the 
la«t  century  to  refrain  from  entering  into  maixiage 
during  Lent  I  M.  T. 

*'TnE  Cry  op  Native  ;  or^  an  Appeal  .to  Mercy  and 
to  Justice  on  l>ehalf  of  the  Persecuted  Animals.  By 
John  Oswald ,  Member  ^^^f  the  Club  dea  Jmcohinefl. 
London :  Printed  for  J.  Johnson,  No.  72,  St.  Paul's 
CburchYard.    17B1/" 

Perhaps  some  contributor  to  "  N.  &  Q.*'  can 
give  information  concerning  the  above  author,  and 
say  whether  he  wrote  any  other  work. 

George  R.  Jesse. 

Huraldic, — To  what  family  do  the  followiDg 
arms  belong  :  arg.,  on  a  bend  wavy^  cottised  gu.* 
within  a  bordure  az.  bezant j--,  three  liuns'  heada 
erased  of  the  first  ?  Are  they  home  by  the  Tucks 
of  Wilts]  E.  E.  W. 

The  Thames  :  St.  Paul's  on  Lambeth. — 
Where  can  I  find  an  epigram  npon  a  certain  divine 
setting  out  from  Hangerford  or  Whitehall  Staira 
in  a  Thames  wherry,  and  into  whose  mouth  are 
put  the  words — 

**  With  the  tide  we  must  swim*'? 
And  then  follows  the  moral — 

"  To  St.  Paul's  or  to  Lambeth  was  all  one  to  him.*' 
E,  Walpord,  M,A, 

Hampstead,  N.W* 

**  School  DiALOGirBS  for  Boys/*  2  Tok.^  12mo., 
1783, — Who  was  the  authoress  i  It  was  published 
by  Marshall,  Loufion,  and  is  dedicated  to  Mwater 

W F .   These  dialogues  are  in  reidity  short 

dramas,  illustrative  of  school  life.  The  authoress 
secma  to  have  resided  in  Suffolk,  or  to  have  been 
connected  with  tlmt  county.  See  vol.  L,  p.  180, 
kc, ;  also  vol,  ii.,  pp.  28-9,  &c.  The  authoress 
alludes  to  her  having  published  some  book  pre- 
viously, but  does  not  mention  its  title. 

R,    I}«GLI8. 

Wejttwobth  ;  GAScoYWE-^Wbitaker  {Hist&ry 
of  Leeds)  gives  two  pedigrees  of  the  former  family, 
the  one  deducing  the  descent  of  Robert  de  Went- 
worth,  who  married  Emma  Wodehous,  from 
Reginald  de  Went  worth  by  seveti  generations,  and 
the  other  another  line  of  descent  for  the  same 
person.  What  was  this  second  line,  consbtlog,  I 
Delieve,  of  five  generations  ?    Also,  what  is  the 


^ES  AKD  QUERIES. 


(6**  a  ILNoT.T.Ti 


dbseent,  and  by  wlmt  nUiaBc^^g,  from  Lord  Chief 
Justice  Gnai-oyne  to  tLat  WUliftm  Gascoyne  who 
was  fiither-in-law  of  ThomriR  AVent worth  of  Wont- 
worth  Woodhouiie  ?  a.  W.  ^V, 

KiRBT's    "WoNDERFtIL    AND    ECCRKTRIC   MtJ- 

6EUM." — VThtit  plate  should  vol,  iv.  have  for 
frontispiece  ?  It  is  wanting  in  every  copy  to  which 
I  have  had  access.  George  Potter, 

Bridgford  Familt.— I  ask  for  information 
reepecting  the  history  of  this  family  ;  the  arms 
are,  gules,  two  hars  between  three  luurtlets  argent* 
Could  they  hiive  been  in  any  way  connected  with 
BridgfoniHail  and  manor  in  the  parishes  of  St. 
Mary  and  Leighfdrd,  Stafford,  and  within  three 
miles  of  the  town  of  Stafford  I 

Charles  Trussel. 

Eerinald,  GotjxT  DE  Yallktorta. — Who  woa 
he  ?  He  married  the  hetross  of  Wtdter  do  Dunstfin- 
ville,  Lonl  of  Castlecombe^  and  of  Trematon  in 
right  of  his  wife,  who  was  the  tliird  daughter  and 
CO -heiress  of  RegioiUd  Fitz-Henr3'(orDim8tanville), 
Earl  of  CornwaU.  In  Burke^s  Peerage ^  it  is  said  that 
liichard  Plantagenet,  yonngier  son  of  King  John, 
had  »  natural  son,  Richard  de  Comewall,  by 
Beatrix^  niece  of  Conrad  of  Cologne  ;  whereas  in 
an  old  pedigree  in  the  possession  of  our  family  it 
is  stated  tliat  Jane  de  Vatletort  waa  the  mother  of 
this  Eiehard  de  Corn  e wall.  Iij  it  posiiible  thsit 
Eegmald,  Count  de  Valletorta,  wiw  a  Genimn 
noble  allied  to  the  Hoyal  Hou^  of  Cologne,  and 
that  a  mistake  in  the  Christian  name  was  made  / 
Was  the  surname  of  the  Eoyal  ITouBe  of  Cologne 
Valietortl  '  W.  G,  T, 

"  Our  affections  and  pftcsioni  conae  to  ttfl  from  a  dim 
recollection  of  a  former  eiaie,of  bemg/' 

What  Engliiih  poet  expresses  the  above  senti- 
ment ?  Prince. 

Se\*kkteenth   Centcrt  Tokens.— I  wkh  to 
•ppropriat-e  correctly  a  Berenteenth-century  token, 
[  but  the  eniecijnen  I  \ym&em  ia  ho  very  poor  that  I 
cannot  do  so  without  some  fiirther  confirmntion. 
Ka  far  rus  I  C4kn  make  out  it  reads,  Obv. :  **  William 
BIDE  "  (the  tield  detrited).     Rev.:  "  of  finchlte, 
i2j66r>.     w.  K-  H."     Can  any  of  your  readers  kindly 
.  inform  me  if  the  name  can  now  be  traced  to  that 
locality?     A  refctence  to  the  register,    perhaps, 
woidd   throw  some  light  on  the  matter.     It  is 
rather  singidiir  that  no  token  has  hitherto  been 
assigned  tu  that  then  important  vilhige*    Any  in- 
formation will  oblfge  Hexrt  CnRisTiE. 

SrAyDARD  WElunT??  A>*D    MEASt^RES    OF  ScOT- 

LAHD.— In  the  Guildhall  at  Stirling  these  are  pre- 
served ;  the  yiird  being  37i  inches,  the  pound  being 
I  £4  ounces.     How  is  it  that  they  were  different 
from  the  English  standard  I  S.  N. 


"  Gale." — In  the  Dean   Forest  a  mine  it  « 
callfid.     Is  the  won  I  Wehh  ?      A.  L.  Matbcw. 
Oxford. 

The  Powell   Faajilt  of    RADNonsntRE.— ! 
want  to  trace  the  descendants  of  John  Powell 
the   Castle"  Y       '        '    ^'  ^        ' 
his  wife.     Th.  P 

February  3,  iGi'Vf  ,  .>j;u;\.  nir  *.iu« 
Februar)'  of  the  following  year  ;  Jai 
1699  ;  Richard,  August,  \7nl  ;  Siu.,.. 
17n3;  and  Anne  in  Januarj%  1704.     'i 

four  other  children,  Vnr  rmne  of  the  n! > 

buried  or  married  n;  *d, 

Anne,  the  la«t  n  ,  was  the  wife  of 

Conyeia  Middleton,  whom  she  surrivcd.  SIM 
died  in  176(i,  and  left  her  pronertr  to  bet  nepbe^ 
John  Powell.  N.  fa.  RoBlirsoy. 

6,  Great  Queen  Streeti  Westminster. 

Count  Von  der  Mark,— Who  was  the  Pnissiaa 
Count  Von  der  Mark  at  the  close  of  f  v...  i,.=f  f^. 
tury  ?     Wus  the  title  borne  by  an  i  m 

of  the  King  of  Prussia  ?  J.    \\-    _  — r.R 

"  Oakleioh  Forest  Code." — ^Wherw  can  I  find 
the  OaklHgh  Forest  Code,  upon  which  so  mud 
praise  has  lately  been  bestowed  for  the  apizit  i' 
which  it  is  \^Tittcn  ?    A  writer,  in  a  w^-^H 
Liberal  papr  strongly  opposed  to  the  Game  I 
has  recently  stated  that  *4t  betrays  genuine  * 
tion  for  all  aspects  of  Nature."    On  this 
am  most  anxious  to  read  it. 

KiNii  STErnEN.— Can  any  of  your  readers  helj> 
me  to  fix  with  any  certainty  the  place  of  thedeuUi 
and  burial  of  King  Stex)hen  /  Did  he  dt^'  :»i 
Boulogne^  Dover^  or  Canterbury  i  Wtw  he  hunoi 
at  Faversham,  and  hiA  coffin  melted  down,  and  hi^ 
body  cast  into  the  river  at  the  time  of  the  di^s^ilu* 
tion  of  the  monasteries,  or  was  he  buried  at  i)ovep; 
and,  if  so^  is  thei"©  any  sound  ground  for  beln  -  :  ' 
the  embalmed  body,  lately  discovered  in  ai  l 
sea  chest  under  the  porch  of  8t.  Mary's  Church  lu 
that  town,  to  be  his  ?     G.  F.  Russell  Barkfji. 

Oxford  liquftre,  Hyde  Park. 

French    PiioyrNciATiojf.— Chuit^U,    in    the 
Ro^tiad,   makes   Bmis  rhyme   with   home.     Is  it 
possible  tliat  the  French  word  was  ever  9o  pin- 
nounced,  and  are  there  other  exanapkss  of  Wm  f" 
to  nie  a  novelty  ?     The  lines  are — 

"  NeKt  oune  the  Treasurer  of  cither  hotipe ; 
One  with  full  purse,  toother  with  not  a  bom," 

c.  B.  T. ; 

Eton. 

Words  ix  ax  Old   MS.— Ib   the   library 

Campsmount,    York.»?hire,    is    r*    tjiiriTiv^Hpt 
Robert  Parky n,  Presb,^  gTvir^  ^f  i 

sorrows  and  trials  of  "Holi 
days  of  Henry  VIIL  and  Edwwd  XL    He  »y» 


0*  8.  It  IToT.  7,  "i*.] 


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th.it  all  TicaPfs.  caraics,  &c.,  wore  compelled  to 
flive  in  All  iii>  nfcory  of  their  "  majss-books,  bells, 
^c^.^.aad  ciwrtchera,  port«S3e»,  and  primers,- ' 
What  19  the  meaoiJig  of  tiie  lfl.st  three  words  ? 

PBOTBSTAsrrs,— :Mny   I   ask    if   the  foUomng 

pMnagi  from  the  Vulgatii  firat  suggested  the  word 

Protestants/'  or  has  it  been  noticed  elsewhere  1^ 

*•  Hiiieh&ieu  Froi>b«t«s.  ut  r«Tert«rcntur  ivd  Dorainum, 

■r»  Uli  iiudire  ndebftut/*— 2   CbroniclcB 

xshr.l9. 

R.  a 

Cork- 

**Thk  Battle  op    this    Nile,**— I    wish    to 
I  recover  the  words  iind  the  music,  if  possible,  of 
Ithii  (tpiriteiJ  n) '    ■  >     --j,  beginDing— 
'Ariie,  mrise,  ions  arise,  and  join  in  the 

eboaUoflL.  , .,_  throng,"  Jtc. 

J.  w, 

EASTjmreTETi.— In  the  Daily  Nem  of  the  21st 
October,  in  o  pamgniph  commenting  on  the  recent 
in  support  of  the  movement  for  a  new 
pal  (government  for  London^  it  was  stated 
the  object  of  the  Bill  was  to  preserve  the 
Micient    lines  of   Sonthwark,   Westminster,   and 
Xioadon,  or  Eattmimtcr.     Several  readers  of  the 
fAngniph  have  asserted  this  last  name  to  be  his- 

(torioiL     If  such  be  the  case,  will  yon  kindly  refer 
me  to  «ome  authority  for  the  nse  of  the  word  ? 
pEttor  Gordon- 
MBDUEVAL  AND  MODERN  LATIN  AND 
GREEK  VERSE. 
(5«»  S.  il  248.  289,  337.) 
In  addition  to  the  works  mentioned  b)*  Lord 
Ltttklto!*  in  your  number  for  October  10, 1  htive 
^^in  iiiv  own  libnirythe  following^,  of  various  degrees 
^■ef  11  'i  I  have  arnmged  according  to  the 

^Bv«ir  [ablication.    It  Is  a  pretty  long  cata- 

^Viogue,  but  I  have  no  doubt  that  f«otne  of  your 
HTuden  will  be  able  to  supplement  it.  A  full 
■      ««c»unt  of  the  beat  writers  of  Latin  poetry  from 

fteenth  to  the  eighteenth  centuries  is  p^iven 
diJc,  in  his  work  entitled  Lehen  und  Wirkcn 
rtwjHchsten  latcmuchcn  DichUr  dei  XV.— 
f/.  Jttkrhundert^,  Wien,  1827. 
AUrandm'iot  Philip  GnuUier  de  (Th»til!afi,  Pro- 
*.  '  -  1  ins  of  Tuufrmy  about  the  year  1200,  *.  L 
^  the  celebmted  line— 
Scvllftin.  cupicuBYibire  Charybdin/* 

i\nd  othtT  poonMk,  about  1450. 

Mftr«Ihj*(  of  Constantinople, 

^vnimznnus, 

r.izii,  father 

iijmua  Vida, 

idu»,  Amctcrdam, 

.    pAris.  1570.— 

"n^r  /J'f'ianft   (i.-juiun,   i.'j 76),  collected  by 

I  Plclohcf  aiidothen.«-Da  Moain,  BiraitkiaM,  Pari*, 


im-Po 


1579.— Adrian  Tamebua,  Potmat^,  Paris,  1580.— Obio- 
poeup,  de  ArU  Bihtndij  Frankfurt,  1562. — Chrifftcpbiv 
Ocland,  Anphruai  Prodia,  London,  1682L  —  Pindoff 
translated  Into  Latin  Terse^  by  Sndoriua,  Paris,  1582.— 
G,  Sabiaua,  Leiozfg,  1589.— Janus  Dou«a,  Lcyden,  1691. — 
J.  Ruxelius,  Kothomagi,  1600.— D.  Blven»>iircr,  VeMm, 
Utrecht,  i<JOO.—A.  Jonjt<m,  1602.— J    ''  P&emaia^ 

Leyden,  1602.— BandiuB,  Poemaia,  Le  -Deliiiag 

Pottarum  Oaihrum,  1 609.— J .  8cali^<  i  dngo  Gfo- 

tius,  Poemaiit,  Amsterdam,  101«J. — Malapt:rtius,  Antwerp, 
1616.— Famianua  Strsda,  Proiution^9,  oontaiiiing  screrid 
pieocfl  of  origiiml  Latin  poetry,  Rome,  1617,  reprinted 
at  Oxford  1745.  — Cardinal  Barberini  (Pope  Urbao 
VI I L),  Poemata^  reprinted  at  Oxford,  1726.— Thomas 
Campnni  JSpiurammeUa*  London,  1611'. — Paulas  Thomas, 
Paris,  ltj27.— Nicolaut  Bcwbomuf,i*omae»a,  Paris,  1630. 
—  W.  Dmry,  th^matka  poemuta,  1628.  —  Winseaiii 
Amorttf  Franek^rsD,  ]631. — DtUtim  Pottmrum  Se&to- 
rum,  Amsterdam,  1637,  —  Z)«6^ft?  ihUtiarvm,  A,  B. 
Wright^  Oxford,  1637. — Alexander  Ross,  VtrffUuu 
SmnmliMaiUf  London,  16^18,  from  which  it  is  pretended 
that  Alilton  copied  much  of  the  Eleventh  and  TvrelfUi 
Books  of  his  Paraditt  Lost,  —  Lifcknocauiia  f.  mutalia 
fa€um  Mmblemaia^  Light's  Moral  Emblems,  by  Robert 
Farley,  a  Scotchman.  London,  1638,  pp.  70;  Kalmdfr 
of  Mali's  L(f€r  by  tbe  same,  pp.  74.  Both  the  aibove 
works  contain  translations  into  Latin,  in  viuioaa  metres, 
of  the  English  remes. — Zerecotitu,  Blegwu^  ke ,  Am- 
sterdam. 1640.— J.  BMtt,  Lyi<cat  Levden,  1646.— f»w- 
v€rh$  of  Solomon,  in  Greek,  by  Duport,  Cambridge,  1616. — 
Baotei  Heinsins,  Poemata  iMiina  ti  Graeea.  Amsterdam, 
1649.- Ravisias  Textor,  JCpifframmeUa.  Rotterdam,  1651, 
— Duport,  JoIj,  in  Greek  hexameters,  Cambridge,  1653. — 
J.  Bathurst,  transliition  of  Spenser's  Shephtard's  Oaim^ 
(far,  16.^3. —CI.  Quillet,  CaUipaed*a,  Leyden,  1655  (praised 
by  Halbm,  Lrttraiuit,  lit.  p.  401),— Caspar  fiariasui, 
PotinaUi,  Amsterdimi,  1655. — Bngenius,  Memetkta  Ds- 
smUffria,  the  Uaicue,  1655.— Sidronius  Hosaohius,  MU- 
giarum  liLri  i^r,  ittm  G.  Becani  Idyll ia  d  Eiefftatt  Ant- 
werp, 1667.— Abraham  Cowley,  Poemata  Lfittna,  Lon- 
don, 1668.— Petrui  Molinieua,  HymTU  on  the  ApottM 
Crt^d,  aho  Ecchsitu  Ofmitut^  containinfc  an  attack  upon 
the  ivipnTiijtimtPt  n^bidOf  Milton,  «kc.,  Cambridge,  lo70. 
— W.  Dillinghani,  PoemnUi  VaHi  j4 rgtimeiifi,  London, 
167S.— Joebua  Barnes,  History  of  Either  in  Laii%  Htza^^ 
meitritf  London,  1679.— J,  CommiriuB,  Latin  and  Greek 
poems,  Paris,  1681.— Rapin,  Carmina,  Paris,  1681.— 
Selfrtff  Poemata  Italorum^  od.  by  Bishop  Atterbury* 
London,  16S4.— J.  Aurati  Paematia,  Paris,  1686,— Par- 
then  iu»,  PUcatorta  it  Nautica,  Naples,  1686.— -^gidlus 
Menafdus,  PotmiUaf  Amsterdam,  Wetstein,  Sth  ed,  1687. 
—  fi*/i<i«  Danorum  PoOamm,  Leyden,  1693.— Francias, 
Poemata  Latina  et  Qr^oitca,  Amsterdam,  W2^.--The  Pro* 
rerbt  qf  Solom^tn,  in  Latin  hexameters,  by  G.  Hogaeus, 
London,  1699.— J.  A.  Thuani  Poemata  .Sacra,  Paris,  1699. 
—P.  Huetins,  Utrecht,  1700.— T,  Dibben,  translation  of 
Prior's  Carmm  Stculaif,  London,  1700,— Greman.  trans- 
lation of  Boileaa's  Epiire  ntr  V Amour  de  Dieu^  Paris, 
1706.— Jfu<a<  Briiat^nicae,  London,  1 71 L—P**/***,  trans- 
lated into  Greek  hexameters  by  Duport.— Da  la  Monnoye, 
Pormata,  La  Have,  1716.— Father  Francis  Noel  (Prank- 
fort),  1717.— M,  Maittaire.  translation  of  several  Greek 
poems  into  Latin  vers*?,  London,  1722. — Albert  Ines, 
Lyrieorum  HAcroamatum  Kpiyrammatkorvm  CmturiaM^ 
3rd  ed.,  Cologne,  1723.— J.  A.  Vnlpius,  PaUrii,  1705.- 
Sdeda  Poemata  Ar<:fn7mldi  Pi'  ^'fitlmi  Scot  a 

TkirkiiadiM,  Tkmw  £ineadu,  irgh,  1727.— 

CarmiiM  Qwndmguimatia,  Oxt  Prior's  SoU^ 

7H0H.  on  (Kt  Vanity  ofiht  World,  traosUted  by  W.  Dobson, 
Oxford,  1734.— Lntm  andEnglish  poems, by  a  Gentleman 
of  Trinity  College,  Oxford,  London.  1741. — Vanierius  (a 
Jesuit)  Pmtdmm.   Rusticum,   Toulouse,  1742.— Jftwoe 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEJ 


Mheioricaff  P&rii,  1745. — Carding]  FoYifSJiACt  Afiti-Lucrt* 
tiKj,  Paris,  1746. — Adiiani  Rolandi,  Po^nmUif  Utrecht, 
nAS.—Po«mata  Didatcalica,  Pftrin,  1749.— Joseph  Beau- 
tnontp  original  Poems  in  Eagliah  aod  Latin,  C&ra bridge, 
1749, — Milton's  Paradist  io*(,  traiwkted  intu  Latin  hcica. 
meters  by  W.  Dobson*  Oxford,  17£»0. — Pope,  Eisay  on 
Matkt  tmnalated  into  Latin  hcxauietcraby  J.  Q.  Am-ende, 
Leyden,  175L~P.  J,  8aut«l  (Jesuit),  Lmus  Po^tici  Alle- 
fforici,  Parii,  1753^  and  Gabriel  Madelenetua. — 1:^.  Bishop, 
Feritu  Pmtxcae,  hondan^  176G. — P.  Maaenitta*  SarcoUiei 
(Paris,  1771),  to  vhom  Milton  is  said  to  be  indebted  for 
many  of  his  grandest  ideas.— J.  Burton,  Opuscuia  MiictL 
lanta  Afcfn'oo-srojaica,  Oxford,  1771. — Satitenii  Carminaf 
Utrecht,  1780— J.  Farsetins,  Leyden,  1785.— Coi^cfio 
Potfarum  BUffiaeorum  stylo  CafvUiano  rt  Oridwno,  by 
C.  Michftpler,  Librarian,  Imperial  Library,  Vienna, 
4  vols.,  1785-1789  (from  the  library  of  Dr.  Samuel  Parr). 
— I>r  Jortin,  Lujus  Poelid^  in  tnlscollaneouB  tracts, 
London*  1790,  —  Samuel  Butler,  Potttiata  utriiaqut 
Jjirttfuae,  Cambridge,  171^7.  —  0§nani  Darlhula  Oractr 
Mfddi(a,\Y,  Herbert,  London,  1 801  .-^T.  Wurton.  Potmaia 
Ifexamefra  H  Epiqrammata,  ed.  by  R.  Mant,  Oxford, 
1802.— N.  Kerr,  Pmmiia,  Oxford.  1802.  — Bloomeeld*! 
Farmer' t  Boy,  translated  into  Lattn  hexameters  by  W, 
Clubbe,  LL.B„  Ipswich,  \m%--MiiceUaneQtt4  Poetical 
TraiutaiwHSt  by  lie t.  P.  Howes,  London,  1806,— Alex- 
andre Viel,  translatioB  into  Latin  hexameters  of  F^nelon's 
T^Umaqu^,  Paris,  1808*  —  P.  Hodgson,  miicellaneoua 
Poems,  English  and  Latin,  London,  1809. — Poeivu,  Latin, 
Orcek,and  Bnglbh,  by  N.  Hardlnge, London,  181 3.— Orfcu 
Lfttinnf,  T.  J.  Mathias,  Naples,  1B19. — Nmjag  Mdru^t, 
by  Sir  H,  Halford,  Bart,,  \%il.Sdva€  Hecrhiioxft,  Dean 
Herbert,2nd  ed,,  London,  lM^.—Potmata  et  Insert  ptionfs^ 
itovii  auxit  Savaffitut  Lanchr,  1847.  —  Oems  of  Latin 
Poetry,  Andrew  Amos,  Cambridge.  1851.  —  H.  Stadel- 
mmm.  Farm  VaHorum  Carmina^  Qnoldi,  1854.— Hood's 
Smwited  Home,  translated  by  P.  A.  Longmore,  London, 
ISfiS. — M.  Seyffert,  Carmina  Latina^  Leipzig,  1857. — 
CanufMrf  J.  Stuart  Blackie,  Edinburgh.  185iJ.  —  /*n>- 
lufionetf  Orateae  et  Latinatf  Raleigh  Treveljan,  2nd  ed*, 
London,  1864, — Fuuciculu^,  edid^runt  L.  (iiUley  *!t  R. 
Thornton,  London,  1866.— fTeipfriciMm  SHfUrri,  Brady, 
Tyrrell  and  Cullinan,  1867. 

H.  A,    HOLDEN. 
School  Hotjse,  Ipswich. 

I  think  that,  on  makinjij  Catulo^mes  of  these  pub- 
lished prodiictioDs,  it  would  foe  eidvisable  to  divide 
theoi  into  two  classes :  (1.)  Original  Poems ;  (2.) 
TranelationB.  It  would  9(^em  to  have  been  the 
general  practice  in  former  yetu-g  for  original  copies 
of  veraes  to  have  been  composed  on  a  «et  subject  or 
tbesta,  such  rw  those  in  the  Mum!  AngHcantr.  and 
Carmina  QuadrageHmaiia^  ihotigh^  cerUiinly,  Vin- 
cent  Bourne  \u\s  a  few  tranalations  from  English 
poetry.  In  more  recent  days,  the  practice  of  setting 
measLgen  from  English  poets  for  tninshition  into 
Latin  or  Greek  verse  became  nsiia^  and,  as  ex- 
cellent specimens  of  scholarship  of  this  kind,  there 
are  the  Anindine^  Cami,  the  AntJwh^ia  Oxo- 
nietnitf  and  the  ^abrino!  Corolla. 

John  PicKranD,  M.A. 

Newbonme  Rectory,  Woodb  ridge. 

The  translation  of  Enoch  Arden  into  Latin  verse, 
by  the  Rev.  Prof.  Selwyn,  of  Cambridge^  published 
by  Moxon  in  1867,  should  be  added.    F.  H.  H. 


r'u_.„*,.»J..,T 


SIR  CHRISTOPHER  WANDE8F0RDB,  U>RD 

CASTLECOMER. 
(S^h  S.  ii.  327) 

Born  1502,  at  Bishop  Burton,  Yorkshire;  van  of 
Sir  George  WamleHforde  of  Kirklingtoo  ;  educated 
at  Clare  H:ill,  Cftin bridge  \  M.P.  1638  ;  a  manaiTr 
of  the  impeachment  of  the  Duke  of  Btickingbi: 
aci>oiiipjinietl  Lord  Wentworth  to  Ireland  m  M'  ■ 
of  the  Rolls,  1633  ;  knighted,  1636  ;  Lord  De^i  n 
lt!4tl;    created    Baron    Mowbray  ^nd    Vift«*uL. 
Caatlecomer  ;    died  1640.     His  works  publi-hed 
by  his  descendant,  Dr.  Comber. 

The  portrait  at  Leeds  Ethibition,  1868,  was  in 
the  possession  of  the  Rev.  H.  G,  W.  Comber.  It 
was  a  good  one,  very  highly  finished,  more  like 
Coraelma  Jan  sen  than  Vandyck  i  but  there  i» 
an  engraving  by  Watson,  after  Vandyck,  whicb 
may  be  from  this  picture.  See  Evana'a  CattlogOft, 
No,  1U9IL  RjLLPH  N,  Jamsl 

P.S. — A  long  notice  of  Wandesforde  ia  to  be 
found    in    Hailstone's    Yorkshire    Wort- 
there  were  only  fifty  copies  printed,  I  «i 
where  Curio  could  find  one,  and  it  is  a  i»  .t-^uiu.* 
book. 

The  Wandesfords  were  a  Yorkfibire  f;r 
in  1660,  Sir  Christopher  Wand eafordwa 
and  had  his  estate  sequestered*    But  at  the  I 
kition  he  was  sworn  ot  the  Fnvy  Council,  aii'''. 
17n6j  advanced  by  Qneen  Anne  to  the  pecri.' 
Ireland,  a.**  Baron  WaDde»ford  and  Viscf^iuif  (  t^tlf 
comer  (not  Castle  Comer).     He  died  in  Lotiduo     J 
1 3th  September,  1707.     His  grandson  John,  fifth     I 
Viscount  Castle  comer,  was  created  Earl  '^'  W"'-      T 
desford  1758,  and  died  1784  without   i 
all  his  honours  becaiue  extinct.    See  Bu.^. .    - 
find  Fe^age,  G.  W.  W. 

John,  the  last  Earl,  had  an  only  diingbter  an«l 
heir,  Lady  Anne,  who  married  John.  Earl  of 
Ormonde/  Fredehic  Orvnr, 

A  memoir  of  him  will  be  found  in  Chalnim* 
Biog,  IHct.^  vol.  xxxi.     Tlie  dates  of  creation  ia 
his  family  were,  Baronet,  1662  ;   Baron  Wan<!«»- 
ford  and  Caatlecomer  in  the  County  of  Kilk'f^i^i 
1706;   Earl  of  Wamlesford,  1758;  all  of  v  i 
became  extinct  in  1784,     A  volume  <  ^* 
writings,  together  with  a  memoir  of  « 
Wandeaford,  was  published  in  1778  by  ms  .: 
great-grandson,  Dr.  Thomas  Comber. 

Edward  Soli,*. 

SuttoDj  Surrey. 

Probably   the   portrait   is  that    ' 
WandcHford,  who  held  the  Iris-h  M 
Rolls  from  1632  until  his  death  in  I 
He  was  a  friend  of  the  great  St  ? 
grandfather  to  the  first  Viscount  <.    .  .. 
waa  a  leadijig  Whig  at  the  time  of  the  J : 
AXFBED  B.   i 

Preston, 


I 


The  following  extract  from  Bromley ■»  Catahffue 
of  Engrarcd  BrUish  Porirait^^  Loiid»,  1793,  p*  80, 
may  he  of  semce  to  Curio  : — 

"  Sir  Chriitopber  Wandesfard,  Lord  Bepoty  of  Ire* 
latid,  ot>,  1640.  In  the  Hou^bton  Collection.  Paitited 
ty  Van  Dyck  ;  engraved  by  Watfton.     Mczrotint'* 

GfouaE  iL  Trahbrne. 

The  chief  property  in  the  coaJ-mmea  of  this 
pftiish  Wfis  vested  Ln  the  Wandesford  family,  to 
whom  this  place  gave  the  title  of  Earl,  now  extinct, 
and  whose  representative,  the  Hon.  Uhcirle*^  Butler 
Wandeeford,  brother  of  the  Mwrquia  of  Ormonde, 
mhejited  in  right  of  his  motb*-r,  the  sister  *»f  the 
late  Lord  Wandesford,  and  has  a  handsome 
modem  residence  adjoining  the  town. 

W.  H.  Oaklet. 

Wyfordhy  Rectory. 

No  one  of  the  name  of  Wandesford  was  Irisli 
Lord  Chief  Baron  since  16! K),  or  Puisne  Baron 
aincc  1767,  nor  i»  there  Jiny  one  of  tlie  natue  of 
Wandesford  in  the  list  of  Lord  Chancellors,  Lords 
Cliief  Justice,  or  Lords  Chief  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Pleas,  aince  lf>f>().  I  aliva^s  iin(lersto<Hl  that 
t^  founder  of  the  Wandesford  family  was  a  suc- 
;uJ  lawyer,  and  was  disappointed  at  not  finding 
name  either  among  the  Irish  Judges,  or  on 
iWe  list  of  Attorney-Oencmh  or  Solicitor- Genends 
for  Ireland  since  1690.  I  should  suggest  to  Ci'Rio 
t4i  examine  the  roll  of  the  English  judges. 

JosEFH  Fisher. 
Wittrford. 


THE  ARMS  OP  SIR  PRANXIS  BRAKE. 
(•4**  S.  xl  464,  514  ;  xii.  35  ;  b^  S.  ii.  232.) 
My  attention  has  been  frequently  directt^d  hy 
Cnends  to  the  inquiries  of  your  correspondent 
Query,  and  pressing  engagements  have  caused  a 
tieb}*  from  which  I  expected  to  benefit  by  being 
Able  to  deal  comprehensively  with  any  further 
4|tierte»  that  might  arise  in  the  interval 

Your  readers  are  aware  tlmt  there  waA  no  chance 
of  reply  to  Sir  William  Brake  in  the  Herald  and 
Ommlogisty  as  it  closed  in  June  last,  with  the 
ntimber  containing  his  article.  St  ill  the  advantage 
remainn  of  a  wider  diffusion  of  information  through 
the  more  popular  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.,'*  and,  craving 
your  permission,  for  the  sake  of  a  name  endeajred 
to  Englishmen,  I  will  involve  a  reply  to  Query  in 
a  few  remarks  on  Sir  William's  letter,  leaving  my 
paper  in  the  Atdwtological  Journal  to  supply 
rurther  details. 

I  desire  to  force  my  opinions  on  no  one ;  the 
must   ipeak  for  themselves,  and  they  are 
lent  to  guide  the  judgment,     I  only  ask  your 
rs  to  bear  in  mind  Fullers  summary  of  Sir 
CIS  Drake,  quoted  also  by  Prince,  that  **  hf  loas 
vtry  ffligioui  man,  juit  in  his  dealings^  true  of 
is  word.-^    He  was  a  FuritAD,  as  his  letters  will 


show  ;  but  it  requires  a  peculiar  intimacy  with  the 
family's  history  to  state  that  they  were  of  the  same 
type,  and  long  continued  so.  Sly  surmise  in  the 
Archaeological  Journal  respecting  Henry  Drake, 
of  Ash,  a  comrade  or  proUgl  of  Sir  Francis,  is 
proved  correct  by  the  tone  of  his  letter  printed 
among  the  Tnvdyan  Papers  (Camd.  Hoc). 

By  such  men,  a  prospective  **  mansion  in  the 
skies  '^  is  esteemed  more  than  a  town  house  in  Bel- 
gravia,  and  the  quartered  coat  of  Percy  would  be 
prchuounced  only  motley  wear ;  therefore,  by  the 
aid  of  a  little  reflection  at  the  outset,  the  incon- 
sistency of  the  conscientious  Sir  Francis  Drake 
^issuming  the  arms  of  a  stranger  is  manifest.  Sir 
Williani  asserts  that  Sit  Fnmcis  "desired  to 
connect  himself  with  the  Ash  family."  For  why  ? 
He  w*as  on  the  pinnacle  of  world-wide  fame,  whdo 
Aah  but  for  him  would  have  remained  compara- 
tively imknown.  Ash  itself  was  mortgaged  to  him 
by  Bernard  Drake,  whose  family  benefited  by  his 
patronage.  Bernard's  nephew  was  nmned  Francis 
after  him,  and  was  styled  cousin  in  his  will.  Sir 
William  attaches  no  importance  t-o  this  in  proof 
of  relationship.  It  would  be  more  extraordinary 
if  all  of  bis  surname  then  in  Devon  had  not  a 
common  origin.  The  term  cousin  will  generally 
disclose  kinship  when  due  research  ijs  possible  ; 
even  when  used  formerly  by  crowned  heads  it  im- 
plied as  much.  Witness  the  policy  tif  Henry  VII, 
to  prove  his  nobles  allied  to  him  in  blood  {CoU. 
T&p.  tt  Gen,), 

Query  is  quite  correct  in  stating  that  the  entry 
in  the  C'OUege  rif  Arms  (F.  12,  fo.  164)  was  not  a 
*^  propoMd  addition  "  to  the  grant.  It  is  evidence 
sepanitely  recorded  in  a  different  handwriting,  and 
probably  appended  by  Garter  expressly  to  prevent 
future  question.  It  is  on  one  of  the  folios  in  the 
middle  of  the  voloyic,  and  not  on  the  *^  fly-leaf," 
as  Sir  William  mistakes.  If,  however,  the  book 
is  made  up  of  a  collection  of  loose  papers,  of  which 
the  draft  of  the  grunt  to  Sir  Fnincis  was  one,  we 
obtain  the  valuable  evidence  that  the  entry  was 
considered  authentic  and  important  enough  to 
secure  the  preservation  of  the  fly-leaf. 

To  enable  the  geneml  reader  to  form  his  opinion 
of  this  portion  of  the  evidence  of  Sir  Francis 
Drake's  title  to  the  wyvem,  I  here  re-quote  it  :  — 

*'Yet^  notwithstanding  the  sayd  Sir  PrnunciB  Brike 
may  by  prerogative  of  hi<  birth,  nnrl  by  right  de«c«nt  from 
his  auncestor,  beftr  the  arms  of  hi<i  itanuime  »nd  fvnily^ 
to  wit,  Argent.  »  waver  drii|;Qn  geutes,  with  the  difference 
of  ft  third  brother,  aa  1  am  credibly  informed  by  the 
teittmony  of  BHm&rd  Drake  of  the  Countv  of  Devon, 
Efiqaire,  Chief  of  that  Oot-arniure,  and  sundry  othecv  of 
that  family  of  worship  and  good  credit.'* 

So  far  clear  ;  but  from  the  rough  draft,  when 
describing  the  crest,  were  struck  out  the  words, 
"a  red  dragon  volant  sheweth  itaelf  "  on  board  the 
ship,  and  this  omission,  among  others,  I  accounted 
for  in  the  Herald  and  Otnialogist  without  marking 
the  distinction  between  the  rough  draft  and  the 


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15*  S.  II.  KoT*  7,  * 


rider  to  the  grant.  Sir  Willbm  proves  that,  not- 
withntandixtg  this  cancel,  the  dragon  m  to  be  seen 
in  the  CoDege  of  AnuB  so  *^  depicted  by  Vincent  "* 
on  the  crest  of  Sir  Francis,  and  that  it  was  so  borne 
by  "  the  famHj  as  late  a^  1740."  I  have  elsewhere 
indicated  where  it  miiy  be  so  seen  repeatedly,  and, 
in  all  caaee,  an  bonoiirjible  charge.  If,  theo»  the 
dragon  was  practically  re-ini;tatcd  ut  the  time,  after 
having  been  cancelled  in  the  draft,  a  fortiori  the 
unim peached  testimony  of  the  appendix  reveals  the 
unchallenged  title  of  Sir  Francis,  I  submit  the 
case. 

Sir  William  errs  in  ascribing  to  me  the  assertion 
that  **  Prince  stands  convicted  of  mis-Btutenient  in 
describiDg  the  arms  of  iJr^ike  of  Ash©  arg.,  a 
wyvern  gu!es."  I  meant  thtit  Prince's  story  of  the 
Qneen*s  petulance,  in  hanging  up  the  wyvem  by 
the  heels  in  8ir  Francis*i3  crest,  to  disgrace  Sir 
Bernard  and  to  commemorate^  an  alleged  quarrel, 
tnma  out  to  be  nntme.  As  to  the  arms  of  Bralce 
of  A^h,  that  i|ue8tion  ia  aptirt  from  Pi'ince,  and 
wiH  be  found  more  fully  discussed  in  the  AtiIxt- 
chgic4jl  Jounuil,  where  Sir  Bernard  is  proved  to 
have  been  the  lirst  of  his  liouse  to  resume  the 
ancient  wyvera.  This  brings  me  to  Query's 
question  about  the  monument,  which  Sir  William 
cites  to  prove  the  use  of  the  wyvem  by  Sir 
Bernard's  fatlier.  I  sketched  the  nmnument  years 
ago;  it  was  partly  erected  {in  IGll)  by  Sir 
Bernard's  son,  was  finished  by  his  grandson,  and, 
therefore,  furnishes  no  evidence  to  the  point.  Yet 
it  is  not  without  its  import.  Over  each  of  the 
three  shields  placed  on  it  is  an  eagle  displayed, 
which  crest  was  used  by  Sir  Francis  on  his  seal, 
and  was  engraved  over  his  arms  in  his  folio  por- 
trait; while  the  crest  allowed,  in  162t>,  by  the 
College  of  Anna,  and  used  by  the  Drakes  of  Ash, 
was  a  dexter  arm  grasping  a  battle-axe,  the  same 
as  they  had  before  borne  with  their  distinctive  coat 
of  a  chevron  between  three  hzdberts,  and  with 
which  coat  it  well  htu-monized. 

Since  it  is  sought  to  overrule,  with  Prince's 
hearsay  evidence,  the  concurrent  testimony  of  wit- 
nesses  who  lived  and  died  before  Prince  was  bom, 
it  ia  necessary  to  examine  into  his  trustworthiness 
as  a  county  biographer.  Without  enlisting  other 
charges,  let  us  consuler  his  evidence  and  treatment 
of  the  one  family  of  Brake.  He  took  no  pains  to 
identify  the  father  of  Sir  Francis  Drake,  an  e^isy 
task  in  his  time,  and  one  that  ought  naturally  to 
occur  to  a  biognipher  ;  he  left  it  for  n%  and,'  by 
the  way,  this  simple  case  may  undeceive  Sir  Wil* 
liam,  by  showing  that,  with  our  modem  appliances, 
the  "  lapse  of  300  years  "  offers  no  insuriuoun table 
obstacle  to  the  discovery  of  historical  truth  in 
all  crises.  Prince  did  not  stop  to  extinguish  or 
otherwise  the  several  brothers  of  Sir  Francis.  He 
gave  incorrect  and  idle  evidence  concerning  the 
anna  without  looking  into  the  grant  for  the  tmth, 
and  he  stated  that  Sir  Francis  was  "  once  married*' 


when  his  widow  waa  hiJi  iecond  wife,  a  Cu^  not 

overlookc»d  by  Stowe  (see  abo  **  K    "^   ^!*      "^8. 
iw).     Although  mixed  up  with  th"  Sir  j 

Bernard,    coneeraiog    whom    in   p.^..  f   i§  i 

sought  that   his  testimony  shall  be   accci 
tra  at  worthy,  he  states  that,  after  the   att 
gaol  fever  in  Exeter,  "Sir  Bernard  had  Bin 
enongh  to  recover  home  to  his  House  in  Asfa^  j 
not  enough  to  overcome  the  Disease,  for  be 
thereof  soon  after,  and  was  buried  in  bis     ' 
of  Musbury  a.o.  1585  !   in  an  Isle  of  wkich  tfe 
several  Monuments,  but,  I  think,  no  Epitaplis.- 


Sir: 

ht 
i  io\ 


reit:; 
1H48  :— '*Mt., 


There  are  epitaphs,  and  the  one 
Bernard,  inscribed  IGU,  does  not 
was  buried,  but  states  that  be  died  *' 

He  did  not  reach  Musbury,  but  ^ 
Crediton,  within  a  more  easy  d;  ' 
miles  from  Exeter)  ;   and  th< 
Crediton  records  that  Sir  Beiu.»ir- 
was  buried  12tb  April,  1586. 

Princess  ignorance  or  reticence  c 
death  and  strange  burial  of  Sir  Ber 
heir  has  been  matter  of  surprise  to 
see   Yonge's  Diary^  Camd,  Soc, 
John  Drake,  of  Ash,  die<l  the  llth  of  April,  1<S2^J 
and  was  buried  privately  the  same  night,  htxag 
Good  Friday,"    The  epitaph  in  Musbury  agrew  - 
in  diit^. 

Lastly,  Prince  says  that  Shr  John  Drake  (thtJ 
great-grandson  of  Sir  Bemiu^d)  lived  in  retirement] 
while  Ash  was  being  rebuilt,  and  died  unmarried  I  ] 
In  the  Act  Book  at  Exeter,  I  have  seen  the  licence  1 
of  marriage,  January,  1674-5,  between  this  "  John 
Dnike  of  Ash,  Baronet,  and  Catherine  PrideftQi 
of  Ford/' 

Having  shown  that,  in  these  instances,  Prince j 
was  inaccurate  and  careless  about  seeking  infonna* 
tion,  or  verifying  what  he  had  acquired,  cuutioit^ 
shoultl  be  exercised  in  advancing  his  testimony  ia 
opposition    to    that    of    disinterested  and  older j 
writers.     Itjs  not  within  my  province  at  pn 
to  answer  Qttery's  other  question. 

HsyRY   H.   DiLAKS. 

London. 

f  A  note  on  the  above  subject,  by  Sir  Will iam  Drskejin 
are  reluctantly  compelled  to  defer  till  next  week.} 


«  The  Bihtkrfly's  Ball  '*  (5*^  S,  ii-  327,  mt$ 
— Being  indebted  to  Z.  Z.  for  some  vn ! 
foTOiation    through    "  N.  &  Q.,**   I    h 
pleasure  in  answering  her  questions.     Tlml  Jilr*,  j 
Somerville  should  have  attributed  this  to  MimJ 
Fanshawe  seems  to  me  curious.     Thut 
author  of  the  "  Enigma  "  (so  Allibone  < 

the  letter  H.,  but  W.  Roscoe  wa^ '^ 

ButUrflys  Ball^  as  a  reference  (it 
other)  to  an  easily *accessible  book     ,.. 
Quarterly  Rtviar  (June  1B12,  p.  266)  sai-s  ;— 

**  Mr.  RoBccte  itill  continaes  to  be  estimatetl  l>r  Ul^ 
first  ftnd  bett  p«i  formance,  exoeptinjc,  indeed,  to  uri 


^iiA 


m 


und  more  popuiur  test  has  been  fumidhed  by 
litf  Tcnea,  lome  af  ii'hicb  poaiets  conAiderable  meriL 

I  Among  the  t*iter  wo  would  particularly  mctatuce  two 
l»ag»t<5lU  pr^Cei^  Tht  Butterfl/i  BaU  and  Th  BtUtet'Jty^t 

L  J\i^^ai,  which  might  not  ufuip%  be  described  bm  a  pair 
pf  briiiuinli.** 


[of    > 

flu  y.i  '■     ■     /.' 

Sriti-h  1  'i  if'. 

*•  la  oup  re» 

of  tb««e  i 

amid  del' 

befttd  of  i-    ^ 

3f5le  FuKts'  Urand    Gaia^  &c. 


of  one  of  the  numerous  imiLitions 

fhji  Hall^  ntiniely^  The  ConrfrtM  of 

'i^:  or,  the  Fka'i  Turtk  Fcani  aiul 

f'tdl^  tt  satificiil  po^m,  180S,  the 


f(/i  Ball  and  Tlu;  Pea- 
ttemptt  at  «n  imitation 
...  But  no  warning 
imltaiors;  and  w«  have 
Th^.  LiofCi  Ma^qufTadtf 
nay  even    Th€  Roxt'i 


BrtakfaiL''—{\o\.  xiii.  p.  t>5».j 

Ta  these  may  be  added  Tht  EUphanfs  Ball  (by 
W-  B.)  .  * .  iUustnited  by  enrnviogs  [by  W,  Mul- 
teoiijl  18u7  ;  The  Bogles  Masque^  by  Tom  TiJt 
.[pstTidJ]  [London],  18(18;  The  Emperor's  Eont; 
or,  thii  Ptivft  of  Uu  MoUla  [in  verae],  a  companion 
I  to  the  celebrated  Buttcrjltfs  Ball  .  .  .  Ltjndoir, 
CliArles  Tilt.  1831,  and  The  BoianUai  and  Horti- 
cuHural  Mtding  ...  in  imitation  of  The  Balkr- 
a  Lady,  from  Notes  by  John  Quill, 
,1634. 

at  Home  is  the  other  work  men- 

I  tioneti  by  Z.  Z.    It  is  an  astonishing  thing  that^  if 

I  ft  vfr.rL    1^  .ince  attributed  to  a  particular  person^ 

no  !  aufEcient  to  efface  the  wrong,  even 

thou^  1  by  the  pemon  to  whom  the  work  m 

■KTongly  attributeti.     It  in  now  upwards  of  MLxty 

years  since  Miss  Ciitherine  Fanshawe  denied  with 

iodignalion  (!)  that  she  was  the  author  of  The 

Ffocodi  at   HtnHt\     (See  British  Critic  for  Nov., 

18<i7,  Preface,  p.  xvit  and  p.  555).     Hie  Feaeock 

I  tU  Hquh  h  given  in  the  Biographical  DicUonary 

of  Livifuj  Auth<»-$j  ISIG,  to  Mrs,  Dorset,  sister  of 

th*^  Lite  Mra,  Charlotte  SmitL     The   title-page 

s  it  to  be  '*  a  sequel  to  TliC  Butterfly's 

i  1  18  "illustrated  with  elegant  engravings" 

[^i'\   ^> .  Mulrciidy?). 

Thijj^  like  the  other,  produced  imitations  ;  for 

eianipWi  "  The.  Pencoek  and  Fairot  on  tluir  Tour 

in  Search  oftht  A  nthor  of  *  The  Fe<icock  at  Ifome/ 

nngnivinga^  Lon<L,  Harris,   1810."      I  take 

titl©   from   Watt's   BibliotJieea,   and   do  not 

for  ita  accuracy.  Olphar  Hambt. 

5ew  Bamet,  Herts. 

I  think  there  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  author- 
ohip  of  this  «?legant  juvenUe  poem.     It  will  be 
*       '    V    '^    Foeticul  Worh  of  William  Boxcoe, 
It  Also  appeared  in  a  little  volume, 

ili^'^  1  uKoi$  by  t^*  ^f f^rrs  of  a  Family  Cirehj 

oail  ftttnbnted  to  ( !  family.     The  edition 

of  Roiooe'a  poems  .x^^,^  ...ined  is  very  imperfect, 
pfieo«9  being  omitted  which  came  from  hia 
William  E.  A.  Axoisr, 


k 


The  only  information  I  can  give  i«  derived  from 
my  uiother,  whose  ejirly  daya  were  p:issed  in 
Liverpool  She  always  spoke  of  it  as  the  work  of 
Mr.  Koacoe,  and  I  did  not  know  tlmt  there  was 
an)-*  doubt  about  it.  She  also  intimated  that  it 
was  a  sort  of  squib,  originating  in  some  civic 
entcrtiiionient,  so  far  as  I  remember,  and  that  the 
iliuatrations  were  portraits,  or  caricatiu^s,  of  Liver- 
pool notabilities  of  that  time.  I  have  never  seen 
a  copy  of  the  original  edition,  and  mention  the 
above  particulars  as  I  heard  them  years  ago,  in 
the  hope  that  some  one  better  informed  than  iny- 
mlf  may  be  able  to  authenticate  them. 

W.  E.  Buckley. 

This  poem  was  written  by  Charlotte  Smith, 
afterwards  Mrs.  Dorset.  She  also  wrote  Tfis 
Peacock  at  Home.  Mrs.  Dorset  resided  for  many 
years  at  Brighton,  where  she  died  about  1828. 
"  Sonnets  by  Charlotte  Smithy  with  plates  after 
Stotliard  and  other  artists,"  were  publii^hetl  in 
1797.  S,  D.  S. 

"  Like  to  the  damask  hose  tou  see/*  &c.  (5***  S. 
ii,  227,  296,  336.)— It  seema  to  me  that  we  are  all 
WTont;  in  some  way  about  this  little  poem  except 
Dr,  £.  CoBnA3i  Brewer,  who  does  not  point  out 
the  author  of  the  words  in  question,  but  of  the 
originiU  from  which  they  were  probablv  derived. 
All  who  quote  Simon  WasteU's  Micrdihlia  {sic) 
upon  the  authority  af  ISIackay's  A  Tliottaand  atid 
One  Gems  of  Poetry^  have  been  misled  by  their 
authority.  The  Microbiblion  of  Simon  Wastel  is, 
as  the  author  expresses  it,  ^'  The  Bible's  Epitome, 
in  verse,'*  and  does  not  contain  anything  of  this 
kind.  Sinmn  Wastel  was  of  Queen's  College, 
Oxford,  and,  when  he  followed  on  his  paraphi^e 
of  the  Old  Testament  by  another  upon  the  New, 
he  was  *^  Bchoole- Master  of  the  Free-Schoole  in 
Northampton. ''  That  was,  probably,  after  1629» 
Again,  the  poem  has  been  attributed  to  John 
PhiUipott,  who  was  a  herald  making  ^'Church 
Noates  of  Kent,"  "as  marshal  and  deputy  to 
Camden."  I  think  Phillipott  was  Somerset  Herald. 
The  credit  of  authorship  rests  in  that  case  upon 
MSS.  Harl  3917,  fol.  88  b,  which  contains  his 
"  Notes,"  with  only  one  stanta  of  the  poem.  Upon 
this  the  learned  editor  of  "  N.  &  Q."  remarked, 
**  These  lines  are  on  the  tablet  at  the  base  of  the 
monument  of  RichHrd  Humble,  Esq.,  Alderman  of 
London,  1616,  in  St,  Saviour's,  Southwark."  It 
would,  therefore,  appear  that  the  first  stanza  only 
can  be  traced  so  far  back,  and  that  it  was  a  popular 
inscription  upon  monuments.  Next,  in  "  N.  &  Q^ 


Dec.  14,  1867,  Dr,  Joseph  Rtx,  of  St.  Neot^s, 
supplies  the  whole  poem,  and  say?,  "  I  think  in 
some  periodical."  I  copied  not  from  any  periodical, 
but  from  some  book  of  songs  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  in  which  I  found  it  aaoribed  to  Frands 
Quarles.  It  has  been  some  time  my  habit  to  copy 
literaiim  ;  therefore  I  did  not  ftltempt  to  corccdi 


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[«»*arLNov,T,7l. 


Uia  obvious  gmmmatical  blunder  tn  the  text  It 
nmy  serve  as  a  guide  to  the  source*  which  I  now 
forget.  ]VIy  interest  in  the  word^  amae  from  their 
having  b^en  sung  iiboiit  the  Mtreets  as  a  pious 
ballad  in  the  seventeenth  century^  and  from  iindioLj: 
many  other  ballads  **  to  the  tune  of  *  Like  to  the 
daniask  roite/  or  *  The  Dauiixsk  Rose.'  '*  One  of 
these  is  a  lively  parody  in  the  Roxboighe  Collec- 
tion, L  2()I,  "Like  to  a  dove-cot  never  haunted*^' 
It  is  entitled — 

"  Pretty  comparijoiu  wittily  grounded. 
Which  by  flconcfull  mnidena  iiiajt»e«t  be  expounded." 
Wm,  Chappell. 

"  Abulyiements  "  (5^^  S.  ii.  32B.)— This  odd- 
looking  word  is  merely  an  old  Lowland-Scotch 
spelling  of  hnhilimmif.  The  spelling  ahuhiemenU 
(with  z)  is  misleading,  aa  the  old  character,  which 
certainly  somewhat  resembles  a  s  in  the  MSS,,  is 
nothing  but  a  y,  and  the  peculiar  shape  of  it  is 
directly  deducible  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  35  (g\ 
whichj  in  some  words,  was  so  modified  as  to  take 
the  sound  of  y.  A  good  instance  is  seen  in  the 
name  JJalyell^  often  niisspelt  Dalzid^  though  few 
are  so  hardy  as  to  pronounce  the  latter  form  with 
a  z  sound.  Some  editors  carried  this  curious  mis- 
print to  a  ridiculous  pitck  Thus,  in  Percy's 
Bdiques,  a  ballad  beginning— 

"  Quhy  doii  your  brand  sae  drop  wi'  bluid," 

is  actually  printed  "Quhy  dois  zour  brmdj"  &e.  ; 
and  the  words  ze^  zottr  (for  ye,  yourX  are  repeated 
very  many  times.  I  have  even  htard  an  un- 
initiated reader  say  zie^  ^ur  (with  a  z  sound),  in 
reading  this  ballad  ! 

My  experience  of  Bailey's  and  Kersey's  Bic* 
tionaries  is  that  they  swarm  with  blunders^  and 
frequently  fail.  It  wtm  a  copy  of  Kersey's  THc- 
fionary  which  (as  I  have  shown  in  ray  edition  of 
Chatterton)  first  mystiHe^i  Ohatterton,  and  then 
enabled  that  daring  young  poet  to  mystify  his 
readers.  Much  better  guides  are  Dr.  Stratmann  s 
Old-EmjlUh  DicUoimrif  (2nd  e<iition),  The  Profnp- 
iorium  Parimloruinj  and  Jamieson^s  Scottish 
^Mietiojutry.  The  smtiJl  edition  of  Jamieson  has, 
ig.f  the  following  articles  : — "  AbidUmait^  dress/' 

e,;  "Abuhjcit,  Abilyeit^  dressed ,  apparelled/'  &c*; 
* M  // ihftmt ii i is^  A htilyemtntu^  d ress,  iu;cou tre men t ; 
appanitus,  of  what  kind  soever."  Even  the  small 
Glossar}'  to  my  Svecimens  of  Engli9h,  1394-1579, 
has  the  word  Aoilyeit^  with  a  reference  to  the 
thirty-fourth  line  of  Gawain  Douglas's  pTohgne  to 
the.  Tuxlfih  Book  of  the  jEntidy  where  it  will, 
accordingly,  be  found,        Walter  W,  Skeat* 

Cambridge. 

In  The  Promptorium  Parvuloruvif  "Abu lie, 
habilis;  Abulnesse,  hahilitcu" ;  and  so  AbuhU- 
mtnts  =  habiliments,  as  it  is  printed  in  the  edition 
published  at  Oxford,  by  Talboys,  in  1837,  under 
the  superintendence  of  Peter   Hall,  who  unfor- 


tunately  adopted  the  practice  of   the  previo 
editor,  the  Rev.  Josiah  Pratt,  and  ^^ 
orthography,  even  of  the  poetry,  to 
The  editor  of  The  Cnfpt  might  have  ...  ^ ..  <..,.-. ^ij 
to  have  preserved  every  vestige  of  antiquitr. 
bis  Preface  to  Bishop  Hall's  Jror^,  p.  5,  be  rcfcn 
to  one  printed  composition  of  his  of  which  he  ^ 
not  able  to  obtain  a  tmnscript.     This  i*  a  coo 
gratulatory  poem  addressed  to  King  Jame^a  L 
his  accession  to  the  throne  in  1CU3.     But  onec 
is  known  to  exist,  and  that  imperfect  at  the  eni 
and  as  he  made  seveml  applications  to  the  owaef  ^ 
(a  barrister  in  London,  well  known  for  bis  liler»iy 
rarities)  w^ithout   the  happiness  of  obta^ining  m 
much  as  a  reply,  he  could  say  nothing  of  the  con*j 
tents  of  the  volume,  or  the  grounds  on  which 
wiis  attributed  to  the  Bishop.     Wb: "      "     ri<| 
here  referred  to?     Has  it  been  • 
1837»  and,  if  so,  where  is  this  pic*  l 
found?  W.  E.  BucKLKT. 

AaTHUR  May^waring   (5*^  S.  iL  2S*^.)— Tha] 
following,  extracted  from  memoranda  made 
years  ago,  may  be  acceptable  to  F,  S,     AA«r  I 
notice  of  Roger  May n waring,  D.D.,   some  lie 
C'baplain  to  Charles  L,  and  subsequently  Bishnp  e 
St.  David^s,  ray  memomnda  are  thus  continued  1 
Another  member  of  the  family  seated  at  Ighttield 
Sidop,  and  the  last  of  that  branch  of  the  nain^ 
was  Arthur  Maynworing,  a  person  more  widelyl 
known.     He  was  a  powerful  political  writer  «nd| 
satirist,  and  commenced  bis  public  career  a& 
adherent  of  the  House  of  Stuart,  but  cb.'mged  it 
favour  of  the  party  of  the  Revolution.     He  sat 
Parliament^  for  Preston,  in   1705,  and  became  J 
finn  supporter  of  Sir  Robert  Walpole,     He  die 
at  the  age  of  forty- four,  in  1712  ;  and  three  ycatB^ 
afterward Sj  Oldmixon  publisbed  his  life  and  poat^  1 
humous  works.     His  style  is  said  to  have  been 
masterly,  and,  in  the  Kit  Cat  Club,  be  was  t^^ 
garded  as  one  of  its  chief   ornaments  fof 
pleasantry  and  wit. 

I  do  not  recollect  from  whence  I  obtained  I 
memomnda,   likely  enough  from  Grangers 
gmphicfil    HUfory^    which    was    certiiinly 
suited  by  me,  though  1  do  not  possess  a  copy  1 
refer  to.     I  may  a<ld,  that  these  Maynwaring*  1 
Ightfiefd  owed  their  origin  to  William.  yout\ 
brother  of  Sir  John  Maynwaring,  ot  ' '' 
Cheshire,  Kfc.   (Warden  of  the   1. 
Blakemere  and  Cheawardyn,  in  Sin 
the  minority  of  George,  fourth  Earl  ■ 
and  bis  wife  Margaret  (?),  the  he  Ire- .  .  .   , 
of  Ighttield,  whose  arms,  chequy  or  and  az.  (soios*! 
times  borne  sa.),  were  quartered   by   Uieir  d#i| 
scendants.    Their  pedigree,  brought  doWQ  to  Ifi 
wiO  be  found  at  the  College  of  ^ms. 

Most  of   the   biographical    dictionaries 
mention  of  Arthur  Maynwaiing.     In 
the  work  edited  by  the  late  Hugh  J.  Bos€^  Bi)J 


ff»  a.  U.  Kov.  r,  7*.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^5 


Vbo 


_  vet  8ome  nmtters  of  detail,  whic!i  I  have  not 
noticed  (toI  sl,  1846).  8b  em. 

The  faUeat  account  is  that  writteo  hj  Oldmixon 
in — 

"  The  Life  fcnd  PostbumouB  Worki  of  Arthur  Mayn- 
WBTiDjt,  Ka<).  ;  contaiumg  BCTeral  Originii  Pieces,  and 
Tmn^lntioni  in  Pros*  Mid  Verse  neircr  before  Printed  i 
to  wlitch  are  balded  several  Political;  Tracts  written  by 
him  before  and  after  the  Change  of  Minietrj.     Lond. 

Chalmers,  in  a  brief  aecount  of  Maynwartng,  in 
Thf  (hncral  Biog.  Dict.y  xxi,,  p.  502^  Bays  of  this 
life,  that,  like  vX\  the  writintrs  of  Oldmixon,  it 
luti!»t   >j^  read  with  caution.     There  is  vXm  an  ac- 

UTit  of  his  life  printed  in  The  LiviM  and  Ch^- 

fUr*  of  the  mont  lllitstrwnt;  PtrMtnis,  Bfituk  and 
Foreign,  icfu)  Dml  in  the  Yfar  1712,  Lond*,  870», 
1714,  which  gives  the  most  important  fiu-ts  of 
Maynwaring's  life.  Edward  Solly. 

Sutton,  Surrey. 

Percy  Folio  MS,  Ballads  and  RoMANCKa. — 
jCorredui/i^  (5^  S.  ii.  305.)— My  friend  Mk,  Wil- 
II.LAM  CnAppELL  does  not  approve  my  au^gestion 
I  that  '*  verry "  should  be  rend  "  herry "  in  the 
{descriptioa  of  Spencers  second  steed  in  vol.  ii. 

•  ^— 

•I  Tfii  that  heo  wa»  vcrry  Browne  " 

ttuae  the  vtiTy  of  L  76,  dcscribLng  the  third 

T  wia  tbftt  he  wm  verry  blaoke  " 
[ — b  meant  to  match  the  previous  **verry/'     This 
[tuny  h(?  sti,  as  the  MS.  does  not  necessitate  any 
Jtemtion,  but  the  sentence^ 

*'  Hii  palfrey  wai  aa  brown  as  eoy  beryo  " 
I  L  2i>7  in  Chancers  Prologue  to  his  €<j^ii^iefhufy 

Ift.  Chappell  also  deniuni  to  the  proposed 
^  feadiDg  of  IB  for  h  in  voL  iii.  p.  UK),  I  65,^ 
**  1  gO^«e  thee  S  pence  a  day/" 
\  he  thinks  the  Queens  assurance  to  Clowdesley 
•four  lineii  below— 

"  k  V\\  glue  tbee  13d.  %  day  " 
^  5  making  a  gentleman  of  him,  and  pro- 
is  son  and  wife)  ia  an  o^'er  that  outbids 
I  he  King's  8d.,  and  an  otl'or  that  William 
■accepts,  to  be  one  of  the  Queen's  archers  instead 
|t)f  thn  Kill  's.  This  again  may  be  so.  But  1  take 
|lhe  •  be  cumulative,  CJowdealey  getting 

.  piM  II  both  King  and  Queen,  as  my  side- 

InoCcs  to  the  fJtLSsagi^  show.     At  any  mte  we  are 
|lold  in  1.  677,  that  after  *^  theae  good  yeomen"  had 
en  ehiiveSf  they  **came  and  lined  with  the  King." 

F.  J.   FCRXrVALL. 

Tub  Early  Enolish  Cowtraction  for  Jjatrs 
'"i^i.)— There  appears  to  have  been  in 
iT  times  a  division  of  opinion  as  to 

....  Greek  monogram  I  H  S  or  I  H  C  (for 
tW  (WO  are  the  same)  meant,  and  it  may  be  that 


this  division  of  opinion  or  ignorance,  combined 
with  a  reverence  for  the  original  symbol,  lad  to 
the  retention  of  the  letters  in  such  form  as  with 
the  remainder  would  make  up  clearly  the  whole 
word  "  Jesus." 

In  the  frentkmnn^g  Magazine  for  1805,  p.  1185, 
may  be  seen  an  engmving  of  a  piece  of  stained 
glass  having  in  its  centre  the  monogram  IhO, 
and  round  it*i  margin  the  English  inBcriptioa 
*' Blessed  be  Jbesu."  The  word  '' Jhesus"  is  not 
frequently  written  at  length,  but  the  above  in- 
stance and  that  mentioned  by  Mr.  Fcjbnitall  are 
sufficient  to  prove  the  fact.  There  may  be  other 
reasons  than  ignorance  or  a  kind  of  superstitious 
reverence  for  the  "  h  "  following  the  *'  I/^ — to  wit, 
Chaucer  invariably  wrote  **  Jhon  '■  for  "  John." 

The  balance  of  evidence  is  apparently  in  favour 
of  the  belief  that  I  H  S  was  understood  in  Early 
English  times  to  represent  the  first  two  and  the 
last  letters  of  the  word  **  Jesus," — not  the  first 
three  letters,  I  think,  certainly,  or  we  should  be 
in  difficulty  when  we  come  to  such  a  form  as  Ihu  : 

**  Ihilj  heavens  kyng,  je:niuntfl  us  grace." 
or,  **  Domini  nostri  I  H  V  X  P 1  "  on  the  medal 
of  Constantine.     The  subject,  however,   is   very 
interesting,   and   no  apology   need   l>e   made  for 
reviving  it.  Utc  £T  Ubique; 

The  Blounts  of  Maple  Dotiham  {b^  S,  ii. 

22fl)— Being  anxious  to  prenerve  with  certainty 
the  record  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Michael  Henry 
Blount,  of  Maple  Durham,  I  omitted  to  remind 
your  readers  how  closely  the  deceased  gentleman 
took  us  back  to  the  time  when  Pope  addressed 
his  delighlftd  letters  to  the  fairsistei^  of  his  some- 
what capricious  idolatry.  Mr.  Michael  Henry 
Blount,  whose  death  was  lately  announced,  was 
great-grandson  of  Michael  Henry  Blount,  the 
brother  of  the  two  beautiful  girls  described  by  Gay 
(whom  I  inaccui-ately  quoted  from  memory  in  my 
first  note)  as — 

"  The  fair-hatr'd  Martha  and  Tereaa  brown." 

In  Kubert  Carrutliers*s  Lifo  of  Pope  is  the  fol- 
lowing reference  to  the  Blount  family,  which  will 
at  this  period  be  found  interesting  for  more  thaja 
one  reason  : — 

"  Michael  Blount,  the  brother  of  Teresa  and  Martha, 
married,  in  1715,  Mary  Agnes,  drtughterand  co-htrir  of 
Sir  J.  Tich borne,  of  Tichborae,  Hants,  by  whom  he  had 
a  numerau*  family;  tbe  present  proprietor  (1857)  of 
Map«l  Durh:im»  Michael-Hetiry-if »ry  Blount,  being  his 
great-^anJflon." 

ISIr.  t?arruthers  adds  that  he  was  "  largely 
indebted  "  to  the  gentleman  who  hua  just  died  for 
materiaLi  for  his  edition  of  Pope. 

Hrnrt  M.  Frjbt< 

Oheveley  Villa,  Croydon. 

A  "  Washinoton  Medal"  (5^  S.  ii.  3(>8)  was 
struck  to  commemorate  Washington's  retirement 
from  the  Presidency.  It  is  described  iti"  H'c»iKvcs#i' 


ilk 


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rS»S.IMfcrT.T.«fl 


tan  and  Naiiorml  Medah,  by  James  Roae  Snowden, 
Director  of  the  Mint  of  Pliiladelpiim."  Phil- 
tulelphift,  1861. 

A  similar  one,  but  of  ft  different  Buce,  is  eoji^ved 
in  that  work,  PI.  VIL  15,  and  it  is  stated  tliat 
there  are  two  othera  of  ditferent  sizes^  tliis  biding 
one  of  them.  The  reveratj  shows  the  emblems  of 
authority  deposited  on  a  table.  T.  J.  A. 

This  medal  commemorates  the  resignation  by 
Waahington  of  hia  c!ommi«Bion  and  of  the  Pre- 
sidency of  the  United  States^  1797.  I  have  the 
medal  struck  in  white  metal,  a  substance  much 
employed  in  medals  of  that  period.  The  tirtist^s 
name,  HaUiday,  la  given  under  the  bust  of  the 
President.  If  the  one  referred  to  is  in  harder 
metal,  gold  or  bronze,  it  may  be  a  rare  specimen, 
in  conse4uence^  as  I  believe  that  the  tUes  were 
broken  at  the  fourth  impression,    J.  Hamilton. 

The  Kame  Jkkifiib  (5*»»  S,  ii.  305.)— This 
name  appears  in  more  than  one  west-country 
churchyard.  I  have  been  told  by  a  good  aiithorUy 
on  ancient  names  thut  Jenifer  is  none  other  than 
a  latar  form  of  the  great  name  Guinevere  or 
Guenevere.  Is  this  correct  I  Perhaps  one  of 
your  correspondents  can  enlighten  me. 

C.  Arthur  Le  Geyt. 

Oxford. 

Sir  William  Bavenant  (S^*  S.  ii.  348,)— The 
lines  quoted  by  C  D.  are  certainly  those  of  **  rare 
Sir  William  Davenant/'  They  are  entitled  "  Song  " 
by  Mr.  Bellew,  in  his  Potts'  Conitr, 

Fredk,  Ritle. 

These  verses  are  printed  in  the  foHo  Bavenant 
of  1G72-3,  nt  p.  320.  They  are  in  the  division  of 
the  book,  which  hnA  a  separate  title-mge,  **  Poems 
on  several  Occtisiona,  never  before  Printed,^*  and 


are  called  simply  "  Song." 


John  Addis. 


Br.  Dee's  Magic  Mirror  {5*^  S.  il.  86,  136, 
218.) — It  may  be  of  interest  to  your  numerous 
readers  to  learn  something  of  the  history  of  Br. 
Bee's  famous  magic  mirror,  which  I  extract  from  a 
curious  work  published  by  il£  CaJiagiidj  1848  :— 

*•  This  mirror  WJti  bcM  In  1812  uiuonv'^t  the  ouriositiM 
in  the  posgewioii  of  Horace  WaJ]K  )e,  m  i^trtLwhorrj  Htll, 
for  the  eDormous  sum  of  three  handred  and  twenty-six 
fmnoB. 

"^It  was  simply  a  bit  of  cca-coal  perfectly  poliahcd, 
eut  in  ft  circulnr  form,  with  a  handle ;  this  cnriosity 
formerly  figured  in  the  cabinet  of  tlie  Eatrl  of  Feter- 
borough.  In  the  Catalogue  it  waa  thuB  dencribed  :— *  A 
black  stone,  by  meaiift  of  which  Dr.  Dee  evoked  fij>irit«.' 

*'  It  naoed  from  the  hands  of  tlie  E&rl  into  those  of 
Lady  EliiLabetb  fjerttiaine^  then  became  the  property  of 
John,  Ia«t  Duke  of  ArfiryU,  wlioee  graiidaon>  Lord  Camp- 
bell,  preiented  it  to  U^apolc." 

The  author  of  the  Thiatrum  Chaniaim,  Klias 
P^AshmoIe,  speaks  of  the  sttine  mirror  in  the  fol- 
lowing terms  : — 


'*  fiy  the  aid  of  this  magic  stone^  ve  can  let  i»ba4etfr 

persons  we  desire^  no  matter  in  what  pf^rt  of  the  irvrUt 
they  be,  and  were  they  hidden  in  the  mof*  retiltd 
apru'tmcrjtj,  or  even  in  the  caverns  in  the  bowckof  llie 
earth.  John  Dee.  born  in  London  in  1527,  t»»»  the  mm 
f>f  »  wine  merchant :  ho  studied  the  sciences  vith 
micceas,  and  devoted  himself,  at  nn  eftrljr  perkd«  to 
judicial  astrology.  Queen  Elizabeth  look  him  ta/Str 
her  protection.  He  compoied  seTeral  useful  ir^rii 
Whsn  he  had  discovered  his  mirror  he  relurrtitd  ll«»l»- 
oivingi  to  Ood.  He  was  occupied  dtirtng  hIa  wbele  1H« 
m  the  search  of  the  philoftopber't  stone^  and  d»«4  in 
London  at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  in  a  ttftto  of  al^ecs 
jjoTerty/* 

I  think  Mr.  Blkkkinsoff  must  be  in  error  ai 
to  this  mirror  ever  being  in  the  poesesjdoQ  of  Zad* 
kiel,  as  wherein  he  writes  of  magic  mirrors  in  his 
Almanacs,  and  mentions  Dr.  Dee^  he  nercr  hist» 
at  tliia  article  being  in  his  poeaession,  but  speakf 
of,  and  gives  revelationa  froni|  Jjody  BleBnogtofi't 
Magic  Crystal^  which,  about  the  year  1850,  w«  in 
great  repute  in  the  upper  circles  in  London,       i 
produced  as  much  excitement  at  that  tune  ;; 
subseipient  itMn<?c*of  Mesmeriem  and  St 
In  alluding  t'O  the  trial,  the  Athm(rtim 
1874,  siaya  that  Lieut.  Morifion^  R.N.,  1 
action  atniini^t  Admiral  Sir  Edward  Bel 
Queens  Bench,  for  denouncinf;  him  as  m 
Various  peraons  of  nink  appeared  in  1 1 
box.^the  late  Lord  Lytton,  the  Earl  oi   vv 
Lady  Harry  Vane,  and  Lord  Egerton  of  Tv 
Sir  Alexaniler  Cockburn  presirjed  as  judge  , 
verdict  was  for  the  plainti{f,^Zadkiel  waa  iu<^ 
impostor!     Dr  Dee's  mirror  has  been  for  n-j^i 
years  in  the  Briti-nh  Museum.     I  saw  it   m)^!l 
some  eighteen  years  ago.     It  h  not  a  pink-tuitnl 
fjlass  hail,  as  descnbed  by  Mr.  Ellis,  bat  a  lUr 
viirror  of  poluhtd  coal^  of  a  circular  fonn,  fiti^'i 
uHth  a  handU,  That  the  occiUt  studies  and  pnu-lii:ef 
of  the  sixteenth  century  should  again  be  rfvivef   n 
the    nineteenth    by   men    of    science, 
appendage  of  F.R.S.  to  their  nanies^  hy 
the   divality  of   a   lady  spintnalist   mediuio,  u 
recently  given  in  the  Fortnightly RvoimB*  WvD^Mi 
one  of  the  wouders  of  the  age.  J.  B.  P. 

Barboume,  Worcester. 

"  Christ  I  AxiTT  as  old  as  thk  CRKAT!o!f,' 
&c.  (5«^  8.  ii.  149,  175,  195.)— Is  not  ^In.  Non- 
GATE  mistaken  in  stating  that  the  Hiqhts  of  tkj 
Chrittian  fjf^urch  AsscrUd  agaifigt  (he  ItomnA  tnui 
all  oOier  Pricfts  was  written  by  TindaJ  i  Swift, 
in  his  Argummt  agaijist  Abolishing  Chr%$tiruity 
(the  very  masterpiece  of  his  prose  writing's),  E-tp:— 

*'  In  the  la«t  place,  I  think  nothtnc  cnn  hv  nKrr<?  rlt r« 
than  tliat,  by  tliifl  expedient,  vrf 
we  wliicfty  pretend  to  avoi  t,  and 
the  Chrifttian  religion  will  bo  tht  : 
take  to  introduce  Popery.    And  1  ju:  i 
to  thie  opimon,  bee^ufe  w©  know  it  hn 
practice  of  the  Jeiaita   to  send   ot' 


•  Fortntffhtly  RevitM 
Splritualifin." 


Mft 


1S74, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S77 


inAtmctioni  to  pattoiuiie  theuuehes  members  of  the 
■eTenU  pr«TiuIljig  seets  among  iul     So  it  ia  recorded  that 
th^y  hftTe  at  iundry  timc«  upppRred  Jn  the  disguiBO  of 
frcwyttffUpf,  AtiAbnpti»t8,  Indcpeudents,  and  (Quakers, 
^fig  AM  hT\y  of  tliese  were  moBt  in  credit,  m  since 
Lili  1(111  luM  been  taken  up  of  exploding  religion ,  the 
f^i.  „.;-.... T,,^ric.^  haTe  not  been  wanting  to  mix  with 

the  '  ^  amona^  Vrhom  To  land,  the  great  oracle 

}t>(  t  :  tinn?;  is  an  Imb  prieit*  the  boh  of  an 

Iritii  learned  and  iDgeoirms  aittlior 

of  ii  of  the  Chriitian  Churchy  and 

,  ir*8  iu  ..  ,  .    ,  ..     ..  ^.... .  ..coudled  to  the  lioniiah  faith, 

burhofle  true  mn,  &b  uppcars  by  a  thousand  paAaages  in  his 
LtreatiBC,  he  stitl  coaUnuirs.  Perhaps  I  could  udd  some 
|Oilitri  to  the  muaber,"— SwiftB  Prote  Works ^  p.  45^ 

Mr.  Prendeigast,  in  his  valuable  History  of 
CwmwfUian  SM^ncrU,  gives  a  curious  and 
E|ntere«ttng  iiccmmt  of  the  adventorea  of  a  Jesuit 
L  miaaioimTy,  who  resided  for  a  long  time  in  the 
iliatise  of  the  Puritan  governor  of  Wexford  or 
IWaterford,  and  greatly  ingratiated  liimiielf  with 
lAhe  family  by  the  fervour  with  which  he  joined  in 
Itheii-  daily  worship.  After  the  Restomtion  this 
imiflsioniirj  priest  cume  out  in  his  true  colours ;  and 
llhe  historian  telk  us  he  could  never  pass  his  former 
Huuiter  in  the  sitreet  without  kughing.  Had  thert^ 
**  I  only  a  bruce  of  pious  missionaries  Ln  this  case^ 
B  would  have  been  Blightiy  reminded  of  the  stoiy 
:  the  Boman  atigtUB.  Hibernia. 

'^FiKLD'*  (5«»»  S.   ii.  W7,  STSO—In  order  to 

imdantADd  the  meaning  of  the  word  *' field,"  it  is 

r  to  extend  the  investigation  over  a  **  wider 

|L"  than  that  <*f  a  district  cleiired  of  timber  since 

onqucst.     The  word  is  common  to  all  the 

onic  hui^ia^es^  and  was  used  by  our  ancestors 

fixate  the  earth  itself,  not  according  to  our 

of  a  globe,  but  of  a  vast  extended  plain — 

de  fim  Mtklor,"  ''  Earth,  Mother  of  MenJ' 

f  Vedaa  the  Earth  is  emphatically  designated 

'  Parthier  MiUar'';  and  here  we  see  the  meaning 

^of  the   root,   "Pftrth,   or   Prsth,"  conveying  the 

'Je*  of  extension — English  **  Broad. '^     Although 

Ihc   latter   word   is  one  correlative   of  the  root, 

f2  Folde  "  is  no  ]e«B  certainly  another.     Compart 

*   tin  j^ratuMf  a  meadow.  G.  0.  B, 

^iORO  CoLLiKowooD  (5^  S,  ii.  48,  96,  177.)— I 

~*  the  anthority  for  the  descent   of  Lord 

ngwood  from  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent  h  the 
tfY  in  the  register  of  the  pirieh  of  Eglingham, 
J^onhumberiand,  a  copy  of  which  to  the  ifoDowing 
tfcct  is  given  at  p.  4  of  the  Corr^jmondmr^  nnd 
\ifntmT  0/  Lord  ColUnrrnood^  edited  by  his  son- 
b-hiw,  Mr.  Newnham  Collingwood  :^ 

"  J«wi«  «th,  1G86.     Buried  Mre.  Dorothy  Coliiri|fwood, 
bfidov  '    ,   of  Mr.  Cuthbert  ColIingwo4>d  tif  Ditch- 

'ther  waa  one  of  the  listers  of  the  Rev* 
1  Anthony  Grey,  clerk.  Rector  of  Bar- 
f  Kent, 

(Witneta)  Charles  ^toddart,  Vicar. 
**  k^iiugnmm,  Mmith  12, 1736-7." 

K  H.  A, 


**  Make  a  bwdoe  of  gold,^^  &c.  (4^  S.  L,  ix,^ 
X.,  passim;  5"*  S.  iL  216.)— Other  instanoee  of  the 
occurrence  of  this  s&ying  are  asked  for.  Ouicciar- 
dini  speaks  of  a  iilver  bridge  : — 

^*  Host}  ablre  volenti  iter  minime  intercludeodumj  ced 
potiuB,  ut  est  in  cotntnuni  provtrbio,  argenteum  ei  poniem 
faciendum  extatlmanL"— ifat.  liaL^  Ub.  ii.  p.  OS,  od  Lat., 
Basil,  1566. 

Not  unlike  this  is  a  saying  attributed  to  Scipio 
Africanus : — 

**  8cipio  AfrieanuA  dicore  Bolitua  est,  host!  non  Bolom 
dauduin  e«ie  viom  fugiendi,  verum  otiam  muaicndaliL** — 
Frontin.,  StraUg.j  ly.  7,  16. 

£e*  MAItfiHALL. 

Sandford  St.  Martin,  Oxford, 

The  proverb,  **A  nemico  che  fugge  un  ponte 
d'oro,'*  is  in  common  use  among  the  Italians, 

Sir  Hknry  Che  ere,  the  Statitart  (4^  8.  vi. 
525  ;  vii.  46.)-^The  foUowing  extract  from  Leave* 
in  a  Manutcript  IHary^  London  in  1772,  is  an  in- 
teresting addition  to  the  infonuation  about  Cheere 
the  Statnary.  I  quote  it  from  the  Academy  of 
Oct.  17,  p.  433:— 

"  I  came  out  at  the  Lodge  "  (of  the  Green  Park)  "and 
stepped  into  Mr.  Chere's  yard,  which,,  on  account  of 
numberlo&s  tigurca  in  stnno,  lead,  uid  plaster,  you  would 
8 wear  was  a  country  fair  or  market,  made  up  of  spruce 
squires,  hayiimkers  with  rake»  in  their  hands,  shepherds 
and  sbcphcrdeues,  bagpipers,  and  pipers  and  fiddlers, 
Dutch  skippers  and  English  sailora  enough  to  sypplj  a 
iirstrntc  mtn-of-wkr.  I  saw  here  a  bust  mdoh  resembling 
a  picture  of  Tristram  Shandy,  drawn  by  Sir  JoshuA 
Reynold 9,  which  I  had  teen  in  his  painting  gallery  at 
Leicester  Field?*  One  of  Chcre's  men  told  me  that  Mrs. 
Sterne  abuned  his  majtcr  a  good  deal,  for  pirating  her 
husband's  bust,  who  said,  'twas  not  done  by  him,  but 
sent  by  some  gentleman." 

I  have  been  informed  by  members  of  the  fomily^ 
that,  at  their  seat  at  Papworth  Hall  (Camb,),  there 
is  a  lead  figure  of  a  gardener  resting  his  foot  on  a 
spade,  and  that  in  the  south  aisle  of  Winchester 
Cuthedral  is  a  moimmect,  in  maxble,  to  Bishop 
Willis,  with  the  name  of  the  sculptor  cut  on  it  ; 
and  that  there  is  also  a  mcmument  in  Westminster 
Abbey  simOariy  inscribed.     W.  C,  Triveltan* 

Wallington. 

Paris  Prisons  (b^  S.  i.  468  ;  ii.  153,  225.)— 
In  addition  to  the  authorities  quoted  by  Mrs, 
Matuilde  Van  Eys,  the  following  will  furnish 
your  correspondent  with  much  information  on  thia 
subject.  I  extracted  them  fr*]m  the  Catalogue  of 
the  National  Library  in  Paris  a  few  days  since  : — 

**  De»  Lcttres  de  Cachet  et  dcs  Prisons  d'Etat.  Ouvmgo 
pofthume  compote  en  1778  (parMirabeaii).  Hambourg, 
1782.     2  Tols.  in  8?o." 

"  ha  Police  devoll^,  par  Pierre  ManueL  Parif, 
Gamery.     An  IL    2  rob.  8vo." 

**  Hifitoire  dc«  Prisons  de  Paris  et  des  D^partementf. 
Par  J.  B.  ^'ouguret.    Paris,  Dutray.  An  V.  2  toIs,  ]2mo/' 

*'  Histoire  Politique  et  Anecdotique  des  Prisons  de  la 
Seine.  Par  Barthclemy  Maurice.  Paris,  GuiUanmin, 
1810.    8to.** 


378 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


"  Dfi  Prisons  et  des  Friioutiien.  Par  Le  Dr.  Vingtriuior, 
Edn,  Vcreaillei,  1840/* 

"Histoir^  da  Sjatemc  Protectcuren  Fnmce  depuJs  le 
JlinUtcre  de  Colbert  juHqu'<^  la  Ecvolution  de  1848.  Par 
Picn-c  Clement.    Patw,  Guilkumin,  1864.    Sto.** 

"La  Police  ioua  Louia  XIV.  Par  Pierre  Cltmeni 
Paris,  Bidier,  1866.    8ra'* 

There  is  al&o  Tlie  Police  of  Franct,  by  Sir  W, 
Mildmay,  Bart.,  London,  1763,  4to.,  in  the  British 
Museum. 

Me.  Bouchier  would,  no  doubt,  obtain  much 
viiiimble  information  by  applying  to  the  Pri^fet  de 
Police,  or  t-o  his  Secn^taire-Genemle,  Mods.  0.  de 
Boullement,  or  to  Mons,  Jjabat,  the  Arcbivi^te, 
D«^'mrteaient  dea  Archives, — all  at  the  Prefecture 
de  Police.  Bureaux,  7,  Boulevard  de  Paris,  et  Rue 
de  la  Cite»  Paris.  CuARLEa  Masox. 

India  Office.  WhitehaU. 

*' Antient"  (5**>  S.  i.  408  ;  ii,  132.)— In  answer 
to  J.  II,  B.*s  query  concern  I  d^  the  word  **  antient  " 
as  us^d  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  I  send  you 
the  following  list,  wbidi  is  to  be  found  on  p.  U  of 
a  tract,  entitled  "  God  appdarin^  for  Ou  Parlia' 
inent  in  sundry  late  Victoria's  htatowed  upon  tJuir 
Forces,  i^c.  Printed  at  London  for  Edward  Uus- 
bands.     March  10,  1644/'     4to.,  pp.  22. 

A  Lut  o/  ik€  Primnjtrt  taken  at  Salop  t/a  ^^nd  da^  *>/ 
Februart/,  }Mi, 
Sir  Michael  Emely,  Kt, ;     Cupt  Pontoabury  Oweo. 


and  bis  brother. 
Sir  Ukhard  Lee,  Bart. 
Sir  Thomas  Harris,  Bart. 
Sir  Heary  Frederick- T by n, 

Bart. 
8ir  William  Owen,  Kt 
Sir  John  Wjld,  ien.,  Kt. 
Sir  John  >VyldJun.,  Kt 
Sir  Thomas  Lyster,  Kt. 
FrAiicia  Tiiornes,  Esq. 
Herbert  Vaughan^  l&tq. 
Thpmaa  Owen,  Esq, 
Edward  KyuuaAtoUt  Eaq. 
Robert  Ireland,  Esq, 
KiclmrJ  TreTia,  E8q» 
Thomaa  Morris^  Egq. 
Arthur  Sandford,  Egq. 
llobert  Sandford,  Esq. 
J 'el  bam  Corbet,  Esq. 
Thomas  Jones.  £iq. 
Lieut.-Colonell  Edward 

Owen. 
Lieut. 'ColoncU  Thomas 

Owen. 
Major  BVancis  Ranger. 
Doctor  Lew  in. 
Doctor  Amewey. 
Gapt.  Raynsford. 
Capt  WilUam  Lucai, 
Capt.  John  Ore  say. 
Capt.  Tbonaoa  CoByni. 
Capt.  WiBiom  Long. 

Oxford. 


Jobn  Pey  Feodary. 

Capt.  Uenry  Harrison. 

Coasy  BenthaB,  Gent. 
.  Edward  Talbot,  Oent. 

Richard  Lee,  Gent. 
'  Edward  Stanley,  Oent. 

Francis  Mayn waring,  Gent. 

Jahu  Brads!haw,  Gciit. 
I  Johti  Jones,  Gent,^ 
I  Edward  Leigh  ton,  Gent. 

!  Peter  Dorrington,  Getit. 
ThotnnB  Barker,  Gent. 
John  W Id t taken*.  Goat. 
Joseph  Taylor,  Gent. 
I  Francis  Sandford,  Gent. 
I  Richard  Oibljona.  Gent. 

G«^orgo  Mayn waring,  Gent 
I  VharUi  iaivi  i(h,  Edward  Pal- 
mer, Matthew  Wit/lUwtcte, 
1       A  Hcirtiti. 
Viticent    Taylor,    Thomas 
Dewe.  Humphrey  Daviea, 
Richard     Bruyno,     Ser* 
(reants. 
Nicholas  Proud.  Clerk. 
Master  James  La  ton. 
Master  Leatlall 
MotM  Hotchky^. 
OQdTfie  Back  nail,  Corporal!. 
Patrick   Lawry,  an   Iriah' 

man. 
Forty -nine  other  Prisoners, 
W.  H.  Allnutt. 


*'  1628.    May  30-    Petition  of  John  Biddle,  of  Bronw* 

Jrore^  complaining  of  seditious  language  iifled  by  Ralph 
QWtuv,  ancieni  hcMVT  oftk  company  of  soldiers  billetted 


at  Brom^grore,"— House  of  Lord^  BISS.,  Fourth  Separt 
of  Comm.  on  Biiiorical  MSS.,  p.  17^ 

CORXUB. 

Gerar<l  Leigh,  in  his  AccidenM  of  Armmy  (folio 
54),  -wTitten  during  the  early  part  of  Uie  reign  of 
Queen  Elijtabeth,  uses  this  word  when  sj  " 
n  crest  ;  for  of  the  ram  he  writer—*' 
Auncient  of  that  honomble  Company  of  Brap 
whom  I  am  one  both  by  birthe  and  fleniicc. 

B.  T.  H. 

Mtlton's  *'  L' Allegro  *'  (b^  S.  i.  406  ;  ii  i 
153.) — What  Milton  exactly  meant  in  the 
quoted  from  the  VAlUgro  must  be  decided  bjrl 
use  of  the  woM  elsewhere  in  his  poems,     I  cti 
only  remember  **  the  tale  of  Troy  divine  "  in  the 
FttiatrosQ  and  Otwnu^,  44,  which  certainly  i 
Mr,  AiiTGER^s  view.  Again,  in  the  tVmia,  \ 
equips  the  swain  **  with  his  soft  pipe  and  su 
dittied  song  "  (86).     I  confes.^  1  had  alwayn 
of  Mb.  Brown k's  opinion  with  rcfjard  to  thi^j 
sage.     Six  o'clock  iseems  early  for  love-i 
Mr.  Ainger  says  j    but  Claril)el,  in  one 
best-known  song^,  Fitt  o  cloth  in  iiit 
represents  wooing  sia  going  on  actively 
sooner.     I  have  looked  out  every  passage  in  wh 
Milton  uses  the  verb  "  teBs,"  "  telling,"  t^e,,  fin 
none  of  them  mean  anything  but  infortm  ■ 
ing.     Telling  a  love-story  is  an  occupn 
suited  to  L\iUrfjro  ihtm  counting  a  tloi-k  ut  riwrp  ; 
besides  which,  to  make  the  shepherd  count  ihem  ] 
"  under  a  hawthorn ''  seems  a  needless  additioiL  ( 
It  is  a  verj"^  proper  canopy  for  a  love-atory,  how- 
ever.     Therefore  I  think  there  can  be  no  possible 
question  but  that  Mu.  AiNOEii'8  view  is  right,  ood 
that  Mk.  Browne's  and  mine  are  w^rong. 

PELAorua 

"  The  Grim  Feature''  (4***  S.  xii.  pauim ;  5* 
S.  L  52,  236.)— I  should  not  have  reverted  to  this 
discussion  had  I  not,  within  the  last  d^y  or  tvj* 
eome  over  a  parage  in  Lutiniers  iyemion*  (second 
before  Convocation),  which  seems*  to  me  to  j 
to  put  the  question  at  rest.  Speaking  of 
persons  and  practices  common  at  tha^  '* 
says,  "  Some  of  them  engendered  one, 
such  fitiiresy  and  every  one  in  that  be  wa.3  ;.. 
of,  was  exceeding  politic,  wise,'  &c.  Mok 
fdur€  evidently  means  progeny ^  offapring^  jdi 
the  Lfitin  f^rXus^  of  which  it  is  dearly  tLe 
rivative. 

Milton,  foBowing  Scripture,  and  especiallyj 
remarkable  passage,  James  i.  lo,*  makes  *" 
the  child  or  ofispring  of  tSin  (see  Faraditi  , 

♦  James  1 15.  OT  ^wo€tvitiit  Schlensher  Fays^  **  Verbi* 
proprium  prsegnantium,  qtiie  fcetum  maturum  emitC 
et  deponunt,'*  and  upon  this  passage   in   particuli 
^*^  aftaprla  dtroKviJ  dauaroif  et  peccatum  cau^a  infclici'l 
tatis  et  popnarum  eyadtt;  uUi  afiapria  Teluti  uiolwr  j 
Apu«tolu  introducitur,  quo  habitu  tam  virtutdf^  qoi 
Titia  a  gentilibuB  delineari  constat,'* 


Kta 


B*  8.  IL  Nov.  7,  74J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


379 


Book  iL,  from  11  745  to  805,  in  which  occur,  hn 
spoken  by  Sin^  I.  780,  **  odious  offapring,"  and 
L  804,  **  Grim  Death,  mj  son  and  foe  "),  I  aub- 
init»  then,  that  Milton  uses  the  word  **  fenture  *'  in 
the  same  sense  as  Latimer  used  it,  nnd  that  the 
only  difference  is  the  spelling,  which  is  a  matter 
of  no  moment. 

Supposing  this  view  to  he  correct,  then  "  Grim 
Death''  and  "Grim  Feature"  are  nothing  more 
than  synonymous  expressions. 

Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Eglinton  Pbbraok  (5**  S.  L  302,  393.)— As 
my  silence  on  another  subject  has  been  miscon- 
led,  it  has  occurred  to  me  that  it  may  have 
n  so  in  this  instance  also.  H.  T.  ha^  written 
thout  looking  into  this  matter.  He  seems  not 
be  aware  that  nine-tenths  of  the  Peers  of  Scot- 
have  **  eetablished ''  their  Chums  in  the  same 
Mr.  Fulton  attempted  to  do,  namely,  by 
ng  into  Holyrood  House  and  rccordiug  their 
Yoiea.  The  section  of  the  Act  quoted  has  no  »uch 
declomtion  as  H.  T.  aUeges.  If  it  had,  I  must 
have  been  idle  indeed  when  I  took  up  the  pen  on 
ic  subject.  W.  M. 

Edioburgh. 


f' 


recently  published,  Incjuiry  concerning  him  had 
been  made  simultaneously  in  Engbnd  and  in  thm 
country*  Uneda. 

PhiLTdelphift. 

Skating  Ltteraturk  (5*  S.  il  107,  156,  318.) 
— Mfu  Foster  inquires  for  the  fuU  mime  of  the 
"  Mass.  S.  8.  Society,"  which  published  The  Skaia, 
18mo.  cloth,  75  cents,  1864.  It  is  '*  The  Massa- 
chusetts Sunday  School  Society/  and  the  work 
referred  to  is  a  juvenile  religious  story. 

Gaston  de  Berneval, 

rhiladelphia. 


^yfcHaniauf. 


(Mar- 


"WArrEN'D  Widow  ^  (5"»  S.  u.  224,  314.)— 
The  title  of  an  old  Scottish  song  preserved  among 
~    Herd's  Collection  (vol.  ii.  112  ;  Reprint,  Glas- 
18G9)   may  go  some  length   in  iixing  the 
lag  of  this  term,  a  p.  p.,  and  eeemincrly  of  the 
irb  fa  leap.     This  title,  in  form  of  a  direction  or 
adrioe,  stands  thus :   "  Wap  at  the  widow,  my 
laddie^''  the  second  quatrain  of  the  song  being, — 
**  With  courage  attack  her  baith  early  and  late ; 
To  kisi  her,  and  clap  bcr,  you  msnna  be  blate» 
Sp«Ak  well,  and  do  httitr,  far  that's  the  best  gate 
To  win  a  young  widowj  mj  laddie." 

in  the  glossarj*  annexed,  wajt^  is  said  to  be  *'  a 
•J3  stroke.**  To  imp,  the  verb,  then,  is  to  strike ; 
If  this  \>e  gnmted,  what  is  **  wappen'd  "  must 
it  which  is  loaded  with  stroke^^^well  beaten 
well  threshed.  Some  such  view  of  the  import 
that  center tained  by  Mr.  Dyce,  who,  in  the 
:io«iJ«iry  to  his  edition  of  JSfmhfpearef  in  voce 
Wftppen'd/'  citing  Harman,  Dekker,  and  Grose, 
leryncta  it  as  **  over- worn,"  a  view  which  Dr. 
K  (p.  224)  seems  also  to  concur  in,  who 
the  "  most  reasonable  conjecture  is  that 
^^  .  ;  from  wai}pen'df  "worn,  weakened."  A 
'  wappen'd  widow, '  then,  seems  one  well  threshed, 
ver  worn  in  a  certain  way ;  and  it  is  gold,  as 
by  Timon  sap,  that  makes  her  "  wed 

*Ti»  Savace''  (5«»  S.  I  421} ;  U.  95.)— A 
'  -  -^onnt  than  any  heretofore  published  of 
ijtmion,  the  author  of  *'  The  »Sarayc,  by 
-liAix.^y/*  is  to  be  found  in  the  number  of  The 
imuan  liuUmtal  Eccord  for  October,  1874, 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ko. 
The  Quarterly  Review,    No,  374.    October,  18T4. 

my,) 

I?f  the  evor-flcjuHshinit  Qnarterltf  there  »  invmriably  one 
article  which  ia  pre-^tnioently  attractira.  In  the  present 
number  there  are  two.  but  all  are  of  first- rate  quality. 
The  parttcakr  two  are  *•  The  Jesuiti/'  and  •'  The  Re- 
public of  Venice,  ita  Dec  line  and  Fall."  Ia  the  Society 
and  in  the  Veuotian  Government  tbt^re  was  a  remark&ble 
system  of  secrecj',  of  tyranny,  and  of  sharp  superviaioa 
oTtr  the  tery  chiefs  of  the  reirpiectiTe  inBtitutioni.  Tbe 
practical  executants  of  Loyola's  theory  desired  notliiitg 
more  th&n  beini;  allowed  to  carry  on  tbelr  work  without 
criticitm*  The  Venetian  Government  was  so  jealous,  that 
\t  woald  puniBh  a  man  even  for  pralaing  it ;  such  praise 
being  taken  as  an  impertinent  judgint'n ton  a  system  whick 
tolerated  no  juLigmi.^at  and  deipLscd  all  npiTiiona.  There 
is  an  admirable  nrticle,  entitled  "  The  I1ot>c  of  EngUflh 
Architecture,*"  and  another  on"  Modern  Oulture,"  which 
is  written  in  excellent  spirit. 

Thf  ElemoiU  o/  &retk  Accidence,     With  Philological 

Koiu.     By  Evelyn  Abbott,  M.A.,  cf  Balliol  College, 

Oxford.  ^EiTingtons.) 
This  annotated  Accidencif  Mr,  Abbott  says,  arose  from 
i\n  attempt  to  prondo  a  Greek  Primer,  which,  being 
told  by  those  to  whom  ho  had  referred  the  laoie  that 
it  was  torj  hard  and  too  shtjrt,  he  haa  supplemented 
with  adJUional  matter  and  notes,  and  thus  truusformed 
into,  afl  it  were,  a  Primer  of  Gre<;k  Philology.  Whilst 
the  arrauKenjent  of  subjects  is  that  recjuired  by  the 
order  of  itnitlyfis,  the  teacher  is  left  to  decide  for  himself 
the  priority  of  the  eleven  chapters  into  which  tbe  book 
is  dlrided.  To  Tcry  many  masters  the  i^reat  Httroctioti 
of  Mr.  Abbott's  work  will  be  that  it  treats  of  the  forms 
which  arc  common  and  reitular  rather  than  those  that 
are  rare  or  remarkable ;  as  he  very  justly  says,  **  a  gram- 
mar which  is  a  collection  of  irregularities  ia  not  a  book 
for  beginners,  but  for  scholars." 
Handy- Book    of  ikt  Puhh'e   Wortkip   RtmtUttion  AM* 

Edited  by  ^.  G.  Brooke,  Barrister-at'Law.     (H,  S. 

King  k  Co-) 
Those  who  are  cognizant  with   Mr.  Brooke**  Handjf* 
Book  of  the  fritk  Ctiurch  Act  and  his  Sir  Pmirif  Council 
JwtgjAenti,  would  have  been  sunirised  had  he  not  ap- 

[died  his  hand  to  the  work  of  rendering  th€  Act  of  th* 
ast  Bcsaion  of  Parliament  "  intoUigitde  to  the  non  pro- 
fessional reader/*  The  Act  is  gircn  in  tjctentCf  and  also 
in  a  form  allowing  of  copious  notes  bearing  on  the 
ecclesiastical  law,  kc^  which,  together  with  the  Index 
at  the  end  of  the  volume,  txti  most  Taluable.  We  veotore 
to  think  that  both  sides  in  the  coming  struggle  would  do 
well  to  avail  themselves  of  Mr.  Brooke's  palustaking 
eflforts  to  throw  light  on  the  provisiona  of  an  A&t^^'owfc 


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[5**S.  n.  KoT.T/ 


working  may  pogiibly  be  fraught  with  results  thai  will 
render  the  iniuntetiaiiGe  of  the  BstabLiahed  Church  no 
longer  tolwublc. 

Our  old  and  T&lacd  correspoudent  H.  T,  E.  writes  :— 
"J.  D.  W.,  in  tlie  Ouarduiti  of  Oct.  23,  mk*  the  meuiing 
of  thu  InBcription  an  &  bell  at  Aubourn^  Liucolnihire  :— ' 

*  IHC  NE  MI  OK  ffl.' 

Itia— 

'  IN  .  KO  .  in  .  NE .  IHESF/ 

The  Bjllables  b«ing  set  in  backwarda.  Th!«  he  will  mt 
once  seci  if  he  t«iked  a  rqbbiug  with  leather,  or  with  a 
whis^  of  grass»  on  thin  printing  denij  paper,  or  the 
margin  of  his  newspaper,  and  hold  it  up  to  the  ligbt, 
with  the  back  of  the  rubbing  towarda  him.  The  old 
founders  oft«n  made  such  blunders. 

^'  JfutmciioHJi  for  taking  RubHngt  of  Intcriptiom  oti 
BilU,  or  otAiT  Jiati&i  Lettert. — Supply  yourself  with 
strips  of  thin  printer's  demy  paper  and  bits  of  black 
upper  leather,  which  may  be  picked  up  \n  iwiy  cobbler's 
sweeping  comer.  Lay  the  paper  over  the  inacription — • 
keeping  it  as  steady  as  best  yoa  may — then  rub  the 
paper  with  the  black  ktbtber  where  you  feel  the  letters 
or  ftamps.  and  they  will  soon  stare  you  in  the  face 
(though  before^  perhapSt  they  were  illogible),  and  yon 
will  be  pleased  iiuth  yuur  own  quick  and  hsndy  work. 
It  may  be  well  to  brush  the  Icttci's  first  of  all  with  a  dry, 
hard  brush.  Hccl-bftU  is  better  suited  for  inoifed  work  : 
Kuch  rubbings  uiay  be  made  by  roAching  round  a  t>ell^ 
when,  from  some  impediment  or  other,  you  iraiy  not  be 
able  to  get  round  tu  read  it."  H.  T.  E. 

Mb,  Edgkll  WKsTHAroTT  asks  **  To  what  family  the 
following  coat  of  arms  belongs;  *arg,,  on  a  bend  wavy, 
cottised  gu.,  within  a  bordure  az,  ;  beKanty^  Slionj'  head^ 
eroded  of  the  irst.'  This  shield  ap|>ear8  on  a  monuTueut 
dated  17(^1|  impaling  the  ormii  of  the  Edgelkof  Fromc, 
Someraet/* 

A  Hint  to  tub  Public  Free  LiBRARiiis. — OtrnATi 
Hamst  writes: — "Will  you  allow  me  to  point  out  to 
librarians  that  they  should  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
all  publicationA  sent  to  them  ?  I  hare  found  thiit  unless 
n  letter  is  written  with  gifts  no  acknowledgment  isi 
made.  This  is  not  a  practice  likely  to  increase  j^rfts  to 
libraries.  Probablyj  as  tlie  book-^iost  is  now  so  certain^ 
the  gift  ia  more  likely  to  arrivo  safely  than  not ;  but  an 
acknowledgment  on  a  bnltpenuy  card  even  woutd  settle 
the  matter  to  the  donor's  satisfaction.  That  Ibe  author 'k 
name  and  address  do  not  appear  is  no  rca«oTi  if  there  ia 
the  name  or  addrew  of  the  publisher  or  printer/' 


BOOKS     AND     ODD     VOLITMES 

WANTRD  TO  PUROHABE. 
Paitteulmra  of  Pricw.  kc.,  of  every  book  to  be  tent  ilitrct  iu  tli« 
IMnon  b;  wboxn  it  is  req,uir«4«  irbwM  aaoifl  and  sUdtcu  ^re  £lr«u 
for  tb*t  pmroM  :— 

IT.  NtwtTjMjc's  !S«nnoiiioQ  ^inrul  Anffer.    Wyx. 
£,  Fnmm^um  Fu»«Tal  Httrmonr    1864. 
K.  BoLriHcwoanii  AMi4«  K«rni't>D».    ISn. 
Sam  Bc»iixi.L,  anj  of  hfi  J^fTinoaa.    1«73— IS'^S. 
yf,  BlunrirairaHD,  ^oy  uf  Uii  •Sertuoui.    Cirr*  ieS«. 
IflLUA.!!  Bcti-t  •xij  of  hll«  aerrooaik    CVen  1SSD« 

Wftutcd  b7  L^tHL-Ctit,  FmhmUk,  Can  HlU,  Aodidale. 


BcATiiK^i  or   Batesox'&  C«lni<lftr  pf  SUt«Bmea  from  tlic  Time  of 

W  Uhftm  III. 
Wuited  by  A,  Schombtrff,  E#fl.*  the  Lodge,  a«wid.  MiUubioi.  ^iU*. 


BurKvooif^f  MACAijir»>  Volt  I ,  VI..  XX ni.  XXXI.,  xxxnr,, 

XXXV.,  XXX  [X.t«itber  bound  or  Id  nainb«rf. 
WtnUdhj B.  Samit  OUtrkt,  7.  I^minrt^ti  ttaad  rniUt ^Vfttbaarae 


AarrothToctni  edition,  of  La4j  H.  WorUir  V<»ta«ue'«  Lctt«r>. 


Sigma.— The  first  quotation  has  defi'^d  all  rsasareh. 
"  The  aspiring  youth  who  fired  the  Bphr^tun  dome  " 
will  be  fouud  in  Colley  CibberV  version  of  StkAat^ir 
Act  ill ,  sc.  i. 

"  Tno  kings  of  Brentford  smelUtig  at  on*  f«M** 
should  be— 

"So  sit  two  kings  of  Brentford  a«  on<?  thff^fi^" 

.  --■ nit 

For  Sir  Hubert  Stanley  an  I 
(for  the  twentieth  time)  t^ 
Ache. 

T.  M,  Fallow  requests  us  to  thrtrik  J.  1?  for  bi«  com- 
munication. He  adds  ;— *•  I  call  t  hstr 
myself  heard  Penrith  OAlled  Pen  l^n! 

llrougham,  whom  I  nerer  saw  lu    ..., vj;atiot» 

therefore,  think  that  he  wa«  *  quite  an  exception  to  ihi 
rule/  as  J.  B,  states." 

George  IV,  akp  hib  Riptmi)  Cur  *i  tin* 

subject  we  mu?t  be  content  with  m  irfmi 

correspondents  know,  or  have  heard,  «.i  ^  r 

names  not  to  be  dirulged,  and  of  locivlitiea  V' 
who  are,  or  were,  supposed  to  be  of  royal  prii 

W.  Whiston,— Such  parallels  are  clearly 
Common  aotiunt  arc  expresaed  in  phrase  rot 
The  other  favours  as  toon  as  room  can  V  "* 

Uhiira  ab  (EaTC. — Apply  to  Mr.    i 

couipiler  of  the*  pedigrees  of  Lanc&eLi,,  . 

fnmillea. 

jAVUAnius.— The  **  Silver  Wedding **  and  the  **  •  i  i  u 
Wedding  "are  the  twenty-fifth  and  tiftieth  ivnQ]T<r<   r 
of  a  wedding-day. 

A. — Avcsbury   is   about   six    milee   frcnn    M*rli  • 
Ameebury  b  two  miles  from  Stunehenge. 

C,  8.  W,  asks  where  he  can  procure  an  '*  Explanuc^, 
Key  "  to  Tusie's  Gan^. 

6.  L.  win  IJnd  in  Murray's  Jlctitdh^k  t^  RtttdM^  ^ 
references  to  the  best  county  historiana. 

F.  D.  \Y,— The  old  Knlicld's  Sj^akir  m»y  be  foond  U 
almost  any  bookstall. 

J.  E.  H.  will  much  oblige  by  allowing  ttt  to  099  tbr 
work  named. 

C.  G.  0.— See  the  Timt*  of  the  date  for  Ute  best  M^ 
coutit  of  thoio  cvonta. 

F.  D.,  for  "A  Curious  Thorn,"  5"^  S.  ii,  3i8L  nfirt  Id 
"  N  &  Q./'  1*«  a  iv.  114,  lie ;  2-^  8.  ix,  6(H. 

C.  H.  BAYLST(WeatBromwiett),'-BeceltnedwlUi0tll 
pleeaure. 

W.  T.  (M.D.).— Reserved  for  our  Chriattuas  Ktuntjef. 

C.  J.  O. — The  pnlindromc  was  and  rcmiius  dcfectift. 

K.  J* — Keceived  and  accepted* 

W.  E.  P.~Anticip»ted. 

E,  M,— Forwarded  to  Mn.  TBosif. 

Skvaru. — Next  week* 

A.  Hamilton.— See  "  N.  &.  Q./*  aftCr^  pp.dSOt  SSI 

Editorial  Commumcations  shouM  be  rtlilne 
Editor*'— AdvertisementB  and  Ft 
Publisher  *'-^at  the  Office,  20,  Wi  t^mI 

London,  W,C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  tatom  co©^ 
munieationa  which,  for  rinv  rrx*4in.  m  t-  do  tiolpttAt 
to  ihi»  rule  we  can  id;>  ' 

Toallcommunicatit^i  xtd  the  iiaoii 

lul drees  of  the  sender,  not  nccLnurtl^-  for  publiis^iaiu 
08  a  guarantee  of  ^ood  faiths 


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CONTENTS, —N*  4d. 

I:— Th«  UtUm  SnraracT— rrrr*!  Kdltfot]  of  Chaticvr,  3gl 

"Cotam  FuundoB  Id  VK"  >  rles.  384-^ 

Jftfw  Woriu  HUK^vU't  t,T  Villi  1  of  Th&nki 

— 'PhytioanomLcAl   i  '  lu;  r.iinc^  of  tho  PhiuihohB — 

PttpuLitioa— Sing  I  :  —  Vcmln  agtimt  Meta-nohft^y, 


QtTK&reS :— Vinrfliiu 


^  m  At>TOa  ''—The  Ariujilel  MArble« — 
aoin  —  Inillfta-Ink  TopoBTftpliioAl 
n  -The  FlraK  Prince  of  WaJm* 
St*j  Charch  Anuoor'-A  Wmier- 
It  up  with  it'* — Obsctire  Wordi  in 
rtleburr  CuAtle:  Tlc*ceU'«  Qowoar'i 
v-t— •*  OUjerwhUen,""  asa. 

m1  McKicni  L&tlti  And  Greek  Vorce, 

r.u>k  of  M»ocftbo<»,  301— '*  Attld 

—Byron  :  "  Sfage  of  Oorliitb  " 

forbMoa  Family,  SfliS— Ouper'i 

Muon,"  S?H—Aie«l*- Epitaph 

•  mioni  Crltici*wl — Simeon  of 

.•;  ModUjm'al  CorviDga  —  Scots 

Kx^       ArtJibbiiKiii^    Tn'tiison  — ' 

'      '  ■     '■■•illcy- 

loa— 

.__     .L:.-W>— 

—  (iuuj'ftn's 

i        en  "  —  Bull- 

uhii.!*^  -  TU*3    1  reach    Word 

!\  WftlU— ■•  FlouU,  And  Jlb«, 

h<>au>  Uftbb— Midiftel  BaoIo, 


V4S  Booki^  Jte, 


%*   Next  week 


"  N.  <^  Q."  will  contain  «orae 
ietails  concerning  the  Dream 
>  Lord  Lyttelton. 


THE  LITTLE  SUMHEE, 
[  Those  wixrm  and  sunny  divys  whicli  jsomeiitues 
\e  KoveiuHcr  bnyht  and  genial  an?  populirfy 
^tTibuted  lo  St  Murtin.     '*Bl    Martio'H  Little 
er  *'  has  been  this  year  a  cordial  reality.    On 
Bthiern  Lxi:u*tt  spri^iy:  huiis  have  peeped  forth, 
dy  to  believe  tlutt  winter  liad  come  and  gone : 
e'and  there  blossoms  have  waxed  into  full 
as  if  they  mwlc   no  doubt   that  snmmer 
'^*       '•         -r  theui. 

lin^  in  the  Calendar, — 
u  A.Mi.  ...M,  t,  Murtin, Bishop.  Their 
.jr  on  the  UnU  and  Hth  of  November 
y.  To  the  funner  is  attributed  the  power 
tyringiiii^  back  the  p{\;M**nce,  the  joy,  and  the 
ine^-T.  tttihr  prf'cioiH  s^^i3on.  Perhaps  tJie  two 
I  this  y«^ar  t-o  luiike  ftumuier  take 
It  of  tho  chillier  succeeding  Beaton, 
ii^r  aiuon^  in  than  U'^iial.  But, 
i  truth  11  tnat  the  year  has  gi^own 
i  d}'ing ;  and  this  >l.artinmas  tilow 
sQUimer  is  t^  the  year  what  the  last  fiiish 
I  axpiring  Qamc,  what  the  iuddeo,  tempoiury, 


llu»h  of  health  \s  to  the  cheek  over  which  spreadB 
succeeding  mortal  pallor.  Moreover,  it  is  a  que9> 
tion  whether  we  nrc  indebted  to  8t,  Martin  or  AH 
Saint.-5  for  the  siunDier  glow  shed  from  November 
skies.  This  year  the  more  j^enial  time  extended 
from  All  Saints  to  MartinmaB.  We  may  acknow- 
ledge the  welcome  influence  of  both.  8ome  atfeot 
A  divided  alle«^iancc.  "  All  Saints'  Day,"  say» 
one,  **  brings  the  second  summer  ' •  ;  and  that  de- 
preciator  of  St.  Martin  will  add,  '*  At  ^t.  Mjirtin's 
Day,  Winter  m  on  his  way."  The  adherents  of 
him  of  Tours,  however,  bud  "the  summer  of  St. 
Martin,  three  days  and  a  bit  ! "  But  this  is  poor 
bosL?5t  to  the  upholders  of  All  Saints,  who  honestly 
confess  that  '^  All  Saints'  summer  may  hist  three 
hours  or  three  days/'  but  they  add  "or  three  weeks,*' 
—a  boast  which  the  Mtirtinites  never  venture  to 
make.  Shakspeare  takes  a  happy  course  on  this 
question.  The  madcap  Prince  of  Wales  (ffcjrry 
I  V.J  i.  2)  comparer  Fa/staff's  old  age  and  youthful 
induJgences  with  the  All  Saint-s'  summer.  "  Fare- 
well^  then,  latter  Spring!'*  he  cries;  "F»rewell, 
then,  All  liallow'en  Summer!'*  But,  in  Heniy 
VI.  (L  2),  the  poet  pays  allegiance  to  the  cnoonized 
soldier  in  the  words,  "  Expect  St,  Martin's  summer, 
halcyon  days  !"  The  saint,  however,  sometimes 
visits  us  **  on  his  white  borne/'  indicative  of  frosty 
and  thence  the  proverb,  "  Youn^  and  old  must  go 
cla^l  at  Martinmas."  The  chief  succeeding  saints 
of  the  month  breathe  on  their  fingers  for  warmth, 
and  mortals  devoutly  follow  their  ex^mDle.  St. 
Catherine  shivers  within  a  glory  of  icicles;  and 
St.  Andrew  is  of  bo  fri^d  a  cjuality,  that  in  I  tidy 
even  they  who  lie  awake  on  his  night  turn  un- 
comfortably on  their  couches,  think  gratefully  of 
the  halcyon  days  and  the  little  summers  of  All 
Saints  and  St.  Martin,  and  greet  with  a  giunt  of 
non-welcome  the  ptt»sing  of  St.  Andrew.        Ed. 


UEBY'8  EDITION  OF  CHAUCER. 

If  these  extracts,  which  I  owe  to  Mr.  Walford 

D.  Selby^  of  the  Public  Record  Office,  have  not  yet 

found  their  way  into  "  N.  &  Q,/*  they  will  interest 

Chaucer  students.  F.  J.  F. 

DtiNCUMB's  History  or  HKRKfoRnsBnus. 

Vol.  ii.,  pa^  not  numbered  after  318.    Appendix  to 

BruXD&t  Hundred. 

Withington. — Addition  to  the  account  of  Mr. 
Brome,  In  the  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford,  is  a 
hirge  collection  of  original  letters  from  Mr.  Brome 
to  the  principal  scholars  and  antiquaries  of  hin 
time.*  The  following  is  an  extract  from  one,  dated 
EwithingtoD^^  June  23,  1733,  and  rehites  to  an 
edition  of  Chaucer  then  jjublishiug.  It  is  thus 
addressed—**  These  for  Mr.  Thomas  Rawlins,  at 
Pophill6,Wurwickshire  j  to  be  left  at  John  Sturdys, 
at  Wixford  Bridge":— 


"I  find  you  lire  a  Tcrjr  curloui  person  {inter  atta) 
about  books,  for  I  see  yonr  name  among  Mr  Hearne'fi 
Bubwritiors ;  and  if  jfour  acquaintance  be  much  among 
the  litterati,  na  I  supptfse  it  is,  you  may  do  me  a  kindn^M. 
One  Mr,  Urry,  student  of  Clirfst  Church,  was  engaged  ta 
publish  a  new  edition  of  Cliauccr^  with  a  glossary,  tte. 
Before  he  had  finished  it,  he  dyes  and  leares  me  executor^ 
with  an  intention  that  some  of  the  profits  ariring  from 
the  impre!9»ion  shotild  goe  towards  buildlo(f  the  new 
Quadranglia.  The  ColleRe,  mygelf.  And  Mr.  Liniot,  the 
bookseller,  enter  into  a  triimrtito  agreement  npon  thesfl 
terms:  The  College  and  my^nK  to  j^et  the  copy  of 
Chancerp  with  prefaces,  indexes,  glossary,  &c.,  for 
Mr«  Lin  tot.  Mr.  L.  to  be  at  the  expense  of  printing  and 
pap«r,  and  the  copies  to  be  divided  in  three  parts  between 
ui.  The  College  oblige  Echolars  upon  their  entrance  to 
take  off  a  copy,  and  by  their  acquaintance  dispose  of 
their  store :  Mr,  Lin  tot  ii  in  the  way  of  business,  and 
sells  off  his  ;  but  mine  Ive  upon  hand,  so  that  I  am  like 
to  he  a  great  sufferer,  "By  our  articles  wo  are  not  to  sell 
a  copy  under  the  subscription  nrice,  which  is,  large 

?aper,  60  shillings  ;  sroall  paper,  :l0  shillings  :  m  sheets, 
'he  book  in  adorned  with  copper-p'atcs  before  each  tale. 
If  any  friend  of  yours  wantn  fcuch  a  book,  I  can  supply 
him  in  London,  hut  by  no  means  I  would    ha^c  vou 
k-fmportiinate  with  any  person  upon  my  account.     I'he 
■  enriout  may  perhaps  as  well    oblige  himself  as    mc, 
YourSi  kc.  Vi.  Brqmk.^' 

A  8ec€iid  letter,  on  the  Attme  subject,  is  dated 
Feb.  8,  1734;  it  states:  — 

"So  the  College  and  myself  employed  one  Mr.  Part,  a 
noted  author  and  editor,  to  write  Chaucer's  life;  and  one 
Mr.  Timothy  Thonma,  formerly  a  student  of  Clirlat 
Church,  and  now  Rector  of  Prtsteipne,  in  Radnorehire, 
to  finiib  a  text*  and  write  a  preface  and  glotfiary,  kc." 

Mr  William  Brome  was  a  cotemporary  at 
Christ  ChuTch  with  John  Philips,  the  author  of 
The  SpUiidid  Shilling,  Jik^theim^  and  the  cele- 
brated Et^glish  Oeorgic,  entitled  Cider,  and  his 
pttrticalar  intimati?*  Mr.  Brome  piirsiued  his  studies 
at  Oxford  with  so  much  assiduity  and  success 
that  he  was  considered  as  a  principal  ornament  of 
his  Collej[ito,  which  at  that  time  was  the  residence 
of  many  persons  of  distinf,mished  literature.  He 
was  parti cnl a liy  consulted  by  Mr.  Urry»  the  learned 
and  laborious  editor  of  Chancer,  in  the  progress  of 
his  work.  He  resided  at  Ewithingtoti  (Duneumb's 
Hertifordshirff  p.  24!>.  &c,). 

Agninist  the  east  wall  of  the  Houth  aisle,  or 
Poets'  Comer,  in  Westminster  Abbey,  is  placed  a 
tablet  containing  an  epitaph  on  John  Philips, 
written  by  Dr.  Freind.  The  folio winfj  Ib  an  extract 
from  it  :— 

"  BeSf  sen  tenue«»  sen  roediocret  sen  graudeflj 

Omandas  sumpserat, 

Nusq[^uain  non  quod  decuit 

£t  iridet  et  assecutua  est, 

E^egius,  quocumque  sty!um  verieret 

Fondi  author  et  niodorum  artifex. 

Fas  sit  huic 

Auso  licet  a  iu4  nietrorum  le^^e  discederc 

O  poeais  Anglicanic  pater  at  quo  ootiditor 

Chance  r» 

Altenim  tibi  latus  claudere 

Xstum  certe  ctfieres  tuos  undique  stipantinm 

yon  decebit  chgnini." 

{Ii,,  VOL  ii.  p.  2ia.) 


JAMES  6AYERS,  THE  CARICATrKlST, 
(Concluded from  p.  2S2J 
I  fancy  I  recollect  seeing  the  Christian 
Sayers's   father  mentioned  as  (Thristopher. 
Wright,  in  the  partkgraph  I  quoted  (p.  282),  Mf 
he  was  **  son  of  a  captain  of  a  merchant  ship.'* 
the  Gmthman's  Magazine  for  March,  1792,  p,  27 
I   6nd    the    death    announced    of  *^  Christoph 
Sayere,  pier-master  of  Yarmouth,  who  died  in  I  * 
town  on  the  2<>th  February,  1791,  in   his  73 
year."     I  conclude  that,  if  not  his  father,  he  ^ 
relation,  for  it  will  be  obsen^ed  tbat  one  of  I 
family,  J.  Sayers^t  partner^  was  called  **C 
topher;- 

It  IB  said  by  Mr.  RedsTrave  that  S: 
member  of  the  Borough  Council  of  Yan 
I   think  this  must  be  a  mistake.     A  ^li.  Ju 
Sayers,   a   merchant,   and   one    of    th^   C^nm 
Council  for  the  borough  of  Yarm* 
on  the  19th  November,  1794  (Ga 
zinc  for  November  of  that  year,  p,  n'ti.i;.     i  nndi 
nothing  in  Mr.  C.  J.  Palmer^B  Hutory  of 
Yannouth  that  enables  me  to  clear   up   any  nf^ 
these  points,   but   doubtless  some   of  your  eoT» 
respondents  in  that  town  can  help  me- 
lt  will   be   observed   that   he    is   called   roorre 
frefpienily    Sayer,   without  the    final   **s,**  iWi 
Sayers,  a  point  tbat  has  pur/lcd  me  exce«»d  : 
because  the  same  thing  occurred  during  hiM^ 
time,  and  in  places  where  it  would  be  in 

he  would  have  his  name  correctly  spelled.  1 

name  is  in  Boyle's  Court  Guid^  to  about  IB^fli 
Saver  ;  but  what  is  still  more  extraorciinary  is  f' 
from  the  time  of  his  name  appearing  in  the  List  i 
Officers  of  the  f  *ourt,  which  it  did  in  the  Law  '  * 
for  1790,  as  '*  MarshftU  of  the  Court  of  Exch 
{though  he  was  appointed,  as  1  have  already  I 
in  June,  1784,  as  James  Sayers),  imd  in  It 
besides  **  Receiver  of  the  Sixpenny  iHities,.**  to  1 
year  of  his   death  it  was  spelled   without 
final  **s." 

I  thought,  perhnps,  that  he  chr^P^'' -^   ^'^  « 
on  taking  his  appointment,  but  I  ti 
view  tenable.     Is  the  name  pronoui:,  -  ,_    ^u 
or   is    it    like    "Sandys/*  which    is   pronounced 
**  Sands  "  ? 

It  will  be  observed  that  John  Taylor  np 
Sayera  was  a  member  of  Staple  Inn.  I  hnrr 
written  to  the  Principal  of  that  Inn,  ho]  ' 

might  get  some  information  as  to  his  n>^ 
but  I  fear  my  letter  must  have  mis<^•^r^K^L    I  laf 
searched  at  the  Record  Office,  Fetter  Lane, 
have    not    succeeded    in    finding  when    he 
articled,   nor   the   date   of  his    adtnissioti   aft 
attorney.     The   Close    Rolls   for    1"" 
information  as  to  him,  namely,  J  ' 
Great  Ormond  Street,  24th  July»  i .  ,>'      jm  « *-  * 
an  order  of  the  Court  of  Chancery,   KUh  Juljj 
1790,  in  a  matter  then  depending,  entttl^,  in  1 
matter  of  the  Keeper  or  Qerk  of  the  Haniiper,  i 


^ 


S«  8.  IL  Noy.  II.  74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Is,  Amongst  other  things,  ordered  thi^t  James  Sayera 
IfiTe  security  for  due  executioa  of  the  office  of 
Keoeiver  of  the  Sixpenny  Writ  Duty  in  1,6^K}L 
lipom  the  3()th  April,  1790,  His  sureties  were 
"SAmuel  Denison,  Bedford  Row%  and  Thomas 
Rowknd,  of  CluphaaL*'  This  recoguiitsmce  was 
vacftted  by  order  of  Court  dated  4th  May,  fifth 
year  of  Geoi^e  IV'*,  1B25. 

For  several  yeans  previous  to  1808  be  resided  in 
OreAt  Ormonj  Street  ;  after  that  year  I  do  not 
lind  hifl  name  in  the  London  Directory. 

Mr.  Redgrave  txho  says  he  wa«  one  of    the 

9ttori  of  the  Exchequer.     I  have  not  found  the 

of  this  kst  appointment.     When   did  it 

>  1      Biographers,   but  especially  auto- 

ers,  are  too  fond  of  generalities,  as,  at 

_    e,  about  thiis  date,  &c,,  no  time  or  date 

mg  been  given  for  several  volumes. 

Tlw  following  are  «uch  of  the  writings  publiahed 
by  Sayers  an  I  have  V>een  able  to  trace,  and  it  is  in 
oonoeqnence  of  trying  to  obtain  authentic  infonua- 
iion  for  the  Hajidbook  of  FUtitious  Names,  as  to 
his  writiug^f  that  I  have  made  my  notes.  I  have 
not  attempted!  a  list  of  the  caricatures.  The  first 
1  kno«r  (I  nlibreviate  all  the  titles)  is — 

1*  J7ttf  Foundling  Ckapd  Brawl^  a  non -heroic 
ballad  . . .  printed  by  C*  Ro worth  . . .  18<)4,  in 
ipurto  of  thirty -one  page^H,  and  a  Urge  caxiavture 
'  "  J.  S."  The  copy  in  the  BritL«ih  Museum 
uritten  on  the  title-pagf,  by  the  author, 
**J.  Bindiey,  Esq,,  from  J.  S.^';  and  on  p.  iii 
tlie  word  "Statue"  is  corrected  to  ** Statute''; 
p,  vi>  third  line  from  the  bottom,  *' should"  is 
corrected  to  *^* ought  to'*;  p.  I),  Jaat  line,  dde  the 
*'p"'  in  '* Thompson";  p,  29,  line  2  from  bottom, 
**  tsmen  "  h  corrected  to  ^  licet/* 

2.  The  f^econd  part  or  sequel  of  the  Foundlinff 
<^jk/  Bmicl  ...tkiso  a  poetical  epistle  from  the 
Doctor  ^Willain] . . .  with  an  ode  to  nuisic  for  the 
iastallation  of  the  Doctor  and  hiH  lady  in  their 
>5kllery  pew  [motto].  London,  printed  by  C,  Eo- 
wortlC  iy<>r»,  quarto,  pp.  32,  with  three  illustrations, 
that  on  page  i!2  probably  being  a  caricature  portrait 
of  Dr.  WUiain. 

Lowndes  (1834,  vol  ii,  p*  739)  j^ve«  no  author's 
Xttme  The  second  edition  (vol  li,,  1858,  p.  826) 
aid^  (othe  title^  *^  by  Ed.  Sater,  the  caricaturist/' 
aa  if  the  work  bore  the  authora  name,  and  says 
that  it  was  yrivahly  prijiiedj  which  may  be  correct, 
though  the  author  says  its  '*  ckculation  has 
f*xteoded  far  beyond  the  metropolis."  The  follow- 
ing ijsi  a  mocil  note  on  the  flydeaf  of  the  copy  in 
the  Britmh  Museum.  I  give  it  as  a  specimen  of 
wh  ■  t    not  to  be  relied    on :—   Privately 

pr  7  scarce:  see  Lowndes'*  [who  says 

H'  l-e  kind).     '^^  The  prints  are  by  Gilray" 

Jt  I  1,  '^•although  marked  with  the  initials 

» J.  .^       iur      V   *'     pnem  itself  is  very  like  the 
of  J  !ir;  it  is  stated  in  Eohn's 


E.  Sayers,  which  I  presume  lias  been  taken  from 
the  signature  to  the  memorial," 

It  would  appear  from  this  work  that  Elizabeth 
Say  era,  whose  name  is  thus  given,  and  whom 
Sayers  makes  to  date  her  memorial  from  "  Great 
Ormond  Street,  8th  May,  1804,"  had  rented  a  seat 
in  one  of  the  pews  of  the  Foundling  Chapel 
upwards  of  sixteen  years,  when  about  the  begin- 
ning of  1803  Dr.  WiUain  put  up  some  rail  which 
was  very  obnoxious^  and  Miss  Sayers  woidd  not 
occupy  the  seat.  She  was  no  doubt  a  sister,  and 
must  have  come  to  London  with  or  not  long  after 
Sayers.  It  will  be  observed  by  the  title  to  the 
second  part  that  the  Doctor's  lady  had  some  hand 
in  the  atTalr. 

In  his  edition  of  Lowndes,  Mr.  Bohn,  under 
**Sayer"  (even  he  was  uncertain  of  the  name), 
give^  the  interesting  information  that  Sayers'a 
sister  presented  a  unique  set  (150)  of  her  brother's 
caricatures  to  Mr.  NicoL 

The  next  work  is  the  one  that  obtained  the  moat 
celebrity  ;  it  i&  also  anooymous : — 

3.  Elijah's  Mantle,  a  poem,  London,  printed 
for  J.  J,  Stockdale,  1807,  price  one  shilling,  in 
8vo.  pp.  13. 

The  copy  in  the  Kings  Library  at  the  British 
Museiim  has  tlie  words  **  a  poem  "  struck  through 
and  these  words  inserted — ^*'a  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  the  Ht,  Hon.  William  Pitt ";  and  at 
the  end  of  the  poem  the  words,  "  Written  5th 
February,  1806,"  all  said  to  be  in  the  author'a 
handwriting. 

There  wu.s  also  published  :  —  "  TU  Feast  of 
Qalilu^  ill  humbU  iinitation  of  ElijalCs  MarUh. .  , 
1807'';  and'*  All  Ou  Talents  Garhatid .,.  include 
ing  ElijaJi6  MantU  , . .  1808  "  ("K,  &  Q./'  4«»  S. 
ii.  296).*  These  were  reviewed  in  the  Monthly 
JKetrietr,  vol.  hi.  p.  439,  vol.  liii.  pp.  321  and  322. 
I  do  not  know  who  were  the  authors. 

4.  "5/.  SUphin's  Cimpeh  a  satirical  poem,"  is 
mentioned  in  the  Montkhj  Rcinyu\  vol,  liii.  p.  220. 
I  have  not  Meen  this,  but  it  may  be  the  one  that 
Mr,  Redgrave  popularly  refers  to  as  *^  Kew  Games 
at  St*  Stephen's  Chapel.^' 

5.  An  Htroic  EpistU  to  Mr.  Wxmor.  .  .  Lon- 
don, R.  Spencer,  Great  Ormond  Street,  1808,  4to. 
pp.  18  and  1.  To  the  copy  in  the  British  Museum 
h  added  an  illustmtion  by  Gilray,  published 
May,  1802,  by  Humphrey,  St.  James's  Street.  It 
evidently  does  not  belong  to  the  book,  and  no 
notice  being  taken  of  it  in  the  catalogue,  it  is  apt 
to  mislead.  It  is  a  plate  ridiculing  gas,  and  en- 
titled "  New  Discoveries  in  Pneumaticks,^'  and  it 
is  referred  to  by  Sayers  on  p.  13  thus,  *^  For  an 
illustration  of  this  line,  see  Mr,  Gilray's  excellent 
caricature  print  of  the  Royal  Institution," 

6.  Bints  to  J.  NolltkinMf  Esq.^  Ii,A,f  on  hi* 


mtitltd  MiijaiCt  Afamle  .  . .  WActt»^>a«A.A^*^' 


384 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(S>*  a  IL  Not.  14.  Tl. 


MoihUing  a  Bitst  of  Lord  6r******i«  [motto], 
London,  R.  Sp4?ncer»  1808^  8vo.  pp.  15,  A  poli- 
tical satire  id  verse  on  Lord  GrenTille,  with  a 
front  bpiece» 

7*  Query  if  the  following  ia  hy  hira  1  It  ia  his 
puljlisher.  An  EpUecpul  dkjrfft .  .  .  London^ 
printed  for  E.  Spencer,  22,  Orciit  Ormond  Streetj 
l&fi,  in  8vo.  pp.  13.  "A  satirit^fl.1  poem  on  G. 
Pretyman,  afterwards  Tomline,  Bishop  of  Lincoln," 
Note  in  B.  M.  Citalogiie. 

It  will  be  seen  from  these  notes  how  much 
I  remains  uncertain.  "Will  your  readers  more  par- 
^ticidarly  answer  the  following  questions  ?— When 
und  in  what  parish  was  Sayera  bornj  and  where 
baptized  ?  Who  wjls  the  Sayers  who  practised 
at  Yarmouth  ?  Was  the  caricaturiBt  ever  married  ( 
Were  officers  of  the  courts  allowed  to  practise  also 
as  attorneys,  as  the  registnus  of  the  county  courts 
are  now  ?  Was  bia  will  (if  any)  proved,  and  by 
whom  ?    What  other  works  did  he  publish  i 

Olphab  Hamst. 

James  Sayers,  the  caricaturist,  was  not  identical 
with  James  Say  era,  the  attorney,  who  died  in 
1827,  although  both  practised  at  treat  Yamiouth. 
Some  account  of  both  may  be  found  in  the  Fcr- 
hittration  of  irrfai  Yarmouth^  vol.  i.  p.  204,  where 
there  is  a  portniit  of  the  caricaturiBt  from  a  draw* 
ing  by  himself,  and  vol,  ii.  pp.  B3,  369. 

A.  G.  P. 

Great  Yarmouth. 


The    French    Flag,— From   a  work  on   Let 

Z^rapcaux  Fra7ifaU,  just  published  in  Paris,  and 

written  by  M,  Gtisstave  Desjardins,  it  rippears  that 

'  the  present  tricolor  of  France  was  the  fljig  under 

[which  Henri  IV,  entered   Rouen,  and   that   the 

I  irhite  iliig  wns  much  oftener  used  by  rebels  than 

by  kings,  who  generally  bore  the  Idue  flag,  but 

aometimes  the  red !        "  !Ed. 

"CoMEfi   Facuitdus  nr  Via.      The   Fellow 
Tbavkllkr  thuouoh  City  and  Countret-'' — 
This  very  amusing  and  rare  little  work  wa«  pub- 
lished anonymously,  and  the  author  has  never  yet^ 
I  believe,  been  indicated.     The  complete  title  is— 
"Cornea    Facundui  in   Via.     The   Fellow  TraveUer 
^  through  Ctty  and  Countrey,  among  Studflats  and  Schi  »lari> 
I  :at  Home  und  Abrokd.    PurniBhed  with  short  StoHi^s  ond 
the  choiccBt  ffpcecbei  of  clean  and  innoeent  wit  and 
ri&irth  for  dtscoarBe  or  priTnt«  «ntertainineMt  in  Kecreu- 
f floai  or  Joumcyn.    By  Democritua  Sccutidus.    Londrm  ; 
•  Printed  for  Hum.  Robinfloo  at  the  three  rigMnn  in  &t 
I  Piaarfi  Churcli  jnrd.     1056.     12mo.,  849  pAfpea,  iDcludin^ 
lUlO'pago^  preUnjiniiry  tnatt«r,  and  errata." 

In   my  copy,  under  Democritus   Secundum,   is 

written  in  a  contemporary  hand,  "  i,  e,  IJ^"*  Hen. 

Mmtmdsm,  Coll.  Reg.  Oxon.,  olim  eocio,"    Of  the 

€»JTeot!iefi8  of  tlii«   attribution  there  can   l>e   no 

doubt     TAere  in  a  notice  of  the  author  in  Wood 

(Athmm^  rol  Hi  p,  474,  BUa&'a  edit\<iTi)i  w\iq/ 


'51 


though  he  mentions  other  piece*  c»f  F  ' 
does  not,  refer  to  this,  but  merely  obwr. 
wrote  **  other  thing?*.''    Hi»  waa,  it  ftpjx*; 
of  Cumberlftnd,  und  was  born  there  in 
leaving  Oxford,  he   bec4ime   usher  at    »  u : 
School,  and  in  1655  wa*   MaflteT  of  Kort 
School,  at  which  place  he  died  in  1C50.     Ai 
his  works  13  7'^he  Natural  Hutory  of  Lau 
London^  1655, 8vo.,  which  I  posBWB,  %nd  L 
Contfrdio  $iix  BfUum  Bdlionttity,  a 
the  Rawlinson  CoUection   in  the  P. 
Comes  Facnndus^  from  which  I  ci 
entertaining  extracts    if   ifpnce 
deserving  of  being  reprinted.      Jas,  Cr^>&>i 

fWlll  our  corrcfpondent  kindly  wnd  ui  tlie 
worth  reproducing  f] 

China:  CEarETEBiEs. — A  cjisual  rti, 
of  the  leaders  of  a  daily  paper*  has  f  ' 
forcibly  the  remarkable  absence  of 
which  is  generally  discovered,  e\* 
regulated  houi^es,"  when  China  haiTpio^  i.i  i.i  m. 
surjject  of  discufision.     Indeed,  there  veeam  to^» 
a  purely  conventional,   and   generally  hXkdem^ 
mode  of  treating  all  that  relates  to  the  GIrilMli; 
as  though  a  foregone  conclusion  lay  at  the  bottom. 
Tlie  remark  referred  to  ia  a?  follows  : — 

"  Metropolitan  hothouses  for  ferer  and  confonyttoi 
are  p^rpetu«ited  to  foster  a  prejudice  which  wt  litft 
only  with  the  tmrbariana  of  China.  The  CKmetroeiiM  rf 
rBilways  in  the  ChiaoM  tCmpiromuat  be  ind«fiiiltaly  fcrih 
poncd  until  the  pfl<iplo  will  coT^seni  to  ^low  euttnilla 
oe  mftde  '  throuyli  the  graves  of  their  ancettoTV."* 

In  one  notorious  instance,  at  any  rate» 
Chinese  have  quietly  acquiesced  in  the  uii] 
of  their  cemeteries.  In  tormiog  a  drill  gro' 
the  troops  at  Kowloon»  we  had  to  level  a  co 
and  I  have  afterwards  seen  re^j 
mea.su ring  the  ground  so  as  to  tl. 
{iosition  of  a  grave,  in  order  to  remove  Ute  1 
to  some  quieter  resting-place.  I  have  also  - 
Europeans,  for  pjistime^  breaking  to  pia 
funeral  urns  of  the  Chinese  and  scat 
iMJoes  of  the  rude  forefathers  of  haiolets  I 
same  locality,  and  sometimes  reserviivg  th 
jjenknife  handlea.  In  one  Lnstfincc,  I 
an  urn  and  its  contents  being  carried  off  (for  » 
sentation  to  an  English  museum),  and  depooM 
for  security,  in  the  mcuntime,  in  a  OoTtnartODit 
store.  On  auch  occu.sions  the  o»»^f»'^»^*^  f^hlftot 
have  only  offered  what  is  called  **ij 
I  auj,  however,  inclined  to  believe  i 
would  not  offer  even  this  kind  of  !►  1  i! 
native  authorities  in  any  aeknov*ir  ouv^i 
public  utility. 

A  great  deal  of  valuable  insight  int/*  ffte  Hjm 
character,  and  our  own  trnnswicT 
East,  is  lost  to  the  British  pu) 
notice  taken  of  daily  uocurreri.  lUvj  I'j  :^1 


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Dav(t|  TiU^raph^  Ai. 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


385 


'      '    ' 'Lines©  newvpnpers.     The    following  »p* 
1  the  2iid  of  AngUBt  iii  tlie  same  paper^  and 
au^•^u^  ii  ustful  commetitary  on  these  remai'ks : — 

•*  Only  A  day  nr  two  since  we  ullmio*!  to  the  concession 
mmde  by  the  Lejtibkture  to  popular  feeling  hy  refusing 
U*  fi&nctiQii  a  RUl  empowennK  the  MidUnd  Hallway 
Company  to  &b»orb  the  long  disused  gmTtywd  of  St. 
PancAS." 

s. 

New  Wores  8UoaRSTm>  by  Authors.  —  The 
Ifollowiog  iiot««  raay  be  useful  eithejr  as  curiosities 
Fftr  hints  for  further  iise  among  your  learned  cor- 
reBpondents  r— 

1.  ^*  Anecdotes  of  Fathitm.  A  Tolnme  on  thisflubjeot 
might  t e  mudo  Ttrr  curioui  and  eutertaiuttig." — D^vacli, 
Vur,  of  Liu,  vol.  Lp.  216.  edition  1SG7- 
^K  %  *^Ofa  History  of  Evtntt  tchick  havi  not  happmtd. 
^^ESuch  11  title  mii;bt  acrve  for  a  work  of  not  iucunotu  nor 
^Kg«^|^{i, ...  f.:.  .^1  i7)«cu]ation^  which  mif;lit  enlarge  our 
^^^Kt^  humiin  affairs.''— y 6 j:V^.t  ii^  p«  4*28. 

^^^^Pl  ■'■  room  for  a  very  interesting  work,  which 

flicQld  Iiik)-  o^en  the  connexion  between  the  langnages 
and  in»nnerB  of  nations.*'— Gibbon's  Dtdine  and  Fall, 
^'Jiturr»v>  reprint,  toI.  i.  p.  2^»  note  4. 

4.  '*When  IKocletinn  conferred  on  Galenua  the  title 

ft^f  Cfcaar,  he  hn  I  riTP-n  him  in  marriage  hia  daughter 

Valeria,  who(»c  t  v  adventures  might  furnish  a 

ftry  liniirnlar  §  i  ir&fi^dj''—Jt/HL^  toI.  i.  p.  321. 

£>.  *  Amrnlanu    .  ...i ahia,  who  t^'nniniitei  hia  uieful 

[  work  with  ihf^  delcat  and  death  of  Valena,  recommends 

Ltho  more  glorious  subject  of  the  ensuini?  reign  to  the 

~       hful  vij^our  and  cloqaence  of  the  rising  generation. 

I  fifing  generation  waa  not  diipoaed  to  accept  his 

e."-/friU,  vol.  iup.  48. 

6,  *'  The  Chinese  aripaU  may  be  usefully  applied  to 

OTeal  the  teerft  and  remote  cauaes  of  the  fall  of  the 

Ban  Empire."- /&«/.,  vol.  ii.  p,  140. 

'  Our  common  Uw  inay  hnve  indirectly  received 

cr  modification  from  the  influence  of  the  civilians 

An  its  professors  were  ready  to  acknowledce,  or  even 

liha^n  thcT  knew.     A  fuH  view  of  this  subject  is  itill.  I 

■  '  Titura  in  the  history  of  English  law,  which 

"tite  in   ft   rery  intcrei^ting  manner,'*  — 

,  ^lurrav's  reprint,  p.  >*'ZS,  note  I. 

of  ftocTCs'l  lliftori/  of  E»glUk  Law, 

eitecaied  with  cqunl  ability),  would 

c  ,  .i^^i  ^o  every  student  of  law  or  constitu* 

►ry/* — Stephen's  Coia.  on  Lawi  o/Eng,,  toI.  i, 

-  ih 

BMeford  Oardena,  6hepherd*s  Bush  Common. 

SiKQULAK  Card  of  Thanks,— Tho  following 
Affpeaied  recently  in  a  CleTeland   (Ohio)  news- 
»per:— 
*  JSoTidL— Tn  tfte  fncndR  rf  Mrs.   Diana  Wall :    I 
inent  for  their  kind  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  Black- 
,,  ,--,i.Li,  to  Dr»  Mead  and  his 
taing^ff,  and  the  pallbearers  I  feel  under  f>eculiar 
Rtioiis.     Ml  the  pullbearers  were  acquiitntMncet  of 
■a'  durmtion,  and  two  bad  known  Mm.  Wall  in 
lid  for  the  last  thirty-eight  yeara.    Yours  re^cct- 
JoBJ«  J.  Wall/' 
Bar-Point. 

MicAi*  PR0VBRB8. — I  think  the  fol* 
nt  rirnrs  *'  frnin  W,  Vaugban's  Dircc- 


tmisfor  HetMlih,  fifth  edition,  1617j  have  not  been 
quoted  in  your  notes  upon  thi-?  »iil>ject  :^ 
"  •  Faire  and  foolUh,  little  and  lond, 
Long  and  laiie,  bl?icke  Ami  proud ; 
Pat  and  merry.  leant;  and  j>ad^ 
Fal«  and  peevi»b,  red  and  bad.* 
As  likewise  they  aymo.  that  the  red-headed  or  red- 
beiiTded  are  crafty,  and  thebrowne-oomplaxioDed  tmttj  : 
'  To  a  red  man  reade  thy  readt 
With  a  browne  man  breake  thy  bread,' " 

a  K  R 

The  Bones  or  the  Phar^vohs* — A  short  time 
bince^  in  passing  along  the  ijuavs  of  the  Bir- 
kenhend  Docka,  I  noticed  kr^  lieaps  of  bones 
in  u  fn^gnientary  condition.  On  inquiry,  I  find 
that  this  is  a  regular  article  of  commerce  from 
Alexiindria,  and  is  used  for  the  manufacture  of  the 
great  fertilizer,  bone-dust,  Exantininfj  closeljr,  I 
discovered  many  port  ion  a  of  human  akulls,  ribs, 
tibiit',  &c.  The  greater  part  are  in  fn»grment«,  about 
the  size  of  a  hazel  nut  or  walnut,  but  inany  boneei 
are  entire.  I  called  the  attention  of  a  medieal 
friend  to  the  matter,  who  made  an  examination, 
and  reports  that  the  greater  part  consists  of  the 
bones  of  nniniak  in  a  fragmentary  condition,  but 
that  undoubtedly  there  ia  a  considerable  admixture 
of  human  reuiains. 

This  peculiar  importation  h  of  course  obtained 
by  rifling  the  mummy  pits  of  Lower  Egypt.  What 
an  instructive  commentary  is  here  presented  on 
human  preparations  and  insight  into  the  future  1 
The  remains  of  the  great  and  mighty  of  a  famed 
and  historical  country,  aft^r  lying  undisturbed  for 
thousands  of  yeai\s,  dug  up  and  transferred  to  a 
distant  land  to  be  spread  for  dung  on  the  face  of 
the  earth  ! 

The  philoHopher  of  Norwich,  two  hundred  years 
ago,  in  the  stately  periods  of  his  Hydriotaphia ;  ar^ 
Uni  Burial^  which  sound  like  a  strain  of  solemn 
music,  thus  expresses  himself : — 

"  ^  '  ingenuity  waa  mora  imsatisfiedt  oontrivitig 
lb'  .  sweet  eoDsiateucies,  to  attend  the  return 

of  1  But  alt  waa  vanity,  feeding  the  wind  and 

folly.  The  Egyptian  mummies  which  Oaoibysas  or  time 
hath  spared,  nraricc  now  con*umeth.  Mummy  is  be- 
come merchandize^  Mlxraini  euros  wounds^  and  rharaoh 
is  sold  for  balsams." 

Had  he  foreseen  the  depth  f»f  degradation  at  the 
present  dny^  his  reflections  would  have  had  a  much 
keener  and  more  profound  application.  Well 
might  he  continue : — 

"  In  vain  do  individuals  hope  for  Immortal tty»  or  *ny 
patent  from  oblivion,  in  presenrations  below  the  moon. 
,  .  .  .  Wherein  there  is  so  much  of  chance,  that  the 
boldest  expectants  have  found  imhappy  frustration; 
and  to  bold  long  subsistence  seems  but  a  ^cnpc  in  oblivion^ 
But  man  is  a  noble  animal,  splendid  in  nsbes,  and  poin- 
pom  in  the  grave,  solemnizing  nativities  and  deaths  with 
eqtial  lustre,  nor  omittiitg  ceremonies  of  bravery  in  the 
infamy  of  his  nature." 


38G 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Pinuppk  CoasAT. — On  the  26th  of  S<?ptember» 
Switzerland's  barber-poet  died  at  Geneva.  He  wa« 
a  native  of  Pully,  netir  Laasanoej  where  lie  was 
bom  in  1809*  Some  of  the  best  aonga  in  the 
French  knguage  are  from  his  pen,  tind  sv  proposal 
wa«  recently  made  to  publish  them  in  a  volume. 
To  this  the  poet  consented,  but  unfortunately  he 
had  not  kept  copies  of  several  of  his  productions, 
and  an  appeal  to  holders  of  his  songa  waa  not 
sufficiently  responded  to.  It  would  have  been 
more  to  f'oraat'a  fame  if  he  had  kept  to  his  shftvin|:r 
shop,  and  continued  to  delight  by  the  exquisite 
productions  of  his  muse.  But  he  wa-s  luducei  to 
quit  his  caJling  by  the  solicitations  of  political 
meads^  who  thou|^ht  the  witticisms  of  the  shop 
■VFould  be  well  received  by  the  public  at  large. 
Oorsat  and  his  friends  accordingly  started  a  Swiss 
PuTwA,  under  the  name  of  T/ie  Carillon  of  SL 
Chrvais.  It  has  had  a  considerable  patronage 
amongst  political  refugiaesi  French  Communists^ 
and  Ultni-Radicjvls^  and  it  has  been  prohibited  in 
France.  But  it?  violent  personalities,  and  often 
very  objectionable  cariciitures,  have  not  added  to 
Corsat's  literary  fame.  For  many  of  these  thin^^s 
we  believe  Corsat  was  not  personally  responsible. 
Notwithstanding  the  chanicter  of  (^arillon^  it  hiis 
not  estranged  those  who  knew  intimately  the 
barber-poet.  In  private  life  be  was  respected  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends,  and  his  public  funeral  was 
[attended  (officially)  by  several  members  of  the 
Government  of  Geneva,  and  by  the  Masonic  Lodge 
of  which  he  was  a  member  ;  more  than  2|0i)tj 
were  present.  It  is  proposed  to  erect  a  monuoient 
to  his  memory,  and  it  is  hoj>ed  that  the  con- 
tributors will  think  only  of  the  barber-poet,  his 
talents  and  his  virtues,  and  put  itside  all  political 
rcruini^eences,      James  Hk.sry  Dixon^  LL.D. 

Louis  XIV.  axd  the  CeuRcii.^In  the  His- 
ioirt  iks  Mddmlks,  by  Charles  Putin,  published  in 
[Paris  "avec  privilege  du  Koi/'  is  an  engraving  of 
«  medal  which  Putin  proposed  should  be  struck 
It  bears  the  date  of  1660.  On  one  side  la  the 
head  of  Louis  XIV.  On  the  reverse  Louis  is 
standing  crowned,  in  his  robes,  and  extending 
his  hand  to  a  figure  which  kneels  before  him 
and  grasps  his  hand.  This  figure  bears  on  its 
left  shoulder  ri  large  cross^  and  holds  in  its 
left  band  a  chalice.  It  is  clothed,  like  Loui^,  in  a 
mantle  sown  with  t!eur  de  lys,  but  it  seems  not 
to  represent  the  Galliam  Churchy  11.3  it  wears  the 
tianu  The  motto  is,  "  Reatitutori  orbis  Chri^- 
tiani."     Was  this  medal  ever  struck  I 

Ralph  N.  Jakes. 
Afthfordt  Kent. 

Lb  Brettow   at  Rouen". — ^ Amongst   the   line 

oollection  of  pottery  at   the   Rouen   Museum   I 

noticed  a  large  full-bellied  jug,  dated  173L     On 

the  front  is  a  Bacchus  astride  on  u  barrel,  holding 

alo/t  a  glass  &nd  a  bunch  of  grapes.    I  copied  from 


it  the  following  curious  eaumeiatioii  of  the  rirtae^ 
and  vices  of  the  viae . — 

"  Je  suJA  un  antidote 

£t  Je  auis  un  poison^ 

Jc  reTcille  lc«  bcub 

Et  J  endom  U  raiacm, 

J'ovanca  lo  trepas 

Et  proloTige  la  vie, 

Et  Je  si^me  k  guerre, 

Uu  la  t>*^  ™*  coDTi«.*' 
This  jug  is  called  Le  Hretton. 

In  the  same  Museum  there  is  a  very  fine  act  of 
"Revolution  plate*."    These  havr   ^    '  -'-    ^r— 
added,  and  are  of  great  hLstoricid  l 
fleury,  in  his  Histoire  de  la  Caricu, ,.. 
duced  a  few  (but  by  no  means  the  m** 
examples.     These  pktes,  which  w«  rr-  - 
numbers  to  the  poor  during  the 
now  very  scarce,  and  in  no  public  1 
so  large  a   collection  as  at  Rouen*      > 
Liberty,  Equrdity,  and  Fntternity,  tho 
and  ridicule  of  the  clergy,  are  the  most  piommtiii 
of  the  topics  alluded  to  on  them. 

W.    HAMlLTOif. 


u]      thr. 


ril.v 


Largest  Population. — It  is 
tion    within   a   radius   of  thirty 
Exchange  at  Manchester  is  larger  m 
the  same  radius  from  St.  Paul's  in  London. 

J.  C    I 

SiNotTLAB  Misprint, — In  the  quarto  Bible— 
"Oxford  ;    Printed  at  the   Clarendon  Ftvas^  hj 
Dawson,   Bensley,  and   Cooke,   Printers    to   ifc 
University  ;  and' sold  at  the  Oxford  Bible  W^'t^- 
bouse,  in  Paternoster  Row,  London,  18<>2  "— 
iH  the  following  curious   misprint,  Job    xw 
**  All  the  whUe  my  breath  it  in  me,  and  the 
of  God  i*  in  my  stostrila.'^    Had  it  not  br^t      ; 
the  old  form  of  compound  letter,  this  error  of  tho 
press  could  hardly  have  occurred. 

V.H,LL.LaLV. 

Vervaik  against  Melancholt, — It  is  impos- 
sible not  to  feel  compassion  for  the  foUovenofi 
peculiar  baronet,  who  evidently  su0er  tutidi 
internally,  since  they  ajjeak  so  forcibly  of  tlie  W 
effects  of  wine.  I  will,  therefore,  tmti>^l:it«'  for 
their  benefit  an  old  Italian  recipe, 
enable  them  so  to  prepare  wine  that  j 
disturb  the  inner  man  of  the  most  wenk 
them,  and  a  whiil"  of  which,  it  is  to  be  ho]^ 
clear  his  brain.  The  recipe  is  said  to  be  **Ag;WQat 
Melancholy,*'  and  runs  thus  : — 

"  In  order  that  the  nielaDcholjr  man  may  be  ^n 
some  leaves  of  Verram  and  boil  thorn  in  ^ood 
wine,  acd  let  him  drink  of  tlus  *rific  :         ^  ^ 
plant  may  be  put  int«  his  souji,  and  i 
gtLj.     Mor«orcr,  take  Bomo  jvmiper  ' 
on  hot  embers,  and  inhale  tbt»  tmoke  thvr 
the  nose  and  mouth,  aod  it  will  always  cu-l 
merry." 

If  Sir  W,  and  hifi  friends  do  not  in  ftititifr  drink. 


^di 


i 


6»  8.  n.  Nor.  14,  Ti-J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


387 


snioke,  ftud  he  jolly,  like  other  people,  it  will 
cIcatIy  be  tiieir  own  fault,  or  arise  from  a  deficiency 
of  vcrraiti  and  janiper^  a  mingled  wreath  of 
wliicb  they  might  award  to  the  most  intrepid 
drinkef  of  vervain  9onp»  Ralph  N*  Jameb. 
Aehford,  Kent 


\W9  moat  raqii««t  eorrefipondentii  desiring  infonnntion 
Qift  fMBtly  nuittfin  of  only  pnvmte  ioterost,  to  &ffii  ilioir 
naaai  ud  addresiea  lo  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
■amren  ma^y  be  addroMod  to  them  direct.] 


.Viri 


VrRoixiiis  AKD  THE  Antipodks.— There  haa 
b^en  printed  of  late  a  very  interesting  series  of 
letter*  in  the  Times  on  the  so-called  heresy  of 
:ilius,  for  which  he  was  censiired  by  Pope 
hary.  The  Iri«h  Annals  did  not  know  Mm  as  a 
©tic,  but  as  a  geometrician:  e.g.,  the  Annah 
efihd  Four  Mmters  (Ed.  O^Donovan),  suh  an.  784 
(f«rt«  789)»  record  that  **  Ferghil,  tho  Geometer, 
Abbot  of  Achadhbo,  died  in  Germany  in  the 
thirteenth  year  of  his  biBhopric"  Aghabo  was  a 
monastery  founded  by  St,  Cainech^  or  Can  ice,  in 
the  prefient  Queen's  County.  With  the  missionary 
spirit  which  actuated  bo  many  of  the  Irish  Chri&- 
ttatiA  of  that  age,  ita  Abbot  went  forth  to  evan- 
gelize pagan  lands,  became  the  Apostle  of  the 
Bail,  and  died  Bishop  of  Saltsbnrg-  The  learned 
edito--  rS  t^.P'^e  Annnh  adds,  in  a  note,  that  he 
be«  *[i  of  Salt^^bnrg  about  the  yejir  751*^ 

but  :  .      _  .  :^picion  of  heterodoxy  attached  to  his 
name  until  the  year  1233,  when  he  was  canonized 
by   Pope  Gregory   IX,      We    know  that    Pope 
Zacbary  declared  him  a  heretic,  but  he  does  not 
aeem  to  hare  been  ever  excommunicated  or  divested 
of  the  priesthood  ;  neither  ia  there  any  proof  that 
he  recanted  hi8  so-called  heretical  views  relativ^e  [ 
to  the  rotundity  of  the  Earth  and  the  Antipodes, 
which  his  knowledge  of  mathematics  led  him  to 
I  adopt  and   promul^'ate.     Perhaps  some  reader  of 
*  N.  &  Q."  can  supply  the  Act  of  Canonization. 
[The  evidence   on   which  Gregory  IX.  canonized 
I  him  may  alf*o  still   be   in  existence,  and  would 
ow  much  liirht  on  the  subject.     As  the  matter 
'  rrats,  we  have  one  Pope  declaring  Ferghil  a 
4ic^  and  another  canonizing  him  as  a  saint. 

Sbvabo. 

FtJ^jfisH   Pkdiorbb  Rbqutred.— Can   any  of 

tTotir  readers  tell  me  of  a  work  from  which  I  can  get 
on  respecting  **  lodociis-Vydts  and  Isa- 
;  lunt,  his  wife  "*  I  Poblet, 

-. 
Oft 


Ay  APRON." — What  is  the  meaning 
I  of  t  '     The  following  is  an  extract  from 

(  old  joum/U  (1739)  :— 

'Aloa.  April  27.     An  anlacky  ■ff&ir  bfeppeacd  h6r« 

li«l  Frttlay ;  «Terml  lads  bkring  made  nieny  in  trtuAin^ 

««  m^ren^  ooe  Gilbert  Donaldiioa  (aged  14),  serrant  to 

lOflOf^  Thomioii»  got  up  to  the  garret  of  bta  matter* 


boui*,  and  cast  bimself  doirti  on  some  straw  with  hii 
clodtha  on.  leaving  the  candle  buroin^.  which  communt' 
eating,  the  house  wils  set  on  ^e^  so  that  the  people  only 
got  time  to  save  their  Uvea,  except  DonaldsoD,  who  was 
burnt  to  ashes,** 

W.  H.  Patterson. 

The  AnuNDEL  Marbles.— I  have  lately  met 
with  the  following  notice  of  these.  This  extract, 
from  the  Cromwellian  Sttite  Papers,  refers  to  the 
year  1656,  and  I  should  be  glad  to  learn  further 
particulars  of  the  history  of  the»e  marbles  between 
1656  and  1667,  when  they  were  presented  to  the 
University  of  Oxford  ; — 

[Extract  from  the  Entry  Book  of  Oliver's  Coimcil  of 
State,  No.  105,  pp.  rm,  594] 

"At  the  Council  of  State;  Bis  Highness  the  I«ord 
Protector  present. 

"  Wednesday,  24tU  December,  1G50, 

*'0n  reading  the  humble  pettc'on  of  George  Smith 
gent,  conc'ning  a  dJscoT'rie  of  srv  mil  goods/ pictures, 
and  Statues  at  Artindle  lloose  in  the  Strand  ;  two  third 
pts*  whereof  are  adjudged  by  the  Com"  for  discov^ryeaf 
to  belong  to  bis  Highness,  For  w^*"  §  of  the  goods, 
valued  at  6(kJl.  L'^.  4^  is  adjudged  V>  be  paid  into  his 
Highness  Th'rc'y,  §  the  pictures,  and  Statues  being  not 
yet  ftpp raised.  Ordered,  That  it  be  referred  to  y*  Com" 
of  bis  Highness  Th're*y,  to  apfioynt  fitt  p'sons,it  not  onely 
to  make  a  Toluntion  of  the  sayd  pictures,  and  statues, 
but  also  to  make  Sale  of  |  p'tA  thereof,  at  y*  Candle,  and 
out  of  ^r"  Cleare  money  that  shall  come  in  there  upon,  to 
y*  Receipt  of  bis  Highness  ETtcbeq'*  to  allow  one  5"'  p't 
thereof  to  y*  pef,^  in  right  of  his  disco? "rye." 

Hekry  W*  Henfhet. 

5,  Queen  Anne's  Gate,  S,W. 

Madame  Roland's  Mbmoirb. — In  the  Poetry 
of  the  Ant  i- Jacobin,  lately  reprodnced  in  the  new 
edition  of  John  Hookham  Frere's  Worh^  and  in 
the  "  New  !^Iondity,'-  occur  these  lines  :— 
"  0\  does  severer  rirtue  cbarm  ?    We  choose 
Roland  the  juat  with  ribbands  in  his  shoes. 
And  Roland's  spouse,  who  paints  with  chaste  delight,  &c. 

To  this  the  note  is  ^^  Bee  Madame  Bo  land's  He- 
moirs.^'  Now,  I  have  examined  the  only  edition 
in  the  original  acceasible  to  me,  that  of  1620,  and 
find  no  such  passage,  or  anything  resembling  it. 
Can  any  one  inform  me  if  it  appears  in  any  earlier 
edition,  or  whether  it  ia  an  invention  of  the  anti- 
Galilean  poet  i  W.  B.  R, 

New  York. 

Indian -Tjik  TopocRAtnttcAL  DRAwmos.—I 
have  a  number  of  drawings,  in  Indian  ink,  of 
scenery,  ruins,  ca«tles,  towns,  and  country  Beats  in 
Scotland  {chiefly  Perthshire)  and  the  north  of 
England.  They  are  mostly  signed  and  dated  1788 
—  1  mr).  They  are  by  a  Major  D.  Robertson,  once 
a  resident  at  Cheltenham,  and  are,  on  the  whole, 
well  done.     There  are  some  curious  views  of  Edin- 


•  Parti. 

f  Comxaifiiotien  for  Duoov«ri«t. 
X  The  whole  would,   therefore,    have    been    valued 
at  I, (mi. 


388 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


15*  S.  IL  5oT.  U.  71 


tnu^li^  m  fme  of  whicb  Prince  s  Street  imd  Park 
are  represented  by  a  ploughed  fitdd  !  Can  trny 
one  ieU  me  their  probable  vaiae  ?  There  are  132  in 
all,  varying  from  24x12  to  12x6  inches*  Is  any- 
thing known  of  Major  Robertson  ]  Prints. 
Umon  Society,  Oxford. 

OoRBiLLON. — How  was  the  game  mentioned  by 
Molii&re  in  the  following  lines  played }  Wau  it  a 
TCvy  fashionable  game  in  Fmnce  in  the  time  of 
Louis  Quatorae,  and  la  it  ever  played  now  l — 

'*  Je  pretends oue  ia  mienne,  en  claries  pea  sublimiei 
Mi^me  no  saclie  pas  co  quo  c*e«t  qu'une  rime; 
Bt,  a'il  faut  quaTcc  ellc  on  joue  au  corbiQon, 
Et  qaW  vienoe  k  lui  dire  ^soti  tour,  "du'y  met-on?' 
Je  YtvLX  qu'eUe  r^jpoude,  *  une  tarte  A  m  creime  ■  x 
En  un  mot^  qu'elle  ioft  d'une  ignoranco  extreiue/* 
EcoU  da  Pemmes,  Act  i.,  sc.  L 

The  DkHminair6  de  rAc4JuU7me  Fraiifais^i  (ed. 
1814)  defines  corbilhn  as  "  une  e^p^ce  de  jeu»  oii 
Im  iouettrs  aont  obilgi^  de  r^i>ondre  en  nmant  en 
on,**    This  definition  is  rather  meagre. 

Jonathan  Bouchier. 

Thb  First  Prikce  of  Walks.-'Iii  the  first 
fOlnilia  of  her  Querns  of  England,  Mm  Strickljind 
antlled  (d.  420)  that  Henry  III  made  his  Bon 
Prince  of  Wales  on  the  occasion  of  hia  marriage. 
Is  there  any  foundation  for  this  statement  ?  It  is 
not  »np|X)rted  by  any  references.  F,  R. 

Obcaiu— Where  can  I  obtain  accurate  knowledge 
of  the  derivation  of  this  proper  name  ? 

J,    ILVWES. 

**Dbai>." — Can  any  one  expkin  the  origin  of 
this  word  in  the  sense  of  entirely  ?  "  He  ia  dead 
beat  "  ;  "  Everything  is  dead  against  them." 

E,  K,  W. 

Silver  Star, — I  should  be  glad  if  any  one 
wonJd  give  me  any  explanation  of  a  silver  star 
which  waa  lent  to  me  some  time  ago  for  inspections 
and  of  which  the  following  is  the  description.  It  is 
dat,  of  silver,  and  haa  seven  points.  It  has  ap- 
parently been  fastened  on  aometbing,  jl8  at  the 
base  of  each  point  are  two  holes.  In  the  centre 
ia  a  circle  surrounded  by  a  border,  on  which  are 
the  following  letters  ; — **  ng  .  hrdm  .  JvDsh  .  ktf  . 
HP  .  R  .  ixxxiJ'  The  circle  m  divided  into  four 
quartera,  diatinguisbed  by  line.*^  at  right  ncgles  to 
each  other, — ^in  heriddic  language,  gules  and  assure 
alternately,— and  dividing  these  qmirters  into  eii|;ht 
divisions  is  a  broad,  plain  croas.  A  description  of 
it  was  sent  to  me  at  the  same  time,  which  dlhit^^ins 
the  words,  "  Found  in  an  old  house  ;  above  the 
ceiling  of  an  old  house  in  White  Friars'  Gate,  near 
the  Charity  Hall,  Hull  T.  Smith,"  with  some  ex- 
pknation  of  the  ioscription,  which  la  to  mo  un- 
intelligible. PerhapH  some  of  vour  readers  can 
affer^n  explanfition  of  it*  D.  W,  Marsdek, 
Chequer  G^te,  Loath, 


VnuKcn  ABJfotrR. — In  looking  over  the  i 
accounts  of  some  of  the  old  churches  of  Bs 
find  repeated  mention  of  the  church  annotl  ^ 
charges  for  bearing  the  church  arms  in  th#l 
For  instance,  in  the  records  of  St*  Werbttrgh*aJ 
appears  under  the  date — 

"  1945.     To  bearing:  of  y*  church  armes 

62  weckeii     .        .        ,       .  £2  If' 
1646.    To  a  nmskett  for  the  church  U    0" 

Similar  entries  occur  in  thi  s   of 

churches  of  Bristol,  a  ooralet  I 

charged  for.     The  questions  I  \\rn\: 

it  a  former  custom  for  the  church 

flesh  and  blood  as  well  as  iigainst  -^ 

and  are  there  any  instances  of  the 

armour  being  yet  preserved  as  rdic.>    . 

JOHK  TaTLOR, 

Bristol  MtifQum  and  Library. 

A  Watkr-Colour    Draw  mo. — Will    any 
your  readers  help  me  to  the  anthorshlp  of 
following.     It  is  a  water-colour  drawing,   19  x 
inches,  of  the  interior  of  a  kitchen  or   comi 
room.     The  chief  and  be4!t  part  is  a  group  of 
women  at  a  round  table  in  the  middle  of  the 
all  wear  a  Biiiall  white  cJose-fitting  cap,  with 
round  it.     Two  are  sitting,  one  with  her  * 
us,  with  her  arm  on  the  table,  tilting  the 
which  hangs  a  bag  ;  one  Is  sitting  facing 
points  to  the  inside  of  her  teacup,  which  si 
holding  up,  looking  up  at  the  other  wouii 
is  standing  facing  us  with  her  anus  akim 
the  end  of  the  room,  an  older  woman  ia 
with  strings  hanging  loose,  is  ironing  j  at 
by  the  door,  si  little  girl  is  feeding  «  do^ 
basin  ;  a  boy  (it  la  Webster,  in  pinni 
hat)  i.^  pointing  to  the  dog;  on  the  J 
with  urn,  jugs,  plates,  &c.;  on  the  rij^iu,  the 
burning  brightly  and  cat  on  the  nig.     It 
like  a  sketch  for  a  picture,  the  subject  of  which  i 
**  telling  the  fortune  or  visitor  from  the  t<*a'l^f  ' 
the  cup,"     If  there  is  such  a  picture  about  t 
time  of  Wilkie,  I  should  be  glaj^l  to  know  tif  it. 


Geo.  Wa 
Brighton. 

"Put  up  with  tt." — How  and  whf  p  ^"  '  ' 
phrase  originate?  Richard  Baxter,  in 
biomiphy,  {^peaking  of  his  preaching  bt'i'^t-  ^  c-^" 
well,  says,  '*  the  plainness  a^nd  nearness,  I  hofX^^ 
wm  displeasing  to  him  and  his  court ier&,  but  ih«t 
pnt  it  up/'  This  appears  to  be  another,  posaiUj 
an  older,  form  of  expression  of  the  same  iidea. 

Obscurk  WoRa**  i5  Rrpoir  Wii  ;    v  "• ' 

glad  of  satisfactory  explanations  < 
words,  occurrin*>  in  fifteenth-ccntu!^ 


Pncuarium  {QT  ptsiu.ariuM'^.    After  lui  u'l 
and  bed,  "nouin  petcuArtum.' 

A  liarium,    Betu  ccn  a  tab  and  a  dblii  ** 
blodium.'' 


ui  gam 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^ 


p4i  iMmiifulmm.  In  couoetion  with  bedding  "  ouiuu 
|>efp«iHUailuin  "  0  ^  curtain  ar  litkiigin|;). 

jLtetrvn.  "  [Jauju  prioiorium  cum  y  ciitiit  ei  lectrum 
AtiDeztim*— ttnam  leciruta  cum  oda  oiatA  incliua,  infra 
•tmlram  m  cttpeUft  pradictft "  (1  *  dttik  foe  wHtiDg  or 

Sulhupt .    **  UDim  togwn  dupUcAtun  oum  bokkAjyn." 

JUiPaii.    "  De  pftoDo  Tooftto  lewui/* 

Ci^«(riiuk     *^  I  tarn  h&^r  pro  ostrinA  xxx  ulzue." 

ilo^    **  Item  in  carootiibua  de  lUle/* 

Jlffo^    *  Item  j  mjif  pro  pane  micftodo/* 

OiiL    Among  ai^ricotturAl  taiplemsnti^  '*  Itvm  de  j 

caU  p'e»  xijd." 

C?raii<»Ai)3i«    Among  funeral  cx(>cii«ci,  "  Item  Thomas 

Walworth  pn>  U  ^muiibhip,  xij  3.  yiij  «!/* 
SetetMt,    **  I.  ij;  C. .  .  .  Be  we  lit  Ordigne  niakTth  and 

declaric  mj  tcstamont." 

J  T   F 
Hatfield  UaU,  Dorham. 

HAHTLKBdTIlT     CAflTLK  :      TiCKELL's      HoMKR's 

"lujLD.*^ — Many  yeurs  ago,  with  Prof.  Conington, 

I  eeareh^,  bj  permiaston  of  BLshop  Pepys,  the 

libnry  nt  HtirtJebury,  for  a  copy  of  Tickeirs  vereion 

of  the  first  book  of  the  Jlioa,  with  MS.  notes  by 

Pope.     We  could  not  find  it.     It  was  given  by 

B«ed  to  Bbhop  Hurd  ;  but  lM?fore  he  parted  with 

ti  Ke  made  a  transcript,  which  was  afterwards  in 

the  hands  of  Alexander  Chalmeni.     The  present 

>p  of  Worceiter  lias  kindly  aeardied  for  the 

which  appears  In  a  catalogut?,  hut  has  di»- 

'  fSrom  the  uhelves.     A  copy  with  notes  by 

wa«  said  to  have  been  8old  at  the  iale  of  the 

John  Mitford,  who  may  possibly  have  hor- 

it  for  litemry  purpoaes,  and  who  may  have 

i\\9  writi'r  in  the  GeniUman*^  Maga^ju^  for 

K  who  speaks  of  having  a  copy  of 

iiniog  Pope's  M8.  notes,  in  hie  poa-. 

^fimon.   V\tk  Conington 's  MUMantmu  iVritings, 

mh  i.  p,  47.     Can  any  of  your  riiadere  trace  the 

voltune,  or  ToJumes,  and  transcript  I 

G.  B.  Boyle. 
RidderminBter* 

Talent  amo  Tact, — 

''Talent  is  power;  tact  is  skill  Talent  Is  weight; 
tact  u  momenttini.  Tnlent  knows  whut  to  do;  tact 
Jmowt  how  to  do  it.  Talent  niiikc}  a  man  reipectable ; 
tact  makef  htm  reacted.  Talent  is  weidth ;  tact  is 
ready  money." 

Wanted  nanic  of  autljor  and  where  in  hia  works 
tbfiM  frequently  quoted  words  may  he  found. 

W.  S.  S. 
BL,  J4>hn'i  Terrace,  New  Wandaw<>rth. 

"  UTEKRi^TrrLJEfl,'* — Havc  I  coined  a  good  word, 

nr  am  I  r     '  ititit  it  has  once  been 

in   Ti«w»  f  J/  well  founded,  per- 

^  ^ '  other  correspondent, 

*e.  I  am  well  aware 
ii,^,.  .'U4iv^  »n^i»ci*  I/;  «^i-.  Johnaon  as  out  of 
aac  in  his  Didimaryj  tdl  1785.  K  C. 


MEDIEVAL  ANB  MODERN  LATIN  AND 
GREEK  VBESE. 
(6*^  S.  ii.  248,  289»  337,  369.) 
I  may  add,  from  my  library — 

1.  "Marci  Hleroaymi  \\d»,  Cremononsi^^  Alb»  Epti- 
copi,  De  Arte  Portic4  Ltbri  tref,  Hucolica,  et  Epittola 
adJoantiem  Matthmum  (jibertum.  Annotationet  acyecit 
Tho.  Trntram.  A.M.,  ColL  Pemb,  Oson.  Social.  Oxonii, 
Typia  Academicia,  rnxjcxxii,'* 

Published  by  subscription ,  with  the  "Impri- 
matur'' of  "  Rob.  Shippen,  Vice-Can.  Oicon.,  Oct. 
28,  172L"  Large  8vo.  Mine  is  a  auhscnber's  copy 
—my  great-great-grandfather's,  Herbert  Randolph, 
Founder's  kin  Fellow  of  AH  Souls  at  the  time.  It 
is  a  beautiful  book,  printed  in  the  best  type,  on 
fine  paper,  with  a  frontispiece  portrait  of  the  author 
by  \  ertue,  and  many  steel  vignettes  by  Gucht  and 
others. 

The  ''Preface  to  the  Reader"  thus  speaks  of 
Vida  as  a  poet : — 

"  lllud  tnibi  in  prlmii  car»  f^lt,  at  poeta  noster,  ciyos 
tanta  eat  nativa  dignitas  et  niBJ^e«taa,  tantnwjue  iplondor, 
ui  Virgilium  ti  excipiaa  (iptum  poetici  orbis  eolem  foQ- 
temqueluob  omnis  et  coloHs),  Vida  inter  poetai  omnes 
emioet. 

"  Velut  inter  Igoei 
Luna  ininores.** 

2.  "Johannis  Bonefonii  Arremi  Cannlna.  Landini, 
Ex  ofBcina  Jacobi  Ton»on  et  Johaonit  Watts,  unooxx." 

On  the  fly-leaf,  "  Jo.  Bonefonii,  Basia."  This m 
a  12n]0.  volume.  The  anonymous  editor,  in  hia 
"  Preface  to  the  Reader,**  refers  to  some  oensurw 
by  former  editors  and  writers,  of  occasional  offencsee 
against  good  morahi,  and  against  the  purity  of  the 
Liitin  language  ;  but,  upon  the  whole,  compares 
the  authoPs  style  to  the  elepnce  of  Cattillus,  and 
hi^rhly  appreciates  the  felicity  of  hia  versification. 
Josephus  Scaliger,  Stephanua  Purchasius,  and  OL 
Binetus,  add  poetical  commendations  in  the  manner 
of  their  time. 

3.  "  Th«  Worki  of  Mr.  Thomas  Brown,  in  Proee  and 
Vcrw,  SeriotM,  Moral,  and  Comical.  In  two  Volumes. 
Contents,  &c.  To  which  ie  prefixed,  A  Character  of 
Mr.  Tho.  Brown  and  hi*  Writingi,  by  James  Drake,  M.D., 
Fellow  of  the  Collejre  of  PhysiciaBt  and  Royal  Society. 
London,  Printed  for  Sam.  Hnsooa,  and  aold  by  B.  Bragg 
at  the  Raven  in  Patemoeter  Row.    1707," 

This  very  loose  but  singularly  witty  volume 
was  dedicated  by  Mr.  Drake  to  the  Duke  of  Or- 
mond,  as  the  great  patron  of  the  men  of  letters  in 
his  day,  chieHy  on  the  ground  that  "The  First 
remarkable  Essay  of  Mr.  Brown  in  Poetry  was 
an  Ode  (Latin)  congratulating  the  recovery  of  His 
Grace's  grandfather  from  a  dangerous  fit  of  sick- 
nej*s.^* 

This  otle,  Mr.  Drake  informs  his  readers  in  his 
**  Chiu-dcter,"  **  was  printed  in  the  first  volume  of 
the  *  Music  Oxoniense«/*  under  the  title  of*  Hoteria 
Ormondiana/  whicli^  though  written  when  he  was 


•  Mr.  The,  Btowu  wm  ol  C^iarkA^Stosadtx^'CyiitsA. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  is*  a  n.  kot.  h  ti. 


▼ery  yoting,  is  equal  to  auy  modern  ode  what- 
•oever/^ 

The  other  productions  of  his  Latin  muse  are  a 
few  epitaphs  und  epigrams  scattered  tkrough  the 
vohime.  The  most  striking  of  which  is  the  foUowiDg^ 
worthy  to  he  preserved  in  the  pages  of  *"'  N.  &  Q."  : 

**  Jalii  Mazaritji  Cardlnftlia  Epitaphlum. 

Hie  Jticft  Julius  MazarinoH 

LtftllioB  Rex  Jtafi'atJ, 

EcclesiJB  presul  Iaicuii 

Europse  prtedo  purpurutiia. 

PortutiaiQ  omnem  ombiit,  omnom  cormpit^ 

iEmrium  frdminlstmTit  et  exh&ueit, 

Cirilc  beMiira  compreaiitp  Bed  commoTit, 

Hegni  Jurn  tuitua  eit,  et  inTasit, 

Benelicia  pDs^edlt,  et  vendiditf 

Pacem  dedit  aliquarido,  din  diatuUt ; 

Hostt-s  cladibuBp  ciree  otieribui  aMixit : 

Arrisit  paucia,  irriiii  plurimoa, 

OmnibiiB  nocuit. 

KegotiAtor  in  templo,  Tjrr&nDUS  ia  regno, 

Praido  in  mimijterio, 

Vulpes  ID  coQctlio, 

Grtisf&tir  in  bello. 

Solus  nobis  Id  pace  ho^tia, 

Fortunam  olim  adTeraam  aut  eluBil  aut  viclt. 

Et  nostro  6«culo  vldimuB 

Adorari  fujjitivtim, 

Irnperatfi  civibus  exutflm, 

Kegnare  proscriptuni. 

Quid  deinde  eg«?rit  ?    Rogaa  ?    paucii  accip«  : 

Luslt,  fefellitp  rapait^ 

Ferrcom  nobis  induxit  tfficubni,  «ibi  ex  auro  tioitro 

AiLTum  feciL 

Quorundum  capiti,  nulJius  fortutiia  pepercit 

Homo  crude  I  iter  Clemeni. 

Pluribua  tandem  mii>rbii  elanguit, 

Flares  ei  caslo  mortes  irrog&Dte, 

€ui  i«natus  olim  unara  tan  turn  dccrcTemt. 

I'ljtcCTii*  ae  Jirdbuft  inclneit  morituriu 

Et  q  a  idem  aptij 

QuoBsivit  carcerem. 

Dift  cedent  em  an  imam  rotinuit,  aegre  reddidit. 

Sic  rr  tine  re  omnia  didicerati 

Nibil  siiii  tfponte  reddere. 

Confttantar  t»men  vieuii  est  mori ;  quid  mimm  i 

Ut  vixit  sic  ublit  disaimulanA. 

Ko  niorbuiii  quidem  note  runt  qui  curabant : 

Hac  una  fraud e  nobis  profuit, 

Fefellit  medicos. 

MortuuB  est  tameti  m  fmtlimur ;  et  moriens 

Eegem  regno  ^  regnum  regi  restittiit, 

Reliquitj 

Prsesulibue;  pessima  ''xempla, 

AuliciA  infldtt  consilia, 

Adopt  I  fo  amplts»ima  spolia, 

F&upertatem  populis. 

SucccflaoribuB  mis  omnea  priedandi  artes, 

8ed  prsdam  nultam. 

TmroensaJi  titmcn  opes  licet  profuderit 

Id  unum  tantum  babuit  ex  suo  quod  daret* 

Nomen  a  num. 

Pectu»  ejus  po<)t  mortem  apertum  est. 

TuQk  pnmiim  patuit  Tafrum  cor 

M!iz*rini. 

Quod  uec  precibos,  ncc  lachrjnm.  nee  injuriis  morerotur  : 

Diu  quicj§ivimiiJ,  inrenere  medici 

Cor  lapideuin. 


•  Vince&net. 


QaM  mortoui  adhuc  omnia  tnore&t  et  admuuttimt*  ne  1 
mireris ; 
Btipendia  in  hunc  annnm  iieceptt. 
Nee  fraiidat  po«t  mortem  v     ' 
Quo  tandem  tandem  eva- 
CcDlum  8!  nipitur  tent^t,  ai  datur  i 

8ed  nbi,  Tiaiof^  et  eavc, 

Nam  hie  tumuluii 

Eft  sptau  I^tronit. " 

4,  ''Virgilii  ETangoHzantts  Christiadolu     Libri  XIU 

In  quibuB  omnia  quic  do  domino  nostro  Jeta  Cbri«t»td 

utroque  Testamento,  vcl  dicta  vel  t)r»dict»  iuiit,  alts 

DivinA  Maronia  tubA  iuaTiNim^  dccantautur.     /iv 

Alexandro  Rosico. 

Arma  Tirumquo  Maro  cecinit  not  acta  1 
Cedant  nrma  viri  dum  loquor  acta  DeL 
Boterodami.     Ex  officmii  Arnoldi  Leers,     1653." 

'*  1653,  Febr.  1,  Old  Alexander  Roe^?e  (author  of  \ 
p^ltui  Evangel i tans  and  mftnv  other  little  booke  ' 
sented  me  witli  his  book  against  Mr.  Uobbe^t 
than.'*— iTtw^/n'/  Diary,  p.  270. 

fn  **  Poeta?  Rusticnntis  Liter&tum  otiam.     SiTe  ' 
mina  Andre^e  Frauctsei  LandesiL    Secunda  editio„Driaiff' 
auotior.     Londini,     Impensis  Bernard!  Litttott,  Bibli^ 
polte  Londinensifl.    Miiccxin." 

