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[4«»S.TII.JAir.7,71. 


Here  then  we  have  in  this  giant  Charlemagne 
and  his  BucceasorS;  the  power  and  glory  of  the 
Papacy,  and  the  miserable  thraldom  of  the 
Christian  people. 

Una  having  learned  the  fate  of  her  knight,  now 
appeals  to  Prince  Arthur,  whom  she  meets ;  and 
he  fights  and  slays  the  giant,  delivers  the  knight, 
and  strips  and  exposes  Duessa,  who  flies  to  hide 
her  shame  in  the  wilderness.  Prince  Arthur,  the 
poet  tells  us,  is  Magnificence,  t.  e,  the  doinp^  of 
gjreat  deeds.  He  is  the  impersonation  of  British 
royalty  as  shown  forth  in  the  house  of  Tudor, 
and  we  have  here  the  victory  of  that  house  oyer 
the  papacy  and  its  abettors. 

In  order  to  restore  her  knight  to  the  vigour 
requisite  for  his  conflict  with  the  dragon,  Una 
now  leads  him  to  the  House  of  Holiness^  where 
he  is  put  through  a  course  of  instruction  and 
discipline  by  Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity,  the  daugh- 
ters of  Holiness.  He  tnen  engages  the  draffon, 
whom  he  overcomes  and  slays  futer  a  perilous 
conflict  of  three  days'  duration.  At  the  end  of 
the  first  day,  when  the  hero's  strength  is  nearly 
exhausted,  it  is  restored  by  his  falling  into  the 
Well  of  Life ;  and  at  the  end  of  the  second  day 
he  is  again  saved  by  falling  into  the  '*  stream  of 
halm"  that  flowed  from  the  Tree  of  Life.  By 
the  well  and  tree  I  think  the  two  sacraments 
seem  to  be  indicated.  The  remainder  of  the 
allegory  is  simple  and  easy  to  be  understood. 

I  will  only  further  observe,  that  the  allegorical 
characters  cease  with  this  book.  So  when  we 
meet  with  the  Red-cross  Knight  and  Satyrane 
again,  they  are  simply  knights  of  Faerie,  Archi- 
mnge  a  mere  enchanter,  and  Duessa  the  Queen 
of  Scots.  Thos.  KsieHTLEY. 


LETTERS   OF   NELL   GWYNNE  AND    KITTY 

CLIVE. 

Dkab  Me.  Editob— 

In  your  interesting  Miscellany  you  have  re- 
cently introduced  two  letters  from  Nell  Qwynne. 
I  think  it  might  pleade  your  readers  to  have  a 
copy  of  her  letter  which  is  in  my  collection  of 
autographs.  It  is,  no  doubt,  authentic,  and  was 
formerly  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Singer,  at  whose 
sale  I  bought  it.  It  was  so  well  illustrated  by 
our  dear  mutual  friend  Mr.  Bruce,  and  introduced 
by  him,  with  some  others,  into  the  Camden  Mis- 
ceUdny  (vol.  v.),  that  I  add  to  it  his  valuable  notes. 

I  also  enclose  another  curious  specimen,  written 
by  the  famous  Kitty  Clive,  addressed  no  doubt 
to  her  friend  Miss  Po^e  the  actress,  of  whom 
Horace  Walpole,  writing  to  the  Countess  of 
Ossory  on  July  16, 1783,  says:— 

•*  Miss  Pope  has  been  at  Mrs.  Olive's  this  week,  and  I 
bave  uot  been  able  to  call  on  them.  I  wrote  a  line  of 
excuse,  but  hoped  very  soon  to  salute  Miu  Pope*i  eye, 
Excuse  mv  radotagt,  bat  what  better  can  yon  expect  ?  " 


The  glorious  old  gossip  of  Strawberry  Hill,  in  a 
letter  to  Lady  Ossory  of  Oct  23,  1784,  furnishes 
another  account  of  the  incident  mentioned  in 
Kitty's  letter :  — 

*'  It  is  very  true  Madam  we  are  robbed  in  the  fiioe  of 
the  Sun,  as  well  as  at  the  going  down  thereof.  I  know 
not  how  other  districts  fare,  but  for  fire  miles  round  us 
we  are  in  perpetual  jeopardy.  Two  of  our  Justices,  re- 
turning from  a  Cabinet  Council  of  their  own,  at  Brent- 
ford, were  robbed  last  week  before  three  o'clock,  at  the 
fates  of  Twickenham :  no  wonder ;  I  believe  they  are  all 
ood winked,  like  their  Alnui  Mater  herself,  and,  oonae- 
qnently  as  they  cannot  see,  it  is  not  surprising  that  both 
she  and  they  should  often  weigh  out  their  goods  with 
unequal  scales." 

Can  you  or  any  of  your  readers  tell  me  who 
Mrs.  Hart  was,  and  the  '*  old  Weasel  which  sho 
left  behind "  P  '  William  Tite. 

43,  Lowndes  Square. 

pray  Deare  Mr.  Hide '  forgive  me  for  not  write- 
ing  to  you  before  now  for  the  reasone  is  I  have 
bin  sick  thre  months  &  sinse  I  recoverd  I  h&ye 
had  nothing  to  intertaine  you  withall  nor  have 
nothing  now  worth  writing  but  that  I  can  holde 
no  longer  to  let  you  know  I  never  have  ben  ia 
any  companie  wethout  drinking  your  health  for 
I  loue  you  with  all  my  soule.  the  pel  mel  is  now 
to  me  a  dismale  plase  sinse.  I  have  uterly  lost  S** 
Car  Scrope  ^  never  to  be  recourd  agane  for  he  tould 
me«  he  could  not  live  allwayes  at  this  rate  &  so 
begune  to  be  a  littel  uncivil,  '.which  I  could  not 
sufer  from  an  uglve  baux  garscon,  M*  Knights  * 
Lady  mothers  dead  &  she  has  put  up  a  scutchin  no 
beiger  then  my  Lady  grins  ^  scunchis.^*    My  lord 

^  Mr.  Hide  is  conjectured  to  have  been  the  bandsoma 
Lory  or  Lawrence  ij/de,  second  son  of  Lord  Chancdlor 
Clarendon,  created  Earl  of  Rochester  in  1682.  In  If  ay- 
and  June  1678  he  was  at  the  Hague  on  diplomatic  busi- 
ness. (^Correspondence  of  Clarendon  and  Rocheeter.  L 
16.  20.) 

*  Sir  Carr  Scrape  was  created  a  baronet  1667-8,  and 
died  unmarried  1680.  He  was  one  of  the  witty  com- 
panions of  Cbaries  II.,  and  author  of  various  poetical 
effusions,  to  be  found  in  Drydcn's  MUcellaniet,  Johnaon 
notices  him  in  his  life  of  Rochester. 

*  Mrs.  Knight,  a  singer  of  gpreat  celebrity,  and  a  rival 
to  Nell  Gwynne  in  the  tender  regard  of  Charles  II.  She 
is  mentioned  by  both  Evelyn  and  Pepys,  although  the 
latter  had  not  heard  her  sing  up  to  the'  period  at  which 
his  diar>'  closes.  The  name  of  her  Lady-mother  has  not 
been  found. 

*  Lady  Greene,  who  escaped  the  researches  of  Mr. 
BaucE,  has  been  identified  by  Mb.  J.  G.  Nichols 
C'N.  &  Q."  8'«i  S.  viii.  413).  She  was  another  favourite 
of  Charles  II.,  by  whom  she  was  the  mother  of  his  boq 
Charles  Fitz  Charles,  created  ia  1675  Earl  of  Plymouth, 
and  of  a  daughter  Katherine.  Lady  Greene  was  Ka- 
therine,  daughter  of  Thomas  Peprge,  Esq.  of  Yeldersley, 
CO.  Derby ;  became  the  wife  of  Sir  Edward  Greene,  Bart, 
of  Sampford  in  Essex,  who  died  in  Flanders  in  1676. 
Lady  Greene  herself  had  probably  died  shortly  before  thia 
letter  was  written. — En. "  N.  &.  Q." 

4  ■  Probablv  the  writer  misplaced  the  n  in  this  word, 
writing  tcttncAcf  for  Kuchint. 


4*8.  VII.  Jas.  7, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Boebeiter  *  is  gon  in  the  cuntrel.  M'  Savil*  has 
got  a  misfortune^  but  is  upon  reooyeiy  &  is  to 
jnarj  an  haines,  whol^thinke  wont  wont  [nc] 
haTe  an  ill  time  ont  if  he  holds  up  his  thumb. 
Mj  lord  of  Dorscit  ^  apieis  wonse  in  thre  munths, 
for  he  drinkes  aile  with  Shadwell  ^  &  M'  Hans  ' 
at  the  Dukes  house  all  day  long,  my  Lord  Bur- 
ford  ^^  xemimbers  his  sarvis  to  you.  mj  Lord 
Baudaire  ^^  is  is  [«ic]  goeing  into  franco,  we  are  a 
goeing  to  supe  with  the  king  at  whithall  Sc  my  lady 
Harne."   the  Kiag  remembers  his  sarvis  to  you. 

*  John  Wilmot,  the  poetical  Earl  of  Rochester,  who,  as 
Johi^soQ  remarked,  **  blazed  out  his  youth  and  his  health 
ia  Uviih  Toluptnousneis,*'  and  with  "  arowed  contempt 
of  all  decency  and  order."  The  history  of  the  contrast 
presented  by  the  dose  of  his  life  is  a  weU-known  book  by 
Bishop  Burnet,  He  died  on  the  26th  July,  1680,  at  the 
age  of  34. 

*  The  gentleman  who  could  gorem  by  rnle  of  thumb 
was  Henry  Savile,  the  future  Yioe-Chamberlain,  for  whom 
eoe  the  SavUe  Correapondenee,  edited  by  Mr.  W.  D.  Cooper 
for  the  Camden  Society  in  1858.  The  projected  marriage 
did  not  come  off. 

'  The  Earl  of  Dorset  was  one  of  the  wildest  of  the  mad 
companions  of  the  merry  monarch.  His  doings  are 
written  at  laige  in  all  the  scandalous  chronicles  of  that 
period.  Nell  Gwynne  was  living  with  him  as  his  mis- 
tresa  when  the  king  took  a  fancy  to  her,  and  the  terms 
of  the  bargain  and  sale  bv  which  she  was  transferred  to 
the  soTcreign  may  be  read  in  Cunningham,  p.  68.  Dorset 
or  Buekhnrst,  for  the  latter  was  his  title  whilst  Kell 
Gwynne  lived  with  him,  is  more  creditably  known  by  his 
song  "  To  all  you  ladies  now  at  land,*'  and  by  his  con- 
duct at  the  close  of  the  reign  of  James  II.  His  life  is 
included  among  Johnson's  Lwe$  of  the  Poets. 

*  Thomas  Shadwell  the  poet,  who  owed  to  the  influence 
of  the  Earl  of  Dorset  his  appointment  as  laureate  on  the 
ejection  of  Dryden  at  the  Revolution  of  1688.  However 
mean  his  poetry,  his  conversation  is  said  to  have  been 
highlv  witty  and  amusing.  From  his  companionship 
with  lEUtehester  and  Dorset,  it  4s  not  to  be  wondered  at 
that  it  was  also  often  indecent  and  profane. 

*  Joenih  Harrlp,  the  celebrated  actor,  who  drew  sword 
for  Charles  I.  at  Edgehill,  and  lived  to  delight  the  town, 
after  the  Restoration,  with  his  Othello,  Alexander,  Brutus, 
and  Catiline.  Pepys  describes  him  as  a  man  of  most  at- 
tractive qnalities.  **  I  do  find  him  a  very  excellent  per- 
son, such  as  in  my  whole  acquaintance  I  do  not  know 
another  better  qualified  for  converse,  whether  in  things 
of  his  own  trade  or  of  other  kind ;  a  man  of  great  under- 
standing and  observation,  and  very  agreeable  in  the 
manner  of  his  discourse,  and  civil  as  fitr  as  is  possible.  I 
was  mightily  pleased  with  his  compsny."  Lord  Bray- 
brooke  stated  in  a  note  to  Pepvs  (ii.  196)  that  Harris 

{>robably  died  or  left  the  stage  about  L676.  The  present 
etter  postpones  that  date  for  a  year  or  two,  and  Dr.  Doran 
in  his  most  amusing  treasury  of  information  respecting 
the  drama  (^Their  Majesties  Servants,  vol.  i.  p.  63),  dates 
his  retirement  from  the  stsge  in  1682,  and  his  interment 
at  Stanmore  Magna  in  1683. 

^^  Lord  Bnrford,  as  we  have  already  noticed,  was  the 
elder  of  Nell  Gwynne's  two  children  by  the  king.  He 
was  bom  8th  May,  1670,  created  Lord  Burford  on  the 
27th  December,  1676,  and  Duke  of  St.  Alban's  on  the  10th 
Jao.l68a-i. 

>^  Lord  Beaoeleik,  Nell  Gwynne's  younger  son,  was 
bom  25th  December,  1671,  and  died,  as  we  have  before 
remarked,  at  Paris  in  September,  1680. 

1'  Lady  Harvey  was  Elizabeth,  sister  of  Ralph  third 


now  lets  talke  of  state  affairs,  for  we  never  caried 
things  so  cunningly  as  now  for  we  dont  know 
whether  we  shall  have  pesce  or  war,  but  I  am  for 
war  and  for  no  other  reason  but  that  you  may 
como  home.  1  have  a  thousand  merry  conseets, 
hut  I  cant  make  her  write  um  &  therfore  you 
must  take  the  will  for  the  deed,  god  bye.  your 
most  loueing  obedunt  faithfull  &  humbel 

sarvant 

E.G. 

Twickenham  Oct'  y*  17, 1784. 
My  dear  Popy, 

The  Jack  I  must  have,  and  I  suppose  the 
Cook  will  be  as  much  delighted  with  it,  as  a  fine 
L<idy  with  a  Birthday  Suit;  I  send  You  Wall- 
nuts  which  are  fine,  hut  pray  be  moderate  in  your 
admiration  for  they  are  dangerous  Dainties ;  John 
has  carried  about  to  my  Neighbours  aboye  six 
thousand  and  he  tells  me  there  [are]  as  many  still 
left;  indeed  it  is  a  most  wonderfull  tree  M'* 
Prince  has  been  robd  at  Two  o'Clock  at  Noon  of 
her  Gold  Watch  and  four  Guineas,  and  at  the 
same  time  our  two  Justices  of  three  and  sixpence 
a  Piece,  they  had  like  to  be  shott  for  not  having 
more.  Every  body  inquires  after  You  and  I  de- 
liver your  Comp*.  Poor  M"  Hart  is  dead— well 
spoken  of  by  every  body.  I  pity  the  poor  old 
Weassel  that  is  left  behind. 

Adieu  my  dear  Popy 

Y"  ever 

0.  Clivb. 

The  Jack  must  carry  six  or  seven  and  twenty 

r>unds,  the  waterman  shall'bringthe  money  when, 
know  what. 

MONS  VULTUR. 

I  do  not  know  that  I  have  much  that  is  new  t9> 
say  respecting  Mons  Vultur;  hut  it  is  so  seldom, 
that  a  traveller  penetrates  to  this  secluded  part  of* 
Italy,  that  anything,  however  trifling,  will  be- 
interesting  to  some  of  your  readers,  particularly  to 
the  admirers  of  Horace  and  his  works.  It  was  a* 
little  beyond  the  middle  of  June  that  I  mounted^ 
Ws  beautiful  mountain,  clothed  with  oaks,  elms^ 

Lord  Montagu  of  Boughton,  afterwards  Earl  and  Duke  of 
Manchester.  Elizabeth  married  Sir  Daniel  Harvey,  a* 
conspicuous  person  at  that  time ;  as  ranger  of  Richmond- 
Park  he  gave  shelter  in  his  house  to  I^dy  Castlemaine- 
during  her  quarrels  with  Charles  II.  Her  ladyship,  ac- 
cording to  Pepjs,  rewarded  Lady  Harvoy  by  encourag- 
ing "  Doll  Common,"  or  Mrs.  Cory,  who  was  the  distin- 
guished representative  of  that  character,  to  mimic  Lady 
Harvey  on  the  stage,  in  the  character  of  Sempronia. 
Lady  Harvey  *'  provided  people  to  hiss  her  and  fling 
oranges  at  her,"  and,  that  being  nnsncoessful,  procured 
the  Lord  Chamberlain  to  imprison  her.  Lady  Castle- 
maine  **  made  the  king  to  release  her,"  and  a  great  dis- 
turbance was  excited  both  in  the  theatre  and  at  court. 
In  the  mean  time  Sir  Daniel  Harvey  was  sent  away  am« 
hiMsador  to  Constantinople. 


HARVARD 
COLLEGE 
LIBRARY 


4*  3.  VII.  Jas.7,71.] 


XOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


and  the  land  lyiag  between  the  plains  of  Cannee 
and  Venosia  would  hare  then  formed  an  inland 
hay. 

I  tzaTelled  for  thirty  miles  along  the  hanks  of 
the  Aufidnsy  from  Camue  to  Venusiay  and  I  was 
particularly  struck  hy  the  level  nature  of  the 
oonntry  till  I  arrived  near  to  the  birth-place  of 
Hoiace.  Venusia  stands  in  the  water-shed  of  a 
ridge,  on  one  side  of  which  the  waters  flow  into 
the  Aufidus  and  hence  into  the  Adriatic,  while 
on  the  other  they  fall  into  the  river  Bradanus, 
now  Bradano,  at  the  mouth  of  which  I  found, 
some  fifty  miles  farther  south,  the  ruins  of  the 
celebrated  temple  at  Metapontum,  now  known  to 
the  inhabitants  as  '<  Tavola  dei  Paladini."  The 
Bradanus  has  a  long  course,  taking  its  rise  at  the 
foot  of  Mons  Vultur,  and  flowing  southward  into 
the  Gulf  of  Taranto^  it  formed  the  boundary 
between  Apulia  and  Liucania. 

At  the  tune  when  Puglia  Plana  is  supposed  to 
have  been  submerged,  geologists  imafi:ine  that  the 
Gulf  of  Taranto  was  united  to  the  Adriatic  across 
the  neck  of  land  which  joins  Brundusium  to 
Tarentum :  so  that  the  Japygian  peninsula  must 
then  have  been  an  island.  No  doubt  this  neck  of 
land  is  at  no  great  height  above  the  sea  leveL  I 
travelled  along  it  from  Manduria,  through  Uria, 
to  Brundusium.  I  found  that  it  was  at  Uria  the 
central  point,  where  the  ridge  began  to  rise, 
which  runs  northward  and  forms  what  is  Iftiown 
to  the  Italians  as  Puglia  Pietrosa.  A  very  slight 
subsidence  would  again  make  the  Japygian  penin- 
sula into  an  island. 

•  Cjuufurd  Tait  Kascage. 


LONDON  COFFEE  HOUSES. 

I  have  in  my  possession  a  copy  of  Mendez*s  Col' 
lection  of  PoemSj  which  you  are  aware  was  pub- 
lished in  1767  as  a  supplement  to  Dodsley's 
Collection,  I  am  not  about  to  make  any  remark 
upon  the  book  itself;  but  on  the  fly-leaves,  at  the 
beginning  and  end,  are  written  in  the  neatest  of 
hands  two  poems.  One  is  called  ''  The  Quakers' 
Meetinpr,  by  Mr.  John  Ellis: "  this  I  do  not  propose 
to  trouble  you  with,  as  it  has  no  great  merit,  and 
would  not  suit  the  taste  of  the  present  day.  The 
other,  however,  may  be  interesting,  not  as  a  poem, 
but  as  illustrating  the  manners  and  customs  of 
our  ancestors,  and  as  recalling  the  memory  of 
many  houses  of  public  resort  and  entertainment 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  Hoyal  Exchange, 
many  of  them  probably  being  no  longer  in  exist- 
ence. It  is  called  an  *'  Epistle  from  M.  Mendez, 
Esq.j  to  Mr.  J.  Ellis" — ^no  doubt  the  author  of 
the  other  poem,  but  of  whom  the  biographical 
books  at  mesent  at  my  call  do  not  give  any 
account  He  was,  no  doubt,  a  choice  spirit  of  the 
dav,  or,  more  correctly  perhaps,  the  night. 

1  give  you  tiie  whole  poem,  but  there  is  one 


verse  which  probably  you  may  think  had  better 
be  omitted :  — 

**  EPISTLE  FBOM  M.  VEXDBZ,  ESQ.,  TO  MR.  J.  ELLIS. 

I. 

**  When  to  EUis  I  write,  I  in  verse  must  indite  — 
Come  Phcebas,  and  give  me  a  knock  : 
For  on  Fridav  at  eight,  all  behind  the  'Change  gate, 
Mr.  EUiB  wUl  be  at  the  Cock. 

II. 
"  1  will  try  to  be  there,  where  I  firmly  declare 
I  should  want  neither  claret  nor  hock ; 
Bat  in  numbers  would  sport,  quite  inspired  by  your  port : 
Who  verse  would  deny  for  the  Cock  ? 

III. 
'*  The  Fleece  of  rich  Spain  people  envy  in  vain, 
Full  as  good  is  the  wool  or  our  flock  : 
Nor  the  Head  of  the  Pope  shall  invite  us  to  tope 
Such  wine  as  we  drink  at  the  Cock. 

IV. 

<*  In  leam'd  Abchurch  Lane  let  them  6>vill  ,t1ieir  cham- 
pain, 
'Till  the  liquor  their  senses  shall  lock  $ 
Let  them  fiddle  and  sing  at  the  Arms  of  the  King, 
We  have  wit  with  our  wine  at  the  Cock. 

V. 

"  A  Swan  of  black  hue  is  a  wonder,  'tis  true, 
And  the  Swan  in  a  Hoop  we  will  mock  ; 
Nov,  the  Fountain  in  vain  spouts  her  floodiis  of  red  rain, 
It  rains  deeper  red  at  the  Cock. 

VI. 

•  ••••• 

VII. 

**  A  bumper,  no  less,  'tis  to  Britain's  success. 
May  her  navy  stand  stout  as  a  rock ; 
May  she  bang  the  French  fleet  wheresoever  they  meet. 
And  make  them  a  mere  Shrove-tide  Cock. 

VIII. 

**  *T\a  time  to  be  gone,  for  the  'Change  has  struck  one : 
O,  'tis  an  impertinent  clock ! 
For  with  Ellis  I'd  stay  from  September  to  May; 
I'll  stick  to  my  friend  and  the  Cock. 

"  M.  M." 

Kichmond,  Surrey.  W.  0. 


LEGAL  COMMON-PLACES,  temp.  JAMES  L 

I  have  a  dilapidated  common-place  book  in 
which  are  entered  several  MS.  notes  of  cases,  rules 
and  orders  of  Court,  dicta  of  judges,  and  legal 
memoranda,  in  two  different  hands — those  dated 
1601,  2,  3,  apparently  copied  from  original  notes 
by  a  clerk,  and  those  of  1004,  6,  0,  7  in  the  re- 
porter's own  handwriting,  which  is  somewhat  dif- 
ficult to  decipher.  The  Lord  Keeper  named  was 
doubtless  Sir  Thomas  Egerton,  afterwards  Lord 
Chancellor  J  the  Attorney-general,  Sir  Edward 
Coke.  Mr.  Bacon  was  Francis  Bacon,  who  be- 
came   Lord  Chancellor;  Hunt,   LL.D.,  a 

Master  in  Chancery,  and  in  1605  Master  of  the 

Rolls.  .      ^     _ 

The  entries  are  under  the  foUowmg  heads  :— 
Subpoena,  Attachments,  Comissions,  liesponsiones, 
Generall  obsarvacons,  inter  alia.  1601. 

«  None  mav  make  or  passe  greene  Bookes  bv  my  Lordes 
appoyntment  [at  this  present]  but  6.  (viz.)  my  father 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»k  S.  VII.  Jan.  7,  '71. 


(bat  not  as  Gierke  of  the  Crowne)  [the  clearke  of]  the 
Hamper  and  4  more,  or  such  as  my  Lord  shall  nominate, 
bnt  he  mav  name  as  manie  as  he  like. 

The  reason  whie  sett  hand  bookes  or  greene  bookes  be 
writt  in  vellum  ys  because  that  evcrye  worde  therin  is 
written  at  lengthj  as  Richardus  and  noe  RichQs,  and  not 
in  coarse. 

Termino  Michis  anno  R.  Regis  Jac'  primo  apnd  Wintnn 
1603, 14  Novembr.  This  terrae  for  the  sicknes  was  ad- 
icrned  vnto  Winton  Citty :  till  CrO.  Martini.  The  moote 
poynt  was  hereon,  whether  the  day  of  Cro.  Martyni,  or 
the  4  daye  after  (viz.)  Twesday,  Rhoalde  be  theflrste  daye 
or  not,  yt  was  rcsulued  tjbc.  M**  Tyndall  toald  as  so  in  tlie 
King*s  'Bedchamber  at  Winchester,  that  beings  made  the 
chappie  chamber  for  my  I<o<**  Chancellor. 

Dismission— Costs — t^ublicacOn — Demurrer — Examin- 
acOn  of  Wittnesses— Bre  de  £xecnco€ — Replications — 
Reianctio — Dcdim*  Potestatom— Acute  et  graviter  diets. 

M'  Bacon  sayd :  the  poore  man  went  like  a  sheepe  to 
a  Busbe  in  a  storme,  and  he  robbed  him  of  idl  hb  wooll. 

Let  one  devill  torment  the  other  sayd  my  Lord  Keep' 
to  a  question  asked  him  what  should  become  of  tlie 
Broker:  that  both  Broker  &  vnsurcr  had  conspired  to 
cosin  a  younge  gentleman. 

One  oath  in  the  affirmative  is  better  then  a  thowsand 
in  the  negative. 

M'  D'tor  Hunt  in  Courte  beinge  demaunded  the  civill 
lawe  rule  in  witnesses. 

My  Lo*'*  Keep  sayd  no  man  goeth  by  the  Kings  high- 
way but  the  doggs  will  bnrke  at  hiin ;  neaver  lett  an 
honest  man  care  for  yl!  wordes,  they  be  but  doggs  bark- 
inee. 

In  a  manne  of  yll  carriage :  althonghe  there  be  no 
apparant  proofes,  3''et  everie  suspicOn  carrieth  his  force : 
and  yf  there  be  sundrie  suspitions  omnea  auspitiones 
crescunt,  sayth  my  Lo<>*  Keejt, 

I  will  not  cutt  the  bodye  because  the  coate  is  too  little, 
-apeakinge  of  a  mans  intent  by  his  last  will  to  estate  some 
of  his  flfriends,  but  wanted  forme.    [Ld.  Kee^  in  margin.] 

Qui  iu  p*tibua  mcntitur  nefarius  est. 

Qui  vnam  et  eandem  rem  duoboa  vendit,  fraudulentus 
est. 

Ofiicina  nihil  habet  ingenanm. 

Libenter  ignore  vt  liberius  patrem  [altered  from 
pergami, 

Magis  et  minns  non  diflerunt  specie.  My  Lord  Keep 
speekinge  that  4  in  the  hundred  was  as  much  vsurie  as 
10  in  the  hundred. 

Litis  et  eeris  alien!  comes  mts<?ri.i.    Idem. 

You  had  the  Bird  in  yo^  hand,  you  might  kill  him  or 
leet  him  file  at  yo'  pleasure.    Idem. 

Plus  valent  duo  afllnnantcs  quam  mille  negantes. 
Doc'  Hunt  in  curia. 

Volenti  non  fit  iniuria  modo  non  inductus  sitfraude  ad 
illam  voluntatem.    [Dns  custos  in  marg.] 

Yon  brushe  yo'sealf  so  longe  that  yoa  brushe  the  dust 
into  yo'  owne  eyes.  L<*<  Keeper  to  Sicnt  Spurlinge  that 
excused  him  sealf  of  an  imputacon  both  looge  &  emestlie. 

This  cawse  hath  been  carried  in  the  heigth  of  witt  and 
strength  of  wordes,  and  theirfore  impar  congressus  for 
me  to  awnswer,  in  regard  of  my  insufficyeneye  in  the 
case  betweene  Francklvn  and  Gascoigne.  Quis  pin  x it 
leonem,  speakinge  of  a  Gorged  deede  beinge  in  the  partyes 
bande  tliat  complayned  of  the  forgerye  therof.  [M** 
Bacon  in  marg.] 

My  Lda  marks  of  an  yll  cause  be  manye.  Amongste 
the  rest  one  to  make  private  peticons'and  worke  to 
pvert  Justice  by  private  ires  and  mocon  of  great  men. 
And  my  Lord  vseth  to  say  I  am  a  blabber  and  p'sentlie 
will  discover  the  content  of  the  IrS  and  meanes  vsed  in 
the  behalf  of  the  ptye.    [Dns  Custos.] 


You  warble  in  yo^'sealf ;  yon  are  nowe  pushing  to  farr. 
[Dos  custos.] 

A  bodye  politioue  hnth  no  sowie  and  therfore  some  of 
them  vmagine  tney  should  have  no  conscyence  [Dns 
Gustos']  speakinge  of  the  Deane  of  Rochester  I)*corBlanjre. 
Tants  ne  animis  coclestibus  irse.  Spealdng  of  dergie- 
mens  feirce  psecucon  of  a  cawse. 

M^^  Attorney  speakinge  of  the  malicious  carriaci^es  of  a 
cause  by  eccfesiasLicall  and  church  psona.  Clericua  in 
oppido  tanquam  piscis  in  arido. 

Vt  ficlicitutis  est  posse  quantum  velis  sic  magnitudini^ 
nnllo  quantum  possis.  /  in  a  demurrer  int'  Bowes  ct 
dnam  Reginam.    [Hitchoocke.'J 

My  Lord  Keeper  sayd  that  dayns  will  was  the  besto  ; 
who  would  neaver  make  anie  other  Executors  but  his 
handes,  nor  anie  other  overseers  but  his  eyes.  (19  Maij 
lo  Jacobi.) 

You  have  made  a  longe  entrie  to  a  little  howse  speak- 
inge to  M'  Higgins  that  vsed  a  longe  p'face  to  a  cause  of 
little  worth,  and  might  have  becne  sooner  answered. 
[Dns  Custo!«.] 

Passibilirye  is  the  mother  of  ho|>e,  and  hope  the  nurse  of 
desire.    M*'*Kinge  at  Powles  crossc  25«*  Octobr. 

This  cawse  will  fare  like  a  froste,  for  yt  will  have  a 
fowle  end.    Michis  44'<»  et  45*«.     [  Dns  Custos.] 

My  Lo'«  asked  what  did  the  p t3'e  give  him  that  he 
should  vndertake  all  their  charges,  all  that  he  had  my 
Lord  awnswered  they.  All  that  he  had  sayd  my  Lord  y  t 
may  be  that  was  of  small  or  no  valewe.  Much  like  yo^ 
awnswer  to  the  sayingc  of  Peeter  to  Chrbte.  Wee  hau«» 
forsaken  all  and  followed  the.  I  knowc  nothing  S* 
Peeter  had  but  an  owld  boate  and  a  broken  nctt.  So  may 
yo'  all  be,  14  Octo:  44o  et  45o. 

The  same  to  ^V*  Fulliarabe  haringe  ordered  that  an 
annuitye  of  Ixxx"  p  annum  should  be  p<>  to  hir  from  hir 
husband  (!)he  beinge  severed  from  him)  and  firste  ap- 
poynted  the  Rolls  for  the  place  of  payment  at  hir  request, 
and  then  she  alteringe  that  minde  requested  yt  nii^ht  be 
paid  hir  at  Yorke,  w*='*  he  likewise  granted;  La:$tli3 
naminge  a  third  place  changinge  hir  fymer  opinion  ;  mv 
Lord  sayd,  (acinge  hir  so  variable)  M"  Fulliambe  yt  will 
tmmpe  a  good  Ta,vler  to  make  a  garment  for  the  inoono, 
^eh  you  resemble  becawse  you  waxe  and  wayne  so  often. 
This  was  spoken  two  yesres  before  the  former  about  14 
Octo.  Michis  44»o  et  43«." 

[The  following  are  in  the  second  hand]  : — 

"Michis,  1604.  Octob.  12.  L«  Keep.  Non  refert  de 
nomine  modo  constct  dc  feofm:  asyf  a  man  be  arcsted  by 
the  name  of  Sawkeld  whpn  his  nsme  is  Salcott. 

Singularitas  te^tiura  vitiat  testimonium — Idem :  as  yf 
one  by  one  have  scene  or  hearde  speake  such  a  thing  and 
not  2  or  more  at  one  tyme. 

20  Octobris.  M*"  Attorney  Generall  dining  at  the  6 
clearkes  office  with  vs :  sayed  :  Oleum  in  summo,  vinum 
in  medio,  et  mel  in  iroo  is  m11  wayes  best. 

20  Nove.  1604.  My  L^  Chancelor  taxed  one  choppingo 
of  one  nn  other  before  they  had  finished  ther  speaches  out 
of  S*  Jei-oni  as  he  saycst  touching  speach.  I.  Stlendi  pa- 
tientia.  2.  Loqucndi  opportunitas.  8.  Yirlutis  Funda- 
menta. 

Hillarii.  1604.  2.  R.  R.  S. 

Tyll  32  H.  8.  no  man  might  devise  his  lande  by 
will  vnlesse  it  weare  in  oertnyno  manners  that  hnd 
aach  a  custom,  and  in  ray  opinion  it  hath  breade  many 
.  .  .  emcnts  that  a  dying  man  payned  and  distracted 
therby  shoold  in  articulo  mortis  when  his  soule  shood  be 
prouiding  viaticum  for  that  neaver  recoring  iomey 
sboold  bestow  his  thoughts  (having  no  learned  men  by') 
on  the  inheritance  of  his  lande. 

Idem. — Cum  factor  rerum  priuasset  semina  clernm 
Ad  satanae  votum  aucceasit  berba  nepotum. 


4*  S.  Vn.  Ja»,  7, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Mr  L'  Chanodlon  owld  yenes  on  the  clearfrj  pur- 
chasDg  landes  for  ther  nevews,  othenrjrs  ther  cbildren. 

VaaoK  3  Jacobi  1605. 

Apriil  18 — Hy  L'  Keep  saved  speaking  of  Copley,  a 
phi»itjan  may  parve  humores  l)at  not  mores. 

23  Apr.  Ihins  Ingcnii  est  ^[enninus  peccatL  M'  At- 
tomy  speaking  of  pregnant  witts  to  be  eaver  strayning 
the  conscience. 

Trin.  1605.  ll^  Jnnij.  M'  Attomy.  Male  facientes 
currant  ad  patentes,  speakiug  of  suiters  to  noblemen  for 
letters. 

A  Jeweller  being  demanded  of  a  Lady  what  vertwe  the 
stoanes  she  had  bought  of  him  had,  answered,  greate 
vertoe  madam  that  can  drawe  one  hundred  pownd  out  of 
your  purse  to  royne,  fur  so  much  die  had  paved  for 
them — (spoaken  of  the  2000^  band  vaulose  had  of  the 
comptesse  of  Pembrooke  for  200  perle  to  pay  1400  for 
them.)    L.  Chancier. 

^lichts,  1605,  15  No:  fr.  Bacon. 

The  nature  of  Justice  distributiue  is  to  consider  not 
only  de  toto  but  de  tanto,  and  not  to  pronounce  sentence 
by  ounces  and  drames  but  by  graines. 

The  cnatomc  and  manner  for  Marche  Lords  is  to  have 
Tppon  ett*y  alteracOn  by  deathe,  but  not  by  purchase  or 
alienacon,  of  the  Tennts,  a  certane  kind  of  contnrbution 
or  benevolence  (but  yetof  dutie)  whiche  they  call3/icyf. 
The  Earle  of  Fembroke  pretendeth  the  like  on*  tht 
Boronghe  ot  Carleion,  of  whom  he  claimeth  a  contribu- 
tion of  4^  p  ann*  towards  the  paim^  of  five  hundred 
markes  0|[l>ich  be  bis  whole  micb^  to  be  paid  in  five 
vearca.  This  cause  was  handled  in  the  Chan:  courts 
before  the  M'  of  the  Holes  Justice  VYarbw-rton  and  Do' 
Hunte  15  No.  160o  and  two  former  decrees  were  shewed 
in  the  Corte  by  the  Lo:  of  Pembr:  couu.selI. 

[The  two  last  entries  are  in  the  first  hand.] 

Trin.  4, 1606,  JuliJ  3. 

Jgnorantia  Judicis  :  mberia  inocentis, 
Mitiusmisseranti:  melius  paretor. 

The  L*  Cooke,  L^Cheef  Justice  assisting  in  Chancery. 

2^  July,  Lo'  Cooke  being  Attor. 

Informing  against  the  L*  of  North  .  .  .  the  starr 
Chamber  2  July,  1606.  He  sayed  suspicioncs  leves, 
might  cause  examination,  probabiles,  incarceration,  and 
violentas  et  vehementes  condemnation. 

Michi.^  5  Jacobi,  1607. 

Octobr  7.  The  h*  Chancellour  sayed  to  one  that  was 
veary  earnest  in  his  owne  cawse,  T  thought  vowe  had  a 
gaule  in  yowre  mynde  because  yowe  kicke  before  they 
com  me  at'yowe. 

None.  19. 

BI"  Babington,  M'*  Ashe,  and  with  them  8  or  more 
gentlewomen  being  in  the  Coort ;  my  L'  Chancel,  sayd 
>«-hat  make  all  shees. . .  more  fitt  to  be  "at  a  stag  play  hcere 
Lh  a  Gynoeeum  :  then  came  ould  mother  Stephens  with  her 
cloake'and  muflcd ;  over  the  coort  to  them.  What  can  we 
be»t  lerne  fay  .  .  beer. 

Trinity  Terme,  6,  1608.    Primus  dies  Termini. 

May  27.  The  L^  Chaucellur  sayed :  dUlyking  the 
cltTgys  leases  making  and  to  ther  children  and  of  di- 
miaishtng  the  reuenues  of  the  churches :  this  is  ablative 
diuinit}',  for  here  is  taking  away  of  ther  livioges  but  in 
former  tymes  when  thcire  endowments  weare  to  the 
church  :  'that  tyme  ther  divinity  was  in  the  dative  case. 

[The  last  entxy.] 

On  a  blank  page : 

Marr  acnsinga  Robb  wrongfnllye  for  the  wch  Robert 
prayetne  for  hire  after  this  man'.,  and  wishethe  him  self 
noe'  better  end  y  f  ever  adid  deserve  yt. 

I  ffervently  beseec|ie 

the  thundring  God  of  might 


> 


that  all  the  plague  of  heven  &  crthe 
vppon  the  wrettdie  maye  light 
that  fury  frette  her  gall 
her  pay n ft  maye  never  cea8.«e 
norr  fynd  noefrend  in  her  distresso 
that  may  her  woe  releasse.'* 

G.  A.  CabthewT 


'*>. 


CHARBON  DE  TERRE :  A  LIEGE  LEGEND. 

In  the  year  1198  a  poor  blacksmith  in  the  dty 
of  Liege  wae  toiling  in  an  obscure  street  where 
his  wretched  little  forge  was  established.  He 
was  working  away  as  hard'  as  he  could,  and  hie 
face  was  bedewed  with  perspiration. 

A  stranger  who  was  passing  down  the  streeti 
observing  the  earnest  manner  with  which  the  hardy 
smith  was  labouring,  stopped  to  look  at  him. 

This  stranger  was  a  yery  venernble  old  man, 
with  hair  and  beard  as  white  as  snow ;  and  he 
was  arrayed  in  garments  that  were  tiie  same 
colour  as  his  beard  and  hair.  (Caniiie  et  barbd 
venerandus,  alhd  veste  indutus,  Gilles  d'Orval,  t.  ii. 
191.) 

**  That  is  a  wearisome  trade  you  have  devoted 
yourself  to/'  said  the  stranger.  **  Are  you  con- 
tent with  the  profits  it  yields  you  P  " 

^<  What  profits  do  you  think  I  can  derive  from 
it  P  "  said  uie  bladcsmitb,  as  he  wiped  his  fore- 
head. "  Nearly  everything  I  gain  by  my  labour 
I  am  obliged  to  expend  in  buying  this  miserable 
c^iarban,  which  costs  me  so  dear.' 

"  Aye,  aye  1 "  said  the  stranger,  "  I  see  that  the- 
charban  you  use  is  made  of  wood,  and  that  it^ 
must  cost  ft  good  deal  by  the  time  it  is  conveyed 
to  you  from  the  adjoining  forests." 

*'  I  assure  you,"  observed  the  blacksmith,  "  that 
the  utmost  I  can  possibly  gain  is  barely  sufficient 
to  buy  food  for  myself  and  my  family.' 

<'  But,"  replied  the  old  man, "  if  yon  could  have- 
a  species  of  charbon  which  would  cost  you  nothing 
more  than  the  trouble  of  dig^ng  a  little  depth 
into  the  earth  for  it,  where  it  ues  hidden,  and* 
when  you  could  have  as  much  of  it  as  you  wished, 
for,  would  you  bo  very  happy  ?  " 

"  Would  I  be  very  happy  ?  Ah  I "  sighed  ther 
blacksmith,  as  he  gazed  at  the  stranger,  and  en- 
deavoured to  make  a  guess  at  the  meaning  of  the 
words  addressed  to  him. 

"  Well,  then,"  continued  the  venerable  stranger, 
**  listen  now  attentively  to  what  I  am  saying.  You 
know  the  Mont-des- Moines  that  lies  close  by  this 
place,  as  you  must  have  often  passed  by  it.  Have 
you  never  remarked,  if  you  did  so,  a  sort  of  black 
earth  that  is  in  some  places  mixed  up  with  the 
ordinary  soil  P  Go  there ;  take  that  black  earth, 
put  it  m  the  fire,  and,  take  my  word  for  it,  you 
will  never  again  nave  to  buy  an  ounce  of  charbon 
of  wood." 

The  blacksmith  stared  with  amazement,  and  at 
first  thought  the  old  stranger  was  trifling  with 


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[4tJ»S.VII.  Jan.7,'71. 


him ;  but  that  thought  vanished  as  he  looked  at  the 
Idndly  face  of  the  good  old  man,  bidding  him 
'^  good  bye  "  as  he  disappeared.  The  smith's  con- 
fidence returned ;  he  put  on  his  coat  at  once  (for 
the  honest  men  of  Liege  never  take  long  to  de- 
liberate on  anything);  and  the  same  instant  he 
ran  off  to  the  Mont-des-Moines.  Upon  iBxamining 
the  soil^  he  there  perceived  what  ne  had  before 
never  paid  any  attention  to,  that  there  were 
tracks,  and  what  appeared  to  be  veins  of  earth 
that  was  black  and  friable.  He  filled  his  apron 
with  this  earth,  and  returned  home  satisfied.  His 
confidence  in  the  words  of  the  venerable  stranger 
was  fully  realised;  for  scarcely  had  he  cast  a 
handful  of  his  black  earth  into  the  brasier  than 
it  began  to  bum  up  and  sparkle  brilliantly. 

He  had  made  a  grand  discovery !  He  had  found 
out  coal !   He  had  hit  upon  the  c?Mrb<m  de  terre  !  ! 

Transported  with  delight,  he  ran  to  tell  his 
neighbours  of  what  had  occurred  to  him.  The 
neighbours  in  their  turn,  being^fully  convinced  of 
the  value  of  the  discovery,  repaired  to  Mont-des- 
Moines — which  they  also  called  Mont- Public, 
because  it  had  been  waste  common-land,  and  every 
one  that  liked  had  a  right  to  repair  to  it — ^and 
there,  with  the  black  earth,  they  perceived  stones 
of  the  same  colour,  which  were  found  to  make 
excellent  f ueL 

It  may  easily  be  guessed  what  a  reputation  the 
discovery  of  this  valuable  mine  won  for  the  poor 
blacksmith  in  his  natal  city.  His  name  was 
ffouUoZf  and  from  his  name  was  afterwards  called 
that  species  of  coal  that  is  known  as  houiUe  (pit- 
coal). 

The  extraction  of  pit-coal  (houille)  became,  in 
course  of  time,  the  source  of  great  riches  to  Liege ; 
but  then  as  to  the  good  old  man  who  had  re- 
vealed the  source  of  these  riches,  HouUoz  and 
his  companions  in  vain  sought  after  him  from  a 
desire  to  testify  their  gratitude ;  but  no  one  was 
ever  able  to  gain  any  iutelligence  respecting 
him. 

Who  then  was  this  old  man  P  From  whence 
came  he  ?  How  was  he  master  of  a  secret  which 
was  concealed  from  the  inhabitants  of  the  country  P 
'<  We  have  '*  (says  M.  £.  De  Oonde,  in  his  Monutnens 
0t  Stmvenw'8  de  la  viUe  de  Liege,  c.  iv.,  from  which 
this  legend  is  translated)  '*on  this  subject  con- 
sulted ancient  authors.  The  oldest  work  refer- 
ring to  it  is  an  antique  manuscript,  very  sadly 
deteriorated.  This  manuscript,  having  recounted 
in  detail  the  preceding  history,  adds : ''  That  there 
cannot  be  any  doubt  as  to  the  mysterious  per- 
sonage introduced  into  it,  and  that,  beyond  the 
slightest  question,  he  was  an  ang  . .  .*'  The  last 
letters  have  been  obliterated  by  envious  time. 
Could  the  manuscript  have  intended  to  affirm 
that  the  author  of  the  discovery  was  an  onz/el 
(angeiue)  P  or,  might  it  not  have  been  an  Aitgli- 
can — an  Englishman  {Anglue)?   for  the  use  of 


coal  (charban  de  terre)  was  well  known  in  the 
twelfth  century  in  England. 

W.  B.  Mac  CiJiE. 

Moncontour-<le-Bretagne,  Cdt«s  da  Nord,  France. 


DR.  ARBUTHNOT. 


That  this  celebrated  wit  and  eminent  phy- 
sician, upon  whom  the  mantle  of  the  equally 
clever  and  skilful  Dr.  Pitcairn  had  fallen,  was  a 
cadet  of  the  noble  family  of  Arbuthnot,  is,  we 
believe,  undoubted,  although  there  is  some  diffi- 
culty in  putting  together  the  necessary  links  of 
hiB  pedigree.  His  father  was  the  episcopal  clergy- 
man of  Arbuthnot,  where  his  son  is  asserted  to 
have  been  bom  shortly  after  the  Restoration. 

In  the  Library  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates 
there  is  a  MS.  which  is  thus  titled :  **  A  Con- 
tinuation of  the  Genealogie  of  the  noble  Family 
of  Arbuthnot,  by  Mr.  Alexander  Arbuthnot,  some- 
time Minister  at  the  Kirk  of  Arbuthnott.''  This 
person  was  the  father  of  Dr.  John  Arbuthnot, 
who,  not  choosing  to  adopt  the  Presbyterian  sys- 
tem of  worship,  preferred  relinquishing  his  church 
and  retiring  to  an  estate,  represented  by  Cham- 
bers *  to  have  been  but  a  **  small "  one,  which 
he  had  inherited,  and  where,  it  may  be  reasonably 
assumed,  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  days. 

This  Continuation  was  intended  to  form  the 
concluding  portion  of  an  account  of  the  Arbuth- 
not family  which  had  never  been  printed,  but 
which  may  be  amongst  the  muniments  of  the 
Viscount  of  Arbuthnot.  Its  eadstence  was  un- 
known to  Dr.  Irving,  who  has  given  a  sketch 
of  the  life  of  the  alleged  writer  in  his  Lives  of 
Scotieh  Poets,  and  to  Dr.  Robert  Chambers,  whose 
brief  notice  of  Principal  Arbuthnot,  the  author,  is 
derived  from  Irving  and  M'Crie. 

On  the  back  of  the  title  of  the  Continuation  is 

the  following  memorandum : — 

"  For  connecting  Principal  Arbuthnott's  latin  Gene- 
alogy with  the  following  continuation,  'tis  to  be  noticed 
that  James,  who  succeeded  Robert  the  second,  married  Jean 
Stuart,  Athole*s  daughter,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and 
one  daughter.  His  eldest  son  was  Robert  the  third ;  the 
second,  called  David,  Parson  of  Mammnre,  was  killed  at 
Pinkie.  His  daughter's  name  was  Issobel,  who  was  mar- 
ried first  to  Ochterlony  of  Kelly,  and  afterwards  to 
Mearl  of  Panmure.  This  James  got  the  holding  of  ward, 
changed  to  blench.  He  was  removed  by  immature  death, 
in  the  flower  of  his  age,  in  the  year  1521,  and  to  him 
succeeded  Robert  his  son,  the  tliird  of  that  name,  so 
called  after  bis  grandfather." 

Copies  of  this  Latin  genealogy  may  exist  in 
some  public  or  private  library;  but  none  havo 
hitherto  been  found,  which  is  the  more  to  be 
resetted,  as  the  author  was  a  man  of  admitted 
ability,  and  an  elegant  writer  in  Latin,  both  of 
prose  and  verse.    He  died  ''  at  Aberdeen  on  the 

*  Lives  of  Eminent  Scotchmen,  p.  68. 


4^  S.  VII.  Ja».  7,  •Tl.] 


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tenth  of  October,  1683,  before  he  had  completed 
the  9Lf^  of  forty-five."  A  fayoorable  picture  of 
him  18  given  by  Archbishop  Spottiswood,  who 
remarks : — 

**  He  was  gmtlv  loved  of  all  men,  hafced  of  none,  and 
in  SQch  aeoonnt  ror  his  moderation  with  the  chief  men 
of  these  parts,  that  without  his  advice  they  could  do 
nothing;  which  put  him  in  a  great  fasbrie  whereof  he  did 
oft  GorafJain.  Pleasant  and  jocund  in  conversation,  and 
in  all  seienoe  expert,  a  good  poet,  mathematician,  philo- 
sopher, theologian,  lawyer,  and  in  medicine  skilful;  so 
as  on  eveiy  subject  he  coiUd  promptly  discoarse,  and  to 
good  purpose.** 

It  is  believed  that  the  Principal  was  the  grand- 
father of  Alexander^  the  clergyman  of  Arbuthnot, 
and  thus  great-grandfather  of  the  friend  of  Swift 
and  Pope.  The  conjecture  may  be  erroneoua,  but 
it  would  be  satisfactory  to  have  it  either  proved 
or  refuted.  J.  M. 


Ah  nrEDiTED  Elegt  by  Oliver  Goldskith. 
Struggling  the  other  day  through  a  quantity  of 
old  papers,  I  lighted  on  poor  Gol^^^s  pane^fyric  of 
his  warm-hearted  patron^  the  amiable  and  intel- 
ligent Quaker,  Joseph  Fenn  Sleigh  (Footers 
"  Doctor  Sligo"),  "  the  schoolfellow  of  Burke  at 
Ballitore,  the  first  friend  of  Barry  the  painter,  who 
died  prematurely  io  1771,  an  eminent  physician 
at  Cork."    (Prior's  Life  of  Goldsmith,  i.  148-9.) 

The  doctor,  who  was  of  Derbyshire  descent,  died 

on  Thursday,  May  10, 1770,  aged  thirty-seven  (a 

life  how  short  for  his  sorrowing  friends  I),  leaving 

behind  him  an  idiotic  sister  and  a  large  fortune — 

the  latter  (as  too  raany^know  to  their  bitter  cost)  a 

never^endiDg  sobjeci  of  litigation ;  but  to  which, 

if  eveiT  one  had  his  due,  we  believe  a  certain 

learned,  serjeaat  has,  or  ought  to  have,  a  prior 

claim: — 

**  It  were  in  vain  to  expatiate  on  virtaes  universally 
known,  or  emblazon  that  merit  which  everj  heart  con- 
fesses; were  even  Fancy  to  be  indulged,  it  could  not 
exaggerate  the  reality;  but  Fancy  can  here  find  no 
breast  sufficieiitly  vacant  for  its  admission— on  the  hearts 
of  an  who  knew  him  ;  on  the  wretch  whom  he  relieved— 
of  the  Parent  whom  he  solaced ;  of  the  Friend  whom  he 
delighted  :— 

"  Undonbtod  grief!  no  grief  excessive  call. 
Nor  stop  the  tean  which  now  in  torrents  fall. 
Dear  Sleigh's  no  more  I  the  man  whom  all  admired, 
The  man  whose  breast  each  social  virtue  firrd. 
Is  now  no  more !    In  Death's  cold  sleep  he  lies ; 
A  caose  suflSdeat  for  oar  friendly  sighs. 
Conld  Learning,  Goodness,  Charitv  insure, 
Could  Worth  and  Genlon,  Wit  and  Truth  secure 
Our  darling  Sleigh — then  Love  sincere  might  save 
The  best  of  men  from  an  untimely  grave ! 
Cease  my  sad  heart,  nor  injure  by  yonr  lavs 
The  worthy  man  you  faintlv  strive  to  praise  I 
View  every  faee-^behold  the  rich  and  poor — 
With  downcast  eyes  regret  that  Sleigh's  no  more ! 

"  Oliver  Goldsmith, 
**  Roscommon,  Ireland." 

MooBLAKD  Lab. 


Discrepancies  in  Dates.— !^jnongst  ancient 
charters  and  indentures  such  errors  are  by  no 
means  uncommon,  and  might  lead  an  inexperi- 
enced archieologist  to  pronounce  the  documents 
in  which  they  occur  spurious,  whereas  these  very 
errors  sometimes  afford  even  corroborative  evidence 
of  authenticity.  A  note  on  this  subject  would, 
I  believe,  be  valued  by  the  public  The  author 
of  a  paper  on  "  Ancient  Sherrif  Seals/'  published 
a  few  years  ago  in  the  Herald  and  Genealogist,  has 
had  a  very  extensive'experience  in  this  branch  of 
archffiology,  and  might  be  induced  on  seeing  this 
reference  to  his  qualifications  to  contribute  a 
reply.  There  are  probably  many  other  archseolo- 
gists  equally  qualified  to  give  an  opinion  (gup- 
ported  by  evidence)  on  this  subject,  but  as  I  ao 
not  happen  to  know'  them  as  thus  specially 
qualified,  I  have  alluded  to  him  whom  I  do  know 
as  having  directed  his  attention  to  the  question. 

S. 

The  late  Sir  Samuel  O'Mallet,  Babt. — In 
a  cutting  from  the  Mayo  Constittdion  newspaper 
published  in  August,  18(34, 1  find  it  stated  that 
this  gentleman,  who  died  on  the  17th  of  that 
month,  had  been  for  the  long  period  of  sixty-three 
years  a  magistrate  and  g^and  iuror  of  the  co. 
Mayo,  and  that  during  the  whole  of  that  period 
no  act  of  his  as  a  magistrate  ever  met  the  censure 
of  the  superior  tribunals  or  the  government  of  the 
country.  This  is,  I  think,  worth  putting  on 
record  in  the  pages  of  "N.  &  Q.''  Y.  S.  M. 

SmtopsHiBE  Satinos.— An  old  lady,  who  was 
the  daughter  of  a  Salopian  farmer,  and  who  died 
not  long  since  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight,  was 
accustomed  to  make  use  of  the  following  savings, 
which  had  been  current  in  her  early  days  in  her 
native  county.  Some  of  them  are  curiouS;  and 
may  be  found  interesting  :-^ 

''  Choke  chicken,  more  hatching."  A  variation 
of  the  proverb,  that  '^  As  good  fish  remain  in  the 
sea  as  ever  came  out  of  it*' 

''Noble  as  the  race  of  Shenkin  and  line  of 
Harry  Tudor." 

''  He  smiles  like  a  basket  of  chips " ;  t.  e,  of 
habit  and  unconsciously. 

''  Useful  as  a  shin  of  beef,  which  has  a  big  bone 
for  the  big  dog,  a  little  bone  for  the  little  dog^ 
and  a  sinew  for  the  cat." 

"  It's  all  on  one  side  like  Bridgnorth  election." 

''  Ahem  I  as  Dick  Smith  said  when  he  swal- 
lowed the  dishclout,"  signifying  that  troubles 
should  be  borne  with  fortitude. 

*'  All  firiends  round  tho  wrekin." 

Wm.  UndeRhill. 

"ElKxiN  BASIAIKH'.— On  the  fly-leaf  of  a  well- 
bound  and  ill-thumbed  copy  in  my  possession  of 
the  third  edition  of  A  Vindication  of  K,  Charles 
the  Martyr  (London :  printed  for  R.  Wilkin^  at  the 


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[4«>»  S.  VII.  J.VX.  7/71- 


Kin^'s  Head  in*  St.  Paul's  Church  Yard,  1711), 
proving  that  His  Majesty  was  the  author  of  this 
nercelj-contested  work,  are  these  MS.  notes, 
with  the  autographs  of  their  respective  attes- 
tors:— 

"  Winchilsea,  Ang.  y«  12,  1722. 

**  I  doe  affirm  that  in  the  year  1688,  M"  Mompesaon 
(wife  to  Thomas  Mompesaon/Esq.  of  Braham,  ia  Somer- 
aetahire,  a  worthy  and  a  very  good  Woman)  told  me  and 
my  Wife  that  Archbbhop  /axton  (iic)  assured  her  that 
to  his  certain  knowledge  the'^faKAN  BA2IAIKH'  was  all 
compos'd  and  written  bv  King  Charles  y«  first 

**  Although  in  the  following  Book  the  King'a  Book  is 
thoroughly  Vindicated,  and  proved  to  be  of  his  Majesties 
Composing,  I  was  willing  to  add  this  Circnmstance  fW>m 
M"  Mompesson,  with  whom  and  her  Husband  my  Wife 
and  I  at  that  time  sojourn'd.  **  Wutchilsea. 

«*  The  Author  of  the  following  Tracts  was  the  R«  Rer- 
eread  M'  Wagstafl^,  who  was  consecrated  a  Bishop  by 
the  Rt.  Reverend  the  Deprived  Bps.  of  Norwich,  Ely  & 
Peterburgh,  &  the  R*  Rev'd  George  Hickes,  SuiA^gan 
Bishop  of  Thetford.  The  Rt.  Honorable  Heniy  Earl  of 
Clarendon  being  a  Witness  thereto. 

"J.  CaarK, 
"  ChapUun  to  L«  Winchelsea." 

John  Sleiqh. 
Thombridge,  Bakewell. 

Aybrage  op  Hvmak  Life. — ^I  am  rector  of  a 
country  parish,  the  population  of  which,  at  the 
last  census,  was  404,  the  males  and  females  heing 
exactly  equal  in  number.  In  the  ten  succeeding 
years  there  have  been  sixty-eight  deaths,  of  which 
thirty-six  have  been  those  of  females.  The 
general  average  of  age  has  been  forty- nine  years; 
the  average  of  males  a  fraction  over  forty-nine 
years;  that  of  the  females,  therefore,  a  fraction 
under  that  age.  Ten  of  the  entire  number  have 
lived  to  over  eighty  years,  of  whom  eight  were 
females,  one  of  these  latter  being  ninety-two 
when  she  died.  I  do  not  know  how  these  num- 
bers will  bear  ccnpa.ison  with  those  of  other 
parishes,  but  one  thing  strikes  me  in  looking  them 
over — while  the  average  length  of  life  is  a  little 
in  favour  of  the  males,  the  females  show  a  larger 
number  attaining  to  extreme  old  age. 

W.  M.  H.  C. 

French  War  Songs.— In  7%*  Standard  of 
Dec.  26  is  "  The  Christmas  of  a  German  Soldier." 
Fritz,  in  a  letfer  to  Gretchen,  describes  ''  the 
situation  "  and  his  hopes,  and  gives  snatches  of  a 
song  which  he  hears  the  French  singing  on  the 
opposite  bank  of  the  Mame :—     • 

*' These  words  they  put  into  King  William's  mouth  :— 

**  *  Qui  Bouticndra  Ic  choc  des  miens  ?    De  vos  valises 
Qui  sondcra  la  profondeur  ? 
Yon  Tann,  li^ros  pillard,  Verder,  brCileur  d'^lises, 
£t  Trescon,  gendarme  frondeur. 

<*  Ces  Francs,  fils  de  Baal,  n'ont-ils  pas  I'lmpudence 
De  combattre  en  pleine  clart^ 
Nous,  Seigneur,  que  tu  fls  serpents  par  la  prudence 
£t  loups  par  la  f^rocit^  ? 


**  Ta  justice,  o  Seigneur,  est  oomme  la  tortne, 
Lente,  mais  siire  d*arriver. 
La  mieune  a  pris  son  temps;  ma  rancnne  tetue 
Mit  cinquante  ana  k  la  couver. 

•  •••••• 

'*Oni,  depuis  Hna,  je  n'ai  pu  sans  sonffrance 

Dig^rer  le  rire  latin. 
Dig^rer  est  le  mot ;  sUls  sont  tout  ccsar  en  France, 
Chez  nous  on  eat  tout  intestin. 
■  ...••• 

**  Bismarck  a  des  eonseils  lojauz  snr  toutes  choses ; 
II  me  souffla  I'avis  divin 
D'envoyer  mes  enfants,  chiens  oonchants,  doux  et  roses, 
Mendier  au  pays  dn  vin. 

•  ..•■■• 

"  Comment  se  d^fier  de  ces  sonples  carrures  ? 
Tout  foyer  leur  fut  indulgent,' 
Mes  ch^rnbins  out  pris  Vempreinte  des  serrures ! 
^A  moi  la  cave^  i  moi  Taigent." 

I  cannot  learn  more  about  the  song,  but  I  think 
if  the  whole  can  be  found  it  is  quite  as  worthy  of 
preservation  in  ''  N.  &  Q."  as  any  war  song  yet 
inserted.  H.  B.  0. 

U.  U.  aub. 

Mont  Cbnis  Tunnel. — The  following,  from 
the  Daify  News  of  Dec.  27, 1870,  is  worth  putting^ 
on  record  in  "  N.  &  Q." : — 

"Bardon^che,  Dee.  25, 4.15  f.m. 

<*  The  last  diaphragm  has  just  been  bored  exactly  in 
the  middle  of  the  Mont  Cenis  Tunnel,  amid  repeated 
shouts  from  one  side  to  the  other  of  *  Long  live  Italy  I ' 

"  The  greatest  engineering  work  of  the  great  century 
of  engineering  has  at  last  been  aooomplished.  The  Mont 
Cenis  Tunnel  is  perhaps  a  more  wonderful  triumph  of 
genius  and  perseverance  than  the  Atlantic  Telegraph  or 
the  Suez  CanaL  Its  length  is  seven  miles  and  three- 
fifths,  it  is  twentr-six  feet  and  a  quarter  in  width,  and  nine- 
teen feet  eight  fnches  in  height,  and  will  carry  a  doable 
line  of  rails  from  France,  under  the  Alps,  to  Italy.  The 
tunnel,  which  is  of  course  unfinished  as  yet,  has  Seen  cut 
by  atmospheric  macbinexy  through  the  solid  rock,  schist, 
limestone,  and  quartz,  the  air  which  moved  the  chills 
escaping  from  its  compression  to  supply  the  lungs  of  the 
workmen.  The  work  has  been  fifteen  years  in  progress, 
without  reckoning  the  time  spent  in  preliminary  inves- 
tigations ;  it  has  been  carried  on  continuously  from  180L 
tin  now.  The  railway  up  the  Sion  valley  will  now, 
before  long,  carry  its  passengers  straight  through  from 
Foumeaux  to  Baxdonk^he,  and  it  will  be  possibte  to  go 
from  Paris  to  Milan  without  climbing^an  Alpine  pass,  or 
even  changing  the  railway  carriage.  So  far  as  railway 
transit  is  concerned,  there  are  therefore  no  more  Alps. 
The  great  mountain  chain  has  been  .finally  removed. 
This  immense  work  has  been  carried  out  under  vast  difil- 
culties.  There  could  be  no  shafts  as  in  the  short  tunnels 
which  pierce  our  little  English  hills,  and  all  the  debris 
had  to  be  carried  back  to  the  entrance.  It  was  begun  at 
both  ends,  and  the  woikmen  who  thus  started  seven 
miles  apart,  with  a  mountain  chain  between  them,  have 
met  as  accurately  as  though  there  had  been  but  a  hill  to 
pierce.  As  a  triumph  of  engineering  skill,  we  must 
mark  this  work  as  one  of  the  new  wonders  of  the  world." 

Philip  S.  King. 


*»  S.  XIL  Jajc.  7, 71,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


11 


Allusion  wahtsd  :  Hskbt  Vaughak. — 

*<  If  sudden  storms  the  day  invflde. 
They  flock  about  him  to  the  shade : 
When  wisely  they  expect  the  end, 
Giving  the  tempest  time  to  spend ; 
And  bard  by  shelters  on  some  bough, 
jUiiariom's  tervtmt,  the  wage  crow," 

Who  is  Hilarion  P  And  how  is  the  crow  called 
his  servant  ?  A.  B.  Grosart. 

St.  Geoige's,  Blackbam,  Lancashire. 

Amkmcaw  "National  Song.*'— Can  I  ohtain 
tfaitnigh  **  N.  &  Q.,"  or  by  the  medium  of  your 
correspondents  in  America,  information  respecting 
a  **  national  song"  which  came  out  shortty  after 
tiie  declaration  of  war  between  England  and 
America  in  the  year  1812  P 

I  can  only  remember  the  first  stanza,  which  is 
as  follows : — 

"  Columbia's  shores  are  wide  and  wild, 

Columbia's  hills  are  high  ; 
And  rudely  planted  side  by  side. 

Her  forests  meet  the  eye. 
But  lowly  must  those  shores  be  made, 

And  low  Columbia's  hills ;  • 
And  low  her  ancient  forests  laid. 

E'er  freedom  quits  her  fields. 
for  in  this  land  so  mde  and  wild 
She  played  her  gambols  when  a  child." 

Anna  Harrison. 

fieckenham. 

As]f9  OF  Flemish  Families. — Lablace  would 
be  glad  to  know  if  there  is  any  list  of«  names  and 
arms  of  Flemish  families  similar  to  our  Edmond- 
son ;  or  where  would  be  the  proper  place  to  in- 
quire for  the  arms  of  a  family  of  Flemish  origin. 

Baph  Afblet  of  Sandbach.  —  I  find  in  an 
old  memoranda  book  for  1864— 

r  "To  Sandbach  (in  Cheshire),  where  I  went  to  the 
dsorch.  Some  years  ago  it  was  nearly  rebuilt,  and  con- 
sequently the  monuments  suffered  considerably.  I  went 
to  tlie  clerk's  house,  where  he  showed  me  a  brass  plate 
with  an  inscription  on  it  to  one  Baph  Andley;  this  he 
said  he  took  out  of  the  church  at  the  time  of  the  repairs, 
and  that  it  had  never  been  replaced  because  the  clergy- 
man thought  it  was  too  shabby  to  be  put  against  the 
wall!" 

Who  was  Raph  Audley  P  G.  W.  M. 

Bible  Illustrations.  —  Jlaving  a  fragment 
consisting  of  thirty-fire  leaves  of  a  small  quarto 
work,  comprising  woodcut  illustrations  to  the  Old 
Testament,  I  am  desirous  of  learning  the  date 
of  its  publication,  &c.  The  illustrations  (probably 
cut  in  the  sixteenth  century)  are  3^  inches  by 
2-^  inches,  set  in  a  framework  haying  figures  at 
tiie  side  with  devices  and  such  like  at  top  and 
bottom.  Under  the  illustration  are  five  or  six 
linea  in  German  explanatory  of  the  subject,  while 
above  it  are  the  references  to  the  book  and  chap- 
ter. Probably  the  framework  may  have  served 
for  Bome  other  religious  publication ;    there  are 


eight  varieties  of  it,  repeated  on  each  sheet,  with  a 
ninth  variety  occasionally  used.  On  two  of  them, 
at  the  bottom,  occur  the  letters  MP,  the  letter  y 
being  formed  on  the  last  limb  of  the  letter  M, 
Some  of  the  subjects  are  drawn  in  a  masterly- 
manner;  others  are  rather  poor.  I  shall  be  glad 
of  a  reference  to  a  nerfect  copy  for  a  further 
knowledge  of  the  few  leaves  in  my  possession. 

W.P. 

John  Bovet.— I  shall  be  much  obliged  for 
any  information  concerning  the  ancestry,  mar- 
riage, &c.  of  John  Bovey,  whose  daughter  Mary 
married  Francis  Courtenay  (who  obit  1600,  v.p. 
Sir  William  Courtenay  of  Powderham),  ancestor 
of  the  present  Lord  Devon. 

Edhund  M.  Botlx. 

Cathbdbal  Bblls.— What  are  the  weights  of 
the  great  bell  of  St  Peter's  at  Rome,  the  great 
bell  of  the  Kremlin  at  Moscow,  and  the  great  bell 
of  St.  Paul's  of  London  P  and  are  there  any  others 
exceeding  the  weight  of  the  largest  of  these 
three?  Q^ 

[The  great  bell  of  St  Peter's  at  Rome  weighs  eight 
tons,  according  to  Mr.  E.  Beckett  Denison.  The  great 
bell  of  Moscow  conUins  10.000  poods,  equal  to  400,000 
Russian  pounds,  or  to  860,000  English  pounds.  (Dr, 
Lyall,  see  "  N.  &  Q."  4^  S.  i.  540.)  The  present  great 
bell  of  St  Paul's  weighs  about  five  tons.  (Mr.  Thomas 
Walesby  in  "  N.  &  Q."  4*^  S.  v.  419.)  ] 

Cobblers'  Lamps  in  ITALT.—In  many  of  the 
small  towns  and  villages  of  Italy,  the  cobblers,  at 
night,  have  a  glass  globe  filled  with  water,  fixed 
in  a  wire  frame,  and  attached  to  their  lamps  or 
candles.  This  has  somewhat  the  same  effect  as 
a  ground-glass  shade,  and  causes  a  subdued  light 
to  be  thrown  upon  the  work.  I  suspect  ^that  this 
simple  contrivance  is  very  ancient,  and  "probably 
of  Koman  origin.  It  seems  confined  to  the  sons 
of  "  Crespino.'*  Are  such  globes  alluded  to  by 
any  ancient  author  ?  James  IiE27RY  Dixow. 

CooKES :  CooKESET :  Cooks. — Some  years  ago 
a  friend  drew  my  attention  to  the  review  of  some 
book  in  which  the  author  seemed  to  show  that 
those  who  bore  the  above  names  were  of  the  same 
family.  This  I  believe  to  be  the  case,  but  should 
like  to  see  the  book.  Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
do  me  the  favour  to  send  me  its  title?  The 
review  appeared  in  some  newspaper,  it  is  believed, 
within  the  last  \fin  years.  H.  W.  CoOKBS. 

Astley  Rectory,  near  Stourport 

Cornish  spoken  in  Devonshire.— Can  you 
tell  me  where  to  find  a  statement  that  I  have 
read  somewhere,  that  the  Cornish,  or  at  least  a 
British,  dialect  was  still  spoken  in  Devonshiro 
after  the  Norman  conquest,  and  whether  there  is 
any  authority  for  it  P  There  is  reason  to  believe 
that  in  Asser's  time  it  was  used  in  Somersetshire 
also ;  for  he  gives  us  the  British  name  of  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i^fc  S.  TII.  Jan.  7,  '71, 


forest  called  Selwood.    This  was  about  the  end 
of  the  uinth  century,  R.  C.  A.  P. 

The  Dragox. — What  is  the  earliest  delinea- 
tion of  the  dragon,  and  had  it  two  or  four  legs  ? 

M.  D. 

Eastern  Stort. — At  the  end  of  the  thirty- 
eighth  chapter  of  Great  Expectations  allusion  is 
made  to  the  Eastern  story  of  a  heavy  slab  that 
WAfl  to  fall  on  a  bed  of  state.  Where  is  the  story  ? 

Dox. 

Sir  Charles  Eoertox,  Kwight.  —  Wanted, 
information  on  this  *'  knight "  (probably  a  foreign 
honour),  who  was  living  in  1651.  Henry  Vaughan, 
the  Silurist,  dedicated  two  volumes  to  him.  I 
have  searched  in  vain  in  many  quarters,  and 
others  for  me,  with  equal  unsucccss.  Required 
immediately,  and  therefore  answers  will  please  be 
addressed  to  Rev.  A.  B.  Grosabt,  8t  George's, 
Biackbom,  Lancashire. 

Eqttivalext  Foreign  Titles. — ^By  what  court 
can  foreign  titles  used  in  England  be  tested  ?  So 
far  as  I  can  understand,  an  English  armiger  ranks 
with  a  foreign  noble,  while  English  peers  are  de 
fftdo  more  than  a  match  for  mere  titular  princes, 
whose  claims  canuot  be  referred  to  a  committee 
of  privileges,  and  who  are  therefore  only  to  be 
taken  for  what  they  may  be  worth  in  each  one's 
opinion.  It  does  seem  wrong,  however,  that  tests 
applied  to  our  own  nobles  and  gentry  should  be 
waived  in  the  case  of  strangers.  At  this  rate 
many  noblemen  and  untitled  gentry  have  equal 
pretensions  to  royal  descent  from  Saxon  and  Welsh 
Kings  and  princes,  but  how  absurd  were  Lord 
Howden  to  style  himself  H.R.II.  Prince  Caradoc. 

T— K. 

"Lk  Farcettr  du  Joue  et  de  la  NriT." — 
I  have  a  very  badly  printed  and  faulty  copy  of 
this  little  book.  Will  some  one  oblige  me  with 
the  words  given  below?  The  lines  count  from 
the  top  of  the  page. 

Page  16.  Two  first  words  of  lines  4,  5, 11,  17, 18. 
Page  29.  The  whole  of  lines  23,  24. 
Page  47.  Two  first  words  oflines  21-24  inclusive. 
Page  70.  Two  last  words  oflines  23,  24. 
Page  84.  The  whole  of  Hue  2. 

L.  X. 

Lktter  of  Galileo. — ^In  a  book,  called  The 
Private  Life  of  GalileOy  published  by  Macmillan 
and  Co.,  1870,  the  author *s  name  not  attached, 
there  is  given  in  a  note  (p.  74)  a  verv  remarkable 
letter  of  Galileo  to  Father  Benedetto  Castelli,  Pro- 
^ssor  of  Mathematics  at  Pisa,  1613,  on  the  inter- 
pretation of  Scripture.  The  reference  not  being 
given,  I  should  feel  greatly  obliged  to  any  of  your 
readers  if  thev  could  give  me  the  authority,  and 
assure  me  of  the  authenticity  of  the  letter. 

M,  M. 


Heraldic.  —  1.  Supposing  a  woman,  not  €m 
heiress,  to  marrv  and  to  become  a  widow,  and  then 
to  many  agafn,  what  arms  should  her  mcond 
husband  impale  ?  Those  of  her  father,  or  those 
of  her  first  husband  ? 

2.  If  a  man  who,  though  in  the  position  of  a 
gentleman,  is  not  legally  entitled  to  any  armorial 
bearings  should  marry  an  heiress,  can  the  issue  of 
this  marriage  bear  the  mother* sBtma  in  any  way — 
t.  e.  simply,  or  with  some  dilFerence  ? 

W.  M.  H.  C. 

Herbert  op  MucKRrss. — Mr.  Henry  Arthur 
Herbert  of  Muckrnss  married  on  Oct.  28,  1781, 
Elizabeth,  second  daughter  of  Viscount  SackviUe. 
Did  this  lady,  who  was  bom  July  4, 1762,  pre- 
decease her  husband  P  What  are  the  dates  of 
their  respective  deaths  ?  U.  O.  M. 

Robert  Keck. — Can  any  of  your  readers  in- 
form me  whether  there  is  any  portrait  in  exist- 
ence of  Mr.  llobert  Keck,  who  purchased  the 
portrait  of  Shakespeare  (afterwards  known  as  the 
Uhandos  portrait)  of  &L«.  Barry  the  actress  P  I 
believe  1  have  a  portrait  of  this  gentleman,  which 
came  from  Mincnenden  House,  Southgate,  but 
cannot  identify  it  for  certain  unless  by  comparison 
with  an  undisputed  picture  of  Mr.  Keck. 

F.  L.  Colvile. 
Iieek'Wotton,  Warwick. 

Laird. — Cnn  a  "  portioner  "  of  land  be  pro- 
perly stjled  "Laird,"  as  I  see  Mr.  Hooers,  in  his 
account  of  the  Roger  family,  jjortioners  of  Coupar 
Grange  (4^  S.  vi.  482),  treata  the  designations  as 
synonymous  P  The  possession  of  an  entire  baiony 
in  fee-simple  appears  to  me  to  be  necessary  to 
constitute  a  landed  proprietor  a  laird.  If  every 
"  portioner,"  i.  e.  every  proprietor  of  one  or  more 
portions  of  a  parish  or  barony,  be  a  laird,  that  title 
has  lost  its  meaning — laird  or  lord=  baron,  one 
who,  originally  at  least,  held  a  barony  directly 
from  the  crown.  C.  S.  K. 

St.  Petcr*8  Sqaare,  Ilaiiimersmith,  W. 

Pedigree  of  Mortimer.  —  Sir  Edmund  de 
Mortimer,  of  Wigraore,  mortally  wounded  at  the 
battle  of  Builth,  IS03,  married  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  de  FenoUes,  and  a  kinswoman 
of  Queen  Eleanor.  How  was  this  Margaret 
related  to  the  good  queen  ?  W.  M.  H.  0. 

Pools,  'or  Moitths  of  Strkams.— -The  creeks 
or  mouths  of  streams  opening  into  the  Mersey,  at 
least  as  high  as  the  tide  flows,  are  designated 
"  Pools,"  and  I  shall  be  glad  to  know  whether 
this  is  a  local  peculiarity,  or  prevaiJ^  in  other 
rivers.  On  the  south  bank  of  the  Mersey  we  have 
Wallasey  Pool,  Birket  or  Tranmere  Pool,  Brom- 
boro*  Pool,  Nether  and  Over  Pool,  Stanlaw  Pool, 
Boat-house  Pool  at  Runcorn,  and  Wilder's  Pool 
near  Warrington.  Then  on  its  north  hank  we 
have  Pool  Mouth,  or  Fresh  Pool,  also  near  War- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


13 


rington ;  Lady  Pool  at  Hale,  Garston  Pool,  Ot- 
ter's Pool,  and  lastly,  Liverpool.  M.  D. 

PRIYATELY-riUNTED    BoOKS.  —  \Miat     IB    the 

earliest  iDstance  of  a  book  bearing  on  its  title- 
pa^  that  it  is  *' privately  printed"  or  "printed 
for  private  circulation  "  P  Am  I  correct  in  sup- 
posing that  there  is  no  example  of  such  an  an- 
nouncement previous  to  1750,  if  as  early  ? 

F.  M.  S. 

[The  earliest  privately-printed  book  mentioned  b^ 
Martin  in  his  Bibliographical  Catalogue^  p.  8,  is  De  Anttr- 
^iiate  Britanmcoi  Eccle$i<t  et  PrivUegii^  Ecclaia:  Can- 
tuarienfM^  cum  Archiepiseopis  ejutdem  70.  [Attributed 
to  Matthew  Paricer,  Archbishop  of  Cmiterbary.]  Excu- 
fiam  Londioi  in  ledibas  Joluinnis  Daii.  Lond.  1572,  fol. 
Si?e  Bohn*8  Lowndes^  p.  1776  ;  0-(borne*8  Ilarleian  Cata- 
logue, ill.  2 ;  and  Jones's  Popery  Tracts^  ii.  522,  Chetham 
Society.] 

The  Pkixt  op  "  Gitido's  Aukoba.*'— Can  any 
of  your  readers  inform  me  who  is  the  author  of 
the  lines  which  appear  at  the  bottom  of  the  well- 
known  print  of  "Guido's  Aurora.'*  I  have  in- 
quired in  vain  of  anyone  whom  I  know ;  and  the 
subject  is  so  celebrated,  and  the  lines  themselves 
are  ao  accurately  descriptive  of  it,  and  so  poetical, 
that  I  venture  to  think  that  an  answer  to  my 
query  may  gratify  others  beside  myself.  It  is  a 
question  of  some  interest,  wbether  the  lines  were 
written  for  the  picture,  or  the  picture  was  com- 
posed after  the  lines : — 

^Quadriiogis  invectos  equis  Sol  aureus  exit, 
Ctti  ««ptcm  variis  circunistant  vestibu.s  llorie  ; 
Lncifer  antevolat :  rapidi  fage  lampada  solis, 
Aurora,  umbraram  victriz,  ne  victa  recedaa." 

I  quote  the  lines  from  memory. 

'Sam.  Hourxsoy. 

The  Pjioxuxciatiox  of  Greek  and  Latin. 
Will  some  of  the  ripe  scholars  who  write  in 
'^  K  &  Q."  settle  this  matter  for  us  ?  Skiliket  and 
O  kitpesf  sound  rather  awful ;  and  must  we  really 
accept  Kikerof  Mr.  Blakiston  of  Hugby,  writing 
to  the  Globe,  asserts  that  the  Latin  v  ^'  was  always 
equivalent  to  our  w,  or  00  " ;  so  that  vinuyn  was 
pronounced  "  weenum,"  aud  via  "  weea."  Another 
oorreapondent  asks  how  we  would  pronounce 
"vrriaa  vis  animi,"  or  the  following  well-known 
verse: — 

**  Nea  patriie  validas  in  viscera  vertitc  vires." 

Tivida  would  clearly  become  ^'  Qui  oui-da  I  ^  A 
great  number  of  those  who  love  the  Latin  vrriters 
without  pretending  to  scholarship  would  be  thank- 
ful for  an  aalhoiitative  guidance  in  this  matter. 

Makhochsis. 

Voif  SAVTGirr's  **  Tbeatisb  ow  OsLioAnoNS." 
Is  there  any  English  translation  of  this  work? 
Wbeto  could  I  find  an  analysid,  review,  or  notices 
srenevally  of  the  work  in  either  French  or  Eng- 
lii^  F  T.  A.  M. 

Wab  Medau. — The  late  Lord  Hotham  had  a 
"mn  medal  with  fomr  clasps.    Could  anyone  have 


a  medal  with  fourteen  clasps  ?  Or  what  is  the 
greatest  number  of  clasps  that  anyone  could  be 
entitled  to  ?  Dow. 

WuLPRDKA. — Who  was  Wulfruna  ?  Three  cl 
your  correspondents  (4*^  S.  vi.  53C)  name  her  as 
the  sister  of  three  different  Saxon  kings,  and  give 
two  dates,  twenty-six  years  apart,  for  the  founda- 
tion of  her  monastery.  Wulfruna,  wife  of  Earl 
Aldhelm,  must  have  been  Edgar's  sister,  if  her 
foundation  were  in  970;  for  had  she  been  the 
sister  of  Ethelred  II.,  her  age  in  that  year  would 
have  been  six  years  at  the  utmost  She  appears 
to  have  been  the  only  daughter  of  Edmund  L  and 
Elgiva,  and  the  sister  of  Edwy  and  Edgar.  The 
sister  of  Egbert  would  in  900  hnve  attained  the 
venerable  age  of  200  years.  IIeruentbttds. 

YoRKsniRK  Prater-book.— A  friend  of  mine 

has  an  old  will,  in  which  occurs  the  passage : — 

"  I  leave  tbe  sum  of  sixpence  to ,  to  bay  a  York- 
shire Prayer-book,  therewith  to  quiet  bis  conscience,  if 
indeed  he  have  anv  conscience." 

What  was  the   Yorkshire  Prayer-book?    In 

Lowndes'  Bibliographer  a  Manual  I  find  : — 

"Rook  of  Common  Prayer,  ShefBdtl,  1765,  4to,  with 
an  Exposition,  being  a  few  foot-notes  to  evade  the  law.'* 

Is  this  the  Prayer-book  referred  to^  and  has  it 
any  further  peculiarities  P  M.  D, 


THE  BLOCK  BOOKS. 


(4»»»  S.  ii.  813,  361,  386,  421,  447.) 

This  interesting  subject  having  been  revived  in 
connection  with  my  name  in  the  Art  Journal  of 
November,  and  in  the  Buikler  of  the  19th  ult.,  I 
venture  to  resume  it  after  a  lapse  of  two  yean, 
durinp  which  it  has  been  impossible  I  could 
attend  to  it  with  that  care  its  importance  demands 
If  however,  by  your  indulgence,  I  am  now  per- 
mitted to  continue  it  in  *'  N.  ScQ."  I  shall  be 
prepared  to  do  so  as  long  as  may  be  necessary  for 
a  complete  elucidation  of  the  numerous  questions 
which  yet  remain  to  be  solved. 

One  of  the  most  mischievous  features  connected 
with  the  "History  of  Early  Printing  and  En- 
graving "  has  been  the  system  adopted  oy  authors 
of  indulging  in  *'  general  possibilities,"  and  after- 
wards dealing  with  them  as  "  admitted  truths." 
The  extent  to  which  this  pernicious  practice  has 
been  carried  is  indeed  almost  inconceivable.  An 
instance  of  it  may  be  readily  found  in  Mr.  H. 
Noel  Humphrey's  work  entitled  A  Hvftort/  of  the 
Art  of  Printing,  London,  1808:  where,  in  ]fp. 
30,  31,  the  following  crowd  of  imnginary  theories 

occurs !"— * 

"It  is  highly  probable"— *' which  may  be 
fairly  attributed  to "  — "  It  is  more  than  pro- 
bable"— ^^  There  is  yet   some   reason  to  sup- 


14 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«*  S.  VII.  Jijr.  7, 71. 


pose  "  — ''  It  ia  erident  from  "  —  "  which  had 
probably  for" — ''  -which  could  only  be  obtidned 
by  "  —  "  we  may  presume  "  —  "  These  last  may 
however"  —  "which  latter  were  possibly" — 
**  appears  highly  probable "  —  ''It  is  therefore 
possible  "  —  "  may  have  been  brought " —  "  The 
Knowledge  may  have  spread  " — ''  may  however 
have  been" — ''may  have  been  turned" — ''may 
possibly  have  never  been,"  Sec,  &c 

As  the  result  of  these  "  possibilities, ''  several 
startling  but  positive  statements  appear  in  the 
same  two  j^ges,  unqualified  bv  doubt  of  any  kind,  i 
and  authoritatively  announced  ta  fads tohe  relied 
on,  and  to  be  accepted  as  such  by  the  reader. 
JSr.  gr, :  — 

^'EngmviDg  on  wood  bad  however  been  used  in 
Europe,  in  a  crude  form,  long  before  the  time  of  the 
Poloa." 

**  It  ia  known  that  images  of  saiota  were  produced  by 
similar  means  as  early  as  the  ninth  century." 

**  The  art  of  printing  patterns  on  stuffs,  by  means  of 
engraved  tablets  of  wowi  or  metal,  was  in  use  in  Europe 
in  the  twelfth  century." 

These  declarations  only  equal  in  boldness  that 
of  MoNS.  J.  Ph.  Bbbjeau  (in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  Oct.  31, 
1868,  p.  421),  who  therein  affirmed  that  "  <Ao(c- 
sands  of  such  images  of  saints  [viz.,  like  the  "  SI. 
Christopher''  called  of '*  1423"]  were  printed  before 
the  invention  of  tynography,  and  distribttted  for 
cash  at  the  daws  of  ike  convents " — an  assertion, 
I  venture  to  state,  as  reckless  and  unfounded  as 
ever  escaped  the  pen  of  the  most  careless  writer. 

Being  an  utter  disbeliever  in  any  theories 
which  need  so  many  flights  of  fancy  to  maintain 
them,  I  at  once  declare  mv  preference  for  the 
region  of  "  Fact."  and  there&re  call  upon  Messrs. 
H.  Noel  Humphrevs  and  J.  Ph.  Berjeau  for  the 
authorities  on  wbicn  their  surmises  are  hazarded. 
If  they  are  forthcoming,  well  and  good ;  their 
true  value  can  then  be  properly  estimated ;  but, 
in  any  other  event,  the  interest  of  art  demands 
they  should  be  swept  away  as  mischievous  "  Will 
o'  the  Wisps" — mere  decovs — to  mislead  the 
unwary.  Notwithstanding  the  credit  deservedly 
attached  to  the  well-known  name  of  "  Weigel  of 
Xicipsig,"  as  one  of  the  "  oracles  "  in  connection 
with  "  Early  Engraving  and  the  Block  Books,'* 
I  venture,  at  the  risk  of  being  roundly  abused  for 
my  temerity,  to  positively  deny  the  power  of 
Mr.  Weigel  to  produce  a  smgle  engraving  of  the 
twelfth  century,  to  which  period  he  attributes  a 
portion  of  his  collection,  and  I  invite  him  to  do 
BO.  The  truth  is  (unpalatable  as  it  may  be)  that 
all  the  professors  of  xylographic  art  have  per- 
mitted themselves  to  be  thoroughly  deoeivea  by 
the  so-called  "  St.  Christopher  of  1423."  now  in 
Lord  Spencer's  collection ;  and,  mislea  by  Hei- 
necken's  folly,  have  blindly  wandered  into  a 
labyrinth  of  difficulties  from  which  they  cannot 
.  now  escape.    From  Heinecken  (1771)  to  H.  Noel 


Humphreys  (1868),  "  1423  "  has  been  treated  by 
one  and  aU  as  the  true  date  of "  theStChristopher, 
and  they  have .  accordingly  eagerly  seized  upon 
and  adopted  it  as  their  sheet-anchor — the  foun- 
dation   stone  of   their  building  —  the  comnasa 
by  which  all  their  theories  have  been  guided, 
and  their  '^ dreams"  attempted  to  be  justified: 
whereas  my   showing  in  September  1668  that 
the  date  ''1423"  was  not  that  of  the  engravinfff 
but,  with  the  inscription,  had  direct  and  exclusive 
reference  to  the  *^  Legend  of  St.  Christopher," 
whose  jubilee  year  was  "  1423  "  (as  shown  by 
Mb.  Thoms),  added  to  the  undeniable  fact  that 
the  woodcut  was  printed  with  printing  ink,  and 
produced  by  a  printing  press — altogether  ex- 
ploded the  deception,  and,  as  a  necessaiy  conse- 
quence, utterly  destroyed  at  one  fell  swoop  all 
the  legion  of  unsound  speculative  theories  founded 
on  such  universal  beUef  in  the  imaginary  date 
asttgned  to  the  engraving.    It  is  wholly  useless 
for  any  one  of  those  who  have  written  on  the 
subject  to  now  attempt  to  deny  that  all  were 
thoroughly  misled   by    the   date  on  the  '^  St, 
Christopher  " ;  and  such  being  the  case,  I  find  in 
that  simple  but  important  fact  (as  well  as  in 
the  circumstance  that  every  writer  on  "  Early 
Engraving  and  the  Block  ^oks  "  has  altogether 
overlooked  the  labour  of  ten  of  the  most  active 
years  expended  on  wood  engraving  by  the  greatest 
master  in  that  branch  of  art  of  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury) a  perfect  justification  for  my  altogether  re- 
jecting either  of  the  theories  heretofore  propounded 
on  the  subject  of  "  Early  Engraving  and  tne  Block 
Books,"  which  are  repugnant  to  common  sense 
and  antagonistic  to  truth ;  and  I  claim  to  stand 
excused  if,  in  fighting  my  present  battle  single- 
handed,  I  unhesitatingly  declare  the  statement 
"  of  the  Block  Books  being  the  production  of  the 
beginning  of  the  fifteenth  century  "  as  thoroughly 
illusory   and  groundless  as  the  supposed  "  St. 
Christopher  of  1423,"  "  the  Brussels  Virgin   of 
1418,"  or  "  the  Paris  impostures  of  1406." 

My  remark  applies  equally  to  the  statement 
made  by  the  conceited  Heinecken,  the  critical 
Ottley,  the  volatile  Dibdin,  the  plodding  Jackson, 
the  ponderous  Sotheby,  the  entnusiastic  Weigel, 
or  to  Messrs.  II.  Noel  Humphreys  and  J.  Ph. 
Berjeau,  all  of  whom  I  maintain  to  be  utterly 
wrong  in  every  cardinal  point  of  their  theories, 
and  I  challenge  literature  to  make  good,  by  satis- 
factory proof,  a  single  one  among  them. 

This  broadcast  defiance  may  primdfacis  appear 
indiscreet,  if  not  unjustifiable ;  but  the  propriety 
of  it  will,  if  my  challenge  be  accepted,  be  fully 
justified  by  the  elucidation  of  a  state  of  things  at 
present  but  feebly  imagined  by  the  general  puolicy 
and  a  death-blow  be  dealt  to  illusions  which  have 
hitherto  sufficed  to  blind  the  senses,  and  mislead 
the  intelligence  of  some  of  the  most  eminent  men 
who  have  made  "  early  printing  and  engraving  " 


4*S.VII.  Ja5I.7,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


15 


their  peculiar  stnd^.  "  False  dates  " — "  wilful 
miastatements  " — "  myentions  " — "  ignorance  " — 
and  the  '*  wildest  flights  of  imagination,"  have, 
in  the  course  of  time,  been  accepted  as  fact,  and 
boundless  mischief  has  consequently  arisen  there- 
from. Many  instances  of  this  being  so  might 
be  readily  adduced,  but  for  the  present  one  will 
suffice. 

What  document  connected  with  art  literature 
can  be  cited  to  compare  in  interest  to  the  Family 
Diary  of  Albert  Diirerf  the  details  of  which  are 
unreservedly  accepted  throughout  the  dvilised 
world  with  perfect  good  faith,  as  bein^  the  simple 
and  truthful  relation  of  the  great  artist  himself; 
and  yet^  no  more  mendacious  relation  can  be  found 
than  that  Tery  Diary  in  the  shape  in  which  it  has 
been  pennitted  to  reach  the  nineteenth  century. 
Author  after  author  has  so  interpolated  it— first  in 
one  langua^  and  then  in  another,  to  suit  his 
particular  news  and  strengthen  his  especial  argu- 
ments— that  its  truth,  as  a  guide  to  Diirer's  real 
portion  in  life,  has  been  utterly  and  wilfully  per- 
verted and  lost  sight  of;  and  yet,  to  this  moment, 
not  a  soul  even  imagines  such  a  possibility. 
Knowing  it  to  be  so  Tand  being  at  present  engaged 
in  preparing  for  publication  the  proof  of  what  I 
now  declare),  I  may  well  claim  indulgence,  if, 
disreeardinff  all  that  has  been  written  or  ima- 
gined on  the  subject  of  the  ''  Block  Books  and 
Early  Printing  and  Engraving,'*  I  prefer  to  con- 
sult direct  the  sources  whence  every  author  on 
the  subject  must,  or  at  all  events  ought  to,  have 
derived  his  information,  and  to  express  my  own 
belief  thereon,  notwithstanding  it  may  be  mame- 
trically  opposed  in  almost  every  circumstance  and 
detail  to  any  and  every  thing  hitherto  submitted 
to  the  public. 

Ko  easier  task  can  possibly  be  desired  by  my 
opponents  (and  their  name  is  ^'  Legion  **)  than  to 
answer  and  crush  my  objections,  if  the^  have 
but  trvEth  on  their  side.  Let  them  furnish  the 
facte  upK>n  which  they  rely  to  justify  their  avowed 
conclusions,  and  I  will  then  either  promptly  refute 
them,  or  very  thankfully  admit  my  defeat  and  their 
just  claim  to  a  victory,  which  will  assuredly  secure 
them  the  grateful  remembrance  of  posterity. 

IIbnbt  F.  Holt. 

King'f  Boad,  CUpham  Park. 


PARODIES. 
(4»'»  S.  vi.  476.) 


The  following  books  consist  of  parodies,  or 
imitations  of  modem  authors,  more  or  less  in  the 
style  of  those  in  the  Rejected  Addressee : — 

**  A  Seqnel  to  th«  Refected  Addretieet ;  or,  the  Theatmm 
roetamm  Mioorum.  By  another  Author."  4th  ed.  with 
Additions,  small  8vo,  Loudon,  1813,  pp.  100. 

**  PosthviDoos  Parodies  and  other  Pieces,  composed  by 
sevend  of  our  most  odebrated  Poets,  but  not  published 


in  any  former  edition  of  their  -works."    8vo,  London, 
18U,pp.  102. 

[Attributed  to  Horace  Twiss]. 

*<  Parodies  on  Gay.  To  which  is  added  the  Battle  of 
the  Busts :  a  Fable  attempted  in  the  Style  of  Hudibinis." 
Small  8vo,  London,  n.  d.,  pp.  62. 

**  Warreniana ;  with  Notes,  Critical  and  Explanatory. 
By  the  Editor  of  a  Quarterly  Review."  Small  870,  Lou- 
don, 1824,  pp.  208. 

[X  series  of  clever  jeux  d'esprit  in  the  manner  of  the 
JUfeded  Addres$ea^  written  bv  William  Frederick  Dea- 
con, a  friend  and  fellow-pupil  of  the  late  Serjeant  Xal- 
fonrd,  who  has  prefixed  a  memoir  of  him  to  his  tale 
Annette,  3  vols.  8vo,  1852.  Mr.  Deacon  wrote  also  "The 
Sorrows  of  a  Bashful  Irishman  "  in  BlachwoodCg  Maga- 
zine,  and  a  series  of  papers  entitled  *'  The  Picture  Gallery." 
He  died  at  Islington  in  1845,  aged  forty-six.] 

<<  Rejected  Articles."  8vo,  London  (Colbnm),  1826, 
pp.  363. 

[These  clever  imitations  of  Elia,  Cobbett,  Ward,  Haz- 
litt,  Leigh  Hunt,  Ac,  are,  unlike  those  I  have  idready 
noted,  entirely  in  prote,"]  ' 

"  Scenes  from  the  Rejecte<l  Comedies,  by  some  of  the 
Competitors  for  the  Prize  of  500/.  offered  by  Mr.B.  Web- 
ster," &c.    8vo,  London  (Punch  Office),  1844,  pp.  48. 

<'The  Shilling  Book  of  Beauty.  Edited  and  Illustrated 
by  Cuthbert  Bede,  B.A."  8vo,  Loudon  (Blackwood), 
n*.  d.,  pp.  126. 

**  The  Puppet-Showman's  Album.  With  Contributions 
by  the  most  eminent  Light  and  Heavy  Writers  of  the 
Day.  Illustrated  by  Gavami."  8vo,  London,  n.  d.,  pp.  52. 

"Our  Miscellany  (which  ought  to  have  Come  out, 
but  Didn't) ;  containing  Contributions  by  W.  Harassing 
Painswortb,  Professor  Strongfellow,  G.  P.  R.  Jacobus, 
&c.,  and  other  eminent  Authors."  Edited  by  £.  H. 
Yates  and  R.  B.  Brough."  Small  8vo,  London,  1856, 
pp.  189. 

In  addition  to  these  volumes,  which  contain 
parodies  of  various  authors,  the  following  may  he 
mentioned  as  heing  imitations  of  some  one  author 
or  hook : — 

«  Whitehall ;  or,  the  Davs  of  George  IV."  8vo,  Lon- 
don (W.  Marsh),  1827,  pp.  330. 

[This  extraordinary  and  now  scarce  work  was  the  pro- 
duction of  the  late  W.  Maginn,  LL.D.  "  The  object," 
says  the  Qutarterly  Review,  **  is  to  laugh  down  the  Bram- 
bletye  House  species  of  novel ;  and  for  this  purpose  we 
are  presented  with  such  an  historical  romance  as  an  au- 
thor of  Brambletye  House,  flourishing  in  Barbadoes  200 
or  2000  years  hence,  we  are  not  certain  which,  nor  is  the 
circumstance  of  material  moment,  might  fairl}*  be  ex- 
pected to  compose  of  and  concerning  the  personages, 
manners,  and  events  of  the  age  and  country  in  which 

we  live The  book  is,  in  fact,  a  series  of  parodies 

upon  unfortunate  Mr.  Horace  Smith, — and  it  is  paying 
the  author  no  compliment  to  say  that  his  mimicry  (with 
all  its  imperfections)  deserves  to  outlive  the  ponderous 
original."  My  own  opinion  is  somewhat  at  variance 
with  that  of  the  reviewer ;  but  the  work  is  a  very  curious 
one,  and  merits  a  place  among  clever  imitations. — See  the 
I>K6/tn  Univ,  Mag.,  Jan.  1844,  p.  86.] 

*' Lexiphanes,  a  Dialogue  imitated  from  Lncian,  and 
suited  to  the  present  times.  Being  an  attempt  to  restore 
the  English  tongue  to  its  ancient  purity,"  Ac  8vo,  Lon- 
don, 1783. 

[A  well-known  imitation  of  the  style  of  Dr.  Johnson, 
by  Archibald  Campbell.] 


16 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«>»  S.  VII.  Jan.  7, 71. 


"The  Whig's  Supplication,  or  the  Scot's  Hadibras.  A 
Mock  Poem.  In  Two  Parts."  By  Samuel  Colvil.  12mo, 
St.  Andrews,  1796. 

'*  The  Lay  of  the  Scottish  Fiddle.    A  Poem.    In  Five 

Gau^s.    Supposed  to  be  written  by  "W S        ,  Esq." 

Small  8vo,  London,  1814« 

[Variously  attributed  to  Washinf^ton  Irving  and  James 
Kirke  Paulding;  the  latter  attribution  probably  cor> 
rect]. 

**  Jokeby,  a  Burlesque  on  Rokeby.  A  Poem.  In  Six 
Cantos.  By  an  Amateur  of  Fashion."  8vo,  London, 
181B. 

[By  T.  Tegg  or  John  Roby.    See  <«  N.  &  Q."  passim.] 

"  Fragments,  after  the  Manner  of  Sterne."  By  Isaac 
Brandon.  12mo.    Printed  for  the  Author. 

This  list  might  be  greatly  extended,  but  is 
already  sufficiently  long.  I  must  not,  however, 
conclude  without  reminding  \V.  G.  D  of  a  few 
clever  parodies  buried  among  other  matter.  Such, 
for  instance;  are :  Pope*s  *'  Imitations  of  English 
Poets";  the  well-known  "Pipe  of  Tobacco:  in 
Imitation  of  Six  Several  Authors,"  bv  Isaac 
Hawkins  Browne  (see  hia  Poems  upon  Vcwiotis 
SubJect8,Syo,  1768, or  the  Cambridge Tart.ia,  176)  j 
the  "  Castle  of  Indolence,"  by  James  Thomson, 
"  writ  in  the  manner  of  Spenser  " ;  the  imitations 
of  the  style  of  Milton,  by  Thomas  Phillips ;  those 
of  Milton  and  Spenser,  by  T.  Warton;  and,  finally, 
the  "  Curious  Fragments  extracted  from  a  Com- 
mon Place  Book,  which  belonged  to  Kobert  Bur- 
ton, the  Famous  Author  of  the  Anatomy  of 
Mdanchofy"  by  Charles  Lamb ;  cum  mtiUis aliis. 

William  Bates. 

Birmingham. 

Though  this  class  of  composition  is  by  no 
means  scarce,  very  few  collections  of  parodies  have 
at  any  time  appeared.  I  may  mention  Thackeray^s 
series  of  Old  Friends  with  New  Faces  as  fulfilling 
the  requirements  of  parody,  though  they  perhaps 
fall  short  of  a  collection.  Among  them  is  to  be 
found  a  parody  on  "Wappinff  Old  Stairs,"  in 
-which  the  usual  order  of  ourlesque  is  inverted, 
the  ridiculous  being  raised  to  the  heroic  instead 
of  the  heroic  beinop  lowered  to  the  ridiculous.  I 
am  acquainted  with  no  more  pleasing  parody  than 
that  on  Southey's  ballad  ''  You  are  old,  Father 
William,  the  young  man  cried,"  to  be  found  in 
Alices  Adventures  in  Wonderlandj  though  it  is 
not  so  generally  known  as  the  almost  classical 
parody  in  Ingoldsby  on  the  ^'  Death  of  Sir  John 
Moore."  In  Hood's  works  will  be  found  some 
half-score  of  them,  mostly  on  songs  and  ballads 
popular  forty  years  ago,  and  consequently  not  very 
telling  on  the  present  generation.  "We  met, 
'twas  in  a  crowd,  and  I  thought  he  had  done 
me,"  is  one  I  can  at  present  ccdl  to  mind.  Al- 
though the  number  of  parodies  of  reputation  is 
small,  few  works  escape  the  ordeal  of  ourlesque. 
Ccwingsby  begat  CooHngsby,  and  Mokihy  begat 
Jok^.    The  hymns  of  Dr.  Watts  axe  mado  the 


vehicle  of  parody  in  a  manner  which  would 
scarcely  be  admired  by  that  divine.  Goethe's 
Faust  has  quite  recently  passed  through  several 
dramatic  versions,  in  one  of  which,  ''  There  was  a 
king  in  Thule,"  is  rendered  by  "There  was  a 
man  in  Tooley  Street"  I  would  supfgest  that  the 
Rejected  Addresses  are  travestied  imitations  rather 
than  parodies,  as  your  correspondent  has  described 
them.  Julian  Shabka27. 

80,  Eastbourne  Terrace,  W. 


THE  "BLUE  LAWS"  OF  CONNECTICUT. 
(4«^  S.  vL  486.) 

Your  correspondent  Nephbite  gives  an  ex- 
tract relating  to  smoldng  tobacco  from  the  '*  Blue 
Laws,  or  the  Code  of  1650  of  the  General  Court 
of  Connecticut."  I  should  feel  much  obliged 
if  he  could  give  some  information  as  to  the 
document  from  which  the  quotation  is  made, 
and  as  to  its  authenticity.  For  many  years  these 
"  Blue  Laws "  have  been  a  byword  for  sarcasm 
and  satire  at  the  expense  of  the  stem  old  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  who  went  forth  to  peoole  the  wilder- 
ness, the  Bible  in  one  hand  and  the  sword  in 
the  other,  and  who  were  more  conversant  with 
the  code  of  Moses  than  with  the  practices  of  the 
beau  monde.  We  often  see  quotations  made,  and  no 
doubt  there  is  something  in  existence  purporting 
to  be  the  code  in  question,  but  that  there  is  any 
authentic  document  containing  the  absurdities  so 
frequently  ascribed  to  it  I  cannot  admit  until  it 
is  demonstrated  by  satisfactory  evidence.  I  be- 
lieve it  to  be  a  literary  imposture,  to  be  classed 
with  the  Epistles  of  Phalans  and  the  Chronicles 
of  Ingulf. 

I  have  met  with  a  passage  in  a  work  recently 

published,*  which  confirms  this  view.  The  writer 

paid  a  visit  to  Dr.  John  Todd,  the  author  of  the 

well-known  Student's  Manual — one  of  the  oldest 

and  most  respected  clei^ymen  in  New  England. 

Amongst  other  things,  the  following  convei'sation 

took  place :  — 

«*  Speaking  of  the  old  Puiitan  strictness,  and  of  the 
so-called  Blue  Laws  of  Comiecticutf  the  Doctor  said: 
*  I  have  heen  amused  to  see  that  some  of  jour  writers 
imagine  that  there  really  were  such  laws  in  New  England. 
The  whole  thing  is  ao  absurd  fiction,  got  up  b^  an 
English  officer  Who  lived  for  some  time  in  Connecticut; 
but  who  disliked  so  much  its  strict  Sabbath  observances 
that,  when  he  went  to  New  York,  he  drew  up  these  pre- 
tended laws  out  of  spite  and  passed  them  off  for  real 
enactments.  It  was  not  wonderful,  perhaps,  that  people 
so^ignorant  about  us  as  the  English  were  should  have 
been  hoaxed  into  the  belief  that  there  had  really  been 
laws  in  Connecticut  making  it  penal  for  a  man  to  kias 
his  wife  on  Sundays,  and  all  that  nonsense ;  but  to  find 
some  of  your  living  writers  still  falling  into  an  error  so 

*  The  Americans  at  Home:  Pen  and  Ink  Sketches  of 
American  Men,  Manners,  and  Institutions.  Bv  David 
Macrae.  2  vols.  Edinbuigh:  Edmonston  ft  i>oiigla8. 
1670. 


4*  S.  Til.  Jan.  7,  Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


17 


preposteroos,  is  very  melancholy.  What  woold  you  think 
of  an  American  writing  about  England,  and  quoting 
*Jack  and  the  Bean  Stalk'  as  an  authentic  historical 
work  ?  " 

If  this  be  correct,  the  "  Blue  Laws  of  Connec- 
ticut "  belong  to  the  same  categorjr  as  Knicker- 
bocker's HiOory  of  New  York.  I  think  it  is  very 
desirable,  for  the  sake  of  literary  and  historical 
truth,  that  this  point  should  be  cleared  up.  Your 
w>rrespondent  J^ephbite  may  aid  in  the  inquiry, 
by  stating  from  what  source  he  derived  the  quo- 
tation he  bas  given.  What  is  the  imprint,  and 
under  what  authori^  is  it  published?  From 
what  archives  is  it  drawn?  What  is  its  date, 
And  what  names  are  attached?  Where  is  the 
original  document,  and  what  stamp  of  authen- 
ticity does  it  bear?  Answers  to  these  (jueriea 
would  aid  in  clearinff  up  a  mystery,  or  m  ex- 
posing: a  boax  which  has  been  anything  but 
harmlefis.  J.  A.  Picton. 

Sasdjknowp,  Wavertree,  near  Liverpool. 


ST.  ACGUSTIN'S  SERMOXS. 

(4^*  S.  vi.  602.) 

I  am  not  aware  of  any  book  which  mentions 
the  chaTebefl  of  Carthage ;  nor  have  the  churches 
in  which  the  sermons  of  St  Augustin  were 
preached  been  generally  given  in  any  edition  of 
his  work&.  For  probably  the  greater  number  of 
the  localities  were  unknown,  though  several  places 
where  the  holy  Father  preached  are  specified  in 
some  editions  of  his  works.  The  CoUectio  Sdecta 
SS,  Eedetim  Fatr^an  (Parisiis,  1836,  et  seq,)  con- 
tains St.  Aognatin'a  works  in  full,  and  in  this 
edition  many  of  his  sermons  have  notices  of 
the  places  where  they  were  preached,  and  with 
some  the  dates  are  also  given.  Most  of  those 
enumerated  by  T.  P.  will  be  found  in  the  follow- 
ing list  taken  from  the  above  edition.  I  give  its 
own  enumeration,  generally  appending  the  old 
numbering,  as  alUer : — 

Senn.  XLIX.  td.  237  de  tenipore,  in  Matt.  xx.  de  con- 
dactis  m  vinea. — Habitus  ad  mensam  *  S<  Cj'priani  in 
dieDom*. 

Serm.  LXXXVIIL  a/.  18  de  verb.  Dom'.  Preached  at 
Carthage  bef^nre  his  biabop  Aureltas. 

Senn.  XC.  al.  14  ex  editis  a  Sirmondo  De  verbis  Evang. 
Mfttt.  xxiL  de  noptiis  filii  regis. 

Habitus  CartaagiDe  in  Restitota. 

Senn.  CXI.  Preached  at  Carthage:  at  its  conelnsion 
the  saint  gives  notice  that  the  next  day  will  be  the  anni- 
venary  of  the  ordination  of  bis  bishop—'*  domni  senis 

*  The  **  Mensa  Cypriani  "  was  the  altar  dedicated  to 
God  io  honoar  of  St.  Cyprian.  St.  Augustin  himself  thus 
explains  it :  **  DeaiaiM^  stent  nostis^  qaicnmque  Car tha- 
gincm  nostis,  in  eodem  loco  mensa  Deo  constmcta  est ; 
et  tamen  mensa  dicitur  Cjrpriani,  non  quia  ibi  est  unqaam 
Cyprianua  epolatns,  sed  quia  ibi  est  immolatos,  et  quia 
ipsa  immolacioue  sua  paravit  banc  mensam,  non  in  qua 
pascat  sive  pascatar,  sed  in  qua  sacrificium  Deo,  cut  et 
ipse  oblatns  est,  oflTeratur."  — 5erm.  CCCX.  aL  113  In 
Nitkdi  Cffpriani  MartyriM  II, 


Aurelii,'*  and  that  the  bishop  desires  the  faithful  to  assem- 
ble that  dav  at  the  Basilica  of  Faostas. 

Senn.  C^IL  De  verbis  Evangelii  Lucae  xix.,  "  Homo 
fecit  coenam  rasgnam,"  etc. 

Habiras  in  Basilica  Restitota. 
Serm.  CXI  V.  De  verb.  Ev.  Lucie  xvii.,  **  St  peccaverit 
in  te,"  etc. 

Habit  as  ad  mensam  S^  Cypriani,  prrosente  comite 
Bonifacio. 
Serm.  CXXXI.  al.  2  de  verb.  Apost. 
Habitos  ad  mensam  S^  Cypriani  ix.  KaL  Octob. 
die  Dom^ 
Serm.  CL.  de  verbis  Act/Apost.  xvii. 

Habitns  Carthagine. 
Serm.  CLII.  de  verbis  Apost.  Rom.  viL  et  viii. 

Habitnm  Carthagine  credimna. 
Serm.  CLIV.  de  verbis  Apost.  Rom.  vii. 
Habitns  ad  mensam  S.  Mart.  Cypriani. 
Serm.  CLY.  a/.  vL  de  verbis  Apoet.  Rom.  viii. 

Habitns  in  Basilica  SS.  Msrt».  SGillitanomm. 
Serm.  CLVI.  dl,  xiii.  de  verbis  Apost.  Rom.  viii. 
Habitus  in  Basilica  Gratiani  die  natali  Mart"^.  Boli- 
tanornm. 
Serm.  CLXIII.  dL  iiL  de  verb.  Apoet  Gal.  v. 

Habitus  in  Basilica  Honoriana  viii.  Kal.  Octob. 
Serm.  CLXIV.  a/,  xxii.  de  verb.  Apost.  Gal.  vi.  Contra 
Donatistas,  panlo  post  habitam  Carthagine  coUationem 
pronuntiatus. 
Serm.  CLXV.  aL  vii.  dc  verb.  Apost.  Bphes.  iii. 

Habitns  in  Basilica  Majomm. 
Serm.  CLXIX.  a/,  xv.  de  verb.  Apost.  Philip,  iii; 

Habitus  ad  mensam  S*  Cypriani. 
Serm.  CLXXIV.  al,  viii.  de  verb.  AMat.  I  Tim.  i. 

Habitus  in  Basilica  Celeriiue,  die  Dominica. 
Serm.  CCLY.  De  Alleluia.    At  some  other  place  than 
Hippo  ;  perhaps  at  Carthage,  anno  418. 
Serm.  CCLVIII.  In  diebos  Pasehalibaa 

In  BasUica  majore. 
Serm.  CCLX.  De  monitis  baptizatomm.; 

In  ecclesia  Leontiana. 
Serm.  CCLXI.  In  die  Ascensionis  Dom^ 
Habitus  Carthagine  in  Basilica  Fausti. 
Serm.  CCLXII.  In  die  Ascens. 

Habitns  in  Basilica  Leontiana. 
Serm.  CCLXXVH.  In  festo  ^  YincentU  M. 

In  Basilica  Restituta. 
Serm.  CCXCIY.  al,  xiv.  in  natali  martyris  Gaddentis, 
6  Kal.  Julii  (anno  413,  Fleuiy), 
Serm.  CCCY.  in  solemnitate  martyris  Lanrentii  lY. 

Habitns  ad  mensam  S.  Cypriani. 
Serm.  CCCXYIII.  al.  25.  Habitus  in  ipso  die  deposi- 
tionls  reliquiarura  S.  Stephani  apud  Hipponem. 
Serm.  CCCLY.  al.  49  de  diversis,  at  HifH>o. 

Serm.  CCCLYl.  a/.  50 at  Hippo. 

Serm.  CCCLYII.  al,  35.  De  laoda  pads,  ante  collat. 
cnm  Donatistis. 

Apud  Carthaginem  anno  411  circiter  15  Mail. 
Sei-m.  CCCLYlIl.  a/.  36.  De  pace  et  charitate. 

Apud  Carthag.  eodem  tempore. 
Serm.  CCCLIX.  De  lite  et  concorcBa  enm  Donatistis. 
Apud  Carthag.  Post  coUat  cum  eis. 

Sermonea  ineditL 
Serm.  XYII.  In  solemnitate  Maochabsaomm. 

Habitas  Bulla;  Regis,  rogatu  eplscopi  eivitatis. 
Serm.  XYIIL  In  natali  Quadrat!  Martyris. 

Preached  not  at  HippO)  but  some  place  unknown. 

Sermones  ex  Codice  Casainenn, 
Serm.  Y.  Ad  mensam  B.  Cypriani  M.  Sexto  idns  Sep- 
tcmbris,  de  Apost.  ad  GaUt.:   "Pratres  si  occupatns 
fuerit  homo  in  aliquo  detioto,  etc.*' 

F.  0.  H. 


18 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[4«k  S.  VII.  J  AX.  7,  '71. 


A  WncTBB  Satins  (4"»  S.  vi.  496.)— Very 
similai  to  this  saying  in  Nottinghamshire  is  one 
which  I  heard  the  other  day  from  a  medical  man 
in  West  Kent:  ''  If  hefore  Christmas  the  ice  will 
bear  a  goose^  after  Christmas  it  will  not  bear  a 
duck."  H.  P.  D. 

[As  a  comment  on  the  above,  we  append  an  occasional 
note  from  the  Fall  Mall  Gazette  of  December  28.— £d.] 

'*  Some  people  flatter  themselves  that  becanae  the  frost 
has  set  in  this  year  before  Christmas  Day,  we  shall  have 
a  mild  winter  after  it ;  bat  this  theory  is  not  in  accord- 
ance with  past  experience.  Some  of  onr  most  severe 
frosts  have  be^n  on  the  21st  of  December.  '  In  1565/ 
says  Holinshe^  *  the  one-and-twentieth  day  of  Deoembf»r 
began  a  flrost  which  continued  so  extremely  that  on  New 
Year's  Even  people  went  over  and  alongst  the  Thames  on 
the  ice  from  Ixmdon  Bridge  to  Westminster.  Some 
played  at  football  so  boldly  as  if  it  had  been  on  dry  land. 
Divers  of  the  coast  shot  daily  at  the  pricks  set  ap  on  the 
Thames,  and  the  people^  both  men  and  women,  went  on 
Uie  Thames  in  greater  numbers  than  in  any  street  of 
London.  On  the  Slst  day  of  January,  at  night,  it  began 
to  thaw,  and  five  days  afUr  was  no  ice  to  be  seen  between 
London  Bridge  and  Lambeth,  which  sadden  thaw  caused 
great  floods  and  high  waters  that  bare  down  bridges  and 
houses  and  drowned  many  people  in  England,  especially 
in  Yorkshire.'  In  1688  a  hard  frost  set  in  early  in  De- 
cember, and  lasted  till  the  7th  of  February.  On  this 
occasion,  the  Thames  being  frozen,  there  was  a  Rtreet 
upon  it  from  the  Temple  to  South'wark,  lined  with  shops, 
and  hackney  coaches  plied  on  the  river.  In  1762  a  hard 
frost  commenoed  on  Christmas  Day  and  lasted  till  the 
29th  of  Jannary,  and  carriages  were  aeain  seen  on  the 
Hiames ;  and  in  the  same  year  the  Rmne  was  frozen  at 
Coblentz  for  nearly  four  weeks  from  the  21st  of  Decern- 
ber.  The  great  frost  of  the  present  century  was  the 
famous  one  of  1814,  which  lasted  several  weeks  and  put 
everybody  to  intense  inconveoience.  To  add  to  this  dis- 
comfort, London  was  wrapped  in  an  extraordinaxy  fog 
for  a  week  in  the  early  part  of  January  of  that  year, 
which,  among  oUier  misfortunes,  caused  the  Prince 
Regent  to  lose  his  way  when  going  to  pay  a  visit  to  Lord 
Salisbury  at  Hatfield,  and  not  to  get  further  than  Ken- 
tish Town." 

RoBTJB  Cakoli  (4*  S.  vL  476,  633.)— -'^Cor 
Carol!  '^  is  not  a  constellation,  but  a  double  star 
situated  in  the  constellation  Canes  YenaticL 

G.T. 

Pear  Trbb  (4»«»  S.  vi.  476.)— The  somewhat 
rustic-looking  tenement  which  stands  on  the  right- 
hand  side  of  the  main  road  leading  to  Nazing,  co. 
Essex,  has  borne  from  a  remote  period  the  appel- 
lation of  ^'  Pear  Tree  Farm."  To  this  tenement 
or  messuage  (as  I  am  informed)  is  appended  about 
forty  acres  of  land.  This  farm  has  most  probably 
derived  its  name  from  a  very  old  pear  tree,  the 
remains  of  which  are  now  standing  on  the  green 
opposite.  But  why  the  singular  additional  title 
of  the  sacred  name  of  ''God  Almighty"  is  at- 
tached to  it  is  beyond  my  knowledge  to  state, 
except  that  it  might  possibly  have  been  con- 
nected with  the  ancient  monastery  of  Waltham, 
either  in  part  or  whole,  and  so  have  been  deemed 
sacred  by  the  religious  order  of  the  Augustine 
brotherhood  which  bluff  King  Hall  diBSolTed  in 


the  thir^-first  year  of  his  reign.  The  farm  is  in 
the  hamlet  of  Holyfield.  W.  Wintebs. 

Waltham  Abbey. 

RieHT  TO  avABTBB  Abms  (4**  S.  vi.  476.)— In 
reply  to  W.  M.  H.  C,  I  woula  repeat  a  solution 
of^  his  difiiculty  given  in  a  former  number  of 
''  N.  &  Q.,"  though  I  am  unable  to  refer  to  the 
exact  page. 

John  Smith's  eldeet  son  dies  s,  p, ;  his  second 
son  succeeds,  and  leaves  an  only  daughter ;  that 
daughter  is  the  heiress  in  blood  to  her  grand- 
father John  Smith,  and  transmits  his  arms  to  her 
descendants.  As  long  as  the  line  of  ^descendants 
remains,  John  Smith's  daughters  (her  aunts)  can . 
have  no  right  to  transmit  the  Smith  arms  to  their ' 
issue.  Their  niece  is  the  heiress  through  whom 
the  ri^ht  must  first  descend,  and  whose  Hne  must 
be  extinct  before  her  aunts  oecome  co-heiresses. 

E.W. 

Babon  Nicholsov  (4"»  S.  vi.  477.)— I  quite 
agree  with  your  editorial  note.  As  an  autobio- 
graphy is  in  print,  what  more  is  wanted  ?  Some 
account  of  his  literary  labours,  however,  would 
not  be  out  of  place  in  ''  N.  &  Q."  He  wrote  and 
published  in  numbers  Cockney  Tales — ver^  humor- 
ous, and  quite  free  from  anvthing  offensive.  He 
also  published  a  novel,  Dombey  and  Daughter,  ^  It 
had  nothing  to  do  with  Dickens's  story ;  the  title 
WAS  a  mere  ad  captandum.  He  wrote  also  a  pretty 
little  poem  called  '^The  Derbyshire  Dales,^'  and 
some  good  imitations  (not  parodies^  of  Moore, 
Eliza  Cooke,  &c.  I  remember  reading  in  The 
Times  the  advice  of  Mr.  Commissioner  Phillina 
after  the  delivery  of  the  Baron's  certificate — '*  Mr. 
Nicholson,  one  word  at  parting:  in  future  confine 
your  practice  to  your  own  court,  and  keep  out  of 
mine."  Stbphbk  Jackson. 

EpIOEAH    on    THB    WaLCHBBEN    ExPEDITIOir 

(!•»  S.  xi.  62 ;  4'»»  S.  v.  174,  497,  606 ;  vL  U,  144, 
244.) — ^The  controversy  with  regard  to  the  cor- 
rect version  of  this  epigram  is,  I  think,  set  at 
rest  by  the  following  extract  from  a  letter  ad- 
dressed by  Lord  Palmerston  to  his  sister,  the 
Hon.  Miss  Temple,  dated  Feb.  27,  1810.  (Sir 
Henry  Lytton  Bulwer's  lAfe  of  Visomtnt  Palmer- 
«<on,  1870,1.117)  :— 

"  Did  you  see  the  following  epigram  the  other  day  in 
the  Chronicle  f  if  yoa  did  not  it  is  a  .pity  you  should 
miss  it,  and  I  send  it  to  you ;  it  is  by  JekyU : — 
*  Lord  Chatham  -with  his  sword  undrawn. 
Stood  waiting  for  Sir  Richard  Strachan ; 
Sir  Bichard,  eager  to  get  at  *em, 
Stood  waiting—but  for  what  ?—Lord  Chatham ! ' 

<*  It  is  very  good,  I  think,  both  in  rhjrme  and  point." 

It  will  be  observed  that  Lord  palmerston  states 
positively  that  tiie  epigram  is  by  JekylL 

JCla    X  •    J/. 

ROBBBT  BB  ComnTyEABL  OF  NOBTHXTMBBBLAKD 

{4}^  S.  vi.  467.)— S.  will  find  some  information 


^  S.  VII.  Jau.  7,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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in  Buike's  JSxtmci  and  Dormant  Peerage^  ed.  1840, 
p.  I3o.  The  account  therein  giren  would  not  place 
nim  in  the  ^  first  rank  "  among  noblemen. 

H.  W. 

Robert  de  Comjn  was  Duke  of  Northumberland 
for  the.  space  of  only  one  jear^  1068-9,  and  was 
slain  in  Durham  with  most  of  his  followers. 
["  The  slaughter  was  made  the  fifth  of  the  Calends 
of  February,  anno  1070."  Milles'  Cat,  of  Mommr, 
p.  709).]  See  Sir  H.  Nicholas'  HiUoric  Peerage 
efEngkmdj  reyised  by  W.  Courthope^  Esq.,  1867, 
p.  358.  D.  C.E. 

CrcuifBXB  (4^  S.  yi.  474.)^Cucumber  from 
gherkin  is  only  a  false  extension  of  the  joke,  as 
in  the  celebrated  ''pair  of  crocodiles  "  anecdote 
in  Joe  Miller,  A.  F.,  meeting  C.  D.,  detains  him 
with  a  prolix  narratiye  of  the  capital  pair  of  gaiters 
he  had  picked  up  in  Change  Alley.  C.  D.,  to  cut 
the  matter  short,facetiously  suggests  that  he  should 
call  them  his  (pair  of)  aUigatcr»,  Whereupon 
A.  B.  trots  off  delighted,  and  meeting  E.  F.  re- 
tails that  capital  joke  of  C.  D.'s  about  how  the 
pair  of  gaiters  that  he  had  just  purchased  in 
Change  Alley  ought  to  be  called  a  pair  of  croco- 
dDes— "ha  I  hal'^  "  Well,"  said  R  F.,  «  a  pair  of 
crocodiles  ?  I  don*t  see  the  joke."  "  No  more 
do  I  now,"  said  the  hapless  A.  d,,  ''  but  it  seemed 
yery  funny  when  C.  D.  first  said  it ! "  So,  as  a 
joke  may  lose  by  repetition,  a  gherkin  metamor- 
phosed into  a  cucumber  becomes  pointless. 

VsBBUK  Sap. 

Ma.  JACxaoir  must  excuse  my  saying  that  it  is 
he  who  has  spoiled  this  ancient  joke,  for  to  omit 
the  cucumber  is  to  omit  the  point.  Vl's  mistake' 
is  a  mere  putting  the  cart  before  the  horse  acci- 
dentally. The  anecdote  used  to  be  told  as  fol- 
lows:— King  was  pooh-poohing  some  man's 
etymologies  with  a  "Nonsense !  you  may  as  weU 
say  my  name  is  deriyed  from  cucumber."  "  Well, 
so  it  is,"  was  the  quick  retort:  ^  Jeremiah  King — 
Jerry  Kinff  —  j erking  —  gherkin  —  cucumber  I " 
Somehow  I  haye  always  connected  the  story  with 
a  college  dinner,  but  I  really  cannot  say  why.  A 
bad  pun  on  Jerry  £[ing  and  gherkin  would  not 
haye  liyed  so  long.  In  conclusion,  wiU  some  one 
tell  us  how  it  is  that  young  cucumbers  are  called 
gherkins  P    I  do  not  see  the  etymology  myself. 

P.P. 

The  deiiyation  is  not  gherkin  from  Jeremiah 
King,  but  cucumber  from  King  Jeremiah.  Thus 
Kin^  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah  King,  Jerry  King, 
jerion,  gherkin,  cucumber.        R.  S.  Chabkock. 

Gny*8  Ins. 

LoTHuro  Lavd  (4**  S.  yi.  476.)— Your  corre- 
spondent R  T.  C.  may  rest  assured  that  there  is 
no  etymological  connection  between  Lothing  Land 
ind  Lothian  and  Lothringen.  The  latter  (not- 
withstanding the  tennination  'ingen)  is  simply  a 


corruption  of  Lotharingiaj  i.  e.  Lotharii  Regnum, 
According  to  the  Stat,  Ace.  Scot,  the  name  Lo- 
thian is  said  to  be  from  loch,  but  it  is  more  pro- 
bably deriyed  from  hid,  /ba  =  water.  Polydore 
Virgil  informs  us  that  Laudonia  (t.  e.  Lothian)  in 
his  time  was  an  extensiye  district  beginning  at 
the  Tweed,  and  stretching  conalderably  beyond 
the  city  of  Edinburgh.  Lothing  Land  (in  Domes- 
day Ijudmgaland)  anciently  formed  part  of  the 
hundred  of  Ludinga,  which  was  afterwards  called 
the  Half  Hundred  of  Mutford.  It  may  haye  had 
its  name  from  Lake  Lothing,  from  the  same  root 
as  the  name  Lothian.  Sackling  (Suffolk)  says  of 
Lothinffland :  "  The  Wayeney  washes  its  western 
side,  while  Oulton  Broad  and  Lake  Lothing  form 
its  southern  boundary,  which  uniting  with  the 
Ocean  near  Lowestoft,  insulate  the  district" 

K.  S.  Chabvoce. 

Gray*8  Inn. 

P.S.  Conf.  the  riyer  names  Lyd,  Lud,  Loddon, 
and  local  names  commencing  with  Lud,  Lod. 

The  name  of  Lothringen  (Lorraine)  has  nothing 
to  do  with  the  German  word  loth,  plummet,  or 
with  the  accidental  hct  that  the  region  which 
bears  the  name  "  adjoins  Champagne,  a  level 
country."  Lothringen  is  Lotharinc^a.  The  pre- 
sent Lothringen  is  a  small  part  of  a  region  that 
was  named  I^tharingia  because  it  was  assigned 
to  the  Emperor  Lothar  (Lothaire  in  Gibbon's 
Decline  and  FaU)  when,  on  the  death  of  Lewis 
the  Pious  (Charlemagne's  son),  the  empire  was 
divided  among  his  three  sons — Lothar,  Charles 
(king  of  the  West  Franks),  and  Lewis  (king  of 
the  East  Franks).      JoHW  Hosktws-Adrahall. 

Combe  Yicarag«y  near  Woodstock. 

"  Ckbtosiwo"  (4*  S.  yi.  475.)— I  neyer  heard 
or  met  with  the  word.  But  it  may  be  a  diminu- 
tive of  Certosa,  the  Italian  word  for  a  Carthusian 
convent.  In  the  Certosa,  near  Florencp  (now 
dissolved^  various  trades  were  carried  on.  There 
was  a  laooratory,  a  4btillery  of  Chartreuse  and 
peppermint-water,  &c.  &c.,  a  shoemakers'  shop, 
a  tailors'  ditto,  &c.  As  a  car^nters'  workshop 
was  on  the  premises,  the  inlaymg  of  ivory  and 
ornamental  wood  (a  common  occupation  in  Italy) 
may  have  formed  a  part  of  the  conventual  in- 
dustiy ;  and  such  worK,  as  well  as  other  labour, 
may  have  been  called  certosino  work,  or  in  Italian 
lavaro  certosino.  There  does  not  seem  to  me  any 
mystery  about  the  term. 

Jambs  Henrt  Dixon. 

AirciENT  ScoxnsH  Dbbd  (4***  S.  vi.  463.) — The 
deed  given  by  J.  M.  is  doubtless  interesting,  but 
I  have  one  in  photozincograph  lying  before  me, 
earlier  by  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  years,  and 
deserving  of  notice  in  your  columns,  as  believed 
to  be  the  earliest  document  in  the  vernacular 
extant  It  is  an  awwrd  of  an  ancestor  of  mine, 
Andrew  Mercer,  Lord  of  Meiklour;  in  a  dispute 


20 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»k  S.  VII.  Jaw.  7,  •71. 


between  Robert  Stewart,  Earl  of  Fife  and  Men- 
teith,  and  John  Logie^  son  and  heir  of  Sir  John 
Logie,  Knight,  relative  to  the  lands  of  Logie  and 
Strath  gar tny  in  Perthshire.  It  was  given  in  pre- 
sence of  King  Robert  II.  and  his  son  John,  Earl 
of  Carrick,  and  is  dated  May  15, 1385. 

The  original  is  in  the  charter  chest  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam D.  Stewart,  Bart,  of  Murthly,  and  a  copy 
was  published  in  the  Edinburgh  Evening  Courant 
of  March  15  last  by  a  correspondent  who  signed 
himself  J.  A.  R.,  and  termed  it  ''the  oldest 
writing  yet  discovered  in  tiie  Scotch  lanaruage." 

I  understand  that  the  fac-simile  of  which  I  am 
possessed  is  to  be  found  in  tiie  Red  Book  of 
Grantully.  W.  T.  M. 

RoTAL  Ttpographt  (4**  S.  vi.  299,  443.)— It 
IS  well  known  that  somewhere  between  the  years 
1840  and  1850  Her  Majesty  and  Prince  Albert 
occasionally  emplojred  themselves  by  etching  upon 
copper.  They  received  practical  instraction  in  the 
art  from  Mr.  Hayter,  afterwards  Sir  George 
Hayter,  who  attended  ever^  morning  at  Windsor 
Castle  for  the  purpose.  If  a  private  copper-plate 
press  was  made  use  of  for  striking  off  impressicms 
of  the  plates  produced,  it  would  be  at  Windsor 
Castle,  and  not  at  Buckingham  Palace,  as  stated 
by  H.  F.  P. ;  but  there  is  some  doubt  as  to  the 
existence  of  such  a  things  and  certain  it  is  that 
Mr.  John  Burgess  Brown,  a  bookseller  and  copper- 
plate printer  of  Windsor,  was  regularly  employed 
bv  the  royal  artLsts  to  produce  impressions  of  the 
plates  as  they  were  etched.  As  secrecy  was  de- 
sired, he  was  careful  to  see  that  the  same  quantity 
of  proof  paper  which  he  had  given  to  his  work- 
man was  received  back  in  the  shape  of  impressions. 
It  seems,  however,  that  the  latter,  perhaps  with- 
out ulterior  object,  struck  off  a  waste  or  trial 
?roof  or  two  of  each  on  card  or  ordinary  paper. 
*hese  he  pasted,  as  curiosities,  in  a  sort  of  album, 
to  the  cumber  of  sixty-three,  and  in  this  state 
they  were  seen  by  a  Mr.  Jasper  Tomsett  Judge,  of 
Windsor.  This  person  managed,  after  some  hag- 
gling, to  purchase  the  lot  for  the  sum  of  five 
pounds,  and  having  cleaned  and  mounted  them, 
proposed  to  recoup  himself  by  their  exhibition 
and  by  the  sale  of  an  analytical  list,  under  the 
title  of  A  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the  Royal  Vic^ 
taria  and  Albert  Oaliery  of  Etchings,  At  this  the 
royal  artists  were  greatly  annoyed,  and  gave  in- 
structions to  their  solicitor  to  file  a  bill  in  Chancery 
against  Strange,  the  publisher  of  the  catalogue, 
on  the  ground  that  the  etchings  referred  to  had 
been  wrongfully  obtained. 

The  subsequent  proceedings— which  certainly 
appear  to. have  been  harshly  oppressive  against 
the  offending  parties— with  a  list  of  the  etchings, 
and  a  large  amount  of  cnrioos  matter,  are  minutely 
set  forth  in  a  publication  entitled  — 

«The  « Royal  Etchiog».'  A  Statement  of  Facts  w- 
latmg  to  the  Origin,  Object,  and  Progras  of  tin  Pio- 


eeedings  in  Chaneeiy,  instituted  by  Her  Majesty  and  the 
Prince  Consort ;  to  which  are  appended  Copies  of  Letters 
to  the  Qaeen  and  Prince  Albert,  &c."  By  Jasper  Tomsett 
Judfi^e.  8vo,  London,  W.  Strange,  Jan.  (1846)  pp.  74. 
Price  Half-a-Crown. 

WiLLiiJc  Bates. 

Birmingham. 

Pattlbt  op  Ampobt  (4"»  S.  vi.  6.)— The  brothers 
of  George  twelfth  Marquis  of  Winchester  were — 

**  1.  Norton  Paulet,  M.P.  for  Winchester,  married,  but 
died  9.B.  1769." 

2.  Henry  P.,  capt.  in  the  Army,  died  unmarried  1743. 

3.  John  p.,  in  the  Army,  died  unmarried  in  Germany. 

4.  Charles  P.,  capt.  R.N.,  died  unmarried  1762. 

5.  William  P.,  in  the  Navy,  died  unmarried  1772. 

6.  Herbert  P.,  capt.  in  the  Army,  died  unmarried 
1746. 

7.  Francis  P.,  died  a  minor  at  Cambridge  1742." — De- 
brett's  Pteragtj  1825. 

Charles  Russkll. 

Camp,  Aldershot. 

"  Thbbb  was  a  Little  Mait  "  (4"»  S.  vi.  511.) 
Mb.  Jackson  is  careless  as  to  the  measure  of  this 
old  nursery  rhyme.    His  last  line  would  neither 
read  nor  sing  in  time.    It  ought  io  he  — 
**  And  shot  him  through  the  head.** 

The  first  and  second  verses  are  constantly  sung  in 
the  nursery ;  hut  there  is  a  third  verse  (see  the 
Percy  Society's  Tracts)  which  is  not  so  generally 
known.  There  is  in  the  same  collection  another 
short  ballad;  which  goes  to  the  same  measure  — 
*<  There  was  a  little  man,  and  ha  wooed  a  little  maid," — 

where  the  little  maid,  with  a  most  housewifely 

prudence,  desires  to  know  his  means  of  support 

m  marriage,  and  asks — 

**  WUI  the  love  that  you're  so  rich  in 
Make  a  fire  in  the  kitchen. 
Or  the  little  God  of  Love  turn  the  spit  ?  " 


The  SwAK-Soiro  of  Pabsok  Avert  (4**  S.  vi. 
493.) — ^There  is  a  remarkable  coincidence  in  thia 
narrative,  which  I  mention  with  a  desire  to  elicit 
some  fuller  information,  tending  to  identify  Par* 
son  Avery  as  an  emigrant  from  England,  and  a 
settler  in  North  Canuina — prohahly  the  pastor 
of  a  congregation  composed  of  Presbyterians  emi- 
grating irom  Newhury  in  Berkshire,  '^  one  of  the 
thousands  of  families  who,  in  1035,  retired  to  New 
England,"  and  possihly  founders  of  Newbeme 
(Newherie  P)  in  the  above-named  state. 

The  Avery  family  were  connected  with  the 
clothing  trade  in  Newhury,  Berks,  at  that  date. 
They  were  Presbyterians,  and  the  name  has  only 
heen  extinct  for  a  few  years.  Latterly  they  were 
Blackwall  Hall  factors  in  Cateaton  Street,  and 
a  hranch  settled  at  Marlbro  in  Wilts.  Dr.  Avery, 
the  second  treasurer  of  Guy's  Hospital,  was  re- 
lated to  the  Averys  of  Newfoury.  They  used  the 
arms  confirmed  by  Cooke  to  Wm.  Avery  of  Fill- 
inghy,  co.  Warwick — ^via.  ermine  on  a  pale  en* 
grailed  azure,  three  lions'  heads  cooped  or. 


4*»»S.VII.  JA2r.7,'71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


21 


It  18  Tery  eTident  that  the  poem  relates  to 
another  Newbury  than  the  English  town.  It  suits 
well  with  the  town  of  that  name  in  North  Caro- 
lina ;  and  possibly  some  reader  of  '*  N.  &  Q."  on 
that  shore  of  the  Atlantic  may  be  able  to  furnish 
local  traditions,  to  confirm  the  existence  of  rocks 
at  Marble  Head,  and  to  identify  Parson  Avery  as 
the  pastor  of  colonists  from  Newbury,  Berks,  who 
named  the  new  settlement  after  the  home  they 
had  left  in  search  of  religious  and  civil  freedom. 

E.W. 

The  poem  referred  to  is  one  of  Whittier's,  pub- 
lished in  his  volume  entitled  Home  Ballads, 

A.  E. 

Ibish  Fo&fxitukes  (4*'»  S.  vi.  646.)  —  The 
bo<^s  or  book  referred  to  bv  the  Abb^  MacGeo- 
ghagan  as  accompanying  thelReport  on  Irish  For- 
feitures in  1700,  must  be,  I  conclude,  that  rare 
volume — 

*'A  List  of  the  Claims  as  they  are  entred  with  the 
Trustees  at  Chichester  House  oa  College  Green,  Dublin, 
on  or  before  the  Tenth  of  August,  1700."  FoL  **  Dublin, 
printed  by  Joseph  Ray,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  Patrick 
Campbeli,  Book&eller,  in  Skinner  Bow,  1701." 

The  copy  which  belonged  to  William  Luttrell 
is  in  my  Insh  library.  E.  Ph.  Shislet. 

Patchin  (4***  S.  vi.  249,  399,  486.)  —  Pannus, 
the  Latin  equivalent  of  patch,  is  used  by  Pliny  of 
"  a  substance  that  grows  on  the  tree  JEgilops  be- 
sides the  acorns."  (PL  16.  8, 13,  §  86.)  May  not, 
therefore,  the  "  legend "  *'  WeVe  got  another 
little  chap  at  'ome  as  this  one  'ere  ain't  even  so 
much  as  &  patch  imon  "  (''  N.  &  Q.''  p.  899)  mean 
this  **  one  ere  *'  is  no  more  to  be  compared  with 
*^  the  little  chap  at  'ome,"  than  is  the  parasite 
upon  the  oak  with  the  acorns  P  Or  may  not  a 
simpler  elucidation  be  found  in  the  practice  of 
mending^  tattered  garments?  The  patch  should 
be  as  like  as  may  be  to  the  material  to  be  patched. 
Hence,  when  one  person  is  very  much  unlike 
another,  he  may  properly  be  said  to  be  ''  no 
patchin  for  him."  Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Thb  Rochester  Hospital  (4"»  S.  vi.  502.)  — 
The  woid  ''  proctor  "  in  connection  with  Watts*s 
hospital  is  now  understood  to  mean  a  privileged 
beggar.  It  is  used  in  this  sense  in  the  statutes  of 
£dw.  \1.  tmd  Elizabeth.  For  an  admirsble  ac- 
count of  the  use  of  the  word  which  so  bothered 
Kentish  antiquaries  of  the  last  century  see  a  paper 
by  Mr.  William  Brenchley  Rye  in  Arch€Bologia 
Cantianoj  vi.  62,  53.  Geobge  Bedo. 

Babies'  Beli3  (4*»»  S.  vi.  476.) — These  are  re- 
ferred to  in  the  School  ofBeereattonf  or  Gentleman* a 
Tutor  (edition  of  1684),  in  the  part  about  bell- 
ringing,  quoted  in  Ellacombe's  Belfries  and  Binders 

(p.l8):— 

"  fieeondly,  nor  let  the  bells  be  made  thy  Inllsby,  to 
droim  some  diaaatisiketion,  and  w  make  thee  repair  to 


the  belfxee  (like  the  nnne  to  ber  whifltle-belle)  to  quiet 
ihy  disturbed  mind ;  and  thus  (as  the  divine  poet  excel- 
lently expresses  it)  to  silence  it  with  — 

*  Look,  look,  what's  here  I  A  dainty  golden  thing  ? 

See  how  the  dancing  bells  turn  round,  and  ring 

To  please  my  bantling,' "  &c. 

Can  any  one  tell  us  who  the  "divine  poet"  isP 
Mr.  EUacombe  does  not  know.  In  my  copy  of 
the  6'cAoo/  of  Becreation  (169(3)  the  above  does 
not  occur.  J,  T.  F. 

North  KeUey,  Brigg. 

Addison  makes  mention  of  baby's  corah   in 

No.  1.  of  the  Spectator,  where,  drawing  a  fanciful 

portrait  of  himself,  he  says : — 

**The  gravity  of  my  behaviour  at  my  very  first  ap- 
pearance in  the  world  seemed  to  favour  my  mother's 
dream  ;  for,  as  she  has  often  told  me,  I  threw  away  my 
rattle  when  I  was  two  months  old,  and  would  not  make 
use  of  my  coral,  till  they  had  taken  the  bells  from  it." 

The  Spectator  appeared  in  1711,  and  its  author 
w&s  brought  into  the  world  with  the  gravity  and 
solemnity  in  the  text  recorded  in  1672;  so  this 
takes  us  back  two  hundred  years  in  the  history  of 
the  coral  and  bells.  Julian  Shabxak. 

EcsTATics  (4***  S.  vi.  475.)— Last  year  there 
was  published  a  very  able  and  interesting  work 
descnptive  of  the  town  and  vicinity  of  Gheel,  the 
Bedlam  of  Belgium.  The  title  of  the  book  is 
Gheel,  the  City  of  the  Simple,  bv  the  author  of 
lUmish  Ifiteriors,  Chapman  and  Hall,  1869.  It  is 
dedicated  to  that  distinguished  philanthropist  and 
Belgian  savant,  the  late  Dr.  Ducp^tiaux.  Perhaps 
thiB  might  be  of  service  to  your  mquirer. 

Ebuund  Jot. 

Saxplbbs  (4**»  S.  vi.  500.) — Presuming  that 

M.  D.  does  not  desire  to  confine  the  specimens  of 

sampler  poesy  for  which  he  aslcs  to  such  as  are 

obtainable  in  the  dwellings  of  the  humbler  classes, 

I  send  some  lines  worked  on  a  sampler  by  one  of 

my  aunts  at  the  age  of  nine : — 

**  Jesofl,  permit  thy  gracious  name  to  stand 
As  the  first  work  of  Arabella's  hand ! 
And  while  her  fingers  on  the  canvas  move, 
£nsage  her  tender  thonghts  to  seek  thy  love. 
With  thy  dear  children  rxtay  she  have  a  part. 
And  form  thy  image  on  her  yoathful  heart, 

"  MaKY  ARABKT.LA  PEARSOX. 

•«Julyll«>»,  1801." 

I  shall  be  glad  to  know  if  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents have  met  with  these  lines  elsewhere, 
as  my  aunt,*who  was  taken  to  her  rest  just  nine 
years  later,  was  from  an  early  age  accustomed  to 
versify  in  the  style  of  the  above.  J.  A.  Pn. 

The  Bot-Bishop  of  the  Peopaganda  fob 
Chbistmas  (4»'»  S.  vi.  491.)--As  Mb.  MacCabb 
has  recently  furnished  two  notes  upon  Christmas 
Customs  and  Boy-Bishopp,  I  write  to  say  that  the 
custom  exists  even  in  our  time  at  the  Propaganda 
College  of  Rome  of  choosing  on  Christmas  Eye 
(by  ballot)  a  boy-bishop.    The  practioe  is  said 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fc  S.  VII.  Jas.  7,  '71- 


to  have  l)een  stipulated  for  in  the  ori^;inal  grant 
of  money  at  the  foundation  of  this  institution^ 
to  perpetuate  the  Middle  Ages'  custom  in  this 
seminary  at  the  Christmas  time.  The  happy  boy- 
bishop's  attendants  are  a  deacon  and  subdeacon, 
.  selected  by  his  lordship  generally  from  the  Italian 
portion  of  the  commumty.  Ilis  episcopal  func- 
tions cease  the  day  after  the  Epiphany. 

I  will  be  yery  thankful  for  your  insertion  of 
this  note,  as  all  Christmas  usages  are  of  much 
interest  to  your  readers.  David  Flyic. 

Dtjb  or  Doub  (4}^  S.  vi.  500.)— The  usual 
meaning  of  dur,  dour,  dor,  found  in  geographical 
names,  is  water,  from  the  Welsh  dwr  (dwfr), 
Cornish  dower,  dour,  douar^  Ihour ;  Armoric  dour, 
douoT)  Gaelic  dobihar,  domhar,  dur;  Irish  dur, 
Fiondour  (JUmn-dwr)  is  =  white  or  fair  water ; 
and  Durdoman  may  mean  deep  water  (dur-dom- 
hainn),  Wachter  says  that  dur  in  some  Con- 
tinental names  is  =  trajectus  fluminis  :  hence 
Bojodurum,  "  trajectus  JBojorum  in  Norico  *• ; 
Batavodurum,  trajectus  Batavorum  in  Belgio; 
Duren,  Durstede,  Durocassium  {Dreux),  &c.  The 
name  Leada  is  not  derived  from  this  root,  aud 
the  only  etymological  part  of  the  word  i^l—d. 

B.  S.  Charkock. 

Graj*8  Ino. 


Dur  =  water  in  British. 


George  Bedo. 


Dwr  is  British,  perhaps  European,  for  water 
Dwrwent,  I  believe,  though  I  am  not  certain, 
meaning  running-water,  a  river.  This  may  be 
found  in  Derwent-ioater,  a  not  uncommon  form  of 
adding  a  current  word  with  the  same  meaning  to 
an  earlier  one.  Dwr  is  found  also  in  Dwrhy, 
Derby,  a  place  by  water,  the  river  being  the  Der- 
went,  pronounced  ''Darrand,'*  and  assuming  in 
the  dialect  of  the  neighbouring  counties  the 
harder  form  of  "  Trent.*'  There  is  a  Herefordshire 
river  Dour,  and  I  have  no  doubt  but  the  word 
Douro  has  the  same  origin.  J.  Place. 

The  Paris  Catacombs  (4*»»  S.  vi.  869,  407.)— 
Your  coiTespondent  H.  H.  seems  to  have  fallen 
into  the  common  mistake  of  confounding  the  Cata- 
combes  of  Paris  with  the  Carrikres,  The  fact  is 
the  CatacombesfoTm  but  a  comparatively  small  por- 
tion of  the  vast  subterranean  maze  which  extends 
under  the  southern  quarters  of  Paris,  and  from 
which  was  quarried  tne  stone  for  the  Duilding  of 
old  Lutetia.  In  1765  a  certain  part  of  these  ex- 
cavations was  separated  from  the  remainder  by  a 
thick  wall,  and  was  otherwise  prepared  for  the 
reception  of  the  bones  to  be  taken  from  the  ceme- 
tery of  the  Innocents.  In  the  year  following  the 
place  was  consecrated  by  the  clergy  under  the 
name  of  the  Cafacombes,  and  from  that  date  to 
I8I4  numerous  consignments  of  human  remains 
removed  from  the  various  intramural  church- 
yards have  been  made  to  those  gloomy  bins, 
where  the  skulls  axe  stacked  up  very  much  after 


the  manner  of  old  port  wine.  Of  this  asnuure^  as 
it  is  termed,  I  possess  a  very  exact  plan,  including 
a  considerable  portion  of  the  adjacent  passages, 
made  ^*  sous  la  direction  des  ing^nieurs  des  mines  ** 
in  1857 ;  and  a  few  years  previously  I  saw  at  the 
office  of  the  director  a  plan  in  the  course  of  exe- 
cution on  a  large  scale  of  the  whole  of  the  Car- 
ri^rea.  An  accurate  guide  to  these  excavations  is 
indeed  absolutely  necessary,  as  men  are  constantly 
employed  in  making  gooa  with  masonry  the  old 
supports,  which  from  time  to  time  give  way  under 
the  weight  imposed  upon  them.  Forn&erly  the 
CatacotMes  formed  one  of  the  regular  lions  of  the 
city,  but  for  a  long  period  access  to  them  on  the 
part  of  visitors  has  been  strictly  prohibited.  The 
usual  approach  is  b v  a  stair  in  a  courtyard  adjoin- 
ing the  Barri^re  d  Enfer,  but  there  are  not  less 
than  fifty  entrances  in  all.  R.  H.  D.  B. 

Feet,  or  F.  e.  r.  t.  (3'*»  S.  pamm ;  4'»»  S.  vL 
461.) — ^The  opinion  of  Khodocakaeis,  that  these 
letters  oriffinaUy  formed  one  word,  and  bore  s 
natural  and  not  a  sort  of  anagrammatic  meaning, 
seems  to  be  perfectly  well  founded.  His  state- 
ment of  the  use  of  the  word  in  the  arms  of  Savoy 
before  the  date  of  the  defence  of  Rhodes  is  con- 
don  ve  on  that  point  What,  then,  was  the  meaning 
of  the  word  P  Here  is  a  sugqgestion  which  naturally 
presents  itself  to  the  mind.  The  princes  of  the  house 
of  Savoy  set  up,  from  a  very  early  period,  to  be 
very  pious.  .Amadeus  was  a  favourite  name  with 
them.  A  cross  was  their  cognisance.  The  most 
fitting  word  to  apply  to  it  would  be  Fert  in  the 
proper  and  popular  sense  of  the  verb  ''He  bears,'' 
indicating  that  He,  of  whom  the  Cross  was  the 
typical  emblem,  bore  the  sins  of  the  world.  A 
clever  and  insinuating  courtier  might  afterwards 
discover  that  the  letters  of  the  word  could  be  ap- 
plied as  a  flattering  eulogium  to  the  Defender  of 
Rhodes,  and  the  discovery  once  made  and  pub- 
lished would  be  readily  adopted  by  a  delignted 
prince  and  a  loyal  people.  But  it  is  a  curious 
fact  that  the  very  prince  to  whom  this  sort  of 
flattery  was  applied,  and  to  whose  martial  c^al- 
lantry  writers  of  a  subsequent  date  (Sansovmo, 
DeUa  Origine  de*  CavaUeri,  Venice,  158;i)  ascribed 
the  origin  of  the  word  itself  as  a  heraldic  distinc- 
tion, took  for  his  own  device  a  running  stream, 
with  the  motto  "  Vires  acquirit  eundo  (Berto- 
lini,  Con^tendio  detta  Storia  della  JReale  Casa  di 
Savoia), 


Barbers'  Forfeits  (4^^  S.  iii.  264.)  —  Twenty- 
five  years  ago  no  allusion  to  a  razor  as  a  weapon 
or  as  a  suicidal  instrument  was  permitted,  under 
a  fine  of  a  gallon  of  beer,  in  any  of  the  Dartford 
barbers^  shops.  In  the  celebrated  breweries  of 
the  same  town  the  word  water  is  tabooed  under  a 
heavy  fine :  the  article  when  alluded  to  must  be 
styled  liquor.  A.  J.  Dtjkkik. 

44,  Beasboroogh  Gardens,  South  Bdgravia. 


4^  S.  VIL  J\2f.  7,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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The  Soxo  "DoreiAB"  (4*»»  S.  Ti.  603.)— This 
soDg  hfts  also  been  set  to  music  by  Clara  Bell  (not 
"  Claribel  **),  and  was  published  six  or  more  years 
anoe.  I  have  yainly  endeavoured  to  find  by 
whom.  Can  any  reader  assist  me  P  I  have  it  in 
manuscript,  and  most  of  my  friends  prefer  it  to 
Lady  Soott*s  rendering.  In  each  case  the  words 
are  somewhat  altered  from  the  original  as  pub- 
lL«hed  at  p.  292  of  ^^PoerrUf  by  the  author  of  John 
HaUfar,^  where  it  is  headed  "  Too  late/'  followed 
by  tne  line 

*<  Dowg1ts»  Dowglas,  tendir  and  treu.'* 

James  Bbitten. 

Old  Chsistiias  Cabol  (4*»»  S.  vi.  606.)— Mr. 
Pat^tb  is  evidently  not  aware  that  the  Latin 
song,  of  which  he  gives  only  the  first  three  Terses, 
appeared  entire  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (4»'»  S.  iL  667).  It 
was  sent  by  me,  apropos  of  an  old  Latin  poem  of 
a  somewhat  similar  Kind  sent  by  Mr.  Hazlttt 
(4"^  S.  ii.  390j).  As  the  first  three  verses  differ 
considerably  in  my  copy  from  those  sent  by  Mb. 
Patxe,  it  is  more  than  probable  that  the  suc- 
ceeding verses  are  as  much  at  variance  in  our 
respective  copies.  I  will  here  repeat  merely  the 
first  three  as  I  have  always  heard  them :  — 

*  Die  mihi,  qnid  sit  uous  ? 
Unas  est  vems  Dens,  qiii]regnat  in  coelis. 

"  Die  niihi,  quid  sint  dno  ? 
Diue  tabula  Moysis : 
Unus  est  Terns  Deas,  qui  r^gnat  in  coeUs. 

**  Die  mihi,  qnid  sint  tres  ? 
Ttxs  PatriArchip. 
Du2e  tabnlie  Movsts : 
Unus  est  verus  i)ea8,  qui  regnat  in  ccdHs.** 

The  reader  is  referred  for  the  nine  succeeding 
verses  to  "  N.  &  Q."  at  the  above  reference. 

I  am  no  Sanscrit  scholar,  and  know  nothing  of 
Indian  literature.  But  I  have  seen  a  Hebrew 
poem,  or  song  of  similar  construction,  though  not 
on  a  racred  subject,  but  more  resembling  our  well- 
known  ''House  that  Jack  built.''  Indeed  these 
songs,  made  to  be  repeated  backwards  at  the  end  of 
each  verse,  seem  to  have  been  favourite  composi- 
tions in  all  ages  and  countries.  The  Hebrew  song 
turns  upon  a  kid,  and  is  pretty  evidently  the 
original  model  of  our  "  House  that  Jack  built." 
1 9aw  it  in  private  nossession ;  but  a  translation 
is  given  in  HalliweU's  Nursery  Rhymes,  together 
with  some  others  of  a  similar  character^  including 
the  famous  story  of  the  ''  Old  Woman  and  her 
Kg."  This  last, 'however,  is  not  well  given.  The 
ditty  as  I  always  heard  it  in  childhood  is  far 
better,  but  I  fear  hardly  worth  insertion  in  the 
pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  though  I  should  willingly 
aend  it,  if  desired,  F.  C.  H. 

N.  F.  Hatx*s  "History  op  Music"  (4"»  S. 
TL  S>30 — ^It  seems  that  Haym's  History  of  Music 
wu  originally  written  in  Italian,  and  m  1726 
piopoeals  were  made  for  publishing  the  work  in 


English.  It  is  exceedingly  doubtful  if  any  MS. 
of  the  English  translation  ever  existed.  Chal- 
mers tells  us  Hayni  died  in  Mareb  1730,  and  that 
his  effects  were  sold  by  public  auction  shortly 
after  that  event.  If  so,  an  inspection  of  the 
auction  catalogue  might  throw  some  light  upon 
the  subject  An  impression  of  the  portraits  of 
Tallis  and  Byrd  in  one  plate,  engraved  for  Harm's 
work,  is  in  my  possession.  It  is  probably  unique, 
and  much  valued  by        Ebwabd  F.  Rihbaitlt. 

Irish  Car  and  Noddy  (4*'»  S.  vi.  646.)— If 
Mr.  Llotd  consults  "  N.  &  Q."  3'0  S.  vi.  115, 116, 
he  will  find,  I  think,  all  the  information  he  re- 
quires. I  sent  the  particulars  in  reply  to  a  similar 
inquiry  from  A.  T.  L.  Abhba. 

«  The  Bitter  End  "  (;4«»  S.  vL  340,  427,  616.) 
I  did  not  mean  that  this  phrase  was  ungramma- 
tical  or  nonsensical,  but  that  it  was  silly  in  the 
connexion  in  which  it  seems  always  to  be  used 
with  us.  It  is  always  said  of  a  war.  or  of  some- 
thing of  which  the  whole  course  is  bitter  or  evil 
as  well  as  the  end ;  indeed  the  end  of  a  war  or 
the  like  is  surely  less  bitter  than  the  rest  of  it ; 
whereas  the  whole  point  of  the  passage  in  the 
Proverbs  is  the  contrast  between  tne  ways  of  the 
woman  and  the  end  of  them.  Ltttelton. 

I  venture  to  submit  the  following  explanation 
of  this  phrase :  A  war  carried  on  to  *'  the  bitter 
end  "  is  a  war  carried  on  ''  to  the  death."  The 
interehangeableness  of  the  terms  arises  thus :  TLe 
Jews  have  a  legend  (Talmudic,  I  have  no  doubt) 
to  the  effect  that  immediately  before  dissolution 
an  angel  comes  to  the  bedside  of  a  dying  man  and 
drops  upon  his  [tongue  one  drop  of  an  intensely 
bitter  bquid,  which  deprives  him  of  the  fa*culty 
of  speech ;  a  second  drop  takes  away  his  sight ; 
aud  a  third  terminates  his  existence.  (It  is  many 
years  since  I  read  the  legend,  and  I  am  writing 
from  memory,  but  this  repetition  is  substantially 
accurate.)  Hence  the  phrases  '^  the  bitterness  of 
death  is  past,"  'Uhere  be  some  standing  here  who 
shall  not  taste  of  death,"  and  others,  which  will 
readily  occur  to  the  reader.  J.  L.  Cherry. 

Hanlev. 

Lord  Btron's  "  English  Bards,"  etc.  (4*^  S. 
vi.  308,  449,  480.)— The  late  Lord  Dundrennan 
obtained  from  Lords  Brougham  and  Jeffrey  a 
holograph  note  from  each,  containing  a  list  of 
their  articles  in  the  Edinburgh  Review,  These  he 
collected  and  bound  up  as  part  of  their  works. 
The  article  on  Byron  was  in  Jeffrey's  list,  and  not 
in  Brougham's.  These  volumes  were  sold  at  a 
very  high  price  at  the  sale  of  the  library  of  Lord 
Dundrennan.  J.  S. 

A  friendly  word  or  two  with  J.  H.  Dixon. 
Montgomery's  Wanderer  of  Smtserland  could 
hardly  be  called  ''  a  juvenile  effort,"  as  the  author 
was  thirty-five  years  old  when  he  wrote  it.    Nor 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.VII.  JAir.7,  TL 


was  it  ever  so  eonndered  by  any  cksa  of  readen 
either  in  EDgland  or  in  America,  where  it  haa 
long  since  gone  through  a  score  of  editions. 

Of  JefireVa  anthonhip  of  the  review  in  the 
Edinburghy  Montgomeiy  nerer  entertained  the  least 
doubt. 

If  Lord  Byron  applied  the  epithet ''  raving  "  to 
Montgomery,  no  term  could  have  been  less 
appropriate.  Montgomery  himself  published  in 
1>524  two  volnmes  of  Proae  by  a  Poet;  but  the 
work  had  too  little  of  the  sensational  style,  and 
too  much  of  a  pious  tone,  to  become  popular,  and 
has  never,  I  believe,  been  reprinted. 

The  Church  and  the  Warminff-pan  was  a  youth- 
ful Jeu  d esprit,  but  it  was  never  "  famous,"  nor 
did  it  deserve  to  be  so  on  any  account :  it  was,  as 
Dr.  Dixoh  says,  ''  considered  as  mere  fun."  The 
author  was  not  ''  prosecuted  and  convicted  "  for 
publishing^  it;  but,  on  two  occasions,  for  libels  of 
a  veiT  different  character.  It  was  reprinted  as  a 
spiteiul  annoyance  to  the  poet  by  some  unprin- 
cipled townsman,  who  haa  ''his  labour  for  his 
pains " ;  for  it  may  be  doubted  whether  Mont- 
gomery ever  became  aware  of  the  existence  of  the 
reprint.  J.  H. 

«  That  Man's  Fatiteb,"  etc.  (4*»»  S.  vi.  232, 

288,  488.) — It  seems  to  me  that  my  critic,  Mr. 

William  Bates,  is  the  one  who  is  wrong  in  this 

matter.   Admittmg,  as  I  am  required  to  do,  'Hhat 

the  son  of  your  fatner*s  son  may  be  your  nephew," 

I  fail  utterly  to  see  what  bearing  the  admission 

has  upon  the  original  query,  which  was  — 

''Two  men  were  walking  along  a  poitrait-galleiy ; 
one  observed  to  the  other,  poioting  to  a  portrait, '  That 
man's  father  was  my  father's  only  son.'  What  relation 
is  the  portrait  to  the  speaker  ?  " 

That  Mb.  Bates  hastened  to  put  me  right 
without  much  attention  to  the  question  is  evident 
from  his  introducing  a  line  which  is  rendered 
unnecessary  by  the  words  '*  only  son "  in  the 
above.  The  query  itself  is  slight  enough,  and  no 
'*  superhuman  effort  of  wisdom  "  was  claimed  for 
its  solution.  As  it  was  thought  worth  putting  as 
a  question,  I  suppose  it  was  intended  to  elicit  a 
reply;  but  trifles  become  of  some  importance  when 
correspondents  like  Mr.  Bates  impugn  the  cor- 
rectness of  t£e  answer  given.    Chables  Wylie. 

De  BoHim  (4*^  S.  vi.  601.)— How  Sir  Henry 
de  Bohun  was  slain  by  the  Bruce  at  Bannockbum 
is  well  known ;  but  it  is  probably  not  so  well 
known  that  the  old  poem  of  "  William  of  Paleme  " 
was  written  for  Sir  Humphrey  de  Bohun.  nephew 
to  Eang  Edward  H.  Sir  Frederic  Madden  gives 
several  interesting  and  useful  particulars  alwut 
the  family  in  his  scarce  edition,  which  (by  his 

Permission)  I  have  reprinted.    (See  William  of 
^aleme,  ed.  Skeat  (Early  English  Text  Society, 
extra  series),  1867;  preface,  pp.  z.  and  xi. 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 
1,  Cintra  Terrace,  Cambridge. 


It  may  perhaps  be  of  some  aadstance  to  A.  F.  H. 
to  know  .that  aoout  nine  miles  from  Hevizea  ia  a 
small  hamlet  called  Manningfoid  Bohon. 

A.  B.  T. 

''The  Dakibh  Boy's  Soko  "  (4**'  8.  vi.  6010 

**  Among  the  remote  mountains  of  the  N.W.  people 
still  Ikncy  they  hesr  on  the  evening  breeze  tones  as  if 
of  striogs  piajed  npon,  and  melancholy  lays  in  a  foreign 
tongoe.  It  ia  *The  Danish  Boj/  who  sadly  aings  the 
old  bardic  lays  over  the  barrows  of  his  once  mighty 
forefathers.*' — Worsaae^s  DaneM  and  Nonctgians  in  Sng- 
land,  p.  90. 

W.  S. 

Sheli.bt's  "D.K1C0N  OP  THE  Wokld"  (4**»  S. 
V.  634 ;  vL  159.) — I  have  only  lately  seen  these 
remarks  by  C.  I).  L.  and  Mb.  J.  £.  IIoDGKnr : 
perhaps  some  other  correspondent  haa  already 
furnished  the  requisite  explanation,  but  ^f  this  1 
am  not  aware. 

The  difficulty  raised  by  CD.  L.  is  briefly  this : 
That  Shelley,  after  he  had  in  1813  issued  Qfieefi 
Mob  as  a  printed  book,  spoke  of  it  in  1816  (when 
he  published  the  revised  and  abridged  version  of 
it  termed  The  Ikcmon  of  the  IVbrla)  as  ^'  a  poem 
which  the  author  does  not  intend  for  publication." 
It  would  seem  that  C.  D.  L.  has  not  reflected 
upon  the  difference  between  a  book  printed  and  a 
book  published.  Queen  Mah  was  printed  by 
Shelley  in  1813,  but  was  not  published  by  him 
either  then  or  at  any  later  date.  This  fact,*  I  ap- 
prehend, removes  every  difficulty.  The  matter  is 
set  forth  more  in  detail  in  the  notes  to  my  recent 
re*edition  of  Shelley,  vol.  i.  pp.  464,  473. 

W.  M.  ROSSETTT. 
56,  Euston  Square,  N.W 

Old  Painttno  :  CnRi8T*8  Portrait  (4***  S.  vi. 
231,  440.)  —  These  portraits  of  Our  Lord,  from  a 
Byzantine  original,  are  not  uncommon ;  my  father      i 
has  met  with  seven  or  eight.     I  have  before  me  a 
sliffht  sketch  of  one  he  varnished  for  Colnaghi  in      | 
Feb.  1845.    A  profile  face  turned  to  the  left  of     i 
the  spectator;    nair  long  and  peaky  beard ;  the 
face  of  the  Jewish  type,  much  exaggerated,  almost 
grotesque;  painted  m  an  oval  on  a  square  panel 
small  folio  size,  with  the  inscription  — "  This  is 
the  iiguer  of  our  Lorde  and  Saviour  Ihesus,  that 
was  sente  by  the  greate  Turcke  to  pope  Innoconte 
the  WU,  to  redeme  his  brother  that  was  then 
taken  prisoner."    At  Spooner's,  379  Strand,  may 
be  obtained  a  shilling  photograph  of  a  head  of 
Christ  with  a  somewhat  sipular  inscription ;  the 
face  has  more  of  the  Italian  type,  and  is  probably    " 
taken  from  a  print.  Albert  BuTTKRr. 

Court  of  Chancerr. 

Chttrches  within  Kokan  Cakps  (3'*  S.  v., 
vi.,  vii.,  viii.,  ix.,  x.,  passim,) — A  question  was 
asked  in  "  N.  &Q."  some  time  ago  about  churches 
enclosed  in  Roman  camps.  I  am  not  at  my  own 
home  just  now,  and  I  cannot  therefore  give  you 
the  necessary  reference  to  the  series  and  page.     I 


4«^S.Tir.  Jan.?,*?!.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


25 


and  othen  gaye  instances  of  churcheB  so  ntu- 
ated.  Let  me  add  to  it  the  church  of  Taf(t)urgh 
(Ad  Taum),  Norfolk.  C.  W.  Babklbt. 

REDSBrpvB  (4*^  S.  vi.  8.) — The  description  of 
Rederiffe,  co.  Kent,  in  the  Harleian  MS.,  is  incor- 
rect.   It  should  be  Surrey.  A«  J.  DunKor. 

44,  Bessborough  Gardeua. 

Sheerwobt  (4*^  S.  vi  602.) — I  hare  nerer 
seen  this  plant,  but  have  heard  it  described  by  a  per- 
son familiar  with  it  as  havinff  many  narrow  leaves 
without  any  stalk,  growing  aoout  K>ur  inches  long, 
and  in  a  cluster.  It  is  commonly  found  on  banks 
in  Dorsetshire,  and  is  otherwise  called  gypsy 
salad  from  its  frequent  use  by  gypsies.  Prom 
another  person,  who  had  been  a  cook,  I  learned 
that  it  was  often  used  by  the  French  in  salads. 
From  this  description  Mb.  Bbitxek  will  pro- 
bably disoover  the  botanical  name. 

F.  C.  H.  (Murithian.) 

"  Thb  Devil  beats  his  Wife  "  (4^  S.  vi.  278, 
:356.) — ^Mjl  CvthbebtBbdb  has  got  hold  of  only 
the  first  half  of  this  saying.  The  complete  phrase, 
as  I  have  always  heard  it  and  used  it,  is :  '*  Le 
diable  bat  sa  femme  et  marie  sa  fille.''  I  have 
a&ked  some  French  relatives  now  staying  with  me 
about  it.  They  have  always  heard  it  as  I  have 
written  it  E.  E.  Sibbbt. 


fSMtttULntnuH. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

7^  Slory  of  Sir  Richard  Whittington;  Lord  3Iayor  of 
lemdtm  m  the  Year$  1397,  1406-7,  and  1419  A.D. 
Written  and  iiluatraied  by  G.  Carr.    (LoDgman.) 

Tboagh  oar  learned  friend  Mr.  Kei^htley  has  sboirn 
that  the  foundation  of  the  story  of  **  Whittington  and  his 
<'«t''  has  no  claim  to  be  considered  exdurivelj  English, 
there  can  be  little  question  that  this  Burgher  Epos,  as 
ire  have  no  doabt  a  German  critic  would  feel  bound  to 
call  tlus  iotereatiog  example  of  the  popular  fictions  of 
the  Middle  Ages,  is  one  especially  English  in  character 
snd  spirit.  In  speaking  of  "Whittington  and  bis  Cat" 
as  a  popular  fiction,  we  most  not  be  misunderstood  or 
sippoaed  to  Ibrget  that  Sir  Kichaid  Whittington  waa  a 
nil  pettonage,  whose  former  existence  is  attested  not 
<>iiiT  by  oar  monicipal  records  and  his  benefactions  to 
tlu'City  of  London,  and  more  recently  by  Canon  Lysons' 
iseenious  essay,  *'  The  Model  Merchant  of  the  Middle 
A|n^'*  bat  only  to  that  romantic  portion  of  his  story  which 
connects  bis  success  in  life  with  his  world-renowned  Cat. 
The  whole  character  of  Whittington,  and  the  whole  spirit 
cf  the  story,  being  as  we  have  said  essentially  English,  Mr. 
<^rr  has  shown  good  judgment  In  selecting  it  as  a  sub- 
.>et  both  for  his  pen  and  pencil.  The  illustrations  which 
!te  has  famished  are  In  outline,  very  characteristic  and 
YC7Y  effective ;  and  the  artist  has  shown  he  is  a  diligent 
ttadeat  by  the  pains  which  he  has  taken  to  secure  ac- 
t'uracy  in  his  eostunes,  and  in  the  various  accessories 
wh»e£  lie  haa  introduced.  The  book  is  altogether  a  very 
LsadsoBie  one,  and  certainly  the  most  elaborate  literary 
aid  irtistie  monnment  whidi  has  yet  been  erected  to  the 
"semeiy  «f— 

^  Sir  Richard  Whittington, 
Tluioe  Lord  Mayor  of  London  Town.** 


The  Library  Dictionary  of  the  Englieh  Language,  Ety^ 
mological.  Derivative,  Explanatory,  Pronouncing,  and 
Synonymoun.  Founded  on  the  laboure  of  Johneon, 
fralher,  Webeter,  fKorceeter,  and  other  diatinguiehed 
Lexioographer9,  wiA  numeroug  important  Additione,  and 
an  Appendix  containing  Vocabulary  of  Foreign  Words, 
Gloetary  of  Scottish  Words,  Classic  Mythology,  Pre- 
fixes  and  Afixes,  Abbmiations,  Arbitrary  Signs,  ^c. 
Illustrated  by  One  Thousand  Engravings  on  Wood, 
(Collins.) 

The  Students  Atlas,  consisting  of  Thirty-two  Maps  of 
Modem  Geograp^,  embracing  all  the  Latest  Discoveries 
and  Changes  of  Boundary ;  and  Six  Maps  of  Ancient 
and  Historical  Geography,  Constructed  and  engraved 
by  John  Bartholomew,  F.B.G.S.  With  a  copious  Index, 
(Collins.} 

We  have  copied  the  elaborate  title-pages  of  these  two 
new  contributions  to  Educational  Literature  at  length, 
that  our  readers  might  judge  for  themselves  of  their 
claims  to  support  We  can  speak  as  to  the  excellent 
manner  in  which  they  are  got  up,  and,  as  far  as  we  have 
been  able  to  test  them,  there  seems  to  have  been  every 
care  taken  in  their  preparation  to  secure  accuracy  and 
completeness. 

T*he  Life  and  Death  of  Mother  Shipion ;  being  not  ordy  a 
true  Account  of  her  strange  Birth,  the  most  important 
Passages  of  her  Life,  and  also  all  her  Prophecies,  newly 
collected,  ^.  1687.    (Pearson.) 

Those  who  take  an  interest  in  the  Prophecies  of  Mother 
Shipton,  or  in  the  correspondence  on  this  subject  which 
has  taken  place  in  these  columns,  may  be  glad  to  know  of 
this  cheap  reprint  of  the  1687  Edition  of  her  Life. 

The  Pirate,  by  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart  (A.  A  C. 
Black.) 

We  must  content  ourselves  on  this  occasion  with  re- 
cording the  appearance  of  this  the  Thirteenth  Volume  of 
"  The  Centenarian  Edition  of  the  Waverley  Novels." 

Death  op  the  Rbv.  Ca2Vox  Harcourt. — We  little 
thought  when  we  inserted  in  **  N.  &  Q,"  of  Saturday  last 
some  observations  on  longevity  from  the  pen  of  this 
much-respected  gentleman,  that  he  had  been  called  to  his 
rest.  The  Yen.  Charies  George  Yemon  Harcourt,  who 
was  Canon  of  Carlisle  and  Rector  of  Bothbury,  Durham, 
died  on  December  10,  aged  seventy-two. 

Enousii  Pronunciation  of  Latin.  — The  Head 
masters  of  various  schools  have  lately  held  a  meeting  at 
Sherborne  for  the  purpose  of  discussing  matters  relating 
to  their  profession.  A  resolution  was  passed  declaring 
that,  in  the  opinion  of  those  present,  the  system  of  Latin 
pronunciation  prevailing  in  England  is  unsatisfactory, 
and  inviting  the  Latin  professors  at  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge to  draw  up  and  issue  a  printed  paper  to  secure 
uniformity  in  any  change  that  may  be  contemplated. 
The  masters  also  passed  resolutions  relative  to  the  ex- 
aminations at  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  and  also  one  to 
this  effect : — **  That  it  is  undesirable,  by  general  legisla- 
tion, to  banish  Greek  or  any  special  subject  from  any 
grade  of  schools." 

Chronicle  op  Events  in  1870.  —  The  PaU  Mall 
Gazette  for  last  Monday  contains  so  admirable  a  "  Chro- 
nicle of  Events  in  the  Tear  1870,"  that  we  strongly 
advise  our  readers  to  secure  it  at  once.  At  a  time  when 
stfch  stirring  events  are  taking  place,  and  so  close  on  one 
another,  it  is  more  necessary  than  ever  to  have  at  hand  a 
"  Chronicle"  of  the  past  year  to  which  ready  reference 
may  be  made. 

Pecrvs  Yan  BcKBNDEi..^The  death  at  Brussels  last 
WMk  of  this  eminent  artist  of  the  Dutch  achool  of  painting 


26 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»S.Vn.  Ja».7,T1. 


IS  announced.  Born  at  Terliejden«  near  Bnda,  in  N. 
Brabant,  April  21, 1806,  be  studied  at  the  academy  at 
Antwerp,  then  under  the  direction  of  Van  Biec  His 
skilful  rendering  of  the  varied  effects  of  artificial  Uffht 
made  him  wide^  known  and  appreciated  in  all  art  drdbi, 
English  as  well  as  ContinentaL 

BoTAL  Albert  Hall.— The  Qneen  has  fixed  Wed- 
nesday, March  29,  for  the  day  on  which  Her  Majesty 
proposes  to  open  the  Boyal  Albert  Hall  at  Kensington. 

Louis  THK  XlV.'a  Wio.— The  Special  Correspondent 
of  The  TimtM  at  Yersailles  adds  the  following  to  a  de- 
scription of  the  senrioe  held  in  the  chapel  of  the  palaoe  in 
the  presence  of  the  King  of  Prussia  :—^  I  am  told  by  n 
learned  German,  whose  name  is  weU  known  m  England, 
and,  I  must  add,  Wales,  that  the  origin  of  Louis'  pro- 
digious wig  was  not  that  he  might  impose  on  the  world 
by  iU  dimensions,  but  that  he  might  preserve  thetradi- 
tions  of  hb  youth.  When  a  young  man  he  was  posasssed 
of  a  very  magnificent  duvdtire  hUmde,  flowing  and  curiy, 
so  that  It  was  small  flattery  for  sculptors  and  painters 
to  make  him  a  model  for  Apollo.  Bcminrs  chisel  did 
not  please  the  king,  and  his  marble  now  does  duty  out  in 
tbe  cold  as  Qulntns  CurUus.  As  the  king  grew  old,  and 
<  infallible  hair  restorers*  were  not,  his  glor}'  fast  de- 
parted, and  he  or  his  courtiers  invented  his  wig,  so  as  to 
keep  up  a  resemblance  to  ApoUo.*' 

Messrs.  Hurst  &  Blackbtt'b  Announoements  for 
the  New  Year  comprise  .—The  third  and  fourth  volumes 
of  •*  Her  Majestv's  Tower,"  by  W.  Hepworth  Dixon,  com- 
pleting the  work ;  **  Becdlections  of  Sodetv  in  France 
and  England,"  by  Lady  Clementina  Davies,  2  vols,  crown 
8\-o ;  "Life  and  Adventures  of  Count  Bengnot,"  Minister 
of  Sute  under  Napoleon  I.,  edited  from  the  French  by 
Miss  C.  M.  Yonge,  author  of  "  The  Hdr  of  BeddyfTe,"  Ac, 
2  vols.  8vo }  **  Impressions  of  Greece,"  bv  the  Right  Hon. 
Sir  Thomas  Wyse,  KCB.,  lato  British  Minister  at 
Athens,  8vo;  "Life  and  Letters  of  William  Bewick  the 
Artist,"  bv  Thomas  Landseer,  A.E^  2  vols.  8vo,  with  Por- 
trait by  Sir  Edwin  Landseer,  R.A. ;  "Turkish  Harems 
and  Orcassian  Homes,"  by  Mrs.  Harvev  of  IckweU 
Bury,  8vo,  with  coloured  illustrations;  "Lodge's  Peer- 
age and  Baronetage  for  1871,"  under  the  Especial  Patron- 
age of  Her  Majesty  and  corrected  throughout  by  the 
Nobility,  royal  8vo;  and  New  Works  of  Fiction  by  the 
author  of  "John  Halifax,"  Mrs.  Oliphant,  Miis  Amelia 
B.  Edwards,  Mr.  Anthony  TroUope.  Mr.  George  Mao- 
Donald,  Mr.  J.  Sheridan  Lefann,  Ac 

The  following  volumes  (with  the  Society's  die  mark, 
"  Union  Society,"  on  the  title-page  and  elsewhere)  are 
wanted  by  the  Cambridge  Univenrity  Union  Society  :— 
Leigh  Hunt's  "  Leisure  Hours  in  Town  ";  ••Tales  from 
Blackwood,"  vol.  xi. ;  Hawthorne's  "  Mosses  from  an 
Old  Manse";  "A  Life  for  a  Life";  "Kavanagh"; 
Dean  SUnley's  "  St  Paul's  EpisUes,"  2  vols. ;  "  Web- 
Fter's  Sermons" ;  Dr.  Vaughan^s  "  Church  of  the  First 
Davs"  vol.  i. ;  Blunt's  "Sketch  of  the  Church";  West- 
cotl  "On  the  Gospeb";  "Westoott's'  "Bible  in  the 
Church  "  ;  Maurice's  "  Faith  of  the  Liturgy  " ;  Trench's 
"Authorised  Version  of  the  New  Testament";  Harris's 
"  Africa  " ;  Forbes's  "  British  SUr  Fishes  " ;  Boecoe's 
••  Spectrum  Analvsis  " ;  Greg's  «  Creeds  of  Christendom  "; 
I^igh  Hunt's  "^Town";  Dean  Stanley's  ''New  TesU- 
ment  Revised " ;  Staunton's  " Chess-player's  Handbook"; 
and  Wyntcr's  "  Curiosides  of  Toil,"  2  vols. 

The  Guild  op  LnnRATURB  ahd  Art,  established 
vears  ago  by  an  influential  body  of  literary  men  who 
were  dissatisfied  with  the  Literary  Fund,  is  about  to 
sppiv  to  Parliament  for  a  .Bill  "to  dissolve  the  Guild,  to 
authorise  tbe  Sale  of  tbe  Lands  held  by  it,  and  to  ap- 
propriate the  Proceeds   of  such  Sale  and  the  other 


Funds  hdooging  to  the  Guild,  either  in  founding  one  or 
more  Scholanliips  in  Literature  and  Art,  or  tor  such 
other  purposes  as  Pariiament  shall  think  fit."  Under 
the  drcnmstances  which  led  to  the  formation  of  the 
Guild,  it  would  be  perhaps  too  much  to  expect,  ^t  what 
a  noUe  thing  it  would  be  (seeing  tbat^  admitting  aome 
defecto  in  ito  management,  the  Oteraiy  Fund  does  ad- 
minister efleetoal  assistanoe  to  Men  of  Letters  who  are 
in  need  of  it,  and  that  with  a  moat  considerate  r^ard  to 
their  susceptibility)  if  the  managen  of  the  Gnild  could 
teA  they  were  Mst  promoting  the  objecte  for  which  it 
was  estahliriifd.  by  transliMTing  its  property  to  the  Lite- 
rary Fund.  We  wish  Lord  Lytton  and  Mr.  John  Forater, 
than  wliom  a  laiger-hearted  man  does  not  exist,  would 
really  give  thia  auggeatloii  their  unbiassed  consideration. 


Thb  HmnsHiAir  Cldb.— Under  this  title  a  Society 
has  been  institoted  in  Glasgow  for  reprinting  some  of  the 
more  interesting  worlu  in  OArlv  English  and  Scotiah 
literature.  Tlie  removal  of  the  College  of  Glasgow,  fron^ 
the  old  site  in  High  Street  to  the  new  buildings  at  GU- 
morehiU  having  called  special  attention  to  the  treaanrea 
of  old  literature  in  the  Hunterian  Museum,  the  project  of 
forming  a  Club  has  been  levived,  and  haa  taken  definite 
shape.  The  Hunterian  Library  oontaina  many  valuable 
and  interesting  early  printed  booka  and  MSS.,  which  are 
undoubtedly  worthv  of  being  reproduced,  and  it  haa  there- 
fore been  suggested  that  the  Society  ahaH  be  called  <*  The 
Hunterian  Chd)."  It  is,  however,  not  intended  that  its 
work  shall  be  confined  to  the  Hunterian  Collection ;  but 
that  books  of  interest  of  an  old  date,  from  whatever 
source  obtained,  shall  come  within  the  scope  of  the  So- 
ciety's operations.  It  is  proposed  that  the  reprints  shall 
be  mfae^mile,  and,  as  nearly  as  possible,  of  the  form  of 
the  originals.  But  aa  there  has  been  a  fpreat  variety  of 
tjrpe  used  in  the  production  of  our  eariy  literatnre,  there 
may  be  difficulty  in  getting  type  predsely  similar  to 
man^  of  the  books  proposed  to  be  reprinted,  without  in- 
curring an  expense  that  could  not  be  warranted,  the 
Counm  may  be  compelled  either  to  forego  the  reprinting- 
of  such  works,  or  to  use,  for  that  purpose,  a  type  of  the 
same  character,  although  not  identical  with  the  original. 

The  earlier  works  to  be  reprinted  will  probablv  be  the 
following,  which  are  expscted  to  be  given  for  the  First 
Tear's  Subscription,  viz. : — 

"The  late  Expedlcion  in  Sootlande,  &c.,  under  the 
Conduit  of  the  Erie  of  Hertforde,  &c    London,  1544." 

"  Expedicion  unto  Sootlande  of  the  most  woorthy  for- 
tonate  Prince  Edward  Duke  of  Somerset,  Unde  to  king 
Edward  Sixth,  &c    By  W.  Patten.    London,  1548." 

"  A  Dialogue  betweene  Experience  and  a  Courtier,  of 
the  miaerable  estote  of  the  world.  First  compiled  in  the 
Schottische  tongue  by  svr  Danid  L3mdsey,  knight  (a 
man  of  great  learning  and  science),  now  newly  corrected^ 
and  made  perfit  Englishe,  Ac    Anno  1566." 

"  The  Ufe  and  Acto  of  Sir  WlUiam  Wallace.  £din> 
bnxgh,  1620." 

A  Canadian  Kovbl. — ^We  are  indebted  to  the  /'m6- 
/iiAers'  Cireutar  for  the  following  extract  from  the  AToit- 
tr»al  Gazette :  **  New  Novel  by  a  Canadian  Author. — We 
understand  that  Mr.  R.  Worthington,  publisher,  is  at 

I^resent  engaged  in  writing  a  novel  which  is  to  be  pub> 
uhed  simtutaneouslv  in  London  and  New  York.  The 
leading  idea  of  it  will  be  the  jealousies  of  publishers,  and 
the  characters  will  be  drawn  from  real  life.  The  neces- 
sity of  an  international  copyright  law  will  be  advocated, 
and  the  secret  operations  or  the  New  York  Ring  exposed. 
The  reader  will  also  be  made  acquainted  with  the  my- 
steries of  the  United  SUtes  Treasury  Department,  and 
shown  how  seizures  are  made.  The  book,  it  is  expected, 
will  be  fnU  of  interest" 


4*  S.  VII.  Jajt.  7,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WAimSD  TO  PUBOHASl. 


.   toe.,  of  tlM  IbUowtncBoolM  to  bt  wnt  direct  to 
I  br  whom  thejr  «re  nqalred,  whow  nam—  and  ■ddrc— 
IN  (lt«ti  far  iamt  pnrpowi  — 

A  LRTBB  VO  THB  DCKS  op  OftAFXOX  0>  THI  PUUSST  8TATB  OP 

PuiLic  XwrMtiM.    Almon,  ITOB. 
Vox  Smvascs.    I77I. 
tJuaam  worn,  mmnonwa  th«  EriDsiiai  op  Kb.  Alxov.   1807. 

MtaOIBCB   OB  MAPAMB  DB  YAUDi.     PmIc  I^_ 

SAUUnVB  or   TBB    LIIB  op  a   QBBTLBMAB    LOSO    BUIDBHT  IS 
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llnoiBii  OP  J.  T.  BBBBBfl,  Mabub  Paibtbb  to  His  Haibstt, 

8T0.    UOL 

Wastod  b]r  ITiZIiaJM  J.  TIloiMjBi^.,  10,  St.  Ckorge'i  Square, 


DiABCXT'a  Abxals  op  Qusbx  Elixabstb. 

lAmCM  DiBBCTOBIUlC. 

EviyMBiie. 
nirahiated  M98. 
EagUah        dittou 

Wanted  br  JCer.  j:  C.  Jadbum^  13,  Kanor  Tcxraoa,  Amharat  Bood, 

Hacknejr.  N.E. 


HfpavoBB'a  niflxoBX  op  tbb  Hob.  Abtillbbt  Cobpabt  op 
Lob  DOB. 

Wanted  hj  Dr.  Flemimg.  113,  MarinclParade,  Brighton. 

PCBUBBBBM*  Cf  BCULAB.    Current  Number. 

Wanted  by  Cbjtf.  F.  M.  Smithy  Waltham  Abbof ,  N. 

An  Eocravvd  Foctiait  of  Sir  Jolin  Ftnirldk,  eBoented  fbe  Hlf  h  TtCBMm 


mil 


Wanted  by  tbe  He».  John  Ptdk/brd,Jf,A .,  Bolton  Percy, 
Tadeattcr,  Torkahire. 


£.  V.  wnil  Bee  that  wt  have  adopted  ki$  tuggettion,  and 
prhded  these  notices  in  a  larger  tgpe, 

H.  W.  T.    Erased, 

Q.    An  Uiegitimaie  eon  of  hie  brother, 

F.  B.  BMSf  renumber  that  ve  have  to  eonstdt  the  tastes 
of  a  lane  eireie  of  reader$ffor  mang  of  whom  the  artictts 
to  which  F.  B.  objects  have  a  tpedal  interest. 

Our  Corre9po9DBIITs  wi//,  we  trust,  excuse  our  sug- 
gestimg  to  then^  both  for  their  eakes  as  well  as  our  own — 

I.  That  theg  should  write  clearly  and  distinctlg^;S.nd  on 
000  side  of  tfa«  paper  onljr — oiore  especially  proper  names 


and  words  and  phraaes  of  wAicA  an  exphnation  mag  be 
required.  We  cannot  unaertahe  to  puzzle  out  what  a  Cur' 
respondent  does  not  ihinh  worth  the  trouble  of  writing 
plain/g. 

II.  That  to  tUleouununications  should  be  affixed  the  name 
and  address  ef  the  sender,  not  neeessarilg  for  publication, 
bat  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith, 

III.  That  Quotations  should  be  verified  bg  precise  re- 
ferences to  ediHon,  ehapter,  and  page  ;  and  referents  to 
"^  N.  &  Q."  by  series,  volume,  and  page. 

IV.  Gfrrespandents  who  reply  to  Queries  would  add  to 
their  Migation  by  precise  reference  to  volume  and  page 
urhert  such  queries  are  to  be  found.  The  omission  to  do 
this  saoes  the  writer  very  little  trouble,  btU  entails  much  to 
supply  such  omissions. 

ERR.iTUM.~4t'*  vL  p.  527,  col.  i.  line  Id,  for  "spoke" 

reod^'soioke." 

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or.  tree  by  poat,  direct  ftom  the  PubUaher,  ftxr  It.  Scf. 


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PaMiiliar.  and  of  all  Bookadlen  and  Newiman. 


«tf  <As  abctMim  ^tkt  impreued  Ifewepaper  Stamp,  the 


TO  PORTRAIT  COLLECTORS.  — John  Strnson 
hae  reduced  the  miee  of  hii  Sro  Portraita  from  Sd^  to  Srf.  eadi,  and 
other  Engraved  Portraita  in  like  proportion.  Pleaae  order  from 
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and  font  Part  of  ALPHABETICAL  CAT ALOOUE. -JOHN  STEN- 
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tion  has  been  patented,  which  will  enable  a  person  to  read  and 
write  when  reclining  Deck  in  an  easy  chair  before  Ine  Are.  and  while 
lying  in  bed  or  on  the  sofk.  obviating  the  fotlgue  of  holding  a  heavy 
book,  and  the  inconvenience  of  inceswntly  stoontng  over  a  table — ^To  tie 
seen  at  MR.  CARTER'S,  65,  Mortimer  Street,  W.   Dmwings  free. 

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has  introduced  an  entirely  new  deseriptian  of  ARTIFICIAL 
_^£ETH,  fixed  without  springs,  wires,  or  ligatures «  they  so  perlbctly 
resemble  the  natural  teeth  as  not  to  be  distinguished  from  tlw  orfginals 
by  the  closest  observer.  They  will  never  change  colour  or  decay,  and 
will  be  found  suoerior  to  any  teeth  ever  before  used.  This  method 
does  not  require  the  extraction  of  roote  or  any  painfbl  opemtion,  and 
will  support  and  preserve  teeth  that  are  loose,  and  is  guaranteed  to 
restore  articulation  and  mastication.  Decayed  teeth  stopped  and  ren- 
dered sound  and  nsefhl  in  ma8tlcatlon.-^3.  Fleet  Street. 

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Manniketnred  and  sold  only  by 
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**  The  production  of  Note-paper  of  a  superior  kind  has  long  been  the 
suhicct  of  experiment  with  manuflMturers,  but  until  lately  no  Improve- 
ment could  be  made  on  that  In  general  use,  and  therefore  it  was  looked 
upon  as  certain  that  extreme  excellence  had  been  attained «  but  this 
conclusion  did  not  seem  satisfrctory  to  Messrs.  Pabtbidob  ft  Coopbb, 
of  Fleet  Street,  who  determined  to  continue  operations  until  some  new 
result  wai  atteined.  Sheer  perseverance  has  been  rewarded,  for  they 
have  at  lait  been  able  to  produce  a  new  description  of  paDcr,  which  they 
call  Clcouousb  Note,  that  surpasses  anything  of  the  Idnain  ordinary 
use.  The  new  paper  is  beautlAilly  white,  its  surface  is  as  smooth  as 
polished  ivory,  and  its  substance  nearly  resembles  that  of  vellum,  so 
that  the  writing  thereon  presents  an  extraordinaiy  clearness  and  beauty. 
A  steel  pen  can  be  Used  upon  it  with  the  ftcility  of  a  goose  quill,  and 
thus  one  great  source  of  annoyance  has  been  completely  superseded. 
We  feel  certain  that  a  trial  of  the  new  Note-paper  will  lead  to  its 
general  adoption  in  all  the  aristocratic  clubs  at  the  West  End,  as  well 
as  by  the  public  at  lante,  as  its  price  is  not  in  excess  of  tliat  cliarRed  for 
an  inftrior  article."— Jfaa. 

Sample  Packet  poet  free  Ibr  10  ftampa. 

THE    NEW    GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD    WATCH, 

1     KEYLESS,  English  Make,  more  solid  than  Foreign,  142.  14s. 
JONES*  Manufketory,  336,  Strand,  opposite  Somerset  Honse. 
These  Watebes  have  many  polnto  of  Special  Novelty. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[l-^S-Vll.  Ji».7 


Enrr  8Mui«v.  FmlKW  Q 


NOTES  AND,  QUBBIES ; 

A  MEDICV  OT  WTERCOUMtTKlCATIOS  KB  UTERAKS 


-9  urn  QUEIIIE9  vai  lUrtcd  fm 


^9ai1u  UUt^BJES  CO 


rh  of  Mwr«iT  or  IJrtork*]  Inl 


nUUIj ,  ui]  diFulalJiiii. 


Kecent  Oplnlsns  of  tli«  Vr«M  i 

-  Tht  InHnninc  nnnlni  immnitKrT  with  wMdi  NOTES  u 
QUEBIEa  mxammr  "vtrj  tumnt  loiiicrf  lIMniT '°J';^J'|-,  ,j^ 

-  Tli«t  llK^ll  iMiiKlUnt  of  dad  knovlidic,  jdtpl  NOTES  Al 
^lCKllIE^,Ul^lloUll^•rlM■l^IW^P•P«^■'  -^^^  K     IM  B  ^ 


NOTES    AND    (lUEBIES 

IimUlibcdrTtiiSiituKlar,  priix4if..Dr  TntiT  VoU.  nd. 


NOTES  and  QUERIES  mag  bt  proaTid  by  tirtia  0/ 

avry  Booktdbr  and  Amnnan,  or  0/  (A(  i'Ht  JuAer, 
W.  G.  SMITH,  48,  Wellmgtoii  3trM<,  London,  W.a 


"  LeARSEU,  CHATTT,  USEFDI-"- 

NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Velame  n^e,  Fonrtli  Bert«B> 


»  HotM,  Quel 


SibUograpIir  and  Uterarr  BIbMIT- 


Popular  Antlqultlem  and  Folk  Xon. 


^s&BiiiJCSibl'ioSiV.ii'y 


land  Fr«rkBe»Kn%h(liv04  uia  >'urclj(u  Ord4 

Ttat  ArW. 

Oiiiubomnifli"!  "BlM  Boy  "-J*  Mot™  j 


lin-Sililll  of  Oica^l 


SooleslBBtloal  HlstoTT', 
Claisioal  AnttqultieB. 
Topotraplir' 


;rJSS5S 


Chipcl.  Partmuiutl 

MlBccUaneans  Mottm,  Qnerlea,  1 


4<»  &  VH.  Jas.  7,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


ACCIBBMT9   CAUSS   IiOSS   OF   lilVB. 

▲oddenta   eaose  Lom  of  Tfmo. 

ACCIDENTS    CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 
Provide  against  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  INSUaiSO  WITH  THB 

Saflwa7  Passengers'  Assurance  Company, 

Aa  AoniMl  Fnyment  of  £8  to  fie  S/  InBttra  fil,000  at  Dwth, 
or  an  auowaiiM  at  the  rat«  of  fiO  per  wedi  fl»r  loj  uiy. 


£565*000  hare  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

QIST,  oat  ctvnrj  TWELVE  Anntial  Folier  Holder*  beoominff  a 
daimaat  EACH  YBAR.  For  parUculan  apply  to  tlie  Cleriu  at  the 
Railtnyr  Stationa,  to  the  Local  Agents,  or  at  the  Offloe«. 

MtOOamUIJ.,  and  10,  BEOEirr  8TIIEBT.  LONDON. 

Wnj:iLAM  J.  VIAN,  Seerttanf, 


BT  SOTAL  COMMAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

BOLD  by  all  STATIONERS  thnmshout  the  Woarld. 


GENTLEMEN    desirous  of   having   their  Linens 
dreaod  to  perfection  ahoold  lupply  their  Laundretseivith  the 

<•  O  Xi  B  V  r  Z  S  Xi  D 


f( 


8  T  iL  B  c  b; 

vhieh  fanparta  abrUliancy  and  elasticity  gratify  ing  alike  to  the  Mmie 
ot(Aght  and  touch. 


XrOTHI5G  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMARELLA 

J.1  restores  the  Human  Hair  to  ita  pristine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
aae.  MESSES.  JOHN  QOfiNELL  ft  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
or  the  most  eminent  Chemists,  snceeeded  in  perfecting  this  wonderfnl 
Uq:jnd.  It  la  now  offered  to  the  Public  in  a  more  concentrated  form, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Bottles .  Ss.  each,  also  Ss.,  7«.  6t/.,  or  15s.  each,  with  brush. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl»like  whiteness,  prote«tii  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  imparts  a 
pkanng  fragrance  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  Jfc  CO.*S  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
NCBSEEY  FOWDEB. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perftimen  and  Chemists  throughout  the  Kingdom, 
aad  at  Aacd  Paasage,  93,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 


RUPTURES— 3Y  ROTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 
alkwed  by  upwards  of  SOO  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  elfec- 
tive  inveatkm  in  the  curative  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  nee  of  a 
ttcd  vring,  so  (rffcen  hurtlbl  In  its  e%cts,is  here  avoided;  a  soft  bandage 
beiac  worn  roxrod  the  body,  while  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
piiedbytbe  MOC-MAIN  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fitting  with  so 
Bocheaaeaad  ckweness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  oe  worn 
dnring  sie9.  A  descriptive  circular  raav  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
caasot  feil  to  fit)  ibrwarded  by  post  on  the  circumference  of  the  body, 
twviBcfaes  below  the  hipe,  being  scsit  to  the  Manuftcturer. 

'  MB.  JOHN  WHITE,  ns.  PICGADILLT,  LONDON. 

Ftiec  of  a  Sbirie  Trass.  I6s..  lis.,  SSs.  6d.,  and  31s.  6d:  Postage  1*. 
Doable  TrvssL  3ts.  6</.,  4Ss.,  and  &Ss.  M.    Postage  Is.  8d. 
An  UmbOlosl  Truss.  4Ss.  and  Us.  6d.    Postage  Is.  lOef. 

FMOfloe  order*  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE.  Post  Office.  Piccadilly. 

JJlASnC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 
J  VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  all  eases  of  WEAKNESS-and  S  WEL- 
[NO  of  the  LEGS.  SPRAINS,  tic  They  are  porous,  light  in  texture, 
and  inexpensive.,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  stocking.  Prices 
U.  tf.,  7s.  «d„  Ids.,  and  16s.  eadi.   Postage  Gd, 

JOHN  WHITE,  MANUFACTURER,  SS8,  PICCADILLY.  London. 


TTOIXOWAY'S     PILLS    AND     OINTMENT.— 

JlI  DYSPEPSIA.  JAUNDICE.— These  comnlaints  are  the  results 
era  disoffdered  liver,  which  secretes  bile  in  qualitv  or  quantity  inca- 
pable of  digBstinK  food.  DigCfition  requires  a  free  now  of  healthy  bile, 
to  iasavs  which  BoUoway's  Pills  and  Ointment  have  long  been  famous, 
far  ecUpsiBg  every  other  medicine.  Food,  irregularity  of  living,  dl- 
matcsi,  aad  other  oansea,  are  oonstantlv  throwing  the  liver  into  disorder, 
hot  thmt  imimrtant  organ  can,  under  all  drcurastancM,  soon  be  regulated 
sad  bMlthJly  adjusted  by  Holloway's  Pills  and  Ointment,  which  act 
diicetly  upon  its  vital  aeeretimi.  The  Ointment  nibbed  on  the  skin 
penetrates  immediately  to  the  liver,  whose  blood  and  nerves  it  zectifiei . 
One  trial  is  all  that  is  needed;  a  cute  will  soon  fellow. 


OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  gnaranteed  the  finest 
Imported,  free  fVom  addity  or  heat,  and  much  superior  to  low 
priced  Sherry  (vidi  Dr.  Druitt  on  Cheap  Wines).  One  Guinea  per  doscn. 
Selected  dryTarragpna,  18s.  per  dozen.    Terms  cash.   Three  doaen 
rail  paid.-.W.  D.  WATSON,  373,  Wine  Mterehant,  Oxferd  Street. 
Full  Price  liate  pott  free  on  appUeatiim. 


W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merchant,  873,  Oxford  Street 
(entrance  in  Berwick  street),  London,  W.  Established  1841.  Removed 
from  73,  Great  Russell  Street,  oomer  of  Bloonubury  Sqiuare,  W.C. 


3tfB. 

At  36s.  per  dosen,  fit  fer  a  Oentlemas'i  Table.   Bottlea  tnfTwdad,  and 
Carnage  paid.    Cases  ts.  per  dosen  extra  (returnable). 

CHARLES  WARD  ft  SON, 

CPort  Qfllee  Ordera  on  Flccadniy),  1,  Chapel  Street  Wett, 
MAYFAIR,  W.,  LONDON. 


HEDGES   &   BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PURE  ST.  JULIBN  CLARET 
At  IBs., »».,  S4«., 30s.,  and  36s.  per  doxea. 
Choice  Clareta  of  various  growths,  41s.,  48s.,  60s.,  7Ss.,84«. ,  9Qs« 

GOOD  DINNER  SHERRY, 
At  S4s.  and  30s.  per  doaen. 

Superior  Golden  Sherry 36s.  and4Sf. 

Choice  Sherry-.JPale,  Golden,  or  Brown. ..  .48s., 54s.,  and  60s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  S4s.,  30s.,  a6s.,  4t(.,  4Ss.,  6Qs.,  and  84r. 

Fort  from  first-class  Shippers 8es.3is.4Sr. 

YezyChoiceOld  Port 48r.60s.78s.84s. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  36s.,  4XS.,  48s.,  and  60v. 


Ms.,  78s.;  venr  choice  Champafrne,  ees..  78s. ;  fine  old  Sack,  Mhlmaey. 
Frontlgnac,  Vermuth,  ConstantlajLachrjrmsB  Christi,  Imperial  Tokay, 
and  other  rare  wines.  Fine  old  Pale  Cognac  Bnmdy,60s.aiid7S»rper 
dozen.    Foreign  Liqueurs  of  every  description. 

On  receipt  of  a  Post  Office  order,  or  reference,  any  Quantity  will  be 
forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON:  155,  REGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton:  30,  Khig's  Road, 

(OriginaUy  Established  A.D.  1667.) 

LAMPLOV0H'S 
F7EETIC     SALIHE 

Has  peculiar  and  remarkable  properties  in  Headache,  Sea,  or  Billoni 
Sickness,  preventing  and  curing  Hay,  Scarlet,  and  other  Fevera,  and  is 
admitted  by  all  users  to  form  the  most  agreeable,  portable,  vltaUsing 
Summer  Beverage.   Sold  by  moat  chymists,  and  the  maker, 

H.  LAKPLOUGH,  1 13,  Holbom  Hill,  London. 


CHUBB'S   NEW   PATENT    SAFES. 

STEEL  PLATED,  with  Diagonal  Bolts,  to  resist 
Wedges,  Drills,  and  Fire, 

CBirSB'S    PATSITT    DBTBCTOB    XiOCBS, 

Of  all  Sizes  and  for  every  Purpose — Street-door  Latches  with  small 

and  neat  Keys.— Cash,  Deed,  Paper,  and  Writing  Boxes, 

all  fitted  with  the  Detector  Locks. 

IRON    DOORS    FOR    STRONG   ROOMS, 
Jlltutrated  Prize  Lists  Gratis  and  Post-Free. 


CHUBB  and  SON, 


57,  St.  Panra  Churdiyard,  London;  38,  Lord  Street,  Liverpool ; 
68,  Cross  Street,  Manchester ;  and  Wolverhampton. 

MANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS.  VENNING  &  CO. 
of  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS,  LONDON,  have  just  re- 
id  a  Consignment  of  No.  3  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  excellent  con- 
dition, in  Boxes  of  500  each.  Price  2{.  10s.  per  box.  Orders  to  be 
accompanied  by  a  remittance. 

N.B.  Sample  Box  of  loo,  lOs.  M, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»S.vn.  Jah,  T.'Zl. 


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109,  FLEET  STREET,  EXX    EtUblished  1782. 

TAPESTRY  PAPERHANQINQ8. 

Imitationa  of  ran  old  BROCADES,  DAMASKS,  and  OOBELIX 

TAPESTRIES. 

COLLINSON  and  LOCK  (late  Herring), 
DECOBATOBS, 

109,  FLEET  STREET,  LONDON.   EsUbliahed  1782. 


4'J»S.Vn.  J.\s.  14,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


29 


iJOSDON,  SATUBDAF,  JANUARY  14. 1871. 


CONTENTS.— N»  159. 

NOTES:— Bluebeard:  Origin  of  the  Story, 29— TytMl«l«'« 
New  Testament,  fynesabed  ia  the  Yere  lSt6. 80  —  Bigoifi- 
catiTO  Nftmes.  lb.—  ** Fraser'a  Magasine " :  Portnitai, 
^iTca  18S5,  31  —  A  Stony  and  its  Expansion  —  From  He- 
Tbrsham  Church,  Westmoreland  —  A  Bill  actually  Pre- 
seated  —  A  Westmoreland  Gunpowder-plot  Doggrel  — 
The  Propbedes  of  Thomas  Martin  —  Thomas  Hood  —  Mr. 
Punch  a  Prophet,  S3. 

QURKIBS;  — The  Disinterment  of  Lsdy  Fenwick,  83  — 
A'Bcekeifs  Murderers :  Somersetshire  Traditions  —A  nooy  > 
n»ons  — Author  wsnttd  — Huan  Blackleaeh,  cdiaa  Hoan 
Hesketh —" Beauties  of  England  and  Wales":  Plans  — 
La  C^raeole  —  Chepstow  —  Chess  in  England  and  China— 
Ciwtoin  of  the  Dauish  Court  —  Defoe  and  Manchester 
—  The  Donna  Jnliana  Dies  -Drawings  by  John  Carter— 
The  Plre  Borli^h  Spires  of  Third-Pointed  Date  — Hen- 
ley's EngUsfa  "  Yathek."  Ac.  33. 

BEPLISS :— PoraelaSn  Memorial  of  Chsriet  II.,  87— Bobert 

Bowman,  the  aUefed  Centenarian.  38 — Ftesage  attributed 

to  St.  Ignatius,  ^  —  Mural  Painting  in  Btarston  Church, 

Norfblk.  40  —  Boseoe*s  *'  Novelists' LibraiT  "  and  Georse 

Cruikd^mk  —  Chaoges  of  Names  in  Ireland — **  God  made 

Man"  Ac  —  The  Advent  Hymn  —  **  Hierusalem  1   my 

happae  Home  t  "  —  **  Pigs  may  Ply."  Ac  — Sir  Thomas 

Browne:  Archsr's  Court— The  Irish  Planzty— Lhwyd's 

Iriah  MS& — Pust  Prophecies  —  Indexes  —  *'  It's  a  far  Cry 

to  Loch  Awe  "  —  Lake  Dwellings  on  Louch  Much  —  Dr. 

Jobason  — ""As  Cold  as  a  Maid'k  Knoe"  •*-  A  Nursery 

I^sle  —  X^gro  Pkwerbs,  Ac,  40. 

Notes  Ml  BMfci»  Ac 

BUmBEABB:  ORIGIN^  OF  THE  STORY. 

The  story  oi  Bluebeard  forms  one  of  a  collec- 
tion of  the  popular  nursery  tales  of  France  for 
which  we  are  indebted  to  I'errault.  How  far  he 
preserved  the  exact  form  in  which  these  tales 
must  have  been  related  to  him  by  some  old 
crone,  it  is,  of  courte,  impossible  at  the  present 
time  to  say.  It  has  been  asserted  that  the  story 
is  foonded  on  the  atrocities  imputed  to  a  certain 
Gilies  d«  Betz,  or  de  Raiz,  Sieur  de  Laval/  who 
lived  in  the  reign  of  Charles  VU.  of  France ;  but 
the  enormities  of  which  this  nobleman  is  said  to 
have  been  g^ailty  bear  but  little  resemblance  to 
the  crimes  of  our  hero  of  the  nursery.  An  inci- 
dent related  in  the  life  of  8.  Gildas,  Abbot  of 
RhuySy  in  Brittany,  in  the  sixth  century,  comes 
mucS  nearer  to  the  tale  which  interested  us  so 
much  in  our  childish  days.  A  certain  Count 
Conomor  was  fond  of  matrimony,  but  was  not 
desirous  of  being  troubled  with  the  consequences; 
so  whenever  hie  wife  gave  dgns  of  being  likely 
to  become  a  mother,  he  made  away  wi^  her. 
He  was  a  widower  for  the  fourth,  or  as  some  say 
for  the  seventh,  time,  when  he  sought  the  hand 
of  Tiiphyna,  daughter  of  Count  Guereefa,  of 
Vannes,  a  young  lady  of  great  beauty,  who  had 
been  educated  under  the  eye  of  8.  Qildas.  Both 
the  father  and  daughter  would  willingly  have 
declined  the  proffered  honour,  but  Count  Cono- 
mor.    who  was  Childeb'^vt*^  lifutenaut  in   lirit- 

f*  Sej  «  N.  &  Q."  1*  S.  xU.  66.-.ED.] 


tany,  and  had  powerful  friends  at  court,  insisted 
in  his  suit;  and  gave  it  to  be  understood  that  if  his 
demand  were  not  acceded  to  he  was  quite  ready  to 
enforce  it  at  the  point  of  the  sword.    S.  Gildas, 
wishing  to  avert  a  disastrous  war,  undertook  to 
intercede,  and  was  successful  in  bringing  about 
the  desired  alliauce,  on  the  condition,  however, 
that  if  Conomor  should  get  tired  of  his  wife  he 
should  send  her  back  to  her  father.    The  wedding 
was  kept  at  Vannes  with  great  pomp,  and  Cono- 
mor earned  off  his  bride  to  his  own  castle,  but 
before  many  months  had  elapsed,  the  countess, 
who  was  far   advanced   in  her  pregnancy,  per- 
ceived that  her  husband^s  manner  towards  her 
was  entirely  changed,  and,  fearing  the  fate  of  his 
former  wives,  resolved  to  take  refuge  with  her 
father.     Watching  her  opportunity,  she  mounted 
one  morning  on  a  fleet  horse,  and,  accompanied  by 
a    few  faithful   followers,  galloped   on   in  the 
direction  of  Vannes.    Her  husband  was  informed 
of  her  flight,  and  pursued  her.    As  he  gained 
upon  her,  and  she  perceived  that  her  capture  was 
almost  inevitable,    die   threw  herself  from  her 
horse  and  endeavoured  to  conceal  herself  in  the 
deep  recesses  of  a  forest,  but  she  was  discovered 
by  her  brutal  lord,  who,  with  one  stroke  of  his 
sword,  severed  her  head  from  her  body.  8.  Gildas, 
on    being    informed    of  what    had    happened, 
hastened  to  the  spot,  replaced  the  head  on  the 
body,  and  by  his  prayers  restored  the  lady  to  life. 
She  was  shortly  afterwards  safely  delivered  of  a 
son,  who  was  baptised  by  S.  Gildas,  and  called  by 
his  name,  to  which,  by  way  of  distinction,  was 
afterwards  added  that  of  Trech-meur  or  Tremeur. 
Such  is  the  legend  as  told  by  the  Breton  hagio- 
graphers   P^re  Albert  le  Grand  and  Dom  Gui- 
Alexis  Lobineau.     But  now  comes    a  fact,  as 
related  by  M.  Hippolyte  Violeau,  in  a  work  en- 
titled PSlerinages  ae  Bretagncy  which  renders  it 
almost  certain  that  Perrault's  tale  is  founded  on 
the  legend.    He  says  that  in  January,  1860,  in 
repairmg  the  vault  of  the  chapel  of  S.  Nicolas- 
de-Bieuzy,  some  ancient  'frescoes  were  discovered 
with  scenes  from  the  life  of  S.  Triphyna :   the 
marriage — ^the  husband  taking  leave  or  his  wife, 
and  entrusting  a  key  to  her — a  room  with  an  open 
door,  through  which  are  seen  the  corpses  of  seven 
women  hanging—the  husband    threatening    his 
wife  while  another  female  is  looking  out  of  a 
window  above — and  finally,  in  the  last  picture, 
when  the  husband  has  placed  a  halter  round  the 
neck  of  his  victim,  the  opportune  arrival  of  her 
friend8,accompanied  by  S.  Gildas.  If  these  frescoes 
are  really  of  the  early  date  assigned  to  them,  they 
probably  represent  the  popular  form  of  the  legend, 
with  some  additional  incidents  which  have  not 
been  thought  worthy  of  record  by  the  hagiogra- 
phers,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  whence  the 
nursery  tale  derives  its  origin. 

Guernsey.  £dgAB  MacCxtIXOCH. 


30 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»>S.VII.  Jan.  H, '71. 


TYNDALF/S  NEW  TESTAMENT,  FTNESSHED  IN 

THE  YERE  1585.* 

This  is  no  doubt  the  last  New  Testament  cor- 
rected by  the  translator;  as  his  martyrdom  took 
place  in  the  year  1636.  The  text  is  considerably 
altered  from  the  edition  of  1634.  This  is 
shown  at  p.  190  of  A  General  View  of  the  History 
of  the  English  Bible,  by  Brooke  Foss  Westoot^ 
B.D.,  1868. 

It  is  remarkable  for  the  peculiar  orthography 
adopted  in  the  work. 

It  is  uncertain  why  this  spelling  was  intro- 
duoed;  what  it  is,  or  the  object  of  it. 

Anderson  in  his  Annals  of  the  English  Btbisj 
Tol.  i.  pp.  465-6;  after  alluding  to  this  New  Testa- 
ment, says : — 

'*  But  is  it  possible  that  this  could  have  been  part  of 
Tyndale's  occupation  within  the  walls  of  the  castle  at  Vil- 
Torde  ?  While  warring  with  these  doctors  of  Lonvain  on 
the  one  hand,  was  he,  on  the  other,  at  the  same  time 
engaged  in  earnest  pity  for  the  ploughhoy  and  hushand- 
man  m  GhsierMre  f  This  orthogramiy  heing  regarded 
am  provindal,  so  it  has  been  snppoiBed.  If  the  conjecture 
be  weU  fbnnded,  and  l^ndale  himself  had  to  do  with  this 
edition,  it  is  bnt  seldom  that  in  the  history  of  any  man 
such  an  instance  of  the  tme  sublime  can  be  prodnced. 
The  book  has  never  been  assigned  to  any  Antwexp  printer ; 
but  if  T^dale  onlv  Aimished  a  Ust  of  words,  to  be  em- 
ployed whenever  tney  occurred  In  the  translation,  the 
yolnme  oonld  have  been  printed  in  Holland  or  any  other 
place  in  Brabant." 

This  sublime  conjecture  requires  evidence  to  show 
that  it  is  well  founded,  ana  if  a  list  of  words  was 
^ven  by  Tyndale,  the  compositor  did  not  follow 
it  whenever  the  words  occur — for  many  of  the 
words  so  peculiarly  spelt  occur  but  seldom^  others 
more  often,  some  frequently,  and  others  generally. 
I  have  made  a  list  of  about  300  words  exm- 
}>iting  this  spelling.    These  are  an  example : — 


1585. 


1534. 


1535. 


1584. 


aboede 

abode 

faelye 

fayle 

abroed 

abrod 

faeont 

fa'vnt 

abstaeyne 

abstayne 

gaesinge 

gasinge 

abyede 

abyde 

gaeve 

gave 

bliend 

blynd 

gaeye 

gaye 

boedy 

body 

graece 

grace 

boeke 

boke 

haest 

hast 

boeldely 

bolddy 

haestily 

hastily 

choese 

chose 

haet 

hate 

daev 
cloeke 

daye 
doke 

haeth  and 

hath 

heath 

cloethe 

dothe 

haeve 

have 

ooelde 

Golde 

haeven 

haven 

code 

cole 

maed 

mad 

coete- 

cote 

maede 

made 

daey 

day 

maeke 

make 

decaevable 

decevable 

maekinge 

makynge 

decaeve 

deceave 

maesters 

masters 

dekaeye 

dekeye 

maey 

maye 

fade 

faule 

naedeth 

nedeth 

faelAly 

falslye 

naeked 

naked 

*  This  is  part  of  the  second  title.  No  copy  is  known 
with  a  title  or  imprint.  The  place  where  it  was  printed, 
by  whom,  or  the  year,  is  unknown. 


1535. 

obtaeyned 

odde 

paerle 

paert 

paeyed 

paeyer 

paeyne 

raege 

rae%ne 

raeted 

sae 

saefe 

saeke 


1534. 

obtayned 

olde 

pearie 

part 

payed 

payre 

payne 

rage 

raygne 

rated 

say 

safe 

sake 


1535. 


1584. 


saeme 

same 

taeeklynge 

tacklynge 

taeke 

take 

taeken 

taken 

tadked 

talked 

taeme 

tame 

taest 

taste 

waeke 

wake 

waeked 

waked 

wade 

wavle 
walke 

waelke 

waere 

ware 

waere 

where 

The  second  column  is  the  spelling  in  the  New 
Testament  of  1634,  and  shows  how  designedly  it 
has  been  altered. 

If  anjr  of  yotir  readers  can  give  any  explana- 
tion or  information  on  this  subject,  or  show  where 
such  spelling  has  been  used  at  any  time,  either  in 
print  or  MS.,  I  shall  be  much  obliged  by  a  commu- 
nication being  made  to  me.  I  believe  no  Bible 
or  any  other  New  Testament  exhibits  such  spell- 
inff,  especially  with  /  after  a  vowel.  ^ 

It  is  much  desired  that  the  object  should  be 
known  which  Tyndale  had  in  deviating  so  much 
from  the  spelling  then  in  use,  and  that  of  his  pre- 
vious edition  of  1584.  But  if  Tyndale  did  not 
direct  this  edition  to  be  so  printed,  must  not  this 
spelling  have  been  designedly  introduced^  though 
irregularly  used,  by  the  person  who  supenntended 
the  edition  ?  Francis  Fry. 

Catham,  Bristol. 

SIGNIFICATIVE  NAMES. 

It  has  often  struck  me  as  a  blemish,  and  some- 
times as  an  absurdity,  that  novelists,  poets,  imd 
dramatists  should  so  frequently  adopt  names  sig- 
nificative of  character.  Sucn  a  practice  often 
'^  lets  the  cat  out  of  the  bag,"  and  enables  us  to 
ffuess  at  the  denouement  of  a  story.  In  a  farce  or 
m  an  autobiographical  form  of  late,  where  the  lead- 
ing personage  is  solus,  we  may  excuse  or  even 
tolerate  Steady,  Diddler,  Greedy,  Graball,  Pry^ 
Muffincap,  Easy,  and  such  like.  But  where  the 
hero  is  a  funily  man  or  woman,  the  adoption  of 
such  names  becomes  in  general  an  absurdity. 
There  is  no  objection  to  '*  Mrs.  Malaprop '' ;  but 
if  that  learned  lady  had  possessed  relatives  who 
fiffured  as  dramatis  persona  and  spoke  good 
''land's  English,"  the  name  so  appropnate  to  her 
would  haye  been  an  absurdity  for  them.  Sheridan 
certainly  erred  when,  in  the  School  for  Scandal^ 
he  adopted  the  name  of  ^'  Surface  " ;  it  was  a  good 
one  for  that  surfaoe-ieUow,  the  sneaking,  canting, 
hypocritical,  sentimental  Joseph ;  but  it  becomes 
a  bad  and  inappropriate  name  when  we  find  it 
borne  by  his  open-hearted,  generous,  noble 
brother. 

In  Warren's  novel,  Ten  Thoustmd  a  Tear^  we 
have  a  '^  Mr.  Tittlebat  Titmouse."    The  name  is  an 


4«kaVIL  JAir.14,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


31 


tlMiuditj  altogether.  No  one,  not  even  a  Hox- 
toD  diop-walker  or  a  tallyman's  oountez^ jumper, 
could  have  liad  such  an  appellative.  But  when, 
in  a  subsequent  part  of  the  same  tale,  the  author 
is  necessitated  to  give  a  pedigree,  the  surname  of 
TitmouBe  home  hy  esauires  and  men  of  high 
familj  becomes  perfectly  ridiculous  and  unna- 
turaL  The  name  of  Smith,  Brown,  Jones,  or  any 
of  our  numerous  ^om,  would  have  oeen  infinitely 
better.  Our  old  standard  novelists  avoided  sucn 
"  tell-tale !'  names.  Harlowe,  Andrews,  Grandison, 
Trim,  Jones,  Adams,  &c.,  are  quite  unexception- 
able. Dickens  in  general  keeps  clear  of  significa- 
tives.  Pickwick,  Weller,  Snodgrass,  Nickleby, 
Gamp,  Brodie,  Squeers,  Dombey,  Mantalini,^ 
these  were  all  genuine  surnames,  and  thera  is  no 
impropriety  in  their  adoption,  but  quite  the  con- 
trary. Miss  Braddon  (of  whose  "  sensation  " 
tales  I  am  no  admirer)  never  adopts  significative 
names  for  her  heroes  and  heroines. 

The  classical  names  in  use  by  poets  and  others 
of  the  last  century  were  learned  absurdities,  aod 
of  course  thoroughly  un-English.  Hurdis  in  his 
VUla^e  Curate  has  "  the  Keverend  Antenor"  ^ 
Hurdis  is  much  neglected,  and  most  undeservedly 
He  was  a  genuine  poet  of  the  Cowper  or 


sa 


didactic  school.  The  Village  Curate  contains 
•ome  exquisite  English  descriptive  scenes  that  are 
only  inferior  to  those  in  The  Tcuik,  But  the 
poems  of  Hurdb  are  sadly  marred  by  the  Greek 
and  Latin  derivatiyes.  However,  such  names  have 
an  ad?antage  over  Surfaces  and  Titmouses.  To 
the  unlearned  (classically),  who  always  form  the 
majority,  they  convey  no  meaning  whatever. 

Stephen  Jackson. 


"  FEASEB'S  MAGAZINE  " :  PORTRAITS,  eirea  1835. 

In  or  before  the  year  1835,  and  subsequently/ 
there  appeared  in  Praser^s  Magazine  a  series  of 
caricatures  and  characteristic  portraits  of  literary 
men,  contemporary  or  recently  deceased.  I  have 
no  idea  whetner  tne  following  list  is  complete,  or 
approaching  completeness,  or  whether  it  can  only 
he  called  a  selection.  But  it  may  interest  your 
readers  if  you  can  find  room  for  it,  and  I  should 
much  like  to  know  what  additions  ought  to  be 
made  to  it.  Those  portraits  which  I  have  marked 
*  bear  tiie  name  of  Alfred  Croquis  (Maclise); 
those  marked  t  have  a  cipher  composed  of  A  and 
C  in  Roman  capitals;  tnose  marlced  %  ^a^o  t^o 
artist  s  mark,  but  are  undistinguishable  in  style, 
manner,  or  merit  from  Maclise's  portraits.  All  the 

^  Tbi9  is  m  common  Italian  name,  and  ia  borne  by  at 
least  one  patrician  famOy  in  Tuscany.  We  find  a  mU- 
Hmer  of  the  name  in  Florence. 

'  Fancy  an  annotmoement  in  Tlie  TimeM  that  Sir 
HOdebrand  Snooka  hadjpreaented  '*  the  Reverend  Ante- 
Bor'*  to  the  living  of  Jrodley-cnm-Pipeton,  or  that  he 
had  been  ^vpcdnted  Biahop  of  Dahomey  I 


above. are  printed  on  toned  paper;  those  marked 
§  and  Ij  are  on  paper  of  a  yellower  tint,  and  I  think 
form  a  later  series.  With  one  or  two  exceptions 
they  seem  to  me  of  inferior  merit,  and  to  oe  in 
imitation  of  Madise's  style  and  manner.  The 
former  are  vrithout  mark,  and  the  latter  have 
what  I  take  to  be  a  monogram  composed  of  the 
letters  W  and  R  in  script  hand.  By  whom  were 
the  various  classes  I  have  indicated  executed? 
There  are  also  several  extensive  groups  of  por- 
traits That  of  "The  Fraserians'^^has  no  mark, 
but  it  is  known  to  be  by  Maclise.  See  Theodore 
Taylor's  Thackeray  as  a  Humourist,  I  am  sorry 
I  have  not  a  reference  to  the  page.  The  author 
refers  to  Mahony  (Father  Prout)  as  having  writ- 
ten an  account  of  this  picture  in  1859.  Where  is 
this  account  to  be  found?  The  group  entitled 
"A  Few  of  our  F.S.A.s"  bears  the  name  of 
Alfred  Croquis.  That  of  '<Regina*s  Maids  of 
Honour  '*  has  no  name,  and  differs  very  much  in 
manner  from  the  others.    Who  was  the  artist  ? 

Ainsworth,  W.  H.* 
Beranger,  J.  P.  de.J 
Blessington,  Countess  of.* 
Bowles,  Rev.  W.  L.J 
Brewster,  Sir  David.* 
Brydges,  Sir  S.  £.{ 
Bnckstone,  J.  B.^ 
Bnlwer,  Sir  B.  L.* 
Campbell,  Tbos.§ 
Carljle,  Thomas.* 
Cobbett,  William.t 
Coleridge,  S.  T.* 
Croker,  T.  Crofton.§ 
Croker,  J.  Wilson  % 
Cruikshank,  G.* 
Cunningham,  Allan.* 
De  Trueba  y  Cosio,  Don  T.§ 
Disraeli,  I.* 
Disraeli,  B.* 
D'Orsay,  Conntf 
Dunlop,  W.* 
Egerton,  Lord  Francis.^ 
Faraday,  Michael^ 
Gait,  John.§ 
Gleig,  Rev.  G.  R.t 
Godwin,  \ViUiam.t 
Goethe,  J.  W4 
Hall,  Anna  Maria.^ 
Hill,  Thomas.* 
Hobhoose,  J.  C.^ 
Hogg,  James.* 
Hook,  Theodore  £.* 
Hant,  Leigh.* 
Irving,  Washington.* 
Jerdan,  W.§ 
Knowles,  J.  S-t 
Lamb,  Charles.^ 
Landon,  L.  £.* 
Lardner,  Dr.* 


Lockhart,  J.  G.§ 
Lodge,  Edmund.^ 
Lyndhorst,  Lord.^ 
Macnish,  R4 
Maginn,  Dr.t 
Martineau,  Harriet.* 
Mitford,  Mary  R.]| 
Moir,  D.  M.* 
Molesworth,  W.t 
Moore,  Thomas.§ 
Montgomery,  Robert.^ 
Morgan,  Ladv.^ 
Morier,  Jam^* 
M  nigra ve.  Earl  of.( 
Munster,  Earl  of.§ 
Norton,  Hon.  Mrs.) 
0*Brien,  Henry.J 
0*Connell  and  Shell.* 
Place,  Francis.^ 
Porter,  Jane.^ 
Rogers,  Samuel.§ 
Roscoe,  William.* 
Ross,  Capuin.* 
Russell,  Lord  John.^ 
Sadler,  M.  T.^ 
Scott,  Sir  Walter.§ 
Smith,  James.^ 
Smith,  Sydnev4 
Soane,  Sir  John.t 
Talfourd,  T.  N.1 
Talleyrand,  C.  M.  de.* 
Tborbnrn,  Grant! 
Ude,  L.  E.* 
Watts,  Alaric  A.t 
Westmacott,  C.  M.* 
Wilson,  John.§ 
Wordsworth,  WOUam.* 
Tydus  Pooh-Poob,  our  man 
of  Genioa.^ 


32 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»»'S.VII.  JA3r.l4,7l. 


A  SiOBT  AND  ITS  ExPAirsioir. — 

**A  Ktw  Mode  ofkeepina  a  Prhtmer  under  Be^raint. — 
A  Frenchman,  who  had  been  serreral  yean  confined  for 
debt  in  the  Fleet  Prison,  found  bimflelf  so  nrnch  at  home 
%viihln  its  walls,  and  was  withal  of  so  harmless  and  in- 
offensive a  character,  that  the  jailor  occasionally  i^er- 
mitted  him  to  spend  his  evenings  abroad  withoat  any 
Hpprehension  of  the  forfeiture  of  his  verbal  engai^mcnt. 
His  little  earnings  as  a  Jaek-of-a11-trades  enabled  him  to 
form  several  pot^hoase  connections ;  and  these  led  him 
by  degrees  to  be  less  and  less  punctual  in  his  return  at 
the  appointed  time.  *  Til  tell  yon  what  it  is,  Mounseer,' 
at  length  said  the  jailor  to  him  ;  *  yon  are  a  goo<l  fellow, 
but  I  am  afraid  yon  have  lately  got  into  bad  company; 
80  I  tell  yon  once  for  all,  that  if  yon  do  not  keep  better 
hours  and  come  back  in  good  time,  I  shall  be  under  the 
necessity  of  locking  you  out  altogeUier.'  ** — Sweepings  of 
my  Study,  p.  137.  Edinb.  1824. 

This  Mr.  Weller  tells  in  nearly  two  pages  of 
'*  the  little  dirty- faced  man  in  the  brown  coat" 
I  quote  only  the  conclusion^  as  everybody  has  or 
can  refer  to  Picktcick : — 


M 


At  last  he  began  to  get  so  precious  jolly  that  he  did 
not  know  how  the  time  vent,  or  care  nothin  at  all  about 
it,  and  he  wos  getting  later  and  later,  till  one  night,  as 
his  old  friend  wos  just  a  shutting  the  gate — bad  turned 
the  key,  in  fact  —  he  come  up.  *Hold  hard.  Bill,' he 
says.  *  Wot,  aint  you  come  in  yet,  Twentv  ?  '  says  the 
turnkey.  *  I  thought  you  was  in  long  ago.'  '^N^o,  I  wasn't/ 
says  the  little  man,  with  a  smile.  *  Well,  then,  Til  tell 
you  what  it  i<i,  my  friend,'  savf  the  turnkey,  opening  the 
gate  weiy  slow  and  sulky,  *  it's  my  opinion  tnat  you  have 
got  into  bad  company  o'  late,  which  I'm  wery  sorry  to 
see.  Now  I  don't  wish  to  do  anything  harsh,'  ho  says, 
*  but  if  you  can't  confine  yourself  to  steady  circlps,  and 
find  your  way  back  at  reglar  hours,  as  sure  as  vou'rc  a 
standing  there  I'll  shut  ^'ou  out  altogether.'  l^he  little 
man  was  seized  ivith  a  wiole.nt  fit  o'  trembling,  and  never 
went  outside  the  prison  walls  arterwards." — The  Pickwick 
Papers,  p.  439.  Liond.  1837. 

FiTZnOPKINS. 
Garrick  Club. 

From  Hevebsham  Chuech,  WEsrsroRTXAT^D. 

"  To  labor  I  was  bom ;  I  bore,  and  by  that  forme 
I  bore  to  earth,  to  earth  I  straigt  was  borne." 

Moorland  Lad. 
A  Bill  actually  Pbesented. — 

«  The  Kev.  C.  Marriott  to  John  Knapp  of  Cotesbr.ch. 

**  To  one  wheelbarrow  and  a  wooden  do     .    .  —  hf.  — 
To  one  wheelbarrow  and  a  wood  do     .    .    .  —  o    — 


5 


if 


Interpretation, — The  first  wheelbarrow  delivered 
was  found  ''wanting,"  and  **a  (lie)  would  not 
do " ;  the  second,  on  an  improved  principle,  was 
up  to  contract  and  would  do.  The  account  is 
made  out  on  our  family-lawyer's  principle,  of 
showing  how  many  items  might  have  been 
charged  for  that  are  forborne. 

Moorland  Lad. 

A  Westmoreland  Gunpowder-plot  Doqgrel. 

•*  I  pray  you  remember  the  6th  of  November, 
Gunpowder-treason  and  plot. 
The  king  and  his  train  had  like  to  be  slain  — 
I  hope  this  day  '11  ne'er  he  forgot. 


AH  the  boys,  all  the  boys,  let  the  bella  ring ! 
AH  the  hofft,  all  the  bc^s,  God  save  the  king ! 
A  tUck  and  a  slake  for  King  Jamie's  sake,— 
I  hope  you'll  remember  the  boniie  1 " 

HUTTOm-BOOF. 
Nov.  1, 1868. 

The  Prophecies  of  Thomas  Maettk. — It  will 
be  remembered  by  some  readers  of  *'  N.  &  Q ." 
that  in  the  year  1816  Thomas  Martin,  a  labouring 
man  of  La  Beauce,  had  a  private  audience  of 
Louis  XVm.,  in  which  he  told  the  king  in  proof 
of  his  mission  a  secret  known  to  the  king  alone ; 
that  he  also  warned  him  not  to  attempt  a  coro- 
nation, and  delivered  important  admonitions  to 
him  for  his  future  government,  one  of  which  re- 
lated to  the  suppression  of  servile  work,!  and  the 
sanctification  of  Sundays  and  holidays.  The 
whole  account  may  be  seen  in  the  work  en- 
titled Le  Pa8s4  et  rAvenir,  published  in  1832. 
But  my  present  purpose  is  to  draw  attention  to 
one  remarkable  prediction,  which  really  seems 
now  to  be  approaching  its  accomplishment.  I 
give  it  in  the  words  of  the  above  work : — 

"Le  mardi,  12  mars  (1816),  sur  les  sept  heures  du 
matin,  comme  Martin  finisisait  de  8*habiller,  TAnge  se 
montra  pr^  de  la  fen^tre  et  Inl  parla  ainsi :  *  On  ne  vent 
rien  faire  de  ce  qne  |e  dis :  plusieurs  villes  de  France 
seront  d^tmites  ;  il  n'y  restera  pas  pierre  sur  pierre  ;  la 
France  sera  en  proie  ^'  tons  les  malnears ;  d'un  ii^au  on 
tombera  dans  un  autre.'  " — Chap.  ii.  p.  28. 

F.  C.  H. 

Thomas  Hood. — As  the  literary  reputation  of 

eyery  genuine  poet  should  be  jealously  guarded 

by  the  public  against  incorrect  quotations,  may  I 

ask  whether  the  following,  which  appeared  in  the 

Saturday  Revieio  (p.  837,  Dec.  31, 1870) — 

*'  Oh  God !  to  think  man  ever 
Comes  too  near  his  home  " — 

is  intended  for  the  concluding  lines  of  Hood's 

Lee  Shore — 

**  0  God  I  that  man  shonld  ever  be 
Too  near  his  home  "  ? 

Amongst  various  readings  I  ^o  not  consider 
that,  in  a  point  of  rhythm,  any  alteration  i^  re- 
quired in  this  instance. 

This  reminds  me  of  an  emendation  of  the 
Complaint  of  Natttre  where  an  editor  substituted 

for — 

"  Can  any  following  spring  revive 
The  ashes  of  the  nm." 

**  No  second  spring  can  e'er  revive." 

Again,  in  Innes's  Wietorical  Class-Book*  wo 
fjnd  the  following  alterations  in  CampbelFs 
Ilohenlinden : — 

"  Can  pierce  the  tcet  clonds,  rolling  dun." 
"  And  every  fur/* beneath  their  feet 
Shall  be  a  soldier's  cemetery^'* 
Sp. 

*  London:  Limbird,  1843. 


4»kSwVII.JiN.  14,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Mk.  Twck  a  Phophbt. — ^In  the  number  of 
Pimeh  for  April  7,  I860,  there  is  one  of  Mr.  Ten- 
mel's  inimitable  cartoons,  about  which  there 
should  be  a  note  in  ''  N.  &  Q."  It  is  entitled  ''  A 
Glimpse  of  the  Future.  A  Probable  and  Large 
Importation  of  Foreign  Bags/'  and  represents 
King  Bomba  of  Naples  (dethroned  in  Sept.  I860), 
Napoleon  m.,  and  the  Pope  landing  in  this 
countzy  in  the  yery  seediest  ot  attires.  Although 
England  has  not  jet  had  the  honour  of  receiving 
these  unfortiraate  monarchs,  there  is  no  telling 
how  soon  she  may  hare.  The  following  is  one  of 
the  Terees  accompanying  the  cartoon : — 

"The  time  will  oome  when  cl)«cootent 
Will  oTcrthrofw  your  goTemment ; 
Of  fobjects  when  your  ragged  rout 
Will  nse,  rebel,  and  kick  vou  out.** 

c.  w.  s. 


e^urrtti^. 


THE  DISINTERMENT  OF  LADY  FENVVICK. 

In  the  Evening  Standard  of  Dec.  24, 1870,  occurs 
the  following  interesting  paragraph,  which  I  should 
imagine  had  been  transcribed  from  some  Ame-  | 
rican  paper : — 

**  The  remains  of  Lady  Fenwick,  wife  of  the  first  gover- 
nor and  chief  land  owner  of  Connecticut,  have  been  sought 
for  rnd  recovered  at  Old  Sny  brook*  in  that  state.  She  was 
the  nrat  white  woman  buried  in  the  state,  and  the  inter- 
ment took  place  222  years  a^^o,  near  the  junction  of  the 
Gonnectient  river  with  the  Sonnd,  on  Saybrook  Point. 
An  old  mde  monument  of  brown  stone  marked  the  reputed 
^t  of  her  sepnltnre ;  but  such  bad  been  the  changes  in 
the  bank  by  the  shifting  of  the  channel,  that  it  was 
doubted  by  many  if  the  remains  rested  beneath.  Six  f(.f  t 
below  the  surface  the  skeleton  was  found,  nearlv  perfect. 
The  teeth  were  still  sound ;  the  skull  unusually  large  ; 
whilst  the  rest  of  the  frame  indicated  a  lady  of  slender 
moald,  and  the  hair,  still  partly  in  curls,  and  retaining  its 
br%ht  golden  hae,  gave  support  to  the  traditions  of  her 
rare  beaoty.  The  relics  were  placed  in  a  handsome  coffin, 
covered  with  black  cloth,  and  taken  to  the  neighbouring 
cemeteiy.  The  bells  were  tolled  for  her  for  the  first  time 
when  her  bones  were  removed  fh)m  their  long  resting- 
place,  for  at  ber  burial  there  coald  have  been  no  requiem 
for  the  noble  lady,  unksa  it  was  the  war* whoop  of  the 
wild  Indian.  Her  husband,  after  her  death,  returned  to 
England,  and  sat  as  one  of  the  Judges  on  the  trial  of 
Charles  I." 

AVho  was  this  lady?  was  she  the  wife  of 
George  Fenwick,  Esq.,  who  served  with  distinction 
on  the  side  of  parliament,  and  was  nominated  one 
of  the  king's  judges,  but  declined  taking  any  part 
in  the  proceedings  r  The  Fenwicks  were  a  very 
numerous  and  iimuential  family  in  Northumber- 
land, and  the  baronetcy  became  extinct  by  the 
execution  t  of  Sir  John  Fenwick  for  high  treason 
in  the  reign  of  King  William  III.  He  was  buried 
in  the  church  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields,  but 

*  Saybrook,  so  odled  firom  Lords  Say  and  Sele,  and 
Bmoke,  niiodpal  proprieton. 
t  On  Jamiaiy  28, 1696. 


Lady  Mary,  his  wife,  was  interred  with  her  family 
— the  Howards,  Earls  of  Carlisle — in  the  norm 
aisle  of  the  choir  in  York  Minster.  On  one  of 
the  columns  of  a  monument  to  Charles  £arl  of 
Carlisle  is  an  inscription  commemoratiTe  of  Sir 
John  Fenwick  and  his  children,  surmounted  by 
his  crest  and  arms  :  per  fess  gules  and  argent,  six 
martlets ;  crest,  a  pnoenix  in  flames  ppr.  gorged 
with  a  mural  crown,  coimtercharged;  motto, 
''PeritutVivat." 

An  inscription,  in  the  middle  of  the  same  monu- 
ment in  York  Minster,  commemorates  Lady  Mary- 
Fen  wick,  who  died  in  170S ;  and  at  Castle  Howard, 
near  Malton,  is  a  portrait  of  the  same  lady.  Sir 
John  is  said  to  have  read  KiUing  no  Murder  before 
engaging  in  his  treasonable  practices,  and,  though 
there  can  be  little  doubt  of  his  guilt,  yet  the  mode 
of  procedure  which  produced  bis  conviction  was 
uDJust.  An  insult,  which  Sir  John  Fenwick  had 
once  offered  to  Queen  Mary,  is  said  to  have  been 
ever  unforgotten  and  unforgiven  by  King  Wil- 
liam III.  Macaulay  observes,  in  reference  to  this 
circumstance :  — 

*'  But  long  after  her  death,  a  day  came  when  he  had 
reason  to  wish  he  had  restrained  his  insolence.  He  found 
by  terrible  proof  that  of  all  the  Jacobites,  the  raost 
desperate  assassins  not  excepted,  he  was  the  only  one  for 
whom  William  felt  an  intense  personal  aversion." — 
History  of  England,  iv.  34,  edition  of  1856. 

'      JOHX  PiCKFORD,  M.A. 
fiolton  Percy,  near  Tadcaster. 


A'BbCKETT's       MintDEREBS  —  SOMERSETSniRE 

Trabitioijs. — ^In  the  Flat  Holms  in  the  Bristol 
Channel  are  three  "  unknown  graves"  which  tra- 
dition assigns  to  the  murderers  of  Archbishop 
A'Beckett,  and  I  should  be  glad  to  know  on  what 
authority.  The  legend  runs  that  after  the  bloody 
deed  the  aseassiDs  fled  to  a  remote  part  of  Somer- 
setshire, and  there  built  an  abbey.  What  abbey  ? 
I  have  often  thought  that  an  interesting  book 
could  be  made  of  Somersetshire  traditions,  for  I 
know  of  no  English  county  richer  in  historical 
associations,  from  those  of  King  Arthur's  day  to 
*' King  "  Monmouth's. 

S.  R.  TOWNSHEBTD  MaYER. 
Richmond,  S.  W. 

Anonymous. — In  1820  was  published  Home  in 
the  Nineteenth  Centurtf  .  .  .  in  a  Series  of  Letters, 
3  vols.  Mr.  Bohn,  in  his  edition  of  LoicndeSy 
under  the  head  *'Kome,"  attributes  it  to  MissE.  A. 
Waldie,  afterwards  Mrs.  Eaton.  Under  the  head 
"  Waldie,"  he  says  that  Miss  E.  A.Waldie's  sister, 
Charlotte  A.  Waldie,  who  afterwards  married 
Mr.  Eaton,  wrote  the  book.  Allibone  mves  Miss 
Charlotte  E.  Eaton  as  the  author.  Which  is 
right  ?  Ivan. 

Author  wanted. — Who  is  the  author  of  the 
hymn,  "Guide  us,  O  thou  great  Jehovah  "P^^^  In 


34 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4'fcS.VII.  Jax.  H.Tl. 


three  of  my  hymn  books  the  author  is  given 
respectively  as  "  Oliver,"  "  Williams/'  and  "Robin- 

Y.  S.  M. 


son. 


[Miller,  in  his  Singerg  and  8ona$  of  the  Church  (p.  23\ 
savs  that  this  hymn  is  from  the  Welsh  of  William  Wil- 
liams. The  translation  has  been  sometimes  attribated 
to  a  W.  Evans.— Ed.  «*N.  &  Q."] 