The  poems  consist  of  three  books  of  **  1 
or  henciec«sTlhibic  odes,  about  fifty  in  :*i 
bo<">k  of  "  Sylva?/^  containing  three  short 
viz.^   **  Daphnifl,   Ecloga^^   ad   Thoniam 
NobOem  PhiloBophum;'  *'  Kuganim  Luujs  i 
lid  Isiiaciim  Newtonum,  Omnium  qui  sunt  \ 
maticorura  principem,"  and  "  Hedera, — Mefa 
phoais,  ad  Seipionem  Santaureum." 

6.  " Basia  Jobannts  Stxundi  Nicoliii  Ha^nais,  mi 
Kisses  of  Jobanncs  Secundus  Nicolfttus  of  the  ~~ 
In  Latin  and  English  Verse.    With  the  Life  of  £ 
and  a  crttic  upon  his  Basia.     Adorned  ^itb  a  C 
Author,  ttnd  another  (»f  his  Mistress  Julia,  engr 
?lie  famous  Jlemard  Picart,  the  Roman.  London  : 
for  Henry  Lintot,*  at  the  Cro»  Keys,  between  tliel 
tifttes.  Fleet  Street,     mpccxxxi." 

In  the  monastery  church  of  St.  Atnniul  is  ^e 
following  epitnph  : — 

"  Jobanni  Secondo  Ha^rensi. 

Poetffi  celeberrimo  et  nulli  secundo :   cujus  tmnoloi 

H»reticorum  furore  anno  cio  ic<i.xvl  Tiolatum«  Catrillv 

da  Par.  Abbas,  ob  tanti  vlri  tncmorijim  restaurari  C 

Obi  it  anno  cri).  lo.  xxxvi,  Kalend  Octobr. 

a  tecretis  Geor^i  Egmondani  Trajo<;teiit. 

Episcopi,  bujus  loci  Pro-Abbatia," 

7.  **  Drunken  Bornabv'a  Four  Journeys  to  the  XofUi*if 
Eiigland.  In  Latin  and  EngUih  Verse.  WHlUy  sal 
merrily  (tbo'  nvar  one  hundred  years  ago)  cttrnpoiri' 
found  among  some  mu«tj  old  b<K)ks  that  bad  a  long  iima 
lain  by  in  a  corner ;  and  now  at  last  made  pubho.  7i> 
wliich  is  added,  Bessy  BolL 

*  H  ic  est  quem  qnicris,  iVle  quem  reqiuris 
Toto  notus  in  orbe  Bntanrioa. 
Baroabus  Ehrius.'  Hvr, 

London :  Printed  for  S.  Itlidge,  under  gearle's  Oatt 
Lincoln's  Inn  New  Square  :  and  sold  bj  8.  Ballani  iaJ 
Little  Brftain,  J.   Grares  in   bt.  Jsmes's  Streett  *'^| 
J.  Waltboe,  over  against  the  Royal  Exchajige.    1716.** 

Sir  Henry  Halford,  M.B.,  waf  «ocu9tom«d  t^l 

*  Lin  tot's  name  ia  pnnted  int€rchaiig«ably  In  tHl*' 
^^Ad||e«  with  oae  ur  ino  "  U*'  linaL 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


391 


amuse  him^iclf  m  bis  carriage,  while  Tisitin^  his 
pcitienU,  with  tmnsLiting  En^liah  pieoe.^  into  Latin 
verse,  nnvinir  occjision  to  call  iipcn  him  one  day 
in  < "  t!t»  I  foimd  him  writing  out  a  trifle, 

wbiv  I  tue  he  \md  iust  completed  in  thb 

way,  jiuii  v^liich  he  r<*cit4H{  to  me  several  times 
with  greflt  emphasis  find  unctioD*  in  order  that  I 
might  commit  it  to  memory.  It  waa  n  translation 
of  Job  xix.  25,  26,  27,  and  rati  thus : — 

'EiM  Iledetnt>torom  agnoico  ;  qui  cuncta  vocabit 

In  jat^  qaotquot  eo  tint  fuerintve  die. 
St  licet  anitunar  proreua  telliire  repostua, 

Vermlbuf ;  haud  uU&  p«rtc  rnanente  mei : 
Ipie  meit,  tamon  ipse,  oculig  coram  que  videbOj 
Veiiituiqne  itemm  came  videbo  l>eQin," 
The  first  Lord  Sid  mouth  occupied  much  of  hi« 
leisure   in   the   same   miinner,      I  do   not   know 
whether  the  trannlationa  of  either  of  these  dia* 
tinguished  (y^holarn  and  accomplished  gentlemen 
were  ever  printed.*  Herbebt  IlAJfDOLFH. 

Biagmore^  Iv>bridge. 
[•  Vid©  A^m^a  Jftfritte,  by  Sir  H.  Halford,  Bart,  1842.] 

There  should  not  be  omitted  from  such  a  cata- 
logue Mr,  Vausit tart's  version  of  Lewia  Carroll's 
Jahherwofk,  pabii^hed  in  the  AtJunceum  in  May, 
1872,  I  remember  finding  a  friend,  who  was  quite 
innocent  of  the  English,  trying  to  construe  the  Latin 
with  an  a.stonished  expression  of  countenance.  He 
a»ked  me  what  on  earth  it  meant :  I,  hein^r  hetter 
up  in  modem  literature^  was  able  to  aolve  his 
difficultiea,       Charles  F.  S.  Warrkn,  M.A. 


Thb  Morgue  and  thb  Book  ov  MAccAnF.Ks 

1  (5«>  S.  L  24H,  295,  fil8.)— P.  P.  is  probably  right 

L  tn  supposing  that  "  Machabee«  ■'  (so  Littre  spells  it) 

1 10  the  slang  expression  ^'livre  des  MachabL^es**  is 

i  identical  with  **  Macabre,**  for  Littr^  «.  r,  "  Ma- 

fcahre,''  haA  a  long  article  ahowing  that,  in  hia 

pinion,  la  dariM  Macabre  and  la  dante  tkg  Ma- 

"     r  are  the  aume  thing.     Only,  "  Machabeea  " 

,  ad  P,  P.  fiupposea,  a  corruption  of  **Macabre/' 

pbnt  the  two  wonls  are  derived  from  different  cases 

]of  the  Latin  word  M luhtf^tut,     Machahees  comes 

I  from  the  aoc.  plur,  Machabaos^  and  Maatbre  from 

Lthe  gen,   plur.   AfacJiabaarum^  for  la  dan»e  du 

^ts  (which  Littre  says  =^  la  (lan^e  Maeabre) 

lied  in  mediieval  Latin  chorea  Ma^abtworunu 

choTfa  MachabiEorum,  however,  as  described 

Ijby  Ducange,  does  not  exactly  correspond  to  what 

now  onder^tood  by  la  dan*e  Maml>ref  or  by 

*lanee  of  ikath;   but  Littr^»  as  will  be  seen 

ijUjtiiUaim  that  tbejare  of  common  origin. 

*      "  "        01  timnalated  by  Littre,  is 

I  plaiflante,  pieusement  in- 

Mxije  par  les  eccleHiasttqoea,  ct  duns  laquelle  hs 

d|g&itaire«,  tant  de  rEgtise  que  du  monde,  conduisant 

•Biemble  la  danse»  sortaient  tour  ii  tour  de  la  danse 

polir  expnmer  que  chacun  de  nous  doit  subir  la 

moil**    And  Ltttr^  remarks  upon  thia  :  **  On  ne 

pmt  dOQiear  que  la  dann  Maeahrt  et  la  damt  de$ 


Machabies  ne  so  it  une  seule  et  m^me  chose.  On 
peut  supposer  que  les  sept  fr^res  Machiibccs,*  avec 
fileazar  et  leur  mere,  fiouffmot  succe^sivement  le 
martyre,  donnirent  I'ldee  de  cette  danse  oil  chacun 
de>»  rKjmonnages  s'dclipsiiit  tour  k  tour,  et  qu'en- 
Buite,  pour  rendre  ridee  encore  plus  frappante,  on 
char^ea  la  mort  de  conduire  cette  danse  fan- 
tastique." 

It  was,  no  doubt,  from  this  dange  des  Machabimf 
understood  in  the  sense  of  %lan%f  Macabre  or  the 
dance  of  drath^  that  the  wor<l  Machahlc  came  to 
signify  '**  dead  body "  in  French  slang,  and  that 
the  terms  livrt  da  MachaUfjt  was,  by  a  grim  joke> 
applied  to  the  register  at  the  Morgue.  In  Larchey^a 
Ihcf.  de  PA  rgot  FarUku,  I  find  Machahit  defined 
ii^i  follows :  **  On  anpelle  Machabt^c  toutctre,  homme 
ou  aninial^  priv<^  ae  vie,  que  Ton  rencontre  fiottant 
sur  un  couR  d'ean  ou  cchoue  sur  le  nvage."  Thia 
definition  differs  somewhat  from  that  quoted  by 
Mr.  A-  L.  Mathew,  and  renders  the  word  pecu- 
liarly applicable  to  the  dead  bodies  exhibited  at 
the  Morgue. 

As  for  Mr.  C.  A,  Ward's  derivation  of  Morfpu^ 
in  the  sense  of  ^*  dead-hoiLse,''  from  a  supposed 
French  mor^ci  ^=  dead-watch,  it  is  simply  im- 
poesible.  Mortguet  is  made  afler  un  English 
pattern,  and  the  formation  of  French  words  ia 
altogether  different  from  that  of  English  ones. 
If  morfgutt  could  mean  anything,  it  would  lueoa 
^*  death  of  (the)  watch  *'  (after  the  analogy  of  wM>r- 
di€u!=:vaoTt  de  Bieu),  and  not  "watch  of  death," 

The  account  of  the  word,  however,  which  be 
quotes  from  Tarver,  quite  accords  with  that  given 
by  Littrt!' ;  but  Littre  differs  from  Mr.  Ward  in 
that  he  is  evidently  inclined  to  agree  with  M^nagei 
who  is  of  opinion  that  inorgut  in  its  two  series  of 
meanings  (I.  haughty  countenance  or  look,  pride; 
and  2.  inspection -room  in  a  prison,  deiwl-house)  is 
one  and  the  same  word.  Manage  says  that  in 
some  of  the  southern  provinces  of  France  mor^u^ 
means  simply  facc^  and  in  support  of  thia  (which 
requires  confirmation)  Littr^  §ays  that  the  Langue- 
docian  morga  means  mustauA  From  this  meaning 
otfaeey  M^age  deduces  meaning  No.  l,t  and  also 

*  For  the  acoount  of  th«ir  martyrdom,  see  2nd  Mac* 
cabee«,  chap.  7.  Though  Littfi-  here  calta  them  "  lea 
scDt  fr«res  Machabtfes/"  it  d^»cs  not  appear  that  they 
belonged  to  the  celebrated  family  of  the  Maccabeet^wUh 
whom,  bowever,  they  were  contemporary. 

f  Iti  Honnomt'i  Hrof^ni;ai  Ihd,  I  find  morga  and  ats* 
iHor(7t(^  =  w»/jf OH,  which  in  French  ia  properly  applied 
to  tbe  projecting  note  nnd  mouth  or  face  of  an  amnud 
(our  mit-zzU),  hut  u  often  familiarly  as«d  of  the  human 
face  ;  and  probably  Manage  had  ihta  in  bis  head  when  he 
iaid  mor^ite  =  fact  in  the  ioath  of  France. 

X  The  meanfnga  of  **  haughty  cnuntenunce  or  look,  and 
pride"  m'«y  well  be  deduced  from  thatof /<ic^  for  we  iise 
JOtcit  =:=confidenci\  boldneia,  effrontery  (bcc  Jol^nson  and 
Wcbiter);  whilst  in  lAtin  m/hLj  wc.mctimts  iiieani  "an 
angry  or  stem  countenanoe '*  (Kiddle),  and  the  Greek 
«-(i<i(rtf  roy  (fac«)  t^m  hM  the  meaaing  of  *'  lcK»k  and  coua- 
tenaoott." 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [i?»B.nitor.li.*ri. 


the  meaning  of  "  inspection- room,"  where  the  facu 
of  the  prisonera  are  examined,  and  finally  that  of 
*'  dead-nouse,'^  where  the  bodies  are  put  that  the 
fata  may  be  recognized* 

The  piLssages  quoted  from  different  authors  by 
Littre  certainly  support  this  view  of  Menage'Sj  for, 
whilst  hia  earliest  example  of  morgue  in  meanings 
No.  1  dates  from  the  sixteenth  century^  he  has  no 
example  of  morgut  m  mjeaniiigs  No.  2  earlier  than 
ie74> 

It  seems  a  little  singular,  however,  that  a  word 
Bignifying  face  should  come  to  mean  a  pUic*  whei-e 
fo^cu  are  examined  or  exposed  for  recognition. 
I  am  of  opinion,  therefore,  that  from  tiiorgue^  face, 
was  fiiBt  formed  the  verb  morguer,  to  look  at  the 
face,  and  henc«  to  look  at  steadily^  to  stare  one  out 
of  countenance  (like  the  Fr.  ddvUager  from  i^isagt) ; 
and  then  that  from  thk  Maae  of  morgueTf  morgue 
acquired  its  secondary  meaning  of  **  inspection- 
room,"  from  which  that  of  "  d^ad-house  "  naturally 
flows.  In  conJirniation  of  this  view,  I  may  cite 
Scheler,  who  gives  morguer  the  meaning  of  "  re- 
garder  fixement,  examiner,'-  antl  suyj*  the  fun- 
damental idea  in  morguer  is  tUvuagefj  which  be 
explains  "  regarder  mielquiiD  longuement  et  avec 
«ffronterie ";  whilst  Littre  says  tbut  ^norguer  was 
formerly  used  =  **  examiner  lea  priaooniers  a  ieur 
entr^  daus  la  geole,  afin  de  lea  reconnoitre." 

In  conclusion^  it  seems  to  me  vory  likely  that 
Ihe  word  mart,  the  souml  of  which  is  beard  in  the 
word  morgu^  may  have  had  some  influence  in 
deteniiiniDg  its  use  in  the  sense  of  *^  dead-houae,'* 
especially  as  ifwrgui  =:mordi^  ==  mordieu  =  (par la) 
mort  de  Dieu  !  woa  in  use  as  on  oath. 

F.  Chajtck. 

Sydflnliam  Bill, 

[Iq  English  ihmg,  mtig  =  face] 

**AtyLD  HoBix  Gray''(5*»>  S.  ii.  206,  27 I.J— 
It  wHl  probably  be  interesting  to  your  readers  to 
have  the  following  additional  particulars  from 
memoranda  which  1  made  some  yeare  ago.  The 
song  was  written  by  Ltidy  Anne  Baruard^  who 
long  kept  the  matter  secret,  till  at  length  she 
avowed  herself  the  author^  as  may  be  seen  in  her 
letter  to  Sir  Walter  Scott^  in  July,  1823,  from 
Beikeley  Square,  London,  which  will  be  found  in 
the  Lives  of  tJi4  Lindsay $^  by  Lord  Lindsay^ 
London,  1849,  vol  ii.  p.  391.  the  historj'  of  the 
ballad  is  very  folly  detailed  at  p.  3:j2  and  the 
following  one^  and  an  authentic  copy  appears  in  the 
Appendix,  No.  XLVII.  Robin  wiis  the  old  herd 
at  Balcarrjia,  and  the  verses  were  written  to  an  old 
Scottish   melody   of  which  Lady  Anne  was  psis- 

*  The  only  objection  that  Llttr6  5 rid*  is  that  Mercier. 
a  French  writer  (1740  18U)  uses  monw  in  the  wnst*  of 
**  dend  hottM,"  and  not  morgue.  But  I  cannot  aeo  the 
force  of  this  olyeotiod^  a»,  if  Mercier  did  not  u§o  morgwt 
in  t)iia  soma,  other  contemporary  writer*  (quoted  by 
Littr^  MmacU)  did. 


Aniki^ 


sionately  fond,  and  which  was  sung  by  ao  eocentik 
old  Scottish  kdy,  and  wa«  called  Tht  Briddgroim 
grot  w}un  Oie  Sun  gaid  doiuu  The  raebdjr  le 
which  the  song  was  subsequently  ?r"  -  *  -  >fiii 
Stephens  was  composed  in  imitation  'iwk 

melody  by  the  Rev.  William  Leaves^  >;  \'*\.^gUm^ 
and  was  annexed  to  a  work  containing  aotne  aacrod 
airs  composed  by  him,  and  published   in  181S» 
He  died  in  1828,  aged  eighty.     The  first  four  UlM 
were    adapted    by    John    Wilson,    the    takatid 
vocalist,  to  the  old  Scottish  melody,  which  that 
make^  a  kind  of  recitative   introduction  to  Mi. 
Lenves'a  beautiful  and  expressive  melody : — 
"  When  the  tlioep  itre  in  ihe  fauld  and  the  kye  at 
And  a'  the  veary  world  to  sleep  are  fcane^ 
The  wBca  o'  my  lieart  fa'  in  ahow'rs  frae  mr  e'e, 
lYhile  my  gude  man  aleepa  soundly  by  nie« 
Dean  Rarnsuy,  vmting  under  date  of  Fcbnianp  25,] 
187 1,  thinks  that  the  song  written  by  Liuiy  Anfti 
Barnard,  although  beautiful  in  itself,  is  a  good  deal 
indebted  for  its  great  and  continued  popularity  to 
the  air  so  composed  : — 

'*  The  hifltory  of  that  t^ider  and  appropriate  melody,'' 
he  adds, ''  ia  somewhat  ounous,  and  not  ge iie rally  kaowB. 
The  author  was  not  »  Scotaman.  .  .  .  Mr.  Loaves  mf 
fond  of  mu^ic,  and  composed  sereral  eong«,  but  oottl 
pained  any  notice  but  hi«  Avid  Robin  Grajf,  tki 
popularity  of  which  baa  been  marvel loua.  I  Imew  ilit 
family  wlien  1  lived  in  Somertetahire,  and  have  met 
lb  cat  at  Bath*  Mr.  I^eavcA  composed  tbe  air  Tot  hit 
daughter,  Mua  Iksay  Leaveti  who  wm  a  pretty  girl  and 
a  pretty  singer/' 

Dean  Ramsay's  letter,  I  believe,  was  addrened 
to  Mr.  J,  J,  Gmy,  of  10,  Royal  Exchiknge,  GUa- 
govt'.  Some  pnrticuhirs  as  to  the  impassioQ^  mode 
in  which  Miss  Stephens  used  to  sing  tliis  weD^ 
known  song,  which  she  got  from  Mr  Lettves^  witfc 
whom  she  wa«  acquainted  and  whom  she  highlv  ea- 
teemed,  are  to  be  found  in  a  work  entitled  Tli^'.  3f  «aic 
of  Nature^  by  Mr.  William  Gardiner,  of  Leicester* 
who,  while  criticizing  Mi&s  Stephens's  style^  yet 
states  that  the  exquisite  tenderness  of  her  tonet 
contributed  not  a  little  to  the  estimation  in  which 
this  ballad  haa  been  long  held. 

J.  HUBAND   S>«TH. 
Royal  Iriah  Academy,  Dublin, 

FvKMARTKX  (5*»»  S.  il  248,  260.  3O0.)--ThU  ; 
without  doubt  the  same  as  ilie  foumart  of  /  ' 
rendered  "  tbe  mustek,  the  weasel  (ii  local  ^ 
and  fufiierj  "the  polecat  of  the  same 
the/u^mart  of  Bailey,  rendered  "  a  kiml  of  j 
cat "  ;    the   modem   fulmar  (not  the    tea- 
fQumari,   foultmart,   fulimart;    Sco.  fou\ 
Webb  ^ffkvlbart^  a  fitchet,  pj^lecat    In  a  voli 
vocabuiaries,   edited   by   T,   Wright,    1*\S. 
English  vocabulary  of  the  fifteenth    -"♦•^'•^ 
**  hie  fetonaruB  A*fuhtu:rd" ;  a  nm 
century,  **hic  f^'o'fi"^    A*'*,  i%J 
i n  a  no te^  M r.  ■  Is/ '  a  wo i 

still  in  use  in  l:^  _        loru  diale'j^ 
{ScoL  Diet)  giTes  *'  FowmarU^  a  pole-OBit  ,. 


r 


5*  a  n,  KoT.  H,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


393 


Aota,  Ja.  I  1424,  c.  24  et  1566,  we  find,  *and  for 
X*  Fawmartis  skinms  callifc  Fitbowis,  X.  <L*" 
Some  think  foumart^  fulirnart  cootractioQS  of 
Foul  Martin^  in  contradistinction  to  the  Sweet 
Martin.  Junius  hua  '*  Fullmer,  idem  quod  pole- 
Martes  est  k  Theot*  ful^  putidus  et  tturder, 

dndii?;,  martes "  ;  and  he  observes  that  in 
3tl  '     r  is  called  mM,  from  its  bad  smell 

(**  J  ib  odore  t«ttt)  vme  nuncup^tur  quod 

fuit  ui  t'lfM''),  Kilian  ttccordingly  rendera  Teu- 
tonic  vUm,  j($st^  viidu^  "mustehe  genus  valde 
putidum";  "hence,"  Bays  Jamieton,  "fitchet/' 
Cont  A.-S.  nuard,  mmrth(Q,  mani^;  P.  viarter; 
.nwrdr ;  Dan.  maar;  Sw.  mdrd;  Plat,  'm/mrd, 
(ip   tnardt  maarU;    Fr.    martre;    Med.    L. 

inr)^  which  Bosworth  renders  "a  merten, 
Cerret^  weaael,  marUSf  mmUia,     Wuchter  (Gloss.) 


*'Mard0^^  martert  muateU  Scjthica  ob  Btmilittidinem 
«iim  donuEitica  iic  dictA;  marder,  marttTf  muMtela  qu»- 
dMi  dotpcstica.  galliaii  et  Columbia  iofettiu  Sunt  qui  a 
mmit  cle  diotam  putftut,  qu&gi  bestiAia  martiam  et 
Di|gpftO«m:  hoc  taiDexi  suppoiito  quod  marUt  eit  tox 
Laliruk.  (^txa  in  ro  illoi  folli  oMtendit  Meiuigius.  Gennania 
d(<fif)tare  poUst  latronem,  aui  aves  domestical  Juj{iu]at|[ai 
dcfiinetur  a  mordai  n«care< 

E.  S.  Ohabjyock. 

<ffmy'i  Inn. 

P*8*  The  iirst  part  of  the  word  might  even  be 
from  the  /Jol<  in  pole-cat.  Oonf.  foal,  found  /of«, 
Am'B,  fot/j^  Dan.  /o^,  Lat.  pnlluij  Greek  ttiuAos, 

_  Btbon:  "SiEOK  OF  Corinth"  (5*»»  S,  i.  406  ; 
I  ia»  5C1,  177.) — "  In  the  year  since  Jestua  died  for 
txma  "  occiuRi  in  the  one- volume  edition  of  Byron's 
Workiy  Pitria,  1835,  Of  these  lines,  opening  the 
Si€Q€  of  Corinth,  it  is  said,  p.  2Ha,  that  they  were 
sent  enclosed  in  a  letter  to  Murray  by  Lord  Byron, 
kChrUtmas-day,  1815  ;  and  Moore  remarks  that 
"*  are  written  in  the  loosest  form  of  that 
ling  style  of  metre  which  his  admiration  of 
Coleridge's  Chrisiabel  led  him  at  the  time  to 
dUlopt."  It  is  true  that  Byron  said  he  had  never 
rejul  Chti^labtl  at  the  time  he  wrote  the  lines 
(Unit  twelve  lines  of  stanza  xix.);  and  be  adds  that 
'  afterwards  that  he  heard  that  "wild 
U  original  poem  recited  '*■  so  that  he 
^tiiUitua  the  pure  origination.  But  he  in- 
"  rgow  on  to  add  that  "the  original  idea 
tly'  pertjiJn»  to  Mr,  Coleridge.'*  In  this 
confusion  of  iL'isGrtion  and  thought,  any  one  who  is 
Hjm  ".e  will  know  what  to  think.     It 

iiat  Byron  had  heard  it  recited 
Lt     -MKMi'un,  or  somebody  else,  and  had  for* 
otten  the  fuct,  or  confused  the  dnte  in  his  head, 
version  is  such   rubbish   com  pared 
«'s,  that  it  is  impossible  to  doubt  who 

nin  those  wonderful  Unea  ; — 
><1  enoTif^h  to  twirl 
,  tbc  lofit  of  itfl  ctan^ 
uiku  Ad  danc^  it  c«iv      i 


Hanging  bo  light,  and  hiiof^ng  &o  bigh^ 
On  the  lopnuwi  twig  that  looks  up  i&t  th«  sky.** 
Also  let  me  draw  attention  to  the  passage  from 
Tsjuah   xvii.  6,   to  which  I  believe  we  owe  the 
origination,—*'  Two  or  three  berries  in  the  top  of 
the  uppermost  bough."  0.  A.  Waed. 

May  fair. 

Edwards  of  America  {b^  S.  i.  409  ;  ii.  29, 
54,)— In  his  inquiry  rekting  to  the  Edwards's  armtf 
I  obecrve  H,  B,  speEs  the  name  of  the  first  wife 
of  Richard  Edwards  Tuthill^  an  error  of  some 
American  genealogists.  In  all  the  Lives  of  Jonn* 
than  Edwards,  or  editions  of  his  work.^,  that  I  have 
seen  in  which  his  lineage  or  ancestry  is  referred  to, 
this  name  is  spelled  Tultle.  And  this  is  also  the 
idmost  universal  practice  of  the  descendants  of  this 
family,  from  the  first  generation  donm.  In  the 
few  exceptions,  it  is  spelled  Tuttell,  corresponding 
more  nearly  with  the  Welsh  Totyll  (see  M^yricJc** 
Heraldic  Visitation  of  Wal^,  note  i..  p.  183)  than 
with  Tuthill.  There  are  strong  reasons  for  be- 
lieving that  William  Tattle  the  emigrant,  who 
brought  II  certificate  from  St.  Albans,  in  April, 
1635,  and  embarked  on  the  ^^  Planter,"  and 
arrive<l  at  Boston  a  few  months  later,  was  a  grand- 
son of  Richard  Totvl,  the  printer,  whose  father 
was  William  Tutyl],"fiigh  Sheriff  of  Devon,  1559, 
and  Mayor  of  Exeter,  1552. 

I  have  nearly  readj^  for  the  press  a  genealogy  of 
the  Tuttle  fiimily,  *.  e,  descendants  of  WUliani 
Tuttle,  of  New  Haven. 

There  is  a  belief  among  the  descendants  of  John 
Pierpont  that  Sir  Greorge  Pierpont  w&a  hia  unole. 
Sir  George  had  a  son  Robert,  who  was  created 
Earl  of  Kingston,  1628.  His  hist  male  descendant 
was  Evelyn  Pierpont,  second  Duke  of  Kingston, 
who  died  in  1773,  when  the  houses  and  estates 
ought  to  have  descended  to  the  heirs  of  William 
in  America.  Instead,  they  went  to  the  nephew  of 
the  Duke,  C'harles  Meadows,  Esq.,  who  assumed 
the  name  of  Pierpont,  &c.  The  above  is  published 
in  at  least  one  American  book  of  good  authority. 
I  should  be  glad  to  obtain  the  facts  respecting  the 
lineage,  ancestry,  and  antecedents  of  my  emigrant 
ancestors,  John  Stow  and  William  Tuttle,  and 
any  infonnation  on  these  points  will  be  gratefully 
appreciated,  Gboror  F.  Tcttlr. 

mw,  22  Street.  N«rw  York  City.  U.S.A. 

[COTDmufiicntions  on  this  aubject  to  be  addressed  to 
the  wntef  of  the  above] 

Robertson  Family  (5«»  S.  il  127,  211,  239.)— 
The  Crown  Charter  of  1451  (25lh  August)^  by 
King  James  IL,  Ls  to  Robert  DuncaneAon^^  of 
Strowan,  of  the  lands  of  Strowan  (otherwise 
Glenerochie,  lying  on  the  south  side  of  Loch 
R^mnocb),  and  many  others  named,  with  the  forest 
in  the  Earldom  of  Athole,  which  at  that  time 
would  be  in  the  King's  hands  through  forfeiture. 
All^  bj  this  charter^  wew  erected  i^tia  ^  Vsjasso^xsi 


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■F      NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


XL  Nw.  II.Ti ' 


be  called  Strowan  ;  and  the  specified  consi deration 
for  which  is  thus  expressed  in  the  charter: 
**  Pro  ca^iciotie  RefiuisHimi  proditorfs  quondam 
Robert!  le  Grahajne "  {Reg.  Mag.  Sig.^  iv,  227). 
This  chjirter  shows  that  at  thm  period  the  faDiLly 
surname  was  not  Kohartaon  but  Dnncanesone, 
having  origin  lilcely  in  that  Duncan  Macdonald, 
or,  as  Skene  thinks,  "  De  Atbolia,"  Bkyer  of  the 
wolves,  and  to  whom  Nisbet  rcfere ;  and  also  that  the 
Kobertaon  eponymus  was  this  Robert,  the  captor  of 
th©  chief  inatrmnent  in  the  murder  of  James  I.,  as 
well  as  of  the  Master  of  A  thole.  It  would,  no  doubt, 
be  near  this  time,  too,  that  the^idditauient  would  be 
given  by  the  King  to  the  family  arms — the  wild 
man  in  chains,  a.s  well  im  the  crest  and  motto.  But 
the  additional  story  relatiof^  to  this  Robert  riding 
to  the  King  at  Perth  for  a  new  grant  of  his  lands, 
after  being  mortally  wounded,  as  given  by  Ander- 
son, from  Skene  (Scott kh  Nation^  vol.  iii.  ^46),  can- 
not  be  regarded  :ii«  much  better  than  a  loat!  myth. 
The  Robertsons  were,  in  Gaelic,  known  as  the 
Clan  Dnnachie,  sjiid  to  import  the  "children  of 
Duncan'';  that  Duncan  perhiip  who^  according 
to  Skene  (Higklar.deu  of  Sroihndf  ii.  140),  was 
the  son  of  Andrew,  designated  "  De  Atholia,"  The 
lASt  representative  in  the  direct  niaU  Hrie  of  tbia 
family  is  said  to  have  been  Alexander  Robertson, 
of  Strowan,  the  well-known  Jacobite  leader  and 
poet,  and  who  was  alflo,  as  it  is  supposed,  the 
prototype  of  the  Baron  of  Bradwardine  in  Wavtrlaj. 
He  died  in  !749,  in  the  eighty-first  year  of  his  age, 
without  lawful  issue ;  and  on  this  the  family  estates 
devolved,  in  terms  of  a  trust  settlement,  on  Dun- 
can, the  son  of  Alexander  Robertson,  of  Drum- 
a*;hune,  the  nearest  lawful  heir  mde.  He  wtia 
succeeded  by  his  son,  CoL  Alexander  Robertson, 
■who  died  in  1H22,  unmarried.  His  successor  wa^ 
Alexander  Robertson,  whose  grandfather  was 
Robert,  called  Bane^  the  son  of  Donald,  the  second 
son  of  Duncan,  called  Mor,  of  Drumaehune,  a 
younger  son  of  Robert,  tenth  lord  of  Strowan. 
This  Alexander  was  succeeded  by  bis  son,  Major- 
General  George  Duncan  Robertson,  C.B.  He 
again  by  bis  son,  George  Duncan  Robertson,  born 
in  1816,  an  oflScer  in  the  42nd  Highlanders. 
For  more  extended  information,  Celto-Scotus 
may  refer  to  Anderson,  fScoUish  jVa/t'ow,  vol.  iii. 
345,  and  ErowTi's  Butory  of  the  BiffhlamU  and  of 
the  Clans,  vol.  tv.  460,  both  of  whom  rest  on 
Skene,  Jli-ghlandcr^  of  Hcoilandy  ii.  140.  L. 

CuPER's  Gaedens  (5*  S.  ii.  349)  w-ere  in 
Lambeth,  over  against  Somerset  House.  The 
present  Waterloo  Bridge  Road  runs  over  the  very 
centre  of  them.  The  plac«  was  noted  for  fireworks, 
and  was  a  report  of  the  profligate  of  both  sexe^. 
Pennant  (J  ccount  of  London^  p.  34, 1791)  says  Boy- 
dar  Cuper  waa  gardener  to  the  Eurl  of  Arundel, 
and  that  when  Arundel  House.  Strand,  was  pulled 
down^  to  make  w^j  for  the  strectj  th©  mulikled 


statues  were  carried  over  to  these  gard'*^= 
valuable  part  was  bought  by  Lord  Lr 
his  son's  widow  presented  them  to  the  L  „, 
of  Oxford.  It  waj^  from  the  roof  of  this  bon 
Hollar  engraved  his  view  of  Ix)ndon.  At 
Btigation  of  Evelyn^  the  library  was  given  to  \\ 
Royal  Society.  The  first  meetings  of  the  Sodei 
were  held  in  Anindel  House,  and  Wren  wiu 
have  rebuilt  it  for  the  Duke  of  Norfolk.  It 
pulled  down  in  1678,  and  the  river-side  was  cover 
with  the  rubbish  from  the  new  chupch  of  St.  Pawl'l 
Another  memory  clings  to  old  Arundel  House,  fo( 
the  brave  Sully  was  lodged  there  on  his  emb 
to  James  L 

It  would  appear  that  the  Earl  of  Arundel  reoCed 
the  grounds  in  Lambeth  opposite  His  h      -     ^-i 
no  doubt  it  was  thus  that  Cuper,  his  gft. 
them,  when  his  lordship  no  longer  wan....*  .. 
Picture  how  pleasant  must  then  have  been 
lordly  Thames,  with  gnisa-mantled  fields  in 
betli  facing  the  noble  mansions  of  the  ~ 
The  big  embankment  of  the  present  is  but 
exchange  for  the  scene  presented  to  the  eye 
in  1670. 

Aubrey  (quoted  by  Cunningham)   calls  ttwrai 
Cupid's  Gardens,  and  says  they  were  held  of  Jewoi 
College,  0x0 n.     Allusion  to  the  gardens  occurs  ii 
several  popular  songs.  C.  A.  Warc* 

May  fair 

See  my  Top\dar  Music  of  (he  Olden  Ttmtt  i 
727- S,  for  there  is  too  much  to  transcribe.    OH 
ally  "  Ctrper's  Gardens,"  the   name  became 
rupted,  perhaps  not  inappropriately,  into  ** Cnpidli 
Gardens.'*    Opened  1678,  closed  V!(>3.    A  popolaf  1 
reminiscence  of  the  gardens  is  preserved  Mno&^i 
nurserj'-maids  in  their  song: — 
'•  'Twaa  down  in  Cui>id's  g&rdcn 
For  plcftsure  1  did  sjo, 
To  we  the  f*ireBt  flowers 
That  in  thai  garden  ^ow,*'  &e. 

Wm.  Chappsll. 

See  Dodsley^s  London  and  iU  Environs^  1761 J 
which  says  they  were— 

"For  severttl  years  n  place  of  public  entertaiainflt}t;J 
the  gurdens  were  illnminiLttrd^  and  the  rompany  eatoi 
taint'd  by  a  band  of  mujio,  and  firework » ;  but  thu,  witb  ' 
other  placet  of  the  sarae  kind»  has  been  lately  diiooiH 
tinued  by  an  act  that  hiu  reduced  the  nutiibrr  o'  then  J 
seats  of  luxury  and  dUsipation.  Here  are  atnrslj 
Btatue«,  &c.,  the  rcmaias  of  Greek  and  Romjin  ; 
nuUieit, — supposed  to  bo  part  of  the  famout  eolJe 
the  Earl  of  Aruadcl, — removed  hither  when  ,  _ 
House,  on  the  other  tide  of  the  Thanies,  was  turu« 
a  street.'* 

W.  PmLUpa 

**Thb  Man  in  thr  Moon*^  (5^  S.  ii.  210,)— J 
This  is  the  title  of  numerous  liook^  nml  rmrt:.  1 
Dr.  Whitaker,  in  his  Ili^tory  of  < 
one,  th©  author  of  which  was  the  Rf  \ 
Perpetual  Curate  of  Halton-GilL,  in  Craven,  aail  | 
father  of  Dr.  Wilson^  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  iian.  J 


fi-  a  n.  sor.  11.74.)  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


395 


All  attempts  to  obtain  a  copy  have  failed,  although 
I  Dr.  Whitnker  asserteti  that  copies  were  in  exbt- 
'  enoe  in  his  time.  Hone  tried  to  obtain  a  copy 
Ijy  AQ  inquiry  in  his  Tabh  Book^  but  he  did  not 
nucceed.  Can  any  reader  of  "  N,  ^  Q"  forward 
Q(M  ?  The  work  is  an  account  of  the  adventures 
of  one  Isniel  Jobson,  a  cobbler,  who  got  to  the 
moon  from  the  top  of  Penuyghent !  The  book 
WM  SDppreaied  soon  after  it  came  out,  because  it 
waa  oflensire  to  aome  individuals  whose  bottled 
braitu  were  discovered  in  the  shop  of  a  luniir 
chemLst !  A  century  has  poaaed  away,  and  note 
\  a  reprint  would  be  harraless. 

Stbphkk  Jackjbok. 

Albsia  (5'^  S.  ii.  227.)— With  the  legitimate 

change  of  vowels,  and  of  s  and  soft   r,  Alicia, 

^ili&ia^  AleBia^  and  Alycia,  are  various  spellings  of 

the  same  word  in  old  MSS.,  and  are  to  be  fouud 

in  Bome   of  these  works,  viz.,  OolUctanta  Topo- 

nrt/rJiu^'t.  et  Gt7icalogi€a^  Miscellanea  Gaiealogica 

lica,  and  the  publications  of  the  Harknan 

I  once  met  with  Ualicia  in  the  Harleian 

I  MS.  in  the  British  Muaeunu  but  did  not,  of  coursOj 

|'tf<ouble  to  *^note  it,"     Hkrmentrude  may  not 

iiced   these  various  spellings  of  the  same 

i  she  has  not,  of  couree,  waded  through  the 

I  for  Umt  purpose,  but  that  all,  or  moat  of 

them,  are  so  fcipelt  therein »  I  feel  quite  certain. 

C,  Chattock,  F.K.aS, 

Ckstle  Bromwicli. 

EpiTAPn  ox  Tom  Booth  (4*^  S.  Lx.  493  ;  x.  10.) 
—The  following  very  eimikr  epitaph  in  in  All 
"  *  itft*  Cburchyani,  Maidstone : — 

"  In  Memory  of  Tho'  Bmdshnw,  who  died 
Sop'  the  2d'\  1773,  Aged  82  Years. 
Hera  lie«  a  Keeper  bred  and  born, 
To  turn  his  back  he  thought  it  tcom; 
Ue  wn9  1^  iTiHTi  that  hud  f^ood  akill 
Man  J  a  tjrmvt*  Buck  trnd  Doe  to  kill ; 
Dut  thftt  bold  archer  Dtath^  who  conquers  all. 
Shot  him  to  th«  heart  aiid  caused  him  here  to  falL 
in  Youth  or  age  all  flesh  must  die, 
And  lum  to  dost  u  well  as  V 

R,  M M. 

Macaulay's  Opinions  CRiTicizED(5**'S.iL  280,) 
^S«ious  charges  have  been  brought  against  Lord 
"^  f  by  various  writers  for  alleged  misrepiX'SJeD- 
The  best  work  on  this  subject  1  believe 
'  that  of  Mr.  Paget,  publiabed  some  years  ago, 
u,  **  IVtd  New  Exarain :  an  Inquiry  into  certain 
"™'  '  **^Iiord  Macaulay's  Hintorij  concerning 
^  of  Miirl  borough  ;  2,  The  IMassacro 
AQOoe :  3.  The  Highlands  of  Scotland  ;  4. 
Yisoouut  Dundee ;  5.  Willii^m  Penn,"  This 
wort:    ■        ^  ^  '    ^    '  in  a  volume  of  Mr. 

P*g'  i  Futzla  and  Fara- 

<tox<4»|  i^ujuuijii -  ij^  ij iiAi_ A. IV luH^rd  cc  Sons* 

E.  A.  R 


KaTwcll  Ittipey,  son  of  the  judge, 
I :-  Lraatnient  that  Macaulay  had 


given  his  father^  and  during  seveml  jeaxs^  about 
1840  and  subsequently,  he  vainly  tried  to  get 
Macaulay  to  review  the  opinions  he  had  expressed. 
Mr.  JiDpey  printed  many  documents,  an<l  sub- 
mitted them  to  various  pers4jns  eminent  in  historic 
literature,  and  from  most  of  them  he  received  ex* 
presaions  of  sympathy.  Macaulay  was,  however, 
inexorable.  JMr.  Irapey  was  fond  of  German  trans- 
lation, and  published  two  volumes,  including  the 
best  vereion  that  I  have  seen  of  Schiller's  Lay  of 
the  BeUr^  certainly  a  better  and  more  vigorous 
rendering  than  Lord  Lytton's  ;  hut  he  could  not 
himself  condense  for  a  reading  public  his  vindica- 
tion of  hia  father,  and,  after  sevend  yeara  of  vain 
ctforts,  he  at  last  entrusted  the  work  to  another, 
and  it  was  publlsihed  in  one  or  two  volumes,  I 
forget  by  whoDi,  but  the  name  of  Batton,  Clapham, 
would  almost  certainly  be  at  the  foot  of  the  title. 

Newcoatle-on-Tjne. 

A  pamphlet  by  J.  Rowntree  contains^  I  believe, 
replies  to  Macaulay,  H.  K.  Champney. 

Simeon  of  Durham  (5**»  S.  ii.  340.)— The  his- 
toricid  works  of  Simeon  of  Durham  are  to  be  seen 
in  Twysden'a  ikriptora  Decern  (Lond.,  1652),  and 
in  the  Surtees  Societrs  publications,  vol,  5L  The 
Histor^f  of  the  Churm  of  Durhmn  was  edited  by 
T.  Bedford,  with  a  diaquiaition  08  to  its  autliorsliip 
by  T,  Bad,  in  1732.  J,  T.  F. 

HatAeld  U&ll,  Durham. 

Vide  Tht  Churek  Bisi^iam  of  England  ''  Pre- 
Eefomiation  Series,'*  voL  iii.  part  2,  edited  by  the 
Rev.  Jos.  Stevenson,— a  book  easily  accessible. 

Samuel  Shaw. 

Andover. 

"Paddt*'  (r>a»  S.  il  347.)— la  not  padi  the 
abbreviation  of  pr^rdidi  or  jTrtrrftctoi*        E»  M. 

GtioTESQtTE  Medieval  CABvnros  (5**»  S.  ii. 
347*) — "  History  of  Caricature  and  of  Groltsque 
in  Art.  By  Thomas  Wright,  F,S.A,  With  Illus- 
trations by  F.  W.  Fairholt,  F.S.A''  The  above 
appeared  in  the  Art- Journal  for  the  year  1863,  It 
may  be  of  some  use  to  A*  O'C. 

W,   P.   KUSSRLL. 

Bath. 

Scots  G&sts  (5*^^  S.  ii.  348.)— In  Kovember, 

1688,  King  William  landed  in  Enghind,  esc*orted 
by  a  Butch  troop  of  Life  Guards  mounted  on  grey 
horses,  and  the  Scots  Greys  embarked  for  Holland 
in  the  spring  of  1702.  Prerioua  to  the  former 
date,  no  allusion  to  the  colour  of  the  horses  can  be 
met  with  in  official  documents,  nor  any  order  dis- 
covered for  remounting  with  grey  horses  ;  but,  in 
the  journals  of  the  latter  period,  the  regiment  is 
sometimes  styled  the  **  Grey  Dragoons,'*  and  some- 
timca  the  "Soots  Regiment  of  MTiite  Hocaesu'' 


396 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*S.ILIfoT.H7l 


We  have,  therefore,  every  reason  to  believe  and 
ju«5time  that  on,  or  a  bliort  time  before,  tbeir  em- 
biirkfttion  for  Holknd  they  were  remounted  with 
grey  horees,  as  an  honorary  distinctioD  for  their 
galiaQtiy  on  all  occasions  ;  and  thns  the  weU- 
tnowTi  practice  which  prevailed  in  the  Continental 
amiies  was  adopted,  of  remounting  every  corpi 
(T^liU  on  horses  of  on©  colour. 

William  Platt. 
ConMrraliTO  Ctuh. 

BrBOjr's  Birthplace  (5**»  S*  iL  263.)— In  the 
thre€  hiog:raphicAl  d  ictioruiries  I  possess,  Lord  Byron 
is  said  to  have  been  born  in  Holies  Street,  and 
so  siiys  Murray  in  his  Clut>nology  of  Lord  Byron's 
Life  and  Works  preHxed  to  the  one- volume  edition, 
IB41  ;  and  J,  Henea;ie  Jesse,  in  his  London 
(Bentlev,  1871),  8a\a(vol.  i.,p.  46),  ** at  24,  Holies 
Street,  Lord  Byron  was  born."  If  I  luistuke  not, 
Moore  gives  the  same  birthplace. 

Frede.  Eule. 

The  Imperial  Dktiofiary  of  Universal    Bio- 

graphy^  and  other  books  which  I  have  consulted, 
ffive  Holies  Street  aa  the  pla<:e  where  Byron  was 
born.  In  OaDningbam's  Lxvt&  of  Eminent  and 
lUuitrioui  EutilUhmcn  (Glasgow,  1837),  vol.  viii,, 
£.  295,  it  l^  stated  that  the  poet  was  bom  at  Dover. 
The  balance  of  evidence,  however,  seems  strongly 
in  favour  of  the  drst-named  place. 

R  A.  Edwa&ds. 

ARCHBiSHor  Tenison  (5**  8*  ii.  328.) — It  was 
not  the  Archbishop,  but  his  futher,  who  wiis  in- 
cumbent of  CoUenhaui,  Cambridgeshire,  a  living 
in  the  gift  of  the  Bishops  of  Ely,  J.  £.  B. 

"  The  Life  or  Atdbe  Ali  Kbak  **  (5*^  S.  ii. 
321))  was  oripnally  published  in  French  by  M. 
M[aitre]  D[e]  L[a]  T[our],  General  of  ten  thousand 
men  in  the  Army  of  the  Mogul  Empire,  and 
fbrm^ty  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Artillery  of 
Hyder  Ally,  and  of  a  Body  of  Europeans  in  the 
service  of  liiat  Nabob.    2  voK  12mo.,  Paris,  1783. 

"Memoirs  of  C.  M.  Talleyrand.''— The 
author  of  The  Mtvdtitioniu^  PlutarcJij  FcmaU 
nm$L  rimUmk,  Mmmnn  qf  C  M.  TaUsyraiMi, 
&CL,  was Stewatton,        W.  H.  Allkutt. 

Oxford. 

Movable  Fioukes  nr  Books  (5**  S*  iL  2S7.)— 
In  my  copy  of  Jfr.  BlnndevU  hu  Ar^mae^  7th 
ed.,  1636,  there  are  three  movable  figures  as 
**  workable  *  aa  when  first  issued  from  the  pttSA, 

ChAS.   el  BAT1.KT, 

WmI  Bnmwteii* 

I  ettHnot  siy  which  k  the  first  brwA  "  In  wlucb 
iif«a  wtre  '    by 

J  them  t  :  but 

rthey   were   c*rt»mly    s*»  1590, 

I  There  are  several  such  in  ^^^ 

**  Opmtmikim  Geogriahfeiitii  imrum,  io4iu»  ««u«  iMgoCn 
tiaatm^  ate  imtaaAna  at  hreTitate  oo^cpkotCBa . .  «^ 


e«  div«r«oniin  libris  ac  chartis  ,  *  *  ,  o^iDtfctom 
pnblicAtutii,  per  Joanncm  Myritiuin  M^itentmiir  ^ « 
fol,  Itignlaudii,  1590/* 

The  firiit  part  of  this  book  treats  of  the  pr 
of  astronomy  ;  and  eclipaee  of  the  Sun  and  Mi 
OS  well  as  other  matters,  are  illustrated  by  i 
paper  figures,  every  one  of  which  is  »a  perleol  and 
usable  id  my  copy  at   ih'm   moment  m  it 
the  day  the  work  was  publiabed.  B„  H^  ik\ 

The  earliest  instance  X  can   find    in   mjf 
library   is   contained    in   Mrnatus    des    l^irUl 
Hoviine.  Fignrifi  d  LatinitaU  donuiu*  d-ilorailw' 
Schuyl,  Lugd.  Bat,,  4to.,  1664.     It  occurs  nt  n  d, 

where  a  heart  is  represented  with  t»"^  *^  .*..  wh»^^ 
lift  up  80  a^  to  show  the  struct' 
thereof.    The  practice  is, however,  n.  ,  :,    ,,,.  ii_:. 
this,  Edward  Pbacdol 

Pacl  Jones's  Action  (6^  S.  iL  34a>-CMilais 
Pearson's  personal  bravety  in  this  action  ii  nuHin 
without  example,  and  the  services  be  rewlaid  Mi 
country  in  this  remarkable  engagement  wm^  of* 
versuiUy  acknowledged.  On  his  return  to  Bnffand, 
the  honour  of  knighthood  was  conferred  npnn  hioi, 
and  the  towns  of  UuU,  Scarborough,  T 
Appleby,  Dover^  <^c.,  the  Rnesia  Coinj 
the  Roy  id  Exchange  As?ni-»ft^*.  t  '^^m^nf^ 
their  gratitude  by  prese  i  reedona  il  liar 

corpoiations  and  donatio  l        ^      e. 

Subsequently  to  his  gallant  del^iiee  «f  tk 
"Serapis,'^  SirRicbard  Pearson  was  mmhM^ 
the  *'  Alarm,"  and  after  that  to  tbe  ^JkrHhm.' 
He  succeeded  Captain  Locker  as  Liecii.^Qof«mc 
of  Greenwich  Hospital,  where  he  died  in  Janiiil^t 
1805.  B.  TnomwevL 

Admiralty,  WhitebalL 


"Testamexts  of  the  Twelve  Pat 
(5*^  S.  i.  3<  >H,  3.94)— Two  of  your 
refer  to  modem  versions.  Among  othera,  R  L  M* 
name3  French  editions,  of  part  or  all  of  thf  ^^ 
of  1555  an-]  174.1.  and  V.n.I.L.LCLV.  anS»i^ 
edition,  '  luggletofiian  nd  i» 

1837.      1  _        i^  these   gai/tkaa 

would  kindly  mention  in  ymir  cftlnmna  to  will 
libraries  the  above  editions  may  be  mem,    Tn  ^ 
best  of  my  knowledge,  they  do  ttol  ^ocur  is  fk 
British  Muaenm  or  the  Bibl&olh^nd  Katmile  ift  , 
Paris.  iL  &  i 

Trinity  Colkge,  Ouiitei40Sk 

SsmiEt^  (&>»  S.  iL  in,  3&3.)— While  lUii 
ject  k  doenned,  wiU  Loed  LTrrBa.Y09»  m  a 
other  divining  T^tmiim,  eiplain  Omlliw^  ik  JU^ 
d  SifHmnof — 

"  Hoe  irt  dixit^  Anor  ( 
Dextran  slerniiit  mp^f^ibUaomumJ' 

Il  is  Carmen  xtiii.  in  my  BAskerrOk*    Tbm  «i|l 

think,  an  attempt  at       ,~ 

lender's  worki.  '  Mokxquk  < 

Kaowi  ma^  1 


-      ^^' 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


397 


I 


GiooRArmcAL  (5«*  S.  ii.  306,  359.)— The 
reaaonmg  of  R,  M — m  is  admirably  clear  from  ihe 
G«*efiwich  stamipoint ;  but  what  about  the 
ParisLnns,  Viennt'se,  Muscovites,  &c.,  on  the  one 
lijind,  or  the  people  of  New  York,  St.  Loum,  S&n 
Francisco,  &c.,  on  the  other  ?  Boea  an  Englishman 
in  the  Friendly  Is>les  keep  Chrifitmas  on  what  his 
neijjhbours,  the  Fijian?,  call  the  26th  DecembeT ; 
*iicl  mhtil  should  a  New  Yorker,  a  Frenchman,  or 
an  AnstRiliai),  do  in  the  same  predicament  ?  la 
there  a  compromise,  or  on  what  principle  do  they 
agree  to  differ  ?  1  hope  R.  M^-m  wili  oblige  ns 
with  a  cosmopolitan  or  absolute  reply, — my  with 
referetjre  to  the  Sun's  place  when  our  jplunet  is  in 
it^  perihelion*  K.  E.  A, 

St,  Triduana  (4**  S.  xi,  279.)-- The  following 
extraet  m  from  the  Second  Keport  of  the  Cotmnumon 
on  Ilifitorical  AlaniMcrrpts^  London,  1871,  p.  208: 

••In  tht*  L.  i^endi  of  the  ikottiili  Church  St.  Triduana 
Ml  «  n  one  of  the  CompanionB  of  St.  Eegulua 

in  I  leading  an  ereniUical  life  at  Roscoby  in 

AugDt,  nrri  lU'ing  at  Restalrig^,  ncwr  Ediiiburght  where 
«b8  WHS  held  in  reTtir«»ce  down  to  the  Reformation." 

J.  Makusl. 

Newcajtle-upoQ-TjDe. 

The  CoMMi7>'ioN  Table  (5^^  S.  il  288.)  — In 
Holy  Trinity,  Hull,  the  Coramunion  Table  has 
recently  been  placed  in  the  nave,  where  divine 
aervici*  is  ordinarily  held.  Formerly  the  nave  and 
ulileH  were  useparated  from  the  tranaept  by  glazed 
door^  or  screertft.  Prior  to  Us  removal  to  the  spot 
indicated,  the  Holy  Table  occupied  the  usual  place 
\  in  tb«  chancel.  Elswick. 

Pahih  Pribons  (S^J^  S.  i.468  ;  ii.  153,  225, 377.) 
I  —The  Litebt  and  best  information  is  to  be  found 
in  the  third  volume  of  Maxime  du  Camp  s  Part*, 
published  by  Hjicbette.  P.  P. 

MKwoins  OF  J.  T.  Serres  (5*^  S.  ii.  289,  364.) 
— Tlio(];^h  Mr.  Cooke's  article  neither  is  nor  was 
intended  to  be  an  answer  to  my  inquiry  as  to  the 
auihortihip  of  The  Life  of  J.  T.  B^rru,  or  the 
wberrabouts  of  the  MS.  on  which  that  Life  is 
fauii  ^^<K  lu"  has  done  good  service  by  pointing  out 
th<  of  Bome  of  the  works  of  this  unfor- 

tttt"  in  the  Libmry  of  the  British  Museum, 

ol  iuiocopiei  of  Tlxi  Memoir.  Can  Mb,  Cooke, 
aeenu  to  speak  with  some  authority  {anU^ 
^  29JI)  on  the  subject  of  the  Serres  s  family,  ac- 
CQViit  for  the  comparative  scarcity  of  Tlit  Mtmoirs 
of  Harts  f  The  explanation  once  given  to  me, 
iMwnply.  the  old  story  that  it  hnd  been  bought  up 
hy  ''  nt  or  the  Koyal  Family,  cerUinlv  is 

T€t:  vie.  S.  T.  M, 

GnrrFivnoofE  (J^   S.   ii.  249,  335.)— I   have 

from  Cambridge  receiv€*d  a  courteous  reply  to  the 

[  ijarry  a*  to  this  ^^orlfrin.''     It  would  ?eeni  that,  o« 

I  mf  bock  em  1714,  a  certain  Dr.  Orifftnhoofe  landed 


with  George  L  (as  His  Majesty's  physician)  from 
Hanover,  and  that  the  name  is  supposed  to  be  the 
same  as  the  German  "Grebbenhoffe**;  that  there  is 
no  other  family  of  the  same  name  in  England,  and 
that  it  means  **  Earl's  Court.*'  There  can  be  little 
doubt  of  this,  a»  Gra/ is  Earl  or  Count,  and  Hof 
m  Court.  C.  A.  Ward. 

May  fair. 

Having  known  the  family  of  Griffiidioofe,  of 
Saffron  Widdeo,  for  forty  years,  I  am  enabled  to 
furnish  the  following  particulars  ;~The  first  of  the 
family  who  came  to  this  country  was  a  Mr.  Griffin- 
hoofe,  who,  as  Court  physician,  accompnied 
George  L  from  Hanover.  I  believe  the  nam^e 
means  the  House  of  the  Grifiin,  *'  Hoffen,"  The 
arms  they  have  always  borne  in  this  country  are, 
A^ure,  three  griffins  segreant  between  a  chevron 
or  ;  crest,  a  griffin  segreant  or.  They  were  for 
some  time  nettled  at  \Voo<iham  ^lortimer,  in  this 
county.  The  late  Rev.  Thomas  Sparkea  Griffin- 
hoofe  and  his  son,  the  late  Rev,  Thomas  John 
Griffiuhoofe,  were  successively  vicars  of  Arhesden, 
in  this  county.  CiiAS,  K,  Probkrt. 

Newport,  Ewex, 

BcTNTAS's  Imitators  (5«»  S,  ii.  148, 213, 336.)— 

Tht  Third  Part  of  the.  F%lgrim*9  Frof^rtss  frmn 
this  Wwrli  to  the  other  was  first  publisihed  in  1692, 
and  the  fact  that  six  editions  appeared  within  the 
first  thirteen  years  of  its  publication,  while  there 
were  in  the  corresponding  period  but  seven  editions 
of  the  genuine  Second  Part  called  for,  would  seem 
to  afford  intrinsic  evidence  against  the  assumption 
that  **  the  cheat  was  soon  discovered,"  or  that  it 
was  **  the  production  of  a  common  dauber,''  at  least 
in  the  estimation  of  contemporaries. 

The  Farahk  of  the  Filgrim^  by  Dr.  Symon 
Patrick,  could  not  have  been  suggested  by  Banyan's 
Filgrini^  Frogriu^  inasmuch  os  it  was  published 
in  1665,  while  Bunyan  was  in  Bedford  jail,  and 
the  Fiigrim^s  Progresa  did  not  see  the  light  until 
1678.  How  the  learned  Bishop  made  himself 
"  ridiculous  "  by  "  attempting  to  write  "  the  former 
work,  is  not  clear  to  me  j  but  at  aU  events  it  does 
not  place  him  in  the  category  of  **Bunyan's 
Imitators."  Gaston  ds  Bkrnevau 

Philadelphia. 

Mr,  JgrFKBSOH  DAtns  (5t»»  S,  u.  169,  256,)-- 
I  should  like  the  information  to  be  more  explicit. 
The  supposed  ancestors  name  was  Timothy,  who 
left  Cardiganshire  in  May,  imi,  and  landed  in 
Baltimore  August  4.  I  have  just  ascertained  this 
from  the  memoir  of  his  brother,  the  Rev.  D. 
Davis,  Castle  Nowel  T.  0.  Uhnqnil 

Soon  after  Jefferson  Davis  hjid  been  elected 
President  of  the  Confederate  States,  I  happened  to 
be  in  Dublin  with  a  friend.  In  Brunswick  Street 
our  notice  w*aa  attracted  by  a  large  portrait  in  tbo 
window  of  a  ftUtio\i«i'*  ^<s^.  N4  si\«!0£v  ^^^^ssxsaR^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*  S.  IL  Kof . 


"  Who  can  that  be  I  it  seems  to  b€  a  portrait  of 
one  of  the  Daviea's  of  Clonbonny "  (a  place  near 
Athlone  in  Westmeath,  the  rcaidenoe  of  a  distant 
branch  of  our  IJunily)*  The  portrait  was  that  of 
Jefferson  Davis,  The  likeness  to  the  above-named 
£similj  waa  moat  remarkable.  No  doubt  tbe 
ex-President  was  mimed  iifter  President  Jefferson, 
but  the  name  of  "  Jeffrey/'  genenUly  contracted 
•  to  "  Jeff,"'  is  borne  by  many  of  the  Davies'a  of 
Clonbonny,  F.  E,  D. 

"  TUEEEN  "  (5i*»  S.ii.  185,  256.)— I  have  searched 
authorities  regarding  this  word,  and  find  (1)  that 
neither  Walker  (182:J  edition)  nor  Johnson  (in  an 
old  edition  without  date)  gives  either  "  Tureen  "  or 
"Terrine,"  and  (2)  that  Webster  (1852)  ami 
Ogilvie's  Stutknts^  give  **  Tureen,"  the  latter  giving 
also  "  Terreen/*  Neomaqus. 

Buix-Baitino  (5^  S.  L  182,  274,  312,  455  ; 
ii.  ^99.)— 1  thank  H.  S*  G.  for  hia  reply.  Perhaps 
he  can  add  to  the  obligation  by  information  as  to 
where  a  copy  of  tbe  DaTlanton  BidUBaii  may  pos- 
sibly be  obtained.  It  appears  the  inhabit^mta  of 
that  place,  or  Wednesbuiy,  were  not  altogether 
pleased  by  the  ballads.  The  guard  of  the  Slu*ews- 
traiy  coach,  I  am  told,  played  the  tune  of  one  of 
them  on  his  bugle  when  passing  through,  upon 
which  tbe  aborigines  rose  up,  stopped  the  horses, 
pulled  him  off  the  coach,  and  drubbed  him  f 

Georoh  K  Jesse. 

NOMKNCLATUBE   OF    VEnJCLES    (5*^    S.    ii.    148, 

235.) — Fiy,  used  as  a  name  for  a  hired  cxirriage,  is 
an  abbreviation  of  tbe  original  nauie  Fiy-hj-Nvjht^ 
first  adopted  J  I  believe,  at  Brighton,  suid  not  un- 
frequently  used  in  the  novels  and  comedies  of  a 
hundred  years  ago.  P, 

Cromwell  Crescent* 

Although  it  may  be  said  to  be  derived  from  a 
proper  name^  Fiacre  has  not  a  similar  origin  with 
Landau,  Stanhope,  ami  the  other  names  of  v  eh  idea 
quoted  by  Dr.  R.  S,  Cuarnock.  The  following 
note  from  Littr^,  on  that  subject,  may  prove 
interesting  : — 

**  Vn  nommc  SnuTage  etablit  k  premier  en  1640  les 
Toiturea  de  louAge^  ditcs  d^ubord  carroasea  u  cinq  boub 
(on  ne  payalt  que  ctin|  boos  par  heure),  nie  Bain tMur tin, 
dans  une  gronde  maifon  nommee  1* Hotel  tiftint- Fiacre, 
puree  (iu*une  itnitge  de  Saint-FLacro  y  ^tait  pendue ;  de 
i'hotel  ie  nom  iiasoa  aujt  roitures.'* 

Kenbi  Gausberok. 

Ayr  Academy. 

The  French  Word  "Yeux"  (5"'  S.  iL  101, 
174,  237,)^Dr.  Chai«ck  &iya,  "Ol^Tis  must  try 
again."  I  should  be  liappy  to  do  so  if  only  I 
knew  what  1  am  expected  to  try  to  do.  Your 
learned  correspondent  spoke  of  the  French  word 
yeur  as  the  only  word  he  knew  which  had  not  one 
letter  in  common  with  its  root»  viz,,  the  Latin 
vetdm.     The  two  words  Have  a  letter  in  common, 


the  vowel  u ;  but  after  elimioating  tt  as  of  no 
account,  Dr.  Chakce  proceeds,  and,  as  it  &p{»mis 
to  me,  with  perfect  Buccess^  to  prove  that  <K^%t^ 
and  ytux  stand  to  one  another  in  the  rehition  of  j 
root  and  branch.     Such  \yiurA  of  words   being,  [ 
according  to  Dr.   CnASCE,  exceedingly   mre,  I J 
ventured  to   mention  a  second   ejcample  in  Uia| 
French  jOHf,  tmcinf;  it  through  the   —— -^ 
word  gxortio  (and  I  now  add  the  I 
diurtius^  and  thence  to  dia.     I  am  ii  r  j„* 
but  believing  that  there  is  truth  in  the  Go 
proverb,  ^^Eineblinde  Henne  findet  zuweilen  i 
Kom,*'  I   submitted    my    idea   to  the  readew  uf 
"  N.  &  Q-,"  in  the  hope  that  one  or  another  of 
them  would  kindly  set  me  right  if  they  V^ehevodj 
me  wrong.    As  no  one  has  done  so,  I  decline  (po^«  I 
Dr.  Chakce)  "  to  try  again  ^*;  it  would  be  aciv:m  * 
agere.  OcTiA* 

P.S. — In  Dr.  Chance's  first  article  he  speak  %  of  I 
the  singularity  of  the  word  y(^tx  as  arising  fwm  f 
the  absence  ot'  a  single  letter  common  to  it  and  ill  J 
root  ocnlux ;  it  is  only  in  his  second  article  thai  1 1 
leurn  the  real  singularity  lies  in  the  fact  that  thert 
is  no  intcTiiwdiatc  link  between  the  two,  I  am  no 
diviner  of  Tuen^s  tJioughU ;  I  interpret  their  thoQcHUi 
by  their  words. 

Corpses  Entombed  in  Walls,  &c.  (5*^S.  ill 
185,   234,    298,    337.)— Begging    Mr.    MicKLi-i 
THWAiTE^s  pardon,  I  maintain  that  thiea  in  this 
parage  means  a  grave  or  vaulf^  and  not  a  (0fi^ 
It  is  the  Latin  equivalent,  or  more  properly  the 
I  direct  derivalive,   of  the  Greek    O/iKu  :    And  nf 
^vJktj  Liddeli  and  Scott  say,  "a  pi 
corpses  in,  a  prave,  a  vault,"  and  as  . 
Herod,  i,  67,  j'Esch.  Pen.  4(i5,  with  s-ouie  oUku 
The  place  in  Herodotus,  as  your  ciiiBsical  rcaden 
well  know,  refers  to  the  finding  of  tbe  lK>dyof| 
Oreste?,  where  ^»jKT/==the  vault  vr  grnve,  is  clcadyrf 
distinguished   from   o\>p^«— (c  (i8j    the  co^t  isj 
which  the  remains  were  found.     iE<Lhylu»  uiefj 
the  word  in  precisely  the  same  sense  '—  ^ 

**'i}    TTcitSeS  *EXA>Jv(iJt',    4T€,    cAfu^cpoiVf   S<— 

(?>;«««  Tc  Trpoyovm'."*     "  On,  dona  of  the  Grftskfii 
free— the  tombs  of  your  ancestors." 

Bede  is  speaking  of  a  translfltion.  and  we  ha^  | 
no  warrant  from  his  words  for  assuming  that  the  I 
bones  of  these  two  individuals  were  removed  from  I 
the  respectiye  coffins  in  which  they  were  fi-istj 
interred  into  one  other  with  a  **  wall "  within  it  J 
to  keep  the  remains  apart.  I  feel  sure  the  case  iS| 
aa  I  have  put  it.  Edmuxd  Tew,  MX 

In  one  of  the  walls  of  Purton  Chnrch,  VH^  ' 
lately  restored,  a  skeleton  waa  found. 

Mr,  Disraelis  Exprkssiok  ok  "Fl^      -     ^ 
JIBES,  AND  jeers"  (5**^  S.  ii.  108,  234 
Prologue  to  the  first  book  of  Oargantua,  ium'ii«j^ 
deprecates  its  being  supposed,  an  might  be  hf 


»•  8.  IL  Rot.  14, 74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


399 


some  of  kU  readers,  thiit  his  work  wns  not  the  real 

expreMion  of  hi»  mind,  hut  merely  "  mocqueries, 

fo&leties  et  menteric^s   joyeuses.''      May  not  an 

bo  of  this  have  been  in  the  thoughts  of  Mr. 

smell  when  he  uttered  the  caustic  remarks  to 

ch  F.  S.  refers  1    Habelais  aayB  : — *'  Vous  jugez 

rop  focilemeot    n'estre  au    dedans    tniict^'   que 

inocqiierteSt  folateriea  et  nienterie^  joy  eases,"  How 

is  ihifl  tmnalateil  by  Sir  T.  Urqnhart  ? 

C.  T.  Rahagr 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Gabb  (5«>  S.  ii.  249,  333), 

I  the  author  of  Fini4  Pi/rarnu/w,  &c.,  whom  I  can 

[just  remember*  was  the  Roman  Catholic  priest  at 

^^orkscp,  NottR.     H*>  was  a  studioua  man,  kindly 

Iftiid  chiixiUiblc,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-five 

or  upwanda,  universally  esteemed   and   re- 

i,  April,  1B17.     He  waa  buried,  according 

hi«  own  express  desire,  in  the  churchyard  of 

J'Worksop.  where  a  tombstone  still  renmina  com- 

poTTvting  him.  J.  S. 

hcnATJ.  Banik  (4*'*  S.  xl  134  ;  5^  S.  ii,  254.) 
-In  a  letter  from  Michael  Banini,  dated   18th 
ary,    1874,  in  my  possession,  the  following 
I  occurs : — 

^T  IhAre  for  the  prcf  ent  taken  up  my  residence  at  the 
above  AiddrciA.  anJ  will  remain  here  until  May.    1  expect 

Ifo  teUle  fiti&ily  ill  eonie  cottage  near  the  lea,  for  which 
^  BCD  on  the  IrWk  out*  vrbcrc  I  will  renmin until  it  plcaiws 
||Cod  to  snmriton  Tiie  awny*  This  tuiumoDB  canikot  he 
^litont  I  Trill,  if  I  lire  00  ionst  have  reached  my 
dyptitieth  year  the  lit  of  Mny  next.'* 
Thia  will  give  OLrHAtt  Hamrt  satisfactory 
bvldence  aa  to  the  age  of  Michael  Banim, 
R,  J.  G. 

In  the  ttccmint  of  his  life  in  the  Imperial  Dtc- 
fiversal  Bwgraphjf^  it  is  sL^ted  that 
m  waa  bom   in   August,   1796,  in 
Kill  This   agrees  with   the  statement  of 

Ol!  :-t,  making  him  just  seventy-eight 

at  thf'  tiiii^'  ^  1  y     '      ;       He  was  the  eldest  aon 
nf  his  father,  r  John,  who  was  born  on 

the  3ni  of  Apr  n,  id-,  iieing  the  second. 

P.  A,  Edwajujs, 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc. 


Cr. 
Ir 

On 
I 


divided  into  Sfci*oni  adapted  to  tKf 
!fi  of  LiMWiu  0/  18T1,     (Cambridj^e, 

the  Nitw  L*etionar^.'   Letter  to  tht 
/>,/>.»    Prolocutor  of  ikt  Launrr 


E\iUJ*  o/  lU-    CijHmrahan  of  CanterlnAry.     By   Chr. 

Wordtworth.  t>,l>,.  lli«hop  of  Lincoln.    (Itivlngtont.} 
Ownro  lo  the  dl  "  "   '         '  looi  book*,  of  which  the 

Old  aad  NewTc  :'0»ed,into  chaptemt— an 

crma^ement*  n  worth  r«iniri(U  lu,  not 

alder  titmii  the  ihtrit:foUi  cenLurr, — Rreat  diffical^M  are 
»i|»«itnccd*  l»<?th  by  clergy  Rfld  Uity,  in  accustoming 


themielTea  to  the  adoption  of  the  New  Lection&ry.  Tliai 
theae  difficulties  are  of  no  mean  order  is  apparent  to 
anv  one  who  will  run  bia  eye  over  the  New  Calendar.  In 
order,  th«n,  to  mininiixe  these.  The  Leeticnary  BibU  has 
been  iiaued,  and  wo  must  say  that,  to  tu,  it  reenu  tbe 
8vndice  of  the  Camhfidgt'Unlveniity  Pre$e  havethorouRhly 
eitected  their  object.  Tbe  Biblo  now  issued,  in  which  is 
aho  included  the  Apocrvjibaj,  h  pa^^ed  through  oat,  so 
that  in  the  Calendar  prefixed,  not  only  is  the  appointed 
lesson  for  tbe  day  giren^  bi3t  &)ao  the  page  on  which  it  may 
be  found.  Added  to  thcie  advantages,  a  reference 
in  the  margin  of  tbe  pagCt  at  tbe  commencement  of  the 
li^Bson,  refers  to  a  foot-note  tbut  states  the  day  for 
which  the  lesson  is  appointed.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that, 
by  the  adoption  of  most  simple  means,  tbe  reader  is 
doubly  assured.  It  only  remains  to  say  that  tbe  type  it 
excellent. 

Tbe  Bishop  of  Lincoln  urges  that  advanta^  should 
be  taken  of  the  Koyal  Letters  of  Business,  dat«d 
6th  July,  1874,  issued  to  the  ConTocations  of  both  pro- 
vinces, to  revise  the  New  f.>ectionary.  He  remarks  00 
whut  be  calls  its  ''blemishes"  under  three  headin|r«: 
**  Moral  Grounds,"  '*  Historical  and  Prophetical,"  "  Mis- 
cellaneoufl,^'  Under  the  last  two,  much  is  said  in  which 
many  will  be  found  to  concur  with  the  teamed  writer. 
It  i»  generally  understood  that,  before  publication,  the 
New  Lectioiiary  «&»  submitted  to  the  scrutiny  of  tbe 
Theological  Professors  at  the  Universities  and  certain 
other  learned  diTinet;  that  Bt«bop  WordsDiortb  was 
not  amongst  the  latter  we  are  forced  to  infer,  with 
regret,  seeing  that  many  of  the  "  hlemishea  **  now 
pointed  out  might  otherwise  have  been  remedied,  had 
nii  great  Biblical  and  scholarly  knowledge  been  taken 
advantage  of.  We  think,  however,  that  few  will  concur 
with  the  Biihop'a  argument  on  **  moral  in*oiinds,**  "  It 
IS  to  be  feared."  says  Dr.  Wordsworth,  **  that  there  are 
many  persons  in  the  present  age  who  prudishly  affect  a 
modest  n^luctance  to  hear  what  they  aro  not  asbojued 
unbluahingly  to  do.  But  ought  the  Church  of  God  to 
minister  to  this  spurious  ehamer*  It  wOl  be  nnder* 
stood  that  the  Bishop  objects  to  the  present  omission 
of  certain  we  11- known  chapters  in  the  Old  Testament, 
Tbe  letter  deserves,  and  will  doubtlees  receive,  carefnl 
and  thoughtful  reading. 

Library  of  Spiritual  Wcrki  for  Kngliih  Capita. — Of 
the  Imitation  fyf  Chrint,  In  Four  Books,  By  Thomas  A 
Kemptf,  A  >ew  Tramlatton,  (Rivrngtons. ) 
By  far  the  prettiest  edition  of  this  admirable  work  that 
we  have  seen.  It  is  fit  reading,  not  only  for  English 
Catholics,  but  for  all  men  who  can  understand  it. 
There  is  not  much  dogma  of  religion  in  it,  none  at  all  of 
the  dogma  of  science.  Its  wisdom  is  in  some  of  its 
simplest  maxims,  such  as  "I  would  rather  feel  com* 
pnnctiori  than  know  how  to  define  it." 

Comhtll  Magatint,  November.  (Smith  k  Elder.) 
Iw  one  of  those  papers  on  literature  and  litemry  persons 
for  which  this  periodical  is  becoming  distinguitbed.— s 
paper  of  much  interest  on  "The  Wartous,"— we  find  a 
few  words  to  which  we  may  direct  the  attention  of  the 
searchers  after  parallel  passages,  of  which  *'  N.  k  Q.** 
affords  so  many  examples  : — •*  It  is  comnaratively  easy 
to  multiply  parallel  passages  and  to  show  how  far  a  great 
writer  has  gleaned,  or  appears  to  have  gleaned,  from  his 
predecessors;  but  vuch  lubour  is  seldom  siitisfactory, 
since  it  seems  to  detract  from  its  originalitT,  while  it 
exhibits  the  actiteness  and  comprehensive  knowledge 
of  tV  ntator.     We  should  be  slow  to  accuse  any 

ill;;  t  of  plagiaHKm.     If  he  borrow  thoughts, 

he  V  to  ennoble  them,  and  the  rough  ore,  as  ii 

pasibt  £  tliK'Ugh  his  handf,  is  changed  into  a  piece  of  ex^ 
quiiite  workmanship." 


400 


NOTES  AND  QUER 


MacmiUanU  Maff0isine,  ^^OTemb«r.  (MAcmillmn  &  Co,) 
Thb  loTen  of  folk'loi'©  will  find  SfvmctbLntf  e«t»«siiiJIy  to 
their  tuste  in  "  The  01de«t  Fniry  T*ie  in  the  World/*  lui 
Egyptian  «torT,  the  oni^al  of  which  is  on  a  pftpyruji 
DfOw  in  the  ^ritUb  Muicum.  This  curious  legend  wiu 
Invented  lor  the  amaidinent  of  PiincQ  Seti  Maiuphtu^ 
ion  of  Fhuraoh  BameMS,  who  reigned  B.c.  1400  >earf. 
Such  of  our  re«deri»  u  haT.o  taken  ihtereit  in  the  die- 
oiuston  tti  "X.  k  Q."  on  the  "  Double  Genitive,*' wiU 
perute  with  increused  interest  an  article  wbich  hnf 
grown  out  of  it, — "  An  Unnamed  Habit  of  Langiiage/' 
It  giveg  a  notiible  example  of  *' cumulation  "  in  the 
wora  "  Lemuren."  The  Wt  sy liable  of  tlite  word,  ac- 
cordini;  to  Mr.  Itaac  Taylor,  is  the  Liitin  §ti^n  of 
plurality  adde*l  to  **cr,''  iu  equivalent  plural  Mgn  m  old 
EtruBcan,  loaring  **  Lem  "  as  the  root  or  the  word. 
Ttmplt  Bar.  November.  (Bentley  ^  Son.) 
Among  the  many  good  things  in  thi«  number,  we  make  a 
note  with  reference  to  a  ptwm,  of  which  a  copy  it  now 
rare  :— "  Doctor  Jo«ph  Beaumont,  Manter  of  Pcterhouae, 
Cambridge  ^  .  .  wrote  an  astounding  poem,  in  twenty- 
four  caittoe,  called  Pit/che  ;  or.  Lorn/  i/^v<tfry,di«p laving 
the  Intercounw  between  Christ  and  the  8ouL  Dr.  Beau- 
mont moet  liaTC  written  far  more  than  his  cousin,  the 
genius  Francia.  The  Doctor  publbhed  four  additional 
€«nto«  of  JPtycke  before  he  died.*' 


ROTAL  ARCHJEOIjOOICAL  iNaTITXTTlL — Ifov.  6.  — Sir 
6.  D.  Scott,  Bart.r  in  the  chair— This  was  the  opening 
meeting  rf  the  new  Sewion,  and  the  Chainnckii  spoke  at 
some  length  upon  the  sabject,  and  al Indeed  Uy  the  grcttt 
iucoen  of  tb<!  Ripon  Met'ting,  and  the  rvcent  pre-enta- 
tion  of  a  Gold  Chain  of  Office  to  the  iMayor  ot  Exeter, 
One  of  the  features  of  the  coming  Session  is  to  be  an 
exhibition  of  Municipal  Chains  of  Office.  Memoirs  on 
"  Re<  cut  DtBooverififf  at  CHrtiarvctn  Caatte/*  by  Sir  L.  Tur- 
ner, and  "  On  an  Inaertption  in  St.  Chad's  Church,  Staf* 
iotdf'*  by  J.  Hewitt«  were  read.  The  ohj^'tte  exhibited 
comprised — Rings  recently  found  at  Fountains  Abbey, 
by  the  MsrquoM  of  Ripon  *  Portion  of  Calei*diir,  a.d. 
litis,  br  the  Ctinpter  of  Lincoln;  NotNrinl  In«trument 
of  Sir  W,  biijciair,  AD.  1554,  by  Mr.  Wonif;  a  pair  of 
Moorish  spurs,  and  Per^inn  belt-clasp,  inlaid  with  gold 
and  -ilver.  by  Mr.  H*  ndorson  \  Photogruphi*  of  fjottory 
found  ttt  Aahill,  ani  bronze  statuette  found  at  Strcibam^ 
Norfolk,  by  the  Rev.  C.  R.  Manning ;  Roman  and  other 
lamps,  3tc.,  by  Mrs.  H.  J,  GwUt^  atid  two  small  mediM^ml 
pots,  by  Mr.  Page. 

The  Thames:  St.  Paul's  ok  Lambeth  (fi<^8.  iL  367^ 
— We  have  to  thunk  numerous  correspondents  for  replies 
to  this  query.     The   Rkv.  J.    Picki-ohd  eays:— "The 
epigram  inquired  for  by  Mn.  Walfohi^  is  as  fi>llows  :— 
**  As  i^hi-rlock  at  Temple  was  taking  a  boat, 

The  Watermiin  aeked  him  which  way  he  would  float; 

Which  way*  quoth   the  Doctor,  you  fool,  %vith  the 
ftream, 

To  Panra  or  to  Lambeth  'twas  all  one  to  him." 

Mr,  P.  J.  F.  Oahtilloh  states  that  the  epigram  la 
quoted  by  Dr.  St<>cker  in  hie  note  on  Jiti>iin.al,  iv.  89. 

H.  P.  D.  remarkfi,  that  "  the  8herlocks,  fatht-r  and 
son,  were  succcisi^ively  .Muicrs  of  the  Tem]«le.  It  h 
doubtful  to  which  of  them  the  epigram  refers.  Both 
were  satiriced  for  their  readincaa  to  *  AiUkt  with  the 
atiream.'  I  have  not  succireded  in  discovering  the 
author  of  the  epigram.  Tom  Brown  wr(>te  a  satirical 
one  on  the  elder  Sherlock,  and  it  is  not  at  all  improbable 
that  he  alao  wrote  the  one  it  <|>icstion.  Au  e(>igram 
reflecting  on  the  conduct  of  ti  ■  locks,  for  their 

rendincjis  to  adopt  the  winuiii  iren  in  Noble'a 

Continuation  of  Granger*!  L^vw^y'i"'^^^^^-  Uviory,  180tJ» 
i  91," 


Jamk9  Patrtuion,  the  Scottiiih  anliqti%riaii  writer, 
man  who  ha«  dmc  no^i]  work  in  hi*  tini-. 
numerous  public  • -ill  known 

ciated,  is  laid  a»i:  vais.     An  i 

spoiident  write*  inc,  -  -■  ■- 

move  from  hit  chair, 
make  hi*  mark."     Ms 
children.   Some  vigor' 
failed  to  obtain  him 
Itito  Premier,  and  now  .i..  ;^ ..  ... 
v^ant.     Permit  me  to  make  »n  :*i 
literary  vetomn.      Any  CJiitribui: 
behalf  will  reach  liis  family  iu  tiue  cMir^tj. 

CiiAr.[.F£  RfKiEjE^^  U^D.J 

Grampian  Lodge,  Forett  Ilill.  SE. 


w\M\ 


^ott(r€  to  Carrr^iioittrcnti* 

Pru'T  CouscfL  JnioMrNT :   Ltt rit-ti    r.    VI 
i5'''  8.  ii,  128,  157,  176.  '21 
Tkxpi^ar,  who  thinks,  as  we  ! 
en>ui(h  of  this  contro vera y,  lu-.c  ..... 
fully  diii^enting  from  Me  PiCRKkiXG's  "  i 
the  tumiiiing'Up  of  a  judge  at  Nisi  P'i 
tendered  to  Her  M^etty  by  the   T, 
the  Trivy  Council.     *•  That  Privy  ' 
'  commonly  the  work  of  one  or  tn     _    ,    . 
five  laymen/  is  an  interesting  juridical  fact,  ot^  w| 
fancy  most  of  my  learned  frieudjt  are  ignoraoU'* 

M.  T* 

Layoauma("  Parallel  Paasages/'  5»*  S.  H.  815) 
ferred  to  BihU  TrniAt  vtkA  ^'    '  *^        '  • 

hshed  by  Uodder  &  Stoogl 
worth's  work  On,  ShaJbf^tat 

the  BiJbiet  Loodoti,  1$<}4.  A  eiuu!  a  (m^Mitti,  uiv*  !Au 
T.  Macojutb,  18  found  in  //<ary  T/.,  Kii^t  Part,  i«l  i*, 
«c.  1:— 

"  'Tis  much  when  iceptres  are  in  children**  liand^ 
But  more  when  envy  hrocdi  unkind  divisioti ; 
Then  comes  the  ruin,  there  begin  a  confu6U>a*'* 

W.  W. — We  are  much  obliged  to  oar  cnrrr^ondcnl  Uf 
his  kind  and  genial  note  on  **  Po'  Vi  u] 

he  look  at  a  paragraph  <page  39y  i^-t 

iu  a  notice  of  the  November  nuu....^.    ..  .^     ...... xid 

A.  S, — Reference  is  made  to  Sir  Alcx4nd«rSchorab«*f*l 
MS.  ode  to  Captain  Cook,  *'  K.  k  Q.."  3"*  S.  v.  «0i     < 
correspondent  P.  8.  Cart  there  my»  that  ihi^  ode 
then  in  his  posaesaion. 

A.  L,  Matmiw.— We  will  do  our  be«t  to  gntltf  jn. 

X  0.  H.  (Rome),  p.  352.— A  correspondwit  wialiii 
place  himMlf  in  communication  with  you. 

J.  T.  (^PocklVnu'ton),— She  lived  tn  Bohemia 
arm  ur  is  m  the  Zeughaua  at  Vienna, 

H.  G.  (Ayr)  was  unayoidabiy  deferred. 

EartATrM.— P.  376, 5'^  8.  a,  f«r  '^  a*  I  believe/ 
tt4  h4  btlievtf. 

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munications  which,  for  any  rejM»on.  we  do  not  print 
to  thie  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

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addreia  of  tha  sender,  not  necessarily  for  put ' 
«8  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


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)i«|>«i«  York  8tn?et,  &t.  Jnute^'t  ^naftr«,  «\W— 

fcflpfwm'i  Wiklk— BuiUfi  and  Getirito  TlmiiiAon 
JMiAlf  of  L«n(ui«tiife  —  Dill  IfjvtUU  div  »l 


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;:a,40s>. 

EooK  '  V  Mrs.  S^^rTKt,  ^c  .  409 -The  Pl»ht 

M«rj  liu-nnetdcs,  410— M&dame  Rt^lanrl;  4U 

•■      ^"  WilLe  w«s  a  Wftnton  W«g,"  412- 

r"  ADd  "Madjunt"— E«itmioator,  41 » 

I  If*  —  Floldtog'i   PmvpTb?  —  RednnW, 

■  -New  Kaadir  " 

'OJif  And  Duij. 

I.  %fi9 — **  Bonni''  A  ntiiv  L'vui  ir    — 

-Sir  Ffmncl*  Swift,  iW  -Pe<!uU:ir 

',^0 ,  —  Herring  (  ou  ati d r — A  n  Old 
1  M  I  lua,"  A:c  —  Shikdilonsiit«— 
n^lsh  Quutity,  417—Johrl  dd 

ig— J.  T,  Sottm— "The  liutt*r- 
:  vrd— *' Lnetu  »  non  Lncemdo"— 
VrmK  or  Bir  FrancLi  Drake— Hie 
itdc,  4ia 


«*4e. 


^M  AUD  DEATH  OP  THOMAS,  LORD 
LYTTBLTON, 

fth  of  Xov**inber,  1779,  Thomas,  Lord 

r  of  the  **j(reat  and 

iddenly  at  hia  couutry 

HI.  jj:ii;t«^  nv;ir  Jipsom.     He  ioheritcd 

lis   fnthof's  ability,    but   none   of   hi» 

An  ill *ivgu late d  life  brought  bim  to 

Id  in  body  but  young  in  ycai^,  at  the 

-,  the  monthly  periodicals,  luid 

'    '^''Ti^f^r,  make  record  of  his 

ly.     Nothing  is  mentioned 

i"ndin;:^Mt  which  took  it  out 

rituriil  order  of  things.  Contemporary 
go  a  little  further.     They  chronicle 
ocd  lis  u  remarkable  occurrence, 
tuarkable  man— of  one  who  bad 
J  by  tjtbrtustive  anticipations,  and  who 
ort  ^'ar^r  lost  all  by  denying  himself 
is  after  hiij  death,  Hortice  Wal- 
on  to  the  ettect  that  Lyttelton 
on  Thursday  that  he  shouM  die  in 
:    that  ho  had   supped  plcnti fully  on 
■  ■   i»a  the  8;n.    ■'     .        I  "  -  '"nt; 
'.  went  to  n 

s  uu'j.   ifl  one  niiuuu-^   aiLtn    Liie  .i.rnval 
Bt  expired." 


On  Deciiuiber  0th,  Mrs.  Bckny»  writing,  from 
St*  James's  Place,  to  her  niece,  Mr*,  t'ort,  describes 
the  dream,  "  .'jeeing  a  bird  turned  into  a  \romaa, 
who  gare  him  warning  of  his  apprii-  '  •  -  nd.'* 
She  adda  a  **  hearty  dinner''  to  Wn.'  [►er 

of  fifh  and  venison,  and  she  refers  to  L.  ^  .,.,.. .^j's 
*'  tkw  of  spirits,'*  aft^r  which  (she  h^js)  he  **  com- 
plained of  a  pain  in  \m  stomach,  which  htstcd  but 
n  little  while  Ijefore  he  expired  at  once."  Mrs. 
Dtdany  namesi  two  Mi?s  Amphletta  aa  being  his 
companions. 

On  a  Saturday  iu  June,  1784,  Dr,  Johnson,  Boa* 
well,  Herbert  Croft,  and  Henderson  were  taking 
tea  together  in  the  rooms  of  Dr.  Adams  at  Oxford. 
Bosweil  mad<s  some  reference  to  *^'  Lord  Ly ttelton'a 
viaion  "  (it  had  grown  to  something  more  than  a 
mere  dream),  "  the  prediction  of  the  time  of  his 
death,  with  its  exact  fulftlraent." — "  It  is  the  mo»t 
dinary  thing,"  said  Johnson,  "which  has 
i*h1  in  my  day.  1  heard  it  with  my  own 
'.n-  nrjm  his  uncle,  Lord  We^tcote.  I  am  so  ghvd 
to  hear  every  evidence  of  the  spiritual  world,  that 
I  am  willing  to  believe  it*"  This  was  not  a  wise 
i^mark  coming  from  such  a  philosopher,  and  Dr. 
Adams  very  well  observed,  "  You  have  evidence 
enough ;  good  evidence,  which  needs  not  :^uch 
iiupport." — "  I  Tike  to  have  more  !  "  was  Johason^s 
rather  silly  rejoinder. 

The  Lord  Westcote  named  by  John  son  was  a 
Peer  of  Lreland,  brother  of  George,  the  tir&t  Lord 
Lvttelton.  He  was  created  Lord  Lyttelton  of 
Fmnkley  in  17J>4.  On  February  13th,  1790,  Lord 
Westcote  drew  up  an  account  of  the  dream  and 
death  of  his  nephew,  founded  on  the  testimony  of 
ear  and  eye  witneaaesof  Lord  L}!  tei  ton  scon  vena- 
tion,  and  of  his  decease.  Thii=i  was  the  account,  no 
doubt,  which  Johnson  heard  from  Lord  Weatcotc's 
own  lips.  It  is  the  one  which  i.*  be«t  known,  and 
has  been  widely  accept^?d.  The  following  is  a  copy 
of  the  document,  whir' 1  '  -  r  f,  we  believe,  been 
in  print  before.     For  j  f  o  place  thia  (and 

the  subsequent  docuiiM_M>  ,  i^Une  the  readers  of 
"  N,  <&  Q,,"  we  are  indebted  to  the  great  kindness 
of  the  present  Lord  Lyttelton,  who  is  a  valuable 
and  much-honoured  contributor  to  these  columns  : 

"Rrmakkjibls  PftEAM  OF  TnoMAs  LoRD  Lttteltdw, 

"  On  Tburadiiy,  the  25tb  of  XoTombcr*  1779*  ThoniM 

Lord  LytteltAn/when  he  carrn^  "    ^ '  '-  *    i     >    .  ,|  to 

M"  Flood,  Wife  of  Frederick  i  ^g- 

doni  of  Ireland,  h  to  the  tin  ubo 

were  lodged  in  hiBHoaaein  Hillistrcct^  Luhduiu  (whurehe 
tben  aUo  was),  that  he  bad  had  an  exiraordiaary  Dream 
the  night  before  :  he  said  he  thou^'bt  be  wm  in  ft  Roam 
which  a  Bird  flew  into,  which  »ppt!»irauc^  was  •uddcnly 
changed  into  that  of  a  Woman  dre^'d  in  nhite*  who  bftd« 
him  prepare  tfl  Die ;  to  which  he  answci  *d»  I  h^jp«  not 
■ooa,  not  In  two  Months:  She  replied^  Yes.  in  three 
Davft.  He  said  he  did  r*'-^  r..n,  t.  retrard  it,  becaaiie  he 
cou'd  in  some  measure  a.  '   for  th»t  n  few  dayi 

before  he  had  been  with  [■  <,  when  a  Rohin  Red- 

breaat  fiew  into  her  Roorn.  When  he  had  dressM  him- 
fielf  that  day  to  go  to  the  House  of  Lordi,  he  wJL'l^lM. 


tliougUt  be  did  not  look  &§  if  ho  was  lik«l^  to  Die  :  In 
tbe  Evening  of  the  folIowiD);  Day,  being  Friday,  he  told 
the  oldcit  Mis8  ArophJctt  that  she  looked  melHTicholj ; 
but,  *aid  he,  you  are  fooUsh  and  fcarfall,  I  haTo  liTcd 
two  Dayn,  anu,  God  willing^  I  will  lire  out  the  third. 
On  the  morning  of  Saturday  he  tdd  the  same  Ludies 
that  he  waa  very  well,  and  believed  he  skotCd  lill  the 
Gh<fgt,  Some  houra  iiftcrwarda  ho  went  with  them,  M' 
Fort^-ftcuo  &  Captain  Wolsclcy,  to  Pitt  Place,  at  Ep*om ; 
wtthdrow  to  hifi  bed  chamber  soi-n  afwr  elcTcn  o*Clock 
at  tiigb^  talked  cbfarfully  to  hij  Senraijt,  &  jmrtictilarly 
ioqaired  of  him  what  care  had  been  taken  to  proride 
|*ood  Roles  for  hii  breakfjist  the  next  morning ;  8tep4 
into  Bed  with  lus  Waietcoat  on^  and  as  his  Servant  wa« 
pulling  it  off,  put  bia  hi^nd  to  hi«  side,  sauk  back,  and 
immediately  expired  without  a  Groan,  he  ate  a  f^ood 
Dinner  after  hia  itrriViil  ut  Pitt  Place  that  day»  took  an 
egg  for  his  i<uppcT,  and  did  not  seem  to  be  at  all  out  of 
Order,  except  that  while  be  wai  eating  hU  Soup  at  Din- 
ner he  had  a  ri^int;  in  his  Throaty  a  Thin^  wnicb  had 
often  bappend  to  hhn  before,  &  which  obliged  hiui  to 
■|iit  iomo  cf  it  out.  hia  Physician,  D'  Fothcrgill,  told 
me  Lord  Lyttelton  bad^  in  the  tummer  preceding,  a  bad 
pain  in  his  side :  Jc  be  jud>zed  that  some  fzreat  Veasel  in 
the  port  where  he  bad  fett  the  Pain  gave  way,  &  to  that^ 
he  cnnjecttired,  hi*  Death  wi*8  oweing.  His  DcclarHtion 
of  hia  Dream,  and  hia  Expreasumj  ubove  tnentinn*d, 
consequential  thereunto,  were,  upon  a  close  inquiry, 
averted  to  me  to  have  been  ro,  by  i\r»  Flood,  the  eldest 
Miss  Amphlctt,  Captain  Wo!*eley,  &  hi*  Valet  dc 
Cbaaibre  Faulkner,  who  di'c«ii*d  htm  on  the  Thursday, 
and  tbe  manner  of  hia  Death  was  related  to  me  by 
William  Stuckey,  in  tlie  preBcnco  of  M'  Fortetcue  and 
Captain  >VoIaeley,  Stuckey  being  lh«  S^nraut  who  at- 
tended him  in  hi§  Bed  Chamber,  and  iu  wboso  Arms  be 
died.  WtSTCOTK. 

"  Pcbraary  the  13'\  1780.'* 

In  the  above  dociiruentj  Lord  Lyttolton  accounts 
for  bis  dream,  find  Dn  Fothergiil,  to  a  certain 
exteot,  for  his  death ;  while  the  tish  and  venbon 
supper  diminislies  to  nn  e^fTj  and  we  fitid  three 
instead  of  tvvo  Miss  Ampblett^.  This  increase 
mny  bo  recoDcited  with  Mrs.  Delanyg  account  that 
Lord  LytteltoD,  on  the  Saturday,  took  down  with 
hijn,  from  London  to  Pitt  Place,  *' the  two 
miserable  pjirk  "  (he  had  carried  ofi'  both  from  their 
mother,  a  lady  of  whom  he  had  been  the  gueat,  and 
who  died  broken-hearted)  *^and  another  woman 
l)ebiiiging  to  Ids  society »"  Walpole  siiys  that  the 
noble  Lord's  comptinions  were  "  fouf  virginB  from 
the  Strand." 

But  here  ia  a  witness  ;  the  Mr,  Fortcacue  (after- 
wtudsf  Lord  Fortescue)  mentioned  hy  Lord  West- 
cot-e,  who  (through  hb  &on)  gives  a  difierent  com- 
plexion to  the  whole  atoiy,  and  who  knows  no- 
thing of  dream,  vision,  or  revelry.  The  following 
document  la  in  the  handwriting  of  Sarah»  the  late 
Dowager  Liidy  Lyttelton,  a  daughter  of  the  second 
Earl  Spencer  : — 

**  M'  George  Porteacue  called  upon  me  one  day  in  town, 
&  in  a  conversation  on  the  subject  of  an  article  in  the 
OuarUriy  (f )  R^viiv^  which  ascribes  the  authorahip  of 
Junius  to  Tbo'  L**  Ljttelton,  he  told  me,  that  he  bad 
often  heard  from  hii  Father  L''  Fortescue,  some  details 
of  the  death  of  ThoniaaL'*  Lyttelton,  which  muatbe  true, 
k  are  tuther  curious.  He  said  that  L'',  then  W,  For- 
tescue WW  IQ  London  on  the  morning  of ,  „  17  and  went  to 


see  L''  L,  bis  first  cousin,  who  was  then  ai»o  lit  toiruj 

had  on  the  day  t*eforc  made  a  fioc  speech  in  lli 

\/\     He  found  him  in  Ikd.   tho*  not  Ul; 

rallying  him  for  it,  L"  L.  said  :  *  well,  if  yn  \ 

little  in  the  next  room,  I  t?II1  get  up  .*:  / 

He  did  «o»  k  the  two  young  men   wr 

street*.      In  the  cour*c  of  the  valk: 

church  yard  of  S'  James's  Church;  aiid  L'  L,  j»o 

to  the  grarefitoneg,  raid :  '  novr  took  at  nil  tlie  Tatf 

fellows,  they  die  in  thetr  youth ;  at  five  II  Ihii 

YOU  k  I,  who  are  gentlemen,  <>hall  live  to  a  goodj 

The  walk  ended  by  their  getting  into  a  c-:ir 

driving  together  to  L*"  L.'b  house  at  Ki 

party  of  hia  friends.     They  dinod  cli 

ftion  wa9  moile  to  any  remarkiible  t- 

Evening,  h'^  Lyttelton  withdrew  ^3  In  lii 

M'  Fortescue,  who  so  far  from  hari  i 

curiosity  on  his  mind  respecting  I'-   -.  t 

the  fire  in  the  drawing  room  with  I  >  t     t  i  r*  iin:  fca^l 

and  dropped  asleep.     He  was  tol-vlI  by  L    Li  lei 

rushing  into  the  room  and  saying  *  My  Lord  U  (tjiV 

He  run  upstairs  and  foutid  that  alt  ^!)<f  over.     liJ^f 

vant  said  that  he  had  got  into  bed  >  ^  X 

usual  medicine,  a  dose  of  rhubarb.    Fi  \\ 

he  desired  the  servt.  to  mix  it  again. 

hand,  the  man  began  to  mix  it  with  a  tooth  pick  ila 

on  the  (able*     '  Dirty  fellow  ! '  «iid  L  *  L.,  *  ^a  dow 

fetL-h  a  fpoon/     H^?     '        ■         '  rtiing  to  I 

room  fourid  his  ma  baek  ot  tkl 

pillow,  &  in  tbe  Inst  rt  heofilj 

then,  nor  lorforno  duyij  lilter,  t*f  tbt?  dreaTxi  op 

diction  of  his  denth,  ^  htcb  Af  Fortefcue  i 

thertffore  wholly  to  diBbelieve. 

The  next  witness  relates  a  circnmstaBoe 
makes  of  the  dream  a  natural  • 
introducers  other  giiests  at  Pitt  FJ 
of  whom  we  have  already  heard,      hmj  ^ua 
document  wius  addressed   to   the  preaeall 
Lyttklton,  in  September,  1860,  by  Sir 
Neave  : — 

"In  18-28,  Mr,  Taylor  of  Worcestr     ^      '      .^  Eff 
who  was  then  above  eighty  years  of  if,  jl 

residing  at  Pit  PI  nee,  that  he  was  in 
during  the  year  177i*,  and  heard  parti 
and  death  of  Lord  Lyttelton  from 
visiting  at  Pit  Place  at  the  time  ot   i^oxn  l./ 
death. 

'*  Lord  Lyttelton  had  come  to  Pit  Place  in  »  ♦« 
carious  irate,  and  wa«  ordered  not  t 
(jcentlest  exercise.    Walking  in  the    ' 
Lady  Afflickand  two  Mi?^r    i«ii.t..    ,  j,    ^   ,  ..^^,5,^ 
an  orange  tree  close  to  t  1  L    aticmptaJ  i# 

catch  it;  but  foitiag, and  )>  lnt!>ythef 

said  he  would  catch  it  if  it  v. 
^cceeded  putting  himself  in  a ;;  1 
He  gHve  the  bird  to  Lady  Afliick. ,.  u  .  » ,1 
it  in  her  hand. 

*'  Lord  Lyttelton  became  fo  ill  n.r\t}  fcTcn=^h  tb^th^jn 
off  to  London  for  advice  to  a  hfn  hi\ 

di'lirium  he  in>agined  that  a  J  I  ttil 

ban  J  diawinj^  hif  curtain  told  b.i.. 

"  Dreams  being  the  QalamaUa  of  v 
needed  no  ghost  to  fix  such  an  inipr 
of  a  sick  man,  and  tbi?  mnj  bf  -  "  y j 

natural  agency  thus  far.    As  i 
moment  indicated  byan  Appariu 
the  Clock  by  hi«  friends— From  tbe   1 
companions  in  the  house  at  the  time 
the  Italian  Painter,  his  informant,  Mr,   J  Viji  r  r  iriJ 
fied  as  to  its  being  a  fable  invented  to  nijBlUy  iW } 


5»  8.  IL  Xov.  21, 7*.] 


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«i  tlie  Achial  etrcamsi&aec§  Attending  hia  death  wer«  bs 
folio  vn  ;— 

•*  Btuig  in  bed  cppo«itc  a  cLimnej  pjece  with  a  Mirror 

lie  defitred  a  v&let  to  give  him  some  Medicine 

*  on  the  chimney  piece,     Skeing  htm  mixing 

..  •  .M^h  Rruiih,  LorJ  Lyttelton  raised  himself  up 

Ik  r  I'Ut  he  wns  eo  weak  that  hii  hea<l  sunk 

fbel'  w  on  to  h is  chest,  &  he  gapped  for  hreuth. 

Hi*  V  ih.t.  in  tiad  of  relieving  him,  in  bi§  fright  left  the 

roQlo,  And  death  cnfued  before  assistance  oouhi  be  given. 

**  DiOUy    ^'BAVE. 

•*  Mr»  Ti»ylf»r  of  Worcester  Park  told  me  the  imnjes  of 
the  party  in  (ho  houee.  I  only  recollect  that  M'  Michuel 
Anjfrlj  Taylor  wai  one  of  them.  He  named  that  L**  L- 
bai  become  poiMtKtt  of  Pit  Place  in  payment  of  a  debt 
of  bofigr/' 

In  the  above  letter  the  dreani  is  removed  from 
Hin  ^*-  •  '0  Bruton  Street.  The  Rev.  Bouchier 
W  in  his  Ajypdriiioirs^  a  Narrative  of 

Ffi''%  .*-.-r .  v.^  tbnt  the  wamiog  lady  of  the  dream 
WA«  Mra.  Amphk'tt  heraell  fie  reports  the  con- 
TcinntioQ  na  m  Lord  Weatcote's  record  ;  bat  in  that 
Ijiren  in  Nru«h'si  irorcfMershirCj  it  ia  sitid  that  Lord 
Lyttelton  vainly  tried  to  address  the  figure.  Mr* 
SAvilts  then  refers  to  »  written  aocount  of  wbut 
took  phwe  in  the  house  on  that  fatal  night,  by 
Mr.  Kus«eU|  organ  is  t  from  Guildford  More  of 
thi«  geotleinan,  and  of  the  singular  character  of 
hi«  testimony,  will  be  found  in  the  next  document, 
which  ia  in  the  handwriting  of  Mary  Austen 
Leigh;  — 

•'  AccotKT  OF  TUB  2''  L'  Ltttblton*9  Dkatu. 

**  It  ii  welt  known   that  the  2*'  L'  Ljtt«lton  had  a 

^resm.  ur  aaw  an  apparitiun  of  a  lady  who  warned  him 

^'    -  1        '  '  erfcnin  night  at  12  o'clock.     A  party 

•  '■y  a^embled  in  the  evening  to  cheer 

V  in  the  houee  wiis  secretly  put  on 

h^  ;  when  12  o'clock  apparently  arrtired, 

mud  still  alive,  the  prediction  appeared 

to  h  I. 

count  waa  fiiven  by  Mr.  Russel,  a 
mti  iunt,  Mr*.  B.  Lefroy,  who  wrote  it 

dov.  :—'  L''  Lytteltou  occJisionally  resided  at 

ft  I  i.ar  Ep*om,  where  Mr.  llu-sissel  wm  in  the 

Kaf  ling  him,  and  performing  for  his  amuje- 

mcr  :  receired  a  eumojons  for  one  particular 

€»tr  ;.u3»cl  rode  to  EoiftTO,  and,  putting  up  his 

horiC  iti  a  I  law  ihcrc,  walked  to  L''  Lyttelttm  «  house, 
Ou    en  t  ring   the   courtyart!   he  was   itruck  with   the 
f.M.LU  t   ..r  --4r.i  .^-a  >vhich  filled  it.    C'n  reaching  the 
t-id  to  an  apartment  in  which  wai  a 

.  rii   scrred  as  an  anteroom   io  the 

'     j;  doorji  between  the  two  apart' 
Lrid  as  he  sat  at  the  PiaTiorori«, 
-      J  .  J  thfct  the  drawiTigroom  con- 

risillifd  a  hir^G  party*  almost  entirely  con^igting  (»f  gen- 
P  tlem*T>.     Mr.    Rn"M?l   h«id  not  plaved  long  when  he  wa»i 


:y    I  he   jjljojii   ufl«r    JiU  ,    there   will    be 

'kit,  t  fancy/  and   other  wordfl   to  ihnt 

"  '    !  '     1/  Lyttelton  cime  from  th« 

to  Mr,   Ruttel  for  the  in* 

.1.^  ij  \>y  al!  thU  nolfie*  adding 

at  depression 

n  asembled 

^iMipatin^  bb 


melancholy.  Many  times  during  the  course  of  the 
evening  these  shout*  and  exdamutions  w  -re  heard. 

'*  Mr.  Rufiicl  w»s  at  last  gireo  to  understand  that  he 
might  finish.  L''  Lyttekou  came  to  him,  and,  having 
paid  htm  handsomely  for  his  perform:mce»  desired  him 
to  take  hii  supper  in  the  house.  This  Mr.  Kussol 
declined,  but  said  tbat,  with  his  Lordship's  JcaTe,  be 
would  take  a  gJaaa  of  wine,  and  for  this  purpose  he 
w^  step  into  the  bullcr'fl  pantry  as  he  went  out  He  did 
sOj  and  while  drinkini;  tlie  vvine»  L'*  Lyttelton  came  into 
the  pantry,  and  sc  ft  tin  jj  himself  on  the  platecbest,  com* 
plained  to  the  butler  of  feelin;;  very  unweN^  snd  in  great 
ptiin*  The  butler  proposed  mixing  him  a  gUe^of  brnndy 
and  rhubnrb,  and  L^  Lyttelton  agreeing  to  it,  Mr.  Russel 
wished  hh  Lordship  a  good  night^and  took  learo  of  hioi. 
On  bia  way  through  the  offic*s»  one  of  the  gardeners 
whom  ho  happened  to  meet  lighted  hira  out,  and  was 
miikint;  some  observation  to  him  on  the  uproar  which 
had  been  so  often  heard  during  the  evening,  wheui  just 
as  they  reached  the  outer  door,  a  moat  dreadful  scream 
was  heard  from  the  interior  of  the  house.  *  And  this,' 
said  the  gardener^  'is  worse  tban  nil  the  rest.' 

"Mr.  Rufisel  wished  him  good  night. and  stopping  only 
a  few  minutes  at  a  lady's  house  in  Epsom  to  delirer  a 
mcsioge,  proceeded  to  the  Inn  where  he  had  left  his 
horde.  Just  as  hn  reached  the  Inn  door,  be  hoard  some 
one  exclaiming  '  I  roust  haye  a  horw  to  ride  to  London 
immediatcty,  for  my  Lord  is  dead/  On  looking  at  the 
person  who  Hpoke^  Mr.  Rua«el  perceived  ii  to  be  the 
gardener  who  liad  lighted  htm  >.ut  of  the  house.  lie  now 
informed  liim  that  J/  Lyttelton  liad  fallen  oET  the  plate- 
chest  speechless,  anddleaas  he  was  being  carried  upstairs. 
"Maut  a.  Avstkn  Leigh." 

Mr.  Savile  quotes  Mr.  RuaselFa  "  Narrative  "  to 
a  quite  dilierent  elfecfc.  Lord  Lyttel ton's  valet,  he 
saye,  "  came  down  to  fetch  some  mint  water .  . . 
leaving  his  Lordship  alone.  At  that  moment  the 
clock  of  the  Pitrisb  Church,  which  of  course  had  not 
been  tampered  with,  began  slowly  to  strike  the  true 
midnight  hour.  The  valet  returned  to  hia  niaater 
and  called  out  loudly,  the  company  ran  upstairs 
and  found  his  Lordship  had  fidleu  dead.'* 

It  ia  quite  impossible  to  reconcile  Mr.  Hussell's 
account  with  that  of  Mr.  (afterwards  Lird)  For- 
tescue.  They  differ  "point  blank"  in  eveiything, 
except  that  Lord  Lyttelton  really  died  on  that 
night.  But  he  ia  satd  to  have  done  something 
more.  What  that  is  supposed  to  have  been  ia  told 
in  the  following  paper,  which  has  been  in  print 
before,  but  which  k  well  worth  being  printed 
again  : — 
"AcoouKT  or  Loup  Ltttklton's  ArpiARANCE  to  3{it. 

iilL^   PfcTKa  AKDJIBWS,   jroHMKBLT 
M.P.   FOH    BfiWPLKT. 

(Extracted  from  Mr  Plumer  Ward's  Illuttrathn^  o/ 
Unman  L>ju  vol.  L  p.  165.) 

*'  I  had  oftem  heard  much,  and  read  much,  of  Lord 
Lyttcl  ton's  seeing  a  ghost  before  his  Death,  and  of  bim- 
iclf,  as  a  Ghost,  appearing  to  Mr.  Andrevrs;  and  one 
erehini|;,  sitting  next  to  that  Gentleman,  during  a  panto 
in  the  Dclnites  of  the  House  of  Commons,,  I  ventured  to 
Rfik  him  whether  there  was  any,  and  what  truth,  in  the 
detailed  story  so  confidently  related.  Mr.  Andrews,  as 
perhaps  I  ought  to  have  expected,  did  not  much  tlko 
Ibe  cimversation ;  he  looked  grave  and  uneasy,  and  I 
Diked  pardon  for  my  impertinent  curitmt'j\v^\Sf«ittO&S» 
he  very  go^  i»bW¥«d!L3  «b;v^,  ^W^^i^^i^Vi^^Vvnx 


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[5^^  8.  II.  Kw,  21, 74 


fond  of,  and  leiut  of  idl  in  such  h  plncc  as  thla ;  but  if 
you  will  come  and  tltnc  with  me  I  vfUl  tell  y<*u  i*ii&t  \a 
irxkc,  ftnd  wbttt  is  false/  I  gUdly  accepted  tbe  proposal, 
Btid  I  think  iny  recollection  is  perfect  us  to  tbe  following 
narrative : — 

*'  Mr.  Andrews,  in  his  youth,  was  tbe  boon  companion, 
f  .not  to  say  feltow  rake,  <if  Lord  Lytielton,  wlio,  aa  is  well 
Jmoiirn,  WAS  a  man  djBtingui»hfrd  fur  abilities,  but  also 
for  ft  profligacy  of  moral*,  which  few  could  equal.  With 
all  this  be  was  remarkable  for  what  n>ay  be  called  un- 
usual cowardice  in  one  so  determinedly  wicked.  He 
De?er  rt-pented,  yet  could  never  stifle  his  conscience. 
He  never  would  kltow,  yet  never  could  deny„  a  world  to 
come;  and  ho  contemplated,  with  unceneing  terror, 
what  would  probably  be  bis  own  state  in  such  a  world, 
if  there  was  one.  Ho  was  always  melancholy  with  fear, 
or  mad  in  defiance ;  and  probatjly  his  princiial  uiiserv 
here  was,  that  with  uH  his  endeaTours  he  ntvcr  could 
extingiibh  tbe  dread  of  an  her«-ufter. 

"Be  once  came  down  to  breakfitst  pale  with  tie  agony 
be  bad  suflrered  in  a  Dream,  which  ut  fir^t  he  would  not 
reveal.  It  turned  out  that  for  his  sins  he  thought  he 
was  enclofed  in  a  glube  of  iron,  of  the  dimeniions  of  tlic 
£artb,  heated  red  hot.  At  that  time  all  the  world  were 
execrating  Mrs.  Brownrigg,  \\  bo  wa^  lianged  for  whippiudt 
one  of  her  apprentices,  a  little  cirl,  to  dcnth.  Lota  Lyt- 
leltOQ  hud  tlio  greatest  hatred  to  her  very  name  ;  and  to 
I  Aggravate  hi^  puni-hmont,  he  thought  tbis  wretch  was 
ennclosed  with  bim  in  the  globe  of  hut  iron— an  imagi- 
nation Fo  string  could  not  but  be  active,  inouiriug,  rest- 
less—uU  vkhiih,  added  to  his  fears,  made  him  ba,rp  in- 
coasunlly  on  (he  question  of  a  future  life.  Qe  u«cd  often 
to  diieusa  it  wiih  bin  friend  Andrewip,  to  whom  he  at 
lait  sftM,  *  Well  !  if  I  die  first,  and  am  allowed,  I  will 
come  and  infurm  you/  Tbis  was  but  a  little  before  his 
death.  That  death  was  attended  with  so  many  mys- 
terious reports  of  gbosts,  wuruingST  and  prophecies, 
most  of  them  such  entire  inrcntions,  that  1  shall  imt 
trouble  tbe  company  with  them,  but  hasten  to  Mr. 
Andrews't  part  of  tbe  story, 

**  •  But*  (said  one  of  the  ladies)  *  whtn  you  say  "  mott 
of  tkem/^  do  you  mean  that  anyone  was  well  founded  1 ' 

"  I  can  only  tell,  and  indeed  undertake  no  more  (re- 
plied Mr,  St.  Lawrence),  what  1  learnt  from  Mr.  Andrews 
himself,  who,  I  feel  sur^,  is  good  authority.  It  tjr  true 
that  tbe  night  before  Lord  Lyttelton  died,  a  flutteriui? 
of  a  Bird  was  heard,  and  perhaps  a  Bird  seen  on  tbo 
window  curtains.  It  is  not  true  that  Mrs.  Humphreys, 
or  any  other  departed  hndy  whom  he  had  s^-duced^  ap- 
peared and  warned  bim  of  bis  end.  It  w  true  that  he 
Jiimself  thought  he  wai  lo  die  at  a  giTeo  hour,  and  the 
clock  was  put  on,  in  order  to  deceive  bim  into  comfort. 
It  ii  alM  true  that  he  wai  found  dead  with  hi£  watch  in 
his  band,  at  but  a  few  mintttf^:^  ufter  the  time  he  men- 
tioned as  bia  lost.  But  it  is  ei|iially  true,  that  upon  any 
great  a;;itation,  he  was  subject  to  a  swelling  of  the 
throat  which,  without  immediate  aasistance,  might  kill 
bim  by  strangulation.  However,  the  coiucid'^nce  of 
event  with  prophecy  was  at  any  rate  most  remarkable.** 

"  Andrews  was  at  his  house  at  Dartford  when  Lord 
Lyttelton  died  at  Pitt  Place,  Epsom,  thirty  miles  off. 
Andrews's  house  was  full  of  company,  and  he  eipectcd 
l*ord  Lvttelton,  whom  he  had  left  in  his  n*«UHl  ♦^tate  of 
health,  to  join  r!  '  V        '  '  '  '  ;    ' 

Androws  hiiii$:cl 
day  Evening,  rt  t 

L^'igOU,     one    of    hlti    g:Ut!»t«',     tu    do    tllc     hiutHUlii    oC    tl(0 

fapper  table.    He  admitted  th^t  when  in  bed  he  full 
1  Into  a  feverish  f^!     -    ^    -  '     '  '    tivcen  eleven  aj.d 

^iwelrebj  somtl  ■«.     It  wa-^  Lord 


rccogniied'    He  also  plainly  i^ke  to  ItSsn*  vayia|^  *y 

was  come  to  tell  him  alt  v^at  orcf  / 

"Tbe  «orld  said  he  informed  bim  Utal  then  vti 
unither  state,  and  bade  bim  repent,  kC-»  ke.  Ttak 
was  not  so,  and  I  confine  myself  to  the  cmAOt  mvirk  tf 
tbis  relation  :— 

"  ?Jow  it  »cc) 
play,  or  what  v 

having  often  Di.....  ^.^ —     -  . 

had  threatened  him  nith  manual  cbj 

time  it  occurred.    On  the  prcwnt 

this  annoyance  renewed,  be  ti 

could  find,  wliich  were  his  sUpi 

head.    The  figure  retreated  tov    • 

tt'AicA  had  no  ingtiit  <ir  *grm,  «xc' / 

chnmhcr  ;  and  Andrews,  very  an^y,  t 

follow   it  into   tlie  T 

Surprised,  he  return 

searched.    Tbe  Door 

Loid  Lyttelton  was  to  be  found.    He  wt»iii(Wii 

not  alarmed,  eo  oonTinccd  was  he  thftt  it  %« 

of  Lord  Lyttelton,  who,  be  Buppo?ed,  had  arri 

ing  to  his  engi»gemtnt,  but  after   he.  Ami 

retired.     He  therefore  rang  for  h'u  ^errant,  a 

Lord  Lyttelton  was  not  come.      Tbe  mmut  iiid«  He 

'  You  may  depend  upon  it,'  replied  he.  otit  of  liuBisis,. 

'lie  is  Bome>\bere  in  tbe  bouse, for  he  wa*  bere  * 

and  is  plaving  Eome  trick/    But  how  be  oould 

into  the  bed- room,  with  the  Door  locked,  ^ 

master  and  man.     Conrinccd,  howerer*  ibmi 

somewhrre  in  the  bonse,  Andrews,  iir  bis  tkXip^tn 

that  no  bed  should  be  given  him,  uiyi'  '  ^- 

an  Inn,  or  sleep  in  the  stables.    Be  ^ 

never  appeared  again,  and  Andrewi  % 

*•  It  happened  that  Mrs,  Pigou  v sla  tci  -u  to 
early  tbe  next  morning.    What  was  b<r  uitoui^li 
having  heard  the  disturbance  of  ihf*  " 
hear  oq  her  arrival,  about    nine    - 
Lyttelton  had  died  the  Ttry  night  \: 
hare  been  seen  !    She  immedia' 
Dartford  with  the  news:    up* 
Andrews,  quite  well,  and  remu.. 
that  had  passed «  swooned  awav.     ily  i 

etand  it,  but  it  i»ftd  k  mo*t  rerlous  ti 
that,  to  use  hi  icssion,  'he  was  u<-a 

man  again  for 

*' Such  is  tbir  _. :     .     -  i  Etory,  striptof  it^?  ai-nntuti 
and  exag(:;eratious ;  and  for  one  I  own,  if  i 
that    this   was  a  real    nie*««j?A  fmm    Tl 
certainly  1  am  not,  I  at  h  :        '  '   V 
deuce  was  seen  in  it ;  woi ' 
you  please,  and  therefore       ^ 
{though  that,  after  all,  is  tin  m  mn  bat 

Providence  in  a  character  not  t'  mi." 

It  is  to  be  obaened  wilL 
Peter  Andrewa^  tbat  bis  cor 
panion,  Reynolds,  the  drsiiuiUi^t^  wuh  with 
years,  and  never  heart!  from  him  a  voi 
phost  stor>%   till    after  it   had    t 
Keynolds  by  another  boon   con  15 
Subsequently,  we  arc  fobl,    fle\ 
confirmed  by  the  party  KimiJelf," 
the  way,  states,  in  a  note  to  b^^  ^ 
tbat  Lord  Lyttelton  died  in 
Andrews  repeat  tbe  circums; 
A   reference  to  the  X. 
how  readily  Andrews  ji 
liiui  ihe  hero  of  stories?  in  v 
I  ^rAva  qC  truth.    According  t  > 


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405 


tta  FlUFiftCe,lotheH. 


u._.n.  .T.  ...1.^  Lord 
•nition 
..j_^  viMiiiaiinica- 
)>y  the  venerable 
who  was  present 
tti*Uon  :— 

*•  Sep.  4, 1874. 

*'  Hj  fiiber  attached  no  credit  to  the  Ljttelton  Ghoet 
jStorr. 

I  '♦  He  tdd  me  once  that  he  \xna  at  Pitt  Place  at  the 
I  tinte  that  Lord  Lyttclton  died  there ;  that  tho'  in  weak 
^  hcalCb,  Ijord  L.  wa«  in  good  ppirit*,  friviog  certainly  no 
dftitce  of  hia  haTiDji;;  rect^ivn  !  lonition  of  an 

"f  denjiw  ;  and  thnt,  on  the  5  -  death,  there 

ftj  far  it«  he  knew  or   iieai  ^  iItingn9Bs  on 

liflfd  L.*n  part  to  retire  to  bed,  ai  d  no  putting  forward  of 

(l»e  clock  ;   and  that  it  wna  not  till  Bcmc  time  after  the 

-■'-   '':rit  he  Itcard  of  the  fetnale  apparition  having 

I  to  liim  (Lr-rd  L.)  Hie  dav  and  hour  of  hii 

'•-c.    My  Father,  I  thSuk,  to'ld  me   that   Milea 

r*Uf  Andrews  and  anotHer  K^ntlenian,  whose  name  I 

have  forsotteo,  wore  gUfBts  with  him  at  Pitt  Ptace  at 

tJie  time,  O.  M.  Fojitebctjr." 

In  varioiia  printed  accounts  it  h  stated  thiU 
Andrews  wna  jit  Pitt  Phice,  in  the  course  of  the 
dnv,  btJt  left,  before  ni^'ht,  for  Dartford,  thirty 
mutH  oiT,  Mr.  Savile  rclntcs^  in  hia  y^arrath'e  of 
Ftidf,  thai  **  the  party  at  Pitt  Phice  were  addition- 
Ally  lunnfi.J  }iv  receiving  intelligenee  on  the 
fol!  _   thttt  the  mother  of  the  Mi«9 

Aii'^  jiired  in  Wnj-wickshire, unknowTi 

to  toeno,  at  the  very  time  when  she  appeared  to 
Lord  LytteUon,  on  theThiirsduy  ni^ht,  and  warned 
him  of  h'lH  coraing  doom*'*  Bat  only  two  pages 
h^oT  (v.  l^ci\  Mr,  Savile  s^iy?  that  Mrs.  Cameron 
'"iVi  married  dnngh tor)  declared  thfit 
1  -'.  Flood  tell  the  story  of  the  ghost 
Andrews  d)  her  mother  !  The  readers 
will  probably  think  that  the  witness 
t  reliance  can  be  plnced  \h  Mr.  For- 
at  the  really  remarkable  fact  is  that 
!  which  Lord  Lyttelton  made  to 
yard,  as  to  vulgar  fellows  dying 
-  I  tie  age  at  whi<  h  the  peer  died  that 
Perhiips  our  readers  will  alfiO  think  it 
'  >*  tlie  three  Mi5;s  AmpHetts,  who 
\  ttelton,  found  very  satisfactory 
. .     i^i  their  antecedents.  Ed. 


:^'- 


ArAA^ 


BflAKSPEARIAXA. 
T»«  HjtaxftS8  8n AKspEARR  Prize  Essat. — 
Tin    '      '       T>^cribed  for  foiinilinj^'  a  memo  rial  of 

till  Mr.  Hiirne^R  amcunteii  to  5<M)^     It 

.    .  .        ,      .^   ■  ^f 

itsi  for 

..iMcof  the 

\jr\    thi*   winner,      Mr   i\, 
,         <  V.n     f^n.l  \  ''.-  \hr  author 


of  the  first  prize  esRaj.  The  subject  was  "  On  the 
Authorship  of  the  1st,  2nd  and  3rd  Parts  of  Iltnry 
VL,  commonly  attributed  to  Shakspeare."  The 
es?tny  is  very  creditable  to  the  critictd  ability  of 
the  writer^  whose  conclusion  is  that  Sbakspeore 
iiuprctved  earlier  works  in  which  he  had  been  en- 
gni^'ed  with  Greene  and  Marlowe,  but  that  he  «tiil 
left  the  various  parts  of  Henry  FT,  not  wholly 
Shakspeare^a.  In  judging  between  Greeners  style 
and  Soakapeare^Sf  Mr,  Eives  detects  Greene  in 
passagei  auch  as  "  for  to  revenge**  **  for  to  yield/* 
a  form  of  phraae  to  which  Greene  was  much  ad- 
dicted. Mr,  Riyes  ndds  that  there  ifl  but  "a 
single  authentic  instance"  of  the  use  of  such  a 
form  in  Shakspeare,  nanjely,  "  Forbid  the  sea  for 
to  obey  the  moon"  (IVinUr^s  TaU,  i.  2),  But 
this  is  not  correct.  The  King,  in  HctmUt,  says  ; — 
**  There's  iomcthin^  in  his  ioul, 

O'er  which  hia  mehmcboly  sits  on  brood; 

And  I  do  doubt  the  hatch  and  the  disclose 

Will  he  iome  danger ;  which,  for  to  preventi 

I  have  in  quick  detenuination 

Thua  set  it  down.'* 

If  other  examples  are  known,  "  N.  &  Q."  will 
readily  make  record  of  them.  Ed. 

"  Tempest/^  Acrr  H^  Sc.  1  (5«»  S.  ii.  64.)— 
Burely  "  Den  "  ia  right : — 

"  Speluncam  Dido  dux  et  Trojanut  eamdem 
Ikreniuat." 

^mid,  Lib,  ir. 

The  Virgilian  episode  was  a  favourite  with  Ixith 
paintf  rs  and  poets  of  the  sixteenth  and  seven t^entli 
centuries,  and  no  doubt  there  was  many  a  "Den" 
or  **  Spelunctt/*  in  ProBpero*s  Isle* 

W.  J.  Beoeabd  Shith, 

Temple. 

Shakspeahe's  Name{5^  S,iL2.) — Fewtarspeare 
is  doubtless  a  local  sumfime,  derived  from  the 
name  FdUr  or  Fewtrrtr,  The  laat  syllable  is  pro- 
bably from  the  Saxon  hurh^  dative  byri^,  whicn  is 
liable  to  corrupt  to  hurtj,  httr^  btrfjpeer^  per^  |>«*r, 
peare  (conf.  the  surnamea  Conibeare,  Shcbbeare), 
The  most  reasonable  derivation  of  **  Shakspeare  " 
is  that  from  Jacqufjt  Pirrr^ ;  but  the  name  would 
also  corrupt  from  Schtfchs-hurh.  The  German  Btur- 
name  Schach  would  seem  to  be  a  corruption  of 
Isaac,  Conf.  Sach,  Sacchi,  from  Isaac  ;  Sachs, 
SttXj  from  Isaacs.  I  suppose  we  may  now  expect 
a  new  pamphlet,  **Wa3  the  divine  Williams  of 
Jewish  descent 'M  R.  S.  Charlock. 

Oray't  Inn. 

Thomas  W.vL?=^f  ■         '*  -'    -^-"^When 

Edward  I.  was  :i  f  Sicily, 

with  whom  he  bun  mm*  .-u  <ii^  j^umu  from  the 
Holy  Liin<K  why  lio  to«»k  more  to  heart  the  death 
of  hi^  father  than  that  of  his  *on,  his  luiswcr  wai, 
Jicconling  to  old  Thomas  WiJsinglmm, — 


40G 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l5*g.II.KoT.21,7l. 


quotidie  muUiplicentur ;  Parentum  vero  mors  irrcmcdi- 
abilis  est,  quia  nequeuut  restaurari." 

Sophocles  makes  Antigone  say  very  much  the 
same : — 

TTocrts  fJL€V  ttv  uoi,  KarOavovTO^y  oA A09  tJi', 
KOL  irais  OLTT  aAAov  </>a>To9,  ci  rods'  rjinrkaKov' 
/lyjTpos  8"  €v*^A8ov  Kol  Trarpos  K€K€vo6ti,Vj 

OVK  COT*  d8€k<l>0S  OOTIS  aV  jSAaCTTOt  TTOTC 

Each  agrees  that  the  loss  of  a  child  is  preferable, 
under  circumstances,  to  the  loss  of  a  father  or  a 
brother.  Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Dbvonshirk  Bats. — I  do  not  think  it  has  ever 
been  noticed  in  print,  that  the  Devonshire  bays 
appear  to  have  been  named  in  a  series,  viz.,  Chap- 
combe,  Maiden-comhe,  Xm-combe,  What-comhe, 
i^oftW-combe.  This  can  hardly  be  an  accidental 
coincidence.  E.  H.  J. 

"Oatb." — I  lately  heard  in  Derbyshire,  near 
Dovedale,  this  word  used  to  describe  a  right  to 
turn  out  one  cow,  or  four  sheep,  on  a  jxisture  com- 
mon to  several  proprietors. 

A  landowner's  pheasants,  when  shot  at,  flew 
across  the  river  into  a  thicket  of  bramble  and 
thorn  buslies  not  on  his  property.  In  order  to 
pursue  them,  he  purchased  "  a  gate  "  of  one  of  the 
joint-owners  of  the  land.        Georqe  R.  Jesse. 

Curious  EriTAPiis. — In  Swansea  churchyard : — 
"  The  body  underneath  this  stone  is 
Of  my  late  husband,  Jacob  Jonas, 
Who,  when  alive,  was  an  Adonis. 

Ah  !  wella-day ! 
O  death  !  thou  spoiler  of  fair  faces, 
Why  took'st  thou  him  from  my  embraces  1 
How  could'st  thou  mar  so  many  graces  1 
Say,  tyrant,  say." 
At  Northallerton  :  — 
"  Uicjacftf  Walter  Gunn. 
Sometime  landlord  of  tlic  Sun — 
S'C  tran9it  gloria  mundi  f 
Ue  drank  hard  upon  Friday, 
That  hein^  a  high  diy. 
Then  took  to  his  bed,  and  died  upon  Sunday."' 

In  the  churchyard  of  Hythe  : — 
"  His  net  old  fisher  George  long  drew, 
Shoals  upon  shoals  he  caught. 
Till  Death  came  hauling  for  his  due, 
And  made  poor  George  his  draught. 
Death  fishes  on  through  various  shapes. 
In  vain  it  is  to  fret ; 
Nor  fish  nor  fisherman  escapes 
Death's  all-enclosing  net." 

Fredk.  Rule. 

Old  Novels. — Do  any  of  our  friends  remember 
The  Vagabond^  a  novel  by  George  Walker  \  I  read 
it  at  school  about  fifty  years  ago.  It  was  a  large 
unbound  volume,  like  an  overgrown  pamphlet. 
The  heroes  were  Dr.  Alogos  and  Stupeo. 

There  was  another  novel,  in  two  volumes. 
Modern  FhUosopherSf  by  Miss  Eliza  Hamilton. 
/  read  this  some  years  later.    Two  of  the  Yietovxiea 


were  Miss  Bridgetina  Botherem,  who  always  aoa^t 
for  Creneral  Utility,  and  the  Citizen  (Goddess,  who 
had  appeared  on  the  altar  of  Notre  Dame  as  the 
Goddess  of  Reason. 

I  think  a  reprint  of  these  bo<^  might  prove  a 
valuable  speculation.  When  I  read  Prod  Tyndall's 
speech  at  Belfast,  I  tried  to  recollect  some  points 
which  were  not  new  to  me,  and  I  traced  them  to 
my  memory  of  The  Vagabond,  The  whole  tbeoir 
of  the  origin  of  the  world  is  there  disconed. 
Modern  Philosophers  is  a  light  and  amusing  stoiy. 

H. 

CniMNEY-CLEANER  (SwBSP).'— In  the  procrm 
of  society  not  only  climbing-boys  hare  been 
abolished,  but  the  ancient  name  of  sweep  is  to  be 
swept  away. ,  At  the  West  End,  on  a  barrow  begilt 
and  decorated  with  the  lion  and  unicorn,  I  saw,  in 
golden  type,  "Chimney-Cleaner"  inscribed  over 
the  soot  bags.  H.  C. 

[There  ivus  lately  a  Ramoneur-Company ;  and  a  few 
years  ago  there  was,  in  Chester,  "  Augustas  Canv, 
Chimney-sweeper.  '*] 

Parliamentary  "  Fathers." — Perhaps  it  may 
be  interesting  to  note  the  coincidence  that  tl^ 
two  Houses  of  Parliament  lost  their  "  fathers  "  (in 
respect  of  membership,  and  not  in  age)  on  the  same 
day,  Saturday,  October  lOth,  1874  :  the  Hoose 
of  Lords  by  the  death  of  the  Duke  of  Leinster,  who 
had  been  entitled  to  sit  since  his  majority  in  the 
year  1812,  t.e.  for  62  years  ;  the  House  of  Com- 
mons by  the  accession  of  General  Forester  to  the 
Peerage  after  sitting  uninterruptedly  for  Weulock 
since  the  year  1828. 

They  are  succeeded  in  their  paternal  honours  by 
Lord  Gage,  who  has  been  entitled  to  a  seat  for  bat 
a  few  months  less  than  the  Duke  of  Leinster,  and 
by  Mr.  Talbot,  who  has  sat  without  intemiption 
for  Ghimorganshire  since  the  year  1830. 

Although  the  Duke  of  Leinster  was  "  father"  of 
the  House  of  Lords  as  a  House,  yet  he  had  not 
been  a  Peer  for  so  long  a  period  as  the  Marquis 
of  Tweeddale,  who,  however,  was  not  entitled  to  a 
scat  on  his  attaining  his  majority  ;  and  he  and  the 
Earl  of  Clanwilliam  stand  in  the  same  relation 
with  regard  to  Lord  Gage. 

Mr.  Gladstone  bids  fiiir  to  become  the  "  father" 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  as,  with  the  exception 
of  Mr.  Talbot,  there  is  but  one  member.  Lord 
Ernest  Bruce,  who  can  count  a  longer  ser^'ice. 

R.  Passinghasi. 

St.  James's  Chapel,  York  Street,  St. 
James's  Square,  London. — In  a  recent  paragniph 
in  the  Continental  Herald  and  Siuiss  Times  it  was 
stated  that  this  "  ugly  ecclesia^ticM  edifice  "  would 
have  to  come  down.  The  history  of  this  chapel 
is  as  follows.  It  was  built  for  a  congregation  of 
Calvinistic  Baptists.  It  was  next  a  New  Jemsalem, 
\  ox  ^"vi^^^uV^T^gAXL  Churchy  and  for  some  jeus  had 


5*ail.  Not,  21,7*.] 


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407 


I 


a  crowded  congregation  to  hear  the  late  Rev.  J. 
Proud,  one  of  the  most  eloquent  men  that  ever 
occupied  a  pulpit.  At  Mr.  Proud's  death  it  be- 
czitue  ftgiiin  a  Baptist  chapel.  It  next  passed  into 
the  hands  of  the  Unitarians.  Od  their  leaving  it, 
it  was  made  a  chapel  of  ease  to  St.  James* s  Churchy 
and  has  reniained  such  to  the  present  date.  Aa  to 
**  ecclesiastical "  architectuxe,  it  has.  none  ;  the  ex- 
terior is  exactly  after  the  model  of  old  Dissenting 
mecting-houBe?.  But  the  interior  is  neat  and  even 
elegant,  and  much  superior  to  many  of  the  pro- 
prietary chapels  at  the  west-end  of  the  metropolLs. 
A  work  on  Dissenting  Chapels  (Old  and  Modern) 
wns  announced  some  years  ago,  but  it  has  never 
appeared.  James  Henry  Dixon. 

CitACcER  Notes. — "  In  motteleye.'*  Prologue^ 
271.  Neither  Mr.  Morris  in  the  Clarendon  Prefix 
edition,  nor  Tyrwhitt  gives  a  note  on  these  words  ; 
but  do  they  not  refer  to  the  Fumptuary  laws  of 
the  period,  which  forbad  any  but  nobles  wearing 
clothca  of  one  colour  throughout  ? 

•*  ToUen  thriea."  Prologue,  5C2.  Where  there 
woM  a  mill  there  wais  genendly  a  bridge,  over  which 
the  owner  of  the  mill  had  the  right  of  levying  toll. 
These  words,  then,  may  either  refer  to  this  custom^ 
still  kept  up  in  »ome  parts  of  England,  or  to  the 
fee '(**  panage  "),  which  was  p.aid  to  the  miller  by 
those  whose  com  he  ground.  Chaucer  represents 
his  "  mellere '*  as  "  Ht<*Ung  corn,"  and  levying  one 
or  both  of  these  tolls,  **  thries."  H.  'C.  D. 

WldtehaTcn.     

<9urrif#. 

pfe  mmt  requett  eorre^pondenta  desiring  iuformation 
i  oa  family  maitein  of  otily  pritfttc  interest,  to  affix  their 
fisoet  tod  addresses  to  their  «|aeries,  in  order  that  the 
anfwen  may  be  addresied  to  them  direct.] 


Pattt  Moon's  Walk. — Near  Tunbridgc  Wells 
I  there  i.s  a  dark  winding  lane,  called  "  Patty  Moon's 
[  Walk/'  While  in  that  neighbourhood,  a  week  or 
two  ago,  we  made  strenuous  and  oft  en- repeated 
kcflurts  to  find  out  from  the  tradespeople,  from  otir 
tlandlurd,  from  eyerybody  we  had  access  to,  some- 
I  thing  about  the  Patty  Moon  after  whom  this  walk 
[must  have  been  named  j  but  all  to  no  purpose. 
I  Nobody  knew.  One  man,  indeed,  informed  us, 
[w^ith  a  lofty  smile  at  our  ignorance,  that  **  the  lane 
ihad  always  been  called  so " ;  but,  as  we  pointed 
luul,  there  is  no  corrobonition  of  such  a  statement 
I  in  the  Book  of  Geneuiis.  Our  mind  has  ever  since 
Wen  haunted  with  thoughts  and  guesses  about 
[Patty*  Waij  i^he  the  vilLtge  idiot  in  by-gone  days,  or 
or  unha[»py  Patty,  who  chose  this  crooked 
^jeciude<l  laue  in  which  to  indulge  her  dark 
unu.  JjA  some  bright  munificent  Mift? 
y  called  by  the  pretty  name  of 
^L  ion,  by  the  townspeople  ?    Will 

i>ar  darkness  on    this,   to  ua, 
i  Mahtix  Kayi;. 


Burns  and  Georoe  Thomson.— In  1809,  a 
novel,  entitle*!  Nuhilia^  vrns  published,  eontaining 
a  harsh  and  calumnious  attack  upon  Thomson  for 
his  fiuppoi^d  selfish  and  illiberal  treatment  of 
Bums.  Of  this  publication,  Thomson  writes  to 
Professor  Josiah  Walker,  editor  of  the  ii/e  and 
Works  of  Barns  ^  Ed  in.,  18U  : — 

''In  &  late  anonymous  novel,  I  have  been  attncked 
with  much  bitterness,  and  ioca«ed  of  not  endeaToaring 
to  reiminerate  Bums  for  the  songs  which  he  wrote  for 
my  collection,  altbofigh  there  is  the  clearest  evidence 
of  the  contrary,  both  in  the  printed  correspondence  be- 
tween tbe  Poet  and  me,  and  in  the  public  testimony  of 
Dr.  Currie.  My  assailant,  too,  without  knowing  hny- 
thing  of  the  matter,  stutes  that  I  enrichied  myself  by 
the  labours  of  Burns,  and,  of  course,  that  my  want  of 
gencroBity  uaa  me  xc usable. '^ 

Is  any  tiling  known  of  the  author  of  thia  novel  1 
Where  wji^  it  published  I  The  writer  would  be 
grateful  for  a  reading  of  it,  aa  he  has  never  been 
success ful  in  meeting  with  it  in  any  book  catalogue 
to  purchase.  Jamks  Gibson. 

32,  Wavertree  Road,  Liverpool. 

The  Bailey  Family  or  LANCASurRE, — ^I 
possess  a  highly-treasured  copy  of  the  foUawing 
work  : — 

**  Man's  Chief  End  To  Olorifie  God ;  or  Some  Brief 
Sermon-Notes  On  1  Cor.  x.  "M.  By  the  RcFerend  (tic) 
Mr.  John  Baileyt  Sometime  Preacher  and  Prwoner  of 
Christ  at  Limerick  in  Ireland,  and  now  Pastor  to  the 

Church  of  Christ  at  Wutertown  In  New  England 

Boston :  Printed  by  Samuel  Green,  and  are  to  be  Sold 
by  Richard  Wilkins,  Bookseller,  near  the  Town-House. 
Anno  16S9."    12mo. 

The  author  wiwi  born  at  Blackburn  in  1644,  and, 
emigrating  to  Amenea  in  1683,  became  a  preacher 
at  Boston  and  Watertown.  His  sermons  are  com- 
mended l>y  John  Dunton,  and  he  has  received 
honourable  notice  in  Mather's  Magnalia^  but  be 
h  not  mentioned  by  Allibone  or  Lowndes.  He 
bad  a  brother  Henry,  of  Manchester,  living  in  1688, 
when  also  he  alludes  to  his  mother  and  a  ebter 
Lydia.  There  was  likewi&e  a  younger  brother, 
Tlioma^,  who  died  1689,  aged  thirty-five,  leaving 
deaoendants.  Any  particulirs  of  this  family  will 
be  veri^  acceptable  to  John  E.  Bailry. 

Stret'ford,  Manchester. 

Did  Harold  die  at  Hastings? — I  have  read 
in  fyoma  historical  work  that  there  is  a  tradition 
that  Harxdd  did  not  die  at  the  Battle  of  Hastings, 
but  that,  having  been  nursed  secretly,  he  journeyed 
to  Palestine  as  a  pilgrim,  and  after  many  years 
returned  to  England  under  the  name  of  Chnatian, 
and  dwelt  first  in  Shropshire,  and  afterwards  in 
Chester,  in  a  cell  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  John, 
^'  where,"  says  a  guide-book,  "  he  was  visited  by 
succeeding  novereigns.''  I  should  like  to  learn 
what  authority  there  is,  if  any,  for  the  above  state- 
meat.  KEOHAotJS, 

**  Moment,"  jts  meaniho. — In  Jofoi  J^ow^^r** 


408 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*8.ILN0T.21»74. 


pletion  of  Edwin  Drood,  I  observe  the  following 
instanoes  of  **  moment "  employed  in  a  new  sense  : 

"  PoBB&bly  the  domestic  had  over-fatigued  herself/'  &c. ; 
"  for  quite  a  moment  elapsed,"  kc.—P.  62. 

"  He  heaved  a  sort  or  a  sigh/'  kc,  "  quia  a  momtnt 
before  he  said."— P.  69. 

**  After  this  angrv  stride  of  the  room  had  continaed 
for  many  moments.  ^V.  75. 

A  moment  in  these  places  seems  to  mean  an 
interval  of  some  minutes.  I  have  certainly  never 
seen  the  word  so  used  before.  The  expression, 
"  stride  of  the  room/'  with  many  others  in  this 
volume,  suggests  anything  but  an  English  educa- 
tion. In  some  parts,  I  have  asked  myself  the 
question,  "  Is  this  a  translation  ?"  Can  any  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  tell  me  who  is  the  author  1 

Jabez. 

AtheoAum  Oiub. 

Authors  and  Quotations  Wanted. — Where 
is  the  frequently  quoted  passage  anent  "Shak- 
speare  and  the  musical  glasses  "  to  be  found  ? 

K.  K.  T. 
"  Where  Lord  Conrad  shed  his  blood.'' 

//;  T. 

,  %  ^    n    •  §     J»  Yield  homage  only  to  etemaUaws." 

u)  Cd-ekfiOaeS  '^to^voi^Jhv  oAa.fe.  4 .  f.  s.  . 

A  poem  entitled  IncompldenesSy  of  which  the 
following  is  the  first  verse : — 

"  Nothing  resting  on  its  own  completeness 
Can  have  worth  or  beauty ;  but  alone 
Because  it  leads  and  tends  to  further  sweetness, 


Fuller,  higher,  deeper  than  its  own." 

"  I  go  my  way,  thou  goest  thine, 
Manv  ways  wo  wend ; 
^  da' 


W.  A.  C. 


Many  days  and  many  ways 
Ending  in  one  end/'  kc. 

H.  W.  0. 

"Philanthropist."— The  author's  name  of  a 
poem  so  called,  commencing  thus — 
**  His  life 
Was  a  strife 
With  his  wife,"  &c. 

B.  B. 

The  Pretender  in  England. — Is  there  any 
historical  authority  for  the  episode  in  Thiickeray's 
Esmond  of  the  Pretender's  presence  in  England 
at  the  time  of  the  death  of  Queen  Anne,  or  was 
the  incident  created  by  the  author  ?  Kar^^. 

"Wink." — In  the  names  of  various  places,  as 
Winkleigh,  Winkbourne,  Winkfield,  Winkley,  and 
Winkton,  it  will  be  seen  this  short  syllable  occurs. 
What  is  its  meaning  in  the  Anglo-Saxon,  from 
which  it  is  derived  \  Jaytee. 

Autograph  of  the  Duke  of  Guise.  —  In 
Aprilj  1870,  it  was  stated  that  the  autograph  of 
Henn,  Duke  of  Guise,  written  on  a  fly-leaf  of  a 
MS.  book  of  Hours  which  belonged  to  Queen 
Catbenne  ofMedicia,  was  discovert    The  ^otd& 


in  the  Duke's  handwriting  were,  "  All  is  aznnged 
for  the  24th,''  &c.,  Bupposed  to  refer  to  tha  nuuMacre 
of  St.  Bartholomew.  The  Pall  Mall  OaaetU  Hmsw 
some  doubt  on  it.  May  I  ask  if  it  haa  ainoe  been 
proved  authentic  or  otherwise  ?  See  "  N.  ^  Q." 
4^  S.  V.  373.  Georob  Llotd. 

Conpen. 

Mart  Machell  Prince. — In  what  periodical 
recently  published  is  an  account  of  her?  She  was 
Henry's  (son  of  James  I.)  nurse.  I  am  tcxt 
anxious  to  find  out  what  branch  of  the  MadeQi 
she  came  from,  and  what  her  father's  Christian 
name  was.  H.  A.  de  Salis. 

109,  Finboro'  Road,  South  Kensington. 

The  Grand  Jurt.— I  happened  to  take  np 
this  morning  How  we  are  Qovemed,  by  Albany 
Fonblanque,  jun.,  1858.  I  opened  the  book  ii 
page  187,  and  came  upon  the  following  passage:— 

"  The  indictments  are  laid  before  the  grand  jary,  which 
coQBists  usually  of  thirty  persons,  selected  from  amooot 
the  magistrates  and  principal  gentry  in  the  county,  1^ 
possess  the  qualification  required  of  a  justice  fk  the 
peace." 

I  have  always  understood  that  the  full  number 
of  the  grand  jury  was  twenty- three.  In  the  county 
where  I  serve  we  have  never  more  than  that 
number,  and  I  think  I  have  heard  a  high  legal 
authority  say  that  there  was  no  precedent  for  swear- 
ing more  than  that  number.  Will  some  one  tell 
me  whether  Mr.  Fonblanque  or  I  am  in  error] 
A  Grand  Juryman. 

"  The  Letters  of  Sir  Thomas  Fitzosborne  on  seyeril 
Subjects.  Absentis  Pignus  Amicitiac.— Mart.  The  Third 
Edition.  (An  uncopjable  cameo.)  London :  Printed 
for  A.  Dodsley  in  Pall  Mall,     mdccl." 

I  wish  to  know  something  of  the  above  book, 
which  has  just  come  into  my  possession.  There 
are  in  all  seventy-four  letters.    William  Wing. 

Steeple  Aston,  Oxford. 

[Fitzosborne  was  a  pseudonym;  the  letters  were 
written  b^  William  Mclmoth.  Mine  editions  are  recorded 
in  the  British  Museum.] 

John  Littleton. — In  the  old  registers  of  the 
parish  church  of  Kingswinford,  Staffonishire,occure 
the  following  entrj' : — "  March  17th,  1617.  John 
Littleton,  Gentleman,  fi*om  Holbech,  buryed." 
Was  this  John  Littleton  a  connexion,  as  I  presume 
he  must  have  been,  of  the  Stephen  Littleton  in 
whose  house  at  Holbech,  Staffordshire,  Winter 
and  others  of  the  Gunpowder  Plot  were  killed ; 
and  were  these  Littletons  of  the  family  of  the 
Lyttletons  of  Hagley  or  of  Hatherton  ?  Did 
Holbech  House  then  belong  to  the  Littletons,  and 
could  any  of  your  readers,  through  your  columns, 
supply  me  with  a  list  of  the  subsequent  owners  of 
this  historical  old  house  ?  H.  M.  T. 

Thackeray.  — What  real  occurrence  does  Tbadc- 
^^tay  relate  in  Barry  Lyndon  as  hiq^pening  al  the 


ff»attfc"0T.si,7i.j 


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of  X.  }    Wl>f»  w:i^  ih:>  Indy  to  wh«"*m  he 

in  tho  Iw4i!inin'^  uf   Th'    Fottr  Utorgffy  as 

ng    bern    **  ii^kcd    in    niarringe   by    liomcr 

[Wnlpole?*'  GftKYSTEIL. 

iiVoi'TAit '    XX0  RocssEAC— I  wish  to  recover 

tipoa  Voltaire  and  Ilous^au  not  in- 

lile  U*  tiome  public  men  of  the  i>rescnt  day. 

tAiigbt  impious  maa  Almi^^'bty  God  to 

llio  bitter  taught  woman   everything  she 

ilii  not  know.  G.  A.  C. 

TuKSTEAU,   NoaKOLK,— Can  any  architectural 

nrt*L'i'<'!r.'/i-t  fTnlun  this  ]iTioiii.i]<''.L4  A^iiture  in  the 

I  ch.«i  i  the  Com- 

miici  i^ir  I'unning 

the  luii;itb  uf  ihe  eajst  wull  ;  this  i«  Burmounted  by 

a  platfi)rrn,  a  Toot  or  so  higher  than  the  table,  with 

I  a  gratiug  in  the  centre,  nnd  the  platfonn  is  gained 

1  by  Mloue  steps.     Are  there  any  other  instances  of 

1  a  like  kind,  and,  if  so,  what  is  it  supposed  they 

I  Were  U8ed  for  ?  A.  B.  C. 

TnoMAa   SirrroH.— In   1677,  Eerne  published 

T;,'    U'..ti>r„   nf   th,  il,nr^t^rhou8f,  in   which   he 

tton,  died  at  the  age 

&ycT  12,  161L     I  am 

of  that  ThomfLs  t5Utton  wm  buried  at 

Wji  '  i  ^ey,  e-^pccially  so  as  I  find  an  entry 

I  in  the  p;irif»h  register  to  the  etl'ect  that  "  Thomas 

Button,   gent,,"  wns   buried  October  2<}th,  1612, 

J  He  nm  a  great  friend  of  Bif^hop  HaH\  who  was 

I  at  that  period  incumbent  of  Walthum.    A  "  Henry 

Sutton,    8k«>ol master,"  lies    interred    here,   with 

oUieiv  of  the  same   name,  and  probably  of  the 

Any  information  bearing  upon  the 

I^T.  -e.  W.    Wl!STERfl. 

iViir.uAju  ♦■vubey. 

Hided  AM  Bridok. — Can  you  give  me  any  iu' 
formation  m  to  where  the  above-named  bridge  waa 
situated?  In  a  Close  RoU  dated  8  Henry  III, 
nt«  7,  the  following  occurs  :^ — 

**The  King  to  tho  Rarons  of  the  Exchequer,  orderins 
tlirin  to  luiikti  Allowance  totlie  Sheriff  of  Bedford  «  «  .  * 
'.      kc,     A\*o  is.  for  the  repair  of  the  bridge  of  Ride- 

L;*u.         r-i  r,.i  ^ot\.   \u  ni.t,  1224,  at  Dunstjible.** 

1  e  to  the  siege  of  Bedford 

Ca**:.. .  I-...0  in  that  year.     An  early 

reply  will  much  oblige.  D.  C.  E» 


•♦THE  BOOK,*'  BY  MRS,  BCRRES,  kc. 
(5»^  S.  ii.  32  L) 

My  anttcipntion  that  an  inquirv  through  your 

'      -  ,     .     »  .      •    .  ,  ^^^^^ 

t>ub- 
lave 
been  fulfilled.     I  do  not 
J-  .^  ^^...v..-  .f     ..  ...a   I  have  not  yet  seen  the 


volume  ;  and  1  hope,  considering  the  interest  which 
I  must  feel  in  "  N*  &  Q.,"  I  may  be  pardoned  if 
I  Iriy  before  your  readers  this  fi^sh  proof  of  it« 
iiserntne8s» 

Tho  nin>earance  of  my  notice  of  tho  various 
woiks  by,  or  rehiting  to,  Mrs.  Serres,  in  '^  N.  dfe  Q." 
of  the  21th  ultimo,  produced  several  communica- 
tions of  more  or  less  interest,  some  from  old  cof^ 
respondent*,  some  from  gentlemen  whose  courtftBy 
W4IA  increased  by  the  fact  that  I  was  peraonnUy 
unknown  to  them. 

Mr,  Bates  wh^  not  only  kind  enough  to  forward 
for  my  acceptance,  what  I  was  much  in  want  of,  a 
perfect  copv  of  TJtc  Wrongs  of  1h€  Princtss  of 
Vuinhaiand^  but  accompanied  his  present  with  a 
long  and  inlercating  letter,  in  the  course  of  which 
he  called  my  attention  to  the  following  cutting 
from  a  booksellers  Catalogue : — 

**  Curiousi. — *Th<j  Book  ! '  or  Procnwtinated  Memoiri; 
an  Uietoric&l  Rom&ace.    12mo.,  half  cloth,  2i.     1322L 

"  The  character  of  Liidy  Mepftliaa  it  the  moct  pro* 
minerit  in  the  Book." 

My  impresdon  on  reading  this  was  that  it 
referred  to  the  very  book  of  which  I  was  in  search. 
Like  Tfi4  Frincas  and  Marit  Amu  Z/iw,  it  was 
in  12mo.  ;  it  was  published  in  1912,  and,  like  the 
former,  it  was  described  as  '^  An  Historical  Bo* 
mancc." 

Mr,  Bates  had  stated  his  belief  that  the  cutting 
was  from  ooe  of  the  Catalogues  of  Mr.  John  Sal- 
keld,  of  Orange  Street,  Red  Liou  Square,  and  he 
was  right.  On  my  calling  on  Mr.  Salkeld,  who  is 
as  obliging  as  he  is  intelligent,  he  first  traced  the 
Catalogue  in  which  the  volume  was  included,  viz., 
No.  XClIL,  published  by  him  in  October,  1873, 
and  then  at  considerable  trouble  traced  out  the 
purchaser,  Mr,  George  Zair,  of  Birmingham, 

I  then  wrote  to  that  gentleman,  making  several 
inquiries  about  the  book,  and  requesting  to  be 
favoured  with  the  loan  of  it  for  a  few  days, 

Ko thing  could  exceed  the  kindness  and  courteey 
of  Mr.  Zair's  reply.  When  th©  volume  reached 
him,  he  found,  what  is  often  the  case  with  books 
purchiised  as  this  had  been,  it  was  not  the  work 
ne  expected  ;  and  on  reatling  it,  finding  it  dull  and 
immoral,  he  had  either  thrown  it  away  or  behind 
the  fire.  If  this  "  Book  "  is,  as  I  strongly  believe, 
the  production  of  Mrs.  Serres,  I  can  quite  recog- 
nize the  juiticc  of  Mr.  Zairs  criticism,  for  when  I 
W21S  obi'  •  «  «  •">  through  llie  Princf$i  and  Afarw 
Anm  I  lid  not  help  paroiiying  the  old 

song  0}   . .,    .-      /  of  the  Mill,  and  singing : — 

**  I  've  rt'iuJ  Hnd  I'to  turned  over  miiny  doll  bookf, 
And  chim^ed  thorn  fts  oft  m  I  durtt, 
But  of  All  the  dtdl  books  that  erer  t  rend 
D»me  Serref'i  sure  are  the  womt," 

A  jiucond  search  among  Mr,  7  -'  ^  Aib  has 
not  been  attended  with  oetter  ut  that 

grr  '        "  ^vis  been  kind  enough  lo  . .,  >  ;»  should 

'♦  I  '  ever  turn  up,  I  may  re«t  asmt<s*L  1 


d 


A 


410 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ie*B.ILN0T.21,74. 


The  existence  of  **The  Book,  a  ProcxaBtinated 
Memoir,  ISmo.,  US  12/^  Wing  thus  established,  can 
an  J  of  your  readers  point  out  where  a  com-  may  be 
BesB  I  William  J,  Thoms, 

iOf  St  GeoTS«'i  Square,  S.W. 

P.S.— I  was  not  ft  ware  until  I  saw  Mr.  Cookk-s 
Httttement  ilmt  there  were  two  copies  of  the 
Memoirs  of  S^rti  in  the  Britisli  Mnseum. 
Whether  there  is  any  foundation  for  the  report 
thftt  the  pamphlet — for  it  ia  only  a  pamphlet — 
was  Buppreased,  I  know  not ;  it  certninly  was  not 
snppreased  by  the  Crovernmentj  for  the  only  party 
intereisted  in  suppressing  it  wa«  Mrs,  Serres,  As 
I  End  it  is  even  more  scarce  than  I  had  anticipated, 
1  am  half  disposed  to  reprint  it,  with  the  addition 
l>f  the  autobiographical  WiO  (neveT  proved)  of  poor 
B^rres,  which  I  have  in  hia  own  iiuto^ph,  and 
other  illustrations  from  the  mms  of  origijm  Sertes 
papers  in  my  possession. 


THE  FIGHT  AT  PERTH, 
(5*  S,  i,  364,  469 ;  iL  69,  189.) 

Perhaps  I  owe  some  apology  to  Ma.  Shaw,  for 
liot  having  replied  at  greater  length  in  my  last 
letter  to  his  pre? bus  one.  My  main  reii&on  was 
that^  if  I  had  dooe  so,  I  should  have  been  chiefly 
repK>ducing  arguments  which  hare  already  been 
urged  in  the  pages  of  **  N,  &  Q/ 

The  chief  object  of  my  lost  communication  was 
to  connect  the  origin  of  the  fight  at  Perth  with  the 
skirmish  at  Glasclune.  I  h»d  endeayoured  to  do 
this,  while  going  into  detail  as  little  as  possible. 
If  I  had  written  more  fully,  poasibly  so  much  ex- 
ception might  not  have  been  taken  to  my  state- 
ments. 

In  replying  to  Mr.  Shaw's  letter  (ii.,  169),  I 
shall  treat  mainly  of  the  antecedents  of  the  fight. 
About  the  fight  itself  I  have  nothing  new  to  ad- 
Tan  ce.  Indeed,  I  have  never  attempted  more  than 
to  digest  information,  nearly  all  of  which  has  been 
long  before  the  world,  and  I  w^ait  for  the  fresh 
facts  that  have  been  promised  ua  by  Mr.  Shaw. 

1,  Mr.  Shaw  aaks  me  pertinently,  on  what 
authority  I  t^lk  of  Sha  or  Ferquhar  in  Brae  Angus 
or  Brae  Mar  before  the  date  of  the  fight.  Ad- 
mitting,  in  the  first  place,  that  I  have  spoken  of 
Sha,  son  of  Ferquhar,  when  it  would  have  been 
more  correct  to  have  said  Feniuhar,  son  of  Sha,  I 
shall  speak  now  merely  of  individual  names,  with- 
out mising  any  question  as  to  how  far  they  repre- 
sented races  or  clans.  I  believe  that  it  is  admitted 
on  all  hands,  that  there  were  Shas  and  Ferquhars, 
Slias  sons  of  Ferrpibar,  and  Ferquhars  sons  of 
Sha,  and  Shas  sons  of  the  Taschacti  on  Speyside, 
before  the  date  of  the  fight  at  Perth.  It  will  also 
he  admitted  that  these  names  appear  in  Braemar. 
The  question  is  at  what  date  they  do  so.  Passing 
bj  31133  Tayhr'a  mention  in  IThe  Tmditioni  oj 


Braemur^  that  a  Sha  crossed  over  and  settled  there 
in  the  beginning  of  the  fourteenth  centuiy,  we 
have  distinct  evidence,  according  to  the  CbartnWy 
of  Aberdeen,  that  Ferquhar  MajckintoshT^  with  \m 
adherents,  in  the  year  1382,  not  only  plnndewd 
lands  as  far  down  Deeside  as  Birsa,  but  th^t  he 
did  so  in  vindrcation  of  certain  rights  which  be 
asserted  over  those  londs,  Ferquhar,  it  may  be 
presumed,  must  have  had  some  footing  bcfofe  Uuf 
on  the  upper  part-  of  the  Dee,  if  at  ilmt  exurly  di£e 
he  laid  claim  to  lands,  perhajm  the  furthest  down 
Deeside,  that  have  been  owned  at  a&y  time  bj  tlie 
sons  of  Ferijuhar. 

This  would  be  equally  true^  whether  the  Pe^ 
quhar  Mackintosby  in  question  was  the  he6d  d 
the  race  in  Inverness-shire  or  not.'  But»  according 
to  the  ordinary  genealogy  in  Douglas's  Bar&nafi^ 
there  was  no  Ferquhar  head  of  the  race  in  Tnvw^ 
ness-shire  at  that  date.  It  is,  therefore,  litcJj 
that  this  Ferquhar  was  an  offset  of  the  name,  who 
had  settled  in  Eraemar. 

Further,  we  learn  from  Douglas,  on  the  anthoiitj 
of  the  Stnian  MS.  (as  good  an  authority,  I  suppoic, 
as  most  iuch  documents),  that  Ferquhar,  son  of 
Sha  of  Rothiemureus,  was  settled  on  Deeside  ia 
the  reigns  of  Robert  IL  and  HL,  and  was  m&rded 
to  the  daughter  of  Patrick  Duncanson,  who  wis 
one  of  the  brothers  outlawed  for  their  share  in  the 
Raid  of  Angus. 

It  thus  seems  nearly  certain  that  there  was  & 
Ferquhar,  son  of  Sha,  on  Deeside  before  13&2L 
I  advisedly  use  the  phrase  "  nearly  certain,"  as  I 
do  not  see  that  anything  is  to  be  gained  by  over 
positive  assertion  in  so  complicated  on  inquiry. 
if  there  was  one^  it  is  tolerably  certain,  in  the  cas« 
of  Celts,  that  there  were  more  of  the  name. 

As  to  the  meaning  of  the  word  paTentda,  per- 
haps I  might  have  stated  more  fully,  that  I  no* 
doubt  whether  it  has  any  stronger  me«ninE  of 
relationship  than  the  words  kin  or  clan  have,  tmt 
it  docs  not  foHow^  that  ^'  I  give  up  the  idea  tlmt 
the  combatant  clans  may  have  been  closely  con* 
nected." 

(Tq  hi  catdinmd,) 


Ukskttled  Baeonetcies  (G""  S,  i»  125,  194, 
252  I  ii,  15,  S07,)— S,  seems  to  infer  that,  beoaase 
I  made  no  reply  to  Mr.  Passisohams  note,  I 
admitted  its  accuracy.  This  is  very  far  from 
being  the  case.  !My  silence  1ms  arisen  from  s 
growing  conviction  of  the  utter  hopeleisneaB  of  the 
attempt  to  impress  upon  the  mmds  of  Enghsh 
gen  tie  u)  en  the  fact  that  questions  arising  out  of 
the  laws  and  customs  of  Scotland  cannot  be  dis- 
cussed and  decided  according  to  the  laws  aa^ 
customs  of  England.  Though  we  do  not  **cill 
time ''  here,  some  of  us  are  compelled  to  vilite 
time.  S.  appeajfs  to  think  that  I  founded  upon 
^IW  ^iy,\\te  Qf  Liuiitations,    On  the  eontrair,  I 


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411 


k&Te  always  harl  a  vague  irapresaion  that  that 
Statute  had  some  bcuring  uj>oq  a  tnwlesman's  tic- 
cfmat  in  Enghmd,  but  1  never  usyociated  it  with 
11  Scottish  Baronetcy. 

8.  tiUks  at  mndom  as  if  a  Service  were  stUi 
com^tent  before  '*a  jury  of  neighbouring  country 
;enUL'men/'  ah  hough  the  Blightest  inquiiy  would 
wn  him  that  for  the  liist  sevcn-and-twcnty 
proce<lure  ha^  been  in  the  hands  of  a 
^  lOj  from  whose  decibion  an  appeal  lies 
to  me  Court.     If  S»  wUi  refer  to  4*^  S. 

XL  ..*-,  ^,t  "ill  find  this  set  forth  in  a,  diacus^sion 
in  which  he  himself  took  part,  I  cannot  think 
that  the  object  of  **  N.  &  t^."  is  best  served  by  a 
coutinuiil  repetition  of  the  simplest  facts. 

Both  Mr.  Pass  INGHAM  and  S»  tell  us  that,  by 
the  hiw  of  Scotland  as  it  now  stands,  a  Service 
csfuinotf  directly  or  indirectly,  affect  a  Baronetcy. 
1  should  not  be  at  ail  sorry  to  be  able  to  a^ree 
with  them  in  thinking  so.  But  I  fear  I  cannot 
in  the  fucc  not  only  of  the  authorities  but  also  of 
tl>e  fiicts.  Some  distinguished  Scottish  lawyers 
yone  even  further,  and  held  that  a  Service 
^_  i  atfect  a  Scottish  Peerage,— a  view,  however* 
fliieh  baa  been  aet  aside  by  the  House  of  Lords*, 
no  doubt  with  entire  propriety.  I  have  before  me 
An  Opinion  given  in  1813  by  the  celebrated  John 
C'lerk  of  Eldin,  then  the  Leader  of  the  Scottish 
■j  in  which,  speaking  of  the  state  of  the  Scotfs 
before  the?  Union,  he  says  :■ — 

"The  lii*t  Lord  B-- — was  «€rtcd  htir  to  his  prcde- 
cewor  in  t>ic  Peerage  in  the  year  17—. 

"  Tbt4  Bervice,  according  to  the  Scota  Lhvr,  vested  in 
bit  pereoa  a  tieht  to  the  Peerage,  The  Service  couU 
bAve  been  chalTenged  at  the  instance  or  a  nearer  heir 
withtii  20  years  from  iU  date.  Kut  it  could  not  hare 
been  Ghal)e]i;;td  at  the  instance  of  the  nearer  heir,  or  of 
woy  perron  whatever,  after  20  years  from  its  date,  either 
upon  illegitimacy  in  the  pedigree  or  uiHin  anj  other 
ground. 

**  Xo  chKlIenge  of  this  Service  was  brought  fonvard 
within  2«)  yCArg. 

^  Ttie  ri|fUt  iras  therefore  finally  eitabliihed  in  the 

m  r>f  the  late  Lord  B^ ftccordinK  to  tho  Scots 

by  tho  SorTice  alone. 


"  Where  m  Service  it  unneceftsarr  for  Tesiing  the  ri^ht, 
it  is  oftfiii  neecesarj  for  proving  that  the  party  chiming 
is  th*  p<?r8on  in  whom  the  right  hns  vested.  TUU 
happens  iu  the  cai^e  af  a  remote  collati^ml  to  whom  a 
ttile  vf  boDcmr  dct cends. 

•  •  *  «  • 

♦'  .  TCflt  n  Pccrnjie  in  him 

l-wb"  But  notttiihatundiii[j 

lihi*.  .  .  -,  . .  L  .  ^iit  bettor;  1st,  us  }»roof 

I  by  tho  Luw  <>i  at  he  i«  the  pei-son  Tested; 

|£d.  as  a  tU)e  i  Ion  where  it  is  20  ^eursotJ, 

which  cftTjnot  be  cbuMciii'  d." 

Even  tho  late  Mr,  John  RiddeU,  who  had  as 
grrat  a  hom^r  of  the  conae»[uences  of  a  jud^^mient 
*f  "  a  jury  of  neighbouring  country  gentlemen  "  as 
tbcr  Mr.  Passikgham  or  S.,  wa.-*  comf>elled  to 
ciit,  in  commenlini;  upon  what  he  ref;arded  aa 


the  erroneous  decision  of  the  Court  of  Session  in 
the  case  of  Nelson  i\  Kelson,  that — 

**The  derision  not  only  directly  cotnpromisefl  the 
ordin»ry  statiu  and  pediKrees  of  fHnaiHci,  but  the  ri^ht 
[itsi}  to  di^nitie^,  such  as  Baronetciea  of  Nora  Scntt&i 
which  ure  usually  assumed  by  a  ferTicc'* — Inquiry, 
?oh  i.  p.  U3. 

And  it  is  a  notorious  fact  that,  at  the  present 
day,  Scottish  Baronetcies  are  assumed  by  Service, 
and  by  nothing  else.  Some  of  the  parties  as- 
suming are  fortunate  enough  to  be  able  to  induce 
**good  Sir  Bernard  Burke  to  put  them  in  his 
work,'*  and  some  are  not.  Whether  or  not  the 
latter  have  any  legal  reniedy,  I  cannot  pretend  to 
say. 

Ma.  Passinoham  says  that  *St  is  an  undeniable 
rule  that  the  Crown  cjvnnot  Buflfer  from  neglect  or 
laches.*'  In  reply,  I  can  only  say  that  it  is  un- 
deniable that,  according  to  the  Law  of  Scotland, 
the  positive  prescription  runs  against  the  Crown, 

The  sufjgestion  of  Mr.  Pas-sinoham,  favoured 
by  S.J  that  the  jurisdiction  iu  Scottish  Baronetcies, 
depending,  for  the  most  part,  upon  questions  of 
purely  Scottij^h  law^  should  be  given  to  tho  Eng- 
lish Probate  Court,  cannot  for  a  raoruent  be 
seriously  entertained.  W,  M. 

Edinburgh. 

Madame  Poland  (5«*^  S.  il  168,  255.}— It  is 
difficult  to  find  a  subject  relating  to  French  bin- 
grnphy  or  history  upon  which  M*  Jal  has  not 
thrown  some  light  in  his  Didionnaire  de  Bio- 
fjrtfphu  el  (rUistoirej  already  frequently  referred 
to  in  "  N.  &  Q."  After  reading  his  article  on 
Madame  Poland  (p.  1077  of  the  second  edition), 
it  seems  perfectly  clear  that  what  he  cites  as  the 
third  edition  (the  last  published  at  the  time  he 
wrote  thi?  particular  article^  in  1855)  of  the  Mc* 
moirs  of  Madame  Boland  by  Barriferc,  1827,  is 
perfectly  authentic.  If  it  had  not  been,  M.  Jal 
would  have  detected  the  fraud  and  exposed  it. 
We  can,  therefore,  I  think  with  confidence,  asaumc 
that  the  above  Mcmoin  are  authentic,  especially 
as  the  fifth  edition  was  published  in  1&64.  (Jal, 
ihid.,  p.  1081.) 

Nevertheless,  there  appears  to  be  some  gronnd 
for  the  question  started  by  Unkda,  whether  there 
are  not  some  spurious  Memoirs  j  and  certainly  sucli 
as  he  alludes  to  could  not  have  been  written  by 
Madame  Poland  without  upsetting  all  history. 

The  ground  I  fiiitj  for  U>rEDA's  question  is  the 
following.  In  the  third  volume  of  the  third  edi- 
tion of  Querard's  Supercherits  Litt,^  published  in 
1870  (col.  44G),  it  is  stateii  that  Proudhon,  in  his 
work  Dt  la  Jvsiue  dnnt  la  Involution  ct  ^ianx 
V^gluf^  states  as  an  iucontes table  fact  that  the 
Memoirs  publi-shcd  under  the  name  of  Madame 
Roland  are  apocryphal.  Oli*har  Hamst, 

Her  Mctiioirs,  the  MS.  of  whicli,  I  believe,  is 
in  tlie  Biblioth^/^ue  Im^^etuvle^  ?ct<t  >OTij^sj<sfev^V| 


412 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t5**3.II-Nov.21,7* 


gienuine.  Following  the  bad  example  of  Kousseau, 
whose  bjiltful  influence  was  at  its  heiglit,  ahe  wiote 
some  "  Confesaions/'  whbh  should  never  have 
been  writt^Ti,  and  which  spoil  a  very  interesting 
and  beautiful  book.  With  the  exf?eptioa  of  some 
three  or  four  po^esj  however,  the  Mtmoirt  are  ut^t 
unworthy  of  Madame  Roland,  and  an  Eoglish 
edition  might  (with  a  few  neceasarj  omissions)  be 
giren  to  tbo  world,  Tlie  latcstl  French  edition  iit, 
I  believe,  the  one  by  M.  Dan  ban  in  1864, 

H,  A,  B, 

P.S,  In  a  MS.  of  JLidnme  Koland^d  which  I 
possesSi  and  which  is  probnblj'  unpttblii^hed,  ehc 
Bays  (Juue,  1777) :— 

**  Eten  pVit  tl  do  ax,  ^elon  moi^  que  dc  sb  trourer  iivoir 
gmclqui'afitkLQgie  hv0{S  de«  Fer^otineii  Esttmiiblep ;  etiJinDt 
Bc^uBseau  ou  Diderot,  maia  surbntit  !e  pri'tni  r,  j^zU  bhu- 
Yent  €proaT6  de»  tmniports  oxceMif  ct  aeliciaux,^'  kc. 

1  have  transcribed  the  passage  exactly  m  it  is 
"written, 

SiK  Geraed  Ufflete  (5'^aiL  14f),  255,)  — 
Although  alwayi  written  bo,  this  name  should  be 
TJiflete,  the  long  §  being  tnl<on  for  &n  /  The 
family  took  its  name  from  Ousefleet,*  in  the  fiarish 
of  Whitgift,  CO.  York,  which  it  held  of  St  Mary** 
Abbey,  Yorl', 

Sir  Gerard  was  no  obscure  pcrflon,  for  he  wai 
ftt  the  memoriible  battle  of  Agincourt  (Oct.  2o, 
1415],  with  a  retinue  of  lancca  and  thirty-three 
ttrchers  (NIcoUlb*s  E^U}^  and  wiis  probably  at  that 
date  hnsljand  of  Eliziibeth  (Arundel),  Dnchcii!! 
Dowager  of  Norfolk,  f  then  thirty -eight,  widow 
when  he  mnnied  her  of  her  third  husband,  Sir 
Et^bert  Gonr-hill,  who  died  July  2U,  14U4.  Sir 
Oemrd  left  no  imnc^  and  in  his  will,  dated  Sept, 
13,  1420,  an^l  ^)roved  Fi?b.  12,  1421  (T^'iL  Ehor., 
i,  1597),  be  uierttions  his  wift?  with  great  I'csj^ect  lui 
"domiua  mea,  uxor  men,"  without  name,  aUo  her 
daughter  as  *'  my  l-uly  ilargavret "  (married  to  Sir 
Eohert  Howard,  whence  the  present  Duke  of 
Norfolk).  The  Duchesis  survived  him,  died  July  8, 
1424j  anil  was  buried  with  Sir  Hobert  Gouslidl  at 
Hoverin;:thE^^iiiT  Nottn  (Bakers  Korthant.<^  i.  581) 
and  547;.  Sir  Gcn^rd  desired  to  be  buried  in  the 
csonventual  church  of  Xorth  Ferriby,  biit^  as  his 
will  seem^  tr>  fiivc  been  m;ule  al>rc»ad,  he  probably 
died  there.  He  was  the  only  Hon  of  Sir  (rerai^i 
dc  Unflcte,  hiirh  E^hcritT  of  Yorkshire,  whose  will 
may  also  he  i'ound  in  Tt^f.  Ebor.^  i.  3-ln,  wM 
^andson  of  Sir  Geranl  de  Ui^flete,  who  derived 
his  ChrL=iti:m  name  throuiih  his  mother  Lora  or 


*  I  do  not  think  this  phicc  denvcd  its  name  frrjiii  the 
rir^r  One,  thouffh  ucftr  it.  Fop  tbe  form  L'lriJi*fli;to 
which  occur.^,  taken  in  canjiinction  with  Swim^floet 
(Sweyn*8  Jket)  and  AdliDfjIlete  (in  D.  H.  Ade!iiitfP:*tiuet^ 
puiDtd  to  a  personal  Damo;  cf.  Ongton  or  O^ukoston 
Abbey,  Lciceatcrnblre^  and  OwBti]orp&,  anciently  QiJ=cl- 
tborpe  {HowJcashiro). 

f  in  tbe  b:itt]e  «he  loit  hor  gen-m-lftw,  Hichael  d«  1a 


Lorette  (m.  1,  John  de  UaJlete,  2,  Sir  Geoffrey  If 
Scrope  of  Masham,  knight  banneret),  fjrom  her 
father,  Gerard  de  Furnivid,  whose  co-heir  she  wm. 

The  name  of  Gerard,  which  can  thus  l>e  tra«d 
to  a  Norman  knight  of  the  time  of  King  Stephen, 
Geraril  de  FonrneviUe  (diocese  of  Bayenx),  lingettd 
in  this  neighbonrhood  until  modem  times.  In 
the  south  mancel  wall  of  the  nei^hbooTiiig,  but 
very  out  of  the  way  and  interesting,  bnt  littk 
known,  church  of  Adlingfleet,  under  a  canopied 
arch,  ii  the  recumbent  etftgy  of  a  lady  of  thia  m.^ 
which  remains  to  be  identihed,  perhaps  one  of  U» 
DuebeBs's  daughters,  for  on  the  side  in  panels  ait 
these  four  uhieldi*  of  arms  : — 1,  On  a  bend  cotiaed 
between  six  lions  rampant  three  muUet^  Belnn^ 
Harl  of  Northampton,  undoubtedly,  the  Duchen'a 
maternal  grandfather ;  2.  A  Uon  rammnt^  Fttr^ 
alan  or  Mowbray  ]  3,  A  lion  rampant,  Fitzal&D  or 
Jklowbray  /  4,  Three  mullet-^,  two  and  one,  witMa 
a  bordure  engmiled.    Whose  \       A.  S.  Ellis. 

Chelies.  ^ 

**  Willie  was  a  Waktoh  Wag  ''  (5**  S,  iL 

264,)— If  the  authorship  of  this  highly  popuki 
song  hct^  been  ascribed  to  Hamilton,  of  Gilbezt- 
field,  and  to  Douglas,  of  Fingknd,  it  ako  has  be«Q 
claimed  for  another,  Williftm  Walkiii|^hflW,  of  thit 
Ilk,  Eenfrewihire,  by  Burns  in  Johnson's  Mva 
Museum^  and  by  Robert  Chambers  in  hie  Scaiti^ 
Sm^s  (p.  300,  1829).  But  the  latter  recnJledj  to 
f ome  extent,  this  opinion  in  his  Sojif^M  of  Beothn^ 
prior  to  Btirm,  published  in  1862,  p,  165,  when 
he  fouuf]  it  in  opposition  to  a  different  view, 
announced  in  the  interval  hy  Mr,,  now  Dr,,  David 
Lrviug,  of  Edinburgh.  Gilbertfield  was  bom  ia 
lfi80,  smd  died  in  1751  ;  and  if  it  be  true,  as  ijaid, 
tluit  H'aitton  IVUlk  wrts  actually  a  sohrtqud  given 
him  ia  his  lifetime,  and  that  he  was  a  copieoa 
writer  of  Scottish  verses,  as  weU  as  a  friend  and 
correspondent  of  Allan  Ramsay,  probability  would 
incline  towards  him  as  the  author.  The  song 
finit  apparcd  in  Eiimsay's  Tta  Tahlt  Afitef/Z^fiy, 
published  in  17i?4.  Jt  was  there  initialed  "  W.  W,""; 
anil  presuuvpUvely  the  anthor  was  then  alive  and 
kiiiiwn  to  ltam5=Liiy.  A  doubt,  however,  must  alwap 
exi:?itj  whether  Gilbertlield,  if  the  author,  could  al^e 
lie  th(?  liero^  loading  himself  with,  besides  the  title 
of  V\r\  W,^  £ueh  fulsome  pRiisJCS  as  the  song  contains 
Nothing  in  tlie  whole  piece  would  betoken  that 
Willie  was  of  the  cliurLUtt  riiuil  mien  oLDouglaa,  of 
Fingland,  a^  lie  ii^  dcsCriWd  by  Dp..  RAMAaE.  fie 
could  not  liave  had  *"  fic^rce  and  smunting  eye^^ 
nor  been  a  avvonlsnum,  ft>nd  of.  and  exeelling  in, 
duelling  I  for  in  the  .H^ing  he  is  descJibed,  not  onlv 
as  *^  braw  '■  ('*  And  wow  but  Willie  he  was  braw  % 
bnt  as  "  The  bUthcd  lad  that  e'er  I  saw/' 

"  Ring  Dancea  "  were,  m  it  would  appear,  at  the 
ihdc  of  this  song,  nmch  in  vogue.  Hone  besidei 
are  mentioned  in  the  £ong,  which  refers  throngh- 
LQMtl  \^  0.  bridal  party  eapged  In  dam^nig^  iw 


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NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


413 


.....*  .^... I  ,..,*  fif  Jqoi^  upon  Ui«?  grt'fD.     Of 


11^11  ^i<r  ti^-cii  nane  dnrst  him  ttfUg, 
The  fient  •  unc  amiutg  them  m*.*' 


sftM  meffily  roond  the  rinp  tliey  raw'd, 
Wfien  bv  tbe  Imnd  be  led  tUem  »*, 
^^  fincick  on  cmnck  on  them  bofttow'd! 
vIrUie  uf  n  it&ndtng  liiw." 


R. 


\S0n(fM  of  Heotlmult  by  George  Farquhur 

li«  «oog  in  ascrilHst  to  Mr  Walkiog- 

Usl^j  ;  it  is  Tiho  stuted  that  the  song 

hed  in  the  OiyhcuM  Cai€domus  in  172(>, 

|lh  fhf  nir  wliii-h   ttow  bears  thut  name. 

rton^j  There  wiff  a  Las$^ 

the  Jiir  of  Willie  wm  <i 

^i  "J  W.  J.  BIacat»am, 

|i«  Rd^jlf  ITf>|itr  Tooting. 

OAl^  (6»^  B.  ii.  3(16,)— The  derivation  of 

n?   'i<  Tini    sn  /^MtiHy  iic<?ount<»d  for  bs  your 

onis  to  think.     It  is  one 

I ;:i t  i^t  incorporated  into 

liia^c  no  one  (vin  e^r^ctly  tell  when,  whence, 

Ita    introduction   ia   of  comparatively 

!at«J.     It  i^  not  found  in  Cotgrave  or  Bher* 

•^evrrttcenth    century)^    nor   in   Btiiley  or 

■nth  century),  nor  even  in  Richard- 

jL  Tolumiuous  work. 

ja  8;ij8  **its  true  oni^in  is  the  Indian  word 

.no.*'*    He  diie«  not  Bay  whrtt  langnn^e  he 


>ut  of  the 
giiajjeof  Indt 
t-ninly  it  r  >ii: 
rtlxing  MH  I- 
the  thiij 
fbich  we  : 


I i^ken  in  Inditi, 

i- the  Sanskrit, 

-nun  u  on!  as  (fingham^ 

to  it.      The  Sanskrit 

'riped   or   variegated 

ijue  arc  (ulamdmm 

r^JJi ,,,,*(-    (  variof^at  ed   wi th 

|ti»nn  with   the  fabric  iippear^  to 
oduced  from    Fmnce,   where   the 
still  manufactured.     Littri5,  Jtuh 
^  gives  Ifit  **  Etoffe  de  coton  iinc/* 
I  de  coton  bhinche  do  ITnde/*     He 
the  AMm'  T^uynil  n  pn^  n;:^^'  de- 
ft "dc  iDoudioira  .!  fttVS 
^bcau  rougo  ipK' !                                  |ueul 
a,  oil  ils  Aont  ^U^biifi  di^puU  tit^^-lou^* 

vi'p*  *♦  Guinffump,  ville  de 
liLiiieji  de  ti*3U^/* 

use«  tlie  word  guin- 

n^  Word,  inertly  a» 

tiiucii  J  nut  with  uoy  reference 

.  .,.  l^urtU' 
Ct  explained  by  Vieym  as  ''  u 


Id  the  article  "Guingauip/*  in  the  Enqf.  Brii^ 
it  Ib  atiited  that  there  are  '*  manufactures  of  ging* 
hamiif  to  which  the  town  pves  its  nume/'  In  the 
c3orrc»poDding  article  in  the  Penny  CijeLj  it  is  mid 
•*  lh{  It'  aiv  iirtnu factored  of  hntns  which  tjike  their 
town/'  Tbi«i  is  evidently  flk  midlnke, 
;>,'  cotton  tirtsuca. 

Xhi;  FrBtK-h  Jan<^u.ige  mny,  however,  furnish  yet 
another  derivation,  Guingoi^  meutts  athwart, 
across,  crooked.  The  variegated  striped  and 
crossed  pattern  may  pons ibly  have  originated  the 
name.  It  is  difficult  to  conceive  so  widely  spread 
a  term  taking  its  rise  from  the  small  manufaeture 
of  what  is  little  better  than  a  rillatre.  Your 
readers,  however,  muat  judge  for  tbeinseTres. 

J.   A.   PiCTON. 
Sftndjktiowe,  Wavertree. 

**  Monsieur''  and  "Madame"  {b^  S  ii.  205, 
274.)— It  is  a  well-known  fact  in  French  history 
that,  since  the  eixteenth  century,  Montitvr^  use*! 
by  itself  and  as  a  proper  name,  has  been  applied 
to  the  eldest  brother  of  the  King  of  France.  Tlve 
princeii  who  bore  tins  title  were :  Henri,  Duke  of 
Anjt»u,  under  Ckirlea  IX. ;  Francois,  Duke  of 
Alentjon,  under  Henri  III.  ;  Gaston  d'OrMans, 
under  Louis  XI II. ;  Philippe  d'Orltan.?,  under 
Louis  XIV.  ;  the  Count  of  Provence  (afterwards 
Louis  XVIII.),  under  Louis  XVI. ;  and  the  Count 
of  ArloiB  (afterwards  Cbarles  X.),  under  Louia 
XVIIL  Moiimur's  wife  was  styled  Madame^  or 
Madmfie  Royalty  these  titles  being  given  also  to 
the  king's  eldest  daughter.  In  the  French  wrilertt 
of  the  time  Hcnriette  d'Angleterre,  tbe  daughter 
of  tbe  En^dish  king,  Charles  L,  and  the  wife  of 
Philippe  d'Orlt^ans,  brother  of  Loui?i  XIV.,  is 
always  called  Madame.  Every  one  will  remember 
the  fkmous  passage  of  her  funeral  oratio  by 
Bossnet : — "  O  nnit  d^sast reuse  1  o  nuit  eifroyuble, 
oil  retentit  tout  h  coup  couime  un  eclat  de  tonncrre 
cette  ^tonnante  nouvelle :  ^ladame  se  meurt ! 
Madame  est  morte  ! " 

Naturally  enougb,  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
they  begin  to  _■  •)  Irleat  daughter  of  iVoM^raMir 
*'  le  titre  de  M  '^.''    The  moi»t  celebrated 

princeiis  of  tb.ii  nr  in  ^.ts  the  Duche^«  o(  Mont- 
pensier,  daughter  of  Oiiston  d'OrKun-i  and  nietr  of 
Louis  XIIL,  -•  .  i  ilv  known  as  "hi  Grande  Ma- 
demoiselle,*'i  h  ber  from  Murie-Louise, 
dau;;hter  of  1  , .  d'Orleans  owd  niece  of 
Lonis  XrV.,  who  was  also  Madrmoi*flU, 

Hzsm  Gausskboic, 

Ayr  Academy 

ii.   3690— The  name   of 


by   Edward 


III. 


by  him  i; 
in    I  he 
Little  T 
time  of  1 


to  tbe 
Muded 

lii-X 

'V  on 


John  t 


414 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*  a  IL  Not.  21, 74. 


minster^  an  Pcnmint  states ,  *^  in  opposition  to 
Westminaterj  in  respect  of  its  situation."  New- 
come  observes  (i*  465)  ttuit  the  king  built  the 
Abbey,  **  having  before,  in  a  tempest  on  the  sea 
and  in  peril  of  drowning,  made  a  vow  to  build  a 
monaatery  to  the  honour  of  God  and  the  Lady  of 
Graeej  if  God  would  gmnt  htm  grace  to  come  safo 
to  land,"  Baroei,  in  his  Life  of  King  Edu^ant^ 
p,  437,  says  that  the  kin^  "  caused  it  to  be  named 
£ait  Minatar^  though  it  was  also  called  by  the 
name  of  Niw  A  bhqf^''  and  in  after  times  it  appears 
generally  to  l^ave  been  so  called.  At  tho  Disao- 
hit  ion,  1530,  it  was  seized  by  the  king,  and  a  very 
interesting  letter  from  the  I^ord  Mayor,  Richard 
Gresham,  h  given  by  Burnett  (HuL  liefontmiionj 
iiL,  Slip,  149),  praying  the  king  to  give  the  Abbey 
to  the  City  for  the  benefit  of  the  deaerving  sick 
poor  of  London  ;  and  in  thb  letter  he  terms  it  the 
Mtw  Abhaj  of  Toittr  IfilL  The  king  did  not 
comply  with  this  retmeHtj  but  gr.mted  the  rich 
Abbey  to  Sir  Arthur  Darcy,  who  pulled  it  down. 
It  is,  therefore,  clear  that,  fire  centuries  ago, 
London  had  two  abbeys— Westminster  and  East- 
minster,  but  that  their  fate  in  the  Hefonnation 
was  Tcry  different,  for,  whilst  the  fonner  became 
a  reforaied  church,  the  latter  was  condemQed,sold, 
and  destroyed  ;  and  on  its  si  to  a  fe  f^  years  Inter, 
as  Stowe  relates,  **  convenient  ovens  were  build cd 
for  baking  of  biskit,  to  serve  hir  Majesties  shippes." 
On  another  part  alfiugbter- houses  were  erected, 
and  subsequently  the  Royal  Victualling  Offices 
were  built.  Edwahd  Sollt. 

This  w^aa  the  CL^tercian  house  of  St.  Mary 
Graces,  or  New  Abbey,  in  East  Sutithfield,  without 
the  wails  of  London,  ''Abbatia  S,  Maria?  de  Gratiia 
juxtaTurrim*        Mackenzie  E.  C  Walcott. 

MxEMOMc Calendars  (5*^8.  i.  5,  fiP,  179,  257, 
358  J  ii,  233,  353.)— The  series  of  references  pre- 
fixed to  my  former  communication  (5**^  S.  IL  233) 
ifl  again  pluecd  at  the  head  of  this  present  nt^tice» 
in  order  to  show  that  A.  E.  B  ,  p.  353,  is  quite 
mistaken  in  surmising  that  he  has  encountered, 
however  accidentally,  the  pains  takeri  by  me  to 
deprive  a  venerable  mental  almanac  of  all  its  best 
features,  in  order  to  produce  a  *' worthies.^  c<}pit( 
Tnorhuim"  of  my  own  !  The  pains  taken  by  me 
have  had  no  sach  object.  I  do  not  find,  in  the 
articles  to  which  I  have  referred,  the  slightest 
allusion  to  any  venenible  almanac,  or  to  any  paper 
in  a  former  series  of  "  N.  &  Q."  I  wii>^  really  not 
aware  that  A,  E.  B,  bad  made  a  communication 
anent  the  "  mental  almanac  as  old  as  Venerable 
Bede"  untU  my  attention  w*is  called  to  the  ciix.uni- 
stance  by  his  recent  note,  in  which  my  suggestions 
appear  to  be  criticized  with  more  severity  than 
skill.  The  object  of  my  communication  was 
simply  to  point  out  that,  however  useful  "  A 
Mnemonic  Cdendar  for  1674,'^  as  proposed  by  a 
coirespQndent  or  the  3rd  Jan,,  1874,  mi^\it  ftig^peai 


to  be,  a  Mnemonic  Calendar  which  wouM  apply  to 
ai3y  year  within  the  current  century  wonld  hnTea 
more  practical  value ;  and,  lest  any  one  shonM  Inad- 
vertently apply  the  same  rule  to  one  of  the  yean 
in  the  century  immediately  preceding,  and  thai  be 
led  into  an  error  of  one  day,  I  indicated ,  in  a  foot- 
note, the  mode  of  avoiding  such  error.  So  maeh 
for  my  "  unexplained  preference  for  the  eighteenth 
century. ''  Had  A.  E.  B.  taken  the  trouble  to 
eitamine  the  several  communications  indicated  tl 
the  head  of  mj  paper,  and  thtn  to  have  favomtd 
my  note  of  the  19 th  Bept.,  1874,  with  a  coimdeiitf^ 
perusal,  he  might  prouably  have  found  a  mMa 
designation  for  my  lucubfation  than  a  *^  worthleft 
caput  mmiuvmJ-  He  might  alBO  have  seen  tkt 
the  problem  of  ascertaining  on  what  weck-djy  tie 
26th  June,  1615,  fcU  has  been  Bolredi  ai^oomiii^to 
my  rule,  by  a  simple  reference  to  the  4th  June  of 
that  year,  or  (as  he  would  say)  by  "going  diifct 
to  the  month  required  ^ ;  whereas  he  has  etToneouiJj' 
assumed  that  1  ^^  cannot  get  to  any  month  witkoat 
first  having  recourse  to  January /- 

The  fact  that  1  had  not  €ven  Juard  o/,  much  Im 
^^seen  and  studied  the  almanac  of  Venenhle 
Bede,**  will,  perhaps,  be  deemed  a  sufficient  itdp 
not  only  to  the  hypothetic  sarcasm  contained  in 
the  concluding  paragraph  of  A.  £.  B.'s  eritifiiiiB, 
but  also  to  the  insinuation  founded  on  &n  apput^t 
similarity  between  the  two  lines  which  ire  hu 
appended  in  form  of  a  eoupht  The  former  of 
t^ese  lines  is  quite  unknown  to  me,  the  kttff 
haa  been  marred  by  mLsquottition  I 

Carl  Dlaj. 

Dablln. 

FiELDiNG^B  PuovEUns  (5*^  S,  11.  2CJ9.)— I  »is 
not  aware  of  the  facts  stated  in  Mr,  SxErnES 
Jackson^s  inteTesting  note.  As  the  work  be 
refers  to,  Sikd  Proverbs  of  all  Nations^  was  pob- 
lished  in  1824,  and  "Thomas"  is  given  as  titt 
author*.^  Christian  name,  Mr.  Denhani  must  ha^ 
been  under  one  of  tho;^  hallucinations  we  are  ^1 
Bubject  to  at  times  to  mistake  the  work  for  &m  d 
Henry  Fielding's.  It  also  implies  bad  biblio* 
graphical  knowledge.  Will  Mr.  JAcreojf  kiBiUj 
oblige  with  bis  reasons  or  authority  for  his  oole, 
and  also  give  the  page  of  Mr.  Benham^s  book 
(Percy  Society *fl  Puoliciitionii,  I  presume)  where 
the  reference  to  Fiddimfs  Provtrhs  la  to  be  fomdf 
unless  it  is  in  the  index  (if  any)  ? 

In  the  firit  volume  of  the  last  ^ries,  p.  315*  I 
asked  for  information  as  to  W.  H.  Ireland's  ps^ado* 
nyms  J  I  am  obliged  to  Mr.  Jackson  for  addiiij 
one  to  my  store*  OLrtTAR  Hahst. 

r^cw  Bat  met,  Herti,  N.  ! 

EEGlJfAtn,  COUKT  DE  Valletorta  (5^  S*  it. 
368.) — There  Bcems  to  be  great  doubt  ahotit  Ih* 
identity  and  parentage  of  Bichaitl  de  Oomewall^i     | 
mother,     I  have  her  down  (I  regret  excfedto^y 
^th^l  I  have  not  marked  my  auth^Ity)  a»  Beitni^ 


ff»8.  n.  NcT.  21,  74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


415 


[daughter  of  Theodoric  de  Faikmorite.  I  should 
[be  very  gnvteful  if  any  one  would  either  furnisb 
I  with  u  complete  pedigree  of  Richard^s  descend- 
|(dow  represented  by  the  Corn  walls  of  Delbury) 
'^tell  me  where  thev  may  be  traced.  I  cAnnot 
[  complete  the  descent  from  the  ordinary  books  of 
I  reference,  0.  F.  S,  Warren,  M,A. 

[HiiiMKXTiiuttB  will  reply  nest  week.] 

New  Readings  (5"^  S.  ii.  285.) -The  pocket 
edttioQ  of  Horace  imit*t    surely   huve    been    an 
J  expiLT^nted  one.     It  remimia  me  of  Byron's  lines, 
I  Iktn  Juan^  Citnto  i.  8,  44  :— 

•*  Juan  Mrfts  taught  fnim  out  the  best  edition, 
KxpurgiLCedi  by  IcarDi?d  men,  who  pluce, 
Judiciuusl V,  from  out  the  schoolboy'^  Tision 

The  grasper  parta;  but  fearful  to  deface 
Too  much  tbcir  modc«i  bard  by  tbis  omiislon, 
And  pityinjc  sore  hie  mutilated  cojfc, 
1iej  only  add  them  all  in  an  appeudix, 
iThicb  saves,  in  factj  the  trouble  of  an  index/* 

Doerings  Horace^  by  Charles  Anthon,  LL.B, 
((Loagman  &  Co.,  London,  185C>),  has  "deterrioiii" 
|Ui»te«kd  of  **  teterriina."  Fredk.  Rule. 

**RioHTS   OF  TiiE   Christian   Church,"  &c. 

1(5^  S.  ii,  195,  376.) — Swift  wiis  certtiinly  mistaken 

■in  ascribing  to  Tol and  the  authorship  of  The  EitjhtA 

\  of  the  Ch  rist  ian  Cfi  u  rc/i .    D r,  H  ickes,  w  hen  wri  ting 

bia  reply^  nlthough  he  did  not  actually  mentioQ 

Tindal'^  name,  showed  nevertheless  by  nrmiLstak- 

I  Able  uHu.'jion^  to  hiui,   that  he  felt  tolerably  sure 

lUint  he  was  the  author  ;  but  in  a  subsequent  work, 

ftSjnmniia   JUiivtd,   Hickes   has   put   the   question 

[lioyond  a  doubt  by  saying  that  he  has  seen  a  letter 

Jof  Timlars  "in  his  own  writing,  wherein  be  owns 

Ihimself  Ut  be  the  author  of  it."       F,  NoROATE. 

17,  Bedford  Street,  Covent  Garden. 

EnHi^K  Street  (5*^  8.  il  348.)— Are  not  these 

i\ation8   identical,  Irmunsal  or  Irrainsul 

■J  "  Divine  Warrior"?    And  was  not  Odin 

ttiH'  iz' '  i  ^hus  indicated  I    If  I  am  mistaken  in  either 

Uuppu^ition,  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  corrected. 

Hrrmentrcde. 

FREiJcn  pRONtTKciATioN  (5"»  S,  ii.  368.)— The 
lie  of  The  Eoitciad  to  which  C,  E,  E.  refers  is 
wrong.      At  first,    J50w«,   according   to   the 
FtvDch   pntnunciiktion,  could   never  rhyme   with 
On  the  other  band,  the  feiogular  word  is 
jind  not  souSf  as  it  comes  from  solkhi9t  und 
rmcriy  was  and  sometimes  in  yet  spelt  soL 

Henri  Uausseron. 

PORT  T^iArLS  i'r>»^  S.  L  251>)  are  beads  made  by 
sic  I  tia,  and  used  by  them  as  money 

rior  of  Africa*    A8HA>*tkk  is 
fH^Ui  ii«  lo  their  value.  J.  E.  Hai<i« 

'       r.  Fox's  Ijv.w  .NND  Dumb  Son 

,  II,  W,  F,  Rae  sjiy3,  on  the  an- 

\^      k   j."-ri*.  that  Ch/< I i es  J^imc'3  Fox  had  a 


natural  son  who  was  deaf  and  dumb,  and  add^*  **  I 
am  not  aware  of  any  record  of  what  became  oi  this 
son.'*  The  following  touching  extract  from  Ite^ 
coUedionA  of  the  Tabh-Talk  of  Saiimcl  Rogers^ 
pp.  80-1  (Moxon,  1856),  will,  i  think,  supply  an 
answer  to  Mr,  Rae's  indirect  query  :  — 

"  I  once  dined  at  Mr.  Stono  s  (at  Fldcltncy)  with  Fox, 
Sberid.m,  Talleyrand,  Madame  de  GeuUs*  Pamela,  and 
iomc  other  celebrated  persons  of  the  time.  A  natural 
son  of  Fox,  a  dumb  boy  (wlio  was  the  very  image  of  his 
father,  and  who  died  a  few  yeara  after,  when  about  the 
age  of  fifteen  1,  was  algct  tbere,  bavin;?  come,  for  the  oc- 
casion^ from  Braid  wood  i  Academy,  To  him  Fox  ainioit 
entirely  confined  hi*  attention,  conversing  with  him  by 
the  fingers;  and  tbcir  eyes  glistened  as  tbey  looked  at 
each  other.  Talleyrand  remit rked  to  me  '  UuW  str&ttge 
it  was  to  dine  in  company  with  the  first  orator  in  Europe, 
and  only  Me  him  talk  witA  Ui^  Jingeri  ! '  ** 

S.  R.  Townbhend  Mai'eii, 

Eichmondj  Surrey. 

"  VmoiN  "  (.j»»»  a  il  248.)-I  think  "  Virgin  "  is 
most  probably  the  name  of  a  man.  It  is  not  an 
uncommon  name  in  Sweden,  and  at  least  one 
bearer  of  it  htis  made  himself  known.  Christian 
Adolphe  Virgin,  the  >Svvedbh  navigator,  son  of  a 
rear-admiral,  bora  at  Gottenburg,  *September  5, 
1797,  (Bee  Vapereau's  Dictionnairc  Unlvcrstl 
de^  Contemporain^,  Paris,  1858) 

One  "  Virgin  ^'  is  the  Reporter  to  the  State  of 
Mnine.  See  the  52nd  volume  of  the  Maine.  Be- 
ports^  published  at  Hallo  well,  1860.  {Reports  of 
Casts  in  Law  and  EfiaiUj,  ddermined  by  ih<  Su- 
preme Judicial  Court  of  Maine.  By  Wm.  Wirt 
Virgin,  Refmrter  to  the  State,) 

Sparks  Henhersoit  Willi asi^, 

Kenitngton  Crescent,  \V. 

The  Peerage  a??d  Baronetage  (5***  S.  ii,  268.) 
— A  list  of  existing  peers,  according  to  their  dates 
of  creation,  and  specifying  the  year  of  creation  and 
the  sovereign  creating,  is  given  at  p.  87  of  this 
year's  Wbitaker's  Almanftch  The  editor  culls  the 
list  an  "  Historic  Peerage,"  but,  to  be  truly  hittoric, 
such  a  list  should  give  the  date;*  when  a  family 
was  first  ennobled,  and,  as  in  this  case,  when  they 
received  their  last  title.  This  could  be  compiled 
with  but  little  trouble,  and  would,  I  think,  be 
found  to  be  of  remarkable  interest.  List*  of 
•baronetcies  are  published  in  m:iny  works,  of 
which,  perhaps  the  IShilling  Barondiigf.  is  most 
iiccessible.  All  such  lists  as  I  have  seen  are  in- 
complete by  their  omitting  peer«  who  happen  to 
be  baronets,  R,  Passinuham, 

"Bonnie  Annie  Laurie"  (o»»»  S.  ii,  264.)- 
Might  I  suggest  to  Dr.  Ramaue  the  advisability 
of  h's  referring  to  the  Scottish  Cavaliers^  a  novel 
by  James  Grant  I  The  author  gives  a  full  account 
of  the  composition  of  An7nc  La%ini\  and  of  the 
death  of  its  gallant  author,        J,  S,  STArroRD, 

Blaec's  Atlxs  ^^^^  ?^.  \\,  «Ufn.^— '^lai^^^^y^^^N^ 
bis  .4ccouTd  of  tUu  Ifcltttvl%  oj  OTVtvt'W|>\»^^-t'^'^^'* 


416 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6»*  an.  Not.  21,74. 


makes  meatioQ  of  ^'Toists,  L^ets,  KittiwackSf 
Gulls,  &c.,  \vbich  build  very  thick  on  ihelrea  of 
Iilgli  rocks,"  p,  73  ;  be  remarks  the  two  first- named 
are  **  sea  fowb,  very  fat  and  deUcioua/'  p.  46* 

The  Toiat  or  Tyst«  is  the  Bkck  QuiUemot, 
Uria  GrylJc  (aee  Penn,  Brit  ZooL,  vol  ii.  p.  163  ; 
iJso  Yarreirfl  Birth,  vol.  iii»  p.  356)»  I  think 
"Tho  Layer''  luij^t  be  the  cointnoo  or  fooliah 
OttiUemot*  Uria  Troile,— according  to  PenEant, 
p.  IGO,  called  the  Lavy,  Lomvie,  &c, 

P.S.^Mny  not  the  quaint -looking  fowl,  **The 
lAiver,''  with  which  the  ameld  of  arms  of  the  town 
of  LiYeTpool  is  clmrged^  be,  aft^r  all,  merely  the 
common  Gtu]lemt»t  heraldicallj  treated  I  I  know 
I  shall  bo  considered  a  rooEster  for  snggeating 
such  a  thincT, 

Cipher  (5^^  S.  ii,  Snrj.j—Mn*  Warb  aaka,  **  How 
oM  is  the  practice  of  writing  in  cipher  I "  I  can- 
not answer  this  ([uery,  but  I  can  refer  him  to  a 
veiy  ably  written  article  on  the  subject,  by  an 
anonytQoii.^  writer,  in  the  (^onthiU  Magazine,  for 
Febraiiry  of  thia  year,  who  t resits  the  matter  ex- 
haustively under  the  title  of  "  >tissives  in  Mas- 
querade/' I  ofler  a  few  remarka  on  the  modem 
use  of  cipher, 

I  assume  that  whatever  is  written  in  any  Ian- 
guoge,  the  lettera  being  rolsphicetl,  distorted  in 
any  wiiy,  or  suppliet]  by  numerals  or  ori^^inal 
ahapes,  is  called  cipher.  Arony  mercantile  firms 
in  London  have  a  cipher^  which  they  make  use  of 
for  telef^msj  so  that  their  priv^-He  iiffain!  may  not 
become  known,  svUlionj*h  publicly  transmitted  ; 
the  usual  meth'id  con.'?i>it8  of  putting  consnnanta 
in  the  place  of  v<iwel?^,  and  rice  in  ml.  I  know 
iereral  method^i,  but  I  dare  not  divuli;c  them. 
The  writer,  wboin  T  hivre  mentioned  [is  trcjiting 
of  this  suhject  in  the  Corukill  Mtigaxinc  fur 
Febniary  last,  for— 

K6X4KKMaBi:iAnV^FPMim2Ki;M[>lLU*<^'i5DK6K4K 

KMAB4MPC213.i4:*;4.\14K'JMPMri2MP4AlFBI34DKCli 

E042R54X4M4K/' 

reads— 

**  De*  Menschr-n  Lebe-i  ivHIirct  ficbensitg  Jnhr,  and 
woDn'a  koch  kfiniiiit,  ta  eindV  achtzi^,  und  wenn'fi  kiitt' 
hch  ^«vr<;3€ii  Ut,  m  ist  c»  MUhe  und  Arbeit  gevi^ii/' 

The  way  to  read  a  cipher  ifi  tn  compute  what 
letter,  numeral  or  »i^n,  occurs  most ',  then  the  next 
most  frequently  rccurrin;^  letter  muH^  he  eoujzht 
for,  until  five  letter^,  nnmcmU,  or  i^t<:ns,  are  iVu- 
covered  to  be  mo^^  u^^erL  Pref^umin;;  lbe?e  to  be 
vowels^  it  will  require  no  very  imn^ native  person 
to  read  the  wliole, 

The  cipher— cAlled  the  Mor^e  alphabet— u?ed 
in  the  Post.-il  Telci^niph  Olhces,  and  which  the 
telegEiph  jn^t  rumen t^,  by  a  ncicntriic  process  I 
cannot  here  dUm>%  mark  on  blue  slips  *>f  paper, 


and  which  yotinif  lady  telcgrapfhwt'^  teaA  vf\^^lftm\\', 


astonishing  rapidity,  is  as  foUowB  ( —  ii  cilkd  & 
dash,  -  is  called  a  dot) : — 

A,.^;  B, c  — '  — s  D,  — — ;  F,-j  F, 

" *  r» ~" — SjH, ----,*  It--;  J, -— —  —  ;K, 

;  h, -J  Mf  —  —i  N,  —  * ;  Of— 1  P, 

And  the  figurei — 
i»"  — —  —  — '  2," T't^'  ' Ti  *■" 

This  is  a  cipher— a  dphi^r  uied  all  or^f  ih 
world,  and  applied  to  great  publio  use.  Lorm 
and  thieves  use  cipher.  Although  I  catuwJt  pnt 
forth  a  claim  to  either  of  these  distinct  ion%  I  my- 
self have  written  letters  in  cipher,  and  hnve 
received  replies  in  the  same.  Shorthand^  of  whici 
there  are  vorioas  methods,  may  be  termed  cipbert 
as  also  may  the  practice  of  speaking  and  purposelr 
mis-aounding  the  vowels.  This  art  b^  been  bf©ai:br 
to  great  perfection.  Mr.  John  Forstei',  in  tbe  fitvt 
volume  of  Th^  Life  of  Cliatlei  Ditktm^  telb  in 
bow  young  Dickens  and  his  associates  invented!  a 
lingo  with  which  they  would  converse  in  ^ 
stieeti,  as  they  had  the  ambition  to  be  considered 
foreigners.  Perhaps  some  correspondent  of  *'N. 
<fe  Q  ^'  can  refer  me  to  a  few  tnals  where  frlooi 
hare  been  proved  to  use  cipher  in  their  written 
communieattona  with  their  confederates. 

Waltkh  Bloomfieu). 

139,  Fackington  Strett,  Islington. 

Sin  Francis  Swivt  (.^^  S  il  263,  333.>— !Jt 
reply  to  Mn.  Wister'^  query  mifi,  as  I  said, 
written  with  no  surer  assistance  than  tif  i^y 
memory  ;  but  I  have  ctigiudly  laid  hand^  on  s 
letter^  dated  28th  December,  1839,  addressed  to 
me  by  my  cousin,  the  late  th  jure  "^'i^count  r4i- 
iingford,  which  enables  mo  to  correct  my  recent 
comnumication.  It  mentions  tho  adminialration 
tf>  the  wiU  of  the  first  Viscount,  laearing  dale 
1 9th  January,  1C3G;  wbere;\s  his  decease  U  le- 
corded  in  Eome  of  the  old  jjecrage- hooks  as  havini: 
taken  place  in  1G42.  The  quest  ion^  as  my  can*in 
fairly  put  it  to  me,  is,  who  acceded  to  the  title 
in  succession  to  tbe  first  Viscount  (as  he  dJed 
^vithout  male  ii^sue,  ita  patent  must  have  been 
collateral)  during  the  aforesaid  interval  of  six  yean  ■ 
My  cousin'^  letter  ftirther  observes  his  having  Mfl» 
it  in  an  old  iwemge-book  m  borne  by  Sir  FffTKO* 
Swift,  the  Sir  Edv^trd  Swift  mentioned  elsewhi^re 
113  one  of   the   Herefordshire  mognatea  at  tbui 

Crriod  (in  which  cDUuty  was  our  old  family  e^tai*) 
eing,  in  all  probability,  a  misnomer. 
This  has  nc^thing  to  do  with  the  City  sheriff^  ^^ 
whose  prfcnomen  I  have   no  C4?rtaiQ   knowJr^^. 
I  hcanl  it  said  the  other  day  that  it  was  I£i chant 
Be  this  as  it  may^  I  do  not  think  he  was  of  o^iT 


E^uiiCND  LEnrrBALii  6wirtB> 


6*  an.  Nov.  21,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


417 


PecCLUII    TftEATKENT    OP    SOME  WoRDS,    &C. 

1(5^*^  a  i.  2-17  ;  ii.  90,  197,  336.)"*S*wm  d'or^f.-- 
\T\i'   :'        htion  of  hr<  '  -  \  corrupted  from 

I  -rwr.  lo  *U('rc  </  res  contirmutioD. 

Uiit,..-  .,,,.  iii^tory  of  liiL  ->. LI  liiieat  will  furnish 
IthU,  I  thinlt  we  tnn.wt  decline  the  cnticinj^  flerivn- 
[tion  'T  A  ^t.  J»  M.  gives.  Oiie  would  expect 
I  ficr  turn  up  iiB  sogar-bafUif  rather  than 

Ifcrtr.  ,  ,  ,  no  inversion  (a^  bniUr-scotch  showe) 
[bciiig  needed  to  English  it.  Littre  says  ^uae 
Id'orgc  is  clarified  sugar  flavoured  with  barley 
l(ory«)  and  tinted  with  Staflfron. 

Henry  Attwell. 
Barnes. 

Hkrriko  Counting  (S^^*  S.  ii.  UJ7,  2l5;)^The 
f^followintr  is  the  nianner  in  which  herrings  ore 
I  caunt^d  in  the  lele  of  Man.  The  mode  of  reckoning 
1 1,5  by  scoi^«,  of  which  six  score  form  the  hundred, 
land  five  hundred  the  rtifmah  (Gaelic),  njease  or 
I  luxize,  Jw  epelt  in  »ome  of  the  old  Manx  statutes, 
\hy  which  lerm  they  are  «oldj  consisting  of  iMO 
Lerrijigfli  made  up  in  the  following  way. 

In  counting  the  herrings  from  a  boat,  two  of 
.thr  fishermen  are  almost  invariably  emplojcfl, 
I  each  of  whom  alternately  takes  up  a  itarj>  (nJimely 
Ithj^e  h*h),  and  throws  them  into  a  bivsket,  calliDg 
[•out  aloud  in  Manx  the  number  of  warps  thrown 
]  in.  Thus,  the  first  man  callus  out,  as  he  throws  in 
this  warp,  *'annane'*  (or,  as  it  is  j^enerally  con- 
\tnict«d,  "nane^);  the  second  calls  '*jeev  t^t> 
»t  "t)(ree,"  the  second  *^kiare."  and  so  on  until 
the  numWr  reaches  forty  or '*  daeed,"  whereupon 
l.the  first  man  throws  in  three  extra  herrings,  calling 
lout  **  warp/*  and  the  eecond,  throwing  in  a  single 
l&ah,  cries  cut  ''i\s  tailhy/'  that  is  *'and  tally ." 
The  nipidity  vvilh  which  a  couple  of  experienced 
i  will  count  out  a  largt^  riuantity  of  herrings  is 
risin*;,  The  counting  in  English  is  attended 
1th  the  enme  forms,  forty  warp*  of  three  fish, 
[and  the  extra  four  to  the  hundred. 

By  nn  Act  of  Tynwald,  passed  in  1817^  it  wa? 
Pf!ec!rred   Hint  the  "cran**  should  contain  forly- 
I         -h  wine  measure;  but  it  very 
use,  and  herrings  are  now  sold 
Lby  uh\  ^  %  bHjii'U'forc         William  HARiiido^r. 
Kuck  Muunt,  late  uf  Man. 

•*  Gtnn  ■'  U  U5(hJ  for  a  uie4i5iire  of  rather  more 
ban  a  barrel  of  herrings,  and  is,  I  believe^  pectiliar 
(to  the  S<jotch  trade,  W,  Whistqk. 

j>,:i.x',   r..j:j.  ^^'tonartt  defines — ^^ixhtstol 
e«l  lee  ;  a  ct^/i',  u  rt-K^el  con* 

•  ,;  :     1  n-)o  .Mi'if^^'*  making, 

',    and    not 
■  ,       .  iHdiojiarjf. 

Twos.  BiftP. 
Bomfor  I 

Ay  OLti  CLATUaar.  (n»*  S.  ii.  10J>,  26a.Klf  the 
lai|ttif«ci  oXiOni  baa  a  Utsket  hilt  nf  copper 


or  gun-metal,  it  wm  probably  worn  by  some  ser- 
geant in  the  English  foot-guards  early  in  the  reign 
of  George  III,  or  late  in  that  of  his  predecessor. 
There  are  several  in  the  Tower  of  London,  aad 
two  in  my  possession.  One  of  the  latter  bears  the 
^imo  in>tTiption  as  that  on  the  blade  described  by 
RcoT.  The  other  is  an  Andrea  Ferrara.  As  ibr 
J.  J.  liunkel,  I  believe  him  to  have  been  an  ar- 
mourer at  Solingen^  about  the  end  of  the  seven* 
teenth  century.  I  do  not  find  his  name  in  Bern- 
min  On  IVcapom  of  IVar,  but  think  I  have  seen 
more  blades  than  my  own  inscribed  with  it. 

W.  J.  Bernhard  Smith. 
Temple. 

*'  Unaccustomed  as  I  am,'*  t&c.  {6^  S,  i.  367  ; 
ii.  273.)— I  think  if  Mfi.  Danbt-Palmer  will  look 
again,  he  will  find  that  his  quotation  is  not  quite 
relevant.  Ajax,  as  I  read  the  passage,  does  not 
feay  that  he  is  "  unaccustomed  to  public  speaking,*' 
for  he  did  his  full  share  of  this  when  occasion 
serve<lj  but  that  lie  was  more  forward  to  act  th^n 
to  speak  My  motto,  he  would  say,  is  "  Facta  non 
Verba,"  but  that  of  Ulysses  the  reverse  : — 
"Qauniutnqae  ego  Marie  fcroci, 

Quant ilm  acie  valeo,  tantum  Tulet  iate  loqueodo.*' 
Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Sn.LDDONGATK  (5^^  S.  1.  328,  3!)5,  517  ;  ii.  275) 
may  mean  *'gate  or  opening  of  the  Sbaddoti,** 
perhaps  the  old  appellation  of  one  of  the  three 
circumclngcnt  rivers.  The  name  Caude  (i,  q.  the 
CftJdew)  might  in  time  become  Caudn,  Cudn,  and 
finally  Shaddon.  II  S.  Charhock. 

(Srt*fs  Inn, 

"SiyopLE"  {5^  S.  ii.  S%  155,  277.)— In  the 
Manipulus  Vocabulorum^  1570  fCaaulen  Boc., 
18C7),  occur  the  following  notices  of  this  word ; — 

""    ,     '      ?h,  ruddU.    6yKCi?>yr,  coiowrc>  ftinopi*.** — 

tone  red  t>f  couloor;  i^uiOids.    tS^n^opU,^ 
couluoi  rtdJfl,  miniaciui.    Synople,  or  red  Me,  minium.'* 

A,  L.  :Maybkw. 
Oiford. 
N.B.  This  transcript  is  vfrhatim  ct  literatim, 

Latin  and  E^GLise  Quaktjty  (6*^  S.  i.  464  ; 
ii.  13.)— I  think  Mr.  Oaklet,  in  quoting  the  »tory 
of  the  Scotch  advocate  who,  in  deference  to  Iho 
judge,  followed,  as  he  thought,  the  Liitin  Quantity 
when  he  prrmounced  senator  *CK(Ifor,  and  orator 
orator,  must  have  overlooked  this  fact,— an rl  it  is 
one  little  known,  and  still  less  written  about,-— 
namely,  that  nearly  all  EngUsh  words  (I  admit 
there  sire  excei»tions)  derived  from  the  Latin,  when 
piv>nounced  corrf     '      '  *  '     ^       *  on 

ih*»  root  of  the  \T 


418 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*  8.  IL  Not.  21,74. 


— Intenninable  {terminvs);  intermit' tent  (milto) ; 
inteme'cme  [neea);  sa'criatan  (wcra).  Elegant 
speakers  aiwnys  «aj  contei?ipkte  (i^mplwmyt  not 
contemplate,  Tliia  latter  form,  howeTer,  I  admit 
IB  med  by  "  the  million/'  J,  L.  C.  S, 

JoHEL  DB  ToTHEfl  (5"^  S.  il.  260,  308,  334,}— 
Vide  Moti,,  iv,t  628,  630,  and  v.,  196,  198;  Kllls'a 
IntfoducHon  to  Domesday j  i.,  109,  141  j  QttaTterly 
S^eiffj  ccx,,  439  ;  Madox,  Fimm  Burgi,  16,  and 
Barmia  Anglica^  45,  64,  91,  92.  F.  L. 

AftTHun  Matswahing  (5**^  S.  iL  288,  374.)— 
An  account  of  liii  life  wiU  be  found  in  Tkt 
Mtmoin  of  (ht  Mt^nhers  &ftke  Kit- Oat  Clnh^  pub- 
lished in  1B21  ;  Eee  ako  Noble^s  Continufttion  of 
Granger  iiBoe),  vol  ii.,  p.  S9<). 

CfiAKi^Es  Wyub. 

J,  T.  Sehrbs  (5*^  S.  ii.  289,  364,  397):— 
'' Thurvdnj  difd  Dominic  Serrfs.  Esq.,  Rot&I  Ac^e- 
ialGi«n  and  Marina  Piiinter  to  Hia  Mbi«£tf ,  fiitber  of  Mr. 
SeiTfli,  dnwIng-mMter  of  ibis  cit  j.    He  waa  que  of  tbe 
fint  fort  J  Miiita  wbo  eaUbUfibed  the  AcAdeniy." 

The  above  is  copied  frc»m  tbe  Bath  dinyiiicle  for 
tbe  Htli  of  Kovember,  1793,    W.  R  Rujsselu 
BatU. 

"Tub  Butterfly's  Ball'^  (3^**  S.  ii.  327,  352, 
372.) — I  beg  to  correct  an  inaccuracy  in  my  reply 
to  this  query.  I  wrote  hastily,  having- just  returned 
to  town.  Mrs,  Dorset  was  undoubtedly  the 
authoress  of  The  BuUerfiifs  Ball  and  Tht  Pmcoek 
at  H&in^j  but  she  wsia  7wt  "Charlotte  Smith." 
Mrs.  Smith  was  her  sister,  a  notice  of  whose  death, 
and  that  of  her  husband,  will  be  found  in  the 
Ann.  E^g.f  %\vuL  515  and  563.  I  believe  Mrs. 
DorKOt^a  maiden  name  waa  Turner.  Mj  family 
waa  acquainted  with  her,  and  I  can  just  recollect 
her  in  her  house  in  West  Street,  Brighton. 

S.  D.  S. 

There  mu^t  have  been  o.  perfect  mania  for  imi- 
tating Eo^coe's  Biiiltrjlfs  Ball  about  the  year 
1608|  for,  in  addition  to  those  already  mentioned, 
I  have  seen  The^  Horse- 3  Le^^te,  Tht  Uliah^s 
Juhihe,  and  The  li^cilding  of  the  Flowtn,  Most 
of  them  have  some  clever  lines  ;  but  those  are 
exactly  what  the  children,  for  whom  they  profess 
to  be  written,  would  not  be  able  to  see  the  point  of. 

P.  P. 

Bm  Edward  Hunqerfoed  (5^^  S.  ii.  229^  203.) 
—  Beckjngton  will  find  the  old  stonr  of  Sir  Edw. 
Bungerforti  having  lived  to  the  age  of  115  disposed 
of,  it  was  hoped  for  ever,  if  he  will  refer  to  **  N. 
&  Q,,''  4"*  S.  vL  454.  J,  E.  Jackson 

"  Lxjcua  A  HON  LucENDO  "  (5^*^  S.  ii,  205,  272.) 

— To  my  mind  neither  Bit  em  nor  Mr.  Charnocs 

has  hit  the  blot,     I  much  rather  symbolt^  with 

f^Aif^  and  Middft,     They  lay,  rub  tow,  "  akm  \^ 

Samcnt,   root  U^  Qt,  At^w,  scindere  ;  d,  Toll 


Eiym.  FontK^  i.  p.  209.  A  plae€  deartd  4y  mt- 
ting,  &>G.,  henoe  an  ttpen  vmod/*  In  Xtna  we  get 
the  religioaa  notion  =  to  loose,  in  the  ien^  of 
ranitom  or  redtem  :■ — 

Ilat^a  £f  J£Oc  XvtraiT€  d>tXnv.  ic,t.A. 

Whence  luctts  came  to  mean  a  sacred  grove — "  Jncai 
est  arborum  multitudo  cum  religione/'  om  S^rrivM 
Matitus  explains  it. 

The  quotation  from  Livy,  the  wording  of  whldi 
Shem  pronounces  not  "exact,"^  seems  to  me  as 
(jcacihi  to  deacrtbe  this  IttctiM  as  the  quotatioa 
from  Cicero  has  nothing  in  the  world  to  do  wiik 
it.  Cicero  La  relating  how  he  found  the  tomb  of 
Archimedes  at  Syracuse,  whicbj  by  long  ncgkctf 
bad  become  so  overgrown  with  thoma  and  bnub- 
wood  that  its  very  existence  was  unknown  to  ftny 
of  the  citizens,  upon  which  he  moraJizea  in  the 
usual  strain  of  '^  aic  transit  gloria  muudi/- — "  Iti 
nobiliaslma  Griccioc  civitaa,  quondam  vero  etim 
doctiAsima^  aui  civis  unius  a^utiBsJini  monumentum 
ignorasiet,  nisi  ah  hdmine  Arpinate  didieisset" 
Bdmxtkd  Tew,  M.A 

Bedell  Family  (5**^  S.  ii.  8,  334.)-The  wfll 
of  a  James  Bedell  was  proved  in  London  oa 
January  3,  1574.  By  It  he  left  some  hmd  in  tbe 
village  of  Duxford,  Cambridgeibire,  the  rent  of 
which  was  to  purchase  herrings  to  be  distribnted 
among  the  poor  of  the  parish  in  the  season  of 
Lent  in  every  year.  The  above  peculiar  charity 
was  discontinued  for  about  ten  successive  jeais ; 
but  ten  years  ago,  through  the  exertion  of  some 
kind  friend  of  the  poor,  it  was  i^ade  known  to 
them  and  revived.  Probably  tbe  donor  may  be  of 
the  same  family  as  the  Bedells  mentioned  In  the 
Pariah  Eegiater  of  Wooton,  Beda. 

H.  C  Lofts. 

Y.  S.  M.  may  add  the  following  entries  froai 
the  Wooton  Begisters,  co.  Bedford,  concerning  tbe 
Bedell  fiimily ; — 

1570-1.    F©b.22,  George  BedeUs. 

16&2.        Sept.  24.  Marie  Bcdclb,  daa.  of  Henrie  BedeU^ 

the  jonf^er. 
To  '^593.  Nov.  25.  Marie  BedelJi ,"  add  d»u.  of  Geors« 
Bedells. 

Mar€!i  9.  Jane»  dan.  of  Thomas  Bedells. 

May  7.  Wiinfredj  dftu*  of  Tboitiiw  Bedelli. 

OcL  1.  Annj  dan.  of  George  Bedelts. 

June  3.  An^,  dun.  of  Thomas  Bedell?. 

Oct  10.  John,  Eon  of  Thomjis  Beadles. 

Aug.  9.  Sarsh^  dau.  of  Willm.  BedcL 

Jfin«  27^  Henrie^  BHran  of  Hebrio  Beadlti. 

Feb.  1/.  Charitio,  dau.  of  George  Beadlet. 

Jiily  6.  GeoiTgo,  son  of  George  Bcailks.'* 

"  Mavria^ft* 
The  xxih   dale  (no  month).    Willm.   Bedlri  w:>d 
Mary  Cartwright. 
1592,  Jtilj  2£l.  Henry  Bcdetla  and  Jaiia  Godfree, 
1613.  Oct    m    Tubal    Griawditch   and  Suahu  Jktlt 


15n7*S. 
15&8. 

um. 

1599. 

1605. 

1607, 

161041, 

161041 

1612. 

1570. 


•v 


419 


^' 


1600.  Mny  25.  Eilward,  son  of  Tbomiis  Beflells. 
1007.  April  3,  Jaho,  eon  of  Tbonms  BedcUfL 
1611.  >laroh  31.  Joan*  wife  of  Geor;;ii  Beudlet. 
1^12.  July  25.  Gcorgif,  8oii  of  George  BeudleB/* 

D.  C.  E. 
The  Cr««eeiil«  BcdfofJ. 

Tor  Arjis  of  Sir  Francis  Drake  (4*^  8.  xi. 

[-4G4,  514;  xil  35;  5«*»  S.  iL  232,  37L)^I  am  in- 

I  debted  to  8ir  Willinm  Drake  for  pointing  out  that 

I  was  wrong  in  stating  that  the  ea^'le  crest  waa 

over  each  of  the  wyrern  shield;*,  on   the   triple 

Drake  nioniiDient  in   Musbury  (p.  372,  ante).     I 

frhoold  hare  said,  it  surmounted  a  wyvern  shield 

L  fixed  against  the  wall  over  the  monument  itself. 

^Th«  mistuke  aroae  from  my  having  referred  to  a 

f  this  shield  appended  to  the  entry  of  the 

in  my  transcript  book  here,  the  originiil 

s,  taken  about  twenty  years  ago,  being  in 

waU.     After  so  loog  an  interyal,  my  r^coTlec- 

ilet^iila  was  at  fault.     The  eagle  crest  is 

Ion  the  church  plate  at  Muabury,  and  abio 

'eked  in  the  original  visitation  of  Devon 

imi     HarL  1163,  fo.  22L 

Henry  H.  Drake. 
London. 

Tub  Counts  of  La nc astro  (5*^  S.  ii.  3<:^4,)~ 
The  Counts  of  Lnncastro  arc  an  illegitimate  branch 
of  the  Royal  Hou&e  of  Portugal,  deriving  their 
descent  fn>m  D.  George  de  Lancastro,  natural  .son 
of  King  John  IL 

The  name  was  assumed  in  remembrance  of  the 
•f  the  Portuguese  Royal  ftmiily  from  John 
,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  through  his  daughter 
i  iimp^Ki,  vvifo  of  King  John  L 

The  title,  then,  is  not  one  conferred  by  **  a  foreign 
power "  "  on  a  British  Btibject,"  nor  am  I  aware 
that  any  "  foreign  Governments  "  have  been  led  to 
•*  take  such  liberties  with  us  "  in  any  other  case.  I 
may  be  pirnittted  to  remind  S.  that  his  "kinsman  " 
8ir  Jolin  Lawrence  is  by  no  means  the  only  person 
of  whom  it  may  be  justly  said  that  "  he  was  apt  to 
take  bis  premises  for  granted,  and  then  build  ui>on 
thein  excellent  arguments!"  I  add  an  extract 
|froin  n  Portuguese  work  which  refers  to  the 
(object  of  this  reply  :— **  Lancaxtro^.  Procedom 
lei  Rey  D.  Joa6  IL  por  seu  filho  D.  Jorge  de 
lAUCii^tro,  em  quern  teve  principio  a  Casa  de 
Aveiivi,  derivando  o  appellido  da  Rainha  Dona 
Filippti,  muiher  del  Rey  D.  Joa«^  L,  fiUia  de  JoaS, 
i>uque  dp  Lancastro  en  InghOterra.  Usad  das 
Beaes  deste  Reyno,  com  a  quebnv  de 
'"  " — XohiliarcJiia  roHufjucaa,  1754,  page 
J.  Woodward. 

(iosrATnic  :;.S"»  S,  ii.  87,  nrK^-The  name  Croa- 
Ipfttric  or  Cospatric  18  a  probable  corruption  of 
Iromef    FtUrieiui.     In    Rymer,    Fadera^   Lond., 


1704,  torn.  i.  p.  252,  a.d,  1221,  Hen.  III.,  under 
**  De  Dote  conc-esaa  a  *Rege  :  Scotitc  sponsre  surL* 
Johanmv  eorori  Regis  Aoglia*,"  ooe  of  the  witnesses 
h  ComiU  Patric ;  iim\  at  p.  374  377,  a*d.  1237, 
an.  21  Hen,  IIL,  Put.  21,  Hen.  IIL,  n,  2  d., 
"Omnium  quereliirum  inter  Ari^^lia*  ct  Scotia* 
Reges  final  is  concord!  a  coram  Uttone  Cardinal  i 
Legato  apud  Eboracum,"  one  of  the  witnesses  is 
ComiU  Fatrido,  R.  S.  CilARXOCK. 

Qraj'a  Jon. 


lEliitctllAiitaui* 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc. 
The  Edition  of  the.  Chnat ;  its  Historic  and  Literary 
Zkx'ctopmait  consider td  as  an  Emdcnce  of  tU 
Orifjin.  Hic  Bumpion  LcduTa  for  1874,  By 
the  Rev,  Stanley  lieathes,  ^LA,  (Rivingtons.) 
Where  the  merits  of  a  work  are  not  a  few,  as  in 
this  instance,  they  can  only  be  hinted  at  in  a  brief 
uotice.  The  scope  of  the  Preface  iilone  may  convey 
<ome  idea  of  the  extensive,  yet  careful,  survey  of 
Christianity  which  the  lecturer  has  made.  That 
the  distin^iishing  mark  of  Chri.stianity  from  its 
origin  has  been  the  belief  that  Jcbus  wha  the  Christ 
ts  no  mere  truism  ;  the  Conception  of  Christ  and 
its  consequences  are  involved.  The  life  of  Jesua 
was  adequately  to  set  in  motion  the  machinery 
latent  in  the  Christ-conception.  Within  a  period, 
of  some  eighty  years,  the  literary  monuments  in 
proof  of  this  were  produced.  Such  a  belief  in 
Jesus  the  Christ  created  the  unitpic  literature  of 
the  Christian  society.  A  new  and  original  litera- 
ture was  formed.  This  is  no  insignificant  pheno- 
menon ;  Christianity  supplanted  the  dominion  of 
the  Ciesars,  and  penetrated  the  whole  framework 
of  society.  However  unsatisfactory  this  Christ* 
relipon  and  literature  may  be  deemed  by  science, 
their  tremendous  consequeneea  are  facts.  In  the 
long  run,  the  work  proves  the  workman,  and  this 
movement  will  eventually  be  found  to  have  had  no 
inherently  defective  origin.  The  effects  produced 
are  beyond  human  agency,  and  denumd  their  own 
solution.  Kot  of  human  source,  they  spring  either 
from  Nature  or  God.  If  the  phenomenon  naturally 
arises,  the  Christ-religion  h  no  special  exponent  of 
the  Divine  will,  God  and  Nature  are  not  con- 
vertible terms.  If  the  religion  of  the  Chriat  be  a 
mere  expression  of  natural  religion  ^  ita  founder  is  an 
anomaly  in  Nature  ;  it^  mess;ige  is  opposed  to  thftt 
of  other  religions.  The  i>oint  of  collision  is  the 
central  idea  of  the  Christ -religion.  The  Christ-cha* 
racter  is  not  [peculiar  to  Christianity  ;  it  grew  out 
of  the  seed  of  Judaism.  The  position  daimed  for 
the  Christ- religion  is  clear.  It  is  not  the  product 
of  Nature,  though  it  naturally  takes  it'^  place 
among  other  religions,  being  born  of  one  of  them, 
Mr,  Stanley  Leathes's  Lectures  form  an  able 
sequel  to  his  Boylt  Lectures,  and  His  method  of 
argtiment  is  logical  throughout.   In  parts^  hiii  st^le 


^m 


420 


NOTES  AND  QUEIIIES, 


[^••'afi^ 


is  Dot  nnlike  thnt  of  Piiley.  In  thc«e  •'  Ei^lit 
Divinity  Lectures  to  confirm  the  Clirii?tinii  Faith/* 
the  will  of  the  Rer,  Jolin  BuniptOQ  lins  l>c«?n  pro* 
fouDdly  t'urried  oiU.  It  ia  in  no  sniKi-tioinl  wiiy 
that  thr(»u;j;li  history,  iToctry,  and  prophecy,  (3xforri 
men  firvve  heen  led  l>y  the  tii^t  CrmiWidge  Btimp- 
ton  Lecturer  to  dwell  thoughtfully  on  the  origiD  of 
the  Christ-rdigion. 

Aminea   net   JHtctjtertd   h^  Cotumhu*:  a    IlittoHcal 
Slekh  of  iht  IKHorif  of  Amtrica  htf  the  Nonttneti  in 
the  Teuth  Cctitufu.     liy  K  B.  Andcr&ou,  A.M.,  of  tho 
Uniyersity  of  WtEConain.    With  au  ApnendiJi  on  the 
Hiat^jncttlr    Lmgutstic^   »nd   Si^ientiJic  Value  of  tbe 
gcaiidiDRvmn  LftagUAgcs.    (Chicago,  Griggs;  Loodottj 
Triibncr  &  Co.) 
This  pleafunt  little  Yolutne  is  a  %7kltmbtc  addition  to 
Americati  hietory*     Itf  olject  U  fully  d«cnbcd  in  iU 
titl€-pAg«.  nud  tbe  author's  iiarTatire  is  vcrr  rriniLrkftblL*. 
Ko  one,  bovevcr^  «Joubtcd  tbe  lact  tbut  Atncrican  soil 
liad  been  trodden  by  outsiders  befi^re  Colon  curried  out 
his  project,    tbe   glory  of  whicb   no   one  cnn  tAmieh. 
Even  Mr.  Anderson  eu^geists  that  the  Norsemen  maj 
not  hare  been  tbe  first  discoreners.    In  the  year  1029, 
Gudlatigson^  a  N'orse  navigator,  bound  from  Dublin  for 
Icclaiid,  wai  driven  on  to  the  cast  coast  of  Amcrioa,  tb« 
people  of  wbiuli  {sayx  Mr.  AndGrAOU)  "  rather  appeared  to 
them'  {the  Nur3eroan':5  crew)  '*that  they  spoke  IriahJ* 
A  iag»,  wc  ore  told,  nffirmi  that  this  part  of  the  con- 
tinent Wfift  then   called  *'  Irtand  edh   Mykla/'  that  i», 
"Great]     '      '  '       '    '    '    ■  '        I  intry  had  been  colo- 
nised ].  t."    The  book  ia  full 
of  feitni '.          .         „                          1  it  wDl  be  read  with 
Bomething  like  wuiideriaent. 

The  Loit  of  thi  Dingmiwakn,    A  Paper  read  to  the 

Eeewick  Literary  Society,     By  J,  F-  Crostliwaite, 

(Cockermouth,  Bailey.) 
Mn.  CTio>TBWxvm:'s  paper  is  full  of  mntter  which 
demand?  and  wins  the  uttno^t  eympatli\%  und  it  ia 
rendered  doubly  interesting  by  its  pictoriaf  illus^trationA. 
It  should  be  bound  up  «vith  any  hi£tory  of  the  event  of 
which  Lord  Derwcntwattr  >va*  one  of  the  tiutima.  We 
add  to  these  few  word^  a  comxuuniciitiou,  from  a  wdl- 
known  corrrsDondent  of  '*K»  k  Q^/*  inrhicb  is  clontly 
connected  with  the  subject  :— 

*'  Dii>To?r  Hall,  NoRXHrMBfRLAMj. — The  Lord*  of 
the  Admiralty^  as  C'ommiSBionens  of  Grecnwi'^h  llrt<»|ntul, 
having  trranbed  to  Lord  Petre,  the  direct  :  i  vc, 

in  the  feiuate  line,  of  the  chivalrou*  aud  i  I  of 

Derwvntivatcr,  pemLission  to  remove  the  i ;  hlg 

ancestnrsfromtneir  family  vault  at  Dihton,  hia  Lurdebtp 
hits  remoTcd  tbe  body  of  Jam*' a,  third  Earl,  to  Tliorndun 
Halt,  £seex,  and  has  placed  the  bodies  of  the  t)rst  ivfo 
Earls,  and  of  three  members  of  the  family,  ia  a  new 
TuuU  in  the  Ciitholic  cemetery  at  Hesilmui. 

**T}ie  hbtorio  domain  of  Diklon,  with  its  grey, 
shattered  ruin  and  romantic  stream,  the  Devirs 
(1^'^"  "  i  Water,  hai  since  been  |  '  '  Tiy  W.  B, 
li'  :  q.,  MJ'.  for  South    ?  riand,  by 

Tkj  iind  all  itibabitants  iii  lile"  the 

trikdiU'ijei  u)kd  aiEoeiaiions  connected  vuth  thi.  trlacc  will 
be  alike  preserrcd  and  venerated.  J.  AlAjfLXL, 

"  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,'* 

Scripture  Provtrls,  JUuitraiedt  AimotaUd^  andAppU^ 

B,v  Francis  Jacox.     (Ifodder  k  Stoughton.) 
Mr,  Jacox  bo  well  deacrilei  his  own  method  of  work  in 
this  volume,  that  we  cannot  do  better  than  ttanscribe  It 
**A  test  is  taken,  and  in  the  illmtrationi,  annotations, 


atid  app'icsttitins  which  he  piH»cced<«  to  nccuntti?At9  tipii«  | 

it  .  *  .  lie   aliowi   hiinBclf  fruch    Irihtil*    a*    ^ 

Sicmitigly  to  get  out  of  li 

tonuitude  as  may  tie  ^ot  mit 

rather  than  -  -  -  «  :  ^< 

this  very  r^ 

They  i»ho 

acquriinttincc,    'llity  \%iiu  h^^vv  uvt  ili^t  Lnw^kd^  ' 

dw  well  to  t>egin  it  in  Hci^fdutt  l^yvrfrtoM* 

Hatotrc  dc  At  L-itUro 

Par  Odys^e  Barot. 
We  are  able  to  ^^  f' 
blind-book  to  rao  " 
plete  view  of  c^". 

r  ■       .'  ■  • 

U  ■..:-^  .  ..     ■......._,    :.,-    V  ^  .  .^  .  ^,    .r^sli 

tion.      The  imm^lator  would,  probably,  be  i»ctter  ihti 
to  do  justice  to  theology  than  would  the  author. 


3cti€ti  to  Corrrif^otiOfttti* 

C  P,  E,  writes:— "Some  months  ago,  a  wtiirr  in  i 
Ottardian  newspaper  opened  the  qiK-.!  inti  r.f  tlu-  n>t.tli.r 
pronunciation  of  Latin ;  has  it  occ  i 
ninU  nmy  be  gained  from  the  i 

Abp.  Trench's  interesting  little   v^  Jume]    Uif'»u^3j  tiit 
rhymes  and  icttu  f  *' 

IsTfER  OiTAnr.^In  1776,  the  Frc  —>--='  ''- 
in  Queen  Street*  Lincoln's  Inn  Fi 
Lord  Pet  re,  the  Omnd  Master,  mu 

Mr*  Charles  Masoh  {P,  ST7,  '- f arts  Pnson*^ 
Untlv  points  out,  on  behalf  of  Mns^  M.  Va9  Br 
P.  P'  (p.  897)  was  ntiticipatcd  by  that  hidy  (p* 
rclVTritig  to  Maxime  da  Camp  as  an  authority  Ui  \m  t 
suited  on  Paris  prisons 

K.  W.  CoRLASs.— Cler.  ParU  Doro.  Com.  ==  * 
Bouse  of  Commons.    The  House  of  Corom^' 
licences  for  new  inventions,  which,  at  well  as  ttictr  unkcv  ] 
were  signed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Uuuse. 

C.  O,  B.,— '  Field 'M5'''S,  ii     "" 
"  Tlie  Sanscrit  personified  m 
<Ms  Parthivi,  the  feminine  su' 
broad,  and  might  tie  rendered  '  Tho  Lrui»d  Uiiw. 

BttLTHORN.— Vou  had  better  take  the  advice  ofonetl  _ 
the  many  leading  London  publishers,  and  consnU  A~ 
drawing  master. 

W.  BiscoE  (Exhall  P ti  . .  t  _  r  _  .,     ,  ... 

ntjw  ret  timed-     It  is  n 
in  CrtfHweWs  Lcikrs  « 

W.  8.  8,— The  ITamUl  might  be  of  some  rmlue.    "Gm 
second  named  piny  is  more  doubtful. 

a  W\  W.  (P.  370),^ We  have  a  letter  for  Jim. 

P.  J,  M.^Drawn  =  diflpmho welled. 

LL, — Tliey  were  contemporaries. 

A.  L,  MAYHtw.— Received. 


Editorial  Communications  should  be  ftddreasod  t^ 
Editor  ** — Advertisements  and  Busineie  LettefS  feo 
Puhli^lier  "—at  the  Office,  20,  WeUingtoti  8tr«tl^ 
London,  W.C 

We  beg  leave  to  gtate  that  we  decline  to  retom 
municationa  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  nAi|iriut ;  and 
to  this  rule  wo  can  mitke  no  exception. 

To  all  communications  should  be  affixied  the  nams  tod 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  piibliatis%  ^ 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  fiwUi 


|6»9wILKov.28,  74.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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LOifiHjX,  $dTLRD4.l\  NOyMUBSR  11,  W74. 


CONTENTa— N-  4S* 
.Tb0  OipiiAM,  421  ^Tho   Frar  Mmiri,  422  — Tbe 

it  of  Ee4-06»ts  Gre«n,  42;J-ReWgioti»  Ecbmn  FalnUy 

Itoud  ia  Kiintry  StoHc*,  421^Tluffe  Pedigico— FngmcotATT 
lines  of  Poeirr  wcrib«d  to  Barus,  4^— UibeniA,  lilshop  of 
EKiisr— IroD  tn  OaJc— English  Words  In  X7lst«r— TouchlDg 
iet  th9  Kiag't  Eril  ~ '' wut«-Tlfr  **  — '*  TI»  £ad  jusUfiei 
tbm  M«uii  "^Tbo  Kcfjal  Veto,  420. 

r'"""  "l,  SeutpUl  ;the  Sarn*Di«1— Bugbj,  or  Bug- 

Jy  Reoordi,  drc  +  Enuraved  on  Cotos,  4L'7— 
*i  of  Alexitndtir,  Itlacuof  LivotiU— Welsh 
l'».n*u  Kiyistur* -Aacicnt  (Iraols  of  Luid  bj  PortupiCAo 
J^ntlUiltUvi  In  ludiA— *"rha  UuUerift  "— MtiJIlbg  Knocker* 
wlUi  Kid  r.lovi»-<iilb«rt  WhlUt,  of  S«lbonie— The  I^ng 
FafUtineoi.  42S-31o£roUut :  Sir  T.  L»irr«jce— "The  New 
Btoto  of  ElMfUed,  lODl '  — ir««bf,  429. 

:— "  Hoc  ot  dljdt»"  ic.  iSncerlng),  459 — D»ntc  and 
otkton,  430  -H«gLfial(I,  Count  dc  Vulletorta,  431— 
st€oiler  in  England-**  A ulrt  Robin  Grjiy  "— Clock- 
Abb«)n  mtl  Duties  of  ScolLnDd.  432— Tli«  Arms  of 
I  Bnumlull  And  Mar^sebon  —  TIm  LAte  Jobn 
▼eniMiitti-Centiirj  Token*— Th«  "Calentunatt^* 
^Mad«nt  Account  of  ScotUnd" — Huguenots.  433 — 
let  of  the  Pliftmo1t»— SoiDUter  ftod  KelUnd  FjunlUei— 
of  Mtrtbotongb  «od  Qaeeo  Anne— ConxiderAtloo«— 
Murii^f  of  the  DuJu  of  CumbitrUtid.  1772 :  Biguriety, 
'Otberwtiilei''— MoTftble  Flgwcaln  Book&-"  Wh&t  b 
*  I  •— **  D««mdflr  ol  the  F»ilh;'  436— Spelling  Rcformi 
"^aoefc^BeTOQt— Symbol  tu  j^talned  Glau.  436- 
tbe  Mnk"^"  Pctroalm  Arbiter  "—Seal  in  Two 
"HUi  wotld  I  deem/'  *o.— "Bonnie  Dnnriee'*— 
9*  Bhjuter  "»**  ToQch  not  the  Cot/'  &c— The  EAily 
iglith  Odd  traction  for  Jesus— The  Nune  Jenifer— Geo- 
r  mphicfti^  437— Prvncb  Pronnnciation— Peculiar  Treatment 
of  Wordi,  &:e.— Kiehard  Sirift,  Bbetiff  of  London- The  Ber, 
Tlioe.  G abb- An  AmsTie^a  Eulogy  on  Women,  i3g, 

]f  otea  oo  Books,  &e. 


jlotrtf. 

THE  GIPSIES, 

8  80LM  /idjiT  in  ii  pul)li cation  so  much 

cted  V  I  ind  as  Ohambero's  Enajclo- 

Iwr^  tLat  iiu  '      lln^of**  Gipsies"  a  grettt 

iiniber  of  the  \  mixi  and  other  mimes  of 

.  people  shouin  rnj  u^ivuii,  to  the  extent  of  about 

or  t^renty,  and  reaching  as  fhj  east  an 

t..^   Tr.ii.,   ,.r.ji  yf^i  ^,jj^^  of  thcixnamea  in 

wa  name  ;  it  may^  indeed,  be 

^'  m  timt  country, ^is  omitted. 

ne  :  r  ]jat  of  the  Cairds  or  Carda. 

iir  fj  _;  til  iippear  as  afflicted  to  any 

I  witii  Scotch  or  British  narrow- mind ednea*, 

'cannot  lielp  thinking  that,  while  we  .^eem, 

3gin^  from  meeting*  of  Orien twists  and  otber- 

to   1>>   mucb  taken   up  with   Sanscrit  and 

*  I'lnguoges,  and  most  justly  so,  we 

:^i  that  the  United  Kingdom  is  a 

Coring  its  size,  ia  uneqmilled 

ill   tlie  worlcj,  for  its  own  in- 

it  does,  so 

,  namely, 

\r  '.  i.u'in'  Mr    ni-,ii,  iitji]    lUo  Welsh* 

►  iriJl  yet  be  acen,  when  the  matter  h  rightly 

'  .t    M,..  vocables  of  these  language's, 

0   known   as   proper   names, 

i^..,,  Ijerhaps  li^ '>r   '"  /  ^^  ''?^ho- 


ritatively,  a.^  tho^e  of  any  language  whatever,  not 
excepting  the  Sanscrit,  on  the  history  and  prugre&s 
of  mankind  ;  and  the  name  of  Cai»"^  >  ill  y«t  l>e 
seen  to  be  as  important  as  any  in  poi  .  g  out  who 
the  gipsies  really  {ire. 

But  in  Scotland  the  gipsies  had  anoU  er  naine^- 
a  name  also  not  mentioned  in  the  Encydoptrdia. 
But  this  is  not  so  very  aurprising,  as,  so  far  as  I 
know^  it  has  long  been  obsolete  ;  though  when 
rightly  viewed  it  will  also  be  seen  to  be  as  im- 
port4;4nt  as  any  in  determining  who  the  gipsies  are. 
The  name  now  referred  to  is  that  of  the  Faas.  In 
Lowland  Scotch,  as  your  readers  are  pnibably 
aware,  ball  Is  pronounced  ba*,  call,  ca\  faD,  fa',  It^dJ, 
ha\  and  so  on  ;  and  it  is  thought  that  they  will  thus 
concede  that  Faa  was,  in  oli  probability,  contracted 
from  Fall  or  PhaL  1  would  here  remind  your 
readers  of  the  interesting  old  ballad  oi  Johnnie 
Faa  and  Lady  Casiillis.  The  unfortunate  hero  of 
the  ballad  has  tdways  been  recognized  as  having 
been  a  gipsy  ;  and  it  was  no  doubt  the  fact  that 
he  was  so  that  gave  to  our  remote  ancestors  their 
chief  element  of  interest  in  the  baOad. 

Then  there  are  other  two  names,  or  modifications 
of  one  and  the  same  name,  used  in  Britain,  which 
I  have  always  imderstood  to  denote  the  gipsies^ 
namely,  the  Scotch  name  of  **  the  Tinklcn^"  and 
the  English  name  of  "  the  Tinkers.-'  Of  neither  of 
these  names  is  any  mention  made  in  the  Eiwydth 
pctdia,  I  do  not  suppose  that  any  one  doubts  that 
theae  names  denoted  the  gipsies.  The  Welnh 
language  has  tinker  in  the  form  of  thice^ml  The 
last  syllable,  cemi^  is  evidently  the  Scottish  caird. 
In  Highland  Gaelic^  caird  occurs  in  the  fortii  of 
ceard ;  and  I  presume  it  will  also  be  found  tcj  exist 
in  the  Irish  dialect  of  the  Gaelic.  Be  that  as  h 
may,  the  extensive  prevalence  of  the  word  ctrtrd  in 
its  different  forms  aa  a  name  of  the  gi|>^ies  is 
beyond  dispute  from  what  is  clearly  ascertained. 

Tinker  being  thus  a  name  of  the  gipsies,  there 
can  be  no  doubt  of  the  truth  of  the  statement 
which  has  been  made  (and  there  is  no  reason  why 
we  should  doubt  its  truth)  that  the  tinker,  John 
Banyan,  the  author  of  T/ws  Pihjrim'$  Frogrtu^  was 
a  gipsy  by  extraction.  Thus  our  brethren  the 
gipsies  have  the  honour  of  having  produced  one  of 
the  moat  religious,  one  of  the  most  instructive,  and 
one  of  the  most  popular  writers  that  Great  Britain 
ever  jjiiw — a  writer  whose  works  will  always  possess 
undying  interest.  And  it  may  also  be  mentioned 
that  in  the  present  daj''  we  have,  in  ScotUmd,  two 
men  of  very  high  and  acknowledged  ability,  whoso 
patronymic  clearly  denotes  the  same  descent.  In 
point  offact,  there  can  be  no  do'      :  V  i 

whom  we  styie  the  gipsies  p<j 
equal  to  tho^e  of  any  other  H»'rii<ni  oi  ui»^  timinu 
race,  let  it  K^  caUe*!  by  what  mune,  and  let  it  be 
as  ^^If-conceitcd  as  it  may. 

In  the  reign  «C  Jatft^i^  \.  ^l  %tti\XxvTy5)i,  v^  ^ 
fifteenth  cenUiTy,  ^  \\\?^tk  mm^t^^^^i^  v:.^^^^^^'^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUKRIES. 


15^*  a  It.  Kor.  5S»  Vl 


Is  stated  by  the  hiBtomns  to  haye  been  a 
Eohcminn,  was  burnt  at  St.  Andrews  for  heresy, 
whatever  tli^S  in  his  case,  might  mean.  Now,  we 
know  that  ,  Prench  name  of  the  gi|>?fieB  is 
Bohhnuiis;  a  it  is  thought  that  we  are  therefore 
justified  in  in  iring  that  the  utifortunnte  man  was 
a  gip^,  this  Lonclusion  being  confirmed  by  other 
consideratioDH,  into  which  we  cannot  now  enter. 

Further,  in  direct  connexion  with  John  Bunyan 
and  Paul  Craw,  and  their  doings,  we  would  aak^ 
iVho  vfQte  the  Lolkrda  originally  ?  The  origin  of 
thi^  name  has  been  a  great  puzzle  to  etymologiBts. 
Ib  not  the  name  a  contraction  of  Loll-curds,  mrd 
having  been  contracted  into  aTd,  in  the  same  wny 
08  guard  liaa  been  contracted  into  icardf  The 
syllable  Loll  may  have  originated  from  the  appa- 
rently idle  life  led  by  the  cards  or  gipsies.  On 
these  grounds,  niuat  we  not  conclude  that  the 
gipsieii  were,  at  least  originally,  those  who  are 
known  in  history  as  the  Lollards? 

The  relative  term,  the  Huguenots,  need  to  denote 

in   France   thobe  who   were  termed   Lollards   in 

r  Britain,  has  nho  been  a  perfect  puzzle  to  etymo- 

^logisti?,  yet  it  ia  belicvett  it  might  be  traced  as 

I  lin^'ing  originally  denoted  the  gipsies,  but  the  doin^' 

of  this  must  bfi  deferred  in  the  meantime, 

In  confirmation  of  what  has  now  been  stated  in 

the  last  four  paragraphs,  I  may  l>e  allowed  to  make 

tlie   following   ^hort  quotation  from  a  writer  in 

[  Jiht^^kwood'g  Miiga::iney  in  a  comnuinication  entitled 

i  ^  On  the  Gipjiiea  of  Hesse  Darmst.idt,'^  in  the  nura- 

laer  for  January,  181 S,  page  410.    It  b  there  said— 

*•  It  U  Qot  the  Icftfet  puizling  ^jurt  of  the  gipiiea'  history 

to  find  timt,  on  their  Tcry  fir*t  appearanco  in  all  eoontries 

in  Europe,  what  little  religion  the/  had  amongst  them 

Wfti  founded  upon  the  Christian  <loctrine/' 

To  guard  agninst  misconception,  I  must  here 
state  that  I  quote  this  passage  merely  to  show  that 
I 'the  gipsiea  were  Christiitns.    The  writer  depreciates 
>  ttinount  of  their  religion  at  the  time  referred 
ttf    the  fifteenth  century  ;  that  is,  it  is  to  be  sup- 
fwiiedj  the  amount  of  their  j^radiail  religion.    But 
jhad  any  other  people  ony  more  then,  or  even  so 
r^uch  i     Practical    religion,   generally,   has   been 
•onoe  in  all  ages.     £ven  in  ''  religtouB  '  Britain,  in 
tllBTiineteonth  century,  ia  the  amount  of  practical 
naligion  m  great  i    Are  there  in  Britain  no  munlers, 
assaults,  thefts,  and  other  shortcxfuung^  even  now, 
and  were  there  none  in  1818,  when  the  depreciatory 
llcmark  under  consideration  waa  written  I    It  is 
iirprising  how  people  living  in  glass  houses  will 
Dsisfr  on  throwing  stones.      The  same  writer  in 
Bhckirood  hold   wliHt  may   be    termed   the  old 
orthodox  view,  that  the  gipsies  came  into  Europe 
'in  or  about  the  fifteenth  centtiry  ;  but  my  rernarki* 
in  this  and  on  certain  othi^r  points  must  l>e  reserved 
for  a  future  communication,  when  I  shall  lay  before 
your  reailers  conclusions  regarding  the  gipsies  con- 
oid e/ably  diHtrent^  «40   far  as  I  am  aware,  from 
Uiose  hitheriv  enlQvUuneil.      Hen  ut  Kilo  our,     ^ 


THE  FOrE  MARYS. 
The  list  line  in  Mr.  Swinburne*?   tr 

Both  well  is  a  declaration  by  one  of  the  ton 

attendants  on  the  Ijueen  ol  Scots  : — 
*'  Maf^t  /?<a^<>»,— But  I  will  ncTcr  leare  you  till  I  i 

Should  not  Maiy  Scyton  iuivc  bajtl 

honour  assigned  to  her  ?      She  apjM. 

been   the  most   devoted    of    the    quxiU* 

beauties,  the   chosen  iissociates  of  the 

France,  and  who  returned  with  ^ 

Tliey  were  all  of  noble  faniibes,  n 

age  (as  was  also  the  Queen),  an 

till  past  their  twentieth  year  were 

panionsk     Mary  Beaton  seems  ' 

most  literary  or  scholarly  of  tht.^ 

the  *^>ueen  made  her  will,  iiiitn. 

birth  of  her  son  James,  wbili 

jewels  to  all  the  four,  she     i 

Beaton  her  French,  English,  and  lt4ilia;^ 

Hence  Mr.  Swinburne,  with  dramatic 

makes  Mary  Beaton  dtBCOur&e  learnedly  wj 

Knox.     It  is  interesting  to  trace  the  foB 

the  fair  bftnd  of  Marys,  and  we  are  able  1 

by  means  of  the  ma^sterly  Introduction  bvj 

Mr,  Joseph  Kobe rtson  preliv 

natyne  Club  quartos,   The 

Quetn    of  ScQtf^    1843.     It    ap| 
Beaton  (or  "  ISIaric  Bethune/'  ; 

name},  ahout  five  years  after  L* 

land,  became  the  wife  of  an  Ab« 
Alexander  Ogilvy,  of  Boyn^v 
royal  mistress  and  all  her 

Court,  dying   i«i    ir>(H,— nh 

poor  Queen  h. 

on  the  block  ai 

(*' Marie  Leuieon  ;  ram 

March  (J,   1564-5,  John 

progenitor  of  a  line  of  ScuitisU  pu4tK    Jfh 

terina  this  pair  "John  the  Dmrcr  *  nrifi^ 

the  Lii«ty,"  and  hints  at  c* 

have  been  fully  displayed. 

bride  a  dowry  in  land,  furtiinli*  a  Lcr  biiiU 

and  gave  a  masque  in  honour  of  the 

This  Mary  was  living  in   1 '        '       ' 

"  the  Dancer,''  had  died  thin 

date,     (3).  Mary    Fleming   ■,    .>i 

settled  down  as  the  wife  of  an  old 

suitor,  Secretary  I^IaitUnd,  of  L 

had    previously   captivute^i   the 

Thomas  Kandolph,^ — nn  jnniisnu' 

to  whom  we  owe  mari> 

Scottish  Court, — who  t  i 

a  fit  match  to  contend  with  V  enu 

Minerva  in  wit,  or  with  Jniv*  in  \ 

to  the  jcwcIh  and 

ma?quo,     Sccretaij 

be  in  love  are  ever  itet  iipi-a  .i . 

fnl  axiom  by  the  way,  for  ' 

anxious  (w  too  ecstatic  to  be 

t<!^VTdin^  this  old  phniae,  *'  ■■ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^-jt^  ■"  '♦•"1  frum  that  curious  storehouse 
Ki  ^,  Fuller**    C^wrc^   Hutory, 

Pi,  ^ ,  nynml  of  tlie  clergy  nil  d  Id  ty 

I  of  Hcnrr  I.  (a.d.  1 102)^  nt  whidi^  amonff 

-'-    t  ri.i 'tinont^,    priests  wert'    pjt)hibited 

:\^^  i.t,  dtlakhii^  out  of  a  cup 

pinii,  *'lie  bcinjj  accounted 

Uiuu  wUn  eotilil   itirk  the  pin,  drinking 

ir^  Trherciis  to  no  above  ar  below  it  wus  a 

:^      But   to  re  turn  t<»  ihe  four  Marys* 

\f  i}\\^nj  after  ChJistellard's  outrage  in 

!>  uns4ifo  to  sleep  alone,  she  chase 

,->v  her  be*lfi^lli>w.     And  the  Litter, 

i.iMic  dc  Lethington,"  did  not  forget  the 

I  adversity.     She  found  meADis  to  convey 

^  in  Lochleven  Ciistle,  a  ring  with  a 

ffig  the  Queen  with  hopes  of  e^- 

.  Mr  v^iiting  was  ane  fable  of  Esop,  b^- 

inouae  and  the  lion  ;  how  the  mouse  for 

II r.-  rionr-  fr>  hcT  by  the  lion,  after  that, 

;   with  une  cord,  the  mouse 

r  he  lion  loose.'*   But  Fortune 

imile  on  either  mouse  or  lion  !      Mary 

like  Ker  mistress,  had  m^ny  troubles* 

)and^  the  able  and  scheming  Secretary, 

[lately  for  and  against  the  Queen — public 

r  isecret  supporter.    Ultimately^  when  the 

s  hoj>elcsa,    he  was  chief  leader  of  the 

|>rtrty,  was  declared  a  rebel,  deprived  of 

,   cast  into  prison,  and  died   (in   1573, 

Queen  was  immured  in  Sheffield  Castle), 

houl  a  suspicion  that  ho  *  took  a  drink 

*■      old  Romans  were  wont  to  do."* 

xf  long  unburied,  for  it  was  then 

vnil,  in  cases  of  treason,  tlmt  the 

'.  L*  for  doom  against  a  dead  man, 

,  t^.vri.i.M.i  iQ  court ;  and  Lething- 

:ifter  the  death  of  her 

.^.y  to  Burleigh,  that  the 

[»A  r  husband  might  **  suffer  no 

*  f'  emitted  to  the  tomb.     The 

rstA    CTnnted,    Queen    Elizabeth    having 

\^  and  »ome  ye*'\rs  afterwards  the  widow 

ft  reversial  of  his  forfeiture.     (4).  Mary 

Mnrie  de  Seton ")  waa  the  only  one  of 

u^aidfl   that   remained  unmarried.      She 

M  hi»fsdf  to  a  life  of  celibacy,  but  re- 

I  thirty-five  : — 

end  your  Life, 

I  iiiuK  i.uL  ui  Lijuiv-five." 

f.  Samuel  Johnson^  and  so  apparently 

fr.,^.,.  ,i,v  <.  f,.^      She  sought  release  from 

jg,  but  it  was  too  late. 

....-A.  ^la^ster  of  the  Queen's 

;   >Liry  continued,  perforce, 

'^i\    For  fourteen  yeaxs  she 

ii-iile  of  the  Queen  in  England, 

i    to  a  convent    in    France — HU 

llij' nti;5  —  ^vhere  she  ended  her  days. 

he  iiUl*'  <iriima  of  the  four  Mark's  waa 


closed*  Mr.  RuMril.iHit.^  lias  Mary  Carmichael 
among  his  Jr<r  <iut^  for  which  he  has  the 

authority  of  a  ^     :  i^I  balkd  :— 

*'  Yeatfcen  the  Queen  had  four  Maryf, 
Thij  night  «lie  '11  hae  but  three ; 
There  wr*  Mary  Beaton  ani  M&rjrdefttoDi 
And  Mary  Carmichael  and  me/' 

But  Mary  Carmichael  has  no  place  in  authentic 
hbtory.  Mr,  Burton,  in  his  JIutonj  of  Seothmlt 
starts  a  point  worthy  perhaps  of  consideration  in 
**  N.  &  Q."  John  Knox  reports  several  interviews 
between  himsidf  and  Queen  Mary,  in  which  the 
stem  old  Reformer  umlertook  to  show  very  phi  inly 
how  the  Church  of  Rome  had  declined  from  the 
ancient  purity,  and  bow  deficient  Miury  was  in 
"right  knowledge."  Now,  were  these  dialogues 
held  in  the  language  in  which  Knox  reports  them? 
Mary,  acconiiag  to  the  historian,  had  very  little 
English  ;  her  habitual  language  was  French,  and, 
as  Knox  was  sometime  in  Fnince  and  preached  in 
French,  Mr.  Burton  concludes  that  the  diidogues 
were  in  that  language,  and  that  Knox  afterwards 
wrote  them  out  in  English,  or  rather  Scotch.  I 
doubt  this  conclusion.  Knox,  I  ihinkf  would  have 
told  his  readers  if  such  had  been  the  cose.  Did 
Mary  ever  lose  her  Scotch  ?  She  was  approaching 
seven  yeara  of  age  (six  yeara  eight  months)  when 
she  sailed,  from  Scotland,  for  France  j  her  four 
Marj*8  were  Scotch  girls,  like  herself  ;  and,  though 
all  remained  twelve  years  in  Fmncc,  they  must 
have  kept  up  the  old  childish  Scotch  Btories  in  the 
old  speech,  and,  when  they  returned  to  Scotland, 
the  Queen  and  attendants  would  natumlly  resume 
the  vernacular  which  they  heard  daily  around 
them  in  Court  and  society.  0. 

lavemefls. 

THE  HERMIT  OF  KED-COAT'8  OREEX. 

A  most  interesting  biographical  sketch  of  this 
reraiu-kable  individual,  from  the  pen  of  Dr*  D.  H. 
Tuke,  will  be  found  in  The  JourmU  of  MftUal 
Seime^  October,  1874,  pp.  301-372,  of  which  I 
present  the  following  short  abatrnet. 

James  Lucas,  the  so-called  Hermit  of  Red- Coat's 
Green  (and  the  object  of  Charles  Dickens'i  vigorous 
denunciations  in  Ttym  Tiddler  a  Ground),  was  bom 
in  1813,  and  was  the  son  of  an  opulent  West  India 
merchant  residing  in  London.  He  manifested 
considenible  eccentricity  of  dress  and  manner 
during  his  youth, 

Af^r  his  father's  death,  in  1830,  the  £imily 
removed  to  the  house  in  which  the  Hermit  over 
afterwards  lived  and  died,  situated  at  Red-coat*s 
Green,  near  Hitchin,  Hertfordshire. 

It  was  not  until  after  his  mother^s  death  that 
his  hermit-life  began  ;  previous  to  which  we  fiiid 
hira  hunting  occasionally  in  a  most  extraordinary 
costume, — *  he  rode  either  with  his  shirt  outside, 
or  in  a  nankeen  suit,  barefooted,  and  wearintg  a 
small  cap,  ^pt  b«kTe-V!ieeA«i^  \ca  W%  xeml^s^  \sfl^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


streaming  in  the  wind/*  with  a  rope  for  hla  bridle 
and  stirrups.  Alxmt  thiii  time  he  felt  a  passion 
for  a  young  lady,  which,  onfortunately  for  him,  she 
did  not  reciprocate. 

On  the  death  of  his  mother  he  kept  her  body  in 
the  house  from  24th  October,  1849,io  the  January 
of  1850.  Each  day  he  woidd  stvy  she  nu'ght  be 
buried  to-morrow*  He  spent  the  greater  part  of 
the  time  be4jide  the  oorpse.  At  last  hia  brother, 
as  executor,  interfered,  and  insisted  upon  the  body 
being  interred. 

For  a  quarter  of  a  century  after  Uib  mother's 
death  Mr.  Lucas  continued  to  live  alone  in  the 
same  house  (his  brother  and  sisters  could  not  stay 
in  it),  which,  iw  you  approached  it,  told  a  t^le 
respecting  the  occujmnt.  Every  window,  ond  even 
the  doors,  were  carefully  bnrriciwled,  and  the  house 
was  allowed  to  f?o  to  raok  and  ruin.  So  was  the 
garden.     Br.  Tuke  says  : — 

'*  When  I  paid  the  hermit  a  vlfit  some  yenra  nvsn,  I 
went  up  to  the  window  of  frUat  had  been  the  kitcbtn^ 

[  the  gliLBJ^  and  cajmment  of  whkh  hud  Umg  dianppeurcil, 
the  fltrcmg  upright  iron  tnra  alone  romniniug.  Here  the 
poisesKor  of  ample  means,  and  a  «mn  of  at  lei*t  fair 
educatioiij  lived  iIaj  tmd  ni^bt.  Ue  appcHred  ta  emerge 
£rom  m  bed  of  ashei  (he  had  not  ilept  in  a  bed  for  inatiy 

[|eara).  ...  Hia  oapect  woa  quite  m  keeping  with  lus 
abode.  Unnafihoii  for  ni^^iiy  yeurg,  bis  vkin  vras  iiol  in  a 
deiirable  eondition.  .  .  .  Clothes  be  bad  none,  only  a 
dirty  blanket  thrown  looaely  over  hiin.  ...  In  the  room 
were  a  fire,  an  old  table,  and  numoFou«  hottiea.  There 
W10  aleo  a  chair,  and  I  uriderativnd  ihat  a  basket  waa 
tutponded  froui  the  ceiling',  in  ivhich  he  kept  hia  food, 

.  to  protect  it  from  the  rata  which  uboanded  in  hia  estab- 

[  Kibmcnt. 

"  He  spoke  to  mo  in  a  low,  rather  plaintiTe  tone  of 
voiee.  and  gave  me  tlie  im predion  that  ho  wai  labouring 
under  a  certain  amount  of  fear  or  appreheuidon.  Part  of 
his  conversation,  which  othcnvi^e  waa  perfectly  ratiotiali 
conveyed  the  same  iniprcsaion/* .  .  . 

Lucas  was  not  by  any  means  a  miser.  He  was 
visited  by  swarms  of  tramps,  to  wbom  he  gave  a 
great  deal  away  in  coppers,  as  well  ns  gin.     It  is 

f  tftid  that  on  laat  Crood  Friday  he  dolod  out  sweet- 
meats, eoppera,  and  gin  and  water  to  200  children. 
For  some  years  he  gave  a  poor  old  woman  in  the 
neighbourhood  fonr  shillings  a  week. 

His  own  diet  was  very  simple,  though  he  did 
not  starve  himself.  He  ate  brearl  and  cheese,  and 
reil  herringB^  and  drank  both  niiJk  and  gin.  He 
avoided  milk  for  some  time,  suspecting  that  it 

I  might  contain  poison.     At  one  time  he  charged  a 

"fiirmer,  who  supplied  him  with  eggs,  with  having 
put  poison  into  th^m.  The  same  fear  of  poison  led 
tim  to  change  his  baker  frequently^  and  he  cat^c- 
fully  selected  a  loaf.  In  his  room  was  foimd  nearly 
a  cJirtload  of  hard  unused  loaves,  which  it  ia  sup* 
posed  he  Jsunpected  of  containing  poiaon,  and  durst 
not  use. 

Mr.  Lucas  died  of  apoplexy^  at  the  age  of  aixty- 
one  yeai-;i,  on  the  llith  April  last  ;  and  there  is 
reason  to  suppose  he  drank  largely  of  gin  the  even* 

iDg  before  his  death,  after  feelmg  mucri  depresaed. 


A  gentleman,  who  saw  him  a  week  before 
death^  infonns  me  that  he  appeared  in  bis  ' 
hotdth,  and  in  fact  ver^'  lively  and  comnmiucQidvie^ 
He  behaved  most  politelv,  and  did  not  betr»y  j 
unfriendly   spirit   or  delusion    in    regard 
friends. 

One  singular  trait  deserves  notic*.     He  i 
not  attach  his  name  to  any  <leed  or  ptiptrr 
Her  Majesty's  stamp,  the  reason   aMigfued  h^iii 
that  she  was  not  the  rightful  heir  to  t!i«' 
Nothing  would  induce  him  to  use 
or  receipt  st^rap,  lest  he  should  Sf  i 

Queen's  supremacy.     He  even  u!  inrt? 

money  (the  proceeds  of  a  aale  of  >  t^  | 

perty  of  his  under  the  coujpul»ury  clau^^ 
Liverpool  Improvement  Act)  to  lie  in  the  i 
England  to  the  day  of  hh  def»tb,  a«  drai 
out  would  have  required  a  stamped  receipt 

Huan  James  Fekxi^u.  1 

HaTelock  Square,  Dablln, 


EELIGIOrS  ECHOES  FAINTLY  HEARD  O 
NURSERY  STORIES. 

Those  persons  to  whom  modern  Hebrew  detl 
tional  book.s  are  well  known  are  i 
parable  contained  in  one  of  these  1  i  ] 

is  sung  on  the  first  night  of  the  i  n^sove 
story  of  Juda?a  is  here  figured,  or,  as  son 
the  leason  that  Death  has  no  victory  is  hm\ 
in  at  least  a  remarkable  manner.  How  Ioqj;  1 
IcFSuii  has  been  taught  in  this  w>^'  ■  "  "Mtifffl 
for  others.  When  it  slipped  out 
into  one  of  the  commonest  of  nui.^.  .  .^_. u^is  loLi 
for  the  delight  of  babies,  is  a  matter  tbftl  M 
interest  the  curious.  The  following  vertioni""' 
opening  Passover  song  is  one  which  we  findf 
by  the  Rev.  G.  P.  Grantham,  in  the  No 
number  of  the  Yorkshire  Magazine : — 

"  One  only  kid,  one  only  kid,  whif^h  mr  fatlitrl 
for  two  Kuzim;  one  only  kid»  on. 

"And  a  cat  came  and  deTo  : 
father  bonght  for  two  zuxim  ;  ouu     ... 

''  And  a  dog  came  and  bit  the  cut,  v 
the  kid,  which  my  father  l>ought  iV  inj;  i 

only  kid,  one  only  k  id. 

"  Then  a  stnff  came,  and  smote  thfi  dog,  wliicii  1 
bitten  the  cat,  which  had  devoured  thi 
father  bought  for  two  zujim;  one  on'v 

'"  Then  a  fire  came,  and  burnt  tb  - 
smitten  the  doc  which  had  bitten  the 
devoured  the  kid,  which   my   futhcr 
zuzim  ;  one  only  kid,  one  only  kid, 

"  Then  water  carae,  and  extir 
liad  burnt  the  Btaff,  which  hnd 
bad  bitten  the  eat,  which  had  ik-^^unu  tp.o  niA 
my  father  bought  for  two  vuziai ;  oao  only  kid.  ant.  i 
kid. 

"Then  the  ox  cajn 
extinguished  the  fii'  T.^ 

hnd  iiTjittcn  the  '    -  i,  i  vmll  ii  -,..  _-  <  ,.i  tthH 

deroured  the  ki  futhcr  booglit  far  twi> I 

one  only  kid»  oi 

"  Then  the  Blftu^iLteixi'  tame,  * 
which  had  drunk  the  Kaier,  wln^ 


cut,  wi 
bought 


HoT.SS^TI.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


426 


hft^l  burnt  ibe  sUff,  wbtch  liad  sniitt«n  Ibe 
inm  the  c^t,  wlitch  had  devoured  the 
-r  Ijoughl  for  two  zii2im ;  one  ooJy 

(^iitltel  of  dettth  came.  Arid  liew  the  tUught- 

m  tl««jrhtered  the  o^c,  which  bad  dnink  tbd 

"  ilre^vrbicb  had  burnt 

s,  which  had  bitten 

^^,,    .  ^  „...„.-  .:..    a  J,  which  my  father 

nro  Buzim  :  ona  onij  kidt  one  only  kid. 

toe  the  >!rt«t  Holy*  blesied  be  He,  and  slew 

!>]..'.'      had  slain  the  slaughterer,  who 

ti  ,  which  hod  drunk  the  water, 

txt   ^  ;  the  lire,  which  Imd  btinit  the 

bati  »miiteu  ibo  dog,  which  hod  bitten  the 

bad  dcTourcd  the  kid,  which   my  fiither 

iTvo  cozim :  one  only  kid,  one  only  kid. 

etcrciM}  tbi«  for  the  ingenuity  of  thoie  who 

r -nvtr  uht  ulth  their  a/rwMA  //i«to}'y,  aud 

and  *  witty  inventions  * ; 

^'iving  Ibe  most  commonly 

A:i]ncLai.j,uu  iji  Liiia  inyit^riQus  fHirable/' 

Ed. 


PiLt>tatiitE. — In  the  tabiUated  pedigreeii 
'         '  '         in  the  "Ulster^' 

7  of  the  Family  of 
miLiv  pniin  u  ^11  >  i*  tina  in  1856.  there 
imi»*iiona  which  should  b^  noticed. 
13  to  1626^  the  rlestTndunts  of  the 
not  traced  :  Richard  (eldest  son), 
ichnnl^  Georfre,  Nicholas  (<»  p.  /), 
n  Stephen  of  K-dlybnigan  had  pro- 
son  besides  Peter.  This  PeteT  was 
lolijfl,  but  hivd  he  no  other  son  I  The 
ler  of  (1)  Christopbep  (the  elder),  and 
Hrbo  married  Anna  Plunket.  But  the 
ita  of  Chriiitopher  are  not  traced,  nor  are 
licir  brother  (3)  Laurence.  Possibly  the 
8  the  progenitor  of  Stephen  Taalfe,  of 
WD,  who  mentions  his  "father,  Laii- 
bill  will  (1730)*  Luurenci*  Taiifle  waa 
■  I  in  l<i24. 

mclinpd  to  believe  that    Luke 

*'         i  ly  of  James  11.,  had  a 

!d  Tantfc  who  appears 

opber,  eon  of  James 
ii,  i>ui  his  de^ceudants  are 
have  been  the  Christopher 

.  T.  .s  A,ii,M>^    H-nrv    .nd 

.:.rd 
..   i^--^       -.  .    -...    be- 


tgoods  to  TbcoVmhi  I'liiitle,  son  of 

Miy.    (!hr   ^r.n   ..r  (;<-ri:i\     Hu: 


it  I  do 
y  iul^,  dJed 
(    bad    tlute 


soDKf  Luke,  Theobald,  and  Charles,  bitt  their  de- 
sccndiints  are  not  fihown. 

Again,  it  i»  not  probable  tbat|  In  four  generations, 
there  should  be  only  one  son  to  carry  on  the  line, 
yet  we  find  it  so  stated  in  the  case  of  Luke  (eon  of 
John  Taaffe,  of  Ballybnigan,  and  bis  wife  Anna 
Plunket),  father  of  thriutopher^  father  of  Luke, 
father  of  Abel, 

Finally,  there  are  many  Taaffes  conspicuous  in 
the  R.  Caccell.  Hib.,  &c.,  who  were  in  possession 
of  well-known  Tmife  estates,  who  are  omitted,  and 
these  were  connected  with  the  PlunkeU,  Dowdalb, 
Donellys,  &c. 

Of  the  other  TaafTes  connectetl  with  Jamaica, 
Arthur  had  an  only  son  named  George,  and  his 
brother,  the  Ker.  Henry  Tiuitfe^  had  four  sons, 
viz.,  Arthur,  John,  Richartl*  Tbomivs.  Arthur  and 
Henry  were  the  sons  of  Cliristopher  and  Anne^ 
whereas  Michael  Taaife,  of  Jamaica,  wn«  the  son 
of  CbrLatopber  and  Mary. 

I  do  not  think  that  there  are  any  traces  of  theie 
eons  of  Henry  Taiiffe  in  that  island,  and  am  dit* 
posed  to  believe  that  their  descendants  are,  at  the 
present  moment,  in  Ireland,  but  imrecognized. 

It  h  frequently  ditBcult  to  obtain  information  in 
the  pure  spirit  of  genealogy,  for  this  reason,  that 
those  who  posseijs  it  either  retpiire  to  be  paid  for 
it,  or  fear  that  some  sinister  motive  is  at  the 
bottom  of  the  int|uiry.  I  can  well  understand 
both  diflTiculties— 1  &t^  in  the  case  of  one  who  is 
simply  a  genealogist  and  no  more,  and  2nd,  where 
an  mheritanee  descends  without  an  accurate  pedi- 
gree* 

In  the  famUy  of  Ta4iffe,  the  head  of  the  bouse 
amassed  a  large  amount  of  property  by  beinc 
gmnied  the  escheat  of  his  kinsman's  forfeitea 
estates  about  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
In  this  wav,  probably,  a  great  deal  of  genealogiwil 
confusion  has  arisen,  and  perhaps  nothing  ^ort  of 
an  exhaustive  investigation  of  the  public  archives 
of  Ireland,  and  also  of  private  numinient.*i,  wotdd 
be  Buffieient  for  the  purpose  of  con^itnictinga  rcaUij 
valuable  pedigree  or  this  ancient  family.  S. 

P.S.  I  merely  throw  out  these  suggestions  with 
a  view  of  inducing  others  to  complete  so  valuable 
a  pedigree. 

FRAQMET^TAny  Lt^VS  OF   POETRY  ASCRIBED  TO 

BrnKs.— It  is  well  known  that  Burns  used  to  be 


*be  hou^e  of  ^^f- 
w  his  »•' 
voice.     I! 
in  the  paii.^h  at 


FKiU  for  th. 


purpose  of 
with   her 

I've,  and 
rved 
•fher 


win?  l"ri'  -,  v.hiph 

Itich  she  btiiieves  l»o  be  fcomo 
I  give  tbetu  as  they  wore 
m  ittU  ill  a  h.*^iui Tttary  ^tyle  to  my  friend  Dr. 
GricMon  of  Tbombil!,  waH  known  to  all  in  the 
Moiitb  of  r  i^tiii 

fortheral  ^fe^^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*8.II.Kov.2S.7i 


and  which  may  be  regarded  as  a  moil  el  provincial 
museum.     The  followinfr  are  the  fragments : — 
"  The  house,  that  was  my  father's  ain, 

Is  leveU'd  wi*  the  breckun." 
And  again : — 

"O  wliere  shall  I  go  hide  my  hcadi 

0  where  shall  I  go  wander  ? 

0  where  shall  I  go  beg  my  bread? 

For  here  I  '11  bide  nac  langer." 
Now,  as  Mrs.  Flint  possessed  a  retentive  memory, 
and  sung  many  old  Scottish  bidlads,  I  think  that 
some  of  your  correspondents,  who  are  well  ac- 
quainted with  the  eany  lyrics  of  Scotland,  will  be 
able  to  show  that  these  lines  are  found  in  some 
ancient  song.  Mrs.  Flint,  popularly  known  as 
Kirsty  (Christina)  Flint,  died  m  her  seventy-second 
yeiir,  4th  February,  1838.  It  was  Mrs.  Flint  who 
got  the  cliair  on  which  Bums  had  been  nursed 
from  his  mother,  when  she  was  leaving  Dining 
farm,  and  which  is  now  at  Mansfeld,  near  New 
Cumnock,  the  scat  of  the  late  Sir  James  G.  Stuart- 
Menteth,  Bart.  G.  T.  RAMAaB. 

OsBERNE,  Bishop  of  Exeter. — A  note  relating 
to  a  grant  said  to  be  signed  by  Leofric  as  Bishop 
of  Exeter  in  108.")  (n***  S.  ii.  304)  leads  me  to 
observe  that  in  a  public  document  of  much  interest 
and  importance,  given  by  William  of  Malmesbury, 
namely,  the  order  of  the  great  Council  held  at 
Windsor  on  the  feast  of  Pentecost,  1072,  appears 
tho  signature — "+  AV;o  Osbcrmts  Exoniensis  Ejns- 
copua  connnaiy  This,  I  think,  would  prove  that 
Leofric  could  not  then  hold  the  Bishopric. 

In  reference  to  Bishop  Osbert,  or  Osberne,  I 
should  like  to  ask  whether  he  was  not  the  same 
person  as  Osbcrnus,  the  Precentor  of  Canterbury 
and  biographer  of  St.  Dunstau,  who  is  described 
by  Pitsci,  cirai  lo74,  as  the  intimate  friend  and 
councillor  of  Archbishop  Lan franc,  and  who  is 
stated  to  be  an  Englishman  i  I  do  not  find  any- 
thing proving  this  to  be  impos^iibIe  or  even  impro- 
bable. Edward  Solly. 
Sutton,  Surrey. 

Iron  in  Oak.— The  frequent  effect  of  lightning 
upon  thi.>5  monarch  of  the  forest  has  excited  the 
attention  of  the  philosophic  mind.  After  citing 
several  exami>Irs  of  the  manner  in  v,'hich  the  oak 
has  been  singled  out  from  other  trees  immediately 
acyoining,  and  of  equal  height,  a  wTiter  upon  the 
subject  says  ; — 

''  It  is  well  known  by  chemists  that  oak  contains  a 
considerable  portion  of  iron  in  its  composition.  This 
metal,  it  may  be  prc-iimc<l,  is  held  in  solution  by  the  sap, 
and  equally  disihbutcl  throuj^hout  the  whole  tree.  May 
it  not  be  owin;;  to  this  circumstance  that  the  ouk  is  so 
frequently  a  victim  to  that  power,  which  in  fact  it 
solicits  with  extended  arnw,  to  its  own  destruction  i*' 

If  the  above  be  true,  it  Ls  worthy  of  notice. 

Fredk.  Bule. 

Af/lXT  Engllsh  Words  is  Ulster  are  used  in 
sem^e.^  wholly  different  from  their  c&ta>)\\ftV\edT[v^\.\T.- 


ings.  Thus  I  have  heard  it  said  of  a  charitable  and 
bountiful  lady,  who  was,  of  course,  beset  by  beg- 
gars, "  she  is  pdluled  with  them,"  meaniDg  merely 
that  they  crowded  about  her.  Poor  persons, 
though  of  good  character,  if  they  become  mendi- 
cants, are  said  to  be  "profligates."  Diseases  are 
often  called  by  names  of  quite  difierent  ailments, 
e.g.y  a  catarrh  is  called  founder.  A  diseoiie  not 
infectious  in  cattle  is  called  murrain.  A  poiofol 
disease  of  fenuiles  is  called  a  weed  ;  and  an  inflsmod 
sore  a  rose.  B,  T.  P. 

Touching  for  the  Kino's  Evil. — This  certi- 
ficate, if  not  unique,  is  at  least  curious,  and  nur 
be  found  enibaluied  in  the  old  register  of  V^atahA, 
near  Leek : — 

^'To  the  King's  most  excellent  Miyesty. 
**  We,  the  Minister  &  ChurchwardenB  of  the  ptiuh  of 
Waterfall,  within  your  county  of  Stafford,  doe  berefaj 
certifie  your  princely  MiycBty  that  Alice  Smyth,  tM 
daughter  of  Edward  Smyth,  of  Waterfall  aforesaid, 
yeoman,  hath  not  at  any  time  lieretofore  had  the  Mcred 
touch  of  your  Sacred  Mi^sty,  to  the  Intent  to  be  heded 
of  the  Disease  called  the  Kmg's  evil ;  ha^iog  fint  cue- 
full^  examined  into  the  truth  thereof,  as  toot  graciooi 
Majesty  of  your  Royal  will  &  pleasure  hath  late^  eno* 
manded  us.  Witness  our  hands  the  25th  day  ef  October, 
A"  Dom*  1684. 

*'  Thomas  Alalbone,  CNrat  1*^1. 
"  Samson  Parka,        \  rh„r-i„^«i.«-  •• 
"  James  0  Beri«ford,  f  <-«»nrohwaideBa 
{his  mart.) 

John  Sleioh. 
Highgate,  N. 

**  Waste-riff."  —  Lady  Barker,  in  her  little 
book  on  the  Principles  of  Cooking,  uses  this  word, 
and  describes  it  as  a  north-country  word.  Whence 
the  hist  syllable  \  Like  the  Welsh  gwastraff,  the 
whole  word  seems  to  mean  simply  waste. 

T.  C.  U. 

"  TiiK  End  justifies  the  Meaxr." — Thw,  like 
many  other  points  of  belief  and  practice,  may  be 
clearly  traced  to  pagan  sources.  Speaking  on  this 
j)oint,  Lactantius  says  (De  Falsa  Sapitnti^.Vib. 
lii.  15) :  "  Faciet  sapiens  (inquit  idem  Seneca)  etmm 
r|ua}  non  probabit,  ut  etiam  ad  majora  transitum 
inveniat."  The  wise  man,  says  the  same  Senecs, 
will  do  things  which  he  disapproves  of,  in  order  to 
compass  higher  ends.  Edmtxd  Tew,  M.A. 

The  Rotal  Veto. — It  is  often  said  that  there 
is  no  instance,  since  the  reign  of  William  IIL,  of 
the  Hoyal  veto  being  put  on  a  Bill  which  hail 
passed  both  Houses  of  Parliament  But,  according 
to  Sir  John  Bowring  (Bentham-s  Warks^  x.,  211), 
George  III.  vetoed  Bentham^s  Panopticon  IJill  in 
that  predicament. 

Perhaps  this  may  not  be  strictly  correct :  the 
Bill  may  have  been  withdrawn,  or  not  passed 
through  the  last  Parliamentary  stage. 

LrmLTOsr. 


r*  S.  11.  Kov.  2S,  71] 


NOTES  iLND  QUERIES. 


[We  most  request  correspondents  desiHtig'  information 
tm  itkmUy  m&tterfi  of  onlj  prit&to  interest,  to  Affix  their 
n&mei  imd  Addreseea  to  tlieir  querien,  in  ord«r  thai  tht 
mmsmen  mmj  bd  addresRed  to  ibem  direot.] 


lof 


fill 


^  "^EHtTLL  (thk  Surname)*— Taylor,  in 

'  hi'-  ible  work  on  Words  arui  I^la^^s  (ed, 

l&tH,.    ^-.    J  f:j,   note),   ia    a  niro  ad  verting  on    the 

f  cliaDt'e«  and  errors  ia  names,  and  the  tendency  t4> 

cnntract  their  original  forma,  mentions  (as   tlocs 

Lower,  m   hh  English   Surnames)^  thiit  Semplc 

•UHt "i.n  ..f  .S7.  J*tfi<?.     For  this  opinion,  will 

rned  contributors   Bay  whether 

ont  anthority,  or  what  are  the 

?    None  are  known  to  me» 

-  biTid),  whose  chief  Feat  waa 

oun,    ElliittHtonn,   or 

t  i>by  KunfrewBhire,  are 

I ,  and,  at  one  time,  were  also  u  very 

Thpy  wertt  first  ennobled  in  the  end 

T,«me9  IV,,  in  the  person 

rrew^  who  was  crertted 

1  li'  111  SI  (>[  Liie  fiiniily  known  is  sciid 

hed  in  the  time  of  Alexander  III.  of 

I  ,     Kjd  at  least  one  of  them,  Rt)berk  by 

|nAme,  is,  in  a  charter  to  hini  by  King  Robert  Eru^ 

lin  the  hrj»innin^  of  the  fourteenth  century,  of  the 

[whole  lands  within  the  tenement  of  L;ir|^s,  Ayr- 

csbiu'   b*>lrin;iinir  to,  and  which  were  forteited  by, 

hn  Babo},  adkd  *'  Roberto,  dicto  SjmpiL" 

\\)   [iftcr  timpi;,  assumed  more  than  one 

fl  itterly^  and  chiefly,  the  form*!  of 

pie.      It   mu*rt    be    mentioned, 

ftwercr,  that,   by   a   tradition   in   Renfrewshire, 

rtTvrin   of    SympJl,    &c,    was;    the    adjective 

rtpl( ;  itia«^much  its  it  is  said  that  the  first  of  the 

Tiiiy,  this  Rob*^rt,  or  iwnie  ancestor,  was  only  a 

plt\  or  ft',.-  ,n,  one  holding  no  hmdH, 

Utjl  the  tihi  vution  into  note,  in  conse- 

of  a  eijLc<  "-rul  feat  in  snidery,  by  which 

I  of  Robert  IL  wns  saved  through  his  per- 

0     '■       r    V.     -  r  Mon  upon  this  kint^'s 

jory  Bruce,   wife    of 

i^i^.,^.,   .„,..,..,    .,x    Scotland.     The  Prfo- 

ontingi  or  in  returning  from  it  to  her 

castle   of  Renfrew  on  the  Clyde,  fell 

horse  at  a  ?ipot  between   Paisley  and 

^A\lilcb  v.'LH   iij.'irkod   in  n^er  tiuies    bv  iv 

(  Ifed-^ 

lL,the 

i>u\  Li?i  having  hud  i*fd,  or  blo<»d-shot 

d  and  known  as  **  King  Blenrie  ^*= 

^cye;   and   a   tradition,   which   is  uniform, 

'  nave  it  that  thi^  jirose  from  tlie  eyes  of  the 

Mng  a  I     injure^l  in  course  of  an 

intL     Iti  fhf<  operator  is  called  Sir 

Btcr,      J  I  '   I u pica  were  vassals  of 

StBWart^  i  is  undoubted.     A« 

)  arm»,  thvj  n. m  liie  chcveron  chtque  (the 


her 


Stt'Wiu:t4*'  chief  bearing  being  tho  feu  fhcquc)  be- 
tween three  hunting  horns,  with  Imtchea  us  sup- 
jwrters,  and  the  motto  ^'  keip  tryst  '* ;  and  in 
consequence,  and  even  otherwise,  it  is  pretty 
generally  allowed,  that  at  first  they  must  have 
tilled  the  office  of  hunter,  forester,  or  fowler,  under 
the  High  Stewarts,  who  received  vast  passessions 
from  David  I.  and  his  immetliate  successors,  and 
among  others  the  barony  of  Renfrew,  which  wtis 
CO- extensive  with  the  present  shire,  and  within 
which  WIW5  the  extensive  and  "prohibited  forest" 
lying  sonlh-e^st  of  Paisley,  as  well  jw  others  in 
Strathgryfe,  the  name  of  that  poi-tion  of  the  barony 
which  Ls  situated  westwards  of  the  Blaok-Cart,  <w 
Kert- Loch  win  noch*  IL 

BuoBT,  OR  BuGBfic,  Familt. — The  writer  is 
anxtoui5  to  hojw  of  any  members  of  this  family  in 
the  eixt^enth  and  seventeenth  centuries.  The 
frmlitioni*  are  that  the  iamily  was  settled  in  the 
Midland  Count  res  and  about  London.  The  Ame- 
rican bmnch  descends  from  two  brothers,  who 
sailed  from  Ipswich  iibout  1C30. 

Jons  E.  Bailitt. 
Stretford  Manchoster.  *   '       •  • 

FAiiiLY  Ri:«)iirj»,  &a,  Enoraved  o!«  Coins* -^ 
Throurjh  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  of  New 
Oxford  Street,  I  have  before  me  three  pieoca  of 
Engli&h  money  which  have  hnd  their  reverses  filed 
smooth,  and  inscriptions  engnived  thereon.  The 
fii^t  piece  is  a  *hilhn^  of  Queen  Anne,  and  the 
record  inscribed  is  "Ann  Hope^,  bom  Nov,  loth, 
1777/'  The  second  piece  la  n  fonrpenny  bit 
(Munndy  money)  of  Gerjrge  III.,  date  1762,  on 
which,  rcplac'ing  the  fi^ire  4  erased  from  the 
revenue,  is  this  inscTipt  inn  :  **  Martha  Ellis,  born 
Anfit.  17, 17N5.'*  The  thinl  piece  is  another  Queen 
Anne*s  shilling,  the  reverse  bearing  the  following 
amatory  sonnet : — 

**To 
My  Boul 
Kv*^  word  conveVB  &  Durt, 
Thro'»'  y*  Ear  into  >'  lUnH ; 
ETery  ^enturo  pives  Dei^ier, 
Ev'  Rrettth  blovr*  up  the  Fire; 
Ev'^  Motiun  clmrnii  y"  Sights 
Oh  !  thoa  lleavn  of  all  Delight. 
Sarah  Wint. 
London." 

On  a  fourth  circnlar  piece  of  silver,  the  siKe  of  a 
shilling'  (1  cannot  exactly  detennine  whether  it 
was  originally  a  coin^  both  sides  are  covered  livith 
engraving.  On  the  obverse  is  a  representiition  of 
a  femade,  cross  in  Imnd,  weeping  at  a  tomb ;  this 
latter  displaybp;  these  words,  "Tlora  Plant,  of 
Leake,  died  April  l<),  1645,  aged  66."  On  the 
reverse  appears^  **  A  Present  firitn  his  Uncle  and 
A  out  Edw.  and  Elizabeth  Evans  to  Will,  Baker,  in 
remembrance  of  their  beloved  Sister  and  his  affec- 
tionate, A  unt»  Lincoln,  Nov.  1,  1846."  I  would 
faio  learn  something  about  these  and  >Li33ivU£ -^v^^ift^-^ 


428 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


r5*S.  II.  Nov.  23.71 


whether  such  inscribed  coins  are  ri\ro,  or,  as  I 
fancy,  plentiful ;  and  if  the  latter  he  the  caPo,  what 
custom  obtained  with  reu'ard  to  tlieir  dii-trilmtion. 

Crescknt. 
Wimbledon. 

Sculptor  Poet. — Dr.  Wharton,  in  his  Essay  on 
Pope,  says : — 

**  The  Persians  dlBtinguieh  the  different  degrees  of  the 
strength  of  funcy  in  different  poets  by  calling  them 
painters  or  sculptors.  Lucretiue,  from  the  force  of  hin 
images,  should  he  ranked  among  the  latter.  lie  is  in 
truth  a  sculptor  poet." 

I  should  be  glad  to  know  whence  he  derives 
this  reference  to  the  Persians.       C.  A.  Ward. 

Mayfair. 

Seal  of  Alexander,  Prin'ck  of  Livonia. — 
The  seal  of  Alexander,  Prince  of  Livonia  in  1502, 
bears,  besides  the  main  shield  of  the  quartered 
arms  of  Poland  and  Lithuania,  a  series  of  six 
separate  escutcheons,  as  follows  :  — 

1.  A  bull's  head  caboshed  accosted  by  a  sun, 
and  a  crescent  ;  an  estoile  between  the  horns. 

2.  A  lion  and  eagle  dimidiated. 

3.  A  man's  head  affronto  crowned,  and  gorged 
with  an  open  crown  reversed. 

4.  A  beast  (griliin  or  lion)  rampant. 

5.  Barry  .  .  .  and  .  .  .  impaling  .  .  .  twenty 
estoiles  . .  . 

6.  Hungary  (the  patriarchal  cross). 

I  shall  be  obliged  if  any  correspondent  of 
*'N.  &  Q."  cxiu  assist  me  to  the  tinctures  and 
owners  of  these  arms.  J.  Woodward. 

Welsh  Paiusii  IiKuistkhs.— An  abbreviation 
looking  like  *'vz"  Uhc  -.  bavin;:  a  lon;^'  tail)  is 
found  frequently  in  AVel>h  rei^istcrs.  For  what 
word  does  it  .stand  .'  It  scorns  to  mean  "daughter 
of,"  while  the  more  familiar  ''aj)"  is  strictly  con- 
fined to  the  masculine  ;,'ender.  Thus  under  date  1st 
Dec,  L'^ST,  is  an  entry  :—"  Uau id  ap  Edd 
[Edward]  ct  Katherina  vz  liondlo  ilisponsati  sunt." 

From  1G14  onwards  the  abbreviation  consists 
of  three  letters  ;  the  first  like  a  (freek  \  or  ^,  and 
the  la.st  two  plainly  ch.  The  viciir  of  the  parish, 
a  thorough  Welshman,  could  suggest  no  wor4  in 
his  language.  W.  D.  Sweeting. 

Peterborough. 

Ancient  Chants  ok  Land  i;y  Puutuguese 
Ai'TiioRiTir.s  IN  India. — 

"  En  TOcsnic  temps  (a.d.  154())  on  receut  nouvellcs  dc 
la  Declaration  du  Koy  lean,  touchant  lea  belles  actions 
faites  j\  Dio ;  on  vertu  d » luquelle  on  assigna  divers  prix 
aux  braves  qui  avoicnt  bieri  servy ;  ct  on  distribua  aux 
Boldats  vnc  cortaiue  (iuantitc  de  terrc  autour  de  P.af^ain." 
—Histoire  (Us  liuhs,  i)ar  R.  P.  lean  Pierre  ^laffce, 
Partll.  1).  IIX),  Puri?,  10'«5. 

Were  any  of  the  Portuguese  grants  of  land  en- 
gnivetl  on  sheets  of  copper?  In  what  Linkage 
were  they  us-ually  written  I  And  are  any  of  those 
for  land  at  Bjissain,  twenty-seven  miles  north  from 
Bombay,  still  in  existence  1  E. 


*•  The  Universe."  A  poem  by  the  Rev.  C.  R 
Maturin.  author  of  Bertram.  London,  Henry  Col- 
bourn.  Maturin  s  Bomancet,  &c. — Some  yean  ago 
a  |)oem  with  the  al)ove  title  was  publiabed.  Since  j 
Maturings  death  it  lias  been  ascribed  to  a  Ber. 
Mr.  Wills.  There  is  a  mystery  about  this  that 
I  do  not  understand.  Did  Maturin  lend  his  name, 
and  was  a  trick  played  off  on  Ck>lboum?  Orii 
the  pretended  authorship  of  WiUs  a  piece  of 
hiamey  of  the  same  mint  which  tried  to  dndre 
Campbell  of  the  authorship  of  The  Exiie  of  Bm! 

The  question  about  The  Univeru  induoes  me  to 
ask  whether  there  is  any  modem  or  recent  editkn 
of  Matnrin's  most  extraordinary  romance,  MdmtA 
the  Wanderer,  It  is  an  eloquent  and  imaginatife 
effort  of  genius,  and  of  more  value  than  all  the 
sensational  romances  of  the  present  day  put  to- 
gether. A  French  translation  has  recently  appeared 
St  Paris.  A  few  years  ago  The  Home  ofMantmOf 
a  youthful  production  by  Maturin,  was  icfpiiDted 
in  London,  but  the  publisher  (probably  owing  to 
copyright  law)  did  not  interfere  with  Melmoth  ik 
WamUrer,  The  Home  of  Moniorio  is  a  rontnoe 
of  the  Kadcliffc-Minerva  school,  and  Maturin  wm 
ashamed  that  he  ever  perpetrated  such  a  poerilitj. 

N. 

Muffling  Knockers  with  Kid  GLoyRS,— 1j  ! 
there  any  significance  in  the  use  of  a  white  kid 
glove  for  muffling  the  door  knocker  when  an  "m- 
teresting  event  ^' has  taken  place  in  a  houaeboUl 
Dickens  describes  the  process  with  great  hmnoor 
in  one  of  his  novels.  The  right  hand  glove  (I  haw 
heard)  is  or  was  used  in  the  case  of  a  male  in&nt ; 
the  left  for  a  girl.  Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q.' 
account  for  the  selection  of  a  rather  unsnitaUe 
article  for  this  puri^ose,  and  say  if  the  alleged  use 
of  the  right  and  left  is  invariable  or  arbitrary? 

F.  D.  F. 

Belfast. 

Gilbert  White,  of  Selborne. — I  possess  one 
of  his  sennons  written  in  that  caligraphyforwhicb 
he  was  so  famous.  From  the  style,  however,  and 
the  very  few  erasures  in  it,  I  cannot  help  suspecting 
it  is  not  original.  It  is  on  the  text  Matt.  xxv.  3i.», 
and  commences,  "  These  words  arc  the  conclusion 
of  the  Parable  of  the  Talents,  and  designed  by  our 
Saviour  to  stir  up  all  Christians  to  faithfulne« 
and  zeal  in  the  exercise  of  all  those  powers  and 
means/'  &c.  Perhaps  some  one  can  trace  it  for 
me  from  this  beginning.  It  was  first  preached  at 
Selborne  Aug.  0,  IToS,  and,  between  that  date 
and  Aug.  19,  1702,  did  duty  at  that  village  seven 
times,  and  at  Farringdon  no  le.^3  than  twelve 
times.  Pelaqics. 

The  Long  Parllvmext. — Thomas  Raikes  (see 
Journal  J  185S,  vol.  ii.  p.  337),  when  in  Paris, 
called,  14th  Nov.,  1842,  on  "Montrond"  (in  the 
Index  he  is  called  Count),  who  "  was  ftdl  of  anec- 
^dotf^  of  ^st  times.    He  produced  an  old  book 


.  28,  74] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


429 


t^l>t^ 


Acn  by  bis  mother  in  179u  on 
■nt   in    our   C-lmrIt*5?   T>   trnir. 


[  Wl: 


egijtii  mo  to  rend. ,  ,  .  I  br 
8 Took  to  read/'     Has  the 
t  bjT  &nj  of  the  French  bibliot^.i|jLira,  I 

r  Sir  T.  Lawresl-e.—!  Imve  a  umx- 

Ing    entitled   ^*  Ixural  Amv^em^nL 
T,  LawifL'nce.  P.R.A,,  Pinxt,     Jolin  Bromley 
tit.''     Pn>>Hdirri  by  "  Robei'fc  Simpson,  20,  Sl 
'  nden  Town.^'     The  picture  rc- 

otne  boy  a  iilnyin<r  with  an  ass. 
h  tu  ;uk  i\^  the  pictures  of  the  boys  are  por* 
iU,  find  if  so,  whom  do  they  represent  ?  I  fancy, 
m  the  pose  of  the  figures,  that  they  are  portraitk 

W.    H.    PATTKHaON. 

State  ok  England,  imiJ'—Tha 
f\'n^h-nfl  nnflcT  tJuir  MajttHi^t  King 
i  ^'7rT/,  by  G*  M.     Wlio  is 
ing  known  of  him  i     The 
Itintcii  Ly  -^  Ji,  C,  for  J<»hn  Wyat,  at  the 
''&n  in  St.  Patira  Chnrchyard,  ifini/'  and 
Rted  to  the  Duke  of  Leeds  (then  Marquis 
*  CuermartbeD).  E.  Passing  ham. 

Nkwby»— In  the  county  of  York  are  at  least 
rtinr    plicp?   brnrmfj  the   name   of  Newby,  viz., 
ii  of  Seal  by,  near  Scarborough ; 
V 'Hley  ;    Newby,  near  Gisbum, 
ing  ;  Kf  why,  near  Hare  wood  ;  Newby, 
bam,  Settle ;  Newby  Cote,  in  the  same 
"  ood  ;  Newby  Hall,  near  Ripon,  ?eat  of 
Vyner  ;  Newby  Park,  near  Topcliflfe  ; 
r  Wishe,  near  Northallerton.     Nut  one 
ikice$  U  mentioned  in  the  Domesday  Sur- 
•ir-a  of  all  placea  terminating  in 
ly  of  Daninh   origin,  how  can 
lii'  ,  Ml   .M  ihc  '_'^^  ^      .^.  .,   i  o  accounted 
It  i-onnot  be  reu  [  that  they 

»Te  origiualed  ainct  .  „.  _   .,  ^ , . . . ,     W.  G. 


iTULlira 


EfpIiN. 

"HOC  UT  DIXIT,"  kc.  (SNEEZING). 

(5*»  S.  il  396.) 

f  Mr.  Landor  nor  any  other  man  can 

i-^e  of  this  pa,sjt:i;^'e  of  Catullus  a.3  Ma. 

,.r  I,;,    mpyist)    ha-^    writt*jn    it.      The 

s  in  no  case  wanted,  m^es  the 

It    1 -;  Ti<  rr  nl;u-<^d. 

n  Mb,  Colli x?< 

V  :iy,  lean  under- 

ity ;  for  EtuskervillMg 

any  notes*     Otbi<r- 

o  to  Landor  ;  any  of 

Hcicntly  cxpbunit  the 

.'u  U  ccrUudy  some  doubt  aa  to 

{ukr  I  he*  fm^hiftfof  the  hone  in  the 


weU-kjiown  passage  of  Herodotus,  &c.)  was  taken 

n^  ^  sort  of  omen,  or  supematural  token:  nee  the 

\  n  Propertius,  quoted  by  the  commenUtors. 

M2  it  simply  means  that  Cupid,  who  wiw 

iy  in  attendance  on  the  lovers,  showed  his 

l1  of  their  endearments  by  sneezing. 

iiii?  fjeculi:mty  of  the  passage  is  that,  by  its 

ctmstmction,  it  may  me^in  that  the  approval  wm 

si;^'nitied  either  by   a   sneeze   dexter  or  a  imettie 

iinuter;  and  that  both  aa  to  grammar  and  sense 

either  reading  is  defonaible.     (Compare  the  very 

MTigrammatinil  variations,  in  the  Art  of  Plu^k,  on 

the  words  **  Hannibal  transivit  Alpea  summa  dUi- 

gentia.") 

1.  Written  and  punctuated  as  follows — "Amor 
siniatram,nt  ante  de\tram,8ternuit  approbationem" 
— it  means,  **  Cupid,  who  before  (the  return  of 
Septimius)  had  sneezed  on  the  right  (meaning 
f/uffaTour)j  now  sneezed  sanction  (by  sneezing)  on 
the  left/'  This  is  the  nnmy  elegant  as  to  language, 
and  is  quite  correct  in  sense  ;  for  it  is  well  known 
(as  illustrated  by  the  Greek  word  ivmvvfio^)  that 
the  left  hand  was,  in  omens,  considered  lucky. 
The  commentivtors  profoundly  explain  this  bo  aa  to 
reconcile  it  with  the  general  sense  of  dexter  as 
favourable,  by  reminding  us  that  that  which  was 
on  the  left  hand  of  a  man  on  earth  was  towards  the 
right  hand  of  the  god  peering  down  on  him  from 
the  aky. 

2.  Written  as  follows  —  **  Sinistram  ut  ante, 
dextram,"&c.~it  means  just  the  reverse  ;  mmtra 
and  df-xtra  being  taken  in  their  more  ordinary 
sense,  and  it  is  hard  to  say  that  they  may  not  be 
80.  The  modem  translators  (Cowley's  w  a  con- 
temptible version),  Mr.  George  Lamb  and  Mr. 
Theodore  Martin,  assume  this  sense  as  a  matter 
of  course, 

3.  I  must  admit  I  have  always  rather  fancied  a 
third  sense  :  that  hoih  positions  were  favourable, 
the  whole  sense  resting  on  the  ^tuese,  and  the 
meaning  Ijcing  merely  that  Cupid  was  favourable 
tlwoughont  the  interview  (in  which  no  such  defi- 
nite change,  at  the  tiine^  is  mdicAted  as  in  Horace's 
fmious  pamllel  one  of  Lydia),  and  that  both 
before  and  after  the  lovers  had  spoken  they  were 
of  the  same  mind,  ivnd  Cupid,  hovering  all  ronnd 
them,  gave  his  approval.  But  none  of  these  points 
are  very  material. 

The  parenthesis  would  be  consistent  with  sense 
and  grammar  if  it  included  tkxtram ;  but  it  is  at 
best  wholly  nccdlessj  and  better  away. 

Lttteltok. 

P,S,  It  is  needless  to  explain  the  sort  of  ellip- 
tical TTpus  TO  (nifiaivofHVov  which  is  required  for 
the/r«t  two  of  the  above  versions. 

Let  Cowley,  who  b  most  wiccessful  in  his  tnins* 
hitiom,  explain  these  line*  from  Catullus : — 
♦'  The  Qod  ol  \io^ii  ^\iQ  i^wA  <<s  >&wvx  \ywx 
(the  0^  <>t  Uii-^ti^fc^tSL^M^tt^^sVvts^^ 


430 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6^*S.U.  Nor.  a^^TcI 


Plemed  and  tickled  with  tbe  tiound^ 
8nec3Ecd  *vloud,  and  aU  an>uad 
The  lUtl«  Loves,  that  waited  by, 
Bow'd.  wid  blM**d  the  augury," 
^' Anwr  sicut  anteii  sternuendo  edidemfc  («tnw- 
^iram  approbationcin)  omen  ftiiiUtrum  (infiiustum) 
Ita  nunc  fit^rntientlo  edliUt{de.Uram  approMionan) 
dcxtrum  (fu  us  turn)  omen,"  in  Doering  b  correct  ex- 
^lanution  ;  ^hile  J.  Sailiger,  who  bus  imitated 
^•yiijB  poem  in  eW^iacs— 

**  Hsae  cS'titus  uba,  Isora  d6  parta  aecundia  ] 
AUtibus  dcJLtrum  stcniuit  omen  nmor^" 
has  oanfuaed  the  two  sneezings  and  destroyed  the 
ioQe&  W.  E.  Bdcklet. 

The  prcstitned  sacred  significance  of  aneezing, 

^ond  the  hflhit  of  confirming  the  sneezer,  both  seem 

rto  be  nt  least  as  old  as  Homer.    TelemM-hus  wishes 

|(hat  Ills  father  woidd  return  to  pnnijh  the  insolence 

bf  the  suitors,  andha,s  no  aooner  expreBsed  the  wish 

han  he  is  seized  with  a  sneering  fit  thnt  makes 

be  rtptirtment  ring.    TMierettnoD  Petiolone  aUIi? 

tthe  attention  of  Euma^us  to  the  fact  of  her  son 

liaring  sneezed  at  (hose  irord^^,  jind  laughi*  out  with 

5oy  at  the  go<>d  omen.     The  entire  sitimtion  h 

remarkable  ;  but  here  is  the  substance  of  it  :■ — 

^fra€pBa\€ov  aavdx^i^^'  ycXatrcrc  5c  TlrjVfXoTrtttx.' 
LoJ4'a  S*  dp  "Evpatov  Ijrca  Trre/VKira  Tpocn/v5a' 
i.^p\€o  p-oif  Toy  ^€h'ov  kvavTiQP  tS^€  KciAccrtroi'. 
ovx  ^pdaSf  tf  fiot  vlo^  cVcnraf*^  wviortv  fTno-rrL, 

Od.,  rvii.  541. 

J.  L.  TrrrEP.. 
Rugby. 

DANTE  AND  HIS  TRANSLATORa 

(5»i»  H.  ii.  36  4.) 

The  strictures  of  Erem  on  the  tmnsktion  of  the 

passage  from   the  PuTgatorio^  Canto   iii,  28-30, 

LBeein  scarcely  borne  out  by  a  careful  consideration 

Pof  the  text.     The  poet  relates  thiit,  in  ascending 

[the  monnttiin  with  his  guide,  the  sun  flamed  ruddy 

Behind  him,  and  he  perceived  his  shadow  C4ist  in 

rftont.     Not  seeing  an}''  other  shadow  hot  hiH  own» 

no  begins  to  fear  that  Virgil  h!\s  abandoned  him, 

but  his   faithful  companion  assures  him  of  his 

presence,  and  alludes  to  the  fact  that  it  is  evening 

at  Naples,  where  his  body  which  did  cast  a  shadow 

lies  buried.     Then  comes  the  passiige  in  tpiestion, 

^explaining  how  it  is  that  his  BpiritualiEcd  body 

I  Casta  no  shadow.     **  Do  not  mangel  at  this,*^  say^ 

^le,  "any  more  than  at  wh.at  exists  in  thetkies, 

'■where  one  ray  of  Hght  does  not  obscure  another." 

^  The  5ense  is  plain  and  .simple^  and  exactly  resolves 

the  poet's  doubt.     The  idea  of  two  heavens,  one 

fr, ncin  ..rit  to  tlic  othcr,  Bccms  farfetched   iind 

n  necessary,  nor  would  it  bean  apposite 

.  [1  of  the  difference  between  the  spiritual 

md  coqyoreal  body,  which  is  the  gist  of  the 


The  only  difficTilty  is  the  inti 
article  il  between  ^^altro*^  and  **  > 
a  question  of  authorities.  OAry 
passage — 

Mnnrtl  if  before  ra*  no 
More  timn  tbnt  in  tbe  - 
One  ra\ 

Thiscorrei^i  in 

lation,  und   siM>,\s   mn    m 
followed  the  il  wm  omittevL 

In  the  critical  edition  of  Carlo  iXlti^^  In  % 
eveiy  pD«.siblo  care  was  tiikea  to  msan 
nes€t,  U  it*  not  found. 

In  Mr3,  Ramsay  s  trunsbn 
the  passage  stands  th»« : — 

*'  If  here  no  flhadow  by  my  form  i^  . 
Thou  sliouldfit  not  tnarvcl  mr^rr  t'  •iM^ 

Because  on  them  tlic  ru  l* 

This  is  unsatisfactory,  .m  ict. 

The  vcraioD  of  M 
corresponds  almost 

"  Now  if  in  front 
Marrel  not  at  it 
Becauee  one  ray  i    . 

At  the  name  time  it  is  onh'  fair  xo  h\ 
there  are   authorities  leamne   ton  \^!^    t 
taken  by  Erf.m.      In   thr 
156B,  printe<i  by  Pietro  Hrt   I 
notes  ny  BermmJir  ill 

the  article  il  is  <  . 
nientator  give«  the  foUcnvin, 
jmssage : — 

'•^Horase  tn  ^ 
A.  me  alcuu'  <  i«  i 

faresti  de*  CitL,    -„_    ,.   ._. 
iJtitioMBaA,  noQ  occupa  »Ii'  jUtro  il  l\ 
EC  foaao  altraniont^fCio  c  ch^  Vnti  cie' 
fttr  ftltro,  nnii  potrebbe  ef- 
moBtrarsi  alia  veduta  no^' 
tFafis|>aroiiti  sarian^^maTic 

The  capitals  are  in  the  origmali; 

"Now,  fiftUh  be,  if  thou  di>*t  luit  bcc  nnT  AkhAo 
lowing  Virgil  in  frout  of  fi 
mora  tbaii  thuu  would  «ti  nt 
that  i«  the  Hky«  dots  not  i 
light  from   the  other'    it 
(part  of  the)  sky  took  the  I 
not  be  the  penetratittg  Ujfht  by  yn 
manifeit  to  our  vicw^  and   the  hrav 
diaphanous  and  transpareiiti  but^  ou  u 
and  opaque.*' 

This  deliverance  is  ruHi*  r  i,]»s<  iir< 
thinks  it  favours  Ids 
benefit.     I  have  not  m»  i 
the  il  is  inserted,  and  it  wo;i 
translators    I   have    qnotf' 
unfortunate.     Tht 
could  be  consulteJ, 

T 

Sandjfkaowe^  Waveriree. 
I  hope  EREii  will  ex 


e^-pMcitiou 


i>«d« 


(i»  S,  n.  Not.  28,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


431 


omwseJ  to  Longfellow's)  of  the  passage  in  Dante^s 
Purgatorio  Ttii^udy  quoted  and  repeated  below, 
EEEikt  la  so  evidently  an  Italian  scholnr  that  i 
think  he  nii(;ht  not  have  suggested  such  an  inter- 
pj^,f.i,..,>  L-,.^  ij^  tiiken  the  piissn^'e  from  the 
Vij  n  of  1750  with   PompGO  Ventiiri't^ 

coil-  i^nn  of  winch  is  now  lying  before 

me,     I  I  'eretood  thrtt  edition  to  be 

a  rolun^i  :     one,  and  in  it  the  three 

linet  arc  printed  thus  :— 

"Om  m  inn&nzi  &  me  nulU  a'&dombre, 
Kon  It  marariglmr  piti  che  de'  cieli, 
Che  V  tmo  air  attro  raf^gic  non  inffombra.*' 

Now,  it  is  important  to  observe  thnt  there  is  here 
no  article  before  the  nonn  **raggio,"  but  there  is  a 
9e<)ond  **ehe  "  beginning  the  sentenee  contained  in 
the  tliini  line ;  and  I  feel  confident  that,  reading 
th«  two  hx3t  line.^  ''  *and  above,  according 
to  the  btrictest   l  1  construction,   their 

plain  and  Biibstatjiiai  mrtiiing  is  to  this  effect : 
**I>o  not  iiKirvel  more  at  this  than  that,  in  the 

firr 'f     ,  ,    M  .^  ti  f- hcuvenly  bo<iie8)|  one  ray 

of  I  tauother/* 

]    jind.    more    eapec tally, 
are  so  frequent 
,  that  this  inter- 
pTi. '  L  Las  to  |je  quite  nriturul  anil  Dautesque, 

I  c  ,  on  the  other  hand,  I  cannot  under- 

tUiW  Ehjim 'i?  opposition  of  one  hmvni  to  another 
Arnv^n.  la  Eojj^lish  we  call  the  finmiment  **  the 
H^KivGns,''  and  siurely  the  Italian  '*  cieli  '^  is  here 
used  in  that  i^enae.  But  **  cieli  "  in  this  passaf^e 
m  in  the  plund  number^  and  if  Eree's  int^rpreta- 
titm  were  correct,  the  verb  on^ht  to  at^ee  with  it 
and  be  in  the  plunil  also  ;  v  '  .-  have  seen 

tiiAt  **intjombr:i-'  is  in  thr  .  and  must 

'*  and  not  **citli     i^-j  i  -  Domiaativc. 
All  I  Erem*5  construction  were  the  ri^ht 

on-  "^  "cho'^  beginning  the  third  hne 

WOi'  "US, 

1  u    .,        I  '^'d  to  add,  as  a  general  opinion, 

that  Dante'-  i  i  ompnessed  and  condensed 

in  Ftich  nn   i  ir)-  degnje  m  to  defy  any 

English  poet  to  tmiiKhik'  the  IfirinaCommetUa  line 
for  lino  :  nnd  thut  great  indulgence  as  to  mimtti^ 
of  !  may  well  bo  afforded  to  those  who 

m;.:  .ompt,  M.  H.  R. 


onoi 

re  T 


Bkcdtald,  CotrxT  ob:  Yalletorta  (5"*  S.  iL 

^  36^»  41 4.)^ W,  O.  T.  15  on  an  entirely  wrong  tmck 

icct  this  noble,  whoever  he 

■:  von  FaDcmont,  the  third 

►f  Cornwall.     Tr 

jiild  still  be 

'"•'^itrix    Weie     i^irjiasu^ 

I  le  of  Hayles,  his  own 

I  of  her  marriage,  and 

I,,  aa  well  as  an  In- 

.    .  ..,    .^ribe^  her  os  "Beatrix 


Regina  Alemannia,"  the  latter  adding  *'quiefuit 
uxor  Ricardi  Kegi«  Alemannia-."  I  doubt  also 
whether  "the  Rovfil  Hou?*c  of  Cologne  "  be  a  correct 
term,  Rentrix  was  the  daughter  of  Theodore  von 
Falkmont  or  Fiihy^^  •'  "'  -nvi  niece  of  Conrade  von 
Hohentetten,  Art  i  !  Cologne^  who  was  suc- 

ceeded in  his^  set'      ,  ri  1  l^f  vnn   FiuiMiiKtnt, 

probably  a  rebitive.  Sh  m- 

able  whether  Richard  '!  i.  i  of 

Earl  Richard,  be  not  a  tictitious  person  altogether. 
Richard  had  (with  five  other  cnildreti  who  died 
ia  infancy)  three  legitimate  sons  ^ho  attsiined 
manhootl,  and  two  illegitimate  sons.  The  fonner 
were  Henry,  son  of  his  first  wife,  Isabel  Marahal, 
who  njarried,  but  died  chUdles^  ;  Ediuund,  »on  of 
hiB  second  wife,  Sancha  of  Provence  (by  various 
writers  miscalled  Scientia,  Cynthia,  Cincia,  and 
even  Crucia),  who  succeeded  hla  father  as  Earl  of 
Cornwrdl — not  as  King  of  the  Romans— married, 
but  died  childless  ;  and  Richard,  alsio  aoa  of 
Sancha,  kUkxl  at  tlio  siege  of  Berwick  in  12J)6. 
It  h  certain  that  this  legitimate  Richard  left  no 
*o*i,  or  bu  would  have  become  Earl  of  Gorawall  on 
Edmund's  dealli  in  llkKJ;  but  he  may  have  left 
daughters  ;  and  apparently  ho  did  leave  a  widow, 
unleiis  *' Johanna  quit;'  fuit  uxor  Ricardi  de  Com- 
waBle  "^  {RoL  PaL^  15  Edw.  II.)  were  the  widow 
of  his  supposed  illegitinmte  brother,  a  person  of 
whom  I  find  no  trace  in  contemiximry  recorda. 
The  illegitimate  sons  of  Earl  Richard  who  are  thua 
recorded  were  (1)  Geoffrey,  termed  "conKanguineus 
noster"  (BoL  FaL,  4  Edw.  Ill),  whose  wife  was 
Margaret,  and  who  left  two  sons,— Richard^  died 
childless,  and  Geoffrey  (Inq,  Post.  MoxU  Bicardi 
de  Cornewaille,  17  Edw.  IIL,  i.  50);  and  (2) 
Walter,  to  whom  Earl  Edaiand  made  a  grant  as 
"  fi-ater  mens,"  1:^93  (Accounts  of  Exchequet,  r.  8), 
and  whose  Inquisition  was  taken  March  12,  1313 
(6  Edw.  II.,  IG),  when  his  son  WilliAm  was 
returned  hi«  heir.  In  Harl  MS.  1140,  it  is 
asserted  n.nf  tl^o  doubtful  Richard  de  Cornew*aille 
was  ^'  I.  Jiuadi  Comitis,^  and  that  he  left 

a  son  (fob    123),     The   firgt  asgertion 

seems  nuher  improbable,  since  Earl  Edmund  w^aa 
a  very  prominent  member  of  the  sect  of  the  Boni- 
Houiines  (the  Protestants  of  his  day),  and  they 
were  usually  particular  about  their  morality.  But 
a  pedigree  given  in  HorL  MS.  3^H8,  fob  50,  states 
that  *Muan,  daughter  of  Edmund,  Enrl  of  Cora- 
wall  "—query,  if  not  Richard  rather  ? —married 
Ralph  Vidletorte,  and  her  daughter  Joan  married 
Bichivrd  Champernoun,  Here  is  a  connexion  be- 
tween Cornwall  and  Valletort  ;  but  whether  it 
^  any  light  on  the  sabject,  or  **  imikc«  con- 

\vorae  confounded,"  I  leave  to  your  corre- 
:  |M,u.ijat.     One  point  at  lea><t   is  cert«»n     ♦'"^ 
Beatrix   von   FolKmont   w^as  mother  of 
legitimate   or    ill*  nffi.i  itP    nf  Richard,    ' 
Cornwall.  UrrilwP^ 


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432 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


The  Pretendkr  ix  England  (n^  8,  li.  4o80 — 
Karl  imjuires  forThax!kcmy  a  aQthority  for  reprc- 
8entmg»  in  Mftnojul^  thnt  the  Pretender  wa«  in 
England  at  tlio  time  oflhe  death  of  CJlueen  Anne. 
Without  iTt^gard  to  wh;«t  i^'^  '  «11ed  ^*  facts,"  I  can 
supply  evidence  of  <  .vy  belief  that  tho 

Prince  Charles  Edwjir  was  in  London  at 

the  period  In  question.     There  is  a  tract  in  the 
British  Museum,  styled — 

'*  An  Account  of  the  WhcJo  Procession  (of  Pope,  DeTil, 
and  Prctflijder)»  As  it  vrh'*  cftrrkd  thr^'  ih?*  City  and 
Suburbs,  And  burnt  at  C'  "^  f'rjy-night 

l&st,   kc.    Londori :    Pii  Kead   in 

White-Frycra,  iind  J.  BaL..  .:  _    _  _i    Low,  1717. 

Price  Tbrtic  Pence/'     (Ck^ilt^ctiou  of  Satirical   Printdi, 
No.  1607.) 

TM«  tract  compriaea  letter-pi-eas  and  woodcuts. 
The  latter  need  not  detain  us  ;  the  former  conBi«ts 
of  a  description  of  the  aUeged  procession  from  the 
"  Roe-Buek  "  in  Cheapside  to  the  "  Young  Man's 
Coffee- House  **  at  Charing  Cross.  At  the  latt^jr 
plaoe  certain  effigies  representing  the  three  p^r- 
aonage^  named  in  the  title^  and  other  iDdividmik, 
^'ere  coiuniitted  to  a  **  suniptuoua  Bonfire."  The 
Pretender  makes  n  Hort  of  biographical  confession^ 
such  oa  Paul  Lorraine  (see  Swift's  Esmy  on 
Eti^luh  Bvhhl««)  mxd  his  successor  in  office  m 
OrdLuary  of  Newgate,  Guthree,  who 

"  «ftve»  hidf  Newgnte  with  a  dasb/' 

were  only  too  well  accustomed  to  publish.     The 
Pretender  declares : — 

'H)1d  Letcis  aaaur'd  me  he  woa'd  ncTcr  desert  my 
Interest,  find  he  kept  hia  Bona  /c/*,  tiU  he  was  drub'd 
into  the  humble  Condition  of  suing  for  Peace;  and  I 
was  seemingly  to  be  Socrific'd  to  the  Resentment  of  my 
EncmieB,  but  our  dmr  fitter,  aud  the  Tor{e4,  concerted 
privately  to  elude  the  Force  of  the  Treaty,  and  kept  me 
at  BarleduCi  from  Trhenco  I  mode  a  trip  to  Somerset 
House,  but  was  soon  FrigbtenVi  ft  way  ajjain  by  the  Sound 
of  a  Proclamation,  at  which  Sir  Patrick  anrl  I  Bcowr*d 
off.  Soon  after  dear  Sister  departed  this  mortal  Life, 
but  the  Schemes  not  being  yot  entirely  fmi^h'dj  and  my 
good  Friends  not  baring  the  Spirit  of  Greece,  Hanover 
whipt  orer  before  mc,"  itc. 

It  may  be  noteworthy  that  a  similar  belief  was 
entertained  at  an  earlier  dote,  and  with  regitrd  to 
an  alleged  visit  to  London  by  a  much  more  for- 
midable person  than  the  Pretender,  U.^  the  'Mat- 
dial   Duke   of  Borwick,  who,  according   to    TJie 
THnmphs  of  Proiidmiy  over  Hdl^  Fmru:*!,  and 
liomCj  Ko.  121)0  in  the  above-name*!  collection  of 
satii'eB,  was  in  London  shortly  before  the  fto-called 
**AsajwHin»tion  Plot"  against  William  IlL     Tht? 
Marshiii*it  advent  13  ihuH  quaintly  described  :■ — 
'*  But  to  prepare  thinp»,  iJerwick  first  inuflt  go^ 
Aud  tbcr-  rerniin  nwhilc  Inew^nito  j 
V'hu  tbat  the  Plot  was  firmly  laid, 

IhxnK  rx'  HrH  in  mafquertide  ;^ 

With  ......         ,jj'd  Unt  or,.i  ^Unut  his  neck  a  Ruff; 

[  Better  becommg  IHiii  1  or  Buff; 

And  tho'  th*!  r*'»t  in  I :  i  lie, 

.'-  ^t]\\  UtL'  Plotter**  cry. 
'  ngs  would  well  ancceed^ 

^''-     -'-  -  o>.-^.  .  .^  J  .  ..Attf  returns  with  speed,*'  &c. 


A  woodcut  shows  the  Duko  daticing  at  Dn^efs^  j 
Hall  ''  in  Fobruory  lust "  <  lG9i5), 

F.  O.  SrepiiK 

"  AuLD  Robin  Grat  "  (5«^  8.  il  *^>^  e71/3Jli) 
— Mr.  J.  HcrBAi«r  Smitti  is  «  ini^r 

pression  as   to  the   EngljBh   • 
ballad  of  Anld  Robin  Ormj.     'Lin:,  uau^i.;  u  by  th»^ 
Rer.  Williaini  Leeve.'*  (not  Ltvive^^'u  nod  it  is  oat 
"in  it"'  ■'  ' '      -'      ■'  *       '    '      T'     ":ridi~ 

grooh 


here,  long  ago,  hut  since  have  met 

the  ballad,  which,  if  genuT!^"      ■*  • 

been  Runcf  to  the  nir  now  < 

Also  the  Rev.  William  L 

to  iSi-c  Hacred  Airs  or  U 

1770,  when  residing  with 

in  Surrey,  he  received  from   the 

Byron  a  copy  of  Lady  Ann  Liudi^ay ' 

he  immediately  set  to  music."    He 

may  not  be  unaatmfactory  to  decLir_ , 

done  with  the  clearest  conscience,  tkit   h 

heard  of  any  other  music   than  Ms  own   boiag 

applied  to  thes*  i  ni£  words."    Mr,  Leevea^ 

composition  is  \>  l»  aud  Airland  is  qui: 

disr^imilar  to  the  r^imrM  ;dr  now  printed  UDilar  tkA 

name    of    The    Bridojrot^m    gr^L      Conipara  !■ 

Wood's  ^Songs  of  .Scotland,  I  20  and  22.     I  hmsL 

many  years  ago,  that  Mr.  Leeve«  wa*  pMflintO 

from   the    Eectorship  of   Wrlugton,   ueftr   Bdlth,, 

to  the  Bishopric  of  Jamaica. 

Wm.   ClIArFBLU 

C?LOOK-STRiKrNG  (5»*»  S.  ii.  268.)— I  think  Uat 
Mr.  Miller  hat,  perhaps,  miscounted  thu  drC 
In  Italy  clocks  frequently  n^Kot  the  hint  htmr* 
Pallanza  and  Intra,  on  Lago  ?T 
strike  as  follows  ;  at  one  o'cloi 
struck  on  a  great  bell ;  at  a  ([ 
hear  a  smidl  bell  sound  one  '. 
then  a  repetition  of  the  liM  Ll-u.    i 
great  bell  ;  at  tlie  half  hotir,  we  h;i 
on  the  small  bell,  aud  o)u  on  th(" 
three  qmvrters,  we  have  three  on  t 
and  one  again  on  tlie  hirge  bell  ; 
we  have  (as  is  the  cnae  at  every  * 
only.    In  this  arninu^i  ru*  nt  thero  ir 
St.  Michael's  clock  :i 
of  order,  or,  at  a  tj  n 
would  not  sound  s^Vi^tir — an  houi 
arrived.  J  auks  Hi 

AOBETS   AXD   CaSTLKS   OF   BcQT 

an  Acc<>ni 


4 


\- 


p 


«*8.«.K«iT.2S,  7M 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


433 


r  i..v...:.,|,|nj,  JocAlitiw,  but  Xhe^e  aro  nw^fnl  chiefly 
iionka  to  the  toiinat.  E.  A.  F,  * 

UiilinjjJi'a    Baronial    nnd    Ef^clmastiml  Anii' 
^iniUt  of  ScoiUiiul,  4  vola,  4to,»    la  what   yotir 

Ti  '  ■  "  L    AKT) 

M  >\  were, 

vert  a  b; J 

JJfUie  21,   imr*.     Fun.  ^',  14, 

rr.  inJ  f::>  ;  tlic  hitters   ,,...,      .....,,  ,.  .,  u  pas- 
Qt  :  a  chief  invected  or,"  iuipaiing  for 


'  Omco,  i2,  fea,  and  U,  201.        Y.  S,  M. 


T 


m<  p\\\y  hp  irinrle  for  Mr.  Miir||)ie3| 

'        h  PiLxton  Wfta  ^Teatfy 

idric^  and  iis^lstftuc^. 

I,  of  Manchester,   an 

to  bo  frequently  m 

i    ui    \  iijit«worth    when     the 

1^  were  ranking  for   the   great 

.  and  they  were  aliown  to  him. 

I  thfvt  the  principle*  of  conatnic- 

id  the  strength  iind  form  of  the 

i  oams  were  quite  insufficiejit  to 

ire. 

Without  the  flJtemtions  uin'le  hy  ^tr.  Wren,  the 
ocmMTViitorv  would  moat  lik«4y  have  been  an  utter 
fojlure,  iind  in  conaequenee  the  Cryst.il  Pnlnce 
would  not  hftve  been  sng^'e^led.  Mr.  Wren 
ribed  to  me  in  the  Orystal  Pnhiec  of  1851  the 
nui  tiri^t  mjwle  by  Paxtoo^  and  showed  me 
en»tc  in  those  artimlly  xwqkX.  At  this 
of  time  I  cannot  positively  remember, 
•re  made  by 
rmd  Bont  to 
i»U:rufju  to  iiiw  caiiui^^  iriaMrj  troni  theui» 

Elltkk. 

S»Vff?rrFKNTIf-CK»TURY  ToKEics  (5«*  S.  ii.  269.) 
— T  "  :  . vne  is  right  in  attributing  the  token, 
<U  Mb,  CiTnisTTi"^  to  Peiiiridge,  and 

nri!  T       '    K  for  this  reai?on^  that 

Pr  iinced  bv  St attbrd shire 


or 

It ._,, 

appears  aa 

I  (Kink,  to 


local  pronunciation  of  the  name  of  the  town  or 
village.  It  seems,  therefore,  to  me  that  Peokridge 
IS  the  correct  town  for  the  token  ;Uluded  to  to  be 
placed  under.  W.  H.  Tatlob, 

The  "  Calk>turists  *'  (5^  S,  ii.  269.)— A  Oal- 
enfruri««t  i^  one  labouring  under  CalaUurcL,  a  form 
of  ^  1  o  whidi  siulor*  are  aaid  to  be  Hablc  ot 

Fc  10  self-deBtniction  : — 

On  ti  vu  bed, 

I^naQidioil  tieiil^  and  vcniatit  treoi. 

With  eager  haatc  ho  lonv'*  t>  rote 
la  thftt  f  4ntAatic  8c<  '  *  *  luka 

It  must  be  eoitie  eocli  > 
And  in  he  lenpi  an  1  nki." 

Dean  ISnia  ( Ilni  &miK  Sm}, 

The  name  for  the  disease,  which  is  not  now  dla- 
tinguiihed  aa  of  special  character,  is  a  Bpanish  one. 
It  19  alao  described  in  Cowper'g  Sofa^         K.  J. 

Tub  "  MoDKRK  Aooouirr  of  Scotland  *'  (5** 
S.  •'  ''-^  ?-'  both  mre  and  curious.  It  wa«  ftrrt 
pu  1679  in  4to,,  again  in  1685,  In  lfJ»9 

m  :.  .:  ,  „..  L  in  Oct<»ber,  1714,  in  Bvo.  The  wriler 
was  Thoma«  Kirke,  ^q-^  F.R.S.,  of  Cookridge, 
near  Leeds,  He  was  bom  22ad  December,  1650, 
married  Uth  July,  1678,  and  died  24th  April, 
1706.  Thoresby  styles  him  **  my  dear  friend  "  in 
the  Dacatm  Liodumis,  The  Account  is  highly  in- 
t-crr>tin<r,  though  it  is  unfortunately  coarae,  and 
pr  -  otti&h  brethren  as  ** nroud,  arrogant, 

v;/ boa^terft,  bloody,  biLrofirotts,  and  in- 

huiiiuti  liutdierR."  The  mcrcJuia  mulicnim^  in  itu 
grossest  forrai  i:j  mentioned  as  in  force  (p.  19) ; 
and  at  p.  21  we  are  told  that  they  **  cut  coUopa  *' 
of  Uie  liWng  cow,  until  "  they  have  mangled  ner 
all  to  pieces;  nn  -■         *^    -  will  only  cut 

off  aa  much  aft  w.  nt  appetite«, 

and  let  her  go  till  hm ^  ^i  hs  caU  for  a 

new  supply."    A  copy  of  ,  now  in  the 

'"    f>  Library  (f— .   .._   iiJ3),  contains 
by  the  late  \\m.  Ford,  the  well- 
Ir,  jimongst  them  u  transcript  of  a 
on   Kirke.     It  h  too  coarse   for 
William  E.  A.  Axon. 


,w 


Mancb' 
some  r 

knmvii 
1 

tlr'    •  - 

KoiibuliLte. 

HuGUBKOTS  (5^  8,  ii.  3C»6.)— To  tlu>  v<>rv-  in- 
teresting note  of  S.  W.  T,  on  the  i  of 
this  term,  as  suggested  by  various                  '",  I- 
may   add  vet  another  derivation,   Haydn's   iHc- 
ffu'^iartf  of  Ihiia    giving    **  Huguenot*«,   a  term 
flome  from  the  Oerman  Eidgeno9«eii, 
;  hrt  oth^i  ftmn  Hi^jiUi^  a  O^mttut 
d   to    the    Eeformed    pnrty    in 
ofHalvin,"             l«fi:oMAous. 


'■an: 


There  are  the^ 

l,v  rVulov  in   In.. 


■t\»  of  their  origin  given 
Ho  says- — 


^Oot^j 


434 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[^  s.  n.  Xi 


1 


before  C&rdiiuLi  Loihjmn^ttu  la  tlie  time  of  FrAncIi  tl. 
of  Prwice  ;  or  from  Hujfon,  a  gute  in  the  city  of  Tours, 
'wbore  they  aw^nibtcd  when  thej  first  fitlrred  ;  or  q.  d, 
la  Ouenott  ih  Jliasi,  <e.,  John  Husa's  Imps," 

The  meaning  Bailey  gives  is  *''  A  nicknamp  given 
by  the  Papists  in  France  to  the  ProWst/ints  there/' 

FrEDK.    RtJLE, 

Tub  Boj^es  of  thk  Pharaohs  (5*"*  S,  iL  3S5.)— 

♦•  To  wh»t  \m*c  mes  ne  n»ay  return,  Hoffttio  t  Why 
may  not  jm&glntitioii  trace  tho  ttoblo  duFt  of  Alrx&nder 
till  be  find  it  stopptng  u  bung -bole  I" 

1  remewiber  seetnf,^  yeara  ago^  on  the  NiJe  in 
Upper  Et^'ypt,  Boine  pugur-works,  where  the  animal 
charcojU  miH,  I  thinkj  obtained  fmm  the  iniiminy- 
pits,  but  I  am  noL  positive.  In  this  utihUman 
age»  however,  we  mu.%t  not  be  surprised  ikt  *^  senti- 
ment" going  out  iiltogether.  Did  not  a  fseientific 
lecturer  recently  suggest  practical  enlightenmenl 
by  the  bodies  and  bonea  of  our  ancestors— namely, 
bv  '  them  in  retorts  and  utilizing  the  gn«  I 

^\  I  not  we  turn  the  ancient  Egyjitiflns  to 

acif>ijni,ami  fertilize  fields  with  them  i  seeing  that 
we  drive  docks  and  railways  through  tho  resting- 
places  of  our  own  dend  ;  and,  moved  by  plebeian 
curiosity  and  intpii^itiveneafl,  desecrate  the  tombs 
of  the  mighty  Plantagenets  and  otlier  monarchal 
of  England  ;  and  unhesitatingly  rifle  the  ahmlea  nf 
the  imcient  CeUa  and  Saxons  in  the  pursuit  of 
"antiqnitiei.'' 

Another  age,  and  not  a  distant  one,  may  nee 
foundlings,  ]janpera^  and  idiots  banded  over  to  the 
physiologists  of  the  day  to  he  viviaected  for  the 
benefit  of  science,  Oeobob  H.  Jbsse. 

SoitAfiTER  ANB   KeI^UAND    FAMILIES   (5^*'   S.    iL 

348,) — In  answer  to  your  correspondent,  I  beg  to 
inform  him  that  the  bruneb  of  which  Sir  Samuel 
Somaater  waa  a  member  died  out  in  the  male  linCi 
and  the  headship  was  continued  by  the  family  of 
a  younger  brother^  a  member  of  which  had  been 
Atvhdeiicon  of  Totne?,  Alt*o  it  was  -Tf^liTi  Kf  IJiind 
who  died  in  1691,  and  not  the  John  vho 

died  in  1679,  who  married  the  hei^e^  (er. 

These  KelJanda  were  the  yonugcr  branch  of  the 
family  of  KeOand  of  KelJand  and  Lapford  Court 
(of  which  I  am  now  the  eldest  surviving  represen- 
tative of  the  «enior  branch) ;  i\nd  the  Painsford 
branch  became  extinet  in  the  male  line  in  1712, 
by  the  derith  of  Joha  Keliund  of  Paimiford.  Your 
correspondent  may  find  monumentH  of  the  family 
at  Painsford  :^"John  KeOiiud,  Esq.,  1679;  John 
Kelknd,  Estj.,  1691  \  John  Kelland*  E^q,,  1712." 
The  identity  of  the  KelJand  and  Somaster  families 
I  have  never  heard  before  diaputed. 

W.  H.  KlSLLAifD, 
Trin.  GoLL,  Cambridge. 


DrcHEss  OK  MARLnoitouou  AVp  Qui&fix  Ankb 
{d^^S,  ii  30S.)^Thc  Duchess,  in  her  Accomt  of 
/i€r  Conduct^  London,  8vo.^  1742,  p.  2^6,  aa\ft-.—    yi\v(i 


"And  know  in  f: 
for  the  rrjy 
mv  nftmiiti^ 


'  credit  ri  rt'^^T^Cct  In 


1/  ,  .iffca 


1 


litid  dowu  by  bUliup  2 

And  the  Duchess  i 
Queen  had  read  her  ])iu|»ei^,  tlmt,-- 

*^ Ai  ihe  WM  pa*»1ng  by  m^  m  vr^tj  t<.  teedve 
oomrouxiioo,  ibe  looked  whi 
very  ^raolooily  smiled  up' i 

ple^saui  took  I  h«d  reMon  ^.l^^^^.i.^-^   «->   ...  ,m»  ' 
givoD  to  Bi»bop  Taylor  and  the  CinnwiQH  Pfaytt 
and  not  to  roe/ 

The  entire  letter  is  preserved  iiiii 
MSS.,  XV*  laZ^  and  is  printed  in  ^i 
Lift  of  the  Duchcii  of  Marlborough^  lioutloij^ 
1839,  ii.  Appendix,  600.  Eoward  Sol 

COK6IDEIUTIOV8    ON   THS    ]V[aER1A<^E    0P 

Duke  or  Odmukhland,  1772  :  BioAMtiirrr  {5*^ 
S.  ii-  307.)— Thift  piunphlct  on  the  luarriaiEV  «l 

Henry  Frederick  Duke  of  Cun  ^  -'   -  ' 

Anne  Luttrell,  daughter  of 

bampton,  and  widow  of  i^V**^ 

of  Catton  Hall,  in  the  con  1 

by  Thom»a  Pownall,  a  gi  u  x. 

attainments  and  polititid  km 

the  Royal  and  Antiquarian 

atant  contributor  to  the  -  i  j. 

To  dist in gu ij^h  him  f rt  *  1 1  > '  j  r  J nh  n  (wll 

was  aha  an  antiquarian),  bo  wa«  eri 
Pownall,   hiiving    beon   ri«>vcTnftv 
Ueneral  of  South  * 
colonies,    Ikcalled  t 

he  was  elected  in  1768  a  uu  mLur  of  the  11  oil 
t'ommons,  and  signalized  himself  in  the  dd 
by  111  '  '  ' 

Am<  I 
died  :ir  i.tii  11  111  i-^'  i.f. 

Althougli  no  authority  for  the  usmge  of  the  ^ 

''bigurriety"  can  be  found  "^  '•■'  — 

It  seems  to  be  coined  froti 

which  signifies  a  motley  ;;  , 

mt'lange  de  personnes  niaj  .      m  ^    ,   ,1 

luta  one  of  the  many  «i  1      '  r>i 

character,  namely,  his  n 

Bociety  of  low  ancl  vulgar  c 

litign  of  Qtorgt  IlLf  vol  1 

p.  165.  TT, 

Ficc&dtlly. 


"Bigarrieiy**  would  p*^"* 
form  of  the  French  aud  I 

:i    iin^^inm^    whicll   the   COI 

t    this  word  **bignr 
I  ,  .1  hharrc  jh  <!cd,  iv. 

lugicui  dictionaries  J  ' 
hiiz'j.     But  there  i- 
moaning  *Ho  be  ntarked 
^sfewtoft  ftt  whose  del 


tlJ^artWtia 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


435 


dainiuiL!  for  it  m  GaulLiU  origin,  others  tracing  it 

bU  variatm.     There  is  a  cherry 

on  aixMrmnt  of  Lte  motley  nature. 

■V,  CToteaqiie,  might  suit  the  piis- 

1  the  word  bizarre  seems  ne^irer 

Eff. 

•*Oth»^t'"  ff'T  ^^^*'(o'*'S.  ii,  '^'»>^  '^ — '^ertftinly  this 
uor«i  is  lew.     Sec  m ana's  0/i( 

given.     '  '  ,    :    _  ^    ^ir 

Antiqun-^  voL  L  p.   iiHj    Robert  of  Gloucester, 

p.  lO'>:  ofher  htnitr,  AncTfn  EiwU,  p.  82;  otficr 

■•:,   ut    the    Itu&t    reference. 

Id  a  reference  to  Piers  the 

riiiviiuau,  Jj.  ^L.u  o;*,        Walter  \Y.  Skkat, 

Cambridge. 

Thiw  H'oni  h  not  unconmion.     It  o<^im  in  Put* 
t^oham^is  ArU  af  Enyluh  roesie: — 

**  Otkavikita  we  «pf*ake  tmd  be  aorry  for  it.*' 

Alt/5  in  n  fen-  of  Tha  Jlomilit-^  ffrmp.  t^> ue en  Eliza- 

Gof\  of  lira   i  h   ^tint  iis 

.  U»]  to  use,  8u  ?  he   doth 

;£  them  again  from  u;>."— ♦Scr/rt.  /or  iJo^o- 

'    Part  2. 

irrence  only  in  the  Strmmi 
\/ct  Matrimony^  und  Of  lU- 

'  Kjier   irj ^unices  of  the  word's  u«e  by 
Govvor,  and  Bishop  Hull  arc  jriven   in 
kp  -'■    IHdionnry;    also    by    Milton^    in 

^f  ftfton-if  IMciionarif.  W.  P, 

,B^  lodex  to  T7««  Jlomilui,  p.  627,  of  Uie  edition 
|CbL&KiI|  CTniveCBity  Press,  1859. 

Ea  Marshall. 

mrhU^i,  tbe  fvmJBh'U  EnglUh,  like  iKtIe  ghoBtSi 
r  besiege  a£  one  hour  in  a  month. ' 

1  i/f/ir y  lY,,  i.  2,  7. 
FiiEDK-  Rule. 

1  ing  other  whiles  ten  pounds 
[or  1  1)^:^  of  Hothind. 

C.  A.  Ward. 
rfdr. 

MciVAiiLv:   FiGURKS  iif  Books  (5*'»  S.  ii.  287^ 
^  :^(T.^ — An  ex^imple  of  these  figures  of  still  earlier 
V  S.  D.  G.  occurs  in  a  verj^ 
now  befoi-e  nie— Bartiach'a 
'U'^f'iA;  IM.M  ut  Augendiiinst^DTe^^m^ 

1 15^      i  ty  of  the  eye  is  illustrated  by  u 

'  irries  of  m  uuacuiSj  placed  one  over  the  other. 

J.  Dixon. 

"VVhat  15  a  Pouxrpr'  (fi^\  S.  ti.  248,  333.)— 

PThe  diificulty  tn  fhi-  que^jtion  ik  that  there  is  no 

In   Franco   there  is  the 

i    dollar ;   in  Huasia,  the 

^u  ,  ;iMd  a  payment  means  so  many 

The  gitinea,  which   waa  one 


fKjund  one  shilling,  existed  before  the  sovereign. 
The  answer  to  the  question  **what  s  a  pound  f 
may  be  twenty  shillings  or  two  hundred  and  forty 
pence.  Formerly  the  penny  was  an  ounce  of 
pure  copper,  and  a  doaen  of  them  were  worth  a 
shdlLng,  Now^  a  doaven  of  the  bronze  pennies, 
though  more  portable,  are  not  worth  more  than 
three  pence.  To  fix  the  price  of  gold  at  3^.  17^.  6d. 
per  ounce,  and  then  say  the  pound  is  an  ulimiot 
part  of  the  ounce,  is  reasoning  in  a  circle.  The 
sorerei^iy  as  csontradi^tingiiished  frojn  the  pound, 
is  a  piece  of  gold  of  a  given  weight,  but  its  value 
has?,  within  the  List  twenty  years,  considerably 
diminished,  inaftmuch  a*  it  cannot  now  procure 
the  same  qmintity  of  commodities  which  it  then 
represented*  Sir  Robert  Peel  used  the  question 
"  What  -a  a  pound  ? "  in  the  debate  upon  the 
Currency  or  Bank  Laws  of  1846.  Ke  appetirs  not 
to  have  understood  either  his  own  question  or  the 
currency  one,  and  the  law  of  1846  him  been  the 
fertile  aoiirco  of  commercial  panic.  Labour,  and 
not  money,  ih  the  true  te^t  of  value  ;  the  general 
advance  in  wa^es  proceeda  from  ii  diminution  in 
the  value  of  the  pounds  as  a  larger  number  muat 
be  given  to  secure  the  same  quantity  of  com* 
modities,  and  tr^o  the  same  amount  of  labour. 

JgsEPU  Fisher, 
Waterford. 

**  Defender  op  the  Faith  '^  (5"*  S.  ii.  2(>6,  254, 
318.) — Tbe  early  use  of  this  title  waa  well  in  vest  i* 
gttt^d  in  *'K  &  Q.,"  pt  S.  ii.  442,  481,  und  iii*  94. 
I  may  add  that  the  Bull  of  Pope  Leo  X,,  conferring 
tbe  title  on  Henry  VII L,  is  in  Rymer's  Fanhra^ 
tom.  xiii,  p.  756,  with  a  fac-simile  of  the  original, 
which  expressly  mentions  that  the  title  was  con- 
ferred on  Henry  on  account  of  hia  book  against 
Luther,  This  was  in  that  king's  fifteenth  y^ear; 
and  I  have  looked  through  the  namerttua  docu- 
ments in  Rymer  back  to  the  twenty-second  year 
of  Henry  VIL,  without  finding  a  smglc  instance 
of  the  u«ie  of  this  title  by  either  sovereign  before 
the  date  of  the  Bull,  though  many  of  them  &ei  out 
the  roj'al  titles  at  fidl  length,  such  as  f  j  '  *  lea 
of  marriage,  &€.  (13  Rymer  77, 1«*7, 1 1  '  ♦), 

and  one  of  them  (p.  334)  consists  ui  .uih.v?.  of 
ngreemcot  ma4:ie  eleven  years  before  the  Bull  be- 
tween King  Henry  VIII.^  Pope  Leo  X.,  the  Arch* 
duchcsii  of  Austria^  and  other  princes,  expresaly 
for  the  defence  of  the  church.  In  this,  if  Miy- 
where,  one  would  expect  to  find  him  styled  **  De- 
femier  of  the  Ftuth/'  if  our  kings  ever  used  it 
l>efore  the  date  of  the  Bull,  yet  in  it  the  royal 
style  is  merely  *'  Henri cus.  Dei  gratia.  Rex  Angliie 
et  Franci»'  et  Dominua  Hiberniaj,''  the  same  as 
in  the  other  doeumentd  above  cited.  After  this  it 
ia  difficult  to  believe  in  the  genuineness  of  the 
Lea«e  of  22  Henry  VII.,  mentioned  by  Mr.  Staf- 
ford p.  206,  which  actually  gives  the  words  **  De- 
fender of  the  Faith"  toi  isvJvt^.QlOGSk\.^\sv^^«^^ 


436 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


tS»5.1LKdt.SS,7l. 


or  title.     Sir  Edwnrd  Coke,  whose  acquaintance 
with  the  deeds  of  the  Tndor  jieriod  was  unrivalled, 

gives  the  style  and  title  of  our  successive  kings 
own  to  hiB  timcj  and  saye,  *'  If  a  deed  in  the  style 
of  the  king  name  him  *  Defensor  fidei '  before  13 
Henry  VIIJ.,  or  *  supreme  head '  before  20  Henry 
VIII*,  it  IB  certainly  forj^fcd  ''  (Coke  on  LittletoDi 
7  a).  And  none  of  the  charters,  writs,  or  docu- 
ments, cited  in  *'N.  &  Q.,"  l'^  S.  ii,  481,  or  iii.  94, 
shows  a  use  of  these  words  as  part  of  iht  king'n 
Utkt  which  seema  never  to  have  varied  from  the 
time  of  Henry  YL  down  to  13  Henry  VIIL  (vide 
Sir  H.  NicoWs  Chronology  of  History,  376,  2iid 
edit.^  who  extracts  from  Sir  T,  D,  Hardy's  Intro- 
duction to  the  Clmrter  RolU).  The  lease  thei^efore 
cited  by  Mr.  Stafford  b  unique,  and  would  cer- 
tainly astonish  Sir  T,  LX  Hurdy.  Is  it  possible  to 
get  a  sight  of  it  ?  Joseph  Brown* 

Temple* 

Spkllino  Rbfohms  (6*^  S.  L  421,  471,  611  ; 
iL  29,  231,  277.)— The  Eev.  De.  Bkkwer,  in  his 
not€  (6*^  S»  i.  421)  on  the  c  mute,  before  the 
Bii£&xe8  -able  and  'ilile,  gives  in  a  list  the  follow- 
imf  words  which  ace  *^aljnost  invariiibly  written 
with  the  c  mute  "  :  —  diangeable^  atm'^eahU^ 
daniaffeabk^  manafjeabk,  peaceable^  M^rvic^abU^  &c. ; 
**  whde  others,"  he  proceetls  to  aay,  "  as  generally 
appear  without  it,  as  achrabkj  advisobh,  Slamabk, 
consolahlf^  (kclinahky  ple^isurabh^  and  so  on.** 

I  think  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  e  mute 
is  retained  in  the  first  claas  of  wonJs  for  this 
simple  reason,  that  g  and  c  before  a  are  always 
hard ;  as,  of  course^  they  also  are  before  o  and  u. 
Without  the  c,  therefore,  changeabk  would  have 
to  be  pronounced  chan^fjahk;  chargmhk,  charg- 
gabkf  &c.  J.  L.  C.  S. 

Rabel  (5***  S.  i.  388  ;  ii.  133,  198,  238,  296.)— 
I  have  only  jtiat  seen  the  letters  which  appetired 
in  your  number  for  the  15th  of  August  upon  this 
subject,  but  am  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  this 
form  of  the  word  in  Jeremiah  is  a  mistake. 

I  am  sorry  that  I  hiid  myself  open  to  censure 
by  making  a  general  assertion  ;  but,  in  speaking 
of  other  versions,  I  was  thinkinr^  of  those  in  the 
loomiages  of  the  Continent.  If  I  had  been  aware 
of  3io  difference  in  the  Welsh  verBion,  it  would  not 
have  affected  the  argnment.  I  understand  from  Mr» 
Unnone  that  the  word  '*  H^ihel "  is  used  regularly 
through  the  whole  of  that  version,  whereas  in  the 
English  version  it  is  only  used  once,  thus  represent- 
ing two  pronunciations  of  the  Hebrew  word. 

Again,  I  cannot  a^ree  with  Mr,  Unnone  that 
the  siDguLir  fonuation  of  this  word  in  Jeremiah 
is  to  be  accounted  fur  by  **  the  pa.s*iago  having  been 
translated  by  a  WebhuiJin/' 

It  muBt  be  remembcrod  that  no  portion  of  the 
vcrjiion  of  1611  was  allo*Jved  to  re^t  upon  the 
authority  of  any  iodivitlual  tmni«hdor.  Tlie  truns- 
Jators  were  divided  into  «?oiiipaiiiesi ;  the  portico  of 


Scripture  consigned  to  each  wih&  tnoiBlnted  by  cat:h 
member  of  the  conipjiny,  a  r  '  '  - 1  imitted  io  tb* 
judgment  of  the  whole.  h  HimI  A^fMd 

upon  their  transiation,  it  t^  u.^  lui  t^r.  i  refeired  totl^  ^ 
other  companies,  wt  that  nothing  might  ^Mkea  wiili-| 
out  general  consent. 

It  does  not  seem  possible  that  the  word  **  Raht?!''  I 
.should  have  been  accepted  by  general  eon ^r til  m 
Jeremiah  when  it  had  been  rejected  bv 
judges  in  every  other  passage  of  Holy  .^ 
Again,  if  Mr.  Marcel's  statement  is  correct,  th^t  J 
"  in  the  older  English  versions  '  Rahel '  is  em- 1 
ployed  throughout,  but  was  onJj  suiTcred  to[ 
renjain  in  this  one  passage  in  the  Authi«n2ed  I 
Version  of  1611,"  I  am  the  rather  Lnclined  to  [ 
attribute  the  retaining  of  it  to  an  overti$?Ht  If  I 
the  tmnslators  of  1611  had  considered  : 
in  Jeremiah,  they  would  not  have  alt^ 
other  places*  If  they  considered  it  &o 
that  it  became  necessary  to  change  it  in 
pjissiiges,  they  would  not,  except  k..  ..^  ,,,, 
have  left  it  unchanged  in  the  > 

"With  rti^pect  t^o  the  proper  |  um 

letter  rr,  on  which,  however,  th  mot 

depend,   I  do  not  consider  r  i  lo 

enter  into  a  discussion  with  a  J 

In  defence  of  my  own  oi'ii  tbnil 

Geseniufl  calls  the  letter  *'  <  'ki*  1 

and  Bays  that  it  is  the  hai^ 
the  guttural  c/i, 

I  may  add  that  the  writen  of  the  Bepiu»^iiit,  I 
who  may  be  supposed  to  have  known  the  pitvl 
nunciation  of  their  own  language,  rcnilcr  thtj 
Hebrew  n  by  the  Greek  ^  in  Rachel,  not  only  iul 
the  other  passages  in  which  the  word  occurs,  bnt-l 
also  in  the  16lh  verse  of  the  xxxL  chapter  of' 
Jeremiak  Frepeiuck  ft'UiJrr. 

Egbam  Vicanige. 

[Tliii  diicasnon  ii  now  closed.] 

Braose  =  Bavent  (6*»»  S.  ii.  237.)— 
Roger  de=Hawye6.        Wiltiaiu  d«=pMarU, 
Bavent.  Bmoiie.         thinl  wtfi. 


Jolin    de 
Baveot 

t.p. 


£le)inor'=  Wilitaia, 
third  eon* 


1.  Iticb^ri 

2.  Peter. 


Peter  (le  Brtboat^^JoliJinafi  hUit 

of  Ada  i! 

The  above  p  vcritled  by  th^ 

authorities:— 7  r,  ir.  33!:    I' 

liv.  i:in  ;  Abbr.  PUc.,  10,  E.  u 
Eot.  Chart.,  16  and  2i\  Ed.  iii.  11 

Abbr,  Rot.  Grig.  (vol.  ii.>»  18,  ii.  nu  H^  IWl 
2!) ;  Ik,  IS),  £.  ill,  Ro,  fi.       FiJ.ix  Liviunrr. 

SrjiHoi.  IS  Statkkd  nt.4f! 
—I  am  inclined  to  think  that 
de*cnbed  by  R.  P.  may  be  li 


6»  &  II.  Not.  28,  'T*-] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


437 


the  mocking  of  our  blessed  Lord.     In  a  Sarum 
MisaaJ  preserved  in  Bi^hojj  CH)sin*s  Library,  Dur- 
hanD,  aanmll  woodcut  atnndi^  at  tlie  hetui  of  the 
**  Mtsfia  de  Quingue  Vnlneribus,*'  representing  Our 
Lord   suTToiindea    by  all  the  inatniinents  of  Hia 
lion.     Amongst  the  raivny  details   which   are 
«ced  is  the  heiid  of  a  man  with  protruded 
e*     Was  Ihe  gubject  of  the  window  a  cnici- 
ixion  I  Johnson  Baily. 

"  Gon  SAVE  TBE  mark/'  &c.  (b^  S.  ii  169,  215, 
335.) — Docs  not  the  word  iitark,  in  these  pknises, 
ue/in  the  sign  of  the  cross,  which  the  speaker  is 
iiuppoBed  to  rnuke  on  using  the  untowiird  word  or 
worde  1  J.  K 

T)"''  ^^'^  vrt\s  **  fi  parenthetic  apology  for  some 
[pTT»i  il^^r  word'*  h  most  probable;  for, 

I  «nt  I'utly,  there  existed«a  pecnliar  mode 

[of  ifnonggt  the  profane  and  vulgar  in 

[War  .-,     A  man  would  utter  an  impreca- 

Ition^  and  then  immetliateJy  add,  parenthetically, 
I "  God  forgive  me  that  I  should  say  so.^  The 
[apology  seems  now  to  have  assumed  the  general 
|form«,  "Excuse  the  remark,"  and  "Pardon  the 
I  expression,"  usually  prefacing  some  observation  of 
I  uausnal  severity*  C.  Chattock,  F.R.ILS. 

Giittc  Bromwicb, 

"  Petronifs  Arbiter  **  (5*^  S.  ii,  249,  338,)— 

I  cannot  tell  B.  whether  the  Amsterdam  edition 

f  of  W^il  be  scarce  or  not,  but  I  po^se^^  a  copy.     It 

lukA  a  dedicatory  preface  by  Woweren,  the  editor, 

to  no  less  a  person  than  Bcalrger.  W.  T,  M» 

ShiiiAeld  Grovo. 

Seal  in  Two  Parts  (5»«»  S.  ih  30S,  352.)— 
An  Act  of  the  13th  Edw,  L  directs  that  the  seals 
for  thfl  Statute  Merchants  should  be  of  two  pieces, 
the  great-er  to  be  kept  by  the  Mayor  or  Chief 
W.nr^  "  '■'"*  the  less  with  the  Clerk,  whose  duty 
it  V  >  out  the  obligation.     The  Corpora- 

tir'  I  P  1»M  T  *<  i  n  t  lieir  po&session  one  portion 

of  i  the  two  parts  were  united 

by  and  by  a  screw.    The  seal, 

ifhen  complete,  hud  for  device  the  arms  of  the 
*  jf,  and   an    inscription,  the   iiortion  of  which, 
nved  ujxjn  the  remaining  piece^  is  '*  KCAToais . 

t  know  if  any  impression  of 

tht  n  is  kiiovrn,  ami,  if  ko»  to 

hikTe  :i  ilcsLi'ipLiuU  vi  it.  A.  W.  M. 

Lcedd. 

'  S.  ii.  308.  352.) 
—  T  I  I'M)*    .  r   Puttn/ 

James 

I- 1.  A  ILL  ^  F.  tk  WaaiHk:-*,  M.A. 


houae*8  remains,  was  found  this  year,  during  the 
repail-ing  of  the  vault  at  Blair.  The  people  there 
were  very  indignant  when  asked  if  his  aahes  had 
not  been  removed  to  Old  Deer,  Claverhouse*^ 
lost  lineal  descendant.  Miss  Clementina  Stirling 
Grahame,  of  Duntriine,  the  friend  of  Scott,  and 
the  heroine  of  M\jiitific(ttion^,  is  now  a  lively,  clever 
old  lady  of  ninety- two,  who  goes  about,  knows 
everything,  and  is  a  fine  type  of  the  fast*Yanishing 
Scotch  gentlewoman  of  the  old  school, 

Gretstbil. 
Edinburgh. 

"Tam  o*  Sdanter,'*  &c.  (5*^  B.  ii.  328,  358.)— 
I  think  that  the  Earl  of  Kilmory  has  the  original 
figures,  I  eaw  them  in  his  house  on  the  Thames 
about  ten  years  ago,  A.  0. 

"  Touch  not  the  Gat  Btrr  (or  hot)  the  Glote  " 
{5^^  S,  ii.  146,  213,  356.)-'In  Lanca^^hire  the  form 
"  bout,"  often  supposed  to  be  a  comiption  of  the 
word  "  without,"  is  commonly  used,  Will  it  not 
most  probably  be  a  relative  of  the  tenn  given  by 
LiNDis  and  S.  T.  P.  ?  Yllut. 

Broughton^  Manchester, 

The  Early  English  Contraction  for  Jesus 
(D***  S.  ii.  2«5,  375,)— It  i&  curious  that  no  one  in 
discussing  this  subject  has  mentioned  the  absurdity 
of  the  monogmm  in  its  form  IHS.  The  tir»t  tvyo 
letters  are  Greek,  but  the  other  Roman  !  A  h\'brid 
of  that  sort  must  be  cidled  absurd.  I  HO,  the 
last  letter  being  the  old  Greek  ^igma,  Ib  the  correct 
fonn.  Charles  F,  S.  Waeren,  M.A. 

The  Name  Jenifer  (5«»  S,  ii.  305,  376)  seems 
to  be  a  corruption  of  the  beautiful  one  Genevieve, 
wliich  Coleridge  has  rendered  famous  in  bis  well- 
known  poem.  There  is  a  village  in  this  county 
(Suffolk)  called  Fornham  St.  Genevieve,  popukrly 
known  as  "  Fomham  Jenifer." 

John  Pickfohd,  M.A. 

^ewbottroe  Rectory,  WoodUddge. 

Oeoqraphical  {6*»>  S.  u.  308,  35D,  397.)— 
R.  M— M,  who  undertaken  to  answer  the  question 
of  R.  E.  A,,  on  the  supposition  that  it  relates  to 
English  time  only,  although  the  pnipo^er  professed 
to  have  consulted  "  m.my  of  the  best  authorities, 
French  and  English,"  must  have  a  very  imfjet- 
fect  knowledge  of  the  subject  ho  writes  aboTit, 
The  reckoning  of  time  by  Efistern  Longitude  by 
no  iiicans  ends  at  Fiji,  as  he  imagines  ;  there  are 
ChriKtiuns  at  Tahiti  and  at  Pitcaim's  Island  who 
still  reckon  by  Eaatem  time,  and  who  will  obs«?rvc» 
the  dawn  of  Christmas-day  seveml  hours  souner 
than  those  at  Fiji.  But  even  if  it  were  not  so» 
R,  M— M  would  atill  be  wrong,  for  it  is  not  n 
que&tiiui  of  commralivo  h»ngitudc  at  alb  At 
Auckland,  New  Zealand,  which  is  not  so  far  eiut 
as  Fiji^  tlie  ma  will  rise  on  Christmas  morn  earlier 
by  two  or  thK'C  hours  thiva  at  fV^v. 


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438 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


R,  E.  A.*s  question  is  Incapable  uf  solutloa 
Ho  raiglit  asivcll  ask  where  an  tinl^roken  (?;^g-&hell 
begins  or  ends,  or  ^vliich  piirt  of  ei  ruuning  wheel 
cornea  to  the  jtjround  first !  I  retueraher  an  article 
upon  this  subject  in  the  first  series  of  **  N,  ^  Q,/* 
by  your  old  correspondent  A*  E.  B, 

FfiJSNcn  Probtujiciation  (5i*»  8.  iL  3(^«,  415.)— 
Thftt  iouA  was  mode  to  rhyme  with  houu  in 
KngUab  secius  quite  certain,  and  it  was  even 
spelt  so  OS  to  ensure  thiij  pronunciation*  In  the 
Englijsh  tmniJution  of  the  trench  pluy  i*  M^Ule^in 
malip'c  Lui,  published  in  vol  v.  of  Tht  (^mic 
Theatrfif  London,  1763,  the  following  example*  of 
this  are  found : — 

«  SffaitardU.  Ko^  th«  devil  fetoh  me  If  I  bate  a  Momt**' 
A^uin  :— 
"  SffiinareUf.  Oh  t  sir,  1  '11  not  touch  a  fiirthing. 
Oeronto.    Bir. 