HuAN  Blagkleach,  alias  Huak  Hesketh. — 
Hardy,  in  his  edition  of  Le  Neve,  sets  down  these 
two  BiBhops  of  Sodor  and  Man  as  the  same  per- 
son ;  and  yet  it  can  hardly  be  so.  Hesketh  Ib 
the  name  of  a  county  family  of  some  celebrity ; 
Blacldeach  is  comparatively  imknown  to  fame, 
though  not  an  uncommon  name  in  some  parts  of 
Lancashire.  Blackleach  is  mentioned  in  the  will 
of  Sir  William  Ffarington,  Knt.,  which  bears 
date  May  23,  1501,  and  was  proved  on  the  last 
day  of  December  the  same  year,  under  the  style 
of  "the  Rev'end  ffader  in  God  Van  Blakelache, 
Bishop  of  Man."  (Worden  Evidences,  cited  in 
Lancashire  Chantries,  vol.  ii.p.  183,  Chet.  Soc.lx.) 
Ifttan,  without  the  surname  of  Hesketh  or  Black- 
leach, is  mentioned  under  date  of  Oct.  31,  1509, 
by  Geoffrey.  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry, 
OS  Bishop  or  Zoder.  (Lane,  Chant.,  vol.  i.  p.  107, 
citing  Reg.  Blythe,  Lichf.,  p.  95.)  On  the  au- 
thority of  the  same  register,  Huan  Hesketh  was 
only  a  chantry  priest  at  the  chapel  of  St.  Mary, 
Rufford,  in  1506,  when  Blackleach  was  already 
a  bishop.  In  1507  Alyce  Holte,  of  Chesham, 
cousin  to  his  mother,  beaueathed  to  him  "  a  piece 
of  embrathery ''  which  she  had  made  for  a  cope, 
whilst  he  was  still  serving  the  chantry  chapel  at 
Rufford.  In  1622,  however,  Thomas,  second  Earl 
of  Derby,  constituted  his  trusty  friend  Sir  Hugh 
Hesketh,  Bishop  of  Man,  one  of  hiB  executors. 
(Lane,  Chant.,  i.  160,  citing  Brydge's  Feerage,  iii. 
d98.)  Flower's  Visitation  of  Laneashire,  recently 
published  by  the  Chet.  Soc.,  vol.  Izxxi.  p.  80,  calls 
Bishop  Hesketh  WUUam,  and  makes  his  mother 
to  be  Grace,  daughter  of  Phyton  of  Gawseworth, 
county  Chester,  Knt.  This  is  quite  at  variance 
with  the  Hesketh  pedigree  and  with  the  state- 
ment published  in  "  N.  &  Q."  April  28, 1863,  No. 
132,  p.  409.  I  shall  be  obliged  by  any  elucidation 
of  these  difficulties.  A.  E.  L. 

"  Beautibs  op  England  and  Wales":  Plans. 
I  should  bo  greatly  obliged  if  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents could  inform  me  of  the  possessor  of 
the  plates  from  which  the  plans  accompanying 
this  celebrated  book  were  worked,  or  any  portion 
of  them.  W.  G.  F. 

La  Cabacole. — ^What  was  the  earacdet  After 
the  memorable  interview  of  the  confederate  nobles 
with  the  Duchess  of  Parma,  in  1666,  Motley 
states  that  they  left  the  room  "  making  what  is 
called  the  earacole,  in  token  of  reverence.''  He 
refers  to  the  original  of  the  Pontus  Payen  MSS. : 
'^  toumoyans  et^faisana  la  caracole  devant  la  dite 
Dame.*'  0.  S.  A. 


Chepstow. — Chepstow  is  called  in  Domesday 
Book  Estrighoiel,  alias  Strigoielg,  What  is  the 
derivation  and  meaning  P  How  and  when  did  the 
present  (by  no  means  modem)  name  arise  ?    - 

C.  E.  W. 

Chess  in  England  and  China. — When  was 
chess  introduced  into  England?  What  is  the 
date  of  its  discovery  in  China,  or  when  was  it 
first  played  in  China  P  J.  Wason. 

[Dr.  Duncan  Forbes,  professor  of  Oriental  langoages  in 
KiDg*s  College,  contributed  a  series  of  papers  on  Chess 
to  the  JUuUrated  London  News,  which  were  aftentards 
collected  in  a  pamphlet  for  private  circulation.  The  pro- 
fessor-adopted the  conclusion  of  Dr.  Hyde  and  Sir  Wil* 
Ham  Jones,  that "  Chess  was  invented  in  India,  and  thence 
introduced  into  Persia  and  other  Asiatic  r^ons  during 
the  sixth  century  of  our  era."  The  origin  of  the  game  is 
altogether  lost,  and  it  is  supposed  to  have  existed  for 
several  thousand  years  before  the  time  of  its  introduction 
into  Persia,  Ac] 

Custom  of  the  Danish  Cottbt.  — A.  E.  Vi. 
has  heen  informed  by  a  lady  once  present  at  a 
state  banquet  in  Denmark  that  two  of  the  king's 
attendants  wear  on  their  heads  a  sort  of  mitre, 
the  hollow  in  its  centre  being  filled  with  natural 
flowers.  Can  any  one  nve  the  origin  or  meaning 
of  tlus  singular  head-dresS;  which  seems  to  be 
an  ancient  one,  or  inform  A.  E.  W.  if  her  informa- 
tion is  correct  P 

Defoe  and  Manchester. — ^This  heading  will^  I 
think,  surprise  many ;  for  no  connection  has,  so 
far  as  I  can  ascertain,  ever  existed  between  the 
cotton  city  and  the  famous  author  of  Robinson 
Crusoe, 

My  friend  Mr.  John  Owen,  who  is  a  disciple  of 
Robert  Patterson^  and  indeed  is  well  known  in 
our  Lancashire  towns  and  villages  as  *'  Old  Mor- 
talitv,"  in  the  course  of  his  researches  amongst 
the  Manchester  Cathedral  registers  has  come  upon 
an  entry,  of  which  he  has  sent  me  the  following 
memorandum : — 

"  1743,  Ap.  29.  Meroey  Defoe,  widow,  buried." 
The  name  is  so  uncommon — manufactured,  it  is 
p^nerally  supposed,  by  the  man  who  has  made  it 
immortal — that  we  may  expect  to  find  the  *^  widow 
buried"  at  Manchester  a  relative  of  the  (;reat 
novelist.  Perhaps  some  correspondent  will  be 
able  to  assign  her  a  place  in  the  family  tree. 

William  E.  A.  Axon. 

Joynson  Street,  Strangeways. 

The  Donna  Juliana  Diez. — A  celebrated 
Portuguese  beauty,  to  whose  influence  over  the 
Emperor  Akbar  and  his  grandson,  Shah  Jah&n, 
the  Portuguese  are  said  to  have  been,  in  a  great 
measure,  indebted  for  the  temtory  ceded  to  them 
by  Bah&dur  Sh&h  of  Gujr&t  This  lady,  of 
whose  history  so  little  is  generally  known,  was 
captured  by  a  corsair  on  her  Toyage  to  Terceira, 
one  of  the  Azores  Islands,  and  taken  to  Constanti- 
nople, where  she  was  purchased  in  the  slave  mar- 


4«*  &  VIL  Jak.  14,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


35 


ket  for  the  Ottoman  Emperor  Selim  11.^  and  sent 
as  a  present  to  Akbar,  the  great  Moghul  Emperor 
of  India^  who  died  A.  d.  1605.  Was  the  Donna 
Juliana  Diez  the  mother  of  Prince  Selim,  after- 
wards Jahan-gir,  and  what  account  is  given  of 
iier  romantic  adventures  in  the  Ahwdi-i-Bibi 
JuHatuiy  tradnite  par  Edward  Henrj  Palmer,  St. 
John*8  College,  Cambridge.  ^'  Nouvelles  Annales 
iles  Voyages,"  Mai,  1866.  R  R.  W.  Ellis. 

StarcTOis,  near  Exeter. 

Dbawisqs  bt  JoBis  Carteb.  —  In  whose  pos- 
session are  the  twenty-seven  volumes  of  drawings 
made  hj  this  antii^aary  between  1764  and  1817, 
two  volumes  of  which  were  exhibite*d  by  the  late 
John  Eritton,  F.S.A.,  to  the  Society  of  Anti- 
quaries in  Jane  1846?  They  were  valued  by  him 
at  on% hundred  guineas.  W.  P. 

The  Five  Ei^glish  Spires  op  Third-Pointed 

Date. — ^The  Sussex  ExpresSy  in   describing  the 

recent  injury  by  lightning  to  Hartfield  spire  in 

that  county,  states :  — 

**  The  Bptre  is  one  of  five  in  England  that  are  clearly 
of  third-pointed  date,  broad  spires,  a.d.  1377.*' 

Can  any  correspondent  inform  me  where  'are 
the  four  others  alluded  to  P 

Thoxas  E.  WnriONGTON. 

Hsnlky's  English  "Vathek." — It  is,  of 
course,  generally  known  that  Beckford  wrote  his 
Arabian  atoiy  m  French.  Mr.  Timbs,  in  his 
En^^ish  EocmUfics  and  Eccentricities^  art.  '^The 
Beckfords  and  Fonthill,"  p.  4,  says :  ''An  English 
translation  of  the  work  afterwards  appeared,  the 
author  of  which  Beckford  said  he  never  knew ; 
he  thought  it  tolerablv  well  done."  On  reading 
the  Rev.  J.  "Wood  Warter's  Selections  from  the 
Letters  of  Robert  Southey^  I  find  in  a  letter  from 
Southey  to  Miss  Barker  (vol.  i.  p.  303)  that  the 
"  English  tzanslation  is  by  Mr.  Henley,  who  has 
added  some  of  the  most  learned  notes  that  ever 
appeared  in  any  book  whatever."  Who  was  Mr. 
Henley  P  1  suppose  it  is  his  translation  which 
the  editor  (Mr.  Hain  FrisweU)  of  the  "  Bayard 
Series  "  edition  of  Vathek  has  reproduced  P 

S.  R.  Townshend  Mayer. 

Bicbmond,  S.  W. 

Charles  Lakb*s  Complete  Correspondence 
AND  Works. — In  1868  Messrs.  Moxon  issued  vol. 
i.  of  Lamb's  Letters  and  Works,  to  which  was 
prefixed  an  essay  "  On  the  Genius  of  Lamb/'  by 
Mr.  G.  A.  Sala,  and  it  was  stated  that  three  more 
volumes  would  complete  the  publication.  After 
the  lapse  of  more  than  a  year,  Messrs.  Moxon 
iasaed  Lamb's  Complete  Correspondence  and  Works, 
in  four  vols.,  and  I  naturally  supposed  that  I  had 
but  to  purchase  vols,  ii.,  iii.,  and  iv.  to  complete 
my  set  Judge  of  my  surprise  on  finding  that 
for  Mr.  Sala's  essay  in  vol.  i.  has  been  substituted 
a  biogrsphical  preface  by  Mr.  Thomas  Pumell — 


making  the  1870  edition  of  Lamb  different  from 
that  begun  in  1868,  of  which  I  am  told  that  a 
goodly  number  were  sold,  so  that  there  are  many 
persons  in  my  predicament.  I  am  informed,  on 
the  best  possible  authority,  that  the  vol.  i.  issued 
in  1868  was  edited  by  Mr.  W.  Carew  Hazlitt  Is 
that  the  case  with  the  four  volumes  published  in 
1870  ?  If  not,  why  not  ?  Surely  the  purchasers 
of  the  1868  volume  have  a  right  to  Know  the 
reasons  for  the  publishers'  change  of  purpose.  I 
do  but  express  the  surprise  and  annoyance  of 
many  of  Lamb's  admirers,  who  would  like  some 
kind  of  explanation  given  through  "  N.  &  Q." 

S.  R.  TowNSHEND  Mater. 

Richmond,  S.  W. 

Neale  not  O'Nbale:  Taylor  not  Tatlour. 
Can  any  of  your  correspondents  explain  why  it 
happens  that  the  famihes  of  the  Earl  of  Aid- 
borough,  Lord  Dunalley,  and  Mr.  Bayly  of  Debs- 
borough,  CO.  Tipperary,  describe  themselves  as- 
being  descended  from  Archdeacon  Benjamin 
0*Neale  instead  of  Neale — the  archdeacon's  real 
nameP  The  archdeacon  was  bom  in  1661,  the 
son  of  Constantine  Neale,  Esq.  (whose  will,  dated 
April  20,  1692,  was  proved  Feb.  2,  169|),  the 
grantee  of  estates  in  the  county  of  Wexford, 
Feb.  1, 19  Chas.  II. — he  being  then  a  merchant  in 
Dublin.  The  archdeacon  entered  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  May  12,  1676,  as  Benjamin  Neale.  He 
married  Hannah  Paul  (Marr.  Sett,  Feb.  8, 1699), 
and  had  issue  two  daughters,  viz.  1.  Deborah,  mar- 
ried first  John  Bayly,  Esq..  and,  secondly,  Henry 
Prittie,  Esq.,  by  whom  sne  was  mother  of  the 
first  Lord  Dunalley ;  and  2.  Martha,  married  John 
Stratford,  Esq.,  created  Lord  Baltinglass  and  Earl 
of  Aid  borough.  The  archdeacon's  will  was  dated 
Dec.  20,  1732,  and  administration  was  obtained  to 
him  Nov.  30, 1741.  Not  only  did  Constantine  and 
his  son  caU  themselves ''  Ne^e  "  all  through  their 
lives,  but  various  deeds  and  documents  executed 
both  b^  them  and  by  Messrs.  Stratford  and  Bayly 
recognise  that  to  be  the  family  name.  One  of  the 
sons  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bayly  was  called  to  the 
Irish  bar  in  1746  by  the  name  of  Benjamin  Neale 
Bayly;  and  his  eldest  son,  of  the  same  name, 
levied  a  fine  in  1768.  Again,  the  present  Mar- 
quess of  Headford  has  changed  his  name  from 
Taylor,  as  it  always  was,  to  "Taylour,"  which 
spelling  was  previously  imknown  in  his  family. 

Y.  S.  M. 

Ombre. — Can  any  one  refer  me  to  an  account 
of  this  game,  and  how  played  P  Pope*s  description 
of  it  is  magnificent  (m  the  third  canto  of  Rape 
of  the  Lock%  but  at  the  same  time  I  at  least  am 
ignorant  why  the  ace  of  a  suit  should  be  captured 
by  the  king,  for  we  are  told  the  latter 

*'  Falls  like  thander  on  the  prostrate  ace." 

J.  S.  Udal, 


36 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**^  S.  VII.  Jak.  14. 71. 


"A  Pabtt  in  a  Paelour." — In  the  Essays  of 
Eka,  Charles  Lamb  uses  the  following  quotation 
in  his  "  Chapter  on  Ears  " : — 

"  A  party  in  a  parlour. 
All  silent,  and  all  damned." 

From  whence  is  the  quotation  taken  ? 

C.  SEI7FEBTH. 
WillenhaU. 

[The  lines  are  made  up  from  a  stanza  in  Wordsworth's 
Peter  Bell  (ed.  1819),  but  which  was  omitted  from  the 
later  editions : — 

"  Is  it  a  party  in  a  parlour  ? 
Crammed  just  as  they  on  earth  were  crammed : — 
Some  sipping  punch,  some  sipping  tea. 
But  as  you  by  their  faces  see 
s        All  silent,  and  all  damned."] 


Pearson  of  Kippbnross, — I  should  be  obliged 
to  any  correspondent  who  would  ^ive  me  that 
portion  of  the  pedig:ree  of  this  family  which  em- 
braces the  period  between  15S0  and  1680,  also 
any  other  pedigrees  of  the  same  name  in  Scotland, 
between  those  dates,  with  coats  of  arms,  &c.  My 
object  is  to  identify  an  impaled  coat  on  an  ancient 
house  in.  the  neighbourhood  of  Edinburgh,  the 
impalement  of  which  I  believe  to  be  that  of 
Pearson;  but  I  am  unable  to  account  for  the 
match  which  it  indicates.  I  published  in  the 
Gmtleman's  Magazine^  a  few  years  since,  *  full 
particulars  of  the  above  armorial  sculpture,  but 
am  unable  at  present  to  give  the  correct  reference 
to  the  No.  in  which  it  appeared.  Sp. 

Old  Prints  of  Stonehbnge. — ^Very  lately  an 
old  print  of  Stonehenge  has  come  into  my  posises- 
sion,  containing  two  views,  one  looking  from  the 
west,  and  the  other  from  the  south.  Judging 
from  the  costumes  and  equipage  of  the  visitors, 
and  the  general  style  of  the  engraving,  it  seems  to 
me  that  it  must  date  at  least  from  tne  early  part 
of  the  last  century.  I  have  in  my  collection  views 
taken  in  1776  and  1784,  but  these  are  evidently 
much  more  modem  than  the  other.  In  the  view 
looking  from  the  south,  the  single  stone  known 
as  the  ''  Friar*s  heel "  can  be  seen  on  the  right 
hand.  Other  outlying  stones  are  also  visible  in 
both  views. 

Could  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  acquainted 
vnth  the  literary  and  artistic  history  of  this  the 
greatest  group  of  our  British  prehistoric  stone 
remains  enlignten  me  as  to  the  date  of  publica- 
tion of  this  engraving  P  Perhaps  its  identity  may 
be  recognised  by  the  following  description.  Each 
view  has  an  independent  headmg,  the  upper  being 
*^  A  Prospect  of  Stonehenge  from  the  West,"  and 
the  lower  ^  A  Prospect  of  Stonehenge  from  the 
South."  In  a  white  line  between  the  two  views 
is  printed :  *'  Sold  by  Henry  Overton  at  y*  White 
Horse  without  Newgate,  liondon."  In  the  lower 
view  the  artist's  name  is  giVen  as  "  D.  Loggan 
delin.  et  excudit."       Edwin  Dxtnkin,  F.R.A.S. 

•  About  1863-4. 


MS.  Notes  in  Raleigh's  Hist.— In  «N.  &  Q." 
of  Oct  30, 1869,  p.  360,  a  correspondent,  W.  C.B., 
gives  some  very  interesting  extracts  from  MS. 
marginalia  in  a  copy  of  Raleigh's  Historie  of  the 
World,  1614.  Would  W.  C.  B.  veiy  idndly 
allow  me  to  see  this  volume  ? 

J.  O.  Halliwbll. 

History  of  St.  Pancras. — Mr.  William  I). 
Leathart  left  a  MS.  in  two  volumes,  of  a  history 
of  the  parish  of  Saint  Pancras,  in  the  county  of 
Middlesex.  Mr.  W.  D.  Leathart  died  in  the  year 
1853.  Could  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  in 
whose  custody  this  MS.  is  now  ?      R.  Waugh. 

Invasion  of  Switzerland  by  the  English. 
In  the  Book  of  Dates,  1862,  p.  276,  it  is  stated 
that  *^in  1375  the  Swiss  repelled  an  invasion  of 
the  English  bands."  In  a  MS.  note  in  my  pos- 
session it  is  incidentally  mentioned  that  '^  in  1375 
levan  ab  Einion  ab  GrufFydd  led  an  army  through 
Crermany  into  Switzerland."  I  presume  that 
these  two  statements  allude  to  the  same  invasion. 
I  have  looked  into  a  dozen  historical  works,  but 
I  can  find  no  reference  whatever  to  it  I  desire, 
therefore,  to  know  where  a  detailed  account  of  it 
may  be  found,  together  with  that  of  the  circum- 
stances which  occasioned  it,  as  well  as  of  its  re- 
sult Gla>\ 

Latin  RHTMiNft  Poem  on  Weathkrcocks.— 
Readers  of  Mr.  George  l^lacdonald's  new  storv  in 
St,  Pauls,  if  they  are  also  students  of  "  N.  &*Q." 
will  have  perceived  how  closely,  in  the  conversa- 
tion on  weathercocks  in  chap.  xii.  he  follows  the 
curious  Latin  rhyming  poem  communicated  by 
Clericus  (D)  in  'June,  1857.  I  am  glad  to  call 
attention  to  this  poeiA,  as  I  wish  to  ask  if  the 
entire  composition  is  to  be  found  in  ainr  accessible 
printed  book.  Wm.  J.  Loftie. 

Whale's  Rib  at  Sorrento.— Beneath  the  por- 
tico of  a  church  at  Sorrento  there  hangs  a  no  of 
a  whale,  whose  history  I  was  unable  to  ascertain, 
the  only  person  said  to  be  acquainted  with  it 
being  absent.  The  following  is  a  literal  copy  of 
an  inscription  upon  a  stone  tablet  fixed  to  the  wall 
opposite  the  rib.  Antonini  was  bishop  of  Sor- 
rento. 

"  Re.spice  banc  ceti  costum, 

Admirari  miracnlo 

Hie  diri  Antonini  nnta 

Ubi  natttm  e  ventre  renatam 

Matri  vendidit 

Ibi  vetram  perdidit  atqae  dedit 

Pia  sodAlitas  in  trophsum  crexit." 

Can  any  of  your  readers  throw  light  upon  the 
subject  ?  W.  H.  B. 

Bath. 

[Qy.  Costani  in  the  first  line.  Is  the  in«tcriptioa  other- 
wise rendered  airreotly  ? — Ei>.] 


4'i  S.  Til.  Jax.  14,  71.] 


iwxiiib  AND  QUEKIES. 


37 


PORCELAIN  MEMORUL  OF  CHARLES  II. 

(4*  S.  vL  601,  678.) 

It  is  impossible,  without  seeing  the  dishes  in 
question,  and  even  then,  to  say  with  certainty 
where  they  were  made,  but  1  would  attribute 
the  one  mentioned  by  W.  F.  R.  to  be  made  in 
Staffordshire  rather  t£an  Fulham.  Indeed  there 
are  no  dishes  of  that  kind  which  we  can  positively 
say  were  made  at  Fulham,  whereas  we  have 
several  of  Staffordshire  manufacture.  Besides, 
John  Dwiffht*s  first  patent  is  dated  1671,  and  it 
asserts  he  Bath  **  sett  up  at  Fulham  several  new 
manufactories."  This  throws  the  dish  of  F.  S.  A., 
dated  1660,  out  of  the  record  altogether.  In  1684 
Dwight  of  Fulham  got  his  patent  renewed  for 
fourteen  years  more,  and  what  he  makes  is  thus 
described  in  it : — 

**  Several!  oew  manufactures  or  earthenwares,  called  by 
the  names  of  white  gorged  (pitchers),  marbled  porcellone 
vessels,  statnes,  and  tignres,  and  fine  stone  gorges  and  ves- 
sels never  before  made  in  £ngland  or  elsewhere ;  and 
aisoe  diaeovered  the  myateiy  of  transparent  porcellane,  and 
opacoQB  redd  and  darke  coloured  porcellane  or  china,  and 
Pfrdao  waresy  and  the  mystery  of  the  Cologne  or  stone 
ware." 

For  a  long  time  D wight's  imitation  Cologne 
ware  made  at  Fulham  was  undistinguishable  from 
the  German  ares  itself,  but  a  well-informed  man 
can  now  readily  distinguish  it,  and  refer  it  to  its 
ORp:inal  sooice.  Some  years  ago  Mr.  Reynolds 
purchased  a  most  interesting  collection  of  the 
early  productiona  of  the  Fulham  manufactory.  It 
consisted  of  about  twenty-five  specimens,  which 
had  been  preserved  by  successive  members  of  the 
Dwight  family  as  heirlooms  since  the  period  of 
their  mannfacture,  and  were  sold  by  the  last  re- 
presentative, but  there  was  not  a  dish  amongst 
the  lot 

Dr.  Plot,  in  his  Natural  History  of  Oxfordshire, 
(Oxford,  1677),  tells  us  that  ;— 

"The ineeaioiM  John  Dwight,  formerly  M.A.  of  Christ 
Cboreh  College,  Oxou,  hath  discovered  the  mystery  of  this 
atone  or  Cologne  ware  (such  as  d'Alva  bottfes,  jugs,  nog- 
fCit^),  heretofore  only  made  in  Germany,  and  by  the  Dutcn 
brvogfat  over  into  E^land  in  great  quantities ;  and  hath 
Mt  op  a  manufacture  of  the  same,  which  (by  methods 
and  contriroBces  of  his  own,  altogether  unlike  those  used 
br  the  Germana),  in  three  or  four  years'  time,  he  hath 
bnnxgbt  it  to  greater  perfection  than  it  has  attained 
where  it  hath  b^  used  for  many  ages,  insomuch  that  the 
company  of  glass-sellers  of  London,  who  are  the  dealers 
for  that  oommoditv,  have  contracted  with  the  inventor 
to  boy  only  of  his  l^ngUsh  manufacture,  and  refuse  the 
forrign.*' 

There  are  no  Fulham  dishes  noted  whose  dates 
and  proeeaa  of  manufacture  have  any  resemblance 
to  that  mentioned  by  W.  F.  R.,  but  there  are 
Mveral  Staffordshire  ones.  Shaw's  Chemistry  of 
Pottery  tells  as  that  Thomas  Toft  was  »  Stafibnl- 


shire  potter  about  1680,  and  a  large  earthenware 
dish,  bearing  his  name  on  the  border  thereof,  is  in 
the  Geological  Museum.  It  has  in  the  centre  a 
lion  crowned ;  the  ground  is  buff-coloured,  and 
the  ornaments  laid  on  in  black  and  brown-coloured 
"  slip.''  Another  dish  so  marked  is  in  the  Bate- 
man  Museum,  Yolgrave,  Derbyshire.  It  has  in 
the  centre  a  half-length  crowned  portrait  of 
Charles  II.,  with  a  sceptre  in  each  hand,  and  the 
letters  C.  K.,  with  a  red  and  black  trellis  pattern 
on  the  border.  A  Ralph  Toft  was  also  a  Stafford- 
shire potter  about  the  same  time.  His  name,  with 
the  date  1677,  is  on  a  dish  in  the  collection  of 
Mr.  Reynolds.  It  has  a  buff-coloured  ground, 
with  figures  in  relief  of  brown,  outlined  with 
black ;  in  the  centre  a  soldier,  in  buff  jerkin  and 
full-bottomed  wig,  a  sword  in  each  hand ;  on  one 
side  a  crowned  head  and  bust  (Charles  II.) ; 
cheauered  ornaments  and  name  on  the  border. 
William  Sans,  also  mentioned  in  Shaw's  Chemistry 
of  Pottery,  and  William  Talor,  were  Staffordshire 
potters  about  1680,  and  manufactured  similar 
dishes.  I  therefore  conclude  that  the  dish  men- 
tioned by  W.  F.  R.  was  made  in  Staffordshire. 

I  also  think  that  the  dish  mentioned  by  F.S.  A., 
of  the  date  1660,  was  manufactured  at  Lambeth. 
In  Illustrations  of  Arts  and  Manufactures  (London, 
1841),  by  Aitkin,  we  may  read  as  follows : — 

"  It  is  about  two  hundred  years  ago  (about  1640)  since 
some  Du(ch  potters  came  and  established  themselves  in 
Lambeth,  and  by  degrees  a  little  colony  was  fixed  in 
that  village,  possessed  of  about  twenty  manufactories,  in 
which  were  made  the  glazed  pottery  and  tiles  consumed 
in  London  and  in  various  other  parts  of  the  kingdom. 
Here  thej  continued  in  a  flourishing  state,  giving  em- 
ployment to  many  hands  in  the  various  departments  of 
their  art  till  about  fifty  or  sixty  years  ago ;  when  the 
potters  of  Staffordahir«',  by  their  'commercial  activity, 
and  by  the  great  improvements  introduced  by  them  m 
the  quality  of  their  ware,  completely  beat  out  of  the 
market  the  Lambeth  delft  manufactures." 

The  ware  made  at  Lambeth  was  principally  a 
kind  of  delft  with  landscapes  and  figures  painted 
in  blue.  One  of  the  Dutchmen  reiferred  to  was 
probably  Van  Ilamme,  who  obtained  a  patent  in 
1676,  the  preamble  to  which  states — 

*<  Whereas  John  Ariens  Van  Hamme  hath  humbly 
represented  to  us  that  he  is,  in  pursuance  of  the  encourage- 
ment he  hath  received  from  our  Ambassador  at  the  Hague, 
come  over  to  settle  in  this  our  Kingdom,  with  his  own 
family,  to  exercise  his  art  of  making  tiles  and  porcelane, 
and  other  earthenwares  after  the  wa}'  practised  in  Hol- 
land." 

The  spelling  of  the  inscription  on  the  dish  of 
F.S.A.  decidedly  indicates  a  Dutch  origin  rather 
than  that  of  Dr.  Dwight,  Vicar  of  Fulham,  which 
Lysons,  in  his  EnvironSf  says  he  was;  and  his 
death  is  thus  noticed  in  the  obituary  of  the  Oeti" 
tieman's  Magazme  for  1737:— "At  Fulham,  Dr. 
Dwight.  He  was  the  first  that  found  out  the 
secret  to  colour  earthenware  like  china." 


38 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4ikS.VII.  Jax.14,'7I. 


There  are  some  Tery  curious  matters,  to  the 
student  of  ceramic  ware,  connected  with  the 
Lambeth  pottery,  but  space  forbids  me  to  allude 
to  them  here.         William  Pinkeetok,  F.S.A. 


ROBERT  BOWMAN,  THE  ALLEGED 
CENTENARIAN. 

(4*  S.  vi.  9, 140,  203,  222.) 

Mb.  Gilpin  deserves  the  best  thanks  of  all  who 
are  interested  in  the  question  of  longevity  for 
the  trouble  he  has  taken  in  investigating  the  case 
of  Robert  Bowman;  and  as  one  who  knows  by 
psdnful  experience  the  vast  amoimt  of  time  and 
labour  which  such  inquiries  entail,  I  beg  to  thank 
him  most  heartily. 

I  appreciate  the  good  service  he  has  done  in 
collectmg  the  information  which  he  has  laid 
before  the  readers  of  '^N.  &  Q./'and  I  am  the 
more  anxious  to  avow  this,  seeing  that,  at  the  risk 
of  being  classed  among  those  *' who  are  unduly 
burdened  with  scepticsJ  minds  on  this  subject," 
I  am  so  far  from  drawing  from  the  evidence 
brought  forward  by  Mb.  Gilpin  the  conclusion  at 
which  he  has  arrived — viz.,  that  Robert  Bowman 
was  ^'  at  least  one  hundred  and  eighteen  years  M 
at  the  time  of  his  death  " — that  my  doubts  upon 
that  point  are  very  considerably  strengthened. 

So  far  from  confirming  or  establishing  the 
identity  of  the  Robert  Bowman  baptised  at  Hay- 
ton  in  the  year  1706,  with  the  Robert  Bowman 
who  died  at  Irthington  in  1823,  the  evidence 
adduced  by  Mb.  Gilpin  seems  to  me  to  have  a 
directly  opposite  tendency.  Mb.  Gilpin  searched 
the  Hayton  re^ster  carefully  for  fifty  or  sixty 
years,  and  the  only  baptism  bearing  directly  upon 
the  subject  is  that  of  Robert  Bowman,  baptised 
in  1705 ;  but  if  this  is  the  baptism  of  the  cen- 
tenarian Robert,  the  same  register  would,  in  idl 
Erobability,  have  contained  the  register  of  the 
rother  Thomas,  said  to  have  been  born  either  in 
1707  or  1711.  Surely  the  absence  of  the  baptism 
of  Thomas  leads  to  the  inference  that  the  Robert 
baptised  was  not  the  brother  of  Thomas,  and 
consequently  not  the  Robert  who  died  at  Irth- 
ington. Mb.  Gilpin,  who  produces  not  a  tittle 
of  evidence  as  to  the  age  of  Thomas,  '^  who  died 
in  1810,  aged  ninety-nine  years,  or,  as  some  say^ 
one  hundred  and  one^^  says :  ''  If  Robert  Bowman's 
age  be  a  delusion  and  a  snare,  then  is  also  the 
age  of  his  brother  Thomas.  Bodi  men  must  stand 
or  fall  together.''  I  agree  with  Mb.  Gilpin  in 
his  premises,  but  difier  in  his  conclusion.  I 
hold  that  there  is  not  a  particle  of  evidence  as  to 
the  real  age  of  either  of  tnem. 

It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  Mb.  Gilpin's 
endeavours  to  procure  the  marriage  certificate  were 
not  attended  with  success ;  as,  although  such  cer- 
tificate would  probably  not  have  shown  his  age, 
it  might  hare  described  the  place  of  hia  birth,  or 


at  all  events  his  then  residence.  But,  in  the 
absence  of  this  document,  we  gather  from  the 
tombstone  in  Irthington  churchyard  some  facts 
connected  with  his  marriage  which  deserve  con* 
sideration  with  reference  to  his  presumed  age.  In 
the  fir«t  place, presuming  as  we  may, from  the  birth 
of  the  eldest  son  in  1760,  that  Bowman  married 
in  1759,*  he  was  fifty-four  years  of  age,  while  his 
wife,  bom  in  1726,  was  twenty-one  vears  younger, 
being  only  thirty-three.  I  do  not  know  whether 
the  yeomen  of  Cumberland  marry  young  cr  not, 
but  fifty-four  is,  as  a  general  rule,  so  ezceptiooRl 
an  age  for  a  man  to  marry  at,  that  the  statement 
is  calculated  to  increase  rather  than  to  remove 
my  scepticism. 

But  IS  not  a  clue  to  the  absence  of  all  evidence 
to  be  found  in  a  fact  which  Mb.  Gilpin  passes 
over  slightly,  and  on  which  his  information  is 
probably  imperfect.  '*  Bowman,"  says  Mb.  Gilpin, 
''  having  passed  his  whole  life  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  his  birthplace— ^.rc«;o^  a  few  early  ycam 
spent  in  Northumberland,^^  Now  may  not  dl  his 
early  years  have  been  spent  in  Northumberland 
(where,  if  we  knew  the  precise  locality,  both  his 
baptismal  and  marriage  certificates  might  be  dis- 
covered), and  he  have  removed  to  Irthington  on 
his  marriage  ? 

What  was  the  maiden  name  of  Bowman's  wife  P 
where  were  their  children  bom  and  baptised  P  for 
the  accounts  of  Bowman's  children  are  very  con- 
tradictory. Dr.  Barnes,  writing  in  1821,  says 
"  he  married  at  the  age  of  fifty"  (which  would  be 
in  1766)  ''  and  had  six  sons,  all  of  whom  are  now 
living ;  the  eldest  is  fifty-nine  and  the  youngest 
forty-seven^  which  makes  the  birth  of  the  eldest 
son  to  have  taken  place  in  1761,  whereas  on  the 
tombstone  erected  m  Irthington  churchyard  the 
eldest  son  is  described  as  having  ''  died  J  uly  29, 
1844,  aged  eighty-four  years";  according  to 
which  he  must  have  been  bom  in  1760. 

I  am  writing  iust  now  under  great  disadvan- 
tages, and  indeed  should  not  have  written  at  all, 
but  that  I  feel  it  is  due  to  Mb.  Gilpin  to  acknow- 
ledge the  pains  he  has  taken  to  ascertain  the 
tmth,  but  as  in  my  opinion  Mb.  Gilpin's  evid- 
ence does  not  sustain  his  belief  that  he  has 
established  the  fact  that  Bowman  was  118, 1  feel 
bound  to  point  out  where  I  think  it  defective. 

Mb.  Gilpin's  generosity  has,  I  think,  tempted 
him  to  take  the  weaker  side ;  but  whatever  maj 
have  influenced  him,  he  now  deliberately  avows 
his  belief  that  Robert  Bowman  reached  the  very 
exceptional  age  of  118.  I  do  not  say  he  did  not, 
but  I  do  say  there  is  at  present  not  a  particle  of 

•  I  am  aware  Dr.  Barnes,  writiup  in  1821,  sayj  Bow- 
man married  in  1 755,  when  he  was  fifty  years  of  age ;  but 
if  80,  it  is  carious  that  so  many  years  should  have  elapsed 
before  the  birth  of  his  first  child,  who,  according  to  one 
acoonnt,  was  born  in  1760,  and  to  another  in  1761.  The 
hirtha  of  the  other  children  followed  at  short  intervals. 


4*S.VII.Jur.  14,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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eTidenoe  that  he  did  so.  Those  who  support  the 
argomeDt  that  Bowman  was  118  must  prove 
their  case.  ''£o  iucumbit  probatio  qui  dicit, 
Don  aui  negat/*  sajs  the  civil  law ;  and  it  may  be 
added  that  the  civil  law  also  required  that  in 
proportion  as  the  supposed  fact  was,  as  in  this 
esse,  exceptional  and  oeyond  the  ordinary  nature 
of  things,  so  ought  the  evidence  in  support  of  it 
to  be  clear,  distinct,  and  beyond  all  douot 

William  J.  Thoms. 
40,  St.  George's  Square,  S.W. 


PASSAGE  ATTRIBUTED  TO  ST.  IGNATIUS. 

(4«*»  S.  vi.  881, 478.) 

Mb.  Tew  doea  not  seem  to  be  aware  that,  in 
addition  to  the  seven  epistles  of  St.  Ignatius 
which  are  usually  accounted  genuine,  there  are  a 
number  which  bear  his  name,  but  which  now  are 
uniTersallv  considered  spurious.  Amongst  these 
is  an  epistle  to  the  Philippians,  and  in  that  epistle 
(chan  ziii.)  occurs  the  passage  referred  to  by 
Hooker.  These  spurious  epistles  are  annexed  as 
an  appendix  to  The  Writings  of  the  Apostolic 
Fathers,  published  by  Messrs.  Clark,  of  Edin- 
baigh,  in  their  "  Ante-Nicene  Christian  Library,*' 
and  in  the  introductory  notice  to  them  the  trans- 
lators say : — 

*"  It  vas  a  oonaiderable  time  before  editors  in  modem 
times  began  to  diacriminate  between  the  trae  and  the 
fabe  in  the  wriUngs  attributed  to  Ignatiiu.  The  letters 
first  published  under  bis  name  were  those  three  which 
esist  only  in  Latin.  These  capae  forth  in  1495  at  Paris, 
being  appended  to  a  life  of  Becket,  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury. Some  three  years  later,  eleven  epistles,  com- 
priiing  those  mentioned  by  £nsebiu9,  and  four  others, 
were  published  in  Latin,  and  passed  through  four  or  five 
editioQs.  In  1^36  the  whole  of  the  profes^ly  Ignatian 
epifitJes  were  pnblished  at  Cologne  m  a  Latin  version ; 
and  this  ooUectlon  also  passed  through  several  editions. 
It  was  not  till  1557  that  the  Ignatian  epistles  appeared 
for  the  first  time  in  Greek  at  Dilligen.  After  this  date, 
many  editions  came  forth  in  which  the  probably  genuine 
were'  still  mixed  up  with  the  certainly  spurious,  the 
three  Latin  letters  only  being  rejected  as  destitute  of 
rathority.  Yedelius  of  Geneva  first  made  the  distinction 
which  is  DOW  univeisally  accepted,  in  an  edition  of  these 
epittles  which  be  published  m  1623  ;  and  he  was  fol- 
lowed bv  Archbishop  Usher  and  others,  who  entered 
.morefoify  into  that  critical  examination  of  these  writings 
which  has  been  continued  down  even  to  our  own  day." 

A. 


Mil  Shtth*8  logic  is  refreshing.  Let  me  suggest 
that  he  write,  in  some  conspicuous  place  in  his 
study,  in  very  large  letters.  Cave  ^'petitionem 
principar  It  may  act  as  a  check  against  the 
perpetration  of  the  worst,  though  not  the  most 
uncommon,  of  all  fallacies.  In  his  obliging  paper 
be  first  assumes  it  as  an  evident  fact  that  I  know 
nothing  of  "the  epistle  to  the  Philippians  which 
professes  to  be  the  work  of  Ignatius,''  and  then 
deduces  the,  to  his  own  mind,  necessary  conclusion 


that  my  opinion  "would  carry  more  weight  "that 
"Ignatius  wrote  no  epistle  to  the  Philippians." 
What  kind  of  reasoning  this  is  I  wot  not.  To 
reverse  the  case,  it  might  just  aswell  be  said  that 
a  man's  "  opinion  would  carry  more  weight "  who 
should  declare  that  the  decretal  epistles  attributed 
to  St.  Clement  are  forgeries,  if  he  knew  something 
of  his  genuine  epistle  to  the  Corinthians.  Further, 
Mr.  Smith  asserts  that  '^  Hooker's  quotation  is 
quite  correct."  I  assert  that  it  is  not.  "  I  copy," 
says  Mb.  Sxith,  "the  sentence  in  full"  Irom 
what  book?  may  I  be  allowed  to  ask.  For  in 
this  copt/  the  words  rod  ndurxa  appear,  but  in 
Hooker  (Oxford,  1841)  they  do  not,  either  in  the 
text  or  the  foot-note.  So  much  for  Mr.  Smith's 
accuracy. 

To  Aut.  E.  Maeshall  I  tender  my  best  thanks. 
His  few  remarks  (anticipated,  as  he  will  see)  are 
characterised  by  the  moderation  and  good  temper 
which  it  is  so  pleasant  to  meet  with,  but  against 
which  some  do  so  grievously  offend. 

As  to  the  character  of  these  epistles,  but  a  very 
small  amount  of  the  critical  faculty  will  be  needed 
to  the  formation  of  a  right  judgment.  Forgery  is 
on  the  face  of  them,  and  few  who  have  read  them 
with  any  attention  will  have  much  objection  to 
endorse  the  following  statement : — 

''Yerisimile  non  est,  eaa  Euaebinm,  si  ejus  svo  ex- 
stitissent,  latere  potuisse,  aut  ab  eodem,  si  ipsi  cognit» 
essent,  prseteriri ;  sed  etiam,  quia  vel  ob  modum  loquendi, 
ab  Eusebianis  moltum  discrepantes  apparent,  vel  ob  ma- 
teriam  doctrine,  institutis  et  moribus  posterioris  Ecclesi« 
magis  consone,  et  Ignatianis  Eusebio  memoratis  sola 
imitatione,  eaque  nimis  affectata,  similes.*' 

JUcentiorum  Judicia  de  8»  Ign.  Epist.^  xxziv. 

GaiieL  Jacobson. 


Patching  Rectory,  Arundel. 


Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 


It  is  not  unsuited  to  the  notes  which  have  ap- 
peared on  the  epistle  to  the  Philippians,  called 
"  of  S.  Ignatius,"  to  state  in  what  manner  the 
collections  of  his  epistles  are  to  be  regarded. 
There  are : — 

1.  The  shorter  recension  of  the  seven  epistles, 
which  are  commonly  known  as  the  genuine 
epistles,  which  is  the  one  in  Jacobson's  and 
Hefele's  Patres  Apost.  and  other  recent  collect 
tions.  • 

2.  The  longer,  or  interpolated,  version  of  the 
seven  epistles,  often  cited  by  early  writers. 

3.  The  Syriac  version,  with  English  translation 
of  three  of  these,  with  collected  extracts  from 
others,  published  by  Cureton,  Lond.  1846. 

4.  The  eight  spurious  epistles,  three  of  which 
are  only  found  in  Latin.  Of  these  eight  Hefele 
observes:  "Unanimi  doctorum  consensu  spuria^ 
habentur."    {Patr.  Apost,,  Tubing.  1847,  p.  xliii.) 

The  whole  collection,  except  the  Syriac,  viz., 
the  shorter  recension,  the  longer  or  interpolated, 


40 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4«»S.VI1.  Jak.14,71. 


and  the  spurious  epistles,  can  be  seen  in  the 
edition  of  L  Vossius,  Amst  1646,  reprinted  Lond. 
1680.  Edw.  Mabshall. 


MURAL   PAINTING   IN   STARSTON   CHURCH, 

NORFOLK. 

(4'»»  S.  Ti.  542,  677.) 

I  have  no  wish  to  be  contentious;  but  the 
subject  of  this  painting^  is  too  interesting  to  be 
left  undecided;  and  I  see  as  yet  no  reason  to 
change  mj'  opinion.  G.  A.  C.  calls  attention  to  a 
feature  in  the  painting,  upon  which,  he  says,  I 
made  no  observation,  but  it  did  not  escape  my 
notice.     lie  observes  that — 

"  Over  the  head  of  the  dying  or  deceased  person  is  held 
by  an  attendant  an  heraldic  shield,  the  amis  upun  -which 
are  unfortunately  too  indistinct  to  be  accurately  de- 
cyphered." 

The  arms,  as  well  as  can  be  made  out,  appear 
to  be  those  of  Sawtree  or  Saltrey  Abbey  in 
Huntingdonshire,  to  which  the  advowgons  of 
several  churches  in  Norfolk  were  granted,  and 
the  abbot  of  which  held  manors  and  lands  in  the 
county.  But  whatever  arms  were  on  the  shield 
is,  in  mj  opinion,  of  no  importance  towards  the 
elucidation  of  the  painting. 

I  am  more  and  more  convinced  that  it  repre- 
sents the  death  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary.  Two 
angels  are  carrying  up  her  soul  to  heaven:  no 
such  presumption  of  immediate  beatitude  could 
have  been  entertained  of  any  ordinary  individual, 
however  ennobled  by  worldly  honours.  In  the 
next  place,  as  I  mentioned,  I  have  seen  various 
old  representations  of  the  death  of  the  B.  V.  M. 
more  or  less  agreeing  with  the  one  at  Starston ; 
and,  at  least,  two  such  are  in  my  own  possession. 
One  of  these  remarkably  coincides;  having  the 
three  privileged  Apostles,  SS.  Peter,  James,  and 
John,  close  to  the  bed,  and  St  John,  as  here, 
wearing?  a  cope,  and  extending  his  hands  over  the 
bed.  In  the  other,  the  same  three  are  standing 
in  the  same  position;  St.  John,  always  distin- 
guishable by  his  juvenile  appearance,  and  here 
also  wearing  a  cope  and  clasping  his  hands.  These 
are  both  woodcuts  of  the  fifteenth  century. 

I  said  that  I  attached  no  importance  to  the 
heraldic  shield.  If  we  make  the  very  allowable 
supposition  that  some  patron  or  distinguislied 
perdon  was  interred  beneath  the  recess,  and  that 
this  painting  was  executed  as  a  pious  memorial 
over  nis  tomb,  the  whole  will,  I  think,  be  satis- 
factorily explained.  The  B.  V.  Mary  has  just 
departed.  St.  John  holds  a  family,  or  conv^tual 
coat  of  arms  towards  his  adopted  holy  Mother,  to 
implore  her  intercession  for  the  owners  of  the 
arms,  or  the  soul  of  the  person  interred  beneath ; 
and  St.  Peter  holds  a  scroll,  on  which  the  in- 
scription seems  to  have  been  "  Precor  te  Maria." 


The  last  word  is  still  plain ;  but  on  any  other  sup- 
position, how  could  it  be  appropriate  P  The  fenuSe 
figure,  whom  6.  A.  C.  supposes  to  be  coronetted, 
has  really  no  coronet,  but  merely  an  ornamental 
head  band.  She  is,  in  my  opiiuon,  only  one  of 
the  holy  women  attendants  on  the  B.  Virgm,  per- 
haps meant  for  Seraphia,  who  was  distinguisned 
as  the  wife  of  one  or  the  members  of  the  Sanhe- 
drim, and  of  whom  tradition  reports  that  she  was 
of  about  the  same  age  as  Mary,  and  had  been  long 
and  closely  connected  with  the  Holy  Family. 
There  is  one  object  standing  before  the  head  of 
the  bed,  which  I  cannot  explain,  because  so  little 
of  it  remains.  It  looks  like  a  pedestal,  and  may 
have  supported  a  lamp,  or  chafing-dish,  as  there 
are  what  a]^pear  to  be  flames  at  the  top. 

I  take  this  occasion  to  correct  a  mistake  I  made 
when  the  drawing  was  first  sent  me.  I  too 
hastily  pronounced  the  coped  figure  to  be  St 
Peter :  but  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  repre- 
sents St.  John.  F.  C.  n. 

P.S.  The  misprinting  of  a  single  word  is 
sometimes  of  mucn  consequence,  and  therefore  I 
must  request  the  readers  of  **  N.  &  Q."  to  correct 
in  their  copies  the  misprint  at  the  end  of  my 
article  (p.  542),  of  the  word  hatid.  It  ought  to 
be  head.  The  hand  would  be  of  no  value  towards 
making  out  the  figure  intended,  but  the  head 
would  be  most  important.  Unfortunately  neither 
remains. 

In  a  chromolithograph  of  this  painting  which  1 
have  seen,  the  following  letters  are  quite  plain : 
PBOCE,  then  a  hiatus  occupying  the  space  of  two 
letters,  then  a  longobardic  v  with  the  straight 
stroke  prolonged  upward  and  surmounted  by  « 
cross-stroke  as  if  for  nt,  then  B,  then  the  word 
ICARIA,  t.  e.  pbocb[db]nte  mabia.     It  cannot 

Sossibly  have  been  precor  te,  unless  the  artist  has 
rawn  upon  his  imagination  for  three  characters 
which  are  very  distiuctly  shown  in  the  chromo- 
lithograph. J.  T.  F. 
N.  Kelsey,  Brigg. 

R0SC0B*S  "  XOVBLISTS'  LiBRABY  "  AND  GeOEGI 

Cbuikshaihc  (4»»»  S.  vL  343,  426.)— Mb.  Wtlu 
is  substantially  correct  in  what  he  says  as  to 
George  Cruikshank's  connection  with  this  work, 
but  he  is  in  error  in  supposing  the  series  to 
consist  of  nineteen  volumes,  which  is  complete 
in  seventeen,  or  those  illustrated  by  the  artist 
above-named.  It  was  Mr.  Roscoe's  first  intention 
that  the  designs  for  the  entire  series  should  be 
executed  by  Strutt;  but,  regarding  these  9a  & 
failure,  he  renounced  his  connection  with  that 
artbt  on  the  issue  of  the  second  volume,  com- 
mencing de  novo  with  the  defflffns  of  George  Cruik- 
shwak.  The  two  volumes  iUustrated  by  Strutt 
were  not  henceforward  intended  to  be  reckoned 


4«J»S.VIL  Jas.  U/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


41 


as  anj  portion  of  the  series.  This  is  f^ain  from 
the  axmoonoement  cited  by  your  correspondent 
^  that  he,  6.  CniikBhank,  *  is  engaged  to  illustrate 
the  whole  $erieSf  "  which  could  otiierwise  possess 
no  eignilicanoe ;  and  it  explains  the  apparent 
anom^y  of  two  first  and  two  second  Tolumes. 
JSating  these  excrescences, Hoscoe's  ''NoTelists'  Li- 
hnry"  in  the  riew  of  its  editor  Thomas  Roscoe, 
confflsted  of  serenteen  volumes,  the  whole  of 
which,  without  exception,  were  illustrated  by  my 
friend  George  Oruikahank.  J.  C.  Kogeb. 

Changes  OF  K AMES  inIselaiv^d  (S^*  S.  pasgitn; 
4"^  &  Ti.310,42a)--Stuart'8^nn«^A(8vo,NewTy, 
1819,  p.  201)  states  from  Vesey's  Statutes f  p.  20, 
that  in  — 

*'H6o  Parliament  enacted  that  every  Irishman  who 
dw«Il«:d  amongijt  Englishmen  in  the  counties  of  Dublin, 
Mjeth  (Meatb),  Uriel,  and  Kildare,  should  be  appardled 
after  the  Engush  fashion,  and  should  shave  the  beard 
aboye  the  month,  and  take  an  English  sornamo  derived 
«ither  from  a  town,  a  colonr,  an  art,  science,  or  oflBce. 
Hence  are  deriTed  many  family  names,  such  as  Sutton, 
Chester,  Trim.  Cork,  Black,  Brown,  White,  Smith,  Car- 
penter, Cook«  Butler,  Ac  Karnes  thus  adopted  were  to 
be  tnuisraitted  to  posterity  under  penalty  of  forfeiture  of 
^ooda,  &C.  The  Maeangabhans  became 'Smith,  the  Geahi 
HTute,"  *c 

W.  P. 

'jGoD  MADE  Man,"  etc.  (4'»»  S.  vi.  346,  426, 
487.)  —  The  replies  which  your  learned  corre- 
spondents F.  C.  H.  and  Db.  Dixok  have  kindly 
given  to  my  query  respecting  these  quaint  lines 
are  very  noteworthy — the  former  as  showing  that 
they  are  not  peculiar  to  any  one  county,  and  the 
latter  for  the  reverential  feeling  with  which  they 
appear  to  have  been  treasured  up  by  the  Durham 
collier.  It  seems  probable  that  they  originated 
amount  the  miners,  for  the  version  of  the  lines 
supplied  by  Db.  Drxoy — and  evidently  the  most 
correct  of  the  three  given — unmistakeaoly  implies 
as  much ;  and  the  fact  of  their  being  popular 
with  the  pitmen  of  the  North,  and  my  nearing 
them  in  the  StaiFordshire  colliery  district,  tends 
also  to  support  this  supposition.  May  I  inquire 
again,  have  any  of  your  readers  ever  seen  them  in 
print  before  ?  F.  S. 

The  Advext  Htmk  (4*  S.  vi.  112.)— The  cor- 
respondent of  the  Sunday  Tifnes,  May,  1870,  has 
made  a  sad  blundering  statement  concerning  the 
tone  of  this  hymn.  "  Helmsley  "  is  an  adaptation 
of  the  melody  of  a  song  beginning  ^ 

"  Guardian  angels  now  protect  me. 
Send  to  me  the  youth  I  love," — 

sung  by  Ann  Gatley  in  The  Golden  Pippin,  a  bur- 
leUa  acted  at  Ck>vent  Garden  Theatre,  Feb.  6, 
1773.  Ifisa  Catley  was  ^  celebrated  actress  and 
soger.  Her  L^e  and  Memoirs  (a  very  curious 
HtUe  book,  by  Miss  Ambross),  is  now  before  me. 
The  tune  became  popoLur,  and  was  converted 
into  a  hornpipe  by  some  playhouse  musician,  and 


into  a  hymn-tune  by  some  zealous  low-church- 
man!^ Vulgarity,  and  consequent  unfitness  for 
devotional  purposes,  is  the  strong  characteristic 
of  this  still  (I  am  sorry  to  say)  popular  tune. 

Edward  F.  KucBAnii. 

"Hierusalem!  my  happie  Home!"  (4**  S. 
vi.  372,  485.) — As  a  supplement  to  the  history  of 
this  I*  song"  or  hymn,  it  maybe  stated  that  a 
copy  in  broadside  will  be  found  in  the  Rawlinson 
Collection  of  Ballads  (4to,  666, 167)  in  the  Bod- 
leian Library.  It  is  entitled :  The  true  descriptum 
of  the  everlasting  iot/s  of  Heaven.     To  the  tune  of 

0  man  in  desperation.  In  two  parts,  nineteen 
stanzas  of  eight  lines  (so  by  no  means  in  an  abbre- 
viated form),  black  letter,  two  woodcuts.  "  Printed 
for  F.  Coles,  T.  Vere,  and  J.  Wright  (between 
1650  and  1670).    It  begins  thus :  — 

"  Jerusalem,  my  happy  home, 

When  shall  I  come  to  thee  ? 
When  shall  my  sorrows  have  an  end  ? 

Thy  joys  when  shall  I  see  ? 
Where  happy  harbour  U  of  saint. 

With  sweet  and  pleasant  soyi; 
In  thee  no  sorrow  ever  found,' 

No  grief,  no  care,  no  toyl." 

Wm.  Chappell. 

«  Pigs  mat  Fly,"  etc.  (4»»»  S.  vi.  321,  398.)  — 

1  did  not  intend  to  claim  this  proverb  as  an  Italian 
one.  I  meant  nothing  more  than  that  I  met  with 
it  in  Italy.  I  had  never  heard  it  in  England. 
However,  it  appears  to  be  well  known.  What  is 
the  English  form  ?  I  wish  that  Mr.  Addis  had 
given  it  The  same  proverbs  are  so  widely  dif- 
fused, that  it  is  impossible  to  fix  localitv. 

Stephen  'Jacksoit. 

When  I  was  a  **  mid  "  in  one  of  Green's  ships, 
a  shipmate  from  Worcestershire  (Chipping  Nor- 
ton, I  believe),  when  asked  to  do  anything  ne  did 
not  wish  to,  would  frequently  reply  by  saying : 
"  Pigs  might  fly,  but  they're  very  unlikely  birds." 

F.  H.D. 

Bolivar,  Mississippi,  W.  S. 

Sir  Thomas  Browns:  Abchbb's  Coubt  (4^ 
S.  vL  46,  238.) — Hasted,  Ireland,  and  the  other 
Kentish  historians,  all  speak  vaguely  of  the  owner 
of  Archer's  Court,  who  passed  it  to  Kouse.  They 
say.  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  or  Mr.  Thomas  Browne 
of  London,  Thomas  Broome,  &c.  It  is  to  be 
regretted  that  Mrs.  Hilton  has  not  settled  the 
matter  by  responding  to  Mb.  Elsted's  very  useful 
suggestion.  I  have  seen  in  Doctors'  Commons 
the  will  of  Richards  Rouse,  Sen.,  1766;  which,  I 
think,  is  oondusive.    He  says :  — 

^  1  give,  &e.  in  trust,  Ac.  Whitfield  or  Arcber*8  Court, 
bought  by  me  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Broome,  bis  wife 
Elizabeth,  and  William  Broome,  Esq.,  to  my  daughter 
Affta  Stringer,  wife  of  Phineas  Stringer,"  &c. 

The  name  therefore  is  Broome,  and  not  Browne 
at  alL  JxjVTJjs. 


42 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L4«*  S.  TIL  Jak.  14, 71. 


Thb  Ibmh  Plaitxtt  (4«'  S.  vL  300,  612).— 
I  have  always  heard  and  understood  it  to  liaye 
been  a  harp  air  of  a  grand  and  elevatin?  character. 
It  minglea  the  most  passionate  grief  for  wrong 
inflicted  on  dan  or  kindred  with  the  fiercest  de- 
nunciation of  the  wrongdoer.      It  celebrated  a 
victory  and  the  virtues  of  the  victor  chief.    It 
was  the  nuptial  song  of  a  royal  hero's  bridal,  or 
the  revengeful  and  defiant  stiain  upon  his  fall  in 
battle.    When  Ireland  became  at  length  consoli- 
dated under  English  rule,  and  the  fighting  of  the 
native  septs  and  clans  was  done  away  with,  the 
planxty  assumed  a  convivial  character ;  and  any 
gentleman   of    old    standing    in     the    country, 
whether  of  Irish  or  English  descent^  Catholic  or 
Protestant,  who  kept  a  good  cellar,  larder,  and 
pack  of  hounds,  and  who  had  met  an  opponent, 
once  at  least  in  his  life,  in  fair  fight,  witn  sword 
or  pistol,  was  sure  to  have  a  planxty  dedicated  to 
his  name  and  honour  by  the  peripatetic  bard  or 
harper  who  took  the  jolly  squire  in  his  rounds, 
and  received  the  cead  miUefauthe  (himdred  thou- 
sand welcomes)  of  Irish  hospitality  as  long  as  he 
chose  to  stay.     Of  such  modem  celebrations,  the 
most  notable,  and  the  readiest  to  refer  to,  as 
having  been  adapted    by  Sir  John    Stevenson 
to  some  of  the  most  beautiful  of  Moore's  verses, 
are  Planxtv  Kelly,  Planxty  Connor,  and  Planxty 
Sudle^  —  the    last  -  mentioned   having  been  an 
indubitable  Saxon.    Like  the  Norman  Geraldines 
of   a    former    age,  who    intermarried    amongst 
the    natives   and    cultivated  the  good   opinion 
of  their  adopted  country,    he  pitched  his  tent 
on  some  pleasant  spot  of  the    ^'Golden  Vein," 
and  making   himself  and    everyone   who    had 
to  do  with  him   happy    and    comfortable,  be- 
came ''more  Irish  than  the  Irish  themselves." 
Carolan's  best  air  was  a  planxty,  which  he  com- 
posed in  honour  of  a  Welshman  (Bumper  Squire 
Jones)  during  a  visit  he  made  to  the  Prmdpality, 
in  return  for    the    generous   consideration  with 
which  the  most  celebrated  of  Irish  harpers  was 
treated  not  only  by  that  particular   host,    but 
wherever  he  went  amongst  the  descendants  of  the 
Cimbri.     The  unde  derivatur  of  '*  planxty  "  I  have 
often  heard  discussed,  some  deriving  it  from  the 
Greek  irAoyicr^s,  vagrant,  wandering,  &c.,and  others 
from  the  Latin  pUtnctuSf  the  noise  of  the  tem- 
pestuous waves  dashing  upon  a  rock-bound  coast, 
to  which  more  than  one  andent  poet  has  likened 
the  roar  of  human  voices  in  battle  or  tumult. 
The  secondary  and    more  popular  meaning    of 
planctuSf  as  we  all  know,  is  a  plaint  or  complaint ; 
but  I  have  never  heard  of  any  keen  or  coronach  or 
purelv  funeral  song   of  the  Irish  having  been 
called  a  planxty.    I  believe  that  the  derivation  of 
the  word  from  the  Latin  or  the  Greek  does  not 
hold  good,  as  the  Celtic  is  of  an  older  stock  than 
either. 

The  Kkight  of  Iiobhowew. 


¥ 


Lhwtd'b  Irish  MSS.  (4*  S.  vi.  387.  616.)- 
The  Sebright  MSS.  are  well  known  in  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Dublin.  The  old  press-marks  are  R  25-39 
and  H.  64-71  inclusive.  These  MSS.  were  be- 
queathed by  Sir  John  Sebright,  near  St.  Alban'B> 
to  the  provost,  fellows,  and  scholars  of  Tnoitr 
CoUeffe,  Dublin.  The  Rt.  Hon.  Edmund  Burke, 
one  of  the  executors  of  Sir  John,  caused  them  to 
be  delivered  to  the  University,  having  first  sub- 
mitted them,  according  to  the  desire  of  the  testa- 
tor, to  the  perusal  and  examination  of  General, 
then  Colonel,  Vallancey.  They  were  bought  by 
Sir  John,  and  had  been  the  properly  of  Edward 
Lhwyd.  B.  E.  N. 

[We  shall  be  glad  to  receive  from  B.  £.  N.  some  notice 
of  these  MSS.  for  insertion  in  the  columns  of*'  N.  &  Q." 
Eo.] 

Post  Prophbcies  (4^  S.  vi.  370,  396,  488.)- 
I  saw  in  Chambers's  Journal  a  curious  string  of 
rophedes,  each  beginning  *'  I  would  not  be." 
'he  only  one  I  remember  was,  "I  would  not  be  a 
king  in  '48."  I  cannot  remember  if  I  saw  it 
before  or  after  that  year,  and  I  have  no  means  of 
referring  to  the  Book  now.  Can  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents kindly  tell  me  if,  like  the  one  men- 
tioned by  K  L.  S.,  it  was  made  after  the  event? 
Also,  if  there  was  anv  other  prediction  worth 
notice  in  it ;  and  how  far  the  dates  extended  into 
the  century  ?  L.  C.  B. 

Indexes  (4'»»  S.  vi.  434,  513.)— There  are  some 
books  the  utility  of  which  is  quite  destroyed  for 
want  of  good  indexes.  I  believe  that  in  several 
cases  it  would  pay  to  print  them.  Suppose  a  man 
to  adyertise  that  he  would  publish  an  index  (say 
to  Rushworth's  Historical  Collections),  if  he  could 
get  a  hundred  subscribers  at  a  guinea  each,  I 
inuurine  the  money  would  be  forthcoming. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

"  It's  a  par  Crt  to  Loch  Awe  "  (4*^  S.  tI. 
606.) — ^Your  correspondent  will  find  the  legend 
connected  with  this  saying,  unless  I  mistake,  in 
Hammerton's  Painter's  Camp  in  t/ie  Highlands. 

A.  M.  B.  A. 

Lake  Dwellikgs  ok  Louoh  Much  (4'*'  S.  vi- 
369.)— Since  writing  my  query  as  to  the  lake 
dwelling  in  Lough  Much,  1  have  found  the  account 
nven  by  Lubbock,  in  his  work  on  Prehistoric 
Man  of  the  Irish  "cranoges";  but  I  am  still 
anxious  to  hear  something  of  the  date  of  the 
island  I  described.  While  fishing  there,  I  heard 
from  a  man  who  farmed  some  fourteen  acres 
several  interesting  instances  of  folk  lore,  founded 
on  the  belief  that  the  lake  was  haunted.  Thus 
he  told  me  that  when  a  boy,  fishing  with  other 
boys  and  young  men,  with  baited  lines  left  in  the 
water  for  fish  to  hook  themselves,  they  were 
startled  when  standing  near  and  talking  by  hear- 
ing a  crash,  as  if  a  whole  crate  of  crockery  had 
been  thrown  down,  about  three  yards  from  thew 


4*  Sw  VII.  Jax.  14,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


43 


in  the  lake.  All,  joiing  men  included,  were  so 
frightened  at  this  freak  of  tke  water  fairies,  that 
thej  ran  away,  leaving  their  lines  in  the  water, 
and  did  not  dare  to  return  for  the  day.  Another 
btoiy  which  he  evidently  connected  with  the 
fiupematural,  though  he  did  not  say  so  in  so  many 
words,  was  that  of  a  young  man  who  found  a 
silver  sword  on  the  island  I  have  spoken  of. 
When  wading  hack,  he  found  the  ground  so  soft, 
that  to  lighten  himself  he  pitched  the  sword  from 
him  forward  on  to  the  shore,  where  it  split  up 
into  fragments  too  small  to  he  picked  up.  A  thira 
.^tory  was  told  of  an  island  in  a  neighhouring  lake, 
which  was  covered  with  trees  well  suited  for 
hoe  and  spade  handles  and  the  like ;  yet,  though 
it  was  easy  to  wade  to  the  island,  no  one  would 
cut  one  and  incur  the  certainty  of  heing  drowned 
in  returning,  even  in  two  feet  of  water  I  He  added 
that  when  houghs  were  hroken  oif  and  drifted  to 
shore,  no  one  would  use  them  even  for  fire-wood, 
for  fear  Of  ill-luck. 

My  informant  also  showed  me  a  field,  now 
fanned  hy  him,  in  which  his  predecessor  kept  a 
mare  which  he  never  took  to  the  town  or  market. 
She,  however,  became  in  foal  by  the  agency  of 
the  water  fiuiies  or  otters,  as  some  said.  I  think 
this  latter  was  added  on  account  of  some  supposed 
scepticism  on  my  part,  but  the  choice  of  agencies 
struck  me  as  curious.  The  end  of  mare  and  foal 
was,  however,  tragic,  both  being  drowned  at  dif- 
ferent times  (by  fairy  agency,  as  was  hinted)  in 
the  lake,  the  former  in  the  very  shallowest  part 
of  it,  in  only  two  feet  of  water. 

A  lad  who  was  about  with  us  a  good  deal  gave 
me  what  was  to  me  a  new  version  of  St.  Patrick's 
work  in  Ireland ;  viz.,  after  telling  me  a  number 
of  stories  of  good  people,  su^esting  a  doubt  as  to 
their  existence,  and  asking  if  I  beueved  in  them, 
as  he  had  been  told  that  St.  Patrick  had  driven 
them  all  oat  of  the  island  I  A.  M.  B.  A. 

Dk.  JoHirsox  (4***  S.  vL  468.) — Replying  to  my 
own  query  as  to  the  authorship  of  a  Life  of  Dr. 
Johnson,  published  by  0.  Kearsle^,  1785, 1  have 
since  found,  I  think,  sufficient  evidence  to  show 
that  it  waa  written  by  Thomas  Tyers.  Boswell 
refers,  somewhat  contemptuously,  to  a  sketch  of 
the  Doctor  8  life  by  Tyers  ("  Tom  Tyers,"  as  he 
is  called  by  Johnson),  as  ''  an  entertaining  little 
collection  of  fragments"  (ed.  1823,  iii.  310);  and 
''sketch  "  is  the  word  used  by  the  author  in  his 
mc&ce  to  the  volume  printed  by  Kearsley. 
Besides  this,  reference  is  made  in  Johnsoniana 
(Murray,  1836)  to  a  biography  bv  Thomas  Tyers, 
published  in  1785,  whicn  the  author  is  said  "very 
modeatly  to  call  a  sketch  ";  and  as  I  do  not  find 
that  any  other  account  of  the  Doctor  was  pub- 
lished in  that  year,  I  think  the  authorship  of  the 
volume  is  clearly  established. 

Mr.  Thomas  Tyers,  it  will  be  remembered,  was  i 


the  son  of  Jonathan  l^ers,  "the  founder,"  as 
Boswell  says,  *'  of  that  excellent  place  of  public 
amusement,  Vauzhall  Gardens." 

Charles  Wtzje. 

'' Afl  Cold  as  a  Maid's  Knee  "  (4t^  S.  vi.  495.) 
This  and  the  saying  about  a  do^s  nose  always 
being  cold  are  common  in  the  west  of  Scotland. 
When  Noah  was  in  the  ark  it  sprung  a  leak,  and, 
according  to  a  doggrel  song — 

*'  He  took  the  dog*a  nose  to  stop  up  the  hole, 
And  ever  since  then  it*8  been  wet  and  cold." 

Will.  M'Ilveaith. 

A  Nursery  Tale  (4*»»  S.  vL  496.)— A  story 
in  its  cast  and  incidents  resembling  that  relatea 
by  Wm.  R  a.  Axon  will  be  found  in  Chambers' 
Poptdar  Bhymes  of  Scotland. 

Will.  M'Ilvraith. 

Negro  Proverbs  (4***  S.  vi.  494.)— Allow  me 
to  make  one  correction  in  M.  C.  K.  L.  A.'s  list  of 
"  Negro  Proverbs,"  and  to  send  you  an  additional 
proverb.  No.  10  is  thus  given  in  Jamaica,  of 
which  island  I  am  a  native : — 

<*  Buckra  dey  in  a  trouble,  monkey  coat  fit  him," 

and 

*'  Rock  a  tone  dry  in  a  ribber  bottom,  him  no  feel  sun 
hot" 

The  s  in  Jamaica  is  seldom  sounded ;  "  tone  " 
for  done, 

**  Man  in  prosperity  knows  not  the  bitterness  of  ad- 
versity," 

seems  to  be  the  idea  of  the  last. 

H.  A.  HirsBAKD. 

Smijth  (4"»  S.  vL  474.)— The  Saturday  Beview 
need  scarcely,  I  think,  have  taken  the  trouble  to 
inform  its  readers  that  the  surname  of  the  author 
of  the  Commomoeatth  was  written  Snwth  as  well 
as  Smith  in  Elizabethan  documents.  Of  course  it 
was;  and  I  do  not  think  that  the  form  Smijth 
will  be  found  in  any  "  document "  older  than  tibe 
eighteenth  century.  In  fact,  less  than  a  century 
ago,  the  name  of  this  particular  family  WBBSmytn, 
and  a  short  time  previously,  plain  Smith. 

The  author  or  the  Heraldry  of  Smith  simply 
records  the  fact  (page  2)  that  '*  this  family  now 
write  their  name  Smifth^';  and  there  is  no  doubt 
that  he  considers  it  a  modem  attempt  to  veil, 
under  an  affected  orthography,  a  good  old  Ehiglish 
surname. 

But  if,  as  Sp.  states,  a  y  was,  in  old  MSS., 
double-dotted,  Smijth  is  analogous  to  FfoUiott 
and  Ffarrington,  botn  of  which  are  **  orthographical 
errors." 

I  have  some  little  acquaintance  with  MSS.  of 
the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries,  but  I  do 
not  remember  to  have  met  there  with  an  example 
of  a  dotted  y.  Can  Sp.  be  correct  P  The  example 
he  g^ves  (Maiy)  I  should  take  to  be  the  genitive 
case  of  Marius;   the  so-called  double-dotted  y 


44 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kS.VII.  Ja5.  14,71. 


being  nsofly  ij,  just  as  I,  who  tm  a  pbyaiciaD, 
constantly  express  in  mj  written  -prescriptioBs  the 
numeral  ^  by  ij,  and  7  by  vij,  8  by  viij,  ftc 

As  to  the  orthoepy  of  this  uncouth  name,  why 
I  fear  it  is  but  SfnUh  after  all. 

Mr.  Lower's  theory  will  be  found  in  his 
Patronytnica  Britanmca,  The  origin  suggested 
by  his  '^  facetious  friend  '^  really  appears  to  me 
more  plausible  than  that  propounded  by  Sf. 

M.D. 

SlQlTITAKT  AKD    SlOKATARIBS    (4'*  S.  Ti.  502.) 

I  trust  that,  should  this  meet  the  eye  of  Lord 
GrauTille,  he  will  excuse  me  for  observinff  that, 
when  I  first  saw  the  adjective  ^'  signitary  in  his 
reply  to  the  Russian  note,  it  struck  me  that  the 
word  was  new.  However,  it  seems  good  in  itself; 
'^  dabiturque  licentia  sumpta  pudenter." 

Neither  it,  nor  the  ''  signataries  "  of  the  TaUdy 
appear  either  in  Johnson  or  Richardson's  diction- 
aries, though  the  latter  is  very  full  on  connexions 
with  the  word  "  sign."  The  rare  word  ''  signa- 
turists,"  given  in  both,  looks  like  the  nearest  ap- 
proach to  the  term ;  but  it  will  be  found  to  have 
rather  a  philosophical  meaning,  as  in  Bacon, 
Brown,  ana  other  old  writers,  than  one  at  all  cor- 
responding to  its  use  in  reference  to  those  who 
may  sign  a  document.  Fra>'cis  Trexch. 

IsUp  Rectory,  Oxford. 

Old  Soitg  :  **  Goodt  Bottled  Ale  "  (4»*  S.  vi. 
501.) — I  think  the  version  of  this  rhorus  as  I 
have  often  heard  it  "  roared  out "  by  boys  in  the 
Midland  Counties,  full  sixty  years  ago,  more  cor- 
rect than  Dr.  Dixon's  : — 

*•  Goody  Bnrton*s  ale 
Got  into  my  noddle ; 
Bcinff  5tronjj  awl  pale, 
It  made  me  widiile  yrodJle." 

I  never  supposed  it  a  chorus,  but  the  whole 
song.    I  never  heard  more  of  it.  Ellcee. 

Schoolboy  Words  (4»>'  S.  vi.  415,  617.)— The 
origin  of  the  schoolboy  phrase  *'  Bags  "  or  "  Bags 
I "  is  clear  enough.  It  evidently  carries  with  it 
the  idea  of  getting  into  one's  possession  or  into 
one's  bag  the  object  in  question.  Thus  one  talks 
of  having  '*  bagged  "  so  many  birds,  &c. 

"Fains  "  or  "Fain  it,"  a  term  demanding  a  trace 
during  the  progress  of  any  game.  I  should  be 
rather  inclined  to  spell  "feign  it,  expressing  a 
desire  for  a  temporary  cession  of  the  game  for  a/?r^ 
tenee^  as  opposed  to  the  eameghtesa  with  which  the 
game  had  until  then  been  played.    Gasto:^  Fra. 

Univ.  Coll.  London. 

Kry  to  «  Lb  Grakd  C yrits  '\  (4"'  S.  vi.  887, 
516.}— George  de  Scud^ry,  whom  Isaac  Disraeli 
calls  a  BolMwil  of  literature,  was  bom  at  Havre 
de  Gr&ce  in  160L  After  some  ^ears  of  literary 
activity  he  was,  at  the  solicitation  of  the  Mar- 
chioness de  Rambonillet,  appointed  by  Richelieu 


to  be  governor  of  Notre  Dame  de  la  Garde,  a 
fortress  in  Provence,  situate  on  a  high  rock  near 
Marseilles.  A  witty  author  says  of  this  appoint- 
ment : — 

'*6oaTemement  commode  et  beau, 

A  qai  soffit  poor  toot  garde* 

Un  Soisse  avec  sa  hollebarde 

Peint  sur  la  port«  do  cbateao." 

De  Scud^ry  is  known  as  a  voluminous  poet, 
and  the  author  of  several  theatrical  pieces  of  some 
merit  in  their  dav,  but  now  quite  forgotten.  Il>.> 
died  May  14, 1667. 

His  sister  Magdalen  was  bom  in  1607,  and  di^  I 
June  2, 1701.  She  was  a  person  of  greater  taler^t 
than  her  brother. 

The  first  part  of  Le  Grand  Cyrus  was  publish'  1 
in  1650,  but  the  latter  part  did  not  appear  until 
some  years  afterwards.  It  is  statea  in  every 
edition  that  I  have  seen  to  be  written  ''  par  Mon- 
sieur de  Scud^ry,"  and  is  dedicated  to  Madame  (> 
Longueville,  the  sister  of  the  great  Cond^,  the 
person  intended  to  be  described  under  the  nam? 
of  Cyrus.  The  work  is  supposed  to  be  the  joint 
production  of  the  brother  and  sister,  but  there  is 
little  doubt  that  his  part  of  the  work  was  ven- 
smalL  Their  contemporaries  always  attribute  1 
the  book  to  the  sister,  notwithstanding  that  the 
title-page  bears  the  brother's  name.  I  have  rot 
Monsieur  Cousin's  work  to  refer  to ;  but,  if  I  re- 
member rightly,  he  attributes  the  work  to  ^ia- 
demoiselle  de  Scud^ry. 

Speaking  of  Mademoiselle  de  Scud^rr,  Milnage 
says : — 

"  M.  de  Marobs  ne  vooloit  pas  qn*ellc  cn«t  fait  \\\  V. 
Cyru«  ni  la  Cle'lie,  parceque  ce-s  ouvra;:es  wont  impri""'*>- 
sous  le  nom  de  M.  de  Scudcn-.  Mademoi.of'Ile  de  Scadi-ry. 
dl^oit-il,  m'a  dit  qu*eUe  ne*  les  a  point  faits  ct  M.  ti- 
Scudtfry  m'a  assnre  qoe  cVtoit  luy  qui  les  avoit  cnm- 
poscz.  Et  moi,  loi  dis-je,  je  vons  assure  one  c'e-t  ^l.i- 
demoiselle  de  Scud^ry  qui  les  n  faits ;  et  jc  le  say  bi«i." 

If  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  can  tell  us  'where 
to  find  a  perfect  and  complete  key  to  the  work, 
he  will  be  conferring  a  favour  on  one  who  app .e- 
ciates  the  work  for,  what  it  was  meant  to  be,  a 
description  of  contemporary  manners. 

S.  » *  •  ^ • 

Grantham  :  Bluetowx  (4**»  S.  vi.  475.)— T)i? 
political  autocrat  of  this  borough,  Lord  Hunti:ic- 
tower,  was  himself  known  by  the  sobriquet  "i 
"  Blue  BUly."  John  Bbook'. 

Birmingham. 

Kirk  Santon  (4''>  S.  vi.  387,  449,  660.)— Hall 
Santon  is  a  small  hamlet,  parish  of  Irton,  Cum- 
berland, whose  soil  is  of  a  light  sandy  descrip- 
tion, 

Downham  Santon  or  Sandy,  Suffolk,  in  16i> 
was  nearly  overwhelmed  by  an  immense  drift  of 
sand  from  the  Lackenheath  Hills,  five  miles  dis- 
tant. 

The  soil  of  Santon  House.  Lincoln,  is  sandy. 


4AaVII.  Jast.  14,'71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


45 


Kixk  SantoD,  Cumberland,  Is  supposed  to  have 
den  Ted  its  name  from  a  circular  piece  of  water 
400  feet  in  diameter,  which  covers  the  ruins  of  a 
church.  Kirk  Santon,  with  its  appurtenances,  was 
mnted  by  the  Boyvill  family  to  the  Abbey  of 
St.  Hsiy  in  Fnmess. 

Kirk  Santon,  Isle  of  Man,  is  described  as  a  small 
village  of  a  ragged  surfac^  near  Kirk  Santon 

Sandwiche,  Kent,  is  described    by  William 

Lambarde  (An  Alphabetical  Description  of  Bng- 

land  and  Wak$.  I>ond.  KDCCXXX.  832)  ^  to  have 

g^ot  the  name  of  the  Light  Sande." 

^^SantUke,  L  Lacv»  Sanguinis.  Neare  to  Battei  in 
Sussex,  is  a  Place  named  Santlake,  which  the  People  of 
the  Coaotiye  eren  to  this  Dare  imagine  to  be  so  called 
of  the  atreames  of  Bloud  that  raane  theare  after  the 
frreat  Fight  betwene  the  Gonqnerour  and  Harould." — 
W.  Lambarde,  idem  350. 

Sandgate,  Kent — 

**  The  name  of  the  village  is  derived  from  its  situation 
at  ODe  of  tboie  gates  or  gaps  of  the  sea  so  frequent  alon^ 
the  £.  coiast,  md  from  the  sandy  nature  of  the  soil  on 
wliicfa  it  is  bailt/' — Haroiltr>n*s  (Jasetfeer. 

Charles  ViviAif, 
4i,  Ecdeston  Square,  S.W. 

Babiw'  Bells  (4t»>  S.  vi.  475 ;  vii.  21.)— The 
divine  poet  is  Francis  Quarlef«.  The  lines  are  from 
his  Emblems,  Divine  and  Moral,  book  IT.  No.  8. 
Venus  is  soothing  a  fretful  earthly  Cupid  with  a 
?lobe  and  bells  (no  doubt,  a  sort  of  coral;.  Divine 
Cupid  expostulates — 

"  We'll  look  to  heaven,  and  trust  to  higher  joys  ; 
Let  ffvrine  love  husks  and  children  vhine  for  toys." 

Margaret  Gattt. 

Tics  Bsllb  op  St.  Michael's,  CorEsrKt  (4»* 
S.  vl.  524) — These  bells  were  at  first  arranged  in 
two  heights,  but  on  the  tenor  bell  being  cracked 
in  1802,  and  recast  by  Bryant  of  Hereford,  they 
were  all  arranged  on  one  level,  and  so  they  still 
remain. 

TVlien  this  peal  was  first  hung,  it  was  disposed 
OQ  a  frameworlc  resting  on  the  walls  of  the  tower, 
and  sexioiis  danger  to  the  building  being  appre- 
hended, it  was  resolved  in  1793,  by  the  advice  of 
Mr.  Wyatt,  the  architect,  to  construct  a  frame 
re^tii^  on  the  ground.  This  was  designed  by  Mr. 
Potter  of  Lichfield,  and  carried  out  in  1794,  at  an 
expense  of  507/.,  the  bells  being  rehung  in  De- 
cember the  same  year,  since  which  time  no  mate- 
rial alteration  has  been  made.  At  the  same  period 
the  tower  underwent  a  thorough  repair.  They 
are  not  so  high  in  the  tower  by  thir^  feet  as  at 
first 

However  desirable  this  arrangement  may  be  for 
the  bells,  and  for  securing  safety  to  the  building 
in  ringing  them,  it  is  much  to  be  regretted  that 
it  has  completely  sacrificed  the  internal  appear- 
wee  of  the  fine  umtem  tower,  which  was  ongin- 
ally  open  to  the  west  end  of  the  nave,  with  which 


it  communicated  by  a  lofty  and  beautifully  prc^r- 
tioned  arch. 

A  clock  and  chimes  appear  to  have  been  added 
to  the  bells  at  a  Tery  early  date,  for  in  146o«7 
notices  of  payments  being  made  on  their  aeeount 
are  recorded ;  and  in  1577  "v*  was  paid  for  tym- 
ber  and  makyng  the  barrell  for  the  chyme/'  and 
in  the  same  year  Henry  Bankes  was  engaged  in 
altering  the  ''  chyme  and  settinge  hit  newe.^ 

In  1778  a  new  clock  and  chimes  were  con- 
structed by  Mr.  Worton  of  Birmingham  at  an 
expense  of  277/.  Some  years  ago  the  chimes  were 
rearranged  and  harmouised.  Both  are  under  the 
care  of  the  grandson  of  their  original  maker. 

Wm.  Geo.  Fkettojt. 

Coventiy. 

[Onr  correspondent  will  find  his  early  particulars  of 
these  bells  in  onr  ^^^  S.  ix.  427,  541.] 

Martite  Eose  (4*»»  S.  vi.  43G,  484.)— The  rose 
alluded  to  by  Mr.  James  Pearso^t  is  the  one  I  in- 
quired about  (p.  436).  I  found  it  in  profusion  near 
Fleetwood ;  but  I  think  that  Rosa  spinosissima  is 
not  the  proper  name,  and  that  it  is  more  likely  to 
be  the  Rosa  nd>ella^  as  guessed  bjr  J.  T.  F.     I 
know  the  spinosissima :  it  is  an  Alpine  plant  found 
at  a  considerable  altitude  in  the  Vallais.    D'An- 
greville,  in  his  La  Flore    Vallaisanne  (Geneva, 
1863),  names  it  as  on  the  mountains  of  Fins- 
hauts  4500  feet  above  the  sea.     The  English 
marine  rose  is  certainly  entitled  to  the  epithet 
*'  spinosissima,"  but  still  I  believe  that  it  is  a  dif- 
ferent plant  to  the  Alpine  one — the  real  spinosis- 
sinia  of  Linnceus.    This  is  only  conjecture.     I 
should  like  to  compare  the  Fleetwood  rose  with 
the  Fins-hauts  plant.      Perhaps    some  botanist 
who   has  visited  the  Alps  may  be  able  to  say 
whether  the  two  roses  are  identical.  The  noitherii 
plant  of  the  British  Botmiy  (quoted  by  J.  T.  F.) 
may  probably  be  the  same  as  the  Lancashire  one, 
but  I  am  sceptical  as  to  the  Fleetwood  rose  being 
the  Alpine  Lmniean  spinosissima.  Has  the  North- 
umbrian sea-rose  been  ever  examined  with  the 
Fleetwood  one?     Cannot  F.  C.  II.  thtow  some 
light  on  the  subject  ?     He  knows  all  the  localities 
above-named.*  A  Murithias". 

With  regard  to  the  rose  inquired  about  in 
''  N.  &  Q.,"  had  I  a  small  specimen  of  a  more 
minute  description,  I  could  tell  the  name  at  once. 
But  wanting  this,  I  have  no  doubt  that  it  is  the 
Burnet  rose  =:  Itosa  spinosissima  =  Scotch  rose. 
The  latter  name  is  given  because  it  grows  plenti- 
fully in  Scotland,  i  have  found  it  on  the  sandy 
shores  of  Wales,  from  Pembroke  to  Caernarvon. 
On  the  sands  it  is  vexy  dwarf ;  it  is  taller  inland. 
I  have  found  it  in  Worcestershire.  I  do  not  re- 
collect it  in  Switzerland;  but  it  frequently  hap- 

*  The  Rota  Alpina^  L.,  is  found  at  an  altitude  of  73&0 
feot  in  the  mountains  of  St.  Bernard.  It  is  the  highest 
Swiss  roift. 


46 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k  8.  VII.  J  AS.  14, 7L 


pens  that  a  coast  plant  grows  on  lofty  mountains. 
The  scurvy-grass  {Co^learia),  a  common  sea- 
coast  plant,  in  one  of  its  forms  (C  a^nna  or 
f(BnUmdica\  grows  on  the  summits  of  mountains, 
have  ffatnored  it  on  the  walls  of  Tenby  in 
South  Wales,  and  on  the  summit  of  Ben  Lavers 
in  Scotland.  I  think  that  I  have  gathered  the 
Rom  ipjnoswima  in  Cumberland.  I  am  certain 
about  Scotland.  In  Dr.  Hooker's  Students  Flora 
of  the  British  Isles  it  is  said  to  grow  in  Arctic 
£urope  and  in  Siberia  and  North  China.  The 
liosa  rvbeOa,  named  by  J.  T.  F.  (4"»  S,  vi.  484), 
is  a  very  local  maritime  rose,  and  not  at  all 
likely  to  oe  the  Lancashire  rose  inquired  after  by 
a  brother  "  Murithian."  Edwis  Lees,  F.L.S. 
Green  Hill  Sammit,  Worcester. 

Spinosissima  et  rubeUa=gentiUs Je  vous  dirai, 

quant  k  ma  mani^re  de  voir,  que  ces  deux  roses 
sont  difilSrentes.  La  JRosa  spmosissima  (Smith, 
Eng,  Flor,)  croit  sur  les  c6te8  incultes  du  bord  de 
la  mer.  De  Candolle  (p.  C08)  appelle  cette  meme 
rose  pimpinillifolia,*  £lle  est  aoondante  sur  le 
Saldve,  prds  de  Geneve:  je  Tai  aussi  trouv^  k 
Catogne,  sur  Sembrancher. 

Rosa  rubella  (Lindley )  =  Rosa  gentiUs  (Stemb.) 
vient  aussi  en  Suisse,  sur  le  Saldve.  D*apr^ 
certains  auteurs,  ces  deux  roses  paraissent  avoir 
beaucou]^  de  rapport  et  de  pareotd,  au  point  qu'il 
est  difficile  de  les  distinguer.  Je  crois  les  avoir, 
les  deux  e«pdces  (spinosissima  et  rubella  =  gentilis), 
dans  mon  herbier.  G.  De  la  Soie,  Cur^. 

Bovemier,t  Suisse. 

SiE  H.  C ASBBs,  THE  Statitart  (4***  S.  vL  525.) 
I  can  mention  a  place  where  one  of  this  artist's  works 
may  be  seen — ^Mold  parish  church,  Flintshire — a 
full-length  marble  statue  of  life-size,  of  whom  I 
forget.  A  son  of  Charles  Madryll  and  Frances 
Cheere  owns  and  lives  at  Panworth  Everard,  not 
far  from  Caxton  gibbet.  Unless  I  am  mistaken, 
they  have  no  grandson,  few  of  the  sons  having 
married.  Of  the  surviving  sons,  one  is  registrar 
of  the  Middlesex  County  Court  holden  at  Clerken- 
well ;  one  is  a  major  (retired,  I  believe,  from  the 
Indian  army);  another  is  in  holy  orders,  and  in- 
cumbent of  Little  Drayton,  Shropshire. 

Aemigeb. 

The  eSwD  RBenmrr  (4*»»  S.  vi.  528.)— In  De- 
cember 1755  the  62nd  regiment  (or  Loyal  Ame- 
rican Provindals)  was  nused  in  America.  In  1756, 
in  consequence  of  the  capture  of  the  50th  and  51st 
reg^mento  at  Oswego,  the  regiment  was  numbered 
the  60th.    The  Act  of  Parliament  sought  after  by 

*  AngUce  <<PimperDeL''  Vide  note  by  Ma.  Jambs 
Pkabson  of  Milnrow,  4*^  S.  vi.  p.  484. 

[f  Tlie  village  of  Bovemier  is  a  short  distance  from 
Martigny,  on  the  St.  Bernard  route,  and  oar  correspon- 
dent A  MURITHIAN  says  that  his  fiiend,  the  worthy  Cor^ 
of  Bovemier,  is  always  glad  to  see  any  botanical  tourists 
and  to  give  every  information.  M.  *De  la  Soie  speaks 
English.— Ed.] 


Mb.  Hioenre,  if  my  memory  serves  me,  was  en- 
acted at  the  commencement  of  the  Frendi  revolu- 
tionary war,  to  permit  Hanoverians  to  join  the 
62Dd.  Hanover,  by  treaty,  furnished  a  contingent 
of  14,000  for  life  service  to  our  army. 

F.  David  Briakt. 

Wbong  Dates  in  Csbtain  Biographies  (4^ 
S.  vi.  410.) — In  thescommunication  by  the  Rky. 
Dr.  Kooers  to  ''  N.  &  Q."  on  the  above  subject, 
after  stating  that  he  had  shown  in  1856  that  the 
date  of  the  birth  of  the  Ettrick  Shepherd  com- 
monly given,  viz.  Jan.  25,  1772,  could  not  be 
correct,  as  the  parish  register  proved  that  he  was 
baptised  on  Dec.  9, 1770,  he  goes  on  to  remark : 
''  Yet  the  Rev.  Thomas  Thomson,  in  a  memoir 
of  the  poet  prefixed  to  the  octavo  edition  of  his 
works,  published  by  Messrs.  Blackie  of  Glasjrow 
in  1866,  has  repeated  the  original  error.''  The 
following  are  the  words  of  the  memoir,  from 
which  it  will  be  seen  whether  the  '^  original  error" 
has  been  repeated  or  not : — 

"  The  subject  of  onr  memoir  was  bom,  according  to  his 
own  account,  in  1772,  and  on  the  25th  of  Jsnuarv.— 
This  assigned  date,  however,  was  probablv  a  slip  of'  the 
memory,  as  the  parish  register  records  nis  baptism  &s 
having  taken  place  on  the  9th  of  December,  1770." 

So  the  Rev.  Dr.  has  not  discovered  an  error, 
but  only  a  mare's  nest.              Bla-CIOS  &  Son. 
Glasgow.  

fSiiittTlsLVitnvLi* 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  New  Testament^  according  to  the  Autkorited  Version. 
With  Analytis,  Notett  &c.    (Bagster  A  Sons.) 

The  great  aim  which  the  editor  of  this  edition  of  the 
New  Testament  has  had  in  view  has  been,  **  to  make  the 
volume  truly  serviceable  both  for  public  and  private  use; 
and  to  put  the  English  reader  as  far  as  possible  in  pos- 
session of  the  Divine  beauties,  accuracies,  perfections,  and 
harmonies  of  the  inspired  original."  To  detail  the  arrange- 
ment and  mode  of  printing,  by  which  the  editor  has  endea- 
voured to  accomplish  this  important  object,  would  be  to 
transcribe  literally  the  editor's  Introduction.  For  this 
we  have  not  space,  and  must,  therefore,  confine  ourselves 
to  the  expression  of  our  opinion  that,  in  the  volume 
before  us,  the  Christian  reader  will  find  a  most  intelli- 
gent and  trustworthy  guide  to  the  study  of  the  New 
Testament. 

Wwdtrfd  StofitM  from  Northern  Lands.  By  Jali* 
Goddard,  Author  of  **  The  Bov  and  the  Constellations," 
&C.  With  an  Introduction  by  the  Rev.  George  W.  Cox. 
M.A.,  and  Six  JUuatratione  from  Iheignt  by  W.  I* 
Weigand,  Engraved  by  C.  Pearson.    (Longman.) 

Closely  as  the  popular  tales  of  all  nations  are  allied, 
both  in  the  hidden  myths  which  they  veil  and  the  shape 
in  which  they  are  presented,  they  possess  neverthdess 
an  innate  Aneshness  and  vitality  whicn  serves  to  give  an 
air  of  noveltv  to  them  under  every  form  they  may  as- 
sume. The  book  before  ns  famishes  a  striking  instance 
of  this.  There  is  probably  not  an  incident,  howerer 
strange  or  startling,  in  any  of  these  **  Wonderftil  Stories,'* 
which  has  not  its  counterpart  in  some  cognate  legend  of 
the  East  or  of  the  West,  yet  as  we  read  them  we  are 
charmed  by  the  spirit  of  originality  and  sense  of  genuine- 
ness by  which  they  are  diaracterised ;  and  we  lay  down 


4**  S,  VII.  Jan.  14,7 1.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


47 


the  book  with  a  sense  of  indebtedness  to  Miss  Goddard 
for  a  capital  selection  of  most  interesting  popolar  fictions, 
and  to  Mr.  Gbz  for  the  instmctiTe  and  intelligent  intro- 
doctioa  which  he  haa  prefixed  to  them. 

Rtm^B  Parliameniary  Record,  1870.    Edited  by  Charles 

Boss.    (Wade.) 

We  snapect  a  rery  large  per  centage,  not  only  of  the 
Members  of  the  two  Hooses  of  ParUiEiment,  but  also  of 
those  specially  interested  in  the  proceedings  of  the  legis- 
lature, are  as  yet  nnacqoainted  with  the  existence  of  this 
most  QseAil  uidez  to  the  progress  of  legislation.  The 
ParEamemtary  Becord  appears  from  week  to  week,  and 
as  the  type  is  always  standing  and  the  new  matter  is  in- 
trodvoed  in.  ita  proper  place,  the  Record  is  always  com- 
plete up  to  the  moment  of  pnblication,  so  that  it  is  at 
once  an  index  and  record  of  the  state  of  public  business, 
and  as  snch  is  a  most  yaluable  guide  to  all  who  are  in- 
terested in  such  matters. 

Tke  Maidtm  amd  Married  Life  of  Mary  Pmoell,  after- 
ward$  MisiretM  Milton,   Fourth  Edition,  (Hall  &  Co.) 

Tke  Houmkoid  of  Sir  Thomae  More,   Fifth  Edition,  with 
an  Appendix,    (Hall  A  Co.) 

Oande  U^  Colporteur.    Fourth  Edition.     (H4II  &  Co.) 

Cherry  and  Violet:  a  Tale  of  the  Great  Plague,    Fifth 
EStion.    (Hall  A  Co.) 

The  Proooea^nt  of  Madame  Palisw.     Fifth  Edition 
(HaU&Co.) 

The  antboRss  of  these  admirable  little  books  must  be 
deeply  gntified  by  the  testimony—**  to  the  tone  of  pure 
Fflil^tts  niety  in  which  so  many  scenes  of  past  times 
ere  relatca** — which  has  just  been  borne  to  trom  by  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  who  has  been  indebted  to 
them  for  th«  soothing  interest  which  beguiled  many 
hoan  dnriD^  hia  long  illness  What  publisher  could 
resist  dreolatiDg  sach  eridence  of  Miss  Manning's 
genius? 

Papworth's  "Ordinary  of  Britisii  Armorials." — 
We  desire  to  correct  a  misstatement  of  which  we  have 
soddentalhr  been  gniltr.  in  announcing  that  this  work  is 
to  be  competed  br  Mr.*Walford,the  editor  of  TTie  Landed 
Gentry.  Its  continuance  is  to  be  entrusted  to  Mr.  Pap- 
woith's  relatiTe  and  friend,  Mr.  Alfred  W.  Morant,  F.S.A., 
who  has  kindlr  undertaken  to  prepare  the  remainder  of 
the  original  M§L  for,  and  to  see  it  through,  the  press;  and 
whose  qualifications  for  the  task  are  not  unknown  to 
some  oi  the  subscribers.  As  three-fifths  of  the  work  have 
been  published,  and  the  remainder  is  complete  with  the 
exception  of  a  small  portion  which  requires  letranscribing 
for  the  preesy  there  seems  now  no  doubt  that  the  work 
will  verjr  shortly  be  completed,  to  the  c^at  advantage 
of  all  heraldic  and  genealogical  students.  Those  who 
desire  to  know  how  they  may  obtain  the  remaining  Parts 
of  the  work,  or  may  subscribe  for  the  book  in  its  oom- 
f^ete  form  (the  price  will  be  five  guineas),  should  apply 
to  Mr.  Wyatt  Papworth,  F.R.I.B.A.,  18,  Hart  Street, 
Bloomsbury  Square,  for  a  copy  of  the  new  Prospectus 
which  he  lias  lately  circulated. 

The  Fairfdrd  Wiudows. — Great  fears  being  enter- 
tained for  the  safety  of  these  matchless  specimens  of 
<arly  art,  a  comnetent  authority  having  declared  that 
*  St  least  the  windows  must  be  reloaded,  or  a  good  storm 
wwld  do  more  harm  than  any  restoration  could  effect,"  a 
committee  to  secure  their  preservation  has  been  formed 
ander  the  presidencv  of  Earl  Bathuist,  and  of  which 
Mr.  Edward  Roberts,'F.S.A.,  of  No.26,  Parliament  Street, 
ii  the  honoranr  secretary.  That  gentleman  is  not  only 
ropared  to  atrord  erery* information  on  the  subject  that 
ir.jvb(»  desired,  but  is' duly  authorised  to  recpive  sub- 
scriptions. 


While  speaking  of  these  windows,  we  may  state  that 
Mr.  H.  F.  Holt  has  written  a  paper  for  the  Arohieological 
Association  entitled  the  **Tannes  of  Fairford,"  in  ^ich 
he  gives  the  rise  and  fidl  of  that  family  from  documents 
hitherto  unnoticed,  and  in  which  he  shows — 1.  That  John 
Tanne  did  not  acquire  the  painted  glass  in  1492  by  con- 
quest or  piracy.  2.  That  he  did  not  found  Fairford 
church,  or  dedicate  it  to  the  Virgin  Maxy.  8.  That  he 
did  not  rebuild  the  church.  4.  That  he  had  nothing 
whatever  to  do  with  the  painted  glass,  and  never  con- 
templated either  its  purchase  or  its  erection  ;  and  lastly, 
the  facts  connected  with  the  acquisition  of  the  windows ; 
by  whom  given,  and  when,  as  well  as  the  drcurastanoes 
and  motives  which  induced  the  donation. 

Cork  Cdvierian  and  Archaolooical  Socibtt. — 
An  interesting  account  was  given  at  the  recent  meeting 
of  this  Society  of  an  ogham  stone  found,  near  Maeroon, 
in  an  ancient  subterranean  chamber.  The  fragment  of 
inscription  on  the  stone  was  translated  as—**  (Stone  of) 
Fecuana  the  Sow  op  Cuod  •  •  •,"  and  was  believed 
to  indicate  a  burial. 

BoDLKiAs  LiBRART.— The  donations  to  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford  during  the  year  ending  Nov.  8, 1870, 
according  to  the  catalogue  just  issued,  comprise  seventv- 
fonr  works  printed  at  the  Bonlak  Press  and  presented  oy 
his  Highness  the  Khedive  of  Egypt;  letters  by  the  Em- 
peror Napoleon  III.,  presented  by  his  Majesty,*  and  con- 
tributions firom  a  number  of  universities  and  centres  of 
learning  in  Europe  and  America,  India  and  Australia. 

ANTIQUARIAN  EzoATATioxfs  IN  Italt.— Interesting 
excavations  are  being  carried  on  in  various  parts  of  Italy, 
especially  at  the  Campo  Santo  of  Bologna,  where  a  stra- 
tum of  Etruscan  interments  has  lately  been  discovered 
underneath  the  mediiftval  and  modem  strata ;  and  also  at 
the  Leucadian  promontoiy,  where  Professor  Giovanni 
Capelini  reports  that  traces  of  cannibalism  have  been 
found. 

Society  op  Antiquaries  of  Scotland.— This  So- 
ciety has  just  been  presented  with  the  collection  of  anti- 
quities of  the  late  Sir  James  Y.  Simpson,  which  includea 
portions  of  sculptured  slabs  from  Nineveh. 

Albert  Barnes,  D.D. — The  American  papers  record 
the  sudden  death  of  this  well-known  commentator  on  the 
Bible,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years. 

American  Literary  Men. — Bryant  is  reputed  worth. 
50O,0CO  dollars,  made  chiefly  by  journalism.  Longfellow 
is  estimated  at  200,000  dollars,  the  gift  of  his  father-in- 
law,  besides  the  very  considerable  profit  of  his  poems. 
Holmes  is  rated  at '100,000  dollars,  nereditarv  property, 
increased  by  lecturing  and  literature.  Wliittier,  who 
lives  frugallv,  is  worth  80,000  dollars,  inherited  and  earned 
by  his  popular  pen.  Saxe  is  reputed  worth  70,000  dollars, 
inherited  and  earned  in  law,  lecturing,  and  literature. 
Lowell  is  said  to  be  worth  30,000  or  40,000  dollars,  here- 
ditary, and  acquired  in  his  chair  as  professor  of  Harvard 
College.  Boker  is  rich  by  inheritance,  and  worth  pro- 
bablv  100,000  dollars.  B^ard  Taylor  is  a  man  of  inde- 
pendent property,  the  profits  of  his  literature  and  lectur- 
ing, and  dividends  from  his  TVibune  stock.  Yerily,  a 
prosperous  set  of  fellows. — American  Paper, 

A  Shower  op  Blood. — One  of  those  phenomena,  so 
interesting  to  scientific  men — a  shower  of  red-coloured 
rain,  occurred  recently  near  Sulphur  Springs,  Texas.  It 
lasted  for  eight  or  ten  seconds,  and  from  the  colour  of  the 
drops  has  been  termed  by  the  people  of  the  vicinity  **  a 
shower  of  blood." 

The  Book  of  Common  Prater  of  1686,  with  all 
the  MS.  alterations  made  by  Convocation  in  1661  ((he 


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[4t»»S.VII.  Jan.  11.71. 


draft  of  the  present  vemon  showing  at  a  glance  in  what 
IMrticolan  it  differa  fron  the  preceding  edition),  and 
fixmi  which  the  copjf  appended  to  the  Act  of  Unifonnity 
was  transcribed,  from  which  transcript  ''the  Sealed 
Book*'  of  1662  was  printed,  has  been  reproduced  by 
Major-General  Sir  Henry  James's  photo-zincogtaphic 
process.  It  forms  an  exact  counterpart  of  the  origmal 
folio  volume,  and  is  about  to  be  published  by  Mr.  B.  M. 
Pickering  with  the  authority  or  the  Stationery  Office. 
It  is  unnecessary  to  say  one  word  as  to  the  importance 
of  this  document  with  reference  to  the  history  of  our 
Prayer  Book. 

William  Sidney  QtBSOir,  F.A.A.— We  regret  to  an- 
nounce the  death  on  Jan.  8,  1871,  of  this  weU-lmown 
historical  and  topographical  antiquary,  and  one  of  the 
earUest  contributors  to  the  pages  oif  '*  N.  &  Q.,"  for  two  of 
his  artides,  under  the  initials  W.  S.  6.,  appeared  in  the 
first  Tolume  of  our  First  Series  (1849-50).  Mb.  Gibson, 
who  was  for  twenty-eeren  yearsllegistrar  of  the  Court  of 
Bankruptcy  at  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  was  the  author  of 
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Memoirs  of  the  Right  Hon.  James  Radcliffe,  Earl  of 
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Castle."  2.  **  Northumbrian  Castles,  Churches,  and 
Antiquities."  Three  Series.  3.  "  The  History  of  the  Mon- 
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ENTLEliEN    desirous  of   haring   their  Linens 

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VrOTHING  IMPOSSIBLE,— AQUA  AMARELLA 

X 1  rwtores  the  Homaa  Hair  to  its  pristine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
ace.  MESSRS.  JOHN  606NELL  It  CO.  hare  at  length,  with  the  aid 
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JOHX  GOSNELL  *  OO.'S  Extra  Hlghljr  Scented  TOILET  and 
XUBiiERY  POWDER. 

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....   Mr.  Mwidr's  animated  aad  pictmasqae  descri] 


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ANCIENT  SPANISH  BALLADS. 

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the  East  and  of  the  West  which  forms  the  special  attracti<m  of  old 
Spanish  history,  litciature.  and  lesend.**— Daify  Nem. 


Dai^yem 


XewM. 


LADY   BELCHER'S    ACCOUNT    of  the 

MUTINEEBS  of  the  "BOUNTY." 

*"nie  story  of  the  'Bounty'  is  one  of  the  roinanoe«  of  onrEni^lish 
naval  hlahwy.    Lady  Belcher  baa  ^ven  na  many  additional  details. 


which  sreatly  enhance  the  hitercat  of  the  old  story.   The  narrative  is 
well  told,  and  has  all  the  excitement  of  a  zomance/* 

Englith  Independent. 


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CHARLES  BELL,  F.R.6. 

"Rvleto  with  faiterest,  not  only  on  aoDomit  of  tiie  deUcfatftil  picture 
it  givas  of  Sir  Chariea  Bell,  but  also  of  tiie  celebrated  people  with  whom 
be  was  eonslaatly  epminc  In  centact.  He  *»»"m*>i^  was  one  of  nature's 
nobiemca.** 


DEAN  MILMAN'S  SAVONAROLA, 

KRABmrS.  md  other  LITBRART  ESSATS. 


I  will  be  vead  with  gnat  interest,  not  only  bnrewar  they 
are  from  the  pen  of  Dean  Milman,  aad  cxhlMt  the  farilliaacy  and 
power  which  characterise  his  style,  but  also  on  account  of  the  nature  of 
the  sulqects  of  which  they  treat.*' 


A  NEW  EDITION  OF  DR.  WM.  SMITH'S 

CONCISE  BIBLE  DICTIONARY. 

**  An  invaluable  servioe  has  been  rendered  to  students  in  this  coa- 
deuMtloai  the  woifc  has  been  doae  as  only  a  caieAil  and  Intellicent 
scholar  could  do  \i,*'—BriiiMk  QmBrteriy  Review. 


MRS.  BRAY'S  REVOLT  OF  THE  PRO- 

TESTANTB  IN  THE  CEVjmilJML 

"  A  vary  feU  andiatonittac  aoeoant  of  the  cMl  war  in  the  Cevenncs, 
po|inlarl|r  known  as  the  OsmisaTd  revolt.  TIm  book  is  agraeably 
wntten.  — Xiterary 


DR.  BARRY'S  MEMOIR  of  SIR  CHARLES 

BARRY.  RJl. 

**  At  the  pveKnt  time,  when  the  nation  is  abont  to  embark  on  bnild- 
inc  New  Law  Courts  and  a  Nattotel  Gallery,  the  Priadpal  oTKinir's 
College  haa  done  good  pnhUe  servioe  in  writing  this  moooir  ofhis 
Ibther.aadwe  caaonfarha«a  that  it  will  be  read  ^alaaiidagalain 
ordertoserveas  aeaBtaon  to 
worka.*'— JTotcs  oaif  Qmeria. 


SIR    CHARLES    LYELL'S    STUDENTS 

ELEMENTS  OF  GEOLOGY. 

**  Ndtwithalaading  the  difienllr  of  reooneiline  brevity  widx  the  oH- 
onsnesa  of  illustration.  I  have  enacavoured  to  abridge  the  work,  so  &  tu 
place  it  within  the  reach  of  many  towhom  it  was  belbre  inaeoBnible." 

Atitkor'$  I'rtfaee. 


A   NEW   EDITION   OF   MISS  FRERFS 

OLD  DECCAN  DAYS. 

**  Miss  Frere  has  executed  her  task  with  judflnent  aad  skill,  snd  hv 
made  a  pleasing  selection  of  oriirinal  fiibles  and  aadcnt  legendi.  Tbt 
style  is  simple  but  eflvctivc.  The  notes  contain  much  vaioaUe  ia- 
formaUon . " — Examiner. 

0 

MR.  FOSS'S  BIOGRAPHICAL  DICTION- 
ARY OF  THE  JUDGES  OF  E??GLAND. 

**  A  triumph  of  industry  and  labour.  It  is  a  book  which  no  ooe  vbo 
has  any  interest  in  legal  history  should  be  withaat."~-Jokn  BtlL 


A    NEW   EDITION    OF  MR.    LESLIES 

HANDBOOK  FOR  YOUNG  PAINTEB8. 

**  Mr.  Leslie  adds  one  more  to  the  aaiBber  of  aooomplished  men 
who,  like  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  write  as  aHmi^i^Hy  as  tlaey  paint" 

Qmanerlif  Berix. 
o 

MR.    DYER'S    HISTORY   OF  MODERN 

KUROFE,  14a3-.lRH'. 

"  The  only  good  v-urk  of  iu  kimd  extamt  m  £^UA,  It  is  arawged 
and  proportianed  admirably  welL**-   *" 


AN  ILLUSTRATED   EDITION  OF  THE 

CHACE-THE  TLTIF— AND  THE  ROAD.    ByNIMBOD. 

**  This  caidtal  work  needs  no  leeoanneDdatiaa.    It  Is  oaa  that  should 
he  ia  eveiy  genHamaa's  lihraiT.**-VoAw  BM. 


STORIES  FOR  DARHNGa     A  Book  for 


aad  widi  to  make  then  fasppr* 
them  with  this  dmniiBS 


Bo7s  and  Girls. 

"  All  who  are  bleased  with  Akrli 
will  discliarge  a  pleasant  doty  by 
little  volnaie.''.^£krapA>an. 


MR.  CARL  ENGEL'S  WORK  ON  THE 

MUSIC  OF  THE  MOST  ANCIENT  NATIONS. 

•  "ae  mort  valaaUeaddltlon  to  the  history  of  mnsie  that  wf  htn 
had  for  a  long  time.   The  author  has  for  many  jean  devoted  iiis  atten- 

work,  wliieh  U  »» 


tion  to  the  p— "»»«>  characteriskic 


aationa,  aad  the  reenlt  b  the  m 

interesting  as  a  senaatlon  noTcL"-.Qrr*cs<rxi. 


A  POCKET  EDITION  of  LORD  BYRO.VS 

FQETIGAL  WORKS. 


SI 


This  capital  UtUe  llhrnry  of  gift  bodka!    Neat 


binding,  in.  a  cue. 


MBS  MUBRA.Y,  Albemarle  Street 


4"S.riI.jAX.  21,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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lyyoojr,  satvrdat.  jamuary  21,  isii. 


CONTBKT8.— N»  160. 

.VOTES:— BMkI  PWrsoM  in  "The  Faerie  Queeo/*  49—  West 
H:chbiiid  Cuttoms  at  Harrteges,  Births,  and  Funerals,  SO 
-*8faakapere't  Death:  Soda!  Genealogy,  M  — Christcaas 
Mummers  and  Plotueh-witcbers  —  Tbie  Siege  of  Breda: 
Tobacco  —The  Pretender'a  Cordial  —Epitaph  at  Wing 
Church  —  AdaM  de  Orletnn  —  General  W<Mfe  and  thedOth 
Foot-  TheM>ropb«vy  of  Onral  —  Witchoraft  —  "  Le  Coq 
fnnrais  '*  —  Milton  and  Homoeopathy  —  Heliotypy,  AS. 

QrK&IES :  —  **  ^liqnando  dormitat  bonus  Homerui "  — 
AnonTRWos  —  f^ibiiotheca  Indica  —  Daubyff n6  Monument 

-  The  B«T.  Jolin  Bnty  —  Bleren  fihiUiag  l*leeei  of 
Charles  L—  Fnuer :  Friael  —  Pedigree  of  B.  IL  Hajrdoa. 
th«  Hiitoric*!  Painter  — "Hints  to  Chairmen"  —  ^'The 
HettTing  of  the  Lead  "  —  Arms  of  Jennour  —  Dr.  Johnson's 
Watch  —  "  Der  relegurte  Kobbold,"  ftc.— Knight  of  the 
Body  aiid  £.-qaire  of  the  Body  — Curious  Marriaffo  Cua- 
tnm  -  *•  Tb«  Prodigal  Son  "  —  Latin  Proverb  —  A  Rector- 
ship of  E^tynme  Years  —  Female  Saint  —  8ocietaa  A)- 
bertoram  —  Theocritus  ii.  2  —  *'  Though  kwt  to  Sight.,  to 
Memoiy  dear  "  —  **  Tom  Tiddler's  Ground  "—Weaver's  Art 
—Wives  of  Earis  of  NOTthumberla«id,  54. 

BEPLIBS:—6im.  57— Convivial  Songs.  &S-'*&s"and"  Eii,*' 
59  — The  fiakiBiore  and  "Old  Mortality  "  Pateraons.eo  — 
Pennytersan.  Ac,  i&.  —  Francis.  Exrl  of  Bdihwcll  —  Mount 
Calvary  —  Bhyoe  to  "Widow"— Falls   of  Foyers  and 

<;iBmma  — Automaton  Chess- Flavor- 13 G :  **A 

Ride  from  Yarmouth  to  Wales "  —  " Whiuny  Moor"  — 
**  She  took  the  Cup/'  ^.—  Lancashire  Fuiip.ral  Folk  Lore 

—  Kieolas  Hamel  —The  Hon.  Csctherine  Southcoto  —  The 
"  Blae  Lav$  of  CaanectScut " —The  "  Slian- Van  Voght  "— 
First  Book  printed  in  Manchester  —  Missalo  sd  usiim 
Saram  —  The  Bookworm  —  The  Eodlac  of  Denderah  — 
Jacob  66hme—  Hair  growing  after  Death,  Ac,  6S. 

Notes  OD  Books.  Jtc 


REAL  PERSONS  IN  «  THE  FAERIE  QUEEN." 

We  hare  seen  that  all  is  allegory  in  the  first 
book  of  this  poem.  With  it,  however,  allegorpr 
ceases,  and  we  have  only  personifications ;  hut  it 
has  heen  supposed  that  hy  these  in  general  are 
meant  real  personages  connected  with  the  court  of 
Elizabeth.  Thus  one  critic  sees  in  the  staid 
timber  Guy  on,  the  hero  of  the  second  book,  and 
his  ^ide  the  sage  Palmer,  the  fiery  impetuous 
Lord  of  Essex  and  Archbishop  Whitgift,  but 
v.'here  the  resemblance  lies  I  confess  1  cannot 
discern.  I  may  observe,  by  the  way,  that  Guyon 
is  the  celebrated  Guyon  or  Guy  Earl  of  War- 
wick, the  son  of  St  George,  the  Red-cross  Knight 
of  the  preceding  book — so  renowned  in  romance 
for  the  temperance  and  moderation  of  his  charac- 
ter. In  fact,  in  the  early  books  of  the  poem,  we 
know  to  a  certainty  of  but  one  real  character — 
the  fair  huntress  Belphosbe,  who,  the  poet  assures 
U5.  was  meant  for  the  queen,  as  ''  a  most  virtuous 
and  beautiful  lady." 

The  queen,  when  the  first  part  of  the  poem  was 
published,  was  in  her  fifty-seventh  year,  and 
when  we  read  the  glowing  description  of  the 
form  and  beauty  of  Belphoebe,  we  might  be 
tempted  to  class  Spenser  among  those  adulators 
who  gave  her  aU  tiie  charms  of  youth  when  she 
was  aa  old  woman.  But  in  so  doing  we  should 
do  Uin  injustice.     Spenser  was  bom  and  lived  in 


London,  as  /  think  on  the  southern  or  Kentish 
side  of  the  river.  I  have  shown  that  the  most 
probable  year  of  his  birth  was  the  year  1551, 
and  supponng  him  when  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of 
age  to  have  often  seen  the  queen,  who  was  then  we 
may  say  in  her  prime,  riding  as  she  always  did 
through  the  streets  of  London,  and  probably  in 
huntress'  attire,  to  her  favomite  palace  of  Green- 
wich to  hunt  the  deer  in  the  park ;  or,  supposing 
that  he  may  at  tioies  have  obtained  admission 
into  the  park,  and  seen  her  bending  her  bow  at 
the  fiyiog  game,  may  not  this  sight  have  created 
Belphoebe  in  his  strong  and  susceptible  imagina- 
tion ?  Even  when  he  had  last  seen  her  before  his 
^oing  to  Ireland  in  1580,  the  queen  was  only 
forty-seven,  and  her  beauty  was  probably  little  im- 
paired. Surely,  then,  the  poet  was  not  to  blame 
for  describing  her  in  1590  as  he  recollected  her 
in  her  younger  days. 

I  find,  by  the  way,  that  there  are  persons  who 
would  sacrifice  historic  truth  to  false  delicacy, 
and  who  blame  me  and  others  for  vindicating  the 
ftiir  fame  of  the  great  queen  from  the  foul  asper- 
sions of  Dr.  Lingard  and  his  authorities,  even 
though  somewhat  at  the  expense  of  her  heroism. 
I  am,  however,  not  of  them,  and  no  literary  act 
of  mine  ever  gave  me  more  sincere  pleasure. 
The  quotation  from  Randolph's  letter  in  one  of 
the  replies  I  regard  as  of  great  importance,  as  it 
proves  that  in  15(35  some  of  the  best  informed  per- 
sons knew  or  believed  that  Elizabeth  never  would 
be  a  mother.  The  queen's  words  when  she  was 
informed  of  the  birth  of  Mary's  son  are  also  very 
significant.  As  to  her  apparently  serious  inten- 
tion of  marrying  Anjou  when  she  was  nearly 
fifty,  it  is  easy  of  explanation.* 

To  proceed,  then,  Timias  and  Amoret  were  re- 
garded by  some  critics  as  Sir  Walter  Ealeigh  and 
Elizabeth  Trogmorton ;  but  the  latter  was  in  no 
way  akin  to  the  queen,  and  Amoret  is  sister  to 
Beipboebe.  I  am  therefore'^nclined  to  see  in  this 
last  Lettice  Ejiollys,  the  queen's  cousin,  first  mar- 
ried to  Lord  Essex,  and  then,  to  Elizabeth's  great 
displeasure,  to  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  whom  I 
take  to  be  Timias,  in  whose  name  there  may  be 
an  allusion  to  Leicester's  motto,  "Droyte  et 
Loyall "  ;  he  is  the  squire  of  Prince  Arthur,  and 
the  Dudley  family  were  strongly  attached  to  the 
house  of  Tudor ;  and  his  being  wounded  by  the 
^^josters,"  and  secured  and  restored  to  health  by 
Belphcsbe,  may  allude  to  the  ruin  of  his  family 
at  the  accession  of  Mary,  and  its  restoration  by 
that  of  Elizabeth.  By  Sir  Scudamore  may  be 
meant  the  Earl  of  Essex. 

In  Maiinel  of  the  Rich  or  Precipus  Strond 
Upton  saw  Lord  Howard  of  Effingham,  High 
Admiral  of  England,  and  in  his  treasures  from 


*  See  Fiekling*!  Joaepk  Andrew»^  i.  ch.  6 ;  liarivaax, 
Lt  Parson  Parvenu,  s^oode  partie,  vert  la  Jin. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»k8.VII.jAK.21,'71. 


wrecks.  &Cy  the  spoils  of  tlie  Spanish  Armada.  I 
view  Marinel  as  a  purely  poetic  creation,  and  trace 
its  origin  thus :  Spencer  in  his  View,  ^c,  makes 
mention  of  one  .Arundel  of  the  Strond  in  co. 
Cork^  who  was  formerly  a  great  lord,  hat  was 
then  much  reduced ',  and  I  rememher  seeing  my- 
self the  ruins  of  a  castle  close  to  the  water  on  tne 
east  side  of  Clonakilty  Baj,  named  Arundel  Castle, 
which  may  have  heen  his  residence ;  and  as  he 
may  have  derived  much  of  his  wealth  from  vessels 
wrecked  on  his  coast,  the  poet  may  have  formed 
from  him  his  MaiineL  His  hirth  may  be  an 
imitation  of  that  of  Achilles,  but  there  were,  and 
perhaps  still  are,  legends  on  the  coast  of  Cork  of 
the  imion  of  mortals  with  nymphs  of  the  sea. 

In  the  fifth  book  we  come  at  last  on  real  per- 
sons. Arthegal,  for  instance,  and  Britomart  have 
hitherto  been  only  the  Rugffiero  and  Bradamante 
of  the  I\irio8o,  but  now  he  oecomes  Arthur  Lord 
Ghrey,  the  poet's  patron.  The  queen  now  is  Mer- 
cilia,  and  buessa  the  Queen  of  Scots,  whose  son, 
by  the  way,  was  so  offended  at  it  that  he  de- 
manded the  punishment  of  the  poet  Blandamour 
and  Paridel  are  now  the  two  great  northern  earls 
who  took  up  arms  in  her  cause.  Sir  Burbon  is 
HeniT  of  Navarre,  but  in  Gerioneo  and  Grantorto 
I  only  see  personifications  of  Philip  and  the 
Spanish  monarchy  and  of  O'Neil  and  the  native 
Irish. 

Sir  Calidore,  the  hero  of  the  last  book,  is  the 
gallant  Sir  Philip  Sidney ;  Melibee  and  Pastorella, 
Sir  F.  Walsingham  and  his  dauffhteri  whom  Sid- 
ney married;  Colin  Clout  and  his  Lasse,  the  poet 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  another  phase  of  whose 
character  may,  as  I  have  hinted  elsewheroi  have 
given  origin  to  Mirabella. 

There  may  be  other  real  persons  in  the  poem, 
but  I  have  not  discovered  them. 

Thos.  Kbiohtlbt. 


WEST  HIGHLAND  CUSTOMS  AT  MARRIAGES, 
BIRTHS,  AND  FUNERALS. 

I  am  indebted  to  various  Gaelic-speaking  na- 
tives of  Cantire,  South  Argyleshire,  for  much  in- 
formation relative  to  the  old  customs  of  their 
West  Highland  district  in  relation  to  births,  mar- 
riageSy  and  funerals.  The  notes  that  I  here  nve 
from  the  accounts  of  my  iniformants  may  possiblv 
assist  to  preserve  the  memory  of  customs  which 
have  in  many  West  Highland  districts  already 
become  obsolete. 

Mahriaob  Cttstoks. — Early  in  the  present 
century  marriages  were  celebrated  in  Cantire  with 
more  ceremouy  and  greater  hilarity  than  is  now 
commonlv  the  case,  except  in  the  more  retired 
glens.    The  marriage  customs  were  these : — 

When  a  young  pair  had  got  through  the  leitrach, 
or  contract|  and  bad  agreed  to  get  mamed  with 


the  consent  of  their  relatives,  a  nisht  was  ap- 
pointed for  the  reiUy  when  the  friends  met  and  a 
feast  was  prepared,  of  which  all  were  hearty  par- 
takers. All  arrangements  were  then  made:  the 
names  of  the  parties  were  recorded  in  the  church 
session-booki  and  were  proclaimed  on  Sabhath. 
Invitations  were  then  given  to  friends  and  neigh- 
bours, who  in  return  generally  sent  a  present  to 
the  bride  by  way  of  contribution  to  the  feast ;  and 
in  this  way,  hens,  ducks,  meal,  butter,  cheese, 
and  even  a  fat  sheep,  would  find  their  way  to  the 
bride's  house.  The  bridegroom  had  to  provide 
that  important  part  of  the  feast,  the  jar  of 
whisky;  for  tea  was  but  little  used  sixty  years 
ago.  Gunpowder  was  purchased  by  the  young 
men  in  oraer  to  salute  the  marriage  party  by  the 
dischanpe  of  firearms. 

On  the  morning  of  the  wedding-day  the  Trash- 
ing of  the  bride  took  place,  and  after  her  bath 
she  veas  dre^ed  in  her  oest  clothes  ready  for  the 
ceremony.  The  bride's  party  assembled  in  the 
house  of  her  parents,  where  the  wedding  festivi- 
ties were  hela,  the  bridegroom's  party  meeting 
them  either  at  or  near  to  the  church  or  manse 
where  the  ceremony  vras  celebrated.  Pipers 
played  before  each  party^  and  shots  were  fired  as 
thev  passed  alonff. 

The  ceremony  being  over,  the  two  parties  ioined, 
and  returned  together  to  ''the  wedding-houae '^ 
vrith  great  joy.    A  bam  had  been  cleared  for 
dancing,  where^  after  partaking  of  refireshments, 
the  pipers  and  fiddlers  began  to  play,  and  the 
young  people  immediately  commenced  dancing,  at 
which  they  were  very  expert,  having  been  f  re- 
viously  trained  to  such  exercise.    The  dancing 
was  continued  until  the  dinner  was  set  down,  when 
all  the  company  took  their  nlaoes  on  either  side  of 
a  long  table,  (rrace  having  been  said  and  a  bless- 
ing asked  by  one  of  the  seed  men,  they  all  fell-to 
at  the  good  things  provided  for  them,  and  the 
carvers  made  a  round  hand  at  the  fowls,  though 
some  of  them  were  not  very  expert  at  separating 
the  joints.    Indeed,  I  remember  being  at  a  wed- 
ding where  there  was  a  strong  man  who  was 
called  upon  to  carve ;  but,  not  coming  upon  the 
joints,  he  was  somewhat  puzzled  how  to  divide 
the  fowl  into  pieces ;  so  he  began  to  tell  a  story 
about  a  sailor  who  was  set  to  carve,  but  could  not 
do  it.  **  Upon  which,"  said  the  strong  man,  '*  I  will 
tell  you  what  the  sailor  did — he  toci  the  fat  hen 
in  his  hands,  and  grasping  it  firmly,  tore  it  to 
pieces  in  an  instant"    And  with  this  the  strong 
man  did  the  same ;  after  which  they  let  him  eat 
his  dinner  in  peace,  and  gave  him  no  more  fowls 
to  carve. 

After  dinner  the  wedding  company  would  set 
to  dance  in  earnest:  before  dinnei^  it  had  only  been 
a  little  bit  of  exercise  to  whet  their  appetites. 
As  the  dance  was  open  to  all  who  chose  to  come 
and  join  it,  young  men  and  girls  would  travel 


♦»  8.  Vn.  Jan.  21,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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a  long  distance  to  be  present  at  the  marriage  ball, 
to  which  they  had  admittance  on  condition  of 
^ying  a  small  sum  "for  the  floor.''  The  ball 
and  the  whis^-drinking  were  kept  up  through 
the  night  until  the  next  day's  dawn,  and  it  was 
always  a  late  hour  before  the  bride  was  put  to 
bed.  After  this  had  been  done  with  great  cere- 
mony by  the  bride's  friends,  and  the  bridegroom's 
own  party  had  laid  him  by  her  side,  the  company 
gathered  round  them  in  their  bed,  and  drank  to 
their  healths,  to  which  the  bride  and  bridegroom 
replied  in  the  same  manner,  and  the  company 
then  left  them. 

The  next  day  the  wedding  company  again 
assembled,  and  generally  made  a  happy  day  of  it 
with  feasting,  walking,  dancing,  and  flrmg  of 
guns  and  pistols  until  the  eyening,  when  they  dis- 
persed. Such  was  the  fashion  of  marriages  in 
Cantire  early  in  the  present  century,  but  things 
are  much  altered  now,  although  certain  customs 
are  still  retuned,  especially  those  which  relate  to 
the  dancing  and  the  whisky.  Now-a-days,  when 
the  wedding  party  haye  assembled  to  dinner,  they 
will  withdraw  to  the  nearest  public-house,  where 
**  the  best  men  "  will  go  round  the  company  with 
waiters,  receiying  an  equal  sum  of  money  from 
f  ach  person — ^sometimes  as  much  as  three  shillings 
or  more  from  eyery  ^uest.  The  whole  of  this 
sam  is  at  once  sunk  in  the  purchase  of  whisky, 
and  the  natural  consequence  is  that  the  diyersions 
of  the  eyening  too  often  terminate  in  anything  but 
harmony  and  goodwill. 

Baptisxal  Customs. — The  baptism  of  infants 
was  considered  a  yery  important  ceremony  in 
Cantire ;  for,  in  addition  to  its  scriptural  import, 
it  was  thought  to  be  a  temnoral  charm,  oome 
people  imagined  that  a  chiid  would  not  ^ow 
unless  it  were  baptised,  and  all  were  of  opinion 
that  it  was  bad  lack  to  haye  an  unbaptised  child 
in  the  house :  hence  it  happened  that  parents  and 
puardians  brought  infants  to  be  baptised,  howeyer 
illegitimate  the  children  mi^ht  be,  and  howeyer 
ignorant  the  parents  might  be.  In  cases  of  ille- 
gitimacy the  church  exacted  a  fine  of  the  delin- 
quents; and  if  the  fine  was  not  paid,  means  were 
used  (sixty  years  ago,  and  prior  to  that)  to  send 
the  fathers  to  the  army  and  nayy,  in  which  way 
many  of  the  Highlanders  became  soldiers  and 
seamen:  hence  arose  the  nroyerb,  ''An  ill-got 
bairn  often  makes  a  good  soldier." 

The  Rey.  Dr.  Robertson,  minister  of  the  parish 
of  Campbelton,  and  "  collegiate  "  with  Dr.  smith 
and  Dr.  McLeod,  was  yery  seyere  on  those  who 
could  not  answer  his  questions  on  these  occasions. 
A  man  named .  McNeil  once  came  to  the  old 
doctor,  bringing  his  child  for  baptism;  but  not 
being  able  to  answer  the  minister  s  questions,  the 
doctor  took  a  young  man  of  the  company  aside 
and  examined  him,  and  made  him  to  hold  up  the 


child  to  get  it  baptised.  This  shamed  McNeil  and 
made  him  more  careful  for  the  future. 

The  celebration  of  the  baptismal  ceremony  was 
attended  with  a  great  display  of  hospitality  on  the 
part  of  the  parents,  who  myited  their  friends  and 
neighbours  to  the  christening  feast.  A  j  ar  of  whisky 
haying  been  proyided,  sponsors  were  cnosen,  whom 
they  called  '' goistie  "  and  "  banna-goistie."  The 
care  of  the  whiskey  was  entrusted  to  the  ^'  goistie," 
and  the  ''  banna-goistie  "  (or  female  gossip)  had 
the  charge  of  the  eatables.  The  in&nt  was  then 
giyen  up  by  the  ''  bonheen  "  (ailing  mother)  to 
the  company,  and  was  carried  away  to  church  or 
to  the  minister's  house;  the  company  also  took 
with  them  bread  and  cheese,  and  pins  to  be 
divided  upon  their  return  home  among  the  young 
men  and  maids,  that  they  might  in  dreams  haye 
a  yiew  of  their  future  partners. 

Sometimes  the  merr^-making  on  these  bap- 
tismal journeys  was  suffered  to  lead  the  company 
astray,  and  cause  them  to  forget  the  cause  and 
object  of  their  undertaking.  A  baptismal  com- 
pany was  once  crossing  the  mountains  between 
Larfirie  and  Saddell,  and  rested  on  the  road  to  take 
a  refreshment  of  bread  and  cheese  and  whisky ; 
after  which  they  proceeded  on  their  way,  and 
arriyed  at  the  manse.  The  minister  had  begun 
the  ceremony,  when  they  found  that  the  intant 
was  not  present.  '*  Where  is  the  child  P  "  was  the 
question ;  and  "Haye  you  it  ?  "  " Haye  you  it  ?  " 
tne  females  were  asking  one  another,  but  no  child 
could  be  found.  At  last,  the  one  who  had  been 
carrying  the  child  up  to  that  place  where  they 
had  stayed  on  their  way  for  refreshment  called 
to  mind  that  she  had  laid  it  down  among  the 
heather,  and  had  supposed  that  some  one  else 
must  haye  picked  it  up  and  brought  it  to  the 
manse;  but  as  this  was  not  the  case,  they  had 
nothing  for  it  but  to  retrace  their  steps  to  the 
place  in  question,  which  they  did  without  delay, 
and  foimd  the  child  lying  quite  safely  where  it 
had  been  left  on  its  bed  of  heather.  Then  they 
brought  it  back  to  the  manse  and  had  it  baptised. 

9 

FvinsRAL  CusTOVS. — Up  to  sixty  years  ago  it 
was  the  custom  in  Cantire,  when  anyone  had  de- 
parted this  life,  for  the  friends  of  the  deceased  to 
proyide  the  necessaries  for  the  accommodation 
and  refreshment  of  yisitors.  The  corpse  was 
wrapped  in  oUanach  (woollen),  and  waked  day 
and  night  until  it  was  interred.  A  pan  of  salt  • 
was  plfused  upon  its  breast,  and  it  was  stretched 
upon  a  platform,  oyer  which  was  erected  a  tent 
of  white  linen ;  within  this  tent  candles  were  kept 
alight  day  and  night  until  the  time  of  burial. 
The  neighbours  ffaye  up  their  work,  and  attended 
in  the  house.  The  Bible  and  other  religious  books 
were  laid  upon  a  table  and  perused  by  the  luchd 
/aire  (watchers);  deyotional  exercises  were  per- 
formeoi  each  night  >and  momiog;  plenty  of  oaten 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4««»S.  VII.  Jak.21,71. 


cakes  and  cbee^,  with  whisky,  was  served  at  in- 
teryalsy  and  something  was  said  in  praise  of  the 
deceased.  '*At  internals/*  continued  my  informant, 
"  the  relatives  dropped  a^gentle  tear/' 

When  the  time  of  the  funeral  came  the  com- 
pany was  served  with  bread  and  cheese  and 
whisky.  The  coffin  was  then  carried  forth  and 
put  on  "  spakes/'  the  people  carrying  it  by  turns 
to  the  grave;  but  before  the  fnneral  procession 
xras  out  of  sight,  the  straw  in  the  bed  on  which 
the  deceased  had  died  was  taken  out  and  burnt. 
Very  often  the  procession  was  headed  by  a  piper 
or  by  a  person  plajring  "  The  Land  o'  the  Leal," 
or  some  other  mournful  air,  on  '*  the  Lochaber 
trump "  (i.e.  the  Jew's,  or  rather  jaw's,  harp). 
After  the  interment,  and  when  the  grave  was 
neatly  covered  in  with  green  sods,  the  nearest 
relative  to  the  deceased  thanked  the  company  for 
their  good  attendance.  Bread  and  cheese  and 
whisky  were  then  served  round ;  after  which  the 
company  departed  to  their  own  homes. 

CUTHBERT  BeDE. 


SHAKSPERK'S  DEATH  :  SOCIAL  GENEALOGY. 

Under  date  January  9,  I800,  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne wrote  {Pai^a(fe»fro7n  the  Englidi  Nate-Books 
of  Nathaniel  ITawthortie,  i.  I60-6)  : — 

"  I  dined  at  Mr.  William  Brown's  (M.P.)  last  evening 

with  a  large  party Speaking  of  Shakespeare, 

Mr. said  that  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  who  is  now 

nearly  fourscore,  told  him  that  the  father  of  John  and 
Charles  Kemble  had  made  all  possible  research  into  the 
events  of  Shakespeare's  life,  and  that  he  had  found  reason 
to  believe  that  Shakespeare  attended  a  certain  revel  at 
Stratford,  and  indulging  too  much  in  the  conviviality  of 
the  occasion,  he  tumbled  into  a  ditch  on  his  way  home, 
and  died  there!  The  Kemble  patriarch  was  an  aged 
man  when  he  communicated  this  to  the  duke,  and  their 
ages  linked  to  each  other  would  extend  back  a  good  way, 
Hcarcdy  to  the  beginning  of  the  last  century  however. 
If  I  mistake  not,  it  was  from  the  traditions  of  Stratford 
that  Kemble  had  learned  the  above.  I  do  not  remember 
ever  to  have  seen  it  print— which  is  most  singular." 

Nor  do  I;  and  as  it  may  be  new  to  many 
others,  I,  in  accordance  with  the  motto  of 
'*]S.  &  Q.,"  "  make  a  note  of  it/'  It  is  very 
curious  how  little  we  know  about  Shakspere,  and 
the  more  ao  considering  the  few  lives  intervening 
between  his  death  and  the  date  of  his  first  biogra- 
pher. Leigh  Hunt  (to  whom  most  ideas  of  the  kind 
were  sure  to  occur,  and  form  food  for  inffenions 
speculation)  has  happily  worked  out  the  wought 
contained  in  Hawthorne's  note,  in  an  article  en- 
titled Social  Genealogy,  from  which  the  following 
extract  may  be  acceptable : — 

'^  It  is  a  carious  and  pleasant  thing  to  consider,  that  a 
link  of  personal  acquaintance  can  be  traced  up  from  the 
authors  of  our  own  times  to  those  of  Shakspeare,  and  to 
Shakspeare  himself. Pope,  when  a  child,  pre- 
vailed on  some  friends  to  take  him  to  a  coffee-house 
which  Dryden  frequented Now  mch  of  m  as 


have  shaken  bands  with  a  living  poet  might  be  abk,  per- 
haps, to  reckon  op  a  aeries  of  connecting  shakes  to  tbe 
veiy  hand  that  wrote  of  Hamlet  and  of  Falstaff  sod  ot' 
Desdemona.  With  some  living  poeta  it  is  certain.*  There 
is  Thomas  Moore,  for  instance,  who  knew  Sheridan. 
Sheridan  knew  Johnson,  who  was  the  friend  of  Savage, ^?ho 
knew  Steele,  who  knew  Pope.  Pope  was  intimate  with 
Congreve,  and  Ciongreve  with  Dryden.  Dryden  is  said  to 
have  visited  Milton.  Milton  te  said  to  have  known 
Davenant,  and  to  have  been  saved  by  him  from  tbe  re- 
venge of  tiie  restored  conrt  in  retam  for  having  sst^ 
Davenant  from  the  revenge  of  the  Commonwealth.  But 
if  the  link  between  Diyden  and  Milton,  and  Milton  and 
Davenant  is  somewhat  apocryphal,  or  rather  dependent  on 
tradition  (for  Richardson,  the  painter,  tells  ns  the  Utter 
from  Pope,  who  had  it  from  Betterton  the  actor,  one  of 
Davenant*s  company),  it  may  be  carried  at  once  from 
Dryden  to  Davenant,  with  whom  he  was  nnqnestionabiT 
intimate.  Davenant^  then,  knew  Hobbes,  who  knew 
Bacon,  who  knew  Ben  Jon  son,  who  was  intimate  with 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Chapman,  Donne,  Drayton. 
Camden,  Selden,  Clarendon,  Sydney,  Baleigh,  and  perhaps 
all  the  good  men  of  Elizabeth's  and  James's  time,  th« 
greatest  of  them  all  nndoobtedly.  Thus  we  have  a  link 
of  *  beamy  hands '  from  oar  own  times  op  to  ShaV 
speare. ' 

Leigh  Plunt  continues  his  "Social  (Jenealogr* 
still  further.  For  his  continuation  and  the  an- 
thorities  (all  set  forth  at  length)  for  this  "intel- 
lectual pedigree,"  I  must  refer  the  reader  to  tie 
article  itself,  which  has  been  recently  repiinted 
by  Mr.  Hotten  in  A  Tale  for  a  Chinmey  Corner^ 
and  othej'  JEssof/s,  from  the  Indicator,  1819-21— a 
little  volume  edited  by  Mr.  Edmund  Oilier,  whose 
biographical  introduction  is  not  only  a  very  per- 
fect bit  of  writing  as  to  style,  but  is  adeliciou|bit 
of  appreciative  criticism  worthy  its  subject,  and  a 

Eleasant  picture  of  Leigh  Hunt  by  one  who  knew 
im  well. 

Reverting  to  the  main  subject  of  this  note.  I 
may  add  that  in  "N.  &  Q."  for  March2, 18C1 
(2"''  S.  xi.  102-3),  are  given  two  instances  of  the 
memory  of  two  persons  extending  over  loO  years, 
and  linking  together  the  reigns  of  Anne  and 
George  III.  Doubtless  many  more  could  be 
found  if  sought  for. 

S.  R.  TowxsHEjn)  Matxr. 

Richmond,  S.W. 


Chbistkas  Muhmebs  and  Plovoh-witchebs. 
This  journal  being  the  choeen  repositoiy  for  the 
dates  and  particulars  of  popular  customs,  I  may 
here  state  that  the  Christmaa  mummers  came  to 
my  house  in  Huntingdonshire  in  the  Christmas 
week  of  1870-1,  and  acted  the  old  masque  of 
**  George  and  the  Dragon,''  with  the  characters  of 
Bold  Buonaparte,  the  Turkish  Knight,  Little  Jack, 
Devildoubt,  the  Doctor,  &c  The  party  of  boys 
who  performed  this  mummer's  masque  were  cos- 
tumed for  the  occasion,  and  went  through  the 
piece  with  much  spirit  They  had  been  orally 
taught  the  words,  which  diiter«d  but  slightly 

*  Originally  written  and  pablished  in  1819. 


4«fc  a  VIL  Jax.  21, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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from  yeiaioiis  that  I  had  preTiooslj  heard  in  Wor- 
cesterahize  and  elsewhere,  and  which  have  heen 
recorded  in  fonner  Tolames  of  N.  ft  Q"  I  may 
iIbo  add  that  the  Plough-witchers  came  as  usual 
to  my  house  on  the  eyening  of  Plough  Monday 
(Jan.  9),  rattling  their  cans  and  asking  for  money. 

ClTTHBERT  BbDB. 

[Pipers  OQ  Chriitnias  Mam  men  will  be  found  in  2°<^ 
S.  X.  464,  465  ;  xi.  271 ;  xil  487;  3"*  S.  i.  66 ;  iv.  486.] 

The  Sufiv  of  Brbdjl  :  Tobacco.— The  siege  of 
Breda  was  ene  of  the  most  celehrated  sieges  of  the 
seTenteenth  oentazy,  and  is  frequently  mentioned 
hy  the  oM  English  dramatists.  Spinola  sat  down 
before  Breda  on  August  26, 1624,  and  the  town 
did  not  surrender  until  July  1  in  the  folio  wing 
year.  The  besieged  suffered  incredihie  hardships. 
"  Batter,"  says  the  historian  Herman  Hugo,  "  was 
sold  for  dz  florins  a  pound ;  a  calf  of  seventeen 
days  old  for  forty-eight ;  a  hog,  for  one  hundred 
and  fifteen ;  and  tobacco  for  one  hundred  florins 
the  pound.*'  This  was  after  they  had  consumed 
most  of  the  horses.  A  few  days  after,  the  narrator 
adds  that  ^as  much  tobacco  as  in  other  places 
might  have  heen  had  for  ten  florins  was  sold  in 
Breda  for  twelve  hnndred."  It  appears  that  this 
tohaooo  was  used  ta  "  physic,  it  being  the  only 
remedy  they  had  against  scurvy."  Ml. 

Thb  Prbtenbbr's  Cordial. — 

^  To  3  quarts  of  brandy  put  one  pint  of  juniper-berries ; 
\  lb.  of  white  sugar-candy,  2  pippins  sliced  and  the  juice 
of  *2  lemons,  the  rinds  pared ;  and  pnt  in  three-pennj- 
woi^h  of  saffron.  Let  this  stand  two  or  three  days, 
shaking  it  twice  a-day ;  then  run  it  through  a  flannel- 
btg  for  use."    (From  a  MS.  penes  the  Fettt/JamUjf.) 

Moorland  Lad. 

Epitafh  at  Wing  Chtjrch.  —  As  allusion  has 
lately  been  made  to  the  parish  of  Wing,  co. 
Bucks,  it  may  he  interesting  to  note  that  in  the 
nave  of  the  church  there  is  a  curious  brass-plate 
bearing  the  effigy  of  a  man  in  a  cloak  kneeling, 
with  a  porter's  staff  under  his  feet,  and  a  high- 
crowned  hat,  and  a  large  key  lying  hehind  him. 
His  hands  are  Hffced  up  as  if  in  prayer,  and 
below  is  the  following  inscription : — 

**  Honefit  old  Thomas  Cotes,  that  sometimes  was 
Porter  at  Aacott  Hall,*  hath  now  (alas !) 
Left  his  key,  lodge,  fVre,  friends,  and  all  to  have 
A  roooE  in  heavten.    This  is  that  good  man's  grave. 
Header,  prepare  for  thine,  for  none  can  tall. 
But  that  yon  two  raaj  meet  to-night. — FarewelL 

He  died  20*1*  November,  1648. 
Set  op  at  the  apporotment  and  charges  of  his  Friend, 
Gro.  HovoilToji.*' 

G.  F.  D. 

Adix  be  Okleton. — ^Few  ecclesiastical  states- 
men of  the  fourteenth  century  have  heen  more 
thorooghly  misunderstood  and  unfairly  maligned 
than  Adam  de  Orleton,  whose  memory  has  heen 
made  to  suffer  for  a  multitude  of  sins  he  assuredly 

*  ForasertyaMatof  theDornwrs. 


never  committed  in  the  fieah.  Amongst  them 
is  the  "  fable  "  of  his  having  written  &e  Latin 
epistle  mentioned  by  Mr.  Tew  (4^  S.  vi.  A60) 
to  the  keepers  of  Edward  II.  at  ]Berkeley  Castle, 
so  often  improperly  quoted  to  his  prejudice.  If, 
indeed,  there  is  one  thing  more  ciartain  than 
another  in  connection  with  Adam  de  Orleton,  it 
is  that  he  never  wrote  the  letter  in  question,  and 
equally  untrue  that  he  ever  *'  owned  it,  hut  pre- 
tended his  meaning  was  horrihly  mistaken."  Hia 
policy  at  the  time  of  Edward^s  incarceration  was 
m  durect  contradiction  to  the  assumption  of  his 
being  the  writer  of  those  words,  even  to  the  ex- 
tent of  its  being  impossible  he  could  have  done 
so,  as  may  be  readily  ascertained  by  those  who 
feel  interested  in  the  subject.  Hsitbt  F.  Holt. 
King's  Koad,  Clapham  Park. 

Genebal  Wolts  and  the  20th  Foot. — In 
your  First  Series  (vol.  iL^  I  ohserve  some  notices 
of  General  Wolfe,  whicn  remind  me  of  what  I 
understand  was  a  fact  that  merits  being  recorded 
in  ^'  N.  &  Q."  He  entered  the  army  as  ensi^  in 
the  20th  foot,  which  was  and  still  is  distingmshed 
as  Wolfe^s  regiment,  not  from  any  other  offidal 
connection,  hut  solely  from  his  eminence  and 
glorious  death.  Now  it  happened  that  the  20th 
was  in  gairison  at  St.  Helena  when  Napoleon 
died,  and  the  hearers  of  his  body  to  the  grave 
were  grenadiers  of  Wolfe's  regiment.  G. 

Edinburgh. 

The  Peophect  or  Orval. — ^This  was  eagerly 
read,  and  extensively  believed  in,  at  the  time  of 
its  appearance  in  an  English  translation  in  the 
OTentful  year  1848.  But  it  sunk  into  merited 
neglect  when  in  the  following  year  it  was  de- 
nounced hy  the  Bishop  of  Verdun,  as  an  admitted 
fab];ication  of  a  priest  of  his  diocese.  See  the 
bishop's  circular  in  The  Tablet  of  April  7, 1849. 

F.  C.  H. 

Witchcraft. — The  following  advertisement  ia 
worth  a  place  in  the  old  curiosity-shops  of  follies 
and  fancies  which  the  contributors  of"  N.  &  Q." 
are  so  plentifully  furnishing  for  the  edification  of 
the  future.  It  was  issued  with  a  nnmher  of  the 
Spiritual  Magazine  in  the  year  1868  —  that  is, 
in  the  nineteenth  century  of  Christian  civilization, 
and  in  what  its  sons  elahn  as  the  most  enlightenea 
city  of  the  most  enlightened  nation  on  the  face  of 
the  euth.  How  far  this  theory  is  supported  hy 
the  following  document,  I  leave  to  the  judgment 
of  complacent  Londoners : — 

"  A  Gentleman  being  bewitched  by  a  hired  Mai^Wlteh 
in  his  imnediata  neiihboaihood,  Idied  and  avowedly 
paid,  during  35  years,  a  fixed  tnm  of  money  yeariy,  by 
miscreants,  for  his  criminal  serrices,  under  the  impunity 
secured  to  them  by  the  Statute  9  George  II.  c.  5,  for  the 
crime  of  Witchcraft ;  would  be  glad  to  obtain  the  aid 
of  any  Medium  who  might  be  able,  by  Spectral  Sight, 
bv  Clairvoyance,  or  by  Trance,  to  afford  such  clue  for 
the  identification  in  the  sense  of  fact,  of  the  said  hired 
Man-Witch,  in  hia  personal  and  individaal  capacity  for 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


14«*S.  YII.Jax.21,'71. 


the  practical  pnrpose,  as  would  render  possible  an  appli- 
cation to  a  Magistrate*8  Coart,  for  a  Warrant  or  Sum- 
mons against  him  in  the  present  state  of  the  Law. — ^Ad- 
dress,   .     .    .    &C." 

W.  E.  A.  A. 

Joynson  Street,  Strangeways. 

*'Le  Coq  FRAif^Ais."  —  **The  unbroken  self- 
confidence  which  the  French,  like  the  Athenians, 
have  ever  retained  amidst  the  f^atest  disasters  " 
is  referred  to  by  Dr.  Arnold  in  his  notes  on 
Thucydides,  i.  70,  where  he  quotes  an  epigram, 
which  may  be  found  in  the  appendix  to  one  of 
the  volumes  of  Gen.  Dumas*  Campagnes,  most 
singularly  illustrative  of  their  present  attitude : — 

**  Le  coq  fran^ais  est  le  coq  de  la  gloire, 
Par  les  re  vers  il  n^est  point  abattn  ; 
II  chante  fort,  quand  il  gagne  la  vietoire. 
Plus  fort  encore,  quand  il  est  bien  battu. 
Chanter  toujours  est  sa  grande  vertn." 

C.  W.  Bingham. 

Milton  and  Homcbopathy.  —  Hahnemann  is 
said  to  be  the  author  of  homoeopathy,  but  was  he 
really  so?  Milton,  in  his  preface  to  Samson 
AgonideSj  has  this  passage  : — 

**  Tragedy,  said  by  Aristotle  to  be  of  power,  by  raising 
pity  and  fezir  or  terror,  to  purge  the  mind  of  Uiose  and 
such  like  passions — that  is,  to  temper  and  reduce  them  to 
just  measure  with  a  kind  of  delight,  stirred  up  by  reading 
or  seeing  those  passions  well  imitated.  Nor  is  Nature 
wanting  in  her  own  efforts  to  make  good  his  assertion  : 
for  BO  in  physic,  things  of  melancholie  hue  and  quality 
are  used  against  melancholy,  sour  against  sour,  salt  to 
remove  salt  humours." 

This  proves  that  homoeopathy  was  practbed  in 
Milton*s  time,  and  even  Hippocrates  alludes  to  it. 
The  passage  from  that  writer  was  given  me  in 
the  original  some  time  ago,  but  I  have  mislaid  it, 
and  I  should  feel  obligea  if  you  would  quote  it 
in  an  early  number.  The  minim  doses  of  the  present 
day  are  not  alluded  to,  as  I  remember,  even  in 
Hahnemann's  Orgatum :  they  seem  to  have  arisen 
from  the  assumption  that,  as  the  proper  medicine 
was  to  be  appbed,  the  smallest  quantity  would 
suffice  for  the  cure.  G.  E. 

Heliottpt. — It  may  be  useful  to  some  readers 
of  ^ "  N.  &  Q.''  to  be  informed  that  an  account  of 
this  new  kind  of  indelible  photography — admirable 
for  illustrating  books  and  copying  sketches  and 
works  of  the  great  masters,  impossible  otherwise 
to  be  given  in  fac-simile  bichrome— vnll  be  found 
in  Art  Pictorial  and  Industrial  (No.  4),  for  October 
last,  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  G.  Wharton  Simpson. 
The  patentees,  Messrs.  Edwards  and  Kidd,  veill  be 
bappy  to  show  flpecimens  to  any  readers  or  cor- 
respondents of  "N.  &  Q."  who  may  call  at 
22,  Henrietta  Street,  Covent  Garden. 

S.  R.  TowKSHEND  Mater. 
Blflhmond,  S.VV. 


^*  Altquando  sobxitat  bonus  Hoxebus  "  (4*'' 
S.  vi.  407.) — Where  is  this  sentence  to  be  found  1*' 
I  have  often  used  its  English  equivalent,  but  I 
know  nothing  of  the  Latin  quoted  by  Mb.  J.  A. 
PiCTOir  {ut  supra),  Stephen  Jacksox. 

[The  passage  is  from  Horace,  De  Arte  Poeilcoj 
ver.  368,  &c— 

**....  et  idem 
Indignor,  quandoque  bonus  dormitat  Homerns.**! 

Anontxotjs. — I  have  a  book  entitled — 

*'  Pleasing  Melancholy ;  or,  a  Walk  among  the  Tombs 
in  a  Conntxy  Churchyard,  in  the  style  and  manner  of 
'  Hervey's  Meditations  * ;  to  which  are  added  Epitaphs, 
Elegies,  and  Inscriptions  in  Prose  and  Yerse." 

It  was  published  at  London  in  1793,  and  the  pre- 
face is  mitialed  G.  W.  Who  was  the  author  and 
compiler  P  James  Reid. 

18,  High  Street,  Paisley. 

BiBLIOTHECA  InDICA. — 

**  The  Mnntakhab  al  Tawdrikh  a1  Badauni — Persian 
text— Edited  by  Capt.  VV.  N.  Lees,  LL.D.,  Calcutta, 
1865,  published  by  the  Asiatic  Society  of  Bengal." 

What  are  the  dates  of  the  MSS.  followed  in 
preparing  the  above  edition  of  Abdul  Qadir^s 
valuable  history  of  the  reign  of  Akbar,  finished  in 
A.H.  1004  (a.d.  1696),  and  how  can  the  original 
matter  be  distinguished  from  subsequent  interpo- 
lations when  this  information  is  not  given  ? 

R.  R.  W.  Ellis. 

Starcross,  near  Exeter. 

DAUBTONfi  Monument.  —  In  the  church  of 
Brize-Norton  (Norton  S.  Brice),  Oxon,  is  a 
monumental  slab  to  the  memory  of  Sir  Jobn 
Daubygn^.  The  date  is  1346,  and  the  knight  is 
represented  boldly  in  effigy.  His  legs  are  crossed, 
and  at  his  feet  crouches  a  lion.  It  is  unusuallv 
rich  in  its  heraldic  sculpture,  being  charged  witK 
five  escutcheons.  The  chief  of  these  covers  the 
knight's  body,  and  bears  four  funis  conjoined  in 
fesse,  each  charged  with  a  pierced  mullet.  The 
remaining  four  escutcheons  occupy  the  four  cor> 
ners  of  the  tomb.  One  of  them  bears  the  four 
fusils  plain;  another  has  the  fusils  ermine.  Of 
the  remaining  two  one  is  either  lozengy  or  mas- 
celly — ^I  cannot  say  which,  as  the  stone  is  worn ; 
but  I  fancied  that  I  could  detect  an  ermine  spot 
on  one  of  the  divisions,  in  which  case  it  would 
suggest  the  arms  of  Rokele — '*  masculy  d*ermyn 
et  de  goidz."  (RoU  Hen.  III.)  Some  of  your 
readers,  better  acquainted  with  the  Daubygn^ 
pedigree  than  myself,  will  probably  be  able  to 
deciae.  The  remaining  escutcheon  bears  two 
chevronels  witbin  a  bordure  engrailed. 

It  is  probable  that  some  notice  of  so  rich  a 
specimen  of  monumental  art  vrill  have  been  taken 
by  others ;  but  I  venture  to  send  it  to  '*N.  &  Q." 
as  an  additional  eecurity  against  its  being  lost 
sight  of.    The  monument  is  vidued  in  the  parish, 


4*S.VIL  Jax.21,M.] 


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55 


and  is  in  a  fairly  safe  positioD.     The    church 
gienerally  Tvill  repay  a  visit.  W.  M.  H.  C. 

P.S. — What  connection,  if  any,  is  there  hetween 
Danbygn^  and  D'Albini  P 

Thjb  Rsy.  JoHir  Entt. — There  is  a  short  notice 
of  the  Key.  J.  Enty  by  John  Fox  in  the  Monthly 
Miscellany  (xtL  325),  1821,  where  it  is  stated 
that  he  was  the  son  of  a  taUor  in  Cornwall^  and 
died  in  1743.  **  Mr.  Enty  was  engaged  in  the 
controTersy  among  the  Dissenters  in  the  West 
conoeming  the  Tnnitf."  Where  is  there  any 
further  account  to  be  round  of  Mr.  Enly's  life  and 
writings  P  Geo.  U.  Boase. 

Elkvbn  SHiLLiNq^  Pisces  of  Chables  I. — 
A  lady  making  her  will,  in  the  reign  of  Charles  1., 
leaves  to  one  of  her  dependents  a  legacy  of  four 
eleven  shilling  pieces.  Was  this  an  Enghsh  coin  P 
And  if  so,  how  long  did  it  continue  in  circulation  P 

E.  P. 

Frassb  :  Frisei.. — Unheraldically  speaking,  are 
not  the  three  strawberry  leaves  in  the  !raiser 
coat  properl?  blossoms  =  nve  petals  argent  P  With 
whom  did  tfiis  coat  originate  r  What  is  the  date 
of  the  first  example  of  it  P  When  was  the  name 
first  altered  from  Frisei  to  Eraser  P  Has  Sir  Harris 
Nicolas  left  any  annotations  on  the  Frisei  of 
Battle  Abbey  roll,  and  are  there  any  notices  of  the 
name  before  the  period  in  question  in  connection 
with  Xorman  charters  P  Any  information  on  the 
fire  qneiies  would  much  oblige.  Sp. 

Pediokse  op  B.  R  Hatdox,  the  Historical 
Painteb. — In  the  Autobiography  and  Journals  of 
B.  IL  Haydon  (2nd  ed.  1863,  i.  4),  the  writer 
states  that  his  '*  father  was  a  hneal  descendant  of 

the  Haydons  of  Cadhay.''     Is  there  any 

evidence  in  favour  of  this  statement  P  None  is 
given  in  the  work  quoted.  Perhaps  some  mem- 
ber of  the  artist's  family  may  be  able  to  answer 
this  question.  N. 

"  Huttb  to  Chaibmek."  —  Can  any  one  say 

where  the  above  majr  be  obtained,  or  any  book 

on  the  duties  of  the  cnair  at  public  meetings  P 

W. 
Brighton. 

**  The  HKATiirG  of  the  Lead." — ^Who  wrote 
this  fine  old  sea  song  P  Dr.  Mackay  gives  it  to 
the  late  Kichard  Scraiton  Sharpe,  but  I  think  he 
is  mistaken.  I  should  like  to  see  in  **  N.  &  Q."  a 
complete  list  of  Mr.  Sharpens  writings.  I  only 
know  '*  Old  Friends  with  new  Faces/'  and  three 
bongs,  riz,, ''  Pretty  Rose  of  Lucerne/'  a  harvest 
?ong,  and  that  charming  pastoral,  ''Tell  me,  ye 
swains,  have  you  seen  my  Fastora  ?"  Mr.  Sharpe, 
with  whom  I  was  intimately  acauainted,  informed 
nie  that  he  was  the  author  of  tne  above.  I  have 
nnce  Mr.  Sharpens  decease  been  told  that  the  pas- 
toral **  Shepherds,  I  have  lost  my  love/'  was  also 


from  ids  pen.  Is  this  correct?  The  "Old 
Friends"  well  merits  a  reprint,  with  a  memoir  ot 
the  talented  author.  James  Henry  Dixon. 

Arms  of  Jennotjr.  —  Your  correspondent 
A.  W.  M.  has  kindly  helped  me  to  these  arms, 
for  which  I  had  been  enquiring.  Can  he  further 
inform  me  what  connection  there  had  been,  tem^K 
Elizabeth,  between  the  family  of  Jennour,  of 
Essex,  and  either  Larder,  Barket,  Seymour,  or 
StorkeP  All  these  came  in,  with  Jennour,  into 
the  arms  of  Huaey,  of  Shapwick,  Dorset,  by  the 
marriage  of  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Barket, 
of  Dewlish,  and  coheiress  of  her  mother,  Ursula 
Larder,  to  Thomas  Husey,  temp.  Elizabeth. 

W.  M.  H.  Chttrch. 

Dr.  Johnson's  Watch. — ^I  some  tame  ago  (4^ 
S.  vi.  275,  465)  made  inquiries  respecting  Dr. 
Samuel  Johnson's  watch.  The  only  reply  which 
I  got  was  from  a  correspondent  who  referred  me 
to  Wood's  Curiosities  of  Clocks  and  Watches,  where 
the  only  information  given  is  that  it  is  reverently 
preserved  by  its  owner.  But  I  am  anxious  of 
getting  more  detailed  particulars.  I  should  like 
to  know  whether  it  is  a  gold  or  metal  watch, 
whether  it  is  a  repeater,  what  sort  of  a  dial 

Elate  it  has,  whether  enamel  or  metal  (we 
now  he  had  the  dial  plate  changed),  and  whe- 
ther the  hours'  figures  are  in  Roman  letters  or 
Arabic  numerals  -,  and,  lastly,  the  makers  name  P 
And  I  shall  be  much  obliged  if  any  one  can  inform 
me  of  any  of  these  particulars. 

OcTAVixrs  Morgan. 

''Der  releoirte  Kobbold,"  etc.— Can  any 
correspondent  tell  me  anything  of  Der  relegirte 
Kohhold,  or  of  the  Oeschichte  des  heriihmten  Bery^ 
geigts  Gnome  auf  den  Sudeten  f  Harrow. 

Knight  op  the  Body  and  Esquire  of  the- 
Body. — What  would  be  the  duties  and  what  the 
dignity  of  a  knight  and  an  esquire  of  the  king's 
body  to  Henry  VH.  and  VUI.  P  P.  P. 

Curious  Marriage  Custoh. — Can  any  of  the 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  me  the  origin  of  the 
following  curious  marriage  custom,  which  prevails, 
or  at  all  events  did  prevail  some  twenty  years  ago, 
among  the  agricultural  population  of  Aberdeen- 
shire P  The  marriage  usually  takes  place  at  the 
house  of  the  bride's  father,  to  which  it  is  cus* 
tomary  for  the  bridegroom,  when  the  distance  is 
reasonable,  to  walk  on  foot,  supported  by  two 
^'poom's  maids,"  and  accompanied  by  those 
friends  who  have  accepted  his  invitation  to  be 
present  at  the  ceremony.  Just  as  the  procession 
starts,  or  is  about  starting,  two  young  men,  se- 
lected from  the  bridegroom's  purty,  who  are 
designated  sens  ("  sends,"  or  messenffers  who  are 
sent),  hurry  ofi'to  apprise  the  bride  of  his  approach. 
W^en  a  youth  of  nueen  years  old,  I  was  on  one 
occasion  hastily  improvised  into  a  "  sen " }  and, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VU.  J  AX.  2U  Tl. 


as  near  as  I  can  racollect,  the  meemge  deliyered 
by  my  colleague  to  the  bride  was  as  follows :  "  The 
bridegroom  presents  his  compliments,  and  requests 
us  to  say  that  he  will  soon  be  here/' 

What  is  the  object  of  the  above  custom,  and 
how  or  when  did  it  originate  ?        A.  Patbesox. 

"  The  Peodigal  Son." — ^I  saw  some  years  a^o 
a  set  of  cottage  prints  intended  to  illusikrate  this 
subject,  but  representing  everything  as  taking 
place  at  the  time  of  pubHcation,  namely,  the  last 
century.  For  instance,  in  the  scene  where  the 
prodigal  is  feasted  on  his  return,  a  negro  servant 
IB  waiting  at  table,  and  the  chaplain  is  in  his 
place  in  wig  and  gown.  I  have  just  heard  an  old 
woman  describe  with  neat  appreciation  a  set 
which  her  mother  bought  of  a  pedlar  when  she 
was  young.  She  says  it  was  all  ''  clear  natral " 
from  beginning  to  end.  I  think  there  were  eight 
pictures,  vividly  coloured.  Could  I  possiWy  pro- 
cure a  set?  J.  T,  F. 

K.  Kebey,  Brigg. 

Lattst  Proverb. — Some  years  ago  a  brother 
clergyman  quoted  in  my  presence  a  Latin  proverb, 
the  gist  of  which  was,  "The  evidence  of  your 
enemy  in  your  favour  is  the  best  evidence  you 
can  have."  Can  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
tell  me  the  exact  words  of  the  proverb  in  ques- 
tion P  The  name  of  the  Latin  author  .in  which  it 
is  found,  and  in  what  part  of  his  works  it  occurs, 
will  oblige.  H.  W.  C. 

A  Rectobship  of  Eightt-one  Years. — The 
parish  register  of  Knossington  Grange,  Leioester, 
records  luchard  Samson  as  rector  of  the  parish 
from  1658  to  1639,  a  period  of  eightv-one  years. 
Is  there  any  record  in  the  Englisn  Church  of  a 
clergyman  holding  the  same  parish  for  a  longer 
period  than  this  ?  H. 

Turvey. 

[What  evidence  ii  there  that  there  were  not  two  in- 
cumbents of  the  name  of  Richard  Samson,  probably 
£ither  and  eon? — a  fact  ranch  more  likely  than  that  the 
Jnoambent  lived  eighty-one  years  after  his  ordination  at 
twenty-three,  making  him  one  hundred  and  four  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  The  register  of  Richard  Samson  in 
1699  would  probably  record  his  age  and  settle  this 
donbt.] 

Fehale  Saint. — What  female  saint  is  repre- 
sented with  a  crown  upon  her  head,  and  a  richer 
ona  in  her  left  hand  P  A  picture  of  her  standing 
and  dressed  in  monastic  garb  occurs  on  the  door 
of  a  triptych  by  Memlix^.  J.  C.  J. 

80GIEIA8  Albertobux. — Stephen,  Archbishop 
of  Toulouse,  and  Chamberlain  of  Pope  Innocent 
YL,  admowledges  the  receipt  of  certam  payments 
made  by  William,  Bishop  of  Sodor,  into  the 
Apostolic  Camera,  *'  per  manus  Lambertesqui  de 
Sorietate  Albertorum."  The  letter  is  dated  ftom 
Avignon,  May  12, 1367.    In  1371  Pope  Gregory 


XI.  commissions  John  Duncan,  Archdeacon  of 
Down  and  Apostolic  Nuncio  in  Ireland,  to  pay 
over,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Apostolic  Camera,  the 
sum  of  6,000  golaen  florins  unto  certain  Floren- 
tines in  the  City  of  London,  "  feu^toribus  et  pro- 
curatoribus  Albertorum  antiquorum.'^  'What 
was  the  Societas  Albertorum  Antiquorum  P 

A«  E.  L. 

TfiEOGBITUS  II.  2.  —  Irt^ifov  rh»  KfXi^  ^oivtKcV 

whs  iuir^,  KcX«/9iv  iu  Liddell  and  Scott  is  trans- 
lated a  drinking  cup.  Can  this  word  have  sug- 
gested to  Shakespeare  the  name  of  Caliban  in  the 
Ten^ett,  which  ne  may  have  learnt  from  some 
friend  conversant  with  Ureek  P 

Thomas  E.  WnnnarGTox. 

"  Though  lost  to  Sight,  to  Mexoby  dear*' 
(^^  S.  i.  77, 161;  399.)--In  the  ktter  reference  it 
is  stated  that  this  line  has  baffled  the  researches 
of  the  literati  of  England  and  America.  I  beg  to 
revive  the  query,  who  was  the  author  of  it,  by 
forwarding  herewith  a  seal  taken  from  a  letter 
written  in  1828,  and  engraved  wiUi  the  words — 

"  THO'  U)8T 

TO  SIGHT 

TO  MBMORT 

DEAR." 

Having   a   date   at  which  it  was  known  may 
perhaps  give  a  clue  to  its  author.  W.  P.* 

You  may  not  be  aware  that,  in  the  ''  Notices  to 
Correspondents"  at  the  end  of  the  December 
part  of  a  pubHcation  called  The  Monthly  Pticket, 
certain  lines  are  published  which  purport  to  be 
those  from  which  the  above  long-sought  quotation 
is  taken.  I  therefore  ^ve  you  the  reference,  'to 
be  made  use  of  as  your  judgment  may  decide.  To 
my  mind,  the  lines  bear  very  strong  internal 
evidence  of  having  been  made  to  order,  the  last 
line  being,  as  I  tnink,  written  up  to  and  con- 
necting badly  with  those  which  precede  it  "  New 
Orleans,"  '^  an  old  memorandum  book,"  and  "  an 
unremembered  author,"  all  seem  equally  to  point 
to  a  small  literary  foigery.  C.  W.  M. 

[We  quote  fh>m  TTie  Monthly  Packet  the  passage  re- 
feired  to  by  our  correspondent,  which  fully  justifies  his 
suspicion : — 

"  A  literary  corvespoadent  of  the  New  Orhmu  Sumiay 
Times  solves  the  question  conoeming  the  origin  of  the 
hitherto  untraceable  quotation — 

<  Though  lost  to  flight  to  Hiemoiy  dear.* 

It  first  appeared  in  verses  written  in  an  old  memoraadam 
book,  the  author  not  reeolleeted : — 

*<  Sweetheart,  good  bye!  the  flattering  safl 
Is  spread  to  waft' me  tax  firom  thee, 
And  soon  before  the  fav'ring  gale 
My  ship  ahaO  bound  upon  the  sea. 

"  Perchanee,  all  nesnJate  anS^foriom, 

These  eyes  shall  min  thee  many  a  year ; 
Bat  nnforgotten  every  charm, 
Though  lost  to  sight,  to  memoiy  dBBr.**] 


4*«»  S.  VII.  Jah.  21, 71.] 


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67 


^ToM  Tldbleb's  Groukd." — ^I  should  be  glad 
to  ascertain  through  any  of  your  readers  at  Hitchin 
whether  "  Tom  Tiddler,"  the  original  of  Dickens's 
Chnstmaa  story  for  1861,  is  still  in  life.  I  be- 
Here  that  he  is  a  native  of  Garstang,  Lancashire, 
and  educated  at  the  Grammar-school  of  Winwick; 
in  the  same  county.  Some  years  ago  he  was 
Tisited  by  a  gentleman  and  lady  from  the  latter 
locality,  and  their  interview  elicited  from  this 
unhappy  recluse  a  greater  warmth  and  interest  in 
the  proceedings  of  the  ''  outer  world "  than  he 
had  ever  shown  before.  M.  D. 

Weater's  Art. — ^Wanted,  any  references  in 
the  works  of  our  standard  poets  to  warp  and  weft 
and  wwft,  or  the  weaver's  art  generally.     R.  P.  Q. 

WrVKS     OF    KlRLS    OF     NORTHUMBERLAIJD. — 

Where  can  I  find  any  short  accounts  or  genea- 
logies (traced  back)  of  any  or  all  of  the  following 
personages:  Eleanor  Nevill,  Eleanor  Poynings, 
Matilda  Herbert,  Catherine  Spencer,  all  of  whom 
m&rtied  succeadve  Earls  of  Northumberland 
(Heniy  Percy)  ?  T.  C. 

[In  Sir  Egerton  Brj'dges'  edition  of  Collins'  Peerage  of 
England  (toI.  ii.),  where  the  scconnt  of  the  Dakes  and 
£;Lris  of  Itorthnmberiand  occupies  150  pages.] 


GUN. 
(4'^  S.  vi.  417,  551.) 

There  were  no  firearms  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  -j 
and  the  ''  gunnis  "  mentioned  were  probably  man- 
gonels. Or,  by  somewhat  audacious  metonymy, 
gun  might  be  derived  from  "gyn"  or  "gin"  — 
albeit  the  first  is  a  weapon,  and  the  latter  only 
a  trap  or  snare.  And  a  gun,  in  the  time  of  the 
first  Kdward,  might  have  been  some  form  of 
arbaliste  or  cross-bow,  just  as  in  the  Toxophilus 
K<^r  Ascham  speaks  of  the  long-bow  as  an  im- 
plement of  **  artillerie."  Leaving  gun  alone,  how- 
ever, as  beyond  my  precise  ken,  surely  philologers 
should  not  rest  satisfied  with  the  too  ostensibly 
obvious  derivation  of  cannon  from  canna,  the  Mea. 
Lat.  for  a  cane  or  reed.  I  have  the  highest  respect 
for  Menage  (even  when  he  puts  an  Italian  aug- 
mentative to  a  Latin  word),  for  Dufresne,  and  for 
Walsingham ;  but  let  us  think  out  the  matter  a 
little.  There  is  generally  some  reason  in  the 
coining  of  words,  aa  in  the  roasting  of  eggs.  In 
the  first  place  oomui,  a  reed  or  cane,  does  not 
become  a  tube  until  its  pith  be  extracted.  When 
it  is  hollowed  it  becomes  a  JUtvla^  as  is  (some- 
what pedantically)  pointed  out  b^  the  Irish  friars 
of  Sa£amanca  (a..d.  1610)  in  their  version  of  the 
adventures  of  iEneas  in  duro  Latino  (Latin  almost 
exclusiTely  composed  of  radicals)  :  ^'Yibrans 
opilio  in  vola  baculnm  ex  arbuto  aut  fistula  h 
canna  meditans."  In  the  next  place,  the  idea  of 
a  cane  or  reed  implies  something  which  is  weak, 


light,  and  fragile — ''  storias  h  cannis  confertas" ; 
and  is  not  in  any  way  suggestive  of  the  terrible 
engines  belching  forth  fire  and  death — '^  weapons 
of  Hercules,"  says  Camden  iJRemames),  "  Jove's 
thunderbolt ;  for  so  some  now  call  our  great  shot." 
In  the  third  place,  by  the  middle  of  the  fourteenth 
century,  when  firearms  came  into  use,  the  Med. 
Lat  canna  had  passed  into  the  Italian  language, 
and  had  been  a][)propriated  with  its  new  augmen- 
tatives  and  diminutives  to  signify  either  a  canal, 
large  or  small  {cancde,  conalaxzo,  canaletto\  or  the 
pipe  of  an  organ  (canna,  cannone),  A  thing  mak- 
ing so  much  noise  in  the  world  as  a  cannon 
would  surely  have  been  deemed  worthy  of  some 
special  epithet  expressive  either  of  its  qualities  and 
attributes,  or  recalling  the  name  of  the  personage 
who  invented  it,  or  under  whose  auspices  it  was 
introduced,  or  the  name  of  the  country  or  city  in 
which  it  was  first  used.  Looking  into  the  history 
of  weapons,  I  find  that  in  almost  every  instance 
one  or  another  of  the  foregoing  conditions  have 
been  observed.  Thus,  the  earlier  firearms  had 
given  to  them  either  the  names  of  serpents  or 
ravenous  birds,  as  "  culverins  "  or  *•  colubrinus," 
**  serpentines,"  "  basilisques,"  "faulcons,"  or  "  sa- 
cres ',  or  designations  suggestive  of  the  sounds  they 
emitted  in  discharge,  as  ^'  calivers,"  ''  petronels, 
"  pitatras,"  '*  muskets  "  (moschetti,  gad-flies),  and 
the  like.  As  for  '^  pistol,  its  name  is  said  to  come 
from  Pistoja  in  Italy,  as  ^'  bayonet "  comes  from 
Bayonne.  Consider  the  ancient  weapons  of  war- 
fare. Their  names  had  reference,  as  a  rule,  to 
their  qualities  or  attributes.  Thus  ''  Aries,"  the 
battering  ram,  the  ^'catapult,"  the  '^malliol,"  the 
''traluero"  or  "from  the  maw,"  out  of  which 
were  cast  great  stones.  Take  King  Edward  L's 
huge  engine,  the  "  war  wolf,"  used  by  him  at  the 
siege  of  Brechin.  The  "  cathouse  "  ( Vegetius'  cat- 
tas),  and  the  "  sow  "  employed  by  Edward  III.  at 
the  siege  of  Dunbar,  were  also  formidable  engines, 
but  of  what  shape  or  potency  we  know  not.  For 
these  and  many  others  see  Camden  {Remaines, 
chapter  *'Artillerie"  passim).  Touching  proper 
names,  the  "Bricolle"  (the  English  Espnngold 
or  Springald)  was  probably  derived  from  the 
name  of  a  Frenchman  so  hight;  just  as  a  certain 
Milanese  sword  was  baptised  after  the  cutler 
"  Andrea  Ferrara,"  and  as  in  modem  times  we  have 
Colts,  Dahlgrens,  Krupps,  Remingtons,  Sniders, 
Martini-Henrys  (a  title  which  may  puzzle  pos- 
terity sorely),  Mantons,  Westley  Richards,  and 
the  like.  Fanciful  female  names,  often  those  of 
a  lady  sovereign,  given  to  pieces  of  ordnance,  are 
common,  aa'^  La  grande  Josephine,"  now  mounted 
on  one  of  the  fortifications  of  Paris,  "  La  grande 
Louison  "  on  the  ramparts  at  Lille,  "  Mons  Meg  " 
atEdinbuigh,  "Queen  Elizabeth's  pocket  pistol " 
at  Dover  " ;  and  to  this  list,  I  doubt  it  not,  many 
oijpux  contributors  will  be  able  to  make  additions. 
The  Americans  have  been  even  more  fantastic  in 


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[4«*  8.  VII.  Jak.  21,  71. 


christening  their  ordnance.    During  the  civil  war 
they   had    one  monster    gun   nicknamed  ''The 
Swamp  Angel,"  and  another  dubhed  the  "  Petera- 
burg  Express,"  because,  in  the  bombardment  of 
that  town,  the  great  gun  alwajs  opened  fire  at 
four  p.  M. — the  hour  of  the  publication   of  .the 
evening  paper  of  Petersburg,  The  Express.    But 
in  none  of  these  names  can  I  discern  anything  so 
weakly  and  vaguely  loose  in  derivation  as  there 
seems  to  be  in  cannon,  from  canna ;  because,  for- 
sooth, a  cane  is  long  and  slender  (which  a  cannon 
is  not),  and  can  bo  made  tubular.    I  am  aware 
that  mere  surmises  and  hypotheses  are  rarely 
permissible  in  philology;  but  backed  by  some 
strong  chronological  evidence,  I  venture  to  broach 
the  theory  that  the  word  cannon  is  derived  from 
the  Italian  canone  or  cannons,  a  big  dog ;  and  that 
this  title  was  given  to  the  first  gun  discharg^g 
shot  propelled  by  powder,  for  one  of  two  reasons : 
the  first  from  the  roaring,  bellowing,  baying,  and 
growling  sounds  it  emitted — as  those  of  a  huge 
mastiff;  and  does  not  Mr.  Sykes,  the  burglar,  call 
his  pocket  pistols  ^  barkers "  P  and  did  not  our 
soldiers  in  the  Crimea  nickname  the  sharply  sibil- 
lant  rifle  bullet "  WhistUng  Dick  "  P    The  second, 
that  it  was  originally  brought  into  use  under  the 
patronage  of  Francesco  I.,  Imperial  Vicar  Adjoint 
and  Duke  of  Verona,  Vicenza,  Feltre,  and  Bassano, 
who  "  flourished,"  as  the  saying  goes,  at  the  pre- 
cise period  assimed  to  the  mvenUon  of  firearms, 
fuid  who,  from  his  heraldic  cognizance  of  a  mas- 
tiff's head,  was  sumamed  Can  grande  or  H  cannons, 
''The  court  of  Cangrande  was  the  most  magnificent 
of  the  age  in  Italy,  and  exhibited  a  combination 
of  military  splendour  and  profuse  liberality  and 
hospitality  to  the  stranger^  and  encouragement  to 
literature.    His  palace  became  the  refuge  for  all 
who,  embracing  his  political  opinions,  had  in  any- 
wise subjected  themselves  to  persecution ;  and  it 
was  here  that  Dante  found  an  asylum."    If  po- 
litical exiles  and  distressed  poets  could  be  made 
welcome  at  the  court  of  the  great  Ghibelline,  why 
not  inventors,  and  others  of  that  luckless  race 
also  in  modem  times  all  known  as  "  patentees  "P 
Chronology  bears  out  the  Cangrands  theory  very 
remarkably.  The  Great  Dog  became  co-sovereign 
of  the  Veronese,  with  his  weaker  brother  Alboni, 
about  A.D.  1311,  and  he  died  in  1329. 
Now  hear  Camden :  — 

**  The  very  time  of  their  invention  [cannon]  is  uncer- 
tain ;  but  certain  it  is  that  King  Edward  the  Third  used 
them  at  the  siege  of  Calice  1347,  for  gunners  had  their 
pay  then,  as  appeareth  by  record.  About  thirty-three 
years  be/ore  they  were  seen  in  Italy,  and  about  that  time 
they  began,  as  it  seemetb,  to  be  used  in  Spain,  but  named 
by  writers  Dolia  iyn,  voma,  as  fire-flashing  vessels." 

Can  Grande  or  Jtl  Cannons  "  flourished,"  be  it 
remembered,  between  A.n.  1312  and  a.d.  1320, 
jumping  olmoBt  pari  passu,  like  Hippocrates^  twins, 
with  Camden's  dates.     Finally  T  find,  in  Neu- 


man  and  Baretti*s  Spanish  Dictionary j  this  notable 
entry :  "  Can,  an  ancient  piece  of  ordnance '  ~ 
this  would  have  reference  only  to  the  growling 
voice  of  the  cannon — " '  can  que  mata  al  lobo/  a 
wolf-dog," — a  dog,  moreover,  that  can  growl  and 
bay  most  sonorously.  I  have  said  my  say  in  the 
matter,  and  must  apologise  for  the  length  tn 
which  this  communication  has  extended. 

Georos  AuGusirs  Sala. 


Professor  Stephens,  in  his  great  work  on  Runic 
inscriptions,  derives  gun  and  cannon  from  the 
old  Northern  word  c^ind  or  gund,  battle,  war. 
But  it  certainly  seems  most  likely  to  be  connected 
with  canna,  a  reed  or  cane — which  indeed  the 
earliest  cannons,  made  of  staves  of  iron  welded 
and  hooped  together,  much  resembled  (see  Bou- 
tell's  Arms  and  Armour,  ch.  xi.  pt.  I.).  I  bave 
long  understood  that  the  prefix  Gun-  in  ^^  Gun- 
ness  "  and  "  Gunthorpe/'  names  of  places  on  the 
river  Trent,  means  reeds,  but  I  do  not  know  on 
what  authority.  There  is  "Recdness'*  on  the 
Ouse.  J.  T.  F. 

K.  Kelsey,  Brigg. 

CONVIVIAL  SONGS. 

(4«»  S.  vi.  34,  73, 104, 124,  246,  303,  423.) 

I  have  made  a  diligent  search  for  the  song 
inquired  for  by  F.  C.  H.,  but  without  success. 
The  last  line  is  a  proverb,  and  is  found,  with 
variations — folie,  philosophie,  &c. — in  numerous 
songs.  One  of  the  best  drinking  songs  is  that  of 
Adam  Billault  aUas  "  Maitre  Adam."  It  was  a 
great  favourite  with  Cardinal  Richelieu,  who  ob- 
tained a  royal  pension  for  '*The  Virgil  of  the 
?lane" — the  title  given  to  the  carpenter  poet. 
'here  are  many  versions.  The  variations  are 
considerable,  and  the  metre  is  not  always  the 
same.  In  the  following  imitation  1  have  omitted 
a  quatrain  which,  although  strictly  mythological, 
borders  on  profaneness :  — 

THE  TROB  TOPBfL 

When  the  sun-beams  appearing 

Illamine  my  cot. 
My  coarse  I  am  steering 

\Vhere  drink's  to  be  got : 
And  I  say,  *'  Monsieur  Sun ! 

You're  as  red  as  a  rose  ; 
And  yet,  when  all's  done. 

Can't  come  up  to  my  nose ! " 

Though  oar  monarch  is  mighty 

And  great  in  the  fight, 
Gregoire*8  strong  aqua  vitas 

Would  settle  him  quite. 
It  would  make  him  unstable. 

And  pull  down  his  strength, 
Till  under  the  table 

He*d  stretch  out  his  leng^th ! 

When,  ripe  as  a  berry, 

I  chance  to  depart, 
DVe  think  I'll  be  very 

Jt'ar  off  from  my  quart  ? 


4<f»S.Tn.  JAX.SI.TUI 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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111  sUrt  by  Avernup, 

A  tavern  i>f  note. 
That  CharoD  won*t  spnm  as 

He  comes  from  his  boat. 

Xo  cave-rat  inspector 

A  spy  on  my  ways, 
1*11  make  a  prime  nectar 

That  Pluto  will  praise. 
If  TantMus  inclin*d 

Is  to  give  me  the  meeting, 
Thirsty  dog !  he  shall  find 

Wine  that  knows  no  retreating ! 

In  my  **  parloar"  the  Faries 

Shall  smilingly  rest ; 
0*er  my  wine  that  so  pnre  is 

Thejrll  frolic  and  jest. 
The  ParcsB  their  portals 

And  weaving  shall  qnit. 
Letting  poor  fated  mortals 

Alone — ^for  a  bit ! 

If  rollicking  Bacchus 

Look  in  ror  a  crack,* 
Silenos's  jack-ass 

Most  carry  him  back. 
And  as  for  Ixion, 

111  make  him  to  feel 
(He  this  may  rely  on !) 

His  head  is  hiaTwheel ! 

Should  I  e'er  get  permission 

T*  emeige  from  the  gloom. 
In  my  usual  condition 

I'll  visit  my  tomb. 
And  should  there  be  near  it 

No  well-laden  vine, 
You'll  find  that  a  spirit 

Can  kick  up  a  shine ! 

Don't  give  me  a  marble — 

Tis  well  understood, 
The  wild  birds  can  warble 

The  best  from  the  wood! 
So  my  tomb  be  a  cask, 

With  some  verses  that  say 
"This  son  of  a  flask 

Was  the  first— in  his  way !  " 

James  Henry  Dixok. 


"to"  AND  •'EX." 
(4"»  8.  vi.  396,  614.) 

Roquefort  renders  hi,  '^chez,  dans;  es  tmz,  es 
auitres,  chez  lea  nns^  chez  les  autres^';  and  h, 
f^*  ^\h  proposition  en,  dans,  tit;  void,  ecce. 
EHe  est  encore  nsitOe  an  palais." 

Cotgrave  gives  is, ''  preposition  ever  set  before 
word.^  of  the  plurall  number,  as  en  before  those  of 
the  singular.  In  the,  at  the,  into,  or  unto  the,^' 
Surenne  gives  "  ^»,  contrac.  of  eti  les,^^  Both 
I^Andals  and  Tarver  consider  ks  contracted  from 
fians  leg.  R.  S.  CharNOCK. 

Gray's  Inn. 

*  Gossip,  tittle-tattle:  — 

**  Come  Nicol,  and  gie  tis  thy  cracks.'* 

Andeiaon's  Cumbrian  Bailadt, 


The  confidence  with  which  Dr.  Dixox  solves  * 
philological    difficulties  is  something   quite  re- 
markable.   In  the  case  before  us,  without  a  word 
of  argument,  proof,  illustration,  or  any  warrant 
from  authority  (for  I  deny  that  AJshome  de  Chaste- 
Iain  is  in  any  sense  an  authority),  he  pronounces 
ex  cathedra  that  (1)  h  and  en  have  the  same 
meaning ;  (2)  that  ^'  ^s  is  as  good  a  French  word 
as  en  " ;  (3)  that  *^  h  has  nothing  to  do  with  en 
ies^^ ;  and  (4),  that  *'h  has  nothing  to  do  with  any 
abbreviation,  except  it  be  the  Greek  ctf,  from 
whence  it  is  derived."    He  then  gently  reproaches 
me,  by  implication,  for  not  having  referred  to  *'  so 
common  a  French  dictionary  "  as  De  Chastelain's, 
and  assumes  that  if  I  had  done  so  I  should  have 
been  at  once  converted  to  the  doctrine  of  that 
author  (whoever  he  may  be)  that  '^  is  is  derived 
from  the  Greek."    The  fact  is,  however,  that  De 
Cbastelain*s  and  Dr.  Dixon's  "  guess  "  (for  it  is 
nothing  more)  that  ha  is  derived  from  the  Greek 
weighs  little  with  me  against  the  grave  authori- 
ties of   Scheler,  Burguy,    littr^,  Amp^,  and 
Brachet,  assuring  and  convincing  me  that  it  has 
nothing  at  all  to  do  with  Greek,  but  is  a  contrac- 
tion of  en  ies. 

The  argument  itself  may  be  very  briefly 
stated.  The  process  which  converts  de  les  into  dels, 
and  then  into  des,  converts  en  les  into  enls  and 
then  into  etis.  This  form  is  found,  but  as  the 
combination  ns  was  in  early  times  distasteful  to 
French  ears,  etis  soon  became  es,  just  as  transpas 
became  trespas,  and  enfans,  enfes.  Those  who 
wish  to  see  this  little  problem  fully  worked  out, 
with  illustrations,  may  consult  Scheler,  Littr^, 
and  Brachet's  dictionaries,  sub  voce,  and  especially 
Bu2^y's  Qrammaire  de  la  Lanyue  d^Oil,  i.  64. 

l^fortunately  for  Dr.  Dixoit,  he  has  not  only 
laid  down  rules  founded  on  no  other  authority  than 
his  own,  but  he  has  ventured  to  illustrate  them  by 
self-made  examples.  He  tells  us  that  in  France, 
Belgium,  and  Switzerland  —  countries  where 
French  is  spoken — the  academical  diplomas  are 
made  out  in  the  following  fashion:  ''  Bachelier  te 
Science,"  "  Docteur  ds  Droit,"  "  Docteur  ka  Phi- 
losophie,"  where,  as  he  adds,  bs  is  used  as  being 
''more  official  and  classical  than  en."  Being 
greatly  surprised  at  this  information,  I  resorted 
at  once  to  tne  great  treasury  of  the  French  lan- 
guage— Littr^'s  noble  dictionary— to  see  if  by  any 
chance  such  an  anomaly  as  "  Docteur  ^  Droit 
had  ever  found  its  way  into  French  literature. 
Not  one  example,  however,  could  1  find  of  ^«  be- 
fore a  noun  in  the  singular  number.  ''  £s  perils," 
"es  mains,"  "esbestes,"  "  esplantes,"  '*es  arbres," 
'^es  lettres,"  "es  arts,"  &c.,  have  all  been  in  use 
indiflferent  stages  of  French,  but  never  "  es  p^ril," 
"es  art,"  &c.  It  now  therefore  remains  for 
Dr.  Dixon  to  tell  us  where  he  discovered  "  hs 
science,"  "  6s  droit,"  and  "  te  philosophie." 

J.  Paynb. 
Kildare  Gardens. 


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[4tfc  a  VII.  Jah.  21, 71. 


'  I  cannot  admit  that  the  word  ks  is  derived  from 
the  Greek.  The  French  dictionary  that  says  so 
must  be  particularly  worthless  as  regards  ety- 
molopry.  How  ks  is  sometimes  a  contraction  of 
ebf  and  sometimes  o£  en  les^iB  explained  in  Bur- 
g^y's  Grammaire  de  la  L<mgue  dOU,  vol.  i.  pp.  54, 
55 ;  see  also  vol.  ii.  pp.  277,  287. 

Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Xf  ^ihitra  Terrace,  Cambridge. 


^ 


THE  BAL*|IM0RE  AND  "OLD  MORTALITY" 
^  '  PATERSONS. 

^"  <4"»  S.  vi.  187,  207,  290,  354.) 

Dr.  Rahage  g:ave  some  interesting  papers  on 
'^  Old  Mortality ''  and  his  descendants,  expressing 
no  doubts  as  to  the  relationship  of  the  Baltimore 
Fatersons  to  ''  Old  Mortality.''  Is  he  aware  that 
Sir  Walter  Scott  accepted  the  statement  of  Mr. 
Train  with  considerable  reserve  P  I  find  the  fol- 
lowing letter  in  the  work  entitled  — 

^  The  Contemporaries  of  Boms  and  the  more  Recent 
Poets  of  Ayrshire,  with  Sdections  from  their  Writings." 
Hugh  Paton,  Edinburgh,  1840,— 

to  which  Dr.  Kahage  has  referred  (4*^  8.  vL 
457):  — 

« 17th  April,  1829. 
«<  My  dear  Train, 
"  Toar  valuable  oommunication  arrived  in  dipping 
time,  and  adds  highly  to  the  obligations  which  your 
kindness  has  so  often  conferred  on  me.  I  shall  hardly 
venture  to  mention  the  extraordinary  conntxion  between 
the  Bonaparte  family  and  that  of  Old  Mortality^  till  I 
learn  from  you  how  it  is  made  out ;  whether  by  con- 
tinued acknowledgment  and  oonespondenoe  between  the 
families  of  the  two  brotherfi,  or  otherwise.  A  stream  of 
genius  (too  highly  toned  in  the  old  patriarch)  seems  to 
have  run  through  the  whole  family.  The  minister  of 
Galashiels  is  a  clever  man,  and  so  is  his  brother.  What 
a  pity  Old  Mortality's  grave  cannot  be  discovered !  I 
would  certainly  erect  a  monument  to  his  memory'  at  my 
own  expense." 

In  reply  to  this  Mr.  Train  stated  that  he  had  been 
prevented  from  answering  his  kind  letter  sooner, 
Mr.  Paterson  not  having  drawn  up  his  account  of 
his  family  so  early  as  promised :  — 

*<  I  thought  it  would  be  more  satiafactor^  to  you,"  adds 
Mr.  Train,  ''to  have  an  account  of  his  relations  in 
America,  written  bv  himself,  than  anything  I  could  sa^ 
on  the  subject.  Although  you  will  see  that  what  is 
stated  does  not  amount  to  positive  proof  of  the  Queen  of 
Westphalia' a  father  being  the  ton  of  Old  Mortality^  I  for 
my  part  have  no  doubt  that  he  was." 

Then  it  goes  on  to  say  that  Robert  Paterson — 

'*  gives  a  distinct  account  of  his  brother  John  sailing  in 
a  vessel  called  the  Golden  Rule,  of  Wltitehaven,  from 
the  Water  of  Cree  in  Galloway  for  America,  in  the  year 
1774 ;  of  his  makinc  a  considerable  fortune  during  the 
American  War ;  and  of  his  afterwards  settling  atSalti- 
more,  where  he  improved  his  fortune,  married,  and  be- 
came highly  ren>ectable.  He  had  a  son  named  Robert 
after  Old  Mortality,  his  father ;  and  a  daughter  named 
Elizabeth  after  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  wasGi^. 
Robert  married  an  American  lady,  who,  outliving  hmi, 


has  become  Marchioness  of  Wellesley.  Elizabeth  was 
married  to  Jerome  Bonaparte.  Extraordinary  as  these 
circumstances  may  appear.  Sir  Walter  was  convinced  of 
the  truth  of  the  statement,  and  declined  publishing  it 
solely  in  deference  to  the  Duke  of  Wdlington." 

Now  I  have  little  doubt  that  Dr.  Rajulge  is 
aware  of  the  hesitation  which  Sir  Walter,  at  one 
time  at  least,  felt  in  accepting  the  relationship 
between  the  two  families,  and  has  probably  ex- 
amined the  question.  Would  he  do  us  the  favour 
to  give  the  grounds  on  which  he  assumes  the 
relationship  ?  He  will  also  observe  that  there  are 
some  additional  circumstances  noted  in  what  I 
have  quoted,  which  do  not  appear  in  the  copy  of 
the  paper  which  he  gives.  This  account  stops  at 
the  sailing  of  John  to  America,  but  here  Mr. 
Train  gives  some  account  of  John's  career  in 
America.  F.  B. 


PEXNYTERSAX,  ETC. 

(4'«»  S.  vi.  3G9,  470.) 

J.  Ck.  R.  says,  "The  lowland  Scotch  surname 
of  Con  is  an  ascertained  Scandinavian  personal 
name,  found  also  in  the  place  called  Conway^  the 
Canovium  of  the  Romanst''  The  Scotch  name  is 
more  probably  a  nickname  of  ComeUwj  or  from 
the  Erse-Gaehc  cu,  gen.  conf  a  dog,  metaphoiically 
"  hero,"  found  in  composition  of  many  names  of 
Celtic  origin.  (Conf.  Tne  Four  Masters,)  Camden 
says : — 

**  Conovium,  mentioned  by  Antoninus,  received  its  name 
from  the  river ;  which  town,  though  it  be  now  qtiite 
destroyed  and  the  vety  name,  in  the  place  where  it  stood, 
extinct,  yet  the  antiquity  of  it  is  preserved  in  the  present 
name;  for  in  the  ruins  of  it  we  find  a  small  village 
named  Kaer  hen^  which  signifies  the  old  town  ....  The 
river  is  called  in  Ptolemy  Toieoviut  for  ConoviuM." 

Gibson  says  the  name  Conovium  may  mean  ^'  an 
extraordinary  great  or  prime  river.'*  Perhaps  a 
more  reasonable  etymology  of  Conovium  would  be 
from  ctcn-Uij  **  head  of  the  water.'' 

R.  S.  Chakkock. 

Gray's  Inn. 

P.S.— J.  Ck.  R.  thinks  Tenby  a  purely  Danish 
name ;  and  he  says  the  first  part  of  "  the  name 
Tenby  seems  identical  with  that  of  Newbury, 
Worcester.  Tann,  Tenneson,  TentttaoHf  are  Eng- 
lish surnames."  I  take  it  that  Tennison  is  t.  q- 
Dennison,  '^  son  of  Dennis,"  t.  e,  Dionysius. 

One  feels  his  breath  almost  taken  away  in 
wading  through  the  long  list  of  names  and  Scan- 
dinavian derivatives  given  by  J.  Ck.  R.  in  a  recent 
number  of  "  N.  &  Q.^ 

He  is  very  ingenious  in  construing  every  name 
quoted  into  Northern  origin ;  but  I,  for  one,  must 
enter  a  protest  against  his  neglect  of  the  Welsh 
derivation  of  such  names  as  Tenby  and  Penycwn, 
He  appears  to  act  on  the  injunction  of  Bishop 
Percy,  but  it  teUs  as  forcibly  agunst  himself  as 


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he  thinkB  it  does  against  those  who  pat  forward 
any  oth»  suggestion. 

i'enby  was  originally  called  Dwbych  y  JPyscoed, 
having  been  a  fisbing  station  of  the  ancient  Bri- 
tons. The  name  is  thus  analysed:  Din,  a  lull; 
lych  (a  comiption  of  bech)^  small,  and  Pyscoed. 
dshy  reading  thus — "  the  fishery  by  the  small 
Mil.'*  This,  I  conceive,  is  the  correct  origin  of 
the  word ;  and  bearing  in  mind  the  composition 
of  seTeral  words  fomung  one,  in  Welsh  names, 
the  rules  of  etymology  are  not  broken.  Denbigh 
13  another  name  in  which  we  have  Din  bech,  a 
.<mall  hill;  probably  so  named  from  the  com- 
parison with  the  biffher  places  surrounding  it  In 
the  word  Pemfcwn  were  are  three  distinct  Welsh 
words,  -m,  Fen  y,  the  head  or  promontory,  and 
ewn^  summit.  The  manner  in  which  such  a  name 
aa  this  is  ooostrued  is  surprising.  Supposing  the 
Scandinarian  origin  to  be  the  true  one,  it  fouows 
Datorally,  I  think,  that  such  words  as  Pen  y 
bont  in  Eadnorshire,  Penstiywed  (written  some- 
times Pen  y  Strowed)  in  Montgomeryshire,  Pen- 
maen  or  Pen  y  Ma»[i  in  Glamorganshire,  Peniarth 
in  MerionediahiTe,  Penderin  or  Pen-y-daren  in 
Brecknockahire,  must  testify  to  Danish  or  Scan- 
dinavian influence ;  but  I  am  a&aid  that  J.  Ck.  R. 
would  not  permit  this.  It  Is  hardly  sound  rea- 
soning to  fluy  that,  because  the  Danes  were  in 
South  Wales,  it  follows  corrupted  names  must  he 
Daniak.  I  am  aware  oi  the  presence  of  traces  of 
Banish  or  Northern  influence  in  Wales,  but  to 
what  extent  I  am  as  yet  unable  to  say ;  but  so 
far  as  the  words  in  question  are  concerned,  the 
Welsh  deriyationa  are  and  must  be  satisfactory  to 
an  impartial  student. 

If  1.  Ck.  R.  or  any  other  Norse  scholar  can 
prove  the  names  I  have  put  forward  in  support 
of  mj  position  to  be  of  Norse  origin,  then  I  shall 
only  be  too  happy  to  acknowledge  my  error ;  but 
till  then  I  am  content  to  accept  the  Welsh  ex- 
planation. J.  Jekeiciah. 

The  first  of  these  names  is  clearly  Celtic.  Pen- 
y-tJr-sal  signifies  in  Cymric  "the  head  (or  end) 
of  the  poor  land."  In  Gaelic  it  would  take  the 
form  of  Ben-a-tir-salach. 

There  is  an  infiltration  of  Cymric  forms  in  many 
of  the  Scottish  names  of  places,  which  is  probably 
due  to  the  Pictiah  dement,  midway  between  the 
Cymric  and  Gaelic 

The  word  Om-gUme  is  evidently  SeaiidinaTian. 
Eoma  or  Kuma  signifies  woman  or  wile — a  word 
of  cognate  deriTation  with  the  English  queen.  It 
is  a  fair  infarenoe  that  the  name  is  connected  with 
die  chambered  tumohu  mentioned  by  your  cor- 
respondent It  would  then  signify  the  queen's 
(or  wife's)  cairn  or  burial-]^lace. 

The  pertinadty  with  which  yonr  corre^Kuidsnt 
J.  Ck.  R  (4^  S.  Ti.  479)  clings  to  the  exploded 
CiUacy  of  the  Danish  derivation  of  such  oonunoa 


Welsh  names  as  Conway,  liugwy,  &c.,  is  quite 
amusing.  K  Celtic  forms,  with  a  Celtic  intel- 
ligpible  meaning,  found  in  a  Celtic  district,  are  not 
evidence  of  a  Celtic  origin,  I  am  at  a  loss  to  know 
how  anything  at  all  is  capable  of  proof.  The 
science  of  etymology  has  grievously  suffered  from 
being  identified  vrith  the  guesses  and  riddles, 
frequently  ingenious  enough,  of  persons  who  mis- 
understand its  very  elements.  As  Max  Miiller 
observes  — 

^  Sound  etymology  has  nothing  to  do  with  sound.  We 
know  words  to  be  of  the  same  origin  which  have  not  a 
single  letter  in  common,  and  which  differ  in  meaning  as 
much  as  black  and  white.  Mere  guesses,  however  pUnsi- 
ble,  are  completely  discarded  from  the  province  of  scien- 
tific etymology.  A  derivation,  even  though  it  be  trae,  is 
of  no  real  vune  if  it  cannot  be  proved." 

Take  for  instance  at  random  a  passage  from  the 
letter  of  J.  Ck.  R.  He  asserts,  without  any  at- 
tempt at  proof,  that  Pen  is  a  personal  Danish 
name,  and  then  proceeds  — 

**  There  is  Penycwn^  in  Pembrokeshire,  one  of  the  chief 
settlements  of  the  Danes  or  their  predecessors  the  Picts 
on  the  English  coasts,  in  which  is  found  the  purely 
Danish  name  of  Tenby." 

It  would  be  difficult  to  bring  together  in  so 
small  a  space  a  larger  number  of  fallacies.  In 
the  first  place  Pen-y-ctcm,  the  head  (or  end)  of 
the  hollow,  is  one  of  the  commonest  of  Welsh 
appellations.  There  is  not  the  slightest  ground 
for  the  assertion  that  it  was  ever  a  Damsh  settle- 
ment When  did  the  Picts  settle  on  the  English 
coasts  P  or  if  they  did,  where  is  the  evidence  of 
their  ever  being  in  Pembrokeshire  ? 

Then  as  to  the  name  of  Tenhy.  The  suffix  hu 
is  assumed  plausibly  enough  to  indicate  a  Danish 
tovm  or  settlement  (not  a  fortress).  But  what  of 
Ten,  the  prefix  ?  Mr.  Taylor  says  it  is  a  corrup- 
tion of  Dome,  J.  Ck.  K.  very  conveniently  assumes 
it  to  be  a  Danish  proper  name. 

Now  the  facts  about  Tenby  are  simply  these : 
Its  original  name  was  Dyvhyck-y-^Pysgod,  "the 
little  hill-fort  by  the  fishery,"  which  exactly  in- 
dicates the  position  of  the  castle  rock  projecting 
into  the  sea.  The  Danes  harried  the  coast  in  the 
tenth  century,  but  effected  no  settlement  here. 
No  town  existed  until  the  end  of  the  twelfth 
century,  when  Tenby  was  founded  by  the  Flem- 
ings and  English  after  Ihe  destruction  of  the  castle 
by  Malgwn,  son  of  Hhvs  ap  GryfiVth,  Prince  of 
South  Wales.  Tenby  then  is  simply  the  English 
corruption  of  the  original  Cymric  Dynbydif  as 
another  Dynbych  in  North  Wales  has  by  a  simihii 
process  become  Denhiyh. 

l£  dymology  is  ever  to  take  its  proper  rank  as 
a  trae  science^  the  first  thing  to  oe  done  is  to 
discard  all  such  fanciful  and  baseless  speculations, 
and  to  build  upon  the  solid  basis  of  kxK>wn  facts. 

J.  A,  Picroir. 

Saadykiiowte,  Waveftrea*  liverpoaL 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.VII,JiH.21,7l. 


F&Ajrcis^  Eabl  of  Bothwbll  (4*'»  8.  vi.  422.) 
Anolo-Scotus  says  that  Francis  Stewart,  son  of 
James  Stewart,  Commendator  of  Melrosand  Kelso, 
was  created  Earl  of  Bothwell  in  1587  bj  James 
VI.  I  do  not  pretend  to  enter  into  these  ques- 
tions with  one  so  thoroughly  conversant  with  such 
subjects,  but  it  may  interest  him  to  have  his 
attention  drawn  to  the  following  old^  charter, 
which  accidentally  came  under  my  notice  when 
I  was  investigating  the  '^  Temple-lands  "  of  Dum- 
friesshire, and  wnich  seems  to  contradict  the 
statement  as  to  the  year  when  he  was  made  Earl 
of  Bothwell.  The  charter,  of  which  I  have  a 
copy,   was   among  the    archives  of  the  ''Eirk- 

Satricks"  of  Closebum.  It  is  a  charter  by 
ames  VI.  dated  "  apud  Dunfermeling  penultimo 
die  Mensis  Junii  anno  Domini  millesimo  quingen- 
tesimo  octagesimo  sexto  regni  nostri  decimo 
nono,"    The  witnesses  are  — 

*'  Perdilectifl  nostris  ooiuangaioeiB  et  oonsillAriis  Joanne 
Domino  Hamiltouni  commendatorio  monasterii  nostri 
de  Ababrotbek,  Archibaldo  An^piaie,  comite.  Domino 
Dolbyles  ?  et  Abernethie,  Reverendisaimo  ac 

venerabili  pro  patriboa  Patricio  Sanctiandre  Arcbi- 

episeopo,  Waltero  priore  de  Blant^  noetri  secret!  sigilli 
costode;  dilectis  nostris  familianbus  et  oonsiliariis,  Do- 
mino Joanne  Maitland  de  Thirlstane  milite  nostro  secre- 
tario,  Alexandro  Hay  de  Eister,"  &c 

This  charter  is  confirmatory  of  the  church-lands 
and  temple-lands  of  Closebum  to  ''Petro  Col- 
lace,''  which  had  been  granted  bv  a  charter  (which 
is  recited)  of  Francis  Earl  of  Bothwell :  ''Ferdilec- 
tum  nostrum  consiliarium  Franciscum  comitem 
de  Bothwell,  dominum  IlaiUis  et  commendatorem 
monasterii  de  Kelso,"  and  this  charter  was  signed 
"  apud  Castrum  de  Creichton  die  vicesimo  c[uarto 
mense  Januarii,  anno  Domini  millesimo^  qmngen- 
tesimo  octagesimo  quinto.'' 

Here  we  have  Francis  Stewart  styled  in  this 
charter  of  January,  1685,  as  Earl  of  Bothwell.  I 
throw  out  this  hint  for  the  consideration  of 
AiTGLO-ScoTns,  without  pretending  to  give  an 
opinion  on  the  subject 

Cbaufubd  Tait  Raicagb. 

MouiTT  Calvary  (4**»  S.  vL  642.)--The  holy 
Scripture,  it  is  true,  says  nothing  as  to  the  place 
called  Golgotha  being  a  mountain  or  a  valley. 
But  the  universal  custom  of  calling  it  a  ''  mount " 
could  only  have  arisen  from  a  knowledge  of  the 
spot,  and  the  tradition  of  the  first  ages  of  the 
Christian  Church.  J.  W.  H.  observes  that  "  if 
the  tradition  of  an  eminence  were  of  respectable 
antiquity,  it  might  be,''  &c ;  by  which  he  seems 
to  doubt  if  it  be  of  respectable  antiquity.  I  think 
the  testimony  of  St.  Cyril  ought  alone  to  suffice 
on  this  point.  St.  Cyril  was  Bishop  of  Jerusalem 
in  the  fourth  century,  and  there  he  delivered  his 
famous  CatecheaeSf  or  catechetical  instructions,  in 
sight  of  the  holv  plaoea  In  his  Idth  CateehesU 
he  distinctly  speaks  of  Calvary  as  a  holy  emmence 


still  to  be  seen,  and  as  bearing  witness  at  that 
very  time  of  the  rending  of  the  rocks  at  oar 
Lord's  Crucifixion,  by  the  appearance  of  its  rocky 
surface.    These  are  his  words : — 

''  'O  ro\yo9&r  oZtos  6  lycof,  6  ifmpOBnarJtt^  ical  fic'x^i 

Xpiarhv  td  wirpai  rm  4^pJep^w^  (^Catecheas  xiii. 
$  xzxix.) 

(That  holy  and  n^>eremiiunt  Golgotha ;  and  to  be  seen 
at  this  day,  and  showing  even  now,  how  by  Christ  the 
rocks  were  then  rent.) 

F.  C.  H. 

There  are  at  least  two  passages  of  earlier  date 

than  the  middle  of  the  eleventh  century  (the  time 

when  Mb.  Fsbguson  supposes  the  transference  of 

the  Holy  Sepulchre  to  the  western  hill  to  have 

taken  place),  in  which  Calvary  is  referred  to  as  a 

^  mount."     The  one  is  in  the  EcdesUutical  Hu- 

tory  of  SogomeHj  ii.  1,  where  it  is  said  that  the 

QreekB,  **  the  more  effectually  to  conceal  them^ 

had  enclosed  the  place  of  the  resurrection  and 

Mount  Calvary  within  a  wall " ;  the  other  in  the 

tract  of  Theodoras,  written  somewhere  about  the 

end  of  the  sixth  century,  where  it  is  said,  speaking 

of  Calvary,  that  the  mount  is  stony,  and  that  the 

ascent  to   the  mount  is   by  steps.    (See  Jtevue 

archaologiquef  Aug.  1864,  p.  109,  and  PdUtiima 

De8criptione8  ex  SacuIOf  iv.  v.  et  vi.  Titus  Tobler, 

St.  Gallen,  1869.)    There  is  a  curious  passage  d 

a  later  date  in  Geoffrey  de  Vinsauf  s  Itinerary  of 

King  Richard  1,  cap.  79,  where,  speaking  of  the 

capture  of   Jerusalem  in  a.d.   1187,  the  writer 

says: — 

*'  When  the  city  was  taken,  the  crier  of  the  Mahometan 
law  proceeded  to  the  sammit  of  the  rock  of  Calvary,  and 
there  pnblished  their  false  law  in  the  place  where  Christ 
had  consummated  the  law  of  death  upon  the  cross."  (See 
Bohn's  Chrotdclesofthe  Crutadet,  p.  79-80.) 

Alex.  B.  M^Qeigob. 

19,  Woodside  Terrace,  Glasgow. 

Ehtkb  to  "Widow"  (Jt^  S.  vi.  345,  445, 
669.) — Rhymes  miffht  be  multiplied.  Skiddaw, 
Eaddow  (a  Cornish  oiid),  and  if  proper  names  are 
allowed — 

1.  **  Fie,  fie,  Monsieur  Dido ; 

What,  jilt  the  poor  widow  ?  " 

2.  *'  As  Sir  Roger  de  CJorerley, 

So  crost  was  in  love  early. 

By  a  beautiful  widow, 

A  yeoman  bight  Prideaux." 

Ohables  Thibiold. 
Cambridge. 

Falls  of  Fotebs  and  Glavka  (4***  S.  vi.  501.) 
The  name  Foyers,  which  I  find  set  down  in  an 
old  map  as  ''  Foirs/*  I  take  to  be  a  corruption  of 
the  Old  Norse  fors,  Norwegian  /om,  a  waterfall, 
from  Old  Norse  forsa,  to  rush  furiously.  The 
English  word  fcUl  is  an  adventitious  accretion, 
obviously  superinduced  after  the  original  meanine 
of  the  name  nad  ceased  to  be  understood.  ''Fall 
of  Foyers,"  in  point  of  fact,  means  "Fall  of 


4*  &  VIL  Jah.  21, 71.] 


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63 


Wftterfiall."  A  similar  impodtioii  is  found  in  the 
aame  Strathhelmsdale  ('* Strath"  and  "dale" 
being  words  of  like  significance),  and  in  the  name 
of  that  group  of  islands  belonging  to  Denmark 
called  the  Faroes,  to  which  we  apply  the  redun- 
dant denomination  of  Faroe  Ides — ae  and  isle  being 
one  and  the  same.  The  general  name  for  a  water- 
fail  throughout  Cumberland  is /orce.  The  deriva- 
tion of  the  name  Olamma  is  not  quite  so  eyident, 
but  may  either  be  the  Icelandic  glaum,  the  name 
of  a  man,  and  d^  a  river,  or  possibly  giamr*  an 
enl  spirit — ^the  supposed  abode  of  the  wate>fiend. 
Pinkerton  mentions  "the  cascade  of  Glamma"  as 
situated  "amidst  the  constant  darkness  of  hills 
and  woods  " — ^physical  peculiarities^  not  only  sug- 
gestive to  a  superstitious  and  imaginative  people, 
bat  condstent  with  the  known  belief  of  the  North- 
men, that  the  mountain  peaks  and  hidden  recesses 
of  the  valley  were  innabited  by  supernatural 
bebg9.t  What  renders  this  solution  somewhat 
prorable  is,  that  in  a  very  old  map  this  name  is 
written  "Glamoir."  In  Norway  is  the  river 
Glommen,^  the  meaning  of  whicn  may  be  either 
*^The  river  spirit,"  or  "Glaum's  river,"  or  pos- 
sibly "The  turbid  river" — German  glum,  tur- 
bidos.  J.  Cx.  K. 

AuTOHATOir  Chess-Plater  (4*^  S.  v.  663;  vi. 
40, 115,  613. — ^The  pamphlet  mentioned  by  Mr. 
XoBLE  (The  Speaking  ^Figure  atid  the  Automaton 
Chef^-Player  exposed  and  detected)  has  been  at- 
tributed to  Philip  Thicknesse,  F.R.S.,  and  father 
of  Lord  Audley.  W.  E.  A.  A. 

D G :  "  A  RfDE  FROM  Yarmouth  to 


Wales  "  (4**  S.  vi.  529.) — I  can  confirm  the  accu- 
racy of  Mr.  Towhsheitd  Mater's  statement  re- 
^pectins^  the  lateGeorge  Daniel  and  the  ^'Remarks '' 
prefixed  to  Cumberland's  series  of  plays,  eighty- 
seven  of  which  were  published  by  Dolby  before  the 
work  passed  into  Mr.  Cumberland's  hands.  The 
critical  observations  which  prefaced  these  eighty- 
seven  numbers  were  then  cancelled  to  make  room 
for  Mr.  Daniel's.  Those  who,  like  myself,  had  op- 
portunities of  knowing  that  voluble  gentleman, 
must  have  relished  your  interpretation  of  the 
D G :  but  not  many  of  even  these 


were  aware  that  when  that  model  of  "  self-repres- 

*  From  this  the  Scotch  word  giamer,  to  exercise  a 
weird  infloence  over  one. 

t  Feignson  says  the  Nekai^  in  l^orwav,  derives  its 
name  from  "the  water  spirit  called  the  Neck'':  hence, 
I  presaiDe^  our  name  **  Old  Nick  "  applied  to  designate 
the  Deril. 

X  This  name,  it  is  said,  contains  **  the  demonstrative 
fonn  of  the  word  d,  a  river,  becoming  in  Old  Norse  dtii, 
tht  river."  The  old  form  of  the  name  of  our  own  northern 
dty  probably  i^ords  an  example  of  this,  viz. — **  Abir- 
d«^m,**  i.  e.  sitoated  over  or  beyond  the  entrance  of  the 
river.  An  example  at  the  prefix  Aber^  not  yet  recorded 
io  the  pa|^  of  **  N.  &  Q.**  is  Aberfiort,  a  small  seaport  of 
Norway,  forty-eight  miles  south-west  of  Christiana. 


sion,"  George  IV.,  when  Prince  of  Wales,  was 
reported  to  have  received  a  well-deserved  chastise- 
ment from  Lord  Yarmouth,  on  account  of  Lady 
Yarmouth,  Mr.  Effingham  Wilson,  of  the  Boyal 
Exchange,  issued  a  versified  account  of  the  affair, 
intituled  A  Hide  from  Yarmouth  to  Wales,  This 
squib  was  i^ritten  by  George  Daniel.  It  was 
bought  up  on  the  morning  or  publication  at  the 
dost  of  some  thousands  of  pounds.  But  although 
bought  up  at  this  cost  I  will  be  bound  to  say  that 
a  copy  of  it  was  found  among  Mr.  Daniel's  library 
accumulations.  JoHir  Watson  Dalby. 

Richmond,  Surrey. 

It  is  stated  in  an  editorial  note  that  it  is  pos- 
sible that,  an  index  hand  pointing  to  D G 

(George  Daniel)  might  be  used  by  the  writer  in 
reference  to  the  handwriting  on  the  wall,  indi« 
eating  that  he  was  ''a Daniel  come  to  judgment.'' 
Surelv  the  phrase,  as  used  by  Shakespeare  in  his 
MerdMnt  of  Venice,  refers  to  the  apocryphal  story 
of  Susannah  and  the  Elders,  and  not  to  Belshaz- 
zar's  Feast.  Daniel  was  not  a  judge  in  the  latter 
case,  but  he  was  in  the  former. 

E.  L.  Blenkinsoff. 

Springthorpe  Kectory. 

"WhiottMoor"  (4^  S.  vi.  503.)— This  poem 
has  been  printed,  with  an  important  di88ertation, 
in  the  appendix  to  the  Rev.  J.  C.  Atkinson's 
Glossary  of  the  Cleveland  Dialect,  p.  695.  It  may 
also  be  seen,  correctly  printed  from  the  only 
known  manuscript,  in  my  edition  of  Myrc's  In- 
structions for  Pari^  Priests  (E.  E.  T.  S.),  p.  90. 

Ebwabb  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

"She  took  the  Cuf,"  etc.  (4'*»  S.  vi.  526.) — 

These  lines  are  to  be  found  in  the  Arundines  Cami, 

"  editio  quarta,"  p.  147.    They  are  there  headed 

"  Epitaph,"  and  **  Anon. "  is  appended.    They  are 

thus  rendered  into  Latin  verse  by  Dr.  Kennedy, 

the  late  Head-Master  of  Shrewsbury : — 

**  Parvola  lib&rat  vitam  Melitilla  :  sed  ehea  I 
Displicait  nimia  potus  amaritie : 
Leniter  amovit  tenero  cratera  labello, 
Atqae  itemm  somno  lamina  composait." 

The  lines,  I  imagine,  form  one  of  those  epitaphs 
so  common  in  churchyards,  of  which  it  is  so  diffi- 
cult to  trace  the  paternity. 

JOHK  FiCXTOSD,  M.A. 

Bolton  Percy,  near  Tadcaster. 

Lavcashibe  Fitvsbal  Folk  Lobe  (4^^  S.  vi. 
496.) — The  writer  of  the  paragraph  you  have  in- 
serted from  the  Daily  Telegraph  is  mistaken  in 
supposing  that  the  noor  Hindley  people  used  sprigs 
of  box  as  a  humble  substitute  for  rosemaiy  or 
thyme.  The  use  of  the  latter  plants  would  pro- 
bably have  been  as  foreign  to  their  notions  as  the 
obolus  for  Charon,  or  the  honey  cake  for  Cerberus ; 
but  the  use  of  box  is  so  universal  among  the 
humbler  classes  in  the  neighbourhood  referred  to, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.VII.  Jah.21,71. 


that,  afl  a  plant  grown  in  gardens,  it  is  commonly 

spoken  of  aa  "  burying-box  " ;  and  it  is  no  doubt 

luanted  in  cottage  giirdens  for  the  express  purpose. 

The  custom  is  alluded  to  by  Wordsworth  in  his 

little  poem  of  «  The  Childless  Father":— 

*< Fresh  sprigs*  of  green  box-wood,  not  six  months 
before. 
Filled  the  funeral  basin  at  Timothy's  door." 

And  in  a  note  (vol.  i.  p.  203,  ed.  1827)  it  is  stated 

that — 

**  In  several  {NUts  of  the  North  of  England,  when  a 
funeral  takes  place,  a  basin  full  of  sprigs  of  box-wood  is 
placed  at  the  door  of  the  house  from  which  the  coffin  is 
taken  up,  and  each  person  who  attends  the  funeral  ordi- 
narily takes  a  sprig  of  the  box-wood,  and  throws  it  into 
the  grave  of  the  deceased/* 

Qy.  the  origin  of  the  custom  ?  J.  F.  M. 

Nicolas  Hamel  (4*'>  S.  vi.  540.)  —  This  piiest 
and  French  grammarian  sold  the  MS.  of  his 
grammar  to  Messrs.  Longman ;  he  was  then  Hying 
in  Somers  Town,  near  the  present  Catholic  church. 
The  firm  still  holds  the  transfer  of  the  copyright 
and  the  cheque.  Jakes  Gilbebt. 

51,  Hill  Stiaet,  Peckhara,  S.£. 

The  Hon.  Catherine  Soitthcote  (4'*»  S.  vi. 
546.)  — Although  I  am  not  able  to  identify  this 
lady,  who  is  stated  by  your  correspondent 
J.  C.  G.  H.  to  have  been  living  in  173G,  perhaps 
the  foUowing  information  may  prove  of  service  to 
him.  A  *'  D^me  Catherine  Southcott  aliaa  Fair- 
fax, widow/'  was  one  of  the  parties  to  an  inden- 
ture hearing  date  Aug.  25,  27  Chas.  II.  (1675), 
and  recited  in  the  will  of  Roger  Palmer,  Earl  of 
Castlemaine,  in  1696  (Misc.  Gen,  et  Her.,  i.  152). 
She  was  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Elliott, 
Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Essex.  She  married,  first. 
Sir  George  Southcote,  Bart,  of  Bliborough,  co. 
Lincoln,  who  died  in  1664,  leaving  issue  a  son, 
Geor^,  at  whose  decease,  before  1691,  the  baron- 
etcy IS  said  to  have  expired,  and  a  daughter,  Ca- 
therine, who  became  the  wife  of  James  Palmer, 
Esq.,  brother  to  the  above-mentioned  Earl  of 
Castlemaine.  Lady  Southcote  married,  secondly, 
in  1665,  the  Honourable  Nicholas  Fairfax,  a 
younger  son  c^  Thomas,  second  Viscount  Fairfax, 
of  Gilling  Castle,  ea  York,  by  whom  she  had, 
with  other  issue,  a  daughter  Mary,  who  was 
baptized  at  Walton,  Aug.  3,  1666. 

EOBEBT  H.  SeAIPX. 
The  Moont,  York. 

"  BuLE  Laws  op  Consecticxtt  "  (4*'»  S.  vi.  485; 
vii.  16.) — In  answer  to  Mr.  Picton,  I  give  at  full 
the  title-page  of  the  small  book  from  which  I 
took  the  quotation  mentioned  by  him : — 

*<The  Code  of  1650,  being  a  Compilation  of  the  earliert 
Laws  and  Orders  of  the  General  Court  of  Coanectient; 
also  the  Constitution,  or  Civil  Compact  entered  into  and 

•  Sarely  this  is  the  correct  reading.  In  the  above 
edition  it  i3  printed  "  springs." 


adopted  by  the  Towns  of  Windsor,  Hartford,  and 
Wethersfield  in  1688-9.  To  which  is  added,  some  Ex- 
tracts [from  the  Laws  and  Judicial  Proceedings  of  New- 
haven  Colony,  commonly  called  Blue  Laws.  Hartford: 
published  by  Silas  Andms,  1825." 

I  shall  be  happy  to  lend  the  book  (12mo, 
120  pp.,  one  wooacut^  fnU  page)  to  Mb.  PiGiOK,if 
he  wishes  to  see  it,  and  will  write  to  me  through 
the  office  of  "N.  &  Q.*'  Nbphwte. 

[Let  IB  take  this  opportunity  of  doing  what  we  had 
intended  to  do  before — call  Ma.  Ficron's  attention  to 
a  valuable  article  by  a  gentkman  eonnected  with  the  State 
Libraiy,  Hartford,  Connecticut,  on  **  The  Blue  Laws  "  in 
our  !•*  S.  xi.  321,  which  gives  the  history  of  this  pre- 
tended code.] 

The  "Shaw-Vait  Voght''  (4^  S.vi.477,583.) 
There  are  two  versions  of  this  song,  one  beginning 

**  Tifl  a  £;loriou3  moonUght  night,*' 
and  another, 

*•  There  are  ships  upon  the  sea," 

in  the  Wearing  of  the  Green  Song  Booh,  published 
by  Cameron  and  Fer^son,  Glfisgow. 

James  Reid. 

FiKST  Book  pRUfXED  nr  Manchestee  (4*''S. 
iii.  97, 159.) — No  earlier  exemplar  of  our  Man- 
chester press  than  that  nimed  iu  my  former  com- 
munication appears  to  be  known,  and  yet  it  seems 
Srobnble  that  some  may  hereafter  be  foandl.  Mr. 
ohn  Owen  of  Manchester  has  favoured  me  with 
the  following,  which  ho  copied  from  an  entry  in 
the  registers  of  the  Manchester  Cathedral: — 

"  1693.  March. — Jonath.in,  son  of  John  Green,  Man- 
chester, Printer,  baptised." 

It  is  rflso  possible  that  some  of  the  Lancashire 
Civil  War  Tracts,  issued  «./.,  may  have  been  the 
fruits  of  a  local  press.       William  E.  A.  Axo5. 

MissALE  AD  usual  SarujI  (4^**  S.  vi.  430,  i)o8.) 
Your  learned  correspondent  F.  C.  II.,  replying  to 
a  query  of  A^timum  Keoe  as  to  the  date  of  a 
Sarum  Missal  in  the  possession  of  the  latter,  sars 
that  the  owner  may  determine  whether  or  no  the 
edition  in  question  is  that  published  by  Peter 
Violette  in  1509  "  by  ascertaining  in  what  year 
about  that  time  Easter  fell  on  March  27."  I  bave 
just  purchased  a  copy  of  that  curious  book,  the 
Dactylimius  Ecclenodicus  of  Pompeius  Limpius, 
fo.  Venice,  1613.  This  most  laborious  calculator 
gives  two  tables,  the  one  supplying  the  day  of  the 
month  on  which  Easter  day  fell  from  A.D.  325  io 
A.D.  1582  inclusive,  the  other  carrying  on  the  same 
table  from  a.d.  1683  to  a.d.  8199  !  By  these  tahles 
I  find  that  the  years  nearest  tO  1509  in  which 
Easter  Day  fell  on  March  27  were  1440,  1502, 
1513,  1624,  and  1622.  It  is  somewhat  provoking 
that  three  of  these  dates  should  be  so  near  1509, 
whilst  the  other  two  are  remote,  thus  perhaps  a 
little  perplexing  your  correspondent  Animum 
Rege.  W.  Sparrow  SIMPS05. 


4«»S.Vn.  JAjr.21,'71,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


65 


If  you  apply  to  Rev.  W.  G.  HendersoD,  D.C.L., 
Head  Master  at  Leeds,  you  will  find  him  learned 
in  all  matteis  connected  -with  Sarum  and  other 
minals. 

On  all  questions  relating  to  early  printers  or 
old  typography,  you  would  do  well  to  show  your 
Tolume  to  Mr.  W.  Blades,  17,  Abchurch  Lane, 
City.  LoodoD. 

FtJLSCiB  T.  Haybboal, 
Lihrarian  of  Hereford  Cathedral* 

The  Boo'cworh  (4***  S.  vi.  527.) — I  cannot  fur- 
nish more  than  one  instance  of  the  ravages  of  book- 
worms in  anjTolume  of  so  recent  date  as  175Q;  but  I 
hayean  old  copy  of  St.  Jerom  of  1616,  in  folio,  which ' 
has  been  reiy  assiduously  gone  through  by  book- 
^worms.     I  could  collect  from  it  many  examples, 
but  the  two  following  may  suffice.    One  perfora- 
tion extends  through  thirty  leaves,  which  together 
are  more  than  one-eighth  of  an  inch  thick.     Its 
neatest  length  is  one  mch  and  one-eighth,  greatest 
Breadth  three-eighths  of  an  inch.     Another  per- 
vades twenty-eight  leaves,  one-eighth  of  an  mch 
thick,   and    its    greatest   length    is    one   inch. 
About  the  middle,  the  worm  has  made  a  complete 
island  four-eighths  long  and  three-eighths  broad, 
so  that  the  intermediate  paper  of  the  island  has 
fallen  oat  of  several  leaves,  leaving  a  hole  of  the 
above  dimensions.     The  insect  seems  to  be  fasti- 
dious in  his  taste,  and  a  gourmet  in  his  way,  having 
a  decided  relish  for  the  paper  of  old  books,  which 
it  aeems  to  take  a  century  or  more  to  season  for 
his  palate.     As  above  noted,  however,  I  have  one 
book  printed  in  1819,  decidedly  worm-eaten. 

F.  C.  11. 

I  have  never  seen  the  bookworm,  and,  after 
many  enquiries,  have  failed  to  discover  any  one 
who  hits.  Is  he  known  to  entomologists  P  1  infer 
from  the  cessation  of  his  ravages,  that  about  the 
imMl»  of  the  last  century  some  new  ingredient 
was  introduced  in  the  manufacture  of  paper  which 
he  does  not  like.  I  have  an  edition  of  Montaicne, 
4  vols.  Paris  18Q2,  the  calf  binding  of  which  is 
extenfflvely  wormed,  but  the  paper  has  not  been 
penetrated.  Fair-dealing  booksellers,  when  a  book 
IS  ^  wormed,"  say  so  in  their  catalogues  ^  and  I  do 
notiemember  any  one  so  marked  of  a  later  date 
than  1750.  H.  B.  C. 

U.  U.  Qiib. 


Though  I  have  been  greatly  plagued  by  the 
ravages  of  this  pest,  I  am  not  enough  of  an  ento- 
m<^og]st  to  distmguish  the  genuine  insect  from 
pfetenden,  and  should  only  be  misleading  your 
readeiB  by  measuring  the  diameter  of  their  holes. 
Generally  speaking,  the  plague  is  confined  to  old 
books,  and  even  some  ot  them  appear  to  be  pro- 
tected by  the  nature  of  their  paper  or  other  pecu- 
liarity. The  solitary  instances  to  the  contrary, 
vhich,  as  far  as  I  laiow,  I  am  able  to  produce, 
sre,  a  copy  of  Tasso's  Aminta,  printed  at  Florence 


in  1824,  which  the  creature  has  curiously  per- 
forated for  280  pages,  at  about  two  indies  &om 
the  top,  without  any  apparent  outlet ;  the  second 
volume  of  the  London  edition  of  Johnson's  Lives 
of  the  Poets f  1783  j  and  a  volume  of  Whiston's 
J09ephus,  1787.  C.  W.  BiKeHAU. 

The  Rev.  F.  Havergal,  Librarian  of  Hereford 
Cathedral,  will  be  most  happy  to  give  the  writer 
some  information,  and  also  some  samples  of  paper 
eaten  recently  bv  bookworms  on  being  favoured 
with  name  and  address. 

The  Zodiac  of  Dendbbah  (4**»  S.  vi.  529.)  —I 
have   no  knowledge  of  the  calculations  of  Mr. 
John  Cole  in  1824.  whereby  he  estimates  the 
zodiac  of  Tentyra  (=  Denderah)   to  date    from 
2261  B.C.    This  sculpture,  of  circular  form,  about 
five  feet  in  diameter,  was  discovered  by  General 
Desaix,  and  was  brought  to  Paris  in  1821.  From  the 
Greek  inscriptions  on  the  temples  of  Denderah  and 
Esne,    Champollion    and    Letronne    ascertained 
(PrScis    du    Sgstkme   kieroglyphique,   JRecherehes, 
&c).  that   those    edifices  were    constructed  or 
finisned  during  the  times  of  the  Boman  emperors. 
But  the  antiquity  of  the  zodiacal  scheme  or  map 
there  represented  is  another  matter,     Depuis  car- 
ried it  to  150  centuries  before  the  Christian  era, 
which,  however,  was  afterwards  reduced  to  about 
four  centuries  B.C.     (Origifie  des   CuUeSy  1796.) 
When  JoUois  and  Bevilliers  saw  the  stone,  they 
at  once  detected  figures  nearly  similar  to  those 
represented  on  the  celestial  globes  of  the  present 
day.    Biot  (Pecherches  sur  VAstronomie  Egypti- 
enne)  showed  that  this  zodiac  represented  the 
position  which  the  pole  of  the  world  must  have 
occupied  about  the  year  716  b.c.  ;  also,  that  the 
zodiac  of  Esne  gave  the  position  d  about  700  b.c. 
It  is  to  be  observed  that  whilst  the  pyramids 
coincide  with  the  meridian,  the  axis  of  the  temple 
of  Denderah  deviates  17  degrees,  and  that  of  the 
small  temple  at  Esne  71  degrees  from  the  meri- 
dian, both  of  them  being  from  the  north  towards 
the  east.  T.  J.  Bucktok. 

9  Bidimond  Place,  Brighton. 

The  small  planisphere  which  was  on  the  ceiling 
of  one  of  the  lateral  chambers  of  the  temple  of 
Hathor  behind  the  Pronads,  is  now  to  be  found  in 
the  Egyptian  museum  of  the  Louvre.  The  three 
zodiacs  known  in  Egypt  as  Dendera,  Esnd,  and 
E'Dayr  are  all  of  the  Ptolemaic  or  Roman  eras. 
On  good  authority,  the  planisphere  in  question 
dates  back  little  more  than  1800  years. 

A.  S.  W. 
Union  Club. 

Jacob  Bohme  (4»»'  S.  vi.  520.)— The  followinff 
is  the  title  page  of  one  of  the  works  mentioned 
by  your  correspondent  Mr.  Babclat.  It  is  in 
my  possession,  and  if  this  edition  \a  of  the  slightest 
service  to  your  correspondent  I  will  lend  it  him 
with  pleasure. 


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[4*fcS.VII.  Jaii.21.71. 


*<  The  Third  Booke  of  the  Author,  being  The  High  and 
Deepe  Searching  oat  of  the  Threefold  life  of  Man  through 
[or  according  to]  the  Three  Principles,  l>7  Jacob  Behmen 
alias  Teatonicus  Philosophiis.  Written  in  the  German 
Language,  Anno  1620.  Englished  by  J.  Sparrow,  Bar- 
rister, of  the  Inner  Temple,  London.  London :  Printed 
bv  M.  S.,  for  H.  Blunden,  at  the  Castle  in  Com  Hill, 
1650." 

John  Yabxeb. 
43  Chorlton  Road,  Manchester. 

HaIB  6B0WIKG  AFTBB  DSATH  (4***  S.  vi.  624.) 

As  a  parallel  case  to  that  cited  by  Mb.  Pic£FOBB, 

I  transcribe  the  following  from  Hawthome^s  Bng- 

lish  Note  Books  (vol.  i.  p.  96) : — 

**  The  grandmother  of  Mrs. died  fifty  years  ago, 

at  the  age  of  twenty^eight.  She  had  great  personal 
charms,  and  among  them  a  head  of  beautiful  cbtstnut 
hair.  After  her  burial  in  a  family  tomb,  the  coffin  of  one 
of  her  children  was  laid  on  her  own,  so  that  the  Ud  seems 
to  have  decayed,  or  been  broken  from  this  cause ;  at  any 
rate  this  was  the  case  when  the  tomb  was  opened,  about 
a  year  ago." 

Hawthorne  wrote  on  Good  Friday^  1854 : — 

**  The  grandmother's  coffin  was  then  found  to  be  filled 
with  beautiful  glossy  living  chestnut  ringlets,  into  which 
her  whole  substance  seems  to  have  been  transformed,  for 
there  was  nothing  else  but  these  shining  curls,  the  growth 
of  half  a  century,  in  the  tomb." 

A  remarkable  instance  to  the  contrary  will  be 
found  in  Sir  Henry  Halford*s  account  of  the  open- 
ing of  the  cofEln  of  Charles  1.  in  1813.  (The  Life 
of  James  IL,  hy  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Clarke,  LL.]^., 
vol.  ii.  App.  iv.  pp.  669-70.) 

''The  pointed  beard,  so  characteristic  of  the  period  of 

the  reign  of  King  Charles,  was  perfect The  back 

part  of  the  scalp  was  entirely  perfect,  and  had  a  remark- 
ably fresh  appearance— the  pores  of  the  skin  being  more 
distinct,  as  they  usually  are  when  soaked  in  moisture  ; 
and  the  tendons  and  ligaments  of  the  neck  were  of  con- 
siderable substance  and  firmness.  The  hair  was  thick  at 
the  back  part  of  the  head,  and  in  appearance  nearly 
black.  A  portion  of  it,  which  has  since  been  cleaned  and 
dried,  is  of  a  beautiful  dark  brown  colour.  That  of  the 
beard  was  a  redder  brown.  On  the  back  part  of  the  head 
it  was  more  than  an  inch  in  length,  and  had  been  pro- 
bably cut  so  short  for  the  convenience  of  the  executioner, 
or,  perhaps,  by  the  piety  of  friends  soon  after  death,  in 
order  to  furnish  memorials  of  the  unhappy  king." 

The  indestructibility  of  hair  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that  at  the  same  time  a  portion  of  Heniy 
VIIL's  beard  was  discovered  to  ''remain  upon 
the  chin.'' 

It  may  be  thought  that  the  moist  condition  of 
King  Cnarles's  head  prevented  the  posthumous 
growth  of  his  hair.  But  as  a  general  rule  mois- 
ture induces  hair  to  grow.  At  Whitby,  last  year, 
a  young  man*  was  drowned  while  bathing,  and 
his  body  carried  out  with  the  tide.  At  the  flood, 
two  or  three  days  aftw,  his  remains  were  re- 
covered, and  his  hair  was  found  to  have  grown 
between  three  and  four  inches. 

S.  B.  TOWNSHEND  MaTBB. 
*  Whose  name,  for  obvious  reasons,  I  do  not  give. 


Babbaba,  Ducuess  of  Clbvelavs  (4^S.  v. 
401.)  —  Your  correspondent  G.  S.  S.,  who  is  en- 
gaged upon  a  life  of  this  lady^  asks  for  evidence  of 
her  "  asserted  residence  at  Chiswick."  In  a  MS. 
note  of  Horace  Walpole's  (penes  me),  I  find  it 
stated  —  '^  The  Duchess  of  Cleveland  died  at  her 
house  at  Chiswick  of  a  dropsy,  Oct  9,  1709." 
And  the  burial  registers  of  the  pariish  (which  1 
had  occasion  to  consult  some  lime  since)  record : 
*'  Barbara  Villiers,  Duchess  of  Cleveland,  Oct.  13. 
1709."  Edwabd  F.  BmBAULT. 

An  nnsDiTED  Elegt  by  Oliveb  Goldsmith 
(4«>  S.  vu.  9.)— It  would  be  indeed  "uoorGoldy," 
as  your  correspondent  "  MooBLAin)  Lad  "  styled 
him,  if  in  1770  he  could  descend  so  low  as  to 
produce  such  a  specimen  of  the  bathos  as  this 
miserable  eles^.  Any.  attempt  to  foist  such  trash 
upon  the  author  of  the  Traveller  and  the  Deserted 
Village  can  only  be  met  as  the  poetaster  was  of 
yore,  "  Muses  furcillis  prsecipitem  eUciunt  |' ;  and 
I  cannot  but  think  that  the  careful  superintend- 
ence which  is  generally  exercised  over  what  ap- 
pears in  "  N.  &  Q."  was  somewhat  at  fault  when 
such  a  communication  as  the  one  I  am  referriiifr 
to  was  allowed  to  pass  muster  without  souie 
editorial  comment.  I  can  imagine  the  expression 
in  the  face  of  my  friend  Mr.  John  Forster,  Gold- 
smith's admirable  biographer,  on  having  the  liaes 
MooBLAND  Lad  has  produced  put  before  him  a> 
a  genuine  addition  to  that  charming  poetry  which 
he  has  illustrated  so  well.  Jas.  Cbosslet. 

Oliveb  the  Spy  (3«>  S.  ix.  21,  87, 862,  623.) 
The  name  of  this  character,  once  so  notorioas, 
appears  three  or  four  times  in  your  earlier  indexes; 
his  subsequent  career  after  he  retired  from  the  pul}- 
lic  gaze  on  the  conviction  of  Thistlewood  may  not 
be  so  well  known.  In  1820  or  1821  he  was  sent  out 
to  the  Cape  with  letters  of  recommendation  for  his 
services  to  Lord  Charles  Somerset,  then  governor 
of  the  colonj,  who  appointed  him  to  the  lucrative 
and  responsible  position  of  superintendent  of  pub- 
He  wori£8,  in  wnich  ofElce  he  built  the  present 
English  cathedral  and  Gt>vemment  House  at  Gra- 
ham's Town  on  the  eastern  frontier,  two  of  the 
ugliest  buildings  that  can  possibly  be  conceived^ 
and  which  cost  enormous  sums  of  money,  the  ex- 
penditure of  which  could  never  be  very  accurately 
accounted  for.  Oliver  died  in  Cape  Town  in  IS% 
under  the  name  of  Jones,  his  widow  surviving 
him  for  some  years.  He  was,  I  believe,  the  last 
of  his  class  wno  was  rewarded  by  a  handsome 
colonial  appointment  for  his  diabolical  treachery 
to  his  countrymen  at  home.  H.  H. 

Portsmoath. 


4*  a  VII.  Jan.  21,  '71.] 


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MiittHKntnui. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 
Qmcordanee  to  the  Chrigtian  Year,    (Parker.) 

Mmimga  over  **  The  Christian  Tear "  and  **  Lyra  Inno- 
cemHum,"  By  Charlotte  Mary  Yonge.  Topper  with 
a  few  Gletmrnffs  of  Recollections  of  the  Rev,  John  Kelde, 
gathered  by  several  Hands,     (Parker.) 

Nothing  can  show  more  clearly  how  tenacious  is  the 
hold  which  The  Christian  Year  has  ttikea  of  the  religions 
mind  of  England,  and  how  deep  is  the  reyerence  in  which 
the  memory  of  John  Keble  is  held,  not  only  by  those 
who  enjoyed  the  blessing  of  his  friendship,  but  by  thou- 
sands  who  know  him  only  by  his  works,  than  the  two 
books  whose  titles  we  have  just  transcribed.  Nearly  two 
centuries  elapsed,  after  the  death  of  Shakespeare,  before 
the  workl  was  furnished  with  a  concordance  to  his  writ- 
ings ;  and  the  same  period*  or  nearly  so,  before  the  poems 
of  Mjjum  received  the  same  recognition ;  and  irith  the 
exception  of  the  Laureate,  to  whose  poems  a  concordance 
was  published  little  more  than  a  twdvemonth  ago,  Keble 
is  the  only  modem  poet  so  read  and  quoted  as  to  call  for 
»aeh  an  acoompaniment  to  his  writings.  The  second 
book  is  of  eren  a  more  interesting  character.  It  con« 
tains,  not  only  gleanings  firom  thirty  years'  intercourse 
with  Keble  from  the  pen  of  Hiss  Tonge,  but  similar 
recollections  contributed  by  other  friends,  which  will  be 
read  with  great  interest  by  all  who  love  to  dwell  upon 
Hnnley  Ticatage  and  its  pious  household;  but  what 
win  be  very  acceptable  to  all  the  admirers  of  Keble,  an  in- 
teresting running  commentary, explaining  allusions, clear- 
ing op  dsrk  pasBUj^  and  unveiling  hidden  beauties,  in 
the  two  series  of  ^votional  poems,  which  have  leavened 
the  religious  literature  of  the  day  to  an  extent  of  which 
it  is  difficult  to  foresee  the  limit. 