Oer*  I  d«sire^  hit,** 

W.  H.  Pattbr^on* 

Peculiar  TaBATMBKT  or  Wokds,  &c.  (ft^  S. 
L  247  ;  ii.  90,  197,  336,  417.)— Abmrt  forty-five 
years  ago,  being'  on  a  pedestrian  tour  near  Bar- 
mouth, I  was  recommended  by  the  lundlord  of  the 
inn  nDt  to  take  the  new  hxmI  more  level  rtmd,  but 
the  old  road,  which  at  one  point  eommi'\nded  a 
fine  riew  all  round.  The  ^elsh  boy  who  was 
sent  with  uie  to  sbow  me  the  place  ciukd  it  Pen 
famah  (good  Welsh,  I  imagine)^  but  a  more 
^ucuted  resident  at  the  next  place  I  cAmo  to 
gave  me  the  history  of  the  word  :  a  [xirty  of 
tonmtd  half-a-dozen  years  before  had  dcchired  it 
quite  a  panorama^  and  the  word,  parch  detoHun^ 
being  caoi^'ht  up,  romidned.  C.  P.  E, 

RictrAHD  Swift,  Siieriff  of  I^ondon  {^^  S.  ii. 
333,  416.)— Ma,  EoiiusD  Lenthall  Svvifte  very 
vaguely  speaks  (p.  333)  of  a  "  Sir  Somebody 
Swift "'  as  having  bt  en  Sheriff  of  London  **  about 
fifty  years  ago."  He  add«  that  *'  he  had  been  a 
shoemaker,  and,  for  ought  I  know,  was  christened 
Francis."  Allow  m©  to  say  that  ho  was  not 
chriBtened  Francis  ;  that  be  was  not  a  Sir  Some- 
body, as  he  was  never  knighted  ;  and  that  it  is  not 
yet  half  fifty  years  since  ho  was  sheriff.  The  gentle- 
man in  question,  Mr.  Richard  Swift^  served  the 
office  in  the  year  1B51-2,  was  a  wholesale  leather 
merchant,  and  wjia  M.P.  for  Sligo  county,  as  a 
*^  Li  bend "  (and,  I  believe,  a  Roman  Catholic), 
Trom  1852  to  1857.  He  died,  unknighted,  in 
March,  1872.  Ai.fred  B.  Beaven'. 

Prestoa. 

The  Rev,  Thomas  Gabb  (5**»  S.  ii.  249,  333, 
3!>9.)— Mr.  Gubb  was  also  the  author  of  Tkoughtx 
on  the  Cri^ation  and  on  tlu  t^ytirm*  of  Astranomyf 
pp.  lOOf  1S12,  He  opposed  the  Copernican  and 
I  believe  some  copies  ol  Va% 


Newtottinn  systenw. 


Fini*  Fyrjmidis  henr  the  imprint  **  Jn^tTi  Tnyltrr, 

Retford.-'     It  may  not  b 

this  John  Taylur,  who  v, 

removed  to  London,  and  tl\c 

LrreHtly  respected  hea*i  of  *  ull 

*^Tojlor   &  Walton,"  publi^Jicri    t 

Uuiveraity.     I  think  Mr.  Tavlor  n- 

don  about  1806.     H^  '       "  ;i<^ 

P^ra  VI  id.     Ult  y  i  vo  it  1 1 

published  by  Longnmn  cv  <  u.,  io.*.», 

Robert  WmTt 
Workfiop. 

An  America^  Eulogy  qn  Wo3rF,?r  f5^  ^,  Kl 
147.) — I  send  a  cutting  takcQ  out  <ii 
plac^  book,  which  appears  to  be  the 
enlotfy  on  women  inquired  for.     I  u  uu  X  J 

do  not  know  the  date,  nor  in  whrr  »|)-] 

peiired,  but  certainly  it  was  an  Eny^ 

"An  AnKRiCAF  Respoitdino  to  thk  TkiI 

LAbiEs/— The  following  WM  '  '  ''  Tar-i 

OCT  lit  the  Correspondent^'  C  u  ;—  ] 

*  Mr.  Preiidcnt,— I  love  the        ,  ^'tt,  i 

irre^fMJctivo  of  a^e  or  colour.  (ImughUi 
gcnces  cannot  estimate  what  we  owe  to  v 
sewi  on  our  huttonsi,  mr    '  '  "' 

at  Iho  church  fares,  sh<: 
ever  ehe  can  tiiid  out  u 

the  neighbouri.     (LaughU'r.)     SLo  k*'*'^^  "^  aJvict^iiiJ 
plenty  of  it;  aho  gives  a  piece  of  her  mind  boinettme*, 
and  ftomo tunes   all  of  it.     (I>aughterJl     Whiiuvcr  roa 
place  woman,  Sir,  she  is  an  ornamrnt   to  that  puee 
which  she  occupkB,  and  a  treasure  to  the  world,     (itert 
the  speaker  pauMd,  looking  round    upon   hta  ttuditon 
ifiijutrin^lj.)      Tlie  applauii^  OQght  to  come  in  it  tli>i 
point.    (Ureat  laughter.)     L  -^^    "*    r^u..,r..t,  .    i.,.i   it 
DesdemDriA,  look  at  Florence  ? 
Borgia,     (Voices,  "  No,  no.",| 
ere tia  elide.     (Irfiughter)     Louk  u/ 
of  •*  Oh,  oh,"  and  Jaiighttr.)     You 
unless  yon  want  to;   but  Ere  \^ 
particularly   before    the  fashion 
Iftughter.)     I  repeat,  Sir,  look  at 
Macree,  look  at  Lucy  Stone,  Icnjk   ^ 
look  at  Oeorgf^  Francia  Train— u 
Sir,  I  say  it  with  a  bowed  head  , 

look  at  the  mother  of  Wushinfrton,  she     ilriM£K«^*i  ^V  '  * 
boy  that  could  not  lie.    Could  not  lie  !     II  nu^Ui  bttf 
been  different  hod  he  belonged  to  a  Xewfinpapej*  C<>n«' 
spondcnta'   Club.    (Groana,  histc9,  criei  of   *'Ful  bti" 
outj"  and  liiughier.)     I  repeat,  Sir,  that  in  wbatev^r 
position  you   place  a  woman,  &be   is  au  ortiatiuiit  ia 
eociety,  and  a  treasure  to  the  world.    A«  a  »wccibcaLrl» 
she  hue  few  equals,  and  no  superior-       t..    .i  .  ..       w 
a  cousin,  she  ii  convenient ;  a^  a  ^^ 
with  an  incurable  difitemper,  she  i-^ 
What  would  the  people  of  the  earth  be 
They  would  be  scarce,  Sir,  perfectly  ^ 
laughter.)    Then  let  us  cherish  her,  let  ^    ^ .    .     .     -  , 
let  U4  Kiro  her  our  support,  our   encourugtrttieiit,  our 
ivmpathy,  oursclvea,  if  wv  ;*et  a  fhjmre      fLnir*hffr^ 
But  jesting  aside,  Mr.  I' 
heart,  i;radous,  beaut 
deference.     Not    nny    i,     .  _ 

health  right  cordially  in  this  goblet  o1   wir 
and  every  out  of  U8  hoA  known,  luted,  and  hu^. 
bcft  of  tiicm  oil,  his  own  mother,'  (Great  appuu*cj 

ma 


6«8.n.  Nov,28,7t] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


439 


T  imn;^inc  Db.  Dixon  is  mistaken  in  ajscribing 
r  Woman  "he  to  our  side 

We  have  no  "]i  nga^here; 

LO;u  Imiuoiisu  never  whip  thtir  sjllububs  to  such 
I  fi  vrvlumc  on  such  a  theuie  :  and  the  reference  to 
Inh  all  over,  and  probjibly 
lie  when  I  read  the  "  note **  \ 
inu  iHiL  Kuir-  ni  my  uwn  judgnieiif,  I  asked  the 
iHuthor  of  the  excellent  index  to  Pcrmlical  Lite- 
fruture,  n  atandnrd  work  with  us  on  these  matters, 
I  iind  received  this  note  from  him  : — 

•'Dear  Sir* — I  never  saw  the  uddreii  referred  to  in 

►  'K.  it   Q.,'  n«ver  hcArd  of  it,  don't  believe  tLorc  ever 

►  mus  ftucli  iwi  iwldrcM,  Never  heard  of  *p<5tinj  retuliogs ' 
iSn  America,  There  might  have  been  such  a  j>«  d'r^Ht 
Jin  ft  TictvfpAper,  but  I  duu't  betfftve  it  vr&A  an  ftddrcas  dt 
■/Kfo,  Wm.  Poole/' 

I  ffoe^s*.  then,  this  in  the  truth.  The  thing  was 
,^,  ■"  ''•■  -'«nd;  was  cnnfiidered  by  gmne  enter- 
over  here  to  bo  a  piece  of  excellent 
1  opied  without  uny  reference  to  its 
o,  according  to  the  use  and  wont  of 
e  a  man  amon^  us  when  we  want  to 
i  fame  for  the  mere  oiithiy  of  paper 

I  I  ilk.  BOBKRT   COLLYRR. 

GUic«ia. 

^titfrrnAtieatitf. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ko. 

^ThfGrct'iUe  Mr  mom :  a  Journal  of  (h  Hiign  0/ 

"  'J t' IV.  and  King  IVUUam  IF,    By 

htirlcs  G.  F.  Greville,   Esq.,   Clerk 

Ticil  to  their  Majesties,     Editeil  by 

ve,  Registrar  of  the  Privy  Council, 

i  I  ion.     3  vols.     (Longmans  &  Co.) 

wiio,  vvuitini4  for  ihe  second  edition  of  the^e 


'  r^nrirkn}?! 


an*  I 


fiu«A^tmn 
fthnn   tbf 


memoirs  and  jouraals,  felt  somo  fear 

be  what  i»  allied  ''an   improved 

banish   all   finri^ty.     The   second 

'  pidly-exhausted 

( juore  enjayuble, 

iciOt'Ut    "  lohm^l    tlie    srenef</*    is   intact, 

*day  history  of  two  reignf*,  and  of  the 

dorijig  thc-se  reigns,  is  preserved.     The 

hich  startled  ho  many  roadtj-^s  Btill  nuUte 

record  of  ^^  *    •  '  iiity  which  existed  in 

jind  t  iita  andconclusiouB  of 

rilist    irr,  ..Tir.t;s  of  observation 

-ions. 

\,      :    lie  two  reigna  in 

th«re  was  no  moie  unpretending  man 

qnipt^    trentlemanly  Mr,    GreviHe.     To 

s  bis  enjo3rment  ;  to  dissect  it, 

V.     Amotij^  th«^  rmibiHonf5  men 

moved  w  n 

'lint*  th«--i»  I'r 


^dUcern  how  fooli«ih  were  ¥cme  of  those 


who  were  accepted  as  vdia  par  cxctUinei,  **  Bacred 
Majesty "  hn^  suffered  most  at  the  hands  of  Mn 
Greville.  His  rovelatiojis  of  what  was  on  and 
about  the  throne  of  George  lY.  excit«  a  burlesque 
horror.  One  shudders  iit  groaij  facts,  and  yet  cannot 
refrain  from  laugh  tug  at  the  actor.  The  personal 
revelationy,  ag^do,  of  the  Sailor  King  and  his 
Court  are,  so  to  spcjik,  horridly  burlesque  in 
character.  The  pfraonages  aeem  to  be  continmilly 
on  the  point  of  breaking  out  into  comic  songs  and 
still  more  comic  dancefj.  Whether  aa  satirist,  his* 
torian»  or  social  censor,  Hr.  Greville  shines  with 
equal  brilliiUicy  in  every  character.  There  will 
probably  never  be  half  to  good  a  history  of  the 
two  kingiS  and  their  times  uf  may  be  found  in 
these  diversified  pages.  They  form  a  wonderful 
phanttiaraagoria.  oi  lii'e.  At  the  opening,  w©  find 
shadows  and  fi^ure^  belonging  to  the  piwt ;  And 
further  on,  ahsidows  that  assume  to  be  immortal 
substances  ;  and  figures  that  (as  they  fade  in  their 
turn)  prove  to  be  not  so  permanent  as  they  thought 
them«elve8.  And  when  this  part  of  the  roll  of 
hist  or)*  is  broken  otf  (the  rest  being  for  our  grand- 
children), we  encounter  freak  actors  of  ki«tory 
Imping  on  to  the  stage.  In  1H34  (December  6), 
Mr,  Cireville  thus  ispeaks  of  a  new  player  looking 
for  an  engugement,  and  not  quite  decided  as  to  bi9 
line  of  character  :— 

**  The  Chancellor  called  on  :iie  josie rd ay,  about  gsiting 
yount;  Di^r&^lt  into  IWHament  (through  the  ia«aii9  of 
Georgo  Beutinck)  for  Ljun.  I  liad  told  him  Georife 
t^  anted  a  good  man  to  ai^tst  in  turning'  out  Willinni 
Lenno3c,  aad  he  iuggeated  the  abovenaniel  jrcntleman, 
whom  he  called  a  friend  of  Chandos.  Ilr^i  poliiical 
principles  must,  bovrcver,  be  in  abeyance,  for  ho  said 
that  l^urham  wa«  doing  ali  he  could  to  get  htm «  by  the 
ofTer  of  a  seat,  and  to  forth.  If,  therefore,  he  is  un- 
decided and  waverinK  between  Ch«indo«  and  Durham, 
he  muet  bo  a  mighty  impartial  personage,  I  don*t  think 
Buch  a  mail  will  do,  thcugb  just  such  sb  Lyndhuret  would 
he  connected  with,'* 

Such  a  man  has  done,  nevertheless. 


n- 


n&u  of  Laml^y :    a  JStO$'i/  of  tn^  tourt  or 
tAe  Oidm  'Time,    By  Emtl>  Sarali  Holi 

Tjiis  rUiv  ifuctcds  fratn  fue  byn  of  the  authoi'cu  of 
Mvtrr.rx  Mttrtferv  iifi<l  SutUr  iiO$t\  favourably  noticed 
snir-'--  '  -;...-.,.,.  I,  ....  ,  ^■'.■.■;ji^^  it  liT  a  >'■"'•■-'■  '•'i-jry, 
in'  t.iul  fcneo  r.f  lit- 

re utof  *'tht?  \-  f  a 

piSrptti  1    iiusral   torture."     A  few  t%fh 

^raplii  ven  of  the  chief  persons  wh^m 

Mifs  llu.v  .,,.i ..  iito  bcr  volume,  and  thu«  an  in- 
structive and  well-written  etory  \s  made  doubly  usefiib 
liay  we  point  out  that,  in  the  notice  of  Ariindeb  the 
word  *'  consecrated "  ii  used  twice  nnneceearily  when 
speaking  of  the  translation  of  the  Bishop  of  Ely  (1371) 
to  York  in  !3J?8,  and  Canterbury  in  13VH  ? 


^oHcrU  \^  Corrtliionirrttttf. 

Marsh LANit. — The  writer  who  bepins  a  note  in  the 
thirrl  person,  and  falle  into  the  lirf  t,  woutd»  tindoabtedfyp 
be  cofuidered  in  fualt.    NcsverthelciB,  the  note  mtcht  oto 


440 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ftical  ftutbority  for  th«  clinupc  of  penon.     Set  the  KptJf* 
Ufla  ArtfAuMr  ad  Lycetam  (Frop«rttiii,  it,  3)  — 
**  Hajc  Ar«tliu«&  euo  mittU  m»ndatar  Lycotse, 
Cam  totic«  ftbjsU^  si  potea  esw  ni«ua/' 

T.  BiBn.— •■  Hoppetr  u  fim»ll  ficTd  8«o  **  N,  A:  Q./'  2^ 
S,  vii.  157.  '*  Pightel/"  iti  meArving*  "X.  &  Q.,*'  !•*  8. 
Hi.  3&1  ;  ix.  443,  489  ;  4^"  B.  U.  220,  287, 

PoBLRT  askf,  '*  Ii  tlierc  n  2<uiiii««ff  directory  of  Belgium 
pnbUabed.  also  a  list  of  tlie  clergy  connected  fvith  the 
cborches  throughout  that  country  f" 

L»  I,—**  Genius  is  but  p«fseverance*"  Se«  "  X  &  Q./' 
4*''  S.  T.  41 ;  ix.  280,  374,  !J93.  449,  522. 

TAUST^Ji^urifsrs.— "AtMter/'  See  "K.  k  Q./*  1**  S, 
i.  307,  and  the  references  there  giTon. 

W,  A.  B.— Wilkie'9rA«i?farfi«^o/ft  TTt/^  WM  painted, 
**0i  for  tbo  King  of  BaY«m,  ana  it  now  at  Munich. 

NOTICE. 

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KATUKALRKT.rnjON-    By  ti,< 
t.  "BONNET.^    Bv  t   u. 

a.  ♦•ISMAILIA."    t  Mflua. 

4.  **GA3TLE  DAL\  j  of  ui  Irlali  lt«« 

Ago,    Chapter -\.\un. 

a.  "NOTES  on  ROMf!  *"    Ry  Capt  R.  f  tlarUm,  P.njQS.    IL  1 


7.  **<-'■- 


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NOTES  AND  QUErUES. 


411 


LOJTDOy,  gJUtrttDAT,  DK^JSHl^im  s,  im*. 


CONTB^Ta— 5*  49, 


a,  i47^'*ThB  Meniolri  of  tbo 


FraplMr'*—  Ai"»a,    44g  —  WilUim  »leif«is  —  ••  BlUon  "— 

fiSFI  ^'Til  ami  Afodem  L&Ud  and  Gf«ek  V^rw, 

44 . '  -  ton ,  4viU  —clichniicudden—"'  FrorUleDoe  on 

14k  i.  ^     ^  i^nmi  batulloiu":  "'Oaotta  et  EpigmiDmei, 

Mr  l»  Cii.  '  '  '  %"  451  —  PuflMMUcA  MoQoj  Onton— ''  Ancc- 
dote  Uv«i "— ''  UltitDA'  M  n  Gli^tUn  Name,  i5i  -Beven&l 
^^  of  DlpbiboTist  —  Atiito  —  CuTiooft  Hiatoricid  ReUtions— 
^H  Guneo,  4A3— a««»*  Brmving— Htitler's  "nudibrM"— EfTctl 
^B  of  SUti— "The  SUvie"— Suffolk  Wordt-Tlie  Marrlaso  of 
^M  ib^  ».iri..ti,.  .s,,4  ti,..  Hofe  of  Venice,  454— The  IVnnlnatloii 
^B     'M  PUcw-"Wiiik  ■— Tlio  YewTnMt  ftt 

^H     Pki  Sottoa  — Ati    Old    Bookjfiller,    46&- 

^H     "lii.*  ...>..    ,,.,..,.    — *'a*nad(ni"— Port-  -   '      n— The 

^H    Pferabi«  ol  Ue     mo«  only  Kid ''—A]e»in ,  •  q  "^ 

^B    •*1^iianieKtiorth«Tfrelre  rAtriftivhs  '  Word 

^m    ••  "!>..,  '     IT   <^.,  ..    *  -^fl«  Buried  in  "^  ^ - 

^V    Bor  '  — Leetotes  bjr  " 

^B       mtLL  **  As    BOOQd    JiS    It 

IP       ''ik*.  i.^^  1 -■"-      V-  ^uki,^iineafai«Bij»— Bull !>(>.. ,.iti-iuo 
WqiammM^n  8tiiue  In  Uiet^stcr  Siiu&rc,  I5i, 
ffoUioa  Book IV  ^c. 


IKCIBKT  VKSTMEXTS  AT  ST.  JOHN'S  COLLEGE, 
OXPORa 

The  vifie  and  «_  'on  of  ccclesm- 

r#*«trrTfnts  m  ^Mitury  renders 

[t  nofcon.-i  erest,     Huving 

-eTeritl,  vn  ,  whicL  are  now 

LI  V  prcicrve^i  in  Arch  bis kop  Laud's  Library 
Johtt'd  ColloLje,  I  venture  to  send  you  a 
|bf  the  Aame.     .'  *  -  ago  they  were 

red  frotn   tlir  i;^'in;^  to  their 

Hi  |>liicc,  wlietf   LJK  V   iMHv   ne  inspected,  Ln 
llnction  with  the  originjil  MS.  Diary  of  the 
>i-.   -kuli-c2ip    of    sc'irlefc 
1,  his  walking-stick 
r*.  nili-,  iMitiiry  paa- 
ith  fteverid 
.    ^ -nts  tire  as 
bttoir  :— 

^  An  nTtrple  cnpc  of  blue  velvet  daomak,  with 

tliroughout,  the  pattern 

\    pmne^ranalp^.       The 

•nth- 

jh  of 

..  the  booii,  jind 

,  ijicJudin;»  SS. 

iif  w,  an  archbishop 


lolh  in  which  he  v, 


vluU' 


:Ujn 


tauiticks,  powdered 
tiowerH^  the  or- 
f  i>4>wd«?red  with 


2.  Two   y]<: 
with  ei 
phreys  < 
gold  flowers. 

3.  A  white  satin  cope  to  nmtch,  probably  c^  the 
yenr  1475  or  thereaboutB. 

4.  A  small  iiltar  tifitep^ndium  of  crimBOn  velTet| 


uji    >i  Iki'iA-n, 


effective  representa- 

ijf  the  Assumption  of 

're  is  alternateiy 

I  e- headed  eagles. 

fieur-de-lya,  all 


in  the  centre  of  ^ 
tion  in  excellent » 
Our  Lady.  The 
powdered  with  eii 
cherubim  standiu; 
in  gold. 

5.  Another  small  altar  antependiiim,  with  the 
Crucliixion  in  the  centre,  pound  about  which  are 
four  emViroidered  belk  (poasibly  lieraldic  devices 
of  the  donor),  cherubim  on  wheels,  and  various 
effective  and  rich  conventional  tiowerSj  with  grace- 
ful trailing  tendrils  in  gold  thread. 

6.  A  richly  embroidered  cross  of  a  chasuble,  the 
centre  of  which  contains  Our  Lady  throned  with 
Our  Blessed  Lord  in  her  lap,  with  a  kneeling 
angel  censing  on  either  side.  Other  figures  re- 
pi^^ented  ap[Ksar  to  be  those  of  the  apostles,  in- 
cluding St,  Janiea  and  St*  John. 

7.  An  orphrcy  and  hootl  of  a  cope.  On  the 
hood  is  the  Annunciatii  ^  '  '  lown  the  orphrey 
are  sninta  in  pairs  und*  lo  and  depressed 
canopies.  This  piece  '  lory  is  xsrobably 
of  the  date  of  1520^  or  i  h. 

8.  Two  faded   crinif.  i   ......*   tntependiums    of 

red  dflinask  (cirm  a.d.  15<iO). 

9.  Two  critii<<m  silk  lnumtrs  ricLlv  painted  and 
gilded.  In  [uare,  with 
rectangular  In  . im,  fringed. 
On  one  is  a  vigoruu*  a|id  artistic  representation  of 
the  A«8uniption  of  the  Blessed  \  irgin ;  on  the 
other  a  standing  figure  of  St.  John  the  BaptLit 
[the  patron  saint  of  the  college).  Below,  on 
sliiek^  are  representations  of  Our  Lord's  five 
sacred  wounda.  The  style  of  pointing  is  vigorous, 
bold  and  effective. 

10.  There  is  likewise  a  large  and  wcll-stuffed 
altar  pillow  of  damask,  rich  and  stiff  with  intricate 
but  debased  embroidery,  in  high  relief,  of  the 
Jacobean  or  e.irly  Caroline  enu  On  it  is  repr<*- 
sented  the  Nativity,  togetlicr  with  the  Adoration 
of  the  Three  King-*.*  In  the  Lfiudian  revival  such 
piUowa  aj>pear  to  have  been  commonly  placed  on 
the  bfick  of  the  1i<dv  Lililo.  either  to  allow  a  large 
volume  of  tl  >  i  rt-s  to  lie  open  or  else 
to  rest  an  aim  the  pillow. 

Fiut>ii;tticK  (iKOEcK  Lee,  B.C.L. 

All  Saintf'  Vicarage,  T^mbeth. 
r.S.  While  I  111  [bject,  Iir.  f, 

I  hnvc*  rf^CAnfly  ip  old  set  of  :  o 

w-r  A  in  u  leather  box  in  the  Library 

of  \\     Tnitlition,  as  the  librarian 

Courr»^'!M<iy   nitniiied   me,  give*  them   cither  to 
Cardinal  Pole  or  to  one  ot  Vua  cWT^Jwa^sjia-   'T^ws'i 


^dttH^^Mi 


M 


442 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l5'^aILJ>■a^74. 


consist  of  chasuble,  stole,  maniple,  and  girdle. 
The  material  is  of  a  mixed  foreign  texture,  scarcely 
(as  I  believe)  earlier  than  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century.  I  cannot  accept  the  Pole  tradition. 
The  chasuble  is  fiddle-shaped,  and  the  ends  of  the 
stole  and  maniple  are  like  a  shoveL  I  am  aware 
that,  in  the  well-known  painting  of  St.  Ignatius 
Loyola,  he  is  represented  in  such  a  shaped  sacri- 
ficial vestment.  But  I  do  not  think  tnis  set  is 
much  more  ancient  than  the  time  of  Charles  II. 
or  James  II.  It  is  unembroidered,  and  of  no 
artistic  interest. 

NOTES  ON  THE  ARMS  IN  "NORTHEEN"  ROLL 
TEMP,  RICHARD  II. 

1.  John,  Btcond  son  of  Adam  de  Blencowe,  of  Cumber- 
land, who  lived  Ump,  Edward  III.  The  Blencowes 
quarter  ^.,  a  canton  ar.  (Jefifergon,  History  of  Cumber- 
kind,  I  388). 

3.  Calendar  In^.  Post  Mortem,  iii.  59,  anno  7  Ric.  XL, 
P.M.  of  John  LeTington,  of  West  Levington,  Cumberland. 
CaL  iii.  294,  anno  6  Hen.  IV.,  prob.  setafc.  of  John,  son 
and  heir  of  John  Levington,  Cumberland.- 

6.  Cal.  iii.  245.  Wiirum  Fether  in  P.M.  of  widow  of 
Earl  of  Northumberland. 

6.  Same  as  arms  of  Thirlewall  in  Visit,  of  York,  Harl. 
MS.,  No.  1420,  and  Thirwall  in  Edmondson. 

7.  Compare  Willement,  Roll  of  Ric.  II.,  No.  227. 
"Monsr.  Richard  de  Kyrkeby— Ar.,  2  bars  gu.,  on  a 
canton  gu.,  a  cross  moline  or.'* 

9.  Arms  of  Skipton  (Edmondson),  Ar.,  an  anckor,  ea. 

10.  Amand  Monccaux,  Sheriff  of  Cumberland,  anno 
5,  7  and  9  Ric.  II.  Cal.  iii ,  anno  22  Ric.  IL,  in  P.M. 
of  widow  of  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland. 
"Amand  Monccux,  Cumberland." 

15.  Arms  same  as  those  of  "  Monsire  John  Chamber- 
layn"in  "Cotgrave's"  Roll  of  Edw.  III.,  published  by 
Nicolas,  p.  26. 

16.  Arms  same  as  those  of  "Monsire  William  de 
TVistowe."— /6irf.,  p.  16. 

18.  Cal.  iii.  254,  anno  22  Ric.  II.  **  Will'us  CJtauney 
ch'r  licencia  feoffand'  "  (relates,  among  others,  to  lands  in 
••  Skirpenbek  maner,  Ebor.").  Arms  of  Chawneyt  Yorks 
(Edmondson).  gu.,  a  cross  patonee  ar.,  on  a  chief  az.,  a 
Hon  passant  or  (1  agreeably  to  roll). 

19.  Blennerliassett  of  Carlisle,  Cumberland  (Jeff.). 
Arms  of  Blererhasset  (Edm.),  Gu.,  a  chevron  inter  3 
dolphins,  ar.— of  *' blamerhaset "  (Harl.  1420,  fo.  253^), 
Gu.,  a  feu  erm.  inter  3  dolphins.  . .  . 

20.  Cal.  iii.  245.  Anno  22  Ric.  II.,  in  P.M.  of  widow 
of  Earl  of  Northumberland,  "  Joh'em  de  Eglesfeld,  Cum- 
berland." 

21.  Cal.  iii.  8  and  55.     "  Cotyngham  maner,  York." 

22.  Compare  WiUement,  Roll  of  Ric.  II.  274,  "  Mons' 
Robt.  Sleghfc— Or,  a  cheyron  inter  6  cross  croslets  in 
chief,  and  4  in  base,  sa." 

23.  Anno  20  Ric.  II.,  in  P.M.  of  Sir  John  de  Bello 
Monte,  ••  Will'us  deSkremby,l  fee  in  Skremby,  Cumber- 
land." 

24.  Sir  John  Chandos,  Knt.  of  the  Garter,  was  slain  in 
Gascony  anno  44  Edw.  III.  He  bore  ar.,  a  pile  gu. 
{vide  his  shield  in  Smith's  Antiquities  of  Westminster)  or 
the  reverse  of  the  coat  in  the  roll,  which  seems  to  haye 
belonged  to  a  subsequent  personage  of  same  name. 

26.  CaL  ii.  10.  Anno  1  Ric.  II.,  "  W«  de  Sandford  " 
and  others  in  co.  York.  Harl.  MS.  1420,  in  the  Roll  of 
Yorkshire  Knights  temp,  Edw.  I.,  gives  the  arms  of 
Sandford  a«  party  per  cherron,  sa.  and  erm.,  in  chief  2 


29.  Arms  nme  ai  those  of  "Le  Sire  de  Wldnm." 
Cotgraye'i  Boll  of  Edw.  III^.  26w 

33.  VisitaUon  of  York  (HarL  1420)  givM  aiBi  of 
Eltoft  as  in  the  roll,  but  no  coat  for  BeHaab.*  The 
followug  dMcents  are  extracted  from  the  pedigrea  ^tnm 
of  the  latter  family,  i.e., 

«W"Bellaasif,lS16. 

John  Bellani^  1865. 

John  Bellanis,  of  HentnaU,  1898,  deed  1880. 


Robert,  1403.         W-." 

84.  Anna  same  aa  those  of  "Monaire  de  SomerrDe:'' 
Cotgraye's  Boll  of  Edw.  III.,  p.  48. 

36.  WiUement,  Roll  of  Ric.  II.  446.  "  MoniT  HiektMi 
Story — Ar.,  a  lion  rampant  queue  forcbie  pupae, 
charged  on  the  shoulder  with  a  cross  paitt  or." 

39.  Cal.  iL  p.  6.  '*  W»  Wyyille,"  mentioned  in  P.lf. 
of  Count  of  Atooll  as  holding  Sledmere,  anno  1  EdwrllL 
Cal.  iL  p.  164.  "Agnes  ux'  WUrus  de  Wyyill,  Sledmere, 
York."    Anno  24  Edw.  III. 

41.  "Segar"RoIl  (Harl.  3fS.,  No.  6187,  folio  65-3). 
"  Jioherd  le  fizneel  "—Paly  of  6  ar.  and  gu.,  on  a  fcss  ax., 
3  mullets  pierced  or. 

43.  Arms  of  Horsley,  Yorks  (Edm.),  same  as  BolL 

45.  Compare  **  RoVt  Malet ''— Ar.,  3  buckles  sa.  "St 
George^"  Roll  (Harl.  6137,  folio  87"  10). 

46.  Compare  "Henry  de  longeuile" — Gu.,  a  fees  dsn- 
cett^,  and  the  field  crusill^e,  ar.  "  Segar"  Roll  (foli» 
62"  7). 

48.  Cal.  ii.  p.  807.  Anno  45  Edw.  III.  "Eyauxor 
Rob'ti  de  Bennale"— P.M.  Arms  of  Bennall,  in  Ed- 
mondson, same  as  Roll. 

60.  Willement,  Roll  of  Ric.  II.  599.  "...  Hercy- 
Gu.,  a  chief  ar.";  or  a  reyersal  of  the  tinctures  in  the 
Roll. 

51.  Arras  of  Cosington,  of  Kentj  az.,  three  roses  (rarely, 
cinquefoils  pierced)  or.  This  was  eyidentlj  a  northern 
represent atn'e  of  that  great  family. 

55.  "  Cotgrave's  "  Roll  of  Edw.  III.,  p.  29.  "  Monsire 
Boteyill  [(^y.  Bosevilll,  port  d'argent,    une   fes  engrele 

giles  de  iiij,  trois  feuitUs  de  sable."    Willement,  Boll  of 
ic.  II.  478.    "  Mons'  John  Bosyill— Ar.,  5  fusils  in  fesi 
gu.,  in  chief  3  martlits  sable." 

58.  Cal.  ii.  p.  202.  "  Constancius  de  Mortno  Man 
ch'r,  Kyngeston  maner.  Cambs." — Anno  31  Edw.  Ill* 
"Cotgraye^i "  Roll  of  Edw.  III.,  p.  48.  "  Monsire  Ctm- 
stantine  de  Mortymer,  or,  fiourte  de  jUure  de  lit  saUe^  u 
peds  agus." 

59.  "  Cotgraye's  "  Roll,  p.  47,  "  Monsire  de  Apleby  "; 
and  Willement,  Roll  Ric.  IL,  **  Mons' J?J1llon(IAppelby^' 
same  arms  as  Roll. 

60.  Roll  of  York  Knights  temp.  Edward  I.  (Harl.l4», 
folio  253)  giyes  same  arms  as  Roll. 

61.  Cal.  ii.  p.  306.  Anno  44  Edw.  III.  P.M.  of 
"  WilVus  de  Queldryk,  Yorks." 

62.  The  only  Clement  in  the  Skelton  pedigree  was 
Knight  of  the  Shire  fur  Cumberland,  anno  2,  16. 17  sid 
20  Ric.  II.  (Jeficrson).  Arms  of  Skelton,  Harl.  1120, 
folio  255— Az.,  a  fess  inter  3  fleur  de-Iis,  or. 

63.  Compare  arms  of  Tereby  in  Edmondson— Ar.,  so 
estoile  as.  (or  gu,),  and  on  a  chief  ax.,  3  water  bougets,  or. 

64.  The  arms  of  Aglionby,  of  Carlisle,  Cumberlaad,M 
giyen  by  Jefferson  and  Harl.  MS.  1420,  folio  253^ 

65.  Cal.  ii.  p.  193.    P.M.  of  "  Wiirua  de  Hoton./ortf' 


*  It  has  been  suggested  to  me  that  a  BeUassif  a^ 
haye  married  an  Eltoft  heiress,  and  hence  the  < 
of  the  names  in  the  roll. 


6»»8.1I.  Dtc.6,74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


443 


iarw  Rtgift  Cumberlft&d.'*    Anno  19  Kte>  XL    AmiB  of 
HotoD,  Yurlu  (Hmri.  1120,  folio  263),  pamc  tu  RolL 

The  evidence  afforded  bv  ft  cotuparison  of  several 
of  the  foregoing  natee  wUl  be  allowed,  I  think,  to 
be  strongly  denionstrative  of  the  fiict,  that  the 
tirincipal  portion  of  the  persona  entered  on  the 
KoU  did  not  flourlah  Later  than  the  close  of  the 
reign  of  Richard  11.  But  the  copy  in  the  Harleinn 
MS.  ia  without  title,  and  «ome  might  suggest  that 
it  ia  merely  a  transeript  of  n  fragment  of  a  larger 
iftneral  collection.  The  circumstance,  however, 
that  a  large  proportion  of  the  entries  refer  only  to 
ncffihtm  fauuliea  will  surely  be  sufficient  to  pre- 
vent any  other  construction  being  put  upon  the 
it<icument  as  it  stAnds,  than  that  it  is  the  transcript 
of  a  roll  which  was  (although,  of  courie,  possibly  in 
a  Br»mewhAt  nuirmented  formj  as  eBsentially  a  local 
record  as  the  Roll  of  York  Knights  ttmp.  Edw,  L 
in  Hy^ri.  MS,,  No.  1420.  And  it  is  an  infinitely 
preferable  authority  to  the  latter,  because  the 
York  Roll,  although  of  much  greater  length,  gives, 
generally  speaking,  only  the  surname,  which,  as  a 
natural  consequence,  renders  it  next  to  valueless 
for  purpose?*  of  genealogical  research. 

That  our  Roll  is  not  Bimply  a  series  of  extmcts 
from  Jenyns*s  Ordinary  (although  perhaps  one  or 
two  of  his  examples  may  have  been  culled  from 
the  original  of  which  it  wiw  a  copy),  is  evidenced 
by  the  £iict  that  but  tew  of  the  names  in  it  are 
included  in  that  collection,  and  in  some  of  these 
isolatefl  initances  even  the  arras  do  not  tally. 

Jambs  Grebnbtrbkt. 


aOMB  BKQLISH  WORDS  COMPARED  WXTB 
THE  ICBLANDia 

The  following  etymologies  are   taken  from  the 
I  Clcflsby-Vigfufison  Jcclanaic-Engluh  Dictionary  : 

Breap.  IceL  Brau^,     This  word  was^  in  early 

:  iimi^,    unknown    in    its  present   sense,      Ulfika 

.constantly  renders  apros  by  hlaibs;  the  old  A.-S, 

~         also  has  hldf,  and  the  old  henthen  Scandi- 

_  iiku  poems  only  hkifr.     In  the  old  A--S.,  brcdd 

^nr  only  u«ed  in  the  compound   beohreM  of  the 

honeycomb  ;  0»  H»  G.  hibrod;  Germ,  beimtihrod; 

and  this  8eems  to  be  the  original  sense  of  the 

Down  to  the  ninth  century,  this  word  bad 

'  not  its  present  meaning  in  any  Teutonic  diulect, 

but  waa,  tiic  it  seems,  in  all  of  them  used  of  the 

honeycomb  only.     The  root  of  brauH  is  i>erhapa 

I  okin  to  the  Lat.  fraip-are, 

DrrxGEON,  This   word  is  compared  with  Icel. 

L^nqj(h,  a  lady's  bower ;  A.-S.  x>yn^ ;  O.  H.  G. 

Tunc; — the  common  sense  being  thiit  both  the 

[bower  an  J  the  dungeon  were  secluded  chambers  in 

^tbe  t  nnfT  p;irt  of  the  house  or  castle.    The  usual 

from  L.  L.  dominiQ  (fr.  domiiixu^ 

1  tower  commnniliog  the  rest  of  the 

L1ua;lding. 

Eajiu  Icel.  Earl^Iafit  A.^8.  Eorl   This  word 


is  common  to  the  Scandinavians  and  Saxons.  It 
originally  meant  a  man  of  gentle  birth,  a  warrior, 
jis  opposed  to  the  Karl  or  Ceorl^  one  of  the  common 
folk.  Prof.  Munch  suggested  that  the  name  of 
the  Teutonic  people  EruH  or  HeruU  simply  r^ 
presents  this  word,  which  the  Roman  writers  took 
to  be  a  proper  name.  In  the  ancient  Scandinavian 
poetry,  "jarl'*  is  used  =  a  man,  cp.  the  phrase 
"  jarla  einbani,"  eaTl^slayeT  =:  dpSpoKroi^o^.  The 
jyiclionary  does  not  give  the  root  idea  of  the  word. 
Max  Miiller  believes  it  to  be  a  contraction  oiald-ot 
(senior),  ddtt.    So  Lappenberg. 

Emancipate.  Lat.  m<incip%umy  a  slave.  Man^ 
Icel.  (a  neuter  word)  a  bondman,  probably  origin* 
ally  of  prisoners  of  war  who  were  sold  as  slaves* 
This  word  appears  in  O.  H.  G.  mana-houbit  =  a 
bondsman's  head.  Query,  is  the  etymology  of 
Lat.  man-cipium  man  and  caput  f 

Ladt.  A.S.  J3/tf/-(Zi^c=bread-maJd.  The  -cft^e 
is  the  Ice!,  dtigjuy  a  dairy-maid.  Ikigja  seems  to 
have  mesnt  originally  a  baJuT-it^omaHt  and  is  akin 
to  dcig^  "  dough,"  aud  Goth,  deigaitj  "  to  knead," 
the  same  person  being  in  old  times  both  dairy- 
woman  and  baker  to  the  fann.  Max  Miiller  de- 
rives ff?rt/-tfi-^e  from  Hldf-we/iTdigt^y  the  feminine 
of  Hliif-wtard  (lord),  the  warder  of  bread. 

Road.  Connected  with  Ital.  rotta.,  Fr.  route^ 
vm  nipta.  So  Icel  Braut  (road)  is  formed  from 
brjota  to  break.  The  common  etymology  is  from 
to  ride. 

Old  Scratch.  Cp.  Icel.  Skratii  (akin  to  Swed. 
aJiratt€t=to  laugh  loud  and  harshly).  (I)  a  mzardj 
eiidianter;  (2)  a  goblin^  momter;  (3)  in  mod, 
usage  a  devil^  imp. 

Merry,  "  Merry  Engbnd/'  **  my  rrierry  men." 
Cp.  IceL  ^ftrrr,  famous,  glorious  ;  vurrir  tivar 
**  the  merry  (i,  e.  famous)  gods."  So  Sir  W.  Scott, 
Lady  of  the  Lake^  notes  to  canto  iv. 

Shilling.  Icel.  gJcilliftgrf  »kildingrj  perhaps  a 
derivative  from  skilduij  Goth.^"  a  shield." 

Sibyl.  Lat.  SibylU,  Gr.  ^iBvXka.  May  not 
the  Greek  word  and  the  Korae  Vblm  be  relations? 
The  identity  in  sense  is  very  striking.  May  it 
not  have  been  adopted  from  some  Scythian  tribe? 
In  Volva  an  initial  «  has  probably  been  lost.  The 
Volm  was  a  prophetess,  held  in  heathen  times  in 
the  highest  honour  and  reverence.  Max  Miiller 
connects  SibyUa  with  an  Italian  aabus  or  sabius^ 
and  says  it  meant  a  wise  old  woman. 

Sin.  Icel.  Synd^  prop.  *'  a  denial,*'  referring  to 
denial  by  oath  of  compurgators,  ordeal,  or  the  like. 
The  root  verb  is  sijnja^  **  to  deny." 

Snob.  Query,  is  it  connected  with  Icel,  sndpr  f 
In  the  ancient  law  mdpr  is  a  person  who  falsely 
boasts  of  having  dishonoured  a  woman.  In  modem 
IceLf  when  a  married  man  breaks  the  seventh 
commandment,  and  to  escape  punishment  hires 
another  person  to  bear  the  blame,  this  latter  Is 
called  snapr^ 

Weird.  A»S.  nV<^I^t<i«il,Uf^T^N}si^'Wi3Sifc^^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


[5*^  a  U.  Dm.  S^ '74. 


to  the  fii^t  of  the  three  Nonis^  the  Gernkoii  Farctt. 
The  name  mKj=faitim^  what  is  apokeiif  thi  fiat 
of  Destinj,  and  be  cognate  with  wofd,  led.  OrS. 
So  Bosworth-  Max  Miillef  a&ys  WHrd  meant 
origmaily  ihi  Fait  {dm  Gewordene),  agreeing  with 
Grimm,  A.  L,  Matebw. 

Shamspeahk^b  K'ami  (5"^  S.  iL  %  4O50— What 
li  meant  by  stijiDg  that  "  Fcwtarspeare  b,  doubt- 
lesSj  a  loiial  Huraame/'  I  cftunot  understand*  Just 
u  8hakespeaje  means  a  luan  who  shakes  a  iipear, 
just  as  Breakspear  means  one  who  hreaki  a  epear^ 
BO  Fewtarspeare  meana  one  who  fmatart  orfiutru 
a  spear,  i.  e.^  who  Jayi  it  in  re«t. 

"  Uis  JiMan  h«  /eiifftd,  and  at  him  It  bora  j  *' 

I  do  not  Beo  why  Englbh  etymology  should  be 
considered  a  fit  subject  for  such  unintelligent 
guesswork  Walter  W,  Skkat, 

Ij  Ciatra  Terra<]«,  Oamhridgo. 

"Brims"  (5«»  S.  il  282.)— The  following  I Lnes, 
from  A  Fragmetit  by  Kit  Marlowe^  Hetties  I  think, 
the  question  whether  the  word  *'  brims  "  has  a  re- 
ference to  the  margin  of  &  bank  or  riyer  ; — 

"  I  walked  aJong  a  strewn^  for  pnrwicia  rare, 

*  «  «  «  # 

Upon  thti  frrtm,  the  «g1anttne  etnd  Tote, 

TliQ  tBiD&riskj  olive^  iiliI  th<?  aimoad  tree, 
Ai  kind  ctUDpaaioas  in  one  unic^n  grows." 

Dyce'i  Afflf^oip*,  p,  3S2, 
B.  S. 

TnE   IlARNBSa   SHAKSrEARB  PRITB  EfiSAT  (5»* 

S.  ii  405.)— 

"  nie  ditclosw 
Will  be  iomc  danger,  which /or  io  ^jfifwuf, 
I  have  , . « tliuB  Bet  it  down. 
This  "for  to  prevent'*  h^  I  submit,  no  "au- 
thentic iostano?."    The  First  Folio  has  : — 

*'  There  ^fl  aomctlilng  in  liis  toale  ? 
0*re  which  hia  M^lanchollj  Btia  on  broodi 
And  I  do  doubt  the  hatch,  and  the  disel««e 
Will  be  lome  danger^  wjikh  to  preneat 
T  hauo  in  qukke  datetminutiQn 
Thui  set  It  downe." 

Btanntou'd  Fae-SimiU  Rtprint. 
The  Second  Folio  has  also  "to  prevent.*'  The 
rhythm  surely  does  not  require  the  "  which  for  to 
preTcnt "  of  the  Quartos,  the  reading  most  modem 
editor!  follow,  with  the  exception,  however,  of 
Charles  Knight,  who  keeps  to  the  Fit^t  Folio, 
The  Third  and  Fourth  Folios  have  "Aoic  to  pre- 
vent," and  this  Dr,  Johnson  gives  iji  his  Text 
(Dublin  edition,  1771). 

I  think  the  line  should  be  printed  as'  the  Fint 
and  Second  Folios  have  it ;  bnt,  at  any  rate,  "  for 
to  prevent^'  is  no  "ttnthttifu  instance  of  the  use 
of  such  a  form  in  Shakspf^are/'  nntl  ^Ir*  Eires  is  so 
&r  correct.  Sparks  Hendersox  WtLLtufS, 
Eenmugton  Crescent,  W. 


iLLrsTfiATina.^^ — I  believe  tluLt  the  taite  for 
illustrating  hooka  may  be  reckoned  aa  a  ^'  tevivii'; 
it  was,  I  fancy,  more  general  £%  veazft  ago  Ihu  it 
ia  now.  In  a  pre&ce  to  J.  ft  Anmy§i9  o/  ikt  IUm' 
ifnted  Shakmfeare  of  Tk^fmm  Wihfm^  Miq>,  pnh- 
lished  in  1820,  it  is  stated  i—*'  Thi  porpoMi  d 
illustration  are  io  obvious,  that  it  Is  hudlj  neoM- 
saiy  to  allude  to  them  ;  few  of  th^  preTttiHpgtiitei 
of  the  day  stand  less  in  noed  of  ftpolegy  or  ix* 
tenuation/'  la  this  matter,  the  AmeiicazkA  ham 
taken  the  lead  ;  and  for  soma  jeaxB  p«it  hftve  not 
only  been  the  chief  buyers  of  illoBlrated  boak^ 
but  have  imported  enip^vings  suitaible  for  illwtfrir 
tion  to  an  extent  that  has  appreciably  a&eted  ihttr 
veJne  in  this  country,  and  rendered  many  of  Ibcn 
exceedingly  scarce. 

The  book  that  haa  received  most  attention  in  this 
way,  in  both  countries,  is  Br,  Poran's  well-known 
woiii  Thdr  Majistia'  *S^n*flate,  of  which  there 
was  an  issue  in  Kew  York,  on  lar^  pc^P^r,  spedaUj 
for  thia  pu^xMse.  This  seleciion  ia  not  to  ba 
wondered  at ;  the  work  it^f  is  a  complete  histoty 
of  the  Btage^  and  a  proper  collection  of  engnviip 
for  it  is  a  complete  illustration  of  the  aubjeot. 

I  wishf  witn  permission,  to  put  on  record  tbe 
particulars  of  tli^  copy  I  have  just  finiehed,  sfid 
which,  I  flatter  ray  self,  is  more  perfect  than  any 
that  has  yet  been  cione«  The  two  volnmes  are  ex- 
tended into  aeven,  both  letter^press  and  engraviagi 
bein^  inlaid  in  quarto  size.  The^  contain  orer 
IfiOO  portroitSj  b^idefi  about  130  views,  and  othir 
illuBtratione  ;  a  few  photographs  from  Lurge  platfs 
and  &oni  others  I  have  not  been  able  to  obtain. 
Each  volume  haa  an  index  to  the  illustrations,  6iA 
the  whole  is  now  in  the  hands  of  Mr,  Riviere, 
who  I  have  no  doubt  will  do  justice  to  it  in  the 
binding.  (Jhables  Wtlie. 

King  Malcolm  III.  of  Scotlanu. — The 
students  of  history  are  aware  that  the  varioustf 
spelt  Gaelic  name  of  Canmore,  Ceanmore,  and 
dean  Mohr,  was  added  to  that  of  Malcdm  ;  aL4 
that  the  historians  have  held  it  to  denote  iM 
Malcolm  had,  physically  speaking,  '^  a  Luge  head^  ' 
I  would,  however,  suggest  that,  in  the  circam- 
stances  of  ATalcolm's  reign,  these  Gaelic  wordi 
were  originally  meant  to  denote  that  ]^Iakcibs 
was  "  the  great  King/*— a  meaning  which,  there  caa 
be  no  doubt,  the  words  will  b^j  with  e^^ual  pie- 
priety,  and  which,  it  ia  submitted,  is  the  tn» 
ni caning,  when  we  take  into  conaideratioo  thftt 
Scotland  underwent  a  great  change  in  the  reign  of 
Malcolm,  that  it  was  then  greatly  consolidated, 
and  that  Malcolm  reigned  long,  wisely,  and  weD^ 
and  over,  perhaps,  a  greater  extent  of  terribofj 
than  any  prior  Scottish  kiog.  In  addition  to  aU 
thifty  he  wa%  under  the  inlSuence  of  hia  Qaeea^ 
St.  Blargarct,  acting  on  his  own  naturddiiipe«itu» 
—a  most  religious  \]ng ;  and  this  combined  litb 
his  other  great  merits  wouldj  of  ccuise,  h&ve  j^ 


{■a.  11.  Due. 5, 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


U5 


most   powerful  effect  in  makinj?  the  priestliorxl 
tee  whole  coturuunrty  regurd  him   as  **lhe 
at  Kinfc,'  the  pripsthood  boin^%  ftt  the  same 
in  aiici^'nt  days. 
D^  t  the  ap]»lic^\tioii  of  the 

I  CtMu  iuunr  to  Midculm  at  the  end  of 
the  eleventh  or  beginning  of  the  twelfth  century 
9how^  u.rt,  nrevalent  had  been  the  uae  of  the 
Gael  io  over  fdl  Scotland  at  that  tinje. 

.MaI',-- ,--  :,  ,;u  extended  from  1057  to  1093. 

Hknrt  Kllgouti. 

ROM  TOE  Greek. — WiU  you  add  the 
aions  to  those  given  in  **N.  &  Q.," 

ifin  A  BtAttm  OF  ViCTORT  At  ROMB  WHOSB  Wl¥OS  WEIl£ 
BCIU^T  OFF  BX  LlOUXiflUQ. 

CFr&m  the  Greek:  author  unJtnotsn^^ 
Rome,  BoTflreijp  Quceu,  thy  plory  wiU  not  flee, 
For  wingless  Victory  cannot  fly  from  thee. 

Tqe  Kkoeo.* 

(From  ih€  Orttk  of  Lucia n.) 

Forbear  !  'tu  ufteleaa  tr^iog 

To  wmb  a  Ne^^ro  white ; 

Yon  cannot  bring  the  tunrifto- 

By  ibouting  for  the  lighe. 

GoLi>  AKD  Clay, 
kitaUdfrwn  tht  Ott^  qf  DiodoiuM  Zonas.) 
I  HI  drink  not  from  gobleta  of  gold : 
Xo ;  giro  me  a  cup  mode  of  clay : 
day  bore  mtf  and  toon  in  the  muuJd 
I  aball  b1  limber  for  ayo. 

1k%  PBTaiciA!?. 
fFrom  the  Oredt  of  yicarchut, ) 
2fo ;  Pheidon  ncrer  phy^tcked  me, 

Wai  never  near  my  tide  ; 
But  w ticn  fever  came  I  thought  of  hii  name, 
And  tb&t  wfti  enough— I  dted. 

DbATU  IfAlLES  ALL   EvfTTAl. 

(From  th4  Gml:  author  uhthOieH.) 
I  roan  irhenalire  was  a  s,hxrc,  but  belioTd,  such  h  ftiie, 
mwmg  died,  he  it  eqttal  in  p«vrer  to  Dariui  tbo  Great. 

TeARa. 
(ImitnUdfr^jfi  tht  Gr9d\/ 

Prcr     "•^•-i"^-   ^^r- r^p^  ^rop   tJiy   ^^f  ^^  gj)^ 

Fori  ejtrs  who  liea  below» 

And  wQUt3  iif  sleep. 

BcAiaid. 

i  fhe  Chrttk  (>/  A  in  ni  tanut,) 
'.  liT  fellow ;  it  'b  i:o(Ling  too  Ionjar> 
'  '    -  "    '  '•----■  ''rough  the  thron 
.  ory  grand, 
^iiffil— you  uniler- 

UsiLicss  TftOrBLR. 
■'      ■      '       PaUadas.) 
la  eartli ; 
:r  in  tfttu, 
II  plenty  or  deartb. 


*  Itidiaji  In  the  originnL 


(From  Ikt-  Orttl:  avth^r  WRii'fl9VK.J 
I,  Dionytitit,  ttndemeatb  ilih  tomb, 
Some  sixty  yeani  of  a^^o,  have  reaohed  my  doom* 

Xe'er  h&Ting  married  :  thiok'it  it  sad  ! 

I  wish  my  father  never  had. 

Macaui*at*s  "Youkg  Lbvite.** — A  ftiU  dis- 
nission  tinder  thin  head  (in  which  I  took  part)  will 
be  found  in  the  First  Series  of  **  N.  &  Q,/'  and  it 
would  be  a  pity  not  to  embtvlm  the  enclosed  from 
a  late  number  of  the  Fail  Mall  Qauitt : — 

**  There  are  wdbknown  and  often-qnoted  passages  iti 
Swift,  Maenulfty,  Thackeray,  and  many  other  author^* 
about  the  position  of  clergymen  iti  En^aiid  a  hundi-ed 
and  fifty  years  ago.  A  curious  il lustration  occurs  tn  one 
of  tho  >VincbilieA  Papers  recently  ncqiiired  by  the 
British  Museump  but  not  yet  calendared  or  bound.  A 
letter  dated  the  8rd  of  Noreiuberj,  ll'Jt^f  from  .Mr.  John 
Wilkinson  to  a  noble  duke»  or  possibly  to  tbeArchbisbop, 
but  the  name  does  not  come  out,  contains  the  following; 
passage  '. — 

•  Howsocirer  some  People  may  sink  beneath  their  Chs- 
rsctcrs  by  reporting  Things  entirely  faJM  and  ground iets, 
I  cannot  say  r  but,  my  Lord,  I  cou'd  nut  be  easy  uritill  l  hnd 
aolomnly  assured  your  Grace  that  the  late  Eurl  of  Win- 
chilflea  gave  me  the  Presenta4:«ns,  in  every  Respect  truly 
great  and  noble ;  and  that  a  Wife  was  nerer  whi«peretL 
to  me  till  the  day  after  my  Lord's  Death  :  then,  indeed, 
my  Lady  Herself  told  me  that  Her  moid  MorfTce  was 
always  intended  to  i^o  alon^;  with  tho  Livings,  und  that 
if  I  desired  to  make  Her  Ladysp.  my  Friend,  I  racist  not 
rcfiiie  the  Offer ;  I  own,  my  Lord,  I  was  at  first  unable 
to  give  a  direct  answerj  hot  recovering  the  sttrprise*  I 
gave  Her  Ladysp.  an  absolute  denial,  upon  which  She  in 
a  Passion  ordered  me  to  withdrAW,  and  I  bate  never 
seen  Iler  Ludjap.  iince.' 

'*  He  goes  on  to  eiLplain  that  the  livings  had  been  fire 
months  vacant,  and  that  Lord  Winchil sea  appointed  him 
just  before  his  death  as  a  reward  for  his  attt^T  dance  ; 
that  no  condition  wa«  ever  mentioned ;  and  thtt  lie  was 
not  the  person  first  *  picked  upon/  A  certain  John 
Wiiktiison,  M.  A.,  is  mentioned  by  Hasted  as  having  lieen 
appointed  rector  of  EaetHcU  on  the  2Gth  of  May,  173<^. 
He  resigned  in  1733.'* 

I  have  only  to  add  that  no  leaa  than  three  John 
Wilkinsons  took  the  B.  A.  degree — all  from  Queen's, 
Oxford— between  1712  and  1723  incbisive,  nnd 
one  of  the^e  must  (|)  have  been  MorlTee's  rcjicimL 

W.  T.  M. 

Shinfleld  Grove. 

Motljkt's   '*LiFB  OF  JoHN  OP  Babnevbld  !' 

AND  Gabpar  Sciomus.  — Mr,   Motley,   in  the 
above  work,  a  notes  i\  pjissage  from  Sciojjpius,  and 
sty  lea  him  *'  the  JfjfuU  Scioppius''  (voL  li.  p.  100), 
Now  ScioppiiiK  never  belonged  to  the  Society  of 
Jesus,  and  he  niight  well  b<?  cfiUed  the  scourge  of 
that  body.     No   individual    piirhapa,    Pascal   ex- 
cepted, ever    '   '  lueh  by  the  use  of  litemiy 
wciipons  to  U   their   overthrow   a.'*   thiii 
fier«:e  nod   I'l  '•  Htcr.     I  have  ctjllcct^d 
upwimla  of  t  1  traetfi  ujjainst  them 
undoubtedly  v,....  ..  ..,   ...;ii,  and  which  nrc  not 

enumerated  in  the  carefully  prepared  list  of  hia 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^&ILDk.5,74. 


works  in  JSiceron  (vol.  xxxv.,  art.  "  Scioppius "), 
and  there  are  many  more  yet  existing  in  manuscript 
in  the  Laurentian  Library  at  Florence  and  else- 
where. He  endeavoured  to  set  in  motion  a  general 
crusade  against  them,  and,  could  he  have  had  his 
desire,  would  have  exterminated  the  whole  body. 
No  wonder,  therefore,  that  one  of  their  great  heads 
should  have  exclaimed,  "  I  care  not  for  kings  and 
princes  if  I  could  only  muzzle  that  dreadful  dog 
(canem  grammaticum)  at  Padua."  In  his  last  days 
he  lived  a  voluntary  prisoner  in  his  house  at  that 
city,  from  a  constant  fear  of  assassination  by  the 
emissaries  of  the  Society  of  Jesus. 

Jas.  Crosslet. 

"Divine  Poems,  by  Christiana," of  Bamsbt, 
Hunts.,  1792. — If  I  may  judge  from  an  experience 
of  twenty-four  years  in  "  collecting,"  I  should  feel 
disposed  to  say,  that  fewer  books  have  been  pub- 
lished in,  and  concerning,  Huntingdonshire  than 
any  other  English  county.  I  have,  however, 
recently  added  to  my  collection  of  Huntingdonshire 
books  a  copy  of — 

"  DiTine  Poems ;  tof!:ether  with  a  Journal  of  our  liord's 
Qracious  Dealings  with  the  Soul  of  the  Authoress  [here 
follow  some  texts],  by  Christiana.  Ramsej,  Huntinff- 
donshire.  St.  lyes;  printed  by  W.  Davin;  sold  by  U. 
Terry,  Pater- Noster  Bow;  Hughes  and  Walsh,  in  the 
Inner  Temple;  W.  Brown,  opposite  the  Council  House, 
Bristol;  W.  Eddowes,  Shrewsbury;  W.  Graham,  Sun- 
derland ;  and  D.  Holt,  Newark  upon  Trent" 

There  is  no  date  on  the  title-page,  but  the  Pre- 
face, of  seven  pages,  is  signed  and  dated,  "T. 
Harrison,  Ramsey,  January  7,  1792."  He  (or  the 
printer)  speaks  of  "  Appollos,"  "  the  apostle  paul," 
and  "the  privileges  of  zion's  children";  and  he 
says,  "  Professors  of  godliness  now  walk  in  their 
Silver  Slippers,  entertain  their  Eyes  with  the  noble 
buildings,  and  elegant  dresses,  and  their  Ears  with 
the  harmonious  voices,  and  solemn  music,  with  which 
many  places  of  public  worship  are  attended,"  &c. 
The  book  extends  to  eighty-five  pages.  Its  prose 
portion  is  in  the  ejaculatory  style,  and  does*  not 
l^ive  us  any  particulars  of  the  writer.  I  would 
:isk,  Who  was  this  "Christiana"?  Some  of  her 
religious  poems  are  well  worthy  of  preservation. 

CUTHBERT  BeDE. 

Augustine  Dudley. — Mr.  Coleman,  the  book- 
seller, of  High  Street,  Bloomsbury,  in  one  of  his 
Catalogues  (No.  xcviii.,  1873)  advertised  the  fol- 
lowing for  sale : — 

"  Deed  between  Augustine  Dudley  of  Bamcwell,  co. 
Northampton,  Oent,  and  Elizabeth  Piclcering  of  the 
feame ;  relates  to  land  in  Benfield,  etc.  etc.,  dated  1645." 

Who  was  this  Augustine  Dudley?  Mr.  Geo. 
Adlard  published,  in  1862,  a  work  called  The 
tiiutton- Dudleys  of  England  and  the  Dudleys  of 
Massachusetts  in  New  Englandy  in  which  he  tried 
to  show  that  Grovemor  Thomas  Dudley  of  Massa- 
chusetts was  descended  from  the  Barons  of  Dudley, 
through  Thomas  Dudley  of  London,  draper,  whom 


he  identifies,  on  grounds  mostly  conjectural,  witk 
Thomas,  a  younger  son  of  Ediwd,  Lord  Dudley. 
Now,  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  is  stated  in  the 
same  work,  on  the  authority  of  Cotton  Mmther,  to 
have  been  bom  in  the  town  of  Northampton^  ud 
to  have  been  at  one  time  a  derk  to  *' Judge  NiooUs," 
who  was  "  his  kinsman  by  the  mother's  side.'* 

"  Judge  Nicolls  "  must  have  been  Sir  Augiutm 
Nicolls,  who  was  made  a  Justice  of  the  Common 
Pleas  in  1616. 

As  Mr.  Adlard  has  certainly  not  proved  his  cue, 
— in  my  humble  opinion,  indeed,  he  has  sigaaUy 
failed,— perhaps  some  of  your  American  coos- 
spondents  who  are  interested '  in  this  family  mtj 
be  glad  to  hear  of  the  existence  of  a  Dadley,  living 
in  Northamptonshire  in  1645,  and  beanng  the 
same  baptismal  name  as  Governor  Dudley's  "  ldn»> 
man  by  the  mother's  side."  It  appears  to  me  to 
afford  a  clue  to  the  real  ancestry  of  Governor 
Dudley.  H.  S.  G, 

Thomas  A  Ksmpis  on  Pilgrimages.— In  then 
days  of  revived  pilgrimages  this  truly  holy  min'k 
opinion  is  worth  a  thought : — 

''  Few  spirits  are  made  better  b^  the  pain  and  hngasr 
of  sickness,  as  few  great  Pilgnmt  become  cmiiest 
Saints."— A  Kempis'i  Imitation,  bk.  L  ch.  2a. 

P.P. 

The  Parat-le-Monial  Pilorimagx.— Hie 
Edinburgh  Review  for  January  last  has  an  article 
on  this  subject,  to  which  it  may  be  allowed  to 
append  a  purely  literary  note.  In  looking  over  s 
volume  of  Voltaire's  Works  for  another  purpose,  I 
lighted  upon  a  reference  to — 

''  Le  Docteur  86raphique, 
Subtil,  profond,  6nergique,  ang61iqae, 
Commentateur  d'imagination 
Et  cr6ateur  de  la  confusion. 
Qui  dcpuis  peu  fit  Marie  Alaooque." 

A  foot-note  explains  the  reference  thus  : — 

''L'Histoire  de  M.A.,  ouvrage  rare  par  Texces  do 
ridicule,  compost  par  Languet,  alors  ^yeque  de  Soissoni. 
On  ferait  un  ^norme  volume  de  toutes  les  satires,  cbaa- 
sons  et  ^pigrammes  que  Languet  s'attira  par  la  pabliea* 
tion  de  la  Vie  de  M.  M,  ^/a«07if€,religieo8e  de  la  visi- 
tation de  Ste.  Marie  du  Monastere  de  PMraj-Ie-Momil, 
en  Charolais :  Paris,  1729,  in  ito,'-(Eutres  de  VoUairt, 
vol.  ii.,  p.  271. 

D.  Blair. 
Melbourne. 

The  Four  Marys.— In  my  communication  to 
"  N.  &  Q."  last  week,  I  find  that,  trusting  to 
memory  (a  bad  practice  as  rewds  historical  ones- 
tions),  I  misstated  the  age  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots 
when  she  was  sent  as  a  child  to  France.  Maiy 
was  only  five  years  eight  months  old,  not  six  yesrs 
eight  months.  As  stated  by  Ejiox,  and  proved  by 
Prince  Labanoff,  Mary  was  bom  on  the  8th  oi 
December,  1542  ;  she  set  sail  for  Fiance  about  the 
7th  of  August,  1548,  and  returned  to  Scotknd  on 
the  19th  of  August,  1561.    Even  at  the  early  age 


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of  jiire  yeiiiv  ^*^g^^  months^  I  imagine  that  Miirj 
had  too  much  Bt!otch  to  be  forgotten  during  her 
Rsidence  in  France,  attended  as  she  was  by  her 
**  four  Marys,"  sUl  natives  of  Scothind,  imd  that  on 
tbelr  return  to  ScotljiDd^  the  young  Queen  and  her 
companions  would  have  little  difficulty  in  resuniing 
their  ontivo  tongue,  C. 


(Wit  mint  request  corre«poiidenta  deslriog  infonnAtion 
'  on  ly&ily  niAtten  of  only  pnmte  interett,  to  affix  their 
nunes  »nd  ifeddren^cs  to  their  qa^riefl,  in  order  thftt  the 
annrer*  may  be  eddreseed  to  them  direct.  1 


"Thk  (Solden  Meane.*' — Is  anything  known 
of  the  author  of  ft  little  book  with  this  title,  which 
has  come  into  my  hands  {  There  is  not,  so  far  as  1 
can  fiodt  any  internal  evidence  as  to  hia  name  or 
condition^  although  it  is  plain  that  he  was  well  read 
t  the  cUasics.  Its  title-pAge  ia — 
PThe  Golden  Mcane,  enlnrgcd  by  ike  first  A  uthor,  u  it 
lifoi'inerlj  written  to  the  EftHe  of  NorthiunberUnd, 
^  Discourtttig  tbe  XobleneBfle  of  perfect  Vertue  in  extretnea. 
I  London  :  Printed  by  J.  U.,  and  are  to  be  sold  at  hii  ihop 
m  &  DuOBtan'fl  Church  yard,  1638/* 

The  words  *'  Fiat  3**  Editio  juxta  hoc  Exemplar *' 

occur  at  the  l>ack  of  the  first  page,  and  seem  to 

point  to  an  earlier  edition.     Algernon,  tenth  Earl, 

I  WHS  Earl  of  Northumberland  ia  1638»     Was  the 

[buck  "written  to''  him  or   to    his  father?    The 

Lninth  Earl  was,  aa  is  well  known,  imprisoned  in 

{the  Tower  for  fifteen  years  ;  and  as  itnpTisonmtni 

\  fcwatted  of  at  great  length  in  tbe  look,  may  it  not 

ftve  b«en  WTitteo  to  him  during  his  lengthened 

on&nement  ?     The  work  commences,   "  Men,  fuj 

[they  are  all  the  Sons  of  their  Mothers,  are  all  the 

il^ectit  of  misery,  borne  to  live  few  dayes  in 

dangers,"  &c. ;   and  the  following  passage 

06  t^o  bear  on  the  question : — 

**  Ini|>Htonment  it  a  cohtemplatiTe  Philosophic ;  it  i^ 

mn  aJTUowf  of  proofs  aguiofit   tbe  battcrj  of   cam&ti 

^.»;,.    ;,  ,.  If  it(j,(Qii  to  know  how   to  bee  good;  and 

[ilied,  cannot  but  lend  Instruction  wberelty 

ukjT  tread  tbe  readie  path   tbat  leads  to 

iuiHiortJiUtic." 

It  will  he  rememhered  that  Sir  W.  Raleigh  was 
"d  in  the  Tower  contemporaneously  with 
I  Earl  of  Northumberland.     Is  there  any 
iiity  that  Tht  Golden  Meant  was  written 
}    For  any   information   or  conjecture  I 
Bid  be  obliged*  F.  H.  Arnold,  LL.B. 

Fifthboume,  Chichetfccr. 

foo»— This  Spanish  writer,  in  one  of  the 

r»  his   Thiatro  Critico^  iroL  vii.,  entitled 

en  lo  Minimo,^*  says  : — 

with  four  borsei  and  their  driver^  which 

i-int^  made  of  iTory,  fo  email  that  a  fly  covered 

Jir  with  its  wings;  the  ihtp  of  tbe  iame  Mynnecides, 

la  b«c'i  wings  cot ered ;  the  ahts  of  CMllicratce,  the 

I  f>f  which  only  the  sharpeit  sii^hti  oould  diitinguiBh : 

of  il  oilier  eneloted  in  a  waUiutshell^  an  met> 


tioned  bv  Cicero :  these  were  tbe  wonders  of  antiquity. 
Thoge  of  the  last  two  ceniuriei  [  Peijoo^a  work  was  pub* 
linbed  in  17361.  tbe  Apostles*  Creed,  and  the  be|;i&tiin£ 
of  St.  Jobn'i  Gospel,  that  F,  Alumfo,  un  ftalian  Monk, 
wrote  on  tbe  hiiM  of  a  bSanca  <*  a  rramvcdi) ;  the  repfe' 
temation  of  alt  tbe  stages  of  Cbn  t'^  pit^sion,  on  wood, 
by  Qeronimo  Taba,  a  Calabrea  ^ri>  «t,  contained  in  a 
walnBt-sbell  *  bis  wooden  coach,  with  two  persona  in- 
side, tbe  drirer,  and  two  oxen  drawing  it,  no  larger  than 
a  grain  of  wheat;  the  beginnlhg  cf  Ht.  John's  Goopet 
tbat  is  said  at  tho  end  of  tbe  Miifs,  written  by  £1  Caballero 
8panucho,  a  nuiive  of  Sena,  without  abbreTiatioo^  and 
In  a  firct-rate  htinJ,  on  parchment,  no  bigg^er  than  the 
nail  of  tine's  little  finger ;  and  the  ^o]d  cbaiti  of  fifty 
links,  boldifig  a  flea,  the  whole  weighing  no  more  than 
three  grain«i,  made  by  a  silTersmith  of  Amsterdam,  as- 
related  by  P»  Colmeeio. 

"  In  this  city  of  Uviedo  there  ia  another  wonder  of 
this  kind,  nothini:  inferior  to  tho  most  remarkable  of 
those  we  have  mentioned.  It  consists  of  thirtj-foor 
irory  cups  fcalices]  perFectly  formed,  and  so  small  that 
tbe  whole  are  contained  in  a  little  round  bos,  no 
largtr  outside  than  a  peppercorn,  and  itill  leaving  room 
for  ten  or  twelve  more.  But  what  ia  ^ till  more  wonderful 
IS  that  each  of  tbe  cups  has  a  little  ivory  ring  round  its 
neck,  but  detached  from  it,  which  is  very  much  smaller 
than  the  foot  of  the  cup  or  Its  lip,  so  that  the  ring  a?  d 
cup  must  be  all  of  one  piece.  Looltirg  at  tbe  cup«  with- 
out a  microscope,  they  only  seem  like  little  white  specks 
without  any  special  shape  ;  and  even  with  tbe  aid  of  tbe 
microfcope  eicli  cup  Ef;ema  more  delicate  than  the  line st 
gauze  or  tbe  thinnest  paper.  D*  Joseph  Miguel  da 
Ueredia,  an  illustrious  JcniKbt  of  this  principality,  tbe 
owner  of  tbis  treasure,  obtained  it  from  a  foreigner,  but 
knows  nothing  as  to  who  made  it/' 

Wluit  has  become  of  these  curiosities?  Feijoo 
is  a  most  judicious  and  trtist worthy  authority. 

F.  N.  Lett. 

Laplace. — The  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  in  a  speech 
to  the  GldBgow  openttives,  is  reported  in  the  Time* 
(Nov.  5)  to  have  said  that  a  learned  friend  of  his 
told  him  that  in  a  conversation  he  had  with  La- 
place, Laplace  said,  **We  have  had  speculation 
enough  ;  we  want  more  facts.''  As  a  dim  re- 
miniscence, it  seems  to  me  that  I  have  seen  this 
printed  in  a  book  ;  and  if  so,  it  must  have  been  a 
stock  phrsise  with  Laplace.  The  Marquis  de  la 
Place  died  in  March,  1827,  forty-seven  years  since. 
Who  could  this  **  learned  friend  "  be  who  was  the» 
advanced  enough  in  knowlediie  to  hold  discouree 
with  Laplace,  or  is  he  too  gathered  to  his  father*  t 
The  expression  is  remarkable  enough  to  be  worth 
verification,  both  for  the  wisdom  of  its  intention 
and  the  folly  which  is,  at  the  same  time,  coupled 
with  it.  C.  A.  Ward. 

Mayfttir. 

SwoRO  Ai^D  Eapier:  SoLtKOEK.— I  havc  an  old 
sword,  three  feet  long  from  point  to  guard,  quite 
straight,  hilt  nine  inchcg,  hut  without  furniture. 
When  new  and  furnished  with  metal-basket,  it 
must  have  been  too  he«\7  to  be  wielded  with  OM 
hand.  It  has  a  rude  P  upon  the  metal  of  the  hare 
hilt  Also  an  old  rapier,  two  feet  eight  Inobea 
long,  almost  square,  with  a  fine  taper  of  three-eighths 
by  one- fourth  at  the  guard ^  UUi  wikvA^  V>S&.  N.m<\ 


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[6^S.ILl>MLe^74. 


iH^ble  letters  stamped  upon  it,  and  inscribed, 
"Fait  a  Solingen,"  or  "Saiiagun,''  on  the  blade. 
In  "  N.  &  Q."  Z^  S.  xii.  38,  it  states  :  "  Saliagun,  a 
sword  fiftctory  in  Spain";  and  in  2»*  S.  iL  172, 
"  Sahagom  is  the  ancient  Saguntum/'  What  may 
be  the  date  of  these  ?  The  Latter  looks  as  old  as 
temp,  Henry  YIII.  or  Elizabeth,  and  the  sword 
much  older.  When  was  Solingen  first  noted  for 
these  artides,  and  when  did  the  English  fint  im- 
port them?  The  house  in  which  they  are  now  to 
oe  seen  has  been  built  273  years,  and  the  last  four 
owners  and  occupants  all  exceeded  their  three- 
score years  and  ten,  without  being  able  to  leave  an 
account  of  them.  C.  Chattock,  F.B.H.S. 

"  The  Memoirs  of  the  Civil  War  in  Here- 
fordshire.*'— In  preparing  for  the  press  this  work, 
left  incomplete  by  my  late  father,  the  Rev.  John 
Webb,  I  have  met  with  several  difficulties,  which 
perhaps  some  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  will  kindly 
elucidate. 

1.  A  quotation  is  introduced,  in  speaking  of 
Lord  Falidand's  death,— 

"  heart-sick  at  big  ooontry's  woes"; 
but  in  another  copy  it  runs — 

**  heart-sick  of  his  country's  shame." 
Whence  does  this  come,  and  which  reading  is 
correct  ?    It  was  evidently  quoted  from  memory. 

2.  What  was  the  name  of  the  great  master  of 
the  science  of  defence  at  Seville  a  little  before  that 
period  ?  The  word  begins  with  N,  but  the  con- 
tinuation is  illegible.  T.  W.  Webb. 

Moon-Books. — I  avail  myself  of  the  outcropping 
of  Bishop  Godwin's  Man  in  th^  Moone,  &c.,  1638, 
to  ask  the  correspondents  of  "  N.  &  Q."  to  assist 
me  in  making  a  complete  bibliographical  list  of 
"Moon-Books."  I  start  the  list  with  Domingo 
Gonsales'  voyage,  for  a  full  account  of  which  we 
are  indebted  to  Mr.  S.  H.  Willi a^is  (5**»  S.  ii. 
209),  and  with  the  following :— - 

"  Discovery  of  a  New  World ;  or,  a  Discourse  tending  to 
V^oje  that  it  is  probable  there  may  be  another  habitable 
norld  in  the  Moon,  \nth  a  Discourse  concerning  the 
Possibility  of  a  Passage  thither."    1638.    [By  J.  Wilkins] 

"  Voyage  to  the  Moon."    By  Cyrano  de  Bergerac. 

"  Some  Account  of  the  great  Astronomical  Discoreries 
lately  made  by  Sir  John  Herschel  at  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope."  London.  1S35.  Second  Edition,  London,  1836. 
Third  Edition,  New  York,  1859.  The  third  edition  is 
entitled,  "The  Moon  Hoax;  or,  a  Discovery  that  the 
Moon  has  a  vast  Population  of  Human  Bcmgs."  By 
Richard  Adams  Locke. 

"  A  Voyage  from  the  Earth  to  the  Moon."  Translated 
from  the  French  of  Jules  Verne,  by  Louis  Mercier. 
(Sampson  Low  &  Marston.) 

There  is  also,  I  am  told,  a  book  of  Copeland's 
of  the  same  class.  Jadez. 

St.  Francis  Xavier.— In  the  Roman  Catholic 
cemetery  at  Agra,  amongst  many  tombstones  of 
ancient  date,  ia  one  bearing  the  name  oi  XaNvet. 


The  tradition  at  the  place  10,  that  this  penon  wm 
a  nephew  of  St  FranciB  Xayier,  and  the  date  on  it 
may  be  lecondled  with  his  beiiig  so.  CSan  aojooe 
furnish  a  copy  of  the  inscriptiony  or,  at  any  nte, 
give  the  exact  date  ?  CrviLn. 

The  Lton  Herald  Officb  or  Scx>TLAn.— 
When  was  this  office  founded  1  Oim. 

The  Division  op  Sootlakd  into  SHianL— 
What  information  is  to  be  had  on  tJhiambjeet! 

A.  B.k 

John  Pet  Fbodart. — ^In  the  list  of  Sabp 
prisoners  printed  by  Mr.  ALLNUTTy  at  p.  378,  ocoon 
this  name.  I  am  anxious  to  know  whether  Feodaij 
was  his  surname,  or  whether  he  was  called  Tejt 
and  the  Feodary  is  to  be  considered  as  desoiptifei 

Ck)B3njBL 

William  de  Redvebs,  sixth  Earl  of  Dstoi. 
— ^Why  was  he  sumamed  "De  Vernon"  1 

David  Botgl 

"Quarter  Pence.**— What  axe  these?  H^ 
are  entered  in  1636,  and  subsequent  yean,  as 
having  been  paid  to  churchwardens  by  the  col- 
lectors of  "  Clarke's  wages  and  Quarter  pence'  lor 
sudi  and  such  wards  in  a  town.  I  do  not  rexnember 
any  similar  entries.  R  £ 

Antony  Stewart,  Miniature  PAniTBK.— A 
writer — Peter  Gibson,  then  Professor  of  Drawing 
in  Dolhu:  Academy — in  the  Edin.  EncfdcpaHa 
(art,  "  Miniature  Painting  "),  vol.  xiv.,  p.  675,  pwb- 
lished  in  1820,  states,  referring  to  the  execution  of 
miniatures  : — 

**  Upon  the  wLole,  we  are  rather  inclined  to  gire  the 
preference  to  the  light,  ainr,  and  tasteful  style,  as  exem- 
plified  in  the  works  of  Mr.  Coswaj,  and  Mr.  Antony 
Stewart,  of  London,  -which  we  conceive  more  suitable  to 
the  gay  character  of  miniature  painting." 

I  am,  of  coui'se,  familiar  with  the  fancy  sketch 
of  Cosway  in  Cunningham*s  Lives  (voL  vL),  and 
with  the  note  of  a  Quarterly  Rtvitxoer  (No.  xcix., 
p.  79).  But  can  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
give  a  reference  to  a  Life  or  Sketch  of  Antony 
Stewart,  or  to  any  public  gallery  or  collection, 
where  any  of  his  works  may  be  seen  ?         T.  S. 

[A.  Stewart,  b.  at  Crieff,  1773;  d.  in  London,  1S16. 
See  Redgraye'8  Did.  of  ArtitU  of  Eng.  SAooL] 

TowERs's  "Illustrations  of  Prophect.*— 
I  shall  be  glad  to  know  whether  there  is  any  good 
reason  for  the  prevalent  idea  respecting  this  work, 
which  appeared  anonymously,  and  without  a  bo<A- 
seller's  name  (2  vols.  8vo.,  London,  1796),  that  the 
greater  portion  of  the  impression  was  destroyed, 
and  that  Mr.  Pitt  did  everything  in  his  power  to 
suppress  it.  Abhba. 

AuNA,  as  a  Christian  qame^  is  found  nrintad 
y \x^ii  tjL  label  in  a  volume  of  mosio  whidi  beraqgs  to 


C*  8.  tT.  X>tf,  6, 71  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


449 


the  l>e*Tmnmg  of  the  present  centuiy.    Has  tho 
imnic  lien  noticed  before  1  J*  E.  B, 

TiLUAit  Steveks. — Trhere  can  I  beat  find 
licnlars  and  incidenU  of  thb  great  ship-bniJder 
'  tn  tlie  reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  Ja^nies  1. 1  He  wi\» 
i  a  celebmted  m&n,  and  built  gome  o(  the  liirgeat 
I  sbip  t\t  tbfil  tune.  H.  Brjdqb. 

iH  Gowcr  Street 

**Bjixon."  — Jamieson  domes  Bigmarit^  **a 
i.U..  r  ..;n/^  from  the  words  Reg,  Maria  on  one  of 
/  coins  of  Queen  Mary  of  Scot^.    Whence 
TV.  T,  M. 
bhinHeld  GroTe. 

MoLifeRK, — It   is  a  curious   circumetxiDce   that 

'  Holiere  haa  written  two  B<5enes  in  different  pbiys 

I  in  'H'hich  he  repeats  himself  almost  word  for  word 

^  through  timny  lines.    One  scene  is  in  the  Fourberus 

"k^^ipin,  Act  i.  sc,  6,  where  Ar^nte  threatens  to 

herit  his  son,  and  Scapin  tells  him  he  will  not 

the  heart  to  do  ao.      The  other  is  in  tlie 

^aioiU  Ijtmginairr,  Act  i.  ac.  5,   where  Argan 

threatens  to  send  his  daughter  into  a  convent  if 

idle  refuftcs  to  marry  young  Diaforits,  the  saubretU, 

Toinette  remonstrating  with  him  on  the  subject. 

I  These  two  scenes,  changing  the  dramatis  persofUKf 

jnje  ahnost  interchangeable.     Can  any  one  point 

lout  a  ainiikr  instiince  of  repetition  in  any  other 

[great  dmmatJst  I  Jonatuan  BoucHiJtR, 

**  Sir  APE."— Two  pbces  in  England  hear  this 
fttne :  the?  onc»  Snnjie  Castle,  in  the  North  Riding, 
'kitiga  Btronghold  of  the  Nevilles  and  Cecils  ;  the 
LOt})er.  n  vITlr/e  near  Aldborough,  in  Suffolk.  What 
\U   ''  i;^  and  derivation  of  the  word  ?    In 

Ithi  istance  its  origin  has  been  derived 

A.-S.  niapi  a  knob,  although  the  castle 
j)d^  upon  a  flat.  H.  A.  L. 


Mr^lirir. 

UZmJRVAL  AXI)  MODERN  LATIN  AND 
GREEK  VERSE. 
(5«»  8.  ij.  24h,  2m,  337,  369,  389.) 
I  had  oocjwinn  to  ^%'^ther  a  number  of  vohmics  of 

f  L^ttn  prtctn*  when  engaged  Ln  the  compilation  of 
T.     Ai  tiw?  subject  geems  to  interest 
r^.tder^,  I  t^nfuff  to  S4»nd  you  the 
1  Ijle  books  which 

iJjjTJcu^,  »  't;m  I'utin'iitLf  Baail,  15/i6. 
r  aU  the  pr>enis  in  this  curious  volume  art 


AntiAhUiriHi    Animf,    Paris,    1552 ;    contains 
isml  hymDs,  aoac  pnntcd  tike  |rr<Me,  teverul  in 


Humni  if  Cvll 


Precalionum,    A* 

.  1  r».<v; ;  containj  a 


complete  series  of  prayers,  readings^  and  hyinui*, 
many  of  them  in  rhyme,  for  the  whole  year,  il1ti»- 
trated  with  cuta  in  the  style  of  the  Lyons  books  of 
that  period.  A  charming  little  volume,  but  np- 
pfirently  '—     - 

Ca  r  I  corn m ,  B nins w ick,  1 577. 

AleXiiivv.  i.v  .i'/;/  F^'infjidUantii  ChrU- 

tiados,  London,  !y  on  the  iEneid| 

beginning  with — 

"  llle  ego  qai  quondam  graclli  modulatui  avenaj" 
The  fifth  line  being  this  :— 

"  Acta,  Deaxoqoe  cano,  coeH  qui  primuB  ab  orit." 

Noinim  Tatatnenhan  in  Htxamctros  Vcrtui^ 
per  Johannem  (Brydges)  Episcopum  Oxonienaein. 
Londan,  Sims,  1604.  The  whole  Testament  in 
Latin  verse,  chapter  by  chapter,  for  the  most  part 
very  litendly.  The  Sermon  on  the  Mount  begins 
thus  :— 

**  Ore  et  iporto  docebat  eoi>  hieo  vtrba  looattu : 
Ftelicei  qui  eplritu  ydem  paupere  cmiataut ; 
Quandoquideni  regiimo  cwlonun  eitistit  corum,"' 
My  copy  was  given  by  Tliomns  Hay  I  or,  Bishop  of 
Norwich,  to  Thomas  Seeker^  Bishop  of  OxlV>rd,  in 
1757*    In  1758  Seeker  became  Anbbiehop  of  Can- 
terbury, and  he  died  in  1708  ;   bnl  he  seems  to 
have  left  the  volume  behind  him  at  Oxfortl,  as  in 
1777  it  was   in  the  possession   of  John   Hume, 
Bishop  of  Sali8bun%   who  had   previously   been 
Bishop  of  Oxford,    He  died  in  1782.    Sir  William 
Tite  bought  it  from  Lilly  in  1854.    On  a  fly-leaf  in 
written  '*  Jo:  Ireland  donat  ab  E.  K.  Apr.  20.  84.*' 

Office  of  B.  r.  Mxnj,  London,  1687  ;  oouUlna 
good  versions  of  seveml  hymns,  including  IHf$ 
Irtr  in  Lritin  and  English. 

Jo.  Bupliata'  Masculi  Lyricontm  H^^i  Odarum^ 
lib.  xv.,  Buaci,  1634,  A  note  to  the  table  nays, 
"  Numeri  sunt  omnes  Honitiani,  itemqne  stylus/' 

Peter  Baatidtcus  Tnusianu"?,  tranJ<hition  of 
Atiiald  d'Andilly'a  Carrncn  de  Vita  (liriHi^  into 
French,  with  the  original  on  the  oppoeitc  page. 
2nd  fditinn,  Paris,  1074. 

Emanuel  is  Thesanri  Palriareiim  tivt  CfirUH 
grrvatori<  CurnJoyia^  Ijondon,  1657,  With  C»- 
sarttm  /  the  saute  author,  added. 

I  hrn  1  versions  of  tho  Paalmji  which 

are  very  numerous. 

The  modem  book?!  on  medieval  Latin  ftfO 
iH  may  }>e  found  in  Bale, 
iiow  or  old  dntf  *  Imt  T  i^ub- 


r  a*  I  knov 

1  the  Btad' 

Adam   de   hu 


numerous. 
Pits,  and  I 
join  a  list  ^'t 
books  of  mti 
Mohnike,   and    tlifj 
(tantier, 

Joh/r;  V  '       *:-•   v^-^.,      m  ^.^^ vr..,^ 

Bnjiah  li* 

in»Crir*h..Mi,  X.r,...,^     .-.;>    s^K    mm      ^^.r.v.,i.j»:,    ,     4.UC»lUm 

ic  0**,  Jan  W,  1508."    It  aftenrardfl  belonged  to 
\Vo!fii  Ltdumun  ifemiwifevlvvuws  % 


450 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


lfSI^B.lLDEO.5,'74. 


PitMeos  De  lUustribus  Anglias  ScriptorihuSy 
Paris,  1619. 

Polycarpi  Lerseri  Htstoria  Poetarum  Medii  jEvi, 
Holse,"  1721.  Includes  all  that  is  valuable  of  Bale 
and  Pits.  A  curious  misprint,  or  series  of  mis- 
prints, occur  at  p.  1100,  which  is  numbered  2000, 
the  miitake  continuing  to  the  end  of  the  book,  the 
last  pa^  before  the  index  being  2132.    ' 

Darnel,  Thetaurus  HymnologiciLi,  5  vols.,  dated 
the  first  four  1855,  and  the  fifth  1856.  Far  the 
best  book  on  Latin  hymnology,  though  carelessly 
printed.  The  fifth  volume,  for  some  reason,  is 
exceedingly  scarce.  There  is,  or  was  lately,  no 
copy  in  the  British  Museum.  It  is  indispensable, 
however,  to  the  student,  as  it  has,  in  addition  to 
a  very  complete  index  of  its  own,  an  index  of 
hymns  in  Mone  and  other  collectors'  books. 

Mone,  Hymni  Latini  Medii  Aevif  3  vols.,  1853. 
A  careful,  well-printed  book,  in  which  the  author 
has  gone  to  MSS.  for  all  the  hymns  he  prints. 

Eehrein,  Lateinische  Sequenzen,  1873.  The 
latest  German  publication  on  this  subject,  and  not 
of  any  special  value,  except  as  giving  a  list  of 
hymn-writers  and  writers  on  h^mnology,  which 
may  be  found  useful.  It  mentions  the  death  of 
Daniel  on  the  13th  September,  1871. 

Seqt^ntuB  ex  MissalibuSy  J.  M.  Neale,  D.D., 
1852. 

Hymni  EcclesicBy  J.  M.  Neale,  1851. 

All  Br.  Neale's  books,  and  there  are  several 
others  which  need  not  be  separately  enumerated, 
are  valuable,  as  he  went  to  original  sources  for 
what  he  edited.  His  little  Rythm  of  Bernard^ 
from  vrhich  "  Jerusalem  the  Golden  "  is  taken,  and 
his  StaJbat  Mater  Speciosa,  are  good  examples  of 
his  minor  publications. 

Trench,  Sacred  Latin  Poetry,  Ist  edition,  1849  ; 
2nd  edition,  1864  ;  3rd  edition,  1874.  A  book 
which  needs  no  recommendation. 

Newman,  Hymni  Ecclesias,  1865. 

Laiin  Translations  of  English  Hymns,  by  C.  B. 
Pearson,  Rector  of  Knebworth,  1862.  Many  of 
these  are  in  rhyme,  and  all  are  scholarly  and 
elegant. 

Herbert  Kynaston,  D.D.,  Cantica  CoUtina,  two 
Kirts,  1866,  1867  ;  and  Missiones  Coletina,  1873. 
This  learned  poet's  translation  of  Bamian's  hymn 
on  the  Glories  of  Paradise,  with  a  Latin  text, 
1857,  should  also  be  mentioned. 

Louis  Coutier  Biggs,  Hymns  Ancient  and 
Modem,  Annotated;  contains  several  hymns  in 
Latin  rhyme. 

Arundines  Cami,  and  Translaiions  by  Lord 
Lyttelton  and  Mr.  Gladstone,  should  also  be 
named  here. 

For  books  of  Latin  poetry  not  sacred,  I  may 
refer  to  the  following  amonff  others : — 

Reliquia  Antiqu<e,  by  T.  Wright  and  J.  O. 
HaUiwdl,  1841-43,  2  vols. ;  the  first  voL  seems  to 
beeauve. 


Laieinisehe  Oediehte  d€$  x  und  xj  JK    Yod 
Grimm  und  Schmeller,  1838. 

Wright's  Poems  attributed  to  Waller  3fapa,aiid 
PolitiSd  Songs,  both  edited  for  the  Camden 
Society  ;  and  his  Anglo-Latin  Satirical  Posts, 
edited  for  the  Rolls  Series.  Mr.  Wrist's  con- 
clusions as  to  the  age  of  several  of  the  poans  he 
? notes  from  MSS.  must  be  received  with  oaatki. 
n  the  Rolls  volumes  he  prints  in  full  the  gmt 
poem  De  Contemptu  Mundi,  by  Bernard  de 
Morlaix,  but  does  not  give  any  authorities  for  bii 
text.  It  is  much  to  be  desired  that  he  should  state 
the  place  and  name  of  the  manuscripts  be  htt 
consulted.  Perhi^  he  may  be  willing  to  dirolp 
his  secret  to  the  raiders  of  **  N.  &  Q.*' 

W.   J.   LOFTIS. 


John  Littleton  (5***  S.  iL  408.) — Being  absent 
from  home,  I  cannot  answer  H.  M.  T.  with 
certainty  ;  but  if  he  can  refer  to  Nash's  Worcester- 
shire, tit.  "  Hagley,"  and  Shaw's  Staffordshire,  tit 
"  Kingswinford,"  I  believe  he  will  find  all  that  ii 
known. 

Not  John^ut  Humphrey  and  Stephen  Lyttelton 
escaped  to  Holbeach  after  the  Plot ;  but,  never- 
theless, I  have  little  doubt  that  John  lAtikton 
was  of  the  same  family. 

Nash  says,  very  carelessly,  that  the  Lytteltont  of 
Hagley  and  of  Holbeach  were  "  two  branches.' 
The  fact  is  that  Sir  John  Littleton,  of  the  elder  or 
Hagley  branch,  who  died  1591,  had  a  son  Jdin ; 
and  next  above  this  son  was  another  caUed  Geoi;^ 
This  George  was  father  to  Stephen,  who  was  in 
the  Plot,  and,  both  of  these  dying  without  further 
male  issue,  and  George  having  "  settled  at  Hol- 
beach," and  no  doubt  being  owner  of  it,  it  may 
well  have  passed  to  John,  whose  death  in  1617  is 
quite  probable. 

According  to  Shaw,  whose  book  was  publisher) 
in  1801,  the  owners  of  Holbeach  from  the  date  of 
the  Plot  down  to  that  year  'were  the  families  ol* 
Bendy,  of  Hirst  End  ;  Hodeetts,  of  Prestwood ; 
Foley,  of  Prestwood ;  and  Peshall.  Not  long  ago, 
it  belonged,  I  think,  to  a  family  named  Cope ;  bat, 
if  H.  M.  T.  is  a  Kingswinfordian,  he  can  probably 
trace  the  more  recent  owners.  Lyttelton. 

George  Lyttelton,  a  younger  son  of  Sir  John 
Lyttelton,  of  Frankley,  had  issue— (1)  Stephen 
Lyttelton,  of  Holbeach  House,  who  was  executed 


Sampson ;  (4)  Walter,  who  had  two  daughters, 
Mary  and  Ursula ;  (5)  Francis,  who  had  a  ion 
George  ;♦  and  (1)  Bridgett,  married  to  John  Hood,t 
younger  son  of  Thomas  Hood,  of  Bardon  Park,  by 
whom  she  had  a  daughter,  Margaret. 


\ 


*  Long's  Bcual  DiidfUs, 
Ucho 


•^  Nicbolt'i  Lticestsrskire,  Iv.  806. 


6«  8.  ILDiO.fi,  741 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


4dl 


John,  tlu»  second  son,  in  evidently  the  gentle  man 
who  was  bnned  ut  Kingswinford  in   ItJlV.      He 

I  Jwd  two  daughters,  Frances  and  Eli/,iibeth,  the 
hUi^r  of  whom  waa  married  to  — —  Fowkc,* 
whove  great  gnindaon,  Robert  Fowke^  left  an  onljr 
daughter  and  heiress,  married  to  John  Conroy, 
ancestor  of  Conroy,  Bart, 

Dagdnle  {Wancirkihire)  says  that  Stephen 
Lyltelton,  "  being  one  of  the  Gunpowder  con- 
i|>irfttors,  lost  bis  life  and  atale";  but  Holbeach 

i  «enis  to  have  been  restored  to  his  brother  John, 
It  afterwards  belonged  to   the   Bendy  family , 
from  whom  it  paaaed  to  John  Hodgeits,  Esq.  (in 
mmrriage  with  Mary,  daughter  and  co- heiress  of 

[  "Wllliftra  Bendy,  Esq,),  and  from  him  to  the  Foley s 
of  Prestwood,  who  sold  it  about  17J>0,  to  Sparry 
Peshalyt  or  Pearsall,  son  of  Sir  John  Peshall^ 
Bart  (ioi-disani),  of  Hawne,  in  Halesowen.  Its 
next  owner^  or  occupier,  was,  I  believe,  a  Mr  Cope ; 
b«t  to  whom  it  now  belonga,  I  do  not  know — pro- 
bably to  the  Earl  of  Dudley.  H.  S.  G. 

Clachxacuddkn  (6"*  S.  ii.  149,  214.)— I  would 

suggest  that  the  true^  or,  it  should  perhaps  rather 

be  said,  the  l>etrer  way  of  spelling  and  pronouncing 

the  name  of  Cbichnacudden  would  be  Clachna- 

chattan  (the  Ck  being  pronounced  hard),  and  that 

the  true  meaning  of  the  name  is  the  Stone  of  the 

It-an.     It  is  known  beyond  all  dispute  that  the 

i  Cliattan  (the  Ch  hard)  inhabited  the  north  of 

Mnndf  or  a  grtat  part  of  it  (their  descendants, 

Tno  doubt,  doing  so  stiU),  and,  more  particnkrly, 

thai  they  dwelt  in  and  around  the  locality  now 

known  as  Inverness.    The  Mackintosh  who  claims 

»io  be  the  Chief  of  the  Clan  Chattan  has  his  resi- 
dence a  very  short  distance  from  that  town.     The 
stone  referred  to  would  be  one  of  the  standing 
stones,  *^f»tamiin'  staneSi'^  as  they  are  termed  in 
Scotland,  where,  in  ancient  times,  they  must  have 
existed  in  great  numbers,  as  shown  by  the  number 
that   still   exist ;  and  I  would   suhmit,   on   that 
ground,  and  from  what  is  known  of  them  other- 
viae»  that  these  stones  had  denoted  the  places 
where  each  of  the  tribes  of  Scotland  as  a  whole, 
or  where  the  sections  of  these  tribes,  had  respectively 
^^^tt|  to  perform  divine  worship^  to  do  justicei  and  to 
^^^B  councils  regarding  matters  within  the  jum- 
BVMnon  of  the  whole  tribes,  or  their  sections  re- 
fpectively.    The  modem  county,  with  its  parishes, 
^  t«  simply  a  modijUd  continuation  of  these  divisions ; 
90  also  are  parish  churches  and  cathedrals  m 
'  relation  to  each  other.  The  Cinch  na  Chattan 
\yrQSk  the  pla<^e  where  the  tribe  or  clan  Chattan  had 
aerly  met  for  the  purposes  above  mentioned,  as, 
their  descendants   maj  be  said,    under 
modifications,  to  do  so  stiU.    At  these 
\  villages  would  naturally  exist,  and  henc^, 
i  Gaelic  language,  the  application  of  the  word 

*  Burke'ft  Comtiumvnt  u  491, 
f  Harwood's  JSrtfctirwir. 


"  Olachan  " — Anglicf^  the  stones — to  denote  & 
village,  Clachan  being  thus  anaJogons  to  Kirk  ton, 
to  be  found  in  Scotland  as  the  name  of  villages,  or 
of  what  were  once  villages,  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  of  certain  former  or  stiU  existing  parish 
kirks ;  and  Clach  or  Clachan,  Kirk  (or  Caer  ?) ;  and 
Kil,  Kel,  or  Cul,  all  seem  to  have  been  terms  by 
which,  in  Scotland,  either  over  all  its  extent,  or 
within  certain  limits,  were  denoted  the  Standing 
Stones.  It  would  rather  seem  that  one  priesthood, 
known  m  the  Bruidical,  though,  perhaps,  it  has 
other  names,  had  prevailed  over  all  Britain  in  the 
time  of  Ciesar,  and  no  doubt  long  prior,  and  for 
some  time  after.  It  is  well  known  that  the  stand* 
ing  stones  were  not  confined  to  Scotland,  but  are 
to  be  found  in  England,  Ireknd,  Gennany,  France, 
and  other  countries.  I  may  allude,  in  passing,  to 
the  historkid  London  Stone,  and  to  the  vast  struc- 
ture of  standing  stctnes  known  as  Stonehengc. 
Stonehenge  had  beyond  all  doubt  been,  at  one  and 
the  same  time,  what  may  be  termed  the  Metro- 
politan Cathedral  and  the  Palace  of  Ptirliiiment  of 
a  great  number,  perhaps  the  whole,  of  the  tribes 
of  Britain,  in  the  same  way  as,  Caesar  tells  us,  all 
the  tribes  of  Gaul  met  anmiolly  in  the  territory  of 
the  Carnutes,  in  which  territory  a  vast  collection 
of  standing  stones  is  still  to  be  seen.  Many  of  the 
Clachans  or  villages  at  these  stones  or  ktrks  have, 
in  Britain  and  elsewhere,  now  developed  into  great 
cities  ;  for  we  may  rest  assured  that,  in  all  pro- 
bability, London,  Paris,  Amsterdam,  Berlin,  Vienna, 
and  allj  or  almost  all^  other  ancient  cities,  had 
their  origin  in  the  way  now  mentioned. 

Hknry  Kilgour. 

P.S.— I  may  annex  one  of  the  meanings  of  the 
word  Clachan  as  given  in  Mr.  M*A1  pine's  Gaelic 
DidioTiaryf  obsen^ed  after  the  preceding  remarks 
were  penned,  and  of  which  remarks  it  is  entirely 
confimiatoiy,  so  far  as  it  extends  : — **  Clachan^  a 
Fillage,  a  hamlet  where  a  church  is  ;  said  to  have 
been  Bruidical  places  of  worship.''  I  may  add 
that  the  name  of  the  town  of  Clackmannan  kad, 
self  evidently,  originated  in  the  way  now  referred 
to,  the  Stone  of  the  Mannau  having  anciently 
existed  where  Clackmannan  now  i& 

"PttOVlDEKCE  ON  THE  SIDE  OF  TSfE  ORKAT 
BATTALIONS "  :    **  CONTES    ET    EpIQRAMMBS,     PAR 

leCit.*****"  (5^S.  ii.  307.)— For  this  aphorism 
Citizen  Gobet  is  indebted  to  Voltaire— viz.,  **  Un 
prince  veut  faire  la  guerre,  et  croyant  que  Dieu  est 
toujours  pour  les  gros  bataillons  '*^a  maxim  the 
wisdom  of  which  Voltaire^s  friend,  Frederick  the 
Great  of  Prussia,  approved,  and,  by  his  well-known 
powerful  military  organization,  put  into  practice. 
In  Schiller's  Tragedy  o/  IFallmttiin  I  can  find  no 
allusion  to  the  saying.  Bom  in  or  about  the  year 
1760,  Pierre-Cesaire* Joseph  Gobet  commenced  his 
career  in  life  as  a  dealer  m  iron,  but,  conscious  of 
a  capacity  foe  bif^i  Mid.  Toioxfe  Sss^^^'^'^^tj^-  5i.x5&I^sfc^ 


ii^^i^ 


452 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L0*8.n.DBO.<S,7i. 


he  devoted  himself  to  the  pursuits  of  literature, 
and  with  such  success  that  he  became  a  barrister, 
and  eventually  was  raised  to  the  Judicial  bench  at 
Paris  as  "  Juge  df  nstraction." 

He  fell  a  victim  to  the  cholera  on  the  16th  July,, 
1832. 

Between  the  years  1786  and  1814  he  published : 

1.  Fablea  Nouyelles. 

2.  The  voliAne  cited  by  your  correspondent  H.  A.  B. 
8.  ConteB,  Fables  et  Epigrammee. 

4  La  tjlageure,  ou  Lettre  du  R^dactenr  de  TAriicle 
"Speotaclee  "  dans  le  famenx  feuilleton  &  M.  *  *  ^ 

o.  A  work  entitled— M.  Feuilleton,  ou  Scene  addition- 
nelle  (en  vers  libres)  &  la  Com6dio  du  **  Mercier  galant*' 
de  Boursault. 

The  "  pieux  nouvelliste  "  is  probably  Marmontel, 
the  celebrated  author  of  the  Contes  Moratix,  and 
other  literary  productions,  a  greater  portion  of 
which  constituted  at  different  periods  "le  feuil- 
leton" of  Le  Mercure  de  France,  a  publication 
issued  (monthly,  I  believe)  by  the  special  permis- 
sion {brevei\  and  under  the  sanction  of  the 
Government.  William  Platt. 

Piccadilly. 

In  Bartlett's  QuotaXions,  p.  335,  there  are  the 
following:  "Deos  fortioribus  adesse"  (Tacitus, 
Hist,  Bk.  iv.-xvii.).  "  Dieu  est  d'ordinaire  pour 
les  gros  escadrons  contre  les  petits "  (Bussy  Babu- 
tin,  LtUrts,  iv.  91,  Oct.  18,  1677).  "On  dit  que 
Dieu  est  toujours  pour  les  gros  bataiUons  "  (Vol- 
taire to  jVL  le  Riche,  Feb.  6,  1770).  Alison,  Big- 
tory  of  Europe^  somewhere  states  that  some  one,  in 
presence  of  Napoleon,  asserted  that  Providence 
was  always  on  the  side  of  the  biggest  battalions. 
The  Eiuperor  remarked,  "  Nothing  of  the  kind. 
Providence  is  always  on  the  side  of  the  last  reserve." 
Query,  Can  any  one  give  me  a  reference  to  the 
chapter  in  Alison  ?  W.  S.  S. 

Qu^rard,  in  his  Super cherie^  LitUraires  (Paris, 
1870),  gives  the  following  information  as  to 
"  Citizen  Gobet*s  "  works  :— 

"•♦♦•♦  (M.)  [Louis- Antoine  Gobet]. 

"  Contes,  Fables  et  Epigmmmed.  Paris,  an  ix  (1801), 
in-18,  30  p.— Contes,  Fables  et  Epigrammes,  suivis  de 

M.  Feuil'^ton,  8C'>nc  episodique,  par .   Parit,  niyOse 

an  xiii  {\b)5),  in-18,  60  p. 

"  Ces  de^x  ouyragcs,  rounis  aux  '  Contes  et  Epi- 
grammes '  dt  meme  auteur,  Part's,  vend^miaire,  an  viii 
(1800),  in-18  d%  26  pages  (signes  ♦  ♦  ♦),  forment  la  col- 
lection  des  '  Contes '^  de  M.  Gobet"— Tome  iii.  p.  1125. 

Barbier,  in  his  Didionnaire  des  Ouvrages 
Anonymcs  rParis,  1872),  also  ascribes  the  Contes 
et  Epigrammes  to  Louis- Antoine  Gobet. 

But  if  you  turn  to  the  account,  given  in  Didot's 
Nourelk  Biographie  GMrale  (edited  by  Dr. 
Hoefer,  1857),  of  Louis- Antoine  €robet,  you  find 
the  above-mentioned  works  attributed,  not  to  him, 
but  to  Pierre-Cdsaire-Joseph  Gobet,  a  litUrateur 
and  magistrate,  bom  about  1765.  The  Biographie 
Uhivmelk  (Michaud)  does  the  wime. 

li  is  unfortunate  that  the  MS.  note  m  -yowi 


correspondent's  COTy  of  the  book  does  not  help  us 
where  authorities  disagree. 

Spares  Henderson  Williaks. 

Post-Office  Money  Orders  (&^  S.  iL  26a.)— 
Mr.  William  Lewins,  in  his  history  of  Htr  Ma- 
jesty's Mails,  states  : — 

*'In  that  year  (1702)  an  entirely  new  branch  of  b«i- 
ne«  wee  commenced  at  the  General  Pest  Oi&ee.  We 
refer  to  the  origin  of  the  money  order  establiihmeat. 
The  beginnings  of  this  tystem.  wbich^  as  the  reedv 
must  be  aware,  has  of  late  years  asBumed  gigantie  pie- 
portiont,  were  simple  and  nnaesnmlng  in  the  extrme. 
The  Qoremment  ot  the  day  had  expressed  a  defira  fer 
the  establiahment  of  a  mediom,  by  which  loldierrad 
Hulon  might  transmit  to  their  homes  each  small  ions  as 
they  could  manage  to  eave  for  that  purpose.  Three 
officers  of  the  Poat  Office  jointly  submittea  a  seheme  to 
make  a  part  of  the  Post-Office  machineiy  aTaUable  ia 
this  direction,  and  a  monopoly  was  readily  conceded  to 
theuL  The  undertaking  was  further  faToored  with  the 
sanction  of  the  Postmaster  General  The  designation 
of  the  firm  was  to  be  '  Stow  &  Co./  each  of  the  three 
partners  agreeing  to  find  a  thousand  poands  canitaL 
The  stipulations  made  were,  that  the  business  should  be 
carried  on  at  the  cost  and  at  the  risk  of  the  oiiginaton  ; 
and  that  they,  in  return,  should  receire  the  profits.  It 
was  agreed,  also,  that  they  should  enjoy  the  priTilege  of 
sending  all  their  correspondence  free  of  poetage— no  in- 
considerable item  saved  to  them.  Contrary  to  antici- 
pation, the  proceeds  were  considerable— not  so  mnchon 
account  of  the  number  of  the  transactions,  ae  on  tin 
high  commission  that  was  charged  for  the  money  ddsn. 
Their  terms  were  eightpence  for  eyery  ponnd ;  but  if 
the  same  exceeded  two  pounds,  a  stamp  du^  of  one 
shilling  was  levied  by  Goyemment  in  addition.  So  order 
could  be  issued  for  more  than  five  guineas ;  and  the 
charge  for  that  sum  amounted  to  four  shillings  and  ax- 
pence,  or  nearly  five  per  cent" 

£.  H.  Coleman. 

During  the  reign  of  William  IV.,  I  used  to  pay 
to  the  local  postmaster  my  quarterly  subscription 
for  a  London  newspaper,  together  with  the  cost  of 
a  post  letter  (lid.),  and  the  postmaster  transmitted 
the  order,  and  settled  for  the  paper,  I  understood, 
in  his  post-office  accounts.  I  assume  that  he  took 
commission  from  the  publisher,  for  I  paid  none. 
Lackington  built  a  Methodist  chapel  about  eighteen 
miles  beyond  the  Post  Office  with  which  I  trans- 
acted my  business,  so  he  would  probablyacouire 
his  knowledge  in  that  district.  C.  W.  E. 

Newcastle -on-Tyne. 

** Anecdote  Lives"  (5"»  S.  iL  365.)— I  am 
enabled,  and  on  the  authority  of  Earl  Bussell 
himself,  to  say  that  his  Lordship  was  the  origmator 
of  the  witty  definition  of  a  proverb.  It  was  told 
by  him  one  day  at  breakfiist  to  Sir  James  Mad^- 
intosh,  who  repeated  it  at  Holland  House,  and  in 
that  way  it  became  rapidly  known.  Surely  after 
this  ex  cathedrd  confirmation,  this  one  wittidsm 
will  not  henceforth  be  assigned  to  any  other  than 
the  originator.    Now  vmroru.     Fbxdk.  Suul 


"  Ultima  "  as  a  Chribtiak  Name  (5"»  S.  il 
\  %^  »'^— "Vl  \  voi  Ti^^'t  TmsUken,  the  irell-lcnown  author 


ff»  8.  IL  Dio.  5. 74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


453 


fatlmniel  Hawthorne  1ms  a  drttighter  bearing  ihm 

rery  nunie.  I  know  a  family  in  Stockholm^  Sweden, 

I'vlio  nnmed  one  of  their  daughters  Ultimo,  because 

|lbere   was  bat  little  hope  of  their  hj^vinir  niore 

children.    But  here  it  happened  as  with  '*  nichard 

Baxter's  Ust  worda/*^ — Ultima  really  became  Pen- 

uUima,     Upon   consulting  a   friend   of  his,   the 

_  nxzled  paierfajuilias  got  out  of  the  dilemma  in 

lihia  manner  :  as  an  ultimatum,  he  christened  his 

ni  **  bliB«  *'   Vera   Ultivta  (the  vcnj  last  one). 

lAnd  80  she  stdl  is.     But  these  are  not  the  only 

[cxamplea.     I  know  where   the  above-ujentioned 

[word  has   been  used   as  a  name.     I  also  had  a 

*chum.*'  at  the  University  of  Upsalti,  Sweden, 

amed  UUirnui,  A  propos  of  Christian  names  aug- 

thnt  the  beiucr  ia  the  last  born   of  his 

ijere  is  another  one  very  frequently  used 

"  'if  that  purpose,  viji.,  **  Knut."    This 

[  is  t  li  word  for  knotf  and  its  use  a«  a 

youngest   mn   originates  probably 

» bat  a  tailor  makes  a  knot  at  the  end 

as  if  to  say  "  here  it  stops  "  ! 

F.  Mabtik* 

Ekvuesal  of  Diphthokgs  (5»^  S,  ii.  231.) — 

f  Mil,  MoRTiMEK  CoLLiNs'fl  deliverauccs  are  always 

h  entitled  to  respect,  and  his  remarks  on  "  SpeUing 

Heforma  •'  at  thb  reference  fire  at  least  very  sug- 

'  geSitivc.     But,  speaking  of  Prof,  Sylvester's  Laivs 

of  V-  r<r_  li,.  ^uys  :  "  A  mathematician  could  never 

bu  \  ha  muddle  if  he  had  only  been  taught 

hh      ^  Such   anparliamentiirj^  language 

must  not  be  allowed  to  pass  without  a  caQ  to 

^ordcr  ;  especially  in  tliia  case,  where  Ma.  Collins 

p  tnbre presented  the  great  mathematician's  doc- 

tte^  and  therefore  shown  he  htts  not  understood 

it.  If  a  diphthong  were  a  collocation  of  two 
vowel  K»unds,  Mr  Colli xa's  crifiquc  w*ould  be 
liirl      '  !i  a  diphthong  would  be  analogous  to 

AD  1 1  sum.     But  it  is  just  because,  c  g.^ 

the  ^oiinii  I  ijis  in  glidi)  is  a  dipbtbcng  thiit  its  re- 


is  a  double  vowel  sound,  and  not  a  diph- 
thong, aa  in  yEliaiK  It  cannot  be  septtrat^  into 
4  and  a,  as  Miu  Collins  seemB  to  assunoe  ;  for, 
\  P"  ^'  I— 4ter  most  accurately  sayB, — 

arka  of  aound  which  connoto  a  diphtliong: 
f htm  tQundtd :  they  do  but  indicate  the  two 
timiU  frwm  oue  of  which  to  the  other  the  voice  pAsses 
eontinuoatly  ia  uttering  thediphthong."— Law* o/  VcrUt 
|i{k>.  50*51* 

All  Mr*  CoLLiys  does  is  to  reveree  these  limits^ 
and  90  evolve,  not  a  diphthong,  but  a  double 
vowel  sound,  which  is  a  very  different  thing.  For 
ixjy  ii'^H    T  ilo  not  think  that  any  true  diphthong 


is  1  ;   but  if  there  be  euch  a  thing  as  a 

TOT-.  "'litliong,   let    it  be  produced.    But 

Dr.  byii  ^-A^  his  assertion  by  the  <|nalifica- 

lion    **  f  J    (I   do  not  say  always),**  &a, 

w!i  '  ijllins  does  not  quote  entire  ;  and 

I  1 1  very  modesty  of  this  statement  should 


hare  prevented  him  from  applj^ng  to  the  great 
scient  the  language  of  which  I  complain. 

Jabkz. 
AthcTijieam  Club. 

Aristo  (5"»  S.  ii,  308.)—**  Aristo '''  is  the  Persian 
fonn  of  *'  Aristotle,"  and  so,  perhaps,  the  name  or 
title  of  an  *^  Hakim,  or  physician.''  *' Aristo"  ia 
sS^conimonly  known  bv  tradition  in  those  Ea«t©rn 
parts  that  Prof.  Eastwick  (in  some  book  of  travel, 
1  forget  which),  asking  some  Oriental  if  he  knew 
what  an  Jrish  steiv  whjs,  is  answered  that  he  i^  not 
80  ignorant  as  not  to  know  that  great  philosopher. 
If  Eastwick  hiul  asked  about  a  Vol-au-ventj  the 
man  might  have  taken  it  for  Arifto'a  master, 
Plato,  equally  celebrated  in  the  East  as  "Iflatua." 

Qtnvis. 

OuRTocs  llrsToRtcAL  Eblations  (S^  S.  iL 
286.)— The  learned  Otma  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  who  is 
well  versed  in  Swiss  archaeology,  infbrma  me  that 
the  cwrioH*  relaiiom  extracted  from  De  R^chat 
are  historical  facU,  I  therefore  withdraw  the 
comparative  allusions  to  the  German  baron  and 
the  American  major  !  In  the  second  quotation 
(ut  ^upra)  is  an  erratum  ;  *S'ora*  h?\h  should  be 
Jorat  HiUs,  the  range  of  which  Lau?anne  is  the 
capital.  N. 

Cameo  (5*»»  S.  il  268.)— My  first  im^r^gioa 
was  that  this  word  was  derived  from  va/A«i  (»it 
cause  da  creux  oil  cea  pierres  sont  taifiies,"  vm 
Manage).  In  his  2^  Origint  della  lAng,  It&^ 
Genev.,  1685,  Manage  says,  "Cameo  du  x^f^h 
camw!U3,  cameo.  Item,  dall'  isteaso  )^a/Aat,  camaius, 
camaiolus,  onde  il  Franoeae  eamaietix*  It*m,  dm 
va/iat,  camius,  camio,  camiouis,  camione  ;  onde  il 
Franceae  camion,  cio^  spilletto."  Koquefort  gives 
**  Cami^eu,  mmaher  :  Camaieu,  en  has  Lat.  eomo* 
hotusJ*  Dufresne  renders  c<ima^us  and  camah^tuSf 
"sardonyx";  and  gives  also  a  cainahutus,  ap- 
parently' of  the  same  meaning.  Gaffard  (Cwri- 
0***/^^  Inomes,  chap.  t.  p.  74),  aft^r  stating  that  he 
thinks  ganidhe  from  eainai^if  &c.,  says : — 

**0r  le  mot  chamajcu  pourroit  estre  abastardl  ds 
€kiimaia,  qui  signifie  comme  'd'cau  de  Diea,*  i  caaae 

3ii*on  voit  des  acbatea  ond6e>  repr6«ent«nt  puifaitement 
e  Teau  ;  et  le  mot  de  Dieu  y  eat  adjouBt^,  L  cause  quo 
]a  tangue  Hcbraique  a  cela  dc  propre,  aue  Ion  qu  «Us 
Teut  nonimer  qudqae  chose  par  excellence,  elle  ad- 
jouste  apm,  ce  eaiat  nom.  Ainei  pour  dire  un  beaa 
jdrdin,  elle  dit  paraditm  Doviim  ;  doi  grands  cMres, 
cidri  Dti;  dca  hautes  montsgnes,  monUi  Dei:  amii  OM 
autres.'* 

Bescherelle  says,  "  Camaieu,  par  corruption  de 
camehouia^  nom  oriental  de  Tonyx,  qui  est  formi 
par  des  couches  de  diveraea  ooakurs'';  but  he 
derives  camie — 

"Pe  rital.  camoo,  qui  lui-memc  vlent  3e  rfl£br. 
kamaa,  relief  j  oo,  Buivant  d'&utrca,  dee  deux  moisfftintM 
OHVchm,  dont  oa  a  fnit  tjtmma  hnya,  puit  Ciittu  hma^  ti 
eufin  camaTcUt  nom  bous  leqiiel  oa  dcfignait  ee  qjia  n««i* 
appelons  anjoutd'Wv  caiaier 


m 


mM 


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[fl*S.ILD£a6,7l. 


Conf.  also  om:*.  by  some  rendered  sardonyx,  or 
onyx,  wMch  Micnaclis  compares  with  the  Arabic 
muBohhamy  a  striped  garment. 

R.  S.  Charnock. 

Gray's  Inn. 

This  word  comes  from  Greek  through  Low 
Greek  and  Low  Latin.  Greek,  Ka/ivciv,  to  labour, 
to  take  any  trouble  ;  Low  Greek,  ica/Aciov,  iron- 
works ;  X,&OKafio)fJL€vos,  ornamented  with  gems  ; 
KajMOTucov,  a  work  done  by  hand  ;  Kafuuvvctv,  to 
work  ;  Ka/iarov,  a  work.  Low  Latin,  canuEiu, 
See  Littr^.  v,  "  Camde."       Henri  Gausskron. 

Ayr  Academy. 

Asses'  Bbaying  (6"»  S.  ii.  287.)— I  have  found 
the  receipt  referred  to  by  H.  K.  in  a  small  folio 
volume,  new  in  the  .Dublin  Library,  B'Olier  Street. 
I  never  heard  of  another  copy.  The  book  is  called 
The  Secrets  of  Devils,  of  AngtU,  and  of  Men,  I 
quote  fome  of  the  secrets  from  memoiy  : — 

1,  How  to  weigh  any  number  of  pounds  Tor 
ounces)  with  four  weights.  This  might  be  useful 
for  machines  for  weighing  letters. 

2,  How  to  fnd  out  a  number  thought  of  by 
another,  by  joking  a  few  questions.  Think  of  a 
number  ;  is  it  even  or  odd,  &c.  ? 

3,  How  to  roast  a  goose  alive.  I  believe,  from 
the  mufcular  movements  of  the  ass,  the  stone 
will  be  efifectuaL  I  have  tested  the  first  and  second, 
and  *An  answer  for  their  correctness.  I  have 
ne^f  tried  the  third,  and  do  not  so  intend. 

H. 

Butler's  "Hudibras"  (6*>»  S.  ii.  326.)— Dr. 
Johnson  says  more  :  he  says,  "  Hudibras  is  one  of 
those  compositions  of  which  any  nation  may  justly 
boost " ;  and  "  the  name  of  Butler  can  only  perish 
irith  the  language."  W.  A.  0. 

Glasgow. 

Effect  of  Stars  (5*^  S.  ii.  309.)— Let  me  refer 
Asa  Reeth  to  a  tale  in  the  Belgravia  Annual  for 
1868  ;  it  is  entitled  "  King  Aser's  Slave." 

Boston. 

"The  Slave"  (5**  S.  ii.  309.)-To  the  question 
of  your  correspondent  Vera,  no  better  answer  can 
be  given  than  by  a  few  extracts  from  Moore's 
Diary,  edited  by  Lord  John  Russell  in  1853  (vol.  v. 
pp.  142,  144)  :— 

tm}^^'  '^f""*n^^-  Began  some  rersei  for  the  Timet, 
xne  Butye. 

aJ'  J»»"»>7  19  20.  Sent  some  d»y  this  week  a  poem  on 
the  Duke  of  York's  death  to  the  TifMs,  called  'The 
Slave,  and  a  letter  from  Luttrell  about  it.  I  mutt 
thank  you  for  *  The  Slare.' 

*  January  21-22^  Had  a  letter  from  Barnes,  nying  the 
yenes  on  the  Duke  of  York  were  excellent,  and  came 
aprojHU,*' 

7»ir  ».     .«.  William  Platt. 

ii^  PiecMdiUy. 


Suffolk  Words  (5«»  S.  il  32a)— Ptidbrf  is, 
probably,  nothing  more  than  the  Suffolk  pronon- 
ciation  of  the  English  word  peaeeod. 

Wm.  Pbnokllt. 

Torquay. 

The  Marriage  of  the  Adriatic  avd  the 
DooE  OF  Venice  (6^  S.  iL  287.)—Under  "  Pecu- 
liar Customs,  &a,''  Morell  says,  in  hia  Can^^ 
Oeography  (voL  il  p.  836,  foL) : — 

"  One  of  the  grandest  and  most  solemn  ones  thii 
Venice  hath  is,  thiat  called  the  Attenta,  or  Holy  TImn- 
day,  when  the  Doge  goes  with  the  utmost  pomp  to  marry 
the  sea." 

After  describing  the  ceremony,  which  is  too  long 
for  quotation,  he  continues : — 

'*  At  the  place  the  Doge  takes  a  ring,  and  drops  it  iaCo 
the  sea,  without  anv  other  formality  than  by  sayiitf, 
'  Detnontamut  le,  Mare,  in  tionum  perpetui  bvmimh; 
which  may  be  thus  Englished,  With  tkis  rimff  wt  mi 
thee,  0  tea,  in  token  qf  our perpetwU  Dominion  omtr  tkm,*'* 

Nothing  is  said  of  the  recovery  of  the  ring. 
**  This  power,"  he  tells  us,  of  marrying  the  sea  in 
that  odd  manner — 

'*  was  granted  to  this  Republic  by  Pope  Alexander  IIL 
for  its  havinff  given  him  a  lift  into  his  Fontiileal  Digidiy, 
of  which  he  had  been  deprited." 

I  find  no  mention  of  the  custom  in  Oaidinal 
Contarini's  De  Veneiorum  Bepublied. 

Edmund  Tew,  MJL 

It  is  quite  true  that  the  rin^  was  recovered  after 
the  wedding,  and,  therefore,  that  a  string  was  tied 
to  it.  The  orinn  of  this  ceremony  shows  it  plainly. 
In  the  twelfth  century,  Venice  supported  Pope 
Alexander  III.  against  the  Emperor  Frederick  L, 
Barbarossa.  In  recompense  of  this,  the  Pope  gave 
the  Doge  a  ring,  which  he  ought  to  throw  into  the 
sea  every  year ;  and  to  the  present  the  Pope  added 
these  words:  — 

"  Espouse  the  sea,  that  posterity  may  know  it  beknigs 
to  you  by  right  of  conouest,  and  it  must  be  submitted  to 
your  Republic,  as  a  wire  is  to  her  husband.*' 

Henri  Gausserov. 

Ayr  Academy. 

The  form  of  the  ceremony  was  as  follows. 
Yearly,  on  Ascension  Day,  the  Doge,  accompanied 
by  the  officers  of  state,  the  Papsd  nuncio,  the 
ambassadors,  &c.,  entered  the  "  Bucentaur,"  a  pi- 
ley  one  hundred  feet  in  length,  manned  by  160 
picked  rowers,  and  advanced  slowly  to  the  island 
of  Santa  Elmo,  at  which  place  the  patriarch  of 
Venice  came  on  board,  who,  after  blessing  a  vase 
of  water,  threw  it  into  the  sea  as  a  preventative  of 
storms.  The  ducal  vessel  proceedea  to  the  port  of 
San  Nicolas,  and  then  crossed  the  strait,  and  ato 
going  a  little  way  out  to  sea,  put  about ;  at  which 
moment  the  Doge  suddenly  stepped  into  a  small 
gallery,  and  threw  a  gold  ring  into  the  waves, 
saying  at  the  same  time,  "  Desponsamiu  te,  Man^ 
in  signum  veri  perpetuique  dominn »  (tee  TKt 
Queen,  of  the  Adriatic;  or,  Venice  Fati  emd 
Preeenty  &c).  Ntomaoue. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


455 


I 


Tmt  Tebmixation  "t'*  in  the  Kamks  of 

,  Placks  (rj*"*  S.  ii»  320.) — If  the  correspondent  of 

tlie  Intcrmidimre  is  right  in  asserting  that  acuvi, 

in  the  termination  of  the  Latin  fonna  for  Tournay, 

Cambray,   Courtray,   &c,,   h  from   Sanscrit   aca, 

Latin  aqita,  then,  seeing  that  the  orimnd  Flemisli 

namee  of  tbe.se  towns  ended  in  -yrk  (Doornyck, 

^CHineryck,  whence  our  cambric^  Cortryck,  &c.), 

>  there  seems  rcAlly  some  analogy  for  the  suggestion 

^  of  W.    B.,   that   'iriV^r- water.     But   query  the 

I  grounds  of  this  assertion  in  the  Inttrm^'diaire  ? 

V.H.LLJ.aLV. 

"  WiKK  "  (5^^  S.  iL  408).  which  forms  part  of 
!  eevcrdi  place-nameii  in  our  country, is  Scandinaviaa 
Witik  or  mnch  lueiais  a  comer.  The  word  of  the 
I  futme  meaning  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  tongue  hitdnreL 
Vide  Morris's  Eiymolotjy  of  Ttidonk  Local  Names 
fi&t  the  former,  and  Boswortb's  Atigto-Sajon  LHe- 
1  tionary  for  the  latter^  authority. 

Henry  C.  Lofts. 

Thk  Yew-Trees  at  Paisswick  {^^  S.  ii.  3fJ5.) 
— The  spell  hiis  been  broken  for  many  years.  The 
ninety-nine  oM  yew-trees  still  flourishjand  between 
thirty  and  forty  younger  trees  were  planted  some 
years  ago,  which  promise  in  time  to  make  the 
church vard  m  much  uglier  than  before  as  140 
exc«!ed^  IfKK  C,  S. 


,  I  know  these  yew-trees  weU,  and  can  assure 

K  T.  G.  U.,  and  the  elderly  kdy  his  infonimnt,  that 
^B  there  ia  nothing  ominous  respect  ins  one  of  them 
^■•dying  occaiiionally  when  another  is  planted,  so 
H.lhai  one  hundred  cannot  be  kept  growmg  together. 
^  It  would  be  just  half  as  difficult  to  keep  fifty,  and 
:as  diflicult  agjiin  to  keep  two  hundred  growing  at 

I  the  Bonje  time.  The  result  would  be  the  pame 
with  Wellingtoaias,  or  in  C4ise  a  farmer  tried  to 
Iccep  tjractbj  one  hundred  sheep  throughout  the 
^ean  The  frequent  deaths  amongst  the  Pains- 
^\ck  yewsy  however^  arose  principally  from  the 
injury  to  their  root^  by  the  frequent  interments 
ju»t  before  the  new  cemetery  was  built,  and  the 
jibAurd  practice  of  cropping  them  so  closely  every 
^ear,  ao  tliat  the  dead  leiives  of  the  inner  boughs 
do  not  fall  to  the  ground,  but  upon  the  crown  and 
trunks  of  the  trees,  which  is  y^j  injurious. 

a  Ghattock,  F.E.H.S. 
QMtle  Btomwicb. 

Tuojf AS  Sutton  (5»*^  S.  ii,  4O90— It  15  a  fiict 

ell   known   to   Carthusians,  that   the    body    of 

bouiiu  Sutton  was  buried  in  the  chapel^  and  is 

here  to  this  day.     The  tomb  has,  I  believe,  been 

lwic«  opened  within  the  last  hundred  years,  the 

Hitter   occasion   being   in   J 84 2,     The   body   was 

bund  wrapped  in  lead,  according  to  the  f;u^hion 

bf  the  duv,  and  wa»  in  excellent  preservation, 

F.  F,  D. 
CliArt«rhou«e. 


Thomas  Suttoo,  the  founder  of  the  Charterhouse, 
wa.^  buried  in  the  chapel  attached  to  his  magni- 
ficent foundation.  An  engraving  of  the  curious 
lead  coffin  which  contains  his  body  may  be  seen  in 
Th€  Gtntkvian-s  Magminey  January,  1843,  p.  43, 
His  bowels  were  buried  in  the  Parish  Church  of 
Hackney,  Edward  Peacock. 

Bottegford  Manor^  Brigg. 

I  have  consulted  three  biographical  dictionaries, 
and  unless  they  are  all  wrong,  and  they  bare 
copied  erroneously  from  each  other,  Thomas  Sutton 
died  December  12,  1611.  As  to  his  place  of 
burial,  they  are  all  silent,  though  one  account 
states  that  he  died  in  London.      Fredk.  Kclk. 

Ak  Old  Bookbbllek  (5*^  S.  iL  288.)— I  have 
the  book  inquired  for  by  Olphak  Hamst.  It 
bears  the  following  title  : — 

*'  Fifty  Ye&rs  Recollectioni  of  an  Old  Bookseller,  con- 
PSfiting  of  Anecdotci,  Cliaracteiistic  Sketches,  and  Origi- 
nal Traits  and  Flcceatricitici  of  Atithors,  Ar lists,  Actors, 
fiooki.  Booksellers,  and  of  the  Pcriodicul  Presi  for  the 
h\^t  Half  Ccntary,  with  appropriate  Selection*,  ami  an 
unUoiited  Hetrospcct,  includini;  i^omo  Extraoi'dlnary 
Circumitancei  relative  to  the  Letteri  of  Judius,  and 
a  Claim  of  Corroboratira  Eridence  respectlnit  their 
Author/' 

**  He  has  been  at  a  feast  of  anecdot^s^  and  stolen  all 
the  acrapa.'* 

8ro.  pp.  200,  Cork.    Printed  for  the  Author,  1335. 

It  contains  a  portrait  of  the  author,  those  of 
Wilkes,  John  Nichols,  the  printer,  Francis  Grose, 
Christ,  Brown^  John  Bunton;  the  Politicians, 
the  Literary  Laboratory,  and  etchings  of  Grose, 
Grainger,  and  some  of  the  early  printers  from 
Ames,  From  the  latter,  and  that  t»etter  known 
old  hoohsflhr  Dunton,  he  has  borrowed  largely, 
and  compiled  u  light  readable  "  feast  of  anecdotes,** 
and,  tmly  described,  "stolen  scraps."  The 
author's  initials  are  W.  W.,  understood  to  stand 
for  William  West,  at  the  period  a  bookseller  in 
Cork,  but  an  Englishman  whose  reminiscence*  are 
all  of  his  native  land,  A.  G. 

The  editor  of  the  Aldint  Magatinc  was  William 
West,  who  contributed  to  it  the  interesting  letters 
referred  to  by  Mr.  Olphab  Hamst.  The  Fifty 
Ytatf^  RecoUedioTU  of  an  Old  Bookselkr  is  a 
separate  work  by  the  same  author.  It  was 
"  printed  by  and  for  the  author,"  at  London,  in 
1837.  Such  at  least  is  the  stiitemeot  on  the  title* 
page,  though  on  passing  the  hundredth  page  a 
second  title-page  arrests  the  eye,  which  declurea 
that  it  was  ^*  printed  by  and  for  the  author/'  at 
Cork,  in  1835  !  The  motto  on  the  first  title,  "he 
has  been  at  a  feitst  of  anecdotes,  and  stolen  all 
the  scraps,**  accurately  indicates  the  character  of 
Mr.  West's  book,  which  is  an  amusing  farrago  of 
odds  and  ends,  pertinent  and  impertinent,  A 
lithographed  portr&it  of  Mr.  We^t  forms  the  fron- 
tispiece to  his  work|  and  iVwt  ^kjo^  ^'ftX.^t  ^AXiss^'^'i^- 


id^^ 


456 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6^8.ILDia5,7i. 


Btoiy  will  be  found  registered  in  the  pages  of  Syl- 
vanna  Urban  {Gmtkman^s  Maaasinif  1855,  Tol. 
xIiT>y  N.  S.  p.  214).  The  BecoUectitmi  it  dow  a 
mre  book.  William  IL  A-  Axok * 

'*  BoBOPQE  Enqlibe  "  (5*^  S,  iL  303)  prevails 
most  extensive! J  in  tbe  county  of  Sussex^  wheie  it 
IE  found  in  140  manors.  The  eastern  is  also  more 
or  less  in  use  in  ComwaD,  Derliy,  Devon,  £^x, 
Glamorgan,  Gloucester,  Hants,  Hereford,  Herts, 
Hunts,  Kent,  Leicester,  Lincoln,  Middlesex,  Mon- 
mouth, Kortk^mptoD,  Kotts,  SaJoa  SttiHbrd,  Suf'* 
folk,  Surrej,  and  Wajwiek*    K.  S,  CaARNOdc* 

Grftj^s  Iim. 

Hub  custom  obtains  in  the  Manor  of  Kirton-in- 
Xdndsey,  In  the  count j  of  Lincoln. 

W.   E*   HOWLETT. 

Wharton,  in  the  Law  Ltjdeon^  sskjs  that  the 
custom  obtiiins  in  the  munors  of  Lambeth,  Hack- 
ney, part  of  Islington,  Heston,  Edmonton,  &o. 

Fbede.  Eule* 

F.  3.  wiU  find  much  information  on  tbis  ancient 
tenure  in  Ths  Omiom  of  Bcfongh  English  m 
§smHng  i7t  the  County  of  Sussi^^j  by  Geoige  E. 
Oomer,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  1853, — a  pampElet  reprinted 
&om  voL  vi,  of  the  Sussex  Atdmolagiccd  Ooiiec- 
ttoiw*  There  is  also  anotber  useful  paper  on  the 
eame  subject  by  the  late  Mr.  Comer,  road  before 
the  Sufiblk  Institute  of  Archaeology,  Jan.  10, 1856. 
Edwaed  Peaqoctk. 

Mr.  Furley,  in  his  admirable  Hutory  of  tAe 
W^ald  of  Kmt,  sajs  tlmt — 

"  In  Surrey  there  are  no  Icsa  than  tlurtytbree  Borougb 
Enj^lbi]]:  Mnnorap  mcluditig  LmipiiHeld]  on  the  Surrey 
■ido  of  Westerham,  and  Lftnib4?th,  KeQumj^ton,  Bfttterse** 
Klchmond,  Croydon,  DoTkinf^,  &d.  .  .  .  Them  arc  i^boat 
150  Boroagh  EnglLih  Manors  in  Suwex,  including  Wftd- 
huratj  Trant,  Flay  den,  and  Id^n  «mong  the  fnmtier 
manon." 

The  custom^  he  informs  ua,  ia  not  known  in 
Kent,  I  gladly  tiike  this  opportunity  of  recom- 
mending to  all  students  of  English  History  and 
Topogntphy,  especiiJly  natives  of  Kent,  these  moat 
interesting  ana  instructive  volumes*  They  are 
simply  ej&austive  of  the  subjects  on  which  they 
treat.  Edmund  Tew,  M,A, 

"Satjadon^:  Hoa  Sat.,  13,  107  (5^*  S.  ii. 
285.) — I  should  like  to  know  in  what  dictionary 
of  what  language  tbis  word  is  to  be  found.  Such 
a  substitution  does  not  deceive  schoolboys,  but 
woidd  be  more  likely  to  iwid  to  their  inevit4ible 
Tocabulaiy  of  improper  slang.  The  system  of 
eirpurgation  is  a  siUy  one.  Byron  was  referring  to 
an  edition  of  Martial,  in  which  the  obscene 
epigrams  were  absurdly  put  together  ;  but  Martial, 
a  poet  who  must  be  read  by  any  one  desiring  la 
studf  socio}  life  in  ImperLol  Home,  and  to  eiyoy 


the  Latin  language  in  its  uiost  nudleabla  fonn^  h 
not  put  into  the  bands  of  met«  cbildren,  being 
unintelligible  to  students  untU  thoy  bare  rtacboa 
an  age  at  which  his  grossnesa  should  ei^ender  dii- 
guflt.  MonTimER  CoLLnieL 

Enowl  HilJ»  BericB. 

PonTUQUB9E  Coor  (5«^  S.  iL  3270—Thia  k  not 
a  coin,  but  a  weight  for  a  quarter  Ji»nne%  minled 
by  Joannes  ¥.,  and  current  in  Knglftnd  for  nine 
shiUinga.  Weights  of  Portugu^e  3oina  art  T«ry 
common  ^  I  have  sevand,  including  the  above. 

BIhuel  Shaw. 

AndoTfir. 

Thb  Farablk  of  the  ^Ojte  ovlt  Kib^CS"^ 

S,  ii.  424.)— It  may  interest  some  of  your  mdera 
to  know  what  is  the  generally  accepted  mterpnta- 
tion  of  this  parable,  quoted  by  you  from  iny 
article  in  tbe  Yorkihire  Ma^osdnc. 

The  one  only  kid  is  the  Jewish  people ;  the 
two  zuztm,  the  two  Tables  of  tbe  Law  ;  the  cat, 
Babylon ;  its  devouring  the  kid,  the  swallowing 
up  of  the  Jewish  nationality  by  the  captivity ;  the 
dog,  Persia  \  the  staff,  Greece  ;  tbe  &r»,  Bome ; 
the  water,  the  Turks  ;  tbe  ox,  Edom  or  Etuopeia 
nations,  who  are  to  wrest  Jndsea  &om  tbem  at  some 
future  day ;  the  staughterer,  the  confedenite  anaie« 
under  Gog  and  Magog,  Persia,  Oush,  and  Pal ; 
angel  of  death,  a  pestilence  ;  tbe  Most  Holy, 
God's  kingdom  on  e^h  under  the  MessialL 

Geokoe  PsmcE  Grakthaii* 

Alesia  (6"^  S.  ii.  £27, 395.}— Mr,  Cnirroci 
will  allow  me,  I  trust,  to  remind  him  that  Harfeian 
MSS.,  except  the  few  which  are  oontempomiy 
chronicles,  are  of  very  little  value  in  settiinc  thi3 
question,  since  the  pedig^es  and  Heralds*  Visita- 
tions of  which  they  largely  consist  were  maiDly 
compiled  at  too  recent  a  date  to  be  of  any  re^l 
authority.  It  is  probable  that  Alesia  and  Alicia 
were  considered  the  eame  name— the  former  being 
then  pmcticnUy  extinct— three  hundred  years  agp. 
But  if  they  were  really  interchangeable  names  »t 
the  time  when  both  were  in  common  use— speak- 
ing roughly,  from  1250  to  1450—1  b^  leave  to 
ask  again,  how  is  it  that  tbe  same  person  is  colled 
by  both  names  only  by  a  manifest  slip  of  the  pen 
— two,  or  at  most  thiee,  times  in  two  hundred 
years — the  instances  of  confusion  between  Alexia 
and  Alicia  being  about  a  fourth  part  as  numerous 
as  those  between  Margaret  and  Mary  1  No  one 
baa  ever  supposed  that  ^largaret  and  Maiy  were 
used  interchangeably ;  yet  Margaret  was  litUe 
more  popular  than  Alesia,  and  Mary  less  so.  The 
true  authorities  for  settling  this  question  ai^e  the 
Bolls  and  Inquisitions  of  the  tbirteentb,  fourteenth, 
and  fifteenth  centuries,  and  I  hav^  "waded 
through  "  740  of  the  former  and  307  of  the  latts. 

HEBMEliTEirBC. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


457 


I 
I 


"TlTR^o  "  i/t^  S.  ii.  1S5,  25»i,  3Sm.)— The  mtly 
of  *'  N.  &  Q.'-  ^ould  be  well  ac(|uainUtl 
Witil  llie  words  **  tureen  "  and  "  terrine."  The 
on^n  of  the  word  "  tureen  '•  was  a^ked  in  1850 
(!•*  S.  L  246X  ftnd  sevenii  conlributioni^  appeiiured 
in  that  volmne,  in  voL  iiL,  and  in  3«^  S.  x»  375  in 
1866,  this  last  with  an  editorial  comnient.  It  ap- 
peiired  that  Mw.  Delany,  in  a  letter  dated  1745-6, 
iwed  the  form  "terene"  (Aniobiofj.  and  Cor.^ 
TdL  ii-  p.  416,  Lond.,  1861),  and  that  Goldivniith 
is  the  first  who  is  known  to  have  used  the  fonii 
**tareen/*  in  the  Haunch  of  VmUon^  first  printed 
in  1765  ;  but  that  Vice?,  Knox,  m  his  E$my$^  tir?t 
printed  in  1778,  according  to  Lowndes,  has  "soup 
ID  a  china  terrene  **  {Worh^  vol.  ii.  p  57^).  The 
English  word^  it  was  noticed,  would  be  derived 
fjrom  the  French  krrine^  and  the  English  adjective 
"terrene'*  was  in  early  use.  It  may  be  added 
that  Pliny  has  terrtna  vasa  {Nat  Hid.y  L  xxxr, 
c,  c  12),  the  more  common  epithet  being /dx/ift. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

**T«»rAiiE3rrs  of  tab  Twelve  Patriarchs" 
(5«*  a  i.  308,  394  ;  ii  396.)— I  3i*ve  an  English 
'edition  of  this  book : — 

Londoiii  reprinUd  for  James  Fro«t»  196|  Brick  htme, 
Whjt*ch*p«I,  fiTnl  Joaoph  Froat  and  l«iac  Froat,  St. 
Job?'  Clerkenwell,    from  a  copy  printed  ftt 

LoTi  for  the  Company  of  StationorB.     Printed 

l>y  1,  _  ■■%  St.  John  Street,  ClcrkeQwell,  1837." 

1  lULve  also  an  edition  in  black  letter  :— 
*'  Printed  «t  I^ondon  for  the  Compftay  of  tbe  St&tionenj 
1610/'  with  woodcat«. 

Samu£l  Shaw. 
Andoven 

The  Frekch  Word  "Yetx"  (5>^  S.  ii.  101, 
174,  237,  398,)— If  Outib,  after  aU  that  1  have 
said^  IB  still  of  opinion  that  the  relationship  be- 
tween ^ewi*  and  oaths  is  the  same  as,  or  in  any 
degree  resembling,  that  between  jmitnal  f  and  diis^ 
I  naTe  nothing  more  to  my.  But  I  am  afrafd  he 
will  fitand  alone  in  his  opinion.  Oenlos  is,  aa  he 
hinwelf  admits,  the  Latin  futhtr^  of  ycux;  du^ 
as  he  himself  tulrnitj*,  nolhinj^  more  than  the 
'not  grandfather  of  jovrnril  f  (journal,  diurnal  is, 
diumuA,  dieaj.  Arc  a  father  and  a  tjrmt  tjrand- 
raC&«r  the  rj'*"'  n^r..,  ;  i^^t  him  tiud  »Boiher 
not  a  single  letter  in  com- 
/  I  deny  that  ytux  and 
Uy  speaking,  a  letter  in 
nctly  proved  that  the  two 
UA  have  nothing  w  Uiiiover  to  do  with  one  another. 
F.  Chance. 

•  More  mother,  ti  only  one  in* 

tllTifJTiul  1  ^jction.   Perhapt  mothiti' 

yfct  term,  ne  there  %ft 

i    as   mothers,   mithout 


iffOhfsr 

ci<m  with  its 

[<k;u/o*  have, 

Icomnion.     I 


11    I*vC5   lie   :il>v-i^-.?    UM>   "  c'OJrupt   Latin' 
)]e  would  uie  *'  Itnlina  "  I 


viicrc 


J.  T.  Skrres  (5»^  B.  ii.  2B9,  364,  397,  418.)— 
The  liipee  of  time,  nearly  h»lf  a  e^ntury,  since  the 
publication  of  The  Lifcy  &c,,  i«,  I  think,  a  sufficient 
reascm  for  the  alleged  scarcity  of  the  copies  of  the 
book.  If  the  friends  of  Mrs.  Scrres  could  have 
raised  the  needful  supplies,  they  might  have  en- 
deavoured to  buy  up  the  work,  which  was  detri- 
mental to  her  chai^M^ter.  It  is  not  probable  that 
George  IV.,  or  any  member  of  his  family  or  govern- 
ment, would  have  given  5J.  even  for  the  purpose. 
It  is  also  improbable  that  the  idea  of  Commander 
Morrison,  that  the  writer  of  the  Ryves  statement 
in  the  MominQ  Fosfj  184S,  was  inrhiced  to  dis- 
coDtinue  the  stojy  by  the  offer  of  a  diplomatic 
appointment,  accepted  by  him  from  the  British 
Government,  is  based  upon  truth.  The  Com- 
mander, like  many  men  of  genius,  was  credulous, 
enthusiftistic  and  prejudiced.  This  Eyres  grievance 
was  just  the  sort  of  hobby  he  would  ride  to  **  the 
death,"  as  the  saying  is.  Upon  the  final  occa<iion 
of  my  conversing  with  him  in  February,  1866,  he  re- 
ferred to  this  claim  as  a  just  one,  and  he  alleged  that 
Mr"?.  Ryves  was  assisted  considerably  by  persons  of 
rank  ivnd  substance  in  her  legal  cause,  &c.  Until 
its  ventilation  in  WcHtminater  Hall,  before  Sir  A. 
Cockburn,  &c.,  I  was  a  believer  in  her  claun.  Thi« 
triid  convinced  me,  and  better  judges,  that  the 
claim  was  a  fiiUacy,  and  that  her  grand  appeal  was 
based  upon  error  or  unoonscioua  fraud. 

Chr.  Cooke^ 

CoRpsRs  Buried  in  Walls:  "  Utraque  m 
UNA  THECA,"  &c.  {b^^  S.  iL  185,  234,  298,  337, 
398.) — Being  still  unconvinced,  I  write  once  again 
on  this  subject,  although  I  have  no  wish  to  compete 
for  the  last  word.  Oyjtn)  means  generally  n  re- 
ceptacle. The  first  meaning  given  oy  Lidtlell  and 
Scott  is  **  a  case  to  put  anything  in,  a  box,  a  che«t." 
Coffin^  then,  conies  fairly  within  its  classical 
meaning.  But,  with  deference  to  Mr.  Tew,  the 
Greek  Lexicon  is  not  our  best  guide  to  Low  Latin^ 
Bede  did  not  write  with  Liddell  and  Scott  at  his 
elbow ;  and  if  his  meaning  is  not  clear  from  his  own 
text,  we  must  look  for  light,  not  to  ^schylus,  but 
to  mediicval  Liitin  writei^  ;  and  our  dictionary 
authority  is  Du  Cange.  Bede  is,  as  Mr.  Tew  f^ayg, 
speaking  of  a  translation,  and  that  to  me  seems 
to  exclude  the  idea  of  a  grave*  The  point  of  the 
whole  b  that  the  bodies  were  not  re- interred,  but 
pi  aced  i  n  a  CO  tti  n  or  re  Ii  q  ua  ry  ft  bore  iffn  u  nd .  A  ud , 
tui-ning  to  I)u  Cange,  I  find  he  il 

other  meanings  being  the  vault  of  im  apse  aiid  a 
finger  ring,  both  altogether  unsuitable  to  the  pre- 
sent fm»age,  J.  T,  MiCKLKTewAiTK. 

Mr.  Micklethwaite  can  confirm  Ids  translatloa 
by  the  XV.  Canon  of  Auxcrre,  59(»:  *'Noiill«et 
itiortuum  super  mortuum  mitti." 

MAciiETS?;^!.  Si*  C  ^K  iAja«T\. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l5>^8.U.DK.5,7i. 


«  The  BuTTERFLT^fl  Ball  "  (5"^  S,  iL  327,  a52, 372, 
418.) — It  may  be  thought  tliat  the  iubject  h  more 
th&n  exhauflted  ;  but  aa  I  find  it  stated  by  S,  D*  S, 
(p,  418)  that  "  Mrs.  Dorset  was  UDdoubtedJy  the 
authoress  of  the  Butt^rfi^s  BaU"  I  thmk  it  right 
to  mjf  from  baving  been  personallj  acquainted, 
that  it  was  written  by  Mr.  Bobcop,  the  author l>f 
Lortmxo  tfc*  Medici.  I  remember,  too,  sitting  with 
him  at  AJJerton,  in  180S,  when  bis  son  Edward 
jokingly  produced,  aj9  a  apecinieu  of  its  popukrity, 
ft  copy  of  it  printed  on  ft  pocket  handkerchief  which 
be  had  bought,  the  day  before,  at  Chester  Fair. 

W,  M.  T. 

"  Aches  '^  (5«»  S.  ii.  68, 139.)— The  following 
occun  in  the  article  '^  Errata,"  in  the  ihriosUus 

''8wift'«  own  edition  of  The  CUm  Shov^r  hiA  'old 
w^hm  throb.'  Achei  i^  two  BjlUbles,  but  tnodern 
printerVj  yiho  h^d  lost  the  right  pronunciatiaa,  tii^Te 
acb^i  m  one  pjllabb,  and  then,  to  compiete  the  metTCj 
har«  foiitfld  in  '  hch^a  teiU  throb,'  ThuA  what  the  po«t 
uid  the  llnguiflt  wtih  to  pr^aerrc  li  altered  and  hnuUj 
loai" 

R.  Pasbin^h^m* 

LeTTBRH  by  "  Ak  ENGLTSIfMAX  "  (5'^  S.  i,  40S  J 
ii.  214.) — Umbra  says  these  lett^ra  were  published 
in  a  separate  form  by  Mr.  Bohn,  rind  I  therefore 
presume  that  the  foUowjog  pamphlet  is  a  different 
one*     le  the  author  known  f — 

**  Thfl  inT^ian  of  Hiigland  cotiaidered  in  a  letter  and 
poitEdript  to  til e  Time*,  dated  30lh  J&tmary  and  5th 
Februaryi  1S52,  containing  the  opinions  of  the  Duke  of 
Welliogion  aud  other  officers  of  diatiDction  on  thii  im- 
portant nibject.  Br  an  Englishman  and  Cirilian, 
[MottoeifJ    London,  J.  Kidgwny,  1852,  8ro*,  pp^  S5-" 

OLrHAR  HamsTp 

BiBLtCAL  Evidence  (5*"^  S,  il  228,  274.)—! 
possess  a  copy  of  the  work  to  which  Minugius 
probably  refers.     Its  full  title  is  \— 

'*  An  Examination  of  llie  Testimony  of  the  Four  ETun- 
geliss,  by  the  Rules  of  Evidence  Administered  in  Courta 
of  Justice.  VVUh  a.n  Acdotint  of  the  Trial  of  Jesua.  Bj 
Simon  Grecnlcafj  LL.D.j  ItoyaU  Profea«or  of  Law  in 
H  arrard  U  n  i  ¥  c  rsi  ty ,     Boeton,  1346,    S  to.,  pp.  5^13. " 

The  author  is  one  of  the  moat  eminent  American 
jurists,  his  Triatm  mi  ili^  Law  of  EvMenct  being 
ih^  authority  on  thai  subjeot.  The  compiler  of  the 
Afntrican  Biographical  biciionary  does  not  over- 
Btep  the  mark  when  he  saya :— **  The  beauty  of  his 
style,  and  hb  correct  expositions  of  law,  have 
placed  him  as  an  author  by  the  side  of  Black  stone 
and  Kent."  Gabton  de  BERNEVAli, 

Philadelphia. 

"  As  KOUND  AS  A  ROACHK  "  (5**  S,  ii,  274,  314.) 
— Me.  Walcott  asserts  very  positively  that  St, 
Koche,  and  not  the  fish  called  a  roach,  is  alluded 
to  in  this  saying  \  but  h  he  aware  that  the  same 
«ying  existi  in  French?  *'Sain  comme  un 
gaidoii "  is  literally  "  As  sound  as  a  roach."  How 
sue  we  to  Bccount  for  tliia,  coincidence,  except  b| 


some  iupposed  quality  in  the  £ali  ?  Is  it  likely 
that  a  samt  who  '*  is  usually  represented  pointing 
to  an  ulcer  in  hla  left  thigh "  would  hare  heett 
selected  as  an  example  of  soundness  ?  See,  li0V- 
ever,  Johnson's  Dictionary^  at  the  word  "  Eotch," 
where  a  different  speUing,  rochet ro^t  is  sng- 
geated.  K  M*C. 

OuertLBey. 

'^Kestbez-votts"  JS***  S,  iL  169,  265)  is  coo- 
demned  by  Bishop  Hurd,  who  writes  (as  quoted  b 
Latham's  Johnson^s  Dictionary^  **  I  kiiow  not  how 
[it]  came  to  make  its  fortune  in  otir  languag^e.  It 
is  of  an  awkward  and  iU  oonstractJoni  eren  in  the 
French.''  Richardson  remarks,  that  whilst  the 
noun  is  common  in  our  old  writers^  theyerb  fotmed 
upon  il  is  not  so. 

It  is  to  be  obaeired  that  neither  Latbam  nor 
Richardson  mentions  its  occurrence  in  Sbakspe&re; 
yet  it  will  be  found  four  times  in  the  pkjs:— 
1  Rmry  J?",  Act  it,  bc.  1,  line  57 ;  Utnty  F., 
Act  ii,  aa  1,  line  15,  and  Act  y.  sc  1,  line  76; 
HamU^  Act  iw  sc.  4,  line  4 ;  spelt  indifferently 
rand^uouSj  rendeuouj,  rsudtwtix^  and  rcudt^ouM. 

Several  examples  of  the  use  of  the  word  could 
be  given  froni  other  old  pkp  ;  for  instance,  Ch^ 
mail's,  Jonson'Sf  and  Marston^s  Easticard  Hoe 
opens  thus  :— 

"  Toit£kiion>e.  And  whether  with  you  now  1  what  loow 
actio  are  jou  hound  fori  come  what  eOtadai  are  yoo  to 
meeto  withal  ?  when  the  tapper  T  where  the  randeuooi?'* 
—Edition  160  S. 

Bpaek3  Henderson  Willi avs. 

EBOfliDgton  Creaeeot,  W. 

St.  Catherine  of  Sienna  (b^  S,  i,  387,  433 ; 

ii.  17,  77.) — See  Caiherina  da  Siena  (Sanda)  Dia- 
logo  d4  hx  Divitia  Frovidenlia^  small  4 to.,  fine  fiill- 
page  spirited  woodcuts,  Venice,  1494,  There  ia 
a  short  notice  of  her  in  Alexander  Boss's  Fani^ia; 
OFj  a  View  of  all  thi  Edigioru  of  th^  World, 

E.  B. 
BoatOQ. 

BtTLL  Baiting  (5**  a  I  182,  274,  312,  455  ;  il 
299,  39R0— ^®  ^^^E  ^  number  of  ballads  relating 
to  local  country  sports  and  pastimes,  Arroiger 
has  coUecLod  aisTcral,  but  hia  work  ia  vory  imp^' 
feet*  In  Craven  we  have  a  ballad  called  "The 
Wigglesworth  Hunt,"  which,  I  believe,  has  never 
been  printed.  I  have  heard  that  it  was  written 
by  a  Mr,  Holmes,  of  Sun  Hill,  near  Hatton,  in 
Cmven,  the  father  of  the  late  Mr,  Holmes,  sur- 
geon, of  Grassington*  By-the-bye,  who  was  Ar- 
ifiiger^  Is  it  a  real  name  or  a  nom  d^  plunuf 
Can  Olphah  Hamst  inform  the  readers  of  **  If, 
&Q."?  Stephkn  Jackbon. 

Tub    Eqetestrian    Statue     rnt     Leicestzi 

Square  (5"»  S,  iL  ^,91,  29B.)— The  ttntement 
that  the  King's  statue,  though  brought  ^m 
Canons  in  H^r,  was  not  erected  in  Jjeioettef 


0>8.II.Oic.S,  71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


459 


Sqiiaic  till  after  1754,  because  ifc  does  not  ap|>eftr 

I  the  pliUe  iti  Stow's  London  of  thiit  datei  is,  I 

Ink^  cm^neods  ;  for  the  plat€  of  Leicester  Smmrc 

1  the  fiixtli  editioD,  which  h  inscribed  m  **  Piib- 

*he<l  ace<»rilinf^  to  Act  of  Pajliamentj  1754,  for 

Stow'u  Surrey,"  has  the  statue  in  the  centre,  but 

not  frtcing  Seville  House  as  it  stood  forty  years 

Fago,  but  fusing  nortli-weBt,  so  as  to  be  seen  with 

most  advanUige  from  Leicester  House.     The  plate, 

iv'hfch  was  ati  oM  one,  has  evidently  been  altered 

br  the  edition  of  1754,  the  old  treea  of  Leicester 

iField*  having  been  erased,  and  the  iron  railings 

iftnd  statue  probably  added < 

In  LmidoH  and  its  EntHrom  Described^  6  vols, 
1761,  a  book  dedicated  to  the  Prince  of 
iTale^  [Geo.  IIL],  who,  it  is  stated,  then  lived  in 
ISaville  House,  and,  conseqaently,  next  door  to  his 
I  mother,  the  Princess  Dowager,  who  resided  in 
iLeict-ter  House,  the  statue  is  described  as  "Ad 
[Equestrian  statue  of  his  present  Majesty,  gilt," 
iTery  clearly  meaning  George  IL 

Edward  Solly. 


subscribed  10,(X)0?.  to  the  "voluntary  suKscriptions 
for  the  support  of  the  war."  His  celebrated  son 
was  then  nine  years  of  age,  and  that  son  was  early 
given  to  understand  that  he  was  to  be  neither 
farmer  nor  calico-printer,  but  Prime  Minister  of 
England.  This  book  demoastrateB  how  well  be 
comprehended  his  miasion. 


**  rcvolutiunitr 

1  meH^i'try    !'- 

Ml 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Sir  Roitcrt    Pttl :    an    lliittorical    t^etcK      By 
Henry,  Lord  Balling  and  Bulwer.     (Bentley  & 
Son.) 

IliORD  Palli^io,  or  to  call  bim  by  the  name  by 
Iwhith  he  is  better  known,  and  will  be  always 
I  remembered,  Henry  Bulwer^  furnished,  in  hi^^  Hu- 
\torical  Characters,  a  noble  gallery  of  the  portraits 
[of  noble  men*  To  these  is  now  added  a  sketch  of 
J  Sir  Robert  Peel,  It  often  happens  with  the  great 
I^Liuters  of  Art,  that  their  sketches  are  more  Htrik- 
lin^y  i ifc- like  than  their  finished  works  ;  so  in  this 
Icsfte,  we  find  the  rapid  outlines  convey  more  of  life 
[nnd  chani*^ter  than  many  of  the  elaborate  charactera 
I  in  thf  Hi«<t*^riCHl  Gallery.  In  a  few  clear,  vigorous, 
[well  l  chapters,  the  whole  career  of  the 

[]aU  lied  statesman  is  more  satisfactorily 

I  de*«'niied  I  iian  if  as  many  volumes  had  been  given 
I  to  the  work  a^  there  are  chapters,      Ifc  was  Sir 
''     '"s   destiny   to   have    to   carry  many 
h  he  had  formerly  denounced.     This 
_*-<...  ^  iiow  a  great  stat^man  may  honestly 
cbADge  his  opinions,  when  he  comes  to  understand 
I  that  **  [jarty ''  dcM33  not  always  mean  "  country," 
and  that  the  interests  of  the  latter  arc  superior  to 
1  all  jKirty  interests  \vhrit«oever.     What  are  called 
^ "  come  to  be  adc^pted  aa 
LiDst  revolution*     Peel  was 
1  ruan, '  and  not,  as  he  haa  sometimes 
'  the  business  gentleman."     He  waa 
t.     His  grandfather  "inherited 
;  ijut  one  hundred  pounds  a  year, 
IV) hi/  which  is  Btill  in  the  family." 
^randfuther  turned  trader  and  calico- 
j  J:r'  father  of  Sir  Robert  was  even  more 
I  prosperous   than  the  grandfather.      In    1797,  he 


Ihigiut  and  kit  Contemp&rariit.  (RiTiogtozis.) 
All  bioji^raphy  ie  deUghtful,  mid  this  story  of  Bouaet  is 
eminently  ao.  It  i:^,  of  course,  un  old  gtory,  but  it  baa 
the  cbarm  of  novelty  in  the  hAnda  of  «  new  narraior. 
Boflsuet  furnUhes  another  proof  of  the  fact  that  wi§o 
men  can  utter  very  foolish  thini?^.  Louis  XIV.  httneelf 
muBt  have  Emiiod  with  contempt  at  bearing  the  great 
preacher  thus  address  him  in  a  Heriuon  from  the  pulpit, 
**  Sire,  he  were  abhorred  of  God  and  men  who  failea  to 
desire  jour  glory,  even  in  this  life/*  fcc.  1 

Social  Life  in.  the  KuffUih  UnivtrtUia  in  th^  EiahUenih 
C*t^ttity,  Compiled  by  Christopher  Wordsworth,  M.A. 
(London,  Bell  k  Sons;  Cambridge,  Defghton 3: Bell.) 
The  compiler  of  this  admirable  view  of  Univer«ity  Jife 
has  masttcked  libraries  in  order  t<>  take  from  them  all 
he  needed  for  \\h  illustrations.  The  volume  as  well 
deserves  to  be  peruFcd  by  the  general  reader  as  by  Uni- 
veriity  men.  Nearly  seven  hundred  p«gcB,  and  not  a 
page  that  is  not  made  lively  by  an  anecdt>le  !  We  tnke 
one  grain  from  the  piled-up  measure,  merely  to  allow 
how  long  a  grie ranee  may  last.  In  1659  it  was  asked 
"  whether  the  Cattona  of  Christ  Church  ought  not  to  eat 
the  bread  of  Affliction,  &ince  they  refuse  to  cat  the  same 
bread  and  drink  the  same  drink  with  the  rest  of  the 
College ;  which,  indeed,  ia  so  bad  &a  nerer  waa  wone 
eaten  or  drank  but  by  the  same  Canons  before  they 
came  to  be  Canons."  Mr.  Wonls worth  sayi :  '*  A  similar 
question  was  asked^  with  no  less  Tehemence,  in  1S65." 

CaUndar  of  State  Paprrt,    Foreign  Series  of  the  Keign 
of  EliKiibcth,  1569—71.    Preserved  in  the  State  Paper 
Dep«rtnicnt  of  Her  Miyeaty'a  Public  Hecord  Office. 
Edited  by  Allan  J.  Crosby,  Eiq.     (Lonj^msn?.) 
Tub  above  two  eventful   years  are  productive  of  very 
important  iltii^trntions  of  life  at  home  and  abroad,  which 
are  here  catenJartd.     The  scenes  of  battle,  incendiar- 
itms,  hanging  and  burning  on  the  Borderf,  when  Mary 
Stuart's   fricndi   there  were   stamped    out,    and    their 
pleasant  homes  utterly  destroyed,  »rc  most  vividly  poar- 
trayed.      Perhaps  Shakspeanan  readers  will  think  less 
of  all  other  papers  than  of  one  which  h  thus  descnbed : 
**  Lord  Scrope  to  Lord  Burghlcv.     There  i^  one  Robert 
Laifiyr,  a  Scotchman,  servant  to  Mr.  George  Verney,  who 
has  brought  oat  of  b'cotJand  other  five  young  men,  with 
hawks,  and  would  pass  into  Warwickshire  to  the  said  Mr. 
Vernev  and  Sir  Thomns  Lucyo,  wherein  be  desires  to 
know  his  pleasure.     CarUale,  1()  Sep.,  1573/'    In  the  year 
previous,    Justice    Shalluw's    neighbour,    Shakipeare'^ 
father,  rented  the   Ineton   Meadow   farm  of  fourteen 
acres;  and  the  year  after,  1672,  SbaVipcare.  according 
to  Mr.  Dyce,  first  went  to  the  Free  School  at  Stratford. 

HtPaiVTs  A 511  New  Editioks  tempt  the  public  at  this 
season  more  thiin  the  usual  gay  and  glittering  volumCf. 
Mr.  Murray  has  juet  issued  new  editions  of  Mr.  J.  A. 
Crowe's  Ilandbonh  of  Painiing ;  Tht  Gmnan^  FUmiMk^ 
a?  -uid  of  biidy  £astUke'cJ  edition  of  the 

//  \/\q:   Tht  lialtau  Schools,  origiunlly 

ediL...   .  ,    ...    ...Aries  Eaatlake.      With   these  superb 

volumes  one  may  sit  at  home  and  yet  travcrtfC  famous 
schools  and  galleries,  and  be  intix)dueed  to  the  most 
renowned  painters.  Mr.  Murray  has  a>so  added  the 
fifth  and  tilth  volutneA  to  iVv<t  tV««^  ^ft^^A^wt^  *=::««*«». 


■i^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^  S.  II.  Dec  5, 74 


Bobertaon's  Hktarj  of  the  Chruiian  Ckur^  Vram 
the  Bame  haius^  wq  Iiiltc  tUe  Sit^ha  and  Sittdttt, 
Dacrtpitte  trnd  Jliiloncait  by  R*  J*  King,  B.A.  Tfa€«« 
art  reprints  from  poriodlcfile,  imd  ive  Ueartilj  recom- 
mend  them  to  oil  as  ecin»iftiBg  of  thoroughly  beiUtliy 
and  aUracdvf!  matter.  We  direct  esp^ciid  notice  to 
the  eicellont  retiring  by  Mr,  G«rtlo«r^  of  Paifiley^ 
of  Jamei  Uogg*i  Jac^^hiU  JUlm  of  ^k^iandj  hemg 
iJu  Sofi^s,  Airs,  and  Lfgeuds  of  tht  Adfi^enls  to  Ui€ 
ffoiisi  hf  SlufxrL  With  poetry  there  is  rousSc,  and 
wilh  'l>ot]i  illuitr&tire  hlstorf .  Th&rt  ii  a  fountain  of 
lAi^bt«r  and  h  fountain  of  teura  in  theee  two  chaining 
Tolumea*  The  reader  cloBe«  them  with  regret ;  and  they 
who  tnt  down  to  the  piatio  with  them  will  be  loth  to 
leare  soundm|  the  eeuoos  of  the  old  tanefut  J&cobite 
time,  Mudcal  echoes^  too,  will  he  found  in  Mr,  Tegg'a 
charinmg  ruprint  of  Croftcn  Croker's  Le^mdi  of 
Eiliamtift  ft  capital  book.  Header*  more  fleriouflly 
giren  will  find  what  they  require  in  the  reprint  of  ft 
curious  doTotiotiat  book^  The  ^infi  Travd  to  ikt  Land 
of  Canaan,  irhtrim  are  fitimvertd  SeivntteA  Fatt^  lUiU 
9hort  ttfiht  Sptriluai  Comiftj  of  Ckriat  in.  theSainti*  Thin 
reprint  of  WilkinBOTi^e  work  of  164E  ii  isgued  in  a  pretty 
form  by  Trijbner  k  Co.  What  may  l>e  called  &  eeadonable 
reprint  will  be  found  in  Mr.  W^  C.  HazUtt'i  Ftttti/  Taitt, 
L^gtnd$t  vk}\d  liomaneet,  Itlusiratiiiff  iSkaktpeare  and 
ot^r  Earl  If  Enplith  Wriiert.  TJ)Ji  work  forms  a  union 
of  Hitdon'B  Fairy  Tatet  and  Haltiwetra  lUustratwm  of 
the  Fairtf  M^ihoiogif  of  a  Midsumvur  Jffi^M'^  Drmn^ 
with  additjona  and  coTrections.    A  moat  amnaiiig  book. 


Epitaphs  of  Kentish  C Lunar.— Mb-  E.  H.  W.  Ddit- 
KUif  Kidbrooko  Purk  Koad,  Blackheath,  writes  ^  **  I 
ahould  he  glad  if  your  readers  would  kindly  fonmrd  me 
copies  of  any  epitaphs  in  thoir  [>ariBh  church  or  church- 
yard relating  to  th{j  clei^  who  hare  held  benefio<»m 
Kent  during  the  laat  hundred  jear^/' 

Fatjieb  PnouT.— Mk*  BLAscnAnit  JEftBOLDj  Reform 
CUihj  writes :  *'  I  am  prt?paring  for  publicatian  Finai 
Jl&liqueM  of  Father  Proulf  and  I  fihrjuld  be  much  obliged 
to  any  of  your  rcadtfra  wJvo  would  favour  me  with  any 
anted  etc?  J  ktt^^rs,  or  notes  of  tht  eccentric  ptidre,  Fer- 
bapa  you  witl  allow  me  to  make  tin  a  appeal  to  bookish 
men  throu^^h  your  columns" 

Mjit  TmiBtuuiiv  informe  us  that  he  hopes  to  edit  ild 
antobiograithy  of  Mr.  Backstone, 

C.  writes :— "  EniTSBFBGn  Uetiew*— A  writer  in  the 
Oentletaan'ji  Ma^asine  for  this  njontli,  say*,  '  JefiFrcy's 
ftftlary  bad  been  Y^iOi.  iv  ycfir,  and  the  edit<^ra]up  of  tlie 
Sdinhvffjh  iZffif'i;*  w^iP  thou  the  blue  ribbon  of  literature.' 
In  a  sketch  of  Jtdrev'*  BfejContributtd  shortly  after  his 
death  to  a  periodical  work,  I  stated,  on  auihority  from 
Edinburgh,  iha  followg  :  'From  1803  to  iSfMi.  a  sum  of 
200  ffuin«"9  WM  ^\vK\\  [by  Conattiblej  for  oditiuK  each 
number,  Tbo  account  hwiVn  are  ndssmg  for  three  years 
after  18(t9,  but  from  1813  oti  to  iS'itl,  Mr.  Jeffrey  is 
credited^ "  for  editing,"  7t*0/»  a  number.'  On  reading  thisj 
Lord  Cockbtim,  the  friend  aiid  biographer  of  Jeffrey, 
wrote  me,  '  I  consider  it  as  ce^rtain  that  the  21  fJ^.  and 
the  7(KJ.  for  each  numberr  left  the  editor  to  pay  the 
whole  writers.  The  nature  of  this  drawback  may  be 
judged  of  from  one  factj  that  Jeffrey  once  paid  1.000^, 
per  advance  for  articlea  not  yet  dreamt  of|  to  a  fllngla 
contributor,' " 


W.  H,  McftPttT.— See  the  artielQ  ""Qas.  rnanufaetmi; 
of/'  in  Enight'i  Cjfdopo^dia,  la  179^2,  JVlr.  Murdoch 
lighted  hlA  house  at  Redruth,  in  Gomwall,  mud  in  1791, 
the  shopa  of  Messrs.  Bolton  Je  Watt,  at  Sobo,  with  gjtt. 
In  IdO'I,  M.  Iiebon  proposed  to  light  &  portion  of  Pirii 
by  similar  tneftas.  Tha  B.  0.  (Allege  at  Btonjhuiit 
adopted  the  "new  light"  in  1307,  when  it  waialaaap 

flied  to  iome  lampa,  by  I^tr.  Winaor,  in  Pmll  Mail  fa 
810^  the  Chartered  Oas  Compiiiiiy  obtftEned  an  Act  of 
Parliament,  and  oa  Slat  December,  1S13,  Wettiuiiditf 
Bridge  wa«  lighted  with  gas,  the  pftriah  of  St*  Margaftfi^ 


Wr  would  remind  all  who  Itlindly  intend  to  contiilmte 
to  the  ClinjtmJti  Kumt^sr  of  *'ii,  k  Q^/'  that  they  cxa- 
noiforwfmi  th§ir  JlJoitrjitiTe  papers  too  txslju 


Weatminater,  in  the  following  year,  substikitiog  gpa  fof 
oil  throtigbout  their  district  In  18^0^  Fmu  f<^vid  lii 
eiample  thus  set  by  LondoD. 

A.  C.  n.— "  To  a  close^shom  sheep  God  gitM  wind  bf 
Dieaaure"  (Herbert  Jii^ida  Fr%dmtHm,  1640).  "Dieu 
meatjre  le  froid  k  la  brebis  tondue ''  {Hetiri  ^tknae^ 
Prtmicet,  1594h  Sterne*s  "  Ood  tempera  the  wind  to  tiks 
shorn  lamb "  [SentimiRtal  Jt?uTWfy,  ll^S)  deacended  ti 
him  J  thrtnigh  Herbert,  from  Estlenne. 

Pumc^— In  Longfellow>  workii  J.  T.  Bl»tef  that  tbi 
Lord  Petre^  who  waa  Grand  Master  of  the  Frtttmmom 
in  1776,  was  not  &  member  of  tha  Eoman  Gttbolk 
Church,  being  excoEnmunictited  by  the  fact  of  his  b^i^ 
a  freemason,  When  his  Lordship  censed  to  he  ft  taatim 
be  waa  reconciled  to  hla  church. 

T.  Frost. — You  are  at  perfect  liberty  to  make  nte  of 
the  papera  referred  to,  but  on  the  underatandiuf  that 
a  note  i^  made  in  your  forthcoming  work  to  the  dibct 
thftt  they  erigiasilly  appeared  in  "  N.  k  Q-'* 

St.  SwiTHm  remindi  ui  that  '*^t  Luke'i  tdttte 
Summer  "  duly  arri?ed  in  October.  Perhaps  some  Cana* 
dian  contributor  will  tell  us  hew  about  the  '*  Indian  Little 
Sommer." 

J,  M.  H.  — See  FapieofiK't  Dietioi^my  of  Coatt  qf 
A  rmtf  j  mt  completed* 

**An  AtrsTHiiM  ARStf "  haa  marched  And  coenter* 
mirched  through  "  K.  &  Q,,*'  till  reference  to  it  b 
wearisijme. 

E,  B.  aske  for  a  copy  of  VTarreo  HastingaV  Tervon  d 
Horace's  Otium  Bipoi  Ro^tiLi. 

QoLit  Haobour.— b'ee  General  Inde^tej  to  the  first  four 
aeries  of  "  N.  k  Q*" 

C,  A.  W,— For  Walworth  statue,  dagger,  and  haH,  sse 
Old  and  A'eip  London, 

W.  H.— The  inBCriptioui  on  the  Cadgcrt'  Map  hare  been 
repea^tedly  printed* 

hams  XYIIL— The  parish  books  would  iolfe  tbc 
qoestion. 

J,  G,— Please  to  forward  query  on  ''Ancient  GenJ^M 
Docunients." 

R.  Wins,  JcK.— See  "  NMt  Q,/'  ahU,  pp.  229,  313L 

LiBtsSA. — See  Murray's  Uo^ndbook  of  S.  Otrwusta^f. 

IV'aterlcxj. — See  the  WeUmfjftoA  Dupatdi^^ 

DiRTT  Dick.— See  }fot^irfnt  CAttrndery, 

Cue,  CctoKE  ("Serres  "),— We  htive  a  letter  for  yen. 
proTiCE. 

Editorial  Communieatlons  should  be  addreeied  to  ^  Tki 
Editor*' — Adrertisements  and  Hucuiesa  Liettera  to  *'Ths 
Piibliiher  ''—at  the  Office,  20,  Wellington  Street,  Strand, 
London,  W.C 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  return  coot' 
municationa  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print;  and 
to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  exception. 

To  all  communications  should  be  affixed  the  same  sixl 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  ptiblicatioOf  but 
ai  ft  guarantee  of  ^^ood  faith« 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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LOXDQX,  SATURUA  T,  DKCSUIlER  i%  isr4. 


CONTENTS.  — N«  50. 
KOTBft :— Tbn  8acr«d  Lotns^SL  Jobii's  Chjip«l,  Bfulford  Kow, 
Mid  tbi  Kattr  Er&figeUcal  CletKy  of  London,  4til— Anus  uf 

fHutMisM'^'BUach&rdiaeiiaUE^Iri^'-  ^'-^  Arabs 

la  1!^14 — KfcholM  Stone — Joui  ^  >n  and 

T«e*dled«e.  *  Pruich  Verdon  — <,  -Chrli- 


I 
^ 


QtfSEllfiS :  ^  Bishop  of  Uiui(UfT,  frmp.  Junids  L^Boiir: 
Brlflga— "A  Lone  Woman  "—Ho  rAhlic -The  CbQ«i«cake 
Houte  la  Ilj^ie  PaTk— Mijsalij  DotLjichQuiense  — PutllicAl 
SooQomf,  407 — "Tli«  Kafliab  teemef  a  foole,  and  ti  a 
fooifi"— Th«  Grienoi»  ol  Dublia^MurUMcm  in  Priyat^ 
Hotuet-^FcoAaoB  in  a  Wliite  Sheet  —  EILKabeth  Rhodet, 
Third  Wife  al  Thonit*  Wentworth,  Earl  of  StrafTord -t>tl 
PalatiDK -Halifax  Gfainmar  School— A  Curloiit  Wlab— "To 
MIsUma  MarkCarei  Htutef  "  —  **  tScotaagteitdath  "  —  Lord 
SftRjmore,  4Gi. 

BBPLIG^'OLiaUin:  ''Hoc  ol  dixit,"  Ac.  (SaMxtnf),  4«0— 
••What  U  a  Pooadf"  470 -The  Fight  at  Perth.  471  — 
"SMrill*':  "Slade."* 472 -Spelling  Reforms^Jt^ofraphlcal, 
4Ta^-*»l»«rtHlre  WiUs-*'La  parole  a  6t4  cloanfro/'  ire,  474 
— '' '  '       '  "    ^  "  -"Slogan  ";  "Kelplo":  "G  leu - 

Hi  I  Englund/'  47ci  -The  RotsJ  Veto 

—  1,  '?  Ms    Ifnte4=-C;tr.1f\T5  Welh  in 

<lark  to^^ 


"Topty-Titr^ 

rUn  of  the  A<  i 

—Edward  Mur 

Soti— Tames  Bayor^,  iiie  uariciiun^i 

Wcttwarti,  47a 

f  Hotel  on  Booki,  Ire. 


THE  SACRED  LOTUS. 

In   India,  Chiua,  and  other  Eastern  countries 

'     '    T   have  visited,  where  the  Bnihttiinic»l  or 

I    religions  prevail,  there  are,  j\.5  is  well 

fpnsn,    two    species   of    thi«5    plant   of    peculiar 

Lint<>rcsL     The  root  of  the  smaller  and  the  seedn 

larger,  or  tme  lotus  of  niytholon^r,  are  edible, 

>fonner,  however,  is  in3i|ifailic4mt  as  coinimred 

'i€  emeraltl  bucklens,  uod  snowy  or  rose tite- 

corolli  of  the  lutter ;  which,  moreover,  is 

ikable   for  having  a   curious   funael-shiqjed 

receptacle,   riiJing   from   the   centre  of    the 

OiHt  in  ihe  form  of  n  reverned  cone,  iwuttlly 

t  three   inches   bigh^   and   whose   sides    are 

tiy  e<|Uiil   to  the  diameter  of  its  disc,  from 

h  th©  Heeds  j*li;y;ht1y  protrude.     It  k  on  thiji 

^i£tti  fl'iwer  tkit  X'isbnu,  the  creator  of  the 

h   represented   as   enthroned, 

xi«t4*uce  those  auc^resiiive  ceons, 

'to  -1  rent,  corre^jx^nd  with   the 

i  of  th'  ;  hut   it  h  ot\ly  the  (letiikLs 

(lower*  nn  wiiuu  the  Hindu  god  is  seated, 

urr   viwblf,    iimL   appiircntiy,   not    without 


\dcnv 


lioQ   of    the    lotiis,   it    i^   all<iwe4i, 

..  ah  the  Aiyan  race,  which,  in  what 

Ue   eoiUd  lh<f  youth  of  mankind,  rmd  the 


book  of  Nature  with  a  spiritual  insight,  and  scarcely 
required  any  special  revelation  to  teach  it  that, 
perhaps  the  best  sermons  may  bo  found  in  stones, 
and  **  booka  in  the  running  brooks,'*  for  inanimate 
Nature  is  full  of  hieroglyphics  quite  aa  remarkable 
!i3  those  of  the  celebrated  Letter-tree  of  Thibet.* 
Yet,  the  '*  primrose  by  the  river's  brim  '•  may  be 
to  one  *'  a  yellow  primrose  and  no  more,'*  while  to 
another  it  is  a  note,  if  not  a  page,  in  the  golden 
book* 

One  may  in  fancy  picture,  at  the  first  flush 
of  the  Oriental  dawn,  the  prehistoric  Aryan,  by 
the  margin  of  some  A'4ian  lake,  breaking  his  fiuit 
on  the  seeds  of  the  wondrou?«  lily,  who8e  peltat« 
leaves  are  floating  on  the  still  and  shadowy  ex- 
panse before  him ;  and  contemplating  the  peculiarity 
of  their  exhausted  receptacle,  until  on  his  mind 
fliished  the  first  light  of  mathemattt:al  science, 
he  invested  with  a  divine  intei'est  the  circle  and 
equUateral  triangle  combined  in  its  form,  and 
then  gltjrified  the  fiower  whose  fruit,  hy  two  pure 
signs,  admitted  him  into  the  arcana  of  the  uni- 
veRe. 

But  In  Gourde  of  time,  to  veil  the  true  signlfica- 
tion  of  the  object  of  their  veneration,  the  early 
priests  tshowed  only  the  petak  of  the  blossom  Ut 
the  vulgar,  and  reserved  for  their  own  order  » 
knowledge  of  the  inner  and  true  throne  of  the  god, 

I  should  not  have  ventured  on  the  alwve  remarks, 
but  for  the  circumstance  that  I  am  not  aware  that 
any  suggestion  or  explanation  has  yet  been  offered 
of  the  caui*e  of  the  high  eiitimation  in  which  the 
sacred  lotus  ia  held  by  Oriental  nations*         Sp. 


ST.  J0HN*8  CHAPEL,  BEDFORD  ROW,  AND 

THE  EAELY  EVAKGELICAL  CLERGY  OF 

LONDON. 

This  chapel,  once  memorable  in  the  annals  of 
the  **  Evun^relical  "^  movement  in  the  church,  ho.^ 
now  entirely  disappeared,  having  been  pulled 
down  about  the  year  1859,  It  stood  north  of 
Bedford  Row,  in  or  adjoining  (rroat  Jame^  Street, 
where  scmie  new  buildings  are  inscribed  "  Chapel 
Street."  I  have  in  my  possession  a  sermon 
*'  preached  upon  opening  a  new  Chapel,  now  known 
by  the  name  of  8t.  John  the  Evungellf^t,  within  the 
Parish  of  St.  Andrew,  Holborn,  on  the  HUh  day  of 
Febniary,  172-2-3.  By  Natlmntiel  Mar^  "  '  D^ 
Preacher  of  the  said  Ch:\pel,  and  Ohn)  li- 

nary  to  His  Majesty,"  Loud.,  1727.     ii  irct 

of  the  sermon  is  **  The  Jewish  Syu  u  *  the 
Model  of  Christian  Worship,  or  of  \\  ui^^hip  in 
Christian  Churches. *• 

8t.  John's  Chapel  became  sahNffiitr-niTv  famous 
during  the  ministry  of  the  R*  1  Cecil, 

the  well-known  preacher  of  the  i  y      Him 

memoir,  published  shortly  after  his  decease^  says 
that  he  was  invited  in  the  year  l7Bo  to  turn  hiji 

*  Travel!  of  the  Abb^  llua  naA^.^^^tJo*^. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*aiLD»al2;7i 


thoughts  to  this  chapel,  then  much  neglected  and 
out  of  repair.  The  result  was  that  Cecil  took 
charge  of  it,  and  continued  to  minister  there  be- 
tween twenty  and  thirty  years.  Among  his  suc- 
cessors were  the  Rev,  Daniel  Wilson,  afterwards 
Bishop  of  Calcutta,  and  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Bap- 
tist W.  Noel,  who  seceded  from  the  Church  and 
joined  the  Baptists.  Speaking  of  St.  John's 
Chapel,  and  its  most  distinguished  minister,  the 
high-minded  and  disinterest^  Cecil,  whose  powers 
as  a  preacher  must  have  been  of  a  very  high  order, 
I  am  desirous  of  making  a  note  of  the  house  in 
Little  James  Street  in  which  he  resided.  This  is 
No.  15,  at  the  comer  of  John's  Mews,  now  occu- 
pied by  a  wine-merchant.  I  know  not  whether 
the  pane  of  glass  be  still  in  existence  on  which,  in 
this  house,  the  missionary,  Henry  Martyn,  in- 
scribed his  name  with  a  diamond  immediately 
before  quitting  the  shores  of  England.  If  any  of 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  are  interested  in  remi- 
niscences of  the  first  leaders  of  the  Evangelical 
movement  in  London,  let  their  feet  repair  duly, 
on  pilgrimage  bound,  to  Orange  Street  Chapel, 
Leicester  Fields,  where  Toplady  preached,  before 
Cecil  entered  on  his  ministry  at  St.  John's  ;  or 
let  them  seek  out  the  church  of  St.  Mary  Wool- 
noth,  in  Lombard  Street,  where  they  may  ponder 
over  the  grave  of  John  Newton  ;  or,  finally,  they 
may  gather  up  a  few  recollections  on  visiting  St. 
Ann's  Church,  Blackfriars,  where  they  may  read 
the  long  characteristic  inscriptions  on  the  tombs 
of  the  Rev.  William  Romaine  and  his  successors 
in  the  rectory.  Romaine  was  also  lecturer  of  St. 
Dunstan's  in  the  West.  It  is  known  that,  in  com- 
mon with  his  brethren,  he  met  with  much  opposi- 
tion in  the  earlier  years  of  his  ministry.  I  well  re- 
member a  relative  of  my  own,  who  was  one  of  his 
hearers,  telling  mo  that  he  attended  St.  Dunstan's 
Church  one  cvenin^^,  when  it  was  found  that  the 
churchwardens,  objecting  to  lectures  on  week-days, 
had  removed  the  lights,  and  the  service  was  with 
diflficulty  carried  on  by  means  of  a  few  scattered 
candles.  I  have  omitted  to  name  Thomas  Scott, 
the  commentator,  who  wrote  his  commentary  in  its 
early  editions,  if  I  am  not  mistaken,  while  he  ofii- 
ciated  at  the  Lock  Hospital.  Whatever  judgment 
may  be  formed  of  the  views  or  religious  opinions 
of  these  men,  no  one  who  knows  their  lives,  as  these 
have  been  written  by  their  relatives  or  friends,  can 
doubt  that  they  were  unworldly  and  disinterested 
in  the  highest  degree  ;  their  ministry,  as  in  the  case 
of  Cecil  and  Scott  (whose  lives  in  this  respect  it  is 
painful  to  read),  was  encouraged  by  the  very 
poorest  pittance  ;  they  did  not  seek,  as  assuredly 
they  did  not  find,  rewards  of  the  ordinary  descrip- 
tion. S.  A. 
•Tumham  Green,  W. 


ARMS  OF  ENGLISH  SEES. 

Canterbury.  An  archiepiscopal  palL  Grindal 
once,  and  Parker  upon  two  of  his  seals,  used  the 
arms  of  the  priory,  which  had  been  adopted  by  the 
deans,  az.,  a  cross  arg.,  chaiged  with  the  symbol  or 
monograih  of  Our  Blessed  Lord,  for  Christ  Chuzdt 

Bath.  Az.,  2  keys,  endorsed,  in  bend  simster, 
the  upper  arg.,  the  lower  or,  enfiled  with  a  swoid 
in  bend  dexter.  Church  dedicated  to  SS.  Peter 
and  PauL 

Wells.  Az.,  a  saltu»  per  saltire,  qnarteib, 
quartered  or  and  arg.  Cnurch  dedicated  to  S. 
Andrew. 

(Glastonbury.  Arms  of  the  monaste^.] 
]!bichester.  Az.,  Our  Blessed  Lord  in  majesty 
sitting  on  a  throne,  in  His  left  hand  a  book  inscribed 
"  Liber  Monumenti  coram  Eo,"  and  His  right  hand 
raised  in  benediction,  His  head  nimbed  ;  and  from 
His  mouth  a  sword  issuing.  Church  dedicated  to 
the  Holy  Trinity  or  Christ,  as  at  Canterbury, 
Norwich,  &c. 

Elv.  Gu.,  3  crowns  or  (arms  of  the  patron 
saint).    Church  dedicated  to  S.  Etheldreda. 

Exeter.  Gu.,  a  sword  in  pale,  arg.,  hilt  and 
ponmiel  or,  surmounted  of  2  keys,  endorsed,  in 
saltire,  the  dexter  or,  the  sinister  arg.  Church 
dedicated  to  SS.  Peter  and  Paul. 

Hereford.  Gu.,  3  crowns  or,  arms  of  K.  Ethel- 
bert ;  gu.,  3  leopards'  heads,  reverseil,  jessant-de- 
lys,  or,  arms  of  S.  Thomas  Cantilupe,  canonized 
1319. 

Lichfield.  Per  pale,  gu.  and  arg.,  a  cross  of 
Jerusalem,  potent  and  quadrate,  in  the  centre  and 
between  4  crosses  pattee,  all  count erchanged.  Pro- 
bably given  by  Bishop  de  Clinton,  the  Crusader, 
"ecclesiam  Lichfeldensem  erexit  t4m  in  fabrica 
quc^m  in  honore." 

S Coventry.  Arms  of  the  monastery.] 
Chester.  Arms  of  S.  John's  Collegiate  Churcb.] 
jincoln.  Gu.,  2  lions  of  England,  or,  on  a  chief; 
the  Blessed  Mother  enthroned  with  the  Holy  Child, 
both  nimbed  ;  in  her  sinister  hand  a  sceptre,  all  or. 
Church  dedicated  to  S.  Mary. 

London.  Gu.,  2  swords,  in  saltire,  az.,  hilts  aod 
pommels  or,  the  dexter  surmounting  the  sinister. 
Church  dedicated  to  S.  Paul. 

Norwich.  Az.,  3  mitres,  labeUed,  or.  The  see 
was  consolidated  out  of  Elmham,  Thetford,  and 
Dunwich. 

Rochester.  Az.,  on  a  saltire,  gu.,  an  escallop  or. 
Church  dedicated  to  S.  Andrew.  The  escallop  is 
probably  a  mark  of  difference  to  distinguish  this 
see  from  those  of  Wells,  Dumblane  and  S.  Andrew's, 
besides  being  appropriate  to  the  site  of  the  church 
on  a  tidal  river  also  famous  for  its  oyster  fisheries. 

Salisbury.  Az.,  the  Blessed  Mother  standis^ 
with  the  Holy  Child,  nimbed,  or.  Church  dedicated 
to  S.  Maiy. 

Winchester.    Az.,  a  sword  and  k^  saltienrise, 


6"8.  II.  Dxc.ia.Vi.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


463 


in  chief  a  in  It  re  of  the  second.     Church 
dedicated  to  SS.  Peter  and  FauL 

^  WorcuHt^r.  ArJ,^,  \0  iorteuux,  4,  3,  2, 1.  The 
bishop  celebrAted  in  the  presence  of  the  inetropo- 
iitaii  or  in  a  meeting  of  the  Ckillege  of  Bishops, 
To  this  service  the  ''Hosts''  refer.  Lyndwood 
cnlh  the  hishop  *' Capellamis "  in  the  College  of 
Bbdicps.     [Provinc.  p.  319.] 

York.    A  pall. 

C^irlt^le.     Ar.|  on  a  cross  sa.,  a  mitre,  inbelledj 
«r.     Anna  of  the  priory  erected  into  a  see. 

Durham*     Az,,   a    cross,  or,    between   4   lions. 
nviDp.,  iirg.     (Arms  of  K.  Oswald,) 

p.,ti,n,f^.k  of  the  New  Foundation  bear  the  old 

,  COn^  :  I [18. 

I  ....   ,.    i  .^ome  time  since  to  doubt  if  there 
TTcn?  ever  any  [)ortniit  of  Preater  John  ;  Butler, 
Heylyn'a  contemporary,  I  ought  to  have  remem- 
I  b<red,  auys : — 

'.  .  .  Like  the  mighty  Prestcr  John, 
Whofte  fftce  none  dares  to  look  upon, 
But  ia  ttreserveJ  iu  close  difligiii!<ie, 
From  being  m&de  cbemp  to  Yulgnr  eyof." 

The  Ladyt  Anttc^r  to  (he  Kntfiht,  L  277* 
Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walcott. 


i 


BOTANIC  GARDEN,  CHELSEA. 
Henry  Field  ^Tote  an  account  of  this  garden 
I  (Gilbert,  Clerkenwell,  1820Xand  it  contains  several 
points  of  interest.    It  says  that  John  Gerarde,  who 
wrote  the   Herbal,  had  his  garden  attached  to  hi-i 
hou^e  in  Holbom,  159(3,     Is  it  known  whereabouts 
t^iis  hou^e  was  situated  J  It  is  not  specified  by  Cun- 
ningham*    John  Tradescant's  wa.«^  the  next  in  the 
South  L.nnd>eth  Hmidi  on  the  site  now  occupied  by 
the  Nine  Kims  Brewery  (Timbs  says,  p.  50).     This 
I  has  given  way  to  the  railway  probably.     There  is 
'  A   euriausi  monumentid   tomb  to  the  memory  of 
I  Uxcse  Tradescants,  of  whom  John  was  ganlener  to 
I  Charles    L     Mr,    Field  al^o   mentions  a  botanic 

Siirden  at  Wc,^tiriinstcr,  visited  by  Evelyn,   lOtb 
une,  1G5S,  tmd  kept  by  the  botanist  Morgan.     It 
'  at  the  Apothecaries'  Society  purchased  the 
t  obtain  possession  of  the  plants  for  their 
den  at  Chelsea,     Whereabouts  wab   this 
[  gardi'ii  I   it  h  not  mentioned  anywhere  by  Cun- 
jiin;.')  ■"'  >>■"  Ky  Timbs. 

<  II  Fays  the  ground  was  leased  to  the 

Ai.  (\jriipany  in  1673,  and  that  it  was 

Field  gives  Charles   Cheyne, 

I  lieyne,  as  the  owner  who  leased 

It  to  tiie  bociety  for  sixty-one  yeaw  at  5L  per 

anniun. 

In  I  r»83  four  cedara  were  planted  in  the  garden 

npftr  th*^  river.     Two  remain,  Field  says  (p.  12),  at 

.  the  other  two  were  cut  down  after  about 

»  f>vnD'^  to  their  decayed  atJite.     In  1750 

Ujt)  iiiriMiied  IL  feet  in  girth;  in  1793  upwards 

of  Ti  fe<^t.     On  the  15th  August  this  year  only 


one  remained  standing.  Field  says  (p.  69)  that 
the  two  decayed  ones  were  cut  down  in  1771,  as  also 
same  Ume  and  elm  trees  in  the  *'  Officinal  quarter," 
as  being  injurious  to  the  growth  of  the  plants. 
The  trunks  were  sold  (p.  70)  at  2ii,  8c?.  a  foot,  the 
boughs  rtt  U.  4^/.  a  foot. 

When  Sir  Hans  Sloane  obtained  the  manor  of 
CheUea  by  purchase  in  1721,  he  granted  tlie  free- 
hold of  the  garden  to  the  Apothccjirres'  Company, 
on  condition  that  the  Professor  t^hould  deliver  to 
the  Royal  Society  50  new  plants  annually  up  to 
2,()(X).  Field  st^ites,  however,  that  Sir  Hans 
Sloane  received  a  yearly  rent  of  5f.  I  always 
thought  it  was  a  free  grant,  and  Cunningham 
states  it  to  be  so.  Can  any  reader  enlighten  us  as 
to  this  point  l  Does  the  Apothecaries'  Society  \)i\y 
anything  now  ;  and  if  not,  when  did  they  cease  to 
pay  if 

The  first  delivery  of  plants  was  in  August,  1T22 
(p,  33).  The  kst  recomed  delivery  was  i7th  July, 
1774,  the  fifty- first  annual  presentation  ;  2,550 
plants  in  all.  Field  adds,—**  It  is  perfectly  certain 
they  were  continued  long  subsequently  to  that 
time»'^  but  the  minute  books  of  the  Society  Imve 
not  noticed  them. 

Of  the  ^*  Herbori/.ing  "  excursions,  the^firat  was 
in  1633. 

There  is  a  clause  in  the  lease  that,  if  ever  they 
build  over  it»  it  will  revert  to  the  Royal  Society. 

William  Forsyth  resigned  his  post  of  gardener 
to  go  to  His  Majesty's  garden  at  Kensington.  He 
prepared  a  composition  to  remedy  the  diseases  of 
trees.  Is  it  known  what  it  wils  ?  He  published 
a  work,  1791,  Observatiom  on  the  Discase^y  IkftcUf 
and  Injuries  of  Fruit  and  Forest  Tixc^. 

A  useful  fact  is  recorded  (p.  100).  They  set  up 
a  pump  in  1315  to  supply  the  garden  with  Tlituiies 
water,  finding  that  Bpring  water  injured  the  planta 
much. 

Phillip  Miller  was  ap|)ointcd  in  1722  to  the 
garden.  He  published  the  Gardaifr's  DicUoiiary^ 
1731,  folio,  and  it  was  translated  into  Dutch, 
German,  and  French,  edited  by  Professor  Martyn, 
in  1807,  in  4  folio  vols.  Is  this  the  Professor 
Martyn  who  edited  the  O^^rgicSy  and  enriched  it 
with  excellent  botanical  notes  ]  Miller  left  a  hkrge 
herbarium,  which  w  fiis  bought  by  Sir  Joseph  Banks. 
He  wa.s  buried  in  Chelsea  old  church,  and  the 
members  of  the  Linneao  and  Horticidtural  Societies 
erected  a  monument  to  bis  memory,  a  cenotaph  in 
pillar  form.  Has  not  this  disappeared  ;  and  if  so, 
who  removed  it  ? 

An  Edward  Oakley  (p.  41),  an  architect,  is 
mentioned  aa  having  erected  the  buildings  in  1732. 
Does  he  give  name  to  the  present  Oakley  Street  I 
Cunningham  is  silent. 

Also  the  name  of  Lyall  occurs  (p.  1C>4),  of  the 
Swan  Brewhouse ;  and  he  is  permitted  to  open  a 
window  overlooking  the  garden  on  an  annual  pay* 
ment  of  5*.,  and  signing  au  a^<i«.\Rfex^Vft  OkS»fe^&**^ 


464 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


lf^8.ILDio.l2,74 


reauired  at  three  months'  notice.  Is  Lyall  Street, 
B^^nravia,  called  from  him  ?   Cunningham  is  silent. 

Mr.  Alchorae  (p.  70)  presented  in  1772  forty 
tons  of  old  stones  from  the  Tower  of  London,  to 
raise  an  artificial  rock  for  such  plants  as  delight  in 
that  soil ;  and  Sir  Joseph  Banks,  a  quantity  of  lava 
from  Iceland. 

These  are  the  principal  facts,  useful  or  curious, 
in  connexion  with  the  garden  which  I  find 
enumerated  in  this  rather  scarce  book  ;  and  I  hope 
that  some  readers  will  be  able  to  answer  the 

Sueries  which  have  arisen  in  the  course  of  jotting 
own  these  remarks. 
Can  anybody  give  the  origin  of  Milman's  Row 
and   Flood   Street,   Chelsea,   in    the   immediate 
neighbourhood?                             C.  A.  Ward. 
Mayfair.  

PARALLEL  PASSAGES. 
Milton  and  Charles  Wesley. — In  Paradise 
Lostf  Book  iv..  Eve  thus  addresses  Adarn : — 

"  With  thee  conversing  I  forget  all  time. 
All  seasons,  and  their  change ;  all  please  alike." 

In  Wesley's  Hymns  (1741)  is  one  by  Charles 
Wesley,  beginning — 

"Talk  with  us,  Lord,  thyself  reveal," 
in  which  the  second  verse  runs  thus — 
"  fViih  thee  conversing,  we  forget, 
All  time,  and  toil,  and  care ; 
Labour  is  rest,  and  pain  is  sweet. 
If  thou,  my  God,  art  here." 

V.H.LL.I.C.I.V. 

*'  Love  wil  nouht  buen  constreyned  bv  mai8tr6. 
Whan  mai8tr6  commeth,  the  god  of  love  anon 
Beteth  his  winges,  and  fare  wel,  he  is  gon." 

Chaucer,  Canterbury  Tales,  11076. 
"  Ne  may  love  be  compeld  by  maistery  ; 
For,  soone  as  maistery  comes,  sweet  love  anone 
Taketh  his  nimble  winges,  and  soone  away  is  gone." 
Spenser,  The  Faerie  Queene,  Book  iiL 
Canto  i.  st.  25. 
**  Love,  that's  too  generous  t' abide 
To  be  against  its  nature  tied  : 
For  where  'tis  of  itself  inclin'd. 
It  breaks  loose  when  it  is  confin'd 
And  like  the  soul,  its  harbourer, 
Debarr'd  the  freedom  of  the  air. 
Disdains  against  its  will  to  stay, 
But  struggles  out  and  flies  away." 

Butler,  Hudihras,  Part  iii.  Canto  i. 
G.  A.  B. 
St.  John's  Wood. 

In  one  of  the  old  visitors'  books  preserved  at 
Stratford-on-Avon,  Washington  Irving  wrote  the 
following  lines,  which  have  been  greiitly  admired ; 
"  Of  mightv  Shakspeare's  birth  the  room  we  see ; 
That  where  he  died  in  vain  to  try. 
Useless  the  search,  for  all  immortal  he, 
And  those  who  are  immortal  never  die." 
The  last  line  of  the  above  is  uncommonly  like  that 
of  the  following  translation  (by  Lord  Neaves, 
presume)  of  an  epigram  by  Pannenlo, "  «]W\idvvi^' 


to  the  story  of  the  Pythian  oracle  having  dedaied 
Alexander  to  be  invincible  ": — 

"The  ramour's  false  that  Alexander '•  dead. 
Unless  we  hold  that  Phoebas  told  a  lie : 
*  Thou  art  invincible,'  the  j^ftbian  aaad. 
And  those  that  are  invincible  can't  die." 

The  Oretk  AnOioUgy,  p.  7& 

Longfellow  has  be^i  praised  by  the  ciitict  for 
likening  Death  to  a  healer  of  pain  and  sonow,  in 
the  following  lines  iu  his  Evangeline : — 
''  And  as  she  looked  around,  she  law  how  Dtath  Ik 
consoler. 
Laying  his  hand  apon  many  a  heart,  had  kaaUd  Hfor 
ever." 

This,  however,  is  by  no  means  original.  In  the 
Anthology,  from  whidi  I  have  already  quoted,  the 
same  idea  is  expressed  or  conveyed  in  an  epigram 
by  Agathias : — 

"  Why  fear  ye  Death,  the  parent  of  repose, 
Tnat  puts  an  end  to  penury  and  painl 
His  presence  once,  and  only  once,  he  showi. 

And  none  have  seen  him  e'er  retnm  again. 
But  maladies  of  every  Tarjring  hue 
In  thick  BuccesMon  human  life  porsae." 

P.  107. 
Lord  Neaves  observes  of  the  above,  that 
"  iEschylus  had  anticipated  this  List  idea  by 
writing  of  Death  as  the  only  *  healer  of  irremediabte 
woes.' "  And  in  another  epigram  (by  Any  t^)  Death 
is  termed  the  "  kind  healer  of  our  woes  "  (p.  199). 

W.  A.  C. 
GlaFgow. 

"  That  beat  a  whelpe  afore  a  Ijonene  !  *" 
Sir  John  Haringion, 
To  his  Wi/e,  for  Striling  her  Dog. 
"  Euen  so  as  one  would  beate  his  offenceles^e  dogge. 
To  affright  an  Imperious  Lyon." 

Othello,  Act  ii.  sc.  8. 

George  R.  Jesse. 


"  Blanchardixe  and  Eglantine,"  1597.--In 
Mr.  W.  C.  Hazlitt's  excellent  Handbook  this  Oiird 
edition  of  a  Caxton  romance  is  not  entered,  and  the 
copy  of  its  Part  I.,  1597,  in  the  Hamburg  Libriiy, 
is  noted  as  a  whole  copy,  of  two  parts,  of  Uie  second 
edition  of  1595.  My  friend  Prof.  Wagner  sends- 
me  the  following  description  of  the  Hamboig 
copy : — 

"  *  The  I  most  pleasant  |  Historie  of  Blan- 1  chardine. 
Bonne  to  the  King  |  of  Friz,  k  of  the  faire  E^antine 
Queene  of  i  Tormaday,  (Sumamed)  The  prowl  |  Lady  in 
loue.  i  ♦*  I  By  P.  T.  G.  Gent.  I  At  London  |  Printed  by 
George  Shayv,  for  William  Blackwall  |  and  are  to  be 
Solde  at  his  Shop,  ouer  |  against  Guild-Hall  gate.  | 
1597.' 

"  Second  leaf  (A  2)— 

"  *  To  the  worshipfuU  and  mo^t  towardly  |  Gentleman 
M.  Wil.'iam  Peeter,  |  Sonne  and  Ueire  to  the  rig^t 
Worshipfull  I  Sir  lohn  Peeter  |  Knight.' 

"  And  fol.  2*'  at  end  of  Preface :— • 

Your  Wor.   at  commaund  ]  The.  Pope  GoodwiM 


It        "A 
I        «,Y 


5*  S.  IL  Drv,  It,  7<.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


of  bkocliAnline^  his  nor-  j  img  ftnd  Kli  bringing 

'  m  3)/ 

resign.  H:- 

**  *  ChJip.  V'.  I  How  BlftnchArJinc  haumz  rode  all  night, 
fomu!  ail  |  armed  Knight  sore  wou&dod  lying  on  tho 

*  Then  M  2  amX  M  3,  but  5i  4  is  not  raarked.    So 

aJflo  C  2  iuiU  C  3.  but  not  €4  -,  19  2,  but  not  9  3 

Lftod  9  4  ;  Ihetj  e  1,  e£,  e  3  (not  e  4) ;  then  dT, 

^#  2,  3  (ut>t  4)  :  then  G  (Latin  letter).  B  2  iind  #  3 

'-  '        \-\  the  lourth  leaf  ngam  being 

k  ;  then  Hi,  H  2  (LiUin  letter), 

jti  ..    r>MLiv  kriiic  ,iiml  on  what  ougbt  to  be  ft  4 

jthe  Btory  ends  with  the  following  remark,  whicli 

|U  printed  in  L:itiii  lettera  : — 

'*  •  Thu»  Gcntlomcn,  hai^l  abruptly  ftni«hed  Ihii  first 

?)arl^  i  it  I'll"  «•  "^li  •iCAmdveuturea  ivilh  the  true  cC.»tant 
t>uv  1  M«  the  proudc  Lady  in  louc :  which 

lif  it  ii  I  your  good  ffluouriu  I  will  verj 

[•honiv  uiuk^j     111'  ^ooond  purlc  1  rcAdictorthe  pft!»«c,  ia 
I  the  Uieanu  while  1  wigh  ye  well  |  Fiuts,' 

^i^yu.-    u   -t..  —consists  of  32  l<*Jive3,  in- 

Idu*  lo  itself  is  in  black  letter; 

I  the  -..X.  ,  ,t^,  io  the  t'lmptffs  (of  which 

Itbcrc  at-  r  21)  are  in  Litin  type;  the 

Injutilng  L.„....^   jf  each  pag:e,  *Thc  Historic  of 
IBhuich^rdine/  being  likewise  in  Latin,^' 

F.  J.  F. 

Street  Arabs  in  1816.— A  rcDort,  dated  Lon- 

.    I  ^16,  "Was  publihiied  by  a  Com- 

ring  the  causca  of  the  alanniog 

>pus«  iiiir  T >rl; Hi jiency  in  the  Metropolis. 

tn  Appeml      .  !  f      i**,  such  as  the  follow- 

**A,  B,»  imcd  13  y^ars,  Hi«  pareDta  are  liTin^-  He 
inu  but  for  u  ihoit  timi^  ut  scbooL  . «  »  This  boy  hts  beea 
IIt^  xttin  in  the  comu  i^^itln  at  crime,  and  been  im- 
inifODcd  for  three  ret  ui-vitc  ofTenccs.     tSftUenee  of  diotk 

•'I  H  child  hfts  been  in  the 

hriV  I  r  two  yell p<.     In  Cotent 

I'f  between  thirty  and 
,t  under  the  ?hcd«  and 


cu  liiumjht 
•  n  »cpftr»te 
Lhe  Houae  of 


Correction,  and  three  times  in  bridewell.  * 

David  L\  A.  Agx 
Wait^wn.  K.B. 


EW. 


A  deed,  dated  fvth  ^x\no^ 
hcfore  ine^  beio;^  a  mn- 

.,mJ  r.,,,,.  Tn, ,...;.    f.\.vi  .,f 


to  His  ilajesty.     The  ground 


TU^  Uii^  t^  io  tnc'ite  h  (  (bUcli  ietter). 


is  flescribed  as  being  part  of  Covent  Garden  aod 
Lon^  Acre,  or  one  of  thetn,  and  extended  bfick- 
wards  to  a  piece  of  ground  late  in  the  tenure  of  the 
Countess  of  Anglesey,  and  a  piece  of  ground  wh<?rc- 
in  the  stables  of  the  Ri^ht  Hon.  Pliilip,  Earl  ©f 
Pembroke,  then  Lord  (^harnberiain,  then  ^tood^ 
Hugh  Perry»a  coachmaker,  is  mentioned  as  havio^j 
a  hou*ie  in  Long  Acre.  Henry  and  John  Stone  are 
mentioned  ais  sons  of  Nicholas  Stone.  He  was  the 
architect  of  York  Gate,  generally  attributed  to 
Inigo  Jones,  of  whoni  he  was  a  pupil. 

W,  H.   LAMillX. 
Fulham. 

Joan  of  ARc-^The  following  epitafth  on  her 

is  to  be  found,  writes  the  author  of  Vunodtit*  of 
Litcratttrc,  in  Winstanley's  Huiorical  lUffiHu: — 
•*  Here  lies  Joan  of  A  iir :  the  which 
Some  coant  Mint,  and  some  ooant  ifitch  ; 
8oine  count  wti«,  and  tomethiDg  mirrt ; 

Some  count  maid^  uiid  Aome  a  ^ . 

Her  /'/e'ji  in  qucGticn,  wrong  or  right: 
Her  dmtk '»  in  doabt,  by  laws  or  laighC 
Oh»  innoeetice  !  l^J^c  heed  of  it, 
IJotv  thou  too  near  to  guilt  doth  *xi, 
(Meantime,  Frantt  a  wopder  iuw— 
A  woDxan  ru!e,  'gninitt  Salique  law  I) 
nut«  rouJcr,  be  content  to  itay 
Thy  censure  till  the  judgment  duy  ; 
Then  ^halt  thou  knuw,  and  not  before. 
Whether  tainlf  wM,  manf  ma»>/,or^.** 

FliEDR.  UULE. 

TWKKPUKDUM     A3fD     TWEEt>LKDEK,    A    Fll&NCU 

Version'.— Swift'3  epigram  on  the  rival  musicmtiM, 
Handel  mid  Buononcinii  in  in  every  jest-book. 
But  a  French  equivalent  for  it,  by  the  <*hevAlier 
dc  Ruthi^reSi  made  on  the  fami>U8  <iu.'\rfel  l>etweeii 
the  Gluckist^s  and  Picciniats  in  Paris,  half  a  century 
later,  is  lem  known.  I  find  it  quoted  in  a  not*  to 
Marmontel's  mock-epic  on  the  subject,  given  in  the 
rare  supplementary  volume  to  his  collective  works* 
Thus  it  runs  :— 

"  Efit-c*T  Gluck,  eet  cc  Piccinij 

Que  doit  coiirooner  Polymnie  ? 

r  1  lluck  et  Picciiti 

T  aite  eit  d^iUiiL 

L"i  t  ce  que  Tautre  nie, 

Et  CiiM  *eut  bttttre  Uranie. 

Pout  moi,  qui  cruirs  toute  manie, 

Plus  Irrtsotu  i       *'  ^    "'', 

N'5pou9ant  V  '-<^k. 

Je  n'y  conoAi  s  Glack" 

P.  Blahu 

Melbourne. 

Cybil  Tovrnettr,  — 1  have  ju^t  rwid  a  plny* 
colled  The  ^ff^nd  Matd't  7Va^«/v,  one  ot  the 
three  plajJ*  that  escaped  the  hands  of  ^V'arbu^ton*8 
gervnnt,  *  It  was  printed  in  1821  from  Mfc?.,  and 
tn  tlio  preface  it  is  stated  thut  the  authorship  of 
the  play  i&  unknown,  it  living  been  attributed 
BUcceiKively,  in  t^  »  Thomas  (Jotfe,  Chap- 

man, and,  in  a  1  .  rititv^,  Ui  ^WV*\w«^ 

For  my  own  TpsaX,  1  \>tX\t.\^  VXm^  \^s^l  ^»  Vw^\!««^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*  8.  IL  D«a  12, 74. 


written  by  Cyril  Toumeur.  There  is  much  of  the 
Websterian  element  in  it ;  the  same  sort  of  weird- 
ness  that  appals  us  in  the  Revenger^a  Tragedy. 
My  object  in  writing  is  to  ask  the  editor  of  the 
promised  "  Plays  and  Poems  of  Cyril  Toumeur " 
to  carefully  examine  this  pky,  and  if  he  find  reason 
to  brieve  it  was  written  by  Cyril  Toumeur,  to 
reprint  it.  Even  if  the  editor  were  not  thoroughly 
onn  vinced  of  its  authorship,  there  would  be  no  harm 
a.jiie  in  reprinting  it  ;  there  are  some  really  very 
striking  scenes  in  the  play.  A.  H.  B. 

Christened  at  61). — The  following  entry,  from 
the  fly-leaf  of  a  Bible  in  my  possession  (date  1599), 
of  the  christening  of  one  Mary  Cliaplin  at  the  ripe 
age  of  69  ye^irs,  appears  to  me  to  be  worthy  of 
notice  :— 

'•  Thea  are  to  witness  that  Mary  the  Dauthcr  of  Edward 
Chaplin  Carman  was  cristined  in  the  parish  of  Saint  gilsis 
without  Criplegate  London  upoun  the  25  day  of  March 
1638  as  apperrith  by  the  Kegester  Book  there  unto 
boloing  69  years  of  age." 

I  may  add  that  the  Rev.  J.  Stevens,  the  curate 
of  the  parish,  informs  me  that  the  above  entry 
occurs  in  the  Parish  Register. 

Granville  Leveson  Gower. 

Titsey  Place,  Surrey. 

Illustrations,  New  and  Old. — Happening  to 
come  across  a  publication  familuir  to  the  general 
public  some  years  ago,  I  was  nuich  amused  to  find 
the  manner  in  which  a  variety  of  illustrations  had 
been  used  in  it  from  previous  publications.  The 
following  is  the  title  : — 

**  Unabridged  copyright  edition.  The  Yelverton  Mar- 
riage case,  Thelwall  v  Yelverton.  .  .  illustrated  with 
portraits,  views  of  localities,  leading  events,  and  impor- 
tant situations.  Price  one  shilling.  London :  George 
Vickers,  Angel  Court,  Strand  [IStJl [,  8vo.,  pp.  191." 

Now  the  "  portraits,"  "  vievs  of  localities,"  &c., 
are  all  taken  from  previous  publications  in  the 
most  promiscuous  manner,  but  more  particularly 
from  the  fVdcomc  Guest.  To  one  who  recollects 
this  periodical,  it  is  exceedingly  funny  to  find  an 
old  familiar  cut  (vol.  ii.  p.  351)  originally  illustra- 
ting that  interesting  story,  *'  The  Finest  Girl  in 
Bloomsbury,"  doing  duty  for  an  **  important  situa- 
tion "  in  the  above  trial  (see  p.  185),— poor  little 
Ickle  and  his  bouncing  spouse  turned  into  the 
chief  actors  in  the  Yelverton  case  ! 

As  one  of  the  "  views  of  localities,"  we  have  "  A 
street  in  Tangicrs"  {Welcome  Ouest^  vol.  i.  p.  291) 
turned  into  **  The  street  in  Constantinople " ! 
(Trial,  p.  8J).) 

A  cut  illustrating  a  story  by  your  witty,  but  too 
occasional  correspondent,  Mr.  Sal  a  (vol.  ii.  p. 
351),  is  turned  into  "the  verdict  excites  consterna- 
tion," &c.  (p.  189  of  the  Tri(tl). 

An  illustration  to  a  tale  by  Miss  Braddon  (vol. 
ii.  p.  471)  is  made  to  do  duty  for  what,  I  suppose, 
11  a  "Jeading  event, '  namely,  "an  evening  party  at 
the  General's  "  (p.  6  of  the  Trial). 


Altogether,  the  most  amusing  and  unexpected 
results  occur.  This  kind  of  thing  early  had  the 
high  authority  of  the  great  Geozge,  king  of  ilhuh 
trators,  for  a  precedent ;  but  hu  etchings  have 
long  since  been  too  valuable,  I  belieye,  to  be  nude 
to  do  double  duty. 

*  The  above  is  the  Irish  trial  only,  and  the  illiu- 
trations  certainly  help  to  make  heavy  reading 
somewhat  lighter.  Olphar  Hakst. 

Oliver  Cromwell.— I  have  noticed,  in  one  or 
two  of  the  daily  papers,  articles  and  letters  as  to 
the  doubt  which  exists  about  the  fact,  whether  tlie 
body  exhumed  and  hung  at  Tybum  was  really 
that  of  Oliver  OromwelL  The  following  items  of 
information  might  be  interesting  to  some  of  your 
readers : — 

Walter  Cromwell. 
I 


Thomas  Cromwell, 
Earl  of  Ess'ix,  be- 
headed by  Henry 
VIII.,  1540. 


A  daughter=Morgaii 
t  WUliamt. 


Sir  Richard  Wi1Iiam8==Franc98,  d.  of  Sir  Thomai 
atsamed  name  of  Murfyn,  Lord  Mayor  of 

Cromwell.  London. 


Sir   Henry  Cromwell==Joan,    d.    of   Sir    Balplk 
ob.  1G03.  Warren,  Lord  Mayor  of 

London. 

Robert   Cromwell   of==Elitabeth,d.of  SirTboroaj 
Huntingdon,  oh.  1617.    Steward,  of  Ely,  ob.  16M. 


Oliver  Cromwell. 
From  the  Register  of  St.  John  Baptist's  Church, 
Huntingdon : — 

•'Anno  Domini,  1599.  Oliverua  filius  Robert!  Crom- 
well gener.  et  ElizubetU  ux.  ejus  natua  vicesimo  qointo 
die  Aprilis,  et  baptisatus  vicesimo  nono  ejusdem  mensts." 
In  1751  Dr.  Cromwell  Mortimer  possessed  the 
original  mason's  receipt  for  the  money  paid  for 
disinterring  the  Protector's  body.  It  ran  thus  :— 
"May,  the  4th  day,  1661.  Received  these  in  full  of 
the  WorsbipfuU  Serji.*ant  Norfolke,  fifteen  sbillingi,  for 
taking  up  the  bodies  of  Cromwell,  and  Ireton,  »wl 
Bradshaw." 

On  the  breast  of  the  corpse  was  found  a  metal 
plate,  on  which  was  the  following  inscription  :— 
"Oliverus  Protector  Reipublicas 
Angline,  Scotia;,  et  Hibemise, 
Natus  25to  Aprilis.  Anno  1599, 
Inauguratus  16"  Decembris, 
1653. 
Mortuus  3**  Septembris, 
Anno  1658",  hie  situs  est." 
This  plate  in  1737  was  in  the  possession  of  the 
Honourable  George  Hobart,  of  Nocton,  Lincoln- 
shire, and   in  the  same  year  was  shown  to  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries  by  Mr.,  Willes. 

J.  S.  Stapfobd. 


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IW9  mu«t  request  oorrespoiidcnta  dfiatritig  infnrm&iioti 
on  TftmUj  matteri  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
duum  tmd  Addrefscfl  to  their  queries,  in  order  thftt  tho 
UkBwen  nwy  h«  adilre^od  to  them  di]^ect.] 


Bishop  of  Llandaff,  temp*  Jathler  I. — I  have 
|ji  Btnall  18tno.  volume  of  Kermoiis  of  this  divine^  as 
quaint  in  style  a.^  Hiitrh  Latimer's,  and  as  full  of 
lition  as  Jeremy  Taylor's.     There  is  the  cus- 
j  dedication  prefixed  to  each  of  them,  and 
these  and  the  sermons   abound  in   curioiui 
bbloricjil  sujrirestions.     Thus,  in  the  dedication  of 
^raif€rs  Frcseri*ativt ;  or^  the  Priiux's  Privy  Coat 
►  Chnrles  I.,  tho  power  of  prayer  m  extolled  ; — 

*•  For  this  was  it  wh^ch  delivered  Hii  >I»jestie  from 
llhc  Oowric'a  coriiplracy:  this  thftt  hlew  away  tho 
l6i«niHh  fleet  to  8S ;  thiJi  that  blew  up  the  Gunnepowder 
^lot:  thif  thttt  blew  home  your  Hiifhnc^de.  when  you 
nk&dred  aa  a  bird  from  her  ne^t ;  And  thi»  Ifistlyi  which 
Btely  catchi  and  laicht  you  up  betwixt  the  stirrop  aod 
^tbc  ground;  and  which  ehall/'  kc. 

HoiT  there  ia  a  plain  reference  to  an  accidental 
tumhlc  of  Prince  Charleses  horse,  that  caused 
ome  talk  at  the  time.  It  ought  to  be  mentioned 
'  at  this  »emion  ha^  two  dedications — one  to 
[^*hafle«j  m  King^  and  another  to  Charles  as  Prince, 
*  explanation  Ymri*^  that  it  was  put  to  press  early 
In  1025,  and  King  James  a  death  occurred  before 
was  printetl  oH'.  The  dedication  of  another 
non  on  **  Tht  Earth's  Encrmse ;  ot^  a  fJom- 
nuhton  CufK  Presented  to  the  King^s  Most 
Sxcellent  Majesty  for  a  New  Yeere's  Gift,"  of  date 
|Ci24»  revealh  the  fact  thiit  it  was  a  fixed  custom  at 
at  time  for  the  Court  chaplains  to  present  each 
Fft  ""'^  f"  the  Kini?  as  a  new-years  gift.  The  good 
f  J  Llandatf  excuses  h imiself  on  this  occjusion 

._  in  the  usual  courtesy,  pleading  that  the 
ijity  ^'  of  his  place  prevented  liim  from  ottering 
^*ug  better  than  a   sermon;    but  he   slyly 
l^ll  letter  written  by  one  of  his   admiring 
to  the  printer,   which  concludes  with  a 
__  ily  wish  that  the  sennon  "  may  take  so  well 
ith  his  Majesty,  and  make  him  sognicious,  as  by 
next  new  yeare*s  tydc  to  inablo  the  Author  to 
nt  him  with  a  Cup  indeed,  reall  and  niassie/' 
in   a  third   dedication  to  the    Duke   of 
|iaghatu.  the  good  BL^hop  alludes  pointedly  to 
Qptjpuhirity   which    Prince    Charles's    com- 
n,  in  the  foolishly  romantic  journey  to  Spain, 
^ht  down  ujKjn  himself  : — 

'  A«  the  bc«t  Treacle  it  made  of  Vipers,  and  the  OiJe 

^f  s  ,,rn;  IT..  1*  .r,„.i  .i.*ui,t  their  ttinging,  so  God  doth 
ony  of  Merit,  and  Aoctama- 
i'Uth  of  Calamny.    Of  Buch 
n^jire  saivc  juur  1  rtdi  fc  iiuth  had  experience  tipon  jour 
■PPy  rcturnc  from  Spaine/' 

Wanted  further  inibnnation  touching  the  life 
nd  writing*  of  thia  worthy  Theophilus  LivndAn- 
luw.  D»  Blair. 

Melbourne. 


Bow:  Bbidgk,— I  find  that  bridges  in  the 
Someruet  moors  have  been  anciently  known  as 
bowB.  Thenj  are  several  bows  at  Burn  bam,  and 
there  are  the  Great  and  Little  Bow  Bridges  at 
Langport,  Although  the  word  has  only  recently 
become  obsolete,  and  it  ia  known  as  a  bridfre  in 
several  parts  of  the  country,  as  the  Bow  at  E«liD- 
burgh,  and  Stratford  le  Bow,  Essex,  I  wish  to 
know  whether  it  is  known  in  any  other  languages 
as  hynonymoun  with  bridge.  It  seems  to  have 
been  called  bow  from  its  likeness  to  that  weapon  ; 
and  in  the  case  of  Stratford  le  Bow  must  have 
been  introduced  there  after  the  departure  of  the 
Romans.  As  to  bridge,  what  is  lU  root,  and  when 
was  it  first  used  ?  The  Wekh  evidently  got  their 
pont  fron\  the  Romans.  In  Domesday  1  find  in 
Somerset  £r*<j7tV  (gene rally  considered  to  be  Bridg- 
water, Brvggit^  held  by'Walter  de  Dowai),  and 
Brigefordj  which  I  take  are  forms  of  bridge. 

TACTNTONlKKaiS. 

"A  LONE  WOMAN."— Does  any  one  know  an 
earlier  instance  of  thin  phnise  than  that  below, 
from  flv.  Lonclich  s  Huton^  of  the  Holy  Qrail^  ab. 
144M-.56  A.D.,  Pt  ii.  p.  245,  for  E.E.T.Soc.,  1875?— 

**  Ful  fain  wolJe  thanne  thia  ^jode  t|wene, 
Tiiat  liire  broihir  Owt  Of  p7Y»oi)  badde  bene; 
But  sche  WU8  tho  A  lone  womman, 
And  fill  litel  Heed  of  this  soho  kan  j 
To  fltryven  A^ene  hire  Barony o, 
B<he  ne  hiidde  non  itrewgthcCertemlie." 

F,  J.  K 

Heraldic. — To  what  family  does  the  following 
coat  of  arms  belong  (tinctures  not  known)?  A 
chevron,  the  upper  part  embattled,  the  afjcx  thereof 
surmounted  by  a  flag  (?)  or  key*  (I),  between  two 
mullets  in  chief,  and  a  sun  in  base.  Supposed  to 
be  a  Scotch  or  an  Irish  coat,  W.  M.  H. 

New  UniTcrsity  Club. 

Tqe  Chbesecake  House  in  Hvde  Park.— I 
have  a  curious  old  print  of  this  house.  On  what 
part  of  the  park  did  it  stand*  and  when  w^as  it 
demolished  7  George  Ellis. 

St.  John's  Wood. 

^Iias.4.LE  DoTiNCHEMENSE.  — In  the  Eech^io* 
lorfist  of  1853  (London,  J.  Masters)  are  printed 
two  sequences  extracted  from  a  MS.  Missal  then 
in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Horner.  This 
Missal  13  said  to  have  been  written  in  1446,  by  a 
priest  of  Dotinchem.  In  who«e  possession  is  this 
Miftsal  now?  W,  H,  Jaues  Weale. 

Bmgea. 

Political  Etonomy, — Where  can  I  find  an 
answer  to  the  following  (luestion  ?  The  approxi- 
mate number  cf  human  tieings  who  can  be  sus- 
tained on  the  produce  of  a  given  acreage  in  (1) 


•  The  impremiofi  of  the  feal  bearing  the  armf  li  to 
indistinct  thut  it  it  itnpoimblo  to  my  pOiiiively  what  this 
charge  if. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5«aiLDao.l%'74. 


Potatoes,  (2)  Wheat  or  oats,  (3)  Meat  or  grazing 
land.  I  belieye  this  calculation  has  been  made 
more  than  once  by  competent  authorities,  but  I 
have  not  been  able  to  lay  my  ]iands  upon  it. 

W.  R.  Greg. 
Atbennum  Club. 

"The  English  seemes  a  foole,  and  is  a 
FOOLE." — Whence  came  the  following,  called,  where 
it  is  quoted  from,  "  that  common  prOverbe  "? — 

"  The  Italian  seemes  wise,  and  is  wise ;  the  Spaniard 
fleemes  wise,  and  is  a  foole ;  the  French  seemes  a  foole, 
and  is  wise ;  and  the  English  seemes  a  foole,  and  is  a 
foole."— Thomas  Scot,  B.  D.,  The  Highvaies  of  Ood  and 
Oe  King  (162^),  p.  8. 

F.  H. 

Marlesford. 

The  Griersons  of  Dublin.— Wanted,  any 
source  of  information  which  would  give  the  names 
and  other  particulars  of  these  celebrated  printers 
of  Dublin  in  the  last  century.  T.  W.  C. 

Marriages  in  Private  Houses.— Since  the 
commencement  of  the  present  century  (though  the 
practice  has  now,  I  believe,  entirely  ceased)  marri- 
ages among  the  nobility  have  been  frequently  cele- 
brated in  their  own  mansions,  and  in  the  evening. 
Were  such  marriages  registered  in  the  registers  of 
the  parishes  in  which  they  took  place  ;  if  not, 
where  can  evidence  of  such  marriages  be  found  ? 

M.  J. 

Penance  in  a  White  Sheet. — What  is  the 
most  recent  instance  of  this  penance  being  publicly 
performed  in  this  country  under  sentence  of  any 
Ecclesiastical  Court  ?  I  have  lately  met  with  an 
instance  of  its  bein<r  ordered  in  1816,  but  whether 
the  parties  obeyed  the  law  I  have  been  unable  to 
ascertain.  I  have  been  told  that  about  the  year 
1842  this  penance  was  performed  by  a  bargee  in  a 
church  in  Cambridgeshire,  when  a  number  of  his 
brother  bargees  attended,  and  the  result  was  a  riot 
and  great  injury  to  the  church.  M.  N.  S. 

Elizabeth  Rhodes,  Third  Wife  of  Thomas 
Wentworth,  Earl  of  Strafford. — Can  you 
furnish  me  with  any  particulars  concerning  her  not 
contained  in  the  various  lives  of  her  husband? 
The  points  I  particularly  desire  information  on  are 
as  follows:  (1)  The  exact  social  position  of  her 
family ;  (2)  Whether  there  is  any  portrait  of  her 
extant  except  that  exhibited  in  the  National 
Gallery,  Kensington  Museum  ;  (3)  Whether  any 
letters  or  diary  of  hers  still  exist ;  (4)  Any  par- 
ticulars of  her  life  after  the  death  of  her  husband. 

Francesca. 

Oil  Painting. — I  have  an  •  old  oil  painting 
(portrait  of  a  lady),  and  on  it  is  the  following  in- 
scription :  "  Isabella  Da  RouxseUe  De  Grancay 
Dame  Da  Tour  De  La  Reine  D'espagne."  It  a]>- 
pears  she  was  a  lady  of  honour  to  a  queen  of 


Spain.  I  shall  take  it  as  a  vcsry  great  &voar  if 
jou  will  give  me  anj  information  as  to  the  time 
m  which  tne  qaeen  lived,  or  anything  pertainiog 
to  the  lady  herself  so  as  to  form  some  idea  of  the 
age  of  the  picture.  Wic.  Gbavht. 

Halifax  Grakmar  School. — ^The  seal  of  this 
school  has  on  it  an  open  book  with  a  rose  shore  it 
and  a  portcullis  below,  with  the  date  IC^.  The 
words  on  the  book  are  "  Qui  mihi  discipnlns  poem 
cupis  atq."  I  should  be  obliged  if  any  one  would 
interpret  the  above^  and  stete  the  source  from 
which  it  is  derived,  if  a  quotation. 

Thomas  Cox,  MJL 

A  Curious  Wish. — 

'*  A  very  singular  accident  happened  last  mtk  in  8t 
James's  Park.  A  good,  decent-looking  woman  wii  ob- 
serred  by  the  gatekeeper  to  be  walking  ba^wird  and 
forward  by  the  garden  wall  for  aboTe  an  honr,  k>okh)g 
very  melancholy ;  the  man,  perceiring  she  was  big  with 
child.  Tery  ci?illy  spoke  to  her,  and  uked  her  wluil  die 
wanted.  After  some  hesitation,  she  told  him  that  ihs 
had  come  out  of  the  comitry,  and  coald  never  return  to 
her  family  with  any  peace  and  auiet*  unlea  she  vu 
permitted  to  kiss  the  King's  hand.  Upon  which  the 
gatekeeper,  with  a  great  deal  of  good  nature,  applied  to 
one  of  the  Pages,  who  took  an  opportunity  of  representiiig 
her  case  to  His  Majesty,  who  very  compmsionstriy 
ordered  her  to  be  sent  for,  granted  her  request,  and  m- 
missed  her  with  a  handsome  present." — The  LadU^ 
Magazine,  Saturday,  FeU  3, 1753. 

Was  this  superstition  then  common  to  ladies 
in  that  condition,  or  only  the  "  longing  "  of  tiiis 
particular  one  1  Quiris. 

"  To  Mistress  Margaret  Husset." — 
"  Meny  Margaret, 
As  midsummer  flower,"  kc. 

Who  was  the  author  of  this  poem  ?  Mr.  Locker, 
in  his  Lyra  Ehgantiarxim^  attributes  it  to  Skel- 
ton,  but  gives  no  authority  for  so  doing.  In 
Dyce's  adniirablc  edition  of  Skelton  it  is  not  to 
be  found  ;  neither  in  the  Works^  nor  in  the  Ex- 
airqAcs  of  the  Metre  called  Skeltontcal,  nor  in  the 
Poems  Attributed  to  Skelton,  It  can  scarcely 
have  been  unknown  to  Mr.  Dyce,  and  therefore 
his  omission  of  it  would  argue  a  different  author- 
ship. Perhaps,  however,  some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
may  be  able  to  settle  the  matter.  C.  D. 

"  ScoTAKGTENDATn." — In  a  list  of  burials  I 
have  received  from  Barbadocs,  the  above  name 

occurs,  1687,  as  wife  of .     Can  you  throw  any 

light  on  it  ?     To  what  nation  does  it  belong  ? 

Lord  Barrymore. — Can  you  refer  me  to  any 
story,  romance,  or  anecdote,  in  connexion  with  the 
above-named,  wMth  regard  to  some  injustice  done 
by  him  to  some  one  to  whom  he  had  granted  a  leaae, 
either  of  his  property  at  Wargrave,  on  the  bonks  of 
the  Thames,  or  elsewhere  ?  Clarrt. 


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I 


[CATtriiLUS:  "HOC  UT  DIXIT."  &c  (SKEEZING), 
(3"»  S.  ii.  396,  420.) 
LoRB  LriTELTos^  is,  aa  might  be  anlicipated, 
pcffccU^r  rurlit  fis  to  the  absurdity  of  the  paren- 
,  ibeeis^  h  lajudis  calami  for  which!  am  iinahle  to 
I  aocouat,     m^kerville  (1772)  punctuates  thus  :— 
*'  Hoc  at  dixit»  Amor  Binistrnm,  ut  uite 
Dextrnm  itemuit  approLmitiuiiem/' 
kPiOtticr (16:25,  ParisLis,  apud  MalepejTe)  punctuates 

**  Hoe  ut  dixit.  Amor,  BmiBtraui  ut  aute^ 
Pextrjm  «t«rauit  approbatiooein." 

It  ElliR,   our    latest    editor  (186C,    Mac- 
1^^   |...,...t,..>f^^  ditFerentlj  from  cither,   and 
gl?a  «i!  I  ng  of  the  text  : — 

'  ,^.^  .^>  .;sit,  Amor  siniatra  ut  antej 
i^exrriim  »tcmuit  ftpprDbfttionem/' 

Tene  tr&iiskitors  of  go  ters^  a  poet  as  OattiUus  me 
Boi  likely  to  give  us  any  help.     I  pLi€e  together 
I  have  ut  haud,     iieor^  Lnjiib  :— 
*'L&re,  before  who  uttervd  atill 
On  the  left  bund  i*meni  ill, 
As  he  ceajG^d  his  faith  to  plight, 
Laughed  propitious  on  the  right." 
Sir  Charles  Elton  :— 

"Ijotc  Btood  listening  in  delight, 
And  sneexcd  hi  a  &ojrptce  on  the  right/' 
Leigh  Hunt  :— 

•'  He  Bttid  *  and  Lofre  on  tiptoe  neur  him, 
Kijjd  at  Inut,  and  come  to  cheer  Him, 
Clapped  hU  Ittttc  bandj  io  hear  him." 
Theodore  Martin  :— 

"  Ai  thuf  he  whispered,  Lb^e  was  pTeued, 
And  on  the  right  propiliotis  raeezed/' 
Kobinson  Kllis  : — 

'*  Sciirce  be  ended,  upon  the  right  did  eag«r 
LoTO  fneese  amity;  *tw&9  before  to  leftward/' 

Finally.  KollyV  prose    tranalatioti  (Bohn,  1854) 

Wh»»n  lit'  «3ii,l  f}n«  l^ovri  vrhn  hnd  tooked  upon  him 

1y  from  the  right/' 
nn  as  tilt?  ide^i  of 
the  it  perplexes  mc.    Lord  Ltttklton's 

the  r  Love  **wrt*  favourable  throughout 

the  it((»^(uevv  '*  is  n  buppy  ^u^i^o^tion  ;  yet  clearly 
Gatnlius,  who^**  nHghti'Kt  touches  are  significant, 
meant  somcthbig:  feyond  thi«.  I  think  Landor's 
nctff  on  tbc  paasage  is  in  his  Last  Fruit /rom  an 
iJiii  Trtf;  the  only  work  of  his  I  do  not  noesess  ; 
imd  1  hnvo  an  iuipregsion  that  the  explanation 
(^hich  1  cannot  rt'collect)  cnrnc  ont  in  a  ronvefia- 
tioo  or  correspondence  bcrwtLn  Landor  and 
"Tjfo«;;h«uj.  MoRTisTER  Collins, 

Kmiwl  Hill,  Bcrki. 

In  the  "V 

Ito,,  whmu  T  1^ 

r>n    '  '■.  "  ^uu  u^jUa  Lir.t  umniuiii  ad 

butJ  :  untruiu,  tirrjginem  recensert," 


&c.    The  annotator  then  refers  to  **  Propertius, 
Lib.  ii.,  Ele.  iii.,  v.  23/' 

**  Num  tibi  nascent!  primis,  mea  Tita,  diebui 
Aridug  ftrguium  stern uit  omen  Amorl" 
And   adds,   "Amor,  eci licit  utrinqu©    Btemueas 
quiip  ab  eo  dicta  uunt  coniprobavit/' 

In  the  variorum  edition  of  Plautns,  Fteudolmj 
Act  i.  sc.  L  h  105,  is  the  following  note  ; — 

"  Ominandi  sciontia  ft  veteram  iuperttitione  dili- 
genter  culta  fuit ;  q^nm  KX^^ovJffriitijt^  rocahant. 
QuxhI  AuHoniuB  nit,  ejus  tres  species  esse,  non  dobito 
quin  ha?  fuerlnt  trrof/i^Ct  iroX/i<<c  et  tinnitus  aum, 
De  stemutattone  niulti,  ut  iVopertius"  —  loc.  cU. 
*'Cdjus  omioationis  soticitudinom  cum  deprecabantur 
GnRci  dicebant.     Ztv  ffuxror,"  Ac 

The  two  lines  quoted  by  Mr.  Collins  occur 
twice  in  the  graceful  ode  of  Catullus.  They  are 
printed  in  my  edition — "  Cantabrigisc  Tyjiis  Aca- 
demicis.  Impensia  Jacobi  Tonson,  Bibliopol«e> 
Londini,  mdccil" — thus  : — 

*^  Hoc  ut  dixit.  Amor  tinistrnm,  at  ante 
Dextram  stemuit  approbationein." — V*  0, 
First,  after  the  endearing  worda  of  Septimius,  and 
again,  v.  17,  after  the  response  of  Acme. 

The  poet  imagines  "  Love"  standing  by  and  wit- 
nessing the  dalliance  <if  the  lovera,  his  deroteefl, 
and  testifying  hia  full  approval  of  their  ardent 
language  by  the  accepted  omen ;  tkkkd  jxirhapfi 
by  his  own  myfsteries.  The  words  ut  ante  form  the 
only  difficulty.  May  not  the  notion  be  that  the 
bti^jy  god  gftve  the  first  token  on  the  Hght  hand  at 
the  lueettDg  of  the  lovers,  and  then  repeated  it  on 
the  kfl  when  each  in  trorek  of  rapture  confessed 
his  power  ? 

May  I  add  this  to  the  **  farrago  of  conjectureB^t 
Herbert  Eaitdolph. 

Ringtnore. 

In  the  Aldine  edition  of  Catullus  (m.d.l,viil) 
and  some  others  of  an   early   date,  the  passage 
quoted  by  Mr.  Collins  is  given  with  a  different 
construction  and  punctuation,  riz. : — 
**  Hoc  ut  dixit,  Amor  Mniatra,  ut  ante 
Dextra,  stcrnuit  ftpprobfttioue/* 
And  Mnretua  has  tbh  comment  on  the  passage : — 
"  Cam  Septimiua  ardorem  amoris  In  Acmen  sai  rcrbis 
iipcruii»8it ;   Cupido,   ait    Catullus,  utrinque    stemuons, 
qum  ab  eo  dictn  erant,  comprobavit     Inccrtum  nutem 
ett,  ex  utra  parte  prius  sternulBse  Amorem  dicat,  aunt 
cnim,  qui  ita  diittngttant. 

Amor  sinistra,  ut  ante 
Pextra,  sternuit  approbatioae.* 
alii  ita, 

flinistra  ut  ante, 
Dextra  atemait  approbatione* 
Porro  reteret  ftemutationem  medium  mioddam  omen 
eB»e  H<-i>fh^!'i^<intur,  id  est,  quo  modo  bofii  aliqatd,  modo 
UK'  :  retur:  at  annotont  interprolM  ThAOcrUl 

iii  ,  *  exj  Thalyfiiis, 

Sijt4ij^u\i  flit'  *p«ric  i^iifrpa^ov,  r)  yAp  /*  itiX^c 


*  As  in  the  text. 

f  lii^fi  rii.  TV,  i^6-7.   The  paMft^wCtrtsAViVi^^ 


470 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEa. 


[6'8.ILDk.U.74. 


^'  E^Bp&ae  autem  in  b{}iiiLm  partem  accipiflbatnTi  V^^f^- 
cipne  wi  quia  dextroriQtn  eUruumti,  ut  in  Tti.  Ilmdai 
annotftir  Eufitdtbma  fi^QervK  itaquc  OJ,va^«ae  liiii.*  Pene- 
lope ^  8t«rnu(atiune  lc!emachi,giiudio  pflrfundituJ'j  qii«m 
in  |Q€um  iJcm  intcrprea  satis  mulitk  eid  baac  rem  per- 
tineutm  eon  gent :  et  apud  eum^  (pern  supra  nomitiiTi, 
TheocrUuia  in  UekaeH  epithalamio  ista  ponmitur : 
OX^u  yafi^p*  AyaSfoQ  rt^  ifttwtapiv  Ipxojaivi^  T^t 
'Eq  ffiraprav,  {IdylL  iviii,  vv.  16-7.) 

g«d  et  illud  PrcpGiiii  qod  olienum  est. 

Nnm  tibi  tiajk^entij  pritnis,  mea  vita,  dicbiis^ 

Aridus^  argtitum  sterault  omen  Amor1| 
qn«m  in  locum  plum  dkeinusj  cum  eum  pfietam  interpre- 
tabimur/' 

Which  pTOmise,  by  the  waj,  the  le4iniDd  eom- 
mentator  forgot  to  keep. 

From  the  AidiJie  reading  of  the  poss^ige  in 
Catiillus  it  would  seem  that  sneering  on  both  sides 
was  considered  a  fayoutuble  otncn  ;  from  the  other 
reading  spoken  of  by  Muretua  and  adopted  by 
Liter  editors  (the  cose,  whether  accukitive  or 
ablatirej  does  not  Beem  to  be  of  much  conaequence)t 
the  meADing  appears  to  be  thnt  Amor,  who  had 
beforfij  aa  an  ill  omen,  sneered  t<j  the  left,  now 
Bneezed  favourably  to  the  right,  A  difficulty, 
howevcTj  lies  in  this  interpretation  m  to  the 
meaning  of  the  word  (ippTohatio  j  m  an  ill-omened 
approToli  shiistra  approbatiCf  would  bo  a  Btmnge 
expreislon.  The  difhculty  might  be  got  over  if  the 
word  might  be  talc  en  to  moan  only  tcsHmofiy^  but 
there  does  not  appear  to  be  any  authority  for  this 
interpretatLon,  It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that 
the  poem  is  ironicaL 

Elton  in  the  only  one  who  has  had  the  courage 
to  retain  the  snce^nrj^  which  probably  the  other 
two  poct3  thouf^ht  low  and  vtdgar ;  but  then  be 
entirety  misHes  the  point  of  the  god  having  before 
given  the  omen  on  the  left.  T,  J.  A. 

I  trauacribe  Mr.  EUis'g  traniilatiou  of  CatuUuF^ 
xlv,  B,  f>  (reading,  as  he  doej^,  mmstnt  for  ^inis- 
tram)  i- — 

"  Seircfl  lie  endeij,  upon  tbe  right  did  eager 
Lore  buccxg  amltj ;  'twas  before  to  leftward." 

The  meaning  sec  ma  to  be  that  after  the  mutual 
decUmtiona  of  love  on  the  part  of  Septimius  and 
AcTUOf  Love  gave  them  a  prosperous  omen  by 
Fnee^ing  on  the  right  hand,  though  he  had  before 
shown  him&clf  unfavounLble  by  imee/ing  on  the 
left*  Sneezing  in  itself  did  not  constitute  either  a 
good  or  bad  omen,  this  being  decided  by  the 
attendant  cireumstancefl,  as  here  by  the  quarter 
from  which  the  sneeze  came.  If  we  read  siniitnnn 
(for  uniHra)  there  is  a  ditficulty  aa  to  how  appro- 
hat  to  of  any  kind  cJin  be  termed  Binutra.  Doering, 


Wthtebs,  ante,  p.  353.    The  ecboliitst  on  it  may  be  con- 
■ulted  yilih  advautago^ 

*  This  i«  a  miaprint  forx?ii*  mc.  v.  611,  cf  gtq^  referred 
to  by  Mn.  FtcKfORD,  aniSf  p.  122,  on  which  Eustatbius 
has  a  ooromoDt, 

f  Var.  hd.  Aureus. 
/  Uh.  !L  El  ill  23'i 


who  does  read  tinUirafit^  says,  ^^8Umum'€  dus^srvm 
approhationan  est  omen  faustum,  n»uf ram  appFO- 
Imiiontm  omen  iiifan^tum  stemuendo  pmidicen.^ 
He  also  adds,  'VMemorablle  est,  quod  Amoc 
sinitiTam  quoque  appr^Hiiuyn^m  sternuiBaa  did- 
IVLT,"  This  is  not  a  eatisfaetory  expUn&Lion,  md 
I  should  be  glad  if  an^  one  can  suggest  a  bkier, 
supposing  the  r^eading  nnts^iam  be  adopted.  Bui 
I  believe  sinisird  to  be  the  true  on^. 

C,  S.  J« 


Bee  lyisraeli'a  VuruintiiM  of  Xiterohtre,  pi  4^ 
edition  1866  (Eontledge),  the  paeoage  oommenciiii, 
"  Oatuiius,  in  his  pleasing  poem/'  &e, 

Frede:.  BnLE> 

Surely  Lord  JjYTpeltqtx  miitwkes  the  meMing 

of  ivun'vpLoi  when  he  conniden  it  &  proof  that  the 
ancients  thought  the  left  hand  Inckj.  It  as^  oa 
the  contrary,  very  strong  e^denoe  of  it^  unlncky 
significance  in  omens,  so  much  so  thftt  they  dan 
not  call  it  by  ita  appropriate  name*  As  they 
spoke  of  tbe  Black  Sm  (the  wor&t  and  most 
treacherous  with  w^hich  they  were  acquamted)  u 
the  Euxine,  tv^^ivos,  and  the  terrible  avengiog 
Furies  as  the  benign  ones,  €VfA€v%B€Sf  BQ  they,  for 
fejir  of  ill  luckf  cave  a  pJeasant  name  to  the  haad 
whose  inj^ucnce  tney  dreaded,  J.  CL  J- 


"WOAT  IS  A  POFKOr- 


(5*^  ii,  MB,  333,  435.) 

This  question  is  not  very  difficult  to  answer,  but 
it  has  been  overlaid  with  bo  many  fallacies  by  your 
latest  correspondent,  Hit  Joseph  Pisher,  that 
a  few  words  of  further  explanation  nniy  not  be  out 
of  place. 

He  sayi,  ^*  The  diiEculty  in  this  question  is  thai 
there  is  tvo  such  coin  as  a  pound,  fti  France  then 
is  the  franc,  in  Ameriai  the  dollar,  &a"  I  am 
puzilcd  to  know  where  the  difficulty  lies.  If  I 
owed  Mil.  FiSTiER  a  pound,  I  fancy  be  would  fiad 
no  difficulty  in  accepting  a  sovereign  in  paymeni 
Has  he  never  heard  of  f fanes  and  lire  in  Italj, 
Louis  and  Napoleons  in  France,  florins  and  giddci 
in  Germany,  being  equivalent  terms  for  the  same 
coin  ? 

But  he  proceeds,  "  The  answer  to  the  question 
*  What  *s  a  pound,^  may  be  twenty  shillings  or  two 
hundred  imd  forty  pence,"  Such  an  answer  "  muy 
be  "  given,  but  it  would  be  a  very  misleading  one; 
it  would  imply  that  the  shilling  or  penny  was  tbe 
integer,  and  tbe  pound  the  multiple,  whereas  tk 
sovereign  is  the  atandiird  integerj  and  the  only 
legal  tender  for  all  sums  above  forty  sbillings. 
Mr.  FisHKlt  does  not  seem  to  be  aware  that  ailyer 
coin  are  only  tokens,  their  intrinsic  being  le» 
than  their  nominal  value.  Twenty  shillings  io 
silver  at  the  standard  price  of  5^,  Sd.  per  ounce 
arc  only  intrinsieally  worth  18*.  9{d. 

Again,  **  To  fix  the  price  of  gold  at  3/,  l7fc  6*l> 


ll»aiI.Die.l2,7i.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


471 


per  mince,  and  then  say  the  potjod  ia  an  aliquot 
part  of  the  ounce,  13  reasoning  in  a  circle."  I 
have  tried  htinl  (<>  <4o:*n  eoiiie  nienning  from  this 
uttemnce,  hu r  vnelf  completely  **  atiimped 

out,*'    The  »«ij  II  in  the  mind  of  the  writer 

appears  to  be  an  idcfi  that  the  vnlue  of  gohl  h 
sdnichow  arbitrnrily  fixed  by  authority,  and  that 
if  it  irere  not  so,  something  or  other  would  take 
place  difr*;rcnt  to  what  exists.  Now  what  is  the 
real  state  of  the  cfu^e  ? 

The  Stute   securer  by  it6  authority  that   the 

standard  coin  of  the  realm  ahjill  be  of  a  certain 

weijeht  and  quality  ;  that  is  alL     The  Govem- 

'  '  'the  slightest  control  over  the  qiian- 

1  coined  or  the  anion nt  of  gold  in 

I  i  t '  1 1  J.  iii.-u      The  Bank  of  En  j^^land  is  compelled  to 

pnrchiiHe  :ill  '^ohl  tendered  at  the  rate  of  *S!.  \7s.  9d. 

per  ounce,    which    is    isimed    in    the    i^hape    of 

I  coin  at  si.   17^.   10{(L   per   ounce,  the   IJrf.  per 

[  oun<*    bt  in"  tlif    (illon  liTK^**    for  minting.     Each 

I  sovi  '2336  of  an  ounce 

iTroy  '  :  :.«. 

Two  points  are  thus  secured  :  perfect  freedom 
I  of  if««nr,  nrirl  complete  necnrity  as  to  the  integrity 
off  I  Wjat  more  can  be  required  under 

I  a  sv  . .  e  and  unrestricted  eommerce  ? 

8j>eaking  of  Sir  Robert  Peel  and  the  question, 
'  What   ia  a   pound  ? "   Mr.    Fishkr    does    not 
I  Bcniple  to  £ay  of  one  of  the  greatest  statesmen 
laud  clearest  intellects  thnt  ever  guided  the  des- 
[  tiniee  of  the  Bntish  Empire,  *'  He  appeal's  not  to 
[have    understood    either    his   own    question    or 
fth«  currency  one,  and  the  law  of  1846  has  been 
[the  fcrtde  source  of  commercial  panic"    By  the 
M*Iaw  of  1S4G"  I  suppose  he  means  the  Bank  Act 
I  of  1844,  by  which  tlie  currency  luis  been  regulated 
■fo  the  t.n^^in^  time.     The  opinions  of  your  corre- 
be  very  intlueutial  in  his  own  circle, 
surely  be  aware  that  a  mere  obiter 
of  this  kind,  put  before  the  public  m  iihout 
lightest  reaiion  advance<l,  ia  utterly  worthless. 
I  on,  **  lijibour,  and  not  money,  is  the  true 
fVttlue."     This,  in  the  long  run,  no  doubt  is 
but  vabie,  from  whatever  cause  it  arises,  mui«t 
hxe  an  outward  and  visible  sign,  and  this  is  fur- 
nished by  currency,  whether  it  consist  of  gold, 
alrer,  cowrie   fi^hells,   or  pieces   of  Cotton   cloth. 
Hii-  '  ke  all  other  commoditiei*,  is  .subject 

i   demand  and  supply,  but  thtB  has 
noihiu-  ^^  uiuever  to  do  with  the  question  **  What 
.1  pound  ?  ■'     The  simple  answer  ix%  a  sovereign 
^.  certjiin  weifrht  and  tinenes.?.    J.  A.  Picton, 
dyknowe^  Wavertree, 

;  i«  under  a  very  common  mistake  in 

I   Sir  Robert  PeeFs  famous  query, 

ikif  if*  u  r*ound  ?"  implieti  that  there  was  ?»ny 

Jty  in  acfining  the  present  meaning  of  that 

JBy  a  *'  pound/*  everybody  now-a-days,  ex- 

k  WJScuc^  drciuucr^^i  4u£aiis  simply  a  sovereign ; 


and  Sir  Robert  Peel's  qoeiy  wa«  merely  a  challenge 
thrown  out  to  the  Birmingham  school  to  give  any 
other  meaning,  if  they  could,  to  the  term.  In  fact, 
if  the  words  *'  five  pounds  ''on  a  bank  note  are  not 
to  mean  five  sovereigns,  **  tell  us,'*  said  81  r  Robert 
Peel,  "  wliat  they  are  to  mean  1"  This  was  a  prac- 
tical way  of  dealing  with  currency  theoristSj  who 
delight  to  live  in  the  region  of  vague  ideas  ;  and  it 
was  neither  the  fatdt  of  Sir  Robert  Peel  nor  of  any 
inherent  difficulty  in  the  matter  that  his  opponents 
were  never  able  to  answer  him.  Certain  fixed 
numbers  of  shillings  jind  copper  pieces  are,  it  ia 
true,  respectively  spoken  of  as  "a  pound";  but 
they  are  merely  tolcens  convenient  because  gold 
coins  could  not  practically  be  sulxlivided  so  Tow. 
Their  intrinsic  value,  and  their  value  in  the  past, 
are  mattei-s  purely  irrelevant.  A  penny  is  the 
equivalent  in  the  market  of  a  240th  part  of  a  |>ound, 
simply  becuu.se  the  quantity  of  pence,  like  the 
quantity  of  ^killings,  is  artilicially  limited  by  the 
Government.  In  other  words,  the  authorities  take 
care,  as  far  as  possible,  that  silver  and  copper  shall 
be  equal  to,  but  not  in  excess  of,  the  public  require- 
ments in  the  way  of  small  change.  A  writer 
who  claims  sp?ice  for  his  views  on  this  subject  in 
"K.  &  Q,,"  ouj^lit  to  know  that  the  famous  Bank 
Act  was  not  p.afl8ed  in  lH4fi,  and  did  not  fix  the 
price  of  gold  at  3/.  17«.  6(i.  per  ounce.  When  your 
corres{>ondent  bluntly  decWen  thnt  **Sir  Robert 
Peel  uijpeurs  not  to  have  understood  eltlier  his  own 
question  or  the  currency  one,"  he  exhibits  a  want 
of  respect  for  a  great  authority  which  I  have  rarely 
found  in  association  with  any  real  knowledge  of  thia 
fubject.  Sir  Robert  Peel  had  undoubtedly  erro- 
neous notions  on  the  currency,  particularly  with 
regard  to  the  a-ssumed  effect*  of  issues  of  bank-notea 
upon  market  prices  ;  and  he  anticipated  from  bin 
measures  effects  in  the  way  of  obviating  the  con- 
sefpiences  of  human  folly,  which  are  rarely  to  be 
attained  by  human  institutions.  But  his  acquaint- 
ance with  monetary  science  was  incomparably 
wider  and  sounder  than  that  of  his  roost  con- 
apicuouH  opponents^  not  excluding  the  present 
Prime  Minister.  >  Moy  Thomas. 


THE  FIGHT  AT  PERTH. 
(S*»>  B,  i.  364,  469 ;  ii.  m,  18!),  410,) 
(ConiiKUid/rom  p.  410.^ 
2.  Mr.  Shaw  and  I  do  not  draw  the  same  con- 
clusions from  the  same  facts.    He  does  not  see  tbiit 
there  was  any  connexion  in  Wyntoun's  mind  be- 
tween the  fight  at  Glasclune  and  the  fight  at  Perth, 
except  in  so  far  as  that  the  loss  at  one  fight  sug> 
gested    that    at    another,    just  as  Bannockburn 
suggests  Flodden.    But,  in  that  instance,  there  waa 
considerable  analogy  between   the  fights  ;    they 
were  two  decisive  battles  between  the  same  rivw 
nations.     In  the  other  one,  a  fight  between  a  band 
of  plundjering  HighkudeiB  und  «om<^  Xss^-^^mkvVjpj 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6>^&IL  DM.  12,74. 


gentry  had  no  analogy,  in  its  nature,  with  a  very 
singular  comlwit  or  ducllio  between  two  Highla^id 
septs,  carried  on  within  enclosures  before  the  Court 
of  Scotland. 

The  fact  is,  Wyntoun  kept  harping  on  the 
grievance  of  the  loss  at  Glasclune.  In  describing 
that  skirmish,  he  not  once,  but  twice,  laments 
"  the  duleful  work  done  that  day  at  Glasclune" : 
he  then  proceeds  to  discuss  the  death  of  a  Pope 
and  his  successor  ;  next  he  gives  an  account  of  a 
fiffht  at  Bourty,  where  fifty  men  at  least  were 
killed,  but  which  he  does  not  compare  with  any 
other  skirmish  ;  then  he  goes  on  to  the  account  of 
the  combat  at  Perth,  and  winds  up  with  the 
regret,  that  the  loss  was  not  so  great  as  that  of  "  the 
day's  work  at  Glasclune."  I  submit  that  there  is  the 
strongest  presumption,  that  there  must  have  been 
a  special  connexion  ,in  Wyntoun's  mind  between 
the  two  fights.  It  was  the  strong  impression  to 
this  effect,  created  by  reading  Wyntoun,  that  made 
me  seek  for  further  evidence  of  the  fact. 

With  reference  to  the  Act  putting  those  who 
had  taken  part  in  the  Kuid  of  Angus  to  the  horn, 
and  addressed  to  the  Yicecomes  and  Ballivi,  the 
sheriff  and  magistrates  of  Aberdeen  (in  which,  by 
the  way,  they  are  warned,  as  I  understiind  it,  not 
to  be  led  away  by  any  sympathy  with  them  on  the 
score  of  propinquity),  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to 
follow  Mr.  biiAw  very  far,  as  he  admits  that  "  no 
doubt  many  of  the  Highlanders  belonged  to  the 
parts  mentioned ;  jyerhaps  even  these  constituUd 
the  bulk"  This  is  going  nearly  as  far  as  I  have 
gone.  But  I  must  notice  specially  one  observation 
made  by  Mr.  Shaw.  He  says,  "  The  Perthshire 
names  Dr.  Macpiikrson  quotes  occur  among  the 
leaders,  while  Sheach  and  Ohm  Quhewil  come 
among  their  followers  'alios  suos  adhrerentes,' '' &c. 
The  accuracy  of  this  statement  will  perhaps  be 
best  tested  by  givinor  the  roll  of  names  in  the  Act 
of  1392  in  full  :— 

"Duncanum  Stewart,  Ilobertum  Stewnrt  Pfttricium 
Duncangon  Thomam  Duncanson,  Robertuni  de  A  thole 
Andream  Mncnair  Duncanum  Briccson.  Anj^aium  Mac- 
nair,  Johannem  Ayson  juvcnem  turn  omnes  alios  sum 
adkarentes  qui  fuerunt  ad  occisionem  Domini  de,  &c. 
Item  Slurach  turn  fratres  ejus  turn  ornncs  clan  Quhewil, 
Will'"  Mowat,  Jolianncm  de  Cowter  Donaldum  de 
Cowter  cum  ofnnibvs  suis  adharentihns  David  de  Rose. 
Alcxandnim  M'Kyntalyhur,  Johannem  M'Kyntalyhur 
Adamum  Rolson  Johannem  Rolson  cum  omnihus  suis 
adhcerentihus  Duncanum  Nctcralde,  Johannem  Matthyson 
cum  suit  adhcerentihus,  Morgond  lluryson  turn  Michaclcm 
Matthyson  cum  suis  adhctrentilus,  tum  omnts  alios,"  &c. 

The  italics  are  mine.  The  punctuation,  such  as  it 
is,  is  that  of  the  Act  as  printed.  We  therefore  have 
a  list  of  chief  men,  without  anything,  unless  the 
order  in  which  they  are  enumerated,  to  indicate 
who  were  leaders.  Besides  chief  men,  we  have 
adherent.s  mentioned  five  times,  also  Clan  Quhewil, 
and  all  others  who  may  have  been  at  the  slaughter. 
The  adherents  seem  to"  be  scattered  in  rather  an 
indefinite  wny,  and  cannot  well  be  «up^sed  to 


belong  only  to  the  chief  man,  immediatelY  after 
whom  they  are  mentioned.  Thus  it  is  bigoly  im- 
probable that  the  DuncansonB  should  hare  Lad  so 
following  of  their  own,  and  that  the  fint  adherents 
mentioned  in  the  list  should  have  belonged  only 
to  young  John  Ayson.  (It  would  be  easy  to  con- 
struct a  Clan  Ay  out  of  them.)  Again,  it  tarns  out 
that  Slurach  and  his  brothers,  and  ml  Clan  QnhewiL 
are  not  set  down  as  the  adherents  of  any  one,  and 
that  Slurach  and  his  brothers  are  just  as  modi 
chief  men  as  the  two  Macnairs  or  any  other  names. 

With  respect  to  the  districts  whidi  supplied  the 
names  in  the  Roll,  there  seems  to  me  to  be  scaiedy 
any  necessity  for  going  beyond  the  parts  of  Perth- 
shire,'"' Angus,  and  Aberdeenshire,  bordering  on 
each  other.  What  has  been  termed  the  maranding 
host  appears,  after  all,  according  to  Wyntoun,  to 
have  little  exceeded  30()  men  in  number  ;  and  it 
does  not  seem  likely  that  to  bring  together  so 
small  a  force,  or  even  one  of  double  its  strensth, 
it  would  have  been  necessary  to  indent,  as  Mb. 
Shaw  suggests,  on  Argyle  or  Ross,  or  even  on 
any  distant  part  of  Inverness-shire.  A  nearer  por- 
tion of  Inverness-shire,  such  as  Upper  Speysiaeor 
Badenoch,  would  have  been  more  likely  to  con- 
tribute. 

I  may  mention,  in  passing,  that  Mr.  Shaw  is 
not  happy  in  telling  us  that  De  Cowter  is  a  mis- 
print tot  Cults,  or  Couts.  It  is  merely  the  usual 
local  pronunciation  of  the  word  Culter.  As  to  the 
question,  to  which  side  Sha  Beg  belonged,  I  con- 
tinue to  think  it  not  very  important  in  this  pre- 
liminary stage  of  inquiry. 

(To  he  concluded  in  our  next) 


"Sleiotit":  "Slade'*  (3'^  S.  viii.  452,  528; 
ix.  104, 207,  307.)— These  words  have  been  already 
discussed  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (3'«i  S.  viii.,  ix.),  but  tbey 
may  deserve  a  little  more  attention.  They  are,  at 
all  events,  interesting  words  in  the  distnct  bom 
which  I  write,— the  Alendip  portion  of  Somerset- 
shire. Here  they  are  found  on  the  map,  as  Tims- 
bury  Sleight,  Doulting  Sleight,  Gumey  Slade; 
and  in  this  parish  yon  will  hardly  talk  to  a  farmer 
for  many  mmutes  without  hearing  of  his  sleight^m 
slait,  or  slate ;  as,  "  The  young  stock 's  doing  no 


*  It  is  curious  to  find  the  name  Briceton  apptrentlj 
represented  in  the  »ime  district  in  the  Act  of  Scot 
Parliament  of  1506,  under  the  fcrm  of  Macna  Breiclu& 
As  to  the  names  which  Mr.  Sdaw  selects  as  coming 
probably  from  a  distance,  there  were  Roses  or  Rossei 
nearer  than  "  from  beyond  InTemesB."  One  held  Isads 
on  Deeside  about  this  time.  Mathyson,  and  Rorjioii, 
Mr.  Shaw  says,  might  possibly  be  **from  any  where, 
M  simple  eons  of  Matthew  or  of  Rurie.*'  I  beliere  that 
there  were  a  good  many  Mathysons  besides  the  remote 
Ross-shire  ones.  I  do  not  know  that  Macrorie  wass 
name  connected  especially  with  any  particular  district 
But  few  can  be  supposed  to  have  a  knowledge  of  the 
distribution  of  names  in  the  wilder  dittricti  of  Scottaad 
at  this  period. 


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473 


[  on  my  «l/iit  tbig  aciafion,"  or  *'  I  've  got  a  nice 

ot  of  sheep  up  on  the  slait"    The  M'ord*  which 

puz3Lte<l  uic  not  a  little  when  I  iirst  beard  it,  ia 

applied  here  to  a  tract  of  high  table-land  **  on 

&leadipv'  formerly  open,  but  since  the  end  of  the 

■"^century  divided  into  large  encloaureHi  und  par- 

'  cultivated*     Before  the  enclosure  it  wfia  all 

"iJieep-wsvlk  ;   nnd  I  am   often  told   how   each 

Hock  vrm  taught  to  keep  within  lU  own  ttlaiif  so 

lllxat    without   watching    or  fences    the   «heep   of 

different  owners  seldom  got  intermixed.    Hence  the 

txplnnfttion  in  the  glossaries,  **nn  accustomed  nm 

for  sheep,"  and  **  slated,"  accustomed  to,  contented. 

JBoth  thigh t  (or  shit)  and  slade  evidently  reprc- 

^^  the  word,  conimon  to  all  Teutonic  languaijes, 

Ich  li»  L/fn  i  iiH  the  daihts  of  Ulfihis,  and  is  found 

la,*  I  '-'fir^  Danis*h  «i^if,  Swe<iish  «?a<,  Ger- 

ImaM  .   sehlichtj   English   slight,  with   the 

Imeanini^  of  pLiin^  level,  smooth,  and  the  meta- 

Iphoneal  Kense  of  common,  meun,  trivial,  bml,  &c. 

lA  Mentlip  etymologist  explained  to  me  the  other 

pdAy  tbnt  his  hill-land  "was  adled  a  slight,  *' because 

it  used  to  be  made  little  of* — not  thought  worth 

cultivating.    He  had  lost  the  old  foTce  of  the  word, 

' "  '   Lord  Clarendon  kept  when  he  wrote^  **  The 

Je  was  slighted  by  order  of  the  Parliament/' 

lis  flcnae  of  **  level "  seems  to  have  led  to  a  variety 

lc»f  »pi)lications  ;  ns  in  d*MU,  a  valley,  an  open  space 

I  jn  n  "■      '   '^  ^readth  of  greensward  in  ploughed  land 

|©r  p  Brockett's  Glossartjof  North  Oountrg 

I  H  «>j;  .,  .    .  ../,  the  track  of  cattle  among  standing 

■oom  ;  and  to  fsLut^  to  smooth  or  whet,  as  a  sword 

TfJamif son's  ZHdionary).     In  this  Mendip  neigh- 

I  the  word  was  applied  to  the  lands  I  have 

I,  not,  I  think,   because  they  were  open, 

rithout  fences,  but  because  they  occupied  the  high 

crel  plutejiux,  churaeteristic  of  the   country,  m 

'istinguished  from  the  steep  dopes  or  "  «idlings  " 

elow.     At  all  events,  I  have  never  been  able  to 

[jear  of  any  piece  of  ground  otherwise  aitaated 

rhich  the  people  tjilk  of  ibs  a  slait. 

The  form  sladt  is  not  unknown  here,  as  in  Gumey 
iflade.  H  vilJaiTfi  near  Shepton  Mallet,  lying  in  a 
^  ^ween  limestone  rocks.     Fonuer  cor- 
I  **  N.  &  Q/'  gave  several  instanceH  of 
til  South  Wales,  Gloucestershire  (one 
M»m  Stroud  to  Cheltenham,  through 
1'"^  it  seems  doubtful  whether  the 
•uld  account  for  them  all,  and 
fct!  ^m  may  not  be  a  ditlerent  word, 

nected  with  '*  slide." 
may  add  that  close  to  the  above-mentioned 
there  are   curious   fisaure^  in   the 
stone, called  tlatA  (one  enfmiiilly,  the 
rSUt/  i  bat  thia  word  must  he  connected  with 

rr\in\m  9t>me  readers  of  **  K.  &,  QJ*  may  test 
,_  J  notoi  by  their  own  knowledge  of  the  above 
ardB  as  locally  used  in  pb<3e-nAme>«  or  otheiwwe. 
CUwK»n  Mendip.  C*  P.  i\ 


Spellixg  Hefoums  (6^*^  S.  I  421,  471,  511  ;  ii. 
29,  231,  277,  43G.)— I  wish  to  point  out,  once  for 
all  (for  It  is  an  error  which  can  only  be  scotched) ^ 
the  Wong  spelling  caligvaphy.  So  in  all  adver- 
tLnements  of  ladies' schools  calisthenics  is  announced. 

If  it  wa^  derived  from  the  adjective  icaAog,  it 
should  be  '*  calography  " ;  and  that  would  be  quite 
analogicaL  But  it  is  in  fact  derived  from  the 
substantive  kcIAAo^,  and  the  reason  why  calli- 
graphy is  the  right  spelling  is  that  this  form  has 
the  authority  ot  the  purest  cbtssical  authors,  and 
the  other,  of  which  there  are  severiU  cxi^mples  in 
the  Lexicons,  appears  to  be  only  used  by  inferior 
oneii.  In  one  or  two  cases  (icaAo^/>4^  and  Kak- 
Xldpi^  is  one)  both  forma  Are  to  be  found,  and  are 
cxsict  synonyms.  Ltttkltox. 

P.S,  It  seems  a  mere  accident  that  the  com* 
pound.?  from  the  adjective  K-aAos  do  not  occur. 
It  13  not  80,  as  I  need  not  say,  with  other  adjec- 
tives, Aci'*c<5^,  aya^tk,  &c-  The  word  kaiAokcI- 
yaOo^  is  clearly  not  a  real  exception. 

GEOGRAPmcAL  (5*»>  S.  li.  308,  359,  397,  437.)— 
Speriesd  and  I  evidently  take  different  views  of 
the  purport  of  R.  E.  A.'8  query.  He  seems  to 
understand  "  the  dawn  "  of  the  2r>th  Beceiuber  to 
mean  the  first  appearance  of  the  light  of  the  Sun, 
while  I  was  under  the  impression  that  R.  E.  A, 
referred  to  the  beginning  of  the  ordibary  civU  day, 
the  period  of  twenty-four  hour^  from  midnight  to 
midnight.  Of  course,  about  Christniiw-time,  the 
Midsummer  of  the  Southern  Hemisphere,  not  only 
does  the  Sun  rise  earlier  at  Auckland  than  at  the 
far  more  northerly  and  slightly  more  easterly 
locality,  Fiji,  as  Speriend  points  out,  but  still 
farther  south,  in  the  Antarctic  Polar  region,  it 
remains  above  the  horizon  for  many  weeks  together. 

I  only  attempted  to  answer  R.  E.  A.*s  query 
as  far  as  regai'ds  English  time,  thinking  one  case 
enough  to  show  the  principle,  which  is  easily  ap- 
plied to  aU  other  nations  who  calculate  fn^ra  a  zero 
of  their  own.  The  division  of  days  should  be 
made  in  each  case  at  long.  1  B0<»  from  zero,  whether 
that  zero  be  Greenwich,  Paris,  Vienna,  St.  Peters- 
burgj  Washington,  or  any  other  place.  The  only 
points  on  the  Earth'.H  surface  impossible  to  com- 
mence from  would  be  the  North  and  South  Poles, 
where  the  360  meridians  converge, 

I  extract  the  following  paaaiige  from  the  in- 
teresting article  by  A  E.  B.  (**  N.  &  Q."  !■*  S.  viii. 
648-0),  mentioned  by  Speriend  :— 

"Regarding,  then,  the  meridian  of  180"  m  the  neutral 
pojntj  tbe  moat  rational  syitem,  io  far  iv^  Dritish  ecttle- 

nil?  *-    -    "    — -- •   -^  tn  reckon  J,>ti  "^"^--  ^    tb  w»ya, 

fn'  wo«t  from  '  »md  to 

rej;  (tt  in  arrr  i  ,  li  iims. 

luid  aU  L  ac  iAA  in  advance  of  it.     Aud  thiiii 

the  met!  I  by  modem  nATigat<ti-a,** 

It  wriiLM  ai>|>cAr,  however,  from  the  rest  of 
A  E,  B/s  article,  that  thia  iw^i^A^vi.  ^ v^  xsrfv.  >K«k.- 


n^ 


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16*  8.  II  Dec.  12.  IL 


versally  in  vogue  even  so  late  as  the  end  of  the 
last  century,  and  that  hence  arose  the  practice  of 
certain  Christians  at  Tahiti  and  at  Pitcairn's 
Island,  spoken  of  by  Speriend,  of  reckoning  hy 
Eastern  time,  their  progenitors  or  precursors 
having  gone  out  by  way  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope.  If,  at  the  present  time,  these  Christians 
consider  Greenwich  their  zero  of  longitude,  or,  as 
may  be  the  case  at  Tahiti,  Paris,  and  still  persist 
in  reckoning  by  Eastern  longitude,  they  are  cer- 
tainly wrong  according  to  modem  usage.  Indeed, 
A.  E.  B.  shows  that  in  Tahiti  they  are  at  variance 
on  this  point  with  the  French  authorities,  who, 
no  doubt  calculating  from  Paris,  reckon  the  time 
properly  by  Western  longitude. 

Any  practical  difficulty  may  be  easily  got  over 
by  the  adoption  for  the  time  being  of  the  local 
reckoning  of  any  country  in  which  one  may 
happen  to  be.  I  do  not  know  whether  Washing- 
ton or  Greenwich  is  the  zero  of  longitude  for 
American  ships ;  but  on  shore,  Americans  seem 
to  feel  no  inconvenience  in  going  by  Eastern 
reckoning  in  China  and  Australia,  both  which 
countries  are  in  Western  longitude  as  calculated 
from  Washington. 

It  is  much  to  be  wished  that  all  nations  would 
agree  upon  one  common  zero  of  longitude,  and 
they  could  hardly  do  better  than  follow  the  old 
geographers,  and  adopt  Ferro,  the  westernmost 
of  the  Canary  Islands,  about  18°  west  of  Green- 
wich. The  180**^  meridian  would  then  cross  a 
rather  wider  part  of  the  far  east  of  Siberia  than 
.  that  now  traversed  by  the  180"*  meridian  from 
Greenwich,  but  with  the  exception  of  Siberia  and 
the  two  Polar  regions  would  hardly  touch  any 
land.  It  would  separate  New  Zealand  from  Aus- 
tralia, and  possibly  Australians  visiting  their 
friends  in  New  Zealand,  and  New  Ze3anders 
theirs  in  Australia,  might  insist  on  keeping  both 
days  and  having  two  Christraas-dinoers.  In  some 
Siberian  town,  straggling  over  both  sides  of  long. 
180**,  there  might  even  be  four  Christmas-days, 
for  the  Russians,  retaining  the  old  style  in  their 
calendar,  would  have  first  an  Eastern,  and  then 
a  Western  Christmas  side  by  side,  12  days  after 
any  foreigners  in  the  place  who  were  so  disposed 
had  similarly  kept  their  own  double  festival. 

I  confess  myself  unable  to  give  R.  E.  A.  the 
cosmopolitan  (cosniical  I)  or  absolute  reply  he  asks 
for,  and  fear  that  from  that  point  of  view  his 
c^uestion  is,  as  Speriend  says,  incapable  of  solu- 
tion. R.  M M. 

SnROPsniRE  Wills  C5^  S.  ii.  328),  in  1824, 
were  to  be  found  in  four  dioceses.  I  note  all  the 
following  Registries  there  at  that  date,  though 
some  of  them  are  apparently,  and  probably,  irre- 
levant : — 

J.  Diocese  of  8t  Asaph  (containing  a  small  part  of 
Sbropsbire), 


Registry  at  Hawarden,  Flintshire. 

The  Bishop's  Con8i8toi7  Court.    (Query.  At  St  Asaph 
or  at  Hawarden  1) 

The  Registry  of  the  Arobdeaeoii  of  St  Anph.    (Pro- 
bably united  to  that  of  the  Oontiaiory  Court) 
No  Peeuliara  in  this  Diocese. 

II.  Diocese  of  Coventry  and   Lichfield   (containing 
nearly  half  of  Shropshire). 

The  Bishop's  Begistrv  at  Lichfield. 

The  Registry  of  the  Prebendal  Jurisdiction  of  Alrewas 
(Staffordshire),  at  Lichfield. 

The  Registries  (if  any)  of  the  Arohdeaoonries  of  Staf- 
ford, Derby,  Coventry,  and  Shrew^mry, 
Peculiars  in  Shropshire. 
Parithes.  Jmrisdiction. 

Albrighton "^ 

i^tv 1  Royal  Peculiar  of  St  Maiy, 

^We"\    ::::::}     inShrewsbuiy.  "^ 

Salop,  St.  Mary  ...    .J       * 

Alvelly S 

Borington (Royal    Peculiar  of   Bridge* 

Bridgenorth T    north. 

Claveriey J 

Buildas       Lord  of  the  Manor. 

S**^f^*" )  Prebendary    of   Prees,  and 

WhUali:    :    :    :    :    :    ;(    Dean  and  chapter. 

Longdon Donative.     Lord  of  Manor 

appoints  Registrar. 

Uppington Donative. 

Wombridge Lord  of  Manor  appoints  Re- 
gistrar. 

III.  Diocese  of  Hereford  (containing  the  greater  pari 
of  Shropshire). 

The  Bishop's  Registry  at  Hereford. 

The  Registry  of  the  Deanery  of  Hereford,  at  Hereford. 

The  Registries  (it  is  presumed)  of  the  Archdeaconries 
of  Hereford  and  Salop. 

Peculiars  in  Shropshire. 
Parishes.  Jurisdiction. 

Ashford  Carbonel    .    .    .    The  Perpetual  Curate. 
Moreton  Magna  ....    The  Rector. 
(Little  Hereford]     .    .    .    The  Vicar.) 
Upper     BuIIinghope    (or 

fiullingham  ?)....     The  Perpetual  Curate. 

IV.  Diocese  of  Worcester  (containing  one  parish  in 
Shropshire). 

The  Bishop's  Registry  at  Worcester. 
The  Registry  (if  any)  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Worcester, 
for  places  in  his  jurisdiction. 

See  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas's  Notitia  BUtarica^  pub- 
lished 1824  ;  the  First  Report  of  the  Select  Cm- 
mitt  ee  on  tJie  State  of  the  Public  Records ;  and  the 
Valor  Ecclesiasticus,      John  W.  Bone,  F.S.A. 

Since  sending  the  above  to  "N.  &  Q.,"  I 
have  been  informed  from  Shropshire  that  "all 
Shropshire  wills  proved  before  tne  establishment 
of  the  District  Registries  are  now  at  the  District 
Registry  at  Shrewsbury."  J.  W.  B. 

"  La  parole  a  jSt^  donn^e  a  l'homme  pour 
l'aider  a  cacher  sa  pens^b  "  (5**»  S.  ii.  306.)— 
Talleyrand  or  Count  Montrond^  which  is  the 
author  ?  Like  Mr.  Ward,  I  had  always  rapposed 
Talleyrand  the  author  of  this  well-known  saying ; 


ff»  S.  II  Dio.  12, 7<.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


475" 


I 


whi  '''  iln  Gronow,  in  his  i*  "  '  ^.i*  anti 
^h  fod  series  (Smith,  1'  ,  Lon- 

don, i-'O-j^.i^^erts  positively  that  tai-  iuuvc  aaying 
15  Montruatl'fl,  not  Talleyrand's,     A  propos  ol:  the 

mnt,  he  La  siiid  to  have  been  *'  the  most  tijfreeable 
idrel  and  tho  greatest  reprohate  in  Friinae." 
was  an  invetcmtc  gambler,  and  mrely  lost** 
TVhen  very  young,  at  the  Court  of  Miirie  Antoi- 
nette, a  certiiin  Monsieur  de  Ch[impagnt>,  an  otlicer 
ot  the  CiuEinU,  who  was  playing  at  cai'd*  with  hif0, 
said,  **  Monsieur,  vous  trichez*"  Montrond  ;tn- 
siwcitd,  with  the  greatest  9aih(f'froid^  "  C'eist  pos- 
sible  ;  rnaLs  je  nVime  pas  qu*on  iiw  le  dise^"  and 
threw  the  cards  in  Charapagne*a  face.  Montrond 
u  aakid  to  have  been  one  of  the  wittiest  men  of  the 
age.     His  death  was  a  yery  wrekhed  one. 

Can  tiny  of  your  reiitiera  disprove  Captain  Gro- 
no'^'  nil 

1  tnd  on  th©  «^uthority  of  Br,  Brewer, 

in  J  liiLL.^i  nitd  Fabli^  that  the  snyiog  is  Fonte- 
nelle's.  Can  your  correspondent*  point  out  the 
passage,  if  the  saying  t>e  \m  I  I  uiean  no  dljre- 
iipe^t  to  Dr.  Bix*wer.  Fhedk.  Rulk. 

••  JoHK  JAspER*a  Secret  "  (5*^  S.  ii.  4H7.)— This 
j  tnuihy  affair  was  WTitten,  and  first  published,  in 
I  America*  The  author  was  probably  some  hack- 
I  writer.  T  fancy  I  could  discover  his  name,  if 
[JaS££  thinks  it  worth  knovviog.  The  scribbler 
[liiu!  not  sense  enough  to  read  the  intended  course 
the  story  from  the  deeigna  on  the  cover ^  and 
L<?ould  not  even  [>ereeive  that  Mr.  Dat<'hery  was 
tiDrood  in  disguiBe. 

^^ MoRTJMER  Collins. 

Efml  HitI,  Berkj, 

**  SLrrOAX  '' :  **  Km.riE  '*:''  OLEJnJLLIN  *'  (5«>  S. 
tii  287.) — Slomn^  pronouncetl  dowgauy  a  war- cry, 
lis  from  tit*'  Gaelic  tduntjh  (a  multitude,  a  host,  an 
Innt'  '      1  tc  ca«  (ci^dl,  name).     Tlie  same 

I  me  I  the  Lowland'Scotch  sln^hamie 

hind  I  tliiagk  and  com  (a  horn),  and 

^to  I !  -ghairm  (gttirm^  a  cry),    *^luagh 

L  progeny)  and  to  the 
1.  From  luclid  is  the 

Jj.i;in  i<irii.       rnun  inn.  jk  iiie  Latin  C^nO. 

Kflju^,  The  idea  was  that  the  Spirit  of  the 
IWftters  appeared  sometime-s  as  a  man,  and  aome- 
I times  a*  a  hor*e.     Talcing  the   latter  view,  the 

If  Jf^.uMr  '  rrvninlnrv  ;»;  nft'ered  for  the  conKidemtion 
may  be  from   the  Garlu: 
.  i  ahh  (water).    Pronounced 

[luickly,  MpuiUabh  (water-horse)  might  easily  be 

*  Hyron,  in  />o»  Juan^  C.  xiil.  8(t,  is  Auppo«ed  to  alliide 
|o  him  a«  tbe  — 

"  J■^.^M  t  .  Kr  vuii^r  de  1a  Rubc, 

<  I 'it  tu  waft  here, 


rtie*.'* 


corrupted  to  hdpk.  It  is  a  little  curious  that 
originally  capull  meant  a  hor^,  and  that  in  modem 
times  its  meaning  is  restricted  to  mare.  From 
capull  comes  the  Greek  hahnUos,  and  the  Liitin 
Ciibalhi-s,  From  abh  comes  the  Lntin  AppiHH,  The 
aqueduct  near  Rome,  called  Appia  Aqna,  h  an 
instance  of  repetition  ;  both  wir/Is  mean  water, 
Aqitais  from  aig^  in  the  <  I  nn  (sea)  and 

aicfeal   (the    deep).      The    ^  built  while 

Appiit>«  Clandiu!^  wm  censor  was  nut  named  after 
hiHi ;  he  was  named  after  the  aqueduct.  His 
name  at  first  was  Atta  Clausas. 

Oknnllin,  I  have  looked  in  several  work^,  and 
cannot  find  such  a  place.  With  such  numbers  of 
well-sounding  names  around  bim,  it  is  a  great  pity 
that  the  poet  Campbell  rlid  not  emVcKly  a  real 
name  in  the  rich  setting  of  his  verse. 

TnOMAS    StRATTON. 

May  not  do^am  l>e  a  corruption  of  iluagli-gaimi) 
a  Gaelic  compound,  signifying  the  war-ctj,  or 
signal  tor  battle,  among  the  riigbland  clans  /  Its 
relations  I  think  may  aUo  be  found  in  Goth,  althin^ 
Ban.  Blimet\  JSax.  slagan,  sl^gati^  Ger.  Schlageny 
Eng.  fiJay^  skwj  all  meaning  to  strike,  to  destroy, 
to  kill.  F.  I). 

Nottingham. 

"Thk  Kkw  State  or  England  **  (5*  S.  iL 
429.)— The  first  edition  of  thi^  book  was  only 
signetl  G.  M.;  all  the  subrfequent  one^*  beiu*  the 
name  of  Guy  Micge  in  fulL  The  tbinl  edition, 
published  in  1699,  is  dedicatjfd  to  the  Lonl  Chan- 
cellor Somens ;  and  having  stated  that  it  is  greatly 
improved,  the  author  oonchides,  *'  so  I  hope  my 
Lord  you  will  the  more  readily  countenance  it  lind 
become  a  Mtecenas  to— Your  Loni^hip's  most 
humble  servant,  Guy  Mtege."  Probably  this  did 
not  lead  to  much,  for  the  fourth  edition,  in  1701, 
is  dedicated  to  the  Lord  Howiird  of  ElbDgbam. 

According  to  Lowndes,  Miege  published  A 
rHctionanf  of  Barbarous  French,  Jjond.,  KJ79; 
The  Great  French  DicUonartj,  Lond.,  1688;  Zk^ 
light  and  Fatiinu,  a  Pleasant  Diversion  for  both 
Sexes,  Loud.,  1697;  Th9  New  State  of  England, 
Lond,,  12mo.  1691  and  1692,  8vo.  1699  and  1701. 

In  the  greAt  disputes  about  til'  of  Con- 

vocation at  this  time,  Miege  disj  of  the 

writers,  who  violently  opjKiHcd  tn*  .w,r  i^tate" 
and  consequently  greatly  increased  its  sale.  In  the 
fourth  edition  Miege  refers  to  this,  and  says,  he 
le^'ives  the  ^^ captious  convoc^tioit.  nmn"  to  his 
lejirned  adversary  Dr.  Wake,  who  wdl  doubtleis 
ere  long  make  a  •'  Fault nj  ColUdiyr  "  of  him. 

Lowndes  adds,  that  Mtege  publi>ihed  several 
other  workn,  chiefly  olcmentar^'.  It  seems  pro- 
buble  tbfit  lie  wrote  the  Earl  ot  Carlisle's  Thrtt 
E(i\hnxnn^  Lond..  8vo.  1669,  the  dedication  to 
which  is  signed  G.  ^L,  and  is  Ytrj  much  in  the 
style  of  Guy  Miege.  En  ward  8oLLr. 


476 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*S.  II.DEal2,V4. 


same  infortuation  about  G,  if.,  who  Qccourpauied 
the  Earl  of  Carlteb  on  his  ciubnssies  to  KtiBsiu, 
Sweden,  and  Denmark,  in  1663-4,  ftnd  wrote  A 
Belalum  of  th^  Embasmx.  A  Mr,  Marvel  went 
aa  seo^tury  with  Lord  Oarlble,  but  I  am  under 
thu  impre&tion  that  he  is  i^ud  to  have  beeQ  Andrew 
MarveL  EALi*n  N,  Jambs, 

Aihf^tdf  Kent. 

The  RorAL  Veto  (5^  S.  H,  426.)— In  the 
m&Bs^  nofeited  to  by  Lord  Ltt^elton,  Sir  J, 
Bo  wring  3ay»,  "  Eentham  always  attributed  the. 
Veto  he  (Geori^e  II L)  put  upon  the  Panopticon 
Bill,  ct/5ter  it  hcS,  ^OMtd  ooHi^  Houui  of  Fa/rlianunt, 
to  TindictJTe  feelings,"  &c. 

This  is  v&Tf  inaccurate,  aa  Lord  Ltttieltok 
nglitly  conjectures  ;  for  the  Bill  alluded  to,  which 
waa  one  for  erecting  a  Penitentiary,  so  far  from 
being  vetoed,  received  the  Eoyal  Assent,  and 
became  the  Statute  52  Geo,  IIL  cap,  44  ;  nor 
waa  any  BiU  of  that  kind  vetoed  by  Geoi^e  III,, 
as  is  proved  by  the  Index  to  the  Lords*  Joumals^ 
|>,  7(Mj  tit,  **  Penitentiary  Houaes/'  What  Bow- 
fing  really  refers  to  i^  this  :  Bentham'^  scheme  for 
a  Panopticon  Penitentiary,  whieh  was  a  sort  of 
huge  round  iron  cage  for  prieoners,  glazed  ao  as  to 
keep  them  always  under  the  eyes  of  the  officials, 
wm  rejected,  while  the  Bill  for  the  above  Act  was 
in  Committee  in  the  House  of  Commons,  for  very 
Bubatantial  reasons,  as  would  appear  by  tbetr  Re- 
port (Hansard,  PhtL  D^h.^  vol.  xx.  App.  pp,  cii- 
cvi,  and  vol  xxii.  pp,  101-103) ;  and  a  different 
^lau  was  adopted  by  the  Statute  in  question,  after 
Bentham's  proposal  had  received  a  prospeetive 
sanction  by  the  previoui^  Act  of  34  Geo,  III*  cap. 
64,  and  after  lie  nt  ha  in  had  e^cpended  a  consider- 
able sum  of  money  in  preparing  to  carry  it  out,  for 
which  reason  he  wtis  secured  compensation  by  the 
4th  section  of  the  Act  of  hi  Geo,  III.,  which 
ex  phiina  1 1  le  vv  hoi  e  u  ui  tt  et.  (See  Bon  tham  s  Worh, 
vol  xi,  pp,  lOi^'lOB.) 

The  hijjt  instance  of  the  eitercise  of  the  Royal 
Veto,  on  a  BiU  which  L-id  piissed  both  Houses  of 
Parliament,  w^is  in  17(»7,  when  Queen  Anue  de- 
clined to  aiscnt  to  a  Scotch  Militia  BiU,  giving  her 
negative  iu  the  ancient  form, "  La  Heine  Be  avisera" 
(Lards*  Journals,  vol.  xvLiL  p.  6ltC  ;  Sir  T.  Erskine 
May,  Law  of  Farllaitwn  f ,  p.  532,  7  th  ed,).  Charles 
II.,  Williaiu  and  Mary,  and  William  III.,  exercised 
this  prero^r;Uive  several  times,  (Index  to  Lords' 
Journals,  p.  £97,)  JosETii  Brown. 

Temple* 


man's  Homer,  informs  mc  that  he  has  a  distinct 
recollection  of  Mitford  telling  him,  about  two  jeiis 
or  so  before  he  died  (which  was  on  April  S^^lSSd), 
that  the  original  waa  then  mining  from  Hsitk- 
bury.  If  the  copy  sold  at  Mitfotd^s  iaie  is  to  be 
found  in  the  Catalogue*  of  the  second  poison  ef 
Ma  Librmry,  Ko.  1874,  and  U  there  described  is 
the  copy  with  Pope's  autograph  notet,  stiefa  de- 
scription would  seem  to  he  erroneoiu,  for  the 
Bodleian  transcript,  in  addition  to  Mitford*s  auto- 
graph, bears  that  number  on  an  auctioii  ticket  I 
have  no  absolute  proof ;  but  upon  iDquiry,  it  ippeus 
that  Mitford  did  write  the  article  in  the  mnlh- 
man's  Ma^anmf  for  18^,  aUuded  to  by  Hi. 
Boyle.  W.  H.  Ai-LinrrT, 

Bodleian  Library, 

Cardan  Wells  in  SooTtAJfD  (5*^  B,  L  376.)— 
There  is  one  in  the  pariah  of  FordooOf  Kbcsf- 
dineBhire  (rith  above  reference),  and  another  at 
MelvUle  House,  Fifeshire  (t^  Pennant^a  I\mr  ta 
tSeaiUndj  I/ondon,  1790,  pt,  il  p.  188).  A  Hate 
of  other  examples  would  be  usefiiL 

J.  Mjjru£L, 

Ne  wcastle-upaa*  Tyni. 

Spiritual  ArrABif  ioks  (6'*  S-  U  38L)— Some 
years  ago  I  delivered  a  lecture  in  eereral  Tictorisa 
towns,  entitled  ^*  A  Plea  for  Ohosta.'^   I  read  up  s 

good  deal  on  th«  subject  of  spiritual  apparitioD^ 
silted  and  weighed  the  evidence  on  both  sidet, 
and  listened  to  many  ghost  stories  voluntarily  told 
me  by  auditors  at  the  lecturer.  The  conclmsioDB 
I  reached  were  preeisely  the  same  as  those  stated 
by  Ma.  J,  B,  Haig,  and  the  **  brain- wave  *'  ihe^ij 
appears  to  me  to  offer  the  best  explanation  of  tht 
spirit  appearances.  As  to  spiritnalkm,  all  mj 
inquiries  led  me  to  heUeve  that  it  is  a  compouud 
of  credulity  and  imposture,  with  a  very  snuU 
residuum  of  psychological  mystery,  D.  Blatb* 
Melbourae. 

"  Child  Roland  to  the  dark  tower  cmi" 
{5^^  S.  H.  32Q.)— This  is  simply  a  quotation  hm 
BOiue  lost  ballad.  Capell  plausibly  identtfi» 
Roland  with  Orlando,  and,  Inserting  a  Une,  would 
make  one  whole  of  the  quartet.  This  pat'ching 
into  sense,  however,  seema  to  me  unnecea^iij' 
"Fie,  foh,  and  fuui,"  &c.,  cornea  from  aBotbk 
quarter.  The  stringing  together  of  such  disjointtd 
snatchefi  is  quite  in  Edgar's  manner,  under  his 
asijumed  madness,  Joni?  Anniik 


Tickell's  Homer  with  Pope's  MS.  Notes 
(5**  S.  ii.  3H90--The  copy  of  TickelFs  Homer,  con- 
taining  Isiwic  Reeira  transcript  of  Pope's  MS, 
notes,  is  to  be  found  in  the  Bodleian  Library.  It 
also  contains  an  autograph  letter  from  J.  Nichols, 
dated  Jan.  9,  1784,  requesting  Reed  to  sell  to 
Bishop  Hurd  the  copy  with  Pope^a  own  notes.  . 
The  Eev,  E.  floopeTj  the  learned  ed\tot  Qt  Ci>m'^\ 


C'f,  ^lalonc^s  BhnJiifjieariy  vol  x,  pp.  166-1^7j 
Reed's  Skakfipmrij  vol.  xviL  p.  472  ;  C  Knijgkt'R 
libraty  editioD,  vol,  ix,  p*  91 ;  Percy's  E^liqut*  o/ 
AniiejU  Foetiy,  vol  Ui,  p,  94, 

WiLLLui  Plait. 

ConoervfttiTO  €lub« 

«l^Qt\0L  the  Bodleian, 


*  8.  IL  Dbc,  12,  IL] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


477 


Lord  PEMnnoKK*s  Will  (5'^  8.  li,  .'*32.)— It 
mid  he  dcsirnbh^  llmt^  as  this  document  has  been 
placed  in  these  pftgep,  some  opinion  or  evidence 
bould  be  jrtvdo  tui  to  its  authorship,     I  presume 
hat  no  <        '        'rietJ  that  it  was  really  written 
by  Lc>H   1  .  or  regnrds  it  otherwi.se  than 

t  the  metj>  rnu Mou  of  some  witty  writer  of  the 
time  of  CrorawcH,     Roger  L'Ehtrange  claimed  it 
"Sutler,  and  inserted  it  in  Butlers  Fix^thumous 
p$f  in  1715  ;  but  no  one  believed  that  it  was 
kr\      A   far  more  probable  author  was   Sir 
on,  Bart.,  the  royal  astrologer  and 
m  ,  who  was  for  some  time  a  prisoner 

PltTIV"indaor  Castle*    A,  Wood  says  of  lilio,  Aiken, 
^    Fi.,  ii.  509  :— 

*♦  The  first  md  sccorni  pwta  of  Th^  Latt  Wilt  and 
fTt*t.  t'f  Phitip,  Marl  of  PemtyroJte,  ke.,  pn  ltJ49.  <^u., 
fl  *  v^r  Oeorge  W/tarton  was  tLc  ftutlior  of  ihcm  I 

♦ .  .  be  wft3  ft  til  10  paced  rojallist,  a  boon 
1,  ft  iritty  dryll,  atid  u  waggish  poet'* 

The  Earl  of  Pembroke  wjuh  Constable  of  Windsor 
\4>tTo  in  Hj48.     The  second  part,  or  codicil,  shows 
!  in  stUl  Titarer  death,  shouting  murder 
l1  fiJ    then   finding   that  the  cau«©  of  his 

error  wuis  only  a  cat !  Edwakd  Solly, 

Sutton,  Surrfjr. 

The  Little  Suhker  (5*^  S.  il  381)  is  known 
lS*  ^^-^  ^**^*  Gn^jUiigd^  and  Gmjhn^d 
*"*     'uuia.     At  any  nite,  Dyitd  Gwyleufel 
Day.     But  whether  Engel  is  a  cor* 
uption   of  .Vi/j<rMj^t7:=^  Michael,  or  of  Engffl^=:^ 
ia^I  ain  uut  prtjjiired  toauy*     Ou>y/ =  holiday» 
^eo  ftorue  int^^resting  remarks  on  words 
to  Gwyl,  e.*j,,    Yuh/Hiid^  uAcW,    ro/ro, 
t  an  article  on  *'  The  Pmying  Machine  "  in  Good 
^or(U,  1867,  p.  846,  T,  C.  Uknone* 

SlMPfiiow  &  Co.  (5«»  S.  i-  49,  114,  197j  333  ;  ii. 
'  "ine  across  a  not€»,  which  I  took 

h  t  vol.  of  "  Lords'  Entries  '  in 

'  'liivts  vs  iiu  ii  Hocms  to  contradict  the  **  rule 
ddrj^"  as  s^tated  by  R  P.,  **  that  a  cotit  of 

i  f'  '  '  "^^ '  vi^>6ted  in  the  blood  dr      ■-  ^ '^ 

r/*     In  vol  xii.  of  1 1 

in   if -«  I  nee  of  the  ;..,.  j»  ,l,,  ij 

led  estate,  and  the 

that  the  devisee  of 

rij^'iit  to  the  arms  quartered  by  his  prc- 

PiirHUunt  to  an  order  of  the  Iriish  House 

1»,   Hcniy,  frauth  Viscount  Loft  us  (created 

jiUtda  KiH  of  K!v\  in  1 7 61>,  entered  in  Ulster 

nd  his  wife  Frances, 

I  mro  ;  and  hia  arms 

ih.Urifcjitc'd  thus; — 1,  Loftu* : 

'DO  ;  4.  Pol  wart ;  5.  Sinclnire  ; 

.Another  coat) ;  s.  Pepdie  ; 

I  ; — all  impaiinir  the  anus 

Inn  in,       ^  ij-ruiijir     JioftU."*  ' 

«d  of  I,  7,  2»  6\  in  t\ 


nnic^,  3,4,5,6^9,10,^, 


iv  I  in;  ;irun  in 


Gustavtis  Hnme,  Bart,,  who^e  elder  daughter  and 
co-heir,  M:iry  Hume,  married  Niohokis,  second 
Viscount  Loftus,  and  first  Earl  of  Ely,  by  whom 
she?  hud  an  only  child,  Nicholas,  second  Earl  of 
Ely,  who 4  in  17ti9,  died  unmarried,  having  devised 
hie  landed  property,  inclnding^  that  portion  in- 
herited tlirough  hia  mother,  to  his  uncle  Henry, 
who  succeeded  him  in  the  Viscounty,  but  who  was 
not  in  any  way  related  by  blood  to  the  Hume 
family.  'FhiB  was  a  remarkable  instance  of  the 
ie^aJ  assumption  of  arms  by  a  person  in  no  way 
relate*!  tu  the  ori^'inal  owner,  and  I  remember  being 
very  much  surprised  whtn  I  found  it ;  but  there  it 
remain.^  on  record^  the  shield  with  the  various 
qunrtcrings  duly  depict^,  and  with  the  Viscount's 
j^ignature  underneath.  Y.  S.  M. 

Double  CimrsTiA^'  Names  {fj'^  S.  ii.  226,  271, 
21)4,  316.) — ^I  think  an  earlier  instance  of  the  use 
of  two  names,  either  Christiaii  or  ttarmimie,  nmy  be 
quoted,  as  follows  :— 

**  Benuchamp,  of  Eaton,  Co.  Bedf. 
"John,     Roger  do  Beauchnmpj,  oh  n'rcnt  1217  s.pf 
'*  Hen,  III.    John  de  Beauchamp,  nepk.  and  h.,  being 
eon  of  William  Fits  Geoffrey  do  Bcauclmmp,  by  Matilda, 
■let.  and  h.  of  tb«  Itkst  baron."— Court bope*d  HUtvric 
Peij'ttae  of  Ewdandf  p.  47. 

D.  C.  B. 

The  Crescent,  Bedford. 

The  will  of  James  Maiy  Gardiner,  of  Brialy,  in 
Norfulk»  dated  let  September,  1639,  was  proved 
3nth  October  following  in  the  Bishop's  Court  of 
Norwich. 

In  a  pedi|?ree  of  Smyth|  of  Penshurst,  Sussex, 
presumed  aneeators  of  a  family  of  that  name  seated 
at  Buckburv,  Norfolk,  occur  the  names  of  Edward 
Warrcnne  J^myth,  o^.  1458,  and  Bymon  Clifford 
Smyth,  ok  1637.  G.  A-  Op 


**  TAPftALTEERld  '*  (6*'*  S.  i», 
I  ly  men 


''  T0P8T-TrRVT  " 
288,  334.)— 

«  An*  warl  I 
May  a  k 

Jamie*on,  ma\  **  Tnpsie-teerie,"  explains  dipHiUt^ru 
as  **  tops-all- twervej,'*  heads  fill  the  wr..ii./  «:iv, 
from  the  Dnnish  tu-^r,  iicross.     Ajs,  ho  v 

in  tofixif-turvy  is  **  to'erway,,"  probablv  m 

fnpmlUcrU  is  **  »11 1'  ithcr  way. ' 

I  now  come  to  the  tij  in  fop*]/,  and  the  <  in 
taps.  Mr.  Earle  {rhilvUyjit,  i>.  432)  tells  us 
"  thiit  itpsidc'doitm  is  an  advero,  that  has  been 
altered  ny  a  false  light  from  vp^so-down^  on  as 
Wiclif  has  it^vp-fe  down,  wherem  to  Is  the  old 
relative  ;  the  expression  is  eiiui^-alent  lo  up-what* 
down**  He  then  cfle^  a  psihAfttr»>  from  Hampole, 
In  which  the 

If  Kidt\  in 
"  w hit;h,'' ^1/  in  ^oi'su-ni., 
he  the  same  word  no.    'I 
will  ibt^n  be  "  i^\,\i&l  Vuv- 


478 


NOTES  AND  QUEMEa 


lBf^S.U.J>EC.U,1L 


ihe  oiber  wny/'  and  lapsaHeerie  will  mean  tlie 
sam«  with  "all"  inserted.  Agsiln,  tbe  wp^y^itny  of 
Eolmrt  Greeiie,  which  I  have  cited/ p.  288,  will 
mean  **  that  being  up  which  (was)  t*  other  waj/' 
By  thifl  meatii  wc  get  rid  of  the  words  topndt  and 
vpiide,  which  are  found  in  no  other  eonnexioti, 
and  are  Aelf-controdicloiy, 

It  has  been  pointed  out,  sup.^  p.  3!^,  that  Spenser 
ufies  the  word  tymdi^'Uirvy ;  but  S|>enBei'*s  uutho- 
ritj,  on  aueh  points,  has  no  great  weight. 

F.  J*  y, 

<*  Be  tounicth  all  tli^Tige  ffl;jrV'/efT|f/' 

J2rif«  ]n«  and  £e  noC  irno^Ai,  Arbar,  p«  £1- 

jlrii^-rcr*ie  is  nnother  fonu: — 

*'  It  11  not  figlitinii  uriile-wriffV/' 

(6e«  Bolin's  liudi&r^,  p.  112.} 
Jo  11  If  Addis* - 

*  Wb  ih»ll  o'ertum  it  toiujf-iurrjf  down." 

Mfnry  Il\  Finfe  Part,  act  i?,  ic.  1,  L  82. 

''^  Whose  weii^lit  o'ertumed  the  ^hip  ; 
IVhicli  tof'sif-tm'v^  BiiikiDc^  downe  did  ket'pe 
TLe  Sajler*  under  water. ' 

M^fs  trftnflationj  Lut&n'a  Phanalut 
(2tid  Edition,  16^1),  book  iii. 
T,  Ma  CO  RATH. 

In  Bodleian  IVI3.  Eawl.  Poet*  25  ^which  is  dated 
1694-5,  and  is  a  copy  of  a  MS.  written  not  later 
than  1586),  on  the  reverse  of  sign.  E  7,  eleTentb 
line,  I  find  the  plimse  "  topiide-torfway,"  which,  I 
Buppow,  was  the  original  of  to}}mf-turt}f.  Further 
evidence  will  be  ficceptable. 

Fred,  W.  Fdstebl 

Oxf«*rd. 

Clwk- Striking  (b^^  B.  ii.  2G8,  43^)— Why 
need  the  Uamburg  clock  be  ''  sadly  out  of  order  " 
if,  at  a  (:itiiirter-|>EL3t  aix^  its  hour  bell  strikes  seven 
(an  hour  which,  prjre  Dr.  Djxos%  has  "arrived")? 
In  Holland  the  public  clocks  eommonly  strike  the 
hour  at  the  half-hour— seven,  (.r.  fjr.,  k  half-piiat 
sii— as  well  as  at  the  completed  hour.  This  is  so 
Ttry  convenient  an  arranf^eiuent  in  villrrges  and 
small  towns,  donbling,  as  it  well  nigh  does,  the 
clock's  usefulness,  that  I  wonder  it  h&s  not  been 
adopted  in  England.  At  the  thirty  minutes  past, 
the  Jialf'S pent  hour  is  announced  by  u  high-pitched 
belli  and  the  strokes  aro  rapid  ;  so  that,  even  where 
there  is  no  preliminary  chime,  no  "  uncertain 
sound  "  h  given.  Henry  Attwell. 

Barnes. 

"  BoKii "  (5"»  S.  i.  389  ;  li.  53.)— The  word  is 
probably  derived  from  kibosh  or  hjhoaAhf  vix.,  cui 
hoiio  f  Our  Melbourne  thieves,  gentlemen  who 
have  I'licrished  the  secret  slang  of  their  renowned 
ancciilnrs,  term  the  vnu^juii*bment  of  an  enemy 
"putting  the  kyboHh  on  hitu,"  putting  the  ak 
bono  f  on  him  — making  him  admit  that  to  struggle 
longer  would  be  for  no  one  "a  J>enefit, 

Marcus  Clark e* 
The  FuMk  Library,  Melbourne* 


Tnfi    IktAERlAOB    OF   Ti         *.DR1ATIC   AHD   THl 

DooE  ar  Venice  (5*^  S.  iL  /,  454.)— Will  Mb. 
Gauss ERDK  be  ao  obliging  as  ^o  give  his  aadioritj 
for  saying  ^Mt  la  t^uite  true  that  the  ring  wis 
recovered  after  the  wedding  "  ? 

Ralph  N.  Jaiob. 
Aihford,  Kent. 


Ermine  Street  {^^  S.  iL  348,  415.)— Ml 
Taylor  (Wm-ds  and  Places,  p.  167,  1873)  exnbiv 
Ermin  Street  as  "paupers*  road."  In  replj  to 
Hermektruqe,  I  would  say  that  0.  H.  G.  Irmnud 
means  "  the  pillar  of  Arminius."  Arminius  is  the 
Latinized  form  of  Germ.  Hermann  (cp.  IceL  Htr 
madr^  a  warrior),  A.  L.  Mathew. 

Oxford, 

Edward  Maria  Winqfield  (5*"*  S.  L  488 ;  iL 
73,  237.)— The  name  Maria  seems  to  have  been 
adopted  in  the  Wingfield  family  from  the  Princee 
Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  YIII.  At  least,  Davy 
(Suff.  Coll.,  "  Wingfield  of  Kimbolton'')  says  that 
Sir  Thomas  Maria  Wingfield,  Knt.,  a  younger  son 
of  Sir  Bicbard  Wingfield,  K.G.,  by  his  second 
wife,  Bridget,  daughter  ;md  heir  of  Sir  John  Wilt- 
shire, had  "Q.  Mary  [for]  his  godmother."  The 
name  was  afterwards  borne  by  several  males  in 
succeeding  generationa  of  this  family  (Davy,  as 
above ;  ped.  in  Gough's  Sepulchral  ifonumenU). 
Female  Chriitian  names,  as.  given  to  men,  are 
found  in  two  other  eminent  families.  William 
AniiA  (Capel),  fourth  Earl  of  Essex,  possibly  de- 
rived from  our  moat  dread  sovereign,  as  it  is  stated 
of  Lord  A^tu  Hamilton,  who  was  "  so  called  after 
bis  godmother,  Queen  Anne,"  being  third  son  of 
James,  fourth  Duke  of  Hamilton,  and  first  Duke 
of  Brandon  (Burke's  F^t^rage,  &c.). 

John  A.  C.  Vixcest. 

C.  J.  Fox's  Deaf  and  Dumb  Son  (5*  S.  ii. 
£32,  415.) — la  there  anything  contemporaneons 
to  show  who  was  the  Mr.  Stone  (at  HacKney)who 
entertained  Samuel  Rogers  and  the  distingubhed 
company  named  by  that  poet  ?  Where  wa? 
"Bniidwood*s  Academy"  situated,  at  which  it 
would  appear  Fox'i  natural  son  was  brought  up  i 

W.  Phillips. 

James  Sayers,  the  Caricaturist  (5"*  S.  iL 
281,  38 2.) --Mr.  OLrnAR  Hamst  is  mistaken  in 
supposing  the  portrait  referred  to  by  him  in 
*'N.  k  Q."  to  be  that  of  Dr.  WiUain.  By  a 
portrait  of  Capt.  Coram,  by  Hogarth,  in  my  pos- 
geasion,  I  identify  it  as  that  of  the  jolly  Captain's; 
tbe  features,  to  meet  the  occasion,  rendered  more 
stem  than  in  the  original.  In  All  th€  TalefUs 
GaTl4i7idj  18(J7,  tbe  editor,  speaking  of  Elijak'i 
Mantkj  says  that  it  and  The  Uti  Poiidetit  and 
Staiut  Qtto  were  both  written  by  James  Sajer, 
Esq. ;  so  this  \mt  will  have  to  be  added  to  0.  EJi 


Uftt  qC  his  works. 


AG. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


479 


CSAXCELS    PlACKD    WESTWARD    (5"»  S.  U.  288, 

352),^CiviLi3    i^   of  course,   cognizant  of    the 
I  notion — ixnd  it  IB  sure  to  Lave  been  discussed  in 
I  •*  N.  &  Q." — ^that  the  orientation  of  churches  is 
\  decirled  by  where  the  ffun  rises  on  the  saint***  day 
•  tu  which  tJt»*  church  is  dedicated.     Thnt  is  said 
Ki  Vmn  the  theory,  though  in  pmctice  it  is  nought, 
if  '*ch;incel»-ani/'  jind   not   '*  eastward,"   is   the 
uoFBhippinj^    position,  the   matter  becomes  per- 
plexing, and  gives  some  colour  to  a  remark  I  once 
lfd«  that  **lhe  thing  is  to  f«m,  sonjehow  and 
B^whert*,"  as  is  evidenced  in  schoolroom  chapek 
under  difficulties,  &c.     I  hope  I  do  not  transgress 
Uic  limits  of  the  question.     I  '^'d  not  mean  to  do 

2,  B.  J. 


^ticcHiiiUdUi. 


KOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc, 
^'hff  and  other  Mctnoriah  of  Mrs,  Gil- 
rhj  Ann  Taylor),      With  Portraits 
lion-       Edited  by  Jo^^iah  Gilliert, 
x  Co.) 

I  "  is  tt  phnise  which  once 
BndtMi  pi*?iLsantiy  m  every  English  home  ;  and  it 
■  not  yet  loi^t  its  pleasantness.     Every  membei 
Fof  the  Taylor  family  turned  literature  to  excellent 
I  account.     Their  children  inherited  the  taste  and 
the  power  from   their  father,  Isaac  Taylor,  the 
>  eminent  Hne-engrsiveT  and  Independent  Minister. 
HijJ  daughters,  Jane  and  Ann,  in  their  early  verses 
Attuned    infant  minds  to  human   affectioufi,  and 
[  their  brother,  Isafic  Taylor,  addrc3se<l  himself  to 
the  maturer  minds  of  deeply-thinkiDg  men.     He 
won  A  distluguiahed  place  as  a  leader  of  such  men, 
by  numerous  able  works.     Amonff  them  ma}"  h^ 
^^ j^ M  , ,  . )  ^ ,  i  ^  pfi  fjffical  Tk eory  of  Another  L i/c, 
Xo  hgy^hh  Rtstmation  of  Bdiefy  and, 

r*.  1  ,  u-  all  J  his  Natural  Hutonj  of  Etithu- 

work  for  Men  by,  emphatically,  a  Man. 
vice  ijcnsions  are  conatantly  granted  with- 
out the  leu£t  consideration  to  fitness  ;  but  that  of 
100^,,  granted  to  Isaac  Taylor,  waa  truly  described 
a&  being  *Mn  public  ricknowledgment  of  nia  eminent 
s^rrit^'^  to  society,  es^pecially  in  the  depjirtments  of 
liU  I  philoHophy,  during  a  period  of  more 

tha :  •■  I  re."   The  old  spirit  impels  other  mem- 

bers oi  Uie  ijmily.  The  son  of  the  bxi^t-named  gen- 
tleman, tbe  Rev,  Isaac  Taylor,  Vicir  of  Holy  Trinity, 
T«»'icki:iiham,  has  added  a  book  permanently  to 
literature,  in  hiis  Wordi  and  Placa,  which  containj^ 

T  * ^    ,.    .1  ilhxBtrations  of  History,  Ethnology, 

ly;  and   Ann   Taylor'i*    (Mrs.   Gil- 

...,   ,s  well  known  and   esteemed  by  his 

the  Dolomite  Mountains^book  writteD, 

inntulnr^.  ^■>  to  nnriik,  discovered  by  him,  in 

hiU.     Mr.  Gilbert  huB 

^  N-ra  to  the  history  of 

m  ki3  Cad&r^;  or,  Tfiut»>  Coufitry;  and  in 


the  work  before  ua  he  has  contributed  two  charm- 
ing volume^s  to  that  most  pleasant  of  all  the  de- 
partments of  literature — biography. 

^Ir.  Gilbert  has  done  wisely  and  boldly.  In 
other  wordff,  he  has  succeeded  in  a  courageoas 
attempt  to  photograph  a  life*  His  mother*8,  in  her 
interesting  Autobiography,  and  in  hiij  own  illus- 
tr.it ions,  in  described  as  it  truly  was.  A  modest 
English  home  of  the  last  and  present  century  ia 
kid  thoroughly  open,  with  all  its  hopes  and  dis- 
appointments, joys  and  sorrows,  struggles  and 
triumphs.  The  subject  has  quaint  and  picturesque 
surroundings.  It  reveals  to  us  a  remarkable  old 
English  family;  and  every  page  is  marked  by  Ann 
Taylor's  tenderness  of  feeling  or  playful  humour, 
or  the  shrewd  sense  with  which  she  handled  all 
topiiTS,  from  the  daily  affairs  of  a  household  to  the 
public  questions  of  her  time  ;  and,  it  may  be  added, 
the  depth  and  rtality  of  her  piety,  which  was  quite 
in  unison  with  a  merriness  of  heart  which  made 
her  presence  in  a  room  as  welcome  as  sunshine. 
Her  Autobiogmphy  is  an  exquisite  domestic  nar- 
nitive.  It  fully  justities  Mr.  Gilbert's  e^urying 
out  to  the  end  liis  picture  of  family  life,  in  wbich 
the  incidents  of  the  common  lot,  told  with  the  art* 
lesa  reality  and  pathos  of  her  letters,  must  interest 
a  very  l;irge  circle  of  readers  who  have  S3''mpathctic 
and  liberal  natures.  In  the  second  volume,  es- 
pecially, there  is  curious  evidence  how  the  Inde- 
pendent mother-wit  diatiDguiBhed  itself  in  the 
treatment  of  such  subjects  as  Free  Trade,  Dta- 
establishment,  the  Atheistical  Argument,  Broad 
Church  Preachings  and  Pjdncation  by  the  Stite. 
The  book  will,  no  doubt,  be  a  *'  standard  book  ** 
in  biographical  literature. 

Alphabetical    Dictionary  of  CoaU  of  Arms    he^ 

longing  to  Families  m  Great  Britain  and  Xrt' 

land,  forming  an  Ej-tcnsirc  Ordinary  of  British 

A rtn oriole:    upon  an   entirely  New   Plan,   in 

which  the  Arms  are  Systematically  subdivided 

thi»ughout,  and  so  Arranged   in  Alphabetical 

Order,  that  the  Names  of  Families  whose  Shields 

are   found   on    Buildings,    Monument**,    Seals, 

Paintmgs,    Plate,  &c.,   whether    Medieval   or 

Modern,  can  be  readily  ascertained.     By  the 

late  John  W.  Papworth,  F,R.LB.A.     Edited 

from   p.    696   by  Alfred   W.    Momnt,    F.S. A,, 

F.aS.     Parts   XX I L,   XXIIL,    Introduction, 

&g.    (Issued  to  Subacrlbers  by  Wyatt  Pap  worth, 

33,  Bloomsbur}^  Street,  W.C") 

We  are  glad  to  announce  the  completion  of  this 

very  useful  book,  which,  commenced  under  great 

disiiflvautages,  carried  on  under  many  difficulties, 

has  at  length  been  brought  to  a  most  auitisfactory 

conclusion*      The  object  of  the  work  before  us 

may  be  prettjr  clearly  gathered  from  tlu^  nmple 

title-page,  which  we  have  advisedly  1 1  tit 

full  length.     The  value  of  such  a  1 '  as 

this  to  professed  students  of  genealogy  and  bend* 


480 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5^&ILDM.l%7i. 


dry  ii  I^k;  obyloiiJi  to  need  itniiting  on»  But  its 
Utility  IB  no  I«as  positive  to  another  and  much 
more  nuineroas  body  of  renders.  How  manjr  well- 
informed  persons  there  are  to  vhoui,  ulbeit  they 
themselves  ''may  giro  the  do^n  white  luces  in 
their  coatj^'  the  btozons  of  Garter  are  i\s  much 
matters  of  mystery  oa  the  hieroglyphics  of  Egypt, 
who  often  desire  to  know  to  whom  the  quartcrings 
on  some  old  family  picture  or  piece  of  plate  have 
belonged — wiiose  aro  the  arms  graven  on  some  old 
monument,  or  figuring  in  some  painted  window, 
or  stamped  on  the  moroeeo  sides  of  some  quaint 
old  volume.  The  book  before  us  is  the  "Open 
Sesame  I  ^  to  thb  kind  of  information,  if  those 
who  tiy  to  use  it  will  attend  to  the  brief  hints 
contained  in  the  Introduction.  H^irmg  thui 
shown  that  the  book  may  be  used  with  advantage 
by  both  the  grei*t  cln^sses  into  which  the  reading 
world  is  divided^  namely,  those  who  are  heralds 
and  those  who  are  notj  we  feel  justified  in  declaring 
that  the  OnUnary  of  Bniiith  A  nnoriah  ought  to 
be  placed  on  the  Selves  of  every  library,  public 
or  private,  which  aims  at  completeness  in  that 
moat  important  diviiion  of  such  library — the  Booi-jf 
of  Jii'fi.rencc. 

A  Booh  A  ho  it  t  the  Tahh,   By  iJohn  Cordy  Jeaffre- 

8011-  2  vols,  (Hurst  &  BZaekett.) 
Here  are  two  savoury,  buceulent,  delicious,  and 
eaaily  digested  Tolumep,  which  require  no  further 
description  than  what  is  conveyed  in  their  brief  but 
significant  title,  and  in  the  adjectives  ju^t  applied 
to  the  volumes  themselves.  The  work,  moreover, 
appears  seasonably.  Cooks,  cookery,  and  the 
t4ible  generiilly^  would  not  be  Imlf  ho  welcfuue  in 
the  dog-days  sin  at  this  wintry  holiduj-tide,  ^Ir. 
Jeafifreson  ranges  through  every  department  of  bi^ 
subject.  Going  with  him  is  something  like  b^ing 
.  guided  throiic^b  every  iiiistronomical  experience  in 
the  land  of  coiiki'i'y*]7'(r  e.f^elhjtc^^  from  the  uiosit 
magnificent  Amphitryon's  table  to  the  ^Msibon 
Petieau,  where  I  hey  advertise  "Diners  a  1  Fr. 
1  Potage,  1'  Plat  ile  Viamle,  I  Plat  de  Lt^giimc!*,  1 
Dessert,  1  Carafon  et  Pain,"  adding  "  d  1  Fr*  Stl 
on  a  la  demi-boiiteille.*'  Of  a  book  that  has  anec- 
dotal ilhistnitiona  on  every  page,  we  have  not  space 
to  say  more  than  record  the  fact,  which  in  itself  is 
the  very  best  of  recon  mien  da  t  ions.  To  Tuiny  of 
our  readers  the  ch!ii>ter  on  the  Folk- Lore  of 
Feeding  will,  no  <loubt^  prove  attractive  ;  and 
there  are  some  other  chapters  from  which  we  may 
make  :ipt  extract  for  the  column.^  of  "  N.  k  Q.'*  at 
a  future  time.  ^Icanwhile  the  name  of  the  author 
will  be  sufficient  warrjmt  for  the  excellent  quality 
of  ^  Book  About  the  Tahk. 


AnciiaoLOCiCAl.  TiESTiTUTR.— Z>«.  4.— ^f^.  Oqtariufl 
Murgftn  in  the  chair.— Th*  Chftirmiiii  read  *'  Obaomi- 
tiODB  411  the  Claftifieation  nnd  Arrangement  of  a  Col- 
lection of  Wfttche^/*  wfaieh  he  illa^trriteil  bj  Bome  choioe 
■|>eclmea*.     A^o(«i  on  "  Lich&etd  CathednJ^  ift«r  the 


Siege  of  1643/'  by  John  Hewitt,  w«re  re»iL  Hr.  Tre- 
gellaa  brought  k  pair  of  eitgmTed  itirer  thoa-liMU.  uid 
H  pftteh-box;  Mr*  8.  Tucker  (Rouge  Crolx}i  "Dtffifl 
Tucker'*  Shoe'*;  Mr<  Soden  Stiiith,  floine  «niileti  wmi 
ringf  of  the  Celtic  period^  and  a  Komaa  rin^;  }&; 
Kightiagalet  a  Jiftec nth- century  golil  rii^g :  Mr,  Selbf,, 
a  Tery  eni&lL  Psalm  Book  with  ueedle-work  coTer^  todi 
knife,  part  brut?  j^ud  part  ete^lf  probablj  Sc&iiiiinmVBii ; 
Mri.  Kcer,  pfaotograpbfl  of  an  EbmiCMi  tomb^  and  olgecti 
ftt  Pompeii ;  Mr.  Page,  iome  wat0li««. 

SHAESFKiBlAir  LrFEEATUHE.  — MettTt.  JCOlidisii  k 
GilT,  of  Dublin,  hftve  jtift  ready  a  pftoaphlet,  the  ol^iect  ef ' 
which  h  to  prore  that  tho  ohKraoter  of  Wobey^  not  ioti 


tb«  moutb  of  Qrifllth  In  Mtnnf  VllLt  ie  ecwu 

vcrhaiimt  as  ue&rly  as  blank  Tcrie  can  wefl 

prose,  from  Caniplou'e  Hiti^^  qf  Irdand^  written  vbn 

Shukfp^are  wta  a  boj. 


Oda  eftcensed  correqwndent,  J.  T,  F.^  in  refereDce  to 
"  The  Pamblo  of  tbe  One  Only  Kid  "  (5"'  S.  it.  43i,  iM^ 
direct*  attention  to  !iid  necount  of  a  Jewifli  pasiofff 
diflhy  in  whbb  tbi«  parable  U  described  a^  rcpraioited 
in  a  aeries  of  m^daUioiiB  in  '*  N.  k  Q.,''  5'^  a  t  4261  Tb« 
numberii^  of  the  etibjeotg  in  p.  427,  col.  1,  is  wrgog ;  it 
should  be  1  to  13.  Bee  also  a  communieatloti  by  £  M. 
DflAcn,  p.  493. 

"  EULOOT  0^  WoKEH  **  (5"*  i,  u.  433,)— H,  B*  M.  »JI 
thi^t  the  attthor  of  tbe  eulogy  ii  Mr.  OlemaHi,  <^B»t- 
ford.  Conn.  ("  Mark  Tvaio  ").  The  remarki  Wir%  vmk 
at  an  editorial  dub  meeting  at  >7a«hingtoa  loma  ttt 
jean  eiiice. 

J.  C.  J.  (and  other  Carrespotid^nti)  irill  oblige  % 
writing  their  comrounicattoni  on   only  one  iide  0/  tk 

V.  C.  Q.  sbouM  nppl^  t^  the  editor  of  the  jourciat  M 
i^Tcb  the  story  appeared.  He  would,  donbtteei,  receiTf 
a  Mitiiifactory  repfj. 

W.  11.  K.  B.  liaJ  onlj  to  npply  to  the  pabtifhcfi  hj 
whom  the  n;vme«  of  the  chief  contributon  hate  been 
aniiouTict^d. 

E,  A, — Xuna  Sahib  wat  in  Hlnj^land  only  in  the  peitoa 
of  It  if  rfproseiitatiter  Ailm-oolah  Khan,  in  1S53. 

R,  F.  IL  H  referred  to  our  last  toL  p.  240^  where  a 
reply  will  he  found, 

C<  C*  — The  epitaph  Iiilq  been  printed  hondndl  of 
timet. 

N>~  Apply  to  the  chess  cdUor  of  the /^/iMlrof^tf  l>«a* 
don  iVc'ir^. 

Jk  L. — See  Eruoft*!  Al^fumta  and  Baker'H  Irmtnlit 
for  infltancps, 

Q,  II.  S— Tlujy  are  "  nearly  ready**  for  pubUcatiffliL 

LrnuT.-CoL.  Ffinuussosf-— Neit  week. 

Wqulw* — There  is  no  sueh  society^ 

KOTSCK 

Editoria]  Coniinunicattoni  should  be  addnrated  i&  *  Tki 
Editor" — AdvertiMmenti  and  BoMueu  Letterfl  to  '*Tbt 
Publisher  "—at  the  Office,  20,  WeUinglon  Strict,  Stiaol, 
J-rfjndon,  W.C, 

We  beg  leare  to  state  thnt  we  deoline  to  return  eora- 
munication^  which »  for  anj  reason^  we  do  not  print;  and 
to  thii  rule  we  can  make  in^  exception* 

To  all  communkatioiis  should  be  affixed  the  name  »nd 
addr2«9  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publiostioBf  Nt 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 


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^V    forlziet 
If  Jaibm  H 


CONTENTS.  — N*  6L 
KOTBBl— Olny  ChrlitUn  Kmrnea  md  Tombs,  431— The  Ftti- 
lUftf  and  Mtevsrtfi,  4^2— (Emaniuu'  U&rwjri  aihI  iMfttthew) 
Hndftll— The  Electric  TeJe^mpb,  JS;i-Shak^jeari(ina— Thft 
&iiUib  Alittophuics,  4Si— ElMory  Repestlxig  Itaflir^BeU- 
Flonodflr— fipiuph  at  Little  HAnQpton--UDiversftl  Eiomphjr 
.-OMgmpblaa  Enor,  4^^"*  Rejected  AddnsMe*  *^— The 
Aiclibabop  ol  Oiknt«ibuf7'«  BapiiJm— The  Ruli  of  Dcmfeoi- 
w»lflr.  4SdL 

r^Cbspmrno.   the  TransJator  of  Bomor— Anthon 

iod  QooUtlOD*  WAot«d^The  Killigirewa-Shcrifrs'  Orden 
lor  XBteuUooA,  ibT— Portmlt  af  Hogarth— Bobeit  Pe«l  Kod 
3%mt9  BttTf  —  EplgT&ra  —  **  Heleu^enwufb  "— "  Henonghe 
La  Ath'*— Mw.  Gooch,  17*^—"  Hundred  aflfer"— Sir  Trtt- 
ti-*m— '^Opu4  do  KmaodmtloD«  T«caponim "^MOftAJr  d« 
volift— Foxtnit  of  A  Ladj.  iSfi^Sir  Potor  Blre»  Gar,  fiATt*. 
480. 

E£FLT£3  r-PaoIo  Smrpl  489-Tlie  Fl^lit  ftl  Perth,  400  - Ari- 
■totle  on  Dujciaf  *a^  Po«trj,  4t)l— Thomaa  Satton.  4fii^ 
''BemaiA  Ihindea "— ThomM  Tregoaw— Oiborne  FAHilIf, 
493  — **3uiad{m"'-Aoti  Lading  up  Corn  — Armour  in 
CiiurehM— lUFony  of  Totneai— "  Kau  *!e  Vie, "  iOi — A  Skrotch 
Baronetcy —*' The  Court  Convert."  ic— Hftory  Uydc  of 
Pimon— Heraldic— June*  Pierce,  17"2tf— "Sbakapoaro  aad 
Ilia  MoiicAl  Gluaei "— llfarrUiio  ia  Lent,  41»5— Orl^n  of 
tlie  VLgj^  Uoaie  of  Stuart — "The  Cry  of  N&lure  •'- *' Our 
AfTections  and  PiMwJom "— N ew  Work«  Su^fo$t«d  by  An- 
tho»  — Silver  Star — Klrby'a  "'Wonderful  and  Eccentric 
Uiueum  "  —  "  Gate,"  *96  —  EliiAljeth  H  amlltoa  —  *'  The 
Y^abond,"  byGeoriw  Walker— I  — T.  AHington 

— •*KiiUllA"— The  Hermit  of  i;  n-The  Ana^ 

tisllan  Drama- Abbeys  and  Ca  t  luU,  407— Patd 

JoaoE**  Action,  IPS. 

S(Ae*  OD  Boolii,  tc. 


^^<&IP8Y  CHRISTIAN  NAMES  AND  TOMBS. 
^^^■Ibe  discuss  [on  of  Gipsy  Chrifstian  names  in  the 
^HEn  of  **  N.  k  QJ^  fibows  tb^t  the  unusuitl  iDtemt 
iiilEeti  of  late  in  all  relating  to  this  ancient  race  is 
abared  by  many  of  yonr  readers.  The  ideiis  of 
most  f>eopk%  however,  on  the  aubject,  derived 
diiefly  from  aensational  novels  and  the  mystified 
tal^  of  George  Borrow,  arc,  I  imagine,  still  rather 
hhzj.  I  believe,  therefore,  thrit  some  of  your 
Koders  tn       '        '    '       '  '       '  at  the  un- 

TntniBbe^l  is  afforded 

by  the  f.it'Hi-[ ijM ].ijLi  in  MMi  Lniui.,>  i-rirpiigiug  to  ti 
family  of  a  west-country  tribe,  which  1  visited 
oily.     The  touibs  are  situated  in  the  church- 
of  the  parish  church  of  Gubcait,  in  Ren- 
some    foar    or    five    miles    south    of 
The  burial-ground  of  this  family  is  very 
^Uid  out^  ornamented  with  the  tritditional 
I  and  yew.    The  tomhstont^s  are  executed  in 
"pnt  style,  and  the  ground  enclofled  with 
]y  handsome   cri^st-iron  raUing;   the 
avea  and  gilt  cliister»  of  grapes ;  the 
ine  the  idea  of  a  burial-pLoce  of  some 
tial    and  well- to-do  citiaea--       the 
I  nfighboiiTiiig  t<»\vn  of  GLixir^ow. 

When  I  first  visited  thi^  spot»  about  a  year  ago, 
ihero  was,  within  the  enclosure,  only  one  broad 
fitti  stane,  the  inBcription  showing  that  it  had  been 


erected  to  the  nieuiory  of  John  CcK>per,  who  died 
in  January,  1872|  by  Sarah  and  Phtebe  Cooper 
(Ms  wife  and  mother) ;  then  running  as  follows : — 

**  JPkrtwell  loved  wife,  fond  mother,  and  children  dear. 
All  my  sufferings  and  all  my  tcfider  care, 
Pbysictani  were  in  rain,  till  God  did  please 
And  Death  did  seize  and  case  me  or  ihiki  pidn. 

And  yon,  my  little  children,  I  loved  so  dear ; 
I  yoor  only  friend  was  boand  to  lonvc  vou  ,* 
But  trust  in  God,  he  'II  be  your  f&ther  ana  your  friend, 
And  in  the  realmg  of  love  I  hope  to  meet  you.'" 
"  Leave  thy  fatherleaa  children  to  God's  protecting  care. 
O  Lord,  fulfil  thy  prunase." 

When  I  last  saw  the  ground,  another  stond 
had  been  added,  hamlaomer  tlian  the  first,— a 
long  narrow  stone,  with  convex  sides,  meeting  at 
a  height  of  about  three  feet,  and  triangular  ends. 
The  inscription  runs  thuB  : — 

•*  Here  lie  the  Eemnins  of 
hoQkV  Lk£  (the  beloved  son  of  J<»}tN  and  IjATTTOEN  Lue 
and  brother  of  Nethex  Lbe  and  grandson  of  Euxadeth 

ShirTn) 

who  departed  oat  of  thb  world  on  the  25^  di^y  of  Sep.  1873* 

Aged  12  yean," 

On  the  triangular  end  of  the  tomb  is  the  oft-quoted 
text,  "  Suffer  little  children,"  &c. 

If  we  take  this  family  as  a  fair  epecimen  of  the 
gipsy  nice,  I  think  it  would  appear  that  some  of 
their  views  and  opinions  are  characterized  by  much 
more  of  good  taste  and  propriety  than  they  gene- 
rally get  credit  for ;  and  I  shall  l)e  pleased  if  thia 
slight  note  tends  in  the  smallest  degree  towardB 
the  rehabintation  of  this  ancient  people  in  the  ©yea 
of  the  respectable. 

In  the  lists  of  gipsy  Christian  namc5  given  in  5*^ 
S.  ii.  2i2, 1  do  not  nod  three  that  are  mentioned  on 
thia  poor  chOd's  tombstone.  I  would  commend 
these  picturesque  names  to  the  notice  of  contri- 
butors to  *'  N*  Si  Q/'  and  writers  of  three- volume 
novels,  ^  A.  Ferqusson. 

United  ScrTice  Club,  Edinburgh. 

F.3.  I  think  it  cannot  have  escaped  the  natice 
of  some  readers  that  the  inscriptions  above  open  up 
a  more  interesting  question  with  regard  to  the 
gipsies  than  one  merely  of  names  ;  1  mean  their 
religious  belief,  alxjut  which  there  is  considerable 
mystery  and  very  little  trustworthy  endenoe. 
Thei'e  are,  I  believe,  some  who  think  that  the  ex- 
pression **  gipsy  Christian  names  "  is  a  contradiction 
in  terms.  It  Ls  possible  that  the  writer  who 
thinks  pror/ioftiina  more  appropriate  may  be  one 
of  these.  Thia  question  of  the  gipBies*  belief 
is  a  very  interesting  subject,  which,  however,  I 
have  no  intention  of  discussing  ;  but  I  venturo  to 
think  that,  while  the  yerses  on  the  one  tombsitone 
give  little  indication  of  any  creed,  the  gi|>sies  who 
erected  the  other  to  the  memory  of  their  child,  and 
caused  the  text  (St.  Luke  xviii.  16)  to  be  carved 
feiereon,  knew  by  whom  the  words  were  UBed»  and 
probably  took  tome  comfort  from  them. 


482 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*S.n.Dicl»,7<. 


THE  FITZALANS  AND  STEWARTS.  • 
Mr.  G.  T.  Clark,  commenting  on  a  paper  regard- 
ing the  Scottish  invasions  of  Yorkshire  under 
Robert  the  Bruce,  read  at  the  Ripon  Meeting  of 
the  Archteological  Institute,  is  reported  to  have 
observed  "  that  the  houses  of  Stuart  and  Baliol 
were  both  from  Yorkshire."  The  Baliols  and  the 
Bruces  were  great  Yorkshire  barons  soon  after  the 
Conquest :  but  that  the  Stewarts  were  so  was  a 
new  fact.  Mr.  Clark  doubtless  meant  that  they 
descended  from,  or  were  related  to,  the  Fitzalans 
of  Bedale,  and  therefore  must  consider  this  latter 
family  identical  with  the  Fitzalans  of  Oswestry, 
in  Shropshire.  It  has  been  conclusively  shown 
by  Chalmers  and  Riddell  that  Walter,  "filius 
Alani,"  the  first  Steward  of  Scotland,  was  the 
younger  brother  of  Willian),  "filius  Alani,"  of 
Oswestrj",  and  that  these  brothers  flourished  during 
the  reigns  of  David  I.  of  Scotland,  and  his  successors 
Malcolm  and  William,  the  "Steward"  dying  in 
1177,  while  his  elder  brother  predeceased  him  in 
1160.  It  would  be  interesting,  then,  to  know  when 
the  Fitzalans  acquired  Bedale,  and  from  whom  ? 
The  probability  is  that  they  held  it  of  the  Honour 
of  Richmond.  The  first  acquirer  of  Oswestry  at, 
or  soon  after,  the  Conquest  was  Alan,  said  to  be 
son  of  Flaald.  These  two  proper  names  are  pure 
Breton ;  and  it  is  thus  highly  probable  that 
Flaald  or  Alan  came  over  with  Alan  the  "  Red," 
of  Brittany,  who  was  created  Earl  of  Richmond 
by  the  Conqueror.  Hence  the  fact  of  this  Flaald 
(or  Alan  his  son)  holding  Bedale  under  its  Breton 
earl,  coupled  with  his  name,  is  a  confirmation 
of  an  idea  which  occurred  to  me  after  I  had 
studied  the  proper  names  of  Brittany,  viz.,  that 
the  Stewarts,  through  the  Fitzalans,  could  trace  a 
Breton  ancestry,  —an  equally  interesting  and  truer 
bit  of  history  than  the  fabled  descent  from  Banquo 
and  Flenncc,  while  curiously  corroborjiting  the 
national  belief  in  the  Celtic  origin  of  the  Scottish 
kinr^.  Alan  was  a  name  reaching  to  a  very  remote 
antiquity  among  the  Breton  princes,  occurring  at 
least  as  early  as  the  sixth  century  of  our  era.  So 
was  Conan,  a  name  breathing  the  spirit  of  the 
poems  of  Ossian.  At  first  sight,  there  would  appear 
to  be  some  confusion  on  the  subject  of  the  Dukes 
of  Brittany  and  Earls  of  Richmond  in  the  valuable 
work  of  the  late  Abb6  Desroches,  Tlic  AnnaU 
Civil,  Military  and  Genealogical  of  Basse- Nor- 
mandie  (Caen,  1856).  Alan  Fergant,  son  of  Duke 
Hoel,  is  there  said  (p.  105)  to  have  obtained  "a 
County  Palatine  in  England,  and  immense  pos- 
sessions," to  have  become  Duke  of  Brittany  in 
1084,  and  to  have  been  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Conan  III.,  who  died  in  1148.  Then  the  Abb6 
says  (p.  106)  that  Eudo,  Count  of  Penthiijvre  and 
Avaugour, also  sent  his  two  sons,  Alan  the  "Red" 
and  Alan  the  "  Black,"  with  the  Conqueror  ;  that 
Alan  the  *'Red"  became  Earl  of  Richmond,  in  which 
he  was  succeeded  by  Alan  the  "  Black,"  his  brother ; 


that  their  brother  Stephen  succeeded  them  aa  Ead 
of  Richmond  at  the  end  of  the  eleventli  century, 
and  left  the  Earldom  of  Richmond  to  his  son  Alan, 
also  named  the  "  Black."   This  '*  young  prince  wis 
the  founder  (it  is  said)  of  the  Abbey  of  Joreval,  whidi 
depended  on  Savigny.*'    His  son  Gonan,  last  Eail 
of  Richmond,  died  without  male  issue,  learing  two 
daughters,  one  of  whom  took  the  -ml,  the  other 
married  Geoffry,  son  of  Henry  II.,  &c.     On  con- 
sulting P^re  iJobineau's  Hittoirt  de  Brdagne^  the 
matter  is  made  clear.    Alan  the  '^  Red"  and  his 
brother  Brian,  who  shared  the  fortunes  of  the  Con- 
queror, and  were  known  as  Mactiem,  ue,  sons  of 
tlie  chief,  were  scions  of  a  branch  of  the  main  line 
of  Brittany.    Their  brother  Alan  the  "Bkck^ia 
not  said  by  Lobineau  to  have  accompanied  the 
Conqueror.    The  second  Alan  the  "  Black  "  married 
Bertha,  the  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Conan  IH., 
Duke  of  Brittany.    This  Alan  died  in  1144,  leavinj; 
a  son  Conan,  who  afterwards  acquired  the  Dudiy 
of  his  maternal  grandfather,  and  is  known  as 
Conan  IV.  "  le  Petit,"  in  contradistinction  to  his 
grandfather,  Conan  "  le  Gros."    Conan  IV.,  who 
is  said  to  have  built  the  magnificent  keep  of  Ridi- 
mond  Castle,  died  in  1170,  at  the  early  age  of 
thirty'two.    He  was  the  first  Earl  of  Richmond 
who  was  also  Duke  of  Brittany,  and  it  was  be, 
not  his  father  Alan,  who  gave  the  new  site  for 
Jervaulx  Abbey,  transferred  from  its  original  sett 
at  Fors,  in  Wensleydale,  as  we  are  told,  on  accoont 
of  the  inclemency  of  the  air.    The  original  site  was 
granted  to  the  Savignian  monks  by  Acarius,  son  of 
Bardolf,  a  great  Yorkshire  landowner.     Acarius's 
son,  Herveius,  consented  to  the  transference  of  the 
monks  to  the  new  site ;  and  he  appears  as  a  witnesi, 
with  his  brother  Walter,  to  a  charter  of  Conan  IV., 
"  Duke  of  Brittany  and  Earl  of  Richmond,"  of  which 
I  possess  a  transcript,  giving  the  Manor  of  Wath  to 
the  monks  of  St.  Michel  "  in  peril  of  the  sea."  He 
first  witness  to  this  charter  is  "Radulfus  filius 
Ribaldiy"  a  singular  Breton  name,  borne  by  the 
brother  of  one  of  the  previous  Dukes.    This  witness 
and  his  son  Robert  appear  first  in  another  grant  of 
Conan's  about  the  same  date,  showing  that  the 
Norman  proper  names  were  making  way.    Even 
after  the  extinction  of  the  male  line  of  the  old 
Breton  Dukes,  the  Earldom  of  Richmond  appean 
to  have  been  frequently  conferred  on  their  su^ 
cessors,  when  these  were  allies  of  England.    The 
step-brother  of  Henry  V.,  Arthur  of   Brittanj, 
appears  to  have  held  it,  which  brings  its  tenure  as 
an  appanage  of  Brittany  down  to  the  expulsion 
of  the  English  arms  from  Normandy.     In  "  Jud- 
hael  de  Loheac,"  who  appears  among  the  Breton 
knights  who  followed  Alain  and  Brian,  we  doubt- 
less recognize  Johel  of  Totnes,  the  great  Devonshire 
landowner.  Aj^olo-Scotus. 


5*»  8.  IL  Dxc.  19,  711 


NOTES  AND  QUEltlES- 


483 


(BRASMUS)  DARWIN  AND  (MATTHEVY) 
TINDALL. 

I  am  in  ^v^-^^'^^^ion  of  sundry  fraginentftiy  volumes* 
[of  the  3/  jasitie^  (ts  published  ia  London, 

[ranging  i  .  _ v  in  date   from  1796  to  1818, 

1  rescued  from  tinal  destruction  in  its  present  shape 
I  at  a  neighbouring  paper-works  the  other  day, 
J  whither  they  had  been  sent,  along  with  a  waggon- 
iload  of  other  material^  for  reproduction  in  another 
I  (otni. 

After  a  bMty  perusal,  I  find  many  odds  and  ends 

ji»f  i\  political,  commercial,  scientific,  philosophical, 

|»nd  other  order,  which  might  repay  the  Libour  of 

I  transcribing,  if   only  as  evidencing  how  history 

[repents  itself.    But  my  purpose  here  is  more  to 

*»fcr  to  a  couple  of  names  I  met  with  in  these  old 

iind  diinpidrttcd  pages,  become  in  recent  times  as 

*liar  J**  household  words.     They  are  those  of 

rin  and  TyndalL    The  former  appear-^,  Feb.  1, 

in  connexion  with  *' Literary'  and  Philoso- 

f|>hical  Intelligence,"  and  is  to  be  read  of  thus  :— 

*  Dr.  Dunviii,  tbo  author  of  the  Botanic  Oardaij  ii 

ngiiged  on  a  new  poem^  to  bo  entitled  the  Timph  of 

VtAlur€,    Tbia,  Ktke  his  fornicr  poem,  vrill  bo  divided  iato 

|«ro  p«rt« ,  ibe  0r%t  mfty  h^  expected  some  time  in  the 

>tirte  of  next  spring/' 

i^V —*''    "  ^'^eeding  the  foregoing  notice,  Darwiu, 

it  i'  inasmuch  as  there  is  a  letter,  July, 

\f^^-J..  V  II.  v.^T^ug  certain  strictures  on  a  memoir  of 

the  dcc-emied  in  the  same  journal  (preceding  June) ; 

vl,i,  1i  1.  tter»  if  not  overcrowding  your  space,  and 

ip  some  spark  of  interest,  shall  be  copied, 

*'  In  ibe  Bto^r&phical  Memoir  of  tbe  late  Dr.  Darwini 

\x%tpfv^i\  in  youroiagnitne  of  last  month,  there  is  an  error, 

villi  ELB  at  first  aigbt  it  miij  appenr,  has  j^et  % 

:  >  flhade  a  Jittlc  of  those  domestic  virtues  that 

^  fender  hij  memory  aa  much  famciiUd  by  bia 

!  hifi  writings  have  made  it  respected  by  the 

^ leratare. 

KTmintnlcG  I  allude  to  relates  to  tbo  circumstances 

tft  bis  dfeftth  :  where  it  ie  stateJ,  that  on  the  very  morning 

if  liiifuftunate  event  t  ok  pince»  be  had  been 

zAy  to  bl«  aerratit  about  his  borsei,  and 

t  this  riolent  fit  of  Tja%«ion  might  p:>Bjiibly 

leans  of  haatening  hi*  end. 

in  sure,  he  pleiueing  to  you  to  have  tbi; 

cting  thiB  account,  which  might  convey 

V  ideas  of  tbe  chiiracter  of  my  deceased  friend 

ent  from  the  mild  and  good-humoured  berie- 

i  woicii  adorned  it.     I  hiive  the  concurrent  testi- 

til  those  who  surrounded  Dr.  iMrwin  on  the 

'  hU  death  (including  tbe  two  men  servants, 

f  whom  tluB  conversation  is  suppoaeJ  to  hiive 

if  and  whom  I  qneftioned  particukrly  on  the 

prove  that  not  a  gingle  anRi-j  word  parsed 

Kat'day  between  biiu  and  any  puri  of  the  family; 

'  be  \rM  bticily  employed  in  writing  during  the 

"^  the  tnoming,  &4  was  hia  custom  ;  till  a  cold 

\  Bupcrvenedf  and  in  a  few  hours  teraiinmted 

There  are  pcveral  other  little  inaccuracies 

tparable  indeed  from  a  memoir  drawn  up  in 

"cfi    !  for!>ear  to  notice,  as  of  t*f^mp«irrttiv<?ly 

icularly  n^   I  irit      '  i 

lO  life  and  wricin.  >, 


to  correct,  cunrnie  euiamo,  the  phrase  of  *  Eat,  Eat,  Eat,' 
which  i§  iftid  to  have  been  a  fiivourileoncof  the  f'octurs, 
into  '  K«t,  or  be  EaUm."  The  former,  during  a  xary 
long  and  intimate  acquaintance,  I  never  beard  him  use ; 
tbe  latter  vciry  frequently^  partlculurly  to  young  perioits. 
*Tu  a  striking,  though  melancholy  law  o?  our  natures, 
and  wai  well  calculated  by  tbo  novel ty  of  tbe  phrase  to 
tmprc«d  strongly  tbe  mind  and  memory,  arid  produce  tbe 
permanent  effect  he  intended.  By  insertiug  tbe  above 
you  will  oblige  several  of  Dr,  Darwin's  friends  and  family, 
and  do  an  act  of  justice  to  his  memory. 

'*  I  am  your  humble  servant, 

* '  I^  K W  H  URST   BlLS£OE&OW»'' 

"Dttlby  House,  June  lltb,  1802/' 

The  latter  of  the  two  names,  that  of  Tyndall,  or, 
as  spelled,  "  Tindall,"  appears  in  a  supplementary 
number  of  the  same  magazine,  January,  1817,  as 
alluded  to  by  Prof.  Stewiirt,  in  bis  fjiatory  of  the 
Progress  of  Metaphydeal^  Ethical ,,  and  Puliiical 
Phitoiophijf  fince  the  Revival  of  Ldters  in  Europe^ 
in  the  following  words  : — 

•*  The  Philosopher  of  Malmeabury  (Hobbeal,  says  Dr. 
Warburton,  waa  the  terror  of  tbe  last  age,  as  TindtiU  and 
Collins  are  of  thi-!»  The  press  sweats  with  Controversy, 
and  every  young  churchman  militant  would  try  his  arms 
in  thundering  on  Uobbes's  *  steel  cup.*  ** 

J,  D,  G. 

THE  ELECTRIC  TELEGRAPH. 
It  is  interesting  in  these  dayg,  when  the  tele* 
graph  has  been  brought  to  such  perfectiooi  to 
notice  unytliing  in  tbe  past  relating  to  th^  subject* 
The  following  is  so  extraordinarj"  and  accunite  a 
prophecy  that  I  venture  to  bring  it  nnder  your 
observation.  But  for  the  omission  of  the  battery 
and  connecting  wire,  the  instrument  is  almost 
identically  the  same  as  nmny  in  everyday  use  in 
our  warehouses,  &c,,  here,  while  the  theory  is  in 
ever}'  respect  the  same  : — 

*'HARKWl£Lt>  ApOLoar*" 

(Printed  at  Oxford,  1030.    Book  iii.  p.  827,) 
**  Tbe  Loade  above  all  other  atonci  hath  tbi«  ftrange 

propcrtie, 
If  sundry  steeles  thereto  or  needles  yee  Apply, 
Such  force  and  motion  thence  they  draw,  th»t  they 

iocliRe 
To  turne  them  to  the  Beare,  which  necre  the  Pole 

doth  ehine; 
Nay  more,  as  many  tteeles  as  touch  that  virtuous  stone, 
III  strange  and  wondrous  sort  conspirmg  all  In  one, 
To;:cther  move  themselves,  and  situate  together  : 
A^  if  one  of  those  steeles  at  Rome  he  stir*d,  tbe  other 
The  sclfesame  way  will  stirre  though  they  farre  distant 

bee, 
Aud  all  through  Nature's  force  and  secret  Bvmpathlc  ; 
Well  then,  if  you  of  ought  would  faino  advise  your 

friend 
That  dwells  far  off,  to  whom  no  letter  you  can  send, 
A  large  amooth   round  table   make,  writs  down  the 

Chri^tcruSi^e  *  row 
In  order  on  the  verge  thereof,  and  then  bestow 
The  needle  in  tbe  mid'st  which  touch't  tbe  Loade, 

that  10 
What  note  soe're  yon  lift  it  straight  may  tame  unto : 
Then  frame  another  orbe  In  all  re«peeta  like  this. 


phabet  in  form  oC  v^ « 


484 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l5»^an.DB0.19,74. 


Describe  the  edge,  and  lay  the  Steele  thereon  likewise, 
The  Steele  which  from  the  selfsame  Hagnes  motion 

drew; 
This  orbe  send  with  thy  friend  what  time  he  bids  adieu : 
But  on  the  dayes  agree  first  when  you  mean  to  prore 
If  the  Steele  stirre,  and  to  what  letter  it  doth  moye, 
This  done,  if  with  thy  friend  thou  closely  would'st 

adyise. 
Who  in  a  country  off  farre  distant  from  thee  lies, 
Take  thou  the  orbe  and  Steele  which  on  the  orbe  was 

Bet, 
The  Christcrosse  on  the  edge  thou  see'st  in  order  writ. 
What  notes  will  frame  thy  words  to  them  direct  thy 

Steele, 
And  it  sometimes  to  this  sometimes  to  that  note  wheele, 
Turning  it  round  about  so  often  till  you  finde 
You  have  compounded  hU  the  meaning  of  your  minde. 
Thy  friend  that  dwells  far  off,  6  strange  !  doth  plunly 

see 
The  Steele  to  stirre,  though  it  by  no  man  stirred  bee, 
Buniiing  now  heere  now  there  :  He  conscious  of  the 

plot. 
As  the  Steele  guides,  pursues,  and  reades  from  note  to 

note, 
Then  gathering  into  words  those  notes,  he  clearly  sees 
What's  needefuU  to  be  done,  the  needle  truchman*  is. 
Now  when  the  Steele  doth  cease  its  motion,  if  thy 

friend 
Thinke  it  convenient  answerc  bock  to  send, 
The  same  course  he  may  take,  and  with  his  needle 

write, 
Touching  the  severall  notes  what  so  he  list  indite. 
Would  God  men  would  be  pleased  to  put  this  course  in 

use, 
Their  letters  would  arrire  more  speedy  and  more  sure. 
Nor  Rivers  would  them  stoppe,  nor  theeves  them 

intercept, 
Priiicc3  with  their  own  hands  their  businesse  might 

effect. 
We  Fcribes  from  blacko  sea  'scaped,  at  length  with 

harty  Wils 
At  the  table  of  the  Loade  would  consecrate  our  quils." 

C.  D.  K. 
Manchester. 


SHARSPEARIANA. 

The  Harness  Shakspeare  Prize  Essay  (6*^ 
S.  ii.  405.) — Mr.  Rives  was  certainly  in  error  when 
he  stated  that  there  is  but  a  single  authentic 
instance  of  the  use  of  such  a  form  in  Shakspeare 
as  "  Forbid  the  sea  for  to  obey  the  moon"  {Winter's 
Tale,  i.  2,  427),  for  in  addition  to  the  example 
from  Hamlet,  "  for  to  prevent,"  we  have — 

"  Let  your  highness 
Lay  a  more  noble  thought  upon  mine  honour 
Than /or  to  think  that  I  would  sink  it  here." 

Airs  Well  that  Ends  Wdl,  v.  3,  179-181. 
"  Here  lacks  but  your  mother /or  to  s.iy  amen." 

Titv^  A  ndronicuSf  iv.  2,  44. 
**  We  will  solicit  heaven  and  move  the  gods 
To  send  down  Justice  /or  to  wreak  our  wrongs.** 
/(/.,  iv.  3,  50-51. 
"  Or  that  these  pirates. 
Not  enough  barbarous,  had  not  o'erboard  thrown  me 
For  to  seek  my  mother." 

Pericles,  iv.  1,  69-71. 

*  "Truchman  "=InteTpTeteT. 


"  Think  women  still  to  itrire  with  i 
To  sin  and  never /or  to  Moni." 

PamonaU  PUgrm,  841-9L 
And  all  the  qoarto  editions  of  HamUi  (except 
the  first)  read — 

"  We  11  teach  you/or  to  drink  er^joa  depwt" 

For  the  above  referenceB,  I  am  indebted  to 
Dr.  Alexander  Schmidt's  recently  pablished  Skak- 
spere- Lexicon,  Edward  YiLiSb 

In  Act  L  8C.  2,  Hamlet  says  to  Horatio— 
"  Well  teach  you  to  drink  deep  ere  jwi  dapflwi." 
In  a  foot-note  to  Staanton's  edition  tbls  is  re- 
ferred to  as 

"  The  reading  of  the  1603  quarto  and  of  the  foDo  IffiB; 
the  other  old  copies  have— 

'  We  '11  teach  you  /or  to  drink  ere  yon  depart' " 

This  seems  to  me  a  parallel  case  with  the 
reference  from  The  Winter's  Tale  (L  2),  where  the 
word  "  for "  is  omitted  in  the  folio  of  1623,  « 
Mr.  Williams  points  out.  J.  S.  Udal. 

Junior  Atheuseum  Club. 

Mr.  Rule  sends  the  following  additional  ex- 
amples : — 

"  Neighbours  and  friends,  though  bride  and  bridegroom 
wants 
For  to  supply  the  places  at  the  table." 

Taming  o/  the  Shrew,  ixL  2,  S19. 
*'  Not  for  because  your  brows  are  blacker.** 

WinterU  Tale,  ii.  1,7. 
"  But  for  because  he  hath  not  woo'd  me  yet." 

King  John,  ii.  2,  s.  1, 1. 588  (0am.  edit) 
**  And  for  because  the  world  is  populous.'* 

iitdL//.,v.5,8. 
"  Oh,  a  pit  of  clay  for  to  be  made 
For  such  a  guest  is  meet.'* 

ffamUt,  T.  1  (Song). 

Shakspeare^s  Name  (5***  S.  ii.  2,  405.)— It 
appears  to  me  that  as  this  name  seems  to  indicate 
one  who  brandishes,  or  causes  a  spear  to  vibrate, 
so  does  Fewtarspeare  apply  to  him  who  couches, 
or  lays  the  same  weapon  m  the  rest,  making  readj 
for  the  charge.  To  fettle,  fettled,  mean  much 
the  same — put  in  order,  fit  for  action,  properly 
arranged : — 

"  Then  was  King  Marke  ashamed,  and  therewith  he 
feutred  his  speare  and  ran  against  Sir  Trian." 

"  That  saw  Sir  Dinadan,  and  hee  feutred  his  speare, 
and  ranne  to  one  of  Sir  Berluses  fellowes.*' 

"  And  then  they  feutred  their  si>eareB,  and  this  Knight 
came  so  egerly  that  he  smote  downe  Sir  Ewane  aI(»M. 

**  So  Sir  Agrawaine  feutred  his  speare,  and  that  other 
was  ready,  and  smote  him  downe  over  hia  horse  taile  to 
the  earth.  "—Za  Mori  d'Arthure,  vol.  ii.  c.  94,  95,  98. 
W.  J.  BsRNHARD  Smith. 

Temple. 

"The  English   ARiSTOFHANBSy"  &c. — In  an 

interesting  note  on  Mackenzie  (5^  S.  iL  23S), 

W.  A.  C.  gives  a  few  specimmia  of  some  of  these 

\  \sM<»)i.^^^  \Ax»llels.    The  doeert  U  tlie  ^ ' 


C»  &  II.  Dio.  19,  74.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


485 


c^n  Goldsmith  '*;  but  Irving,  in  nnch  fine  extmva* 
gnncca  as  Rip  Van  irijikU^  and  Goldsmifch  id  bqcJi 
delicious  chtiracter-verse  as  Rdaliation^  showed 
that  their  circles  did  not  wholly  coincide.  Mac> 
kenzie  was  a  deliberate  imitator  of  Addison. 
When  Byroa  called  Scott  the  "  Ariosto  of  the 
North  "  he  made  a,  great  blunder  ;  he  was  himself 
of  nenn?r  kin  to  the  Italian  poet.  To  call  B^xanger 
itL  "Fnr'nch  Burns"  i«  Bheer  nonsen&e.  I  cannot 
ri^  liave  any  point  in  common.    B^rantjer 

art,  hh  humour  b  that  of  cities,  his 
uiiumve  and  qaaint ;   Burns  is  artless 
r,  with  a  Doric  humour,  and  t\  poetry  that 
c;ilil:i]i  US  charm  from  a  daisy  or  a  field  mouse,  or 
**  ii  nnl,  red  rose/*    What  a  whole  watershed  lies 
(to  write  geographically)  between  the  fountains 
^  which  fed  the  authors  of 

•  Duncan  Gray  cam*  here  to  woo/' 
and 

'  Dsfii  un  grcnier  qu*oii  est  bicn  a  Tingt  ans  !  *' 

[Baddr*!  of  all  h  to  find  Foote  called  the  "  English 

lArl  '     '         /'   VThid  are  the  ^*many  chanxcter- 

iiti  .lion  *'  ?     Foote  was  an  inexhaustible 

'pToaii'i   '1  ilupnt  nonsense^  and  is  perhaps  most 

rcmemlitrcil  novr  for  Imving  perplexed  a  lecturer 

•     '    ■    by  a  rigmarole  .about  the  "Grand 

To  name  him  with  xVristophanes  I 

:..s  essay  on  the  Birth^  Mil  see  what 

kdeep  pniitirnl  and  philosophicd  knowledge  that 
I  drama  onntuin?.  So  indeed  did  all  his  dramas  ; 
[while  the  cxqiiisitij  pure  Attic  style,  the  ninj^icul 
liim*;[i  nf  ihr  lyricri  in  every  play,  are  quite  without 
I  par  te  is  aa  far  beneath  Aristophanes  as 

fue-  I  i\  beneiith  Shukspeare. 

MoETIMEa  GOLLIKS. 
Knowl  Hill.  Jksks. 

HiBTtmr    RstPKATiKQ    It&blf.  —  The   TatUr^ 

^"-    '■"'■■\  February  7,  1700-10,  has  the  following 
V  hich  vivifll}'  re[»rri<ents,  with  remarkable 
wi,^^  the  events  Ihut  have  occurred  within 
ricdge  of  the  present  generation,  and  Iiit« 
Ksion  at  starting  the  present  general  st^te 
Speaking  of  nis  own  time,  the  essayist 
I  to  say : — 

**  It  is  &till  LIg  with  great  cvcntf,  aaid  has  already  pro* 

iir   1  rljiii-e-*  litnl  rrrolutions,  which  will  be  as  much 

!t*rtty  OS  atiy  tliat  havo  happened  *  in  the 

ra,  or  in  the  oUl  timp^  before  them,' 

''      '         '      •    '     >  I  iinitcil,  tnomirchg 

1  from  one  io?e- 

|i»  .  ■  '  such  ft  gr&iitacfa 

jivi'u  ik  tcriv-r  lo  tlurop.?,  aud  thruwa  down  by 

M,  M  hu  moved  their  piij/* 

F.  D. 
KoltinghAm. 

Bei,l-Fol-xdf»r.— In  a  former  series  of  *'K& 
l^  mi   iariairy  wn.    ntn<lp   as   to    Johannes   de 
,  a  bel!  0  name  appears  upon 

I  li  All  b  Leiceet^ar,  thus  ;^ 


1  fivi» 


'*!.  n*  c. 

iHOHAirWBS  :  DE  :  STAFFORD  :  FECIT  :  MS  : 

IN  :  noNOKE  ;  BE  :  icABrK/* 

I  have  since  learned,  from  an  ancient  Roll  of  the 
Mayors  of  Leicester,  that  John  de  Stafibrd  was 
Mayor  of  that  borough  in  1366,  and  again  in  1370. 
Tbut  a  bell -founder  of  the  same  name  lived  at 
that  time  is  shown  in  a  Eoll  of  expenses  connected 
with  the  casting  of  bells  at  York  Minster  in  1371, 
tmn scribed  by  the  Rev,  H.  T.  Ellacombe  in  hia 
Bdh  of  the  (Jhurch^  p.  244  :  **  Et,  in  una  Magna 
Campanu,  per  Johannem  de  Statiord  ex  conven- 
cione  oj>eranda,  G^.  1 3s.  4tf.'*  Another  bell  from 
the  aame  founder  hangs  at  Sea  why,  near  Brigg, 
Lincolnshire.  Are  any  more  known  ?  I  may  have 
more  to  say  (and  hope  to  give  an  engraving  of  hiB 
initial  cross)  upon  John  de  Stafford  in  my  forth- 
coming work  on  the  **  Church  Bells  of  Leicester- 
shire.'* Thomas  Nokth. 

The  Bank}  Leicester. 

Epitaph  at  Little  Hampton.— rnserted  into 
the  south  wall  of  the  choir  in  the  church  of  Little 
Hampton,  near  Evesham,  is  a  small  stone,  bearing 
the  following  epitaph,  which  I  copied  in  1868 : — 
"  Be^er  what  aeedei  a  Panegjricks  f>kil\ ; 

a  limnert  pen  sill  or  a  Poct^  quill, 

They  are  but  nni^^rabie  comfort'^rt. 

Wheo  b«wlJ  otii     ixd^  ij.  V-lr  ecpulchtrif 

Ami  when  the  life  in  k  ut 

TLl'  naked  nnmca  a  inn.  I..    .-.  .. :  aent : 

To  kecpe  from  rotting:  piety  an*!  nlttio* 

Doe  furr  excell  the  best  CEg1pti*ui  b^thuea ; 

Then  wlu>ftoor  thou  art  this  courve  h  wvfe  ; 

Live  lire  thy  selfo  both  toombo  and  epitaph. 
Amoris  ergo  poeuit 
April  8  Ano  Don.  1651J* 

V.H.LL.LC.LV. 

ITxiTERSAL  BiooBAPHY.— Works  under  this 
attractive  title  have  been  presented  to  the  public, 
which  fail  to  realize  the  professed  unirersality. 
In  one  very  recent  volume  so  entitlod,  I  could 
point  out  many  omissions  of  names,  both  English 
and  foreign,  of  persons  of  considerable  merit  and 
distinction  in  Science,  Art,  and  Literature  ;  while 
others,  still  living,  of  little  or  no  reputation,  are 
inserted.  More  particularly,  I  could  enumerate 
a  great  many  eminent  Irishmen  wholly  unnoticed, 
buth  in  this  book  and  in  another,  in  three  huge, 

f retentions,  and  expensive  volume*,  edited  by  an 
risbman  !  S.  T.  P. 

GKOGRAPnicAL  Ebbor.— In  ArrowsimtVs  Ntw 
Om&ral  Atlns^  a  beivutifuUy  executed  iieriea  of  53 
maps,  published  in  1817,  by  Constable  &  Oa, 
Edin,,  I  met  with  a  strange  and  unaccountuble 
error  a  short  time  ago,  which  I  am  tempted  to 
"  midte  a  not^  of,"  The  meridians  of  longitude, 
both  at  the  upper  and  the  lower  borders  of  the  map 
of  the  United  State??,  Plate  5(»,  are  numbered  in 
on  incres^ng  aeriea  &<iui  W,  \j^  ^.^-^Niilssi  "Qqs^  ^s^^- 


486 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


15*8.  !!•  Dec  19, 74. 


graver  has  indicated  that  the  numbering  represents 
**  Longitude  West  from  Greenwicli,-'  Accordingly, 
the  western  limit  of  Lake  Superior  appears  to  be 
nearly  44**  W.,  ifthiie  Quebec  13  repreaented  &s  65" 
W. ;  the  real  longitudea  being  atont  92"  and  7P 
respectively,  E/t^I 

**  Eejectid  ADDaEsaKa,''^Tn  Mr,  John  Mur- 
ray's recent  editions  of  this  clever  little  book,  he 
ha^  omitted  three  verses  from  The  lAi^nff  Lustra^ 
an  ioutaition  of  Tom  Moore,  It  is  true  the  vereea 
are  not  ^qunl  to  the  remainder  of  the  poem,  but 
as  the  whole  tbing  m  a  joke,  venr  high  poetical 
merit  is  not  required,  I  think  the  lines  are  at  least 
wnrthy^  of  a  place  in  a  foot-note  : — 

rv. 
"  Each  pUlar  that  opcnft  our  itag^  to  tho  circle  It 
Verdant  aiiti!;i!iOf  Hkc  Kinon  de  I'Encloi ; 
I  'd  ramble  from  them  to  the  pillars  oi  Herctilee, 
Give  mo  but  Koaa  wlieroTer  I  go**' 

VI, 
'*  Attoii'd  to  ih^  aceae  irh«n  the  pale  j^IIow  moon  li  on 
Tover  and  tree,  the?  'd  look  Bober  utid  m^e. 
And  when  tliej  alJ  winked  their  deur  peepers  in  unison, 
Nightj  pitchy  nighty  would  envelope  the  stage," 
VI  r. 
*'Ah  f  could  T  Bomc  giTl  from  yon  boi  forheryotJth  pkk, 
I  'd  loTc  her  as  long  as  she  blosaomed  in  youth ; 
Oh  !  irbite  ia  the  caie  of  her  iTorj  ioothpick. 
But  wben  be&utj  smileaj  how  much  irhiter  the  tooth," 

Jeffrey,  in  ]m  criticism  of  that  delightfal  piece 
of  gaUmaHti*  entitled  Drnnfs  Di'i'gt^  by  Laura 
Matilda,  sijs,  *^  The  verses  are  not  so  good  nj 
Swift's  celebrated  8ong  hy  o  Person  of  Qualitij/^ 
to  which  be  compares  them*  This  was  a  slip  ;  be 
doubtless  meant  to  sny,  A  Loi't  Song  m  th^  Modern 
Task,  trhich  opens  thus  :— 

"  Fluttorinjj  »prea4  thy  purple  pinionSj 
Gentle  Cupid,  o'tT  my  Kei^T-t ; 
I^  a  flluTG  in  thy  ilomtniona ; 
Jinturu  muiat  give  way  to  art." 
and  is  far  more  non??cnsical  thfiti  the  Son^  by  a 
Person  of  Qualitij^  br-^idea  abounding  in  classical 
allusions.     See  Hawkefiworth^s   edition  of  Swiilt^ 
176Gj  voL  vii.  pap?  2iU, 

A  propof  of  the  imitation  of  Sir  Walter  Scott, 
I  should  like  to  know  whether  two  firt^men,  named 
Muggins  and  Hif^j^iubottom,  did  perish  at  the 
burning  of  Old  Bniry,  as  there  described, 

Walter  Hjjmiltok. 