The  Haydn  Series,  A  Dictionary  of  Science,  comprising 
Astronomy,  demufrjf,  DynaadcSf  Electricity,  Heat, 
Hydrodynanues,  Hydrostatics,  Light,  Magnetism,  Me- 
chanics, Meteorology,  PneumiUies,  Sonnd,  and  Statia, 
Preceded  by  an  Essay  on  lAe  Fhfmd  Sciences,  Edited 
by  G.  F.  Rodwell,  F.R.A.&,  F.aS.    (Moxon.) 

There  can  be  no  question  of  the  utility  of  books  of  this 
eharacter  when  properly  executed.    They  are  specially 
useful  to  two  classes  of  readers.     They  are  useful  to 
those  who  occasionaUy  desire  information  upon  special 
points  of  scientific   knowledge,  but  whose  avocations 
do  not  allow  them  time  to  devote  to  a  thorough  study 
of  them;  and  they,  are  useful  also  as  compendinms  of 
inibnnation  fbr  those  who  in  these  days  of  competitive 
examinations — when  everybody  is  exijected  to  know 
evefything—dedre  to  obtam  a  general,  if  not  thorough 
knowledge  of  physical  science.    It  is  no  wonder,  there- 
fore, that  the  publishers  of  Haydn*8  Dictionary  of  Dates, 
who,  encouraged  bv  the  success  of  that  invaluable  hand- 
book, have  decidea  on  publishing  a  series  of  analogous 
volumes,  should  follow  up  their  Dictionary  of  Biogmhy 
with    a  Dictionary  of  Science;  and    they  have   done 
widely  in  securing  in  its  preparation  the  assistance  of  the 
«everal  eminent  men  whose  names  are  recorded  in  the  List 
of  Contributors  which  precedes  the  Editor's  **  History  of 
t!ie  Physical  Sdences." 

The  Torktkire  Archaohgical  and  Topographical  Journal, 
Fb/.  /,  pp.  392.  Issued  to  Members  only,  (Bradbury 
and  Evans.)    London,  1870.    8vo. 

The  first  volume  of  this  journal  is  now  completed,  con- 
taining many  interesting  articles  on  the  Topography  and 
Arcbs»Iogy  of  the  greatest  and  most  interesting  of  English 
counties.  Some  excellent  illustrations  add  much  to  the 
volume.  When  we  mention,  amongst  its  contributors, 
sa«h  antiquarians  as  Canon  Raine  and  Robert  Davies, 


Esq.,  of  York,  a  sufficient  guarantee  is  given  of  the  ac- 
curacy and  value  of  the  joumaL  To  add  to  the  useful- 
ness of  the  book,  a  most  carefully  compiled  index  is 
appended,  in  which  nearly  every  person  and  place  is 
mentioned. 

Sir  JoHir  Maclean.— We  are  pleased  to  record  that 
the  Gazette  of  Tuesday  announces  that  the  Queen  had 
been  pleased  to  confer  the  honour  of  Knighthood  on  Sir 
John  Maclean,  Peputy  Auditor  of  the  War  Office;  for 
the  gentleman  in  question,  who  is  the  author  of  The  Life 
of  Sir  Peter  Carew,  published  in  1857,  and  the  historian  of 
The  Deanery  of  Briga  Manor,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall, 
has  been,  as  our  readers  will  remember,  a 'frequent  con- 
tributor to  these  pages. 

The  Dkath  of  the  Dean  of  Camterbubt. — The 
Rev.  Henry  Alibrd,  D.D.,  died  at  Canterbury  on  Thursday 
week,  after  a  very  short  illness,  he  having  preached  at 
the  Cathedral  on  the  preceding  Sunday.  In  Dean  Alford 
the  Church  of  England  has  lost  one  of  the  most  active, 
intell^ent,  and  liberal  of  her  sons ;  and  if  any  evidence 
were  wanting  as  to  the  high  character  of  the  lamented 
dignitary  it  would  be  found  in  the  presence  at  his  funeral 
of  men  of  all  shades  of  religious  opmion.  The  Bishops  of 
Gloucester  and  Salisbury,  tne  Deans  of  Westminster  and 
Ely,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Stooghton,  and  the  Rev.  Newman 
Hall,  all  alike  testified  by  their  attendance  their  sense  of 
the  worth  of  this  eminent  Christian  scholar. 

The  Ashmoleam  Museum. — The  new  Keeper  of  the 
Ashmolean  Museum,  Mr.  Parker  of  Oxford — whose  zeal 
and  knowledge  vie  with  each  other — h&s  ju^^  published 
the  interesting  Lecture  on  **  The  History,  Present  State, 
and  Prospects  of  the  Collection  *'  under  his  charge,  de- 
livered by  him  to  the  Oxford  Architectural  and  His- 
torical Society  in  November  last,  which  our  readers  will 
find  well  worthy  of  their  attention. 

International  Exhibition  of  1871.— The  following 
noblemen  and  gentlemen  have  consented  to  act  as  iudges 
to  select  paintings  for  the  forthcoming  Exhibition: — 
The  Viscount  Bury,  M.P.;  The  Lord  Elcho,  M.P.;  Sir 
Coutts  Lindsay,  Bart;  Alfred  Elmore,  Esq.,  R.A.  Trepr^- 
senting  the  Royal  Academy)  -,  Alfred  Clint,  Esq.  (repre- 
senting the  Society  of  British  Artists)  ;  Alfred  Hunt,  Esq. 
(representing  the  Society  of  Painters  in  Water  Colours) ; 
Henry  Warren,  Esq.  (representing  the  Institute  of  Pain- 
ters in  Water  Colours) ;  F.  Dillon,  Esq. ;  H.  S.  Marks,  Esq. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO   PUBCHASB. 

PMrtienlari  of  Prioe,  ae.,  of  the  following  Books  to  be  lent  direct  t 
the  gentlemen  bjr  whom  ther  are  required,  whoie  nemei  end  eddrewee 
are  given  fbr  that  purpoee:  — 
Ths   Crbistias   EzAininiB,   and  Church    of  Ireland  Magazine, 

No.  SO.  Augntt,  1880.    Title-page*  and  Contenia  from  Januan'>  ISBS, 

to  December,  1881.    Ditto,  fh>m  Jannarjr  to  December,  1884.    Ditto, 

finom  January  to  December,  18«8. 
FOSTUIiATBS  AHD  DATA.    Mo.  ''..  etatO.    IMS. 
THB  QnABTBRLT  RaVIBW.     Vol.  XX.     1880. 

DuBLiK  UHivaBsnr  Calks  dabs,  ims,1M9.  ism.  ^  .  ^ 

TOBBBB  (JOHH),   A   Rmuquabt   fbom   PALcaTisn.    CBHghton] 

1844 
FOBTZSODB   (8lB  FAlTHnTL),  AX    AOOOUST  0»  THB    RIGHT  IIOH. 

8iB  abthub  Chiohjestbb,  Lobo  Bkutast,  liOBO  Dkputy  of 

IBBLABD.    London,  I8S6. 
Sylvaj  or,the  Wood.ac.    London,  178S. 
Thb  Bbautxbs  of  Abohushop  Tillotsok.   Dublin,  1701. 
Wanted  bjr  Abfiha^  Bokebf,  Blackrodc,  Dublin. 

DiLStoH  Hall,  bjr  William  Sydney  Gibeon,  F.S.A.  •      .    „.   ,    , 
EngraTcd  Portrait  of  Laurence  Sterne,  firom  the  Painting  by  Sir  Joihua 

Aejnoldi. 
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Oodftey  KncUer. 
An  Engraring— The  only  Daughter,  after  Sir  Darid  Wllkle. 

Wanted  by  the  itev.  John  Pickford.  M.A .,  Bolton  Percy, 
near  Tadcaster,  Yorkthire. 

WiLLLAX  LAW*S  WOBZS.    9  VoU. 

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[4»S.VII.  jAar.21,'71. 


fittHtti  ta  Carreif|iaHlrmU. 

Wt  are  compelled  ts  postpone  until  next  week  several 
Notes  oa  Booka  euul  RepUea  to  seeeral  Correspondents, 

HtBERNlA.     Received,  and  under  consideration, 

HOUK-OLASBRB     IN    PULPITS.~CU£IUCUB   (Slighton) 

will  find  Aim  mfjjoet  treated  at  great  Ungth  in  numerous 
articles  in  our  First  and  Second  Series.     See  Index. 

W.  C.  (Richmond.)     Thank9;  but  see  "X.  &  Q."  2-* 

S.  iv.  47,  79. 

X.  T.  Z.  Suckling*  Suffolk  (2  vols.  4to,  1846-8)  wUl 
no  doubt  give  you  the  information. 

F.  G.'s  quertf  as  to  the  best  mode  of  preventing  sound 
passing  through  walls  and  floors  should  be  addressed  to 
The  Bailder. 

R.  6.  F.  (Sandgate.)  We  do  not  knnw  any  genealo' 
gift  in  Jamaica. 

J.  C.  Will  find  tlie  information  respecting  the  severed. 
NevilU  mentioned  by  him  in  Bridge's  EditUtn  of  Collias*s 


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CONTENTS.— N>»  161. 

$0TB8:*-The  Gtwlterio  Ftaen  at  (he  British  Mnieum: 
Astogrmph  Letters  of  the  Abb^  de  Fleury,  Count  de  Mor- 
ville,  mna  JnUen.  60— A  Blaok-oountr7  liegeDd,  71  —  Pedi- 
gree of  Hume  the  Historian :  Baron  Bailliei  lb. -—A,  New 
Bene  firom  Peris.  72 — China  Mania — "  Old  Father  Antic, 
the  Xaw  **  —  Folk  Lore :  Frost  on  the  Shortest  Dsy — Scot- 
tish Soeietiee-*  Story  aseribed  lo  Theodore  Hook  --  Lord 
Nelson's  Opinion  of  German  Generals  —  An  Inscription  — 
Ohavbao — The  late  Joseph  Farkea  —  Furoess  Abbej  and 
the  Chetham  Society,  7S. 

QUEBISS:—  What  Edition  of  the  Bishops'  Version  was 
need  by  the  Translators  of  the  Authorised  version  of  1611  f 
74  —  "Ansel  Arise!  Britannia's  Sons,  Arise!"— Austin 
Family — Arms  of  Charlemavne  —The Deaf  Old  Woman 

—  De  Goorcy ;  Kinsale — Derby  Porcelain — Gentlemen  — 
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Fleet.  165S  —  "  MeU  Britannicus  " — Sir  George  Moore  — 
**  Feocft  fortiter  " — Prince  Pueckler  Muskau,  Ac^  75. 

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lan,  A.  —  Sir  WUlism  Soger,  Knt.,  82  —  Mr.  Windham 
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—  " Pierce tbePlooghman's Crede "  —  Nous—*" The  Bitter 
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THE  GTJALTERIO  PAPERS  AT  THE  BRITISH 
MUSEUM:  AUTOGRAPH  LETTERS  OF  THE 
ABBE  DE  FLEURY,  COUNT  DE  MORVILLE, 
AND  JULIEN. 

Since  the  appearance  of  my  last  article  in 
^'N.  &  Q."  I  have  been  informed  that  the  Mar- 
ehesa  Cami»na  is  engaged  upon  a  history  of  the 
Stnart  family,  T^hidi  is  to  comprise « a  large 
number  of  qnbtations  from  the  Gualterio  MSS. 
The  first  two  volumes  of  the  work  are,  I  belieyei 
actually  printed,  and  will  be  published  as  soon  as 
the,  state  of  the  Continent  renders  undertakings 
of  a  literary  kind  tolerably  feasible.  In  the 
meanwhile  my  readers  cannot  feel  surprised  at 
my  withdrawing  the  promise  I  had  made  of  for- 
warding to  ''  N.  &  Q.  a  few  specimens  of  Queen 
Maria  of  Modena's  correspondence.  I  would  not, 
on  any  consideration  whateyer,  even  seem  to  take 
away  from  the  interest  of  the  Marchesa's  book ; 
and  the  Gualterio  MSS.  are  so  rich  in  documents  of 
all  kinds  that  I  can  draw  upon  them  for  man^  a 
piquant  paragraph  without  so  much  as  alluding 
to  the  Stuarts.  The  following  letters  refer  to  the 
history  of  France,  and  the  one  I  publish  first  was 
addressed  to  Cardinal  Gualterio  by  the  Abb^  de 
Fleury,  chaplain  to  Louis  XIV.,  bishop  of  Fr^jus 
in  1698,  and  who  had  been  selected  in  1715  to  fill 
the  iij^rtant  post  of  governor  to  the  young 
Louia  iV. : — 


Monaeignenr, 

Je  me  flatte  que  Y.  E.  n'a  pas  tout4^fait  onblitf  wi 
ancien  serviteur  qn'elle  honoroit  de  ses  bont^s,  et  qui  a 
tonjours  fiiit  une  profession  particulifera  de  lai  Stre  atta- 
cW.  J'ay  rhonneur  d'esorire  )^  Sa  Saintet^  pour  obtenir 
deUe  nn  ladnlt  poor  confi^rer  en  oommende  tons  lea 
prieur^  dependants  de  mon  abbaye  de  Tournua.*  Je 
suu  oblige  de  me  servir  de  plnsieun  gens  de  leUrea  pour 
1  education  du  Roy,  et  je  ne  puis  leur  faire  ancun  bien 
qne  par  le  moyen  de  oet  indult.  "Si  V.  K,  Monseignenr* 
vent  bien  m'accorder  Thonneur  de  sa  protection  dans 
cette  occasion,  j'espfere  qne  Sa  Saintete  ne  me  refusera 
pas  cette  giioe,  de  laquelle  certainement  ie  ne  veux  faiie 

3u'nn  bon  usage.  Le  Roy  se  porte  paifaitement  bien,  et 
onne  de  grandes  esperances.  Je  proflte  avec  plaisir  de 
cette  occasion  pour  me  renouyeler  dans  le  souvenir  de 
V.  E.,  et  Taasurer  du  respectueux  attacbement  avec  le- 
quel  je  serai  toute  ma  vie, 

Monseinieur, 
le  tr^humble  et  trfeM>b^8Bant  serviteur, 
A.  F.,  ancien  evdque  de  Frejua. 
Paris,  oe  U  mars  1717.t 

M.  de  Morville,  the  author  of  the  next  letter, 
had  been  ambassador,  and  then  Secretary  of  State 
for  the  Navy;  his  colleagues  in  tbe  administra- 
tion organised  after  the  death  of  Cardinal  Dubois 
were  M.  de  Maurepas,  M.  de  Breteuil,  and  M. 
d'Argenson,  all  young  men,  like  himself.  (See 
Barhkr'8  JourmJ,  Charpentier's  edition,  i.  297.) 

A  Yersailles,  17  aoust  1723. 

Je  regarde,  Monseigneur,  comme  un  dee  premiers,  et 
en  mSme  temps,  comme  un  des  plus  agreables  soins  du 
miniature  one  le  Roy  m'a  confie,  celuy  d'informer  votro 
Em««  des  changemens  auzquels  la  mort  de  M.  leCard^ 
Dubois  a  donne  lieu  dans  les  dispositions  du  gouveme- 
ment  Le  Roy  a  remis  radministration  g^n^rale  des 
affaires  de  son  rovaume  k  M.  le  Due  d'Orl^ans,  qui  a  bien 
voulu  accepter  le  titre  et  se  charger  des  fonctions  de 
premier  ministre.  Sa  Majesty  m'a  en  m€me  temps  honord 
de  celuy  de  secretaire  d'etat  des  affaires  etrangferes,j)our 
executer  sous  les  ordres  et  sous  les  yeux  de  S.  A.  R.  ce 
qui  peut  y  avoir  rapport. 

G  est  sous  ce  titre  et  sous  celuy  de  Thomme  du  monde 

2ui  porte  au  plus  haut  point  la  veneration,  le  zMe  et  le 
evouement  pour  Y.  £m^  que  je  la  supplie  de  ne  me  pas 
refUser  les  secouzs  qu'eUe  vonloit  bien  donner  k  mes  pre> 
decesseurs  dans  cet  important  employ,  par  cette  corres- 
pondance  oh  ils  ont  pulse  si  souvent  les  avis  et  les  con- 
seils  les  plus  utiles  au  service  du  Roy.  C'est  une  grace 
que  je  demande  tr^lnstamment  k  Y.  £m««  en  Iny  protes- 
tant  que  j'en  auray  la  plus  parfaite  reoonnoissanoe. 

Je  voudrois  bien  que  la  coi\)oncture  ou  nous  nous  tion« 
vons  me  laiss&t  tout  le  temps  neceasaire  pour  repondre 
6JbB  aujourd'liuy  h  celles  de  ses  lettr«8  dont  M.  le  Card. 
Dubois  ne  luy  avoit  pas  marque  la  reception ;  elle  recon- 
noitroit  que  ma  premiere  attention  s'est  portee  avec 
empressement  ii  ce  qui  vient  de  Y.  £m«*. 

J 'ay  fait  touts  celle  que  je  doisliune  lettre  accompagnee 
d'un  memoire  concemant  M.  le  Due  de  Cumia,  des  inte- 
r6ts  duquel  je  me  feray  un  objet  capital,  comme  de  tout 
ce  qui  aura  rapport  h  oeux  de  Y^*  £m«o  et  k  sa  satis- 
faction. C'est  oe  dont  je  la  supplie  d'etre  persuadee,  et 

*  Fleury  had  resign^  his  bishopric  in  order  to  be 
nearer  Madame  de  Maintenon,  who  was  at  the  height  of 
her  power,  and  he  had  accepted  as  a  compensation  the 
Abbey  of  Toumus,  in  Burgundy.  See  Saint- Simon's 
Memoirs,  xi.  447«9. 

t  Brit  Mus.,Addit.  MSS.  20,322. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES* 


[4»i»S.VII.Jah.28/71. 


da  respectaeux  attachement  avec  leqael  je  bum,  Monsei- 
gnenr,  de  V.  £in<*  le  tres-hnmble  et  tr^s-ob^iasaDt  aervi- 
teur,   ' 

Db  Morville.* 

Cardinal  Gualterio  was,  as  we  see,  the  faithful 
and  indefatigable  adviser  of  the  French  Crown 
on  matters  of  foreign  policy ;  his  consummate 
experience  gave  the  utmost  value  to  the  corre- 
spondence which  he  carried  on  with  the  ministers 
at  Versailles  and  their  agents  abroad;  and  his 
well-known  partiality  for  l^Vance  had  transformed 
him  into  a  kind  of  uon-oi&cial  chargi  (Tafaires, 
whose  duty  it  was  to  watch  the  proceedings  of 
the  coalition,  and  to  keep  up  a  reeling  of  cor- 
diality between  the  Pope  and  His  Most  Christian 
Majesty.  , 

Morville  writes  to  him,  it  will  be  observed,  in 
a  tone  of  great  obsequiousness  :— 

Je  ne  peax  me  dispenwr,  MonadgDeur,  de  marquer 
«ncore  ploa  particuli^rement  k  Votre  £minence  par  un 
hiUat  separ^  combien  je  suis  toucbd  des  marques  de  bontd 
dont  elle  veut  bien  m'honorer  au  commencement  de  mon 
ministere.  J*ai  fait  part  h  M.  le  Garde  des  Soeaux  f  de  ce 
qu'elle  m'a  fait  la  p^ritce  de  m'^crire ;  ii  y  est  pins  sensible 
que  je  ne  peux  rexprimer,  et  j'ose  assurer  votre  Emi- 
nence qu*il  partage  bien  vivement  avec  moy  la  recon- 
noissance  que  je  lui  dois.  II  s'estime  trop  heureux  de 
pottvoir  vivre  encore  dans  son  souvenir  ;  11  conserve  pour 
elle  tons  les  sentiments  qui  lui  sont  si  justement  dus. 
Pour  moy,  Monseigneur,  j'avouerai  k  Votre  Eminence, 
que  rien  ne  me  flatte  plus  dans  la  place  dont  je  suis  re- 
vetu  (lue  la  relation  que  Vaurai  Tbonneur  d'avoir  [avec] 
elle.  Une  confiance  sans  bornes  en  Votre  Eminence  sera  la 
rdgle  de  ma  conduite,  et  me  paroitra  toujours  le  seul 
mojeu  dont  je  pourrai  me  servir  pour  remplir  dignement 
le  minist^re  qu'il  a  plu  au  Roy  et  h  Son  Altesse  Royale 
de  confier  k  mes  soins.  Je  supplie  done  Votre  Eminence 
<le  m*aider  de  ses  Inmi^res  et  de  croire  que  personne  au 
monde  ne  pent  etre  plus  jaloux  que  moy  d'en  profiter. 
Je  suis  avec  un  respe<;t  infini,  Monseigneur,  de  Votre 
Eminence  le  tr6s-humble  et  tr^shob^issant  serviteur, 

De  Morvillk. 

A  Versailles,  ce  22  sept*  1728. 

The  fourth  letter — the  last — ^which  I  shall  give 
here,  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  in  the  whole 
series ;  it  was  written  to  Cardinal  Gualterio  by  a 
well-known  personage,  Julien,  who,  after  having 
been  a  Protestant,  and  even  received  a  colonelcy 
from  the  Prince  of  Orange  (William  III ),  had 
returned  to  France  and  embraced  the  Roman 
Catholic  religion.  Court  says  of  him — "  Son  zfele, 
amer  et  bigot,  ne  lussoit  rien  k  d^sirer  4  cet  ^gard. 
Xics  Protestants  n'euxent  pas  d*ennemi  plus  redou- 
table."  (Rise,  de  la  Guerre  des  Civemtes,  voL  i. 
153,  164.)  Julien  plaved  a  conspicuous  part  in 
the  persecution  directed  against  the  Camisards. 

A  une  maiaon  de  campagne,  k  7  lieues  de  Paris. 

Le  2L»»«  juin  1709. 

J'arrivay  2i  Parifl,  mon  incomparable  Seigneur,  le  12 

du  courant,  et  buict  jours  apr^  je  vios  a  cette  belle 

campagne,  oil  nous  passons  agr^ablement  le  temps,  f^loi- 

gnd  des  discours  ennuyenx  et  tristea  qui  se  d^bittent  h 

*  Brit.  Mus.,  Addit  MSS.  20,323. 
t  M.  d'Argenson* 


Paris  sur  la  mis^re  gdndrale,  sur  la  raiet^  d'argent,  et 
aur  la  continuation  de  la  guerre  lorsqu'on  se  flattoit  de 
cette  paix  tant  d&irde,  et  qui  a  est^  rompue  depuis  pen, 
comme  je  vais  avoir  Tbonneur  d*aprendre  k  Votxe  Emi- 
nence. Elle  aura  s^eu  (jue  M.  de  Torcy  dtoit  k  La  Haye, 
et  que  le  18  may  milord  Malbouroug  y  dtant  arrive 
avec  milord  Toussend  [sic  in  the  manuscript ;  it  should 
be  Townsend]  pldnipotentiaires  d'Angleterre,  les   con- 
ferences commenoferent  le  19  entre  oes  deux  messieurs, 
M.  de  Torcy,  M'  Rouill^  les  trois  peusionnaires  d*Hol- 
lande,  M.  le  prince  Eugene,  et  Tambassadeur  de  Savoye, 
oe  qui  continua  chaque  jour.  Le  24,  le  comte  de  Sinsen- 
dorf  arriva  k  La  Haye  et  entn  le  mesme  soir  dans  les 
conferences  qui  avoient  estd  tenues  pen  de  jours  aupa- 
ravant  deux  fois  par  jour.    Entin,  pour  couper  court, 
M.  de  Torcy  demanda  k  ces  messieurs  les  articles  par 
^rit,  afin  qu'il  lea  portit  au  Roy  pour  e^avoir  si  S.  M. 
les  voudroit  signer,  et  ce  ministre  estant  arrivtf  le  l*'  da 
courant  k  Versailles,  il  y  eut  conseil  le  2  soir  et  matin,  oit 
ces  articles  furent  trouvea  si  durs  et  mesme  si  injurieux 
k  la  personne  du  Roy,  que  S.  M.  ne  put  se  rdsoudre  h  les 
signer,  de  sorte  que  tout  tourne  k  la  guerre  et  plus  k  la 
paix.  Voicy,  k  ce  qu*on  public  k  Paris,  I'article  essentiel 
sur  lequel  le  Roy  a  rompu.  II  est  question  de  faire  revenir 
Philippe  V  d'Espagnedkns  deux  mois,  et  de  donner  pour 
seurete  et  otage   Bayonne,  Pampelune,  Fontarabie  et 
quelques  autres  places' en  Flandres  fronti^res  de  rArtoia, 
toutes  lesquelles  places  resteront  anx  ennemis  si  au  bout 
de  deux  mois  le  Roy  d'Espagne  n'est  pas  revenu  en 
France,  lesqnels  ennemia  pourront  continuer  la  guerre 
contre  nous,  et  comme  le  Roy  n'est  pas  maitre  de  faire  re> 
venir  le  Roy  son  petit-fils,  quand  mesme  il  y  emploieroiC 
la  force,  les  deux  mois  ne  suffiroient  pas,  et  nous  aurions- 
livrd  les  portes  de  notre  Royaume  aux  ennemis.  V.  £m«« 
voit  bien  que  cet  article  ne  pent  estre  ex^utd  de  la  part 
du  Roy,  mais  S.  M.  s'engageoit  de  parole  k  ne  secourir 
plus  le  Roy  son  petit-fils.  ify  a  un  autre  article  sur  le- 
quel le  Roy  auroit  eu  peine  de  se  rdsoudre,  c'est  Tarticle 
concernant  le  rdtabliseement  de  I'ddict  de  Nantes,  que 
les  ennemis  demandent.  On  prdtend  qu'Us  laifisent  Top- 
tion  au  Roy,  ou  de  le  rdtablir,  ou  bien  de  permettre  tant 
k  ceux  qui  sont  sortis,  qu'k  ceux  qui  vondront  sordr,  de 
vendre  pendant  20  ann^es  leurs  biens,  et  se  retirer  dans 
le  pays  Granger.  A  Tegard  de  tons  les  autres  articles,  ila 
sont  'assez  durs,  pulsqu'il  s*agit  de  nous  reraettre  aux 
traits  des  Pyr^n^  et  de  Munster,  ik  la  demolition  de 
Dunkerque,  de  Bergues,  de  Tbionville,  k  donner  quelque 
portion  du  baut  Dauphin^  au  due  de  Savoye;  toute 
i'Alsace,  et  meame  oe  que  nous  avions  avant  le  traite  de 
Munster.    II  y  en  a  qui  assurent  qu*on  ne  demande  paa 
la  Franche-Compte.  On  verra  leurs  injustes  pretentions 
dans  un  manifesto  que  le  Roy  doit  donner  au  public,  eC 
cependant  on  se  prepare  k  continuer  la  guerre.  Non- 
obstant  la  raret^   des    denr^es,  Dieu  veniUe  qu'il  no 
Vienna  une  famine  dans  ce  royaume,  et  que  les  ennemis 
ne  soyent  aussv  heureux  en  Flandres  cette  campagne 
qu'ila  Font  ^te  lea  prdc^dentes.  C*est  le  mareacnal  de 
Villars  qui  commando  notre  arm<^.  Monseigneur  n'y  vs 
plus,  non  plus  que  M.  le  Due  de  Bourgogne  en  Alsace  oiz 
coramande  le  mareschal  d*Harcourt,  M.  de  Besons  en  Es* 
pagne,  ayant  eatd  ddclar^  avant-hier  mareschal  de  France  ; 
sans  doute  qu*il  y  gagnera  ce  b&ton.  De  vos  oherea  nou- 
velles,  mon  incomparable  Seigneur,   je  prie  V.  Em^* 
d'ordonner  que  vos  lettres  me  soient  toujours  adressdea 
k  Avignon  par  le  p^on  de  Rome  ou  de  Ghnea ;  le  comte 
d' Urban  aura  soin  de  les  retirer,  et  de  me  lea  envoyer  h 
Paris,  oil  je  compte  de  rester  jusqu'en  aoust,  que  je  re- 
gagnerai  Orange,  a'il  plait  au  Seigneur.  Le  plul  sensible 
plidsir  que  je  pnisse  avoir,  c'est  d'apprendre  le  bon  ^tat 
de  la  sante'  de  V.  Em«*,  et  qne  le  Pape  Ta  consdee  de  tou3 
les  malheurs  que  la  duret^  et  injustice  des  Imp^riaux 
vous  a  attir^  pour  avoir  et4  trop  fidelle  k  Sa  S*^  ct 


4*  3.  VIL  Jaw.  M,  "Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


71 


avoir  trop'bien  servi  le  S*  Sitfge.  Yoil^  touH  tos  crimes, 
Dieu  soU  loo^  et  me  donae  les  moyens  de  bien  con- 
Taiacre  V.  £•  de  rattachement  fidelle,  tendre  et  respec- 
tneuz  arec  leqnel  je  seray  toate  ma  vie,  Monseig^ear, 
de  Yotre  Eminence,  le  tr^-humble  et  trte-ob^iasant  >er- 
Titcar, 

JUUEX. 

Mes  amiti^  icy  an  brave  Taminer,  et  anx  personnes 
attacbdes  k  V.  £.  Mes  respects  et  oMissances,  sll  tous 
piait,  4  messiears  tos  fr^res,  h  M.  le  Cardinal  Aqaariva, 
et  a  M.  de  Pisanj  quand  vous  Ini  dcrirez.  Monsei^nienr. 

J'adresse  cellc-cv  h  M.  I'abb^  de  la  Tonr,  ($veque  de 
Cax-aillon,  et  envoje  k  Avi^on  ik  Mad*  de  Guvon  la 
mere  le  piqaet,  la  priant  de  le  faire  mettre  an  p^don  de 
£ome.* 

Head  in  the  light  of  present  events,  this  dismal 
sketch  of  the  state  of  France  during^  the  last  few 
years  of  the  reign  of  Louis  XIV.  is  certainly 
carious  enough.  Gvstatz  Massok.* 

Harrow-on-the-Hill. 


A  BLACK-COUNTRY  LEGEND. 

Earlj  in  the  present  centurj^t  when  Bilston 
was  a  long  straggling  yOlage  with  one  main 
etreety  which  formed  a  part  of  the  mail-road  from 
London  to  Chester  and  Holyhead,  the  BulFs 
Head  (advertised  for  sale  Lady  Day,  1870)  was 
the  principal  inn  of  the  place,  and  a  well-lmown 
hosteliie  on  the  old  Irish  route.  It  was  naturally, 
and  almost  as  a  matter  of  course,  the  house  at 
which  the  town  worthies  were  wont  to  meet, 
drink  good  wholesome  home-hrewed  ale  out  of 
the  Staffordshire  hlack  glazed  pots,  smoke  their 
long  Broseley  pipes,  and  talk  oyer  the  politics  of 
the  day  and  the  tittle-tattle  of  the  neighbourhood. 
One  l)right  summer's  eye,  while  thus  pleasantly 
engaged  in  the  modest  smoking-room  (coffee- 
rooms  had  not  as  yet  come  into  existence),  a 
gentleman  rides  up  to  the  door,  followed  hy  his 
servant  with  the  saddle-hags.  There  is,  of  course, 
peat  cnriosity  amongst  the  assemhled  guests  to 
know  who  the  stranger  may  be ;  and  from  the 
communicatiye  valet  they  soon  learn  that  he  is 
an  Irish  officer  en  route  to  London.  They  hecome 
immediately  dearous  of  his  company  amongst 
themaelvee,  both  for  society  and  news  sake ;  hut 
the  gentleman  nnsocially  keeps  his  own  room 
upstairs.  So  that  at  last,  driven  to  desperation 
and  perchance  somewhat  pot-valiant,  one  of  the 
company^  Mr.  Edward  Woolley  of  Stonefields,  a 

•  Brit.  Hna.,  AddiL  MSS.  20,338. 

t  BiUton  was  at  this  time  the  village  of  the  Black 
Coontrv,  poesessing  the  well-known  ten-yard  seam  of 
coal,  wiiich  proved  the  making  of  the  district,  bot  is  now 
woiked  out;  and  having  a  larger  trade  in  buckles, 
wooden  screws,  Ac,  than  Wolverhampton  itself.  The 
tlurd  George  gave  an  impetus  to  its  declining  trade  bpr 
wearing  a  imckle  of  Bilston  make;  and  such  was  his 
majesty's  affection  for  onr  county  that  on  one  occasion, 
when  a  robbery  had  been  oommitted,  he  said :  **  Oh !  if 
!t*s  a  Staflbiddiira  man  that  baa  done  it,  take  no  notice 
of  him  r 


screw*maker  (t.  e,  of  iron  screws  for  wood),  sendff 
uf)  the  servant  with  his  chronometer,  to  ask  the 
Irishman  if  he  can  tell  what  time  it  is  by  an 
English  watch.  Great  anxiety  ensues  as  to  the 
result.  Presently  the  servant  returns  with  his 
master's  compliments,  and  he  will  be  down 
directly  with  the  watch  and  an  answer.  A  great 
shuffling  of  feet  is  heard  overhead ;  and  by  and 
by  appears  Milesius,  followed  by  his  body-guard 
bearing  a  tray  with  the  watch  and  a  brace  of 
pistols  on  it.  He  unhesitatingly  announces  that 
ne  is  come  to  challenge  the  owner  of  the  watch, 
and  hopes  he  will  have  the  ''  dacency ''  to  claim 
it  and  take  up  one  of  the  pistols.  (To  the  ser- 
vant: "Take  the  watch  round,  John ! ")  "Is  it 
yours,  sir  P  "  The  old  doctor.  Moss,  was  the  first 
thus  addressed ;  and  amongst  others  present  were 
Messrs.  Price  and  Bushbury.  "No,  sir  I"  was 
the  invariable  answer  from  each  put  to  this  cru* 
cial  test.  At  length  it  comes  to  the  owne^:  "  Is 
the  watch  yours,  sirP"  "No,  sir  I"  ^Well 
then,  John,  smce  no  one  will  own  the  watch,  put 
it  in  your  pocket ;  and  as  we  do  not  appear  to 
have  fallen  amon^  'jintlemen,'  bring  out  the 
horses,  and  we'll  nde  on  another  stage."  The 
tale  of  course  soon  got  abroad,  and  to  the  end  of 
his  career  poor  Woolley,  or  rather  "  'Oolley,"  as 
he  was  more  generally  called,  was  accosted  with 
"  What's  o'clocl^  Mr.  'OoUey  ?  "  Only  within  a  year 
or  two  of  his  death,  while  riding  along  quietly  in 
his  carriage,  a  young  urchin  thus  annoyed  him ; 
and  in  getting  out  to  make  a  dash  after  him,  poor 
"  'OoUey  **  was  upset  and  grievously  injureid :  so 
that  he  had  good  cause  long  to  remember  the 
loss  of  his  "  family  turnip,"  and  his  prestige  of 
Quixotic  combativeness.  Staffobdiensis. 


PEDIGREE  OF  HUME  THE  HISTORIAN  : 
BARON  BAILLIE. 

Hume  the  historian,  in  the  autobiographical 
fragment  he  left  behind  him,  states  that  he  was 
of  good  family  "both  by  father  and  mother: 
my  father's  family  is  a  branch  of  the  Earl  of 
Homes  or  Humes,  and  my  ancestors  had  been 
proprietors  of  the  estate,  which  my  brother 
possesses,  for  several  generations "  (p.  2).  The 
name  of  the  family  estate  was  Ninewells,  and  ita 
last  male  possessor  was  David  Hume,  a  Baron 
of  Exchequer,  and  the  author  of  CommetUaries 
upon  the  Critmnal  Law  of  Scotland,  By  the  death 
of  the  baron's  only  son  Joseph,  which  occurred  a 
short  time  after  ne  passed  advocate,  the  succes- 
sion opened  to  daughters ;  and  it  is  believed  that 
the  estate  now  is  in  possession  of  a  son  of  one  of 
these  ladies. 

Although  the  Humes  of  Ninewells  had  been 
for  at  least  three  centuries  in  possession  of  that 
estate,  the  assertion  that  they  descended  from  a 
brandi  of  the  EarU  of  Hume  cannot  be  accepted* 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VII.  Jah.  i8,  lU 


There  is  no  legul  eTidenee  of  the  fact,  and  the 
circumstance  that  in  1636  Andrew  Hume  of  Nine- 
wells  was  with  James  Quhytehead,  one  of  the 
haillies  of  the  prior  of  the  monastery  of  Colding- 
ham,  militates  against  the  historian's  assumption. 
One  of  the  duties  of  a  baron  baillie  was  to  give 
obedience  to  the  preceptor  command  of  a  superior 
to  infeft  and  give  possession  to  a  yassal  of  lands 
held  of  the  orer-lord.  Thus  Adam,  prior  of 
Goldinghami  gaye  precept  to  Andrew  Hume  of 
Nynewells  and  James  Quyteheady  or  Whitehead, 
on  January  24,  to  giye  sasine  to  Sir  Walter 
Og^yy  of  Dunlugns  and  Alison  Hume,  his  spouse, 
of  one-half  of  the  lands  of  Lumnisden,  nunc  nun-* 
cupat,  Fastcastle,  in  the  barony  of  Coldingham 
and  shire  of  Berwick* 

This  mandate  was  obeyed  upon  January  26, 
1536,  and  the  fact  was  certified  by  a  notary 
public. 

The  f  barter,  which  is  the  warrant  for  the  pre- 
cept besides  the  conyentual  seal,  has  the  subscripK 
tions  of  the  monks.  It  is  also  addressed  to  James 
Whitehead  and  Andrew  Hume  of  NineweUs  as 
hailUes  of  the  prior  and  convent. 

The  Humes  of  the  border  were  more  given  to 
warlike  than  peaceful  pursuits;  and  it  is  not 
probable  that  any  of  tne  cadets  of  the  family 
would  humble  themselves  to  become  baron  baillies 
of  the  prior  and  convent  of  Coldingham.  When 
held  by  the  Amctionaty  of  an  earl  or  baron,  the 
baillie  nad  within  that  jurisdiction  of  the  over- 
lord great  judicial  powers,  being  substantially  the 
commissioner  and  representative  of  his  master,  and 
as  such  could  adjudicate  in  aU  civil  and  certain 
criminal  cases.  To  discharge  the  duties  of  such 
an  office  required  a  degree  of  education  and 
legal  knowledge  which  could  hardly  be  expected  to 
be  found  in  a  moss-trooping  family.  Indeed,  baron 
baillies  were  generally  the  legid  advisers  of  the 
baron,  and  were  mostly  brought  up  like  the  cele- 
bratea  official  of  the  Baron  of  Bradwardine,  as 
writers,  AngUc^  attorneys. 

It  must  not  therefore  be  imagined  by  Southern 
readers  that  a  Scotish  baron  baillie  or  bailiff  is 
the  same  person  as  the  individual  vulgarly  de- 
signated in  the  South  as  a  bum-bailiff— a  mistake 
which  a  counsel  learned  in  peerage  lore  recently 
fell  into,  to  the  amusement  of  his  hearers  from 
the  North.  On  the  contrary,  the  baillie  required 
to  be  well  educated,  and  a  man  with  whom  the 
baron  could  oonault  and  advise  when  it  vras  re- 
quisite. 

In  Scotland  there  used  to  be  in  former  days  no 
small  fondness  for  satire,  as  is  evident  from  the 
great  variety  of  pasquils  and  squibs  of  that  de- 
scription which  have  been  preserved,  and  many 
of  which  have  not  long  since  been  oollected  and 
published.  The  baron  and  his  baillie  were  not 
allowed  to  remain  undisturbed,  as  in  the  reien  of 
Charles  I.  the  following  work,  understood  tohftve 


come  firom  the  pen  of  his  majesty's  physidan. 
Dr.  Patrick  Anaerson,  was  presented  to  public 
notice.  We  give  the  title  from  the  first  edition, 
printed  in  black  letter,  and  supposed  to  be  unique : 

"  The  Copie  of  a  Bu-on's  Court,  newly  translated  bj 
Whats-yon-call-him,  Clerk  to  the  same.  Printed  at 
HeHetm,  beaide  Pamamui,  and  are  to  be  sold  in  Cale- 
donia."   (Twelve  leaves,  black  letter.) 

In  this  dramatic  production  the  chief  performers 
are  the  baron,  his  lady,  his  chamberlain,  his 
baillie,  his  clerk,  his  officer,  and  his  tenants ;  and 
the  plot  turns  upon  the  relative  duties  of  the  par- 
ties— not  forgettingfthe  frailties  of  the  great  man, 
his  pecuniary  difficulties,  his  lady's  follies,  the 
trickeries  of  those  under  him,  and  the  vices  of 
the  time — and  presents  a  curious  and  probably 
tolerably  accurate  picture  of  the  position  of  too 
many  of  the  lesser  barons  prior  to  the  death  of 
Charles. 

This  amusing  production  was  reprinted  at  the 
beginning  of  the  last  century  at  Edinburgh,  and 
in  1824  by  David  Webster — a  remarkable  man  in 
his  way,  much  patronised  as  a  vendor  of  old  and 
curious  books  oy  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Principal 
Lee,  Archibald  Constable,  and  other  collectors  of 
literary  rarities.  To  this  edition  Webster  prefixed 
a  short  proface  and  added  explanatory  notes.  It 
is  now  quite  out  of  print. 

Whetner  the  historian's  ancestor  could  claim 
any  relationship,  or  any  other  connection  other 
than  tiiat  of  a  (uansman  of  the  haughty  Barons  of 
Hume,  is  problematical ;  but  that  he  was  a  male 
descendant  of  Androw  Hume  of  Ninewells,  a 
baron  baillie  of  the  prior  land  convent  of  Cold* 
ingham,  is  plain  enoUgh ;  and  the  inheritance  of 
an  estate,  especially  in  the  Merse,  for  consider- 
ably more  than  three  centuries  in  the  same  fa- 
mily, is  in  truth  something  to  be  proud  of,  and 
much  more  sa^actory  than  any  remote  relation- 
ship, supposed  or  even  real,  to  the  high-bom 
Humes,  who,  it  will  be  remarked,  had  no  ecurU 
dom  until  1604.  J.  M. 

A  NEW  SONG  FROM  PARIS. 

As  an  illustration  to  Mb.  C.  W.  BnreHAK's 
communication  referring  to ''  the  unbroken  self- 
confidence  which  the  French,  like  the  Athemans^ 
have  ever  retained  amidst  the  greatest  disasters,'^ 
I  beg  to  enclose  a  song  which  I  received  per 
balloon-post,  with  a  note  mentioning  that  the 
same  superseded  the  "  Marseillaise  " :  — 

O  mon  Dieu  I  la  faim  me  presse ; 

Je  donnerais  nour  une  bifteck, 
Laprindpaut^  de  Hesse 

Et  le  grand-duch^  de  Teck. 

Je  donnerais  k  oette  heure 

Le  duch^  de  Persigny 
Pour  une  Uvre  de  beurre 

De  Bretagne  on  d'Issigny. 


Nl^^ 


4«»  &  TIL  Jior.  28, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


73 


Oil  I  j 'enrage  quond  je  pente 

Que  le  mar^ehal  Leboeuf, 
Lamment  s'emplit  la  pansoi 

lit  que  je  n'ai  pas  un  oottf. 

Je  Tois  toujoois  dans  mea  aongea 

La  boucherie  Buval 
ATec  see  filets,  see  longes^ 

Remplaote  par  du  cheml. 

La  Defense  Nationale, 

D'tine  lib^rale  main 
De  charogne  nous  r^gale^ 

Pour  aujourdliui ;  mais  demain  P 

Ces  biens  que  Dieu  nous  envoie, 
Lapin  de  goutti^re  ou  cbien, 

Je  laiaaeraiB  avec  joie 
Pour  d^couper  du  Prussian. 

These  hnmoxoos  linee,  which  are  perhaps  the 
notes  of  the  expiring  swan,  are  anonymous ;  but 
I  am  inclined  to  thmk  that  the^  were  composed 
by  a  young  lieutenant  of  engmeers,  who  was 
mrtly  educated  in  London,  and  fights  now  in 
Paris  in  the  capacity  of  an  electrician. 

FRAjfcisdVE  Michel. 

377,8tnjad,  W.C. 


Chika  Mania. — The  mania  for  china,  which 

is  at  mesent  raging,  is  no  new  taste,  as  the  fol- 

lowisi  curious  extract  from  an  old  country  paper, 

The  Weetem  Flying  iW  and  Sherborne  and  Yeova 

i/emcry,  will  satisfy  the  readers  of ''  N.  &  Q." : — 

«<  Plymoath,  Feb.  13,  1760. 
**  MsnT  peopk  in  these  parts  are  *  China  mad ' ;  they 
don't  only  lay  out  all  the  money  they  are  owners  of, 
but  evtsi  Pawn  their  Cloaths  to  go  on  board  the  China 
Ships  to  buy  Tea  Caps  and  Saucers.  Nothing  is  more 
destructiTe  to  the  Nation  than  the  China  trade ;  in  the 
first  place  the  Goods  are  chiefly  purchased  with  Treasure, 
not  Traffick;  secondly,  the  importation  of  China  pre- 
vents the  Consumption  of  our  stone  ware — Tea,  the  Con> 
sumption  of  Malt  Liquor — Wrought  silk  the  Consumption 
of  our  own  manufactures — And  lastly,  now  two  thiras  of 
the  Foor*B  Labour  is  expended  in  Tea  and  Sugar." 

H.  W.  D. 

"  Old  Father  Antic,  the  Law." — Some  few 
laws  still  remain  unrepealed  in  the  statute-book 
which  at  the  present  day  are  more  honoured  in 
the  hreach  than  in  the  observance.  The  parlia- 
m«itB  of  Charies  n.,  William  III.,  Anne,  and  the 
first  and  third  Georges  seem  to  have  considered 
the  suhject  of  huttons  to  have  required  legislation, 
as  various  enactments  of  these  reigns  tell  us  what 
buttons  to  wear  and  what  to  avoid.  Thus  by 
10  WilL  TTT.  c  2.  no  person  may  use  or  sell  any 
buttons  made  oi  dotn,  serge,  orugget,  firieze,  or 
camlet  on  pain  of  paying  forty  shiUings  for  every 
dozen.  Buttons  maae  of  wood  were  evidently 
considered  prejudicial  to  the  interests  of  society, 
for  the  sartor  who  makes,  sets  on,  or  sells  any 
snch  fcwfeits  forty  shillings  for  eveiy  dozen. 
Again^  by  S  Anne,  c.  6^  it  is  prohibited  to  make 


either  buttons  or  button-holes  of  cloth,  serge, 
drugget,  frieze,  or  camlet  under  a  penalty  of  five 
pounds  per  dozen. 

The  next  enactment  is  that  of  4  Geo.  I.  c.  7, 
which,  as  a  commentator  remarks,  is  so  loose  and 
ungrammatical  in  its  garb  that  it  might  have  been 
made  by  the  tailors  and  button-makers  them- 
selves. By  this  statute  the  penalty  is  reduced  to 
forty  shillings,  and  a  j^wer  is  conferred  on  the 
magistrates  of  sentencmg  the  offender  to  impri- 
sonment; and  by  the  Act  7  Geo.  I.  st  1,  c.  12,  the 
wearer  of  contraband  buttons  is  subjected  to  a 
similar  penalty.  ^Julian  Shabmak* 

Folk  Lobe  :  Fbost  ov  the  Shobtest  Day. — 
The  workmen  (or  delphmen)  of  the  stone  quarries 
of  South  Lancashire  say  that,  if  a  frost  sets  in  on 
the  shortest  day  and  holds  out  for  twenty-four 
hours,  there  will  be  frost  for  the  next  three 
months.  Should  this  prove  true,  we  may  now 
expect  frost  until  the  end  of  March. 

H.  FiBHWICK, 

Scottish  Societies. — As  Scotland  is  admitted 
to  be  deficient  in  county  histories,  it  has  occurred 
to  me  (from  papers  which  have  come  into  my 
possession)  that  a  mass  of  [reliable  materials 
might  be  made  available  for  supplyinff  to  a  cer- 
tain extent  the  present  want  Dy  publishing  in 
'*  N.  &  Q.''  lists  of  the  earlier  members  of  the 
following  societies,  &c,  from  their  commencement 
down  to  the  year  1800,  or  even  to  1820,  the  close 
of  George  llL's  reign.  These  lists  would  gra- 
dually invite  useful  annotations: — 

1.  The  Society  of  Advocates. 

2.  The  Writers  to  the  Signet 

8.  The  Royal  College  of  Suis[eons  (from  1687, 
with  any  lists  of  previous  practitioners). 

4.  The  Royal  College  of  Physicians  (Edin- 
burgh). 

6.  Conveners  of  Trades  (Edinbuigh). 

6.  Lord  Provosts  of  Edinburgh,  and  Provosts 
of  Leith. 

7.  Royal  Society  of  Scotland. 

8.  Matriculations  at  the  Colleses  of  Edinburgh, 
Glasgow,  Aberdeen,  and  St.  Andrews. 

9.  The  Canongate  Kilwinning  (Masonic)  Lodge 
of  Edinburgh,* 

Many  lost  or  entirely  neglected  branches  of 
ancient  houses  might  by  the  above  means  be 
again  brought  to  fight,  and  identified  with  con- 
siderable advantage  to  Scotch  historical  literature. 

Sp. 

Stobt  asobibed  to  Thbodobb  Hook.  —  An 
article  in  the  Spectator  of  Jan.  7, 1871,  entitled 
^*  The  Author  of  the  IngMAy  Legend^^  contakia 
the  following  passage : — 

*  This  was  the  prototype  of  modern  Scotch  dabs. 
Amongst  its  members  were  Johnson's  Boswell,  Murray, 
secretary  to  Prince  Charies,  and  other  wdl-known  public 
characters. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t4«>»  S,  VIL  Jaw.  28,  71. 


**  An  Irish  Btoty,  tdd  by  Theodore  Hook,  mar  come 
next  A  gentleman  was  dnring  his  servant  in  a  cab,  and 
said  to  him,  half  jocalarlv,  half  in  anger,  *  If  the  gallows 
had  its  due,  you  rascal",  where  would  you  be  now  ?  * 
*  Faith,  then,  your  honour,'  was  the  replv.  *  it's  riding  in 
this  cab  I'd  be,  all  alone  by  myself,  may  be,' "     (P.  20.) 

I  belieye  this  story,  though  in  a  slightly  dif- 
ferent form,  is  older  tnan  the  era  of  Hook.  I  saw 
it  in  print  in  1827,  in  a  very  old  quarto  volume 
entitled  the  Catmiy  Magazine,  where  it  ran  thus : 

**  As  a  Yankee  so  cute  and  Paddy  quite  sly 
Were  riding  to  town,  they  a  gallows  pass*d  by. 
Said  the  Yankee  to  Pat,  *  If  1  don't  make  too  free. 
Give  that  gallows  its  due,  and  pray  where  would  you 

be?' 
Said  Pat  to  the  Yankee, '  Sure,  that's  easily  known ; 
I'd  be  riding  to  town  by  myself,  all  nlone.'*" 

Wm.  Fenobllt. 
^Torquay. 

Lord  Nelson's  Opinion  op  German  Gene- 
rals.— It  will  be  interesting  at  this  time  to  call 
to  mind  Lord  Nelson's  opinion  of  the  German 
generals^  as  expressed  by  him  in  1795 :  — 

"As  for  the  German  generals,  war  is  their  trade,  and 
peace  is  ruin  to  them ;  therefore  we  cannot  expect  that 
they  should  hare  any  wish  to  finish  the  war." 

This,  it  is  to  be  feared,  is  sadly  applicable  in 
the  year  1871.  F.  C.  H. 

An  iNSCRipnoN. — On  an  old  silver  spoon  at 

Etwall  Hall;  Derbyshire,  is  the  following  mscrip- 

tion:— 

"In  clyming  hye  there  was  a  fall. 
But  yet  except  the  goodwill  of  us  all ; 
Thonghe  fortune  frounde  against  our  will, 
Yet  hope  i  wel  and  wil  dow  still ; 
For  in  y  straightes  of  Magalan,  Captyan  Cotton,  so 

called  by  name. 
Caused  mee  to  be  maid  in  y*  monthe  of  May,  1592 ;  it 

is  trewe  y«  I  saye." 

Moorland  Lad. 

Ghawban. — I  was  informed  the  other  day  that 
between  forty  and  fifty  years  ago,  an  old  lady  at 
Lincoln  wore  '^a  chawban";  and  on  inquiry  I 
learnt  that  it  was  '*  a  narrow  band  with  a  small 
neat  frill  on  each  edge,  and  went  under  the  chin, 
£rom  ear  to  ear,  to  fasten  the  cap  on  her  head.'* 

The  word  appears  to  be  compounded  of  the 
obsolete  chaw  =  law,  and  band;  and,  if  of  sufficient 
interest,  might  be  better  noted  than  otherwise  in 
*^N.  &Q."  J.Beale. 

The  late  Joseph  Parses. — ^1  have  been,  since 
his  death,  hoping  to  see  an  announcement  of  the 

fublication  of  his  memoirs  and  correspondence, 
belieye  his  letters  would  be  found  as  full  of 
interest,  humour,  and  good  sense  as  Sydney  Smith's. 
Has  it  never  occurred  to  his  daughter  or  other 
friend  to  preserve  the  memory  of  him.  by  this 
means  P  Ellcss. 

Crayen. 

FURNESS    AbBET    and     THE     ChETHAK    So- 

ciETT.  —  Is  it  not  matter  of  regret  that  when 


80  much  has  been  done  for  Fountains  Abbey 
by  the  Surtees  Society,  so  little  has  been  done 
for  Fumess  by  the  Chetham  Society?  Would 
it  not  be  better  for  this  learned  society  to  discover 
and  edit  the  Coucher-book  of  Fumess  than  to 
expend  its  funds  in  republishing  scarce  tracts? 
(4^  S.  vi.  149.^  The  Duke  of  Devonshire,  to 
whom  Fumess  belongs,  expressed  himself  some 
years  ago,  at  an  archsBological  meeting  within  its 
walls,  fully  alive  to  the  sacred  trust  which  had 
come  into  his  hands,  and  he  would  no  doubt 
render  any  assistance  in  his  power  to  further  such 
an  object.  It  is  possible  that  the  Coucfaer-book, 
as  a  whole  or  in  detached  parchments,  may  be  in 
his  muniment-room ;  or  il  not,  a  search  among 
the  duchy  records  would  most  likely  be  rewarded 
with  success.  Some  years  ago  the  Chetham 
Society  published  two  valuable  volumes  (the  Lan- 
cashire Chantries)  copied  from  the  duchy  records, 
which  are  now,  or  were  promised  to  be,  as  access* 
ible  as  the  other  national  records.  A.  £.  L. 


Gurrteif. 

WHAT  EDITION  OF  THE  BISHOPS'  VERSION 
WAS  USED  BY  THE  TRANSLATORS  OF  THE 
AUTHORISED  VERSION  OF  1611  ? 

It  is  stated  by  many  authors,  even  very  re- 
cently, that  they  used  the  edition  of  1668.  Such 
a  statement  once  made  is  quoted  by  various 
writers  without  examination.  The  instruction 
as  given  by  Pettigrew  is — *^  The  ordinary  Bible 
read  in  the  Church,  commonly  called  The  Bishops* 
Bible,  to  be  followed,"  &c.  No  edition  is  here 
named.  As  the  first  edition  of  the  Bishops' 
Version  was  printed  in  1568,  this  date  has  become 
almost  as  a  part  of  the  designation  of  the  version, 
and  added,  as  it  seems  by  common  consent,  to  the 
term  ''  Bishops'  Bible  " ;  and  therefore,  without 
examination,  it  is  said  that  the  translators  used 
the  edition  of  1568.  One  author  says,  'Hhe 
Authorised  Version  was  based  on  the  Bishops' 
Bible,  1568." 

I  have  compared  some  chapters  in  the  edition 
of  1568, 1572,  and  1602.  As  it  may  interest  some 
of  your  readers,  you  have  the  result  of  two  chapters, 
2  Kings,  chap.  viL,  twenty  verses.  This  chapter 
of  the  1602  differs  in  twenty  places  from  the  1568. 
The  Authorised  Version  follows  the  1602  in  ten 
of  these  variations;  it  follows  neither  in  nine  of 
them,  and  adopts  one  only  of  those  in  the  1568. 
The  edition  of  1572  i^ads  with  the  1568  in  all 
these  places.  The  1572  differs  much  in  some  parts 
from  the  1568,  though  in  this  chapter  they  agree  in 
these  readings.  T^e  a  chapter  m  the  New  Tes- 
tament, John,  chap,  i.,  fifty-one  verses :  here  the 
1572  and  1602  differ  from  the  1568  m  thirtv  phices, 
while  the  1602  differs  from  1668  and  1572  in  one 

flace  only.    Thus,  in  this  chapter,  the  1572  and 
602  agree  in  thirty  differences  from  the  1568. 


4*  &  VII.  Jav.  28, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


76 


The  first  issue  of  the  first  edition  of  1611 
£)llow8  the  1572  and  1602  in  fifteen  places;  it 
follows  the  1568  in  six  places ;  it  follows  neither 
edition  in  nine  places;  and  it  follows  the  1602  in 
one  place  only ;  total,  thirty-one  variations. 

So  that  twenty-six  reaoings  in  our  present 
Bible,  in  only  two  chapters,  are  due  to  the  edition 
of  1602,  and  not  to  the  translators  of  1611  having 
altered  the  text  of  1568. 

It  is  very  probable  that  the  ''ordinary  Bible 
read  in  the  Church "  in  1603  was  that  of  1602, 
or  other  late  editions,  and  that  but  few  of  the 
first  edition  then  remained  in  use. 

It  was,  no  doubt,  well  known  that  the  text  had 
been  revised  more  than  once  since  1568,  and  the 
tranalatozs  would,  as  a  matter  of  course  we  may 
suppose,  use  the  last  improved  text  printed  by 
the  king's  printer  in  large  folio.  Dr.  Cotton  gives 
eight  editions  which  were  in  large  folio  after 
1568,  including  that  of  1602,  whidi  were  in  idl 
probability  used  in  churches.  Other  chapters  are 
compared,  which  afford  similar  evidence ;  and  does 
it  not  show  that  the  edition  of  1602  was  the 
edition  of  the  ''Bishops'  Bible"  used  by  the 
translators  of  our  present  Bible,  and  not  that  of 
1568  ?  Francis  Fet. 

Cotham,  Bristol. 

"  Arise  !  Arise  I  Britannia's  Sons,  Arise  ! " 
Who  wrote  the  words  and  composed  the  music  to 
this  old  sea  song?  The  tune  is  spirited,  and 
merits  better  words.  The  song  is  a  favourite  with 
our  sailors,  and  is  often  sung  to  a  cracked  fiddle 
in  the  parlours  of  Wapping ''  publics."  The  poor 
old  blind  fiddler,  who  for  so  many  years  used  to 
scrape  his  tin  violin  at  the  doors  of  the  Bank  of 
England,  had  no  other  song.  N. 

Austin  Favilt. — Among  the  Pilgrim  Fathers, 
or  at  the  same  date,  some  members  of  this  family 
emigrated  to  the  New  World,  and  their  descend- 
ants now  occupv  an  influential  position  in  the 
city  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  They  possess  an 
old  seal,  hearing  the  following  arms :  Argent,  on 
a  fe^se  between  two  chevronels  sable,  three  cal- 
vary crosses  or.  The  arms  also  bear  a  label  of 
three  points,  indicating  that  its  original  owner 
was  the  eldest  son,  and  that  his  father  was  still 
living  when  the  seal  was  cut. 

In  the  little  church  of  .Eencott,  Oxon,  and 
against  its  eastern  wall,  there  is  a  monument  to 
Mary,  widow  of  William  Oldsworth,  of  Fairford, 
CO.  of  Gloster,  and  daughter  of  William  Austin  ofi 
Surrey.  Her  arms,  identical  with  those  of  Austin 
of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  are  impaled  with  those 
of  her  husband,  Oldsworth.  I  should  say  that  in 
her  case  there  is  no  label. 

I  am  veiy  anxious  to  trace  the  connection 
between  ihe  Boston  family  and  their  English 
ancestors,  and  I  cannot  help  hoping  that  I  have, 
here  got  a  clue. 


This  Mary  Austin  died  in  1685,  a^d  seventy. 
She  must,  therefore,  have  been  bom  m  1615,  and 
mast  have  been  a  contemporary  with  that  gener- 
ation of  her  family  which  migrated  to  America. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  help  me  here  ?  Wil- 
liam Austin  is  described  as  "  of  Surrey."  Perhaps 
the  county  history  might  throw  some  light.  When 
were  these  arms  granted  P  W.  M.  H.  C. 

P.S.  Mary's  son,  James  Oldsworth,  rector  of 
Kencott,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  William 
Mountsteven,  rector  of  Coates,  Gloster,  by  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Ferebee,  rector 
of  Poole,  Wilts. 

Arms  of  Charlexagne. — ^Where  can  I  find 
the  arms,  traditional  or  otherwise,  of  Charlenuiffne 
and  his  descendants,  including  Charles  the  Baud; 
Hugh  Capet;  Geoffrey  Plantagenet,  of  Anjou; 
the  counts  of  Acq uitidne ;  counts  of  Navarre, 
Sentis  and  Vermandois  P  W.  M.  H,  C. 

The  Deaf  Old  Woman. — Can  any  of  your 
readers  say  who  is  the  author  of  the  four  follow- 
ing humorous  lines,  well  known  in  Scotland  P  — 

**  *  Auld  wifie,  auld  wifie,  will  ve  go  a-shearing  ?  ' 

*  Speak  a  little  louder,  sir,  I'm  unco*  doll  o'  hearing.' 

*  Auld  wifie,  auld  wlfie,  will  ye  let  me  kiss  ye  ?  * 

*  I  hear  a  little  better,  sir:  may  a'  the  warld  bless  ye.' " 

G. 
Edinbuigb. 

[We  do  not  know  the  author  of  these  lines.  But  we 
remember  many  years  ago — alas !  how  many ! — hearing 
the  late  Mr.  Douoe  repeat,  in  his  grand  sonorous  voice, 
another  version  — 

**  <  Old  woman,  old  woman,  will  rou  go  a-sheariog  ? ' 

*  You  must  speak  a  little  louder,  sir,  Vm  rather  thick 

o'  hiring.' 
'Old  womap,  old  woman,  will  you  let  me  kiss  yon 
daintUy  ? ' 

*  Thank  yon,  kind  sir,  I  hear  yon  quite  distinctly.'  ^] 

De  Coxtkct  :  Kinsalb. — In  one  of  the  earlier 
volumes  of  ^*  N.  &  Q."  I  think  that  it  was  proved 
hy  reference  to  inquisitions  pogt-mortemy  temp, 
'Edy^,  II.  or  III.  that  one  of  the  Lords  Kinsale, 
who  appears  in  all  the  peerages  as  having  been 
succeeded  by  a  son  m  next  baron,  in  truth  left  a 
sole  heiress,  whose  name,  to  the  best  of  my  recol* 
lection,  was  Alice.  The  names  and  dates  would 
be  an  assistance  to  me  in  connection  with  another 
subject  S. 

Derby  Porcelain. — ^Where  can  I  get  any  par- 
ticulars of  the  pottery  manufactured  at  Church 
Gresley,  in  the  attempt  to  establish  which  manu- 
facture Sir  Nigel  Gresley  is  said  to  have  lost 
80,000^  P  Though  mentioned  in  Miss  Meteyard's. 
Life  of  Wedffwood,  very  little'  seems  to  be  known 
about  it.  H.  W.  D. 

Gentlemen. — Will  any  of  your  readers  inform 
me  what  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  "  gentlemen," 
as  used  in  the  description  of  the  complement  of 
regiments'  botb  of  cavalry  and  infantry  during 
the  civil  war  P  T.  W.  Webb. 


19 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VU.  Jaji.  28>  "Tl. 


Bishop  Gibsoit. — ^Wanted,  information  respect- 
ing the  mother  and  wife  of  the  Rev.  Edmund 
Gibson,  who  died  1748^  Bishop  of  London.  The 
wife's  name  was  Jones,  and  she  was  a  co-heiress. 
The  mother's  name  I  do  not  know.  She  is  buried 
at  Bampton^  co.  Cumberland.  T.  C. 

Gbeek  TEAiTSLATiOBr. — We  read  at  p.  61  of 

Howson's  lUudrated  Guide  to  the  CuriosUiea  of 

Craven  (Whitaker,  1850)  that  a  translation  into 

Greek  elegiacs,  by  one  Andrew  Benny,  of  the 

following  couplet  is  still  preserved.     Will  any 

correspondent  communicate  it  P — 

"  Three  crooked  cripples  crept  through  Clitheroe  Castle. 
Creep,  crooked  cripples,  creep." 

P.  J.  F.  Ganhllok. 

Labt  GRixsTOir's  Grate  ibt  Tewik  Chubch- 
TABB. — ^In  the  churchyard  of  Tewin,  Herts,  is  a 
remarkable  ash-tree  growing  out  of  the  tomb  of 
Lady  Anne  Grimston,  n^a  Tufton,  daughter  of 
Lord  Thanet,  who  died  in  1713.  The  tradition  is, 
that  being  doubtful  of  a  future  state,  she  expressed 
during  her  life  a  wish  or  prayer  that  if  there  were  a 
future  state  a  tree  miffht  ffrow  out  of  her  heart. 

What  foundation  is  there  for  this  tradition  P 

A.  P.  S. 

[Oddly  enough  the  following  paragraph,  extracted 
from  the  Spiritual  Timei  (Dec  23, 1865),  bearing  on  the 
same  subject,  reached  us  simultaneously  with  the  above. 
To  use  the  words  of  our  correspondent  Mr.  Axon  :  "  Can 
any  one  elucidate  this  marvellous  legend  ?  "  No  refer- 
ence to  it  is  made  in  Clutterbuck's  Hiit,  and  Antiq,  of 
the  County  of  Hertford:  — 


« 


AK  ATHBIBT'S  PROPHBCT  FULFUiLED. 


« 


The  churchyard  of  Tewin,  in  Hertfordshire,  is  a  spot 
of  some  interest  to  the  curious,  from  the  fact  of  its  being 
the  resting  place  of  the  mortal  remains  of  Lady  Anne 
Grimstone.  The  '  old  wife's  tale '  of  the  neighbourhood 
is  to  the  efitBct  that  the  said  Lady  Anne  Grimstone  was 
an  Atheist,  without  a  shadow  of  belief  in  the  Deity ;  and 
that,  so  firm  was  her  belief  in  the  non-existence  of  God, 
that  at  her  death-bed  her  last  words  were  to  the  effect 
that  if  God  existed,  seven  elm  trees  would  grow  out  of  her 
tombstone.  Whether  such  words  were  used,  and  in  such 
a  manner,  it  is  impossible  at  this  date  to  determine ;  but 
whether  the  tale  be  correct  or  not,  seven  elm  trees  have 
sprung  up  through  the  solid  tomb,  and  have  broken 
away  the  solid  masonry  in  all  directions,  making  the 
reading  of  the  inscription  a  difficult  and  almost  impossible 
ftat.  The  iron  railings  that  surrounded  the  monument 
are  in  many  places  firmly  imbedded  in  the  trunks  of  the 
trees.  The  numerous  names  carved  in  all  available  parts 
of  the  trunks  attest  the  number  of  visitors  curiosity  has 
drawn  to  the  spot.  The  trees  are  each  distinct  and 
separate,  and,  notwithstanding  the  strangeness  of  the 
locality,  appear  to  thrive  weU.  Many  suppositiona  to 
account  for  their  growth  have  been  started,  but  some  are 
of  so  improbable  a  nature  that  the  country  people  still 
ding  to  their  favourite  story  of  Lady  Anne's  Atheism."] 

Thb  Case  of  Mabt  Jobbovt. — Can  any  North- 
of-England  correspondent  tell  me  whether  time 
has  thrown  any  light  upon  the  heavenly  musie, 
blood-droppines,  mock  suns,  and  strange  rappings 
wUch  excited  so  much  attention  in  the  North 
some  thirty  years  ago,  and  concerning  whidi  Dr. 


Clanny  of  Sunderland  published  a  cixoumstaatial 
narrative  in  1841 P  ScM>TT. 

a,  Gordon  Villas,  N.W. 

Longs  of  BAYirroir. — Can  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents kindly  inform  me  where  I  can  find  a 
genealogy  of  the  family  above  mentioned  ?  Burke 
(Landed  Gentry ,  ii.  894)  says,  of  the  four  sons  (of 
*'  Thomas  Long  of  Little  Cheverill  and  Melksham, 
who  was  baptised  1579,  died  1664),  the  youngest, 
William,  was  ancestor  of  the  Longs  of  "Baynton, 
now  extinct.''  1  wish  to  trace  the  relationship 
said  to  have  existed  between  this  family  and  that 
of  the  late  John  Palmer,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  Bath 
and  inventor  of  the  mail-coach  service.  "Walter 
Long,  Esq.,  of  Bath,  offered  to  leave  his  property 
to  i£t.  Palmer  on  the  condition  of  his  taldng  the 
name  and  arms  of  Long  of  Monkton.  This  Mr. 
Palmer  declined  doing,  and  ultimately  Mr.  Lon^ 
left  his  fortune  (on  the  aforesaid  terms)  to  Daniel 
Jones  (Long),  whose  mother  was  Ellen,  youngest 
daughter  of  Kichard  Long  of  Rood  Ashton,  who 
died  in  1760.  H.  P, 

LlOITBL  LaKB,  VlCE-AsiOBAL  OF   THE  FlEBT, 

1653.  — I  am  desirous  of  ascertaining  the  date  of 
this  officer's  death.  In  the  great  battle  against 
Tromp  off  the  North  Foreland  he  acted  as  vice- 
Admiral  to  Admiral  Penn,  and  commanded  the 
Victory,  sixty  guns.  I  learn  from  the  Rev.  J.  B. 
Deane  s  most  interesting  life  of  General  Richard 
Deane  that  in  the  above  memorable  action  only 
one  captain  besides  General  Deane  was  killed, 
and  that,  singularly  enough,  his  name  has  been 
forgotten.  1  suppose  Vice- Admiral  Lane  may  be 
identified  with  Lionel  Lane  (of  Beccles,  co.  Suf- 
folk), who  was  bom  in  1617,  and  married  Dorothy, 
one  of  the  daughters  of  Edmund  Bohun,  the 
author.  He  belonged  to  a  Saffolk  family  long 
seated  at  Rendlesham  Thuxton  and  Campsey  Ash. 

C.  J.  ROBIKBON. 

"  Mela  Britanwicxts." — ^There  are  some  pam- 
phlets published  under  this  name :  one  curiosity 
IS  a  letter  to  the  Dilettanti  Society  on  the  works 
in  progress  at  Windsor  Castle,  1827,  suggesting  the 
removal  of  all  the  building  except  the  lower  ward, 
and  erecting  in  its  stead  a  palace  of  classical  archi- 
tecture.   Who  was  the  writer  ?  C.  B.  T. 

[The  following  title  appears  in  theCatalogae  of  the 
Library  at  the  British  Maseani :  **MeIa,  Britannicus, 
pseud,  ft.  e.  Charles  Kelsall.^  A  Letter  to  the  Soeiet^*  of 
the  Dilettanti  on  the  works  m  progress  at  Windsor.  By 
M.B.    London,  1827."] 

Sib  Gborqe  Moob«.  —  In  the  Hungerford 
pedigree  in  Qough's  Sepuichral  Monuments  is  a 
mamage  of  Elizabeth  Hungerford  with  Sir  George 
Moore,  Ent.  In  Hoare's  Hungerfordiana^  p.  ^^ 
he  is  styled  ''of  London^  Knt"  Many  ot  the 
Heraldic  Visitations,  &c.,  referred  to  in  Sima's 
Index  have  been  consulted  without  success.  Any 
reader  who  can  furnish  a  clue  to  the  particular 


#k8^Ta  JM.9a,7io 


NOTES  AND  QUBBIES. 


V 


iiMj».  I  m»9,Kj.M.imx^i 


family  and  arms  of  the  aboye-named  knight  will 
greatly  oblige  a  puzzled  Seabchsb. 

"Pboca  PORnxBB." — ^Waa  it  Lather  who  siud 
this;  and  if  so,  where?  X.  H. 

Pkikce  Puxcklsb  Mij8xat7. — ^I  should  be  glad 
of  any  information  about  this  prince.  He  wrote 
two  books,  Semilasso  in  Africa  and  Tour  in  Ger- 
ffiomff  Holland,  and  England,  Itait. 

Nbhexiah  Rooebs. — ^What  is  known  of  Nehe- 
xmah  Rogers,  Ticar  of  Messing  and  prebendary  of 
Ely,  author  of— 

"  A  Mirronr  of  Merey,  and  that  on  6od*8  Part  and 
Man's.  Set  out  in  two  Parables :  I.  The  Peoitent  Citizen, 
or  Maiy  Magdalen's  Conversion,  &e.;  11.  The  Good 
Samaritan,  Ac.  London :  Printed  by  G.  M.  for  Edward 
Brewster  .  .  .  1640^** 

S.A, 

Sawnbt  Bbane,  thb  Man-eatbb. — The  sub- 
ject alluded  to  in  4^  S.  yi.  437,  659,  induces  me 
to  ask  whether  the  chap-book  history  of  the  aboye 
Scottish  personage  has  any  foundation  in  fact  P 

Stephen  Jackson. 

SuCOiaDES  AND  THB  "  OODBX  SiNAITIOTO." — In 

a  paper  by  Dean  Alford  on  *^  The  Gospels  and 
Modem  Criticism "  in  the  Contemporary  Review, 
y.  360^  there  is  the  following  reference  to  the 
celebn^ted  Codex  SinaUicus : — 

''A  correspondent  of  The  Guardian  of  June  12  of  this 
Tear  [1867]  is  anxious  to  know  whether  the  internal 
evidence  of  the  genuineness  of  the  Sinaitic  MS.  is  satis- 
factory, having  had  liis  faith  in  that  genuineness  some- 
what shaken  by  the  narrative  prefixed  to  this  tract  of 
i)r.  Tiadiendorrs  [i.  e.  Wcam  wurden  unaere  Evangelien 
vrrfasttf  Leipsic,  1865,  which  has  been  translated  for 
the  Religions  Tract  Society  by  B.  H.  Cowper].  We  are 
persuaded  that  he  may  set  his  mind  at  rest  on  this  point. 
The  text  of  this  MS.'bears  to  ns  the  strongest  possible 
marks  of  originality  and  genuineness.  If  any  man  were 
€apabie»  from  his  knowledge  of  ancient  MSS.,  of  forging 
aoch  a  text,  it  would  take  him  almost  the  dumtion  of  a 
life  to  accomplish  the  forgery.  Besides  which,  we  are 
unable  to  see  in  the  very  straightforward  narrative  of 
Dr.  Tfsehendorf  any  grounds  of  suspicion.  Our  fHend 
is  given  to  blow  his  trumpet  before  him  somewhat  loud, 
and  this  narrative  is  certainly  not  wanting  in  examples 
of  his  habit.  We  confess,  too,  to  a  certain  anxiety — uudis- 
pelled  by  anything  he  says  at  the  end— as  to  whether 
the  good  monks  of  St.  Catherine  have  got  back,  or  are 
likely  to  get  back,  their  precious  document,  which  was 
borrowed  to  be  taken  to  St.  Petersburg.— See  p.  17  of 
the  Gtnnan,  p.  84  of  the  translation." 

A  ^tiscussion  of  this  question  might  perhaps 
lead  into  forbidden  fields.  There  is  one  point, 
however,  connected  with  Tischendorf 's  discovery 
on  which  I  should  be  glad  of  further  information. 
It  is  said  that  Simonides,  whose  audacity  as  a 
fiterary  foxver,  has  been  many  times  mentioned 
in  these  columns,  asserted  that  he  himself  had 
manufactured  the  MS.  and  placed  it  in  the 
monastery  where  it  was  found  oy  its  learned  and 
Tflin  disooyeier.   An  assertion  of  this  nature,  even 


from  such  a  mauvaU  sufet  as  Simonidee,  should  be 
refuted,  but  after  a  long  search  I  haye  only  been 
able  to  find  an  allusion  to  the  matter  in  The 
AihetMum  review  of  the  Codex  SinaUicue,  Will 
some  correspondent  be  kind  enough  to  say  where 
Simonides*  assertion  is  to  be  found  at  length,  and 
what  replies  have  been  made  to  it  P 

W.  E.  A.  A. 

Joynson  Street,  Strangeways. 

William  Smith,  1639-1656.— A  certain  Dr. 
Smith  preached  at  the  martyrdom  of  Ridley  and 
Latimer,  and  made  himself  conspicuous  on  one 
or  two  other  occasions  of  a  similar  character; 
and,  from  the  testimony  of  another  martyr,  he 
appears  to  have  been  a  pervert  I  am  anxious 
to  discover  whether  this  man  was  or  was  not 
identical  with  a  priest  of  the  name  of  William 
Smith,  who  was  parish  priest  of  Calais,  and  was 
banished  from  that  city,  after  recantation,  in  1539. 
I  have  no  interest  in  the  preacher  of  the  sermon 
if  he  be  not  the  same  as  tiie  Calais  priest ;  but  I 
should  very  much  like  to  ascertain  what  became 
of  the  latter.    Can  any  one  kindly  help  me  ? 

Hebmentrude. 

Swobs  op  Sib  Edwabd  Fust. — Can  any  one 
tell  me  what  has  become  of  a  silver-mounted 
sword  which  was  presented  by  Charles  II.  to  Sir 
Edward  Fust  of  JBll  Court,  co.  Gloucester,  Bart., 
in  1662,  and  sold  at  the  Hill  Court  sale  in  1846  ? 

FOBEST-BILL. 

Jacques  Stella  (Crabb  Robinson's  Diary,  i. 
447.) — In  the  text  of  this  page  Crabb  Robinson 
mentions  a  picture  painted  in  Rome  by  Granet  in 
the  year  1610  (nowin  the  Leuchtenburg Collection, 
No.  246),  representing  Stella  drawing  a  picture 
of  the  Virgin  and  Child  "  on  his  prison  wall."  A 
note  to  the  same  page  informs  the  reader  thnt 
Stella  on  his  arrival  at  Rome  was  arrested,  but 
soon  after  found  innocent  and  liberated.  Also, 
that  *'  so  late  as  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tuiT  this  sketch  of  the  Madonna  (on  the  prison 
wall)  was  shown  to  travellers  in  Rome."  The 
note,  however,  gives  no  further  information.  Who 
was  this  Stella?  When  did  he  live,  and  of 
what  crime  or  misdemeanour  was  he,  as  it  ap- 
pears, unjustly  accused  P 

NOELL  RaBBCLIFFE. 

[Jacques  Stella  was  bom  at  Lyon  in  1596,  being  the 
son  of  Francis  Stella,  a  palnter,*who  died  when  his  son 
was  only  nine  years  old.  Having  gone  into  Italy  at  the 
age  of  twenty,  the  Grand-Duke  Cosmo  II.  engaged 
Jacques  to  carry  ont  the  decorations  designed  for  the 
celebration  of  the  marriage  of  bis  son  Ferdinand  II.  At 
the  expiration  of  seven  years  Stella  went  to  Rome,  and 
contracted  a  friendship  with  Poussin,  of  whom  he  became 
an  imitator.  Having  by  some  treachery  or  misunder- 
standing been  cast  into  prison  at  Rome,  Stella  amused 
himself  by  tracing  on  the  wall,  in  charcoal,  the  figure  of 
the  Virgin  with  the  infant  Jesus  in  her  arms.  Cardinal 
Barberini,  hearing  of  the  ex^leaoe  of  the  drawing, 
went  to  see  it,  and  tmok  that  time  a  lighted  lamp  was 


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[4»«»  8.  TIL  Jam.  28, 71. 


suspended  over  iL  Retaniins  in  1684  by  Venice  and 
MiUn  to  France,  with  the  intention  of  vifliting  Snaio, 
the  direction  of  the  Academy  at  Milan  was  offered  to  him, 
bat  declined.  His  joumev,  however,  to  Spain  was  frus- 
trated bj  Cardinal  Richelieu,  who  secured  him  the  title 
of  painter  to  the  King,  with  apartments  in  the  Louvre 
ana  a  pension  of  1,000  francs  a-year.  In  1644  the  Order 
of  St.  Michael  and  the  rank  of  principal  painter  to  the 
king  were  conferred  on  Stella,  and  in  1657  he  died  at  Paris, 
some  of  the  churches  of  which  possess  paintings  by 
him.] 

Trench's  Hulskak  LscnniES,  1846.— To  what 
words  does  the  Archbishop  allude  at  p.  43  of  these 
lectures  when  he  refers  to  '^  the  great  poet  of  our 
modem  world  "  as  making  *'  the  glad  voices  of  the 
Eastern  hymn  of  potency  sufficient  to  wrest  the 
poison-cup  from  the  hand  of  one  who  had  already 
xaised  it  to  his  lips  ?  "  P.  J.  F.  Gantillon. 


AMERICAN  "  NATIONAL  SONG." 

(4««  S.  Tii.  11.) 

I  have  great  pleasure  in  furnishing  a  copy  of 
this  song,  which  I  so  much  admired  on  its  first 
appearance  in  our  papers  in  1818  for  its  fine  poetry 
And  spirited  composition^  that  I  liaye  preserved  it 
ever  since.  F.  G.  H. 

**  Columbia. 

**  Columbia's  shores  are  wild  and  wide» 

Colombia's  hills  are  high ; 
And  mdely  planted  side  by  side, 

Her  forests  meet  the  eye. 
But  narrow  must  those  shores  be  made^ 

And  low  Columbia's  hills. 
And  low  her  ancient  forests  laid, 
.    Ere  Freedom  leaves  her  fields : 
Eor  'tis  the  land  where,  rude  and  wild. 
She  played  her  gambols  when  a  child. 

**  And  deep  uid  wide  her  streams  that  flow 

Impetuous  to  the  tide ; 
And  thick  and  green  the  laurels  grow 

On  everv  river's  side. 
But  should  a  transatlantic  host 

Pollute  her  waters  fair. 
We'll  meet  them  on  the  rocky  coast. 

And  gather  laurels  there : 
For  oh !  Columbia's  sons  are  brave^ 
And  free  as  ocean's  wildest  wave. 

**  The  gales  that  wave  her  mountain  pine 

Are  fragrant  and  serene ; 
And  never  clearer  sun  did  shine. 

Than  lights  her  valleys  green. 
But  putrid  must  those  breezes  blow. 

That  sun  most  set  in  gore, 
Ere  footsteps  of  a  foreign  foe 

Imprint  Columbia's  shore : 
Fvr  oh  !  her  sons  are  brave  and  fVee ; 
Their  breasts  beat  high  with  liberty. 

**  For  arming  boldest  cuirassier. 
We've  mines  of  sterling  worth. 
For  sword  and  buckler,  spnr  and  spear, 
Embowelled  in  the  earth. 


For  ere  Colombia's  sons  resign 

The  boon  their  fathers  won. 
The  polished  ore  from  every  mine 

Shall  glitter  in  the  snn : 
For  bricmt's  the  blade  and  sharp  the  spear 
Which  Freedom's  sons  to  battle  bear. 

<'  Let  Britain  boast  of  deeds  she*s  done. 

Display  her  trophies  bright. 
And  count  her  laurels  bravely  won 

In  weU-oontested  fight ; 
Columbia  can  a  ban  array. 

Will  wrest  the  laurel  wreath ; 
With  truer  eve  and  steadier  hand, 

WUl  strike  the  blow  of  death. 
For  whether  on  the  land  or  sea, 
Columbia's  fight  is  victory  I 

"  Let  Brance  in  blood  through  Europe  wade. 

And  in  her  frantic  mood. 
In  civil  discord  draw  the  blade. 

And  spill  her  children's  blood. 
Too  dear  the  skill  in  arms  is  bought. 

Where  kindred  life-blood  flows, 
Columbia's  sons  are  only  taught 

To  triumph  o'er  theirfoes ; 
And  then  to  comfort,  soothe  and  save. 
The  feelings  of  the  conquered  brave. 

**  Then  let  Columbia's  eagle  soar. 

And  bear  her  banner  high; 
The  thunder  from  her  dexter  pour, 

And  lightning  from  her  eye. 
And  when  she  sees  from  reiQms  above, 

The  storm  of  war  is  spent; 
Descending,  like  the  welcome  dove. 

The  olive  branch  present; 
And  then  will  Beauty's  hand  divine 
The  never-fiiding  wreath  entwine ! " 


ORDRE  IMPERIAL  ASIATIQUE  D£  MORALE 

UNIVERSELLR 

(4^  S.  V.  360,  472,  612;  vi.  166.) 

Dr.  Robert  Bigsbt,  in  his  reply  to  queries  by 
Lex  relating  to  the  above  order,  referred  him  to 
M.  Oourdon  de  Genouillac*s  Dictionnaire  hidorique 
des  Ordres  de  ChevaLerie  (Paris,  1860)  for  an  ac- 
count of  its  creation ;  ana  Mr.  Woodward  sub- 
sequently conferred  an  obligation  on  many  of 
your  readers  by  giving  (vi.  166)  an  extract  from 
that  work  to  the  efiect  that  the  Ordre  Imperial 
Asiatique  de  Morale  Universelle  owed  its  origin^ 
A.D.  1836,  to  the  Sultana  Alina  d'Eldir  during  her 
zesidenoe  in  France. 

Mr.  Woodward  pertinently  asked  certain  ques- 
tions based  on  the  imperfect  information  afforded 
by  M.  Gourdon  de  Genouillac,  but  they  have  evi- 
dently escaped  the  notice  of  Dr.  Bigsbt,  wbo,  as 
a  constant  reader  and  correspondent  of  '*  N.  &  Q." 
(vide  T.  612  and  616),  and  as  the  '^  Grand  Maitre 
Conservateur  "  of  the  order  (v.  472),  would  in- 
dubitably, had  he  observed  Mr.  WooDWARD^a 
queries,  have  readily  afforded  exhaustive  replies. 
And  that  a  full  explanation  of  certain  difficulties 
is  absolutely  needed;  I  venture  most  strongly  to 


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79 


aver,  since,  owing  to  the  reticence  of  the  Knights 
of  the  ''Imperial  Order"  which  she  founded, 
many  hard  things  have  heen  said  of  late  regarding 
an  illustrious  lady  whose  conduct  has  been  criti- 
dsed,  whose  antecedents  have  been  animadverted 
upon,  and  whose  exalted  rank  has  been  pronounced 
by  more  than  one  of  the  would-be  eo^ascetUi  to 
be  as  mythical  as  the  honours  which  she  is  said 
to  have  conferred.    All  this  is  most  lamentable, 
but  is  it  not  entirely  to  be  attributed  to  the  cul- 
pable silence  of  those  bound  by  every  law  of  chi- 
valry to  defend  her  P    Now  that  public  attention 
has  been  aroused,  contemptuous  silence  will  not 
satisfy  it    The  fate  of  the  <<  Imperial  Order/'  the 
honours  of  its  distinguished  members,  are  inex- 
tricably interwoven  with  the  rank,  power,  and 
dignity  of  its  founder,  and  must  stand  or  fall  with 
them ;  and  although  Db.  Biqsbt,  in  his  restricted 
reply  to  Lbx,  undoubtedly  did  say  that ''  for  any 
further  communication  Lbx  might  look  to  others, 
as  he  certainly  should  not  condescend  to  enlighten 
his  darkness,"  yet  since  the  **  Grand  Maitre  Con- 
servateur  "  of  an  order  must  with  justice  be  uni- 
versally regarded  as  the  mouthpiece  and  champion 
of  the  confraternity,  and  since  the  world's  ver- 
dict cannot  fidl  to  be  gravely  influenced  by  any 
further  reticence  on  his  part,  I  do  trust  that  Db. 
BiosBT  will  reconsider  nis  somewhat  too  hasty 
decision,  and  will  deign  to  be  more  complaisant 
to  Mb.  Woodwabd,  or  even  to  this  less  than  the 
least,  who,  from  having  travelled  much  in  the  far 
East^  as  well  as  from  other  reasons,  takes  a  deep 
interest  in  TOrdre  Imperial  Asiatique  de  Morale 
Universelle.    In  justice,  therefore,  to  the  deceased 
Sultana,  and  with  appropriate  respect  for  the 
Sovereign  Order  which  She  created,  I  repeat  one 
of  Mb.  Woodwabd's  unanswered  queries,  and  add 
certain  others  of  mine  own. 

I  ask,  fiistiy,  in  what  part  of  Asia  is  situated 
the  Sultenate  of  EldirP  Both  of  my  old-fashioned 
gazetteers  fail  to  help  me,  and  I  am  not  satisfied 
with  the  somewhat  vague  information  given  to 
me  recently  by  a  distinguished  Fellow  of  the 
Geographical  Society,  to  whom,  seizing  him  by  the 
button  at  our  club,  I  propounded  the  inquiry. 
I  should  have  thought,  wnen  I  accosted  him, 
that  he  was  about  the  most  idle  man  in  town, 
but  he  became  suddenly  animated  on  hearing 
my  question,  and  stating  somewhat  confusedly 
that  Eldir,  as  everyone  knew,  formed  part  of  the 
ancient  dominions  of  Prester  John,  he  pleaded  an 
important  engagement  in  the  City,  and  hurriedly 
took  his  departure.  But  I  require  something 
more  definite  than  this — ^the  latitude  and  lougi- 
tttde,  for  instance.  Secondly,  I  wish  to  be  made 
acquainted  with  certain  passages  in  the  history  of 
''la  Sultane  Mogole  Alinad'Eldir."  Was  she 
bom  in  the  purple?  and  if  so,  from  what  royal  race 
did  she  derive  her  august  origin  P  Was  she  in  her 
own  right  sovereign  of  an  Asiatic  realm  P  or,  as  one 


of  the  four  wives  dear  to  Mahomedan  orthodoxy, 
did  she  reign  supreme  over  only  five-and-twenty 
per  cent  of  the  heart  of  the  Sultan  of  Eldir  P 

In  the  former  event,  was  it  the  disaffection  and 
rebellion  of  her  Moghul  subjects  which  drove  her 
into  unmerited  exile  and  to  a  lifelong  banishment 
in  k  foreign  land  P  or,  in  the  latter  case,  did  she 
incur  the  displeasure  of  her  exalted  but  capricious 
master,  and  escape  the  fatal  sack,  the  deadly 
bowstring,  or  even  the  minor  evil  of  the  absdssion 
of  her  nose  and  ears,  by  eluding  the  vigilance  of  the 
eunuchs  who  guarded  the  hated  harem  P  But  a 
third  and  more  commonplace  cause  occurs  to  me 
for  the  expatriation  of  tne  Sultana :  death  may 
have  dared  to  strike  low  the  king  of  kinffs,  the 
monarch  of  Eldir,  and  Alina  ma^  nave  collapsed 
into  a  dowager !  Under  such  circumstanoes  her 
flight  would  not  have  been  interfered  with,  for 
the  sultan  who  filled  the  musnud  of  her  deceased 
lord  would  have  cared  too  much  for  the  comfort 
of  his  own  wives,  commisnoned  and  non-com- 
missioned, to  have  g^ven  himself  much  concern 
about  the  ancient  encumbrances  of  the  zenanah 
who  mourned  the  loss  of  his  predecessor;  and 
Alina,  left  to  her  own  devices,  would  have  made 
her  way  to  France,  and  have  found  in  its  gay 
capital  consolation  in  her  widowhood. 

Thirdly  and  lastly,  I  seek  to  know  how.  under 
either  of  the  above  suppositions,  the  Moghul  ez- 
Sultana  Alina,  during  her  imposed  or  voluntary 
exile,  could  legitimately  have  created  in  France  a 
Christian  Order  of  Chivalry,  or,  in  short,  have 
exercised  any  "  imperial "  powers  whatsoever, 

Db.  Bigsbt  will  not  consider  any  apology  to 
be  due  from  me  for  thus  specially  and  urgently 
calling  upon  him  by  name  to  answer  the  above 
queries,  mr  in  a  work  which  he  has  reoentiy  pub- 
lished he  has  himself  announced  the  high  positiq^ 
which  he  holds  in  the  Order  under  noticiB  i  and 
there  can  therefore  be  no  discourtesy  or  impro- 
priety in  my  publicly  addressing  a  public  office- 
bearer on  a  question  in  which  the  public  is 
evidentiy  interested.  Nay,  rather  am  I  con- 
strained to  believe  that  Db.  Biosnr  will  esteem 
it  both  a  duty  and  a  pleasure  to  guard  the  honour 
of  the  order  of  which  he  is  the  "  Conserva- 
teur,"  and  to  vindicate  the  fietme  of  its  illustrious 
founder. 

But,  apart  from  these  supreme  considerations, 
it  is  certain  that  one  who  has  so  recently  subscribed 
himself  in  your  pages  (v.  515)  "  Knight  of  St 
James  of  the  Sword,  and  of  other  Orders,"  will 
be  only  too  eager  manfully  to  do  his  devoir  as  a 
gallant  chevalier,  and  to  shed  the  last  drop  of  his 
ink  in  the  service  of  Alina  d'Eldir. 

MUBAFFIB. 


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[4*fcS.YIL  Jnr.28,  71. 


WRONG  DATES  IN  CERTAIN  BIOGRAPHIES. 

(4«»S,vL410}  Tii:40.) 

A  simple  explaxuition  will  account  for  what 

would  otWwiae  seem  unjustifiable  carelessness 

<m  my  part  in  connection  with  my  remarks  about 

the   date  of  the  Ettrick  Shepherd's  birth,  and 

Messrs.  Blackie's  late  edition  of  his  work.     At 

tiie  beginning  and  end  of  the  second  volume  of 

that  edition,  Messrs.  Blackie  present  narratives  of 

the  Shepherd's  life—a  memoir,  and  an  autobio- 

gm^y.    The  work  was  issued  in  monthly  parts ; 

I  laid  mj  hands  on  that  part  which  contained  the 

autobiography,  and  in  which,  without  note  or 

comment,  these  words  occur : — 

**  I  am  the  secoad  of  four  sons  bj  the  Bame  father  and 
mother — namely,  Robert  Hogg  and  Mar^j^aret  Laidlaw, 
and  was  bom  on  the  26th  of  January,  1772.'* 

As  this  was  likely,  in  the  late  as  in  the  for- 
mer edition  of  Messrs.  Bladde's  issue  of  the 
poet*8  writings,  to  be  allowed  to  stand  as  part 
of  the  memoir,  did  I  err  fur  in  concluding  that 
this  was  the  only  statement  intended  to  be  put 
forth  by  the  biographer  ?  Where  there  aie 
two  memoirs,  <me  at  each  end  of  a  bookf  most 
readers  would,  like  myself,  accept  the  facts  given 
in  the^r^^  he  fell  upon,  and  would  not  think 
of  waiting  for  any  further  relation  in  an  additional 
biography  which  might  or  might  not  be  forth- 
coming. 

Since  I  am  writing  about  the  Shepherd,  I  may 
remark  that  Messrs.  Blackie  have  retained  in 
their  late  edition  of  his  poems  three  songs  which 
I  showed  in  the  first  edition  of  my  Scottish  Mm- 
Btrel  (1866)  were  composed  by  others.  These 
are — "Is  your  war-pipe  asleep,  and  for  ever, 
McCrimman  ?  "  ''  0  saw  ^e  tnis  sweet  bonnie 
lassie  o'  mine  P ''  and  '^  Rise,  rise.  Lowland  and 
Highlandman." 

These  songs  were  severally  composed  by  George 
Allan,  James  Home,  and  John  Imlah.  To  the 
Ettridc  bard  the  three  song-writers  seem  to  have 
sent  compositions  for  approval,  and  their  songs 
being  found  amon^  his  papers  at  his  death,  were 
included  among  his  posthumous  writings.  The 
mistake  was  venial,  no  doubt,  but  when  corrected 
it  ought  not  to  have  been  repeated.  Otherwise 
Messrs.  Blackie's  edition  of  the  Shepherd's  works 
is  prepared  creditably. 

Chaklbs  Roqebb,  LL.D. 
Snowdoun  Yilla,  Lewisham,  S.E. 


PORTRAIT  AND  SKULLS  OF  CAROLAN. 

(4«»  S.  vi.  324,  392,  607,  648.) 

I  am  quite  unable  to  discover  the  '^  proofs  "  or 
''  undeceptions  "  which  Mb.  Pinkebtok  professes 
to  give  in  his  latest  communication  nommally  on 
the  above  subject,  with  the  exception  of  "proofs" 
to  be  unwisely  and  unwittingly  rude  to  Irishmen 


and  unjust  to  Ireland,  which  is  not  at  all  un- 
common among  the  natives  or  the  pretmided 
natives  of  that  great  and  just  and  now  universally 
respected  countary,  from  which  his  favours  are  at 
present  dated,  and  "  undeceptions "  which  all 
must  experience  who  mav  have  expected  that  a 
writer  in  ^  N.  &  Q.''  would  not  only  stick  to  his 
subject  and  eschew  personalities,  but  be  a  little 
consistent  with  himself^  even  suppose  in  expressing 
rash  or  erroneous  judgment. 

However,  as  Mb.  FnncBBTOir  appears  to  put  in 
an  arffunuaUum  ad  misericordiam  m  stating  he  b 
"  away  from  the  bulk  of  his  books  at  present,  and 
cannot  speak  so  positively  as  he  could  wish,"  and 
that  on  the  verv  subject  at  issue,  I  suppose  I 
must  not  be  too  hard  on  him,  though  the  question 
naturally  suggests  itself,  why  then  has  he  written 
at  all  P 

To  assert  as  he  doas  that  ^  the  skulls  of  Irish- 
men never  produced  a  saleable  article  "  until  the 
bones  of  the  dead  began  to  be  exported  to  bonnie 
Scotland,  and  to  the  other  great  and  "  universally 
respected  "  countrv,  may  be  very  tasteful  or  very 
witty,  or  at  least  JiBtcetious;  but  it  certainly  is  n«t 
true,  or  even  to  the  purpose.  For  instance,  the 
heads  of  Edmund  Burke  and  of  his  friend  Gold- 
smith, of  Swift,  of  one  Henrv  Qrattan,  of  a  person 
called  Tom  Moore,  of  Berkley,  of  Boyle,  and  of 
some  few  other  Irishmen,  have  undoubtedlv 
^'  produced  saleable  articles"  in  abundance,  though 
the  possessors  of  them  were  not  quite  so  com- 
mercially minded  as  to  sell  their  country  into  the 
bargain,  which  we  have  no  doubt  some  of  the 
nawm  wmtimnire  would  not  scruple  doing  as  part 
of  their  trade. 

Again,  Mb:  PiKKBBTd^'s  innocence — the  word 
ignorance  would  not  be  polite — of  Irish  history, 
which  has  led  him  to  make  the  discarded  and  dis- 
credited statement  that  there  were  few,  if  any^ 
national  harps  in  Ireland  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury ! — a  blunder  of  his  which  he  does  not  pre- 
sume to  repeat — leads  him  now  to  assert  that 
''  the  Irish  after  battle  never  buried  their  dead," 
an  assertion  which  will  cause  some  amusement 
no  doubt  among  the  well-informed  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  and  make  them  exclsim  with  Shake- 
speare— 

'*Han,  proud  man  .... 
Most  Ignorant  of  what  he  most  asmrass." 

This  assertion  of  his  is  a  libel  on  Ireland  and 
the  Irish.  Dean  Story,  it  is  true  (A  Contmuatum 
of  the  HUttoiy  of  the  Ware  of  Ireland,  p.  147), 
gives  a  sad  picture  of  the  field  of  Aughrim  after 
the  battle  in  July,  1691,  when — 

"The  greatest  mischief  that  happened  by  tiie  Irish 
lemoving  was  to  have  the  Carcasses  of  their  Cbantr3rmea, 
for  want  of  BuriaU  exposed  to  the  Birds  of  the  Air,  and 
the  Beaato  of  the  field." 

He  in  the  same  page  relates  the  story  of  the 
wonderful  fidelity  of  the  Irish  dog  which    le- 


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81 


nuuned  **  night  and  day "  by  the  body  of  his 

master — 

*'And  tbo*  he  ftd  upon  ether  Corps  with  the  rest  of 
the  Dogs,  yet  he  would  not  allow  them  or  any  thixkg  elM 
to  touch  that  of  his  Master." 

(One  of  CoL  Foulk's  aoldien  shot  the  faithfol 
anunal.)  But  we  have  no  pioof  that  it  was  not 
the  custom  of  the  Irish  to  bury  their  dead  after 
batiley  from  this  instance,  or  from  others  in  addi- 
tion. At  p.  229  of  the  same  histoiy,  Dean  Stozy 
informs  us  that,  on  September  26, 1691,  after  the 
<;apitulation  of  Limenck,  several  of  the  principal 
ofaeers  and  others  of  the  Irish  army  came  from 
their  Horse  Camp : — 

« And  dining  with  the  general,  they  went  afterwards 
into  town  in  a  hoat  rowed  by  French  seamen  (there 
being  then  three  Teasels  drawn  np  within  the  Key,  and 
one  of  them  sunk  a-cross  it,  to  prevent  our  commg  up 
the  river  in  the  Night  by  way  of  Surprise ;  as  they  rid 
hv  the  End  of  the  Bridg  towards  the  Boat,  a  party  of 
their  own  Men  were  burying  the  dead  killed  in  the  kut 
ac<M>»  ;  they  etopped  and  enquired/or  several  people  whom 
tkey  there  found  dead ;  ana  Ute  &8$ation  uhu  continued 
till  next  day  at  ten  a  dock." 

We  are  assured  on  the  same  authority  that 
lieutenant  Story,  brother  of  the  writer,  who  was 
killed  in  the  war,  *'  was  buried  with  military 
honors  "  by  the  Irish ;  and  there  can  be  no  doubt 
whatever  that  when  the  churchyards  were  filled 
with  the  dead,  places  contiguous  to  them  were 
appropriated  to  puiposes  ot  interment  by  the 
Irish — a  fact  very  recently  more  particularly  de- 
monstrated near  the  cemetery  of  St.  John  s,  in 
the  city  of  Limerick,  where,  some  feet  beneath 
the  surface  of  the  street  which  had  been  opened 
np,  layers  of  human  bones  became  exposed  to 
▼lew — ^the  bones  of  those'who  were  buned  after 
the  siege,  whilst  the  stone  tablet  on  the  wall  of 
the  churchyard  in  question  states  that  the  wall 
itself  was  rebuilt  after  the  slaughter  of  that  siege. 
It  may  be  mentioned,  too,  that  in  the  memorable 
battle  which  took  place  near  Butteyant,  in  the 
county  of  Cork,  in  the  days  of  Macallister,  the 
dead  were  removed  to  the  churchyard  of  that 
town,  where  some  of  their  bones  may  vet  be  seen 
through  a  vault  wall,  in  the  interior  or  what  was 
once  me  chapel. 

Here  then  we  have  not  only  the  Irish  dead 
buried  idfter  battle,  but  burieid  in  consecrated 
ground.  Can  Mb.  PnrKSBTOir  say  the  same  of 
graves  of  English  soldiers  who  have  been  slain  in 
battle? 

I  really  do  not  see  the  appropriateness  of  the 
new  issue  raised  in  libt.  Pikkxbtov's  letter  tou<^- 
ing  '^  moss  grown  on  the  human  skull,''  except  it  is 
another  ia^gmnenium  ad  muencort^am  to  account 
for  the  imperfections  of  his  defence,  or  that  in 
writing  thus  he  supposes  he  has  done  the  correct 
thing  m  acting  on  the  principle  mentioned  at 
p.  591  of  the  same  issue  of  **  N.  ft  Q.,''  vis.  that 
''the  philosopher  should   end  with  medicine." 


Nnther  can  I  see  why  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tisdale  could 
not  present  a  }K>rtrait  of  Carolan  in  court  dress  to 
the  Boyal  Irish  Academy  because  there  was 
another  Dr.  Tisdale  in  the  time  of  Dean  Swift ! 
Still  less  can  I  discover  any  establishment  of 
Mb.  Pinxbbton's  claim  to  be  esteemed  «  judge 
of  the  merits  of  Carolan's  rich  poetry  in  the  sta^ 
ment  made  by  him  that  he  knows  the  bard's  poems 
*^  only  from  translations."  which  he  naively  adds, 
''  1  say  is  not  knowing  them  at  aU."  Well,  I  say 
so  too;  and  I  would  ask  him  to  consult  Hardi- 
man's  IrM  MmdreUy,  with  which  he  professes 
to  be  acquainted,  more  closely  and  patiently,  and 
inquire  why  does  he  attempt  not  oiuy  to  cntidse, 
but  to  decry  Carolan's  son^  P  And  why  will  he 
be  so  unwise  as  to  rail  at  his  music,  which  all  the 
rest  of  the  world  admires? 
I  have  now  before  me— 

**  A  Favorite  Collection  of  the  much  admired  Old  Irish 
Tnnes,  the  Original  and  (aennine  Compositions  of  Carolan 
the  edekraied  Irish  Bard,  set  for  the  Harpsiohord,  Piano 
Forte,  YioUn,  and  German  Flate." 

They  were  ''published  by  Hime,  84,  College 
Green,  Dublin,''  about  the  close  of  the  last  cen- 
tury. These  airs  awake  an  echo  wherever  they 
are  heard  in  Ireland,  even  at  this  moment  ,■  and 
nothing  that  Mb.  Pinkbbton  can  say  to  the  con- 
trary IS  calculated  to  deprive  them  of  a  high 
order  of  merit.  They  are  expressive,  national, 
full  of  feeling,  force,  soul,  and  energy. 

As  a  lesser  laehe  of  Mb.  PoncEBTOir'a,  I  may 
mention  that  he  mistakes  the  circumstances  and 
facts  connected  with  the  anecdote  which  he  quotes 
about  Carolan  and  O'flynn.  Supposing  the  state- 
ments respecting  the  priodpal  points  at  issue  to 
be  correct,  what  does  Mb.  Pn^xERToir's  argument, 
if  I  can  so  designate  it,  amoimt  to,  after  all? 
Just  this— 

1.  That  he  has  not  as  yet  been  able  to  identify 
Watty  Cox's  likeness  of  Carolan  with  that  pub- 
lished, by  Hardiman. 

2.  That  a  friend  of  Mr.  PnrKEBTOv's  at  the 
British  Museum  states  that  one  portrait  sent  by 
Mr.  Pdocebtok  is  not  like  Haidiman's,  which 
conveys  the  likeness  of  a  young  man,  while  that 
of  Watty  Cox  is  of  an  old  man  I 

8.  That  Mb.  PurEEBTOir  thinks  that  Carolan 
is,  in  Ireland,  a  greatly  overrated  man.  He 
(Carolan),  however,  has  left  more  and  better 
music  than  any  English  composer ;  and  I  hope  to 
see  the  day  when  that  music  will  be  republished 
in  a  style  worthy  of  it  and  of  the  composer's 
genius. 

Mb.  PuncBBTOir  has  fsdled  to  prove  that  foreign 
artists  did  not  visit  Ireland  tin  the  eighteenth 
century.    I  have  shown  that  they  did. 

Mb.  PnrKBBioK  has  ^'  some  wprds  to  say  to 
Mb.  Lxnihak  on  his  knowledge  of  Irish  history," 
a  subject  cm  which  he  thinks  he  has  already 
demooBtmted  Mb.  PnrxxBioir's  innocence  quite 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4tt>  S.  VII.  Jam.  18,  TL 


sufficiently  to  preclude  the  necessitj  of  prolonging 
a  controversy  which  he  hBS  wantonly  provoked, 
and  in  which  he  has  manifested  an  absurd  con- 
tempt for  Ireland  and  the  Irish.  As  to  his  random 
assertions,  unsupported  by  the  slightest  proof,  on' 
the  subject  at  issue,  viz.  Carolan*s  skull,  and  the 
other  issues  he  has  raised  in  his  discursive  flights 
of  fancy,  on  Carolan's  poetry,  music,  foreign  artists 
in  Ireland  in  the  eighteenth  century,  the  burial  of 
the  dead  by  the  Irish  after  batUe,  moss  on  skulls, 
&C.  &C.,  they  do  not  make  it  clear  that  he  is  gifted 
with  the  true  scholar's  modesty,  or  even  witi&  the 
cooler  judgment  of  the  Englishman. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  Garolan  was  well 
received  in  the  mansions  and  at  the  tables  of  the 
principal  nobility  and  gentry  of  Ireland.  He 
dedicated  the  chief  part  of  his  compositions  to  the 
O'Connors,  the  MacDermots,  the  Xioftus  Joneses 
(''Bumper  Souire  Jones''),  the  Burkes,  Lords 
of  Mayor  (''Tierna  Mayo"),  the  Kellys,  the 
Cruises,  the  Louths,  the  Koscommons,  the  Staf- 
fords,  tne  Peytons,  and  others  also  of  the  leading 
families  of  Connaught.  He  travelled  south,  and 
was  equally  well  received  in  Clare,  Tipperary, 
Waterford,  and  Limerick.  Hardiman  supports 
our  conjecture  that  the  genuine  portrait  ot  the 
celebrated  Irish  bard  was  painted  bv  Van  der 
Hagen,  who  was  employed  when  Carolan  was  in 
the  zenith  of  manhood  and  fame,  at  Lord  Ty- 
rone's (county  Waterford),  Mr.  Christmas's  (Whit- 
field, same  county),  by  the  city  of  Waterford 
Corporation,  &c.,  and  doubtless  elsewhere  in  this 
country.  At  Doonas  House,  the  truly  picturesque 
residence  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Limerick  of 
the  then  Dean  Massy,  Van  der  Hagen  met  Caro- 
lan, and  it  is  believed  that  it  was  at  Doonas  the 
genuine  portrait  of  the  bard  was  painted  by  the 
well-known  and  clever  Dutch  artist.  Strange  to 
say,  Mr.  Pinkerton  admits  this,  though  he  still 
persists  in  his  unaccountable  contentions. 

Matjricb  Lekihan,  M.R.LA. 
Limerick. 

SIR  WILLIAM  ROGER,  KNT. 

(4*'*  S.  i.  468;  iv.  167,  222,  342,  646:  v.  97,  214, 

326;  vL  482,  662.) 

As  an  accomplished  heraldic  scholar  I  am  sure 
that,  on  reflection,  Mr.  J.  C.  Roger  will  pardon 
me  for  helping  to  settle  the  question  as  to  the 
genuineness  of  ''the  casts"  which  he  communi- 
cated to  Mr.  H.  Laing  for  his  "Supplemental 
Catalogue  of  Scottish  Seals."  The  question  is 
twofold.  First,  How  did  his  father,  the  late  Mr. 
Charles  Roger,  obtain  these  casts  P  Secondly, 
Are  the  casts  what  they  purport  to  be  P  With 
reference  to  the  second  part  of  the  question,  Mr. 
J.  C.  RoGsa  may  easily  satisfy  himself  that  Sir 
William  Ro^r  (secwidua)  neither  owned  nor  was 
connected  with  land  in  Oalston  in  1683,  the  date 


of  cast  No.  861  in  Mr.  Laing's  volume.  There 
never  was  such  a  kniffht  As  to  the  first  portion 
of  the  question,  Mr.  J.  C.  Roger  has  shown  that 
the  heirs  of  Mr.  Thomas  Meik,  the  alleged  pur- 
chaser of  the  Coupar  Grange  estate,  need  not  be 
troubled  to  produce  their  title-deeds,  since  ''  the 
casts  "  turn  out  not  to  be  ikmily  heirlooms.  To 
his  father^  Mr.  J.  C.  Roger  writes,  they  were 
*^  communicated  by  the  late  Mr.  Deuchar,  seal- 
engraver,  Edinburgh."  Mr.  Deuchar  was  an 
excellent  heraldic  scholar,  and  was  altogether 
incapable  of  perpetrating  an  heraldic  forgery.  But 
Mr.  Roger  has,  I  fear,  been  misinformed  as  to 
Mr.  Deuchar  having  any  connection  with  "  the 
casts.''  In  1817  Mr.  Deuchar  published  a  work 
entitled  ^'British  Crests."  In  that  work  no  Scottish 
family  of  Roger  or  Rogers  is  named  as  using  even 
a  crest  Of  four  English  families  whom  Mr.  Deu- 
char names,  none  have  heraldic  insignia  such  as 
those  in  **  the  casts.'*  Some  time  after  the  pub- 
lication of  his  "  Crests,"  my  late  father,  the  ttev. 
James  Roger,  minister  of  Dunino,  Fifeshire,  re- 
quested Air.  Deuchar  to  discover  his  coat  of  arms 
with  a  view  to  its  being  engraved.  After  a  search, 
Mr.  Deuchar  reported  that  the  Coupar  Grange 
family  had  no  crest  or  coat  of  arms.  He  offered 
to  devise  one.  ''Make  something,"  said  my 
father,  '*  which  will  suit  the  motto  X«  Boy  et 
rEgUse."  Mr.  Deuchar  did  so,  exhibiting  as  a 
crest  a  dexter  hand  holding  a  crosier.  This  sur- 
mounted a  shield  with  charges  entirely  different 
from  those  of  ^  the  casts."  But  might  not  Mr. 
Deuchar,  in  the  course  of  further  research,  have 
got  new  liffht  on  the  history  of  the  Coupar  Grange 
family  P  It  is  certun  thathe  did  not  The  whole 
of  his  researches  connected  with  the  crests  of 
Scottish  families  are  embodied  in  "Fairbaim's 
Crests,"  a  well-known  work  published  at  Edinburgh 
in  1860  under  the  superintendence  of*Mr.  Laurence 
Butters,  seal-engraver  to  the  Queen.  In  that 
work  my  father's  crest,  designed  by  Mr.  Deuchar 
forty  years  before,  is  described  as  that  of  the 
Scottish  house  of  Roger.  Mr.  Deuchar  died 
before  1860.  To  the  day  of  his  death  he  never 
had  any  communication  with  the  father  of  Mr. 
J.  C.  Roger.  This  I  assert  positively.  The  Mary- 
well  sculpture,  it  now  apjpears,  was  not  found  at 
the  non-existing  Marywell,  but  ''in  a  ruined 
house  at  West  Town  of  Coupar  Grange,"  where 
a  John  Playfair  lived  in  one  century,  and  where 
a  George  Koger^  to  suit  the  letters  "  G.  R."  on 
the  drawing,  might  have  lived  in  another.  In 
Mr.  H.  Laing's  supplemental  volume  Mr.  J.  C. 
Roger's  father  is  represented  as  having  described 
the  seal  of  Sir  Wiluam  Roger  (tecundut)  thus : 
"Sir William  Roger,  Knt,  from  an  instrument 
dated  1633  concerning  or  conveying  a  piece  of 
ground  within  the  parish  of  Galston."  In  "N.&  Q." 
Mr.  J.  C.  Roger  states  that  the  narrative  of  the 
crests  was  no^  tin  Aw  father**  handwriting,    'hiore 


4«»»  S.  VII.  Jax.  28,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


83 


recently  he  finds  that  ''the  casts"  Tvere  ''com- 
municAted  hy  Mr.  Deuchar." 

Mb.  J.  C.  RooEB  charges  me  with  having,  in 
1867,  claimed  descent  from  Sir  William  Roger 
in  a  hook  which  I  then  published.  Most  true ;  I 
believed  his  statement  contained  in  Mr.  H.  Laing*s 
work  published  the  year  previously.  I  have  long 
held  Mr.  Roger  to  be  an  expert  heraldic  scholar, 
his  heraldic  drawings  and  descriptions  being  ex- 
quisite. I  would  have  respected  his  authority 
still,  had  not  investigations  lately  made  led  me  to 
perceive  that  in  the  present  instance  he  is  in  error. 
And  let  my  mishap  be  a  warning  to  all  genealo- 
gists, for  I  have  subjected  myself  to  be  twitted 
not  only  by  the  gentleman  whose  authority  I  fol- 
lowed, but  by  another  (W.  B.),  to  whom  Mr.  J. 
C.  lioGEB  is  evidently  a  stranger. 

Charles  Rogers,  LL  J). 

Mr.  TViyDHAM  and  th»  Reporters  (4'*»  S. 
vi.  417.) — I  find  among  some  letters  in  my  pos- 
session of  distinguished  men,  literary  and  political, 
there  is  a  letter  from  Mr.  'Windham,  dated  Pall 
Mall,  Feb.  8,  1810,  addressed  to  a  relative  of  my 
own  at  that  period,  connected  with  the  public 
presS;  which  tnrows  light  on  the  subject  in  ques- 
tion, and  a  copy  of  which  I  annex,  as  you  may 
deem  it  suitable  for  insertion  in  your  columns. 
I  am  inclined  to  think  that,  after  this  letter  had 
been  written,  the  interdict  was  removed,  and  Mr, 
Windham's  speeches  were  duly  reported  :-^ 

<*  Poll  Man,  Feb.  8th,  1810. 

"Sir, 
**  Upon  recnrriog  again  to  your  letter,  I  find  in  part 
of  it  some  equivocal  expreerioos  which  lead  me  to  sap- 
press  the  answer  which  I  was  otherwise  disposed  to  give 
to  it,  and  might  prevent  my  rephnnff  to  it  at  all,  if  it  was 
not  for  the  apprehension  that  1  might  be  supposed  either 
not  to  have  received  it,  or  to  acquiesce  in  the  tmth  of  the 
charge  of  treaf!ng  contemptaonsly  or  contumationsly  the 
talents  or  characters  of  men  whom  nothing  but  the  acci- 
dents of  worldly  situation  coold  distinguish  in  any  degree 
from  myself. 

*"  If  yon  heard  the  speech  in  question,  yon  must  know 
that  there  was  nothing  in  any  part  of  it  that  warranted 
soch  a  charge  or  that  would  furnish  a  just  gronnd  of 
complaint  to  any  men  of  any  description,  unless  it  should 
be  meant  to  maintain  Uiat  no  pnblick  body  or  descrip- 
tion of  men  can  be  censured,  without  the  censure  being 
irappgaed  to  be  applied  directly  to  each  individual  of 
whom  the  body  was  composed,  or  who  was  in  any  way 
connected  with  it:  a  position  which  would  sound  but 
oddiv  as  coming  on  the  part  of  those  who  are  every  day 
arraigning,  in  the  coarsest  and  most  unreserved  terms, 
every  branch  of  the  legislature. 

**  With  respect  to  privileg(>d  places,  I  beg  to  assure 
yon  that  I  shall  never  apply  (though  I  believe  I  might) 
to  any  privilege  of  Parliament  to  protect  me  in  any- 
thing which  I  have  thought  it  right  to  say  there. 

••  I  am.  Sir, 

Your  obedient 
Humble  servant, 
(Signed)  W.  Wwdham." 

E.  Rawdoit  Poweb. 
Tenby,  S.  Wales. 


Legal  Comhonplacxs,  temp,  James  I.  (4^^  S. 
vii.  5.) — I  had  no  expectation  that  my  extracts 
from  this  MS.  which  I  submitted  to  your  notice 
would  have  been  at  once  adopted  for  publication, 
or  I  should  have  taken  more  pains  in  their  selec- 
tion and  arrangement|  and  I  am  sorry  that  your 
printer  did  not  receive  my  revision  of  the  proof- 
copy  before  it  went  to  press.  Will  you  now  per- 
mit me  to  supply  a  few  amendments  to  some 
errors  in  the  "  acute  et  graviter  dicta  "  ? — 

P.  6|  line  28  from  bottom,  for  "  patrem  "  read 
"perram  "  (gie  in  orig.) ;  col.  2,  line  1,  for  "  push- 
ing "  read  "  puslinjg  "  j  line  12,  for  "  nullo  "  read 
**  nollo  " ;  line  24  from  bottom,  for  '*  feofm. "  read 
"  psona  " ;  line  14  from  bottom,  the  saying  of  St. 
Jerom  touching  speech  should  begin  '^Tria  neces- 
saria  "  i  p.  7,  line  16, 1  doubt  whether  the  jewel- 
ler's name  should  not  read  ^'  vanlore  "  instead  of 
"  vaiilose  " ;  line  SO  from  bottom,  the  blank 
should  be  filled  up  "  "NorihuviherUmd  in  the  starr 
Chamber.*' 

The  anecdote  about  Mrs.  Babington,  Mrs.  Ashe, 
&c.,  is  so  illegible,  that  I  can  make  nothing  out 
of  it ;  but  in  uie  tnird  line,  ^*  shees  "  should  read 
"  thes . . .  Who  were  these  ladies  ?  and  who  was 
old  mother  Stephens  P 

I  take  this  opportunity  of  drawing  observation 
to  two  passages  which  may  lead  to  the  identifica- 
tion of  the  reporter.  Under  his  head  of ''  General 
Observations,  he  remarks  that  his  father  was  one 
of  those  authorised  by  the  Lord  Chancellor  to 
make  or  pass  green  biooks  (whatever  that  may 
mean),  but  not  in  the  character  of  Clerk  of  the 
Crown.  The  writer's  father  then  filled  the  post 
of  Clerk  of  the  Crown. 

One  of  the  **  acute  et  graviter  dicta  **  of  Bacon 
was  spoken  of  the  writer  himself  in  the  case 
between  Francklyn  and  Gascoigne ;  he  was  there- 
fore one  of  the  counsel  in  that  cause,  in  which  he 
was  opposed  to  Bacon.  G.  A.  C. 

Hair  GRownro  apter  Death  (4**  S.  vi.  624  ; 
vii.  66.)— May  I  suggest  that,  when  Mr.  Towns- 
HEND  Mater  instanced  the  case  of  Charles  I.  as 
contrary  to  that  of  the  lady  quoted  by  Hawthorne, 
he  should  have  remembered  that  no  substance  for 
the  growth  of  the  hair  could  possibly  be  derived 
from  the  body  of  the  decapitated  monarch,  since 
aJl  the  natuni  ducts  to  the  roots  of  the  hair  were 
severed.  Assuming  that  Hawthorne's  statement 
be  correct,  where  he  says  ''  her  whole  substance 
seems  to  have  been  transformed,''  •'.  e,  into  "beau- 
tiful chesnut  hair,"  the  wonder  would  have  been 
to  have  discovered  any  growth  whatever  in  the 
beard  and  hair  of  Kin^  Charles,  since  the  head 
alone  could  have  supplied  the  substance  for  that 
growth.  Geoegs  Wallis. 

South  Kenrington  Museum. 

It  18  observed  by  Mr.  Towkbhee^b  Mater 
that  the  indestructibuity  of  hair  is  shown  by  the 


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NOTES  AND  QXTEMES. 


[4*fc  S.  VII.  Jak.  28, 71. 


&ct  that  a  j^rtion  of  Henry  VIII.'b  beard  'was 
found  upon  hiB  chin  at  the  time  when  the  coffin 
of  Charles  I.  was  opened  in  1818.  I  can  adduce 
a  much  more  remarkable  instance^  I  assiated  in 
the  year  1833  in  unwrapping  an  embalmed  body 
diflcovered  in  front  of  where  the  high  altar  fox^ 
merly  stood  in  Wymondham  Abbey  in  Norfolk. 
It  was  the  body  of  a  female,  who  was  satisfieic- 
torily  proved  to  have  been  the  wife  of  William 
D'Albini,  the  founder  of  the  abbey.  She  bad 
died  young  and  in  childbirth.  Her  hair  had  been 
cut  ofi;  and  we  found  a  profusion  of  it  lying  de- 
tached on  the  right  side  of  the  neck,  of  a  bright 
auburn  colour,  and  in  perfect  preservation.  I 
brouffht  away  a  small  lock  of  this  hair|  which  is 
now  lying  before  me,  and  perfectly  preserved  after 
more  than  700  years  from  the  time  of  the  lady's 
decease.  I  wrote  a  full  account  of  the  discovery, 
embalming,  and  appearance  of  the  body  in  a  maga- 
zine at  the  time.  F.  G.  H. 

Air  IiTEDiTED  Elsqy  bt  Olivbr  Goldskith 
(4?^  S.  vii.  9,  66.) — Mr.  Cro88LEt'8  righteous 
indignation  seems  to  have  been  moved  in  no  ordi- 
nary degree  by  the  production  of  ''poor  Goldy's" 
dirge.  Granting  tnat  it  is  twaddle,  and  that 
"  mediocrity  is  not  allowed  to  poets,  either  by  the 
ffods  or  men,"  can  he  have  forgotten  that  even 
**  good  Homer  sometimes  nods  "  P  I  had  it  ori- 
^ally,  mtLBj^  years  ago,  from  the  late  Oaptain 
Adderley  Sleigh,  K.T.S.,  in  whose  family  to  nave 
doubted  of  its  authenticity  would  indeed  have 
been  worse  than  any  heterodoxy.  Moreover,  one  of 
the  primary  objects,  I  take  it,  of  "  N.  &  Q.''  is  to 
drculate  these  fascicles  with  a  view  to  their 
passing  through  the  crucible  of  its  readers'  intel- 
ligence ;  eve^i  as  pictures,  when  brought  together 
£rom  all  sorts  of  private  collections  at  some  great 
national  exhibition,  have  their  merits  and  genuine- 
ness at  once  accepted  or  rejected :  — 

**  Condo  et  compono  quae  mox  depromere  poesim." 

MooBLAND  Lad. 

Whalb's  Rib  at  SoRBKirpo  (4*"»  S.  vii.  3a)— 
In  the  inscription,  which  was  most  correctly 
copied,  the  word  in  the  first  line  is  costion. 

W.H.B. 

"  CvxBERLAim's  British  Theatre  "  (4***  S.  vi. 
403.) — I  doubted  that  the  late  Gkorge  Daniel  was 
the  editor,  because  the  text  is  so  incorrect  passim, 
I  speak  not  of  printers'  errataf  that  a  stroke  of  the 
pen  can  correct,  but  of  frequent  omissions  of 
whole  lines,  bad  punctuation,  &c.  Buncombe's 
Theatre  is  far  more  correct  in  the  text,  though 
inferior  in  other  respects.  Bv-the-bye,  this  last- 
named  work  contains  "Mr,  taul  Piy,"  by  Dou- 
glas Jerrold.  It  is  a  better  play  than  Creole's 
comedy.  One  of  the  characters  is  Sir  Spangle 
Hainbow.  It  was  produced  at  the  Cobour^,  and 
amongst  the  actors  named  in  the  dratnaite  per^ 


itnue  is  Mr.  Buckstone.  If  the  play  is  by  Jerrold, 
why  is  it  not  in  tiie  published  collection  of  his 
dramas?  Stephen  Jagkbok. 

A  Winter  SATnre  (4*  S.  vi.  496  j  viL  18.)— In 
a  recent  number  of  "N.  &  Q."  it  is  mentioned 
that  there  is  a  popular  saying  in  Nottinghamshire, 
that  if  the  ice  will  bear  a  man  before  Christmas^ 
it  will  not  bear  a  mouse  afterwards. 

A  somewhat  similar  sajring  prevails  in  Notting- 
hamshire and  neighbouring  counties,  which  is 
perhaps  not  unworuiy  of  note : — 

**  If  there's  ioe  in  November  that  11  bear  a  duck, 
Therell  be  nothing  after  bat  sladge  and  muck." 

The  country  people  in  Nottinghamshire  pro- 
phesy that  the  ensuing  winter  will  be  a  mild  one, 
basing  their  prognostication  upon  the  fact  of  the 
wind  being  soufherly  on  St.  Martin's  Eve  I 

A.  E.  L.  L. 

I  have  heard  this  given  in  another  form : — "  If 
the  ice  will  bear  a  goose  before  Martinmas  (or 
Martlemae  as  my  informant  pronounced  it)  it  will 
not  bear  a  duck  after.''  Can  the  experience  of  any 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  verify  this  saying  P 

Ltdiard. 

Waric= Wealthy  (4^  S.  iv.  266,  326, 489.)-- 

Slightly  apposite  is  one  of  the  anagrams  given  in 

Camden's  Itemams,  p.  210  (ed.  1674)  :*^ 

**  Afterward,  as  appeareth  by  Eu9tachnu,  there  were 
some  Greekt  disported  themselves  herein,  as  he  which 
tamed  ^  •  .  Itaros,  meny,  into  Liaro$,  that  is,  warm." 

Jobs  Addis.. 

The  Pied  Piper  of  Hamelk  (4^  S.  iv.  364.) 
I  beg  again  to  notice  this  extraordinary  story,  to 
elicit,  if  possible,  a  satisfactory  solution  for  it  as 
a  commemoration  of  some  deplorable  calamity. 
Was  it  a  great  famine  f  Howell  (Familiar  Lettersy 
1763,  p.  308),  writing  in  the  year  1648,  states  that 
the  innabitants  "date  their  bills  and  bonds  and 
other  instruments  in  law,  to  this  day,  from  the 
year  of  the  going  out  of  their  children.'* 

Beokford,  in  Vatheky  gives  a  somewhat  similar 
incident  An  Indian,  renewing  his  loud  shouts  of 
laughter,  and  exhibiting  horrid  grimaces,  is  kicked 
byv  athek,  who  reseated  his  blow  with  such  as- 
siduity as  incited  uL  who  were  present  to  follow 
his  example : — 

*'  Every  foot  was  up  and  aimed  at  the  Indian,  and  no 
sooner  had  any  given  him  a  kick  than  he  felt  himself 
constrained  to  reiterate  the  stroke.  Beinc  both  short 
and  plamp,  he  collected  himself  into  a  ball,  and  rolled 
round  on  all  sides  at  tiie  blows  of  his  assaUants,  who 
pressed  after  him,  wherever  he  turned,  with  an  eagerness 
beyond  conception,  whilst  their  numbers  were  e^ery 
moment  increasing.  The  ball,  indeed,  in  passing  from 
one  apartment  to  another,  drew  every  person  after  it 
that  came  in  its  way.  The  women  of  the  harem,  no 
sooner  did  tiiey  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  ball,  than  feeling 
themselves  unable  to  refrain,  tney  broke  from  the  clutches 
of  their  enauchs,  who,  to  stop  their  flight,  pinched  them 
tin  they  bled;  but  in  vain ;  whilst  themaelvas,  though 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


85 


tTonbliag  witli  tenor  at  the  escape  of  their  ohaige,  ir«re 
as  incapable  of  resisting  the  attraction,'*  Ac  Ac« 

Is  this  acooimt  a  fiction  of  Beckford's,  or  does 
he  obtun  it  from  any  older  ''  Arabian  tale  "  ? 

W.P. 

ToxnrrAJSs  or  Quicisiltbb  (2»*  S.  xii.  160.) 
As  it  would  appear  that  this  query  has  never  been 
replied  to,  I  venture  after  the  lapse  of  nine  yean 
to  give  the  reference  required. 

The  Bath  lecturer  was  accurate.    Gibbon,  from 

Caidonne,  says  that  — 

*<  In  a  lofty  pavilion  of  the  garden  "  [of  Bagdad]  **  one 
of  these  basins  and  foontaios  ....  was  replenish^,  not 
with  water,  bnt  with  the  pnrest  qaicksilver." — HigL  of 
Dtdimt  amd  Fall  of  ths  Itoman  JEmpire,  vol.  vi.  p.  141 
(Bobn*s  British  Classics).  Vide  also  notes  to  same  pas- 
sage as  to  the  Alhambra. 

Mr.  Disraeli,  in  his  "  wondrous  tale  "  of  Alray 
(Wame's  ed.  1866,  p.  65,  and  note  31),  mentions 
the  same  magnificence  on  the  authority  of  Gibbon. 

S.  R.  TowNSHBKD  Matxr. 

Blehmond,  S.W. 

"  PlEHCB  THE  PlOTTGHXAN'S  CkEDX  "  (4**»  S.  i. 

244,  378,  448,  490.)— 

**  Hyt  was  good  y-now  of  gronnd  •  greyn  for  to  beren." 

830. 

I  am  inclined  to  take  this  as  referring  to  a 
cnirent  proverb  of  the  time.  In  his  noble  defence 
of  poor  Richard  n.,  Thomas  Merks,  Bishop  of 
Canine,  says,  with  sjl  the  epigrammatic  terseness 
of  Fuller,  **  It  is  a  bad  wool  that  can  take  no 
colour."  (Collier's  JEocL  Hist,  of  Great  BrUam, 
vol.  i.  p.  612,  fol.)  So  the  better  the  wool,  the 
richer  the  dye  it  is  capable  of  taking. 

The  date  of  the  poem  of  Fierce  the  Ploughman^ 8 
Creed  is  given  by  Mr.  Skeat  (E.  E.  T.  S.)  as 
"  about  1394,  a,d.^'  The  deposition  of  Richard  11. 
took  place  in  the  year  1399. 

The  speech  of  Bishop  Merks  displays  a  courage 
and  a  manliness  so  rare,  that  I  cannot  forbear 
recommending  it  as  worthy  of  a  perusal. 

EDicxmn  Tew,  M.A. 

Patching  Rectory. 

Nous  (4"»  S.  iv.  272, 370.)— Your  correspondent 
CoSNTTB.  quotes  from  a  poem  published  in  1798  to 
determine  the  period  at  which  the  word  nous  was 
incorporated  with  the  English  language.  The 
foUowing  is  from  the  Dunciad: — 

«  Ah  think  not,  mistress,  more  tme  dullness  lim 
In  Folly's  cap  or  Wisdom's  grave  disgnise. 
Like  baoys  that  never  sink  into  the  flood. 
On  learning's  snrAice  we  bnt  lie  and  nod. 
Thine  is  the  genuine  head  of  many  a  house 
indi  divinity  without  a  Fovf." 


And  mndi  divinity 


Jtrcmr  Shaiocait. 


'<  The  Bittkr  Ekb  "  (4«»  S.  vi.  340,  427,  616 ; 
vii.  23.) — End  here  I  take  to  mean  the  remdt;  and 
I  thii^  LoHB  LrtTELTON  will  admit  that  the 
Waoi  exceeds  in  any  sense,  good  or  bad,  the 
irpa|ir.     Aristotie  says  it  does.     In  war  defeat 


sorely  is  the  wortlt  part  of  it — an  end  the  hittsreet 
that  could  come.  "  While  there  is  life  there  is 
hope."  While  the  event  is  pending  the  end  may 
be  viiai  not  rpov^.  There  is  room,  at  aU  events, 
for  hope.  Edmitkd  Tew,  M.A, 

Ghowdeb  (4**»  S.  iv.  pauim;  v.  163,261;  vL 
448.^ — ^To  support  the  derivation  given  of  this 
word  at  the  last  reference,  I  beg  to  mention  that 
on  the  cabarets  and  gtdnguettes  of  litUe  fishing 
villages  along  the  coast  of  Brittany  *^  id  on  fait  ta 
chaudi^e*'  is  a  firequent  sign.  Faire  la  chaudikr^ 
is  to  provide  a  cauldron  in  which  is  cooked  a  mess 
of  fish  and  biscuit  with  some  savourv  condi- 
ments —  a  '^  hodge-podge  "  contributed  by  the 
fishermen  themselves,  who  each  in  return  receives 
his  share  of  the  prepared  dish.  Now  Canada  waa 
settled  by  the  French,  many  of  them  from  Brit- 
tany, with  Jacques  Oartier,  a  Breton,  at  their  head; 
and  it  is  precisely  from  those  states  which  border 
upon  Canada  that  we  derive  both  the  word  chovy^ 
der  and  the  very  palatable  dish  it  designates. 

Folk  Lobe  :  Teeth  (4'*»  S.  vi.  68j  131,  340, 
660.)  —  Is  it  not  likely  that  the  '*rmg  with  a 
tootb  in  it,"  mentioned  in  the  advertisement  quoted 
by  E.  C,  may  have  been  a  relic  of  some  saint  P 
I  have  in  m^  cabinet  a  heavy  silver  ring  of  French 
workmanship,  and,  I  should  think,  of  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  in  which  is  set  a 
tooth  of  apparentiy  some  considerable  age.  S. 
AnoUonia  was  specially  invoked  for  the  tooth- 
ache. See  Bishop  JeweVs  Exposition  upon  the 
Second  Epistle  to  the  Theesalonians,  ii.  9, 10 : — 

**  Hereof  it  came  to  pass  that  each  saint  was  assigned 
and  allotted  to  his  sundry  charge  and  several  office  apart : 
S.  Blase  for  the  choking,  S.  Boche  for  the  pestilence, 
Anthony  for  the  burning,  Valentine  for  the  falling  sick- 
ness, Romane  for  madness,  Apollonia  for  the  toothache, 
Petronilla  for  agues,  and  others  for  other  purposes." 

In  the  Koman  calendar  S.  Apollonia  finds  a 
place  on  February  0,  and  in  Alban  Butier's  IJives 
of  the  Saints,  under  that  date,  I  find  it  stated  that 
the  heathen  population  of  Alexandria,  in  the  last 
year  of  the  reign  of  the  Emperor  Philip,  attacked 
the  Christians  resident  amongst  them ;  and  that — 

"  The  admirable  ApoUonia,  whom  old  age  and  the  state 
of  viiginity  rendered  equally  venerable,  was  seized  by 
them.  Their  repeated  blows  on  her  jaws  beat  out  all  her 
teeth." 

Frequent  allusions  to  the  popular  belief  in  the 
virtue  of  the  invocation  of  S.  Apollonia  will  be 
found  in  the  nublications  of  the  Parker  Society. 
Compare  also  tne  *'  Fantassie  of  Idolatrie,"  printed 
in  Foxe's  Acts  and  Monuments,  v.  406,  18th  edit 

**  To  Saynt  Syth  for  my  purse ; 
Saynt  Loye  sane  my  horse  ; 

For  my  teth  to  Saynt  Apolyne." 

Were  the  teeth  of  S.  Apollonia  ever  worn  as 
relics  or  as  charms  against  toothache  P 

W.  Spaebow  Smpsoir. 


86 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»»»  S.  VII.  JAir.  28. 71. 


H.  R.  H.  THE  Dmrs  of  Eeett  is  Caitada  is 
1791  (4»»»  S.  V.  533.)— The  following  work  may  Be 
of  service  to  Mr.  Macdonald.  It  was  published 
a  few  months  ago  by  Hunter,  Rose  &  Co.,  at 
Ottawa  and  Toronto,  8yo,  pp.  241,  and  may  per- 
haps be  found  at  Triibuer^s,  12,  Paternoster  Row^ 
London : — 

"The  Life  of  F.  M.  H.  R.  H.  Kdward.  Duke  of  Kent, 
illastrated  by  bU  Correspondence  with  the  De  Salaberrv 
Family,  never  before  published,  extendinfi;  from  1791  to 
1814.  By  Dr,  William  James  Anderson,  L.R.C.S.,  Edin- 
burgh, President  of  the  Quebec  Literary  and  Historical 
Society." 

A  paragraph  in  the  "  Introductory "  is  as  fol- 
lows :  — 

**  The  Dnke  of  Kent  was  an  able  and  volaminons  cor- 
respondent, and  from  the  care  with  which  his  letters  have 
been  preserved  he  has  unconscioosly  become  his  own 
biographer;  bat  this  biography  has  hitherto  been  con- 
fine to  the  limited  circles  of  the  families  or  friends  of  his 
correspondents,  and  the  few  of  his  letters  which  have 
been  pablished  in  his  Zt/e,  by  the  Rev.  Enkine  Neale, 
have  only  excited  a  desire  to  see  more." 

I  have  never  met  with  Mr.  Neale*8  work.  Mr. 
Anderson  does  not  elsewhere  in  his  book  refer  to 
it  more  particularly  than  in  the  above  paragraph, 
and  it  is  not  mentioned  in  either  Watt's  B,  B. 
or  Lowndes'  BibL  Manual, 

As  the  prince-duke  arrived  at  Quebec  in  Au- 
gust, 1791,  in  command  of  the  7th  Royal  Fusi- 
leers;  in  1794  assisted  in  the  reduction  of  the 
French  West  Indies,  and  was  then  appointed 
Commander  of  the  Forces  in  Nova  Scotia  and 
New  Brunswick ;  and  in  May,  1799,  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  Forces  in  British  North  America, 
in  which  command  he  continued  until  August, 
1800,— Mr.  Macdoitald  wiU  probably  find  *'  the 
full  details"  he  requires  in  the  duke's  official 
correspondence  with  the  authorities  at  the  Horse 
Guards,  where  I  presume  it  is  still  preserved. 

YiUe-Marie,  Canada.  £ric. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

The  Worha  of  Alexander  Pope,  New  EdUion^  including 
eeveral  hundred  unpubliahed  Letter*  and  other  New  3/a- 
teriaUy  collected  in  part  by  the  late  Ri^ht  Hon.  John 
Wilson  Croker.  With  Introduction  and  Notes  by  the 
Rev.  Whitwell  Elwin.  Vol,  IL  Poetry.  With  Portraits 
and  other  Illuttrations,    (Murray.) 

If  the  admirers  of  Pope  have  had  their  patience  sorely 
tried  while  wuting  for  this  long-promised  edition  of  his 
works,  few  of  them  hot  will  confess  that  that  patience 
has  at  length  its  reward  in  a  collection  of  the  poet's 
writings,  which  promises  to  leave  little  scope  for  the 
labours  of  future  commentators  or  future  editors.  This 
new  volume  contains  the  '*  Essay  on  Criticism  "  followed 
by  **  Warburton*s  Commentary  and  Notes,"  **  The  Rape 
of  the  Lock  "  f(dlowed  by  the  *'  First  Edition  "  of  it ;  ^  The 
Elegy  to  the  Hemonr  of  an  Unfortunate  Lady'; "  **  Eloisa 
to  Abelard;"  the  **  Essay  on  Man;"  and  **  The  Univenal 
Prayer,"  the  two  latter  being  accompanied  by  Warburton*8 
Commentary  and  Notes.  While,  in  the  illustration  of  each 
of  these  poems  Mr.  Elwin  has  availed  himself  freely  and 


judiciously  of  the  labours  of  preceding  editors,  he  has, 
with  great  advantage  to  the  students  of  Pope,  brought 
his  own  critical  powers  to  bear  as  much  upon  their  judg- 
ments as  upon  the  Poef  s  writings ;  so  that  his  comments 
on  the  commentators  are  far  from  the  least  instructive 
portion  of  the  volume.  And  this  is  saying  much  for  a  book 
which  contains  so  many  evidences  of  the  pains  which  the 
late  Mr.  Croker  bestowed  in  clearing  up  and  ill  nitrating 
passages  which  change  of  times  and  manners  have  ren- 
dered obscure,  and  which  could  only  be  explained  by 
one  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  literature  of  the  time. 
Any  of  our  readers  who  remember  how  nmch  has  been 
written  in  the  attempt  to  identify  the  **  Unfortunate 
Lady,"  who  was  the  subject  of  Pope's  elegy,  will  be 
greatly  amused  with  Mr.  £lwin*s  introduction  to  that 
poem,*in  which,  following  up  a  hint  first  thrown  out  we 
believe  by  Mr.  Dilke,  be  shows  she  was  altogether  an 
imaginary  personage ;  and  they  will  be  as  greatly  pleased 
with  the  sound  and  vigorous  criticism  in  which  he  has 
exposed  the  many  false  principles  enunciated  in  it  by 
Pope. 

Select  Letters  of  Pliny  the  Younger.  Latin  Text,  with 
English  Notes.  Edited  by  A.  J.  Church,  M.A.  of  Lin- 
coln College,  Oxford,  and  Head  Master  of  the  Royal 
Grammar  School  of  King  James  I.,  Henlev-on-Thames, 
and  W.  J.  Brodribb,  M.A.,  late  Fellow 'of  St.  John's 
College,  Cambridge.    (Longmans.) 

This  is  a  selection,  amounting  to  about  two-fifths,  of 
the  Epistles  of  Pliny  the  Younger,  and  arranged  in  the 
present  form  with  a  view  to  making  them  more  acces- 
sible to  dasstcal  students.  The  comparative  oblivion 
into  which  these  letters  have  fallen  is  the  more  strange , 
considering  that  sometimes  Pliny  supplies  missing  links 
in  the  history  of  his  friend  Tacitus.  Should  this  oblivion 
be  removed,  no  small  credit  will  be  due  to  the  editors  of 
this  volume,  who,  in  order  that  it  may  serve  as  a  class- 
book  for  the  upper  forms  of  schools,  furnish  each  letter 
with  an  analysis,  and  point  out  such  words  and  phrases 
as  do  not  exactly  beloug  to  the  Augustan  age.  Copious 
notes  are  likewise  given  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

Books  recbivkd. — Notice*  of  the  Jews  by  the  Classic 
Writers  of  Antitptity,  being  a  Collection  of  Facts  and 
Opinions  from  the  Works  of  Ancient  Heatlten  Authors 
previous  to  a.d.  500,  by  John  Gill.  (Longmans.)  These 
notices  refer  to  the  Exodus  firom  Egypt;  the  Origin, 
Rites,  Customs,  and  Peculiarities  of  the  Jews ;  and  Notices, 
Geographical  and  Military,  extracted  from  about  fifty 
various  authors. — T7ie  Civil  Service  History  of  England^ 
being  a  Fact-Book  of  English  History  arranged  expressly 
for  Examination  Candidates,  Public  Schools,  and  Studentn 
generally,  by  F.  A.  White,  B.A.;  Revised  Utroughout  and 
enlarged  by  R.A,Vohwa.  (Board  of  Trade.)  (Lockwood.) 
Prepared  by  one  gentleman  of  great  experience  in  the  pr^ 
paration  of  candidates  for  the  Civil  Service,  and  revised 
by  another,  this  forms  a  suitable  companion  to  the  Civii 
Service  Geognwhy  inued  by  the  same  publishers. — The 
Halfcrown  Atlas  of  Briti^  History,  by  Keith  Johnston, 
LL.D.  (Johnston,  Edinburgh.)  Thirty-one  maps,  beau- 
tifully engravwl,  of  these  islands  especially;  but  includ- 
ing i^urope  and  the  World  generally  at  different  import- 
ant historical  periods,  made  complete  by  an  Index  to  all 
the  places  named  in  it,  deserves  to  be  widely  circulated, 
and  is  published  at  a  price  which  certainly  admits  of  it. — 
Dramatic  Almanack  for  1871,  by  J.  W.  Anson.  This 
curious  little  year-book  deserves  a  good  word  on  two 
grounds:  first,  for  the  amount  of  amusing  information, 
connected  with  the  Drama  which  it  contains;  secondly, 
because  the  profits  Arom  its  sale  will  be  given  to  the 
Dramatic  Sick  Fund,  of  which  Mr.  Anson,  the  editor,  is 
the  Honorary  Secretary. 


4*S.VIL  Jak.28,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


87 


Educatiokal  Books.— The  editor  of  the  PubHshen* 
CSreular  has  been  eollecting  information  -with  a  view  to 
iasoing  an  index  or  catalogne,  classified  according  to 
sabjects,  of  school,  college,  technical  and  general  edaca- 
tional  works  in  ose  in  Great  Britain.  So  many  returns 
have  been  already  received  from  publishers,  that  it  would 
take  eight  or  ten  pages,  closely  printed  in  three  columns, 
to  give  the  short  titles  of  merely  elementary  publications 
which  teach  tho  English  language.  Instead,  therefore,  of 
a  supplement  to  the  periodical  above-named  it  will  be 
H'ioessary  to  make  the  catalogue  a  distinct  volume ;  it 
will  not,  as  a  general  rule,  include  any  work  of  which 
there  has  been  no  new  edition  within  the  last  three  3'ears. 

Tm  Germans  of  tbb  First  and  Nineteenth  Cbn- 
TUBiis.— A  correspondent  of  the  Pall  Mall  Gazette 
writes  from  inside  Paris ;  **  The  other  night  the  bombard- 
ment was  so  noisy  that  I  could  not  sleep,  so  I  took 
Tacitus'  De  mnribus  et  populie  Germania^  as  a  '  lecture 
pleine  d'actualite.'  I  saw  there  some  things  which  are 
to  be  observed  to  this  very  day ;  for  instance,  that  they 
(the  Germans)  *  consider  that  to  retreat,  provided  they 
return  to  the  charge,  is  prudence,  not  cowardice.'  The 
French  are  xtry  much  struck  with  this  now,  and  are 
constantly  taken  in  by  the  manoeuvre.  Also  Tacitus 
says  that  the  Germans  even  in  doubtful  encounters  carry 
off  their  dead-    This  is  also  true  now." 

Only  a  few  days  before  his  death  the  late  Dean  Alford 
revised  the  proof-sheet  of  his  rec«nt  Advent  Sermons 
(including  the  one  preached  before  the  Queen),  which 
will  be  issued  immediately  in  a  small  volume  by  Messrs. 
Hodder  Jk  Stougbton,  entitled  Truth  and  Trust:  Lttnne 
oftht  War, 

A  pEBSiAv  manuscript  of  great  beauty,  containing 
sixty  full  page  miniature  illuminations,  and  profusely 
ornamented  throughout  in  gold  and  colours  in  the  highest 
class  of  ancient  art,  was  sold  by  Messrs.  Puttick  &  Simp- 
son, of  Leicester  Square,  last  luesday,  for  205/. 

The  next  number  of  the  liUstrated  Review  will  be 
published  on  the  1st  of  February  by  Messrs.  Houlston  & 
Sons  of  Paternoster  Row.  The  subject  of  the  memoir  and 
portrait  will  be  John  Ruskin,  M.A.  In  future  the  IUum" 
traUd  Review  will  be  published  on  the  1st  and  16th  of 
^e  month  instead  of  fortnightly. 

The  Corporation  Records. — ^The  second  Report  of 
the  Libraiy  Committee  contains  much  valuable  informa- 
tion as  to  the  records  of  London  Bridge ;  the  Chapel  of 
St.  Thomas*  and  the  Fraternity  or  Brotherhood  upon  the 
Bridge;  the  Payments  to  the  Officials  connected  with 
this  edifice,  and  the  Price  of  Materials  provided  for  its 
repair ;  the  Tolls  charged  upon  Vessels  passing  through 
and  Carts,  Ac.  over  the  Bridge.  Many  of  the  deeds  bear 
the  seals  of  the  earliest  Mayors,  such  as  Fitz  Ailwyn, 
Serle  le  Mercer,  Hardell,  Renger,  Basing,  Ralph  de  Sand- 
wich, &c  Some  have  the  ^d  City  seal  attached  before 
its  alteration  in  1539,  *<  When  the  Scale  was  alteryd  and 
changed,  and  th'  Armes  of  thys  Cytye  made  yn  the 
place  of  the  sayd  Thomas  Bekket  on  the  one  svde,  and 
on  the  other  syde  the  Image  of  Saynt  Powle."  The  Rolls 
of  Payments  commence  in  1381.  Some  of  the  volumes 
have  ornamental  initial  letters  at  the  commencement  of 
eachdiapter,  and  are  in  the  original  binding.  The  Com 
Books,  containing  the  account  of  the  com  bought  and 
stored  in  the  Granaries  of  the  City  and  the  Companies 
at  the  Bridge  House,  explain  the  custom  adopted  to 
provision  the  city  in  time  of  scarcity.  The  documents 
relating  to  the  Freedom  of  the  City  commence  in  1681, 
and  they  contain  much  genealogical  information.  The 
previous  books  were  destroyed  in  the  Great  Fire.  The 
Report  oomdodes  with  several  sensible  and  practical  sug- 


gestions for  the  better  preservation  of  these  valuable 
archives,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  Court  of 
Common  Council  will  see  the  desirability  of  carrying 
these  recommendations  into  effect. 

Mr.  W.  R.  MoRFiT'r,  M.A.,  Oriel  College,  Oxford,  has 
in  the  press  a  new  work,  **Tbe  Slaves,"  their  ethnology', 
early  history,  and  popular  traditions,  with  some  account 
of  Slavonic  literature,  being  the  substance  of  a  course  of 
lectures  delivered  at  Oxford. 

TiXR  Academy  of  France,  which  under  other  drcum- 
stances  would  have  sat  in  Paris  on  the  31st  nit,  to  dis- 
tribute their  great  prizes,  have  postponed  their  assembly 
till  the  31st  of  March. 

Johnson  Club. — The  first  Meeting  of  the  Second 
Session  of  this  Literary  Society  for  the  purpose  of  Current 
Literarv  Review,  was'held  last  night,  Thursday,  Jan.  26, 
at  St  John's  Gate,  Clerkenwell.  This  Club  has  taken  a 
room  at  this  thoroughly  Johnsonian  Tavern  for  the  pur- 
pose of  holding  its  meetings.  We  are  requested  to  state 
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in  our  B^^  S,  iv.  88. 

BowMAir  THE  Cf.?7trxartax.  7%e  question  is  not 
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whether  he  did.  Our  Manchester  correspondents  ingenious 
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question  at  issue, 

G.  B.  is  thanked.     We  have  the  letter  already  in  type. 

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LAMPLOUOH'S 
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XrOTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE— AGUA  AMAKETJiA 

jji  rmtana  the  Hnmen  Hair  to  ita  lyristioe  hoe,  no  raetter  at  wliet 
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CONTENTS.-.N*  162. 


NOTES:  — On  the  Modern  TJse  of  tbe  Word  •'Art,"  89  — 
Letter  of  Junes  Barl  of  Glencaim  to  Junes  TI.,  Muvh  4, 
1607.  90  —  Staffardsbire  uid  AmeriCM  Fblk  Lore,  91  — 
l>Dwald  HUL  Isle  of  Mao.  93 —  Lord  Pluakett  —  Anti- 

S\tj  of  Lsdies'  Chirnons  — Coincidence  of  Thonght  — 
«  atraMht  Oste  waOi  ffmmm  Wajr*-*  Ktotjrs  Sapersti- 
tioiis  —  Thread  Buttons  —  Carious  Epitaph  —  The  Sup- 
posed Miltonic  Epitaph  —  FhotogranDj :  the  War  and 
'^The  Times,**  98. 

QITERIBS :  —  Anthors  wanted — Medlaval  Barm — Legend 
OD  Bella— The  Bird  Cage  Walk-British  Bejtbed  Chsnots  t 
rkham  —  Denarius  of  Dnisus,  Senior— Curious 


BixgraTlDfr  —  Meaning  of  **  Fog  "  —  The  Kobold  of  Gr6ben 

—  Manx  Cats  and  Fowls— Wife  of  George  NevilUftc.- 
Phi-Botft-Kappa  Sooletj  of  Boston— The  *' Potters"  of 
the  Northern  Counties  —  "  The  Hearts  of  Men  which 
fhndlj,'*  Ae.— Quotations  wanted  — St.  Joseph's  Bve  — 
Thomas  Stanley,  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  Man— ''Thoughts 
of  Fatrleius  " — '*The  Times  Whistle/'  ftc,  bF  "  B.  C."  — 
Mental  Bquality  of  the  Sexes  —  Thomson  a  Druid  —The 
Canal  of  Asnea  —  Govemment  Stamp  on  Ptotim  Cto- 
Taa.95. 

EBPLIB8:— A  Beotorsbip  of  Eighty-one  Years,  97—"  Some 

fo  to  Church.**  Ao. :  Old  Rhymes,  99 —Orders  of  Knight- 
ood,  IM—  Barbarous  Massacre,  101  —King  William  III.'s 
Sttrmos  and  other  Relics  at  Garrickblaoker.  co.  Armagh, 
102  —  Old  Sandown  Caatle.  Isle  of  Wight  -:  Mount  Calvary 

—  Godwin  Swift — Descendants  of  Bishop  Bedell—"  Dun  " 
as  a  LoodPlreflx- Biehard  Terrick,  Bishopof  London,  1764- 
1777  —  Pert  —  Marriage  of  Inftmts  —  Local  Tournaments 

—  Shard  or  Sham  — Parodies— The  Patron3rmio  "-ing" 
In Korth-Bngliah  Place- Names— "His  own  opinion  was 
his  law  **  —  Aurom  Borealis,  Ac,  103. 

K olei  on  Books,  Ae. 


OX  THE  MODERN  USE  OF  THE  WOBD  «*  ART." 

Within  the  memory  of  the  present  generation 
the  popular  \ue  of  the  word  art  has  greatly  in- 
creased, while  its  popular  signification  has  heen 
much  modified.  It  is  indeed  not  uncommon  to 
meet  with  furlv  well-infonned  men  who  would 
denj  its  appropriateness  when  they  hear  it  ap- 
plied to  certain  pursuits  and  studies  which  from 
time  immemorial  have  heen  classed  among  the 
arts.  I  Tenture  to  ask  for  space  in  "  N.  &  Q."  for 
some  few  remarks  on  this  subject,  in  the  hope 
that  they  may  elicit  replies  and  suggestions  from 
your  readers. 

The  Latin  word  org,  geuitive  artiif  whence  art 
is  derived,  signified  with  the  Homans  acquired 
skill,  whether  mental  or  manual.  Hence  art, 
according  to  Roman  notions,  was  both  theoretical 
and  practical,  and  the  arts  either  liberal  or  il- 
liberal. A  master  of  the  liberal  arts — artes  liberales 
or  M^enua — ^was  termed  artifex,  while  one  who 
laboitfed  with  his  hands  at  the  illiberal  arts — artes 
«ardiikB^-^WBa  termed  opifex.  This  distinction  re- 
mains in  our  own  language,  as  arttsi  and  artisan, 
or  artUt  and  craftsman. 

Among  the  various  arts,  liberal  and  illiberal, 
iiamed  dv  Roman  authors,  we  meet  with  an 
fnedtcOf  rneiorica,  grammaticaj  mtutcOf  mechanicOf 
^nathematica,  gymnasticaf  irttperataria,  manuariay 


In  the  Middle  Ages,  seven  liberal  arts  were 
studied,  divided  into  the  Triviumy  which  com* 
prised  grammar,  logic  and  rhetoric,  and  the  Quad' 
rivium,  which  comprised  music,  arithmetic,  geo- 
metry, and  astronomy.  The  university  deg^  of 
moffister  artium  implied  a  command  of  these 
liberal  arts.  They  are  constantly  referred  to  in 
early  writers,  e.  g.,  Dialopas  in  de/eHsionem  uptem 
Artntm  liberalium,  by  Th.  Gresmond,  1497. 

The  term  "  art  ^  was  widely  used  in  the  clasncal 
sense  by  early  writers;  thus  the  Ars  Magna  of 
Jerome  Cardan,  published  in  1545,  is  a  treatise 
on  algebra.  Erasmus  published  in  1520  a  trans- 
lation of  Galen's  Exhalrtatio  ad  bonas  Artes  pr»» 
serUm  Medidnam,  So  also  we  meet  with  Sywtaxis 
ArUs  MtrabUis,  1681,  De  Arte  OocuUa,  1612,  0/ 
Certayne  Sinistral  and  DiveUsh  Artes,  1561. 

Many  of  the  arts  above  named  would  at  the 
present  day  be  rather  termed  sciences.  The  dis- 
tinction between  art  and  science  is  well  expressed 
by  Dr.  Whewell  in  hia  History  of  the  Inductive 
Sciences:'-^ 

''The  object  of  art  is  work,  the  solution  of  some  pro- 
blem, the  production  of  some  visible  rssult.  The  otgeet 
of  science  is  knowledge.  Hence  in  art,  though  know- 
ledge is  useful,  it  is  useful  as  a  means  to  an  end.  But  in 
science  it  is  it»elf  the  end." 

Archbishop  Whately,  in  the  introduction  to  his 
Elements  of  LogiCf  says  :— 

**  It  is  to  be  remembered,  that  as  a  science  is  con- 
versant about  speculative  knowledge  only,  and  art  is  the 
application  of  knowledge  to  oractioe,  hence  logic  (as  well 
as  any  other  system  of  knowledge)  becomes,  when  applied 
to  practice,  an  art ;  while  confined  to  the  theory  of  reason- 
ing, it  is  strictly  a  science." 

The  terms  "  fine  arts,"  "  polite  arts "  appear 
to  have  come  into  vogue  about  the  middle  of  the 
last  century.  In  the  opening  address  of  Sir  Joshua 
Reynolds  to  the  Royal  Academy  on  January  2, 
1760,  he  says:  ''An  academy  in  which  the 
polite  arts  may  be  regularly  cultivated  is  at  last 
opened  among  us  by  royal  munificence." 

From  this  date  onwards  numerous  works  on  the 
fine  arts  appeared  j  thus — 1»  1782  Valentine  Green 
publisJied  — 

*' A  Review  of  the  Polite  Arts  in  France  at  the  Time  of 
their  Establishment  under  Louis  XIV.  compared  with 
their  present  State  in  England.'" 

Thomas  Robertson*s  "Inquiry  into  the  Fine  Arts.*' 
1785. 

Sealey*s  •*  Concise  Analysis  of  the  Belles  I^ettrcs,  the 
Fine  Arts,  and  the  Sciences."    1788. 

Bromley's  well-known  "History  of  the  Fine  Arts^ 
Painting, 'Sculpture,  and  Architecture."    1793. 

Ab  compared  with  these,  let  us  take  two  works 
issued  respectively  in  1765  and  1767 : — 

Harris,  J  as.  (Author  of  Bertnes),  «*  Tliree  Treatises. 
1.  Art;  2.  Music,  Painting,  Poetry ;  3.  Happiness." 

Duff,  Rev.  W.,  '*  An  Essay  on  Original  Genius  and 
its  various  Modes  of  Exertion  in  Philosophy  and  the 
Fine  Arts,  particularly  In  Poetry." 


90 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


C^**' S- VII.  Fkb.  4.  •TK 


'  Here,  the  limitation  of  the  tenns  ''  art "  and 
''fine  art"  is  not  so  definite  as  in  the  other 
works  issued  after  1769. 

Hazlitt,  in  the  article  '*  Arts/'  contributed  by 
him  to  the  Encydopcedia  BritantUca  early  in  the 
present  centurji  says :  — 

**  The  term  fne  artg  may  be  viewed  as  embracing  all 
those  arts  in  -which  the  powers  of  imitation  or  invention 
are  exerted,  chiefly  with  a  view  to  the  production  of 
pleasare  by  the  immediate  impression  which  they  make 
on  the  mind.  Bnt  the  phrase  has  of  late,  we  think,  been 
restricted  to  a  narrower  and  more  technical  signification, 
namely  to  painting,  sculpture,  engraving  and  architec- 
ture, which  appeal  to  the  eye  as  the  medium  of  pleasure, 
and  by  way  of  eminence  to  the  first  two  of  these  arts." 

May  it  not  be  assumed  that  the  restriction 
-which  Hazlitt  notices  was  due  to  the  influence  of 
the  Royal  Academy  of  Arts  P  In  the  present  day 
the  prevalence  of  Art  Exhibitions,  Art  Schools, 
Art  Museums,  et  hoe  genus  omne,  has  familiarised 
the  public  ear  with  the  word  used  in  this  restricted 
sense,  and  has  at  the  same  time  led  the  imin- 
structed  and  the  unreflecting  to  suppose  that  art  is 
something  apart  not  only  from  the  artisan  or  the 
artificer,  out  also  from  the  master  of  arts  *,.  and 
that  it  should  be  confined  solely  to  the  artist  and 
his  works.  A.  C.  K. 


LETTER  OF  JAMES  EARL  OF  GLENCAIRN  TO 
JAMES  VI^  MARCH  4,  1607. 

The  original  letter  is  amongst  the  Taluable 
papers  belonging  to  the  Faculty  of  Advocates, 
which  had  been  purchased  from  the  representa- 
tives of  Sir  James  Balfour,  the  Lord  Lyon,  to- 
wards the  end  of  the  century  before  last.  It  refers 
to  the  existing  feud  between  the  noble  families  of 
Cunningham  and  Montgomery,  which,  like  the 
Corsican  *' Vendetta,"  had  subsisted  for  a  long 
period. 

These  two  families,  after  the  fashion  of  the 
Capulets  and  Montagues,  being  bitter  enemies, 
took  occasion  to  injure  each  other  when  a  fitting 
occasion  occurred.  At  last  matters  came  to  a 
crisis  by  the  murder  committed  by  the  Ciining- 
hames  of  Robertland,  Corsefaill,  and  others  of  the 
clan,  upon  Hugh  fourth  Earl  of  Eglinton,  of  the 
name  of  Montgomery  (for  the  later  earls  are  Se- 
tons).  His  lordship  was  riding  from  his  own 
house  upon  April  15,  1586,  when  he  was  basely 
assassinated  by  these  unscrupulous  dependents  of 
the  house  of  Glencairn. 

*  **  It  is  for  tbe  first  time,  I  believe,  in  the  annals  of 
yonr  onirersity  that  the  fine  arts  will  have  received  that 
consideration  which  I  believe  to  be  their  due— a  con- 
sideration which  may,  I  hope,  in  time  remove  the  re- 
proach that  our  leading  universities  confer  degrees  as 
masters  of  arts  upon  students  from  whose  course  of 
study  almost  all  reference  to  the  fine  arts  has  been,  as  it 
were,  sedulously  expunged.'* — Sir  Digby  Wyatt's  X«©- 
teres  on  Fine  Art,  delivered  at  Cambridge, 


Years  elapsed,  occasioned  hj  the  troublous 
times  which  followed  the  accession  of  James  VI. 
to  the  Scotish  diadem.  So  tha^  it  was  not  until 
James  had  been  quietly  placed  on  the  English 
throne  that  he  ventured  to  interfere  between  the 
two  powerful  families.  Whatever  may  have  been 
the  monarch's  demerits,  and  they  were  not  a  few, 
he  never  omitted  any  opportunitv  which  presented 
itself  of  nutigating  the  mischiefs  his  ori^nal  un- 
certain tenure  of  power  had  produced.  His  ma- 
jesty, through  his  privy  council,  and  especially 
with  the  aid  of  his  great  favourite  the  Earl  of 
Dunbar,  contrived  to  patch  up  matters  between 
the  rival  noblemen ;  and  it  is  to  this  settlement 
that  the  present  letter —  remarkable  for  the  odd- 
ness  of  the  spelling,  as  well  as  its  singular  phrase- 
ology— ^refers.  • 

The  earldom  of  Qlencairn  was  originally  a 
creation  of  James  III.— a  ruler  who  has  met  with 
little  justice  from  the  chroniclers  of  his  time.  He 
was  an  accomplished  man,  fond  of  architecture, 
delighting  in.  music,  and  a  patron  of  the  fine  art«b 
Hence  his  semi-barbarous  nobles  first  despised 
and  then  rebelled  against  him.  He  was,  after  his 
defeat  at  what  is  called  the  Battie  of  Sauchie 
Bum,  assassinated  in  the  village  of  Sauchie  by 
some  unknown  person.  The  house  was  in  ex- 
istence some  years  since.  The  honours  conferred 
by  him  on  bis  adherents  were  rescinded.  Amongst 
these  was  the  earldom  of  Qlencairn,  which  wa? 
subseouentiy  revived  in  the  person  of  Cuthbert 
Lord  Kilmaurs,  his  grandson. 

*'Pleisse  towr  moist  Sacbeid  Maikstie,  According 
to  yowr  Maiesteis  command,  I  submittitt  the  partecular 
bluidis  and  oontrawerseis  standing  betwix  the  name  of 
Mongowmerej,  me,  and  mv  name*  to  seike  freindis  as 
was  schosin  befoir  jowr  Maiesteis  consaill  and  the  day 
appoyntiit  be  the  consaill,  to  conwece  befoir  thame  t'o 
exceptt  the  samen,  qhiike  day  we  haif  all  keipitt,  and 
the  Jngis  exceptitt,  and  ower  clames  on  ather  syid  was 
gifin  in:   then  restitt  the  commoneris  to  agre  on  the 
owerisman,  quhilke  thay  wald  nocht  do,  and  swa  it  is 
cummen  in  yowr  Maiesteis  handis,  quhairof  1  am  maist 
glayd,  ewer  expecting  yowr  Maiesteis  moist  gratiowse 
fawonr  to  me  and  myne,  quha  hes  and  sail  ewer  carie 
maist  serwyabill  hartis  a.^  we  salbe  commanditt.     Gif 
thair  sail  cumme  any  report  is  of  me  to  yowr  Maiestie,  I 
am  sertane,  according  to  yowr  Maiesteis  wuntitt  an<l 
moist  gratiowse  cnstowme,*  I  wilbe  callitt  to  my  awin 
acconL     I  dowt  nocht  bott  yowr  moist  Sacreid  Maiestie 
will  swa  settill  tbatt  turne,  as  heirefter  thay  be  na 
cawisse  of  ^ugo  on  ather  syd,  and  that  ewerilke  ane  of 
ws  mayjoisse  ower  awin  kyndlie  rowmes  and  poseri- 
siownis  in  all  tymes  cummeing.    This  erectiowne  of  the 
Abcssej  of  Kilwyneing,  qnhilke  my  lord  of  Eglingtowne 
menis  to  suite  att  vowr  Maiestie,  will  nocht  faill  to  in- 
tertenej  the  seid  of  trubill  amaneis  ws,  for  we  wilbe  all 
entereet  thairby,  and  I  protest  befoir  yowr  Maiestie,  I 
haid  rather  loisse  my  Ij'f  or  ony  occatiowne  war  gifin  be 
me  to  breke  that  wnitej  quhilke  yowr  Maiestej  will  com- 
mand.   I  man  crawe  yowr  Maiesteis  humbill  pardowne 
for  this  my  fascheowse  lettir  and  ewiU  wr^'tt   My  moi:«t 
humbill  serwice  presentitt  to  yowr  moist  Sacreid  Maiestie. 

•  See  Balfour's  Annale,  ii.  16. 


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LoKDPmNKCTT. — IntbeMfifwof  Mr.  O'Elanar 
gaii'6  JAms  of  the  Lard  CkmcdUirB  of  Ireland  ia 
the  new  number  of  the  Qumi  ferfy  BetfieWf  the 
leriewer  says  in  his  notice  of  Lord  Plunkett— * 


"Tho  most  celebrated  of  his  images  is  that  of  Time 
with  the  hoar-glass  and  the  scythe,  which  he  employed 
t9  UliMtrate  the  elect  of  tbe  SUtate  of  LimKatioDS.'' 

Loid  Brouj^ham  g^res  the  passage  in  question 

in  the  following  words : — 

**  Time  with  his  scrthe  In  hb  hand  is  erer  mowing 
down  the  eridenoes  of  titles ;  wherefore  the  wisdom  of  the 
law  pkmta  in'  his  other  hand  an  hour-glasa,  h^  whieh 
he  metes  cat  the  periods  of  possession  that  ahaU  SBMly 
thm  plAoe  of  the  ■wnimeBta  his  scythe  has  destroyed.*' 

Lord  Brougham  lefersto  this  passage  more  than 

ooee,  and  always  wiUi  unbounded  commendatum. 

It  is  no  doubt  Tery  fine  and  very  striking,  but  it  is 

to  be  regvsitted  tmit  it  i»  pure  nonsense  ;  and  it  is 

beyond  measure  strange  that  its  absurdity  should 

not  have  been  seen  hj  its  learned  utterer,  Lord 

Plunkctt,  or  by  either  of  its  admiring  critics, 

Lord  Brougham  or  the  Quarierly  reyiewer.    I  find 

the  matter  noticed  in  the  following  terms  in  a 

pamphlet  printed  for  priyate  circulation : — 

«  The  hoar^glaas  laeteing  oat  the  periods  of  possession 
is  not  for  the  psrpose  of  snppliring  the  place  of  the  mnni- 
ments  which  the  scythe  has  destroyed,  bat  just  the  con- 
tzaiy — that  is,  to  protect  the  man  in  possession  agaijost 
maniments  which  the  scythe  has  fiuled  to  destroy." 

It  appears  to  me  that  it  is  time  that  this 
lauded  illustration  should  be  rated  at  its  true 
Talue.  While  the  question  is  before  me^  I  may 
notice  that  there  is  a  passage  at  p.  182  which  will 
giye  some  surprise  to  English  lawyers.  The  re- 
yiewer, speaking  of  Lozd  Thurlow  and  Lord 
Clare,  says : — 

**  Neither  the  English  nor  the  Irish  chancellor  pos- 
sessed the  veqaired  amoant  of  learning  or  practical  know- 
ledge. Most  of  Thurlow's  decrees  were  drawn  ap  by 
Har^ave." 

Lord  £ldon,  speaking  of  Lord  Thurlow  as  a 
lawyer,  always  spoke  of  him  as  "  that  prodigious 


» 


man. 


AxnaxTiTT  OP  Ladies'  Chionons. — It  may  be 
interesting  to  some  of  your  lady  readers  to  know 
that  there  was  a  Greek  author  who  liyed  in  the 
second  century  of  the  Christian  era,  and  that  he 
wrote  a  yery  learned  book  upon  Dreamsy  in  which 
he  incidentally  refers  to  the  belles  of  his  day  as 
wearing  e/UffnonSf  and  adopting  the  same  expiBdi- 
ents  (that  are  said  to  be)  employed  in  this  day  for 
thepurpose  of  increasing  their  solidity  and  beauty. 

Tnese  are  the  words  ascribed  to  Artemidorus : 

**  If  a  woman  dreams  'she  has  long  and  lovely  hair,  it 
is  a  dream  significant  of  good  lack,  etenim  puhkriimdinU 
aratia  qiumdoque  etiam  aUeniM  capilliM  muUerea  utuntur : 
because  women,  for  the  sake  of  adding  to  their  attractions, 
make  nse  of  other  women's  hair." 

I  haye  not  a  copy  of  Artemidorus,  nor  could  I 
procure  one  in  this  bookless  French  yille^  and  so 


cannot  yerify  the  accuracy  of  the  quotation ;  but 

I  give  it  as  I  find  it  in  a  modem  German  author, 

Dr.  Pfaffe,  who,  at  the  same  time,  notifies  his 

abhorreoce  <^  ehi^mme  in  these  terms: — 

''And  so,  it  ^aamB,  this  abominable  praetloe  was  in 
fashion  amongst  the  ancients !  Diese  abschenliche  Sitta 
scheint  also  sdion  in  Alterthome  gewesen  za  sein ! " 

The  chignon  of  the  second  century,  it  must  be 
admitted,  was  not  so  monstrous  as  the  pyramidical 
head-dresses  of  the  Roman  matrons'of  the  first  cen- 
tury, of  whom  it  is  said  by  Juyenal  (Sat,  yi.  500- 
d02),  that  a  lady  hss  her  head  piled  up  into  so 
many  folds  and  stories  in  height,  that  when  she 
faces  you  she  looks  as  tall  and  stately  as  a  tragedy- 
queen,  and  when  she  turns  her  back  she  seems  to 
be  so  diminutiye  as  to  be  somebody  else  I 

''Tot  premit  ordinibos,  tot  adbac  compagibus  altam 
^dificat  capat :  Andromachen  Ik  fronte  yidebis, 
Post  minor  est :  ciedaa  aliam." 

W.  B.  Mac  Cabb. 

Monoontoar-de-Bretagne^  Cotes  da  Nord,  France. 

CoTWCiDHfCB  OF  Thoitght. — Dr.  Johnson  has 
said  that  ^*  no  one  does  anything  for  the  Uut  time 
(knowingly)  but  with  regret" 

I  met  recently  with  this  passage  in  Bishop 
Hall*8]ifb/y  OhservatwnSf  xxyii. : 

"  Nothing  ii  more  absurd  than  that  Epicurean  resolu- 
tion, '  Let  us  eat  and  drink,  to-morrow  we  die  ;"  as  if  we 
were  made  only  for  the  paunch,  and  lived  that  we  might 
live ;  yet  has  there  never  any  natural  man  found  9av<mr 
m  that  Meat  which  he  h^w  tkomLd  be  his  but ;  whereas 
thev  should  say :  Let  us  fast  and  pray,  for  to-morrow  we 
shsll  diV*  &c- 

J.  A.  G. 

Caiisbrooke. 

The  Steaioht  Gate  aud  Nabeow  Wat. — 
Matthew  vii.  14.  "  Straight  is  the  gate,  and  narrow  is 
the  way,  which  leadeth  unto  life,  and  few  there  be  that 
find  it.»^ 

Compare  with  these  words  of  our  Blessed  Lord 
some  singularly  like,  uttered  by  Kebes,  upwards 
of  four  hundred  years  before :  — 

OifKOW  fcal  Bipav  riya  fwcpdy,  Kcd  65oy  rtya  vph  r^s 
rat;   ,     .     .     A&n?  rottniv  iarlif  rj  6Z6sf  ll^fi,  ii  &yov(ra 

«  Do  you  not  see  a  small  gate,  and  a  war  up  to  it  but 
little  frequented,  and  on  which  few  travellers  appear? 
....  This,  said  he,  is  the  way  which  leadeth  to  true 
discipline." 

.Keb^  was  a  Theban  philosopher,  and  a  disciple 
of  Socrates,  whom  he  attended  in  his  last  mo- 
ments. He  wrote  three  treatises,  less  known  than 
they  deserve  to  be.  Of  these  the  most  celebrated 
is  the  ni'NAH,  "containing  a  beautiful  and  affect- 
ing picture  of  human  life."  He  flourished  about 
B.C.  410.  Edmukd  Tew,  M.A. 

Ktsttke  SxTPEBSTiTioirB. — ^I  gather  the  follow- 
ing from  a  Hitimy  of  Kmtyrej  by  Peter  M'lntoah 
(Campbeltown,  1870) :  — 


94 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


i4«J»  S.  VII.  Feb.  4, 71. 


Old  John  M'Taggart  was  a  trader  between 
Kintjre  and  Ireland.  Wishing  to  get  a  fair  wind 
to  waft  his  bark  across'  to  the  emerald  isle,  he 
applied  to  an  old  woman  who  was  said  to  be  able 
to  give  this.  He  received  from  her  two  strings, 
on  each  being  three  knots.  He  undid  the  first 
knot,  and  there  blew  a  fine  breeze.  On  opening 
the  second,  the  breeze  became  a  gale.  On  nearing 
the  Irish  shore  he  loosed  the  third,  and  such  a 
hurricane  arose  that  some  of  the  houses  on  shore 
were  destroyed.  On  coming  back  to  Kintyre,  he 
was  careful  to  unloose  oniy  two  knots  on  the 
remaining  string. 

*'  On  the  inland  of  Gigha  is  a  well  with  some  stones  in 
it ;  and  it  is  said  that  if  the  stones  be  taken  out  of  it  a 
great  storm  will  arise." 

D.  Macphail. 

Thbbab  Buttons. — The  making  of  thread  but- 
tons, which  was  once  a  flourishing  trade  in  Dorset- 
shire, has  now  almost  ceased  to  be.  It  occurs  to 
me  tnat  before  it  finally  departs  it  may  be  as  well 
to  record  its  nomenclature.  The  more  common 
sorts  of  buttons  were  jamSf  shirU,  gpranyle^,  and 
mites.  In  Mr.  Bames*s  Glosiatyf  j  ams  (the  largest 
size)  are  noticed,  but  not  the  pretty  little  sprangles 
and  mites,  whidi  are  far  too  delicate  a  manufac- 
ture to  be  superseded  without  regret 

0.  W.  BnTGHAX. 

CvBiotrs  Epitaph. — In  the  last  century  opera- 
tive surgery  does  not  appear  to  have  been  confined 
to  the  regular  surgeons ;  for  in  the  beautiful  little 
church  of  Stoke  Holy  Gross,  near  Norwich,  is  a 
mural  monument  to  a  clergyman  who  died  in 
1719,  and  is  represented  j  in  an  inscription  (sur- 
jounded  by  designs  of  yarious  surgical  instru- 
ments) as  having  been  distinguished  for  his  abilities 
in  theology,  physic,  suigery,  and  lithotomy :  — 

^  Hemori»  Sacmm  ThomsB  Havers,  derid*  qui  Theo- 
loi^a,  Medidna,  Chirur^  et  Lythotomia,  doctus  fait  et 
expertos :  Erga  Denm  Pius,  Erga  Homines  Justus :  pau- 
-peribus  et  sefi^tis  semper  amicus.  Obiit  27<»  die  Jnnii, 
A«  Domini  1719,  seUtis  su»  60.'' 

I  am  tempted  to  give  you  another  very  short, 
but  very  beautiful,  epitaph  from  the  same 
church :  — 

**  In  the  womb  of  this  tomb  twins  in  expectation  lay, 
To  be  bom  in  the  mom  of  the  Besnrrection  Day." 

Charles  Williams,  F.R.C.P. 


Norwich. 


Thb  supposed  Miltokic  Epitaph.  —  The 
phrase  ^*  calcined  into  dust "  occurring  in  the 
epitaph  in  question  was  deemed  barbarous  by  its 
critics,  who  even  made  the  phrase  an  argument 
for  its  spuriousness.  The  so-called  barbarous  ex- 
pression we  find,  however,  is  used  at  least  once 
by  Locke  (Esstnf  an  the  Human  UndenUmdmy, 
book  II.  chap.  X.  $  5) :  ^  Since  we  oftentimes  find 


[he  is  speaking  of  memoxy]  the  flames  of  a  fever 
m  a  few  days  caJcine  all  uiese  images  to  dust  and 
confusion.''  I  am  not  aware  this  passage  has  been 
noticed  before.  J.  B. 

Glasgow. 

» 

Photoqbapht  :  the  War  and  "  The  Times." 
'*  N.  &  Q.''  was,  we  believe,  the  first  journal 
which  showed  its  recognition  of  the  great  value 
of  photography  and  the  important  results,  literary, 
artistic,  ana  social,  which  might  be  anticipated 
from  it  by  opening  its  columns  to  photographers 
until  the  science  had  sufficiently  advanced  to  have 
a  journal  of  its  own.  The  following  interesting 
account  of  the  manner  in  which  the  science  has 
lately  been  adopted  to  relieve  some  of  the  social 
exigencies  resulting  from  the  dreadful  war  may, 
therefore,  very  properly  be  transferred  to  its 
columns  from  The  Times  of  January  30 : — 

**  How  *  The  Timbs'  was  sent  to  Pabis. — Attempts 
to  estaUish  a  ready  oommanication  between  the  be- 
leagoered  inhabitants  of  Paris  and  their  relatives  and 
friends  beyond  the  German  lines  have  given  rise  to  many 
contrivances  which  are  not  unlikely  to  make  a  new 
era  in  the  history  l)oth  of  aeronautics  and  photop^raphy. 
Among  them  may  be  mentioned  the  ingenious  device  by 
which  the  matter  of  two  whole  pages  of  The  TimeM  has 
been  transmitted  from  London  to  Paris.  Tliis  has  been 
accomplished  by  photography.  Those  pages  of  the  paper 
which  contained  communications  to  relatives  in  Paris 
were  photographed  with  great  care  by  the  London  Ste- 
reoscopic and  Photographic  Company  on  pieces  of  thin 
and  almost  transparent  paper,  about  an  inch  and  a  half 
in  length  bjan  inch  in  width.  On  these  impressions 
there  could  be  seen  by  the  naked  eye  only  two  legible 
words, '  The  Timet/  and  six  narrow 'brown'bands  repre- 
senting the  six  columns  oi  printed  matter  forming  a  page 
of  the  newspaper.  Under  the  microscope,  however,  the 
brown  spaces  braome  legible,  and  every  line  of  the  news- 
paper was  fonnd  to  have  been  distinctly  copied  and  with 
the  greatest  clearness.  The  photographs  were  sent  to 
Bordeaux  for  transmission  thenoe  by  carrier  pigeon  to 
Paris.  When  received  there  they  were  magnified,  by  the 
aid  of  the  magic  lantern,  to  a  large  size  and  thrown  upon 
a  screen.  A  staff  of  clerks  immediately  transcribed  the 
messages,  and  sent  them  off  to  the  places  indicated  by 
the  advertisers.  The  success  of  this  experiment  |^yes 
rise  to  the  hope  that  the  new  art  of  compresung  printed 
matter  into  a  small  compass  will  not  stop  here.    If  a 

{>age  of  The  THmes  can  be  compressed  into  a  space  little 
arger  than  that  occupied  by  a  postage  stamp,  toe  naatter 
of  an  octavo  volume  might  be  made  to  cover  not  more 
than  two  of  its  own  pagea^'  and  a  library  could  be  re- 
duced to  the  dimensions  of  the  smallest  prayer-book. 
What  a  relief  it  would  be  to  the  learned  persons  who  fre- 
quent the  librarv  of  the  British  Museum,  if,  instead  of 
having  to  make  fatigning  journeys  from  letter  A  to  letter 
B  of  the  ponderous  catalogue  of  books,  they  had  its  many 
hundred  volumes  reduced  to  a  space  a  yard  square,  over 
which  a  microscope  could  be  hurriedly  passed.  Such 
suggestions  are  now  occupying  the  thoughts  of  photo- 
graphers." 


4«»  S.  VIL  Feb.  4. 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


95 


AtTTHOBS  WAiTTBD. — Who  ifl  the  author  of — 

**  Bertraody  or  Memoirs  ef  a  Northumbrian  Nobleman, 
ia  the  Seventeenth  Century.  Written  by  Himself.**  In 
3  vols.  **  London,  printed  at  the  Minerva  Press  for  Lane, 
Newman,  &  Co.,  LeadenhaU  Street,  1808.'* 

J.  Febbt. 
Waltham  Abbey. 

^  Hary  Magdalen's  Tears  wip't  off  ...  .  London : 
Printed  for  Kobert  Pawlett,  at  the  Bible  in  Chancery 
Lane,  near  Fleet  Street,  1676." 

The  work  advocates  strongly  private  confession 
and  sacerdotal  absolution.  J.  T.  F. 

N.  Kebey,  Brigg. 

Mbbt^val  Babxs. — In  those  instances  where 
the  finials  still  remain  on  the  gables  of  the  roof,  I 
have  observed  that,  instead  of  being  as  is  usual, 
upright,  they  are  of  a  bent  form.  1  have  never 
observed  them  of  the  same  form  in  any  other 
mediseyal  buildinff ;  and  this  form  being,  so  far  as 
I  am  aware,  conhned  to  bams — and  being  more- 
over, as  I  thinly  singularly  ungraceful — I  have 
been  led  to  conjecture  that  it  must  have  had 
some  symbolical  meaning.  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  offer  any  explanation  of  itP  A 
representation  of  a  finial  such  as  I  refer  to  will 
be  found  in  the  Oxford  Glo89ary,  6th  ed.  plate  66. 
At  Mid  Littleton,  in  Worcestershire,  there  is  a 
barn  on  which  there  are  four  such  finials,  idl  bent, 
if  I  recollect  rightly,  towards  the  south. 

RlCHABB. 

Legbnd  ok  Bblls. — Can  any  lover  of  bells  tell 
me  where  the  following  legend  is  P  The  initial 
cross  and  intervening  stops  are  very  elegant,  and 
the  letters  highly  ornamented.  I  possess  a  rub- 
bing of  i^  but  have  no  memorandum  where  or 
when  it  was  taken.  I  am  informed  that  the  same 
cross  and  stops  are  on  bells  at  St  Mary's  Bever- 
ey,  and  at  Stanground,  Hunts.  TIus  is  the 
legend  m  extenso :  — 

9  €uitai  :  no5ftrarum  :  fBLid^Etl  :  it  :  Bu^ : 

^nimanim. 

H.  T.  Ellacohbe. 

Cljst  St  Georige,  Devon. 

Thb  Bibd  Cage  Walk.— -When  I  first  remem- 
ber the  Bird  Cage  Walk  in  St  James's  Pork^ 

*•  In  my  hot  yonth,  when  George  the  Third  was  king  ** — 

it  was  the  drill-ground  of  the  young  soldiers 
belonging  to  the  foot  Guards ;  and  the  length  of 
the  stride  or  step  which  they  were  taught  was 
marked  by  rows  of  narrow  white  stones  let  into 
the  gravel.  Is  this  a  common  practice,  and  how 
long  is  it  since  they  were  taken  up  P  How  this 
horrid  war  recalls  to  mind  the  distressing  scenes 
I  have  witnessed  in  the  Bird  Cage  Walk,  when 
detachments  of  the  Guards  were  marched  off  to 
foreign  serrice  I  W.  J.  T. 


Bbitish  Sctthed  Chabiots:  Mbs.  Mabk- 
HAU. — I  haye  just  read  with  great  interest  Mr. 
Trolloi>e's  graphic  summary  of  Usesar's  Commen- 
taries in  the  admirable  series  ot  Ancient  Classics 
for  English  Headers,  edited  by  Mr.  Collins^  It 
contains  a  note  at  pp.  79-80  denying  that  the 
Britons  used  scythed  chariots.  This  question  was 
brought  forward  in  « N.  &  Q,"  in  1860  (2»*  8. 
ix.  225),  but  was  never  followed  up,  thoujgh  tho 
Editor  invited  special  attention  to  it  as  an  inter- 
esting subject  wnich  deserved  further  investiga- 
tion. Mr.  TroUope,  I  think,  does  not  state  tho 
case  very  happily  or  fairly,  and  seems  to  me  to 
do  scant  justice  to  the  excellent  writer  who  is  so 
well  known  under  her  adopted  name  of  Mrs^ 
Markham.  He  singles  out  Mrs.  Markham  and 
Eugene  Sue  as  peculiar  people  who  have  mainly 
fostered  the  ^pular  delusion  that  the  Britons  used 
scythed  chariots,  whereas  the  matter  was  never 
questioned  (as  the  Editor  of  "  N.  &  Q."  observes) 
until  the  year  1849,  when  the  Marquis  de  Lagoy's 
work  appeared — e.a,  see  the  Pcwiiy  Cyclopadta, 
Lond.  1 836,  #.  v.  "  Chariot" 

As  to  Mrs.  Penrose  ("  Mrs.  Markham  "),  I  ven- 
ture to  say  that  her  History  of  England  (first 
published  in  1823)  is  the  best  history  for  the 
young  that  ever  appeared,  and  is  hi  superior  to 
many  works  of  much  higher  pretension.  It  is 
well  written,  well  informed,  and  marked  by  sound 
judgment  and  good  sense,  and  is  moreover  ex- 
tremely interesting.  I  know  of  no  history  used 
in  any  of  our  public  schools  at  all  comparable  to 
it  It  is  on  a  difierent  plan  from  Miss  Tonge's  ex- 
cellent Landmarks,  but  is  equally  meritorious. 

Q.Q. 

DENABTcrs  OF  Dbtjsub,  Seniob.— I  have  in  my 
cabinet  a  denarius  of  Drusus,  Sen.,  struck  when 
he  had  the  title  of  <'  Princeps  Juventutis.''  The 
obverse  has  a  plain,  unlaureated,  and  yery  youth* 
ful  bust    Legend — 

KBBO  CLAyD  .  CAX8  •  sBysys  eBBX  • 

PBING  .  INyBBT. 

On  the  reverse  are  four  sacred  implements — 
viz.  the  lituus.  tripod,  patera,  and  ladle  lor  liba- 
tions.   Legena — 

SACEBD  .  CO  .  oPTnrouir  coixl  sypBA 

VYU.  .  EX  S  .  C. 

It  is  the  reverse  l^nd  that  I  cannot  under- 
stand. What  would  it  be  in  full,  and  what  is  tho 
meaning  and  application  of  it  P  J.  H.  M. 

CuBiotrs  EKQBAynro. — ^In  a  volume  (De  Arte 
CdbaUstica)  containing  works  of  P.  Riocius,  Leo 
Hebrseus,  Eeuchlin,  and  Picus  Mirandolus,  printed 
at  Basle,  1587,  there  is  a  curious  print,  extending 
oyer  both  the  open  folios,  representing  a  tourna- 
ment in  a  court  enclosed  on  all  sides  by  houses. 
Nine  knights  are  on  each  side,  six  actually  en- 
gaged.   One  has  just  unhorsed  his  adyersary,  and 


96 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»kS.TII.  Fkb.4,T1. 


ifl  throwing  up  his  apeur  into  the  fdr  in  token  of 
triumph.  His  unhorsed  •dversary  is  placed^  ap- 
parently in  derision,  on  a  wooden  ndL  The  fol- 
lowing is  written  abore  the  plate  in  continuous 
lines  over  both  folios :  — 

<*  Exemplnm  ladicno  commimionis  equestris  olim  ab 
eqiie«tri  ordine  et  nobilitate  Oeimuiica  ooncdebrari  et 
•xhiberi  flotitiB  in  quo  qns  subinde  a  nobis  toto  libro 
seoundi  tomi  Paodectanim  triacnphalium  de  coratoribuB 
ad  cird  limina,  de  fanium  incisione,  de  modiperatoriboB 
pugoffi  de  septomm  in  oqnitatione  famosa,  annornmqae 
et  eqni  amiasione,  de  denodioram  deniqoe  ampatatione 
et  dilorieatione  dicuntur,  oenlonim  eeiuibus  manifeatis- 
aime  snbjicinntnr.*' 

What  is  the  connection  between  this  plate  and 
the  work  on  Kabbalism  P      £.  L.  Blenkiksopp. 

Mkaitiuq  of  "Foo." — ^What  is  the  origin  or 
meaning  of  the  word  "  fog"  as  applied  to  the  later 
jTOwth  of  grass  in  fields  for  feeding  purposes  ? 
The  word  is  common,  I  beliere,  in  only  parts  of 
Yorkshire,  where  at  Whitby  I  was  struck  first 
with  it,  in  an  advertisement  of  "so  many  acres  of 
fog  to  be  sold."  S.  H. 

rWedgwood  connects  Fog  and  Feg,  which  he  defines, 
^  Grass  not  eaten  down  in  the  snninier,  that  grows  in 
tnfts.ovcr  the  winter."  Garnet  derives  foa  from  the 
Welch /ir^r;  bat  it  wonid  seem  from  Atkioson^s  Glo9§aiy 
of  the  Cleveland  Dialect ,  that  in  that  district  and  in 
Westmoreland,  while /oa  is  applied  to  the  aftergrowth  in 
meadows  when  the  hay  has  been  cut  oft^feg  simply  means 
a  dried  grass  stem.]  ' 

The  Eoboij)  op  Gbobbn. — ^What  is  the  pre- 
cise title  of  an  anonymous  work  on  this  subject 
published  in  1710;  and  also  of  Gottfr.  WahrlieVs 
narrative  P  I  have  Zeugniw  der  reinen  Wahrheit, 
1723,  by  Jeremias  Heinisch,  and  Unterricht  wie 
man  Gespenster  und  GesjienstergescMchten  pruf&i 
$oU,  9.  /.,  1723  (by  whom  ?),  and  would  be  gkd 
to  learn  if  there  are  other  txiicts  on  the  same  sub- 
ject.  Scott. 

Makx  Cats  and  Fowls.  —  Can  any  of  vour 
readers  refer  me  to  any  theory  which  has  been 
put  forward  to  account  for  the  existence  of  the 
breed  of  tailless  cats  and  fowls,  so  common  in  the 
Isle  of  Man  P  Mobisksts. 

[Five  articles  on  the  Manx  Cats  appeared  in  the  Ist 
Series  of  •*  N.  &,  Q."  vol.  ix.] 

Wipe  of  Geobge  Nbvill,  etc. — Who  was  the 
wife  of  George  Nevill,  Lord  Latimer^  son  of  Ralph 
Nevill,  Earl  of  Westmoreland,  by  Joan,  daughter 
of  John  of  Gaunt  \  also,  her  armorial  bearings  P 

J.  C* 

Phi-Beta-Kappa  Societt  op  Bo8Tok» — Please 
say  why  this  societv  is  so  called.  What  do  the 
three  Groek  initial  letters  mean  P 

Jakes  J.  Lake. 

[Consult  "N.  k  Q."  4»*  S.  iii.  106.] 

The  "Pottebs"  op  the  Nobthebk  Cotnr- 
ties. — ^Hns  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."^  ever 
raised  a  discussion  on  the  above  nomadic  tribes  P 


They  have  all  the  chamcteristics  of  the  gypsy 
tribe ',  but  are  they  gypsies,  or  are  they  not  the 
descendants  of  the  Scotch  and  English  moss 
troopers  P  Some  of  the  real  gypsy  tribes  disown 
the  potters,  but  others  say  they  are  the  same. 
The  following  are  surnames  borne  by  potters  in 
the  North  British  isles:  JoUie,  Younghusband, 
Ibbetson,  Bell  (Wordsworth's  potter  was  a  Bell), 
Storey,  Stanley,  Cooper,  Solomon,  I  cannot  in- 
crease my  list,  whicn  I  know  is  imperfect.  Of 
the  above  names  I  think  that  the  only  gjppsy 
ones  are  Stanley  and  Cooper.  It  is  curious  to  nnd 
the  Jewish  name  Solomon  borne  by  '^  potter&*'  I 
could  say  more  on  the  subject,  out  i  postpone 
further  remarks  and  conjectures,  in  hopes  that  we 
may  have  information  from  some  one  who  has 
studied  the  subject  more  than  I  have  done. 

Jahss  Hefbt  Dixoif . 

^  The  Hsabts  op  Men  which  poitdit,"  etc. 
Who  is  the  author  of  the  lines  inscribed  on  the  cor* 
nice  of  the  domed  gallery  at  the  Royal  Academy, 
Burlington  House,  and  which  run  as  follows :  — 

**  The  hearts  of  men  which  fondly  here  admire 
Fair  seeming  shews  may  lift  themselves  np  higher. 
And  learn  to  love  with  zealous  homble  duty 
The  eternal  fountain  of  that  heavenly  beauty.*' 

E.N.  T. 

QuoTATioirs  wavted. — 

*  Rns  hoc  vocari  debet,  an  domus  longe  ?  '* 

Makbocheib. 

Who  is  the  author  of  some  stanzas  entitled 
"Good  Night"?  Thejr  appeared  in  th%  London 
Literary  Journal  (I  thmk)  before  October,  1820. 
I  give  Uie  commencement  of  the  first :  — 

'*  Good  night  to  thee,  lady,  though  many 
Have  jo^Md  in  the  dance  to-night,"  Ac 

L.  T.  a. 

^  A  glowing  iris  bending  o*er  the  storm, 
A  swan  emerging  from  the  waves  as  bright*"  &c. 

Anow. 

# 

St.  Joseph's  Eve, — 

**  This  Is  the  song  one  might  perceive 
On  a  Wednesday  morn  of  St.  Joseph's  Eve." 

These  lines  occur  in  Longfellow's  translation  of 
The  Blind  Girl  of  Castbl-CeiU^,  from  the  Gascon 
of  Jasmin,  and  bear  reference  to  an  approaching 
wedding  procession.  Can  you  help  me  to  an^ 
meaning  of  them,  or  tradition  connected  with  this 
dayP  I  have  read  that  St.  Joseph*s  Bay  is 
unlucky  for  marriages.  A.  S. 

Thohas  Staitley,  Bishop  oe  Sobor  axd  Man. 
In  the  Lancashire  Chantries^  vol.  i.  p.  69^  note, 
being  vol.  lix.  of  the  Chetham  Society,  this  pre- 
late, who  was  also  Rector  of  Winwick,  Wigan, 
and  North  Meoles,  is  said  to  be  ''a  younger  son  of 
the  second  Lord  Monteagle."    In  an  article  hj 

BiBLIOTHECAS,    ChETHAM   ('*  N.  &  Q.''  4**»  S.   VI, 


4*  a  Vn.  Fro.  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


97 


150)  he  is  said  by  Mr.  T.  Heywood,  who  deseribes 
his  metrical  account  of  the  Stanleys  as  unooatii 
Thjmes,  to  be  the  ''son  of  that  Sir  Edward  Stan- 
ley who,  for  his  raloor  at  Flodden,  was  created 
Lord  Honteagle" — the  first  Lord  Monteagle,  I 
mmpoee.  Anthony  k  Wood  (Athen.  Oxon.^  toI.  ii. 
coL  807)  contents  himself  with  saying  that  he 
was  a  cadet  of  the  family  of  the  Stanleys,  which 
is  true ;  but  I  want  the  whole  truth.  Where 
was  this  prelate  buried,  and  where  else  than  in 
privately  nrinted  books  can  a  copy  of  the  Stanley 
poem  on  the  Earls  of  Derby  be  found  P 

A.  E.  L. 

"Thof©ht8  of  Patbicitts." — ^Who  was  the 
author  of  the  above  work,  of  which  the  full  title 

IS  — 

'*  Thoughts  of  Patricias,  an  Utilitist,  on  the  Interests 
of  Mankind  and  particularly  on  those  of  the  Irinh  Nation ; 
also  a  few  occasional  Tracts.  The  whole  written  late  in 
life  by  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  Dublin  Society.  8vo, 
DnUiB,  1785.** 

On  the  title-page  in  my  copy  is  the  following 
MS.  note :  — 

**  And  in  truth  so  faithfully  printed,  that  y*  author  is 
almoet  ashamed  even  to  bestow  it  to  his  much  admired 
Bolingbroke.  He  suppressed  y*  sale  of  it,  because  of  its 
defects,  but  dispersed  it  to  his  descendants,  in  y*  hope  of 
its  doing  some  good — knowing  that  a  good  intention 
dictated  it.    Dec  7*^,  1795.  B.  6." 

£,  Fs.  Shduust. 
Longh  Fea,  Carrickmaeioss. 

"  The  Tdcbs  Whistle,"  btc.  bt  ^  R.  C."— In 
^  The  Times  Whistle/'  which  I  am  now  editing 
from  the  Canterhury  MS.^  occurs  the  following 


**  Carrier  of  late  would  hare  made  his  career 
fThinking  perluipa  to  be  eeteemM  dear 
Of  th'  antichrist  ian  prelate)  to  the  dtty 
Of  seven-faill'd  Rome :  '  O,  and,'  say  some,  *  *twas  pitty 
That  his  (how  e*re  they  grant  it  lewd)  intent 
Met  not  a  look't  for  prosperous  event. 
For  he,  because  his  learning  was  not  small. 
Might  in  short  time, have  l^en  a  Cardinal].' 
What  Ilia  saccesse  h*ad  prov'd  I  dare  not  say. 
For  be  was  cut  of  from  his  wished  prey : 
High  Jove,  incensM  that  thus  he  should  backslide. 
Stroke  him,  and  in  a  neighbour  land  he  died. 
Some  think  he  was  not  Apostolical!, 
Bat  alwaics  in  his  heart  papistical!,'*  Ac. 

My  queries  are :  — 

1.  Who  answers  this  description  of  <' "Carrier  *'P 

2.  Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  suggest  who 
«  K.  C,  Gent."  was  ? 

The  date  of  the  satires  ma^  he  placed  a  little 
earlier  than  1616 ;  the  poems  in  this  latter  year. 
Farersham.  '  J.  M.  CowPEB. 

MbHTAX  EatTALITT  OF   THB  SeXBB. — ^It  WOttld 

he  interesting,  as  touching  this  much-dehated 
question,  to  learn  whether  that  strange  gift  of 
natural  calculation  (possessed  among  others  by 
the  late  Archbishop  Whately  in  his  boyhood) 
has  erex  been  bestowed  on  girls.     I  have  put 


this  query  before  without  receiving  any  replj. 
Surely  among  the  readers  of  ''  N.  &  Q."  there 
should  be  some  able  to  give  one. 

NOELL  BaBBCUFFB. 

Thovsok  a  Dbttid. — ^Why  does  Collins,  in  his 
ele^  on  Thomson,  call  him  a  Druid  ?  I  am  not 
askmg  for  a  learned  dissertation  on  the  term.  I 
know  the  meaning  of  Druid.  But  how  was  the 
'*  poet  of  the  seasons  "  one  P 

Stephkk  Jacksok. 

The  Cakal  of  Xerxes. — ^In  Coz*s  Mythology 

of  the  Aryan  Nations  Q.  92)  occurs  the  following 

note :  — 

**  It  is  now  asserted  that '  Offa*s  dyke  *  is  a  natural  work, 
and  Offa  himself  is  thus  carried  suspiciously  near  the 
cloud  land  of  mythology.  The  supposed  canal  of  Xerxes, 
at  the  base  of  lit.  Athos,  has  shared  the  same  fate  ;  and 
the  suspicion  of  Juvenal  (x.  74).  that  the  stoiy  was  a 
myth,  has  thus  been  verified.  '  Offa's  dvke*  and  the  canal 
of  Xerxes  are,  in  short,  no  more  artificial  tlian  Fingal's 
Cave  and  the  Giant's  Causeway." 

As  regards  the  canal  of  Xerxes,  this  seems  a 
hold  assertion,  and  especially  in  spite  of  the 
authority  of  Thucydides  (bk.  iv.  109)  and  of 
Herodotus  (bk.vii.),  whose  testimony  alone  would, 
I  should  think,  be  quite  strong  enough  to  prove 
that  it  had  existed.  Col.  Leake,  in  his  Travels  in 
Greece  (yoL  iii.  ch.  xxiy.)f  gives  particulars  of  a 
careful  survey  of  it,  and  likewise  a  reason  why  it 
should  be  made.  The  suspicion  of  Juvenal,  con- 
sidering his  well-known  tendency  to  exaggeration 
and  his  contempt  for  the  Greeklings  ana  "  pars 
Niliaci  plebis^*'  &c.,  cannot  be  taken  into  account. 
What  is  Mr.  Cox's  authority  for  the  assertion^ 
and  what  the  verification  of  Juvenal's  suspicion P 

T.E.O. 

GOYEBKKENT  StAKF    Oy   PiCTUBE   OaITVAS. — 

Can  any  one  inform  us  when  the  government 
stamp  on  |ncture  canvas  was  first  imposed  and 
when  taken  off  P  H.  G.  &  Co. 


A  RECTORSHIP  OF  EIGHTY-ONE  TEARS. 
(4*  S.  vii.  66.) 

A  correspondent,  who  dates  from  Turvey,  says 
that  the  parish  register  of  Knossington  urange 
**  records  "  Aichard  Samson  as  rector  of  the  parish 
from  1658  to  1639.  Although  I  have  no  acquaint- 
ance with  that  register,  I  can  venture  to  assert 
that  it  '' records"  no  such  fact  This  corre- 
spondent has  been  misled  by  an  absurd  fallacy, 
excusable  in  one  who  is  evidently  not  an  expert 
in  parish  registers.  The  facts  are  these :  Parish 
registers  began  generally  by  an  injunction  of 
Thomas  Cromwell  in  1638.  These  registers  were 
small  books  of  paper,  liable  to  decay  and  to  be 
lost,  and  many  of  them  did  thus  suffer.  In  the 
first  year  of  James  I.,  1608,  an  injunction  was 
issued  (see  Gibson's  Codex,  i.  229)  commanding 


■-1 


98 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


tl»k8.Yii.FEB.4,71. 


every  parish  to  be  provided  "witli  a  parchment 
book  for  the  re^eter ;  and  it  was  further  ordered 
that  the  old  registers  from  1^38,  or  as  far  back  as 
they  could  be  found,  should  be  copied  into  this 
new  book,  and  that  the  minister  and  church- 
wardens should  subscribe  their  names  at  the  foot 
of  every  page  or  year.  Hence  it  is  found  that 
nearly  all  the  registers  which  extend  back  beyond 
1603  are  signed  from  the  beginning  by  the  incum- 
bent of  the  latter  date,  and  of  course  continue  to 
be  so  signed  till  the  end  of  his  incumbency. 
Thus,  if  the  registers  of  Knossiogton  Grange  had 
gone  back  to  1638,  as  they  would  have  done  had 
some  not  been  lost,  this  correspondent  would  have 
astonished  us  with  a  rector  woo  had  reigned  one 
hundred  and  one  years,  and  whose  ago  must  then 
have  been  at  least  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  I 
Here  is  another  centenarian  vox  et  vrcsterea  nihil ! 

E.V. 

You  will  doubtless  receive  many  communica- 
tions showing  that  this  supposed  long  incumbency 
arose  from  Richard  Samson  signing  the  new 
registers;  but  would  it  not  be  well,  by  way  of 
clenching  the  matter,  to  ascertain  from  the  dio- 
cesan registers,  if  possible,  who  the  rector  or 
rectors  of  Enossington  Grange  were  between  John 
Westmill  and  Richard  Samson  P  IL  F.  T. 


The  difficulty  of  your  correspondent  11.  is  one 
which  presents  itself  to  all  students  of  old  regis- 
ters at  the  commencement  of  their  researches.  In 
explanation  let  me  quote  a  few  lines  from  the 
Cambridge  Camden  DOciety*s  Churches  of  Cant" 
hridgethire^  p.  15.  The  church  being  described  is 
Cherry  Hinton : — 

*'  The  parish  roister  dates  back  as  far  as  1538,  the 
year  in  ^hich  Cromwell,  then  vicar-general.  Issued 
his  injunction  with  regard  to  them  :  it  is  not,  however, 
to  be  inferred  that  the  existing  volame  is  of  that  date ; 
£6r  in  the  last  of  the  constitutions  of  the  synod  of  the 
province  of  Canterbury,  held  in  1597,  it  was  ordained 
that  the  parish  books,  most  of  which  had  before  that  time 
been  kept  on  paper,  librU  chartaceis,  should  be  tran- 
ficribed  on  parchment,  and  so  kept  for  the  future ;  each 
page  of  the  transcript  beinfi;  signed  by  the  minister  and 
churchwardens,  gardiani  of  the  church." 

In  the  register  at  Cherry  Hinton  some  obser^^er 
had  noted  that  every  page  from  1538  to  1604 
was  signed  by  Mr.  Moigne,  vicar,  who  had  thus 
entered  in  the  book  that  he  had  been  vicar  for 
< sixty-six  years,  and  had  had  the  same  church- 
•  waixlens  for   fifty-nine  years.      But  this  same 
-  Thomas  Moigne  died  before  he  was  seventy  years 
■  old,  and  was  made  Bishop  of  Kilmore  seventeen 
years  after  he  resided  Cherry  Hinton.    In  a  note 
ie  mentioned  an  mstance  of  the  same  thing  at 
Bishopsboume  church,  Kent,  where  the  signa- 
ture of  Richard  Hooker  occurs  as  early  as  1666, 
at  which  time  he  was  about  thirteen  years  of  age. 
In  this  neighbourhood  I  have  met  vrith  many 
,  ^lustrations  of  the  above.     At  Whittlesey  St 


Maiy  the  signature  of  Francis  Gates  occurs  as 
vicar  from  1660  to  1622 ;  and  a  subsequent  vicar 
has  made  note  to  the  efiect  that  he  was  vicar  "  for 
sixty-four  years  or  thereabouts."  But  in  fact  he 
was  presented  in  1690  and  died  in  1622,  and  was 
consequeiitly  vicar  when  the  order  of  convocation 
was  made  for  transcribing  the  old  books.  In 
Elton  the  register  begins  at  the  year  1560,  yet  it 
was  **  made  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1698,"  as 
the  heading  informs  us.  At  Eye  and  at  Peakirk 
the  copyists  append  their  names.  At  Castor  the 
curate  and  churchwardens  testify  to  the  correct- 
ness of  the  transcript.  This  is  done  in  Latin, 
except  once  thus :  ''  It  agreeth  with  the  original], 
as  witnesseth  Edward  Stokes,  Curat,"  &c.  And 
the  following  is  the  heading  of  the  register-book 
at  Marholm : — 

*'The  Reg'  booke  belonging  to  the  pisU  of  Marham 
wherin  is  recorded  the  names  of  all  such  as  have  been 
maried  baptized  and  buried  sence  the  ycare  of  our  lord 
god  one  thou<(aDd  five  hundrcth  threescore  and  five  before 
the  w«^  tyme  is  not  any  names  Segistred  to  be  found 
truly  coppyed  out  in  A»  D^  1599  according  to  the  Queen's 
Ma***"  Ininnction  and  statute." 

Peterborough. 


W.  D.  SWEETIKO. 


The  marvellously  prolonged  incumbency  of 
Richard  Samson,  supposed  to  be  rector  of  Knos- 
sington  in  I^icestershire  from  1668  to  1630,  is 
readily  explained,  but  not  in  the  way  suggested 
by  the  editorial  note.  It  is  amusing  that  this 
hallucination  of  the  last  century  should  be  revived 
just  now,  only  a  few  months  after  the  appearance 
of  an  excellent  essay  on  Parish  liegisterSf  by  llob^ 
Edmond  Chester  Waters,  Esq.,  B.A.».of  the  Inner 
Temple  (reprinted,  in  8vo,  1870,  with  additions 
and  corrections,  from  The  Home  and  Foreign  Re- 
view for  April,  1863).  This  essav  is  in  many 
respects  more  complete  than  the  History  of  PariA 
JRegisters  by  the  late  Mr.  John  S.  Bum,  of  the 
second  edition  of  which  (1862)  it  was  originally 
written  as  a  review. 

The  importance  and  value  of  parish  registers 
seem  to  have  been  never  better  appreciated  by 
the  clergy  than  at  the  close  of  the  sixteentli  cen- 
tury. They  had  then  been  kept  for  about  seventy 
years,  and  the  old  paper  books  were  in  many  places 
decayed  or  wearing  out.  Provision  was  therefore 
made  that  they  should  be  transcribed,  and  on 
parchment  instead  of  paper.  Mr.  Waters  states 
that — 

"On  October  25,  1597,  the  cleigy  of  Canterbury  in 
convocation  made  a  new  ordinance  respecting  registers, 
which  was  formally  approved  by  the  queen  under  the  great 
seal.  It  commences  by  noticing  their  very  great  utility 
(permagnms  «m«),  and  lays  down  minute  regulations  for 
their  preservation,  which  were  aflcrwarda  embodied  in 

the  70th  canon  of  1603 The  canon  directed  that 

every  parish  should  provide  itaelf  with  a  parchment  book, 
and  that  the  entries  from  the  old  paper  books  should  be 
transcribed  therein,  each  poge  being  authenticated  by  the 
signature  of  the  minister  and  churchwardens." 


4«»  a  TlI.  Feb.  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


99 


**In  obedienee  to  the  injanction  (Mr.  Waten  snbse- 

^uentlj  remarks)  every  page  of  the  transcript  is  signed 

bv  tbe  minister  and  churchwardens  of  that  year  in  Which 

the  copy  waa  made.    This  circumstance  gave  rise  to  a 

Jndicrons  notion  respecting  the  longevity  of  the  clergy  of 

the  sixteenth  century,  which  at  one  time  found  strenuous 

defenders  amongst  antiquarian  writers.  (CoIe*s  MSS.  xV. 

3(0.)    Thus  Duncumb,  in  his  Hittonf  of  Herefordahirtt 

iL  S3,  gravely  asserts  that  Robert  Barnes  was  vicar  of 

Bromyard  during  eighty-two  years,  as  his  name  appears 

during  the  whole  of  that  period  in  the  parochial  registers, 

And  that  one  of  his  churchwardens  filled  that  office  from 

1538  to  1600  inclusive.    Another  instance  of  this  sup- 

poeed  longevity  was  a  certain  Mr.  Simpson,  who  was 

imagined  to  have  enjoyed  the  living  of  Key  ham  in  Leioes^ 

tershire  for  ninety-two  years,  and  to  have  had  the  same 

chorch wardens  for  seventv  vears." 

m      m 

In  the  Hi$Uny  of  Leicestershire,  iii.  980,  under 
Eeume  (as  the  name  of  the  chapelry  is  there 
spelt),  will  be  found  a  long  extract  from  a  MS. 
Essay  on  Pariah  Registers,  written  by  the  Rev. 
Oeorge  Ashby,  B.D.,  President  of  St.  John's  Col- 
le^^  Cambridge.  Mr.  Ashby  fell  into  this  absurd 
nuaapprefaeDsion^  but  it  was  detected  bj  Dr.  Car- 
dale  of  Rothley,  and  confuted  by  Lord  Went- 
worth  in  the  General  Evening  Pod  in  1765,  and 
again  by  Mr.  Bray,  afterwards  the  historian  of 
Soirej,  in  the  second  edition  of  his  Tour, 

Jobs  Gough  Nichols. 


In  the  burial  register  of  St  Mary  Alderman- 
bury,  London,  under  date  August  12, 1617,  occurs 
the  foUowiag: — ''Mr.  Robert  Harland,  minister 
of  this  parish,  beinff  minister  seyenty-nine  years." 
The  last  daase  of  this  entry  is  in  a  different  hand- 
writing from  the  portion  that  precedes  it,  but 
forma  part  of  the  record.  I  am  convinced  that 
whoeyer  made  the  addition  did  so  because  he 
found  that  Mr.  Harland  had  signed  each  page  of 
the  register  as  far  back  as  its  commencement  in 
1<538,  exactly  seyenty-nine  years,  but  without 
knowing,  or  taking  the  trouble  to  asoertun,  that 
down  to  about  lwX>  the  register  was  the  tran- 
script ordered  in  1698,  and  that  it  was  the  duty 
of  the  ioeumbent  and  chnrchwardens  to  attest  the 
accuracy  of  the  transcript.  Perhaps  this  will 
explain  the  case  at  Knossmgton. 

Joseph  Lemuel  Chsstbb, 


-«  SOME  GO  TO  CHURCH,"  ETC. :  OLD  RHYMES. 

(4^  S.  yi.  296,  464,  562.) 

Mb.  Jackson  desires  to  see  the  old  rhyme  tVi 
extento.  It  has  just  been  communicated  to  me  by 
A  friend,  who  remembers  hearing  it  in  his  youth : — 

**  Some  go  to  eharch  to  take  a  walk, 
Some  tbere  go  to  laagh  and  talk, 
Some  tbere  go  their  faDlU  to  cover, 
Others  go  to  meet  a  lover, 
Some  there  go  to  sleep  aod  nod. 
But  lew  go  there  to  worship  God." 

I  am  tempted  to  add  here  some  other  quaint 


rhymes,  which  I  owe  to  the  kindness  of  the  friend 
just  mentioned.  He  received  them  many  years 
ago  from  an  ased  relative,  who  has  now  departed 
to  the  unseen  land. 

The  lines  which  follow  this  ancient  gentleman 
used  to  attribute  to  a  schoolmaster  named  By^m, 
whose  pupil  he  had  been  in  his  younger  days  i--^ 

"He  that  buys  land,  bays  many  stones ; 
He  that  buys  fle:»h,  bays  many  bones ; 
He  that  bays  eggs,  bays  many  shells  ; 
He  that  bays  good  ale,  seldom  buys  aaght  else.*' 

(The  last  word  pronounced  as  if  written  in 
glossic  ek).  The  wnter  of  it  ia  said  to  have  been 
a  living  example  of  its  truth.   . 

Barbers,  from  Burchiello,  whose  utterly  unin* 
telligible  verses  are  models  of  classic  Italian, 
down  to  the  genial  author  of  the  ''  Barber*8  Shon/' 
my  good  friend  Mr.  Kichard  Wright  Procter,  wno 
is  at  once  historian  and  laureate  of  the  cunning* 
shavers,  have  often  been  gene  !^ esprit.  Amongst 
them  should  be  classed  old  Jerry  X)awson,  whose 
shop  was  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Red  Bank.  He 
hit  upon  a  plan  for  keeping  his  customers  in 
good  humour  whilst  they  were  waiting  their  turn 
to  be  shaved  or  polled.  His  device  for  their 
amusement  was  to  write  scraps  of  poetxy,  which 
he  put  up  conspicuously  in  his  shop.  Ijie  pitfti- 
cular  period  of  the  year  often  gave  nim  a  subject 
for  his  rhymes.  Thus  for  Shroye  Tuesday  ha 
wrote: — 

*'Make  pancakes  of  the  best  of  batter, 
And  drink  good  ale  that  minute  after, 
And  keep  Shrove  Tuesday  like  a  mon, 
For  hangry  Lent  is  coming  on.*' 

The  old  barber  was,  unfortunately  for  himself, 
no  teetotaller,  and  ale  was  a  feature  in  his  verses, 
as  may  be  seen  by  this  on  Easter: — 

**  Eat  Easter  dampling  with  good  spice. 
And  drink  good  ale  both  warm  and  nice ; 
Eat  and  drink  till  you're  got  red  faces. 
For  yoa*re  not  sure  of  seeing  th*  races.*' 

Easter  he  pronounced  in  the  true  Lancashire 
fashion,  whicn  in  glossic  notation  would  be 
"  AistV." 

Another  rhyme  which  was  a  favourite  with  the 
old  gentleman  is  the  following  quaint  reflection 
on  the  relative  importance  of  the  lawyer,  the  phy- 
sician, and  the  clergyman.  The  structure  of  the 
verse  appears  to  show  that  it  must  have  been 
written  in  the  "golden  days  of  good  Queen  Bess" 
or  soon  after : — 

••  Law,  Phyric,  and  Divinity, 
Being  in  dispute,  conld  not  agree 
Which  of  the  three  should  have  the  snperiority. 

"  Law  pleads  he  doth  preserve  man's  lands, 
And  all  their  goods  from  ravenous  hands, 
Therefore  cUims  he  to  have  the  superiority. 

**  The  doctor  next,  with  recipes  for  health. 
Which  men  do  value  above  their  wealth. 
Therefore  claims  he  to  have  the  superiority. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»  S.  VII.  F*B.  4,  *71. 


^TSfext  comes  the  priest  with  face  defniir«» . 
Wbo  of  men'a  souls  takes  care  and  cure. 
Therefore  of  right  cballange  hath  he  to  have  the 
auperiority. 

MoraU 
"If  men  would  keep  the  golden  rule. 
They  need  not  be  the  lawyer's  fool. 
If  men  would  keep  from  excess  and  riot. 
They  need  not  feed  on  doctors*  diet. 
If  men  would  do  what  God  doth  teacb. 
They  need  not  mind  what  parsons  preach. 
But  if  men  both  knaves  and  fools  will  be, 
Why  they  may  be  ass-ridden  by  all  three.'* 

This  reminds  me  of  a  graye  debate  that  once 
took  place  in  a  discussion  societj  which  met  in 
Manchester  about  1780,  as  to  which  was  the 
greatest  benefactor  to  society,  the  lawyer,  the 
physician,  or  the  soldier.  After  all  the  proa  and 
COM  had  been  adduced  the  Tote  was  taken,  and 
peaceful  Manchester,  the  Tery  home  of  the  *^  fidr 
white-winged  peacemaker,"  Commerce,  solemnly 
decided  that  of  the  three  the  greatest  benefiActor 


" .  .  .  .  the  red-coat  bully  in  his  boots 
That  hides  the  march  of  men  from  us." 

William  E.  A.  Axon. 

Jojnson  Street,  Strangeways.  


A  friend  supplies  the  following  yersian,  as  it  is 
atid  in  the  West  of  England  :«^ 

**  Some  go  to  church  to  fetch  a  walk. 
Some  go  to  church  to  have  a  talk, 
Some  go  to  church  to  meet  a  friend. 
Some  go  there  an  hour  to  spend, 
Some  go  there  to  hear  the  news. 
Some  go  there  to  sleep  in  pews, 
And  yet,  'tia  Teiy  strange  and  odd. 
How  few  go  there  to  worship  God." 

No  doubt,  as  is  the  case  with  all  popular 
xhymes,  there  are  many  Tariations.  Will  Ltdiard 
oblige  me  by  stating  if  his  Tersion  is  tmditional 
or  taken  from  a  printed  copyP 

Stbpheit  Jackson. 

The  following  version  has  been  supplied  to  me 
from  memory  as  having  appeared  m  a  Suffolk 
newspaper  early  in  the  present  century  :-^ 

**  Some  go  to  church  just  for  a  walk, 
Some  go  there  to  scoff  and  talk, 
Some  go  there  to  meet  a  friend^ 
Some  go  there  their  time  to  spend. 
Some  go  there  to  see  a  lover, 
Some  go  there  their  faults  to  cover. 
Some  go  there  to  doze  and  nod, 
But  few  go  there  to  worship  God." 

W.  D.  SwBETme. 

Peterborough. 

[E.  D.  gives  a  similar  version  to  Mr.  Swhettko's 
with  the  exception  of  substituting  •*  laugh  "  and  *•  seek" 
for  "  scoff"  and  "  see  "  in  the  second  and  flflh  Mnes.— Ed.] 


ORDERS  OF  KNIGHTHOOD. 

(4**  S.  V.  300,  472/  612,  641,  607;  vi.  121,  441, 

674.) 

The  reply  of  J.  W.  at  p.  674  of  the  last  volume 
of  '*N.  &  Q."  is  in  fact  nearly  an  admission  of  all 
that  I  have  been  maintaining.  '^  This,  after  all " — 
submisfflon  to  the  Holy  6ee--<-'*b  the  gist  of  the 
whole  matter/'  is  J.  W.'s  observation  (ja,  676), 
Undoubtedly  so.  If  the  Archbishop  of  Uanter- 
biuy  shoald  establish  an  association  or  order,  for 
instance,  of  visitors  of  the  Protestant  sick  in  his 
diocese,  it  would  probably  be  felt  indecent  if  the 
Bishop  of  Natal  Dr.  Golenso,  or  Dr.  Norman 
Macleod,  or  any  other  respectable  Presbyterian 
minister^  claimed  a  right  to  fill  up  any  vacancies 
or  to  establish  a  branch.  But  it  must  be  recol- 
lected that  the  attempt  has  actually  been  made  bv 
the  Knglish  association  calling  itself  the  Engliaa 
Langne  to  obtain  recognition  at  Rome.  The  at* 
tempt  fiuled,  of  course ;  but  an  association  which 
did  such  a  thing  is  d^ualified  firom  ^ealdng 
against  Papal  jnrisdietion.  I  be^  once  more  to 
draw  the  attention  of  J.  W.  and  his  friends  to  the 
letters  of  Historictjs  and  Scbittatob  in  the  third 
volume  of  '^  N.  &  Q."  1863.  So  far  from  wishing 
to  ignore  the  pretended  restoration  of  a  so-called 
Engush  Langue  in  France,  I  have  already  referred 
to  the  answer  made  by  Historicits  in  that  volume, 
and  I  beg  now  to  suggest  to  J.  W.  that  he  should 
reply  to  that  able  writer,  and  to  Scbutatob,  and 
also  to  two  most  intereeting  notes  by  J.  J.  W.  in 
volume  iv.  pp.  100  and  212,  who  there  gives  details 
of  the  proceedings  at  Home.  If  any  reply  to  thoee 
writers  is  possible,  let  it  be  made  at  once.  In  the 
mean  time  I  have  no  doubt,  as  I  said,  that  most 
thinking  persons  will  hesitate  to  accept  J.  W.'a 
authority.  The  whole  thing  may  be  illustrated, 
but  not  exhausted,  by  a  shorty  not  entazely  iiiui- 
ginary,  apoloffue. 

Mr.  St.  John,  a  gentleman  of  ancient  descent^ 
with  large  family  connection  in  Europe,  was,  a 
long  lime  ago,  attacked  by  a  set  of  burglars^  de- 
prived of  all  his  houses  and  lands,  and  had  to  run 
for  his  life  to  his  kinsmen  abroad.  The  law  of 
his  own  country  would  not  help  him,  for  the 
rogues  had  bribed  the  Bench,  and  the  King  took 
his  share.  So,  as  they  had  no  use  for  churches,, 
they  blew  up  and  puUed  down  all  that  belonged 
to  him,  took  the  houses  and  money,  eat,  drank^ 
and  were  merry.  And  it  must  be  owned  that, 
with  these  and  other  little  pickings,  they  had  a 
very  fine  time  of  it.  But  not  long  ago  the  de- 
scendant of  the  Mr.  St.  John  who  had  been 
driven  into  exile  came  back  to  England;  not 
with  the  least  idea  of  recoverinff  any  stolen  pro- 
perty, but  merely  to  settle  hims^f,  as  well  as  ho 
could,  in  the  country  of  his  fathers,  as  Mr.  St 
John  of  St.  John.  One  day,  vralking  about  his 
business  in  London,  he  meets  an  exceedinglj  fine 


4*aVII.  F*B.4^'71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


101 


gentleman^  who  in&mediatelT  stops,  pata  Bim  on 
tile  shoulder,  and  says, ''  Old  fellow,  rery  glad  to 
eee  jou.  Here  we  are/'  Mr.  St.  John^  perhaps 
prejudiced  in  favgur  of  knowing  your  friends, 
reaneats  to  he  informed  of  the  name  of  his  soci- 
ahie  bat  unexpected  interlocutor.  ''Oh/'  says 
the  Stranger, ''  don't  you  know  ?  I'm  St.  John  of 
St  John  too ;  took  the  name,  you  know.  Second 
column  in  the  Times,  don't  yon  see,  deed  poll, 
and  all  that ;  I,  and  all  the  family.  We  are  one 
concern  now.''  Mr.  St.  John  expresses  his  amaze- 
ment. He  was  not  aware  that  there  was  any 
existing  branch  of  his  family  in  England  besides 
his  own.  ''Oh,  yes,"  says  the  Stranger;  "  we 
are  a  real  branch;  we  have  got  the  name,  and 
hare  taken  the  arms,  and  are  always  known  as 
St.  Johns,  and  have  set  up  new  houses,  and,  what 
I  am  snre  you  will  like  best,  we  have  made  a 
pedigree,  don't  you  know,  and  there  we  are  all  in 
it,  as  dear  as  possible.  You  and  all  your  foreign 
connexion  are  there,  side  by  side  with  us." 
Upon  tiiis  Mr.  St.  John  suggests  that  the  Stranger 
should  accompany  him  to  the  Heralds'  ^ollege, 
that  these  statements  may  be  authenticated. 
^  Heralds'  College  ?  Pooh  I  old  almanacks.  You 
can  go  if  yon  like,  not  I.  We  don't  mind  Sir 
Gorgeous  Tintack,  nor  the  Pope,  nor  anybody 
else.  Depend  upon  it,  my  dear  fbUow,  if  a  only  a 
matter  of  Opinion.  You  call  yourself  St.  John, 
so  do  we.  No  one  here  knows  any  difierence ; 
and  as  we  hare  taken  the  name  we  shall  stick  to 
it.  Good  bye.  Remember  me  to  all  our  kinsfolk 
abroad." 

It  remains  to  be  seen  what  Opinion  will  do  for 
the  new  Mr.  St  John. 

**Ys  vobii  qui  sdificatU  monumeota  Prophetamm : 
patrea  antem  vestri  occiderant  illos.'* 

D.  P. 
Stuarts  Lodge,  Malrem  WellflL 


I  have  read  with  great  interest  the  discussion 
which  has  been  going  on  for  some  time  about  this 
subject  in  "X.  &  Q."  and  also  in  the  Spectator — 
a  discussion  which  was  carried  on  with  a  courtesy 
on  one  side  that  made  the  absence  of  it  on  the 
other  rather  too  conspicuous.  The  suggestion  of 
Hoanr5ctrLi7S  in  No.  l57  seems  to  me  deserving 
of  the  highest  consideration,  and  well  worthy  the 
attention  of  the  conflicting  narties.  The  English 
langue  have  at  all  events  tne  credit  of  fulfilling 
to  the  best  of  its  ability  the  duties  of  the  order, 
and  not  merely  forming"  part  of  a  court  pageant 
{not  very  much  respectea),  as  I  have  seen  the 
*'  Maltheser  Bitter  '^  in  their  scarlet  coats  in 
Munich.  I  would  offer  one  more  suggestion: 
the  Queen  is  sovereign  of  Malta;  what  if  she 
were  to  assume  the  protectorate  of  the  English 
lan^e  ?  the  knights  would  then  at  court  wear 
their  crosses  (I  believe  they  have  every  right  to 
do  so  now);  the  order  would^  have  a  publicly 


recognised  status,  which  must  tend  to  its  advan- 
tage ;  and  as  the  knights  would  claim  no  prece* 
dence  more  thm  the  wearere  of  an  ordinary  yn« 
medal,  while  the  rules  under  which  alone  the 
order  can  be  conferred^  would  effectually  prevent 
any  but  gentlemen  belonging  to  it,  the  court 
circle  would  at  all  events  lose  nothing  by  their 
presence.  The  privilege  might  be  confined  to  the 
"  Chevaliers  of  Justice."  Ctwbm. 

Porth  yrAur,  Camarvon. 


BARBAROUS  MASSACRE. 
(4**'  S.  vi.  526.) 

Don  Franf<HS  d'Almeyda,  the  first  viceroy  of 
Portuguese  India^  was  appointed  governor  of  the 
Indies  in  1506.  He  sailed  from  Belem  in  March 
of  that  year,  and  reached  the  coasts  of  Portuguese 
India  in  the  month  of  October.  In  1508,  after 
the  defeat  of  the  Portuguese  forces  in  a  naval 
engagement  before  Dabom,  Don  Alfonso  d'Albu- 
querque  amved  in  India  to  supersede  Almeyda* 
The  latter,  butning  to  avenge  the  loss  of  his  son 
in  the  previously  named  naval  engagement,  re- 
fused to  yield  up  his  authority  until  he  had  chas- 
tised the  infidels.  After  inflicting  a  summary 
retribution  on  the  inhabitants  of  Daboul,  he  en- 
countered his  enemies  at  sea,  oppoute  the  island 
of  Diu,  and  completely  destroyed  their  fleet.  la 
November,  1500,  the  victor  of  Diu  finally  quitted 
the  shores  on  which  his  name  had  become  a  terror 
and  his  vengeance  a  proverb.  Don  Frnn9ois  d'Al- 
meyda perished  in  March,  1510,  by  the  hand  of  a 
Caffre  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope. 

The  << barbarous  massacre"  Mr.  Ellis  refew 

to  may  be  that  which  was  conducted  by  order  of 

Almevda  at  Daboul.     His  proceedings  therein 

have  been  thus  described : — 

''Almeyda  positively  refilled  to  resign  his  command 
until  be  should  have  avenged  his  son's  death  b^  the 
destruction  of  the  hostile  fleet.  Being  supported  m  his 
disobedience  to  the  ro^-al  mandate  by  several  leading 
officers,  he  refused  to  allow  Albuquerque  even  to  take 
part  in  the  intended  expedition  (against  Daboul).*' 

There,  we  are  told — 
**  once  on  shore,  by  the  order  of  the  merciless  victor,  aa 
indiscriminate  slaughter  ensued.  The  streets  streamed 
with  blood,  and  the  distracted  multitudes  fled  to  the 
caves  of  the  neighbouring  mountains.  This  disgraceful 
scene  had  a  suitable  conclusion ;  for  Almeyda^  onahle 
to  withdraw  his  troops  from  their  horrible  employment, 
caused  the  town  to  be  set  on  fire.  The  flames  extended 
rapidly  over  the  light  timber  roofs,  and  after  reducing 
the  statelv  citv  to  a  pUe  of  smolcing  wood  and  ashe^ 
reached  the  harbour.  The  native  shippinff  was  de- 
stroyed*, the  Portuguese  vessels  with  difficulty  csoapedt 
and  proceeded  to  the  Gulf  of  Cambay." 

He  filled  up  the  measure  of  his  barbarities  by 
causing  his  prisoners  to  be  shut  up  in  the  prixe 
veesels  and  burnt  with  them. 

«*Manv,"  says  Faria  y  Sousa,  "judged  the  unhappy 
end  of  the  viceroy  and  other  gentlemen  to  be  a  just  pun- 
ishment of  that  crime.*' 


102 


NOTES  AisB  QUERIES. 


L4«»8.VII.  Fbb.4,'71, 


If  the  massacre  occurred  about  the  year 
151  ly  Don  Alfonso  d' Albuquerque  was  then  the 
Portuguese  goremor-general  of  India.  It  there- 
fore might  nave  been  in  connection  with  the 
acquisition  of  Goa.  The  city  was  taken  by  sur- 
prise in  the  early  part  of  1510,  recaptured  a  few 
months  later  by  Yiisuf  Adil  Shah  in  person,  and 
£nally  conquered  by  Albuquerque  at  tne  dose  of 
the  same  year.  The  contest  was  prolonged  and 
sanguinary,  and  the  after-slaughter  must  have 
been  terrific,  since,  according  to  Sousa.  **  not  one 
Moor  was  left  alive  in  the  island.'*  (Porttiffuese 
Asia,  i.  172,^  The  Hindoos  were  treated  very 
differently;  xor  Albuquerque  confirmed  them  in 
their  possessions,  and  promoted  the  intermarriage 
of  their  women  with  the  Portuguese  by  hand- 
some dowries,  at  the  same  time  proving  nis  con- 
fidence in  his  new  subjects  by  employing  them 
in  both  civil  and  military  capacities.  Albuquerque 
died  at  Goa,  December  13, 1615. 

N.B.  The  designation  "  Moors  "  seems  frequently 
applied  to  Arabian  and  African  Mohammedans,  in 
contradistinction  to  Moguls  and  Patans.  Sousa 
speaks  of  them  as  'inhabiting  from  Choul  (in 
the  Concan)  to  Cape  Comorin."  The  honour  of 
the  discovery  of  the  Cape  route  to  India  does  not, 
I  venture  to  submiti  belong  to  Vasco  da  Gama. 
It  was  Bartolomao  Diaz,  ten  years  before  Vasco 
da  Gama's  voyage  to  India,  who  passed  the  Cape 
without  knowing  it,  and  despite  the  murmurs  of 
his  crew,  proceeded  as  far  as  the  mouth  of  the 
Great  Fish  River.  Compelled  most  unwillingly 
to  return,  he  now  first  discovered  the  southern 
headland  of  the  African  continent ;  and  reaching 
it  in  stormy  weather,  he  bestowed  on  it  the 
designation  of  ''Cabo  Tormentoso."  Diaz  re- 
turned to  Lisbon  in  the  December  of  1487,  after  a 
Toyage  of  little  more  than  sixteen  montha  The 
way  to  India  was  now  open.  In  1497  Emanuel, 
the  king  of  Portugal,  equipped  a  fleet  of  four 
ships  for  the  purpose  of  reaching  India  by  a  pas- 
sage round  the  Cape,  and  g&TC  the  command  of 
the  expedition  to  Vasco  da  Gama.  The  expedition 
sailed  firom  the  mouth  of  the  Tagus  on  July  8, 
1497,  having  in  all  100  men  on  board.  It  doubled 
the  Cape  on  November  20,  and  coasting  the 
eastern  sea-board  of  Africa  as  far  north  as  Me- 
linda  (lat.  3°  S.)i  it  sailed  under  the  guidance  of 
a  native  pilot  for  the  shores  of  India.  The  voy- 
age from  Melinda  to  the  Malabar  coast  occupied 
twenty-three  days ;  and  the  fleet  anchored  before 
the  city  of  Calicut  on  May  20,  1498.  Two  years 
and  nearly  two  months  elapsed  between  the  date 
of  Da  Gama's  departure  ana  his  return  to  Lisbon. 
The  second  Portuguese  fleet  to  the  Indies  was 
despatched  in  the  year  succeeding  his  return, 
nndiar  the  command  of  Alvarez  Cabral. 

Chables  Natlob. 


KING  WILLIAM  III.'s  STIRRUPS  AND    OTHER 
RELICS  AT  CARRICKBLACKER,  CO.  ARMAGH- 

(4"»  S.  vi.  477.) 

A  query  having  appeared  in  your  Number  of 
December  3  last  respecting  a  pair  of  stirrups  seen 
some  years  ago  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev. 
James  Steuart  Blacker,  rector  of  Keady,  county 
Armagh,  it  ma^  be  interesting  to  state  that  these 
relics,  along  with  many  others  appertainioR  ta 
that  eventful  period,  are  still  at  CarrickbladEer^ 
the  seat  of  the  Blacker  family,  in  the  county 
Armagh,  near  Portadown.  The  reverend  gentle- 
man 'was  family  executor  at  the  time  adverted  to^ 
and  thus  was  in  possession  of  the  heirlooms,  and 
these  amongst  them. 

The  stirrups,  however,  bear  evidence  in  them- 
selves of  an  earlier  date  than  the  Boyne  battle 
(1690),  and  as  being  the  property  of  an  eaiiier 
king  than  William  ill.,  viz.  Charles  L;  for  on 
the  interior  of  the  upper  part,  where  the  leather 
was  looped  on,  is  plainly  marked,  dotted  or  in- 
scribed, a  royal  crown,  with  the  cypher  C.  R.  and 
the  date  1626  beneath.  They  stand  eight  inchea 
in  height,  with  a  breadth  of  five-and-a-half  inches 
at  liie  swell  for  the  foot.  On  the  outer  sides  a 
scallop -shell  pattern  is  inscribed.  The  whole 
accoutrement  bears  a  dark  bronze  colour  enlivened 
with  gold  welded  into  the  parts  where  the  sheila 
occur,  or  are  marked  by  incised  lines.  That  they 
belonged  to  Charles  I.,  however,  is  no  reason  that 
they  should  not  have  been  worn  by  William  III.^ 
his  relative  and  descendant.  The  saddle-cloth  ia 
also  at  Carrickblacker,  a  gorgeous  affair  of  crimson 
velvet,  superbly  embroidered  in  gold,  with  hobtec 
trimmings  complete.  The  saddle  itself  is  said  to 
be  in  the  possession  of  the  Marquis  of  Drogheda^ 
and  without  any  stirrups  or  other  paraphernalia. 
How  they  became  separated  is  not  very  dear,  but 

Srobably  in  the  scramble  of  attached  attendants 
esirous  to  secure  memorials  of  such  historic 
scenes  and  personages.  Most  of  those  at  Carrick- 
blacker camf  from  an  ancest(»y  General  Erederia 
Hamilton,  aide-de-camp  to  King  William  III.^ 
with  estates  in  'Hpperary,  Londonderry,  and  other 
counties.  He  was  originally  of  Milbum,  in 
Lanarkshire,  and  called  a  property  near  Coleraine 
Milbum  after  it.  He  is  mentioned  by  Captain 
Parker  as  his  chief  patron  in  his  interesting  and 
now  scarce  record  of  the  Irish  conflicts  at  that 
period,  and  also  the  Marlborough  wars  in  Queen 
Anne's  time. 

Amongst  other  items  traceable  to  this  source,, 
kept  at  Carrickblacker,  are  King  William  III. 'a 
gloves,  rather  rouffh  chamois  leather  gauntlets^ 
ornamented  with  black  satin  and  gold  embroidery 
trimmings;  the  original  MS.  draft  of  the  brass 
money  proclamation,  with  William  IIL's  signa- 
ture, dated  July  10, 1690.  ''  Given  at  our  camp 
at  Einglas."      N.B.  There   is   no   mention    of 


4»*  S.  VII.  Feb.  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


103 


''wooden  shoeaL"  but  spedmexis  of  the  base  coinage 
are  hung  in  chains  round  the  frame.  The  first 
patent  to  Sir  Thomas,  afterwards  LordOonyngsby, 
who  bound  up  King  William's  arm  when  wounded 
at  the  Bojue.  The  handkerchief  itself  is  said  to 
be  in  the  possession  of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  a 
descendant:  also  a  handsome  massive  cruet-stand, 
presented  by  the  king.  Lord  Essex  presented 
the  mustard-pot  to  the  present  Earl  of  Enniskil- 
len ;  it  is  the  size  of  a  small  tankard,  containing 
fully  a  pint|  and  when  filled  with  good  liquor, 
must  be  dramed  to  the  glorious  memory  without 
drawing  breath,  in  order  to  obtain  ^'  the  freedom 
of  Fbrenoe  Court.''  # 

But  to  continue  the  list  of  historic  curiosities 
at  Carzickblacker.  There  is  the  celebrated  Derry 
deed,  with  all  the  signatures  and  seals  of  the 
owners  of  property  destroyed  in  the  siege  of 
1688-9,  claiining  compensation  from  the  British 
Ooremment — we  are  sorry  to  say  vainly  and 
without  effect.  The  names  of  fiinulies  still  ex- 
isting and  possessiag  property  are  easily  traceable. 
Stone  balls  fired  at  Deny  when  metal  was  ex- 
hausted. A  scran  of  the  flag  of  the  Inniskilling 
men  borne  at  the  &yne;  a  large  remnant  is  still  at 
Ennisktllen  or  Florence  Court  A  chair  of  oak  made 
from  the  platform  on  top  of  the  cathedral  tower 
of  Derry,  on  which  cannon  was  mounted  and  fired 
during  the  siege.  The  old  foim  of  the  cathedral 
ia'carved,  as  afio  the  waUs  in  relief  on  the  back. 
CoL  MitchelbunPs  saddle,  used  in  a  sortie  at  the 
siege  before  they  ate  their  horses.  Two  rapiers, 
one  of  them  used  by  General  Hamilton  at  the 
BoTne,  and  the  other  by  Wm.  Blacker  at  Derry 
and  the  Boyne.  The  long^otted  gun  of  the 
Diamond  fight;  the  gong  of  Ghuznee;  and  the 
last  added  articles  to  this  curious  collection,  viz. 
the  loyal  address  of  the  city  of  Kingston,  in 
Canada,  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  which  was 
not  presented  because  the  Duke  of  Newcastle 
would  not  allow  H.R.H.  to  land ;  and  lastly,  the 
Confederate  flaff  of  the  celebrated  privateer  the 
Shenandoah,  which  is  said  iSS  have  done  more 
destruction  and  mischief  than  the  much-abused 
Alabama. 

The  walls  of  Cairickblacker  are  hung  with  some 
interesting  historic  portraits  of  the  Williamite 
period.  Besides  the  well-known  ones  of  the  King 
and  Queen  Mary,  by  Kneller,  are  those  of  Duke 
Schomberg  and  De  Ginkle,  Earl  of  Athlone ;  a 
contemporary  picture  of  the  siege  of  Derry.  by 
Wyke;  General  Hamilton,  Governor  Walker, 
&c  &c  But,  quite  apart  from  this  period  so 
largel;jr  illustrated,  there  is  a  very  remarkable 
portrait  that  would  take  a  dissertation  to  itself — 
that  of  Sir  Wm.  Wallace,  the  celebrated  defender 
of  Scotland.  It  was  brought  over  more  than  three 
hundred  years  ago  by  a  &mily  of  that  name,  and 
came  to  the  present  proprietor  of  Carrickblacker 
with  the  remnant  of  a  small  property  from  hia 


grandmother,  who  had  received  it  in  the  same 
way  from  her  grandmother,  the  last  of  that  family 
of  the  name.  It  is  not  in  oil-colours,  but  in 
fresco  varnished  and  ingeniously  removed  to  can- 
vass. In  individuality  and  grandeur  of  character 
it  quite  throws  into  shade  tne  usuld  conventional 
and  conunonplace  portraits  of  this  hero.     Anok. 


Old  Sandowit  Castle,  Isle  op  Wight  (4l^  S. 
vi.  669.) — Lord  Conway  was  made  Captain  of  the 
Isle  of  Wight  Dec.  8, 1624;  Lord  VVeston  (sub- 
sequently Larl  of  Portland)  succeeded  him,  reb. 
,8,  1631.  The  authority  for  these  statementa  is 
Dugdale's  JBaranoffe,  where  a  reference  is  given  to 
the  Patent  Rolls,  22  Jac.  L,  part  15,  and  6  Car.  L^ 
part  6,  respectively.  Portland  died  in  March, 
1635,  and  I  see  by  a  letter  of  F.  Brooke  of  Anril 
11  (State  Papers,  Charles  I.,  vol.  cclxxzvi.),  that 
his  eldest  son  Jerome,  second  Earl  of  Portland, 
was  his  successor.  G. 