"Thb  AnennieHnr  of  GAwxEnuiJET^s  BAprtsM.^The 
following  communication  respecting  Archbigihop  Tait^a 
hapti<im,  from  a  brother  of  HJi  Grarej  appcaris  in  the 
present  is«uo  of  the  Church  Ilentld  :—*  Archibald  Camp- 
bell Tftit  waa  bom  on  the  21  at  of  December,  lSll,aud 
baptized  on  the  10th  of  Febnmry  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
M  Kifibt."  *  The  a^iove  i^  copied  by  me  from  the  family 
Bible  of  my  fath^rt  Crauftird  Tait,  of  Haweifiton,  Esq., 
my  father  antl  the  nrchbUhop'a.  It  waa  inserted  in 
tliia  Bible  by  our  mother,  wlio  died  on  the  3rd  of  January, 
1814,  and  who  entered  in  it  the  birtha  and  baptiaroa  of 
ftll  her  ehildren  as  th^  eecurred.'— Jia,  Cakpbei,!* 
TAfT,— 13,  Great  l^tnart  Street,  Edinbuz^h." 

With  leferencB  to  tb@  above  quotaJtbn  ftom  a 


di^ily  paper,  it  may  be  ijit'erefiting  to  the  rettdera 
of  ^*  K,  &  Qf  to  be  informed  as  to  the  pemonal 
history  of  the  only  Presbyterian  minister  who 
ever  had  the  privilege  of  baptizing  a  primate  of 
the  Bngtish  church,  Thomas  Macknight  was  son 
of  the  celebrated  James  Maeknigbt,  D.D.,  one  of 
the  ministers  of  Edinburgh,  and  author  of  the 
Ifarmotiy  of  the  JVtir  (?o«t>«&,  and  other  wodcs. 
Ediiaited  at  the  High  Sciiool  and  Univensity  of 
Edinburgh,  he  obtained  licence  aa  a  probationer 
April  30, 17@@.  He  waa  ordained  minister  of  the 
second  charge,  South  Leitb,  Febrna^  17,  1791, 
and  was  IranslatM  to  Trinity  College  Chupch, 
Edtnbutgh,  April  25,  1804.  He  was  appoint^ 
sub*derk  of  the  Genera!  Assembly  in  May,  1804, 
and  was  elected  Moderator  in  May,  1820.  He 
died  Januaty  21, 1836,  aged  seventy-four.  Though 
not  a  pfipukitr  preacherj  he  was  much  esteemed  for 
his  learning  and  urbanity.  He  some  time  taught 
the  Greek  and  Natural  Pbiiosophy  class^  in  the 
University  with  acceptance  and  hud.  Few  mei 
were  less  eatitled  to  the  designation  of  ^'  an  old 
woman,"  whicli  has  recently  been  applied  to  hini 
by  the  Anglo-Catholic  party  in  the  Church. 

Charles  RooerBj  LLB. 
Grampian  Lodge^  Forest  Hill,  S.E. 

Thk  Eari^  of  DERWEKTWATEa— The  enclofled 
extract  from  the  Times  is  worth  preservatioa  in 
the  pages  of  **  N,  &  Q,,"  and  is  consequently  for^ 
warded  for  insertion : — 

^'As  the  Commisaionert  of  Greenwich  Hoapita]  an 
about  to  dispose  of  the  Dilflton  portion  of  the  i^erwcot- 
water  ef  tatet,  there  vai  a  somewlmtintf  rei tine:  cert nwnj 
nt  Dibton  Cliapcl  on  Fnday  {9th  October,  ISH),  in  the 
presence  of  a  large  number  of  ^ectators.  The  rcmsiiu 
of  James,  tlie  third  EtttJ  of  Derwent water,  who  wu 
beheaded  in  iTl'j,  dt  the  age  of  S7,  were  removed  by  rul 
to  Thomdon,  Ea^ex,  to  be  rc-interred  m  the  fimilj  \iulfi 
of  Jjord  Fetre.  The  remains  of  otlier  membera  of  tie 
familv  were  interred  in  the  Eoman  Catholic  Clianrli 
bariabground  at  Hexham,  the  burial  Aervi^re  heiajT  con- 
ducted hy  the  Reva.  J.  Cook  and  F.  KirfcFopp.  Tbett 
were  ftre  coffins  re  iutoffed,  tieing  thoao  of  Francb^  firat 
Earl  of  Derwenlwater,  ivho  died  in  1696,  at  the  sge  of 
72 ;  Edwfirdi  second  Earl,  wlio  died  in  1705,  aeed  5'),* 
Franoia  Rod^lyfTe,  who  died  in  1704,  aged  48 ;  Barbsn 
lladcUffe,  who  died  tn  1696;  and  Lady  Marr,  dioghc^r 
of  the  lirat  Earl,  who  die  J  in  17  id.'' 

It  may  be  worth  noticing  that  at  Thomdon 
Hall,  near  Brent  wo odj  in  Esses;,  where  the  body  of 
the  unfortunate  Karl  of  Derwentwater  has  beeo 
taken  for  i^-interment,  are  preserved  the  suit  which 
he  wore  at  the  time  of  his  execution,  and  also  ih 
black  cloth  with  which  the  scaffold  was  covered 
D  lis  ton  is  not  far  from  Hexham  in  Xorthnmber- 
land  ;  and  in  Howitt^i  Visits  to  BemarkabU  Phim 
ia  an  accuunt  of  a  journey  of  inapection  made  to  it 
by  the  author^  and  a  drawing  of  the  interior  of  the 
vault  in  mhieh  the  bodies  were  deposited*  The 
coffin  of  the  last  Earl  was  opened  in  order  U 
ascertain  whether  the  head  bad  been  baried  with 
the  body,  which  wai  the  ca^  ftiid  doe«  mtt  m&a 


r 


«»  8.  n.  Dbc.  19,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


4S7 


to  have  been  ejrposed  on  Temple  Bnr  after  his 
de^mpttation.  At  the  tirae  of  Mr.  Howatt's  visit 
to  Dilnton,  ^Ir,  Grey  filled  the  office  of  steward  to 
the  c  state*,  whose  life  has  recently  been  so  ably 
written  by  hifl  daughter. 

John  Pickford,  M,A. 
Kewboume  Rectory,  Woodbridgc. 


[Wft  muAt  request  correspondeiitt  desixing  tnforTD»tJi>T] 
OS  family  matten  of  only  priv^ate  intereitt  to  ^x  their 
nmnuti  Mid  addreMisa  to  their  qaeries,  in  order  th&t  the 
answen  may  bo  addreoed  to  thorn  diiisct.] 


I     Chapman,  the  Translator  or  Homer* — In 
hiB  jolay  of  BvMy  d'Atnbou,  Act.  L  sc.  1,  he  htis 
|Jm  following  passages : — 
^m         **  Great  ecamen,  udng  all  their  wealth 
^H  And  ikilla  in  Neptune's  deep  inviaible  patbs^ 
^Bln  tall  ^bi^fi  richiy  built  and  riWd  inYA  brau, 
^F%  piit  a  girdle  round  about  the  world."  ♦  .  * 
"What  mrtiCuJars  are  known  of  the  building  and 
inAtcrlala  of  ships  in  the  Elizabethan  aj^c  that  will 
wnrrant  the  expression ''ribVd  with  brass  ^' ?     Ih 
tlie  last  line  a  plagiariaDi  from  Bhakgpearel    It 
iiecalhj  Puck's  boast:— 

"  I  'U  put  a  izirdle  round  about  the  earth 
la  forty  minutes/* 

In  the  same  scene,  Monsieur  advisea  Bussy  to 
llearo  his  di&coDtent  and  obscurity,  and  seek  Im 
[ibrtune  earnestly : — 

•*  Biiisy.  What  would  you  wish  met 
Mon^iatr.  Leave  the  troubled  streams. 
And  tire^  iis  tbriTcra  do,  at  the  well-bead. 

£uuff.  At  the  wcll-beadl    Alaa  I  what  ihould  I  do 
_  With  tbat  enchanted  g)a»  I    See  deviU  thero  1 
~  l^f,  like  a  atrumpet,  learn  to  Ht  my  lochi 
'  ian  tiimat  Irake,  or  practise  juggling, 

mj  face  atill  fast,  my  heart  itill  loose; 
fitke  damg  ichoolmutrases  their  riddUs) 
ignttf  and  l€  ^ood  only /or  a  thift ; 

•  •  •  •  • 

To  f^in  beiniB^  forward,  though  you  break  in  haste 

J^^'  ''  ^  '  -     -1  '      - '?  ere  you  break  your  fast? 
1  ,  make  your  period 

f  ^\  '.-, '  I  believe  in  God ' : 

♦  *!♦•• 

Shall  I  learn  this  thef^T' 

He  "  believing  Iwickward*,^*  &c,  refers,  I  presume, 
to  the  old  jui^Ung  formulas  ;  but  will  somebody 
unriddle  the  lines  I  have  Italichted  ?     E.  S.  H. 

Swansea. 


^ 


Authors  and  Quotations  Wanted. — 
•*  Q. ;...,,  u  1..  ^ji)u  mundo  cunctii  tuU  gratus  haberi^ 
I  i>ow;«t— plurims,  pauca,  nihil/* 

Tli 1  have  taken  the  liberty  to  translate 

the  lollowing  words: — 

"Would  xou  by  all  be  wckome  thought, 
OivQ  much,  take  littte.  ask  for  nought."* 

a  B. 


J^^i^M 


**  la  fine  lively  fpirits  be  sits  down  to  play^ 
But  the  cards  from  his  venturcB  they  all  fiy  away." 

The  ainive  was  extracted,  prior  to  1842,  from  a 
book  on  club-life  in  London,  Title  of  book  for- 
gotten.    Query,  the  author's  name,  &e.      M.  C. 

Norwich. 

'*  Oh,  Boger  !  oh,  Roger  !  bince  thou  art  my  eoUr 
I  '11  give  thee  the  best  of  adTioe— 
Put  on  thy  Hriie  clothca  and  thy  new  yellow  hose. 
And  I  '11  warrant  thee  *k  find  tbec  a  wife. 

Aye,  tha  will,  po  tha  will  ; 
And  1  '11  warrant  thee  It  find  thee  a  wife." 

The  above  was  suog  by  an  old  lady  (now 
deceased)  about  the  beginning  of  tlm  century* 
When  was  the  colour  of  stockings  referred  to  in 
fashion  ?  What  fire  the  remaining  verses  of  the 
old  song  ]  James  Higsok,  F.E.H.S. 

Ardwick. 

"  0  wha  daur  middle  wi'  me, 
And  wha  daur  middle  wi*  me ; 
My  name  it  is  little  Jock  Eltot, 
And  wha  daur  middle  wi'  me  V* 

Docs  a  complete  copy  of  this  border  song  exist 
and  where  is  it  to  be  found  ?  W,  E.  R. 

TttK  KiLLroREWs, — I  require  the  pedigree  ol 
this  diBtinguished  family,  so  far  as  to  show  the 
relationship  of  the  dramatists  and  poets  bearing 
that  name.     There  were — 

L  Sir  William  K  ill  i  grew,  Master  of  the  Re  veil 
to  Charles  II.  HLs  dramatic  work^,  three  in 
number,  were  coUected  in  1674. 

2.  Thomas  Killigrew,  called  "  Oharies  the  Se- 
cond's jester,"  one  of  the  grooms  of  H-M,  Bed- 
chamber, and  head  of  a  company  of  players.  His 
dramatic  works  were  collected  in  1664,  with  por- 
trait by  Fairthorne^ 

3.  Henry  Killigrew,  author  of  Pallantua  and 
Eudora ;  or,  the  Conspiracy  (written  at  the  age  of 
seventeen).  4 to.,  ICafe  ;  and  fo.,  1653.  Probably 
resident  at  Emden. 

4-  Anne  Killigrew»  whose  poetical  works  were 
collected  in  1686.     4to.,  with  portmit. 

5.  Br.  Henry  KiUigrew,  Master  of  the  Siivoy  in 
1668. 

6,  Robert  KilligreVs  name  is  in  a  MS.  volume 
of  poems  in  the  Sloane  Collection- 

Any  information  on  the  relationship  of  these 
persons  will  be  acceptable  to  Jabrz. 

Athenarum  Club. 

Sheriffs*  Orders  for  Executions.— Have  any 
of  your  readers  ever  met  with  the  Sheriflfa*  orders 
for  jiny  of  the  executions  of  our  sixteenth-century 
mnityre  ?  Where  ought  such  documents  to  be 
found  now — in  the  Record  Office  (and  if  so,  under 
what  title),  or  in  County  Shrievalty  otlices  ?  Tho 
particular  object  of  inquiry  relat(.*s  to  martynloms 
on  four  occ^Lsions,  connected  chieily  with  Eeaex 
p»  ople,  in  the  years  1555  and  1556,  of  whom  some 
of  the  early  documents  say  they  were  butQ«*L^i 


488 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEa 


[^&ILI>io.I9,7l. 


Stratford,  near  London^  and  some  aaj  at  Stratford- 
le-Bow,  the  former  being  ux  Easei:,  the  Litter  in 
Middlesex, 

There  is  no  fu^ount  of  these  burnings  in  the 
Parish  EegiBter  of  St.  Mary,  Stmt  ford -lo-Bow  ; 
andj  unfortQDJitelj,  the  register  of  West  Ham  does 
not  go  farther  bAok  than  1640.  Anj  general  or 
local  information  on  this  matter  would  greatly 
oblige,  and  assist  me  in  an  important  historical 
Tesearch,  W.  J.  B. 

PoBTRAiT  OF  HooAaxn, — In  the  Athenwum  of 
Oetoher  24  there  are  extracts  from  the  priced  cata^ 
logue  of  the  sale  of  Hogarth's  pictures.  Among 
these  are  three  portraits  of  Hogai'th  by  himself ; 
one  is  in  the  National  Gallety^  another  in  the 
National  Portrait  GalleTy,  and  the  third,  "His 
own  portniitj  a  head,"  is,  I  have  every  ground  for 
hoping,  now  in  my  posaesBion,  It  was  obtained  for 
me  &ome  three  years  ago,  through  the  kindness  of 
Mr.  Woolner,  the  eminent  Bculptor,  who  has  no 
doubt  whatever  that  it  is  an  original  portrait  of 
and  by  Hogarth.  It  is  merely  the  head  and 
Hhoulders.  On  the  head  m  the  well-known  furry 
cap^  and  the  expression  of  the  face  is  full  of  life 
and  power.  la  any  other  portrait  of  Hogarth 
(besides  the  three  already  mentioned)  noir  exist- 
ing? Henet  a.  Height. 

LiTerpool, 

RoBEKT  PiEL  AND  Jamis  Barbt* — In  the  year 
1805,  the  friends  of  James  Barry ,  the  painter,  sub- 
acribed  a  sum  of  about  l,(>00i,  to  purchase  an 
annuity  for  him.  When  hh  friends  saw  bow  ^i«at 
were  his  wants,  and  how  sjnall  the  amount  of  the 
annuity  tn  be  obtained  woukl  be,  one  of  the  sub- 
scribers, I  have  heard,  said,  **  Give  me  the  money, 
and  I  will  guarantee  Barry  one  per  cent,  more 
than  tbe  regular  rate."  The  offer  was  acceptedj 
but  Barry  died  before  the  first  quarter  of  his  an- 
nuity became  due.  J  was  told,  nearly  fifty  years 
ago,  by  one  of  the  subscribers  to  the  fund,  wlio 
has  long  been  dead,  that  this  offer  was  juiid©  by 
Eobert  Peeh  1  should  be  glad  to  know  whether 
the  statement  is  correct.  Edward  Sollt. 

E  PI  OR  AM, — 

"  Lumiao  Aeon  dextro,  capta  ut  I/Cftnilla  siniatro, 

Et  potemt  fyrmft  vincflro  ut«rque  Beof, 
ParT^  puer  lanicn  quod  h^bei  concede  poellae ; 

Slc  tn  coccus  amor,  bii:  cnt  iUa  Veiiiu," 

Who  wi^ote  thiB  epigram?  The  title  is  as 
follows  :  "  On  a  beautiful  Youth  struck  blind  with 
lightning.  Imitated  from  the  Spnish,"  The 
epigram  is  really  by  Ginolomo  AmafteOp 

A.  H.  B. 

"  Helengekwagh,"— Can  any  explanation  be 
giTen  of  the  origin  of  this  marvellous  Christian 
name,  which  waa  borne  by  a  sister  of  Lady  Bril- 
liana  Harley,  and,  may  it  not  be  hoped,  by  no  one 
e/*e  /  T.  W.  ^\  EBB. 


"  Hekoughb  IK  ATH,**-^Ia  the  Mat  of  strangere 
resident  in  Iiondon  in  1618^  published  by  the 
Camden  Society  in  1363, 1  see  seireral  who  are 
said  to  have  coma  ffom  '*Henoughe  in  AtL^ 
What  can  this  mean  ?    Ii  it  *^  Ath  in  Hainaiilt '  I 

E,  F.  D,  a 

Mrs.  Cooch.  17S@.^I  ha^e  a  pamphlet  oiDed 
An>  Af^^al  to  (he  Publu  on  the  Vondu^  of  Mn. 
Gocckf  the  Wife  of  William  GoocA,  Esq.y  writt^ 
by  heiielf,  and  dated  *'  Fleet  Priaon,  Janmuy  1, 
IV  88,"  What  was  the  mibaeqnent  £ite  of  this 
unfortunate  lady,  who  was  married  at  Reyenteeai, 
and  discarded  by  her  husband  at  twenty  t 

MoETtMsR  CoLLnra. 

Knowl  HIU,  Berki. 

*'  HtTKDRED  SrLTEH,"— There  are  8e?end  p»i»h^ 
in  Herefordshire  and  Worcestershire  subject  to  tlie 
annual  payment  of  a  small  sum  of  money  called 
"  Hundred  Silyer,^  In  some  inatanees  it  is  paid 
to  a  private  person.  The  me.aning  of  this  temi, 
the  origin  of  the  payment,  and  the  anthatity  foe 
oollecting  it,  are  desired.         MoirrB  be  Alto* 

Sm  TEmTRAU.— In  John  Man  wood's  TrtatiM 
mi  th^  Latcts  of  th4  Foresty  reference  is  made  U 
**  old  Sir  Tristram  in  his  worthie  treatise  of  Halt- 
ing.'' la  this  work  still  in  existence,  and  whem 
can  a  copy  be  seen  ?  I  do  not  allude  to  other 
books  bearing  his  name — to  Laya  or  RoniAnoe^^ 
but  to  the  one  on  Hunting* 

George  R,  Jesse. 

"  0pU3    DB     ElfEKDATlOlfE     TEJIPORtTlt,"      Bj 

Joseph  Justus  Scaliger,  who  died  at  Leydea  in 
1C<.>9, — ^From  what  source  was  the  informatioa 
given  in  the  above  work  regarding  Calicut,*  on  the 
south  west  coast  of  India,  derived,  and  has  mf 
English  or  French  translation  of  it  ever  been  pat 
lished  ?  £L 

Stare  rosB- 


Mqstab  de  TEL18,  muitn  d4  vUliartj  mvMard^ 
-  -  -       dotk" 

'  term  J 
J,  T,  F 

Hatfield  HaU,  Durhaoii 


villars^  "a  kind  of  mixed  grey  woollen  i 
(HalliweU),    What  is  the  denvstion  of  the  \ 


FoRTRAiT  OF  A  Ladt. — T  hav6  recently  seec  a 
portrait  of  a  lady,  evidently  of  the  early  part  of 
the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  the  bodice  of  whose  dress 
is  represented  as  covered  with  embroidered  aconifi 
and  oak  leaves.  I  have  strong  reasons  for  lieliet- 
ing  that  this  person  w^as  connected ,  by  marriage  cr 
bloody  with  the  House  of  Percy,  Earls  of  Iforthuni- 
berland,  Most  probabljf  the  acorns  are  a  badge, 
not  a  fancy  orn anient.  If  this  be  so.  it  may  be 
possible  to  identify  the  picturet  I  shaU  be  glad  if 
any  one  can  throw  light  upon  it.  C^RXtJa 


*  Ckriitiaitii^  in  India,  by  Biiho^  Boush,  toL  i  p.  I0(k 


fk8.ILDia.10.74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


» 


Bin  Peter  Kivers  Gat,  Bart,  (or  Grey,  as 

it  in  Hnrdya  edition  of  Le  Neve*s  Fasti)^  Wiis 

'Winchester  from  176G  to  1790.    He 

_,__,^^ of  Woolwich,  in  Kent.      L^'sons 

tays  timt  h^^  aj*sumed  the  rmme  of  Gay  in  conse- 
quence of  his  inheriting  a  considerable  estate  from 
A  gentleman  of  that  name.  Any  particukiB  as  to 
liis  anccstrj*  luid  the  property  thiiB  acquired  would 
be  of  service  to  E.  H.  W.  Bdnkin. 

Kidbrooko  Pork  Eoadi  Bla^khe&ih. 


PAOLO  8ARPL 

(1«*  a  iv.  275  ;  2"^  S.  ir.  121  j  vii.  350  ;  x.  62 ; 

B«>  S.  i.  1B4,  223,  243,  315,  397,  43S.) 

The  judgments  of  writers  on  the  charact<^r  of 

this  eminent  ndversary  of  the  Court  of  Rome  will, 

I  |>rob(al>ly^  be  acceptable  to  many  of  your  refers. 

I  The  notes  of  Sir  Roger  Twysden  on  the  Histonf 

I  of  thi  Council  of  Trent  have  been  given  in  2"**  S. 

lir.   121-24.     For  hi^  life,  besides  the  numerous 

iTtfeiienc'     '     ""     '.  *b  Z'ldtOTi^ry,  1739^  (vt.  Pitolo, 

Land  in  <  r  be  reader  may  consult  the  lie- 

<* « ,  ii.  437,  Buckle's  Miscdlajiej^us 

fat4   MW/a,  iL  175,  and  Lowndea'a 

^   Manual,    edited   by  Bolm,   who 

!iman*8  MagiViint^  Anirusi,  1838,  &c* 

'he  Ecign  of  Charles  F.   By  William 

^       'jJge  of  the  procoedingi  of  ihi«  aetembW 
lift  derived  from  three  diferent  authors.     Father  Paul, 
fof  V«okc,  wrote  hia  UUtory  of  the  Council  of  Trent 
'  wliile  the  memory  of  what  passed  wa§  recent,  and  some 
who  had  bean  memben  of  it  were  atill  aliro.     He  has 
cxpoted  the  i&triguei  and  artifices  hy  which  it  was  eon- 
ducted  with  a  freedom  and  fererity  which  bavc  fftren  a 
deep  WDond  to  the  credit  of  the  COuncib    He  has  de- 
ed ita  deliberationB,  and  exploined  its  decrees,  with 
k  perspicuity  mA  de[ith  of  thonghtt  with  iuch  varioui 
jition,  and  such  force  of  reason,  as  have  justly  en- 
1  his  work  to  be  placed  among  the  most  admired 
rical  eonipoiitioni.   About  half  a  century  thereafter 
I  Jeiait    PaUavicint   published   his  Ilisiorif    of  ths 
41  in  Opmtitwfi  to  (hat  of  Paul,  and  by  einploying 
I  foree  of  an  acute  and  refining  genitifl  to  invalidate 
£«" credit  or  to  confute  the  reasonings  of  his  antagonist, 
he   labours  to  prove,  by  artful  apotogiet  for  the  prt>- 
^_  oeedlngs  of  the  Council,  and  eubtde  interpretations  of 
^H  its  decreet,  that  it  deliberated  with  impartiatitv,  and  dc- 
^Vcided  with  judgment  as  well  at  candour.      Varga<3,  a 
^M  Bnmiab  doctor  of  lawa,  who  was  appointed  to  attend 
^P  toi  imperial  amhassadort  at  Trent,  sent  the  Bishop  of 
V  Arms  a  regular  account  of  the  transactions  there,  ex- 
pUifiing  all   the  arts  which   the  legate  employed    to 
inJBuenco  or  overawe  the  Oonncil.      The   letters   have 
been  [publish edf  in  »vl  "  V  '         weighs  ftgainst  the  Papal 
Oeurt  with  that  a«v^  -"re  which  was  natuml 

la  a  man  wTioaL*  ^iti  .led  him  to  oLscrvc  iv^ 

yitr4gnes  t  luid  whu  was  obliged  : 

Ilia  altera  ent*  in  order  to  disa; 

•  .  .      ^  i-  %      •        Ys,  pcrhajife,   li: 

pcr»  luit  ever  was  altt*. 

tap»r  viewed  the  tmn>n  i 

of  men»  and  i  oaMUod  oanceraiiig  the  interefts  of  tocit 


with  the  enlarged  sentimenfes  of  a  philosopher^  with  the 
di«cemment  of  a  man  conversant  in  affairs,  and  with 
the  liberality  of  a  gcntlemaa." 

Nathanuel  Brent's  Dcdicntion: — 

"  I  offer  to  your  Majcstici  view  the  truett  and  most 
judicious  ecclesiastical  hiitorie  that  either  modem  times, 
or  any  anti<|U)tie,  hath  aflbrded  to  the  world  ;  impalrtfd, 
I  confesse,  in  beauty  as  baing  trangported  out  of  the 
naturall  lustre  both  of  style  and  phra»e,  hy  a  rude  and  un- 
fikilliill  Translator,  but  nothinc^  aUcrf-d  in  the  troth  and 
sincerity  of  the  matter  which  it  handloth.'* 

Ranke's  History  of  the  Fopcs^  Bohn,  vol  ill. 
sect.  2,  103-38.  *'  Critical  Rem&rki  on  Sarpi  and 
Pallavicini " : — 

*'  In  Sarni's  Htttory  of  tht  CounicUj  the  onginal  au- 
thorities, the  sources  of  information,  nre  ^^oUfCtcd  with 
diligence,  elaborated  carefully,  and  u- 
intelligence.  Neither  can  we  affirm  tli 
or  that  they  are  frequently  and  e?-  ,   , 

but  the  conduct  of  the  work  is  in  a  spirit  of  a  Ueeided 
opposition  By  this  method  Sarpi  laid  open  a  new  pnth. 
To  what  had  been  mere  compilation  he  giLve  the  unity 
of  a  general  and  dt^fiiiite  tendency.  This  work  is  dis- 
paraging, reproachful,  and  hoi$tiIe.  It  is  the  first 
example  of  a  history  in  which  the  whole  development  of 
the  subject  is  accompanied  by  uncea&ing  censures,  Tlie 
clmracter  of  the  work  is  far  more  decided  in  this  respect 
than  that  of  Thuanus,  who  first  made  a  slight  ^pproaoh 
tn  that  manner  wherein  Sarpi  has  found  innumerable 
followers.  ....  A  book  like  the  History  of  8»rpi,  so 
richly  furnished  with  details  never  before  made  known* 
so  full  of  spirit  atid  sarcasm,  treating  of  an  event  an 
important,  and  one  of  which  the  consequences  exerdsed 
a  commanding  influence  on  tho§e  ttmes,  could  not  fail  to 
produce  the  deepest  impression.  The  first  edition  ap- 
peared in  16 11^  and  between  that  jrear  and  the  year 
1622  four  editions  of  a  Latin  translation  hod  been  pub- 
lished. There  were,  besides,  a  German  and  a  Preach 
translation.  The  Court  of  Rome  was  the  more  eame&tly 
determined  to  have  this  work  refuted,  from  the  fact  it 
contained  many  errors  which  were  immediately  obvious 
to  all  who  were  accurately  acquainted  with  the  event! 
of  that  period.-' 

The  be«t  edition  of  the  French  tmnslation  by 
Courayer,  3  vole.  4t^.,  1751,  contains  a  defence  c^ 
it  by  the  author  not  in  the  former  editions. 

Hullam's  Literature  of  Europe^  ii.  300 : — 

'*  Nothing  was  more  worthy  of  remark,  especially  in 
literary  historv,  than  the  appearance  of  one  great  man. 
Era  Paolo  Sarpi,  the  firat  who  in  wKKlern  time,  and  in  a 
Catholic  country,  shook  the  fabric,  not  only  of  papdt 
despcLism,  but  of  ccolcfliaetical  iudci»cndenco  and  power/' 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Mcndlmm.  ''Memoirs  of  the 
Council  of  Trmt;  principally  derived  from  Manu- 
«cript  and  Unpublished  Record?,  namely,  Historieft, 
Diarieg,  Letters,  and  other  Documents,  of  the 
Leading  Actors  in  that  Assembly,     1834*' 

Acta  CoHcUii  Tridrniini  Ahuo  1562  ei  I563» 
mqut  in  Fifum  Concilii,  A  Gabride  Caxdinale 
Pill  cot  to  desctipta  : — 

<*  Tliis,  writci  the  tditor,  is  an  extended  and  highly 

.'>.)..-, LI. J     l.^iit^.nr     .^i^i\   ig    one    <'f    ttiK.  1.1  inriLfil  rrniTillLinS 

Icioo  drev  ''e 

d.      Thif  » 

tSic  icctic^  and  acts  which  lio  j-jo^rfl^.  —  rn-^ 

Rev,   Theodore   Alois  By.cUdt'^,  "^J 
0/  iU  Council  oj  Tttivl.X'*^;^^^— 


490 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t6^aiLD«al9,74 


"  The  discrepancy  between  the  writings  of  these  his- 
torians has  been  diligently,  and,  for  the  most  part,  fairly 
sifted  by  the  Abb6  le  Courayer,  who,  in  his  translation 
of  Father  Paul,  noticed  every  yariation  of  importance, 
and  has  shown  that  Sarpi  too  often  has  the  best  of  the 
eyidence  in  his  favour.  At  the  same  time,  by  his  careful 
examination  of  every  document  and  history  he  could 
meet  with,  he  has  furnished  a  valuable  stock  of  materials, 
and  greatly  lightened  the  labours  of  succeeding  historians 
of  the  Council.  But  the  researches  of  Mendham  and 
Ranke,  as  well  as  the  massive  collection  of  documents 
published  by  Le  Plat,  have  brought  forward  so  much 
that  is  new  and  valuable,  that  the  means  of  information, 
upon  which  the  present  little  work  has  been  based,  are 
largely  increased." 

Schelhornii  Amtaiitates  Littrarim  it  Ecclesias- 
tica,  I  292  :— 

"  Elcgantissimum  est  epigramma,  quod  Pauli  Sarpii 
imagini  subjiciendum  exhibet  Bemhardus  de  la  Mon- 
noje,  torn.  iii.  Menagianorum,  p.  8,  edit  Paris,  1715 : — 
'  Et  genio  et  scriptis  ingcntem  con^pice  Paulum : 
Hie  etiam  Petro  reetitit  in  faciem.' 
Effigiem  ejus  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlelana  Oxonii  exstare 
cum  hac  epigraphe  :  Concilii  Tridentini  eviscerator." 

Morhofii  Folyhistor  LitcrariuSy  i.  221 : — 
"  Fuit  illc  sacri  ordinis  homo,  Monachus,  Minorita,* 
sed  summi  ingenii.  Ejus  extat  Historia  Concilii  Tri- 
dentini, magna  prudontia,  et  ingenuitate  ecripta,  sub 
nomine  Suavis  Polani,  quam  inter  absolutissima  historise 
specimina  numerat  Guido  Patinus,  Epist.  170,  &c." 

Francis  Homer,  Memoirs  1.: — 

"  For  a  few  days  past  I  have  been  reading  a  little  of 
Father  Paul's  Iliftory  of  the  Council  of  Trent,  and  am 
highly  delighted  with  the  unembarraFsed  perspicuity  of 
the  narrative,  the  good  sense  and  precision  with  which 
the  various  reasonings  and  views  of  the  difierent  parties 
are  stated,  anil,  above  all,  the  sublime  impartiality  and 
temper  which  holds  fo  fair  a  balance  with  such  steadi- 
ness of  hand.  ...  I  have  always  thought  one  of  iMackin- 
tosh's  chief  difficulties  in  his  undertaking  was  to  put 
into  narrative  the  deliberations  of  an  afsenibly ;  Father 
Paul  has  shown  how  many  of  those  difficulties  are  to 
be  overcome,  and  some,  indeed,  peculiar  to  this  as- 
sembly." 

See  also  Mackintosh's  History  of  the  Progress  of 
Ethical  Philosophy. 

I  shall  conclude  with  the  eulogy  of  Sarpi  by 
Dr.  Johnson : — 

*'  This  and  other  attempts  upon  his  life  obliged  him 
to  confine  himself  to  his  convent,  where  ho  engaj;ed  in 
writing  the  Histor>/  of  the  Council  of  Trent,  a  work  un- 
equalled for  the  jiuiiciuus  disposition  of  the  matter,  and 
artful  texture  of  the  narration,  commended  by  Dr. 
Burnet  as  the  com])letest  model  of  historical  writing, 
and  celebrated  by  Mr.  Wotton  as  equivalent  to  any  pro- 
duction of  antiquity ;  in  which  the  reader  finds  liberty 
without  licentiousness,  piety  without  hypocrisy,  freedom 
of  speech  without  neglect  of  decency,  severity  without 
rigour,  and  extensive  learning  without  ostentation." 
BinLIOTIIECAR.    CUETHAM. 


*  Paulus  Sarpius  non  fuit  Minorita,  sed  Ordinis  Servi- 
tarum  Monachus  [Editor]. 


THE  FIQHT  AT  PEBTH. 

(6«»  L  364,  469  ;  iL  69, 189,  410,  471.) 

(ConduMfnm  p,  iT%) 

3.  Mr.  Shaw  has  been  at  the  tremble  of  point- 
ing out  what  he  considers  to  be  some  inaccorades 
on  my  part,  not  because  they  bear  directly  on  the 
subject  under  discussion,  but  '*  because  some  judge 
of  a  writer's  whole  work  by  his  regard  or  disregard 
for  details/'  For  instance,  he  finds  it  necesaaiy  to 
repeat,  what  I  should  have  supposed  eyeiy  one 
knew,  that  the  fight  was  on  the  North  Inch.  He 
objects  to  my  writing  Chewil  instead  of  QuhewiL 
He  will  observe  that,  in  my  last  letter,  I  mention 
Quhele  or  Chewil  as  being  synonymous,  a  point 
which  he  does  not  question.  He  informs  me  of  what 
most  writers  tell  us,  that  Duncan  Stewart  was  leader 
of  the  caterans  in  the  Raid  of  Angus ;  but,  as  Ms. 
Shaw  considers  that "  Wyntoun  alone  is  entitled  to 
any  regard  as  an  authority  in  this  matter,"  it  may 
interest  him  to  notice,  that  Wyntoun  does  not 
mention  Stewart  at  all,  and  talks  only  of  the  Dun- 
cansons,  who,  again,  are  not  mentioned  by  Bower. 
Nevertheless,  the  Act  of  1392  (which,  by  some 
slip,  I  had  called  1391)  makes  it  certain  that  both 
were  present.  A  further  reference  to  Wyntontt, 
like  the  examination  of  the  list  of  those  outlawed, 
tends  to  localize  (and  it  is  in  thi^  respect  that  it 
concerns  us)  the  origin  of  the  Raid  of  Angus  in  a 
dispute  between  the  Highland  men  and  Sir  David 
Lin(ls;iy  of  Glenesk.  Indeed,  the  present  Earl  of 
Crawford,  who  first  displayed  bis  great  powers  of 
research  in  his  pleasant  Lives  of  the  Lindsays^  has 
shown  in  that  work,  that  it  is  not  improbable  that 
the  Duncansons  had  some  claims  on  lands  held  by 
Sir  David. 

Mr.  Shaw  says,  I  should  have  known  that  Sir 
David  was  the  person  employed  to  quiet  the  High- 
landers, not  the  Earl  of  Crawford.  As  Bower 
calls  Sir  David  de  Lindsay  also  De  Cntwford,  the 
mistake  would  have  been  a  venial  one.  But  I 
used  the  phrase  advisedly,  as  it  is  perhaps  on  the 
whole  more  probable  that  Sir  James  de  Lindsay, 
the  tnie  Do  Crawford,  often  termed  Lord  Craw- 
ford by  courtesy  (the  cousin,  whom  Sir  David 
succeeded  in  1397  as  head  of  the  family,  beiag 
created  Earl  in  1398),  was  the  person  employed. 
But  it  is  a  matter  of  indifference  which  it  was. 
Both  held  land  in  Angus,  and  Sir  James  in  Aber- 
deenshire also.  Sir  David  was  wounded  at  Glas- 
clune. 

4.  I  am  considered  to  be  deficient  in  criticaJ 
acumen,  and  apparently  to  attach  equal  value  to 
all  authorities  whom  I  may  quote.  The  compare 
tive  value  of  evidence  afforded  by  eye-witnesses 
or  public  documents,  or  historians,  or  traditioo, 
need  not  be  discussed  here.  Every  inquirer  Is 
supposed  to  sift  his  authorities,  and  to  know  that 
different  historians  and  different  tiadmons  are 

\^\i\I\>\%^  \a  N w^a\ia  degfees  of  aedik    It  is  naively 


v»&n.i>ic.ie,'74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


491 


W 


aaked,  wlmt;  reason  I  !mve  for  sayioQ;  that  Buchannn 
hivd  all  previous  accounts  Ijcforo  bim.  I  certainly 
did  not  stand  behind  Bucbanan's  shoulder  as  he 
wrote,  but  it  is  f  asy  to  see,  that  be  made  the  mia- 
tuke  ab<jui  the  nulu^^e^  of  the  combatantfi,  from 
huving  the  hxihi  of  Boece  before  hiui ;  probably 
after  nU^  the  triccni  wm  ji  mere  misprint  for  fr^^isnt, 
jvifit  as  Bcllenden  was  miBled  into  introdiiciug  the 
Glen  Quhattiinia  by  the  misprint  Chinkqtihete* 
After  all  deprtciation  of  Buchanan  for  hia  in- 
accuracies and  hL**  embellishments,  his  opinion  on 
gnbjects,  on  which  he  did  not  entertiiin  violent 
prejudices,  in  etill  quite  worthy  of  considemtion. 
And  although  ho  wrote  about  two  hundred  years 
after  the  (iji^ht  at  Perth,  his  work  is  one  hun- 
dred yuvYs  anterior  to  the  date,  when  most  High- 
land family  histories  were  compiled. 

But  Mr.  Shaw's  grave&t  charge  has  still  to  be 
unswered.  He  has  done  me  the  compliment  of 
subjecting  most  of  my  remarks  to  a  pretty  rijjid 
ficrutiuy  ;  it  h^  therefore,  the  more  surprising,  that 
he  should  have  fallen  into  the  odd  mijjapprehension, 
that  I  have  said  that  "Bower's  work  in  the  Bod- 
leian hiui  not  been  printed  uales.s  lately.'^  In  my 
letter,  after  mentioning  Bower,  Major,  and 
e^  I  go  on  to  speak  nf  the  continuator  of  Fordun 
Ihe  year  1461  in  the  Bodleian.  I  could  not, 
tberefoMN,  have  meant  Bower,  who  wrote  some 
twenty  years  before.  The  other  continuator,  as  is 
well  known*  was  at  one  tune  supposed  to  hiivc 
been  Bishop  El  phi  ns  tone,  but  is  now  believed  to 
have  been  a  certain  Patrick  BusselL  As  it  was 
from  his  MS.  that  I  quoted  the  passaije  (a  transla- 
tion of  'which  had  appeared  in  one  of  tbe  bust 
numbers  of  the  London  i^cQUnuin\  I  am  sorry  that 
Mr.  Shaw  hsuj  had  the  trouble  of  eearching  in 
Bower,  and  that  he  bhould  have  made  himself 
unhajjpy  about  the  authenticity  of  the  quotation, 
findiri;j;  that  **  it  was  somewhat  Ktmn^e  that  the 
paAJ^a;-!?  had  been  overlooked";  and  that  he  shoiiIJ 
nave  given  himself  the  further  trouble  of  obligin^dy 
communicivting,  for  my  express  instniction,  infor- 
mation rc>pcctiD^  editions  of  Fordun  and  Bower. 
Mb,  Buaw  can  scarcely  any  longer  compkin 
that  I  have  not  replied  to  most  of  his  criticisms. 
1  have  to  thank  him  for  theju.  They  have  induced 
me  to  give  more  attention  to  Wyntoun  iind  to 
the  Act  of  1392.  And  a  reference  to  them  haj* 
furnished  arhiitiomd  evidence,  tendir;^  to  localize 
all  thi?  circum8tances  connected  with  the  Raid  of 
Angus  ;  and  evidence  corroborative  of  the  con- 
tlnif  it  was  the  desire  to  revenge  the 
ne,  to  punish  at  least  one  por- 
I  ncd  in  it,  and  in  the  continued 
lit  induced  the  Government 
r  combat  at  Perth-  Thiti 
,  on  the  icconiniendation  of  the  Com- 
s  appointed  originally  t^  cha»ti^e  those 
\\  iiu  iuid  taken  part  in  the  slaughter  of  the  Sherili* 
j©f  Angu^.    This  seems  to  be    ^mmi  the  only  vi*  w 


|diuion, 
iisoMter 

i  r'f  t 

Idler 

rto 


of  the  question  that  accounts  at  all  for  the  Govern- 
ment consenting  to  so  unusual  a  form  of  qaasi- 
Judicial  procedure. 

I  cannot  conclude  this  too  lengthy  letter,  without 
expressing  my  regret  for  the  recent  death  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Shaw,  of  Forfar,  who  took  Huch  a  f-piriled 
share  in  the  controversy  on  this  siulgect,  winch  was 
carried  on  in  these  pages  some  yeiin  ago. 

JOH.y   3lACrHERS0N. 

CurEon  Streei 


Aristotle  oh  Dancino  akd  Poetry  (5**»  S.  ii. 
328.)— Mr.  H.  Becker  asks  for  the  "exaci 
reference  to  the  passage  in  Aristotle  where  he 
classes  dancing  and  poetry  together.'*  There  are 
two  pfUiSijges  in  the  Fodic«  of  Ariiitotle,  another  in 
the  Rkeioricj  and  one  more  in  the  Po//ftV^,  which 
may  ilhistrak  the  subject  ;  but  until  the  question 
is  stated  more  iiccunitely,  and  the  nature  or  head 
of  the  chisailication  given,  it  is,  I  fear,  almost  hope- 
less to  expect  an  exact  reference.  The  passages, 
however,  are  as  follows  :— 

upfiovia%  ol  [at,  «cu.  Tc^^'as  Tynv.l  tiov  6p)(jj<r- 
TtuM*  Kai  yap  o^rot  [ovrw,  Tyrw,]  Sect  twi'  cr)(»^iia- 
Tt fo/jtci''wv  pvOfim*  fJLifxo£n*Tut  nal  rj(hi  nal  waO^f 
KUi  ^pd^€i<i'*  (Pod,j  §  y,  p.  2,  edit.  Tyrwhitt, 
Oxon.,  1817),—  *. «,,  The  art  of  diineing  without  the 
aid  of  music  can  imitate  manners,  passions,  and 
actions  by  the  very  rhythm  or  measure  itself^  ac- 
companied with  gestures. 

2.  **  70  fikv  yap  irpdrov  T€Tpififi€Tpt^  l^f^^^^* 
Sm  TO  <raTiptt<yv  Kal  (lp}^r)imfi(]ifT€pn%^  ilyai  T^v 
Troii^-Ttv"  (Ibitl^  §  t,  p.  12).— t.c,  At  first  the  dra- 
matists  adopted  the  (trochaic)  tetrameter  because 
the  poetry  was  satyric  and  rather  of  the  dancinff 
character. 

3.  **o  ik  Tpoxato^  KopSaKiin!*Tipo^'  SijkoiSk  ra 
T€Tpdp,€Tpa'  fcrrt  yap  Tpo^epu^  pvOfil^  to.  rerpO' 
ficrpa,"— i.  c,  The  trochaic  is  t<Mj  (Umcimj  a  metre, 
and  the  tetrameters  indicate  it,  being  a  tripping  or 
running  measure  (Hkct^  b.  rii,  cap.  viii*  §  4,  edit. 
Oxon.,  1826,  p.  ITS). 

4.  **  5to  K-at  Tarrovcrtv  avr^v  [t.  e.,  pova-Ltnivl 
Kcu  ^wtTair  Tracrt  roi^ots  ofionus  otHi>,  Kai  fi€up 
KfM  fiovfTifa]'  TiOtaa-i  Bk  kol  r»/i*  opvv^crtv  €V 
Tovrots," — I.  C.J  Men  class  music  as  a  relaxatiOD, 
and  adopt  the^se  three  means,  wine,  a  carousal,  and 
music  (poetry  included  ?).  An<l  amongst  these 
thev  even  place  dancing  {Polity  lib.  vm,  cap.  iv., 
ed."Lips.,  Tauchn.,  1831). 

It  must  be  remeiubcred  that  the  Greek  word 
povtriKij  included  poetry,  especially  l^ric,  bs  well 
as  music,  and  it  therefore  becomes  imi>ortant  to 
ascertjiin  both  the  sense  in  which  Aristotle  clasaes 
dancing  with  poetrj^  and  also  the  irord  he  used  to 
express  the  latter  art.  E.  A*  D. 

The  following  passage  from  Aristotle's  Art 
of  Fottnj  may   be  cited,  and    fulfils,    I    truat, 


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[5*  an.  Dm.  IS^  "71 


your    correspondent's    wish.      Edition,    Oxonii, 

MDCCXJXVII  : — 

"  TO  Bk  lau.piKov  KOL  rerpdfierpov,  KiirqriKd' 

TO  IjJkv  OpxrjOTiKOVf  TO  8€  WpaKTlKOV" §  xlL 

"  The  Iambic  and  Trochaic  have  more  motion  ; 
the  latter  being  adapted  to  dance,  the  other  to 
action  and  business." 

It  is  worthy  of  mention  that  the  Choral  Hymn 
to  Apollo  was  named  vTr6px^)p.aL,  from  its  being 
accompanied  with  dancing ;  and,  moreover,  the 
old  poets  Thcspis,  Pratinas,  Carcinus,  and  Phry- 
nichus,  were  specially  called  the  dancing  poets 
{opXr)(mKo\  TTOtwrat)  from  making  their  dramas 
depend  on  the  dancing  of  the  chorus,  and  even 
taught  dancing  to  those  who  wished  to  learn, 
^schylus  himself  must  have  been  an  excellent 
figure  and  posture  master,  as  he  is  represented  by 
Aristophanes  as  saying, — 

"  Tot?  ^opois  avT09  Tot  a')(T/]naT  liroiovv.^ 
"  I  myeelf  taught  those  dances  to  the  chorus. 

Which  pleased  so  much,  when  erst  they  danced  before 
us." 

(Cf.  Athenwus,  i.  27,  39,  xiv.  25-30.) 

William  Platt. 

Gonseryatiye  Club. 

The  passage  required  is  probably  that  in  the 
PoeticSj  chap.  ii.  §  4,  "  Avt<?/'  &c.  :— 

'*  In  the  imitations  of  dance,  rhythm  alone  is  employed 
without  melody  ;  for  there  are  dancers  who,  by  rn^thm 
applied  to  gesture,  express  manners,  pa98ions,ana  actions.'' 
— Twining^s  translation,  p.  102,  ed.  1812. 

At  p.  226  he  has  a  long  note,  from  which  it  may 
suffice  to  quote  thus  much  : — 

"Dancing  is  here  tiansiently  mentioned,  merely  to 
exemplify  what  he  hod  heen  saying  of  the  combined  or 
separate  use  of  rJti/thm,  ^rords,  and  mdody;  and  to  show 
in  what  manner  \\oi  only  melody  and  rhythm  might  be 
separated  from  words,  as  in  vumc;  but  rhythm  also 
might  bo  separated  from  melody,  and  used  alone.  For 
such  an  instance  he  could  have  recourse  only  to  dance  ; 
and  so  Aristides  Quintilianus,  ovO^ioq  H  kclQ  qvtov  fikv 
voilTai  lirl  rpiXfJQ  6p;^i;(T6wc. 

\V.  E.  Buckley. 

Thomas  Sutton  (5*^  S.  ii.  409,  455.)— The  in- 
dividual of  this  name,  who  was  buried  at  Waltham 
in  the  year  1612,  could  not  have  been  the  muni- 
ficent founder  of  the  Charterhouse,  for  tlio  par- 
ticulars of  his  life,  death,  and  burial  in  Lon- 
don are  w^ll  known.  Bom  at  Knaith,  of  an 
ancient  Lincolnshire  family,  about  the  year  1531, 
he  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Cambridge,  became 
a  Member  of  the  Honoumble  Society  of  Lincoln's 
Inn  ;  subsequently  spent  a  couHiderable  portion  of 
his  time  abroad  ;  but  on  his  return  a  fortunate 
purchase  of  property  in  the  north  of  England, 
upon  which  coal  was  afterwards  found,  led  to  the 
accumulation  of  considerable  wealth.  He  came  to 
London  and  pursued  a  successful  mercantile 
career,  his  business  establishment  being  at  Broken 
Wharf,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Mary  Someraet  •,  wid 


his  private  residenoe  at  Hicknej,  wbero,  ai  m 
learn,  he  died  on  Deoember  IS,  1611,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  seventy-nine.  Hia  ridies  enabled 
him  to  acquire  extensive  estates  in  Cambridge- 
shire, Lincolnshire,  Wiltshire,  and  Essex ;  and  it 
was  at  Little  Hallingbaiy,  in  the  latter  ooonty, 
that  he  intended  to  erect  his  projected  hosmti], 
but  purchasing  the  Carthosian  Monasteiy  in  Lon- 
don of  Lord  Suffolk  for  13,0001,  he  endowed  it  is 
the  charity  under  the  title  of  the  Hospital  of  King 
James.  He  did  not  live  to  witness  the  completion 
of  his  work ;  and  it  was  owins  to  the  chapel  being 
unfinished  at  the  time  of  his  decease  that  nis  body 
was  temporarily  entombed  elsewhere.  Dr.  Bear- 
croft,  in  nis  History  of  the  Charierhouit^  pabUshed 
in  1737,  states  that  '*  his  bowels  were  buried  in 
the  parish  church  at  Hackney,"  and  that  his  body 
was  embalmed  by  one  Edmond  Phillips,  apothe- 
cary, and  preserved  in  the  hoose  until  May  28, 
1612,  when  ^^  the  roads  being  good,"  the  govenion 
(whom  he  enumerates)  "met  in  assembly  there, 
the  procession  being  organized  under  the  direction 
of  the  celebrated  Camden,  Clarencieux  King  of 
Arms.''  A  hundred  old  men.  in  black  cloaks  pre- 
ceded the  corpse,  "  which  was  then  deposited  io 
Christ  Church,  London,"  to  be  removed  to  the 
Charterhouse,  when  the  chapel  should  be  finished, 
and  a  vault  and  tomb  prepared  for  it.  These  ar- 
rangements were  not  completed  until  the  year 
1614,  as  shown  by  the  following  extract  from  Br. 
Bearcroft's  book  : — 

"And  now  the  Founder*8  tomb  being  finished,  his 
corpse  was  brought,  upon  the  shoidderg  of  the  poor 
brethren  of  his  foundation,  from  Christ  Church,  on 
December  12,  IGU,  the  anniyersary  of  Mr.  Sutton'j 
death,  in  a  solemn  procession,  all  the  membere  of  the 
Hospital  attending,  to  the  chapel  in  the  Charterhoose, 
and  there  deposited  in  a  vault  on  tbe  north  side  under 
his  magnificent  tomb." 

In  the  year  1842  this  chapel  was  under  repair, 
and  an  opportunity  was  afforded  for  an  examina- 
tion of  the  vault  beneath  Thomas  Sutton's  mona- 
ment.  Tlie  leaden  cofl&n  containing  his  remaiw 
was  then  discovered,  bearing  upon  it  the  simple 
inscription,  "  1611,  Thomas  Sutton,  Esqumr."  The 
coffin  resembled  a  "  mummy  case  "  in  form,  being 
adapted  to  the  shape  of  the  body,  and  was  similaf 
to  one  used  in  1609  for  the  interment  of  Sir  John 
Spencer,  Lord  Mayor  1593,  in  the  church  of  St. 
Helen's,  Bishopsgate.  The  woodcut  in  the  6tn- 
ihmaWs  Magazine  for  January,  1843,  was  copied 
from  a  drawing?  made  at  the  time  by  my  father, 
the  late  Mr.  E.  B.  Price,  F.S.A.  This  original 
sketch  is  still  in  our  possession.  I  have  not  at 
hand  the  means  of  ascertaining  whether  there  was 
any  connexion  between  the  Suttons  of  Lincoln- 
shire and  those  of  Essex.  Morant,  in  his  History, 
mentions  one  Sir  Hamond  de  Sotton,  temp.  Ed- 
ward I.,  who,  it  would  seem,  took  his  name  froiQ 
the  parish  of  Sutton,  near  Hawkswell  and  Boch- 
^iotd  m  EfiBAiL ;  and  it  is  quite  possible  that  the 


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493 


Butt4>nB  buried  at  Waltbam  may  be  desoendADti 
of  this  ancient  fiimily.     The  surname  is,  however, 
^ft  by  no  means  uncommon  one*     Heraldry,  says 
It.  Lower,  attests  its  commonneas  by  nmgaing 
I  it  more  tlmn  filYy  difl^erent  coata  of  anns.     The 
led  by  the  family  in  Lincolashire  were,  ajs 
if,  Or  on  a  chevron,  betwe*?n  tliree  aunuleta 
tles^  sts  insiny  cresoents  or  ;  while  those  of  the 
sx    Buttons   above   referred   to   were   vert,   a 
crooBJety  three  cups  argent. 

John  Edward  Price,  F.S.A. 
^0,  Albion  Koad,  Stoke  Kewiagtoti. 

m        ^  Bov  V,  V  TVuNDEE  •*  (6ti*  S.  ii  6,  154,  357,  437.) 
^ — I  vsTEiL^s  pardon  for  questioning  the 

^Moc4!  atate^nents  ;  but  is  he  not  ini.=itaken 

^■In  it^   Clementina    Stirling    Gmhame 

^■*'Ci  s  Itist  linml  (Usecnduiit  ? '*    I  can- 

not »<?e  how  Claverhouse — "  Bonnie  Dundee  " — 
ociiild  have   any  ih^cemtanU  at  all,   as  h\s   only 
'  Id  died  an  infant.     According  to  all  the  his- 
and  pedigrees  I  ever  feaw,  the  ehier  line  of 
time  of  Chivc^rhouse   became  extinct  in  the 
of  David  J   third  Viscount  Dandee  (only 
her  of  the  first  VisconntX  on  whose  death  in 
?•  H)  the  reprtiientation  of  the  fiunily  devolved  on 
'  \ivid  Grahame  of  Dimtroon,  titular 
r«  tit ;  and  the  present  family  of  Dun- 

-.  •nded  from  this  Utter  David*B  third 
I  bore  the  same  name, 
^time  a;:jo  I  put  a  question  in  **N.  &  Q." 
at  the  Grahame    family,    \iz.f  whether  there 
or  ever  had  been,   any  direct  dacmdunts 
&f  Jamcw  titular  sixth  Viscount  Dundee  (gmndson 
Df  I  lie  I'hovo  David,  being  the  wn  of  his  eldest 
'mm  '  who  died  at  Dunkirk  in  175B.     I 

fee*'  il  courteous  replies,  but  none  which 

Sve  im?  tiiJtf  precise  information  I  wanted.     I, 
iwever,  did   not   renew  my  appeal,    because  I 
lihought  I  had  obtained  a  clue  which  would  enable 
ne  iri  tind  out  what  I  vianted  without  further 
:  "  N.  &  Q,"  and  ita  correspondents.     I 
this ;  and  now^  that  Bonnie  Dundee  and 
iija  larniiy  are  again  bcin^  discussed,  I  beg  leave 
[to  repeat  my  quer}%     Did  James  Grahame  of 
on,    Eiirth    Viscount    Dundee,    leave  any 
and,  if  80,  what  diud  dacnidants  did 
^loave?  M.  L. 

HUg  Ol^rnentina  Stirling  Grahame  is  not  the 

lonly  repf  ■  of  the  Claverhoase  now  living. 

Dundee  represented  by  the  family  of 

ke,  C'l   whom    the   head  is  the  Ri^ht  Hon. 

Brooke,  one  of  the  Lords  CommLs«ioners 

'    ■      '    "*      ^    '  :id.     A  particular  ae- 

BurkQB  VicUsitmhs 

iu.^-i.it  ,    uu'M  i     I  Jilt       Hector  Grahame  of 

Lwu"  J.  M.  G.  Brooke, 

Thomas  TaEoossE  (5"*  S.  it  341.}— The  Lift 
and  Dioth  of  ThmiuiR   Trcffosse^  Late  Minister 


of  th^  Gogpel  at  Mihr  and  MaU  m  (hm- 
wally  London,  1071,  8vo.,  is  not  an  extremely 
scarce  book.  In  the  British  I^Iuseum  there  ape 
two  editions,  both  daied  in  1671,  the  second  only 
varies  from  the  first  by  the  pagination  being  more 
perfect,  and  by  the  list  of  errata  being  omitted. 
The  authorship  of  this  anonymous  work  is  attri- 
buted to  ficv.  Theophilus  Gale,  M.A,  (Fellow  of 
Ma^d.  Coll.,  who  was  preacher  at  Winchester 
Cathedral  until  he  was  ejected  in  1G62;  he  died  in 
1678,  aged  but  forty- nine,  and  was  buried  in  Bun- 
hill  Fields),  by  the  lie  v.  Dr.  Bliss,  in  his  edition 
of  Wood,  iii.  li^L  Other  accounts  of  the  Rev.  T. 
Tregoase  are  to  be  found  in  Palmer's  Nmicon- 
formiift  Mrmorial  (1775),  i.  286-87,  Mtihodist 
Magazine,  xxxviii.  161-67  (1S14),  Journal  of 
Rer,  Jokn  IVahy,  Sept.  4,  1775.  A  reprint  of 
Tfic  Life  and  Death  of  Thomas  Trtgouc^  very 
slightly  lihridged,  is  also  given  in  The  Livu  of 
Sundry  Emintiti  Ptrtons  in  this  Later  Age^  by 
Samuel  Clark,  sometimes  pastor  of  Bennet  Fink, 
London,  Lond.,  16S3, 4  to.,  contained  rn  pp.  109-26. 
We  are  not  aware  that  the  story  relatmg  to  ilie 
Pilchard  fishery  at  St.  Ives,  as  told  in  the  Xi/<, 
has  been  reproduced  in  any  work  on  ComwaU,  but 
miiny  similar  tales  have  idwaya  been  current  in 
the  county. 

TaE  Authors  of  the  '*  BiBLioreficA 

GoRNUBtENSia." 

Calam^,  in  A  Continuation  of  tlu  Aoiount  of 
the  Minuter»j  tCc,  Wio  were  Ejected,  etc.,  I^ondoo, 
MDCcxxvii.,  vol.  i,  p.  98,  in  writing  of  Mr.  Theo- 
philus  Giilc,  ^LA.,  says  : — 

*'  And  to  the  Account  given  of  hii  Works,  p.  ^,  thii 
Addition  may  be  mikde  :  He  wrote  alfto  tlie  life  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Trcgosse*" 

In  the  NonconfommCi  Mtmorialy  London, 
HBcctxxv.  (vol.  i.  p.  19^^^  amongst  Gale*8  w^orks 
is  mentioned  T/fc  Lt/<;  of  Mr.  Tross,  an  evident 
mis-spelling.     Tr^osse  dietl  January  18,  1679. 

JoHi^soN  Bailt. 

OsnoRNE  Family  (5"»  S.  ii.  187.)— Lord  Gort 
is  prt>bably  not  aware  of  an  error  in  the  published 
accounts  of  the  Osborne  baronetage.  On  the 
death  of  the  third  baronet,  Sir  John,  in  April, 
1713,  he  was  succeeiled  by  his  brother,  Richard, 
m  fourth  baronet :  he  was  a  lunatic,  and  died 
without  Lsftue  in  October,  1713,  leaving  three 
sisters  :  Grac^,  wife  of  Beverley  Ussher,  Esq.  ; 
Eiiziibeth,  wife  of  the  Very  Rev.  Arthur  Pomeroy ; 
and  Anne,  wife  of  Oiarlca  O'Dell,  Esq.,  his  co-heirs. 
His  coutjin,  Sir  Thomii^,  then  became  fifth  baronet, 
v.ho^e  gramlson,  Sir  Nicholas,  sixth  baronet,  left 
two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  at  his  death,  Mav  13, 
1716,  viz. :  Anne,  wife  of  Henry  Vere  Ker,  Esq., 
and  Dorothy,  wife  of  William  Taylor,  E^q-  of 
Mallow,  L<:»RD  Gort  seems  to  ignore  ilrs.  O^Dell 
and  ^IrR.  Taylor,  although,  if  their  descendants 
have  not  faile^i,  they  ai^  co-re^veatt^UAxN^c*.  ^1  ^Sofc 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  i«»  a  il  d«l  w^  7*. 


fourth  and  sixth  baronets  reipectlTely.  Lord 
GoRT  will  find  &ome  partkukis  of  the  faiailj  Id 
Brown's  ParL  Cases,  yol  yi-  p*  20* 

Sir  Eicbard,  the  fifst  baroQet^  died  m  1638^  bis 
vn£e  is  said  to  have  been  Marv,  second  daughter 
of  Sir  George  Carew,   Lord  fieputy   (ber  elder 

Bister  Grace  ia  said  to  have  married Wakh, 

by  whom  she  was  mother  of  Sir  Nicholas  Walsh 
of  Piltown,  near  Waterford),  by  whom  be  had 
fomr  SODS  and  one  daughter,  Mary,  wiJe  of  Dr. 
Gough,  Bisbop  of  Limerick,  The  sona  were :  {1) 
Sir  Ei chard,  second  boronet,  who  married  Eliza- 
beth   ?  Mvijig  at  his  death,  March  2,  1684-5  ; 

(S)  Nicholas,  of  Cappagh,  Clerk  of  the  CrowD, 
father  of  Str  Tbomaa,  fifth  baronet ;  (3)  Eoger ; 
and  (4)  Sir  John  Osborae,  of  London,  Kt.  (1681^2), 

I  do  not  know  anything  of Osborne,  Sheriff 

0/  the  Cmtnfy  of  Dubhn,  who  died  July  20,  16^4, 
except  that  bis  wife  waa  a  Miss  Walan  of  Eillin- 
cargej  co,  Wick  low,  if  I  may  judge  m  from  the 
arms  impaled  with  his  in  Fun,  Mnt^  toI.  t,  p.  47* 
Richard  Edwiirds,  Master  of  the  Tailors*  Company, 
of  DubHn,  died  January  II,  1640.  His  first  wife 
was  Margaret,  dangbter  of  John  Osborne,  of  Dub- 
lin.  His  anus  are  given  in  Fun.  EnL  ix.  233,  as 
"Ar^nt,  a  chevron  engrailed  between  three 
Cornish  choughs/^  impaling  Oabome^  "  Gules^  a 
fease  argent,  cotised  or,  charged  with  two  fountains, 
ppr.,  over  all  a  bend  of  the  second,"  Sherifl^  Os* 
norne  bad  precisely  the  same  arms,  differing 
alight ly  from  those  borne  by  the  baronet's  family, 
the  fcsae  being  argent  iostead  of  on  Sir  Robert 
Ofibornc  was  knighted  by  Robert,  Earl  of  Essex, 
Lord  Deputy,  September  24, 1599,  and  Sir  Thomas 
by  the  Buke  of  Ormonde  L,L.,  November  5,  1679 
or  108(1  Any  information  respecting  Sir  George 
Sexton  and  his  fiimily  will  bo  gladly  received  by 
one  of  bis  desceadtmta.  Y.  S.  M. 

"  Saxadon  *'  (b^  S.  ii,  285,  456.)— Tbia  is 
nothio;!  but  a  stupid  and  unmeaniiig  joke^  which 
it  is  difficult  to  believe  wjis  ever  printed  in  any 
edition  of  Horace,  Sanadon  was  a  French  editor 
or  translator  of  Horace — ^as  I  believe,  utterly  bad 
nnd  decried,  and  never  mentioned  without  an 
invective,  like  Pauw'a  ^^ichylus^  or  Bentley'a 
Milton*  LvTraLTON* 

Ants  latino  ur  Coen  (2"*^  S.  xl  389,  475.) — 
I  am  not  aware  that  the  attention  of  your  reatters 
has  been  directed  upon  this  question  to  HaTvest- 
ing  Anf3  and  Trap-door  ^^{rfer*,  by  J.  Traheme 
Moggridge,  F.L.S,  (London,  Recre  &  Co.),  pp.  156. 
The  work  will  well  repay  perusal^  and  the  reader 
will  regret  to  learn  that  the  aiithor*a  labours  were 
closed  by  his  early  death  at  Men  tone,  on  24  th 
November.  Geo,  E.  FtiEHE,  F.B.S. 

Armour  in  Churches  (5^^  S,  ii.  388.)— In 
Parker's  Correiptindence^  No.  cclxv.,  and  iJot, 
Ann^j  L  347 ^  May  6,  1509,  will  be  found  a  letter 


ordering  &  levy  of  armour  horn  all  the  diergj  of 
the  province  ef  Cimterbiiiy  according  to  the  statute 
4  and  5  Ph*  et  Mar,,  c*  2,  repealed  1  Jac.  L,  c  25^ 

L47.  There  ii  a  Ikt  of  armour  in  mv  Hist,  of§L 
argartVSj  Watminiter.  The  churchwardens'  &&• 
count  at  Cheddar  for  1S40  containa  these  enlrici 
under  Constables'  Account : — "  Paid  the  furbor  fee 
dressing  the  armour";  "  Paid  for  a  payre  of  bonde^ 
lear^B  2T.  8^.6d/^;  **Paid  the  soldiers  forpresfiemoD^ 
0^-  Cd,";  "  Paid  for  canyinge  the  armor  to  Bridf>^ 
water  12j/*;  **  Spent  npon  the  trayners  at  Bridge- 
water  12rf."-^(Jftte.  MS8.  Comm.,  3  Rep,  ix  330.) 
See  also  "  For  levying  armour  among  the  clergy  af 
Bedfordshire ''(I^nsdown  filS.,  xc.  n.  86);  "  Boiae- 
men  aod  armour  of  clei^.  diocese  of  C^nterbtuy, 
1668"  (l&td.,  xi.  n,  54);  Inventory  of  Armour  of 
Chichester  Cathedral,  and  Battle  deaDeiy^(HaiL 
MS.,  703j  fo.  8&,  153). 

Macebheis  E.  0  Walcott. 

Barony  op  Totkess  (5*^  S,  ii.  308.)-*  I  hkjt 
in  luy  possession  a  manuscript  history*  of  DeTou, 
very  much  damaged  by  fire  and  water.  The  first 
three  pages  and  the  title-pa^e  are  missing,  but  I 
believe  it  to  have  been  written  by  Baitl:^OQ»v^ 
White. 

I  extract,  for  the  infonnation  of  D.  C.  E.,  whtt 
he  says  as  to  the  Barony  of  Totness  : — 

"  Thi§  Town  of  TotncM  j*  Conq*'  gave  w**  a  ptd 
Eitate  to  y*  noble  Korman»  Itidaote^  where  he  ptiadpAllj 
seated  liimfelfj  erected  a  Castle  now  tbreatn^  mine  aod 
bold  it  J*  cliifif  pt&cQ  of  his  Bar^Tiif  ;  into-nmcb  jf*  be 
was  y^*"  of  stikd  de  Totucfij  :  K.  H.  2  ga^r  y*  L'Hiltip  of 
Totness  uaCo  W  Eec^inaM  de  Bru'  and  £.  John  rruiuiDei 
it  ARain,  upon  displeasure  ag'*  de  Bruer,  and  delJTerd  f 
Giittio  to  y  keeping  of  ilenrj,  y*  eoh  of  y  E.  of  Com- 
walU  but  afternardi  \tA  y  land  ag^in.  arid  y^  Itii  M\ 
it  to  E^^n.bis  yoimg^eBt  duu.  wife  of  y*  L*"  Cauto1upe,rraia 
W^  family  by  Milctieent  ^iBtcr  of  Geo.  Cautelupe,  U  came 
to  EmMe  la  Zr>U€)n  and  f^  reiaairi''  bi'fore  Jobn  L'^ 
Zoucb  woa  iilUmtC'Ll  for  tulcing  p^  with  £^  B-  ^  ^  j"  E- 
H.  7  bcBtuir'd  TotD«Ed  on  W  Richard  Bdgecfi'tDb,  w^  tie 
be  Id  in  Fpetrinle  fair,  ia  wba&Q  po&tetity  it  reuMiiit'd, 
untitl  pi  ores  Edgecomb  lold  y'  lion*  unto  y*  L^  Ed*^ 
Seymour-'* 

Aad  at  p,  223  of  the  same  manuicrtpt,  I  find, 
under  the  bead  of — 

"  Tlic  Baronyi  of  tliii  County,  and  how  moiiy  E"  fl«^ 
were  held  by  these  Hon^,  with  tbo  Ensigni  of  tij«if 
ancient  cwtiera: — Ee^iniLld  BreAfe  held  y  Csfitle  v^ 
bon'  of  Tola  ess  by  V  gift  of  E.  H.  2^,  w^*  ^tohv  in 
KiDg:Jn"  time  waa  divided,  whereof  W~Breafteh^25 
K^*  ffeea  and  1ml f,  and  Hen.  Nonant  2Ti  of  a  K'  ^t±. 
Edward  Seamour  bath  tbii  hon*. " 

JonK   Pi  RE  IX. 

Idritigebay,  Wirksworth. 

'*  Eau  de  Tib"  (5*^  S.  ii.  285.)— There  i^  be 
but  little  do  Lib  t  that  Bescherelle  ia  wrong.  Tk 
temi  tun  dc  vk  occurs  in  documents  at  least  as  far 
back  as  the  fifteenth  century,  juat  aa  kv^fnh  icaifr 
h  the  term  used  in  Flemish  documents  from  the 
fifteenth  to  the  seventeenth  eentuiy. 


S*&lt.I>te.l»,T4| 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


495 


A  Scotch  BARO!«ETrT  (5^  S,  il  288») — Burke'* 

,  Exiiiict   aivt   DonnasU   liaronctrUd   of  Enffhntl^ 

Irxlfind^  and  Scothndy  2o«l  ed*,  Lood.^  1^04,  Svo, 

I  If  tlif  jjnrticuLir  biironclcy  on  tvhich  infonuaiion 

Ms 't^anted  wero  known,  references  could  probably 

b©  iiia*ie  to  the  above  and  other  aiithoritit'3, 

Gaston  de  Berneval. 
PbilAdeliOtm. 

*^  The  Court  CoxrERT,'*  &c  (5«»  S.  iL  345,)— 

This  and   some  other  be^^i^'  books  haTe  been 

treated  of  in  1"  S.  vi.  551.     In  addition  to  what 

the^e  found,  I  would  supplement  it  by  further 

f  of  H.  A-  and  H,  W,  being  identicidj  and  one 

irm  of  Uteraiy  impostors.     Here  it  is  :— 

•*  The  AoceM,  or  Permitted  Approach  of  a  Court  Peni* 

«nt  to  tho  DiTinu   Astr«»,  by  H.  W.,  gent     Printed, 

-^fto  of  36  p<iges»  aJdressod  to  "  Lady 
-t,"  The  name  imprinted,  as  usual, 
IKKket-press. 

by  H.  \V.,  gent.,  after  the  first  fevv 
ry  easily  into  Tht  Court  Convert^  by 


lient  I 


|I 


A.,  gent,  which  it  nearly  reprint*  !       A.  G. 

Hen'rv  Hyde,  op  PaRTOK  (5*^  S.  ii.  347.) — 
[Henry  Hyde,  sei'ond  Earl  of  Clarendon,  married, 
lin?t^    Thcodosia,    third    .surviring    daughter    of 
Arthur,  Lord  Oaiiel,  by  whom  he  had  issue  his 
only  Bon  Edward^  Lord  Conibury,  who  succeeded 
third  Earl ;    secondly^  Flower,  daughter  and 
aK.  iifLV,.^>5  to  William  Backhouse  of  Swallowfi eld, 
(lire,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir   William 
.0,  of  the  City  of  London,  Bart.,  by  whom 
he  iLad  no  issue.     Lawrence  Hyde,  Earl  of  Roches- 
f,  uian-ied  the  Lady  Henrietta,  fifth  daughter  of 
lie  hard  Boyle,  Earl  of  BurLngton  and  Cork,  and 
bad  issue  one  son,  Henry,  who  wivjj  afterwards 
irl    of    Clarendon    and     Rochester,    and    four 
jbters  :  —  Anne,    married    to    the    Duke    of 
)nnond  ;  Henrietta,  married  to  the  Earl  of  Dal- 
keith ;    Mary,   married   to   Lord    Conway  ;    and 
■^jitherine,  who  appears  to  have  died  unmarried. 
The  Hyde  arms  were  :  Azure,  a  chevron  between 
lirec  lozenges,  or.  Edward  Solly. 

Sutton,  Bunrey. 

HF.n,\T.T»Tr  (r^^  8.  ii.  340,)— The  translation  of 
Ihe  French  doi^ei  iption  of  a  coat  of  arms  is, — Sable, 
E>n  an  escutcheon,  argent,  batons,  tleur-de-lises  pa-^aed 
crop's  and  in  aaltire  (Le.^  an  escarbuncle  ftory), 
over  all  on  an  escutcheon,  ai^ent,  a  cavalier,  or, 
in  armour  on  horseback,  sable.  The  arms 
Iboao  of  Anmanrl,  Contte  de  Schomberg,  the 
Eltch#on  over  all  bein^r  for  ^lertola. 

A  W.  M. 

Jambs  Pierce,  i  —Full  par- 

tfmljups  of  Mr.  Jai:  t]m  Litin 

1 1         '         n  propo«e<1  Jor  in;,  t  .itjfi,  iiu*  objected  to 
[l  tor,  wilt  be  found  in  Murch'n  UUionj  of 


IK  43tl  K. 

"Sbakspkarr  axd  the  Musical  Glassics^ 
(5t*»  S.  ii.  4(18}  will  be  found  in  GoldsmilU'tJ  Vitar 
of  JFakfJUid,  9th  Chapter.  E.  J.  C, 

[We  hare  to  tbank  filovcTi  corrttspomlotiU  wliOt  tttb<- 
flcquently  to  the  aboTC,  kindly  lent  limilftr  •niwcn.) 

Marriages  in  Lent  (5**^  S.  ii»  3C7.)— Bingham, 
Lhri^incs  EccJ^iiaitict^  (London,  1722),  vot  ix, 
p.  337,  Siiys : — 

'*  The  most  ancient  prohibition  that^r  'of 

this  kifitl  ia  that  of  the  Council  of  Laodico  ..). 

which  forbiJs  all  MarriJiffM  M  well  as  Uii..... ..,.  ...  b© 

cclebrAtcd  in  Lent." 

Dumndus,  L  ix.  7,  gives  the  prohibition  in  his 
day  as  extending  to  the  periods  from  Adrent 
Sunday  to  Epiphany,  from  BeptuagesUaa  to  the 
Octave  of  Easter,  the  three  weeks  before  the  fea»t 
of  St,  John  Baptist,  and  from  the  first  day  of  tho 
Rogations  to  the  Octave  of  Pentecost. 

Bingham  {Orig.  Eccl,  ix.  338)  gives  as  the* 
authority  for  this  o.ttende<i  prohibition  tlj«  Council 
of  Salegunslade,  a.d.  1022,  under  Benedict  VIII. 
and  the  Emperor  Henry  II, 

Htimpson,  Mcdii  yEvi  KaUmlariumf  ii*  p.  4, 
quotes  the  bnes : — 

**  Conjugtuin  Advontus  prohibot»  iniarifrquc  rclaxftl; 

Heptuagcnft  vctat,  st'd  Pft»cba»  Octava  rcduclt; 

Ilogatio  vetitutj  cuncpiUt.Triiia  potcitai.*' 
Archfleacon  Cosin,  in  his   VMatimi  AHicUiy 
1027,  inquires— 

**  Whether  hath  your  Miaiiter  or  Cun*t4» ....  pokmn* 
izod  Matrinionio  ....  in  any  tiiiiei  i>fi>Uibited  {that  id 
to  Bay)^  in  Adirent,  Lent,  aud  in  tho  Koirutions  vrithout  tk 
Licence  fint  obte?nod  from  the  Archbishop  or  hii  Chao^ 
cellour  r'— CosiiA  Correip.t  L  11}5. 

In  the  Durham  Prayer -Bo  ok,  Coain  added,  in 
MS.,  to  the  Table  of  the  Vigik,  &c.  :— 

**By  tho  ece1e«iMtical  laws  ot  thii  B«ik1  mi  there  bo 
tome  timcB  in  tho  year  wherein  Manlagei  are  not 
usually  Bo1einn:zed,  viz., 

{Adfent  1   o  .  I       tf  8  <1  iphany, 

ttogatiun 


\  SundAj 
I     until 


8^1 


^    .3    M 

jTiu.., 


•ter. 


The  Annotaitd  Booh  of  Connn-oa  Prayrr,  p.  263, 
mentions  the  existence,  in  Register  Bookt  dating 
lf>3(>,  1641,  1666,  of  similar  notices  of  prohibition. 
Very  few  Churchmen,  even  in  our  lax  days,  would 
choose  to  enter  into  marriage  during  Lent* 

Jonmoa  Baily. 

Sharpc,  Archbbhop  of  York,  in  a  cliarge  of  1750, 
names  the  prohibited  times.  Bee  Mtmt't  Aniuh 
t<tUd  Book  of  Comnwn  Prayff,  p.  203. 

J.  T.  F, 

H&taeld  Htli,  Dttrhuo. 

The  practice  of  rrying  dur- 

ing Lent,  in    En,  y   been   de- 

clining, but  WW  pruUat»l)   iiiver,  uor  i«  it  now, 
entirely  out  of  aae*     It  is  one  of  thoii©  g«>dly 


496 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(5*  a  IL  Dm.  19,71 


Bud  pious  cuBtotni  which  most  cntholic-iniiided 
men  would  nse^-indeed,  everj  devout  maa,  wlier- 
ever   it  were  possible,     M,  T.  will  raosfc   likely  : 
Temember  the  disettaaion  which  wiia  Fniaed  when  , 
the  Prince  of  WaJes  wjis  mnrried  in  Lent. 

a  F.  S.  Waerek,  m.a. 

Origin  of  tub  Eotal  House  of  SrcTART 
(5**^  S.  ii,  367.)— Aa  Lord  Ashhurtoii's  MemoiTit  of 
tk€  Royal  House  of  France  ia  now  a  scarce  and 
expensive  book,  and  I  do  not  Icnow  of  any  other 
mwiem  work  mentJOBija}?  the  fact^  perhaps  some  of 
"  N*  &  Q/a  "  correspondents  may  be  iinfiware  that 
the  correct  pedigree  of  the  Stuarts  seema  to  have 
been  well  known  in  the  fourteenth  century,  though 
afterwards  forgotten,  till  re-discovered  by  Pinker- 
ton  or  Chalmers^ whether  of  the  two^  I  «m  neither 
careful  nor  able  to  say.  Lord  Ashburton  say  a 
(p,  125)  that  Richard  Fitiakn^  Earl  of  Arundel, 
sold  to  Edward  IIL  what  right  he  might  have  to 
the  Stewardship  of  Seotland,  Now  this  transac- 
tion (as  his  lordship  utmarks)  c;in  only  possibly  be 
explained  by  supposing  it  well  known  to  all  parties 
that  the  Stewarts  were  a  branch  of  the  FitsEalans. 
Lord  Asbbnrton  mentions  it  as  an  illustration  of 
&  point  he  ^eeka  to  prove,  that  there  was  more 
genealoijical  kuawkdge  at  that  time  than  is  some- 
times thought ;  and  the  fact  is  certainly  a  curious 
one,  0,  F.  S,  WAnRE^^  M,A. 

Inn  OH  mtist  be  right,  J.  0,  Roger  wrong.  Of 
John  Pinkerton  being  the  dificoverer  of  this  origin, 
nothing  Keenis  known*  The  late  fiuuous  legal 
antiquary,  John  Rid  dell,  £*{[,,  Advocatei  Bdia- 
burgo,  in  his  work,  ^i£j«£irH^n^,  published  in  1843, 
shows,  hy  various  expressions,  that,  in  his  view, 
Mr.  C  halm  era  was  the  tme  discoverer.  In  that 
work^  which  exhibits  the  greatest  acuteness  and 
research,  but  is  withal  ill  expressed,  he  (p,  55) 
refenj  to  "Mr.  Chalmers's  origin  of  that  Royal 
Fiunily  as  firal  dii'uhjai  in  the  Vakdotiia  "  (Cakd.j 
voL  i,  572-7)p  And  ngain  (at  jj.  G2)  speaks  of  a 
letter  to  the  author  *^  from  Mr.  Ghaluiers  himself, 
rahcr  of  fhe.  thfor-y"  For  an  exceedingly  able 
paper  on  **The  Stewarts/'  refert^nce  may  be  made 
to  that  by  the  Rev,  Mr*  Eyton,  in  the  Joumal  of 
the  Archtrological  Imtiiidc  of  December,  IftSS. 

R. 

**TrrE  Cry  of  Natche"  (5«*  S.  11  367.)-See 
"N,  &  Q.;'  3^^  S,  ii.  14,  under  Ilanm  Vmnie^ 
Mvarigiluki  I  or,  (Ac  Comic  Fro^js  fnrnal  ^fdho- 
diiU^  17S6,  another  of  the  works  of  John  Oswald, 
Eesitles  these  he  published  EvphTomfne;  or,  an 
Oth  to  Bmuiy^  addressed  to  Mrs.  6roueh,  4 to,, 
l7Bri  J  and  PocvUj  to  which  is  added  Hie  Hum&urM 
of  John  BttU,  an  operatic  farce,  12  mo,  1789:  these 
last  two  under  the  nom  <f#  pitting  of  Sylvester 
Otway,  In  support  of  the  views  of  the  Jacobins, 
with  whom  he  was  connected,  Oswald  also  wrote 
several  politiml  paniphietSj  tot  wHcli  le©  Watt ; 


and  for  a  memoir  of  the  anthor,  see  yqL  L  of  the 
Liveg  of  the  Scots  P<kU^  ISmo,,  182L        A.  0. 

"  OtrR  ArrBCTioMB  a^d  PAseiosre^^  &a  (6*^  S. 
ii,  368.)— Wordsworth,  in  his  ode  InHmsiiong  $f 
Imvwrtalily  fr&m  B^kdi4>m  qf  Ea^lf  Chili- 
hood  j  has  expr^eased  th^  eentlmenta  referred  la 

W,  EL  BucBUiT, 

New  Works  SuoaKtriD  bt  AnTiiov8(5^3. 
ii,  385.)— 

"Mr,  Darwin  might  write  a  new  bookt  U1iisfci«llTe tf 
a  prebistorie  coMinon  uicevtry,  from  tb«  fibles  of  Syria, 
India  J  and  Greece,  tliat  t«ll  of  Mitmul  wi«d^ia,"'-Tb« 
MdinhKTffh  Rt^it^f  toL  catxatviii*  (1373),  p,  33. 

F»  jL  £DWAaz}& 

SiL%^ia  Star  (5***  3,  il  388,}— Yonr  corr^pon- 
dent  will  find  a  §111  explanation  of  the  meaning  of 
this  masonic  ornament ,  with  the  legend  in  t^iiim 
(We  live  in  a  world  of  wonders !),  in  the  Frtwmm^ 
a  periodical  not  sufficiently  known  to  the  sdai- 
tific  world,  as  it  is  a  grand  repoeitory  of  "thinga  not 
genendly  known  "  to  ordinary  historians  and  ^J- 
siologists,  theologians,  aatronomeTsi,  and  tragedius, 

KlRBT^l^    "WONDEKFUL    AND    EcCEXTBlC  M^- 

SECM  ^'  (5tb  S,  ii,  3<5e,)— The  plate  as  fionti^ieee 
to  vol,  iVp  is  in  my  copy  ;  it  ia  **  Doctor  Isaac 
Goaset  died  Dec,  16,  1812,  aged  sixtj-eight.  Tb? 
greate&t  collector  of  curious  old  hooka  of  his  time" 
It  ia  evidently  a  caricature,  and  was,  perhapi, 
euppressed  on  that  ^coouxit,  Behei, 

A  plate  of  the  "  Chevalier  d^Eon  de  Beanmonl,'^ 
on  on©  knee,  in  a  fencing  attitude,  forms  the  froa- 
tispiecc  to  the  copy  of  vol.  iv*  in  the  Mancheijt*r 
Free  Library*  B. 

**Gate'*  (5"»  S,  ii.  40G.)"What  is  a  chain  trf 
gate  I  Jefferey  Dudley,  "Ej^quycr"  of  RusscU^a 
Htill,  Dudley,  1571,  leaves  to  Thomas  Dudley,  hii 
son,  his  "  cheyne  of  ^\itf  It  appears  from  hia 
will  that  he  was  Eangcr  "of  all  luy  Lord's  chas^^ 

and  parkes  within  the  count  ye  id  ."    Was 

thia  his  budge  of  office  I  "  H,  S*  G. 

This  terra  is  by  no  means  peculiar  to  Dovedale 
or  to  Derbyshire  ;  it  is  in  use  in  the  city  aiid 
county  of  York,  and  when  reduced  to  writing, 
should  appear  as  §ait.  It  ts  to  be  found  in  the 
Olomanj  of  FromndalUtm  of  East  YorhAm, 
lately  reprinted  from  M,irahali*s  Rural  ^coiWDiy 
of  Yofbihits^  17SS,  by  the  English  Dialect  Society 
"  Gait  (ppon,  gcefU}^  »&,,  a  going  place  ;  as  a  cov- 
gait ;  the  going  of  a  cow  in  a  summer  pstnre." 

St,  Swrrsiir, 

A  cow-gate  and  a  sheep- gate  are  ternis  in  every- 
day use  in  both  Lancashire  &nd  Yorkflbiie*  i> 
few  days  ago  I  heard  of  a  pending  Uwrnit,  the 
point  at  issue  being  whether  or  not  tbe  own^^f 


fi»&iL  Die.  19,74]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


**  sates  "  in  ju  U  also  tlie  owner  of  the  nimea  and 
uuBeials^  H,  FisnwicK,  F.S.A. 

'  '"  "^  •  [rnudng;  land  in  the  west  of  the  county 
W:i  lie  cow  br  its  supposed  etiuivalents, 

^u  ji  I  .kiiiij^i  or  sii  aheep,  are  willed  a  *  cxjllop/^ 

^       "  J'jSEPn    FiBHEB. 

aterford. 

This  is  no  provinctal  tenii,  but  a  common  legal 
one-  **  Sheep  -  gates,"  "cnttle-gatea,**  occur  in 
lUAoy  old  deeds.  In  those  of  our  fnuiily  e3?tnte 
(county  of  Durham),  such  rights  na  those  nUuded 
lo  by  Mr,  Jesbk  are  d*  nr mi  inn ttd  **  »tints/'  In 
northern  parlance  j^ait  m  a  toud  or  way,  or  walk  ; 
90  **  8boo[Hgatea  **  aw  "  sheep-walks, " 

ffAicBs  Hekrt  Dixok, 

Elizabeth  Hamilton  (5*^  S.  iL  406.)— If  H. 
will  oonsidt  the  General  Index  to  the  Fourth 
iSeries,  under  this  lady's  name,  ho  will  find  some 
j  notice  of  the  work  he  alludes  to.  Several  of  my 
I  queries  with  regard  to  this  hidy  are  Btill  un- 
I  answered.  Olpiiar  Hahst. 

*^Thr  Vagabond,''  bt  Oeorgk  Walker  (6^ 

I B.  11.  4Uft.) — I  have  only  met  with  one  copy,  in  two 

kirniall  Tohimes,  well  bound,  now  iu  my  library. 

I  The  work  ia  entitled  "  jTAe  VaqahmuU     A  novel 

fill   two  volumes.      VoL   L  by    George   Wftlken 

iTliird  e<iitioD,  with  notes.     London,  printed  for 

\i^.  VVrdker.**     It  ia  a  third  edit  inn  with  notea^  tmd 

I  to  the  riiglt   Rtvertnd  Father  in  CWl 

r/>r«l   Bishop   of    LLiuJaif,   date    17t>I#. 

I..>  ed  for  G.  Widker.  Ko.  10«,  Great 

Pof  (t ;  and  Hurst,  32,  Piitemoster  Row. 

Tht  ^  \i*j\xbond  is  clovcrly  writleo,  und  intended  iis 

an  answer  to  Paine  nnd  other  reformists  of  tlmt 

'7  ^'>.     The  author,  in  his  Preface,  recommends  Iub 

1  ors  to  peruse  De  LoLtue.     Perhaps  some  reader 

■"  '  *ouie  account  of  the  author,  und  the  date 

ith.     Did  he  write  any  other  works  ? 

'Hubert  SMUn. 

George  Walker  wrote  numerous  things  beaides 

n  '    T'«tj^5<mii.    An  interesting  account   of  him 

i    be  found  in   the   Bim.   Diet.,   181G  ;    and 

refers  to  Watt's  Bib.  Brit    Wlien  did 

Oli'iiah  Hamst, 

TD.F^\!f  Vine  (r>^  S.  ii.  305.}— This  subject  was 

well  renfi^'^-i   ^ ^  'niie  bnck  in  "N.  &Q,,"* 

bat  no  Tr  ed  iit. 


%   or    co^^ 
the^'M; 

I]    u    LtiU    i^tiO}l>i-r. 

Ao  i.     Over  the  "  rm 


idjf  of  th< 


[•  e«f  *'  N.  k  Q.,  i'*  S.  L  277,  308.  379.} 


" "  Ellen *s  hands  bftd  taught  to  twine 

The  Ivy  und  Idflcan  Vino, 

The  CtcnitiiiB,  the  faroored  flowor. 

That  bo&fits  the  name  of  Virginal  Dower.** 

From  a  letter  I  received  from  Mr.  Britten  of  the 
British  Museum,  I  quote  the  following  words,  that 
seem  to  set  the  matter  at  rest : — 

"  I  have  always  looked  upon  Scott*t  '  Id^oa  Viiie*  ai 
an  ima^natjve  semi-olasaicol  name  for  the  ClemaiiB,  the 
words  being  read  tbot : — 

*Tlic  Ivy  and  Id»e:in  Vine— 
The  Clematid— the  favoarcd  flower, 
That  boasts  the  name  of  Virgin Vbower.*  ** 

A.  D,  H. 

T.  Allinotoit  (5*^  S.  i.  288 ;  ii  135.)— Will 
Olpiiar  Hamst  for;^dve  my  not  having  noticed 
his  remark  in  p.  135  ]  I  had  left  my  home  for  the 
Continent  when  that  number  of  '*N*  &  Q.*'  arrived ; 
it  wus  Buhnequently  mislaid,  and  has  been  only 
juiit  recovered.  Many  years  ago  I  had  been  struck 
with  a  pleasing  little  poem  inserted  anonymously 
in  a  country  newspaper  :  long  afterwards  I  recog- 
nized it  in  a  small  volume  of  poems  by  T.  Ailing* 
ton,  lying  on  the  table  of  a  professional  waiting- 
room  ;  but  I  did  not  obaen'c  where,  or  by  whom, 
it  had  boon  publiahed.  I  am  much  obliged  to 
Olphar  Hamat  for  the  kind  trouble  he  has  taken 
ill  the  matter.  T.  W.  Webb. 

"NtJRJLiA'*  (G*»»  S.  ii.  407.)-*The  author  h 
William  Mudford.  See  Biofj,  Did,,  1816,  and 
Tht  London  Caktloffuc  for  18(MVl  827,  published 
in  1827.  OLraAR  ilAiiST, 

[Sec  «nU,  pp.  leo,  210.] 

TaE  Herhit  of  Red-Coat's  Grekn  (5^  S.  ii, 
423.)— It  may  be  interesting  to  note  that  I  was 
told,  by  the  late  George  H odder,  that  Charles 
Dickens  employee!  him  to  see  this  eccentric  jft'Pion 
and  report  on  him,  and  that  be  never  hiniiielf 
risitcdnim.  MoBTmER  Collins. 

The  Aitstralian  Drama  (6»^  S.  L  423 ;  ii.  66,) 

— ^Further  additions : — 

1.  liuymcnd,  L^M  of  Milan:  a  tHM^fdy  of  the  tliir 
teenth  c'cnturv.     By  Edward  Reeve.     Sydney,  1851. 

o  Tt .  li  /;  ^'tdttey:  an  extravftganza,  ByJacoes 
Sit  11,  produced  in  Sydney,  ]8r'9. 

J  ^.      Thr  ttlsnle  of  thf*  TOT'frenftniei 

in  -  :„^ 

til  9, 

»fe    i_ ,     :, „. [.-.-.'.    „ith 

genius,  imd  who^e  "  tflkcuhy  tor  poetic  tranalation  wm 
foiueUiinvt  wouilerfiil/*— />«»tJeAv>  Vidt  Harton'i  LiU' 
rnturt  in  X.  6'.    W,  pp.  86,  1&6 ;  Barton's  Proie  and 

E.  A.  P. 

AnDsra  and  Castles  or  Sootlanh  (r»»**  S.  iL 
28<»,  432.)— Surely  fiuch  stind.ird  works  .is  Grose's 
AntuftUlitv  and  Cord  intra  RtmarkahU  Hu%n$ 
should  be  addrd  hh  worthy  predcccHiturs  of  the 
Tery  beailLiful  engravings  by* Mr.  Billiti^   Mskwi^ 


498 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5  "8.  11.  Dec  19, 74. 


Virtue  k  Co,  published  my  Ecoti-MonasHcon  this 
year,  Dr.  Cordon  having,  unfortuDatelyi  left  his 
work  incomplete. 

Mackenzie  E,  C.  Walcott, 

Paul  Jones's  Action  (^^  S,  iL  348,  3!>G.)— 
I  am  much  oblrged  to  Mr,  Thorburn  for  the  full 
information  given  aa  to  Capt.  Pearson  of  ihe 
Serapia.  I  dare  say  he  will  kindly  add  to  that 
obligation.  The  paintinjT  in  question  h  by  nn 
uraateur,  Thomas  Mitchell,  Esq.,  sun*^^eyor  of  the 
navy  about  the  above  da.te.  I  belicvo  aevetid 
large  abips,  possibly  the  Royal  George,  were 
from  his  designs,  I  should  be  glfld  to  hear  any 
porticulara  of  him  or  of  bis  work.  He  was  self- 
tAUgbt  as  a  piuntor^  but  exbibLted  iimeli  skill  and 
power.  Having  perfect  knowledge  of  ship  con- 
struGtioUt  "i^tl  being  acquainted  witb  all  the  naval 
heroei  of  the  tiuiej  who  gave  him  personal  de- 
icriptioDs  of  their  battles,  he  had  i!ome  ap3cial 
qimlificationa.  Among  the  pictures  by  him  is 
Iiord  Kodney^s  engagement,  that  of  the  Isis  and 
Casar,  and  many  others,  I  believe  some  by  him  are 
in  Greenwich  Hospital,  Tlie  Imttle  of  the  Isia  and 
Coesar  was  a  very  gallant  affiiir  ;  the  former,  a 
fiftj'-gun  ship,  under  Capt.  lUynor,  beat  of!"  a 
French  of  seventy-four  guns,  whoae  captain,  the 
*  celebrated  Bourgainville,  lost  an  arm  in  the  action* 
What  was  the  subsequent  career  of  Capt,  Eaynor  ] 

E.  Elton, 

WbeatUy.        

K0TE3  ON  BOOKS,  ic 

Memoira  nf  llu  Cieit  Want  hi  JVala  and  the 
MaTcJtci!,  KA-2-lU-ill  By  John  Holland  Phillips. 
2  vols,  (Lou^L^nuans  &  Co.) 
Jm  one  sense,  the  story  of  the  great  Civil  'War  13  a 
story  without  end.  ^lany  writer^i  biive  ^^  added 
Bomethinj^  new"  to  it  ;  many  htive  "ninde  enlarge- 
ment too";  and  now  we  have  Mr.  Phillips,  who 
has  gone  to  fre^ih  sources,  and  from  them  has 
drawn  materials  for  a  history  which,  in  every  ptige, 
is  attrtictivc,  am]  which  ia  notcwarth y  fur  its  ori- 
ginality, fairncHB,  and  pictorial  power  of  expresgion. 
After  a  Incld  Introduction,  wc  have  a  f^ketrh  of 
tbecauscii  which  led  to  the  war,  till  divided  Waki^ 
sent  a  body  of  her  hedgers  and  ditclier^  to  take 
valiant  part  on  the  King's  si^de,  at  Kdgehill,  where 
Essesc  caught  Charle;*  and  stopt  hid  advance  on 
London.  The  br;ive  Welshmen  lost  many  an  after- 
day,  but  never  their  honour.  They  pfmred  out 
their  blood  at  Tewkesbury  and  Hereford,  under 
tho  Marquis  of  Hertford.  Waller  shook  tlieir 
laurela  when  he  took  the  second-named  city  ;  but 
the  Welshmen  gave  up  their  lives  for  the  cause  on 
many  a  bloody  field  in  the  Principality  and  the 
Marches ;  and  it  was  not  till  after  Naieby  that 
^e  Welsh  could  he  recruited  in  any  lotge  numbers 


for  the  Parliament ;  one  Tesult  of  wMch  wic,  th^t 
Fairfax,  witE  Welsh  aid,  captured  Harlech,  the 
la^t  of  several  such  successes  in  Wales,  in  1617. 
On  the  other  hand,  old  Parliamentonaos  went 
over  to  the  Royaliits,  but  Oroni well's  Ironsides 
made  their  mark  at  Tenby,  Chepstow,  and  Pem- 
broke, At  the  latter  place,  three  able  deserters 
from  the  Parliament  army  were  taken  prisoners 
Langhame,  Foyer,  and  PowelL  They  wer«  tried 
in  London^  and  were  condemned  to  be  shot.  The 
Government,  however,  asked  but  for  one  life  The 
three  oSicera  dmw  lota  (or  rathei*,  a  cbild  drew 
for  the  three),  on  two  of  which  were  inscribed, 
*^LifQ  given  by  God."  Colonel  Foyer  drew  the 
blank  On  an  April  morning,  in  1640,  be  stood 
calmly  in  front  of  a  p]att>on  of  men,  in  the  Fioiza, 
Coven t  Garden  ;  and  there  he  fell  dead  under  the 
voUey  they  discharged  at  kim.  We  conclude  bv 
cordhdly  recommending  Mr.  FhiUips'a  book  to  ail 
wbo  care  to  read  many  new  and  most  interring 
chapters  in  the  history  of  England  and  Wales. 


The  KUhditngtiiilied.  The  Fall  0/  £A<  Xidtilun^jfrt, 
Qihtrif^hi  the  Book  of  KritmhUd.  Translated  bjlfU* 
hum  Nansom  Lcttsoiti.  (WltliiLmi  &  Noi-g&te.) 
Ootlhe^K  Ilfnti&nti  and  Ihrotkea.  Trmiii]fti«l  into  Enc- 
lUh  Hexameter  Verse,  by  Manniduke  J.  Teeidik; 
(Frederick  Norgate,} 
iMr.  Lkttsom*s  tmnftlfttion  of  the  dream  and  etory  of 
KrkmhUd  doei  for  BngUsh  readers  much  thikt  Dr.  Kiri 
Simrock  did  for  German  readera  In  bia  modera  rmwm 
of  the  old  |H}(>m  publiihed  at  Bonn,  in  18-10,  under  tht 
title  ZirajfZif^  Lietlci-  von  den  Nielitumgt%.  Tlie  worfi 
"  Hecimd  Kilition "  on  Mr.  Lettaoia'a  title-page  sbow 
that  hiB  wcU-eiecuted  troric  hai  been  thorough  It  appre- 
ciate d»  Mr.  Teesd^ilc^i  iratiBlation  of  that  «xqaiait«lj 
licautiful  and  eimplo  pFrici  of  home  iC6ne&,  trials,  |p7^ 
and  ikffections,  dc?pervcB  tn  meet  with  ^qtiail  appreclitioo. 
A  usftns  (ijnipathic-B  tjiust  he  in  tune  infjth  the  finer 
feelinp^  of  \\it  lieart  to  enjoy  Goethc'B  poem  ns  he  wrote 
it,  or  to  trand!at«  H  as  Mr.  Tc^sdak  haa  done.  The  Tsrj 
fiirnplieity  of  (h«  origiiial  prcienta  many  difficulties  in 
the  way  of  matchiitg  it  with  equal  n&tural  eiinplikitT. 
Mr.  Tee&dale  liae  t^armoQuted  auch  difficulties.  He  hai 
adtleil  a  treaaure  to  literature  by  eiecwtinjj  suck  m 
Engliah  TerBion  of  one  of  the  most  deferred ly  populir 
of  Ocrinau  poenu, 

Memoriait  0/  St.   TiuTistan,  ArcJibuhi>p  ef  CajUtr^HTif, 
Eihti:d  from  varicuft  >tanu*€fipti  by  William  Stubw, 
M*A.    (LnngmanB  k  Co.) 
CAnjj^iWj/i  AiiffHa^:   ah  Ann^  /)rtflji'j»t  IZtS,  M^pu  di 
A/initm    ltJBS>      Attetorte    Mofmcho    qiiodam.    S<uiMi 
Affjani.      Editi^d    by  Edmund    .Maunde    TbompwiL 
(Lonj^ans  k  Co.) 
Ta  E  above  are  tiro  of  the  lateat  volunsei  cf  the  greit 
riieitorical  Series  publiEhed  bj  uutliortty  ef  the  Lordi  of 
the  Treasury,  and  under  the  direction  of  the  MaBter  of 
the  RoIIb.     Out  of  the  t annua  lire?  of  St.  Danitan^  and 
froTTi  Uifi  letters  and  other  relies^  it  wUl  be  hard  if  mo^^^ 
readeri  fail  ta  build  up  eometlitng  like  the  truth  coa- 
ceming  this  great  EnjEliiihman.    Mr.  StubbB^a  Introduc- 
tion u,  ^a  uiual  with  himi  fuU  of  ititere.^t  from  bepnaiog 
to  end.    The  chronicle  of  iiity  years  of  the  fourteentn 
century  is  admirably  edited  by  the  learned  Aadstaat* 
Keeper  of  the  MS3.  in  the  Bridsh  Museam.     ET«zt 
page  eboWA  how  much  history  may  be  told  in  a  imill 
space;  If  the  writer  will  only  stick  ih  his  subject. 


»*ati.i>M.w,Ti.i 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


499 


Wht  Sonnet :  Us  Origin^  Stnt€t%r€t  ^^^  Placi  in  Poetry. 
^  With  Original  Tmuslationi  from  the  SonneUof  Dftnte^  | 
Potrtrcli,  &c,,ajid  Reniarks  on  the  Art  of  TnuuUtbg. 
Bt  risarle?  Tomlinson,  F.R.8.     (Mumtj.) 
*1  come  in  itself,  and  ftl&o  aa  a  proof  that  a 

^  ith  §ympathy  for  the  loftiest  fii]^ht»  of 

,u  J...VV  3  ,..v,.x..^t.  Were  it  otherwise^  tliia  KtmcefiU  and 
[te&ned  book  would  hare  had  no  object.  It  must  huvc 
I  ft  work  of  labour^,  bat  a  labour  loved  by  tho  writer, 
[woiild  not  have  be«n  lo  perfect  aa  it  is.  Thc*re  is 
^I'tng  to  be  learned  and  something  to  be  enjoyed  in 
F  one  of  Mr.  TomUoaon's  tuneful  pages. 

ffluh  JSthool  Clastia.    Edited  by  Frajicls  Storr,  B,A,, 
■litant-M aster  at  Marlborough  CoUegc.  (RiTingtoni.) 
Sfoaa  now  gires  ut  Lord  Mac&ulay's    ea$ay  on 
irrV  Life  of  Lard  Bifron  ;  Mr,  Smith,  of  Winchoitcr, 
Ibe  '■  ^ci' of  i^ir  Thomna  Browne;  Mr,  Sankev. 

|of  i^^'.  ,  (joldimitlVs  TravcUer  and  The  Daerild 

,.,   Air\',   of  Wellington  CoUega^  selectiona 
i-on'a  papers  in  Th/t  Sptdaior,     Thus  is  com- 
j   I  Nve  believe,  thia  moat  useful  5criea  \  and  thtia 

^~     Ftniled  ui  an  opportunity,  of  which  we  gladly  avail 
llvca»  of  again  cordially  commentling  to  thc«e  en- 
^  "  in  the  work  of  education  Mr.  Storr's  efforts  for 
Ke  advancement  of  a  knowledge  of  cbnical  EngUdi 
Iwritera  in  ichoola  generally. 

\Th€  Seotiiih  Riformtrs.  Edited  by  tho  Rev.  Charlefi 
Rogera,  LL.D.  (Printed  for  the  Englifih  Reprint 
Society.) 

|pR.    RooKKs    furniihci    mem^itra    of    Alexander    Cun- 

iUTiglmm,  fifth  Elarl  of  Glcncairn*  Henry  Calnavea  of 

IllalliilU  and  John  Davidson,  Minister  of  Frestonpans. 

I  To   Daridjon,  the  pujiil  and  a^^ociate  of  John  Knox, 

"Mianited  tho  greater  portion  of  the  volume,  uUich 

dna  not    only  his  ildps  for    I'oan^  Scholan  in 

'^n-ity,  but  abo  the  poetidU  remains  of  all. 

\Otd  and  N(K  London:  a  Xnrratire  of  iu  Huioru^  iU 

Pefipf^y  a^ff^  its  Places,    By  Walter  Ttombury.    lUui- 
tr  !  numerous   Engravings  from  the    moat 

A  irces.   Vol  U.  ( Cufscll,  Better  &  Gal  pin.; 

iHb-  xji  m.-.  ..y  has  brought  his  portion  of  the  history 
|<jf  the  mctr^>i  oils  to  an  end.  Congiderlug  that  he  has 
|t>€en  urtfiKlcl  in  thi<i  Herculean  labour^  tho  work  doet 
I  h\m  I  l  it  13  now  complete  if*  itself.    The 

j  <W0"  LJile.     Westminster  ia  in  the  handa 

I  of  t..     ^,- :  I  whom  Mr.  Thombury  has  made 

I  oTcr  a  laTj^e  amount  of  materia.1  for  the  subject  which 
1  Uicy  hare  undertaken  to  tlluBtrate. 

l^aiVy  T€iln  for  Liillt  FolLs.  Illustrated  by  more  than 
Twt»  Htrndi-ed  Picture  a.  Edited  by  Madame  de  Chatc* 
lain.  I  Lock  wood  k  Co.) 
TH^  Little  Bo/i  Oitn  Book  of  Sports,  PoitrmiSt  and 
A  fnMsrmf it fi^  muatrated  with  numerous  Engraring^. 
^Lookwood  6i  Co.) 
Tlic  above  couple  of  volumes  explain  themselves  in  their 
titles  Thev  nra  truly  handy  books,  the  first  fdr  romance, 
I  the  second  for  reality. 


A.  F.  Drift— "The  Mlatiotoe  Bough,"  story  and  aong. 
Bee  "  N.  k  Q.,"  4'"  S.  viii.  8,  IIC,  177, 195,  313,  551 ;  ix. 
46, 128,  U2,  477. 

F.  R. — Much  obliged  by  your  kind  offer  to  forward  the 
account  of  the  trial,  of  which,  howcYer,  we  poueas  a 
copy. 

AiiTflUR  CuTTT.— The  fitat:  &="and  per  se  and." 
The  second :  Margaret  Roper,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomiu 
More. 

C.  J.  E. — The  aite  of  More 'a  bouse  at  Chelsea  can  be 
learnt  from  any  intelligent  inhabitant. 

Ts.  Sbaus*  can  get  the  information  required  at  Sta- 
tioners'  Eall, 

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Editor'*— Advertisemcnta  and  Businesa  Letters  to  "The 
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London,  W.C. 

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to  this  mle  wc  can  make  no  exception. 

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addrasa  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 
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A    QUERIES  will  bo  published  t.nWEr>M:SDA\M»ECEMDEK8a» 
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CHKIBTMAS  CONTBASTS,  by  ibe  Editor. 

CHKIfiTMAS  vrith  BI8U0F  HACKJ^T. 

MY  CimtRTMAiS  DAY  of  l*1t4. 


CMUlSiTMAS  itIRACLE  PLAY. 
!  TJ  M  M  EfUS  in  DOBSETSHtHC. 
no  Ed. 


ARD  WIFE.- 
VEN  oatbeCA&BON. 


'lima?,  Louia  Philippe  used  to 

J  he  the  descendant  of  Louis 

.,,  ,.,  ,^.v.uiate  dauKhter,  than  to  be  the 

ndant  ol  ihe  Grand  Monarquc's  brother, 


-ion  House,  wa*  - 

iiction   it  cxac 

Hall    described    U 


ox:     ■ 

TV. 

*'Tiu:.  V.  A  i 
AltMil  i:  N 
HOG  MANY. 

THE  BATTLE  of  (he  MLE. 
ka.  Jw.  A«. 

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Luudou, 


THE  SOCTETYof  ANTIQUARIES  of  LONDON. 
->  V  fiT«o,  that  the  Boci«tj  of  Antiqaaiie*  haw 

nE MO\  >  a  AMnmtiiti  la  BorUDBtob  Houm.  ti^xmdMy, 

W. ,  «her>  Atioofl  ^ould  b«  adclrc«MdL  and  Ai>pUe«tloiM 

ia4de.r«ia[neiu  iu  /  ubllmtioiu  of  the  Soctetjr.    The  Libruy  la  bow 
op«a  fi»r  (he  luo  oi  ik'eilowa. 

C.  K^  10 HT  WATSON.  ILA.,  SccfftalT- 

BurUDfton  Boom,  Dtc  \i,  IBTi. 


THE  ARUNDEL  SOCIETY'S  FAC-SIMILES 
in  COLOUR  f^m  tbo  OLD  31  ASTERS  ut  EaUUtcd  ITrt* 
\*i  the  PnhUc,  Pdily,  wd  Sold  from  IQt.  to  4Bi,  meb.  DtmripUr* 
LliW  wot,  po«£  tnt%  on  ftppUaalion  to  f4, 014  Band  Bttevt^  Loadon,  W. 


A  FTER  Fifty  thn^e  years  of  L 


df 


(t'i'HitjA  i< 


m. 


R,  fiEXtLEl'  kmiS^i,  NfW  BtiritDirt«D  StrOft,  W. 


riMi 


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Tn  hi* 

,   •  .  rrlj- 

rijitioui  t<>  M«wa 


500 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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OLD     AND     NEW    LONDON. 


rjASSELL'S  

NOTICE. 

The  HISTORY  of  that  portion  of  the  Metro- 
polis tehich  lies  EAST  of  TEMPLE  BAR  is  contained  in 
Vols.  I.  and  11.  qfCASSELVS  OLD  AND  KEW  LONDON. 
Kow  ready,  price  9t.  e»ch,  with  400  lUoftratioiu. 


WEST   OF  TEMPLE   BAR. 

In  Part  S4,  prioe  7d.  of 

CABBEIiL'B  OLD  AND  NEW  IiONDON 

If  commenced  the  Hiitorf  of  London  WEST  of  TEMPLE  BAK. 
Including  WESTMIXrtTER  and  the  WESTERN  SUBURBS.  Part  34 
commenccfl  the  New  Volume,  and  forms  a  f.ivoiiralde  opportunity  for 
New  Subscril>en  to  commence  tlieir  subacriptionii  to  th-i  valuable  and 
popular  Work. 

The  Timts  says  :— 

*'  The  author  is  familiar  not  only  with  the  literature  of  his  suMeet. 

but  with  the  subject  itself.    Such  a  book  as  he  is  writins  cannot  help 

being  interesting  and  full  of  curious  fkcts.    It  is  fall  of  ulustrations.  • 

The  City  Preti  says  :— 

**  The  most  laTishly^lUustrated  history  of  London  erer  published. 

It  will  remain  a  monument  of  enterprijie  to  the  publishers. 

The  Educational  Times  says:— 

**  Etcit  step  of  the  way  Mr.  Thombury  has  some  interesting  histoiy 

or  legend,  some  qu&int  memento  of  bygone  days  to  relate.** 

The  BirmUioKam  Post  says  :— 
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CONTEXTa  — N«  52. 

HFOTBa  r— ChrUtiiiAS  OontrMK  ^1— CbrUtmu  with  Biabop 
Backatt  £02'0ilord$tare  Chrlsttfau  Mtncio  Flmf,  £0J^ 
Chrittmat  Mnmmon  In  Donetibtm— Mj  Cliriitmiia  B«7  of 
US4.  ,^05 -••Ye  Bmn'9  B««le''— Oh<»tStorl«,  WT—Booty** 
Ghi  T  yttoUon'a  Ghost,   506— T»ro  Old  ChrUlmai 

Cn  :ti — Holly  »nd  Mlttleto*— Christ ui a*  Deco- 

nti  Ukon  to  Choich  »t  CliriatuuiA  Tinta,  600— 

ArtliiiF  ^  Mven  on  ttittCArTOii— "MjUiot"— A  Ix>CilTi«diUoi) 
of  ihti  Gog  lUeiJC  HOJs,  510. 

UERIES :— To«*TKble^IUiiNtr*doDJ  of  Popular  Booki— Tho 
Selklrlf  Pie— "Epltafl  Glocosrf/'  fill-fi*nie«:  "Eucbre," 
iic, — ^Spfrnub  L«(reDd<  —  An&Broon — Flemlntt*  Settled  at 
Norwitb  In  lUll— Ffloltleaj  Playi— Cnrlout  Cbrlstlfta  Names 
— Tb«  ii&irti's  Piece — Arms  of  Hurry— Mlaa  June  Ovo— 
&0V,  Mr.  Himtiiifton,  513— PAmilyof  Zlaum— "HQmoarlst" 
— MftithA  Bradley— *"R»ritiea:  or,  the  rnconjparablo  Curia- 
■Ulea,"  &c.— SMDiell  by  HM-Ungton.  Bed*. —The  Rev  IL 
Cudworib— The  Salio  L««^— Byioa  Armi,  513— The  Will  of 
Bit  L*wl»  dUTotd,  1*04  — "Plua  e«t  on  voos"— '*Pro 
lUtda,"  6R 

KBPUE3:-N»tlijui  BAUe/i  Dlctlonwles.  614— Danta  indhia 
TrmcuUtort,  516— A  Curious  Thorn,  516 — **  Hogroany,"  617 
— "Tl^^  Rnttlf?  pf  the  KUe"— Tbe  Dttlo  Summer— **  The 
Wl:  i-i— Anni  of  Eogllih  See*— Gunpowder 

PJ  :>aO— The  Looi;  PwlUineat— Ihomas 

l^uii     -  v'ers«,  521— Bridgefard  Family— Altar 

Iwarge  Oak.  62-2^TouchIii[g  for  the  KJUi^'t 
HarKaret,"  &c  — FragmeDtwry  line*  of  PoeCry 
mu — The  Termiuatloo  "  y  "  is  the  Name*  of 
&2a— *'Oaklc!gh  Fore«t  Code"— The  Society  of  Art* 
Memoxial  Tableta— Two    Churches    in    One   church jiird- 
FamUy  of  De  Villian,  524— AmericAU  I^Latus— "  TeaUmc^nta 
of  the  Twelve  Patriarch*  "— *'  Flouta^  and  jibea,  and  ieier3"— 
•*A*  ■ound  aa  a  Roach*— **  Ore  we/*  f.r»  Greek,  52ri— The 
Prcft^nder  In  England — The  fikaaed  Thlitla —Nomenclature 
of  Vahlolaa — "John  Jaaper'i  Secret "^The  Bonea  of  the 
FhanoliA-ProaBnciaiion  of  '*AcUei"— Latin  and  EagUab 
Qnjmtity,  61)61 

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H  CUBISTMAS  COSTTKASTS. 

^M     There    is    something  touching   in    the  simple 

^Bwords  of  soniiwfal  surprise  with  which  Evelyn, 

^^after  liis  long  course  of  travel  abroad^  records  in 

his  IHijnj  the  incidents  of  the  CJhristuiiis  Day  of 

1  f;:.2  nhich  he  spent  at  Sayea  Court.    He  had  left 

M  monarchy.     When  he  returned^  it  wa£ 

nweakb,  during  the  existence  of  which  all 

vance  of  the  day  waa  prohibited.    At  the 

date   he    writes,  —  "Christmas    Day,   no 

lion  nnywhere  ;  no  church  being  permitted  to 

Ibe  open  ;  so  observed  it  at  home.'*    Again,  in  the 

IfoUowing  year, — "Christmas  Day.     No  churches 

lor  public  worship.     I  waa  fiiin  to  pass  the  devo- 

'nm  of  that  Blessed  Day  with  my  fiimily  at 

ftc*"     Still  more  gloomy  is  the  next  year's 

ir,^"  1 054.  Christmas  Day.    No  public  offices 

kurches  ;  but  penaltiea  to  obaervers  ;  so  as  I 

ined  to  celebrate  it  at  home."    In  1655 

'**  There  was  no  more  notice  tftken  of 

Day  in  churches."      The  season  was 

I  morx>  embittered.     It  was  at  this  holiday  time 

.  Ervlyn  made  the  following  record  ; — 


^*I  wont  to  London,  w}icr«  Dr,  Wikl  {ireflrched  tho 
faD€Tti1  Bermon  uf  Prctwhing ;  Ibis  bem^^  the  liMt  day ; 
after  which  Cromwell'B  proclamation  was  to  take  place, 
that  none  of  the  Church  of  England  i^houll  dar©  cither 
to  preach,  or  adminLster  Sacramentg,  tca^h  Bchool,  &e.^ 
on  pain  of  iuiprisotiment  or  eiUo.  So  this  was  the  moum> 
fullest  dny  that  in  my  life  I  had  seen,  or  the  Church  of 
Engrland  herself  since  thp  Kcforinatioii,  to  the  great 
rejoicing  of  both  Prie«t  and  Presbyter.  So  pathetic  was 
hirt  dii»cour«e  that  it  drew' many  tenrs  from  the  auditory. 
My«elf,  wife,  and  some  of  our  family,  received  the  CtJm- 
munion.  God  mako  mo  thankful  who  hatb  hitherto 
provided  for  us  the  food  of  our  soulfl  as  well  as  bodies. 
The  Lord  Jesus  pity  our  distressed  Oburch,  and  bring 
back  the  Captivity  of  Zion.** 

What  could  not  be  celebrated  in  public  was 
performed  in  private.  On  the  Christmas  Day  of 
1656,  Evelyn  chronicles  his  going  "to  London  to 
receive  the  Bleased  Sacrament,  this  holy  festival, 
at  Dr.  Wild's  lodgingSj  where  I  rejoiced  to  find  so 
full  an  assembly  of  devout  and  sober  Christians," 
"  26th,  I  invited  some  of  my  neighbours  and 
tenants,  according  to  custom,  and  to  preserve  hospi* 
tality  and  charity."  By  next  year  some  of  the  cleigy 
were  bolder  grown,  but  their  boldness  was  met  by 
rough  treatment.  Here  is  a  record  of  the  day, 
A.D.  1657:— 

"  I  went  to  London  with  mv  wife  to  celebrate  Chrtit- 
mas  Day,  Mr.  Gunning  preaching  in  Exeter  Chapel,  on 
Michah  rii.  2.  Sermon  ended,  as  he  was  going  to  the 
Uoly  Sacrament,  the  Chapel  was  surrounded  with  sol-> 
dien,  and  a! I  Iho  commuuicantd  and  assembly  surprised 
and  kept  prisoners  bv  them ;  aome  in  the  house,  others 
carried  away.  It  fell  to  my  share  to  be  confined  to  a 
room  in  the'  house,  where  yet  I  was  permitted  to  dine 
with  the  master  of  it,  the  Countess  of  Dorset,  Lady 
Htitttm,  and  some  others  of  Quality  who  invited  me.  In 
the  afternoon,  came  Col,  Whalley,  Goffe,  and  others  from 
Whitehall,  to  examine  us  one  by  one.  Borne  tliey  conh'> 
mitted  to  the  Marshal,  some  to  prison.  When  I  came 
before  them,  they  took  my  name  and  abode,  examined 
me,  why,  contrary  to  the  ordinance  made,  that  none 
should  any  longer  ob»erve  the  superfttitious  time  of  the 


Natirity  (so  esteemed  by  them),  I  durat  offend  and  par- 
ticularly pray  for  Charles  Stuart,  for  which  we  had  no 
Scripture.    I  told  ^hcm  wo  did  not  pray  for  Charles 


Stuart,  but  for  all  Christiftn  King-i,  Princes,  and  Gover- 
nors. They  replied,  in  so  doing,  we  prayed  for  the  King 
of  Spain  too,  who  wai  their  enemy  and  a  Papist;  with 
other  friroloua  and  ensnaring  questions  and  much  threat' 
euing ;  and  finding  no  colour  to  detain  me,  they  dismissed 
me  with  much  pity  of  my  ignorance.  There  wore  men 
of  high  flight  and  above  oi^insnces  and  spoke  spitefkl 
thingd  of  our  Lord's  Natirity.  As  we  went  up  to  receive 
the  Sacrament,  the  miecroants  held  their  muskets  against 
us,  as  if  they  would  hare  shot  us  at  the  altar,  but  jet 
sufi'cring  us  to  finish  the  office  of  Communion,  as  perhaps 
not  having  instruction*  what  to  do  in  case  they  found  ui 
in  that  action.  So  I  got  home,  Ute  the  next  day,  bleassd 
b«God!" 

Of  the  anniversaries  of  1658  and  1659,  there  is 
no  record,  but  we  have  this  "  Jubilate  *'  on  Novem- 
ber 25th,  1660j— "Dr.  Rainbow  preached  before 
the  King,  on  Luke  ii.  14,  of  the  glorj*  to  be  given 
God  for  all  His  mercies  ;  especially  for  restoring 
the  Church  and  Government,  Now  the  servwa 
waa  performed  m\-\x  \Q»avH  ^^vit'iT  ^<u>  -^ss^  ^'t^ 


602 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*B.n.Dao.261,71, 


merly."  On  the  Christmas  Day  following,  Evelyn 
writes, — "Preached  at  the  Abbey,  Dr.  Earle, 
Clerk  of  his  Majesty's  Closet,  and  my  dear  friend, 
now  Dean  of  Westminster,  on  Luke  ii.  13, 14,  con- 
doling the  breach  made  in  the  public  joy  by  the 
lamented  death  of  the  Princess  "  (of  Orange,  the 
King's  sister,  of  small  pox,  on  the  22nd),  "  which 
entirely  altered  the  face  and  gallantry  of  the  whole 
Court." 

The  contrast  that  ensued  must  have  stricken 
Evelyn  with  sorrow.  At  Christmas-tide,  1662, 
"  I  was  told,"  WTites  Pepys,  in  his  Diary,  "  that 
my  Lady  Castlemaine  hath  all  the  King's  Christ- 
mas presents  made  him  by  the  Peers,  which  is  a 
most  abominable  thing ;  and  that  at  the  great  ball 
she  was  much  richer  in  jewels  than  the  Queen  and 
Duchess  put  together."  How  completely  the 
wheel  had  turned  round  is  s^n  in  the  next  para- 
graph. "The  Commons  in  Parliament,  I  hear, 
are  venr  high  to  stand  for  an  Act  of  Uniformity, 
and  will  not  indulge  the  Papists,  which  is  endea- 
voured by  the  Court  party,  not  the  Presbyters." 
Nevertheless,  "  the  Court  Piiplsts  "  took  the  indul- 
gence that  was  not  specially  granted.  In  the  year 
1667,  it  had  become  one  of  the  London  sights  to 
go  to  the  Queen's  chapel  on  Christmas  Eve. 
Pepys  stood  there,  near  the  rails,  from  nine  at 
nij5it  to  two  in  the  morning.  He  expected  to  see 
a  figuring  of  the  birth  of  Our  Saviour,  the  manger, 
&c.,  but  he  stood  amid  a  crowd  of  lackeys, 
beggars,  fine  ladies,  zealous  poor  Papists,  gaping 
Protestants,  and  cut-purses,  with  only  Queen  and 
Court  to  stare  at,  and  an  endless  musical  service 
to  listen  t^.  The  Papists,  he  says,  had  the  wit  to 
bring  cushions  to  kneel  upon.  Lady  Castlemaine, 
he  adds,  "  looked  prettily  in  her  night-clothes." 
Pepys  finished  his  night,  or  rather  Christmas 
morning,  at  the  Hose  Tavern,  over  "  burnt  wine," 
and  so  home  by  nioonlij^ht.  He  stopped  now  and 
then,  on  his  way,  to  drop  money,  as  was  the 
custom,  and  so  home,  where  he  found  his  wife  in 
bed,  and  Jane  and  the  maid  making  pies.  He  was 
up  by  nine,  to  church;— dull  sermon,  crowds  of 
fine  people,  a  good  Christmas  dinner,  a  quiet 
afternoon,  and  a  joyous  evening,  brought  the  day 
to  an  end.  At  Court,  things  went  from  bad  to 
worse.  One  may  be  a  little  surprised  to  find 
Evelyn  himself  there  on  Christmas  Day  1GS4; 
but  he  was  ashauied  of  what  he  saw.  "  Dr.  Dove 
preached  before  the  King.  I  saw  this  evening 
such  a  scene  of  profuse  gaming,  and  the  King  in 
the  midst  of  his  three  concubines,  as  I  had  never 
before  seen  ;  luxurious  dallying  and  profaneness." 
It  was  the  last  Christmas  Day  of  that  "most 
religious  and  gracious  king,"  and  the  observance 
of  it  presents  contrasts  (on  which  it  is  not  neces- 
BUTV  to  dwell)  with  the  non-observance  of  the  day 
under  the  Puritans.  Ed. 

P,S,  Walter  Scott  has  aptly  illuBtrated  the  fierce 
opposition  to  observation  of  the  feslml  on  Wl^' 


side  of  the  CovenanterB.  In  Old  MortalUy,  when 
Cuddie  Headrigg  and  his  mother,  Mause,  aie  dii- 
missed  from  the  barony  of  Tillietudlem,  l^  Lady 
Margaret  Bellenden,  who  "will  ha'e  nae  Whiggeiy" 
on  her  estate,  Cuddie  exclaims  to  his  Goyenantiiig 
mother,  "  This  is  a  waur  dirdum  than  we  got  file 
Mr.  GudyiU  when  ye  garr'd  me  refuse  to  eat  tlie 
plum-norridge  on  Yule-eve,  aa  if  it  were  any  matter 
to  God  or  man  whether  a  pleughman  had  sappit 
on  minched  pies  or  sour  sowens."  "  It  was  &>• 
bidden  meat,"  rejoins  old  Mause  ;  "  things  dsdi- 
cated  to  set  days  and  holidays,  which  are  inhibited 
to  the  use  of  Protestant  Chnstians." 


CHRISTMAS  WITH  BISHOP  HACKBT. 
The  Christmas  sermons  of  this  good  bishop  are 
well  worth  introducing  amidst  the  attractive  hten- 
ture  of  the  season.    They  are  ten  or  twelve  in 
number,  and  are  most  appropriately  placed  in  the 
forefront  of  his  Century  of  Sermons  (fo.,  1675\ 
alluring    the    reader    further    into    one   of  the 
most    entertaining    folios    in    English    divinity. 
Though  dealing  largely  in  rebuke,  Hacket*8  dis- 
courses are  fuU  of  the  affectionate  coonseb  ind 
gentle  persuasiveness  of  the  Apostle  of  Love  :— 
<'Sit  in  the  vicar's  seat:  you'll  hear 
The  doctrine  of  a  gentle  Johnian, 
Whose  hand  is  white,  whose  tone  is  clear, 

Whoee  phrase  is  very  Ciceronian. . . . 
His  sermon  never  said  or  showed 

That  earth  ia  foul,  that  heaven  is  gncioiB^ 
Without  refreshment  on  the  road 
From  Jerome  or  from  Athanasins." 

The  Christmas  sermons  show  how  happily  the 
bishop's  motto,  written  over  Faithome's  lirge 
portrait,  characterized  the  man  :  "  Serve  God 
AND  BE  CHEARFVLL."  Hackct  could  not  bear,  it 
is  said,  to  look  upon  a  sour  man  at  dinner,  fiii 
admirable  biographer  tells  us  that  as  Christmas 
approached  he  would  beg  of  the  King  to  allow  bim 
to  return  to  his  diocese  ;  and  thither  he  often  went 
"  in  frosty  Winter  weather,"  to  be  like  "  the  good 
Pastor  among  his  sheep  where  they  m*  hear  his 
voice  at  Christmas,  and  the  other  great  Feasts* 
(p.  xxxix).  As  the  anniversary  came  round,  he 
was  ready  with  a  Christmas  address,  invariablr 
founded  upon  the  Second  Lesson  in  the  Moraing 
Pniyer ;  the  most  gladsome  of  all  being  that  on 
the  text, — 
"  Glory  to  God  on  high,  on  earth  be  peace 

And  love  towards  men  of  loTe—salvatxon  and  releiK.* 

It  was  "  the  theme  of  my  doctrine  sundry  times' 
(p.  60) ;  no  Scripture,  as  he  thought,  being  man 
fertile  of  wonders,  or  more  adapted  to  encourage 
joyous  thoughts.  No  less  than  fifteen  sermooi 
are  devoted  to  the  Incarnation.  They  evidenoi 
the  heartiness  with  which  the  amiable  prelate,  is 
common  with  the  nation,  entered  into  the  eiHiit  of 
the  hallowed  season.  They  also  afford  waaj 
\  c;\mss\3i&  ^xsfi^saJLlons  of  the  festive  habits  of  tbedij 


>  a  It.  Dko.  2S.  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


503 


id  of  the  manners  of  the  time,  Thu?^  the  old 
iiuely  phrase,  '*  A  merry  Chmtmas!"  was  old 
id  houiely  then*  It  wna  **  every  man  3  f^alutation 
ici\*witb  he  greets  hia  neighbour  at  thk  time  of 
ye«ir";  thijj  ia  the  subject  of  his  fourth  dia» 
rse*  **  Surely  were  it  not  that  the  birth  of 
us  made  ua  merry  at  this  season,  and  put  glad- 
is  in^o  onr  heurts^  rdl  the  year  benide  would  be 
riou  and  lumpish,  without  all  manner  of  con- 
,tion*'  (p,  30).  It  vft\B  aL?o  "much  in  every 
's  talk,  *Who  keeps  a  good  house  at  Christ- 
""  (p.  B7).  There  is  reference  to  the  noon- 
ner,  a  great  feast,  which  **mast  have  the 
iioo  of  a  Preacher^s  pains  before  it,"  be- 
ne a  plain  j2^ce  would  not  serve  the  turn.  In 
,ve  tones  he  censures  the  iniraoderate  and  kixu- 
!iist»,  which  "in  many  families  do  reach  to 
|ht'';  and  he  encouraged  his  flock  upon 
occJision  to  Bobnety  in  their  diet  and  in 
j>lea^iires,  presenting  innocency  and  Btm- 
ity  in  attractive  guise.  The  extravagant  dress, 
ich  also  seems  to  have  been  then  an  adjunct  of 
season,  fulls  imder  rebuke^  Contrasting  the  gar- 
Dots  of  tbe  crowd  at  the  Advent  of  Chriat  to 
salem,  he  says,  — "  Christ  would  not  have 
lOured  yours  with  his  feet ;  he  would  not  have 
ipon  j^our  Peacock  attire,  which  is  so  vain 
rable  "  (p.  47).  **  Apparel  superlatively 
most  vain,  and  most  effeminate ;  how  fjene- 
[y  it  h  to  be  seen  upon  all  people's  shoulders  I 
vvliiit  excessive  bravery  is  the  pride  of  the 
rf  lorn  raisM  in  less  than  the  rpvolution 

^  ar^,  not  only  in  this  luxurious  City, 
iii  liMle  Bethlehem,  in  every  village  of  the 
!^*  (p.  53).     Certain  games  are  reprehended  : 
hat  a  revenue  it  would  be  to  help  the  needy  if 
kiitA  of  Chrulmas  gaming  and  dicing  were 
upon  them.  ,  .  ♦  *  Among  lawful   and 
timea  of  this  Festival  time,  it  is  strange 
Icing  is  crept  in  among  them  "  {p.  5D).     In 
ition  to  his  animadversion  to  the   late  hours 
I  their  fe^tsts,  the  length  of  time  thus  occupied  in 
** junketings"  of  the  holidays  comes  itnder 

'  Christmas  is  celebrated  part  of  the  new  year 
of  the  old"  (p.  4  A);   *' Christmas  Day 
elvo  days  joyn^d  unto  it,  to  eche  (.nc)  out 
'i^y"  (P-  ^)i  "Christmas  joy  was  not 
for  the  iirst  txvelve  days,  when  the  *Son  of 
was  U)rn»  but  for  all  the  twelve  months  of 
htmdreti  ye^irs,  and  many  hundreds  after 
to  the  world's  end  "  (p,  48).     The  bishop 
words  against  those  whose  "  strictness 
How  of  no  sports  or  plefwumble  jocund- 
seuaon  (p.  46)*     'i'  'ition  of 

ig  with  the  «e;v5on  adantly 

'  v        ^ir^iCS.        ■  ^Mirjiisjv^  df»tb 

^  than  a  godly  song" 
,*  r,  .iL  |..;,L  ..-,  .u^.^:  is  a  defence  of  mu?iic 
dinrcheii,  as  itately  aud  tjob«r  oa  the   well- 


known  pussuge  in  The  E^SHUfBHkal  PoilUj,  His 
congregjitions  were  always  eitTiorted  to  bring  into 
their  annual  celebration  their  best  skill,  their  best 
harmony,  and  their  best  cheerfulness.  Coleridge 
happily  noted  one  paragnrf>h  in  one  of  these 
Christmas  sermons  as  "one  of  Hacket's  sweetest 
passnges  :  it  is  really  a  beautiful  little  hymn"  {Notes 
on  Eii'jlUh  J H  vines).     It  is  as  follows : — 

*'  I  beacech  you  ob?crTe»  all  you  that  would  keep  « 
good  CAn'ifirtrt*  oj  you  ought,  that  the  Klory  of  God  U  the 
bc«t  celebration  of  Ilii  JSon^  nativity;  &nd  all  your  pus* 
ttuiea  an  J  niipth  (which  idiaaUow  not,  but  rather  oom- 
Tnend  in  moJerate  usg)  nm^t  bo  bo  managM,  without 
rlotf  without  surfeiting,  without  exceaaive  gaming,  with- 
out pride  and  Taiii  pomp,  in  harialeseness,  in  sobriety,  oa 
if  thto  glory  of  the  Lord  wor©  round  itboiit  as.  Christ 
was  bom  to  eave  them  that  were  loat ;  but  frequently  you 
abuse  Hia  Natitrity  with  80  many  vices,  such  disordered 
outrages,  that  you  mskko  thii  happy  time  an  occasion  for 
jour  loss  rather  than  for  your  salvation.  Praise  Him  in. 
the  conjrregation  of  the  people  -'  Pratse  Him  in  your 
inward  licart !  Praise  Him  with  the  lanctity  of  your  life  f 
Praise  bim  ia  your  charity  to  them  that  need  and  are  ia 
want !  This  ia  tbe  glory  of  God  eliining  round,  and  the 
rno^t  Chriitian  solemaixing  of  the  BirlU  of  Jesus.**— 
P.  27. 

J.  E.  Bailt. 


OXFORDSHIKE  CHUISTMAS  MIRACLE  PLAY, 
Perhaps  the  following  nmy  be  of  sufficient  intet-- 
est  to  appear  in  your  Christmas  number.  The 
text  of  the  play  wjuj  taken  down  by  myself  from 
the  lips  of  one  of  the  performers  in  18.53,  I  fit^t 
saw  it  iicted  in  tbe  Unll  of  the  old  Vicarage  House 
lit  Thame,  in  tbe  year  1 830,  by  those  whose  custom 
it  had  l^en,  from  time  immemorial j  to  perform  it 
at  the  houses  of  the  gentle-people  of  that  neigh- 
bourhood at  ChrLstnms,  between  St,  Thomas's  Day 
and  Old  Cbristmas  Eve,  January  5.  These  per- 
formers (now  long  scaltere<.l»  and  all  dead  but  one, 
as  I  am  infonne^i)  claimed  to  be  the  '*  tme  and 
legitimate  successors "  of  tlie  mummers  who,  in 
previous  centuries,  constantly  i}erformed  at  th6 
^^Whitsun"  and  **ChristnmB  Church  Ales,"  re- 
cords of  whieh  tert  found  on  almost  ever}'  page 
of  the  **  Stewards'  and  Churchwardens'  Books  of 
the  Prebendal  Church  of  our  Blessed  Lady  of 
Thame," 

In  ^Ir.  Lupton's  Uistory  of  Tl^amt^  some 
account  of  these  performances  is  giveu  j  while,  in 
the  "Address"'  prefijced  to  his  pri>iiteiy-printed 
and  curious  tract,  Extract*  from  tht  Accounts  of 
th'  ProclOTA  (trtti  SUwards^itc.  of  that  town,  he  refers 
to  the  exceeding  great  popuhvrity  of  the  mumming 
for  many  years.  In  Lord  Wenman's  time,  t.  «. 
ITDo,  the  performances  Mere  annually  given  at 
Thnme  Park;  and  at  the  Baronial  Hall  of  Brill, 
Back*,  ab*>ut  18(^8-14,  the  entertainment  wns 
attenrled  by  the  nobility  and  gentry  for  mile* 
raund,  ivnd  b  rei>orted  to  have  been  produced  on  a 
scale  of  considerable  magnificence. 
The  Ulan  from  whom  I  took  down  tkc  talUi'«t\R.?t 


504 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5>^an.]hK.26,71 


in  my  Note-book  had  performed  at  Brill,  in  the 
year  1807,  and  his  father  had  done  the  same  at 
TJiame  Park  in  the  previous  century.  I  do  not 
profess  to  be  able  to  explain  the  text  of  the  play, 
nor  can  I  quite  admire  all  its  points.  Its  coarse- 
ness, too,  is  not  to  my  taste.  Leaat  of  all  can 
I  comprehend  its  purport.  Its  anachronisms  will 
be  patent  to  all.  But  at  least  its  action  is 
vigorous,  and,  when  I  was  a  boy,  I  confess  that  I 
thought  the  performance  most  delightful  and 
impressive.  As  the  late  Mr.  Lupton  (a  local  anti- 
quarian and  a  gentleman  T)f  excellent  taste  and 
high  character)  mformed  me  of  so  much  that  is 
here  set  forth,  I  may  add  that  he,  at  the  same 
time,  expressed  his  conviction  that  my  version  of 
the  play  is  most  probably  the  only  one  that  had 
ever  been  committed  to  paper ;  for  the  dialogue 
was  purely  traditional,  and  handed  down  from 
father  to  son.  Nothing  whatsoever  has  been 
altered  or  added  by  myself.  I  have  only  ventured 
to  put  the  directions  in  Italics  in  a  little  more  con- 
cise and  intelligible  language  than  that  in  which 
they  were  dictated  to  me. 

Dramatis  Pebsok^. 
King  Alfred. 
King  Alfred's  Queen. 
KineWilliam. 

Old  KiDg  Cole  (with  a  wooden  leg). 
Giant  Blunderbore. 
Little  Jack. 
Old  Father  Christmas. 
St.  George  of  England. 
The  Old  Dragon. 
The  Merry  Andrew. 
Old  Doctor  Ball. 
Morres-Men. 
All  the  mummers  come  in  singing,  and  walk  round  the 
place  in  a  circle,  and  then  stand  on  one  side. 

Enter  King  Alfred  and  his  Queen  arm-in-arfn, 
1  am  King  Alfred,  and  this  here  is  my  Bride, 
I  We  a  crown  on  my  pate  and  a  sword  by  my  side. 

[Stands  apart 
Enter  King  Cole. 
I  am  King  Cole,  and  I  carry  my  stump, 
Hurrah  for  King  Charles  !  down  with  old  XoIFb  Rump  1 

[Stands  apart. 
Enter  King  William, 
I  am  King  William  of  blessed  me-mo-ry, 
Who  came  and  pulled  down  the  high  gallows-tree. 
And  brought  us  all  peace  and  pros-pe-ri-ty. 

[Stand:  apart 
Enter  Oiant  Blunderbore. 
I  am  Giant  Blunderbore,  fee,  fi,  fum. 
Heady  to  fight  ye  all— so  I  says,  "come," 

Enter  Little  Jach  ( Blunderbore  continues). 
And  this  here  is  my  little  man  Jack, 
A  thump  on  his  rump  and  a  whack  on  his  back. 

^ „  [Strikes  him  twice. 

I'll  fight  King  Alfred.  I  '11  ficht  King  Cole, 
I  'm  ready  to  fight  any  mortal  soul ; 
So  here,  I,  Blunderbore,  takes  my  stand. 
With  this  little  devil,  Jack,  at  my  right  hand. 
Beady  to  fight  for  mortal  life.    Fee,  fi,  fnm. 

[The  Oiani  and  LiUU  Jad  itand  apart 


Enter  St.  George. 
I  am  St.  George  of  Merry  Eng-Iand, 
Bring  in  the  morres-men,  bring  in  our  band. 

[Morra-men  come  forward  and  dance  to  a  tmu 
from  fife  and  drum.    The  damee  being  ended, 
St.  Oieorge  continnee. 
These  are  our  tricks.    Ho  I  men,  ho  ! 
These  are  our  sticks,— whack  men  ao. 

[Strika  the  Dragon,  vho  roars,  and  comee forward. 

The  Dragon  epeais. 
Stand  on  head,  stand  on  feet. 
Meat,  meat,  iheat  for  to  eat. 

[Triee  to  UU  King  AVrel 
I  am  the  dragon,  here  are  my  jaws, 
I  am  the  dragon,  here  are  my  claws. 
Meat,  meat,  meat  for  to  eat. 
Stand  on  my  head,  stand  on  my  feet. 

[Turns  a  tummenauU  and  ttamdM  eniiu 
All  ting,  several  times  repeated. 

Ho  !  ho  I  ho  ! 
Whack  men  lo. 
[The  drum  and  fife  sounds.    They  all  fight,  and 
after  general  disorder,  fall  down. 

Enter  Old  Doctor  BalL 
I  am  the  doctor,  and  I  cure  all  ills^ 
Only  guUup  my  portions  [qy.  potions]  and  swallow  nj 

pills; 
I  can  cure  the  itch,  the  stitch,  the  pox,  the  palsy  sal 

the  gout, 
All  pains  within  and  all  pains  without. 
Up  rrom  the  floor.  Giant  Blunderbore  I 

[Gives  him  a  pill,  and  he  ritet  at  once. 
Get  np  King ;  get  up  Bride ; 
Get  up  Fool,  and  stand  aside. 

ZGives  them  each  a  pHl,  and  they  rise. 
Get  up  King  Cole,  and  tell  the  genUefolks  all. 
There  never  was  a  doctor  like  Mr.  Doctor  Ball ; 
Get  up  St.  George,  old  England's  knight, 

[Gives  him  a  pHl. 
Ton  have  wounded  the  Dragon,  and  finished  the  fight 
[All  stand  aside  but  the  dragon,  who  lies  in  con- 
vulsions on  thefioor. 
Now  kill  the  old  Dragon,  and  poison  old  Nick, 
At  Yule-tyde  both  o'  ye,  cut  your  stick. 

[The  doctor  forces  a  large  pill  down  the  dragoiks 
throat,  who  thereupon  roars,  and  dies  in  cw 
vulsions. 

Then  enter  Father  Christmas. 
I  am  Father  Christmas  !  hold,  men,  hold  ! 
Be  there  loaf  in  your  locker,  and  sheep  in  your  fold, 
A  fire  on  the  hearth,  and  good  luck  for  yoor  lot. 
Money  in  your  pocket,  and  a  pudding  in  the  pot 

He  sings' 
Hold,  men,  hold ! 
Put  up  your  sticks. 
End  all  your  tricks ; 
Hold,  men,  hold ! 
C^oriM  (aU  sing,  while  one  goet  round  with  a 
hat  for  gifts  J. 
Hold,  men,  hold ! 
We  are  very  cold. 
Inside  and  outside. 
We  are  very  cold. 
If  you  don't  give  as  silver. 
Then  give  us  gold 
From  the  money  in  your  pockets — 
[Some  of  the  performers  Aow  eigne  of  figkHngagtin, 
Hold,  men,  hold  t  /•/t^'w— 


II.  Die.  38.  T*.] 


ISrOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


505 


t^tmg  andthorus. 
A.*iiiightj  bleta  jonr  heart'        '  '  '  :, 
out  the  wolf,  «nd  keep  out 
StT*  [hare  giron]  UA  Bilrcr,        ,  .       l lie  gold, 
'tu  money  in  jour  ptxiket— UolJ,  meii^  huld  J 
Stpcai  in  chorus, 
God  A 'mighty  Llets,  kc. 

l^jcturU  omnu, 
Frebrrick  Gsorge  Lee,  D.C.L, 
fiMntB*  YictLTa^,  Lambeth. 


/So.  2* 


1U8TMAS  MtTMMEES  I7f  DOUSETSHIRE. 
tre  lately  been  furnished  with  copies  of  a 
0[  play,  iw  peiformed  by  mtitniiiers  at 
litnas^tide  in  two  disjtinct  ptimhes  in  Domet,  fi 
Hccount  of  which  I  thotit^ht  might  prove  ac- 
'  le  to  the  ChriatmriS  Numbt^r  of  ''  N»  &  QJ' 
two  copies  bear  a  strong  furaily  resemblance 
*  find  08  they  are  of  some  considerable 
neoeoarily  too  long  for  the  pages  of 
I  must  content  myself  with  giving  a 
t  the  characters  in  each  :— 

No.  1.    Old  Father  ChristmoB. 
Room  (1). 

Anthony,  the  Egyptian  King. 
SL  George. 
St.  Patrick. 
Capt  Bluster 
OmciouB  King. 
General  Valentine. 
Colotiel  Spring, 
Old  Betty, 
Doctor, 
8emmt-miui. 
Old  Father  Chriatmatf. 
Rame  (1). 
Torkifih  Knight. 
Ring  George. 
MftHihalae. 
Taliaut  Soldier. 
Cutting  Star. 
Doctor 
Old  Bet 

who  desire  a  more  detailed  account  of  their 
and  saying,  I  would  refer  to  somewhat 
procee^lini^   relate* I  in   Brand's   Popular 
"!iv*    V    ?.<»;  Hone's  Every- Day  Book,  iL 
ci^A  Book  of  iJai/it^  ii.  740  ;  in 
t  ;  a  capital  engraving  of  a  party 

[mmcrs. 

ould,  howerer,  venturo  to  claim  for  our 
shire  mummers  the  introduction  of  "  Old 
jptended,  I  presume^  to  represent  the  wife  of 
herChristraa«/'  the  character  being  taken 
V  possessed  of  a  shrill  voice^  and  being 
ft  Tery  old  woman,  in  a  black  bonnet 
Father  Chrbtmas  himself  being 
sometimes  on  a  wooden  horse,  covered 
lings  of  dark  cluth,  from  which  Uie  old 
crally  mon:'  thrm  once  thrown.      The 
party  arc  decked   out  aa  beKtj*   the 
each  is  intended  to  aH«iiiue,  gamtiihed 
't,  coloureii  strips  of  pf^per,  caji^,  sashes^ 


buttons,  fiword^,  helmets,  &c.  The  repreeentation 
of  the  play  concludes  in  each  case  with  a  song. 

The  mummers  proceed  from  parish  to  parish  ; 
and  from  the  good  cheer  they  meet  with  in  most, 
contrive  to  spend,  on  the  whole,  a  tolerably  **  merry 
Chri^tnifts.'*  J.  B.  Ujdal. 

Junior  Athenmum  Club, 


MY  CHRISTMAS  BAY  OF  1824* 

In  1824  I  waa  nearly  fifteen,  and  under  the  eare 
of  a  tutor  at  Haarlem,  who  educated  fteveral  Eng- 
lishmen ;  amongst  others,  Admiral  Ommaney,  his 
brother  Walter,  and  the  brave  and  talented  George 
Grenfell,  who  met  such  a  melancholy  fate  in  t£e 
Civil  War  of  the  United  States,  My  parents  were 
then  at  Brussels  ;  and  two  days  previous  to  Christ- 
mas Day  I  left  Haarlem  with  another  English  lad 
of  my  own  age,  who  died  young,  to  spend  a  fort- 
night with  my  family. 

I  believe  the  journey  can  now  be  i>erformed  ia 
four  hours  ;  but  in  those  days,  the  diligence  to 
Botterdam  travelled  at  the  rate  of  about  five  mile« 
an  hour,  and  waa  a  huge  vehicle  which  held  six  in 
the  front  i%art,  and  had  a  long  hearse-like  ex- 
crescence behind,  across  the  inside  of  which  there 
were  four  seats,  that  afforded  sitting  room  for  a 
dozen  victims.  To  this  there  was  no  other  entrance 
than  one  door,  so  that  to  reach  the  furthest  Beat 
you  had  to  ask  three  persons  to  rise,  a  prooesB 
which  was  sometimes  long  in  the  case  of  substantial 
Dutchmen  who  were  smoking  their  pipes. 

Into  this  furthest  seat  my  friend  and  I  penetrated 
ftt  an  early  hour  on  a  very  cold  and  foggy  morning. 
His  clothes  were  packed  with  mine  in  a  large  bk^ 
portmanteau,  which  has  withstood  the  hard  wear 
and  tear  of  fifty  years,  and  may  last  another  genera- 
tion. This  was  our  only  incumbrance  ;  ana  when 
that  was  hoisted  on  to  the  roof,  we  st^irted  for 
Rotterdam, 

The  old  diligence  rolled  dowly  on;  the  ten 
Hollanders  were  soon  all  smoking,  and  we  tried  to 
do  the  same,  although  at  that  time  we  were  only 
imperfect  mastenj  of  that  most  valuable  aocora- 
plishment.  The  four  little  side  windows  were  all 
closed,  as  a  matter  of  course,  and  the  fog  was  sooiii 
if  less  aguish,  thicker  inside  than  outside  the 
diligence.  At  last,  much  in  the  condition  of  red 
herrings,  we  all  tumbled  out  at  Leyden ;  and  to  our 
surjirise  found  that  in  the  front  compartment  of 
our  vehicle  we  had  for  travelling  companion  an 
EngUahmaDt  who  was  what  was  then  termed  a  great 
dandy,  but  of  rather  an  old  school  I  think  his 
name  was  Williams ;  but  I  remember  that  he 
claimed  to  be  intimately  acquainted  with  Lord 
B)Ton,  and  thought  fit  to  lecture  us  lade  for 
laughing  at  fi  ^:  pecimen  of  a  Leyden  pro- 

fessor who  i'j  ':  to  a  companion,  for  which 

offence  we  uv,/.vir.i  filing  our  monitor  to  which 
hotel  we  were  going  when  we  were  obliged  to  stop 


d^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*  8.  n.  Dec.  26, 74, 


at  Rotterdam,  and  allowed  him  to  go  to  a  very  bad 
one. 

So  far  our  progress,  if  slow,  had  been  sure  ;  but 
there  it  ceased,  as  there  was  a  general  exclamation, 
"the  waters  are  out !"  The  Maas  spread  far  and 
wide  its  muddy  stream  over  the  flat  lands  opposite 
to  Rotterdam ;  and  as  we  looked  out  from  our 
hotel  through  the  fine  old  trees,  the  Boomtjes  as 
the  natives  affectionately  called  them,  it  was  very 
clear  that  until  next  day,  or  perhaps  the  next,, 
there  was  no  chance  of  our  going  further.  For- 
tunately I  had  friends  in  the  place,  who  spoke 
English,  with  whom  we  dined  ;  and  one  of  whose 
guests  was,  I  think,  on  that  day,  P.  A.  L.,  the 
accomplished  contributor  to  "N.  &  Q.,"  whose 
death  will  be  always  regretted  by  its  readers.  We 
had,  therefore,  little  reason  to  complain,  for  the 
moment,  of  the  wild  doings  of  the  Miuis.  But  the 
case  was  very  different  when,  the  next  morning,  a 
gale  of  wind  .added  to  the  difficulty  of  reaching 
anything  like  firm  land  on  the  other  side  of  that 
river.  Hour  after  hour  passed,  and  it  was  only 
late  in  the  day  that  it  was  thought  safe  to  cross  it. 
The  diligence  was  then  pushed  on  to  something 
between  a  boat  and  a  raft,  with  a  mast  and  sail  on 
one  side  and  a  vast  lee-board  on  the  other,  and 
went  staggering  on  its  voyage  like  a  drunken 
giant.  My  companion  and  I,  with  four  other  pas- 
sengers and  two  boatmen,  then  tumbled  into  a 
boat,  which  was  none  too  large  for  the  party,  and 
put  off  for  what  looked  like  a  very  small  island  in 
the  midst  of  the  expanse  of  water  before  us. 
When  a  Dutch  boatman  has  let  down  a  stout  lee- 
board,  on  which  he  can  rely,  he  is  very  indifferent 
as  to  the  amount  of  sail  his  boat  carries  ;  and  as  it 
was  still  blowing  rather  hard,  we  were  flying 
through  the  water  when,  at  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
from  land,  we  ran  upon  something,  which  proved  to 
be  a  tree  under  the  stream,  that,  luckily  for  us,  broke 
short  off,  but  so  nearly  capsized  the  boat  that  we 
were  up  to  our  ankles  in  water,  and  in  that  state 
we  reached  our  destination. 

If  that  looked  like  a  mere  spot  at  a  distance,  it 
turned  out  to  be  in  reality  but  a  small  patch  of  dry 
land,  on  which  was  a  wretched  post-house,  for  it 
hardly  deserved  the  name  of  an  inn.  From  it  a 
long  line  of  road,  carried  apparently  on  tlie  top  of 
an  embankment,  stretched  out  like  a  finger-post 
before  us.  Alas  !  it  only  pointed  out  our  way  to 
Brussels ;  as  we  were  very  soon  made  to  under- 
stand, although  our  knowledge  of  Dutch  was  small, 
that  for  the  present  we  could  not  follow  it.  We 
were,  in  fact,  caught  in  a  trap,  and  a  somewhat 
damp  one.  There  wtts  only  a  miserable  dull  peat 
fire  in  the  inn,  and  nothing  to  eat  or  drink  but 
bread,  butter,  and  cheese,  with  indiflorent  hollands 
and  worse  coffee.  Christmas  trees  had  not  at  that 
time  come  into  fashion  ;  but  Christnuis  Eve  was 
perhaps  then  usually  more  jolly  than  it  is  now. 
Yet  certainly  not  for  us,  as  we  sat  steaming  in  our 


wet  clothes  round  the  fire  throughout  the  niglit ; 
and  it  was  veiy  difficult  not  to  flneve  that  we  had 
left  our  kind  friends  at  Rotterdam,  or  not  to  feel 
anxious  for  our  Christmas  pudding  of  tba  monw. 
At  last,  however,  it  was  light  enou^  to  see ;  bat 
so  late  before  we  started,  that  what  with  bad 
weather,  worse  roads,  and  many  stonpages,  it  waa 
near  midnight  when  we  arrived  at  Brusseb.  We 
had  spent  a  strange  Christmas  Day. 

Even  then  our  troubles  were  not  at  an  end.  Hie 
hotel  at  which  the  diligence  stopped  was  in  the 
lower  town,  and  of  course  we  were  expected  to 
take  a  bed  there ;  but,  boy-like,  we  were  d0te^ 
mined  to  go  home,  without  having  any  idea  ci 
where  it  was,  except  that  it  was  in  Uie  Park.  At 
first  no  one  would  show  us  the  way  thither ;  ye^ 
by  mustering  all  the  French  we  could  command, 
we  at  last  induced  a  man,  who  stood  by  in  a  bloiue, 
to  shoulder  our  portmanteau  and  go  with  us. 

In  those  days  the  Park  was  a  desohite  place  at 
night ;  at  lea^t,  a  great  part  of  the  side  towazds 
the  railway-station,  on  which  there  was  then  a  good 
deal  of  open  ground,  now  built  on ;  and  it  was  veiy 
badly  lighted  everywhere.  The  night  waa  abo  : 
intensely  cold  and  dark ;  and  we  were  hardly  in  the 
Park  when  our  conductor  refused  to  go  any  further, 
began  to  cry  and  talk  about  his  mother ;  in  ahoit, 
either  was,  or  pretended  to  be,  an  idiot  We  were, 
therefore,  obliged  to  give  him  a  couple  of  fnsutt 
and  trust  to  ourselves.  The  portmanteau  was, 
however,  as  much  as  we  could  carry  between  m ; 
and  we  soon  came  to  the  conclusion  that  one  of  us 
must  sit  on  guard  over  it  while  the  other  went  to 
find  some  person  to  show  us  the  house  we  sought 

I  was  the  first  to  undertake  to  do  this  ;  and,  aa 
the  only  human  beings  I  could  find  were  two  sen- 
tinels, who  accompanied  an  instruction  to  "  passes 
au  large  "  by  the  unpleasant  rattle  of  a  musket,  I 
knocked  in  despair  at  a  large  house,  from  the 
garret  of  which  issued  a  night-cap.  The  owner  of 
it  was,  however,  evidently  not  pleased ;  for  he 
replied  to  my  inquiries  by  a  volley  of  oaths  and 
the  contents  of  some  article  of  crockerv,  which  my 
activity  luckily  enabled  me  to  avoicl.  Nothing 
daunted,  I  next  pulled  hard  for  a  long  time  at  a 
bell,  which  I  found  out  at  last  was  hanging  at  the 
gateway  of  an  unfinished  building.  I  afterwards 
learned  it  was  the  palace  of  the  Prince  of  Orange 
Having  gone  right  round  the  Park  without  meeting 
any  person  but  the  sentinels,  I  returned  to  mr 
friend,  who  thought  I  was  lost,  and  he  then  started 
off  on  a  similar  voyage  of  discovery. 

I  sat  for  a  long  time  on  the  portmanteau ;  bat 
my  friend  was  more  fortunate  than  I  had  been,  as, 
at  some  distance,  he  met  a  man  who  was  hurrying 
along,  and  who,  in  reply  to  his  very  imperfect 
French,  asked  him,  in  very  good  English,  if  he  was 
an  English  lad.  You  may  imagine  his  delist 
when  he  found  that  he  had  met  a  courier  who  ina 
going  to  the  English  Embassy  to  deliver  his  de»- 


6"  8.  IL  Dec.  M,  74.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


507 


ftidieSy  aud  who  very  good-nature<lly  told  xin  thtit, 

r  we  would  sit  auietly  where  we  were  until  Ire  lind 

Iil«>fit«  «Oj  he  would  show  us  where  my  famUy  was 

When  we  knocked  at  the  door  it  wjis 

k  in  the  morning  of  the  day  after  Chriat- 

t)u^  I'l  I  huYe  now  told  you  how  I  sJ'^ent 

bmy  '  *ii  1824  Ralph  N.  James. 

A* ..  ...-L 

P.S.  Although  Lord  Yarmouth  had  not   then 

*  V  r»und  reflection  on  Wilkie*3  huiihand 
e  the  leg  of  mutton  wsuj  not  done^ 

V»  II  u  ,.  i  Mil  that  fellow  muat  be  not  to  see  what 

.  glorlnus  grill  he  might  have/*  we  acted  upon  hia 

[>rtnc(pU%  and  did  not  go  to  bed  until  we  had  done 

■Simple  justice  to  broiled  turkey,  and  plum-pudding 

proportion. 

"YE  BOARE/8  HEADB.'* 
The  time-honoured  custom  of  the  Boar*s  Head 
Feast  at  Christmaa-tide  wiD,  I  am  afraid,  become 
fcxtinct  in  London^  since  the  eiiange  of  proprietor- 
"blp  of  Old  St.  John  a  Gate,  Clerkenwellj  which 
:  place  last  year.  All  true  lovers  of  tlie  rnre 
^east,  HO  peculiarly  characteriMtic  of  English 
litality,  must  regret  this,  espa^cially  those  who 
sidenta  in  London  ;  for,  be  it  rc^membered,  it 
|«o  appropriate  to  have  hml  the  fea.st  held  in  a 
"iing  *o  plentiful  with  higtorical  associations, 
\y.u\:  into  the  Dark  Ages^  as  the  Old  Gate, 
tie  ining  relic  of  the  Priory  of  Bt.  John 

C»f  .1  The  boar's   hea*l   h   still   served 

Lip  at  t^^ueen's  College,  Oxford,  but  I  do  not  think 
i(  cjin  he  nuye  enjoyable  than  the  Christmas 
tustom  used  to  be  at  Clerkenwell,  with  the  hall 
^trewn  with  rushes,  the  gigantic  yule  log  dniwn  in 
"by  the  sons  of  the  host  (the  late  proprietor),  with 
Iho  atvompanying  announcement  by  bugle=t,  and 
Ibo  brin^'ing  in  of  the  boar*8  hesvl,  the  **  cook 
irciseti  all  in  white"  singing  the  good  old  carol 
(printed  by  Wynkyn  de  Worde,  1521),  copies  of 
irhich  bt'ing  in  the  liands  of  the  guests,  who  joinetl 
l^lV  I  -^  rendering  the  whole  sc^ne  so 
ver  to  he  forgotten.  The  loving  cup 
L  .Liiitted,  and  of  course  wiisjutil  was 
Inly  brought  in,  **y*  Lorde  of  Mysrewle"  doing 
bid  duly  **  passing  well/*  The  followung  is  an 
^xuiit  copy  of  the  carol ; — 

*  Cakoll  at  yv,  HKtuGTvn  19  Ts  Boxx'$  Uek]>* 
Caput  apri  diffm 
jfiid'ltrit  tandtm  domino. 

Tlif  TforeV  heed  in  V-    r  '  -nrj«  T, 
With  ipirlcna  {^y  <  it.*, 

1  pfj*y  you  all  tjui: 

The  Bore'e  heed  I  undcrst^ntle 
i«  ihe  cLefe  ^ervvce  in  thtB  laiide, 
hoke  wherever  it  be  fondo. 

ScrvtU  cum  cantico. 
Be  IfladiJe  lordeSj  both  more  and  leaM, 
For  thii  h&th  cirdojDed  our  ttew&rdv 
To  chere  you  nil  thi«  Cbriitmiwsp, 
The  bore* heed  with  mustarde/* 


A«  we  fuay  never  see  another  boar'^  head  at  St. 
John's  Gate,  kindly  permit  me  to  give  you  a  copy 
of  the  invitation  the  late  host  and  his  predecessor 
used  to  isHUe,  which  is  a  curious  production,  and 
may  interest  some  of  your  readers  anxious  to  learn 
something  about  the  old  ediflce  and  its  now  extinct 
yearly  customs  :^ 

**  •  W<?  11  i*!k^*e  aboute  y*  lovyage  cuppe, 

Ai.d  seiide  y*  ^va&aaile  ruundc; 
^Vith  mjfrtUe  and  Bongc*  of  chjTalHe, 

Thc«e  goodlye  Hallea  shall  ftouudc/ 
[Hero  la  an  illuatration  of  the  north  side  of  the  Gate] 
Samuel  Wickens,  ye  Grande  Mayeattr  of  ye  Prioryc  of 
Sainte  John,  G  rectinge  welle  hy«  ryght  trustye  and  wella 
bii'lovtd  friends,  dothc  hcrcbya  iummon  them  to  hya 
councille,  to  be  holdcn  in  y  Oreate  Ualle  of  y*  Priorye# 
aforeiatde,  on  y*  ninthc  daye  of  lanuortc,  anno  Domini 
one  thoii«ande  eighte  hundrede  and  seven  tie- threes  to 
ttdjadycftte  on  y'  quatitie  of  hys  viandea  :  that  is  to  saye. 
Roadie  Beefe  and  rhinibe  Puddyngu, and  with  a  ourdi^la 
greclioge  In  y  Wai^Buile  Boule  and  y'  boTynge  Cunpe, 
perpetuate  to  all©  tymo  aud  to  tyrae  oute  of  mvnde  a 
ryglite  ^'Oodlye  «nd  lostynge  felluwahipe.  Ye  ^oaro'a 
lieade  will  be  b rough ie  into  vo  Halle,  and  ye  Chante 
wlile  be  :^un>;c,  at  sii^o  of  tlio  clockej  at  wblche  tyme  ye 
FeasLe  willo  begine.** 

And  with  carols  and  toasts  did  we  keep  up  the 
feast.  The  modern  Knights  of  St.  John  will  do 
well  to  resuscitate  the  Boars  Head  Feilfet  and  its 
appurtennnces  of  carol  singing,  &c.,  and  not  to 
interdict  Christmas  observances  as  they  have  beea 
done  elsewhere  upon  several  occasions,  but  with  a 
permanent  result.  (Vide  Evelyn's  Z>«iry,  vol.  i., 
pp.  2U7,  3m,  322,  327,  341,  1652^1656,  and  l6o7, 
respectively.)  J.  Jeremiau,  Juo. 

43,  Red  Lion  Street,  aeffkenwell. 


GHOST  STORIES. 

The  first  of  these  stories  I  had  from  Gratia 
Louise  H.|  who  was  told  it  by  one  of  the  ghost- 
seera,  for  there  were  several.  The  cholera  waa 
raging  in  Bavaria  :  several  of  the  small  mountain 
villLiges  hjid  been  titerally  depopulated.  The  late 
King  Louis,  Queen  Therese,  and  the  Court  were  at 
Aiicbatfenburg,  as  the  pestilence  was  peculiarly 
fatal  in  Munich,  a  pbtce  (Jueen  Therese  disliked 
very  much,  when,  either  on  account  of  some  State 
ceremoniul,  or  from  one  of  his  usual  fits  of  resit^ 
le^sness,  King  Louis  announced  that  the  Court 
w^ould  return  to  Munich  in  three  days.  The 
evening  before  they  started,  the  Queen  and  several 
of  her  ladies  were  sitting  in  one  of  her  apirtmenta 
in  the  pabiee,  the  last  but  one  of  the  suite.  She 
was  in  low  spirits,  and  all  were  unhappy  at  the 
prosp<*ct  of  the  return  to  Munich.  It  waa  a  warm 
Biunmer  evening,  drjiwing  on  to  du^k.  Presently 
a  hidy,  dressed  in  white,  came  into  the  room,  atid 
nial  '  i:ht  reverence  to  the  r^  sed  on 

ii!i  r  room,  which  ope nt'  nnc  in 

wbi< n  iri»:v   were  sitting.     A  fv^v   uiomLuLa  aft^r 
ahe  had  paased,  it  struck  all  present  that  they  did 


608 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


10^  &1LDWS.  26^74. 


not  recognize  her ;  also,  that  none  of  the  other 
ladies  on  that  day  were  wearing  white  dresses. 
The  Queen  and  some  others  stood  up,  and  went 
into  the  room  to  see  whom  it  might  be,  and  found 
it  emptv  !  There  wjis  no  mode  of  egress  except 
the  doc  :•  by  which  they  had  entered,  and  the  room 
was  on  the  second  story,  so  that  no  one  could  have 
got  out  of  the  window.  Suddenly  all  felt  that  it 
must  h:ive  been  "  the  Whit«  Lady,"  whose  visit  is 
believed  to  foretell  the  death  of  one  of  the 
Bavarian  royal  family,  and  some  of  the  ladies 
fiiinted.  The  Court  went  to  Munich  on  the  next 
day,  according  to  appointment,  and  three  days 
after,  Queen  Therese  was  dead  of  the  cholera. 

'  The  second  story  is  this.  I^Iy  father's  regiment 
was  stationed  at  Clare  Castle,  in  the  County  Clare, 
Ireland  ;  this  was  during  part  of  the  Peninsular 
War.  He  had  not  long  joined,  and  was  not 
Harried ;  but  his  cousin,  the  late  Major  F.  D., 
then  a  Captain,  and  his  wife  were  also  with  the 
regiment.  It  was  the  beginning  of  winter ;  the 
regiment  had  been  only  a  week  in  the  castle,  and 
no  one  expected  a  move  before  spring.  Mrs.  D. 
had  been  giving  some  directions  about  her  rooms, 
irhen  her  maid  said  to  her,—"  It  will  not  be  worth 
four  while,  ma*am,  to  get  these  things,  as  the 
regiment  will  be  marching  in  a  day  or  two." — Mrs. 
D.  said,  "  Impossible  !  we  are  here  for  the  winter, 
at  lea.st."— "  Oh,  ma'am,"  said  the  maid,  "  the 
white  lady  was  seen  on  the  battlements  List  night 
by  the  sentries,  and  whenever  she  appears,  the 
route  comes  within  the  week."  The  tnidition  was 
that  a  hidy  in  white  was  seen  to  walk  about  on 
the  ramparts,  wringing  her  hands  and  weeping 
bitterly,  just  before  the  route  came  for  any  regi- 
ment stationed  in  the  castle.  She  was  siiid  to 
have  been  the  wife  of  an  officer,  who  had  died  of 
grief  in  consequence  of  her  husband  having  been 
suddenly  ordered  off  on  foreign  service.  The 
route  came  before  two  hour>«,  and  in  two  days  the 
regiment  had  left  the  castle.  This  was  told  me 
by  Mrs.  D.  herself,  and  is  perfectly  unaccountable. 
When  none  of  the  officers  knew  anything  of  the 
approaching  move,  it  does  not  seem  likely  that  the 
wife  of  one  of  the  men  (such,  I  believe,  was  Mrs. 
D.'s  servant)  could  know  anything  about  it,  and 
the  regiment,  as  before  said,  had  only  arrived  at 
the  castle  within  the  week.  Cywrm. 

Erth  yr  Aur,  Carnarvon. 


Booty's  OnosT.— Being  in  the  harbour  of 
Catania,  in  Sicily,  with  two  friends,  in  the  month  of 
August  last,  in  sight  of  Mount  Etna,  a  conversation 
arose  upon  the  story  of  Booty's  ghost,  which  was 
simultaneously  broached  by  two  of  tho  party,  who 
appeared  to  recall  it  to  their  recollection  at  the  same 
moment.  The  story,  which  each  had  heard  from 
entirely  different  sources,  and  many  years  ago, 
though  differing  in  a  few  details,  was  substantially 
the  same,  and  to  this  effect  -.—-That  many  years 


aso,  a  British  man-of-war  was  lying  in  the  harbour 
of  Catania.  Some  of  the  officers  made  an  ene- 
dition  to  tho  crater  of  Mount  Etna,  and  had  a 
picnic  there.  They  were  eating  ship's  biscoit^ 
manufactured  by  one  Booty,  in  Engfnnd,  and  u 
one  of  them  was  knocking  out  some  weevils  firooi 
his  biscuit,  he  cursed  the  soul  of  Booty,  who  had 
made  such  bad  biscuits.  Immediately  upon  tliii^ 
a  figure  was  seen  by  them  to  run  up  the  side  of 
Mount  Etna,  and  throw  himself  into  the  cratet 
The  form  was  recognized  by  those  present  as  being 
that  of  Booty,  and  the  met  impressed  itself  so 
much  upon  tneir  minds  that  it  was  recorded  in 


had  died  upon  the  very,  day  on  which  the  aw»- 
rition  was  seen  at  Mount  Etna)  for  spreadug 
reports  injurious  to  his  character.  The  offioen 
adhered  to  their  statement,  and  produced  the 
ship*s  log  as  evidence  of  its  trutL  ?rhe  case  was 
decided  in  their  favour.  I  am  veiy  anxious  lo 
learn  whether  such  a  trial  as  that  indicated  by  the 
story  ever  did  take  place,  and  if  so,  where  any 
record  of  it  is  to  be  found.  H.  R  P. 


Lord  Ltttelton's  Qhost. — Although  the  itxj 
ample  details  supplied  in  "  N.  &  Q."  in  connexioD 
with  this  singular  stoiy  would  seem  to  exhaust  tha 
subject,  a  few  lines  of  confirmatoir  testimony  may, 
perhaps,  not  be  unacceptable.  My  late  moUier 
was  the  only  daughter  of  Sir  George  Prescott,  at 
whose  house,  Theobald's  Park,  Bl^s,  Mr.  Mika 
Peter  Andrews  was  a  frequent  visitor,  his  lirely 
manners  and  agreeable  conversation  ensuring  him 
a  cordial  welcome,  both  from  young  and  old.  My 
mother  had  numerous  opportunities  of  hearing 
him  relate  the  story  of  his  friend's  apparition,  foi 
though,  as  a  rule,  inclining  to  avoid  the  subject,  he 
was  at  all  times  ready  to  narrate  or  confirm  the 
incident  for  the  satisfaction  of  an  inquirer.  Ob 
one  such  occasion,  the  story  was  taken  down,  {lom 
his  own  mouth,  by  a  fellow- visitor,  Mr.  TattenhaH, 
and  the  manuscript  remained  for  many  years  in  my 
mother's  possession,  until,  in  a  change  of  residence, 
it  was,  with  other  old  papers,  accidentally  de- 
stroyed. Its  substance,  which  differs  but  slightly 
from  accounts  derived  through  other  sources,  was 
embodied  in  a  paper  on  kindred  subjects — *'  Is  it 
Possible?" — contributed  to  All  the  Ytar  Hwnd 
about  five  j'cars  since.  At  Pit  Place — now  in  the 
occupation  of  my  friend  Mr.  F.  Rowlands— the 
room  in  which  Loni  Lyttclton  died,  known  as  the 
Oaken  Chamber,  from  some  carving  round  the  door, 
is  still  an  object  of  interest  to  visitors,  for  whose 
use,  indeed  (no  doubt  from  motives  of  the  purest 
hospitiJity),  it  is  commonly  reserved.  It  is  per- 
haps in  part  owing  to  its  dual  character  that  this 
remarkable  story  has  so  long  retained  its  place  in 
public  recollection.    That  M&.  M.  P.  Andrews  had 


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it] 


rieatly 


vi?^ion  described,  can  only  be  questioned  on 
F  n  thivt  both  hcj  and  the  scrvunU  who 

luse  at  Dartford  for  Lord  LyttcltoD 
lie  latter  died  iit  Epsom,  had  agreed 
ition  of  a  fsdsehood.  Finally,  that 
i^jLuiiuu  had  a  warning  or  presentiment,  of 
description,  of  his  approaching:  end,  is  buIH- 
attested  by  Madaiue  Piozxi.  Premising 
thii  ulh^'ed  warnini^,  if  ^jiven,  was  admittedly 
the  Tlmrsday  night,  Aladame  P/a  diary,  under 
teof  the  Sunday  following,  contains, — "  Yester- 
ly,  a  lady  from  Wales  dropped  in,  and  told  us 
le  had  been  at  Drury  Lane  on  Friday  nif^ht. 
^  /  a^ked  I,  *  were  you  entertained  ?^ — *  Very 
ily  infleed !  Kot  with  the  play,  though,  but 
id  diacourse  of  a  Captain  Ascough,  who  averred 
a  friend  of  his,  Lord  Lyttelton^  has  seen  a 
it,  who  has  warned  him  thivt  he  will  die  within 
days.  I  have  thou^dit  of  nothing  else 
''  The  next  morning  br<3ughfc  Madame  P. 
Mm.  Tlirale)  the  news  that  the  fatal  pro- 
ihccy  had  been  fulfilled.  H.  8. 


■that 


itben 


Two  Old  Christmas  Customs  of  Notts. — 
jThfi  inhabitants  of  North  Clifton  were  formerly 
•  feny  free.  In  consequence,  the  ferryman  and  hia 
dog  were  indulged  with  a  dinner  each  at  the  ricar'a 
&t  Christmas  ;  and  it  ia  said  that  the  minister's 
dog  was  turned  out  of  doors  while  the  fexryman's 
dog  enj»>ycd  itself.  The  ferryman  also  on  that  day 
^feoeived  of  the  inlmbitanta  a  prime  loaf  of  bread. 
Ne,'ir  Raleigh  there  X3  a  valley  said  to  have  been 
used  by  a.n  earthquake  several  hundred  yejurs 
[),  which  swallowed  up  a  whole  village,  together 
'l^the  diurch.  Formerly  it  was  a  custom  of  the 
*  f  to  assemble  in  this  valley  every  Christmas 
Jmorning  to  listen  to  the  ringing  of  the  bells  of 
"burch  beneath  them.  This,  it  was  positively 
3,  might  be  heard  by  placing  the  ear  to  the 
Bud  and  hearkemng  attentively.  As  late  as 
1827,  it  wa8  usual  on  this  uiorning  for  old  men 
1  wonien  to  tell  their  chililren  and  young  friends 
^go  to  iho  valley,  stoop  down,  and  hear  the  bells 
"tmerrily*  The  villagers  heard  the  ringing  of 
eUs  of  a  neighbouring  church,  the  sound  of 
1  wa»  communicjvted  by  the  surface  of  the 
OU»d.  A  similar  belief  exists,  or  did  a  short 
I  ai;o,  at  Preston,  Lttncashire. 

J.  P.  Briscoe. 
KdtlioghAm. 

HoLLT  AXB  Mistletoe,^ A  correspondent  of 
iJie  SUtmfofd  Mertury  writes  us  follows  : — 

♦*l*Ml  weelt  we  iklluded  tn  the  rrrrrrecns  of  Notts. 
|0<bcr  day  i*c  nero  d<.>\\  i' 

!  DaVe  of  Poftlttfid,  at  : 

^ijml   ^^^^ri?^    undwL.: ,    ■  .    ■ .  '.'f 

;  and  Earl  MaiirerJi.     In  ii  r»ortion 

i  Hide,  Ufa  rnwK  of  hoUica  1^  luilo 

Ut  Tr  mhHii  ,n  onwiteh  faU  they  wore  the  lofip«»t 

I  III  Hrt|{tjiad  ()it:rhft])a  in  the  vrurld).     Ue  mn  orer 


the  VRrictiet  of  holly,  naming  tlie  v&rieg&ted  bed^chog 
and  Queert.  Tht  latter,  be  faid.  It  ad  been  purclm^d  at 
10/*  per  plant.  He  said  there  nari  no  place  iu  the  United 
Kingdom  to  equal  Thoresby  P&rk  for  mistletoe  :  it  jirowa 
upon  UiQ  tbom.  He  oDurneratciJ  tbe  trees  he  bad  ob- 
senred  it  growing  upon,  vist,,  tboni,  mapjej  popJar,  apple^^ 
And  crab  U'eea.  Ue  bad  never  seen  it  on  tbe  oak :  yet 
were  the  Druids  wrong;?  Ue  mentioned  two  kinda  of 
berries,  white  and  pule  yellow,  and  said,  in  Notta  pir- 
lance,  it  was  like  n*yUy  and  other  plant*— they  were 
hcder  and  slieder.  ile  Lad  noticed  a  bough  for  I J  jears, 
and  it  had  never  had  terries  upon  it." 

CCTHBERT  BkDE. 

CnHiSTMAS  Decorations.— It  is  still  a  prevail* 
ing  idea,  in  Bome  places,  that  if  their  decomtiona 
be  not  cleared  out  of  the  church  by  Candlemoi 
Bay  (Purification,  Feb,  2)j  there  will,  within  the 
vear,  be  a  death  in  the  family  occupying  the  pew 
in  which  a  berry  or  leaf  is  to  be  founci  on  the  later 
festival.  Mr,  Glyde,  in  hu*  N<yr/oIk  Garland^ 
quotes  an  East- Anglian  authority  as  follows  :— 

**  An  old  lady  wbom  I  knew  was  90  persuaded  of  tho 
truth  of  tbis  euperstition  that  she  would  not  be  contented 
to  leare  the  clearing  of  her  pew  to  the  constituted  autho- 
rities, but  uaed  to  send  her  servaot,  on  Candlemas  ETe* 
to  Bee  that  her  own  seat,  at  any  rate,  waa  free  from 
danger." 

E  DUOBUS. 

Crows  taken  to  Cnvncn  at  Christmas 
TiME.— The  following  is  from  a  Weardale  publica- 
tion {King  Edward  in  WeardaU)  : — 

"  It  appears  to  have  been  customary  in  Germany  in 
the  fourteenth  centurv  to  tike  cuckoos  to  church.  de« 
bastian  Brant^  in  a  book  published  at  that  time,  accuses 
his  countrymen  of  taking  hawks  and  houada  to  church, 
and  interrupting  divine  service.  And  it  appears  from  a 
tr^inslation  of  one  passage  that  iho  cuckoo  was  eometlmes 
taken  abo  :— 

*  Into  the  church  then  comes  iuioth«r  sotte, 

Withoutcn  dtrotion,  jetting  up  and  down, 

Or  to  be  teen,  and  show  his  garde  cote. 

Another,  on  his  fistc  a  sparhawke  or  fawconCj 

Or  else  a  cuckoo.'  * 
"About  one  hundred  years  later  than  the  time  mi 
which  the  GermaD  accused  his  countrymen  of  interrupt- 
ing divine  worship  by  taking  hawks,  Ice,  to  church,  (li« 
practice  of  taking  crow*  to  church  wa»  indulged  in  even 
by  the  church 'goers  in  Weardale. 

"  The  personal  ariswers  of  two  WolsinishamUes  to 
charges  of  *brawlin<7  or  misconduct  in  the  church  at 
Wtdsingham/  given  FcbruATV  3rd,  1570,  are  as  follows: — 
*  The  personal  answer  cf  Jolm  Laborne  of  the.  same 

(W  «    ■  ■^- -V  ^-^ r-  n-ed  20  years.     He  saith  that 

U)M  ^  be,thecxaminate,cametotbe 

cli  II I  '>ne  crowe  into  the  said  church 

bjforc  acrvicij .  iiiii  -lio.  WiUiam  Marley,  toke  the  said 
crowe  from  thi.<i  ciaminate,  and  tlirew  the  same  into  a 
porch  ther ;  and  he  saiih.  upon  his  oath,  that  be  knoweth 
not  whoe  put  the  strawc  through  the  sn\d  crowe's  nose, 
and  dyd  not  with  the  m\d  crowe  perturb  the  service, 
then  bcin;?  unbegun. — John  Laborne.'  Tho  personal 
answer  of  William  Mai  ley.  '  Ue  wiltli  that,  upon 
Christenmaseven  la-^t,  byforij  the  monting  praier,  John 
Laborne  brought  a  crowe  into  the  cburcl),  bjfor«  tho 
service,  which  thii  cxamicuite  toke  into  his  hands,  and 

*  "See  Strutt's  SpitrU  and  Patimcs,  p,  26." 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5F^&II.DBC.2S,7i. 


SnI  h  etrawe  crosf  e  in  htr  mouth,  lo  tee  hoir  she  coultl 
JO ;  i^vliereat  tbc  miniBttr  tm^t  '  Yl  U  a  ibvii«  for  to 
briEige  anjT  Aueli  to  tbe  cbtircb/  to  whdtn  Lftbonie 
uiewered,  ■  Yt  11  ^ell  yf  jc  doo  no  wo»ep^  And  tbb 
exciminAtc  willd  tbc  tuiniBtcr  to  g^  to  lerTic&j  imd  tbe 
CTuwG  sbotild  tiot  treble  blm." 

Authcr's  Oven  on  the  Carrox.  — Six  yeara 
ago  (IVam.  of  Scotiuk  AntiquarUsj  March»  1868) 
an  aMcnipt  wn^  made  to  dtdcover  the  site  ot  thli 
interest iug  relic,  without  bucccbs.  It  is  to  b« 
hoped,  however,  that  it  mny  jot  be  found ,  ns  it 
would  be  a  eali^fuction  to  know  the  ex.u-t  spot 
where  possiblj  tbe  oldest  Btone  building  of  Roman 
days  in  Britaio  once  atocKl,  and  might  have  itood 
till  now  but  for  the  act  <jf  a  Vimdul  land-owner, 
I  do  not  obflerve  any  notice  of  it  in  *^  N.  &  Q/* 
It  is  fipired  in  Gordon's  Jtinararintu  S^tenlno- 
nahj  where  there  ia  &  description  of  it ;  and  it  is 
also  noticed  In  Peoaanl'a  Northern  Tour.  In  the 
Appendix  to  Ejctmcta  tiE  Cr0niei4  Beodt  ( Abbots- 
fora  (Jlub)f  p.  254^  there  i^  a  curioiia  account  of  it 
by  Sir  AVilUani  St.  Ckir,  of  Roslin,  in  IMjO^  mho 
calls  it  ^*  Julius  huif/'  the  name  by  which  it  was 
then  known,  supposed  to  htiTc  a  traditionary  refer- 
ence to  Julius  A^vicoljL  In  the  early  oeoturiea, 
after  Ronmn  oc4?upittion  had  ceased,  a  stone  or  n 
stone  buildin^f  was  i\  kndrmvrk  often  referred  to. 
Dr,  John  Stuart,  in  a  note  to  the  Preface  of  The 
Booh  «tf  Dur  (Spalding  Club)i  mentions,  in  illua- 
tRition  of  this,  that  the  Ei*t:ite  of  "  Stanehouse/' 
or  "  Stenlioufie,"  on  or  near  which  thia  celebrated 
building:  stood,  no  doubt  llm.^  acquired  its  name. 
The  mill  of  Btanhouso  was  ^'^r^intcd  to  tbc  Abbey 
of  Kewbottle  early  io  the  thirteenth  century,  by 
Adam  de  Morham,  or  Malherb^  a  member  of  a 
KortiiEtn  fiiuiily,  wiio  wore  benefactors  to  i\w\% 
bourse  {New bo tt le  CI la  rt u la ry ).  A n d  la t er  i n  tb at 
century,  on  2nd  Juh%  XtWZ,  William  Gurhiy 
ptinted  a  piece  of  himl  ta  make  a  "  atagnunj/'  or 
pool,  for  tne  Mill  of  St4iohous,  which  (the  ^rant 
aayji)  "juxta  funmm  Arihuri  infm  baroniam  de 
Dunypas  si  turn  est,"  &c.  Here  wc  have  the  two 
Barnes  "Stcohousc"  and  ''Arthur's  Of  en."  It 
was  to  mend  the  ujill-duui  of  this*  mill  that  the 
uniiiuc  stnicture  was  destroyed,  last  century^  hy 
the  owner  of  the  c^t^te,  whose  naiuo  has  been 
discreetly  kept  in  the  back^^n'nunil,  doubtless  to 
Bpare  the  feelings  of  his  Buece,^j*or9,  In  strict 
justice,  it  ou^ht  to  be  inscribed  on  ?;ome  perm  a- 
netit  memorial,  to  be  fi-tcd  en  the  site,  whenever 
thIa  shall  be  discovered,  Anglo- Scores. 