Mount  Calvaet  (4^'»  S.  vi.  642 ;  viL  62.)  —  I 
am  competent  to  give  no  opinion  as  to  whether 
Cfdvary  was  a  mountain  or  not,  but  I  am  quite 
sure  that  Sozomen  does  not  say  it  was,  as  stated 
by  Mr.  Alex.  B.  M'Gsigob.  To  establish  this 
point  the  Editor,  I  trust,  will  permit  me  to  give 
the  passage  in  the  original.  The  reference  is 
right    The  words  are :  — 

Ol  7&P  vtUoi  Ti}y  iKKhriaioM  Su^^orrcs  ''EKKififtSf  ^tl 

ffwrrts  iitrtfitiyf  Iwh  woXk^  x^M**^'  '^^'^  ^^*  r^w  ica- 
Wicpi^or,  Kol  <2r  (^«f  ffytipoK  fiaB^rtpo^  bwApx^anaj  its 
irol  Fvr  ^oSvtTCA.  vcpiAa^^rrcs  8)  Wpi(  "witntk  rhw  fiir 
iu^aardfftws  X^F^  "^^  ^^^  Kpariov,  8iffic<(crfn|<ray,    ical 

xarco-icffWar,  koX  {Vcor  ISp^orro. 

For  the  Greeks,  striving  to  their  utmost,  by  means  of 
penecaUon,  to  extingouh  the  church  in  its  imkncy,  con- 
cealed that  place  under  a  huge  mound  of  earth,  and,  as 
now  appears,  raised  the  groand  to  a  greater  height  than 
it  was  before.  And  having  drawn  a  fence  roond  the 
entire  site  of  the  resurrection,  and  *  the  place  of  a  skull  *" 
(Calvary),  they  arranged  the  surfaoe,  and  erected  upon  it 
a  temple  to  Yenus,  in  which  they  placed  her  statue. 

Not  a  word,  as  Mb.  M'GaieoB  will  see,  of  any 
mountain,  or  of  the  slightest  acclivity.  The  very 
opposite ;  for  prior  to  tnese  operations  the  surfaco 
was  Itncer  {M<nfpov)  than  it  was  after.  So  from 
this  account  the  natural  inference  must  be,  that 
the  mowfd  was  not  real  but  artificial.  Homer 
uses  the  kindred  word  Ka^vop  for  the  top  of  a 
mountain — oh\6tiiroio  Kopivww  (II.  n.  167)— whence 
it  is  not  improbable  that  this  may  have  given  rise 
to  the  notion  of  Calvary  being  a  mounC.    There  ia 

*  By  order  of  the  Emperor  Hadrian  towards  the  latter 
end  of  his  reign — somewhere  about  a.d.  188— when  he 
built  the  Roman  dty  of  ifilia  CapitoUna  on  the  founda- 
tions of  Jerusalem.  He  also  built  a  temple  to  Jupiter  on 
the  Mount  Zion. 


104 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*fc  S.  VII.  F*B.  4,  m. 


no  authority  for  it  in  any  of  the  writings  of  the 
New  Testament  or  the  earlier  fathers.  As  to  the 
testimony  of  St  Cyril,  it  is  Talueless.  He  lived 
and  wrote  long  after  the  transaction  related  by 
Sozomen. 

I  may  be  permitted  to  mention  that  I  have 
GMDied-  from  Iteadmfff  the  best  edition  of  the 
'jB^eek  ec^siastical  historians. 
;  !  Eduuks  Tbw,  M.A. 

V  Qonvm/  Swift  (4»»»  S.  t.  66,  135, 159,  211, 
\(]5;  wX)— Mr.  Swiftb*8  familjr  pedigree  may 
be  qhite  correct,  but  no  one  who  is  familiar  with 
pedigrees  "certified"  (not  "verified")  as  "  taken 
from  the  records  of  his  office"  under  the  hand 
and  seal  of  ofiice  of  Sir  William  Betham,  would 
think  of  placing  implicit  reliance  on  them  because 
they  were  so  "certified."  I  regret  to  say' that  1 
know  pedigrees  which  in  some  very  important 
respects  are  pure  inventions;  and  were,  notwith- 
standing proofs  to  the  contrary  in  his  office,  so 
certified.  In  one  instance  the  very  arms  reconied 
were  altered  without  any  reason  whatever.  These 
are  grave  chargesi  but  unfortunately  they  are 
true.  If  the  late  Mr.  Godwin  Swut  was  "<fe 
jttre  Viscount  Carlingford,"  how  did  it  happen 
that  his  right  was  never  proved  before  the  Com- 
mittee of  Privileges  P  It  is  really  preposterous  to 
call  a  mere  pretender  to  an  extinct  title  the  right- 
ful peer  because,  without  a  shadow  of  right,  he 
pertmadously  assumed  and  claimed  the  title.  I 

Y.  S.  M. 

BssonrDAins  ot  Bishop  Bedbll  (4^  S.  y.  811' 
^1 ;  vi.  188.)~lBabella  Bedell,  daughter  of  the 
Key.  William  Bedell,  was  twice  married.  By  her 
Urst  husband,  Daniel  French,  she  had  a  daughter, 
Eleanor  French,  who  married  John  Stanford,  Esq. 
of  Cam,  county  Cavan  (bom  1686,  entered  Trin., 
Coll.  Bub.  Nov.  27, 1701).  She  married,  secondly, 
Tuke  Stanford  (wllo  died  in  1733),  his  first  'mte, 
Tuke  Stanford  married,  secondly,  Anne  Hecde- 
field,  and  by  her  had  (with  other  issue)  John, 
who  married  Eleanor  French  (as  above.)  The 
head  master  of  Beaumaris  Grammar  School  is  the 
Bev.  William  BedeU  Stanford,  M.A.,  of  Balliol 
College,  Oxon,  great^great-grandson  of  John  Stan- 
ford and  Eleanor  French.  Y.  S.  M. 

"Dttk"  as  a  Local  Prefix  (4»*  S.  vi.  153, 
238,  656.) — ^There  is  no  reason  to  suppose  that 
the  Celtic  dtin  is  etymologically  connected  with 
toion,  A.-S.  tvn.  The  literal  meaning  of  the  latter 
is  an  "  enclosed  place,"  from  tynan,  to  enclose : 
whereas  dUn  is  properly  a  hill,  and  may  be  derived 
from  9fy,  h  heap,  or  perhaps  even  from  a  Semitic 
root  Mb.  C.  Kogbbs  says  the  root  of  dun  is  the 
Sanscrit  dtmdj  but  it  would  be  quite  as  reasonable 
to  derive  it  from  the  Chinese  iimf  a  "  hillock." 

B.  S.  Chabkock. 
Gray*0  Inn  Square. 


RtCHARB  TSBBIOK,  BiSHOF  OF  LONDOK  1764- 

1777  (4**'  S.  vi.  669.)— He  was  the  eldest  son  of 
Samuel  Terrick,  rector  of  Wheldrake,  and  canon- 
rendentiary  of  York,  by  Ann,  widow  of  Nathaniel 
Arlush,  Esa.,  of  Knedlingt<Hi,  cdUntyYork,  and 
daughter  of  John  Qibson,  Esq.  of  Welbum,  in 
the  same  county.  He  was  naptised  in  Toik 
Minster  July  20, 1710.  His  veife  was  Tabitha, 
daughter  of  William  Stainforth,  rector  of  Symon- 
burae,  county  Northumberland  (eldest  son  of  Dr. 
William  Stainforth,  canon  of  York),  by  Fraoces, 
daughter  of  George  Prickett,  Esq.,  recorder  of 
York.  BoBBBT  H.  Szaitb. 

The  Moflnt,  York. 

The  arms  of  Terrick,  as  quartered  on  Lord 
Harrowby's  banner  in  St.  George's  Chapel,  are 
those  of  the  Tyrwhit  family,  with  the  adaition  of 
a  plain  bordure  argent.  Ebmitkd  M.  Botlb. 

Bock  Wood,  Torquay. 

Dr.  Terrick  is  one  of  those  prelates  of  whom 
Dean  Milman,  in  his  AnnaU  of  St,  FauTs,  baa 

written :  — 

**  There  was  then  a  rapid  roocessioa  of  decent  prelates, 
who  no  doubt  discharged  their  functions  with  quiet 
dignity,  and  lived  their  blamdeas  lives  in  respect  and  in 
esteem. 

The  following  passage,  extracted  from  Addit. 
MSS.  (6847,  p.  404)  in  the  Brit.  Museum,  in  which 
the  bishop  ngures,  may  interest  the  readers  of 

**  This  puts  me  in  mind  of  a  singular  visit  he  (H.  Wal- 
pole)  paid  for  an  hour  one  Sunday  afternoon,  while  I  was 
with  him,  about  ten  yean  ago.  It  was  when  the  present 
Bishop  of  London  was  Bishop  of  Peterborough  and  then 
minister  of  Twickenham.  The  visit  was  to  a  Jew,  where 
was  a  Boman  Cathc^ie  family,  the  Bishop  of  Peterborough, 
and  some  IMsaenters.  I  remember  not  the  names,  but 
this  I  remember  because  it  struck  me.  The  bishop  pos- 
sibly might  hare  assumed  some  airs  which  Mr.  Walpole 
might  think  did  not  become  one  who  was  a  lord  only  by 
accident,  and  not  by  birth  or  creation.  In  order,  there* 
fore,  to  lower  and  humble  the  pride  of  the  pcelate,  who 
has  enough  of  it  about  him,  I  remember  Mr.  Walpole  told 
me,  on  his  return,  for  I  did  not  attend  him,  that  he  called 
him  frequently  Mr.  and  Dr.  Terrick,  in  order  to  mor- 
tify him.  Surely  this  was  not  right  or  proper.  The  laws 
of  the  land  and  custom  unalterable  have  nxed  such  and 
such  titles  to  such  and  such  dignities  and  offices;  and 
whoever  disregaids  them,  acts  like  a  down  and  impro- 
perly. I  presume  no  one  loves  titles  better  than  himself, 
as  will  be  evident  to  any  one  who  looks  over  the  Descrip- 
tion of  the  vain  of  sfrawheny  BUI,  where  is  a  most 
fulsome  enumeration,  on  every  occasion,  of  the  most 
minute  tities  of  all  the  Walpole  family  and  its  most  dis- 
tant alliances.  It  would  have  been  thought  coarse  un* 
bred  behaviour  in  Bishop  Terrick  to  have  addressed  Lady 
Walpole  without  the  title  of  Ladyship.  To  judge  impar- 
tially therefore,  to  omit  giving  the  due  title  to  a  bishop 
cannot  be  justified  in  any  light.'* 

H.  R  T. 

Fkbt  (S'*  S.  passim  iJi^^  S.  tL401  ;  Tii.  22.)— 
A  note  signed  with  a  Hand  induces  me  to  say  a 
word  or  two  on  this  subject. 

The  whole  question  was  debated  between  Ms* 


4*  81  Vn,  Fbb.'A  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


105 


WooDWASs  and  myaelf  ia  coasequenoe  of  a  aueiy 
bj  Mb.  Datidsoit,  which  appears  oa  p.  323  of 
ToL  ix.  in  the  thiid  seriee  of  "  N.  &  Q.**  My  reply 
is  at  p.  400,  Mr.  Woodward's  at  p.  476  of  that 
▼diune.  The  remaining  replies  by  Mr.  Wood- 
ward and  myself  will  be  found  in  toL  xi.,  Jan. — 
June,  1867.  Mr.  Woodward  stated  hia  case  with 
great  force ;  I  did  my  best  to  state  mine.  I  have 
not  changed  my  opmion;  I  have  no  reason  to 
8ap|)08e  that  Mr,  Woodward  has  chanced  his. 
I  think  it  might  save  ^  Hand  "  some  trouble  if  he 
would  Nad  both  sidea  at  the  references  which  I 
baTe  aapplied.  It  would  be  a  waste  of  his  time 
to  go  over  the  same  ground,  unleas  he  can  give 
flome  new  ftcts  on  eiwer  Tiew.  or  on  both. 

D.P. 
Stuarts  Ledg«»  Kalvem  Wdls. 

Marriaoi  of  Ikpawts  (4*  S.  v.  489.)— A  bill 
was  filed  in  Chancery  in  Ireland,  May  26, 1676, 
by  Edward  ViUiers,  Eeq,,  and  Catherine  his  wife 
(the  only  child  and  heir  of  John  Fitzgerald,  Esq.. 
of  the  Deciesy  oo.  Waterford),  against  Kichard 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  uncle  of  Mrs.  yilBers.  The  bill 
states  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yilliers  had  been  mar- 
ried in  the  preceding  month  of  jMorch.  The  earl 
answered  the  bill,  and  stated  'that  he  admitted 
the  plaintifib  were  married  as  stated  — 

•*  de  facto  ied  non  de  jure,  for  on  the  9th  Mar,  1670,  the 
plaintiflr  Catherine  was  lawfully  married,  *by  Gilbert 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  John  Power,  then  *  Eaqaiie,' 
aad  now  'Ykicoiuit  Deelee,'  the  eldest  ton  and  heir- 
apparent  of  this  defendant:  she  being  then  about  teMfot 
yvm  old,  and  John  Power  being  about  twem  or  aboot 
eight  years  old.  That  she  cohabited  with  John  Power, 
and  subscribed  her  name  and  took  hex  place  asTiscountesi 
Dedes,  until  she  stole  away  clandestinely  oat  of  the 
bonse  of  tlie  Earl  of  A^gleser,  grandfather  of  Viscount 


I  hare  no  note  of  the  decree  in  this  suit,  but  I 
presume  the  second  marriage  was  held  good,  and 
of  coarse  the  former  one  invalid :  for  I  see  in  the 
Peerage  that  by  Mr.  VilUers  (Brigadier-Generid 
the  Hon.  Edward  Villiers,  elder  son  and  heir- 
apparent  of  Geoige,  fourth  Viscount  Orandison) 
Catherine  had  (with  other  issue)  John,  fifth 
Tiflcoonty  created  Earl  of  Orandison.      Y.  S.  M. 

Local  Toubnamehtts  (4**  S.  ri.  438, 650.)  — 
To  the  list  must  be  added  Smithfield^  by  the 
atixens  on  Saturday  afternoons. 

Jaues  Qilbebi. 

51,  Hill  Street,  Peckbam,  aE. 

Shasd  ob  Shabjt  (4'^  S.  vL  324,  807,  601.)  — 
In  some  parte  of  the  countxy,  to  my  own  personal 
knowledge,  Amrd  or  tham  is  used  aa  a  term  desig- 
nating cow-dung  only.  In  the  north-east  district 
of  Aberdeenshire,  my  native  county,  it  is  one  of 
the  most  familiar  provincialisms  among  the  agri- 
cultural population ;  but  it  is  never  employea  to 
designate  horse,  sheep,  pig,  or,  in  fact,  any  kind 
of  dung  save  that  of  cows,  oxen,  &c.    An  indi- 


vidual who  has  donned  any  rery  smart  or  gay 
article  of  apparel  is  often  addressed  in  a  bantering 
way,  thus :  "  You  cast  a  dash  at  a  distance,  like 
sham  on  a  lea  rig  (ridge)."  A,  Patbbsok. 

Bamsley,  Yorks. 

The  "  vulgar  word  **  at  which  Stephen  Jacxsok 
liints  in  a  foot-note  is  much  more  likely  to  be 
connected  with  tihoot.  In  Lincobshire  a  cow 
with  diarrhoea  is  said  to  be  ''shootinf^."  Cow- 
ahardi  are  here  called  '^cassons"  (castings);  and 
'^  A  primrose  in  a  casson  '*  is  a  proverb  answering 
to  '^  A  iewel  of  gold  in  a  swine's  snout"  In  Mr. 
Peacock's  Ralph  Skirlaugh  we  find  a  farmer's 
sons  stacking  eauons  for  winter  fuel,  in  accordance 
with  an  old  proverb  respecting  fuel  and  soap^ 
which^  as  Mb.  Jackson  says, ''  I  can  only  hint  at" 

J.  T.  F, 

Pabodiks  (4"»  S.  vi.  476 ;  vii.  16.)— I  do  not 
know  if  the  Book  of  Ballads,  edited  by  Bon 
Gftultier,  published  by  Qrr  &  Co.,  1846,  would 
soit  W.  G.  D.  P.  P. 

Kiere  was  a  capital  parody  on  Coleridge'a 
Ch-isiaM  published  about  thirty-five  years  ago 
in  the  Encychpadia  of  Anecdote  and  Wit.  It 
conmienced,  I  think,  aa  I  write  entirely  from  me- 
mory, with — 

<«  'TIS  ten  o'clock  by  the  oastle  dock,"  &c. 
or, 

**  Tis  ten  o'clock  by  the  baron's  dock,"  &c 

Who  was  the  author  P  A  J.  DmnEiir. 

The  Patrontmic  ^'-wo  "  iw  Nobth-Engush 
Place-names  (4»*  S.  v.  660;  vi.  61,  120,  803, 
418,  609,  670.)~I  thmk  ^e  following  instance, 
taken  from  deeds  of  the  reign  of  Edward  III. 
relating  to  the  same  family  and  subject,  go  far  to 
prove  the  correctness  of  Mb.  Atkikson's  state- 
ment '*  that  the  stroke  over  the  vowel  denoting 
the  omission  of  n  is  often  omitted  by  old  scribes, 
and  not  the  least  frequently  in  names  involving 
the  element  -ing,''*  A  name  is  thus  written  vari- 
ously: '^de  Homynprwold,  de  Homingwold,  de 
Horningwold  sive  llomiwold,  de  Ilomiwold.'' 
There  is  no  stroke  to  denote  the  omission  of  the 
n  or  tf,  although  the  name  is  materially  altered. 

T.  C.  G.  H. 

«'Hl8   OWN  OPINION  WAS  HI8  LAW"  (4**»  S.  vi. 

271, 365,  662.)— With  great  respect  for  Dr.  Tait 
Bahage,  whoso  papers  have  always  interest  for 
me,  I  submit  that  it  is  widely  different  to  say  of  a 
person  that  his  own  opinion  is  his  law,  and  that 
he  "is  a  law  unto  himself."  As  I  inteipret  the 
expressions,  the  former  conveys  censure,  the  latter 
commendation.    The  quotation  from  Juvenal,*  as 

•  Juv.  vi.  222.  The  language  of  a  eelf-willed  imperious 
woman  to  her  poaUlaniraoos  vxorions  haabaod.  This> 
from  the  AfUhoUtgy,  has  some  reeemblanoe  :— 

Tw^  7^f>  e«*<9iy  el2c  vKt)v  %  $o^hrrtu, 
A  woman*B  trit  ia  bounded  by  her  wilL 


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[4«»  S.  VII.  Feb.  4, 71, 


applied  to  those  from  Shakespeare  and  ETagrius, 
ia  admirably  to  the  point ;  not  so  that  from  the 
Ethics.  As  a  parallel  to  this  one^  I  think;  might 
fairly  be  given  Bomans  iL  14 :  — 

atnoi  r6/iov  /a^  l;(orrcfy  iavrois  ciVi  vo/iot  * 

Edmukd  Tew,  M.A. 

P.S.  In  the  character  of  the  Emperor  Mauricius, 
as  given  by  Evagrius  (lib.  Ti.  i.),  we  have  a 
splendid  example  of  the  l^irpaT^t  =  the  man  who 
is  ^'  a  law  unto  himself    He  says, — 

'Ecnro^dcucc  Si  Xonr^  olfK  iy  rf  tr^fuertf  iiKKh  yhp  ical 

yo¥,  fiSvos  yitp  rSt¥  vfAtfif  /kuriX^ir  lovrov  /3c/3cur£^f wkc, 
mX  tdnoicpdrwp  Strrws  7er^/iciros,  r^v  ia\p  ^x^<>KP<tre/aF 
rfiy  vaBw  4k  tqs  olice/as  4^ani\dniir€  if^vx^s  *  i^croicpa" 
rtieof  Zk  4¥  rots  Imnov  XoyuTfiots  KortumiffdfMyoSf  fAv 
iiprr^s  iya\fia  iaxnhy  wafi4axfT0f  wphs  fd/uiifftv  iicwai- 
Icdwy  rh  MiKooif, 

Henceforth  he  made  it  his  business  not  only  to  adorn 
his  person,  but  more  especially  his  mind,  with  regal  dig> 
nities.  For  he  alone,  or  all  who  had  yet  worn  the  purple, 
strove  rigoronslv  to  rule  himself;  and  as  became  his  high 
{jHOsition,  while  banishing  from  his  mind  all  evil  affec- 
tions, to  school  himself  in  every  virtue,  and  thus  to  be- 
come a  living  example  for  the  imitation  of  his  subjects. 

AuBOBA  BoEEALis  (4*>'  S.  vL  406.)— The  fol- 
lowing narration  occurs  among  ''  Prodigies  in  the 
Heavens,"  in  a  work  entitled : — 

*'Mirabili8  Annus  Secundus;  or,  a  Second  Year  of 
Prodigies :  being  a  true  and  impartial  Collection  of  msny 
strange  Sioxes  and  Apparitioks  which  have  this  last 
^*ear  been  seen  in  the  Heavens,  and  in  the  Earth,  and  in 
the  Waters,"  4to.    Printed  in  the  Year  1662. 

<<  7^e  HeavenM  all  on  Fire. 

**  At  Lewes  in  Sussex,  June  15, 1661,  about  three  of  the 
clock  in  the  morning  divers  persons  observing  a  more  than 
ordinar}*  light,  being  then  in  their  beds,  presently  rose; 
and  looking  out,  they  perceived  the  whole  visible  hemi- 
sphere on  every  side  to  be  as  it  were  on  fire,  the  colour 
whereof  seemed  to  be  more  inclining  to  a  blood-red  than 
the  ordinary  flame  colour. 

**  At  the  same  time  idso,  at  a  town  called  Baweomb, 
about  twelve  or  fourteen  miles  from  Lewes,  a  person  of 
i]uality,  being  in  bed,  perceived  so  great  a  light  in  his 
chamber  that  he  verily  thought  his  bams  and  out- 
lionses  had  been  on  fire;  but  when  he  arose  and  looked 
forth,  he  saw,  as  he  conceived,  the  heavens  on  fire,  in  the 
same  dreadful  manner  as  is  before  expressed.  This  is 
attested  by  eye-witnesses  in  both  places,  and  a  thing  fre- 
quently and  commonly  spoken  of  in  those  parts." 

William  Bates. 

Birmingham. 

Lord  Btbon's  «  English  Bauds,"  etc.  U^  S. 
Ti.  868,  449,  480,  554 ;  vii.  23.)  —  I  am  quite 
cognizant  of  the  sentence  quoted  by  Mr.  J;  A. 
PiCTON,  but  it  does  not  alter  my  opinion  of  Mont- 
gomery's Wanderer  of  SwUserland,  and  of  the 
^stice  of  the  E^nburgh  reviewer's  critique. 
Byron's  dicta  on  poets  are  of  small  value.  He 
found  the  Faery  Queen  of  Spenser  very  dull.  He 
said  to  Leigh  Hunt,  "  Take  him  away  I  I  find 
nothing  in  him."    This  was  said  on  returning  to 


Hunt  that  immortal  allegory.    In  one  of  Byron's 

notes  to  Don  Juan  we  find  '^Cowner  was  an 

amiable  man,  Ind  no  poet"    Byron  blew  hot  or 

cold,  as  it  suited  his  humour.    The  first  edition 

of  JRimim  was  "  a  really  good  poem"    Afterwards 

he  discovered  that  "never  were  so  many  fine 

thines  spoilt  as  in  Bimini; "  and,  as  a  climax,  he 

could  write— 

«  O  Gemini  I 
What  a  nimini  pimini 
Story  of  Bimini  I " 

Many  of  Byron's  "  great  guns "  are  now  held 
in  slight  esteem,  while  other  writers  that  he 
bespattered  with  scurrility,  particularly  Coleridge, 
Wordsworth,  and  Southey,  have  risen  in  puUic 
estimation.  <'  Stupid  "  Grahame,  too,  is  an  in- 
stance of  the  latter  dass.  I  know  no  modem 
foem  more  truly  beautiful  than  The  SabhatK 
t  well  merits  the  praises  bestowed  upon  it  by 
the  late  Professor  Wilson.  It  is  veiy  popular  in 
Scotland. 

Mb.  Picton  says  The  Church  and  Warming^ 
pan  "  was  not  a  tract"  I  can  merely  say  that 
the  onlv  copy  I  .over  saw  was  an  8vo  pamphlet 
It  was  m  the  hands  of  a  bookseller  of  the  ^'Kow," 
who  has  retired  from  business.  I  called  it  a 
tract  because  it  had  hardly  pages  enough  to  be 
dignified  with  the  name  of  pamphlet  Perhaps 
my  tract  was  Mr.  Picton's  ''surreptitious  ca- 
tion " :  I  believe  it  was  so. 

I  beg  to  assure  Mr.  Picton  that  I  am  a  very 
great  admirer  of  ^Hhe  real  Montffomery,"  as 
Wilson  once  called  him ;  but  my  admiration  of 
The  World  before  the  Flood  and  The  Pelican 
Island  does  not  blind  me  to  the  imperfections  of 
the  Wanderer,  I  saw  then#long  before  I  knew 
Switzerland,  and  with  my  present  acquuntance 
with  Helvetia  I  see  still  more  the  puerile  absur- 
dities of  Montgomery's  **  wanderings." 

Jambs  HBirBT  Dixoir. 

Laosanne. 

PuwHiKO  AND  Jbstino  ON  Names  (4**  S.  vL  364, 
68I.)'Ghief  Erminb  has  spoilt  the  puns  which 
he  admires  by  reversing  the  speakers.  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dawes,  Archbishop  of  York,  was  lamenting 
that  the  clergy  who  visited  him  would  not  find 
things  in  such  good  order  as  in  the  time  of  his 
beloved  Mar^.  ''  She  was,  indeed,  nuire  pac^ 
cum/*  to  which  a  curate  rejoinea — ''True,  my 
lord,  but  she  was  mare  mortuum  first" 

In  1715  was  a  total  eclipse  of  the  sun,  followed 
in  a  fortnight  by  an  eclipse  of  the  moon.  A  lady 
asked  his  ffraoe  if  he  had  seen  the  eclipse  of  the 
moon.  ''No,"  said  he,  "my  chaplain  saw  that; 
/  saw  the  eclipse  of  the  sun.''  W.  G. 

Has  not  Chiief  Erminb  taken  the  point  out  of 
this  story  by  inverting  its  detaUs  P  I  nave  always 
heard  it  thus : — 

**  Sir  William  Dawes,  ArehUshop  of  York,  was  very 
fond  of  a  pan.    His  dergy  dining  with  him  for  the  fiiaC 


1*  S.  VII.  F»B.  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


107 


time  after  he  had  lost  his  ladj,  he  told  them  he  feared 
the^  did  not  find  things  in  so  good  ozder  as  thej  nsed  to 
be  m  the  time  of  poor  Mary ;  and,  looking  extremely 
sorrowfal,  added  with  a  deep  sigh,  *  she  was,  mdeed,  tnare 
paeiJSaan,*  A  curate,  who  pretty  well  knew  what  she 
had  been,  said,  'Aye,  mv  lord,  bat  she  was  mare  mor- 
tmtm  first.'  "—See  Mark  Lemon's  Jttt  Book,  No.  1086. 

The  pun  on  the  name  of  Winter  is  equalled,  I 
ibinky  by  the  following : — 

•*  Admind  Duncan's  address  to  the  officers  who  came 
on  board  his  ship  for  instructions  previous  to  the  engsge- 
ment  with  Admiral  de  Winter  was  both  laconic  and 
hamonms:  'Gentlemen,  you  see  a  severe  Winter  ap- 
proacbinff ;  I  have  only  to  advise  you  to  keep  up  a  good 
Hie,' "^J  bid,  No.  1255. 

W.  Spabbow  Sinpsoxr. 

The  beat  pun  I  ever  heard  was  made  on  Lord 
Arthur  Hill,  one  of  Wellington's  aides  at  Water- 
loo. He  was  renowned  for  his  conversational 
powers.  After  a  dinner  party,  at  which  he  had 
shone  with  unusual  brilliancy,  some  one  remarked 
of  him,  '*  It  will  be  a  mat  pity  when  his  mother 
dies."  "WhyP"  *' Because  now  he  is  a  plea- 
sant Hill ;  then  he  will  be  Baron  Sandys." 

A  fimilar  play  on  names  was  the  following :  — 
Mr.  Fallsy  a  well-known  Irish  sportsman,  hap- 

Eened  unfortunately  one  day  to  ride  down  a 
ound.  The  irascible  but  witty  master  attacked 
him  in  no  yery  measured  language.  "  Sir,"  was 
the  reply,  "I'd  haye  you  recollect  that  I  am  Mr. 


Fiiz  Richard. 


Saasbbuck  Custom  (4**»  S.  vi.  477.)--Your 
correspondent  A.  S.  asks  if  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q." 
can  throw  any  light  upon  the  history  or  exist- 
ence of  customs  similar  to  that  obser^'ed  at  Saar- 
briick  ?  I  haye  read  and  heard  of  such  customs, 
but  I  must  confess  that  I  have  never  previously 
lieard  of  an  application  of  the  protecting  influence 
of  tree  boughs  to  railway  carriages.  The  '*  march 
of  science    must  account  for  this. 

To  hang  branches  by  the  doors  of  houses  is  an 
ancient  and  was  a  popular  custom.  Thus  I  read 
at  p.  133  of  a  small  anonymous  book  entitled  A 
Short  Account  of  the  City  and  dose  of  JUchJidd, 
to  which  is  added  a  Short  Account  ofihe  Cathidral, 
1831  :— 

"  It  was  a  custom  on  Ascension  Day  fur  the  dergjman 
of  the  parish,  accompiinied  by  the  churchwardens  and 
sidesmen,  and  followed  by  a  concourse  of  children  bear- 
ing green  houghs^  to  repair  to  the  different  reservoirs  of 
water,  and  there  read  the  gospel  for  the  day,  after  which 
-they  were  regaled  with  cakes  and  ale ;  during  the  cere- 
mony the  door  of  ereiy  house  was  decorated  with  an  elm 
boogh,"  &C.  Ac. 

Further:  I  am  informed  that  in  the  yillage 
of  Leyland,  Lancashire  (which  yillage  giyes  its 
name  to  the  hundred  in  which  it  is  located), 
ihere  preyailed  a  custom  (my  informant  belieyes 


on  May  Bay)  of  the  following  nature : — The  yil- 
lagers  would  hang  by  the  doors  of  the  better 
known  or  more  notorious  inhabitants  boughs  of 
trees,  the  different  shrubs  or  trees  haying  yaried 
significations,  and  speaking  as  to  the  popular  re- 
pute, good  or  eyil.  of  the  dweller  in  the  tenement 
so  decorated.  Tnis  was  nearly  half  a  century 
ago,  and  I  should  be  glad  to  learn — 

1.  Whether  such  practice  is  still  in  yogue. 

2.  The  emblematic  meanings  of  the  yarious 
trees. 

A^ain,  we  haye  the  May  Day  custom  of  sua- 
pendmg  hawthorn  boughs  by  doors. 

Thokas  Titllt,  Juv. 

Baphsv  fob  tub  Dbab  (3»>  S.  yiL  33 ;  4'^  S. 
y.  424, 644,  666.) — So  much  has  already  appeared 
on  this  qumUio  vexata  in  the  pages  of  ''  N.  &  Q." 
that  I  am  surprised  none  of  your  correspondents 
refeired  to  the  interpretation  insejcted  in  the 
Qent.  Maa,  yol.  xlix.,  as  proposed  in  part  by  an 
eminent  diyine,  Bishop  Pearce,  and  further  sup- 
ported by  a  no  less  eminent  critic^  Isaac  Reed. 
It  is,  in  my  opinion,  worthy  of  resuscitation  in 
this  ^xni  wrpuovj  (d^ough  it  has  at  great  length 
been  reyiyed  in  the  Journal  of  Sacred  Literature, 
y.  396-414 ;  and  I  shall,  with  your  permission, 
supply  the  interpretation  referred  to  in  an  abridged 
form,  and  as  succinctly  as  the  subject  will  admit 

The  commentator  shows  that  fiairrll^tir$M  sig- 
nifies to  die  a  yiolent  death  by  the  hands  of  per- 
secutors, and  the  critic  adds  the  precise  idea  of 
Mp  rdr  P9KpMfy  which  in  this  place  means  those 
to  whom  the  gospel  was  preached  (those  who  sat 
in  darknesB  and  M«  shadow  of  death),  and  upon 
whose  account  the  preachers  of  it  suffered : — 

*^  The  interpretation  here  proposed  is  not  only  in  per- 
fect accordance  with  the  word  of  God  at  large,  with  the 
language  and  sentiments  of  St.  Paul  himself  in  other 
parU  of  his  epistles,  with  the  train  of  reasoning  pur- 
sued in  the  chapter  in  which  these  words  are  found,  and 
with  the  sense  of  the  words  elsewhere  separately  and  con- 
nectivdy ;  but  all  the  arguments  adduced  in  its^  support 
hare  been  drawn  fkom  these  sources,  than  which  none 
can  be  mora  legitimate  or  better  entitled  to  deference; 
each  of  them  possesses  in  itself  some  strength,  and  com- 
bined, they  appear  to  prove  that  the  Apostles  are  the 
persons  here  spoken  of  as  baptiaed— that  the  baptism 
referred  to  is  that  which  our  Saviour  announced  as  their 
portion  (Mark  x.,  LukexiL);  and  that  by  the  dead  are 
meant  the  people  of  God,  the  body  of  Christians  in  the 
apostolic  times  who  were  led  by  the  Apostles  to  con- 
sider themselves  dead,  and  to  lead  them  to  do  which 
they  endured  that  afflictive  baptism ;  and  finally,  that 
these  words  in  this  sense  are  well  adapted  to  sum  up  a 
powerful  appeal  like  that  of  the  Apostle,  as  describing 
in  the  conduct  both  of  those  who  preached  and  those  who 
raoeived  the  Gospel,  if  there  was  no  resurrection,  a  depth 
of  infatuation  and  an  extent  of  folly  perfectly  unac- 
counUble.  'Their  life'  in  this  case 'would  have  been 
madness*  indeed,  *and  their  end  without  honour.*"— 
(  Witdom  of  Solomon),  R.  K.  in  Journal,  Ac. 

BlBIlOTHBGAB.  ChETHAJC. 


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[4«kaVII.FBB.4,'71. 


St.  Leonabd  (4«»  S.  tI.  371.)— In  tiik  leplj 
(hj  the  Editor)  we  are  told  that  there  were  two 
samts  of  the  name :  one  being  abbot  of  VandcBUTre, 
the  other  abbot  of  Noblac.  la  there  anything  in 
the  hiatory  of  this  ''pair  of  saints"  to  account 
for  that  extreme  popularity  with  our  forefathers, 
betokened  by  the  vast  number  of  places  called 
after  them  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of 
this  island  F  Nobll  Rajixglifsb. 

"Veritas  is  Pitteo"  (4«'  S.  vi.  474.)— This 

saying  of  Democritus  (who  died  B.C.  357^  is,  so 

far  as  I  have  been  able  to  discover,  first  given  by 

Cicero  in  his  Aeadetmcs  (i.  10),  supposed  to  have 

been  written  about  B.C.  45:  ''Naturam  accusa, 

qu8B  in  profundo  veritatem,  ut  ait  Democritus, 

penitus  abstniserit.''     Possibly  Seneca  (Benefic, 

vi.  28)  has  it  in  his  thoughts,  when  he  says: 

*'InvoIuta  Veritas  in  alto  ktet."     Dr.  Walcott 

("  Birthday  Ode  ")  refers  to  it :  — 

**  The  sages  say,  dame  Truth  deljghts  to  dwells- 
Strange  mansion— ia  the  bottom  of  a  wdJ." 

Goethe,  in  his  Maxims  {vi,  169,  ed.  Btuttgart, 

1840),  speaks  of  Truth  with  the  same  allusion :  — 

**  Der  Irrthum  ist  viel  leichter  zn  erke&Den,  als  die 
Wahrheit  za  findeo ;  Jener  Uegt  aqf  der  Oberfllche,  damit 
Ittast  sich  vrohl  fertig  werden ;  dieae  roht  in  der  Tiefe, 
danach  zu  foraohen  ist  nicht  Jedermanni  Sache." 

.  There  is  a  very  pretty  idea  in  Don  Quixote 
(v.  10),  which  seema  to  refer  to  Truth  being  in  a 
well:  — 

**  La  veidad  adelgaza,  y  no  qidabra,  y  siempre  anda 
sobre  la  mentira,  como  el  aze^'te  tobre  el  agoa." 

**  Truth  ma^  be  stretched  out  thinly,  but  there  ean  be 
no  rent,  and  it  always  gets  above  falsebood  as  oil  does 
above  water." 

I  have  never  seen  the  proverb  in  any  Greek 
writer.  Amonfi;  the  sayings  of  Democritus  quoted 
by  Diogenes  Laertius  it  does  not  appear.  Can 
any  one  give  a  passage  where  it  occurs  in  a  Greek 
writer  ?  C.  T.  Bamagb. 

Cucumber  (4*  S.  vi.  474;  vii.  19.)— Gherkin 
is  firom  the  Swed.  gttrka  -  Teut  awcke,  a  cucum- 
ber, more  particularly  a  small  cucumber  for 
pickling.  Some  assert  the  word  a  corruption, 
through  the  T.,  of  the  Latin  cucurbiia.  '  J.  J .  J, 

The  meaning  of  gherkin,  inquired  for  by  P.  P., 
is,  little  cucumber ;  from  gwhe,  a  cucumber,  in 
German.  The  Dutch  have  the  word  agurkje.  The 
terminal  tVi,  I  take  it,  is  a  diminutive;  and  it 
would  seem  probable  that  all  words  are  allied : 
cf.  ct*curbita  «  kauiooorde  «  gourd.  A.  H. 

J.  P.  asks  why  young  cucumbers  are  called 
gherkins,  and  for  the  etymology.  The  pickled 
cucumber  or  gherkin  is  probably  of  (German  or 
Dutch  origin,  and  the  word  gherkin  seems  to  be 
from  the  German  purke,  a  cucumber;  or  the 
Dutch  agurkje,  gurk/e,  rendered  "  a  small  pickled 
cucumber.''  Wachter  thinks  giirkcj  kurke  may  be 
derived  from  its  cnrved  shape;   "Nam  Celtica 


lingua  cwreoa  est  curvus,  incarrus,  teste  Boxhom 
in  Lex,  Ant,  Brit.  Suods  *  kroekia,*  etiamnum  est 
eurvare,  et  krock  curvus.  Yarro  quoque  nomen 
Latinum  a  curvore  conatur  deducere,  quamvis  satia 
violenter,  utpote  litem  B  in  medio  destitatum.'* 
Ihre  says  the  Su.-Goth.  gurha  may  be  from  on- 
gtiria  (med.  Lat.  anguriue  f ).  ^  auod  exat  cueomis 
sativi  genus,"  &c.  &c. ;  but  ne  tninks  it  may  also 
be  from  the  Slavonic,  the  Poles  using  oporeck  for 
a  cucumber.  The  Bohemian  word  is  oJmke, 
The  probable  derivation  of  the  different  forma  of 
the  word  in  the  Gotho-Teutonic  and  Slavonic 
languages,  aa  well  as  of  the  modem  French  eourgej 
is  itom  the  Lat.  cucurbita.  Roquefort,  under 
"coucourde,  couhoure,"  refers  to  coorde,  coordie^ 
ooourde,  oowrdage  (found  also  eouoQivrde\  wbich 
he  renders  *' dtrouille,  calebaase,  cucurbita)  en 
LanguedoCy  eougourU^  cougourde." 

R.  S.  Chabhook. 
Gray's  Inn. 

A  Jaoobite  Song:  Cook-pightiko,  btc.  (4"" 
8.  vi.  548.) — I  quote  the  following  from  a  History 
of  Kintgre,  by  Peter  MfLntosh.  (Third  edition. 
Campbeltown,  1870):— 

*'  In  those  days  (a  century  ago  and  later)  the  school- 
masters being  ill  remanerated  for  their  laboor,  and  school- 
ftes  being  very  low,  the  teacher  claimed  a  free-will 
o£fering  on  Candlemas  day,  it  being  an  old  ooatom ;  and 
the  parents  of  the  children  took  a  gnat  interest  in  that 
day,  making  an  effort  to  provide  the  scholars  with  some- 
thing handsome  to  offer  to  their  teacher ;  and  to  animate 
the  children,  a  cock-fight  was  proposed,  with  other  amuse- 
ments." 

In  some  lines  of  verse  that  follow,  the  author 
tells  us  of  the  delight  of  the  boys  in  preparing 
their  birds,  and  gives  a  description  of  a  fight,  con- 
cluding thus : — 

'*  AU  those  who  die  in  the  great  fight, 
The  master  claims  them  as  his  lighL'* 

Further  on  he  tells  us  that— - 

**  The  teacher  collected  his  oflfering,  and  the  boy  and 
fldrl  who  gave  most  received  the  envi^  title  of  Kixig  and 
Queen,  which  title  they  had  the  honour  of  carrying  to 
the  first  day  of  Hay." 

D,  Macphail. 

Paisley. 

Cancait  (4"»  S.vL  466,  666.)-^«  A  FRiarcH- 
man"  does  not  seem  to  have  seen  the  Cancan 
danced  lately  in  the  Jardin  Mabille  of  Paris,  the 
Tivoli  at  Hamburg,  or  in  the  public  gardens  in 
Berlin,  else  he  would  not  have  ventured  to  defend 
its  decency.  It  maybe  interesting  to  your  readers 
to  know  that  the  cancan^  as  danced  by  a  French- 
woman,  formed  the  chief  source  of  the  nmufto 
ment  of  the  Berliners  up  to,  and  even  after,  the 
declaration  of  war.  The  cylinders  for  advertise- 
ments in  the  Unter-der-linden  continued  to  be 
covered  with  invitations  to  see  iJiis  lascivious 
dance  for  three  or  four  days  after  war  was  de- 
clared, up  to  the  time  that  they  were  required 
by  the  government  for  advertisements  calling  out 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


109 


the  Landwehr  and  wanting  persons  to  work  in 
the  arsenals^  and  till  the  anti-Gallican  feeling 
among  the  people  caused  the  artisie  to  retreat. 
Ctmotm  is  derived  from  Lat  mumquam.  although. 
Id  the  schools  of  the  Middle  Ages  tne  pronnn- 
ciatioB  of  this  word  was  the  suhject  (h  fierce 
contention,  one  party  pronouncing  it  cancan  and 
the  other  ptanquam;  hence  it  came  to  signify 
iittie-tsttle,  gossip^  scandal,  undue  fanuliarity, 
&c.  J.  H> 

«  HiC  tlBER  EST  m  QUO,"  ETC.  (4"»  S.  iii.  606.) 
The  author  of  this  is  inqoired  for  hy  Mr.  WAtren, 
who  will  find  the  answer  in  your  columns  gtren 
by  J.  S.  (2"'  3.  i  140).  The  author  is  Wehrenfels, 
Irofeasor  of  DiTinity  at  Basle  in  the  early  part  of 
the  last  oentory.  One  of  your  correspondents,  M. 
(1"*  8.  xi.  73),  furnishes  a  translation ;  may  1  sug* 

^^     Airce,  in"liiB  VMation  of  Seats 
asserts  that  a  family  now  calU 
escended  from  Amulph's  son  Bof 
iB,  hy  his  second  wife^  "  a  Sa 
'.  these  statements  Bxe^Jtu^""^^    W.  T.  M, 

Ibish  FoRVEmmEs  (4**  S.  vi.  546.)— Probably 
one  of  the  books  relating  to  the  Irish  forfeitures 
of  16d9,  of  which  MR.  m1clea27  is  in  search  of,  is 
A  Book  of  Postin^a  and  Sale  of  Forfeited  Estates 
in  Irelana,  now  in  the  British  Museum ;  the  date 
is  1703,  and  there  is  a  MS.  index  of  the  pur- 
chasers' names  appended  to  it.  There  is  a  good 
deal  of  information  on  the  same  subject  in  the 
Meports  of  the  Commissioners  of  Public  Pecords  in 
Ireland  (1821-26),  the  third  volume  of  which 
gives ''  Abstracts  of  Grants  of  Lands,  &c.,  under 
Sie  Acta  of  Settlement  and  Explanation,  a.d. 
1666-1684;''  and,  as  well  as  I  remember,  ab- 
stracts from  conveyances  of  the  forfeited  estates 
of  1680.  The  latter  estates  were  sold  at  Chiches- 
ter House,  College  Green,  Dublin,  in  or  before  the 
year  1703,  by  trustees  appointed  for  the  purpose. 

St,  Peter's  Squnre,  HammeTsmith,  W. 

DxMOKiAOB  (4:^  S.  V.  680  J  vi.  78, 183.)--The 
Analytical  Investigation  of  the  Scriptural  Claims  of 
the  Demi,  by  Russell  Scott.  1822,  has  been  attn- 
bated  in  your  pages  to  Dr.  Barr  of  Liverpool. 
Haa  this  gentleman  written  on  both  sides  of  this 
vexed  question,  seeing  that  A  Letter  to  the  Bev, 
Georfe  Harris .  .  .  1^0,  has  been  also  assigned 
to  him  by  Ms.  Bates  at  the  last  reference  but 
one  ?  Harrow. 

Boot  o¥  CoiraoK  Pratbr  (4**  S.  vi.  436,  660.) 

I  have  a  Prayer-book  of  the  same  kind : — 

*  London,  printed  by  John  Basketty  Frinter  to  the 
King's  Most  Excellent  Majesty,  and  by  the  Assiffns  of 
Thomas  Neweomi,  mod  HemyHi^deotaB'd,  1722.'' 

It  is  in  its  original  black  calf  gilt  binding,  and 
has  bound  with  it  '*  A  Companion  to  the  Altar," 
(Edmd.  Parker,  Bible  and  Crown,  Lombard  Street, 


1721),  and  '^Stemhold  and  Hopkins's  Psalms" 
(printed  by  Sua.  Collins  for  the  Company  of  Sta* 
tiqnersy  1713.)  It  contains  many  coarsely  executed 
plates.  The  frcmtispiece  is  a  portrait  of  King 
George ;,  **  Joseph's  Dream ''  is  in  the  carpenter's 
shop  with  tools  about.  The  illustration  to  "Gun- 
powder  Treason  "  is  an  eye  in  the  clouds  sending 
a  column  of  rays  on  to  Guy  Fawkes's  hand  as  he 
is  carrying  his  lantern  by  night  to  a  conventional 
parliament  house.  M^  copy  is  very  neatly  ruled 
throughout  with  red  Imes.  J.  T.  F. 

Vmb  :  Febse  (4^  S.  vi.  195,  421,  653.)— In 
this  interesting  discussion  it  will  be  well  not  to 
lose  sight  of  the  vrordf eased,  meaning  untwisted, 
unravelled,  bein^  the  verb  oi  feaze,  from  T.fesen, 
also  faXf  the  hair  of  the  head,  same  as,  and  per- 
haps derived  from  the  Q.fax,  S./«j:,  T.  fahs,  all 
meaning  hair,  or  fibres  of  flax;  thus  wo  have 
Fairfax:  but  I  quite  fail  with  JoHir  Annis  in 
seeing  a  connection  y/nthfeese.        T.  Jkrxmiah. 

Mr.  Addis  concludes  his  article  on  this  word 
with  the  following  sentence:  —  ''How  far  the 
'  ravelling '  and  '  driving  awav '  meanings  are  to 
be  connected,  I  do  not  see. '  Wedgwood  says 
that  the  two  main  senses  of  the  word  are,  ''  1,  to 
whip,  chastise,  harass;  and  2,  to  ravel  out  the 
end  of  a  rope";  and  Mr.  Addis  acknowledges 
that  "  to  beat,"  and  « to  beat  into  flight,"  are 
meanings  not  difficult  of  reconcilement  If  he 
had  remembered  that  the  whip  most  in  use  amonff 
sailors  is  a  rope's  end,  I  do  not  think  he  would 
have  found  much  difficulty  in  connecting  the  two 
meanings.  The  nautical  meaning  of  the  word 
feaze  may,  after  all,  be  the  primary  one,  and  the 
whipping,  ox  driving  away  only  secondary. 

£.  M  C« 

Gnemsey. 

HiPFOCRATBS  AWD    H0V<E0PATHY    (4*    S.    vii. 

64.) — G.  E.'s  communication  appeared  in  '*  N.  &Q." 
3'*^  S.  ix.  538,  without  eliciting  a  reply.  Hahne- 
mann observes  that-— 

"  The  ftothor  of  the  book  vcpi'r^ffwF  rwy  icar'  Mpwroyf 
-which  is  among  the  writings  attributed  to  Hippocrates, 
has  the  following  remarkable  words:-* 8m  rk  BfAota 
yovffos  yivercUf  koX  8i&  ra  $f»mtairpo(r^9p6fiwa  4k  ¥offt^ 
r«y  ^lalrorrfli,  &c.  *<By  similar  things  disease  is  pro- 
duced, and  by  similar  things,  administered  to  the  sick, 
they  are  healed  of  their  diseases.  Thus  the  same  thing 
which  will  produce  a  strangury,  when  it  does  not  exist, 
will  remove  it  when  it  does.** 

These  sentiments  are  thus  expressed  by  Coma- 
rius  in  his  translation,  in  1564 : — 

"Per  similia  morbus  fit,  et  per  similia  adhibita  ex 
morbo  sanantur.  Velut  urinne  stilicidium  idemfacit  n 
wmwH,  et  #i  eit  idem  aedat."  Hippocrates,  Openi,  Juno 
Comario  interpreta,  1664,  pp.  87,  88.  Quoted  by  Wm. 
Sharp,  M.D.,  in  IVaeU  onnomaepathy.  No.  1,  p.  4. 

J.  Yeowell. 

Bows  AKD  CuBTSETS  (4*  S.  vi.  668).— M.  D. 
asks  for  the  first  record  of  the  curtsey.    Is  it  not 


110 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4a«  S.  VII.  Fkb.  4, 71. 


in  Genesis  xli.  43  ?  "  And  he  made  him  [Joseph! 
to  ride  in  the  second  chariot  which  he  had ;  and 
they  cried  before  him,  Bow  the  knee.^*  The  curtaey 
was  formeriy  used  by  the  male  as  well  as  the 
female  sex.  E.  V. 

Kekabxablb  Occubrence  to  Bells  (4***  S.  vi. 
384,  467,  486.)— When  the  Royal  Exchange  was 
burnt  down  a  few  years  since,  I  remember  the 
newspapers  telling  us,  as  a  curious  coincidence, 
that  the  last  tune  the  bells  in  the  clock  chimed 
ere  they  fell  was,  '^There's  nae  luck  nboot  the 
hoose/'  I  cannot  youch  for  the  fact,  but  only 
for  reading  it.  P.  P. 

Manchesteb  Chap-Books  (4»>>  S.  yl  386, 466.) 
A  few  remarks  on  the  list  (p.  466)  may  be  accept- 
able. The  Shepherd  of  SaUsbitrv  i%mi  is  from  the 
Cheap  Repository  Tracts  of  Efannah  More.  The 
Old  Woman  of  MatcUffe  Highioay  was  one  of  the 
old  Aldermary  chap-books ;  it  is  a  curious  bit  of 
nonsense  from  beginning  to  end,  in  the  same  style 
as  Footers  '^  He  died,  and  she  very  imprudently 
married  the  barber  "  {vide ''  N.  &  Q."  3"»  S.  iv.  187, 
237.)  However,  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that 
the  "  old  woman ''  was  laid  under  her  '^  wooden 
stone ''  long  before  Foote  was  bom.  Washington 
Irving  and  many  others  introduce  a  '^  wooden 
tombstone,"  but  the  earliest  instance  that  I  know 
of  such  a  memento  mori  is  the  one  in  The  Old 
Woman  of  Ratcliffe  Highway, 

The  Merry  Piper  is  a  modem  version  (but  iiot 
a  very  modem  on^  of  The  Friar  and  Boy,  which 
was  renrinted  by  Ritson.  The  Merry  Piper  is  in 
tolerably  smooth  ballad  metre,  and  contains  a  few 
laughable  incidents  that  are  not  in  the  old  ver- 
sion. Mr.  Swindells  presented  me  with  a  copy 
of  this  chap-book,  and  with  an  old  edition  of 
part  I.,  apparently  printed  about  a  century  ago. 
Tummue  and  Meary  is  from  Tim  Bobbin's  (Col- 
lier) Lancashire  Dialect 

Ihicke  and  \green']  Peas,  or  the  KewcatUe  Rider, 
is  a  Newcastle  story  founded  on  a  domestic  inci- 
dent in  the  old  northern  family  of  Cookson.  The 
Table-Book  of  Richardson  gives  full  particulars. 
There  is  an  interlude  on  the  subject  that  has  often 
been  acted  in  the  north-countrv  theatres.  The  King 
and  the  Cobbler,  Tom  JStekathrift,  Doctor  Fauetus, 
Nixon's  Prophecies,  Simple  Simoti,  Tom  Thumb — 
all  these  (except  Nixon)  were  Aldermary  tracts, 
and  are  well  known. 

.  Honest  John  and  Loving  Kate  is  new  to  me. 
What  is  it  about  P  Several  of  the  others  named 
by  Mr.  HABRisoir;  are  evidently  mere  abridg- 
ments of  popular  and  well-known  works,  and  do 
not  call  tor  any  remarks.  There  was  another 
Manchester  chap-book  printer,  who  had  the  re- 
markable name  of  Shelmerdine,  I  think  there  were 
two,  father  and  son.  Has  Mb.  Harbison  any  of 
the  Shelmerdine  prints  P 

Jaxes  Hbhby  Dixov. 


f.  e,  creative  01 


TiTLERS  OP  Sugar  (4**»  S.  vi.  560.)— Loaf  sugar 
is  put  up  in  larp  lumps  called  **  lumps/'  weighing 
twenty  or  thirty  pounds  each,  and  in  small 
sugar  loaves,  with  which  every  one  is  familiar. 
But  there  is  a  loaf  of  intermediate  size,  weighinsp 
about  ten  pounds,  and  these  loaves  are  called 
"  titlers."  F.  C.  H. 

••TiTLKR :  A  laiBC  truncated  cone  of  refined  sagar.'' — 
See  Webster's  Dictionary,  revised  by  Goodrich  and 
Porter. 

A.S.W. 

Ross  OP  WiGToirsHiRB  (4*^  S.  vi.  669.)— Your 

correspondent  will  find  three  generations  of  the 

Rosses  of  Balkail  in  a  sheet  pe£gree  of  the  family 

of  fVeer,   which    appeared    in    the  Miscellanea 

Genealogica.    Some  copies  of  this  pedigree  wero 

printed  separately,    I  believe  Mr.  Russell  Smith 

has  some  lQ^9n1»      ij      „  .^  F.  M.  S. 

r  R,  8.  CHA:a     . 

Ancirn'^  S.  VI. 

^27.)— WILL—,  a^^^.  n^^  »«,,,..^«.,    ^«ition 
it  has  the  it?™  ®?^?;t.9^JPf,:^?^^.!i  ^allusj 


luote  the  following  from  a  -^g^ul 

is  emblematic  of  eternity.  Querist  should  con-> 
suit  the 'writings  of  Fajne  Knight,  Godfrey  Hig- 
gins,  and  Henry  0*Bnen;  also,  '^Priapeia  sive 
diversorum  poetarum  in  Ptiapum  lusus,  illustrati 
comment.  G,  Shoppi,  Francij  &c  Patavii,  1664.'' 
I  cannot  say  more  or  be  more  explicit  on  such  a 
subject.  As  to  the  passage  in  Gen.  iii.  consult  a 
learned  work  by  the  Kev.  Mr.  Rendell  of  Preston^ 
The  Antediluvian  History  of  the  World. 

Stepues  Jaoksok. 

GiPSiRS  DT  Irrlakd  (4*»»  S.  vl  627.)— *'  Twentv- 
five  vears  ago  there  were  many  gipsies  to  ^  be 
foima  between  Londonderry  and  Belfast''  (Sim- 
son's  History  of  the  Gipsies,  p.  858,  n.)  In  thft 
above-named  work  firequent  mention  is  made  of 
Irish  gipsies.  W.  R.  Dreknak. 

Athensum,  Manchester. 

BELL-Rnranro  (4"»  S.  vi.  567.) — When  I  was 
an  undergraduate  at  Cambridge,  more  years  ago 
than  is  pleasant  to  contemplate,  two  of  the  churches 
there  had  a  peal  of  three  bells  each,  which  re- 
spectively did  duty  for  four.  One  was  rung  in 
this  order — 1,  2, 1, 3,  with  veiy  good  efiect.  The 
other  had  the  third  bell  crackea,  and  made  this 
music — ^'dingdong  ding^Ai/<^.'"  With  the  ex- 
ception of  the  glorious  peal  at  Great  St  Mary's, 
and  one  or  two  tolerable  besides,  Cambridge  was, 
and  still  is,  wretchedly  furnished  with  church 
bells,  the  greater  number  of  churches  having  only 
one  or  two  each.  The  Abbey  Church  has  lately 
received  a  present  of  two  bells,  and  if  the  ori^nal 
use  of  bells  was  to  frighten  away  the  evil  spirits, 
as  some  say,  then  these  two  bells  ought  to  be 
most  efficacious  for  the  purpose,  for  the  most 
frolicsome  of  the  imps  of  Beelzebub,  even  ''  Cob," 
'<Mob,"  and  <<  Chittabob,"  of  the  IngoUUby  Le- 


4^  B.  VII.  Feb.  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Ill 


^end»^  -vrould  be  '^  off  in  a  crack  "  as  soon  as  the 
jaogle  of  these  bells  reached  their  ears.       D.  S. 

Arms  of  thi  Cottkts  of  Psbghb  (4*^  S.  vi. 
543.) — The  arms  attributed  to  the  house  of  Be- 
leame  are,  Bendy  or  and  azure.  Rotron,  Count 
of  Perche,  was  the  son  of  Geoffrey,  and  (it  is 
supposed)  grandson  of  Gu^rin  or  Warine  de  Be- 
leiime ;  which  Warine  was  brother  of  William  de 
Beleeme,  sumamed  Talvaine^  whose  only  child, 
Mabel,  married  Roger  de  .Montgomeiji  Earl  of 
Shrewsbury. 

Kotron's  grandson,  also  named  Rotron  (son  of 
his  son  Gboffre^,  by  Beatrice  de  Roucy),  married, 
for  his  first  wife,  Maud,  a  natural  aaiu[hter  of 
King  Henry  I.:  and  for  his  second,  Hawyse, 
daughter  of  Walter  de  Salisbury,  by  SibiUa,  the 

n limed  daughter  of  Amulph  de  Hesding.  Sand- 
,  in  his  Oenealogieal  Hitiory,  calls  Rotron  the 
''  9an  of  Amulph  deHesdinp^,  first  Earl  of  Perche," 
and  Burke,  in  his  Visitaiton  of  Seats  and  Anns, 
ii.  61,  asserts  that  a  family  now  called  Hedding 
are  descended  from  Amulph^s  son  Rotro,  Earl  of 
Perehe,  by  his  second  wife,  '*  a  Saxon  lady." 
Both  Uiese  statements  are,  howeyer,  erroneous ; 
for  it  is  very  clear  that  Amulph  de  Hesding  was 
noi  the  father  of  Rotron  Earl  of  Perehe. 

The  Nugent  family  are  also  stated  by  Burke 
{Peerage,  art. '' Westmeath")  to  be  descended  from 
the  house  of  Belesme,  their  immediate  ancestor 
being  Gilbert  de  Nogent,  son  of  Fulke  and  grand- 
son of  Rotron  I.,  Count  of  Perehe  and  Lord  of 
Nosent  de  Rotron.  This  Fulke  married,  it  is 
said,  Matilda,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  TAigle ; 
that  is  to  say,  his  grand-niece,  for  Gilbert's  wife 
Juliana  was  the  daughter  of  Fulke's  brother  Geof- 
frey.    (See  Ordericus  VUaHsJ) 

1  beg  to  refer  your  correspondent  to  a  yer^  able 
and  interesting  paper  on  Ajmulph  de  Hesding  by 
Mr.  Eyton,  the  historian  of  Snropshire,  in  The 
Heraid  and  Geneahgid,  yi.  241,  and  also  to  an 
article  in  the  third  yolume  of  the  same  periodical, 
p.  173,  by       .  H.  J.  G. 

Book  0bna]os5TATI0I7  (4«*»  S.  yi.  567.) — I  beg 
to  inform  F.  M.  S.  that  in  our  family  library  there 
is  a  yolume  appropriately  ornamented  with  a  land- 
scape on  the  edges  of  the  leayes,  which  is  only 
yisible  when  they  are  slanted.  The  leayes  are 
not  gilt  The  book  is  supposed  to  haTO  been 
bound  between  forty  and  nfty  years  affo  at  the 
shop  of  Taylor  &  Messey.  If  the  sight  of  this 
J>ooK  would  be  of  any  interest  to  your  correspon- 
dent, I  could  offer  it  to  him  in  a  few  weeks. 

A.S. 

F.  M.  S.  may  be  inteiested  in  a  yolume  in  my 
possession  entitled  Poetns  and  Essay $,  by  the  late 
Misa  Bowdler.  The  sixth  edition,  published  for 
the  benefit  of  the  General  Hospital  at  Bath,  1788. 
When  slanted,  a  yery  pleasing  picture  is  presented 
of  a  tropical  landscape,  and  a  yery  great  yariety 


of  shades  is  formed  by  widening  the  slant  of  the 
edges.  I  shall  be  pleased,  if  your  correapondent 
wishes  to  consult  my  specimen,  to  place  it  at  his 
disposal.  J.  W.  JAByis. 

15,  Charles  Square,  Iloxton,  N. 

Half  a  stoij  is  worth  little,  and  as  I  haye  for- 
gotten the  binder*s  name,  it  is  but  half  a  story. 
Howeyer,  there  was  a  bookbinder  near  Leeds  or 
Skipton  about  seyenty  years  since  celebrated  for 
this  style  of  ornamentation.  I  haye  seen  a  beau- 
tifully drawn  storm  at  sea  on  a  Falconer*s  SSnp^ 
wreck,  and  a  landscape  on  another  yolume.  It 
was  only  when  the  gilt  edges  were  slanted  that 
the  pictures  were  seen.  When  the  book  was  shut 
they  were  invisible.  I  haye  tried  to  do  this  on  a 
gilt  book,  but  it  showed  a  little.  My  notion  is 
that  the  edges  were  cut,  then  sloped  and  drawn 
on,  and  then  gilt.  The  designs  were  coloured 
properly.  P.  p. 

"  Let  thex  tbab  him,"  etc.  ri"*  S.  yL  669.) — 
The  poem  from  which ^A.  O.  V.  P.  quotes,  not 
quite  correctly,  is  called  "  The  Martyrdom  of 
Marius,"  and  is  contained  in  a  little  booK  entitled 
Aunt  Jane's  Verses  for  Ckildrenf  by  the  late  Mrs. 
T.  Crewdson  of  Manchester.  The  book  was  out 
of  print  some  time  ago.  E.  M. 

Gotham,  BriBtoL 

''DOLOPATHOS;   OB,  THE  KVXQ  AST)  THE  SEyUT 

Wise  Men  (4«»»  S.  yi.  544.)— I  take  the  following 
notes  from  Thomas  Wright's  introduction  to  TKe 
Seven  Sages  (Percy  Soc),  which  is  abstracted  from 
M.  Loiseleur  Deslongchamps*s  Essai  sur  les  Fables 
IndienneSj  etc,  (1838). 

The  original  Indian  romance  is  named  Senddbad, 
after  its  author.  The  Arabiau  historian  Massoudi 
says  that  this  writer  was  a  contemporary  of  a 
King  Oourou.  In  Massoudi's  time  (died  a.d.  056) 
there  were  Arabic  and  Persian  translations  of  the 
romance.  Two  Oriental  writers  cited  by  M.  L. 
Deslongchamps  state  that  it  was  composed  under 
the  Persian  dynasty  of  the  Arsaddes  (B.a  256  to 
A.D.  223.) 

From  the  Indian  original  are  derived — 

A,  The  Arabian  romance,  The  King,  his  Son, 
the  Favourite,  and  the  Seven  Vixiers  (translated  hj 
Jonathan  Scott,  1800). 

B,  The  Hebrew  romance,  The  Flarables  of  Ssn^ 
dabar. 

C,  The  Greek  romance,  Syntipas, 
The  date  of  these  three  is  unknown. 

From  B  (which  is  at  least  as  old  as  the  end  of 
the  twelfth  century),  it  appears,  was  derived  the 
prose  Latin  romance  Bistoria  stmtem  sapientum 
jRoma,  by  John,  monk  of  the  Abbey  of  Haute- 
Selye  (early  thirteenth  century)  ;  through  which 
version  the  work  was  communicated  to  nearly  all 
the  languages  of  Western  Europe. 

From  this  Latin  version  Herbert  or  Hebert^  a 
trouvdre  of  the  thirteenth  centuty,  made  a  yezy 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[4«»aVII.  FM,4,'7i. 


free  tranfilation  in  French  verse,  whieh  is  best 
known  by  the  title  DohpathoSj  the  name  of  the 
king  who  is  father  of  the  hero  of  the  poem. 

For  details  I  refer  R.  R  W,  Ellis  to^^Mr. 
Wright's  preface. 

The  romance  in  all  its  forms  is  a  coUectioa  of 
stories  connected  together  by  this  ground-plot 
A  prince,  Calsely  accused  by  one  of  his  father's 
wives  of  having  offered  her  violence,  is  defended 
by  seven  philosophers,  who  tell  stories  showing 
up  feminine  malice  and  perversity.  The  wife  has 
her  turn  at  story-telling  in  answer  to  each  of  the 
philosophers ;  and  the  final  result  is  the  triumph 
of  the  prince's  innocence. 

The  separate  stories  vary  eoosiderahly  in  the 
different  versions.  John  Addis. 

BsAir  Swift?  Lokdow  Ghttbches  ^4*^  S.  vi. 
580.) — ^The  OewUeman^B  Magasme^  vol.  hv.  part  2, 
p.  490;  contains  a  list  of  the  fiftv  new  churches 
built  in  London  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  with 
the  cost  of  each  church.  At  p.  667  it  is  stated, 
^'  the  churcheS;  of  which  you  gave  a  list,  were  not 
the  fifty  new  ones,  for  hardlv  any  of  ^ose  were 
built  so  early,  but  of  churches  rebuilt  by  Sir 
Christopher  Wren  after  the  fire."  The  anony- 
mous writer  added^ ''  I  think  it  is  to  be  found  in 
the  Parentalia."  Chb.  Cookb. 

By  Act  of  Parliament,  fifty  new  churches  were 
ordered  to  be  erected  to  replace  those  destroyed 
in  the  Great  Fire,  and  the  rebuilding  in  this 
ini^tiMinft  was  to  a  great  extent,  if  not  entirely, 
entrusted  to  Wren.  In  the  tenth  year  of  Qneen 
Anne's  reign,  however,  another  Act  passed  for  the 
erection  of  fifty  more,  the  object  bdng  not  merely 
to  remedy  the  insufficiency  of  accommodation 
afforded  by  the  then  existing  churches,  but  also, 
in  the  words  of  the  commission  appointed  to  cany 
out  the  Acty  the  ''redressing  the  inconvenience 
and  growing  mischiefs  which  resulted  firom  the 
increase  of  Dissenters  and  Popery."  Queen  Anne's 
Act  was  but  imperfectly  realised  as  regards  the 
number  of  builiungs  to  be  erected,  but  to  it 
London  owes  some  of  its  very  finest  churches,  e,  g, 
St.  Mary's-in-the  Strand,  and  St.  Martin's-in-the- 
Fields  by  Gibbs,  St  Mary  Woolnoth  by  Hawks- 
moor,  and  St.  Giles's-in-the- Fields  by  Flitcroft. 
It  would  be  very  desirable  to  have  a  list  of  the 
churches,  with  the  name  of  the  architect  in  each 
case,  which  owe  their  existence  to  this  measure. 
Any  account  would,  I  believe,  embrace  St.  Ann's 
Limehouse,  St.  George's  Bloomsbury,  St  George's 
Hanover  Square,  St.  Luke's  Old  Street  St.  John's 
Westminster,  and  St.  Botolph's  Bi&hopsgate 
Street  H.  F.  T. 

"Locket's  Obdikjlby"  (4«»  S.  vi.  669.)— The 
*'  story  told"  of  Sir  George  Etherege  is  probablv 
just  as  true  as  a  hundred  others  that  bep;in  witn 
the  same  words.  Where  the  oriffinal  is  to  be 
found  I  cannot  say ;  the  earliest  relation  of  it,  as 


far  as  I  know,  occurs  in  An  AnUquaritm  Mmnbk 
in  the  Streets  cf  London  by  the  ]«te  John  Thomaa 
Smith  (ed.  1846,  i.  147.) 

For  the  plays  aa  well  as  other  writings  in 
which  this  once  celebrated  tavern  is  mentioned,  I 
refer  Mb.  J.  Pebbt  to  Cunningham's  JIandbook 
ofL<md<mf  where,  imder  the  heading  <'  Locket,'' 
he  will  find  all  the  particulars  he  is  in  search  of. 

Chabuss  Wilis. 

Hbabth  Tai  (4'*  S.  vi.  476,  4BL)— This  tax, 
or  whatever  it  wsjs,  could  not  have  been  whcdly 
repeided  by  1  William  and  Mary.  I  can  well  re- 
member forty-five  years  back,  and  remember  the 
man  calling  for  the  ''  hearth  xnuney,"  as  it  was 
styled,  when  I  was  very  young ;  and  I  remember 
further  how  we  uaad  to  grunUe  at  our  upper 
bedroom  firepkcea  being  blocked  opu        H.  W. 

Although  I  cannot  contribute  any  of  the  ballads 

asked  for  by  Cpl.,  I  send  what  I  venture  to 

think  will  prove  almost  as  interesting — ^namely, 

an  epitaph  from  Folkestone  churchyard,  in  which 

reference  is  made  to  ^  the  badge  of  slavery  " : — 

"In  Memory  of  Rebecca  Rogen,  who  died  August 
22»*1«88.    Aged 44 Years:-. 

*^X  hoaee  she  hath  ;  it's  made  of  enoh  good  ftsfaion. 
The  tenant  ne'er  ehall  pay  for  reparation ; 
Nor  will  bar  landlord  ewer  niae  her  rent. 
Or  turn  her  out  of  doon  for  nonpayment 
From  chimney  znon^y  too  this  cell  ia  free. 
To  such  a  houae  who  woold  not  tenant  be?  ** 

The  above  is  engraved  on  a  headstone  placed 
against  the  north  wall  of  the  chancel. 

J.  A.  Pk. 

^'Hilabion's  Sb£vint,  the  Saob  Cbow" 
(4^^  S.  viL  11.) — Hiiaxion  was  an  abbot  who  lived 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  fourth  century.  He  re- 
tired to  the  deserts  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Ma- 
juma,  where  he  led  the  life  of  a  hermit  Aifter  a 
time,  accompanied  by  a  few  chosen  followers, 
among  whom  is  especially  mentioned  >  one  He- 
syehius,  he  betook  himself  to  the  island  of  Cyprus, 
where  he  died  in  871.  There  is  a  tradition  that 
he  was  supplied  with  food  by  birds;  hence,  no 
doubt,  the  sllttsion.  C.  B.  P. 

This  is  evidently  a  mistake  of  Hilarion  for  Paul, 
and  the  allusion  is  to  the  miraculous  sum)ort  of 
St  Paul,  the  first  hermit  St.  Jerom  relates  of 
him  that  a  crow  brought  him  every  day  half  a 
loaf.  F.  C.  H, 

''The  Hali.  op  Waters  "  (4*>»  S.  vi.  545.)— A 
story  of  the  loss  of  an  Englishman  who  attempted 
to  explore  in  a  boat  an  ancient  subterranean  cis- 
tern at  Constantinople,  called  the  "  Botan  Serai.'' 
or  buried  palace,  appewred  about  18^,  I  should 
thy,  in  Sharpens  Magaxwe,  There  was  rather  a 
striking  engraving  of  the  dstem,  giving  the  idea 
of  vast  extent,  the  roof  being  suf^orted  by  Co- 
rinthian columns  half  submerwd  in  water. 

X.H. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


113 


TwatmknsLkB  (4^  a  tI.  488.)--OQnf .  Thrmton 
(fomieilj  TimjpcMtozie),  oo.  Northampton;  Thrip- 
low,  CO.  GiuiiDridge;  Thiopton,  co.  Xorthnmber- 
Umd;  Thrnp  or  TVup,  oo.  Berks;  and  the  Saxon 
thorp  (der.  dot/),  which  corrupts  into  thrtqap, 
ibrttp,  trt^,  tharp.  It  doei  not,  howeyer,  follow 
that  the  mffix  is  Iharrap,  It  may  be  harrap, 
arrap,  or  arp.  Among  the  eighteen  different  forms 
which  the  yocable  tre  is  uable  to  assume  are 
trd  and  trttL  Trtt-ar-ob  miffht  mean  dwelling 
on  the  water ;  iri^-ar-ti6,  d^raUing  on  the  height ; 
tr^hmrrop,  dwelHng  of  Harrap.  Harrap  is  an 
EngliBh  saraame,  bat  I  am  not  aware  that  it  is 
found  in  Cornwall.  R.  S.  Chabnock. 

Graj*8ln]i. 

PJ3.  Mr.  Lower  says  Thorpe  in  some  districts 
is  eomiptod  to  Tkarp^  and  that  in  Hampshire 
penoos  named  Sibtkofpe  are  called  I%arp, 

EaiTiyALSNT  FoBBiGir  Titles  (4**  S.  yii.  12.) 
I  should  be  glad  to  know  how  T — v  would  dis- 
poae  of  the  exiled  royal  familjr  of  France,  or  of 
those  of  Spain,  Naples  Sleewig  Holstein,  Han- 
oyer,  Stc,  m  his  scale  or  precedence ;  and  how  he 
can  comnaxe  nobility^  although  derived  from  the 
Saxcn,  Norman^  Pkuitagenet,  or  Welah  princes, 
with  tiie  scioBs  of  houses  that  haye  occupied  the 
principal  tkranes  of  Europe.  S. 

Poois,  OB  Mouths  of  Streaks  (4^^  S.  vii.  12.) 
The  brooks  and  watercourses  which  empty  them- 
selyes  into  tiie  river  Wyre,  within  its  tidal  influ- 
ence, have  dow»  or  ^floodgates  placed  at  some  dis- 
tance from  their  mouths  in  order  to  prevent  the 
''  inland  "  from  being  overflowed  by  salt  water. 
Below  the  floodgates'.to  the  river,  those  tributaries 
are  called  pooU,  The  streams  which  fiall  into  the 
Wvre  beyond  the  reach  of  the  tides  are  never 
called  by  that  nama  Jambs  PEABSoir. 

Jiflnrow; 

LsTTSB  OT  Galileo  (4*  S.  vii.  12.)— The  ori- 

£*nal  MS.  of  the  letter  of  Galileo  to  Castelli, 
ited  Dec  21, 1613,  which  is  doubtless  the  epistle 
referred  to  by  M.  M.,  was  in  1818  in  the  collec- 
tion of  the  well-known  UtUraUur  Poggiali,  and 
was  printed  by  him  in  his  8irie  d^  Testi  di  lingua 
(1813,  i.  160).  It  was  afterwards  printed  by 
Venturi  in  his  Memorie  e  Lettere  di  QtdHei  (1821, 
part  I.  p.  208^,  and  probably  also  in  Alberi's  edi- 
tion of^the  Qp0r6  di  Galilei,  which  I  have  not  at 
hand.  George  M.  Gbbbv. 

27,  King  WOliam  Stieet,  Strand. 


The  Peikt  op  "Gxtido's  AxmoRA"  (!•*  S.  ii. 
391 ;  2«-  S.  iii.  296  j  4«>»  S.  viL  13.)— Probably 
the  readers  of  '^  N.  &  Q.,**  even  if  they  remember 
it,  wUl  be  unable  to  And  the  reply  to  this  query 
in  the  first  series,  because  it  is  not  referred  to  in 
the  Index,  having  been  inserted  only  incidentally 
in  a  long  eommonication  on  a  subject  of  the 
same  description.    It  is  as  follows : — 


<■  Then  is  by  the  same  aothor  (Alexander  ifitoluSp 
apnd  Galenm  ad  Partheniam  Niceensem)  aoolher  de- 
scription of  the  revolution  of  the  planets,  which  is  worthy 
of  notice,  inasmoch  as  the  Latin  translation  contains 
many  of  the  expressions  in  the  verses  subjoined,  as  Mb. 
Dawson  Tubjtbb  informed  as  (1»  a  ii.  891),  to  a  print 
of  Gttido'a  celebrated  Aurora  at  Bome,  an  eeoonnt  of 
which  is  nvea  in  NoHce  de§  EsUtmpeB  expoUet  a  la  Bib^ 
lioihequeduBoUnmo.    A  Paris,  1823. 

*  Qnadi^ogia  inveetai  eqois  Sol  amwaa— 
Circnaivolat  aarea  lana'— 

hnStated  ia  Litdftr  aidtmktt.  The  avmber  of  nymphs 
by  which  the  sun  is  acoempaaied,  and  whidi  band  to 
hand  surround  his  chariot,  indicates  not  the  hours  (!•*  S. 
iii.  287)  but  the  days  of  the  week,  the  names  of  which  in 
several  languages  are  derived  from  the  seven  planets, 
that  golden  chain  in  which  originated  the  prindpid 
deities  of  pagan  idolatiy.''— 1«  S.  vii.  132. 

Bibliothbcaiu  Chbthak. 

Rbv.  Samubl  Hestlxt  f4*  S.  viL  36.)^He  was 
once  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  in  the  Wil- 
liamsburg College,  Virginia,  and  the  author  of 
several  hterary  works  enumerated  by  Wait  I 
always  understood  that  both  the  !rrench  and 
EnffHsh  text  of  Vathek  was  the  production  of 
Bedcford.  The  notes  alone  in  the  Bayard  edition 
are  assigned  to  Dr.  Henley. 

Thoills  E.  WliriOKeTOK. 

Reform  Bin  nr  1831  (4»»»  S.  vi.  545.)— I  weU 
remember  refusing  to  pay  the  taxes  then,  the 
Marc[uises  of  Westminster  and  Lansdowne  oeing 
my  exemplars.  Jakes  Gilbxbx. 

51,  Hill  street,  Feckham,  S.E. 

Gobs  (4'*>  S.  yi.  546.)— 6?or«  or  gorce  (from 
the  French  gor()y  a  weir.  By  statute  25  Ed.  IIL^ 
c.  4,  it  is  ordained  that  all  goxoes,  &c.,  whereby 
the  king's  ships  and  boats  are  disturbed  and  can- 
not pass  in  any  river  shall  be  utterly  destroyed. 
Sir  E.  Coke  derives  this  word  from  '^gurgeSj  a 
deep  pit  of  water/'  and  calls  it  a  gars  or  gtdf;  but 
this  seems  to  be  a  mistake,  for  in  Domesday  it  is 
called  gotirt  and  gori,  the  French  word  for  a  weir. 
(Jacob's  Law  iMct.)  G.  M.  T. 

The  meaning  of  this  word  is  a  point,  a  pike^  a 
horn,  being  the  Saxon  gor8y  originally  applied  to 
a  prickly  shrub,  the  juniper,  and  restharrow. 
Some  suggest  the  German  geir ;  but  the  Saxon,  I 
think,  is  sufficient.  J.  J.  Jr. 

D G (4*  S.vL  529;  vii.  03.)— For  a 

fuller  account  of  D Q see  3'<^  S.  v.  346. 

It  is  strange  that  several  thousand  poimds  should 
have  been  paid  for  the  suppression  of  a  libel;  and 
still  more  so  that  the  libeller  should  tell  it  in 
print.  Mr.  Daniel,  however,  only  says,  *'  a  large 
sum  was  given  by  order  of  the  Prince  Regent.'' 
In  The  Modem  Dunciad  (p.  23,  ed.  1835)  he  says 
of  himself,  "I  who  abhor  a  bribe."  Gifford 
(Baviad,  1. 146)  says,  "  I  who  receive  no  bribe,'* 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»fc8.VII.  Feb.4,  71. 


and  the  whole  passage  is  altered  from  Gifibid  for 
the  worse. 

I  am  sorry  to  think  ill  of  a  writer  who  has  giyen 
me  much  pleasure.  The  tone  of  7%«  Modem 
JDunciad  is  hiffh,  and  its  criticism  generally  sound; 
and,  though  large  appropriations  are  made  from 
Pope  and  Gifford,  the  greater  part  is  good  and 
originaL  If  Mr.  Daniel  really  took  the  Kegent's 
money,  he  could  afterwards  write  highly  of  his 
generosity  when  well  applied.  In  the  eariy  edi- 
tions of  The  Modem  Zhrndad  O^Keefe's  age  and 
distress  are  thus  noticed  :^ 

"  F.  Ill  name  O'Keefe.    P.  I  can't  be  grare  with  him. 
A  rare  oompoand  of  oddity  and  whim. 
His  native  ease,  hia  qaaint  amuaing  style, 
And  wit  grotesque  would  make  a  stoic  smile. 
Ye  who  have  laughed  when  Lingo  trod  the  stage 
Before  this  dull  and  sentimental  age, 
Be  grateAil  for  the  merriment  he  gavey 
And  smooth  his  cheerless  passage  to  the  graye.** 

On  this,  in  the  edition  of  1835,  is  a  note : — 
**  King  George  the  Fourth,  with  that  fine  feeling  which 
stamps  an  additional  value  oo  a  favour  conferred,  ap- 
pointed a  high  dignitary  of  the  church  his  almoner. 
The  Bishop  of  Chichester  was  the  bearer  of  the  royal 
bounty,  an  annual  pension  of  one  hundred  pounds. 
**  Deeds  such  as  these  shall  bring  him  true  renown. 
And  prove  the  brightest  Jewel  in  his  crown  ; 
Shall  shed  around  his  throne  snblimer  rays. 
And  dim  the  brightness  of  the  diamond*s  blaze." 


The  lines  are  creditable  to  D 


G 's 

feelings,  but  show  that  he  was  stronger  in  satire 
than  in  panegyric.  H.  B.  C. 

U.  U.  Uub. 

"Hb  took  the  Doo*8  Nose"  (^i^  S.  vi.  495; 
Tii.  48.) — These  are  the  lines  that  I  always 
heard:  — 

**  There  sprung  a  leak  in  Noah's  ark, 
Which  made  the  dog  begin  to  bark. 


Noah  took  his  nose  to  stop  the  hole. 
And  hence  his  nose  is  always  cold.*' 


R.H. 


^tirc(niinc0uir. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

London :  id  Celebrated  Charaeten  and  BenuMrkabie  Placei, 
By  J.  Heneage  Jesse,  Author  of  "  Memoirs  of  King 
George  the  Third,"  drc.   In  Three  Volumes.    (Bentleyj 

London  has  been  fortunate  in  its  historians.  From 
Fitzstephen  and  Stow  (with  his  continners,  Anthony 
Munday  and  Strype)  down  to  Pennant  and  Peter  Cun- 
ningham— to  say  nothing  of  a  host  of  minor  luminaries — 
London  has  never  wanted  the  pen  of  a  ready  writer  to 
chronicle  its  growth  and  progress.  The  la^t'  ftw  years 
have  been  essentially  prolific  in  books  illustrative  of 
London:  among  which  the  work  before  us,  by  Mr. 
Jesse,  must  be  awarded  a  foremost  place.  A  century  ago 
Horace  Walpole  expressed  a  wish  that  some  one  would 
do  for  London  what  Saint  Foix  had  done  ibr  Paris, 
record  every  spot  rendered  interesting  as  the  scene  of 
some  remarkable  event,  the  birth-plaoe  or  residence  of 
some  well-known  personage,  and  point  out  the  historical 


associations  connected  with  every  locality.  This  idea, 
partially  adopted  by  Pennant,  was  eventually  admirably 
carried  out  by  Cunningham  in  his  Handbook^  and  by  Mr. 
Jesse  in  his  Literary  and  HiBtorical  Memorial*  of  London, 
published  in  1847,  and  its  sequel,  London  and  its  Cele^ 
brities,  published  in  1850.  The  book  before  us  is  a  happy- 
combination  of  his  two  former  entirely  recast,  and  to  a 
rit  extent  rewritten  by  Mr.  Jesse ;  and  while  it  must 
admitted  that  it  wants  the  order  and  preciM  ar- 
rangement which  makes  Cunningham's  Hant^ook  so 
extremely  valuable  as  a  book  of  reference,  on  the  other 
hand,  it  is  charmingly  gossipy,  and  bb  such  would  un- 
doubtedly have  won  b^er  praise  from  the  sage  and 
cynic  of  Strawberry  HilL  It  is  only  Justice  to  add, 
that  the  book  is  made  useful  as  well  as  agreeable  by  the 
very  ample  Index  of  names  of  places  and  persons  by 
which  it  is  completed ;  and  would  in  our  eyes  have  ap- 

yroached  as  nearly  as  possible  to  perfsction,  had  Mr. 
esse  followed  the  practice  adopted  by  him  in  his  AUmairs 
of  George  the  Third,  of  quoting  with  grsat  fullness 
all  his  authorities.  To  have  done  so  would  perhapa 
Iiare  considerably  enlarged  the  size  of  the  work — it 
would  certainly  have  increased  its  value. 

Life  of  Ambrose  Borwieke,  by  his  Father.  Edited  by 
John  E.  B.  Mayor,  M.A.,  Fellow  of  St  John's  College, 
Cambridge.    (Deighton,  Beli  &  Co.) 

Tbia  little  volume  is  extracted  horn  Casnbridge  under 
Queen  Anne  (printed  mainly  for  such  of  the  author^a 
friends  as  nre  interested  in  the  histmy  of  the  Universities), 
and  is  a  reprint  of  A  Pattern  for  Touny  Students  in  the 
University.  Such  is  the  title  of  the  lift  of  his  son  which 
the  elder  Borwicke  published  in  1729.  It  is  accompanied 
by  a  mass  of  illustrative  notes  flrom  the  pen  of  the  pre- 
sent editor,  which  doubles  the  sice  of  the  book,  and  far 
more  than  doubles  its  value.  These  notes  Mr.  Mayor 
modestly  offers  as  a  contribution  towards  Athena  Canta- 
brigiensesj  adding — **  that  he  must  be  a  bold  man  who 
undortalces  to  complete  Mr.  Cooper*s  work ;  but  as  lite- 
rary tastes  gain  ground  in  the  University,  it  becomes 
m^re  and  more  likely  that  the  attempt  may  be  made ; 
and  in  so  wide  a  field  every  gleaner  finds  some  ears  which 
have  escaped  previous  search."  The  editor  dedicates  to 
the  Master,  Fdlows,  and  Scholars  of  St.  John*8  Collega 
**  this  view  of  the  Xoniuror's  Home  as  it  appeared  on  the 
eve  of  the  last  Cambridge  Persecution  " ;  and  our  readers 
will  find  it  an  important  contribution  towards  the  his- 
tory of  that  earnest  body  of  English  Churchmen. 

What  I  saw  of  the  War  at  the  Battles  of  Speicheren, 
Gorze,  and  Uraoelotte.  A  Narratite  of  Two  Months* 
Campaiqning  with  the  Prussian  Army  in  the  Moselle., 
By  the  Hon.  C.  Allanson  Winn.    (Blackwood.) 

We  take  shame  to  ourselves  at  finding  that,  by  an 
untowanl  accident,  our  notice  of  this  graphic  and  amusing 
sketch  of  the  first  two  months  of  tUs  dreadfiil  war  has 
been  postponed  until  now.  But  the  book  has  more  than 
a  temporary  interest,  and  wiU  be  donbtlass  hereafter 
frequently  referred  to. 

Dehretes  Ittuttrated  Peerage  and  Titles  of  Courtesy  of  the 
United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  andlrehmdt  to  which 
is  added  much  information  retpecHmq  the  Immediate 
Family  Qmnections  of  the  Peers.  Under  direct  Per- 
sonal Jtevisian  and  Correction.    1871.    (Dean.) 

DebretVs  Illustrated  Baronetage^  with  Ae  Knightage  of 
the  United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland;  to 
which  is  added  much  Information  respectina  the  imme- 
diate Family  Connections  of  the  Baronets,  under  direct 
Personal  Bevision  and  Correction,    1871.    (Dean.) 

We  have  so  repeatedly  called  attention  to  the  claims  of 
this  useful,  and  in  point  of  form  most  convenient,  Peer- 


4*^  a  TII.  F«B.  i,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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age,  BaroDeUge,  and  Knightage  to  the  favoar  of  the 
pafalJc,  that  we  mar  veiy  properly  content  oarselves  with 
stating  that  the  Feera^  is  brooght  down  to  the  very 
close  of  the  ^ear  1870,  inasmuch  as  it  records  the  death 
of  Lord  Walaingham^  which  took  place  on  December  81, 
and  gives  the  nsnal  mformation  respecting  his  successor. 
Unless  indeed  it  be  to  express  our  satisfaction,  that  the 
editor  still  continues  to  call  attention  to  the  circumstance 
tliaty  owing  to  some  defect  in  our  laws,  any  person  may 
with  impunity  assume  the  title  of  Baronet ;  and  that,  to 
their  discredit  be  it  spoken,  there  are  many  among  us 
who  do  not  hesitate  to  do  so. 

Books  BECsnrBD.^^ay^'«  DieHonary  of  Dates]  Sup- 
plement to  tk*  ThirtBenth  Edition,  ineinding  the  History 
of  the  World  to  the  End  o/1870,  hy  Benjamin  Vincent. 
(sloxon.)  A  most  valuable  addition  to  the  indispensable 
Haydo,  if  for  one  article  alone :  its  Chronology  of  the 
Franeo^Prossian  War  up  to  Dec.  31. — We  must  confine 
oarselves  to  recording  the  titles  of  TTie  Bookworm;  an 
JUmttrated  LUerary  and  Bibliographicai  Review  (tor 
November)  ;  Oohmed  Qeeetiom  pressing  for  Immediate 
Soiutiou,  fry  R.  A.  Macfie,  M.P.  (Longmans)  ;  Nmoleon, 
the  Empress  Engenie,  and  Prince  impenal,  and  the  Fiunco- 
German  War,  by  D.  G.  F.  Macdonald,  LL.D.  (Steel.) 

The  new  niunber  of  the  Academy  makes  the  following 
announcements : — ^The  discovery  in  a  bam  of  two  pictures, 
one  by  Gorreggio  and  the  other  by  Gaudenzio  Ferrario, 
which  are  now  being  exhibited  in  the  Museum  of  Dr. 
Rusooni  in  the  Galleiy  of  Yittorio  Emannele ; — the  com- 
pledon  of  the  cast  for  Dr.  Whewell*s  statue  by  Mr.  Wool- 
ner,  for  Trinity  College,  Cambridge ;  and  the  publication 
shortly  of  two  posthumous  tales  by  Miss  Austen — **  Lady 
Sojun,"  a  short  one-volttme  story,  and  **The  Watsons,*' 
which  is  unfortunately  unfinished. 

The  Moabite  Stone. —  Dr.  Ginsbur^  will  read  a 

Saper   on  this  subject  at  the  Ro^al  Asiatic    Society's 
leeting  on  Monday  evening ;  Sir  Henry  Rawlinson, 
ILC.B.,  in  the  chair. 

Tuesday's  Gazette  announces  the  appointment  of  Mr. 
James  Sant,  R.A.,  as  Principal  Painter  in  Ordinary  to 
Iler  Majesty,  in  the  room  of  the  late  Sir  George  Hayter. 

The  Rot  At.  Acadeut.  —  Messrs.  H.  S.  ^rarka,  F. 
Walker,  andT.  Woolner,  have  just  been  elected  Asso- 
ciates. 

Dante's  **  Dtvina  Commedia  "  is  now  being  translated 
into  Roumanian  by  the  Roumanian  poet  I.  Eliades  Radu- 
lescos,  who  has  for  some  time  past  been  engaged  on  this 
task. 

The  Dickens  CoFTRionTs.— It  is  stated  that  these 
have  passed  by  purchase  into  the  hands  of  Messrs. 
Chapman  &  HalL 

SiB  Roderick  Mvrchison,  the  co-patron  with  the 
Crown  of  the  chair  of  Geology  in  the  University  of 
EdlnhuTgh,  has  nominated  Mr.  Archibald  Geikie,  F.R.S., 
as  the  fint  professor.  Sir  R.  Murchison's  endowment  is 
0,000/.,  sod  the  Crown  adds  200/.  per  annum  to  the  in- 
terest on  this  sam,  and  the  fees. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WAHIEB  TO  PUBCHA8S. 

Futicolsn  of  Fries,  ae.,  of  Mm  Mlowf  n^  Bookf  to  bo  Mut  dltoet  to 
tteffmtlrmea  by  wtuxBtMxsro  nqnirad,  whoM  luunM  and  addrCMca 
•ff*  gi««n  Ibr  that  pmpoMt  — 

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Volmncs.    Paris  :  J.  L.  J.  Briteo. 

Wanted  br  Mr.  WUHe  CoOimM,  90,  GIoocMtcr  Flaoo,  Portman 

84uai«,W. 


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BninOB'a  NOBTBAMFTOSBBiaa.    sVola. 
Ua8TKIi*0  Krxt.   4  Vols. 
RcsKia'B  STO^rics  or  VeincB. 

SBvea  Lavps  of  AaomnoruBB. 

Brwick'8  JEsov^h  Fablbs. 

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Wanted  bf  ACr.  nomaa Beet, BookiellerjlS, Conduit  Stitet, 
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Old   Booki  or  Printi  relatins  to  Combcrland  iMr  Weetmorlaad.  and 
old  Uuaker  Books  or  Traeta  bdbre  ISM. 

Wanted  by  Mr.  Henry  T.  IFoAe,  Go^kermooth. 

Any  of  the  Amndcl  Sodcty'i  Pnblioatloni. 

Wanted  by  Mr.  W.  Jftti^7.Bed  Ltoa  Sanaic.  W.C. 

Battle  of  the  Boyne.  an  EncraTing  by  WooUett  from  the  Fkintlag  br 

Benjamin  West. 
St.  Cecilia,  an  Engrarlnjc  by  Sir  Robert  Stranfe. 

Wanted  by  the  Rev.  John  Ptekfitrd.  M.A .« Bolton  Fereyt 
near  Tadcatter.  York<hiz«. 


tUiiiiti  in  CQxxti^ntitstwti* 

CcRXUDORON. — A.  will  find  articles  on  the  etymology 
of  this  word  in  our  ti'^  S.  i.  130, 194  ;  v.  319,  H70. 

A  New  Sono  from  Paris,  ante  p.  72. — Owing  to  the 
miscarriage  of  a  proof,  there  is  a  misreading  in  the  second 
line  of  **donnerais  pour,"  instead  of  **vendrais  pour,** 
which  spoils  the  metre. 

Abiiba*8  suggestion  should  he  addressed  to  The  Armagti 
Guardian. 

G.  J.  C.  (Leeds..) — 1.  We  never  saw  the  lines  before; 
2.  (?)  Sir  Thomas  Phillips;  3.  The  Bookworm  is  pub- 
lished at  the  office,  4,  Brydges  Street,  Qwent  Garden, 

Sp. — Smith,  spelled  Smijth,  does  not  occur  in  Oie  booh  to 
which  Sp.  refers. 

**  Pkoca  PORTiTER,"  ante  p.  77. — This  query  was  inserted 
by  an  oversight ;  for,  as  we  hate  been  reminded  by  LoRl> 
Lyttkltox,  it  had  already  been  answered  very  fully  in 
-  N.  &  Q."  4«»  S.  iii.  137,  199,  278. 

The  Wiluow  Pattern.— J.  B.  is  referred  to  our  3»"* 
S.  xi.  Id2,  298,  328,  4Q0,  461. 

Mro  Merriltes. — Z.  will  find  a  full  account  of  Jean 
Gordon,  the  prototype  of  Meg  Merriltes,  in  the  preface  to 
the  Centenarian  Edition  of  Guy  Mannering. 

Gemealooxcal  Queries  of  no  interest  but  to  the  in- 
qtiirer  cannot  be  inserted  unless  the  querist  adds  his  name 
and  address  to  where  replies  may  be  forwarded. 

Numeral  Prophecies. —  We  mutt  refer  Mr.  Mouris 
to  our  8'«  S.  X.  87,  215,  and  4«»»  S.  vi.  226,  290,  356,  446, 
496,  where  he  will  find,  not  only  the  instances  given  by  him, 
but  also  a  collection  of  others. 

T.  S.  N. — Excelsior  has  already  had  a  reply.  Sec 
p.  397  of  our  Itut  volume. 

J.  Pbrry. — Chapman  ^  Hall,  191|  Piccadilly,  can  pro- 
bably supply  what  you  require. 

0lim*s  query  is  in  type,  and  shall  appear  next  week, 

Beloique. — The  question  is   entirely   one  of  feeling. 

We  doubt  the  legal  right  of  the  head  of  the  family  to 

sanction  it.    A  little  further  research  on  your  part  would 

probably  establish  the  connection. 

An  commMHieatUfrnt  BhouJd  be  addressed  Co  the  Editor  <t/'  *'  N.  a  Q.^ 
43,  WeUiHoUmStrttUStrandy  fr.C.  f 

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PubUaher,  and  of  all  BookaeUert  and  Newimen. 

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*S#6#IIOO  haye  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

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GENTLEMEN  desirous  of   haring   their  LinenB 
dxeesed  to  perftctlo«  should  mvnfij  their  Laundresses  with  tha 

••&aWZBIi]|    BTASC  H/' 

whieh  ImiMrts  a  brilliancy  and  elasticity  gratifying  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sight  and  toueti. 

XrOTHING  IMPOSSIBLE.— AQUA  AMABELLA 

Jl^  tester  as  the  Human  Hair  to  its  pristine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
afe.  MESSRS.  JOHN  GOSNELL  *  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  most  cmincBt  Chemists,  svooeeded  in  perfecting  this  wonderAil 
lliiuld.  It  Is  now  oAved  to  tlia  PubUc  in  a  more  oonoentratcdform, 
and  a4  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Bottles,  S«.  each,  also  S«.,7«.  6d.,  or  15s.  each,  with  brush. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
FAflTB  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gires  the  teeth 
a  pMrl-like  wlilieneai,  protects  tlie  enamel  firom  decay,  and  imparts  a 
puadng  fragrance  to  the  lurcath. 

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BUFTUBES^BT  BOTAL  LBTTEBB  FATEKT. 

KITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LE-VEB  TRUSS  is 

allowed  by  upwards  of  500  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  efibc- 
tlTe  iuTentiao  in  the  coratitre  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
ateel  vrfag.  so  often  hnrtftU  in  its  e9bcts,ls  here  aToidedt  a  soft  bandage 
being  worn  roond  tlie  body.  wlUie  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
plied by  the  MOC-MAm  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fitting  with  so 
mooh  ease  and  eloaeness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  oe  worn 
daring  sleep.  A  descriptive  circular  may  be  luid,  and  the  Truss  (which 
mKam  Ail  to  ftt)  forwarded  by  post  on  uie  elrcumforenea  of  the  body  t 
two  iBfehca  bdow  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Manuihcturer. 

MB.  JOHK  WHITE,  !»,  FICCADILLT.  LOKDOIT. 

Fklee  of  a  Single  Truss.  18«.,  SI«.,  Ms.  6ci.,  and  Sis.  8cf.  Postage  1«. 
Double  Truss.  31«.6(/.,4fs.,  and  as*.  Od.    Postage  Is.  8<i. 
An  UmhUieal  Truss,  tts.  and  5tf.  6d.   Postage  Is.  lOtf. 

VoetOOM  orders  payable  to  JOHH  WHUE,  Post  Office,  FiocadUly. 

SLASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 
YABIOOflE  VEINS,  and  all  Mses  of  WEAKNESS  and  8  WEL- 
ro  otf  the  LEOS,  SPRAINS,  Uc  They  arejporous,  light  in  texture, 
■ttd  inexpensive,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  stocking.  Prices 
4s.  U.,  7«.  «<f.,  10s.,  and  16s.  each.    Postage  Od. 

tOBX  WHITE,  MABinrACTUBBB,  US,  FICCADILLT.  London. 

HOLLOWAYS  PILLS  AND  OINTMENT.— 
Bilious  aifections.  with  all  their  concomitant  annoyances,  in- 
duced by  atmospheric  changes  or  too  literal  diet,  should  be  checked  at 
once,  or  serious  oonaeqaenees  aoay  ensue.  When  any  one  finds  his 
tdeas  leas  dear  tnan  usual,  his  eyesight  dimmed,  and  his  head  dirxy, 
with  indlspesltiop  for  all  exertion,  physical  or  mental,  he  mar  be  quite 
sure  that  tfe  Is  in  immediate  need  of  some  cooling  and  Dnrifyinf  medi- 
cfae.  Let  him  send  at  once  for  a  box  of  HoUoway's  Pills,  wlilch  will 
fn»  him  tsQun  his  soifiniogs.  and  speedily  renew  bis  usual  healthftil 
ftdln^.  If  the  bowels  be  irritable,  H<dbway's  Ointment  should  be 
dlUflentty  robbed  orer  the  sftoauwh  aod  llrer  every  night  and  morning. 


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division. 

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QLD  MARSALA  WINE,  guaranteed  the  finest 
imported,  firee  &om  acidity  or  heat,and  much  superior  to  low- 
!ed  Sherry  (m'(/»  Dr.  Druitton  Cheap  irtii«s).OneOfuneaperdoxen. 
Scleeted  dry  Tarragona,  ISs.  perdosen.   Terms  eash.  Three  doacn 
rail  paid.— W.  D.  WATSON,  873,  Wine  Merchant,  Oxford  Street. 
Full  Fiiee  lists  post  free  on  afpUcatteii. 


W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merchant,  878,  Oxford  Street 

(entrance  in  Berwick  street).  London,  W.  Established  1841.  Removed 
from  7fl, Great  Russell  Street,  eomer  of  Bloooubury  Square,  W.C. 


36a. 


aes. 


At  88s.  per  docen,  fit  finr  a  Gentleman's  Tahle.   Bottles  laeladBd,  and 
Caniagepaid.   Cases  It.  per  doien  eactsa  (retnmahle). 

CHABLES  WARD  ft  BON, 

GPoeiOffloa  Orders  on  Piccadilly),  I,  Chapel  Street  West, 
MATFAIB,  W.,  LONDON. 

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PURE  ST.  JULIEN  CLARET 
At  I6«.,  ails.,S<s.,8Qs.,andMs.  per  doaeo. 
Choice  Clarets  ofvarioos  growths,  4as.,48s.,80«.,7Ss.,  84s.,  06s. 

GOOD  DINNER  8HERRT, 
At  Ms.  and  30s.  per  doaen. 

Superior  Golden  Sherry....... • .Ms.aaid4Ss. 

Choice  Sherry— Pale,  Gcdden,  or  Brown. . .  .48s.,Ms.,aad40s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  S4«.,  30s.,  36s.,  4as.,  48s.,  60f.,  and  84«. 

Fort  from  first-class  Shippers 30s.36s.4Ss. 

YexyChoioeOld  Port 48s.60s.79f.Ms. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  36s.,  4ts.,  48s.,  and  60s. 

Hochhelaer.  Marcobrunner,  Rudesheimer,  Steinberg*  Llebftanmllch , 
60s. I  Jol)aunisbergcr  and  Stein bergcr,  TSs.,  e4s..  to  110s.  i  Braunberger, 


Grunhaasen,  and  Scharxberg,  48s.  to  84s.  i  sparkline  Moselle.  48s.,  60s., 
66Sm  78s.;  very  choice  Champai^,  66s.,  78s. ;  fine  old  Sadc,  Malmsey, 
Frontlgnac,  vermuth, Constantia^LachrymsB  Christ!,  Imperial  Tokay, 


and  other  rare  wines.   Fine  old  PaleCognao  Brandy,<Os.and72s.per 
dosen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  every  description. 

On  receipt  of  a  Post  Offioe  order,  or  reftrenoe,aay  quantity  will  be 
forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON:  155.  BEGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton :  SO,  King's  Bond, 

(Originally  Established  A.  D.  1667.) 

BFiLB JC&ZirO  CBiL»C»AaVB,  36s.  per  dOK. 

And  all  the  noted  BiMMl.«i  the  lowest  cash  prices. 
Boideaox,  IM.,  18s.,  14«.,30s.  36s.,  to  Ms.  per  doc.  i  ChabUs,  t4«.|  Mar- 
Mtla,  t\8.  per  doz.?  Sherry,  24/t.,  30«.,  36*.,  4».,  -IS*.,  to  96s.  per  doz.;  Old 
Port,  84s.,  30«..  36»., 42».,  to  H4«.  per  doz.j  Tarragona,  18#.  per  dox.,  the 
finest  imported  ;  Hock  and  Mo«elle,  84*.,  30«.,  36*.,  4Hs.  per  doz.;  Spark- 
line  Uock  and  Moselle,  4(is.  andOOx.  per  doz.;  fine  old  F&lc  Brandy,  48s., 
60#;and  7S«.  per  dox.  At  DOTESIO'S  Depot.  10,  Swallow  Street,  Re- 
gent Street  Uuooessor  to  Ewart  and  Co.,  Wine  Merchants  to  Her 
Majesty). 


n  RANT'S    MORELLA    CHERRY    BRANDY, 

XT  from  the  fine  Kent  Morella.  besides  being  the  most  delicious 
Liqueur,  is  recommended  by  Medical  Men  of  hljth  standing  in  all  oases 
of  vVeakness  and  fur  various  Internal  Dioorders.  It  may  be  obtained 
through  any  Wine  Merchant,  or  direct  from  T.  GRANT,  Distiller, 
Maidrtone,  at  48s.  per  dozen  case. 


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LONDON  AND  COUNTY  BANKING  COMPANY. 

ESTABLISHED     1836. 

SUBBOBTBIBD  OAFITAIi £2,600»000  UT  60,000  BHABBS  OX*  £50  EAOH. 

PAID-ITP  CAPITAIi £i,000»000. ^BBBICBYXI  TUTSTD iB500,000. 


DIBECTOBS. 


ICattMBkl  AlcaudOT,  En. 
ThM.  Trrini^iJun  Bcnuud,  Eat< 
FhUip  AitOon  Bljrth.  Em. 
John  WUliMn  Burmester,  Eiq. 
Thomaa  Stock  Covie.  Btq. 
Frederick  Fnuidt,  Eaq. 


Fredieriek  Harrieon,  Eeq. 
I^  Alft«d  HenrejF.  _ 

wUUsm  Champlcm  Jonce,  En. 
Edward  Harbord  Luahington,  Em. 
JaoOT  Mortojr.  Em* 
William  Kk»l,  Em* 


0«neral  Maaacer— ^niUam  McKewan,  Em. 

Chief  Intpeetor— W.  J.  Norfolk,  Em- 

iMpeoton  of  Branehea— H.  J.  Lemon,  Em<i  ud  C.  Sherrinc,  Em* 

Chief  Apcoimtaiit   JamM  Qray,  Em* 


Bba2>  Omoi,  ll«  I^omhenl  Stnet. 

Manager— Whltbread  TVimeoa,  Em* 

Aaebtant  If  anaaer— Wllliaa  Howard,  Em* 


At  the  AKNITAL  QBNERAIi  MEETINO  of  the  Proprietoi^held 
onThuraday,  the  tnd  rebniary,  1871,  at  the  Gttr  TezmlnaJi  Hotel, 
Cannon  Street  Station,  the  IbllowiBc  Report  tn  the  Year  ewUns  the 
Slet  December,  1870,  waa  read  bjr  the  Seerctary, 

WILLIAM  CHAMPION  JONES,  ESQ.,  fai  the  Chair  ;— 
The  Dlreetom.  In  rabmlttlnc  to  the  Fnmrleton  the  Bidanoe  Sheet  of 
the  Bank  ibr  the  Half-year  ending  the  Slit  Decen^r  last,  hare  the 
•atisAurtlon  to  report,  that  after,  paying  Intcreet  to  Cnatomer*  aad  all 
charges,  allowing  for  Bcbate  and  making  provleion  for  Bad  and  IXniht- 
-hd  Dehta,  the  net  proflU  amoont  to  IS7.167  lAf.  4d.  Thia  rom,  added 
to  «7.18I  it.  4d.  brought  from  the  laat  aMount,  pfoduoea  a  total  of 
XM,a«»Oe.  8ci. 

The  oanal  Dirldend  of  «  per  cent,  for  the  Half-year  la  lacmninanded, 
together  with  a  Bonua  of  S  per  cent.,  both  fk«e  of  Income  Tax.  which 
will  abaorb  OQ^OBO.  and  leave  MJ4e  0>.  M.  to  be  carried  forward  to 
Profit  and  Loaa  New*  Aooonnt.  The  preaant  DlTldend  and  Bonos, 
added  to  the  June  payment,  will  be  17|  per  cent,  for  tha  year  1870. 

The  Direotora  retiring  by  rotation  are:— William  Niooi,Em-  Thomaa 
Tyirlnjtbam  Bernard,  Eaq.,  and  Nathaniel  Alexander,  Bei|»,  who,  being 
euglMC,  oflbr  themaelTca  for  re-election. 

The  Dlridend  and  Bonua  (together  #1 16«.  per  Share.  fk«e  of  Income 
Tax)  will  be  payable  at  the  Head  OiBoe  or  ai  any  of  the  Branches  on 
or  amr  Monday  tha  13th  instaak 


BALANCE-SHEET  of  the  LONDON  and  COUNTY  BANKING 
COMPANY,  31st  DECSHBEB,  1870. 


Dr. 

To  Capital  paid  op 

To  RMcrre  Fund        ..  ..       .■       .. 

To  Amount  dne  by  the  Beak  for 

Ciutomer*'  Balancea.  ftc        . .   <U,3B8,ttl  11 
To  Liabilities    on    Aooeptaacea. 

cohered  by  Seeuritlea     ., 


ToProftt  and  Loaa  Balance  bnm^t 
from  lait  Account 

To  Oroaa  Profltforttie  Half-year, 
after  making  Provision  for  Bad 
and  Doabtffil  Debta,  Tis. . 


BjrCaah  on  hand  at  Head  Ofleeaad 
Branches,  and  with.  Bank  of 

England  ■ . 

By  Cash  placed  at  Call  andatNoUoe, 

corercd  by  Securitiaa     ..       .. 

InTcatmeata,  via.  t— 
Bf  Oovemment  and  Chuuraateod 

Stocks  

By  other  Stodca  and  Soooittiea 


S,110,Ml  18   5 
7,181   4   A 
185,197  IS   8 


£       $.d. 
ijm/m  0  0 

AOCOOO    0    0 


18,508373    9    6 


17  10 


X18,a8B71S    7    4 


By 


BOla.    and  ad- 
la  Town 


Disooonted 
raneea  to' 
and  Country 
By    LiaUUties  of  Cnstoroers    for 
Drafts  accepted   by  tha  Bank 
(asperoontn)       


1,985488  17  1« 
1JB714M    8    t 


ifSnjnt  0  0 
atiftts  15  s 


9jS07,B84   5    4 
3,110,181  18    5 


ifiNjOi    0    0 


1,488,«M  15    f 


lSJI7jHft   3    9 


Cr. 
By  Freehold  Premiaea  In  Lomhaid  Stieet  and  Nicho- 
las Lane.  Freehold  and  Leasehold  Pmpeitf  at 
the  Braachaa,  with  Flztovaa  and  fittings  . . 
Br  Interest  paid  to  Cnrtomers  ..       •-  _  — 

By  Salaries  and  all  other  E^venees  at  Hoed  Offloe 
and  Brsaches,  inrlwding  LMome  Tkx  on  Paaftta 


s. 


947jB4e 


0 
» 


0 
9 


188,881    8    8 


PROFIT  AND  LOSS 

To  Interest  p«idtoOaatamei»,aBab««a  .. 

Toexpenses        do.    .. 

To  Bebateon  Bills  not  dne, carried  to  New 
To  Dividend  of  6  per  Cent.  Ibr  Half-year 

To  Bonus  of  3  per  Cent.       

To  Balance  carried  forward 


giB^n^f 

7 

4 

4BJB1  19 

» 

lOMBl 

8 

8 

15,588 

» 

9 

80^880 

0 

0 

SOJM 

0 

0 

4Ji» 

0 

8 

jaB;38B,I7  10 

7481 

4 

4 

W,I57 

13  8 

iWIJlil  17  10 

By  Balance  bioatfit  foffwnid  from  last  Aeeoant 
By  Gfoas  Proflt  for  tha  Half-year,  aAer  maUag 
PxoviaiaaforBadandDoiibtAiLDahfci      ..      .. 


We,  the  underaignad,  have  examined  the  fbrtgtrfaK  Balaaoe  Sheet, 
ad  havn  found  tha  aania  to  be  correct.  

(Signed)  Wk.  JARDINE.  ) 

WILLIAM  NOBMAN,  > 
B.  H.  SWAIBX.  / 

London  and  ConntyBaak, 

9Btii  Jannary,  1871. 
Tha  forcfolng  Report  having  been  read  by  the  Seerelary.tlie  foOowing 
Iteaolutions  were  proposed  and  unanimously  adopted: — 

1.  That  the  Report  bereeehwland  adopted,  and  printed  for  the  use 
of  the  Shaieholdora. 

1.  That  a  Dividend  of8  per  cent.,  tonthar  with  a  Boniu  of  Snercent., 
five  of  Income  Tax,  be  dceliuea  for  the  Half-year  ending 


both 


ng  Slat 


December,  1870,  pi^rable  on  or  after  Monday,  13th  instaat,  and  that  the 
balanoeoifX4448«».8dLbacaBiedfonrerdto  Pt«atand.Leaa  New  Ac- 
count* 

3.  That  William  Nlcol.  Thomas  Tyriaitfiaia  Benuud,  and  NathaalcL 
Alexander, Smniraat bere^leeted IXrectors  of  this  Company. 

4.  That  the  thanks  of  this  Meeting  be  given  to  the  Boerd  of  Dimetoi* 
for  the  able  manner  In  which  they  have  ceadneted  the  allUra  of  the 
Company. 

5.  That  William  Jardlno,  William  Norman,  and  Richard  Hinds 
Swaino,  Esquires,  be  elected  Auditors  for  the  current  year,  and  that  the 
thanks  of  this  Meeting  be  presented  to  them  for  their  servloea  during  the 
past  year. 

6.  That  the  thanks  of  thia  Meeting  be  presented  to  the  General 
Manager,  and  to  all  the  other  OAoera  of  the  Bank,  for  the  zeal  and 
ability  with  which  they  have  diaehaxged  their  reapective  duties. 

(Signed)  W.  CHAMPION  JOITES, 


The  Chdrman  having  <zaitled  the  Gheir,  it  not  leeolved  end  carried 
unanimously— 

7.  That  tha  ooidial  thankaof  thisMeetiag  be  presented  to  William 
Champion  Jooea,  Esq^,  fttr  his  able  and  oonrteous  conduct  in  the  Chair. 

iSignedJ  WILLIAM  NICOL, 


(Signed) 


Mlnntea. 

F.  GLAFFBOir, 


LONDON  and  COUNTY  BANKING  COMPANY. 
Notice  is  hemhy  irfvan,  that  a  DIVIDEND  en  the  capital  of  the 
Company,  at  tlie  rate  of  0  per  cent,  for  the  Half-year  ending  8Ist  Dee. 
BB70L  with  a  Bonus  of  S  per  cent,  will  be  PAID  to  the  Piuurietora,  either 
at  the  Head  Ofltee,  tU  Lombard  Street,  or  at  any  of  the  Ooovpeay'e 
Brand!  Banks,  on  or  after  Monday,  the  13th  InalanL 

By  Ordar  of  the  Beard, 


SI,  Lombard  Street,  3ni  Feb.  un. 


w.  mokewan; 

QonenlMi 


4^  a  TIL  Fbb.  lip  71.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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LOSDQS,  aATURDAT^  FEBRUARY  11»1«71. 


GONTENT&— N*  168. 


VOTES :— Alleged  Ltlter  by  Fredariok  of  PvuHb  to  PHooe 

Charles  Stewart.  117  —  Shekeepeure  aod  ArdeD,118  —  SiD- 
inilar  Preoeedinga  in  Middleton,  119 — "  The  IYo«nl  8<m»" 
by  MuriUo.  120— Centeouteoian,  Jfr.— The  StrMbuTg 
Library  —  Ojrpeiy  Cookery— The  Sdioolmaator  abroad  in 
StaAbrdahire  —  A  Cootrut,  1M9  and  1871  —  Hummers  — 
Old  Jokea — "  Skerring  upon  a  Olare  GlatteB."  UO. 

OUBRIBS:  —  Smyths  of  Ireiaad,  122— Bishop  AJeoek  — 
BaUyculitaa— Pedigree  of  Peter  Birt  —  **Blue  Books" 

.  quoted  by  Butler -De  S^ye  or  Say  —  The  *  Bstatloa  "  of 
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a/«MHerisof  Witboote.  Letoestevshire:  Smyth  bfllath- 
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Biographies— ** This  ean Night,  this  ean  Night"— The 
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ALLEGED  LETTJBR  BY  FREDERICK  OF  PRUSSIA 
TO  PRmCE  CHARLES  STEWART. 

The  following  copy  of  a  trapfllatiaii  of  a  letter 
in  Freneby  alleged  to  have  been  sent  by  Frederick 
of  Prussia  to  Prince  Charles  Stewart,  bas  gone 
the  round  of  most  of  the  public  jonmals.  A  lew* 
lines  are  prefixed  by  way  of  ezplanationy  evi- 
dently to  gi?e  a  semblance  of  truth  to  the  docu- 
ment It  is  represented  as  having  been  trans- 
lated by  Lord  George  Murrayi  and  endoeed  in  a 
letter  to  the  person  for  whom  it  was  intended. 
Both  letter  and  translation  had  been,  it  is  asserted, 
«fttombed  in  an. old  black  letter  Bible.  It  will 
be  observed  that  neither  the  original  translation 
nor  the  alleged  letter  are  described  as  autograph. 
The  date  is  November  8,  1746— not  quite  six 
months  after  the  defeat  at  CuUoden  (April  16, 
1746). 

FBSDEBICK,  KINO  OF  PRUSSIA,  AND  TIIE  TOUITO 


The  following  letter  fVom  Loid  George  Marray  to  a 
fnend»  enclosing  a  tran^tion  of  a  letter  from  Fzederidc 
King  of  Prnssia  to  Prince  Charles  Stewart,  has  been  fonnd 
recently  within  the  leaves  of  an  old  black-letter  Bible : — 

"My  Lord,— Though  this  letter  hath  been  so  long 
kept  in  Mcret,  and  hm  from  the  public,  I  give  yon  my 
hoBoor  it  is  genuine.  It  waa  with  mat  difficult  I 
•bt^ned  it,  awl  though  I  am  not  perfect  master  of  the 
French  language,  I  attempted  the  translation  of  it,  and 
if  it  is  not  so  correct  or  sublime  in  the  English  tongue  as 
in  the  orginal,  yet  it  will  in  a  great  measure  discover  the 


real  sentiments  of  his  Prussiaa  Majesty  to  the  unhappy 
fiunily  of  Stewart :  — 

•*  *  The  Kmg  ofFrm»M9  LtiUr  io  hit  iZoyoi  Biakmm 

Frmc9  Chadu, 

**  *  Most  betoved  Cousin, — ^I  can  no  longer,  my  dear 
Prince,  deny  myself  the  satisfaction  of  congratulatiiig 
you  on  your  safe  arrival  in  France,  and  though  the  con- 
nection I  have  with  the  reigiiing  iiynily  did  not  pemdt 
me  to  rejoice  too  openly  at  the  progress  of  yonr  arms,  I 
can  assure  you,  on  the  word  of  a  £ing»  I  was  sincerely 
touched  with  your  misfortunes,  under  the  deepest  appre- 
hensions for  the  safety  of  your  person. 

**  *  All  Europe  was  astoniahed  at  the  greatness  of  your 
enterprise ;  for  though  Alexander  and  other  heroes  have 
conquered  kingdoms  with  inferior  armies,  you  are  the 
only  one  who  ever  engaged  in  such  an  attempt  without  any. 

**  *  Yohaire,  who  of  all  poets  is  best  able  to  write,  is 
above  all  men  more  indebted  to  your  Highness  for  havhog 
at  length  furnished  him  with  a  subject  worthy  of  his  pen* 
which  has  all  the  laqnisites  of  an  epic  poem,  except  a 
happy  event. 

"  *  However,  thous^  fortune  waa  yonr  foe.  Great  Bri- 
tain, and  not  your  Highness,  are  the  only  losers  by  it, 
as  the  difficulties  you  have  undergone  have  only  served 
to  discover  those  talents  and  virtues  wluch  have  gained 
you  the  admiration  of  all  mankind,  and  even  the  esteem 
of  those  amongst  your  enemiea  in  whom  every  spark  of 
virtue  is  not  totaOy  extinct, 

**  *  The  Princess,  who  has  all  the  curiosity  of  her  sex, 
is  desirous  to  see  the  ftatores  of  a  hero  of  whom  she  has 
heard  so  much,  so  that  yon  have  it  in  yonr  power  ta 
oblige  both  her  and  me  in  sending  us  your  picture  by  the 

Count  de ^  who  is  on  his  return  to  Berlin ;  and  he 

assured  I  shall  esteem  it  the  most  valuable  acquisition  I 
ever  made.  Yon  are  fteqnently  the  subject  of  eonveisa- 
tion  with  General  Keith,  whom  I  have  had  the  good  for- 
tune to  engage  in  my  service^  and,  besides  his  consum- 
mate knowledge  in  military  affain,  he  is  possessed  of  a 
thousand  amiable  qualities,  yet  nothing  endears  him  so 
much  as  his  entertaining  the  sentiments  with  r^purd  to 
3ronr  Royal  Highness  that  I  do. 

*«*  Waa  I  difierentljr  litaated  to  what  I  am,  I  wonU 
give  you  more  essential  proofr  of  my  friendship  than 
mere  words ;  but  you  may  depend  on  any  good  offices  I 
can  do  with  my  brother  of  France.  Yet  I  am  sorry  to 
tell  you  that  I  am  too  well  aconainted  with  the  politics 
of  that  Conrt  to  expect  they  will  do  you  any  solid  service^ 
as  they  would  have  everything  to  apprehend  from  a 
Prince  of  your  consummate  abilities  and  enterprising 
genius  placed  at  the  head  of  the  bravest  people  in  the 
world.  Adieu,  royal  hero,  and  assure  yourseli  that  no 
change  of  fortune  can  make  any  alteration  in  my  esteem. 

*• '  From  our  Conrt  at  BerUn,  Pbossia. 

November  8, 1746.* " 

It  is  odd  that  this  affectionate  and  confidential 
communication  has  the  word  ^'Prussia''  at  the 
end.  It  is  not  usual  for  monarchs  to  subscribe  or 
su^racribe  papers  of  any  kind  after  this  fashion. 
Neither  the  kinffs  of  England|  Scotland,  nor  Fnmoe 
signed  as  ''  En^d/'  "  Scothmd,"  '<  France.'' 

Now  the  letter  and  prefatory  oheeryation  were 
printed  and  attempted  to  be  circulated  more  than 
one  hundred  and  twenty  years  ago.  The  writer 
has  in  his  possession  one  of  the  printed  copies 
seized  by  order  of  the  magistrates  of  Edinbuivh 
on  June  29, 1748 ;  and  the  only  difference  of  toe 
slightest  moment,  between  the  original  version 
$na  the  modem  copy,  is  the  date — the  former 


118 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fc  8.  Vn.  Fm.  U.  71. 


\mng '« November  the  Sth,  1747/'  and  the  latter 
**  November  8, 1746." 

In  oonaequence  of  intelligenoe  reoeiyed  bj  the 
magistrates  of  Edinburgh  that  a  document  of  a 
aeditious  tendency  was  privatelj  in  circulation,  an 
inquiij  was  set  on  foot  by  them,  and  four  wit- 
nesses were  examined  on  the  subject^  whose 
depositions  were  to  this  effect :  — 

Upon  June  29, 1748,  John  Loch,  keeper  of  the 
Laigh  coffee-house,  was  examined  in  presence  of 
the  Lord  Provost  and  Magistrates.  He  deponed 
that  he  had  seen  the  MS.  of  the  letter  three  or 
four  months  previously  — 

^  That  being  in  hii  coffee-hoote  this  morning,  between 
nine  and  ten  o*clock,  a  bov»  whom  the  decUrant,  knows 
not,  came  into  the  coffee-honse,  and  pat  into  his  hand 
fonr  copies  ^  a  printed  paper,  which  tnededarant,  with- 
out lookioflf  to,  pat  into  ^pnn  in  the  coffee-house  where 
he  keeps  his  sugar  and  coffee." 

"^th  a  singular  want  of  curiosity,  he  asserts  he 
never  looked  into  them,  and  could  give  no  inform- 
ation about  the  boy  who  brought  them.  On  the 
flame  day  the  constables  came  with  a  search  war- 
rant, when  Loch  put  the  papers  into  his  pocket, 
refused  to  g^ve  them  up,  and  only  produced  them 
-when  brought  before  tne  coundL  One  copy  was 
marked  by  the  clerk  of  the  court^  signed  by  Loch, 
authenticated  by  Baillie  James  Stewart,  and  is 
the  one  above  referred  to. 

Fatridc  Arthur,  ''  keeper  of  the  Brittish  coffee- 
house," was  next  examined.  He  declared  that 
ibe  previous  night,  between  the  hours  of  nine 
and  ten,  a  printer's  boy  with  his  apron  on  came 
to  the  coffee-house,  and  gave  thirteen  copies  of 
the  letter  of  the  King  of  j^ussia  to  the  servants. 
These  were  delivered  to  him,  whereujpon  they 
were  instantly  locked  up,  and  shown  to  no  person. 
He  delivered  the  copies  to  the  constables  when 
they  came,  but  could  give  no  account  of  the 


printer's  boy,  as  all  he  knew  on  the  subject  was 
communicated  by  his  servant 

Next  dav  brought  out  the  name  of  the  printer, 
who  tumea  out  to  be  Bobert  Drummond,  whose 
apprentice,  John  Livingston,  stated  that  one  John 
Henderson  brought  the  MS.  to  the  printing  house 
of  his  master,  where  it  was  printed. 

David  Ross,  the  pressman  of  Mr.  Drummond, 
spoke  as  to  the  delivery  of  the  MS.  and  the  order 
by  John  Henderson  to  have  it  printed,  which  was 
obeyed,  and  Gve  hundred  copies  thrown  off  and 
delivered  to  Henderson.  He  concluded  his  de- 
claration by  asserting  ''that  Henderson,  upon 
bringing  the  MS.  to  the  printing  houee,  say'd  that 
he  had  got  it  from  one  Mrs.  Nicol."  AiV'ho  this 
female  was  (if  such  a  person  did  really  exist)  is 
not  explained. 

The  seizure  of  this  seditious  &brication  was  in 
June,  1748;  and  the  paper  printed  is  dated  in 
Nov.  1747.  The  recently  discovered  MS.,  now 
reprinted,  is  dated  in  Nov.  1746. 


It  congratulates  Prince  Charles  on  his  safe 
arrival  in  France,  which  occurred  in  that  year, 
and  the  printed  letter  does  the  same  a  year  later ; 
whilst  the  deposition  before  the  ma^trates  es- 
tablishes that  the  MS.  letter  and  mtroduction 
were  not  in  type  until  May  or  June,  1748. 

If  genuine,  this  document  is  an  early  specimen 
of  Prussian  double-dealing,  worthy  of  the  pre- 
sent refined  age.  But  we  have  no  fittle  difficulty 
in  arriving  at  the  conclusion  that  it  is  a  fiction : 
one  of  those  devices  not  unfrequently  practised  to 
influence  the  public  mind,  and  prepare  it  for  a 
subsequent  rismg.  That  the  government,  upon 
learning  its  existence,  issued  those  orders  to  which 
the  magistrates  of  Edinburgh  gave  effect,  plainly 
evinced  a  belief  that  a  new  rebellion  of  tne  Ja- 
cobites was  in  contemplation. 

Had  the  letter  been  a  veritable  one,  it  would 
never  have  been  subscribed  ''  Prussia." 

J.M. 

SHAKESPEARE  AND  ABDEN. 

There  is  a  ve^  interesting  and  able  article  in 
the  North  British  Bemew,  No.  civ.  p.  d94,  on 
Shakespeare  and  Ben  Jonson,  in  which  reference 
is  made  to  a  grant  to  Shakespeare  by  Camden, 
1699,  to  quarter  the  arms  of  Axden  of  Alvanley, 
in  Cheshire,  as  the  issue  of  the  marriage  of  his 
father  with  the  co-heiress  Miss  Arden  of  S.  Strat- 
ford, 00.  Warwick. 

I  think  it  has  always  been  understood  that  this 
ladv  was  of  the  old  Warwick  stock  of  the  Ardens^ 
and  not  of  the  Alvanley  branch  of  that  family ; 
and  I  should  have  supposed  that  Camden  was  m 
error  had  not  the  writer  in  the  article  in  question 
suggested  the  possibility  of  the  co-heiress's  grand- 
fatner,  Thomas  Arden  of  Aston  Cantlowe,  being 
a  son  or  grandson  of  Thomas  Arden  of  Leicester- 
shire, temp.  Hen.  VI.,  who  was  the  son  of  Kalph 
Ajrden  of  Alvanley  by  his  wife  Katherine,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Stanley  of  Hooton.  Perhaps 
some  of  your  readers  may  be  able  to  assist  m 
attempting  to  settle  this  very  interesting  ques- 
tion. I  may  add  that  there  is  no  Arden  pedigree 
recorded  in  the  Visitation  of  Leicestershire,  1619, 
and  only  once  in  that  very  full  record  is  an  Arden 
mentioned  so  late  as  Shakespeare's  time,  and  that 
is  ''Muriella  filia  Arden  de  Parkhall  in  Com. 
Warr." 

The  writer  speaks  of  Shakespeare's  father  being 
of  a  peasant  family,  by  which  I  suppose  he  means 
that  the  father  bemg  (I  think)  a  woolstapler,  it  is 
to  be  presumed  that  all  his  remote  as  well  as  near 
ancestors  were  of  the  same  or  humbler  condition. 
If  clearly  made  out  as  a  local  or  personal  sur- 
name, it  might  very  materially  help  all  future 
biographers  of  Shakespeare.  Is  there  no  manor 
or  hamlet  in  Great  Britain  (I  will  not  say  Ire- 
land; it  has  not  yet  put  in  a  claim  to  him)  called 


4*  a  VII.  Fib.  11, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


119 


Shakrour,  Shagspur,  Shacspere,  Shokspur,  Siiock- 
epar,  Shacklespur,  &c.  ?  At  first  sight  it  would 
fleem  to  be  a  persozial  name,  such  as  Strong-i'ih'- 
mrm  or  Aimstrong,  Shake-th'-spear — a  rather 
militarjr  appeUation,  and  probably  of  very  honour^ 
able  ongio.  In  any  case,  I  suppose  Shakespeare's 
UTeat-graodfather  is  believed  to  hare  been  a  com- 
batant at  Bosworth.  If  this  is  the  ease  the  re- 
cord or  tradition  of  such  a  drcumstance  raises 
a  presomption  (depending  on  the  nature  of  such 
record  or  tradition)  rather  in  favour  of  the  family 
being  mors  yeoman  than  peasant  That  Shake- 
speare himself  makes  no  reference  to  male  or 
female  side,  and  never  troubled  himself  in  the 
very  costly  matter  of  pedigree  in  those  days,  goes 
for  nothing,  though  it  cannot  be  for  a  moment 
supposed  that  the  natural  curiosity  of  a  boy  to 
know  where  he  came  from  shoula  not  develope 
itself  in  Shakespeare's  riper  years  into  the  equally 
strong  curioatv  to  know  of  whom  he  came.  For 
there  are  gentlemen  I  have  been  acquainted  with 
whose  ancestors  down  to  their  great-grandparents 
possessed  very  lai^  estates  for  centuries,  who 
had  ihe  very  faintest  suspicion  of  the  fact,  from 
the  circumstance  of  the  early  deaths  of  parents 
and  other  members  of  their  families,  a  nther^s 
or  grandfather's  second  marriage,  whereby  chil- 
dren ^  the  fint  wife  suffered  school-banishment, 
and  afterwards  resided  at  a  distance  from  homci 
and  from  other  similar  circumstances. 

I  know  not  whether  the  woolstaplera  of  Henry 
VJJLL  and  Elizabeth's  time  were  protected  by 
guilds,  as  many  other  trades  of  those  times,  by 
which  few  of  immediate  peasant  origin  were  at  all 
allowed  to  enter  the  community.  But  one  thing 
is  certain,  had  not  Miss  Arden  been  his  mother, 
-we  should  have  had  no  Shakespeare  ;  and  as  we 
know  something  of  her  side,  it  would  not  be  amiss 
that  we  know  something  of  his — the  paternaL 
As  to  the  armorial  question,  it  is  thought  in  the 
article  quoted  that  Shakespeare's  and  his  father's 
reasons  for  applying  for  tne  canting  coat  subse- 
quentljr  granted  were  on  account  of  their  de- 
sire to  imnale  and  quarter,  though  the  father  as 
well  as  the  son  could,  I  think,  have  used  the 
Arden  arms  without  impalement  or  quarter;  the 
former,  I  should  say,  by  carrying  them  as  an 
esoocheon  of  pretence  on  a  blank  shield.  Then 
it  is  further  said  that  Shakespean  never  did 
quarter,  because  I  suppose  his  seal,  and,  it  is  sug- 
^ted,  his  monument  bear  no  quarterings;  but 
is  there  no  emblazoned  coat  of  quarterings  coeval 
with  Shakespeare  P  As  to  seals,  they  were  very 
rarely  engraved  quarterly;  and  as  for  monumental 
evidence,  why  it  is  no  evidence  at  aU. 

T.  HXLBBT. 


SINGULAR  PROCEEDINGS  IN  MIDOLETON. 

I  enclose  a  cutting  from  the  Manchester  Examiner 
and^  Times  of  Jan.  10, 1871,  giving  particulars  of 
a  singular  custom  recently  observed.  Although 
a  Lancashire  man,  I  have  not  read  or  heard  of  the 
custom  before.  I  may  add  that  Middleton  is 
about  five  miles  from  Manchester;  the  manufac- 
tures are  silk  and  cotton,  and  the  population  in 
1861  was  14,482:— 

•«  Saturday  was  the  last  day  of  a  singnlar  aatnrnalia 
odd  at  Middleton.  It  has  been  for  many  years  a  castom 
among  the  inhabitants  of  a  locality  called  Throstle  HaU^ 
a  part  of  the  town,  to  annually  elect  a  king  over  the  dis- 
trict, whose  province  is  to  reoeiye  petitions  conoeming' 
street  nnisanoes  in  any  shape,  and  take  the  best  means 
in  his  conception  to  have  the  same  abated.  The  king  for 
the  present  year  is  a  John  Barber,  dealer  in  salt,  sand, 
pipeclay,  and  other  articles  of  domestic  nse.  He  was 
crowned  on  Monday  in  the  kitchen  of  a  beer-house^ 
named  for  the  occasion  'Westminster  Abbey,*  Inr  a  per- 
son who  was  dubbed  •Archbishop  of  Pigeon  Hill,'  a 
neighbourhood  situate  in  Tonge.  The  crown  was  made 
of  block  tin,  and  was  profusely  ornamented  with  feathen 
and  coloured  ribbons ;  it  was  also  lined  with  rabbits*  skin» 
and  upon  the  peak  was  a  brass  plate,  on  which  was  in- 
scribed *  King  John  the  First,  1871.'  On  placing  the  crown 
upon  Barber's  head,  '  his  grace '  delivered  a  poetic  ad- 
dress. After  this  ceremony.  Barber  mounted  a  platfomt 
in  the  street,  when  he  was  greeted  with  vociferous  cheer- 
ing by  about  3000  persons— the  male  portion  idl  uncover- 
ing and  remaining  uncovered  while  his  majesty  addressed, 
them,  which  he  did  in  right  royal  terms,  hoping  that  his 
subjects  would  be  true  to  him,  and  be  ready  for  defence 
in  case  of  invasion  by  enemies,  he  promising  in  return 
that  he  would  watch  over  their  interests  night  and  day» 
and  attend  to  all  their  petitions A  Mr.  Thomas  Brier- 
ley,  of  the  *  Cottage  of  Content,'  Tonge,  followed  with  an 
address,  in  which  be  expressed  a  hope  that  the  royal 
dignity  would  be  made  hereditaxy  by  the  people,  and  that 
the  present  king's  princes  and  princesses  would  bea^  the 
crown  after  him.  After  this  his  majesty  was  taken  over 
his  dominions  in  his  cart,  attended  by  bis  officers  of  state» 
whom  he  had  already  appointed,  a  strong  body  guard,, 
and  thousands  of  his  subjects.  In  the  evening  *a  grand 
feast  was  held,  after  which  his  majesty  danced  with  the 
beauties  of  his  court,  to  the  strains  of  a  brass  band.  On. 
Tuesday  the  king  paraded  the  whole  of  Middleton  on  his 
'charger* — hisdonkey — attendedby  his  officers  andguard ; 
and  in  the  evening  he  again  rode  along  the  thorough- 
fares, when  there  was  a  grand  torohlight  procession. 
Later  on  in  the  ni^ht  Mrs.  Barber  was  crowned  queen  by 
the  women  of  Throstle  Hall,  who  provided  a  handsome 
cap  for  the  occasion.  After  this  ceremony,  her  majesty 
favoured  the  company  with  two  or  three  songs.  About 
deven  o'clock  the  royal  couple  were  attended  to  the  gates 
of  their  residence  by  a  host  of  persons,  who,  after  singing 
*Gk>d  save  the  Kuig*  and  the  *  Christmas  Hymn,'  re- 
tired in  perfect  order.  A  round  of  festivities  was  kept  up 
till  Saturday  evening  in  honour  of  the  event.  It  may  be 
mentioned  that  Barber  had  a  rival  for  royal  honours  in. 
the  person  of  a  Jesse  Collinge,  a  weaver,  and  that  on 
Monday  morning  there  was  a  poll,  which  resulted  in 
Barber  being  elected  with  206  votes  against  200  givea 
forCoUlnge.  Cabs  and  other  conveyances  wero  brought 
into  reqi&tion  to  bring  voters  to  the  booths.  The  pro- 
ceeding throughout  were  conducted  in  a  very  orderly, 
and  business-like  manner,  and  were  watched  by  large 
numbers  of  persona  from  Oldlum,  Bocbdsle,  Hejwood» 
and  other  plaoea.** 

Heaton  ChapeL  O.  H.  S. 


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KOTES  AND  QTJERIE8. 


[4*S.VILF«».11,7I. 


-THE  PRODIGAL  SOK,"  BT  MUMLLO. 

It  has  been  said  that  tbe  series  of  illustrations 
of  this  parable  by  Mnrillo  is  in  some  respects  the 
best  of  his  works  now  exhibiting  at  the  Roytl 
Academy.  I  am  ^lad  to  be  allowed  to  append 
the  following  descriptive  extract  from  an  unpub- 
lished sermon  on  the  same  subject;  preachea  by 
Dean  Stanley  a  short  time  since  in  Westminster 
Abbey;  feeling  confident  that  it  will  add  greatly 
to  the  pleasure  of  Tisitats  to  the  present  exhibi- 
tion, in  enabling  tham  to  appiecutte  more  fully 
these  masterfneoea,  H.  F.  T. 

"  The  Parmble  of  the  Prodigal  Son  miefat  be  the  story 
of  any  borne,  in  any  pari  of  the  world.  There  is  a 
wonderftilly  vivid  representation  of  it  in  its  sereral 
parts  in  a  series  of  six  successive  pictores  by  the  greatest 
of  Spanish  painters,  once  divided  fhmi  each  other, 
partly  in  Spain  and  partly  in  Italy,  now  happUy  re- 
united in  England.  Tne  painter's  genius  has  there  por- 
trayed the  wnole  story,  as  though  it  had  happened  in  his 
own  country.  There  is  the  Spanish  father  dividing  the 
property  between  the  two  youths.  They  are  haiwy  to 
be  aistJngnished  from  each  other  in  that  happy  moment 
of  opening  life.  The  future  to  them  is  as  yet  unknown; 
the  world  is  all  before  them  where  to  choose ;  their  father 
looks  with  equal  and  benignant  love  on  both.  Hen 
comes  the  psjling  of  the  younger  son  on  his  travels. 
There  he  starts  in  hat  and  plume^on  his  prancing  horse 
— ^in  an  the  pride  and  gaiety  of  brilliant  success  and  hope. 
The  father  blesses  him  with  all  the  fulness  of  paternal 
affection.  His  mother  we^  with  all  the  depth  of 
motherly  love.  Only  the  elder  brother  stands  by,  with 
his  arms  folded  and  with  stem  unmoved  countenance, 
as  much  as  to  say  '  I  know  whither  you  are  going— I 
foresee  what  will  befall  you.*  Then  comes  the  fuL  The 
happy,  gay,  innocent  youth  has  planged  into  riotous  liv- 
ing and  debauchery.  His  Spanish  finery  is  still  upon  bim, 
but  it  is  stained  with  the  wear  and  tear  of  nvdry :  he  is 
the  prey  of  dissolute  men  and  designing  women,  who  cheat, 
and  mock,  and  corrupt  him  day  by  day.  Next  comes  the 
retribution,  which  sooner  or  later  marics  every  such 
career.  He  has  wasted  his  substance— the  good  gifts 
which  his  father  gave  him.  He  is  entangled  in  debt, 
in  disgrace,  in  nun.  The  friends,  the  false  friends, 
who  clung  round  him  as  long  as  he  had  money  to 

g've  and  means  to  indnl^  them,  turn  against  him. 
e  is  driven  into  the  wilderness  by  the  very  com- 
panions who  before  were  to  him  the  choice  of  his  heart. 
Then  we  see  him  in  the  bare  desert  His  finery  has 
fallen  in  tatters  about  him.  He  has  been  transformed 
into  the  emaciated,  hungry,  half-naked  outcast.  The 
filthy  swine  are  feeding  around  him  on  the  husks  of  the 
few  trees  that  fringe  the  arid  landscape.  He  is  Uie  very 
image  of  desolation  and  miseiy.  But  there  is  a  dawn  of 
better  things  Just  visible.  He  is  on  his  knees ;  his  eyes 
are  raised  towards  heaven.  There  is  a  deep  meaning  in 
them  which  we  have  not  discerned  before.  He  is  saying 
*  I  will  arise  and  go  to  my  Father.'  He  has  seen  through 
the  hollowness  of  the  pleasures  of  earth ;  he  has  caught  a 
glimpse  of  the  happiness  of  heaven. — And  then,  in  the 
edxth  and  last  picture,  there  Is  the  blessed  return.  The 
father  has  gone  out  to  the  gateway  to  meet  and  embrace 
him.  The  penitent  youth  has  flung  himself  on  his  knees 
before  him.  Those  eyes  which  we  saw  in  the  desert  pas- 
tures lifted  up  towards  heaven  with  a  heavenly  light 
within  them,  have  still  the  same  deep  pathetic  meanin^^ ; 
but  they  are  fiow  fixed,  not  with  a  vague  hope  on  in- 
finite space,  but  with  a  yearning  tenderness  on  Ulb 


fkthei't  face  bending  dose  orer  him.  He  has  eone  back 
to  his  home,  and  idl  the  sights  and  Bounds  of  home  are 
around  him ;  the  £uniliar  calf  biooght  forth  from  tha 
stall;  the  servants  playing  the  meny. music  which  he 
lemembered  in  his  childh^>d.  And  one  other  there  is, 
still  unchanged  also.  It  is  the  elder  brother  with  his  un- 
ruffled dignity  and  his  unstained  integri^,  but  also  with 
his  unmoved  ooontenaiiee,  with  his  eymeal  wooder  tiiat 
on  such  an  unhappy  scapegraoe— on  such  a  wild  and  law- 
less truant  shoula  be  lavished  so  much  care  and  lovse,  ao 
mudi  triumph,  and  so  much  Joy." 


GENTEKARIANISM. 


BoBSRT  HowLDraoiry  aged  one  hundred  and 
three.  The  instances  haying  been  so  freijnentlj 
TOoorded  in  the  public  joumalsi  and  so  minutely 
examined  in  *'  N.  &  Q,./*  tbe  place  and  date  of 
each  fresh  occurrence  ought  to  be  forthwith  laid 
before  its  boaid  d  enquiry. 

In  last  Monday's  Edko  (Jan.  38;  1871),  I  read 

the  pleasant  account  of  a  purse  of  twenty-fire 

sorereigns  having  been  presented  to  Robert  How- 

linson  of  West-Iinton   in  Peebleshire    on    his 

hmulred  and  third  birthday.     Most  cordially  do  I, 

who  am  in  humble  expectancy  of  my  nmety-^aurih^ 

wish   my  venerable  senior  ^'multos  et  felices/' 

with  the  like  testimony  attached  to  erery  one  of 

them.  C  li.  o. 

[Would  some  Pe^lesshire  correspondent  kindly  fiimisb 
the  evidence  of  Robcort  Howlinson's  age  ?— £d.] 

William  Webb,  of  Prome,  aged  one  bundred 
and  five  or  one  hundred  and  six. 

EnwABD  GoucH;  of  Torpoint,  aged  one  bundred 
and  ten. 

Here  is  fresh  food  for  Mr.  Editor*s  inouiriea. 
William  Webb  is  said  to  be  now  liviog  at  Frome, 
having  been  bom  there  in  1764:  served  in  the 
Marines  under  Nelson  between  1789  and  1797^ 
and  then  returned  to  Frome,  where  he  was  mar- 
ried. Edward  Couch  is  reported  to  bave  died  at 
Torpoint  on  Jan.  30,  aged  one  hundred  and  ten : 
was  on  board  the  Victory  at  Trafalgar,  with 
Lord  Howe  on  June  1,  and  in  receipt  of  a  pension 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  Surely  bis  story  ia 
easily  tested.  W.  C. 

PAs  the  cases  are  so  <* easily  tested,". we  hope  W.  GL 
will  undertake  to  do  ao.  Both  cases  may  be  settled  pro> 
bably  at  the  Admiralty.  If  it  is  our  good  fortune  to  come 
under  the  notice  of  any  gentleman  connected  with  that 
department,  periiaps  hie  would  kindly  inform  us  what 
tbe  records  there  tell  of  William  Webb  mad  Edward 
Couch.^ED.«N.&Q."] 


This  STRASBUBe  Libraby.— Gie«t  interest  ia 
felt  throughout  Germany  to  make  all  posnble 
amends  to  Strasburg  for  the  loss  of  its  library, 
which,  in  its  reconstruction^  will  be  henceforth  a 
university  library.  A  suitable  localihr  is  already 
provided,  and  means  ensured  for  obtaming  early- 

Srinted  and  rare  works,  so  many  of  which  were 
estroyed  in  the  siege.    The  University  of  Berlin 


^  a  "vn.  Pw.  11, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


121 


hBB  obtBined  pflnniaBiosi  from  the  ^vornmofnt  to 
place  its  diylicstes  «t  tSie  Bervioe  of  the  lifarazv. 
In  other  ciiciuBBtances  these  duplicates  would 
hare  been  aoML  Pieauees  hare  keen  leceired  of 
oontributions  from  the  Umyenity  of  Gottingen 
and  from  I>reeden  and  Bremen.  Munich  and 
Tienna  are  like-minded,  and  the  Saxon  Sodetj  of 
Sdenoea  in  Laipxig  has  made  a  oift  of  all  its  pub* 
lioationa.  The  German  bookaellers  emulate  the 
zeal  of  the  pubKc  bodies ;  and  the  mat  honses  ^ 
Cotta,  BrockhauSy  Perthes,  Doncker  and  Hum- 
bloty  fianertandery  &c  te.,  hare  placed  tiieir 
Talnable  publioations  at  free  choice  ibr  selection. 
Mr.  Triifanei^  of  London,  will  use  his  best  efforts 
in  England  and  America^-  and  Dr.  Peliz  Pliiffel, 
of  Leipzig,  while  nresenting  a  valuable  contrabu- 
tion  m>m  his  own  ubrary,  has  promised  to  interest 
himself  with  the  Smithsonian  Listitute  at  Wash- 
ington for  the  same  purpose.  All  this  is  quite 
natural  and  becoming  in  a  great  country  like 
Oermanjr,  where  literature  is  so  highljjr  esteemed 
and  cultiTated,  and  which  intends  to  incorporate 
Stzasbug  with  the  empire.  J.  Mic&iLX. 

Gtpst  CeosxBT. — During  the  past  summer  I 
paid  £reauent  Tints  to  a  gypsj  encampment  in 
my  neighbouihoodi  and  upon  one  occasion  ob- 
serring  a  shapeless  lump  of  day  baking  upon  an 
open  fire-grate,  I  learned,  upon  b^uiry^  that  it 
contained  a  fowl  in  process  of  cookmg.  After  a 
while,  one  of  the  girls  removed  it  from  the  £re  ; 
and  on  breaking  it  open,  I  found  it  to  contain  a 
,  veritable  fowl  with  the  feathers  still  on  it  These, 
however  came  off  with  the  baked  day,  and  left 
the  flesn  beautifuUy  white  and  streaming  with 
rich  gravy  from  countless  pores.  I  was  pressed 
to  partake,  but  the  untrussed  head  and  legs 
looked  so  like  those  of  a  fowl  which  had  died  a 
''natural  death,"  that  I  civilly  declined  the  invi- 
tation, although  I  am  a  firm  believer  in  the 
adage  which  says  that  '' Whatever  does  not 
poison  fattens."  M.  D. 

The  BcHooLXABTEB  Abboas  IK  Staffobd- 
8HIBE. — ^The  following  illustrations  of  ''life  in 
the  mining  districts"  are  too  good  to  be  confined 
to  the  pages  of  the  Staffordtkire  Advertiser : — 

**  One  of  the  bltck-countiy  sheep  of  the  present  Bishop 
of  Iidifidd*8  flock,  hearioff  there  was  a  bishop  «t  Bilstoo, 
and  not  knowing  predsdy  what  a  bishop  was,  took  his 
bofl-pap  over  from  w  ednesbmy  for  the  express  parpose 
of  tiying  the  animars  mettle  upon  the  new  comer,  an- 
nouncing to  a  friend  that  *  the  dawgg  would  pin  it/  what- 
ever it  tamed  oat  to  be  I  *' 

'*FUial  TVe^.— First  collier,  loqoitnr :  « There's  bin  a 
foire  [explosion]  at  Jackson*s  pits.*  Seoond  collier  *. 
'  Moy  fejiher  worked  theere.*  First  colHer :  *  Or,  and 
be*8  Uowed  a*  to  pieces.'  Seoond  collier :  *  Boy 'gum ! 
whoy,  he*d  got  moy  pocket4aioili»  wi"im ! ' " 

MooBXAim  Lad. 

A  CoirrRASTy  1869  akd  1871.  —  In  looking 
through  the  Itevue  ArchSohgique,  vol.  xx.  (K.8.), 


p.  865, 1  find  the  following  entiy  regarding  the 
Anthropological  Society  of  Paris :  ^  ^ance  da  15 
iuillet  18€»,  G^ndral  FaidherbC;  Bolmens  et 
hommes  blonds  de  la  Libye." 

In  that  year  so  lately  passed  this  great  general 
wasy  therefore,  occupied  in  composing  and  readiiw 
an  antiquarian  and  philosophical  •papw^fmite  de 
mieux.    Can  a  contrast  be  greater  r        U.  G.  0. 


MumcEBS. — 


«  A  party  of  mummers  visited  the  torwns  and  viUagas 
of  Korth  Notts  during  the'  past  fortnight,  and  highly 
diverted  the  inhabitants  by  their  dancing,  singhig  of  old 
songs,  and  the  play  of  the  Hobhy  Hone,  The  latter 
play  was  in  existence  in  the  days  of  the  Flantageaeta, 
and  probably  the  song  and  tune  which  they  sang^  via., 
'  Whan  Joan's  ale  was  new.'  " 

This  paragraph,  from  the  Newark  Advertiser  of 
Wednesday,  January  18, 1871,  may  be  deserving 
of  a  place  in  your  columns,  as  a  proof  of  the 
continued  existenoe  of  a  very  ancient  custom. 

Newaik.  J.  M. 

Old  Jokes. — ^A  joke  is  not  out  of  place  in 
^  N.  &  Q./'  and  if  I  find  any  which  appear  to  me 
new  or  rare,  I  will  send  them,  requesting  the 
Editor  to  reject  those  which  he  has  read  m  ten 
different  books  or  heard  from  ten  difierent  persons. 
A  line  must  be  drawn  somewhere,  and  i  do  not 
think  that  which  I  propose  a  very  severe  one. 

I  lately  heard  one  educated  gentleman  tell 
another  ^'one  of  the  best  things'  Canning  ever 
said."  He  and  Lord  Dudley  arrived  atlDover 
from  France,  and  ordered  a  rumpsteak  while  the 
horses  were  getting  ready  for  their  journey  to 
London.  Lora  Dudley  remarked  that  the  meat 
was  hard.  ''Harder  where  there's  none,"  said 
Canning.  The  teller  laughed,  and^  the  heurer 
courteously  made  a  noise  as  much  like  laughing 
as  he  could.  Had  a  new  pupil  at  Dotheboys  Hall 
said  ''  This  meat  is  hard,''  his  companions  would 
probably  have  abstained  firom  the  response  as  too 
stale. 

On  the  practice  of  repeating  stories,  I  take  the 
following  from  the  Liverpool  Weekly  Mercury, 
May  25, 1869 :  — 

**  The  Wilkinson  (MinnesoU)  superior  conrt  has  de- 
cided when  a  man  is  legally  drunk.  Said  tbe  judge :  *  It 
is  not  necessary  that  a  man  should  be  wallowing  in  a 
ditch,  or  bumping  his  head  against  your  posts,  that  yon 
may  know  him  to  be  drunk;  but  whenever  he  begias  to 
tell  the  same  thing  over  twice,  then  he's  drunk.* " 

Garrick  Clnb.  FiTZHOPKIHi. 

''SkTOLBING  TJPOK   a  GlAVB  GlJlTTEN."--The 

tnck  formed  upon  ice  by  sliding  is  called  in  the 
Fylde  district  of  North  Lancashire  a  "  glatten," 
the  act  of  sliding  is  termed  ''  skerring,"  and  the 
word  "glave,"  instead  of  slippery,  is  used  to  ex- 
press the  quality  of  the  glatten.  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  vrhether  the  usage  of  the  above  terms  is 
confined  to  the  Fjrlde,  or  that  they  prevail  in 
other  districts  P  Jaxbb  Veax&w. 

Milnrow. 


122 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**  8.  VII.  Fm.  tl,  71. 


SHTTH3  OF  IRELAND. 

In  the  course  of  1609  three  preUtes  of  tlie 
name  of  Smyth  sat  on  the  Irish  episcopal  hench — 
Thomas  Bishop  of  Limerick,  William  of  Kilmore, 
and  Edward  of  Down  and  Connor;  and  all  the 
private  or  printed  pedigrees  I  hare  seen  make 
them  members  of  one  family.  Three  Beresfords 
were  Irish  Inshops  together  for  a  considerable 
period;  and  although  this  did  not  happen  with 
t]^e  Synges,  jet^  except  between  1653  and  1660 
(when  no  Protestant  bishops  were  consecrated  in 
Ireland),  one  and  generally  two  Sjnges  held  sees 
from  1638  to  1771.  Still  the  fact,  as  regards 
the  Smyths,  is  worth  noting.  Yet  I  am  not 
satisfied  that  they  were  of  the  same  family. 

It  is  •  true  that  they  and  their  descendants 
always  associated  on  the  footing  of  relatives,  but 
then  their  families  were  certainly  connected  b)r 
marriages.  They  were  bom  in  neighbouring  places : 
Dundrum  in  the  county  of  Down,  and  Lisbum  on 
the  borders  of  Down  and  Antrim.  But  whilst 
Archbishop  Henry  Ussher  married  Mary  Smyth 
of  Dundrum,  and  died  in  1613,  and  whilst  Celtic 
Smyths  can  be  traced  in  Antrim  a  century  earlier, 
the  pedigrees  make  the  episcopal  family  leave 
Rosedale,  near  Pickering,  tenm.  Car.  I.  Inmate 
Margetson  came  from  Yorkshire  to  Ireland  as 
chaplain  to  the  unfortunate  Earl  of  Strafford, 
Lozd-Deputy  in  1633.  John  Smyth,  his  brother- 
in-law,  was  Precentor  of  Clogher  in  that  year. 
He  died  rector  of  Enniskillen;  and  his  will, 
proved  in  England  in  1655,  shows  him  to  have 
held  property  in  Craven,  in  Yorkshire,  as  well  as 
in  Ireland;  whilst  his  son's  executor  William, 
Treasurer  of  Armagh,  was  the  future  Bishop  of 
Kilmore,  But  whilst  this  confirms  the  tiadi- 
tionary  descent,  he  and  the  Bishop  of  Down  also 
using  the  well-known  Yorkshire  coat  of  a  bend 
between  two  unicorns'  heads,  the  Bishop  of  Lime- 
rick bore  arms  almost  identical  with  tne  uncom- 
mon ones  of  the  contemporary  citizen  family  of 
Smyth  of  Hammersmith,  created  baronets  in  1694 ; 
namely.  Gules,  a  lion  rampant  argent,  on  a  chief 
of  the  second,  a  mullet  azure  between  two  tor- 
teaux.  Can  any  genealogical  correspondent  assist 
in  solving  these  doubts  ?  Gobi. 

Warwick  Square,  S.W. 

P.S.  I  may  add,  in  reference  to  recent  notes  on 
the  spelling  of  Smtfth  («  N.  &  Q.,"  4^  S.  vi.  474 ; 
yii.  4id),  that  I  have  met  with  instances  of  two 
dots  placed  over  the  y  in  Smyth,  as  suggested 
by  Sp.  

Bishop  Axcock. — Wanted,  particulars  of  family 
and  arms  of  the  Right  Rev.  /ohn  Alcock,  at  first 
Bishop  of  Worcester  and  afterwards  of  Ely,  about 
I486.  •"' J.  C. 

rJobn  Alcock,  sop  of  William  Aloock,  sometime  bvrgess 
of  JUngston-opoQ-HaU,  and  Joan  his  wife,  was  bom  at 


Beverley,  and  raised  himself  entirely  bv  his  own  merits. 
He  stadied  at  Cambridge,  where  be  obtained  great  dis- 
tinction for  his  knowled^  of  dvfl  and  oommonlaw.  In 
1641  he  became  rector  of  St.  Margaret,  Fish  Street. 
London,  and  dean  of  St  Stephen's,  Westminster ;  con- 
secrated bishop  of  Rochester  in  1472 ;  in  1474  was  lord 
chanceilor  conjointly  with  Botheram,  bishop  of  Lincoln ; 
in  1476  translated  to  Worcester,  and  in  1486  to  Elv. 
His  death  oscarred  at  Wisbech  Castie,  Oct  1, 1500,  and 
he  was  bnried  in  a  ramptuons  chapel  he  had  erected  for 
himself  at  the  north-east  end  of  Ely  Cathedral.  His 
arms  were  A.  on  a  chevron  between  8  cocks*  heads  erased 
S.  crested  and  Jalloped  G.  a  mitre  O.] 

Balltcttlitak.  —  Will  your  obliging  corre- 
spondent Mb.  Maitricb  Lsnthait,  or  any  of  the 
numerous  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q^"  &vour  me  with 
the  following  information :  — 

1.  What  IS  the  present  name  of  Ballycollitany 
or  Ballicullatak,  ajxvl  or  abrA;  co.  Tippe- 
raryP 

2,  It  is  said  that  William  Cleburne  (second  son 
of  Thomas  Cleburne  of  Clebumei  co.  Westmore- 
land, by  Agnes  Lowther  of  Lowther),  who  died 
seized  of  the  lands  of  BallicuUatan,  Castletown, 
Bumadubber  and  Springmount,  lies  buried  in  Eil- 
barron  church  or  abbey  (P)  near  Lough  Derg, 
and  that  there  is  a  vault  in  the  chancel  under 
the  east  window  bearing  the  following :  — 

Cred.  A  dove  and  olive  branch. 
Arms,  Arg.  three  chevronels  braced  in  base, 
8a.    A  chief  and  bordure  of  the  last. 
MoUo.  «  Pax  et  Copia," 

G17LnSLKI78   .   CLEBUByB   .  SB  .  BALLICVLLATAK  . 

ABKIGBB  .  OBIIT  .  VICBSDCO  .  SBCUKBO  .  BIB  . 

XBN8I8  .  0CT0BBI8  .  AKVO  .  DOMINI  .  1684. 

Is  this  a  correct  copy  of  the  inscription,  and 
what  are  the  names  ot  this  William  Cleburne's 
wife  and  children  P 

S.  Was  Patrick  Ronayne,  the  artist|  a  near 
relative  of  Patrick  Ronayne  of  Annebrook,  Queens- 
town,  CO.  Cork  P  NiuBOD. 

Pbbigbbb  of  Pbtbb  Bibt.— I  shall  be  very 
grateful  for  any  information  relative  to  the  parent- 
ase  of  Peter  Birt  of  Armine,  co.  York,  and 
Wenvoe  Castle,  co.  Glamorgan.  He  bore  the 
same  arms  as  Byrte  of  Dorset,  and  Birt  of  Llwyn- 
Dyrus,  co.  Cardigan — viz.  Arg.  on  a  chevron 
gules  between  three  bogle-horns  stringed  sable ; 
as  many  crosses  crosslet  fitch^e  of  the  field. 

F0BE8T-BILL. 

"Blttb  Books ''avoTBD  by  Butlbb. — Where 
are  the  *'  Blue  Books '' published  by  Stockdale  in 
1812,  and  quoted  by  Charles  Butler  in  his  3/e- 
moirs  of  Englith  CatAoUcs  (iv.  66, 57),  to  be  seen  P 
Also,  what  is  known  of  the  "  Red  Book,"  a  work 
in  MS.,  quoted  in  the  same  place  P  They  appear 
to  have  first  made  their  appearance  about  1780. 

A  Hbbfobd  Pbabsov. 

London  Libraiy. 


*fc  a.  viL  Feb.  1V71.]  NOTES  AND  QtJERIBB. 


123 


Db  Sate  ob  Sat.— This  family  deiiTes  from  an 
ancestor  who  accompanied  WiUiam  the  acquiror 
(not  the  conqueror "- in  modem  sense,  which  was 
juBt  the  last  thing  he  would  have  desired  to  be 
called)  from  Normandj. 

Can  any  of  your  learned  correspondents  give 
me  any  information  as  to  this  family  preyious  to 
the  conquest,  and  aho  as  to  its  two  branches  — 
one  in  England  and  the  other  in  Scotland,  where 
some  suppose  it  to  be  the  origin  of  the  great  fiunily 
of  Seton,  Saytoune,  Seytoun,  &c. ;  lathough,  as 
the  latter  claim  from  Dougal  de  Seton  (circa 
1100),  which  is  a  Highland  Christian  name,  that 
presents  a  difficulty.  This  Dougal  is  said  to  have 
been  the  son  or  mndson  of  the  first  of  the 
Setons  authentically  recorded.  Lord  Say  and 
Sele  dezives  from  De  Say  in  the  female  line. 

Oldc. 

Thb  **;E8TATica  "  0¥  .CALDAKO.^Can  any  of 
your  readers  refer  me  to  any  sources  of  informa- 
tion regarding  the  JSatatica  of  Caldano,  whose 
case  (as  I  learn  from  the  article  "StigmatiBa- 
tion,"  CkanU)er$'8  Eneyclopadia)  attracted  much 
attention  about  thirty  years  ago  P  M.  D. 

''Fridat  Tbee.''— I  have  met  with  this  ex- 
pression as  being  applied  in  the  South  of  France 
to  an  unsuccessful  undertaking  or  person.  Do 
you  know  of  any  authority  for  it  P  A.  S. 

''Thx  Gbsciah  Bevd.''— What  is  the  dasmc 
authorityy  if  any,  for  this  expression  P  The  edi- 
tors of  Hans  Breitmann's  BaBads  seem  to  think 
it  quite  modem,  as  they  caU  it — 

"  A  recent  Paris  fashion,  at  once  adopted  in  America. 
It  is  the  ennre  made  at  the  back  of  the  body,  when 
a  female  carries  herself  as  if  walking  in  a  perpetoal 
cnitsey ;" — 

but  more  than  half  a  oentury  ago  the  term  was 

in  use,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  EUmian  (iii  67) :— > 

*'  In  person  he  was  of  the  common  size,  with  some- 
tiung  of  tho  Grecian  bend,  contracted  doubtless  from 
aedctttary  babiU.'* 

W.  T.  M. 

Hketkus.  —  Will  Anglo-Soottts,  Espsdabe, 
or  other  learned  antiquarian  correspondent  of 
*'  N.  &  Q./'  oblige  me  with  the  ancestry  of  Her- 
rey,  or  Hemey,  l)uke  of  Orleans  a.d.  1066  P 

As  this  duchy  was  vested  in  the  family  of 
Robert  the  Strong  from  A.D.  888,  I  presume  any 
Duke  of  Orleans  of  tenth  or  eleventh  centuries 
must  have  been  a  member  of  the  royal  family  of 
France. 

2.  The  ancestry  of  the  house  of  Fitz-Hugh  f 
Lower  (Patrofi.  JBrit,  p.  18)  states  that  this  sur- 
name was  not  used  until  temn,  Edw.  III.  Yet 
Gravefl,  in  his  Hist,  of  Clevekmd,  states  that  Hugh 
(great  grandson  of  Alice  de  Stavely)  ^died 
•32  Edw.  L,  leaving  a  son  Henry,  who  bemg  called 
fltz-Hugh,  continued  that  name  till  4  Hen.  VUL, 
when  George  fltz-Hugh  died/'  and  the  name 


became  extinct  I  also  find  that  Adam  de  Hervey, 
ten^.  Hen.  III.,  married  Juliana,  daughter  of 
John  de  Fitz-Hugh.  According  to  Lower,  Bar- 
dolph  was  the  first  of  the  famuy  of  Htz-Hugh. 
His  arms,  however,  were.  Azure,  three  cinquefoila 
argent;  while  those  of  the  latter  were,  Azure, 
three  cheirronels  interlaced  in  base,  or.  A  chief 
of  the  last. 

The  early  history  of  the  Herveys  seems  to  be 
involved  in  obscurity.  Robert,  son  of  Hervey  or 
Hemey,  Duke  of  Orleans,  is  said  to  have  had 
several  sons,  but  we  are  left  to  conjecture  whom 
they  are  from  a  number  of  Anglo-Norman  Her^ 
veys  of  the  eleventh  century.  Hervey,  Marquis 
of  Bristol,  and  the  Clibums  of  GUbum-Hervey, 
are  said  to  be  descended  from  Herveus  filius 
Hervei,  Forrester  of  the  New  Forrest  toA  Archels- 
garth,  18  Hen.  L,  who  is  also  claimed  as  the 
ancestor  of  the  Butlers.  Vide  Clarke's  Hist,  of 
House  of  Ormonde.  But  there  seems  to  be  some 
doubt  whether  the  father  of  this  Herveus  was  of 
the  Orleans  family,  or  a  younger  son  of  Gilbert  de 
Clare.  Will  some  correspondent  of  ^  N.  &  Q." 
be  kind  enough  to  inform  me  to  which  of  the 
Herveys  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Clibum,  near 
Penrith,  was  granted,  and  when,  and  by  whon^ 
was  the  'grant  made  r  In  the  Pine  Roll  6th  of 
Stephen,  Herveus  fil  Hervei  pays  a  nne  for  erecting 
his  lands  in  Amoundreness  into  manors.  Waa 
Clibum  one  of  these  ?  NniBOD. 

The  Hole  nr  the  Well. — ^There's  a  very  old 

inn  near  the  East  Gate,  King's  Lynn,  called  the 

Hole  in  the  Well  —  a  rather  remarkable  sign,  it 

appears  to  me.    The  beet  chance  I  see  of  solution 

or  clue  is  a  query  in  your  pages.    What  is  the 

origin  of  it?  K  L. 

[There  were  formerly  in  London  three  taverns  with  the 
sign  of  <•  Hole  in  the  WaU  '* ;  bnt  **  Hole  in  the  WcU  "  is 
unknown  in  the  history  of  sign-boards.] 

BuBiAL  Plages  of  Makx  Bishops.— In  the 
Chronicle  of  Man  the  burial-places  of  fourteen 
Manx  bishops  are  recorded.  Does  any  other  re- 
cord of  their  burials  exist  besides  the  chronicle, 
or  are  any  remains  of  their  tombs  to  be  found  r 
Two,  Christinus  and  Nicholas,  were  buried  at 
Benchor,  by  which  is  meant,  I  suppose,  the  monas- 
tery of  St.  Comhgall  in  Ulster,  for  there  were 
several  monasteries  of  that  name,  one  even  in  the 
Isle  of  Man.  Michael  was  interred  at  Fountains, 
Reginald  or  Ronald  at  Rushin,  also  a  Cistercian 
abbey  and  daughter  of  Fumess;  Richard  and 
Wilfiam  Russell  at  Fumess ;  Simon  and  Mark  at 
St  German's,  Peel,  Isle  of  Man,  where  nothing, 
or  next  to  nothing,  has  been  done  in  reference 
to  those  interesting  ruins,  though  a  bazaar  under 
high  patronage  was  held  for  the  purpose  of  rais- 
ing the  necessary  means.  John  M'lvar,  or  son  of 
Hefare,  was  buried  at  Jervanx,  as  Braf.  Miinch 
rightly  supposed,  and  not  at  Yarmouth,  as  John- 


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NOTES  AND  QUEIIIE& 


[4^&YILFbb.  11^71. 


stone  had  enoneoualy  coDJectured.  Gamaliel 
buried  at  Peterboxouffh.  Thomaa  at  Scone,  Ber* 
naid  at Eylwynin,  said  dy  Cummin^  in  hialA  of 
Man  to  be  Arbroath,  by  Oliyer  in  bis  MonutneiUa 
A.  Man.  to  be  in  Aynbiie.  Alan  and  Gilbert 
M'Oleland  were  buried  at  St  Maiy's,  Rotbaaj, 
Isle  of  Bute.  Wimund  or  Hamund,  whose  event- 
ful lustory  is  inyolred  in  much  obscurity,  was 
seen  by  the  historian  William  of  Newborouj^h, 
blinded  a^d  mutilated  at  Byland  Abbey,  liying 
retired,  but  where  he  died  is  not  stated.  John 
Doffan  died  Bishop  of  Down  in  1412,  and  was 
probably  buried  in  Ireland.  A.  E.  L. 

MissALB  AD  UsTTK  Lavsankxnsiqc. — ^The  Vau- 
dois  Cantonal  Library  at  Lausanne  possesses  a 
rare  missaL  At  the  end  is  printed  in  red  chaiao- 
ters— 

**  Impressa  laustne  nrbe  antiqiiiflsima  impensa  «rt«  et 
indiutna  solertii  et  ingenioai  Tiri  Mogistri  iohannU 
bdot  iiudgni  ciyitate,  rothomagen  ortum  dacentis  noils 
calami  exaratione;  Bed  qnadam  artiflcioBa  characteri- 
sandi  ac  ixnprimendi  inventione  misaalia  samma  cam 
diligeotia  emendata  feliciter  finiant.  Anno  salatia  noetre. 
M.cooa  nonagmimo  tBrtio.  Kalendaa  decembriaa  sedente 
vererendiaBimo  pxeBcde  Aymone  de  mimtefalcone  lanaan : 
epo:  et  comite  prindpeque  imperia  digniwwmo.** 

The  above  missal  is  a  folio  in  Gothic  letters, 
red  and  black,  double  columns,  thirty-six  lines  in 
a  page,  woodcuts,  has  a  drawing  made  with  a 
pen.  Some  of  the  leaves  are  soiled,  and  the  mar- 
gins have  been  mended ;  the  title  is  wanting,  and 
has  been  supplied  by  one  which  belongs  to  a  missal 
printed  at  Lyons,  1622.  John  Belot  was  a  printer 
at  Rouen.    What  other  works  did  he  issue  P 

Jaices  Hbnbt  Dizov. 

Lady  M.  Woktlet  Montagu's  LBTTEE8.--In 
his  Curiodtiea  of  Literature,  under  the  section 
"  Recovery  of  Manuscripts,**  Mr.  Isaac  D'Israeli 
says,  ''A  considerable  portion  of  Lady  Mary 
Wortley  Montagu's  letters  I  discovered  in  the 
hands  of  an  attomey.'' 

Can  you  or  any  of  your  correspondents  inform 
me  whether  these  letters,  which  X  presume  were 
different  from  the   well-lmown  letters    already 

S'ven  to  the  public  in  1775,  have  ever  been  pu1t>- 
ihed  F  TtJBKET  Rbd. 

Theoi>obia  Noel. — Edward  Cecil,  Viscount 
Wimbledon,  married  Theodosia  Noel,  daughter  of 
Sir  Andrew  Noel,  Knt,  of  Dalby,  co.  Leicester. 
Was  she  an  heiress,  and  what  arms  would  she 
bear?  J.  C. 

PuijSTOir  FAMILT.--What  family  had  Edward 
Puliston  of  Allington,  co.  Denl^h,  besides  his 
daughter  Eleanor,  who  married  William  Wheler 
of  Martin  HussingtreeP  Edward  Puliston  was 
mamed  about  the  year  1590.  E.  W. 

Quotations  waittbd. — ^Where  axe  the  following 
taken  from  P  — * 


^  Kb  pMt-ap  Ithaea  oontracU  your  powers, 
Bat  the  whole  boundless  Gontinent  is  yoan." 

[From  M.  Sewall's  Prologue  to  data.'] 

**  la  the  fieree  light  that  beats  apon  the  thrme." 
[From  Teimysoii's  DedieaHon  of  Ike  Jt^rfZk] 


F. 

«  Whose  yesterdays  look  backi^furds  with  a  smile. 
Nor,  like  the  Parthiani^  wound  him  as  they  fly." 

Where  do  these  lines  oocor  P  P.  E.  N. 

Rakielagh,  Wilts,  arc.— Where  can  I  find 
information  as  to  the  marriage  settlements,  wUls, 
&C.,  of  the  Coles,  barons  of  Rimelaffh  of  Newlands, 
CO.  Dublin ;  and  of  the  family  of  Goring  of  Cam-> 
bridgeshire  or  Huntingdonshire  P 

Ajr  IiraiTiBBB. 

Thi  ItoDE  OF  ths  Wall,  Nosthaicptok. — 

"  At  the  south-west  comer  of  the  chnrchyard,  built  hito 
the  wall  of  a  cottags,  is  a  cmdfix,  aptiarently  the  top  of 
a  eross.  The  same  dssign  is  repeated  on  the  other  side. 
There  are  marks  of  bullets  in  it.  Could  this  have  ori- 
ginally formed  the  apex  of  Queen's  Cross  ?  " 

So  wrote  the  late  Mr.  Pretty  in  Wetton'siVbr^A- 
ampton  Guide,  The  crucifix  is  still  there,  rebuilt 
inljo  the  wall  of  the  house  which  superseded  the 
cottage.  Mr.  Pretty,  a  careful  and  conscientious 
antiquary,  in  all  probability  saw  it  when  it  was 
taken  down ;  otherwise  it  would  not  be  easy  to 
know  that  the  sculpture  was  repeated  on  the 
other  side.  The  fact  that  it  was  so  supports  the 
conjecture  that  it  may  haye  been  the  crowning 
stone  to  Queen's  Cros&  But  in ''  The  King's  Book 
of  Payments,''  1511  {Letter*  and  Papers^  Foreign 
andDomeetiCf  in  the  Beign  of  Henry  VIIL,  voL  ii. 
part  n.),  is  an  entry  purporting  that,  on  Aug.  3, 
the  king  was  at  Pypwell  Abbey ;  and  among  the 
expenses  between  uiat  time  and  the  10th,  were 
'^  oiferinffs  at  the  Rode  of  the  Wall  in  Northamp- 
ton, at  Our  Lady  of  Grace  there,  and  at  coming  to 
Leicester  Abbey."  "Our  Lady  of  Grace"  was 
the  church,  long  since  destroyed,  of  the  Blessed 
Virgin  in  St.  Mary  Street.  Is  it  possible  that 
the  sculpture  in  St.  Sepulchre's  Churchyaid  was 
the  "  Rode  of  the  Wall "  of  the  church  in  St 
Mary's  Street  P  When  the  church  was  destroyed, 
the  materials  were  no  doubt  used  for  other  build- 
ings, and  the  distance  from  St  Mary's  Street  to 
St.  Sepulchre's  Churchyard  is  not  considerable. 
I  am  not  aware  that  any  mention  of  **  The  Rode 
of  the  Wall "  occurs  in  any  history  of  Northamp- 
ton, or  in  any  place  but  the  "ICing's  Book  of 
Payments."  G.  J.  1)b  Wildb. 

SiYX  LSTD  THS  Whitxboyb. — ^In  the  Carrenpon- 
deuce  of  the  Itipht  Hon.  Edmmd  Bwke  (i.  41),  I 
find  the  following  in  the  iKMrtscript  of  a  letter  by 
Chief  Justice  A^n  to  Mr.  Secretary  Hamilton, 
and  dated  Dublin,  June  34, 1792,  with  regard  to 
osrtain  secret  societies  of  the  period :—- 


4«>8.mj«i».ix>7i,i  NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


125 


^  a  J^^^_?*^M^  unpowd  on  anr,  it  was  to  be  true 
w  siTe  and  ber  duIdreB;  and  not  to  dkeoyer  any  of  tbe 
WJuteboja^  bar  ohildran.'* 

Who  was  Sive?  And  how  did  the  name 
originate,  and  hat  it  any  connectitm  with  [Siva]  the 
Hindoo  diTimty,  the  goddess  of  destruclion  ?   H. 

Slawkenbergius's  "Tkbaxisb  on  Nosbs."— 
Who  was  Shiwkraiheigius  mentioned  in  Tristram 
Shan^,  and  is  there  such  a  book  as  his  TrmOise 
en  Notes?  EDinrwD  M.  Botlb. 

[Slawkenberg^ns  is  altogether  an  imaginary  person, 
and  there  does  not  exist  anv  snch  TreatU*  <m  Notts  by 
him.  Sterne*s  learning  and  humour  upon  that  subject 
are  believed  to  have  been  borrowed  partly  from  Erasmus's 
CoIIoqay  between  Pamphagus  and  Cocles,  De  Captandit 
SaeerdniUs,  and  partly  from  the  Jftum  of  Aietine.  See 
Anther  Fariar  on  Stemt,  p.  161  «#  leq.J 

Smith,  aHas  Hebiz  op  Withcotb,  Leicbsteb- 

SHIBS:     SbTTTH    of  RaTHOOUBSET,    CO.   COBK. — 

Could  you  or  any  of  your  conespondents  Jdndly 
funiish  the  connecting  link  between  the  abovQ 
families  ?  The  first  trace  I  have  of  the  Irish 
branch  is  taken  from  a  MS.  in  Trinity  College, 
PubJin,  relative  to  the  marriage  of  "Francis 
Smith  of  Rathcoursey  with  Mana,  d'  of  Beverly 
Usher  of  Fidanes,  co.  Waterford,  Esq."  Date 
not  given,  but  might  be  about  1670.  The  first 
burial  I  have  sny  note  of  is  that  of  their  chiM 
Mary,  aged  three  months,  who  died  1675,  and 
must  have  been,  I  think,  the  first  that  took  place 
in  this  country,  as  an  inscribed  slab  of  marble 
marked  her  bunal-plaee  in  Cloyne  Cathedral. 

The  writer  has  the  original  grant  of  arms  to 
Wm.  Smyth  als.  Heriz-— via.  "He  beareth  gules, 
a  chevron  golde  betwixt  three  besaunts,  upon  the 
chevron  three  crosses  forme  pyched  sable,  a.d. 
1499."  And  to  Roger  S.  or  Heriz,  grant  of  crest— 
*'  Upon  his  helmet,  on  a  torse  gold  and  geules, 
an  arm  coupp^,  the  sieve,  party  per  pale  golde  and 
geules,  holding  in  his  hand  a  griffin's  head  rased 
azure,  bekid  golde,  langued,  eyed  and  ered  geules, 
Ac.;'  7th  of  Elizabeth,  1666  or  8. 

Any  information  will  be  thankfully  received  by 

JoHir  J.  Smith. 

RathcouTsey,  Ballinacarra,  co.  Cork. 

Story  op  a  Statub. — Ikqtjiber  wishes  to  know 
can  any  of  your  correspondents  inform  him  where 
he  can  find  the  following  legend  or  piece  of 
poetry? — ^A  lover,  about  to  be  married,  on  the 
day  preceding  the  wedding  puts  the  ring  on  a 
^^Qie  in  the  garden,  and  when  he  goes  for  it  it  is 
either  stolen  or  he  is  imable  to  get  it  off,  and^after- 
wards  he  is  haunted  by  the  statue,  &c  'Also, 
who  ia  the  author  of  the  piece  ? 

[Oar  eorreroendent  probably  lef^  to  a  poem  by 
Moore  originally  poblished  among  hia  JuvetuU  Poems 
entitled  "  The  Ring,*'  a  tale,  which  will  be  found  at  p.  281 
of  the  one  volume  edition  of  Moore's  Poetical  Works, 
Moore  appears  to  have  founded  it  upon  a  story  told  by 
the  Qennan  writer  Frommann  in  his  work  upon  Faacina- 
IMM,  book  ni.pt.  vL  eh.  xviii,  while  Frommann  quetcs  as 
his  antlMrity  Yinoent  de  Beaiivai8.1 


are 


THB  DR^IGON. 

(4*»»  S.  vii.  12.) 

The  earliest  known  delineations  of  the  dragon 
B,  I  beheve,  Chinese.    It  is  represented  with 

rS^  ri?*  ui  all  the  early  specimens  I  have  seen. 

Ihe  foUowmgnote  is  taken  from  Marryat's-ffw^ory 

ofl'oUery  and  Porcelam,  p.  ^17,  on  the  word 

"dragon": — 

« The  origin  of  the  dnigona  and  simUar  figures  de- 
picted upon  the  Chinese  as  well  as  the  Egyptian  pottery 
18  a  mysteiy.  The  Chinese  carry  back  the  origin  to  the 
time  of  Fuh-he  (b.c.  2962X  who  is  supposed  to  have 
seen  a  dragon  issue  from  a  river  in  the  province  of 
Honan,  and  it  was  then  adopted  aa  the  national  standard. 
It  is  this  dragon  (Lang)  which  is  yearly  honoured  by  the 
*  Feast  of  Lanterns.*  Some  writers  suppose  the  dragon  to 
be  a  aymbolieal  representation  of  the  principle  of  evil, 
which  was  worshipped  by  the  ancient  Chaldees,  and 
found  its  way  ftom  thence  into  China  and  other  coun- 
tries, even  to  the  New  World,  where  their  religion  ex- 
tended ;  and,  from  being  first  used  as  a  symbol,  came  in 
time  to  be  considered  as  a  reality.  Christian  painters 
seem  to  have  literally  adopted  this  idea,  as  in  the  pictures 
of  St.  Michael,  who  is  represented  as  having  fdled  to 
the  ground  and  fixed  with  his  lance  a  dragon,  which, 
symbolical  of  the  enemy  of  the  human  race,  was  vomited 
from  the  infernal  pit.  In  the  Romish  Church,  on  Roga- 
tion Sunday  until  a  late  period,  a  large  figure  of  a 
dragon  was  carried  in  procession,  being  considered  an 
emblem  of  heresy.  The  devil,  it  will  be  recollected,  is  fre- 
quently called « the  dragon '  in  Scripture.  The  prevalence 
of  dracontic  ornaments  on  ancient  sculpture  in  England 
of  the  Saxon  or  early  Norman  period,  as  also  in  Ireland, 
as  well  as  the  serpent  ornamentation  of  the  Northern 
antiquaries,  deserves  notice.  Possibly  the  origin  of  the 
former  may  have  been  Oriental.  On  the  other  hand 
some  writers  consider  the  dragon  to  be  no  mere  legend, 
and  refer  to  the  fossil  remains  of  the  Saurian  tribe,  which, 
allowing  for  some  exaggeration  and  embellishment,  may 
be  considered  of  the  same  race." 

It  is  remarkable  that  both  Cornwall  and  Brit- 
tany should  have  those  twin  St.  Michael  Mounts 
guarding  (as  it  were)  their  coasts.  lias  the  esta-. 
blishment  of  those  churches  any  connection  with 
a  conqi^st  achieved  by  Christianity  over  the  ser- 
pent worship  which  prevailed  in  those  parts, 
signs  of  which  may  to  this  day  be  traced  on  both 
sides  of  the  Channel  P  Z.  Z. 

The  earliest  delineations  of  the  dragon  partook 
chiefly  of  the  character  of  a  serpent,  having  gene- 
rallv  a  long  serpentine  tail  In  the  early  figures 
of  the  dragon,  two  legs  were  much  more  common 
than  four.  R  C.  H. 

There  is  a  pictnre  of  a  seft-diBgon  (Draco  mart' 
nus)  in  an  edition  of  Dioscorides  of  the  date  1543. 
But  it  has  no  legs  apparently ;  only  two  pairs  of 
wings  and  a  long  tail  cleft  at  the  tip,  and  set  wiUi 
a  row  of  poisonous  thorns.  There  is  a  strong 
horn,  too,  between  its  eyes.  If  a  sea-dragon 
were  but  the  tadpole  of  a  land-dragon,  M.  D.'s 


126 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k&VIUFBB.n,7l. 


Suestion  could  be  Roaweted  at  oncei  for  of  course 
\ie  tail  would  in  that  case  be  exchanged  for  two 


pairs  of  leg*  in  due  course,  after  the  (^thodox 
tadpole  fashion.  *'  *" 


Mabgasei  Gaitt. 


The  earliest  delineation  of  this  beast  seems  to 
be  that  of  the  <*  Dragon  Standard  "  of  the  Bajeux 
tapestry.  This  is  figured  by  Mr.  Pknch^  at  p.  98 
oihiAPwrmivaifUofArfM,  It  has  te;o  legs.  Notices 
of  the  dragon  are  found  in  Parker's  Ghnary^ 
Willementy  and  Montagu.  J.  C.  Rog£B. 


SAMPLERS. 


(4»^S.yi.600;  yii.  21.) 

The  lines  worked  on  a  sampler,  and  inquired 
about  by  J.  A.  Pn.,  are  about  the  commonest  to 
be  met  with  in  this  youthful  kind  of  art.  The 
second  line,  however,  has  been  adapted  to  suit 
the  young  lady's  name.  It  usually  stands  thus : — 

"  Jeans,  permit  thy  gracioas  name  to  stand 
As  the  first  effort  of  a  y onthfol  hand,"  &e. 

I  feel  some  difficulty  in  signing;  my  initials 
and  terminals  happening  to  be  exactly  those  of 
your  correspondent.  J.  A.  Pn.  (2). 

I  have  before  me  two  yery  pretty  old  specimens 

of  samplers,  worked  respectiyely  by  my  wife's 

pandmother  and  my  own.    To  begin  with  hers, 

It  contains  within  a  margin  of  carnations,  first, 

the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  then,  in  three  divisions, 

the  following  posies :  — 

^  Daring  the  time  of  life  allotted  me. 
Grant  me,  good  God,  my  health  and  liberty : 
I  beg  no  more ;  if  more  thoa'rt  pleas'd  to  give, 
m  thankftdly  the  overplus  receive." 

*^  Bemember  time  will  oome  when  we  mast  give 
Acooant  to  God  how  we  on  earth  do  live." 


**  A  man  that  doth  on  riches  set  hit  mind 
Strives  to  take  hold  on  shadows  and  the  wind ; 
With  food  and  raiment  then  contented  be ; 
AdE  not  for  riches,  nor  for  poverty." 

<*  Ann  Stodhabt 

Tinished  this  sampler  in  the  tenth  year  of  her  age,  in 

the  year  of  cur  Lord  God  xdccxlviil" 

My  own  grandmother's  is  rather  more  elabor- 
ately ornamented  with  lions  (blue,  red,  and  yellow) 
and  magnificent  flowering  shrubs ;  but  only  con- 
tains, besides  alphabets,  the  following  song :  -*- 

**  Ton  whose  fond  wishes  do  to  heaven  aspire, 
Who  make  those  blest  abodes  yonr  sole  desire, 
If  you  are  wise,  and  hope  that  bliss  to  gain, 
Use  well  yonr  time,  live  not  an  hoar  in  vain : 
Let  not  the  morrow  voar  vain  thoaghts  employ, 
Bat  think  this  day  the  last  yoa  shall  enjoy. 

*<  Sophia  Halset  her  work,  1751." 

C.  W.  BiveHAJL 

I  have  three  samplers  worked  by  my  mother, 
on  one  of  which  are  lines,  almost  word  for  word, 


similar  to  those  quoted  by  J.  A.  Fk.  And  as  M.  D. 
(4*^  S.  yi.  600)  suggests  the  idea  that  such  con- 
tributions to ''  N.  &  Q."  *' would  not  be  devoid  of 
interest,  I  send  those  on  the  other  two  samplers  :J 

<*  From  my  banning  may  the  Almighty  Powers 
Blessings  bestow  in  never-ceasing  showers  1 
Oh !  may  I  happy  be  and  always  blest. 
Of  ev'ry  Joy,  of  ev'ry  wish  possess'd ; 
May  plenty  dissipate  all  worldly  cares. 
And  smiling  Peace  bless  my  revolving  years." 

**  If  yon  desire  to  worship  God  aright. 
Firrt  in  the  morning  prAy,  and  last  at  night ; 
Crave  for  his  blessing  on  your  labours  all. 
And  in  distress  for  his  assistance  calL" 

The  dates  on  the  samplers  are  1808  and  1804. 

M.  A.  8. 

GORNISH  SPOKEN  IN  DEYOKSHIBE. 

(4«»  S.  vii.  11.) 

Your  correspondent  will  find  in  Professor  Max 
Miiller^s  recently  published  (vol.  iii.)  Chip»  from 
a  Oemum  WorJahifp  a  yer^  interesting  account  of 
the  Cornish  language  and  its  vitality,  fie  says: — 

**  Although  Cornish  must  now  be  classed  with  the  ex- 
tinct langaages,  it  has  certainly  shown  a  marvdlons 
vitality.    More  than  foar  hundred  yean  of  Soman  ocea" 

KLtion,  more  than  six  hundred  years  of  Saxon  and 
anish  sway,  a  Nonnan  conquest,  a  Saxon  reformation,, 
and  dvil  wars  have  all  passed  over  the  land ;  but,  like  a 
tree  that  may  bend  before  a  storm  but  is  not  to  be  rooted 
up,  the  language  of  the  Celts  of  Cornwall  has  lived  on  in 
an  unbroken  continuity  for  at  least  2000  years.  What 
does  this  mean  ?  It  means  that  through  the  whole  of 
English  hbtory  to  the  accession  of  the  House  of  Hanover 
the  inhabitants  of  Cornwall  and  the  tpettem  portion  of 
Devonahire,  in  spite  of  intermarriages  with  Romans, 
Saxons,  and  Normans,  were  Celts  and  remained  Celts. 

The  inhabitants  of  Cornwall,  whatever  the  nam- 

ber  of  Roman,  Saxon,  Danish,  or  Norman  settlers  within 
the  boundaries  of  that  county  may  have  been,  continued 
to  be  Celts  as  long  as  they  spoke  Cornish.  They  ceased 
to  be  Celts  when  they  ceased  to  speak  the  language  of 
their  forefathers  Those  who  can  appreciate  the  charms 
of  genuine  antiquity  will  not,  therefore,  find  fault  with 
the  enthusiasm  of  Daines  Harrington  or  Sir  JoBtt>h 
Banks  in  listening  to  the^  strange  utterances  of  Dolly 
Pentreath;  for  her  language,  if  genuine,  carricMl  them 
back  and  brought  them,  as  it  were,  into  immediate  con- 
tact with  people  who,  long  before  the  Christian  era, 
acted  an  important  part  on  the  stage  of  history,  supply- 
ing  the  world  with  two  of  the  most  precious  metals, 
more  predous  then  than  p>ld  or  silver — with  copper  and 
tin — the  very  materials,  it  may  be,  of  the  finest  works  of 
art  in  Greece,  ay,  of  the  armour  wrought  for  the  heroes 
of  the  Trojan  war,  as  described  so  minatelv  bv  the  poete 
of  the  IKad.** 

Dr.  Bannister  is  collecting  materials  for  a  glos- 
sary of  Cornish  proper  names,  and  has  collected 
no  less  than  2400  existing  names  with  Tre,  500 
with  Pen,  with  400  J2o«,  &c,  and  thus  Cornish  lives 
on.  Andrew  Borde  tells  us  (temp.  Hen.  YIIL) 
that  English  was. not  then  understood  by  many 
people  in  ComwalL  Devon  and  Cornish  men 
signed  a  petition  to  that  king  against  the  intro- 
duction of  a  new  church  service  composed  in 


4A  S.  VII.  Fta.  11, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


127 


English,  in  which  this  fact  is  also  mentioned. 
Bonase,  in  his  Nat.  Hist,  of  ComwaXl  (315),  says 
that  as  hite  as  1C40  Mr.  William  Jackman,  toe 
vicar  of  Feock,  was  obliged  to  administer  the 
sacrament  in  Cornish  because  the  aged  people  did 
not  nnderstaud  English,  and  the  rector  of  Lande- 
wednak  preached  his  sermons  in  Cornish  as  late  as 
1678.  The  keeper  of  the  Ashmolean  Museum, 
Mr.  £.  Lhuvd,  published  a  grammar  of  the  lan- 
guage in  1707  collected  from  old  people,  but  he 
aajB  it  was  then  fast  decaying. 

Prince  Louis  Lucien  Bonaparte  erected  in  1860 
a  monument  in  the  churchyard  at  Paul  to  Dorothy 
Pentreath,  who  died  in  1778,  and  was  supposed 
to  hare  been  the  last  person  who  conversed  in 
the  language.  Prof.  Max  MUUer  says  there  are 
many  people  in  Cornwall  who  maintain  that 
when  persons  came  to  hear  her  talk  she  would 
say  anything  that  came  into  her  head.  She  was 
believed  to  be  103  years  of  ace  at  her  death ;  but 
Mr.  Halliwell  has  examined  the  register,  and  from 
tlie  date  of  her  baptism  concludes  she  was  not 
more  than  sixty-four  at  the  time  of  her  death. 
It  18  probable  that  no  one  now  liying  has  ever 
heaid  Cornish  spoken  for  the  sake  of  conversa- 
tioD.    Scawen  says : — 

'^Combh  is  not  to  be  gutturally  proncunoed,  as  the 
Wdah  for  the  most  part  is,  nor  mutteriDgly,  es  the 
Aniioridc«nor  whloioKly,  as  the  Irish,  bat  most  be  lively 
aad  manly  spoken,  like  other  primitive  tongaes.** 

Herr  MiiUer  says  that  three  or  four  small 
volumes  would  contain  all  that  is  left  to  us  of 
Cornish  literature.  MSS.  of  a  poem  on  ^  Mount 
Calvary/*  ascribed  to  the  fifteenth  century,  exist 
in  the  British  Museum  and  Bodleian,  and  MSS. 
of  mystery  plays  of  the  same  date  in  the  Bodleian 
were  pttblished  by  Mr.  Norris  in  1868.  Accord- 
ing to  Carew  these  plays  were  performed  in 
Coraish  at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. To  these  may  be  added  versions  of  the 
Loid's  Prayer,  Commandments,  Creed,  &c. 

After  these  facts  it  is  not  imreasonable  to  sup- 
pose that  Cornish  was  spoken  in  some  parts  of 
I)evondiire  after  the  Norman  Conquest 

JOHK  PiGGOT,  JUK.,  F.S.A. 


CHESS  IN  ENGLAND  AND  CHINA. 
(4*  S.  viL  84.) 

There  is  no  small  uncertainty  as  to  the  exact 

giriod  of  the  advent  of  chess  into  tbis  island.  Dr. 
yds,  in  his  learned  treatise,  Bt  LitdU  Oriental 
Ulm§,  supposes  it  to  have  been  known  here  about 
tiie  time  of  the  Conquest,  from  the  Court  of 
Exchequer  haying  been  then  first  established. 
Daines  Bazriiwton  difiers  from  this  opinion,  and 
ia  in  favour  of  a  later  date,  but  admits  that  the 
game  must  have  been  brought  to  England  at  an 
early  period  of  our  history,  as  no  fewer  than 
twenty-six  English  families  haye  chess-boards 


and  chess-rooks  emblazoned  on  their  arms. 
Blount,  in  his  FragmetUa  Antiquitatis,  states  that 
in  the  reign  of  Edward  111.  the  manor  of  King- 
ston Russell,  in  Dorset,  was  held  by  Nichola,  who 
was  wife  of  Nicholas  de  Mosteshorej  on  condi- 
tion— 

**  to  count  or  tell  out  the  king's  chessmen  in  his  cham- 
ber, and  to  pat  them  in  a  bag  when  the  king  shoald  have 
finished  his  game :  Ad  narrand.  familiam  Scaochii  Regis,  - 
et  ponend.  in  loculo  cam  Rex  ludam  saum  perfeoerit.*' 

I  am  inclined  to  believe,  however,  that  chess 
was  known  in  England  at  a  much  earlier  date 
than  either  Hyde  or  Barrington  are  disposed  to 
allow,  and  in  this  ylew  I  am  supported  by  the 
high  authority  of  Sir  F.  Madden,  wno  says: — 

"  Nothing,  indeed,  is  more  probable  than  the  introdae- 
tion  of  chess  into  England  by  the  Danes,  and  we  cannot 
refer  it  to  a  more  soitable  period  than  the  reign  of  Canute 
himself.** 

Professor  D.  Forbes,  after  reviewing  the  evidence 
pro  and  eon,  considers  it  "  extremely  probable  that 
chess  was  introduced  into  England  in  the  reign  of 
Athelstane,  between  A.D.  925  and  a.d.  940.'' 

Chess  appears  to  have  been  well  known  in  this 
country  in  the  time  of  the  Plantaffenets.  Our 
earliest  antiquarian  writer,  the  indetatigable  Le- 
land,  has  an  anecdote  in  his  CoUectanea  about  the 
chess-play  of  King  John.    He  says : — 

**  John  son  of  King  Henry,  and  Falco  felle  at  variance- 
at  Chestes,  and  John  brake  Faloo's  head  with  the  chest- 
borde;  and  then  Fulco  gave  him  sach  a  blow  that  h» 
ahnost  kiltid  hym." 

Edward  I.  was  a  chess-player  from  his  earliest 
youth,  and  possessed  a  set  of  men  made  of  jasper 
and  crystal.  IVom  that  curious  book  the  Paston 
Letteri,  it  would  seem  that  chess  was  a  fayourite 
game  in  houses  of  rank  temp,  Richard  IL  On  one 
occasion  Mrs.  Fasten  writes  to  her  husband : — 

**  The  Lady  Morley  has  no  harpings  and  luteings  dar- 
ing Christmai^  but  only  playing  at  tables  and  chess.** 


Several  of  the  royal  race  of  Stuart  were  ac- 
quainted with  chess.  In  the  Register  House  of 
Edinburgh  there  is  preserved  an  inventory  of  the 
personal  effects  of  the  unhappy  Queen  Mary, 
which  must  have  been  left  in  the  castle  when  she 
was  sent  to  Lochleven.  This  inventory  contains 
three  sets  of  chessmen,  and  two  works  on  the 
game.  One  set  is  described  as  ^  Ane  <]^uhite  buist 
with  chas  men  in  personages  of  woid " — i.  e,  a 
white  box  with  wooden  chessmen.  One  of  the 
books  is  intituled  The  play  of  the  Chas,  and  was 
no  doubt  Caxton's  volume,  then  a  comparatively 
recent  publication.  That  learned  pedant  James  t. 
patronised  chess.  In  a  speech  of  nis  animadyert- 
ing  on  some  books  written  by  Cowel  and  Black- 
wood, he  says : — 

**The  power  of  kings  is  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord. 
They  can  exalt  low  things  and  abase  high  things,  making 
the  subjects  like  men  at  chess,  a  Pawn  to  take  a  Bishop 
a    Knight.** 


1^8 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


C4*  a  VII.  Fbb.  11, 71. 


The  unfortunate  Gliarles  I.  was  an  ardent  chess- 

eayer,  and  is  mentioned  in  an  old  English  trans- 
tion  of  Greco's  work  on  the  game  in  my 
possesaicm  as  havinj^  constantly  used  it  as  a  recre- 
ation. There  are  m  the  Library  of  the  British 
Museum  some  diaries  kept  by  Captain  R.  Sjr- 
monds,  a  royalist  officer,  m  one  of  which  it  is 
stated — ^'  Eound  about  ye  King's  chess-board  this 
verse:— 

*  Subditia  et  prinoeps  istis  nae  ssngaine  certent.' " 
The  date  1643  is  on  the  board^  and  the  line  con- 
tains, no  doubty  touching  allusion  to  the  state  of 

the  poor  king's  own  fortunes. 

H.  A.  EsNiniDT. 

EldoB  Hovfle^  Beading. 

The  date  of  the  introduction  of  chess  into  China 

seems  to  be  very  uncertain.    Pdre  du  Halde,  in 

his  voluminous  work  on  China,  under  the  heading 

of  ^  Extndts  d'une  Compilation  faite  sous   la 

dynastie  Mmg,  par  im  lettr^  c^ldbre  de  oette 

dynastie  nomm^  Tanff^King-Tckuen"  gives  the 

following : — 

**  Un  autenr  parlant  du  j€u  des  ^hecs,  qui  est  le  beau 
jao  de  la  China,  dit  oe  qui  suit : — Qudqaes  gens  ont  dit 
qae  le  jea  des  ^hecs  renoit  de  r£mperear  Yao^  et  que  ce 
Prince  Tavoit  invents  pour  instraire  son  fils  dans  Fart 
de  gonveraer  les  peupfes,  et  de  faire  la  guerre :  mais 
rien  de  moins  vraisemblable.  Le  grand  art  de  Yao  con- 
siatoit  dans  la  pratique  continueUe  des  cinq  vertus  prin- 
dpales,  dont  Texerdce  lui  ^toit  aussi  familier  que  1  est  h 
tons  lea  hommes  Tnaage  des  pieds  et  des  mains.  Ce  fut 
la  rertn  et  non  les  armes  qu'u  employa  pour  r^nire  les 
peuples  les  plus  barbares.  L*art  de  la  guerre,  dont  le  jeu 
des  ^hecs  est  comme  une  image,  est  l^rt  de  se  nnire  les 
uns  anx  antret.  Yao  etoit  bien  6Lo\ga4  de  donner  k  son 
fils  de  pareilles  lemons.  Le  jeu  des  Rebecs  n*a  sans  doute 
commence  qne  depuis  ces  terns  malbeureux  oil  tout  r£m- 
pire  fut  ddsoltf  par  les  guerres.  C'est  une  invention  tres- 
p'eu  digne  du  grand  Yao.** — Description  de  la  Chifu 
(4  vols.  4to.  La  Haye,  1786),  ii.  739. 

The  Emperor  Yao  reigned  in  the  traditionary 
period  about  2300  B.c.  His  name  in  full  is 
T*ang-tl  Yau. 

The  Ming  dynasty^  Miog^haii,  lasted  firom 
ji.]>.  1368  to  1644. 

The  following  anecdote   conceniing   Ming-ti, 

sixth  emperor  of  the  Pd  Sung  or  "Northern 

Sung"  dynastyi  has  reference  to  this  subject : — 

"  One  of  his  best  officers,  Wang*king-yuen,  wished  to 
retire  from  eoort,  not  being  able  to  endnre  all  the  cruel- 
ties which  were  daily  committed.  The  emperor  now 
began  to  fear  for  his  safety,  and  sent  the  cup  with  poison 
to  this  object  of  his  suspicion,  who  at  that  time  was 
playing  at  chess,  and  emptied  H  with  the  greatest  indif- 
ftrenoe."— Sm  the  Bev.Charlea  Qntzlaff 'a  Utine§oHuiorf 
(2  Tola.  8vo,  London,  1834),  L  290. 

The  Emperor  Ming-ti  reigDed  from  a.d.  466 
to  473. 

Respecting  the  modem  game  Sir  John  DaTis 
says: — 

''The  Chinese  dieas  diflRsis  in  board,  men,  and  mores 
fkom  that  of  India,  and  eannot  in  any  way  be  identifiad 


with  it,  except  as  being  a  game  of  skill  and  not  of 
ohaaoe.''— Tike  Ckmete  (edit  1844),  iL  81. 

HiQfBT  W.  HmmtBT. 

MaAham  Heuae^  Brighton* 


LADT  GBIMSTOK*S  GRAVE  IN  TSWIN 
CHURCHTABD. 

(4«*  S.  vii.  76.) 

I  beg  to  subjoin  a  printed  descriplaoni  published 
by  Austin  of  Hertford,  which  I  know  to  be  cor- 
rect, though  I  differ  from  it  in  one  part,  believing 
that  the  ash  and  sycamore  trees  have  grown  from 
the  seeds,  the  keys  haying  fallen  from  the  trees  of 
the  adjoining  wairen  (formerly  the  seat  of  General 
Sabine,  governor  of  Gibraltar — the  mansion  taken 
down  in  1807  by  the  then  Earl  Cowper),  and 
grew  from  between  the  joints  of  the  stone  coping 
of  the  tomb ;  being  left  undisturbed,  in  the  course 
of  years  became  the  lofty  trees  they  now  are.  If 
thev  had  sprung  from  the  vault,  as  suggested, 
made  one  hundred  and  sixty  years,  the  girth  of 
the  trees  would  have  been  much  larger  than 
those  of  the  present  are.  As  an  illustration  of 
their  probable  origin,  a  few  years  since  I  pulled 
up  a  young  sycamore  that  had  grown  from  be- 
tween the  jomts  of  the  stonework  round  my 
father's  grave,  which  lies  under  the  shadow  of  the 
trees  of  the  Grimstons'  tomb.  The  great  singu- 
larity  consists  in  the  lower  part  of  the  trees 
having  become  so  amalgamated  together,  that  it 
is  impossible  to  distioguish  where  the  baj*k  of  the 
ash  (lighter  than  the  sycamore)  ends,  and  that  of 
the  sycamore  commences. 

"  tkK  TOMB  OF  LADT  AKXE  GRIMSTOSr,  TS  THB 
OHUBCHYABO  OF  TBWCT,  BBRTFOBDSniBX, 

"  Displays  one  of  the  most  extraordinary  and  lomaatie 
of  those  freaks  in  which  it  is  proverbial  that  Dame  Nature 
delights.  The  masonry  of  the  tomb— once  firmly  set, 
and  bound  with  iron  pins  together— is  now  disjointetl  and 
displaced,  not  by  time  or  decay,  but  by  the  irrepressible 
growth  of  trees  never  planted  by  hnman  hands.  The 
appearance  which  the  tomb  presents  is  most  singular. 
Vvithin,  and  interlacing  the  iron  railing  sorroiiuding  tihe 
tomb,  are  seven  ash  trees,  connected  at  the  root,  and  three 
fyeamoret,  alto  connected  at  tJu  r^L  These  trees,  Us  they 
have  daily  grown,  have  heaved  up  the  stonework  of  the 
tomb,  forcing  it  outward  for  some  distance,  and  entwined 
around  the  iron  railings,  which,  in  some  places,  are  com- 
pletely imbedded  and  hidden  in  the  trunks  of  the  trees. 
The  trees,  at  their  base,  also  pass  through  and  clasp  the 
stonework,  as  though  it  were  a  mass  of  earth. 

**  It  is  conjectured — and  on  no  other  snppoaitum  ean 
these  marvelloua  appearances  be  accounted  for — that*  at 
a  period  antecedent  to  the  erection  of  the  tomb,  the  seeds 
of  the  now  iuU-grown  trees  must  have  been  deposited  is 
the  vault  beneath ;  and  there  germinating,  forced  their 
way  towards  the  light,  silently  and  gradnaUv  «Hiyl#/»ing 
the  maaoniy  above— and  then  embracing  and  mippoiliag 
the  tomb  they  had  distorbedi 

**  The  aupMStitious  credulity  of  the  neighbouring  pea- 
santry of  the  last  generation  was  naturally  excitea  by 
appearances  so  nnnsual,  and  they  have  handed  down  a 
legend  to  tlMir  sens,  in  whieh  it  is  soo^  to  aeoount  fiir 


4^  a  TU.  Fkb.  Ui  71.] 


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129 


the  phenoDMnoiu  The  stoir  is  a  simple  one : — It  is  said 
that  Ladr  Aime  was  an  unbeliever,*— so  coniident  in  the 
fidMbood  of  Christianitjr  and  of  the  Kbie,  that  die  was 
wont  to  say  tiiat,  <  if  the  9acred  Book  were  trne^  seven 
aih  trees  wonld  ^w  out  of  her  tomb.'  The  nswUit,  evi- 
deiil]j>— as  in  many  similar  cases  ju—  riu  lo  th€  hgmmL 
Whether  Lady  Anne  were  so  tmbelieving  as  is  repre- 
sentedy  we  have  no  means  of  positively  ascertaining,  out 
it  is  Texy  nnlikdy ;  and,  in  these  days,  we  reqmre  no 
■neh  solution  of  appeuranoea,  which,  however  annsoal, 
we  are  content  to  regard  as  beaotifhl  illnstrationa  of 
natmal  laws. 

"The  foUcnring  inscription   is  still  legible  on  the 
tomb:  — 

UBJOB  LTETH  CVTEBBBD  THE  BODT  OF 

TRB  BIOHT  HOKOI7RABLE  liADT  AIUrB  OSTMSTOir, 

•WIFE  lt>  SOL  B^MUKL  ORTMSTOIT,  BAST.,  OP  OORHAJIBUlEr, 

CI  HBBTFOBDSBIRB, 

DAUaBTKm  TO  THB  LATE  UOKT  BOHOUBABUB 

SAEL  OF  THAHET, 

WHO  DEFASTED  THIS  LIFE  NOV.  22nD,  1713, 

IB  THE  60th  TEAR  OF  HBB  AGE." 

D.  D.  Hopi:!nr8,  F.SA. 


Whakt  18  ntllj  the  tree,  or  what  are  the  treeS| 
which  grow  out  of  or  ahout  this  grave  P  A.  P.  S. 
speaks  of  *'  one  ash  ";  the  Spiritual  Times  speaks 
of  "  seven  elms '';  and  the  Flora  JSerifordiefisis,  a 
most  trustworthy  worh,  says  of  the  Acer  pseudo' 
platanus^  or  sycamore :  — 

*^  In  Tewin  churchyard  are  some  self-sown  trees,  grow- 
ing in  a  very  remarkable  manner,  aronnd  and  aboat  the 
tomb  of  Lady  Anne  Giimston,  and  having  in  their  growth 
displaced  the  masonry  of  the  tomb  and  ironwork." 

The  discrepancies  in  the  legend  given  in  these 
three  accounts  are  equally  striking.  A.  P.  S. 
makes  Lady  Grimston's  douhts  refer  to  the  exist- 
ence of  a  mtore  state,  and  represents  her  as  ex- 
preamog  ^^  a  wish  or  prayer  "  that,  if  such  existed, 
*'  a  tree  might  grow  out  of  her  heart.''  The 
Spkiiual  Times  states  that  she  was  an  Atheist, 
and  that ''  her  last  words  were  to  the  effect  that, 
if  Qad  existed,  seven  elm  trees  would  grow  out 
of  her  tomhetone."  The  Flora^  quoting  &e  Hert" 
ford  TimeSf  sayB  that  "  Lady  Anne  was  an  unbe- 
liever, and  was  wont  to  say  that,  if  the  Sacred 
Book  were  true,  seven  ash  trees  would  grow  out 
of  her  tomb."  It  may  be  difficult,  though  I  hope 
not  impossible,  to  trace  this  '^marvellous  legend" 
to  its  Bomx»,  and  to  ascertain  which  of  the-above 
▼ernoDs  (if  any)  is  correct ;  but  there  can  be  no 
difficulty  in  determining  whether  one  or  seven 
trees  grow  there,  and  whether  these  are  sycamoros, 
ashea^  or  elms.  Jakes  Bjutxeu. 

Kew. 

[Having  submitted  the  above  to  onr  oonespondent 
A.  P.  Si.9  we  received  from  him  the  following.3 

Tile  additional  statements  respecting  the  tomb 
of  Lady  Anne  Qrimston  are  very  curious.  Perhaps 
for  the  sake  of  clearing  awaj  needless  commente, 
it  may  be  well  to  state  that,  m  speaking  of  a  single 
ash  tree,  I  meant  <»ily  to  express  what  appeared 


to  be  the  fact^  viz.  that  the  seven  or  nine  stemf 
(it  is  difficult  to  divide  them  accorately)  seemed 
to  spring  from  a  single  root  under  the  gravestone, 
If  two  of  these  stems  are  not  ash,  but  fljcamore, 
then  there  must,  of  course,  be  two  trees. 

I  told  the  stoiy  of  Lady  Anne's  belief  or  mis- 
belief as  it  was  told  to  me,  and  do  not  profess 
(nor  indeed  is  it  neceasazy)  to  reconcile  it  with 
uie  other  part  of  the  story. 

I  may  aidd,  that  I  have  since  been  informed  by 
pSKBons  who  know  the  neighbourhood  well,  tha^ 
so  &x  from  haviuff  been  an  in£del,  she  was  a 
devout  charitable  lady,  given  to  good  works. 
Probably  this  can  be  eanly  substantiated. 

A.  P.  S. 

[[We  have  reasoa  to  know  that,  besides  her  legacies  to 
a  chorch  school,  abundant  evidence  exists  of  both  the 
Christian  life  and  Christian  faith  of  Lady  Anne  Grim- 
ston.  The  tradition  is  no  doubt  one  of  a  very  common 
dass  of  legends— namely,  those  invented  to  account  for 
unusual  phenomena. — ^Ed.  **  N.  &  Q."] 


THE   SPELLING   OF  TTNDALE'S  NEW  TESTA- 
MENT, SECOND  EDITION. 

a^  S.  viL  30.) 

The  curious  spellings  of  which  Mb.  Fbt  gives 
several  specimens  ^remmded  me  at  once  of  those 
employed  by  Churchyard  in,  I  believe,  several  of 
his  works,  out  certainly  in  his  Chips  published  in 
1675.  Churchyard  writes  gaem^  fraem^  maed^ 
blaescy  gaety  waek,  waer,  haerj  saem,  by  simple 
transposition  of  the  final  e,  for  game,  frame,  made, 
blaze,  &c.,  and  also  kaek  for  cake,  and  gaeg  and 
raeg  for  gage  and  rage.  The  main  difference  be- 
tween the  spelling  in  these  instances  and  in  those 
from  Tyndaie  is,  that  the  latter  both  interpolate 
e  and  preserve  it  as  a  final,  e.g,  gaeve,  graece, 
maede,  saeke,  taeke,  &c. ;  while  we  also  find  in  Mr. 
Fry's  list  haet  and  taest.  But  Churchyard  as 
well  as  Tyndaie  modifies  o  into  oe,  and  so  we 
have  roes,  does,  hoens,  stoen,  noes,  smoek,  for  rose, 
clothes,  bonesy  done,  nose,  smoke,  and  also  loef,  coest, 
bloed,  poer,  for  haf,  coast,  blood,  poor. 

How  far  these  peculiarities  represent  anything 
more  than  Churcnyard's  own  fancies,  it  may  be 
difficult  positively  to  say ;  but  that  there  was  some 
method  m  the  madness  —  if  madness  it  were — 
there  can  be  but  little  doubt  He  certainly  meant 
his  spelliDg  to  be  phonetic,  and  by  writing  a  long  i 
as  ae,  seems  to  have  protested  against  the  assump- 
tion that  the  long  EnffHsh  a  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury was  to  be  generauy  identified  with  the  Con- 
tinental a  of  the  same  and  of  the  present  time. 

Mr.  Ellis,  in  his  veiy  valuable  treatise  on  Early 
English  Fronuneiation,  after  a  minute  discussion  of 
the  authorities,  comes  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
long  a  of  the  sixteenth  century  was  the  a  in  father, 
Tlus  condusion  is  evidently  incompatible  with 
Churchyard's  practice.  He  no  doubt  meant  to 
^V6  to  the  ae  in  gaen.  Sec,  the  sound  which  had 


130 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kS.VII.  Feb.  11, '71. 


belonged  to  ae,  whether  Latin  or  Earlj  English, 
from  time  immemorial  down  to  the  sixteenth 
centuiT;  viz.  that  of  ai  in  aim :  a  sound  which,  on 
the  other  hand/  cannot  well  be  separated,  in  early 
English  usage,  from  that  of  ea  in  great,  which  is 
doubtless  traditional  Whether  Churchyard,  in 
thus  pronouncing  the  words  in  question,  is  to  be 
consiaered  as  a  conservator  or  an  innovator;  is  of 
course  a  venr  interesting  question,  which,  how- 
ever, it  would  take  some  ,time  to  discuss  fully, 
especially  as  it  opens  out  into  others  of  great  dim- 
culty.  These  spellings  from  Tvndale  of  fifty  years 
before  appear  to  be  interpretabfe  on  the  same  prin- 
ciple ;  but  then  the  admission  of  the  principle 
involves  this  problem  amongst  oUiers,  When  did 
the  French  a,  as  in  grace — which  in  all  probabilitv 
was  pronounced  in  the  thirteenth  and  fourteenth 
centuries  as  it  is  now,  and  rhvmed  with  alae, 
change  into  o^  so  as  to  justify  Tyndale*s  pronun- 
ciation =  ^rieitoe  f  The  attempt  to  resolve  this 
problem  would  necessarily  lead  to  some  investi- 

fations  of  a  very  general  tendency  manifest  in 
Vench,  and  especially  in  dialectic  French;  to 
change  the  a  into  the  ai  sound,  as  when  amare 
becomes  aimer,  acer  aigre,  &c ;  and  in  patois,  has 
appears  bats,  egard  as  egairS,  bague  as  baigue, 
courage  as  amraige,  &c  Such  inquiries,  how- 
ever, we  cannot  now  pursue.  It  is  to  be  regretted 
that  Mr.  Ellis  did  not  handle  Churchyard's 
phonetic  spelling.  J.  Patits. 

Kildare  Gardens. 


"Times  Whistle,"  am  (4»»»  S.  viL  97.)— In 
reply  to  Mb.  Cowpeb's  first  query  let  me  offer  the 
following :  — 

**  A  Carrier  to  a  King ;  or  Doctonr  Carrier  (Chapla^-ne 
to  P.  James  of  happy  Memory),  hia  Motiues  for  re- 
nouncing the  Protestant  Religion  and  persuading  to  Re- 
vnion  with  the  Cath.-Koman.  Directed  to  his  Sacred 
Maiestie.  <  My  hart  is  Endyting  a  good  matter :  I  tell 
my  deeds  vnto  the.  King.'  Ps.  xUv.**— jPerMum  ^i^ie- 
rtbrwm,  1685. 

Mv  little  book  is  a  reprint  of  the  oriffinal  '*Mis- 
ttue  ^'  dated  from  Liege,  1613,  and  embodied  in 

**  An  answera  to  a  Treatise  written  by  Dr.  Carier,  by 
way  of  Letter  to  his  Maiestie,  wherein  he  layeth  down 
Sundry  Politilce  Considerations  Pretending  himselie  and 
Endeavouring  to  move  others  to  be  reconciled  to  the 
Church  of  Rome,  bv  6.  Hakewil,  Chaplain  to  Prince 
James."    Lond.:  Bill,  1616, 4to. 

Dr.  Carrier  in  this  book  relates  how  strictly  he 
was  brought  up  in  the  reformed  religion ;  how  he 
came  to  nave  his  misnvings  as  to  its  being  the 
true  church,  and  finulv,  notwithstanding  the 
prospect  of  ''  higher  ecclesiastical  dignities,"  he 
took  the  advantage  of  going  over  to  Kome  while 
abroad  upon  sick-certificate.  His  admission  that 
''  the  more  I  laboured  to  reconcile  the  religion  of 
England  to  Scripture  and  the  Fathers,  the  more 
I  was  dislikedi  suspected,  and  condemned  as  a 


common  enemy,"  certainly  did  not  promiie  him 
much  promotion,  but  which  clearly  identifies  him 
as  the  JFhidle*9  covert  papist.  Dr.  G.  labours  to 
excuse  lumself  to  King  James,  and  perhaps  know- 
ing that  his  sacred  majesty  and  some  about  him 
were  inclining  that  way,  tries  to  wheedle  the 
Bridsh  Solomon  into  following  hb  example,  and 
so  to  put  down  schisme  and  all  its  attendant  evils. 
Carrier  is  of  opinion  that  there  is  very  little  dif- 
ference between  the  Mass  Book  and  the  Anglican 
liturgy,  and  thinks  the  matter  might  be  easily 
adjusted  if  the  Puritans  and  Calvinists  were  tossed 
overboard.  At  page  126  of  edit.  1636  he  goes  so 
far  as  to  intimate  that  he  is  authorised  by  some 
of  the  greatest  to  say  that  if  James  would  acknow- 
ledge the  Pope,  that  the  latter  would  meet  him 
liberally  b  v  conforming  the  interest  of  incumbents 
in  their  church  livings,  and  further  permit  the 
free  use  of  the  Common  Prayer  in  England  with 
very  little  or  no  alteration.  Here  again  the 
Whidle  evidently  alludes  to  our  Carrier ;  for  the 
aocompHshment  of  such  ends  as  he  had  in  view 
would  doubtless  have  entitled  the  pervert  to  a  red 
hat  and  stockings.  A.  Q. 

^  Haib  OBOwnro  afibb  Beltk  (4^  S.  vi.  524 ; 
vii.  66,  83.) — ^This  phenomenon  may  safely  be 
placed  in  the  same  timbo  with  the  hvinff  toads 
found  in  the  middle  of  marble  blocks,  tiie  wowers 
of  live  frogs,  the  sea-serpent,  old  Jenkins,  and 
the  Wandering  Jew.  New  animal  tissues  can 
only  be  formed  out  of  the  blood,  and  so  soon  as 
this  blood  ceases  to  live  and  circulate,  all  inter- 
change of  material  throughout  tiie  oody  must 
cease  too.  Hair  can  form  no  exception  to  this 
rule,  and  its  growth  after  death  is  as  impossibld 
as  the  growth  of  new  bone  or  new  flesh. 

It  is  astonishing  how  people  fond  of  marvels 
are  willing  to  dispense  with  evidence.  In  the 
case  mentioned  by  the  old  gentleman  at  Turvey, 
not  a  shadow  of  proof  is  offered  of  the  mass  of 
hair  found  in  the  Iady*H  coffin  having  grown  after 
death.  Why  assume  this  P  Why  diould  she  not 
have  had  lonff  hair  during  life  P 

Hawthome^s  story  of  a  woman*s  whole  body 
being  changed  into  hair  is  too  absurd  to  be  re- 
peated. 

Mb.  Matxb  will  observe  that  in  the  case  of 
Charies  I.  no  growth  of  hair  is  reported ;  but  then 
this  body  was  examined  by  a  man  who  understood 
the  common  laws  of  phvsiol(^.  In  the  case  of 
the  young  man  drowned  at  Whitby  we  are  ex- 
pected to  believe  that  the  hair  of  a  corpse  grew  in 
two  or  three  days  as  much  as  it  would  nave  grown 
in^  as  many  months  during  life.  Ptobabfy  the 
mistake  arose  from  the  fact  of  the  yoong  man's 
hair  being  more  .'or  less  curly,  and  by  immersioii 
in  the  water  it  became  straightened  out,  and  thus 
appeared  to  have  gained  in  length.  The  mde^ 
dructibilUg  of  hair  Mb.  Mi.tbb  must  see  to  be 


4»S.VII.  Fbb.11,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


131 


quite  another  question,  utterly  unconnected  with 
post-mortem  growth.  J.  Dixoir. 

Alexander  Rowland,  of  ^' Macassar '^  celebrity, 

fiyes  several  instances  of  the  indestructibility  of 
ur,  and  the  growth  of  it  and  the  nails  after 
death,  in  his  curious  treatise, 

"The  Haman  H«ir,  Popularly  and  Physiologically 
Considered,  ftc."  With  seven  Illastrations,  8to,  London, 
1868.'* 

The  subject  is  also  elaborately  discussed  in  — 

""L.  C  P.-  Garmanni,  &&,  De  Minicnlis  MoTtuornm, 
quibns  pnemisaa  dissertatio  de  Cadayere  et  Miraculis  in 
genere,"  4to»  Dieeden,  1709." 

WlLLIAX  BaiBS. 
Blrmiogbam. 

Eastbmt  Stobt  (4^  S.  vii.  12.)— The  story 
will  be  found  in'Madame  de  Genlis'  Taks  of  the 
CwflBf  or  in  her  Tales  of  the  OenU^  I  forget 
which.  These  tales  are  among  the  few  that 
charmed  our  childhood's  days  some  forty  years  ago. 

E.  L.  Blenkihsopp. 

Wab  Medals  (4"»  S.  vii.  13.)  —  When  the 
Peninsular  medals  were  issued  in  1848  six  sur- 
Tivors  of  the  war  were  able  to  make  good  their 
claims  io^fieen  bars  or  clasps.     One  of  these 


X3T  .'~/v^' .^T*"  ^'^  *'*r'i"-     ^"''.."^  ""^    "Oir,  you  must  always  remember  that  1 
^^"  !.rt^?.T?ir?!t^J^^^^^^  *^'"»«  «H-¥y  diffeJentm  degree  there  can  be 


such  detestable  trash  as  that  P  "  On  which  a  cri- 
tical friend,  who  happened  to  be  by,  obserred  to 
him  with  admirable  gravity,  "  My  dear  sir,  it  is 
not  to  tell  how  badly  a  man  may  write,  if  he  will 
only  thoroughly  give  himself  up  to  it"  That  the 
author  of  the  elegy  referred  to  "  had  thoroughly 
given  himself  up  to  it,"  there  can  be  no  question, 
and  as  little,  that  if  written  by  an  Oliver  Gold- 
smith—and it  is  known  that  there  were  more  than 
one  —  he  could  not  be  that  one  whose  poetry 
afiords  us  from  youth  upwards  such  exquisite 
pleasure. 

To  criticise  such  a  production  would  be  simply 
absurd.  ^  Let  it  only  be  remembered  that  in  1770 
Goldsmith  was  in  the  full  perfection  of  his  powers, 
and  that  thouj^h  sometimes  a  careless  writer  of 
prose,  he  was,  m  composing  poetry,  ever  mindful 
of  his  fame.     His  poeticsl  modus  operandi  was 
indeed  slow  and  elaborate,  and  it  was  in  reference 
to  his  complaint  of  the  superior  rapidity  with 
which  Churchhill  and  son^e  other  of  his  contem- 
poraries threw  off  their  more  numerous  composi- 
tions in  verse,  that  Dr.  Johnson  is  reported  to 
have  said  to  him — and  I  give  the  remark  the 

rather  because  it  is  not  to  be  found  in  Boswell 

"  Sir,  you  must  always  remember  that  between 


gold  cross  worn  by  the  late  Duke  of  Wellington 
ad  nine  clasps.  J.  W.  F. 

Brighton. 

The  late  Csptain  Baldwin,  who  resided  for 
many  years  in  Canada,  received  the  war  medal 
with  fourteen  clasps  for  his  services  in  Spain  and 
France  during  the  Duke's  campaigns.    This  num- 
ber of  daspe  was  always  said  to  have  been  the 
largest  amount  ever  obtained  by  valour.     Comey 
Woods,  the  keeper  of  the  Raquet  Court  at  JEIali- 
fkx,  N.  S.,  received  the  Peninsular  medal  with 
thirteen  clasps.    Woods  obtained  two  medals  for 
distinguished  service  in  the  field.    Comey  always 
comj^lained  that  the  Horse  Guards  had  omitted 
to  i^ve  him  the  fourteenth  clasp.    Woods'  regi- 
ment was  the  gallant  62nd,  the  Oxfordshire  Light 
Infimtry,  which  was  many  years  quartered  in 
Nova  &Dotia  with  the  Rifle  Brigade ;  and  Generals 
Wilbraham,  Norcott,  Streatfield,  Sir  R  King, 
and  many  others  may  still  remember  the  jolly, 
fighting,  private  Comey  Woods,  bound  to  com- 
memorate every  anniversary  of  his  general  actions. 

Isaac  Shsabbs. 
Highbury. 

Air  iKEDiTEi)  Elegy  by  Olivbb  Goldsxitf 
(4*  S.  vii  9,  66^  84.) — ^Your  correspondent  MooB- 
£Ain>^  Lad  remmds  me  of  the  remark  of  a  friend 
of  mine  on  a  certain  occasion.  I  was  calling  the 
attention  of  an  author  of  well-deserved  eminence 
to  one  of  his  early  productions,  which  he  had  not 
seen  for  a  considerable  lapse  of  time.  ''Good 
God ! "  he  exclaimed,  starting  back  in  horror, ''  is 
it  possible  that  I  could  ever  have  perpetrated 


no  approximation  by  numbers,  and  that  even  in 
what  can  be  reduced  to  numerical  equality  it 
takes  1008  farthings  to  make  one  guinea/' 

Jas.  Cbosslby. 

Abhbubnebs  op  FrnwESS  (4*»»  S.  vi.  411,  682.) 
The  following  paragraph  appeared  in  the  Uherston 
AdveHiser  (Jan.  6,  1871)  in  reference  to  a  query 
propounded  by  Mb.  T.  Hblsby  : — 

"  With  regard  to  the  paragraph  from  NoUa  and  Queriea 
as  to  the  *  Ashbnrnen  of  Farness,'  we  are  informed  in 
reference  to  query  6,  that  the  Rev.  William  Ashbnrncr 
was  a  son  of  George  Ashbnrner,  of  Scales,  and  that  he 
was  baptised  at  Aldingham  Church  on  January  5, 1763 ; 
his  father,  George  Ashbumcr  (son  of  John  Ashbumcr,  of 
Aldingham),  was  baptised  at  the  same  church  on  June  13, 
1781.   A  headstone,  now  standing  in  Aldingham  Church- 
yard, was  erected  by  the  Rev.  W.  Ashbnmer.  and  bears 
the  following  records:— George  Ashbumer  (his  brother, 
who  was  a  stationer  in  UJverston),  died  April  12, 1823, 
aged  61  rears.     Isabella  Ashburner  (his  mother)  died 
Fcbrnary  10. 1780,  aged  48  years.    George  Ashburner,  of 
Scales  (bis  father),  died  December  2, 1808,  aged  72  rears. 
William  Ashburner  (his  uncle),  died  February  20,'l818, 
aged  73  years.      John  Ashburner   (his  brother)  died 
July  17, 1823,  aged  68  years.    We  hare  reason  to  bdiere 
that  the  ancestry  can  be  farther  traced  should  the  abore 
not  suffice.    We  are  Indebted  to  Mr.  John  Ashburner,  of 
Scales  (who  is  a  relative  of  the  rererend  gentleman  w- 
ftrred  to),  for  the  abore  information." 

^ ,  J.  P.  MOBRIS. 

Liverpool. 

Shbopshibb  SATnras  (4"*  S.  vii.  0.)— I  have 
never  heard  more  than  two  of  the  Shropshire  say- 
ings mentioned  by  Mb.  Uhdbbhill.  "  All  on 
one  side,  like  Bridgnorth  election,"  is  a  common 
illustration  to  the  present  day;  and   all  public 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fcS.Vn.FM.ll,'71. 


dinners  in  the  county  -wind  np  with  the  toot, 
<<To  all  friends  round  the  wrekin."  There  is 
another  Shropshire  toast^  too,  which  I  have  heard : 
"The  HiUfl  of  Shropshire — vulj  they  be  as  erer- 
lasting  as  the  Shrojjshire  Mils/'  And  one  day, 
witnessing  a  ploughing  match  at  Enesmere,  I 
heiuxl  one  rustic  urging  another  to  go  a  little 
faster  with  his  plou^.  ''  Houd  thee  nize,'*  was 
the  reply ;  "  the  ground's  as  rough  as  Babby's 
'ood  gorst"  Babin's  Wood  is  a  well-known 
localily  in  north-east  Shropsbire,  but  I  never 
heard  that  the  gorse  there  waa  rougher  than  in 
otiier  places.  A.  B. 

Oswestry. 

"  He  smiles  Eke  a  bundle  of  chips  "  was  a  Tsxy 
common  saying  in  south-east  Cornwall  from  thirtr 
to  forty  years  ago.  The  words  ''under  a  dog% 
arm  "  were  not  unfie^uently  added  to  it. 

Wh.  Pxkgxext. 

Torquay. 

CoBBLEBs'  Lajcps  ts  Italt  (4"»  S.  vii.  11.)— 
SimUar  glass  globes,  filled  with  water,  are  used 
by  wood-engravers  and  microscopistsy  and  their 
effect  is  to  concentrate  the  light  upon  the  object 
looked  at.  J.  T.T. 

N.  Kelaey,  Brigg. 

The  women  in  Northamptonshire  and  Bucking- 
hamshire formerly  used,  and  probably  still  use, 
the  glass  globe  of  water  with  a  candle  in  making 
piUow-lace,  the  object  of  which  is  to  increase  the 
&ght  on  their  work,  as  the  light  of  the  candle, 
passing  through  the  globe  of  water,  magnifies  the 
light  in  the  same  way  as  passing  tnrough  a  mag- 
nSving  lens.  Henby  T.  Waxb. 

Cockermouth. 

Thb  Bhoicbtts  and  Sgartts  (4^  S.  ti.  584.]^ — 

May  I  quote  Martial  in  connection  with  the  notice 

to  JSbobaotjk  P  In  epigram  xiii.  60,  he  says  -^ 

^  QnamviB  lata  gerat  patella  Bhombum : 
Bhombiu  latior  est  tamen  patella.*' 

It  appears  to  me  that  this  distichon  points 
clearly  to  the  turbot.  The  scams  is  not  so  easily 
identified ;  it  is  generally  translated  char,  which 
delicious  Httle  fish  (a  celestial  trout)  the  Romans 

?robably  put  into  Windermere  and  Ooniston  Lake, 
/bar  of  Windermere  I  haye  been  fortunate  enongk 
to  eat  at  Wordsworth's  breakfast  table  r  VsTg^m 
iantum  vidi.  But  the  char  does  not  answer  at  all 
to  Martial's  scarus  (ziiL  84)  : 

•<  Hie  aeanu,  aqnoieis  qui  venit  obeene  ab  undi^ 
Yiaeecibiis  bonus  e^  ceteia  vile  sapiL" 

Pliny  (whom  I  haye  not  at  hand)  also  some- 
where mentions  the  scarus  as  famed  for  its  liyer. 
Hence  it  cannot  be  the  char,  whose  liyer  is  nothinff 
remarkable,  while  all  its  fieeh  is  delicious.  Gould 
it  be  the  red  mullet,  the*''  woodcock  of  ocean  "  P 


monastery  996.     E&elred'a  aiater  lit  fiiat  tim* 
might  haye  been  thirty-two  yean  old. 


St.  VALmrmnB  (4**  S.  yi.  570.)— A  panllel  to 
the  line — 

*^  Ut  morienB  yivent,  yizit  ut  moiitnnui'' 
is  to  be  found  in  the  T^dameniwm  sifoe  proforatio 
ad  Mortem  of  Cardinal  Bona* — a  document  whidi 
contains  many  noble  sentiments  eloquentiy  ex- 
pressed. The  words  "  et  cupio  ant^  mortem  ma- 
ture mori,  ne  moriar  in  'etemum  "  condudfl  a 
striking  paragraph  on  the  fear  of  deaiSi. 

John  Eliot  HoDesur. 

West  Derby. 

A  Bnx  AcmrALLT  PBBSBirTBD  (4*  S.  ylL  82.) 

I  was  surpriaed  to  see  this  new  yersion  of  an  old 

joke;  for  oertainlv'  I  haye  long  known  a  similar 

*^  carpenter^  bill,'^  but  neyer  belieyed  t^t  it  was 

actually  presented.     The  form  in  which  it  bas 

long  been  familiar  to  me  is  the  following : — 

2  mahogany  boxes        .       •       .    0  14    0 
1  wooden        do  .       .       .070 

Iwood  do  .       .       .070 


0    7    0 


Wtjltotka  (4**  S.  yii.  IS.)— Dngdale  (yol.  yi. 
p.  144)  giyes  the  date  of  the  foundation  of  her 


I  haye  also  a  diimney-sweep's  bill  and  a  brick- 
layer's biU,  still  more  original  and  puzzling;  but 
I  cannot  afium  that  eiuier  haye  neen  actually 
presented.  F.  C.  H. 

Leigh  Hitnt'b  '^Lbibttbb  Houbs  m  Towk" 
(4^  S.  yii.  26.)— I  haye  as  full  an  acquaintance 
with  the  writings  of  Leigh  Hunt  as  most  people, 
but  I  neyer  met  with  a  yolume  bearing  the  aboye 
title.  Probably  the  yolumes  on  The  Old  Court 
Subwb  are  those  wanted  by  the  Cambridge  Uni- 
yeraity  Union  Society.  G.  J.  De  W ilbs. 

The  Five  «  Thibd-Poiitted  "  Spibes  (4*  S. 
yii.  85.) — ^The  spires  inquired  after  are  no  doubt 
the  fiye  enumerated  in  A  Handbook  of  Ecdeeioiogy^ 
published  in  1847  by  the  Ecclesiolo^cal  Society 
as  the  only  broach  spires  of  '^  third-pointed  "  date. 
They  are  S.  Peter  Stanion,  Nortnamptonsfaire ; 
S.  ATkmund,  Shrewsbury;  S.  Mary,  Hartfield^ 
Sussex ;  All  Saints,  Kingston ;  Seymour,  Somer- 
set; S.Mary,  Brampton,  Northamptonshire.  To 
these  I  can  add  a  sixth,  yiz.  Upton,  Hnnttngdon- 
shire.  This  is  a  yery  curious  example,  and  until 
examined  closely  seems  to  be  of  much  earlier  date. 
When  I  saw  it  about  a  year  ago  it  was  in  a  yery 
dangerous  state,  the  tower  below  it  haying  giyen 
way ;  but  I  belieye  it  has  since  bemi  made  safe. 

Snaix. 

MACDxnpp,  Thajtb  of  Fife  (4«'  S.  yi.  276,  869, 
447.) — ^Mary  de  Monthermer,  wife  of  the  eleyenth 
Earl  of  life,  was  bom  at  Marlborough  Castle  in 
1297^  and  married  in  1307.    Joan  de  Clare  was 

*  Opera  Atdcerpia,  1677,  foL  p.  980. 


4*aTn.F«B.  ii.Ti.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


13S 


iKnen  abont  1286-70,  and  mairied  before  1290.  She 
yns  thtirelore  in  idl  probability  the  wife  of  the 
tenth  earL  Was  abe  me  mother  of  bis  aucceeaor^ 
or  had  he  more  wives  than  one  P  The  two  dia- 
inbeiited  daagblers  of  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Qlouoeater; 
and  Aliee  de  La  Mai^he  (of  whom  Joan  waa  the 
younger)  hare  never  jet,  ao  far  as  I  know,  been 
recognised  in  any  pnnted  work.  Their  half-sid- 
ten,  the  danghteis  of  Joan  of  Acrea,  completely 
eclipsed  them.  It  would  be  interesting  to  ascer- 
tain whether  they  both  left  issue. 

HxBinDrisvDB. 

Babies'  Bsoe  (4<»  S.  Ti.  475 ;  fii.  21.)  —At 

the  latter  of  the  above  references  a  correspondent 

asks  tor  the  author  of  these  lines : — 

"  What  idb  ny  iMibe,  my  sweet-fkeed  babe»  to  eiy  ? 
Look,  look,  wfaat*B  here !   A  dainty  golden  thing : 
See  how  the  dancing  beUa  torn  round,  and  zing 
To  please  my  bantl^ ! " 

They  wen  written  by  Francis  Qnailes  (bom 
I5d2,  died  1644),  and  occur  in  his  Emiiems,  book  IL 
No.  8,  <<  Venus  and  Divine  Cupid  t" 

Qnarlea  deaerves  to  be  more  generally  read. 
Hia  quaint  style,  wit^  and  uncommon  turns  of 
thoognt  would  make  him  a  favourite,  even  with 
those  who  may  not  be  touched  with  his  deep  and 
practical  piety.  Although  a  puritan  in  his  reli- 
gion, he  was  a  zealous  royalist  in  politics,  and 
having  joined  the  king's  party  at  Oxford,  the 
whole  of  his  property,  including  his  books  and 
MSS.,  were  sequestrated  by  the  parliament  The 
loss  of  these  last  preyed  so  mucn  upon  his  spirits 
88  to  hasten  his  death.  He  was  educated  at  Christ 
College.  Cambridge,  and  amongst  other  posts 
which  ne  successivelv  filled  was  that  of  *^  Chro- 
nologer  to  the  Citv  of  London."  What  were  the 
duties  of  this  officer,  and  is  any  such  now  ap- 
pointed P  E.  Y. 

[Qnarles  was  appointed  Chronologer.  at  the  reqneet  of 
the  £arl  of  Dorset,  in  1639.  The  dntiee  of  the  offioe, 
which  had  previoosly  been  held  by  Ben  Jonson,  couBisted 
chiefly  in  providing  pageants  for  the  lord  mayor,  and  the 
annual  salarv  was  33/.  6«.  8<i— eqnal  to  abont  a  hundred 
pounds  now.^ 

I  have  a  picture  of  Elizabeth  Coghill,  aged  one 
year,  anno  W^.  She  holds  in  her  hand  a  "  coal'' 
of  the  usual  lAape,  with  gold  or  gilt  mounting 
and  bells. 

So  that  J.C.  J.'s  date  is  carried  back  146  years. 

HxarBT  H.  Gibbs. 

Wbowo  Datbs  dt  cebtaik  Bioqkaphtbs  (4* 
S.  vi.  410;  vii.  46,  80.}— It  is  perhaps  scarce 
worth  while  to  refer  to  tnis  matter  again ;  but  as 
we  have  already  shown  that  Db.  Rogbbs  had  no 
gioonds  for  affirming  the  existence  of  an  error  in 
our  edition  of  the  Ettrick  Shepherd's  works,  so 
we  think  a  few  words  wiU  show  that  be  had 
likewise  no  excuse.  He  speaks  as  if  the  part  he 
laid  his  hands  on  contained  the  Shepherd  s  auto- 
biogiaphy  and  nothing  else  of  a  biographical  cha- 


racter. It  contains,  however,  only  the  first  ei^t 
paffes  of  the  autobiography,  and  immediately  pre- 
oemng  them  the  last  forty  pages  of  the  memoir 
by  Mr.  Thomson.  So  that  Db.  KoeBBS  could  not 
have  been  ignorant  of  the  existence  of  Mr.  Thom- 
son's memoir — ^and  indeed  admits  that  he  was  not 
so  —  but  <' concluded"  that  the  same  statement 
alone  would  ''  likely ''  be  contained  in  it  as  in 
the  autobiography.  If  such  gromids  aa  these  tan 
to  be  considered  as  sufficient  justification  for 
writing  to  "  N.  &  Q."  we  deeply  sympathise  with 
the  editor.  !Bla.gkie  &  SoB. 

Glasgow. 

"This  bait  Nictht,  this  eaw  Night"  (4* S. 
vL  603.)-— The  Lyke  Wake  dirge  which  appeared 
in  these  columns  is  printed  in  Sir  W.  Scott's 
Mmstreky  (f  the  ScoUuh  Border.  In  the  preface 
to  it  the  following  beautiful  passage  is  quoted  on 
of  the  Russian  Burial  Service : — 

"  Hast  thou  pitied  the  afflicted,  O  roan  ?  In  death 
ahalt  thou  be  pitied.  Hast  thoa  consoled  the  orphan  ? 
The  orphan  will  deliver  thee.  Hast  thon  clothed  the 
naked?  The  naked  will  procure  thee  protection.*'— 
Richaidson's  Aneedotet  ofBmeeku 

Sir  Walter  Scott  goes  on  to  say,  "The  most 
minute  description  of  the  Brig'  o'  Dread  occurs  in 
the  legend  of  Sir  Owain,"  &c.  R.  C.  G. 

Thb  Abvbft  Htxk  (4"»  S.  vi.  112  j  viL  41.)— 
What  combination  of  sounds  goes  to  make  vul- 
garity ?  I  understand  the  adjective  '*  vulgar  "  as 
applied  to  a  man,  a  speech,  an  anecdote,  ac.,  but 
as  applied  to  a  tune  t  do  not,  and  I  never  could 
do.  Any  air  may  of  course  have  vulvar  associa- 
tions with  it  in  the  minds  of  particular  persons, 
but  how  can  that  make  the  tune  vulgar?  I  ask  this 
question  the  rather,  because  the  particular  tune  in 
question,  poor  "  Helmsley,"  which  just  now  ap- 
pears to  have  no  fiends,  has  always  seemed  to 
my  unsophisticated  ears  so  singularly  appropriate 
to  the  words  of  the  Advent  Hymn,  that  it  vexes 
me  to  hear  it  sun^j^  to  any  otner.  Perhaps  you 
will  admit  one  voice  in  its  feiyour,  once  there 
have  been  so  many  agunst  it.     Hbbmbm'jsubb. 

fBiiUtXl&titnfXi. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

TheJBiMtoryofRome,   Jy  Wilhdm  Ihne.    Ihi^tk  Edi- 

iiou,    (Longmans.) 

Herr  Ihne,  from  the  volumes  hefote  us,  would  appear 
to  take  the  advice  so  often  given  to  students  by  writers 
in  his  own  and  other  countries— via.  to  follow,  if  only  at 
a  distance,  the  critical  and  exhaostive  method  of  Niebnhr 
but  not  to  be  pinned  down  to  the  deductions  and  theories 
of  that  great  pbilolonst.  **  Would  that  1  could  write  his- 
tory so  vividly  that  I  conld  so  discriminate  what  is  fluc- 
tuating and  uncertain,  and  so  devdop  what  is  confused 
and  intricate,  that  eveiy  one  when  he  heard  the  name  of  a 
Greek  of  the  age  of  Thucydides  or  Polybina,  or  a  Roman 
of  the  days  ofCato  or  Tacitus,  might  be  able  to  fonn  a 
dear  and  adequate  idea  of  what  ne  was."     So  wrote 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«*&VII.  r«B.ll,*71. 