"MAaHriT."-^Under  this  word,  which  has  been 
ndded  to  Xarcs's  (Ibn^nr)^  by  the  learned  editors 
of  the  nc^v  edition  (London,"  1872),  Messfii,  HaUi- 
well  anti  Thouuxa  Wright,  the  following  lines  are 
quoted  i— 

*'  Fill  fal]  thy  9fti1ei,  that  after- times  mnj  know 
Wbftt  thoa  to  tbeiio  our  tiniei  d«<at  rricruUy  ibow; 
That  as  of  thee  the  like  wju  neriir  be^ri); 
They  cjMWno  tbi3<!  with  a  mftrruft  or  b  mard/' 

Tajlot*s  WtiTkiM  1634^- 


But  no  e^pknation  of  the  word  is  giTen,  and  I 

am,  therefore,  entitled  to  conclude  tikat  the  edttois 
did  not  know  what  to  make  of  it*  Surely  it  is 
nothing  more  or  less  than  the  French  word  mmUti^ 
wluch  is  still  in  cotnmon  use  in  the  sanse  of 
**fooFi  botibJo  or  cap,"  and  '*whim,  hobby.* 
Littre'a  dcdnitton  of  the  word  ia  the  first  of 
primitire  sense  runs  oa  follows : — 

"  Espies  de  secptn  qui  fit  nimiDiit^  d'une  t£t«  eoiiSe 
d*uu  cmpufihon  blgairi  il«  diffdrisntct  conleun,,  et  CH™ 
do  grelota ;  c'eftt  rattribut  de  la  FoJie^  ct  c'6talt  c«lui  del 
foue  det  rois." 

As  for  the  deriratioD,  he  says,  **I1  vient  de 
Marie  de  la  ineme  fti^on  que  mariontutU.  M<mU^ 
pour  Marwtic  est  un  des  diminutifa  de  MaHe^^and 
he  then  proceeds  to  quote  a  passage  in  support  of 
this  atiiertioii. 

As  for  mard  in  the  aboTC  lines,  tt  U  explained 
in  its  proper  place  in  KareSj  and  ^  the  Fr,  mer^L 

F.  OaAHCE. 

Bydenbiim  Hill. 

A    Local    Traditidk    of    tue    Goo^MAOoa 

Hills.— About  five  miles  south- eitst  of  the  toini 
of  Cumbridf^e,  and  in  the  county  of  the  ttmi 
name^  are  situated  the  GrOg-Moco^  Hi  Us.  Tfiey 
are  an  offwhoot  of  a  r^nge  of  chalk  nilla,  known  m 
the  East  Anglian  heights,  which  run  thitiitgfa  tbftt 
part  of  the  country.  Many  barrows  are  found  ia 
the  locality,  which  are  auppoaed  to  he  of  earif 
British  origin.  Here,  too,  stood  the  camp  of  Tia- 
dlcbury,  or  Wandlebury,  like  arise  of  Britij^h  coa- 
st met  ion.  Like  other  plaees  that  boost  of  remote 
antifpiity,  it  has  its  legends  and  traditions. 

One  tradition,  rehtive  to  the  origin  of  these 
hillij  (which  I  heard  from  an  elderly  man  Hiring  in 
the  ncitthbourhood),  may  be  worth  recording  in 
the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  especially  as  I  hare  never 
scon  or  beard  of  it  being  anywhere  in  print.  It 
asserts  that  previous  to  the  form  at  too  of  these 
hills  (which  are  three  in  number),  and  near  to  the 
same  spot,  was  a  very  large  cave^  which  waf 
inhabited  by  a  giant  and  hia  wife  (a  giantes?)  cf 
extraordinary  stature,  whose  names  were  Gog  aad 
iliigog.  They  did  not  live  very  happily  t-ogether, 
for  scarcely  a  day  passed  by  without  a  quarrel 
between  them.  On  one  occasion  the  giantess  i.o 
outraged  the  giant,  that  he  swore  he  would  de*troj 
her  life.  She  instantly  tied  from  the  cave  ;  te 
quickly  pursued  her  ;  but  she  running  faster  ihaa 
her  husbnnd,  he  could  not  overtake  her.  (t<*fr,  io 
his  anger,  i^tooped  down,  took  up  a  hand  fid  d 
earth  and  threw  at  her  j  it  mii^scd  her,  but  where 
it  fell  it  niised  a  hill,  which  is  seen  to  the  pre^aa*^' 
day.  Again  the  coniged  giaut  threw  earth  at  hii 
wifCf  but  agitin  it  missed  her  ;  where  it  fell  it  w^ 
the  cause  of  the  second  bill.  Magog  still  kept  ap 
her  pace  ;  but  aguin  the  giant,  in  hii  rage,  thre* 
more  earth  at  his  wife  ;  but  this  ttujt  it  com- 
pletely buried  her  alife,  and  whem  she  fell  is 
marked  by  the  highest  hUl  of  the  three.    So  iod^ 


SI' a  n.  Dec.  26, 71.] 


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511 


the  Icical  tradition   respecting  the  origin  of  the 
■  Goj^- Magog  Hills,  H.  C.  Lofts. 

TnK  DiviNi^fo  Rod,  which,  according  to  Brand 
{Fopulor  AntxqaitUjt.vol.  iii.  p.  332,  Bohn*s  edition, 
1841)),  wjfcs  kQO>ro  in  the  time  of  the  prophet 
**  ekiel,  in  hailetl  as  \mug  something  new  under 
the  sun  by  the  O^rantham  Journal  of  Dec  5th, 
1674*  One  of  its  items  of  Falltlngliam  i]itelUg«Dce 
sjs  follows : — 

•  A  Novelty,— During  tlie  last  few  dnyt,  &  man,  wha 

ftlet  He  is  by  trade  a  stooerruLsoa,  and  &  native  of  WiM- 

^' ,  has  l>cen  asto&tahtng  some  of  tbo  principal  inlitibi- 

of  ttiia  town  and    neighbourhood  by   hia   norel 

I  of  fthowinf^  the  proper  lcM;alit;  where  water  is  to 

Jte  found,  and  the  exact  place  for  well  fiiukin^,     Hia 

Imothod  is  to  obtain  from  a  hedge  or  tree  ft  piece  of  thiu 

E  in  the  shape  of  a  V,  and,  taking'  hold  uf  each  arm 

«  twi^,  one  in  ea^^h  hand,  witli  the  palma  of  hii 

I  upwordi,  at  the  iame  time  extending;  the  twig  very 

ide,  he  proceeds  th  go  over  the  ground  in  a  stixtniuj^ 

Ipotture,  and  where  there  is  water  to  be  found  (by  ainkin^ 

^ »  wtU)  the  itick  or  twig  is  perceived  to  be  turning  up- 

wardj  like  the  letter  V  reversed.    It  is  certainly  a  curious 

L  proceedtng;  and  there  appears  to  be  very  atronj;  mag- 

inetiim^  or  eome  other  unseen  agency  at  work,  as  not  a 

er,  hAnd,  or  arm  of  the  man  inaves  whiUt  the  stick 

t  motion.     Two  or  three  strong  men  have  hold  his 

I  during  the  operation;  but  the  atick  wooM  sooner 

:  than  be  stopped  in  turntn^.     He  boa  strong  and 

good  recoramcndationg  to  support  him,  with  the   fact 
ih&l  he  hai  never  ^ct  once  failed  to  Ijnd  water,  where 
^^  the  wella  have  been  sunk  at  the  place  he  ba«  pointed  out.- ' 

^m     ThiB  seems  to  me  quit^  in  the  tone  of  a  **  N.  &  Q." 
^BChrittmiia  Number.  St.  Swithin. 

^B     [We  miut  request  eorreapondentfl  defliring  infonnatlon 
*       on  fftinilj  matter!  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
namfl>e  and  addre«ee«  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
»n9wen  may  t>e  addressed  Co  them  i^eot.] 


Tea-Table. — I  think  it  was  Leigh  Hunt  who 
[lamented  tlie  fewness  of  our  poems  relating  to  the 
lenjojinent  of  food.  Considering  the  vast  amount 
[of  rhyming  on  wine,  it  seems  somewhat  strange 
I  the  more  innocent  beveragea  should  not  have 
I  found  more  lanreate*,  I  have  just  come  across 
liMjme  ver^e^  in  the  Frcc-fliinktr  (No.  23,  June  9, 
J 1718}  on  tea,  and  I  would  gladly  Iciiru  their  author- 
Ifehip.  for,  ajrhougli  »Tttten  in  a  bygone  taate,  they 
\HXt  Ktill  iuteresting  ;— 

**  TnK  Tea*Tablk. 
I  In  the  Manner  of  Wallord 
Poets  invoke,  wft^Ti  they  reheHrse 

In  t  ■.:  Dreams^ 

Souv  e, 

Aii'i        :■  -  - :  1- -lis. 

But  hero  a  Real  Muse  inspires : 

The  tepid  Liquor,  the  iniparts, 
Qires  to  the  liriiin  Poctick  r  irea, 

Aiid  nobler  Raptures  to  our  Hearts. 

VTittle  from  her  Hand  each  ravish'd  Guest 
Receives  his  Cup  with  Vapours  crown'd^ 


He  thinks  *tis  JoTe*8  immortal  Feiwt, 
And  Venus  deals  the  Nectar  round. 

As  o'er  each  Fountain  Poets  sing 
Some  lovely  Ouardtan  Nymph  bears  sway, 

Who  from  the  consecrated  Spring 
Wild  Beasts  and  Satyrs  dnvos  away. 

So  hither  dares  no  Savage  press, 
Who  Beauty's  Sovereign  Pow'r  denies ; 

All,  drinking  here,  hor  Cliarms  confeM, 
And  own  the  Conquest  of  her  Eyes. 

When  Phcubus  trv'd  his  Herbs  in  vain 

On  Hyacinth,  had  She  been  there, 
With  Ten  she  had  reviv'd  the  Swain, 

And  nfade  him  live  to  die  for  her." 

Dudley  Armttaob, 

Illttstratorb  of  Popular  Books.— I  have 
often  wished  to  discover  the  naraea  of  the  nrtiuts 
who  designed  the  illuBtnitions  of  some  of  the 
popular  books  for  children.  I  have  a  copy  of  The 
Cries  of  London^  small  8vo,,  publishetl  by  Harris, 
1804.  It  haa  ^M8  elegsmt  characteristic  cngrav- 
ingr?,"  truly  described  aa  such,  the  figures  well 
drawn  and  grouped,  many  evidently  taken  from 
well-known  characters.  The  accompanying  rhymes 
are  very  inferior,  and  apparently  written  for  the 
pictures.  I  also  poBsees  a  copy  of  Bloomfield^s 
Rtiral  Talcs,  BaUacU,  and  Songt^,  small  8vo. 
(Vernon  &  Hood,  and  Longman  &  Rees,  1&(12), 
Thifl  ia  ilkistrated  by  several  remarkably  well- 
dni^wn  and  carefully -executed  woodcuts.  The  style 
is  like  Cniikshank^s  in  the  decision  of  the  drawitig, 
but  is  more  careful  in  the  details.  On  comparing 
theui  with  the  illustrations  of  Hone's  Evcr[f-Day 
Bool%  there  appear  many  points  of  resemblance, 
but  the  date,  1802,  makes  it  scarcely  credible  that 
even  the  octogenarian  artist  should  have  drawn 
them.  Z.  Z. 

The  Selkirk  Pie. — 

**  At  a  meeting  of  the  Poltoo  Oommtssioneni  of  tho 
Royal  burgh  of  Selkirk,  a  few  days  ago,  the  business 
for  which  the  meeting  had  been  specially  convened 
being  dif|»osed  of,  Provost  Anderson  moved  that  the 
Council  meet  the  night  before  the  cleotiou  as  usimL  Mr. 
Waddel ;  '  What  for?'— Mr.  Falla  :  *Ston  !  the  Provost's 
motion  ia  not  seconded.' — Dean  of  Guild  Pringle  seconded 
themotion.— Mr.  Wftddcl :  *  What  to  do  ?*— Mr  W.  Brown: 
'To  have  a  pie/— Mr,  Wriddel :  *  Who  psys  for  the  pie  I 
Do  you  pay  it  yourselves]' — Mr.  W.  Brown  :  *  It  comca 
off  the  rent  oflFLingtie  (one  of  the  town's  farms).  It  has 
been  a  custom  for  -lOC^  years.*  " 

Is  the  origin  of  this  custom  known,  and  where 
can  I  find  further  particulars  respecting  it  ? 

Everard  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road,  N. 

•'  Epitafi  Giocosl*' — I  have  just  come  into  the 
possession  of  a  copy  of  this  work,  which  bears  the 
well-kuown  stamp  of  the  He  her  Library,  "  Biblio- 
theca  Heberiana.'*  As  it  is  new  to  me,  I  ahall  feel 
obliged  if  any  correspondent  to  "  N.  k  Q."  can  in- 
form me  if  it  is  of  any  rarity.  It  is  titled  U 
Cimii€rio  Epitafi  Giocon  dc'  Hignori  Gio.  Frat^ 


612 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L0^8.ILDm.2^71 


Cisco  LQreniiino  &  Fktw  MkhidCf  &c:,  Venice, 
1680.  It  coufsiita  of  two  part-e,  the  first  68  pp., 
tbe  second  ^G  pp. ;  i^  a  kind  of  24iuo.,  &nd  neatlj 
full- bound  in  velluuL  B> 

G  A  iTES :  "  ErrcnuK  "  &d — dm  any  of  your  readers 
give  lue  the  ctlgln  of  the  games  so  common  in  the 
United  Sutea,  called  *^poker/^  "gruh,"  "euchre"  ? 
The  two  former  nra  chiefly  played  by  gamblers. 
Tho  name  of  the  latter  is  evidently  French,  The 
knaTes  or  jacks  of  the  colour  card  turned  up  as 
tramp  being  the  two  highest  trumps,  one  known 
as  "right  bower/'  and  the  other  as  **  left  bower." 
Borne  persons  insist  that  this  is  a  German  game, 
and  the  names  of  thcHe  cards  Bhouhl  be  **  baiier/' 
Hi  the  jacks  are  termed,  the  word  meaning  peasant. 
I  have  lived  in  Gerniauy  many  yearsj  and  never 
Baw  the  game  played ;  but  in  the  United  States 
it  ia  more  played  than  any  other  game  of  cards. 
Jjfttely  an  innoTation  has  been  made  on  the  »ame 
by  the  introduction  of  a  blank  aird  called  the 
*^  little  joker/'  which  is  the  highest  tnimpcard  in 
the  pack  W.  H,  M, 

Spakibh  Lkgends.^  John  Foster,  in  his  well- 
known  Mstayx,  mentions  two  Sp:inidh  legends,  but 
without  assigning  the  authorship.  The  first  la 
the  monkish  story  relaticg  how  once  the  Bevil,  in 
his  wicked  roundi,  came  to  a  village  where  a  pas- 
toral simplicity  of  maoners  prevailed^  and,  by  his 
eeducing  art  a,  iipcedily  etitnipped  the  villagers  into 
all  manner  of  evil  But  the  njonks  proved  too 
many  for  Satan  ;  got  him  under  their  thumb, 
compelled  him  to  put  on  the  liabit  of  their  order, 
and  to  ppcat*h  fio  powerfully  tliut  the  at  raying 
Esheep  were  all  lirought  back  within  the  fold  again. 
The  second  story  ii*  I  but  of  a  man  who,  in  pursuit 
of  vcngcimeej  fitendily  follows  his  intcndetl  victim 
from  town  to  town,  until  he  fiuidly  comes  up  with 
him  in  n  remote  part  of  South  America,  and  there 
murderi  him.  Eequiied  the  original  sources  of 
thesfl  two  legends,  David  Blair, 

M«ltourne. 

Anacreon, — Who  wfva  the  actual  author,  and 
what  the  date,  of  the  odes  print e*!  as  Anacreon's  ? 
I  ihould  be  glad  of  a  reference  to  any  work  on  the 
aubiect.  JIortimfh  Colli  s*s, 

KdowI  EI  ill,  Berks. 

Flemings  settled  at  Korwicti  in  1611.— A 
considerable  number  of  Fleminp  ap|>oar  to  have 
been  sM?ttled  in  Norwich  at  the  commencement  of 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  to  have  had  a  separate 
ad  mini  Html  ion  for  civil  matters,  composed  of  nota- 
bles of  their  fellow  countrymen,  I  should  be 
glad  to  know  whether  anyilimf,'  h^s  been  published 
concerning  this  colony  r»f  Fluuiin^'^,  and,  further, 
Tvbetlicr  Any  ^lcmir^h  archives  oxi^it  at  Norwich  or 
elsewhere  that  w^ould  render  it  poJ^fiible  to  nscertain 
the  dates  of  decease  of  Victor  Merghele,  son  of  ^ 


James^  cloth-weaver,  and  of  Fmnoev  ^wregjbo, 
daughter  of  Nicolaa,  hk  wife,  both  of  Ypra,  «^Ued 
in  Norwich  im  161 1,  and  the  names  of  th^  cM- 
dren  with  descendants,  if  any; 

W.  H.  Jamto  Wuu 
Brugea 

Faultless  Plays. — Stephen  Goison,  in  his 
Schooh  of  Ahii€^  referring  to  "  Playes  that  ut 
without  rebuke/'  mentions  ^*  twoo  prose  Boi&ii 
pkied  at  the  Belsauagt,  whera  yon  fthall  finde 
neuer  a  woorde  without  wit,  neaer  a  line  withoot 
pith,  neuer  a  letter  placed  in  vaine**  Gin  any  oC 
your  readen  inform  me  what  play  a  these  wene,  or 
where  I  shall  find  any  further  reference  to  tbemf 

CtjRioTTs  CewsTiAir  Namkb.— In  tMs  pinifa, 
pareDts  have  a  great  liking  for  what  are  commonly 
tenned  fioe  names  for  tletr  danghteis,  snch  at 
Lavinio^  Thereia,  Angelina,  &&,  Among  othen 
occurs  "  Doraey/'  After  puzzling  over  thia  foe 
some  time,  I  &id  it  ia  intended  for  Tbeodmia. 
Almina  and  Mym  are  not  uncommon.  OaeisSdicta 
Are  these  names  found  anywhere  else  f  Are  th« 
last  two  taken  from  names  of  couirtiiei  in  the  New 
Testament  ?  I  see  AJamina  is  given  in  "  K.  &  Q.* 
aa  a  gipsy  name  ;  perhaps  Almina  ii  a  eontiactioiL 
In  the  church  register  occurs  the  name  Mealiha. 
1  imagine  this  to  mean  Amelia^  a  name  uied  ia 
this  parish.  In  the  churchyard  of  Morthoe,  wcti 
llfracombe,  on  a  tombstone  erected  two  yeant  ^^ 
is  written  Tam^zin,  a  woman's  name.  Is  Ibis  in- 
tended for  Thomassin  ? 

K  L.  BLENEiNiOpp. 

Springtljorpe. 

Toe  Bairn's  Piece*  — On  the  baptism  of  a 
child  in  Scotland,  the  person  who  carries  the  child 
to  church  is  furnished  with  a  packet  of  Civke  or 
other  eaLibles,  called  the  bairn *s  piece,  Thi^  sh& 
is  bound  to  preaent  to  the  first  person  she  meet4 
on  leaving  the  house,  whoever  it  may  Ije,  What 
is  the  origin  of  this  custom,  and  its  meaning  T 

W.  T,  W. 

AEMft  OP  HiTRRT, — A  Norfolk  family  of  this 
name  have  used  the  anus — Argent,  three  lioni' 
beads  erased.  Can  any  one  supply  the  tincture 
of  the  lions'  heads }  Argekt. 

Miss  Jane  Cave. — I  should  be  glad  of  any 
infonuation  regJirding  thifj  lodj',  Wab  she  an 
authoreas,  or  a  composer  of  music  1  AM. 

Eev.  Mr.  HusTiynroN,  CrtAn^is  at  Alejtwi, 

Beitihii  Factqrt. — Where  can  I  find  his  Travels^ 
about  lUiiO-lTfiOl  He  brought  a  letter  from  the 
Samaritans  to  London  (tnth  Siulman'a  translation 
of  Tlapbjipl  lluvid  Sody's  work  on  the  Ten  Trtbc^ 
London,  IS  ID,  1  vol.  Svo.)*  Uuntington'a  statui 
is  mentioned  in  Joat's  QiBchichtc  dcr  IsFacHtenj 
voL  viiL  S.  M.  Deach. 


V*S.U.Dec.28,71.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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pAlTTLr  OP  %1NZAN.— Sir  J»>lni    NuTTei*,  Kt.,  of 

ieodeD,  Berkf>j  died  on  2l3t  October,  in 
TElizabeth,  1564;  and  in  the  In(iiU!»ition  itHien 
on  his  obit,  at  Abingdonj  on  25th  Junuary  foUow*- 
ing,  it  was  found  that  he,  by  two  deeds^  dated  the 
£5th  April  and  2nth  August,  1555^  Rettled  c^rtAin 
messuages  and  lands,  in  Ashnmpsted  and  Harap- 
ated^Norris.  Berks,  to  certain  uses  ;  and,  amongst 
others,  to  the  use  of  his  illegitimate  diiughter,  by 
Alice  Graunt,  Anne  Norres,  alias  Grtiunt^  and  her 
issue  ;  and  that,  at  the  date  of  the  inqne^jt,  this 
Anne  Norres  was  the  wife  of  Alexander  Zynzan, 
gentleman,  and  was  then  living  at  Ashampsted. 
Can  any  reader  of  **  N*  &  Q."  connect  this  AJex- 
ander  Zjnzan  with  Sir  Kobert  Kinmn,  Kt,  of  St. 
Alban*i*,  who  was  Equerry  of  the  Stablea  to  Queen 
Elizakrh  in  1585?  (See  **  N.  &  Q.,'^  51*'  S.  iL 
20.  27.)  B.  W.  Orkenfibld. 

Soathftmpton. 

**HuMorRi8T/' — "But  soon  after  (for  flatterera 
and  hamont^U  have  no  sure  foundatioa)  he,'  vi^, 
Hnljin't  de  Burgh,  **  fell  into  the  King  a  heavy 
indi^'mition;*  &e.— Coke,  Proeme   to  the  Second 

}iitnt€.  In  what  aense  ia  the  Italicized  word 
I  here }  Middle  Templar. 

Mast  HA  Bradley. — There  were  fonnerly  four 
alnuihoufes  for  poor  people  on  Hampatead  Heath. 
Tbcse  were  tjvken  Into  the  grounds  of  Sir  Fmncis 
Willes  (see  Park's  Topogra'phy  of  Ilainpttcad^ 
p.  xxxvi).  This  worthy  man  built  (kre^  in  com- 
pensation  in  the  bottom,  now  the  Yale  of  Health, 
In  one  of  the  houses,  prior  to  their  reraoval,  lived 
l^lartha  Bradley,  who,  with  some  g-ipsles,  had  been 
conceraed  in  the  murder  of  Thomaa  Cowley  on 
Fortune  Green.  She  was  acquitted  for  want  of 
evidence,  but  was  always  heard,  while  ho^^ering 
oyer  her  wretched  fire  in  the  evening,  and  lying 
awake  at  night,  to  acknowle«l^e  hej-  crime  and 
entreat  pardon*  She  refused  the  parish  allowance 
of  linen,  as  a  comfort  she  would  not  fdlow  herself. 
Where  were  these  almshouses  situated,  and  where 
can  one  leam  anything  more  about  Martha  Bradley } 

C.  A.  Ward. 

Mayfair. 


the    lacomp&rabld   CurioBitiM    in 
both  9JS  well  by  Waters  aa  Cvphcra,  Ex- 


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pin  I'le  Familiar  to  tho  Meancit  Capiieity 

B\  "'ter^  of  Stfite  may  manage  the  liitrijorues 

of  of  Prince*,  tbe  Lnjlics 

Coi  I'i  ejGTV  ordinnry  rt^rion 

^  *  -V  -    -'-  '    '  Privuto 

Pub- 

tt.t(  iJy  U.  E.^  Gent,     Lnn- 

dtr,  BroQki  at  tho  Angd  in 

Ciii  1......  ,,..  „_i/» 

^  author  of  the  alx»ve  ?    T  do  not  find 

Um   ...:  ^  ''^  ^^' '  f ':«=  of  reference.     From 

the  Vt>  hwe  been  the  editor 

t»n!v.  .    Inmk  in  t\vy  Bvrou 


collection  in  the  Chethain  Library*  It  is  bound 
up  NNith  a  copy  of  N.  B.s  (Noah  Brydges's)  Steno- 
graphie,  1659,  "  priuted  by  J.  G.  for  the  Author.'* 
The  volume  hm  the  following  autograph :  '*  A 
present  fr<:»m  y*  In^'enious  Author.  October  y«  8, 
hs.  Samuel  Cromlehoime,"  Cromleholme  was 
master  of  Paul's  School,  ltj57,  when  he  succeeded 
John  Langley,  John  E.  Baiukt. 

Sam  SELL  BT  Harlinoton.  in  Bedfordshire. 
— Where  w^as  this  place,  if  there  ever  was  such  a 
village  or  hamlet  1  In  vol  i.  of  Mr.  Offor's  col- 
lection of  John  Bunyan*a  Works^  1858,  p.  50,  he 
quotes — 

*'A  Bektlon  of  tht  Imprlsonmoni  of  Mr*  John 
Bun.^an,  kc.  ,  , ,  WrUtcn  by  HtTTi«elf,  ntid  ncrer  before 
printffl.  .  . .  Loudon  :  Printed  for  Jamea  Buoklnndj  at 
the  Buck,  iu  Paternoster  Row,  mdcclxv« 

*'  The  relation  of  my  imprisonment  lit  the  month  of 
JVovembtr,  I6ti0. 

**  Upon  the  12tb  of  this  instant  November,  1660|  I  WM 
desired  by  some  of  the  friends  in  the  country  to  come  to 
leach  at  tfamHelli  by  Uarlington,  m  Eedford<bire.*' 

I  have  hunted  high  and  low  {tm  the  saying  is) 
for  this  place,  but  cannot  find  it  anywhere.  Har- 
iington  is,  curiously  enough,  near  to  Ghalgrave, 
the  pLocc  where,  I  believe,  Bunyan  was  l)om.  See 
**  N.  &  Q.,"  5«'  S.  ii.  86.  D.  C.  E. 

The  Crescent,  Bedford. 

The  Rev.  Ralph  CrDWoRTH,  D.B.— Is  the 
ancestry  of  the  author  of  The  Tnic  InUlledutil 
Sy&tcTH'  of  th4  Universe  Itnown  beyond  his  father, 
the  Rev.  Ralph  Cud  worth,  successively  yicar  of 
Cogffe^hall,  Essex,  and  rector  of  Allor,  Somerset- 
shirt^  I  An  elder  brother  of  the  author  of  tho 
lHtdli:etual  Stphm^  Capt.  Jamea  Cudworth,  came 
to  New  England  in  1632,  and  settled  at  Scituate, 
in  the  colony  of  New  Plymouth,  where  he  waa 
prominent  in  public  affairs.  He  favoured  the 
largest  religious  liberty.  A  descendant  of  his,  the 
Rev.  Warren  H.  Cudworth,  is  an  able  and  popular 
Unitarian  clergyman  in  this  city. 

JoHJT  Ward  Deak. 

Boston,  ^rassacbusettt. 

rXotes  for  the  biojtrapby  of  Ralph  Cudworth  may  bfl 
found  in  "  X.  k  Q-,"  2"^  S.  fii.  230;  ?iii.  631.] 

The  Salic  Law. "Supposing  it  to  have  pre- 
vailed in  England  from  the  time  of  the  C'Onquest, 
who  would  now  be  on  the  throne ;  or,  in  other 
words,  who  is  the  present  heir  in  tail  m.'vie  of 
William  the  Conqueror  ?  A.  C. 

thattl  ve^ 

its  ofi>j,.N  iM.ui  ail  i*ir-iMiii-.ii-  ■  fi»e 

ancient  House  of  Byron.     The  ^  n- 

^inatly  bore  the  old  Byron  r*--''  '^d- 

lct3  rnhiinced  giL,  within  ;  '^ 

I  Bhivll  bt  ^lid  \o  V^  "\ul-  .                   -^^"^ 


514 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*  8.  IL  Dec.  26, 74. 


this  bordure  was   borae  ;    when,  and  by  what 
authority  (if  by  any),  it  was  dropped. 

J.  Woodward. 

The  Will  of  Sir  Lewis  Clifford  (dated 
1404.)— In  this  document  occurs  tlie  following 
passage: — 

**  Now  first  I  beauethe  to  Syre  Phylype  la  Vache, 
Knight,  my  masse-boke  &  my  portoos,  in  my  boke  of 
tribulacion  to  my  daughter  his  wyf." 

What  is  the  meaning  of  "  portoos,"  and  "  boke 
of  tribulacion "  ;  is  there  anything  known  about 
the  family  of  La  Vache,  or  De  la  Vache?  The 
name  is  in  the  Battle  Abbey  roll.         C.  L.  W. 

"  Plus  est  en  vous." — On  the  Gmthuyze  pew, 
in  the  Church  of  Notre  Dame  at  Bruges,  this 
motto  of  the  family  appears.    What  does  it  mean? 

C.   W.   BiNOHAM. 

"Pro  matria." — I  have  an  old  earthenware 
bowl,  which  I  obtained  at  Stockholm.  It  appears 
to  be  of  English  pottery,  with  transfer  printed 
designs.  On  the  inside  is  painted  a  large  cat,  and 
the  inscription  "the  honourable  society  pro 
MATRIA."  Can  any  of  your  readers  tell  me  any- 
thing of  this  society  ?  F.  S. 


/    NATHAN  BAILEY'S  DICTIONARIES. 
(5*h  S.  i.  448,  614  ;  ii.  156,  258.) 

At  the  risk  of  falling  under  the  censure  of  one 
of  your  correspondents  who  has  said  (but  not  in 
"N.  &  Q/')  that  "some  bibliographers  (if  not 
most)  are  sadly  careless  dogs,"  I  venture  to  con- 
tribute a  list  of  nearly  all  the  editions  of  my 
namesake's  Dictionary,  copies  of  which  it  has  been 
my  custom  for  many  years  to  examine  as  they  fell 
in  my  way.  The  editions  are  much  intermixed, 
and  the  details  here  given  of  them  are  not  to  be 
found  in  any  of  the  bibliographical  manuals.  It 
will  be  seen  from  the  list  that  the  conjectures  of 
your  octo-initialled  correspondent  (p.  14  of  last 
vol.)  are  pretty  accurate  ;  but  there  seems  a  serious 
misprint  in  one  of  the  dates.  A  few  editions  are 
still  wanting  to  complete  this  list.  These,  I  have 
ascertained,  are  not  to  be  found  at  the  British 
Museum,  or  at  the  Public  Libraries  of  the  Uni- 
versities ;  but  probably  some  of  your  correspon- 
dents will  interest  themselves  in  examining  copies 
in  their  hands  with  a  view  to  complete  the  list. 
I  may  add  that  the  early  editions  are  those  which 
are  now  most  frequently  to  be  met  with : — 

1721.  8x0.  [The  first  edition.]  An  Universal  Ety- 
mological Engliih  Dictionary,  This  edition,  which  is 
in  the  Brit.  AIus.,  is  mentioned  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (S'""  8.  ii. 
258). 

1724.  8vo.  "The  second  edition."  (S**"  S.  ii.  156 ;  Brit 
Mm. ;  Bodl.) 

1726.  8ro,  "The  third  edition."  (The  Rev.  T.  L.  0. 
QMfie^  M.A.) 


1727.  8to.    The  first  edition  of  a  Snpplementuir 
volume,  containing  additional  words,  called  "  Volume  iL 
See  1731.    (W.  Harper's  Catabrae.) 

1728.  8vo.    "The  fourth  edirfon."    (Brit.  Mna) 
1730.    Folio.    [The  first  edition,  entitled,]  "DicHmh 

arium  Britannicum, :  or  a  more  Compleat  Umfertal  Etj- 
mological  English  Dictionary  than  any  Extant.  Collected 
by  several  hands.  The  Mathematical  part  by  G.  Qordon, 
the  Botanical  by  P.  Miller.    The  Whole  Reris'd  and  Im- 

Frov'd  with  many  thousand  Additions,  bv  N.  Beiley.*' 
t  was  dedicated  by  George  Gordon  and  Nat  Beiky  to 


Thomas,  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Montgomery,  who 
"vast and  curious  collection  of  the  choicest  books " 
referred  to.  It  was  illustrated  by  ''near  fire  Hundied 
Cuts."  (Library  of  Wm.  Booth,  Esq.,  Manchester;  Brit 
Mus.) 

1731.  8to.  Supplementary  Tolome,  entitled  f%i 
Universal  Etymological,  ke,  "  The  second  edition  witk 
many  additions."  This  impression,  now  penes  nu,  con- 
sisted  of  **an  additional  collection  of  words  (not  in  the 
first  Tolume)."  It  is  called  "  Volume  ii.,"  but  there  ii 
no  volume  i.  (so  marked)  to  correspond.  This  editkn 
had  "above  500  cuts." 

1733.  8vo.  "The  sixth  edition,  with  considenble 
improvements."  Title  as  in  the  early  editions.  (In  my 
hands :  Brit  Mus.) 

1735.  8vo.  "  The  seventh  edition,  with  considersble 
improvements."    (Rochdale  Reference  Library.) 

1736.  Folio.  "The  second  edition,  with  numerouf 
additions  and  improvements."  Title  as  in  the  former 
folio  edition,  except  that  it  is  added  that  the  anthor  wm 
assisted  in  the  Etymological,  &c.,  part  by  T.  Lediard, 
Gent.,  Professor  of  the  Modem  Languages  in  Lower 
Germany.    (Chetham  Library,  Manchester :  Brit  Mvl) 

In  this  ytrar  Bailey  issued  another  work,  whidi  be 
entitled  "  Dictionarium  Domestieum,  Being  a  New  and 
Compleat  Dictionary.  For  the  use  both  of  City  end 
Country."  8vo.  (J;  E.  B.)  This  was  still  on  sale  in 
1779,  price  5s, 

1737.  8vo.  "  The  eighth  edition,"  under  the  old  titla 
(Brit  Mus.) 

1737.  8vo.  "The  third  edition"  of  the  Sopple- 
mentary  volume  called  vol.  ii.  With  500  cuts,  (orii 
Mus.  ;  "  N.  &  Q.,"  5'*"  S.  i.  514.)  The  two  volumes  dated 
this  year  are  by  Lowndes  called  the  best  Svo.  edition, 
adding  that  it  contained  many  words  omitted  in  the 
previous  folio  editions.    15<. 

1740.    Svo.    "  The  ninth  edition."    (Brit  Mus.) 

1742.    8vo.    "  The  tenth  edition."     (Brit  Mus.) 

1745.  Svo.  "  The  eleventh  edition."  (In  possession  of 
W.  Winters,  Esq.) 

1747.  8vo.  "The  thirteenth  edition,  with  consder- 
able  improvements."  (Brit  Mua ;  "  N.  &  Q.,"  5**  8.  L 
514;  J.  B.  Shaw.  Esq.,  Manchenter.) 

1749.  8vo.  Fourteenth  edition.  (W.  Harper's  (3ata- 
logue.)  Mr.  Axon  of  Manchester  has  a  thirteenth  edition, 
dated  1749. 

1    Svo.    Fifteenth  edition.      Chalmers  says  that 

this  edition  was  published  about  1759. 

1755.    Publication  of  Dr.  Johnson's  Dictionary, 

1755.  Folio.  "  A  New  Universal  Etymological  Eng- 
lish Dictionary,"  &c. ;  "  illustrated  with  Copper  Plates. 
Originally  compiled  by  N.  Bailey.  Assisted,'  as  before. 
"  And  now  republished  with  many  corrections,  Additions, 
and  Literate  Improvements,  by  Different  Hands. . . .  Bj 
Joseph  Nicol  Scott,  M.D." 

1757.  8vo.  "  Seventeenth  edition."  Price  6*.  (3rit 
Mus.) 

1759.  Svo.  The  New  Vniversal  English  Dictionary. 
"  The  fourth  edition  [of  the  supplementary  vol].  (Jbrs- 
fully  corrected  by  Mr.  Buchanan."    Pnoe  6«.    (Brit  , 


\li>aa.\ 


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if  odTunccd/'  Col,  Fishwick  has  a  twenty-fifth  edition, 
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In  their  proper  plncof,  in  the  Inst  edition,  together  uith 
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been  made/'    Printed  at  Edinburgh.     (J.  E.  B] 

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Sif«iford>  Manchester. 


DANTE  AND  HIS  TRANSLATORS. 

(C»^  S.  ii.  3C4,  430.) 

I  hare  to  thunk  two  of  your  correspondents  for 

khti  trouble  taken  in  courteously  disputing, at  some 

r^        '       ty  rendering  of  a  verse  from  the  Divina 

J.    For  the  present,  I  have  taken  leave  to 


restrict  my  reply  to  the  explicit  and,  in  thi«  ques- 
tion^ sintrulorly  significant  note  from  the  Venetian 
edition  of  1568,  which  the  literary  research  of  Mr. 
PiCTON  hak  enabled,  and  frank  candour  impelled, 
him  to  put  forward  in  the  controversy.  Two  lines 
of  the  continuous  prose  may,  tt  strikes  me,  without 
changing  the  sequence  of  a  word,  be  bo  adjusted  on 
the  page — the  cited  words,  on  the  one  hand,  of  the 
debated  third  verse,*  and,  on  the  other,  the  gloss 
severally  of  each— as  to  bring  out,  in  strong  and 
the  clearest  light,  the  intention  of  the  commentator, 
I  venture  to  re-tranecrihe  therefoi-e,  so  adjusted, 
the  note  itaelf ;  and  therewith  in  correspondence, 
at*  well  a3  respectively  to  any  ditfering  apprehension 
of  the  sense,  to  rortransUte  it. — 

The  Note  (of  Bernardino  Daniello  da  Lueca). 
"  Horn  8«  tu  tion  vedi,  dice  seguitando  Vir^Ho,  dlnanit 
a  me  aleun'  ombra,  noa  ti  dci  mararigUare  pii!i  chefaresti 
de*  Cicli ; 

che  perclie 

L'rKo  cio  t  cieloj 

non  rKGOjiBRA  Don  occupa 

air  altro 

il  RAOorOt  la  Ince; 

che  Bfl  fosse  altramento,  cto  c  che  Pun  oielo  occupaflie  11 
lumo  air  altro,  non  potrebbe  esso  lumc  penetrando  per 
qualli  f  mofltratsi  alia  vcduta  nostra  ;  ed  1  cieli  qob  diafani 
e  tr&njaparenti  sariauo,  ma  per  il  contrario,  sodi  ed 
opachL ' 

*'  Now  if  thou  seest  not,  aaith  Virgil  continuing,  beforo 
mo  any  shfidow,  thou  shoul cleat  not  more  marvel  than 
thou  wouldest  do  of  the  Qeuvons : 

that  for  that 

TUB  OKK  fhnt  *s  hearen 

1.ETTETH  not  atoppeth  not 

to  the  other 

the  Rat,  the  light; 

since,  were  it  otherwt«e|  thai  is,  that  the  one  heaven  did 
intercept  light  to  the  other^  that  light  could  not  by 
penctrittng  through  these  show  Itself  to  our  sight,  and 
the  heave iifl  would  not  be  diaphanous  and  transparent, 
but,  contrariwise,  solid  and  opatjoe." 

Erkmx 

I  was  rather  pleased  to  see  the  interest  Mr, 
PicTo.x  takea  in  Italian  llteniture,  as  appears  frotu 
his  letter,  p,  43n.  At  the  Bame  time,  however,  I 
was  not  a  little  .surprised  by  reading  what  lie  says 
respecting  the  difHciiUy  in  knowing  whether  the 
Italian  article  **  il "  may  .or  may  not  have  been 
used  by  Dante  in  the  verse  he  quotes,  and  that  the 
difficulty  can  only  be  solved  by  inspecting  the 
Vatican  Codicl,  of  which  he  imagines  that  no 
glimpse  can  be  taken.  But  this  show.i  that  he  haa 
overlooked  the  existence  of  the  five  or  six  hundred 
Codices,  MSS.  of  Dante's  Divina  Cwnmidia^  which 
are  scattered  in  the  public  and  private  libraries  of 
Europe.  Were  then  the  few  preserved  in  the 
Vatican  Library  to  be  withheld  frotu  inspection, 
or  even  to  perish,  the  difficulty  which  he  alludes 
to  could  be  solved  all  tlie  same.    Very  few,  Indeed , 


•  Pur^atono,  C.  liL  30. 

t  Tlie  ordinary  "  queHi*"  as  I  pretume.    An  airhaism  T 
a  proviacaaliim  1  a  n^ii print  ? 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*^8.ILDia28,71 


are  in  the  YaticAn^  perhaps  not  to  ore  than  half  a 
doteiL  But  if  he  wanti  to  settle  the  question,  he 
may  go  to  the  British  Museum^  where  there  are 
fifteen,  and  some  of  them  very  valtiahle.  He  may 
also  come  here  to  the  Bodleian  Library,  where 
thirteen  are  preserved,  and  open  to  infipection  ; 
flud  if  the  librariej  of  certain  Engliah  noblemen 
were  more  acc^sible,  he  would  discorer  many 
othera.     As  for  myself,  bein^  a  Catholic,  I  am 

?rohibited  by  the  will  of  Sir  Thoraaa  Phillipps,  near 
Cheltenham,  to  visit  hia  library ^  bnt  I  am  told 
that  there  too  some  Dante  MSS.  are  preserved. 
In  the  department  of  Julmn  MS 3*  in  the  Paria 
National  Library,  there  ara  abont  thirty-fiTC  j  in 
Florence,  they  are  numbered  by  hundreds  ;  and  all 
Uiese  may  be  eonanlted  by  any  one.  It  is  quite 
absurd  then  to  auppoee  that  the  Vatican  onea  may 
{mhj  settb  the  question,  aa  if  they  were  to  share 
in  literatare  the  infallibility  which  their  owner 
claims  only  for  spiritual  matters.  Bealdes,  they  are 
neither  tho  moat  valuable  nor  the  most  ancient ; 
and  it  ia  al^o  true  that,  if  not  all,  many  of  the 
varianii  Iczioni  of  the  one  numbered  3199  have 
bean  publiBhed  aomo  fifty,  at  least,  years  ago. 

GREa.  Palmiiri, 
Oxford, 


•  "A  CuHiouB  TnoRN*'  (5*^  S.  ii,  ^9,  380,)— 
In  answer  to  the  inquiry  m  to  a  "  Glastonbury 
thom,'^  or,  aa  commonly  called,  the  "  holy  thorn," 
said  to  be  in  cxistonco  at  Groat  ^Isdvern,  though 
familiar  with  Malvern  and  its  vicinity  for  many 
years  J  I  have  no  co;;nizance  of  the  tree  there»  But 
a  specimen  of  the  so  cidled  Glustonbury  thorn 
does  stand  iu  a  garden  upon  Bromyard  Down, 
about  eight  miles  from  Malvern,  within  Hereford* 
shire.  The  legend  as  to  a  thorn  that  formerly 
ex:isted  at  Glftstnnbury  Abbey  is  too  well  known 
to  be  repeEitted  in  dctdl,  but  the  fact  wsis  that  the 
monks  or  Glastonbury  bad  a  thoru  growing  in  the 
precincts  of  the  abbey,  which  i)Toduced  a  second 
crop  of  flowers  about  Christmas-time,  and  they 
insisted  that  it  was  true  to  Christ maii  D«y,  the 
tree  having  grown  from  the  staif  of  Joseph  of 
Arimnthea,  who  came  from  the  East  to  plant 
Chriitiiinity  in  Britaiu,  A  balhid,  in  the  Somer- 
setshire dialect,  says  :  — 

"  Tho  ainff  het  budiled  and  het  ^rewr 
And  at  Cliriatmaa  bloomM  tlie  whoklfttlrof^. 
And  stiJl  h?t  blooms  a.t  Chriitma^  bright. 
Bat  beat  tha  zay  at  dork  mtdnii^ht/* 

However  this  variety  of  the  hawthorn  got  to 
GLxatonbury,  the  original  tree  continuerl  in  cxis- 
tenco  there  to  near  the  end  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I, 
and  was  reganled  with  much  curiosity  and  vene- 
intiou  ;  but  some  pari  tun  ic;il  hatcra  of  superstition 
had  it  then  cut  down. 

As  this  peculiarity  of  late  or  double- flowering 
m  shntbs  ami  troes  am  be  propaf^t^d  by  grafting, 
numerous  graftB  were  obtainea  by  cumus  ^t^m 


from  the  original  Glastonbury  thorn,  so  tint 
wherever  this  variety  is  now  found  it  is  mid  that 
it  W81S  derived  from  Glastonbmy,  It  h  atill  m- 
ported  of  these  grafted  thoma  Imt  they  pxodiMe 
flowera  at  the  midnight  of  Ohmtmas  Eve ;  bat  it 
is  the  Chriatmaa  of  lAa  old  styl^^  for  the  thc»ra 
would  not  conform  to  new  ideas ;  and  I  have  h^m 
told  that  on  this  account  the  msitica,  in  many 
pjirishes  of  Herefordahire,  would  only  keep  di 
Christmas  Bay ;  and  the  dergymaji  of  the  pUce, 
to  humour  his  flock,  held  a  serviee  in  hia  cnurdi 
accordingly.  In  point  of  fact,  I  have  received 
bunches  of  half<^expanded  lowers  in  the  beginniag 
of  January  from  the  tree  referred  to,  and  fom 
another  that  I  have  seen  in  a  gojden  at  Sucklej, 
Worcestershire*  No  leaves  were  apparent,  but 
only  half- developed  flowers,  and  snch  flowera  prch 
duce  no  fruit.  The.se  trees  flowered  ag^un,  like 
other  hawthorns,  at  the  usual  time. 

I  must  remark  that  this  donble  flowering  af 
shrubs  and  trees  is  not  peculiar  to  the  hawtheTii, 
or,  indeed,  to  the  one  located  at  Gbstonburyi  aa 
the  following  quotation  from  quaint  old  Aabrej'i 
MaiuTal  Rtmarkqu€s  in  the  Cottnt^  of  Wwi 
(IC85)  satisfactorily  shows : — 

"In  Parham  Fnrke,  in  Safibike  (Mr,  Boatele*«}t  k  i 

ET^tty  Baticnt  thorns!  that  bloaaoma  like  that  at  Qlutoa* 
ury ;  the  people  flock  thither  to  see  it  on  Chrutinii 
Day,  But  in  tbo  rode  that  le«d4  from  Woreciter  to 
Droitwicbc  if  u.  bInckthoraQ  hedgQ  at  Clajiir  half  i  mitt 
long  or  more,  that  bksfocoes  ftbout  CbrittmaiHlAf^  fgr* 
week  or  tnore  topetbcr.  Tho  ground  is  cmlted  Lotiglaad. 
Dr.  E2cr#l  Tony  fiayd  that  about  Ronmy'-tQarBb  [Eqrait«|] 
tn  Keoti  are  thorncs  nntur&llr  like  that  at  OWoaborr* 
The  eoldlcrs  did  cut  dowa  that  neer  GUttonbmy '  tia 
Btump  remainea/' 

The  hedge  at  Claines,  near  Worcester,  that 
Aubrey  mention s^  is  no  longer  to  be  found,  rooted 
upi  doiihtleas,  long  ago.  But  I  Imve  myself  ob- 
served the  elder,  dogvvood^  and  some  other  shrubs, 
produce  a  second  crop  of  flowem  late  in  the  year; 
and  it  La  not  unfrequentiy  noticed  in  apple  aad 
pear  treea.  Even  wild  annual  plants  will  of^ 
sionally  produce  late  seconHary  flowers  on  thdr 
withered  stalks,  Edwin  Lbes,  F,LS. 

Oreen  Hill  Saaimit,  Worceil^r* 

Warner,  in  the  Appendix  {p.  v)  to  his  Hutury 
of  the  Ahh&if  ofGlmton,  and  To}jm  of  Ghttonhun, 
quotes  the  following  tmdition  from  A  LitiU 
Monument  to  i/w  omc^  J'ameu*  Abbey ^  dated  in 
1716:— 

''That  St.  Joseph  of  ArlmethiGa  atid  hU  eompanioiii, 
coorirLg  tir^it  and  wear?  to  a  hill^  within  half  a  mtl^  d 
ioutb^weit  of  wbere  ijlasti^nburr  now  ftandp,  red*i 
tbcmflfiWes  on  the  ri rfgo  thoreof,  for  which  remson  tb^t 
IiUIt  to  thii  Terj  daj^  ia  called  Weary-ttU-nUi  ;  aodtbjU 
in  the  Tcry  pluco  where  they  rested  Uiere  sprtiaf  «p  • 
miraculous  thorn  tr«c,  which  every  yenr*  at  Chnatioii, 
in  the  coldest  jenrand  weather,  froat,  snow,  oriTh*U«r 
else,  tioTor  fulled  haddmg  forth  leaver  and  flowery  of 
which  thorn  I  design  to  Bay  more  hereafter." 

^    ^ot  ^\dK^k.  ?-«a  A^^endtx,  p,  jixktL  K 


T.  C.  IT,  wUl  find  in  Honeys  Table  Book,  vol  li, 
821  (Teg^g,  Chcopside),  a  short  ftccotint  of  Uie 
plaatonbury  Thorn.     It  there  say  a  : — 

'  Tina  exotic  or  EnBtcrn  Thorn  difTera  from  our  com- 
1  on*  in  putting  out  its  leares  very  early  in  the 
1  flowering  titrici  a  year,  for  in  mild  reasons  it 
t-oucn  now  "^  '    r  or  December,  and  again  at 

|lkd  mua]  i  on  sort ;  but  the  storied  that 

i  told  of  ^  ^  -oming,  and  fading  on  Cbrist- 

DM^day  arti  ridicuWudij  and  only  monkish  logendi/' 

Thttfi  fur  Hone ;  but  Loudon  says  that  it  is  the 

ttjcox,   a   native  of   Siberiti,   a   variety  of  the 

xycanlha  phtifpkylla,  and  has  the  fruit  black  ! 

As  to  the  legends  being  ridiculous,  they  who 

bus  write  do  not  know  anything  about  the  matter. 

here  is  a  vast  diflerence  between  the  black  or 

fmit-beuring  thorns  and  the  white,  fruitless  ones  j 

nd  Loudon,  at  page  382,  writes  :— 

**  Not  only  the  difi^erent  epeciea  of  Crataegus,  bat  those 

of  Mcflpitos,  8orbu9,  Pyrup,  and  even  Malas,  Cydonia, 

l/dtTielauchicr,  Eriobotyra,  and  others  can  be  grafted  on 

|tht!  oommon  hawthorn^  and  in  thia  way  ficld-hedgiw  may 

I  rendered  ornamental  and  even  productive  of  uieful 

TTi  lung  was  meant  by  the  distinction 

nd  Mf  fruit^beariDg  and  fruitless  tbomB, 

aay  ue  ^nuicred  out  of  the  obscure  hint  given  in 
yVit  Luitgar,  Pertz,  ii.  411  :— 

**  Itaqu^  more  Bolito,  cum  omni  aviditate  etiollicitudine 
rudibus  Saxonum  populia  atudebat  in  doctrina  prodeatiej 
erutisquc  ydolatHa  fpmii,  yerbum  Vtl  diligenter  per  loca 
iingula  sere  re,  seccleslas  confttruere,  et  per  eas  eiugulos 
ordinaro  prestiyteroe,  quoa  Tcrbi  Dei  cooperatores  slbi 
notrivtrat,'* 

What  connexion  the  *'  Thorn  idoktry  **  had  with 

Ihe  **  Royal  Thorn  "  which  grt^w,  eiiys  Pliny  in  bis 

Ta<,  Hutonj^  on  the  Widls  of  Pnbylon^  is  yet  a 

oystery  ;    l>ut  T.  C,  U.  will   find  thiit  he  has 

lopened  on  to  a  birge  field,  if  he  follows  out  the 

nystica]  history  of  the  Spin  us  or  sloe-tree, 

Lk  Chevalier  au  Cnff. 

"By  ft  r  "  ^  r'  '  i>*,  we  bear  that  a  vait 
pi?fVCourse  Thorn  on  Christmas  Eve^ 

ticw  Btilc  ;  i  !  appointment,  there  wna 

no  appearaiici:  of  it's  bloio  tng,  >v]ucb  made  them  watch  it 
IftarroKrly  the  5th  of  Januury^  the  Chris tmaa  Buy,  old 
' '  I  .wed  hb  ufUttl,  and  in  one*iday*s  titiie  wan 
hcet,  to  t>ie  great  iiiortifieation  of  umuy 
id  neighbourhood  J,  who  had  tapp'd  their 
Ue  feieTCQ  days  too  §oion,*'—Ladie*'  Magazine^  Jan*  20, 
17S8L 

Qrirts. 

*'Hoa5tA!*T"  (o"^^  B.  ii,  329.)— It  i?t  perhap**, 
D|H>*t»iliIe  U>  determine  the  right  spelling  of  such 
ffi  wnffl  fiH  thh;  but  the  following  extract  from  Dr. 
''JUS  of  Chrouolo^if^  &c.,  second  ed., 
',  "^'ol*  »*j  PP*  *W,  51,  will  give  gome 
ii*i*?  U»  it  ;^ 

'  Atn^^t^  the  Ctlh'r  rrttbns  the  rtew  ttjooti  npnreflt  to 


ato  the  woods  on  that  night,  and  cut  with  n  golden 


ftickle  A  branch  of  the  mi^dto  of  the  oak,  called  Ohiah 
in  the  Celtic  language,  and  carried  it  in  proceBsion  to  the 
Siacred  grovov  The  people  aUo  cut  bra nc bos  for  them> 
aelves,  and  carried  tbem  lu>me  after  they  bad  been  blesjied 
or  consecrated  by  the  Cliief  Pruid»  \Vheuco  the  usage 
of  adorning  the  pewi  of  our  Churches  and  Chapeli  with 
evtrtfreenif  in  lieu  of  miaseUo^  at  Christmas. 

''In  /'ranted,  at  the  Cbriettnafl  gambois^so  late  as  the 
reign  of  Louis  XIV*,  when  they  were  aapprossed  on  a4)- 
count  of  their  irregularities,  traces  of  the  Djuidicat 
usages  were  found.  A  man  personating  a  prince  {Roi 
folUU^fk  mummer'),  set  out  from  the  village  into  the 
woods,  bawling  oat  Au  f^ut  menes  ;  Lt  rot  U  vtnlt.  The 
monks  followed  in  the  rear  with  their  begging  boxeSj 
which  they  rattled,  crying  iiTt  lire^  and  the  people  put 
money  in  them  under  the  fiction  that  it  was  for  a  lady 
in  labour.  Pereons  in  disguise  (Ouiseards)  forced  into 
dwell ing'houaefl,  playing  antic  tricks,  and  bullying  the 
inhabitants  for  money  and  choice  victuals,  crying  Tire 
lirif  tire  liri,  ma^'nt  dv.  hianc,  et  point  du  his  (tic./ 

**  Bence,  sayfl  the  late  Professor  Hobiuwn  of  JSrftii- 
burffk  (from  whofie  Katurctl  Pki'losopfiy,  p.  200,  this  note 
is  taken,  p.  210},  eTldently  was  derived  the  Ouiiearts  of 
Edinburgh,  ajid  their  cry  *  Hog  menaif,  troll  lollop,  Oie*» 
jfour  vhite  brfad,  none  cfyourj^t^y* 

**  Tbe  old  French  Au gui  menez  and  tlie  ScottTsh  Hog 
menay  ara  plainly  corruptions  of  the  Greek  ayta  fiij^rj^ 
*  holy  moon/  who  was  anciently  suppijsed  '  to  be  in 
labour'  at  the  time  of  the  conjunction  or  uew  moon. 
Perhaps  lire  HH  may  be  a  corruption  of  tirts  ie  roi, 
'draw  forth/  and  put  money  'for  the  king,'  namely, ro* 
foiltt,  *  the  mummer.' " 

[Or»  perhaps,  from  iirea  Utra^  draw  forth  money ; 
lit^rc  is  in  Italian  Urn.}  W.  E*  Buckley. 

The  correct  spelling  of  this  word  i?,  doubtleas, 
as  it  is  pronounced—  Hogm^nuy.  It  is  suppased 
to  be  a  corruption  of  "  Homme  est  n6,  trois  rois 
alio  is*'  (die), "  A  man  is  born^  three  kings  are  come/* 
**  Hogmcnag,  trololay,  pjie  us  your  white  bread,  and 
none  of  your  grey.^*  ^Yhen  the  first  "  guisard  *^  or 
masker  enters,  he  says : — 

*'  Ritie  up,  gude  wife,  and  shake  your  fciiiherB, 

Dimia  tliiuk  that  we  are  beggars. 

We  are  bairns  come  to  play. 

And  for  to  seek  our  Hogmenay/' 
In  the  ^VhiBtlebiokie  Collection  of  Smttish  Song^ 
there  is  a  ballad  by  Alexander  Smart  which  com- 
mences thus  : — 

♦♦  Come»  bairns,  a*  to  yomr  ho^enay, 

The  morn,  yo  ken,  is  New  ^  ear's  day, 

Tbe  cftuld  wind  blairs,  the  auuw  dawn  fa*s, 

But  merrily,  merrily  dance  away/* 
In  LoDgmuir's  edition  of  Jamieson's  IJidimtary  of 
the  Scottuh  Langnagt',  the  spelling  Ls  given  '*  Hog- 
manay ^  and  "Hognienay'' ;  and  the  remark  is 
added, "  the  origin  of  the  term  is  quite  uncertAin." 

J.  N.  Bltth. 

I  have  heard  and  read  much  concerning  the 
etymology  of  this  word.  The  forms  of  spelling 
this  term  Me  very  numerous,  and  vary  according 
to  the  suggested  etymology;  but  1  wsis  not  pre- 
viously aw  11  re  that  it  was  ever  spelt  with  a  «  as 
the  second  letter,  which  would  .«eeui  to  inj|»ly  yet 
another  derivation.  In  Brockctt*B  Sorih  Country 
Glouary  {IS25\  the  two  forma  ^'Hagmenn''  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5<»8.ILI>aa26^74. 


''  Hogmetm  ^  are  ^ivan,  and  the  latter  of  thes« 
finds  a  place  In  Hjilf  I  well's  Archaic  IHdiotmr^. 
H-  C.  B.  will  find  five  differeni  derivations  given 
in  Chambera's  Book  &f  DaySf  all  of  which  are  at 
once  put  of  count  if  the  spell ing  "  Huginnny  "  is 
the  correct  one.  The  cognate  ejtpressions  in 
different  dialecta  of  France  and  Spain  seem  to 
point  to  the  imposaibilitj  of  admitting  ^'htig- 
m&nj"  SA  the  true  orthography, 

X  CHAiiLBa  Cox, 
HnMlwdod^  Belper. 

"The  Battle  of  the  Nile^  (5^  S,  il  369,)— 
The  following;  version  of  this  song  was  repeated  to 
me  by  a  gentleman,  now  dead,  'wtio  learnt  it  from 
a  blind  fiddler,  who  waa  accustomed  to  sing  it 
and  other  naval  songs  for  the  delight  of  the  people 
during  the  "  great  war,"  On  the  evening  of  the 
2lit  of  October,  1805,  the  day  on  which  Nelson 
fell  at  Trafalgar,  he  well  remembered  hearing  the 
old  man  sin^  it  at  a  Lincolnshtre  farmhouse,  near 
Gainsborough,  before  a  la^  gathering  of  young 
people.  The  text  I  send  ii,  1  am  pretty  sarsj  a  cor- 
rupt one.  I  have  seen  the  song  within  the  kat  fifteen 
years  exhibited  for  sale,  in  the  form  of  a  broadside, 
at  Hull,  and  tber^  is  a  copy  in  a  chap-book  In  the 
British  Museum  (1077  g/ 47/19),  but  both  these 
are  in  a  worse  state  than  the  following.  As  to  its 
authorship,  I  know  nothing  :^ 

"  Ariae*  an!i«,  Brit&nrtm'e  mnn  unsei 

And  join  in  the  i^lmuts  of  the  pntrioti*?  throng; 
Ariie,  arise,  Britannin'fi  eoni  arise, 

And  let  tliB  HeiLTenfl  echi>  wiih  your  sonff. 
For  the  genitiA  of  Albion,  Tictory  procktmuig, 
Fiiflf  ill  rough  th^  worlds  oar  lawa  and  ri^htfl  mointvlning* 

A  till  the  battle  of  the  NUo 

I*  the  fprctiiost  OQ  the  file, 

And  Nelson,  galUnt  KelBon*£  namfi 

Applauded  ah&ll  be. 

Then  liuzza,  by^Eft,  hiizm,  iiusEa^  hoya  I 
Maris  j^uardfl  what  ff*cdom  did  by  charter  sain. 
Huzza,  hnzfA,  buzzn,  buxta,  bojf, 
Britanniii  itill,  Britanniii  rules  the  main. 
The  proud  sons  of  France  with  iniultinp,  hntighty  pcom, 
Had  flo  long  oppreased  thq  neigh  boy  ring  independeney. 
That  they  dainty  did  hope  their  canqneata  would  be  borue 

In  harmony  triumphant  o'er  the  aea ; 
But  Nelson  has  tau^jbt  Ibenn  iti  peala  of  British  thunder. 
To  the  Hag  of  Koyal  George  'til  their  dut|  to  kiio^lc 
under. 

For  the  h&ttle  of  the  XiTo 
Is  decisivo  of  their  spoil. 
\^Q  let  laurels)  grace  the  bosom 
Of  each  lojal  Britlah  fair 

Then  buzit,  &c. 
In  the  council  nbore  itond  ttie  Deity  of  Wart 

Determined  to  |{iv«  rnlour  due  renown  ; 
And  now  on  the  brow  of  ench  Imrdy  British  tar 

Mhftll  fleuriiili  0,  re^pleitdent  laurel  cmwti ; 
While  the  laud  trump  of  Fame,  o*er  curth  and  oeean 

Kiufidin^i 
Shalt  with  Howe,  Jervw,  Duncan,  Knd  Nclion'i  name  be 
rescmnding. 
And  the  battle  of  the  Nile 
Shall  be  foremott  on  the  file ; 


And  still  tb«  angelid  choir  shall  fbig 
The  glories  of  that  day. 

Then  hitUB,  fee. 

Then  ariie,  arisen  ye  loaa  of  mirthful  tport^ 

And  recciTa  jour  protectori  with  open  armi,  t 
And  view  ib«  spoil  he  with  hu  blciod  lm»  bought 

For  the  glory  of  tliis  happy  iile. 
A  Briti&b  Geaman's  name  hence  forward  we  shbll  kaow 
As  an  honour  to  his  friend,  and  a  terror  to  hi»  foe. 
AtthohaUleof  the^fite 
Our  children  dhali  Fmilo, 
And  to  ages  yet  uubom 
Tmnsmil  ^hjit  Kekon  *»  dan«« 

Th«n  hum,  kc." 

K,  K  D.  E, 

The  Little  Summer  (fi*  S.  ii  SSlj  477.]— 
There  ia  no  doubt  whateyer  about  the  meiuung  of 
the  Welsh  namsw  Saf  bach  Gmyl-Mihajngd  for 
Otpyl-mgdf  as  Mr,  U^tkone  writes  it)ineana  "^e 
little  Michaelmas  iummer/'  Owyl*en§d  is  a  cor- 
rupt coUoquiul  form  of  Qwyt^M^hangtl^  which,  la 
accordance  with  well-ascertained  laws  of  tnutalioti, 
became  BacceMirely  Qtrnjl-Fikangtl  (/  sounded  as 
v)^  G^i^yVikangtl^  GwyPih^Jigdj  (hpiflhengil,  and 
60inettmea  Qteykngd.  if tAati^£2=Miehael  ua- 
dergoee  precisely  the  same  changes  in  the  Joed 
name  Lhn-Fihangd^SL  Michaera  Cburchj  which 
occura  in  fieremt  places  in  the  Principality,  Oinfl 
(liko  Eng.  vigil}  is  only  the  regular  Welsh  form  d 
L.  i^igil-1%.  The  Lat  initial  v  b^x>nie3  in  Welsh 
gw,  just  as  in  some  of  the  Eomaiic«  languae^  it 
becomes  gu^  Thus,  W.  gwen^r  h  from  VrnvM, 
ventr-in  ;  W,  gictnwyti  from  L*  f^n^t-am  ;  aod 
W.  gwcrs  from  L*  versi\&.  Compare  It,  tfuadoj  Ft. 
gyU  from  L.  vadum.  ;  It.  gujiiare  from  L.  voHari, 
So  L.  rtjj^-a=^Prov,  guif^re,  Welsh  gmb^.  The 
elision  of  the  meditil  guttural  g  between  two 
vowels  is  too  eomnion  to  need  illuatration.  The 
Romance  representatives  of  the  Lat.  Ttgalis^  lifurt, 
fiHgiiBhis^  fragilisj  frigiduA^  ifcc*,  will  serve  as  ex- 
ftiiiples.  Both  the  above  changes  nppe.ar  in  It. 
gudirc  from  L.  ragin^  and  in  It.  guaint^  Fr. 
gatm^  Welsh  ^trai^r  from  L.  vagin-fk. 

Owylf  as  Mr.  Us  none  says,  means  holidflf, 
festival ;  but  its  primary  meaning  is  a  watch,  a 
vigil.  This  appears  from  the  verbs^iryJio,  giriflitd 
=to  wotchj  L  rigiitm;  and  gicyiad  (in  Sonth 
Walc8)=to  watch  a  corpse  or  a  sick  perwa,  ind 
l^cne rally  to  sit  up  at  night ;  and  from  the  nouns 
g7t*^lfa^a>  watch  ing-pliuse  or  a  watch  of  the  night, 
and  (7icy?)!&^t:=^ watch- night.  So  gtvylmabiftnt^^ 
wake^  and  the  depression  emlw  gicyl  hentan  (lit. 
to  keep  a  vigil  of  the  hob)  meanii,  to  sit  up  all 
night.  The  article  in  Good  Words  I  have  not 
seeni  and  I  cannot  see  what  connexion,  there  can 
he  between  g\vyl  and  whui^  voho^  &c.  If  nji7ta 
is  etymological ly  related  to  wh^d^  then  fo  h  g^e^l, 
but  not  otherwise,  T,  F, 

"  The  Whale's  Jubilee"  (5"»  S.  11  418)  was 
written  by  my  dear  mother  (Mm  Zonilin}  in  1806. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


While  I  fully  suWriW  to  the  justice  of  P.  P/s  re- 
rV    ''  *"  ^hm  hrochm't  amon^  the  others  nnuied^ 
fct                  X  ond  the  cupictty  of  children^  yet  the 
^   .  jieft  fire  i?o  renmrkable,  that  1  trust 
laftv  hud  u  plncc  in  "K.  &  Q/'    They  almost 
---^ ^ ft 1 mh.  whaia 


then  only  beginning  to  he  usedj  the  arms  of  the 
bishop  became  the  eventual  bearings  of  the  See, 

In  the  little  book  to  which  I  have  refen^,  but 
with  Mhich  Mil,  Mackknzjk  Walcott  does  oot 
seem   to   be  acquainted,  1   have   in   many  cu^s 


[Arme   of  English  deea.]. 


519, 


...    to  iny  Brest  vexation.      The  arriu   of 
^iGter.ln  -rhioh  both  Jfr*   Walcott  and  myself  are 
^         pea  ted, were  a  hap^y  exceDtlon.and  our   old 
friend   '•Preeter  John"  will  not  be  found    in   it^ 
Montrose.  john  Woodward, 


^ 
^ 


Kovf  ctitl^ht^ns  mankind  VfttTA^ffiibfltAnGO  mert ;    '  '  ' 

And  DO  lonijcr  of  fLntmnl  tife  to  pri'faae, 

The  mineml,  unre«Jkig,  converts  to  thut  tiae. 

It  is.  therefore,  our  ]tlenjure,  tbit  during  our  reign 

ET«ry  lifty-two  moon 8  ye  &*fletiible  again/ 

Tbi*  buppy  event  vre  thus  comnieinonite, 

8o  im;><»rtant  to  us  and  tbe  good  of  the  State. 

May  tliei«  fp]«ndid  games,  which  Balfenic  we  n&iofl, 

In  future  vurpiuu  tbe  Olympic  in  fdme ; 

And  m&y  Britain  enjoy  thiit  sweet  peace  she  h&i  gireo, 

And  itand  firni  for  ever,  the  darling  of  Heaven/' 

My  early  recollections  of  the  substitution  of  gas 
for  whale  oil  are  associated  with  the  name  of  Win- 
sor,  a  man  who  wa;*  regarded  as  a  schemer,  and 
who  induced  gcverrd  of  the  working-classes  to  take 
share;*  in  hla  patent  light  and  bent  compiiny*  I 
ahould  be  plud  to  know  at  what  date  gas-lights 
Wfire  firbt  introduced  into  our  streets  or  houses ; 
any  parti culara  as  to  Winsor  and  biB  patent, 

Z.  Z, 
f  [With  regard  to  the  ttitroduciion  of  gu,  see  an^i^  p.  4^,] 

Arms  or  E^rsListt  Seks  (5***  S,  ii.  4C2.)— In 

I  common  with  the  other  readers  of  *'N.  &  Q,,"  I 

[  have  been  bo  often  indebted  to  the  researches  of 

I  Mr.  MACKBJfZFE  Walcott,  that  it  is  a  pleasure 

I  to  me  to  be  able  to  afford  him  even  a  scrip  of 

1  information  in  return.     If  he  will  refer  to  the  slip 

of  **  Krmtura  "  inserted  at  the  end  of  the  little 

vohimt%  The  Arms  of  the  Epucopatu   of  Great 

BriUiin  and  Irfland,  emblazoned  by  Mr,  Warren, 

and  with  an  Introduction,  &c.,  by  myself,  he  will 

find  thjit  the  torteaux  in  the  arms  of  the  See  of 

I  Worcester  do   not   refer  to  any  **  HogtB^'*  m  he 

ItiAsert') ;  but  that  the  arms  o(  tliw  S;.-.^,  like  those 

I  of  the  See  of  Hereford,  are  '-  m  the  per- 

I  p^_»nri!    arrji-i   of  one   of    its   i       ^  Godfrey 

p  of  Worcester  (iiOH-1302),  wji»  a 

I   Hampshire  family  who  l>ore— Arg. 

Ilea  tcifteaujL  m  pile  ;  and,  as  diocesan  luiua  were 


conversion.  I  hope  tt  is  not  too  sadden  to  lust. 
It  is  certainly  as  decided  as  conversion  could  be. 
Only  kst  June  (see  5^^  S.  i.  450),  writing  on  the 
above  subject,  he  said,—"  In  the  crises  cit^  it  is 
sufficient  to  say  that  the  arms  of  Christ  Church, 
Ciinterbury,  and  St.  Peter's,  York,  are  not  *  palis.^ " 
He  now  "writes  (p.  462),—"  Canterbury.  An 
archiepiscoptd  pall  ....  York.    A  palJ.'* 

With  regard  to  the  arms  of  Chichester,  I  still 
prefer  to  hold  by  such  authorities  aa  Bishop 
i!tparrow  and  Peter  Heylin,  My  opinions  as  to 
Prester  John  have  undergone  no  change. 

Edmukd  Tew,  M.A. 

Gt'Ni'owoER  Plots  (5«*»  S.  ii.  361.)— J.  B.  asks, 
"  Is  there  any  instance  of  such  a  plot  being  suc- 
cessful 1  '*  Take  the  following  account  to  be  found 
in  **  The  History  of  (he  Barbarous  Cruelties  and 
Mfifsacrc^  CommiUcd  by  the  Dutcfi  in  t/uj  East 
Tnilia,  By  R.  Hall,  B.D,,  formerly  of  Queen's 
CoUedge,  Oxon.  London  and  Westminster, 
MDCcxiL,*'  p.  142: — 

**  Soon  after  tbis  a  great  piece  of  Hoguery  was  ^^'IT'd 
on  at  DanLam,  which  unhappilf  provM  fuoccfsful.  The 
Dutch  bad  there,  under  one  of  the  Ba^ttiona,  a  f^rcat 
Magazine  of  Powder,  and  they  bad  unfortunately  at 
that  Time  above  a  Hundred  Tun  of  it  in  tlieir  Mngadn^. 
A  Javian  undertook  to  get  in  by  brtakinif  of  the  waU, 
which  he  wa*  forced  to  do  by  digging  a  way  under  ground 
quite  to  the  «Jc  of  iL  £vcry  Day  be  r'  -  •  —>  the 
£;ntrai>ce  into  his  Hole  with  Earth,  ao  r  i  ud 

so  aoftly  that  no  one  perceiv'd  it.  and  tl  i  «if 

the  two  Centineie  that  etood  on  the  Da^tiuji  hciird  tbo 
leajst  Noiec  at  any  time.  Wlien  he  wa*  Rot  in,  be  Uxik 
a  Bamboo  Cnne  that  wan  hftllow,  and  fiird  it  with  Gun- 
powder, lighted  it  at  one  End,  and  the  Fire  coming  to 
iht  Powder  h\  the  fntie  ffftve  n  prfnt  Blow,  with  »oido 
FliL  '  imf  t"C  pf««««l. 

Til  vent  to  tearvU 

evLi,  ....     .    .-     ,..  ,    .  ..  ^,,  ......    Lie  matter  w»a» 

and  there  the  Bamboo  Cane  was  fonad^  and  the  Powder 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


l5»aiL0«^fil'AL 


"Hognieim"  are  p:iven,  and  the  latter  of  tbcse 
finds  a  pkce  in  H;dli well's  Archaic  IHctionarij. 
H.  C  B.  will  find  five  different  derivutions  j:iven 
in  Chambers's  Book  of  Days,  viil  of  wjtlcli 
once  out  of  count  if    "  "" 


And  still  the  an|?€lio  choir  ihiiJl  ting 
Tho  j^lorka  of  tliat  dny 


xiw  text  L  seaa  is,  l  am  pretty  sure,  a  cor- 
rupt one.  I  have  seen  the  song  within  the  hist  fifteen 
years  exhibited  for  sale,  in  the  fomi  of  a  broadHide, 
at  Hullj  and  there  is  a  copy  in  a  chap-book  in  the 
British  Museum  (1077  g.  47/19),  but  both  the^e 
are  in  a  worse  etatc  than  the  following.  Ajb  to  its 
authorship,  I  know  nothin^r  ;^ 

"  Anse,  tLT\ae,  Briknnnia'a  mna  lirise, 

And  join  in  the  shouts  of  the  patriotic  throng; 
Ari»e«  arise,  Britannia's  Bona  arise, 

And  let  the  Heavens  echo  with  your  »ong. 
For  tho  genius  of  Albion^  victory  procUttning, 
Fliee  through  the  world,  our  laws  and  rights  m^ntikLnhiig. 

And  the  hattle  of  the  Nile 

Ift  the  foremost  on  the  file» 

And  Nebon,  gftiknt  Nelson's  name. 

Applauded  shall  he. 

Then  huzza^  hu»a,  huxxa,  huEEQ,  boyt  I 
Mars  gruarda  what  freedom  did  by  charter  gam. 
Huzza,  huxza,  buEza,  huzza,  boy  a, 
Briiannia  sUll,  Britanuta  rules  the  main* 

The  proud  fonts  of  France  with  ineultuiCt  bsuffbty  F^om, 

Had  so  long  oppressed  tho  neighbouring  tridependencj. 

That  they  Tuinly  did  hope  their  conquests  would  be  borne 

In  harmony  triumphant  o'er  the  sea : 
But  Nelson  has  taught  them,  in  peals  of  British  thunder^ 
To  the  flag  of  Royal  George  His  their  duty  to  knock 
under. 
For  the  battle  of  the  Nile 
ts  decisive  of  their  itpoiL 
So  let  laurels  grace  the  bosom 
Of  each  loyal  British  fair. 

Then  huzsa,  kc* 

In  the  council  above  stood  the  Deity  of  War, 

Determined  to  Rite  Talour  due  renown  ; 
And  now  on  the  brow  of  each  hardy  British  tar 

Shttll  flourish  ft  resplendent  biuret  crown  ; 
While  the  loud  trump  of  Fame,  o'er  earth  and  ocean 

sounding, 
Shall  wUh  uowe^  Jerrit,  Daocanj  and  Nelson's  name  bo 
resounding. 
And  the  battle  of  the  Nile 
£lhali  be  foremost  on  tho  file ; 


V),   "■■-'■'•'■ ""'      '■". .; 

sotiii  ■  ■/'-/•        Ml/. 

der-;'_-t.....    ,  :''l^"'  '^i-riu--   ■ 

name  LI" 

occurs  in    _        ^ 

(like  Eng.  vifjxi)  is  only  t 

L.  riyil-iiu    The  Lat.  iir 

ffw^  just  as  in  some  of  the  Iviituiocv  luogu 

becomes  gu.      Thu»»  W.  Qmaitr   h   froin 

verur-iB  ;  W.  gmentt^yn  from   L. 

W,  gfttVT^  from  L.  versus.     Coinpu 

gu^  from  L.  vadurn  ;  It.  guMtare  t 

So  h.  vipcra^Vroy.  guirre^  Wei 

elision  of    the    medial   guttural 

vowels  is  too  common  to  need  ill 

Romance  representatives  of  the  L j 

angmlns,  fratjilU,  frigidui,  &c.,  ' 

uruplea.     Both  the  above  changtc  .41-- 

(juairt    from   L.   vagirt,  and    in   It,   gtuiin^ 

fjatne^  Welsh  g\m%n  from  L.  vugin-a, 

Ginjl,  as  Mr.    Unxonk:   says,  meana   hoUd 

festival;  but  its  primary  meaninu^  Is  :i  wnti* 

vigil,     This  appears  from  the  verl 

=to  watch,  L.   rigitare;    and  ;r 

W*des)=to  watch  a  corpse  or  a 

generally  to  sit  up  at  night  j  and 

giQylfa^^  watch ing-plaoe  or  a  vfui 

ond   £^tri/^no«=watch'night.     S<» 

wake,  and  the  expression  r.   ' 

to  keep  a  vigil  of  the  hob 

night.      The  article  in  OoOit    M 

seen,  and  I  ctmnot  see  wh:it  con  > 

be  between  giryl  and   whftl^  voho,  ^  ^ 

is  etymologiciJly  related  to  trhtd^  then  »  w  f€i^ 

but  not  otherwise^  T.  P%  1 

"Toe  WHAtK*9  JcBiLSB**  (5««  SL  ij.  Al^\ 
written  by  my  dear  mother  (Mra.  Zomlta)  in  18 


»fl.  n.  Dbc.26,'71J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


519 


IWliile  I  fully  eui  iRcribe  to  the  justice  of  P.  P/s  re- 

m-k  a^  ia  this  brochure  amon^  the  others  named, 

yond  the  capacity  of  childfen,  yet  the 

lea  «re  so  rrin.irkablej  that  I  trust 

nriy  njui  a  plncc  in  "  K,  (&  Q-"     They  almost 

le  the  chamcter  of  a  prophecy.     The  whale 

Llt8  :— 

•*  Tbe  cause  of  these  rcrela,  this  feastinjr,  thii  mirtli, 
U  n  I  <  1.  f-  I  .frwcen  ua  auil  the  bold  eons  of  earth, 
F:  I  t)ie  ^4a[)tty  inteUi^ence  came ; 

Ft  th^  effat.  "f  tnfth,  banour,  nnd  fame. 

H  "     ulo  the  great  deep, 

4/  keep. 

^<  liows  be  dyed, 

Kor  Ijis  constirt,  hi*  cliiMren,  be  torm  from  hiB  aidej; 
Ko  mure  shnll  ho  struggle  with  unequal  foed, 
But  itll  Nature'i  U^t  suramon«j,  iti  plenty  repose* 
Hnr|KKiT)»,  our  greAt  dread,  shall  to  plougbflhares  be 

changed. 
And  mun  Irom  the  traffic  of  Mubber  estranged ; 
Por»  t*j  guide  him  tio  more  through  the  dark  wintry 

night, 
Will  he  draw  from  our  life  blood  the  pure  rajiof  light. 
A  tnort.K  in  art*  and  in  science  expert, 
jV"  ns  inaiikiod  with  £l  Aubstarice  inert; 

At  .  of  nniiuni  life  «o  prt'fuse, 

Ti  uufeelitig,  converts  to  that  use. 

Jt  0,  our  pieaBure,  thnt  during  our  reign 

£v  vo  moons  ye  a«Bemblo  again/ 

Thb  lifi;']^)  event  we  thus  commemorate, 
t$o  inipuriant  to  us  and  the  g'ood  of  the  State. 
May  these  Bplendid  games,  which  Balfcmc  vre  name. 
In  future  gurpoin  the  Olympic  in  fame; 
And  may  Britain  ciyoy  thnt  sweet  peace  ahe  has  giren. 
And  tt&nd  firm  for  efcr,  the  darling  of  HeaTen.** 

My  eivrly  recollections  of  the  siibsititutioii  of  gas 
^h.'ile  oil  are  uasociivted  with  the  name  of  Win- 
or*  a  iimti  who  was  regarded  as  a  scheme r,  and 
tl  of  the  working-classes  to  take 
it  light  and  heat  company^     I 
uKi  .  <    -uui  u>  know  at  what  date  gas-lights 
rere  first  introduced  into  our  streets  or  houses  ; 
>  Any  particiilurs  as  to  Winsor  and  his  patent, 
^  Z,  Z. 

(  regurd  to  the  introduction  of  gas,  see  ante,  p.  460] 

Arms  op  EjJOLisri  Sees  (5**»  S.  ii.  462.)— In 
?^miiion  with   the  other  readers  of  **N.  &  Q,/'  I 
xt  been  so  often  indebted  to  the  researches  of 
R.  Mackejjzik  Walcotf,  that  it  is  a  pleasure 
me  to  be  able  to  afford  him  eren  a  scrap  of 
Informiition  in  return .     If  he  will  refer  to  the  slip 
f  **  Erratum  '*  inserted  at  the  end  of  the  little 
nme,  The  Anns  of  the  EinscopaUit  of  Great 
■ritain  and  [rdami^  ^mhUzomd  by  Mr.  Warren, 
trith  an  Introduction,  &c,,  by  myself,  he  will 
thut  the  torteaux  in  the  arms  of  the  See  of 
t>er  do   not  refer  to  any  *'  Hoists,^  aa  he 
bat  that  the  arma  of  this  See,  like  those 
of  Hereford,  are  derived  from  the  per- 
is  of  one  of   its  occupants.      Godfrey 
i&hop  of  Worcester  (1208-1302),  w:\9  a 
rmber  of  a  Uampshire  family  who  bore — Arg. 
tc*rteaiix  in  pile  ;  and,  as  diocesan  anus  were 


then  only  beginning  to  be  used,  the  arms  of  the 
bishop  be  Clime  the  eventual  bearings  of  the  See. 

In  the  little  book  to  which  I  have  referred,  but 
with  which  Mft.  Mackenzie  Walcott  does  not 
seem  to  be  acquainted,  I  have  in  many  cases 
traced  the  connexion  between  the  dedication  of 
the  Cuthedral  and  the  arms  of  the  See  ;  and  the 
greater  part  of  the  infonnation  conUiined  in  his 
contribution  wili  be  found  printed  there.  It  is 
perhaps  right  that  I  should  disclaim  responsibility 
for  the  blazoning.  About  this  I  took  gi-eat  pains^ 
but  my  MS.  was  subjected  to  **profea.sioQiil" 
revision,  and  the  result  was  that  the  cdd  errors  of 
bhii!oning  tmd  of  punctuation,  which  I  had  care- 
fully avoided,  again  appeared  in  iieveral  instances, 


I  heartily  congratulate  Mr.  Walcott  on  his 
conversion.  I  hope  it  is  not  too  sudden  to  lastw 
It  is  certainly  as  decided  aa  conversion  c^uld  be. 
Only  last  June  (see  5^  S.  L  450),  writing  on  the 
above  subject,  he  said, — ^"  In  the  cases  cited  it  is 
sufficient  to  say  that  the  arms  of  Clirist  Church, 
CanterbuT}%  and  St.  Peter's,  York, are  not  spalls.'" 
He  now  writes  (p.  4t)2), — **  Canterbury.  An 
archiepiscopal  pall.  ....  York.     A  pill." 

With  regard  to  the  arms  of  Chichester,  I  still 
prefer  to  hold  by  auch  authorities  as  Bishop 
Sparrow  and  Peter  Heylin.  My  opinions  as  to 
Prester  John  have  undergone  no  change* 

Edmckd  Tew,  M.A. 

Gl-npowber  Plots  (!y^  S.  ii.  361.)— J.  B.  askfi, 
"Is  there  any  instance  of  such  a  plot  being  suc- 
cessful ? "  Take  the  following  account  to  be  found 
in  **  The  JliMory  of  the  Barbarous  Cruelties  and 
MiumcrnJi  Committed  by  th^  Dutch  in  tJie  East 
Indies.  By  R.  Hall,  B.D.,  fcirmerly  of  Queen's 
Colledge,  Oxon.  Loudon  and  Westminster, 
MDCcxu.,"  p.  142: — 

*•  Soon  after  this  n  grent  piece  of  Roguery  if  as  carry'd 
on  jit  Dan  lam,  which  unhappily  prov'd  Hiiccea»ftih  The 
Dutch  had  there,  under  one  of  the  Bui^tions,  a  great 
Muj^nzine  of  Powder,  and  they  hA<l  unfortunately  at 
thfvt  Time  above  a  Hundred  Tun  of  it  in  their  Mttgaxtne* 
A  Javtan  undertook  to  j;et  in  by  breaking  of  the  wall, 
which  he  was  forced  to  do  bv  digging:  a  way  under  ground 
quite  to  the  bide  of  it,  fivery  I»ay  he  closed  up  the 
Entrfti.ce  into  his  Hole  ^^itli  Earth,  bo  artificially  and 
BO  softly  that  no  one  perceived  it,  and  thai  neither  of 
the  two  Oentinels  that  stood  on  the  EJastiou  heard  the 
least  Noi&e  at  any  time.  When  he  was  i;ot  in,  he  took 
a  Bamboo  Cane  that  was  hnlJow,  and  fiird  it  with  Oua* 
powder,  lighted  it  at  one  End,  and  the  Fire  coming  to 
the  Powder  in  the  Cane  Rave  a  great  Blow,  with  *omc 
Flame,  without  dntng  anv  further  Harm  for  the  prefent. 
Thii  alnrnrd  all  the  People^  who  presently  went  to  fcarch 
every  Comer  of  the  Bastion  to  see  what  the  matter  was, 
and  there  the  Daiuboo  Cane  was  founds  and  the  Powder 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*^8.  II.  Dia  SB,  74. 


that  was  in  it  was  consiini'd.  But  no  sooner  had  they 
opened  the  Vault  Door,  but  the  Wind  finding  a  free 
Passage,  took  some  Imparks  of  Fire  along  vrith  it,  which 
lighted  amon^  the  Powder,  and  in  an  instant  eet  that 
on  Fire,  and  blew  up  tlie  whole  Bastion  with  sixteen 
pieces  of  Cannon,  and  above  Two  Hundred  People." 

So  far  the  plot  was  as  successful  as  the  peri^e- 
trators  could  have  desired,  but  the  consequences 
to  them  were  far  from  satisfactory  : — 

"An  Account  of  this  Accident  was  quickly  sent  to 
the  General  at  Batavia,  who  presently  sent  Men  thither, 
with  orders  to  the  Govtrnour,  and  to  the  Young  King, 
to  make  a  diligent  Enquiry  after  the  Projectors  of  this 
Villany;  And  in  a  short  time  three  Javians  were  dis- 
covered to  be  the  Men ;  who  were  brought  bound  to 
Batavia,  and  confessed  that  they  were  the  only  Contrivers 
of  that  Action;  upon  which  they  were  all  Three  con- 
demned to  die.  -     .         -.         .  '  ^\  r 


Thus  was  this  successful  powder-plot  avenged. 

W.   J.   BER2IHARD  SmITIL 

Temple. 

"Party"  (5«»  S.  ii.  346.)— Mr.  Fergusson 
need  have  felt  no  surprise  at  the  use  of  "  party  " 
in  the  sense  of  person,  by  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots. 
It  was  commonly  so  used  in  her  time.  He  will 
find  it  in  the  apocryphal  Book  of  Tobit, — "  and 
the  party  shall  be  no  more  vexed," — and  I  can 
furnish  him  with  another  unpublished  instance, 
date  1537.  John  Husee  writes  to  his  mistress, 
Honor,  Viscountess  Lisle,  from  London,  June  17, 
concerning  the  projected  marriage  of  her  son, 
John  Basset,  with  her  step-daughter,  Lady  Frances 
Plantagenct : — 

"Touching  the  matter  ye  willed  me  to  move  for,  there 
is  no  remedy,  she  (Eleanor,  Countess  of  Rutland)  thinks, 
but  the  party  must  lose  her  estate,  and  take  the  degree 
of  her  wedlock ;  howbcit  within  v  days  the  King  of 
Heraulds  hath  promised  me  to  shew  me  the  verrey 
trywt." — Lisle  Papers,  vol.  xi.,  art.  51. 

The  King  of  Heralds  was  of  the  opposite  opinion  : 
"That  the  woman  shall  never  lose  no  parte  of  her 
degree,  but  shall  always  be  taken  as  iier  father's 
daughter ;  and  if  need  bo  I  can  have  both  tbeir  seals 
and  hands."— /6.,  June  23,  vol.  xi.,  art.  100. 

Hermentrude. 

The  use  of"  party"  in  the  sense  of  an  individual 
is  by  no  means  uncommon  in  old  writers,  as  the 
following  instances,  which  might  easily  "be  nmlti- 
plied,  will  show  :— 

**Fnl.  Who's  that?  look  Galla. 
Oal.  'Tis  the  party,  madam. 
Ful.  What  party  1  has  he  no  name  ? 
Gal.  'Tis  Quintus  Curius." 

Ben  Jonson,  Catiline,  act  ii.  sc.  1. 

"  Had  it  been  foretold  that  one  Simon  should  have 
carried  Christ's  cross,  and  had  one  heard  Simon  Peter 
30  latelj,  BO  solemDly,  promising,  though  I  should  die 


with  thee,  yet  1  will  not  deny  thee,  he  would  haieehaTi 
certainly  concluded  him  the  party  for  thai  ■ernee." 
Fuller's  Pitffak  JSiffhl,  iiL  844. 

In  the  Index  Yerborum  to  Mr.  Bailey*8  valuable 
life  of  Fuller,  recently  pnblished,  there  are  three 
references  to  the  word  in  this  signification^  Ibe 
first  occurring  in  the  Triple  Reconciles,  the  second 
in  one  of  Fuller's  Sermons,  and  the  third  in  a 
letter  from  Dr.  Ward  to  Archbishop  Ussher.  See 
also  Fullers  Holy  State,  p.  164,  and  Bishop  An- 
drewes*s  Sermons  (Ang.-Cath.  Lib-X  vol.  iii.,  p.  50. 
T.  Lewis  0.  Davies. 

Pear  Tree  Vicarage,  Southampton. 

See  "  N.  &  Q.»  3«»  S.  iii.  427, 460 ;  xiL  365, 424 ; 
4"»  S.  i.  39,  87,  159,  208,  326,  450 ;  and  ii.  206. 
The  following  passages  have  not  yet  been  noticed. 
In  "  The  Complaynt  of  Philomtnc  An  Flegye 
compyled  by  George  Gascoigne,  Esq'."  Written 
about  15C3  (see  Arber's  reprint  TJie  Steele  Glat, 
&c.,  114);— 

"  Eir  next  most  note  (to  note) 
I  neede  no  helpe  at  al. 
For  I  myself  the  partie  am 
On  whom  she  then  doth  calL*' 

In  Morels  Utopia  the  word  occurs  seven  timef 
in  this  sense  (Arbor's  reprint,  81, 123, 124, 125):- 

"  But  if  tke  same  partis  be  taken  eftsones  in  that  fad 
there  is  no  other  iraye  but  death  "  (p.  125). 

It  also  occurs  in  The  Revelation  of  the  Monk  o 
Evesham^  printed  about  1482  : — 

"  Loo  Sonne  he  seyde  now  a  party  aftyr  they  [thv] 
peticion  and  grete  desir  thow  haste  seyne  and  beboUt 
the  state  of  the  worlde,"  &c.  (p.  109). 

T.   M  AGO  RATH. 

The  use  of  "  party  "  for  "  person  or  individnal* 
is  not  a  very  modern  vulgarity.  We  find  instance! 
of  it  in  Shakspeare : — 

".  .  . .  but  I  would  not  be  the  party  that  should  dean 
jou  to  touch  him." — Antony  and  Cleopatra,  r.  2, 249. 
" . .  . .  Canst  thou  bring  me  to  the  party]  " 
Tempest,  iii.  2,  67. 
"  The  party  is  gone,  fellow  Hector,  she  is  f:one." 

Love's  Labour  *t  LoU,  v.  2,  67S. 
"  Why,  who  cries  out  en  pride 
That  cuu  therein  tax  any  private  party  ?  *' 
As  1  01*  Like  It,  ii.  7,  71. 

The  first  three  of  the  above  quotations,  it  will 
be  observed,  are  put  into  the  mouths  of  vulgar 
characters.  Jacques  uses  the  word  prop^y, 
having  in  his  mind  the  opposition  of  the  accuser 
to  the  accused.  In  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots'  letter 
there  seems  to  me  to  be  the  same  under-sense  of 
opposition  between  thctwojparties  to  the  marriage. 

John  Addis. 

This  senseless  and  utterly  inaccurate  vulgarism, 
used  now,  one  is  sorry  to  note,  by  here  and  there 
an  educated  gentleman,  may  have  arisen  from  the 
French  parti, "  an  eligible  party,"  being  equivalent 
to  a  parti  sortablc,  or  a  *^  good  match."  As  a  ma- 
trimonial expression,  if  only  the  French  word  |Kirii 


«»  &  II.  Deo.  26, 71.J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


521 


were  used  instead  of  the  English  quasi-sLing  word 
"  party,"  it  passes  muster,  and  the  "  na  mrty  in 
maieai^e  "  of  the  Inveraiy  letter  of  Mary,  Queen  of 
Soota  u  traceable,  no  doubt,  to  her  Sooto-French 

K  Jakes. 


or  moralist,  whether  we  view  his  character  as  a 
courtier  in  times  of  prosperity,  or  as  a  wanderer 
in  dark  and  troublous  times.  Below,  I  append 
notes  of  a  few  editions  which  I  have  only  met  with 
recently,  otherwise  Mr.  Bailey  would  have  had 
them  placed  at  his  disposal : — 

"Antt-psedol»a|itism,  or  the  Second  Part 

■  putc  concerning  Infant- 

'inBt  Infant-Bap- 

'^       '  Mr. 


amis 


The  Long  Parliament  (6^  S.  iL  428.)— The 
book  Olphar  Haxst  inquires  after  \a**Le  Long 
FarUmmt  U  se§  Crimes,  rapprochements  faciles  & 
faiin,  Paris,  de  rimprinierie  d'un  Royoliste, 
1790.''  The  author  was  Angdlique  Marie  Darlua 
du  Taillis,  Comtesse  de  Montrond,  the  mother 
of  Casimir  de  Montrond  (the  intimate  friend  of 
Talleyrand,  and  the  person  referred  to  in  Raike8*B 
Journal)  and  of  his  elder  brother,  £douard  de 
Montrond.  Le  Long  Parlement  is  described  in 
the  new  edition  of  Barbier  {Dictionnaire  des  Ouv- 
rages  AnonymeSy  vol.  ii.  p.  1342),  the  Biographic 
Universelle  (art.  "Montrond"),  and  Notices  tt 
Observations  h  VOccasion  dc  qndmus  Femnus  d4i 
la  Socicti  du  XVI IP  Silcle,  by  M.  Hippolyte  de 
la  Porte.  M.  de  la  Porte  was  the  author  of  the 
notice  of  Madame  de  Ililontrond  in  the  Biographic 
UnivcrscUc.  R.  C.  Christie. 

Manohester. 

Thomas  Fuller  (5»^  S.  ii.  31R.)— After  the  very 
handsome  manner  in  which  Mr.  Bailey  has  recoj^- 
nizcd  all  who  have  rendered  him  ser>'ice  in  hi? 
work,  I  hope  every  collector  will  endeavour  to 
find  existinj;  copies  of  the  editions  of  Fuller's 
works  which  Mr.  Bailey  lins  referred  to,  but  with 
wbich  he  has  been  at  present  unable  to  meet. 
Then  wo  shall  have  a  complete  bibliography  of 
the  works  of  a  man  who  was  an  ornament  of  his 
age,  whether  we  consider  him  as  historian,  preacher, 


Northampton. 

BoBEBT  Herrxck'b  Yerbbs  (6*^  S.  iL  32a>~ 
Protestant  in  the  second  line  of  ''To  Anthea"  is 
evidently  used  in  strict  accordance  with  its  Latin 
root  meaning,  to  speak  as  a  witness,  to  moke 
known,  to  declare,  &c.  So  that  the  poet  here 
means,  that  if  Anthea  bid  him  to  live,  he  will  do 
so,  and  protest  or  make  known  her  many  adorable 
qualities,  and  how  worthy  she  is  to  be  loved. 

B.  B. 

Boston. 

Does  it  mean  any  more  than  that  if  "bid  to  live," 
he  would  continue  to  protest,  that  is,  to  give  repeated 
assurances  of  his  love  and  devotion,  even  if  his  lovo 
should  not  be  returned  ]  W.  E.  Buckley. 

Probably,  he  simply  means  that  he  will  be  her 
devotee,  will  "  protest "  in  her  defence  if  necessary, 
and  "  protest "  Jiis  love  for  her  to  herself  and  eVeiy- 
body  else  too.  0.  I),  shouhl  have  given  either  a 
reference  or  the  full  title  of  the  song,  which  is  To 
Anth'.a,  v'ho  may  command  him  anything,  I 
looked  at  To  Anthea  lying  in  bed,  and  ever  so 
many  more  "  To  Antheas,"  before  I  could  find  the 
right  one.  May  I  be  allowed  also  to  ask  why 
things  never  "  begin"  now-a-days  1  Commence  is 
a  most  hideous  word,  always  bad,  but  worst  of  all 
when  men  commence  to  do  a  thing.    It  is  mack 


520 


NOTKS  AND  QUERIES. 


[5-^3,11,  Die  »,7C  I 


tbat  wjis  in  it  vms  con«um*d.  Dut  no  aooiitr  !md  they 
<ipeti*d  the  Vault  Donr,  hut  tVie  Wind  findiitg^  h  free 
Pfts^go^  took  som«  J^pttrks  of  Fire  along  with  it,  whicli 
lighitrti  lauonjc  the  Towdcr,  itnd  In  an  aiati^fjt  set  thiit 
OD  Fire,  and  blew  uji  the  whole  B:istton  vrith  Esi^^tcfn 
pieoes  of  Cannon,  undf  above  Two  Huiulrcd  People." 

So  far  the  plot  was  ns  sacecssful  as  the  |>cq>e- 
tmtoni  could  have  desired,  but  the  conse<|ucuccs 

&20. 


With  thee,  yet  I  vriU  not  deny  lhee>  he  yron" 
ocrtainlj  concluded  Mm  thcptrtv 
FuUerd  / 

Iq  the  Index  Ver^ 
life  of  Fuller,  recen" 
references  to  the  w*  ;  i   in    r; 
lirit  t>ccurring  in  the  IVjpIe  i! 
in _^ one  pf^FiiUer's  ist^vmou^  nut   luc- 


b  U  L  .t  i^      LU. 


[Gunpowder  PlDts.]-** 

.•.He    that  had  «et  fire  to   the  Cane  waa 
brought  upon  a  scaffold  erected  for  that  p\^  ^, 

and  there  pinch 'd  ^ith  red  hot  tonga  from  t 
ing  till  to'jvarda  the  Evening,  at  which  tlm©  »i« 
cut  into  quarters,  eo  that  the  Day  wan  apent  In 
turing  of  that  Fellow  only^  T>ie  next  day  the  eecc 
was  served  in  like  manner;  and  the  Third  waa  broke 
upon   the  Wheel.  *•  -  -  • 


^te  pnrtj  shall  be  no  more  vexed/' — and  I  can 
ftiniLah  him  with  another  unpublished  iust^inco, 
date  1537*  John  Husee  writes  to  his  mifitress, 
Honor,  Yiscounte^  Lisle,  from  London,  June  17, 
concerning  tho  projected  marriage  of  her  eon, 
John  Basset,  with  her  step-daughter,  La-dj  Frances 
Plantagenet  :■ — 

"Totiching  tho  matter  ye  willed  me  to  more  for.  there 
h  no  remedy,  she  (Eleanor,  Countess  of  Hutlund)  thlaks, 
but  tho  piirty  most  loe«  her  estate,  and  take  tho  degree 
of  her  weillock ;  howheit  within  t  days  the  King  of 
Heraulds  hath  promised  me  to  ehew  me  ilte  verrey 
trywt/' — Lui€  Papers,  voL  li.,  art.  51, 

The  King  of  Heralds  was  of  tlie  opposite  opinion  ; 
**That  the  woman  shall  never  lose  no  parte  of  Ijcr 
degree,  but  shall  ahsava  be  taken  as  her  fathe/e 
daughter ;  and  if  need  be  I  can  have  both  their  aeala 
and  haiida/*—/6,,  June  23,  vol.  li.,  art.  lOO. 

Hermentrude, 

The  036  of  "party  *^  in  the  «eii«e  of  an  individual 
18  by  no  means  uncommon  in  old  writers,  as  the 
following  instances,  which  might  eaaily  te  muhi- 
plied,  will  show  : — 

"  FtiL  Who*s  thati  look  Oalla. 
Gal.  'TU  the  party,  inadam. 
/\J,  Whut  party  1  has  he  no  name  ? 
GaL  'Ti*  Quititu*  Curium/' 

Ben  Jonvon,  Catiline,  act  ii  9c,  1. 

"  Hod  it  been  foretold  that  one  Simon  ihould  have 
carried  Chriet'«  cros«^  and  had  one  heard  Simon  Peter 
so  hkt^lj,  io  aolotunly,  promising,  iUoujU  I  should  die 


*' Loo  ionnf}  he  acyde  nw«  ,z  ^^m  y  uj^yr  xm-y  ( 
pi^ticion  and  grete  de«ir  thow  hnste  teytui  and  bew2 
the  Btate  of  tlie  worlde,'*  &c  t^.  lOi*). 

T.  Mao^iutii. 

The  nsc  of  "  party  **  for  "  pinion  or  indidtlini* 
ig  not  ft  very  modern  rulgarity-    Wc  find  ia 
of  it  in  ShaltPpcare  :— 

**..,.  but  I  would  not  be  the  ] 
you  to  touch  hvin." — Antony  atui  ^ 

**,.,,  C?anet  thou  bring  ao  to  the  }»mi'mj  1 " 
Ttmpuft,  iii.  a,  Ii7. 
"  The  party  in  grone,  fellow  ITectof,  abc  if  % 
Loft't  Lahoar  'j  Lati,  ▼♦  2»  f 
**  Why.  whocriis  <?""    •■  ■•*    ?- 
That  CikU  there ]■ 
J 

The  first  three  of  the  abo\ 
be  obsjcrved,  are  put  into  th* 
charactei^.      Jacques    uses    thv 
having  in  his  mind  the  opj>i>^itioTi 
to  the  accusetL     In  M>r 
there  seems  to  me  to  l»e 
opposition  between  the  iwo^attu^ 

This  senseless  and  utt* 
U5ed  now,  one  is  FCTrrr  t 
an  educated  g^  t 
French  pnrfi,  *' 
to  a  pari) 
trimonial  l 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


521 


I 


were  ased  instead  of  the  Etjglisli  quftai-slang  word 
'*  IJartj,"  it  1%'isses  muster,  mid  the  **  na  jmrty  ia 
marcfl^'o  "  of  the  Inveranr  letter  of  Mary^  Queon  of 
Scots  IB  tr.iceitble,  no  doubt,  to  her  Scoto-FrcDch 
chftRicter  and  connexioD.  S.  B.  Jajues. 

NorthmorftoQ. 

kn  earlier  uso  of  the  word  **  party,"  to  fii;a:nify 
an  individuttl^  than  that  recorded  by  Mr,  Fer- 
arssuN  (15G3)  ia  to  be  found  in  the  Prayer  Book. 
It  is  ia  one  of  the  rubrics  before  the  ofiice  for 
Holy  Cunmiunion :  "  K  one  of  the  pju-tic^i  so  at 
Tarianco,'^  iS:c. ;  and,  again,  *'  the  other  party  wiU 
not  be  pei^uaded  to  a  godly  unity,-  <S:c.  The 
same  expression  occurs  in  the  books  of  1549  and 
lfi5i\  W.  D.  Sweeting. 

Potcrboroijgh. 

Many  instances  might  be  giren  of  the  nse  by 
our  old  writers  of  this  word  in  the  sense  of  "person." 
Take  as  one  exainple  the  following  passage  from 
BeaXLmont  and  Fletcher  :— 

"Cfera.  ....  YcB'fiiith; 
My  brother  will  be  here  straightway,  mud — 

Franl.   Whtttl 

Cfora.  The  other  »aHy.    Ha,  ha,  ha? 

rrank.  Whht  party  f" 

Th4  Captain^  Act  iii  sc  8, 
Clnm  then  explains  that  the  "  party  '^  in  question 
ti  Jacomo.     Might  not  one  imagine  that  one  was 
listening  to  a  **  slangy  '*  young  lady  of  the  present 
day?  ^liDDLE  Templap.. 

The  Long  Parliament  (6"»  S.  ii  4280— The 
book  Olphar  Hamst  inquires  after  ia  **  Lc  Lontf 
FarUmmt  tt  *e«  Crime  '  '     '      '     r> 

I  fct\r€.       Paris,   de  I'lr 

1790.-*      The   author  Waa    xVii;.Hni|yf-  .u;uih  LMrilis 

du    Taillie,  Comtesae  de  Montrond,  tlie   mother 

(  of  CuMtiuir  de  Montrond  (the  intimate  friend  of 
TallevTiind*  and  the  pernon  referred  to  in  Raikcs'a 
JoMrrtoI)  and  of  his  eblor  brother,  Edouard  de 
Montfond,  Lc  Lcmg  Parhmoit  is  described  in 
the  new  edition  of  Bjirbier  (Didionnaire  d^is  Ouv- 

\  TQ^es  Anonxfme^^  vol.  iL  p»  1342),  the  B i ly f rapine 
UnivcrulU  (art.  "Montrond  ' ),  and  Notices  tt 
Ohserttttions  ct  VOccasion  de  tpteimies  Fcmnuji  dc 

I  ia  Si)c\/U  du  XVI IP  Sikh,  by  M.  Hippolyte  de 
bi  Porte.     M.  de  h\  Porte  wa-s  the  author  of  the 

^notice  of  Madame  de  Montrond  in  the  Biof^aphu 
tircrsdU,  K.  C.  Christie. 

noheeter. 

TitoitAS  FcLLF.K  (5*^  S.  il  31 R.)— After  the  very 

bnndsonie  manner  in  which  Mt.  Bailey  has  recog- 

kAized  all  who  ha\'o  rendere<l  him  service  in  liis 

*Wf>rk,    I   li'^pf?  t^vrrr  f^^IIr^tnr  will   endeavour  to 

'  ions   of  Fullers 

red  to,  but  with 
. whiih  he  ha-.  Itcu  ut  pit^vat  Unable  to  met-t, 
LTbrn  wr  j-hall  have  a  complete  bibboji^vphv  of 
I  worki  of  a  mun  who  wai«  an  ornament  of  Ins 
iTiirliethcr  we  conaidcr  him  as  historian,  preacher, 


or  moralist,  whether  we  yiew  his  character  as  a 
courtier  in  times  of  prosperity,  or  as  a  wanderer 
in  dark  and  troublous  times.  Below,  I  append 
notes  of  a  few  editions  wliich  I  have  only  met  with 
recently,  otherwise  Mr.  Bailey  would  have  had 
them  placed  at  his  disposal : — 

(P.  521).  "  AQtupajdobaptina,  or  the  Second  Part 
of  the  full  Ecviciv  of  tho  Dbpute  concenitnz  Iafiuit« 
Bafitism.  . . ,  .  and  the  Argument  ftgainit  Infant- Bap- 

tiara mftde  g^od  a^nsfe  the  WritingB  of.  ...  .  Mr. 

Thomiui  Fulkr  tLud  others.  By  John  Tombes,  B.D. 
London  :  Printed  by  Henry  HiUi KOotiv." 

(P,  521),  •*  Anti  ]neile»!>iiptiBin  ;  or  tho  Third  Part, 
Bemjf  ti  fall  Review  of  the  Dijspate  conceming  Inf*nt- 
Btiptiflm.  In  which  ....  the  Writing!  of . .  * .  Mr. 
Tbomt«  Fuller  ....  and  others,  nre  Gxamined.  ....  By 
John  Tomb«f,  B.D.  London  :  Printed  by  E.  Aalop.  . ,  . 
l(iZ»7.     Brit.  Mua.,  4323  bb/' 

(P.  7 13).  ••  Anjilorum  Speculum,  or  the  Worthies  of 
England,  in  Church  and  Stat^,  London :  Printed  for 
Thomo-s  Paaain^cr 168L     Brit.  Mus.  276  h  25.'* 

(P.  753).  "  The  Sermons  of  Mr.  Henry  Smith. .  . .  And 

tho  Life By  Tho.  Fuller,  B.D.  London  :  Printed  for 

A,  Kerape, . ,  .  ltJ57.    Taylor  Collection." 

(P.  7r>3).  **  TbiTigs  New  and  Old,  or  a  Storehouse  of 
lUnatrationJ!  by  John  Spencer,  with  Preface  by  Thomoa 

Puller Fourth  Edition.    London :  Eichard  D.  Dick- 

inion.  ....  MDOOCLXXTT." 

'VAnother  Edition,  tn  two  rolumei.  London:  WiL 
liam  TejTK.    I^tl7,    Brit.  Mu«.  S40t;  ee.*' 

<P.  7«3l),  •*  Ornitho-Logie  :  or,  the  Speech  of  Birds. 
Also,  the  Speec*h  of  Flowcra;  Partly  Moral,  partly 
3fystical.  By  T.  Fuller,  B&tchclour  in  Divinity,  Lon- 
dm:  Printed  for  John  Stafford.  .  * . »  1<)60,  Taylor 
Collection.'* 

John  Taylor, 
Northampton. 

Robert  Herrtck's  Verses  (5***  S.  ii.  328.) — 
Froti'j<tant  in  the  second  line  of  "To  Anthea"  is 
evidently  used  in  strict  accordance  with  its  Latin 
root  meaning,  to  speak  as  a  witne^,  to  make 
known,  to  declare^  &c.  So  that  the  poet  here 
means,  that  if  Anthea  bid  him  to  live,  he  will  do 
so,  and  protest  or  make  known  her  many  adorable 
qualities,  and  how  worthy  she  is  to  be  loved, 

Boston. 

Does  it  mean  any  more  than  that  if  *'bid  to  live," 
he  would  continue  to  protcMy  that  is,  to  give  repeated 
asmi  ranees  of  his  love  and  devotion,  even  if  bis  lovo 
should  not  be  returned  I  W*  E.  Buckley, 

Probably,  he  simply  means  that  he  will  be  her 
devotee,  will  ^*  profit  *'  in  her  defenc-e  if  necessary, 
and  "  protest "  his  love  for  her  to  herself  and  every- 
body else  too.  C.  D.  should  have  given  either  & 
ri'tVreuee  or  the  full  title  of  the  song,  which  is  To 
vlHf/irct,  who  may  command  him  anythimj,  I 
looked  at  To  Anthea.  lying  in  bfd^  and  ever  so 
numy  more  "  To  Antheas  "  before  I  cotild  find  the 
rif.'bt  one,  M.iy  I  be  allowed  also  to  a^k  why 
things  never  **  begin*'  now-ii-days  t  Commence  is 
a  most  hideous  word,  alwayt^  bad,  but  woi^t  of  all 
when  men  comraence  to  do  a  vKm^    ^X*  ^2^  ^ssismS^ 


522 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


16*  a  IL  Dwo.  26, 74. 


to  be  hoped  that  the  revisers  of  the  Bible  will  not 
cause  the  first  verses  of  Genesis  and  St.  John  to 
read,  "  In  the  commencement,"  &c. 

Charles  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

Bridoeford  Family  (5*^  S.  ii.  368.)— With  re- 
ference to  the  inquiry  of  your  correspondent  Mr. 
Trussell,  I  beg  to  say  that  it  appears  from  the 
Chetwynd  MS.  that  although  the  two  Bridge- 
fords  (Great  and  Little),  co.  Stafford,  originally, 
that  is  before  the  Conquest,  belonged  to  the  Bishop 
of  Coventry  and  Lichfield  as  members  of  Eccles- 
hall,  they  were  afterwards  divided  between  the 
co-heirs  of  the  Noels.  Great  Bridgeford  belonged 
to  several  generations  of  Grimes  (Hen.  IIL  to 
Edw.  IIL).  It  then  came  to  the  Staffords  of 
Clifton  Camville,  and  afterwards,  by  sale  (temp. 
Hen.  IV.),  to  the  Whitgreaves,  who  held  it  until 
the  death  of  Sir  Thos.  Whitgreave  at  the  close  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  Little  Bridgeford,  at  a 
remote  date,  partly  came  to  Harcourts  through  the 
Noels,  and  partly  to  Ronton  Priory ;  and  at  the 
dissolution  of  the  monasteries,  to  the  king*s  grantee, 
Gifford  of  Chillington.  These  descents  would 
seem  to  account  for  all  holdings  of  the  Bridgeford 
lands  in  this  county.  It  is,  however,  also  stat^  in 
the  MS.  above  cited  that,  in  the  18  Rich.  IL,  John 
de  Bruggeford,  son  of  Adam  Waterson,  was  pos- 
sessed of  divers  lands  here,  which  he  left  to  tfohn 
Bruggeford,  his  son,  who  was  one  of  the  esquires 
belonging  to  Edmund  Duke  of  York  (the  duke 
was  cousin  of  the  king,  and  was  killed  at  Agin- 
court),  and  attended  him  in  the  French  wars  3 
Hen.  v.,  and  seems  from  the  gnint  of  arms*  to 
have  been  much  in  favour  with  that  warlike  prince. 
This  John  Bridgeford  passed  away  his  land  in 
Bridgeford  to  John  Birkhead  and  others,  and  we 
then  lose  sight  of  the  name  altogether  in  this 
county.  The  grant  of  arms  is  of  "gules,  trois 
faucons  argent,"— not,  as  stated  by  your  correspon- 
dent, "gules,  two  bars  between  three  martlets, 
argent,"— consequently  there  may  have  been  a 
ditterence  of  branch  or  race.  T.  J.  M. 

Stafford. 

Altar  Rails  Covered  (5*^  S.  ii.  309.)— This 
custom  is  still  found  in  several  churches.  Amongst 
others,  I  may  mention  St.  Mary's  (the  University 
Church),  Oxford  ;  St.  Mary's,  Prestbury,  Glouces- 
tershire, and  All  Saints*,  Lambeth.  Up  to  the 
year  1841,  it  had  been  a  custom  at  St.  Mary's, 
Thame,  Oxon.  The  strip  of  linen  is  technically 
known  as  the  "  houselling  cloth,"  and  is  intended 
to  prevent  any  particle  of  the  Holy  Sacrament, 
when  being  received,  from  fiilling  to  the  ground. 
Frequent  representations  of  its  use  may  'be  found 
in  mediaeval  MSS.  It  was  sometimes  held  by 
two  acolytes,  or  clerks,  when  the  priest  communi- 


'  The  origintd  is  ia  the  WHUam  Salt  Library,  Stafford. 


cated  the  faithful.    I  believe  that  its  use  is  very 
general  in  the  Roman  Catholic  communion. 

Frbdeiiick  Gboroe  Lex. 
All  Saints'  Vicarage,  Lambeth. 

The  old  " houselling  cloth"  was  in  use  from  veiy 
early  times,  for  it  is  found  (Maskell's  Monumenta 
Ritiialia,  iii.  134)  in  every  coronation  office,  from 
Ethelred,  978,  to  George  IV.,  1820.  For  other 
modern  instances  of  its  use,  the  Rector  of  Strct- 
ham  is  referred  to  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2«'>  S.  i.  144.  At 
Wimbome  Minster  it  remains  constantly  in  the 
church,  on  narrow  tables  or  low  benches,  for  I 
have  seen  both  names  used,  which  take  the  place 
of  the  altar  rails  ;  and  this  probably  it  was  which 
gave  rise  to  the  tradition  perhaps  known  to  some 
of  "  N.  &  Q.'s,"  readers,  that  a  daily  celebration  has 
existed  ever  since  the  Reformation  in  this  church, 
and  only  ceased  very  lately.  I  may  be  allowed 
to  say  that  I  lately  took  some  pains  to  look  into 
that  matter,  and  on  writing  to  the  Rev.  Lester 
Lester,  presbyter  of  the  Minster,  he  told  me  that 
he  was  aware  of  the  tradition,  and  had  been  asked 
before  whether  it  could  be  verified,  but  that  he 
could  never  find  the  least  authority  for  it  of  any 
kind  whatever.   Charles  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

Not  only  the  altar  but  the  benches  in  the 
chancel  of  Wimbome  Minster  are  always  kept 
covered  with  white  cloths.  No  accounts  of  the 
Minster  that  I  have  seen  state  why.       C.  B.  T. 

Eton. 

This  custom  is  a  continuation  of  the  Pre-Refor- 
mation  "  houselling  cloth."  It  is  generally  used  in 
Roman  Catholic  churches  in  England  at  the 
present  day,  and  is  generally  spoken  of  as  the 
communion  cloth.  It  is  held  under  the  chin  by 
the  communicant,  in  case  of  any  accident  with 
the  consecrated  wafer.  M.  H.  F. 

The  strip  of  cloth  mentioned  is  the  "  houselling 
cloth,"  which  was  formerly  held  by  an  acolyte  at 
each  end  of  the  step  on  which  the  communicants 
knelt,  in  order  to  catch  any  crumbs  that  might 
fall  during  their  reception  of  the  Blessed  Sacra- 
ment. E.  A.  B. 

Trin.  Coll.  Oxon. 

At  a  celebration  in  an  Armenian  church  in  Con- 
stantinople, at  which  I  was  present  in  1856,  the 
"  houselling  cloth"  was  used,  held  by  two  (I  think) 
Deacons  ;  it  had  a  painting  upon  it,  but  I  forget 
the  subject.  E.  L.  Blenkixsopp. 

Large  Oak  (5*^  S.  ii.  366.)— Since  reading  Mr. 
Pickford's  notice  of  the  Marton  oak,  I  have  made 
a  pilgrimage  to  that  monarch  of  the  iforest ;  "  ma- 
jestic, though  in  ruin."  Much  of  the  tree  has 
mouldered  away,  and  only  three  mighty  fragments 
of  the  trunk  remain.  These  are  separate  from 
each  other. 

The  diameter  of  the  trunk  ia,  in  one  direction 


at  3  feet  iibovo  the  surface  of  the  ^und  on  the 
higher  aide,  14  feet ;  in  another  direction,  12  feet. 
At  the  Burfuce  of  the  ground  where  the  spurs  of 
the  tree  enter  the  earth,  the  dijuueter  is  from  20 
to  22  feet,  The  circumference  meaaured  on  the 
surface  of  the  groundia  71  feet  lU  inches,  and  at 
3  feet  from  the  ground  on  the  upper  side,  45  feet. 

Tlio  height  of  the  onk  appears  to  be  about  dO 
feet  only.  It  is  a  broad-he^detl,  short-stemmed, 
wide-bmncbed  tree,  like  those  de>at;ribed  l»y  Scott 
in  the  opening  scene  of  Ivunhoi, 

The  agal  giant  is  still  living,  and  bas  mBHj 
branches,  ulihongb  the  trunk  h  but  a  shell,  conaifit- 
iiig  of  three  distinct  isolated  ninasea,  with  open- 
ings between  them,  varying  from  2  to  9  feet 
wide.     The   lower   limbs   shoot   from   the  stem 

^  about  12  feet  from  the  ground.  It  i&  the 
ineas  of  the  trunk  which  has,  probably,  saved 
noble  tree  from  the  woodnxan*s  a^e,  Unfor- 
tunately  for  its  appeamnce,  the  superb  wreck  does 
not  stAnd  in  park  or  foreat  or  on  greensward,  but 
at  the  comer  of  a  farm*yard,  utterly  neglected,  the 
palisaded  fence  which  once  encircled  and  protected 
it  being  broken  nnd  ruined  in  several  places  ;  and 
^jtbe  ^^'•tii'v  nnoe  filled  with  heart  of  oak,  now  made 
r  harrows^  farming  implements,  bricks 
bd  %      As  to  the  apparent  diacrejxincy 

between  the  above  measurements  and  those  given 
already  in  "  K.  S:  Q,,"  they  can  be  accounted  for 
by  the  rupgedness  and  varying  thickness  of  the 
bole  and  tne  height  ;  the  girth  may  be  taken  from 
tbe  sloping  ground  on  which  the  tree  stands. 

To  this  reverend  oak,  which  **  chronicles  on  its 
furrowed  trunk  ages  before  the  Conquest,"  certain 
well-known  lines  may  be  well  applied  : — 
"  JSInjeatic  tree,  whose  wriukrd  form  Imtli  stood, 

Age  after  age,  the  pAtriftrcb  of  the  wood  I 

*  *  •  «  * 

Gigantic  o«k  1  thy  hoary  head  sublitnet 
Ere  while  munt  periah  in  the  wrecks  of  Time. 
t^hoald  roand  thy  bead  innocuous  KghtriiDgs  shoot, 
And  no  fierce  whirlwind  shake  thy  steudfast  root. 
Yet  sihalt  thou  fall ;  thy  leafy  troftsca  fade. 
And  those  bare  icfttt«r'd  antlers  strew  the  glade : 
Arm  after  arm  shall  leave  th^  mouldering  bust. 
And  thj  firm  fibres  crumble  into  duit/' 

George  R.  Jesse^ 

F,S.  The  dimensions  were  very  carefully  ascer- 
tiuned  by  a  good  33-feet  surveying  box-tape. 
That  of  the  circumference  at  the  level  of  the 
ground  was  taken  twice  over  to  make  certain  of 
accoracy. 

T-  ^    ""^'1  FOR  THE  KlXG*S  EviL  (5*^  S.  li.  42*5,) 

- 1  of  the  S4ime  kind  as  the  one  inserted 

liu_,  .  .^  ,  .uJ  in  other  places.  Th'  ^  vv-.r^.  -riven  in 
compliance  with  the  inatruction  n  order 

to  prevent  the  applicants  for  r-  !  ^^  more 

than  once,    A  proclamation  to  ,  dated 

*'  Wbiteball,  Janmiry  I>,  1*583."  i  I  in  the 

regi«t«r  of  Woodstock  Chapel*     Tber*  are  many 


copies  of  certificated  in  the  same  register ;  one 
Ruch  is  : — 

"  June  13»  16S7,  Granted  then  by  the  Miaiiter  and 
Churchwardeni,  a  certificate  testify tng  that  George,  the 
SOD  of  George  Whitton  of  Woodstock  I'Arkej,  hud  noi,  to 
the  best  of  their  knovrledge,  Ligcii  touched  at  an/ time 
before  by  hi4  Majesty  for  the  disease  commonly  caUed 
thf9  King's  EtiII/* 

Ed.  Marshall. 

"Merrt  Margaret,*'  &a  (5«^  S.  ii.  468.)— 
C.  D.  is  mistaken  in  aaying  that  this  poem  is  not 
to  be  found  in  Dyce's  edition  of  Skelton,  He 
will  discover  it  on  p.  401,  voL  i.^  where  it  forma 
one  of  the  ^ngs  in  tne  "  Ry^ht  delectable  tratys© 
upon  a  goodly  Gwlande  or  Chapelet  of  L:iurelL'' 

S.  G.  L, 

Fragmentary  Lines  of  Poetry  ascribed  to 
Burns  (5***  S.  ii,426.) — The  lines  are  not  frogmen- 
tjiry,  neither  are  they,  in  my  opinion,  by  Bnrns. 
The  song  is  complete^  and  has  been  set  to  music ; 
but  It  has  never  been  claimed  for  Barns  by  any  of 
his  editors^  so  far  as  I  know.     The  song  begins, — 

"  O  where  shall  I  g»e  seek  my  bread  ? 

Or  where  Bhall  I  gae  wander  \ 
Or  where  Hball  I  gae  hide  tny  head  1 

For  here  I  '11  bide  uae  lunger 
The  seae  may  row,  the  winds  may  blow. 

And  swathe  tne  round  in  danger; 
My  native  land  I  must  forcgio, 

And  roam  a  lonely  ttranger. 
The  glen  that  wag  my  father*a  ovm 

Must  bo  by  hii  forsaken  ; 
The  hou«e  that  was  my  father'i  homo 

Ib  levelled  with  the  bracken^ 

Ochon  !  '*  kc. 

Two  other  stanzas  and  a  half.  If  Dr.  K  ah  age 
wishes  to  have  tbe  complete  song,  and  tbe  music 
to  whicb  it  is  set,  I  shall  be  glad  to  let  him  have 
them.  James  Hogg. 

Stirlinif. 

The  Termination  "y"  ik  the  Naicbs  op 
Places  {b^  S.  ii.  320,  455.) —The  etynjolofry  of 
the  correspondent  of  the  TnUtmidiaire  requires 
ft  little  correction.  To  u  may.  Cam  bray,  Gmrtray, 
&c.,are  derived  from  the  old  Latin  names,  Tumuc- 
nm,  CarmtraC'Um^  Cortoriac-nm.  In  this  district 
such  terminations  are  common.  We  have  Geso- 
riac-um  (now  Boulogne),  Minariac-um,  Viroviac- 
nm,  Nemetjic-nm^  &c.  It  will  be  observed  that 
these  are  all  in  French  Flanders,  Wiien  we  come 
into  the  Ijow  Dutch  district,  the  wyks  succeed,  as 
in  Oiater-wyk,  Waalwyk,  Oospik,  &c.  There 
can  be  little  doubt  that  wyk  or  xvich  and  ac  mean 
the  same  thing,  a  habitjition  or  dwelling-place. 
Ach  also  found  in  many  terminations  in  the  Bouth 
of  France,  as  Mursac,  Lusj^ac,  Levizac,  Quissac^ 
Gi^nc,  i&c.  As  the  termination  h;i8  no  meaning 
in  rlit  t  VlUc  dialects,  it  is  thought  that  it  is  a  relic 
«  ■  iU  nice«  who  peopled  the  dintritt  in  pre- 

*  '  ^*     One  thing  is  cert^iin^  that  neither 

wtjk  tiwr  ^  means  water.    Ac  cannot  be  derived 


524 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5«^aiLDio.26,71 


from  Int  aqua^  for  the  termmjitioii  }mL  to  he 
LatiQized  by  the  addition  of  the  neuter  um. 

The  statement  that  there  is  ft  Sanskrifc  word  am 
BigDifyLng  water  h  altogether  a  mistake.  There  is 
no  BQch  word.  There  are  many  words  in  Sanskrit 
fiignifjiDg  water  ;  such  m  j'i?a,  a  sheet  of  water, 
paniya^  water  to  drinkj  uda  (Lat.  nndn^  Gr.  v^iiip\ 
flpj  flowing  water,  &a,  the  la&t  no  doubt  connected 
with  Lat  aqun^  Goth.  a/^Oj  Noi^e  d,  A,S*  *a  j  but 
it  IB  not  possible  to  torture  any  of  these  into  the 
teiinioationa  ac  or  idcL 

In  A»S.,  m  means  water,  ig  or  igCf  an  island* 
The  modern  English  terniination  ey  or  f  is  made 
to  do  duty  for  both,  and  it  is  often  very  difficult 
without  reference  to  Domesday  or  other  old  re- 
cordfl  to  determme  which  Is  meant,  Wallas-ey  is 
Walift^i  Island,  Oln-ey  is  tho  same,  but  Waveneyf 
Meraey,  Caldy,  Turvey,  and  many  others  may  mean 
idand  or  water,  according  to  circumstanc^a. 

I  thjBk  enough  has  been  said  to  pat  uHek  out  of 
court  as  having  any  reference  to  water. 

J.  A-  PiCTOM* 

Sand^know«,  Wa?«rin!^ 

"OAKLEmn  Forest  Code"  (5**  S,  ii  368.)— 
I  haro  got  the  Oakld^h  Shooting  Cod^  (which  b 
probably  what  H.  B.  refers  to),  "  containing  220 
chapters  of  information  relative  to  ahootin^  Bed 
Grouse,  Black-game,  Partridges^  Pheasants,  Wood- 
cocks,  Bnipea,  and  Hares/'  &c.  James  Kidgway 
&  Sons,  Piccadilly,  1856,  12mo,  pp,  194.  Copies 
are  probably  common  enough,  but  if  IL  B.  cannot 
find  one,  I  shall  be  bappy  to  lend  him  mine 

W,  K 

The  SodETT  df  Arts  Memorial  Tablets  (5*^ 
S.  iL  106,  155,  257.)— There  is  a  tablet  to  the  me- 
mory of  Handel  at  57,  Lower  Brook  Street,  Han- 
over Square.  The  tablet  in  King  Street,  recording 
timt  "  Napoleon  III.  lived  here,"  is  chargeable  with 
Moordingan  untruth.  Napoleon  III,  never  lived 
there.  The  old  house,  a  greengrocer*8,  I  have 
understood,  in  which  be  had  apartments  was 
pulled  down,  and  the  present  house  built  in  its 
stead.  It  aeema  absurd  to  record  where  foreigners 
have  lived,  before  we  have  recorded  where  our  own 
English  celebrities  have  resided  ;  and  where  only 
the  site  remains,  that  fact  ought  to  be  inscribed  on 
the  tablet.  How  much  more  intoreEting  it  would 
have  been  to  have  had  the  spot  marked  in  St, 
James's  Square  where  the  great  Earl  of  Chatham^s 
house  was.  That,  too,  the  devastators  of  historic 
and  beautiful  asaociation  hiive  Temoved,  but  the 
site  ought  to  be  marked.  Lord  Byron's  has,  I  fear, 
been  rebuilt.  It  is  absolutely  foolish  to  recorti 
Franklin^s  residence,  and  to  leave  Garrick's  bouse, 
baird  by  in  the  Addphi  Terrace,  unmarked. 

C.  A,  Ward. 

Mayfair,  W. 

Ictim^  across  A  good  article  in  the  Builder  of 


July  23rd,  1864,  and,  perhaps,  what  tnay  prove 
more  useful,  the  following  letter  :— 

**BiFf — Tha  a^lmirfliblfi  Bu^gestion  Gonlained  ia  ycrar 
paper  of  laarklDg,  in  a  pemnLnent  manner,  the  re^deDOSi 
of  great  n]«n  (wbj  not  of  women  too!)  in  hund&a  cai^^ 
not,  I  think^  fail  of  being  respondod  to.  In  order  t« 
carry  out  tht^^  su^geition  into  prvottcfti  me,  U  u  ^Hdmd 
that  mt}mi*f  muit  If  forthc^mmQ  ;  and,  M  a  ^msiwuiff,  1 
am  auMomWtf,  by  a  kind,  a  Hbtmlftt^md,  £0  mform  ps 
that  he  ii  ready  (&  mi^mr^  20t  t(heardt  tkUgood  *k)m  / 
and  ibould  it  bo  responded  to,  aa  I  can  hare  no  d«mbt 
tVmt  it  win  be,  the  monoy  wUl  be  paid  on  an  apph^doa 
from  jDuneJf  m&do  to,  youra,  kc,  Epwjlkh  J  essl** 
G,  Laiteence  Gomme, 

Two  Cehrchis  ik  0»k  Chubchtard  (5*  S.  ii 
20B,  291.} — Berkeley  can  scarcely  be  addneed  ai 
an  instanee,  aa  aU  imces  of  the  origiiud  cburch 
have  long  since  disappeared-  It  was,  according  to 
Fosbroke,  a  coUegiato  or  prebendal  cburcb,  and, 
falling  into  decay  in  the  twelfth  century,  xtM 
endowments  were  granted  away  successively  to  the 
Abbey  of  Eeading,  the  Priory  of  Stanley,  St. 
Leonard^  and  St.  Auguatmo's  Abbey  at  Bri^oL 
The  present,  or  parieb  church,  waa  then  built, 
on  the  south  or  opposite  side  of  the  churchyard, 
by  Eobert  Fitzhaminge.  The  old  tower  remained 
(l^e  new  church  being  without  a  tower)  cmtU  1753, 
when  it  was  palled  down  and  the  present  tower 
erected  an  its  et%  ftbout  fitly  yards  from,  the 
churchp  X  H.  Cooo.. 

As  reference  haa  been  made  to  the  churches  of 
St.  James  and  St.  Mary,  Bury  Sl  Edmuads,  it 
may  be  as  well  to  add  that  another  church,  dedi- 
cated to  St.  Margaret,  h  atated  to  have  stood  at 
the  south-east  comer.  The  northern  boundary  of 
the  cemetery  was  the  great  Abbey  Church,  so  that 
there  were  in  fact  four  cburcbea  in  this  one  oeme- 
tety.  The  originals  of  both  St.  James  and  St, 
Mary  were  removed,  in  the  twelfth  century,  from 
their  position  near  the  conventual  church  to  make 
way  for  the  extension  and  increased  gr&ndeur  ef 
the  great  Abbey  Church.  D^o, 

"At  Wantage,  in  Berks."--Furle/s  Weald  of 
Kmtf  vol  ii  p.  754,  foot-note. 

HARnRIC  MoRfHTN, 

1.  All  Saiuta  and  St.  Lawrence,  Evesham* 

2.  The  new  church  and  the  ancient  (now  aban- 
doned) structure  at  Thorpe,  near  Norwich,  not  fai 
from  the  scene  of  the  recent  collision. 

3.  The  churches  of  Holy  Trinity  and  St 
JTicbael,  Coventry,  in  churchyards  wbicb,  though 
separately  w;dled,  are  divided  ooly  by  a  madwuy, 
and  have  evidently  t^een  originally  one. 

V.H.LLLC.Ly. 

Familt  of  De  Yillters  (5"*  S.  il  223,  291)— 
The  first  of  the  Do  Tilliers  famOy  (now^  alas,  pro- 
nounced Viljie  at  the  Cape)  wore  the  three  elder 
sons  of  Pierre  de  VQlierSp  whoee  family,  for  more 
than  a  century  preceding  the  Bevo<^tion  of  thiB 


J*  B,  U.  Dm;  so,  71] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


525 


Edict  of  Xantes,  occupied  a  small  patTimonial 
estate  in  the  nei^'hbourbood  of  Kochelle*  He  had 
four  eoii=,  nfiined  Pierre,  Abraliam,  Jacob,  apd 
pAul,  three  of  whom  were  ^rrown  up  men,  the 
fourth,  Puul,  a  youngster.  The  old  man,  seeinir 
what  was  going  on,  insisted  on  the  young  men 
emi^Tating,  or  al  letist  leaving  Franoe.  But  when 
the  uioment  of  partin>!f  came,  the  old  people  felt 
»o  much  grief  at  parting  with  their  last  born, 
Paul,  that  idthongh  he  set  out  with  his  brothers  on 
their  way  to  Holland,  to  which  country,  as  a  haven 
to  refugees,  they  turned  their  st^ps,  he  was  even- 
timlly  returned  to  his  parents  ;  while  his  brothers 
accepted  the  offer  of  the  Chamber  of  Delft,  and 
pToceedcd  to  the  Cape,  where  they  settled  down 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  fertile  valley  of 
Franschc  Haek,  near  the  village  of  Stettenbach, 
where  many  of  their  descendants  are  found  at  the 
present  day.  There  is  a  tradition  extant,  that  in 
their  later  year«  they  continually  made  inquiriea 
of  ^avellers  and  others  who  viaitcd  their  farms,  as 
to  thd  fate  of  the  friends  they  had  left  in  distant 
France^  for  the  affection  U:>  home  still  dung  to 
them,  but  no  one  could  tell  aught  of  their  parents 
or  their  little  brother  PauL  '  The  De  Villiers 
family  were  amongst  tlie  first  settlers  who  intro- 
duced the  cultivation  of  the  vine  at  the  Cape» 
The  De  Villiera  family  went  to  the  Cape  from 
Amsterdam  in  the  ship  "  Zion,*-  on  Dec,  IB,  1688, 
and  landed  there  on  May  (>,  1689.  The  names  of 
Beveml  members  of  the  Do  Villiera  family  are 
Ibund  on  the  list  of  the  Cape  civil  servants  ;  but 
I  cannot  say,  with  any  exactitude,  as  to  who 
cUiims  to  be  the  head  of  the  family.  The  Hon. 
J.  H,  de  Villiera  of  this  family  is,  however,  at 
•""  f  Justice  of  the  colony,  and  talces 
ordingly,  H,  Hall. 

Tcii'jtr  mil, 

AMzaicA!f  States  (5*^  S.  ii,  82,  174,  272.)— 
May  I  add  one  or  two  observations  on  this  sub- 
ject? 

5.  The  correct  name  of  Rhode  Island  is  Rhode 

Island  and  the  Providence  Plantations.     It  was 

I  settled  by  Roger  William^,  the  Quaker,  who  yrm 

1  diiven    from    Masiachujietts  by  the  persecutions 

1  of  the  Puritans, 

7.  New  York  was  originally  settled  by  the 
I  Bntch,  and  therefore  called  the  New  Netherlanda 
I  Alter  It  was  taken  by  the  British,  it  was  called 

New  York, 

8.  New  Jersey  was  originally  settled  by  Swedes, 
An  interesting  manuFcript  has  recently  been  trans- 

[  lated   and  published  by  the  Pennsylvania  Histori- 
hout  its  early  colonists. 
:i  was  named  after  Elizabeth  by  Sir 

]  The  two  Carolina.^  were  colonized 

by  1  .n,   f.ixUJ,  under  patent  obtiined  by  the  cele- 
brmted  Admiral  de  Coligny,  in  15G2,  from  Charles 


IX.,  and  the  first  expedition  was  commanded  by 
Jean  Riband, 

15.  Georgia  was  so  cdled  by  Croveraor  Ogle- 
thoq>e. 

IS,  Louisiana  was  Law's  "  Misaiasippi  echcme," 

Weu . 

Philadelphia* 

"Testaments  op  the  Twelve  Patriarchs'' 
(b^^  S,  i.  3U6,  394  ;  ii.  396,  4*57.)— The  edition  of 
this  work  in  English,  specified  by  Mr.  Shaw  as 
*^  printed  by  R,  Feeny  (not  Ferny),  2G,  St.  John 
Street,  Clerkenwell,  1837,"  is  the  Muggletoman 
edition.  Tbe  Brothers  Frost,  under  whose  C4*ro  it 
wtxs  issued,  wore  leading  members  of  this  sect, 
which  holds  the  canonicity  of  the  work  in  question, 
as  also  that  of  the  Book  of  Enoch. 

iVla.  Shaw  haa  omitted  to  mention  that  the 
title  of  this  English  version  gives  **  Testament^'' 
not  ^*  Testaments."  This,  though  obviously  incor- 
rect, is  also  commonly  found  in  earlier  English 
editions.  It  fihould  further  be  stated,  that  this 
1837  edition  (pp.  162)  has  an  Appendix,  sepa* 
rately  paged  (pp.  42)  of  "Derivations,  chiefly 
from  the  Hebrew,  and  explanations  of  several 
proper  names  occurring  in  the  precerling  work." 
This  is  '*  by  a  Professor  of  Hebrew,"  and  has  a 
different  printer,  J.  Wertheimer  ^  Co.,  Finsbury 
Circus.  In  all  the  copies  I  have  seen,  the  second 
title  referring  to  this  Appendix  is  misplaced  in  the 
folding,  BO  as  to  form  the  last  page  of  the  work. 
Your  Teamed  correspondent,  R,  n.,  inquired  about 
this  edition,  and  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  plac- 
ing a  copy  of  it  in  his  hands.     V^,LL.I.C,I.V. 

Mr,  Disraeli's  Expression  op  "  Flouts,  and 
Jibes,  and  Jeers  *' (5"»  S.  ii.  168,23^1,  398.)— 
Tnless  Mr.  Disraeli  himself  will  enlighten  ub,  it 
seems  useless  to  inquire  whether  the  quotation 
from  Rfibelais,  given  by  Dr.  Ram  age,  was  in  his 
thoughts  or  not  on  the  occasion  referred  to.  If 
guesses  are  admissible,  I  would  remind  Dr. 
Ramaoe  that  the  words  are  to  be  found  in  Shak- 
speare,  and  that  it  is,  perhaps,  more  likely  that 
they  were  suggested  to  the  speaker  from  this 
source.  Charles  Wtlie. 

"As  Sound  as  a  Roach  "  (5««  S.  ii.  274,  314, 
45S.) — The  German  form  of  the  proverb,  **Gesund 
wie  ein  Fi«ch,'*  with  Ray*8  "  As  sound  as  a  trout^" 
show  thnt  "  roach  "  or  '*  trout "  are  only  taken  as 
types  of  fish  in  general.  The  expression  seems  to 
be  taken  from  the  lively  movements  of  a  fish  in 
the  water.  **  Plus  sain  qu'un  gardon,  more  lively 
and  healthful  than  a  gardon  (roach),  than  which 
there  is  not  any  fish  more  healthful  nor  more 
1  i  vely  .*'^ — Co tgra  ve.  "  Praia  com  me  un  gardon," — 
Littre,  H.  Weikswood. 

31 J  Queen  Aane  Stroet,  W. 

**  Grewe,"  i. «.,  Greek  (5«*  S.  ii.  2<>4,  260,  274, 
355.)~The  following  passage  from  the  Mirmr  o/ 


i^^ 


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526 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[5*  8.  IL  Dm.  26, 74 


Oar  Ladtj,  edited  liy  the  Rev,  J.  H.  Blunt  (p.  90), 
to  which  he  has  called  my  ntteutioD,  seems  to 
clear] ]r  establish  the  nieaniDg  of  thi^  word,  and  to 
convict  me  of  error  in  raj  previous  conjeclure  : — 

*'  Til ji  words  Hympne  yi  a  worde  of  ffnw,  and  jb  ai 
tDOcbe  to  iaye  na  a  prayiiyngfl.  And  Ihja  worde  p«ftlmo 
it  A  worde  t^TffVfiP  uImj." 

Johnson  Bati^t, 

The  pRKTKNDii^ii  i^  Ekoi^;id  (fj*"*  S.  iL  408, 
432.) — Sorae  notices  of  a  Bupposed  visit  of  the 
Prince  Chtvrles  Edward  to  England  are  in  the 
Montkhj  Ma^ftnni  (voK  xlix,  p.  25 ,  Sf^q.^  1820}, 
m  '*  Topoi^raphical  Sketches  of  Oxfordshire/'  and 
were  derived  from  Dr.  BrookeSj  the  EectoT  of  Ship- 
ton-nnder-Whichwood,  who,  aa  a  very  old  man, 
gave  a  visitor  such  information  in  his  recollections 
of  past  time.  The  visitor,  whoie  name  I  am  not 
aoquftinted  with  (and  have  not  preserved,  if  appear- 
ing in  the  mngrts^in©},  inserted  tliem  in  an  article 
described  as  above.  £d,  M^EsnALL. 

The  Blessed  Teistle  (5*^  S.  ii,  48,  95,  198, 
239,)— T  am  unoble  to  say  ithether  the  legend 
attached  to  this  plant  in  Switzerland  be  found 
here  or  elsewhere,  hut  I  have  known  the  same 
legend  applied  here  to  the  Pnlmonuria^  or  garden 
Inngwort.  1  was  once  wametl  by  an  old  weeding 
woman  of  the  ill  lack  that  wouhl  follow  its  threa- 
tened eradication  from  my  border ;  "  for  don'c  'ee 
know,"  said  she^  "that  thev  spotai  on  the  leaves 
were  made  by  the  Virgin  Mary's  milk  ? "  Cer- 
tttinly,  I  was  ii^nonint  of  the  fact,  and  of  course 
decided  instantly  on  retaining  the  old-fashioned 
plant,  but  only  as  a  living  illu«tnition  of  a  chi^s 
of  harmless  popular  HUperatitioii^,  wliicb  the  school- 
mai5ter  h  doing  hh  teat  to  eradicate  from  the 
rustic  mind.  T.  W.  W,  K 

NoMRiscLATitRE  OF  Vkiucles  (Ti^  B.  ii.  14R, 
235,  308.)— We  have  in  Craven  a  vebicle  called  a 
"White  Chapel.**  What  is  the  origin  of  the 
name?  Also  another,  cjiUed  a  "Shandary/*  a 
name  eq^uaUy  inexplicable,    STErnEX  Jacicson, 

"  John  JASrER's  Secret  "  (5*^  S.  ii.  407,  475.) 
—Mr*  Collins  is  slightly  in  error.  Tliii*  work 
was  not  first  published  in  Americ^a.  It  was  set 
in  type  from  the  nmnuseript  in  En^dsmd  ;  then 
fit-ereotyped,  a  set  of  plates  sent  to  Amt  rica,  and 
published  simultaneously  in  the  Chimniij  Compr 
m  En  gland  T  and  in  Finnk  Leslie's  newspaper  ia 
Anierjca.  The  illnstmtion!!  were  driiwn  und  en- 
graved in  England,  ^\\  T,  \Y, 

TiTK  Boxes  of  tjie  PnAUAons  (5^^*  S.  ii.  3B5, 
434.)— Some  few  years  ago  the  skull  of  Sir  Thomas 
Browne  (who  in  his  Hydriolophm  «peiiksofonr 
being  "  knaved  out  our  graves  ")  was  taken  out  of 
his  vault  in  the  church  of  St,  Peter  Man  croft, 
^orwichj  and  haying  been  disposed  of  for  a  conside- 


ration, was  placed  by  the  purchaser  in  the  ronsenm 
of  the  Norwich  Hospitai*         Kiubt  Trivhks. 

.Norwich, 

Prondnciatioh  of  '* Aches"  (5*^  S,  iL  68^ 
139,  458.) — I  came  across  the  following  the  othff 
day  in  the  SfiHreM  of  Bishop  Hall(A,D.  1574*1656!}: 
"  Or  GoUm  wore  a  velf et  mnstick  patch 
Upon  bet-  templet  when  do  (ooth  did  teho,** 
It  is  in  Siitire  1,  Book  tL  of  Tht  Thrte  Lad  of 
Byiing  Baiiru,  ABTEtra  H.  Browit. 

LaTIK  ANB  EnOHSM  Qt?AKTlTT  (5^  S.  L  464 ; 
ii,  13,  417,)— Will  J.  I^C.  S,  oblige  one  of  ''tlis 
million  '^  by  mentioning  the  names  of,  say  thsei^ 
well-known  "  elegant  speakers  "  who  **  always  sij 
contemplate  (t^m^luvi}^  not  contemplate  *'  ? 

St.  SwiTHJir, 


iMfdnnjuiruutf, 
NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ao. 

Gcramtc  Art  in  BanoU  Agu.  With  Essays  on  tb« 
Symbols  of  the  Circle,  the  Cross  and  Cifde, 
the  Circle  and  Kay  Ornament,  the  Fylfot  and  th« 
Serpent,  Showing  their  ReUtion  to  the  Primi- 
tive Forms  of  Solar  and  Nature  Worehip.  By 
J,  B,  Waring.  (Day.) 
Too  many  splendid  folios  that  appear  at  this  tiiod 
of  the  year  have  only  their  splendour  to  tecom* 
mend  them,  Mr,  Waring^s  folio  is  an  exoeptioik 
It  ia  not  intended  merely  for  the  eye,  thoagh 
numerous  Bne  engravings  so  address  tbemsclrea. 
It  is  also  intended  for  the  mind,  to  which  it  fur- 
nishes ample  matter  for  thought,  and  a  larfi 
amount  of  instruction,  some  of  which  is  of  a  reiy 
rare  and  curious  quality.  The  free  and  indepen- 
dent spirit  in  which  Mr,  Wariag  writes  ia  well 
known  to  a  pretty  numerous  public  ;  and  he  has 
never  eKpressed  himself  more  freely  or  indepen- 
dently thsn  on  the  present  occasion.  One  cod- 
cluslon  at  which  this  zealous  inquirer  has  arrived 
i^,  *^  that  the  evidences  of  intercommunication  and 
a  fashion  coutmon  to  large  l>odies  of  the  early 
inhabitants  of  Europe  arc  placed  beyond  dotiht, 
and  the  compamtive  lateness  of  mnny  so-called 
prehistoric  remains  in  stone,  bronze^  &c.,  is  alao 
demonstrated  by  facts,"  Mr.  Waring's  object,  in 
fjict,  is  to  estiihlJHh  **a  system  of  i&omparative 
Art'';  and  the  present  folio  is  devoted  to  "the 
Earthenware  of  the  Primitive  Races  of  Europe,'' 
It  is  impossible  to  give  more  than  a  faint  idea, 
within  our  narrow  limits,  of  the  contents,  tbe 
details,  and  speculations  to  be  found  in  this  faUo 
volume,  Mr,  Waring  maintains  that  "the  wor- 
ship of  our  forefrtthera  was  esseotially  a  Naiun 
worship  \  and  there  is  every  reason  to  believe,  from 
the  character  of  their  circular  atone  monuments^ 
and  from  the  symbols  on  tbe  earthenware  buried 
with  their  dead,  that  tbe  worship  of  the  Sun  wsj 
dominant,  was  of  a  pure  cbantcter,  and  was  &o4 
associitted  with  any  of  those  idolatrous  and  hi^r- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


527 


ribie  practices  whicli   cKoracterized   the  worship 

'"   lie  SuD  amongst  the  Kg^^ptians,  Plitcnicians, 

•iiMis,  Indiana,  Greeks^  Romans,  a  ad  Mexi- 

aB«/      In  connexion  with   Christmas  Day  and 

3uii*wor3hip,  Mr,  Waring  says  ;  **  Christmas  Day 
.  does  not  mark  the  actual  birthday  of  the 
iPounder  of  the  Church,  for  that  day  is  absolutely 
I  unknown ;  but  ...  it  was  pronounced  to  be  the 
r25th  of  December  simply  because  it  happened  to 
I  be  the  principal  festival  of  the  worship  of  Mithr:\a, 
liLs  beiof^  the  day  on  which  the  Snn  entered  its 
I  Winter  Solstice,  as  Chrys«»stom  expresses  it.     On 

this  day  (^Oih  December),  the  birthday  of  Christ 
I  WAS  lately  fixed  at  Rome,  in  order  that  whilst  the 
[lieathens  were  occupied  in  their  profane  ceremonies* 
Ithe  Chrisitians  might  perform  their  holy  rites  un- 
I  disturbed,'^ 

How  far  Mr.  Waring  will  succceed  in  bringing 
lliis  readers  to  agree  with  his  own  conclusions,  we 
loinnot  say;  but  no  one  will  dispute  that  in  this 
[iblio,  with  its  tive-and-hfty  plates,  and  its  indis- 
I  pensable  Index,  the  public  possess  one  of  tlie  ablest 
[of  Mr.  Warin^t'ft  works,  and  one  of  the  most  tiiste- 
Ifnl  that  Mr.  John  Bay  has  issued  from  the  Sa%"oy 

Press. 

The  Diary  of  II.  M.  thf  Slurh  <\f  Peritia  dvi'^n^  hit  Tour 

tkrvngh  Europe  in    1873.     Bv  J.  W.  lle<Thr>u«e.     A 

.  Vcrbfttim  TmnsUtion.     With  Vortriiit.    (Murray, ) 

Wb  ctiu  only  ndd  our  testimony  to  that  of  many  otliers, 

t)nmcly„  that  thi^  geuuino  book  i«  got  up  in  a  way  Tvorthy 

of  iU  subject.    One  can  bapUly  put  down  the  elegant 

coTer  on  its  ioteresttng  pages  without  thinkinir,  aJFter 

mllf  how  small  il  personnge  is  Kiwr  ul  Din  ;  and  how  in- 

~"     *'[cant  hia  empire  compared  with  the  aovereign  and 

Inion  of  esrly  timpfi,  when  the  Pemsn  Empire  was 

ti%e  of  the  half  of  Europe,  touched  the  waters  of  the 

Mediterranean,  the  ^Egean,  the  Black,  the  Caapioo^  the 

Indiftn,  th«.*  Pemati,  tb^  Red  Se&i^  and  contained  within 

it*  t  "    '      irrandeat  rivers  in  the  world, 

I  the    '  the  Indus,  the  Jaxarton,  the 

)i«  ii   nbove  a  tbouaand  miles  tn 

[]6Qgtb«     Wkt  fcceivcd  tbe  Shtth  with  ft9  luuch  **  circum- 

Ivttuee  **  B.9  if  he  hud  been  Lord  Paramount  of  that  once 

gorgcouj  empire, 

Ijl/flwrttV  of  MarffArtt,  Couni*i$  of  Richmond  and  Derby. 
By  the'  laic  ChJirlcs  Ifenrr  Cooper,  F.S.A.  Edited 
for  the  two  Cnltejjjea  of  her  foundation-  (Cambridge, 
Bclghtmi,  Ikll  k  Co. ;  London^  Bell  &  Sons.) 
I  Tns  Rev.  John  Eyton  Dickerstoth  Mayor  has  Tery 
I  Kfiioiently  edited  Mr.  Cooper't  ?a]uable  memoir  of  a  true 

'       f  the  olden  time.     jMr.  Mayor  baa  added 

!  himself.    **  In  setting  before  the  c-^^'legca 

ir  fo«ndr<?si  by  a  "tmnger  to  her  house/* 

,  he  yn,  **  I  claim  the  right  as  of  a  wo'    nigh 

I  thir  rjsioner  at  her  board,  to  lay  some  offering 

I  of  Uiy    -Mii  uL  her  tomb/'    This  valuable  addition  ii  in 

the    interesting    Appendix,     There  are  also  a  nsefal 

'  Qlm'Oiry  find  a  carefully  compiled  Inde.\.     The  reader 

^ill  hiirdly  cloee  tho  Tolume  without  baTing  come  to 

I  the  conctuiiion  that  the  learned,  dignified,  lowly-minded 

3Iargaret  Beaufort  was  a  thousand  tiniea  greater  &*:  an 

EngliHh  woman  than  her  «on  iraa  ta  an  Engliah  king, 

I  Henry  VU/e  murder  of  the  boy  Earl  of  Warwick  was 

fts  fvul  a  crime,  at  least,  as  Hicliard  Ill/a  murder  of 

I  the  young  princes,  Lis  nepheirn 


IlUfMrationt  of  tht  Life  of  Shahtpeare,  in  a  Discurttvt 
Seria  of  Eiaayt  ofi  a  Variety  of  SnlJ^cU  connecltd 
wilk  the.  Personal  and  Literary  History  of  the  QftiU 
DramaifxL  Parti,  (Longmans  It  Co.) 
I»  about  130  folio  pat^s,  Mr.  J,  O.  Halliwcll  hr»s  con- 
tribnted  much  raluable  information  aa  to  Burbage's 
"  desenriiig  nmn  "  and  his  timea.  This  was  to  be  ex- 
pected from  such  a  practised  hand,  and  from  such  an 
unnearied  power  of  reac&rch,  aa  Mr.  Haltiweirs.  The 
merits  of  the  first  part  tuduce  us  to  look  with  »ome 
impatience  for  the  second.  Meanwhile,  we  make  note 
of  one  of  the  author's  rcmarka,  which  is  worthy  of  beiujg 
borne  in  mind  by  the  occuaionally  perplexed  readers  of 
Sbuks||>eare.  *'  It  li  not  improbable  that  tome  of  ^httkC' 
Bpcare  a  works,  perfect  in  their  art,  when  represented 
before  a  select  audience,  might  have  been  deteriorated 
by  their  adaptation  to  the  public  stage  ;  and  that  in  &omo 
instances  the  latter  copies  only  have  boen  preserved/* 

The  Bnrne  Calendar :  a  Manval  of  Burmiana,  relatina 

Event*  in  the  PoeCt  Hiitory^  Names  nt$ociattd  teith 

hi*  Life  and    Writin^Mj  a  evndu  Billiouranhy,  and  a 

p  -    ''    ^  fturna  Keltcs.    (Kilmarnock,  M'Kic.) 

Ȥ.  of  the  QUnriddd  MSS.  of  Burfit*s  Poemty 

1'  PoeMM  nmer  before  I*tihiijthed,    Edit<fd  by 

Henry  A.  Bright.      Printed  for  Private  Circulation* 

(Livcrpooh  Gilbert  it  Walmaley.) 

ThR.sk  two  volumes  are  indiapenanble  to  all  libraries  coU" 

taining  the  works  and  biography  of  Burns,  whose  owners 

wish  to  possess  in  a  convenient  form  every  sort  of  sup- 

plementary  knowledge  that  could  be   collected   having 

reference  to   the  poet,  the  man,  and  bis  productions. 

Mr.  3M*Kie*#  work  ia  of  real  general  Tolue^  tmd  Mr. 

Bright's  of  particular  interest. 

Uitiory  of  the  Conjlict  bei%teen  Religion  and  Science.     By 

J.  W.  Draper,  M.D.  (H.  8.  King  it  Co.) 
Diu  BaAPKa's  book  is  the  thirteenth  volume  of  the  weU- 
eatablisbed  International  Scicntllic  Series.  Tho  author 
ia  Professor  in  tho  Univeraity  of  Mew  York.  He  has 
written  a  work  that  was  univcrFallv  desired,  and  wunt^ 
ing  this  bist^jry  we  should  lack  all  clear  knowledge  of 
the  conflict  that  began  at  Alexandria  and  ia  racing  now. 
l>r.  i'raper,  referring  to  the  early  ;  r  '  n  of  tho 
new  religion  of  Christianity  by  ml  remarks, 

that  ''none  of  the  ancient   clnssic^i  i    ^  ;  i       ;  hers  had 
ever  taken  advantage  of  such  a  means/' 

Th£  History  of  Advertising,  fi'om  the  Earliest  Timet, 

IMustmted  by  A  need  o  ten,  curious  Specimens,  and  Bio* 

graphical  Notes.    By  Uenry  Sampson.    With  lilustni^ 

tions  and  Fac  similes.     (Chatto  k  Windus.) 

Mk.  Sjimfsov^b  book  is  one  of  tlie  most  amusing  Ihut  we 

hare  met  with  for  a  long  period.    It  is  a  wonderful 

chronicling  of  social  history  in  every  possible  form. 

77k  IForjb  of  Alfred  Tmnyson*     JdylU  of  (he  Ring, 

(U.S.  King  it  Co.) 
Trns  is  the  seventh  volume  of  the  elegant,  portahle,  and 
cheap  serioa  of  the  works  of  the  Poet- Laureate,  which 
will  be  comprised  in  ten  volumes.  A  more  "handy'* 
edition,  or  one  more  likely  to  be  pcnuanently  popularj  ii 
not  to  be  expected. 

Wk  have  received  The  Philotophu  of  HamUi,  by  T. 
Tyler,  M.A.  (Williams  k  Norgftte.)  The  able  writer^ 
interpreting  the  sentiments  of  Hamlet,  suggcsta  thnt, 
"wo  may  with  probability  conclude  that  we  have  in  the 
conduct  of  Hamlet  a  dramatic  representation  of  the  will 
of  man  as  governed  by  a  higher  Will,  a  Will  to  nbich  all 
fictions  and  events  are  subordinate,  and  which,  in  as 
mysterious  and  incomprehensible  manner,  is  ever  tending 
to  the  accomplishment  of  inscrutable  purposes/*— iJny 
Sh4tche$  of  the  Parithei  of  Bootersiotm  and  Donnylrook, 
in  the  County  of  Dublin^  by  the  Rftx.  ^.  \i..\^a«J*ssiL. 


628 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(Dublin,  Herbert, 1  A  very  amuairtg  and  useful  little 
j-^corl  of  t\v  <iijt  euburba  of  Dublin,— /*r«c«i 

Pmitinn  oj  rcArarttf:  a  Ftw  Word*  front  a 

Liii/man/  {L., ...^.■•.,^,}  Earl  Nelaon's  ftdTice  is  to 
"  demnnd  with  a  united  Toice  from  CottTocmtioti,  tUe 
maintt'iiance  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  in  iti  in- 
te^rity^  and  the  preservation  of  all  the  old  Catholic 
hciita^'c  of  our  Church."— JA*  Potition  of  ths  Cei^rant 
at  the  Ilobi  ComTMumon^  a*  IlttliU  hy  tkt  Purchat  Judg- 
men/,  consfdertd  ta  a  LtUer  to  the  Lord  Bixhop  of  Win- 
ckist^r,  hy  Morton  Shaw,  M.A.  (Rivingtoup.)  A  fairly 
V.  St,  111  which  the  meftnlngs  of  **  North  side" 

L  eiid'*  Hre  discuaaed  with  temperate  con'- 

gi        I         {  the  "Judgment "  and  its  iosuea. 


Mb.  H.  T.  WxitE,  OcKikermouth,  writes :— "  In  a  Email 
thrabbery  adjoininj^  a  bouw  at  Moaser,  near  Cocker- 
montbi,  boa  recently  l^cen  found  a  nia^ire  finger-riog^  of 
fine  gold*  When  diBcorered,  it  wa*  lying  on  the  surfnce, 
but  19  fuppoeed  to  have  been  remoyed  ulong  with  some 
mould  from  a  garden  at  the  back  of  the  house  a  short 
time  previously.  It  is  pUin  inside,  without  any  hall- 
murk,  but  the  exterior  is  polygonal  in  shape,  having  the 
fullowing  inscription  engraved  in  large  capitala  on  thir- 
teen fuccta,  YisLi — 
+  {  10  I  SV  I  I  '  8  [  la  I  N  I  E  i  I  DB  I  AM  I  II  I  T  I 
K  :  I  A. 
The  poesiy  eeems  to  be  "Josui  signs  dk  amis  ts/' 
and  to  mean  "  Jofhua's  token  of  love  to  thee/'  the  A 
folloiving  being  the  initial  of  the  young  woman  to  whom 
it  waa  prefl«nted.  I  take  it  to  be  a  betrothal  ring  of  the 
eleventh  or  twclftb  century,  and  from  the  admixture 
of  the  Roman  and  Gothic  u  in  the  inscription,  which 
peculiarly  appears  also  in  the  great  seal  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  in  the  word  "  kvkdk,"  as  well  also  from  its 
being  in  French,  it  is  probably  as  old  as  the  Norman 
period.    I  bought  it  of  the  farmer^a  wife  who  found  it/' 

OuTiA  Serres.— Mk  Wm.  CBArPELL  writcs : — "AjS 
an  example  of  the  manner  in  which  the  soidimnt  Prin- 
cess of  Cumberland  turned  her  impudent  pro  tensions  to 
frofitable  account,  the  following  muy  be  worth  printing, 
have  extracted  it  from  my  daughter's  book  of  auto- 
graphs:— 

"'No.  15,  Lambeth  Road, 

*' '  r,  Olive,  Princess  of  Cumberland,  covenant  to  pav 
Mr.  Francis  HoUingK,  Sc^licitor,  No.  1(),  Lambeth  Road, 
the  gum  of  one  hundred  pounds  sterling  out  of  His  late 
Mijjcsty  George  IIL*a  legocey  of  15,000;.  to  myself,  as 
proTfd  at  Doctors'  Commons^  in  consideration  of  Mr*. 
EUzabeth  Uollingsi  kindly  teaching  my  daughter^  Lavinla 
Serres,  singing  and  the  piano.  Witness  my  signature, 
this  Sfitli  of  August.  1822.  Ouvs,'  " 


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**  Another  DurratiTe  poem  hai  been  prodtiead  by  Ibe 
imaj^inatlan  and  prftclii«d  pen  of  Dr.  P.  €t.  L««u    Jfe 
rapidly  from  century  to  c*Dt«ifj,  tmelng  tli«  «il  hi 
Cornish  fHiuily*  en  >vhoiii  an  uvi  of  tl«teerailioB  l« 
lonjT  »eriei  of 'calAmUi«t,  t 'rinfnntlTifr  fw  ettlttrttrtn. 
infttes  and  Kjiropathlei  ar^ 
if  tver.  btfC'D  ejipreswd  sn 
i]«  JoTei  niediiDVAlisca  i 
tltuuice.     Thfl  old  U  to  : 
the  pruclieet  of  these  1 
■tamp  of  dc'generncx.     1 1 
fully  to  the  futaru,  Ivo 
of  bellt,»  and  all  iho  t  i 
ko^age  In  wbkh  h«  it  i 
to  inako  way  (or  a  bai^J^ 
it  trould  ofl'end  even  Hyn 
previO(t*1v  caught  by  Ih 
*The  Belli  of  ItuttevilU' 
an  earnoftt,  fervid,  and  t- 
self  and  fM  '^mjoct  "— r'. 

»*1i     ■  ,.,..,„,,,. 

ckftr 
exprt- 

absent  from  the  workj  of  our 

nice  at  once  that  under  the  \tv*y 

fancy  and  carefulty-elubomtpd  diLtkiu,  u   [. ; 

cealad,and  yon  ri»e  from  dio  pc>ni*jU  Krith  j. 

of  the  tavMhk^  a  deepening  of  the  religi         _  a  ^ 

awful  iense  of  that  ileeplett  Provldtnce  for  vhicJt  ttaUtint  ^ 
too  nilnute»  and  which  Tindicatea  iy>cH  in  the  actious  aiid  lim 
of  men.** — Union  Rex-ietc. 

"Dr.  Lee  Is  no  mUk-and-MmUr  poet,    TLs  .    i 

himself,  mcMuiB  what  h«  saytt  and  saya  v  I 
mincing^  Inn^ri^.    Fow  men  poiieas  the  ^.i.^-  y,^^i,  cuUi 
from  the   [iiilpil  or  wHh  the  pen*  ef   itirring  tf|»  btntwn  m 
readers,  as  ho  fiosscsMs,     And  yet  no  nia.a  has  a.  k««n«r  •MMi  of 
thfi  toA  and  tender  side  of  nAiure,  or  a  mon  revertul  <  ~ 
for  all  tbioga  sacred-" — Miirning  f'att, 

**He  has  evidently  a  musical  ear,  as  w«ll  m  a  rkll      

tlon.  There  is  a  depth  of  thou(fbl  In  his  rencs  aol  uaworUijr 
of  the  author  of  the  '  Christian  Year'  ^'—Tablet. 

"  The  ctory  of  the  poecn  fi  told  with  mnch  ilraoiatit  I 
the  interest  Is  well  maintained »  and  t1  > 
introduL'cd    with   an  a}most  eplgraii 
lyrics,  which  here  and  there  occur,  ar<  ^^i:4 

**  Will  add  considerably  to  the  reputalton 
as  it  already  standi,  as  a  writer  of  sacred  i 


*«  Marked  with  a  rare  felicity  of  dieti 
rhythm;  and  we  would  cnH  *i»i.<*fi  ii  tiHt-rw, 
llyle  the  *  landscape  pon 

**  Elat  a  musical  ear, 
diction,  knows  horr  *     • 
he  nddf  a  deep  rr  i 
truth,  which  et«tiir 
tlan  and  Cati    » 

"  May  bo 
by  his  inert . 

marit,  wUh  nJi  liiii  kunwis  power  uri<l  viiir^jnr^  i<iUfip 
descriptions   of  Nature  and  oauinil    objeeta  ot  ' 
ilmple  beauty.*' — Obierver, 


.Aji 


duii 


Oxford  and  London  :  Jambe  Vaukmb  k  Oq» 


^r  Qu«ne«.                      J%u.                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M 

^B                    INDEX.        ^^^^^H 

^^V                   FIFTH    SERIES.— VOL.  II.             ^^^^^^| 

^ft[For  ciMsIfied  articles,  see  AHomniouB  Woukb,  Books  rioihtlt  pmuiEBD,  Efiorims,  EriTAPHS,  Foli-Loam,         ^^^B 

^K     .                          PBOTEnBS  fSTD  PhBABES,  QOOTiTtOKS,  SHAESFKlEIAirA*  ftud  SOKOS  A5i>  BALLADS.)                                         ^^^H 

H 

"   A.  (A.)  on  "Bonnie  Dmidee,'*  5 

Alexander,  or  Zinzan  family,  26,  53.  216,  558                     ^^^1 

Fraaer  of  Bmy,  hia  examinfttioo,  341 

Alexander  11.,  hi«  titles,  36,  55.  72,  96,  175                      ^^H 

A.  (A.  a)  on  Sandwich  lalwida,  175 

Allington  (T.),  minor  poet,  135,  497                                   ^^^^B 

Stuart  ftnd  SutherlftDd,  174 

Allnutt  (W.  U.)  on  the  word  antieDt,  378                         ^^H 

Abhha  on  Towers'ii  *»  UluBtrationi  of  Propliecj/'  448 

Clarke  (Rev.  Stephen),  116                                            ^^^H 

AbulJement,  its  meaning,  328.  374 

"  Life  of  Ayder  Ali  Khan/*  396                                    ^^^1 

Acacia  and  freemasonry,  157 

Pope's  Tickell'fl  Homer,  476                                        ^^^1 

Accentuation,  insular^  66  ;  American,  164 

AllyiegB!  Oylegeag*,  7                                                    ^^H 

Acbeft,  iU  pronunciation,  6S,  13&»  458,  52*3 

AJmx  dishea,  brain,  309                                                        ^^^H 

Aero  lioU  of  Anns.     Bee  Derinff, 

Alpine  fox^ogi,  89                                                                 ^^^H 

A,  D.  on  "DomiDgo  Gonaalea,"  110 

AlpresB  family  arms,  35                                                         ^^^H 

Killiecrankie  tradition,  145 

AlUr  rails  covered,  309,  522                                                 ^^H 

Adam,  hie  firRt  wife,  132,  217 

American  eulogy  on  women,  147*  4$3,  480                         ^^^H 

^Adara,  why  it  meAna  North,  Sonth,  Ea«t,  ajid  Weat,  76 

American  reprints.  835                                                        ^^^H 

HA.  {D,  D.)  on  witchcraft  in  ScotUnd,  83 

American  States,  origin  of  their  names*  82,  272,  525  ;             ^H 

HAddia  (J.)  on  '*  God  bleaa  the  mark,"  215 

their  popular  names,  174,  272                                            ^^H 

^B         "  Odteman,''  its  meaning,  153 

Amiada,  a  Christian  name,  237                                           ^^^^| 

^M         Parallel  passages,  303 

Anagram,  260                                                                         ^^^H 

^m        Party,  io  the  eenio  of  a  petion,  520 

Anecdote,  old  clerical,  204,  259                                           ^^H 

^1        ShAkspeanan%  476 

*■  Anecdote  Lives,'*  an  aphorism  in,  365,  452                     ^^^^1 

■        TeonvBon(A.),  '*  The  Poet,"  288 

*'Angler'BAsgijiUnt,"  engraved  broadsheet,  238                ^^^H 

■A«  (E.  H.)  on  Lord  ColHngwood,  877 

Anglo-Sootus  on  Arthur's  Oven  on  the  Carron,  610          ^^^H 

H         "God  and  the  King/'  9 

Fitsalana  and  Stewarts,  432                                        ^^^1 

^1         Hi^rdy  ^Rov.  Samuel^  9 

St.  MlchAers  Church,  227                                           ^^^H 

^M         Nile,  course  of  the  river,  266 

Scottish  hUtory,  343                                                    ^^^H 

V         Boa  (T^iUiam  de),  of  Yolton,  288 

Stnbbft's  ''ConstitutioQal  History,*'  304                      ^^^H 

■  A.  (E.  B,)  on  geographical  query,  3l>7 

Totnes  (Johel  de),  334                                                  ^^^1 

■   Affidavit  eiridenc*^  186 

Aane,  a  manV  name,  478                                                   ^^^H 

Africa,  a  lea-port  town,  56 

Aime  (Queen)  and  the  Dnchess  of  Marlborough,  27,             ^H 

African  aggry  bead»,  415 

303, 434                                                                              ^^M 

A.  (F.  S.)  on  LiddeU  t^.  Went^rton,  157 

Anon,  on  unantborked  arms,  272                                      ^^^^| 

Agnew  (I).  C.  A)  on  Street  Araba  In  1816,  465 

Hervey  (T.  K.),  poem  by,  89                                       ^^^H 

A.  (U.  S.)  on  H/J.  Bellan,  fko-similiat,  28 

Poem^  anonymous,  307                                               ^^^H 

'-  Dim  I^ou,"  a  poem,  129 

^^^^H 

k         •'  Private  History  of  the  Court  of  EngtaAd,"  277 

Anomymout  Works:—                                                    ^^^H 

BAtd  of  anno  Zi  Edward  I.,  SI 

Abbess  of  Shaftesbury,  109                                          ^^H 

HKikmn..  ir>..K.H,    ..lii..r  ,.f  YaU  ColL  MoffOxkie,  86 

Abbotamere,  a  tale,  109                                               ^^^1 

Ha  i                                         Vorkiihire,  US 

Acaaen^c  Errors,  109,  1 56                                            ^^^H 

Ha.  i.'                                      .$  Charles  I.,  2ti5 

Acadian  Code  of  Signals^  109                                        ^^^H 

AooompUsbed  Hypocrite^  109                                     ^^^^| 

530 


INDEX. 


f  iBdex  Sarokmait  to  the  Votewt 
I  Qonks.  vitb  Ko.  H,  Jan.  ]«.  lOTL 


Anonymous  Works: — 

Acrofls  the  Channel,  109 

Anaoreon's  Odes,  512 

Archsologioal  Epistle,  150,  251,  270 

Australian  Dramaf,  55,  497 

Avon,  a  poem,  829,  352 

Ayder-Ali-Khan,  History  of,  329,  396 

Butterfly's  BaU,  327,  352.  872,  418,  458 

Christianity  as  Old  as  Creation,  149, 175, 195,  376 

Church  Revived,  108 

Comes  Facundus  in  Via,  384 

Considerations  on  the  Marriage  of  the  Duke  of 
Cumberland,  307,  434 

Court  Convert,  345,  495 

Court  of  England,  Private  History  of,  208,  277, 
318 

Cry  of  Nature,  367,  496 

Deinology ;   or,  the  Union  of  Reason  and  Ele- 
gance, 68, 155 

Divine  Poems,  446 

Domingo  Gonsales,  110,  209,  394 

Don  Leon,  a  poem,  129 

Down  with  the  Mug,  287,  333,  358 

Economy  ;  or,  a  Peep  at  our  Neighbours,  124 

English  Transactions  in  the  East  Indies,  329 

Fielding's  Proverbs,  209,  414 

Fifty  Years'  Recollections  of  an  Old  Bookseller, 
288,  455 

'*  Fresh  Waters  from  a  Fresh  Spring,"  82 

Glory  of  their  Times,  33,  115,  257 

Golden  Meane,  447 

Haronn  Alompra,  a  drams,  110 

Heraclitus  Ridens,  268 

History  of  Scotland,  68,114 

Incompleteness,  a  poem,  408 

John  «fasper'8  Secret,  407,  475,  526 

Jonson*s  (Ben),  junior.  Poems,  208 

King  Coal's  Lev^,  110,  174 

Lambard's  Ancient  Laws,  135 

Letters  of  Sir  Thomas  Fitzosbome,  408 

Little  Poems  for  Little  Readers,  110,  173,  194 

Lives  of  the  English  Saints,  229,  293 

Lizabee*s  Love  Stoiy,  154 

Man  in  the  Moon,  210,  394 

Millennium,  dramatic  poem,  49 

Modem  Account  of  Scotland,  268,  433 

New  State  of  England,  1691,  429,  475 

Nubilia,  407,  497 

Philanthropist,  a  poem,  408 

Procbs  (Le)  des  Trois  Rois,  95,  357 

Rarities,  513 

Reginald  Trevor,  a  tale,  19,  137 

Rights  of  the  Christian  Church,  105,  376,  415 

School  Dialogues  for  Boys,  367 

Second  Maid's  Tragedy,  465 

Sibilla  Odaleta,  58 

Skating  Literature,  107,  156,  318,  379 

Talleyrand  de  Perigord  (0.  M.),  Memoirs  of,  329 

The  Widow  of  the  Wood,  88,  136 

Universe,  The,  428 

Walk  in  ShetUnd,  69 

Whale's  Jubilee,  418,518 

Wisdom's  better  than  Money,  134 
Antient,  a  military  term,  182,  878 
Ante  hying  up  com,  494 


Anwjl,  a  Welsh  word,  19, 187 
Ap,  m  Welsh  surnames,  157,  257 
Apparitions,  spiritual,  476 
Archssologioal  Institute^  40, 400 
Archer  fiunily  of  Woroestershire^  21,  94, 196 
Areawt,  a  Lancashire  word,  184 
Argyll :  "The  Bonnie  House  of  Airlie,"  28,  74, 113 
Aristo,  phydcian  at  the  Court  of  Akbar,  308,  453 
Aristophanes,  <'The  Eofflish,"  325,  404,  484 
Aristotle  on  dancing  ana  poetry,  828,  491 
Arithmetic:  Casting  out  nines,  86 
Armiger,  a  nom  de  plume,  458 
Armour  in  churches,  888,  494 
Arms,  assumption  of,  78,  477  ;  nnanthoriied,  187, 
272;    Dering  Roll,    283;    Northern   BoU,  lemf. 
Richard  II.,  842,  442 ;  of  English  Sees^  462;  519. 
See  Heraldic  and  Heraldry, 
kxTsx^,  the  Parliamentary,  flogging  in,  86 
Armytage  (D.)  on  "  King  Coal's  Lev^**  110 

Pelegrin  (Abate),  anecdote,  249 

R.  (W.  J.),  "  Fresh  Waters,"  82 

Tea-table,  lines  on  511 
Arnold  (F.  H.)  on  <'The  Golden  Meaoe,**  447 
Aroint,  in  Shakspeare,  184,  277 
Arthur  (Mrs.  Mary),  a  centenarian,  122 
Arthur's  Oven  on  the  Carron,  510 
Arthurian  localities  :  Scotiand,  181 
Artichoke,  the  Jerusalem,  17, 172 
Arundel :  Latimer,  88 
Arundel  Marbles,  887 

A.  (S.)  on  St.  John's  Chapel,  Bedford  Bow,  461 
Asses,  how  to  silence  their  braying,  287,  454 
Assize  Sermons,  249 
Astucious  for  Astute,  249,  338 
Atchin,  Jacobus  piece,  35,  79 
A.  (T.  J.)  on  Catullus :  '*  Hoc  ut  dixit>'*  &c.,  469 

Seals  in  two  parts,  352 
Attwell  (H.)  on  origin  of  the  epithet  "bloody,'*  17 

Clock-striking,  478 

Words  passing  from  one  language  to  another,  417 
"Auld  Wife-hake,"  154 
Auna,  as  a  Christian  name,  448 
Australian  drama,  55,  497 
A.  (W.  E.  A.)  on  BaUads  by  W.  T.,  249 

"  Down  with  the  Mug,"  287 

Haytianpoet,  109 

Placido,  Cuban  poet,  149 
Axon  (W.  E.  A.)  on  "  Butterfly's  Ball,"  873 

"  Fanatic,"  introduction  of  the  wend,  225 

"  Fifty  Years'  Recollections,"  455 

Hervey  (T.  K),  poem  by,  175 

Locke  (John)  and  the  Quakers,  266 

'*  Modem  Account  of  Scotkmd,"  483 

**  ProcU  (Le)  des  Trois  Rois,"  95 


B.  on  "Bonnie  Dundee,"  357 

"  Epitafi  Giocosi,"  511 

Naaman  the  leper,  188 
/3.  on  Richard  Bentley,  Master  of  Trinity,  849 
Back  (Sir  James),  noticed,  248 
Bacon  (Miss  Delia)and  Shakspeare's  jmnt anthon^  24€ 
Bacon  (Francis),  Baron  Yemlam,  portrait  by  Vsb 
Somer,  161;  and  Shakspeare's  pUyt,  161,  246;  850 
Badge,  silver,  9 


BBfel^'S^'.Jriil'i'S:^)      ^^^N  D  E  X.                                         531           J 

B.  (A.  E,)  on  miiemomc  caleadarp,  3&3 

Beastie-tnilk,  In  Scotland,  64                                                 ^^^^| 

B.  (A.  H.)  on  Cyril  Touroeur,  465 

r]«Aton  (Mary),  the  Queen  of  SooU'  attendant,  422           ^^H 

•*  Y»Dge  MoDday^"  28 

Beauchamp  (£j.)  on  Miltou'a  "  L'AUegr»,"  163                    ^^H 

Bailey  fAmily  of  L&nc&shire,  407 

VVords  changing  thtiir  meaning,  197                             ^^^H 

Bi^ilcy  {-J,  E,)  on  B*iley  family  of  Lancaahire,  40?       ' 

Beaven  (A.  B. )  on  Elizabeth  Canning,   117                           ^^^H 

JiAiley'a  Dictionane§,  511                                         I 

Churchill  iJ. !,  M.P.  for  Newtown,   110                               ^M 

Engby  family,  427 

"  History  uf  the  General  Election  of  1S02,**  83          ^^M 

Dedicatiunii,  profuse,  3^1 

Shirley  family,  96                                                          ^^M 

Fox-huuting,  314 

Swift  {K.),  hheriff  of  London,  438                             ^^H 

FuUer  (Dr.  Thomas),  IOC 

Wandeiforde  (Sir  Chriitopher),  370                                 ^^M 

Fuller  (Mr),  hh  "  ComplamV  US 

"  When  York  to  Heaven,"  96                                               ■ 

-  Glory  of  their  Time*,"  115.  267 

Becker  (ID  on  Aristotle  on  dancing  and  muaic,  323                ^H 

London  compared  with  Antioch,  279 

Beckford  (William)  on  Southey,  3^34                                           ^M 

Beckiogton  on  Sir  Edward  Hun^erford,  203                        ^^^H 

Rjuik  rider,  ita  meamng,  357 

Dede  (C)  on  '*  Divine  Poenu?,"  440                                      ^^^B 

**Raritiei,"  513 

Epitaph  in  Claveriey  church,  326                                ^^^H 

Reeves  " Fubliko  Devotions,"  lOS 

Holly  and  mitttletoe,  509                                                ^^^H 

Bjfciley  (NrtihAD).  hia  DictiouixritJs*,   ]m,  258,  514 

Night-crow:  Bittern,  76                                               ^^^H 

BiilUe,  Be-O^,  kc,  Buroamej.,  ISO,  351 

Nunery  rhyme,  14                                                       ^^^H 

Baily  (Johnson)  on  an  old  clerical  anecdote,  259 

Bedeii  family,  8,  331,  413                                                    ^^H 

*'  Antient,"  a  military  term,  133 

Beer  and  wine,  and  beer  and  cider,  186,  235                     ^^^1 

»*  Defender  of  the  Fwth,'"  264 

B.  (E.  G.)  on  Latin  and  Greek  verse,  248                         ^^^1 

Grewe,  »\(.  Grodc,  625 

Bell  iuBcriplions,  45,  360,  330                                               ^^^1 

Marriftges  in  Lent,  495 

Bell  (i.)  on  Georgu  Uolman,  131                                             ^^^H 

Nftaman  the  leper,  258 

BeLUra  {Eenty  John),  fiic  rimUist,  2$,  314                                 ^1 

Symbol  in  fltMned  gU«s,  435 

BeUi,  of  Hatldenham,  117,  194,  814  ;  coins  on,  147  ;             ■ 

Tregotae  (Thomw),  work*,  4y3 

royal  headd  on,  318                                                                     ^M 

Brim's  piece,  a  S<Jotti»h  custom^  612 

Benct  (Arabroisf)  of  BaUtrode,  347                                    _^^M 

Baliol,  Bailleul,  &c.,  eurnamei?,  136,  351 

Bennett  (T.  1)  on  Milton  a  '*  L' Allegro,"  91                      ^^^1 

Baliol  ^John),  King  of  Scotland,  his  tomb,  OS 

Sheridan  and  '*The  School  for  HcandaV'  34               ^^H 

■^  BAlUd*  by  W.  T.,  249 

Beatley   (Richards,    Master    of  Trinity,   hi*  family,             ^M 

Ballantyne  preai,  first  work,  102 

319                                                                                              fl 

Ballooning  ilLuatrated,  366 

Berghe,  or  Bergno  (C,  V.),  artiae,  209                                ^^M 

Baliac  (EonoftS  de)  and  Shelley.  106 

Beroe7*l  {Q,  de)  on  BibUcal  evidence,  458                         ^^H 

Banim  (Michael),  hm  death,  254,  399 

Book-preEaoea,  55                                                       ^^^M 

Banwell  Court,  Homeraet,  armi^,  88.  251 

Banyan *8  imitators,  397                                                ^^^H 

Barbadoes  and  the  Guardu  of  Charie«  L,  265 

Burning  the  dead,  336   ^                                               ^^^H 

Barclay  (U.)  on  docQinicak  at  Exeter.  228 

CarpatHan  Mountainf,  76                                             ^^^H 

Bardaley  (C,  W,)  on  Shakjpeare'a  imine,  2 

Lambard's  Ancient  Law#,  135                                      ^^^H 

BarUolf  family  of  Wirmegay,  17 

'*  Lii}abee*8  Love  Story,''  154                                         ^^H 

Barker  (G.  F.  R.)  on  death  and  burial-place  of  King 

Pafical'5  ''  Provincial  Lottery,*'  16(^                               ^^^H 

^       Stephen,  368 

Percy,  the  tronkoiAker,  275                                        ^^^H 

B   B&rned  eurname  and  family,  176 

Qaoita,  worki  on,  76                                                    ^^^| 

■   Baronetcie*,  unsettled,  16,  297,  410 

Soofcch  baronetcy,  495                                                    ^^H 

''       Barro  (Marie  de),  granddaughter  of  Edward  IIL,  188, 

Skating  literature,  379                                                 ^^^1 

263, 358 

«'  Situate "  for  mtuated,  64                                           ^^H 

Barry  (Jamea),  fund  aubacribed  for,  4SS 

Tavern  iuBcription,  93                                                 ^^^H 

Barry  more  (Lord),  an  injustice  done  by.  4(>S 

Tintem  Abbey,  237                                                    ^^H 

Bar  Cjinister,  IS,  198,  337 

''TopographiaHibemlcA,'*  64                                      ^^H 

Barton  (Dr.).  hia  pun,  67,  135 

Ulster  words  and  phnuN^,  93                                        ^^^H 

Bathi  in  the  Middle  Ag««,  362 

Watermarks,  357                                                       ^^H 

Wingfield  (Edward  Maria),  237                                  ^^B 

Baynea  (John),  **  Archieolo^cal  EpiaUe,'*  261,  270 

"  Wiadom  'a  better  than  Money,^*  134                         ^^U 

B.  (B,)  on  Kailey'a  "Dictionary,"  156 

Betty  (Master),  the  "  Young  Roaciua,**  death  of,  ISO                ^M 

B.  (C.  E.)  on  Proverbs,  385 

B^ique,  its  dcriration,  58                                                          ^M 

k    B.  (C,  0.)  on  wide  use  of  the  word  "  field,**  377 

B.  (G.)  on  Backford  on  Southey,  364                                ^^^H 

■           HaUtWych,  Sll 

B.  (G.  A.)  on  *'Make  a  bridge  of  gold,^'  &c.,  213             ^^H 

■            "Shot,"  ai  a  termination,  149,  355 

ParaUel  passages,  464                                                   ^^H 

■  R  (C.  T:)  on  -  When  York  to  Heaven,"  ke,,  198 

B^  (G.  F,)  on  the  two  thieves  at  Calvary,  1G7                   ^^^H 

■   B.  (C.  W.)  on  George  IYth*i  aozi%  352 

B,  (IL)  on  Jonathan  Edwards,  of  America,  29                  ^^^H 

■  B.  (E.  A.)  on  covered  altar-nuk.  522 

Epigrams  from  the  Greek,  416                                    ^^^H 

■  Beai«,  Baitlie,  kc.,  Burmunea,  1S6.  351 

*^  Oakleigh  Forest  Code,"  368                                      ^^M 

■  BMCle  (J.)  on  B«ale,  BaiiUe,  Ice,  etirnameiv  186 

B.  (H.  A.)  on  Lampedusa  in  1690,  193                             ^^H 

■          Elizabeth  and  Uabef,  215 

''ProWdence  on  the  ride,"  &o,,  307                        ,     ^^H 

._._„ 

Rohwd  (Madame),  Memoir*,  41 1                              ^^M 

532 


INDEX. 


rindtx  Svnd«B«Bt  to  tbt  ir«tci  aai 

iQuorias,  wfth  Ko.  8i,  Jan.  IC.  IVH 


Bible,  note  on  Psalm  xc.  10,  in  **  The  Speaker's  Com- 
mentary," 75;  editions  of  the  "  Breeches,"  198, 238, 
296  ;  Blow's,  248,  324,  360 
Biblical  evidence,  228,  274,  458 
Bibliography  of  Utopias,  252 

Bibliothecar.  Chetham.  on  "  Every  man  is  the  archi- 
tect," &c.,  156 

Parallel  passages,  6 

Sarpi  (Paolo),  -489 

bhakspeariana,  283 

Swans,  their  musical  quality,  16 

'^  Topographia  Hibemica,"  855 

Wollaston's  "  Religion  of  Nature,"  316 
Bideford,  strange  epitaph  at,  25 
Bigarriety,  its  meaning,  307,  434 
BiUoD,  its  derivation,  449 
Bingham  (C.  W.)  on  parallel  passagep,  345 

**  Plus  est  en  vous,"  514 
Biography,  universal,  works  on,  485 
Birch  (W.  J.)  on  Bunyan's  compeers  and  predecessors, 

104 
Bird  (T.)  on  two  churches  in  one  churchyard,  208 
«  Bird's  Neat,"  a  poem,  167,  213 
Bishops,  their  titles,  136 
Bittern  and  night-crow,  76,  258 
B.  (J.  E.)  on  Epigram :  '<  A  learned  prelate,"  326 
B.  (J.  G.)  on  Rev.  Stephen  Clarke,  217 

Sterne  as  a  poet,  17 
B.  (J.  H.  A.)  on  John  Tregosse,  341 
B.  (J.  R.)  on  "Lives  of  the  EngUsh  Saints,"  293 

Singleton  (Rev.  Dr.),  of  Rugby,  209 
B.  (J.  W.)  on  SheriflTs  orders  for  execution,  487 
Blackburn  (W.)  on  Chancels  placed  westward,  288 
Blaeu*s  Atlas,  267,  415 
Blair  (D.)  on  ppiritual  apparitions,  476 

Llandafif  (6p.  of),  temp,  James  I.,  467 

Paray-le-Monial  pilgrimage,  446 

Spanish  legends,  512 

Tweedledum  and  tweedledee,  465 
"  Blanchardine  and  Eglantine,"  Hamburg  copy,  464 
Blenkinaopp  (E.  L.)  on  **  Abuliements,"  328 

Christian  names,  512 

Dee  (Dr.),  his  crystal,  86 

**  Favour,"  in  Shakspeare,  103 

Houselling  cloth,  522 

Jewish  prayers  for  the  dead,  297 

Liddell  V.  Westerton,  212 

Lunar  rainbow,  92 

March  dust,  198 

"Money  the  sinews  of  war,"  239 

*'  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  9 

Sunflower,  17 

"Taking  a  sight,"  166 

Thistle,  the  blessed,  95 

Titles,  epipcopal,  137 
Blood,  and  the  pride  of  birth,  106 
Blood  (W.),  "  drawback  "  explained,  74 

**  Rendez-Vf.us,"  255 

Ribbon  :  Ribband,  75 
Bloody,  origin  of  the  epithet,  17,  359 
Bloomfield  (W.)  on  cipher- writing,  416 

Clare  (John),  Northamptonshire  poet,  302 
Blount  (Edmund),  heraldic  painter,  209 
Blount  (Michael  Henry)  of  Mapledurham,  220,  375 
Blow  (James),  his  Bible,  248,  324,  360 


Blyth  (A.  W.)  on  Vrench  diotionariei,  28 
Blyth  (H.)  on  rank-rideis,  98 
Blyth  (H.  T.)  on  parallel  p•angei^  145 
Blyth  (J.  N.)  on  "Hogmany,"  617 
Boar's  head  at  Christmas  607 
Boddington  (R.  S.)  on  Yinoent  and  Kewcombe  fami- 
lies, 149 
Wyat  and  Wood  families,  108 
Wyatt,  Browne,  Tn&ell  famiUesE,  87 
Bohemian,  misuse  of  the  word,  866 
Bohun  and  Bowne  fiimilies,  247 
Boleyn  family  pedigree,  246 
Bolton  (Lavinia  Felton),  Dooheia  of,  portrait,  13 
Bonaparte  (Madame  Jerftme),  ancestor!,  97 
Bonaparte  (Napoleon),  scafiR>ld  at  Waterloo,  S16 
Bone  (J.  W.)  on  Shropshire  wills,  474 
Bones  and  bone-dust,  from  Egypt,  385,  434,  526 
Bonnefoy  (F.),  engraver,  335 
"  Bonnie  House  of  Airlie  ; "  Argyll  and  Montrose,  2S, 

74,  113 
Book-plates,  armorial,  exchanged,  169 
Book  prefaces,  their  introduction,  55 
Books,  notes  in.     See  Fly-leaf  jTucriptions. 
Books,  old  better  than  new,  265  ;  movable  figures  in, 

287,  396,  435  ;  illustrated,  444,  466,  511. 