Niebnhr,  and  it  wu  nndoabtedlj  Admiration  at  the 
rare  onion  of  Boch  powers  with  vast  learninfjf  in  him, 
that  imposed  that  *^  willing  bondage  **  to  which  so  many 
submitted,  bnt  which,  as  time  advanced,  required  that 
that  wise  counsel  should  be  given.  Herr  Ihne  modestlj 
states  that,  had  the  life  of  Arnold,  to  whose  memoiy  he 
pajs  a  feeling  and  ^pracefnl  tribute^  been  spared,  and  thus 
the  completion  of  his  History  ofBomit  effected,  in  all  pro- 
bability he  would  never  have  undertaken  his  present 
work.  It  seems  to  us,  however,  that  had  such  been,  for- 
tunately for  all,  the  case,  there  would  have  been  still  an 
equal  call  for  Herr  Ihne's  labour,  our  stock  of  knowledge 
receiving  daily  such  vast  acHsessions — the  result  of  re- 
search that  appears  to  grow  more  vigorous  the  more  it  is 
pursued— as  to  render  necessary  the  continued  rewriting 
of  history  under  **  the  light  of  present  historical  science." 
Commencing  from  the  regal  period,  our  author  has  car- 
ried on  his  history,  in  the  present  volumes,  to  the  end  of 
the  second  Punic  war — the  period  embraced  by  Arnold 
—and  proves  himself  no  mean  possessor  of  our  idiom,  for 
his  volumes  are  not  a  mere  translation  from  the  German, 
bnt  have  been  rewritten  by  him  in  English. 

8pam$h  Towns  and  Spanish  Pictnres,  Bjf  Mrs.  W.  A* 
Tollemache.    (Hayes.) 

Though  the  object  of  Mrs.  Tollemache*s  visit  to  Spain 
appears  to  have  been  the  study  of  Spanish  Art,  on  which 
we  have  a  good  deal  of  pleasant  gossip  in  the  work  before 
us,  the  book  contains  numerous  fragments  of  English, 
Spanish,  and  legendary  history,  which  give  variety  and 
aaditional  interest  to  it  As  owing  to  the  state  of  the 
Continent  and  the  recent  changes  in  Spain,  travellers  are 
likely  to  direct  their  steps  in  that  direction  during  the 
next  migration  of  wandering  Englishmen  and  English- 
women, we  commend  the  book  before  us  to  all  such,  not 
as  a  substitute  for,  but  as  a  companion  to,  Ford's  ad- 
mirable Handbook. 

Elemeniary  Trtatise  on  NatyraH  Philosophy,  By  Pro- 
fessor A.  Privat  Deschanel,  of  Paris.  Translated  and 
editedf  with  Extensive  Additions^  by  Professor  Everett, 
D.C.L.,  of  Belfast.  In  Four  Parts,  Part  I,  Mechanics, 
Hydrostatics,  and  Pneumatics.  Illustrated  hy  numerous 
JEnyravings,    (Blackie.) 

The  important  position  which  physical  science  has  now 
taken  in  public  education  has  induced  the  publishers  of 
the  work  before  us,  which,  soon  after  the  publication  by 
Professor  Deschanel,  was  adopted  'by  the  Minister  of  In- 
struction in  France' as  the  text-book  for  government 
schools,  to  invite  Professor  Everett  to  produce  an  English 
edition  of  it — and  he  tells  us,  that  he  was  only  induced 
to  do  so  after  finding  it  was  better  adapted  to  the  require- 
ments of  his  class  than  any  similar  treatise  with  which 
he  was  acquainted.  But  it  is  not  a  mere  translation ;  it 
has  received  manv  and  very  important  additions  at  the 
hands  of  the  translator. 

"  Lives  op  the  Poets  Laureate  of  ErfCLAiiD  *'  is 
the  title  of  a  work  reported  to  be  in  course  of  preparation 
by  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Norton. 

BocHESTEB  Castle. — ^The  corporation  of  Rochester, 
having  secured  from  the  Earl  of  Jersey  a  lease  of  Roches- 
ter Castle  and  grounds,  are  about  to  expend  2,0002. 
or  more  in  laying  out  the  latter,  tberebv  effecting  a  great 
public  improvement.  This  scheme  will  doubtless  com- 
mend itself  to  all  antiquaries,  as  tending  to  preserve  the 
noblest  castle  keep  in  England. 

The  j^atb  Charles  Dickens. — ^Messrs.  Chapman  k 
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There  is  no  historical  foundation  for  this  poem.  See 
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Ambrose  Bokwicke. — By  an  annoying  and  persistent 
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called  Borwicke. 

Zkta  (Andover)  will  find  several  answers  to  his  queries 
by  referring  to  our  indexes. 

Sp.— 7Ae  author  of  The  World  of  Matter  died  two  or 
three  years  since, 

B.  H.  S.—  The  moMo— 

<*  Horas  non  numero  nisi  serenasy'* 
tf  not  vncoflMiioii  on  sundials ;  hut  its  origin,  which  has  been 
inquired  for  more  than  once  in  these  cmmsum,  remetins  at 
present  undUscovered. 

S.  W.  T.  win  find  a  note  on  the  word  *<  High-faluten  **  at 
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T,  C-^We  have  a  letter  for  ^is  genealoyieal  querist. 

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A<Mldanli»  «ma*  I.— a  of-  Time. 

ACCIDENTS    CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 

Pnuide  agauut  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 


BT  urauBivo  with  thx 


Bailway  Fassengen*  Assnranoe  Company, 


Ab  ▲mraal  FBTincnt  of  iBS  t«  iB9  5/  innxei  MUOS*  al  Death, 
or  an  alloiranoeattlMrateofiMpcrwMkfi»IaJiu]F« 

ft565|000  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

OXE  oat  of  OTerr  TWELVE  Asmial  Folier  Holdcn  boomninf  a 
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Bailway  Stations,  to  the  Looal  J^ienti,  or  at  the  OiBoeCb 

M.GOBNHILL,  and  10,  BEGENT  STBEET,  LOia>ON. 

WnXIAM  J.  YIAN,  Sierctary. 


BT  BOTAL  COlOCAirD. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

SOLD  bgr  aU  STATIOBXBS  Oroaghomt  the  World. 


G 


ENTLEMKN   desirons  of   baying   their  Linens 

wMad  to  perfteticin  ihoold  rapplT  their  Lanndreswi  with  the 

whieh  Imparta  a  hriUIaney  and  elaitidty  gratifying  alike  to  the  lenae 
of  light  and  tooch. 

XrOTHIHG  IMPOSSIBLE.— AQUA  AMARELLA 

JL 1  rwtarei  the  Hmiian  Hair  to  its  inlatine  hne,  no  matter  at  what 
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flre  years  preceding  All  to  be  divided  among  the  Policgr-holdBrB  enutled 
to  participate. 

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division. 

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HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

.  .  allowed  by  upwards  of  fiOO  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  eilbe- 
tivc  invention  in  the  curative  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
•t«el  spring,  so  often hortAil  in  its  efibeta,la  here  evoldedt  a  soft  bandage 
betag  worn  reoad  tile  body,  while  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
plied by  the  MOG-M^^FAD  and  PATENT  LEYERfitUng  with  so 
mneli  ease  ead  closeuesi  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  be  worn 
dwiairsleqpw  A  descriptive  drcalar  maar  be  had,  and  the  Tmss  (which 
;  ftfl  to  St)  twwaided  by  post  on  the  drcumibrence  of  the  body, 
"   1  below  the  hipe,  being  sent  to  the  Manuflwtoxar. 


Is. 


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cine, and  it  is  now  an  iadlspntabie  Act  that  there  Is  none  so  suitable  for 
aodb  fiompjainta  aa  Uolloway's  Pills.  Their  are  invaluable  to  ilniMles 
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n;  NEW  GENTLEMAN'S  GOLD  WATCH, 
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*  Maauftatoiy,  888,  Smnid,  opposite  SomeiaeiHouae. 

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If  emoir  and  Portrait  of  the  late  Dean  Alfobd. 


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*e^  Ut — The  Rev.  flenry  Frauds  Cary,  R,  —  Witohes  in 
Ip«l>Ml,i».-The  MeMdag  of  *'Mon«irar.  )fo^nalvr"- 
Bav•b«Ui^g— COM  aod  Sir  OUbort  Albeit  io  1619  — 
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^'Hea-BfTor  in  Kdll^  ^Htatory  of  tbe  Virginia Oom- 
PHgr"— PfetaUlaa  M^^  of  Attadaor-*  JEenoott^  Qson, 
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**  <|iieen  Avgenis  **— The  fUeakhj  Pamilbr  —  Balk>ons  and 
y«vipqMi«-"  B»  F*  BosioRton  *-aav&B  «»d  Benratau  •*- 
GbUdren's  Gumb  "  Cistercian  Mooaatery  —  Oriiicism  on 
*  Merchant  ofyopioe":  Mrs.  Downing— Corrupt  Sng- 
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BWven  BbUlioK  Pieces  of  Charles  L  —  Denarius  of  Drusus, 
Senior — ¥he  Swan  Song  of  Parson  Avery — "  The  Heav- 
ing «f  the  Lead"  —  Kirknoton  —Gun  —  The  Didaoao 
Poetry  «f  Itftly—"  Rus  hoc  vocari  debet/*  Ac.— La  Oarap 
oole— '*It's  a  far  Cry  to  Loch  Awe"— indexes:  "Rush- 
worth's  Historical  OoUeotions"  -  Key  to  "  Le  Grand 
Qrras  "  —  Weaver's  Art  —  Femsle  Stint — *'  The  Prodigal 
Son  * — Cannon — fieoj.  Csrrier — **  The  Adoration  of  the 
Lbb  V  Aci,  148. 

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MONT  TALERISN. 

Who  has  not  heard  of  Mont  Val^nen;  the 
towering  giant  of  the  Seine,  ai\d  tutelary  genius 
of  the  ffoud  city  at  its  foot  P-^ 

*QaA  tortnoals  Seqvaka*  saxoshm  sonans 
M^^  aiget  undas  yallibus,  stat  arduo 
Arx  mentis  apice:  qn»  loci  iAgenio,  et  mann 
Muotta,  ssBpe  risit  hostiles  minas ; 
Fnitqne  belli  longa  pnesentis  mora.'* 

Joann.  Commirii  Camdna,    Paris,  1704,  p.  17 

The  strategical  uqportance  of  this  renowned 
citadel  lATests  its  sita  with  a  present  interest, 
some  portion  of  which  may  seem  to  he  reflected 
pn  a  iormer  and  fozgotten  phase  of  its  history. 

The  modem  Parisian  or  ordinary  tourist 
knows  Mont  Vsl^rien  hut  as  a  fort  and  a  hairack; 
minacious  with  cannon  and  populous  with 
Soldiery;  prompt  for  the  defence,  or  it  may  he 
for  the  attack,  of  the  fickle  and  unruly  wHuons 
benasth  its  shadow. 

Bat  the  student  of  leHgious  history  sees 
Tal^en  imdtfr  another  ampect  He  thinks  of  it 
as  the  erewbile  rotreat  of  the  holy  hermit;  an 
ohjeet  of  pious  pilgximage ;  a  mimic  yet  adorahle 
Calvary;  or,  perwinee,  in  a  more  degene^te 

*  I  should  haf  to  be  haunted  by  the  offended  shade  of 
the  Latin  poet  if  I  Med  to  conf^  that  it  is  I  alone  who 
am  nspooaible  for  Ike  latrodactioB  into  his  flrsl  iambic 
of  tba  lnailiahwHilii  daolyl  ^^SeQaaaa."  instead  of  the 
tribfaeh «« teng**  wllich  to  found  b  the  wigiiMl 


time,  as  a  scene  of  licentious  jprofligacy,  which 
recalls  the  Dionysia  of  the  elder  world,  or  the 
nocturnal  loTe<^easts  of  modem  ReTivalism. 

We  learn  from  Pierre  d*Orgemont,  a  former 
hishop  of  Paris,  thst  in  the  year  1400  ^d  the 
reign  of  Charles  de  Valois  there  was  already  a 
hermitage  on  Mont  Val^rien,  and  that  a  penitent 
named  Anthoine  occupied  a  cell  of  narrow  limits 
constructed  on  the  spot.  This  was  destroyed  in 
the  time  of  the  civil  wars  between  the  Dukes  of 
Orleans  and  Burgundy,  and  the  hermitage  of 
Saint  Saviour  built  on  the  summit  of  the  mount. 
This  had  for  occupant  Sister  Guillemette  Faussarty 
a  native  of  Paris,  who,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  H.^ 
and  assisted  by  the  contributions  of  Henry  Gu^ot 
and  Gilles  Martine,  built  the  chapel  of  Saint 
Saviour,  and  a  ceU  of  ample  dimensions,  as  an 
abode. 

It  is  related  of  this  holy  personage,  that,  after 
her  nightly  prayers,  she  occupied  herself  in  carrv'- 
ing  water  from  the  foot  to  the  summit  of  the 
mount.  This  she  did  in  such  quantities  that  it 
sufficed  the  masons,  engaged  in  the  construction 
of  the  chapel,  for  the  entire  day,  and  was  thus 
regarded  as  a  miracle.  She  practised  the  most 
rigid  austerities ;  ate  little  but  bread  and  water ; 
taking,  indeed,  little  else  to  support  life  but  the 
Holv  Communion.  (  Vartit4s  hi8tanques,phi/9imie^ 
eC  httiraires,  Pab,  1762,  torn.  iii.  partie  i.  p.  174.5 
After  five  years  of  fasting  and  penitence  Sister 
Guillemette  died  suddenly,  in  the  year  1561,  in 
the  odour  of  sanctity,  and  was  buried  at  the 
entrance  of  the  chapel  of  the  hermitage  which 
had  been  built  under  her  auspices. 

The  successor  to  this  holy  lady  was  Jean  Hous* 
set,  l^e  third  anchoret  of  Mont  Yal^rien.  He 
had  been  a  retainer  of  Henri  Guyot,  to  whom,i 
and  other  charitable  persons,  he  was  indebted  for 
his  support.  He  occupied  the  hermitage  for  the 
long  period  of  forty-six  vears,  at  the  end  of  which 
time,  on  August  £^  1609,  he  closed  a  life  of 
austerity  and  edification,  and  was  buried  by  the 
side  of  Sister  Guillemette,  his  predecessor,  in  pre- 
sence of  the  clergy,  many  noblemen,  and  a  vast 
concourse  of  spectators. 

It  is  to  this  pious  man  that  Kaoul  Boutrm^ 
better  known  under  his  Latinised  name  of  iCo- 
dolphus  Botereius,  refers  in  the  following  not 
very  elegant  hexameters : — 

« Imminet  ^therio  prop^  vertice  Yalvbius  Mohs* 
Indnsi  spelnnca  senis  qni  limen  Eremi 
Bex  prop^  ab  bine  Instris  non  exit,  iUe  vetnstos 
^gvpti  Patres,  Syrueqae  horrentis  adtsquat. 
Qtuilis  erat  nigro  qui  pastiiB  ab  elite  Paaloa, 
Hirsataqne  hnjaa  tuoicsB,  qni  Antonios  h«n% 
Fortunate  seneqc,  qui  sanima  ^  rape  jacentea 
Despicls  urbis  opes,  et  vere  despiciB,  urbs  eat 
Magna  tibi,  Mens  exignos,  Provinda  et  ingeas 
Soraptaqiie  in  horrenti  defossa  eigastnla  saxo.** 

XmsCia,  S^o,  Parieito,  1S». 

The  next  and  fourth  tenant  of  the  hermiVs  eell 
was  S^raphin  de  la  Nou^,  a  Parisian,  whe  was 


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placed  in  possession  by  the  Abb^  of  St  Denis  and 
Heniy  de  Gondy,  Cardinal  de  B^Uf  August  8, 
1609.  He  was  supported  in  the  solitary  practice 
of  piety  and  austerity  by:  he  celebrated  and 
lovely  Marguerite  de  Valois,  first  wife  of  Heniy  of 
Nayaire,  and  last  princess  of  her  illustrious  house. 

By  some  one  of  these  hermits  three  lofty  crosses 
had  been  erected  on  the  summit  of  their  mount. 
These,  from  their  elevated  position^  were  seen 
from  afar,  and  recalled  to  the  pious  spectator  the 
Calvary  of  old,  where  his  Saviour  had  suffered 
between  the  hardened  and  the  repentant  thie£ 
Struck  by  the  similitude,  a  priest  and  licentiate 
of  the  Sorbonne,  Hubert  Charpentier,^  conceived 
the  idea  of  establishing  on  Mont  Val^rien  a  com- 
munity of  nriests  and  religious  men  for  the  main- 
tenance and  exercise  of  the  worship  of  the  Cross, 
similar  to  one  which  he  had  previously  founded 
on  Mount  Betharam  in  B^am,  and  a  second  at 
Ndtre  Dame  de  Garaison,  in  the  diocese  of  Auch. 
The  king,  Louis  XIIL,  favoured  the  scheme  with 
his  approbation  ;  and  Richelieu,  who  had  a  splen- 
did seat  at  Ruel,  hard  bj,  promoted  it  by  his 
liberality.  The  congregation  of  the  Calvary  con- 
sisted of  thirteen  priests,  of  whom  the  founder, 
Ohurpentier,  was  the  first  superior.  This  eminent 
man,  who  had  been  the  intimate  friend  of  the 
AbM  de  Saint  Cvran,  and  the  solitaries  of  Port 
Royal  died  in  1650,  in  the  very  year  in  which 
Louis  XIV.  confirmed  the  letters-patent  given  by 
his  father,  permitting  the  community  to  build 
the  church  (n  the  Holy  Cross,  and  a  convent  for 
the  accommodation  of  the  ministering  priests  and 
other  persons  of  piety  who  might  be  aesirous  of 
leading  a*  life  of  edification  therein. 

The  religious  zeal  which  had  animated  Char- 
pentier  does  not  appear  to  have  been  participated 
oy  the  confraternity,  and  ten  years  later  the 
number  had  dwindled  to  two,  who  lingered  on 
till  1663,  when  they  sold  their  commonalty  to  the 
Jaoolnns  of  the  Rue  Saint-Honor^,  an  example 
which  the  hermits,  tired  also  of  their  life  of  soli- 
tude and  austerity,  lost  no  time  in  following. 

These  bargains,  however,  found  no  favour  with 
the  chapter  of  the  catheoral  of  Paris,  who  en- 
deavours to  prevent  them  taking  effect  bv  de- 
spatching anotner  relay  of  priests  to  the  abandoned 
mount  Hence  a  collision  netween  the  two  bodies. 
The  Jacobins,  arriving  to  take  possesnon  of  their 
aoduisition,  found  another  party  in  possession,  and 
laid  regular  siege  to  the  mount.  The  good  folks 
of  the  neighbouring  villages  took  one  or  the  other 
dde :  a  baker  was  Killed;  others  were  wounded; 
the  Jacobins  remaining  masters  of  the  situation. 
The  affair,  however,  had  made  considerable  noise : 
the  king  ordered  an  investigation,  and  this  resultea 
in  a  decree  by  which  the  disputed  property  was 
restored  to  its  original  possessors*  Sainte-Foix 
^ves  fuU  details  in  his  JSM«if  mr  BeaiSf  and  a 
poem  of  some  two  thousand  verses  was  composed 
by  Jean  David,  a  bachelor  of  theology,  entitled 


Le  Calvaire  profn/iU  par  les  Jacobim  de  la  rue 
Samt'MonorS. 

It  was  probably  at  this  period  that  the  mount 
began  to  be  known  as  the  '^  Calvary.''  In  1666, 
the  ettrSs  of  Paris  were  affiliated  to  the  oongrega*- 
tion,  and  the  custom  was  established  by^  the  jMr- 
oieeee  of  the  capital  of  making  a  yearly  pilgrimage 
to  the  holy  mount  on  two  nights  specially  consfr- 
crated  to  the  worship  of  the  Cross.  Behind  the 
great  altar  of  their  cnurch  the  priests  of  the  com- 
munity had  constructed  a  mimic  representation  of 
the  sepulchre  of  our  Saviour.  To  fadlitate  access 
to  the  summit,  the  precipitous  sides  of  the  mount 
were  hewn  into  terraces,  with  steps  between,  and 
chapels  at  regular  intervals,  affording  representa- 
tions of  the  various  stations  of  the  Passion,  wer» 
constructed  to  serve  as  resting-places  for  the  pil- ' 

Availing  themselves  of  these  facilities,  during- 
the  Yrhole  of  Passion  Week,  Mont  Val^rien  was 
thronged  bv  an  army  of  devotees^  making  their 
way  ^m  chapel  to  chapel,  up  its  terraced  sides, 
till  they  reached  the  church  on  the  summit  But 
it  was  on  the  nights  of  Ascension  Day  and  Good 
Friday  that  the  pilpim-crowd  became  most  nume- 
rous. The  graphic  pen  of  Dulaure  shall  here 
describe  the  mianight  doings  of  these  Oigiasts  of 
modem  times : — 

''L«B  nns  poitaient  une  eroiz  fort  peasnte,  et  te  tnt 
naient  avee  peine  jtuqa'an  aommet  de  la  montagne; 
oen vi^  M  faiaaieat  ftutlgw  en  ehemin ;  d'antrea,  eofin, 
ne  l^avant  jouer  dea  rdlea  si  difficUea,  ae  oontantaie&t 
d'etre  apectateura  b^n^volaa.  Gommeeetacteded^votioa 
ae  fidaait  la  unit,  oomme  e'^talt  k  la  renaiaaanee  ds 
printempa,  et  oomme  tout  d^g^^re,  lea  ptterina  et  Ie» 
pjMerinea  ikiaaient  aonvent  dea  atatkma  diuia  le  bms  de 
Boulogne  (par  oik  Us  paraaientV  avant  d*en  faira  anr  la 
montagno  ^^  Calvaire.  La  galanterie  et  le  plaiair  rem- 
plac^rent  le  z^le  et  la  p^Itence,  et  plnaieura  p^h^ 
euient  oommia  an  lien  m€me  de  Texpiation.  Cea  p^l»- 
linagea  et  lea  d^»rdrea  qn*iU  eatrainaient,  fnrent  enfin 
aagement  rtfform^'* 

At  len^h,  to  put  a  stop  to  the  flagrant  scandal, 
the  Cardinal  de  r^oailles,  the  then  Archbishop  of 
Paris,  effectuallv  suppressed  the  'Mevotion,^  in 
1607,  by  forbidoing  tne  priests  of  the  Cross  to 
keep  their  chapels  open  on  the  nights  of  Holy 
Thursday  and  ^dav.  Finally,  the  two  comma«' 
nities  of  priests  and  hermits  were  formally  sup- 

Sressed  by  a  decree  of  the  Constituent  Assembly^ 
ated  August  18, 1791. 

The  church  of  the  Cross  and  the  convent 
buildings  still  remained;  but,  a  few  years  later. 
Napoleon,  informed  by  Fouch^  that  they  haa 
become  tne  nightly  resort  of  a  great  number  of 
priests  and  others  who  held  secret  meetings  there- 
in, took  alarm,  and  ordered  the  grenadiers  of  the 
guard,  in  garrison  at  Courbevoie,  to  betake  them- 
selves to  Sie  dangerous  spot,  anest  the  supposed 
conspirators,  and  raze  the  church  and  convent  to 
the  ground.  His  commands  were  (Bzecuted  to  the 
letter,  and  after  some  delay,  arising  from  fickle- 
ness of  intention,  the  great  man  gave  orders,  juat 


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10^mm 


4*  S.  VII,  Fbb.  18,  71.] 


XOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


137 


]>efore  his  own  fall,  that  a  barrack  should  be 

erected  on  the  desecrated  site. 

At  this  point  commences  the  modem  history  of 

Mont  Yal^rien,  which  is  better  known,  and  on 

which  I  do  not  propose  to  enter. 

WiLLiAx  Bites. 
Birmingham.  

MILTON'S  "RIVERS  ARISE,"  ETC. 

This  was  the  only  passaj^e  in  Milton's  Poems 
ihat  I  ifas  unable  to  explain  when  commenting 
on  them.  When  at  length  I  became  aware  of 
the  true  sense  of  them  I  made  the  following 
manuscript  change  in  what  I  had  written  on  it  in 
p.  255  of  mj  Life  of  Milton : — 

"  This  Address  commencing  thus— 

*  Biven  arisen,  whether  thoa  beest  the  son 
Of  ntmost  Tweed,  or  Oase,  or  gulfy  Don,*  &e» 

has  been  a  puzzle  to  all  critics,  who,  with  Wartoo,  could 
not  see  *  in  what  sense  or  in  what  manner  this  introduc- 
tion of  the  riven  was  to  be  applied  to  the  subject.*  At 
length  the  reviewer  of  Masson*8  Life  of  Milton  in  the 
Saimrdtnf  Review  obseryed,  *  May  not  the  true  explana- 
tion of  the  riddle  be  that  the  part  of  Relation  was  per- 
formed by  a  youth  of  the  name  of  Rivers  ? '  Acting 
on  this  hint,  Mr.  Masson  bad  inquiry  made  at  Cam- 
bridge, and  as  he  informs  us  in  The  Athenotum^  it  ap- 
pealed that  on  the  18th  of  May,  1628,  George  and  Nizall 
Riven,  sons  of  Sir  John  Rivers,  Knt,  of  Westerham, 
Kent,  the  former  in'  his  loth,  the  latter  in  his  14th 
year,  were  admitted  into  Christ  College  as  lesser  pen- 
sioners. The  whole  riddle  then  is  thus  solved,  and  we 
have  an  unexpected  specimen  of  Milton's  humour.  In 
this  little  drama,  as  we  may  term  it,  he  performed  the 
part  of  Sns,  and  those  of  the  Predicaments  were  sustained 
by  ten  of  the  junior  freshmen,  one  of  whom  no  doubt  was 
the  elder  Rivers,  on  whose  name  he  pla^s  thus  agree- 
ably. There  is  also  an  appropriateness  in  closing  the 
catalogue  of  the  riven  with  the  Medway  and  the  Thames, 
"both  riven  of  Kent,  and  of  which  the  former  rises  not 
tax  from  Westerham,  where  the  Riven  family  resided. 

"  It  aeems  almost  incredible  that  a  matter  thus,  we 
mapr  saj,  lying  on  the  surface  should  have  eluded  the 
vision  of  so  many  generations.  But  the  truth  is,  many 
other  instances  could  be  given  of  oversights  equally  mar- 
velkms." 

As  my  Life  of  MiUon  may  never  be  reprinted, 
and  as  neither  The  Atherueum  nor  The  Saturday 
Meview  is  so  likely  to  be  consulted  by  future 
inquirers  as  ^'N.  &  Q./'  I  hare  thus,  I  trust, 
aeciiied  the  knowledge  of  this  removal  of  the  only 
remaining  obscurity  in  the  poetry  of  Milton. 

As  to  the  supposed  lines  of  ^niton's  lately  dis- 
covered, I  saw  at  the  first  glance  that  the;^  were 
not  and  could  not  be  his.  I  took  no  part  in  the 
inSUe,  and  I  witnessed  with  pleasure  the  final 
triumph  of  good  sense  and  sound  criticism. 

•  Thos.  Keightlet. 


THE  REV.  HENRT  FRANCIS  CART. 

HftTinflr  lately  read  the  Afemoir  of  the  Btn. 
Henry  Ihmeis  Cory,  M,A,y  Traneiator  of  Dante, 
4v.  (2  vols.  London,  1847),  I  wish  to  record  two 
er  tiuna  pardeulaxa  which  may  prove  interesting 


and  perhaps  useful  to  others,  and  my  note-book 

being  at  hand  I  am  enabled  to  do  so  without 

delay.    **  Procrastination  is  the  thief  of  time." 

It  is  stated  in  vol.  i.  p.  1,  that  his  mother  was 

"  daughter  of  Theophilus  £roca&  Dean  of  Eillala." 

Dean  Brocas  was  likewise  chaplain  of  the  Royal 

Chapel  of  St.  Matthew,  Biugsend,  Dublin,  1750- 

1764  (as   mentioned  in  Brief  Sketches   of  the 

Parishes  ofBooterstovm  and  Donnybrook,  p.  101) } 

and  having  died  in  1770,  he  was  buried  in  the 

churchyard  of  St.  Anne*s,  Dublin,  as  recorded 

in  the  following  tombstone  inscription,  which  I 

copied  within  the  last  few  years : 

*<  Here  Ijeth  the  body  of  the  Rev<>  Theophilus  Brocas, 
D.D.,  Dean  of  Killala,  who  departed  this  life  on  the  17*^ 
day  of  April,  1770,  and  in  the  64«b  year  of  his  age.*' 

EOis  death,  according  to  Pue^s  Occurrences,  April 
21,1770,  was ''  an  important  loes  to  the  kiDgdom,a8 
his  life  was  devoted  to  the  service  of  the  publick 
in  promoting  the  true  interest  of  this  country." 
It  IS  to  be  hoped  that  in  the  recent  alterations 
and  improvements  at  St.  Annexe  due  care  has  been 
taken  of  the  tombstones  of  Dean  Brocss  and  many 
other  notables. 

In  the  same  volume,  p.  84,  where  mention  of 
Mr.  Gary's  marriage  appears,  it  is  stated  that  '^  on 
the  10th  of  September,  in  the  same  year  [1796], 
he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  James  Ormsby, 
Esq.,  of  Sandymount  [in  the  parish  of  Donny- 
brook],  Dublin."  Here  there  seems  to  be  a  slight 
inaccuracy  in  the  date,  for  in  the  Visitation  return 
of  marriages  in  Donny brook  in  1796  (preserved  in 
the  Consistorial  Court,  Dublin),  there  is  the  fol- 
lowing entry : — 

<*Aufrust  20.  The  Reverend  Heniy  Francis  Caiy,  of 
Staffor&hire,  and  Miss  Jane  Ormsby,  daughter  to  James 
Ormsby,  Esq.,  of  Sandymount" 

Mr.  Ormsby  had  served  as  churchwarden  of  hia 
parish  in  1792,  and  in  the  old  churchyard  of 
Donnvbrook  there  is  a  stone  over  the  grave  of 
Mrs.  t*rances  G.  Ormsbj,  wife  of  Captain  Robert 
Ormsby  of  the  Sligo  Militia,  who  diea  August  19, 
1806,  aged  thirty-two  years. 

The  Donnybrook  parish-register  (1768-1799) 
has  long  since  disappeared,  and  is  not  likely,  I 
fear,  to  oe  recovered ;  and  therefore  the  annual 
returns  of  marriages,  &c.,  from  one  of  which  the 
foregoing  quotation  has  oeen  made,  are  the  more 
to  be  prized.  Abhba, 

WITCHES  IK  IRELAND. 

The  following  curious  case  was  heard  at  the 
Quarter  sessions  at  Newtonards,  co.  Down,  Tues- 
aay,  Jan.  4,  1871.  It  is  thus  reported  in  the 
Weekly  Whig,  Jan.  7, 1871  :— 

^'BXTRAOBDnrART  MODS  OF  BXPELLIVO  WXTOHBS. 

Kxmntdjf  V.  Kemtedg, 
*^  This  was  a  process  brooght  by  the  plaintiff;  Hogh 
Kennedy,  farm  servant,  to  recover  14/.  from  the  defendant. 


138 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


l^^^.ni.¥Ki,lB,*fl. 


Jobn  Kennedy,  farmer,  being  one  rear's  wages  allegi*d  to 
be  due, 

**  Mr.  C.  G.  Russell  appeared  for  the  plaintiff,  and  Mr. 
J.  Dinnen  for  the  defendant. 

**  The  plaintiff  and  defendant  are  brothers,  and  the 
point  In  dispute  was  whether  the  engagement  was  7/. 
a-year  or  71,  the  half-year,  the  plaintiff  alleging  the 
latter.  As  the  evidence  was  conflicting,  his  wonhip 
referred  it  and  another  case  between  the  same  parties  to 
the  arbitration  of  three  geatlemen  io  court 

**  It  appeared  from  the  evidence  of  the  plaintiff,  who 
was  examined  by  Mr.  Russell,  that  on  one  occasion 
during  the  period  he  was  in  the  defendant's  service  he 
was  employed  in  banishing  witches  out  of  the  house,  and 
off  the  land.    Witches  were  bdieved  to  sojourn  on  the 
plaintiff's  farm,  and  in  consequence  some  of  his  cows 
died,  and  his  crops  were  of  inferior  quality.     Belief 
existed  in  the  efficacy  of  a  certain  charm,  potent  in 
expelling  witches;  but,  although  considered  unfailing, 
the  ex|:^ment  was   attended  with  dangerous   conse- 
quences^ and  no  person  oould  be  found  bad  enough  to 
undertake  the  carrying  out  of  the  necessary  directions. 
The  danger  lay  in  the  fact  that  if  any  one  of  the  requisites 
of  the  charm  remained  unfulfilled,  the  person  endeavour- 
ing to  effect  the  banishment  would  be  carried  off  by  the 
witches,  and  would  never  more  be  heard  of.    Plaintiff, 
who  was  himself  a  believer  in  witchcraft,  was  induced  to 
undertake  the  hazardous  attempt  to  work  the  charm. 
An  evening  was  agreed  upon  to  put  the  witches  to  flight. 
They  were  supposed  to  take  up  their  residence  in  the 
house  after  a  certain  hour,  and  to  remain  there  till  break 
of  dav ;  and  if  the  charm  was  successfully  worked  they 
wouI<i  not  only  be  fbr  ever  dislodged  from  the  dwelling, 
but  would  never  more  set  foot  upon  the  farm.    The  mode 
adopted  was  as  follows: — All  the  inhabitants  left  the 
house  with  the  exception  of  the  plaintiff,  who  had  to  face 
the  witches  alone.    He  lockisd  himself  in,  closed  the 
windows,  stuffed  all  keyholes  and  apertures,  and  put  sods 
on  the  tops  of  the  chimneys.    He  then  put  a  large  pot  of 
sweet  milk  on  the  fire.    In  the  pot  he  put  three  rows  of 
pins  that  had  never  been  used,  and  three  packages  of  new 
needles.    The  milk,  needles,  and  pins  were  allowed  to 
boil  together  for  half  an  hour.    As  there  was  no  outlet 
for  the  smoke,  plaintiff  was  nearly  smothered,  and  during 
the  time  the  charm  was  maturing,  he  believed  he  bad  an 
encounter  with  the  witches,  and  succeeded  in  driving 
them  from  the  house.    At  all  events,  none  of  them  had 
appeared  in  the  place  since,  and  he  had  never  heard  any 
complaints  about  the  cows  milking  badly,  or  the  crops 
not  giving  satisfaction. 

**  The  court  was  convulsed  with  laughter  during  this 
extraordinary  recital. 

**0n  the  return  of  the  arbitrators  into  court,  they 
stated  that  in  the  case  for  wages,  they  found  for  the 
plaintiff  in  the  sum  of  10«.  The  other  case  was  dismissed." 

W.  H.  P. 


The  Meanikg  op  **  MoireiEirB,  Monsieub." — 
I  have  frequently  been  asked  in  Britain  why,  in 
our  country,  they  put  the  word  Monsieur  twice 
on  the  address:  '*A  Monsieur,  Monsieur/'  etc. 
My  answer  was  that  the  first  Monsieur  should 
"be  written  in  two  words,  and  translated  "  my 
lord"  (mon  steur^^mon  seigneur). 

If  you  open  the  Dictionnaire  de  la  LaiMfue  frrni- 
qaise — so  ably  compiled  by  my  learned  friend 
Mons.  Littr6 — ^you  will  find  under  the  word 
"  Monsieut"  (vol.  ii,  p.  611,  col.  3J  that  the  same, 


nnited  with  the  name  of  a  towtt,  was  fonotieiiy 
used  to  designate  the  bishop  of  the  diocese  Of 
which  that  town  was  tho  capital ;  Imt  he  omitted 
to  add  that  it  meant  also  the  hangman,  as  you 
may  see  by  the  Mimoires  de  9amson,  and  Abont's 
Zes  Manages  de  Paris.  This  double  acceptation 
led  lately  to  a  very  ludicrous  misunderstanding, 
the  narrative  of  which  may  amuse  your  readers. 

A  young  orderly,  who  had  learnt  imperfectly 
the  German  language  (but,  however,  boasted  of 
being  a  thorough  master  of  it),  having  been  sent 
to  the  Prussian  outposts  wiu  a  flag  of  truce,, 
appeared  in  the  company  of  a  stately  gentleman, 
much  dignified,  and  dressed  like  a  reverend  one. 
This  gentleman  the  young  officer  (who,  I  suspect, 
is  the  author  of  the  song  you  lately  printed)  in- 
troduced to  the  German  commander  as  ^*  Monsieur 
de  Paris^'*  and  I  beg  to  introduce  him  to  you  aa 
Mons.  Hendrick,  the  hangman  of  Paris,  who, 
being  a  German,  or  at  least  of  German  extrac- 
tion, speaks  fluently  the  Xangmge  of  the  in- 
vader. Now  it  hi^pened  the  Teuton  was  a 
pious  Homan  Gathohc,  more  conversant  with  tho 
language  of  Madame  de  Maintenon  and  of  the 
Concordat  than  with  the  phraseology  in  tise  at 
preaent  He  accordingly  prostrated  nimself  be«> 
lore  the  lugubrious  gentleman,  kissed  his  haada, 
and  acted  so  many  rantastic  extravagances,  afber 
the  German  fashion,  that  the  young  wag  and  hia 
interpreter  were  put  extremely  out  of  countenance. 
Still  the  latt^  took  great  care,  for  the  sake  of  his- 
own  life,  not  to  ahow  la  cards. 

One  woid  more,  to  be  added  to  Littr^*s  article. 
In  the  nautical  language,  the  title  of  iifionsieur  is 
particularly  given  by  the  crew  to  the  lowest  of 
them,  the  nwusse^  the  abip-boy,  and  the  reason  of 
that  IS  obvious :  it  is  a  joke  founded  on  the  like^ 
ness  between  mmtsse  and  monsieur,  pronounced  at 
Marseilles  and  Bordeaux  mousgu. 


AthensBum  Club. 


FBANCisams-MicHKL. 


Beas-baitiko.—I  was  never  a  witness  of  a 
bear-bait,  but  I  well  remember  a  poor  brute  wh^ 

was  kept  alive  for  this  sole  purpose,  at  F ia 

Lancasnire.  He  was  confined,  as  a  general  rule^ 
in  a  small  back  yard,  where  sightless,  dirty,  stink- 
ing, and  perhaps  half-starved,  his  sole  and  con- 
stant exercise  appeared  to  be  moving  his  head 
and  forequarters  from  side  to  side.  When  taken 
to  other  villages  to  be  baited,  his  advent  there 
was  announced  by  a  wretched  fiddler,  who  walked 
before  him  and  the  bear-ward.  tJpoi^  one  occa-^ 
sion  the  story  goes  that  he  and  a  second  cham- 
pion of  the  like  kind  arrived  at  W.  on  the 
wakes-day,  before  the  evening  church  service  was 
completed.  This,  however,  was  rapidly  broQ(f:hi 
to  a  close  by  the  beadle  calling  to  the  preaekdr 
tram  the  church  door :  '^  Mestur,  th'  be«r  s  come ; 
ttid  what's  mofe,  theiis*8  two  oi  'en."     This 


n^m 


m0 


4*S.V1LFbIi.18,71,] 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


139 


freedom  of  speech  in  [a  holj  place  is  less  to  be 
-wondered  at  when  it  is  known  that  the  good 
rector  and  a  part}^  from  the  rectory  usually  wit^ 
nesaed  the  heap-bait  from  the  churchyard  adjoin- 
ing the  Tillage  green.  M.  D. 

Calais  and  Sib  Oii.bxrt  Talbot  in  1612.— 
The  following  old  IVench  letter,  signed  by  Gilbert 
Talbot,  the  then  English  governor,  may  be  of 
sofKcient  interest  to  merit  preservation  in  the 
pages  of  »•  N.  &  Q." 

HsNBY  T.  Waie. 

Oockennouth. 

**  Tretbaolte  &  treaezoelleate  prinoease  et  ma  tres- 
honnoaree  Dame  tant  et  si  treshumblemeiit  que  fairepnis 
a  v're  bonne  grace  Je  me  Recommande  I  A  la  qadle  plaiM 
saaoir  |  que  ce  Jour  Dhay  Jay  Recen  le  Tres  qail  vons  a 
pleu  mescrire  |  par  lesqaelles  me  faictes  sauoh:  que  ptus 
nagaerea  ung  navire  charge  de  vins  daoxerrois  pour  la 
provision  de  loetel  de  mons'  le  prince  de  CastiUe  et  da 
T*re  a  este  prins  et  mis  en  maniere  que  lesd*  navire  et 
Tins  soient  Incontinent  mis  au  delivre  |  et  les  laisser 
allerpardevers  vons. 

*^  Treshaulte  tresexcellente  princesse  et  ma  treshon- 
nonree  Dame  )  auant  la  Reception  de  vos  d'  Tree  |  Je  feoz 
adverti  de  lad'  prinse  |  et  Incontinent  Jescripuy  ausd*  de 
doure  de  soufirir  led*  nauire  departir  auecque  lead'  vins  | 
ce  qne  a  este  faict  en  maniere  quil  est  ce  Jour  Dhay 
anyne  oa  haare  de  cest  Ville  I  et  ay  ordonne  an  maistre 
dicelloy  de  partir  a  son  bon  plaisir  et  voolloir  poor  con- 
doyre  et  meoer  lesd*  vins  pardevers  vous.  |  £n  vons  as- 
aearant  madame  qne  non  pas  seuUement  en  cest  endroict 
Je  desire  a  vons  complaire  et  faire  seruice  |  mais  en  toutes 
aatrea  choses  a  moy  possibles  seion  mon  petit  pouvir  J 
Car  en  ce  faisant  Je^  suis  sor'  faire  service  tresagreable 
an  Roy  mon  soaverain  se'r  v're  bon  Cousin.  | 

**  Treshaulte  et  tresexcdlente  princesse  et  ma  treshon- 
noaree  Dame  Je  supplie  au  benoist  sainct  esperict  vous 
octroyer  lentiere  accomplissement  de  vox  treshaulx  et 
Tertaeulx  dedrs.  | 

**  Escript  a  Calais  le  xxv^*  Jour  daoust  I  Ian  xt^  & 
zij  C25.  aug.  1512). 

**  Y're  treshumble  &  tresobeissant  Servit^ 

Gtlbert  Talbot." 

The  superscription  is  as  follows,  viz. :  — 

**■  A  treshaulte  et  treaexcelle&te  prinoesse  et  ma  treshon- 
nouree  Dame,  Madame  Margarita  Aichidnchesse  d'aus- 
trie  duoesae  et  contesse  de  boorg"*  dboaigiere  de  Sauoye, 
Begente  et  goaveman\  eta" 

CTJRI0T78  PRECTTBSORS    OF  THE    PRETENDEB. — 

A  London  paper  of  July,  1745,  gives  the  follow- 
ing account  of  an  adventurer :  — 

"  Edinbnighy  June  27.  We  have  not  yet  heard  to 
what  Comer  of  the  World  David  Gillis  (who  had  assumed 
the  character  of  the  Pretender's  son)  fled  after  getting 
oat  ci  the  Jail  of  Cooper  in  Fife,  where  he  had  been  con- 
&ied  for  various  rogaeries.  But  'tis  certain  he  came  to 
this  city  about  nine  months  ago,  accompanied  by  his 
confederate  Billy  (who  is  now  in  custody  at  Seiiiirk),  and 
after  selling  their  horses  took  Rooms  in  Multrees  hills. 
Gillis  fell  to  work,  and  painted  the  'Visitation  of  the 
If  SIP,'  '  St.  Cedla'  (siV),  'The  Miser,'  'Jane  Shore,'  ^c, 
which  CooQoiaaeors  consider  finished  pieces;  and  Billy 
wrought  joameyman  to  a  shoemaker.  But  chusing  rather 
to  stroll  about  than  earn  their  bnad  in  an  honest  way, 
they  assumed  high  names  and  characters,  and  imposed 
upon  and  tricked  several  people  in  low  life  in  the  Neigh- 


bourhood of  this.  Upon  hearing  that  warrants  wen 
issued  for  apprehending  Gillis,  he  fled  to  Ormtston  in 
East  Lothian,  where  he  passed  for  Peter  Douglas,  Esq. 
Here,  finding  the  people  devoutly  inclined,  he  canted  and 
prayed  with  them  to  Admiration,  and  deelared  that 
Whitefield  was  a  first  rate  saint ;  but  hearing  that  a 
Part^  was  going  out  of  this  plaoe  to  apprehend  him,  he 
fled  m  vhe  night  time  and  left  his  reckoning  to  pay  aa 
usual." 

About  a  fortnight  later  it  is  stated,  under  date 
Edinburgh,  July  16 :  — 

"  David  Gillis,  who  lately  acted  the  Prince  in  the 
Confines  of  this  City,  and  who  with  his  confederate 
William  Rae  was  lately  drummed  out  and  banished 
the  County  of  Selkirk,  is  returned  hither  with  his  con- 
federate." 

A  week  afterwards  the  LoTidon  GaseUe  offered 
its  reward  of  dO,(XX)/.  for  the  apprehension  of  the 
real  Pretender,  if  there  can  be  such  a  designation. 

E.  0. 

Heatek  Lbttees. — ^A  letter  written  in  Gotha, 
Germany,  and  published  in  a  New  York  news- 
paper, contains  the  following  passage :  — 

"  Our  old  Fran  told  us  she  had  a  brother  in  the  army, 
and  when  we  expressed  a  hope  that  nothing  would  hap- 
pen to  him,  slie  replied :  '  Oh !  no,  he  has  a  Heaven  letter 
on  him ;  he  is  all  safe.'  We  asked  her  what  a  Heaven 
letter  was,  at  which  she  seemed  much  surprised,  wonder- 
ing that  we  had  never  heard  of  it.  She  said  several  of 
the  peasantry  of  the  village  owned  one,  though  where 
tliey  originated  or  where  they  got  them  she  did  not 
know.  We  expressed  much  interest,  and  said  that  we 
wanted  much  to  see  what  kind  of  thing  it  was  that  thus 
protected  its  wearer  from  all  earthly  ill.  She  seemed 
much  averse  to  speaking  about  it,  and  did  not  think  she 
could  get  one  for  us ;  but  the  next  morning,  before  we 
were  up,  she  came  to  uf  with  one  she  had  borrowed  from 
a  friend.  It  must  have  been  very  old,  perhaps  having 
come  down  from  father  to  son ;  for  though  of  pardiment 
it  was  worn  in  holes.  It  contained  a  not  ill-sketched 
picture  of  the  crucified  Saviour,  at  whose  feet  lav  an 
apple,  cut  open,  and  exposing  the  seeds  to  view.  Inhere 
were  a  number  of  verses  which  we  could  not  make  out, 
except  that  there  were  several  invocations  to  the  Trinity 
and  an  indefinite  number  of  crosses/' 

Uneda. 

Philadelphia. 

Tea. — The  following  notice  ci  tea  is  copied 
from  the  JRelation  of  the  V&ymge  to  Siam  hy  ^8ix 
Jentits  «ra  1685,  London,  1668,  p.  269 :  — 

"  It  is  a  civility  amongst  them  to  present  betle  and  tea 
to  all  that  visit  them.  Their  own  eountcy  suppUes  them 
with  betle  and  areca,  but  thev  have  thdr  tea  from  China 
and  Japan.  All  the  Orientals  have  a  particular  esteem 
for  it,  oecause  of  the  great  virtues  they  find  to  be  in  it. 
Their  physicians  say  that  it  is  a  sovereign  medicine 
against  the  stone  and  pains  of  the  head ;  that  it  allays 
vapours ;  that  it  chears  the  mind,  and  strengthens  the 
stomack.  In  all  kinds  of  feavera  they  take  it  stronger 
than  commonly,  when  they  begin  to  ftel  the  heat  of  the 
fit,  and  then  the  patient  covers  himsdf  up  to  sweat,  and 
it  hath  been  very  often  found  that  this  sweat  wholly 
drives  away  the  feavor.  In  the  East  th^  prepare, the 
tea  in  this  manner :  when  the  water  is  weU  boiled,  they 
pour  it  upon  the  tea  which  they  have  put  into  an  earthen 
pot,  proportionably  to  what  they  intend  to  take  (the 
ordinary  proportion  is  as  much  as  one  can  take  up  with 


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[4*S.Vn.  K»«.18,7I. 


the  finger  »od  thamb  for  a  pint  of  water),  then  they 
cover  the  pot  aotil  the  leaves  are  sank  to  the  bottom  of 
it,  and  afterward  give  it  about  ia  china  diehes  to  be 
drank  aa  hot  as  can  be  without  sogar,  or  elee  with  a  little 
sagar-candy  in  the  mouth;  and  upon  that  tea  more 
boiling  water  may  be  poured,  and  so  it  may  be  made  to 
serve  twice.  These  people  drink  of  it  several  times  a-day, 
but  do  not  think  it  wholsom  to  take  it  fasting." 

W.  E.  A.  A. 

Error  in  Netll's  "IIistobt  op  thb  VnianriA 
CoMPANT." — Neill  in  his  History  of  the  Virginia 
Company  of  London^  p.  225,  writing  of  William 
Cleybome,  secretary  of  state  for  that  colony, 
says : — 

«  Edmundson,  Quaker  preacher  in  1673,  met  him  at  a 
religious  meeting,  and  was  invited  to  call  at  his  house. 
Soon  after  this  he  must  have  died,  for  the  preacher  in  his 
jonmsl  sa3rs,  *  He  was  a  solid  wIm  man,  received  the  truth, 
and  died  in  the  same,  leaving  two  Frieuds  his  execu< 
turs.'" 

This  qaotation  refers  to  the  commissioner 
Richard  Bennet,  and  not  to  Cleyhorne.  {Vide 
Edmundson's  Journal,  a.d.  1715,  p.  03.) 

NiMROD. 

Pedestrian  Feat  of  Faraday. — I  see  it  stated 
in  an  article  on  Faraday  (Edinhurgh  Iteview,  July, 
1870),  that  **  one  day  he  started  alone  from  the 
Baths  of  Leuk,  over  the  Gemmi,  past  Kandersteg 
and  Frutigen,  all  the  way  to  Thun,  doing  the 
forty-five  miles  in  ten  and  a  half  hours  without 
much  fatigue  and  with  no  ill  efTects." 

Considering  the  long  and  steep  ascent  of  the 
Oemmi,  which  must  have  been  made  in  this 
direction,  the  walk  is  one  of  the  most  extraordi- 
nary ones  on  record. 

I  speak  from  my  own  pedestrian  experience  on 
the  line  indicated.  F&amcis  Trench. 

Islip  Rectory. 

Kencott,  Oxon. — In  the  chancel  of  this  church 
on  the  south  wall  there  is  a  curious  monument — 
carious  not  in  itself,  but  from  the  fact  that  it  is 
set  in  a  wooden  case,  with  oak  folding  doors  like 
a  triptych  to  close  over  all  and  protect  it  from 
injury.  It  is  to  the  memory  of  Richard  Colches- 
ter of  Westhury,  co.  Gloster,  D.C.L.,  who  died 
Sept  11,  1643.  Also  to  his  wife  Elizaheth, 
daughter  of  Sir  Huffh  Hammersley,  Knt.,  Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  by  Mary,  daughter  of  Baldwine 
Derham  of  Derham,  co.  Norfolk.  The  arms  dis- 
played are— Or,  a  chevron  between  three  estoiles 
gules  [granted  1626],  impaling  gules,  three  rams' 
heads  couped  or.  W.  M.  H.  C. 

P.S»  In  the  head  of  the  Norman  door  of  this 
church  is  a  bold  earring  of  Sagittarius,  with  the 
letters  SAeix;  the  arrow  has  parted  from  the 
bow-string. 


THE  WmCHESTER  "  DOMUM  "  SONG. 

I  do  not  recollect  that  any  of  your  correspondents 
have  ever  suggested  any  inquiry  as  to  the  author- 
ship of  the  popular  song,  which  precedes  the 
summer  vacation  of  Winchester  School,  called  the 
''Domum.''  It  has  frequently  been  sung  in  my 
bearing,  but  no  inquiry  of  mine  has  ever  been 
satisfactorily^answered  as  to  the  origin  or  author- 
ship of  it. 

it  has  something  of  the  air  and  aspect  of  an 
early  medisBTal  hymn  or  chanson.  On  the  other 
hand,  there  are  symptoms  in  it  of  Martial  and 
other  early  Latin  poets. 

As  an  instance  of  the  former,  let  me  quote  a 
few  lines  from  a  song  to  the  Virgin,  printed  in  the 
"  Poisies  anterieures  au  douxihne  giicle"  by  £d^- 
lestand  du  M^riL  Paris,  1843  :— 

"  Dormi,  fili,  dulce  mater 
Dalce  melos  concinam ; 
Donni,  nate,  suave,  pater, 
Saave  carmen  accinam. 
Ne  quid  dealt  sterna  m  rosis, 
Sternam  foenum  vioH«, 
Pavimentnm  hyacinthls, 
£t  praBsepe  liliia." 

So  in  Martial  (Epig.  402)  we  have  — 

**  Phosphore  redde  diem,  quid  gaudia  nostra  moraris  ? 
Cjesare  ventaro,  Phosphore,  rcdde  diem.*' 

I  quote  so  much  of  the  ''Domum ''  song  as  re- 
minds me  of  the  above  passages : — 

"  Concinamns,  o  sodnles 
£|a !  quid  silemus  I 
Nobile  canticum 
Dttloe  melos  domum 
Dulce  domum  resonemus. 

Appropinquat  hora  felix, 
Hora  gaudiomm 
Post  grave  tedium, 
Advenit  omnium 
Meta  petitaJabonim. 
Domam,  domum,  etc. 

Goncinamus  ad  penates 
Vox  et  andiatur 
Phosphore  ^uid  jubar 
Segniua  emicana 
Gaudia  nostra  moratnr  ? 

Domum,  domum,  dulce  domum, 

Dulce  domum  resooemus." 

On  the  whole,  I  think  we  can  assign  no  real 

antiauity^  to  this  song,  though  it  has  some  happy 

toucnes  in  it    I  shdl  be  glad  to  hear  what  old 

Wintonians  can  tell  us  about  it.  E.  S. 

[Our  oorreepondent  is  referred  to  *<  N.  &  Q."  l^  S.  x. 
66, 198;  xL  66;  4^  S.T.  ZSi ;  vi.  166.] 

^'QmsKET  Aboekib.** — A  poem  under  this  title 
apneued  in  BlackwootTs  Magasme  for  December, 
1839.  Is  its  author  knownr  The  references  to 
Dartmoor  and  Babbicombe  seem  to  indicate  a 
Devonshire  man.    Then,  as  to  the  characters :  — . 


4«^S.VII..Feb.  18,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


141 


Andnigio  is.  of  course,  Melbourne.  Who  is  Sid- 
rophell  ?  Does  Antonio  mean  Palmerston  P  The 
financier  I  assume  to  be  Spring  Rice,  who  was 
created  Lord  Monteagle  on  August  27^  1839.  Who 
is  MacariOy ''  of  Gallic  origin  "  ?  Rouaillon  is  mani- 
festlj  Lord  Russell  — 

«'  The  best  and  trustiest  of  the  Queen's  divan." 
The   ^'orator   of    giant    force"    is,    doubtless, 
Brougham,  and  0*Connell  the  demagogue 
**  Who  swayed  a  great  part  of  the  popalaoe." 
I  shall  be  very  glad  to  have  information  as  to 
the  other  characters  adumbrated  by  the  poet. 

Maxbocheib. 

TflK  Bleaklby  Familt. — A  branch  of  this 
family  settled  in  the  county  Down,  Ireland,  some 
time  in  the  reign  of  the  second  Charles  or  there- 
abouts. They  are  traditionally  said  to  have  been 
of  English  descent — probably  from  Yorkshire  or 
Devonshire,  in  which  latter  county  there  was  a 
place  called  Bleakley  Hall.  The  crest  or  arms  of 
the  Irish  branch  was  a  blackamoor  or  Saracen's 
head,  and  the  prevailin^^  Christian  names,  David, 
Edward,  and  John,  which  matters  may  afford  a 
clue  to  the  English  progenitors.  If  some  of  your 
correepondenta  familiar  with  English  family  his- 
tory, more  particularly  of  Devonshire  and  York- 
shire, would  afford  the  inquirer  information  on  tbe 
subject,  they  would  greatly  oblige         I.  W.  H. 

Chorch  Street,  Downpatrick. 

Balloons  and  Nbwsfapebs. — More  than  half  a 
century  ago  I  read  a  novel  called  The  Lad  Man,* 
I  think  it  was  in  four  volumes  12mo.  My  father 
had  it  in  his  library.  When  he,  however,  re- 
moved from  his  then  residence  in  Bromley, 
Kent,  it  was  sold,  with  the  other  weedings,  by 
auction  bv  Messrs.  Mandy.  It  was  a  novel  of  the 
Minerva  f'less  school,  the  immediate  predecessor 
of  the  houses  of  Bentley,  Saunders  &  Otley, 
Colbnm,  &c.  Whether  the  two  prophecies  I  am 
about  to  mention  from  it  will  assist  Dr.  Cum- 
ming  in  proving  that  we  are  near  the  eve  of  the 
last  day  I  am  unaware,  but  certainly  they  are 
quite  pertinent  to  the  present  period. 

1.  In  The  Last  Man  (if  I  remember  aright)  aU 
traveUing  wa$  to  he  performed  hy  balloon.  This 
is  not  yet  quite  accomplished,  but  the  French 
government  is  using  balloons  for  its  business  pur- 
poses, and  one  of  its  most  important  ministers, 
tooy  has  made  an  aerial  voyage. 

2.  That  newspapers  would  be  published  every  two 
hours.  This  prophecy  certainly  has  been  fulfilled, 
for  what  with  various  editions  of  threepenny 
Times,  penny  Daily  Telegraphsj  Standards,  &c., 
and  JSxst,  second,  third,  fourth,  and  later  editions 
of  halfpenny  Echoes,  we  hate  now  newspapers 
iaaued  oftener  than  every  two  hours. 

*  I  am  well  aware  of  another  Ltut  Man,  by  a  Udr,  in 
3  vols,  post  8vo.  [By  Mrs.  P.  B.  Shelley,  Colbani,  1826.] 


There  were  other  curious  statements  in  the 
volumes,  especially  one  of  which  at  present  we 
have  no  signs,  and  I  trust  it  will  not  occur  in  my 
time — viz.  that  in  consequence  of  the  productive 
powers  of  the  earth  becoming  exhausted,  the  last 
man  himself  directs,  a  hundred  years  before  his  own 
decease,  the  people,  who  are  then  fast  decaying 
out  of  the  world  (no  births  taking  place),  to  culti- 
vate the  high  and  the  bye  roads,  and  to  turn  the 
channels  of  the  rivers,  so  as  to  obtain  an  unculti- 
vated virRin  soil  whereon  to  raise  a  few  cereals. 

Qy.  Where  can  I  see  a  copy  of  The  Last  Manf 
1  have  searched  the  Britbh  Museum  catalogues, 
and  it  is  not  there.* 

Qy.  When  did  the  Minerva  Press  commence 
publishing  its  wondrous  lot  of  books,  and  when 
did  it  cease  its  labours  P  Mr.  Colbum  was,  I  be- 
lieve, the  originator  of  the  nresent  fashion  of 
8  vols,  post  8vo  novels  at  1/.  11«.  6d. ;  or  did  it 
commence  in  Scotland  with  Waverleyf  I  hope 
that  Mb.  Yeowell  will  replv  to  this  question, 
for  no  gentleman  is  so  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
the  subject  Alfbbd  John  Dunkin. 

Dartford. 

R.  P.  BoNiNOTON. — Did  this  artist  ever  spell 

'^ Bonnington"  in  signing  his  works?    Can  any 

of  your  readers  solve  my  difficulty?         T.  S.  A. 

[In  Bryan's  Diet,  of  Painters  (1849)  this  name  is  spelt 
Bonnington.  llie  following  paragraph  also  appears: — 
**  Posterity  should  be  made  aware  that  many  pictures 
and  drawings,  attribated  to  this  artist,  are  copies  and 
imitations  made  to  satisfy  the  avidity  of  collector^  and 
amply  to  remunerate  the  skill  of  the  copyist  and  the 
cupidity  of  the  dealer.'*] 

Calvin  and  Sbbvbtus. — Can  you  or  any  of 
your  correspondents  inform  me  if  there  is  unques- 
tionable authority  for  the  statement  that  Calvin 
was  personally  present  at  the  burning  of  Servetns  ? 

Inverness. 
[See  **N.  &  Q.**  i^  S.  i.  266,  394 ;  ii  40,  68, 108, 166.] 

Childben's  Games. — ^What  is  the  origin  of  the 
common  game  in  Scotland,  in  which  the  follow- 
ing rhymes  occur  ?  — 

**  How  many  miles  to  Babylon? 
Three  score  and  ten. 
Shall  I  be  there  by  candle-light  ? 
O  yes,  and  baclL  again." 

I  can  vouch  for  its  being  as  old  as  1796,  at  any 
rate.  S. 

[A  description  of  this  and  a  similar  game,  with  a  more 
complete  version  of  the  lines,  is  given  in  R.  Chami)er8*s 
Fopmlar  Bhymea  of  Scotland,  edit.  1870,  p.  123.] 

CiSTEBCTAN  MoNASTBBT. — Would  you  inform 
me  which  is  considered  the  finest  Cistercian  mon- 

r*  The  following  work  is  in  the  British  Masenm  :^ 
**  The  Last  Man,  or  Omegams  and  Syderia,  a  Romanoe 
in  Futurity.  Two  Vols.  R.  Dutton,  45,  Gracechnrch 
Street,  1806.**  It  is  entered  in  the  new  catalonie  imder 
the  word  **  Omegams,*'  press-mark  K.  874.— £iC] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


la^^  S.  Vn.  Fkb.  18,  71. 


astery,  or  ratber  rmns  of  one,in  Engiaad;  and 
whether  there  is  any  good  account  of  it  f 

A  FoEXiaKXK. 

rOur  comspondent  should  consult  A  Handbook  to  the 
AMey  of  8t  Mary  of  Fumeu,  in  rAinoashire,  Ulv^<». 
1846,  8yo,  which  eontaini  a  deacnption  of  thja  faiaed 
dflterdan  abbey»  with  iUMtratloas.] 

Qktticibic  oir  "MiEcaBUWT  OF  Vestcb*':  Mm. 
DowKuro.— 1.  I  recoHect  haying  read  an  anecdote 
of  a  child,  noted  in  after  life  for  its  literary  or 
social  podtion,  which,  during  a  representation  of 
Shakespeare's  Merchant  of  Venice,  towards  the  end 
of  the  fourth  act,  where  Shylock  leaTes  the 
court,  indignantly  exclaimed,  ''The  poor  man  is 
wronged  1"  Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me 
who  this  child  was,  and  by  whom  this  anecdote 
is  related? 

'2.  Can  any  of  your  readers  give  some  account 
of  the  Irish  poetess  Mrs.  Downing,  some  of  whose 
impassioned  poems  are  printed  in  Lover's  Lyrics 
^f  Ireland  (pp.  220,  229,  317)  P  Have  her  poems 
ever  been  published  in  a  collected  form  P  When 
and  where  was  she  bom,  and  when  did  she  die  P 
The  more  dates  the  account  contains,  the  more 
acceptable  it  will  be.  Kabl  Elzb,  Ph.D. 

DeBssu,  Feb.  7, 1871. 

Corrupt  English:  "Whether  or  no/*— 
Why  do  persona,  otherwise  well-informed,  give 
themselves  Uie  habit  of  using  the  phrase  <'  whether 
mtf^"  instead  of  ''  whether  or  not "  ?  Careless- 
ness of  the  kind  is  scarcely  pardonable  in  conver- 
sation and  in  private  correspondence;  but  such 
"slip-shod"  English  is  inexcusable  in  those  who 
write  for  publication.  The  critical  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  wiU  oblige  by  supporting  this  view  of 
the  question  if  they  agree  with  the  writer^  or  vice 
vered,  for  after  all  there  may  be  two  opinions  on 
the  subject,  and  it  would  be  curious  to  know 
upon  what  grounds  the  phrase  which  I  complain 
of  eould  be  defended.  M.  A.  B. 

EvHtTN's  "  Dtart."— At  Paris,  1649,  Septem- 
ber 12— 

*•  Dr.  Crigbton,  a  Scotchman,  and  one  of  his  majestie's 
chaplains,  a  learned  Gfeeian  who  set  out  the  Council  of 
Florence,  preached. 

What  can  this  mean  ?  The  Council  of  Florence, 
a  continuation  of  that  of  Ferrara,  being  held  in 
1439  to  1442,  the  object  of  which  was  the  re- 
union of  the  Greek  and  Latin  churches ;  and  no 
other  having  been  called  since  that  of  Trent  until 
the  present  now  in  recess.  J.  A.  G. 

Carisbrooke. 

[Evelyn's  allaslon  Is  to  Dr.  Robert  Creighton's  work, 
entitled  **  Vera  Historia  UoioBia  non  vera  inter  Gnecos 
et  Latinos :  sive  Concilii  Florentini  exact,  narratio,  Gr.  et 
Lat.,  Hagn,  1660,  fbL"] 

GnsE  AND  GirizoT.— This  name  has  generally 
been  pronounced  as  if  spelt  in  English  Gheeze ; 
but  as  M.  Guisot  is  saia  to  pronounce  his  own 


name  as  GtpeezOy  and  as  the  place  from  which  the 
duke  takes  his  title  is  marked  in  the  best  dic- 
tionaries (as  an  exception  to  mote  than  fifty 
words  beginning  Gut)  to  be  proBOunced  Gti»-ize^ 
Fr.,  or  ffweeze,  Eog.,  it  might  be  presumed  that  Uie 
duke's  name  should  follow  the  lanus  pronuncia- 
tion. Wl»t  ia  he  really  caUed  by  waUreducated 
Fie&duiien?  W.  M.  T. 

Heb>'ET  ob  Hbbbet.— With  Bibles  of  the  six- 
teenth century  there  is  often  boand  up  "Two 
right  profitable  and  fruitful  Coneordanees,  &c., 
collected  by  R.  F.  H.,"  the  preface  to  which  is 
signed  "  Thine  in  the  Lord,  Robert  F.  Hervey," 
and  dated  Dec  22,  1578.  In  catalogues  the 
author  of  these  Concordances  is  at  different  times 
cslled  Hervey  and  Herrey,  and  I  am  unable  to 
make  out  from  inspection  of  several  copies  whe- 
ther it  is  an  row.  Can  any  one  tell  me ;  and 
also,  whether  anything  is  known  of  him  ? 

'  ^  S.H.A.H. 

Lambeth. 

[Robert  F.  Herrej.  the  editor  of  the  Concordances,  is 
unknown  to  fame.  The  following  editiens  of  his  work 
are  in  the  British  Museum— 1679,  1580, 1698, 1615, 1619, 
1622.] 

Alexakdkr  Jaxibsok,  M.A.— Who  was  he  ? 
He  is  described  as  the  author  of  A  Celestial  AUaa, 
London,  1822.  L.  C.  R, 

Portrait  op  John  Kat.  —  I  am  very  anxious 
to  find  a  certain  lithographed  portrait  of  John 
Kay,  of  Bury,  the  inventor  of  the  "  fly-shuttle," 
and  the  father  of  the  present  system  of  cotton 
mani^acture.  The  portrait  to  which  I  refer  was 
published  in  March  1643.  It  was  drawn  by  W. 
Physicl^  and  lithographed  by  Madely,  3,  Welling- 
ton Street,  Strand.  If  any  of  your  readers  can  in- 
form me  where  I  can  purchase  or  see  one  of  these 
lithographs  I  shall  feel  much  obliged. 

B.  WOOBCROFT. 

Sir  Samuel  Lttkb's  Letter  Book. — Was  this 
old  Letter  Book  of  the  seventeenth  century,  now 
I  believe  in  the  British  Museum,  ever  printed  ? 

Henry  T.  Waiob. 

Cockermouth. 

[The  Letter  Book  of  Sir  Samuel  Luke,  the  hero  of 
HudilmUf  is  in  the  British  MuKeum,  Egerton  MSS. 
785-787.    It  has  never  been  printed.] 

Feast  of  the  Nativity. — I  should  feel  much 
obliged  for  information  as  to  the  earliest  record  of 
the  commemoration  of  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity 
on  December  25.  I  believe  it  to  be  a  very 
ancient  institution,  though  not  traceable  to  Apo- 
stolic times.  Has  it  any  connection  with  the 
astronomical  quarters  of  the  year?  At  what  period 
did  it  assume  the  chaiacter  of  saturnalia  P 

Z.Z, 

[A  reference  to  that  most  useful  irolame,  7%e  Prayer- 
Book  Inietieawd,  hy  Campioa  and  Beamont,  will  give 


»» 


4aS,TII.  F«».18,7l.] 


(NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


143 


oar  eorrespoodent  every  iefonnatioii  Be  c«ii  reqaire  as 
to  the  period  of  the  obsenration  bv  Yarious  churches  of 
th«  Feetival  of  the  Nativity.  The  Weftt«n&  Church,  from 
the  etrUMt  a08a>  h«  ealebrated  the  Nativity  on  tl«i  26th 
^JOeeMnber.j 

NnciSMATio. — I  hsre  eeen  it  more  than  once 
■tated  that  no  ocAa,  of  less  value  thaa  the  denarius 
▼aa  atruek  by  our  Englisk  kinffs  prior  to  ^e 
jear  1980;  bat  in  a  legal  deed  of  the  ninth  year 
of  tke  leign  of  Riehard  I.  I  find  ''  tree  soL  sex 
den.  et  duo  altiUa,**  Was  the  altilium  a  coin? 
In  three  different  Cambridge  deeds  of  the  reign 
of  King  John  the  qtuuirtms  is  mentioned,  and  in  a 
Backs  deed  of  the  same  reign  the  obolus.  Philippe 
Augu«te  of  France  (1180-1223)  struck  a  yariety 
of  ooios  of  small  value.  .  Did  they  perhaps  be- 
eome  current  in  England  in  the  time  of  our  Nor- 
man kings  ?  Ouns. 

Biadly,  JBteds. 

''PAL.so£oaijL  Chbonica." — Is  this  a  work  on 
ancient  general  history,  &c.,  or  is  it  simply  genea- 
logical P  Robert  Cary,  the  author,  was  son  of  Sir 
H.  Gary  of  Cockington  House,  Devon,  and  had  a 
brother,  Colonel  Theodore  Cary,  who  married  in 
1676,  in  Jamaica,  Dorothy  Wall.  I  may  have  it  in 
my  power  to  o£Eer  some  suggestions  touching  this 
branch  of  the  Cary  family  when  my  query  has 
been  answered.  Sp. 

[Dr.  Robert  Gary's  Palaologia  Chronica  is  a  Chrono- 
logieal  Account  of  Ancient  Time,  in  Three  Parts:  1. 
Didafitioal ;  2.  Apodeictical ;  8.  Caaonipal.  Lond.  1677. 
fgL  The  author  teUa  lu,  that  **  the  design  of  this  vork 
ia  to  detenniae  the  jost  interval  of  time  between  the 
g^reat  epoch  of  the  creation  of  the  world,  and  another  of 
the  destruction  ot  Jerusalem  by  Titus  Vespasian,  in  order 
to  the  assignment  of  such  particular  time,  wherein  per- 
and  affaira  of  eld  had  their  existenoe.*'] 


This  Puiro. — This  instrument  made  its  first 
appeanuDuce  in  Loudon  at  Covent  Garden  Theatre 
«DOut  1730.  It  caused  considerable  sensation. 
An  account  appeared  in  some  work  of  the  time. 
Can  any  corre^ndent  oblige  me  with  a  reference 
to  the  details  r  Jauj$s  Gilbebi. 

51,  Hill  Street,  Pec^ham,  S.K. 

[In  England  the  invention  of  the  pianoforte  is  claimed 
for  Father  Wood,  an  English  monk  at  Rome,  who  manu- 
faetared  one  in  1711,  and  sold  it  to  Samuel  Crisp,  Esq., 
the  author  of  Virginia^  from  whom  it  was  purchased  by 
^«Ute  Grevilie,  Esq.  The  earliest  public  notice  of  this 
musical  instrument  was  at  Covent  Garden  Theatre  on 
May  16, 1767.  See  a  copy  of  the  play-biU  in  "  N.  &  Q." 
2««*  S.  i  209.] 

Pbhtt-dealbrs'  CATixoouES. — ^Will  some  cour- 
teous connoisseur  kindly  send  me  the  addresses  of 
a  ^w  dealers  in  old  prints  wbo  issue  catalogues  ? 

J.  L.  CSLEBJaY. 
Havelock  Place,  Hanley. 

[1.  John  Siteason,  15,  King's  Place,  King's  I^oad, 
Chelsea.  2.  A.  Nichols,  5,  Oreen  Street,  Leicester  Square. 
3.  John  Camden  Hotten,  74,  75,  Piccadilly.] 

R00J»  SCKEEirS  IK  SUCTOLK   CHTJRCHBS.--Can 

any  of  your  readers  add  to  the  following  list 


of  cburches  in  Suffolk  that  contain  punted 
rood  screens,  or  painted  panels  of  any  kind  ?  I 
know  of  Southwold,  Eje,  Ufford,  Yaxley,  Den- 
ton, Denham,  Sapiston,  Blundeston,  Westhall, 
Bramfield,  Badwell  Ash.  A  description  of  any 
except  Southwold  and  Yaxley  would  be  most  ac- 
ceptable. I  believe  the  screens  or  panels  at  Sapis-  • 
ton  and  Badwell  Ash  are  very  cunous. 

W.  Mabsh. 
7,  Red  Lion  Square, 

BxAVXT  Slbbp.— I  was  told  the  other  day  that 
this  appellation  was  given  to  all  the  sleep  which 
visits  us  hefore  midnight.  Is  this  its  common 
desiflnation  elsewhere  than  in  Lancashire  P 

M.  D. 

JiSBiCY  TATL0B.-^Are  there  any  persons  of 
the  name  of  Taylor,  at  present  living,  who  are 
lineally  descended  from  the  great  divine  ?  There 
was  a  &mily  of  this  name  at  Carmarthen,  sup? 
posod  to  be  lineal  descendants,  some  of  whom 
married  into  the  family  of  Money  of  Waltham<» 
stow,  who  are  S(ud  to  be  descendants  of  the 
Moneys,  a  very  old  family  in  Norfolk  at  Wells- 
on**the-Sea,  whose  name  in  the  eleventh  and 
twelfth  centuries  was  Le  Money.  Robert  Mcmey 
married  Sarah  Taylor  in  1724,  and  she  is  supposed 
to  be  one  of  the  Taylors  of  Carmarthen,  lineal 
descendants  of  Jeremy  Taylor.  Is  there  any  book 
or  manuscript  in  which  such  connection  could  be 
traced  and  verified  P  .  J* 

"  Thb  Seven  Wondbbs  op  Wales  "  is  an  old 
saying  in  the  Principality,  and  is  one  that  was  a 
household  word  long  before  Stephenson's  Tubular 
Bridge,  or  even  Telford's  Suspension  Bridge  over 
the.  Menai,  were  thought  of.  These  wonders  all 
relate  to  North  Wales,  and  are  as  follows:— The 
mountain  of  Snowdon,  Overton  churchyard,  bella 
of  Gresford  church,  Llangollen  bridge,  Wrexham 
steeple  (qu.  tower),  Pystyl  Bhaiadr  waterfall,  and 
St.  Wintfred's  well  Can  any  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
teU  when  the  saying  originated,  and  why  (some 
of)  these  places  were  deemed  more  especial  won- 
ders than  other  Welsh  attractions  or  novelties  P 

A.R. 


Oswestry. 


[See  *'I^.&Q."  4*8.1.  611.] 


Stepliesf. 


PEDIGREE  OF  B.  B,  HAYDON  THE  HISTORICAl* 

PAINTEB. 

(4*»»  S.  vii.  65.) 

The  query  of  N.  admits  of  an  immediate  reply 
There  is  no  satisfactory  evidence  in  proof  of  the 
allegation  in  my  father's  Autobiography  that  his 
father  was  a  ''lineal  descendant  of  the  Haydons  of 
Cadhay."  Two  statements  of  the  alleged' descent 
have  indeed  been  made  by  different  members  of 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES,  f 


[i«*8.VII.  Fkb.18,'7I. 


Mr.  Hajdon's  family,  but  they  ore  mutually 
inconsiBtent,  and  at  leapt  one  of  them  is  opposed 
to  facta  which  a  careful  investigation  into  the 
pedigree  of  the  Haydons  of  Woodbury  and  Cad- 
nay  has  recently  brought  to  my  notice. 
^  The  more  precise  of  theae  two  statements  is^ 
that  the  paternal  great-grandfather  of  the  painter 
was  ''in  possession  of  the  Cadhay  estate.*'  The 
more  yague^  that  the  father  of  the  painter  was  a 
descendant  of  a  younger  brother  of  the  Cadhay 
Haydon  who  "  ruined  the  family."  The  former 
depends  solely  upon  the  oral  testimony^  often  re- 
peated, of  one  of  the  sisters  of  my  father*B  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  Robert  Haydon,  which  was 
committed  to  writing  about  fifty  years  since  by 
her  niece :  the  latter,  upon  the  oral  testimony  of 
my  paternal  grandfather,  Benjamin  Haydon. 

Now,  it  will  be  easy  to  show  that  Robert 
Haydon,  who  was  bom  in  1714,  could  not  haye 
been  a  legitimate  son  of  the  last  Haydon  of 
Cadhay,  nor  a  son — legitimate  or  illegitimate— K>f 
any  of  his  predecessors. 

Gideon  Haydon,  the  last  of  his  family  who 
possessed  Cadhay,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Gideon 
Haydon,  junior,  of  Cadhay,  and  Alice  his  wife. 
He  was  bom  between  March  12,  1005-6— at 
which  date  there  was  no  issue  of  the  mar- 
riage of  his  parents-^ and  Oct.  6,  1696,  when 
he  was  baptised  at  Ottery  St.  Mary.  He  married 
Ann,  the  widow  of  Thomas  Hanbtlry,  merchant 
of  London,  one  of  the  brothers  of  John  Han- 
bury,  Esq.,  of  Woodford,  co.  Deyon ;  she  was  one 
of  the  daughters  of  John  Fawscett  of  Beaconsfield, 
CO.  Bucks,  gentleman.  The  marriage  took  place 
on  October  30, 1723,  nine  years  after  the  birth  of 
Robert  Haydon.  There  is  not  only  no  eyidence 
of  an  earlier  marriage,  but  it  is  nearly  certain  that 
this  Gideon  Haydon  left  no  legitimate  issue  at  his 
death  in  February,  1748--0,  while  Robert  Haydon 
auryiyed  him  by  more  than  four-and-twenty 
years,  and  Robert  Haydon 's  elder  brother,  John, 
oy  more  than  thirty.  Neither  of  them  then  could 
haye  been  a  legitimate  son  of  the  last  Ha^^don  of 
Cadhay ;  and  as  it  is  yery  unlikely  that  a  boy  under 
nineteen  years  of  age  should  haye  two  children, 
it  is  yery  unlikely  that  Robert  and  John  Haydon 
should  haye  been  his  natural  sons. 

The  last  Haydon  but  one  who  possessed  Cad- 
hay died  in  March  1706-7,*  seyen  years  before 
the  birth  of  Robert  Haydon.  His  immediate  pre- 
decessors died  in  1702-3  and  in  1663-4. 

These  iacts,  which  rest  upon  the  most  satis- 
factory eyidence,  appear  to  me  to  dispose  of  the 
more  precise  of  the  two  versions  of  tne  Cadhay 
story.  I  may,  howeyer,  add  that  the  fact  that 
Robsrt  Haydon  most  probably  lost  his  father 
when  he  was  about  nine  or  ten  years  of  age — that 
is,  in  1723  or  1724— is  another  argument  against 
the  identification  of  that  father  with  any  of  the 
Haydons  of  Cadhay.     Cue   suspicious   circum- 


stance about  this  form  of  the  story  is  this :  that  it 
does  not  apj^ear  that  Robert  Haydon  himself  eyer 
testified  to  its  trath.  It  is  unfortunate  that  the 
account,  if  tme,  should  depend  entirely  upon  the 
testimony  of  persons  belonging  to  the  more  in- 
accurate of  the  two  sexes.  This  account  of  the 
descent  of  Mr.  Haydon's  family  has  found  its  way 
into  print  more  than  once,  the  most  circumstan- 
tial rorm  of  it  being  that  in  the  lUudrated  London 
News  of  July  4,  1846.  It  occurs  also  in  the 
Exeter  Flying  Poet  of  August  31,  1848. 

The  second  yersion  of  the  Cadhay  story,  bmng 
more  yaguely  stated  than  that  which  has  been 
just  dealt  with,  is  less  easily  brought  to  the  teat 
of  facts  and  dates.    Who  tbe  particular  Cadhay 
Haydon  was  who  ''  ruined  the  family,"  it  would 
be  extremely  difficult  to  determine.    The  ruin  of 
a  family  of  ''great  estate,"  as  the  Haydooa  of 
Cadhay  were,  is,  or  used  to  be,  a  graduid  prooees, 
needing  the  sustained  efforts  of  many  generationa 
for  its  perfect  accomplishment.    But  if  any  one 
Cadhay  Haydon,  rather  than  any  other,  is  to  be 
select^  as  the  one  who  brought  about  the  sale  of 
the  property,  it  is  certainly  the  Gideon  who  died 
in  1702^.    In  1708  a  private  Act  of  Parliament 
I  (7  &  8  Anne,  No.  64)  was  obtained,  under  which 
several  of  his  estates  were  sold  for  the  payment  of 
bis  debts,  which  amounted  to  about  20,000^    I 
can,  howeyer,  find  no  evidence    that    eitiier  of 
his  younger   brothers — William,    who  died   in 
1722,   and   John^-ever  had  a  son  or  grandson 
Robert    The  former  was  twice  married,  the  first 
time  to  a  lady  whose  Christian  name  was  Dorothy, 
by  whom  he  appears  to  have  had  one  daughter 
Dorothy,  who  married  Nicholas  Fry  at  Ottery  St. 
Mai^  on  July  6, 1704.    She  was  a  widow  before 
April,  1714.  William  Haydon  married  his  seoond 
wife,  Frances  Putt,  of  Ottery  St  Mary,  widow,  in 
1695,  when  he  was  in  his  fifty-third  year.    I  can- 
not find  evidence  of  any  issue  by  tnis  mamage. 
His  brother  John  Haydon,  who  was  a  woollen- 
draper,  had  a  wife  and  a  daughter  Mary,  and  a  son 
living  in  April  1714.    He  was  yery  probably 
identical  with  the  John  Haydon  of  Woodbury 
buried   there    in   August  1724^  and   with  the 
''uncle''  of  that  name,  who  is  mentioned  aa 
deceased  iu  the  will  of  the  last  Gideon  of  Cadhay, 
and  to  whose  son  John  and  daughter  Mazy  cer- 
tain bequests  are  made  by  their  "cousin."    Wil- 
liam Haydon  sometimes  lived  at  Cadhay  during 
the  minority  of  the  last  Gideon.    John  liyed  with 
his  brother  Gideon  for  about  five  years,  appa- 
rently at  Cadhay,  after  leaying  London  in  1679: 
There  remain  the  younger  brothers,  Thomas  and 
Robert,  of  the  Gideon  of  Cadhay,  who  died  in 
170^7.  and  the  younger  brother  Thomas  of  the 
last  Gideon  of  Cadhay.    The  latter  is  out  of  the 
question,  for  he  was  not  bom  until  1703.    With 
regard  to  the  two  former,  Thomas  was  baptised 
January  24,  1671-2,  and  Robert  must  haye 


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145 


"been  upwards  of  sixteen  years  of  age  on  May  12, 
1090,  for  his  name  appears  in  the  book  of  the  rate 
'  levied  at  that  date  m  Ottery  St.  Mary  for  the 
"  reduction  of  Ireland."  1  have  not  succeeded  in 
tracing  these  two  brothers  later  than  March  12, 
1605-6.  I  should  be  Tery  fflad  to  obtain  further 
information  about  them  or  their  progeny. 

I  may  add  that  Robert  Hay  don,  mj  great- 
grandfather,  was  for  many  years  the  parish  clerk 
of  Charles  Church,  Plymouth.  He  was  also  a 
bookseller  and  printer,  and  is  said  to  have  intro- 
duced the  first  printing  press  into  Plymouth.  His 
elder  brother  John  was  parish  clerk  of  St.  James's 
Church,  Bristol.  Robert  Haydon  came,  accord- 
ing to  his  only  daughter,  from  Ottery  when  he 
was  nine  years  of  age,  that  is,  in  1723,  and  was 
wprenticed  to  a  Mr.  Savery — ^probably  Waltham 
Savery,bom  1692,  died  1778— of  Slade,  near  Ivy 
Bridge,  and  afterwards  acted  as  his  steward.  He 
began  life,  on  his  own  account,  as  a  sign-painter. 
The  ruin  of  the  Cadhay  Haydons  is  eup^sed  to 
have  been  the  cause  of  his  early  apprenticeship, 
and  of  that  of  his  brother  John.  Cadhay  was, 
however,  not  sold  until  1736,  and  the  Chancery 
suit  which  led  to  the  sale  was  not  commenced 
until  1729. 

The  younger  brother  of  the  last  Cadhay  Haydon, 
Thomas,  died  in  1754.  He  had  two  sons^Thomas, 
a  surgeon,  who  died  without  issue,  and  Josiah 
(of  Crowkeme),  an  attorney.  The  latter  died  in 
1807,  leaving  two  sons,  William  and  George,  and 
one  daughter.  The  elder  son  I  believe  to  be 
identical  with  the  Lieutenant  William  Haydon  of 
Crewkeme  mentioned  by  Lysons  as  being  the 
representative  of  the  Haydons  of  Cadhay. 

FbANX  SoOIT  tiATDON. 
MsftoDa  Surrey. 

WAR  SONGS :  AN  IMPERIAL  LETTER. 

(4*»>  S.  vi.  383,  &c.) 

The  following  song  (or  satire)  is  translated  from 
the  French.  It  appeared  originally  in  the  Cow 
fidfri  of  Fribourg  (Switzerland),  and  is  probably 
written  by  one  of  the  refugees  at  present  in  that 
hospitable  city.  My  version  is  tolerably  literal, 
although  it  was  made  hastily  in  a  caf6  of  Lau- 
sanne, and  when  the  paper  was  engaged  ''  three 
or  four  deep,*'  to  use  the  language  of  the  gar9on. 

Jaicrs  HjBNRr  Dixon. 

«<  VersaUles,  Jan.  1, 1871. 

«*This  comes  hoping  it  will  find  you 

Well,  as  1  am  at  m}*  lancb. 
Washing  down  a  German  sausage 

With  a  bowl  of  Rhenish  punch.* 
I  an  in  a  snng  apartment. 

And  my  fire  is  blazing  bright. 
How  I  pity  those  poor  deyila 

Who  are  in  the  snow  to-night ! 


*  <*  Drown'd  all  in  Rhenish  and  tbe  sleepy  mead 
[Queiy  "weed"?— Prisiteb's  Dbvil.] 


»f 


"  We  have  gainM  some  noble  trophiest 

We  have  had  some  rare  good  fun. 
Burning  villages  by  hundreds, 

Farms  and  homesteads— sparing  none. 
.Country  damsels  my  brave  soldiors 

Take"  for  wives  without  the  aid 
Of  popish  priest  or  Lutheran  pastor^ 

More  to  tell  you  I'm  afraid. 

•*  WeVe  bombarded  many  a  city. 

Killing  infants  at  their  play". 
What  of  that  ?  small  mouths  want  feeding — 

Board  is  cheap  beneath  the  clay ! 
Strasburg's  fine  and  huge  cathedral 

Now  has  somewhat  altered  looks. 
And  we'd  such  a  jolly  bonfire 

With  a  lot  of  fusty  books  1 

<« Think  not  that  we  stop  at  trifles; 

In  a  town  we  found  a  mayor 
Who  was  loyal  to  his  countiy, 

So  his  worship  danc'd  in  air ! 
In  another  place  the  prefect 

And  his  clerk  we  didiCi  hang,. 
As  *  variety  is  charming,* 

It  with  tktm  was  bang  I  bang !  bang  L 

**  France  is  now  in  tribulation  ; 

Retribution  follows  wrong; 
She  is  blending  jeremiads 

With  De  Lisle*s  triumphant  song. 
Would  I  were  beside  you  hearing 

Victory's  shouts  from  all  arise ; 
Sert  I've  only  widows'  curses 

Mix'd  with  orphan  children's  cries. 

*'But  I'm  sleepy — midnight  soundeth — 

What  is  that  ?  I  know  the  tread. 
Hush,  'tis  Blsmark !  and  he  tells  me, 

*  Emperor  I  you  must  go  to  bed.' 
If  Tm  lord,  'tis  he  is  nuuter  ; 

So  my  letter  I  must  end— 
Dear  Augusta !  salutation 

From  your  spouse  and  loving  friend. — W.'*^ 


A  SCRIPSIT. 


(4t>»  S.  vi.  667.) 

These  sheets  went  out  of  use  (I  think)  in  the- 
first  quarter  of  the  present  century.  In  the  more* 
rural  districts  they  may  have  continued  later. 
When  I  was  at  school,  1816-25,  we  used  sheets 
with  elaborate  flourishings — birds,  pens,  and  such 
like. 

A  few  years  sinne  the  old  stock  of  a  stationer 

came  into  my  hands,  and  amongst  it  were  some  of 

these  sheets,  new  and  clean,  which  I  preserved,  all 

coloured  except  one.    I  have  the  following  (a  few 

duplicates): — 

Ruth  and  Boaz. 

Measuring  the  Temple.    (Ezekiel.) 

Philip  baptizing  the  Eunuch. 

The  Good  Samaritan. 

Joshua's  Command. 

John  preaching  in  the  Wilderness. 

The  Seven  Wonders  of  the  World. 

King  William  in. 

Panrs  Shipwreck. 

(All  the  above  published  by  W.  Belch,  Bridge  Street, 
Union  Street,  Borough.) 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»fc  S.  VII.  Feb.  18, 71. 


The  Lord's  Prayer  and  Ten  Commandmeati. 

Hoses  striking  the  Rock. 

Healing  the  Sick  in  the  Templeu 

<PnbIished  by  £.  Langley,  173,  High  Street,  Boroagh.) 

Cain  and  Abel. 

Life  of  Samuel    (Dated  1823.) 

-Qneen  Elizabeth. 

The  Visions  of  EzekieL  (Dated  1824.) 

Ruth  and  Boas. 

Life  of  Isaac 

Copenhagen. 

(Published  by  Dean  &  Munday,  Thretineedle  Street.) 

The  Coronation  of  Geor^  IV.,  July  19, 1821. 

CaractacuB  before  Claadios. 

Balaam  blessing  Israel. 

LifiB  of  Pharaoh.    (Not  coloajred.) 

Christ  healing  the  Sick. 

.   <Pnbli8hedbyT.Fairbiini,110,MiiMries,) 

Nativity  of  Jesus  Christ 

(Published  by  \V.  Mason,  21,  Clerkenwell  Green.) 

With  them  were  a  few  (three  or  four)  with  the 
isentral  part  filled  up,  aerying  in  thia  atate  for 
decorations  for  the  oottagea  of  the  lower  classea. 
This  change  would  indicate  a  falling  off  in  the 
demand  from  schools. 

We  always  called  them  specimens  or  pieces, 
written  first  on  loose  sheets  (many  were  spoiled 
and  rejected  as  not  good  enough)  and  afterwards 
stitched  together  by  the  master  and  taken  home  at 
the  holidays.  I  haye  seen  nothing  corresponding 
to  either  of  late  years.  Sax.  Shaw. 

Andover. 


I  well  remember  these  Christmas  exhibitions 
of  handwriting;  but  I  neyer  heard  them  called 
^'  Scripsits/'  but  always ''  Christmas  pieces."  They 
were  sold  b^  stationers  for  the  purpose,  and 
usually  contamed  a  large  picture  of  the  Nativity 
at  the  top,  though  neither  the  head  nor  tail  pieces, 
nor  those  down  the  sides,  were  confined  to  sacred 
subjects.  The  laat  I  had  was  in  1808,  and  was 
adorned  with  coloured  engravings  of  naticmal 
heroaa  aadooatume.  In  schools,  however,  they 
were  often  superseded  by  half  sheets  of  foolscap 
pi^  written  upon  lengthwise,  and  often  orna- 
mented with  flourishing  of  such  figures  as  an  angel, 
a  awan,  aa  eagle,  or  a  pen.  ^ter  the  French 
Bevolution  the  eagle  was  the  f^^  favourite^ 
and  he  graaped  a  scroll  inscribed  ''Liberty." 

F.  C.H. 


The  folio  sheets  alluded  to  by  M.  D.  are  still 
in  use,  and  are  known  as  ''Christmas  pieces." 
Some  years  ago  a  comic  song  was  very  popular, 
of  which  the  burden  was 

**  Would  yon  like  to  look  at  my  Christmas  piece  ?  *' 

The  late  Mr.  Herbert  of  Sadler's  Wells,  so 
famed  as  "  that  rascal  Jack,"  used  to  sing  it 
dressed  as  a  London  charity  boy.  In  the  enter- 
tainment of  "  Amateurs  and  Actors "  the  song 


yraa  oeeasionally  introduced  by  Qeoffry  Muffineap, 
a  charity-boy,  who  had  become  factotum  to  the 
manager  of  the  "  Theatre  Rural  Finehley." 

« Please  sir,**  said  QtoSvy,  **  wheo  I  shows  that  to 
gtutlmiieH,  they  always  gives  me  sixpence.'' 

**yery  well,"  said  the  msaa^er,  **  I'll  follow  the  cus- 
tom ;  but  what's  that,  Geo&y  ?  *'  (pointing  to  a  huge 
blot). 

**  rlease,  sir,  /  didn't  do  ^at — it  was  Bob  Bnrronglis. 
And  BOW,  sir,  as  you're  a  gentleman,  vou  shall  look  at 
my  OhriMtaiaa  meee  as  often  as  you  like  for  nothing  txi 

^'SoripMt "  was  at  the  bottom  of  the  folio  on  a 
line  where  room  waa  left  for  the  pnpil*s  name, 
but  I  never  heard  a  Chriatmas  piece  called  a 
9cnp0U,  Jambs  Hkitby  Dixos. 


HERALDIC. 


(4«»  S.  vii.  12.)  ^ 

1.  A  man  marrying  a  widow  not  an  heireaa.- 
the  daughter  of  one  entitled  to  bear  arma,  would 
impale  her  paternal  arms  only,  although,  in  con- 
tracting a  second  marriage,  he  might,  if  so  dia- 
posed  (but  in  very  questionable  taste),  impale  the 
arms  of  both  wives.  In  that  eyent  he  would 
dispose  his  own  ooat  on  the  right  of  the  line  of 
impalement,  and  those  of  his  two  wiTea,  parted 
per  fesse,  on  the  left — ^the  upper  portion  of  this 
subdivision  being  given  to  the  paternal  coat  of 
his  former  wife.  In  pnetice  the  arms  of  the 
first  (or,  if  more  tium  two,  preceding  wives)  are 
usually  omitted. 

2.  The  issue  of  a  gentleman  not  possessed  of  a 
coat  of  arms— and  of  such  *there  are  recorded 
examples,  even  in  times  when  heraldry  waa  su^ 
posed  to  possess  a  significance — whose  father  had 
married  an  heiress,  would,  I  think,  in  the  absence 
of  a  paternal  coat,  be  entitled  to  use  the  plain 
coat  of  his  maternal  grandfather,  whose  line  had 
merged  in  his  own  person.  No  such  case  could, 
however,  happen  in  actual  practice;  because  a 
gentleman  marrying  an  heiress,  being  without  a 
coat  of  his  own^  would,  if  of  the  requisite  social 
status,  obtain  a  grant  of  arms  from  the  Heralds' 
College  on  p.iyment  of  the  customary  fees,  and  on 
these  he  would  place  the  paternal  arms  of  his 
wife  in  an  ''  escutcheon  of  pretence,"  t.  e.  con- 
tmned  on  a  minute  shield  occupying  the  exact 
centre  of  his  own.  This  is  the  usual  way,  though 
I  believe  it  is  patent  to  the  husband  in  his  option 
to  adopt  either  this  or  the  ordinary  form  of  im- 
palement. Failing  such  grant,  I  presume  it  would 
DC  competent  to  the  issue  of  such  marriage  to 
apply  to  the  College  of  Arms  for  a  coat  with 
which  to  quarter  his  maternal  insignia.  In  any 
case,  as  I  believe,  his  ri^ht  to  the  armorial  bear- 
ing of  his  mother's  family  would  not  be  affected 
by  the  circumstance  that  his  father  did  not  pos- 
sess a  coat  of  his  own ;  and  although  it  is  usual 
in  such  cases  to  quarter  both  coats,  it  is  almost 


4«^  a  VII.  F«B.  i8, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


147 


asperfliioiis  to  add,  that  a  coat  cannot  be  guar- 
tend  with  that  which  does  not  exiat.  Until 
within  a  eompazatiyelj  recent  juried,  the  husband 
generally  impaled  the  anns  of  his  wife,  whether  an 
JMueas  or  not  OocasioDallj  a  husband  ^[uartered 
the  arau  of  his  wife,  being  an  heiress,  in  which 
<;ase  we  are  told  '*  he  generally  placed  her  arms 
hehs9  hia  own."  J.  CBvixsHAjrK  Roosr. 


1.  In  reply  to  the  first  query  of  W.  M.  H.  C., 
«B  to  the  supposition  of  a  widow  not  an  heiress 
manying  again,  what  arms  should  her  second 
husband  impale,  her  father's  or  her  fonner  hus- 
band's P  I  would  say  that  a  femme  not  an  heiress 
wooid,  on  becoming  a  widow,  retain  the  impaled 
«rm8  of  her  deceased  husband  and  herself  upon  a 
losenffe;  but  in  the  event  of  her  marrying  a 
aecond  time,  she  would  cease  to  bear  her  first 
husband's  arms.  But  there  is  an  exception  to 
this  geaeial  rule,  in  the  case  of  the  femme  being 
tlie  widow  of  a  peer.  For  if  she  were  to  many  a 
eommoner,  she  would  still  continue  to  bear  ike 
arms  of  her  former  husband  oa  a  separate  lozenge; 
and  OB  another  shield,  her  second  husband  would 
impale  her  paternal  arms — ^the  two  fonuing  a 
group,  the  lozenge  yielding  precedence.  If,  how- 
ever, die  were  to  marry  a  second  peer,  she  would 
not  retain  thearms  of  her  former  nusband,  unless 
his  rank  had  been  higher  than  that  of  her  second. 
(See  Bovtell's  HwMry,  mOonoal  and  Poptdar^ 
ed.  1664,  chapter  on  <<  Marshalling,"  &c.) 

8.  In  rmird  to  the  second  query,  as  to  an 
^'ignobiUs*^  manying  an  heirees,  could  the  is^e 
beir  the  motiier^s  arms  in  any  way  P  I  will  quote 
from  Mr.  J.  £.  Cussan's  Handbook  of  Heraldry 
(ed.  1809,  p.  150) :  — 

**  If  in  jgDobilia,  that  Is  one  without  armorial  bearings, 
wen  to  manry  an  heiress  be  cooid  make  no  ase  what- 
ever of  bar  arms :  for,  having  no  etcutcbeon  of  his  own, 
It  is  evident  be  could  not  cbar^j^e  her  shield  of  pretence ; 
neither  woold  their  issue,  being  unable  to  quarter,  be 
permitted  to  bear  their  maternal  coat.** 

Bat  is  there  not  an  exception  to  this,  in  the 
case  of  the  baron  marrying  an  heiress,  and  having 
iasue  by  her  only  one  daughter,  and  subsequently 
manying  again,  having  a  son  P  The  latter  would 
be  heb  to  the  father,  and  the  daughter  to  the 
mother.  The  daughter  would  here  be  entitled  to 
bear  her  mother's  arms,  and  also  her  father's  by 
incorporation ;  but  in  the  case  W.  M.  H.  C.  puts 
(the  father  having  no  arms  to  be  incorporated), 
atiU,  would  not  the  daughter  be  entitled  to  "bring 
in "  her  mother's  arms  alone  to  the  coat  of  any 
husband  she  might  marry :  in  such  a  case  cer- 
tainly ffaining  an  advantage  over  her  non-armi- 
gerous  naif-brother  P  J.  8,  Upal. 

Janior  Athenenm  Clnhi 


BOOK  ORNAMENTATION. 

{4.^  S.  vl  687 ;  vil  111.) 

The  ''  bookbinder  near  Leeds  or  Skipton,"  re- 
ferred to  by  P.  P.,  was  doubtless  Edwards  of 
Halifax.  Gboboe  M.  GREXir. 

27,  King  William  Street,  Strand. 


I  haye  a  small  Bible,  purchased  some  twelve 
years  ago  in  Chippenham,  and  then  apparently 
new,  on  the  edges  of  which  are  the  names  of  the 
books  in  their  proper  order.  The  edges  are  gilt, 
and  the  names  are  Tisible  only  when  the  leaves 
are  slanted.  Hio  vr  ttbiqvs. 

9,  Lanoaster  Gate,  W. 

A  manuscript  folio  volume  in  the  library  of 
Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  containing  tbepoem 
of  *'  Generides"  and  Lydgate's  "  Siege  of  Thebes 
and  Trov,"  has  its  three  edges  ornamented  with 
armorial  bearings,  which  are  the  same  as  those 
on  the  margins  and  in  the  initial  letters,  and  ap- 

Sarently  belonged  to  some  former  possessors.  The 
ate  of  the  MS.  is  about  the  middle  of  the 
fifteenth  century,  that  of  the  armorial  bearings 
somewhat  later — perhaps  the  reign  of  Hen.  Vll. 
My  own  impression  is  that  the  MS.  was  decorated 
in  this  way  for  a  wedding  present,  and  that  the 
arms  belonged  to  members  of  the  families  so 
united  by  marriage.  There  was  a  marriage  in  the 
reign  of  Hen.  Vil.  between  two  families  whose 
arms  I  have  been  able  to  identify  in  the  book. 

William  Alois  Wbioht. 

I  have  alwayft  seen  and  heard  Edwards  of  Halir* 
fax  accredited  with  the  production  of  those  hooka 
bound  at  the  beginning  of  this  century  whieh 
haye  landscape  and  other  paintings  on  their  edges* 
That  he  did  produoe  some  I  tidnk  there  is  aa 
little  doubt  as  that  the  nuns  of  XitUe  Gidding 
embroidered  coFeis  for  Bibles  and  Pmjecs  in  the 
seventeenth  CMitury ;  but  I  do  not  b^ve,  indus* 
trious  as  these  nuns  were,  that  they  were  the 
artificers  of  all  or  even  nearly  all  the  bindings  of 
that  character,  and  just  so  Awards  of  Halifax 
has  been  over-credited  with  work  of  the  kind  now 
in  question.  I  have  had  in  my  hands  many  of 
these  books,  and  I  think  two  of  every  three  have 
borne  the  following  inscription  :^'' Bound  and 
sold  by  Taylor  and  Hessey."  I  have  one  so  in- 
scribed, and  have  seen  many  others.  I  have 
occasionally  seen  Edwards's  name  affixed,  and 
others  hare  no  name. 

Basil  Moktagxt  Pickbbino. 

The  following  extract  from  a  bookseller's  cata- 
logue may  interest  F.  M.  S. : — 

«'  514.  Boffer's  Poenu,  printed  hy  Bensley,  with  Wood* 
cttti  from  Drawings  hy  Stothard,  titles  on  India  paper, 
first  edition,  12dio,  bound  in  blue  morocco,  gilt,  with  a 


148 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VII.  Fbb.  18,  •71. 


charming  coloured  Drawine  of  Old  Derby  Bridge  on  the 
gUt  edge,  by  Edwards  of  Halifax,  12«.    1812." 

Tills  tempting  little  volume  was  offered  for 
sfile  by  Messrs.  C.  &  G.  Noble^  312,  Strand,  in 
Catalogue  XXIII.  1868.  W.  G.  Stone. 


Eleven  Shilling  Pieces  op  Charles  L  (4**» 
S.  vii.  65.) — There  never  was  an  English  coin 
current  of  ezactlj  the  worth  of  eleven  shillings. 
Earlj  in  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  there  were  an^eU 
or  ten-shilling  pieces  struck,  the  estimated  value 
of  which  was  a  little  above  eleven  shillings  and 
fourpence.  ^Folkes's  Table  of  EngUah  Gold  Corns, 
p.  8.)  Possibly,  though  not  very  probably,  these 
are  ike  coins  alluded  to.  Would  E.  P.  give  the 
words  of  the  wiU  to  which  he  refers  P  811. 

Denaehts  of  Drusus,  Senior  (4"»  S.  vii.  96.) 
There  is  no  such  coin  as  the  one  described  by 
J.  H.  M.  to  be  found  in  either  Rasche,  Eckhel, 
or  Cohen.  There  is  none  even  on  which  he  bears 
the  title  of  "  Princeps  Juventutis."  311. 

The  Swan  Song  of  Parson  Avert  (4***  S.  vi. 
493 ;  vii.  20.)  —  The  Newbury  mentioned  in  this 
poem  is  a  coast  town  in  Massachusetts,  about  thirty- 
five  miles  north  of  Boston.  The  voyage  undertaken 
by  Parson  Avery  could  have  been  performed  tmder 
favourable  circumstances  in  five  or  six  hours,  but 
it  was  necessary  to  double  Cape  Ann,  a  headland 
projecting  into  the  Atlantic  about  iSen  miles  be- 
yond the  general  line  of  the  coast  The  scene  of 
the  shipwreck  was  a  mile  or  two  east  of  this  head- 
land, when  the  voyage  was  about  half  accom- 
plished. Marblehead  is  a  seaport  town,  about 
fifteen  miles  north  of  Boston,  and  is  so  named 
from  its  rocky  site,  though  its  rocks  are  not  marble 
but  sienite.  l^Tewburyin  Massachusetts  was  named 
after  Newbury  in  Berkshire,  in  compliment  to  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  its  first  pastor,  who  had 
been  a  preacher  at  tiie  latter  place.  Newhem,  in 
North  Carolina,  is  said  to  have  been  named  by  its 
Swiss  settlers  after  the  capital  of  their  own 
countiy,  and  is  still  frequently  written  New  Bern, 
the  final  «  being  genenulv  omitted. 

E.  W.  will  find  in  the  Neio  England  Genedlogicdl 
Dictionary  by  James  Savage,  voL  i.,  art.  "  Avery," 
some  account  of  Parson  Avery  and  his  family,  imd 
in  Joshua  Coffin's  Hidory  of  Newbury  the  narra- 
tive that  suggested  the  ^  Swan  Song."  These 
works  can  be  consulted  at  the  British  Museum. 

J.  M.  B. 

The  incident  upon  which  this  poem  is  founded 
occurred  in  1636  off  Cape  Ann,  Mass.  A  full 
account  of  it  may  be  found  under  the  title  of 
'^Antony  Thacher's  Shipwreck"  in  Alexander 
Young*s  Ckronicles  of  the  Planters  of  Massachu- 
sOts,  p.  483. 

Mr.  Avery,  shortly  after  his  arrival  in   this 
country,  was  invited  to  become  the  pastor  at 


Marblehead,  a  place  between  Cape  Ann  and 
Boston.  He  sailed  from  Ipswich,  the  town  ad-* 
joining  Newbury,  in  a  pinnace,  which  had  been 
sent  for  him  from  Marblehead.  On  August  16  the 
vessel  was  lost,  and  out  of  the  twentv-three  per- 
sons on  board  only  two  were  saved — ^Mr.  Thacher 
and  his  wife.  They  landed  upon  a  barren  island, 
which  has  since  been  known  as  Thacher's  Island  ; 
and  the  Rock  of  Avery's  Fall,  mentioned  in  the 
poem,  is  called  "  Avery's  Rock." 

Mr.  Avery  was  cousin  to  Mr.  Thacher.  Gov*. 
Winthrop,  in  his  journal,  speaks  of  Mr.  Avery  as 
''  a  minister  in  Wiltshire  [En^.]  a  godly  man." 
His  baptiemal  name  has  been  given  incorrectly  aa- 
John.  The  early  records  in  Massachusetts  give 
Joseph.  G.  W.  T, 

New  York. 

'*  The  Heaving  of  the  Lead  "  (4**'  S.  vii.  66.> 
This  famous  old  song  is  attributed  to  Pearce,  in 
the  collection  called  the  Musical  Cyclopedia,  by 
James  Wilson^  published  in  1834 ;  but  I  have  no 
doubt  that  it  was  written  by  Charles  Dibdin,  to 
whom  I  find  it  assigned  in  the  Book  of  English 
Songs,  published  in  1861.  It  bears  the  character 
of  the  many  sea-songs  of  Dibdin.  He  died  in 
1814,  and  certainly  I  knew  the  song  several 
years  before  that  date.  I  do  not  know  the  dat» 
of  Mr.  Richard  Scrafton  Sharpe's  death ;  but  be- 
sides the  songs  of  his  mentioned  by  Dr.  Dixon — 
'^  Poor  Rose  of  Lucerne,"  published  as  the  "Swiss 
Toy  Girl,"  and  the  two  others — he  was,  I  believe,, 
the  author  of ''  The  Minute  Gun  at  Sea,"  which 
was  once  a  great  favourite,  and  which  I  have 
heard  Braham  sing  with  g^t  spirit  and  effect. 
The  music  was  composed  by  M.  P.  S^in^ 

F.  C.  H» 

The  munc  of  this  old  sea-song  is  by  Shield ; 

may  he  not  have  written  the  words  also  P   I  may, 

however,  safely  affirm  that  neither  this  song  nor 

the  pastoral  **  Shepherds  I  have  lost  my  love,'^ 

was  written  by  my  father  (the  late  Richard  Scrsi- 

ton  Sharpe) :  they  are  both  of  too  old  a  date.    I 

beg  to  thank  Dr.  Dixon  for  his  very  gratifying 

notice  of  my  father's  works.     The  pastoral  to 

which  he  alludes  (he  will  excuse  my  correction> 

is  entitled  "  The  Wreath,"  the  first  line  being — ' 

*'  Shepherdfi,  tell  me,  have  von  seen  mr  Flora  pass  this- 
way  ?  " 

A  song  on  the  same  model,  **  The  Captive  to  his^ 
Bird,'  was  also  set  to  music  about  the  same  time 
by  MazziQghi,  but  seems  to  be  quite  forgotten, 
while  ''The  Wreath"  has  a  world-wide  fame, 
perhaps  owing  to  the  perfect  agreement  of  the 
words  and  music.  F.  S. 

KiRKSANTON  (4"»  S.  vi.  387.) — In  my  query 
this  place  was  incorrectly  stated  to  be  in  Fumess. 
It  is  in  Cumberland,  between  the  rivers  Irt  and 
Mite,  about  three  and  a  half  miles  firom  the  sea. 

A.E.L. 


4*  a  VIL  Feb,  18, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


149 


Gto  (4«*  S.  tL  417, 661 ;  Tii.  67.)— The  gun  «t 
If arlbarooffh  Mill,  temp,  Edw.  I.,  was  prolmblj  a 
^  gonne,  a  libge  barrel "  (see  Chambaud),  and  the 
hooped  ordnance  might  easily  take  the  name  at  a 
later  date.  Walaingnam  diatinctlj  says  that  can- 
xum  -was  a  French  term.  Gyn  is  not  ''a  snare/' 
bat  an  engine  of  war;  it  is  still  in  use  with  ar- 
tillerymen and  engineers  for  a  sort  of  shears  for 
hoiBtmff  guns,  &c. 

Mackehzib  E.  C.  Waicott,  B.D.,  r.S.A. 

Thb  DiBAcnc  PoBTRT  OP  Italt  (4*  S.  yi. 
414,  5d7.) — ^There  are  few  better  authorities  on 
Italian  literature  than  Mr.  GssEir,  bj  whom  my 
inquiij  as  to  the  earliest  didactic  poem  in  Italian 
was  answered  in  the  last  yolume  of  ''N.  &  Q.'' 

5.  637.  He  assumes  that  the  Acerba  of  Cecco 
'Ascoli,  a  contemporaiy  of  Dante,  and  the  &fera 
of  Greg^rio  Dati,  who  died  in  1486,  may  daim 
priority  oyer  the  Begcla  da  piantare  Melaranci  of 
Collenuccio.  But  this  must  depend  upon*  the 
character  of  the  works  referred  to.  Strictly  sneak- 
ing, anything  which  teaches  in  yerse  is  a  didactic 
poem ;  but  the  term  is  usually  confined  to  a  poem 
which  teaches  and  illustrates  a  specific  subject. 
In  English  yerse  we  may  take  as  an  example 
Armstrong's  Art  ofpre&ervmg  Health,  one  amongst 
many.  Is  the  Acerba^  then,  of  this  description  P 
TiralxMchi  mentions  it  (yol.  y.  lib.  ii.  cap.  2,  xyiii.) 
as  treating  of  many  matters  (piu  argomentt)  in 
physics,  moral  philosophy,  and  religion,  which 
would  assign  it  to  a  different  category ;  and  the 
Sfera,,  perhaps,  may  be  classed  as  descriptiye 
more  than  didactic.  I  haye  not  at  present  an 
opportunity  of  examining  either  of  these  works. 
tSome  of  your  readers,  who  liye  nearer  than  a 
hundred  miles  to  the  British  Museum,  may  be 
more  fortunate,  and  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  the 
result.  Unless  the  poems  in  question  are  shown  to 
be  strictly  didactic,  Collenuccio  will  still  be  entitled 
to  the  distinction  of  haying  written  thejlrst  didac- 
tic poem  in  ItaUan,  W.  M.  T. 

"Rt78  hoc  yocAM  DEBET,"  ETa  (4*  S.  yii.  96.) 
Vide  Martial's  EpigranUf  book  ill.  No.  68,  line  61, 
ed.  Schneidwin.  W.  A.  B.  C« 

La  Cabaoole  (4*^  S.  yii.  34.) --In  the  last 
edition  of  the  Dictionary  of  the  Spanieh  Academy^ 
Caracol  is  described  as  a  mollusc  of  the  size  of  a 
nut  in  an  orbicular  shell,  open-mouthed,  and  in 
the  form  of  a  half 'moon. 

**  CoTGRAyE.  Fmrt  la  caracol,  aoaldiers  to  cast  them* 
sdTvs  into  a  roond  or  ring." 

Does  it  not  mean  retiring  backwards  from  the 
presence  of  royalty,  the  body  being  bent  in  the 
xbrm  of  a  half-moon  P         ,  F.  W.  C. 

Clapham  Park,  S.W. 

This  is  a  term  of  horsemanship:  "the  half- 
turn  which  a  horseman  makes  either  to  the  riffht 
or  left."  {Ba&ey,)    We  may  therefore  infer  that 


as  the  nobles  left  the  Duchess  of  Parma,  they 
made  in  token  of  reyerenoe  alternate  bows  to  the 
right  and  to  the  lefty  walking  backwards  till  they 
reached  the  door.  F.  C.  H«. 

''  It's  a  fab  Cbt  to  Loch  Awe  "  (4*  S.  yL 
606 ;  ylL  42.) — Let  me  refer  your  correspondents 
who  haye  written  on  this  subject  to  the  Legend 
of  Montrose,  The  expression  is  used  by  one  of 
tiie  Campbells,  when  Captain  Duffuld  DsJgetty  ia 
in  the  presence  of  the  Marquis  of  Argyll,  and  ia 
beginmng  to  be  afraid  at  the  danger  to  which  the 
sao^  person  of  an  ambassador  was  likely  to  be 
exposed.  The  phrase  there  is  giyen  as  "  It's  a  far 
cry  to  Zochow,  The  passage  will  be  found  in  the 
twelfth  chapter.  John  Picepobd,  M.A. 

Bolton  Percy,  near  Tadcaster. 

I]!n>BXE8:  '^  Rttshworth's  Hibtoeical  Col- 
LEcnovs"  (4*  S.  yii.  42.)  —  I  am  yery  doubtful 
whether  the  enterprise  suggested  by  your  corre- 
spondent would  receiye  adequate  support  Some 
years  sgo  I  projected  a  series  of  indexes,  and  actu- 
ally completed  (among  others^  the  greater  portion 
of  Kushworth,  but,  though  without  desire  for  pe- 
cuniary gain,  I  was  unsuccessful  in  the  endea- 
your  to  mid  a  publisher.  **  No  one,"  it  was  said, 
"  would  waste  print  or  paper  over  them ! "  Pub- 
lication by  subscription,  however,  might  possibly 
answer.  I  shoula  be  happy  to  complete  my 
work,  which,  I  may  venture  to  say,  is  that  of  an 
experienced  and  expert  hand,  and  divide  the  cost 
of  printing  amon^  as  many  subscribers  as  were 
forthcoming,  provided  they  were  numerous  enough 
to  keep  the  price  of  copies  within  reasonable 
limits.  Tho.  Satchelu 

H.  M.  Costoma,  Charing  Cross,  W.C. 

Key  to  «Le  Geawd  Cyeus"  (4t^  S.  vL  387, 
616;  vii.  44.)-S.  W.  T.  will  find  a  key  to  Da 
Grand  Cyrus  in  the  first  volume  of  M.  Victor 
Cou«in*8  work  La  Sociiti  frangaise  au  xviie  Si^le, 
voL  i.  p.  364.  The  first  and  second  volumes  of  the 
ponderous  romance  were  published,  not  in  1660, 
but  in  1649.  "Achev^s  d'imnrimer,"  says  the 
royal  privilege,  "le  7  Janvier  lo49." 

Gvstave  Massoh. 

Harrow  on  the  Hill. 

*  Weaver's  Aet  (4«>'  S.  vii.  67.)— Gray  I  can 

hardly  assume  unknown  to  R.  P.  Q. — 

*'  Weave  the  warp  and  weave  the  woof. 
The  winding-sheet  of  Edward's  race." 

Vivien,  in  Tennyson's  IdyUs — 

**  pat  forth  the  charm 
Of  woven  paces  and  of  waving  hands,** 

and  Scott  tells 


<'0h!  what  a  tangled  wefr  we  iMOM 
When  first  we  practise  to  deceive  " ; 

but  Shakspeare  supplies  many  allusions  to  the 
weayer*s  art,  such  as  m  Alfs  Well  that  £nds  Wett, 
Act  IV.  Sc.  3,  where  one  of  the  French  lords  says^ 
*' The  web  of  our  life  is  of  a  mingled  yam*^\ 


150 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4*  8.  VII.  FiE»  18,  71. 


Leontes  refers  to  it  (WhUfl^  Tait,  Acrl  I  fie.  2) ; 
aad  numeroae  insteaeea  adgkt  evowd  your  sptice, 
flKpeciftUy  if  the  spider  were  enlisted  in  the  ser- 
vice. (See  Merchant  of  Venice^  Act  III.  Sc.  2 ; 
Troibm  and  Crtmda.  Act  Y.  Se.  2,  &e.> 

W.  T.  M. 

Fbxaui  Sadpt  (4*  S.  vH.  66.)— This  swnt  is 
8t  Jane  or  Joanna  of  Valois,  who  died  in  1505. 
She  was  so  represented,  holding  up  a  erown  in 
&er  kft  hand,  in  a  mural  painting;  in  Eaton  Church, 
near  Norwich.  She  was  queen  of  Louis  XII. 
of  France.  She  founded  a  religious  order  of  the 
Annunciation  of  the  B.  V.  Mary,  and  took  the 
habit  of  it  herself,  but  died  the  year  following. 

•  F.  C  H. 

"The  Prodigal  Soisr''  (4'»»  S.  vii.  56.)— 1 
iMtve  a  set  of  woodcuts  Ulustraling  the  narable ; 
they  are  black  upon  white,  published  by  M.  Den- 
ton, Hospital  Gate,  West  Smithfield.  London,  Jan. 
10, 1795  (I  think  that  described  by  J.  T,  F.  a 
copy  of  the  same  work  coloured).  J.  T.  F.  may 
hate  a  sight  of  it.  T.  S.  A. 

Cakkon  {4f^  S.  vii.  68.)— If  the  Italian  word 
canone  or  cannone  ever  meant  ''a  big  dog,'Mt 
^pears  to  have  lost  that  meaning  by  the  be^- 
nmg  of  the  seventeenth  century ;  for  in  Florio's 
New  World  of  Words  (Lond.  1611)  it  is  not  so 
explained,  though  other  ^nderings  are  given 
besides  '<  any  cannon,'*  which  is  the  first.  ^  One 
rendering  of  canna  is  "  the  bore  or  concavitie  of  a 
piece."  In  Minsheu's  Spanish  and  English  Die- 
Hanary  (Lond.  1599)  there  is  no  allusion  ^to  the 
word  can  meaning  "  an  ancient  piece  of  ordnance.'* 

Akok. 

Bbnj.  Carribr  (4'*'  S.  vii.  97.  130.)— Allow 
me  to  answer  one  of  my  own  questions,  luenjamin 
Garier  was  the  son  of  Anthony  Carier,  a  learned 
and  devout  preacher.  Benjamin  became  Fellow 
of  0.  C.  0.  Cambridge,  chaplain  to  James  I.,  and 
Fellow  of  Chelsea  College.  He  joined  the  Church 
of  Rome,  and  went  to  Li^ge  m  Germany.  He 
died  before  midsummer,  1614.  (See  Wood  s  Fasti 
Oxon,  and  Bohn's  ZowndesJ)        J.  M.  Cowpeb. 

May  not  ''R.  C,  Gent"  be  Richard  Carew, 
who  tranriated  Huarto  and  part  of  Tasso  P 

Geobge  M.  Gbbbn. 
27,  King  Wilfiam  Street,  Strand. 

*'The  Adobatiok  of  ths  Laxb,"  Bic.  (4**»  S. 
vi.  885,  550.) — ^The  following  isecriptioo^  painted 
on  the  frame  of  this  important  work,  is  taken 
&om  Mr.  Maynard's  book  Twenty  Tsars  of  the 
Arundel  Society : — 

MCTOR  HUBBKTYS  S  UyOK,  MAJOR  qVO  KBMO  RBpeitVS 

IncbpIt  ;  POND vsqvB  Johannes  artb  beoondvs 

FrATBR  PBRFEC'lT,  J^DOCI  WD  pRBCB  PRBTVS. 

VbrsV  sbXta  MaI  Vob  CotLoCAt'  aCta  tVerI  + 
•    (The  painter  Hubert  Van  Fyck,  a  greater  was 
Yiever  found,  began,  and  his  second  brother  (John) 
completed  the  work,  at  the  instance  of  Judocus 


Vytts.  On  the  0th  6{  May,  in  the  year  1432, 
these  pictures  were  completed).  We  still  require 
the  inscriptions  on  t&e  panels  representing  '*  The 
Annunciation,''  and  the  legends  on  the  figures  of 
the  prophets  and  sibyls.    - 

I  am  very  grateful  to  F.  C.  B.  for  his  valual^ 
tran^tion.  W.  Mababl 

Clabevcb  (4**  S.  vi.  500.)  —  I  cannot  give 
L.  B.  C.  any  information  about  William  Clarence, 
nor  do  I  know  if  John,  Bastard  of  Clarence,  mar- 
ried or  left  issue.  Hbbmkn  tjutdb. 

De  Bohto  (4'»»  S.  vi.  501 ;  vii.  24.)-L  On  a 
cap  of  maintenance,  a  lion  crowned  (Boutell's 
JEterMry,  plate  Ixvi.) 

2.  I  cannot  ascertain. 

S.  I  can  offer  A.  F.  H.  a  pedigree  of  the  family 
with  full  chronological  details,  if  he  would  like  to 
have  it.  In  two  or  three  generations  the  gene- 
alogy is  almost  inextricably  confused,  and  what 
notices  can  be  found  on  the  rolls  simply  make 
matters  worse.  Does  A.  F.  H.  desire  more  de- 
tailed '^  particulars  "  than  are  given  in  such  woifo 
as  Dugaale's  Baronage?  If  he  wishes  for  the 
pedigree,  will  he  please  to  let  me  know  ? 

HEBKEirlBITDB. 
MS.   AUTOBIOGBAPHY    OP    THE  NaTTJBAL   SoK 

OP  Kino  Richabd  III  (4»»»  S.  vi.  567.)— Sir 
Edward  Bering  was  right  Mb.  Tew  will  find 
what  he  inquires  about  set  forth  in  The  Last  of 
the  PlantagenetSf  an  interesting  historical  narra- 
tive published  by  Smith  &  Elder  in  1839.  It  was 
by  the  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  of  Winchiluea 
that  the  /'  person ''  therein  named  was  employed 
to  superintend  the  works  at  EastwelL  Mb.  Tew 
will  nnd  some  notes  of  mine  referring  to  Lord 
Level  and  to  this  mysterious  son  of  Richard  IIL 
in  "  N.  &  Q."  for  November  13,  1858,  and  also 
for  January  1, 1859.  I  shall  have  much  pleasure 
in  lending  Mb.  Tew  the  book  in  question  by  hia 
addressing  a  line  to  me.  S.  Ward. 

HaUtock,  Teovil,  Somerset. 

In  Evans's  Old  BaUads,  vol.  iv.  p.  21,  ed.  1784. 
Mb.  Tbw  will  find  appended^  to  a  ballad  called 
''  Eichard  Plantagenet,*'  by  Mr.  Hull,  almost  all 
the  authentic  information  extant  as  to  the  object 
of  his  query.  Eastwell  Park  was  then — that  is, 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  YIL — the  property  and 
residence  of  Sir  Edward  Moyle,  not  I)ering,  and 
from  him  descended  by  an  heiress  to  the  Finches, 
in  whom  it  is  still  vested.  The  Duke  of  Aber- 
com  has  of  late  vears  rented  it  from  the  trustees 
of  the  present  Earl  of  Winchilsea.  A  reference 
to  the  story  occurs  in  a  MS^nedigree  of  the 
Lofties,  who  were  seated  at  Westwell,  the  ad- 
joining parish,  in  the  same  reign :  one  of  them 
IS  said  to  have  come  from  Yorkshire  in  charge  of 
Richard  Flantagenet.  A  Richard  Loftyes  is 
named  in  the  registers  as  having  been  buried 
there  in  1559.    He  was  bom  in  1489,  and,  ac- 


^aVILFlOi.  16/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEMIE8. 


15*1 


eordiiig  to  tlm  MS.,  was  called  after  ih^  }Abf, 
The  name  '< Richard''  does  not  again  opcur  m 
the  family,  which  was  afterwards  seated  in  Smeeth 
parish,  in  the  church  of  which  are  many  of  their 
monuments.  See  Hasted's  Kent,  folio,  1790^ 
ToL  iii.  p.  293.  FiTz  Richakd. 

In  the  year  1774  was  published  a  4to  pamphlet 
of  IT.  and  80  pages,  with  the  following  title, 
**  Siehard  PUmtagenet ;  a  Legendary  Tale,  Now 
first  published  by  Mr.  Hull."  It  is  a  poem,  with 
a  dedication  t6  Dayid  Garrick,  and  some  account 
of  the  hero,  who  is  represented  to  haye  been  a 
natural  son  of  Richard  III.  John  Whsok. 

Shbbbwort  (4**  S.  vi.  502 ;  vii.  25.)— 

"Share-wort.  Aster  sea  Ingninalis,  sic  dicta,  qnia 
Biibonw  extus  admota  potenter  pttpparat'*  —  Skinner 
(Step.),  Etywnlogioon  lAngmm  Anglicanat,  1671,  tub  toe. 

Edwabd  Peacock. 

The  Block  Books  (4»  S.  li.  pamm ;  vii.  13.) 
I  do  not  propose  discussing  the  matter  of  the 
block-books,  because  I  hold  that  it  rather  rests 
with  Ms.  Holt  to  show,  if  he  can,  that  the  re- 
ceived opinion  is  false.  At  present  he  has  not 
done  so^  as  far  OS  I  know.    But  I  would  caution 

Sour  readers  that  his  first  assertion  with  respect  to 
t.  Christopher  was  that  the  date  had  been  tam- 
pered with.  From  the  directness  of  the  assertion, 
no  one  would  have  dreamt  that  it  was  made  with- 
out his  eyer  haying  seen  the  print.  Now  he  has 
seen  the  print  and  finds  that' such  a  position  is 
absurd,  he  has  started  the  theory  of  tiie  print 
heing  later  than  the  printing,  or  perhaps  I  should 
say,  later  than  the  matter  printed,  wnich  is,  in 
mj  opinion,  quite  as  untenaole  as  his  former  as- 
sertion. J.  C.  J. 

Adam  de  Orletok  (4}^  S.  vii.  53.)— Mb.  Henrt 
F.  Holt's  yery  positiye  denial  of  Adam  de  Orle- 
ton*s  misdemeanours  must  be  founded  upon  sources 
of  information  not  commonly  known  to  the 
readers  of  history;  and  therefore,  as  one  dtogether 
**  interested  »  the  subject^''  he  will,  I  am  sure, 
80  far  oblige  me  as  to  direct  me  to  them. 

Edhuks  TsW)  liLA. 

Patching  Rectory,  Anrndel. 

''HiEBtrSALKtcI  iiT  HAPPiE  Hoice'*  (4**»  S.  yl. 
372, 485 ;  yii.  41.)— The  execution  of  John  TbeWlie 
at  Manchester  has  been  incidentally  named  ia  con- 
nection with  this  subject  Dr.  Neale  is,  I  believe, 
in  error  as  to  the  place  where  this  martyr  died. 
Challoner  gives  an  account  of  his  death  on  the 
day  named,  but  at  Lancaster ;  and  I  understand 
from  Mr.  Bone,  who  has  a  MS.  cop^  of  the  ballad 
to  which  Dr.  Neale  refers,  that  it  agnes  with 
Challoner's  account  in  this  respect  Thewlis  is 
not  the  only  one  executed  at  Lancaster  whose 
murder  has  been  attributed  to  Manchester,  as  may 
be  seen  by  reference  to  a  paper  contributed  to  the 
Meliquary  (vol.  x.)  by  the  present  writer. 

In  1665  appeared  — 


••O  Mother,  Dear  Jeimaleml  The  Old  HyMs,  its 
Origin  and  Genealogy.  Edited  by  William  C*  PriiM." 
New  York.    8vo,  pp.  92»^ 

which  is  thus  notieed  in  Triibner's  IMetwry  Becord 

(i.  82) :  — 

«*  To  the  lovers  of  hvnmologv  this  will  be  an  accept- 
able votome :  it  contains  <dd  l3avid  Dickson's  venkm  of 
the  well-known  hymn,  with  varioas  laore  modern  aad  cur- 
rent versions ;  and  in  the  Appendix  the  hymn  of. Bilde- 
bert,  and  an  extract  from  the  hymn  of  Bernard  de 
Clugny." 

WnxiAK  E.;;A.  Axok. 

Joynson  Street,  Strangeways. 

Db.  Johwson's  WATCfi  (4«*  S.  yL  275, 465;  yii. 
55.) — ^In  answer  to  your  correspondent  on  the 
above  subject,  in  Boswell's  X^fe  ofJoh/Mon,  yoL  jL 
p.  35, 1  find  the  following : — 

**  At  this  time  I  observed  upon  the  dial-plate  of  his 
watch  *  a  short  Greek  inscription,  taken  from  the  New 
Testament*  Nv(  yhp  fpx^ratj  being  the  first  words  of  our 
Saviour's  solemn  admonition  to  the  improvement  of  that 
time  which  is  allowed  us  to  prepare  for  eternity  :  *The 
night  Cometh  when  no  man  can  work.'  He  some  time 
afterwards  laid  aside  this  dial-plate ;  and  when  I  asked 
him  the  reason,  he  said, '  It  might  do  very  Well  upon  a 
dock  which  a  man  keepa  in  his  okeet ;  bnt  to  hanre  it 
upon  hia  watch  which  he  carriea  about  with  him,  and 
wbieh  is  often  looked  at  by  others,  night  be  censored  as 
ostentatious.'  ** 

Mr.  Steevens  is  now  possessed  of  the  dial-plate 
inscribed  as  above.  Chablss  Hivton. 

Nottingham. 

CONvryiAL  SoKGS  (4«^  S.  vi.  pasam ;  vii.  68.) 
One  of  ^e  best  I  ever  heard  was  produced  at  the 
Adelphi  Theatre  about  forty  years  ago.  The 
music  was  composed  by  Marschner  the  German ; 
the  words  I  forget,  but  the  idea  was  drinking  to 
the  four  seasons.  Can  Mb.  Dixon  help  me  to  the 
words  P  James  Oilbebt. 

61,  HiU  Street,  Ped^ham,  aE. 

Post  Pbophbcies  (4«»»  S.  vi.  370,  806,  4S8  j  yii. 
43.)-^The  lines,  or  string  of  prophecies  alluded  to 
by  L.  C.  R.,  were  in  Fr^ch,  in  which  language  I 
first  saw  them,  I  belieye,  in  1848.  They  M& 
thns:*^ 

**  Je  ne  voudrais  pas  fitre  roi  en  1948. 
Je  ne  v^imdrais  pas  ^re  prdtve  en  IM^. 
Je  ne  voudrais  pas  ^tre  soldat  en  18d0. 
Je  voudrais  €tre  tout  oe  que  vons  voudiea  en  (/ A#- 
UeM)  1851. 

Of  the  last  date,  I  am  not  snte  t  but  the  wbde 
thing  was  conspicuously  worthless  as  a  prophecy^ 
and  clumsy  as  afabrication.  F.  C.  H. 

.  '  I  copiedfiim  a  newspaper  (I  think  in  1848, 
from  a  local  one  in  Taunton,  where  I  then  resided) 
the  foUovnng : — 

,  ,  III  ----  ---.-  — 

*  Sir  John  Hawkins  says,  that  this  tratch  was  the 
first  Johnson  ever  possessed.  It  was  made  for  him  by 
Mndge  and  Dutton  in  1761^.  They  were  celebrated 
watchmakers  of  the  last  oen(ury,  and  their  shop,  situated 
at  the  left  corner  of  Hind  Court,  was  the  la^  in  l>leee 
Street  to  undergo  ttie  sweepin^r  ordeal  of  modernisatiODf 
wliich  it  escaped  up  to  the  year  1850. — £d. 


152 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[4*k  S.  YII.  FsB.  18,  71. 


"  The  foUowing  prophecy  haa  long  been  onirent  in  Ger- 
nienj: — 

'« I  would  not  be  a  kinfc  in  1848. 
I  would  not  be  a  soldier  in  1849. 
I  would  not  be  a  grave-digger  in  1850. 
But  I  would  be  whatever  yon  please  in  1851." 

Bid^  any  of  your  readers  ever  meet  with  the 
following?  I  copy  it  from  the  Oswestry  Herald  of 
1821  :-^ 

"France  respected, 
Spain  infected, 
Sweden  neglected, 
Prussia  dejected, 
Mischief  projected, 
Turkey  detected, 
Greece  unprotected, 
Russia  suspected, 
Mediation  rejected, 
Austria  connected, 
Italy  disaffected, 
England  expected 
To  see  all  corrected." 

A.R. 

Doxm  OR  Dub  (4»  S.  vi.  600 ;  vii.  22.)— All 
the  stages  or  post  towns  from  Dartford  to  Dover 
daring  the  Roman  domination  had  Dur  as  a  pre- 
fix, thus: — Durobrevis  (Rochester*),  Durolenum 
(Milton  next  Sittingboume),  Durovemumt  (Can- 
terbury X),  The  prefix  being  the  Celtic  word  for 
toater.  A.  J.  Dunkiit, 

44,  Bessborongh  Gardens,  S.  Belgravia. 

Familt  of  Jsnkoitb  (4*  S.  vii.  66.)^Mb. 
OHtTBCH  is  doubtless  aware  that  the  pedigree  of 
Jennour  of  Essex  is  given  in  the  Harleian  MS. 
No.  1137  (in  the  British  Museum),  which  con- 
tains the  YisitaUon  of  Essex  in  1558. 

H.  JSNmB-FuST,  JUKB. 

"  God  made  Man,"  btc.  (4"»  S.  vi.  345,  426 
487;  vii.  41.) — In  reply  to  your  correspondent 
F.  S.,  I  would  refer  him  to  The  Lonsdale  Maga- 
jsme^  Tol.  i.  p.  512.  (A.  Foster,  Eirkby  Lonsdale, 
1820),  for  a  few  remarks  on  the  lines  in  question. 
As  this  magazine  is  now  very  scarce,  perhaps  you 
will  kindly  allow  space  for  a  short  quotation  from 
an  article  on  *'  Rustic  Poets." 

"  John  Oldland  was  an  inhabitant  of  Crosthwaite,  and 
a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  existed  about 
the  banning  of  the  last  oenturr.  His  propensity  to 
rhjfming  was  such,  that  many  of  his  rhymes,  as  they  are 
proTindally  called,  are  still  repeated  by  the  older  inha- 
oitants  of  the  ndghbourbood.  The  smartest  of  John's 
rkjfwtn  was  made  on  the  occasion  of  bis  being  pirf  to 
ir^MAU  (as  it  is  properfy  termed  in  the  provincial  dialect) 
bj  a  lawyer  for  some  debt  which  he  had  incurred  at 

*  In  the  Saxon  period  Durobrevis  was  changed  to 
Be  (river)  Cbastbr  (castle),  the  Castle  fry  the  Rher, 

f  The  change  from  Durovemum  was  to  its  pre-Roman 
name,  the  City  of  the  Cfanfti,  even  as  Paris  returned  from 
its  Boman  rapdlation  of  Lntetia  to  the  City  of  the  ParisiL 

X  When  X  was  a  schoolboy  the  translatwn  of  this  name 
was,  in  the  Eton  Latin  Graounar,  given  as  **  Dover."  I 
do  not  know  whether  this  curious  error  is  still  per- 
petoated.  • 


Ulventon— a  proof  that  not  only  poets,  but  all  who 
meddle  with  rhyme,  are  poor.  John  repeated  with. 
emphasis— 

"  God  mead  men, 

And  men  mead  money ; 

God  mead  bees. 

An*  bees  mead  honey ; 
But  the  D — ^1  mead  lawyers  an*  tomies. 
And  pleac*d  'em  at  U'ston  and  Dotan  i*  Fomesa.**  ^  . 

J.  P.  MOBRIS. 
17  Sntton  Street,  LiveipooL 

Mabixb  Ross  (4^  S.  vi.  436,  484 ;  vii.  45.)— 
In  default  of  a  very  minute  investigation  of  the 
Fleetwood  rose,  I  possibly  may  have  ascribed  to 
it  a  wrong  specific  name  in  lliat  of  spinosissima. 
Yet,  with  all  deference  to  A  Mttbithiav,  I  think 
I  have  not  done  so ;  which  opinion,  I  venture  to 
imagine,  is  strengthened  hy  certain  evidence  I  here 
beg  permission  to  adduce. 

H.  C.  Watson,  in  The  New  BoUmist^  Guide,  p. 
255,  says  from  his  own  personal  knowledge  '^  that 
Bosa  apinosissima  grows  plentifully  on  the  sand- 
hills on  the  Cheshire  coasf  And  T.  B.  Hall,  in 
the  Flora  of  Liverpool,  states  'Hhat  the  jRosa 
spinasissima  grows  abundantly  on  the  sand-hills 
Doth  on  the  Lsucashire  and  Cheshire  shores  of  the 
Mersej."  I  have  seen  the  plant  growing  in  the 
situations  named  above,  and  always  consioered  it 
to  be  identical  with  the  one  that  grows  in  such 

STofusion  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Fleetwood.  Sir 
.  £.  Smith,  in  his  description  of  Bosa  rubella^  in 
Sowerby^s  English  Botany,  says  '^  that  it  is  well 
distinguished  from  B.  spinosissima  by  its  equal 
prickles  and  oUong  (not  round)  crimson  pendulous 
fruit.'' «  The  same  author*s  description  of  the  B^ 
spinosissima  is,  "  that  its  fruit  is  erect,  globular, 
quite  smoothy  of  a  dark-red  purple  colour,  chang- 
ing  when  ripe  to  black,** 

In  reply  to  a  .queiy  of  mine  on  the  subject,  I 
have  a  letter  before  me  from  a  lady  who  once 
resided  at  Fleetwood  (and  who  knew  well  the 
beautiful  little  rose  in  question),  in  which  she 
says  "  that  the  rose  had  creamy  white  petals,  and 
that  its  hip,  or  fruit,  when  ripe  is  qvUe  black  and 
round,  scarcely  distinguishable  from  a  large  black 
currant,**  I  shall  have  pleasure  in  forwarding 
Mb.  Edwiv  Lsbs  a  specimen  of  the  plant  when  it 
is  in  flower.  Jaxbs  Pbabsok. 

Milnrow,  near  Rochdale. 


SBMuliKntauH. 

NOTES  Om  BOOKS.  ETC. 

SMSpiria  de  Pro/mndis ;  being  the  Sequel  to  the  Oom/essions 

of  an  EnyliM  OpiuM  Eater,  and  other  Misc^laneoni 

ffritings.    By  Thomas  de  Quincey.    (A.  &  G.  Black.) 

The  admirers  of  that  profound  and  original  thinker, 
Thomas  de  Quincey,  ought  to  be  very  grateful  to  Messrs. 

*  TTlverston  and  Dalton  in  Fnmeaa. 


^aVIL  Feb.18,'710 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


15S 


A.  &  G.  Black  for  this  sapplemental  volume  of  his  writ- 
ings, which  forms  the  seventeeDth  of  their  collected  edi- 
tioii.  It  contains,  as  fiu*  as  the  pabUshers  are  aware,  the 
remainder  of  his  scattered  writings— a  lam  portion  being 
seqnired  from  the  original  publishers,  Messrs.  Hogg  A 
Sod,  and  which  had  the  benefit  of  the  author's  revision. 
The  remainder,  indnding  the  **  Notes  from  the  Pocket- 
book  of  an  English  Opium  Eater,"  and  the  **  Historico- 
Ciitical  Inquiry  into  the  Origin  of  the  Rosicrucians  and 
Freemasons,**  have  been  reprinted  from  the  old  London 
Maoaxmef  where  they  originaUy  appeared  side  by  side 
with  the  delightlhl  Essays  by  Elieu  In  rsprinting  this 
latter  paper,  Messrs.  Black  have  done  good  service  to 
historic  truth,  and  we  recommend  its  careful  perusal  to 
all  who  desire  to  know  what  grounds  there  are  for  believ- 
ing the  remote  antiquity  claimed  by  Freemasons  for  that 
mysterious  organisation. 

The  Wav€rlejf  Novels,  By  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart  Ckn- 
tenary  JSdiiion.    VfA.XlV.    (A.  &  C.  Black.) 

We  have  here,  in  Th*  FortwMt  ofNigd^  Sir  Walter's 
masterly  portrait  of  the  British  Solomon,  and  his  graphic 
skeichea  of  Alsatian  life  in  Wbitefriars ;  and  the  volume, 
like  its  predecessors,  is  made  more  useful  by  Glossary  and 
Index. 

JMnrtte*  JIlMtAraUd  House  of  CommonM  and  the  Judicial 
Semek,  1871.  Compiled  and  edited  £y  Robert  Henry 
Mair.  Penonalljf  revised  bjf  the  Members  of  Farliu' 
meni  and  the  Judges.    (Dean  A  Son.) 

Of  this  well-timed'  volume  (which  is  marked  by  a 
pecnliaritv  which  deserves  notice,  namely,  engravings  of 
the  arms  borne  by  the  counties,  cities*  and  boroughs  re- 
turning Members  to  Parliament),  it  may  suffice  to  say 
that  it  is  in  every  respect  a  fitting  as  it  is  almost  an 
indispeoaable  companion  to  I^ebreWs  Peerage  and  2>e* 
hretrs  Baronetage  and  Knightage,  lately  noticed  by  us 
with  deserved  commendation. 

7%e  HtMiarg  of  tike  Parochial  Chapelrg  of  Goosnanh,  in 
the  Cbimte  of  LaneaUer.  Bg  Henry  Fishwick,  F.H.S. 
(Kmma,  Manchester.) 

The  CbMpdry  of  (yoosnargh,  which  was  fonnerly  part 
of  the  parish  of  Kirkham,  in  Amoundemess,  and  included 
the  townships  of  Goosnargh,  Whittingham,  and  News- 
hmm,  has  been  so  fortunate  as  to  find  two  gentlemen  who 
have  taken  such  interest  in  its  histoiy  and  the  history  of 
the  families  connected  with  it,  as  to  devote  considerable 
time  and  labour  to  the  collection  of  materials  for  a  work 
iqpoii  the  subject  The  first  of  these  is  Mr.  Richard  Oook- 
son,  a  resident  there,  who  having  been  prevented  from 
carrying  into  effect  his  intention  to  publish  the  result  of 
his  labours,  very  liberally  communicated  them  to  Msjor 
Fiihwick,  who  first  visited  Goosnargh  in  search  of  gene- 
alogical information  some  years  since;  The  result  is  a 
T<diime  very  creditable  to  the  industry  and  intelligence  of 
the  two  gentlemen  in  question— one  of  considerable  in- 
terest to  all  Lancashire  antiquaries,  and  of  course  of 
especial  interest  to  all  who  are  at  all  connected  with  the 
dmpeby  of  Goosnargh. 

Kbw  Dutch  Periodical.— Under  the  title  of  Onze 
JEeum  (**  Our  Century "),  a  new  fortnightly  journal  has 
been  started  at  Amsterdam  under  the  editorship  of  Mr. 
H.  Tiedeman,  a  gentleman  to  whom  the  readers  of 
**  N.  &  Q,**  have  been  frequently  indebted.  In  addition 
to  mtscdianeous,  historical,  biographical,  and  poUtical 
articles,  it  is  proposed  that  each  number  should  contain : 
a  foreign  political  review  (on  European  and  American 
matters  generally) ;  a  national  political  review  Ton  Dutch 
matters  only);  a  fortnightly  chronicle  (for  incidental 
political  news,  historical  notes,  announcements  of  new 


books  on  history,  or  politics,  &c) ;  and  lastlv,  a  biblio- 
graph^y  comprising— reviews  of  recent  publications  of 
histonod  or  political  interest;  a  list  of  a/?  new  books 
published  in  the  world,  arranged  alphabetiodly;  a  sum- 
mary of  the  contents  of  various  periodicsls,  which  are 
either  entirely  devoted  to  history  and  politics,  or  which 
contain  articles  of  historical  or  political  intersst 

Augustus  Appleoath.— The  death  at  Dartford,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-four,  of  Mr.  Applc^th  U  announced. 
He  was  the  originator  of  some  important  improvementa 
in  the  art  of  printing,  **  the  inventor,"  says  the  Fall  Malt 
Gazette,  **  of  the  composition-ball  and  composition-roller^ 
and  afterwards  of  the  steam  printing-press.  For  his 
invention  of  bank-notes  that  could  not  be  forged  he  re- 
ceived from  the  bank  authorities  18,000t  He  also  in- 
vented a  machine  for  printing  six  colours  at  once.  The 
patent  for  the  steam-press  was  in  the  joint  names  of 
Cowper  and  Applegath.  The  first  book  printed  by  steam 
was  Waterton*slPbiw^ertf^ff.  Mr.  Applegath  subsequently 
established  great  silk  and  printworks  atCrayford  and 
Dartford." 

The  Directobsrip  of  the  KATioarAL  Gallert. — 
It  is  reported  that  Mr.  Boxall,  R.A.,  whose  term  of  oflice 
expires  shortly,  will  not  be  likely  to  yield  to  the  wishes 
of  the  Trustees  that  he  should  resume  the  post  he  haa 
held  so  much  to  the  public  advantage. 

Oxford. — The  valuable  theological  and  general  library 
belonging  to  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Pfumptre,  Master  of  Uni-' 
versity  College,  is  announced  for  sale  at  the  Clarendon 
Hotel,  on  Thursday  and  Friday  next  we^ 

Cambridge.— The  Libraxy  Syndicate  have  issued  a 
len^y  report  with  reference  to  the  new  edition  of  the 
University  Ordinationes  (the  old  one  being  incomplete) 
which  they  have  prepared.  There  are  ^screpandes  be- 
tween the  rules  now  published  by  the  authority  of  the 
Syndicate  and  those  which  have  been  from  time  to  time 
confirmed  by  the  Senate. 

Professor  Liohtfoot.— No  small  amount  of  satis- 
foction  will  be  felt  by  the  public  when  they  are  informed 
that  the  Hulsean  Professor  of  Divinity,  so  well  known 
for  his  work  on  the  Galatians,  Ac.,  has  been  nominated 
by  Mr.  Gladstone  to  the  vacant  canoniy  at  St  Paurs. 
Dr.  Lightfoot*s  recent  noble  benefactions  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Ounbridge  will  be  fresh  in  the  minds  of  our 
readers. 

St.  AiTDRBw'sw— The  Senatus  Academicus  of  the  Uni- 
versity have  just  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D.  on  the 
Dean  of  Westminster. 

The  CoNORsaaiONAL  Library.- This  library  eon- 
tains  167,668  bound  volumes,  and  80,000  pamphlets. 
Under  the  operation  of  the  new  copyright  law,  the  library 
received  dunog  the  past  year  274  oooks,  8140  pamphleta 
and  periodicals,  2891  musical  compositions,  1176  engrav- 
ings, photographs,  and  chromos,  1420  prints^  146  maps 
and  charts ;  total,  11,612. 

The  Abbey  of  Mayo.— The  Rev.  P.  Sheridan  is  en- 
deavouring to  raise  a  fund  for  the  preservation  and  partial 
restoration  of  this  ancient  building,  which,  aooonung  to 
Bede,  was  founded  in  the  seventh  century  b\*  St.  Colman, 
of  Lindisfame,  who  was  succeeded  by  St  Gierald  and  St. 
Adamnan.  Tlie  abbev  having  been  thrice  burned  by  the 
Danes,  was,  in  the  thirteenth  centurv,  plundered  by  Sir 
William  De  Burga. 

LOHDOV    iHTBRirATIOVAL   EXHIBITION    OF    1871.— 

Mr.  J.  C.  Buckmaster  has  been  appointed  by  Her  Ma- 
jestv's  Commissioners  to  deliver  an  address  on  the  value 
of  the  Exhibition,  and  its  bearing  on  industrial  instruc- 
tion, designed  particularly  for  the  working-classes  in  ^ 


1S4 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VII.  Fib.  1«,  7i. 


■»» 


tlMlMgeioiini«f  4^  coaiiti7  vhiib  •Kft^m  a  daiiii  to 
hMreit. 

and  COn  the  Loodon  agenta,  have  receired  otAc^  notice 
fjnm  the  ediUn  that  we  fortnightlj  pubUc«^ico  of  this 
celebrated  seilKl  Jdaa  proceeded  niiuiiterruptedl/  daring 
the  siege. 

W«  are  Teiy  pony  to  htar  that  onr  contemporary 
TV  JhokwQrm'hw  stopped  Its  publication  with  its  last 
Ko.  4)f  1870.  BibliographT'  does  not  pay  as  a  rule,  be- 
came it  interests  but  a  select  cirde  of  dUettamti,  In  his 
fire  v<dames,  printed  at  250  copies  ouIt,  M.  Berjeao  Has 
gathered  a  great  deal  of  most  valuable  Information.  The 
nuQseions  fao-similes  vbich  illustrate  his  work  have  been 
diaam  and  engraved  by  his  own  hand,  and  have  the 
merit  not  to  &  better  than  the  originals^  because  he 
never  touched  a  graver  before  being  fifty  yean  of  age, 
aad  has  nev«r  seen  a  professional  engraver  at  work. 


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mow  dkHmarjf.  Johmmm^  wko$e  autkoritif  woe  donbtUu 
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ieiffrmtt^n  relating  to  Mr.  Carrie's  famUy,  iw  i»  reameeted 
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B.  HOWABD,  Suigeon-Dentiat,  62,  Fleet  Street, 

hM  introduoed  an  entliely  new  desoripticn  of  ABTIFICIAL 
ITH,  fixed  without  springs,  wirm,  or  llgaturesi  tliey  so  perftctlr 
resemble  the  naftural  teeth  as  not  to  be  distinguished  from  the  originals 
by  the  closest  obsenrer.  Tliey  will  never  ehange  colour  «r  decay,  and 
will  lie  finmd  suoerior  to  any  teeth  erer  before  used.  This  method 
does  not  require  the  eztiactian  of  roots  or  any  palnAal  opamtion,  and 
will  support  and  preserre  teeth  that  are  loose,  and  is  guaranteed  to 
restore  articulation  and  mastication.  Decayed  teeth  sto^^  and  ren- 
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ggy Ita  JMMatna  etundwd.  and  jmWvrMlly  mmm^  a  ^'TTriTgfMid 


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I  ■       III  VPH^a^B- 


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■ 

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A^.sMXi^'^  Sn^M  Make,  mon  aelid  than  FomJL  uf   ^' 
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■■«  VB»  yVB  VBU^WHe 

2.  The  Earnest  Commnnioant.    A  Course 

•f  FreBawfekm  fiir  the  Lord*t  Teble.    ISOlh  Thoiuead.    lino. 

S.  The  Iiord*s  Supper  Simply  Explained. 

»B4Tboa«iid.   ltaM.doth.U.  ^ 


4.  The  Lord's  Supper;  or,  Who  are  the 

WdoMB*  Ooeettl  47lh  ThoMend.   Fcep.  lewcd,  \d.\  »  fbr 

ie>  %K» 

6.  Baptism  Simply  Explained.    9th  Thou- 
6.  Baptism;    or.  What  is   the  good  of 

MefChiMaedf  Eithth  editioo.   Feep.,icwad,l«.t  tweetr- 

mm  wBK  M«  Wa 


IiENT. 

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\NGLINfl    AND    SPORTING    BOOKS. —  Juet 


'I'O  PORTRAIT  COLLECTORS.  — JoHH  Stbnsok 


MACMILLiN'S    MAGAZIEIE. 

Wo.  137. 


MACMILLAN  &  CO.,  London. 


Photognphi  of  Psnoni,  Ptotsres,  ft  SImbb, 


I  tniDim  IJrU,rti.  Pir»eo,tt,Bt. 
r.  (fATALOOUS,  JOHN  BT^K- 


"OLD  ENGLISH"  FURNITURE. 


texvi.udxvn.ci 


C0IiI.IN80IT  and  LOCK  (late  Herring), 
CABrVET  HAEEBfi, 

109,  FLEET  STBBET,  E.a    EaUblidMd  178S. 


TAPESTRY  PAPERHANQINQ8. 

iiiiuUoiu  of  ru*  Did  BROCADES.  I 


MESSRS.  PUTTICK  &  SIMPSOK  wiU  SELL  by 
AnCnOM,  U  Uulr  Binin.  0.  IrflieMtr  Stnue,  W.C..  in 
WEDNil8DAYjlMTlil,uiIiit«««lii(»dV»lu.1>lt  COLLECTION 
of  AUTOORAPH  LETTEBB  Hud  DOCUMEHT8  of  Bo.it7«lini»,  »na 
Lrttm  of  Boar.  BoUliiSTCoUi.  dt  U«U^CbuIn  iTCpwiiifff  doo 
I1«TT  IV.  of  Fnum  (1  letUn),  JiAw  U.  Ind  III.  Jiih?  Locks 
h  lctui>l.,UjUTitf' Modou  Hilu^lboD.  H(I»n  It  wUadU UJKnI. 


CkWIocdh  do  ^ipUcolion. 


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100,  FLEET  ^RE£T,  LONDON.  EeCabliabed  178S. 


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KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


155 


tOWDOIf,  SATURDAr,  FBSRUARr  35, 1S71. 


CONTBNTS.*N«  166. 


llOTESt  — 


lWJ 


Scottknsmt  In  America — Eveljn's  *'  Diary  " :  Gigantic  Ox 
~  Chriitophorni  Morales  —  Centenarlaiu,  108. 

QTflTBIRSls  —  The  Broken  Bridge.  100  ^  "Antholocla 
BoreaUs  et  Australia"— Avery  PedJarree -  Arttfldal  Ply- 
flsbti»cr  —  Carlo  CriveUl  -  *<  The  CoDcSllad  "  —  Strange  Pee 
paid  by  Irlah  Biahqpe  —  Fire  used  in  Burning  the  Dead  — 
tamnel  Poole — **  Habeas  Corims  "Act  —  Ballad :  **  Nut- 
ting "  —  Tbe  Phoenix  Throne  —  QnotaMon  —  Chinese  Rud- 
ders of  Ships  — Saint  Wulfinan  — Seven  Sermons  on  the 
Racnmeot,  1481— Stone  Altars  In  Boglish  Churdhes  — 
TrpwrtiT  **  Orete  Herball" :  Names  of  FlMits— The  Veto 
at  Papal  Sleetiona—  Inkstand  of  Wedgweod  Ware,  leo. 

BBPLIBS;  -  Irish  Car  and  Noddy,  Its  —  Sir  William 
Soger,  Knt.,  165 — Badger,  106  —  Ombre,  167  —  The  Book- 
worm,  168  —  Bhakeppeare  and  Arden,  169--* "Parson  and 
BaoDo."  171  —  A'Beekett's  Muidererr!  Somersetshire 
Traditionis  lb, — Lady  Grimston's  Grave  in  Tewin  Churoh- 

fird  —  Mural  Painting  in  Starston  Cburcb,  Norfolk  — 
ortmtt  of  John  Kay — '*Thoiigh  kMtto  Sight,  to  Memory 
dear'*  —The  Pronundation  of  Greek  and  Latin  — The 
Irish  Plaoxty:  "Bumner  Squire  Jones**— Bev.  Samuel 
Henley  —  Dragon  —  Pishermen  in  the  Olden  Time  — 
ll6)iy,  the  German  Poet  —  Hampshire  Omin^  Church- 
yard: Pepjs's  "  Diary  •'— Timothy  Dexter— "Qalima- 
ttas  "  —  Saarbrabk  Custom — The  Apocalypse — Chliban — 
Who  is  a  LairdP— Old  Sandown  Oastla,  Isle  of  Wight— 
Smtjth  —  Hints  to  Chairmen  —  Queen  Bliaabeth:  Seal 
PtsrBons  in  "The  Faerft  Queen"  —  Ballasalley  —  Sigul- 
tary  and  Stgnatariea,  Ac,  172. 

Motes  OD  Books.  Ae. 


CRYPTOGRAPHY. 

A  crjpto^pfa^  or,  as  it  ie  not  unftequently 
termedy  a  ctphiry  is  a  message  (written  or  tele- 
graphed as  the  case  maj  bs)  of  which  the  mean- 
in  g*  is  rendered  unintelligible  to  all  unacquainted 
"with  the  Tul^  followed  in  its  constraction.  These 
rulesy  priTatelj  agreed  upon  by  the  parties  corre- 
sponding, usually  apply  to  the  substitution  of 
BYmbols  for  letters:  sometimes  also,  but  less 
frequently,  to  a  systematic  misplacement  of  the 
letters  from  their  proper  positions  in  a  word.  They 
^mit  of  almost  endless  variety.. 

The  prooess  of  finding  out  the  rule  by  an  ana- 
lytical investigation  of  the  cipher  is  called  deci^ 
pherinpj  and  the  true  meaning  thus  obtained,  the 
evolttUon,  The  operation  is  often  a  difficult,  if  not 
impossible  one,  and  has  occasionally  engaged  the 
attention  of  very  profound  thinkers. 

Methods  of  secret  commimication,  somewhat 
resembling  modem  cipher,  appear  to  have  been 
practised  m  very  etalj  times.  The  scytak  of  the 
Spartans  has  been  o^n  considered  as  fbrming  an 
early  link  in  its  development.  During  the  last 
two  or  three  centuries  numerous  improved  systems 
have  been  invented,  and  frequently  employed  both 
in  matters  of  national  importance  and  in  the  more 
ordinary  aiAdrs  of  life.  In  our  day  cipher  lends  its 
aid  to  politics,  war,  commerce,  love,  and  even, 


occasionally,  to  crime.  A  mystic  line  in  a  column 
of  newspaper  advertisements — to  the  uninitiated 
a  senseless  jumble  of  marks  and  letter^^may 
often  convey  the  message  of  a  lover  to  his  mistress ; 
or  it  may  sometimes  be  the  friendly  caution  from 
a  thief  to  his  '*  pal."  During  the  civil  wars  at  the 
beginning  of  the  seventeenm  century,  cipher  dis- 
patches were  so  much  in  vogue  that  each  army 
seems  Ur  have  employed  experts  for  the  evolution 
of  any  it  might  capture  fzom  the  other  side.  Of 
those  men  wno  made  deciphering  a  study  and  pro- 
fession pro  tern,,  perhaps  tne  most  remarkable  was 
Wallis,  the  leading  mathematician  of  his  time. 
^  It  is,  indeed,  chiefly  in  war,  when  communica- 
tions between  generals  of  division  and  others 
must  pass  througn  an  enemy's  country,  that  cipher 
assumes  its  greatest  importance,  for  the  messages 
in  many  cases  can  be  trusted  in  no  other  form. 
Written  in  cipher  they  conceal  from  the  enemy, 
should  he  intercept  them,  information  and  orders 
respecting  fUtiire  operations,  on  the  carrying  out 
of  which  possibly  the  fate  of  a  campaign  depends. 
Of  course  this  is  supposing  him  unable  to  evolve 
their  meaning. 

Having  said  thus  much  respecting  the  uses  to 
which  cipher  may  be  applied,  I  proceed  to  de- 
scribe very  briefly  several  systems  more  or  less 
intricate. 

In  devising  rules  for  the  construction  of  a  mes- 
sage, the  following  conditions  ought  to  be  attended 
to: — 

1.  The  cipher  produced  must  be  sufliciently 
intricate  as  to  render  its  evolution  under  all  pro- 
bable  circumstances  hardly  possible.  Theoretically 
no  ordinary  cryptograph  of  more  than  a  certain 
len^h  ought,  pernaps,  to  be  considered  quite  proof 
against  unravelment  when  submitted  to  a  clever 
expert — allowing  him  unlimited  time;  but  prac- 
tically, when  time  is  an  object,  many  are  so. 

2.  The  rules  must^be  concise  and  easily  remem- 
bered. 

8.  They  ought  to  be  of  such  a  nature  that  their 
application  both  directlv  to  the  construction  and 
invenely  to  the  readmg  of  a  cipher  shall  be 
simple  and  expeditious  processes.  It  would  be 
absurd  were  a  general  on  the  field  of  battle  to 
receive  a  dispatch  requiring  an  hour  for  its  in- 
terpretation. Circumstances  ought  to  guide  us  in 
our  choice  of  a  rule.  Where  secrecy  Ib  all»e<>sen- 
ti^,  and  time  of  little  moment,  this  last  condition 
may  therefore  be  somewhat  ignored. 

We.  will  now  take  the  following  as  examples 
of  very  easy  cipher : — 

(1) . . . .  I7y  heesfU  zpv  sfrvjsfjtfihiu  Mfx  Tusfu. 
The  meaning  of  which  is — 
<'  The  address  you  require  is  eight  New  Street''  ' 
Here  the  rule  has  been  to  substitute  as  a  svmbol 
for  any  particular  letter  the  next  to  it  m  the 
alphabet:  b  has  been  written  for  a,  /for  e,  and 


soon. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»'-3.YIl.  Fkb.  26,7i- 


(2)  Uope  Idbc  Idbtncfispi.  Jfiobi  tiothfm  ubiuji 
mtnfxfc  e/iduhsdt.  In  example  (2)  the  letters 
are  B^bolieed  exactly  as  in  (1)  ;  but  in  addition 
to  this,  each  word  is  inverted  and  must  be  read 
backwards.  This  the  reader  can  decipher  for 
himself. 

Frequently,  however,  letters  are  replaced  by 
others  which  have  no  apparent  alphabetical  con- 
nection witb  them.  The  SMier^s  Pocketbook,  by 
Colonel  Wolseley,  describes  an  admirable  method 
of  this  kind,  in  which  the  required  substitutions 
may  be  at  once  found  on  reference  to  a  diagram. 
The  construction  of  the  diagram  is  readily  learnt 
and  remembered  b^  all  interested  in  cipher  corre- 
spondence, but  this  is  useless  in  any  particular 
case  without  a  knowledge  of  the  key,  which  is  a 
word  secretly  agreed  upon  by  the  writer  and  per« 
sou  addressed.  Of  course,  marks  of  any  kind  may 
be  used  as  symbols,  but  letters  or  figures  are 
usually  employed. 

Where  a  cipher  is  Ions;  enougb  to  include  a  cer- 
tain proportion  of  the  letters  most  commonly  in 
use,  or,  more  correctly  spiking,  of  their  symbolical 
equivalents  ^supposing  eacb  letter  to  nave  but 
one,  and  the  lan^age  to  be  known),  its  evolution 
is  generallj  possible  by  attendingto  the  following 
considerations  as  given  for  the  English  language 
in  the  Encydopadui  Britannica : — 

1.  Letters  or  symbols  of  most  frequent  occur- 
rence may  be  set  down  as  meaning  vowels.  Of 
these,  e  is  the  most  numerous,  u  the  least  so.  3. 
Vowels  most  common  together  are,  at  and  on. 
3.  Consonants  most  frequent  at  the  end  of  words 
are :  first^  b  ;  next  to  that,  r  and  t  4.  When  a 
ckaraeter  appears  double,  it  is  generally/,  /,  «,  or 
Towels  •  and  a,  5.  The  letter  preceding  or  fol- 
lowing two  similar  characters  is  either  a  vowel  or 
ly  m,  nj  or  r.  6.  In  deciphering  begin  with  words 
of  one  letter ;  they  will  be  a,  t,  o,  or  ^.  7.  Then 
take  those  of  two  letters  one  of  which  will  be  a 
vowel.  The  most  fie<|nent  in  use  are :  to,  he,  by ^ 
off  on,  or,  no,  oi,  aL  tf,  in,  U,  he,  me,  my,  ui,  we, 
am.  8.  In  words  of  tfajree  letters,  mostly  two  are 
oonaonanta.  The  most  frequent  are :  the,  and,  not, 
but,  yet,  for,  tho*,  hoto,  why,  all,  you,  she,  is,  her, 

r,  who,  may,  can,  did,  was,  are,  has,  had,  let,  one. 


our. 


two,  six,  ten,  &c,  aome  of  which,  and  words  of 
two  letters,  are  found  in  every  sentence.  9.  Most 
common  words  of  four  letters :  this,  that,  then,  thus, 
withf  when,  from,  here,  some,  most,  none,  they,  them, 
whom,  mine,  your,  self,  must,  will,  hate,  been,  were, 
four,  five,  nm«,  &c.  10.  Of  five  letters:  their, 
these,  those,  which,  where,  while,  since,  there,  shall, 
might,  couMf  would,  ought,  three,  seven,  eight,  &c. 
11.  Words  of  two  or  more  syllables  frequently 
begin  with  double  consonants  or  with  a  preposi- 
tion: t. «.,  a  vowel  joined  with  one  or  more  con- 
sonants. Most  common  double  consonants :  6/,  br, 
^yj^ffrf  9h  ffr,  ph,  pl,pr,  sh,  si,  sp,  d,  th,  tr,  wh, 
wr,  &C.    Most  common  prepositions:  com,  con. 


de,  dis,  ex,  im,  in,  int,  mis,  per,  pre,  pro,  re,  sub, 
sup,  un,  &c.  12.  Double  consonants  at  the  end  of 
a  long  word  are  most  frequently :  ck.  Id,  if,  mn, 
ndj  ng,  rl,  rm,  rp,  rt,  sm,  st,  rt,  &c.  Most  common 
terminations :  e,  ed,  an,  er,  es,  et,  ing,  ly,  son,  sion, 
tion,  able,  ence,  ment.full,  less,  ness,  &c. 

On  principles  analogous  to  these,  ciphers  written 
in  other  languages  may  (in  the  majority  of  cases) 
be  evolved. 

Many  ciphers  are  rendered  more  puzzling  tban 
they  otherwise  would  be  by  having  the  words 
joined  together  as  though  the  whole  formed  one 
word,  and  furthermore  by  the  omission  of  short 
words  such  as  the,  and,  &c.,  the  absence  of  which 
does  not  destroy  the  true  sense.  The  use  of 
camtals  may  also  be  dispensed  with. 

3ut  to  come  to  more  abstruse  systems.  If, 
instead  of  always  representing  the  same  letter  by 
one  symbol,  we  have  several,  and  employ  one  or 
other  of  them  ad  WntUm,  the  evolution  (without 
the  help  of  a  key)  becomes  extremely  difficult,  if 
not  practicalljr  impossible.  The  following  appears 
to  me  a  suffidently  easy  method  of  carrying  out 
this  principle.  Some  easily  remembered  aentence 
containing  every  letter  of  the  alphabet,  and  in 
which  the  most  common  ones  are  several  times 
repeated,  is  chosen  for  a  key ;  the  words  are  let- 
tered in  alphabetical  rotation,  and  the  letters  in 
each  word  numbered  from  the  beginning  of  that 
word.  Suppose,  for  instance,  we  take  for  our  key 
the  following  sentence,  which  fulfils  these  con- 
ditions— 


S)  *®*1  (A)  ^or  (f)  the 
(j)  service,  (k)  are  (0  qualities  (m)  whic  h(it) 


'^  (a)  probity,  (6)  kindness   (o)  of  (d^  manner, 
(«)  intelligence,  (/)  and  (^) 
(j)  service,  (*)  are  (Q  qualL   _, 
justly  (o)  excite  (p)  admiration." 

To  each  word  an  tndlMr-letter  is  affixed,  as  the 
reader  will  observe.  The  numbering  of  the  letters 
is  not  shown — ^it  can  be  readily  obtained  by 
counting.  As  an  aid  both  in  remembering  and 
a}>plying  the  key.  the  initial  letters  of  its  words, 
with  their  «pt(2sr-letteTs  below  each,  may  be  kept 
in  a  written  form  always  at  hand.    Thus— 


PZ0MIAZFT8A  Q  WJEA 
a  b  e   defghifk    I   m  n  o  p 

Now,  in  constructing  a  cipher,  the  symbol  to  be 
used  for  a  letter  is  obtained  wherever  we  find 
that  letter  in  the  key,  and  is  formed  of  the  num- 
ber of  the  letter  in  the  word  containing  it  attached 
to  the  index-letter  of  that  word.  As  an  illustra- 
tion, suppose  we  had  to  cipher ''  gun,"  we  have 
but  one  g,  which  is  the  8th  letter  in  the  word 
"  intelligence,"  whose  index-letter  is  e.  For  g  we 
therefore  write  e  8.  For  u  we  have  two  symbols, 
viz.,  12  and  fi2,  either  of  which  we  may  employ; 
and  for  n  eight,  viz.,  53,  b5,  d3,  di,  ^,  el0,f2, 
plO,  One  form  of  cipher  for  "  gun  "  is,  therefore, 
S,  it2,  <23.  Where  capitals  occur  we  may  use 
capital  index-letters. 


4*k  Sw  VIL  Feb.  25,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


167 


C— ell, /6,m4,o8. 
i)L-M,/3,p2. 

/•— c2,Al. 

/—aft,  62,  el,  e7,  f'5, 25,  &c 

«r— »i. 

X^--e5,  c6,  ^,'  /4,  »5. 


An  analysis  of  our  kej  will  at  once  give  an  idea 
•of  its  power. 

LettefB.  Symbols.         « Letters.  Symbols. 

A—d^f\y 5r3,M,  0,|>l,p6.  iV— 6d,65,i/3,<''^i«2,el0,  &c. 
~  O—oS,  cl,A2,i>9. 

P—iil. 

Q-/1. 

it— <i2,  d6,  A3,  t'3,  A2,  p5. 

S— 67,68,ji,/9,n8. 

r— aS,  e3,  tl,  /6,  n4,  &c. 

IT— 6,  n2. 

F— y4. 

FT— ml, 

X— o2. 

r— <i7,ti6. 

Z-^1. 

Let  ns  now  apjplj  this  key  to  the  dispatch — 
''The  enemy  has  destroyed  hridge  oyer  R.  at  N. 
Foices  to  oppose  him  must  be  sent  vta  Northern 

In  cipher  it  runs  thus,  at  least  this  is  one  form 
of  construction : — 

1   WAJMial    iMm  /de458a6<i6adn6e9ii2 
«4;k30664«6&6     cljid^fi     A2.    fleQ     £5. 
C2AS^Smie4A8    eSoS    clalalh2jlb6    m2pS 
dlObTil    a4d6    hOeidSld  Jitlfl 
IHa34^2£Sn^2Mlddi    hSgSeJffA. 

Ohserye  that  where  the  same  word  occurs  both 
in  the  key  and  in  the  dispatch  we  may  conveni- 
ently symboliBe  it  by  the  index-letter  alone.  In 
the  above  /is  put  for  "  the  "—a  word  which  might, 
however,  have  been  omitted. 

Here  is  another  example  of  the  system  which 
the  reader  may  easily  decipher. 

AfldSMal    d3MieyS/l(^aie6eSn2  e353a6tf7t5 
«4a2d5t8.     06d4h2.    ii2/2«l    AS^fi.    ffiglaS 
QlJni2aA^^1iAe7i&    t3&2    od<6j5<23eU2 
h    B^ 

The  key  consists  in  the  absurd  sentence — 
''Doctor  John  Quack,  being  extremely  in  want 
of  patients,  resolved  to  make  some  by  turning 

Jmze-fighter " ;  which,  if  we  take  only  the  initial 
otters^  may  be  abbreviated  in  a  form  useful  for 
reference,  as  in  the  last  case. 

DJQBEIWOPRTM8BTPF 
a  h  e  d  e  f  g   h  i  J  k   i  m  n  o  p  q 

Another  plan  of  dpher,  which,  if  too  elaborate 
for  oidinaiy  purposes,  might,  I  think,  some- 
times be  employed  with  advantage  for  short 
messages  of  great  importance,  consbts  in  rei>re- 
aenting  letters  by  numbers.  The  number  signify- 
ing a  certain  letter  is  not,  however,  a  constant 
quantity,  but  one  depending  on  others,  some  of 
which  Tary.  It  may  depend,  for  instance:  (1) 
on  the  position  the  letter  holds  in  a  word ;  (2^  on 
that  of  Uie  word  in  a  sentence,  as  well  as  (3)  on 
its  own  afyhab^ical  value j  i.e.  the  number^  it 
occupies  in  the  alphabet  counted  from  the  begin- 
ning ;  the  relationship  these  several  quantities  have 
to  one  another  being  defined  by  a  simple  equation. 


i 


To  make  the  system  perfectly  intelligible,  sup- 
pose  P  to  denote  the  alphabetical  value  of  a  letter 
whose  symbol  \&  X)  a  the  number  of  the  letter  in 
a  word,  and  h  that  of  the  word  in  the  sentence — 
each  sentence  being  worked  out  independently  of 
those  which  precede  it.  The  values  of  P  for  the 
whole  alphabet  are  here  shown : — 

ABCDEFGHIJK  L  M  N  O 
12  8  4   £67    8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15 

P  Q   R   8  T   U  V  W  X  T  Z 
16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26 

Almost  an;^  simple  equation  of  some  such  form 
as  the  following  will  do  :^ 

(l)4r=P+ll-a    .    .      orP=4r  +  a-ll 
2)dr=P+7  +  5-«      .      orP=4r  +  a-(7  +  5) 
3)  4r =P  +  2  (6  + 10)  -  2fl  or  P=x  +  2a  -2(6  + 10) 

&c.,  &c. 

The  message  to  be  ciphered  is  first  written  out, 
and  in  calculating  the  values  of  x  we  count  those 
of  a  and  h  for  eacn  letter  as  we  proceed,  and  place 
them  in  the  equation.  Solved  for  P  (as  shown  on 
the  left),  the  equation  gives  us  the  key  to  be  em- 
ployed in  the  evolution.  In  designing  an  equa- 
tion some  moderately  easy  form  is  best,  as  the 
multiplication  of  high  numbers  involves  a  needless 
waste  of  time.  Forms  producinff  fractional  values 
of  the  symbol  ought  also  to  be  avoided,  and  it 
were  as  well  to  choose  one  not  likely  to  give 
negative  ones.  This  may  be  managed  by  remem- 
bering that  P  varies  from  1  to  26 ;  a  is  rarely 
more  than  12,  and  h  than  20 — a  sentence  being 
taken  as  the  collection  of  words  between  two 
periods.  In  this  kind  of  cryptograph  the  symbols 
must  be  separated  by  commas  to  prevent  possible 
confunon,  and  a  dash  or  cross  inserted  between 
every  word. 

As  an  example,  we  will  apply  equation  (1)  to 
the  dispatch — 

*'  Attack  at  four  to-morrow  morning." 

The  cipher  is — 

11,29,28,8,9,16—11,29—16,24,29,25—80,24,21, 
22,24^23,19,26—23,24,26,21,15,19,11. 

The  message — 

**  The  enemy  has  thirty  thousand  men  and  one 
hundred  guns.'' 
—constructed  on  equation  (2),  is  as  follows : — 

27.14,10-13,21,11,18,29—17,9,26-30,17,17, 
25,26,30  —31,18,24,29,26,7,19,8 — 25, 1 6,24— 
14,26,15  -  29,27,17 — 23,35,27,16,29,15,13  — 
23,36,28,82. 

Let  the  reader  unravel  the  following  by  means 
of  equation  (3)  :— 
28,19,32,21—42,28,23-26,27,21,30.21,32. 

,  J.  R.  C 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  Vil.  Feb.  25^  71. 


ANOTHER  SONG  OF  THE  WAR 


THe  following  song,  whicli  lias  a  wide  circula- 
tion in  Paris,  chiefly  in  Belleville,  the  WMte- 
diapel  of  the  capit^  of  France,  is  exceedingly 
clever,  and  illustrates  what  was  stated  in  the 
political  papers  relating  to  the  present  feeling  of 
the  French  people  towards  England.  Besides 
that,  such  poetry  is  always  interesting,  and  must 
be  preserved  as  a  part  of  general  history.  As  a 
modem  aullior  hat  j  ustly  remarked :  — 

•*  ThflM  witty  and  popular  eflhsions  Hghton  for  the 
hoar  tbe  pressure  of  tyrannical  power,  and  soothe  the 
ftelings  of  the  people  when  under  the  influence  of  public 
excitement."— TTke  History  of  Political  Literature  from 
the  Earliest  Times,  vol.  ii.  ch.  iii.  By  Bobert  Blackcj. 
London,  1855.    2  vols.  8vo. 

Deux  cotillons  sont  k  Potsdam, 

L'un  dit :  *'  Mein  Gott  I "  lautro  "  G—  ! 

Appelez  le  roi  de  BaviSre ; 

II  est  en  has  qui  boit  la  bilre.^' 

— *'  Anne^  mon  fr^  c'est  ton  tour. 
Grimpe  au  sommet  de  cette  tour, 
£t  dis-nous,  sous  peine  de  schlague, 
Tout  ce  que  tu  verzas,  sans  blagu«.'' 

Le  baiwpd-oie  a  rdpondu :  ^ 
'^  On  salt  que  je  me  suis  fendu' 
Tellement  pour  le  roi  GuiUaume, 
Que  j*ai  compromis  mon  royaume* 

**  Je  Tons  le  dis  sans  ealembourg, 
Pour  la  fyiTM^  de  Brandebourg, 
n  n'est  chose  que  je  ne  fasse 
Afin  de  mdtiter  ma  grftce." 

—  '<  Eh,  de  la  tour  !♦  Oh^,  Lambert  !* 
Que  Tois-tu  P  " — **  Je  Toia  Wiirtemberg 
Et  le  Saxon  ivres  de  rage, 
Qui  se  repaissent  de  carnage. 
'*  Dans  le  sang  ils  vont  tr^buchant, 
Et,  ce  qui  n'est  pas  moins  touchant^ 
Je  vois  les  anciens  k  Versaille, 
Le  verre  en  main,  qui  font  ripaille. 

*'  C*est  le  grand-due  de  Mecklenbouig, 
Ayec  ce  comte  d'Eulenbourg, 
Qui,  s'^tant  rempli  la  besace," 
Saigna,  pour  rire,  un  coq  d'Alsaoe.'' 

1  The  tallcative  goote ;  prononuoed  as  Baoarois,  Bava* 
nan. 

3  I  did  my  utmost. 

s  Tume,  house. 

^  An  imitation  of  the  call  of  stone-mtsons. 

*  A  Yulf^ar  by-word. 

«  The  belly. 

7  Some  years  ago,  the  son  of  Graf  von  Eulenbnrg, 
bein^  in  liquor,  killed  a  poor  inoffensive  French  cook.  The 
murderer  was  an  officer  in  the  Pmssian  army,  and,  if  my 
recollections  serve  me  well,  his  father  was  the  minister  of 
war.  Having  been  tried  by  a  conrt-martiaJ,  the  gallant 
warrior  was  leniently  dealt  with,  the  jadges  considering 
the  case  as  a  kind  of  dnmken  brawl  between  a  butcher 
and  a  cook. 


^  Reine-imp^ratiice  Augusta, 
Ton  vieux  pochard  de  mari  t*a- 
T-il  fait  savoir  par  t^l^graphe 
Combien  il  a  siffld  d'aoni  daffe"!* 

"  II  s*abreuTe  de  raimniy^ 
Et  n'a  jamais  moins  l^sin^ ; 
Pour  le  mitonner  darantag^ 
II  fait  br&ler  viUe  et  Tillage. 

'^  Mein  Herr  le  comte  de  Bismarck, 
Qui  savoure  le  m^e  marc. 
Jure  (]^u*il  n'est  lien  qui  I'^gale, 
Et  soir  et  matin  s*en  regale. 

'^  Quand,  sans  peur  d'etre  bafoo^, 
Guillaume  dit :  '  Dien  soit  lou^  I ' 
John  Bull,  teuyer,  de  peur  blteie, 
B^pond:  <Nos  boatiqiies  demdmet'" 

FRAircnaira-MicKSL. 

Athensam  Club,  Pall  Mall,  Feb.  20, 1871. 


P.  A.  L.  OF  "N.  &  Q."— If  your  valued  corre- 
spondent should  see  this,  allow  me  to  express  a 
hope  that  the  capitulation  of  Paris  will  enable  u» 
again  to  profit  by  his  ever-ready  stole  of  infonna-> 
tion.  His  last  communication  to  your  pages  bears 
the  date  of  September  24, 1870;  and  ids  delist 
on  eeeiiig  <^  N.  &  Q.'^  again,  after  00  Jong  an  m- 
terval,  can  only  be  equalled  by  oora  woen  w» 
again  recognise  hia  pleasant  amwexs  to  cnx  multi- 
faxious  inquiries.  M.  D. 

"  Chatsatjx  vs  EsPA0irs.^ — ^Amonff  the  *Let- 
tres  spirituelles''  of  S.  Fnm^is  de  Sake  ooeum,  I 
fancy,  the  first  mention  of  tiiia  ftuniiiar  phrase, 
which,  as  an  equiyalent  for  our  own  idiom  of 
'^  castles  in  the  air/'  has  since  then  beccNue  pro* 
yerbial.  The  subjoined  passage  I  take  Ikom  the 
1843  Paris  edition  of  the  (Euvres  choisies  de  S» 
Francois  de  Saks,  tom.  premier,  p.  286.  In  this 
particular  epistle,  the  Bishop  of  Qeneva  (who 
nourished  in  the  later  half  cu  the  sizteentJi  and 
the  earlier  part  of  the  seyenteenth  century,  1567- 
1622),  addressing  himself ''a une dame/'  inr^;aid 
to  the  preparation  for  meditation  and  the  perwct- 
ing  oneself  in  one's  own  yocation,  writes  as 
follows : — 

*<  Pers^^rez  k  bien  vonfl'yaincreyona-mesme  en  oes  me- 
noes  coDtndictioaajoamali^resqiieyoaf  nsscntw :  faites 
le  gros  de  vos  dfein  pour  cela ;  a^achea  que  Dlea  neyeot 
rien  de  voas,  sinon   cela,  poor  maiatenaAt.     Ne  youa 


point  ae  n'estre  pas  ee  qaeyons 
esCos,  mais  d^ves  d'estre  fort  bien  ce  que  yoos  estea : 
amuittE  yo8  peniAa  k  Tona  perfectiottner en  cda,  et  k  porter 
lee  croix  on  petitet  on  grandes  qae  youB  7  i^noeiBtieMa : 
et  croyez-moy,  c*est  icy  le  grand  mot  et  le  moins  entondu 
de  la  condnite  spirituelle :  chacnn  ayme  selon  son  gouat  ^ 
pen  de  gens  ayment  sdon  lenr  devoir  et  le  gonst  de  Noa- 
tre-Seigneur.  De  qaoy  sert-il  de  bastlr  des  efaaateaax  en 
Kepaipi^  pategn^U  peas  fcnt  habiterea  f^rance?    Ce^ 

•  /9r^<fear«<f<i^,  tossed  off  brandy. 
9  Bmwmi^  blood,  gore^ 


tf»  S.  TIL  Fbb.  85, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


159 


ma  viflille  k^n,  et  voiu  rentendreE  bien.    DUes-mojr, 
ma  chte  fiUe,  ai  tous  1a  piatiqaez  bienJ'— Ze^tret  sfiri- 


Aeooidiag  to  one  definition  of  the  pkrase  I 
find  '^  <^alsoaiix  en  Espagne  *'  explained  thus — as 
''oftBtlee  in  the  air,  litenlly  caetlee  in  Spain,  a 
eoimtiy  in  which  *  castlefi '  are  like  angeLr  Tisita, 
'  few  and  fax  heftween '  "—an  ^cplanation  which 
IB  simply  frivoloui^  Here,  in  thu  incidental  illu9* 
tzaii?e  reference  of  S.  Francois  de  Salea,  as  it 
aeems  to  me,  we  get  at  the  original  allusion  out 
of  which  haa  grown  up  a  saying  that  has  since 
become  proTerhiaL  Cha&les  Ksinr. 

Campdea  Hill,  Kanaiiigtoa. 

Sootrrcmia  nr  Axbbioa. — Dean  Ramsay,  in 
liie  excellent  and  most  ent«rtainiDg  SernmiBoenem 
<kfSeotiMkL^  and  Character  (the  fifteenth  edi- 
tion of  which  is  now  b^oie  me),  mentions  several 
words  and  phrases  which  are  peculiar  to  Scotland. 
Several  of  these  are  in  use  in  the  United  States. 
Thus  he  says  that  **frail  expresses  infirmity  of 
body,  but  implies  no  charge  of  any  laxity  in  moral 
principle.**  \Ve  use  the  word  in  this  first  sense 
as  well  as  in  the  last,  as  ''His  health  is  yeiy 
firail,'*  or  '-'  He  has  grown  quite  fraiL" 

In  Scotland  a  person  whose  health  has  declined 
is  said  to  have  faUed,  This  we  also  use,  as ''  He 
has  tailed  greatly  sinee  I  last  saw  him.*' 

Dean  Ramsay  recollects  ''a  peculiar  Scottish 
phrase  very  commonly  us^  which  now  seems  to 
nave  passed  away,"  nan^^,  ''the  expression  to 
let  en,  indicating  the  notice  or  observation  of 
aomething  or  of  some  person.    For  example :  '  I 

saw  Mr. at  the  meeting,  but  I  never  let  on 

that  I  knew  he  was  present  This  expression, 
with  precisely  this  meaning,  is  in  constant  use 
amonff  us ;  and  it  would  be  mipossible  to  express 
the  idea  intended  by  any  shorter  phrase. 

Using  heho9e  for  behoove  is  another  Scotticism 
recorded  by  him.  Mr.  Mark  Antcm^  TroUope,  in 
his  volume  on  North  America,  mentions  his  meet- 
ing with  a  man  in  one  of  our  Western  States  who 
thus  pronounced  the  word.  I  never  heard  it  so 
mispronounced ;  and  the  person  of  whom  Mr.  Trol-> 
lope  speaks  must  have  been  either  a  Scotchman 
or  the  son  ci  one:  and  ha?ing  referred  to  Mr. 
TroUope's  book,  it  gives  me  pleasure  to  add  that, 
in  my  judgment,  it  is  by  far  the  fairest  and  most 
impartial  work  on  this  country  overwritten  by  an 
Englishman.  Unepa. 

Philadelphia. 

Evilth's  "  DiABT  " :  GiaANTic  Ox.—April  29, 
1^9— 

**  I  a«w  io  London  an  huge  ox  bred  in  Kent,  seventeen 
feet  in  length,  and  much  higher  than  I  eoold  reach." 

/  saw  in  the  Cattle  Show  of  1869  an  ox  which 
stood,  so  said  the  catalogue,  eighteen  or  twenty 
inches  higher  than  anv  other  beast  in  the  show, 
so  that  tail  men  stood  on  a  chair  to  manipulate 


the  patient  creature ;  but,  in  these  days  of  forcing, 
the  length,  though  great,  of  the  animal  must  have 
been  much  short  of  the  Commonwealth  one.  Ha 
must,  I  think,  have  been  a  si^  of  the  times,  when 
monstrous  things  were  hzeeding.  J«  A.  Q^ 

Gaiisbiookeu 

.Chbistofhobijs  MoBixxs. — ^I  have  before  ma 
two  volumes  of  Masses,  written  by  this  celebrated 
Spaniard ;  and  as  I  believe  very  little  is  known 
Of  his  music,  and  of  Hiese  volumes  in  partieular, 
it  seems  that  "  N.  &  Q.^'  becomes  a  fittmg  home 
for  this  note.  The  first  volume  is  dedicated  to 
"  niuatriss.  atque  excellentis.  Cosmo  Medici 
Floren.  Dud";  and  contains  three  masses  £or 
four  voices  thus  entitied  (generally  from  the  sub- 
ject of  the  fu^e): — 1.  "De  beata  Yirg^e *^;  2, 
"Aspice  Donune";  S.  "Vulnerasti  cor  meum*" 
Three  for  five  voices:  1.  ^Ave  maris  stella"| 
2.  "Queramus  cum  pastoribus;"  8.  ^'L'homma 
arm^."  And  two  for  six  voices:  1.  "Mille  re- 
gretz";  2.  ^' Si  bona  suscepimus." 

The  second  volume  is  dedicated  to  "  Sanctissimo 
Paulo  tertio  Pontifici  maximo/'  and  has  a  fine 
frontispiece,  with  the  Pone  blessing  Morales,  who 
is  holoing  open  his  boot  of  music  at  the  mass 
"  Tu  es  vas.''  The  sides  of  the  plate  are  onpa- 
mented  with  music  and  instruments;  at  the 
bottom  are  the  arms  of  the  Pope.  This  volume 
contains  five  masses  for  four  voices : — ^1.  '^  Tu  es 
vas  electionis" ;  2.  "  Benedicta  escelor  regina";  8, 
"Ave Maria";  4.  "Gaude Barbara";  5.  "L'homme 
Bim6"  Three  for  five  voices :  1.  "  De  beati  Vir- 
gine";  2.  "Quern  dicunt  homines";  8.  "Pro 
aefunctis." 

The  two  volumes  were  printed  at  Rome  by 
Valerius  Doricus  and  Ludovicus,  brothers,  in  the 
year  1544.  They  are  printed  in  the  old  musical 
square  notation,  and  unbarred;  have  five  initial 
letters  on  each  page ;  and,  at  the  top  of  each  left- 
hand  page,  is  the  writer's  name,  and  on  the  right 
the  name  of  the  mass.  It  is  said  that  only  one 
other  copy  of  this  great  work  exists,  which  is  at 
the  Vatican ;  and  any  one  who  reprints  the  si^me 
is  liable  to  excommunication.  I  hope  my  (minus 
er-)  communication  will  not  be  considered  too 
long,  as  in  all  probability  the  books  will  get  into 
a  library,  and  nothing  more  be  known  or  mougbt 

of  them.  H.  A.  W. 

St.  Alban's,  Holbom. 

CBNTENTAKiAirs. — ^The  following  notices  of  per- 
sons who  have  lived  for  more  than  a  century  are 
worth  preserving  in  "  N.  &^  Q."  Perhaps  the 
requisite  proofs  may  be  furnished  in  your  pages. 
I  nave  cut  them  from  the  Lincoln^  Autland,  (md 
Stamford  Mercury  of  January  20 : — 

**  Mrs.  Mary  Pitt  died]  at  Liskeard,  Cornwall,  the  other 
day,  aged  102  years  and  10  months.  The  reqnisite  proof 
has  been  obtained  of  her  longevity. 

*<At  Wbittlesford,  near  Cambrid^  on  New  Yearns 
Day,  a  woman  named  Sarah  Dnnn  died,  aged  101  years. 


160 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k  S.  VII.  Fbb.  26v  Tl. 


She  had  borne  twelve  children,  and  she  had  at  her  death 
twenty  grandchildren,  sixty  great-grandchildren,  and 
thirteen  gr^atpgreatrgrandchildren.  But,  nngular  to  relate, 
oat  of  all  these  there  are  only  two  males  to  perpetuate  the 
name  of  Donn. 

«<  On  Thursday  the  12th  died  at  Sandwkh  Mrs.  Mary 
Butler,  who  was  bom  at  Worth,  near  Sandwich,  March 
25,  1770,  thus  having  attahied  the  patriarchal  age  of 
100  years  and  nine  months.  Mrs.  Butler,  who  Was 
christened  and  married  at  her  native  village,  had  been  a 
widow  upwards  of  forty  years.  She  was  a  sharp-speaking 
woman,  nad  a  quick  ear  and  a  ^ood  memoiy,  but  had  for 
•ome  years  been  quite  blind." 

^  K.  P.  D.  R 

The    followiog   cutting,  from   The   Times  of 
January  last  deserreB  preservation  in  '^N.  &  Q." : 

Mbb.  Sbiblbt  Mobsb  Godd»  Aoed  100.— ''On  the  17th 
Jan.,  at  Suasez  Lodge,  Kingston  Hill,  the  residence  nX  her 
son,  Edward  S.  Godd,  Esq.,  aged  100  rears,  nine  months, 
and  six  davs,  Mrs.  Shirley  Morse  Goad,  relict  of  the  late 
Major  Phihp  Codd,  of  Rnmstead  Court,  Sittingboume, 
Kent,  and  Muingtoo." 


/>'^  v.- 


,  \ 


tkVitxM. 


V 


'       THE  BROKEN  BRIDGE. 

K  Zhis'  common  street  exhibition  is  well  known 
l)y  us  under  the  name  of  the  "  Chinese  shades " 
and  the  *'  Fantoccini " — an  Italian  name  which 
means  (according  to  some  Itatian  lexicographers) 
Chinese  phantoms  or  shades.*  The  French  ssy 
that  the  amusement  is  of  Italian  origin,  so  far  at 
least,  I  presume,  as  they  are  concerned.  The 
Italians  say  that  it  came  to  them  from  China.  I 
have  never  witnessed  the  Broken  Bridge  in 
France,  hut  I  know  that  it  is  a  common  show  in 
Paris,  Lyons,  and  other  cities,  and  that  it  is  some* 
times  acted  a  la  Guignoly^  ana  sometimes  with  the 
shades.  I  have  met  with  a  French  yersion  of  the 
dialogue,  which  is  word  for  word  with  ours ;  and 
I  have  heard  the  tune  sung  by  a  French  gentleman, 
and  find  that  it  is  the  same  as  the  English  one.  In 
Italy  I  have  seen  two  exhibitions  of  the  Broken 
Bridge.  The  first  was  a  Marionette  one,  and  it 
occurred  at  Arena  on  Lago  Maggiore ;  the  other 
was  at  Bologna  in  an  archway  in  the  street  that 
leads  from  the  Cathedral  to  the  Great  Square. 
A  visitor  to  Bologna  will  find  that  the  above 
archway  is  used  almost  every  night  throughout 
the  year  for  Marionettes  and  Cninese  Shades. 
The  bologna  show  was  a  '^  Fantoccini "  one.  In 
both  cities  the  dialogue  and  song  were  the  same 
as  we  have  them,  and  so  were  the  scenes.  There 
were  the  broken  bridge,  the  swan  that  ^'  swam 

*  I  do  not  pronounce  this  derivation  correct,  I  8a\*  as 
much  to  prevent  any  correspondent  taking  the  paynei  to 
convict  me  of  ignorance  of  etymology.  I  neither  **  guess  " 
nor  pmnnunoe  ex  eaihedrd,  I  am  a  veiy  modest  man, 
and  may,  like  another  correspondent,  have  got  hold  of  a 
*•  dictlonnry  "  of  ••  no  authority." 

t  By  the  by<»,  who  was  Uuignol  ? 


over,"  and  the  traveller  who  "couldn't";  the 
cobbler  and  the  mischievous  woman,  and  the  cob^ 
bler*s  impertinent  reply  to  the  traveller's  asking 
the  hour.  Indeed  there  was  not  the  slightest  de- 
viation, either  in  the  music,  song,  dialogue,  and 
accessories,  from  the  same  as  we  have  them  in  our 
exhibition.  In  Italy  the  Marquis  of  Ponte  Cassata 
is  equivalent  to  the  Marquis  of  Carabas  in  France. 
I  should  like  to  know  more  about  the  history  of 
the  Chinese  shades  and  the  play.  What  allusions 
are  found  in  any  old  works  P  I  have  no  doubt 
that  some  of  the  learned  correspondents  of 
'*  N.  &  Q."  can  throw  light  even  on  tnese  Aadenf 
There  are  few  of  us  who  have  not  laughed  at  the 
Broken  Bridge,  and  I  shall  be  most  happy  to 
know  when  and  by  whom  that  immortal  structuro 
was  planned.  Szbphbi  Jackson. 


"  AkTHOLOGIA  BORBALia  BT  AUSTBALIS.''— Dr. 

Forster,  in  his  PoekU  JSneyelopadia  of  Natural 
Phmontena  (p.  10),  quotes  some  lines — ^The  Stu- 
dent and  the  Cherry-clack" — ^from  what  he  calla 
"  the  AfUh(Uogia  Bar.  et  Au$/* ;  and  again  (p.  48) 
introduces  some  quaint  verses  thus:  — 

**  An  antient  proverbial  adage  in  verse  says— > 

*  When  the  lonelie  owle  in  the  chimney  bowleg 
In  the  dead  of  a  wintrie  night,'  Ac. 

AmhoL  Bor.  ef  Amm^ 

Canon  Oakeley,  in  Jus  CathoUc  Florid  (p.  l)v 
gives  a  poem  of  nearl^orty  lines  firom  the  same 
source,  and  makes  other  frequent  quotations  from 
it,  sometimes  (as  p.  104)  with  chapter  and  verse 
appended — **Anthologia  Bor,  et  Aue,,  viii.  4." 

The  work  is  also  quoted  by  the  author  of  Wild 
Flowere  and  their  Teachinge  (Bath,  1845),  p.  4^1 
and  by  other  writers. 

I  have  ascertained  that  the  book  does  not  occur 
in  the  catalogue  of  the  Museum  Library,  London, 
nor  in  that  of  the  Bodleian  at  Ozfora.  Canon 
Oakeley,  I  am  told,  can  give  no  information  about 
it,^  except  that  the  quotations  were  sent  him  by  a 
friend.  Amonff  those  of  my  own  friends  who  are 
best  aoqudnted  with  Enghah  literature,  not  one 
has  ever  met  with  this  mysterious  volume. 

Can  the  quotations,  like  the  "*  Old  Play"  of  Sir 
Walter  Scott*s  novels,  have  been  invented  for  the 
nonce  by  some  person,  and  copied  witiiout  inquiry 
by  subsequent  writers  P  Dr.  Forster's  is  the  earliest 
mention  of  it  I  can  find.  He  was  not  a  little 
eccentric  in  his  literaty  productions.  Can  it  be  a 
caprice  of  his  P  W.  L.  N. 

Woodlands,  Bridgewater. 

[Seventeen  rears  ago  it  was  discovered  by  onr  valaed 
correspondent  William  Pinkrrtoit,  F.S.A.,  that  the 
Amtknto^  BoreafU  et  AuMtralii  is  a  purely  imaginary 
title  for  certain  pieces  of  prose  and  vene,  the  prodttcHon 
of  Dr.  Forster,  and  has  no  existence  save  in  his  Circle  of 
the  Searniu  and  Pocket  EncvcUmmdia,  Sec  "  K.  &  Qr.* 
!••  S.  U.  569.] 


4AS.V1I.  Fkb.25,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QULltlES. 


161  ^ 


AvBBT  Pbdigbes.  -^  John  Avery,  of  Bodmin, 
eo.  CJornwall,  married  Isoult  Barrr,  of  Wynscote, 
00.  Devon.  A  clue  to  the  date  is  furnished  bv  the 
fact  that  Isoult's  father,  John  Barry,  died  in  1538. 
Had  thev  any  children?  and  were  they  the  an- 
eeatoiB  or  Every  of  Wycroft  Castle,  co.  Devon  ? 
I  may  add  that  Henry  Barry,  eldest  brother  of 
laoul^  was  bom  in  1514  I  cannot  discover, 
though  I  have  spared  no  nains,  to  what  family  of 
Avervs  this  John  Avery  belonged.  Your  corre- 
spondent R.W.  seems  to  be  versed  in  the  Avery 
pedigree&  Can  he  kindly  give  me  any  clue  to  the 
decision  of  a  question  for  which  I  have  exhausted 
all  the  Heralds'  Visitations  in  the  British  Museum, 
in  vain  f  Hbbmsi7tbx7Db. 

Abtificial  Flt-pi8HIK&. — Who  invented  this 
practice  P  Where  can  I  find  any  early  notices  of 
It?  It  is  earlier  than  Dame  Juliana  Bemers,  who 
tells  us  how  to  dub  *'zii  fives  wvth  whiche  ye 
shall  angle  to  ye  trought  and  grajllyng.'' 

PBLAGItrS. 

Cablo  Cbivblli. — Wanted,  particulars  of  the 
life  and  works  of  Carlo  Crivelli.  His  pictures 
bear  date  from  1468  to  1405,  and  he  is  said  to 
have  been  the  scholar  of  JacobeUo  del  Hore.  He 
Is  A  rare  master  in  England,  though  our  National 
Ghilleiy  possesses  four  of  his  works,  and  four  are 
now  exhibited  at  Burlington  House,  .three  of 
which  are  lent  by  Earl  Dudley. 

John  Piggot,  Juir. 

rCriv«Ui  18  believed  to  have  been  a  native  of  Yenioe, 
and  to  have  floorisfaed  from  about  1460  till  1476.  Two 
pictures  by  this  artist  are  in  the  church  of  S.  Sebastiano 
at  Venice,  representing  S.  Fabbiano  and  the  Marriage  of 
S.  Catherine ;  and  one,  the  **  Annunciation,**  was  bought 
at  the  sale  of  Edward  Solly's  collection  by  the  late  Lord 
Taunton.  The  latter  bears  the  inscription  *^  libertas 
ficdesiastiea  Opus  OaroU  CriviUi  Veneti,  I486.**  Con- 
anlt  Michael  Brvan's  Diet,  of  FaUtttn  and  Engraven, 
ed.  by  Stanley,  1848.] 

''The  CoiroiLiAD." — I  have  recently  met  with 
•  quarto  pamphlet  bearing  the  following  title :  — 

**  The  Condliad ;  or  the  Triumph  of  Patriotism.  A 
^oem.  IVanslated  from  the  Latin  of  Tertius  Quartns 
Qnintut.  The  Third  Edition.  London :  Printed  for  T. 
Pridden,  at  the  Feathers  in  Fleet  Street,  near  Fleet 
Bridge,    mdcclzii.** 

It  contains  twenty-eight  pages  of  print,  but 
there  are  only  sixteen  lines  m  each  page.  The 
aafire  appears  to  have  been  published  on  the 
occasion  of  the  elder  Pitt  receiving  his  pension  of 
SOOOL  per  annum  soon  i^ter  the  accession  of 
George  IIL  I  think  I  can  detect  Louis  of  France 
and  Madame  Pompadour   under  the  guise   of 

L and  P ,  and  Pitt  is  very  plainly  alluded 

to  under  the  same  contracted  form ;  but  I  cannot 

add  names  to  the  following:  Fauk»— .  C 1, 

G •  N ,  B ,t  A 4  and  H .§ 

£*  GranviHe.    f  Bedford.    {  Anaon.    {  Hardwicke.] 


The  letter  N  may  mean  the  Duke  of  Newcastle, 
and  H  may  be  Lord  Hardwicke ;  but  the  verse 
requires  B  to  mean  two  syllables,  and  conse« 
quently  cannot  stand  for  the  Marquis  of  Bute. 
Can  any  reader  of  '^N.  &  Q."  assign  names  to 
the  above  initials,  and  give  the  author  of  the 
poem  P  T.  T.  W. 

SIBA.VGB  FiEE  PA.ID  BT  Irish  Bishops. — I  have 
it  on  the  authority  of  a  distinguished  prelate  that, 
among  the  fees  exacted  from  an  Irish  bishop  on 
appointment  to  his  see,  was  one  of  twenty  or 
twenty-five  guuieas  to  the  Lord-Lieutenant*s  cook. 
The  disestaluishment  of  the  Irish  church  has  conse- 
quently rendered  less  valuable  pro  tanio  the  situa- 
tion of  the  Viceroy's  cordon  bleu.  Can  any  one 
mention  the  origin  of  this  strange  perquisite  r 

ll.  A.  KENKEDT. 
Eldon  HouaOi  Beading. 

FntB  usBD  ur  BvBKnre  thb  Dbad. — In  a  de- 
scription of  the  burning  of  the  body  of  a  prince 
on  we  banks  of  the  Amo,  near  Florence  (which 
took  place  some  time  last  year,  with  the  usual 
rites  of  Hindoo  observance^  it  is  mentioned  that 
the  fire  to  light  the  funeral  pile  was  carried  in  a 
vessel  alongside  the  bodv.  Can  any^  of  your 
readers  tell  me  if  such  is  the  usual  practice  P  And 
if  so,  whence  the  fire  in  the  vessel  is  obtained  P 

Cbbmatioit. 

Samitel  Foote. — ^The  following  is  the  title  of 

a  MS.  formerlv  in  the  possession  of  Kichard  Heber, 

and  sold  at  his  death.    It  will  be  found  in  the 

printed  Catalogue  (Pt  xi.  MSS.  No.  429)  :— 

«<  Piety  in  Pattens.  Written  by  S.  Foote,  Esq^  and 
first  performed  in  his  Primitive  Puppet  Show.**  MS.  4to. 

Is  it  known  what  has  become  of  this  manu- 
script P  Geo.  C.  Boase. 

[This  manuscript  was  parchased  by  Thomas  Bodd,  the 
celebrated  bookMlier,  for  one  shilling!] 

'' Habeas  Cobpus''  Act. — Is  it  possible  that 
the  story  told  of  the  mode  in  which  this  famous 
act  was  passed  is  founded  on  fact  P  I  recollect 
reading  that  the  teller  in  the  House  of  Lords  for 
the  AyeS|  when  he  saw  a  very  corpulent  peer  pass, 
called  out  **  There  go  itoo  lords/'  and  the  teller  for 
the  Noes,  not  perceiving  the  joke,  counted  two. 
Of  course  if  the  names  of  the  peers  voting  were 
tfdcen  down^  as  at  present,  such  a  mistake  would 
have  been  impossible ;  but  in  the  days  of  the 
^'  Merry  Monarch  "  it  may  have  been  differently 
arranged.  The  bill  was  carried  by  a  oi^ority  of 
one  only.  Y.  S.  bL 

[According  to  Bishop  Bamet  (JTurfofy  of  Ai»  Own 
Ttme,  ii.  260,  edit.  1823),  we  are  indebted  to  a  Jest  for 
this  highly-prized  palladiam  of  English  liberty.  To 
quote  the  bishop's  words  (1680),  he  says:  "The  former 
parliament  had  passed  a  very  strict  aa  for  the  dne  exe- 
cution of  the  habeas  corpus ;  which  was  indeed  ail  they 
did.  It  was  carried  by  an  odd  artifice  in  the  House  of 
Lords.  Lord  Grey  andl>onl  Norris  were  named  to  be  the 


162 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«*  S.  VII.  Fbb.  25, 71. 


tenenr.  Lord  Norris,  being  a  man  rabjeot  to  vapoons 
was  not  at  all  times  attcntlTe  to  what  he  was  doing;  so  a 
TCiy  fat  lord  coming  in.  Lord  Gr^  counted  him  for  ten, 
as  a  jest  at  first,  but  seeing  Lord  Korris  bad  not  observed 
it,  he  went  on  with  this  mis-reckoning  of  ten :  so  it  was 
reported  to  the  House,  and  declared  that  th^  who  were 
tor  the  bill  were  the  majority,  though  it  indeed  went  on 
the  other  side,  and  by  this  means  the  bill  passed."] 

Baclad:  "Nxttting." — ^Fifty  years  a^  I  le- 

mmnber  reading  a  ballad  called  '*  Nutting/'  in 

wliicli  appeared  the  following  ataaxa:  — 

**  *  Zovnds  1 '  quoth  the  farmer,  *  where  is  Dick  ? 
The  night  is  coming  on  as  quick, 

Tis  time  the  sheep  were  put  in ; 
But  I  must  fold  them,  I  suppose. 
While  the  young  idle  rascal  goes 

With  Margery  a-nutting.' "  , 

I  think  I  saw  this  in  a  Ladies'  Almanack  or 
Diary  about  the  time  above  mentioned.  Can  any 
of  your  correspondents  tell  me  where  I  can  find 
this  ballad  P  Joseph  HAsaiBoir,  Juv. 

231,  Seath  18th  Street,  Philadelphia. 

The  Phcenix  Thboitk.  —  Sebastian^   in  The 

Tensest,  exclaims :  — 

"  Now  I  win  belleye 
Tliat  there  are  nniooms,  that  in  Arabia 
There  is  one  tree,  the  phoBnix*  throne,  one  phosniz 
At  this  hour  reigning  there.*' 

It  is  two  decades  ednoe  I  looked  into  Herodotus. 
Does  he  connect  the  phoenix  with  any  particular 
treeP  I  am  aware  that  ^ivi^  is  both  the  bird 
and  the  palm-tree.  But  did  Shakespeare  refer  to 
any  definite  legend  P  And  if  so,  where  may  it  be 
found  P  Maxboghbib. 

QiTOCifRnr. — When  ean  the  following  quota- 
lion  be  found  P  — 

**  the  actions  of  the  Jost 
Smefi  sweet,  and  blossom  in  the  dust" 

W.  (1.) 

[By  J.  Shirley,  Qmitmium  •/  Ajnx  and  CTZysses, 
scene  3.3 

CKorBSE  BtTDDBBS  01'  Ships. — These  have 
numerous  rhomboidal  holes  cut  in  them,  from  a 
notion  that  the  eddying  of  the  water  through 
them  unparts  an  additional  power  in  steering  the 
yeaseL  The  Chinese  are  so  thoroughly  practical 
a  nation^  that  I  am  induced  to  ask  if  this  con- 
atmction  of  rudder  has  eyer  been  tried  in  England) 
and  with  what  result  P  M.  D. 

Saiht  Wttlfra!?^. — ^Where  shall  I  find  some 
account  of  9t.  Wulfran,  bishop  and  confessor, 
whose  festival  daj  b  October  15  P  I  have  ftuled 
to  discoTer  him  in  the  Acta  Sanctorum  under  that 
daji  and  haye  consulted  many  other  books  with 
an  equal  want  of  success.  1^  must  not  be  con- 
founded with  his  namesake  St.  Wulfrani  arch- 
bishop of  Sensy  whose  feast  is  March  20.  As  I 
fear  some  of  your  maders  nuty  doubt  the  exist- 
ence of  the  St.  Wulfran  concerning  whom  I  am 
anxious  for  information,  I  beg  to  refer  to  the 


calendar  published  by  Mr.  J.  J.  Bond  in  his 
valuable  Handy-Book  of  JRulea  and  Tabiu  for 
verifying  Dates,  p.  165.  A.  O.  V.  P. 

Seven  Seexons  on  the  Sageausnt,  1631.— 
I  am  very  anxious  to  ascertain  the  name  of  the 
author  and  other  bibliogTaphical  particulars  of  the 
following  book,  my  copy  being  without  a  title** 
page.  It  is  12mo.  pp.  364.  Seven  sermons  on 
the  Sacrament  or  tne  Lord's  Supper  occupy 
no.  1-278  J  a  prayer,  279-282;  a  tiianksgiving, 
283-286;  then  comes  a  separate  title — 

*<  A  Instification  of  the  Gesture  of  Kneeling  in  the  Act 
of  receiving  the  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Sapper.  Lon- 
don :  Printed  by  £liz.  Allde  for  Robert  Allot.  1631.*^ 
(pp.  289-364.) 

On  p.  217  the  author  refers  to  his  prsvious  trea-^ 
tise,  entitled  tiie  Threefold  JenoMMm. 

W.  0.  B, 

[The  author  k:X  these  works  is  John  Denison,  vicar  of 
St.  Mary's,  Beading,  and  eha|da{n  to  King  James  L 
Wood  {Amkm.  OroH.  ii.  439,  edit.  1815),  who  has  given  & 
list  of  his  woiks,  speaks  of  him  as  '^  a  learned  man,  and 
well  read  in  theological  anUiors.**  He  died  in  the  latter 
end  of  January,  1628^9,  and  was  bnxied  in  St.  Mary** 
chnroh.  Beading.] 

Stoke  Altaes  m  English  Cburohhs. — In 
Haydn's  Dictionary  of  Dates  (p.  28)  I  find  "it  was 
decided  in  1846,  hy  the  Court  of  Arehes,  that  stone 
altars  were  not  to  be  erected  in  English  churches.'^ 
Can  you  give  the  reason  why  P  Ohboa. 

[This  refers  to  the  celebrated  judgment  of  Sir  Herbert 
Jenner  Fust,  who,  in  the  case  of  Fanlkner  v,  Dtchfield 
and  Steam,  mled  that  an  immorable  stone  stmctnre 
which  had  been  placed  in  the  church  of  the  Holy 
Sepnlchre  at  Cambridge  was  not  a  oommnnion  tab» 
within  the  meaning  of  the  rubric.  See  the  indgment  at 
length  in  Bobertson's  EccUsiasHceU BgmiM,t  184.] 


Trbtbbis'  **Q'Rma  Hsrball":  Nakk  07 
Plaiteb. — I  should  be  glad  to  know  some  parti- 
culars of  this  work,  which  wa»  published  in  1696, 
and  seems  to  he  one  of  the  eadiest  of  English 
herbals.  It  is,  of  oouise,  in  blade  letter,  and  is 
illustrated  by  yery  quaint  woodcuts — some  of 
which  do  duty  several  times  for  very  different 
plants.  Who  was  Treveris;  and  is  this  the  ori- 
ginal form  of  the  work,  or  a  translation  P  I  hav» 
Deen  unable  to  identify  the  following  plants,  and 
shall  be  glad  of  help :  — 

"  Linffua  anterii,  Goos-byll  or  strche-wort.  Goos-byll 
or  becdoye  is  an  herbe  corayn  ynough.  The  rote  of  it  is 
lyke  a  goos  byll  I  and  the  levea  ben  lyfce  the  Isvea  of 
feme." 

"  Paiacium  tepnrU  |  hares  palays  I  is  an  herbe  lyke 
sparge  |  but  it  bath  longer  and  rvper  levcs  |  and  is  leved 
lyke  fenell  and  the  rote  lyke  kneholme  [Rumcum]  \  and  it 
bereth  no  floure )  but  a  reed  bery  mce  fragon  [F>»- 
S/aria  ?  ]  hot  it  is  ronder.  It  Is  called  bares  palays.  For 
yf  the  nars  eome  vnder  it  |  he  it  tnre  that  ne  best  cui 
touche  hym.    Some  call  it  artetyke." 

The  former  is  possibly  an  erodium  or  geranium, 
ftcfm  the  description.    The  sow-thistle  {l^imchu» 


^  &  VII.  FsB.  25,  Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


163 


ofaraontt)  was  fonnerlT  known  as  ''  hare's  palace/' 
but  cannot  be  intended  above.    Jambs  BBixTEir. 

Tbx  Vjcto  ax  Papax.  ELWUoars. — Milman,  in 
hiB  Zaim  Chrutimity  (vi.  407,  ed.  1867),  details 
tbe  law  relating^  to  papal  elections  which  Gre- 

£)Ty  X.  procured  to  be  enacted  bj  the  Council  of 
Yons,  "  to  secun  the  papacy  from  the  scandals 
whieh  had  preceded  his  own  election."  But  I  do 
not  find  fram  that  same  learned  woric  how  it 
came  to  pass  that  France,  Germany,  and  Spain 
exercised  the  power  of  the  veto  against  the  elec- 
tiflii  of  any  particular  ciu'dinal  to  the  papacy. 
WJu^  is  Imomi  of  the  origin  of  this  power  P 
Does  it  stftll  exiatP  And  if  so,  how  has  it  been 
affected  fay  the  recent  changee  in  the  relations 
between  tiie  govenuBents  named  and  the  papal 
«ae?  T.  V.A. 

ImEBTAiTD  OF  iriDGWooD  Wakr. — I  have  an 
inkstand  of  Wedgwood's  manufacture,  consisting 
cf  a  semi-globe  supported  by  three  dolphins  on  a 
flat  tziangular  base.  In  the  centre  of  the  semi- 
globe  18  a  conical  yessel  for  ink,  with  a  perfora- 
tion for  the  pen  when  not  in  use.  On  one  side  of 
ihe  ink-yessel  is  a  circular  hole  nearly  an  inch  in 
diameter,  and  on  tbe  other  side  is  a  thimble- 
ahapod  casnty.  Between  these  are  three  perfora- 
tions half  an  inch  wide,  and  three  a  quarter  of  an 
inch  wide.  I  shall  feel  obliged  to  any  correspon- 
^nt  of  ''  N.  ft  Q."  who  will  tell  me  the  pnrpose 
af  tiMse  perioNiitions.  m.  D. 


iieiiUnr* 


IRISH  CAB  AND  NODDY. 
(S**  S.  tL  115, 105  i  l^  S.  vi.  545 ;  vii.  23.) 

It  isan  astenishinff  ciroamstaDoe,  while  it  proves 
Ihe  real  value  of  N.  &  Q.".  ihat  a  vehicle  whieh 
was  IB  eonmon  use  in  Dublin  until  a  compara- 
tively late  period  caaaot  be  propeiiy  described 
wHhout  a  veferenee  to  its  pages.  Even  our  old 
and  learned  contributor  Ashba  is  in  error  when 
apoaking  of  the  noddy,  evidently  misled  by  the 
author  of  SkebeheB  of  Ireiaa%d  Sixty  Yean  A§e» 
Our  friends  at  the  other  side  of  the  Channel  are 
-weej  leamed  in  the  ancient  history  of  Ireland, 
though  thejr  seem  to  be  quite  ignorant  of  its 
nodem  afukra.  Iiett  they,  at  a  future  period, 
nay  describe  the  oar  or  we  aoddy  as  state  car- 
riages of  King  Heber,  the  ''Irish  sea  oueeD,"  or 
Some  other  equally  faoulous  character,  t  feel  dis- 
posed to  ask  the  feditor  of  "  N.  &  Q.^'  for  a  little 
space;  80  that  I  may  set  the  question  at  rest  for 
ever. 

Bush,  in  SihenUa  Ouriosa  (1769),  speaking  of 

Dublin,  expressly  states  that — 

^Tbgr  have  an  odd  kind  of  hacknies  here,  that  is 
called  the  noddy,  which  is  nothing  more  than  an  old 
<ui8toff  one-horse  chaise  or  chair." 


Twiss,  in  his  Tour  in  Ireland  (Lond.  1775), 
says:-— 

"There  are  many  sinele-horae  two-wheeled  ohaiaas* 
which  constantly  ply  in  ue  streets  in  Dablin ;  they  are 
called  noddies." 

The  Travels  of  Twiss  were  very  unpopular,  and 
according  to  the  system  of  the  critics  of  the  day, 
were  immediately  ridiculed  by  An  Heroic  Eputh 
to  K.  Twiss,  Esq.,  from  Donna  Teresa  of  Murda, 
a  lady  mentioned  in  his  Traveh  in  Spain,  and  in 
this  epistle  we  find  the  noddy  first  noticed  in  verse 
as  follows : — 

**  Perhaps  some  syren  wafts  thee  all  alone 
In  magic  vehicle  to  cates  unknown ; 
High-low  machine  that  bears  plebeian  wight 
To  distant  tea-house  or  funereal  rite : 
Still  as  it  moves,  the  proud  pavilion  nods, 
A  chaise  by  mortals,  koddy  termed  by  gods.** 

In  An  Heroic  Ammoer  from  Mr.  Twiss  he  thua 
describes  the  oar : — 

**  Wdl  might  an  artist  travel  fhnn  afar 
To  view  the  atnictore  of  a  low-baoked  car. 
A  downv  mattreas  on  the  car  is  laid. 
The  rev'rend  father  mounts,  and  tender  maid; 
Some  back  to  back,  some  side  by  side  are  plac'd. 
The  ravish'd  maid  by  panting  youth  embrac'd. 
By  doaens  thus,  full  many  a  liiinday  mom. 
With  dawgling  l^gs  ih8jovial«iowd  is  borne  i 
Giontarf  they  seek,  or  Uowth's  aspiring  brow. 
Or  Lezlip,  smiling  on  the  stream  below. 
When  ease  and  cheapness  would  thy  Twias  engage. 
Cars  he  preferred  to  noddies  or  to  stage. 
Oft  on  a  ear  Bavindoa  aaw  me  ride 
From  Tndi^a  iaweis  ahng  hia  verdant  atde.**^ 

In  A  Toar  ^rouffh  Ireland  (Lond.  1780),  the 

author  tells  us  — 

^FroM  the  gmend  badness  of  the  atraefcs,  baekney- 
eeaohea  are  more  flpaqaent  in  proportion  than  in  Louden, 
and  aadaa«cbaiiB  ava  averywb««  as  common  as  aboot 
St.  James's.  The^  have  an  odd  kindof  single^honeehaise 
here,  called  noddies,  so  insufferably  crazy,  and  even  dan- 
gerous, as  to  afford  matter  of  surprise  that  they  are  per- 
mitted to  be  used :  then*  fare  is  half  the  price  of  a  coach. 
Tkey  are  natiiiDg  mora  than  an  old  one-horse  chaise  or 
9bsk[t  vrifth  a  stool  fixed  upon  tbe  sbafts  just  before  the 
seat*  on  which  the  driver  aits,  Just  above  the  ramp  of  his 
horse." 

The  Act  for  paving  and  lighting  the  streets  of 
Dublin  was  only  passed  in  1774,  so  we  must  not 
be  surprised  at  the  tourist  compUiniag  of  the  bad- 
ness of  the  streets,  for  in  another  place  he  says  :-— 

**  Poverty  can  ha  no  reproach  to  oitisens  whose  industry 
is  prevented  fhnn  exertion  t  and  thia  is  the  best  apoUM^y 
I  can  make  for  a  want  Sf  eleanliaesa  which,  if  not  in- 
Jurious  to  the  credit,  must  undimbtadly  be  so  to  the  haallh 
of  this  populous  city;  lor  it  cannot  be  denied  that,ejcospt 
the  few  new  streets,  which  are  paved  and  fla^rged  lilBe 
those  of  London,  the  irbtoh  of  it  is  abominably  dirty  and 
slippery." 

So  it  seems  to  have  been  better  to  have  used 
those  dangerous  vehicles  than  submit  to  the  dis- 

*  These  epistles  will  be  found  in  the  first  and  fburth 
volumes  of  tiie  Repository,  a  Colhctitm  of  Fugitive  Fiece$t 
edited  by  J.  Reed,  and  published  by  DiUy  in  1790. 


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[4«fcS.VlI.FKB.26/71. 


agreeableness  of  walking  Buch  streets,  among 
what  tlie  writer  calls  **  wretched  harridans^ 
covered  with  tattered  weeds,  the  most  horrid  mis- 
creants that  ever  degraded  human  nature."  Fur- 
ther he  says : — 

''The  hawkers  of  news  and  cleaners  of  shoes  fill  up 
the  measure  of  apparent  poverty  in  Dublin.  The  filth  of 
their  bodies  is  offensive^  and  their  manner  shocking;  their 
outrages  upon  decency  disgust  you  at  every  comer,  and 
their  several  cries,  infinitely  more  sonorous  than  ours, 
tingle  in  yoar  eats  with  all  the  ^enraging  varieties  of  the 
brogue." 

Of  the  car  he  tells  ua  that  — 

**  Goods  are  conveyed  about  the  dty  on  two-wheeled 
csxs,  drawn  by  a  single  horse.  The  wheels  are  thin 
round  blocks,  about  twenty  inches  in  dismeter.  They  are 
flrequently  used  as  vehicles  for  the  common  people  on 
their  parties  of  pleasure,  when  a  bed  or  mat  is  placed  on 
the  csr  and  half-a-dozen  people  sit  on  it»  with  their  lags 
banging  a  few  inches  firom  the  ground.  They  are  gene- 
rally dragged  a  foot-pace,  and  am  as  ridiculous  a  chaise- 
marine  as  can  be  imagined.'* 

It  may  be  as  well  to  ohaerre  here  that  another 
edition  of  liiia  work  waa  publiahed,  at  Dublin  I 
auspecti  but  I  do  not  Jmow  either  the  date  or 
place,  as  my  copy  haa  imfortonately  lost  its  title- 
page  ;  but  it  only  differs  from  A  Tour  through 
jMmd  by  being  entitled  the  Compldo  Iruh  Tra- 
veUetf  and  adorned  with  woodcuts.  Of  course 
the  chaise-marine  and  noddy  are  mentioned  in 
the  same  words  in  both  publications. 

In  a  very  rare  work  entitled  A  General  Hitiary 
of  Ireland  in  iU  AnHeni  and  Modem  Stale,  written 
br  John  Angel  and  published  in  Dublin  in  1781, 
tne  writer  tells  us  that— 

"  There  are  800  hackney-coaches  and  about  400  sedan- 
chairs,  the  rates  of  which  are  nearly  the  same  as  in 
London,  and  single-hone  chaiass  and  cats  are  used  on 
parties  of  plessure." 

Angel  being  a  secretary  to  the  Dublin  Society, 
which  had  been  then  for  some  years  endeavouring 
to  introduce  arts  and  mani^tures  into  Ireland^ 
his  work  is  in  a  rather  dignified  style,  oonse- 
ouently  he  does  not  condescend  to  use  the  semi- 
slang  terms  of  **  noddy  "  or  "  chais»-marine  " ;  he 
msrSij  calls  them,  what  they  were  in  fisct-^ai^le- 
horse  chaises  and  cars.  In  1806  Sir  John  Carr 
published  the  Stranger  in  Ireland.  Of  the  noddy 
ne  says  :— 

**  This  carriage  is  now  somewhat  rare.  It  is  an  old 
battered  single-horse  chaise,  with  the  head  up,  having  a 
seat  for  Pat  upon  the  shafts,  who  is  so  placed  that  he 
retaliates  upon  his  passenger  for  the  rump  of  the  horse 
being  placed  close  to  his  veiy  mouth.  As  this  machine 
moves  it  nods :  and  hence,  as  the  Irish  are  always  de- 
aoriptive  in  their  expres^ns,  I  presume  its  name." 

A  new  yehicle  called  a  Jingle  had  by  this  time 
Appeared  in  Dublin.    Sir  ^hn  tells  us  :*-' 

**  I  reached  a  jingle  stand,  and  having  heard  much  of 
this  caniage,  in  company  with  a  friend  I  mounted  one, 
and  took  a  drive  apon  a  uoble  road  for  about  two  miles. 
This  caniage  resembles  as  much  of  a  coach  as  remains 


after  the  doors  and  the  upper  sides  and  roof  ars  removed^ 
and  is  mounted  very  high  upon  four  large  slender  wbeelsk 
Its  motion  produces  a  rattling  noise,  which  rurnisbes  its 
name :  it  is  drawn  by  one  miserable-looking  horse,  whose 
fate  it  is  frequently  to  pull  after  him,  upon  a  smart  trot, 
bis  driver  and  six  passengers.  The  principal  stand  of 
these  carriages  is  at  the  end  of  Bagot  Street ;  they  ara 
numbered,  and  the  drivers  are  subject  to  the  control  of 
the  police  for  improper  behaviour.  They  generally  run 
to  the  Pidgeon-honse  and  to  the  Blackrock,  and  back 
again.  The  fare  is  sixpence  only  to  each  person.  These 
carriages,  wretched  as  they  look,  are  veiy  convenient^ 
and  persons  of  the  first  respectability  fireqnently  ride  in 
them." 

The  jingle,  then,  was  no  other  than  an  old 
hackney-coach  that  had  been  divested  of  its  upper 
parta;  while  a  noddy  was  merely  a  abgle-horsa 
chuse  with  an  added  seat  on  the  shaft  for  the 
driver.  Being  a  public  caniage,  it  consequently 
was  not  driven  by  the  person  who  sat  in  it,  as 
Addison  tells  us.  The  ''one-horse  chay  "  is  now, 
I  believe,  only  known  in  England  by  the  conuA 
aong  which  relates  the  laughable  adventurea  of 
Mr.  and  Mra.  Bubb  when  they  used  one  at  Brigh- 
ton instead  of  a  bathing-machine — a  vehicle,  bj 
the  way,  not  ao  common  in  Ireland  as  it  ought  to 
be.  We  here  see  the  fallacy  of  Mk.  RiDXOirDy 
who  tells  us  that  — 

"...  the  old  public  can  called  jingles,  which  were  modem 
or  improved  noddies,  and  were  the  preeurson  of  the 
present  covered  and  outside  ears  peculiar  to  Dublin." 

The  author  of  Sketehee  of  L-eland,  equallr  tm 
abaurdly,  tells  us  that  the  car  **  was  succeeded  by 
the  nocfdy,"  for 

"  Our  one-horse  vehicles  have  alwsys  been  peculiar  to 
ourselves,  and  were  in  use  long  before  anything  of  a 
similar  kind  was  introduced  into  England." 

We  have  seen  the  car  described  in  A^  Tour 
through  Irdand  as  a  chaise-marine,  but  it  was 
more  generally  termed  a  Ringsend  car,  from  the 

Elace  to  which  it  was  most  fr^uently  drivoi.  It 
ad  been  improved  from  the  dava  when  it  was 
covered  with  <'  a  bed  or  mat" ;  it  had  now  springs 
and  cushions,  and  was  termed  a  jauntingHsar,  and 
it  is  thus  described  by  Sir  John : — 

^  Upon  the  road  we  saw  several  carriages  peculiar  to 
the  country.  That  which  struck  me  most  was  the  jaunt- 
ing car,  an  open  carria^^  mounted  upon  two  small  wheels^ 
drawn  by  one  horse,  m  which  the  company  sit  back  to 
back,  and  hence  the  Irish,  in  badinage,  caU  it  an  Irish 
ois-d-vis ;  whilst,  on  the  other  hand,  considering  the  posi- 
tion of  the  parties  and  of  the  coachman,  who  is  elevated 
in  front,  I  have  heard  it  mors  appropriateiy,  tfaoMh  less 
delicately,  nominated  the  cut-^HmL  This  carriage  is  very 
convenient  and  easy,  and  will  cany  six  persons  besides 
the  coachman." 

In  1808  there  was  published  in  London  a  work 
entitled  My  Pocket-Book,*  It  was  merely  a  tr*- 
Testis  upon  Sir  John  OaiT*s  Stranger  in  Ireland, 
Thereupon  the  ill-advised  knight  prosecuted^  the 
publishers,  Messrs.  Hood  k  Sharpe,  for  libel, 

[*  By  Edward  Dubois.] 


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estimating  his  dami^es  at  2000/.  The  trial  came 
on  at  Qoildhall,  berore  Lord  Ellenboroughi  and 
created  a  great  sensation  in  the  literary  world. 
The  jury,  Ml  by  his  lordship's  charge,  without  a 
moment's  hesitation  returned  a  verdict  for  the 
defendants,  thus  establishing  the  rights  of  criticism, 
and  so  the  knight  got  nothing.  At  page  26  of 
My  Pocket  Book  there  is  a  picture  of  a  noddy,  and 
at  page  1  another  of  a  jaunting  car,  a  lar^ 
clumsy  yehide  as  it  then  was.  being  in  a  transi- 
tion state  firom  the '^Ringsena  car  to  the  neat 
modem  janntinff-car.' 

I  have,  probably,  the  largest  collection  of  prints 
relating  to  Irelana  belonging  to  any  private  gen- 
tleman, and  I  am  able  to  trace  in  them  the  Kings- 
end  car,  in  its  different  phases,  up  to  the  modem 
1'auntinff^-car.  One  of  them,  being  a  view  of  Drog- 
leda,  mi  published  in  the  Eun^^ean  Magazine, 
actually  represents  a  party  of  four  on  a  Kiogsend 
car,  in  the  very  spot  where  Twiss  is  represented 
Mjing  in  hia  Jaeroic  Answer : — 

''Oft  on  a  car  Buvindns  saw  me  ride 
From  Tredagk'fl  towen  along  hia  verdant  side.** 

I  Temember  perfectly  well  the  old  cbmmon  car 
of  Ireland,  as  we  used  to  term  the  Bingsend  car, 
with  its  wheels  formed  of  one  solid  piece  of  wood. 
All  the  week  it  may  have  carriea  any  kind  of 
gooda,  but  on  Sundays,  covered  with  a  bed  or 
juilt,  it  always  took  a  party  of  pleasure  out  on  a 
jaunt  It  is,  I  believe,  quite  extinct  now ;  but  an 
old  lady,  lately  deceased,  who  was  on  a  visit  at 
the  house  of  a  country  magistrate  in  the  county 
of  Down  (which  has  oeen  termed  the  Yorkshire 
of  Irekmd}  in  the  year  1800,  has  often  told  me 
that  the  ladies  of  the  famUy  always  rode  on  a 
common  or  Ringsend  car  to  church ;  the  gentlemen 
were  of  course  on  horseback.  Her  story  is  curi- 
ooaly  illustrated  by  another  print  that  I  have, 
entitled  ''  The '  Tinnihinch  Road,  with  a  View 
of  Biay-Town  and  Head,"  dated  1781,  in  which 
three  ladiee,  dressed  in  the  extreme  of  the  fashion 
of  that  day,  are  represented  riding  on  a  Ringsend 
car.  The  horse  of  the  car  is  led  by  a  little  boy, 
who  walks,  dressed  as  a  servant  or  m[e,  while  the 
gentleman  of  tiie  party  rides  a  spirited  horse. 

Lever  teUs  us  a  tale  of  an  old  woman  going  to  a 
ball  on  one  of  these  cars;  but  there  was  nothing 
strange  in  that,  fori  have  fiequentlyseen  it  done: 
nay  more,  I  have  actually  seen  in  Ireland  a  swell 
of  the  period  going  to  a  ball  in  a  wheelbarrow. 
The  night  was  very  wet,  and  the  two  miles  of 
road  he  had  to  traverse  were  very  dirty ;  but  by 
the  aid  of  several  cloaks  he  was  kept  perfectly 
dry,  and  when  turned  out  at  the  entomce  to  the 
ball-room  with  shouts  of  good-humoured  laughter, 
his  feet  were  as  clean  as  lif  he  had  come  in  a  coach. 

WlLUAM  PlNXXBTOK,  F.S.A. 

I  have  a  more  than  boyish  remembrance  of  the 
ModUy,  so  far  back  as  1791,  when  I  first  became 


acquainted  with  Dublin.  Jt  -was  a  low-sized 
phaeton,  with  a  hood  larger  than  its  body,  dirty 
and  dilapidated,  shabby  and  shaky ;  its  Automedon 
seated  on  a  bar  in  front,  decked  in  a  loose  cota- 
more  and  rusty  caubeen,  and  belabouring^  a  gar- 
ron,  the  flesh  whereof  would  not  have  sumced  for  a 
hungry  Parisian*8  breakfast.  Neither  have  I  for- 
gotten its  contemporary,  the  four-wheeled  jingle^ 
with  its  six  passengers,  and  similarly  charioteered 
and  horsed.  I  once  had  the  honour  of  a  spill 
from  one  of  these  accommodating  vehicles,  oe- 
tween  Dublin  and  Seapoint  £.  L.  S. 

In  Glasgow  the  noddy  was  the  common  con- 
veyance as  late  as  1820-30  for  people  not  pos- 
sessing a  private  carriage,  and  wishing  to  go  uiy 
short  distance,  as  they  were  much  1^  expensive 
than  a  hired  post-chaise,  although  perhaps  not  so 
convenient;  neing  not  unlike  the  Dublin  '^rg. 
car,''  but  more  like  a  car  than  an  onmibus. 

The  noddy  had  two  wheels,  was  box-shaped, 
and  was  entered  at  the  back.  Private  noddies 
were  often  kept,  but  their  owners  generally  pre- 
ferred the  term  *'  sociable  "  to  noddy. 

W.  G.  D. 

P.S.  The  Glasgow  noddy  was  the  embryo 
Glasgow  cab. 

SIR  WILLIAM  ROGEB,  KNT. 

a^  a  L  458;  iv.  167,  222,  342, 546 ;  v.  97,  214, 
326;  vL  482,  552;  vu.  82.) 

Dr.  RoexB  seeks  to  excuse  himself  for  having 
in  1867  claimed  to  be  the  representative  of  the 
musician  Roger,  in  that  he  **  oelieved  my  state- 
ment contained  in  Mr.  H.  Lung's  volume  published 
the  year  previously,"  and  hopes  his  ''  mishan  may 
be  a  warning^  to  all  genealogists,"  &c  Now  I 
submit  that  in  Mr.  Laing's  work  is  contained 
neither  genealogical  statement,  nor  statement  of 
mine  of  any  kind  whatever,  my  name  being  nierely 
mentioned  as  that  of  the  person  who  cojnmunicated 
the  casts ;  nay,  more,  I  am  free  to  declare  that  I 
never,  directly  or  indirectly,  su^ested  to^  Db. 
RoeBB  his  descent  from  this  musician,  nor  did  he 
communicate  with  me  at  all  in  regard  to  the 
matter.  The  truth  is  Db.  Roobb  has  fallen  into 
his  own  trap,  and  does  not  exactly  know  how  to 
extricate  himself.  Hinc  UUb  lachrynue.  It  is 
impossible  to  follow  the  remarks  of  one  who  evi- 
denUy  does  not  in  the  least  understand  that 
about  which  he  writes.  For  example :  ''  The  nar- 
rative of  the  crests."  he  says  (referring  to  a  de- 
scription of  an  old  cnarter  seal  containing  a  shield 
and  supporters  with  exterior  ornaments) — ''  Deu- 
char's  book  of  British  cretU  " — (when  it  has  been 
distinctly  pointed  out  that  the  stone  sculj^ture  found 
at  Coupargrange  consists  of  a  Mdd  without  any 
crest)  :  "  No  Scottish  family  of  Roger  or  Rogers 
is  named  as  osiog  even  a  cretiP    What  family 


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t^tb  S.  VU.  Fbb.  26,  71. 


ever  possessed  a  crest  without  the  right  to  bear 
armsr  Most  people  know  that  many  families 
possessed  the  nght  to  bear  arms  without  the  right 
of  using  a  crest^*  but  never  the  converse,  and 
when  was  there  any  Scotch  family  of  the  name 
of  Bogers  P  As  a  question  of  fact  the  arms  con- 
tained on  the  Coupai*grange  sculpture  are  given 
in  Deuchar's  heraldic  work — the  only  heraldic 
work,  in  the  proper  sense  of  the  term,  with  which 
he  was  ever  connected,  vii.  7%e  British  Jlerald,^ 
in  8  vols,  quarto,  by  Thomas  Kobson,  Sunder- 
land 1830.  So  the  alleged  "report"  of  Mr. 
Deuchar, "  after  a  search/'  "  that  the  Coupar- 
grange  family  had  no  crest  or  coat  of  arms  *'  must 
m  the  nature  of  things'^be  purejiction.  Dr.  Bogeb 
says  Mr.  Deuchar  was  '^  altogether  incapable  of 
perpetrating  an  heraldic  forgery,*'  while  in  the 
very  next  sentence  he  describes  the  coat  fabri- 
cated by  Deuchar  for  his  father  the  Rev.  James 
Roger.  This  he  tells  us  exhibits  '*  a  dexter  hand 
holding  a  crosier  surmounting  a  shield  with 
charges  entirely  different  from  those  of  the  casts/' 
a  fact  which  would  rather  go  to  authenticate, 

•  «  The  crest  appeara  to  have  been  a  mark  of  great 
dignity  and  e8tate--moro  bo^  perhaps,  than  was  implied  ia 
the  mere  Hght  to  hear  arms  '^  (Montagu,  p.  47).  ^  Crests 
were  originally  confined  to  a  few,  and  given  by  royal 
grant,  and  even  to  this  day  there  are  several  old  families 
who  have  never  used  them." — Parker's  Glouary,  p.  93. 

t  Denchar's  share  in  this  pnhUoation,  which  mined  its 

E ejector  RobsQD,  and  which  was  what  Mr.  Deachar 
mself  considered  his  great  heraldic  effort— consisted  in 
famishing  all  the  Scotcn  dement  which  H  contains.    In 
this  is  found  the  arms  of  five  aeparata  iamUiee  of  the 
surname  of  Roger,  also  the  fictitious  ooat  numafiuitttred 
by  Deachar  for  the  fhther  of  Da.  Charles  Roger.  Four 
of  these  (obvioasly  authentic)  are  indicated  as  belonging 
to  Seotoh  fiunlUes  of  the  name,  thaagh  wHftMMife  speoifie 
deiigiiatioii.    Mr.  DeiKdMr's  nanner  «f  praoaeding  waa 
this.    When  applied  to  to  furnish  a  coat  of  arm%  he 
gpranted,  without  referenoe  to  the  Lyon  Office— *the  func- 
tions of  which  he  counted  it  his  peculiar  privilege  to 
iisurp~-sach  a  coat  as  In  his  judgment  he  deemed  suitable, 
and  which  he  engraved  acoordingly.    He  then  reewded 
aaeh  eoat  as  tU  faeU  borne  by  the  individual    My 
autbofity  for  this  statameat  is  one  of  Mr.  Deuohar's  prin- 
cipal assistants,  who  has  for  many  yean  been  a  seal- 
engraver  in  the  chief  oommercial  city  of  Scotland.    X 
beueveTI«  Britiah  Ifera/tf  abounds  in  such  coats :  so  much 
for  Dr.  Roosr*s  ^^iaoapable."    Dr.  Roobr's  account 
of  his  father's  coat  annorial  is  not  perfectly  acevrate. 
The  reverend  gentleman,  Uke  his  son,  had  some  notioiis 
of  the  dignity  of  remote  ancestry,  and  **  claimed  to  be  the 
representative" — 1.  of  Roger  the  Norman  Count  of  Sicily ; 
2.  of  Roger  Bishop  of  bt.  Andrews,  son  of  the  £arl  of 
Leicestor.    The  hand  holding  the  crosier  is  copied  from 
the  e|iiscopal  seal  of  Bishop  Roger.    The  senMfe-de-lis 
CQQtaviad  on  the  shield  represents  his  supposed  Norman- 
French  extraction.    **La  Roy**  (the  king,  i.e,  of  Sidly), 
r£;;Us^  the  church,  t.  e.  the  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews. 
These  vagaries  date  Arom  the  rear  of  grace  1820.    The 
ooat  contained  on  the  sculptured  stone  at  Coupargrange, 
and  also  found  in  AvUt^  was  granted,  placed  ufUhm  a 
border^  by  the  Lyon  Office  at  £dinhurgh  somewhere 
within  the  present  eentury  to  a  wood^merchant  ia  Glaa- 
gow  of  the  name  of  Rodger, 


than  disprove  the  autheuticity  of  the  latter,  ioaa- 
much  as  that  the  coat  framed  by  Deuchar  for  the 
father  of  Db.  Boojsb  is  a  known  and  acknowledged 
forgery.  To  this  my  late  father  alludes  in  a 
letter  written  to  me  on  October  23, 1848  :^«  But 
instances  are  aot  rare  where  the  aame  family, 
through  whim  or  otherwise,  has  adopted  different 
arms.  Your  uncle  of  Dunino  at  one  Ume  invented 
a  new  bearing  for  himself,  and  a  grocer  ia 
Perth  of  the  name  of  Boger  had  a  woman 
weighing  s^gar  (how  represented  I  do  not  know) 
cut  for  his  arms.  Both  found  their  way  into 
Deuchar*s  book  of  blazons,  which  shows  the 
worthlessness  of  some .  of  these  books  at  least." 
The  grooer*8  coat  is  not  recorded  in  The  British 
Herald  I  that  fabricated  for  the  &ther  of  Db. 
Roe  BR  is,  however,  given  as  a|;enuine  coat  armorial 
with  every  circumstance  of  authenticity.  Dr. 
BooER  speaks  of  the  '' non-exiating  MarywelL" 
Can  Dr.  Koqsr  point  to  an  instance  of  a  man  de- 
scribed in  an  autnentic  document  as  *^  of  "  a  place 
which  had  not  an  existence  ?  I  have  only  to  add 
that  the  individual  whom  Dr.  Bogsr  describes  as 
^'  a  John  Plavfair ''  was  the  father  of  the  late 
Patrick  Playndr  at  I)almamoek,  Esq.,  West 
India  merchant  in  Glasgow,  and  the  husband  of 
Dr.  Roger'B  grandfather's  sister.  As  to  what 
Dr.  KoeRR  is  pleased  to  '^  assert  positively,^'  I 
must  leave  this  to  the  judgment  and  discretion 
of  the  reader.  J.  C.  Bogrr. 


BAfiClCS. 

{^^  S.  vi.  544.) 

A  short  time  since  I  copied  the  following  para- 
graph from  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers^  Domestic 
Series,  volume  for  the  years  1647-1560  :— 

•'December  17*^,  1666.  Note  of  certain  fMnons  upoa 
Hamber  side  who  bay  ap  great  quaatities  of  ceai»  two 
of  whom  are  authorized  bac^rs." 

Tha  readera  of  the  charming  story.  The  Ladies 
of  Bever  JloUeWf  will  remember  the  ^'  butter- 
badger,''  who  appeaw  im  the  opening  aoeae. 