Books  recently  pnblished:— 

Abbott's  Elements  of  Greek  Accidence,  879 
Abdulla  (Hakayit),  Translationn,  by  J.  T.  Thomp- 
son, 300 
Anderson's  America  not  Discovered  by  Columbai, 

420 
Ashby-Sterry's  Tiny  Travels,  219 
Attwell's  Table  of  the  Aryan  Langaagei,  339 
Babington's  Hospital  of  St.  John,  Cambridge,  199 
Bacon   (Francis),    Baron    YeruUm,    Life   and 

Letters,  159 ;  Essays,  199 
Ballads  and  Songs  of  Scotland,  by  J.  C.  Murrav, 

100  ^ 

Barot's  Histoire  de  la  Litt^rature  Contemponine 

en  Angloterre,  420 
Barrow's  Mutiny  of  the  Bounty,  100 
Bossuet  and  his  Contemporaries,  459 
Brooke's  Handy-Book   of  the   Public   Worship 

Regulation  Act,  379 
Brown's  Notes  upon  Notts,  118 
Buddicom's  St.  Chad's  Day  in  Lichfield,  39 
Bums  (Robert)  Calendar,  527  ;  Glenriddel  MSS., 

ib. 
Busk's  The  Yalleys  of  Tirol,  80 
Calendar  of  State  Papers  :  Foreign  Series,  llizs- 

beth,  1569-71,  459 
Camden  Society :   Account  of  the  Executors  of 

Richard,    Bi^op  of   London,    1303,    and  of 

Thomas,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  1310,  59 
Case's  Athenian  Democracy,  20 
Chappell's  History  of  Music,  59 
Chronicles  and  Memorials  of  Great  Britain  Kod 

Ireland:    Memorials  of   St.    Dunstan,   498; 

Chronicon  Angliae,  1328-88,  t5. 
Cooper's  Memoirs  of  Margaret,  Countess  of  Bicb- 

mond  and  Derby,  627 
Crosthwaitc  on  The  Last  of  the  Derwentwaters, 

420 
Cure's  The  Message  to  Arohippus,  219 


533 


^ki  receutlj  published:^ 
D'Etrcilleft'a  Lea  ('!  '  ;  Par  S»in^%  WJ 

Dob«OD*a  Civil  Sti .  i^ok,  171^ 

Draper'fl  Conflicl  tv.-.v-^  i.Uigloa  nad  Science, 

527 
Fallow's  Viait  to  ArcUbiHhop  Loop,  280 
Fuller  (Dr.  ThomasK  Life,  by  J.  E.  B^ihy,  31S 
Gilbert  ^Mra,),  Autobiogiaphy,  471* 
€ir0ethe*&  HermAim  and  Dorotbtria,  JOS 
GreAt  Converses,  80 
Greville  MemoirSy  iZ*J 
Henid  and  Genealogiiat,  20 
Herodotus  :  PhlUpoLt'B  Stories  io  Attic  Greeks  20 
Hifitorictil     Manuscripts    CommiBiitOQ  :     Fourth 

Report,  218 
History  of  a  Ship,  100 
HoILmd  (.roho)*  Life,  by  W.  Hudson,  Zm 
Holt's  White  Hose  of  Langley,  4Z9 
'HopeWiAVs  Legend  a  of  the  Missouri  and  MiBaia- 

wppj,  100 
Hore  s  T«rmB  And  Measures  of  L»ud,  260 
How»rd'«  Old  Legend  of  St,  PaulV,  3U» 
Jaeox'fl  Scripture  Proverb*,  420 
Je*ffre8on'a  Book  about  the  Table,  iSO 
Joumftl  of  the  AaaociAtioo  of  Ireland^  25\) 
Kempia  (Thomas  h%  Of  the  Imit&tion  of  Christ, 

899 
Lagondie's  Lo  Cheval  et  son  Cavalierj  199 
La  Pluie  et  le  Beau  Temps,  199 
Le»thw*iThQ  Eeligion  of  the  Christ,  419 
IjQcti«&ar>^  Bible,  399 
L/ett*a  Koinan  loapenal  Profileii,  279 
Letters  addressed  to  Thomas  Heoruo,  M.  A,  IIS 
Lordan  on  certain  English  Surojunes,  199 
Lowder  on  Sacramental  Cotifeniiiion,  219 
Lower^s  Wayaide  Notiss  In  Scandinavia,  219 
MacmiUanV  Magazine,  11$ 
Magician,  The,  a  Drama,  319 
Mftiuoc,  Eveline,  &c.,  39 
Mauiiale  Clericorum,  20 
^Teuerti   Letter  on  ihe  Standards  of  the  New 

C<«lt%  219 
Stillin^ton'n  Latin  Ekerotses  on  BarUaxistni  S19 
Milton's  Paradise  L'>3t,  199 
Kaftk<*>  ScTnTor^ic  Fairy  Tale««,  100 
N'  1 Y  Magazine^  60 

Ki  rxtocka  and  their  Associationf,  239 

>i  '   The,  493 

P  .  lion  of  Great  Yarmouth.  219 

P.,^  _     _    .    _  nary  of  Coata  of  Arms,  479 

Parville  8  Causeries  Scientifiques,  239 
Fcacock''s  Army  List  of  the   Roundheads    and 

Cavaiierr.  359 
P«l  (Sir  liJj  Historical   Sketch,  by  Lord  Dal- 

]■ 
P<  of  the  Shah  of,  527 

Pt;,  ,  ...  ,  .^;  de*  Bibliophiles  Dauphinois,  239 
Philiip»'s  Memoira  of  tbe  Civil  War,  498 
Piggott's  Persia,  Ancient  and  Modern,  179 
FiJzettaa  L'Aquarium,  199 
Proctor's  Memorials  of  Manchettefi  279 
Quarterly  Keview,  99,  379 
Records  of  the  I'a^t  being  Euglisbt  17^ 
Rhymes  for  the  Time*,  319 
Robertson's  Hlitory  of  the  Chriwlian  Clmi'dr,  139 


Booki  recently  publiahed:— 

Rogers's  Hcoitish  Reformurji,   199 

Ilowky*-^  WLtsn  You  Seu  Me,  You  Know  Me»  118 

St.  Luke's  Gospel,  in  Anglo- Saxon,  by  W.  W. 

Skeat,  359 
Sampson's  History  of  Advortitiag,  021 
Bftvile'fi  Ap}iaritions  :  a  Narrative  of  Facts,  SO 
Soribner'i  Monthly,  79,  139 
Shakjipeare,  Illustrations  of  his  Life,  527 
Sharpens  Architecture  of  the  CisiercianSi  139 
Shaw'a  Clan  Battle  at  Perth,  2^0 
Simple  Poems^  199 

Storr's  English  School  Claadlc?.  19«  199,  499 
Tennyson's  Works,  118,  527 
Thomson's  SeAaoas^  199 
Thombury'ft  Old  and  New  London,  499 
Tomlinaon  on  the  Sonnet,  499 
Tyler  on  the  Philosophy  of  Hamlet,  lilj 
Walcott's  Cousti lotions  and  Canotjs  of  tbe  Church 

of  England,  19S 
Waring's  Ceramic  Art  in  Remote  Agti?,  52*j 
Withers   on  the   English  Language  Spelled  a* 

Pronounced,  319 
Wordsworth  (Dr)  on  the  New  Lectionary,  399 
Wordsworth  (William),  Selections,  199 
Wordsworth  s  Social  Life  in  the  English  tJnlTer- 

sitie^,  459 
Yeatman's  Introduction  to  Early  English  Hb* 

tor}',  359 
Booty's  ghost,  608 

*  " '  the  custom,  308,  456 


Borough  English,  locality  of  1 
Bosh,  its  derivation,  53,  47S 


Boss,  its  meaiUBg,  275 

Both  well  (Sergeant).     See  Capt,  FmncU  Stewart* 

Bouchier  (J.)  on  ** Carmagnole,'*  8 

Clarke's  Shakespeare  Coiicordanoe,  14 

CorbiUon,  a  French  game.  3SS 

Cromwell,  anecdotes  of,  8tl 

Macaulaj  on  Milton  and  S^ienser,  1^0 

Mollfere  (J,  P.  B.  de),  449 

^Ifrallel  pa^^ag^es,  345 

Scott  (Sir  ^Valter),  1 
Bow = Bridge,  4'j7 

Bower  (J.)  on  **  Little  Poems  for  little  Readers,"  110 
Bowne  and  Bohun  families,  217 
Boyle  (E,  M.)  on  John  Prouz,  1(jCI,  348 
Boyle  (G.  D:)  on  Tickulla   Momer^s   Iliad,  witii  M3. 

notes  by  Pope,  369 
Bradford'On-Aron,  it*  Saxon  church,  180 
Bradley  (Martha),  of  Hiuntistead  Heath,  'A^ 
"  Brag  "  miaifitry,  45 
BrmmhaU  famUy  arms,  287,  ^^"^ 
Braose  family  t>edigree,  3iX  -15,  13o 

Bcaoae  (Mary  de),  her  pan  i 
Brewer  (E.  C.)  on  granrl  daumiif  r  ji  KJward  IiL,259 

Spelling  reforms,  61,  123,  143,  ld3,  277 
Bridge  (C,  A.  G,)  on  Portuguese  coin,  327 
Bridgford  family,  368,  522 
Bright  (H.  A.)  on  portrait  of  Hogarth,  433 
Briscoe  (J.  P.)  on  Christniaa  cuatoms  of  Notts,  509 

Haddenham  church  bells,  314 
"British  and  Continental  TiUes  cf  Honor,"  23,  95, 

195,  351 
British    Museum,   Catalogue  of  the  KeconU,   Zi^; 
note  on  the  Klng^s  Library^  360 


534 


INDEX. 


{Index  Supplement  to  the  KoCca  ud 
QjUfim,  with  2ia  K.  Jan,  1$,  un. 


British  Museum  duplicates,  157 

Britten  (J.)  on  '*  Lives  of  the  English  Saints,"  229 

Brome  (William),  noticed,  381 

Bromley  (F.)  on  the  meaning  and  deri?ation  of  Oste- 

man,  152 
Brooke  and  Powell  families,  48 
Brooke  (J.  M.  G.)  on  "  Bonnie  Dundee,'*  493 
Brown   (A.  H.)   on  the  pronunciation  of  "aches," 

526 
Brown  (J.)  on  Defender  of  the  Faith,  435 

Veto,  the  royal,  476 
Browne  family,  87 

Browne   (C.  B.)   on  the  pronunciation » of  "aches,*' 
139 
Greene's  "  upstart  crow,*'  64 
Jonson  (Ben),  jun.,  Poems,  208 
Junius  and  "The  Ministerialist,*'  86 
Lamb  (Charles)  and  Hazlitt,  266 
Shakspearian  criticism  in  1720,  285 
Browne  (Sir  Thomas),  skull  of,  526 
^t>wning  (Robert)   ''Good    News    from  Ghent  to 

Aix,"  17 
Brus  (Robert  de),  the  "Competitor,**  historical  error, 

348 
Buchanan  (George)  and  "  Stelling*'  or  "  SteaHng,*'  206 
Buohold  (Barons  de),  inquired  after,  329 
Buckley  (W.  E.)  on  "Abulyiements,"  374 
Aristotle  on  danciug  and  music,  492 
«  Butterfly's  BaU,"  373 
Catullus  :  "Hoc  ut  dixit."- &o.,  429 
"  Glory  of  their  Times,"  33 
"Hogmanv,"  517 
Buda :  Pest :  Ofen,  16,  86 
Buddha,  a  BuMian,  165,  257;   physical  meaning  of 

his  name,  215 
Bugby,  or  Bugbee,  family,  427 
"Buiit  here  for  his  envy,"  7, 132,  217,  356 
Bull  baiting,  299,  398 

Bunyan   (John),    "The    Piljrnm's  Progress,"   8,  39, 
49,  162 ;  his  parentage,  25,  40,  421 ;  bis  compeers 
and  predecessors,    104,   171 ;    his   gold   ring,   126, 
314;  his  imitators,  148,  213,  336,  397;  his  birth- 
place,  286 
Burbage  on  "Love's  Labour's  Lost,  3,  104 
Burial  in  an  erect  position,  346 
Burnet  (Bp.   Gilbert),   MS.    "History  of  His  Own 

Time,"  46 
Burning  a  pregnant  woman,  127,  172 
Burning  the  dead,  80,  336;  authorities  on,  184,  220 
Bums  (Robert),  autograph,  "To  Terraughty  on   his 
Birth-Day,"  11,  72, 196 ;  parallel  passages,  31, 158  ; 
and  George  Thomson,  407;  fragmentary  lines  as- 
cribed to    425  523 
Butler  (Samuel)J  alchemist  in  "Hudibras,"  35,  114; 

"  Hudibras"  criticised,  326,  454 
B.  (W.)  on  Hall,  Wych,  and  salt-works,  249 
B.  (W.  E.)  on  Drury  House,  138 
B.  (W.  T.)  on  Marmion  Herbert  in  Disraeli's  "Ve- 

netia,"  177 
Byland  Abbey,  Yorkshire,   and  neighbourhood,  148, 

213,240,337 
Byron  fanuly  Anna,  51Z 

Bjrron  (Cteorge  Gordon),  6ih  Lord,  t'wo  VAxmi^^n  Sxi' 
"The  8ieg9  of  Corinth,"  50, 177,  ^^^^  wi^Uo«&, 
158;  Ida  birthplace,  268,  396 


C.  on  "  Auld  Robin  Gray,"  205 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  her  attendants,  422,  446 

'* Stealing"  nj^d  "Stelling,"  206 
C.  (A.)  on  Liddell  r.  Westerton,  175 

Salic  law,  513 
Caar-cakes,  Scotch,  54 
C.  (A.  B.)  on  Tunstead  church,  409 
Cake,  therf-,  thar-,  &c.,  54 
Calcutta  relic,  112 
Calendars,  mnemonic,  233,  853,  414 
Calenturist,  its  meaning,  269,  433 
Caligraphy,  spelling  of  the  word,  473 
Calomel,  its  derivation,  4 
Calvary,  the  two  thieves  at,  167,  238 
Cambndge,  St.  John's  Hospital,  199 
Cameo,  its  derivation,  268,  453 
Campbell  (Thomas),  mistakes  in  his  poems,  206 
Campkin  (H.)  on  Mendelssohn,  136 
Canning  (Elizabeth),  biography,  27,  75,  117,  216 
"  Cantab,  The  Aged,  to  his  College  Cap  and  Gown," 

151 
Canterbury  foundlmg,  28 
Cape  Town  funeral  customs,  5 
Card  games,  150,  512 
Cardan  wells  in  Scotland,  476 
Cariisle,  the  Shaddongate  at,  275,  417 
Caroline  (Queen),  and  the  coronation  of  George  IV., 

225,  274 
Carp  introduced  into  England,  105,  214 
Carpathian  mountains,  works  on,  76 
Carr  s-  Carse  in  field-names,  71,  115 
Carvings,  grotesque  mediaeval,  847,  895 
Cashel,  M.P.  in  1801,  88 
Cathedrals  and  Oliver  Cromwell,  256 
Catullus  :  "  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  &o.,  396,  429,  469 
Cave  (Miss  Jane),  her  occupation,  512 
C.  (C.  D.)  on  "  Conmderations  on  the  Marriage,"  kc, 

307 
Cecil  (Rev.  Richard),  noticed,  461 
C.  (E.  F.  D.)  on  "Henoughe  in  Atb,"  488 
Celto-Scotus  on  Robertson  family,  288 
Centenarianism,  ultra,  122, 182,  245 
Cerevisia,  its  derivation,  33,  296 
C.  (G.  A.)  on  double  Christian  names,  477 

Voltaire  and  Rousseau,  409 
C.  (H.)  on  American  eulogy  on  women,  43 S  . 

"  Quid  hoc  ad  Iphycli  boves,"  48 
Chalgrave  registers,  co.  Beds,  curious  entry,  225 
Chance  (F.)  on  the  derivation  of  "calomel,"  4 

Marrot,  its  meaning,  510 

Morgue :  Book  of  the  Maccabees,  891 

Robertson  family,  127 

Ultra-centenarianism,  182 

Word-formation,  216 

Yeux,  its  derivation,  101,  237,  457 
Chancels  placed  westwards,  288,  352,  479 
Channel  Islands,  their  names,  240 
Chap-book  literature,  352 
Chaplains,  royal,  849 
Chapman  (George),  "Baasy  d'Ambous"  Acti.  ic.  1, 

487 
V  CStA.vai%.Ti  (,S .  K.\  on  Swale  family,  78 
\Ci\».vV^^'!^  ^  «^''  K\jSi^^^ii^^Ja).<a«.^^"  482 


Chappell  <W.)  on  **l>own  with  the  M«g/'  333 
''God  BAve  th«  King,"  105 
'*  Like  to  the  djunauk  row,'*  &«.,  373 
rles  the  £oH  Duke  of  Burgundy,  h'm  wive?,  320 
dea  I.,  M  a  poet,  93,  11(5 ;  his  guards^  265  ;  fiUver 
'    .020,310 

J  (R.  8.)  OE  the  titles  of  Alexandet  II,  36 
A^  in  Welsh  nftmei^,  267 
Borough  English,  i$6 
Boah,  its  derivation,  53 
Cameo,  its  deriv»tioi},  453 
!  CeroTtiia,  its  denvatioo,  83 
Eau  de  Tie;  ita  etymology,  2S^ 
FyemarteQi  ite  meanlog,  392 
Gocpatric  genealogy,  i  1 9 
Griffixihoofe,  its  etymology,  33 J7 
Hall:  Wych,  311 
Leoline  :  Chriitabelj  98 
I.UCUB,  iti  derivatiun,  272 
Hinickf  its  derivatioo,  235 
Pan  :  Pana^td,  17S 
Rowan>tre«^  181 
St.  Verdiana,  34 
Sboddoogate,  Its  etymology,  417 
I  Shakjpeare  s  name^  405 
I  Slimk«peadJUiA»  224,  2$2 
Vehicles,  their  nomenclature,  235 
Zinian  Street,  Reading,  53 
Chatham  (Earl  of)  and  Bailey  a  **  Dictionary/'  156,  258 
Chattan,  clan,  motto,  140,  213,  358,  437 
Ch&ttock  (C.)  on  the  name  Alesidf  395 
Field  :  Feld,  273 
*' God  nave  the  mark,**  437 
Jewi  in  England^  12 
PatZLBwiok  yew  ^ trees  J  455 
Pan:  Panfield,  178 
Pastorini,  projdiecies  of,  77 
'*  Pot  to  buck,'*  270 
Sbaddongate,  its  etymology^  275 
Sword  and  rapier,  447 
pticer    difficulties;    '*  Kike,"    41,   110,   197;    "In 
4tcleye,*'  407  ;  "  Tollen  ihriea."  ih. 
Qoer  (Geoffrey),  Urry's  edit,,  381 
Chaucer  (Robert  ^e),  noticed,  146 
^,  (H.  B»)  on  single  eye-glasses,  50 
Mary  of  Butiermere,  114 
,  (H.  D.)  on  Cowper :  Troojier,  276 
Situate,  for  situated,  54 
[Cheece  ^3ir  Henry),  the  iUtuary,  377 
k,  Lewia  Buildings^  26fl 
i  Botanic  GardeuF,  4t>3 
on  {W,  W.)  on  the  Flying  Dvitchraan,  5 
(ter,  arms  of  the  see  of,  32 
I  (H,  C)  on  snetizing  supers titionji  4 
nney  Cleaner,  i,*-,,  Sweep,  40«) 

some  works  on,  109  ;  cemeteries  Is,  3S4 
Ateldroog  on  General  Fox  and  Charles  James  Fox, 
231 

.„..-  , T.  T,  A  „..  i  v^r\  of  Pembroke,  207 
name,  98 

..hhvtian  namca  :  IMaicr,  SS  ;  Ham,  a  mAn't,  73, 
478  ;  Ultima,  S\K  452  ;  Lcolitje  and  Chmt»b«l«  &8  ; 
Giv«y.  222,  850,  481 ;  AIvbU,  227,  Si^5,  45<S ;  double, 
^^4  i'-A  £1^^,  3M,  ilT;  in  J^Attiiogtoix  reg^Ur^ 


237:  Aminda  and  Violetta,  ihr,  changed,  248,  295, 

364  ;  Violante,  &c.,  269;  carious  ft^minine,  305,  376, 

437i  512  ;  Auna,  448;  Anne,  a  man^a  name,  47S; 

Helcngenwagb,  4S8 
Cbriatie  (H,)  on  asrenteentb-century  tokens,  269,  363 
Christie  (R.  C)  on  the  Long  Parliament,  521 
Christie  (Wm.  Dougal),  iLA.,  C.B.,  death  of,  100 
Chriatmns  eontnytta,  501 
Chriatmas  custom  of  Notta,  500 
Christmas  Day  in  Holland  in  1824,  £05 ;  boar*t  head 

at  St.  John^s  Gate,  Clerkenwell,  507 
Chriatmaa  decoratiomi,  509 
Christmas  eve,  crows  t&ken  to  chorch  on,  509 
Christmas  miracle  play  (OadbrdshireK  503 
Chri^tmaa  muu:mer«  in  DorBetshire,  oOb 
ChTiBtmas  serin  onir,  502 
Christy  colleclions.  inscribed  patent,  27,  74 
Char«h  armour,  388,  494 
Chorch  plate,  its  consecration,  221 
Churches,   two  in  one  churchy  an  J,    208»  291,  624  ; 

communion-table  in  the  nave,  2S8»  397 ;  chancels 

placed  westward,  283,  352,  470 
Churchill  (Jobn\  M.P,  for  Newtown,  3679,  110, 172 
Chnrehing  of  Women,  strange  use  of  the  serrioe  for, 

125 
Cicero,  J5/>.  adAU.  iv,  15,  *'  Tarn  Tcrom,**  2«,  135 
Cidh  on  "  Quid  hoc  ad  Iphycli  bove«,'*  48 
**  Cimourdain  in  the  French  Assembly,"  249 
(Un  (Lo  Chevalier  an)  on  the  Glaatonbury  Thorn,  517 
Cipher- writing,  its  antiquity,  305  ;  it«  modern  use,  416 
Ci^ilis  on  chancels  placed  westward,  352 

GinghaiD,  its  deri ration,  366 
C,  iJ,H.)  on  the  bell  and  the  grave,  84 
Clacbnacudden  itone,  14D,  214,  451 
Clare  (John),  Northfunptonshire  poet,  letter  and  threft 

»onoets,  302 
Clarke  family,  67 
Clarke  (Mrs.  Cowden),  Concordance  to  Shakeapoare, 

omiasiong,  14, 187  ^ 

Clarke  (M.)  on  the  derivation  of  "bofth."  478 

Oliver  (Mother),  254 
Clarke  (Rev.  Stephen),  sermons,  77,  116  ;  apprentice* 

ship,  217 
Clarry  on  Breeches  Bible,  296 

Cromwell  and  the  cathedral*,  256 
*'  Like  '*  as  a  conjunction,  114 
"Mars  his  sword,"  55 
Ckymore,  date  of  an  old.  169,  256,  417 
Cleeves  (Dukes  of)»  pedigree  and  arm**,  329 
Cleghorn  (G.)  on  Soots  GreyF,  34  S 
Clergy,   parental,    in   the    Patent  lloll^,    346  :   early 

Evangelical,  in  London,  461 
Clerical  tit;^   144 

Clifford  (Sir  Lewia),  beqaetU  in  hia  fiifl,  514 
Clifton  (G.  R)  on  Astdze  sermons,  249 
Clk.  on  Sir  Gerard  Dfflete,  255 

Viccars  (John^  Oriental  scholar,  226 
Clock  striking,  26S,  432,  478 
Clogatoun  family,  57,  355 
Cloogh  {J.  L  )  on  Adam's  fiwt  wife,  132 

Devooshire  fulk-lore,  184 
Clowtes:  wayneclowtc-'j :  i>logh  dowtcn,  10 
C.  (ld.i  on  MoutaA(?n<a«  ^«fc^*,  Ti** 


,MiJ^ 


^^2ij 


536 


INDEX. 


{Tiidczfiapplement  to  the  Notei  t 
Qneriei,  with  No.  95.  Jan.  is,  ic 


Coins  :  La  maille,  57  ;  on  church  bell?,  1 47  ;  Roman, 
168,  256  ;  Roman  imperial  profiles  on,  279  ;  silver, 
of  Charles  I.,  320,  340  ;  Portuguese  brass,  827, 456 ; 
family  records  on,  427 
Col-  in  colfox,  &c.,  77,  179 
Cole  (Emily)  on  works  by  Mrs.  Serres,  216 
Coleman  (E.  H.)  on  London  companies,  198 

Monsieur  and  Madame,  205 

Post-OflBce  money  orders,  452 

Selkirk  pie,  511 

"Temple,"  the  brig,  96 
Coleridge  (Sara),  her  simile,  68 
Collaton  Church,  Devon,  dial  inscription,  25 
CoUingwood  (Cuthbert),  Lord,  his  relatives,  48,  96, 

177,  377 
Collins  (Mortimer)  on  the  English  Aristophanes,  484 

Catullus,  "  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  &c.,  396,  469 

Christian  names,  double,  271 

Gooch  (Mrs.),  1788,  488 

Hermit  of  Red-Coat's  Green,  497 

Horace,  Sat.  i.  3,  456 

"  John  Jasper's  Secret,'*  475     « 

Spelling  reforms,  231,  260 
Collyer  (R.)  on  an  American  eulogy  on  women,  439 
Colman  (George),  fugitive  pieces,  131 ;  "A  Reckoning 

with  Time,"  131,  277 
Columbus  (Christopher),  death  and  burial-place,  151 ; 

his  arms,  ib. 
Comet,  Kirch's,  of  1680  (?),  66  ;  of  1539,  77 
Commas,  inverted,  their  use,  37,  56,  97, 116,  337 
Communion  table  in  the  church  nave,  288,  397 
Compton  (Lord  A.)  on  Songs  in  "Rokeby,"  195 
Condorup,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  his  arms,  268 
Coningsby  (Earl),  his  family,  229 
Cook  (K.)  on  English  translations,  287 
Cook  (W.  B.)  on  Ballantyne  press,  102 
Cooke  (C.)  on  SerreP,  &c.,  3G4,  457 
Cooke  (J.  H.)  Arabroise  Benet  of  Bulstrode,  347 

Chnrchep,  two  in  one  churchyard,  524 
Corbillon,  a  French  game,  388 
Comub.  on  American  States,  82 

By  land  Abbey,  213 

London  fortificationp,  drawings,  188 

Portrait  of  a  lady,  488 

Wanton  (Col.  Valentine^  110 

Weir  (Major),  Edinburgh  magician,  188 
Comwallis  (Charles^,  Marquis  of,  and  Lord  Wellesley, 

Coroner,  its  derivation,  59 

Coronerships  of  England,  private,  129,  191 

Corpses  seized  for.  debt,  15,  217,   337;  entombed  in 

walls,  185,  23 i,  2PS,  307,  398.  457 
Corsat  (Philippe),  Swiss  b.irber-poet,  386* 
Cottell  (W.  H.)  on  Kirkstall  Abbey,  Yorks.,  28 
"  Court  Convert."     See  Anmymous  W<yrk8. 
Courtney  (W.  P.)  on  Skating  Literature,  318 
Cowper  (William),  his  name  rhymed  with  trooper,  16, 

Cox  (J.  C.)  on  Bunyan's  imitators,  148 
Corpses  seized  for  debt,  217 
Haddenham  church  bells,  1 04 
Hogmnny,  its  etymology,  517 
Jiwfc/ces'  wages,  228 
Templars  and  HospitaUem,  17^ 
Ck>x  (T.)  on  Halifax  Grammar  School,  40^ 


C.  (R.)  on  Archer  family  of  Worcestershire,  21 

"Otherwhiles,"  389 
Crack,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  98 
Cranfield  (Edward),  his  biography,  307 
Craw  (W.  O.)  on  an  old  song,  328 
Cremation.     See  Bui*ning  the  dead. 
Crescent,  on  silver  badge,  9 

Coins,  family  records  on,  427 

Maille,  the  coin,  57 

Notee  in  books,  46 

Vehicles,  their  nomenclature,  148 
Cricket,  early  notices  of  the  game,  121 ;  ita  name, 
Crofton  (H.  T.)  on  Gipsy  names,  349 
Crofton  (T.)  on  Gipsy  marriage  announcement,  15; 
Cromwell  (Oliver),  and  the  almanack,  6Sj  155; 
the  Cathedrals,  256  ;  anecdotes  of,  86 ;  fate  of 
body,  205,  240,  466  ' 
Crossley  (J.)  on  "  Comes  Facundus  in  Via,"  384 

Motley  (J.  L.)  and  Scioppius,  445 
Crowns  worn  by  the  Kings  of  England,  355 
Crows  taken  to  church  at  Christmas,  509 
Crozier  (J.  A.)  on  Boleyn  family,  246 
Crusade,  the  Second,  list  of  knights,  129 
C.  (S.)  on  Dr.  Donne,  poem,  85 
Cudworth  (Rev.  Ralph),  D.D.,  513 
Cumberland  (the  pseudo-Princess).     See  Serres. 
Cuper's  Gardens,  349,  394 
Curio,  on  Lord  Chief  Baron  Wandesford,  327 
Cust  (H.)  on  Pury,  or  Purey  family,  149 
C.  (W.  A.)  on  Byron's  "Siege  of  c5orintb,"  50 

Cowper:  Trooper,  16 

Howe  (Lord),  lines  on  his  great  victory,  146 

**  Hudibras,"  astrologer  in,  35 

Irish  bull,  25 

Letter,  curious  treasonable,  6 

"  Living  one's  life  over  again,"  4 

Montaigne's  Essays,  276 

Parallel  passages,  31,  464 

"  Scottish  Addison,"  325 

Staines  (Alderman  Sir  Wm.),  12  J 

"Sword  wearing  out  the  scabbard,"  100 

Walker's  "  Pronouncing  Dictionary,"  252 

"  Wine  to  the  poet,"  &c.,  366 
C.  (W.  B.)  on  Buda:  Pesth:  Ofen,  16 
Cyril  on  Locke  (John)  and  the  Quakers,  ^,'>0 
Cywrm  on  a  ghost  story,  507 
Czar,  its  derivation,  36,  55,  72,  96,  175 
Czarish  Majesty,  Empress  of  Russia,  so  styled,  240 

D 

Dagger-cheap  ==Dirt-cheap,  9 

Danish  National  Theatre,  219 

Dante  (Alighieri)  and  his  translators,  364,  43*1,  .%  12 

Darwin  (Erasmus),  noticed  in  the  Monthly  Magazi 

483 
Davenant  (Sir  William),  lines  attributed  to  him,  3 

376 
Davies  (Bp.  Richard),  D.D.,  noticed,  133,  19S,  'i'.l 
Davies  (E.  C.)  on  willow-pattern  plate,  69 
Davies  (T.  L.  O.)  on  Dagger  cheap =Dirt-cheap,  1> 
Mars  his  sword,  178 
Party,  in  the  sense  of  a  person,  520 
kT>wj\%  i^.>)  ^Tk.'^\«Ji«l=Pod  of  peas,  69 
\  TiwSa  Vj  ^'S^wKsi^  ,\si&  k&5&r3^xsc^^  \^<^ ,  l^^y  39  7 


guifblk  words,  22a 
Botue  of  Stimrt,  367 


on  Aristoil«  on  fUncing  ft&d  muaic,  -0^1 
in^'tun  luodAJf  308 
iifrly,   388 

innemoitic  ciUendAiB^  £33^  41  i 
)  im  Ameripifi  iitatee,  272 
(Rev,  Ralph),  513 
i«3ge  Mogaziae,  35 
lity  from,  283 
%.  lOS  255 

(.profuse.  831 

ahn),  hia  crystal,  8<J,  130,  218,  376 
tbti  FAith,  Mtumptioii  of  tfao  till«^  206, 

I  fmnily,  514 

^•lier).  his  sex,  160.  200 

(ThomAs),  Gough*s  fate,    li»,  75  :    ;vtid 
luUortaere,  47,  114,  175 
WintoM  earldom,  129,  170 
Hogiir),  Ills  parentage,  230 
t*f  Afui^,  283 

er  ^Eoirlb  of),  hj  int^rmenU,  486 
|er  (Jatnet),  3rd  Karl  of,  bia  teauuiui  and 


UbliAel  TLoumin 
92 


Arclideacon^  iaacrip- 
r,  'lib 
busy  biabop,  ItJd 
M/mwait  iSib  Eurl  of,  Barnamed  De 


>  tite^  9ftme«,  40^ 
Ic-loro,  184 
332 

)  on  fUL  epigTRtz),  25& 
iback,"  138 

an  namot^  237 
;  itieU;  435 
848 

rivatioii,  475 
a),  burial  pbioe^  455 
I  place  name*,  250 
|ei  Jeftenii>ij  D«vi*»  hiB  family,  397 
~l  cluirchw  in  othj  ctlu^ob7at^d,  524 
I  Chaucer  not*^  407 
le-pl-        '  '  '      ,  13G 

;  D«  \1llier«,  228 
.  itt  wbtoli  be  wrnte  "  Pick- 
i;  MS.  of   '*0«r  Mutual   Friend/' 
iMa  "BatUeof  Life/*  16i» 
I  Of«n ;  Pwth,  U 

ir»5 

.  .^■'  "■'  f'^ 

JO 

■..L«,   -vinl    gif,.   .  and 
234,  3yij»  i-:v ,    '^  TancT^/'  liook  ti 


U7 


Dixon  (J.)  on  wormln^^  dug*^  LM 

Dijtoti  (J.  Hj  00  An  Aiiitjtcan  t*.«*y  on  ivooovn,  147 

**Anti«nt/'  133 

I'iock -striking,  432 

Cortat  (PhiVi-»-'.    ';v,; 

Cowper:  'I  :  ; 

Gate:  Sbo  _  r 

"  God  save  ib«  Kiug/'  1(15 

Hanging  and  resuKuitaiiuo,  158 

St.  JamQi*s  CbafM}!,  406 

"  Taking  a  Bight,*'  255 

YaUombroBian  nun,  95 
Dixon  (R.  W.)  on  unautbori^ed  arms,  187 
D.  (J.  a)  on  "  Lord  EUerie,"  247 
D.  (L.)  on  **Oue  man^s  meat,"  4.c«,  (58 
D.  (M.)  on  Cbriatian  name  obRng«J,  248 
Dodd  (Dr,  William),  biography,  14 
Dog^  collie  or  Sootcb  Bhepberd'«,    77|   179  : 

fox,  m 
Do(r«^  inodncAa  in,  150,  212 
DominicaU,  a  church  tax,  228,  280,  293,  317 
Donne  (Dr.  JohnX  "  Abeence,"  a  poem,  S5,  li>6 
Dur»t}t8bire  Christmas  mummers,  505 
Drach  (S.  M.)  on  Rev,  Mr.  Hontingtou,  512 
Dragoons^  2nd  Royal,  baJge,  287,  Sill;  .ihdr  grey 

homes,  348,  8£«5 
Drake  (Sir  FranaiB),  arms  of,  232.  371,  41i> 
Drakd  (H,  H*)  on  amm  of  Sir  Fmndi  Drake,  232. 

371,  419 
Dramas  8Uggo«ted  by  gaming,  1  i 
*'  Drawback  "  explamtd,  74 
Drayton  (ChrUtophiJfK  line*,  ^*  To  an  AttUior/^  148 
Druid,  its  poetii    '  ,%  7^  « 

*  *  Drumclog, "  L  i  67,  2  i  0 

Dmry  House,  L.^-^  ..„^c,  Barbican,  46,  75,  133 
Drury  Lane,  '*  Fmato  Hotice  *'  in,  35 
D.  (8.  M.)  on  a  Jew'a  will,  78 
Dublin,  it«  tarem^,  168 
Dudley  (Anguatine)  of  Barnewdl,  44fl 
Dunkin  (E.)  on  Ji^remiaJi  IT  .^5 

Dunkiu  (E.  H.  W,)  un  Sir  r«  Gay,  4S9 

Duua  ScotUft,  oolupboD  to  K\>,r,      .^u^r.iabeta,'^  39 
Dtirer  (Albert),  *'Tbc  Knight,  Death,  and  the  D«?il/* 

115 
Durham   Cathedral,   relics  of  m&diicTal  intemonti^ 
\m,  200 


K.  on  Buddha  a  Kuasian,  257 

Comet  of  153l»,  77  * 

Detier,  as  a  Chrietian  nasnei  88 

Heraldio  query,  4S 

India^  Portuguese  grants  b,  428 

Lampednsa  in  \^U\,  11^3 

*'  Opus  de  Emendattone  Tcmpomm,^*  i  ^^ 

Saokara,  Marbatta  Bnihman,  121« 
£a«tniinJter,  361^,  413 
Kau  de  vie,  its  eUriHiloirv.   JS5,  404 
E.  (C.  W,|  on  M  U1  critt«i»ed,  395 

PuAtOffiCe  i  .►i 

Ed*  on  Chritflmas  cukUil^U,  5  j1 
French  (lag,  %%K 


VA 


1^ 


638 


INDEX. 


{Index  SupplffliflDt  to  the  Ko{e«m4 
Qaeries.  with  No.  59,  Jau.  Itf,  1:!<7& 


Ed.  on  nursery  tales,  424 

**  Borneo  and  Juliet "  in  Spain,  863 

St.  Martin's  Summer,  881 

St.  Michael  and  St.  George,  241 

Sbakspeare  Prize  Essay,  405 

Sheridan  (R.  B.)  and  Suckling,  244 

Whistlers,  the  seven,  264 
E.  (D.  C.)  on  Bedell  family,  418 

Braose  family  pedigree,  30 

Braose  (Mary  de),  her  parentage,  328 

Bunyan*8  birthplace,  286 

Chalgrave  parish  registers,  225 

Christian  names,  double,  477 

De  Clere  and  Braose  families,  168 

"Glory  of  their  Times,"  83 

Kideham  Bridge,  409 

Samsell  by  Harlington,  513 

Totnes  and  Badnor  baronies,  308 

Totnes  (Johel  de),  268 

Wooton  registers,  co.  Beds,  186 
Edgar  family  of  Scotland,  136 
"  Edinburgh  Review,"  Jeffrey's  salary  as  editor,  460 
E  Duobus  on  parallel  passages,  167 
Edward  III.,  his  grand-daughter  Marie  de  Barre,  188, 

263,  358 
Edward  VI.,  his  liturgies,  228 
Edwards  family  of  America,  29,  54,  393 
Edwards  (F.  A.)  on  Africa,  a  sea-port  town,  56 

Banioi  (Michael),  399 

"Bonnie  Dundee,"  154 

Byron's  birthplace,  396 

Mary  of  Buttermere,  175 
•    Roland  (Madame),  autobiography,  255 
Edwards  (W.  B.)  on  Edwards  family,  54 
Eels,  a  stick  of,  52 

Eff.  on  the  meaning  of  bigarriety,  434 
Eglinton  peerage,  379 
E.  (H.  T.)  on  dominicals  at  Exeter,  293 

Jew's  will,  38 
E.  (J.  W.)  on  rhyming  jjroverbs,  145 

Tenny son's  "  Miller's  Daughter,"  13 
E.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  "Battle  of  the  Nile,"  518 

Burning  of  a  pregnant  woman,  173 

Byron's  "  Siege  of  ^Corinth,"  51 

Cromwell  and  the  almanack,  G8 

Locomotive  in  New  York,  the  first,  1C6 

Pan  :  Pan  field,  i) 

Printers'  errors,  120 

St.  Verdiana,  34 

Sconce,  its  etymology,  291 

Wentworth  (Sir  Thomas),  213 
ElbCton,  or  HelbOton,  name  of  a  hill,  249 
Eldritch,  his  longevity,  183 
Election  of  1802,  History  of  the  General,  88 
Elizabeth  and  Isabel,  166,  216,  218,  236 
Elizabeth  (Queen)  defended  by  Puttenham,  42 
Ellcee  on  John  Marj^les  and  Paxton,  433 

Town's  hall  for  Town  hall,  258 
Ellis  (A.  S.)  on  Sir  Gerard  Ufflete,  412 
Ellis  (G.)  on  fireworks  from  inflammable  air,  848 

Hyde  Park,  Cheesecake  House  in,  467 

Post-Office  orders  in  1791,  269 

Rahel  and  Rachel,  133 
Elawick  on  the  communion-table,  ^07 
Elton  (E)  on  Paul  Jones's  action,  ^48,  4^% 


Elwes  (D.  C.)  on  Bnnj^n^e  parentage,  25 

De  Cobham  :  de  Kos  :  de  Braose,  236 
E/x/3t  on  geographical  error,  485 

"  Why,"  as  an  expletive,  213 
England,  its  population  about  1674,  37;    a  "Re 

tion"  of,  circa  1500,  104,  214;  ite  coastline,  21 

crowns  worn  by  its  kings,  355 
English  and  Icelandic  words  compared,  443 
English  surnames,  157,  199 
English  translations,  287,  334 
Engraving,  an  old,  209 
Engravings,  two  old,  47, 136,  268,  358 

Epigrams  :— 

A  learned  prelate  of  this  land,  826 

Beards,  445 

Callimachus,  "  The  Chace,"  6 

Commons,  their  enclosers,  188,  259 

Death  makes  all  equal,  445 

Feemina  fronte  patet,  260 

Firm  and  erect  the  Caledonian  stood,  227,  ul5 

Froude  informs  the  Scottish  youth,  1 00 

Gold  and  Clay,  445 

Hie  liber  est^  227,  296,  316,  837 

Lumine  Aeon  dextro,  488 

Negro,  445 

Old  man,  445 

Physician,  445  * 

Statue  of  Victory  at  Rome,  445 

Tears,  445 

To  St.  Paul's  or  to  Lambeth,  867,  400 

Trouble,  useless,  445 
Episcopal  query,  148,  213 
Episcopal  titles,  136 
"EpitafiGiocosi,"  511 

Epitaphs:— 

Bradshaw  (Thomas),  in  All  Saints'  churchysr 

Maidstone,  895 
Clarke  (Capt.  Henry),  in  Bideford  churchyard,  i 
Clay  (Thomas),  at  North  Winfield.  217,  337 
"  Come,  Let  Us  Go  See  Mans,"  326 
Fisherman,  in  Hythe  churchyard,  406 
Gipsies,  in  Beighton  churchyard,  76  ;  in  Cit 

cart  Churchyard,  481 
Gunn  (Walter),  at  Northallerton,  400 
Hobson  (Thomas),  45 

Jonas  (Jacob),  in  Swansea  churchyard,  406 
Kellinberger  (J.  B.),  at  Salzburg,  125 
Lawrence  family,  in  St.  Cross  church,  Winton,  25 
Max  (Edmond)  "  an  his  Mary,"  259 
"  Of  all  the  creatures  w'**  God,"  &c.,  in  Almond 

bury  church,*  805 
"  Reader,  what  needes  a  Panegy ricks  skill,"  4& 
Ripley  (Hugh),  in  Ripon  Cathedral,  366 
Townsend  (Joseph),  pilot  of  the  Ganges,  112 
**  When  no  one  gave  the  cordial  draught,"  337 

Epsom,  bells  of  St.  Martin,  45 

E.  (R.)  on  '*  Quarter  pence,"  448 

Erasmus,  Scotus  in  his  "  Morife  Encomium,"  150,  2' 

Erem.  on  Dante  and  his  translators,  864,  615 
"Little  Monitor,"  &c,  94 
Parallel  passages,  346 
Shakspeariana,  203 
^V^/\\i\\«AenameF,  621 


\ 


lOidtfx  Sapp1ein<T»t  to  the  Note*  hadi 
gmcrica,  viih  N«.  »j.  Jaa,  It.  I^TIl  / 


INDEX. 


539 


QiBe  Street^  iU  deriration,  848,  415,  473 
'  Eveljn  (lohn),  hia  Christmiu}  DaySj  501 
E.  (W.)  on  ficld-lore,  115 

*  Oakleigh  Forest  Code,"  524 
^  Excurogent  :=  Smart,  fine,  5 
«ter  biahopric,  304.  42f5 
►.glasflCRj  single,  50,  115,  216 
»  (M.  Van)  on  Parii  priiiODJi,  15S 
Ejston  (C.  J.)  on  Fjndern  monnmeDti  114 


I 


Fa«»  name  of  a  Gipty  tribe,  14 

Fakoner  (T.)  on  the  tomb  of  Columbus  152 

Falconet  (Pierre\  artiifc,  8,  54,  11 G 

Fallow  (T.  M.)  on  abbreviated  place'names,  330 

Fan  manufkcturerii,  266 

Fanatic,  introduction  of  the  word,  225 

Fanshawe  (Catiierine),  poem  pnvatelj  printed,  43 

Faroe  lalandi,  158 

Faatolf  (John),  grant  of  Veiret  to,  1 46 

Faulkje*Watling  (C.)  on  abbreviated  ptace-nftmef},  329 

"Shot ''  aa a  termination,  235 
Favour*  Hard-favoured,  «4,  103,  155 
Fa  ws  =  Broom- vendors,  14 
F.  (C.  T,)  on  Sleight :  Slade.  472 
F.  (O.)  on  Clachnacudden  atone,  149 

Indian  marriage  cue  torn,  249 

»'  That  beats  Akebo,"  157 

"YoxDianie;'  168 
Federer  (C.)  on  Rev.  Stephen  Clarke,  77 

Engltth  tamamep,  157 
Feijoo  (B.),  curioeities  de8cril>ed  by,  447 
Feist  (BL  M.)  on  Blouats  of  Maple  Durham,  375 
Fell  (Elizabeth),  poetess,  329 
Felton,  West,  Woolston  well  at,  17,  157 
Fenneli  (H.  J.)  on  Hermit  of  Rod-Coat*a  Green,  423 
FcntoD  (LavinLa),  Ducbess  of  Bolton,  portrait,  13 
Feodary  (John  Pey),  Salop  priaoner,  413 
Fergnason  (A,)  on  Blaeu'a  Atlas,  267 

Gipsy  Christiaii  DAmes  and  tombs,  481 

Party,  in  the  sense  of  &  persoii,  346 

Tied  ^  Bound,  326 
F.KB.T,  in  the  Savoy  arms,  315 
F.  (F.  D.)  onBlow^a  Bible,  248 

Eye-glasaes,  single,  5i) 

Kjiockera  mulHed  with  gloves,  428 
F.  (F.  J.)  on  ''A  lone  rornmoa,"  467 

"  Blanchardine  and  Eglantine,"  464 

ShakBpeariana,  64 

Sircvl,  a  proYlncialbm,  174 

Uny's  edit  of  Chauoor,  381 

Victoria  aa  a  eumanie,  285 
F.  (H.j  on  Mn.  Elizabeth  Montagu's  portrait,  28 
Field  lore,  Tl,  U5,  25^ 
"  Field"  apelt  '*  ffeld/'  207|  278  ;  extended  use  of  the 

word,  877,  420 
Field  40.)  on  Bobun  and  Bowse  families,  247 
Finn  (A.)  on  Woltey  and  the  living  of  Lydd,  1 18 
Fire,  purgation  by»  24 
Firaworlu  from  iDrtajaraable  air,  348 
Fisher  {J.)  on  Sir  Christopher  Wandeafordo,  371 

What  is  a  i^ound  1  435 
Fish  wick  (H.)  on  pedigree-tradng,  39 

Woodcut,  earlieat  dated,  49 
FitEAhuifl  and  StewartJ>,  482 


Fitzgerald  (D.)  on  the  inenniDgs  of  boi«,  27'! 

Cerevisia,  its  etymology,  2y6 

Folk-lore  of  the  thorn,  3 
Fitz  Geralds  of  Castle  Ishin  and  ClenHt»h,  232 
Fitzhopkinn  on  Macanlay  :  St>enser,  44 
Fitz  Reginald  on  Mary  of  Buttermere,  47 
F.  (J.  T.)  on  **  Mostar  de  velifl,"  488 

Sconce,  mean  In  ga  and  derivation,  206|  353 

Sheet-anchor  =  Shoot-anchor,  225 

Simeon  of  Durham,  395 

Symbol  in  atoincd  glasa,  334 

\Vord8i  in  Ripon  willa,  388 
F.  (J.  W.)  on  Scotch  baronetcy,  288 
F.  (L.)  on  London  fortifications^  215 
Flash,  a  field  name,  253,  254 

Fleming  (J»  W.)  on  Waterloo  and  PenLaaular  medals,  1 J 
Fleming  (Mary),  attendant  of  the  Queen  of  Scots,  422 
Flemings  at  Norwich  in  1611,  512 
Flemish  pedigree,  387 
Fletcher  family  of  Saltoun,  228 
Fletcher  (Richard),  Biebop  of  Woroetter,  228,  260, 

293,  355 
Flenr  de  lys  :  Flower  de  luce.  14 
Flodden,  battle  of,  Scots  kiUed  at,  125 
Flogging,  in  schoob,  78 ;  in  the  Parliamen«itfy  Army, 

86 
**  Flower  and  the  Leaf,"  tta  date,  44 
Floyd  (W.)  on  Shakspoare,  Chaucer,  Fastolf,  14f3 
"  Flying  Dutchman,*   5 
Fly-leaf  inscriptions,  46,  167,  214 
F.  (M.  H.)  on  covered  altar-rails,  622 
Foley  family,  262 

Folk-Lore : —  * 

Baim'a  piece,  512 

Bell  and  the  grave,  84 

Christmaa  decorations,  509 

Consumption  oared,  1S4 

Cow  dipping  her  caif,  84 

Devonshire,  184 

EvUeyo,  93 

Fire,  purgation  by,  24 

German,  Booth,  300 

Hare,  folk-lore  oonoeming  the,  1 4 

Hawthorn.    See  Tk(^n. 

Hydrophobia  prevented,  150,  212 

Ladies  and  lionesses,  306 

March  dust,  74.  198 

Rivera  sprinkled  with  flowers,  35 

Sneezing  and  blewnng,  4,  193,  353,  396,  li 

Star  dogging  the  moon,  84 

Thorn  and  May  day,  3 

Thunder,  184 

Weather  sayings,  74,  84, 184, 198 

Whlstlert,  the  seven,  264 

Witchcrmft  in  Sootl^d,  83 

Worming  for  canine  rabies,  150,  212 

Yorkshire  fiahermen,  1S4 
Forbea  (Arthur)  of  Bruac,  308 
"  For  to  '*  as  used  by  Shakspeare,  405,  484 
FoBter  (F*  W.)  on  Skating  Literature,  107 

**  Topsy-turvy,"  478 
Foater  (P.  Le  Neve)  on  Tooth  «nd  egg  metal.  255 
Fowke  (V,  de  8.)  on  Marmion  Herbert  in  **  Venetbfc,* 
87 


540 


INDEX. 


{ladex  BttMlemcnt  to  the  Hotm  ud 
QaaElcs,  with  Mo.  M,  Jan.  Ifi.  U79. 


Fowler  (J.  A.)  on  **  Relation  of  England/*  214 

Sandwich  Islands,  110 
Fox  (Charles  James),  General  Fox  on,  201,  281  ;  his 

deaf  and  dumb  son,  232,  415,  478 
Fox  (General  C.)  on  Charles  James  Fox  and  Holland 

House,  201,  231 
Foxall  (S.)  on  lunar  rainbow,  92 

Flays  on  "  play,"  14 
Fox-hunting  in  the  eighteenth  century,  248,  314 
Fransham  (Isaac)  of  Norwich,  37 
Fransham  (John),  note-books,  37 

Fraser  ( )  of  Bray,  his  examination,  344 

Freemasonry  and  the  acacia,  157 

Freere  (G.  £.)  on  ants  laying  up  com,  494 

French  dictionaries,  28 

French  flag,  384 

French  re&gees  in  Ireland,  269 

French  vulgarisms,  285 

"  Fruitless  Enquiry,"  a  tale,  365 

Fry  (F.)  on  editions  of  the  Breeches  Bible,  296 

Fry  (Mr.),  "Ye  King's  coal-porter,"  110 

Frye  (Thomas),  engravings,  17 

F.  (T.)  on  Latin  and  Greek  verse,  838 

Fuller  (Dr.  Thomas)  and  Dr.  South,  106 ;  Life  of,  by 

J.  E.  Bailey,  318  :  bibliography  of  his  works,  521 
Fuller  (Mr. J,  his  **  Comphdnt,"  a  poem,  128 
Fuller  (Robert),  his  burial,  temp.  Henry  VIII.,  229 
Funeral  customs  at  Cape  Town,  5 
Furley  (R.)  on  capital  of  Kent,  331 
Fumivall  (F.  J.)  on  <'  As  sound  as  a  trout,"  224 

Jesus,  MS.  contraction  for,  265 

«  Like  "  as  a  conjunction,  97 

Percy  Ballads,  305,  375 

Ragman's  roll,  or  rewe,  846 
F.  (W.)  on  Clogstoun  family,  355 
F.  (W.  G.  D.)  on  Fletcher  of  Saltoun,  228 

F.  (W.  M.)  on  two  churches  in  one  churchyard,  292 
Fyemarten,  its  meaning,  248,  260,  800,  892 
Fyndern  monument  in  Childrey  church,  68,  114 
Fynmore  (R.  J.)  on  James  Pierce,  1726,  347 

G 

G.  (A.)  on  "Academic  Errors,"  156 

"  Court  Convert,"  495 

"Cry  of  Nature,"  496 

"Fifty  Years'  Recollections,"  455 

"  King  Coal's  Lev^e,"  174 

Sayers  (James),  caricaturist,  478 

Skating  Literature,  156 

«  Walk  in  Shetland,"  69 
Gabb  (Rev.  Thomas),  his  tracts,  249,  333,  399,  438 
Gale  =  a  Mino,  368 
Gale  (Theophilus),  noticed,  341 
Games  with  cards,  150,  512 
Gaming,  dramas  suggested  by,   1 4 
Gardyne  (A.)  on  Bunyan's  "  Pilgrim's  Progress,'*  162 

"God  and  the  King,"  59 
Garwood  (G.)  on  grants  of  nobility,  62 
Gas,  its  early  manufacture,  400 
Gascoync  family,  367 
Gate,  a  provincialism,  406,  496 
Gausseron  (H.)  on  the  derivation  of  cameo,  454 

"Carmagnole,"  169 

Marria^  of  the  Adriatic  and  the  Doge,  454 
Moivdear  and  Madame,  413 


Gausseron  (H.)  on  Paris  pritonfl,  225 

Solidarity,  its  deriyation,  75 

Sous,  its  pronunciation,  415 

Surrey  provindalisms,  812 

Vehicles,  their  nomenclature,  898 
Gay  (Sir  Peter  Rivers),  Bart.,  489 
G.  (C.  S.)  on  Surrey  provincialisms,  812 
G.  (D.)  on  Jewish  prayers  for  the  dead,  297 
Genealogies,  their  inaccurate  compilers,  232 
Gent  (Thomas),  of  York,  printer,  217 
Geographical  error,  485 
Geographical  query,  808,  859,  487,  478 
Geometrical  rdTorm,  288 
Geoige  IV.,  sons  of,  267,  852 
German  emigrants  in  the  fourteenth  century,  147 
G.  (G.  L.)  on  Pentecost  as  a  name,  78 
Ghazeepore  (Bengal),  blue  flower  found  at,  208 
Ghost  stories,  507 

G.   (H.   S.)  on  Edmund   Blount,  heraldic 
209 

Dudley  (Augustine)  of  BameweU,  446 

Gate,  a  provincialism,  496 

Littleton  family,  450  • 

Quarterings,  sixteen,  235 

Staines  (Sir  Wm.),  alderman,  194 
Gibbe  (H.  H.)  on  "Kike,"  in  Chaucer,  41,  197 
Gibson  (J.)  on  Bums  and  G«orge  Thomson,  407 
Gingham,  its  derivation,  866,  418 
Gipsies  buried  in  consecrated  ground,  76 
Gipsy  marriage  announcements,  109,  155 
Gipsy  names,  27,  222,  294,  349,  421,  481 
"Gipsy  Queen,"  its  composer,  110,  194 
Gipsy  tombs,  76,  481 
Giraldus  Cambrensis,  liis  "  Topographia  Hibenucs," 

54,  855 
G.  (J.)  on  Roman  coin,  168 
G.  (J.  D.)  on  (Erasmus)  Darwin  and  (Matthew)  Tin- 

dall,  483 
Glastonbury  thorn,  349,  880,  516 
Gleghom  (G.)  on  Marlborough  family  picture,  4S 
Glenullin,  in  Lochiel's  "  Warning,"  287,  475 
Grobet  (Pierre-C^saire-Joseph),  noticed,  307,  451 
"God  and  the  King,"  9,  59 
"  God  save  the  King,"  not  French,  165,  254 
Godwin  (Dr.  Francis),  Bp.  of  Hereford,  and  "Do- 
mingo Gonsales,"  209 
God  wit,  its  derivation,  117 
Gog-Magog  Hills,  their  tradition,  510 
«  Golden  Medley,"  quoted,  285 
Grolden  Rose  blessed  by  the  Pope,  120 
Golding  (C.)  on  Archer  family,  94 

Herring  counting,  215 

"Osteman,"  its  meaning,  153 
Gomme  (G.  L.)  on  Disraeli's  "  Tancred,"  268 

Princes  of  the  blood  royal,  77 

Tablets,  memorial,  524 

Works  suggested  by  authors,  385 
Gooch  (Mrs.),  1788,  488 

Gorge  (Sir  Arthur),  reference  in  a  letter  to,  209 
Gort  (Viscount)  on  Osborne  family,  187 
Gospatric  genealogy,  87,  175,  419 
Gough  (Charles),  his  fate,  10,  75 
Gower  (G.  L.)  on'christened  at  sixty-nine,  466 

Gowy  ( ),  engraver,  89 

G,  (R.)  on  Gowy,  engraver,  89 


1  n4«t  ^uralfm^nl  to  tlw  ^e>im  and 
(eueiiea,  iritU  Xu,  U>  Jul  10, 1V9. 


INDEX. 


541 


* 


Grahftm  (Jatii««)»  Viscouui  Dundee,  Im  Jc^Mb^  5,  154| 

3rt7,  437  ;  bis  d«soeiicUota*  493 
Gmntham  (G.  P.)  oa  '*  One  oaly  Kid,**  45$ 
Grftj  (ThomM),  pnrftllel  pA«Mge««  6i,  lOlS,  U5,  345 
Gnzebrook  (U.  8.)  on  Fo]«y  mnoily,  262 

Smyth  (M.)  oif  Hnx^noae  C'Oll^ge^  64 
Gre&r  ^Miu   Catherine),  an  Amenciui   eenteDAriAii, 

123 
Groek  tnotto  on  a  sign-board,  1 7 
Greek  verae,  medieval  nnd  oaodcm,    248^  28i>«  337j 

369,  389,  449 
Greene  (Robert),  hi«  **  upstart  crow/*  64 
Of«enfi«ld  (B.  W.)  on  Zmzan  familj,  613 

Zinsan  Street,  Reading,  £3 
Greexutreet  (J.)  on  Aid  of  anno  34  Edward  L^  31 

Dering  Roll  of  Aniii.  283 

Peter  the  Great  at  Godalaung,  125 

Roll  of  Northern  Armfl,  342,  442 
Greer  (HO  on  Blows  Bible,  224 
Grewe  =  Greek,  204,  25i>,  274,  355,  525 
Greyhound,  its  derivation,  274,  355 
Greyiteil  on  "  Bonnie  Dundee,"  437 

Te^  how  made  about  1G60,  57 
Grienona  of  Dublin,  printers,  468 
Griffinboofe,  origin  of  the  namo^  240^  335,  397 
Grunpe,  a  game  at  eardfl,  150 
G.  (R,  J,}  on  Michael  Baniin,  399 
Grocott  (John  Coqier ),  of  Liverpool,  noticed,  226 
Grootne  (F,  H,)  on  Gip^y  names,  27,  222 
Groves,  a  Lincolnshire  field ^name,  71 
G.  (S.  D.)  on  movable  figures  in  booka,  396 

Suffolk  charters,  183 
''Gueesee  at  Truth/*  lettered  paragraph!,  89,  155,  278 
Guilleville  (Guillaume  de),  '*  Pilgrimage  of  the  Soul," 

8,  99,  49 
Gni«e  (Henri,  Duke  of),  autograph,  408 
Guixot  (F.«P.  G),  hifl  death,  240 
Gule  of  the  Gftrioch,  257 
Gunn  (Ch.  HaLnta),  biography,  88,  151 
Gunpowder  plotJ»,  S11,  51E> 
GuTdon  (P.)  on  Eaattnintter.  369 
Gufttavua  IL,   Adulphus,   portraits  of  him  and  hia 

office™,  183 
G.  (WJ  on  baths  in  the  Middle  Ag^  362 

*'  Bonnie  Hoaao  of  Airlie,**  74 

Knorr  and  Spell,  134 

Newby,  a  Yorkshire  place-name,  429 

Poets  aiul  proper  names,  38 
Gwinnett  ( Ambroae),  hii  trial  and  exe«utto%  158 


H.  on  aaeii"  braying,  454 

Latin  and  G  reek  verae,  modem,  289 

Novels,  two  old,  406 
H.  ( A.>  on  Tear,  its  derivation,  73 
Hacket  (Bp.)  on  Christmaa,  502 
fl.  {A^  BA  on  Idrenn  vine,  497 
Had  be  :  Had  to,  :ii 

IHaddenham,  IhIo  of  Ely,  churoh  heUa,  147, 194,  314 
IIagg=  broken  ground  in  a  bog,  7t,  115,  253 
Haig  (J.  R.)  on  A£rican  aj^pry  brnds,  415 
HaiUtone  (E,)  on  Comni!  -  nare,  28S 

Halde  (J,  a  du),  *'  DescF  ,  109 

Hftiford  (Stt  Henrj),  MJ>.,  aiiU  i>r.  vvra.  Vaughan, 


Halifax  Grammar  School  seal,  408 

Enll,  Wyoh,  and  snlt- works,  183,  219,  309 

Hall  (H,)  on  Cape  Town  funeral  customs,  5 

De  VUliers  family,  524 
HalHc=  Hazel,  2(U 

Hamilton  (Elijsabeth),  antborew,  406,  497 
Hamilton  (J*)  on  Washington  medal,  376 
Hamilton  (W,>  on  La  Rretton  at  Rouen,  386 

'*  Rejected  Addresses,**  486 
Hammond  (A^    de  L,)   on  burning   of  a   pregnant 

woman,  172 
Hampstea«l,    originally    Hamostede,  or    Homestead, 

160  ;  its  church,  iL 
Ham|>Btead  Heath  almshousej^,  513 
Hamat  (Olphar)  on  T,  Allington,  minor  poet,  135 

American  reprints,  335 

Anonymous  workp,  109 

"  Arcbffiological  Epistle,"  251 

Banim  (Michael),  254 

Bookseller,  an  old,  28S| 

"Butterfly's  Ball,'*  372 

Falconet,  the  artist,  116 

Fielding's  Proverbs,  414 

Gahb  (Rev,  Thomas),  tracts,  333 

Hamilton  (Elizabeth),  authoress,  497 

Histofy  of  Scotland,  114 

Hlustrationa,  new  and  old,  466 

**  Le  Procfes  dca  Trois  Roift,"  357 

Lutwyohe  (Mrs.  Mary),  348 

Marriages,  fictitious,  306 

"Nubilia,*'  497 

ParliameDt,  the  Long,  428 

"Private  History  of  the  Court  of  England/*  818 

**  Reginald  Trevor/*  137 

Roland  (Madame),  Memoirs;  411 

Sayen  (James),  caricaturist,  2S1,  382 

Serrea(Mm),  177,  298 

Tima  newipaper :  Letters  by  an  Englishmftn,  458 

"Vagabond,  The/*  49? 

ZomSn  family,  269 
Hanging  and  resuscitation,  12,  158 
Hardy  (Rev.  Samuel),  biography,  8,  $5^  116 
Hare,  folk-lore  concerning  the,  'l  4 
Hare  (S.  V,)  on  epitaph  at  Almondebnry,  305 
Harington  (E.  C.)  on  change  of  Christian  name,  295, 

354 
Harlowe  (S.  K)  on  picture  sale  in  1758.  22 
Harold  (King),  his  deathplaoe,  407 
Harrison  (D.)  on  Wyatt  family,  155 
Harrison  (W.)  on  herring  counting,  417 
Haydon  (h\  S.)  on  Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  236 

Shotover,  its  derivation,  274 
Hayttan  poet,  lines  by,  109,  156 
H*  (B,  Y,)  on  titles  of  Alexander  IL,  72 


Heame  (Thos.),  I 

Helen  gen  waq^h^  ti. 

Hemming,  K 

Hemming  (f 

*"  Arobr*       ^- 
Baming  the  dead, 


ed  to,  118 
nme,  4S8 
uitirk,  A.D.  811-12,  88,254 
vmous  worka,  329 
iiaiW  150 
Si5 


Henlrey  (H,  W.)  on  Arundel  marblaa,  387 
Drury  Honse^  48 
Herbert  (J.),  and  L  L.,  329 
Popham  (Alexander,  Lord),  188 

Henooghe  in  Ath,  ita  locality,  488 


542 


INDEX. 


{S!s?s8ris?«a?asis* 


Heraldic :  Gules,  a  chevron  battled,  kc,  between  8 
mullets,  18 ;  a  feese  embattled,  in  chief  2  saltires, 
in  base  a  garb,  39;  az.,  a  cross  pat^  between  i 
fleur-de-lys,  &c.,  88,  155;  arg.,  a  chevron  engrailed 
between  mullets,  &c.,  329;  arg.,  barry  of  four,  vert, 
329;  arg.,  on  a  bend  wavy,  cottised  gu.,  kc.,  367; 
a  chevron,  upper  part  embattled,  &c.,  467 
Heraldic  Magazine,  57 
Heraldic  queries,  48,  135,  188,  849,  495 
Heraldry:    Bar  sixuster,  18,  198,  337;   Sinople,  88, 
155,  277|  417  ;  strawberry  leaves  on  coronets,  129  ; 
sixteen  quarteringn,  180,  238 
Herbert  (J.),  artist,  329 
Hereford,  arms  of  the  see,  32 
Herefordshire,  **  Memoirs  of  the  Civil  War  in,"  448 
Hermentrude  on  Alesia,  as  a  Christian  name,  227,  456 

Bardolf  of  Wirmegay,  17 

Edward  IIL,  a  grand-daughter  of,  253 

Ermine  Street,  415 

Gospatric  genealogy,  175 

Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  166 

Mortimer  of  Wigmore,  87 

Party,  in  the  sense  of  a  person,  520 

Shaftesbury  abbesses,  168 

Shotover,  197 

Strangeways  (Sir  Thomas),  16 

Valletorta  (Reginald,  Count  de),  431 
Hermit  of  Bed-Coat's  Green.    See  Jatnes  Luoat, 
Herrick  (Robert),  **To  Anthea»"  328,  521 
Herring  counting  in  North  Devon,  167>  215  ;  in  the 

Isle  of  Man,  417 
Hervey  (T.  K.),  poem,  89,  175 
H.  (E.  S.)  on  Chapman's  "Bussy  d'Ambois/'  487 
H.  (F.)  on  an  old  clerical  anecdote,  204 

Mercury  watery,  9 

"Minick"and  "Minikin,"  148 

"  Proat,"  a  verb  neuter,  49 
H.  (F.  S.)  on  sons  of  the  clergy,  346 
H.  (G.)  on  Calenturists,  a  sect,  269 
H.  (G.  L.)  on  flogging  in  schools,  78 

Poe  (E.  A.),  works,  105 
H.  (H.)  divorce  law  at  the  Cape,  365 

Streel,  a  provincialism,  105 

Tichbome  (Dowager  Lady),  45 
Hibemia  on  "  Christianity  as  Old  as  Creation,"  876 
Hibemicus  on  compilers  of  genealogies,  232 
Hie  et  Ubique  on  contraction  for  Jesus,  375 

Rahel  and  Rachel,  238 

Watts  (Dr.),  lines,  179 
Hice  (C.  B.)  on  Mary  of  Buttermere,  176 
Higson  (J.)  on  **0h,  Roger  I  oh,  Roger,"  487 
His,  Shakspeare's  use  of  the  word,  2,  55,  178 
Historical  relations,  curious,  286,  453 
History  repeating  itself,  485 
H.  (J.)  on  *'Ibhar"  explained,  13 
H.  (L.  H.)  on  lunar  rainbow,  92 
Hobeon  (Thomas),  of  Cambridge,  epitaph,  45 
Hogarth  (WUliam),  "Marriage  h  U  Mode,"  52  ;  his 

portraits  of  himself,  488 
Hogg  (J.)  on  Unes  attributed  to  Bums,  523 

"  Firm  and  erect,"  &c.,  315 
Hogg  (James)  and  Wordsworth,  9,  157 ;  and  Byron, 

158 
Hogmany,  or  Hwgmany,  329,  517 
Holden  (H,  A,)  on  Latin  and  Greek  vewe,  369 


Holland  Honsa^  Genei*!  Fox  on,  201,  231 
Holland  (John),  of  Sheffidd  Park,  Life,  888 
Holland  (R.)  on  abbreriatod  plaoa-amnei^  94 
Holly  and  mistletoe,  509 
Hombre^  a  game,  not  Ombre,  150 
Home  (John),  his  quatrain,  815 
Hooper  (Bp.  Oeoige),  pedigree  and  deaeandants,  229 
Hooper  (Bp.  John),  pedigree  and  deeoendanti^  2tt; 

333 
HoppuB  (J.  D.)  on  wonning  for  canine  nbiea,  150 
Horace,  Sat  i.  8,  107:  new  zeadingw,  285,  415;  "Sm- 

adon,*'  285,  456,  494 
Horrocks  (Jeremiah),  astronomer,  epitaph,  205,  27i 

835  ;  biognphy,  274,  801,  885,  889 
HospitaUers,   their   badges    110,    178»    818;   «Ur 

oniination,  178 
Houselling  cloths,  809,522 
Howazd  (J.  J.)  on  Bedell  fiunily,  9 
Howe  (Lord),  Unes  on  his  victory  of  Jane  1, 1794, 146 
H.  (P.)  on  *<  Private  History  of  the  Court  of  &«• 
land,**  208 
Tureen :  Terrine,  256 
H.  (R.)  on  Hemming,  Eling  of  Denmark,  88 
H.  (S.)  on  Druid,  its  poetical  meaning,  79 
H.  (T.)  on  Barnes  surname  and  fiunily,  176 
Hubbard  (J.  R.)  on  Liddell  v.  WesterUm,  818 
Hughes  (T.)  on  Devonshire  saying,  882 
Huguenbt,  origin  of  the  name^  806,  488 
Huguenots  in  Ireland,  826 
Hume  (David)  and  John  Home,  815 
Humourist,  use  of  the  word,  518 
Hundred  silver,  488 
Hungerford  (Sir  Edward)  of  Farley,  his  wife,  229, 293 

his  age,  293,  418 
Hunt  (James  Henry  Leigh),  letters  to  from  Genenl 

Fox,  201 ;  verses  on,  360 
Huntingdon  (Rev.  Mr.),  chaplain  at  Aleppo,  512 
Hurdis  (James),  poetical  works,  213 
Hurry  family  arms,  512 
H.  (W.)  on  old  engraving,  209 
Haddenham  diurch  bells,  147 
Place-names,  abbreviated,  330 
Hyde  Park,  Cheesecake  House  in,  467 
Hyde  (Henry)  of  Purton,  his  family,  847,  495 
Hymn  tune,  **  Drumdog,"  167,  240 


I  used  to  soilen  abrupt  utterance,  101 

Ibhar,  its  meaning,  18,  98 

Icelandic  and  English  words  compared,  443 

Idaean  vine,  365,  497 

I.  (J.  D.)  on  Blow's  Bible,  325 

Illustrations  to  books,  444,  466 

India,  Portuguese  grants  of  land  in,  428 

Indian  ink  topographical  drawings,  387 

Indian  marriage  or  betrothal  custom,  249 

log,  in  field-names,  71>  253 

Inglis  (R.)  on  Ch.  Haines  Gunn,  88 
'*  Haroun  Alompra,"  110 
Logan  (Wm.  McGregor),  148 
**  Millennium,"  dramatic  poem,  49 
Sargent  (Mrs.  Jane  Alice),  28 
«  School  Dialogues,"  867 

Inner  Templar  on  affidavit  evidence,  186 

Inquirer  on  peculiar  spelling,  78 


I 


*' InitituUoDeB  Ctericorum  in  (Jomitata  WiItonia&/'  BOy 

220 
loUnthft.     See  ViolnnU. 
loU  oQ  ''  God  bJesi  the  mtak ! "  169 
Ipom<ea  Qu&iDoclit,  328 
IreUnd,  barn  of  Skutl&bogtie,  125, 17^^ ;  andenily  Iris, 

211  ;   Journal    of  the  Aasoouitiuti,    259 ;    French 

refageetio,  269 
Ireland  (WilliAm  Henry)  And  Fielding'fl  Proverbit,  209, 

414 
Irenwufi  on  *'The  Shepherd  of  HenuM,*'  101, 171 
Irie,  the  leland  of,  129,  211 
Iriihbull*,  25,  188 

Iri^b  puntflhmentu  and  eiecutions,  223,  2d2 
Iron  trftde  and  Foley  the  fiddler,  263 
Isaac  family,  38,  78 

Iiiabel  and  EUzabeth,  166,  215,  210,  236 
Italv:  The  Voyage  of  Italy,  by  Richard  Lasuele,  242, 

2U 


J,  on  "'Modem  Account  of  Scotland,"  2011 
Jabe2  on  Atbizzia  sencocephalA^  110 

t  Arithmetic :  caating  out  ninea,  3*3 
Aroint.  Sliak»pearian  word,  27? 
Baoon  (Miae  Delia),  246 
Coimnaf,  inverted,  56,  337 
Biphthongfl,  their  reversal,  453 
Evil  eye,  &3 
Killigrew  family,  487 
**  Love's  Labour  'b  Loet,"  3 
Lunar  rainbow^  298 
Milton:  *;  Built,"  7 
Moment^  its  meaning,  407 
Moon-booka,  their  bibliography,  443 
Plaoe-namea,  abbreviated,  330 
Shakespeare  and  contemporary  writers,  101 ; 
bn«t  at  Stratford,  214 
Bhak^eariana,  63 
Somerville  (Mary),  reference,  43 
tvackjon  (C.)  on  heraldic  query,  i^ 
Jackson  (F.  M.)  on  old  engraving*,  ^58 

I«ondon  Companies,  231 
Jackson  (S.)  on  Fielding's  Proverbi^  200 
^m  Knurr  and  Spell,  134 

^M  ''  Man  in  tbe  Moon,'^  304 

■  Savvy  day  =  Pay  day,  149 

H  "  Th'  berrin's  gooe  by,"  &c  ,  13 

H  Ultima  as  a  Christian  name,  09 

~  *'  Wiggletworth  Hunt,*'  458 

Jookflon  (\V^)  on  autogrApb  of  Bui'UF,  l&O 

"Jacobus  '*  piece,  35,  79 

James  (E.  N.)  on  Christmaa^ay  of  1624.  £05 

ILaa«eLi(Hicliard),  242,261 
Louis  XIV.,  medal,  3Se 
Mead  (Dr.),  picture-sale,  107 
*'  New  SUte  of  England,"  475 
Tutors,  trnvHlinpT.  327 
yenico  (f'  -tie,  478 


hia 


Vervain  - 


Jail 


jro 

s  294 
G20 


I      ^i 


Ja; 


riana,  04 

in  place^namet, 


40S 


J,  (E.)  on  "  Cbrist'uuiity  as  Old  as  Creation,"  HO 
J.  (E.  H.)  on  Devonshire  bays,  406 

Fletcher,  Bp,  of  Worcester,  Z55 
Jenifer,  a  woman's  name,  305,  376,  487 
Jennour  family  of  Essex,  arms,  6S,  155 
Jerdan  ( William),  memorial  tombstone,  300 j  and'^Xbu 

Literary  Gazette,''  340 
Jeremiah  (J,),  jua.,  on  **  Ye  boareV  head,*'  507 
Jerram  (C.  S.)  on  Catullus  :  '^  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  &o»,  470 

Latin  and  Greek  verse,  338 
Jeae  (G.  E.)  on  bones  from  Egypt,  434 

**  Cry  of  Nature,**  367 

*'  Darkfiton  Bull  Bait,''  398 

De  Qumcey:  Gough'sfate,  1%  75 

Flash,  a  field  name,  254 

Folk  lore,  84 

Gate,  a  provinciaUsm,  406 

Greyhound,  its  derivation,  855 

Jacobus  piece,  79 

Martonoak,  522 

Moreton  (Earl  of)i  55 

Parallel  passages,  464 

Scotch  shepherd's  dog,  179 

Tristram  (Sir),  Treatise  of  Hunting,   488 

Worming  for  canine  rabies  ^  212 
Jesus,  Early  English  oontracdon  for,  265,  375,  437 
Jew's  will,  bequostfl  in  one,  38,  73,  297 
Jewish  prayers  for  the  dead,  38,  78,  297 
Jewish  proper  names,  339 

Jews  in  Englimd,  their  earliest  status,  12;  register  of,  Zlt 
J.  (G,  S.)  on  Sbakspeare  :  "  Rain  potatoes,"  145 
J.  (K.  M.)  on  autograph  of  Burns,  72 
J.  (M.)  on  marriages  in  private  bouses,  468 
J,  (ML  C.)  on  Transit  of  Venus,  205 
Joan  of  Arc,  an  epitaph  of,  465 
Jonsa  (Inigo)  and  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  207,  331 
Jones  (Paul),  his  naval  action,  348,  396,  41VS 
Jon  son  (Ben),  juD.,  '•  Poems,'*  208 
Jottings  in  byways,  42 
Jonrdan  family,  70,113 
J.  ("R.)  on  thetneaning  of  "  Calenturists,**  433 
J.  (S.  B.)  on  chancels  placed  westw^ard,  479 
Judges  on  circuit,  27,  135,  217 
Jug  with  inscription,  380 

Junius  Letters!  Junius  and  "The  Ministerialist,"  86 
Jarv,  grand,  its  number,  408 
Justices,  their  wages,  228,  293 


K.  on  Glastonbury  thorn,  616 

'*  No  when,"  8 
Kapp  (Friedricb),  **  Geschichta  der  Deutsoben  Eia- 

wanderung  in  Amerika,"  translation,  83 
K  (A.  R.)or  w=    '*   ..  W-n  West  Fcltort,  157 
Karl  on  Prt .  !»  408 

Kaye  (M.)  oi.  walk,   107 

K.  (C.)  on  alms  diiibei,  '■dif'J 
K,  (C,  D.)  on  prophecy  of  the  telegraph.  483 
K,  (C*  S.)  on  **  British  and  ContmentalTitles  of  Honor/ 
23,  195 

G  ustavua  Adolphus  and  Ms  officers,  portraits,  1 88 

Nobility  granted  to  foreigners,  312 

Robertson  family,  211 
KeMsnd  family  of  Painsford,  348,  484 


544 


INDEX. 


/  Index  Sappl«ineDt  t«  the  Notai  atri 
lQa«ri«8,  with  No.  H.Jaa.  M,U7tu 


Kelpie,  its  derivation,  287,  475 

Kemble  (Father),  his  hand,  44,  92  ;   account  of,  and 

his  execution,  192  ;  his  grave,  238 
Kempis  (Thomas  h)  on  pilgrimages,  446 
Kennedy  (H.  A.)  on  Devil  Ukened  to  a  busy  bishop,  166 

Hanging  and  resuscitation,  12 

"  Taking  a  sight,'*  234 

Thieves,  the  two,  238 

Zinzan  Street,  Beading,  115 
Kent,  Aid  of  Anno  34  Edward  I.,  81 ;    its  capital, 

289,  831 
Kerslake  (T.)  on  double  Christian  names,  271y  295 
K.  (H.)  on  the  word  Bohemian,  365 

«  Sleeps  like  a  top,"  354 

Solidarity,  meaning  and  derivation,  75 

*'  Wise  after  the  event,'*  354 
"Kike,"  in  Chaucer.  41,  110,  197 
Kilgour  (H.)  on  Charles  I.  as  a  poet,  93 

Clachnacudden  stone,  451 

Gipsies,  421 

Malcohn  III.  of  Scotland,  444 

Stuart  and  Sutherland,  85 
Killiecrankie,  Pass  of,  tradition,  145 
Killigrew  family,  487 
King  (Edward),  MUton's  "Lyddas,"  47 
]^g*s  Evil,  touching  for,  426,  523 
Kirby's  ''  Wonderful  Museum,"  plates  in,  368,  496 
Kirkstall  Abbey,  Yorks,  13th  abbot,  28 
Knave,  its  meanings,  31, 155  ;  and  the  Irish  hnab''ret 

277 
Knight  of  Somerset  on  Templars  and  Hospitallers,  318 
Knighthood :  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  159  ;   Constan- 

tinianOrderof  St.  George,  240,  260,  278,  352 
Knockers  muffled  in  kid  gloves,  428 
Knurr  and  Spell,  133 
K.  (W.  G.)  on  S  versus  Z,  58 


L  substituted  for  R,  95 

L.  on  Arthurian  localities,  181 

Berghe  or  Bergue  (0.  V.),  artist,*  209 
Field-lore,  253 
Robertson  family,  211,  393 
Sele,  meaning  and  etymon,  36 
Therf-cake:  Caar:  Beastie-milk,  54 
Lamartine  (Alphonse),  his  errors  in  grammar,  160 
Lamb  (Charles),  dialogue  with  Hazlitt,  266 
Lammin  (W.  H.)  on  Nicholas  Stone,  465 
Lampedusa  in  1690,  103 
Lancastro  (Counts  of),  804,  419 
Land,    singular    tenures,    224,   316;    its  terms   and 

measures,  260 
Laplace  (Marquis  de),  phrase  attributed  to,  447 
La  Roche  or  Porter  family,  67,  114 
Larpent  (P.)  on  Payzant  (J.),  French  refugee,  9 

Porter,  or  La  Roche,  67 
Lassels  (Richard),  biography,  242 :  "  The  Voyage  of 

Italy,"  243,  261 
Last,  a  measure  of  herrings,  167,  215 
Latimer :  Arundel,  88 
LatiB  ADdEDghBh  quantities,  1-,  417,  526 
Latin  vene,  mediseral  and  modern,  248,2E9,^^T,^^^> 
389,449 
X-anreB*  (F.;  on  Brao«e=BaYent,  436 
Cobbam:  Roob,  BO 


Laurent  (F.)  on  Waynedowtee  :  Plogh-olowtes,  16 

Laverton  church,  co.  Somerset,  224 

Lawrence  funily  in  Hants,  '285 

Lawrence  (Sir  Thomas),  mezzotint,  4*29 

Laycauma  on  Wick,  in  place  names,  251 

L.  (B.)  on  armoxial  queries,  329 

Lease  for  lives,  249,  334 

Leatherlund  (Betsy),  her  longevity,  183 

Le  Compte  (Father  Louis),  translations  of  *'  Nouveaux 

M^moires  de  la  Chine,"  148,  234 
Le  Deneys,  origin  of  the  niyne,  188,  259 
Lee  (F.  G.)  on  altar-rails  covered,  522 

Desvalpon  inscription,  225 

Oxfordshire  miracle  play,  503 

"  Service  for  the  Churching  of  Women,"  125 

Vestments  at  St.  John's  Coll.,  Oxford,  441 
Lees  (E.)  on  Glastonbury  thorn,  516 

Sun-flower  turning  to  the  sun,  172 
Le  Geyt  (C.  A.)  on  the  name  Jenifer,  376 
Leicester  House,  Leicester  Fields,  205 
licicester  Square  equestrian  statue,  46,  91,  292,  453 
Lenihan  (M.)  on  Father  Kemble^s  hand,  44 
Lent,  marriages  in,  367,  495 
Leofric,  his  missal,  reprint,  188 
Leslie  on  Alpine  fox- dogs,  89 
Lett  (F.  N.)  on  curiosities  described  by  Feijoo,  447 
Letter,  curious  treasonable,  6,  60 
L.  (F.  N.)  on  T.  Wentworth  of  Bretton  Hall,  149 
L.  (H.  A.)  on  the  derivation  of  Snape,  449 
L.  (I.),  artist,  329 

Liddell  t^.  Westerton.     See  Privy  Oouneil  Judffmentt. 
Like,  as  a  conjunction  and  substantive,  97,  114,  217 
Lilly  (William),  maker  of  almanacks,  155 
Lindis  on  Calcutta  relic,  112 

Chattan  dan  motto,  358 

"Kenelm  Chillingly,"  255 
Littledale  (H.)  on  "Flower  and  the  Leaf,"  44 
Littleton  family,  408,  460 

Livingston  (Mary),  attendant  of  the  Queen  of  Scots,  422 
Livonia  (Alexander),  Prince  of,  his  seal,  428 
Livy,  passage  in,  128,  194 
LlandafF(Bp.  of),  temp.  James  I.,  467 
Lloyd  (David),  Llwynrhydowen,  35 
Lloyd  (G.),  on  autograph  of  the  Duke  of  Guise,  408 
L.  (M.)  on  **  Bonnie  Dundee,"  493 

"  Bonnie  House  of  Airlie,"  28,  113 
liocke  (John)  and  the  Quakers,  266,  359 
Locomotive,  first  English  one  in  New  York,  166 
Loftie  (W.  J.)  on  Latin  and  Greek  verse,  449 
Lofts  (H.  C.)  on  Bedell  family,  418 

Gog-Magog  Hills,  510 

Wink,  in  place-names,  455 
Logan  (William  McGregor),  biography,  148 
London,  Society  of  Arts'  memorial  tablets,  106, 155, 

257,  524  ;  compared  with  Antioch,  146,  273 
London  Companies  or  Guilds,  48,  96,  198,  229 
London  fortifications,  set  of  drawings,  188,  215 
Longevity,  remarkable  instances,  9,  122,  182,  245 
Lotus,  the  sacred,  461 
Louis  XIV..  medal,  386 

Lucas  (James),  Hermit  of  Red-Coat's  Green,  423,  497 
ilivicQA,  ydl  "  Lucufl  a  non  lucendo,"  205,  272,  418 


Index  Supplement  to  the  Notes  andl 
Qnerle*,  with  No.  OS,  Jan.  16, 1879.  / 


INDEX. 


545 


Lydd,  its  church  and  Card.  Wolaey,  148 

Lyon  Herald  Office  in  Scotland,  448 

Ly ttelton  (Lord)  on  Catullus :  "  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  4c.,  429 

''  Christianity  as  Old  as  Creation,"  175 

Commas,  inverted,  97 

French  and  English  vulgarisms,  285 

Latin  and  Greek  verse,  modern,  289 

Littleton  family,  450 

Newlyn,  surname,  53 

"Ph"  in  diphthong,  21G 

Pronunciation  in  singing,  314 

"Sanadon,"  494 

Spelling  reforms,  473 

Veto,  the  Royal,  426 

Wellesley  (Lord)  and  Lord  Comwallis,  24 
Lyttelton  (Thomas,  Lord),  his  dream  and  death,  401, 

508 
Ly  tton  (Edward  Bulwer,  Lord),  reference  in  "  Kenelm 
Chillingly,"  169,  255 

M 
M.  on  "  Auld  Wife-hake,"  154 

Field-lore,  71 

Roman  Catholic  landed  gentry,  49 
Macadam  (W.  J.)  on  "  Auld  Robin  Gray,"  272 

St.  Verdiana,  34 

"Willie  was  a  wanton  wag,"  413 
Maoaulay  (T.  B.,  Lord)  on  Spenser  and  Milton,  44, 
130  ;  his  opinions  criticized,  280,  395  ;  his  "  Young 
Levite,"  445 
MacCabe  (W.  B.)  on  administration  of  the  law  in 

IreUnd,  223 
MacCulloch  (E.)  on  words  passmg  from  one  language 

to  another,  90 
M'C.  (E.)  on  ''  As  sound  as  a  roach,"  458 
Macgrath  (T.)  on  Bums  and  Massinger,  158 

Gray's  "Elegy,"  54 

Party,  in  the  sense  of  a  person,  520 

"Topsy-turvy,"  478 
Mackenzie  (Henry),  the  *'  Scottish  Addison,"  325 
Macklin  (Charles),  his  age,  245 
Macknight  (James),  D.D.,  his  personal  history,  486 
Maclean  (Sir  J.)  on  Mrs.  Mary  Arthur,  a  centenarian, 
122 

Osteman,  its  meaning,  110 
Macpherson  (J.)  on  combatants  at  Perth,  69, 410,  471, 

490 
Madxune  and  Monsieur,  205,  274,  413 
Madoc  on  aroint :  rowan-tree,  134 
Maille,  its  meanings,  57 
M.  (A.  J.)  on  abbreviated  place-names,  330 
Malcolm  IIL  of  Scotland,  his  Gaelic  name,  444 
Maleuvre  (Pierre),  French  engraver,  358 
"Man-a*  lost,"  an  owl  legend,  218 
Manchester,  Proctor's  Memorials,  279 
Mant  (F.)  on  Rahel  and  Rachel,  436 
Manuel  (J.)  on  Cardan  wells  in  Scotland,  476 

Chap-book  literature,  352 

Clachnacudden  stone,  214 

Flodden  battle,  125 

Hare  folk-lore,  14 

Rahel  or  Rachel,  133 

St.  Triduaaa,  397 

Weir  (Major)  of  Edinburgh,  273 

Whisky,  Scotch  national  drink,  154 


Manuscript,  words  in  an  old,  368 

Manuscripts,  a  way  to  mend  old,  246 

Margetson  arms,  287,  433 

Margetson  (James),  Apb.  of  Armagh,  his  wife,  209, 

238,  316' 
Maria,  as  a  man*s  Christian  name,  73,  478 
Mark  (Count  Von  der),  368 
^larkey,  its  locality,  15 
Marlborough  E^mily  picture,  48 
Marlborough  (Sarah),  Duchess  of,  and  Queen  Anne, 

27,  308,  434 
Marples  (John),  millwright,  307,  433 
Mar-Prelat  (Margery),  tracts,  92 
Marriage  custom,  Indian,  249 
Marriage  entry,  curious,  225 
Marriages,  fictitious,  306 ;  in  Lent,  367,  495 ;  in  private 

houses,  468 
Marrot,  its  meaning,  510 
Marsden  (D.  W.)  on  a  silver  star,  388 
Marshalate,  an  absurd  designation,  .329 
Marshall  (Ed.)  on  Fleurdelys,  14 

Jews,  registers  of,  85 

Justices'  wagee,  293 

.Latin  and  Greek  verse,  modern,  290 

Liddell  v,  Westerton,  211 

Master,  as  a  clerical  title,  29 

"  Make  a  bridge  of  gold,"  &c.,  377 

Naaman  the  leper,  259 

Pretender  in  England,  526 

Pury  funily,  234 

Suffolk  charters,  259 

Thieves,  the  two,  238 

Touching  for  the  King's  evil,  523 

Tureen :  Terrine,  457 

Wesley  (John),  edit,  of  Thomas  k  Kempis,  269 

"Wise  aOer  the  event,"  354 

Ultima,  as  a  Christian  name,  452 
Marton  oak,  366,  522 
Marvell  (Andrew),  reference  to  a  poet,  188 
Marx  (T.)  on  "  Built  here  for  his  envy,"  356 
Mary  of  Buttermere,  47, 114,  175 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  and  the  letters  to  Bothwell,  66 ; 

and  the  four  Marys,    422;  her  knowledge    of 

Scotch,  423,  446 
Mason  (C.)  on  "  History  of  Scotland,"  68 

Jourdan  (Lieut-CoL  H.  G.),  70 

Paris  prisons,  377 
Massinger  (Philip)  and  Wycherly,  31,  158 
Master,  as  a  clerical  title,  29 
Matthews  (J.  B.)  on  abbreviated  place-names,  331 

Commas,  inverted,  37 
Maturin  (Rev.  C.  R.),  works  by,  428 
M.  (A.  W.)  on  heraldic  query,  495 

Seal  in  two  parts,  437 
Mayer  (S.  R  T.)  on  General  Fox  on  Holland  House, 
&c.,  201 

Fox  (C.  J.),  his  deaf  and  dumb  son,  415 

Horrocks  (Jeremiah),  274 

Leicester  Square  equestrian  statue,  46 

Russell  (Wm.)  Lord,  birthplace  of,  288 
Mayeme  (Sir  Theodore  Torquet  do),  arms,  48,  114 
Mayhew  (A.  L.)  on  English  and  Icelandic  words,  443 

Ermine  Street,  478 

Iris,  the  Island,  211 

"MoriseEncomiaiD,"  256 


546 


INDEX. 


{Index  9iin>lcmcni  to  the  Notes  wA 
Qn«ilis,  wfUi  No.  H.  Jan.  1«,  ISTS. 


Majhew  (A.  L.)  on  Muse,  a  gentleman,  89 
Plagal,  its  etymon,  108 
PwJm  xc.  10,  75 
Babel  or  Rachel,  133 
Scilly  Isles,  194 
Sinople,  in  heraldry,  417 
"  The  Three  Bears,"  74 
Thieves,  the  two,  238 
Maynwaring  (Arthur),   biography  and  works,    288, 

874,  418 
M.  (G.  R.)  on  Naaman  the  leper,  258 
Mead  (Dr.),  picture  sale  in  1754,  107 
Meas,  a  measure  of  herrings,  167,  215 
Medals :  Waterloo  and  Peninsular,  17 ;  William  I.,  67, 

154 ;  Washington,  308,  375 
Medweig  on  inverted  commas,  116 
Mercury  water,  234 
Note  of  exclamation  (!),  56 
Memory,  feat  of,  265 

Mendeissohn-Bajrtboldy  (Felix)  and  Moses  Mendels- 
sohn, 88,  136 
Mercury  water,  9,  74,  234 
M.  (H.  A.  St.  J.)  on  Mercury  water,  74 
Philip,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  831 
''Sleeps  like  a  top,"  354 
Michelboume  (John),  his  relations,'  247 
Micklethwaite  (J.  T.)  on  corpses  entombed  in  waUs, 

234,  387,  457 
Middle  Templar  on  "Astucious,"  for  astute,  249 
"British  and  Continental  Titles,"  95,  851 
Burning  pregnant  women,  127 
Canning  (Elizabeth),  75,  216 
Coronerships,  private,  192 
Humourist,  use  of  the  word,  513 
Lease  for  lives,  334 
Liddell  v.  Westerton,  313 
Party,  in  the  sense  of  a  person,  521 
Princes  of  the  blood  royal,  37,  278 
Sconce,  its  meaning,  358 
Villenage,  178 
Middleton  (A.)  on  Field-lore,  71 
Miege  (Guy),  .works,  475 
Miles  on  the  second  Crusade,  1 29 
Milgate  family  arms,  19 
Miller  (J.)  on  dock- striking,  268 
Milles  (Dean),  "The  Archaeological  Epistle  to,"  150, 

251,  270 
MiUett  (G.  B.)  on  mending  old  MSS.,  246 
Milner  (Dr.  John),  his  body  disinterred,  219 
MUton  (John),  *' Built  here  for  his  envy,"  7,  132,  217, 
856;  "Gentle  Muse,"  in  "Lycidas,"  89,  155,  816; 
"Shepherd  tells  his  tale,'*  in  "L'AUegro,"  94, 158, 
378 ;  his  common-place  book  found  at  Netherby, 
280  ;  "The  grim  feature,"  378 
Minick  and  Minikin,  derivations,  148,  235 
"  Ministerialist,  The,"  anonymous  pamphlet,  86 
Miracle  in  1656,  166 
Misprints.     See  PrinterB*  Errort. 
Missals:     Leofric's,     188;    Joannis  Winterburger's, 

267;  Dotinchemense,  467 
Mistletoe  and  holly,  509 
M.  (J.  C.)  on  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  66 

Will,  a  poetical,  226 
M—m  (R,)  on  an  epitaph,  895 
Geognphical  query,  859, 473 


Mnemonic  calendars,  238,  853,  414 

Molibre  (J.  B.  Poquelin  de),  a  repetition  in  hif  play% 

449 
Moment,  its  meaning,  407 
Monday :  Yange  Monday,  28,  74, 178 
MouBieur  and  Mlulame,  205,  274,  413 
Montagu  (Mrs.  Elizabeth),  profile  portnut,  28 
Montaigne^B  Essays,  passage  in,  276 
Monte  de  Alto  on  hundred  silver,  488 
"  Monthly  Magazine,"  quoted,  488 
Montrond  (Count),  noticed,  474 
Montrose  (James)   1st  Marquis,   and  the  home  d 

Airiie,  28,  74,  113 
Moon  (Patty),  her  "  Walk  **  near  Tunbridge  WelUi,  407  * 
Moon-books,  bibliography  of,  448 
Moore    (Thomas),    "The    Lighthonae,'*    33;    ''The 

Slave,"  809,  454 
Moreton  (Earl  of),  in  Domesday,  55 
Morfill  (W.  R)  on  the  title  Tzar,  65,  175 
Morgue,  its  derivation,  391 
Morgue  roister,  "  Le  livre  des  Maccab^esi,''  891 
Morphyn  (H.)  on  Field-lore,  71 
Mortimer  fiimily.  Lords  of  Wigmore,  37,  117 
Mostar  de  yelis,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  488 
Motley  (J.  Lothrop)  and  Gaspar  Scioppius,  445 
Mottoes:  Chattanclan,  146,  218,  85S,  487;  "Plus est 

en  vous,**  614 
M.  (S.  T.)  on  J.  T.  Serres,  marine  punter,  289,  397 
M.  (T.  J.)  on  Bridgeford  funily,  522 
Mudford  (William),  editor  and  author,  bia  death,  IdO, 

216 
Mughouse  dubs,  333,  858 
Murithian,  A,  on  Jerusalem  artichoke,  172 

Thistle,  the  blessed,  48 
Murithian  Botanic  Society,  80,  140 
Muse,  a  "  gentleman,"  89,  155,  816 
M.  (W.)  on  unsettled  baronetcies,  410 

Eglinton  peerage,  379 
M.  (W.  H.)  on  card  games,  512 
M.  (W.  M.)  on  poem  by  Catherine  Fanshawe,  43 

St.  Catherine  of  Sienna,  77 
M.  (W.  T.)  on  Macaulay*8  "  young  Levite,"  445 

Petronius  Arbiter,  437 
M.  (Y.  S.)  on  assumption  of  arms,  477 

Bedell  family,  334 

Bramhall  and  Margetson  arms,  433 

Osborne  family,  493 

Richardson  family,  356 

N 
N.  on  Balzac  and  Shelley,  106 

Bideford  epitaph,  25 

Colman  (Geo.),  '*  Reckoning  with  Time,"  277 

Elb5ton  or  HelbOton,  249 

Historical  relations,  curious,  286 

Southcote  (Joanna),  her  followers,  194 

Stockport  carriages,  128 

"Universe,  The,"  428 

Wordsworth  (William),  his  "  Excursion,"  9  ;  whI 
Hogg,  157 
Naaman,  the  leper,  188,  258 
Names  derived  from  nicknameii,  2,  lOS 
Napier  (G.  W.)  on  Margery  Mar-Prelal^  92 
Napoleon  I.    See  Bonaparte* 
k 'K«v\.\iQt,  Ita  ptonunciatioD,  146,  263 


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Mr 


Keomaguft  on  lireecbe*  Bible,  2^d 

MAniu^e  L»f  tkti  JJugv  teutl  the  AdrUtic,  454 
Kftbttl  and  Rjicliel,  K'8 

New  by,  Yotkalure  plACi^name^  42^ 

K*  iIvAtion.  $,  53,  178 

K*  '  ly),  nonjuror,  1*23 

Kew«pap-=rs  iiubitshed  io  1S24,  118,  140,  160 
New  York,  first  Eiigllsb  locomotive  io,  \6ii 
N*  (I.)  on  Mftrch  dust,  WS 
Nicholson  (B.)  on  Jottings  in  bj^e-wikys,  i2 

Sb&kspc^riana,  2S3 
NicksoQ  (Joftepb),  priuter,  notiooij,  217 
Night-crow,  ill  ShnkiipeAre,  7t>,  258 
NightoQ  (V.)  on  London  coinpaniet,  95 
Nile,  its  course  according  to  Libflchoten,  260 
Kithidale  (Counteea  of)  And  her  Lush&nd*it  escape,  QO 
N.  (J.)  on  Taws:  Fan,  14 
Nobility  panted  to  foreign ers,  51,  312  ;  ialtarnAtlonnl 

title«.  301 
Nodal  (J,  U.)  on  *'ateawt/'  a  Lancashire  word,  134 
NomencUture,  hybrid,  S^'tfi 

Norgate  (Fj  on  *'  Christianity  aa  Old  as  the  Craation/* 
H*5 
Franeham  (Isaac  and  John),  S7 
"Kite*  of  tbo  Christian  Church,"  415 
Norcnan  i  Loui&a  J.)  on  wig^js^bona,  or  cakes,  178 
North  (T  )  on  John  de  Stiitford,  bell-founder,  435 
Northumberland  earldom  and  Percy  the  trunk-maker, 

Northumberland  House  lion,  4o 

Note  of  tjxclaination  ('),  iti  u«i«,  56 

NovAvilla  on  Shirley  family,  76 

NoveK  two  old,  406,  4J>7' 

'«No  when,"  874 

N.  (S. )  on  fttr^ndrtrd  weights  and  mea«uref<«  ^CO 

NumrouB  on  nobility  granted  to  foreigners,  52 

Nurembcrij  virgin*  20&,  274 

Nursery  rhyme,  fting  a  Song  of  Sixpence,  II 

Nursery  tale.  The  Three  Beans  7* 

Nuraery  t^le^,  teiigtutiA  ech^>es  io,  424 

0 

Oak  &t  Martou,  30$i  522  ;  Iron  in,  420 
•'Oakleigh  Forest  Code,"  S')8,  r.24 
Oakley  (J.  H.  Ij  on  Latin  <iuantitbp,  13 

Moore's  "  The  Lighthouse,"  ZH 
Oakley  (W.  H,)  on  Sir  Christopher  Wandeaforde,  371 
O'C.  (A.)  on  grotesque  medieBv:^!  carvinija,  847 
O.  (G,  D,  \VJ  on  ancient  episcopal  see^,  47 
O.  (J.)  on  Saupor  Post-Bag,  287 
Oldfitiid^  bell  founders,  19i5,  314 
Olive  (the  pReudoprinceas).     Se«  jS«rre*, 
Oliver  (Mother),  procuress  temp*  Charlev  II«,  25 i 
Ombpp*     Sen  Ifomltrf, 
Omega  oi  in  Livy,  128 

OMuico  ; 

•*On.  .,,  4,456,  4^0 

•*0i  >n^  Teinporitro,"  laS 

0«ii.  lu  China,*'  109 

Oabi»r«i«  ilip  ),  of  ^eter,  426 


Oabome  famUy,  U7,  493 

Oscar,  proper  ii&m«,  38 S 

Oateman,  ita  meaning  and  derivation,  110,  lf»2 

Oswald  (John),  work?,  4i>6 

OiherwhilBf,  an  old  word,  3Sd,  435 

Otto  on  the  '*  Vengour,"  34 

Cutis  on  clasRiovl  tign  boards,  17 

*^  Ycux,"  the  Froncb  wonl,  174,  3Q3 
Overton  (F.^  on  works  by  Spagnolettu,  109 
Owl  l*fgend,  *♦  Man-a-Iost/'  21S 
Owlet  on  Rev»  Samuel  Hardy,  55 
Oxford,  Tom  quad  at  Christ  Churoh,  IGS  ;  vestmenta 

at  St,  John  a  College,  441 
Oicfordi^hire  Christmas  miracle  play,  r>03 
Oylegeags  :  Allyiegs,  7 


P.  on  nomenclature  of  vehielei,  SPS 

Paddys  Patrick,  fint  nse  of  the  word,  347j  its  derlvit* 

ti.m,  SPfi 
P.  (A,  G.)  on  James  Sayem,  caricatunst,  334 
Pikine  (Thomaa),  portrait,  138 
Painawick,  yew  trees  at,  Z65t  455 
Painting  of  a  lady,  463 
pAhBologns  (Prince  Comnenus),  his  death,  240  r  hia 

parenUge,  2S0,  352 
Palindromes,  106 

F&lmleri  (6.)  on  Bante  and  hta  traoAlators,  515 
Pan  :  Panfield,  ita  meaning,  9,  74,  1 73 
Pjtralbl  I  ,6,  25,  31,  0(J,  Sti,  100.  145.  158. 

167,  ^'JO,  461 

PArayL  :^ I  ......  piijifrimago,  446 

Park*(G.  R.)  on  seala  in  two  parts,  308 

Parkin  (J.)  on  Totoesa  barony,  4S*4 

Paris,  its  pris^ma,   153,  225,  377,  397       . 

Pnrliamenr,  French  work  on  the  Long,  423,  521 

Porliaroentary  *' Fatberit,"  406 

Party,  in  the  senile  of  a  person,  346,  520 

pAacal  (Blaise).  traneUtora  of  his  **  PruvinciAl  Letters*/' 

156 
Pasamgham  (R.)  on  unsettled  baronetcies,  15 

**  New  State  of  England,**  429 

P.irliamentary  *'  Fathers,"  406 

Peerage  and  Baronetage,  415 

*' Rcndez-voui,"  169 
P&^torini,  hia  prophecies,  13,  77 
Paten  inscriptions.  27,  74 
Pa  tenon  (Jame*),  an  appeal  for,  400 
Paterson  (Robert),  **  Old  Mortality,"  family,  r»7 
Patrick  (Simon),  Bp.  of  Ely.  an  imitator  of  Bunysn, 

148,  213 
Patterson  (W.  H.)  on  ''  Czarisb  Majesty,"  246 

Engravings,  two  old,  4/ 

Fry  (Mr),  "  Ye  King'^  coal  porter,'*  110 

Gule  of  the  Gariocb,  257 

Huguenots:  Ireland,  326 

Lawrence  (Sir  T-),  mezzotntt,  42& 

London  comjmred  with  Antiodi,  146 

Monsieur  and  Madame.  274 

Napoleon's  scaffold  at  Waterl^,  316 

3ouB,  ita  pronunciation,  43S 

"  Waahing  an  apron,**  3S7 
Paxton  (Sir  Joseph),  his  obligations  to  otUerv,  307i  453 
Payne  baronetcy,  159 
Fayaant  (James),  French  relbgee,  9 


548 


INDEX. 


{Index  BapAlemetti  to  the  RoUi  aaA 
QoeriM.  wUh  No.  85,  Jan.  le,  um 


F.  (B.)  on  Brooke  and  Powell  families,  48 
P.  (E.  A.)  on  American  States,  174 
Australian  drama,  55,  497 
Macaulay's  opinions  criticized,  395 
St.  Catherine  of  Sienna,  17 
Stanley  of  Birmingham,  52 
Peacock  (E.)  on  <'  Antient,"  a  military  term,  133 
Boroagn  English,  456 
Falconet  the  artist,  54 
Figures  in  books,  movable,  896 
Kemble  (Father),  192 
Nuremberg  virgin,  274 
Patrick  (Symon),  213 
Sinople,  in  heraldry,  155 
Sutton  (Thomas),  burial-place,  455 
"  The  Twa  Corbies,"  189 
Vallombrosian  nun,  154 
Yange  Monday,  178 
Zinzan  fiimily,  358 
Peacock  (G.)  on  dominicals,  317 

Pina  silver,  269 
Peacock  (&iabel)  on  the  game  of  cricket,  121 
Coronerships  of  England,  private,  191 
"  Osteman,''  its  derivation,  153 
Pina  silver,  270 
Titles  of  honour,  196 
Pearson  (J.),  jum,  on  Dickens's  "  Battle  of  Life,"  169 
Pearson  (Capt.  R),  of  the  "Serapis,"  348,  396,  498 
Pedigree  tracing,  89 
Peerage  and  Bfuronetage,  creations  in  each  reign,  268, 

415 
Peers,  Scotch,  222 

Pelagius  on  "  Built  here  for  his  envy,"  856 
Dttrer's  etchings,  115 
Gipsy  marriage,  109 
God  wit,  its  derivation,  117 
MUton's  "L' Allegro,"  378 
Tract,  a  contraction  of  tractation,  278 
White  (GUbert),  MS.  sermon^  428 
Pelegrin  (Abate),  anecdote,  249 
Pell  (Daniel),  "  Nee  inter  Vivos,  nee  inter  Mortuos," 

331 
Pembroke  (Philip),  Earl  of,  and  Inigo  Jones,    207; 

extraordinary  will,  331,  477 
Penance  in  a  white  sheet,  468 
Pengelly  (W.)  on  the  pronunciation  of  aches,  139 
Beer  and  wine,  &c.,  186 
Cornish  words,  336 
Halse=  Hazel,  204 
Jenifer,  Philadelphia,  and  Philip,  305 
March  dust,  74 
Newlyn,  surname,  178 
Star  dogging  the  moon,  84 
Suffolk  words,  454 
"Topsy-turvy,"  334 
Weather  sayings,  184 
Peninsular  medal,  17 
Pentecost  as  a  surname,  78,  198 
Percy  folio  Ballads  and  Romances,  corrigenda,  305,  375 
Percy  (James),  Dublin  trunk-maker,  275 
Perkins  (Henry),  of  Hanworth  Park,  portrait,  48 
Perth  in  1396,  combaUntsat,  69, 189, 280,410,  471,490 
Pesth  :  Buda:   Ofen,  16,  36 
Peter  the  Great  at  Godaiming,  125 
PetroniuB  Arbiter,  edit  of  1626,  249,  SS8,  iVl 


Ph,  in  diphthong,  &c.,  its  pronunciation,  186,  216 
Philadelphia,  a  woman's  name,  305 
Philip,  a  woman's  name,  305 
Philips  (John),  epitaph,  882 
Phillimore  { W.  P.)  on  Sir  John  Whitbrooke,  89 
Phillimore  (W.  P.  W.)  on  two  charches  in  one  church- 
yard, 291 
Phillips  (J.  O.)  on  "Fyemarten,"  "Virgin,"  243 

Judges  on  circuit,  135 
Phillips  (Sir  Bichard)  and  the  '*  Monthly  Magazine^" 

229,  816 
Phillips  (W.)  on  abbreviated  place-names,  330 

Cuper's  Gardens,  394 
Phillot  (F.)  on  a  feat  of  memory,  265 
P.  (H.  R.)  on  Booty's  ghost,  508 
Pickering  (B.  M.)  on  liddell  v.  Westerton,  288,  357 
Pickford  (J.)  on  the  acada,  157 
Bar  sinister,  18 

Burial  in  an  erect  position,  346 
Derwentwater  (Earls  of),  486 
Ing,  in  field-names,  71 
Jenifer,  the  name,  437 
Latin  and  Greek  verse,  290,  370 
Oak  at  Marton,  366 
Radcliffe  family,  19 
Rubrical  query,  191 
Sneezing  superstitions,  193 
Songs  in  «  Rokeby,"  115 
Picton  (J.  A.)  on  '*  Auld  Robin  Gray,"  271 
Bones  of  the  Pharaohs,  385 
Dante  and  his  translators,  430 
Gingham,  its  derivation,  413 
Hall,  Wych,  and  salt  works,  183,  309 
Hurdis  (James),  poetical  works,  213 
"  Kike,"  in  Chaucer,  110 
"Little  Monitor,"  &c.,  94 
"  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  49 
Tooth  and  egg  metal,  255 
"  What  is  a  pound  ?  "  470 
Y,  the  termination  in  place-names,  523 
Picture  sale  in  1758,  22  ;  in  1754,  107 
Pierce  (James),  Presbyterian  minister,  347,  4l»5 
Pigot  (H.)  on  covered  altar-rails,  309 
Consecration  of  church  plate,  221 
Pigott  (W.  J.)  on  Dublin  taverns,  16S 

Heraldic  query,  13 
Pike  (J.)  on  Leicester  Square  equestrian  statue,  252 
Pina  silver,  168,  269 
Piomingo.  "The  Savage,"  95,  379 
Piracy  off  Jamaica,  209 
P.  (J.  B.)  on  Dr.  Dee's  crystal,  376 

Erasmus's  "Moriae  Encomium,"  150 
Starkey  (Capt.  Benjamin),  46 
Place-names  abbreviated,  93,  329 
Placido,  Cuban  poet,  his  poems,  149 
Plagal,  its  etymology,  197 
Plants,  their  vulgar  names,  285 
Piatt  (W.)  on  Aristotle  on  dancing  and  music,  491 
Cohnan  (George),  131 

**  Considerations  on  the  Marriage,"  &c,  434 
'*Ibhar"explwned,  13 
Iris,  the  Island,  211 
Moore  (T.),  "TheSUve,"  454 
Pina  silver,  270 


INT>EX. 


549 


I 
I 


'JJUfe^ 


tt  (WA  on  Scots  Oreyp.  316,  39r* 
Threjvdnecdlo  Street,  OIJ  LEhJy  of,  291 

•*rUy/*rUTion.  14 

Plftjs,  two  fAultleM,  51 2 

Poe  (CiJ^ftr  Allen  ^  worjvs  of*  JD;"^      ^ 

Poel»t  and  proper  iiani^s,  3S  *^ 

Politicd  Econoiny  query,  4 '37 

Pollock  (Sir  ¥A  on  berrin^-ooantmg.  Id? 

Pon-ionby  <H.  F  )  on  Scota  Grey*,  310 

Pont  (Timothy),  hi  a  map-s  26  7 

Pope  of  Rome.  *'  the  Cho^t  of  the  old  Bnipire,^*  50 

Pope  (Alexander),  his  maccurnte  rhytnw^  45  ;  'nekelffi 

Homer,  with  MS.  notes  by,  r^SP,  47»3 
Popham  (Alexander,  Ijord),  medals,  188 
Population  two  hundred  years  o^o,  57;  the  largest)  J86 
Porter,  or  La  Koche  facnily,  C7,  114 
Portrait  of  a  Indy  with  embroidered  bodice,  488 
PortugneBe  com,  rvJ7,  4S(i 
Poflt-Office  money  ortlera  m  1701-2,  26J>,  453 
Potter  {G.)  on  Kirby'a  ''Wonderful  Museam,**  3G8 
Ponnd  :  '♦What  ib  a  Pound  I  "  248,  333,  435.  470 
Powell  and  Brooke  families,  48 
Powell  family  of  Radnorshire,  363 
P»  (P.)  on  Bunyan'a  gold  ring,  12Q 

"Butterfly's  Ball,**  41 S 

"Excumgent,''  5 

Judges  on  circuit,  217 

Planti*,  their  vu%ar  names,  285 

Simpson  k  Co.,  78 
P.  (R,)  on  iymbol  in  fttained  ^ItM^  S6S 
Pre«ley  (J,  T.)  on  bH  *  '     rvf  Utopifli^  252 

Death,  immunti  ^ 

London  Compaim  -,   ^_.' 

Sutton  (Thomafl)*  492 
Ptesp.  its  development,  118.  IW,  160 
Preater  John  of  AbyBunia,  32 
Pretender.     See  Stuart. 
Priestley  (Dr  I,  satiricat  ppitnjtb,   120 
Prince  on  Canterbury  foundling,  '^'6 
Prince  (Mary  MnchellK  403 
Princea  of  the  blood  royal,  37,  77,  278 
Printers'  errors,  12(3,  ICO,  58^ 
Privy  GonncU  judgments,  128.157,  175.  211»  238,318, 

357,  400 
Proat,  a  neuter  verb.  49,  114 
Prohert  (C.  K)  on  Griffinhoofe  family  natoe,  397 
Procter  (Bryan  WallerV.  his  death,  300;  lua  names,  319, 

S39 
**  Pro  Matria '"  Society,  5*1 4 
^onunciation  in  eingmtj,  267,  314,  357 
Prophecies :  of  Paeliirini,  13,  77;  of  the  telegraph,  483 
Frotestont,  ori^n  of  the  name,  3<>0 
ProujE  (Johni  of  Chrtgfonl,  1C64,  343 

Proreths  and  Fhraiet:^ 

Akebo:  T>-*  i— ^-  Akeho.  157 
Beat  the  he  lion.  111 

Cider  on  i 

D»>von»hirL-  mMying,  332 
r  Egg  *»i'l  ♦hf*  hftKp<»iinv,    57 


Habakuk,  a  rhyming  proverb,  145 


Torinne,  156 
^^7 


Froverbi  luid  Phraaes:  — 

La  parole  a  6t6  donn^  h  rhomme,  Itc,  474 

Lone  woman,  467 

Make  abridge  of  gold  for  a  flying  enemy,  218,  377 

Money  the  sinewa  of  war,  *2'A9 

One  man^s  meat  is  another  man's  poison,  C$ 

Providence  on  the  side  of  the  great  batallions,  307, 
451 

Pot  to  buck,  76,138,279 

Put  up  with  it.  383 

Quid  hoc  ad  Iphycli  boves,  4S 

Rhyming  proverbs,  145 

Roach  :  As  sound  aa  a  roach,  274,  314,  455,  525 

Bobbing  Peter  to  pay  Paul,  320 

Sixes  and  sevens,  20 

Sleeps  like  a  top,  200,  220.  354 

Th*  berrin'a  gone  by,  &c-,  13.  178 

The  end  jantifies  the  means,  426 

The  English  seeraes  a  foole  and  is  n  foole.  4'jS 

The  world  knows  nothing  of  its  greatest  men,  145 

To  a  red  man  reade  thy  read^  385 

Trout :  As  sound  aa  a  troot,  224,  274 

XJnaocnstomed  as  I  am  to  public  speaking,  273,  417 

Wine  and  milk,  235 

Wise  after  tho  event.  218,  354 
ProvincialLemp,  Surrey,  312 

Psalm  xc,  10,  note  in  **The  Speaker  «  Commentary/'  75 
P.  (S.  T.)  on  universal  biography,  485 

Campbell  (Thomas),  inistaU'es,  2U^i 

Cicerxj,  Ep.  ad  Att  iv.  15,  2G 

Horace,  bat-  i.  3,  107:  new  readings,  285 

Ibhar,  ita  meaning,  98 

Idtean  \^e,  365 

Insular  accentoations^  66 

L  and  W  substituted  for  R^  &5 

Parallel  passagea,  86 

Pope  (A.),  his  rhymes,  45 

Prophecies  of  Pastorini,  18 

Ripley  (Hugh),  epitaph,  366 

Septtngenarianism,  246 

Streel,  a  provincialism,  174 

Terrell  a  explained,  326 

Tureen:  Terrinc,  185 

Ulster,  EnglLsh  words  in,  426 

Walker  and  Michelboume,  247 

Walker's  **  Pronouncing  Diclionaty,"  1  <6 
P.  (T,)  on  the  Little  Summer,  518 
P.  (T.  H.)  on  "  Ph,"  pronunciation  in  diphthong,  186 
Pnrton  (H*  B,)  on  Osteman,  ita  meaning,  152 

Situate,  for  Situated,  115 

"Taking  a  sight,'^  299 

Tennyson  (A.),  "ThePoeC  885 
Pnrton  (W.)  on  Mortimer  of  Wigmore,  117 
Pnry,  or  Porey,  family  of  Tayntoti.  149,  234 
Pusket  =  Pod  of  peas,  69 

Pottenham  (Geo.),  hit  defence  of  Qneen  EltsAbetli,  42 
P.  (W.)  on  "  OtherwhUes,"  435 
P.  (W.  H*)  on  books  of  trarel,  66 

Q 

Q.  on  Lord  Collingwood.  48 

Silver  star,  40(3 
Qiiftntook  mountain  range,  co.  Sdoaemei,  239 
Quarter  Penoe,  443 
Qnarteringa,  dxieen,  180,  233 


550 


INDEX. 


( Index  ^upDlement  to  t^e  VMttviA 
i  Queries*  with  Mo.  K,  Jan.  It.  1-71L 


Qai  Tarn  on  Leicester  House,  Leicester  Square,  205 
Quivis  on  hanging  and  resuscitation,  13 

Thorn,  Glastonhury,  617 

Wish,  carious,  468 
Quoits,  works  on,  76 

Quotations  :— 

A  daughter  of  the  gods,  227,  315 

And  wonder  with  a  face  of  foolish  praise,  47,  95 

Before  her  face  her  handkerchief  she  spread,  227, 

815 
£t  comme  un  jeune  coeur  est  hientdt  enflamm^, 

227 
Firm  and  erect  the  Caledonian  stood,  22 7t  315 
Float«,  and  gibes,  and  jeers,  168,  234,  898,  525 
Hie  liber  est,  227,  296,  316,  837 
High  and  Low,  watchwords  of  party,  75 
I  go  my  way,  thou  goest  thine,  408 
Like  as  the  damask  rose  you  see,  227,  296,  836, 

873 
Little  monitor,  from  thee,  47,  94 
Living  one^s  life  over  again,  4 
Meteor-like,  of  stuff  and  form  perplex t,  180 
Most  wretched  men  are  cradled  into  Poetry  by 

wrong,  840 
My  chaise  the  village  inn  did  gain,  110,  173, 194 
Nothing  resting  on  its  own  completeness,  408 
One  truth  is  clear,  whatever  is,  is  right,  240 
Our  affections  and  passions,  368,  496 
Plurima  gemma  latet,  328 
Quisquis  in  hoc  mundo,  487 
Begibus  et  legibus,,  Scotici  oonstantes,  227 
Shakspeare  and  the  musical  glasses,  408,  495 
Sweetness  and  light,  186 
Talent  is  power,  tact  is  skill,  889 
The  aspiring  youth  who  fired  the  Ephesian  dome, 

380 
The  conscious  water  saw  its  God  and  blushed,  107, 

179 
The  dews  of  the  evening  most  carefully  shun,  80 
The  Ghost  of  the  old  Empire,  56 
The  sword  wearing  out  the  scabbard,  109,  156 
There  is  no  pang  can  deal  that  justice,  352 
There  is  nothing  so  successful  as  success,  47 
There  's  somewhat  in  this  world  amiss,  13 
This  marriage  is  a  terrible  thing,  1 4 
This  world  I  deem  but  a  beautiful  dream,  308, 

352,  437 
Thoughts  that  breathe  and  words  that  bum,  160 
Vox  Dianae  !  God  bless  that  sweet  face,  1C8 
We  poets,  in  our  youth,  340 
Whatever  is  best  administered  is  best,  240 
Whatever  is,  is  in  its  causes  just,  210 
When  York  to  Heaven  shall  lift  one  solemn  eye, 

47,  96,  198 
Where  Lord  Conrad  shed  his  blood,  408 
Wine  to  the  poet  is  a  winged  steed,  366 
Witticisms  are   often   attributed   to   the   wrong 

people,  365 
Yield  homage  only  to  eternal  law?,  408 

R 
R.  on  Sconce,  its  etymology,  290 
Semple,  surname,  427 
Stmrt,  rojal  house  of,  496 


R.  on  "  Wappen'd  widow,"  379 

"Willie  was  a  Wanton  Wag,"  412 
R.  (A.)  on  Ap,  in  Welsh  surnames,  157 

"Brag "ministry,  45 

Bunyan's  imitators,  336 

FaraUeln,  litemry,  66 

"Reginald  Trevor,"  19 

Welsh  sUtes,  43 
R.  and  M.  on  cure  for  consumption,  184 
Rachel  or  Rahel,  133,  198,  288,  296,  436 
Radcliffe  family,  19 
Radnor  barony,  808 
Ragman's  roll,  or  rewe,  explained,  346 
Rahel  or  Rachel,  188, 198,  238,  296,  486 
Rainbow,  lunar,  92,  298 
Raisin,  its  pronunciation,  146,  252 
Ramage  (0.  T.)   on  Bums:   autograph,  "To  Ter« 
raughty,"  11;  lines  ascribed  to,  425 

Clogstoun  family,  57 

De  Quincis,  129,  170 

Paddy=Patrick,  347 

ParaUel  passages,  145 

Paterson  family,  97 

Shakspeariana,  64 

"  Willie  was  a  Wanton  Wag,"  264 

"  Wise  after  the  event,"  217 
Randolph  (H^)  on  the  pronunciation  of  aches,  63 

Catullus  :  "  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  &c.,  460 

Latin  and  Greek  verse,  389 

Parallel  passages,  345 

Thistle,  the  blessed,  198 

Thunder:  weather  saying,  184 

Wilson  (Sir  R.),  Note-books,  83 
Rank  rider,  its  meaning,  357 
Rank  riders  described,  38,  98,  177 
Rapier,  inscribed,  447 
Ratcliffe  (T.)  on  Gipsy  burial?,  76 

"Man-a-lost,"  218 

Sunday  shaving,  307 

Water-blast,  an  ailment,  9 
Rather,  its  pronunciation,  146,  252 
Rawlins  (C.  E.)  on  Mrs.  C.  Clarke's    ''  Shakspean 

Concordance,"  137 
Rayner  (W.)  on  "  Twas  at  the  Birthnight  Ball,"  32 
B.  (D.)  on  Roger  de  Quincy,  269 
Read  (J.)  on  Rev.  Samuel  Hardy,  116 
Reading,  Zinzan  Street,  9,  53,  115,  216,  3r>8 
Record  UfiBce,  catalogue  of  the  Records,  349 
Redgrave^s  "  Dictionary  of  Artists'':  James  Sayer? 

281,  382,  478 
Redvers  (William  de),  6th  earl  of  Devon,  44S 
Reeve  (Dr.  Thos.),  "Publike  Devotions,"  108 
Regimental  badges,  287,  316 
Rendez-vous  as  an  English  word,  169,  255,  458 
"  Retrospective  Review,"  its  local  oiigin,  150,  ISO 
Reverend,  as  a  clerical  titl(»,  144,  280 
R.  (F.)  on  fly-leaf  inscription?,  167 

Wales,  first  Prince  of,  388 
Rhodes  (Elizabeth),  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Strafford,  40": 
Ribbon,  or  Ribband,  its  orthography,  75 
Rich  (Charles),  editor  of  Yak  Coll.  Magaziiu\  85 
Richardson  family,  ^S^  356 
Richmond  hm\\y  of  Highhead  Castle,  Cumb.,  CO 
Richmond  (Nicholas),  a  centenarian,  182 
Rideham  Bridge,  its  locality,  409 


I  N  D  K 


551 


I 


Met  (Cj^rdatiTjsij  hia  rulea  for  h^allh,  12'j 
igby  (lU.  Hon*  Rich.),  Pavmasttsr  of  the  Force*,  38 
ing  inaenption,  528 
ipoii  wills,  uttfcore  words  in,  38S 
ivers  sprinkled  with  floweri,  85 
ix  (J.)  on  "  Down  with  the  Mugs,**  SOS 
Gipsy  Christian  name*,  249 
Wftutoa  (CoL  Yftlentine),  156 
(M,  H.)  on  Bar  SioisUr,  18 
DADt«  /vn*i  his  transUtoff,  430 
'*  SibilU  OJaletii/*  58 
Welsh  TefitAinetit,  1  S 
BoberU  (Samuel)  uf  Sheffield,  «'  Two  Oq>h»lii/*  173 
BobeiUon  fumilj,  127,  211,  23^,  393 
Bobinson  (N,  H.)  on  Powell  fiiiDily,  368 
Bogero  (King  of  Sicily),  his  shipwreck  ftnd  cotiver- 
Aion«  m 
[en  (CM  on  nbbreriftted  pkce- mimes,  331 
Alexander  or  Ziozan  family,  2^ 
Tait  (Abp.),  hia  baptizer,  ib^ 
Eoland  (Msidame),  authenticity  of  her  Memoirs,  1(]3, 

255,  411;  referencea  to,  367 
Roll  of  Arron,  Nortbern,  temp.  Richard  IL,  4J2 
Boman  Cath«>lio  landed  gentry,  temp.  Charles  II.  and 

James  II.,  i9 
Boman  coin,  16S«  2&6 
Boman  roada  in  Britain,  84 S 
Bos  (Mary  de),  her  pedigree,  30,  236 
Bos  (William  de^  of  Yolton^  2SS 
Boueii  Museum,  3S6 
BousseaQ  (J.  J,),  verses  upon,  409 
Bowaotree,  L^  Mountain  afth»  134 
Bojtee  on  Clarke  family,  67 
Bicbardson  family,  5S 
Sinople,  in  heraldry,  8S 
B.  (K.)  on  Biblical  meaning  of  **  knave,**  155 
St,  Catherine  of  Sienna,  453 
*•  Wappen'd  widow/*  314 
BuVbingii  of  inscriptions,  330 
Buhrical  query,  128,  191 
Bule  (F,)  on  "Anecdote  Lives,'*  452 
Borough  English,  456 
Byron  d  birthplace,  3Dd 
Clarke's  ^*  Concordance  to  Shakapeare,**  138 
Epitaplm,  curioos,  406 
Horace,  Sat,  I,  3,  415 
Huguenot,  its  derivation,  433 
Jt3an  of  Arc,  epitaph  on,  465 
**  La  parole,'' Ac,  474 
"  Macbeth,**  music  to,  &5 
Oak,  iron  in,  426 
FaLindrome,  106 
Phillips  (Sir  B.)  and  the  '*  Monthly  Magaeine/' 

SlU 
8bak  spear  tana,  481 
Shotten  herring,  1 7 
Sutton  (Thomas),  burial  place,  455 
Tenures,  singular,  224 
Buasell  (W.  P.^  on  J*  T.  Serre«,  418 
Buflsell  (William),  Lord,  his  birthplace,  288 
Bmsia,  F4mpre8d  of,  styled  "  Czanah  Majesty,*'  24G 
R.  (W.)  on  Daviil  Lloyd  Uwynrhydoweoi  35 
R.  (W.  F.)  on  sun-dial  inscription,  1B5 
B,  (W.  J,)  '«  Fresh  Waters  from  a  Fresh  ^spring."  52 
H.  (W.  R,)  on  Madame  Roland,  her  Memoirs,  38 7 


S 
S  v&rMUi  Z,  r>8 

S3,  on  "Angler  V  A-Hi-lrmt.  '  2S3 
Baron etcir',  in-ettled,  297 
Blood,  and  priJe  i>f  birth,  }*'^(i 
Blue  flower  of  Gbaxeepore,  20 S 
China :  Cemeteries,  384 
Colling  wood  (Lord)»  his  family,  177 
Con^tantiuian  Order  of  St.  George,  352 
Drayton  (ChTjstopher),  14S 
Heraldic  Mnganne,  57 
Iporao?4  QuamocUt,  328 
Iron  iree^f  45 

Kirby*4»  "  Wonderful  Museum,"  4J>6 
Lqwis  Buildings,  Chelsea,  268 
Miracle  in  105fi,  ]6<; 
OMulconry,  The,  2a 
Simpion  &,  Co.,  79 
Tarvffe  pedigree,  425 
Tenurcjj*.  singular,  316 
Titles  of  nobility,  international,  304 
Water- mark  in  paper,  80 
r.  on  Queen  Anne  and  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  27 
S.  (A*)  on  the  derivation  of  b^zique,  58 

Edward  III.,  a  grand-daughter  of,  188.  353 
St.  Catherine  of  Sienna,  17,  77,  458 
St.  George,  Constantinian  Order  of,  240,  260,  352  ; 

Lfondon  churches  dedicated  to,  241 
St.  Jamea's  Chape),  York  Street  St.  JameaV  Square*, 

406 
St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  Knights  of,  159,  273 
St  John's  Chapel,  Bedford  Row,  461 
St  Maftin,  his  Little  Summer,  381;  in  Welsh,  477, 

518 
St  Michael,  London  ohnrches  dedicated  to,  241 
Bt  MicbaeFs  Church  *^iii  peril  of  the  sea**  and  iU 

English  possession,  227 
St.  Roche,  biographical  note  on,  314 
St.  S  within  on  Adam^s  first  wife,  217 
Barton  (Dr.),  his  pun.  67 
Cob  in  col  fox,  Ac,  77 
Cromwell's  bead,  205 
Divining  roti,  511 
Gate,  a  provincialism,  496 
Hall,  Wych,  and  Salt-works,  312 
Latin  and  English  quantity,  526 
Wiggfl=Bu&s  or  cakes,  138 
St  Triduana,  397 
St.  Yerdiana,  34 

Saints,  Llvefl  of  the  EngHub,  229,  293 
Sata  (G.  A,)  on  Sergeant  Both  well,  126 

**  Grimpe  *'  and  **  Hombre,**  150 
Salic  law,  513 

Satis  (B.  A.  de)  on  Mary  Machell  Prince,  403 
Saliabnry  Cathedral  and  Cromwell,  25f'» 
Salt-works :  Hall  and  Wych,  183,  249,  309 
Sahburg,  epitaph  at,  125 
Samsell  by  HarlLngton,  Beds,  613 
S&ndwich  Islands  :  Princecs  Victoria  Kamamalu,  110, 

175 
Sankara,  Marhatta,  Brahman,  a.d,  1717,  129 
Sargent  (Mrs.  Jane  Alice),  authoress^  2S 
Sarpi  (Paolo),  judgments  of  writ^tm  on  his  character. 

489 
Saugor  Post-Bag,  2S7 


552 


INDEX. 


{Index  Supplement  to  t 
Qneriee,  with  No.  89,  Jm.  U^ltn. 


eHoteiaad 


KT),  uiB  moaern  repaiauoD,  i;  wamDa  8 
uihoe/'  66 ;  and  the  Balbmtyne  press, 


Savoy  arms,  315 

Savvy  day = Pay  day,  origin  of  the  term,  149 

Sayers  (James),  caricaturist,  281,  882,  478 

S.  (B.)  on  Shakspeariana,  444 

S.  (B.  0.)  on  Bar  Sinister,  837 

S.  (G.)  on  Painswick  yew  trees,  455 

Schomberg  ( ),  letter  to  Lord  Shelbume,  329 

Schomberg  (Armand,  Ck)mte  de),  arms,  495 

Scilly  Isles,  why  so  called,  129,  194 

Sconce,  its  meanings  and  derivation,  206,  290,  358 

Scotangtendath,  a  female  name,  468 

Scotch  baronetcy  created  temp.  Charles  II.,  288,  495 

Scotch  peers,  222 

Scotch  standard  weights  and  measures,  368 

Scotland,  whisky  the  national  drink,  154  ;  Arthurian 
localities  in,  181;  its  abbeys  and  castles,  280,  482, 
499  ;  Lyon  Herald  office  in,  448  ;  its  division  into 
shires,  t6. 

Scots,  Society  of  Ancient,  88 

Scots  Greys.    See  Dragoons^  2nd  Royai. 

Scott  (J.  K.)  on  tomb  of  John  Baliol,  68 
Beale  :  Baillie,  &c.,  351 
Gospatric  genealogy,  87 

Scott  (Sir  Walter),  his  modern  repatatioD,  1;  Wamba's 
song  in  **  Ivanhoe,"  66  ;  and  the  Ba}l|^tyne  press, 
102  ;  songs  in 

Scotti^  history, 

Sculptor  poet,  reference  to,  428 

S.  (C.  W.)  on  Rider's  rules  for  health,  126 

S.  (D.  M.)  on  Tennyson's  "  Dream  of  Fair  Women," 
315 

S.  (E.),  1807,  painter,  308 

Seals :  materials  for  impressions  of,  288 ;  in  two  parts, 
308,  352,  437;  of  Prince  of  Livonia,  428  ;  of  Hali- 
fax Grammar  School,  468 

Sebley,  or  Sibley  family,  crest,  69 

**  Secrets  of  Devils,"  &c.,  quoted,  454 

'*  Seeing  without  perceiving,"  an  article  on,  149,  254 

Sees,  ancient  English,  47,  117,  291;  arms  of  English, 
462,519 

S.  (E.  L.)  on  coqwes  seized  for  debt,  15 

Sele,  its  meaning,  36 

Selkirk  pie,  511 

Semple,  or  Sempill,  surname,  427 

Senex  on  Kirby*8  "Wonderful  Museum,"  496 

Septingenarianism  in  the  county  Tyrone,  246 

Serres  (John  Thomas),  marine  painter,  his  memoirs, 
289,  364,  397,  410,  418,  457 

Serres  (Olivia  Wilmot),  books  and  pamphlets  by  her, 
and  *'The  Book,"  141,  216,  298,  321,  409;  her 
assumption  of  the  name  of  Wilmot,  177;  works 
about  her,  298,  323  ;  promissory  note,  528 

Sevarg  on  Yirgilius  and  the  Antipodes,  387 

Seyton  (Mary),  attendant  on  Queen  of  Scots,  422 

S.  (F.)  on  "Flouts,  and  gibes,  and  jeers,"  168 
"  Poverty  parts  Good  Company,"  112 
**  Pro  Matria  "  Society.  514 

S.  (2)  (F.  G.)  on  "Butterfly's  Ball,"  352 
Fenton  (Lavinia),  portrait,  13 
Hogarth's  "  Marriage  k  la  Mode,"  52 
"  Widow  of  the  Wood,"  136 

S.  (G.)  on  an  epigram,  259 

S.  (H.)  on  Lord  Lyttelton's  ghost,  508 

S.  (H.  A.)  on  "Court  Convert,"  345 

Sbaddongate,  origin  of  the  name,  275,  417 


Shaftesbury,  its  abbesses,  168 

Shakespeye  (Simon),  noticed,  146 

Shaksp«are  Prize  Essay,  the  Harness,  405,  444,  484 

Shakspeare  (William),  derivation  of  his  nAme,  2, 103, 
405,  444,  484 ;  his  portraits,  40  ;  Greeners  "  apslart 
crow,"  64 ;  his  death  mask,  79  ;  and  contemporsty 
writers,  104  ;  and  Bacon,  161,246,  350;  acriticum 
of  1720,  285 

Shakspeariana : — 

All's  Well  that  Ends  Well,  Act  ii.  Sc.  1 :  ''Oft 

expectation  fails,"  &c^  64 
Hamlet,  Act  v.  Sc.  2  :  "He's  fat/*  64  ;  <*  As  a 

woodcock,"  &&,  103 
Henry  VI.,  Pt.  IIL,  Act  v.  Sc.  6 :  IHglitHaow, 

76,258 
Sing  John,  Act  i.  Sc.  1  :    '*  Hadtt  thoa  rather 
&e,"  84.  Act  ii.  Sc.  2  :  '*  Bedlam,  have  done,"  6S 
King  Lear,  Act  iii.  Sc.  4  :    <'  Child  Roland  to 

the  dark  tower  came,"  329,  476 
Love's  Labour 's  Lost,  and  Burbage,  3,  104 
Macbeth,  music  to,  95,  298  ;  Act  i.  Sc.  4 :  *'Ii 
execution  done  on  Cawdor?"  &c.,  203,  240; 
Sc.  3:  "Aroint,"  134,  277 
Measure  for  Measure,  Act  L  Sc.  1 :  Duke^s  speech 

to  Escalus,  63 
Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  Act  v.  Sc.  5:  "Bain 

paialoes;*  145 
Richard  II.,  Act  ii.  Sc.  2 :  <<Thia  loyall  throne 

of  kings,"  &c.,  283 
Romeo  and  Juliet  in  Spain,  863 
Tempest,  Act  iv.  Sc.  1 :  "The  morkiest c^oi,"  64, 
405  ;  "  Banks  with  pioned  and  twilled  brims," 
282,  444 
Timon  of  Athens,  Act  iv.  Sc.  3  :    "Wappen'd 

widow,"  224,  314,  379 
Twelfth  Night,  Act  i.  Sc.  8  :  "Mistrtw  Mall's 

picture,"  283 
Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  Act  ii.  Sc.  1 :  "  Hard- 
favoured,"    64,  103,    155 ;  Sc.    4  :    a  parallel 
passage,  '*  England's  Parnassus,"  283 
Shaving  on  Sunday,  307 
Shaw  (A.  M.)  on  the  combatants  at  Perth,  189 

"Twa  Corbies,"  273 
Shaw  (S.)  on  Breeches  Bible,  296 
Byland  Abbey,  213 
Fly-leaf  Inscription,  215 
Portuguese  coin,  456 
Roman  coin,  256 
Simeon  of  Durham,  395 
"  Testaments  of  the  Twelve  Patriarchs,"  457 
Sheep  "steUing,"  206 
Sheet  anchor = Shoot  anchor,  225 
Shelley  (Percy  Bysshe),  engraved  portraits,  47;  and 

Balzac,  106  ;  "  Lines  to  an  Indian  Air,"  347 
Shem  on  Arthur  Maynwaring,  374 

"  Lucus  a  non  lucendo,"  272 
*'  Shepherd  of  Hermas  "and  "The  Pilgrim's  Progress," 

104,  171 
Sheridan  (Richard   Brinsley)  and  "The    School  for 

Scandal,"  34  ;  and  Suckling,  244 
Sherifis,  their  orders  for  executions,  487 
Shirley  family,  76,  96 
Shirley  (B.  P.)  on  Shiriey  famUy,  96 
Shot,  a  local  termination,  149,  285,  855 


hotov«^«  it*  denvaiion,  &1,  13S,  1D7,  274 
bolten  h(>nin^t  ite  meaning',  17 

P.l        '*      -ttbe  artist,  64 
dw'  .  Hi 

|l»  on  >., — ,-  ,  -  Situated,  53 
WelAh  TeAtament,  276 

Wordfi  pAMtng  from  one  ]*iigtifige  to  another^  91 
@igD'boiirds»  clMsica],  17 
^kes  (J.  C.)  on  the  epithet  "Bloody,"  859 
Simile,  m 
iSahoufctte  {E,),  "Id^  G^n^ralo  do  Gouvemonient 

ChinoU,"  100,  194 
iBUver,  pinft.     See  Pina, 
l-Silver  star  with  tnseription,  388,  496 
3imon  of  Darbani,  hiii  worka,  39o 
BitDpBOii  family  arms,  78 
Singleton  ( Rev.  Dr.)  of  Bugby,  200 
^  nople,  in  heraldry*  88.  155.  277t  417 
Sitnate  for  Situated,  53,  115 

(J.)  on  Rev.  Thomas  Gabb,  399 
,  (J,  F.)  on  the  nomenclature  of  vehicle?,  235 
|8b  (J*  I'*  C.)  on  Latin  qtiantity,  417 

S|:>eUing  reforms,  436 
[BkatmR  literature,  107,  156,  31 8»  379 
1  8keat  (W  W.)  on  *'  Abulyiementf,"  374 
Fiold.  epelt  ffeld,  207 
•»  Kike,"  in  Chaucer,  111 
*' Otherwhiles,"  435 
Pan:  I^anfield,  74 
Shakffpeare  s  name,  444 
.  Spelliog  rerormo^  2^ 
[  Stick  of  eela,  52 
*That  bcataAkebo."  144 
Skelton  (John),  «ong,  "  Merry  Margaret/'  48#,'f/23 
Skipton  (H,  S.)  on  Kdward  Knid,  portrait,  47 
8haki>peiire :  Bacon,  350 
Shelley  \T,  B.),  portrait,  47 
Slade,  its  meaning  and  derivatioD,  472 
51at4i8,  lines  on  Welab,  4S 
Sleigh  {J.\  on  touching  for  the  king*B  evil,  426 

Kirch's  comet  of  mSO,  66 
Sleight,  it^  menning  and  derivation,  472 
Slogoii,  itg  derivation,  2S7,  475 
S.  iM.  B.I  on  centenariaoiflm,  123 
Smith  ^M.)  on  **  The  Vagabond/'  by  Geo.  WiUker,  4&7 
Qjuitb  (J.  Hj  on  "  AuJd  RoMn  Gray."  392 
'  Uhlogahell,"  7 
iilh  (Jjimf^e),  '^Kejected  Addresioa,'*  4SC 
illli  (W;  J,  B)  on  Anwyl,  a  Welsh  word,  19 
Claymore,  an  old,  417 
Dee  (Dr.),  bis  magic  mirror^  219 
Guti|>owder  ploU,  £19 
Kemble  (^Father),  grave,  238 
Leioeater  Square  equestoian  itatue,  292 
Plnoe-iuuDes  abbreviated,  94 
Shakepeare's  nune,  4^4 
ShakHpeariana,  405 
'W   K     mh  penance  in  a  while  sheeti  468 
Sui  ^w)  of  Bmzenose  CuUege,  Oxfardj  (U 

So'  ning  and  derivatinn^  419 

Snec^x;*^  »uj>tir«tilion8,    }  396,  429 

Holtdaritv,  it"  incitninsr  rr.  in,   75 

Scl  [  Robert  Peel,  488 


A 


Solly  <E.)  cm  Eaatminster,  413  ^^^H 

Hyde  (Henry)  of  Purton,  495  ^^^| 

Leicester  Square  equestrian  etatue,  458  ^^^H 

Marlborough  (Duche««  of)  and  Queen  Anne,  ^34  ^f 

Maynwaring  (Arthur),  375  ^^^^| 

**  Kew  State  of  England/'  475  ^^^^| 

Oebeme,  Bp.  of  Exeter,  42^  ^^^H 

Pembroke  (Lord),  his  will,  477  ^^^^| 

Wande«forde  (Sir  Chrii^topber},  370  ^^^H 

Somaster  family  of  Painuford,  343,  434  ^^^H 

Sotnerville  (Maryli,  reference  to  tbe  "^  Higher  Algebra, '  ^^| 

Songs  and  Ballads : —  ^^^H 

Annie  Laurie,  264,  415  ^^^^| 

Auld  Hobin  Gray,  205,  271,  392,  432  ^^H 

Battle  of  tbe  Nile,  369,  518  ^^H 

Carmagnole,  8,  169,  318  ^^^H 

Darlaaton  Bull-bait,  299,  398  ^^^| 

George  BidWa  Oven,  112  ^^^^B 

Hope  told  a  flattering  tale,  220  ^^^| 

I  sent  my  love  a  letter,  69  ^^^^| 

La  Napoleon ienne,  306  ^^^^| 

Let  lords  and  &ne  ladies,  323  ^^^^M 

Lord  Ellerie,.  247  ^^^| 

'*  My  Queen/'  169,  255  ^^^1 

O  wha  daur  middle  wi'  me,  487  ^^^^| 

Ob,  Roger!  ob,  Hoger!  487  ^^^1 

Pov<^rty  parte  good  company,  112  ^^^H 

.Pray  Goody,  220  ^^^M 

l^/The  Fanner  B  Son  and  the  Lady  Gay,  160  ^^^B 

TbreeBaven?,  1S9,  273  ^^^1 

Twa  Corbica,  189.  273  ^^^H 

'Twas  at  the  biHhnigbt  ball.  31  ^^^H 

Wednesbury  Cocking,  299  ^^^H 

Wiggleaworth  Hunt,  458  ^^^H 

Willie  was  a  wanton  wag,  264,  412  ^^^H 

Souls  of  the  dead  eq^tal  fo  angelR,  1 56  ^^^H 

Soua,  ita  pronunciation,  368,  415,  438  ^^^H 

**Souter  Johnny,"  original  figure  of,  828,  358,  437  ^^^H 

Soothoole  (Johanna),  meeting  houses  of  ber  follower^  ^M 

68,  194  ^^H 

Sp.  on  Archer  family,  196  ^^^^| 

Edgar  family  of  Scotland,  136  ^^^| 

Lawrence  fsAiuly  in  HantSi  285  ^^^^t 

Lotoei,  the  sacred,  461  ^^^^| 

Sneexing  auperttitionii,  193  ^^^^| 

Taaffe  epiUph,  65  ^^^1 

*' Temple"  brig,  of  London,  2S  ^^^H 

Bpagooletto  4  Joseph  Ribera),  wotkp,  109  ^^^H 

Spanish  legenda^  512  ^^^^H 

Spelling  refonnsi,  29,  64,  74, 123,  143,  163,  231,  S60,  H 

277,  436,  478  ^^B 

Speriflod  on  geographical  qoery,  437  J^^^H 

Gorge  (Sir  Arthur),  209  ^^^H 

Women  npon  the  stage,  248  ^^^^| 

Spurrell  (W.)  od  Rahel  and  Rachel,  198  "^^^1 

L,  (R.)  on  "TestamenU  of  tbe  Twelve  Patriarchs,'*  996    ^^^H 

S.  1(H.  C.)  on  Mrs.  Mary  Somervillo,  135  ^^^H 

S.  (S.  D/l  on  '*  Butterfly's  Ball,''  418  ^^H 

a  (a  B.)  on  Bailey's  PielionarT,  258  ^^H 

8,  (V,)  on  Antony  Stewart,  miniature  piunter,  448  ^^^H 

Staffonl  t  J.  S.)  on  Oliver  Cromwell,  466  ^^^1 

'*  Defender  of  tbe  Faith/'  206  ^^^H 

Stamird  (John  de»,  bell-founder,  485  ^^^ 


554 


INDEX. 


{Index  SnpBlemcnt  to  IKe  ririj 
Qaalcs.trlth  Xa.  Of.  Jm.  1 


Staffordshire:  "The  Widow  of  the  Wood,"  88,  186 
Stage,  women  upon,  248 

Stames (Alderman  Sir  Wm.),  early  occupation,  124, 194 
Standard  weights  and  measures  of  Scotland,  368 
Stanley  of  Birmingham,  his  tunea,  52 
Starkey  (Capt.  Benjamin),  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  46 
Stars,  their  effect  on  gazers,  809,  454 
"Stealing"  and  "steUing,"  206 
Stell=To  place,  set,  in  old  Scotch,  206 
Stephen  (King),  his  death  and  burial,  368 
Stephens  (F.  C.)  on  the  Pretender  in  England,  482 
Sterne  (Laurence),  as  a  poet,  1 7 
Stevens  (C.  L.  M.)  on  £arl  of  Moreton,  55 
Stevens  (William),  ship-builder,  449 
Stewart  (Antony),  miniature  painter,  448 
Stewart  (Capt.  Francis),  grandson  to  the  £arl  of  Both- 
well,  126 
Stewarts  and  FitzaUns,  482 
Stockport,  carriages  at,  1 28 
Stone  (Nicholas),  deed  of  conveyance  to,  465 
Stone  (W.  G.)  on  Boman  coin,  256 
Stoneleigh  church  bell  inscription,  360 
Storr  (F.)  on  Browning's  *•  Good  News  from  Ghent  to 
Aix,"  17 

Whole,  its  etymology,  37        • 

Words  passing  from  one  language  to  another,  91 
Story  (W.  W.),  sculptor,  published  portrait  of,  48 
Strafford  (Thomas  Wentworth),  Earl  of,  bis  third  wife, 

468 
Strangeways  (Sir  Thomas),  1 6 
Stratton  (T.)  on  Clachnacudden  stone,  214 

Motto,  ChatUn  clan,  213 

Scotch  peers,  222 

Slogan  :  Kelpie  :  Glenullin,  475 
Strauss  (David  Friedrich),  replies  to  his  "Old  Faith 

and  New,"  148 
Strawberry  leaves,  as  a  decoration  to  coronets,  120 
Streel,  an  Irish  provincialism,  105, 174 
Street  arabs  in  1816,  4G5 
Stuart,  Hoyal  House  of,  its  origin,  067,  496 
Stuart  and  Sutherland,  the  Houses  of,  85,  174 
Stuart  (Charles  Edward),  in  England  at  Queen  Anne's 

death,  408,  432,  526, 
Stubbs  (Prof.),  his  *  *  Constitutional  History  of  England  " 

and  the  bishopric  of  Exeter,  304,  42 G 
S.  (T.  W.  W.)  on  the  blessed  thistle,  526 

"  When  York  to  Heaven,"  47 
Suckling  (Sir  John)  and  Sheridan,  244 
Suffolk  charters,  Le  Deneys  a  surname  in,  188,  259 
Suffolk  words,  326,  454 

Summer,  the  Little,  881;  its  Welsh  name,  477,  518 
Sunday  shaving  in  1729,  307 
Sun-dial  inscriptions,  25,  185 

Sunflower,  its  Italian  name,  17;  turning  to  the  sun,  172 
Surnames,  English,  157, 199  ;  WeUh  "Ap,"  157,  257 
Surrey  provincialisms,  812 
Sutherland  and  Stuart,  the  Houses  of,  85 ,  174 
Sutton  (C.  W.)  on  cremation,  184,  220 
Sutton  (Thomas),  his  burial-place,  409,  455,  492 
Swainson  (C.)  on  the  bittern,  77 

Rivers  sprinkled  with  flowers,  35 
Swale  family,  78 
Swans,  their  musical  qualities,  16 
Sweeting  (W.  D.)  on  Party,  in  the  sense  of  a  person,  521 

Welsh  parish  registers,  428 


Swift  family,  33,  333,  416 
Swift  (Sir  Francis  \  his  ancestry,  268,  333,  416 
Swift  (Richard),  sheriff  of  London,  338,  416,  438 
Swifte  (E.  L.)  on  ballooning,  366 

Caroline  (Qiieen\  274 

Irish  executions,  293 

Swift  fionily,  83,  333,  416 
Swifte  (Isabella)  on  Major  Weir,  278 
Sword,  introduction  of  the  curved  into  Europs^  248 ; 

an  old  one,  447 
S.  (W.)  on  words  in  an  old  MS  ,  368 
S.  (W.  S.)  on  "  Providence  on  the  nde,**  fta,  452 
Symbol  in  stained  glasf,  268,  834,  486 
Symes  (J.)  on  lunar  rainbow,  92 


T.  (A.)  on  "  Built  here  for  his  envy,"  217 

"Poverty  parts  good  company,**  112 
Taaffe  family,  65,  425 
Taaffe  (Stephen),  epitaph,  65 

Tablets,  memorial,  of  Society  of  Arts,  106, 155, 257, 524 
Tait  (Abp.),  his  baptism,  486 
"Taking  a  sight, '^  not  a  modem  costom,  166,  234, 

255,  280,  299 
Talleyrand  (Prince),  his  wife,  300 
'*  Tam  o'Shanter,"  original  figure  of,  828,  358,  487 
Tamworth  parish  registers  quoted,  144 
Tangier,  illustrated  work  on,  287 
Taunton  family  arms,  347 
Taunton  (W.  G.)  on  Latimer  :  Amnde),  88 

Taunton  arms,  347 
Tauntoniensis  on  Bow=>  Bridge,  467 
Tavern  sign  couplets,  98 
Tax  on  "  tea,  chocolate,  and  wax,"  349 
Taylor  (J.)  on  church  armour,  388 

Fuller  (Thomas),  works  of,  521 

Tintem  Abbey,  96 
Taylor  (John)  publisher,  noticed,  438 
Taylor  (Robert),  replies  to  his  "Diageas,"  148 
Taylor  (W.  H.)  on  17th  century  tokens,  433 
T.  (C.)  on  Shakspeariana,  64 
T.  (E.)  on  "I  sent  my  love  a  letter,"  69 
Tea,  how  made  about  1660,  57 
Tea-table,  anonymous  lines  on,  511 
Telegraph  prophecied  in  1636,  483 
Teme  Valley  provincialisms,  197 
Templars,  their  badges,  110,  173,  318;   their  ordi* 

nation,  173 
*'  Temple,"  wreck  of  the  brig,  28,  96 
Temple  (Sir  William),  "Of Poetry,"  186 
Tenison  (Abp.  Thomas)  at  Cottenham,  828,  396 
Tennyson  (Alfred),  "The   Miller's   Daughter,"  13; 
parallel  paasages,  25  ;  allusion  in  hia  "  Dream  of 
Fair  Women,"  229 ;  passage  in  "  The  Poet,"  288, 335 
Tenures,  singular,  224,316 
Terrella  explained,  326,  352 
Tertullian  on  "The  Shepherd  of  Hennas,"  104, 171 
Testament,  Welsh,  18,  276 

"  Testaments  of  the  Twelve  Patriarchs,"  396,  457, 525 
Tew  (E.)  on  Borough  English,  456 

Bunyan'8  compeers  and  predecessors,  171 

B^land  Abbey,  213 

Cicero,  passage  in,  135 

Col- in  col-fox,  179 

Corpses  entombed  in  walls,  185,  298,  398 


I^w  eopftliDmit  to  the  N<ir(«f  ft&d  l 


INDEX. 


ooo 


454 


Tew  (E.)  on  Fire,  purgation  by,  24 
Irii,  tbe  Iflknd,  211 
j^B  **  Looua  A  noti  lucendo,^*  41 S 

^m         Mftrmge  of  tho  Doge  and  the  Adriatic, 
H         l^ilton  :  *'  The  grim  feature/*  §73  i 

^^B^^  Kaam&n  the  leper,  25  9 

^^^Ko&UmdJi,  its  moaning',  153 

^^^^^H  Fiagal,  Its  derivAtiuti^  1D7 

^^^H  Preaier  John,  32 

^^H  Buliric&l  query,  123 

^^m  Edllj  Iilet,  194 

^^^^B  ScoDce,  iia  etymology,  201 

^^^^B  Sees,  EDglifih,  117;  Anna  o*;  510 

^^^^^B  Sinople,  in  heratdry,  277 

^^^^^   T«nipUrB  anci  Hospi tidier?,  173 

^m  **  The  end  justifies  the  means,'*  420 

^^^H  **  Unaccui^tomed  aa  I  am/'  jco«,  417 

^^         Walffinghum  ^Tbomaa)  and  Sophocles,  405 

V  WycUf  ( Robert  de),  52 

ThAckeray  {W.  M.),  an  uooonscioBf  blunder,  o66  ; 
two  references  In  bia  works,  408 

TbankF,  Bingalar  card  of,  385 

Theatrea,  private,  85 

Thcrf-cake,  ita  meaning,  54 

Thifetle,  legend  of  the  bleaBed,  43,  95, 198,  239^  526 

T.  (n,  M.)  on  Littleton  family,  408 

Tbomaa  (E.  C.)  on  Latin  and  Greek  rerae,  337 

ITbomaa  (Moy)  on  '^  What  ia  a  pound  I  "  471 
Thoma  (W.  J.^  on  **The  Arcbieologicai  Epiatlo  to 
Dean  Mdlea,''  £70 
Ceutenarianiam,  122,  182 
Charlea  Mftcklin,  hia  age,  245 
Serros  (Olivia),  worka  of^  141,  321,  409 
Tliomson  (George)  and  BarDa^  407 
Tborbam  (R.)  on  Paul  Joneaa  action,  2^Q 
Thorn,  a  curioua,  349,  516 
Thombury  (W.)  on  "r»nk  riderp,"  38 
Threadueedle  Street,  the  Old  Lady  of,  229,  2D0 
Ticbbome  (Dowager  Lady),  autograph  nutep,  45 
Tied= Bound,  326 
TiUey  (H,  T.)  on  royal  beada  on  belln,  318 

ITimbs  (John),  an  appeal  on  bia  behalf,  320,  340,  360 
**  Times  -*  newapaper,  Lettert  by  an  EngliahmaD,  214, 
45S 
Tindal  (Matthew),  LL*D,,  controversial  worka,  175, 
195  ;  noticed  in  the  MQHtlthj  MagaiiM,  4S3 
Tintem  Abbey,  accounts  of,  28,  75,  U6,  237 
Titlef,  Britifch   and  Continental,    23,  95,   195,  351  ; 
episcr^pal,  130;  clerical,  29,  144,  280;  intercattoua}, 
304 
T.  (.L)  on  Rigby,  payinaater  of  the  forces,  38 
T.  (M.)  on  marriagea  in  Lent,  367 
Tokens,  aeventeenth  century,  26t>,  36 S,  433 
Tomiinaon  (G,  D.)  on  heraldic  query,  35 
Tooth  and  egg=  Britannia  metal,  161>,  255 

tTopay-turvy,  ita  derivation,  288,  384,  477 
Totnea  barony,  308,  494 
Totnaa  (Jobel  de),  biography,  268,  334,  418 
Toarncur  (Cyril),  "The  Second  Maid'a  Tragedy,''  405 
Towera'a  "  lllustratiaBa  of  Prophecy,"  448 
Town*a  Hall  for  Town  Hall,  258 
Tract,  a  contraction  of  tractation,  278 
Trabem  (G.  M.)  on  Blaea'a  Atlaa,  415 


Trant  (W.)  on  Dr  laaac  Watts,  107 

Travel,  critique  on  booka  of,  66 

Tr*2t'a,  iron,  45 

TregoBse  (Tbomaa),  bia  *'  Life  and  Death,*'  341,  4y3 

Tre  lawny  (C.)  on  **  Twaa  at  the  birth  night  ball,"  31 

Trevelyan  (W.  C.)  on  Sir  Henry  Sheere,  377 

Trinimfcr  (K.)  on  Falconet,  the  artiat,   S 

Tristram  (Sir),  Treatiao  of  Hunting,  488 

Truelove  (£,)  on  a  portrait  of  Tbomaa  Paine,  188 

Truasel  (C.)  on  Bridgford  family,  368 

T,  (S.  W.)  on  origin  of  the  name  Uugaenot,  306 

Liturgiea  of  Edward  Vr,  22S 
Tufnell  (Cttpt,  Edw.),  niaaon  toWeatminster  Abbey^87 
Tun  bridge  VVelK  Patty  Moon's  Walk,    107 
Tunatead  Church,  Norfolk,  409 
Tnpper  (J.  L,)  on  CatuHua  :  '*  Hoc  ut  dixit,"  &c.,  430 
Tureen  spelt  Ttrrine,  1S5,  '1!>^,  39S,  457 
Torkeya  introduced  into  EngLand,  105,  214 
Turner  (R.  S,)  on  the  ''  Vengeur,*'  34 
Tutors,  travelling,  uf  the  17tb  century,  243,  2^)1,  327 
Tuttle  (G.  F.)  on  Etlwarda  of  America,  :^93 
Tutt]e\a  W,)  on  Edward  Cran6eld,  307 
T.  (W.),  BalUda  by.  249 

Twee<lledum  and  Tweedledee,  a  ITrencb  vyraion,  485 
T.  (W.  G.)  on  Kejjtuftld,  Count  de  Valletorta,    368 
TwL«leton  ^Hon.  Edward),  death  of,  318 
T-  (W.  M.)  on  **The  Butterfly'*  Ball,"  45S 
TzAr.     See  Czar. 

U 

Ublogahen,  ita  meaning  and  orthography,  7 
Cdal  (J.  S,)  on  "  Autieat,"  a  military  term,  132 

ChriattiiajH  mummera  in  Doraetshirp,  505 

Shak^peariana,  4S4 
Um©te  (Sir  Gcmrd),  Hfe^nd  family,  149,  255,  412 
Ulster,  use  of  Enjf^liBb  worda  in,  426 
Ulster  worda  and  phrase*,  98 
Uttlma  aa  a  Chriiitmn  name,  89,  452 
Urabra  on  Timti^  Letters  by  an  Engliahmau,  21 4 
Uneda  on  Butler  a  '*  Iludibra?,  '  326 

Piomingo,  '*Tlie  Savage,"  95,  379 

HciUnd  (Ma^Jame),  autobiograpby,  168 
Uunone  (J.  C.)  on  worda  paeaing  from  one  language 

to  another,  90 
Unuone  (T.  C.)  on  Dr.  Prieatlcy*a  matctrtalifim,  126 

Babel  or  Rachel,  133 

Summer,  the  Little,  477 
Uri7  (John),  hia  edit,  of  Chaucer,  S81 
U.  (T,  C.)  on  Grewe=Gretk,  856 

Thorn,  curioua,  349 

"  VViwte-riff,"  426 

Yew  treea  at  Painawick,  365 
Ut^pia^  bibliography  of,  252 
Ulrura  on  Liddell  w  Wcsteiton,  12S,  175 


Vallt^torta  (Reginald),  Count  de,  368,  414,  431 
Vallombroftian  nun,  34,  95,  154 
VaniK^mer  (Paul),  portrait  of  Lord  Bacon,  161 
Vanghan  (IL   M.)  on  Dr  W.  Vaughan  and  Sir  H, 

Halford,  1'3 
Taugban  (Wm.),  physician,  and  Sir  H.  Halford,  US 
Vayrea,  in  canton  of  Libourne,  Gironde,  146 
V.  (E.)  on  George  Colman,  132 
'^Gueaaea  at  Troth,"  278 


556 


INDEX. 


{Index  8appl«aB«Bt  to  tb«  Note 
Qo«ries,  with  Ko.  SB,  Jmn.  It.  u 


V.  (E.)  on  "Put  to  buck,"  76 

Walford  (E.)  on  an  epigram,  367 

Rubrical  query,  191 

"Kuper's":  a  tax,  849 

"Widow  of  the  Wood,"  136 

Walker  (Geoige),  descendants  o^  247 

Vehicles,  their  nomenclature,  148,  235,  398,  526 

Walker  (George),  "  The  Vagabond,"  406,  497 

"  Yengeur,"  Btory  of  her  sinking,  84 

Walker  (John),  his  "Pronouncing  Dictionary," 

Venice,  Doge  of,  marriage  with  the  Adriatic,  287, 454, 

252 

478 

Walmesley  (Richard),  inquired  after,  248 

Venus,  Transit  of,  205,  274,  801,  385,  339 

Walsingham  (Thomas)  and  Sophocles,  405 

Venus  of  Milo,  60 

Wandesforde  (Sir  Christopher),  Lord    Cattleoo 

Vergih'us  and  the  Antipodes,  887 

827,  370 

Vervain  against  melancholy,  886 

Ward  (C.  A.)  on  Martha  Bradley  of   Hampi 

Vestments  of  ecclesiastics  at  St  John*8  College,  Ox- 

Heath,  513 

ford,  441 ;  in  Lambeth  Palace  Libraiy,  ib. 

Buddha,  its  meaning,  215 

Veto,  the  Royal,  426,  476 

"  Built,"  used  by  Milton,  182 

V.  (F.  J.)  on  Crack  :  Wag,  98 

Byron  :  "Siege  of  Corinth,"  893 

Cricket,  name  of  the  game,  266 

Chelsea  Botanic  Gardens,  463 

<*God  bless  the  mark,"  835 

Christian  names,  double,  226 

"Had  be,'»  in  Shakspeare,  84 

Cipher  writing,  805 

"Mars  his  sword,"  2 

CoUingwood  (Lord),  family,  96 
Cuper^s  Gardens,  394 

Shakspeariana,  64, 103 

"Topsy-turvy,"  its  derivation,  288,  477 
Viccars  (John),  Oriental  schohur,  birthplace,  226 

"  Deinology,"  68 

Drury  House,  188 

Victoria  as  a  surname,  285 

Greyhound,  its  derivation,  855 
Griffinhoofe,  the  name,  397 

Victoria  (Queen),  her  baptismal  names,  840 

VieuviUe,  family  name,  85 

"Guesses  at  Truth,"  89 

Viles  (E.)  on  Shakspeariana,  484 

Irish  bulls,  188 

ViUcnage,  52,  178 

Laplace,  phrase  attributed  to,  447 

Villers:   De  Villiers,  names  and  families,  22S,  294, 

Leicester  Square  statue,  91 

524 

"Macbeth,"  music  to,  298 

Vincent  (J.  A.  C.)  on  Edward  Maria  WingEeld,  478 
Vincent  family,  149 

Parallel  passages,  345 

"Relation  of  England,"  104 

Vinci  (Leonardo  da),  his  grave,  180 

Sculptor  poet,  428 

Violanti,  Yolante,  lolantha,  and  lolant,  269 

Shakespeare :  Bacon,  161 

Violetta,  a  Christian  name,  237 
Virgin,  a  proper  name,  248,  415 

Society  of  Arts'  tablet*,  155,  524 

Streel,  a  provincialism,  174 

Visage  family,  189 

Water-blast  explained,  55 

Visaker  family,  189 

Zinzan  Street,  Reading,  9 

Voltaire  (F.  M.  A.),  verses  upon,  409 

Warren  (C.  F.  S.)  on  covered  altar- rails,  6*22 

V.  (V.H.I.L.LC.I.)  on  epitAphs,  125,  485 
Forbes  (Arthur),  of  Brux,  308 

Christian  name  changed,  295 

Christy  collections,  74 

Parallel  passages,  464 

Churchill  (J.),  M.P.  for  Newtown,  173 
Epitaph,  337 

Printers'  errors,  886 

Pronunciation  in  singing,  357 

Haytianpoet,  156 

"Testaments  of  the  Twelve  Patriarchs,"  525 

Herrick  (Robert),  verses,  521 

Wycherly  and  Bums,  158 

Jesus,  contraction  for,  437 

y,  termination  in  plaice-names,  455 

Knurr  and  Spell,  133 

Latin  and  Greek  verse,  391 

W 

LiddelU.  Westerton,  157 

TT  substituted  fori?,  95 

Marriages  in  Lent,  495 

Wade  (C.)  on  Ban  well  Court,  Somerset,  88 

Newlyn  surname,  53 

Wag,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  98 

Phuse-names  abbreviated,  93 

Wait  (S.)  on  unsettled  baronetcies,  15 

"  Poverty  parts  good  company,"  112 

Wake  (H.  T.)  on  a  ring  inscription,  528 

Rubrical  query,  191 

Wakeling  (G.)  on  a  water-colour  drawing,  388 

Staffordshire  :  "The  Widow  of  the  Wood," 

Walcott  (M.  E.  C.)  on  abbeys  and  castles  in  Scotland, 

Stuart,  Royal  House  of,  496 

497 

Templars  and  Hospitallers,  173 

Armour  in  churches,  494 

Valletorta  (Reginald),  Count  de,  4U 

Arms  of  the  English  sees,  462 

Words  passing  from  one  language  to  another 

"  As  sound  as  a  roach,"  314 

Yange  Monday,  74 

Dominicals,  317 

"  Washing  an  apron,"  its  meaning,  387 

Paten  inscriptions,  27 

Washington  medal,  308,  375 

Sees,  ancient  English,  291 

Waste-riff,  a  provincialism,  426 

Tintem  Abbey,  75 

Watch  papers,  47,  94 

Waldeck  (Count),  his  longevity,  182 

Water-blast,  an  aihuent,  9,  55 

Wales,  the  first  Prince  of,  388 

Water-colour  drawing,  anonymous,  ZS8 

INDEX. 


557 


W»ter  tnarka  in  paper,  SO,  04,  136,  140,  357 

Waterloo,  Napoleon's  scaffold  ai|  316 

Waterloo  in titJal,   i7 

WfttU  (Dr.  Isaac)|  de«oription  uf  the  fiittt  miracle,  107j 

170 
Waaton  (Cul.  Valentin**),  the  regicide,  110, 156 
W.  {A.  W,)  on  J.  H,  BeUa^B,  3U 
W.  (C.  A.)  on  the  bittern,  77 
W.  (0,  L.)  un  will  of  Sir  Lewis  Clifford,  514 
We&lo  (W.  H.  J.)  oa  FlemingB  at  Norwich,  512 

MimMile  DotinchemenBe,  467 
Weather  Bayings.     8ee  Folkhtx. 

Web ,  on  AmericAn  States,  526 

Webb  (T.)  on  *' Memoirs  of  Civil  War  in  Hereford- 

ahire  "  448 
Webb  (T.  W.)  on  T.  Allington,  4&7 
Coronershipa,  private,  129 
Kembltf  (Father),  his  band,  92 
Swift  family,  78 
TutcptarB  and  Hoipitallers,  110 
Zinzan  Street,  Heading,  216 
Wedgwood  (H.)  on  "As  eound  aa  a  roach,'^  525 

Proat»  a  neuter  verb,  114 
Weir  (Mftjor)  Edinburgh  tnagiciao,  hia  bouse,  188,  273 
WtfHeiley  (Mar^^aifl  of)  and  Lord  Comwallis,  24 
W^elah  registers,  abbreviation  in,  423 
Welsh  slatee,  lines  on,  48 
^elah  TeBt&ment,  IS,  276 
^entworth  family,  367 

entworth  on  Chattan  clan  motto,  14 (J 
Wentworth  (Sir  Thomas)  of  Bretton  Hall,  140,  213 
Wesley  ^John),  his  Abridgment  of  Thomas  k  Kempis, 

269,  800 
West  (William),  editor  of  the  AkUn€  Mafjazim,  455 
Westminster  Abbey,  repUcemetit  of  the  gravo'Stoues, 

160 
**  Westminster  Drollery,''  reprint,  360 
W,  (G.  E.)  on  LuciiS,  a  grt-ve,  205 
W.  {G.  W.)  on  Sir  Christopher  Wandesforde,  370 
W.  (H.)  on  Buda  :  Ofen  :  Pe!»th,  36 
W.  (H*  A.)  on  miaaal  query,  267 
Whele,  meaning  and  use  of  the  word,  37 
Whisky,  the  national  drink  of  Scotland,  151 
Whistfeis,  the  Seven.     See  Fofkhre. 
Whiston  (W.)  on  Byron's  "  Siege  of  Corinth,*'  177 
Whitbrooke  (Sir  John)  of  Bridgnorth,  8^ 
White  (G.)  on  bells  of  St.  Martin^a^  Kpsom,  45 

Byron's  birthplace,  268 
WTiite  (Gilbert),  MS.  sermon,  423 
White  (R.)  on  Rev.  Thomas  Gabb,  438 
W*hy,  aa  an  ex^>tetive,  213 
Wick,  in  place-names.    8ee  ITycA. 
Wiggi  — Buns  or  caka,  188,  17S 
**  Wild  Irishroan,"  mail  from  Lotidoa  to  Holyhead,  188 
WiU,  a  poetical,  226 
William  I.,  medal,  67,  154 
Williamfl  (S,  H.)  on  AAtucious,  for  Aitnte,  338 
Christian  names,  double,  294 
"ChriBtianity  as  Old  as  the  Creation,"  195 
"Deinology,"  155 
Dodd  (Dr.  Wm.),  14 
Domingo  Gonsales,  200 
Dims  Scottiti  t  "  guodUbeta/  30 
Eye-glasses,  MiDgle,  50 
Falconet  the  artiiftt  54 


WiUiams  (8-  H.)  on  Fletcher,  Bp.  of  Worcester,  293 

Gabb  (Rev.  Thomas),  333 

Gobet  {Pierre^C^saireJoaeph),  452 

Gunn  (Charles  Haios),   151 

Hardy  (Rev.  Samuel),  116 

♦'Hodibras,**  114 

Judges  on  circuit,  27 

Le  Comte'a  "  Mtfmoires  dela  Chine,"  234 

Like,  as  a  conjunction,  217 

Mddford  (William),  216 

Muae,  a  **  gentleman,"  316 

Petronius  Arbiter,  338 

Rendesvoiis  as  an  English  word,  i58 

Shakspeare  Prize  Essay,  444 

Silhouette  (Etienne  de),  104 

Virgin,  a  man  s  name,  415 

Wingfield  (Sir  Edward  Maria),  73 
Willow  pattern  pkte,  69,  114 
Wilson  (Sir  Robert),  his  note-bouk  quoted,  63 
Wilson  (Thomas),  M.P.  for  Stratford,  1812,   149 
Wing  (W.)  on  Cromwell,  and  the  almanack,  155 

'*  Letters  of  Sir  Thomas  Fitzosbome,*'  408 

Willow  pattern  plato,  114 
Wioi^'field  (Sir  Edward  Maria),  his  ChristiaKi  name,  73, 

237,  478 
Wink,  in  place-names,  408,  455 
Winters  (W.)  on  British  Museum  dnpUoate*,  157 

FuUee  (Robert),  his  burial,  229 

Luson  family,  32 

"  Piljf rim's  Progress,"  50 

Sneezing  superstitions,  353 

Button  (Thomas),  burial-place,  400 

Walmealey  (Richard),  248 
W^inton  earldom  :  De  Quincis,  129|  170 
Wish,  a  curious,  468 
Witchcraft  in  Scotland,  83 
W,  (J.)  on  **  Battle  of  the  Nile,"  369 
W.  (J.  W.)  on  Charles  I.  aa  apoet,  116 

**  Guesses  at  Truth,"  278 

Parallel  pasages,  25,  106,  145 

Society  of  Arts*  tablets,  257 

Temple  (Sir  William),  186 

Young's  *'  Night  Thoughta,"  15 
W-  (M.)  on  Mrs.  Wood  and  *'  The  Authentic  Records," 

127 
Wollaston  (Rev.  William),  *'  Religion  of  Nature  De« 

lineated,^'   315 
Wobwy  (Card.  Thomas)  and  the  living  Lydd,  148 
Women,  an  American  eulogy  oo,  147,  433^  480  ;  upon 

the  stage,  248 
Wood  (Ml*.)  and  **The  Authentic  Records,**  127 
Woodcut,  earliest  dated,  49 
Woodward  (J.)  on  arms  of  English  sees,  619 

Banwell  court,  Somerset,  254 

Byron  arms,  513 

Columbus,  burial-place  and  arms,  152 

F.KR.T.  in  the  Savoy  arms,  315 

Lancastro  (Counts  of),  419 

Mark  (Count  Von  der).  3C8 

Medalof  William  L,  67 

Nobility  granted  to  foreigners,  51 

Order  of  St.  John,  273 

Seal  of  Prince  of  Livoma,  428 

VUlen:  VUliere,  294 

Violante,  lolantha,  k^,  269 


558 


INDEX. 


{Index  SapDlcmeat  to  the Notee  and 
Qaeiies,  with  No.  «5,  Jan.  18«  1873. 


WooUey  (F.  0.  S.)  on  abbreviated  place-names,  94 
Wooton  registers,  oo.  l^eds,  notice  of  Holland,  186 
Word  formati<»i,  arbitrary  or  conventional,  216 
Words  pasnng  from  one  language  to  another,  90, 136, 
386,  41T,  438 ;  ohan^fes  prodnoed  bj  local  dialectd, 
197,  836 
Wordsworth  (Wifiiam),  <'The  Excursion  "  burlesqued, 
9 1  epitaph' on  Mrs.  Qnilldnan,  10 ;  allusion  to  witty 
rhymes,    ih.;   and  Hc^g,    9,   157;   and  Mary  of 
Battermere,  47,  114, 175 
Works,  New,  suggested  by  authors,  385,  496 
W.  (R.)  on  "Put  up  with  it,"  888 
Wren  (Sir  Christopher)  and  Freemasonry,  280 
W.  ( W.)  on  Adam  meanii^g  north,  south,  &o.,  76 
W.  (W.  T.)  on  the  bidm*s  piece,  512 

"John  JasperV Secret,"  526 
Wyat,  Wyatt,  and  Wood  families,  108,  155,  254 
Wyatt  or  Wyat  family,  87 
Wych,  Hall,  and  Salt-works,  183,  249,  809 
Wycherly  (William)  and  Bums,  81,  158 
Wydif  (Robert  de),  enrolment,  52,  178 
Wylie  (C.)  on  "Anecdote  Lives,"  865 

Drury  House,  75 

Prury  Lane,  "  Private  house  "  in,  85 

Frye  (Thoa),  engravings,  17 

Illustrations,  444 

Ldcester  Square  statue,  91 

Mayn waring  (Arthur),  418 


X.  on  Shropshire  wills,  828 

Xavier  (St  Francis),  tombstone  of  a  nephew  of,  448 


XIX.  on  Visage  and  Yisaker  fii^milies,  189 
X.  (J.  P.)  on  "  Fruitless  Enquiry,"  865 
X.  (Z.  Y.)  on  Cowper :  Trooper,  276 


Y,  the  termination  in  place-names,  820,  455,  523 
Y.  on  Tom  quad  at  Christ  Churdi,  168 
"  Yale  CoUm  M^ine,"  85 
Yarmouth,  Great,  its  history,  219 
"Yelverton  Marriage  Case,"  ito  illustrations,  466 
Yeux,  its  derivation,  101, 174,  287,  898,  457 
Yew  trees  at  Painswick,  865,  455 
Yllut  on  En^h  translations,  334 
Young  (Dr.  Edward),  his  "  Night  Thoughts  *'  quoted 
15 


Zinzan  &mily,  26,  53,  216,  358,  513 
Zinzan  Street,  Reading,  9,  53,  115,  21G,  358 
Zornlin  family,  269 
Z.  (X.  Y.)  on  Shakespeare*8  name,  103 
Z.  (Z.)  on  "The  Butterfl/s  Ball,"  327 

Caroline  (Queen),  225 

Coroner,  its  derivation,  59 

Jourdan  family,  113 

Illustrators  of  popular  booka,  511 

Sword,  the  curved,  248 

"  Whale's  JubUee,"  518 


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