O.  S.A. 


This  word  may  now  be  confined  to  the  North 
of  England,  but  it  is  not  a  local  term.  It  was 
applied  to  a  dealer  in  com,  meal,  Ac,  being  de- 
nved  from  the  barbarous  Latin  word  blatfyer,  a 
corruption  of  hladarms,  a  com- dealer,  and  was 
applied  to  the  brock  in  consequence  of  the  popular 
tradition  that  it  stored  its  food  (connstiog  of  com, 
meal,  ftc.)  for  its  winter  supply.  Some  derive  the 
word,  as  the  name  of  the  animal,  from  the  Gt>thic 
beU  gMr,  the  baiting  gour ;  if  so,  we  have  an  easy 
transition  to  the  French  hadgeuTf  and  I  am  inclined 
to  think  that  this  is  very  prubable.  How  the  word 
is  still  retained  in  itsjprimitive  state  and  meaning 
in  the  North  I  can  only  explain  by  mentioning 


\ 


4*  S.  Vn.  Fbb.  f5,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


167 


Hhe  f^ctf  that  words  once  in  common  use  all  over 
the  country  have  had  their  spheres  gradually 
diminished  hy  the  use  of  more  modem  forms  of 
expression^  and  are  thus  fossilised :  for  instance, 
the  old  word  ameni  is  now  almost  exdurively  con- 
fined to  the  West  of  England,  as  in  Herefordshire, 
and  among  the  peasantry  generally ;  and  I  have 
not  the  leaet  dount  hut  that  the  word  badger  may 
be  found  to  hare  been  in  common  use  in  more 
than  one  part  of  England.  Badger  is  also  used  to 
mean  a  pedlar  or  porter,  being  derived  from  the 
Italian  hagts^jfie,  this  being  probably  from  the 
Oveek  /9a«^tf,  so  that  both  meanings  will  apply 
in  answering  your  conespondent.       J.  J.  Jtnt b. 

Badger  (firom  the  French  lagmfe,  and  thence  ia 
derived  hc^gmr,  a  carrier  of  goods)  signifies  ''one 
that  buys  com  and  fictnals  in  one  place  and  car* 
riea  them  to  another  to  sell  and  make  profit." 

By  statute  6  &  6  Edw.  VI.  c.  14:  Badger  ex- 
empied  from  the  puni^ment  of  an  ingrosser 
within  that  stetitle. 

By  6  Elia.  c  12 :  Badoeis  to  be  licensed  an- 
nnally  Bnder  penalty  of  6X 

The  7  &  8  Vict  c.  24,  abolished  the  office  of 
badgering,  and  repealed  the  statutes  passed  in  rela- 
tion to  it  (JaeoD's  Law  Diet,.  Wharton's  Law 
Lex.,  &C.  See  also  Littleton's  Lot,  IHct,  4ih  ed., 
1715,  «  Bajulus.")  G.  M.  T. 

Mr.  Peacock's  Ghemry  tf  tMe  Diaket  ef  ike 
Ihmdred  ufLtmeMetpY^A  ''  Mdger = a  travelling 
buyer-op  of  produce.''  E.  H.  Eitowlsb. 


OMBRE. 
(4*'»  S.  vii.  85.) 

I  have  heard  that  ombre  was  a  game  similar  to 

Quadrille,  which  I  remember  to  have  seen  played, 
'ounters  were  need,  which  in  the  first  instance 
were  put  into  a  pool — a  pool  of  quadrille  being, 
like  a  rubber  of  whist,  a  succession  of  games. 
Only  forty  cards  were  used.  I  think  the  threes, 
ibnra,  and  fives  were  those  thrown  out  There 
were  four  players.  The  three  great  cards,  or 
''matadores,"  were  Spadille,  the  ace  of  spades; 
ManiUe,  aocMirding  to  uie  trump,  the  two  of  spades 
or  clubs,  or  the  seven  of  hearts  or  diamonds; 
Basto,  the  ace  of  clubs.  The  trump  was  decided 
by  '*  asking  leave,"  the  first  hand  having  the 
prior  right  If  another  said  ''  preference,"  mean- 
mg  bearte  fbr  the  trump,  the  first  gave  way. 
The  partner  was  dedded  by  one  of  the  plrfen 
**  aceepting.'*  If  the  first  would  not  yield  to 
['preference," -he  might  "  call  a  king  " — i.  e,  nam- 
ing a  king,  and  giving  some  wonhless  card  in 
exchange,  fbr  v^hich  he  paid  a  fine,  and  then 
playing  independent  of  a  partner ;  bnt  if  oinotiier 
eaid  '^I  witl  play  alone,"  all  yielded  to  him. 


If  the  name  of  the  tmmp  made  all  the  ten 
tricks  it  was  a  "  voice,"  if  only  five  it  was  a 
"basto,"  if  only  four  it  was  "codille,"  or  basted 
off  the  board.  When  hearts  or  diamonds  were 
trumps  the  ace  was  called  Punto,  and  ranked 
above  the  king ;  if  not,  below  him  and  the  queen 
and  knave.  Hence,  the  king  of  hearts  not  being 
a  trump  could  take  the  ace,  and  save  Belinda 
from  Codille. 

I  have  heard  that  in  ombre  spades  were  pre- 
ference, and  hence  Belinda  names  spades  as  the 
trump,  she  having  the  three  matadores  (or  mats) 
in  her  hand,  the  king  and  probably  a  small  spade. 
The  reader  will  find  that  only  three  players  were 
engaged,  and  that  there  must  have  been  ten  cards 
in  each  suit.  The  game  derived  its  name  from 
the  fourth  player  t^ing  the^  thadoWf  though  how 
he  became  such  I  know  not.  In  some  old  houses 
you  may  occasionally  see  card  tables  with  scooped- 
out  pools—perhaps  now  used  as  slabs  in  an  upper 
storey— these  are  ombre  tables. 

I  have  heard  that  quadrille  is  'a  Spanish  game. 
The  matadores  suggest  the  bull  fight  Is  Spadille 
the  sword,  Basto  the  dub,  and  Punto  the  dog  P 
What  is  Manille,  and  what  Codille  P 

Oan  any  one  inform  me  what  was  the  game  of 
Boston  P  Z.  Z. 


Your  correspondent  will  probably  find  the  de- 
tails of  this  game  in  the  Compieat  Gamester^  edi- 
tion 1721.  From  this  work  Mr.  Halliwell,  m  his 
Archaic  Words,  quotes  the  following  descrip- 
tion: — 

«  There  are  aeveral  sorts  of  this  game  called  UOmbre, 
but  that  which  is  the  chief  is  called  Renegado,  at  which 
three  only  can  play,  to  whom  are  dealt  nine  cards  a-  piece; 
80  that  disoai^iog  the  eights,  nines,  and  tens,  there  will 
remain  thirteen  cards  in  the  stock ;  there  is  no  ftnunp 
bat  what  the  player  pleases ;  the  first  hand  has  always 
the  liberty  to  play  or  pass;  after  him  the  second,**  &c. 

This  is  as  far  as  Mr.  Halliwell  quotes.  The 
game  is  of  Spanish  origin,  and  is  only  an  improve- 
ment of ''  pnmero."  The  Compieat  Gameater  says 
the  latter  game  went  rapidly  out  of  fiidiion  after 
the  introduction  of  ombre. 

In  Taylor's  Mietory  t^Playmg  Cards  (Hotten) 
it  is  stated  :-^ 

*<Tlie  Italians  have  been  the  inventors  of  almost  all 
the  games  of  pare  chance ;  the  Spaniards,  on  the  contrary, 
afftct  none  but  those  of  a  dignified  character.  Their 
national  game — ombre,  *  the  game  of  man,'  a  modification 
of  the  earlier  game  of  primero— is  of  all  modem  games 
that  which  most  resemoles  the  ancient  iarot.  We  may 
conclude,  therefore,  that  it  is  the  earliest  of  existing 
games,  and  upon  that  assumption,  that  the  Spaniards- 
were  the  earUest  oaid  {teyeia.**  

JoHir  PxoeoT,  Jukil 


There  is,  I  believe,  no  good  deseriptlon  in  print 
of  this  excellent  game,  now,  alas  1  disused  in  Eng- 
land, though  in  full  vogue  in  Spain  (under  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  8.  Vll.  F«B,  86, 71. 


name  of  Treidllo)  and  Spanish  America  (as  Rocam- 
bor),  and,  as  I  have  been  told,  in  Germany  also. 

When  I  was  in  Spain  in  1855  I  collected  two 
or  three  little  tractates  on  Tresillo,  and  from  them 
I  compiled  such  an  account  of  the  game  as  I  sup- 
pose Mb.  Uoa.l  desires ;  that  is  to  saj,  not  an  his- 
torical one,  but  a  description  of  the  game,  with  a 
code  of  rules.     . 

I  fear  it  would  be  too  long  a  ''note"  for 
**  N.  &  Q-''  (it  might  4ake  about  ten  pages,  I  think), 
otherwise  it  womd  be  very  much  at  your  service. 
The  game  is  so  good  a  one,  and  so  superior  to 
Whist  both  in  variety  and  the  opportunity  it 
affords  for  the  exercise  of  skill,  that  it  would  be  a 
real  gain  to  the  Eoglish  world  of  card-players  to 
have  such  a  knowledge  of  its  merits  as  would  be 
triven  them  by  the  appearance  of  its  rules  in 
"  N.  &  Q." 

Meanwhile^  Mb.  UoaIi  is  very  welcome  to  the 
loan  of  my  little  book ;  and  he  will  see  therein 
that  the  ace  is  but  the  fourth  card  in  the  red  suits 
(except  when  trumps),  and  is  consequently  liable 
to  be  captured  by  the  hing,  which  is  the  first 

I  will  take  this  opportunity  of  correcting  an 
error  on  this  subject  into  which  your  correspondent 
Mb.  Pbaoogk  has  fisllen  in  his  very  amusing  book 
Gryll  Orange. 

He  critirises  Pope's  description  (which  is  in- 
deed, as  Mb.  Udal  says,  magnificent)  as  not 
accounting  for  the  full  number  of  forty  cards ;  but 
he  seems  not  to  have  been  aware  that  thirteen 
cards  remun  out  in  each  deal  to  serve  as  a  buik, 
from  whence  the  players  supply  themselves  idTter 
discard ;  so  that  the  cards  in  play  are  but  twenty- 
seven,  and  Pope,  in  this  as  in  all  other  particulars 
of  his  description,  is  perfectly  right. 

Hbi^bt  H.  Oibbs. 
St.  DniutanX  Regsnfs  Park 


at  this  moment  put  my  hand  on  it.    The  date,  I 
think,  was  about  1600.  J.  Macbat. 

Oxford. 


THE  BOOKWORM. 
(4»'»  S.  vi.  627;  vii.  66.) 

I  have  seen  many  bookworms  in  the  course  of 
my  long  intimacy  with  books ;  and  the  first  spe- 
cimen of  the  insect  I  chanced  to  meet  with  was 
in  an  old  yolume  in  Trinity  College  Library, 
Dublin,  in  the  year  1836 ;  and  here,  in  Oxford,  I 
have  seen  not  a  few.  Some  yean  ago  I  received 
a  letter  from  Mr.  John  Leighton,  F.S.A.,  asking 
me  to  try  and  procure  a  specimen  of  the  worm, 
which  he  wished  to  exhibit  before  a  curious  audi- 
ence at  a  lecture  which  he  was  about  to  deliver 
in  London.  I  fortunately  was  able  to  get  a  living 
spHsdmen  of  the  insect  from  my  son  in  the  Bodleian 
Library,  and  transmitted  it  safely  to  Mr.  Leighton, 
endosea  in  a  quill,  by  post,  just  in  time  to  be 
produced  on  the  table  by  the  lecturer. 

I  ''  made  a  note "  of  the  book  in  Trin.  OoU. 
Library  where  I  found  the  ravager ;  but  I  cannot 


Is  the  bookworm  anything  more  than  the  little 
chocolate-coloured  beetle  we  know  so  well  as  the 
producer  of  '*  worm-eaten  "  furniture  and  boards  P 
His  little  twisted  borings  are  the  same  insixe,  and 
I  have  caught  him  in  my  books.  Once  only  have 
I  had  the  privilege  of  catehing  him  in  the  grub 
or  caterpillar  stete,  and  then  he  was  a  whitiah- 
looking  grub  in  the  middle  of  a  volume  I  suddenly 
opened,  and  was  eating  his  passage  out.  I  as- 
sumed at  least  that  this  must  be  a  bookworm,  but 
I  am  no  entomologist  Our  old  librarv  used  to 
be  infested  till  my  mother  cured  the  oooks  by 
having  them  token  down  every  year  and  dusted 
where  needful  with  pepper  and  pounded  alum. 

P.P. 


A  copy  of  Confessions  of  Faith,  8fc,  8fc,  ofmibUck 
Authority  in  the  Church  of  Scotland,  Glaagow, 
1764,  in  my  possession,  is  considerably  worm- 
eaten.  The  diameter  of  the  hole,  measured  at 
several  places  where  the  perforation  is  perpen- 
dicular to  the  sides  of  the  book  (and  the  hole 
consequently  nearly  circular),  I  make  one-twen- 
tieth of  an  inch.  W.  F.  (2.) 

I  have  Prinsep's  Historical  Results  dedudble 
from  recent  Discoveries  in  Affghanistan,  very  badly 
wormed  on  the  back  marjiin,  quite  through  the 
book  and  the  plates,  and  also  through  the  doth 
binding.  Published  in  London  in  1844  by  W. 
H.  Allen  &  Co.  Sax.  Shaw. 

Andover. 


H.  B.  C.  will  perhaps  like  to  know  that  Mr. 
Sylvester  believes  he  has  seen  this  insect. 

**  Xatare,"  he  writes,  **  has  gifted  me  with  eyes  of  ex- 
oeptional  microscopio  power,  and  I  era  epeak  with  some 
assurance  of  baviog  repeatedly  seen  the  creatnre  wriggling 
on  the  learned  psge-  On  approaching  it  with  breaw  or 
fingernail,  it  stiffens  oat  into  the  semblance  of  a  streak  cf 
dirt,  and  so  eladas  detection." — Laws  of  Vene^  p.  118, 
note. 

Maebochxib. 

**  How  dear  are  their  books,  their  cabinets  of  the 
varioos  productions  of  nature,  and  their  collections  of 
prints  and  other  works  of  art  and  science,  to  the  learned, 
the  scientific,  and  the  virtuosi  I  Even  these  precious  trea- 
sures have  their  insect  enemies.  The  larva  of  OwmAus 
Cjuinalit  will  establish  itself  upon  the  binding  of  a 
k,  and  spinning  a  robe,  which  it  covers  with  its  own 
excrement,  will  do  it  no  Kttle  injury.  A  mite  {AeamM 
trmdihis,  SchranM  eats  Uie  paste  that  fastens  the  psifn 
over  the  edges  of  the  binding,  and  so  loosens  it.  I  have 
also  often  observed  the  caterpillar  of  another  little  moth, 
of  which  I  hare  not  ascertained  Uie  spedea^  that  takes 
its  station  in  damp  old  t>ooks,  between  the  leaves,  and 
there  commits  great  ravaKes;  and  many  a  black-letter 
rarity,  which  in  thcM  days  of  bibliomania  would  have 


4*  S.  VII.  F«B.  25, 71.] 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


169 


b«en  Taloed  at  ita  weight  in  gold,  has  heen  snatched  by 
tbese  destroyers  from  the  hands  of  book-collectors.  The 
little  wood-boring  beetles  {Anobhtm  pertinm  and  Btria- 
$tim)  also  attack  books,  and  will  even  bore  through 
several  Tolnmes.  M.  Peignot  mentions  an  instance 
where,  in  a  pablie  librarj  but  little  frequented,  twentjf' 
9e9en  folio  yoiomea  were  perforated  in  a  straight  line  by 
tike  same  insect  (probablj  one  of  these  species)  in  such 
ft  manner  that  on  passing  a  cord  throtagh  the  perfectly 
itmod  bole  made  by  it,  these  twenty-aeven  yoluraes  eonl'd 
be  raised  at  once.  The  animals  last  mentioned  also 
destroy  prints  and  drawings,  whether  framed  or  pre- 
served in  a  porte'feuiUe**  —  Kirby  and  Spence's  Ento- 
flu^o^y*  1822,  vol.  i.  p.  286. 

**  BOOK  WORMS,  HOW  TO  KILT» 

'^  There  is  a  sort  of  busy  worm 
That  will  the  fairest  books  deform. 

By  gnawing  holes  throughout  them ; 
Alike  through  ev'ry  leaf  they  go. 
Yet  of  its  merits  nought  they  know. 

Nor  eare  they  aoght  about  them. 

**  Their  tasteless  tooth  will  tear  and  taint 

The  poet,  patriot,  sage,  or  saint, 

Kor  sparing  wit  nor  learning : 

Now  if  yoa*d  Know  the  reason  why. 

The  best  of  reasons  1*11  supply— 

'TIS  bread  to  the  poor  vermin. 

**  Of  pepper,  snuff,  or  *bacco-smoke. 
And  Russia-calf,  they  make  a  joke. 

Yet  why  should  sons  of  science 
These  puny,  rankling  reptiles  dread  ? 
Tis  but  to*  let  their  books  be  read, 

And  bid  the  worms  defiance."  . 

lUiZ'GiearinA,  by  John  F.  M.  Doraston,  Shrewsbuiy, 
1816,  p.  254.) 

C.  W.  S. 


.  H.  B.  C,  in  your  issue  of  Jan.  21,  says  ^*  he  has 
neyer  seen  a  bookworm  or  heard  of  one  who  has.'' 
Allow  me  to  introduce  myself  as  that  **  rara  avis/' 
t.c.  **  one  who  has."  I  haye  a  copy  of  Durandut 
RatwndUj  Arg.  1484,  in  the  original  beech  board 
Inndinff.  The  latter  is  quarried  through  and 
through  by  the  bookworm.  From  the  dust  it 
made  on  my  shelves  I  felt  that  the  worm  was  in 
it  continuing  its  ravages.  And  one  day  I  became 
conyinced  by  taking  down  a  newly-bound  book 
which  stood  by  its  side,  and  finding  a  slight  per- 
foration of  the  leather,  the  proximity  of  this 
enemy  was  manifest  I  took  severe  measures,  and 
immediately  subjected  Durandtu  to  a  terrible 
beating  with  a  hammer.  Out  popped  one,  then 
two  living  worms,  not  quite  a  quart&r  of  an  inch 
long,  intimately  I  obtained  twenty  specimens 
of  the  worm,  which  is  of  course  a  larval  state ; 
and  besides  this  I  obtained  three  examples  of 
the  perfect  insect,  a  small  brown  beetle^  but 
these  were  dead.  I  ffave  specimens  to  friends, 
and  kept  some  myself  which  by  some  accident 
got  lost 

My  belief  is  that  this  insect  orig^aUy  belonged 
to  the  wood,  and  is  identical  with  that  which  per- 
forates old  furniture  made  of  beech,  walnt^,  or  the 
wood  of  the  pear.    It  is  not  so  often  seen  in  oak, 


for  if  evidently  prefers  the  sweet  woods.  It  does 
not  like  the  miU-board  of  modern  books,  or  it 
would  haye  gone  into  mine,  and  it  prefers  wood 
to  paper.  It  seems  to  me  to  be  a  yery  near  rela- 
tion to  the  nutworm ;  it  is  like  it  in  every  particular 
but  size.  J.  G.  Waxteb. 

68,  Bolsover  Street,  W. 


SHAKESPEARE  AND  ARDEN. 

(4»'»  S.  yii.  118.) 

The  grant  of  Dethick  Garter  and  Camden 
Olarenoeux  to  John  Shakespere  in  1599,  to  impale 
the  '^auncyent  armes  of  Arden  of  Wellinj^ote," 
and  for  his  issue  to  quarter  the  same— if  such 
^nt  eyer  actually  passed  the  seals  of  office^for 
it  is  known  only  from  a  draft  copy  preseryed  in 
the  College  of  Arms — has  been  yery  carefully 
printed  in  The  Herald  and  Oenealoguif  voL  i. 
p.  613,  preceded  by  the  previous  grant  in  1696 
of  the  well-known  arms  of  Shakespeare.  But  it 
was  diown  in  the  accompanying  remarks  that 
there  was  no  proof  that  Arden  of  Wilmcote 
(which  is  the  true  orthography)  eyer  bore  arms; 
and  tiiat  Dethick,  or  whoever  was  the  herald  who 
proposed  to  grant  the  quartering,  hesitated  to 

give  the  arms  of  the  Warwickshire  Ardens,  then 
ourishing  at  Parkhall,  co.  Warwick ;  but  took 
instead  the  arms  of  Arden  of  Alvanley  in  Cheshire 
differencing  them  by  a  martlet  This  ia  shown 
by  a  £ac-simile  (ibid,  p.  608)  of  the  herald's 
sketch,  in  which  the  former  coat  is  scratched 
through  and  the  latter  substituted;  one  being 
Ermine^  a  fess  ehequy  or  and  asure,  the  other 
QtUeB^  three  croeMsJUchSe  and  a  chief  or.  In  fact, 
the  two  families  of  Arden  in  Warwickshire  and 
Cheshire  were  distinct,  and  their  relationship,  if 
any,  is  questionable  and  remote ;  nor  is  there  ap- 
parent support  for  Mr.  Hblsbt's  phraseology — 
*'  the  old  Warwick  stock  of  the  Ardens,  and  the 
Alyanle^  branch  of  that  family.''  Shakespeare's 
mother  m  the  armorifd  draft  of  1699  was  described 
as  "  one  of  the  heyrs  of  Bobert  Arden  of  Wei- 
lingcote  " ;  and  in  1696  the  same  Robert  had  been 
styled,  by  Dethick,  at  first  <'G«nt"  and  then 
<<£sqmre."  But  two  deeds  which  haye  been 
discovered  and  published  in  more  recent  times 
haye  shown  that  in  1660  the  same  person  was 
only ''  Robertas  Arden  de  Wilmecote  m  parochia 
de  Aston  Cantelowe  in  Comitatu  Warwici  Aw- 
handnum,''  (J.  P.  Collier's  Life  of  Shakeepeare, 
1844,  p.  Ixxiii.)  Robert  Arden's  will,  published 
by  Ma£>ne  and  by  Halliwell,  Li/e  of  Shake^>eare, 
1848,  p.  6,  and  all  other  collateral  eyidenoe  that 
has  hitiierto  been  brought  to  bear  on  the  discus- 
sion, entirely  confirm  the  same  yiew  of  his  .pod- 
tion  in  society. 

If  the  pant  to  John  Shakespeare  and  his  issue 
for  impalmg  and  quartering  Arden  ever  actually 
passed,  there  ia  no  proof  that  it  was  eyer  acted 


170 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*s.vn.  FBB.t5/n. 


upon.  In  no  old  manuscript  have  the  two  coats 
been  found  quartered ;  and  as  for  the  **  seal "  of 
William  Shakespeare  —  of  which  Mb.  HiitSBr 
ima^nes  the  existence— no  armorial  seal  what- 
ever of  the  poet  has  been  discovered. 

On  his  monument  at  Stratford  his  armorial 
shield  is  without  quartering,  and  I  cannot  agree 
with  Mb.  Helsbt  that  "  monumental  evidence  is 
no  eyidenoe  at  all/'  for  I  regard  it  as  among  the 
Tery  best.  On  the  seal  of  the  poet's  daughter, 
Mrs.  Hall,  engraved  in  The  Herald  and  Geneah- 
gietf  i.  614,  the  anus  of  Hall  an  impaled  with 
Shdbeqseare  alone ',  so  they  aie  on  the  gravestoneB 
of  herself  and  her  husband ;  aod  am  that  of  her 
daughter  Mn.  Nash,  the  coats  of  Hall  aad  Shake- 
speare appear  quarterly,  but  no  quartering  for 
Azden.  Tnese  all  are  eagwved  In  Twmttk^*  jAake^ 
Bfrnteana  Oemah^ieoj  na.  413,  414|  416. 

I  think  also  it  will  be  admitted  that  Mb. 
Hxlsbt's  reflection  is  rather  iacoBsidenite,  '^that 
Shakespeare  never  troubled  himself  in  the  very 
costly  matter  of  pedigsee  in  thoee  days.*'  In  the 
first  plftoe,  "  the  matter  of  podigree  "  was  a  much 
more  ordinary  affiiir  in  thosa  days  than  in  our 
own;  and  certainly  it  was  not,  proportionately 
speakiagv  more  '^  costly  "  then  dian  now.  In  l^e 
seeoid  plaee,  we  have  veiy  good  proof,  and  it  is 
imdoubtodly  an  interesting  feature  amongihevery 
limited  materials  we  possess  for  the  poet's  bio- 
giaph^  ^Bt  he  did  leally  <<  trouble  himself;"  in 
1606  and  again  in  1609,  in  asserting  his  position 
as  4  Gentleman, — for  there  can  be  little  doubt 
thai  the  apj^cation  to  the  heralds  made  in  his 
father'a  name  actually  came  from  himself;  John 
Shakespeave  having  been  bailiff  <^  Stratfoid  HiiTty 
years  before,  in  1666,  when  he  mig^t  lia^e  claimed 
armorial  bearings  on  that  ground,  bad  ha  been 
indiaed  to  do  so.  However,  as  the  resvU  of  the 
two  giantsi  we  know  that  the  arms  of  Shakespeare 
gnmted  in  1606  were  adopted  and  used,  but  we 
nave  no  proof  that  ^e  quartering  fiar  Aidsn  was 
ever  adopted  or  used. 

SbalMspeaie's  immediate  anceston«  botii  pater* 
nally  and  nMtemally,  moat  be  admitted  to  have 
been  of  the ''peasant  "or  agricttltunlclaas.  And 
wl^  notP  If  the  truth  were  otherwise,  it  would 
be  interesting  to  trace  his  descent  and  his  col- 
lateral r^tionahipji.  Bui  if  in  truth  he  was  noi 
of  noble  ancestry,  it  is  surely  mora  satiafiKtoiy  to 
rest  upon  that  truth  than  to  weave  theories  of 
visionary  ancestry  for  his  illustrious  name. 

It  was  the  trade  of  the  heralds  of  his  day  to 
think  aod  act  differently ;  and  the  chazaetwr  and 
conduct  of  Oooke,  Dethick)  and  others  who  w«re 
high  in  office  in  the  Elisabethsn  age  are  unfor- 
tunately too  open  to  these  suspickms. 

The  *'  combatant  at  Bosworth,"  to  whom  Mb. 
Hblbbt  alludes,  is  in  all  probability  altogether  a 
ngvth ;  and  conjured  up— not  like  the  spirits  in 
Mmebeih,  by  the  poet  himself,  but  in  the  cauldron 


at  the  Heralds'  College,  on  Bethick  finding  that 
Sir  John  Arden  (or  Arderne)  of  Parkhall  in  War- 
wickshire had  been  an  esquire  for  the  body  to 
King  Hemry  VII.  This  boirowed  nlome  was  at 
first  taken  fbr  the  Wilmcote  Ardens,  and  then 
ambiguously  transferred  to  John  Shakespear^s 
own  ancestry  —  in  the  first  grant  of  1606  to  a 
grandfather,  in  the  second  of  1600  to  a  great- 
grandfather. Modem  interpreters  have  added  the 
accessory  conjecture  that  the  imaginary  warrior 
fought  on  Bosworth  field. 

Before  I  conclude  I  may  refer  Mb.  Helsbt  to 
French's  Shakeepeareana  Qenealogicaf  published  in 
1860  as  a  supplemental  volume  to  the  Cambridge 
edition  of  Shakespeare  by  Clark  and  Wright; 
in  which,  in  pp.  416*603,  he  wiU  find  large  col- 
lections on  the  various  families  of  Arden,  in- 
cluding all  that  Mr.  Fraieh  could  allege  in  replv 
to  the  writer  who  criticised  Bellew'e  Shakepere  e 
Home  (8vo,  1863)  in  The  Heraid  and  Oeneaiogiee. 

The  wills  and  inventories  of  **  Robert  Arden  of 
Wyllmcote  in  the  paryche  of  Aston  Cantlow" 
(1666),  and  of  his  widow  ''Annes  Ardenne  of 
Wylmcoto  "  (1680)  show  their  wealth  to  a  penny. 
His  goods  were  appraised  at  777.  11«.  lOo.,  hers 
at  46^    He  was  in  fact  a  yeoman ;  and  even  the 
extent  of  his  limd  has  been  aaeertauied :  it  was  a 
freehold  called  Aebtes  in  the  parish  of  Aston 
Cantlowe,  consisting  of  fifty-six  acres  and  a  well- 
furnished  homestead  poesesring  a  haU,  chambers, 
and  kitchen.    Such  was  the  meaning  of  affricolaf 
or  **  husbandman  " ;  not  an  agricultural  labourer, 
as  we  now  commonly  accept  the  designation,  but 
still  not  a  gentleman j  an  honest  man,  who,  like 
the  father  of  Bishop  Latlme^,  cultivated  his  own 
land,  and  provided  well  for  his  children.    Mr. 
French,  howeverj  is  evidently  wrong  when  (in 
p.  418)  he  amplifies  the  fifty-six  acres   to  one 
nundred  and  nf^-six  by  adding  to  the  former 
some  propertv  at  Snitterfield,  which  passed  through 
the  hanas  oi^  the  same  or  another  Kobert  Arden, 
and  which  Mr.  FVench  mentions  as  beinjr  of  the 
precise  extent,  viz.  60  acres  of  arable,  10  of  mea- 
dow, and  90  of  furze  and  heath,'*  &c.  ftc,  though 
it  is  perfectly  well  known  that  the  arbittiury  estl-' 
mates  which  occur  in  those  round  numbers  am 
merely  the  le^al  substitutes  for  unascertained  par- 
ticulars.   Ana  again  (in  p.  486)  by  a  similar  pro- 
cess the  166  acres  are  increased  to  **  343  acres  of 
freehold  land  at  the  least " ;  but  in  all  this  tftere 
is  evident  misapprehension.    At  any  event  Robert 
Arden,  the  father-in-law  of  John  Shakespeare,  did 
not  die  possessed  of  so  much  property.    Nor  can  I 
agree  with  Mr.  French  in  his  identification  of 
Thomas  Arderne  of  Wylmcote,  living  in  1601  (and 
the  father  of  Robert),  with  Thomas  mentioned  in 
the  will  (1526)  of  Sfir  John  Arden,  the  esquire 
fbr  the  boidy  to  Henry  VII.,  as  one  of  his  tnree 
brothers.    Had  this  been  the  fact,  the  right  of 
Robert  Arden  to  the  coat  of  Arden  of  Parkha]l> 


4*  &  VIL  Fm,  25, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


173 


picture  says:  ''Two  angels  are  carrying  up  her 
aoul  (jLe,  Virgin  A{ary)  to  heaven:  no  such  pre- 
sumption of  immediate  beatitude  could  have  been 
entertained  of  anv  ordinaiy  individual,  however 
ennobled  by  worldly  honours.'' 

It  is  very  dangerous  to  dogmatise  on  medisval 
art  without  a  very  extensive  acquaintance  with  it. 
F.  C.  H.  is  in  error.  On  monuments  this  is  of 
common  occurrence.  There  is  the  little  brass  to 
a  Beanchamp  in  Chekendon  church,  Oxfordshire, 
where  the  Yery  design  itself  is  two  angels  bearing 
away  the  souL  The  same  may  be  seen  also  on  the 
Ixrass  of  Sir  Huffh  Hastingsat  tUsingin  Norfolk,  and 
a  long  list  could  easily  be  made.  Then  in  Flemish 
brasses,  what  more  common  than  to  represent  the 
soul  in  ''Abraham's  bosom,'*  in  which  "beatitude" 
seems  acoompllBhed  F  Neithei:  is  this  art  at  all  in 
diaoord  with  church  teachings  in  the  Middle  Ages. 
In  the  "Dialogues  of  St.  Gregory,"  where  the 
office  of  the  angel  is  defined,  after  spsaking  of  the 
angel  conyeying  their  souls  to  Turgatory,  in 
whom  theke  is  still  some  sin  nnexpiatod  lef^  it 
oondades,  "But  if,  indeed,  he  departed  in  so 
much  ehaiity  that  all  the  rust  of  sin  was  consumed, 
80  that  nothing  puigeable  remained,  immediaUly 
the  holy  angek  received  him  and  carried  him  to 
the  kiiwdom  of  heaven."  ^ 

Not  naying  the  drawing  before  me  cannot 
speak  with  certainty  of  its  details ;  but  if  I  re- 
member rightly,  neither  the  fig^ure  of  the  dying 
lady,  nor  of  those  about  her,  nor  of  the  soul  alioye, 
haye  the  mmbm.  This  of  itself  is  a  fatal  objec- 
tion to  its  representing  the  "  Death  of  die  Virgin." 
Moreover,  the  figures  show  a  number  of  tonsured 
heads — ^monks  in  fact — and  one  in  a  cope  holds  a 
ahield  of  arms,  the  arms  of  the  Abbey  ot  Lawtrey, 
aa  F.  C.  H.  thinks.  But  the  latter  expresses  his 
opinion  that  the  aims  are  of  no  itnpwiance.  To 
this  I  must  observe,  that  in  medinval  art  eyery 
detail  is  of  importance. 

The  Apostles,  who  tihould  be  at  the  bedside  of 
the  Virgin  Miuy,  are  not  reprssented  tonsured,  St. 
Peter  excepted ;  nor  is  the  general  character  of  the 
composition  that  of  the  subject  which  your  corre- 
spondent maintains. 

The  arms  are  a  yery  important  feature,  and  I 
belieye  a  key  to  the  whole.  The  bedside  shows  a 
poup  of  monks,  headed  by  their  abbot  or  prior, 
in  a  cope,  holding  before  the  dying  lady  a  coat  of 
arms,  probably  of  their  abbey.  If  the  death-bed 
of  a  benefactress,  what  more  natural  than  for  her 
to  be  reminded  of  her  charity  by  those  benefiting, 
at  the  same  time  showing  her  the  aid  she  had  in 
their  prayere  to  forward  her  to  the  kingdom  of 
keayen  P  The  painting  merely  shows  "  Qiat  she 
departed  in  so  muc^  charity  that  all  the  rust  of 
sin  was  eonsomed."  J.  G.  Walteb. 

PoBTBAiT  ov  Jomr  Kat  (4^  S.  yiL  142.)^I 
hare  the  portrait  of  John  Kay,  of  Bury,  alluded 


to  by  Mb.  Woodoboft,  but  it  is  unluckily  pasted 
fast  in  my  portfolio.  I  haye  also  another  litho- 
graphed portrait  of  him,  but  without  name  of 
artist  or  publisher,  unless  the  signature  "  D.  F. 
Prestolee  "  may  refer  to  one  of  them.  I  have  also 
a  folio  sheet  of  letterpress,  containing  "  A  Brief 
Memoir  of  John  Kay  "  on  one  page,  and  the  pedi- 

Srees  of  Kaye  of  Woodsome  and  Qreenhalgh  of 
randleeome  on  the  other,  with  a  shield  of  arms 
of  twenty  quartorings,  &c.  &c    on  the  other, 

Frinted  by  P.  Grant,  Market  Street,  Manchester, 
regret  that  the  above  cannot  be  lent  to  aoc  jm- 
modate  Mb.  WoonoBorr,  but  I  enclose  my  card, 
in  case  he  finds  it  necessary  to  consult  them. 

M.D. 

"Thovqh  lost  to  Sioht,  to  Mbxobt  deab'^ 
(!••  S.  iy.  406;  8'*  S.  yi  129,  yiii  290;  4**  S.  i. 
77, 161,  iy.  999,  yiL  56.)^Though  unable  to  give 
any  information  as  to  the  authorship  of  this  well- 
worn  quotation,  I  can  safely  aver  tnat  it  is  much 
older  than  1828,  as  I  knew  it  many  yean  before 
that  date.  F.  0.  H. 

[It  woald  appear  to  be  ntteriy  imposBible  to  trsoo  the 
orighiofthisliaa.] 

Thb  PsomTirciATioir  of  Gbkbk  avd  Ljltik 
(4^  S.  yii.  la)— As  a  discussion  of  this  query 
sufficientiy  ample  to  be  at  all  satisfactory,  would 
most  likely  require  more  space  than  the  Editor 
could  oonvenientiy  spare,  let  me  refer  Makbo- 
CHBIB  to  chap.  yiL  or  Donaldson's  VammUmui  on 
the  "  Organic  Classification  of  the  Oriffinal  Latin 
Alphabet"  Edmitvd  !nEW,  M.A. 

ratching  Rectory. 

Some  eminent  schoolmastors  are  engaged  in 
considering  this  matter.  Let  me  bring  to  their 
notice  a  poem  va  All  the  Year  Somd  (Jan.  21, « 
1871).  on  Frederick  the  Great,  entitled  "Fredericua 
Rex.^  It  is  said  to  be  a  fayourite  song  in  the 
Prussian  camp.  The  translator,  however,  on  all 
three  occauons  on  which  he  has  to  use  the  words^ 
makes  them  scan  Fredericua  Rex.  Surely  the 
Great  Fk«derick  never  had  such  short  work  made 
of  him  before.  T.  Lbwis  0.  Davd». 

Thb  Ibish  Plahxtt:  "Bumpxb  Squibb 
JoHBs"  (4«»  S.  yi.  800,  612;  yii.  42.V-A  Uttie 
contribution  on  this  subject  may  possibly  have  a 
claim  for  insertion.  It  is  a  quotation  from  Th§ 
National  Mutie  of  Ireland^,  by  Michael  M.  Oonran, 
1846):-! 

•«  Of  ei««,  there  wers  rix  kinds :— « the  XxMy  rapid,' 
the  Jig  ^nxtft  and  ftitire;  dirge  or  lamentatioii,  with 
wordi ;  bold,  herdc,  martial ; « tempo  ordinario ;'  Umenta- 

•  Gould  anyone  poaaearing  a  perfect  oopy  of  this  work 
oblige  me  with  a  copy  of  the  title-paM  ?  [-The  Natlond 
Mosic  of  Ireland,  containing  the  Hiftory  of  the  Irish 
Baids,  the  NaUonal  Mdodiet,  the  Harp,  and  other  Ma- 
rical  InatmmenU  of  Erin.  By  Michael  Conran,  Organist^ 
St.  Patrick*!  Charoh,  Manchester.  Dublin :  Published 
(br  the  Anther  by  James  Dufly,  10,  WdUngton-Qaay. 
18t6."] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  &  VII.  Fm.  25,  71. 


HoA— mnncal  dirges,  with  words  *;  pimrt  or  lesson  tiras 
— practical  exerciaes."— P.  90. 

Ab  I  undeistaiid  this  aentenoe  it  seems  that  the 
fianxty  was  performed  in  a  ''  time  "  much  q[mcker 
than  that  of  a  bold,  heroic,  or  martial  air.  if  this 
be  tme,  and  if^  as  !)&.  Rimjbauli  says,  the  planxty 
'^owes  its  origin  to  the  celebrated  Irish  bard 
Carolan"  (*'N.  &  Q."  4"»  S.  vi.  512),  it  would 
appear  that  the  earlier  part  of  Tbb  Kstmht  ot 
iKiSHOWXir^a  communication  was  written  undw 
a  wrong  impresaion  aa  to  the  apedes  of  air  and  its 
antiquity. 

As  apropos  of  this  subjeefc,  I  give  another  quo* 
tation  from  the  same  NaUimtd  Music  of  IreUmdy 
having  reference  to  what  is  therein  called  one  of 
Oarolan's  ''  most  plarful  pkiwtie§"  yu,,  <'  A 
bumper  Squire  Jones   :— 

**The  words  .  •  .  have  been  paraphrased  by  the 
talented  Baron  Dawaon  f,  and  Carolan'a  brilliant  efforiona 
are  lost  in  the  splendour  of  the  facetioas  baron's  imita- 
tion."—P.  228, 

Query:  (1.)  Where  can  "the  facetious  baron*a 
imitation"  be  found  ?  (as  only  two  verses  are  given 
by  my  author}) ;  or  (2)  does  he  mean  that  Caro- 
lan's  lines  are  forgotten,  unrecorded,  and  that  the 
paraphrase  only  exists  P 

The  following  planxties  will  be  found  in  No.  42 
of  Chappell's  mitsical  Maaazine  §  at  the  pages  I 
g^ve:  •' Pianxty  Dudley/*^ p.  6,  '^Planxty  Kelly/' 

£8j   "Hanxty  Irwine,"  p.  18,  and  "Flanxty 
onnor,**  p.  2L    They  may  be  of  interest  to  some 
of  yonr  oortespondents.       TnmiJLS  Tttllt,  Jtjk. 
BrongntoDy  Manchester. 

Moore's  beautiful  funereal  lines  — 

^  Oh,  banquet  not  in  the  featal  bowei^**  &e. 

an  set  in  hia/ruA  MeMiet  to  '^  Plaiixty  Irwin." 
I  oonliBflBi  however,  the  air  has  alwaya  appeared  to 
me  too  jofoua  lor  the  words.  P.  P. 

Rbv.  SAinm  Hbvlvt  f4«*  8.  vil  85,  118.)— 
Mb.  Towsbhbn'd  Matkb  will  find  an  ample  ac- 
count of  Dr.  Samuel  Henley,  the  translator  of 
VMek,  in  Nichols's  lUuttratians  of  Lkerarv  JEBs- 
tory,  iii.  789-85 ;  viiL  834.      W.  P.  Cottbtwet. 

4,  Powia  Plas%  W.a 

Dbaook  (4*  S.  vii.  12, 126.)— The  real  dragon 
ifl  the  Gheek  draoo,  whien  has  no  feet,  and  is,  I 
believe,  what  is  now  called  the  boa-constrictor. 
(See  Dioeeorides.)  Thos.  Phillipps. 

Fishebmbv  IK  xhb  Oi^miv  TiMi  {4t^  a.  vi. 
688.)-^ Andrew  Borde,  a  <<  native,"  received  his 
manumission  in   the  year   1610   from  George 

*  This  seema  to  be  a  repetition. 

f  Exchequer  of  Ireland,  Ump,  Queen  Anne. 
}  Baron  Andrew  Dawson's  version  is  printed  in  Tb€ 
NewIriA  Soug-Book,  edited  by  J.  £.  Carpenter.   Load. 
1867,  p.  U6.— Ed.]  *^ 

§  TUia  magazine,  by  the  way,  la  edited  by  Dr.  fiim- 
bault. 


Neville,  Lord  of  Bergevenny,  who  owned  the 
manor  of  Dychelyng  in  Sussex,  to  which  domun 
tiie  said  ''native"  belonged.  PosnblyT.  Q.  C. 
remembers  something  about  this  case;  it  is  tiie 
latest  instance  of  slavery  I  have  read  of.  I  have 
heard  nothing  of  the  Sussex  fishermen  to  lead  me 
to  suppose  they  were  other  than  privileged  as 
eompaied  with  the  rest  (except  in  Kent),  for  they 
nearly  all  belonged  to  the  Cinque  Ports,  and  were 
a  stiff-baeked  lot.  ~  Gbobai  Bxdo. 

HoLTT,  THE  Gebmak  Pobt  (4«*»  S.  vL  177, 
288.) — lliere  are  tranalations— or  perhaps  para- 

fhrases  would  be  the  better  word  —  of  sevend  of 
lolty's  poems  in  the  Dublin  Unioerdty  Magaxine 
for  1837-8.    The  translator  was  James  Cliurence 
Mangan,  the  gifted  and  ill-fated.         J).  Blaib. 
Hdboame. 

Hakpshibb  Couktbt  Gettbgktabd:  PbPT8*8 
DiABT  (4^^  S.  vi.  8.)— The  allusion  in  Pepys  is 
olearly  to  the  churchyard  of  Tichfield,  where  the 
remains  of  the  fine  castle  of  the  Earls  of  South- 
ampton are  still  to  be  seen.  It  strikes  me,  at 
twenty  years'  distance  in  time,  that  sage  g^rew 
abonilantly  in  the  churchyard  when  I  knew  it 

D.Blaxb. 

Melbourne. 

Timothy  Dbxtbe  (4«»  8.  vi  515.)  —  «  Lord 
Timothy  Dexter/^  so  ealled,  resided  in  Newbury- 
port,  Essex  eo.,  Mass.,  foHy  miles  norfh-east  of 
Boston,  en  Ae  eosst,  for  many  years  in  a  large 
brick  house,  which  in  his  lifetime  was  suROunded 
with  many  carved  wooden  images  or  statues  of 
more  than  life  site.  The  boose  I  have  seen  SMmy 
times.  J.  W.  Umok. 

Peabody,  Msss.,  U.aA. 

"Galimatias  ''{4«*  S.  ir.  294.)— This  word  was 
certainly  not  coined  by  Fielding.  Noel  et  Chapsal 
most  correctly  define  it  thus :  "  Mi^lange  oonfus 
de  mots  qui  semblcnt  dire  quelq^ue  chose  et  n^ont 
point  de  sens." 

They  do  not,  however,  give  the  following 
account  of  the  word,  which  I  met  with  many 
years  ago — eo  many,  that  my  memory  treacherously 
declines  telling  me  tohere.  In  those  olden  times 
when  the  '^doctores''  argued  points  of  law  in 
Latin,  a  learned  (?)  counsellor,  while  stating  the 
case  of  his  client  Matthias  and  a  cock  (which 

fertalned  unto  him),  crew  so  confused  in  his 
latinity,  that,  after  a  while,  he  ceased  to  speak  of 
"  Gallus  Matthiae,"  but,  contrariwise,  of  "  Galli 
Matthias.'^  Hence  a  senseless  and  inaccurate 
jumble  of  words  came  to  be  styled  '*  Galimatlaa." 

NOSLL  KADECUf  FB. 

Saabbb«ge  Custom  (4>^  S.  vL  477 ;  viL  WI.) 
The  custom  alluded  to  by  Mb.  Tuxtr  is  still 
observed  in  many  parts  of  Leylandshire  and 
Ameundemees  (in  Lancashire).  In  my  MitUry 
of  Ghamutrph,  1  have  a  notice  of  it    In  that  di»* 


4*  S.  Til.  Feb,  26,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


17« 


trict  the  eve  of  May  1  is  called  "  May  Bough 
Nighty"  and  I  give  the  following  as  a  sample  of 
the  emblematic  meaning  attached  to  the  various 
trees : — A  wickin  (t.^.  a  mountain  a;sh)=My  dear 
chicken;  a  plum  tree  in  bioom=to  be  married 
and  soon ;  a  Driar=a  Bar.  H.  Fish  wick. 

I  bave  known  Leyland  above  fifty  years,  and 
xoy  father,  a  noticer  of  old  customs,  must  have 
known  it  nearly  fifty  yearn  before  that,  but  I  have 
nev«  seen  or  heard  of  such  a  oustom  as  Mr.  Titllt 
mentions,  and  I  therefore  ooaclude  he  is  mistaken 
M  to  the  locality.  A£ay  day  is  observed  in  Ley- 
land  by  the  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  aa  important 
diarity,  and  the  cnildren  attend  church.  Boyal 
Oak  day,  the  29th  of  May,  is  also  a  great  dav  in 
Leyland,  for  the  dubs  and  benefit  societies  hold 
theor  annual  festival  upon  it.  On  Whit  Monday 
tlie  Sunday  scholan  aiateh  with  garlands  upon 
waads  provided  by  ladies  who  take  an  interest  in 
them ;  bat  the  answer  to  Mr.  Tullt's  queries  is 
aimnly  that  no  such  custom  is  known.  The  re- 
maps about  Lichfield  seem  to  refer  to  the  **  walk- 
ing the  boundaries,'*  which  wae  practised  in  many 
pLaoes  at  Bogation  tide  and  on  Ascension  day. 

An  Old  In  habixani. 

The  Awcaltpse  (4^  S.  vi.  156.)— For  a 
snmmary  of  Ewald's  views  on  the  Revelatioa, 
F.  M.  8.  sfaonld  consult  Auberten's  masterly  work 
on  The  Fnphecws  of  Daniel  and  the  JteiehUon 
pf  Si.  John,  translated  by  Adolph  Saphir,  and 

Published  by  T.  ft  T.  Clark,  Emnhmgh,  1866. 
'o  me  this  remarkable  volume  is  itself  an  Apocar 
lynee.  D.  B&air. 

MdbovfBe. 

Calibak  (4"»  S.  viL  60.) — Surely  thie  word  is 
a  mere  metathesis  of  ocmmbal,  like  Ben  Jonson's 
Bobadil  from  BoakdiL  Maxboohsib. 

Who  is  a  Laied?  (4"»  S.  vi.  482;  vii.  12.)— 
The  query  of  C.  3.  K.  is  an  interesting  one.  The 
laird  was  orig^ally  a  feudal  baron,  and  as  such 
was  dominus.  But  in  process  of  time  the  de- 
signation of  lord  or  laird  was  applied  not  to 
proprietors  of  baronies  only,  but  to  landowners 
geneiBlly.  In  the  Scottish  "  mc^uisitions,"  dormntts 
mquenUy  precedes  a  name  which  has  porUomaritta 
after  it.  That  portioners  of  land  are  ordinarily 
styled  Itnrde  does  not  admit  of  any  doubt  In 
the  Kirksesiion  Records  of  St.  Ancbews  certain 
families  at  Boarhills — such  as  Phil^Armit,  and 
others — axe  styled  porUonergf  whil#xhe  heads  of 
these  families  have  from  tine  immemmal  been 
meted  as  hnids.  Portioners  were  not  necessarily 
man,  but  might  be  holden  of  portione  of  land 
which  had  belonged  to  the  church  or  the  fbudal 
banna.  Estates  wero  sometimes  broken  «i  and 
fprtkmed  among  members  of  families.  (OfM  k 
Rosi*s  Biffed  of  the  Law  ef  ScotkauL  Edinburgh, 
1968*41.)    In  a  country  where  family  pride  wae 


so  predominant  as  in  Scotland,  titular  desig- 
nations were  coveted.  The  farmer  was  at  church 
and  market  saluted  by  the  name  of  his  farm,  and 
the  owner  of  only  a  few  acres  was  hailed  as  ''  the 
laird."  In  old  times  there  was  hardly  any  other 
designation  for  a  gentleman  ;  he  was  dominue — 
he  bore  dominion.  The  title  tnaster  has  an  aca- 
demic origin.  A  graduate  in  arts  was  styled 
"  master,"  and  no  other.  Afterwards  the  paro- 
chial clergy  were  so  designated  out  of  respect  for 
their  office.  Latterly,  nuuter  became  the  title  of 
a  gentleman.  The  Scottish  schoolmaster  was  an- 
ciently, in  respect  for  his  learning,  styled  dommie^ 
As  university  training  became  more  common 
among  Scottish  teachers  they  claimed  maeter  as 
a  higher  title. 

Territorial  designations  in  Scotland  do  not  cease 
even  when  the  lands  with  which  they  are  con- 
nected are  alienated.  Thus  we  have  Liord  Col- 
ville  of  Gulross.  My  late  fnend.  Sir  Jamea 
Menteth,  Bart,  claimed  the  designation  '^  of 
Closebum,"  when  no  longer  proprietor  of  that 
estate.  And  my  relative,  Sir  John  Ogilvy,  Bart^ 
M.P.  for  Dundee,  is  still  designated  ''oflnver- 
quharitj,"  tiiouffh  Inverquharity  estate  long  since 
passed  into  the  bands  of  the  LyeUs  of  Kinnordy. 
Were  I  personally  ambitious  of  constituting  a  sept, 
I  migh^  without  presumption,  designate  myself 
''  o£  Coupar^Gran^'^  though  my  ancestor  was  of 
that  estate  a  portioner  only,  and  though  that  por- 
tion has  long  oeen  alienated. 

Chablto  Rogxbb,  LL.D. 

Snowdoun  Villa,  Lewftsham,  fl.E. 

Old  SahDowh  Castle,  Islb  of  Wight  (4*  a. 
vL  569 ;  vii.  103.^  —  The  last  remainder  of  San- 
down  Castie,  which  for  many  years  was  used  aa 
aa  office  by  the  Boyal  Eogineers'  department^ 
was  removed  in  1869-70  to  make  room  for  worka 
connected  with  tiie  national  defences  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight.  A  very  fine  old  carved  oak  chimney-piece 
containing  many  armorial  bearings  lemamed  to 
the  last,  and  is,  t  believe,  still  preserved  in  the  old 
material  store  of  the  Royid  Engineers  at  Sandown, 
from  whence,  no  doubt,  when  the  latter  receives 
its  annual  clearing,  it  will  be  sold  for  firewood  at 
the  ensuing  auction,  unless  some  autiquariaa  mu- 
seum put  in[a  claim  for  it.  H.  H. 

PorUmottthl 

SxiJTH  (4:*^  S.  vi.  474;  vii.  43.)— I  hhV^  sem 
**  Smith  "  in  every  age  sinee  the  Oonquest  spelled 
Smythe,  Smitbe,  Smyth,  and  Smith,  m  the  same 
arbitrary  fashion  as  any  other  name)  but  never 
before  the  eighteenth  century  (towards  the  mid- 
dle) have  observed  it  spelled  <<  Smijth."  This 
cannot  be  a  dotted  y,  because  no  y  in  any  otiiar 
name  or  word  appears,  so  far  as  I  remember^  so 
distingniAhed.  I  should  think  by  the  ancient 
short  and  long  t;  a  double  dotted  ti  was  intended — 
Smiith;  yet  it  is  very  curious  and  inexpficable 
that  this  mode  should  have  sprung  up  in  arerf 


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[4«tS.VIl.  l'i£B.25,7i. 


part  of  the  country  at  a  certain  period,  and  for  a 
very  few  yeara,  and  then  disappeared  for  ever ;  and 
not  the  least  curious,  perhaps,  that  the  fashion 
should  have  been  exclusivelj  confined  to  church 
registers  (P).  Perhaps  in  this  circumstance  a 
solution  of  the  difficulty  may  be  found  at  the 
hands  of  some  of  your  more  ancient  clerical 
correspondents.  Possibly  M.  D.  is  correct  as 
to  the  analogy  to  Ffoliott  and  Ffarington — an 
orthographT  originating  in  the  absurd  mistakes  of 
]>rinteT8 — ^the  double  small  /  (ff)  being  used  in  old 
times  in  lieu  of  the  canital,  and  still  employed  in 
the  law,  just  as  the  old  Roman  numerals  with 
their  final  long/s  are  in  physic.  T.  Helsbt. 
15,  York  Chambera,  Kiog  Street,  Manchester. 

Notwithstanding  the  statement  in  Burke's  Peer- 
aje  and  Baronetage^  that  ''  the  patriardi  of  this 
family  (the  spelling  of  whose  surname  is  of 
rare  occurrence  in  England)  was  '*  John  Smijth, 
Esq.,"  who  lived  temp.  'Hjmrj  VIII.,  I  incline  to 
the  opinion  that  the  name,  after  all,  is  really  but 
Smith  and  Smyth.  In  former  days  I  find  it 
usual  for  majors  of  this  town  to  write  after 
their  names  "  Maior,"  and  frequently  the  Latin 
"Major."  The  official  in  1714  writes  "Maijor," 
whicn  may  be  read  either  as  Mai j  or,  or.  with  a 
dotted  y,  Mayor.  It  is  easy  to  see  from  tnis  how, 
At  the  trifling  cost  of  two  dots,  Smyth  could  be- 
come Smijth.  Chablbs  Jackson. 

DoBcaster. 

I  notice  that  Sp.  considers  the  modern  name 
Smijth  to  be  an  orthographical  error,  having  for 
its  foundation  an  ancient  method  of  double- 
dotting  a  y,  thus  y.  There  is  an  old  and  common 
family  name  of  Sp.'b  which  often  appears  in  pedi- 
grees of  families  with  whom  Sp.'s  have  inter- 
married :  I  mean  '<Obiit,"  spelled  also  in  old  MSS. 
Ohijtf  thus  reversing  the  cnronological  change  in 
Smijth.  Can  Sp.  tell  whether  this  name  was  ever 
spelled  Obyt,  with  a  dotted  y  P  L.  N.  0.  N. 

Hnrra  to  Chaibmbit  (4»*  8.  vii.  65.)— Mr. 
Effingham  Wilson  has  published  a  shilling  hand- 
book on  the  management  of  public  meetings. 

J.  xj,  G. 

QuEBN  Elizabbth  :  Kbal  Pbbsons  is  '*  Thb 
Fabbib  Qitbek"  (4"»  S.  vii.  49.)— I  will  not 
question  Mb.  Ebiohzlbt's  judgment  in  assign- 
ing real  nersons  to  the  names  in  Spenser's  poem. 
The  whole  tenor  of  the  poem  is  what  would  be 
natural  in  the  work  of  such  a  man  as  we  know 
Spenser  to  have  been.  But  I  wish  to  draw  atten- 
tion to  a  nassage  which  Mb.  Kbightlbt  seems 
to  me  to  nave  written  without  sufficiently  con- 
sidering materials  within  his  reach : — 

*•!  find,  by  the  way,  thtt  there  are  persons  who 
would  aaerifioe  historic  troth  to  false  delicacy,  and  who 
blame  me  and  others  for  vindicating  the  fair  fkme  of  the 
great  queen  fifom  the  foal  aspersions  of  Dr.  Lingard  and 
bis  anthorities,  even  thoogh  somewhat  at  the  expense  of 
liar  beroiam.''  Ae. 


I  do  not  know  who  the  persons  are  of  whom 
Mb.  Kbightlbt  is  speakinff ;  nor  do  I  understand 
the  contrast  suggested  by  defending  her  fair  fame 
''at  the  expense  of  her  heroism.*'  But  the  fair 
fame  of  Elizabeth  is  a  thing  in  which  probably 
few  persons  have  now  any  belief.  In  ner  own 
day  it  seems  that  fewer  atiU,  if  any,  would  have 
believed  her  to  have  deserved  what  we  mean  by 
''fair  fame";  and  I  beg  to  point  out  to  Mb. 
Kbightlbt  that  the  convenient  aummary  of"  the 
foul  aspersions  of  Dr.  Lingard  and  his  authori- 
ties *'  does  not  approach  the  question  as  it  now 
stands,  and  therefore  does  no  good  to  the  memory 
of  Elizabeth. 

An  article  in  the  Saturday  Sevieto  of  Jan.  14. 
1871,  headed  "  Calendar  of  State  Papers,"  will 
show  Mb.  Kbightlbt  what  is  the  state  of  modem 
opinion.  And  if  it  is  still  his  pleasure  to  describe 
a  generally  accepted  view  of  her  character  as 
"  foul  aspersions,''  he  must  include  the  documents 
at  Simancas  and  English  State  Papers  in  his  con- 
demnation. D.  P* 

Stuarts  Lodge^  Malvern  Wells. 

Ballasallbt  (4**  S.  vi.  475,  583.)— Possibly 
some  member  of  the  Manx  Societv,  aided  by  local 
history  or  tradition,  may  be  able  to  afford  the 
information  required.  In  the  meantime,  I  would 
sugig^est  that  the  name  may  possibly  have  the  fol- 
lowing, one  or  other,  derivation :  1.  Baila  (town), 
SaaiOey  (brine) ;  2.  Balla  (town),  S'aaley  (moat 
beautiful) ;  8.  BaUa  (town),  Saliey  (salting) ;  4. 
BaUa  (town),  SoyUey  (enjoyment). 

There  are  other  words  more  or  less  proximate, 
allied,  or  related  to  the  above ;  but  possibly  those 
now  adduced  may  be  sufficient  to  point  to  the 
correct  meaning  and  derivation.] 

2,  4.  If  the  locality  was  selected  as  the  site  of 
a  monastery,  on  account  of  its  delightful  and 
enjoyable  position,  then  2  and  4  show  probability 
of  derivation. 

1, 3.  If  the  locality  was  a  fish-curing  station,  or 
d6p6t  for  salt,  &c,  then  1  and  3  point  to  the  deri- 
vation. 

3.  But,  if  literal  construction  is  to  decide  the 
derivation,  then  3,  BaUa  iSii/£ey  » salting-town  » 
town  of  salting,  is  conclusive.  J.  Bbalb. 

SionitXbt  and  Siqnatabibs  (4"»  S.  vi.  502; 
vii.  44.) — Both  these  words  are  spelt  wrongly. 
Signatory  is  the  right  spelling,  from  etynatar,  a 
signer  or  sealer.  It  is  a  word  commonlv  used  bj 
vmters  on  4ip^o°i^f  through  the  Italian  it 
would  run  ih6st  readily  into  this  meaning,  onlv 
the  e  would  in  English  revert  to  the  I^tin  t. 
Signatory f  even  in  Webster's  Dirtionaryf  is  only 
given  as  an  obsolete  adjective  from  the  Latin 
M^motorutfsuaed  to  seal  with.  SignaUtristia  tkqmte 
different  word,  and  signifies  a  physiognomist, 
whose  science  interprets  inddes  from  outsidesi 
all  created  things  being  supposed  by  such  pro- 
fessors to  carry  imprinted  upon  them  their  Makar'i 


4*  a  VII.  F*B.  25,  '71.] 


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177 


intention,  aa  wax  corresponds  to  the  signet.  As- 
muredlj  this  is  not  what  diplomatists  intend  bj 
mgnatary ;  for  whatever  sign  they  put  forth  is  to 
be  interpreted  by  its  contruy.  C.  A.  W. 

JCayfUr. 

This  word  is  simply  barbarous.  You  might  as 
well  write  armtary  for  amatory,  Mb.  Tjlsnoh 
will  find  ngnatary  in  Richardson. 

Makboghetb. 

'<  MissALB  AD  XJsux  Sabvx  "  (4^^  S.  yi.  436, 
558 :  Tii.  64)— F.  0.  H.  suggests  that  the  date  of 
a  MS.  maybe  ascertained  bv  means  dlHhe  date  on 
which  Easter  Day  falls.  Tne  same  idea  occurred 
to  me  some  tine  ago ;  but  as  every  MS.  calendar 
which  I  have  since  examined  places  Easter  Day 
on  March  27, 1  have  come  to  tne  conclusion  that 
it  was  conventionally  placed  on  that  day,  in  which 
case  the  above  theory  of  course  falls  to  the 
ground.  F.  H.  H. 

FsAVCia,  Eabl  of  Bothwbll  (4^  S.  vi.  422  ; 
TiLd2.) — ^Db.  Ramagb  is  quite  rights  and  the 
date  stated  by  me  was  wrong.  I  took  it  from  a 
notaoe  (in  No.  xix.  of  the  Herald  and  Oenealogid, 
p.  19)  of  a  seal  of  this  earl,  figured  in  the  first 
aeriea  of  Lainff*s  Scottish  Seats,  The  creation  cer- 
tainly took  place  before  December  10,  1685,  on 
whidi  day  Francis,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  as  here- 
ditary admiral  of  Scotland,  is  found  taking  pre- 
eedenoe  in  voting,  of  Francis,  Earl  of  Errol,  the 
hereditary  constable.  See  Acts  of  the  Scottish 
ParHamentf  vol.  iii.  p.  875  (cited  in  Riddell*8 
Peerage  Law,  voL  i.  p.  166).  As  January  then 
followed  December  in  the  calendar,  this  transac- 
tion occurred  more  than  a  month  before  the  date 
of  Botiiwell's  charter,  quoted  by  Db.  Ramaob.  It 
is  certainly  curious  to  find  him  dealing  with  the 
kirk-lands  of  Cloaebuxn,  but  strange  things  hap- 
pmed  in  those  days  of  tulchan  bishops  and  lay 
abbots.  I  hope  some  one  will  dear  up  the  mys- 
tery about  his  brother-german  Herculea  Scott, 
and  how  the  latter  came  by  his  surname. 

The  magnificent  remains  of  Grichton  Castle  still 
attest  the  power  and  dignity  of  his  ancestors — ^the 
Hepbums — ^whoee  devices,  anchors  and  cordage, 
aa  high  admirals  of  Scotland,  are  traceable,  carved 
in  ataoai  on  various  parts  of  the  ruins. 

Anglo-Sootus. 

Pabodiw  (4*  S.  vi.  476 ;  vii.  15, 105.)— There 
are  two  very  good  parodies  in  Tom  Hood's  An^ 
nmU  for  1871 :  one  is  of  Tennyson's  '<  Clara  Vera 
de  Vere,"  the  other  of  Longfellow's  <'  Norman 
Baron."  Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  of  a 
complete  parody  on  Shdkespeara's  Samlet  f  I  am 
told  that  such  a  thing  exists.         J.  C.  T.  Hall. 

7^  I\)etie  Mirror:  or  the  Livmg  Bards  of 
Britain,  Longmans,  1816.  This  is  reviewed,  and 
some  extracts  given  in  the  Quarterly  Review, 
No.  XXX.    Reference  is  also  made  to  two  articles 


on  Parodies,  in  No.  xv.    I  have  not  that  number 
at  hand,  but  probably  it  contains  further  informa- 
tion on  the  suoject  T.  Lbwib  O.  Davibs. 
Pear  Tree  Vicarage,  SoBthampton. 

I  have  a  cony  of  The  Pioetic  Mirror  ;  or  the 
Living  Bards  of  Britain,  second  edition,  published 
by  Longmans,  1817 :  which  contains  parodies  of 
Byron,  Scott,  Wordsworth,  Hogg,  Coleridge, 
Southey,  and  Wilson.  Befora  it  came  into  my 
possession  some  one  had  written  on  tiie  title-page, 
«  by  James  Hogg,  the  Ettrick  Shephezd." 

R.  R* 
Boston* 

Among  the  books  of  parodies  and  imitations  in 

my  possession,  of  which  I  gave  a  list  at  p.  15,  I 

find  that  I  accidentally  missed  one,  the  title  of 

which  I  now  subjoin  :— 

^  Rival  Rhvmes  in  Honour  of  Bams.  With  earioua 
lUnstnitive  Aatter.  Collected  and  Edited  bj  Ben  Tro- 
vato.**    London  (Routledge),  small  8vo,  1859. 

WiLEiAX  Bates. 
Birmiogliam. 

LsvxsELL  (3"  S.  z.  508 ;  zL  65,  284,  483 ;  ziL 

402.) — Mb.  Skxat  says  he  does  not  remember  thia 

word   elsewhere  than  in  the   two  Chaucerian 

passages  and  in  the  Profrqttorium.    I  have  just 

come  upon  it  in  the  Amtwrs  of  Arther  in  Robson'a 

Three   Metrical    Bomanoes    (Camden  Society); 

and,  as  the  ledfa  sel  is  there  described  with  much. 

clearness,  I  think  the  lines  are  worth  quoting  in 

«  N.  &  Q.''— 

**  By  a  laaiyel  ho  lay,  vndor  a  lefa  sale, 
Of  box  and  of  barber^  byggyt  ftd  bene.'* 

8tansa6. 

Halliwell  quotes  leoesde  from  Oocleve,  in  con- 
nection with  the  tavern.  Chatterton  aeema  to  use 
the  word  correctly  in  the  two  iostancea  I  re- 
member :^> 

"  Aa  Elynonr  bie  the  green  lesselle  was  syttynM." 

<*  No  moe  the  amblynge  palfrie  and  the  home 
Sliali  fk»m  the  lesiu  ronae  tlie  foze  awaie.** 

Eimoure  and  Jmga, 

I  find  no  difficulty  in  the  levesseOe  of  the  taveruw 
Such  arbours  are  common  enough  in  suburbs  and 
country  at  the  present  day.  Johk  Addis. 

Beautt  but  Sbik-dbbp  (4*  S.  ii.  294.)— Thi» 
may  be  found  in  Ralph  Venning's  Orthodoxe  Fara-' 
doxes,  third  edition,  Liondon,  1050,  p.  41 : — 

''All  the  beanty  of  the  world  'tis  bat  skin-deep,  a 
snnne-blast  defaeeth  it." 

W.  0.  B. 

The  Hon.  Cathbbive  Sovthooib  (4**'  S.  vL 
546 ;  viL  64.)— She  was  the  youngest  daughter  of 
William,  second  Baron  Widdrington  (who  died  in 
1676),  and  married  Edward  (or  Edmund)  South- 
cote,  of  Blyborough,  eo.  Lincoln,  Esq.  She  died 
at  Cambray,  in  Flaxuiera,  in  1758,  aa  appears  fiona 
the  Gentleman^s  Magaane  (viim,  292),  when  her 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[4«k  S.  VU.  FCB.  26, 71. 


husbuid's  Chrittiao  name  is  said  to  kaye  baem 
Edmund.  The  fourth  Lord  Widdnngton  and  his 
broiheM  were  oat  in  1716  in  favour  of  the  StuartSy 
and  were  tried  and  eottrieted  of  high  treason. 
l^hey  wew  hawovar  paidoned^  hut  the  harony 
and  baroaetey  ware  ibrleited.  Sea  Tk$  Pmrofit 
of  Emffltmd  (2im1  ed.  1716)  and  Biuke*^  Exkintit 
BanmHeim. 

On  the  iooar  of  tlM  aorth  aisle  of  Blyhotoagh 
church  is  a  M»ae  ''  To  the  memoiy  of  Dorothy, 
wife  of  Bdauind  Bouthoote^  who  died  in  1714, 
aged  sixty/'  The  persons  here  mentioned  were 
probably  the  parents  of  the  husband  of  the  Hon. 
Catharine  Soathoote,  and  the  foUowioff  her  hus- 
band : — By  the  side  of  the  above  tomb  \g  a  slab 
to  the  memory  of  Edmund  Southcote,  Esq.,  who 
died  in  1725,  aged  forty-five.  See  A  SiMwy  of 
the  Cowd^  qfLiaoob^  4to,  1838  (L  36).      E.  V. 

''HiLABioxr's  SsBVANT,  THX  Si.ax  Cbow''  (4*^ 
S.  vii.  11,  112.) — ^I  possess  an  old  volume  lettered 
on  the  back  Lives  of  the  SaintSy  going  veiy  minutely 
into  all  their  miracles  and  supernatural  doings, 
Hilarion  Abbot  among  the  rest;  but  although 
13  pages  are  devoted  to  him,  there  is  nothing  to 
eupport  Yaughau's  allusion  to  him  and  the  crow. 
Your  correspondent  F.  C.  H.  suggests  a  mistake 
of  Hilarion  K>r  Paul,  which  sends  me  back  to  my 
Legenda  Attrea,  where  I  find  under  **  The  Life  of 
St.  Paule  the  first  Ilermite,"  that  he,  being  on  a 
certain  occasion  — 

*'  In  oomannication  with  SL  Aatooy,  there  came  a 
crowe  and  satt  <m  a  tree  thereby,  who  fl^'ing  softly  neere 
vote  them,  let  fall  a  whole  loane,  and  went  awaj ;  then 
said  Paul  to  Antony,  fileased  be  God  that  hath  sent  vic- 
tuals for  ve  to  eate ;  know  brother  Antony  that  it  is  six 
yens  sisee  this  erowe  hath  ensry  day  brought  me  haUe 
a  loaffe,  bat  now  ai  thy  o^siing  the  Lord  hath  doubled 
our  prouision." 

After  F.  C.  H.'s  correction  I  should  not  have 
troubled  you  with  mine,  but  being  desirous  of 
ascertaining  something  more  about  my  authority, 
I  take  the  opportunity  of  inquiring  what  is  known 
about  this  Jutvet  of  the  Saints,  It  is  a  dumpy  little 
quarto,  my  copy  without  title,  beginning  ''  Table 
of  the  Names  of  all  the  Saints  oontained  in  this 
booke,  and,  Kalendar  wise^  runs  to  p.  938,  Nov.  25, 
where  it  ends  imperfectly,  beginning  again  under 
July  31,  p.  17,  and  running  on  with  new  matter  as 
of  an  appendix  to  page  §3,  where  the  book  ends 
thus: — 

*'  Approbator  Homm  Sanctomm  Vitao  ex  alijs  longina 
in  Anglioam  h  D.  Edouardo  Kinesman  Verse,  tato  et 
cam  fructu  edi  possnnt.  Andoroarop.  27  MalJ,  ii.d.cxxiu. 
Joan.  Floydu%  Soc  lesa  Theologos." 

A.G. 

Fai;l8  op  Fotirs  ajh)  Glikha  r4*»»  S.  vi.  501 ; 
vii.  62.) — ^The  names  Glamma,  Giamoir,  Glom- 
men,  mi^ht  with  equal  reason  be  derived  from  the 
Su.-Qoth.  ffloma  (isl.  gleymi,  G.  ffiemme,  oblivisci 
(conf.  the  river  Lethe) ;  or  from  gUmma,  micare, 


ooruscaie  (Isl.  Ifoma,  lux) ;  or  glamma,  strepiUum 
edere  (IsL  giomra,  strepere  erepeare,  glumr,  strepi«< 
tos,  gfymr,  lasonaotia) ;  or  from  8u.-Goth.  j|«M^ 
l/oniy  tepidus;  or  IsL  Idti,  lacona,  also  stagnum  v.  r»* 
cessus  stagnL  But  a  more  probable  derivation  would 
be  fiom  the  Celtic  Aw,  Ioh^  luHf  aqna  (Boxh.  in 
Lex.  Ant,  Brit,  %*«.  liquor)^  with  the  not  uxi« 
common  prefix  g,  Conf.  the  river  Glan  (Carinthia), 
whence  Klagenfurt,  t.  e,  the  ford  of  the  GUm  or 
Klaaen ;  the  Lune  (Lat.  Zwia),  a  river  of  Eng- 
land; the  German  rivers  Leine  and  Lane  (by 
some  Lona^  J^anuSj  Loganus;  the  M.  id,  SBquoTy 
unda,  also  aqua;  the  Welsh  Ui^  a  flux,  flood| 
stream,  Gaelic  and  Erse  ha,  aqua. 

R.  ST  Chasitogc. 

Gray*s  Inn. 

The  Mexost  of  Smells  (i^  S.  vl  297.^— 
Hazlitt  is  right  in  his  assertion  that  it  is  im- 
possible to  remember  smells,  for  the  facultv  of 
memory  can  only  be  exercised  upon  objects  which 
have  l>een  seen  or  impressions  made  upon  the 
organs  of  hearing.  Bab-Poift  says  ha  csfli  recall 
at  any  time  the  smeU  of  tiie  binding  of  his  school 
books ;  but  if  he  considers  a  moment,  and  analysea 
his  mental  opMations,  he  will  find  that  he  firat 
recalls  by  memory  the  outward  appearance  of  the 
books,  and  then  (by  a  totally  distinct  faculty)  he 
fancies  what  tEeir  smell  was.  The  whole  proeesa 
is  a  good  example  of  the  association  of  ideas. 
Taste  and  smell  are  Tcloselv  connected  in  many 
points,  and  the  same  law  holds  good  with  the 
sensaticms  of  taste.  BastPodtt  cannot  xemamber 
the  taste  of  the  cakes  which  were  in  favour  when 
he  was  at  school,  unless  he  first  lemembeis  what 
the  cakes  were  like  in  ontwsrd  appearanoe.  Than 
it  is  easy,  by  the  exercise  of  faoey,  to  endow  them 
with  the  attributes  of  sweetaeu,  flavour,  fta, 
which  had  formerly  such  a  charm  for  bun.  The 
nrocess  in  fact  is  an  instance  of  what  Mr.  J.  S. 
Mill  happily  calk  ''  mental  chemistry  " ;  tJia  one 
operation  of  the  mind  almost  uneoascionsly  gene- 
rates the  other. 

The  mental  sequence  of  these  two  opetations  of 
thought  will  be  more  clearly  seen  by  reversing 
the^  process.  Has.  Bab-Poiht  ever  noticed  how, 
as  it  were  bv  a  mental  flash,  a  smell  frequently 
calls  up  an  idea  of  place  P  Association  of  ideas  ia 
in  this  case  sgain  the  enchanter.  ^Thus  I  never 
pass  a  ^ew-tree  hedge  in  my  garden  without  its 
indescnbable  old-world  fraffrance  instantly  rep- 
ealling to  my  mind  an  old  hall  in  Derbydhue,  a 
hundred  miles  away,  in  the  garden  of  which  are 
some  wonderful  examples  of  the  topiarian  art  with 
which  I  first  made  acquaintance  when  quite  a 
child.  Similarly,  the  peculiar  odour  which  docu-» 
ments  give  out  after  they  have  been  kept  in  a 
drawer  a  lon^  time,  irreslBtibly  reminds  me,  when- 
ever I  smell  it,  of  a  certain  brass-bound  mahogany 
desk  some  two  counties  removed  from  my  home. 

PxLAcmra. 


4*  S.  VIL  Fbb.  25, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


179 


John  Bovbt  (4**»  S.  viL  11.) — ^The  name  is  pro- 
perly spelt  BoeTey  (pronounced  Boovey),  and  the 
&mily  IS  now  represented  by  Sir  Thomas  Crawley- 
Boevey,  Bart,  of  Ilaxley  Abbey,  co.  Gloucester. 
John  ^MYey  was  the  brother  of  the  Mary  Cour* 
tnii^  about  whose  father  Mb.  Botlb  inquires. 
Their  father  was  William  Boerey  of  London^ 
mereliaiit,  joint  purchaser  with  his  brother  James 
of  Flaxley  Abbey  in  1847.  He  died  in  1662. 
Their  mother  was  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Lucy, 
which  Anne  manied  (secondly)  Sir  James  Smith, 
Knt.  The  brother,  James  Boevey,  eldest  (?)  son 
of  Andrew  Boeyey,  died  in  1695,  haying  married 
Margaret  Ciessett  (who  sunriyed  him),  and  leay- 
ing  issue  Ck)roelia,  wife  of  Thomas  VanaJrer,  and 
TVilliam  Boeyey  of  Flaxley,  whose  widow  Katha- 
line,  daughter  of  John  Bichea,  was  the  "  widow  " 
beloyed  of  Sir  Boger  de  Ck>yerley.* 

The  brother  of  Mary  Courtenay  was  farih^  of 
Bichffd  Boeyey,  who  took  the  name  of  Gkirth, 
and  was  ancestor. of  the  Garths  of  Monien,  co. 
Surrey ;  and  her  sister  Judith  married  Sir  Leyinas 
Bennett,  Bart.  Anne  and  Joanna,  sisters  of  James 
and  William  Boovey,  married,  the  latter  Abraham 
Clarire^  and  the  former  Dayid  Bonnell  of  Isle- 
worth,  whose  daughter  Mary  married  Thomas 
Crawley  of  London,  merchant 

The  arms  of  Boeyey  are  giyen  by  Cleyeland 
as  Or,  on  a  cheyroA  sable  three  plates;  but  in  the 
grant  of  arms  to  Crawley-Boeyey  they  aro  cited 
as  Erm.  on  a  bend  gules  between  two  martlets 
sable,  three  gutt^s  d'or:  and  so  I  think  they 
appear  on  the  monuments  in  Flaxley  church. 

If,  in  return  for  this  information,  which  I  hope 
may  be  of  use  to  Mr.  Botxb,  he  can  giye  me  any 
higher  steps  in  the  pedigree  of  Andrew  Boeyey,  I 
shall  be  much  obliged.  I  think  he  will  haye  to 
seek  them  in  Holland.  Heitbt  H.  Gibbs. 

Si.  Duiiitwi's*  Begaat's  Park. 


Fbjlbsb  :  Fbissl  (4^  S.  yii.  55.)— The  arms  of 
Fraeer  are  three  strawberry  flowers  on  a  blue 
field.  They  are  borne  by  Lords  Loyat  and  Sal- 
toun,  and  by  Sir  W.  Fraser  of  Ledeclune,  Bart. 
The  number  and  arrangement  haye  yaried  at  dif- 
ferent times ;  six  is  not  uncommon,  placed  three, 
two,  and  one.  In  Scotch  heraldry  these  straw- 
berry flowers  are  called  **  Frasira.*'  They  may  be 
seen  on  the  ancient  cross  at  Peebles.  As  to  the 
other  queries  I  shall  be  fflad  of  information. 

The  last  of  the  French  Frasers,  the  Marquis  de 
la  Frezeliere,  was  killed  in  the  Duchesse  de  Berries 
attempt.  Thb  KirxGHT  of  Mobab. 

OtD  PBnrrs  op  StoirBHSveB  (4*  S.  yii.  S6.) — 
Dayid  Loggan,  the  engrayer  of  Mb.  Edwik  Dnif- 
sxr's  old  print  of  Stonehenge,  was  bom  at  Dantzic 
about  the  year  1630  according  to  Bryan ;  and  his 


chief  works,  the  same  authority  assures  us,  were 
published  in  the  last  quarter  of  ^e  seyenteenth 
century.  This  will  enable  Mb.  DuKicnf  to  fix 
approximatiyely  the  date  of  his  print 

T.  Wbstwoob. 

Rev.  Nbhemiah  Rogebs  (4**  S.  yii.  77.)— 
Nehemiah  Rogers  occurs  as  prebendary  of  the 
sixth  stall,  ]^,  in  1636.  He  died  before  1660, 
as  Laurence  Womock  was  collated  to  this  stall 
July  15, 1660,  and  installed  Sept  22  of  the  same 
year.  (Walker's  Sufferings,  ii  22:  Le  Neve'a 
Fasti  AngHcani,  I  m.) 

Rogers  was  fdso  rector  of  S.  Botolph'a,  Bishop- 
gate,  to  which  he  succeeded  March  26^  1642,  on 
the  resignation  of  Wykes.  Robert  Pory,D.D.,  was 
admitted  to  the  rectory  Aug.  10,  1660,  per  morL 
Rogers.  (Walker,  ii.  175  j  Newcourt's  B^^erto- 
rMcm,  i.  313.)  Rogers  was  admitted  to  the  yicar- 
age  of  Messing,  in  Essex,  May  13, 1620, /wr  mort. 
Harris ;  John  Preston  succeeded  May  3,  1642,  p^ 
cess,  Rogers.    (Newcourt's  JRep.  ii.  417.) 

He  was  also  rector  of  Great  Tey,  in  Essex.  He 
entered  on  this  preferment  Aug.  15, 1644.  (New- 
court's  Bfsp.  ii  572.)  JoHBsoir  Bailt. 

S.  A.  will  flnd  some  account  of  him  in  the 
''Puritan  Series  of  Commentaries,"  republished 
by^  Nichols^  Edinbtnrh.  It  is  nrcfized  to  a  re- 
print of  ^  Strange  Vweyard  m  PtUestina. 

S.  Waixbb. 
1,  HigtiiMd  Plaoe,  Brtdford. 

SnrOKIDBS  AWD    THE    CoDBX   SiKAITrCtJB    (4'* 

S.  yii.  77.)— W.  E.  A.  A.  will  find  the  extra- 
ordinary statement  of  Simonides  printed  in  ex- 
tenso  in  The  OttartUan,  Jan.  21,  1863,  and  the 
consequent  controyersy  was  carried  on  principally 
in  that  paper,  in  the  Literary  Churchman^  ana  the 
Clerical  JournaL  A  few  letters  appeared  also  in 
The  Parthenon  and  other  literary  periodicals  of 
the  first  quarter  of  1863. 

I  haye  preserved  some  collectanea  on  the  affair^ 
and  shall  oe  happjr  to  lend  them  to  W.  E.  A.  A. 
if  he  will  communicate  with  me. 

Unless  (as  I  hope^  to  be)  I  am  anticipated  by 
some  one  better  qualified,  I  should  be  nappy  to 
condense  an  article  I  wrote  at  the  time  in  a  pe- 
riodical now  defunct  into  a  rSsumi  of  the  whole 
controyersy,  if  Mr.  Editor  could  give  it  room. 

Gbokob  M.  Gbbht. 

27,  Kiag  William  Straet,  Strand. 


^ 


•  «*Th«  Pefvwfe  Widow**  Is  noticed  in  "».  t,  Q.,* 
S.  is.  222 ;  8^  S.  ifl.  65.— Ed.] 


[Such  an  article,  if  it  ean  be  brought  witUaa  moderate 
oompaaB,  would,  we  should  think,  m  yeiy  acceptable  to 
many  readers.] 

A  learned  friend  told  me  lately  iiiat  Simonides 
informed  him  that,  if  he  ezamued  the  original 
MS.  with  that  of  Tischeadorf  s  edition,  he  would 
find  two  places  marhad  as ''  laeooa  "  by  the  latter, 
because  they  bore  eyident  marks  of  being  the 
handiwork  of  Simonides,  for  the  initial  kttar  of 
twenty-one  eonsecutiye  uaes  spelt  out  tiM  nans 


180 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»  S.  VII.  Feb.  25, 71. 


Ky  Oy  n,  8,  t,  a,  D,  t,  if  n,  0|  8,  S,  i^  m,  o,  n,  i,  d,  e,  b. 
If  tlufl  be  the  case,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  all 
the  world  is  deceived  about  the  antiquity  of  the 
MS.  Simonides,  to  the  last,  declared  it  to  be  his 
handiwork.  G.  L.  Blsniiksopp. 

Springthorpe  Rectory. 

Charlemagne,  Arks  op  (4*  S.  vii.  76.)— If 
my  recollectloh  serves  me,  a  colossal  statue  of 
Charlemagne,  opposite  one  of  the  entrances  to  the 
Paris  Exhibition  of  1867,  had  on  the  shield  a 
single  cross  flory  (no  tinctures  shown.) 

W.  M.  H.  C.  will  find  the  following  entries  in 
Rietstap's  Armorial  gMral : — 

''Charlemagne,  Normandy.— D*axar  an  chevron  ao- 
corapagntf  en  chef  de  deux  croiasants  et  en  polnte  d*ane 
molette,  le  toot  d'or. 

**  Charlemagne,  Berry. — D*or  k  Vaigle  de  aahle  ehargtf 
d*nne  flwce  en  divise  de  goenles  aar^argtf  de  troia  roaea 
d'argent." 

Flettr-db-Lts. 

Sawnet  Bbavb,  the  Mak-eatee  (4^  S.  vii. 
77.) — ^The  narrative  (given  in  the  following  work) 
of  the  atrocities  committed  by  him  and  his  family 
are  ''attested  by  the  most  unouestionable  his- 
torical evidence,^'  as  stated  by  Captain  Charles 
Johnson  in  his  History  of  the  Lives  and  Actions 
of  the  most  famous  ffiffhwaymen,  Street-^obberSf 
4;c.  8^.j  8vo,  Edinburgh,  1813,  pp.  33-7.  This  edi- 
tion appears  to  be  a  reprint,  as  tne  Advertisement 
states  tnat ''  the  History  "  had  become  very  scarce 
and  valuable.  At  the  sale  of  the  late  Duke  of 
Koxburgh*s  books  a  copy  sold  for  fifteen  guineas^ 
besides  duty.  W.  P. 

Whale's  Bib  at  Sorrento  (4«^  S.  vii.  36, 84) 
The  object  alluded  to  illustrates  a  medieval  prac- 
tice of  putting  objects  of  curiosity  in  churches  as 
an  attraction  to  those  who  otherwise  would  not 
come,  and  is  defended  bv  Durandus.  In  the 
church  of  S.  Mary  Redclilfe,  Bristol,  there  is  (or 
was  until  lately)  a  laige  bone,  most  probably  that 
of  a  whale,  but  said  to  be  the  rib  of  the  dun  cow 
killed  by  the  redoubtable  Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick. 
As  it  stood  upon  a  corbel  appuently  intended  for 
ity  and  of  the  same  date  as  the  church,  this  bcme 
has  probably  been  there  for  centuries. 

P.  R  Masbt. 

The  Sohoolmastbr  Abroad  nr  Stafford- 
8HIRE  (4*^  S.  vii.  121.)— The  first  of  these  stories 
was  in  Pimeh  long  ago,  and  is  spoiled  in  the  Staf" 
fordshire  Adoertuer.  It  had  a  further  point,  in 
the  unseemly  resemblance  between  the  words 
hiehop  and  hitch.  The  collier  says,  on  hearing  of 
a  bishop,  ''  I  don*t  know  what  thee  means,  but 
ray  bitcn  Bose  shall  pin  he."  It  may  be  seen, 
admirably  illustrated  as  usual,  in  the  inimitable  - 
collection  of  Leech's  drawings. 

The  story  may  be  a  true  one,  bat  I\mch  gene- 
raUy  puts ''  Fact ''  when  it  is  so.        LTTtBLioir. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

Calendar  of  State  Popera,  DomesHe  SeruB,  of  the  Rwm 
of  Eiixabeth,  1601-1603.  With  Addenda,  1547, 1565. 
Edited  5y  Mary  Anne  Everett  Green. 

Oatendar  of  State  Papen^  Foreign  Seriee,  of  the  Beigm  of 
Eiixabeth,  1564-5.    EdUed  by  Joseph  Stevenaon,  M.A. 

Calendar  of  StaU  Fapere,  Cohmial  Seriee,  East  Indies, 
China  and  Japan.  1617-1621.  Edited  by  W.  Noel 
Sainahnry,  Esq. 

Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Foreign  and  DomesOe,  of  the 
iZeMii  of  Henry  VIIL  preserved  in  the  PnUic  Record 
Omee,  British  Mmseam,  and  eUesshere  tn  England. 
Arranged  and  catalogued  by  J.  S.  Brewer,  MA.  VoL 
IK    Fart  L 

If  any  doubt  could  exist  as  to  the  value  and  import- 
ance of 'the  great  work  of  ealendarii^,  and  ao  rendering 
available  the  matchless  stores  of  historical  documents 
preserved  among  oor  National  Records^  to  the  inaugura- 
tion of  which  the  late  Sir  George  Lewis  so  largely  con- 
tributed, and  which  is  now  being  so  successfully  carried 
on,  under  the  supervision  of  Lord  Romilly,  it  must  be  in- 
stantly dispdled  by  a  glance  at  the  contents  of  the  four 
goodly  volumes  w'hose  titles  we  have  just  transcribed. 
There  is  not  a  branch  of  our  history,  political,  eecJcarfaa- 
tical,  municipal,  or  social,  which  does  not  receive  mora  or 
less  illustration  from  some  of  the  documents  here  described, 
and  of  many  of  which  the  veiy  existence  is  first  made 
known  to  students  by  these  volumes.     Mm  Everett 
Green*s  Calendar  completes  the  regular  series  of  the 
Domestic  State  Papers  of  the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
and  throws  much  light  on  the  proceedings  against  the  ad- 
herents of  the  Earl  of  Essex ;  on  the  controversy  between 
the  Jesuits  in  England  and  the  secular  priests;  and  fur- 
nishes some  minute  details  concerning  the  last  illness  and 
death  of  Elizabeth :  the  remainder  of  the  volume  being 
occupied  with  addenda  of  the  Domestic  Papers  of  Edward 
the  sixth,  Mary,  and  the  early  years  of  Elizabeth  dis- 
covered since  the  printing  of  Mr.  Lemon*s  volume.    Mr. 
Stevenson's  volume  is  the  last,  it  is  understood,  which  the 
public  will  receive  ikom  this  acoomplisbed  scholar ;  and 
those  who  glance  over  the  brief  but  interesting  sketch 
which  he  gives  of  the  contents  of  the  volume,  which 
eootains  abstracts  as  well  of  the  entire  official  correspond- 
ence which  passed  between  England  and  foreign  conn* 
tries^  as  also  of  such  letters  •#  were  sent  from  abroad  to 
the  Queen  and  the  English  Ministry  generally,  during 
the  years  1564  and  1565,  will  regret  that  they  an  to  re- 
ceive no  mora  sndi  instructive  sketches  ftmn  the  same 
hand.    The  interest  attached  to  Mr.  Sainsbury's  volume 
is  altogether  of  a  dilTerent  character,  for  the 'documents 
contained  in  it  continue  the  curious  illustrations  of  the 
origin  of  the  East  India  Company  and  of  our  Settle- 
ments in  India  which  were  commenced  in  Mr.  Sainsbury's 
preceding  volume — a  volume  of  which  it  may  be  re- 
marked thai  it  was  considered  so  valuable  bj  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  for  India  that  fifty  copies  of  it  have  bv  bis 
direction  been  distributed  among  the  four  Presidencies  ia 
India.    The  last  Calendar  we  have  now  to  notice  is  the 
first  Mrt  of  vol.  iv.  of  Mr.  Brewer's  State  Pmers,  Foreign 
and  Domestic,  of  the  Reign  of  Henry  VIlL    Althou}rli 
the  papers  contained  in  it  are  confined  to  those  of  1524- 
1526,  3'et  as  they  have  been  collected  from  every  avail- 
able source  and  an  calendared  at  considerable  length, 
they  occupy  a  thousand  pages,  and,  in  consequence,  the 
instructive  commentary  with  which  Mr.  Brewer  always 
introduces  his  volume  will  appear  with  the  last  part  of  it. 


4«>»S.VII.  Feb.25,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


181 


Tk*  Poetical  Workt  of  Thomaa  Hood,  Edited,  wOh  a  Cri- 
tical Memoir t  6y  William  Michael  Roasetti.  IliuetreUed 
by  Guatave  Dore.    (Moxon.) 

This  is  a  nioelj  printed  volume  of  the  choiceit  poems 
•fThomas  Hood.  It  does  not  contain  all  his  Comic  Poema, 
or  all  his  Seritma;  those  mast  be  aoufirht  for,  if  wanted, 
in  the  tvro  volamea  so  entitled.  Mr.  Roasetti  opens  the 
▼olume  with  a  prefatory  notice,  in  which  the  few  incidents 
of  the  poet's  life  are  briefly  and  pleasantly  told,  and  his 
place  among  English  poets  fixed  by  the  writer  as  *'  the 
finest  English  poet  between  the  generation  of  Shelley  and 
the  generation  of  Tennyson."  The  Tolnme  is  illnstrated 
with  reduced  copies  of  t>OTi'a  well-known  pictures. 

Tke  Year  Book  of  Facta  in  Science  and  Art :  exhibiting 
the  nuet  Important  Diaeoveriee  and  Improvementa  of 
ika  Paat  Year,  ire.  By  JohnTimbs.  (Lockwood  &  Co.) 

We  have  again  to  welcome  the  indefatigable  Mr.  Tim^ 
and  we  gladly  direct  the  attention  of  such  of  oar  readers 
as  are  interested  in  the  progress  of  science,  to  this  fresh 
proof  of  Mr.  Timbs*s  intelligent  industry. 

RBvmoK  OF  THS  BiBLK^ — ^The  Old  Testament  Com- 
pany of  SeriieTS  resumed  their  labonis  on  Taesday  last 
under  the  presidency  of  the  Bishop  of  St  Davids,  who,  we 
rejoice  to  learn,  no  longer  sees  any  necessity  for  with- 
drawing from  his  connection  with  this  important  work,. 
but  will  continue  to  guide  the  councils  of  the  Revisers 
as  be  has  done  hitherto.  From  this  it  may  be  inferred 
that,  in  his  judgment,  the  principle  for  which  he  so 
atronglv  contended  in  the  debates  of  last  week  in  the 
Upper  llouse  of  Convocation  has  been  amply  vindicated. 
The  Bishops  of  Llandaff,  Ely,  and  Bath  and  Wells,  and 
thirteen  other  members  were  also  present  at  this  meeting 
of  the  company. 

A  Club  in  Constantxkoplb. — A  new  Ottoman  dub 
has  been  organised  in  Stamboul,  originated  by  Mustapha 
Fazyl,  who  has  already  made  a  handsome'donation  of 
2000  French  works  to  the  library  of  the  club.  A  branch 
of  this  institution  has  now  fonped  itself  into  a  literary 
society  for  the  purpose  of  translating  European  works 
of  the  greatest  celebrity  into  Turkish,  and  is  at  this 
moment  engaged  on  the  JLettera  of  Lord  Cheaterfield, 

Mr.  Johk  Mabtik,  M.P.,  the  Repealer,  and  lately- 
elected  member  for  Meath  county,  has,  to  use  the  words 
of  the  late  Artemus  Ward,  been  guilty  of  *<  a  goak."  We 
ohserve  in  Debrett's  Heraldic  and  Bwgreiphiwl  ffouae  of 
Oammona  and  the  Judicial  Bench,  the  editor  sUtes— that 
in  reply  to  his  customary  inquiry  as  to  the  armorial  dis- 
tinctions borne  by  the  new  member,  Mr.  Martin  replied, 
*'  I  carry  no  arms !    This  is  a  proclaimed  district." 


Sbaksfeabc.  —  At  the  sale  last  week,  by  Messrs. 
Sotheby,  of  the  valuable  libranr  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Gorser  a  unique  collection  of  8hakspeare*s  works  was 
disposed  of.  The  first  four  folio  editions  fetched  respec- 
tively 160/.,  49/.,  77L,  and  12/. ;  a  second  quarto  of  the 
Merehamt  of  Venice,  22/. ;  a  second  quarto  of  itftcbam- 
amer  Nighfa  Dream,  261. ;  the  King  Lear  of  1608, 26/.  lOt.  $ 
tbefirsteditionof7>«y/itfim<fOeMetVi,87/.;  Of Ae//o,  1680, 
S.  10s. ;  and  Borneo  and  JuHet,  1687, 1 II.  The  greatest 
rarity  in  the  sale  was  the  original  edition  of  the  Sonnets, 
1609,  which,  although  the  title-page  and  leaf  of  dedica- 
tion were  in  fae-simile,  reached  45/.  Next  in  interest 
were  the  Venma  and  Adoma,  which  reached  65/.,  being 
ooe  of  the  only  two  p^ribct  copies  known  (the  other  is  in 
the  British  Museum),  and  the  Poema  of  1650,  duodecimo, 

Suite  perfect,  41/.  These  last  three  were  purchased  by  Mr. 
kddington,  who  last  year  gave  200/.  for  a  very  fine  copy 
of  the  third  folio. 

National  Gallbbt.— The  Annual  Report  of  the 
Binctor  has  just  been  printed.  Five  pictures  were  bought 


during  the  last  year-^namely, "  An  Old  Woman  peeling 
a  Pear,"  by  David  Teniers;  ^  Saint  Peter  Martyr,"  the 
portrait  of  a  Dominican  monk,  by  Giovanni  Beflini,  im- 
ported from  Milan;  "The  Procession  to  Calvary,*'  by 
Boccaccio  Boccaccino,  imported  from  Milan ;  "  The  Ma- 
donna and  Infant  Christ,  the  Youthful  Baptist  and 
Angels,"  an  unfinished  picture  ascribed  to  Michel  Angelo ; 
an  alUr^piece  by  Giambattista  Cima  da  Conegliano,  re- 
presenting «  The  Incredulity  of  St.  Thomas."  The  collec- 
tions of  the  National  Gallery  at  Trafalgar  Square  and 
at  South  Kensington  have  (assuming  that  all  the  visitors 
to  the  Museum  visit  the  Picture  Gallery)  been  attended 
by  1,918,564  persons  on  the  public  days  during  the  year 
1870 ;  898,715  at  Trafalgar  Square,  and  1,014,849  at 
South  Kensington.  The  daily  average  attendance  at 
Trafalgar  Square  (open  to  the  public  180  days)  was 
4,915 ;  in  1869  the  average  was  4,911. 

Wb  learn  from  The  Publiaher'a  dreular  that  Messrs. 
Sampson  Low  &  Co.  have  now  nearly  ready  for  delivery 
the  Dictionary  of  Biographical  Reference,  bv  Lawrence 
B.  Phillips,  F.R.A.S.,  which  will  consist  of  over  1,000  pp. 
medium  8vo.  The  value  and  importance  of  this  dic- 
tionary will  be  best  perceived  when  it  is  steted  that  there 
will  be  one  hundred  thousand  names  —  a  number  which 
exceeds  by  many  thousands  those  contained  in  the  most 
voluminous  ezistiog  works  upon  the  subject — ^and  up- 
wards of  a  quarter  of  a  million  references.  The  chief 
letters  run  as  follows:  in  B  12,600  names,  C  9397, 
G  5,640,  L  5,481,  M  6,816»  S  7,800. 

Damb  Europa*s  School.— The  success  of  this  pam- 
phlet has  been  remarkable.  The  sale  has  reached  nearly 
200,000  copies,  and  it  has  been  already  translated  into 
French,  while  propositions  for  German,  Italian,  and  Por- 
tuguese translations  have  been  forwarded  to  the  pub- 
lishers. The  following,  according  to  The  Publiahera^ 
dreular,  is  a  list  of  the  answers  and  imitations  which  it 
has  called  forth.  Their  sale  has  also  been  unexceptionally 
large.  The  first  on  the  list  is^John  Justified,  a  Reply  to 
the  Fight,  6d.  (Simpkin) ;  John's  Governor  visits  Dame 
Europa*s  School,  6<t  (Blackwood) ;  Break-up  of  Dame 
Europa*s  School,  8<l.  (Clowes) ;  Which  should  John  have 
Helped?  ed.  (Hardwicke);  Why  Johnny  didn't  Inter- 
fere, Bd.  (Whittaker) ;  The  Row  at  Dame  Europa's  School, 
another  account,  by  a  Chum  of  Johnny's,  6cl.  (Trilbner) ; 
Master  John  and  his  Tenants,  or  What  Sandy  thought  of 
the  Matter,  6dL  (Simpkin) ;  What  Johnny  thought  of  it 
all :  a  brief  Review  of  lus  Treatment  at  the  hands  of 
Friend  and  Foe,  Sd.  (Whittaker) ;  John's  Unde  thinks  it 
Time  to  say  a  Word,  or  How  to  Conquer  England,  6  J. 
(Hotten) ;  A  Few  Particnlan  of  John's  Fag  at  the  Dame's 
School,  6d,  (Dennant). 

LoNDOsr  Imteritatiowal  EzniBrrioir  or  1871. — 
During  the  week  ending  February  18,  upwards  of  8,500 
British  objects,  consisting  of  Scnlpturej  Pottery,  Wool- 
lens, and  Educational  Works  and  Appliances,  nave  been 
delivered  at  the  Exhibition  Buildings,  besides  foreign 
objects  firom  Bavaria,  Belgium,  and  Saxony. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD  VOLUMES 
waktbd  to  pubohasb. 

PsrlicRiIsn  orPrlos,  ae.,  et  tiM  Ibllovtnc  Book*  to  bt  Mnt  direct  to 
tlM  cMtlemn  bf  whom  thtj  art  raqoirod,  vhoM  oamef  and  addrttMt 
•ra  givwi  toe  that  purpoMt  — 

Noaaxs  (Rsv.  Jon),  A  CoLLaonos  ov  MisoiLLAxias,  as.  -  itmo, 

lioadoB.  I7M>  ___ 

Oldy8(Wic.),Thi  BarrisR  LiaaABiAX.   Sro.   London,  1737. 

DOOOLAS  (RBV.  JOHS).  MlLTOV  VlVOIOATBD  VEOX   TBI  CaABflB 

ovPLAaiABlsii.*e.  Sto.   London,  17M.  _ 

Tkb  Sbbusbiiab  Dibbotbd  ur  TKaCnoiOB  ov  his  Rslxqios. 
CBf  TlMiinMGluviiina,I>.D.r]  Unw.   London,  17M. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  TIL  Fbb.  25,  '71. 


Thb  Cutt  OF  Tbcutt  Coluob.  Dcblw.   8to.   DiibUa,  jTH. 

/oBTIir     (JOHH.  D.D.).    BB1UM1     Oir   KaSLMXASnOAf.    HUIOKT. 

ayoli.tvD.    ioadaii,)M6.    Vd.m ,«,    _    x-...-^ 

SxLvonom  vbom  thb  BniinHT—H  Bamw.  4  voli.  Sfo.  La«*<»i 
h*ws.   Vol.  iT.  ^  _^  ^ .^      -w_^«.  MM> 

Hall's  SAivmsi.  Edited  br  B.  W.  Siacn.  caiiawkk,  i«4. 

Wanted  br  JTr.  ^rdk.  IToteoii.  Lyaed^oh  8ln•^OlM•olv. 


TALM.  AHMTDOnM,  Aim 


(1  tmilftted  ftom  tite  AnMe  nd 

ShsmribuiF.iaoa. 

Wmted  lur  OoL  gfa,8tewnMi,  mm  B«iter» 

SOirwara  B<yrAifT.  Fin»«or  or»^fola.ef  •ditton  aomMiAbv. 
Scooad-haad  aonr. 

Wanted  by  JTr.  iTauv  T.  iTofce,  BooknUcr,  GockMmoatli. 

A  IHiteTT  of  MlMon,  KottA. 

AIM  any  (ood  Workj  on  Hneoumtoi  or  Memory.   (Not  Stoket.  Pi<^s, 
or  ifiMuaiwu^ 

Wanted  by  JTr.  C.  IT.  S*primg,  Eldon  Moot,  Leedi. 


To  meet  e&«  nqmrvmmUofoMr  mmmtroma  amd  tmereating 
(hrmpondmU,  we  mm*  a  Z^pagt  mmmber  ofaim,  thU  week. 
Let  UM  take  the  apportimity  ofaMmg  them  tobeae  brief  ae 
poeeible,  and  ogam  to  remind  them  to  write  legibly. 

SoiBiinnc  QuBsm  ahmdd be  rndthimed  to  edmUjle 
jomrfude,  and  GbnxaLooioal  Qubsub,  im^  of  gemend 
intereet,  will  not  be  inserUd  unietB  Ae  Qnerut  mddB  hie 
name  and  the  addreee  to  which  the  vtformation  he  require* 
mag  bejbrwarded  direct. 

Mat  Marriaoks.— H.  J.  (New  Toik)  i»  referred  to 
*<N.  &  Q.**  1"*  S.  L  467,  cm  the  eubjeet  of  eneh  marriagee 
being  wduckg, 

Ajr  losiORAirr  Ass.— "^e  would  not  hear  mntr  enemg 
eag  eo/*  ^.,  ii  n/erred  to  **N.  &  Q."  of  Jam  21  loM, 
p.  56,  and  alto  to  p.  173  of  the  preeent  mnmber, 

CotrOV,  TRB  ALLEOBD  CBMTBMARIAir.  — M«.  POLB 
Gabbw^s  iniereeting  letter  it  unawridabfg  poe^oned  mUii 
ne»i  week  We  hmm  aleo  to  thank  Mb.  PEMOBLLY^br  hie 
commtaueation  on  the  eubjeet, 

Ebrata.— 4«^  S.  yi.  p.  566,  col.  ii.  One  8  fwm  bottom, 
far  •'Sdingins."  rtad  **  Tellngina  " ;  p.  069,  ool.  L  line  1, 
for  «  Asok^  EdiokpBd"  read  <•  Asoka  BUttet  used  in  in- 
eoriptioDS.** 

jfUcoimiMNleaffow  clkMMte  otUraaitf  lo  flkeBdItor  qT**'.* Q.** 
43,  WMmgtotk  Areec  StrmUL,  W.C, 

%•  Qmefat  UadlBCtlw  Votamwor  •*]«.•  Q.**  bhw  bt  had  of  tiw 
PnbUahar,  and  of  all  BookMUan  and  Mavrmen. 

In  eommnnmct  nf  tk«  UbeiiUom  oTrta  impremrd  JTtMiwMijwr  Slamp^  tke 
BubtcrlDdon  ibr  copies  forwarded  free  bu  pmt.  direct  from  the  Pubtiaher 
iinelwItnatheHaif-yearlv  Index), /or  Six  Mamth»,wm.  be.  Ite.  ».(»!■. 
atead  afXU.  id.),  wlueh  may  be  paid  by  Pott  Office  Order  payable  ai  the 
^omerMt  Anm  Pet  Qffb*^  m  faooeer  of  Wiluax  6.  Bhi 
WuLuraros  Sxanr,  Btbajid,  W.G 


CHUBB'8  mrW  PATENT  SAJPBS. 

STEEL  PLATED,  with  Diagonal  Bolts,  to  legist 
WedcM,  Dtilb,  and  Fiie. 

VMnmM%  wATmmv  ^naori 

OTaU  Steci  and  for  Mvar  Pipoae^^Siiaat  doo 

aadnwUBayai    Clh.  Dead, Paear. and  Wrt<totBoa»i, 
all  Sited  with  the  Dateetor  Loaka. 

IRON   DOORS   FOB   8TR0N<»  K00M9. 
JUmtinded  Prize  lAtU  GraiU  and  Poet-Free, 

CHUBB  and  SON, 

fl7. 8(.  Pant**  Chvrdiyard,  London 1 18,  Lord  Street,  lAnr^otAx 
m^  Cnat  StMa^  Maanhailert  and  WoltvrtiMBieoa. 

PJLXTBrDGX    AHB    COOPXB, 

MANOTAGTURIN6  STATIONERS, 
Iff,  Fleet  Street  (Comer  of  Chaneeiy  Lbbo). 

CABBLAOB  PAID  TO  TRB  OOVIITBT  CM  OBNEBB 

BXCBEDIRO  MiL 

BOTE  FAPEB,  Cream  or  Bine,  Si.,  4«.,  Sf .,  and  U.  per  ream. 

ENVELOPES. Ciaam  or  Blue,  U.  W.,  ie.  Sd., and  te.  6d.  per  1  J00». 

THE  TEMPLE  IENTELOPE,  wtth  fflgb  Inner  PInp,  U.  per  100. 

STRAW  PAFBB— aumuiiBd  qmllty,  te.Od.  p«ff  rean. 

VOOL8CAP,  HamC-niida  Oalildai,e».  M.  parnam. 

BLAGK-aOBJlEBBD  BOTE,  4>.  and  Se.  OiL  p«r  lOMB. 

BLACK-BOBDBBBD  BNVBL0PE8,  U,  per  IfiuAipartUdkeiMUtp^ 

TJOTTBD  UHED  NOTE,  for  Home  or  Foralga  CerKipeadaBce  (ft«« 
coloun),  6  qoiree  for  I«.  6cf. 

OOTiOtniED  STAMPINO  (Relief),  radooed  to  4i.  Otf .  par  raaai.  or 
•t.  frf.  par  ivooo.  FoUiked  Suiel  Ore*  IMae  a^ravvd  from  te. 
Monoinai.two  leltaw,  from  be.%  thtaa  lattan,fram7«.  Bwiaaaa 
or  Addieai  Diet,  from  0*. 

8BBM0N  PAPER,  plain,  a.  per  tMlBt  Bided  dllto,  4#.  Od. 

SCHOOL  STATIONEBT  nipplled  on  the  mort  liberal  teHH. 

lUnitratod  Prtee  Ltat  of  Inkitenda,  Deipateh  Bozea,  BtaBoiMrr, 
GMiaeta,  Poatata  Bealae,  WHtlne  Caaai,  Itetnit  Alboma.  Be;,  pool 


IITB.  48. 


THE   insrw  VELLTJIE-WOVS   GI.UB- 
HOTJSE  PAFEB. 

jftmBwctnmd  and  eold  only  by 

PARTRIDGE  AND  COOPER,  192,  Fleet  Street, 
Corner  of  Chancery  Lane. 

**  The  nradiiaHoo  of  Nota-papar  of  a  aoperior  Mnd  haalaas  ben  the 
anbitcot  en  experiment  with  mannfoeturen,  but  until  lately  no  Imniroi 


it 


aked 


ment  oould  be  made  on  thaiin  ganaral  nee,  an< 

npon  ae  certain  that  extreme  exoellence  had  bfsen  attained  ijmt  thl« 


ididnoteeemmtlifcHniTto 

of  Flaat8te«at,whodetenBlnedtoooBtln«e'  . 

result  waa  attained.    Sheer  penereranoe  haa  been 

liATe  at  last  been  aUa  to  produce  a  new  deserlj  ' 

callCL«niooMiNon,ttiati     .„      ,.,-..-  ^     . 

use.   The  new  paper  is  bcantiAiUy  white,  Ite  snrfoee  is  m 

ti^HaiyMi  t»igry,  and  to  enbitaiiwa  nearly  iwtimWta  that  of  iwttnm,aa 

A  steel  pen  can  be  used  npen  It  with  tl« 


ana  oparatione  ontU  soow  new 
)  has  been  rewarded,  ibr  they 
Bserlption  of  paper,  which  they 
ythfairof  the  Idndtai  mdlnmy 


efn 


and 


(ESCABUVBXD  1841.) 


LAMPLOVOH'S 
FT&ETIC     8AIIVE 


BOI 


Has  peeallar  and  renarkahte  propcrtiee  ii ._ , 

Sidcness,  prerentlnf  and  enrinc  Hay.  Searlct,  and  other  Ferero,  and  ia 
admitted  by  all  users  to  ibrm  the  most  acreeabie,  portable,  ritallelna 
SnmmerBereraea.   Sold  by  most  shymlsta,  and  the  maker. 

H.  LAlfPLOnOH,  in,  Holbom  BUI,  London. 

SAUCE.— LEA   AND   PERRINS. 


pronounced  by  Connolswiui'i 

''THB  ONLY  GOOD  SAUCE.'' 

Improves  the  appetite  and  aids  dlgesdoo. 

XTNBiyALLED  FOB  PIQUANCY  AND  FLAVOUR. 

A«k  for  "IsSA  A^D  PSBJEtlMB*"  BAUOB. 

BEWARE     OF    IMITATIONS, 

fee  the  NameeofLBA  AND  PBRIUQVSoDall  betOaeaDdlnbeU. 

Aseata-JCROSSE  a  BLACK  WELL,  London,  and  iold  by  all 
Deaieia  in  Secees  thiw^ent  the  World. 


CHILDBBN.  and  IBFANT8. 

DINNEFOBD  a  CO.,  1».  New  Bond  Stneft,  LeadoB, 
And  of  an  Ghcnista. 

)iaESTI0N.— THE  MEDICAL  PEOlTEaSIOK 

adopt  MORSON*S  PREPARATION  of  PEP8INB  as  the  true 
fchemiits,  and  the  MannflMtttferirTl[QSL&  HORloR?SRr~ 


4^  S.  VU.  Fkb.  25,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


JLoddoatB  ottQse  ZjOsb  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS    CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 

Provide  agmmt  ACCJDENTB  of  ALL  RINDS 


BT  nrSDBXSQ  WITH  THB 


Railway  Passengers'  Assnrauoe  Company, 


JLn  Annual  FMrnMBi  of  MM  t«  MM  tt/  lamuM  AMNIO  at  Death, 
ot  an  allowanae  at  the  xate  of  MM  per  week  tox  Istixaj. 

£565,000  bav*  been  Paid  aa  Compesfiation, 

ONE  out  of  ereiT  TWELYE  Annual  Poliar  Holdcn  beooming  a 


dalmant  EACH  YEAR.    For  partienlan  ajmly  to  the  Clerkj  at  the 
Bailway  Station*,  to  the  Local  Agenta,  or  at  the  Offloei. 

«4,0OKNHII<L,  and  10,  REGENT  STREET.  LONDON. 

WQiLXAM  J.  YIAN.  JteNtary. 


BT  ROTAL  COMMAND. 


J 


OSEPH    GIIiLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 


SOLD  b7  aU  STATXQNXBS  ttnoMMil  Iha  WorM. 

GENTLEMEN  desirous  of   baving   their  Linens 
dreaMd  to  perftetion  ahonld  fUBPly  their  Xiaondreue*  vith  the 

•<0&B»VZB&»    8TASC  B," 

which  fanparli  a  farilUaiioy  and  elMtieit7srft«Uyi»C  alike  t«  tha  lenae 
of  eight  and  toueli. 

TQ'OTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE— AGUA  AMARELLA 

JLi  reitoree  the  Human  Hairto  tti  prlatlne  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
ace.  MESSRS.  JOHN  OOSNELL  It  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  Boet  eminent  Chemleli,  luoeeeded  in  perfceting  thii  wonderfm 
liquid.  It  is  now  olftied  to  the  rnblic  la  a  more  coneentratedfotm. 
andata' 


Sold  la  Sottlce,  S«.  eafth,  akoM.,7«.  Cd.,  or  Ite.  each,  with  brush. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  it  g>eatt7  wiperier  «o  any  Tooth  Powder,  glvei  the  teeth 
a  pcarl-lilBe  whitenesf,  protects  the  enamel  from  decajr,  and  impart*  a 
V&eatJM  ftigiMf  fi  to  the  breath. 


JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  00.*S  Eastra  HigUf  Scented  TOILET  and 
KURSERT  FOWDEB. 

To  be  had  of  ell  Perftimera  and  Chemiits  thronghont  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  Pawiege,  99,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 

BT7PTURES.-J3T  ROTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 
aUowed  bf  npwarde  of  BW  Medical  men  to  be  the  meet  eflbe- 
tlw  taimntiaii  in  the  enratlva  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
atael  ■priag.so  oltenhnrtAil  in  its  efltets, la  lieie  avoidedi  a  soft  bandage 
b^ii«  nrom  round  the  hodjrtvhile  the  requisHe  reeietina  power  is.eup- 
pU^by  the  M0C-Ma]^PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fltUngwlth  so 
much  ease  and  eloeeneas  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  maj  oe  worn 

osmnot  ikti  to  in)  lotwaRKa  oy  poti  on  tne  drenuiieMuee  oi  uia  aeoy* 
twolnehif  Mow  the  htpe,  hefaw  ent  to  IhaMaBuiketnMr. 

MB.  JOHN  WHXTB,  fM,  FIQCADIIiLT.  LONDON. 


Moe  ofaSln^e  Truss,  ifis..  Us.,  18«.fif(lM  end  SU.fld.   _ 
Double  Truss,  31s.  6J.,  4Ss.,  and  68*.  ed.    Postage  1*.  i 
AnUahUlea4Tm*i,4iB.aBd62«.^   Poati^e  1*.  lOd. 


la. 


PoeiOfiee  ordan  pagnkhle  to  JOHN  WHITE.  Poet  Oflioe,  PlooadiUy. 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  ENEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 
y  ABIOOSB  VEINS,  and  aU  Oise*  of  WE  AKNESS  and  8  WEL- 
%Q  <7ae  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  ftc.  They  are  porous,  Ugfat  in  texture, 
«ad  InezpenalTe,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordSnaiy  stooUng.  Prices 
«*.i(ln7«.«rf.,10s.,«idl«s.each.   Postagatd. 

JOHN  WBTTB.  MANUFACTURER,  US,  PICCADILLY.  London. 


TTOLLOWAY'S    OINTMENT.  —  When    Professor 


stem  aa  well  as  to  heal  up  ita  soresi  he  knew  that  notlung  ion 
than'  this  double  action  would  satisfy  the  public  or  enrich  himself. 
How  fnlLr  he  aoooomLbhes  both  purposes  is,  Imown  throughout  the 
world.  His  Ointment  hi  now  uniTersallr  used  ftr  subduing  erTsipeias, 
«otaneons  inSammation*  of  a  slighter  ofder,  pimDles,  bolls,  scuryr, 
•ruptlons,  and  the  host  of  infltntile  skin  complsints.  The  aeneral 
acknowledgment  of  its  heaMi-rcetoring  powers  over  deep  and  mora 
malignant  diaeases,  ulcerations,  fistulas,  carbuncles,  and  ahsoessas.  Is 
▼eln&tvtlr  sent  In  eonvindng  oertiScates  from  all  parts  of  the  world. 


SCOTTISH  UNION   INSURANCE   COMPAJHT 
FIRE  AND  LIFE. 
Eatahliahed  18SH.   Incorporated  by  Royal  Ghwfttr* 
Oapital.  FiTC  Milliona. 
SPECIAL  NOTICE-BONUS  TEAR,  1871. 
The  next  Inrestlgatlon  and  Division  of  Profits  takes  place  on  the 
1st  of  Augnst,  1871.  when  flTe-sixths  of  the  profits  made  during  the 
fiTe  years  prseiidliig  fiill  to  be  diTldcdamong  the  BaUcy-hoUeM.entiflcd 
to  partidMie.  ^^ 

All  Polieiee  taken  o«t  before  the  let  of  Angost,  1871,  will  share  in  the 

OflMa:  tF,OenUU,Londaai|  Edtebm^i  andSoHlM. 

■     — •" — - —  I 

QLD  MARSALA  WINE,  gvannteed  the  finest 
imported,  free  from  acidityor  heat. and  mneh  anpariortolow- 
-o  , ^S»«T7(sM»Dr.DraittonC»0op irtne*).OneU«lnaaperdQac9. 
**A***®?j*^*5nW?aiJS£;  5ff''2S«^*Termaoaah.   Three  <VHMa 
nOl  paid.^W.  D.  WAlflON.STS,  WIm  IferchanrOxftodatK^et. 
Y«U  Friaa  Llatopaat  free  on  application. 

W.  fi.  WATSON,  Wins  Hercbant,  878,  Oxl^rd  Stiect 
(entmnee  fas  BenHek  street).  London.  W.  Establishod  1841.  Bcmercd 
from  7t,  Great  Rnaeell  Street,  comer  of  Bloomahniy  Soaare,  W.C* 

aes. 

At  as*,  per  docen.  fit  flnr  a  Gentleman'a  Table.  Bottles  Included,  and 
Cantecepaid.   Caaea la. per doien extra (letunahle). 

CHARLES  WARD  a  BON, 

(PoitOffloe  Orders  on  PleoadlUy),  1,  Chapel  Street  Waat* 
MATT  AIR,  Wm  LONDON. 

aes.       TBB  KATr An  bhbbbt       a#i. 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PUBS  ST.  JUUSN  CLARET 
At  18*.,  Ms..  14*.,aQ*.,and Tfc  imr  iVmi 
Choice  Claret*  ofTarions  growths,  4S*.,««.,60«.,7S«.,  84*.,  86*. 

GOOD  DDOIEB  SHERRY, 
At  84*.  and  80*.  per  doaen. 

fl?^^'5S***^S*^VJ -^ l8sLand4as. 

ChoiciiiilMiiij-Plria,  Golden,  o>  Brown. ..  «4aaHA4e.,and88*. 

BOCK  and  M08EIUB, 
At  Mfl..80s..  Bfis.,  tti.,  48*..  80b.,  aodSAa. 

Popiftmn  flrst;«lMs6hlppeia «8s.88*.4Be. 

yanr<3haiae01d  Part 48a*88a.»a.Ma. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  881.,  41*..  48*..  and  fOa. 

HeehhifiMer.  Mareobramier.  Rndedietoer,  eteteberff.  LbbfranmnA, 

*  _  -    -.-    10  MB*.i  fcaunbei 


doaen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  eve^  deaeri 

On  reoeiptof  a  Foat  OfBoe  order, 
forwarded  Immediately  by    . 


or  reflnenoe,any  qnanttty  irUl  be 


HEDGES  ft  BUTLER, 

LONDONt  186,  BEGENT  STREET.  W. 


(Original  EataUiahad  AJ».  M67.) 


OMMMttWM^QfMMf   MMm*  per  doa> 

And  all  the  noted  Brands  at  the  lowest  cash  piloes. 
.  l&«.,18s.,  84*.,  86*.  88*..  to  88*.  per  dos.  i  ChabUs,  84*.  (  Mar- 
sala, 94s.  per  dos.  i  Sherry,  8<«.,  ate.,  98*.,  48*.,  48*.,  to  96*.  perdos.i  Old 
Fort,  84*..  80*.,  86*^  42*..  to  144*.  per  dos.  \  Tarragona.  18*.  per  dos.,  the 
finest  imported  i  Hock  and Mo*clle, 84*.,  80*., 86*.,  48*:Per dot. {  Spark- 
ling Hock  and  Moselle,  48*.  and  60*.  per  dos. ;  fine  old  Pale  Bandy,  4i»., 
80*.  and  78*.  per  doz.    At  DOTESIO'S  DepOt.  IB,  Swallow  Street,  Re- 

Ent  Street  Caneceasor  to  Ewart  and  Co.,  Wine  Merchaata  to  Her 
a)esty}. 


G 


RANT'S    MORELLA    CHERRY   BRANDY, 

,T  flron  the  fine  Bent  Morella,  besides  being  the  moat  deUofooa 
Liqnenr,  is  recommended  by  Medical  Men  <it  high  standing  in  mI  caaea 
of  Weakneaa  and  for  various  Internal  Disorders.  It  may  be  obtaii^ 
thaough  any  Wine  Merchant,  or  dlrcet  from  T.  GRANT,  DiaUiJer, 
Maidstone,  at  48a.  par  doaen  ( 


rTHE    NEW    GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD   WATCH, 

JL    KETLESS.  English  Make,  more  sidid  than  Foreiga,  lil.  1|#. 
JONES'  Manufiurtory,  338,  Strand,  opposite  Somerset  Bouse. 

Theae  Watehes  hare  many  points  of  BP6oiai  Norelty. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[■;>»  .J.  VII.  FaB.  SS,  71. 


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ANNOUNOEMENTa 


SHUT  UP  nr  FABIS.  By  Sathau  Bheppard. 
HISTOKT  of   tlie  FEIVCSS  OS  COSHt 

In    tbs    8IXTBEKTH    ud    RBVEHTB  ItfTH    CEHTCBIia. 
BROna-BOKTaVriCK.    I.l..dl.«an>9nhwllh      imlU  ud 

LAST  BVSAV.   ^jj"^  Aoiteii,  Aathor 

•.•Tfalmnncnvl  by  llH  Hn^illd^  ulhoi  ot  -  PrMi  u4  n*- 
JndM,'- will  Iw  pnAxcdlaftimcflaflaarUvUfta'lQMABM^te 

THBEB  TEAB8  8LATEKT  DT  PATA. 

OOKIA.    BrU.OHUniAXD.    Lutiwnntn. 

THB   mnXiDEBS  OF    BABBL.      By    Br. 

irCA178LAin>.AitlHTiif 'BnuilBBtDm*."  -AisiiHtUH 
AdubU*,-'ab  GnnrBaw. 

THE  OVTBBXAX  of  ttis  GBBAT  FRENCH 

11aNH..Matriai(.  TnuteMoTbrllu.C. 


HEB   LOAD  AVD   KASTEB:    %  VoroL 

BrFLOBBMCB  KABBT AT,  J     '  .    -     -.     . 


ten  1b  Oidlniur  Id  Hu  MijHtT. 


Id  br  OBOBaB  AMDKXW  BPOTTiaWOODS,  ■«  1,  Mn  IMM  BqHi 


l>  (iH  CMotr  ar  WUIw  L 


NOTES  AND  aUERIES: 


^  ^)am  of  |nt(rnnRQ»tittcati0it 


TOR 


LITERARY   MEN,    GENERAL    READERS,    ETC. 

••^■nwii  fbimd,  mak«  a  note  ofc"— Captain  Cdttle. 


No.  166. 


Saturday,  March  4,  1871. 


J  Prick  Fourpkhcr. 

1  ReguUrtd  om  a  N€U)$pap«r. 


UNIVERSITY  OP  LONDON. 
•VrOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEN,    That  on  WED- 

11     XESDA Y.  Stth  of  APRIL  next,  the  8enM«  trill  prooMd  to  elect 
£x«iainen  in  tlic  following  departments;— 


Ejmmintr$kip»,  Salnriet, 

Axn  AXD  SCtESCB.         (fttcft.) 


Pregent  Examiner*, 


Tmoln CUtuicB tM. 

Two   In   The  Engtifh  Ixm-'l 
gvoigt^    lAttratmrt^     amd>  VM. 
HiMtum J 

Two  in  Tht  Frtmck  Lcmffwuge  \(M. 

Two  In  Tht  Gtrman  Lamauage  W. 

Two  in  The  H^rew  Text  qf. 
the  OU  Tettwment^  tAe 
iiredt  Text  nf  the  iTeir 
Tf»taHiemt,  the  Eridemete 
fff  the  ChrtMtian  RtUgicn^ 
tutit  Aftpture  HutoTy  •••• 

Two  in  Logic  euvl  Jforal  \     am 
i^amofihy /    "*• 

Twoln /^0l((tcai  JSoonomy  ...   30f. 

Two  in   Mathematie»   andX 
StUmrot  Philosophy / 

Two  in  Ej^terimental  Phi-\ 
buopky..,,,, i 


ML 


MM. 
100/. 


I 


Two  in  ChemiMtry I75L 

Two  !n  Botnny  and  Vege-\ 
talU  PhyeiUogy J     TSL 

Two  in  Geology  and  Paiee-\    ^j 
onie^ogy  /    '**• 

Laws. 

Two  In  Imw  and  Out  Pri»ei'\  ,aai    /Prof.  Bryoe,  D.C.L. 
piM  of  Legieiutiun )  ^^*  \T.  Snkine  IlolUnd,  Eiq.,lf  .A. 

SOI.    (Vacwt. 


/Rev.  Dr.  Holden,  M.  A. 
IF.  A.  Paler,  E«i.,  %L A. 

/J.  O.  Fitch.E«q..M.A 
\Prof.  Henry  Morlcjr. 

f  Prof.  CaMal,  LL.D. 
iGustave  MoMon,  Esq.,  B^. 

IF.  Althau*.  Em.,  Ph.D. 
IB.  Rott,  E«i.,  Fh.D. 


rReT.8ainnelI>avidaoii4).D.LL.D. 
IRev.  J.  J.  Stewart  Perowne,  B.D. 


/Vacant 

\Prof.  O.  Croom  Robertwm,  M. A. 

f  Prof.  W.  Stanley  Jevons,  M.A. 
iProf.  T.  E.  Cntfe  Leilie,  LL.B. 

/Prof.  H.J.8.Smith,M.A.J'.R.8. 
iProf.  Sylveiter,  LL.D.,  F.II.S. 

/Prof.  W.  O.  Adama,  M.  A.  a 

lProf.O.  Carey  Foster,  B.  A.,F.R.8. 

/H.  Debus.  Esq..  Ph.D..  F.R.8. 
\Prof.  Odllng.  Sf  .B.,  F.R.S. 

J.  D. Hoolicr,  Esq.,  M.D., LL.D. 

,    F.R.S. 

T.  Thomson,  Esq.,  M.D.,  F.R.S. 

/Prof.  Dunean,  M.B.,  F.R.8. 
iProf.  Morris,  F.Q.S. 


One  in  Equity  and  Bool  Pro-X 
petty  Liaw / 


Xeoicixs. 
TwoinJtfMfeiiie UOT. 


[J.  Rrer  Brlstowe^sq..  M.p. 
\  <pynf.  3.  Russell  Reynolds,  MJ>., 
(    F.R.8. 


Two  In  Surgery UOI. 


Two  in  ^fwlomir 

Two  In  Phytiology,  Conuam') 
rative  AmOumy.  and  Zoo-} 
logy ) 

Two  In  Otetetrie  Medicine    \ 


1001. 


latf. 


TV. 


Two  in  Maieria  Mediea  and\    m 
Phamttnutkal  Ckemietryj    "'' 

Two  in  Fbreneir  Medicine. . . .   M. 


rProf.  John  Blrliett,  F.R.C.8. 
iVacant. 

IProf.  John  Wood,  Esq.,  F.R.C.8. 
IVacant. 

/Prof.  Michael  Foster,  M.D.,B.A. 
\Henv7  Power,  Esq.,M.B. 

/Robert  Barnes,  Esq..  M.D. 
\Prof.  Orally  Hewitt,  M.D. 

IT.  R.  Fraser.  Sso.,  M J>. 

\Prof.  Oaiiud.  M.D.,  F.R.8. 

f  E.Hcadlam  Oreenhow  J^.3f  .D., 

I    F.R.S. 

(Thomas  Bterenson,  Esq.,  M.D. 

The  Cnmlnere  abom  named  art  re^U^blc,  and  Intend  to  olfcr 
Ihcmselvca  for  re-«lectiaii. 

OindldaCea  must  send  In  their  names  to  the  Registrar,  with  any 
attestatloQ  of  their  qnalifleatioas  they  may  think  desirable,  on  «r  before 
Tuesday,  March  ttth.  It  Is  particularly  desired  by  the  Senate  that  no 
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CONTENTS.— N«  166. 


NOTES :  —  '*0  rmre  Ben  Jonsoo  I "  18S  —  A  Prench  Mys- 
tery-PUy  in  1815. 184— Manx  Bishops,  lb.—  The  Comple- 
tion of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral.  185  —  Pigeon  Post  to  Paris  — 
Footeand  '*Chr78al"  —  Bhongles  —  Dis>spirtt  —  Mar's 
Tear— The  Nile—  Captain  Cook  Thmrfies—  Craven  Say- 
ing —  Priory  of  Coldingham.  1638  —  Ballad  Printers'  8uo- 
ceasions—  Lion  Shillings— Bismarck  anticipated :  *'  Stew- 
ing in  their  own  Gravy/'  185. 

QUERIES :  —  Correspondence  between  Queen  Anne  and 
lladame  de  Maintenon  —  *'  Aprds  moi  le  IMluge  " :  Arch- 
bishop Lcighton  —  Bacon's  Queen  Counselship  —  G. 
Camphauseu  —  Miss  Fkrren's  House  in  Grpen  Street  — 
Benjamin's  Franklin's  Laurel  Wreath  —  Governors  of 
Jamaica :  Hancocke  of  Combroartin  —  Hampton  Family 
•—  Clan  McAIpin  —  Merks.  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  temp, 
Sichard  IL  —  Mutton  and  Capers  —  "Owl!  that  Invest 
thd  boding  Sky"—  Plough-bote  —The  Poppa  Bai,  or 
Queen  of  Misrule  —  Shakespeare :  Epitaph  on  Sir  Thomas 
Stanley  —A  Spitten  Laird  —  **  Hero  of  the  Warming-pan  " 
—  Winnel,*or  Wynnell.  18S. 

ILEPLIE8:  —  The  "Bine  Laws"  of  Connecticut.  191  — 
Ecstatics:  the  "EcsUtica"  of  Caldaro,  193— '*Es"  and 
"En."  16.— Pinderne  Flowers,  194  — Lady  Anne  Grim- 
ston's Grave  in  Tewin  Churchyard— Becket's  Murderers: 
Somersetshire  Traditions  —  Stamp  on  Picture  Canvas  — 
Mahommedanism  —  Bartolomao  Diss,  the  Discoverer  of 
the  Cape  Boute  —  The  Deaf  Old  Woman  —  Story  ascribed 

-  to  Theodore  Hook  — Lord  Plunket  —  Cinderella  and  the 
Glsss  Slipper— Old  Prints  of  Stouehenfce  —  New  Zealand 
Medal —A  Black-country  Legend:  **The  Percy  Anec- 
dotes "  —  Thomas  Hood  —  Drydeu's  Agreement  for  bis 
Yirgil.  Ac,  195. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ae. 


"  O  RARE  BEN  JONSON  !  " 

In  my  recently  published  little  yolume^  Memo- 
rials of  Temple  JBar,  with  gome  accwmt  cf  Fleet 
Street,  I  have  copied  on  p.  99  a  very  interesting 
document  kindly  lent  to  me  for  that  purpose  by 
its  fortunate  possessor^  Mr.  John  Carter  of  17, 
Fleet  Street.  The  manuscript  is  simply  endorsed 
**  Thomas  Cooke  his  bQl  1610/'  but  as  it  relates 
io  the  poet  Ben  Jozison  I  presume  the  readers  of 
*'  N.  &  Q."  will  not  object  to  its  reproduction^ 
imd  at  the  same  time  accept  a  few  notes  in  ex- 
planation : — 

'^Menais  Jenerar  Aono  Regis  Jacobi  Decimo 
Septimo,  1619. 

**  Thomas  Cooke,  one  of  the  Gromes  of  the  Prince  his 
chamber,  being  sent  in  his  Ilighnes  service  by  ye  comand 
of  M' Welter  Alexander,  Gentellman  Usher,  t)aily  Waiter 
to  the  Prince  bis  Highnes,  of  two  Message  two  severall 
tymes  from  the  Court  at  Whithaell  into  London  by 
Cripellgatt,  to  warn  M^"  Ben  Johnson  the  Poet,  and  the 
Players  at  the  Blackfriers  to  atend  Hvs  Highnes  that 
night  following  at  Court,  wch.  severaU  ser^ces  being 
done,  he  returned  each  tyroe  with  answer,  also  being  sent 
another  tyme  by  the  lyke  comand  to  the  bonorabl.  the 
lorde  Hnbarde  wth  letters,  wch  service  being  done  he 
returned  answer  to  the  Court  aforesaid,  for  wen  services 
he  praieth  to  have  alowance  for  his  boot  hier  and  charges 
to  and  fro  for  threjomies  to  be  4  s  octed  by  the  honarbl 
Sir  Robert  Gary  Knyght  Chamberlin  to  y«  Prince  Hys 
Highnes  and  to  be  paid  by  the  worshipfnll  M'  Addams 
Kewton,  Recever  Generall  of  Hys  Highnes  Tresnrer." 


OldySy  mentioning  Ben  Jonson's  ownership  in 
the  Fortune  Theatre,  ''the  new  house  neere 
Qouldiug  lane/'  relates  that  he  lived  in  Bartholo- 
mew Close,  in  a  house  inhabited  in  his  (Oldys) 
time  by  a  letter-founder  named  James.  If  Oldys 
is  correct,  it  is  certain  that,  although  the  Close  is 
not  in  Cripplegate  parish,  it  warrants  the  mes- 
senger stybng  it  ''  by  Cripellgatt/'  that  being  to 
him,  as  to  other  Londoners,  a  distinguishing  land- 
mark. ^  But  if  Thomas  Cooke  went  to  the  play- 
house, which  was  in  the  parish,  hb  description 
would  be  correct 

Next,  touching  the  spelling  of  the  name,  it  is 
worthy  of  remark  that  Giflford  notes — '*  He  knew 
his  own  name,  and  persisted  in  writing  it  correctly, 
though  some  of  his  best  friends  misspelt  it."  We 
see  evidence  of  this  in  many  contemporary  docu- 
ments, including  Manningham's  Diary  f HarL  MS. 
6353),  where  it  is  spelt  *'  Ben  Johnson." 

About  the  period  of  this  "  warning,"  several 
notable  events  were  taking  place  in  the  life  of  our 
poet.  In  the  summer  of  1618  he  made  a  tour 
mto  Scotland,  visiting  many  friends,  including  the 
poet  Brummond.  Gifibrd  says  he  stayed  at  Haw- 
thomden  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  April, 
1619,  arriving  in  London  in  May,  though  others 
state  he  stayed  there  several  months.  In  July  ho 
received  his  degree  of  M. A.  from  Christ  Church, 
Oxford,  and  somewhat  later  succeeded  as  poet 
laureate.  It  is  also  worthy  of  remark  that  wnilo 
in  the  North  the  annual  mask  had  been  per- 
formed in  London,  and  but  ill  received,  his  fnend 
writing  him,  '*Your  absence  was  regretted." 
Such  being  the  case,  is  it  to  be  wondered  at  that 
this  ''  warning  "  should  be  of  certain  interest,  and 
certainly  historical  P 

There  is  one  other  subject  worth  noticing,  and 
that  is  the  Blackfriars*  Theatre  and  ''  the  players." 
In  1615-16  the  corporation  of  London  succeeded 
in  preventing  the  erection  of  a  new  theatre  there 
by  Kossiter,  for  it  had  and  has  a  great  antipathy 
to  theatres  within  its  jurisdiction,  and  the  only 
way  the  promoters  could  possibly  escape  was  to 
erect  the  playhouse  withm  the  privileged  sanc- 
tuaries of  tne  black  and  white  friars'  monasteries. 
Having  managed  to  prevent  the  erection  of  a  new 
building,  the  corporation,  three  years  later,  tried 
to  suppress  the  theatre  entirely,  and  on  Jan.  21— 
twelvemonths  before  the  date  of  our  messenger^s 
charge — Lord  Mayor  Sir  Sebastian  Harvey  (who, 
curiously  enough,  became  related  some  years  later 
to  Edward  Alleyn,  the  player  and  founder  of 
Dulwich  College;  issued  his  proclamation,  which, 
after  reciting  the  privy  council  order  of  1600 
limiting  the  theatres  to  two,  declared  that  under 
the  title  of  a ''  private  "  house  it  had  been  made 
a  '^ public"  playhouse,  '^ into  which  there  is  daily 
so  great  a  resort  of  people,  and  so  great  multi- 
tudes of  coaches,  whereof  many  are  hackney- 
coaches,  bringing  people  of  all  sorts,  that  some- 


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times  all  the  streets  cannot  contain  them/'    But 
even  this  prohibition  was  of  little  avail,  for  by 

f  stent  under  the  great  seal,  dated  March  2/, 
619-20,  two  months  after  the  date  of  our  docu- 
ment, tne  king  licensed  his  ''well-beloved  eer- 
Tants  to  act  not  only  at  the  Globe  on  the  Bankside, 
T)ut  at  the  private  haiue  situate  in  the  precincts 
of  ike  JShckfriars'' ;  being  in  fact  a  renewal  of 
the  patent  granted  to  Shakespeare  and  others 
on  Mar  10,  1603.  There  was  in  this  patent 
of  1619  this  proviso — ^that  performances  do  take 
place  ''when  the  infection  of  the  plague  shall 
not  weekly  exceed  the  number  of  firtie  by  the 
certificate  of  the  Lord  Mayor  of  London  for  the 
time  being."  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  at  the 
period  of  our  messenger's  visit  to  Jonson  and  the 
players  the  Blackfriars'  Theatre  was  experiencing 
11  remarkable  trial  for  existence. 

Without  (juoting  further  respecting  Ben  Jon- 
eon's  Ufe,  it  IS  curious  this  document  should  have 
remained  so  long  buried;  and,  interesting  and 
genuine  as  it  is,  is  it  too  much  to  ask  where  may 
l)e  found  other  MSS.  equally  as  interesting  and 
illustrative  of  a  life  so  pleasingly  associated  with 
London  P  T.  C.  Noble. 

Great  Dover  Street.  S.E. 


A  FRENCH  MYSTERY-PLAY  IX  1816. 

The  following  is  a  literal  copy  of  a  nlay-bill 
preserved  by  an  English  family  of  rauK,  some 
members  whereof  were  living  in  France  at  the 
time.  It  is  one  of  those  many  little  trifles  which 
£0  unconsciously  accumulate  during  a  residence 
abroad,  and  which,  when  happily  undestroyed, 
Ibring  back  such  varied  memories : — 

^  Par  Permistion  de  MM.  leg  Mairt  et  AdJoitiU  de  eetie 

Th^JItre  d'^ducatiom,  ou  Ecole  ds  Mceurs. 

SPECTACLE  MfiCANIQUE, 

Avec  les  Costnmes,  Decorations  et  Mosiqne  analogoes 

AU  BQJet. 

JIM.  Voot  €tes  pr^renas  qu*i]  est  arrive  en  cette  Ville 
del  Artistes-M^caniciens,  qui  aaront  I'honneur  de  don- 
ner  aujourtPhm^  Dimanchey  troU  deeembre  1815,  et  joars 
saivans,  altemativement,  la  Repr^entation  des 

mysteres  glorieux  et  TRIOMPHANS 

SB    UL   RisUBBBCTIOSr    DE   NoTBB    SeXOXEUB    JiSDS- 

Christ, 

Drame  en  cinq  actes,  dans  leqnel  des  figures  monvantes  | 
et  parlantes  paraitront  et  joaeront  sur  la  sc^ne. 

Dofu  lepremUr  aeie.— On  verra  Joseph  d*Arimathie  cbez 
PUate,  lai  demandant  la  permission  de  donner  la  sepul- 
ture h,  J^sus,  et  le  d^sespoif  de  Pilate. 

Dofu  le  §ecomd,'—On.  verra  desoendre  de  la  croix  le  Sau- 
venr  du  monde,  par  Nicodfeme  et  Joseph  d'Arimathie, 
ensnite  placd  dans  nn  sepulchre;  J^ns  ressusdtera 
triomphant  an  milieu  de  la  garde,  soldats  dn  Grand- 
Prgtre. 

JDoMs  le  froifljeme.— On  verra  J^sus  apparaissant  ii  deux 


de  ses  disciples,  sur  le  cbemin  d'Emmatts,  sans  en  etr» 

coonu. 
Dane  le  quatrieme.—J\  apparattra  ensnite  h.  ses  disciples 

reunis  et  renfermes   secrfetement.     Ici  il   confondra 

rincredulite  de  Thomas,  et  pr^dira   son  ascension ; 

ensuite  on  le  verra  monter  au  del,  en  lenr  promettaot 

le  Saint-Esprit. 
Denu  le  einquieme. — On  verra  la  descente  dn  Saint-Esprit, 

en  forme  de  colombe  et  de  langue  de  feu,  sur  les  Apdtres 

assembles  dans  le  Cenacle. 

L'artiste  prerient  qu*il  donnera  des  repr&entations  en 
ville,  chez  les  personnes  qui  le  feront  appeler. 

Le  spectacle  sera  termine  par  des  Feux  arabesques,  oik 
Ton  verra  les  Monumens  les  plus  remarauables  de  la 
Capitals,  et  autres  objets  curieux;  Louis  XVIII,  Roi  do 
France  et  de  Navarre ;  Charles-PhHippe^  Comte  d'Artois^ 
Frfera  du  Roi;  Marie-Thei^se,  Duchesse  d*Angou]eme; 
Louis-Antoine,  Due  d'Angouleme;  Charles-Ferdinand^ 
Due  de  fierri ;  Louis,  Prince  de  Conde,  I'Etoile  du  Bon- 
heur  de  la  France ;  la  Grand*Croix  de  la  Legion  d*hon- 
neur ;  Francois  II,  Empereur  d'Autriche,  Roi  de  Hoogrie 
et  de  Boh^me ;  Alexandre  I*',  Empereur  de  toutes  les  Rus- 
sies,  Roi  de  Pologne ;  Georffes-Frederic-Auguste,  Prinoe 
Regent  d'Angleterre ;  Frederio-Guillanme  III,  Roi  de 
Prusse;  le  Pape  Pie  YII,  Souverain-Pontife ;  Ferdi- 
nand VII,  Roi  d'Espagne. 

C*est  dans  une  Salle  de  TAuberge  de  la  Serpe,  rue  de 
la  Serpe,  N"  9.  On  commencera  h  six  heures  precises. — 
La  Saile  sera  tr&s-bien  chauffee.  Prix  des  places :  Pre- 
miss, huit  sous;  Secondes,  quatre  sous. 

J*al  I'honneur  de  vous  saluer, 
HocDSUoaT.** 

Unfortunately,  the  name  of  the  town  has  not 
been  recorded.  As  'Mes  Costumes,  Decorations 
et  Musique  "  are  so  positively  stated  to  have  been 
"  analogues  au  sujet,"  it  is  a  pitv  that  no  descrip- 
tion by  a  spectator  has  come  aown  to  us.  The 
character  and  order  of  the  princes  and  potentates 
(generalised  as  '*  objets  curieux ")  may  also  be 
observed  with  advantage,  remembering  that  the 
date  is  six  months  after  Waterloo.  AU  criticism 
upon  the  treatment  of  the  subject  I  leave  to  your 
dramatical  or  theological  readers,  merely  observ- 
ing that  the  actors  appear  to  have  been  such  as 
are  now  called  Marionnettes.  W.  C.  B. 


MANX  BISHOPS. 

The  succession  of  Manx  bishops  is  as  difficult  to 
make  out  as  the  runes  on  their  monumental  slabs. 
It  is  possible  that  the  various  conquerors  of  Man 
and  the  Isles  may  have  occasionally  set  up  bishops 
of  their  own,  irrespective  of  existing  claims ;  but 
I  think  a  littie  patient  investigation  would  suc- 
ceed in  making  out  a  regular  succession.  In  Le 
Neve's  Fadi  Ecdes,  Ang.  (Hardy's  edition,  Oxford, 
1854),  it  is  asserted  that  John  Dunkan  died  in 
1380;  and  it  is  conjectured  that,  on  his  death, 
the  sees  of  Sodor  and  Man  were  divided,  as  tha- 
Scotch  rejected  the  bishops  elected  under  th^ 
influence  of  England.  This  may  or  may  not  be ; 
but  he^  is  unfortunate  in  his  facts  regardinff  th» 
first  bishop,  whom  he  designates  John,  al>out 
whom  he  has  discovered  nothing  more  than  that 


rr'rrsza-ar*' 


4«*  S.  VIL  Uajkch  4,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


185 


lie  was  appointed  on  two  commissions  (12  Ric.  II.) 
to  treat  with  the  sons  of  John,  late  Lord  of  the 
Isles  (Rjm.  yii.  592).  Now  this  John  was  no 
other  than  John  Donkan^  who  continued  to  be 
Bishop  of  Sodor  or  the  Isles  till  1395,  when  he 
was  translated  b^  Boniface  IX.  to  the  see  of  Down, 
which  he  occupied  for  many  years,  dying  in  1412 
{Irish  Ecel,  Record, ,  i.  267).  A  similar  commis- 
sion was  entrusted  to  him  (6  Hen.  IV.,  Kym. 
It.  89).  AKain,  Le  Neve  has  this  entry:  *' John 
Grene  a/uisSprotton  occurs  as  bishop  here  in  1448 
and  1454.''  Now  were  these  names  used  indif- 
ferently for  the  same  person  P  I  think  not,  from 
the  reference  to  Dugdale's  WartDtckshire,  which  I 
haver  examined;  but  reference  is  also  made  to 
Seg.  Kemp,  Cant,  and  Reg.  Boothe  JEbor.,  which 
I  have  not  examined.  In  i)ugdale*s  Warwickshire 
(^d.  Thomas),  under  *^  Dunchurch,*'  there  are  these 
two  entries :  ''b.  Joh.  Grene,  cap.  xxii.  Nov.  1414," 
*'c.  D.  Joh.  Insulens.  Episc.  titulo  Comende,  ix. 
Feb.  1449  (cum  c^vlo  ad  hoc  auctoritate  Apostolica 
8ufficienter.et  legitime  dispensatum)."  The  refer- 
ences are  ''  b.  Arundel  f.  142  b,  c  Bo.  f.  10.  a." 
Both  incumbents  were  presented  by  the  patron 
D.  Episc  Gov.  and  Lich.  Sproton  was  a  Domi- 
nican, and,  on  the  authority  of  a  MS.  quoted  in 
the  Theatrum  Dotninicanum,  is  said  to  have  been 
appointed  by  Boniface  IX.,  the  same  who  trans- 
lated John  6unkan  to  the  see  of  Down :  — 

**  Jo.  Sproton  ord.  Praed.  Episcop.  Sodoren.  in  Scotia 
Provinc  x^idrosien.aBoiiifiicio  IX.  CaL  Octob.  an.  8,  qai 
fuit  a  Glorioaae  Virginis  parta  Milesimus  trecentesimus 
nonageumns  aecundns." 

This  date  1392  does  not  a^e  with  that  already 
given,  1395,  for  the  translation  of  John  Dunkan. 
Any  scholar  who  has  an  opportunity  of  searching 
the  archives  of  the  see  of  Lichfield,  or  of  con- 
aulting  the  episcopal  registers  already  referred  to, 
might  throw  light  both  on  the  individuality  of 
Sproton  and  Grene  and  on  the.  date  of  Bunkan's 
translation.  A.  R  L. 

THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S  CATHEDRAL.* 

As  many  of  the  readers  of  **  N.  &  Q."  are  in- 
terested in  this  subject,  I  must  crave  a  short  space 
in  order  to  say  that  the  most  important  point— on 
which  may  be  said  to  depend  the  ultimate  success 
of  all  futnre  operations  in  this  great  national 
work — viz.  the  position  of  the  organ,  has  been 
decided  as  only  it  should  have  been.  The  organ 
will  be  placed  in  the  vestibule  of  the  choir,  near 
its  original  position,  but  divided — as  at  West- 
minster, only  with  many  advantages  over  the 
organ  there — against  the  blank  walls  where  now 
stand  the  Nelson  and  Comwallis  monuments. 
The  cases  will  be  sufficiently  large  to  allow  of 
considerable  additions,  so  that  one  organ  will  be 
sufficient  for  both  choir  and  dome  services.    It  is 

•  See  i^ik  &  vL  40, 65, 165. 


to  be  hoped  that  no  mere  sentiment  about  the  old 
organ  case  will  be  allowed  to  mar  what  should 
be  one  of  the  most  ornamental  features  of  the 
cathedral.  The  case,  as  it  now  stands,  is  not,  I 
believe.  Sir  Christopher  Wren's,  seveml,  if  not  all, 
of  the  figures  having  been  added  to  it  since  his  time» 
If  allowed  to  start  from  the  ground  and  to  run  up 
to  nearly  the  springing  of  the  roof,  the  organ? 
need  be  of  no  great  bulk,  and  if  properly  treated — 
not  in  the  "  box  of  whistles  "  style— can  be  made 
to  add  to  the  intended  splendour  of  the  choir. 
After  Easter  we  may  hope  to  see  the  demolition 
of  that  eyesore,  the  transept  organ.  Could  not 
the  marble  columns  on  which  it  stands  be  pressed 
into  the  service  of  the  baldnchino  P  I  do  hope  the 
Chapter  will  think  twice  before  they  sanction  the 
erection  of  the  old  return-stalls  (happily  to  be 
removed  from  their  present  position)  in  the  vesti- 
bule. As  much  of  the  misoehaviour  on  the  pait 
of  the  congregation  at  St.  Paul's  is  owing  to  tneir 
being  able  neither  to  see  nor  hear  under  the  pre- 
sent arrangement,  it  seems  to  me  that  what  is 
required  is  two  choirs— one  for  the  ordinary  and 
the  other  for  the  special  services,  but  so  contrived 
that,  on  the  latter  occasions,  the  whole  cathedral 
may  be  thrown  open,  and  yet  the  proper  ritual 
arrangements  maintained.  If  the  eagle  were  re^ 
moved  one  bay  west,  the  conductor  at  the  special 
services  might  stand  at  it  in  full  sight  of  the  choir 
and  organist,  and  thus  the  originally  intended 
(hMe  use  of  the  lectern  would  be  restored.  The 
Committee  should  at  once  order  the  washing-out 
of  the  decoration  of  the  easternmost  cupola  of  the 
choir.  Its  sham  panelling  is  most  offensive,  and, 
moreover,  the  very  design  itself  does  mischief,  a» 
people  naturally  ask,  witn  a  shrug  of  the  shoulders^ 
if  scene-painters'  work  is  to  be  the  result  of  the 
expenditure  of  a  quarter  of  a  million  of  money. 
In  a  future  note  i  should  much  like  to  touch  on 
the  stained  glass  and  mosaic  work  in  the  church. 
I  will  at  present  confine  myself  to  sayinr-ttot^t 
all  appears  too  dark  and  heavy.  /jft  K^fcf^* 

PiOEOK  Post  to  Paris.— The  follow^g  inte^/ 
eating  account  of  the  pigeon  post,  which^appea^s' 
in  The  Telegraph  of  Feb.  27,  in  the  Panslsetter 
of  its  Special  Correspondent,  ought  to  be  pre- 
served in  ''  N.  &  Q.  as  a  companion  to  the 
account  of  the  photographing  of  This  Titnes  in  your 
paper  of  Feb.  4,  anU  p.  94 :  — 

**  I  was  mnch  interested  yesterday  in  an  explanation 
of  the  pigeon  system  kindly  given  to  me  at  the  Central 
Telegraph  Office.  The  microscopic  telegrams  sent  from 
Tours  were  at  first  printed  on  thm  paper  by  the  ordinary 
system  of  photographic  reduction ;  but  the  paper  was  too 
h'eayy — a  pigeon  could  cany  only  five  of  the  little  sheets, 
though  they  measure  no  more  than  three  inches  long  and 
two  inches  broad.  To  get  over  this  difficulty  the  de- 
spatches were  photographed  on  pieces  of  collodion  of  the 
same  size  as  the  paper,  each  little  bit  containing  thirty 
columns,  and  averaging  20,000  words— that  is  to  say,. 


186 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i^I'S.yil.  MARCB4,  71. 


about  the  contents  of  thirteen  leaded  colamns  of  a  Lon- 
don newspaper.  From  fourteen  to  eighteen  of  these  tiny 
leaves  were  put  into  a  quill  and  tied  to  a  pigeon's  tail, 
several  copies  of  the  same  leaves  being  sent  bvdifrerent 
pigeons,  so  as  to  diminish  the  risk  of  loss.  When  the 
bird  reached  Paris  the  quill  was  immediately  forwaxded 
to  the  telegraph  station,  where  the  leaves  were  read 
through  a  microscope  to  a  clerk,  who  wrote  out  the 
despatches  for  each  person.  But  this  was  a  terribly  slow 
process  ;  it  permitted  the  employment  of  only  one  reader 
and  only  one  writer,  which  was  insufficient  for  copying 
some  30,000  telegrams  of  ten  words  each.  So,  after  a 
few  days,  the  leaves  were  successively  placed  in  a  large 
microscope,  to  which  electric  light  was  adapted ;  and  the 
magnified  image  of  each  leaf  was  projected  on  a  white 
board,  from  which  it  was  copied  by  as  many  clerks,  taking 
a  column  each,  as  could  manage  to  get  sight  of  it  from  the 
writing  table.  This,  however,  was  still  too  slow,  and  the 
final  improvement  was  invented.  Instead  of  throwing 
the  image  on  the  white  board,,  it  was  photograph^ 
straight  off  upon  a  large  dieet  of  collodion ;  direct  posi- 
tive proofs  being  obtained,  without  any  intervention  df  a 
negative,  by  the  substitution  of  black'for  white,  and  vice 
versa.  The  collodion  sheets  were  cut  up,  and  the  pieces 
were  distributed  to  a  hundred  clerks;  so  that  all  the 
cargo  of  a  pigeon  was  copied  and  sent  out  in  a  single  day. 
The  explanation  which  I  received  was  accompanied  by  a 
practical  illustration  of  the  working  of  the  process;  and 
when  I  left  I  was  presented,  to  my  very  great  satisfac- 
tion, with  an  original  pigeon  despatch  of  the  11th  of 
November.  I  shall  careruUy  preserve  that  strange  little 
memorial  of  the  siege." 

J.  H.  P. 

FooTE  AXD  "  Chrtsal." — It  lias  often  occurred  to 
me  that,  amongst  other  interesting  matter  ''  made 
a  note  of '^  and  preserved  m  your  pages,  it  might 
be  desirable,  before  too  late,  to  draw  up  some 
notices  of  the  characters  drawn  in  Foote's  come- 
dies, and  in  The  Adventttres  of  a  Guinea,  As  a 
long  time  has  now  intervened,  and  the  individuals 
themselves  have  passed  out  of  recollection,  there 
can  hnrdly  be  anything  painful  to  relatives  in 
recording  who  they  were.  I  myself  have  some 
notices,  drawn  from  the  magazines  of  the  period, 
of  parties  whom  Foote  meant  to  satirise  and 
allusions  designed  to  tell  \  and  am  informed  that 
there  are  to  be  found  in  some  work  illustrations 
of  the  narratives  given  in  The  Adventures  of  a 
Guinea^  but  this  I  have  not  been  fortunate  enough 
to  meet  with.  \V.  (1.) 

[This  is  a  very  excellent  suggestion ;  but,  as  far  as 
The  Adventures  of  a  Guinea  is  concerned,  has  been  anti- 
cipated by  Davis  in  his  Olio,  where  a  key  to  the  charac- 
ters in  Oirysal  will  be  found.] 

Shonoles. — In  Sir  G.  Comewall  Lewis's  Life 
and  LetterSy  somewhere  about  the  110th  page — 
for  the  book  is  not  in  my  possession  now — men- 
tion is  made  by  that  sound  scholar  and  most  true- 
hearted  and  conscientious  statesman  of  the  word 
shongle  as  in  use  in  Herefordshire  (called  thongow 
in  Devonshire),  and  signifying  a  handful  of  com. 
I  think  he  did  not  know  whence  the  word  came, 
but  my  recollection  is  not  distinct. 

It  occurred  to  me  the  other  day  to  ask  mj  man 
when  driving  me  out,  Owen  McKeon  being  a 


''  Hibemus  Hibemomm,"  what  was  the  meanings 
of  the  word,  and  he  promptly  replied  "  a  hand- 
ful of  com ; "  but  he  called  it  in  the  Devonshire 
way — ahongo.  So  the  word  is  pure  Celtic,  as  I 
understand  it. 

On  the  same  occasion,  promising  me  an  early 
spiing  from  the  severity  of  the  weather  before 
Christmas,  he  said  the  blackbirds  were  silent^ 
and  that  foretokened  an  early  spring;  "  for,"  said 
he,  **  when  the  blackbird  sings  before  Christmas, 
she  will  cry  before  Candlemas."  This  piece  of 
folk  lore  comes  from  Msath. 

Dis-spiRiT.  —  Of  how  entire  a  change  some 
words  undergo  in  the  lapse  of  time,  we  nave  not 
a  more  pertinent  example  than  that  afforded  in 
this  word  ^-spirit.  As  now  used  it  means  to 
deprive  of  spirit  j  formerly  it  meant  the  direct  op- 
posite—to mfuse  spirit.  Thus  Fuller  says  (Hofy 
State,  book  iiL  chap,  xviii.  s.  5)  : — 

**  Prt^rtion  an  hour's  meditation  to  an  hour's  reading 
of  a  staple  author, — This  makes  a  man  master  o(  his 
learning,  and  dis-spiriu  the  book  into  the  scholar." 

As  true  is  it  of  the  meaning  of  words  as  of 

words  themselves  — 

"  Ut  silvsB  foUis  pronos  mutantur  in  annos ; 
Prima  cadunt :  ita  verborum  vetus  interit  letas, 
£t  juvenum  ritu  florent  modb  nata  vigentque." 

Z>e  Art,  Poet,  60-62. 

"  As  leaves  on  trees  do  with  the  turning  year. 
The  former  fall,  and  others  will  appear ; 
Just  so  it  is  in  u-ords — one  word  will  rise. 
Look  green,  and  flourish,  when  another  dies." 

O-vecft. 

EDximD  Tew,  M.A. 

Mar's  Year. — It  has  puzzled  readers  to  under- 
stand what  is  meant  by  this  in  Bums*s  poem  of 
'^  Halloween."  Now  tne  explanation  is  that  it 
denotes  the  year  1715,  being  that  of  the  rebellion 
of  which  the  Earl  of  Mar  was  the  chief  instigator. 

G. 

Edinburgh. 

The  Nile. — There  is  not  the  slightest  allusion 
to  the  overflowing  of  the  Nile  in  the  Bible.  In 
consequence  of  this  omission  many  think  that  the 
books  attributed  to  Moses  could  not  have  been 
written  by  him,  as  the  peculiar  circumstances  of 
such  an  inundation  ana  the  various  expedients 
resorted  to  by  the  inhabitants  of  Egypt  during 
its  continuance  must  have  here  and  there  unde- 
signedly cropped  out  in  the  sacred  narrative,  aa 
the  historian  was  resident  on  the  spot.  Perhaps, 
however,  there  was  at  that  time  no  overflow,  and 
the  river  was  kept  within  its  banks,  or  when  it 
rose  was  guided  into  channels  made  for  the  irriga- 
tion of  the  land,  and  was  thus  under  complete 
control.  Many  learned  men  think  the  pyramids, 
though  used  as  places  of  sepulture  for  their  kings, 
were  mainly  subservient  tor  this  purpose,  and 
that  the  hieroglyphical  inscriptions  will  some  day 
clear  up  the  obscurity  that  at  present  hangs  oyer 


4^  &  VIL  March  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


187 


those  apparently  useless  stractnies,  and  prove  that 
they  were  designed  for  utility.  G.  E. 

Bath. 

CAPTAnr  Cook  Thrushes.— As  I  was  quitting 
church  one  Sunday  this  spring,  my  clerk  remarked 
that  the  winter  had  been  very  fatal  to  small  birds, 
especially  to  the  Captain  Cook  thrushes.  On  my 
expressing  my  ignorance  as  to  what  they  were, 
he  informed  me  that  there  were  two  kmds  of 
thrushes,?'  one  we  call  storm-throstles  **  (i.  e.  mis- 
sel thrushes), "  the  others  Captain  Cook  thrushes, 
because  Captain  Cook  brought  them  here  from 
foreign  parts.'?  Is  the  notion  common,  and  how 
did  it  arise  ?  I  should  add  that  the  clerk  in  ques- 
tion is  '*  no  scholar '' ;  he  cannot  in  fact  read  or 
write,  and  is  merely  an  ornamental  feature  of  our 
service,  retained  in  compliance  with  popular  pre- 
judice in  East  Lincolnshire,  where  people  have  not 
yet  learnt  to  regard  the  possibility  of  ^*  parson  and 
clerk  "  being  ever  disumted.  I  will  conclude  this 
discursive  note  by  remarking  anent  parish  clerks, 
that  although  Blackstone  says  they  must  be  **  suf- 
ficient for  their  office,''  I  strongly  recommend 
parsons  who  wish  to  teach  their  people  to  respond, 
to  set  up  on  the  first  opportunity  a  clerk  who  (for 
a  time  at  least)  must  necessarily  be  dumb. 

PELAonrs. 

Craybk  Sating. — We  have  in  Wharfdale  a 
proverb  or  saying  that  has  always  been  a  puzzle 
to  me.  It  is — ^'^  Winnot  there  be  shrikes  [shrieks] 
i'  OheronV^  It  is  used  when  anything  extraor- 
dinary is  about  to  occur  that  is  likely  to  produce 
excitement.  We  have  a  village  in  Langstroth- 
dale  called  Hubberholm,  and  Oheron  may  be  a 
corruption  of  the  name.  But  I  am  not  aware  that 
any  event  ever  occurred  there  to  connect  it  with 
^'skrikes."  Can  Oberon  mean  Holbom  in  Lon- 
don, and  is  the  saying  an  imported  one?  The 
late  William  Story  of  Linton  used  to  utter  it 
frequently,  and  he  was  of  gypsy  origin.  I  shall 
be  glad  of  information  as  to  wnether  the  saying 
exists  in  other  localities^  and  in  what  particular 
form.  Stephen  Jackson. 

Pbiort  oe  Coldikohak,  1538.  —  The  late  Dr. 
Carr,  in  his  interesting  HUtory  of  Coldingham,  the 
preparation  of  which  gave  him  a  vast  amount  of 
trouble  and  involved  much  research,  was  unable 
to  trace  the  surname  of  one  of  the  abbots,  having 
found  nothing  about  him  excepting  that  he  was 
called  Adam. 

Having  had  access  to  a  deed  executed  by  ''Adam," 
with  the  consent  of  the  convent,  I  am  able  not 
only  to  supply  this  omission,  but  to  furnish  a  list 
of  Uie  names  of  the  consenting  monks. 

In  1638  the  prior  of  Colmngham  was  Adam 
Blacader,  now  spelt  Blackadder;  the  sub-prior 
was  Alexander  Lyndsay. 

Monks :  —James  Spenss,' Adam  Ransaman,  Wil- 
liam Lermocht,  James  Canta,  JacoboB  Redpetii, 


I 


Willelmus  Huid  [Hood],  Willelmus  Bame,  Geo 
gius  Pylmer. 

The  surnames  of  most  of  these  individuals  stiU 
exist  in  the  Merse.  The  Hoods,  Hedpaths,  Ler- 
months,  Kuncimacs,  Lyndsays,  Spens,  and  Black- 
adders  are  common  enough.  A  person  of  the 
name  of  Pilmore  lives  at  present  in  Berwick-on- 
Tweed,  and  Barnes  was  recently  to  be  found  at 
Carham. 

Canta,  however,  is  puzzling.  The  Whitadder, 
originally  called  in  old  charters  White-water,  flows 
into  the  Tweed  on  the  west  of  Gainslaw ;  and 
there  is  a  bridge  over  it  near  that  place  which  at 
present  is  called  ''  Canty's  Bridge,''  the  origin  of 
which  name  I  have  never  seen  explained.  May 
it  not  have  been  so  called  from  some  one  of  the 
name  of  Cant  or  Canta  ?  J.  M. 

5AI.LAD  Printers'  Successions. — In  one  of 
my  interviews  with  the  late  Mr.  Pitts,  the  ballad 
printer,  he  stated  that  his  business  was  a  very 
ancient  one.  He  was  the  successor  of  Marshall, 
who  succeeded  the  Aldermary  printer  (I  forget 
his  name),  whose  business  had  descended  from 
the  houses  of  Coles,  Yere,  Wright,  and  others. 
Mr.  Pitts's  statement  went  to  show  that  from  the 
reig;n  of  Elizabeth  to  that  of  William  IV.  there 
had  been  amongst  the  ballad  printers  of  London 
a  regular  business  descent.  I  question  whether, 
in  the  above  respect^  the  '^Bow"  can  compete 


with  the**  Dials.' 


James  HENRr  Dixon. 


Lion  Shillings. — The  shilling  of  George  IV. 
with  the  lion  on  the  obverse  is  not  only  the  sub- 
ject of  catch  bets  as  the  shilling  with  '*  two  heads'^ 
on  it,  but  of  a  modem  superstition  that  a  person 
having  a  lion  shilling  in  his  pocket  will  be  lucky 
and  not  want  monev.  Many  respectable  persona 
in  the  metropolis  nave  indulffect  in  this  super- 
stition, and  of  late  years  lion  shillings  have  been 
scarce  in  circulation,  having  been  absorbed  for 
purposes  of  superstition. 

Of  late  thev  are  coming  rather  freely  into  cir- 
culation, considering  their  date,  and  are  often  in 
good  condition.  Speculatively  I  attribute  this  to 
the  prevalence  of  dangling  spaae  guineas  and  other 
coin  amulets  at  the  watch-chain,  one  superstition 
growing  out  of  another. 

If  this  supposition  be  right  we  shall  have  an 
example  not  only  of  the  growth  of  a  modem  and 
recent  superstition  in  our  dav,  as  I  pointed  out 
to  the  Ethnolo^cal  Society,  but  we  may  witness 
its  quiet  extinction.  Hybs  Clabxb. 

BiSHARCK  ANTICIPATED :   *'  STEWING  IN  THEIR 

OWN  Gravy." — I  have  found  this  phrase  applied 
bv  the  great  Chancellor  of  the  fforth  German 
Confederation  in  an  unexpected  quarter,  Ned 
Ward's  London  Spy,  in  a  chapter  in  which  he 
exactiy  describes  a  modem  Turkish  bath  at  the 
Hummums  in  Covent  Garden.  The  author^  speak- 
ing of  the  keeper  thereof,  says : — 


V'*- 


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[4«kS.  VII.  March  4/71. 


**  He  relieved  us  oat  of  oar  pargatoiy  (the  tepidarium  ?) 
and  carried  us  to  our  dressin^-rooma,  which  gave  us  much 
refreshment  after  we  had  been  stewing  tn  our  own  gravy. 

Of  course  the  pbrase  is  from  some  cookery  book, 
but  the  place  wberein  it  is  found  makes  it  curious. 
Here  is  an  exact  reference :  London  S/n/,  part  ix. 
p.  219,  4th  edition,  London,  a.d.  kdccix. 

Hain  Friswell. 

74,  Great  Bossell  Street,  Bloomsbuiy  Square. 


COBKBSPOinOltNCE  BETWEEN  QvEEN  AnITB  A.VJ) 

Madams  de  MAnnxiroN.  —  The  Princesse  des 
^rsins  wrote  to  Madame  de  Maintenon,  on  De- 
cember 20, 1706  :— 

"  Je  Buis  bien  fftch^e  de  ne  pas  tous  avoir  fait  part  de 
-deaxlettres  que  j*ai  re^es  depuis  an  an.  La  premiere 
etoit  poor  m'avertir  que  vous  trahisaiez  Tdtat  par  le  c<ftn- 
raerce  T4g\6  que  vous  aviez  avec  la  reine  Anne,  qui 
savoit  que  vous  ^tiez  la  meilleure  amie  qu*e&t  le  prince 
d'Orange." 

This  cmioos  passage,  wbicb  is  to  be  found  in 
Abbd  Millet's  Mimoires  politigtie$et  mUUaires  pour 
ftervir  d  VHistoire  de  Louis  XIV  et  de  Louis  XV*, 
&C.,  and  in  the  life  and  correspondence  of  the  cam(t^ 
rem  mayor  of  the  former  queen  of  Fhilinpe  V., 
written  or  published  by  my  friends  and  colleagues 
Messrs.  Fran9oiB  Combes  and  Geffiroy  f;  seems  to 
liave  been  overlooked  by  the  English  historians 
who  wrote  on  the  events  of  the  earl^  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  Miss  Agnes  Stnckland  %  does 
«3t  even  allude  to  the  alleged  correspondence  of 
the  two  female  rulers  of  f^gland  and  France  at 
the  time ;  and  Lord  Stanhope,  who  dived  so  deeply 
into  the  State  papers  offices  of  the  two  countries  to 
make  a  valuable  addition  to  his  former  works  on 
English  history  $,  mentions  only  one  letter  written 
in  1712  by  Louis  XIY.  to  Queen  Anne,  who  was 
much  pleased  with  it,  and  her  reply  entrusted  to 

*  Vol.  iiL  p  878,  Paris,  1777.  6  vols.  12mo.  Those 
Memoirs  compiled  from  original  docnments  collected,  as 
•expressed  on  the  title-page,  by  '*  Adrien-Maurice,  dac  de 

Noailles,  marshal  de  France  et  ministra  d'Stat,**   are 
zgenerallj  quoted  under  his  name. 

t  La  Prmeeise  des  Urnma,  etsai  nor  §a  Vie  ei  son 
Caraetert  jtoiitique,  Ac.  pp.  268,  269.  PaIi^  1856,  8vo._ 
Lettres  mkUtes  de  la  Prmeesse  des  Ursins,  recueilUes  et 
public  par  M.  A.  Jeffroy,  p.  279.  Paris,  1859, 8vo.  On 
the  9th  of  November,  1711,  the  Princesse  des  Ursins 
writes  again  to  Madame  de  Maintenon :  **  Vous  n'eussies 
pas  cm  ponvoir  aimer  si  tendrement  la  reiiie  Anne,"  &c., 
and  in  another  letter  of  August  27, 1714^  she  says  to  the 
same :  *'  Je  crains,  Madame,  que  les  bruits  qui  oourent  an 
sujet  de  la  reine  d'Angleterre  ne  soient  que  trop  fondes.** 
^bsLeUresineditesdeM^  deMahdenonetdeM'»*laPrm- 
cesse  des  Orsms,  Nos.  ci.tttit  et  coxiv,  t.  iv.  p.  403, 462. 
Paris,  1826, 4  vols.  8vo. 

t  Lhee  of  the  Qneens  of  JEmgiamd,  voL  zi  London, 
1847,  post  8vo. 

§  Bislorg  of  Engiand^  comprising  tks  Heign  of  Qmeen 
4nne  wua  tke  Peace  of  Uirseht,  ch.  TT.  ^  &12,  London, 
1870, 8vo. 


Abb^  Gaultier.  Now,  can  any  of  your  readers 
favour  me  with  some  information  which  would 
lead  to  the  discovery  of  the  correspondence  be- 
tween your  queen  and  Madame  de  Maintenon,  if 
it  ever  existed  P  F&aitcisque-Michel. 

Athenieum  Club,  Pall  MalL 

''ApRks  xoi  LE  D£lt7Gs":  Aechbishop 
LsieHTOK.  —  It  seems  strange  to  associate  the 
name  of  an  excellent,  self-denying  man  with  a 
saying  which  breathes  the  very  essence  of  selfish- 
ness ;  but  he  only  uses  it  as  a  quotation.  Aprks 
moi  le  diluge  is  sometimes  attributed  to  Talley- 
rand, sometimes  to  Mettemich,  or  to  some  other 
worldly-wise  statesman.  The  sentiment  is,  I  fear, 
onlv  t<x>  common ;  but  I  seek  to  know  who  first 
embodied  it  in  these  words,  or  in  the  analogous 
phrase  quoted  by  Leighton  {Commentary  on  First 
Epistle  nf  Peter,  chap.  iii.  ver.  8.)    He  says : — 

"  But  vile  selfishness  undoes  us,  few  or  none  looking 
further;  if  themselves  and  theirs  might  be  secured,  how 
many  woald  r^rard  little  what  became  of  the  rest ;  as 
one  said.  When  I  am  deady  let  the  world  hefired.^* 

Who  is  the  author  here  quoted  ?  I  have  not 
Mr.  West's  edition  of  Leighton  to  refer  to. 

J.  Dixox. 

[So  long  a^i^o  as  April  1851,  the  late  Dooglas  Jerrold 
(l**  S.  iii.  299)sUted  that  the  French  mot  was  not  Met- 
temich*s,  bat  (wherever  she  got  it)  had  been  spoken  long 
before  by  Madame  Pompadour.  A  few  pages  farther  on 
{ibid,  p.  397),  Sir  George  Lewis  and  others  showed  that 
it  had  descended  to  us  from  the  Greek.  Mr.  Mackk>'zie 
Walcott  subsequently  pointed  out  (1**  S.  v.  619)  a  pas- 
sage in  Cicero,  De  F^nibmsy  in  which  he  refers  to  the 
Greek  proverb ;  and  afterwards  (xi.  16)  showed  us  that 
Milton,  in  his  Qiureih  Government  (Bk.  i.  eh.  v.),  had 
told  how  cruel  Tiberius  would  wish — 

<*  When  I  dlc.let  the  earth  be  rolled  in  flames.**] 

Bacok'sQueek  CotmsELSHiP. — ^In  the  **Life 

of  Lord  Bacon,"  prefixed  to  Rawley*8  Beeusdtatio, 

folio,  1061, 1  find  the  following : — 

**In  this  way,  he  was,  after  a  while,  sworn,  of  the 
Queen's  Counsell  Learned,  Extraordinary ;  A  grace,  (If 
I  err  not,)  scarce  known  before.** 

I  have  preserved  the  punctuation,  &c.  exactly 
as  it  stands. 

Can  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  inform  me 
whether  this  honorary  degree,  or  compliment,  has 
before  or  since  the  time  of  Bacon  been  confened  ? 
or  whether  it  is  merely  the  origin  of  the  Queen's 
Counsel  at  the  modem  bar  ?  C.  K.  P. 

G.  CAXPHAxrsEir.  —  I  have  an  old  painting 
sifiped,  on  a  painted  tablet  (part  of  the  picture), 
'^G.  (3amphausen,  Stockholm."  When  did  he 
live?  Was  he  noted P  Any  information  about 
this  artist  will  be  most  thankfully  received  by 

T.  S.  A. 

Lindoxe  Abbey*  Newbnrgh-on-Tay. 

lln  Bryan's  IHeL  of  Painters  (1849)  it  Is  sUted  that 
there  are  several  pictures  in  England  by  Kamphuysen  or 
Camphuysen,  but  that  they  cannot  be  hy  the  painter 
bearing  the  same  name  with  the  initiab  T.  B.,  who  was 


4»  8.  TIL  UAiusB  A,  71.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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IwTii  in  1596.  Xo  writer  on  art  would  ever  appear  to 
bare  noticed  him.  The  snbjecte  of  hie  paintings  are  gene- 
nhy  well-wooded  landscapes.] 

Miss  Fabben*8  House  in  Gbekn  Strket. — 
Can  any  of  your  conrespondentB  infonn  me  what 
*wa8  the  number  of  the  house  in  Green  Street, 
Orosrenor  Square,  inhabited  bj  Miss  Farreni  the 
celebrated  actress,  in  1796  P  Lora  Orford  mentions 
supping  there,  in  the  sixth  yolume  of  his  collected 
Zkters  (p.  415) ;  and  Miss  Berry,  in  her  Journal, 
often  refers  to  it.  When  I  was  a  lad  of  seven- 
teen I  was  acquainted  with  the  late  Lord  Car- 
hampton  (the  Luttrell  of  Wilkes's  day),  who  was 
then  (as  he  said,  to  his  tatisfadion)  become  **  the 
Venerable  £arl  of  Carhampton/'  adding, "  See  what 
one  gains  by  Hviog  long.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
agreeable  men  I  ever  met  with.  At  a  later  period 
I  was  intimate  with  Lord  Berwick  (the  diploma- 
tist). Both  these  persons  used  to  rave  of  the 
talent  of  the  actress,  and  Lord  B.  often  said,  ^  Ah ! 
those  charming  suppers  in  Green  Street^  where 
one  used  to  meet  Marshal  Conway,  Lady  Ailes- 
bury,  Mrs.  Damer,  Gen.  Buigoyne,  fitzpatrick, 
and'a  host  of  all  the  ple&santest  people  in  London," 
— he  added, ''  at  the  bow  winaow  house  in  Green 
Street."  But  there  are  now  more  than  one  bow- 
window  house  in  that  street.  She  moved  from 
thence  to  be  married  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  May  1, 
1797,  at  23,  Grosvenor  Square — a  house  the  chef 
eToetivre  of  the  architecture  of  Adam,  and  enriched 
with  ceilings  punted  by  Angelica  Eaufiman  and 
Zucchi. 

Lord  Orford  speaks  of  that,  too,  in  his  letters 
to  Lady  Ossory,  describing  a  ball  there.  (YoL  L 
p.  61.)  There  /  have  seen  Miss  Farren  (Lady 
Derby)  receiving,  at  charmiog  music  parties,  the 
world  of  fashion  with  an  elegance  and  grace  that 
many  of  them  might  have  done  well  to  study. 
That  beautiful  house,  1  am  told,  is  now  pulled 
down,  from  some  vandalism  of  Lord  Westmin- 
ster, who  is  said  to  have  wished  all  his  houses, 
as  the  leases  fell  in,  built  on  one  model  The 
number  of  the  house  in  Green  Street  might  be 
found  from  some  old  ^*  Court  Guide  "  or  the  tax- 
gatherers'  books:  but  1  have  no  means  of  access  to 
these.  Can  any  of  your  correspondents  oblige 
meP 

Neither  Jesse,  in  his  entertaining  book,  nor  P. 
Ounniogham,  notice  it,  though  they  name  the 
abodes  of  Nell  Gwyno,  Mrs.  Oldfield,  and  others 
who  have  done  less  honour  to  the  drama  than 
Elizabeth  Farren.  H.  W.  L. 

Rome,  Feb.  15, 1871. 

[Miss  Farren  resided  at  Xo.  15,  Green  Street,  Grosvenor 
Square.  Vide  Bovle's  New  FtuhumaUe  CouH  and  Country 
Omde,  1796, 1797.] 

Bek  JAicnr  FRAirKLnr^s  Lavbel  Wbbath.— In 
the  Letters  from  the  United  States,  Cuba,  and 
Canada,  by  uie  Hon.* Amelia  M.  Murray  (London, 
1866,  8vo,  voL  L  Letter  xvi.  pp.  278,  279.  Wash- 


ington, Jan«  12,  1855;   see  the  '<Vint  to  Mn 

Marcy"),  the  following  passage  occurs  :^ 

**  In  bis  drawing-room  there  is  an  interesting:  pietnr^ 
painted  in  the  time  of  Louis  XYI.,  of  the  King  and 
Queen  sitting  in  their  circle,  while  some  gay  ladies  of  the- 
court  crown  Benjamin  Franklin  with  a  wreath  of  lanrel.'^ 

I  will  be  very  thankful  for  the  artist's  name,  if 
known.  Isaac  Shbabbs. 

Highbury. 

GovBBNOBS  OF  Jahaica:  Hancocke  of  Cojib- 

XABTDC. — Can  you  or  any  of  your  correspondents 

kindly  inform  me  as  to  who  were  the  governors 

of  Jamaica  from  1720  to  1700  ?    I  should  also  like 

to  know  where  I  could  see  a  genealogy  of  the. 

family  spoken    of   by  Burke  as   ''the  ancient 

family  of  Hanoocke  of  Combmartin  in  Devonshire, 

to  whom  arms  were  granted  by  Cooke  in  1652." 

O.  C. 

[The  Govemon  of  Jamaica  were — Sir  Nicholas  Lawes^ 
Knt.,  1718  ;  Henry  Duke  of  Portland,  1722 ;  Major-Gen. 
Kobert  Hunter,  1728 ;  Henry  Cunningham,  Esq.,  1736  ; 
Edward  Trelawney,  Esq.,  1738 ;  Charles  Knowles,  Esq., 
1752;  George  Holdane,  Esq.^  1758;  W.  H.  Lyttleton, 
Esq.,  1762.— For  the  genealogy  of  Hanoocke  of  Comb* 
martin  see  Westcote's  Devonshire,  edit  1845,  p.  560.] 

Hakpdeit  Faicilt.— The  last  male  descendant 
of  John  Hampden  seems  to  have  been  his  great- 
grandson,  Richard,  who  died  s.p,  July  27, 1728^ 
and  was  buried  at  Hampden.  .  But  John  Hamp- 
den's uncle.  Sir  Edmund  Hampden,  of  Prest- 
wood,  had,  with  other  issue,  a  son,  Edmund,  who, 
in  his  turn,  had  eight  sons — Edmund,  Thomas^ 
John,  Robert,  Richard,  Alexander,  Henry,  Leo- 
nard. Of  these,  so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to 
ascertain,  only  Richard  and  Henry  married.  I 
can  find  no  issue  of  Henry's  marriage ;  but  Richard 
had  four  sons — Edmund,  Richard,  Griffith,  and 
John»  Of  these  I  have  fotmd  nothing  beyond 
their  names.  I  should  add,  however,  that  my 
opportunities  of  investigation  have  been  very 
bmited. 

There  are  Hampdens  in  our  own  day  claiming 
to  derive  from  this  ancient  family.  Where  can 
their  descent  be  traced  F  I  want  to  identify  an 
Alice  Hampden,  who  must  have  been  bom  about 
1700 — 1710,  and  who  was  still  living,  a  widow, 
in  1773.  The  name  of  Alice  occurs  m  the  pedi- 
gree, as  I  have  it,  four  times :  first  in  the  person 
of  a  sister  of  Sir  Reginald  de  Hampden,  living 
1832,  and  lastly  in  that  of  the  granddaughter  of 
Sir  Edmund  Hampden,  of  Prestwood,  dready 
alluded  to.  This  last  Alice  must  have  lived  about 
the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  cannot, 
therefore,  be  identified  with  the  Alice  for  whom 
I  am  seeking.  W.  M.  H.  C. 

Clak  McAxpnr. — Perceiving  lately  in  your 
columns  some  notice  of  the  supposed  existence  of 
a  clan  McAlpln,  may  I  ask  any  of  your  readers 
conversant  with  the  subject  to  say  whether, 
beyond  mere  conjecture  or  hazy  tradition,  there 


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[4^&YlI.MABCB4^'n. 


IB  say  authority  whatever  for  the  statement  that 
such  a  clan  ever  had  a  ''  local  habitation  and  a 
name  **  f  The  whole  history  of  the  Scotch  dans 
seems  as  misty  as  the  summits  of  the  Scotch 
mountains.  I  suppose,  if  the  McAlpins  ever  were 
a  clan,  that  they  would  have  a  chief^  and  that 
the  chieftains  would  have  a  pedigree,  and  that 
there  would  he  somewhere  a  chieftain's  castle  or 
strouffhold.  But  where  is  there  any  authoritv 
for  amrming  that  the  McAlpins  were  a  dan,  with 
a  chieftain  at  their  head,  who  had  a  pedigree 
ieapable  of  being  verified,  and  a  castle  in  which 
he  resided?  The  entire  story  seems  mythical. 
Sir  Walter  Scott  mentions  the  name  in  his  Lad^ 
of  the  Lake,  it  is  true ;  but  that,  though  very 
poetical,  affords  no  evidence  of  the  existence  of 
the  clan.  At  the  touch  of  the  historical  investi- 
gator, I  fear,  the  whole  fabric  of  invention  will 
vanish  into  **  thin  air.''  Eitquibeb. 

Mebks,  Bishop  of  Cablisle,  temp,  Rtchaed 
n. — ^Is  not  the  high-Tory  speech  of  this  bishop 
decided  to  be  apocryphal  P  (see  "  N.  &  Q."^  4*»»  S. 
vii.  86.)  Is  there  any  earlier  authority  for  it  than 
Holinahed  ?  Hume  quotes  from  tJte  felonious  Sir 
John  Haywarde,  later  still.  The  question  is  in- 
teresting with  regard  to  Shakespeare's  play,  and 
with  regard  to  Qi^e^n  Elizabeth.  My  Shakes- 
pearian notes  (made  years  ago)  lead  me  to  the 
conclusion  that  this  speech  is  a  late  forgery.  I 
should  be  glad  to  find  that  Shakespeare's  life-like 
portrait  is  really  from  the  life.         John  Addis. 

BastingtoD,  near  LittlehamptoD,  Stusex. 

Mutton  and  Capers. — Will  any  person  con- 
versant in  culinary  lore  inform  me  at  what  period 
capers  were  first  mtroduced  as  an  aocompamment 
to  boiled  mutton  at  the  dinner-table  ?  I  am  led  to 
make  this  query  from  stumbling  on  the  following 
passage  in  Shakespere's  Twelfth  Nighty  Act  L  Sc.  2, 
where  that  saltatory  knight,  Sir  Andrew  Ague- 
cheek,  exclaims,  in  the  pride  of  his  heart : — 

•*  'Faith,  I'can  cut  a  caper." 
To  which  boast  Sir  Toby  Belch  gives  this  tig- 
nificant  reply : — 

"And  I  can  cut  the  mutton  to  V." 

T.  C.  S. 

"  Owl  !  that  lovest  the  boding  Sky." — ^Who 
wrote  these  fine  lines,  which  have  reference  to 
the  murder  of  Mr.  Weare  ?  They  may  be  found 
in  The  Lyre  (p.  38),  published  by  Sharpe,  Picca- 
dilly, 1830.  Stephen  Jackson. 

pLoireH-BOTE. — House-bote  signifies,  I  believe, 
an  allowance  of  necessary  timber  out  of  the  lord's 
wood  for  the  repair  of  a  house;  hedge  or  hay 

aid)  bote  for  the  repair  of  fences ;  fiie-bote  for 
-wood.  But  what  is  the  meaning  of  plough- 
bote  P  Does  it  signify  an  allowance  of  wood  by 
the  lord  to  a  lessee  for  the  repair  or  making  of 
ploughs  ?  A.  E.  L. 

[Ploogh-bote  is  the  wood  or  timber  allowed  to  a  tenant 


for  the  repair  of  instmments  of  husbandry ;  or,  as  stated 
in  Tomlins's  Law  JHetionarffy  **  a  right  of  tenants  to  take 
wood  to  repair  plooghs,  carts,  and  harrows,  and  for  mak- 
ing rakes,  forks,  &c    See  2  Comm,  35."] 

The  Poppa  Bai,  or  Queen  of  Misrule. — 

«  The  Poppa*  Bai,  a  prine^  of  ancient  times,  whose 
mismanaged  soverdgnty  has  given  rise  to  the  proverb^ 
'  Poppa  Bai  Ki  Rij,'  or,  Qaeen  Poppa's  government,  to 
the  K^jpata.**— Col.  Tod*s  AnnaU  of  R&j-AstMn,  i.  310. 

What  is  known  regarding  the  capital  and  times 
of  Queen  Poppa,  proverbial  for  her  misdoings  in 
India?  R.  R  W.  Ellis. 

Starcrow,  near  Exeter. 

Shakespeare:  Epitaph  on  Sir  Thovas 
Stanley. — ^Drake,  in  Shakespeare  and  his  Times, 
quotes  an  epitaph  said  to  be  written  by  Shake- 
speare on  the  tomb  of  Sir  Thomas  Stanley  in  Tong 
cnurchy  Sdop,  on  the  authority  of  Sir  W.  Bug- 
dale,  commencing — 

**  Aske  who  lies  here,  bnt  do  not  weepe : 
He  18  not  dead,  he  doth  bat  sleepe,*'  &e. 

concluding — 

'*  Stanley,  for  whom  this  stands,  shall  stand  in  heaven." 

Do  these  lines  still  remain  on  the  monument, 
and  has  the  authorship  been  further  authenti- 
cated ?  Thomas  E.  Winnington. 

A  SpiTTEir  Laird. — What  is  the  origin  of  this 
Scotch  expression  P  In  illustration  of  its  use  I 
may  give  the  following  anecdote : — 

*'  Dake  Charles  of  Queensberry,  whose  appellation  of 
*  Quid  Duke  *  is  not  yet  forgotten  in  Dumfriesshire,  and 
his  Duchess  '  Prior's  Kitty,*  were  once  driving  from 
Dmmlanrig  Castle  to  Dumfries  on  an  election  day,  and 
on  passing  Closebnm  saw  Sir  James  Kirkpatrick,  who 
was  on  the  opposite  side  of  politics,  hastening  on  before 
them,  when  the  Duchess,  who  seems  to  have  been  a  keen 
politician,  called  to  her  husband, '  There  goes  Jamie  Kirk- 
patrick ;  order  the  postilion  to  drive  quickly,  or  Jamie 
wiU  lick  the  butter  off  our  bread.'  Upon  which  the 
Duke  mildly  replied,  *  Mind,  mv  dear,  that  the  Kirk- 

Eatricks  were  belted  knights  of  Olosebnm  when  we  wero 
ttt  spittcn  t  Lairds  of  Dmmlanrig.'* 

This  lady  was  celebrated   for   extraordinary 

beauty  and  wit  by  Pope,  Swift,  and  particularly 

by  Prior,  in  his  well-known  ballad  beginning  — 

**  Thus  Kitty,  beautiful  and  young. 
And  wild  as  colt  untamed." 

At  the  funeral  of  the  Princess  Dowager  of  Wales, 
1772,  her  grace,  walking  as  one  of  the  assistants 
to  the  chief  mourner,  occasioned  these  verses  by 
Horace  Walpole,  Earl  of  Orford  ?— 

**  To  many  a  Kitty  Love  his  ear 
Would  for  a  day  engage ; 
Bnt  Prior's  Kitty,  ever  fair. 
Obtained  it  for  an  age." 

S.  L. 

•  Query,  Pdpi,  or  the  wicked  queen. 

[t  That  ip,  a  laird  of  lower  rank  in  life.  Jamieson 
(Seottiah  Dictionary)  has,  *'Spitten,  a  puny  worthless 
creature.    Aberd." — ^Ed.] 


*fcg.viLiu«0H4.'7i.]  NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


riffl 


"Hkbo  of  the  WAEMnr&-PAN."— In  BUnmt 
Tempedy  by  Bellow,  I  find  this  sentence :  **  Here 
(Hampton  Court  chapel)  the  in&nt  hero  of  the 
wanmng-pan  receivea  the  rite  of  baptism/'  Who 
was  this  ^'hero/'  and  why  the  nameP  Will  any 
of  your  numerous  readers  kindly  enlighten  an 

leXORAHUS. 

[The  allunon  is  to  the  birth  of  James  Francis  Edward 
Stnaity  the  son  of  James  II.  by  Maiy  Beatrice  of  Modena. 
At  the  time  of  hia  birth  there  was  ill-founded  rumoar 
that  the  infant  prince  was  snpposititioua,  and  introduced 
into  the  queen's  chamber  in  a  warming-pan,  that  he 
might  exclude  the  princesses,  Mary  and  Anne,  from  the 
throne.  Consult  Macaulay's  History  of  England,  ii.  308, 
edit.  1856,  and  Strickland's  Queens  of  England,  yi.  213- 
248,  edit.  1854.  According  to  the  latter  writer,  the  prince 
was  baptised  in  the  chapel  of  St.  James's.] 

WiKKEL,  OB  Wtknsll. — Amougst  Loxdale's 
MSS.  I  find  that  a  Thomas  WynneU,  who  resigned 
or  abandoned  the  vicarage  oi  Leek  in  1662,  was 
the  author  of  .^  Covemmter't  Heafor  Infamd  Bap* 
turn.  Now  BlisSy  in  his  Athena  UxonienseSy  gives 
one  Thomas  Wynnell  as  sometime  minister  of 
Aakarwelly  Dorsetshire,  €Bt  21,  a.d.  1622,  Battler 
of  Brasenose,  Hector  of  Cranham,  Glostershire, 
1642,  author  of  Covenants  Flea  for  Infants^  1642  ; 
and  another  Thomas  Winnel,  M.  A.,  vicar  of  Leek, 
temp,  Oliver,  author  of  Suspension  Discussed^ 
London,  Oct  16o7.  Quaere,  are  not  these  one  and 
the  same  P  and  where  can  1  meet  with  any  of  his 
or  their  works  ?  JoHir  Slsioh. 

Thombridge,  Bakcwell. 


Jda^liti* 


THE  «  BLUE  LAWS "  OF  CONNECTICUT. 
(1«  S.  xL  321 ;  4.^  S.  vL  485 ;  vu.  16,  64.) 

By  the  courtesy  of  your  correspondent  Nephkitb 
I  have  had  the  opportunity  of  carefully  examining 
the  published  Code  of  the  so-called  ''  Blue  Laws," 
quoted  by  him  (4'^,S.  vi.  485).  I  have  also  searched 
all  the  other  authorities  within  my  reach,  and  will 
now,  with  your  permission,  as  succinctly  as  may 
be,  present  the  results  of  my  inquiries. 

Tne  volume  in  question  has  the  title  as  fol- 
lows :  — 

**  The  Code  of  1650,  being  a  Compilation  of  the  earliest 
Laws  and  Orders  of  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut ; 
also  the  Constitution  or  Civil  Compact  entered  into  and 
adopted  by  the  Towns  of  Windsor,  Hartford,  and  Wethers- 
field  in  163^-9.  To  which  is  added  some  Extracts  from 
the  Laws  and  Judicial  Proceedings  of  New-Haven  Colony, 
•aymDonly  called  Blue  Laxos,  Hartford,  published  by 
Silas  Andrus,  1825." 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  is  a  certificate  of  the 
entry  of  the  work  in  the  office  of  the  district  of 
Connecticut,  securing  the  copyright. 
..  The  book  is  a  thin  post  8vo  of  127  pages :  eight 
pages  of  title  and  contents,  nineteen  pages  con- 
taining the  Constitution  of  1638,  eighty-three 
pages  of  the  Connecticut  Code  of  1650,  and  seven- 


teen pages  of  extracts  from  the  andent  records  of 
Newhaven. 
The  advertisement  states  that  the  work  — 

<*  Contains  an  exact  copy  of  the  Constitution  and  Code, 
taken  front  the  original  records  in  the  Office  of  the  Secre- 
tary for  the  State,  preserving  the  ancieat  orthography.*' 

It  is  further  stated,  that  the  first  revision  of 
these  laws  was  never  before  printed. 

No  corroborative  evidence  is  presented  of  the 
genuineness  of  the  documents;  out  the  internal 
evidence  is  decidedly  in  favour  of  their  authen- 
ticity. It  is  a  little  remarkable  that  your  corre- 
spondent J.  H.  T.,  writing  on  this  subject  in 
April,  1866  (1«*  S.  xi.  321),  from  the  State  library 
in  Hartford,  m  which  town  the  volume  before  us 
was  issued,  should  have  altogether  ignored  it. 

There  is  a  rude  frontispiece — a  woodcut  of  a 
constable  seizing  a  tobacco  ''  taker  " ;  but  this  is 
a  modem  production,  the  costumes  being  those  of 
the  earlv  part  of  the  present  century. 

Now  let  us  see  what  light  we  can  bring  to  bear 
on  the  historv  of  these  so-called  '^  Blue  Laws." 

The  townships  of  Windsor,  Hartford,  and  Wea- 
thersfield,  on  the  river  Connecticut,  were  the  first 
settlements  in  the  country,  and  in  the  year  1038 
the  inhabitants  met  in  public  assembly,  and  in 
their  own  language  did  *' associate  and  conjoine 
themselves  to  bee  as  one  publique  state  or  com- 
monweaUh^*  and  laid  down  the  principles  of  their 
constitution. 

Newhaven,  on  Long  Island  Sound,  was  colo- 
nised in  1638 ;  and  on  June  4,  1639  — 

**  All  the  free  planters  assembled  together  in  a  general 
meetiuji^e,  to  consult  about  settling  civil  government 
according  to  God,"  &c. 

The  Cwinecticut  Code,  founded  on  the  consti- 
tution of  1638,  was  completed  and  issued  in  1650. 
The  Newhaven  Code  was  framed  in  1655,  and 
printed  in  London  the  following  year.  The  Con- 
necticut Code,  it  is  stated,  was  not  printed  until 
1676,  from  a  revision  in  1672.  Now,  in  neither 
of  these  codes  are  there  the  slightest  traces  of  the 
absurdities  usually  attached  to  the  idea  of  the 
"  Blue  Laws."  There  are  no  prohibitions  against 
any  person  '' running  on  the  Sabbath  day,  or 
walking  in  his  garden  or  elsewhere,  except  rever- 
ently " ;  nor  is  any  one  prevented  from  "  travel- 
ling, cooking  victuals,  making  beds,  sweeping 
house,  cutting  hair,  or  shaving  on  the  Sabbath 
day."  Nor  is  any  woman  denied  the  privilep^e  of 
*^  kissing  her  child  on  the  Sabbath  or  fasting  day." 
A  husband  is  not  prevented  from  kissing  his  wife 
Sabbath  or  week  day,  when  and  where  he  pleases. 
In  fact,  in  the  Connecticut  Code  there  are  no  laws 
at  all  bearing  on  the  Sabbath.  My  surmise,  there- 
fore, that  Uie  quotations  usually  given  are  a 
literary  imposture,  is  fully  borne  out  by  the  ascer- 
tained facts.  The  origin  of  the  fraud  is  to  be 
found  in  A  General  History  of  Connecticut  by  a 
GenUetnan  of  the  Ptovincej  London,  1781.    The 


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i 


author  is  said  to  have  been  the  Key.  Samuel 
Peters  (a  Tory  and  Loyalist),  who  left  the  colony 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  disturbances  in  1774, 
and  revenged  himself  on  his  compatriots  by  the 
fabrication  of  tibe  spurious  documents  in  question. 
And  now,  haying  seen  what  the  two  Connec- 
ticut Codes  are  not,  let  me  as  briefly  as  possible 
state  what  they  really  are.  They  are  very  valu- 
able illustrations  of  the  tone  and  temper  of  mind 
of  the  stem  pioneers  who  went  out  to  people  the 
wilderness,  and  whose  customs,  manners,  and  civil 
and  religious  opinions  have  been  the  normal  types 
after  which  the  great  American  commonwealth 
has  been  modelled.  The  founders  of  New  England 
were  resolute  God-fearing  men  of  the  Roundhead 
stamp.  In  the  foundation  of  their  institutions 
the  following  principles  lie  at  the  base :  — 

1.  Perfect  equality  and  mutual  responsibility 
amongst  all  the  members  of  the  commonwealth. 

2.  The  identity  of  the  Church  and  the  State,  with 
the  necessary  corollary  that  all  laws  should  be 
founded  on  tne  Word  of  God. 

8.  The  obligation  of  the  civil  magistrate  to 
enforce  ecclesiastical  discipline. 

4.  That  the  law  should  take  cognizance  of  im- 
morality as  well  as  of  crime. 

These  principles  were  logically  and  relentlessly 
carried  out  into  practice :  sometimes  making  one 
fihudder  at  the  ruthless  sacrifice  of  human  life, 
and  at  other  times  raising  a  smile  at  the  ludicrous 
minuteness  with  which  the  law  intermeddled  with 
private  affairs. 

(1)  The  enactments  of  the  Code  breathe  the 
true  spirit  of  freedom  and  equal  rights,  the  system 
of  manhood  suffrage  and  annual  elections  contain- 
ing the  germ  of  the  future  institutions  of  the 
United  States.  Several  of  these  laws  are  far  in 
advance  of  their  age,  such  as  voting  by  written 
papers,  freedom  of  debtors  from  arrest  except  in 
case  of  fraud,  &c. 

(2)  The  Word  of  God  was  held  to  be  supreme 
in  aU  cases  not  otherwise  provided  for  by  the  law, 
and  all  enactments  were  supposed  to  be  founded 
thereon.  Unfortunately  it  was  the  Mosaic  Code, 
rather  than  the  Gospel,  which  was  resorted  to. 
Hence  the  punishment  of  death  was  awarded  to 
**  idolatry,  witchcraft,  blasphemy,  and  adultery,'' 
for  each  of  which  Scriptural  authority  is  quoted. 
Young  persons  above  sixteen  '^  cursing  or  smiting 
father  or  mother,  or  not  obeying  their  commands 
after  warning  and  chastisement,''  were  to  be  put 
to  death.  Man-stealing  or  kidnapping  was  a 
capital  crime.  Sternness  might  be  pardoned  in  a 
state  of  society  where  it  was  necessary  to  provide 
''  that  there  shall  bee  a  guard  of  twenty  men 
every  Sabbath  and  lecture  day,  compleat  in  theixe 
armes,  in  each  severall  towne  uppon  the  river." 

(3  &  4)  The  ecclesiastical  oiscipline  enforced 
by  the  magistrate  descended  to  the  ordinary  in- 
tercourse of  private  life  in  tJie  most  minute  par- 


ticulars. At  a  court  held  at  Newhaven,  May  1, 
1660,  two  young  persons,  Jacob  Merline  and 
Sarah  Tuttle,  were  brought  before  the  governor : 
the  charge  being  that,  after  some  chaff,  Jacob 
had  taken  away  Sarah's  gloves.  The  record  goes 
on  to  state  that — 

"  Sarah  desired  him  to  give  her  the  glores ;  to  which 
he  answered  he  wonld  do  so,  if  she  would  give  him  a 
kysse;  npon  which  they  sat  down  together,  his  arrae 
beinff  about  her  waiste,  and  her  arme  opon  his  shoolder 
or  abont  bis  neoke;  and  he  kyned  her,  and  Mhe  kysaed 
him,  or  they  kvssed  one  another ;  continuing  in  this  pos- 
ture about  hair  an  hour,  as  Marian  and  Susan  testified." 

For  this  grave  offence,  the  governor  read  the 
young  people  a  severe  lecture,  and  fined  each  of 
them  twenty  shillings  and  costs. 

Some  of  the  cases  are  very  sad.  One. given  by 
Cotton  Mather  relates  of  a  man  in  Weymouth, 
about  1050 :  — 

*'  This  man  lived  in  abominable  adulteries ;  but  God 
at  length  smote  biro  with  a  Palsie.  His  dead  Pal^ie  was 
accoropany*d  with  a  Quick  Conscience,  wliich  compelled 
him  to  confess  his  crimes." 

By  the  law  of  the  country  adultery  was  then  a 
capital  offence,  and  this  poor  wretch,  evidently 
insane,  was  actually  convicted  and  hung. 

One  of  the  greatest  blots  on  the  fair  fame  of  the 
Puritan  New  Englanders  is  their  persecution  of 
the  Quakers.  There  is  only  one  authenticated 
case  of  Quakers  being  put  to  death,  but  that  is 
bad  enough.  The  usual  sentence  on  refractory 
Quakers — ^who,  no  doubt,  gave  trouble — was  ban- 
ishment on  pain  of  death.  In  1659,  some  Quakers 
who  had  been  banished  returned  to  Boston,  and 
were  condemned  by  a  general  court  to  death. 
Two  of  them  were  executed.  A  great  clamour 
and  excitement  was  raised,  and  the  law  was 
repealed.  An  almanack  printed  by  the  Quakers 
in  Pennsylvania  in  1604  has  the  following  entry: 

**  Since  the  English  in  New  England  banged  their 
countrymen  for  religion years  86." 

One  word,  before  I  close,  on  the  **Blue  Laws." 
Why  are  they  called  blue^  and  by  whom  was 
the  name  conferred?  There  is  nothing  in  the 
text  of  the  Codes  throwing  light  on  the  subject. 
In  the  Hartford  publication  the  pages  headed 
'*  Newhaven  Antiquities  or  Blue  Laws  "  are  not 
laws  at  all.  They  are  simply  extracts  from  the 
registers  of  the  court,  detailing  trials  and  sen- 
tences. That  blue  is  a  contraction  of  bloody,  I  do 
not  believe;  nor  is  there  any  reason  to  suppose 
the  term  originated  in  the  colour  of  the  papor 
covers,  like  our  ^*  Blue  Books."  The  probability 
is  that,  like  the  pretended  laws  to  which  it  was 
applied,  the  term  was  invented  by  the  reverend 
fabricator;  but  as  I  have  not  seen  his  work,  I 
cannot  yerifjr  this.  I  have  to  apologise  for  the 
length  to  which  I  have  been  led,  though  a  very 
interesting  treatise  might  be  written  on  thie 
subject. 


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It  is  desirable  to  place  on  record  in  the  enduring 
pages  of  **  N.  &  Q./'  once  for  all,  the  true  state- 
ment of  facts  about  which  there  has  been  such 
tax  amount  of  misrepresentation  and  falsehood. 

J.  A.  PiCTON. 
Sandjknowe,  Wavertree^  near  Liverpool. 


ECSTATICS :  THE  "  ECSTATICA  "  OF  CALDARO. 
(4'*S.  vi.  475;  vii.  21,  123.) 

The  most  elaborate  account  of  the  EcstaUca  of 
Caldaro  is  that  contained  in  the  following  work : — 

**  Letter  from  the  Earl  of  Sbreirsbary  to  Ambrose  Lisle 
PbiJIfpps,  £^.,  descriptive  of  the  Ecstatica  of  Caldaro 
and  the  Addolorata  of  Capriana.  Being  a  Second  £di- 
tion,  revised  and  enlarged ;  to  which  is  added,  the  Rela- 
tion of  three  successive  Visits  to  the  Ecstatica  of  Sanso- 
vino,  in  May  1842.'*    8vo.   London  (C.  Dolman),  1842. 

An  article  based   upon  this  book,  and  with 

notices  of  earlier  Ecstatics  and  Stigmatists,  will  be 

found  in  the  Church  of  England  Quarterly  Review ^ 

and  was  republished  in  a  pamphlet  form  under 

the  title  of — 

"  Lord  Shrew8bnrv*s  Miraculous  Virgins.**  8vo.  Lon- 
don ( W.  £.  Painter,'  Strand),  1848,  pp.  15. 

A  later  visit  to  the  convent  of  Caldaro,  to  see 
Maria  Mori — "  the  Ecstatic  Virgin  of  the  famed 
Tyrol  ** — was  made  by  George  Waterton,  the  cele- 
brated naturalist,  who  has  recorded  his  impres- 
sions in  the  curious  autobiographical  preface  to 
the  third  series  of  his  Essays  on  Natural  History^ 
12mo,  1858~a  leview  of  which  will  be  found  in 
Frastr's  Magazine  for  December  in  the  same  year. 

About  the  same  period  it  was  alleged  by  the 
Very  Rev.  John  Foley,  president  of  St  Mary's 
(Roman)  Catholic  college  at  Youghal,  county 
Cork,  Ireland,  that  similar  manifestations  of  mira- 
culous favours  had  been  vouchsafed  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  college.  This  was  attested  by  other 
nests,  and  an  appeal  made  about  the  same  time 
or  pecuniary  support  to  the  institution.  The 
affair  made  some  noise,  and  the  Protestant  clergy 
and  others  demanded  a  thorough  investigation. 
The  opinions  of  The  Tablet,  which  I  will  not  tran- 
scribe from  fear  of  giving  offence,  will  be  found 
in  the  numbers  of  the  4ui,  18th,  and  24th  Feb., 
1843;  and  these  are  reprinted,  together  with  a 
minute  historical  summary  of  the  whole  affair,  in 
a  pamphlet  entitled  — 

'<  The  Ecstatica  of  Yoaghal,  compared  with  the  Woo- 
ders  of  the  Tyrol,  in  a  Letter  to  the  Ki^ht  Hon.  the  Earl 
of  Shrewsbury.  Bv  the  Rev.  John  Aldworth,  Rector  of 
Yoaghal,  Ireland.*'^  8vo.  London  (Dalton,  Cockspur 
Street),  1843,  pp.  71. 

Reference  may  also  be  made  to  Dr.  Herbert 
Mayo's  ''Letters  on  the  Truths  contained  in 
Popular  Superstitions"  {Blackwoods  Magazine, 
June  1847,  p.  673),  in  which  allusion  to  the  Earl 
of  Shrewsbury's  book  is  made. 

WiLLiAX  Batss. 
'  Birmingbani. 


I 


The  inquirer  M.  D.  will  find  full  informatioii 
respecting  the  Ecstatica  and  the  Addolorata, 
usually  mentioned  together  as  the  Holy  Virgins 
of  the  Tyrol,  in  a  small  work  entitled  Authattio 
Accounts  of  Dominica  Laauari,  ^c,  translated  from 
the  German,  and  published  by  Bacon  &  Co.,  Nor- 
wich. 1841.  A  more  detailed  account  of  both 
will  DO  seen  in  the  Letter  from  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury to  Ambrose  Lisle  PhUUppSj  Esq»f  Liondon,  G. 
Dolman,  61,  New  Bond  Street,  1841.  This  Letter 
extends  over  forty-four  octavo  pages,  and  was 
written  from  Munich.  It  has  also  striking  engrav- 
ings of  both  these  Holy  Vir^ns.  The  Addolorata 
died  April  4,  1848;  and  Ecstatica  January  II, 
1868.  F.  C.  H. 

«£S"  AND  ''EN.*' 

(4«»  S.  vi.  806,  614 ;  vii.  69.) 

Mr.  J.  Payne*8  language  is  such  that  it  hardly 
merits  a  reply.  However,  as  he  has  thought 
proper  to  accuse  me  of  *^  invention  "  of  a  deriva^ 
tion,  and  of  **  laving  down  rules  "  to  support  such 
invention,  I  will  make  a  brief  answer.  But  Mr. 
Payns  may  rest  assured  that  if  in  any  other  re- 
marks on  my  notes  he  has  not  recourse  to  more 
courteous  language,  he  shall  (to  use  a  common 
expression)  "have  it  all  his  own  way."  The 
Greek  derivation  that  he  is  at  war  with  was  (be- 
fore I  consulted  Chastellain's  little  book)  the 
explanation  of  a  friend,  the  author  of  several 
learned  works  and  the  professor  at  a  foreign 
university.  It  was  from  him  also  that  the  in- 
formation marked  by  Mr.  Payne  1,  2,  3,  4,  was 
received,  as  well  as  the  information  about  the 
academic  diplomas.  I  do  not  mention  the  name, 
because  he  objects.  He  says  that,  after  reading 
Mb.  Payne's  note  or  reply,  he  does  not  choose  to 
discuss  the  subject  witn  him.  He  has  been  a 
contributor  to  "  N.  &  Q.,"  and  is  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  scholars  and  philologists  of  the  age. 
I  have  no  means  of  consulting  the  ''  grave  "  and 
''noble"  authorities  named  by  Mr.  Payne.  I 
am  a  traveller,  and  the  libraries  of  hotels  are  not 
very  extensive.  But  I  find  in  a  French  Universal 
Dictionary  (apparently  a  number-book)  belonging 
to  my  landlord  that  there  are  two  Es-ses.  One 
is  said  to  be  ''  from  the  *  Latin  *  e  or  ex"  and  to 
mean  "  <fe  =  of " ;  the  other  is  ''  an  abbreviation  of 
en  les.  ''  Es  Droit/'  whatever  Mr.  Payne  may 
say  to  the  contrary,  is  very  common  in  French, 
Switzerland  and  elsewhere.  Turning  over  a  lot 
of  cards  that  from  time  to  time  have  been  left  by 
Continental  friends,  I  find  several  engraved  ex- 
amples.   One  of  the   first  I  stumbled  on  was 

« M.  le  ChevaUer  de  V ,  Docteur  h  Droit" 

I  find  one  or  two  others  with  the  same  ''  h  Droit," 
but  those  with  eti  are  certainly  more  numerous. 
<<  Docteur  h  Droit "  in  the  newspapers  is  as  fire- 
qnent  as  *'  tfii  droit"  Glancing  at  the  exhibition 
boards  in  three  engraven'  windows,  I  find  several 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*i>  S.  YII.  IUbch  4, 71. 


Bpedmen  cards  of  ''  Ph.  D.s,''  in  some  of  wkicli 
the  h  is  osed^  while  othen  have  the  more  usoal 


I£h  is  a  mere  abbreviatioDy  and  <mfy  means  en 
Ub,  it  needs  no  logic  to  prove  that  it  is  improper 
to  nse  it  before  a  nngular  noun ;  but  if  it  be  also 
a  word,  and  as  such  signifies  de,  there  is  no  im- 
preprietj  whatever  in  so  using  it,  and  therefore  I 
contend  (modestly  and  not  ex  cathedra),  that  French 
or  Swiss  scholars  do  not  commit  any  blunder  when 
on  their  engraved  visiting  cards  they  choose  to 
say  "  Docteur  ^s  Droit "  or  "  h%  Philosophie."  If 
Mr.  Patne  lives  in  a  neighbourhood  frequented  by 
foreigners^  and  where  there  happens  to  be  a  card 
engraver,  I  would,  in  concluding  these  remarks, 
advise  him  to  inquire  whether  such  tradesman 
lias  not  frequentlv  printed  "  be  Droit "  and  •'  hs 
Philosophie,^'  and  if  it  haa  been  done,  to  ask 
whether  such  cards  were  not  encraved  conform- 
ably to  "copy/*  Jakes  Heztbt  Dixox. 

I  find  the  following  passage  in  Ampere,  Hietoire 

de  la  Formation  de  la  Langue  fi'oncaise,  which, 

being  the  work  of  a  Member  of  the  Institute  and 

Professor  of  Literature  in  the  College  of  France 

(Paris,  1869),  I  presume  is  one  of  some  authority : 

**  L'ancienne  forme  francaise  de  I'article  '  11 '  se  troave 
en  Wallon, '  li  frJire,'  *  le  frtre.' 

f  H'  On  trouve  dans  im  autre  patois  [we  know  bow 
dialects  preserve  words  and  forms  whi9h  nave  slipped  oat 
of  the  later  written  and  spoken  langaage]  la  forme  da 
datif,  *  es  gages '  (aux  gages),  *  es  piez  *  (aux  pieds)."  — 
Page  382. 

If  this  be  correct,  it  seems  to  support  what  Mr. 
Charnock  informs  us  Cotgrave  says :  ''  A  pre- 
position ever  set  be/ore  words  in  the  plural  number f 
as  'en*  before  those  in  the  «in^t«Air '' ;  and  what 
Mb.  Payt^  affirms  against  D&.  Dixox,  that  it  is 
never  found  before  a  etnfftdar" 

"  Bachelier  ds  Arts  "  is  simply  "  Bachelier  aux 
AitSj"  or  rather  ena  arts. 

One  does  not  see  how  the  Greek  preposition  eis 
should  find  its  way  into  a  purely  French  phrase. 
The  word  h,  in  the  phrase  h  AiiSy  is  probably 
from  the  old  French  preposition  ene^  from  intuSy 
the  n  having  dropped  put  in  pronunciation  ^m 
rapidity  or  carelessness.*  S.  K. 


FINDERNE  FLOWERS. 

(4*'»  S.  vi.  644.) 

In  the  Journal  of  Horticulture  for  July  29, 1869, 
there  appeared  an  interesting  paper  bearing  this 
title,  '*  findeme  Flowers.''  The  anonymous  writer 
quotes  at  greater  length  from  Burke's  Vicissitudes 
of  Families  than  Mb.  Pearson  ;  and  as  it  may  be 
new  to  many  of  your  readers,  I  venture  to  copy  it 
out — ^first  stating  that  through  the  pages  or  the 
above-named  journal   I  made    Mr.  Pearson's 

*  See  Ampere,  p<  292,  note. 


inquiry,  ^  What  are  the  names  of  these  flowers, 
plimted  so  long  ago  by  the  good  old  Crusader, 
and  which  hold  so  fast  to  his  ancient  garden,  now 
only  a  field  P  "  To  this  question  I  received  no 
answer. 

**  The  hamlet  of  Findeme,  in  the  parish  of  Mickleover, 
aboat  fonr  milee  from  Derby,  was  for  nine  generations 
the  chief  residenoe  of  a  family  who  derived  their  name 
from  the  place  of  their  patrimony.  From  the  time  of 
Edward  I.  to  those  of  Henry  Ylll.,  when  the  male  line 
became  extinct,  and  the  estate  passed  by  the  marriage  of 
the  heiress  to  the  Harpurs,  the  house  of  Findeme  was 
one  of  the  most  distingoished  in  Derbyshire.  Merabem 
of  it  had  won  their  spurs  in  the  Crusades,  and  at  Cressy 
and  at  Aginconrt.  The  sons  were  brave,  and  the  daugh- 
ters fair :  one,  alas !  was  frail  as  well  as  fair,  and  the 
heaviest  blow  that  ever  fell  on  the  time-honoured  race 
was  when  Catherine  Findcrne,  about  the  middle  of  the 
fifteenth  century,  consented  to  be  the  mistress  of  Henry 
Lord  Grev  of  Codnor.  In  the  remarkable  will  of  that 
remarkable  nebleman,  who  in  1463  obtained  a  licence 
from  the  king  for  the  transmutation  of  metals,  provision 
is  made  for  his  illegitimate  issue  by  Catherine,  in  terms 
which  were,  no  doubU  deemed  unexceptionable  in  those 
days^  but  which  would  be  deemed  highly  offensive  in 
our  own.  The  tectorial  possessions  of  the  Findemee 
were  large :  the  Findemes  were  high  sheriffs,  occasionally 
rangers  of  Needwood  Forest,  and  custodians  of  Talbuiy 
CasUe,  and  they  matched  with  many  of  the  best  families. 
Findeme,  originally  erected  tempore  Edward  I.,  and 
restored  and  enlarged  at  different  periods,  was  in  1560 
one  of  the  quaintest  and  largest  mansions  in  the  midlands. 
The  present  church,  then  the  family  chapel,  had  rows  of 
monumental  brasses  and  altar  tombs— all  memorials  of  the 
Findemes.    In  1850  a  pedigree  research  caused  me  to 

Sav  a  visit  to  the  village.  1  sought  for  this  ancient 
all — not  a  stone  remained  to  tell  where  it  had  stood ! 
I  entered  the  church — ^not  a  single  record  of  a  Blndeme 
was  there  I  I  accosted  a  villager,  hoping  to  glean  some 
stray  traditions  of  the  Findemes.    *  Findemes !  *  said  he, 

*  we  have  no  Findemes  here,  but  we  have  something  that 
once  belonged  to  them ;   we  have  Finderne*s  flowers.* 

*  Show  me  them,*  I  replied ;  and  the  old  man  led  me  into 
a  field,  which  still  retained  faint  traces  of  terraces  and 
foundations.  *  There,'  said  he,  pointing  to  a  bank  of 
garden- flowers  grown  wild,  *  there  are  the  Findeme's 
flowers,  brought  by  Sir  Geoffrey  from  the  Holy  Land ; 
and  do  what  we  will,  they  will  never  die ! ' 

''  Poetry  mingles  more  with  our  daily  life  than  we  are 
apt  to  acknowledge;  and  even  to  an  antiquary,  like 
myself,  the  old  man's  prose,  and  the  subject  of  it,  were 
the  very  essence  of  poetry. 

*'  For  more  than  three  hundred  years  the  Findemes 
have  been  extinct;  the  mansion  the}'  dwelt  in  had 
crambled  into  dust;  the  brass  and  marble  intended  to 
perpetuate  the  race  had  passed  away ;  and  a  little  tiny 
flower  had  for  ages  preserved  a  name  and  a  memory 
which  the  elaborate  works  of  man^s  hand  had  failed  to 
rescue  from  oblivion.  The  moral  of  the  incident  is  as 
beautiful  as  the  poetir.  We  talk  of  the  *  language  of 
flowers,'  but  of  the  eloquence  of  flowers  we  never  had 
such  a  striking  example  as  that  presented  in  these  flowers 
of  Findeme :  — 

<  Time,  Time  his  withering  hand  hath  laid 
On  battlement  and  tower ; 
And  where  rich  banners  were  displayed, 
Now  only  waves  a  flower.' 
These  are  the  interesting  words  of  Burke  on  Findeme's 
flowers." 

Anna.  Habbisov. 

Beckenham. 


4*avii.iiABCH4.'7i.3  NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


195 


Ladt  Ahitb  QBiiisToir's  Gratb  nr  Txwnr 
Chubchtabs  (4«»  a  Til,  76,  128,  172.)— I  •m 
much  obliged  to  Load  Vxbulax  for  his  IdndneaB 
in  settiog  at  rest  the  story  of  Lady  Anne  Grim- 
aton's  incredulity.  It  remains  a  curious  example 
of  the  growth  of  a  legend  out  of  a  nalifiral  phe- 
nomenon ;  to  be  classed  with  the  story  of  Niobe's 
tears,  wluch,  already  before  Homer's  time,  had 
grown  out  of  the  dripping  istatue  in  Mount  Sipy- 
lus ;  the  story  of  the  transportation  of  St.  Catna- 
rine's  body  to  Mount  Sinai,  which  had  grown  out 
of  1^6  mummy-like  protuberance  of  rock  on  the 
summit  of  Mount  St.  Catharine  in  the  Arabian 
Peninsula ;  the  story  of  the  Nymphs  and  Pans  in 
the  Corycian  caye,  which  grew  out  of  the  stalac- 
tite figures  in  the  limestone  rock ;  the  story  of  the 
imprisoned  giants  imder  Mount  Etna,  or  of  the 
overthrow  of  Acis  by  Polyphemus,  which  grew 
oat  of  the  eruptions  of  that  yolcano.       A.  P.  S. 

Becebt*s  Mttbdebers:  Somebsbxshibe  Tra- 
ditions (4**  S.  vii.  33,  171.) — My  account  in 
the  Quarterfy  Review  has  since  been  corrected  and 
enlarged  in  the  essay  on  ^'  The  Murder  of  Becket " 
in  Htdorical  Memorials  of  Canterbury  Cathedral, 

A.  P.  S. 

Stamp  on  Pictttre  Canvas  (4*'»  S.  vii.  97.) — 
From  inquiries  I  have  made  I  doubt  if  any  govern- 
ment stamp  was  ever  imposed  upon  the  canvas 
used  for  pictures,  as  picture  canvas,  and  suspect 
such  stamp  was  affixed  only  under  the  Acts  which 
imposed  duties  on  linens  generally.  All  linens  on 
which  excise  duty  was  paid  were  stamped.  The 
following  memoranda  may  be  useful  to  those  who 
are  able  to  prosecute  this  inquiry  more  fully  than 
I  have  done. 

The  duty  on  linens  seems  to  have  been  first  | 
imposed  by  10  Anne,  cap.  10,  the  sixty-ninth 
clause  of  which  imposes  upon  all  linens  and  stuffs 
(with  certain  exceptions)  to  be  printed,  stained, 
paittied,  or  dyed,  a  dutv  of  three-halfpence  for 
every  yard  in  length,  recKoning  yard  wide ;  while 
the  ninety-seventh  clause  directs  the  commissioner, 
on  or  before  July  20, 1712,  to  provide  proper  seals 
or  stamps  for  marking  silks,  calicoes,  linens,  and 
stufk 

By  the  Act  of  24  Geo.  111.  sess.  2.  cap.  40,  for 
granting  to  his  Majesty  additional  duties  on  linens, 
printed,  painUd,  stained,  or  dyed,  the  commis- 
sioners of  excise  are  in  like  manner  directed  by 
eection  25,  on  or  before  Oct.  21, 1784,  to  provide 
proper  seals  and  stamps  to  denote  the  charging  of 
ancn  duties. 

If  these  stamps  are  odIv  found  on  pictures 
painted  after  1784,  I  should  suspect  that  at  that 
time  a  new  and  stricter  interpretation  may  have 
been  put  upon  the  word  ''painted,'*  which  in  the 
Act  of  Anne  was  simply  another  form  of  *'  dyed," 
aad  the  canvas  which  was  to  be  *'  painted  "  was 


considered  to  come  under  the  Act,  and  as  such  be 
liable  to  duty. 

It  would  M  well  if  possessors  of  pictures  bearing 
the  government  stamp  would  record  in  ''  N.  &  Q."' 
the  dates  of  such  stamps.  W.  J.  T. 

*  This  information  was  supplied  to  ''N.  &  Q.' 
within  the  last  six  years.  I  cannot  give  the  refer- 
ence.^ An  engraving  of  the  Excise  Office  stamp 
was  inserted  by  way  of  illustration. 

Albert  Bxtttert. 
[There  must  be  some  mistake  as  to  this  reply  having 
appeared  in  "N.  &  Q.";  no  such  woodcut  certainly  was 
ever  inserted.] 

Mahommbdawisii  (4^  S.  vi.  323,  448.)— This 
has  always  been  considered  a  perversion  of  Chris- 
tianity, one  of  the  numerous  heresies  which 
abounded  in  the  sixth  and  seventh  centuries.  As 
represented  by  Gibbon,  Mahomet  regarded  his 
religion  as  a  further  and  perfect  development  of 
Christianity.    Thus  with  him — 

**The  authority  sad  station  of  Adam,  Noah,  Abraham, 
Moses,  Christ  and  Mahomet  rise  in  just  gradation  above 
each  other ;  but  whosoever  hates  or  rejects  any  one  of 
the  prophets  is  numbered  with  the  infidels."  XDecline 
and  Fall,  cap.  50.) 

And  again  (cap.  61) — 

"  The  disciples  of  Abraham,  of  Moses,  and  of  Jcsui 
were  solemnly  invited  to  accept  the  more  perfect  revela- 
tion of  Mahomet ;  but  if  they  preferred  the  payment  of 
a  moderate  tribute,  they  were  entitled  to  the  freedom  of 
conscience  and  religious  worship.'* 

In  contradistinction  to  Magians,  Jews,  and 
Christians,  whom  the  followers  of  Mahomet  termed 
the  People  of  the  Book,  were  the  Harbii,  qui 
tolerari  nequeunt  These  (Gibbon  quotes  from 
Keland)  are — 

"  1.  Those  who,  baideg  God,  worship  the  sun,  moon, 
or  idols ;  2.  Atheists.  Utrique,  quamdiu  princeps  aliquis 
inter  Mohammedanos  superest,  oppugnari  debent  donee 
religionem  amplectantur." 

The  Mahommedans  regard  themselves  univer- 
sally as  Unitarians  {"  the  proselytes  of  Mahomet 
from  India  to  Morocco  are  distinguished  by  the 
name  of  Unitarians,"  Gibbon,  cap.  50),  and  there- 
fore the  statement  that  **  no  Mahommedans  have 
become  Socinian  Christians''  is  evidently  true. 
The  most  philosophic  view  to  take  of  Mahomme- 
danism  is  to  deem  it  a  heretical  form  of  Christi- 
anity. FSLAOIITS. 

Babtolomao  Diaz,  the  Discoyerkb  op  the 
Cape  Route  (4*^  S.  vii.  102.)— Mr.  Charles 
Natlor  is  undoubtedly  quite  correct  in  saying 
that  the  honour  of  this  discovery  belongs  to  Bar- 
tolomao  Diaz,  and  not,  as  I  said,  Vasco  da  Gama ; 
and  I  feel  much  obliged  for  his  kindness  in  put- 
ting me  right ;  but  there  is,  I  find,  a  considerable 
difierence  of  statement  as  to  the  year  in  which 
this  very  important  discovery  is  said  to  have  been 
effected. 


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[4ti>  a  VII.  Habch  4»  *7U 


Antonio  Galvano,  who  died  in  1667|  in  his 

Ditcoverie$  of  the  World,  says :  — 

*^  In  the  year  1486  the  king  Don  John  aent  on  this 
discovery  Bartholomew  Diaz,  a  gentleman  of  the  oonrt, 
with  three  saiL  CoastiDg  along,  he  placed  pillars  of 
:  stone,  and  discovered  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  beyond 
as  far  as  the  river  Infante ;  and  It  may  be  said  that  he 
saw  the  land  of  India,  bnt,  like  Moses  and  the  promised 
land,  did  not%nter  in.'* — DUeoverie§  of  the  World  (p.  77). 
Loudini,  impensis  G.  Bishop,  1601 ;  repnblished  by  the 
Haklojt  Society  by  Vice-Admiral  Bethune,  CB^  1862. 

The  account  given  in  the  Dictionnaire  historique 
(Paris,  1810)  says:  — 

'*  Diaz  (Barth^emi),  navigatear  portugais,  qai  d^ 
couvrit  en  1466  un  cap  ii  Textr^mit^  meridionale  de 
TAfrique,  auquel  il  donna  le  nom  de  Cap  des  Tourmentes  ; 
mais  qaand  il  rendit  compte  de  sa  d^coaverte  au  roi  da 
Portugal,  Jean  II,  oe  prince  changea  ce  nom  en  celui  de 
Cap  de  Bonne  Esp^rance,*' — 

which  would  make  the  discovery  to  have  occurred 

twenty  years  before  1480,  the  year  to  which  it  is 

assigned  b^  Galvauo.     During  this  intermediate 

period^  it  18  to  be  supposed  that  he  must  have 

made  other  voyages,  an  account  of  which  may 

perhaps  be  found ,:  if  1406,  the  earlier  date  given 

lor  the  discovery  of  the  Cape  route  can  be  ventied. 

R.  R.  W.  Ellis. 
Starcross,  near  Exeter. 

The  Dbaf  Old  Woman  (4*»»  S.  vii.  76.)— I 
suspect  it  is  with  the  lines  quoted  by  G.  as  with 
innumerable  other  old  ditties  and  sayings,  that 
all  attempts  to  discover  the  authors  of  them  would 
be  fruitless.  Moreover,  there  are  usually  several 
different  forms  of  them,  as  is  the  case  with  the 
lines  tmder  inquiry.  I  used  to  hear  them  half  a 
century  and  more  ago,  from  an  old  Cheshire  man, 
recited  thus :  —    • 

(7fi  a  loud  voicej) 
**  *  Old  woman,  old  woman,  Vm  going  a- shearing.* 

*  Speak  a  little  louder,  sir,  for  I'm  hard  o*  hearing.' 

(/n  a  low  voice.) 

*  Old  woman,  old  woman,  I  love  yon  dearly.' 

'  O  that's  a  bonny  lad,  now  I  hear  you  dearly.' " 

Then  I  remember  hearing,  in  Staffordshire,  the 

same  humorous  idea  expressed  in  another  form  — 

(Loud,) 
"  <  Zekel,  Zekel,  will  you  treat  me  to  a  pint  o*  drink  ? ' 

*  What  did  yoa  say,  Mister  ? ' 

iSoft.) 

*  Zekel,  Zekel,  shall  /  treat  you  to  a  pint  o*  drink  ? ' 
'  O  yes,  if  you  please,  Mister ! '  " 

F.  C.  H. 

This  was  sung  by  my  grandmother  in  1825 
thus:  — 

** '  Old  woman,  old  woman,  will  yon  go  a-shearing  ? ' 

*  Speak  a  little  louder,  sir,  I*m  very  hard  o'  hearing.' 
'  Old  woman,  old  woman,  may  I  come  and  kiss  you  ?* 

*  Yes,  and  thank  yoa  kindly,  sir,  and  God  Almighty 

bless  yon.' " 

R  A.D. 

StORT   ascribed  to  THBODOltB  HoOK    (4*  8. 

vii.  73.)— This  story  may  have  been  told  by 


Theodore  Hook,  and  perhaps  he  put  it  into  the 
form  quoted ;  but  the  joke  itself  is  far  older  than 
hiB  time,  and  is,  I  fear,  after  all,  but  an  old  Joe^ 
For  I  have  long  known  it  in  what^  I  suspect,  was 
its  first  simple  shape,  thus :  — 

A  Yankee  was  walking  with  an  Irishman  on 
the  road  to  New  York ;  and  thinking  to  roast  his 
companion,  said  to  him :  '*  Where  would  you  be 
now,  Paddy,  if  the  devil  had  his  due  P  "  "  Faith," 
replied  Paddy,  'Td  be  walking  by  myself  to 
New  YorL" 

This  reminds  me  of  another  witty  answer  of  an 
Irishman  worth  recording.  The  late  Marquis  of 
Anglesey  coming  up  to  some  men  at  work  in  his 
grounds,  thus  addressed  one  of  them,  who  was  an 
Irishman :  "  Now,  Paddy,  here's  half-a-crown  for 
you,  if  you^ll  tell  me  the  truth  in  answer  to  a 
question  I  shall  ask  you."  The  Irishman  pro- 
tested that  he  would.  '<  Well,  then,"  said  the 
marquis,  "  if  the  devil  were  to  come  now  for  one 
of  us  two,  which  would  he  take?"  ''Indeed 
then,  my  lord,  he*d  take  me."  ''  You  sha'n't  have 
the  half-crown ;  I  know  you  don^t  think  that." 
"0  yes,  I  do,  my  lord:  ne'd  take  me  when  he 
could  get  me ;  isn't  he  sure  of  your  lordship  at 
any  time?"  The  marquis  gave  him  the  half- 
crown,  and  rode  off  laughing  heartily. 

This  may  seem  too  good  to  be  true ;  but  the 
person  who  related  it  to  me  had  it  as  a  fact  from 
Lady  Anglesey.  F.  C.  H. 

Lord  Plunket  (4**»  S.  vii.  93.)— Surely  Lord 
Plunket  (so  his  name  should  be  spelt)  cannot  be 
impeached  as  uttering  "  nonsense  "  in  the  image 
of  Time  with  the  hour-glass  and  the  scythe.  No 
metaphor  could  be  more  '*  germane  to  the  matter." 
The  Statutes  of  Limitation  in  respect  of  title 
were  obviously  founded  on  the  supposition  that  a 
man  might  have  lost  his  original  grant  through 
the  **  scythe  "  of  Time,  and  proposed  to  make  up 
for  the  loss  by  a  title  derived  firom  length  <Mf 

fossession.  The  ''  muniments  "  of  which  Lord 
'lunket  spoke  were  those  which  evidence  the 
title  in  question.  As  for  muniments  which  set 
up  any  other  title,  neither  the  metaphor  nor  the 
statute  interferes  with  them,  except  so  far  as  the 
latter  meets  them  with  a  preferable  title. 

C.  G.  Prowbtt. 
Garrick  dub. 

Cinderella  and  the  Glass  Slipper  (4*^  S. 
tI.  382.)  —  The  Italians  have  a  similar  story, 
which  has  been  turned  into  a  musical  Stenterello 
play.  The  lord  of  the  Tillage  gives  a  grand  fgte. 
The  snow  is  on  the  ground ;  and  a  slipper  is  dis- 
covered on  the  following  day.  The  lord  says 
that  he  will  marry  the  owner.  All  the  femide 
guests  (including  several  old  women)  make  the 
fitting  attempt;  but  the  shoe  only  fits  the  foot  of 
one,  a  poor  Yillage  girl.  StentereUo  (for  he  is  the 
lord)  makes  good  his  promise,  and  the  wedding 


4^  S.  VII.  March  4,  Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


197 


concludes  tlie  drama.  The  piece  is  very  popular, 
and  I  have  witnessed  it  at  three  different  theatres 
in  Florence.  The  name  of  the  herome  I  forget, 
but  it  is  not  Cinderella.  I  do  not  suppose  that 
the  Italians  can  go  back  to  either  iElian  or  Strabo 
for  the  origin  of  their  play.  I  merely  mention 
the  above  version  to  snow  that  the  legend  is 
widely  diffused,  and  is  found  in  different  coun- 
tries, with  variations  to  suit  localities  and  cus- 
toms. Mb.  Mag  Case's  version  has  a  very  con- 
vincing air  about  it*         James  Henry  Dixok. 

Old  Prints  op  Stokehekge  (4**  S.  vii.  36, 
179.) — David  Loggan  practised  his  profession  in 
London ;  where,  as  late  as  1688,  he  produced  a 
work  illustrating  the  University  of  Cambridge. 
The  date  of  his  death  does  not  appear. f  In  the 
Beauties  of  England  and  Wales,  tno  list  of  pub- 
lished views,  &c.,  at  the  end  of  the  Wiltshire 
volume,  contains  a  notice  of  two  views  of  Stone- 
henge  by  David  Loggan,  from  the  west  and  south, 
but  no  date  is  given.  Considering  the  date  of 
Logffan*s  birth,  and  the  period  of  his  residence  in 
London,  it  is,  however,  probable  that  the  views 
were  published  towards  the  latter  end  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  A.  B.  Middleton. 

The  aoee,  Salubnry. 

New  Zealand  Medal  (4*  S.  vi.  276.)— The 
dates  were  omitted  from  one  batch  of  medals 
because  when  the  names  of  the  claimants  were 
sent  in  to  the  authorities  no  dates  of  the  respec- 
tive services  were  attached ;  and  as  the  collection 
of  amended  nominal  lists  would  have  caused  con- 
siderable delay  ^and  consequent  disappointment, 
it  was  thought  advisable  to  issue  the  medals  as 
described.  J.  W.  F. 

Brighton. 

A  Black-countrt  Legend:  "The  Percy 
Anecdotes  "  (4'»»  S.  vii.  71.)— In  The  Percy  Anec- 
doteg,  ii.  448,  edit.  1868,  the  story  is  told  of 
General  Bligh.  Dates  are  not  given,  but  it  is 
said  that  he  was  then  a  captain  in  a  marching 
regiment,  that  he  kept  the  watch  to  his  death, 
and  left  it  by  will  with  a  large  fortune  to  his 
brother  the  Dean  of  Elphin.  The  Percy  Anecdotes 
were  begun  in  1820,  and  finished  in  1823;  so, 
allowing   time  for  promotion   from    captain   to 

feneral,  and  the  accumulation  of  a  large  fortune, 
think  the  event  belongs  to  the  last  century* 
Is  the  anecdote  of  George  III. 's  desiring  tnatno 
notice  should  be  taken  of  a  robbery  if  committed 
by  a  Staffordshire  man  traditional  or  from  a  book  P 
If  the  latter,  I  shall  be  obliged  by  a  reference. 

As  The  Percy  Anecdotes  are  now  before  me  I 
take  the  opportunity  of  asking  for  two  more  re- 
ferences : — 


*  Visitors  to  Florence  daring  carnival  time  may  always 
the  play  at  the  Rossini,  the  Nazionale,  and  the  Maria 
Novella  theatres. 
£t  David  Loggan  died  in  1693.— Ed.] 


*<  Walpole  characterised  certain  memoirs  published  in 
his  day  as  '  worthv  of  being  inserted  in  the  history  of 
mankind ;  which,  if  well  chosen  and  well  written,  would 
precede  common  histories,  which  are  but  repetitions  of 
no  uncommon  events.' " — Prefaety  p.  iv. 

<*  A  popular  writer  has  well  characterised  this  enjoy- 
ment :  '  we  who  do  not  know  our  next-door  neighbours* 
names,* "  &c. — Id. 

What  are  the  ''certain  memoirs"  so  highly 
praised  by  Walpole?  Who  is  the  "popular 
writer ''  ?  It  would  have  been  quite  as  easy  to 
give  the  title  of  the  book  and  the  name  of  the 
popular  writer.  Fitzhopkins. 

Garrick  Club. 

Thomas  Hood  (4»*'S.  vii.  2.2^— The  Saturday 
Review's  citation  from  Hood's  "Lee  Shore''  is 
collect^  Sf.'s  manifestly  the  contrary.  In  my 
copy  of  Hood  (Moxon,  184G,  ii.  2)  the  entire  verse 
stands  thus : — 

'*  Let  broad  leagues  dissever 
nim  from  yonder  foam  ; 
Oh,  God  I  to  think  man  ever 
Comes  too  near  his  home  I  ** 

T.  Westwood. 

DrTDEN's  AgB£E3I£NT  FOB  HIS  ViKGIL  (4^*»  S. 

vi.  275.) — I  remember  seeing  this  agreement  in 
the  house  of  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence  in  Hussell 
Square  in  a  frame  and  glass.  It  was  sold  at  the 
sale  of  his  effects,  June  19,  1880.  for  eight  pounds 
eight  shillings  to  Rogers  (prooably  the  poet). 
What  became  of  it  afterwards  I  know  not. 

J.  R.  B. 

LoBD  Btbon's  "  English  Barbs,"  etc.  (4*^  S, 
vi.  passim;  vii.  23,  106.)— Would  Mr.  J.  H. 
Dixon  kindly  refer  to  the  authority  that  attributes 
to  Lord  Byron  the  lines— 

"O  Gemini!  "Ac? 
The  writer  of  this  note  has  always  imderstood 
they  were  Theodore  Hock's,  with  a  slight  varia- 
tion: thus — 

•*0  Gemini,  Criroini! 
What  a  nimini'pimini 
Bime  about  Rimini !  ** 

311. 

Orders  of  Knighthood  (4'**  S.  v.  vi.  passim  ; 
vii.  100.) — CwYRM  overlooks  the  fact,  that  even 
the  qualifications,  heraldic  and  genealogical,  of 
the  knights  in  question  are  only  ex-parte  state* 
ments,  and  the  status  which  he  suggests  would 
have  to  be  allowed  by  the  sovereign  aoing  one  of 
two  things — either  condoning  and  confirming  a 
breach }  of  ,her  own  prerogative,  or  inventing  a 
<<  modem-antique  "  to  suit  the  convenience  of  a 
few  uncritical  subjects.  Moreover,  before  bring- 
ing forward  such  pretensions,  each  knight  would 
have  to  pass  through  the  preliminary  ordeal  on 
Bennett's  HilL  How  many  could  face  their  own 
standard  of  lineage  P  S. 

A  Rectobship  of  Eiohtt-Onb  Teabs,  and 
Pabish  Registers  (4*>»  S.  viL  56,  97.)— Your 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«>»  S.  VII.  Mabch  4, 71, 


correspondent  H.  F.  T.  lias  ffiven  thetrae  way  of 
showing  the  mistake  of  attrioutin^  excessiTe  lon- 
gevity  to  Elizabethan  and  Jamesine  incumbents. 
There  is  a  very  good  example  in  this  neighbour- 
hood. The  registers  of  Birtsmorton  begin  in  1639. 
Tothatvear  is  affixed  the  signature  '*  Willm  Clarke, 
cler.''  lEIe  goes  on  signing  till  September  7, 1624, 
when  he  enters  a  bantism  with  his  signature  *^  p. 
me  Willmm  Clarke  Kect  ibid."  Thus  his  signa- 
tures extend  over  eighty-fiTe  years.  This  fact 
alone  would  be  tolerably  couTincing;  but  in 
Nash*s  Worcestershire  are  to  be  seen  the  names  of 
the  rectors  who  preceded  Clarke,  whose  registra- 
tions he  must  have  transcribed.  D.  F. 
Stuarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

Leigh  IIunt*s  "  Leisure  Hottrs  is  Town  " 
(4»»»  S.  vii.  26,  132.)— No  work  with  this  title  was 
ever  published  by  Leigh  Hunt.  I  have  all  the 
writings  of  this  author,  amoimting  to  some  forty- 
seven  separate  works,  besides  many  papers  in  ma^ 
zines,  &c.,  which  have  never  been.renrinted  or  in- 
cluded in  any  of  his  miscellaneous  collections,  and 
there  is  not  only  no  volume,  but  no  detached  essay 
of  his  with  the'above  title.*        AxEX.  IsELiLi^D. 

Inglewood,  Bowdon,  Cheshire. 

CCIKCIDENCE  OP  THOUGHT   (4***   S.  Tli.    93.) — 

The  thouffht  of  Dr.  Johnson,  that  ''  no  one  does 
anything  for  the  last  time  (Imowinfi^ly)  but  with 
regret,"  has  received  a  further  homely  illustration 
in  Don  Juan,  canto  ii.  14 : — 

'<  At  leaving  even  the  most  unpleasant  people 
And  places,  one  keeps  looking  at  the  steeple." 

Edward  Nobman. 
45,  Bessborongh  Gardens,  S.W. 

Trench's  Hulseak  Lectures,' 1846  (4*^  S.  vii. 
78.) — The  reference  must  be  to  Goethe's  Faust, 
part  1,  sc.  i.  It  is  well  known  that  the  Arch- 
bishop is  a  student  and  admirer  of  German  litera- 
ture.    Surely  Eastern  is  a  misprint  for  Easter. 

E.  E.  M. 

"  Veritas  in  Puteo  "  (4*»>  S.  vi.  474 ;  vii.  108.) 
There  is,  I  think,  clearly  an  allusion  to  this  pro- 
Terb  in  the  Irriiio  QentUium  Philosophorum  of 
Hermias,    S.  vii.      In    canvassing    the    various 

^  I  am  delighted  to  see  that  Messrs.  Smith,  Elder,  & 
Co.  are  publishing  cheap  yet  elegantly  printed  eSitions  of 
some  of  the  writings  of  this  charming  author.  Two  or 
three  volumes  might  be  devoted  to  reprints  of  essays  and 
sketches  by  Leigh  Hunt,  which  at  present  lie  entombed 
in  files  of  old  newspapers  and  magazines  rarely  looked 
into  by  the  most  adventurous  and  persistent  reader.  It 
woald  be  doing  a  service  to  the  **  gentler  llteratore  '*  of 
oar  century  to  exhume  these  miscellanies.    Mr.  Hotten 

Jmblished  at  a  cheap  price  a  little  volume  of  Selections 
rom  Hunt's  Indicator,  with  an  excellent  introduction 
by  Mr.  Edmund  Oilier,  than  whom  there  coold  not  be  a 
better  etlitor ;  but  Hunt's  admirers  will  not  feel  that  jus- 
tice has  been  done  to  him  until  at  least  half-a-dosen 
volumes  of  his  MiscdUmeous  jEisay§  alone  have  been 
given  to  the  public. 


opinions  of  the  heathen  philosophers,  and  among 
those  of  Democritus  ana  Epicurus,  in  the  section 
immediately  preceding,  he  comes  at  length  to 
those  of  Kleanthes^  and  says, — 

*AAX*  6  KKtJu^t  hrh  rou  ^p4aro5  iirdpat  r^r  arf^a\V, 
KoraXryf  ffcv  roS  Z^yfioros,  ittd  avrhs  iuf€^m  rks  kkn^ 

But  Kleanthds  raises  his  head  from  the  well  and  de> 
rides  your  doctrine  (Epicums's),  and  I,  too,  derive  true 
principles  from  the  same  sources  as  he  does — God  and 
matter. 

Kleanthes  was  a  stoic  [philosopher,  a  native  of 
the  town  of  Asson  in  Epirus,  and  bom  about  240 
B.  0.  It  is  said  of  him  that  he  was  so  poor  as 
'^  to  be  forced  to  draw  water  in  the  night-time  for 
his  maintenance,  that  he  might  stick  close  to  his 
study  all  the  day."  It  is  not  impossible  that  this 
story  may  be  the  true  foundation  of  the  proverb 
in  question,  and  that  it  is  erroneously  attributed  to 
Democritus.  As  for  Hermias,  from  whom  I  have 
quoted,  very  little  is  known  of  him.  By  some  he 
is  supposed  to  have  lived  in  the  second,  by  others 
in  the  fourth,  century.  He  was  a  dose  follower 
in  his  views  and  sentiments  of  Justin  Martyr  and 
Tatian  the  Assyrian.  Ebicttkb  Tew,  ALA. 

Patching  Rectory,  Arundd. 

The  orijginal  Ureek,  iv  fivB^  ydp  t  dXir^cU,  will 
be  found  in  Diogenes's  Laertius,  ix.  72. 

William  Aldis  Wrigkt. 

American  "  National  Song  "  (4"»  S.  viL  11, 
78.)  —  In  the  fifth  verse  is  a  misprint — ^the  fifth 
line  should  be 

**  Columbia  can  array  a  band." 

The  song  is  said  to  be  by  the  late  Rev.  Mr.  Pea- 
body,  Unitarian  clergyman,  but  this  is  not  certain. 

"  Poor  Mrs.  Hart  " :  Kitty  Olive's  Lettsb 
(4*»»  S.  vii.  3.)—"  Mrs.  Hart,"  mentioned  in  Kitty 
Clivers  letter,  was  perhaps  the  actress  alluded  to 
by  Churchill  in  his  Rosciad — 

*^  With  transient  gleams  of  grace  Hart  sweeps  along.*' 

H.W.L. 

George  Ne\'ill,  Lord  Latimer  (4"»  S.  -vii. 
96.)— He  was  fourth  son  of  Ralph  Nevill,  Earl  of 
Westmoreland,  by  his  second  wife,  Joan  Beaufort, 
daughter  of  John  of  Gaunt,  and  married  Elizabeth 
youngest  daughter  of  Richard  Beauchamp,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  and  coheir  to  her  mother,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas,  fifth  Loni  Berkeley, 
by  Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  of  Gerard  Warren, 
Lord  Lisle.  (8ee  Gollins's  Beerage,  edited  by 
Brydges,  v.  155 ;  iii.  607 ;  and  Burke's  Extinct 
Peerages,  third  edition,  p.  50.)  G.  M.  T. 

Smoking  Illegal  (4«^  S.  vi.  384,  486.)— In 
some  towns  in  Prussia  and  Auatria  smoking  b 
prohibited  in  the  streets.  The  Canton  de  Vaud. 
Switzerland,  has  in  its  Grand  Conseil  and  Conseii 
d'Etat  recently  discussed  the  propriety  of  taxing 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


199 


smokers.  It  is  proposed  that  every  smoker  shall 
have  imposed  on  nim  a  tax  of  two  francs  per 
annum,  and  that  all  under  fourteen  years  of  age 
ahall  be  prohibited  irom  smoking.  The  practice 
is  becoming  a  most  intolerable  nuisance ;  and  at 
Lausanne  boys  of  six  years  old  are  met  every  day 
onoking  pipes  or  cigars.  A  smoking  tax  is  quite 
as  proper  as  a  gun  or  armorial  tax.  N. 

Bowers  Hall  Estates,  Essex  (4'*»  S.  v.  869, 
438.) — h\  reply  to  Mr.  Russell's  inquiry  as  to 
the  possessors  of  Bower  Hall.  In  1832  the  owner 
'Was Stevens,  ^^^  ^^^  ^^  great  posses- 
sions in  Lincolnshire.  From  him  it  passed  to  his 
daughter,  the  wife  of  Major  Walton.  Her  son, 
the  present  proprietor,  is  not  now  residing  at 
Bower  Hall.  He  is  married,  and  has  two  sons 
(minors). 

In  the  same  year  (1832)  there  was  amongst  the 
relics  a'  letter  dated  1656,  from  Oliver  Cromwell 

*'To  the  High  and  Mighty  Emperour  Saltan  Mahomet 
Han,  Chief  L«rd  and  Commander  of  the  Mnssulman 
Kingdom,  Sole  and  Supreme  Monarch  of  the  Eaateme 
JEmpin," 

It  was  intended  to  have  been  sent  by  Sir 
Thomas  Bendish,  formerly  ambassador  at  the 
Porte,  but  his  illness  and  death  prevented  its  de- 
livery. 

The  letter  was  shown  to  my  £riend  by  Pike 
Burleigb,  Esq.,  of  Haverhill,  and  a  copy  was  at 
once  taken,  and  is  now  in  my  possession.    Elak. 

Filial  Piett  (4*^  S.  vii.  121.)— When  living 
in  tbe  neighbourhood  of  Bilston,  long  years  ago, 
I  used  to  hear  a  story  still  more  illustrative  of  uie 
utter  absence  of  filial  reverence  than  the  ona 
related  by  Moorlakd  Lad.    A  gentleman  wish- 
ing to  find  out  a  collier,  whose  name  I  believe 
-was  William  Green,  and  having  come  to  the  pit 
to  which  he  had  been  directed,  inquired  for  the 
man  of  various  persons  about  the  pit,  but  no  one 
knew  any  sucb  a  collier.  He  asked  again  imd  again, 
and  was  assured  that  the  place  was  quite  right, 
bat  that  no  William  Green  worked  there^r  was 
known  to  any  one  about  the  coalpit.    He  was 
about   to   turn  back   in   utter   disappointment, 
when  a  sturdy  collier  wench  suddenly  exclaimed ; 
*'  Whoy,  dash  moy  boottons !  if  hay  doesna'  mane 
moy  fayther:  yo  should  a  axed  for  aud  blue- 
breeches."  F.  C.  H. 

''  Blths  Books  "  quoted  bt  Butler  (4*^  S.  vii. 
122.) — I  am  not  sure  if  the  inquirer's  name  is 
rightly  printed  A  Hehfobd  Peabsoit,  or  whether 
it  should  not  be  A  Hereford  Parson,  but  I 
believe  I  can  answer  his  queries.  First,  he  asks 
where  the  *^  Blue  Books ''  are  to  be  seen.  They 
are  in  the  British  Museum ;  but  are  very  rarely  to 
be  met  with  anywhere  else — indeed,  only  in  the 
libraries  of  some  few  Catholic  colleges  and  oi 
some  Catholic  noblemen  and  gentlemen.  But  I 
am  familiar  with  them,  and  huave  aeen  and  read 


them  repeatedly.     There  were  three  of  these; 
and  they  were  called  "  Blue  Books ''  from  being 
stitched  in  blue,  or  rather  purple  covers.    The 
first  appeared  in  1769,  the  second  in  1791,  and 
the  third  in  1792.    Mr.  Charles  Butler  wrote  the 
whole  of  the  first  and  third,  and  a  great  part  of 
the  second.     They  contain  scandalous  doctrine, 
which  no  Catholic  could  be  allowed  to  advocate ; 
60  that  Mr.  C.  Butler's  account  of  them  must  be 
read  with  great  caution  and  distrust.    There  was 
also  a  "  Buff  Book,"  published  by  the  three  medi- 
ators in  1792.    The  **  Red  Book,"  so  called  from 
being  bound  in  red  morocco,  was  never  printed. 
It  was  a  MS.  in  folio,  written  by  Mr.  C.  Butler ; 
and  its  contents  were  similar  to  those  of  his  first 
"  Blue  Book,"  though  differing  in  some  particulars. 
It  was  written  in  1790,  and  addressed  to  the 
Vicars  Apostolic    If  further  information  be  de- 
sired, it  will  be  found  in  Bishop  Milner's  Supple^ 
mentary  Memoirs  of  English  Catholics^  and  in  Dr. 
Husenbeth's  Life  of  BiSwp  MUner.        F.  C.  H. 

"Friday  Tree"  (4'>'  S.  vii.  123.)— By  Friday 
tree  is  meant  the  cross — the  "  accursed  tree " — 
and  naturally  used  to  express  a  trial  or  misfortune. 

P.  £.  Ma^sx. 

Descendaitts  of  Bishop  Bedell  (4*^  S.  v.  311, 
591;  vL  183;  vii.  104.) —  « Master  William 
Bedell  and  his  wife"  are  named  amongst  the 
British  settlers  in  the  county  of  Cavan*to  whom, 
in  accordance  with  the  treaty  made  between  Sir 
Francis  Hamilton  and  the  rebel  chieftain,  Philip 
MacHugh  MacShan  Bely,  June  4, 1642  (whereby 
the  castles  of  Kylagh  and  Crohan  were  to  be  sur- 
rendered to  the  rebels),  permission  was  granted  to 
depart  unmolested  with  their  baggage  in  company 
with  Sir  F.  Hamilton.  "  Master  Ambrose  Bedell'^' 
was  one  of  the  parties  to  the  surrender  of  Crohan 
Castle.  The  above  notes  ai*e  taken  from  The 
Rebellion  in  the  County  Cavan,  by  Henry  Jones, 
B.D.  London,  Auff.  11,  1642.  C.  S.  K. 

St  Peter's  Square,IIammersinith,  W. 

Shard  or  Shark  (4'»»  S.  vi.  824,  897,  661; 
vii.  106.)  —  In  the  east  of  Cornwall  cowshem 
means  cow-dung,  and  '*  the  sea,  when  it  assumes 
an  olive-green  turbid  appearance,  as  if  coloured 
with  cow-dung,"  is  spoken  of  as  being  cowshemy, 
fSee  a  «  List  of  Words  "  by  Mr.  T.  Q.  Couch  m 
jbtir.  of  Royal  Itist,  of  Cornwall^  No.  1.) 

Shard,  Sham,  Shem  are  derived  from  the 
Anglo-Saxon  soearnf  seem,  seiem,  all  signifying 
dung.  (See  Bosworth's  Anglo-Sax.  Diet.) 

The  vulgar  word  that  Mr.  Stephen  Jackson 
could  only  hint  at  is  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  scitta, 
a  flux  (,^uor  alvi).  Scitan  (cacare)  is  modestly 
mentioned  in  Bosworth's  Anglo^Sax.  Diet.  The 
synonyms  are  Platt-Deutsch  schUen,  Dutcb  schy^' 
ten,  German  scheisseny  Damsh  skide^  IceL  tkita. 
Scitan  is  probably  from  the  same  root  as  tbe 
Anglo-Saxon  soeotan,  to  shoot.    If  it  is,  it  agrees 


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NOTE  S  AND  QUERIE  S.  [4"'  s.  vii.  mabch  4, 71. 


vitH  the  sense  in  whlcli,  as  J.  T.  F.  says,  the 
"  shootings ''  of  cows  are  referred  to  in  the  North. 

In  the  west  of  Cornwall  the  droppings  of  cattle 
are  termed  *'  sun-cakes."  Query,  if  this  has  any 
connection  with  Mr.  Jackson's  eltn^'cakes.  The 
sense  of  cake  seems  to  be  a  mass  or  lump  of  au^r- 
thing.  The  Keltic  word  coo  or  cdch,  dung,  is 
found  in  numerous  languages.  W.  N. 

38,  Sutherland  Square,  S.£. 

EowARB  CoTTCH,  Cestksabils  (4*  S.  tii.  120.) 
In  reference  to  Edward  Couch,  whose  name  ap- 
pears under  the  heading  "  Centenarianism ''  in 
*'  N.  &  Q.''  I  addressed  the  following  letter  to  the 
editor  of  the  Western  Morning  News :  — 

<*  THE  LATE  MR.  E.  COUCH. 

"  Sir, — ^My  attention  has  been  called  to  a  biographical 
sketch  of  the  late  Edward  Couch  in  your  paper  <n  the  Ist, 
io  which  it  is  stated  that  he  was  born  in  1761. 

*'  Some  ten  years  since  the  clergyman  of  the  parish  in 
which  he  was  then  living  told  me  that  this  old  man 
stated  his  age  at  that  time  to  be  near  100  years.  He 
asked  me  to  examine  the  register  of  this  parish  to  ascer- 
tain the  truth,  and  furnish^  me  with  the  names  of  his 
parents. 

*'  I  did  examine  the  register,  and  found  that  he  was 
baptized  in  October,  1776,  not  in  1761.  The  old  man 
was  made  acquainted  with  the  result  of  my  search,  but 
still  persisted  in  his  statement  (and  actually,  some  years 
later,  referred  to  me  as  authority  for  its  truth),  though  he 
did  not  attempt  to  explain  his  baptismal  register  appear- 
ing fifteen  years  later. 

*'  I  leave  it  to  you,  sir,  and  the  public  to  decide  whe- 
ther, in  sober  truth,  he  died  in  his  ninety-fifth  or  in  his 
one  hundred  and  tenth  year.  As  these  very  exceptional 
cases  of  longevity  are  chronicled,  I  have  thought  it  right 
to  supply  this  evidence. — I  am,  sir,  your  obedient  servant, 

"  W.  H.  Pole  Carbw. 

"  Antony,  Torpoint,  Devonport,  Feb.  8rd,  1870." 

Some  of  Edward  Couch's  friends,  very  loth 
to  admit  the  possibility  of  his  real  age  having 
been  ninety-five  instead  of  one  hundred  and  ten, 
have  argued  that  ''  he  might  have  been  baptized 
when  he  was  fifteen^  and  that  baptism  in  riper 
years  is  no  uncommon  occurrence.*'  Another 
states  that ''  his  younger  brother  died  in  the  year 
1843,  aged  seventy  years,"  and  refers  for  proof  of 
this  brother's  age  to  the  register  of  this  parish 
(Antony).  In  reference  to  uie  first  allegation,  it 
is  at  least  sins^ular  that,  when  told  of  the  date  as 
appearing  in  the  register — as  he  was,  to  my  know- 
ledge, twice  over — he  did  not  say  ''  I  was  fifteen 
when  I  was  baptized."  At  that  age  such  an 
event  must  have  fixed  itself  in  his  memory. 
Moreover,  I  believe  that  baptism  in  riper  years 
was  at  that  period,  the  latter  part  of  the  last 
century,  much  more  uncommon  even  than  it  is 
DOW.  As  to  the  second  allegation,  I  have  care- 
fully searched  the  parish  register,  and  cannot  find 
this  brother's  name  at  all.  Tour  correspondent 
W.  C.  thinks  that  this  case  may  be  easily  tested 
at  the  Admiralty.  Edward  Couch's  story  de- 
scribes him  as  pressed  into  the  navy  in  1/93 — 


this  is  not  at  all  improbable.  If  he  was  baptized 
at  the  usual  time  after  his  birth,  he  would  have 
been  seventeen  in  1793 — doubtless  having  been, 
as  he  stated,  serving  in  a  privateer  before. 

I  do  not  imagine  that  m  those  days,  when  the 
sea-ports  were  swept  by  press-gang  crews,  any 
very  accurate  report  was  sent  to  the  Admiralty 
of  the  ages  of  the  fish  which  they  had  netted. 

W.  H.  Polk  Cabbw. 

Antony,  Torpoint,  Devonport. 

[Mr.  Polf.  Carkw  has  clearly  demonstrated  that 
Couch  was  really  ninety-five  and  not  one  hundred  and 
ten.  If  any  doubt  as  to  the  truth  could  possibly  remain, 
it  will  be  removed  by  the  fact  that  when  Couch  joined 
H.M.S.  on  June  30, 1794,  he  is  described  as  being  nine- 
teen years  of  age,  which  would  make  him  ninety-five  in 
June  last] 

St.  Michael  Mottnts  op  Cornwall  akd 
BRiTTANr  (4««»  S.  vii.  126.)— The  dedication  of  St. 
Michael^s  Mount  has  no  reference  to  serpent  wor- 
shij).  The  saint  is  represented  as  vanj^uishing  the 
devil,  in  allusion  to  Jude  9,  Rev.  xii.  7.  With 
respect  to  the  mount  on  the  coast  of  Normandy, 
tradition  relates  that  Aubert,  Bishop  of  Avranches, 
when  living  there,  saw  a  vision  of  the  saint^  who 
commanded  him  to  found  there  a  church  to  his 
honour,  which  command  the  bishop  obeyed.  Sub- 
sequently the  church  on  the  English  mount  was 
erected^  and  being  {denendent  on  the  French  com- 
munity^ was  naturally  dedicated  to  the  same 
saint  P.  E.  Maset. 

Story  op  a  Statue  (4'*»  S.  vii.  ]26.)— An  early 
version  of  the  story  referred  to  by  your  corre- 
spondent iNauiRER,  though  probably  not  the  ori- 
ginal source  of  the  tale,  will  be  found  in  WiSiam 
o/Malmesbwy's  Chronicle  (book  II.  ch.  xiii.),  where 
it  is  given  with  much  detail.  W.  F.  R. 

Mr.  Morris  has  given  an  exquisite  version  in 
The  Earthly  Paradise  (part  IT.),  entitled  "The 
Ring  given  to  Venus."  W.  G.  SloifB. 

Dor^ester. 

Sabine  Baring-Gould  {Curious  Myths^  ^c, 
Series  L  p.  207,  ed.  1866)  quotes  this  story  firom 
Fordun^s  Scotichronicon^  in  illustration  of  the 
legend  of  Tannhauser.  Fordun  relates  it  as  a  fact 
that  really  happened  to  a  Roman  gentleman  in 
the  year  1060.  JoHir  Addis. 

Bustington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sussex. 

* "  The  Heaving  op  the  Lead  "  (4"*  S.  viL  66, 
148.) — ^This  song  is  by  William  Pearce,  and  will 
be  found  in  his  operatic  farce,  Hartford  Bridge,  or 
The  Skirts  of  the  Camp,  produced  at  Covent  Gar- 
den Theatre  in  1792.  it  is  said  to  have  been 
written  on  shipboard  some  years  before  the  pro- 
duction of  the  larce,  and  given  to  William  Shield 
the  composer.  For  its  great  and  immediate  popu- 
larity it  was  indebted  not  only  to  the  excellent 
music  of  Shield,  but  also  to  the  fine  singing  of 
Charles  Incledon,  the  vocalist^  from  whose  lips 
the  public  first  heard  it.  W.  H.  Hthse. 


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201 


Ranelagh,  Wilts,  etc.  (4''>  S.  vii.  124.)— An 
iKaxJiRER  wiU  doabtless  find  the  information  he 
desires  in  The  Genealogy  of  the  Cole  Family,  by 
James  Edwin-Cole,  8vo  (J*.  Russell  Smith,  Soho 
Square,  London) ;  or  further  details  by  communi- 
cating with  its  writer.  Ap  Coillus. 

"  Whose  Ybsteedats  iook  backwabds,"  etc. 
(4*»"  S.  vii  124.)— From  Young's  Nigiht  Thouffhis, 
Night  II.  lines  834-5.  These  two  lines  form  the 
subject  of  one  of  Stothard's  illustrations  in  Hep- 
tinstall's  edition,  1798.  The  engraving  is  dated 
Aug.  26, 1797.  W.  Y. 

St.  Jane  op  Valois  (4*»'  S.  vi.  889,  466,  559.) 
I  am  much  obliged  to  F.  C.  H.  for  setting  me  right 
on  a  subject  on  wiiich  I  spoke  too  hastily.  My 
little  boolc,  Za  Vie  MerveiUeusef  distinctly  asserts 
that  the  queen  was  not  canonised ;  but  its  date  is 
circ,  1670,  and  I  ought  to  have  remembered  that 
her  canonisation  might  have  occurred  since  that 
period.  In  truth,  had  F.  C.  H.  spoken *a  little 
sooner,  I  should  not  have  presumed  to  enter  the 
lists  on  a  question  of  which  he  knows  far  more 
than  I  do.  Hermentbude. 

The  Hole  nr  the  Wall  (4*  S.  vii.  123.)— 
Wall,  not  Wellf  is  assuredly  the  right  reading.  I 
remember  the  sign  in  Bristol,  where  a  wall  was 
represented  with  a  dark  hole  in  the  bricks.  It 
may  have  been  originally  intended  for  a  breach 
nnade  in  the  rampart  of  a  besieged  city,  or  pos- 
sibly in  allusion  to  the  Cavema  Macerue  of  the 
^  Canticle  of  Canticles."  ch.  iL  v.  14. 

F.  C.H. 

Please  note,  p.  128,  the  sign  is  ''  The  Hob  in 
the  Well,"  not  "  The  Hole  in  th^  WeU."    K.  L. 
King's  Lynn. 

Babies  Bells  (4*  S.  vi.  476 ;  vii.  21, 133.)— 
At  Wentworth  Woodhouse  there  is  a  Pi^tty  and 
interesting  portrait  of  Lady  Henrietta  Maria  Stan- 
ley, said  to  oe  by  Vandyke,  and  painted  when  she 
was  scarcely  a  year  old,  with  a  coral  and  bells 
hanging  from  her  waist  She  was  the  daughter 
of  James,  seventh  Earl  of  Derby,  and  Charlotte 
de  la  Tremouille ;  and  brought  this  picture,  and 
many  others  of  the  Stitfiley  and  Tremouille  fami- 
lies, to  Wentworth,  on  her  marriage  with  William 
second  Earl  of  Strafford.  This  is  another  instance 
of  babies'  bells  being  in  use  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  L         .  G.  D.  T. 

A  ScBiPSiT  (4«>»  S.  vi.  567;  vii.  145.)— I  am 
much  obliged  by  your  several  correspondents  who 
have  repli^  to  my  querv  respecting  tne ''  Scripsit,*' 
which  I  have  no  doubt  is  identical  with  their 
^'Christoias  pieces,"  although  in  my  school-bov 
days  they  were  taken  home  at  Midsummer  as  well 
as  at  Christmas.  An  old  school-fellow  recognised 
my  designation  at  once,  with  laughing  eyes  at  the 
early  memories  it  called  up,  and  never  knew  it  by 
any  other  title.    Both  I  and  he,  and  our  master 


also,  were  then  ignorant  of  Latin ;  and  upon  the 
principle  of  "omne  ignotum  pro  magnifico,"  we 
no  doubt  thought  it  the  most  flattering  title  for 
our  specimen.  This  is  taking  it  for  granted  that 
the  word  was  ready  printed  for  the  schoolboy ; 
but  in  a  acripsit  (?)  which  I  possess  the  woros, 
*'  Joseph  Eckersley  scripsit,  Dec.  17,  1789,'*  are 
all  in  manuscript.  The  centre  is  occupied  by  an 
adjuration  to  Liberty,  in  writing,  surrounded  by 
engravings  of  the  demolition  of  the  Bastile,  July 
17o9 ;  a  skeleton  in  a  cage ;  a  nearly  naked  prisoner; 
another  behind  a  grated  window;  the  beheading 
of  the  governor  of  Castile,  &c.  &c.  Published  by 
Robert  Sayer,  63,  Fleet  Street,  Nov.  9,  1789. 
Probably  no  earlier  specimen-piece  than  mine 
exists.  M.  D. 

Mb.  Dixoir  and  F.  C.  H.  are  quite  right  The 
Christmas  exhibitions  of  penmanship  were  no 
more  called  ''Scripeits'*  tnan  engravings  were 
called  *'  Sculpsits,"  except  it  might  be  by  such  a 
person  as  he  who,  in  High  Life  bdow  Stairs, 
assures  his  fellow  servants  that  Shakespeare's 
plays  were  written  by  Finis,  for  he  "saw  the 
name  at  the  end  of  the  book."  C.  C. 

Thos.  Staklet,  Bishop  of  Sodob  asd  Mast 
(4**»  S.  vii.  96.) — Metnoirs  of  the  House  of  Stanley 
(Seacombe's,  I  believe),  published  by  Joseph 
Harrop,  Manchester,  1767,  contains  the  bishop's 
uncouth  rhymes.  The  book  is  common  in  Lanca- 
shire. P.  P. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

Joseph  of  Arimathie,  otherwise  eaUed  The  Romance  of  the 
Saint  Graal  or  Holy  Grail.    An  Alliterative  Poem, 
written  about  A.D.  1850,  and  now  first  printed  from  th» 
Unique  Copy  in  the  Yemon  MS.  at  Oxford.    With  an 
Appendix,  containing  "The  Lyfe  of  Joseph  of  Armathy/' 
reprinted  from  the  filack-letter  Copy  of  Wjnkyn  de- 
Worde;    **  De   Sancto  Joseph   ab  Ariroathia,"  first 
printed  by  Pynson  a.d.  1516 ;  and  *^The  Lyfe  of  Joseph 
of  Arimathia,''  first  printed   by  Pynson  a.d.  1520. 
Edited,  with  Notes  and  Glossarial  Indices,  by  the  Rev. 
Walter  W.  Skeat,  M.A. 
^ng  Alfred^s  Weat  Saxon  Version  of  Gregory* s  Pastoral 
(hre.     With  an  English  Translation,  the  Latin  Text^ 
JVotes,  and  Introdnctwn,  Edited  by  Henxy  Sweet,  Esq., 
of  Balliol  College,  Oxford.    Part  L 
We  have  here  fresh  proofs  of  the  activity  of  the  Early 
English  Text  Society  in  the  shape  of  the  first  two  of 
the  several  volumes  which  will  be  given  to  the  mem- 
bers in   return   for  their  subscriptions  for  1871.    We 
have  transcribed  the  titles  at  length,  as  the  best  way 
of  showing,  within  the  limited  space  we  can  devote 
to   these  notices,  the  character  and  contents  of  these 
works.    Mr.  Skeat's  volume^  it  will  be  seen,  is  a  very- 
complete  monograph  of  the  Arimathean  Romance,  with 
Introduction,  Indices,  tie.     Of  Mr.  Sweet's   we   will 
merely  say,  that  it  is  the  first  part  only  of  his  book,  and 
consists  of  the  two  texts  of  the  West  Saxon  version  of 
Gregory's  Pastoral  Care,  from  the  Halton  MS.  and  the 
Cotton 'MSS.  respectively,  printed  in  parallel  passages. 


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[4«k  S.  VII.  MaiUsh  4>  71. 


A  New  Spanish  Notes  and  Queries.— We  have 
received  the  lint  four  numbers  of  a  new  journal  intended, 
as  the  prospectus  informs  us,  to  do  for  Spain  what  Notet 
and  Queries  does  for  £ngland,  De  JVavorscher  for  Holland, 
The  Historical  Magcuine  for  the  United  States,  and  Vln- 
termediaire  det  Cherchewrs  for  France.  It  is  entitled  El 
Averiguador,  Corremndencia  etUre  Curiosot,  Literaiot, 
Aniiquarios,  Sfc,  and  is  pablished  in  Madrid  on  the  l9t 
and  15th  of  each  month.  Owin^if  to  the  disturbed  state 
of  the  country,  its  predecessor,  Et  Consultor  Espdnol^  had 
but  a  short  career.  El  Averigtuxdnr  has  appeared  at  a 
more  fortunate  moment,  and  we  heartily  wish  success  to 
the  journal,  which  cannot  but  be  one  of  great  interest  and 
importance,  not  only  to  Spanish  scholars,  but  to  students 
of  Spanish  literature  all  over  the  world. 

The  Society  of  Biblical  Arch/eologt.— This  is 
the  title  of  a  society,  now  in  course  of  formation,  having 
for  its  object  the  investigation  of  the  history,  geography, 
and  antiquities  of  Bible-lands. 

The  Pentateuch  according  to  the  Talhud. — 
This  work  is  in  course  of  preparation  under  the  joint 
editorship  of  Paul  Hershon  4nd  the  Rev.  Dr.  Margo- 
liouth,  and  is  to  be  issued  in  parts,  by  subscription,  by 
Messrs.  Bagster  &  Son.  Genesis  will  take  up  six  parts, 
and  cost  a  guinea. 

The  National  Gallery.— Sir  Walter  James,  Bart, 
has  been  appointed  a  director  in  succession  ta  Lord  Over- 
stone.    • 

London  International  Exhibition  of  1871, — 
During  the  week  ending  February  25th,  paintings,  sculp- 
ture, engravings,  and  photography,  architectural  designs, 
tapestries,  carpets,  embroideries,  designs  for  decorative 
manufactures  and  reproductions;  also  nearly  2000  ob- 
jects of  pottery,  specimens  of  woollens  and  worsteds,  and 
educational  appliances — making  in  all  a  total  of  about 
3500  objects,  were  delivered  at  the  Exhibition  Galleries. 
Foreign  objects  arrived  from  Belgium,  the  German  Em- 
pire, Portugal,  Russia,  Spain,  Hong-kong,  and  Tunis. 

The  Rev.T.  W.  Wears.—"  Westminster  Schoolmen," 
says  the  PaU  Mall  Gazette,  "  will  be  sorry  to  hear  of  the 
death  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  William  Weare,  M.A.,  who 
was  for  more  than  twenty  years  second  master.  He  re- 
tired in  1861,  and  was  some  time  afterwards  appointed 
by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  (Dr.  Longley)  to  the 
rectory  of  Isfield,  Sussex.  Mr.  Weare  was  educated  at 
Ghristchurch,  Oxford,  where  he  took  his  B.A.  degree 
in  1836.  Afterwards  he  edited  the  Oxford  Archseologi- 
•cal  Society's  publications,  and  translated  into  English 
verse  Plauti  Trinummus,  Perhaps  his  best  known  work 
is  a  paper  in  Mr.  Gilbert  Scott's  Gleanings  from  West- 
minster,** 

The  Centenary  of  Sir  Walter  Scott. — The  Duke 
of  Baccleuch  has  agreed  to  preside  at  the  celebration  of 
the  centenary  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  in  Edinburgh,  in 
August  next. 

Lord  Brougham. — A  marble  bust  of  this  late  states- 
man has  been  recently  placed  in  the  Council  Chamber  at 
Guildhall.  The  sculptor,  Mr.  G.  G.  Adams,  would  appear 
to  have  been  eminently  successful  in  his  woric 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WANTBD  TO  PT7BCHASE. 

Fartlcnlftra  of  Price,  Ac,  of  tlie  followini;  Books  to  be  Knt  direct  to 
iha  gentlemen  by  vhom  they  an  reqmred,  whose  names  and  addreeies 
ore  given  fbr  that  purpose:  — 

Rtlhy's  IrnniBAXT:  or,  Memoirs  of  an  (Actor.   Tolf.  II.  lY.  and 

YI.,  or  a  Set.    1806. 
TATM  WiLKIXBOX'B  WASDBaiBO  PATBITrXB. 

Wanted  br  Mr.  C.  IF.  Sutton^  140,  Lower  Moes  Lane,  Hnlma. 


^?ll?"i*^*  ^'  ^*?H*.°.'.^3'  ?°^  I'Odge,  Esq.,  revised  and  en- 
Urged  bj  Merryn  Archdall,  A.M.  Svo.  Dublin,  17W.  Ail  or  anr 
volumes.  ^ 

Wanted  bj  Mr.  U.  W.  Henflrey,  Markham  House,  College  Road. 

Brighton. 


^ticti  ta  Carre jfjUftUrrnttf. 

H.  K. —  We  were  very  pleased  to  hear  from  you.  We 
feared  your  silence  had  been  occasioned  by  this  dreadful 
war. 

Chattkrtox. — Southey's  letter  respecting  the  Monu- 
ment to  ChatUrton  is  printed  in  *'  N.  &  Q."  2"*  S.  iv.  825. 

C.  B.  T. — **  Bills  relating  to  the  Sovereign  and  Members 
of  the  Royal  Family  "  are  always  carried  down  from  the 
Lords  to  the  Commons  by  two  of  the  Judges, 

Elan.— 7^e  old  ballad^  **I}eath  and  the  Lady,"  is  loo 
long  for  insertion  in  "  N.  &  Q."  It  is  printed  in  Chap- 
pell's  Popular  Music  of  the  Olden  Time,  p.  167,  and  in  a 
small  volume  entitled  A  Guide  to  Heaven,  12mo,  1736. 

C.  D.  C. —  The  Domesday  of  Susaex,  with  the  modem 
names  of  the  parishes,  has  not  been  published. 

CARLtN6  Sunday. — Rustzcus.  See  »*N.  &  Q."  !•« 
S.  iii.449;  v.  611. 

FozED. — If  Y.  S.  L.  gets  holds  of  a  booh  described  a» 
foxed,  he  wUi  find  it  stained  and  discoloured,  the  stains 
being  commonly  of  a  foxy  colour, 

G.  (Edinburgh.)  We  quite  sympathise  with  our  Cor- 
respondent, 

HoKiTiTiA,  N.  Z. —  We  thank  our  Correitpondent  in 
New  Zealand,  W.  P.  C,  and  regret  that  his  ctHnmumiea- 
tion  should  have  been  anticipated. 

The  Prodigal  Son. — If  T.  S.  A,  con  conveniently 
send  me  (J.  T.  Fowlbr.  F.S.A.,  Hatfield  Hall,  Durhani^ 
the  prints  by  book-post  I  shall  be  much  obliged,  and  will  at 
once  return  them,  I  am  pretty  sure  that  those  I  have  seen 
are  copper-plates. 

Bristol  Post-Office.  —  Our  Correspondent  should 
forward  the  list  of  his  books  to  his  neighbour,  Mr,  Kers- 
lake. 

To  all  communications  sliould  be  affixed  the  name  and 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith,  . 

All  cnmrnunications  nhould  br  nddrtiud  to  the  Editor  o^**  K.  ft  Q." 
43,  WellinaionStrteUSiremd^  W.C, 

THE   ITEW  VEUCiUM-WOVB   CIiITB- 
HOXJSE  PAFEB. 

IfaBU&etnied  and  eold  only  by 

PARTRIDGE  AND  COOPER,  192,  Fleet  Street, 
Comer  of  Chancer}'-  Lane. 

**  The  production  of  Note-paper  of  a  superior  kind  ha*  long  been  the 


■nhjcct  of  experiment  with  manufkcturcn,  but  until  lately  no  improt 
raent  could  be  made  on  that  in  general  use.  and  therelbre  it  waa  bxdud 


upon  ai  certain  that  extreme  exoellenoe  had  been  attained  \  but  thli 
conclusion  did  not  seem  ntijfkctory  to  MeMrs.  Fabtridob  ft  Coofbs, 
of  Fleet  Street,  who  determined  to  continue  operations  until  some  new 
result  was  attained.  Sheer  perseverance  has  ^n  rewarded;  fbr  they 
hare  at  last  been  able  to  produce  anew  dewription  of  paper,  which  they 
call  Clubhousb  Note,  that  surpasses  anything  of  the  kind  in  ordinary 
use.  The  new  paper  is  beantlfiiUy  white,  its  surfkce  is  as  smooth  aa 
polished  ivory,  and  its  substance  nearly  resemble*  thai  of  vellum,  ao 
that  the  writing  thereon  presents  an  extraordinary  clearness  and  beaaty. 
A  steel  pen  can  be  used  upon  it  with  the  facility  of  a  eoose  quilL  and 
thus  one  great  source  of  annoyance  has  been  completely  luperaeded.'* 


MANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS.  VENNING  &  CO. 
<a  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS,  LONDON,  have  jnrt  re- 
ceived a  Oonsignment  of  No.  %  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  excellent  ooa- 
dition.  In  Boxes  of  500  each.  Frice  %l,  10s.  per  boac  Orders  to  be 
aceompiinlad  by  a  remittance. 

N.B .  Sample  Box  of  100, 10s.  6J. 


4«*  S.  VII.  March  4, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ACCIDE!VT8    CAVSK    I«088   OF    lilFK. 

▲ooldenta  oanae  Loss  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 
Prxmde  ayainst  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  ISSDBIlfO  WITH  TUB 

Bailway  PaBsengen'  Assnrance  Company, 

Ab  AmiiiBl  Fftrnent  of  C3  to  £•  ft/  lamim  S1.000  nt  Death, 
or  aa  aUowance  at  tb«  rata  of  Ml  per  week  fbr  lojaiy* 

C565fOOO  have  been  Paid  as  CompensatioD, 

ONE  out  of  erery  TWELVE  Annual  Policy  Holder*  becomfner  a 
elaimant  EACu  YEAR.  For  narticulan  apply  to  the  Clerks  at  the 
Bailvay  Stationt,  to  the  Local  Agents,  or  at  the  Office*. 

MtCORNHILL,  and  10,  SEOENT  STREET.  LOinX)N. 

WnXIAM  J.  VIAN,  Seareunry, 


BT  ROTAL  COMMA2rD. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

SOLD  by  aU  8TATI0NEB8  thioochont  the  World. 


GENTLEMEN   desirons  of   having   their  Linens 
dreeied  to  perfection  should  supply  their  Laundresses  vlth  the 

'•O&BVrZB&B    8TASCB9*' 

vhleh  inparts  a  brilliancy  and  elasticity  gratiiyinff  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sight  and  touch. 

XrOTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMARELLA 

jJi  reetoies  the  Human  Heir  to  its  pristine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
«tfe.  MESSRS.  JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  CO.  hare  at  lenffth.  with  the  aid 
of  the  most  eminent  Chemiits,  succeeded  in  perfteting  this  wonderful 
liquid.  It  is  now  offered  to  the  Public  in  a  more  concentrated  form, 
smd  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Bottlcs,a«.  each,  also  5*.,7«.  6d.,or  l&s. each,  with  bmsh. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gires  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  whiteness,  protects  the  euMnel  from  decay,  and  imparts  a 
picaslnc  fta^rance  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  CO.'S  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILES  and 
NUXSEST  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  ]ftiitamen  and  Chemists  thronghont  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  Passage,  98,  Upper  Thames  Street,  London. 


w 


BUPTCBES.-JBY  ROYAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

allowed  by  upwards  of  800  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  eflte- 
CiT*  liiTantkm  fai  the  curatiTe  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
steel  spring,  so  often  hnrtftil  in  its  effects,is  here  aToided  1  a  soft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  body,  wliile  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
plied by  the  MOC-MA^Qf  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fitting  with  so 
modi  case  and  closeness  tliat  it  cannot  lie  detected,  and  may  be  worn 
dnrinff  sleep.  A  descriptive  circular  may  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
cannM  ihil  to  flt)  forwarded  by  poet  on  the  clreumftrenoe  of  the  body* 
tvolaehos  below  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Mannfluturer. 

MB.  JOHN  WHITE,  K8,  PICCADILLT,  LONDON. 

Friee  of  a  Single  Truss.  IBs.,  91s.,  Ms.  6cL,  and  Sis.  6tf.   Poetage  Is. 
Double  Truss.  31s.  6</.,  4Ss.,  and  Us.  6c(.   Postage  Is.  M. 
AaUmbUiMl  Truss,  4Ss.  and  &ls.hf.   Postage  Is.  IM. 

Poo  OSflB  orden  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Post  OfBoe,  Piccadilly. 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c.  for 
TABICOSE  VEINS,  and  aU  eases  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 
ro  of  the  LEGS.  SPRAINS,  fte.  They  are  oorous,  light  in  texture, 
■ad  incxpensirc,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  stoeklnff.  Priees 
4s.  9d^  U.  6(/.,  10s.,  and  lOs.  each.    PosUge  6c(. 

JOHN  WHITS,  MANTJPACTUBER,  SS8,  PICCADILLY,  London- 

HOLLOWAY^S  PILLS.— For  the  cure  of  debility, 
bile,  liver  and  stomach  complaints,  this  InapprcdaUe  medicine 
Is  so  well  Imown  in  every  part  of  the  world,  and  the  cures  performed 
Inr  its  use  are  so  wonderfiil,  tliat  It  now  stands  nre-cmincnt  above  all 
other  remedies,  more  particnlarlr  fbr  the  cure  of  bilious  and  liver  com- 
plaints, disorders  of  tne  stomacn.  dropsy,  and  debilitated  constitution. 
In  these  diaeaaes  the  beneficial  eflbcts  of  the  nils  are  so  permanent  that 
the  whole  system  is  renewed,  the  organs  of  digestion  strengthened,  and 
•  free  resnhratkwi  promoted.  They  expel  f^om  the  secretive  organs  and 
thedrenlatlon  the  morbid  matter  which  produoes  inflammation,  pain, 
fvver,dfeld]ity«aad  physical  decay— thus  annihilatiag,  by  their  pnirlfy- 
lac  Vnpcctics,  the  viruieaoe  of  the  most  painitel  and  dfivartating  diseases. 


SCOTTISH  UNION   INSURANCE   COMPANY 
FIRE  AND  LIFE. 
EstaUlshed  18M.   Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 
Capital.  Five  Millions. 
SPECIAL  NOTICE-BONUS  YEAR,  1871. 

The  next  Investigation  and  Division  of  Profits  takes  place  on  the 
1st  of  August,  lfl7l.  when  flve-sixtlis  of  the  profits  made  during  the 
five  years  preceding  Ihll  to  lie  divided  among  tlie  Policy-holders  entitled 
to  participate. 

AU  Policies  takea  out  before  the  let  of  Angnst,  1871,  will  share  in  the 
dlTlsion. 

Oflleest  S7,GonihIll,Londoni  Edinburgh  t  and  Dublin. 


QLD  MARSALA  WINE,  gnaranteed  the  finest 
Imported,  f^ee  f^om  acidity  or  heat,and  much  superior  to  low- 
ed Sherry  {vidi  Dr .  Drultt  on  Chtap  Wine*) . One  Guinea  per  dozen. 
Selected  dry  Tarragona,  18s.  perdosen.    Terms  cash.   Three  dosen 
rail  paid.— lY.  D.  WATSON,  373,  Wine  Merchant,  Oxford  Street. 
Full  Pric4 Lists  post  ttw  on  application. 

W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merchant,  373,  Oxford  Street 

(entrance  In  Berwick  Street),  London,  W.  Established  1 841.  Bemored 
nom  71, Great  Russell  Street,  comer  of  Bloomsbury  Square,  W.C. 


S6fl. 


THB 


36fl. 


At  3Ss.  per  dosen,  fit  Ibr  a  Gentleman's  Table.   Bottles  Included,  and 
Carriage  paid.   Cases  ts.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 


CHABLES  WARD  ft  SON. 

(Post  Office  Orders  on  Piccadilly),  1,  Chapel  Street  West, 

MAYFAIB,  W.,  LONDON. 


36s. 


«6fl. 


HEDGES   fr  BUTLER  solieit  attention  to  their 
PURE  ST.  JULIEN  CLARET 
At  18s.,  aos.,t4s.,SOs.,andS8s.  per  dozen. 
CholceClarets  of  various  growths,  41s.,48s.,60s.,7Ss.,  84s.,  96s. 

GOOD  DINI7ER  SHERRY, 
At  t4s.  and  10s.  per  dozen. 

Superior  Golden  Shernr .a0s.and4fs. 

Choice  Sheny— Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown. . .  .48s., Ms., and  60s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  Ms.,  Ms..  a6s.,  41s..  48s.,  IBs.,  aad  84s. 

Fort  flrom  first-class  Shippen 80s.16s.41s. 

VeryCholoeOId  Port 48s.60s.7ls.84s. 

CHAMPAGNE, 
At  36s.,  41s.,  48s.,  and  60s. 

Hochhelmer,  Maroobrunner,  Bndesheimer,  Steinberg,  Llebftanmlleh, 
60s.t  Johannisberger  and  Stelnbeiger,  TSs.,  84«..  to  IfOs.;  Braunberger, 


rronufnae,  vermntn,i;onstanna,i>aenrym«  ciuisti,  imperial  Tokay, 
and  otaer  rarewinca.  Fine  old  PaleCognae  Biteidy,60s.and7fs.per 
dozen.   Foreign  Liquenn  of  every  description. 

On  receipt  mT  a  Post  Ofllee  order,  or  refbrence,any  quantity  will  be 
forwarded  Immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDONi  lU,  BEGENT  STBEET,  W. 

Brighton]  10,  Ung's  Road, 

(OriginaUy  Established  a.d.  1667.) 


LXJOrO  CKAJttVAOn,  sea.  per  dos. 

And  all  the  noted  Bnnds  at  the  lowest  cash  prices. 
Bordeaux,  1S«..  18*.,  Ms.,  son.  36s.,  to  96*.  per  dos.t  ChabUs,  Ms.*  Mar- 
sala, Ms.  per  doz.i  Sherry,  Ma.,  30s.,  36s.,  41s.,  48s.,  to  06«.  per  doz.;  Old 
Port.  Ms..  30«.,36«.,  41s.,  to  1 44s.  per  doz.i  Tarragona,  18s.  per  doz.,  the 
finest  imported  \  Hock  and  Moselle,  Ms.,  30».,  S6s..  4R«.  per  dm.;  Sparic- 
ling  Hock  and  Moselle,  48s.  and  6Q11.  per  doz. ;  fine  old  Pale  Brandy,  48s.. 
60s.  and  7t«.  per  doz.    At  DOTESIO'S  DepAt.  19,  Swallow  Street,  Re- 

Ent  Street  (successor  to  Ewart  and  Co.,  Wine  Merchants  to  Her 
aJesty). 

p  RANT'S    MORELLA    CHERRY    BRANDY, 

\T  from  the  fine  Kent  Morella,  besides  being  the  most  delidona 
Liqueur,  is  reeommended  by  Medical  Men  of  high  standinir  in  all  cases 
of  Weakness  and  fbr  various  Internal  Disorders.  It  may  be  obtained 
through  any  Wine  Merchant,  or  direct  ftwx.  T.  GRANT,  Diatillar, 
Maid^onc,  at  41s.  per  doaen  < 


THE    NEW    GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD    WATCH, 

.    KEYLESS,  English  Make,  more  solid  than  Foreign,  14/.  lis. 
^NES'  Maauihetoty,  SO,  Strand,  (vposite  Somerset  House. 

Those  WatchM  have  aumy  points  of  Special  NovcUy. 


^li 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»  S.  VII.  March  4, 71. 


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**  Tiie  first  charadarisUcs  which  must  strike  erteryone  who  takes  in  band 
this  Tolume  is  the  pains  and  industry  which  haTC  been  laid  out  upon  it. 
It  is  true  Mr.  Elwin  has  had  twenty  years  at  least  to  mature  his  work. 
But  tlie  result  shows,  not  merely  has  he  taken  his  time,  Irat  that  he  has 
brought  to  his  work  a  spirit  of  thorouglmeas.  Mr.  Dilke's  articles  in 
the '  AtheniBum*  were  Tcry  useful  in  this  respect,  and  Mr.  Elwin  has 
not  only  aTailed  himself  of  the  results,  but  has  adhered  to  his  method. 
In  150  introdoctdry  pages  lie  examines  the  dicumstanoes  attending 
the  publication  of  Pope's  correspondence.  These  drcumstanoes  were 
shrouded,  not  by  the  mist  of  time,  but  by  the  eompikatod  artifices  of 
Pop/ himself  in  such  a  tangled  wab  .<tf  mystery  as  it  must  hare  taken 
long  houia  of  patience  to  penetrate  and  unraTel.**-.5a<tirda|f  Reviev. 

**  If  the  admlrtrs  of  Pope  hare  had  their  patience  sorely  tried  while 
waiting  Ibr  this  long  promised  edition  of  his  works,  ftw  of  them  but 
will  conftsB  that  that  patience  has  its  reward  in  a  oollectton  of  the  poet's 
writings  whifdi  promises  to  leaTe  little  eoope  tar  the  labours  of  fbture 
commentators  or  ftature  editors.  While  Mr.  Elwin  has  aTailed  himself 
Ikeely  and  Judiciously  of  the  labours  of  preceding  editors,  he  has  with 
great  adTantage  to  the  students  of  Pope  brought  his  own  critical  powen 
to  beer  as  much  upon  their  Judgments  as  upon  tha  poet's  writings,  so 
that  his  comments  on  the  commentator*  are  tartnta  the  least  InstmcliTe 
portion  ofthe  Tolnme."— ifofes  and  Qneriet. 

"  Mr.  Elwin  has  determined  to  disdiarge  his  duties  as  editor  In  a 
thorough  and  unfiinching  spirit.  We  haTC  long  been  looking  fiir  the 
result  of  his  labours,  and  the  present  instalment  warrants  a  confident 
expeotaftion  that  the  edition  when  completed  will  be  the  one  work  to 
which  the  student  will  haTe  to  turn  fbr  a  satisfactory  knowledge  of 
P<qie.  Mr.  Elwin  has  armed  himaelf  tat  the  enteiptise  by  long  and 
carefiil  preparation,  and  will  we  belioTe  succeed  in  producing  a  really 
standard  edition  of  Pope."— (Tuarduin. 

E  **  An  important  part  of  our  duty  is  to  make  mention  of  the  general 
oompleteness  and  exoellenoe  of  the  notes  in  this  Tolume.  Without 
glring  way  to  the  mania  of  annotation  by  whidisome  editors  hare  been 
afflicted,  Mr.  Elwin  leaves  no  allusion  unexplained,  identifles  almost 
CTery  real  character,  and  keeps  the  reader  from  missing  the  point  of  all 
theeplgraras  which  Pope  sprinkles  orer  the  surfiMse  of  his  poems.  This 
is  no  slii^t  serrice  to  such  an  anthor."..iQMelalor. 

**  It  would  be  premature  perhaps  to  Judge  dedslTely  of  Mr.  Elwin '« 
editorial  capacity  from  a  single  Tolume  of  an  extensiTepubUcatiOni 
but  since  in  this  preliminary  Tolume,  the  mystery  of  the  eauTespon- 
dence,  whidi  is  by  ftr  the  moat  difficult  of  all  the  Pope  mysteriea,  ia 
elaborately  discussed,  and,  to  our  thinking,  satisftctorily  explained, 
we  are  Justified  in  anticipating  that  the  work  as  it  ptogiesees  will 
ftilfil  the  ptwnlse  of  its  opening  pBge»."-^cfteiKeicm. 

**  One  of  the  most  Taloable  oontribntionfl  to  English  literary  history 
which  has  cTer  i^fpeared.  The  materials  were  collected  In  the  first 
instance  by  Mr.  Croker,  and  the  editor  has  had  access  to  Lord  Oxfixrd's 
papers,  preserTed  at  Longleat,  which  throw  much  light  on  Yopel't 
character  and  conduct.  The  Oaryll  papers  haTe  also  been  most  nseftdi 
and  the  serrices  which  Mr.  Dilke  rendered  the  editor,  not  only  in 
reftrenoe  to  these  papers,  which  he  had  so  careftilly  annotated,  but 
also  by  the  adrice  and  assistance  which  he  affi)rded,  are  grateAiUy 
acknowledged.".JoAii  Butt. 

*'  We  are  glad  to  welcome  this  new  edition  of  a  great  English  dassie, 
whldi  promises  to  do  credit  both  to  the  editor  and  publisher.    Mr. 
Elwin  has  been  engaged  upon  the  work  ftr  many  years,  and  we  know 
of  no  one  better  qualified  to  do  justice  to  it  tlian  the  former  editor  of 
the.*  Quarterly  Reriew.'  "-^o/l  Mall  Gazttte. 


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LONDON,  aATURDAT,  MARCH  U,  1871. 


CONTENTS.— N»  167. 

NOTES :  *  Marriaffes  of  English  Prinoeaaei.  208  —  Earldom 
of  London:  Abeyance,  804— Stray  Notelets  on  Herbs  and 
lieayes,  205  —  Shop  Signs  in  Vienna  —The  Surname  Sara- 
cen, Sarwin,  or  Sarrasin  —  Handel's  Concerto  for  the 
Harp  —  La  Bruydre  and  the  Bookseller's  Daughter  — 
Balloons  and  the  Siege  of  Paris— The  Phoenix  Park  — 
Anecdote  of  Dr.  Johnson—  Ballads  by  Lady  Mary  Wort- 
ley  Montagu  and  Lord  Chesterfield,  206. 

QUBRIB8 :  —  Bell-Harp  —  Benut  and  Plorln  —  Bobadil 

—  Chaucer's  "Shipman"— Domesday  —  BngUsh  Queen 
buried  at  Porto  l^o—  <*  Et  ftcere  Scribenda  **  —  Ballad 
of  Lady.  Ferrers'—  Great  Man  alluded  to  by  Arnold  in 
a  Sermon  —  Industries  of  England  —  Jesten  on  Ship- 
bovFa — Judicial  Oaths  —  Moor  Park  —  Mortimer,  Earl  of 
March  —  Mourning  or  Blackedged  Writing  Paper  —  Mrs. 
Oom  —  Pasley  or  Paslewe  —  Porcelain  Query— Psalm  xziii. 

—  Shakespeare's  **  Scamels  " — The  Sun  never  sets  on  the 
British  Dominions »-  Superstition  in  Suflblk— Voodonism 
~  The  White  Tower  of  London  —  Why  does  a  newly-born 
Child  cry?  208. 

BBPLISS :  —  *« Praser's  Magastne,"  Ac.  211  —  Monnt'Cal- 
Tary,  215  —  Meaning  of  ''Fog/'  216  —  The  Block-Books, 
217— The  Advent  Hymn:  **Helms1ey." /&.— The  Balti- 
more and  **  Old  Mortality  "  Patersons,  818  —  Pennytersan 
(or  Penny tenal),  Cunstone,  Ac,  819— Alexander  Jamie- 
ioo,  M.A.—  Wife  of  George  Neville,  Lord  Latimer —"The 
Hearts  of  Men  which  fondly."  Ac— "Phi-Beta-Kapoa" 
Society  of  Boston  —  Descendants  of  Charles  Brandon. 
Duke  of  Suffolk  —  Patronymic  Prefix  "Mac "  —  Bows  and 
Curt«»y8— "The  Hob* in  the  Well "- Samplers  —  The 
Print  of  Gutdo's  Aurora  —  Origin  of  the  Surname  Cun- 
ningham —  "  God  made  Man,"  Ac,  219. 

Notes  on  Books,  Ac 


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Mr.  Gladstoq^  stated  in  the  House  of  CommonB 
on  Feb.  13, 1871,  that— 

"  It  was  no  unusual  thing  in  the  history  of  this  country, 
but  tu  otherwiM,  for  persons  of  the  Royal  House  to  be- 
stow their  hand  upon  British  subjects." 

The  Premier  made  this  statement  in  support  of 
his  motion  to  provide  a  dowry  for  the  Princess 
Louise,  "  in  view  of  her  approaching  maniage," 
with  her  Majesty's  oonsenty  to  the  son  of  a  Scot- 
tish peer.  It  has  become,  therefore,  an  interest- 
ing question  what  precedents  there  are  in  Ebofflish 
history  of  the  daughters  and  sisters  of  the  reign- 
ing sovereign  marrying  British  subjects  noiih  the 
royal  assent,  I  have  oidy  been  able  to  find  three 
suck  hidanoes^tM  of  them  in  the  thirteenth  cen- 
tury, and  all  of  them  with  personages  of  great 
power  and  wealth — ^who  accepted  the  con£tion 
of  receiving  no  dowries^  and  of  resettling  their 
vast  estates  with  reversion  to  the  Crown,  to  the 
exclusion  of  their  own  kindred.  All  the  other 
maniages  of  English  princesses  to  husbands  not 
royal  were  either  to  foreigners  of  royal  descent 
and  connections,  like  Ingelnun  de  Coucy,  or  were 
contracted  without  the  leave  of  the  sovereign. 
The  daughters  of  Edward  IV.  cannot  be  quoted 
as  an  exception,  for  thOT  were  married  after  the 
^all  of  their  dynasty,  and  after  they  had  ceased  to 
be  regarded  as  princesses  of  the  reigning  House. 


The  first  of  these  three  marriages  with  the 
King's  consent  is  that  of  Eleanor,  the  youngest 
daughter  of  King  John,  to  William  Mareschall, 
Earl  of  Pembroke.  Her  husband  was  the  first 
subject  in  the  realm,  and  his  father  had  lately 
been  the  Regent  of  England;  but  Henry  III. 
thought  it  necessary  to'  tmologise  for  consenting 
to  such  a  metch.  and  his  letter  to  his  proctors  at 
Rome  is  still  exlant;  and  runs  as  follows,  in  a 
translation  slightly  abbreviated :  — 

**  Since  there  are  some  peoi^  perhaps  who,  by  sog- 
gestion  to  the  Lord  Pope  and  the  Cardinals,  will  try  to  put 
an  evil  construction  on  what  has  lately  been  done  by  us 
on  the  counsel  of  our  magnates  and  lieges,  we  have 
undertaken  to  explain  the  whole  course  of  the  affair  to 
put  you  more  on  your  guard  in  refuting  their  insinnatioas. 

**  &now  then,  that  when  the  Bishop  of  Norwich  was 
Legate  in  England,  the  Ea)rl  Marshal  was  still  in  posses- 
sion of  the  royal  castles  of  Marlborough  and  Lud3'er8haJI, 
and  was  proposing  to  take  to  wife  the  sister  of  Earl 
Robert  de  Brus,  and  there  were  also  other  magnates  in 
England  who  were  trying  to  draw  him  astray  from  us 
bv  alliances  to  our  wrong.  The  question,  therefore,  of 
giving  him  one  of  our  sisters  wa4  hafidled  before  the 
Lord  I^egate  and  oar  Justiciary  and  other  magnates;  for 
it  was  feared  that,  if  the  Earl  Marshal  married  the  sister 
of  the  Earl  de  Brus,  this  foreign  alliance  would  give  too 
free  an  ingress  into  England  to  foreigners,  especially 
when  Richard  Marshall,  the  Earl*B  broOier,  held  all  his 
castles  and  honour  in  Normandy;  and  moreover,  the  ill- 
feeling  of  those  who  were  trying  to  draw  away  the  Earl's 
heart  flrom  us  was  a  subject  of  apprehension.  Whereas, 
if  we  gave  him  one  of  our  sisters,  the'  said  castles  would 
be  restored  to  U5,  which  was  a  matter  of  great  import- ' 
ance,  and  other  magnates  would  be  induora  by  his  ex- 
ample to  give  up  the  castles  which  they  held.  Considering 
then  the  premises,  and  our  tender  age  and  the  state  of 
the  realm,  one  of  our  sisters  was  by  uie  authority  of  the 
Legate  and  the  counsel  of  the  magnates  granted  to  the 
Earl  Marshal  on  the  terms  that  he  gave  his  pledge  to 
marry  her,  if  it  so  pleased  us  and  the  msgnates  of  the 
realm.  Our  Jastioiarv  pledged  himself  to  this  concession 
to  the  Maishal,  if  Uie  magnates  consented;  and  the 
Legate  .and  Justiciary,  and  the  others  who  were  present, 
faithfully  promised  to  use  all  diligence  to  get  such  con- 
sent. Iiie  said  castles  were  then  restored  into  the  hands 
of  the  Legate  on  condition  that,  if  the  contract  was  not 
fulfilled  within  a  certain  period,  whieh  hss  long  passed, 
they  should  be  restored  to  the  Marshal  without  difficulty. 
When  all  this  was  intimated  soon  afterwards  to  the  other 
magnates,  and  particularlv  to  the  Earl  of  Chester,  who 
had  just  come  home  from  the  Holy  Land,  the  Earl  loudly 
approved  of  it,  and  the  others  consented  without  a  single 
dissentient.  Afterwards,  however,  when  certain  quarrels 
had  grown  up,  there  were  some  who  disapproved,  assert- 
ing, as  will  perhaps  be  said  on  their  behalf  in  the  Court 
at  Rome,  that  we  had  no  treasure  of  more  value 
tlian  the  marriage  of  ourself  and  our  sisters;  and 
that,  therefore,  our  sisters  should  be  so  placed  in  mar- 
riage as  to  give  us  a  great  alliance  in  foreign  parts. 
Thus  the  business  remained  long  uncompleted.  But 
when  the  Earl  Marshal  had  lately  obtained  an  apostolic 
mandate,  addressed  to  my  lords  of  Canterbury  and  Salis- 
bury, that  they  should  either  absolve  him  from  his  obli- 
gation to  marry  our  sister  or  should  see  the  contract 
fulfilled,  the  Marshal  insisted  that  one  of  the  two  courses 
should  be  taken  forthwith,  as  he  refused  to  wait  any 
longer  for  a  wife.  It  was  now  feared  that  the  Mar- 
shal, who  was  a  man  of  great  power  both  in  England 
and  Ireland,  should  take  to  wife  the  sister  of  the  Earl  de 


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Bnis  or  the  daughter  of  the  Dake  of  Brabant  (who  had 
alao  been  offered  to  him),  which  for  the  reasons  already 
given  would  be  much  against  oar  interest;  or  lest  he 
should  marry  the  sister  of  the  King  of  Scotland,  which 
would  be  still  more  dancrerous  for  ns,  as  Scotland  is  so 
mnch  nearer  to  Ireland  and  to  the  Marshal^s  domains. 
Considering,  therefore,  the  yalonr  and  power  of  the  Mar- 
shal, and  the  faithfnl  service  he  has  wrought  in  Wales, 
where  he  wrested  from  the  hands  of  LleweUvn  Prince  of 
North  Wales  our  castles,  which  but  for  him  nad  been  lost 
to  us ;  and  also  oonsid«ring  the  example  of  Philip  some- 
time King  of  France,  who  mairied  his  daughters,  sisters, 
and  nieces  to  the  Count  of  Lemur  and  the  Count  of  Pont- 
hieu  and  others  of  his  subjects,  just  as  the  present  King 
of  France  lately  married  his  niece,  the  daughter,  to  wit, 
of  Guiscaid  de  Beanieu,  to  the  Count  of  Champagne. 
Considering  the  premiMS  and  the  great  things  which  are 
expected  from  the  Marshal,  it  occurred  to  us  and  our 
connd],  after  weighing  all  the  eircnmstanoea,  that  we 
could  not  marry  our  sister  in  any  other  quarter  so  much 
to  our  profit  and  honour:  we  luive  thnefore  by  their 
counsel,  after  caieftil  deliberation,  given  to  the  Marshal 
our  younger  sister  to  wife  without  any  loss  of  land, 
castles,  or  money." 

The  Princess  Eleanor  afterwards  married 
Simon  de  Montfort.  but  they  were  married  in 
secret  under  doubtful  drcumstanoes,  and  Simon 
was  a  Frenchman,  brother  to  the  Constable  of 
France,  and  only  English  through  his  grand- 
mother^  the  coheiress  of  the  earldom  of  Leicester. 
The  second  marriage  is  that  of  Joan,  daughter 
<of  Edward  I.,  in  12^,  to  Gilbert  de  Clare,  in 
whom  the  earldom  of  Hertford  was  united  with 
the  semi-royal  honour  of  Gloucester  and  with  the 
Irish  principality  of  Strongbow,  and  who  is  called 
by  Matthew  of  Westminster  "the  most  powerful 
man  in  the  kingdom  next  to  the  King.''  The 
Earl  was  compelled  as  a  condition  of  his  marriage 
to  surrender  into  the  King's  bands  the  whole  of 
his  Tast  possesions  in  England,  Wales,  and  Ire- 
land, and  the  King  took  formal  possesdon  of 
-them.  They  were  then  regranted  to  the  Earl  and 
the  Princess  Joan^  and  their  heirs,  with  the  re- 
version to  the  prmcess,  to  the  exclusion  of  the 
£unily  of  Clare. 

The  third  marriage  is  that  of  Elizabeth,  eightb 
daughter  of  Edward  I.,  in  1802,  to  Humphrey  de 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  and  High 
Constable  of  England,  who  submitted  to  the  same 
•<ionditions  as  Earl  Gilbert ;  for  he  resigned  to  the 
King  his  nine  castles  and  forty-nine  manors,  and 
his  nereditary  office  of  Constable^  and  accepted  a 
regrant  of  the  same  with  a  proviso  of  a  reversion 
to  the  Crown  in  exclusion  of  his  own  kindred. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that,  whatever  excellent 
reasons  there  may  be  for  the  approaching  mar- 
riage of  Princess  Louise,  such  a  marriaf|^  is  in 
many  respects  without  precedent  in  English  his- 
tory. 

TSWABS. 


EARLDOM  OF  LOUDON :  ABETANCK. 

The  case  of  the  Countess  of  Loudon  affords  a 
complete  and  satisfactory  proof  of  the  difference 
between  the  Scotish  and  English  law  on  the  sub- 
ject of  abeyance.  Her  ladyship's  brother,  the 
Marquis  of  Hastings,  was  an  English,  Irish,  and 
Scotish  peer.  The  earldom  of  Loudon  came  to 
him  in  virtue  of  a  Scotish  patent  under  a  destina- 
tion to  heirs.  His  Irish  earldom  and  EngUsh 
marquisate  were  to  heirs  male  of  the  original 
patentee.  His  English  baronies  were  held  under 
writs  of  summons. 

Upon  his  death,  November  10, 1868,  the  Irish 
earloom  and  English  marquisate  lapsed  for  want 
of  heirs  male^  and  the  latter  became  extinct.  The 
baronies  by  writ  fell  in  abeyance  amongst  his  four 
sisters.  Lady  Edith,  Lady  JBertha,  Lady  Victoria, 
and  Lady  Francis.  But  the  Scotch  earldom,  in 
consequence  of  the  destination  to  ?teir8,  fell  to  the 
Med  sister,  according  to  the  law  of  that  country. 
If  the  English  doctrine  of  abeyance  could  have 
had  any  operation  in  Scotland,  the  Loudon  earl- 
dom would  have  fallen  in  abeyance  between  the 
four  sisters  of  the  deceased  Marquis  of  Hastings, 
who  through  a  female  descent  was  Earl  of  Lou- 
don. But  such  was  not  the  case.  The  eldest 
sister  became  jfir«  sangumU  Countess  of  Loudon, 
the  honours  passing,  without  any  form  of  service, 
to  her  as  the  next  heir.  Excepting  to  prove  pro- 
pinquity, when  it  is  disputed,  a  service  is  un- 
necessary, as  it  only  proves  a  fact^  but  has  no 
effect  upon  a  title  of  nonour.  ^n  some  cases  a 
service  would  be  a  very  dangerous  affair.  For 
example :  if  a  peer  or  a  baronet  die  in  debt, 
his  next  heir  incurs  no  liability,  although  he 
takes  and  uses  the  honours,  these  coming  to 
him  by  right  of  blood;  but  if  he  were  to  serve 
heir,  he  becomes  liable  for  the  debts  of  his  prede- 
cessor. 

Thus,  although  the  countess  succeeded  to  the 
earldom  enjoyed  by  her  brother,  and  took  the 
honours  of  Loudon,  she  incurred  no  liability  for 
his  immense  debts  by  so  doing. 

These  observations  mav  not  be  without  their 
value  in  England,  where  the  rules  of  succession  to 
dignities  in  Scotland  are  not  unfrequently  mis- 
represented before  tribunals  where  Engliflh  law- 
{ers  should  be  better  instructed.  By  the  Act  of 
Fnion  of  the  Kingdoms  of  England  and  Scotland, 
the  law  of  the  latter  country  was  to  be  preserved, 
which  it  assuredly  would  not  if  the  doctrine  of 
abeyance  was  to  be  imported  into  the  law  of 
Scotland. 

Lady  Loudon,  with  her  three  sisters,  has  a 
separate  claim,  from  being  a  co-heiress,  to  the 
English  baronies ;  but  as  the  crown  has  the  right 
of  summoning  any  one  of  the  ladies,  it  may  happen 
that  her  ladyship  may  not  be  the  one  selected,  aa 
occurred  in  the  claim  some  yean  ago  advanced  to 


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the  yery  old  barony  of  ELastings,*  which  was  given 
to  the  descendant  of  a  younger  sister,  whilst  the 
representation  was  vested  in  the  ancient  family  of 
L'Estrange  as  heirs  of  line  of  an  elder  sister. 

J.M. 


STRAY  NOTELETS  ON  HERBS  AND  LEAVES. 

No.  II. 

**  Wbare  I  killed  ane  a  fur  strae-death, 
By  lo68  o'  blood  and  want  of  breat V' 

exdaims  Death  in  Biims*8  Death  and  Doctor  Som- 
book  (24th  stanza)  ;  and  I  take  this  '*  fair  strae- 
death  "  to  be  a  death  of  quietness  and  old  age  in 
one's  own  quiet  bed  containing  or  consisting  of 
mostlT  a  straw  mattress  or  straw  pallet  in  poor 
households.  Thus  '*  Martha  "  of  bad  repute  in 
Goethe's  Faisst,  part  i.  Werke  in  40  vols.|  voL  xi, 
p.  122)  exclaims — 

**  Gott  verzeih's  meioem  lieben  Mann, 
Er  hat  an  mir  nicbt  wohlgetban  I 
Gebt  da  stracks  in  die  Wdt  hineia, 
Und  Ittsst  mioh  anf  dem  Stroh  alkin." 

Left  her,  sweet  Qretchen's  bad  an^el,  alone  on 
the  "  strae.''  And  this  expiession  will  help  Eng- 
lish readers  better  to  understand  a  German  word 
the  meaning  of  which  I  have  often  been  asked 
about:  StrohwUtwe,  i.  e.  literally  a  '^ straw- 
widow"  (mock- widow,  as  the  German-lkiglish 
dictionapes  ^ve  it) — a  wife  left  alone  on  the 
*^  straw  "  dunng  her  husband's  temporary  absence. 
It  is  a  most  common  every-day  expression  of  all 
classes  in  Germany,  just  like  the  word  Stroh- 
witttcer,  "  straw- widower."  Thus  Baedecker,  the 
German*  Murray,  in  his  well-known  handbook  of 
Germany,  speaiing  of  Vegesack,  near  Bremen, 
says : — 

"  It  is  the  head- quarters  of  many  sailors*  widows  and 
'straw-widows'  {Strohwittwen),  who  live  here  in  small 
houses  fitted  np  cabin-like.**  [  nbo  does  not  involantarily 
think  of  dear  old  Pegotty'a  home  ?]— Fide  Baedeoker's 
Demtaehland,  ed.  1858,  u.  61. 

During  the  time  of  the  Fronde  (middle  of  the 
seventeenth  century)  all  the  adherents  of  the 
royal  princes,  and  decided  antagonists  of  Cardinal 
Mazarm  (Prime  Minister  in  1&L3),  wore  a  small 
bnnch  of  straw,  most  probably  in  remembrance  of 
the  DtOddle  Ages,  when  a  broken  straw  was  the 
sign  of  the  French  vassals'  renouncing  their  loyal 
obedienoe.     Mademoiselle  de  Montpensierf  ap- 

*  This  is  an  older  barooy  than  the  one  in  the  person  of 
the  historical  Lord  Hastings,  who  was  put  to  death  by 
Richard  III.,  and  which  hononr  subsequently  merged  in 
the  earldom  of  Huntington. 

t  Anne-Marie-Lonise  d*Orl^ans  (bom  1627,  died  1693), 
Dadiesse  de  Montpensier,  better  known  under  the  name 
of  Mademoiselle  de  Montpensier  or  "  Mademoiselle,"  **  la 
grande  MademoiseUe,**  in  Madame  de  StfviffD^s  iMtrtt, 
C  VidSe  her  well-known  letter  of  December  lo,  1670,  treat- 
ing on  the  first  news  of  *'  Mademoiselle's  "  marriage  with 
Laoxon ;  ed.  Gronvelle,  Paris,  1806,  i.  182-184.) 


l>eared  in  public  with  a  small  bunch  of  straw 
tied  with  riobons  of  the  colours  of  the  royid  princes 
fastened  to  her  fan.  (I  owe  these  facts  to  my 
memory,  but  cannot  remember  in  which  Mhnoirea 
or  Lettree  I  have  seen  them  stated.) 

Not  many  yeara  ago  it  was  stiU  the  hereditary 
custom  in  Germany  that  when  a  young  country 
girl  had  lost  her  greatest  pride,  her  honour 
{JEhre),  she  was  led  through  her  native  village  in 
a  straw  wreath  or  straw  crovm — a  mockery  of 
the  bridal  wreath  or  crown  of  the  vestal  myrtle, 
which  by  rights  only  belonged  and  still  belongs  to 
a  virrinal  bnde.  ("  N.  &  Q.^'  4*  S.  May  1,)  It  was 
also  the  custom  in  Germany  formerly  to  present  the 
bride  with  a  straw  wreath  tlieday  after  the  wedding. 
This  ceremony  was  always  accompanied  by  funny, 
witty,  and  often  probably  very  coarse  speeches, 
the  so-called  Stronkranxreden  (straw-wreatii  ora- 
tions). When  Frederick  the  Great  of  Prussia  waa 
celebrating  the  nuptials  of  his  brother  in  1742 
this  old  ceremonv  was  celebrated  too,  in  spite  of 
the  French  polisn  of  the  court  (grattez  U  jRueee). 
That  great  long  had  chosen  Baron  Bielfeld  to 
deliver  the  speech  or  oration  to  the  royal  bride. 
(Vide  Lettree  famiiih'ea  d  la  Have,  Par  h  Baron 
de  BidfM,  1763,  ii.  94.)  Thu  took  place  the 
day  after  the  marriage,  of  course,  just  when  the 
royal  party  was  going  to  sit  down  to  supper.  A 
young  cavalier  was  carrying  the  prettily  arranged 
straw  wreath,  which  was  adorned  with  small 
images  of  wax.  Twelve  cavaliera  with  wax  torches 
were  at  the  same  time  marching  round  the  apart- 
ment, hinting  bv  gestures  that  they  were  looking 
for  what  hf^  been  lost  the  night  before.  Not 
being  able  to  achieve  this,  of  course  they  stood 
still,  and  Baron  Bielfeld  stepped  forth  and  began 
to  deliver  his  Strohkranxr^is,  which  wais  fified 
with  the  most  powerful  expressions,  hints,  and 
allusions,  but  was  nevertheless  received  with 
much  applause  and  au^.  The  royal  bride  had 
to  wear  tne  wreath  tor  a  short  time,  after  which 
the  royal  bridegroom  had  to  do  the  same. 

Who  of  us  has  not  put  a  rose-leaf  into  a  boo^, 
and  has  found  it  in  after  years  without  being  able 
to  remember  when  and  why  it  was  put  there  P 

'*  A  withered,  lifeless,  vacant  form, 
It  lies  on  my  abandoned  breast  I "  * 

Who  of  us  does  not  know,  too,  the  charming 
story  of  Smindirides  the  Sybarite,  who  could  not 
sleep  on  account  of  a  creased  rose-leaf  on  his 
couch  P  worse  than  Andersen's,  dear  Andersen's, 
reai  princess,  who  could  not  rest  on  account  of  the 
pea  under  her  twelve  mattresses,  and  was  on  that 
account  discovered  to  be  a  real  and  no  sham  prin- 
cess P  And  who  does  not  know  the  still  more 
charming  story  of  that  Eastern  sage  Abdul-Eadri, 
who  could  not  be  received  as  a  resident  within 
the  walls  of  Babylon,  putting  a  rose-leaf  on  the 

•  Shelley. 


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Burface  of  the  brimful  vessel  whicli  was  shown 
to  him  as  a  symbol  P  Is  this^  then,  the  reason  why, 
as  a  young  friend  from  Smyrna  told  me,  a  rose- 
leaf  (1  am  alluding  here  to  the  pekds  of  course) 
there  and  elsewhere  in  the  East  is  considered  as 
the  symbol  of  ''let  me  or  my  love  not  trouble 
you  "  P  Who  has  not  heard  of  Goethe's  "  Wenn 
idk  dich  liebe,  was  geht's  dich  an  P  "  Less  known, 
perhapS;  than  that  pretty  ''story"  is,  that  the 
week  youths  took  a  rose-leaf,  and  sligntly  draw- 
ing the  left-hand  together,  put  it  on  the  opening 
thus  formed;  then  with  their  ri^ht-hand  they 
gsye  it  a  blow  to  produce  a  dappmg  noise.  He 
whose  rose-leaf  did  not  "report^  was  said  to  be 
unhappy  in  love.  (Vide  Theocritus's  IcfyUs,  the 
third.)  And  a  somewhat  similar  custom  still  pre- 
vails on  the  Continent,  where  a  rose-leaf  is 
gi^ered  toother  in  the  manner  of  a  small  pouch ; 
this  has  to  be  cracked  with  a  loud  noise  eiUier  on 
the  forehead  or  the  upper  part  of  the  left  hand. 
If  it  produces  a  pretty  pleasing  sound  when 
thus  cracked,  the  person  you  have  in  your  mind 
or  heart  thinks  of  you ;  or  some  say  it  means  the 
foreboding  of  a  loss. 

Until  lately  it  was  always  conjectured  that  the 
old  name  of  Morea  for  the  Grecian  Pdoponnesus 
owed  its  origin  to  its  fancied  resemblance  to  a 
mulbenr-leaf ;  but  this  seems  to  have  been  a  £ui- 
dful  delusion  of  some  poetic  geographer  or  de- 
lineator of  maps.  As  an  emblem,  however,  the 
mulbenry-leaf  was  taken  bj  Ludovico  Sforza  (the 
hero  of  Massinger's  exquisite  gem,  The  Duke  of 
MUan),  who  adopted  it  or  a  branch  of  the  mul- 
berry-tree as  a  surname-— Moro  (Lat  Monu), 
It  is  the  type  of  wisdom,  prudence,  foresight, 
as  the  mulberry-tree  (Marus,  L.)  only  puts  forth 
its  leaves  when  niffht  nosts  have  no  longer  to  be 
feared.  Legend,  that  sweetest  deceiver,  tells  us 
that  the  white  berries  (Moms  alba.  L.)  of  the 
tree  were  chanced  into  purple  ones  (Moms  nigra, 
L.)  by  the  blood  of  Pyramus,  a  mulbeny-tree  over- 
shadowing "  old  Ninny's  tomb  "— * 

"  To  meet  at  Kinua'  tomb,  there,  there  to  woOb 

Anon  comes  Pyramus,  sweet  yonth  aod  tall. 
And  finds  his  trnsty  Thisby*8  mantle  slain ; 
Whereat  with  blade,  with  bloody  blameftd  blade. 
He  bravely  broach'd  his  boiling  bloody  breast. 
And  Thisby,  tarrying  in  mulberry  shade, 
His  dagger  drew  and  died."  • 

In  that  pleasant  book,  Nares's  Qhesary,  the 
venerable  archdeacon  writes  under  the  head  of 
"  Hosemary  " : — 

"Rosemary  was  also  carried  at  funerals,  probably  for 
Its  odour,  ana  as  a  token  of  remembrance  of  the  deceased ; 
which  custom  is  noticed  as  late  as  the  time  of  Gay  [ob. 
1732]  in  his  Pastoral  Dirge,    Mentioned  also  here^ 


^Midtumrnvr-Ni^sDrtamf  Act  V.  Sc.  1. 


.  .  .  '  Prithee,  see  they  have 
A  sprig  of  toseinary,  dipp'd  in  common  water. 
To  smell  at  as  they  walk  along  the  streets."  * 

Cartwright's  Ordinary^  Act  V.  Sc.  1. 

Is  this  custom  of  carrying  such  a  sprig  of  rose- 
mary at  funerals  still  now  and  then  curved  in 
England,  and  in  which  counties  P  I  remember 
a  very  large  Odd-fellows'  or  Foresters'  funeral  in 
the  ^orth  of  Yorkshire  (1864),  where  two  men 
always  walked  abreast,  with  tiieir  little  fingers 
of  two  hands  linked  together,  whUst  they  wero 
carrying  small  sprigs  <»  rosemary  in  the  other 
hands.  I  still  recollect  that  most  of  the  men 
were  most  anxious  to  have  real  rosemary  and  no 
substitute,  as,  for  instance,  box. 

Hosemary,  which,  by  the  bye,  makes  an  excel- 
lent ingredient  for  a  no  less  excellent  pomatum, 
was  until  lately  always  used  in  this  country  for  a 
Todtenkranz  (death-wreath)  for  any  yoimg  girl 
dying  shortly  before  her  wedding. 

**■  There's  rosemary,  that's  for  remembrance."  f 

Garlic  (Allium  eatimm,  L.)  is  still  believed  to 
possess  anti-witchcraft  properties  in  Germany,  but 
especially  in  Greece  ana  Turkey.  Allium  ne  edaa 
(eat  no  garlic)  has  become  proverbial,  as  eating 
it — ^in  the  way  onions  are  used — is  said  to  pro- 
duce quarrelsomeness.  In  ancient  times  it  was 
the  emblem  of  belligerent  life  and  feelings ;  but 
it  was  also  known  as  a  remedy  against  the  charms 
of  Amor  and  Eros,  on  which  account  the  Greek 
ladies  ate  of  it  and  carried  it  about  them  during 
the  skirophoria  celebrated  at  Athens  in  honour  of 
Minervl^  Ceres,  and  Proserpine,  when  the  parties 
celebrating  these  festivals  bad  carefully  to  avoid 
any  conjugal  connection  with  men.  I  should 
fancy  that  the  smell  would  keep  the  latter  at  a 
ncU-me-iangere  distance.  On  account  of  its  anti- 
witchcraft  properties  it  was  dedicated  to  the  Lares 
at  Eome.  Hebmasn  Kikdx. 

Germany.  

Shop  Signs  nr  YiEXiirA.— I  observed  some  sin- 
gular signs  in  Vienna.  Not  only  were  shops  under 
the  patronage  of  the  imperial  royal  family,  or 
dedicated  to  popular  favourites,  such  as  Jenny 
Lind,  but  a  tobacconist's  shop  I  saw  dedicated  to 
the  '^  Salvator  Mundi,"  and^displaying  a  very  well 
executed  picture,  I  snould  think  eight  feet  high, 
of  the  sacred  personage.  Another,  a  silkmercer's 
shop,  was  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Ghost.  Many  of 
the  shops  have  painted  signs,  and  well  done. 

P.  E.  Masbt. 

The  Sttk^tauis  Sakacen,  SABASXir,  ob  Sab- 
BAZIN. — ^This  name  is  said  to  have  been  ^ven  to 
a  Saracenic  family  that  embraced  Ohnstianitj 
during  the  Crusades,  and  settled  ui  modem  Eu- 
rope; and,  in  corroboration,  Mr.  Lower  says — 
-'  ■ 

*  Olottary,  German  ed.  (printed  at  Stralsund^  1825), 
p.  680. 
t  JETom/d;  Act  IV.  Sc.  6. 


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''  Saladin  was  an  EDglifih  surname  temp,  Edw.  I. 
H.K/'  The  name  nas  probably  nothing  to  do 
with  the  Saracens,  but  may  be  derived  from 
Castel-Sarrasin,  formerly  Castel-Sarrazin,  a  town 
of  France,  in  Languedoc,  so  called  from  its  situ- 
ation on  the  rividet  Azin  (sur-Azifi).  Conf. 
Azincourt  or  Agincourt^  Dep.  Pas  de  Calais. 

R.  S.  Chabnoce. 
Gray's  Inn. 

HA:n)£L's  CoircERTO  fob  fSE  Hasp. — ^Did  not 
I  read  in  "  N.  &  Q.''  that  Mr.  Brinley  Richarda 
had  found  a  most  valuable  composition  for  the 
harp  in  the  British  Museum  P  At  any  rate  I 
reaa  it  in  many  other  papers,  and  I  think  it  weU 
to  make  a  note  upon  the  subject.  Be  it  known 
unto  all  men  (with  your  permission,  Mr.  Editor) 
that  the  concerto  in  question  has  been  familiar  to 
Handel  students  nearly  ever  since  its  composer 
came  to  England;  indeed  it  is  one  of  those  popu- 
lar pieces  which  have  kept  players  upon  keyed 
instruments  from  starving  (according  to  some  his- 
torians) almost  Arom  Handers  day  imtil  this. 
When  I  say  that  it  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than 
the  sixth  of  the  first  set  of  organ  concertoes  pub- 
lished by  Widsh,  your  musical  readers  may  well 
wonder  that  anything  so  familiar  could  he^  dis- 
coyeved  now.  Dr.  4^old,  too,  published  it  in 
score  (as  Mr.  Richards  has  just  done  at  great 
expense);  and  there  have  been  editions  of  it 
without  end — some  good,  some  bad,  some  indif- 
ferent. In  Dr.  Ain<ud*s  copy  it  is  said  to  be  per 
harpa  e  crgano ;  so  there  can  be  no  pretence  of 
bringing  forward  a  new  version  of  an  old  work 
even.  W.  J.  Westbeook. 

Sydenham. 

La  rPTTTkBK  AOT)  THE  BoOKSBLLSB's  DATTOH- 

TBB. — ^L.  looking  over  the  lAfe  of  La  Bruy^,  the 
translator  of  the  Character%  of  Theophrastas  and 
author  of  the  Moeun  de  ce  Sihlef  I  met  with  the 
following  anecdote  of  that  interesting  Htetaxy 
man.    It  may  not  be  unsuitable  for  ^'N.  &  Q."  :— 

<*La  Bmy^  lued  to  frequent  the  shop  of  a  bookseller 
named  Hidi^ety  where  he  amused  himself  with  reading 
the  new  pamphlets,  and  pla3ring  with  the  bookseller's 
danghier,  an  enfi^aging  child  of  whom  he  was  very  fond. 
One  day,  taking  the  manuscript  of  his  Chttracten  ont 
of  his  pocket,  he  offered  it  to  Michallet,  saving,  *  Will 
you  print  this  ?  I  know  not  whether  yon  will  gain  anv- 
thing  by  it,  but,  should  it  succeed,  let  the  profits  make 
the  dowry  of  my  little  friend  here.'  The  bookseller, 
thongh  doubtful  with  respect  to  the  result,  ventured  on 
the  pnbUcation :  the  first  impression  was  soon  sold  off, 
several  editions  were  afterwards  sold,  and  the  profits  on 
the  work  amounted  to  a  large  sum ;  and  with  this  for- 
tone  Miss  Michallet  was  afterwards  advantageously  mar- 
ricd.** 

FBAiras  Tbench. 

IsUp  Rectory. 

Ballooits  aitd  thb  Siboe  07  Pabis.-^ 

"  It  nuy  be  worth  while  to  mention,  before  the  fact  is 
fbrgotten,  that  filly-four  aerial  engines  were  despatched 
firom  Paris  daring  the  siege,  and  carried  altogether  about 


2,500,000  letters,  making  a  total  weight  of  about  tea 
tons.  The  first  balloon,  the  Keptune,  left  Paris  on  the 
2drd  of  September;  the  Armand  Barb^,  which  started 
on  the  7th  of  October,  took  out  Gambetta  and  the  first 
fiock  of  carrier  pigeons ;  the  Jules  Favre,  which  went 
away  on  the  80tn  of  November,  has  never  been  heard  of 
since,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  lost  at  sea;  the  last 
of  all,  G^n^ral  Cambronne,  was  sent  op  on  the  20th  of 
January." 

The  above  is  from  a  correspondent's  letter  in 
the  Datfy  Telegraph,  written  in  Paris  on  Feb.  17. 
1871^  and  is^  I  thmk,  worthy  a  place  in  ^'  N.  &.Q.'^ 

Thos.  Eatclipfb. 

Thb  Phcekix  Pake. — ^There  is  a  curious  simi- 
larity of  si^ification  in  the  French  Fontainebleau 
and  the  Irish  Phoenix  Park.  The  former,  it  is 
well  known,  signifies  '^spring  of  fair  water,''  and 
the  true  and  propter  Irish  name  of  the  latter  is 
Fionn  Uisge,  that  is  ''  fair  water,"  to  which  if  we 
prefix  tehar,  that  is  *'  spring,''  which  I  am  almost 
certain  was  the  case^  the  identity  of  the  name  ia 
perfect 

The  change  of  Fionn  IHsge  to  Phoenix  was,  I 
believe,  made  bv  the  celebrated  Earl  of  Chester- 
field when  lord-lieutenant  To  commemorate 
this  intellectual  feat  he  raised,  not  very  far  from 
the  spring,  the  column  still  existing  with  a  phoenix 
on  its  summit.  Thos.  Kbiohtlbt. 

Abbcdotb  of  Db.  JoHKSOir.  —  The  following 
anecdote  of  the  lexicographic  moralist  used  to  bS 
told  by  a  well-known  lawyer  and  hon-vivant  of 
Edinburgh^  who  died  from  thirty-five  to  forty 
years  ago.<  The  Doctor,  riding  along  the  road 
during  his  Scottish  tour,  asked  the  way  of  a  country 
lad  who  was  running  with  swollen  cheeks  and 
reddened  complexion.  Receiving  no  answer,  he 
came  down  on  the  lad's  shoulders  smartly  with 
his  riding-whip.  The  cheeks  collapsed,  and  a 
white  fluid  spurted  forth,  when  Johnson  was  thus 
aocoAted : — '*  Oh,  sir,  what  hae  ye  dune  P  an'  me 
riimin'  seeven  mile  wi'  a  mootnfu'  o'  milk  to  a 
sick  wean  I "  This  story  I  have  never  seen  in 
print  W.  T.  M. 

Ballads  bt  Labt  Mabt  Wobtlet  MoKTAeTr 
AKD  LoBD  Chbstebfibld. — Perhaps  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  cases  was  that  attributing  to  Lady 
Mary  Wortley  Montagu  the  ballad  on  Arthur 
Gray,  which  made  not  only  Mrs.  Murray,  its 
victim,  but  also  her  friend  Lady  Hervey,  forswear 
her  ladyship's  acquaintance.  I^dy  Mary  acknow- 
ledged the  sufficiently  annoying  ode  of  the  erotic 
footman  to  his  mistress,  which  the  noble  editor  of 
her  works  has  lately  included  amongst  them.  with, 
perhaps  slightly  questionable  taste.  The  oallad 
IS  saia  to  have  bsen  a  much  more  scandalous 
affair,  and  was  not  acknowledged. 

This  ballad  took,  because  Gray  the  footman  was 
for  mcmj  ^ys  under  sentence  of  death  in  New- 
gate. The  court  had  just  reprieved  a  brutal 
German  doctor  for  a  much  more  horrid  crime 


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NOTES  AND   QUERIES.  [4«»^  S. VII.  March  11, '71. 


which  he  accomplished^  and  by  the  entreaties  of 
the  amiable  familj  aggrieved  the  other  silly  fellow 
was  let  off  for  his  insane  conduet  Gray  was  sent 
to  the  North  American  settlements,  much  as  the 
Irish  prisoners  were  lately  sent  to  New  York,  but 
nothing  seems  to  be  known  of  his  future  existence.* 
Lord  Chesterfield  wrote  a  ballad  on  the  order 
of  the  Bath,  which  was  said  to  be  equally  witty 
and  satirical,  and  to  which  his  fall  was  attributed 
when  a  change  of  ministry  was  made  about  the 
time.  It  was  perhaps  the  match  which  set  the 
powder  on  fire,  but  there  was  probably  a  magazine 
of  explosive  materials  somewhere.  £.  C. 


Bbll-Habp. — What  kind  of  instrument  was  the 
beU-harp,  which  used  to  be  played  upon  in  the 
earlv  part  of  last  century  P  Perhaps  some  musical 
reader  will  be  able  to  answer  this  query  in  an  early 
number.  L.  J. 

[The  bell  harp  is  a  musical  instmment  of  the  string 
kind,  thus  called  from  the  players  on  it  swinging  it  about 
as  a  bell  on  its  basis.  It  is  about  three  feet  long ;  its 
strings,  which  are  of  no  determinate  number,  are  of  brass 
or  steel  wire,  fixed  at  one  end,  and  stretched  across  the 
sound'board  by  screws  fixed  at  the  other.  It  takes  in 
four  octaves,  according  to  the  number  of  the  strings, 
which  are  struck  only  with  the  thumbs,  the  r^^ht  hand 
playing  the  treble,  and  the  left  hand  the  bass ;  and,  in 
order  to  draw  the  sound  the  clearer,  the  thumbs  are 
armed  with  a  little  wire  pin.  There  is  an  engraving  of  it 
in  The  London  Encyclopadia,  zL  60.] 

Bbzakt  AI7D  Florin.  —  In  documents  of  the 
Middle  Aces  frequent  mention  is  made  of  golden 
florins  and  bezants.  What  was  the  value  of  these 
coins  P  Where  were  they  struck,  and  were  they 
in  general  circulation,  or  only  used  for  calculating 
the  value  of  money  ?  A.  E;  L. 

[Gold  florins  were  first  struck  by  Edward  III.  in  1344 : 
the  half  and  quarter  florin  were  struck  at  the  same  time. 
The  florin  was  then  to  go  for  six  shillings,  though  now  it 
would  be  intrinsically  worth  nineteen.  In  the  year  1327 
that  prince  had  preyioushr  purchased  174  florins  from 
Florence,  the  price  of  each  being  89|</.  '*  N.  &  Q./'  !•> 
8.  i«  119. 

Bezant,  or  Besant,  was  a  coin  of  pure  gold,  struck  at 
Byzantium  in  the  time  of  the  Christian  emperors ;  and 
hence  the  gold  offered  by  our  kings  on  festivids  is  called 
beMont,  It  seems  to  have  been  current  in  England  from 
the  tenth  centuiy  till  the  time  of  Edward  III.  Its  Talne 
is  not  precisely  ascertained,  but  it  is  generally  estimated 
At  9«.  44<2.  sterling.  The  origin  and  use  of  bezants  are 
pointed  out  by  Camden,  Remamtt  srt.  "  Money.*'  Consult 
also  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2nd  a.  y.  268.] 


[*  The  Epistle  from  Arthur  Gray,  the  footman,  to 
Mrs.  Murray,  after  his  condemnation  for  attempting  to 
commit  violence,  is  also  printed  in  The  Letters  andWorht 
of  Lady  Mary  Wortiey  Montagu^  edited  by  W.  Moy 
Thomas,  edit.  1861,  ii.  478.  The  drcumsUnce  took  place 
on  Oct.  1, 1721.    See  Sdeet  Triale,  12mo,  1742.— Ed.] 


BoBiDiL. — Ben  Jonson's  buUv  and  coward  is 
named  Bobadil.  Could  it  be  oecause  the  first 
governor  of  Cuba,  who  sent  home  Columbus  in 
chains,  was  '<  Bobadilla  *'  P  Ben's  <|  BobadU  "  is  a 
most  agreeable  braggadocio,  and  in  this  respect 
very  different  from  &e  sullen  ruffian  who  disgraced 
the  Spanish  name  by  his  atrocious  conduct  to  the 
great  navigator  and  discoverer.  G.  E. 

[Gifford*s  note  on  this  cowardly  adventurer  is  in- 
teresting. He  says :  "  Bobadil  has  never  been  well  under- 
stood, and  therefore  is  always  too  highly  estimated; 
because  he  is  a  boaster  and  a  coward,  he  is  euisorfly 
dismissed  as  a  mere  copy  of  the  ancient  bully,  or  what  is 
more  ridiculous,  of  Pistol ;  but  Bobadil  is  a  creature  nU 
^eiierM,and  perfectly  originaL  The  soldier  of  the  Greek 
comedy,  from  whom  Whuley  wishes  to  derive  him,  had 
not  manv  traits  in  common  with  Bobadil.  .  .  .  Bobadil 
is  stained  with  no  inordinate  vice,  and  is  besides  so 
frugal,  that '  a  bunch  of  radishes  and  a  frfpe  to  doee  the 
orifice  of  his  stomach,'  satisfy  all  his  wants.  Add  to  this 
that  the  vanity  of  the  ancient  soldier  [in  the  Greek 
oomedv]  is  aocompanisd  with  such  deplonble  stupidity, 
that  all  temptation  to  mirth  is  taken  away ;  whereas 
Bobadil  is  really  amusing.  His  gravity,  which  is  of  the 
most  inflexible  nature,  contrasts  admirably  with  the 
situations  into  which  he  is  thrown ;  and  though  beaten» 
baffled,  and  disgnced,  he  never  so  far  forgets  himself  as 
to  aid  in  his  own  discomfiture.  He  has  no  .solilofpiiee 
like  Bessus  and  Parolles,  to  betray  his  real  character,  and 
expose  himself  to  unnecessary  contempt.  ...  In  a  word, 
Bobadil  has  many  distinguishing  traits,  and  till  a  pre> 
ceding  braggart  shall  be  discovered  with  something  more 
than  big  words  and  beating  to  characterise  him,  it  may 
not  be  amiss  to  allow  Jonson  the  credit  of  having  de- 
pended entirely  on  his  own  resources.** — Jonson*s  Jroriks^ 
by  Giffoid,  ed.  1816,  i.  160.] 

Chaucer's  ^'  Shipitan." — ^What  is  the  meaning 
of  the  line  {Prologue,  400)  ?— 

**  By  water  he  sente  hem  hoom  to  every  land." 

Professor  Morle^  nuzzles  me  by  paraphrasing- 
(English  Writers,  ii.  298), ''  he  sent  home  his  wine 
py  water  to  ei^ery  land."  I  have  sometimes  been 
inclined  to  think  that  the  line  meant ''  he  made 
the  yanouished  walk  the  plank'';  bat  I  doubt  if 
Ohaucer  s  typical  sailor  was  given  to  such  piratical 
habits.  ProDably  to  many  people  there  is  no  dif- 
ficulty in  the  passage.  WiU  one  of  these  ''  write 
me  down  an  ass  "  P  Johk  Addis. 

Rustington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sussex. 

Domesday,  —  Among  the  various  books  and 
papers  which  have  been  written  upon  Domesday,. 
IS  there  to  be  found  any  attempt  to  trace  how- 
many  persons  recorded  there  as  holders  of  land 
haye  representatiyes  in  the  present  day  P    D.  A. 

English  Qubeit  buried  at  Pokto*  Find. — 
The  inhabitants  of  Porto  Fino  (a  yillage  lying  at 
the  foot  of  the  headland  of  the  same  name  in  the 
Gulf  of  Genoa)  have  a  tradition  that  an  English, 
queen  was  once  buried  there.  What  are  the  pro« 
bable  historical  grounds  for  this  belief  P 


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"£t  7ACEBB  ScBiBENDA.** — By  whom,  and  of 
•  whom,  has  it  been  said  that  he  was  competent  "  et 
facore  scribenda,  et  scribere  legenda  "?  B. 

Ballad  op  Ladt  Febbxbs.  —  Is  there  any 
foundation  in  truth  for  the  ballad  of  "  Lady 
Ferrers  of  Markyate  Cell "  ?  It  professes  to  be 
founded  on  tradition  and  fact,  and  says  that 

**  the  existence  of  the  heroine^  her  singular  habits  and 
darinff  character,  the  alternate  secloBion  and  splendonr  of 
her  Vm,  together  with  its  mysterious  close,  form  a  detail 
still  remembered  in  Hertfordshire,  at  the  hamlet  which 
gives  title  to  the  legend." 

The  story  is,  that  she  entertained  her  Mends  by 
day  and  went  out  marauding  at  niffht,  clothed 
in  armour,  plundering  and  slaying  all  the  trayel- 
leia  ahe  could  lay  her  hands  upon.  She  was  in 
the  habit  of  locking  the  seryants  in  their  rooms  at 
night  and  letting  them  out  in  the  morning;  but 
one  day  no  doors  were  opened.  A  groom  in  despair 
at  last  brealdng  through  one,  they  discoyered  that 
the  lady's  bed  was  empty,  and  at  last  thej  found 
her,  in  full  armour,  dead  on  the  turret  staua.  She 
had  been  killed  by  an  accidental  fall  on  her  road 
out.  An  assassin's  dirk  was  found  securely  fastened 
in  her  girdle.    The  date  of  the  ballad  is  I8I1. 

l^ABGABBT  QATTT. 

Gbsat  Man  allttdeb  to  bt  Abnold  ur  a 
SsBXOV. — Who  is  supposed  to  be  alluded  to  in 
the  following  P  — 

**  One  of  the  gnateat  nun  of  our  time  has  declared  that, 
in  the  early  part  of  his  life,  he  did  not  believe  in  the 

Divinity  of  our  Lord while,  in  bis  latter  life,  he 

eobraocd  it  with  all  his  heart  and  soul."— Dr.  Arnold's 
^eraMms,  v.  404. 

J.RR 

[The  refereooe  is  wrong ;  there  is  little  donbt  that  the 
allusion  was  to  S.  T.  Coleridge.  What  is  tbe  text  of  the 
sernmi  ?3 

Ikdusibiss  of  ENGLAin). — ^Does  there  exist  a 
work  deecriptiye  of  the  industries  of  England, 
rimilar  to  the  one  published  early  in  1869  on  the 
Indudne$  of  Scotkmd  by  D.  Bremner  ? 

B.  T.  J. 

Jestebs  ow  Shipboard. — Were  commanders 
in  the  navy  formerly  in  the  habit  of  keeping  a 
fool  or  jester  aboard  ship ;  and  if  so,  when  was 
the  practice  abandoned?  Here  is  one  instance, 
£nom  the  narrative  of  Richard  Seller,  a  fisherman, 
pressed  into  the  service  in  1666 :  — 

**  Then  came  ont  the  commander*s  jester,  and  told  the 
captain  *  He  wonld  lay  a  guinea  with  him  that  he  would 
make  me  work,  and  bale  the  king's  ropes* ;  and  told  the 
captain  '  he  was  a  fool ' :  so  two  guineas  were  thrown 
down  upon  tbe  deck ;  then  the  jester  called  for  two  sea- 
men, and  made  them  make  two  ropes  fast  to  the  wrists  of 
ray  arms,  and  reeved  tbe  ropes  through  two  blocks  in 
the  mizen'Shronda,  on  tbe  starboard  side,  and  boised  me 
Qp  aloft,  and  made  tbe  ropes  fast  to  tbe  gunnel  of  the 
ship,  and  I  bong  some  time;  tben  tbe  jester  called  tbe 
ship's  company  to  *  behold,  and  bear  him  witness,  that  be 
made  the  Qnaker  hale  tbe  king's  ropes' ;  so  veering  the 


ropes,  they  lowered  me  half-way  down,  then  made  me  fast 
again :  *  Now,*  said  the  jester,  *  noble  captain,  you  and 
tbe  company  see  that  tbe  Quaker  baleUi  the  kingps  ropesi* 
And  with  that  he  commanded  Uiem  to  '  let  fly  the  ropea 
loose,'  when  I  fell  upon  the  deck.  '  Now,'  said  the  jester, 
'  noble  captain,  the  wager  is  won :  he  haled  the  ropes 
to  the  deck,  and  von  can  bale  them  no  farther,  nor  any 
man  else.'  "^Sufferintft  of  the  Quaken,  by  Joseph  Besse, 
London,  1768,  ii.  118. 

Thos.  Stxwasdsoh,  JxTir. 

Judicial  Oaths. — Has  it  ever  been  noticed  for 
the^  consideration  of  that  class  who  object  to 
taking  oaths  in  courts  of  justice,  because  it  ia 
forbid  in  the  Bible  under  tne  injunction  **  Swear 
not  at  all,"  that  there  is  another  injunction  in  the 
Bible,  in  equally  imperative  language,  which  they 
entirely  disregard — ^'^Call  no  man  fatiber  upon  the 
earth*'  (Matt  xziiL  9)  P  If  any  of  jrour  readers 
are  of  the  class  I  have  mentioned,  it  would  be 
satisfactory  to  know  from  him  why  it  is  that  the 
one  command  is  so  rigidly  construed,  while  the 
other  is  wholly  disobeyed  r  G. 

Edinbaigh. 

MooB  Pabk. — Are  there  extant  any  early  en- 
gravings of  Moor  Park,  or  More  Lodge,  in  Hert- 
fordshire, as  it  existed  in  the  time  of  James  L  or 
Charles  I.,  or  any  account  of  the  beautiful  oar- 
dens,  other  than  that  giyen  by  Sir  WilUam 
Temple  ?  M.  P. 

MoBTDCSB,  Eabl  07  Mabch. — ^In  the  Harleian 
MSS.,  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  who  married  the 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  is  stated  to 
have  left  two  sons — Edmund,  his  successor  in 
both  earldoms,  and  Edward,  from  whom  is  traced 
therein  a  long  line.  Sir  B.  Burke,  in  his  Extind 
BaronieSf  does  not  mention  Edward  the  second 
son.  Can  any  one  give  me  information  on  thia 
matter,  or  where  to  look  further  for  such  ? 

J.  A. 

MouBNiNo  OB  Blaokbdobd  WBiTiNe  Papsb. 
I  have  lately  been  endeavouring  to  find  out  when 
the  use  of  mourning  stationery  came  into  use  in 
England,  and  was  under  the  impression  that  I 
should  find  some  information  on  the  subject  in 
these  pages.  Having,  however,  searched  the  pre- 
ceding volumes  without  success,  I  subjoin  a  few 
conjectures  of  my  own. 

When  did  blackedged  writing  paper  come  into 
use  P  I  believe  that  the  large  4to  writing  paper, 
capable  of  being  folded  so  as  to  form  a  cover,  was 
in  common  use  in  England  until  1840,  when,  the 
weight  of  a  letter  carried  for  one  penny  being 
restricted  to  half  an  ounce,  the  4to  letter  paper 
was  gpradually  superseded  by  the  8vo  note  paner. 
The  Svo  note  paper  had,  however,  this  dis- 
advantage— it  could  not  be  folded  so  as  to  ensure 
secrecy:  a  cover  therefore  became  a  necessity. 
Our  ever-inventive  neighbours — ^the  French — ^sent 
us  the  thing  we  wanted,  and  made  us  a  present  of 
the  name  enveloppe.    The  use  of  blackeaged  note 


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paper  and  envelopes  (for  "^e  have  declined  to  use 
the  second  p)  would  therefore  seem  to  have  arisen 
after  1840.  But  how  came  hlack  to  creep  on  the 
margin  of  writing  paper  P  Perhaps  thus :  I  sup- 
pose it  to  have  been  customary  long  before  1840 
for  undertakers^  on  the  occasion  of  a  funeral^  to 
send  out  hatbands  and  gloves  to  mourners  m  a 

f*gantic  envelope  which  was  blackedged.  Thence, 
presume,  the  smaller  envelopes  for  notes  re- 
ceived a  black  edge,  which  at  last  crept  inside, 
where  now  we  are  sometimes  alarmed  to  see  it 
obtrudiDg  from  one-sixteenth  to  three-auarters  of 
an  inch  all  round  the  surface  of  a  small  sheet  of 
paper !  But  was  there  no  blackedged  letter  paper 
before  1840  of  the  4to  size  P  I  am  not  aware  tnat 
there  was.  I  believe  that  no  ancient  blackedged 
letter  paper  is  known  in  the  British  Museum.  I 
liave  myself  several  old  letters  in  4to  with  deli- 
cate gilt  edges,  but  none  with  the  hideous  black 
,  margins  of  the  present  day. 

I  suppose  that  black  sealing  wax  is  as  old  as 
the  red  wax ;  and  black  wax  was,  I  imagine,  the 
earliest  and  onlv  token  of  mourning  employed  in 
letter-writing,  datinff  perhaps  from  1556. 

I  shall  be  glad,  however,  to  be  set  right  by 
aome  of  your  venerable  and  honoured  correspon- 
dents if,  in  the  above  statement^  my  inexperience 
has  led  me  into  error.  W.  H.  S. 

Mrs.  Oom. — ^Who  was  Mrs.  Oom  P  She  was  a 
lady  interested  in  music,  evidently,  for  her  name 
figures  upon  a  sonata  for  pianoforte  by  the  late 
Samuel  Wesley  (which  is  chiefly  made  up  of 
fugue  upon  a  subject  by  Saloman;  so  that  she 
must  have  had  a  taste  for  the  abstruse),  and  again 
upon  a  senate  by  Woelfl.  I  think  I  have  seen 
her  name  upon  other  title-pages^  but  I  cannot 
xeinember  wnat  they  were.     W.  J.  WESTBBOor. 

Sydenham. 

Paslby  ob  Paslbwe. — In  the  decayed  diocesan 
Tetums  or  manuscripte  of  the  registers  of  Huyton, 
near  Knowsley,  is  an  entry,  I  think,  of  a  burial : 
*'  1639,  Henriette  Maria  .  .  .  Christopher  Pasley 
•  .  .  .  et  h.  of  Tarbock."  I  am  desirous  of  know- 
ing what  family  this  Pasley  belonged  to.  in  order 
to  learn  ite  connection  with  the  l^bocks  of  Tar- 
bock,  near  Huyton.  The  last  abbot  of  Whitley 
was,  I  believe,  a  Paslewe;  and  in  1567,  "Eliz" 
fiL  Xfer.  Nowell,"  of  Little  Mereley,  co.  Lan- 
caster, Gent.,  was  married  to  Thomas  Pawslowe, 
or  Paslewe,  of  Winswell,  co.  Lancaster,  Gent. 
It  is  not  improbable,  notwithstanding  the  difler- 
ence  in  spelling,  that  the  issue  of  this  marriage 
was  the  above-named  Christopher  Pasley,  who, 
no  doubt,  married  a  Tarbock,  Stanley,  or  Moly- 
neux.  There  was  Henriette  Maria  Stanley  (daugh- 
ter of  James,  seventh  Earl  of  Derby),  who  was 
married  to  Viscount  Molyneux,  and  secondly  to 
Wm.  Wentworth,  Earl  of  Strafford  j  but  she  was 
bom  in  1030,  and  died  in  1G85.         T.  Helsby. 


PoBGELAiN  QiJEET. — ^\Vhat  English  china  was 

marked  m      j   in  a  rather    antiquated   style? 

My  specimens  are  in  imitetion  of  Orientel. 

J.  C  J. 

Pbauc  xxttt. — ^Who  is  the  author  of  a  vexaion 
beginnings 

^  The  Lord  is  my  Shepherd,  no  want  shall  be  nune; 
In  pafltnrea  of  verdure  h»  makes  me  recUne  "  ? 

Can  any  of  your  coireBpondente  supply  the 
remainder  of  the  psalm  P  J.  U.  Rxtst. 

[James  Montgomery  is  the  author  of  a  psalm  com- 
mencing-- 

*'  The  Lord  is  my  Shepherd,  no  want  shall  I  know ; 
I  feed  in  green  pastures,  safe-folded  I  lest." 
^The  ChrutianPsalmiat,  ed.  1825,  p.  56.] 

Shakxspsabe's  "  ScA]csL8."^^ln  the  Dramatic 

RegiOer  for  1853  (T.  H.  Lacy)  I  find  at  p.  35  the 

following  statement  :^ 

*'  Scamels,  which  word  has  occasioned  so  much  worth- 
less di8ca8sion»it  appears  is  the  common  name  for  limpets 
in  Cornwall  as  well  as  in  Ireland.** 

.  This  information  is  said  to  be  taken  from  an 
annotated  copy  of  The  Tempest.  May  I  ask  if 
this  statement  can  be  coiroboiated  as  to  the  pro- 
vincial use  of ''  scamels  "  P — as  of  course  the  diffi- 
cult is  thus  cleared  up.  A  Forsiqnsb. 

Ths  Sun  ihevkb  bets  oir  thb  Bbitibh  Do- 
unrioKS. — Who  was  the  author  of  the  now  hack- 
neyed saying  that  the  sun  never  seta  on  the  British 
dominions  ?  Did  he  borrow  the  idea&om  Eutiliua, 
who  says  of  Rome  (i.  63)  ^« 

*'Obraerint  dtius  scelerata  obUvia  aolem 
Qnam  tans  ex  nostro  corde  recedat  honos. 
Nam  Bolis  radiis  squalia  munera  tendis, 

Qua  circumfusuB  fluctoat  Ooeaniu. 
Yolvitur  ipse  tibi,  qui  continet  omnia,  Phmbns, 
Eque  tais  ortos  in  tua  condit  equos." 

K-  F  T 
[See  "  N.  4&  Q.**  4*  S.  ii.  535.] 

SuPBBSTixioiT  iir  SuvFOLK.  —  In  a  village  itt 
Suffolk  resides  a  young  lad  who  is  afflicted  with 
a  glandular  swelhng,  at  times  very  painful.  In 
May  last  his  mother  caught  a  toad,  and  in  the 
presence  of  the  lad  sewed  it  up  alive  in  a  bag. 
which  she  hung  on  the  wall  of  the  room  of 
the  cottage  in  which  she  lived.  The  idea  nrevsH- 
ing  in  the  woman's  mind  is  that  when  the  toad 
shall  have  crumbled  to  dust^  her  child's  glandular 
swelling  will  be  stanched  and  will  die  away.  Is 
this  a  common  superstition  ?  Hic  ex  ubique. 
7,  Lancaster  Gate,  W. 

VooDomBM. — What  is  Voodonism?  From  a 
note  in  the  London  Figaro  of  Jan.  28,  1871,  it  ap- 
pears to  be  an  American  invention.  Is  the  whole 
account  a  canard  P  It  is,  however,,  stated  in  the 
above  paper  that  a  man  named — 

**  Jos.  Able  made  a  contract  with  the  Devil  to  pat  a  snake 
into  the  leg  of  one  Samuel  Paine,  an  enemy  of  his 
....  The  snake  was  captured  and  hung  up  to  dry;  his- 


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carcase  was  then  reduced  to  powder,  and  strewn  in  the 
path  of  the  doomed  man.  When  he  stepped  upon  this 
*  mjsterioas  dnst,  he  distinctly  felt  the  serpent  enter  his 
le^.  His  wife,  however,  applied  poultices,  &c.,  and  ex- 
tracted the  snake,  which  was  a  foot  long,  and  quite 
lively." 

This  of  course  reads  like  a  hoax,  but  what  is 
the  origin  of  ihe  term.  Voodonism  P 

James  BBiiTEir. 

The  Whttb  Towbr  op  London. — ^Queries  upon 
pp.  19,  25,  39,  41,  97,  98,  and  104  of  Mr.  G.  T. 
Clark's  ''  Particulars  concerning  the  Military 
Architecture  of  the  Tower  of  London  "  (Old  Lon- 
don, Paper  n.  pp.  13  to  139),  published  by  Mur- 
ray, 1867 :— 

1.  Is  it  probable  that  William  the  Conqueror 
overawed  London,  for  twelve  or  fourteen  years, 
with  a  fortress  consbting  of  a  deep  ditch  and 
strong  palisade  onlj  (p.  19),  and  that  he  required 
flome  years'  experience  of  the  value  of  the  site 
before  he  could  determine  to  erect  a  regular  castle 
(p.  97)? 

2.  Could  the  White  Tower  of  London,  with 
twenty-four  feet  of  foundation  towards  the  river, 
and  walls  from  twelve  feet  to  fifteen  feet  thick 
(p.  25),  reasonably  be  said  to  have  been  executed 
in  haste  (>.  41)  P 

3.  Could  the  White  Tower  have  been  built"  by 
a  Norman  architect  as  a  refuge  for  royaltv  without 
a  well,  without  proper  conveniences,  and  without 
any  trace  of  the  usual  Norman  chevron  or  zig-zag 
ornament  (p.  39)  P 

4.  Is  there  anvthing  in  Texhu  JRoffensis  to  show 
that  Gundulph  6uift  &e  White  Tower  <p.  98)  P 

5.  Did  the  Normans  build  with  ''  mortar  tem- 
pered with  the  blood  of  beasts"  (Fitzstephen, 
quoted  p.  104),  or,  in  plain  English,  did  the  Nor- 
mans pound  red  bricks  to  mix  with  their  mortar  P 

Considering  that  the  historical  events  of  the 
Conoueror's  reign  warrant  only  a  conclusion  that 
the  former  buildings  of  the  Homans,  the  Anglo- 
Saxons,  of  Alfred,  and  of  Edward  the  Elder,  were 
hastilv  repaired  or  fortified  by  the  Normans,  and 
considering  that  the  Tower  of  London  in  parti- 
<:ular  was  hastily  prepared  for  the  Conqueror's 
reception  in  the  short  space  of  six  weeks,  is  it  not, 
on  the  whole,  more  in  accordance  with  probabi- 
lity (independent  of  other  considerations)  that  the 
White  Tower  so  called  was,  as  Stukeley  showed 
it,  a  Roman  work,*  which  the  keen  glance  of  the 
Conqueror  detected  the  vidue  of,  and  forthwith 
adapted  to  his  own  use  P  Roman. 

^  At  p.  22  Mr.  Clark  describes  it  as  the  White  or 
Ciesar's  Tower,  and  in  the  same  volume  Mr.  Bnrtt,  in  an 


article  entitled  "Public  Record  Office"  (Paper  iv. 
p.  247),  has  quoted  Shakspeare  (Rickard  Ilu  Act  III. 
Sc.  1)  on  the  Roman  origin  of  the  White  Tower.    It 


•cannot  yet  be  forgotten  that  Canute  ordered  Edric  to  be 
decapitated,  and  his  head  placed  on  the  Tower  of  London, 
which  was,  when  the  tide  rose,  washed  by  the  Thames. 


Wht  does  a  nbwlt-bobn  Child  cry? 

David  Copnerfield  was  bom  at  midnicrht  on  a 
Friday,  and  ^4t  was  remarked  that  the  clock 
began  to  strike  and  he  to  cry  simultaneously." 
Lucretius  (v.  227)  gives  the  epicurean  reason  in 
his  beautiful  lines  on  infancy : — 

"Vagi  tuque  locum  lugubri  complet,  ut  aaquum  est, 
Quoi  tantum  in  vita  restet  transire  malorum." 

Augustine  says  (reference,  alas  I  lost) — 

"^  Poterat  ridere  prius  puer  qui  nascitnr,  quare  a  fleta 
incipit  vivere  ?  ridere  nondum  novit,  quare  plorare  jam 
novlt  ?  quia  oceplt  ire  in  istam  vitam." 

By  wav  of  showing  Augustine's  familiarity  with 
nursery  lore,  it  is  worth  while  quoting  from  him 
(Confess,  i.  6),  when  an  infimt  first  smiles: — "  Post 
et  ridere  coepi,  dormiens  prime,  delude  vigilans." 
There  is  a  beautiful  poem  on  this  idea  called 
"  The  First  Smile,"  imJ^eble's  IJ^a  Inuocentium, 
of  which,  however,  only  the  first  stanza  is  his. 

PiSLAGnrs. 


"PRASER'S  MAGAZINE":  "GALLERY 
OF  ILLUSTRIOUS  LITERARY  CHARACTERS.'* 

(4»»>  S.  vu.  81.) 

The  list  furnished  by  J.  F.  M.  of  the  remark- 
able gallery  of  portituts  ^ich,  for  the  first 
brilliant  decade  of  her  existence^  formed  so  dis- 
tinctive a  characteristic  of  **  Regma,"  is  so  nearly 
complete,  that  were  it  not  for  the  opportunity  of 
setting  it  forth  in  chronological  order  from  a  copy 
before  me,  and  appending  a  few  notes  that  may 
not  be  devoid  of  interest,  it  might  well  be  allowed 
to  remain  without  alteration  or  addition. 

The  first  number  of  JF^raser^s  Magazine  appeared 
on  Feb.  1. 1830 :  the ''  Gallery  "  was  commenced  in 
the  number  for  June  following,  with  the  tXieeXo^ 
of  William  Jerdan,  accompanied  by  a  ^uui  bio- 
^aphico-critical  sketch,  wnich,  we  are  mformed, 
IS  "written  in  our  most  elaborate  style."  From 
this  period  to  Dec.  1836,  no  montii  failed  to  bring 
forth  its  portrait  and  its  illustrative  page  of  letter- 
press. A  gap  then  occurred.  An  attempt  to 
resume  the  series  was  made  in  1888 ;  but  some- 
how the  old  spirit  was  gone,  and  the  series  was 
closed  in  the  month  of  April  by  the  portly  form 
of  Sydney  Smith,  of  merry  and  reverend  memory. 

The  following  list  will  be  found  to  present  the 
entire  series  in  due  chronological  sequence : — 

VOLS.  1830. 

I.  June.  William  Jerdan. 

July.  Thomas  Campbell. 

II.  August.  J.  G.  Lockhart. 

September.  Samuel  Rogers. ) 

October.  Thomas  Moore. 

November.  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

December.  John  Gait. 

1831. 
January.       William  Maginn,  **  The  Doctor." 


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Just  at  this  period  (to  digress  for  a  moment)  a 
poem,  "  In  Laudem  Reflnnee/'  appeared  from  uie 
pen  of  the  late  F.  W.  N.  Bayley.  Althouffh  of 
no  special  merit,  I  shall  transcribe  a  couple  of 
stanzas  descriptive  of  the  portraits  which  had 
alread J  appeared :  — 

"  With  portraits  of  our  learned  men 

It  makes  the  world  acquainted; 
To  see  their  phizzes  pencilled  there 

Is  next  to  oeinfi:  sainted  I 
Jerdan  was  drawn  as  Jordan  is 

When  evening  dews  are  falling ! 
Sir  Walter  walked  about  his  grounds^ 

To  his  northern  watch-dog  calling. 
Gedt  warm'd  his  inexpressibles 

Before  a  roaringr  fire  I 
And  Roger*  lookra  as  much  amafied 

As  one  oonld  well  desire. 

"  Loeihart,  the  comet  of  the  North, 

His  brown  dgar  was  smoking; 
Moore  gazed  upon  the  clement  skies^ 

And  Took'd  hke  Momns  Joking  I 
Campbell,  with  lengthy  pipe  in  handt 

Seem'd  like  a  gckl  ^i  aover ! 
Jifaginnf  arrayed  in  new  brown  scratch, 

A  gentleman  all  over. 
Croker,  the  Irish  fairy  king. 

And  Oberon  of  the  modems, 
With  several  others  yet  to  come, 

Who  donbtless  will  be  odd  'ons  I " 


But  to  resume  my  list :  -» 

1881. 
Crofton  Croker* 
Mrs.  Norton. 
John  Wilson. 
Mary  Russell  Mitford. 
Don  Telesforo  de  Tmeba  y  Godow 
TheEarlofMnnster. 


VOLS. 

III.  February. 
March. 
April. 
M(ay. 
June. 
July. 

IT.  August. 
September. 
October. 


November. 
December. 

January. 

V,  February. 
March. 
April. 
May. 
June. 
July. 

YI.  August. 
September. 
October. 
November. 
December. 

YII.  January. 
February. 
March. 
ApriL 
Miy. 
June. 

Tni.  July. 
August. 
September. 


Lord  John  Rnssdl. 

John  Wilson  Croker. 

Tydus   Pooh-Pooh,  **Onr   Man   of 

Genius." 
Washington  Irving. 
Lord  Brougham  and  Yanz. 

1882. 
Robert  Montgomery. 
James  Hogg. 
The  Baron  von  Goethe. 
Israel  (no)  D'lsraeli. 
The  Antiquaries. 
Louis  Eustache  Ude. 
Rev.  Doctor  Lardner. 

Edward  Lytton  Bulwer. 
Allan  Cunningham. 
William  Wordsworth. 
Sir  David  Brewster. 
William  Roecoe. 

1888. 
Prince  de  Talleyrand. 
James  Morier. 
Countess  of  Blessington. 
"The  Tiger"  (W.  Dunlop.) 
Benjamin  Disraeli. 
Thomas  Carlyle. 

Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge. 
Georvre  Cruikshank. 
Dr.  Moir. 


VOLS. 

October. 

Noyember. 

December. 

*"  IX.  January. 
February. 
March. 

April. 

May. 

June. 

X.  July. 
August 
September. 
October. 
November. 
December. 

XI.  January. 
February. 
March. 
ApriL 
May. 
June. 

XIL  July. 
August 
September. 
October. 
November. 
December. 


1833. 

Mias  Landon. 

Miss  Harriet  Martinean. 

Grant  Thorbum  (<*  Laurie  Todd.") 

1834. 

Captain  Ross. 

Sir  Egerton  Biydges. 

Danid  O'Connell  and  Richard  Lalor 

Shid. 
Theodore  Hook. 
Charles  MoUoy  Westmacott. 
Leigh  Hunt 

W.  H.  Ainsworth. 

Thomas  Hill. 

Rev.  George  Robert  Gleig. 

William  Godwin. 

James  Smith. 

Count  D*Orsay. 

1885. 

The  Fraserians. 
Charles  Lamb. 
Pierre  Jean  de  B^ranger. 
Miss  Jane  Porter. 
Lady  Moigan. 
Alaric  AttUa  Watts. 

Lord  Frauds  Egerton. 
Henry  0*Brien. 
Michael  Thomas  Sadler. 
William  Cobbett 
Earlof  Mulgraye. 
Robert  Macnish. 

1836. 

Regina's  Maids  of  Honour. 

Michael  Faradav. 

Rey.  William  lisle  Bowles. 

Francis  Place. 

Sir  John  C.  Hobhonsa, 

Mrs.  S.  C.  Hall. 

Mr.  Serjeant  Talfourd. 
Sir  John  Soane. 
Sheridan  Knowles. 
Lord  Lyndhurst. 
Edmund  Lodge. 
John  Baldwin  Bnekstone. 


XIII.  January. 

February. 

March. 

ApriL 

ICay. 

June. 
XIY.  July. 

August 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 

XY.  None. 

Here  is  a  solution  in  tbe  continuity  of  our 
series.  No  portraits  appeared  in  this  yolume^  the 
editor  expressing  in  his  preface  the  fear  that  its 
readers  will  miss  *'our  old  familiar  faces — ^the 
peculiar  feature  of  the  magazine— our  Monthly 
Gallery."    He  adds:  — 

**  We  cannot  avoid  seeing  that  our  original  compact, 
of  giving  our  readers  sketches  of  ilhutrious  literary  cha- 
racters^ can  hardly  be  kept  up.  .  .  .  Complaints  hare 
reached  us  that  some,  occasionally  presented,  do  not  ftilfil 
this  condition.  .  .  .  intend  to  lie  fallow  in  the  Galleiy 
department  for  a  time,  hoping  that  a  new  crop  will  turn 
up  fit  for  the  industiy  of  our  labourers.*' 

YOLS. 

XYI.  None. 

1888. 

XYIL  March.         Sir  William  Molesworth. 
April.  Rev.  Sydney  Smith. 

Here  the  series  terminates^  and  I  am  not  aware 
that  other  plates  appeared.    I  tiJce  the  following 


^ 


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4A  s.  vn.  Mahch  11. 71.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


213 


analjds  from  a  later  yolume  of  the  magazine 
(voL  ixL  p.  21) :  — 

78  Separate  portraits:  omit  Tjdas  Pooh-Poob, 
and  add  Shiel,  who  appears  on  same  plate 
as  Cobbett     ..... 

27  Figures  in  <*  The  Fraserians  " :  deduct  18  which 
bad  previonaly  appeared,  leaving     . 

18  Fignres  in  **Tbe  'Antiquaries" :  deduct  8  which 
bad jprevionsly  appeared,  leaving    . 

Each  of  **Kegina'8  Maids  of  Honour*'  bad  bad  a 
separate  plate  to  herself 


Total  number  of  portraits 


78 

9 

15 

ft 
102 


Thejportrfdts  which  appear  for  the  first  time  in 
«*  The  Fraserians  " 


Perceval  W,  Banks. 
John  ChorcbilL 
James  Fnaer. 
Rev.  Edward  In-ing. 
Bev.  Francis  Mahony. 


Francis  Murphy. 

Bryan  W.  Proctor  ("Barry 

Cornwall.") 
Robert  Southey. 
William  M.  Thackeray. 


There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  next  figure 
bat  one  to  the  right  of  Dr.  Maginn  is  intended 
for  Southey;  the  aquiline  contour  of  the  face 
resembles  that  of  the  Laureate,  and  the  identifi- 
cation is  coiToborated  by  Mahony  in  his  repro- 
duction of  the  cartoon  u>r  Bohn*s  edition  of  The 
JReU^ttea  of  Father  Prout.  Still  it  is  curious  that  in 
Magmn's  paper,  <'  The  fraserians  "  {Fraaer^e  Mag, 
zL  10),  Southey  is  not  mentioned,  and  Maclise 
alluded  to  as  sitting  to  the  left  of  Barry  Gozn- 
walL  Crofton  Groker,  in  his  after-dinner  speech^ 
ia  made  to  say : — 

"  While  we  were  all  chattering  and  gabbling  about  the 
altSdra  of  all  kinds  of  writing-people,  we  were  forgetting 
that  there  was  sitting  among  ns  a  decent  fellow,  who 
has  the  art  of  making  faces  in  a  manner  never  beat  yet. 
I  do  not  like  mentioning  names^  for  it  is  dangerous  in 
these  croas  times  :  but  there  he  is,  Dan  —  I  bc^  pardon, 
for  I  was  uncommon  near  making  a  slip  of  the  tongue — 
there  he  is,  Mr.  Alfred  Croqnis,  sitting  cheek  by  Jowl  to 
Mr.  Barry  Cornwall ;  and  a  neat  article  he  is—I  mean 
Croquls  equally  as  well  as  I  mean  Cornwall.  There  he 
iBf  as  prim  and  demure  as  a  young  lady  at  a  christening, 
and  good  luck  to  him ;  only  he  is  caricaturing  ns  all  the 
whole  time  he  is  sitting  there  as  quiet  as  if  he  were  a 
mouse  in  a  cheese.  Nevertheless  Igive  his  health,  and 
long  may  he  live  to  sketch  and  etch.  Hera*s  your  health, 
Dan,  my  boy  !~Alfred  1  mean,  only  it's  the  same 
thing." 

The  ''Doctor"  must  have  made  a  mistake; 
he  should  have  known  his  riffht-hand  neighbour — 
once  remoyed^  it  is  true--out  then,  it  was  after 
dinner  I 

The  following  appear  for  the  first  time  in  ''  The 
Antiquaries  " : — 

Eari  of  Aberdeen.  William  B.  Hamilton. 

William  H.  Brooke.  Alfred  John  Kempe. 

Nicholas  Carlisle.  Robert  Lemon. 

John  Caley.  J.  Martin. 

Sir  Henry  £llis.  John  Bowyer  Nichols. 

John  FnsL  Sir  Harris  Nicolas. 

Daviea  Gflbert  William  Heniy  Bosser. 
He&iy  Hallam. 


Shortiy  after  the  discontinuance  of  the  series 
was  issued  in  a  substantive  form  ''  A  Collection 
of  Literaiy  Portraits  from  Fraser'e  Magazine,^* 
The  following  were  the  plates  selected : — 

1.  The  Society    of  Anti-  17.  John  Gibson  Lockbart 
queries.  18.  Doctor  Maginn. 

2.  The  Countess  of  Bless-  19.  Miss  Mitford. 
ingtoo.  20.  Robert  Montgomery. 

8.  Lord    Brougham    and  21.  Thomas  Moore. 
Yaux.  22.  James  Morier. 

4.  EdwardLyttonBulwer.  23.  The  Earl  of  Munster. 

5.  Thomas  Ounpbell.  24.  Hon.  Mrs.  Norton. 

6.  The  Right  Hon.  John  25.  Samuel  Rogers. 
Wilson  Croker.  26.  William  Roscoe. 

7.  Thomas  Crofton  Croker.  27.  Lord  John  Russell. 

8.  Allan  Cunningham.         28.  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

9.  Benjamin  DlsraelL         29.  Prince  de  Talleyrand. 

10.  Isaac  D'Israeli  80.  DonTelesforodeTrneba 

11.  John  Gait.  y  Cosio. 

12.  The  Baron  Yon  Goethe.  81.  Tydus  Pooh-Pooh. 
18.  James  Hogg.  82.  Louis  Eustache  Ude. 

14.  Washington  Irving.        88.  Profiissor  Wilson. 

15.  William  Jerdan.  84.  William  Wordsworth. 

16.  Rev.  Doctor  Lardner. 

A  very  limited  number  of  this  edition  was 
printed ;  price  two  guineas  plain  proofs,  and  three 
ffuineas  india  proofs,  of  which  latter  only  twenty- 
four  copies  were  struck  off.  The  drawings,  we 
are  tola,  had  been  destroyed  immediately  after 
their  first  appearance ;  and  not  one  had  been  suf- 
fered to  get  abroad  detached  from  the  magazine. 

It  is  my  opinion  that  the  entire  series  of  the 
drawings  was  the  production  of  Maclise.  They 
form  a  splendid  collection,  of  deep  and  increas- 
ing interest.  Some  are  free  outiine  sketches  with 
crow-quill  and  lithographic  ink;  some  artist's 
etchings,  and  some— as,  for  instance,  the  portraits 
of  Sir  David  Brewster  and  Thomas  Carlyle — the 
most  finished  productions  of  the  hwrin,  in  the 
highest  style  of  the  engraver's  art  Hear  the 
editor's  farewell :-» 

**  How  can  we  part  f\rom  our  Gallery,  without  saying 
a  word  or  two  about  him  to  whose  pencil  we  are  in- 
debted  for  it— our  old  and  mnch-honouied  friend  Croquis^ 

He  is  rndng  every  year  to  higher  honours  and 

renown,  and  displaying  fresh  proofli  of  unwearied  genius ; 
and  though  the  pictares  which  he  exhibits  are  of  greater 
splendour  and  loftier  aspiration,  yet,  in  their  own  way, 
we  maintain  that  the  sketches  of  Croquis  display  as  much 
talent  as  any  production  of  the  best  R.A.  or  A.R.A.  of 
the  lot — ay,  even  if  you  named  Maolzss  himself."  — 
Drater'i  Mag,  Jan.  1840,  p.  26. 

Equal  in  talent  are  the  accompanying  letter- 
press (fetches.  Humorous,  learned,  ncy,  pointed, 
and  yigorous;  scintillating  with  wit^  biting  with 
irony,  or  withering  with  sarcasm,  who  could  have 
produced  them  but  the  Doctor  himself?  In  a 
feeling  and  painfully  interesting  biography  written 
by  his  friend,  the  modem  Deipnosophisl^  and  not 
by  Moir,  to  whom  I  have  seen  it  attributed,  the 
following  passage  occurs : — 

**  A  highly  popular  and  deligbtlhl  feature  in  thisms^g^- 
sine  (fVuscr's,  of  the  establishment  of  which  the  writer 
has  Just  been  spealdng)  was  the  GaiUty  of  Literary  Por- 


iS^a- 


214 


NOTES  AND   QUERIES.  [4'«»S.VII.  March  U,  71. 


traitSf  the  letterpress  for  nearly  all  of  which  was  written 
by  Maginn.  These  were  entirely  original  in  plan  and 
execation,  and  created  a  sensation  in  literary  circles  not 
often  paralleled.  The  exquisite  sketches  by  Maclise 
added  not  a  little  to  their  attraction.  As  a  whole,  they 
are,  we  think,  the  most  original  and  sparkling  of  the 
Doctor's  productions ;  and  when  we  remember  that  they 
were  hit  off  at  a  moment's  notice,  we  shall  be  easily  able 
to  fancy  how  meteoric  was  the  intellect  from  which  they 
emanated.     Wit  was  their  principal  recommendation. 

And  we  nerer  read  them  without  involuntarily 

thinking  we  hear  the  Doctor  speak,  for  they  are  per- 
fect resemblances  of  what  his  conyersationwas." — Dublin 
Univ,  Mag,  Jan.  1844,  p.  88. 

One  sketch,  howeyer  (that  of  Goethe),  was 
written  by  Thomas  Carlyle,  and  is  included  in  the 
American  edition  of  his  .Essays;  the  drawing, 
too,  was  not  like  the  others,  ad  mvum,  but  copied 
by  Maclise  from  the  full-length  portrait  by 
Stieler  of  Munich. 

It  must  not  be  supposed  that  the  originals  of 
the  portraits  were  inyariably  gratified  by  the 
manner  in  which  artist  or  author  had  set  them 
before  their  contemporaries.  To  some  an  amende 
was  made.  Thus  the  editor  admits  ^at  the  ob- 
seryations  on  Montgomeiy,  Miss  Martineau,  and 
Lardne^  "  though  not  remarkably  harsh,  were 
uncalledL-for  and  unjust."  <*  Lord  John  Russell,'' 
adds  he,  ''and  two  or  three  others  should  not 
haye  been  there  at  all " ;  and  *'  some,  as  Grant 
Thorbum,  the  thrice  centenarian,  Tom  Hill,  and 
Eustache  Ude,  were  no  more  than  curiosities." 
Alaric  Watts,  who  was  depicted  as  moying  off 
from  some  studio  or  auction-room,  with  furtive 
speed,  a  picture  under  each  arm,  brought  an 
action  agamst  the  publisher  to  recoyer  damages 
for  a  libel.  He  got  a  yerdict  for  150/.  Fraser 
applied  for  a  new  trial,  and  obtained  a  rule  nisi ; 
but  on  the  case  being  heard  m  banco  the  trial  was 
refused  on  a  technical  point. 

*^  The  Fraserians  "  is  certainly  the  gem  of  the 
whole  collection,  ''rendering  priceless,"  as  the 
Graphic  said  lately  in  its  notice  of  Maclise^  "  the 
number  of  leaser  (the  61st)  in  which  it  ap- 
peared " ;  nor  can  I  conceive  a  more  interesting  or 
appropriate  ornament  than  it  for  the  libraries  of 
those  who  are  fortunate  enough  to  obtiun  it. 

The  accompanying  paper,  entitled  also  "  The 
Fraserians,"  is  by  Maginn,  and  in  his  veiy  best 
style.  Mahony  (Father  Prout)  has  written  no 
further  account  of  this  exquisite  cartoon  than  a 
sentence  in  his  preface  to  JSohn's  edition  of  the 
ReUques  of  Father  Proutf  to  which,  for  the  first 
time,  the  plate  itself,  with  the  name  of  the  original 
appended  to  each  portrait,  is  introduced  as  fron- 
tispiece. This  preface  bears  the  date  1859,  and 
is  probably  that  concerning  which  J.  F.  M.  in- 
quires. At  that  time — twelve  years  ago— only 
eight  out  of  the  twenty-seven  guests  crowded 
round  Fraser's  table  were  living — 

*' qnot  libns  in  duce  summo 

Invenies? ," 


What  is  now  left  of  that  brilliant  assemblage  of 
wit  and  learning  ? 

Of  the  sin jfuiar  plate,  "  Tydus  Pooh-Pooh,  our 
Man  of  Genius,"  1  cannot  offer  any  explanation. 
It  is  describee^ by  Fraser  himself  as  "  a  joke,  the 
point  of  which  is  now  forgotten." 

A  similar  series  entitled  "  Our  Portrait  Gallery," 
inferior  in  interest  and  artistic  merit,  but  with 
much  longer  and  more  serious  biographical  notices, 
will  be  found  in  the  Dublin  University  Magasine, 
This  includes  seventy-two  portraits,  and  condudes, 
I  think,  with  that  of  Captain  McClure,  R.N.,  in 
the  number  for  March,  1864,  vol.  xliii.  Those 
of  Moore  and  J.  W.  Croker,  vol.  xix. ;  Dr.  Maginn, 
vol.  xxiiL ;  Orofton  Croker^  voL  xxxiv. ;  and  J.  S. 
Enowles,  voL  xl.,  have  their  prototypes  in  Fraser, 
with  which  they  mav  be  compared. 

The  signature  "  Alfred  Croquis,"  appended  to  so 
many  of  the  portraits  in  Fraser's  "  Gallery "  by 
the  late  Daniel  Maclise,  R.A.,  must  not  be  con- 
founded with  "Alfred  Crowquiiy  the  well- 
known  pencil-name  by  which  that  clever  humor- 
ous artist  and  author,  Mr.  Forrester,  has  been 
familar  to  the  public  for  nearly  half  a  century. 

To  conclude:  "Fraser"  remarks — and  here, 
again,  do  not  confuse  Sugh  Fraser,  the  founder 
and  editor  of  the  magazine,  with  Jafnes  Fraser  of 
Regent  Street,  the  publisher, — "  Fraser,"  I  say, 
remarks  on  the  conclusion  of  his  "  Gallery  "  that 
it  forms  "  a  valuable  present  to  the  future  Gran- 
ger ;  even  as  it  is,  the  collection  is  in  no  incon- 
siderable demand  for  the  purpose  of  illustrating 
books  of  contemporary  literature.  ...  In  another 
generation  it  will  form  an  object  of  greater  curio- 
sity." 

This  prediction  is  verified.  What  a  truly 
charming  book  of  pictures  and  prose,  the  quint- 
essence, as  it  were,  of  MacUse  and  Maginn,  giving 
the  very  form  and  pressure  of  their  literary  time, 
would  this  century  of  illustrious  characters  make  I 
But  there  are,  I  am  afraid,  grave  difficulties  in 
the  way.  The  stones,  plates,  and  drawings  are 
destroyed,  and  the  necessary  process  of  tracing 
would  be  in  all  cases  expensive,  in  many  impoflsi- 
ble.  The  text  alone — ^Maginn's  graphic  pen-pic- 
tures— ^would  of  itself  form  a  delightful  volume ; 
but  then  the  references  to  the  drawings  are  so 
fre(|uent  that  it  would  have  an  unsatisfactory  bit 
of  imperfection  without  them.  StilL  such  a  re- 
production might  not  be  impracticaole  or  unre- 
munerative ;  and  I  for  one  should  heartily  rejoice 
in  the  .'possibility  of  the  possession,  in  a  commo- 
dious form,  of  that  which,  from  my  boyhood,  has 
been  to  me  a  source  of  constant  delight  and 
interest  Whuam  j3ate3. 

Birmingham. 

J.  F.  M.  will  find  Mahony's  accoimt  of  Mac- 
lise's  picture  of  "  The  Fraserians  "  for  which  he 
inquires,  accompanying  an  engraving  of  it,  in 


4«>»s.vii.marciiii.7i.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


215 


Bohn's  edition  (1860)  of  The  Itdiques  of  Father 
Protd,  which  is  also  illustrated  by  others  of  Mac- 
Use's  pictures,  inclading  the  portraits  of  B^ranger, 
Miss  liandon,  &c.                     William  Kblli. 
Leicester.  

MOUNT  CALVARY. 
(4t^  8.  vi.  542 ;  vii.  62, 103.) 

In  a  former  communication,  at  p.  62, 1  quoted 
these  words  from  the  13th  Catecheais  of  St  Cyril 
of  Jerusalem,  of  which  I  need  not  here  repeat  the 
original  Greek : — 

"  That  holy  and  Bupertji^nent  Golgotha  ;  and  to  be  seen 
at  this  day,  aod  showing  even  now  how  by  Christ  the 
rocks  were  rent." 

In  his  4th  CaUchssU  the  holy  bishop  also  says : 

kiuf  yitp  hf94\aaffihi  fiovki^Byf,  6  rowos  i\^x*^  ^*  ^^^ 
v6fim9Sf  6  fiaicdpUis  oZtos  T6\yo9dsf  ip  f  vw,  Ittit  rhp '  iv 
aih-f  arovpttOiirruj  ffvyKtKporifi€&a, 

He  was  tmly  cmcified  for  oar  sins.  And  if  yon  would 
deny  tbis»  the  eon$picuouM  place  will  conrinoe  yon :  this 
happj  Golgotha,  on  which  we  are  now  aaaembled  on 
aoeount  of  him  who  was  eracified  npon  it. 

Again,  in  his  10th  Catechens : — 

*0  ToXyt^iis  6  &yios  oSroy  6  hnpaofwryiK^Sf  fxapr^pti 

This  hdjy  Golgotha,  the  tHpereminaU,  conspicuously 
testifies.  The  most  holj  monument  bears  witness,  and 
the  stone  lying  there  even  to  this  day. 

Now  in  these  passn^  we  have  the  clear  testi- 
mony of  an  illustrious  Father  of  the  Church,  who 
was  Bishop  of  Jerusalem  in  the  fourth  century, 
who  lived  m  Jerusalem,  and  delivered  these  cate- 
chetical instructions  even  on  Calvary  itself— that 
the  same  Golgotha,  or  Calvary,  bore  evident  wit- 
ness to  our  Lord*8  crucifixion  oy  its  stawr^mmen/ 
and  coMpkwAU  and  rochf  appearance:  all  of  which 
features  prove  that  Calvary  was  an  elevated  spot^ 
and  justly  called  Mount  Calvaiy. 

But  Mb.  T£w  diemisses  all  this  copious  testi- 
mony of  St  Cyril  as  ''  valueless,"  because  the  his- 
torian Sozomen  tells  us  that  the  enemies  of  the 
Christian  name  walled  in  the  holy  sepulchre  and 
the  place  of  Calvary,  levelled  the  ground,  and 
built  upon  it  a  temple  to  Venus,  having  previously 
coverea  the  place  with  a  huge  mound  of  earth, 
and  raised  the  ground  higher  than  it  was  before, 
"as  it  now  appears";  and  St  Cyril  lived  long 
after  this  transaction.  But  he  declares  that  at 
the  very  time  when  he  delivered  his  catechetical 
discourses  the  rocks  were  conspicuous  before  his 
eyes,  attesting  their  being  rent  at  the  crucifixion,  and 
moreover  that  the  very  stone  of  the  sepulchre  was 
still  lying  there.  Clearly,  then,  either  the  rocky 
surface  of  Calvary  had  never  been  wholly  covered 
up  by  the  heathens,  or  it  had  been  laid  open  again 
by  the  excavations  of  St.  Helen  when  she  dis- 


covered the  cross  and  the  holy  sepulchre.  Sozo- 
men speaks  indeed  of  Golgotha,  as  seen  in  his 
day,  being  higher  than  it  was  before,  but  it  does 
not  follow  that  it  was  not  high  enough  before  to 
deserve  to  be  called  a  mountain.  Tne  object  of 
the  pagans  was  merely  to  bury  up  and  conceal  the 
holy  places,  but  we  are  still  free  to  believe  that 
they  were  of  a  certun  height  before ;  while  some 
parts  still  retained  in  the  time  of  Sozomen /l  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  additional  elevation  of 
the  pagan  mound.  It  is  not  likely,  however,  that 
the  rocks  had  ever  been  covered :  and  they,  and 
the  stone  of  the  sepulchre,  before  the  very  eyes  of 
St.  Cyril  and  his  hearers,  afford  evidence  surely 
not  to  be  summarily  dismissed  as  ''vp^Hellii/^ 

'   'F.  C.'to 

* 

I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Tew  for  pdMling  out  #te 
inaccuracy  of  the  translation  of  Sozomen  (Bohn's 
Bcd^  IAUk  1855)  to  which,  not  having  ~th'e  ori- 
ginal beside  me,  I  had  foolishly  enough  trusted. 
Clearly  he  does  not  make  Calvary  a  mount.  But 
besides  Theodorus,  whom  I  have  already  quoted, 
the  Bordeaux  pilgrim  as  clearly  does  \  and  he  visited 
Jerusalem  while  Constantine  s  church  wais  build- 
ing, and  about  a  hundred  years  before  Sozomen 
wrote — ''A  sinistra  autem  narte  est  monHcuhu 
Golgotha,  nbi  Dominus  crucinxus  est"  rParthey 
and  Pinder*s  edit  p.  279.)  I  cannot  follow  Mb. 
Tew*s  reasoning  as  to  Cyril  being  no  authority. 
The  discovery  of  the  sepulchre  took  place  a.d.  826, 
and  he  was  Archbishop  of  Jerusalem  within  twenty- 
three  years  i^ter.  Most  of  his  catechetical  lec- 
tures seem  to  have  been  actually  delivered  in  the 
church  of  Golgotha ;  and  in  addition  to  the  |his- 
sage  quoted  from  these  by  F.  C.  H.  a  similar 
expression  occurs  in  his  tenth  lecture,  §  19, 
where  he  speaks  of  <' Golgotha,  this  holv  place, 
conspicuously  standing  up  "  (&w€poy«<m|ic<6i)  as  one 
of  the  witnesses  to  Christ. 

WhUst  upon  this  subject,  I  may  be  allowed  to 
notice  that  hitherto,  wnile  the  supporters  of  Mr. 
Ferguson's  theoiy  that  the  Dome  of  the  Rock  is 
the  Anastasis  of  Constantine  could  point  to  vari- 
ous authors  in  the  early  centuries  who  identified 
the  scene  of  Christ's  passion  with  the  hill  on 
which  Abraham  offerea  up  Isaac,  and  to  various 
others  who  identified  this  latter  with  the  Temple 
hill,  no  single  writer  has  yet  been  found  wno 
could  be  proved  to  have  held  both  these  positions. 
St.  Jerome,  indeed,  in  his  Commentwy  on  Genesis 
xxii.  2,  and  again  on  Jeremiah  xxvi.  4,  describes 
the  mount  on  which  the  Temple  was  built  as  that 
on  which  Isaac  was  offered ;  and  he  is  also  stated 
by  Augustine  (Sermo  71,  Be  tempore)  to  have 
written  somewhere  "  that  he  most  certainly  knew 
from  ancient  authors  and  elder  Jews  that  Isaac 
was  sacrificed  on  the  spot  where  afterwards  Christ 
was  crucified."  But  no  passage  to  this  effect  can 
be  found  in  his  extant  works,  unless  we  include 


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the  CommcntAry  on  St.  Mark  appended  to  his 
writings  (edit.  Venet  1771,  torn.  ii.  pars  8,  p.  125), 
but  which  is  generallj  believed  to  be  from  another 
hand.  I  have,  however,  in  the  version  of  the 
tract  of  Theodorus  (to  whom  I  have  alreadv  re- 
ferred, and  who  is  held  by  Tobler,  and  I  believe 
rightly,  to  have  written  towards  the  close  of  the 
sixth  century)  in  the  Cottonian  Library  of  the 
British  Museum  (Titus,  D.  in.),  found  the  follow- 
ing remarkable  passage,  which  has  never  before 
been  published :  Dr.  Tobler,  in  his  recension  of 
the  MSS.,  having  in  this  place  adhered  to  the 
Paris  and  St  GaU  versions : — 

<*  Fxoin  the  pusion  of  the  Lord,  which  ib  the  place  of 
Calvary  to  the  sepulchre  of  the  Loid,  fifteen  paces.  There 
men  were  parsed  from  their  sins.*  There  Abraham 
offered  his  ion  for  a  bamt  ofiering  to  the  Lord ;  and  be- 
eanee  the  mount  is  rocky  it  is  ascended  by  steps.  There 
the  cross  of  the  Lord  was  found,  where  it  is  called  Grol- 

Stha.  There  are  again  some  who  affirm  that  the  cross 
elf,t  which  touchM  the  naked  body  of  the  Lord  and 
was  dyed  all  over  with  His  blood,  was  forthwith  carried 
away  fVom  human  touch  and  sight  to  heaven,  and  will 
at  last  appear  at  the  Judgment.  And  note  that  the  place 
of  Jerusalem,  which  is  called  the  vallev  of  vision  by 
Isaiah  the  prophet,  is  the  eminence  %  of  Moria,  on  which 
summit  also  is  the  little  hill  called  Moria  on  which 
Abraham  sacrificed  Isaac  Where  the  Jews  report  that 
aflerf wards]  the  Temple  was  built,  and  an  altar,  on 
which  [hill  J  also  Abraham  made  an  altar,  and  David 
saw  the  angel  sheathing  the  sword  in  the  threshing-floor 
of  Oma  the  Jebnsite." 

Whatever  else  may  be  thought  of  the  above, 
one  thing  aeema  dear,  that  the  writer  believed  the 
same  spot  to  have  witnessed  in  succession  the 
offering  of  Isaac,  the  vision  of  the  angel  at  Arau- 
nah'a  uireshing-floor,  the  building  of  the  Temple, 
and  the  death  and  burial  of  our  Saviour. 

Alex.  B.  M'Gbioob. 

19,  Woodside  Terrace,  Glasgow. 


MEANING  OP  "FOG." 
(4*  S.  vii  96.) 

Fog  is  a  common  word,  used  in  South  Lancashire, 
as  applied  to  the  aftermath,  eddish,  or  second  crop 
of  Rrass  in  meadows. 

In  the  Fjlde  district  of  North  Lancashire  the 
term  fog  is  applied  to  the  long  grass  in  pastures 
not  eaten  by  cattle,  but  which  becomes  withered 
and  bleached  by  the  winter's  frost. 

Bailey,  in  the  tenth  edition  of  his  Englith  Die- 
tionary,  says :  — 

*'  Foo  ^probably  of  affogart  (Italisn),  to  choak,  be- 
cause it  18  as  it  were  choaked  with  the  cold  of  the  fol- 
lowing winter].  Com  which  grows  after  autumn,  and 
remains  in  pasture  till  winter.''^ 

*  "  Decalnabantnr  "  read  **  decalcabantur  "  »  were 
whitened, 
t  **  Puoem  onaam  "  read  **  crucem  ipsam." 
X  The  text  here  is  -very  difficult  to  decipher,  and  ap- 
parently very  corrupt.  It  seems  to  read,  " .  .  .  ab  Isua 
propheta  eininentiam  Moriam  in  quoque  summo  est  mon- 
licnlus  Moria  dictus." 


Also :  — 

**  Fooob"}  ^•"^  *f""  ^^  ^^^  ^  summer." 

Jakbs  PSABSOir. 
Milnrow. 


In  the  parish  of  Dunino,  Fifeshire,  was  a  por- 
tion of  land  or  outfield  g[lebe  called  the  ''  Fog- 
gage,"  into  which  the  minister's  cowa  were  turned 
to  pasture.  This,  as  Lremember  it,  would  not  be 
inaptly  described  by  your  quotation  from  Wedg- 
wood, viz.  "grass  not  eaten  down  in  summer, 
that  grows  in  tufta  over  the  winter."  This  place 
abounded  with  whins  and  broom,  and  presented 
all  over  patches  or  tufts  of  dried  or  weathered 
grass  in  various  stages  of  decay.  In  a  Olossary  of 
the  Dialect  of  Craven  (London,  1828)  this  word  is 
given  — 

"  Foo,  afler-graas,  aftermath,  not  in  the  sense  of  Dn- 
eange  in  v.  fogagtMrn^  or  winter  eatage,  or  in  that  of  Ray. 
See  Junius.^' 

Agun :  — 

**  Foo.  This  word  is  used  when  farmers  take  the  cattle 
out  of  their  pastures  in  autumn :  they  say,  '  they  are 
boun'  Xjafog  them.' " 

In  Westmoreland  feg  means  dead  {^rass.  The 
word  seems  to  be  from  A.-S./o?^e,  dymg ;  None, 
feigia,  to  rot,  from  which  too,  aoubtless,  the  Welsh 
fwg,  otherwise  foog.  Pinkerton  teUs  us  that  the 
language  that  we  call  Welsh,  but  which  is  nrobably 
only  a  corrupt  form  of  the  Pictish  or  early  Scan- 
dinavian, is  full  of  Danish  and  English  words. 
Many  or  most  of  the  place-names  in  the  parish 
of  Dunino  are  Scandinavian,  one  of  which  espe- 
cially, called  the  ''  Tongueflj**  which  not  even  the 
most  zealouB  Celt  could  claim  as  belonginff  to  his 
language.  J.  Ce.  R. 

Bailey  defines  -» 

"  Foo  Ifogagiym,  "Liyw  Lat.,  'gramen  in  foresta  regis 
loeatnr  pro/cg^M.' — Leges  for  Scot.].  After-grass,  or  that 
which  growa  in  autumn  after  the  hay  has  been  mown.*' 

Also  — 

'*  FooAOB,  or  FoooB  (Jorut  law).  Rank  grass  not 
eaten  in  summer." 

An  almost  similar  explanation  will  be  found  in 
HaUiwell's  Dictionary  of  Archaic  and  Provincial 
Words,  1  may  also  mention  that  fog,  foggage,  is 
by  no  means  confined  in  its  appellation  to  after- 
grass in  the  south  of  Scotland  and  Yorkshire ;  but, 
like  many  other  words  that  are  set  down  as  be- 
longing to  specified  dialects,  it  is  used  in  the 
extreme  north  of  Scotland  (in  Caithness)  with 
the  same  signification  as  Bailey  defines  it.  I  have 
often  been  surprised  at  the  similarity  of  the  folk 
lore  of  the  north  of  England  and  the  north  of 
Scotland,  with  a  wide  space  from  the  lowlands 
of  Scotland  to  the  borders  of  England,  totally 
dissimilar  in  the  same  respect  D.  Gbbbss. 

Free  Library,  Blackburn. 


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This  was  a  common  word  in  Low  Latin ;  but 

perhaps  the  most  formal  use  of  the  word  appears 

to  have  been  in  Scotland.     Blount  (Law  Die- 

tknary)  has  — 

**  FooAGB,  FooAOfUM,  Foo  OF  Fbq.  Rank  mn  not 
eatan  in  summer. «-LL.  Forutar,  Scoi^  cap.  xA" 

Maigne  d'Amis,  in  his  abridgment  of  Docange 
(Paris,  1866),  says :  ^ 

**  FooAoiA.  Gramea  ut  Fhgagimm :  *  at  ftLcerent  oyas 
«aas  jaoere  In  tern  ma  et  in  fogadas'  [<tc]  (ibmo 
1268).— FoM^iaim,  gramen  anod  estate  non  depaadtnr, 
et  qnod  •pouatis  jam  pratia  hiemali  tempore  snccrescit — 
Leg.  Scot." 

We  should  look  perhaps  in  this  direction  for  its 
deriyation.  E.  Mabshall. 

Saodford. 


S.  H.  is  wrong  in  saying  that  the  word  fog  ''is 
common  in  only  parts  of  Yorkshire/'  as  I  have 
often  heard  the  word  used  in  Leicestershire. 
There  it  is  used  to  express  that  grass  which  has 
still  to  be  eaten  off  aoout  Michaelmas^  which  is 
Terr  rank  and  coarse.  ''Lattermouth  "  is  apnlied 
to  the  after^growth  in  meadows.  T.  A. 

Trin.  CoU.,  Cambridge. 


THE  BLOCK  BOOKS. 

(4*^  S.  jL passim;  yii.  13, 151.) 

It  is  rather  agreeable  to  me  than  otherwise  to 
find  TOUT  correspondent  J.  C.  J.  has  so  lively  a 
recollection  of  tbe  statements  made  by  me  in 
1868  in  relation  to  the  St  Christopher  (caUed) 
of  ''  1423,''  and  whatever  blame  can  be  justly 
accorded  me  for  my  first  assertion,  "  that  the  date 
of  the  St.  Christopher  had  been  tampered  with," 
I  freely  accept,  merely  observing  that  in  making 
8ach  a  statement  I  was  but  fulhllmg  the  instinct 
of  common  sense  in  denouncing  the  idea  that  an 
engraving  of  the  excellence  of  the  ''St  Christo- 

Sher"  oottld  by  any  possibili^  have  been  pro- 
uced  in  "  1423."  'lis  true  I  had  not  then  seen 
the  engraving,  simply  because  the  opportunity  of 
so  doing  had  been  wanting;  but  I  venture  to 
subnoit,  that  to  lay  down  a  proposition  that  "  an 
opinion  on  any  particular  object  must  not  be 
enounced  in  the  aosence  of  an  actual  inspection  of 
the  original "  will  be  found  in  practice  not  only 
extremely  inconvenient,  but  absolutely  prejudicial 
to  the  true  interests  of  knowledge  and  improve- 
ment. 

My  conviction  that  the  "  St  Christopher  "  was 
not  engraved  in  "1423"  was  so  dominant,  that 
being  unwilling  to  be  victimised  even  for  a 
moment  by  the  fallacy  which  had  deceived  all 
others — viz.  that  the  date  on  the  woodcut  pre- 
tended to  correctly  state  the  period  when  it  was 
actually  engraved~I  endeavoured  to  suggest  a 
means  by  which  the  fraud  had  been  perpetrated ; 
and  in  so  doing  I  but  followed  in  the  footsteps  of 


learned  men  who  had  adopted  the  same  practice, 
amon^  whom  I  may  mention  Eoning,  Sotzman, 
and  Pinkerton,  neither  of  whom,  like  myself,  had 
ever  seen  the  woodcut.  Indeed,  if  your  readers 
will  refer  to  "  N.  &  Q.,"  4^  S.  ii..  Sept  19, 1868, 
they  will,  I  believe,  find  I  have  there  stated  the 
circumstuices  in  as  fair  and  frank  a  manner  as 
could  possibly  have  been  either  expected  or 
desired. 

Assuming,  however,  that  I  was  very  much  to 
blame  for  having  ventured  to  hazard  a  guess  as  to 
the  manner  in  which  the  year  "  1423  "  had  im- 
properly been  adopted  as  the  date  of  the  engrav- 
ing, I  now  venture  to  ask  J.  C.  J.  whether  he  is 
prepared  to  dispute  my  declaration  that  the  "  St. 
Christopher  of  1423  "  was  printed  with  a  print- 
ing-press and  printing-ink,  and  that  the  date 
"  1423  "  is  that  of  the  legend  and  jubilee  vear  of 
St  Christopher  P  If  so,  I  am  perfectlv  willing  to 
discuss  those  questions  with  him  in  uie  columns 
of  "  N.  &  Q." ;  and  J.  C.  J.  will,  I  hope,  forgive 
me  for  adding  that  unless  he  is  ready  to  do  so 
his  warning  to  your  readers  will  become  valueless, 
and  his  opinion  "  vox  et  prseterea  nihil." ' 

The  avowal  of  J.  C.  J.  that  he  does  not  pro- 
pose discussing  the  matter  of  the  "  block-booxs  " 
with  me,  renders  it  unnecessary  I  should  attach 
any  importance  to  his  placing  the  onus  on  me  of 
proving  that  the  "  received  opinion  is  false."  I 
nave  very  distinctly  laid  down  the  propositions  I 
am  prepared  to  mamtain,  and  I  only  remain  silent 
in  tne  earnest  hope  that  some  among  the  many 
of  your  learned  ana  intelligent  correspondents  may 
take  up  the  subject  and  contest  it  fairly  in  all  its 
details.  At  present  I  am  the  challenger,  not  the 
challenged.  If  circumstances  should  hereafter 
legitimately  arise  to  change  the  relative  positions, 
I  shall  not  be  found  wanting. 

HsNBT  F.  Holt. 

King's  Road,  Clapham  Park. 


THE  ADVENT  HYMN :  «  HELMSLEY.*' 

(4»»»S.  vi.  112j  vu.  41, 133.) 

HsBxmrTBiTDE  asks  a  very  proper  question,  con- 
sidering how  much  cant  is  talked  respecting  this 
or  tlmt  hymn  tune  at  the  present  time.  1  may 
safely  reply,  that  it  is  impossible  to  "  make  vul- 
garity "  oy  any  combination  of  sounds  apart  from 
worjs — of  musical  sounds,  that  is.  "  Helmsley  " 
is  associated  in  the  minds  of  some  few  persons 
with  a  Miss  Catley,  of  questionable  fame ;  but 
even  those  who  talk  of  "  Miss  Catley's  Hornpipe  " 
can  tell  little  of  either  the  lady  or  the  tune. 
Those,  like  Hbbvbntbude  perhaps,  who  have 
heard  "Helmsley"  sung  by  a  large  congregation 
to  the  accompaniment  of  a  skilled  organist,  will 
not  readily  forget  the  roll  of  its  sentences,  nor 
easily  learn  to  admire  the  characterless  tunes  put 
forward  to  supply  its  place.    But  let  me  not  be 


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jxiisunderstood :  it  is  possible  to  make  almost  any 
combination  or  succession  of  soonds  Tulgar  by  the 
addition  of  words,  no  matter  how  solemn  they  may 
be,  and  I  can  readily  believe  that  "Helmsley" 
would,  under  some  drcmnstances,  become  vulgar 
almost  beyond  endurance.  It  is  a  melody  made 
for  those  who  could  sing,  or  who  had  the  feeling 
of  singers.  This  is  an  age  when  singing  is  some- 
what at  a  discount^  and  our  tunes  have  become  a 
series  of  syllabic  jerks — ^have  indeed  been  made 
for  people  who  cannot  sing,  but  can  chatter  on 
like  magpies  upon  a  few  notes  at  any  pace  you 
please.  This  ezplams  all.  W.  J.  Wesibsook. 
Sydenham. 

•  There  seems  to  be  some  confusion  respecting 
the  words  of  the  song  in  lite  Golden  IHppmf  the 
melody  of  which  was  adapted  to  form  a  tune  for 
this  hynm.  My  friend  Db.  Rimbault  (4^^  S.  viL 
41)  states,  and  his  evidence  is  corroborated  by 
Mb.  Wiluajc  Chafpell  (Pojmlar  Music  of  the 
Olden  Time,  p.  748)  and  other  writers,  iM  the 
Bong  commences  with  the  lines :  — • 

**  Gaardian  angels  now  proteot  me, 
Send  to  me  the  youtn  I  loye." 

But  I  have  now  before  me  a  copy  of  the  music  in 

The  Golden  Pip}^  undated  (as  usual  with  music), 

but  which,  from  the  correspondence  of  the  names 

of  the  singers  prefixed  to  the  several  songs^  ko,, 

with  those  of  tne  performers  attached  to  the  d^o- 

matie  perwMe  on  tne  first  performance  of  the  bu]>- 

letta  at  Oovent  Qarden  Theatre,  on  February  0, 

1773, 1  believe  to  be  coeval  with  the  production 

of  the  piece  in  which  the  followinff  song  appears 

in  connection  with  the  tune  altered  for  the  Advent 

Hymn«    It  purports  to  have  been  ''  sung  )aij  Miss 

Catley,''  who  personated  Juno :  — 

'*  Where*8  the  mortal  can  zesist  me  ? 
Queens  most  ev'ry  honour  gain ; 
Paris  surely  will  assist  me, 
Juno  cannot  sue  in  vain. 

M  Look  in  my  fiice,  my  gentle  Paris : 

Can  such  beauties  e*er  despair? 
Where's  such  an  eye  as  this  ? 
Where  liiis  more  sweet^o  kiss  ? 

Oh!  may  my  shepherd  hear  my  pray*r." 

There  is  no  song  commencing  '^  Guardian  an- 
gela,"  neither  do  those  words  occur  in  any  of  the 
songs.  I  have  not  seen  any  copy  of  the  piece  to 
compare  it  with  the  music. 

I  should  be  glad  to  know  how  the  statement 
made  by  gentlemen  so  conversant  with  such  mat- 
ters as  those  I  have  named,  about  ^'Gnardian 
angels"  and  the  indisputable  fact  above  men« 
tioned,  can  be  reconciled.  Was  one  song  sub- 
stituted for  the  other  (to  the  same  tune)  during 
the  first  run  of  the  piece ;  and  if  so,  which  is  the 
original?  The  Golden  Pippin  was  revived  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre  on  May  11,  1792,  not 
havinff  been  played  for  eight  years  before ;  but  as 
Mrs.  Martyr  then  performed  Juno^  and  the  tune 


in  question  is  always  associated  with  Miss  Catley, 
I  imagine  the  alteration  (if  any)  muAt  have  been 
made  long  before  then. 

Can  any  one  tell  me  the  exact  date  of  pub- 
lication of  the  CoUeation  of  Psaim  and  Hymn 
Tunes  (published  for  the  benefit  of  the  Lock 
Hospital),  in  which  the  tune  iirst  appeared  under 
the  name  of  ''  Helmsley,"  and  in  association  with 
the  Ajdvent  Hymn  P  1  surmise  it  to  have  been 
not  very  long  after  the  production  of  The  Golden 
Pippin.  W.  H  Husjc. 

THE  BALTIMORE  A^^D  *«  OLD  MOBTAUTI  " 

PATERSONS. 

(4*'»  S.  vi.  187,  207,  290, 354;  vii.  00.) 

In  answer  to  your  correspondent  F.  B.^  I  have 
to  state  that  I  waa  aware  of  the  letter  of  Sir 
Walter  Scott  to  Mr.  Train,  in  which  he  hesitates 
to  accept  ''  the  extraordinary  connection  between 
the  Bonaparte  family  and  that  of  Old  Mortality." 
I  had,  however,  examined  the  question  as  far  as 
I  had  it  in  my  power,  and  had  satisfied  myself 
that  the  weight  of  evidence,  though  not  altoge- 
ther conclusive,  was  in  favour  of  this  dose  con- 
nection. I  had  communicated  with  the  descend- 
ants of  "Old  Mortality"  in  this  country,  and 
found  that  the  belief  of  the  family,  thousfa  they 
never  had  any  intercourse  with  their  Baltimore 
connections,  was,  tluit  Madame  BonapartB  was 
the  daughter  of  John,  son  of  ^  Old  Mortality." 
Then,  as  I  stated  in  mv  foxmer  paperv  a -Baltimore 
gentleman,  who  save  Jus  iiame  as  Mt.  M'Clymont 
and  also  hia  addrass,  though  it  has  been  lost, 
appeared  in  the  chuchya^  of  Balgamock  within 
the  last  two  yean  (and  of  this  there  can  be  no 
doubt),  stating  that  he  had  been  requested  by 
Madame  Bonaparte  to  visit  the  site  where  her 
grandfather  had  been  bmried.  I  believed  that  it 
waa  the  late  Jerome  Bonaparte  who  had  made 
the.  request,  but  in  this  I  find  I  had  made  a  mis- 
take, as  my  friend  who  had  the  interview  with 
Mr.  M'Clymont  tells  me  that  Madame  Bonmirte 
was  the  party  named,  and  that  it  was  01  her 
grandfather's  grave  that  Mr.  M'Clymont  spoke. 
The  minister  of  Galashiels,  of  whom  Sir  Walter 
Scott  speaks  so  favourably,  is  the  Rev.  Br.  Na- 
thaniel Paterson  of  Free  St  George's,  Glasgow. 
He  states  to  me,  through  his  daughter,  that  once 
''  his  friend  Mr.  Binning  Home  of  Auchenbowie,  near 
Stirling,  brought  a  General  Stewart  from  Balti- 
more to  call  upon  him.  This  General  Stewart 
knew  the  Patersons  of  Baltimore  intimately,  and 
talked  of  them  as  the  descendants  of  ^'  Old  Mor- 
tality." It  will  also  be  observed  that  the  names 
of  John's  children  appeared  to  follow  the  usual 
Scottish  rule  of  calling  the  eldest  children  after 
the  grandfather  and  grandmother.  Robert  seemed 
so  called  after  his  grandfather  Robert  Paterson, 
and  Elizabeth  after  her  grandmother  Elizabeth 


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219 


Graj.  If  there  be  no  relationship,  this  is  a  curious 
coincidence.  I  thought^  therenye,  that  I  was 
justified  in  assuming  that  Madame  Bonaparte  was 
granddaughter  of  "  Old  Mortality/^  as  she  herself 
seemed  from  Mr.  M'Cljmont  s  statement  to 
belieye. 

In  this  opinion,  however,  it  seems  that  I  have 
been  mistaken,  as  I  have  received  a  short  time 
ago  the  following  communication  from  a  friend  of 
Madame  Bonaparte  in  answer  to  a  letter  which  I 
wrote  with  the  view  of  discovering,  if  possible, 
whether  she  could  assist  in  settling  the  question. 
Her  friend  writes  to  the  following  effect,  repu- 
diating altogether  the  connection  between  the 
families:  — 

**  Baltimore,  November  Ist,  1870. 
"Sir, 

<'  Tonr  letter  of  date  7th  Oct  1870  reached  Madame 
Bonaparte  a  considerable  time  after  it  had  been  written. 

*'  I  am  requested  hr  her  to  inform  yon,  in  answer  to  the 
qneation  addressed  bv  vouiself  to  her,  that  she  is  not 
related  to,  or  desoenaed  ^m,  the  Scotch  Paiersons,  of 
whom  she  knows  nothing  whatever. 

**Her  ancestors  were  all  bom  in  Ireland,  and  their 
names  were  spelled  Patterson  (not  Paterson).  She  knows 
nothing  whatever  of  the  Scotch  Pa/crsons,  except  that 
thmr  are  not  in  an^  way  relatives  of  the  Pattersons  of 
IreUnd  or  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

**  Tonn  respectfoUy, 

'*  Jaices  L.  Batubs." 

This,  of  course,  must  be  accepted  as  authorita- 
tively closing  the  question ;  nor  do  I  wish,  as  the 
inquiry  is  a  mere  matter  of  antiquarian  interest, 
to  throw  doubts  on  Madame  Bonaparte's  dis- 
claimer, yet,  as  the  belief  has  been  so  continuous 
for  so  long  a  time  that  John^  the  father  of  Madame 
Bonaparte,  was  the  son  of  ''Old  Mortality,"  I 
should  like  to  know  whether  the  Pattersons  of 
Baltimore  had  ever  ^ven  currency  to  this  report,  or 
at  any  time  had  bebeved  in  this  descent.  P.  A.  L. 
4^  8.  vi.  141),  who  was  acquainted  in  1828  with 
~ '.  Carol!,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Mr.  Jerome 
B.  Patterson,  may  be  Me  to  throw  some  light  on 
the  opinion  then  held  in  Baltimore  by  the  family 
respecting  their  connection  wjith  the  old  country. 

Cbautttbd  Tait  Rahaos. 


(4»> 
Mr< 


PEimYTERSAN  (OR  PENNYTERSAL),  CUN- 

STONE,  ETC. 

(4»»»S.vL369,479j  vii.  60.) 

Many  of  the  observations  of  your  correspondents 
J.  Jkbemiah  and  J.  A.  Picton  seem  very  pro- 
bably correct,  while,  as  it  must  be  added,  they 
commend  themselves  more  to  the  judgment  than 
those  of  J.  Ck.  B.  The  lands  of  JPennyteraal  are 
not  elevated,  rather  the  reverse;  still  they  are 
situated  at  the  upper  end  of  a  long  flat  piece  of 
marshy  land  yet  remaining  unimproved,  and  pos- 
sibly xmimprovable  at  any  moderate  amount  of  ex- 
pense. This  flat,  then,  may  be  the  tirsdl  (the  poor 
land)  of  the  name;  only  we  would  submit  whether 


sdi  may  not  rather  refer  to  the  indigenous  saUeach^ 
sallows,  Scoticd  saughs,  with  which  this  bog 
abounds  and  must  have  always  abounded  P  Auch' 
ensail  (such  is  the  present  spelling  and  pronuncia- 
tion) is  a  farm-town  in  the  neighbourhood,  and 
the  name  has  never  been  otherwise  interpreted 
than  as  the  "  willow  inclosure.'' 

Whether  Mb.  Picton  is  as  happy  in  his  deduc- 
tion of  Ctm-stone  from  kona  or  huna,  we  may  be 
permitted  to  doubt  If  cwn  in  Welsh  means  a 
summit,  as  Mb.  Jebbmiah  says,  or  a  head  (cum-4iu) 
according  to  Mb.  Chabnocx,  may  the  name  not 
refer  to  the  artificial  cairn,  mound,  or  knoll  within 
which  was  found,  in  1782,  the  cist'Vaen  mentioned? 
J.  Ck.  R.  admits  that  it  may  be  descrijjtive  of  a 
memorial  stone  belonging  to  this  cairn.  But 
supposing  this  view  ill-founded,  there  is  another 
which  may  be  adopted,  that  suggested  by  Pro-^^ 
fessor  Stephens,  in  his  work  on  ilunic  Inscrip- 
tions, where  he  says  0'  N.  &  Q.,"  4"»  S.  vii.  68^  that 
cund  or  ffund  is  an  old  Northern  word  signifying 
battie,  war.  Hence,  assuming  that  a  correct  vieiV, 
may  not  Cun-'Stone  refer  to  a  cairn,  or  to  a  mono- 
Uthj  reared  in  memorial  of  some  battle,  or  of  some 
potent  Celtic  chief  who  fell  and  was  interred 
within  the  cist-vaenf 

We  would  incline  to  trace  the  origin  of  these 
place-names  to  a  Celtic,  rather  than  a  Scandi-- 
navian  source;  because  the  most  part,  if  not  idl, 
of  the  ancient  names  of  places  in  tne  district  fall, 
we  believe,  to  be  so  referred.  For  example,  there 
are  Duchall  and  Ranfurly  (two  extensive  baronies), 
Dupenny  or  Dippennie^  Sclates,  Mathknock  or 
Mathemock,  Auchenquill,  Callsyde  or  Callasyde, 
Auchentiber,  AuchenbotMe,  Craigmarloch,  Bar- 
drain  or  Bardrainy,  Auchencloich,  Clachers,  &c. 
(farm  towns),  and  many  others,  all  in  the  vicinitr ; 
and  it  will  be  seen  whether  any  of  these  can  be 
claimed  by  J.  Ck.  R.  as  belonging  to  the  Scan- 
dinavian storehouse.  Espedabb. 


Alexander  Jamteson,  M.A.  (4**»  S.  vii.  142.) — 
He  had  received  an  LL.D.  degree,  and  was  an 
enthusiastic  mathematician  and  a  clever  man.  He 
was  a  map  designer,  and  kept  a  school  in  London 
for  a  limited  immber  of  pupils,  and  worked  most 
eamestiy  in  his  vocation.  Afterwards  he  had^  a 
boarding  school  not  far  from  Sion  House,  Chia- 
wick,  and  died  about  five  or  six  years  ago. 

0.  C. 

He  was  also  the  author  of  A  Treatise  on  the 
CondrucHon  of  Maps,  8vo,  London,  1814  I 
remember  him  in  1832  aa  principal  of  a  large 
private  school  at  Wyke  House,  near  Brentford. 
He  was  then  called  Pr.  Jamieson.  I  have  lately 
inquired  in  the  neighbourhood  what  became  of 
him,  but  unsuccessfully.  J.  R.  B. 

Wipe  of  GEOBeE  Neville,  Lobd  Latiiibb 
(4«»»  S.  vii.  96, 198.)— Arms :  Quarterly,  1  and  4, 


220 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4'b  s.  vii.  march  ii, '71. 


Beaucbamp  (gu.  between  a  fess  or,  tbree  cross 
croaelets  01  tbe  second) ;  2  and  8,  quarterly,  1  and 

4,  Lisle  (gu.  a  lion  rampant  arg.  crowned  or) ; 
2  and  3,  ^rkeley  (gu.  a  chevron  arg.  between 
eight  crosses  pattde  of  the  second). 

Hebuentbudb. 

"  Thb  Heibib  of  Men  which  tovdlt,"  etc. 
(4***  S.  yii.  96.) — The  lines  inscribed  on  the  cor- 
nice of  the  gallery  at  Burlington  House  are  taken 
from  Spensei^s  '^Hyrnn  of  Heayenly  Beauty/' 
verse  3 :  — 

*'  Voachflafe  then,  0  Thon  most  Almlghtie  Spright ! 
From  whom  all  goifts  of  wit  and  knowledge  floWi 
To  shed  into  mv  breast  some  sparkling  light 
Of  thine  etemsll  tmth,  that  I  may  shew 
Some  little  beames  to  mortall  eyes  below 
Of  that  immortal  Beaatie,  there  with  Thee 
Which  in  my  weake  distraughted  mind  I  see. 

**  That  with  the  glorie  of  so  goodly  sight 
The  hearts  of  men,  which  fondly  here  admyre 
Faire  seeming  shewea,  and  feed  on  raine  delight ; 
Transported  with  celestiall  desyre 
Of  those  faire  formes,  may  lift  themselves  np  hyer, 
And  leame  to  love,  with  sealoos  hamble  dewty, 
Th'  Etemall  Fonntaine  of  that  heavenly  Beauty.'* 

The  hymn  is  printed  at  length  in  Select  Poein/f 
published  by  the  Parker  Society,  1846,  2  yols., 
edited  by  ISdward  Fair,  Esq.,  and  from  whence 
this  quotation  is  drawn.  Dotll. 

'*  PhI-BbTA-KaPPA  "  SodBTT  OF  BOSTOIT  (4** 

5.  iii,  108 ;  viL  96.)— 

''I  have  for  a  long  time  been  convinced  of  the  worse 
than  useless  character  of  this  secret  institution.  .  .  . 
That  the  Phi-BetarKappa  Sodetv  is  a  secret  assocUtion 
is  well  known  to  the  pnbUo.  ft  is  a  species  of  Free- 
masonry, and  bears  a  strong  affinity  to  it.  If  the  opinion 
of  Mr.  Knapp,  in  his  late  defence  of  Freemasonry,  be 
ootreet,  it  is  a  branch  of  the  lUominati,  that  spurious 
oflbprinff  of  the  celebrated  WeLshanpL  .  . .  The  4>.  B.  K. 
Society  is  ai  foreign  manufacture.  .  .  .  When  and  where 
it  originated  I  never  was  informed,  nor  have  I  at  present 
any  means  of  ascertaining.  From  its  nature  and  forms 
it  is  presumed  it  must  have  commenced  in  some  of  the 
infidel  schools  of  Europe  in  the  seventeenth  or  eighteenth 
century.  It  was  imported  into  Uiis  country  from  France 
in  the  year  1776,  and,  as  it  is  said,  by  Thomas  Jefierson, 
late  president  of  the  United  States.  It  was  first  estab- 
lished at  William  and  Maiy  *s  College  in  Vizginia.  Upon 
the  decline,  and,  I  believe,  the  extinction,  of  that  college, 
daring  the  revolutionaiy  war,  a  cAorier^chnically  cdled 
an  o^pAo,  was  obtained  by  the  student^f  Tale  College, 
where  it  still  flourishes.  From  thence  it  was  imparted  to 
Harvard  and  Dartmouth ;  and  since  that  time,  charters 
have  been  granted  to  the  students  of  Union  College  in 
N.  Y.  and  to  Bowdoin  in  ICalne,  and  verv  recently,  I  un- 
derstand, to  Brown*s  University  in  Providence,  &  I." 

The  above  extracts  are  from  a  work  by  Ayery 
Allyn,  published  in  Boston  (U.  S.  A.)  in  1831. 

Nkphritb. 

DbBCSZTBAKTS  0r</HABLB8  BrANDON^  DuKB  OF 

SuppoLK  {4:^  S.  vL  416, 600,)— Since  my  former 
communication  on  this  point,  I  have  round  a 
notice  of  the  family  of  Mary  Lady  Monteagle, 
daughter  of  Charles  Brandon.    They  were  — 


1.  William  Stanley,  Lord  Monteagle,  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Laybome,  and  had 
issue  Elizaoeth,  married  Henry  liord  Morley. 

2.  Elizabeth,  married  Sir  Eichard  Young  of 
Somerset 

8.  Margaret,  married  John  Taylere  of  London, 
merchant 
4.  Anne,  married  Sir  John  Clifton. 
All  the  daughtexa  left  issue.    (Harl.  MS.  4031^ 

foL  42.)  MEBMENTRT7DB. 

Pateokthio  Pebpix  "  Mac  "  (4»*  S.  vi.  330.) 
To  what  I  have  affirmed  regarding  the  Gothic 
origin  of  this  word  1  am  able  to  add  another  fact, 
vis.  that  in  a  Manks  history  by  a  writer  of  the 
name  of  Booth  it  is  mentioned  that  among  the  four 
DonuA  prelates  who  succeeded  to  St  Brandon 
was  one  *'  Aumond  Mac  Olave."  in  a.  d.  1077. 

A  Middle  Tbmplab. 

Bows  AND  CuBiBHTS  (4^  S.  vi.  668 ;  yii.  109.) 
The  lout  (the  charity-girrs  <'  bob  ")  is  many  cen- 
turies old:  the  curtsey,  I  suspect,  came  from 
France  with  Queen  Henrietta  Maria. 

Be  it  remembered  that  masculine  curtseys  wei» 
in  Togue  long  before  feminine  ones. 

HSBXENTBTTDB. 

•  "Thb  Hob  ib  thb  Wbll  "  (4*  S.  vii.  201.)— 
This  sign  {mt  "  Hole  in  the  Well")  is  taken  from 
an  old  fiuce  of  that  name.  Several  illustrations 
of  it  may  be  seen  in  the  parlour  of  the  *'  New 
Globe,"  Mile  End  Road.  G.  Wbstlocx. 

CambridgeL 

Sahplbbs  (4«>>  S.  vi  600 ;  TiL  21, 126.)— Since 
▼our  introduction  of  the  subject  of  "  Samplers  " 
m  a  late  number  of  "  N.  &  Q.^'  I  have  nuide  in- 
quiries of  several  of  my  aged  relatives  and  friends 
on  the  matter,  and  have  seen  many  specimens  of 
the  art  that  was  very  prevalent  at  Uie  commence** 
ment  of  this  century,  and  up  to  about  1860,  since 
which  period  I  believe  a  more  refined  taste  has 
existed,  although  I  do  not  think  one  requiring  the 
attention  that  is  displayed  in  early  samplers. 

I  have  now  one  before  me  of  an  elaborate 
character;  it  contains  several  alphabetical  sped- 
mens,  and  also  a  sample  of  the  cUstmguS  "  satin 
stitch."  This  has  no  poetry  on  it,  but  the  scrip- 
tural text,  '^Hemember  now  th^  Creator,"  &c, 
and  was  worked  by  a  lady  in  Edmbuivh  as  early 
as  the  year  1800.  Another,  woiked  by  my  aunt 
previous  to  the  year  1820,  has  the  following  lines 
thereon:— 

**  Prayer  Ib  the  simplest  form  of  speech 
llat  infant  lips  can  try. 
Prayer,  the  sublimest  strains  that  reach 
llie  Mijesty  on  High.'* 

M^  third  specimen  contains  the  appropriate 
inqmry — 

**  Tdl  me,  ye  knowing  and  discerning  few. 
Where  I  may  find  a  Friend  both  firm  and  tme; 
One  who  dare  stand  by  me  when  in  deep  distress 
And  then  his  love  and  friendidbip  most  express.** 


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It  is  to  be  remarked,  that  in  all  these  examples 
of  the  manner  adopted  to  instil  into  the  rising 
members  of  the  female  population  of  a  past^ 
rather  than  the  present  age,  habits  of  industry, 
refinement,  and  rectitude,  the  teachers  have  in- 
Tariably  permitted  their  scholars  to  omit  the  year 
in  which  the  work  was  produced.  Probably  this 
was  the  last ''  gratification  '^  that  was  accorded  to 
the  young  ladies  by  their  tutors — not  to  mention 
other  considerations  that  are  a  lady's  priyilege. 

Edmukd  Jot. 

51,  Nelson  Sqnaxe,  S.E. 

The  Pkikt  of  Guido's  Aurora.  (4«*»  S.  yii.  13, 
113.V— I  am  obliged  to  Bibliothbcar.  Chstham. 
for  nis  note  to  my  query  about  the  lines  on  the 
{late  of  "  Ouido's  Aurora,"  in  jour  issue  of 
f*eb.  4.  Would  he  further  obhge  me  by  in- 
forming me  who  Alexander  iEtolus  was^  and 
when  he  liyed  P 

But  still  the  answer  is  not  complete.    Bibu- 

oisxcAR.  Chrthajc.  says: — 

"  The  description  is  worthpr  of  notice,  inasmuch  as  it 
contains  many  of^t  txpre$non$  in  the  yenes  snbioined, 
as  Mb.  Dawson  Turmbr  informed  ns  (1>*  S.  ii.  891),  to 
a  print  of  Guido's  celebrated  Anrora." 

'^  Many  of  the  expressions."  He  does  not  say 
that  the  lines  are  the  aame  as  those  on  the  print ; 
on  the  contrary,  the  words  rather  imply,  that 
though  nmilar,  tney  ^x^notthe  aame.  Can  ne  not 
tell  me  where  the  fines  which  are  actually  on  the 
plate  exist  P  It  would  be  a  gratification  to  me, 
and  probably  to  others,  as  is  eyidenoed  by  his 
own  communication.  Did  Mr.  Dawson  Txtritrr, 
who  noticed  the  inscription,  not  notice  also  who 
was  the  writer,  or  where  the  lines  are  to  be 
found  P  an. 

Wilmslow. 

OrIOIK  07  THR  SURKAJCR  CuiTlfDreHAK  (4^  S. 

iiL  pamm:  iy.  62,  179.)— The  following  extract 
firom  the  Sark-Session  records  of  Dundonald, 
Ayxshlie,  if  it  does  not  settle  this  yexed  question, 
is  at  least  yery  significant: — 

«<21«  Jane,  1607.  ifanltis  giffing  yp.  Stein  Wilsoon 
in  gaslia  to  haif  scbot  w*  ane  hagbit  yis  day  xy  dayes 
rSnnday]  at  ye  connyngis  in  oorsbies*  oonyngam  In 
o^madanee.** 

Chalmers,  it  will  be  remembered,  rejects  the 
^'koonig*'  tneoxy,  and  points  out  i\iAt  ftming  is 
the  British  =  rabbit,  and  that  cunmgham  dmpl^ 
means  ''  the  place  where  rabbits  abound."  It  is 
curious  to  find  this  opinion  supported  by  the 
actual  occurrence  of  the  word  here  as  a  common 
noun.  W.  F.  (2.) 

''  God  kadr  Mak,"  rtc.  (4«»  S.  yi.  845,  426, 
487 :  yii.  41, 152.}— Mr.  J.  P.  Morris  has  cer- 
tainly presented  the  most  plausible  reply  which 
has  yet  appeared  in  answer  to  my  query  respecting 
the  authorship  of  the  ahoy  e.    But  may  I  suggest 

•  The  Laird  of  Croaby's. 


with  all  due  deference  to  the  authority  he  quotes, 
there  is  a  probability  John  Oldland  maj  not  haye 
been  the  author  of  the  lines,  but  haye  simply,  ^on 
the  spur  of  the  moment,"  made  a  hit  in  focaHMnj^ 
them  by  the  addition  of  the  concluding  lines  giyen 
in  Mr.  Morris's  yersionP  Haye  any  of  your 
readers  met  with  the  rhymes  of  John  Oldland  in 
a  collected  form,  as  a  reference  to  them  would 
doubtiessly  throw  light  upon  the  matter  P  F.  S. 

Arms  of  thr  Counts  of  Perchr:  NuaRNX 
Familt  (4«»»  S.  yi.  543;  yii.  111.)— Perhaps  some 
correspondent  would  oblige  us  with  a  copy  of  the 
foundation  charter  of  the  "  Abbey  of  Lonley  " 
(eleyentii  centurjr).  Ordericua  VitaHs,  Dugdale, 
and  Palgraye,  might  then  be  consulted  for  anno- 
tations. The  pretension  to  represent  the  house  of 
Belesme,  in  any  of  its  branches,  is  too  important 
to  be  allowed  to  pass  genealogical  muster  unex- 
amined. Sp* 
Barbarous  Massacre  (4*^  S.  yi.  526;  yiL  101.) 
"Je  ne  chercherai  pas  dans  les  relations  des  andens 
voyageurs  les  traces  de  la  splendear  de  Goa,  je  r^iste 
meme  au  d^ir  de  transcrire  id  la  description  d*an  de  cea 
brillants  auto-darf^  pr^pards  et  ex^ut^  poor  ezterminer 
les  h^r^tiques  et  ^fier  les  habitens  de  cette  yille.  II 
me  snffira  de  remarquer  ici  que  le  grand  Albnquerane 
s'empaia  de  Goa  le  25  novembre  1510."  —  L.  LangUs, 
JfontuiMJM  de  r/iu2e,  i.  78.    Pans,  1821. 

The  massacre,  compared  for  sanguinary  cruelty 
to  the  slaughter  of  the  Jews  on  different  occa- 
sions in  Europe^  for  which  two  dates  (a.d.  1469 
and  1611}  are  giyen  by  Lafitau,  whose  account 
would  appear  to  haye  been  deriyed  "from  Joa5  de 
BaxTOifAeui,  continued  by  Diego  de  Conto,  seema 
to  resemble  more  in  character  the  auto-da-f^  aboye 
referred  to  than  the  indiscriminate  one  at  the 
taking  and  burning  of  Dabul  in  January,  1609. 
The  two  affairs  are  described  senarately  (i.  20& 
and  319,  Lafitau)  as  belonging  to  different  periods, 
and  cannot  therefore  be  identified — a  work  which 
Mr.  Charles  Natlor  had  eyidently  not  met 
with  when  kindly  replying  to  my  query. 

H.  R.  W.  £lli8» 

Starerosa,  near  Exeter. 

Shropshire  Sattnos  (4**  S.  yii.  9, 131.)— One 
other  of  the  wise  saws  of  our  Salopian  farmery 
who  was  giyen  to  boast  that  he  was  "bom  on  the 
top  of  Radley  without  a  shirt,"  may  be  worth 
preserying  as  still  applicable  to  uie  times  in  whicb 

we  Hye. 

It  was  used  by  him  to  check  extrayagance  on 
the  part  of  any  one  of  his  daughters  who  diould 
happen  to  give  outward  proof  of  a  deore  to 
imitate  the  squire's  lady  in  the  matter  of  dress. 
At  such  a  time  he  would  shake  his  head,  elevate 
a  warning  forefinger,  and  say  with  befitting  eolem- 
nitVj  "Ah  I  child,  many  a  good  horse  diea  of  the 
fashions."  . 

This  peculiar  disease  among  horses,  it  will  be  « 
remembered,  is  referred  to  in  the  Tandnff  of  the 


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ShreWf  where  it  is  said  that  Petruchio's  steed, 
amidst  his  many  other  afflictions,  is  '^  infected 
with  the  fashions."  Elsewhere  I  have  found  the 
complaint  described  as  a  kind  of  leprosy. 

Wu.  UlTDEBHILL. 
13,  Kelly  Street,  Kentish  Town. 

Hair  orowiwg  after  Death  (4*  S.  vi.  624 ; 
vii.  66,  83,  130.)— In  the  sixth  volume  of  Nor- 
folk ArcJudology  is  an  interesting  account  of  the 
discovery  of  three  stone  coffins  containing  skele- 
tons in  the  beautif ally  restored  church  of  JDrayton 
near  this  city.  In  one  the  skeleton  lay  enclosed 
in  a  case  of  lead,  which  had  entirely  enwrapped 
the  corpse  and  taken  the  form  of  the  inhumed 
person.  Amongst  other  particulars  respecting  it, 
it  is  stated  that ''  on  the  posterior  part  of  the  skull 
was  a  considerable  quantity  of  hair  closely  matted 
together,"  and  in  a  foot-note  the  writer  says : — 

«The  growth  of  hair  after  death  is  somethiDg  ex- 
traordinary, and  presniniiig  the  corpee  to  be  of  the  date 
circa  1300,  examples  are  not  wanting  to  prove  the  pre- 
servation of  hnman  hair  from  that  period  to  the  pre- 
sent in  profoaeness  and  even  heaaty.  Some  few  years 
since  a  tquare  box  or  coffin  containing  a  skeleton  was 
found  in  the  Lady  Chapel  of  Hereford  Cathedral.  The 
body  had  been  enveloped  in  a  sheet  of  woollen  fabric 
The  hair  was  perfect  and  in  the  form  of  a  wig,  the  bones 
of  the  skull  having  fallen  away  from  it.  The  colour  was 
a  yellow  red,  and  so  profuse  in  quantity  as  certainly  to 
have  grown  considerably  after  death."— '.^rcAoo/o^ 
voL  xxxiii. 

**Snch  growth  is  frequently  attested;  but  an  extraor- 
dinary anecdote  on  the  same  subject  is  worth  notice  here, 
if  oniv  for  the  singularity  of  the  statement.  Douglas 
says  that  John  Pitt  assured  him  that  on  visiting  a  vault 
of  his  ancestors  in  Farley  Chapel,  Somersetshire,  he  saw 
the  hair  of  the  young  Lady  Chandos,  which  had  in  a 
most  extraordinary  manner  grown  out  of  the  coffin,  and 
hung  down  from  it ;  while  by  the  inscription  it  appeared 
she  had  been  buried  at  least,  he  says,  considerably  more 
than  a  hundred  years." 

For  my  part  I  do  not  believe  that  hair  can 
possibly  grow  after  death.  I  have  not  succeeded 
in  finding  a  well-marked  instance  on  record,  such 
an  one  indeed  as  would  place  the  matter  beyond 
dispute,  and  in  no  physiological  work  can  I  meet 
with  any  allusion  to  this  circumstance. 

Chablbs  Williams. 

Norwich. 

Wttlphbtoa  (4«»  S.  vii.  13, 182.)— Appended 
to  Erdeswicke's  Staffordshire^  printed  in  1723,  is 
*[  Some  Account  of  Wolverhampton,"  by  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dugdale.    Therein  he  writes^ 

"  In  this  great  parish,  King  Edffar,  about  the  year  970 
<anno  r^i  zi.),  at  the  request  of  his  dying  sister,  Wnl- 
phmne  (as  'tis  said),  from  whom  'tis  called  Wulphrune- 
Hampton,  founded  a  chapel  of  eight  portionaries,*'  &c 

Erdeswicke's  text,  in  allusion  to  the  name  of 
ihe  town,  says,  "so  called  because  one  Wul- 
l^na  was  Ladv  thereof  about  the  time  that 
«  King  Edgar  was  Kingof  England." 

Seeing  that  King  JSdgar  deceased  (five  years 


after  Wulphruna  is  stated  to  have  been 
"  A.D.  975,  anno  regni  16,  rotat.  33,"  that  he  bwec 
his  throne  to  the  influence  of  the  monks,  whose 
dounsels  almost  entirely  guided  the  actions  of  his 
reign,  while  Ethebred  lI.  during  his  whole  reign 
was  engaged  in  constant  warfare  with  the  Danes, 
who  finaUy  drove  him  from  his  kingdom,  I  think 
the  precise  terms  of  Dugdale's  statement  carry 
some  weight  (they  were  my  authority,  vide  4^  S, 
vi.  636)  'f  and  Hebhbntrudb,  there  can  be  little 
doubt,  is  right  in  her  inference  of  Wulphruna'a 
parentage.  W.  E.  B. 

ROBSRT  FiTZHARWBTS  OR  HaBVEIS  (4*  S.  vL 

414,  517.)— The  answer  of  S.  H.  A.  H.  fails  to 
throw  light  on  the  ancestry  of  Robert  Fitz-HerveiB. 
That  sudi  a  person  existed  there  can  be  no  doubt, 
but  whether  ne  was  son  of  the  Duke  of  Orleans 
is  questionable.  Wace,  in  his  JRoman  de  Bou, 
tells  us  that  he  was  the  ''son  of  Emeis  by 
Hawise  or  Haekwise,  and  nephew  of  Raonl  de 
Tesson."  The  conjecture  of  Lord  Arthur  Herve^ 
is  open  to  the  objection  that  the  name  of  "  Emeis 
due  d*Orleans "  occurs  in  several  lists  of  milites 
(vide  Foxe's  JRoU^  Chron,  Norman,  Stow^  &c.) ; 
besides  it  is  hardly  probable  that  the  title  was 
added  (as  conjectured  by  Lord  Hervey)  to  a  per- 
son of  the  name  of  Emeis  in  the  eleventh  century 
by  any  one  familiar  with  the  stoi^  of  an  Ernes,  son 
of  Sampson,  Duke  of  Orleans,  in  the  ninth  cen- 
tury. After  this  Ernes  (a.d.  815)  the  next  Count 
or  Duke  of  Orleans  is  Odo  or  Eudes,  whose  daugh- 
ter Ermentrude  married  Charles  the  Bald  in  842 
(vide  Voltdre  and  limier);  and  next  to  him 
<<  Eudes  Count  of  Paris  and  Orleans  "  (Nat,  866), 
who  was  elected  King  of  France  in  888,  and  from 
this  period  the  duchy  of  Orleans  appears  to  have 
belonged  to  the  House  of  Capet  About  1060 
Coimt  Eudes,  brother  of  Henry  L  of  France,  de- 
manded a  part  of  his  Other's  dominions.  Is  it 
possible  that  this  Eudes  received  the  duchy  of 
Orleans,  or  that  Orleanois  formed  part  of  the  duchy 
of  Burgundy  (as  it  did  in  662),  and  that  Robert 
flts-Hemeis  was  a  son  of  the  Bishop  of  Auxerre 
or  of  a  Duke  of  Burgundy  ?  In  Hist.  Norman, 
Script.  Antiq,  I  find  at  p.  1031  "  Rob.  01.  Emeis," 
p.  1046  <<  Eudo  fil  Emeis,  Emeis  de  Burone,"  &c. : 
p.  1044  '<Hemeis,"  p.  1036  "  Comes  Herueus"  and 
"  Hereus  de  Vtmo,**  p.  1142  "Heraeus  de  Safra,*' 
p.  1036  '*  Herueus  de  Lion,''  &c  &c.  Are  these 
of  the  same  or  of  different  families  ? 

Now  Mr.  Collins  says  that  Robert  Rtz-Hervey 
had  several  sons,  but  from  the  Domesday  records 
we  are  left  to  conjecture  whether  any  or  all  of 
the  Herueus  therein  mentioned  are  in  anv  way 
related  to  him.  It  is  certain  ''  Rob.  fil.  'Emeia^' 
IB  not  mentioned  in  the  Surveif,  yet  it  is  positively 
asserted  that  "  Robert,  son  of  Hervey,  who  gave 
lands  to  the  Abbot  of  Abingdon  which  Henry  I. 
confirmed,"  was  a  son  of  Robert  Fitz-Herveyi 


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Bake  of  Orleans.  Here  the  chain  is  broken,  and 
from  Heniy,  or  Herveus  fil.  Hervei,  the  Herveys, 
Butlers,  and  Clibumes  claim  descent.  If  Dou- 
xnoolin  gives  the  arms  of  Robert  Fitz-Hervey,  or 
of  the  other  Emeis  or  Herveis,  additional  light 
may  be  thrown  on  this  subject  Nimbod. 

Pkdigbbb  of  MoBxncEB' (4"»  S.  Vu,  12.)— 
Before  it  can  be  discovered 'how  the  Lady  Maa- 
xitia  waa  related  to  Leonor  the  Faithful,  we  must 
aacertain  her  father's  name  with  rather  more  cer- 
tainty. Different  writers  call  him  Sir  William  de 
Fenolles^  de  Eandles,  .de  Findlass,  and  sundry 
other  variations.  Now  none  of  them  sound  par- 
ticularly. Spanish,  and  it  is  just  possible  that  the 
zolationahip  may  have  come  through  the  queen's 
Prench  mother,  Jeanne  Countess  of  Aumale  and 
Ponthieu.  JGr«r  mother  was  Alice  of  France;  the 
kiDship  (if  in  this  direction  at  aU)  must  be  sought 
-on  the  father!8  aide.  Hebicbnirubb. 

The  Strasburo  Libbabt  (4**  S.  vii.  120.)— 
In  the  interests  of  literature  one  rdoices  to  learn 
that  efforts  are  beiiuf  made  to  give  Strasburg  once 
more  a  Hbrarjr  worthy  of  the  town ;  but  is  it  not 
worth  inqninng  how  or  by  whose  default  its  late 
famous 'collection  has  utterly  perished?  Few 
perhaps  who  have  not  seen  books  in  or  after  a 
fire  Imow  how  rarely  what  newspapers  call  the 
**  devouring  element "  effects  the  complete  de- 
fltruction  of  such  a  mass  of  them,  but  to  those 
who  do,  it  must  seem  almost  incredible  that  a 
great  deal  of  valuable  salvage  did  not  remain. 

-Supposing,  however,  that  the  ravages  of  fire 
were  as  destructive  as  they  have  been  represented, 
what  claim  has  a  town  or  corporation  to  a  new 
library  when  it  took  no  pains  to  preserve  the  old 
one?  Was  it  nobody's  business  because  every- 
body's to  place  such  treasures  as  the  Gutenberg 
MS.  or  the  Hortus  Deliciarum  in  a  place  of  safety 
even  at  the  very  commencement  of  the  siege  ? 

G.  M.  G. 

.  Bwxjixnf  Oarbibb  (4'»'  S.  vii.  97,  130,  150.) 
A  few  additional  particulars  of  the  life  of  Dt. 
Canier  may  not  be  unacceptable.  He  was  chap- 
lain and  preacher  at  the  court  of  King  James  I., 
and  always  inclined  to  pacific  measures  in  matters 
of  religion.  In  his  letters  he  appears  to  insinuate 
that  James  was  disposed  to  attempt  a  coalition 
between  the  Catholic  and  Anglican  churches.  Dr. 
Carrier,  however,  convinced  that  such  a  scheme 
was  impracticable,  resolved  to  embrace  the  Catholic 
faith.  He  obtained  leave  of  the  king  to  go  to 
Spa,  on  account  of  his  health,  where  nis  conver- 
sion was  completed.  James  oraered  Casaubon  and 
others  to  write  to  him,  and  send  him  a  peremptory 
order  to  return  to  England,  having  a  strong  sus- 
picion of  the  doctor's  intention.  When  his  con- 
version became  known,  the  king  highly  resented 
it  He  had  indeed  so  great  a  regard  for  Dr.  Car- 
rier, that  he  was  believed  to  have  been  the  con- 


fidant of  his  majesty's  private  sentiments  as  to 
religion.  Carrier  received  many  letters  connatu- 
lating  him  on  his  conversion,  from  Home,  Paris, 
and  several  other  places.  At  the  invitation  of  the 
Cardinal  Da  Perron  he  went  to  Paris,  and  died 
there  in  June  1614.  His  works  are — Sennans 
preached  "while  he  was  a  Protestant ;  A  Missive 
to  fus  MqfesCi/  of  Great  Britain,  containing  the 
motives  of  ^his  conversion  (Liege^  1614),  and  A 
Letter  of  the  miserable  Ends  of  such  as  impugn  the 
Catholic  i^atj^,  published  in  1616  after  his  death. 
^  See  Dodd's  Church  History,  voL  ii.,  who  wrote 
his  acooonf  from  several  original  letters  in<  his 
keeping  from  Carrier,  Casaubon,  Du  Perron,  &c 

F.  C.  H. 

Post  Pbophbcies  (4»»»  S.  vi.  870,  896, 488 ;  vii. 

42,  161.) — A.  R.'s  iVw  de  mots  waa  richaujfi  in 

Paris  in  September  1866  thus : — 

••  L*IUtie  est  faite 
£t  Rome  contrefaite, 
L'Antriche  est  d^faite 
£t  VAllemagne  refaite, 
La  Pnisae  est  sorfaite, 
Xa  France  est  parfaite,. 
•  £t  i'Aogleterre  satisfaite." 

W.  T.  M. 

DsiTABius  ov  Dbusxts,  Sbn.  (P)  (4^^  S.  viL  85, 
148.) — This  piece  is  not  a  coin  of  Drusus,  Sen., 
but  of  the  Emperor  Nero  when  a  young  man.  The 
obverse  legend  is  ''insBO  olavd.  cabs,  bbvbvb 
GBBX.  PBiKo.  ivvEKT."  Young  bust,  baro^  and 
the  reverse,  ''sacebb.  goopi.  in  okn.  cokl.  svpba 
Kvx.  BZ  S.O.,"  which  interpreted  reads  *'  Saceirdos 
cooptatus  in  onmi  conlegio  supra  numerum  ex 
senates  consulto."  Type — simpulum,  tripod,  lituus, 
and  patera.  The  coin  will  be  found  in  Eckhel,  who 
gives  explanatoiy  notes,  and  in  Cohen. 

F.  W.  M. 

Mbittal  EarAUTT  of  the  Sbxxs  (4^  S.  vii. 
97.) — Nearly  twenty  years  ago  a  '^  calculating 
girl  ^*  appeared  in  Ayrshire,  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  Kilmarnock.  Accounts  of  her  wonderful  feats 
appeared  in  the  Glasgow  papers  and  attracted 
notice.  Some  persons  (among  whom  was,  I  think, 
a  member  of  the  Hastings  family)  interested  them- 
selves in  her,  and  she  was  sent  to  Edinbuigh  to 
be  educated,  where  she  attended  the  school  of 
my  late  friend  Mr.  Peter  Currie,  George  Street 
Although,  I  dare  say,  I  must  have  seen  the  girl  in 
his'  school,  he  never  exhibited  any  of  her  feats  ta 
me  j  but  he  often  spoke  of  them,  and  many  per- 
sons, including  ladies  of  title,  visited  the  scnool 
for  the  purpose  of  witnessing  her  wonderful  powers. 
It  would  be  quite  unsafe  forme  to  attempt  to  give 
any  detailed  account  of  these,  but  I  remember  that 
Mr.  Currie  used  to  speak  of  the  marvellous  ra« 
pidity  and  accuracy  with  which  she  multiplied  a 
long  row  of  figures  by  a  multiplier  some  four  or 
five  deep  without  using  pen  or  pencil.  I  make 
no  question  but  that  many  of  her  schoolfellows, 


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including  Mr.  Currie's  own  children,  would  be 
able  toitimish  further  particulars,  as  well  as  the 
girFs  name.  She  was  in  attendance  at  the  school 
about  sixteen  yean  ago.  J*  H. 

I  can  attest  to  the  posseadon  of  this  remarkable 
gift  by  a  highly  intelligent  young  lady.  At  eight 
years  of  age  sne  would  answer  the  most  difficult 
questions  m  mental  arithmetic  with  only  a  few 
minutes'  consideration — qnestions,  be  it  under- 
stood, that  posed  older  and  more  learned  persons. 
'         *^  M.  C.  Lt. 

"He  that  buys  Land,"  etc.  (4*  8.  viL  ©9.) 

Either  W.  E.  ^ A.  Axon's  "old  friend"  or  the 

schoolmaster  ''named   Byrom"  were  eTidently 

acquainted  with  the  old  drinking  song  which  has 

been  reprinted  by  Mr.  Wright  from  an  ancient 

manuscript  in  his  possesdon : — 

**  Bring  us  in  good  ale,  and  bring  as  in  good  ale. 
For  our  bleaaed  Lad/'s  sake,  bring  us  in  good  ale. 

firing  US  in  no  brown  bread,  for  tbat  ia  made  of  bran ; 
Nor  bring  as  in  no  white  bread,  for  that  is  only  grein  ; 

Bnt  bring  ns  in  good  ale. 

Brinff  ns  in  no  beef,  for  there  are  many  bones,  « 
Bnt  bring  ns  in  good  ale,  for  that  goes  down  at  once. 

Then  bring  ns  in  good  ale. 

Bring  OS  in  no  bacon,  for  that  is  pasring  fat; 
Bnt  bring  ns  in  good  ale,  and  give  ns  enough  of  that. 

So  bring  ns  in  good  ale. 

Bring  ns  in  no  mutton,  for  that  is  often  lean ; 
Nor  bring  us  in  no  tripes,  for  they  be  seldom  clean. 

But  bring  ns  in  good  ale. 

Bring  ns  in  no  eggf,  for  there  be  many  shells ; 
But  bring  ns  in  good  ale^  and  gire  as  nothing  else. 

Then  bring  ns  in  good  ale.** 

Boston. 

Mbduetal  Babns  (4^  S.  tIL  05. Win  forming 
a  wooden  house  the  uprights  at  toe  ends  would 
be  best  made  of  a  tree  ot  which  one  of  the  branches 
was  cut  off  at  the  fork  of  the  Y^md  the  roof 
tree  attached  by  pegs  and  cords.  The  remaining 
branch  aloped  outwards,  and  waa  richly  carved,  as 
we  see  in  engravings  representing  Norwegian  and 
Icelandic  halls. 

On  the  attack  on  Gunnar  of  Lithend  (I^'ah 
Saga,  I  244)  :— 

**  Some  ropes  lay  there  on  the  ground,  and  they  were 
irften  used  to  strengthen  the  roof,  "nien  Mord  said,  '"Let  us 
take  the  ropes  and  throw  one  end  oyer  the  end  of>the 
carTying  beams,  bnt  let  ns  fasten  the  other  end  to  these 
Tocks  and  twist  them  tight  with  levers,  and  so  pall  the 
Toof  off  the  hall.' 

"  So  they  took  the  ropes  and  all  lent  a  hand  to  carry 
this  out,  and  before  Gunnar  was  aware  of  it,  they  had 
pulled  the  whole  roof  off  the  hall." 

A  finialy  then,  was  not  an  ornament,  but  "  orna- 
mented construction."  W.  G. 

I  cannot  agree  with  the  statement  that  the 
leaning  finials  alluded  to  are  ugly.  It  seems  to 
me  but  pleasing  variety,  and  on  this  account  no 


doubt  they  were  made.  No  special  meaning  can 
be  attributed  to  them.  The  one  at  Bathampton 
is  in  conjunction  vnth  a  straight  or  unright  one. 
The  two  nest  ecdeuasttcal  bams  in  Enflrland,  those 
at  Pilton  and  Glastonbury,  have  upright  finials. 

P.  K  Maset* 

Vebe :  Febsb:  Feazb  (4«'  S.  vi.  195, 421,568; 
viL  100.)— As  no  reply  has  yet  appeared  to  Mr. 
Addi8*s  query  regaraing  the  word  /eosa,  I  have 
to  say  that  it  is  in  constant  use  in  fife,  and  ia 
invanably  applied  to  express  the  fretting  away  of 
the  hem  of  a  garment,  or  the  edge  of  a  piece  of 
doth,  by  the  separation  of  the  woof  from  the 
warp.  It  is  so  explained  by  Jamieson  in  his  Scot' 
tish  Dietiomafy.  It  also  signifies  '*  the  ravelling 
out  of  any  rope  or  cable  at  the  ends,"  as  stated  by 
Bdley.  Tlus  meaning  makea  dear  the  quotation 
given  by  Mb.  Adbib,  which  the  sense  of  "  driven 
away  "  does  not  do.  I  cannot  detect  in  Pidcer- 
ing's  edition  the  line  in  Chaucer  referred  to,  and 
therefore  I  am  unable  to  say  whether  the  sense 
above  given  explains  the  passage ;  but  in  regard 
to  the  quotetion  from  Fuller— J'  Bishop  Turbervil 
recovered  some  lost  lands,  which  fiiahop  Voysev 
had  vexed  "—the  gloss  by  Fuller  of  "driven  away" 
is  deddedly  wrong.  Lands  cannot  be  driven 
away,  but  they  may  h&freUed  awav  by  encroach- 
ments or  petty  sales.  It  was  such  lands,  beyond  a 
doubt,  that  Bishop  Turbervil  recovered.  The  same 
sense  explains  the  verse  quoted : — 

*<  be  XI.  dai  fare  windis  eal  rise 
>e  reinbow  Hin  sal  fal 
>at  al  |>e  fentis  sal  y  agris 
and  be  ifetid  into  helle." 

AferUf  in  manufricturing  phraseology,  means  a 
small  piece  left  of  a  web ;  the  feniie  of  the  rein- 
bow  are  the  fragments  of  the  1>ow  after  the  doud 
becomes  broken,  and  they  were  ifesid,  fretted  away 
into  h^f  darkness,  or  concealment  Perhaps  the 
connection  between  fretted  away  and  whipped  or 
beaten  is  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that  the  armies 
brouffht  into  the  field  at  that  period  were  levied 
for  tiie  immediate  occasion,  at  the  caU  of  their 
feudal  superior,  and  on  a  defeat  they  embraced 
the  opportunity  of  returning  to  their^  homes ;  in 
fact^feazed  away,  which  from  this  circumstance 
came  to  aignify  being  defeated  or  beaten.    A.  L. 

Titlebs  op  Suoab  (4"»  S.  vi  669 ;  vii.  110.)— 
F.  C.  H.  says  that  a  titler  weighs  about  ten  pounds. 
I  have  before  me  ihe  bill  of  a  large  London  grocer 
in  which  occurs  the  item  "  1  Titler  Sugar  35£ lbs." 

H.  P.  D. 

"  SCIEECE  "  AND  "  Abt  "  (4«'  S.  vU.  80.)— The 
confusion  of  use  of  these  words  was  very  well 
cleared  some  years  ago  by  a  writer  in  Chambers^ b 
JowmdL  He  said  '^  sdence  "  had  exdusive  refer- 
ence to  the  works  of  God ;  "  art "  exclusive  refer- 
ence to  the  works  of  man.  The  line  thus  drawn 
is  probably  as  good  as.  any  that  can  be  drawn.   It 


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la  certainly  time  some  rule  was  laid  down,  for  no 
two  words  in  the  language  are  more  used  wrong- 
oualy.  W.  a  • 

Capar-Flfe. 

Thomson  a  Druid  (4*  S.  yii.  97.)-j-I  believe 
that  Collins  here  uses  the  word  ''Druid ''  in  the 
sense  of  British  bard^  or  national  poet  "Without 
asserting  thepeculiar  propriet}^  of  this  epithet  as 
applied  to  Tnomson,  i  submit  that  this  is  the 
usual  meaning  of  the  word  in  poetry,  which  natu* 
rally  disregards  the  sacerdotal  and  other  sides  of 
the  Druid^s  life,  except  that  of  bard.  Compare  in 
the  same  poet's  ode  to  Liberty  :— 

**  The  chiefii  who  fill  our  Albion's  story 
•       •.••••» 
Hear  their  eonaorted  Dmids  ting 
Their  triamphs  to  th*  Immortal  strlog." 

Also  Cowper*s  conception  of  a  Druid  in  his  *'  Boa- 
dicea."  J.  H.  J.  Oaklbt. 

Croydon* 

Is  not  SiKPHSif  Jackson's  auexy  answered  by 

the  last  verse  of  the  dirge  itself  P — 

**  Long,  long  thj  stone  and  pointed  day 
ShikU  melt  ike  musing  Briton's  ejes: 
0 !  vale$  and  uriUi  toooaa,  shall  he  say, 
In  yonder  grave  yowr  Druid  lies." 

Collins,  I  think,  considered  him  (Thomson)  as 
Nature's  high  priest  and  poet ;  delighting,  like  the 
Druid  sage,  in  leafy  solitudes  and  in  the  rilent 
but  eloquent  language  of  hills  and  vales  and  foimts 
and  babbling  streams.  J.  A.  G. 

Cariabrooke. 

Feast  or  the  Nativitt  (of  oub  Lobd)  (4**  S. 
vii.  142.) — That  there  was  among  the  Onentals  a 
great  diversity  in  celebrating  the  day  on  which 
our  divine  Redeemer  was  bom,  is  evident  from 
the  early  Fathers.  St  Clement  of  Alexandria, 
who  died  very  early  in  the  third  century,  ob- 
serves that  there  were  some  who  were  not  only 
curious  to  assign  the  ^ear,  but  even  the  day  of  our 
Lord's  nativity,  which  they  said  was  in  the 
twenty-eighth  year  of  Augustus,  and  on  the  26th 
of  the  moath  Pachon  Tthe  Egyptian  month  be- 
ginning on  the  26th  of  April). 

Ehri  ih  al  ircpicfi7^cf»ot  ry  y4¥9tru  rod  Strr^pot  lipMP 
cl  iU¥w  rh  $rof,  kKXk  ica)  r^y  1ifi4paw  itpoffrl9€¥r§t '  V 
^offuf  irovs  kV  KvyovfTToVy  ip  ir4fiinjf  TI^x^*^  ''^  cfkoSi. 

He  goes  on  to  state  the  practice  of  the  followers 
of  Basilides  in  celebrating  the  times  of  our  Sa- 
viour's baptism  and  of  his  passion ;  and  adds  that 
some  of  tnem  also  said  that  he  was  bom  on  the 
24th  or  26th  of  Pharmuthi  (which  began  on  our 
27th  of  March). 

No)  fi^f  rufws  abT&v  Awri  ^apfiovBi  ytyimntaBop  a'S', 
4  icV. 

S.  Clem.  Alex.,  Siromai^  lib.  J.pottmed, 

Cassian  testifies  that  the  more  common  practice 
of  the  churches  of  Egypt  was  to  keep  the  nativity 
of  our  Lord  on  the  6th  of  January.     (Cassian. 


CoUai,  z.  CKp.  iL)    The.  same  is  stated  of  the 

churches  of  Cyprus,  Antioch,  and  other  Oriental 

churches,  bv  St.  £)piphanins  (JExpaait,  Fidm,  zzii.) : 

and  St  John  Chrvsostom  (Hom.  zxi.  de  NataU 

Chritti)  informs   his  hearers   that  the  Eastern 

churches  towards  the  end  of  the  fourth  century, 

being  taught  better  by  those  of  the  West,  fixed 

the  day  on  the  25th  oiDecember. 

**  Hio  dies,  qnum  ab  ezordio  iis,  qni  in  Ooddente  ha- 
bitant, cognitos  fiierit;  nunc  ad  nos  demnm  non  ante 
mnltos  annos  transmiasns  ita  increvit,*'  &c 

Z.  Z.  further  inquires  at  what  time  the  festival 
of  Christmas  assumed  the  character  of  saturnalia. 
Probably  very  soon,  from  the  ]^roneness  of  men  to 
turn  the  most  sacred  festivals  mto  seasons  of  pro-* 
fane  joy  and  worldly  festivity.  Thus  we  find^the 
emperor  Theodosius  the  younger,  in  the  early  part 
of  the  fifth  century,  severely  prohibiting  mmea 
and  public  spectacles  on  the  nativity  of  our  Lord, 
the  same  as  on  Sundays.  {Cod,  Theodas.f  lib.  xt. 
tit  6,  de  S^fectacuUs.)  F.  C.  H. 

"BiKaN  BAZiAiKif  (4*^  S.  'vii.  9.)-— After  the 
curious  and  valuable  piece  of  evidence  communi- 
cated by  Mb.  Sleigh  as  to  the  authorship  of  thia 
celebrated  book,  the  opinions  of  so  capable  a 
critic  as  Sottthey  may  be  read  with  some  in- 
terest:— 

« Among  other  books  I  have  been  reading  the  Efican» 
Bao-iXuc^,  which  never  fell  in  my  way  before.  The  evi- 
dence concerning  its  anthenticaty  &  more  cnrionsly 
balanced  than  in  any  other  case,  except  perhaps  that  oi 
the  two  Alexander  Cunninghams  ;*bat  the  internal  evi- 
dence is  strongly  in  its  fkvoor,  and  1  very  much  donbt 
whether  any  man  could  have  written  it  in  a.flctitions 
character,  the  character  is  so  perfectly  observed.  If  it 
be  genuine  (which  I  believe  it  to  be  as  much  as  a  man 
can  believe  the  authenticity  of  anjrthing  which  has  been 
boldly  impugned)  it  is  one  of  the  most  mtereeting  books 
connected  with  English  histoiy.*'  —  Life  tmd  XeUerif. 
V.81. 

Again: — 

<*  Wordsworth,  the  Master  of  Trinity,  has  just  pub- 
lished a  volume  concerning  the  Ebcatr  Boo-iAur^,  a  ques- 
tion of  no  trifling  importance,  both  to  onr  political  and 
literary  history.  As  far  as  minute  and  accumulative 
evidence  can  amount  to  proo^  he  has  proved  it  to  be 
genuine.  For  myself,  I  have  never,  since  I  read  the  bool^ 
thought  that  any  unprejudiced  person  could  entertain  a 
doubt  concerning  it  I  am  the  more  gratified  that  this 
full  and  satisfactory  investi^tion  has  been  made,  because 
it  grew  out  of  a  conversation  between  the  two  Words- 
worths  and  myself  at  Rydal  a  year  or  two  ago.**— /6. 199» 

To  this  may  be  added  the  testimony  of  South^ 

which  I  happen  to  have  just  come  across : — 

**....  Let  his  own  writings  serve  for  a  witness,  which 
speak  him  no  less  an  author  than  a  monarch,  composed, 
with  such  an  unfailing  aocuracv,  such  a  commanding 
majentick  ^m^Aoi,  as  if  they  had  been  written  not  with  a 
pen  but  with  a  sceptre ;  and  as  for  those  whose  virulent 
and  ridiculous  calumnies  ascribe  that  incomparable  work 
to  others,  'tis  a  sufficient  aignment  that  those  did  not» 
because  they  could  not  write  it  Tls  hard  to  oounterfoit 
the  spirit  of  majesty,  and  Uie  inimitable  peculiarities  of 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4«»»  s.  vii.  Mabch  ii,  71. 


an  incommanicable  genius." — A  Sermon  preaeh'd  on  the 
xxx^i'  of  January.  (Poathumous  Works  of  the  IcUe  Rev, 
Robert  South,  D'.D.,  8vo.    London,  1717,  p.  163.) 

WiLLiAX  Bates. 

Birmingliam. 

Tub  Straight  Gate  akd«Narbow  Wat  (4'* 
S.  Til  93.) — In  reference  to  the  "  Broad  and 
Narrow  Way."  the  following  extract  from  Win- 
wood  Reade  B  Savage  Africa  (p.  539)  may  be 
thought  interesting : — 

'<  The  Ibo  negroes  describe  the  soni  of  man  as  possessing 
the  same  sabtle  nature  as  his  shadow.  They  say  that 
each  sonl  is  accompanied  upon  the  way  to  its  u>poinied 
place  by  two  spirits — a  go<kl  and  an  evil  one.  It  has  to 
pass  over  a  dangerous  wall,  by  which  the  road  is  divided. 
The  good  spirit  helps  the  soul  happily;  the  evil  one 
knoehs  his  head  ag^nst  it.  After  this  two  ixMids  appear, 
one  is  nanrow  and  the  other  broad.  By  the  narrow  road 
the  good  soul  is  led  by  its  guardian  genius  to  God  the 
nerciful  and  supreme;  by  tne  broad  road  the  wicked 
0oul  is  led  by  its  demon  to  a  place  which  is  always  dark." 

Surely  tliia  must  be  the  remains  of  Christian 
teaching.  Cuffobb  W.  Poweb. 

St.  Jahn*8Colli«M3«mb.  .      . 

•The  passage  from  ^Kdbes.  quoted  by  the  Rsv. 
Mb.  Tew  is  quoted  by  the  late  Dean  Alford,  in 
his  Greek  Testament  on  St.-  Matt.  yii.  14. 

W.  A.  B.  C. 

The  parallel  passages  from  Matthew  yiL  14 
and  Cebes  (Tabula)  would  certainly  furnish  cu- 
rious matter  of  compiarison  if  the  latter  had  been 
written  four  hundred  years  before  the  former,  as 
Mb.  Tew  assumes^  fiut  the  truth  is,  that  the 
genuinene^  of  the  Tabula  of  Cebes  has  been,  to 
Wf  the  least  of  it,  seriously  disputed.  Some  as- 
cribe it  to  another  Cebes.  who  lived  under  Marcus 
Aurellus;  3ome,  who  belieye  it  to  be  partly  au- 
thenticy  sUspect  it  of  having  been  much  '^  cooKed" 
by  restorers,  as  indeed  is  in  some  places  indis- 

Eutable.    The  inference  is  ver^  strong  that  the 
iter  Stoic  who  composed  this  mteresting  parable 
borrowed  from  Scripture.     Jeak  lb  Tbovvetjb. 

MoBB  Family  (4«»  S.  ii.  385,  422,  449;  iiL 
266 ;  iv.  61,  82, 104, 147.)— I  have  been  hoping 
that  Mb.  Aldis  Wbioht,  or  some  other  gentle- 
man, would  have  given  me  a  solution  of  the  in- 
quiry I  sought  as  to  the  armorial  bearings  ^ven 
to  the  chancellor*s  family  in  the  MS.  collection  of 
Roman  Catholic  families  I  alluded  to,  vis.,  '^  Or, 
a  torteau  charged  with  a  moorcock  ar.  and  two 
lions  passant  guardant  in  pale  gu.  between  as 
many  launches  ar.  each  charged  vrith  a  fleur-de- 
lis  sa." 

Although  in  the  MS.  the  pedigree  is  ffiven  at 
lenffth,  no  allusion  is  made  to  the  other  bearings 
of  tiie  family,  yet  1  cannot  find  any  record  of  the 
family  ever  having  borne  the  arms  stated  in  the 
MS.  I  can  only  suppose  my  theory  to  be  the 
most  probable  one,  •'.  «.,  that  these  arms  were 
granted  by  the  exiled  Stuart  kings  to  Basil  More, 
who  went  into  exile  with  them  at  St  Germains; 


and  that  the  MS.  beinff  exclusively  of  Roman 
Catholic  families  who  adhered  to  the  faUen  dy- 
nasty, would  not  recognise  the  coat  ratified  by  the 
heralds  of  the  heretic  monarchs,  more  than  it  does 
those  members  of  this  same  family  who  *'  dege- 
nerated from  the  religion  of  their  ancestors,"  and 
became  ''  lost ''  in  the  estimation  of  the  direct 
branch,  and  struck  out  altogether  from  the  gene- 
alogical tree. 

1  have  never  been  able  entirely  to  discard  the 
pedigree  ascribed  to  Sir  Thomas  More  in  that 
curious  book  by  Thomas  de  Escallers  de  la  More, 
Barrister  of  Gray*s  Inn,  published  in  London  in 
1649,  where  he  makes  him  descend  from — 

**  Laurentius  de  la  More,  qui  erat  in  ezerdtn  Willielmi 
Bastardi  Regis  in  Gonqnestn  suo  Regni  Anglis,  and  Sir 
Thomas  de  la  More,  Knight,  who  was  a  courtier  in  the 
reigns  of  Edward  the  First,  Second,  and  Third,  and  was  a 
servant  (and  wrote  the  life)  of  King  Edward  the  Second.** 

I  do  not  see  why  this  is  not  as  likely  to  be 
correct  as  the  tradition  whidi  Cresacie  More  men* 
tions,  as  ''having heard"  that  (his family)  ''either 
came  out  of  the  Mores  of  Ireland,  or  tiiey  came 
out  of  us  *' ;  for,  as  he  says,  "Although  by  reason 
of  King  Henry's  seizure  of  all  our  evidences,  we 
cannot  certainly  tell  who  were  Sir  John's  ances- 
tors, yet  must  they  needs  be  gentlemen."  That 
they  did  not  come  out  of  the  Mores  of  Ireland  is 
clear,  as  the  families  he  alludes  to  did  not  settle 
in  Ireland  till  after  the  chancellor's  death,  and  in 
the  other  case,  which  is  not  improbable,  it  would 
in  no  way  militate  against  the  pedigree  above 
stated,  whether  the  writer  was,  as  he  calls  himself, 
a  grandson,  or  any  more  remote  descendant  ox 
the  illustrious  chancellor.  Will  Mb.  Wbi&ht  or 
some  of  the  gentlemen  who  have  turned  their 
thoughts  to  tne  history  of  this  great  man,  lend 
me  uieir  assistance  in  unriddling  the  mystery 
attached  to  his  ancestry  P  C.  T.  J.  Moobe. 

Frampton  Hall,  near  Boston. 

Leigh  Hunt's  "The  Mokths,"  btc.  (4*  S. 

vi.  108,  246.) — ^The  most  observing  writers  have 

often  made  most  serious  mistakes  as  regards  the 

proper  time  of  the  annual  or  exact  appearance  of 

certain  flowers,  serving  their  purpose  in  a  poem 

or  work  of  fiction.  Not  all  are  so  careful  as  Goethe, 

who,  in  his  Sorrows  of  Werter,  gives  almost  the 

exact  day  of — 

**    ,    .    ,   the  Lime,  the  odoroos  lime. 
With  tassels  of  gold  and  leaves  so  green,"  * 

being  in  its  full  beauty  at  dear  little  Wahlheim» 
1  remember  (but  cannot  lay  hands  on  the  volume 
in  question*^  Sir  John  Barrow  in  his  Autobiography 
speaking  ot  a  mountain-ash  (Sorbt*s  aucupariaf  L.) 
in  his  native  home  being  covei;^  with  its  hand- 
some shininsr  scarlet  hemes  in  the  month  of  June. 
And  in  Scouand,  too,  where  this  could  never  take 
place  before  the  end  of  August    Of  modem  Eng- 

*  Francis  Bennocfa,  b.  1812. 


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lish  writers  of  poetry  and  fiction,  ladies  as  a  rale 
pay  greater  attention  to  this  kind  of  thin?  than 
the  ''  strong  sex  "  (with  the  exception  of  vie  all- 
obserring  Wordsworth  of  course);  and  of  the 
former,  ''George  Eliot"  (I  am  just  thinking  of 
her  descriptions  of  the  heagerows  in  Adam  Bede) 
seems  to  me  the  most  acute.  The  remarks  of 
the  graceful  Caroline  Bowles  will  verify  my  own 
remark.  HsBKAinT  Ecn>x. 

ASHBUBirBBS  OF  FUBNESS  (4t^  S.  vi.  411,  682 ; 

Til.  131.) — ^With  respect  to  query  6,  p.  413,  last 

Tolume,  a  correspondent  of  the  UhersUm  Advert 

tiur  has  supplied  the  following  :-— 

**  The  Rer.  W.  Ashbamer  was  the  Bon  of  Geo.  Aahbniv 
ner  of  ScaleSp  Low  Fameis,  and  was  baptised  at  Alding- 
ham  Church  on  the  5th  of  January,  1763;  his  fiither, 
Geo.  Aahbarner  (son  of  John  Ashbamer  of  Aldiogham  ),wa8 
baptised  at  the  same  charch  on  Jane  18th,  1731.  Further 
xesearch  at  Aldingham  charch  and  Dalton  charch  would, 
no  doabt,  bring  farther  particulars  respecting  other  mem- 
bers of  the  fiimily  of  Ashbamers  to  light." 

The  writer  of  this  helieyes  himself  to  he  de- 
scended from  the  William  and  Thomas  Ashhumer 
of  Duhlin  mentioned  hy  the  correspondent  of 
'^  N.  &  Q."  in  the  article  puhlished  ahout  Novem- 
ber last,  and  would  he  glad  to  communicate  with 
the  said  correspondent,  under  cover  of  address, 
"J.  R.  R.,  Advertiser  Office,  Ulverston,  North 
Lancashire."  J.  R.  R. 

I  regret  I  have  not  had  time  to  thank  your 
courteous  correspondents  earlier  for  the  informa- 
tion they  have  already  kindly  given  me.  I  be- 
lieve a  moiety  of  the  advowson  of  Urswick  at  one 
time  belonged  to  the  family.  Of  course  it  would 
be  very  interesting  to  trace  the  forefathers  of  the 
Aldingham  Ashbumers  as  far  back  as  possible. 
Although  there  is  no  certain  place  at  present  in 
the  pedigree  for  them,  some  nirther  imbrmation 
would  no  doubt  JBx  the  particular  branch  to  which 
they  belong.  It  is  highly  probable  that  the  Rev. 
Wm.  Ashbumer's  line  was  alwavs  regarded  by 
the  Paddock  Hall  Ashbumers  as  oeing  their  near 
kinsmen,  and  I  think  it  will  be  found  that  they 
come  from  Francis  of  Frith  in  Cartmell,  the 
brother  of  Thomas  of  Faddodc  Hall,  ^^mo.  Car.  11. 

T.  Helsbt. 

MiittlULntaui. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS*  ETC. 

TaltM  of  Old  Japan.  By  A.  B.  Hitford,  Second  Secre- 
tary of  the  British  Legation  in  Japan.  In  Two  VotumMf 
with  lUttstrationM  drawn  and  eai  on  Wood  hy  Japanno 
Artisti,    (Macmillan.) 

Striking  and  characteristic  as  are  the  illastrations  of 
the  work  before  as,  which,  designed  by  a  Japanese  artist, 
have  been  cut  on  wood  by  a  famous  wooa-engraver  at 
Tedo^  they  are  not  one  whit  more  so  than  are  the  in- 
cidents in  these  tales  from  the  Land  of  Sunrise  which 
they  are  intended  to  represent.  The  very  first  story  in 
the  book,  that  of  "The  Forty-seven  Rdmns,'*  exhibits  a 
picture  of  devotion  on  the  part  of  his  retainers  towards 
their  feudal  lord — and  be  it  remembered  that  the  story 


is  a  true  one— which  it  would  be  hard  to  parallel.  While, 
if  the  heroism  and  vengeance  have  in  tiiem  something 
barbaric,  the  conduct  of  the  actors  in  the  fearful  tragedy 
exhibits  a  desire  to  spare  the  innocent  and  protect  from 
injury  the  neighbours  of  their  victim,  which  u  essentially 
chivalrous  in  its  nature.  And  when  we  find,  as  we  <k> 
from  Mr.  Mitfbid,  that  the  old  civilization  of  Japan  is 
fast  disappearing  before  the  new  idea^  which  the  inter- 
course 01  the  l&st  eleven  years  with  the  western  races  has 
introduced  into  the  country,  we  feel  that  that  gentleman 
has  rendered  good  service  by  these  translations  of  a 
selection  of  the  most  interesting  national  legends  and 
traditions.  In  these  tales,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Emperor  and  his  Court— respecting  whom  ULt.  Mitford 
could  find  no  tales  in  which  they  plaved  a  conspicuous 
part,  and  the  exception  is  a  remarkable  one — every  class 
u  Japan,  the  lord  and  his  retainer,  the  warrior  and  the 
priest,  the  humble  artisan  and  despised  Eta  or  pariah, 
all  tell  their  own  tales,  and  describe  themselves  in  a  way 
which  brings  their  social  condition  and  course  of  life  far 
more  vivid^  before  the  reader  than  could  be  obtained 
perhaps  in  any  other  mode :  while  the  backgrounds  of 
the  pictures  are  filled  up  with  incidental  aUuaions  to 
manners  and  customs,  the  arrangements  of  the  household, 
the  forms  of  worship,  the  divisions  of  the  day,  the  natural 
history  of  the  country,  and  innumerable  little  touches 
illustrative  of  Japanese  life  and  manner»— winch  give  a 
completeness  to  the  work,  and  make  it  what  we  bdieve 
'  it  to  be,  by  far  the  most  striking,  instructive,  and  authen- 
tic book  upon  Japan  and  the  Japanese  wbidi  has  ever 
been  laid  before  the  English  reader. 

JHary  of  the  Bmhauif  from  King  George  <^  Bohemia  to 
King  Lome  XL  of  France,  From  a  oontemporarg 
ManuecrtDtj  iiterally  tranekUed  from  the  original  Sla- 
vonic. By  A.  H.  Wratislaw,  M.A.,  &e.  (Bell  & 
Daldy.) 

George  of  Bohemia,  regarded  as  the  wisest  statesman 
of  his  day  in  Europe,  having  declined  to  render  obedience 
to  the  Papal  See  in  certain  matters,  endeavoured  to  bring 
about  a  council  of  crowned  heads  with  the  view  of  al- 
laying the  confusion  existing  in  Europe,  and  of  restraining 
and  regulating  the  encroaching  spirit  of  the  Roman 
Curia,  For  this  purpose  he  despatched  an  embassy  to 
Louis  XI.  of  France,  and  this  little  book  is  a  Diary  of 
such  embassy,  and  a  very  curious  Diary  it  is.  It  would 
indeed  have  been  more  so,  but  that  the  Jealousy  of  the 
Austrian  censorship  cut  out  many  passages  trom  the 
transcript ;  and  something  of  a  kindred  feeling  seems  to 
have  lea  to  the  abstraction  of  the  original  MS.  fh>m  the 
arohives  of  Budweis  in  Bohemia,  where  it  was  formerly 

C served,  but  where  it  is  no  longer  to  be  found.  Still  the 
k  presents  mgny  curious  pictures  of  social  life,  and 
half  an  hour  may  be  spent  very  pleasantly  in  its  perusal. 

Books  becxzvsd. — Tramactiona  of  the  JSittorioal  So- 
eiely  of  Great  Britain^  Vol,  /.,  PaH  I.  (Printed  for  the 
Society),  contains  several  interesting  papers,  among 
which  we  would  notice  that  by  Mr.  Bond  **  On  the  Chris- 
tian Era."— Sir  John  Bowrjng's  Latin  Aphoriema  and 
Proverbif  versified  ly  Shakespeare  ;  and  Dr.  Roger's  Me- 
moir and  Poems  of  Sir  Robert  Aytoun, — 77k«  Jaerald  and 
Genealogist,  bv  John  Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A.,  Part 
XXXVI,  (Nichols),  contains,  among  other  papers  of  great 
valae  and  interest,  one  on  **  Royal  Descents  of  Peers,"  bv 
the  late  Lord  Famham,  which  is  followed  by  a  Memoir 
of  that  able  and  accomplished  nobleman.-- 7^e  Bookworm; 
an  HlMstrated  Literary  and  Biblioartmhical  Review,  Part 
XIL,  for  1870.  Our  readers  will  share  our  re^et  that 
owing  to  the  late  horrid  war,  this  number  which  com- 
pletes the  fifth  vdume  closes  this  curious  and  instructive 
Eeriodical,  the  only  one  which  is^exdusirely  devoted  to 
ibliography. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4«»  s.  vn.  ma«oh  u,  71. 


Tbb  pabliahiog  firms  of  London  have  joBt  lost  two 
weU  known  and  most  respected  members  of  that  body. 
Mr.  Henry  Blackett,  of  tbe  firm  of  H  curst  A  Blackett 
of  Great  Marlborough  Street,  died  on  Monday  last 
from  an  attack  of  apoplexy,  in  his  forty-fifth  year.  Mr. 
Sampson  Low,  Jnn.,  whose  name  was  well  known  in 
connection  with  many  philanthropic  institation8»andwho 
was  not  only  a  pubhsher  but  an  author — as  his  useful 
Acoomni  of  the  London  CkaritieM,  frequently  reprinted, 
amply  testifies— died  on  Sunday  last,  aged  forty- eight, 
after  many  years  of  suffering  borne  with  dhristian 
resignation. 

AuTOOiUPHs. — ^The  following  are  the  prices  of  a  few 
of  the  more  important  lots  which  have  been  recently 
aold  by  Messrs.  Puttick  and  Simpson :  —Lot  16,  King 
Edwara  lY.  and  his  brother,  when  thirteen  years  m 
age,  82/. ;  68,  Correspondence  relating  to  the  Marriage 
of  Charles  I.  and  Henrietta  Maria,  9/. ;  93,  A  Signature 
of  Oliver  Cromwell,  8/.  It.;  118,  Queen  Elizabeth,  signa- 
ture on  vellnm,  8/.  ld«. ;  150,  Letter  of  Heniy  Hammond, 
the  eminent  Divine,  5/. ;  236  to  244,  Nine  Letters  of  Lord 
Nelson,  84/.;  294,  Voltaire,  signed  in  full,  8/.  16t. ;  807 
to  809,  Three  Letters  of  John  Wesley,  9/.  .18«. 

Thb  ATHBNisuM  has  the  following :  —Mr.  E.  Brock's 
le-edition  of  the  fine  alliterative  poem  of  '*  Morte  Arthure" 
is  neariy  ready  for  the  Early  English  Text  Society. 

The  Brd  River  Expeditiok. — Messrs.  Macmillan 
k  Co.  will  shortlv  publish  a  '*  Narrative  of  the  Red 
River  Expedition,'*  by  Captain  Huyshe,  who  accom- 
panied the  expedition  in  the  capacity  of  private  secretary 
to  the  commander,  Col.  Sir  Garnet  Wolsley. 

Ahbrioan  Books^ — In  the  jrear  1870, 2,004  new  books, 
including  new  editions,  were  published  in  the  United 
States.  1,250  were  original  American  works,  582  were 
reprints  of  English  b<x>ks,  and  172  were  translations  or 
reprints  of  fordgn  books.  Classified  according  to  sub- 
jects, 254  belonged  to  theology,  886  to  fiction,  151  to  law, 
88  to  arts,  sciences,  and  fine  arts ;  83  to  trade,  commerce, 
politics ;  54  to  travel  and  geographical  research,  166  to 
nistory  and  biography,  122  to  poetry  and  the  drama,  112 
to  meoidne  and  surgery.  111  were  educational  works,  60 
were  annuals,  288  were  juvenile  works,  180  were  miscel- 
neons  woriu. — Sampion  Low'i  MonUdy  Bulletin. 

The  Pott  says :— We  hear  that  Sir  Robert  Peel  has  sold 
a  valuable  collection  ofpictures,  works  of  the  old  masters, 
comprising  the  finest  Gtobbema  in  existence,  as  well  as 
the  **  Chapeau  de  Faille,"  and  a  number  of  other  che/e- 
datmre,  to  the  nation.  The  Government  have  become 
purchasers  at  a  price  of  some  70,000/. — a  figure  which 
does  credit  to  Sir  Robert  Peel's  Uberalitr,  for  he  could 
have  commanded  far  more  money  at  Christie's.  The 
purchase  will  not  disturb  Mr.  liowe's  Budget,  as  the 
trustees  of  the  National  Gallery  have  9,000/.  in  hand  from 
last  year,  and  with  this  their  annual  subsidy  of  10,000/. 
a  year  wUl  enable  them  easily  to  make  all  necessary 
arrangements. 

The  Abbey  of  St.  Albakb.  —  Not  only  English 
churchmen,  not  only  ecclesiastical  antiquaries,  but  all 
who  know  what  a  centre  of  civilisation  St  Albans  was 
in  former  times,  will  hear  with  deep  r^^t  that  the  recent 
dry  summers  have  so  affected  the  roundations  of  the 
venerable  abbey  as  to  render  imperative  immediate  steps 
for  its  preservation.  It  is  said  tnat  to  do  this  effectually 
no  less  a  sum  than  40,000/.  wUl  be  required.  But  the 
state  of  the  tower  requiring  instant  attention,  a  preli- 
minary meeting  of  gentlemen  connected  with  Hertford- 
shire has  been  held  at  Lord  Verulam's,  and  a  subscription 
entered  into  to  defray  the  expenses  of  securing  the  safety 
of  that  important  part  of  the  abbey. 


BOOKS    AND    ODD    VOLUMES 

WA17IBD  TO  PUBCHASE. 

PartlonUn  of  Prtoe,  ac,  of  the  following  Booka  to  bo  wnt  dli«el  to 
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■re  giren  ibr  th»t  porpoeei  — 

Glaustbux  Axulm,    The  Teflnmed  MooMtery,  with  TnmtfRrfeee. 

I6»(or7). 
PATraair  voa  Toimo  STVDnrrs  zv  th>  tTinva«aiTr.  nt  ftrth  ia 

the  Lift  of  ICr.  Ambrow  Bonwidce.   Londcm,  17W. 
If  nroB  If  ORALS,  br  John  Bowrlng.    Vol.  HI. 
Fbliz  SuMmaLrs  Handbook  iob  thb  Cut  ov  GAnrBBBuar. 

ISmo,  ISIS. 
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ABDBBWBS  (LaKOBU>T,  LATB  BIBHOP  OF  WXBORBSTBB),  AM  EXIOT 

NABBAXITB  of  thb  LxFB  ABO  DbATH  OF .    Sm.  4tO.     T^ftn^CTIi 

1650.  ^^ 

Ditto,  Reprinted.   Sro.   ireweeatle,lSI7. 
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Thonuu  Brett,  LL.D.    Sro.    London,  174S. 
▲bobbisrop  Baboboft's  Oooabiobal  Sbbvobi,  with  eome  ReiiMrke 

on  hifl  Lift,  ao.    1694. 
Waltbb  Popb  :  An  Appendix  to  the  Uft  of  Seth,  Lord  BidiQp  of 

Saliibuy.    London,  1817. 

Wanted  by  Mr.  J.  F.  StreatflM,  I&,  Upper  Brook  Street,  London,  W. 
(Only  if  quite  clean  and  perftet.) 


Sabuv  Missal.   1515.   All  or  part. 

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Sabuk,  or  York  Serrioe  Books. 

jAxn  !.*■  WOBKS,  Ibllo.   Large  bat  Imperftet  copy  will  do. 

Earlr  Scrap  Books. 

Print!  by  snrderhoof.  Rembrandt,  and  Early  EngraTen. 

Portrait!  of  Lord  Dudley  and  Ward.   1780,  ac. 

Engliih  Manuscript!. 

Title  to  Crispin  Passe's  Bible  Prints. 

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Btbob:  his  Biogr^thers  and  CMtios,  by  J.  S.  Moore. 

Mbxoib  of  Btbob,  byU.fj.  Bnlwer. 

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fiatini  ta  €avxtipiivC(ftnti. 

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wkhh  we  appended  to  Mr.  Polb  Carbw'b  proof  that 
Couch  waa  95  and  not  110  (anti,  p.  200),  we  omitted  the 
name  of  the  ahip  on  hoard  of  which  he  entered  when  nine' 
teen  yeare  of  age  in  Jnne,  1794.  It  woe  the  Bienfaisant, 
which  was  eommiedoned  in  that  year. 

Makrocheir  will  Jind  the  oovplet— 

"  Who  makes  the  qaartem  loaf  and  Laddttes  rise  ? 

Who  fills  the  butchen'  shops  with  lai^  bine  flies  ?  " 
in  the  Rejected  Addreetee. 

W.G.  9tohb.— *<i&af«em  Story**  wSl  be  found  answered 
at  p.  181.  Tou  appear  to  have  been  anticipated,  but  we 
ihall  be  glad  to  inurt  further  information. 

Errata. — i^  S.  vi  p.  167,  ool.  ii.  liae  1,  for  **  name  *' 
read  «  namer  * ;  line  2,/or  •*  voice  "  read  "  vdla"  ;  p.  198, 
col.  11.  line  28,ybr  "  Diogene9*s  Laertiue  "  read  "  Diogenes 
Laertias." 

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THE    OLD   DBAUATISTS 
THE   OLD   POETS. 

ml  fo.  dMh,  vIUi  Stal  pHtnlU  ud  TIciHtla  i  EdltaS,  w 
Nocev,  Itttraddctioiidi  tai  Mtmirin,  It 


BEAUMONT  and  FLETCHEE.    2  Tola.  82». 

AIASSmGER  fmd  FORD.     16i. 

BEN  JONSON.     ISj. 

WTCHERLBT,  CONGBEVE,  TANBHUQH,  and 

FAaqVHAR.    Hk 

GREENE  and  PEELE.    16>. 
8HAEESPEABE.    With  Flatu  b7  Johk  Gubmbt, 

JOHN  WEBSTER.     \2>. 
CHRISTOPHER  MARLOWE,  12., 


The  Old  Foets. 

SPENSER.    10t.6d.         i    DRTDEN.    10..  M. 
CHAUCER.    10<.  6<i.       I    POPE.    I0t.6d. 


OEOBOB  BOITTLXDaE  k  a0SB.Tt 


ni    ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY    OF    "IRISH 
4ME8  OP  PI.ACBS."    Br  P-  W.  JOICB,  UVD.,  I1.BXA. 


L,  H.  ITmct  StdTDll  H 


LoodsB:  WHtTTAKER  k  CO.i  BUPKIK,  k 


EiUntnirt  I JOKH  MBMZISS. 


TOU.  nL  and  IV.  of  HER  JUJESTT'S 
TOWER. 

By  W.  HEPWOBTH  DUOS. 


SIART  of  tlie  BBBEEOED  RESIDENT  in 


IMFRES8I0H8  of  GREECE.     Bv  tlie  Rt 


PiUlikm.  ]■.  Ormt  IbilbiiiDiitli  Bb 


JULL  «nd  EAST  YORKSHIRE.  —  B00E3  and 

I  W,  C.  BOVLnU,  r.S.A.,«,  FhE  bow,  Ilnll. 


rHE_CONSERVATIVE   BENEFIT   BUILDINCJ 

OOpAar  dJlnltwl). 


SiSSS^BSf-JSfS. 


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IOR-E  LUCAN^  ;  a   Biography  of  Saint  Luke, 
thtOwWa  Eru(iUil.    BrH.  BAllOst  BATKIS. 


LOHOU  ANB,  OBXXR.  ad  OC 


(THE  BOOKWOBM :  a  Literary  and  Bibliographiei 
J.    HaTltv.  EdJtM  ud  niuMnud  br  ).  PH.  BERJeIu,^  dip 


noOKS  ON  AMERICA.— In  tb«  preM  (200  pagea 

n    •IndrTriDUd).  mCATALoattan/inTTBmulTt  biliu. 
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r» 


OTICE.  — LETTERa     ON    INTERNATIONAL 

dnibii  tlH    Wit  of  ino.    Br   tha 
n.    BepitiiUdbiiisnilHknltiiintlii 


iTOTICE.— ONLY  a  COMMONER.    A  Sew  NotbI. 


ifOTICE.  — Tha    How.    Mas.    PiooTT-CuuTOR'a 


JOTICE— FAIR 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 
tTKITES    GENERAL   INDEX. 

Now  Beady,  piicc  16(.  boardi,  conCaloInK  lodezes  In 
FInt,  Second,  and  Third  Scriei,  1649-1867,  boond  la  One 
Tolnmc,  facility  of  refcrain  Iwtng  accond  by  having; 
the  edge*  diffvwilly  coloured,  u  la  tha  Poat-Office 
Dinotory. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         i^^  s.  yii.  mabcu  ii.  :i. 


"UTITH  tho  OPENING  of  PAKLIAMENT,  1871, 

T  f  DEBRETT'S  HOUSE  of  0OHHON8  and  tint  JUDICIAL 
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Conntr  Court  Judge,  and  contalni  abore  IjOM  Encrarinn  of  Coats  of 
Axnut  abo  INDEX  to  the  Ganeral  AcU  paMedia  WO,  Clotli^t, 
6f .  id,  I  half-bound  calf,  gUt  adsM,  10*.  id. 

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COLOUBED  STAMPING  (Belief),  redneed  io  4s.  6cl.  per  ream,  or 

8s.  id.  per  1,000.   Polished  Steel  Crest  IMee  engraTod  from  As. 

Monograms,  two  letters,  from  &s.|  three  letters,  from  7s.  Bvatiiess 

or  Address  Dies,  from  8s. 
BEBMON  PAPEB,  plain,  4s.  per  ream  i  Bnled  ditto,  4s.  id. 
SCHOOL  STATIONERY  snppUed  on  the  most  Uberal  termo. 

Illustrated  Price  List  of  Inkstands,  Despatch  Boxes,  Stationory, 
Cabinets,  Poetage  Scales,  Writing  Oases,  Portrait  Albnma,  fte..  poet 
free. 

(EwAiir.TgiriP  1841.) 

"OLD  ENGLISH"  FURNITURE. 

BeprodBotlons  of  Simple  and  ArttsMo  CaUaei  Work  from  Ooimtry 

Mandons  of  the  ZVL  and  XVIL  Ocntnxies,  combining  good  taste, 

sound  workmaashlp,  and  eeaaomy. 

COLIiINSON  and  LOCE!  (late  Herring), 
CABINET  MAKEBS, 

109,  FLEET  STREET,  £.0.    EsUbliahed  1782. 

TAPESTRY  PAPERHANQINQ8. 

ImitolioBa  of  mro  old  BROCADES,  DAMASKS,  and  GOBELIN 

TAPESTRIES. 

COIiLnrSON  and  LOCK  (late  Herring), 
DECOBA.TOBS, 

109,  FLEET  STREET,  LONDON.  Eatobliahed  1782. 

SrANILA  dGABS.— MESSES.  VENNINO  &  CO. 
I.  of  17.  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS  ,LONDON,  have  Just  i«- 
▼ed  a  Consignment  of  No.  8  MANILA  CIOABS,  in  exeellent  con- 
dition, in  Boxes  of  MM)  each.  Prlee  SI.  10s.  per  box.  Orders  to  be 
aeoompanied  hj  a  remittanoe. 

N.B.  Sample  Box  of  100. 10s.  6<f . 

TNDIOESTION.— THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION 

JL  adopt  M0B80N*S  PBEPABATION  of  PEPSINS  as  the  true 
Semedy.  Sold  in  Bottles  and  Boxes,  from  Is.  OcT.,  br  all  Phannaoeu- 
tieal  demists,  and  the  Manufhtturera,  THOMAS  MOBSON  ft  SON. 
184.  Southampton  Row.  Russell  Square,  London. 


The  best  remedir  FOR  ACIDITY  OF  THE  STOMACH,  HBABT- 
BURN,  HEADACHE,  QOUT,  AND  INDIGESTION  t  and  thebeat 

CHiLPKi5?.«S*l5¥lS¥S*'''^ 

DINNEFOBD  *^*J^^g^^j2Bftreel,LoBdea. 


THE   ISTEW  VEIiLUM-WOVE   CIsITB- 
HOUBE  FAFEB. 

Manuftetured  and  sold  only  br 

PARTRIDGE  AND  COOPER,  192,  Fleet  Street, 
Corner  of  Chanceiy  Lane. 

;*  The  production  of  NoCe-pap^  of  a  superior  Und  has  long  been  the 
snhiect  of  experiment  with  manufheturers,  but  untO  lately  no  improve- 
mentoottldbemade  on  that  in  general  use.  and  thadbre  it  was  looked 
upon  as  oertain  that  extreme  exeeUence  had  been  attained ;  But  this 
eonduaion  did  not  seem  satisfhctory  to  Messn.  Pabt]ud«b  ft  Coopxb. 
of  Fleet  Street,  who  determined  to  eontinne  operations  until  some  new 
result  was  attained.  Sheer  peneTeranee  has  been  rewarded.  Ibr  they 
have  at  last  been  able  to  produoe  a  new  description  of  paper,  which  thcr 
oall  CL17BROXT8B  NOTS,  &at  surpaans  anything  of  the  kind  in  oidinarf 
—    The  new  paper  is  beantlftilly  white.  Its  Buxikae  is  as  smooth  as 


use. 


pplislied  Jrory.  and  its  substanee  nearly  resembles  that  of  vellnm.so 


-^IM. 


G 


ILBERT     J.      FRENCH 

BOLTON,  LANCASHIRE. 
Manufhetnnr  of 
OHUBOH    rirBSITUBB. 

CARPETS,  ALTAR-CLOTHS, 

COMMUNION  LINEN,  SUBPUCES,  and  BOBES. 

HERALDIC,  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICAL 
FLAGS  and  BANNSBS,  lee.  tee. 

A  Oatalogne  sent  by  poet  OB  appUoatioB. 

Pareds  delivered  free  Mali  psiadpal  Bailway  Stations. 


SAUCE.— LEA   AND   PERKINS. 


a 


tf 


THE  ONLY  GOOD  SAVCB.' 

XmproTBs  the  appetite  and  aUi  dlgertiOB. 

T7NBIYALLED  POB  FIQUANCT  AND  FLAYOUB. 

Ask  for  "IiSA  AlTD  PBBBINB'"  8AUCS. 

BEWARE     OF    IMITATIONS, 

see  the  Names  of  LEA  AND  FEBBZNS  ob  all  bottles  and  labelc. 

Agnta-JCROSSB  tt  BLACK  WELL,  London,  and  sold  by  all 
Dealers  in  Sanoes  thronihoat  tlM  werid. 

CHUBB'S   NEW  PATEirr   SAFES. 

STEEL  PLATED,  with  Diagonal  Bolts,  to  resist 
Wedges,  Drills,  and  Fire. 

OBVBB'S  yATjnrx  bstsotos   &ocxs» 

Of  all  Sixes  and  tot  every  Pnrpose.-JBtreet-deor  Latehes  with  small 
and  neat  <aya.~Gadw  Deed.  PiBpet.aBd  Wilting  Boxee^ 

aU  fitted  with  the  Detector  Looks. 

IRON   DOORS   FOR   STRONa  ROOMS. 
Illustrated  Frize  Lifts  Gratis  and  Posi-Free. 


CHUBB  and  SON, 


57,  St.  Paul's  Churehye^  London;  n,  Lotd  Street,  Liverpool; 
6S,  Cross  Street,  Manchester;  end  Wolvwhampton. 

BT  BOTAL  COMMAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

BOLD  by  ell  8TATIOKBB8  thitmghoa*  (he  World. 

LAMPLOTOH'S 
FTBETIC    SALIHE 

Has  peonliar  and  remarfcahle  psvoerUee  in  HeadadM,  Sea,  or  Bilious 
Slcknessj  iwerenting  end  onriag  Hay,  Scarlet,  and  other  Fevnrs,  and  is 
aU  user*  to  Ibimlho  oMet  agneaUa,  MaM*,  TlfftUsing 
rerege.   Sold  by  most  oBymSats,  and  the  maker. 

H.  LAMPLOirOH,  IU,HolkofB  HUl.LoBdoo. 


4»i»  S.  VII.  March  11,  71.]  NOTES  AND   QUERIES. 


ACCIDBirrS    CAVSK    liOSS    OF    lilFK. 

▲•oldents  oaiue  Jjobu  of  Tlin«. 

ACCIDENTS    CAUSE   LOSS  OF   MONEY. 

Frovide  against  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

ET  nrsuBixo  with  thi 

Sailway  Passengers*  Assurance  Company, 

As  AnaiuJ  Fkyment  of  C8  to  £0  5/  inrara  Sl.OOO  at  Death, 
or  an  allovanM  at  the  rate  of  Ml  per  week  for  Is^urj, 

A565fOOO  hare  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

ONE  ont  of  erenr  TWELVE  Annual  Poller  Holders  becoming  a 
daimant  EACH  TSAR.  For  partlcttlan  apply  to  the  Clerks  at  the 
BaUway  Statkmi,  to  the  Loeal  Asente,  or  at  the  OfBoee. 

M.COBITHIIJ:!,  and  10,  BEOEITT  8TBEET,  lAXSDOtf, 

WILLIAM  J.  YIAN,  Secretanf. 

GENTLEMEN   desirous  of   having   their  Linens 
draoNd  to  perllectUm  •hoidd  rapply  their  Xtaondreaeei  with  the 

•*a&B«FXa&2>    ST  AS  OK," 

which  Impart*  a  billUancj  and  elaaticitr  sratliyinf  alike  to  the  lenie 
of  aisht  and  touch. 

l^OTHIKO  IMPOSSIBLE^— AGUA  AMAKELLA 

jj%  rertoree  the  Hunan  Hair  to  iti  priatine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
ace.  MB88B8.  JOHN  OO0MELL  ft  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  moet  eminent  Chemiits,  snooeeded  In  perftcting  this  wondcrfU 
liQuid.  It  is  now  oibied  to  the  Puhlio  in  a  m^re  oone«ntiatedft>nn, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  la  BoCtkit  8«.  each,  alfo  Ss.,  7*.  M.,  or  Ifts.  each,  with  brush. 

JOHN   GOSNELL  &  CO.'S   CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  whiteness,  protects  the  enainel  ftom  decay,  and  Imparts  a 
I  to  this  breath. 


JOHN  OOSNELL  a  G0.*8  Kxkim  Highly  Scanted  TOILET  and 
KVBSimT  POWDEB. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perftamers  and  Chemists  throughoul  the  Elngdom, 
and  at  Angel  Passsge,  9B,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 


w 


BT7PTUBES.-BT  BOTAL  LETTEB8  PATENT. 

HITE'S  HOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

.  .  allowed  bgr  npwaids  of  600  Mescal  men  to  be  the  most  eflte- 
tiTB  tntentfoB  In  the  cuiallTe  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
steel  spring,  so  oltenhurtflil  In  Its  eflects,is  here  aroldedi  a  soft  bandage 
being  wotn  round  the  body ijHdle  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
pUad  by  the  If  OC-BM^Si  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  Itttngwith  so 
modi  ease  and  doseness  that  H  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  be  worn 
during  sleep.  A  descilpllve  circular  maar  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
cannot  iUI  to  flt)  inwarded  by  post  on  the  eireumftrence  of  the  body* 
two  inches  below  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Manuiheturer. 

MB.  JOHN  WHITE,  ISS,  PICCADILLY,  LONDOVk 

Price  ofaSin^Tmaii.  16s.,  fl«.,««.6d..  and  SU.6cl.  Poctagals. 
DonldaTtuss,au.6tf.,41i.,andais.6cl.   Postage b. 8cC 
AnUmbaiealT)rnM,41s.andUs.6cl.   Postage  Is.  lOii. 

Poo  Oflee  ordenp^raUo  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Post  Office.  PleoidlUy. 

T?IiASTIO  STOCKINGS,   KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 

Jji  YARIOOSE  VEINS,  mid  all  easce  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 
i3n0  of  the  LEGS,  SPBAINS,  ae.  They  are  porous,  Ught  in  texture, 
and  faMxpenslTe,  and  aie  drawn  on  like  an  ordlnaiy  stocking.  Prices 
4«.*rf.,7«.«<l.,  10s.,aadMs»each.   Postage  fld. 

JOHN  WHITE.  MANnPACTXTBEB,  OS,  PICCADILLY.  London 

A  FACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

r%.  the  hair  with  this  beautlftilly  perAimed  Wash,  In  two  durs  grey 
hair  becomes  its  original  colour,  and  remains  so  by  an  oocsslonal  unng. 
This  b  gnaiuntaed  by  MR.  BOSS.  10s.  Oct,  sent  tor  stamps— ALEX. 
BOiSS,  Stt,  High  Holbom,  London. 

SPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Alee. 

ROSS'S  CANTHABIDES  OIL.  It  Is  a  sure  Restorer  of  Hair,  and  a 
Producer  of  Whiskers.  Its  eflbct  Is  speedy.  It  Is  patronised  by  Biqralty. 
The  price  of  it  is  >«.  td^  sent  tor  M  stamps. 

BrOLLO WAY'S  PILLS.— Comfort  iin)  Ckbtaiktt. 
L  In  disordered  stomach,  liver  complaints.  Indigestion,  and  head- 
e,  no  medicine  bears  comparison  with  these  Pllu.  A  Aw  doses  of 
them  produce  comtort — a  short  continuance  with  them  eflbcts  a  com- 
plete cure.  In  all  cases  of  dyspepsia,  let  their  ori^  be  what  It  may, 
these  Fills  are  a  nerftct  panacea.  All  heartburn,  flatulence,  shortness 
of  breath,  and  distensifm  oease  to  trouble  as  the  blood  become  influ- 
enced by  the  pnrifrfng  powers  of  these  admirable  Pills,  which  never 
entirely  toil  to  disappoint  the  most  sanguine  hopes  of  the  suflerers. 
There  is  no  disorder  of  the  digestive  ornns  which  is  not  reUeved,  and 
nlmost  faiTariablT  cured,  by  these  Pills,  the  good 


SCOTTISH  UNION   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 
FIRE  AND  LIFE. 
Established  18S4.  Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 
CaplUl.  Five  MilUons. 
SPECIAL  NOTICE-BONUS  YEAR,  ISH. 
The  next  luTettigatlon  and  Dlrlsion  of  Profits  takes  place  on  the 
1st  of  August,  1871,  when  flve-iizths  of  the  profits  made  during  the 
five  yean  preceding  toll  to  bb  dMded  among  the  Foliey-holders  mutlcd 
to  participate. 

„A11  Polidee  taken  ont  before  the  1st  of  August,  1S71,  will  share  in  the 
division. 

Offices:  S7,ComhIll,LQndant  Sdinburghi  and  Dublin. 


SLD  MARSALA  WINE,  guaranteed  the  finest 
Imported,  tnt  from  addlty  or  heat.and  much  superior  to  low- 
led  Sherry  (vidt  Dr.Dmitton  C%eap  ir«aes).One  Onineaper  doacn. 
Selected  dryTarragona,  18s.  perdoten.    Terms  cash.   Three  doien 
rail  paid.--W.  D.  WATSON,  373,  Wine  Merchant,  Oxford  Stxcet. 
Full  Price  Lists  poet  ftee  en  appTteatloa. 

W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merehant,  873,  Oxford  Street 
(entrance  in  Berwldc  street),  London.  W.  BatabMshedlOII.  Bemored 
firom  7S.0reat  Busscll  Street,  comer  of  Bloomabury  Sqinan,  W.C 

S6s.         TBS  M/tnJUOfc  mxqtmMT  S6s. 

At  16s.  per  doaen,fit  tor  a  Gentleman's  Table.  Bottlea  Inchidod,  and 
Carriage  paid.   Cases  Is.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 

CHARLES  WABD  a  SON, 

(Post  Office  Orders  on  Piceeimiy),  1,  Chapel  Street  Woet, 
MAYFAIB,  W.,  LONDON. 

S6E.         Vmm  MitTVJUOfc  SBBXST  SCi. 

■ — —  -• — — — —  — ■ 

TTEDGES  &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 

XL  PUBE  ST.  JUUEN  CLABET 

At  Us.,>ne.,  Ms.,40s.,  and  18s.  per  doaea. 
CholcoClareta  of rarions  growths,  4Ss.,48s.,008.,71s.,e4«.,  00s. 

GOOD  DnnrEB  bhsbbt. 

At  Ms.  and  lOs.  per  doien. 

Superior  QoldcnShnry.. ..•■ ....•.••Ms.andlSs. 

Choice  Sheny— Pale,  0<dden,  or  Brown. ..  .48s.,54s.,and  eos. 

HOCK  and  MdSiqXB, 
At  Ms.,  lOf.,  Ms.,  4Ss.,  «s.,  Oto.,  and  e4«. 

Port  from  first-class  Shippers.  .# 80s.Ms.4Ss. 

Very  Choice  Old  Port 48s.eos.71s.8is. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  Ms.,  41s., 48s.,  and  OQs. 

Ho^hhelmor,  Mareobmnner,  Budedielmer,  Steinberf,  Llebflmanileh, 
60s.  I  Johannlsberger  and  Stdnberger,  TSs.,  84s..  to  I10s.|  Braunbener. 
Orunhausen,  and  Sdiarsberg,  4fts.  to  84sm  sparkling  Moselle,  48s.,  Ms., 
eos.,  7Bs.|Tex7  ehoioe  Champagne,  80s.,  78s.  i  fine  old  Sack,  Malmsey 
Fzaatlgnac,vermnth.Oonstantla|LMdmass  O^lstt,  Imperial  Tolcar, 
and  ether  rare  wines.  Fine  iM  PaleOegnae  Brandy,  OQs.  and  71s.  per 
doaen.  Foreign  Liqueurs  of  every  deecription. 

On  receipt  of  a  Post  Office  order, or  retoreneo,any  quantity  will  bo 
flarwaidedunmedlately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON!  I5»,  BEGENT.  8TBXBT,  W. 

Bri^tont  M^KhBgVBoad, 

(Originally  BstaUIdied  AJ>.  1067.) 

SPABXUVO  OBAMPACMnBt   S6».  per  aOM. 

And  all  Uie  noted  Brands  at  the  lowest  cash  prices. 
Bordcanx,  lAs.,18s.,  M«.,SOs.  16s.,  to  96s.  per  dos.  i  Chablls,  Ms.|  Mar- 
sala, Ms.  per  doa.*  Sherry,  Ms.,  Ms.,  Ms.,  4M.,  48s.,  to  Ms.  per  daa.|  Old 
Port,  Ms.,  Ms.. Mc^ 4M.,  to  144s.  per  dox.i  Tarragona,  18s.  per  dos.,  the 
finest  imported ;  Hock  and  Moselle,  Ms.,  80s.,  Ms.,  4a»;per  doe.  t  Spark- 
ling HodT and  Moselle,  48s.  and  OOs.  per  dos.  i  fine  old  FUe  Brandy,  40s., 
0Qs:imd7M.  per  dos.  At  DOTESWSDepOt.W,  Swallow  Street,  Re- 
gent  Street  (snceessor  to  Ewart  and  Co..  Wine  MerchanU  to  Her 
Mdesty).  

GRANT'S    MORELLA    CHERRY    BRANDY, 
'  fhmi  the  fine  Kent  Morella.  besides  being  the  most  delidoua 


itself  has 


ranaoiT 


.ted  and  published. 


,  tome  of  which  Royalty 


Liqueur,  Is  recommended  by  Medlaa  Men  of  high  standhig  In  sll  -.^^ 
of  Weakness  and  for  various  Internal  Disorders.  It  mur  be  obtained 
through  any  Wine  Merchant,  or  dlrcgt  from  T.  GRANT,  DistlUer, 
Maidstone,  at  4M.  per  doaen  < 


lOl 


IHE    NEW   GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD   WATCH, 

KEYLESS,  English  Make,  more  solid  than  Foreign,  14<.  14s. 
iNES'  Manutoctory ,  MO,  Strand,  opposite  Somerset  House. 

Theee  Watches  have'taiany  points  of  Special  Novelty. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [*«»  s.  vii.  mabou  ii,  71. 


MESSES.    EIYIN^TON'S    NEW    LIST. 

WHO  IS  BESPONSIBLE  for  the  WAB  P    By  Sorutator.    With  an  Appendix, 
ENGLAND  BENDEBED  IMFBEGNABIiE  by  the  practical  Military  Organization 

and  effldeat  Eqnlpment  of  h«r  Olatioiial  ForoMi  and  her  TntukX  Poritlom  Annanim.  OoMt  Deftnoet,  Ailmfnirtratfcm,  and  Fatazc  Tower 
S^lSSd;  Br IlXl.. •* TIm Old Shekairy.**   With lUafltratlona.   8to, SU. 

**  The  whole  qneitloq  of  natiouldefeaoe  it  deett  with,  and  In  manj 
OMei  the  Idaaa  pot  Ibrth  an  both  praelioal  and  miBfMtiTe." 

UnSmStrvies  Oaaette, 

"Another  booh  called  fcrth  hr  the  tnefloient  ftate  of  oni  armament*. 
The  writer  glrea  hit  Tiewa  on  maajr  pointi,  with  nraettoil  MOMtiana 
aa  to  the  opnatltvthm  and.onanization  oTovr  ngular  andreMrre  Ibreea. 
Bntihe  ehMtert  towhteh  ihe  *01d  Shehaay^*  himtfnc  experteaeea 
riye  eiMdal  raloe  an  thorn  .In  whldi  he  deaeribei  the  moat  efidcnt 
rifle  end  the  beat  kit  Ibr  aetoal  eempalgnlnc**— gfofle. 

HATEBIALS  and  MODELS  for  GBEEK  and  LATIN  PBOSE  OOMPOSITIOIT. 

Selected  end  AnanMd  br  J.y..BABQENT,  M.A..  Tator,  hUe  Fellow  of  Megdalan  OoUwe,  Oxtedi  nd  T.  F.  DAUdlM,  MJL.  Fdlow  and 
Tutor  of  i|nee&*i  Ooueiet  Qzted*   Grown  8tOi  7$,  ttf. 

**  WeaieKledtoMethatXr.  BaifeatandHr.DaUlnieleetthelrmodda  from  a  mora  extended  mnge  of  Onek  end  Latin  anthon  than  bofi  at 
BchoolornndeiKrednaleieJkeolleBeneaalljoooattlti The  Tolnme,  we  maj  honeiily  njr,  it  the  moat  original  and  TalnaUe  work  of  Itakind 


pnbUc  opinion,  moit  of  them  an  w«U  worth  the  attenttre  oonalderatlon 
of  oaradml^Mmtlon.*'-aronMiw  Pert. 

**  An  InatmetlTe  tnatlae  on  the  detail*  of  miUteiT  efd^nlnlitmtioa, 

^t  and  euulpment,  by  en  eble  and  popoiar  writer. 

iliH*lraleil  London  Jir«i**. 


DICTIONABY  of  DOOTBIKAL  and  HISTOBICAL  THEOLOGY.     By  Various 

Writer*.   Sdited  br  the  REV.  JOHN  HENBY  BLUNT,  M.A.,  T.BJL.,  Editor  at  **  The  Annotated  Book  of  Oommeft  Pmrer.**  1  toL  imp. 
half  boond  in  motoeeo.  Ml.  acL 


•TOtO*.| 

**  Infinitely  the  beat  bode  of  the  Und  in  the  lancttMet  end,  if  not  the 
beet  ooneeivable,  it  1*  perhap*  the  beat  we  en  eirer  uUij  to  tee  within 
it*  mmpaat  e*  to  dae  end  aeope.  Aeeorato  and  *neelnet  In  *tetement, 
Itmayb^aeMr  tmated  a*  a  imndbook  aa  nnrd*^(bet*.  while,  in  oar 
j ttdament,  thi*  aeoond  pmi  atill  maintain*  the  rhanwer  we  caTe  the 
flnt,namel7.of*howtaciiieet  i^trin  ito  wajof  treeiinff  the  mora 
ab*tiaetandmetu^rrieal*ldeoftheolog|lealqne*tions.  Hie  litarftteal 
article*  aI*o  in  thu  part  de*eiye  eapeelarmention.  Tlie  tiook  1*  mra  to 
make  it*  way  by  aheer  fbrae  of  nierolBe**.**— Xtferarp  Churdmaii, 

**Weknownobo<dcorit*riaeaiMlbnlkwhleh  mpplie*  the  infivmap 

BEBMONS.    By  Henry  Melvill,  B.D.»  late  Canon  of  St.  Paul's,  and  Chaplain  in 

0idinaf7  to  tiie  Qneen.   HewEditJon.   StoI*.  crown  8to,  9*.  each. 


tion  hera  gi^en  et  all,  fl»  lea*  which  siQipIie*  it  in  an  arrangement  *o 
aooeirible,  with  a  oompletene**  of  inibrmation  *o  thocoajrii,  and  with  an 
abilitr  in  the  treatment  ofpraArand  anbjeet*  *o  aieet.  Dr.  Hook'*  roost 
oaefnl  tolnme  hi  a  work  of  high  oalibre,  bat  it  1*  the  work  of  a  alngle 
mind.  We  have  hera  a  wider  range  or  thoo^  ftom  a  greater  Tariety 
of  aide*.  We  hare  here  eleo  the  work  of  men  who  evidentlj  know  what 
they  write  aboat,  and  an  *omewhat  man  proftmnd  (to  mr  the  kaat) 
than  the  writcn  of  the  coxrent  IHetionarie*  or  Sect*  and  Here*!**." 


■olemn  derontne*!,  mark  the  whole  *erie*  at  masterly  di*eoaraes.  which 
embrace  aome  of  the  diief  doctrine*  of  the  Chardi,  and  *et  them  fiuth 
in  dear  and  Scriptaral  strangth.**— ^HcuMlarid. 


**  Canon  MelTili**  *ermoa*  wen  all  the  re*alt  of  real  >tndy  and  geiinlne 
nading,  with  flv  mora  theology  In  them  tiian  thoae  of  many  wlio  make 
moeh  mora  proib*rion  of  thedIogy.**-Xaerary  C^urduma$i. 

M  Boond  leaning,  well-wei^iad  wordai  calm  and  keen  logie  end 

A  DOMINIC  AN  ABTI8T :  a  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  the  Bev.  Pdre  Besson,  of  the 

Older  ef  St.  Dominic   By  the  Anther  of**  The  Lift  of  lCadameLoai*edeFzanfle,***e.   Crown8To,B«. 

daira Oertainly  we  have  nerar  oomeacroa*  what  conld  be  more 


**  The  anthor  of  the  Life  of  F^ra  Be**on  write*  with  a  grace  and 
refinement  of  derotlonal  ibeling  peenliarly  raited  to  a  raUect-matter 
which  *aAn  beyond  mo*t  otner*  from  any  ooaieene**  of  toudi.  It 
wonld  be  difficalt  to  And  *  the  rimplldty  end  parity  of  a  holy  lift ' 
mora  ezqaieitely  illa*trated  than  in  Fatlier  Be«son*s  career,  both  twfbra 
and  after  hlajolnlng  the  Dominican  Order  under  the  anaploe*  of  Laeor- 


*trictly  termed,  in  tlie  truest  aenae, 'the  lift  of  a  baantiftalaoal.*  The 
author  ha*  done  well  in  presenting  to  English  readers  tills  singalarly 
graeeflil  biography,  in  which  all  wno  can  appredate  genuine  simnllci^ 
and  nobleneas  of  Chriatian  diaraeter  will  find  modi  to  admin  end  littTe 
0^  nothing  to  condemn."— ^tardoy  Mtview. 


By  tke  tame  Author, 

THE  LIFE  of  MADAME  LOTJISE  de  FBANCE^  Daughter  of  Louis  XV.    Known 

ea  the  Mother  Ttfrtoe  de  St.  Angostin.   Crown8TO,a*. 

wni  not  be  from  any  fluilt  of  woricmaaahlp  on  the  part  of  the  editor.** 

2)0%  Tdtffraph, 

**  The  annala  of  a  clolatered  lift,  under  orUnary  dreomstanoe*,  would 
not  probably  be  oonddered  Tory  edifying  bf  the  reading  public  of  the 
present  generation.  When,  howerar,  aueh  a  history  presents  the  novel 
speetade  of  a  royal  princess  of  modem  times  TotnntRrily  tenonndng 
hJBr  hl^  podtiou  and  the  splendoun  of  a  Ooart  existence  fat  the  pur- 
pose m  enduring  the  aaoeudim,  porerty,  and  austerities  of  a  acTen 
monastic  rule,  the  case  may  well  be  difftrent.".>Jf onuap  Post. 


**  The  lift  of  Madame  Louise  de  France,  the  celebrated  daughter  of 
Louis  XY.,  who  became  a  rtiiginut.  and  is  known  In  tiie  spiritual 
world  a*  Mother  T<rtoe  de  St.  Augnstln.  The  subatance  of  the  memoir 
ifl  taken fhmi  a diflbae  lilb,  compiMd  by  aOarmelite  nun.  and  printed 
at  Autunt  and  the  editor,  the  anthor  of 'Tale*  of  Kbrkbeck,'  waa 
promptedito  the  task  by  the  belief  that '  at  the  preaent  time,  when  the 
apirit  of  rUlglona  aelf-devotion  i*  *o  greatly  rariTing  In  the  Churdi  of 
Kighmd,*  the  records  of  a  princeea  Triio  quitted  a  dassliug  and  pro- 
fligate Gout  to  lead  a  lift  of  <^baeura  ple^  will  meet  with  a  cordial 
reeepthm.   We  may  remeric  that,  ahoold  tiie  CTent  prora  otherwiae,  it 


ANCIENT   HYMNS    from  the  BOMAN  BBEVIABY.     To  which  are  added» 

Original  Hymn*.  By  BICHABD  XANT,  D.D.,  wimetlme  Lord  Biahop  of  Down  and  Oonnor.   New  Edition.   Small  Sto.  a*. 

THE  PSALMS.    Translated  from  the  Hebrew.   With  Notes,  chiefly  Exegetioal. 

By  WILLIAM  KAY,  D.D.,  Beetor  of  Great  Ld^ ;  late  Prlndpal  of  BUhop'*  Oollege,  Calcutta.   8to,  11a.  6d: 


**  Unleaa  we  era  mudi  rai*taken,thi*  handy  Tolume  will  turn  out  one 
of  the  moat  nrrioeable,  if  not  the  mo*t  *enrieeable  help  to  the  under- 
atanding  of  the  Padter,  whidi  recent  yean  hare  brought  into  our 
henda.  Dr.  Kay  read*  the  halter  aimply  a*  a  Chrisuan  *ohdar. 
aazion*  by  the  aid*  of  all  legitimate  ri^t*  toeluddato  the  meaning  of 
the  text.  To  our  mind,  hi*  note*  era  model*.  They  will  not  approra 
them*dra*  to  reedera  who  want  little  aermoneta  on  erery  rarae,  telling 
them  what  to  feel  and  think,  and  *aTing  them  all  trouble  in  the  proceaa. 


They  era  tor*e  to  a  degree:  btlatling  with  referanoea,  and  indicating 
rather  than  working  out  their  oondndon*.  We  have  teated  them  in  a 
fbw  important  ceaea,  and  can  anawer  fbr  the  exceeding  pertinence  of 
CTcry  word  and  refiBrenoe  and  the  thorough  ■errfaeableneaa  of  each  note 
in  deering  up  the  obaenritlea  in  queatloa.  Scholarly  caution  against 
orar-atotoment,  preeldon.aad  a  ^ast  command  of  Old  TestamentlUus- 
tratlon  charaeteriae  the  book  throughout,  and  not  a  little  doctrinal 
Insist  a*  welL"— X<l*rary  Oimrdman, 


ST.  JOHN  CHBYSOSTOM'S  LITXTBGY.    Translated  by  H.  C.  Bomanofi;  Author 

of**8ketdieaof  the  Rite*  antf  Custom*  of  the  Greoo-BusilanGhurdu"  With  Illustmtlon*.   Squara  crown  evo,  4*.  M. 

Waterloo  Place,  London;  High  Street^  Oxford;  Trinity  Street,  Cambridge. 


Printed  by  OEOBOS  ANDREW  SF0TTI8W00DE,  at  5,  New  Street  Square,  In  the  Faridi  of  St  Bride,  In  the  Ooqnty  of  Mlddlaeex  t 
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The  Student's  Hallam. 

Vtaxlj  KAdy,  one  Tolume,  post  8to, 

THE  STUDENT'S  EDITION  of  HALLAM'S 

inSTOBTOF  EUROPE  DURIKO  THR  MIDDLE  AGES.    Edited 
with  Kotei  and  Illustndona.    By  WM.  SMITH,  D.C.L..  LLJ>. 

Abo,  unlftnni  with  the  abore,  poet  two, 

THE  STUDENT'S  EDITION  of  HALLAM'S 

CONSTITUTIONAL  HISTORY  OP  ENGLAND,  ftom  the  Aooec- 
■ioo  of  Henry  VII.  to  the  Denih  of  Georte  ri.  Edited  with  Notes  end 
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LONDON,  8ATVRDAT,  MARCH  18.1871. 

CONTENTS.— N«  168. 
NOTES  I — A  Letter  of  Edward  IV^.  220  —  On  the  Conjoint 
Proprietonhip  in  Ben  Jonton's  works,  230  —  LancAshlre 
Punena  CuBtoms,  281  —  Swiaa  Spring  Song,  lb,  —  John 
Dyer— Eecovery  of  Feock  Church  Be^gter — Bash  State- 
mcnte -MS.  Notes  on  Fly-leaves —«  Well-nigh "  for 
•JkJmost":  "Once  and  apdn"-" Mother  Bed  Cap" - 
Wordsworth :  Constable,  Ac — Curious  Prophecy  —  Wild 
Fruits  in  Germany,  232. 

QT7EBIES:  —  Albaney  ahd  Amondeville  —  Arundel  and 
Arundello— Mordecu  Cary  — Anne  (Chapman)  Kuight- 
^®y^.S"-t*'y  Churchill- Lord  Dudley  and  Ward.  1784 

—  Willuun  Fenwick,  Mayor  of  Hull  —  German  Prince  — 
••God's  &kby "— Good  Sir  and  Dear  Sir  — Lines  on  the 
Human  Bar  —  George  London  —  Macaulay's  Ballads  — 
Medical  Order  of  St.  John  —  Meaning  of  ••Naccarlne**— 
Paul  V.  and  the  Venetians— Pipe  Roll,  6  Stephen— Punch- 
ladle  of  George  III.— Sojeant  Salkeld  —  Sickle  Boyne: 
Boyne  Money  —  Trapp's  "  Virgil "  — Lancashire  Witches 

—  Woodcut  Initial  Letters,  23i. 

REPLIES;  —  Gainsborouffh's  "Blue  Boy"  287— British 
Scythed  Chariots :  Mrs.  Markham,  240  ~  The  Completion 
of  St.  Faurs  Cathedral,  241-8ir  WUIiam  Soger,  Knt..  242— 
«nglish  Descent  of  Daniel  CConnell,  /&.  —  Dr.  Johnson's 
Watch  —  Stamp  on  Picture  Canvas — Stilts  =  Crutches  — 
Elecampane  —  Book  Ornamentation  —  La  Caracole  —Who 
is  a  Laird  f  —  "  Though  lost  to  Sight,  to  Memory  dear  "  — 
Bev.  S.  Henley's  English  "Vathek^*- Hoelty,  the  Ger^ 
man  Poet  —The  Dragon— Weaver's  Art  —  Sheerwort  - 
Badger  —  Cobblers'  Lamps  in  Italy— "  Queen  Argenis  "— 
M  ummers :  Waite — '*  Hilarion's  Servant,  the  Sage  Crow  " 
—Mural  Painting  in  Starston  Church,  Norfolk— A  Black- 
country  Legend,  Ac.,  243. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ac. 


A  LETTER  OF  EDWARD  IV. 

Among  a  collecdon  of  autographs  recentl  j  sold 
by  Messrs.  Puttick  &  Simpson  was  one  document 
that  wiU  certainlj  possess  some  interest  for  any 
future  historiap  of  the  Wars  of  the  Hoses.  It 
professes  to  be  a  letter  from  Edward  IV.,  then 
£arl  of  March,  and  his  brother  the  Earl  of  Rut- 
land;  written  on  December  10, 1460,  within  three 
^  weeks  before  the  battle  of  Wakefield,  in  which 
the  latter  was  slain;  and  so  greatly  was  its 
curiosity  esteemed  by  the  sellers,  that  it  is  tran- 
scribed at  full  length,  although  with  some  inac- 
curacies, in  the  sale  catalogue.  It  was  sold  for 
thirty-two  pounds.  As  it  has  not  been  secured 
by  the  British  Museum,  and  there  are  several 

Joints  in  connection  with  it  that  suggest  inquiry, 
beg  leave  to  send  you  a  more  accurate  copy  than 
that  in  the  auctioneers'  catalogue : — 

The  Earh  of  March  and  BuHand  to  the  Duke  of  Milan, 

'*  lUastrissime  Princeps  et  Exoellentissime  Domine,  post 
officiosas  salntationes.  Ex  relatione  spectabiUs  et  gene- 
rosi  viri,  domini  Antonii  de  Tnrri,  Regis  Majestatis 
nostras  nuntii  et  armigeri,  intellezimus  de  honorincentia 
«t  gratitudine  illi  exhibita  pro  reverentia  Sacne  Regis 
Majestatis  et  etiam  respectn  nostro,  ac  etiam  de  favoie 
aibi  prsestito  in  Romana  Curia  apnd  Pontifioem  Maxi- 
mum pro  noetris  votis  et  honestis  desideriis  impetrandis, 
et  de  singulari  caritate  et  beneyolentia  quam  ad  nos  et 
statum  nostrum  Exoellentia  vestra  gerit,  pro  quibus 
rebus  pnefatse  Excellentisa  vestne  cumulatisdme  legra- 
tiarour.    Et  quoniam  multa  sunt  nobia  cordi  qu»  D.  y. 


jam  cnpimus  revelari,  ideo  enndem  dominum  Antoniom 
duximus  remittendum  ad  Sanctissimum  Dominum  nos- 
trum Papam  et  vestram  ExoeUentiam  de  intentione  ac 
desideriis   nostris   plenissime  informatum.     Quo   drca 
rogamus  £.  yestram  Excelleptiam  nt  ilium  moxe  sno  9o||0  ^ 
gratioae  susdpiat  et  audiat  ac  plenam  illi  fidem  adfaibeat, 
et  ^er  eundem  respondere  dignetur.  Speramus  in  Domino 
et  in  yirtute  Reverendifiaimi  Domini  Legati  Apostolic! 
apud  nos  existentis;  cujus  status  cum  nostris  foitunis 
est  conjnnctus,  quod  remm   nostrarum  successus   erit 
gloriosas  sicnt  idem  dominus  Antonins,  lator  pnesentium, 
latius  explicebit    Valeat  Excellentia  yestra,  ad  cuius 
beneplacita  parati  sumus.    Datum  Londoni»,  die  x.  De- 
cembris  mccccIx. 

**  ExcellentisB  vestne  amid  et  consanguine! 
Ednardus  Marchite  et  Edmundus  Ruthn- 
landisB  Comites,  filii  iilustrissimi  Principia 
Ricardi,  veri,  justi,  et  legitimi  hnredis 
regnornm  Anglias  et  Francis,  ac  Domini! 
Hybemis,  Dncis  Eboiaci,  etc. 

*«  E.  Mabch.       E.  Rutlohd." 

[Addressed]— "lUustrissimo  et  Excellentissimo  Do- 
mino, Domino  Francisco  Sfortine  Vicecomiti  etc.  Duci 
Mediolani,  indyto  amico  nostro  honorando." 

[Endorsed] — **  Dominorum  consilio  ad  Ducem  Medio- 
lani." 

^  It  would  be  verjr  desirable  that  some  informa- 
tion could  be  obtamed  about  the  pedigree  of  this 
document  On  the  first  blush  there  appear  some 
reasons  for  questioning  its  authenticity.  For  one 
thing,  it  contradicts  the  receiyed  historical  ac- 
count as  contained  in  Hall,  according  to  which 
the  Duke  of  York  left  London  with  his  son, 
the  Earl  of  Rutland,  on  December  2— that  is  to 
say,  eight  days  before  this  letter  was  written^ 
and  »emt  to  his  other  son,  the  Earl  of  March,  to 
follow  him  into  the  North.  Both  of  these  sons 
had  been  with  him  in  Parliament  on  October  31 
(see  ItoUa  of  Pari.  y.  879)  ;  but  since  that  day  it 
would  appear  that  Edward  must  haye  left  Lon- 
don, and  we  know  from  Hall  that  the  news  of 
his  father's  death  at  Wakefield,  on  December  81, 
reached  him  at  Gloucester,  from  which  place  he 
then  remoyed  to  Shrewsbury,  and  was  stUl  not 
far  from  the  Welsh  border  when  he  fought  the 
battle  of  Mortimer's  Cross  on  February  2.  More- 
oyer  there  are  some  things  in  the  style  of  the 
document  which  might  reasonably  be  regarded 
with  suspidon.  "  Kegisa  Maiestatis  nostree  **  is, 
to  say  the  least,  a  yery  singular  expression  to  be 
used  by  either  March  or  Rutland  at  a  time  when 
Henry  VI.  was  acknowledged  as  king  eyen  by 
their  father. 

If  the  document  is  genuine,  I  should  be  dis- 
posed to  say  that  it  must  have  been  drawn  up 
in  the  name  of  Henry  VI.,  although  signed  by 
the  two  earls,  who  had  the  king  practically  in 
their  power ;  and  yet  the  language  a  little  further 
on  seems  hardly  consistent  even  with  this  yiew  of 
the  case.  The  expressions  *'  pro  reyerentia  Sacras 
Regies  Majestatis  et.  etiam  respectu  nostro,"  ac- 
cording to  any  ordinary  interpretation,  surely 
imply  that  the  letter  was  not  to  be  subscribed  by 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4*  s.  vil  makch  is,  71. 


the  king",  but  by  some  otber  persons.  In  short, 
I  see  nothing  for  it  but  to  acknowledge  that  the 
writers  partly  identified  themselves  with  the  king, 
and  jet  allowed  themselves  in  one  place  to  speak 
of  the  kinff  as  a  third  person. 

From  these  circumstances  no  one  will  be  sur- 
prised to  hear  that  very  strong  suspicions  have 
oeen  entertained  as  to  the  authenticity  of  this 
document,  or,  at  all  events,  of  the  subscription 
and  signatures.    There  is,  however,  somethinp^  to 
be  said  on  the  other  side  in  favour  of  its  genume- 
nesa.    A  letter  very  much  the  same  in  substance 
was  certainly  vmtten  by  Henry  YL  to  the  pope 
on  the  very  day  on  which  this  letter  was  dated. 
A  contemporaneous  copy  of  it  is  preserved^  in  the 
archives  of  Milan,  ana  will  be  found  noticed  in 
Mr.  Rawdon  Brown's  Calendar  of  Venetian  State 
Papers.     In  this  letter,  as  in  the  document  under 
consideration,  Antonius  de  Turri,  or  della  Torre, 
is  spoken  of  as  ''  our  envoy,''  as  an  ambassador  of 
Henry  VI.,  who  had  been  lately  sent  to  the  pope, 
had  returned,  and  was  about  to  be  despatched 
again — although,  as  we  find  from  Mr.  Brown's 
Calendar,  the  critical  situation  of  affairs  induced 
him  to  remain  in  London  for  at  least  a  month 
longer,  that  he  mi^ht  be  able  to  report  the  issue 
of  events.    There  is  also  in  both  letters  a  refer- 
ence to  Goppini,  bishop  of  Teramo,  the  legate  sent 
to  England  by  Pius  IL  to  reconcile  the  contend- 
ing factions ;  and  the  manner  in  which  his  services 
are  referred  to  are  quite  what  we  might  have 
expected. 

In  Heniy*s  letter  to  the  pope,  preserved  at 
Milan,  he  is  said  to  have  effected  much  good,  and 
the  king  hoped  that  he  would  effect  more  if 
assisted.  But  in  the  letter  of  the  two  sons  of  the 
Duke  of  York  he  is  almost  claimed  as  a  partisan 
on  their  side  (''  cujus  status  cum  nostris  fortunis 
est  conjunctus  ">,  which  there  is  no  doubt  he  prac- 
tically was  by  tne  moral  support  he  gave  to  their 
cause. 

All  this  is  certainly  in  favour  of  the  genuine- 
ness of  the  document.  It  has  nevertheless  been 
suspected  by  gentiemen  whose  opinion  in  such 
matters  is  wortiiy  of  all  deference,  that,  although 
the  body  of  the  document  be  genuine,  the  sub- 
scription and  signatures  may  be  foraeries.  This 
supposition  would  leave  us  free  to  believe,  accord- 
ing to  the  received  accounts,  that  neither  of  the 
supposed  writers  was  at  the  time  in  London ; 
whereas,  if  we  uphold  the  genuineness  of  the  sig- 
natures, we  must  conclude  that  the  chroniclers 
were  vrrong,  not  onl^  as  to  the  Earl  of  Rutiand 
having  gone  with  his  father  to  the  North,  but 
also  as  to  the  Earl  of  March  having  by  that  time 
left  London. 

I  believe  myself  it  is  quite  posrible  that  the 
chroniclers  were  wrong  in  both  these  points,  and 
that  the  document  in  question  thus  supplies  us 
with  new  and  more  accurate  information.    But 


before  we  can  presume  that  this  is  so,  it  is  very 
desirable  that  the  document  itself  should  be  sub- 
mitted to  critii^  inspection  by  competent  judges 
as  to  the  authenticity  of  the  mgnatures.  I  myself 
inspected  the  MS.  m  the  sale-room  before  my 
attention  was  drawn  to  any  of  the  points  of  sus- 
picion, and  the  handwritm^  did  not  strike  me 
as  in  any  way  liable  to  question ;  but  I  will  by  no 
means  warrant  that  under  the  circumstances  I 
may  not  have  been  deceived. 

I  would,  therefore,  beff  leave  to  suggest  to  th& 
present  owner  of  the  MS.  that  he  would  be  doing 
a  service  to  English  history  if  he  would  consent 
to  lend  it  for  a  short  time  to  the  trustees  of  the 
British  Museum,  who,  I  have  no  doubt,  would  be 
glad  to  take  it  into  their  custody  that  it  might 
be  carefully  inspected  by  palaeomphersy  and  the 
signatures  compared  with  other  si^tures  of  tha 
Earls  of  Marcn  and  Rutland,  so  that  its  exact 
historical  significance  may  be  the  better  ascer- 
tained. James  Gairdneb.' 


ON  THE  CONJOINT  PROPRIETORSHIP  IN  BEN 

JONSON'S  WORKS. 

In  a  former  note  (4*  S.  v.  574\  when  speaking 

of  the  second  volume  of  the  lolio  Ben  Jonson 

published  by  Meighen  in  1640,  but  containing 

three  plays  published  by  Allot  in  1631,  I  wrote. 

as  follows : — 

<*  As  to  the  three  plars  of  1681,  Allot  may  have  sold 
them  to  Meighen,  or,  as  is  more  likely,  agreed  to  a  con* 
joint  pablication.  A  similar  conjoint  proprietonhip  i\s 
I  think,  to  be  found  in  the  first  voiame  [of  l&iO]. 
Foettuter,  though  evidently  printed  at  the  same  offiofr 
with  the  rest,  and  though  bearing  one  of  Bishop's  devices 
[the  publisher  of  the  volume],  has  Young's,  not  Bishop's* 
name  on  its  title-page.  The  probable  explanation  of 
this  is,  that  Toung  held  the  right  of  publishing  the- 
PoetasteTf  and  bv  placing  bis  name  on  the  title-page  kept 
his  proprietorship  intact,  and  ensured  his  right  to  that 
much  share  (about  one*twelfth)  in  the  profits  of  the^  ^ 
volume.    The  same  occurs  in  the  Bible  of  l&S?." 

Two  days  ago,  while  arranging  the  loose  leavefr    * 
of  a  first  folio  of  1616, 1  obmrved  inmilar  differ-- 
ences  in  its  particular  title-pages.    The  general 
engraved  title  bears,  ''Imprinted  at  London  by 
Will.  Stansby,"  and  the  title-pages  of  all  the 
plays,  save  two,  bear,  "  I^ondon  |  Pnnted  by  Wil- 
liam Stansby."    One  of  these  two,  Every  Man. 
Out  of  Ms  Jaumour — the  only  play  that  has  two 
engraved  head-pieces  instead  of  one,  and  where 
alone  in  the  volume  is  a  tail-piece  to  be  found — 
has  also  the  only  engraved  and  ornamented  par- 
ticular title-page,  and  it  bears,  "  London  I  Printed 
by  W.  Stansby  [  for  L  Smithwicke."    The  other 
or  Poetaster's  title-page  bears  "  London  |  Printed, 
by  William  Stansby  f  for  Matthew  Lownes,"  the 
quarto  edition  of  the  Poetaster  in  1601  having 
been  «  Printed  for  M.  L.,"  and  "  sould  in  St  Dun- 
stan*s  Church-yarde."    It  is  therefore  clear  that 
though  Stansby  (or  Jonson)  had  managed  to  ob- 


[arch  18, 71.3         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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tt  of  publishing  all  the  other  pre- 
>lied  plays,  Smithwickoy  to  whom 
»roprietor  of  E^sery  Man  Out-  of  his 
kssigned  his  rights,  and  M.  Lownes, 
I  older  of  the  Poetaster  ^  had  refused 
li&cir  rights,  but  had  allowed  of  the 
their  pieces  without  prejudice  to 
L<^  on  condition  either  of  a  uum  down 
Ln  the  profits.  It  is  curious  to  find 
after  as  1640,  Eobert  Young,  who 
zaaean  time  have  obtained  the  pro- 
'znerly  held  by  Lownes,  again  re- 
with  the  Poetaster,  Either  this 
continued  popularity  of  the  libellous 
determination  of  Young  to  drive  a 
xn  a  matter  in  which  he  had  the 
.t  Smithwicke  held  to  the  other 
account  of  its  popularity  seems 
Lson's  words  of  preface  to  the  folio 
Smithwicke's  godfatherly  care  in 

another  difference  in  this  volume 
five  title-pages  of  "  The  Epigrams," 
^King's  Entertainment  on  passing  to 
I,"  "A  Panegyre,  &c.,"    "A  Par- 
^nment  ...  at  Althorpe,''  and  of 
Oourt,"  are  without  name  of  printer 
|cLrid  merely  bear  the  imprint,  ^^  Lour 
"    Why  this  difference  was  made 
but  my  conjecture  is,  that  for  the 
le  chance,  of  greater  profit  (may  the 
Lcim  Gifford  not  take  this  as  another 
favourite  I),  Jonson  kept  the  pro- 
'these  in  his  own  hands.    It  would 
[strange  in  that  day  to  have  put 
Jhe  Author  |  by  |  W.  Stansby,"  and 
^ink  all  mark  of  proprietorsnip  was 
^d  the  words  "  by  B.  I.,"  which  on 
\7ould,  I  conceive,  be  held  as  legal 
author*8  ownership  of  the  pieces, 
-pages  of  the  1640  edition  (that  of 
"  being  left  out),  an  edition  pub- 
author^s  death,  bear  the  usual 
the  others — "  London  |  Printed  by 
Bbhtslet  Nicholson. 


the 


.  t^ 


j^^NCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CUSTOMS. 

-r  the  Furness  district  of  North  Lancashire 
e  interesting  customs  existed  within  a  few 
»^^^  g^o.  Singing  or  chanting  psalms  or  hymns 
y®*^^  sorrowful  train  wended  its  way  towards 
^  church  was  very  common  and  is  still  prac- 
^*J^  I  have  an  extract  from  an  old  lady's  will 
**^^  in  1704  which  shows  the  importance  at- 
??ched  to  this  ceremony.  It  bequeaths  "  twenty 
^^llinffs,  to  be  distributed  by  my  said  Son  in  Law 
2^  such  young  men  and  others  who  shall  sing 
^^^Ixns  before  my  Corpse  to  y*  Church  all  y*  time 
c>f  ^y  funeraL" 


Is  this  a  relic  of  pre-reformation  times  P  The 
old  Sarum  Use  provided  for  singing  as  the  corpse 
was  borne  to  the  grave  the  ''Non  nobis  Domine" 
or  Psalms  xxv.  and  cxiv.,  according  to  the  dis- 
tance, and  on  returning  from  the  grave  at  the 
conclusion  of  the  ceremony  '^  De  profundis,"  &c 

Another  custom  was  to  give  to  each  individual 
a  small  cake  made  of  the  purest  wheaten  flour 
(oat-bread  being  in  general  use)  called  *' arval 
bread,''  which  he  or  she  was  expected  to  carry 
home  and  eat  with  the  rest  of  the  family.  A 
large  number  of  persons  was  usually  ''bidden," 
and  it  was  considered  a  great  slight  if  each  familj 
did  not  send  at  least  one  representative.  Is  this 
word  arval  derived  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  ar'ful, 
respectful,  awful,  full  of  reverence ;  or  from  the 
Heorew  word  ahvalf  to  hang  down,  to  mourn  P* 
In  some  parts  of  Furness,  where  the  parish  church 
was  at  a  considerable  distance,  the  bearers,  who 
carried  the  corpse  on  a  rude  kind  of  bier,  were 
obliged  to  rest  at  intervals  along  the  road;  and 
places  were  erected  by  the  roadside  here  and  there, 
called  '' resting-stones,"  upon  which  the  coffin 
was  placed  until  a  relay  was  provided  and  all 
had  rested.  In  these  districts  it  was  common  to 
distribute  the  arval  bread  before  starting,  and 
each  person  received  a  cake  and  a  quarter.  The 
quarter  was  generally  eaten  during  a  halt  about 
halfway  to  the  church.  H.  Babbeb,  M.D. 

Ulverston.  

SWISS  SPRING  SONG. 

As  the  *'  question  of  Savoy  "  has  been  recently 
agitated,  and,  so  far  at,  least  as  a  neutral  zone  or 
portion  of  Cbablais  is  concerned,  is  likely  to  form 
a  subject  for  future  dbcussion  and  deliberation 
between  France  and  Switzerland,  I  send  a  trans- 
lation of  a  poem  by  Doctor  Ziegler  of  Soleure, 
which  came  out  shortly  after  the  present  Sir 
Robert  Peel  so  eloquently  defended  the  cause  of 
Switzerland  in  the  British  Parliament.  The  ori- 
ginid  is  entitled  "  Friihlingsgrusz  an  Sir  Robert 
Peel,  in  Genf."  To  show  the  beauty  and  melody 
of  Ziegler's  stanzas,  I  give  the  first  verse : — 

**  FrUMinf2;8lUfte  in  den  Thlilern, 
Blauer  Himmel  in  der  Hoh', 
Grllne  Matten,  grilne  Trirten, 
BergesblDmen  unterm  Schnee. 
A  of  den  FlUasen  weisse  Sefrel* 
Auf  dem  See  ^reBcbttft'ger  Kiel,— 
Sei  willkomm  in  ansem  Bergeo, 
Edler  Britte,  Robert  Peel !  " 


**  Strains  of  spring  salute  the  valleys ; 

In  the  lift  the  heaven  is  blue ; 
Verdure  decks  the  fields  and  hedges ; 

Flowrets  peep  the  snow-drifts  through; 
On  the  lake— the  white  sails  streaming — 

Pleasure  plies  the  active  keel. 
Welcome  nnw  amidst  our  mountains, 

Noble  Briton— Robert  Peel  I 

[•  Consult  ••  N.  &  Q."  2«*  S.  iv.  868,  423 ;  vl  468.— Ed. J 


232 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4*  s.  vii.  mabch  is,  71. 


**  Many  a  great  mind  dweOa  among  us ; 

Alien  poets  tune  the  la^, 
And  reward  proverbial  friendship 

With  the  works  that  live  for  aye. 
Thou  hast  uttered  words  of  fireedom — 

Words  onr  wounded  spirits  feel ; 
Therefore  welcome  to  our  mountains. 

Brave  protector— Robert  Peel ! 
*<  Thou  hast  girded  on  thine  armour, 

Aimed  the  well-directed  lance, 
Waved  Helvetians  white-cross  banner 

In  the  face  of  grasping  France. 
Hearts  like  thine  will  guard  our  birthright 

From  the  bruise  of  despots*  heel, 
Therefore  welcome  to  our  mountains. 

Bold  confederate— Robert  Peel ! 
**  Monarchs  shower  their  decorations. 

Buttoned  ribbon,  cross  of  gold : 
Such  exotic  plants  we  grow  not, 

They  would  droop  in  Alpine  cold. 
Idiots'  straws  and  children's  baubles 

To  their  slaves  let  tyrants  deal ; 
Fame  for  thee  has  brighter  honours. 

Generous  stranger — Robert  Peel !  '* 

James  Heitbt  Dixon. 


John  Dtbr. — ^The  poems  of  Dyer  are  to  be 
found  in  Johnson's  Poets,  althongh  the  editor  was 
unable,  apparently,  to  claim  for  them  any  merit 
to  justify  tneir  preservation.  In  his  life  of  Dyer 
we  read — 

<i  Of  I  •pijQ  Fleece,'  which  never  became  popular,  and  is 
now  universally  neglected,  I  can  say  little  that  is  likely 
to  recall  it  to  attention." 

It  is  not  of  the  poems^  however,  but  of  the 
author's  portrait  prefixed  to  his  life  (Johnson's 
Poets,  1790,  vol.  v.),  that  I  wish  to  put  a  note  on 
record,  on  the  authority  of  ^Maloniana''  (pub- 
lished at  the  end  of  Prior's  Life  of  Edmond  Ma- 
tone,  p.  423),  where,  writing  of  Samuel  Dyer,  one 
of  the  members  of  the  Literary  Club,  (who,  by 
the  way,  was  supposed  to  have  written  the  Letters 
of  Junius),  Malone  says : — 

**  Sir  Joshua  Revnolds  painted  the  portrait  of  Mr. 
(Samuel)  Dyer,  which  is  now  in  Mr.  Burke's  possession. 
There  is  a  mezsotinto  from  it,  which  has  been  copied  for 
JTie  Jjhes  of  the  Poets  by  mistake,  as  if  it  were  the  por^ 
tnit  of  John  Dyer,  author  of  a  poem  called  The  FUeet" 

Ohables  Wtlib. 

Regovsbt  07  Feock  Ghttbch  Kegisteb. — 

The  local  papers  announce  the  recovery,  by  the 

Bev.  W.  lago,  of  Bodmin,  of  an  old  volume  of' 

registers  for  the  parish  of  Feock  between  Truro 

and  Falmouth : — 

*^  He  met  with  it  in  London,  and  finding  that  it  had 
no  descriptive  title,  but  evidently  belonged  to  some  Cor- 
nish paxish,  consulted  documents  in  the  registry  at 
Bodmm  (by  pennission  of  Mr.  Collins),  and  was  'thus 
enabled  to  identify  it  as  one  of  the  parish  remi^iBn  of 
Feock,  lost  very  manv  yeara  ago.  It  records  baptisms, 
marriages,  and  borials  during  the  incumbencies  of  three 
vicars  (Jackman,  Coode,  and  Ange)  between  1671  and 
1724." 

E.  H.  W.  Dtjhkik. 
Qveenwich. 


Rabh  Statexekts. — As  a  remarkable  instance 
of  this,  take  the  following  from  Gibbon  (Bedine 
and  liu,  voL  i.  diap.  v.)  : — "  An  hundred  well- 
disciplined  soldiers  will  command  with  despotic 
sway  ten  millions  of  subjects."  Tins  is  (me  man 
against  one  hundred  thousand.  Now,  according  to 
oidinary  computation,  if  this  one  man  had  to  call 
over  the  muster-roll  of  these  one  hundred  thou- 
sand, and  were  to  continue  without  intermission 
from  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  till  four  in  the 
afternoon — no  trifling  day's  work— he  would  not 
get  through  it  under  three  days. 

Another,  not  much  inferior,  is  quoted  by  Fuller 
(Hofy  State,  book  iv.  chap.  xvii.  s.  2)  from  Til- 
man  Bredenachy  De  Bdh  Idvon,:^ 

<*  I  can  scarce  believe  what  one  tells  us,  how  Walter 
Pletembeiv,  Master  of  the  Teutonic  Order,  with  a  small 
number,  slew  in  a  battle  a  hundred  thousand  Muscovite 
enemies,  with  loss  of  but  one  man  on  his  side." 

Scarce  believe  I  I  should  think  not  indeed,  as 
who  could,  unless  he  had  deluded  himself  into 
the  belief  that  the  Munchausen  lies  were  naked 
truth.  Edmtjwd  Tew,  M.A. 

Patching  Rectofy,  Arundel. 

MS.  NoTBS  ON  Flt-leavbs. — On  the  fly-leaf  of 

a  MS.  treatise  on  Wines,  thirteenth  century,  in  a 

very  cramped  and  almost  illegible  hand,  much 

contracted : — 

" I  Julius  oesar  y'  hegh  emp' 

In  ftythe  and  in  feld  still  fair  was  my  fame 
Of  Rome  &  of  Romans  I  bare  ay  y  flour 
and  thens  caput  mundi  wes  I  called  be  name. 

**  I  Alisaunder  conquered  to  paradys  gete 
Saue  y*  ile  of  women  all  y*  warld  I  it  wan 
In  achayer  thai  me  sent  a  lauedi  of  state 
Wytnes  of  Arestotle  y<  dwelt  w*  me  than. 

^^  I  am  ector  of  troy  A  duk  of  cegipt 

mony  hethen  haue  I  kylde  &  hedyde  at  anys 
I  conquered  y*  grekis  toV*  grek  see 
and  emang  thame  I  dyed  &  thar 

lyes  my  bonys." 

On  a  leaf  at  the  end  of  the  same  MS.  occurs  the 

following  charm,    apparently  to   be  used  as  a 

styptic : — 

**  In  nomine  patris  jr  fiH  et  tpiritus  •oncfi,  when  our 
lorde  Ihesus  was  don  on  y*  cros,  than  com  longinns 
thider  &  smot  hym  w*  hys  sper  in  y*  syde  bind  &  water 
com  out  at  v*  wounde  &  wypyd  hys  ^hene  A  sawe 
anone .  thrtgh  v*  holy  vertewe  y*  god  dyde  gofe.  I 
comaonde  y*  blnde  y*  y*  com  noght  out  of  y^  compys- 
tyma.    In  nomine  patris  ^.     Say  y*  thryi/* 

West  Derby,  Liverpool      JoBK  EUOT  HoDOKHr. 

"WBii-KioH"^B" Almost":  "Owe*  akb 
AGAIN." — Who  brought  into  luhion  the  word 
weH-^h,  which  within  the  last  year  or  so  haa 
come  to  be  commonly  subrtituted  for  ahnoetf  One 
has  always  been  familiar  with  weU-nigh  in  old 
English,  and  in  our  northern  counties  it  has  nev«r 

gone  out  of  oolloquiid  use;  but  in  ordinary  Enff- 
sh  speech^  and  in  writing,  it  had  become  nearly 


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obsolete.  All  persons  now-a-dajs  read  dows- 
papexs  and  novelB,  and  many  read  nothing  else,  so 
that  a  word  once  started  by  a  popular  novel-writer 
or  journalist  becomes  within  a  few  months  adopted 
by  the  public  in  a  truly  remarkable  manner.  One 
cannot  now  take  up  a  newspaper,  ma^^azine,  or 
popular  tale  without  coming  upon  well-nigh  in 
such  lA  position  as  almost  would  naye  held  a  year 
or  two  ago. 

Once  and  again  is  another  pet  phrase  of  quite 
recent  popularity.  If  a  thing  occurred  repeatedly 
we  used  to  say  it  happened  '<  again  and  again/'  but 
now  people  wriU  (1  do  not  observe  that  they 
eay)  once  and  again,  Mr.  TroUope,  if  I  remember 
rightly,  usc»  the  phrase;  perhaps  he  set  the 
fashion.  like  well-nigh,  once  and  again  was  for- 
merly in  use  (1  Thess.  ii.  18),  and  perhaps  it  has 
survived  as  a  provincialism,  and  has  now  become 
popularised  by  some  favourite  author,  who  has 
himself  retained  it  through  his  early  provincial 
up-bringing.  Jatdeb. 

"  MoTHEB  Red  Cap.'' — ^I  forward  you  a  print 
of  "  Mother  Damnable,"  a  few  copies  of  which  I 
haye  now  in  my  possession,  and  shall  have  plea- 
sure in  distributing  them  amongst  collectors  of 
rare  prints,  as  I  believe  this  to  be  a  specimen. 
I  am  collecting  accounts  of  notorious  and  eccen- 
tric individuals,  and  shall  feel  obliged  if  any  cor- 
respondent could  furnish  me  with  any  information 
about  the  female  thus  described:  —  ''Mother 
Damnable,  the  remarkable  shrew  of  Kentish  Town, 
the  person  who  cfave  rise  to  the  sign  of  the 
'  Mother  Red  Cap  on  the  Hampstead  Koad,  near 
London,  An.  Dom.  1676.  Taken  from  an  unique 
print  in  the  collection  of  the  late  I.  Brindley,  Esq." 

Mercury  Office,  Cheltenham.        Thomas  Harpsb. 

Wobdswobth:  Constable,  etc. — ^There  is  a 
sonnet  by  Wordsworth,  appended  to  the  edition 
of  WalUnCs  Lives,  publisned  by  Henry  Wash- 
bourne  in  1840,  in  which  the  following  lines  occur 
printed  in  italics,  doubtless  with  a  view  of  calling 
the  reader's  attention  to  their  beauty :  — 

"  The  feather  whence  the  pen 
Was  shaped,  that  traced  the  lives  of  these  good  men. 
Drop!  from  an  angePs  wing." 

The  idea  is  certainly  felicitous,  but  it  did  not 

originate  with  Wordsworth:    for,  in  a  sonnet 

ad&essed  ''To  the  King  of  Scots,"  by  Henry 

Constable,  a  poet  now  scarcely  remembered,  the 

concluding  lines  are  as  follows :  — 

"  The  pen  wherewith  thoa  dost  so  heavenly  singe 
Made  of  a  qoiU  pluck't  from  an  angell*s  winge." 

And  the  same  thought  he  thus  varies,  in  one  of  his 
'^  Spirituall  Sonnettes,"  in  praise  of  <'  St  Katha- 
ryne  " :  — 

^  My  muse  doth  neede 
An  angeirs  feathers,  when  thy  prayse  I  synge.'* 

In  addition  to  the  above  extracts  from  Heniy 
Constable^  let  me  add  the  following  from  the 


quaint  author  of  the  Emblems,  who  rises  to  un- 
usual elevation  in  his  poem  on  ''Faith":  — 

"  Bat  wonld'st  thou  conquer,  have  thy  conquest  crown'd 
By  hands  of  seraphims,  trinmphM  with  the  sound 
Of  heaven's  loud  trumpet,  warbled  by  the  shrill 
Celestial  choir,  recorded  with  a  quill 
Pluck'd  from  the  pinion  of  an  angel's  wing, 
Confirm*d  with  ioy  by  heaven's  eternal  King : 
Conquer  thyself  thy  rebel  thoughts  repel, 
g  And  chase  those  false  affections  that  rebel." 

Surely  these  passages  prove  that  Wordsworth's 
imitation  of  both  or  either  of  these  poets  must 
have  been  more  than  accidental  T.  C.  S. 

[Attention  has  ahready  been  called  in  «  N.  &  Q."  (l>t 
S.  vii  191)  to  the  former  of  the  passages  from  Constaole 

2 noted  by  T.  C.  S.  In  the  same  volume  attention  is 
irected  to  a  similar  thought  in  some  verses  l^  Dorothy 
Berry,  prefixed  to  Diana  Primrose's  Otain  of  2*earl$, 
1639 :  — 

*'  whose  noble  praise 
Deserves  a  quill  plnckt  from  an  angel's  wing."] 

CuBiors  Prophbct, — ^In  a  register  of  the  six- 
teenth century,  preserved  in  the  archives  of  the 
Palais  de  Justice  at  Bruges  (Varia,  No.  611),  is 
the  following ;  I  copy  liUeraiim :  — 

**  Gallornm  levitas  Germanos  duoet  ad  astra : 
ItalisB  gravitas  Gallo  depresso  vigebit : 
Succumbet  Gallus ;  Aquilae  victoria  cedet : 
Papa  dto  moritur,  Caesar  reffnabit  uterque 
Sic  quo  cessabit  tunc  vani  gloria  mundi. 

Congregati  sunt  leo  et  pardus,  dicentes :  Ut  quid  Gallus 
gallinaceus  excutit  in  alas  suas,  et  superbia  sua  exaltat 
vocem  suam,  non  enim  est  contentus  granis  suis,  nee 
cessat  rapere  aliena:  venite  ergo,  cedamus  eum  virgis 
sanguinolentis,  et  amoveamus  ab  eo  plumas  suas,  et  ad- 
stringamus  eum  adeo  ut  paucis  granis  sit  contentus ;  et 
illud  quod  habet  auferte  ab  eo,  et  scit  a  filiis  hominum 
quod  hnmiliabitur  valde  superbia  eius. 

"  Haec  enim  scripta  sunt  anno  Domini  1506,  dedma 
quinta  Septembris,  ex  uno  antiquissimo  libro,  qui  liber 
non  creditur  scriptus  in  duoentis  annis." 

W.  H.  Jakes  Wbalk. 

Wild  Fbuits  m  Gebmant. — ^The  present  low 
prices  of  wild  fruit  in  Germany  seem  to  be  a  con- 
sequence of  the  raging  war,  as  thousands  of  bar- 
rels full  of  them  are  annually  exported  to  France 
for  the  fabrication  (or  so-called  colouring)  of  the 
"  pure  St.  Julien  claret,"  the  "  University  claret," 
or  other  ''  choice  clarets  of  various  growths."  I  am 
especially  alluding  to  wild  raspberries  and  bil- 
berries ( Vaccinium  myrtilhts,  L.^ ;  a  measure  of 
the  latter  of  which,  equal  in  weignt  to  five  pounds, 
was  offered  to  me  this  morning  (July  27)  for  a 
little  more  than  twopence.  An  equal  quantity  of 
beautiful  wild  raspberries  was  selling  for  about 
sevenpence.  Cartloads  of  the  wholesome,  aro- 
matic, but  Intter  cranbeny  (^Vaccinium  viUs  idcsa, 
L.)  -mil  arrive  in  a  short  time,  selling  from  three 
to  four  pence  the  same  quantity.  Beautiful  ripe 
sour  black  cherries  (Perstca  cerasus,  L.)  are  selling . 
a  little  more  than  a  halfpenny  a  pound.  These, 
•too,  as  also  the  bird-cherry  (Penicum  aviumf  L.), 


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were  exported  for  the  same  purpose.  Immense 
quantities  of  the  bilberry  ana  the  cranberry  are 
preserved  without  sugar  for  the  winter,  will  keep 
ror  years,  and  are  sweetened  when  used.  Russian 
cranberries  (a  jelly  of  which  is  often  put  on  the 
top  of  other  preserves,  as  a  good  way  of  "keep- 
ing" them)  are  considered  the  best,  never  pos- 
sessing a  stringent  or  sorbate  taste.*  The  present 
province  of  Hanover  formerly  exported  the  greatest 
quantities  of  wild  fruit  for  the  above-named  pur- 
pose to  France,  amounting,  if  I  am  rightly  in- 
formed, to  more  than  300^000  francs  a  year.  Claret 
will  rise !  Hermann  Kindt. 

Germanjr. 

QurrM. 

Albanet  AND  Amondbvillb. — In  the  list  of 
arms  and  quarterings  of  Worcestershire  families 
given  by  Nash  in  his  history  of  that  county  are 
these  two  entries :  — 

**  Albaney :  *  Azare,  a  chevron  ermine  between  three 
fleurs-de-lis  artrent. 

**  Amondeville :  Argent,  a  cross  moline  .  .  .  ." 

Neither  of  these  coats  is  given  in  Papworth's 
Ordinary,  and  I  have  many  reasons  for  supposing 
them  to  be  wrongly  appropriated.  Thev  are  both 
given  by  Berry  in  his  appendix,  but  he  has  copied 
many  of  Nash*s  errors. 

I  wish  to  know  to  what  families  the^  really 
belong,  and  by  what  Worcestershire  family  they 
were  quartered. 

The  latter  coat  I  take  to  be  that  of  Uvedale ; 
for  I  find  among  the  quarterings  of  Lord  Howard 
de  Walden,  in  Edmondson's  Baronagium,  the 
coat  of  Amundeville  (Azure,  a  fret  or)  preceded 
by  that  of  Uvedale  (Argent,  a  cross  moline  gules). 

Did  Uvedale  marry  an  heiress  of  Amundeville  F 

H.  S.  G. 

Abundel  and  Abcndbllo. — In  one  of  the 
valleys  of  the  Canarese,  or  province  of  Ivrea,  in 
Piedmont,  there  are  the  ruins  of  a  castle  bearing 
the  name  of  Arundello.  It  was  built  after  the 
year  1176  by  one  of  the  many  branches  of  the 
noble  family  of  San  Martino,  who  bore  the  title 
of  Lords  of  Arundello  down  to  the  last  century, 
when  they  became  extinct  Could  it  be  possible 
to  explain  the  identi^  of  name  between  tne  Ita- 
lian castle  and  the  English  castle  and  town,  or 
at  least  between  the  family  of  the  Italian  Lords 
of  Arundello  and  that  of  the  English  Earls  of 
Arundel  P  The  first  Earls  of  Arundel  in  England, 
from  11^  to  1221,  were  the  Albini — one  of  whom 
came  with  the  Conqueror  to  England.    The  earl- 

*  The  bramble  {RnhvM  fruiieo§u$,  L.)  is  less  thought 
of  in  Germanj  than  in  England,  ftimishing  as  it  does  an 
excellent  preserve.  A  French  lady  of  mv  acquaintance 
wonid  never  allow  her  children  to  eat  blaclcberries,  as  she 
was  sure  of  their  bringing  on  a  headache.  | 


dom  then  passed  by  marriage  to  the  Htzalans  tiQ 
1580,  when  again  by  marriage  it  became  the 
heritage  uf  the  Howards,  who  still  hold  it    It  is 
well  known  that  in  the  thirteenth  centunr,  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  III.,  the  princes  of  the  tloiise  of 
Savoy,  and  especially  Peter  IL  (the  little  Charle- 
magne), and  Boniface,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
were  in  high  favour  at  the  English  court,  and 
London  was   crowded  with  tbeir  nobles   from 
Savoy,  Vaud,  and  Piedmont    It  is  possible  that 
one  of  these  nobles  became  connected  with  the 
Arundel  family  of  those  times  (1241-1268),  and 
upon  going  back  to  his  country,  out  of  regard  for 
pfnglish  associations,  gave  his  castle  the  name  of 
Arundel :  precisely  as  Cardinal  Oualo  reproduced 
the  architecture  and  the  name  of  St  Andrew's 
church  of  Chester  in  the  beautiful  Sant'  Andrea 
of  Vercelli.    That  in  those  days  the  intercourse 
between  Italy  and  England  and  the  connection 
between  the  families  of  the  two  countries  was 
not  un frequent,  we  may  argue  from  the  fact  that 
John  Fitzalan,  seventh  Earl  of  Arundel  (1269- 
1302),  married  Alice,  daughter  of  the  Marquis  of 
Caluzzo.    It  is  also  on  record  that  in  1383,  at 
Bourbourg  in  Flanders,  Amadeus  VU.  of  Savoy 
(called  **The  Red  Count'')  held  a  tournament, 
attended  by  several  English  lords ;  and  that  one 
of  these,  the  ''  Earl  of  Arundel,"  was  unhorsed  by 
the  Savoy  prince.   The  En^ish  nobleman  alludecL 
to  could  only  be  Richard  Fitzalan,  tenth  Earl  of 
ArundeL 

Can  learned  historians  or  genealogists  throw 
any  light  on  this  subject  ?  Gg. 

MoRDECAi  Cabt. — Mordecai  Cary  of  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge,  went  to  Ireland  as  chaplain  to 
the  Duke  of  Dorset,  Lord-lieutenant ;  he  became 
Bishop  of  Clonfort  in  1731,  and  was  promoted  to 
Killala  in  1735.    He  married  Catherine,  daughter 

of P    I  shall  be  obliged  by  an  arcoiint 

of  his  ancestry.  Y.  S.  M. 

AiWB    (Chapman)    Eniohtlet.  —  "  Anne, 

daughter  of  Sir  John  Chapman,  Lord  Mayor  in 

1688,  was  the  wife  of knightley."  Who  was 

her  husband?    He  does  not  appear  in  Baker's 

pedigree  of  the  Knightleys  of  Fawsley. 

C.  D.  C. 

[It  appears  that  Sir  John  Chapman  died  May  7, 1737, 
leaving  two  daughters:  the  elder  married  Sir  Oliver 
Ayshcomb,  Bart,  of  Ljfford,  in  Berkshire ;  the  ronnger, 
Bethia,  died  unmarried. — Barke*8  Extinct  Baronetage."] 

Mrs.  Mart  Churchill. — In  the  parish  church 
of  Minteme,  Dorsetshire,  there  is  a  memorial  by 
Mrs.  Mary  Churchill  "  in  commemoration  of  her 
husband  John  Churchill,  £8q*»"  "who,  according 
to  the  register — for  there  is  some  little  confusion 
as  to  the  dates  on  the  stone— seems  to  hare  died 
ATOil  3, 1659. 

From  a  comparison  with  other  memoranda,  it 
seems  hardly  possible  to  doubt  that  this  John 


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Churchill  was  the  grandfather  of  the  great  Duke 
of  Marlborough,  who  is  atated  by  all  the  Peer- 
ages and  in  Ilutchins^s  History  of  Dorset  to 
have  married  Sarah,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
Henry  Winston.  If  so,  Mrs.  Mary  Churchill  must 
have  been  his  second  wife;  and  the  ouestions 
arise,  who  was  she,  and  when  did  Sarah  Winston 
die,  and  where  was  she  buried?  Mrs.  Atary 
Churchill,  the  wife  of  Mr.  John  Churchill,  Esq., 
was  (according  to  the  register)  buried  July  19, 
1077.  Answers  to  these  queries  will  greatly  oblige 

C.  W.  BiNOHAlC. 

LoBD  Dudley  axd  Ward,  1784. — Has  any 
portrait  of  Lord  Dudley,  about  17S4  or  so,  been 
engraved  ?  J.  C.  J. 

William:  Fes  wick,  Matob  op  Hull. — Can 
you  procure  me  information  as  requested  con- 
cerning William  Fen  wick,  who  was  mayor  of 
Hull  in  1709  and  again  in  1727  ?  He  married 
Melior,  daughter  of  Isaac  Fairfax  of  Thornton,  in 
Pickering,  and  Catherine  his  wife.  William  Fen- 
wick  was  **  Chamberlain  of  Hull,  1699,"  and  was 
son  of  "  Nicholas  Fenwick."  1  should  be  glad  to 
know  which  branch  of  the  Fenwicks  he  belonged 
to.    Communications  to  be  addressed  to  me, 

Mrs.  Barwice  Baker,  Hardwicke  Court, 

Gloucester. 

German  Prince. — ^In  The  Spiritual  Exercises 
of  St,  Ignatius  (London,  Bums,  n.  d.,  p.  61)  there 
is  mention  of — 

"  A  Genman  prince,"  who,  "  wishing  to  inspire  hU  son 
with  a  great  horror  of  war,  ordered  a  painter  to  repre- 
Mnt  the  different  scenes  of  a  bloody  battle,  and  to  write 
theM  words  at  the  bottom  of  the  picture :  *  Behold  the 
fruits  of  war!'" 

What  was  his  name  ?  E.  Marshall. 

Sandford. 

"God's  Baby." — Is  this  beautiful  expression 
actaallv  in  use  in  London  among  the  lower 
orders?  In  Mr.  George  Macdonald's  exquisite 
little  book.  At  the  Back  of  the  NoHh  Wind,  it  is 
constantly  made  to  appear  that  such  is  the  case, 
as  in  the  following :—"  *  The  cabbies  call  him  God's 
baby,*  she  whispered.  *  He's  not  right  in  the 
head,  you  know.  A  tile  loose.' "  (p.  187.)  The 
meaning  of  the  term  is  here  supplied. 

Jaues  Britten. 

Good  Sir  and  Dear  Sir. — Some  letters  in  my 
possession  from  Isaac  Maddox,  bishop  of  Wor- 
cester, dated  the  early  part  of  the  last  century, 
commence  with  "  Good  sir."  How  long  has  the 
conventional  form  "  Dear  "  prevwled  in  epistolary 
correspondence  P  In  the  Paston  Letters  the  style 
between  kindred  resembles  state  documents  of  the 
sovereign,  where  they  address  each  other  as  "  Right 
worshipful  father  "  or  "  husband." 

TnOMAS  E,  WiyNINGTOK. 


Lines  on  the  Human  Ear. — ^Where  can  I  find 
some  clever  lines  which  appeared  in  one  of  the 
cheap  periodicals  of,  say,  some  fifteen  years  back, 
describmg  the  functions  of  the  human  ear  in  the 
shape  of  an  address  of  a  father  to  hb  little  daugh* 
ter,  explaining  to  her  how  she  heard  St.  .Pancra» 
bell  ?  E.  L. 

79,  Gloucester  Terrace,  Hyde  Park. 

George  London. — This  great  gardener,  founder 
of  the  Brompton  nursery,  superintendent  of  the 
Eoyal  Gardens,  Page  of  the  Back  Stairs  to  Queen 
Mary,  the  friend  of  Evelyn,  and  conipanion  of  the 
Earl  of  Portland  when  Ambassador  Extraordinary 
to  the  court  of  France,  died  in  1713.  •  Can  any 
of  your  readers  tell  where  he  was  buried  ?  His 
daughter  Henrietta  married  Sir  John  Peachey, 
Bart.  J. 

Macaulat's  Ballads. — The  eighth  and  last 
volume  of  "  The  Works  of  Lord  Macauiay  (com- 
plete), edited  bv  his  sister,  Lady  Trevelyan,"  and 
published  by  Longmans,  Green,  &  Oo.  in  18GG, 
professes  and  is  generally  supposed  to  contain  the 
more  approved  or  popular  portion,  at  least,  of  the 
distinguished  author  s  poetry.  I  miss  from  this 
collection  the  truly  heroic  ballad  of  "  The  Siege 
of  Rochelle,"  which,  when  I  read  it  some  thirty 
years  ago  (in  my  Cambridge  days),  I  thought  as 
good  as  any  other  lay  or  ballad  he  ever  wrote, 
"  The  Armada,"  "  Naseby,"  "  Ivry,"  and  the  best 
of  the  Lays  of  Ancient  Home  not  excepted. 
Neither  is — 
"  Rochelle,  our  own  Rochelle,  proud  city  of  the  waters," 
in  the  separate  poetic  volume  in  which  the  Roman 
and  others  of  his  heroic  lays  have  been  published 
these  many  years. 

Am  I  right  in  attributing  this  favourite  of  my 
young  days  to  Macauiay,  and  where  can  I  renew 
my  acquaintance  with  it  P 

A  thought  has  struck  me  recently  that  it  may 
have  been  a  joint  production  to  which  Praed  lent 
a  hand,  or  some  other  of  the  brilliant  Cambridge 
eclectics  who  commenced  their  literary  career  in 
Charles  ELnight's  Quarterly. 

The  Knight  of  Inishowen. 

Junior  St.  Jameses  Club,  St.  James's  Street. 

Medical  Order  op  St.  John.— Can  any  of 
your  correspondents,  versed  in  the  history  of  reli- 
gious and  charitable  orders,  give  me  any  infor- 
mation on  the  subject  of  the  *'  Medical  Order  of 
St  John"  P  This  order  is  very  cursorily  mentioned 
in  Voltaire's  Philosophical  dictionary,  under  the 
heading  "  Physicians,"  as  being  founded  by  St. 
Jean  de  Dieu,  and  as  being  in  some  way  con- 
nected with  the  profession  of  medicine.  And 
Fleury,  in  his  Histoire  eccUsiastique,  gives  an  ac- 
count of  the  life  of  St  Jean  de  Dieu,  and  of  the 
establishment  of  the  order  of  the  "Brothers  of 

[♦  JaLuary  12, 1713-14.— Ed.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4*^  8.  vii.  march  is,  7l 


Charity/'  but  makes  no  mention  of  its  being 
especially  a  medical  order. 

Tbe  questions  I  -wish  answered  are — ^Was  tbis 
a  stricuy  medical  order  P  Is  it  in  existence  at 
present  P  Does  any  other  author  give  fuller  infor- 
mation on  the  subject  P  BELOiatix. 

MsAioNG  OP  ''NAOOABunB.''  —  In  theZt/<9  of 
Edward  Lord  Herbert^  ed.  1771,  p.  161,  is— 

"  Every  bont  tied  with  a  small  ribband  of  a  Nacearine, 
or  the  ooloar  that  the  Knights  of  the  Bath  wear,  gave  a 
Tery  gracefiill  miztnre,"  Ac. 

What  was  naccarine  f  E.  H.  Kxowles. 

Kenil  worth. 

Paul  V.  and  the  VBNETiAirs.— rWill  some 
reader  of  '^  N.  &  Q."  kindly  refer  me  to  a  full 
collation  of  the  — 

**  Controversie  Memorabiles  inter  Panlam  Y.  Ponti- 

ficem  et  Yenetos In  Yilla  Sanvincentiana  apad 

Paulum  Marcellum.    Samptibaa  Caldoreann  Societatis, 
Anno  MDcvn." 

Freytag,  in  his  Analecta  (ed.  1750,  p.  269), 
gives  the  collation  as  part  i.  pp.  242;  part  u. 
pp.  276,  in  8. 

My  copy  agrees  with  the  title-page  as  given  by 
Freytag,  but  the  collation  differs  very  consider- 
ably. Fart  I.,  though  not  so  called,  agrees  with 
Freytag,  ending  with  "  Finis  "  on  ^.  242 :  its  con- 
tents also  agree  with  the  index  which  follows  the 
general  title  (there  are  no  separate  titles  for 
parts  I.  and  ii.)  Part  n.  consists  of  672  pages, 
and  its  contents  are  all  noted  in  general  index 
with  the  exception  of  the  last  item,  sixteen  stanzas 
of  Italian  poetry,  pp.  669-672.  The  pagination 
of  the  index  does  not,  however,  correspond  with 
the  first  four  articles  in  part  n. ;  the  first  of 
which,  e.  g,  "  Cardinalis  Baronij  Pareenesis,"  &&, 
is  paged  245,  as  if  it  should  be  found  in  part  i. ; 
from  p.  173,  part  ii.,  the  index  and  pagination  of 
thepart  agree. 

Tnere  are  three  tractates  bound  up  in  the  vo- 
lume, but  they  do  not  belong  to  tne  work  as 
above  described.  Aiken  Ibtike. 

Clerical  Club,  Dublin. 

Pipe  Boll,  5  Stephen. — ^Your  correspondent 
NixBOD,  in  lus  note  on  '^  Herveus^'' quotes  this 
Koll  as  the  authorihr  for  one  of  his  statements. 
May  I  ask  whether  there  be  such  a  Roll  P  Is  not 
this  the  HoU  identified  by  Mr.  Hunter  as  that  of 
31  Hen.  I.  P  I  put  the  question  for  information,  and 
by  no  means  as  wishing  to  be  regarded  as  myself 
an  authority.  I  should  have  known  nothing  pro- 
bably of  the  matter,  but  for  the  suggestion  of  an 
able,  but  now  deceased,  friend.        w".  M.  H.  C. 

Punch-ladle  of  Gbobge  HI. — I  the  other  day 
bought  a  silver  punch-ladle  with  a  sold  seven- 
shilUxig  piece  let  into  the  bottom  of  it.  It  bore 
the  cipher  ** » G.  R.,"  and  an  inscription  "  Ex 


dono  Georgius  IH.  Optimo  Reg^  1773,"  and  on 
the  stalk  the  initials -r.  A      The  bowl  was  rather 

artistically  embossed  with  the  Endish  rose  and 
Scottish  tfustle  in  high  relief;  the  nandle  was  of 
ebony. 

As  I  am  informed  by  one  who  still  recollects 
the  days  of  George  the  Good  that  he  was  in  the 
habit  of  presenting  such  gifts  to  many  persons  he 
took  a  fancy  to,  perhaps  some  of  your  readers  may 
be  able  to  afford  me  a  little  farther  information 
on  the  subject.  H.  H. 

Portsmouth. 

Serjeant  Saleeld. — I  am  desirous  to  have 
some  account  of  the  ancestors  and  descendants  of 
William  Salkeld.  serjeant-at-law  and  reporter  of 
the  King's  Bench  from  1689  to  1702.  I  believe 
he  came  from  Rock  in  Northumberland.         W. 

[William  Salkeld  was  descended  from  a  very  ancient 
family  in  Cnmberland.  The  Salkelds  possessed  the  manor 
of  Coiby,  upon  the  attainder  of  Andrew  de  Harcla,  by  a 
firant  fi-om  Edward  III.  to  Richard  de  Salkeld,  Knt. 
Afterwards  came  Hogh  de  Salkeld,  John  de  Salkeld,  and 
Richard  de  Salkeld.  The  latter  died  17  Henry  VII.  The 
last  Thomas  Salkeld  sold  Corby  to  the  Lord  William 
Howard,  third  son  of  Thomas,  great  Dake  of  Norfolk. 
Serjeant  Salkeld  was  born  at  Fallodor,  or  Fallodon,  in 
Northnmberland,  in  1670,  and  was  the  eldest  son  of 
Samuel  Salkeld,  E^q.,  of  the  same  place.  This  Samuel 
was  of  Fallodor  and  Swinhoe,  near  Newcastle,  properties 
which  his  son  inherited.  He  died  intestate  in  1699.  The 
seijeant  obtained  Fifehead  Nevil,  in  Dorsetshire^  by  ma]> 
riage  with  Miss  Ryves,  an  heiress.  He  Was  educated  at 
Oxford,  and  admitted  a  student  of  the  Middle  Temple  on 
May  2, 1692,  and  called  to  the  Bar  in  1698.  He  died  on 
Sept.  14, 1715,  aged  fort^-five  or  six,  leaving  three  sons 
and  three  daughters :  William,  the  possessor  of  Fifehead, 
died  in  1782,  unmarried.  Robert  was  the  second  son,  who 
married  his  first  cousin,  the  daughter  of  James  Salkeld 
the  younger,  brother  of  the  serjeant.  Robert  married, 
secondly,  Sarah  the  widow  of  P.  Ruffe,  by  whom  he  had 
one  son,  William,  a  physician*  who  married  first  Eliza- 
beth Palmer,  one  of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds's  nieces.  His 
second  wife  was  Anne,  the  eldest  sister  of  James 
Qitherow,  of  Boston  House,  near  Brentford.  Charles,  the 
youngest  son  of  the  serjeant,  is  supposed  to  have  been 
connected  by  marriage  with  the  Rev.  Charles  Simeon  of 
Cambridge.  This  Charles  had  a  daughter,  whose  de- 
scendants in  Dorsetshire  possess  a  good  share  of  the 
family  pictures.  The  serjeant  had  three  daughters :  1. 
Mary,  married  first  Edmund  Gay,  of  Blandford ;  secondly, 
Thomas  Waters,  of  Blandford,  by  whom  she  had  a  son 
and  three  daughters.  2.  Elisabeth,  married  the  Rev. 
James  Dibben,  rector  of  Fontmell  Magna.  3.  Anne,  died 
unmarried  in  1741.  For  other  details  of  this  family, 
consult  Woolrvch's  Lives  of  Eminent  SerjeanU-at-Law 
of  the  EnolU^  Bar,  2  vols.  8vo,  1869,  vol.  ii.  pp.  482- 
496.] 

SiCKLB  BoYKE :  BoYHE  MowEY.  —  In  a  lease 
dated  Oct.  28, 1678,  is  a  condition  that  the  tenant 
is  to  find  one  '^sycle  bojne  "  to  cut  com  (bladas) 
in  autumn,  for  one  day.  Again,  Feb.  8, 1771,  the 
corporation  of  this  borough  ordered  that  their  ten- 
anls,  who  had  usually  paid  to  the  mayors  '*  boine 
money,''  should  thereafter  pay  the  same  to  the 


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m&joiB  for  ever.    Can  any  one  explain  the  mean- 
ing of ''  boyne ''  P  Csaslbs  Jacksok. 
I>oncaster. 

Tbapp's  "Vibgil." — ^What  are  the  merits  of 

the  work?    I  have  never  met  with  it.    I  have 

amongst  my  collections  the  following  anonymous 

epigram : — 

**0n  hearing  Glovefa  Leonidas  compared  to  Virgil, 

'*  Like  unto  Yiigil  'tis,  perhaps ; 
But  then,  by  Jove,  'tis  Doctor  Trapp*$y 

Trapp  was  a  very  learned  man,  and  if  there  was 
«ny  resemblance  between  his  style  and  that  of 
Glover,  he  camiot  have  been  such  a  very  bad 
poet  i^ter  aU.  Trapp  lived  at  a  time  when  blank 
verse  was  not  mucn  esteemed — ^when,  in  fact, 
IVenchified  jingling,  miscalled  heroic  verse,  was 
the  fashion, anoMilton  had  to  succumb  to  Boileau. 
Trapp  must  have  been  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  his  author.  Whether  he  had  sufficient 
poetic  genius  to  transmute  Maronian  hexameters 
into  the  blank  verse  of  Shakspeare  and  Milton  is 
what  I  should  Uke  to  know.  Perhaps  some 
reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  will  oblige  by  sending  an 
extract<~8ay  twenty  or  thirty  hues — ^from  one  of 
the  eclogues.  Blank  verse  seems  the  proper  me- 
dium for  hexameters  and  pentameters. 

Stephen  Jackson. 

[Another  version  of  the  epigram  on  Glover's  Leonida* 
ceads  as  foUows :  ^ 

u  Equal  to  Virgil?    It  may  perhaps, 
But  then,  by  Heaven,  'tis  Dr.  Trapp's.'* 

Trapp's  translation  of  The  JEneid  of  V ixi^il  into  blank 
verse,  published  in  1717,  in  two  vols.  4to,  is  in  little  esti- 
mation, and  is  a  complete  failure  as  a  work  of  art  Dr. 
Johnson  observed  that  **  Trapp's  book  mav  continue  its 
<eidstence  as  long  as  it  is  the  clandestine  refuge  of  school* 
boys."  It  is  '*mdifferenUy  executed,"  remarks  John 
Nichols.  In  1758  Dr.  Warburton  was  thus  compli- 
mented for  bis  ''Dissertation  on  the  Sixth  Book  of 
Virgil " :  — 

**  Sure,  in  that  Hell  which  you  design'd. 

For  miscreants  vile  of  ev'iy  kind ; 

Bad  Criticks  well  deserve  a  place, 

Nor  mercy  e'er  should  find,  nor  grace. 

Translators  too  those  realms  should  hold. 

Who  put  off  dross  instead  of  gold. 

€3iief,  those  who  thy  bright  Muse  disgrace, 

And  hide  with  stains  her  beauteous  face. 

There  creeping  Lauderdale  should  lie. 

Cold  Trapp,  and  mnrd'ring  Ogilby."*] 

Lanoashibe  Witches. — The  ladies  of  Lanca- 
shire are  spoken  of  and  toasted  as  '' Lancashire 
witches."  Under  what  sobriquets  do  the  gallants 
of  other  English  counties  oele  orate  the  beauty  of 
their  fair  enslavers  P  Pbbstowiknsib. 

.Woonoui  IiaTLLL  Lettbbs. — Can  any  of  the 
correspondents  of  '*  N.  &  Q."  inform  me  who  was 
the  designer  and  who  the  engraver  of  the  initial 
letters  (many  of  which  are  very  beautiful)  to 
the  chapters  in  Whitaker^s  ^RuAmondshire  and 

*  Three  translators  of  Virgil. 


Leeds?  Many  of  these  are  yiews  of  places  in 
Yorkshire  which  are  easily  recognisedi  but  it 
would  be  interesting  to  know  the  whole,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  in  the  new  edition  which  is  pro- 
mised an  index  of  their  names  will  be  given. 

G.  D.  T. 

Huddersfield. 


XUpIfetf* 


GAINSBOROUGH'S  -BLUE  BOY." 
(4»»»  S.  iu.  676 ;  iv.  23, 41, 80,  204, 237  j  v.  17, 36.) 

Since  this  subject  was  last  before  your  readers 
(Jan.  8,  1870),  and  created  a  widespread  in- 
terest, much  progress  has  been  made  towards 
settling  the  question  as  to  which  of  the  two 
'^  Blue  Boys  "  is  the  original  picture,  and  thereby 
entitled  to  the  "  blue  riband  '^  of  the  fine  arts. 
With  your  approval  the  subject  will  be  resumed 
and  completed. 

Amongst  your  contemporaries  who  £ave  com- 
mented on  the  facts  -disclosed  in  your  columns. 
The  Queen  *  concludes  an  interesting  article, 
accompanied  by  a  sketch  of  the  '^  Blue  Boy  *' 
printed  in  colours,  with  the  following  pertinent 
remarks :  — 

^  Until  last  year,"  says  The  Queen,**  the  fact  that  there 
were  two  *  Blue  Boys '  was  not  generally  known.  But,  as 
now-a-days  there  is  always  something  new  turning  up, 
or  some  article  of  faith  ruthlessly  swept  away,  the  West- 
minster *  Blue  Boy '  is  not  exempt  from  what  appears  to 
be  a  general  rule.  The  question  as  to  which  of  them  is 
the  original  and  which  the  replica  has  been  argued  with 

freat  epirit  in  our  contemporary,  Notes  and  Queries, 
or  many  years  the  Marquis  of  Westminster's  picture  haa 
been  the  unchallenged  claimant  of  the  original  honours  ; 
but  at  the  conversazione  of  the  Institution  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers in  1867,  after  a  lifetime's  obscurity,  a  second  *  Blue 
Boy '  formed  one  of  the  works  of  art  lent  for  exhibition, 
and  the  second  claimant  has  been  pronounced  by  com- 
petent jndges  to  be  a  very  fine  work  of  art." 

Here   it  will  usefully  refresh  the  memory  to 

quote  the  conclusions  formerly  arrived  at    On 

September  18, 1869,  they  were  — 

**  That  the  '  Blue  Boy  '  which  was  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Hoppner,  B.A..  is  not  the  one  now  in  the  possession 
of  the  Marquis  of  Westminster ;  that  it  is  more  likely  to 
be  the  one  which  was  the  property  of  the  late  Mr.  Hall, 
as  exhibited  at  the  conversasione  of  the  Institution  of 
Civil  Engineers  in  1867 ;  that  if  one  of  the  two  '  Blue 
Boys  *  has  been  copied  from  the  other,  it  is  the  West- 
minster one,  which  is  a  copy  of  the  rival  picture ;  and 
that  if  both  pictures  are  Gainsborough's,  then  the  least- 
known  one  is  the  finest  work  of  art." 

And  on  January  8, 1870 — 

"  That  the  inferences  formerly  drawn  in  favour  of  the 
least-known  Blue-clad  have  been  virtually  confirmed  by 
subsequently  received  facts ;  that  the  original  *  Blue  Boy,' 
as  yreti  as  several  other  Blue^ads,  were,  in  all  proba- 
bility, painted  before,  and  not  after,  the  delivery  of  Sir 
Joshua  Beynolds's  cold-colour  discourse  in  December, 
1778  ;  that  it  is  probable  the  original  *  Blue  Boy'  passed 

•  Apnl  30, 1870. 


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diract  from  Gainsboroogh's  studio  to  the  gallexy  of 
George  Prince  of  Wales,  afterwards  Geoxjie  lY . ;  that,  at 
any  rate,  it  belonged  at  one  time  to  the  Irince,  and  was 
by  him  sold  to  John  Nesbitt,  Esq.,  M.P.;  that  the  very 
remarkable  coincidence  between  the  early  description  of 
the  picture  in  Mr.  Nesbitt's  possession  (by  Mr.  Peter 
Goxe),  and  the  recent  description  of  the  least-known 
«  Blue-clad"  (by  Mr.  R.  J.  Lane,  A.KA.)  is  presumably 
due  to  their  actually  referring  to  the  same  picture ;  that 
about  1806,  if  not  previously,  two  *Blue  Boys '  appear,  of 
which  the  original  was  in  Hoppner*s  care,  and  the  nn- 
Imown  one  in  the  Grosvenor  collection;  and  that  there 
are  excellent  reasons  for  now  recognising  the  least-known 
'Blue  Boy'  as  the  same  picture  which  was  successively 
the  property  of  (or  was  ,held  by)  H.R,H.  George  Prince 
of  Wales,  John  Kesbitt,  Esq.  li[.P.,  and  John  Hoppner, 
Esq.,  R.A." 

So  far  as  we  know^  these  conclusions  have  not 
been  controverted  by  a  single  fact  advanced  against 
them^  although  the  will  to  rebut  them  has  not 
been  wanting.  On  the  contrary^  further  dis- 
coveries and  closer  examinations  of  both  pictures 
have  virtually  established  them. 

For  example,  as  regards  the  origin  of  the 
"  Blue  Bo^,^  it  appears  it  was  pcunted  in  1769 
and  exhibited  in  1770,  to  confute,  as  it  did  suc- 
cessfully, Reynolds'  depreciation  of  Gainsborough's 
skill  in  portraiture,  several  years  before  the  cold- 
colour  axioms  were  launched  against  the  successful 
picture  and  its  painter. 

To  Mr.  Joseph  Hogarth,  the  well-known  and 
respected  veteran  in  works  of  art,  Moimt  Street, 
Grosvenor  Square,  we  are  indebted  for  the  in- 
formation that  the  portrait  in  a  Vandyke  dress 
which  achieved  for  (iainsborough  so  great  a  suc- 
cess at  the  R.  A.  in  1770*  was  the  "Blue  Boy," 
and  that  it  was  the  picture  of  which  Miss  Mary 
Moser  said,  '^Gainsborough  beyond  himself." 
TWs  discovery  throws  a  flood  of  new,  if  less 
pleasant,  light  on  the  policy  of  Reynolds  towards 
Gainsborough  ;  but  this  interesting  subject  must, 
for  the  present  at  least,  be  deferred. 

It  also  adds  much  weight  to  the  tradition, 
which  it  is  said  the  late  Mr.  Turner,  R'A.,  was 
disposed  to  believe,  that  the  original ''  Blue  Boy  " 
represented  a  youth  connected  with  the  Molyneux, 
now  the  Sefton  family;  for  Gainsborough  ex- 
hibited the  portrait  of  Isabella  Lady  Molyneux 
the  previous  year.  This  lady  had  two  brothers — 
Viscount  Petersham,  then  sixteen,  and  Henry 
Pitzroy  Stanhope,  a  younger  one,  sons  of  a  soldier 
of  hign  distinction — Earl  Harrington.  Now,  one 
of  these  youths  may  have  been  the  model  boy,  and 
thus  account  for  the  fine  miUtary  attitude  of  ease, 
grace,  and  elegance,  ''  as  if  to  the  manner  bom," 
whicn  so  prominently  distin^ishes  the  least- 
known  *'  Blue  Boy  "  over  the  rival  picture,  as  the 
beat  judges  tell  us. 

Moreover^  the  <'  Blue  Boy  "  was  painted  at  Bath, 
80^  that  it  IS  more  probable  one  of  the  youthful 
aristocrats  who  visited  Gainsborough's  studio  in 

•  Fulcher*s  Life  o/GaUuborough,  p.  79. 


that  city  became  the  model  boy,  than  that  thft 
son  of  a  London  ironmonger  did  so.* 

From  a  pedigree  point  of  view,  two  important 
discoveries  have  been  made  which  practically 
complete  the  history  of  the  least-known  ''Blue. 
Boy  "  as  the  original  picture.  They  are  (1)  that 
Nesbitt,  the  owner  of  the  original  "  Blue  Boy/^ 
in  the  beginning  of  the  century,  had  the  pic- 
ture with  him  at  Ueston  between  1815  and  ifeO, 
where  it  seems  to  have  been  a  well-known  pic- 
ture, and  (2)  that  Hall,  so  long  the  owner  of 
the  least -known  "  Blue  Boy,"  purchased  it  as  the 
original,  with  its  pedigree  complete,  the  Prince  of 
Wales  portion  included,  and  used  the  information, 
thus  obtained,  no  doubt  from  Nesbitt,  as  autho- 
ritative proof  for  stating  openly  on  every  oppor- 
tunity that  his  was  the  original  "Blue  Boy,"  and 
the  Grosvenor  picture  only  a  copy  of  it.  Hairs- 
statement,  it  ]fi  said,  reached  the  notice  of  the 
late  Marquis  of  Westminster,  and  led  him  ta 
make  inquiries  about  the  '•  Blue  Boy's  "  history,, 
as  if  there  was  a  loose  screw,  from  Mr.  Rogers, 
the  poet  and  collector  of  works  of  art,  some^ 
twenty-two  years  ago.  In  connection  with  thia 
matter,  there  is  an  incongruous  "Blue  Boy"  story 
fathered  on  Rogers,  which  we  would  like  to  know 
if  any  of  your  readers  ever  heard  him  mentionv 
It  is,  that  Rogers  bought  the  original  "  Blue 
Boy  "  at  a  sale,  let  Hoppner  have  it  to  copy,  and 
that  Hoppner  dishonorably  and  surreptitioushrsold^ 
the  original  to  Earl  Grosvenor— a  libel  douotlesa 
on  both  gentlemen,  as  it  is  known  to  be  on  Hopp- 
ner, who  did  not  sell  the  original  "Blue  Boy  "  Ur 
Earl  Grosvenor.  To  us  it  appears  to  be  merely  a 
perversion  of  facts,  havingnothing whatever  to  do- 
with  the  original  "Blue  Boy,"  put  forward  as  a 
Sorlom  defence  of  the  domagea  pedigree  of  tho' 
best-known  "  Blue  Boy^  "*  but  if  wrong  we  will- 
be  glad  to  be  corrected. 

Briefly  these  facts  are : — (l.\  Rogers'  much  en»- 
joyed  and  spoken  about  purchase  of  "  Puck  "  by 
Roynolds— not  the  "  Blue  Boy"  by  Gainsborougii — 
at  a  sale,  where  Lord  Famborough  and  Dance  the* 
painter  were  with  him,  after  having  all  break- 
fasted at  his  residence ;  and  (2)  the  quarrel  be- 
tween Rogers  and  Hoppner,  not  about  the  "Blu©- 
Boy,"  but  an  artist  whom  the  foimer  desired  ta 
become  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Trent  Club^ 
but  was  strongly  opposed  by  the  latter,  who- 
bitterly  reproached  Rogers  for  this  desire,  which, 
led  Rogers  to  say  of  Hoppner,  "  He  has  an  awful 
temper — the  most  spiteful  person  I  ever  knew." 


*  A  foot-Dote  of  dubious  origin  in  Edwards's  Anecdotet 
of  Painters  appears  to  be  the  sole  authority  for  using  the 
name  of  fiuttell,  either  as  the  model  or  the  owner  of  the- 
original  **  Blue  Boy."  But  this  might  have  been  added, 
after  the  death  of  Edwards  iu  December,  1806,  and  when 
the  work  was  going  through  the  press  in  1807 ;  for,  ac- 
cording to  the  Grosvenor  Galleir  statements,  that  pic- 
ture was  then  in  existence^  even  if  unnoticed  by  Echraidik. 


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23» 


But  to  return  to  Hall :  it  is  certain  tliat  he  was 
proud  of  bis  *'  Blue  Boy  "  on  account  of  his  royal 
antecedents,  which  he  took  care  should  be  known, 
until  the  picture  acquired  the  title  of  the  iViVice 
of  WaM  portrait  amon?  those  about  him,  and 
was  so  catalogued  after  nis  death.  In  this  way 
the  dead  was  unwittingly  made  to  bear  evidence 
that  when  living  he  Imew  well  that  the  picture 
had  once  belonged  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and 
consequently  that  it  was  the  celebrated  original 
**  Blue  Boy/*  well  worth  1600/.  to  keep  and  not 
to  selL 

Another  and  a  satisfactoiy  proof  of  the  origi- 
nality of  the  least-known  "  Blue  Boy  "  appeared  at 
the  Winter  Exhibition  of  the  Royal  Academy  in 
the  form  of  a  very  fine  Gainsborough,  recently 
valued  for  legacy  duty  at  1600/.  It  is  No.  102  in 
the  Catalogue,  and  is  a  companion  picture  to  the 
least-known  '^Blue-clad,"  in  the  description  of 
canvas  used,  in  the  very  thin  but  brilliant  water- 
colour-like  stvle  of  painting  so  characteristic  of 
Gainsborough  s  portraits  painted  at  Bath,  and  even 
in  their  ground-plan,  the  pictures  differing  little 
more  than  necessary  for  the  positions  and  dresses 
of  those  represented. 

This  test  picture,  as  it  may  be  called,  contains 
the  portraits  of  the  Countess  of  Sussex  and  her 
daughter,  Lady  Barbara  Yelverton,  afterwards 
Baroness  de  Buthyn,  as  lent  for  the  Exhibition 
by  the  Countess  of  Loudon. 

Now,  exactly  a  century  ago  Gainsborough  ex- 
hibited this  very  picture  at  the  Royal  Academy 
the  year  after  he  had  exhibited  the  '*  Blue  Boy," 
therefore  a  similarity  of  materials  and  "  hand- 
writing" might  be  expected  and  is  found. 

Tried  by  this  test,  the  Grosvenor  "Blue  Boy  " 
hardly  looks  a  Gainsborough.  The  canvas  is  dif- 
ferent, the  vehicle  different,  the  painting  thicker, 
the  colouring  less  delicately  managed,  and  the 
general  effect  disappointing. 

But  place  the  least-known  "  Blue  Boy"  by  the 
side  of  the  ladies,  and  they  will  have  met,  per- 
haps, more  than  their  match  in  general  attractive- 
ness, but  in  materials  and  execution  they  would 
stand  forth  a  well-matched  pair,  to  prove  a  common 
artistic  paternity,  in  a  very  convincing  manner. 

Before  proceeding  with  the  history  of  the  '*  Blue 
Boy,*'  it  may  be  as  well  to  give  a  description  of 
the  two  pictures,  and  the  chief  differences  be- 
tween them.  Some  of  these  differences  have  been 
noticed  in  your  columns,  but  the  exhibition  of  the 
Grosvenor  '*Blue  Boy"  last  year  at  the  Royal 
Academy,  and  subsequently  at  South  Kensington, 
has  enabled  a  satisfactory  comparison  of  the  two 
pictures  to  be  made  by  competent  judges. 

Endeavours  to  bring  about  a  public  side-by-side 
competition  between  them  have  failed,  owing  to 
the  shyness  of  the  best-known  ''  Boy  "  to  enter 
the  UstB  against  the  other. 

The  difference  in  the  shades  of  the  blue  colours 


of  the  chivalrous  young  athletes  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge,  who  annually  contend  for  the  ''Blu& 
Riband"  of  rowing,  is  well  known;  and  as  with, 
these  colours,  so  with  the  two  pictures — one  of . 
them  presents  a  darker  and  older  appearance  than 
the  other.  They  might  therefore  be  diBtinguished\ 
as  Lt'ght  Blue  and  Dark  Blue, 

But  there  is  a  depth  and  delicacy  of  light  and 
shade  about  the  older-looking  picture  which  is 
not  found  on  the  other ;  and  tne  colour  on  the 
figure  of  the  former,  if  ever  bright  blue,  has  mel* 
lowed  pleasingly  in  a  greenish  direction.  On  the- 
younger-looking  ^f  Boy "  the  colour  is  paler  and 
nas  a  hardness,  which  gives  the  picture,  as  Allan 
Cuniiingham  said,  "a  somewhat  startling"  first 
impression  character. 

Connoisseurs  might  therefore  prefer  to  call  the 
lighter  picture  the  *'  Pale  Blue  Boi//^  as  Leslie  did 
when  writing  about  it,  and  the  darker  one  the- 
'*  Green  Blue  Boy^^  as  it  has  been  designated. 
•  The  Ziffht  or  Pale  "  Blue  Boy  "  belongs  to  the 
Marquis  of  Westminster,  is  a  well-known  picture,, 
and  has  a  sight  size  of  70  inches  by  48  inches. 

The  Dark  or  Green  '*Blue  Boy"  has  a  sight 
size  of  71 J  inches  by  60J  inches,  but  owing  to 
the  misfortunes  which  befel  its  owner  in  1802,, 
and  drove  both  into  obscurity,  it  is  now  compara- 
tively little  known. 

Modem  descriptions  of  and  eulogiums  on  the- 
Grosvenor  "  Blue  Boy  "  are  well  known  and  need' 
not  be  epitomised  here.  It  is  otherwise,  however,, 
with  the  green  ^'  Blue  Boy,"  now  seen  to  be  the 
original;  therefore  it  is  proposed  to  quote  two 
descriptions  of  the  original,  when  it  was  knovni. 
as  sucn,  and  some  of  the  green  '*  Blue  Boy,"  com* 
parative  and  otherwise. 

The  earliest  description  of  the  original  ''  Blue 
Boy"  yet  met  with  has  appeared,  but  may  be. 
repeated.  It  was  written  in  1802,  by  Mr.  Feter 
Coxe,  for  Nesbitt's  sale,  and  is  as  follows : — 

•*  No.  68.— Gainsborough.—A  wbole-len^h  Figure  with 
a  fine  Landscape  in  the  Background.  This  most  incom- 
parable performance  ranks  this  very  celebrated  Master* 
among  the  first  class  of  Painters,  both  Ancient  and 
Modem.  It  has  the  Grace  and  Elegance  of  Van  Djck  in 
the  Figure, -with  a  Countenance  as  forcibly  expressed  andi 
as  rich  as  Murillo,  with  the  management  of  Titian.  It  is 
a  Picture  which  cannot  be  too  highly  spoken  of  or  too 
much  admired." 

The  green  '*  Blue  Boy  *^  shows  that  this  is  not 
only  not  exaggerated  praise,  but  hardly  does  jus- 
tice to  l^e  present  rich  ripe  attractiveness  of  the 
life-like  presence  on  the  canvas. 

The  second  description  yet  seen  of  the  original 
"Blue  Boy  "  was  written  by  Edwards  in  1806, 
about  four  years  after  Nesbitt's  sale,  when  Hopp- 
ner  was  still  the  holder  of  the  picture  for  Nesbitt, 
whose  affairs  were  not  settled  until  about  1815.. 
As  an  echo  of  t^e  title  under  which  the  "  Blue 
Boy  "  was  catalogued  in  1770,  this  description  is 
at  once  historical  and  highly  laudatory. 


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Edwards  describes  the  pictuxe  as  ^'  A  whole- 
length  portrait  of  ayoun^  gentleman  "  —  exactly 
as  catalogued  in  1770 — '^  in  a  Vandyck  dress" — as 
«zplainea  in  1770  by  Miss  Moser — 

•<  Which  has  obtained  the  title  of  the  <  Blue  Boy '  from 
the  colour  of  the  satin  in  which  the  figure  is  dressed.  It 
is  not  exaggerated  praise  to  say  this  ^cture  might  stand 
among  those  of  Vandyck.  It  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Hoppner,  B.A." 

This  shows  conclusively  that  whatever  ^  Blue 
Boy  "  the  first  Earl  Grosvenor^  who  died  in  1802, 
did  purchase;  it  could  not  be  the  original  picture 
which^  four  years  afterwards^  was  in  the  hands  of 
Hoppner. 

So  far  as  we  know,  that  high,  if  not  highest 
of  living  authorities  on  Gainsborough's  *'  hand- 
writing, H.  J.  Lane,  Esq.,  A.II.A.,  was  the  next 
to  express,  in  1869,  an  opinion  on  the  green,  or 
original  "  Blue  Boy."  Tius  opinion  has  appeared 
in  ^our  pages,  but  with  a  sentence  acciaentally 
onutted  (about  the  colouring)  which  is  now  sup-< 
plied: —  • 

**  I  have,"  says  Mr.  Lane,  **  carefully  examined  the 
picture  (the  green  Blue-clad.)    The  figure  is  more  ele- 

SLUt  than  the  Grosvenor  pictnre^the  colouring  clearer — 
e  character  of  the  face  far  more  pleasing — ^the  minutest 
touches  of  the  subordinate  parts  palpably  Gainsbro's." 

Like  Mr.  Coxe,  who  wrote  sixty-seven  years 
previously,  Mr.  Lane  selects  the  elegance  of  the 
ngure  and  the  beauty  of  the  face  for  special 
praise,  and  well  they  merit  it 

Hear,  also,  what  an  able  art  critic,  commenting 
on  the  facts  which  appeared  in  ^<  N.  &  Q.,''  and 
who  carefully  examined  tiie  "Green  Blue"  be- 
fore he  wrote,  says  in  The  Graphic  *  about  the  green 
''  Blue  Boy's  "  face  :— 

**  If,"  says  the  critic,  "  this  newly-discovered  *  Blue 
Boy  *  is  not  by  Gainsborough,  by  whom  is  it  ?  Who 
could  imitate  the  wonderful  brcmttra  f  Who  could  have 
made  the  red  blood  glow  through  those  brown  cheeks  ? 
Who  could  vivify  those  intelligent  eyes  ?  The  face  is  too 
graceful  for  Wilson  the  portrait-painter.  It  is  beyond 
what  Hoppner  could  have  done  ;  as  for  Beechy,  he  only 
imitated  Gainsborough's  landscapes.  Is  this  second  *  Blue 
Boy '  to  remain  an  endless  crux  for  modem  art  critics  ?  " 

No,  the  puzzle  is  solved  in  favour  of  "  Green 

Blue,"  and  of  his  face  it  may  be  fairly  said — 

''^Tis  beauty  truly  blent,  whose  red  and  white 
Gaimhro*i  own  canning  hand  laid  on." 

The  following  artistical  comparison  of  the  two 
^^Blue  Boys  "  by  a  good  judge  speaks  for  itself — 

*<  London,  Jan.  1870. 
*' Gainbborouoh's  *Blub  Bot.' — Having  seen  by 
Tht  TSme$  that  the  Westminster  *  Blue  Boy'  was  at  the 
R.  A.,  I  went  to  see  and  examine  it,  as  I  liad  previously 
seen  and  examined  the  other  picture,  which  has,  I  may 
say,  both  the  body  and  soul  of  Gainsborough.  I  certainly 
was  disappointed  at  the  Westminster  picture,  for  I  could 
not  perceive  those  qualities  in  such  perfection  in  it  as  in 
the  other  picture.  The  manipulation  in  it  is  weak,  and 
the  touch  not  so  firee  and  decided  as  in  the  other.    The 

*  December  18, 1869. 


blue  is  crude  (Allan  Cunningham  said  rather  startlingly 
so)  and  the  folds  of  the  dress  cripply;  which  certainly  gives 
an  idea  of  a  copy  of  the  other  picture  by  a  tolerably  good 
artist  There  is  also  another  sign  of  their  not  being 
painted  by  the  same  artist,  which  is,  in  the  nature  of  the 
vehicle  used.  I  consider  the  other  picture  (the  '  Green 
Blue  Boy ')  contains  the  perfection  of  Gainsborough's 
colour,  vehicle,  touch,  and  mind,  which  I  must  say  I 
cannot  discover  in  the  Westminster  picture.  I  think  if 
they  had  been  hung  together,  any  connoisseur  who  did  not 
know  which  was  which  would  have  taken  the  other  for 
the  original  and  the  Westminster  picture  for  a  tolerably 
good  copy  of  iL" 

A  high  authority,  after  more  than  one  examina- 
tion  of  Doth  pictures,  recently  expressed  a  similar 
conclusion  in  these  words: — 

**  I  have  closely  examined  the  Grosvenor  '  Blue  Boy*  at 
South  Kensington,  and  I  am  firmly  impressed  by  its  great 
inferiority  to  the  other  •  Blue  Boy'  in  grace  and  elegance 
of  form  and  feature  as  well  as  in  delicacy  of  colour.  I 
think  that  the  qualities  which  I  observed  in  the  other 
picture  are  strong  evidence  of  its  originali^ ;  and  that  if 
the  two  pictures  could  be  put  side  by  side,  my  opinion 
would  be  maintained." 

Decided  as  both  these  opinions  are  in  favour  of 
"  Green  Blue."  it  can  scarcely  be  doubted  that  they 
would  be  fully  confirmed  by  the  public  generally, 
and  the  Grosvenor  **  Blue  Boy  "  oe  deemed  to  be 
comparatively  a  meaner-looking  and  less-attrac- 
tive picture. 

Still  more  recently  a  connoisseur  of  high  repu- 
tation as  a  judge  of  painters'  handwriting-— a 
correspondent  of  yours  of  many  years*  standing, 
who  took  much  interest  in  the  former  diacusaon, 
went  with  a  friend  to  see  and  criticise  the  "  Green 
Blue  Boy."  The  result  was  warm  praise,  for  he 
arrived  at  the  conviction  that  the  picture  was  by 
far  the  finest  Gainsborough  he  had  ever  seen,  and 
he  would  venture  to  say  the  finest  of  his  works  in 
existence,  as  it  strongly  reminded  him  of  a  high- 
class  Velasquez. 

In  conclusion,  at  present  the  artistic  character 
of  the  "Green  Blue  Boy"  may  be  summed  up, 
not  at  all  inaptly,  as 

"  Perfected  loveliness.    All  the  harmonies 
Of  form,  of  feature,  and  of  soul  displayed, 
In  the  bright  creation." 

J.  Sewxll. 

The  Lombard,  £.0. 


BRITISH  SCYTHED  CHARIOTS:  MRS.MARKHAM. 

(4«>  S.  vii.  95.) 

Mr.  TroUope's  note  in  his  edition  of  Casar^s 
Commentaries,  denying  the  truth  of  the  stereo- 
typed statement  that  the  andent  Britons  armed 
their  war  chariaU  with  scythes,  deserves  to  be 
thoroughly  discussed  before  being  accepted  as  cor- 
rect In  the  first  place,  we  have  the  evidence  of 
Richard  of  Cirencester,  who  says  :— 

«*  The  Britons  not  only  fought  on  foot  and  on  horse- 
back,  but  in  chariots  drawn  by  two  horses,  and  armed  hi 


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241 


a  Galb'c  manner.     Those  chariots  to  the  axle-trees  of 
which  BcyAes  were  fixed  were  called  covini  or  wains." 

This  passage  I  quote  from  Dr.  Giles's  edition  of 
Six  Old  English  ckronides  (Bohn,  London,  1866), 
who  appends  the  following  note : — 

"  The  Britons,  however,  appear  to  have  devised  an  im- 
provement in  this  mode  of  warfare,  which  was  unknown 
to  the  Greeks.  Their  chariots  seem  to  have  been  of  two 
kinds— the  covini  or  wains,  heavy  and  armed  with  scythes, 
to  break  the  thickest  order  of  the  enemy;  an^  the 
«Mec{iE,  a  lighter  kind,  adapted  probably  to  situations  and 
circumstances  in  which  the  eovuU  coold  not  act,  and 
oocasionaUy  performing  duties  of  cavdry."— P.  426. 

Dt,  Giles  does  not  seem  to  doubt  the  veracity 
of  Richard  of  Cirencester,  although  in  his  preface 
he  rejects  other  of  his  productions  as  valueless ; 
but  to  that  on  the  "  ancient  state  of  Britain,"  from 
which  I  have  made  the  above  extract,  he  attaches 
6ome  importance. 

Mr.  Trollope  of  course  can  select  whom  he 
|)lea8e8  to  vent  his  displeasure  upon,*  but  in  jus- 
tice to  the  excellent  Mrs.  Markham,  and  also  the 
much-honoured  Eugene  Sue,  I  cannot  refndn  from 
expressing  my  astonishment  at  this  kind  of  fair 
«election,  whereby  he  proceeds  to  disabuse  the 
popular  mind  of  the  so-called  delusion.  Surely 
ne  ought  to  have  castigated  Bichard  of  Cirences- 
ter and  his  English  editor,  but  in  doing  this  he 
would  have  to  encounter  another  excellent  au- 
thority, who  is  equally  guilty  of  this  just  dis- 
covered crime.  Mr.  fVancis  Palgrave,  m  his 
Sidory  of  England  (Anglo-Saxon  period),  says, 
in  speatking  of  the  valour  of  the  ancient  Britons : — 

^  Bat  the  valour  of  the  Britons  was  displayed  on  land ; 
they  were  brave  and  sturdy  warriors ;  and  when  they 
went  forth  to  combat  they  rode  in  chariots  with  blades  of 
scythes  fixed  to  the  axle-'trees  of  the  wheels.  £ngaged  in 
battle,  they  urged  their  horses  to  their  utmost  speed,  and 
the  sharp  edges  of  the  scythes  mowed  down  the  enemy." 
P.  6. 

Neither  Tacitus  nor  Csesar  notices  the  scythed 
chariots,  but  it  does  not  follow  that  there  were 
none  in  use  at  one  time. 

I  cannot  imagine  that  three  distinct  authorities 
besides  Mrs.  Markham  and  Eugene  Sue  could 
have  been  led  into  one  common  mistake,  unless 
it  can  be  proved  that  aU  the  modem  writers  have 
been  misled  by  Bichard  of  Cirencester,  who  of 
course  must  be  shown  to  be  in  error.  The  onus 
of  this  task  devolves  upon  Mr.  Trollope.  I  am 
aure  that  many  will  feel  extremely  grateful  to 
iiim  should  he  imdertake  this  \  none  more  so  than 

J.  Jebbmiah,  Juv. 


THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S  CATHEDRAL. 

(4»'»  S.  vii.  186.) 

I  observe  in  '^  N.  &  Q."  that  a  romour — only  a 
mmour,  I  hope — as  to  tiie  intended  airangement 
with  regard  to  the  organ  at  St  Paul's  Cathedxal 


is  referred  to  as  a  matter  for  extreme  satisfaction : 
'^  the  position  of  the  organ  has  been  decided  as 
only  it  should  have  been.''  It  is  to  stand,  we  are 
informed,  >again0t  the  blank  walls  wheie  now 
stand  the  Nelson  and  Comwallis  monuments. 

To  say  that  the  ultimate  success  of  all  ftiture 
onerations  in  this  work  depends  upon  the  position 
or  the  organ — as  if  folks  were  to  go  to  church  to 
hear  the  organ,  or  listen  to  the  music — ^is  top 
ridiculous;  but  setting  aside  this  question,  it  is 
quite  sufficient  to  condenm  the  project  if  the 
architectural  effect  it  will  produce  is  considered. 

A  larffe  sum  of  monev  has  been  expended  in 
the  purchase  of  a  powerful  oi;p;an,  and  m  placing 
it  in  a  good  position  acoustically.  Now  it  is 
coolly  sugffssted  to  do  away  with  all  this,  and 
using  up  the  materials  of  the  choir  and  transept 
organs,  to  make  one  mighty  whole,  which  is  to  fie 
placed  in  the  narrowest  |mrt  of  the  cathedral,  so 
as*to  make  that  which  is  already  far  too  small 
condderably  less. 

I  am  sure  tliat  no  lover*of  organs  would  desire 
that  Father  Smith's  venerable  instrument,  which 
with  its  recent  additions  is  a  very  perfect  and 
beautiful  work,  should  be  engulfed  by  the  tran- 
sept organ,  excellent  as  that  ma^  be ;  and  when 
we  read  of  ''considerable  additions" — ^the  two 
instruments  together,  without  additions,  would 
g^ve  us  eighty  stops  at  least — the  practical  ques- 
tion of  the  amount  of  room  such  a  leviathan 
would  occupy  becomes  veiy  important. 

As  I  have  already  remarked,  the  position  said 
to  have  been  selected  is  that  point  at  which  the 
main  avenue,  running  through  the  cathedral  from 
east  to  west,  is  most  contracted.  It  is  there  little, 
if  at  all,  over  forty  fset  in  width.  No  amount  of 
piling  up,  even  to  the  springing  of  the  roof,  could 
reduce  the  organ  itself  to  a  less  projection  than 
five  feet  from  the  wall,  and  this  on  both  sides 
would  reduce  the  centre  passage  by  some  ten 
feet;  leaving  for  the  communication  between  a 
dome  of  over  one  hundred  feet  in  diameter,  and  a 
choir  more  than  forty  feet  in  width,  a  restricted 
opening  probably  not  thirty  feet  wide. 

How  exceedingly  bad  this  is,  I  need  not  point 
out.  Your  correspondent  is  of  opinion  that  two 
choirs  are  necessary  for  the  services  of  the  cathe- 
dral, and  I  quite  agree  with  him;  but  I  do  not 
think  we  are  at  all  of  the  same  mind  as  to  how 
this  arrangement  shotdd  be  effected. 

I  have  gone  into  this  question  very  thoroughly, 
but  will  not  occupy  your  colunms  hj  repeating 
here  what  is  fully  entered  into  by  me  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Mr.  J.  T.  Micklethwaite  in  the  first 
number  of  The  Sacriafy,  to  which  I  would  refer 
Y.  0.  E.  SoxEBs  Clabkb,  Jitv. 

8,  Delahay  Street,  Great  George  Street. 

[By  reference  to  The  Times  of  Wednesday  last  it  will 
be  seen  that  Y.  C.  E.  was  correct  in  his  statement  as  to 
the  decision  with  regard  to  the  organ. — Ed.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4*««  s.  vii.  Maech  is,  7l 


SIR  WILLIAM  ROGER,  KNT. 

(4*  S.  L,  iv.,  v.,  vi.  passim;  vii.  82, 165.) 

As  this  discussion  is  waxing  personal,  and  tbe 
Teal  point  getting  lost  sight  of,  perhaps  a  word 
from  the  original  raiser  may  be  permitted  in 
the  hope  of  closing  it*  I  think  we  may  con- 
clude that  the  late  Mr.  Roger  of  Dundee  and 
his  son  Mr.  J.  C.  Roger  had  been  misled  by 
''  some  person  or  persons  unknown  "  in  the  matter 
of  the  three  casts  of  seals,  and  induced  by  these 
'•incogniti"  to  favour  the  idea  of  a  connection  be- 
tween the  unfortunate  musician  "Sir  William" 
No.  1,  his  (unknown  elsewhere)  son,  "  Sir  Wil- 
liam "  No.  2,  and  the  parish  of  Qalston  in  Ayr- 
shire ;  while  Db.  Rogers  has  shown  (4^  S.  vi. 
483)  that  "individuals  of  the  name,  not  of 
knightly  rank,  did  exist  in  the  sixteenth  century 
in  the  neighbouring  parish  of  Ochiltree.  Not  a 
vestige  of  proof  has  been^adduced  to  supply  the 
remarkable  disappearance  of  the  two  deeds,*  to 
which  the  original  seals  are  said  to  have  been 
attached.  The  phraseology  in  which  those  deeds 
are  mentioned,  and  the  names  of  the  parties  con- 
cerned (see  4'*»  S.  i.  458),  convince  me  that  they 
are  fictitious,  if  indeed  they  ever  existed  as  fic- 
tions. If  so,  the  seals  go  too.  But  even  these 
contain  internal  evidence  of  their  worthlessness. 
I  did  not  mention  it  at  the  time,  but  remarked  to 
myself  the  curious  way  in  which  the  legend  of 
each  "  cast "  supplies  something  wanting  in  the 

other.  Thus  the  first  is,  "S*  Wilelmi ";  the 

second  is,  "  S'  .  .  .  .  Roger  " ;  and  the  third,  the 
fictitious  son's,  blazes  forth  in  full — "  S*  W  .  ,  . . 
Roger  Mil"  The  "  unknown  "  manufacturer  of 
these  has  been  an  adept  at  his  trade.  Yet  Mr.  H. 
Laing  evidently  had  doubts  of  their  authenticity, 
as  I  pointed  out  in  my  first  commtyiication. 

Mr.  J.  C.  Rogers's  assertion  that  Deuchar 
"  forged  ^'  a  coat  of  arms  for  the  reverend  parish 
minister  of  Dunino,  is  scarcely  warrantable. 
'^  Forging  a  coat  **  I  take  to  mean,  asserting  that 
it  was  conferred  at  some  mythical  period,  or  for 
some  mythical  exploit,  or  on  some  fictitious 
ancestor  of  its  wearer,  but  honestly  "  making  up '' 
a  new  one  is  a  very  different  thing.  The  taste  of 
such  a  proceeding  may  be  another  question ;  but 
in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century  the  Lyon 
Office  itself  perpetrated  many  grievous  blunders, 
known  to  tne  initiated  as  '*  Prince  Regent " 
heraldry,  and  Deuchar  simply  followed  in  their 
wake.  I  quite  agree  with  Mr.  Roger  in  his 
estimate  of  some  of  these  books,  and  am  rather 
amused  at  his  information  that  the  coat  which  we 
have  been  discussing  had  been  appropriated  by 
the  late  Glasgow  wood-merchant  of  the  name, 
who  probably  knew  nothing,  and  cared  less,  about 
its  (presumed)  first  wearer,  "  Sir  William." 

Anglo-Scotus. 

•  Thia  coramanication  must  close  it.— Ed.  **N.  &  Q." 


ENGLISH  DESCENT  OF  DANIEL  OCONNELL. 

(4'»»  S.  iii.  75.) 

Bearing  in  mind  the  truthful  remark  of  Mr. 
Edwards  in  the  first  sentence  of  his  Life  of  Sir 
Walter  JRaleigh,  that  *^  Whatever    may  be  the 
triumphs  which  the  future  keeps  in  store  for 
democracy,  the  pedigree  of  a  famous  man  wiH 
never  quite  lose  its  interest,"  I  crave  the  favour 
of  space  in  "  N.  &  Q."  to  correct  a  misstatement 
of  Mr.  Maurice  Lenihan*s  respecting  what  he  calls 
the  "  pure  Celtic  blood  "  of  the  "  exclusively  in- 
digenous   genealo^cal    series"     in    O'Connell's 
pedigree.   Mr.  Lenihan*s  acquaintance  with  Celtic 
genealogies  is,  I  believe,  most  extensive,  and  my 
own  is  very  slight ;  still,  in  common  with   the 
majority  of  the  mhabitants  of  Daniel  O'Connell's 
native  county,  I  know  very  well  that  he  was  the 
direct  and  immediate  descendant  of  a  lady  of 
English  race,  through   whom   he  inherited  the 
blood  of  Jenkin  Conway  and  Edmund  Roe,  Eliza- 
bethan undertakers  (and  also,  I  believe,  the  blood 
of  Sir  James  W^are  the  elder),  and  was  not  very 
distantly  related  to  a  number  of  Anglo-Irish  and 
Protestant  families  in  Munster  at  the  present  day. 
In  Cronelly's  History  of  the  Gaedhals,  and  in  all 
other  published  genealogies    of   the  O'Connell 
family  that  I  have  ever  seen,  it    is  distinctly 
stateo,    that    the    great-great-grandmother    of 
Daniel  O'Connell  was  a  member  of  the  Anglo- 
Norman    family  of  Segrave,  and  that  his  great- 
grandmother  was  Elizabeth  Conway,  the  grand- 
daughter of  a  Captain  James  Conway,  who  came 
to   Kerry   after  the    Restoration,    and   married 
Elizabeth  Roe,  the  only   child   and   heiress   of 
Edmund  Roe,  of  Cloghane,  County  Kerry,  the 
above-mentioned  undertaker.    Edmund  Roe  had 
married  the  only  daughter  of  Jenkin  Conway, 
whose  castle  of  Killorglin,  granted  to  him  by 
Elizabeth,  with  5,2G0  acres,  including  the  beautiful 
island  of   Innisfallen,    is    mentioned   in  Pacata 
Hihemia,    I  doubt  if  a  single  instance  could  be 
brought  forward  by  the  most  enthusiastic  and 
learned  admirer  of  the  Irish  "  pure  Celt,'*  of  even 
one  man  of  that  race  who  achieved  real  greatness 
in  literature,  science,  art,  political  or  military  life. 
The  great  men  of  Ireland  have  been  the  men  of 
mixed  race — the  greatest,  as  Swift,  Goldsmith, 
Wellington,  &c.,  have  had  but  a    very  slight 
share  of  Celtic  blood,  if  any  at  all.    This  is  not 
the  assertion  of  partial  bigotry  regarding  race  or 
creed ;  it  is  simply  the  statement  of  a  fact  pateirt 
to    the   calm    inipartial  observer    who    knows 
Ireland  and  the  Irish.    I  admit  that  in  former 
times  the  Irish  Celt  was  heavily  and  unfdrly 
weighted  in  the  race  for  fame,,  but  it  is  long  since 
his  last  and  least  burden  has  been  removed,  and 
yet  he  is  still  behindhand)  while  the  one  hero 
nearing  a  Celtic  name  of  whom  the  Irish  Celts 
are  most  proud,  glorying  in  him  as  their  repre- 


4t»»  s.  vir.  MARcn  18, 71.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


243 


dentative  man — '^Iriah/'  says  Mr.  Leniban  '4n 
every  elemejjt  of  his  being,  bead,  beart,  blood ! " 
is  DO  "  pure  Irish  Celt "  at  all — but,  there  is  small 
doubty  inherited  his  clear-headedness,  foresight, 
indomitable  energy,  and  perseverance,  from  the 
able  if  somewhat  unscrupulous  Elizabethan  under- 
takers and  Kentish  ana  Yorkshire  colonists  of 
Ireland  in  the  sixteenth  century.  H. 


Dr.  Jobnsow's  Watch  (4}^  S.  vi.  275,  466 ; 
vii.  55.) — ^This  watch  is  in  my  possession.  My 
mother  was  niece  to  the  sister  of  George  Steevens, 
which  sister  inherited  this  watch  with  the  rest  of 
George  Steevens's  property.  It  is  a  metal  watch 
with  a  tortoiseshell  case ;  no  maker's  name.  The 
dial  is  inscribed,  as  mentioned  by  Boswell,  with 
the  words  rw|  yap  ^px^^f  "  for  the  night  cometh." 
Boswell  says  the  dial-plate  was  given  to  Steevens. 
It  seems  unlikely  that  the  dial  should  be  separated 
from  the  doctor's  watch,  to  which  it  evidently 
belonged,  and  which  was  worn  by  him.  The 
watch  a]so  has  inside  the  case  the  words  '*  Samuel 
Johnson,  London,  1784."  It  was  in  December, 
1784,  that  Johnson  died.  Jambs  Ptcboft. 

Brighton,  Jan.  20, 1871. 

[We  reflet  that  this  reply  has  accidentally  been  de- 
layed.—Ed.  *«  N.  &  Q."] 

Stamp  on  Pictubk  Caitvas  (4^  S.  vii.  97, 
106.) — What  occurred,  to  my  recollection,  will  be 
found  in  3'*  S.  v.  141,  1864,  on  "  Stamp  Duties 
on  Painters'  Canvas,''  by  J.  H.  Bitrv,  in  answer 
to  a  communication  under  the  same  heading  in 
S^  S.  V.  99,  from  L.  F.  N.,  where  the  excise  mark 
is  ^ven  in  letterpress,  and  not  as  an  engraving, 
as  I  have  stated  at  p.  195.       Albebt  Buttery. 

Court  of  Chancery. 

[We  are  obliged  by  this  correction.  In  the  fifth  volume 
of  our  Third  Series  will  be  found  a  query  by  L.  F.  N.  as 
to  the  period  during  which  painters*  canvases  were 
stamped.  This  was  answered  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Burn  at 
p.  141,  who  stated,  but  very  incorrectly,  that  the  practice 
originated  in  1803,  and  that  any  picture  painted  on 
stamped  canvas  purporting  to  be  painted  by  Gains- 
boroDgh  or  Reynolds  could  not  therefore  be  genuine ;  but 
was  more  correct  in  stating  that  the  order  for  the  non- 
collection  of  the  duty  was  issued  on  March  17,  1881.  In 
the  same  volume  (p.  182)  J.  K.  S.  writes  to  show  that 
the  duty  existed  from  July  20, 1712-13,  to  March  1831.— 
Ed.  *'jr.  &  Q."l 

Stilts  =  Crutches  (3'**  S.  vii.  478 ;  viii.  178, 
239,  278.)— When  I  introduced  this  subject  to 
the  readera  of  **  N.  &  Q."  some  little  time  ago.  I 
quoted  a  passage  from  Kit  Marlowe^  in  which  the 
word  stilts  was  used  synonymously  with  crutches, 
I  am  now  able  to  give  an  earlier  instance,  from 
the  **Lyfe  of  Joseph  of  Artnathia,  printed  by 
Richard  Pynson  a.d.  1520."  ( FiVfe  E.  E.  T.  S., 
No.  44.)  A  woman  was  taken  to  Glastonbury  for 
the  purpose  of  receiving  a  miraculous  cure  of  her 
lameness,  and  for  this  <<  Thyder  was  she  brought 


in-to  the  chapell,  verely  she  was  heled;  and  lefte 
her  styHes  thore,  and  on  her  fete  wente  home  re- 
sonably  well,"  H.  Fishwigk. 

Elecampane  (4»>'  S.  v.  596 ;  vi.  103,  205.  264.) 
For  an  account  of  this  plant,  which  two  oi  your 
correspondents  say  is  used  medicinally,  see 

"Botanicum  Officinale;  or,  a  compendius  Herbal: 
giving  an  account  of  ail  such  Plants  as  are  now  used  in 
the  Practice  of  Physick,  with  their  descriptions  and  vir- 
tues, by  Joseph  Miller."    London,  1722,  p.  185. 

The  copy  of  this  work  now  before  me  exhibits 
in  many  places  the  ravages  of  that  little  insect 
the  bookworm,  so  lately  introduced  instructively 
into  your  pages.  J.  Manuel. 

Book  Ornamentation  (4'*»  S.  vi.  567 ;  vii.  Ill, 
147.) — The  fashion  of  painting  over  and  under 
the  gold  leaf  on  the  edf^es  of  books  is  an  old  one. 
I  have  seen  MSS.  with  illuminated  edges  (the 
patterns  being  like  the  floreated  borders)  as  early 
as  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century.  I  have  a 
Bible  (London,  printed  by  E.  T.  for  a  society  of 
stationers,  1655,^  in  old  morocco,  with  the  side 
and  back  inlaid  with  differently  coloured  pieces 
of  about  the  same  date.  Under  the  gold  m  the 
front  is  a  large  heart  surrounded  with  flowers  and 
fruit,  and  bearing  an  inscription.  Of  about  the 
same  date^  I  thmk,  was  a  Bible  for  sale  in  a 
London  bookseller's  catalogue  not  very  long  since, 
which  had  an  excellent  picture  of  the  Last  Supper 
under  the  gold.  J.  C.  J. 

La  Caracole  (4^  S.  viL  34,  149.)— Omicofo 
was  a  word  adopted  from  the  military.  It  is  thus 
explained  in  the  Vocabolario  degU  Accademid  delta 
Crusca,  I  cannot  find  an  etymological  derivation 
of  it  :— 

*^  Caracollarb.  Far  caracolH.   YoltegKiare. 

**  Caracollo.  Rivolgimento  per  lo  piu  di  tmppe  da 
imo  a  sommo  (from  the  rear  to  the  front  rank).  Lat.  evo- 
lutio  aciei.*' 

CO. 

Who  is  a  Laird  P  (4'*  S.  vi.  482;  vii.  12, 

176.)  —  Sir  George  Mackenzie  {Works,  vol.  ii. 

p.  583)  says : — 

**  Snch  as  did  hold  their  lands  of  the  prince  were 
called  /oiVcb ;  but  such  as  held  their  lands  of  a  subject, 
though  they  were  Urge,  and  their  superior  very  noble, 
were  only  called  goodmen^  Arom  the  old  French  word  hon 
homme,  which  was  the  title  of  the  master  of  the  family." 

But  even  in  Sir  George's  day  the  distinction 
was  falling  into  desuetude,  and  last  century  every 
Scottish  landowner  was  called  "  the  laird ''  and 
his  wife  *'  the  lady.''  But  a  distinction  was 
made,  and  is  still  observed,  between  the  **  many- 
acred  "  laird  and  the  **  little  '*  or  bonnet-laird. 
The  former  was  styled  thus :  *'  the  Laird  of  Keir/' 
**ilie  Luid  of  Drum,"  &c ;  the  latter  merely  had 
the  title  prefixed  to  his  surname,  9.  a.  '*  Laird 
Black,"  "Laird  Brown,"  &c  My  friend  Db. 
HoGSBs'  remark;  that  "  in  the  Scottish  '  inquisi- 


244 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4«^  s.  vii.  mabch  is,  7l 


lions '  dommuB  frequently  precedes  a  name  which 
haa  poriionaruu  after  it,  is  new  to  me,  and  per- 
haps he  will  substantiate  it  by  a  few  examples. 

AITGLO-SOOTUB. 

I  am  credibly  informed  that  the  paternal  grand- 
father of  the  Rev.  DB.IloaEB8  had  an  elder  brother 
whose  surviving  daughter  married  a  farmer  of  the 
name  of  West,  and  whose  son,  Mr.  William  West, 
is  fanner  in  Mayriggs.  By  the  Scottish  law  of 
succession,  the  portion  of  Coupargrange  which 
belonged  to  the  Roffers,  had  it  continued  in  the 
family,  would  now  be  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
West.  This  being  the  case,  how  could  Db.  Rogers,* 
^'without  presumption,"  take  a  title  from  an 
estate  belonging  to  another  manP  and  if,  as  is 
alleged,  he  be  only  the  descendant  of  a  younger 
son,  how  can  he  in  any  sense  be  the  representa- 
tive of  the  "portioners  of  Ooupergrange  "  ? 

Ion. 

KenBington  Gsrdens. 

"  TnouoH  Lost  to  Sight,  to  Memobt  dbar  " 
(!•*  S.  iv. ;  3"*  S.  vi.,  viii. ;  4}^  S.  L,  iv.  passim ; 
vii.  56, 173.) — ^Like  all  your  other  correspondents 
I  have  failed  to  find  the  origin  of  the  above  line ; 
but  the  following  bit  of  information  may,  perhaps, 
render  the  search  for  it  a  littie  easier.  Some  time 
since,  I  mentioned  the  query  respecting  it  to  a 
relative  now  dead,  who  informed  me  that,  though 
she  was  unable  to  say  where  the  line  in  question 
occurred,  she  knew  that  the  one  which  followed 
it  was  — 

**  The  absent  daim  a  sigh— the  dead,  a  tear.** 

This  would  show  that  ^'  Though  lost  to  sight,  to 
memory  dear,"  Lb  not  a  whole  line,  but  only  the 
last  four  feet  of  an  ordinary  five-foot  iambic  verse. 

W.  A.  Smith. 
Newark. 

Rev.  S.  Hevlet's  English  "Vathbk"  (4*^ 
S.  vii.  36,  113,  1740— Whether  by  Henley  or 
some  other  hand,  an  English  translation  of  ]^k- 
ford's  story  had  appeared  prior  to  June  1, 1815 ; 
this  is  shown  bv  tne  preface  to  the  first  French 
edition  published  in  England.  As  the  preface  is 
very  short  I  annex  it.  The  volume  is  published 
'^  A  Londres,  chez  Clarke,  Mount  Street,  JBerkeley 
Square  " : — 

**  Lee  ^tions  de  Paris  et  de  Ltnaanne  ^tant  devenas 
eztrdmement  rares,  j'ai  conaenti  enfin  It  oe  one  Ton  re- 
publi&t  k  Londres  ce  petit  oavrage  tel  que  je  Tai  com- 
post. La  tradaction,  oomme  on  89ait,  a  para  avant 
I'original ;  il  est  fbrt  aiatf  de  croire  que  oe  n*^toit  pas  mon 
intention— des  droonatanoes,  pea  int^essaDtes  poor  le 

Sablic,  en  ont  4^  la  cause.  J'ai  prtfpartf  qaelqaes  Episodes ; 
a  sont  indiqo^  k  la  page  200,  oomme  faisant  suite  k 
Yathec ;  peat^tre  paroitront-ils  an  jour. 
**  1  juin  1816.  W.  Beckpobd." 

The  printer's  name  appears  at  the  foot  of  the 
notes  on  page  218:  '^De  Tlmprimerie  de  J.  F. 
Dove,  St.  John's  Square."  W.  H.  P. 

Belfast. 


HojSLTT,  THE  Gebicak  Poet  (4'*»  S.  vL  177, 
288;  vii.  174) — ^Four  translations  from  Holtv  are 
printed  in  the  '^German  Anthology  "  which  forma 
part  of  Poems  by  James  Clarence  Manpan,  New 
York,  1859.  The  <'  German  Anthology  "  is  stated 
in  the  introduction  (p.  23^  to  have  been  collected 
and  published  in  Dublin  in  1845,  under  the  tide 
of  AfUhologia  Oermanica.  T.  W.  0. 

The  Dragoit  {^^  S.  vii.  12, 125, 174.)— I  for- 
ward you  a  few  copies  of  a  lithographed  drawing 
of  the  St.  Bees  dragon. 

The  impost  on  which  it  is  cut  is  one  of  a  very 
Irish-looking  and  early  shape,  and  is,  I  doubt  not, 
ante-Norman. 

The  dragon  also  of  the  twelfth  centurv,  figured 
in  Mr.  Cutts's  Manual  of  Sepulchral  Monuments, 
Plate  XXXII.,  is  two-legged.       E.  H.  Knowles. 

Kenilworth. 

Weavee'sAbt  (4'*'  S.  vii.  57,  149.)— There  is 
not  likely  to  be  found  much  upon  this  subject  in 
our  standard  poets ;  it  is  rather  in  the  line  of  our 
obscures.  I  have  heard  of  a  book  entitled  Minerva  ; 
or  the  Ai-t  of  Weaving^  in  verse,  1677,  which,  if 
to  be  founa,  would  Bkely  supply  the  want  of 
R.  P.  Q.  A  much  commoner  volume  is  Weaving 
Spiritualised,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  CoUings  of  Nor- 
wich, 12mo,  London,  1675.  In  the  course  of  his 
sermonising,  the  art  generally  is  treated  of,  and 
the  whole  mterspersed  with  poetical  moralisings. 

The  editions  of  this  are  very  numerous.  I  have' 
myself  some  three  or  four,  and  can  accommodate 
your  correspondents  with  a  sight  of  the  book  if 
desired. 

The  weaver's  occupation  is  favourable  to  the 
cultivation  of  the  muse,  and  I  doubt  not  many 
examples  might  be  found  of  his  art  rendered  into 
verse. 

Here  is  one  at  hand.  James  Maxwell,  *'  poet 
in  Paisley,"  who  in  earlier  life  published  at  Bir- 
niingham,  1756,  Divine  Miscdtanies^  in  which, 
under  the  head  of  "  Weavers'  Meditations,"  he 
moralises  in  verse,  and  in  a  Hogarth-like  frontis- 
piece represents  himself  as  the  dUigent  apprentice 
at  the  loom : — 

**  Lo  I  here  'twixt  heaven  and  earth  I  swing, 
And  whilst  the  shuttle  swiftly  flies. 
With  cheerfbl  heart  I  work  and  sing. 
And  envy  none  beneath  the  skies.** 

He  is,  however,  I  find,  altogether  spiritual,  and 
does  not,  like  Dr.  C,  '^  raise  heavenly  meditations 
from  the  several  parts  of  their  work.''         A.  G. 

Shebbwobt  (4«»  S.  vi.  502 ;  vii.  25, 151.)— The 
plant  I  am  inquiring  for  may  very  probably  be 
that  referred  to  bv  F.  C.  H.  (Murithum) ;  but  I 
am  sorry  to  say  tnat  I  am  unable  to  identify  it 
from  his  description.  Can  any  Dorset  corres- 
pondent help  P  It  is  certainly  not  the  Aster  7W- 
poUuni,  vntn  which  Mr.  I^cock  appears  to 
connect  it  Jaxes  BBirrES. 


4f^  a  VIL  Maboh  18, 71.] 

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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


245 


Badobr  (4»»>  a  vi.  644;  vii.  166.W' Aa  im- 
padent  as  a  badger's  horse''  is  still  a  common 
proverb  in  the  North  of  England.  One  can  easily 
miderstand  how  a  horse  with  a  comdealer  for  i^ 
master  must  be  the  most  impudent  of  its  species. 

H.  FiSHWICK. 

Cobblers'  Lamps  if  Italy  (4***  S.  vii.  11, 182.) 
Before  the  introduction  of  gas  the  large  globes 
filled  with  water  were  very  commonly  used  by 
framework  knitters,  particularly  those  making  lace 
or  fine  stockings.  I  dare  say  that  in  many  parts 
of  the  Midland  Counties  they  are  still  common. 

Ellcee. 

Craven. 

''  QuBBW  AROEins  "  (4'»»  S.  vii.  140.)  —  About 
the  time  this  poem  appeared  (1880)  the  Sev. 
Matthew  Bridges  Hved  at  Babbicombe  (Babba- 
oombe  is  said  to  be  the  more  correct  orthography), 
and  published  several  poems.  He-  was  not  im- 
probably the  author  of  the  poem  in  question. 
Makrocheib  can  easily  ascertain  this,  no  doubt, 
if  he  thinks  the  scent  worth  following. 

Wm.  Pekgellt. 

Torquay. 

Mummers  :  Waits  (2"*  S.  x. ;  xi. ;  xil ;  8'*  S. 
i. ; 


eight  years  previously — ^in  1616.    The  arrange- 
ment of  the  two  editions  differs ;  mine  has  &5 
consecutive  pages,  beginning  with  January  and 
ending  with  December.    These  are  foUowed  by 
an  appendix  of  perhaps  160  pages ;  but  my  copy 
is  detective,  and  has  only  about  140  pages  of  ap- 
pendix.   In  this  are  the  lives  of  several  more 
recent  saints, ''  lately  canonised  and  beatified  by 
Paul  y.  and  Gregory  XV."— SS.  Isidore  of  Madrid, 
Ignatius  of  Loyoli^  Francis  Xavier,  Philip  Neri, 
Frances  of  Rome,  Terese,  Aloysius,  Stanislaus 
Kostka,  and  Alphonsus  Rodrigfuez.    At  the  end 
of  these  lives,   which  fill  78  pages,  comes  the 
^  Approbatio  "  cited  by  A.  G.,  but  it  should  have 
been  thus  printed :  '*  Horum  sanctorum  vit»,"  Sce^ 
without  the  word  ''  approbator  "  at  the  beginning, 
which  is  ungrammatical  and  unintelligible.    1^ 
volume,  however,  does  not  end  here,  but  has 
several  additional  pages  dated  1686,  vnth  the 
lives  of  St.  Patrick,  St.  Bridgit  of  Eildare,  and 
St.  Columba,  the  last  of  whicn  is  wimting,  vnth 
part  of  the  life  of  St.  Bridgit    This  collection  is 
chiefly  compiled  from  le^ndary  accounts,  and  is 
of  small  value  and  authority.  F.  C.  H. 

Mural  Painting  in  Starston  Chttbch,  Nor- 
folk (4"»  S.  vi.  542,  577 ;  vii.  40,  172.)— After 


..Z'?^Z;  r  Irlii^  b;^J«  !h^^^    ^«d^^  ^«  1«*  communication  upon  this  subject 

year ;  they  were  very  well  got  up  with  shreds  and 
patches  of  coloured  calico  and  paper  hangings,  and 
the  parts  of  the  doctor,  the  wounded  man,  and  St. 
George  were  enacted  in  capital  style.  The  waits 
also  pay  their  visit ;  these  are  usually  girls,  who 
come  in  two  parties  from  the  respective  villages 
of  Badley  and  Sunningwell.  Both  waits  and 
mummers  go  the  rounds  of  all  the  farm-houses  on 
the  property.  W.  J.  Bernhard  Smith. 

Temple. 

"Hilarion's  Servant,  the  Sage  Crow  "  (4**» 

S.  vii.  11,  112, 178.) — The  quotation  is  not  oxiite 

correct.    For  six  years,  read  sixty.    It  is  taKen, 

of  course,  from  St.  Jerom's  life  of  St.  Paul,  the 

first  Hermit,  who  relates  the  miraculous  incident 

in  these  woHs : — 

"  Inter  has  sermocinationes'  suspiciunt  alitem  corvum 
in  mmo  arboris  consediaae ;  qai  inde  leniter  snbvoUuis 
int^gmm  panem  ante  mirantinm  ora  deposoit.  Post 
cnjus  abflceBSum,  *  Eia,'  inquit  Paaliu,  *  Dominiu  nobis 
pnndium  misit,  vere  pius,  vere  miserlcors.    Sezagmta 


Jam  anni  snnt,  cum  accipio  dimidii  semper  panis  fra^- 
mentum,  vemm  ad  adventom  tanm  militibns  snis  Chru- 
toB  dnplicavit  amionam.' " 

A«  G.  wishes  for  information  about  his  ''dumpy 
little  quarto"  Lives  qf  the  SainU  He  has  ad- 
mirably described  it  My  own  copy  is  of  similar 
character,  and  bound  up  in  green  velluin.  The 
work  was  written  in  Spanish  by  Alphonsus  "Vil- 
le^,  and  translated  into  English  by  Kev.  Edward 
Kinesman,  S.  J.  of  Louvain«  A.  G.'s  copy  was 
printed  at  St  Omer's  in  1623 ;  mine  at  JDouay 


further  remark  on  some  details  in  the  picture 
upon  which  I  still  think  your  accomplished  ooi^ 
respondent  mistaken,  but  I  forbore  for  the  reason 
with  which  he  commences  his  note — I  did  not 
wish  to  seem  contentious.   One  of  the  points  I  had 
intended  to  notice — that  the  dogma  of  F.  C.  H., 
as  to  the  representation  of  immediate  beatitude 
being  inapplicable  to  any  ordinary  individual,  was 
disproved  by  two  or  three  such  upon  sepulchral 
brasses  which  I  remembered — has,  1  am  pleased  to 
see,  been  t^en  up  and  completely  disposed  of  by 
Mr.  Walter,  whose  audionty  is  indisputable.   It 
is  a  sentence  in  that  gentleman's  communication 
that  induces  me  to  address  you  again.    He  seems 
to  a^e  with  the  assumption  that  the  death-bed 
depicted  is  that  of  a  ladi/f  although  not  that  of 
the  blessed  Virgin,  but  there  is  not  a  feature  re-« 
maininff  from  which  the  sex  can  be  inferred^ 
neithercan  any  inference  be  drawn  from  the  figure 
of  the  ascending  soul ;  for,  if  my  memory  is  not 
at  fault — and  Mr.  Walter  can  correct  me  if  it 
be— in  no  instance  where  the  soul  is  represented 
as  borne  to  heaven  is  the  sex  indicated.    There  is, 
therefore,  an  equal  probability  that  the  soul  in 
this  case  is  that  of  a  male.    Me.  Walter's  re- 
mark upon  the  importance  of  the  arms  as  a  key  ta 
the  whole  subject  is  most  true,  but  here  imfor- 
tunately  they  cannot  be  produced  in  evidence^ 
One  thmg,  however,  is  certain,  and  in  this  I  am 
obliged  to  contradict  F.  C.  H,  the  arms  of  Sawtiy 
Abl^y  are  not  like  anything  to  be  traced  upon 
the  shield,  nor  had  that  abbey  the  remotest  con-* 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.          [4«fS.vii.MABCHi8/7i. 


nection  with  the  advowson  of  Starston,  or  any 
manor  or  land  in  the  parish  or  hundred.  I^may 
add,  that  I  still  retain  the  opinion,  in  which  I  am 
not  singular,  that  the  circlet  worn  bj  the  female 
figure  standing  by  the  bedside  was,  when  perfect, 
A  coronet,  not  merely  an  omamentid  headband. 

G.  A.  C. 

A  Black-cottktbt  Leoeitd  (4'*"  S.  vii.  71, 
197.) — This  anecdote  has  been  told  also  of  Gene- 
Tal  Burgoyne  (of  Saratoga  notoriety)  when  he  was 
•commanding  officer  of  a  regiment  which  had  to 
•stop  a  night  at  Bolton-le-Moors.  According  to 
the  newspaper  story  which  I  read  some  years  ago, 
•one  of  a  club  of  Bolton  gentlemen  who  were 
^dining  in  a  different  room  from  the  officers  was 
pot-valiant  enough  to  send  up  a  very  handsome 

f>ld  watch  and  seals  with  the  message  indicated, 
urgoyne  kept  the  watch  and  returned  a  pbtol, 
flaying  that  the  regiment  must  march  at  nine,  but 
if  the  gentleman  would  come  with  a  friend  before 
that  hour  he  should  have  his  watch,  and  should 
know  what  o'clock  it  was.  When  morning  came 
Burgoyne  was  early  lounging  out  of  the  wmdow, 
looMng  up  and  down  the  street,  stretching  his 
legs  before  the  door,  &c. ;  but  no  one  came  to 
claim  the  watch,  so  he  left  Bolton  taking  it  with 
him.  P.  P. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

The  NoctU  and  NotniisU  ofihe  Eighteenth  Centuiy  m  re- 
ference to  the  Manners  and  Morah  ofihe  Age,  By 
William  Forsyth,  M.A.,  Q.C.,  &c.  (Murray.) 
Few  who  take  an  interest  in  the  history  of  the  social  con- 
dition of  the  people,  the  state  of  public  morals,  and  the  pro* 
gress  of  dvibzation,  but  must  have  felt,  when  turning  over 
the  novelists  and  lette1^  writers  of  the  last  centuiy,  the  wish 
that  some  one  qualified  for  the  task  would  collect  the 
materials  illustrative  of  these  various  but  cognate  topics 
scattered  through  the  writings  we  have  alluded  to,  and 
bring  them  together  in  some  pleasant  and  readable  form. 
Happily  the  idea  has  suggested  itself  to  one  every  way  com- 
petent to  do  it  justice ;  and  we  fed  confident  none  of  our 
readers  will  judge  the  time  ill-spent  which  they  may  devote 
to  the  perusal  of  Mr.  Forsyth's  recently  published  volume. 
In  its  pages  the  author  makes  use  of  fiction  as  the  ex- 
ponent of  fact,  and  shows  what  information  is  to  be 
gleaned  as  to  the  habits,  manners,  morals,  and  social  life 
of  our  ancestors  from  the  novels,  essays,  and  letters  of 
the  last  century ;  and  not  only  this,  but  he  draws  some 
comparison  between  those  morals  and  manners  and  the 
morals  and  manners  of  our  own  day — not  always  to 
the  advantage  of  the  hitter.  After  illustrating  the 
fitthions,  dress,  amusements  of  our  forefathers  —  the 
coarseness,  drunkenness,  duelling  which  prevailed — the 
conditions  of  different  branches  of  society,  sudi  as  the 
country  squires,  justices,  and  "parsons"  as  depicted  by 
the  several  classes  of  writers  to  which  we  have  referred — 
the  book  concludes  with  a  rapid  but  instructive  review  of 
the  most  distinguished  old  English  writers  of  fiction,  from 
Mrs.  Behn,  Mrs.  Manley,  and  Mrs.  Heywood  to  Richard- 
son, Fielding,  Smollett,  Goldsmith,  Miss  Bnmey,  Miss 
Edgeworth,  and  Jane  Austen. 


Select  Charters  and  other  lUuMtratUme  of  English  Con- 
stitutional History,  from  the  Earliest  Ttmes  to  the  Reign 
^Edward  the  First.  Arranged  and  edited  by  William 
Dtubbs,  M.A.,  Regius  Professor  of  Modem  History. 
Clarendon  Series.    (Macmillan.) 

In  the  well-founded  belief  that  a  knowledge  of  consti- 
tutional hbtory  should  be  a  recognised  part  of  a  regular 
English  education,  inasmuch  as  without  it  no  knowledge 
of  English  history  can  be  sound,  the  Regius  Professor  of 
Modem  History  at  Oxford  has  prepared  the  book  before 
us.  It  is  intended  to  be  primarily  a  treasury  of  reference, 
or  easily  handled  repertory,  of  the  origines  of  English 
constitutional  history ;  and,  therefore,  it  embraces  every 
constitutional  document  of  importance  during  the  period 
which  it  covers.  While,  with  the  view  of  making  it  a 
manual  for  teachers  and  students,  the  editor  illustrates 
these  documents  by  pointing  out  their  bearing  on  one 
another  and  on  the  national  polity,  **  supplying  in  the 
introductory  sketch  a  string  of  connection,  and  some 
sort  of  continuous  theory  of  the  development  of '  the 
system."  The  value  of  such  a  book,  if  properly  executed, 
is  evident ;  and  on  this  point  we  can  safely  say,  to  those 
who  know  tiie  lucid  and  masterly  prefaces  by  which  Mr. 
Stnbbs  has  introduced  the  several  Chronicles  edited  bj 
him  for  the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  that  the  work  before  us  is 
every  way  worthy  of  the  author  of  those  admirable  essays. 

A  Descend AKT  of  Cromwrlu — A  Cincinnati  paper 
records  the  death  of  Joseph  Howard  Cromwell,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Oliver  Cromwell.  He  was  formerly  cap- 
tain of  an  American  merchantman,  which,  in  the  war  of 
1812,  became  a  privateer,  and  was  captured  by  a  British 
man-of-war.  The  captivity  of  the  captain  did  not  last 
long.  He  was  afterwards,  for  thirty-four  years,  an  hotel 
keeper  in  Cincinnati,  and  retired*  in  1862  U)  Yellow 
Springs,  Ohio,  where  he  died  on  January  31,  in  his 
eighty-fifth  year,  leaving  children  and  grandchildren. 
The  deceased  is  reported  to  have  been  a  descendant  of 
a  grandson  of  Oliver  Cromweirs  son  Henr^^  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant of  Ireland,  who  settled  in  Maryland  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century.  [There  can  be  no  foundation  for  this 
statement.  Mr.  Oliver  Cromwell,  the  great-grandson  of 
Henry,  and  the  last  of  the  male  descendants  of  the  Pro- 
tector, died  at  Cheshunt  on  May  5.  1821. — See  GenL 
Mag.  for  1821,  part  i.  p.  569.— Ed.  *-N.  &  Q."] 

Names  of  Loxdon  Streets. — ^The  superintending 
architect  of  the  Metropolitan  Board  of  Works  reported  to 
the  Board  last  year  that  in  fourteen  years  4,194  subsidiary 
names  of  streets  had  been  abolished,'l,849  new  streets  ha'd 
been  named,  and  94,632  houses  bad  been  renumbered. 
The  object  is  greater  precision  of  reference,  which  is  pro- 
moted to  a  large  extent  for  commercial,  social,  sanitary, 
medical,  and  other  purposes,  and  tends  greatly  to  the 
convenience  of  the  public.  The  rules  of  the  Board  re- 
quire that,  as  far  as  possible  in  selecting  names  for  n6w 
streets,  no  names  shall  be  repeated. 

We  recently  announced  the  appearance  of  El  Averi- 
guador,  a  Spanish  Notes  and  Queries.  We  have  now  to 
chronicle  the  appearance  of  another  journal,  which  will 
be  of  interest  to  Spanish  students.  It  is  an  8vo  sheet, 
which  is  to  appear  on  the  last  day  of  each  month,  under 
the  titie  of  Revista  de  Archivos,  JBibUoteeas  y  Museos. 

The  Farnham  MSS.— We  leam  f^om  The  Herald 
and  Geneahoist  that  the  valuable  genealogical  collections 
formed  by  the  late  Lord  Farnham,  and  which  fill  about 
fifty  volumes  of  pedigrees  were,  by  the  administrators  of 
his  estate,  presented  to  his  friend  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  as 
by  so  doing  they  believed  they  were  best  carrying  out 
the  wishes  of  Lord  Famham. 

Thomas  Willbm b^tt,  Esq. — We  regret  to  announce 
the  death  on  the  10th  instant,  aged  eighty-five,  of  this 


A^  S.  VII.  March  18,  71.]  NOTES  AND   QUERIES. 


247 


old  and  maeh  respected  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Anti- 
quaries. Mr.  Willement's  Ht^  Heraldry,  published  in 
1821,  is  well  known  to  all  heraldic  students.  He  also 
published,  in  1827,  Heraldic  Notices  of  Canierlnay  Cathe- 
dral: in  1829,  Index  to  Boll  of  Amu  temp.  Henry  VIII. ; 
in  1834,  a  similar  Index  to  Roll  of  Amu  temp.  Richard 
II.;  and  in  1844,  an  Account  of  the  Reitoraiion  of  the 
Chapel  of  St.  George's,  Windsor. 

Shake8pbarb*8  Plats  for  School  Usb.— An  edition 
of  Shakespeare  for  school  use,  edited  by  several  of  the 
Sugby  Masters,  is  in  preparation.  Four  plays  hare 
alresdy  appeared  separately ;  these  are  to  be  loUowed  b}' 
Mnek  'Ado  About  Nothing. 

<*Art." — In  the  arranfceroents  for  the  forthcoming 
International  Exhibition,  this  term  is  to  bear  a  very  wide 
interpretation.  Pictures,  sculptures,  wood-carvingp,  tapes- 
tries, metal  omsroentation,— everything,  in  short,  of  a 
decorative  nature  is  to  find  a  place'in  the  Art  Galleries. 

ThB  DlRRCTOBSHfP  OF  THE  NATIONAL  GALLBRT. — 

The  public  will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  Mr.  Bozall  has 
consented  to  resume  this  post. 

Thb  Rotal  Socibtt. — Fifty  candidates  oiTer  them- 
selves for  election  this  session.  From  this  number  fifteen 
will  be  selected  by  the  Council  and  recommended  for 
election  next  June. 

Thb  latb  Robkrt  Lbiohtox. — A  petition,  numer- 
onslv  and  infiuentislly  signed,  has  been  presented  to  Mr. 
Gladstone  on  behalf 'of  the  family  of  the  late  Robert 
Leigfaton,  of  Liverpool.  In  a  Itttcr  from  Cambridge, 
U.S.,  Mr.  Longfellow  observes :  *'  Of  the  power  and 
beauty  of  Robert  Leighton's  poems  yon  know  my  opinion ; 
and  I  sincerely  hope  the  effort  to  secure  a  pension  for  bis 
widow  and  children  may  prove  successful." 


BOOKS    AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WANTED  TO  PUBCHA8E. 

Pwtleolan  of  Pries,  ae..  of  the  fbllovhiff  Booki  to  be  tent  direct  to 
tho  gentlemen  Iqr  whom  ther  era  reqiured,  vhoee  namee  and  addreeeei 
■re  ^ven  for  that  porpoeei  — 

Thb  CoirrocATiosr,  ae.«  hj  Philalethce.   Bnry  St.  Edmanda. 
Wanted  bj  J.  J.  Ruve.  E*q.^  Newhaven,  8i 


THsKawEXAifn.hr  John  Facet.   Blackwood  a  Bona. 

Wanted  hy  Mr.  J.  aarke.  Waste  Court,  Abingdon. 

Enirlbh  or  Frnieh  tranilatlons  of  Cavtaneda.  Correa,  Barrot.  or  other 
Portiu(iieM  nbtoriana  of  India,  excepting  Oaoriut,  Faria  da  fioiua, 
already  aralUble. 

Wanted  by  Coi.  SUi»,  Starcroai,  near  Exeter. 


90t(re<  ta  C0rrftfponlitnM. 

We  earnnoi  undertake  to  send  written  Replies  to  Queries. 
Qitertei,  if  suitable,  will  be  inserted,  and  be  answered  in  the 
usual  manner, 

W.  W. — 7%e  poem  purporting  to  be  written  by  Milton 
on  his  bliudneu,  eommenang — 

'<  I  am  old  and  blind,*' 

mil  written  by  MissIAoyd  of  Philatklf^Ok 

A.  M.  (King^bridge.) — The  Devonshire  custom  of  offer' 
ing  to  apple-trees  is  recorded  in  our  l'<  S.  iv.  809 ;  v.  H8. 

F.  F.  J.  will  find  an  account  of  Trajano  Boecalini  in  a^y 
bfogrtquhieal  dtetionary, 

A.  £.  Barrbott  will  in  like  manner  find  an  aeeomd 
ofMkhael  Maktaire, 

Rby.  p.  Srbridab. —  We  do  not  remember  to  hate  re- 
ceived anything  from  you  on  the  subject  of  your  eommuni- 
cationm    However,  at  p.  168  of  our  present  series  you  will 


find  a  notice  of  the  object  you  have  in  view,  and  eoncerninff 
which  we  thaU  be  glad  to  hear  from  you. 

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4«b  8.  VII.  Mabch  18, 71.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ACCIDKMTa    CAV8K    I.088    OF   I«IFB. 

Aooidaiito  oaiuA  Zjomi  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF  MONEY. 
Ptwide  agavnt  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 


BT  XVSVBXHO  WITH  THB 


Bailway  Passengers'  Assnranoe  Company, 

An  AimiiAl  Furment  of  IBS  to  SO  5/  innirM  d,000  at  Death« 
or  an  aliowanee  at  the  rate  of  Ce  per  veek  for  lojary. 

&565fOOO  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 


64,COBHBIIiL,  and  10,  BEOENT  STREET.  LOIVDON. 

WnXIAM  J.  VIAir,  Seerttary, 

GENTLEMEN   desirous  of   having   their  Linens 
dressed  to  pcrfectton  should  siqiplj  their  Laundresses  with  the 

••OXiBVrZB&B    8TASC  B," 

which  imparts  a  brilliancy  and  elastieitj  gratifying  alike  to  the  sense 
of  night  and  touch. 

VrOTHING  IMPOSSIBLR— AGUA  AMAKELLA 

JLl  restores  the  Human  H^r  to  its  pristine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
ace.  1IS8SBS.  JOHN  OOSNELL  ft  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
or  the  moat  eminent  Chemists,  sucoeeded  in  perlteting  this  wonderful 
liquid.  It  is  now  oflbred  to  the  PnhUc  in  a  more  concentrated  fbrm. 
and  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Bottles  •  Ss.  each,  also  &s.,7s.  M.,  or  lAs.  each,  with  brush. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHEERY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  wliiteness,  protects  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  imparts  a 
^easing  ftagranoe  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  006NEIX  ft  CO.'S  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
KUB8ERT  FOWDEB. 

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BnPTU1tES.-SY  BOTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 
allowed  by  upwards  of  500  Medieal  men  to  be  the  most  eflbc- 
tive  invention  in  the  enrative  treatment  of  HERNLA.  The  use  of  a 
steel  spring,  so  often  hnrtftil  in  its  eflbets,ii  here  avoidedi  a  soft  bandsge 
being  worn  round  tlie  Dody  .while  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup* 
plted  by  the  MOG-MAnf  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fitting  with  so 
much  ease  and  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  m^  be  worn 
during  sleep.  A  descriptive  drcnlar  may  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
cannot  ftil  to  fit)  ftnwarded  by  post  on  the  dreumlbrettoe  of  the  body, 
two  inches  below  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Manufacturer. 

MR.  JOHN  WHITE,  ttS,  PICGADILLT.  LONDON. 

Frioe  of  a  Sim^  Truss.  IBs.,  Sis.,  Ms.  Od.,  and  Sis.  8d.   Postage  Is. 
DoubleTruss,  31s.  etf.,  4Ss.,  and  Us.  Od.    Postsge  Is.  8<f. 
An  UmbiUcal  Truss,  4Ss.  and  ASt.  6(2.   Postage  Is.  lOif. 

Pott  Office  orders  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Post  Office,  Piccadilly. 

17LASTI0  STOCKINGS,   KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 

YARICOSE  VEINS,  and  all  cases  of  WEAKNESS  and  S  WEL- 


CCni 


O  of  tlie  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  ftc  They  are  porous,  light  in  texture, 
and  Inexpensive,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  stocking.  Prices 
4s.  M.,  7s.  6d.,  lOi.,  and  16s.  each.   Poetage  6d. 

JOHN  WHITE,  MANT7FACTURER,  tSB,  PICCADILLY.  London. 

A   FACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

/V  the  hair  with  this  beautifully  perftamed  Wash,  in  two  days  grey 
nair  becomes  its  original  colour,  and  remains  so  by  an  occasional  ustng. 
This  is  guaranteed  by  MR.  Rc^S.  lOs.  6<f.,  sent  fbr  stamps.-^ALE2. 
BOSS,  MB,  High  Holbom,  London. 

SPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Albx. 

ROSS'S  CANTHAREDES  OIL.  It  b  a  sure  Restorer  of  Hair,  and  a 
Producer  of  Whiskers.  Its  eflkct  Is  speedy.  It  is  patronised  by  Royalty. 
TThe  price  of  it  ii  3s.  8(f.,  sent  fbr  54  stamps. 

OLLOWAYS  PILLS.  — Somewhere  or  other 
1.  disease  is  ever  riib.  and  evwTwhere  its  surest  opponent,  this  puri- 
ig  medicine,  b  to  be  found.  Wlien  symptoms  of  sickness  first  set  in, 
r  may  be  readily  subdued  by  this  grand  remedy,  which  gives  great 
prompt  relief  to  every  <ypressea  organ  or  disordered  ftin^on. 
These  Pills  regulate  and  strengthen  dlfesuon  more  readily,  efficiently, 
and  with  more  certainty  than  any  otner  combination  of  dron,  be  u 
«;rer  so  sdentlflcaUy  presnlbed.  Nothing  can  exceed  the  ability  of 
Holloway's  medicine  to  secure  natural  fhnctional  action,  whereby 
thousands  of  life-long  maladies  have  been  prevented  at  very  trifling 
expense,  and  noooet  to  the  eonstltiillon.  An  aeqnlaltkn  so  priceless 
ahoold  be  at  hand  in  evwy  household. 


SLD  MARSALA  WINE,  guaranteed  the  finest 
imported,  ftee  firom  acidity  or  heat,and  much  superior  to  low- 
ied  Sherry  (vidi  Dr .  Dmltton  CStaap  Wiwu)  .One  Guinea  per  doaen. 
Selected  dry^?arragona,  18s.  per  doaen.  Terms  cash.  Three  doaen 
raU  paid.~W.  D.  WATSON,  87S.  Wine  Merchant,  Oxford  Street. 

Fnll  Price  Lists  post  free  on  applicatioo . 


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(entrance  in  Berwick  street),  London.  W.  Established  1841.  Removed 
from  71,  Great  Bussell  Street,  comer  of  Bloomsbnry  Square. W.C. 


r        36b. 

At  36s.  per  doafen,  fit  Ibr  a  Oentleman^s  Table.  Bottles  Indnded,  and 
Oaniagapoid.  GkMes  Is.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 

GHABLE8  WABD  ft  SON, 

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MAYTAIB,  W.,  LONDON. 

36s.  TBB  BKATrAZB  SBBBBT  S6S. 

1 

HEDGES   &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PUBB  ST.  JUUEN  CLARET 
At  IBs.,  IQs.,  14s.,30s.,and  lis.  per  doaen. 
CholceClaretsof  various  growths,  4Ss.,48s.,60s.,71s.,  84s.,  66s. 

GOOD  DINNER  SHERRY, 
At  S4s.  and  30s.  per  doaen. 

8  aperior  Golden  Shernr 86s.and4ls. 

Choice  Sherry— Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown. ..  .48s.,54s.,and  60s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  S4s.,  30s.,  36s.,  4Ss.,  «Bs.,  60s.,  and  84s. 

Portfromflrst-dass  Shippers 3Qs.36s.4ts. 

YeryCholceOld  Port 48s.60s.7Ss.84s. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  36s..  41s.,  4Bs..  and  60s. 

Hochhelmer,  Mareobmnner,  Rndeeheimer,  Steinberg,  Liebfkanmileh, 
60s.;  Johannisberger  and  Stelnberger,  71«.,  84s..  to  nos.i  Braunbener. 
Gmnhausen,  and  Scharsberg,  48s.  to  84s^  eparkUnc  Moselle. 48s.,  60s., 
86s.,  78s.|Td7  choice  Champagne,  e6s.,  78s.  i  fhie  old  Sack,  Malmaey, 
Frontignae,  Vermuth, Oonstanua^LaehrynuB  Christi,  Imperial  Tokay, 
and  other  rare  wines.  Fine  old  Pale  Cognac  Brandy,  60s.  and  71s.  per 
doaen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  every  description. 

On  receint  of  a  Post  OfBce  order,  or  reibrence,any  quantity  will  be 
forwarded  Immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

•     LONDON*  15^  BEGENT  STBBET,  W. 
Brighton :  30,  King's  Boed, 
(Originally  Established  A.D.  1667.) 


8PABK&ZBO  CBAMPAOBB,  36s.  per  dos. 

And  all  the  noted  Brands  at  the  lowest  cash  prices. 

Bordeaux,  15s..  18s.,  S4s.,30s.  36s.,  to9es.perdOB.|  Chablls,  S4«.|  Mar- 
sala, 14s.  per  dos.  I  Sherry,  Ms.,  30s..  36s.,  4SS.,  48s.,  to  96s.  per  doa.|  Old 
Port,  S4s.,  30s..  36*^  41s.,  to  144s.  per  doz.i  Tarragona,  18s.  per  dos.,  the 
finest  imported  i  Hock  and  Moselle,  Ms.,  30s.,  38s.,  48s  j>er  dos.  i  Sparic- 
ling  Hock  and  Moselle,  48s.  and  6Q».  per  dos. ;  fine  old  Pde  Brandy,  48s., 
60s.  and  7I«.  per  dos.    At  DOTESIO'S  Depot.  10,  Swallow  Street,  Be- 

Ent  Street  (successor  to  Ewart  and  Co.,  Wine  Merchants  to  Her 
^esty). 

MANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS.  VENNING  &  CO. 
of  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS  ^LONDON,  have  Just  re- 
id  a  Cmsignment  of  No.  3  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  excellent  con- 
dition, in  Roxes  of  600  aaeh.  Prioe  II.  10s.  per  box.  Orders  to  be 
accompanied  by  a  remittance. 

N.R.  Sample  Box  of  100,'lQs.6d. 

BT  BOTAL  COMMAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

BOLD  by  all  8TATI0NSBS  thronghent  the  World. 

LAXFLOXrOE'S 
PTBETIC     SALIHE 

Has  peenllar  aad'remarfcalde  pvopettles  in  Headaoha,  Sea,  or  BUIoai 
Sickness,  preventing  and  curing  Hay,  Scarlet,  and  other  Fevers,  and  is 
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CONTENTS.— N«  169. 


NOTES! -On  the  Title  of  Kinfc  or  Quocn  of  Man,  2*9  — 
Hunsdon  Clnirrh,  250  —  Early  V«.'r»€8  of  James  Mont- 
gomery, 251  —  Extraordinary  Legend  from  Gainsburgh, 
Jb,  —  The  Oriziti  of  Archbishop  Stafford,  253  —  Longeyitj : 
John  Bailps,  who  lived  in  Three  Centuries  —  The  Domini- 
cans  —  Point  de  Vice  —  Prosody— UiUibandman—San-dial 
Inscriptions  —  Rct.  James  Hervey  and  William  Hogarth 

—  Dibdin's  "Bibliographical  Decameron,"  2% 

QURKIBS  :  -  The  Etymology  of  «  Ward  "  as  a  Personal 
Name?  230— Bears*  Ears  — Bourne  and  Croft— Bram- 
hani,  Yorkshire  —  L.  Ton  Beethoven  —  Portrait  of  Cameron 
of  Lochic)  —  Court  Monraing  — Crests  — "George  Can- 
terbury's Will "  —  Pedigree  of  Fairfax  —  Bishop  Puller  — 
Hamemckcn  —  Hoxne  Abbey  Register  — Eiixabetb  KilH- 
srew,  Visoonntesa  Shannon  — Sir  P«ter  Loly's  Life  and 
XVorks* Michael  Angelo's  "  Lsst  Judgment  "—Mosquitoes 
in  England,  oirea  1760  —  Philosophical  Nakedness  —  St. 
Augustine  — Sccna:  Scen^- Sir  William  Stanhope,  1040- 
1090  —  Sterlman  Family  —  Watches  of  Distinguished  Men 

—  ••  Tlie  World  turned  upside  down,"  or  the  llares  taking 
Tengeance  on  Mankind,  Ac,  250. 

BEPIilES:  —John  Knox's  House  at  Edinburgh,  260  — 
Parodies,  S61  —Antiquity  of  Ladies'  Chignons,  /&.«— The 
Bookworm.  *2G2  —  Baptism  for  the  Dead,  263  —  The  Balti- 
more and  "Old  Mortality"  Patersons  —  Macaulay's  Bal- 
lads—Lines on  the  Human  Ear— Plon-Plon:  Lu-Lu — 
*•  fea  "  and  "  Ua  "  —  Artificial  Fly-ftshing  —  Captain  John 
Blason  —  ^lanslauphtcr  and  Cola  Iron  —  "  Skerring  upon 
a  Glave  Glatten  "  —Lord  Pluuket— Pedestrian  Feat  of 
Faraday  —  Prince  Pueckler  Mu^kau  — Ancient  Buildings 
in  Kashmir— Arms  of  Itonvonuto  Cellini— The  Oldest  luus 
in  England  —  Suif oik  E  jod  Screens,  &c.,  26k. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ac. 


ON  THE  TITLE  OF  KING  OR  QUEEN  OF 

MAN. 

On  looking  over  some  of  the  early  volumes  of 
"N.  &  Q."  I  met  \vith,  in  1«*  S.  v.  206,  Mr.  Jonir 
GouGH  Nichols's  paper  on  "  Isabel  Queen  of  the 
Isle  of  Man  "  in  reply  to  Mr.  W.  S.  Gibson^s  on 
the  same  subject,  in  which  he  appears  to  question 
the  right  of  the  Lords  of  Man  to  be  styled  kings, 
saying  "  they  do  not  appear  to  be  recognised  by 
records,  but  merely  by  the  chroniclers,"  and  that 
*^the  word  dominus^  not  rex,  is  employed  in  Latin 
records,  and  seigneur  in  French." 

I  have  always  looked  upon  any  statement  from 
Mr.  Nichols's  pen  to  be  entitled  to  every  degree 
of  attention  and  credit,  knowing  that  his  object  is 
only  to  state  facts  as  far  as  those  facts  con  be 
ascertained ;  and  as  "  N.  &  Q."  is  now  so  universal 
a  medium  for  obtaining  information,  I  offer  a  few 
remarks  on  the  subject  of  Manx  kings  in  the  hope 
that  some  of  your  correspondents  may  throw 
some  additional  light  on  the  matter. 

That  the  early  chroniclers  are  entitled  to  some 
degree  of  credit  will  surely  be  granted,  for  we 
find  many  things  [mentioned  by  tnem  which  are 
established  facts,  yet  Hot  to  be  found  in  records. 
The  Isle  of  Man  has  so  often  been  the  battle-field 
for  its  possession  in  early  days,  that  its  sovereigns 
are  found  at  one  time  to  be  independent,  and  at 
another  doing   homage   to   Denmark,  Norway, 


Scotland,  or  England,  whichever  might  be  para- 
mount at  the  time,  but  never  losing  the  attributes 
of  a  king  in  Man.  I^eeides  many  other  earlier 
Kings  of  Man  which  are  recorded  by  the  chroni- 
clers, we  find  that  Macon,  King  of  Man  in  060, 
was  <me  of  the  kings  that  rowed  in  King  Edgar's 
boat  on  the  Dee,  sitting  at  the  third  oar,  thereby 
having  precedency  over  the  other  kings,  and 
showing  the  importance  that  Kings  of  Maa  were 
held  in  at  that  time,  Edgar  himself  presiding  at 
the  helm  as  king  paramount  over  all,  as  he 
claimed. 

At  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  1066,  Godred,  the 
son  of  Sy trie,  then  reignetl  in  Man ;  and  after  that 
along  succes&ion  of  kings  of  the  Norwegian  and  Scot- 
tish line  to  whom  they  were  expected  to  do  homage. 
About  the  yei^r  1205  the  usurper  Reginald  agreed 
to  do  homage  to  King  John  of  England  for  the 
Isle  of  Man;  and  in  the  letters  patent  of  that 
monarch,  in  the  sixth  year  of  his  reign,  to  Reginald, 
he  is  styled  Lord  of  Man  only ;  but  this  surrender 
was  as  invalid  as  that  of  Reginald's  of  his  do- 
minions to  Pope  Honorius  in  1219,  in  which  he 
is  styled  "  Reginald,  King  of  the  Isle  of  Man." 
Also  in  a  roll  4  Hen.  III.  (1220)  he  is  again 
styled  "  Rex  de  Man,"  and  again  in  the  letter  of 
Pope  Honorius  to  Reginald  (a.d.  1223)  he  is 
styled  "  Reginaldo  Re»i  Insularum  illustri."  In 
12  Hen.  III.  Olave  had  safe  conduct  to  come  into 
England  under  the  style  of  '*  Olave  Rex  MannisD 
et  Insularum  " ;  and  again  in  19  lieu.  III.  (1235), 
dated  at  Windsor,  April  13,  we  find  it  stated 
that — 

**  We  have  taken  under  our  safe  and  sure  conduct  our 
beloved  friend,  Olave  Kin^  of  Mann  and  the  Islands, 
■whilst  coming  into  England  to  confer  with  us,  and  whilst 
tarr^'ing  there  and  in  departing  thence." 

Also  another  protection  from  the  same  monarch, 
dated  May  24, 1236,  "  of  all  the  lands  and  posses- 
sions of  Olave,  King  of  Mann  and  the  Islands,  on 
his  going  over  to  Norway."   (Vide  Fcedera.) 

According  to  the  chronicle  preserved  in  Castle 
Rushen  we  find  it  stated — 

^  In  the  eighth  year  of  King  Edward  the  Third,  William 
Montague,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  conquered  the  L'-Ie  of  Man 
out  of  the  hands  of  the.  Scots,  which  Isle  the  King  gave 
unto  the  said  Earl,  and  caused  him  to  be  crowned  and 
entitled  King  of  Man,  1344." 

Sir  John  Stanley,  the  second  King  of  Man  of 
the  house  of  Stanley,  succeeded  his  father  in  1414, 
and  one  of  the  oldest  records  in  the  Rolls  Ofiice, 
Castle  Rushen,  printed  in  the  statute-book  of  the 
island,  states  that  in  1417  he  held  a  court  of  Tyn- 
wald  at  the  Tynwald  Hill,  St.  John's,  when  he 
was  informed  by  his  deemsters  and  keys  how  he 
should  be  governed  on  his  Tynwald  day  as  fol- 
lows : — 

•<  This  is  the  Constitution  of  old  time  which  we  have 
given  in  our  days,  how  yon  should  be  governed  on  your 
T^wald  day.  First  yon  shall  come  thither  in  yotu*  royal 
array,  as  a  King  ought  to  do  by  the  prerogativee  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4»b  s.  yii.  march  25,  71. 


royalties  of  the  Land  of  Man,  and  upon  the  Hill  of 
Tynwald  sit  in  a  chair  covered  with  a  royal  cloth  and 
cushions,  and  your  visage  unto  the  east  an^  your  sword 
before  yon  holden  with  the  point  upwards/'  &c. 

After  fence  is  made — 

**  That  no  man  make  an}*  disturbance  or  stir  in  the  time 
of  Tynwald,  or  any  murmur  or  rising  in  the  King's  pre- 
sencCf  upon  pain  of  hanging  and  drawing,  and  then  shall 
let  your  Barons  and  all  others  know  you  to  be  their  King 
and'  Lord,"  &c,  "  And  in  as  much  as  you  are  by  the  grace 
of  God  now  King  and  Lord  of  Man^'yoxi  will  now,  that 
your  Commons  come  unto  3'ou,  and  shew  their  charters 
how  they  hold  of  you,  and  your  Barons,  that  made  no 
faith  or  fealty  unto  you,  that  they  may  now/*  &c 

The  language  of  this  is  only  here  modernised. 

Thomas,  the  second  Earl  of  Derby  and  fifth 
King  of  Man  of  the  house  of  Stanley,  came  to  the 
throne  in  1604,  and  during  the  reign  of  Edward  IV. 
he  dropped  the  title  of  King  and  made  use  of  that 
of  LoixL  of  Man  and  the  Isles,  saying  that  to  be  a 
great  lord  is  more  honourable  than  a  petty  king; 
but  this  change  of  title  did  not  of  course  derogate 
from  the  sovereign  rights  or  aifect  the  relationship 
between  them  and  their  subjects. 

In  the  fourth  part  of  Coke's  Institutes  of  the 
Laws  of  England,  1671,  he  states  — 

"This  isle  hath  been  an  ancient  kingdom,  as  it  ap- 
peareth  in  li.  7.  in  Calvin's  Case."  "  And  yet  we  find  it 
not  granted  or  conveyed  by  the  name  of  a  kingdom,  »ed 
per  nomen  Inmla,  &c.  cum  pattonaiu  Episcopatus.  He 
hath  the  patronage  of  the  bishoprick  of  Sodor,  which  is 
a  visible  mark  of  a  kingdom.  Vide  lib.  MS.  in  recept. 
Scaccarii,  fol.  166,  and  Tib.  Parliam.  in  Turn  London. 
temp,  E.  L  fo.  19,  21.  (Walsin^ham,  p.  287.)  William  le 
Scrope  emit  de  domino  Wilhelmo  de  Monte  acuto  In- 
sulam  Euboniaa  (i.  e.  Mannise);  estnempe  jusipsius  Insuhe 
ut  quisquis  iUius  sit  dominus  Bex  vocatur,  cui  ctiam  fas 
est  Corona  aurta  coronari" 

In  the  case  of  the  daughters  of  Ferdinando  the 
eighth  Lord  of  Man,  as  heirs  general,  and  William 
the  sixth  Earl  of  Derby,  as  brother  and  heir  male 
of  the  deceased  Ferdinand  as  to  the  right  to  the 
island,  1505,  it  was  decided  by  the  Lord  Keeper 
Egertonand  the  rest  of  the  judges,  ''That  the 
Isle  of  Man  was  an  ancient  kingdom  of  itselfe, 
and  no  part  of  the  kingdom  of  Endand."  Selden, 
also,  in  his  Titles  of  Hanottr,  1631,  ranks  it  as  an 
ancient  subordinate  kingdom,  observing  that  its 
kings  styled  themselves  as  Kings  of  Man  and  the 
Isles,  and  were  so  styled  by  their  superior  lords. 
Both  Coko  and  Selden  prove  their  assertions  from 
the  records,  and  Blackstone  in  his  Commentaries 
confirms  this.  James  Earl  of  Derby  was  styled 
"  King  of  the  Isle  of  Man  "  in  ]716  in  an  appeal 
case  heard  before  a  committee  of  the  Privy  Council 
in  London. 

In  the  sale  of  the  island  with  its  royalties  to 
the  British  crown  by  the  Duke  of  AthoU  in  1765, 
the  negociations  for  which  were  not  finally  con- 
cluded until  1828,  the  sovereignty  of  the  island 
was  one  consideration,  and  although  they  had  for 
a  long  seiies  of  years  been  content  with  the  title 


of  Lords,  the  sovereignty  however  was  not  di- 
minished by  the  change  of  name ;  for  the  Isle  of 
Man  is  traceable  as  a  kingdom  into  times — probably 
centuries,  but  certainly  many  years — prior  to  the 
Conquest.  This  was  fully  discussed  and  allowed 
when  the  Duke  of  AthoU  s  Isle  of  Man  case  came 
to  be  heard  before  the  Privy  Council. 

It  may  be  remarked  that  from  time  immemorial 
the  Isle  of  Man  has  been  governed  by  its  own 
laws,  made  and  allowed  with  the  consent  of  their 
kings  or  lords  bv  his  council  and  the  keys  of  the 
island,  and  which  mode  was  continued  during  the 
Commonwealth  of  England  while  Lord  Fairfax 
was  lord  of  the  island,  and  on  to  the  present  day, 
the  same  being  first  promulgated  to  the  people 
from  the  Tynwald  Hilt  at  St.  John's. 

I  hope  what  has  been  here  stated  may  induce 
Mb.  Nichols  to  investigate  this  subject  a«pain, 
and  also  induce  Mb.  W.  S.  Gibson  •  to  believe 
that  the  crown  of  the  kings  of  the  Isle  of  Man 
was  not  a  ''  shadowy  crown,"  but  a  substantial 
and  real  one.  William  Habbisok. 

Rock  Mount,  Isle  of  Man. 


HUNSDON  CHUBCH. 

This  church  wns  built  about  a.d.  1400,  and  is 
in  the  Early  Perpendicular  style.  It  consists  of 
nave,  with  western  tower  and  spire  and  north 
porch ',  chancel,  with  north  aisle  and  south  tran- 
sept. The  tower  contains  five  fine  bells.  The 
porch  is  of  oak,  of  the  same  date  as  the  church, 
and  in  very  good  preservation. 

The  church  was  once  very  rich  in  stained  glass, 
placed  there  in  1440  or  1460  by  Sir  Wm.  Old- 
nalle.  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  a  stanch 
adherent  of  the  House  of  York,  and  at  that  time 
ovfner  of  Hunsdon  House,  which  is  close  to  the 
church.  Much  of  this  glass  has  since  disappeared, 
but  there  still  remain  in  head  of  east  window 
the  Annunciation  of  our  Lady,  and  our  Lord  in 
glory  adored  by  saints.  In  chancel  windows, 
several  white  roses  of  York,  and  two  fetter-locks, 
another  badge  of  the  House  of  York ;  also  four 
canopies,  which  no  doubt  once  surmounted  figures 
of  saints.  In  a  window  of  the  nave,  six  Apostles 
and  other  fragments. 

Hunsdon  House  subsequently  belonged  to  King 
Henry  VIIL,  and  was  used  during  his  reign  as  a 
residence  for  his  children.  Mary  (afterwards 
queen)  lived  here  during  the  reign  of  Edward  VL, 
and  Elizabeth  during  the  reign  of  Mary.  The 
palace  of  the  Bishops  of  London  was  then  at 
Had  ham,  four  miles  distant,  and  Bishop  Ridley 
is  known  to  have  come  over  from  Hadham  to 
preach  in  Hunsdon  church.  There  are  also  records 
m  the  parish  reg^ter  of  Queen  Elizabeth  having 

[*  Mr.  Gibsox  died  on  Jan.  3, 1871.    See  p.  48  of  our 
present  volume.— Ed.] 


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251 


twice  stood  as  sponsor  in  the  church — in  1675 
and  1684.  When  Elizabeth  came  to  the  throne 
she  gave  Hunsdon  to  her  cousin,  Sir  Henry  Gary, 
and  created  him  Baron  Hunsdon.  The  third  Lord 
Hunsdon,  who  was  sent  to  bring  King  James  I. 
to  England  on  his  accession  to  the  English  throne, 
built  the  south  transept,  and  placed  in  it  a  large 
monument  containing  figures  m  idabaster  of  him- 
self and  his  wife,  but  he  was  not  buried  here. 
There  is  an  extremely  fine  oak  screen  between  the 
transept  and  the  nave,  and  it  seems  that  when 
this  wAs  erected  the  whole  church  was  reseated, 
and  a  new  pulpit  set  up;  so  that  the  church, 
which  continues  at  present  in  the  state  in  which 
it  was  put  then,  is  rich  in  Jacobean  oak  work. 
Unhappily  the  rood-screen,  which  must  have  been 
very  fine,  of  the  same  date  as  the  diurch,  was 
then  cut  down,  and  the  lower  half  only  remains ; 
part  of  the  remainder  was  worked  into  the  pulpit, 
and  other  fragments  have  been  found  during  the 
restoration  of  the  church,  but  not  enough  for  the 
part  destroyed  to  be  restored.  A  few  of  the  old 
original  seats  are  left,  and  an  ancient  oak  alms- 
box  of  the  same  date.  There  are  other  monuments 
and  brasses.  One  brass,  date  1691,  to  the  memory 
ef  a ''  servant  to  the  Eight  honorable  the  L.  Oham- 
berlaine,  and  keeper  of  the  greate  parke  at  Huns- 
don," represents  the  keeper  shooting  a  stag  with  a 
crossbow,  and  Death  standing  between  them  strik- 
ing- each  with  a  dart.  The  chancel  aisle  is  at 
present  entirely  separated  from  the  church  by  a 
solid  wall  which  bears  two  large  marble  Corin- 
thian monuments  with  inscriptions  of  the  period 
(circa  1720).  It  is  proposed,  by  removing  these 
monuments  to  the  wall  of  the  (dsle,  to  restore 
the  aisle  to  the  chancel,  using  it  as  an  organ- 
chamber  and  Testry. 

It  is  not  known  to  whom  this  church  is  de- 
dicated. The  rector  will  be  obliged  to  any  one 
who  can  give  him  any  information  on  this  point. 

S.  N. 


EARLY  VERSES  OF  JAMES  MONTGOMERY. 

A  manuscript  containing  a  juvenile  production  by 
tliis  eminent  poet  and  hymn-writer  has  just  come 
under  my  notice,  and  appears  to  me  to  be  of  suffi- 
cient interest  to  deserve  a  place  in  your  columns. 
It  is  a  little  book  in  which  several  pupils  of  the 
Fulneck  Moravian  seminary  have  written  verses, 
of  their  own  composition  and  in  their  own  hand- 
writing, and  signed  with  their  names,  in  honour 
of  their  teacher  on  his  birthday.  (In  the  Memoirs 
&f  Montffomen/f  by  Holland  and  Everett,  there  is  a 
reference  to  this  birthday  custom,  i.  47.)  On  the 
first  page  is  written,  "  For  Brother  Ash  on  his 
Birthday,  June  24th,  1787.''  This  gentleman, 
who  long  afterwards  enjoyed  the  friendship  of 
Montgomervi  was  father  of  my  friend  Kev.  Ben- 
jamin Ash,  in  whose  possession  this  book  remains. 


There  are  nine  short  pieces.  The  names  of  the 
writers  are — ^James  Montgomery,  J.  Lees,  Robert 
Montgomery,  Samuel  Angerman,  I.  Angell,  John 
Gottwalt,  Frederic  Diemer,  John  Steinhauer,  and 
Samuel  Un thank.  They  are  just  such  pious  verses 
as  we  might  expect  from  boys  taught  to  venerate 
the  memory  of  Count  Zinzendorf,  who  wrote  some 
thousands  of  hymns,  and  who  says  of  his  hymn- 
writing — 

**  After  the  discourse,  I  generallv  announce  another 
byma  appropriate  to  the  subject.  When  I  cannot  find 
one,  I  compose  one;  I  say,  in  the  Saviour's  name,  what 
comes  into  my  heart.*' 

In  seven  of  the  pieces  the  phvsical  sufferings  of 
Christ  are  made  prominent.  Montopomery's  piece 
stands  iirst :  he  was  probably  the  leader  and  in- 
spirer  of  the  hvmnwriting  band.  In  a  letter 
written  in  1807  he  says :  — 

"  When  I  VTM  a  boy  I  wrote  a  great  many  hymns 
....  But  as  I  grew  up  and  my  heart  degenerated,  I 
directed  my  talents,  such  as  they  were,  to  other  services ; 
and  seldom  indeed,  since  my  fourteenth  year,  have  they 
been  employed  in  the  delightful  duties  of  the  sanctuary." 

But  this  seems  to  have  been  written  in  his  six* 
teenth  year,  the  year  in  which  he  left  Fulneck. 
It  is  as  follows :  — 


V9i7?" 


/<^ 


**  O  thou  most  gracious  Lamb  of  God, 
Who  bore  our  sin  and  guilt, 
Bless  him  with  thy  atoning  blood. 
Upon  mount  Calv'ry  spilt.  "7 

**  And  doathe  him  with  thy  righteousUp^ 

That  clean  and  spotless  vest ;  x"'  ^ 

Adorn  his  soul  with  love  and  peace :       '^^ 
Thus  he'll  be  highly  blest." 

JOSIAH  MiLLEB. 
Newark. 


^^ 


EXTRAORDINARY  LEGEND  FROM  GAINS- 

BCRGH. 

I  enclose  you  an  extract  from  the  Oainsburgh 
Neios  of  March  4,  1871,  containing  an  account  of 
the  appearance  of  an  angel  in  that  town  in  the  year 
1810.  The  story  is  causing  considerable  sensa- 
tion in  this  part  of  the  world;  I  am  therefore 
anxious  to  know  if  any  of  your  correspondents 
can  throw  any  light  upon  it.  My  impression  is 
that  I  have  met  with  a  verv  similar  story  in  some 
seventeenth-century  book,  out  I  am  quite  unable 
to  call  to  mhad  where  or  when  I  came  across  it 

Edwabd  Pbacocc. 
Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Extraordhiary  hegtndfrom  Gaintburgh, 

**  The  Yicarage,  Gainsburgh, 

February  27th,  1871. 

Dear  Sir,— I. send  you  the  enclosed  papers,  which  speak 
for  themselves.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  whether  any  of 
your  readers  can  throw  light  upon  the  legend,  or  trace  it 
to  its  source.  So  far  as  I  can  find,  the  only  Mr.  King 
who  exercised  the  office  of  the  Christian  ministnr  in 
Gainsburgh  was  the  Mr.  King  who  was  pastor  of  the 
Independent  congregation  from  July,  1819,  to  Jane,  1826» 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [4««.  s. vii.  mabch  25. -ti. 


and  I  cannot  trace  ont  a  Mr.  Horn  at  all  in  connection 
with  any  religious  body  in  the  town. 

No  doabt  the  present  prevalence  of  the  small-poz  has 
given  the  legend  a  longer  existence  than  its  mythical 
and  indefinite  character  warranted,  but,  assuoain^  that 
it  must  have  some  slight  foundation,  it  is  a  matter  of 
interest  to  discover  the  molehill  which  has  grown  into  a 
mountain. 

I  am,  dear  Sir,  faithfoll  v  yonra, 

J.  Clemkxts.'' 
The  papers  enclosed  are — 

I  and  2.  Letters  from  Bev.  W.  du  Heaume,  H.A., 
Boctor  of  Trinity,  Jersey. 

8.  Letter  from  Rev.  M.  Gallienne,  Wesleyan  mimster, 
Jersey. 

4.  The  broadsheet  circulating  in  Jersey,  in  French. 

5.  A  translation  of  the  same  into  English. 

[Enclosure  1.] 

"Trinity  Rectory,  Jersev,  October  18tb,  1870.— Rev 
and  dear  Sir, — Would  you  kindly  give  me  some  informa- 
tion, if  in  your  power  to  do  so,  respecting  some  extra- 
ordinary circumstance  which  is  said  to  have  arisen  in 
your  own  parish  church  on  the' 5th  of  April,  1819  ?     I 
make  this  request  because  the  poorer  and  more  illiterate 
people  about  here  are  being  persuaded  that  no  less  than 
an  angel  did  on  that  day  appear  to,  I  suppose,  your  pre- 
decessor, as  the  document  is  signed  *  King,  rector,*  and  (I 
quite  forget  their  names)  the  two  churchwardens ;  and  if, 
as  I  believe,  the  document  is  false,  I  shall  make  it  my 
duty  to  say  so.      It  is  stated  in  that  paper  that  a  child 
was  found'  ringing  the  bells  at  dead  of  ni^;ht,  and  after 
having  prophesied  tJie  present  state  of  France,  and  the 
overthrow  of  all  rule  in  that  countrj'',  disappeared  sud- 
denly, summoning  those  present  to  appear  before  God. 
All  this  and  much  more  purports  to  be  signed  by  the  then 
rector,  as  I  have  said.    It  is  printed  by  a  person  of  the 
name  of  Besley  at  Lincoln  itself.  The  wliole  affair  is  to  me 
60  ridicnlous  that  I  am  really  ashamed  to  trouble  you 
about  it,  but  I  am  requested  to  do  so,  and  to  beg  of  you 
to  allow  me  to  show  your  answer. — I  am  yours  very  truly, 
Wm.  Du  Hkaumk." 

[Enclosure  2.]- 

"Trinity  Rectory,  Jersey,  November  2nd,  1870. — Dear 
Sir, — Pray  accept  my  beat  thanks  for  your  kind  answer 
to  my  Ittter.     I  have  at  last  obtained  a  printed  copy  of 
the  famous  circular.     It  is  ratla-r  soiled,  but  I  can  get 
no  other.    You  need  not  return  it.     You  cannot  imagine 
what  an  impression  the  contents  of  that  paper  has  pro- 
duced among  the  lov.or  orders  in  this  small  community. 
It  has  been  circulated  amongst  the  Dissenters  chiefly. 
Our  own  people  attach  no  importance  to  it.    I  have 
known  a  gentleman  of  the  name  of  King  on  this  island, 
about  eight  or  ten  years  ago,  but  I  cannot  ascertain  what 
has  become  of  him.    lie  was  a  very  superior  man,  about 
60  or  70  years  old  then,  and  too  gifted,  as  I  think,  to  be 
the  author  of  such  a  story.     We  shall  all  be  rejoiced  if  von 
can  take  the  trouble  to  read  this  paper.    I  send  it  as  ft  is, 
in  French,  which  is  our  language,  as  used  in  the  parish 
churches  and  ofilcially,  although  we  are  daily  getting 
more  Anglicised,  and  are  proud  of  becoming  more  and 
more  like  other  English  subjects  in  habits,  and  even  lan- 
guage—Yours very  truly,  \Vm.  Du  Hea  ume. — The  Rev. 
J.  Clements.'* 

[Enclosure  3.] 
"22,  Vauxhall-street,  Jersey,  February  19th,  1871.— 
Sir, — ^The  enclosed  paper  is  being  circulated  in  this  iiJand. 
It  purports  to  be  the  translation  ot  an  account  of  the 
apparition  at  Gainsburgh,  in  Lincolnshire,  in  1819,  of  an 
angel  in  the  form  of  a  young  fiemalc,  who,  it  is  said, 
cauMd  the  bells  of  the  church  to  ring  by  breathing  upon 


them,  and  declared  that  she  was  sent  to  warn  England 
of  her  sins.  She  likewise  prophesied  bad  times  for 
France.  The  names  of  the  clei^^men  in  Gainsbui^h 
who  heard  her  testimony  are  mentioned — Revs.  King  and 
Horn  ;'and  the  parties  attesting  the  truthfulness  of  the 
account  are  added — William  Chambers,  John  Coultson^ 
and  John  Boole.  Can  you  inform  me  whether  the  names 
mentioned  are  real  or  fictitious,  and  whether,  for  instance* 
the  clergymen  of  your  town  in  1619  were  those  named; 
and  whether  there  are,  dtber  in  the  records  of  the  church 
or  in  the  memory  of  some  inhabitants  at  present  70  veafs 
old,  any  circumstances  occurring  on  the  4th  of  ApriL 
1819,  which  may  have  given  rise  to  the  legend  ?  I  ihali 
feel  extremely  obliged  by  a  word  in  reply,  and  enclose 
my  address.— I  am,  dear  sir,  yours  respectfully,  M.  Gai> 
LiENXE  (Wesleyan  Minister).'' 

[£ncloeaTe4.] 

This  is  the 'broadsheet  in  French,  a  translation  of 
which  is  appended. 

[EneloBureS.] 

"  A  true  and  circumstantial  account  of  the  apparition 
of  an  angel,  who  was  seen  by  the  minister  and  church 
officials  of  the  parish  church  of  Gainsburgh,  in  the  county 
of  Lincoln,  on  Sundav,  April  4th,  1819,  with  a  report  of 
the  conversation  which  took  place  between  these  last,  the 
angel  and  the  minister,  in  the  course  of  which  the  angel 
exhorted  the  English  people  to  repentance.    The  present 
account,  in  token  of  truth,  has  been  attested  by  these 
gentlemen,  who  have  affixed  their  respective  signatures 
to  it.— On  Sunday,  the  4th  of  April,  1819,  from  the  bells 
of  the  parish  were  heard  sounds  more  soft  and  harmonious 
than  had  ever  been  heard  before,  which  filled  the  in- 
habitants with  the  greatest  surprise  and  astonishment, 
upon  which  three  of  them,  Mr.  John  CoiUston,  the  clerk, 
and  the  sexton,  who  kept  the  keys  of  the  church  and  tlie 
belfrey,  repaired  to  the  church  to  learn  the  cause  of  this 
extraordinary  circumstanre.    One  said  to  the  other,  *Let 
us  fetch  Mr.'^^King'  (the  minister  who  was  to  preach  that 
day),  and  all  having  stopped  for  an  ins  tint  before  the 
church,  were  anablc  to  recover  from  their  surprise  on 
hearing  the  bells  ring  so  sweetly.    Mr.  King  said,  *  In 
the  name  of  the  Lord  let  us  open  the  door,'  but  first  he 
exhorted  them  to  say  the  following   prayer :  *  O  Lord 
God,  give  us  all  needful  time  to  think  of  our  latter  end, 
deliver  us  not  over  to  the  horrors  of  death  and  eternal 
torments,  but  grant  us  grace  to  prepare  to  make  our- 
selves worthy  of  Thy  goodness  and    infinite  mercies, 
through  the  merits  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Chrii^t,  to  whom 
with  Thee  and  the  Holy  Spirit  be  all  honour  and  glory, 
now  and  ever,  amen.'    After  which  Mr.  King  said,  *  "O 


Heavenly  Father,  we  yield  ourselves  to  Thy  call.'    Then 
the  clerk,  at  the  name  of  the  Lord,  opened  the  door.  After 
having  prayed  together  in  the  church,  thev  ascended  to 
the  belfry,  where  they  saw  the  bells  ringing  as  before, 
and  looking  round  them  they  perceived  a  child,  appa- 
rently about  seven  years  of  age,  dmased  in  white,  and 
having  a  crown  of  gold  upon  his  head,  who,  by  the  mere 
power  of  his  breath,  set  the  bells  in  motion,  and  caused 
them  to  ring  in  this  harmonious  manner,  to  the  great 
astonishment  of  those  present.      Mr.  King,  acting  as 
spokesman,  said  to  the  child, '  In  tlie  name  of  the  Lord, 
who  art  thou  ?  '   *  I  am,*  he  replied,  *  the  messenger  of 
the  Lord,  and  I  am  come  to  exhort  all  men  to  repent- 
ance.'   The  miniver  then  said  to  him,  *  And  for  what 
reason  do  j^ou  bring  us  this  message  ? '   'I  am  sent  by 
the  Lord  to  induce  you  to  attend  without  ceasing  daily 
to  your  prayers,  ni^^ht  and  morning  —  to  perform  as  in 
God's  sight  all  spiritual  acts,  and  to  pray  every  day, 
especially  that  He  will  prepare  you  for  the  last  day,  that 
dreadful  day  of  judgment,  when  the  world  will  be  de- 
stroyed by  fire.'    And  he  added,  *  There  will  come  again 


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calamitous  times  upon  ail  Europe  in  proportion  as  msn 
prove  tbemselvefl  ungodly,  irreligious,  and  ungratefiil, 
especially  in  the  countries  where  virtue  and  truth  ought 
to  shine  most  brightly.  God  has  loolced  long  for  the 
fruits  of  justice,  and  has  seen  everywhere,  instead,  fruits 
of  wickedness ;  wherefore  saith  the  God  of  Heaven,  **  I 
will  torment  tlie  Christian  nations  in  my  anger ;  I  will 
punish  them  for  their  wickedness ;  I  will  smite  them  with 
ft  scourge  of  small-pox  and  divers  other  diseases,  because 
they  have  provoked  mv  wrath."  But  before  these  calami- 
ties arrive  the  King  oi  France  will  endeavour  to  aggran- 
dize his  power;  grand  preparations  for  war  will  be  made 
in  all  parts  of  Christendom ;  but  the  King  of  France  will 
see  his  power  humbled,  for  discord  will  trouble  and  de- 
stroy his  kingdom.'  The  messenger  from  heaven  still 
continued  to  exhort  them  to  repentance,  by  tdling  them 
that  the  day  ofjodgment  approached.  Then  the  minister 
said  to  him,  *  How  do  you  know  all  these  things?  *  The 
angel  replied  :  *  My  Heavenly  Master  reveals  nothing  to 
his  servants  for  their  own  use,  but  has  sent  me  to  yon, 
to  warn  you  to  repent  of  your  sins  before  He  lays  His 
heavy  hand  upon  you.'  And  he  added,  *  Come  with  me, 
I  have  still  another  miracle  to  show  you.'  Having  con- 
ducted them  into  the  interior  of  the  church,  he  said  to 
them, '  Lift  up  this  stone.'  All  having  endeavoured  to  do 
so,  and  not  being  able  to  succeed  in  removing  it,  the 
minister  cried,  *  Lord,  have  pity  on  us ! '  '  Very  well,'  said 
the  dhild,  *  Come  near  me.  Are  yon  afraid  of  the  work 
of  the  Lord  ?  If  your  faith  is  so  weak,  when  a  messenger 
from  Paradise  is  with  you,  how  can  you  hope  to  be  strong 
enough  to  enter  the  kingdom  of  heaven  ? '  Then,  laying 
his  hands  upon  the  stone,  he  turned  it  over,  to  the  great 
astonishment  of  the  beholders.  Then  he  picked  up  a  roll 
of  paper  which  was  under  this  stone,  and  upon  which 
was  written  in  letters  of  fgold,  'England!  England! 
renounce  your  ungodliness,  and  hasten  to  repent  of  it ! ' 
.  .  .  Then  he  disappeared,  amidst  the  sound  of  melodious 
music,  leaving  the  persons  who  were  present  and  had  the 
happiness  of  seeing  him,  in  a  state  of  rapture  and  ecstacy. 
In  testimonv  of  which,  we,  the  undersigned,  sincerely 
and  positively  declare  the  truth  of  the  statement  above 
related,  given  under  our  respective  signatures  the  4th 
April,  1819. — Mr.  Kino  and  Mr.  Horn,  ministers ;  Wu. 
Chambers,  Joitn  Coulston,  and  Jous  Boon,  Esqrs." 


THE  ORIGIN  OF  ARCHBISHOP  STAFFORD. 

John  Stafford  was  Archbishop  of  Canterbury 
and  Chancellor  of  England  during  some  of  the 
most  troubled  years  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VI.  It 
has  generally  been  assumed  that  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of*  the  great  family  of  his  surname  which,  as 
Earls  of  Stafford  or  of  Devonshire;  or  Dukes  of 
Buckingham^  were  so  distinguished  under  the 
later  Flantagenets  and  the  earlier  Tudors.  But, 
although  it  may  be  conceded  that  he  belonged  to 
the  family,  it  is.  not  easy  to  trace  the  particular 
branch  firom  which  he  sprung,  nor  to  decide  whe- 
ther his  birth  was  or  was  not  legitimate.  The 
question  is  not  without  interest,  and  may  be  elu- 
cidated so  much  by  ventilation  in  the  columns  of 
**  N.  &  Q."  that  I  am  induced  to  send  you  a  brief 
r^sumi  of  the  facts  of  the  case,  and  to  hope  that 
some  of  your  readers  who  are  versed  in^such 
matters  may  be  able  to  clear  up  the  difficulties 
which  surround  it. 

It  was  suggested  to  my  own  mind  by  a  visit  to 


the  verv  out-of-the-way  village  of  North  Bradley, 
on  the  Dorders  of  Wilts  and  Somersetshire.  Open- 
ing from  the  chancel  of  the  parish  church  is  a 
north  chapel  of  late  Perpendicular  work,  but  un- 
finished outside  in  parts  of  the  carving.  In  the 
window,  which  faces  north,  is  an  altar- tomb  bear- 
ing an  incised  figure  of  a  lady  and  this  inscrip- 
tion : — 

**Hic  jacet  Dna  Emma,  mater  veneratissimi  patrls  et 
Domini,  Doi  Johannis  Stafford,  Dei  gracia  Cantoariensis 
Archicpi,  qao  obiit  quinto  die  mensis  Scptembris  Anno 
Dui  Miilesimo  CCCCmo  .  quadrigesimo  .  Cujus  an.  ppcie* 
tur  Dens  .  Amen .  0  Dcus  trina,  me  J  oh™  conserva  ruin&." 

There  is  a  great  deal  here  about  "  me  Joh™  " 
and  very  little  about  his  mother.  It  really  looks 
as  if  he  was  anxious  by  the  greatness  of  his  own 
personal  dignity  to  cover  any  little  shortcomings 
of  which  **Domina  Emma  '  might  have  been 
guilty.  The  tomb  will  be  found  fully  described 
in  Canon  Jackson's  edition  of  Aubrey,  where  also 
the  curious  questions  suggested  by  it  are  set  forth 
at  length.  If  this  ''  Emma  "  was  the  archbishop's 
mother,  who  was  his  father  P  If  his  father  was 
the  husband  of  this  ''Emma,"  why  is  he  not  men- 
tioned on  the  monument?  Is  there  any  other 
example  of  this  kind?  Does  any  other  eccle- 
siastic of  that  period  commemorate  his  mother  by 
herself;  and  if  he  does,  has  his  legitimacy  been 
ascertained  ? 

I  may  endeavour  to  point  dut  the  little  that  is 
known  in  answer  to  these  questions.  Batteley 
{Cantuaria  Sacra,  p.  75)  calls  the  archbishop  the 
son  of  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford  "  with  the  silver 
hand,''  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Dynham.  Banks 
(Extinct  Baronage^  ii.  641)  makes  the  same  state- 
ment in  the  text,  but  modifies  it  in  the  pedigree 
at  the  end  of  the  article  bv  cautiously  adding  in 
parenthesis  to  the  name  of  Dynham  the  words  ''  or 
Aumarle."  A  very  complete  genealogical  table 
of  the  Staffords  is  to  be  found  in  Coll,  Top,  et  Gen. 
vL  336,  and  if  it  is  correct  this  statement  of 
Banks*s  is  erroneous.  There  is,  in  fact,  great  con- 
fusion between  the  two  Sir  Humphreys,  and  both 
seem  to  have  been  called  the  "silver-handed"; 
at  least  the  younger  has  the  name  in  the  CoUeO" 
tanea,  and  the  elder  in  Testanienta  Vetusta  (see 
p.  100).  According  to  the  pedigree  just  men- 
tioned, the  elder  Sir  Humphrey  had  two  wives— 
namely,  first  Elizabeth,  nie  D'Aumarle,  widow  of 
Sir  John  Mautravers,  and  mother  of  Elizabeth 
Mautravers,  the  wife  of  young  Sir  Humphrey; 
and,  secondly,  Alice,  daughter  and  co- heiress  of 
Sir  Adam  Beville.  But  this  Alice  cannot  have 
been  the  mother  of  the  younger  Sir  Humphrey, 
although  this  is  stated  in  the  Collectanea^  since  he 
is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  stepmother  as 
being  her  daughter  Mautravers's  husband.  Nor 
was  Alice  the  mother  of  the  archbishop  (who,  by 
the  way,  is  not  named  in  the  above-mentioned 
pedigree),  because  we  see  by  the  tomb  that  his 


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mother *B  name  was  "  Emma."  He  is  mentioned 
in  the  will  of  the  younger  Sir  Humphrey  as  his 
brother  John,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells.  So 
that  at  the  time  of  his  erecting  this  monument  at 
North  Bradley,  his  brother  and  father  were  both 
dead ;  the  latter  having  died  in  1413,  some  thirty 
years  before ;  and  his  mother  must  have  been  dead 
at  least  three  years,  because  he  did  not  become 
archbishop  till  1443.  He  had  been  made  Bishop 
of  Bath  in  1425,  so  that  his  birth  must  have  been 
antedated  beyond  1405,  at  which  time  the  (sup- 
posed) first  wife  of  his  father  died.  (See  Nicolas, 
Test,  Vettist.  p.  166.J  He  was,  therefore,  dearlvnot 
the  son  of  a  second  wife,  and  it  is  not  possible  he 
was  this  Elisabeth  Lady  Stafford's  son.  On  the 
whole,  then,  we  are  driven  to  the  conclusion  first 
ptarted  by  Gascoi^e,  a  nearly  contemporary  au- 
thority, who  (Lewis's  Life  of  Pecock)  spea]KS  of 
him  as  ''bastardus  origine.''  On  the  other  hand, 
Cnnon  Jackson  points  out  that  the  archbishop  in- 
herited certain  lands  in  Wiltshire  in  1443  on  the 
demise  of  a  (presumed)  relative,  which  does  not 
accord  with  the  hypothesis.  But  can  it  be  proved 
that  the  land  did  not  come  by  bequest. or  settle- 
ment? 

.'Vgain,  we  have  certain  examples  of  similar  mo- 
numents. I  am  only  acquainted  with  one ;  but  there 
are  several,  I  believe,  in  existence.  In  Buxtead 
church,  Sussex  (Haines's  Montimental  Brasses,  ii.) 
19  the  following  epitaph  of  the  middle  of  the 
fifteenth  century,  or  just  coeval  with  the  North 
Bradley  tomb : — 

^ere  Ijifb  orstttn  nnbcr  ibss  stjon 
3Fpme  iSubngt  bol^e  flrssgt  ^  boon 
|lobt.  ^uj^re  done  b)3f  ptrsoa  ^»re : 
^aott  l^att  ntiu]  petrt. 
€isni  jobnj  $ci\c  born  of  a  maybt : 
to  3^|)int  ri-  ^lobt.  ^nijre  ^one  foniiS.itbe 
Cbnt  oioi  of  ])b.  bioiib  btn  pHsstb  us  fr9 : 
6u.  nnte  ih\i  m't^  anb  to  bs  alsc.     ^mi. 

Now,  if  it  could  be  ascertained  whether  this 
Ivobert  Savage  was  bom  in  wedlock  or  not,  some 
light  might  be  thrown  on  Stafford's  case.  Here, 
it  will  be  observed,  the  surname  of  the  mother  is 
given.  Is  her  son  properly  called  Savage  in 
Haines,  or  is  it  possible  to  ascertain  by  the  parish 
records  that  he  Iwre  any  other  name  P  I  have  no 
doubt  some  of- your  correspondents  may  be  able 
at  least  to  malce  sure  that  the  desired  informa- 
tion is  not  in  existence. 

Heraldry  seems  to  throw  little  or  no  light  on 
the  subject.  Although  Aubrey  mentions  tne  re- 
luains  of  a  coat  **  quarterly "  as  existing  in  his 


the  carvings  of  the  chapel,  which  are  very  rich ; 
nor  do  the  archbishop's  own  arms,  as  they  occur 
at  Canterbury  and  in  other  plac^  tell  us  any- 
thing, though  they  are  not  inconsistent  with  tne 
hypothesis  of  his  low  origin.    Willement  gives 
them  thus  {Canterbury ^  p.  22)  : — ''In  the  nor^ 
transept,  the  arms  of  the  see  of  Canterbury,  tm- 
paling  '  Or,  on  a  chevron  gules,  a  mitre  proper,  a 
bordure  engrailed  sable.'        This  bordure  is  en- 
tirely different  from  any  knovm  example  of  the 
system  of  cadency  in  use  in  the  Stafford  family, 
and  at  first  sight  has.  to  heraldic  eyes,  a  strong 
look  of  illegitimacy ;  out  we  must  take  into  ac- 
count the  fact  that  Archbishop  Arundel,  who  died 
in  1414,  used  a  ''  bordure  entailed  argent  "round 
his  paternal  arms,  and  Archbishop  Kemp,  Staf- 
ford's immediate  successor,  differenced  his  with  a 
similar  bordure  of  gold. 

It  seems  strange  that  such  eminent  authorities 
as  Banks,  Battdey,  Hasted,  Duffdale,  Fuller, 
Weever,  and  Dart  should  all  have  been  more  or 
less  in  error  regarding  the  real  origin  of  this 
eminent  prelate.  W.  J.  Loftie; 


Lonoevtty:  Johit  Bailes,  who  Livsn  ix 
Three  Centuries.  —  Under  the  portico  of  All 
Saints  Church,  Northampton,  is  a  tablet,  bearing 
an  inscription,  of  which  I  give  a  fao-eimile  :^- 

*'  Here  nnder  lyeth 

John  Bailes  Bom  in  this 

Town  lie  was  above  126 

years  old  &  had  his  hearing 

Si^ht  &  Mcmoty  to  y*  last 

He  lived  in  8  Centnrys. 

&  was  buried  y*  14*^  of  Apr 

170$." 

Let  me  add  that  in  the  Philosophical  Transao- 
tions,  vol.  XXV.  (170C),  will  be  found  An  Account 
of  the  Death  and  Dissection  of  this  remarkable 
Man,  by  Dr.  James  KeilL  The  following  is  an 
extract ;  — 


« 


John  Bayles,  the  old  button  maker  of  KorthamptoDr 
is  commonly  repnted  to  have  been  130  years  of  age 
when  he  died.  There  is  no  register  so  old  in  the  parish 
where  he  was  christened ;  but  the  oldest  people,  of  which 
some«re  100,  others  90,  and  others  80  years,  remember 
him  to  have  been  old  when  thev  were  yonng.  The  ac> 
counts,  indeed,  differ  much  from  one  another ;  but  all 
agree  that  he  was  at  least  120  years.  He  himself  did 
always  affirm  that  he  was  at  'lilbary  camp,  and  told 
several  particulars  about  It ;  and  if  we  allow  him  to 
have  been  but  12  years  old  then,  he  must  have  been  ISO 
when  he  died.    He  used  constantly  to  walk  to  the  neigh- 


iima     arxA    P«n/^n   ^«/»ir«««  ^.  «:^^i.          A  a  xi.'  bourinff  markets  with  his  buttons  within  these  twelve 

^me,   and   Canon   Jackson  coniectures  that  this  years,  but  of  late  he  has  been  decrepid  and  carried  abroad, 

may  be  the  arms  of  iieville,  which  were  "  quar-  His  diet  was  anything  he  could  get.    I  never  heard  he 
terly,  or  and  gules,"  yet,  as  we  have  seen  that  the 
rj-chbi^ihop  cannot  have  been  the  son  of  Sir  Hum- 


plirey's  second  wife,  even  if  we  change  her  name 
Irom  Alice  to  Emma  Beville,  this  tells  us  nothing. 
There  is  no  shield  or  badge  of  the  Staffords  among 


anything  he  could  get. 
was  more  fond  of  one  sort  of  food  than  another,  unless  it 
was  that,  about  a  year  before  he  died,  he  longed  for  some 
venisoff-pasty,  but  had  it  not.  His  body  was  extremely 
emaciated ;  and  his  flesh  feeling  hard,  *the  shape  of  all 
the  external  muscles  was  plainly  to  be  seen  through  the 
skin."  * 


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255 


It  is  stated  elsewhere  that  ^'Catherine,  his 
daughter,  died  in  this  town  at  the  advanced  age 
of  102  years."  Thomas  Walesby. 

The  Dominicans. — It  may  be  as  well  to  re- 
cord in  "  N.  &  Q."  that  the  long-deserted  con- 
vent of  Geronde,  Sierre,  Valais,  has  just  been 
taken  possession  of  by  some  Dominicans  from  a 
dissolved  Italian  convent.  The  monks  are  most 
learned  men,  and  have  met  with  a  truly  cordial 
reception  from  the  Swiss  of  all  confessions.  The 
convent  is  on  the  summit  of  a  hill  that  overlooks 
the  lake  Qeronde — a  lake  not  five  minutes*  walk 
from  Sierre  (Simplon  routed  and  ^et  unknown  to 
the  majority  of  tourists  wno  visit  Switzerland ; 
even  the  guide  books  ignore  it,  as  they  do  the 
Lac  Noir,  near  Fribourg  (Suisse). 

James  Hejtkt  Dhok. 

Point  de  Vice. — ^Malvolio  says,  *'I  will  be 
point  de  vice  the  very  man."  There  are  people  in 
Craven  who  still  say  "point  vice"  to  express 
things  being  perfect  (pronouncing  these  words  in 
the  English  way).  I  have  a  neighbour  who,  de- 
scribing the  premises  of  another  farmer,  concluded 
by  saying,  "  Oh !  he  is  a  very  particular  man ;  he 
will  have  every  thing'about  ms  place  poi7it  vice^ 

Ellcee. 

Craven. 


Pbosody. — ^In  addition  to  the  liberties  already 
noticed  (p.  32)  as  having  been  taken  with  well- 
known  poems,  I  have  just  found  another  instance 
in  a  work  entitled  Progressive  Lessons  in  Reading j 
&c.  (Glasgow,  1864),  where  Hohenlinden  is  again 
the  principal  victim.  In  this  collection  we  have 
the  alterations — 

"  B^  torch  and  trumpet  sotmd  arrayed." 
**  Volleying  like  the  bolts  of  heaven." 
"  Shall  mark  a  soldier's  cemetery" 

The  bad  taste  of  the  above  must  be  evident  to  the 
mjijority  of  readers. 

Again,  in  the  same  work,  the  following  altera- 
tion occurs  in  the  beautiful  poem  of  The  Cuckoo 
(M.  Bruce  or  Logan) : — 

**  Starts  the  new  voice  of  spring  to  hear  " — 

a  hirpUng  line,  and  very  inferior  surely  to  the 
rhythm  of  the  original — 

"  Oft  stttpsj  thy  curious  voice  to  hear." 

The  sentiment  is  that  of  repose,  which  starts  seems 
greatly  to  injure.  .  Sp. 

Hfsbandman.— In  confirmation  of  the  mean- 
ing which  I  attached  to  the  designation  Hus- 
iMmdman  in  my  remarks  (p.  170^  on  the  Arden 
ancestors  of  Shakespeare,  the  follov^ing  entry  in 
the  parish  register  oi  Barwell,  co.  Leicester,  is  ser- 
viceable : — 

••  1655.  Mr.  Gregory  Isham,  attorney  and  hushxndman, 
buried  7  Oct."— 

probably  a  cadet  of  the  well-known  family  of  the 


name,  and  one  who  on  other  occasions  may  have 

been  styled  a  gentleman. 

Also  the  following  in  the  register  of  St.  John*a 

parish  in  Newcastle-upon-Tyne : — 

**  Umphraye  Hairope,AiM&an£fman,  and  Fortune  Shafto, 
gentlewoman^  married  20  Jan.  1599." 

It  is  evident  that  a  Husbandman  was  one  who 
tilled  his  own  land,  in  distinction  to  a  Farmer, 
who  occupied  the  land  of  another  person. 

Latterly,  the  term  Yeoman  has  been  substituted, 
and  the  volunteer  troops  of  Yeomanry  Cavalry 
have  probably  contributed  to  re-establish  the  use 
of  that  more  ancient  designation.  But  whether 
the  ancient  Yeoman  was  always  so  important  a 
person  as  a  small  land-owner  I  think  somewhat 
doubtful.  I  imagine  that  he  was  rather  such  a 
man,  whether  a  land-owner  or  not,  as  was  com- 
petent to  perform  good  service  with  his  bow, 
when  the  sturdy  archers  were  the  main  force  of 
English  armies.  John  Gough  Nichols. 

SUNOIAL  IkSCBIPTIOKS. — 

*^  Sine  sole  sileo."— Chapel  of  St.  Philippe,  Nice. 
*'SciB  horas  i^nesds  horam." — Convent  of  Cimi^3,near 
Nice. 

r.  w.  s. 

Hotel  de  Luxembourg,  Nice. 


Rbv.  James  Hervbt  aitd  Wixxiam  Hogarth. 

Mr.  Cole,  the  eccentric  bookseller  of  Scarborough, 

preserves  the  following  anecdote  of  the  celebrated 

author  of  The  Meditati^ :  — 

**  He  possessed  *  religion  without  gloom  *;  was  a  sera- 
phic 'and  very  cheerful  man,  though  always  ill';  and 
the  following  anecdote  will  sufficiently  show  that  he 
would  sometimes  indulge  a  facetious  humour : — He  sent 
an  invitation  to  the  Rev.  William  Willis,  Rector  of  Little 
Billing,  his  particular  friend  and  near  neighbour,  in  the 
following  terms:   '  Voluntas    sum,  voluntas  est  mecuni 

^a  ^^a  iri':  thus  rendering  his  friend*s  name  into 
Latin,  and  using  another  Latin  term,  and  three  Greek 
characters  for  the  remainder ;  that  is,  in  English,  *  Wil- 
liam Willis  eat  a  bit  of  pie  with  me  ? '  '* — IJerveiana;  or 
Graphic  and  Literary  Sketches,  illustrative  of  the  Life 
and  fVritings  of  the  hev,  James  Ilerveyf  M,A.,  part  the 
second,  8vo,  1823,  p.  87. 

Fluellen  could  see  a  resemblance  between  Mace- 
don  and  Monmouth — ^there  was  a  river  in  each. 
If  this  reasoning  holds  good,  I  may  surely  claim 
some  mental  features  in  common  between  the 
pious  rector  of  Weston  Favell  and  the  ^eat  artist 
William  Hojjarth ;  for  the  same  idea — it  is  hardly 
likely  that  either  knew  of  the  other's  existence — 
seems  to  have  occurred  coincidentally  to  both.  The 
humorous  vignette  of  a  platter  between  a  knife 
and  fork,  on  the  engraved  title  of  Kichols*s 
Anecdotes  of  Hogarth,  is  familiar  to  us,  as  also  its 
reproduction  on  the  title-page  of  a  little  volume 
of  more  recent  date.  From  this  I  quote  the  fol- 
lowing description :  — 

"  iiogarth*8  card  of  invitation  to  disneh. 

"  A  specimen  of  Hogarth*8  propensity  to  merriment, 
on  the  most  trivial  occasions,  is  exhibited  in  a  hasty 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         14*^  s.  vii.  March  25, 71. 


sketch  on  a  cird  of  invitation  addreaacd  to  Dr.  Arnold 
King;  a  cojrcct  fac- simile  of  which  forms  the  vignette 
in  our  engraved  title-page.  Within  a  circle,  to  which  a 
Jmife  anA  fork  are  the  supporters,  the  written  part  is  con- 
tained. In  the  centre  is  drawn  a  j»i«,  with  a  in  if  re  on  the 
top  of  it ;  and  the  invitation  of  our  artist  concludes  with 
the  following  piece  of  wit  on  the  three  Greek  charucters, 
ij  /3  r-  (to  eta  beta  pO" — Eccentric  and  Humorous  Letters 
of  Eminent  Men  and  Tf^omen,  12mo,  1824,  p.  45. 

Perhaps  these  resembling  efforts  of  wit  may  be 
sbown  to  have  a  common  origin. 

William  Bates. 
Birmingham. 

DiBDIN'S   "  BiBLIOGKAPinCAL   DeCA3IEE0N."-- 

"Will  you  allow  me  to  offer  a  suggestion  as  to  this 
book  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.''  ?  It  is,  that  the 
text  of  the  book  should  be  reprinted.  The  time, 
labour,  and  expense  that  would  be  required  to 
reproduce  the  illustrations  (supposing  the  original 
plates  and  wood-blocks  to  be  no  longer  in  exist- 
ence) would,  I  fear,  deter  any  publisher  from 
attempting  to  reissue  a  fac-simile  of  the  book. 
But,  even  for  an  undertaking  of  such  magnitude, 
I  think  a  sufficient  number  of  subscribers  might 
be  found.  IT  are  we  not  seen  in  our  days  a  repro- 
duction of  D'llozier's  noble  Armorial  g^ndral  de  la 
France?  But  the  reprinting  of  the  text  would 
^ot  be  a  very  arduous  undertaking,  and  would,  I 
am  sure,  be  a  great  boon  to  all  bibliogrAphers  who 
are  not  fortunate  enough  to  possess  the  original 
volumes.  Even  many  of  those  who  do  would,  I 
believe,  be  glad  of  a  working  copy  of  the  text,  to 
save  tiie  wear  and  tear  of  constant  reference  to 
the  beautiful  original.  Of  course,  in  all  instances 
where  in  the  original  reference  is  made  to  a 
woodcut,  the  reference  in  the  reprint  would  re- 
quire to  be  altered  to  the  page  of  the  book  or 
MS.  from  which  the  cut  is  drawn.  Various  little 
alterations  of  this  kind  would  be  necessary,  but 
would  cause  little  or  no  trouble.  Though  the 
book  contains  a  good  deal  of  nonsense,  it  is  yet 
delightful  reading  to  all  lovers  of  ancient  books 
and  MSS.  So  I  offer  my  suggestion,  as  the  phrase 
goes,  *^  for  what  it  is  worth,*'  hoping  that  you, 
Mr.  Editor,  will  at  least  allow  the  subject  to  be 
mentioned  in  the  pages  of  your  widely-read  paper. 

F.  M.  S. 


THE  ETYMOLOGY  OF  "  WARD"  AS  A  PERSONAL 

NAME? 

Lower,  in  his  Patronymica  Britannica,  expl<dns 
Ward  as  meaning ''a  guard  or  keeper."  He  states 
that  Ward,  standing  simply,  is  "  one  of  our  com- 
monest surnames — 187  traders  bearing  it  in  the 
London  Directory  of  1852 :  besides  forming  the 
termination  of  several  others,  as  Aylward,  Dur- 
ward,  Hayward,  Kenward,  Milward,  Woodward, 


&c."  There  are  also  the  names  of  Warden, 
Warder,  Gard,  Garden,  and  Legard,  which  are 
considered  by  Mr.  Lower  to  be  of  similar  import. 
Of  the  compound  names  which  he  mentions,  the 
first,  descended  from  the  Saxon  ^Iward,  is  per- 
haps a  doubtful  member  of  this  fraternity.  Ken- 
wafd,  he  coniectures,  may  have  been  derived  from 
a  cuna-hearaj  or  cow-keeper:  as  we  know  that,  in 
some  cases  at  least,  Coward  is  from  Cow-herd. 
But  the  point  to  which  I  wish  to  direct  inquiry  is 
this — what  was  the  occupation,  or  function,  of  a 
Ward  P  whose  particular  employment  in  guarding 
or  keeping  a  wood,  or  a  mill,  or  a  hay,  &c.,  is  not 

Secified.  Was  ho  the  same  as  a  HerdP  now 
eard.  Or  were  not  many  of  those  who  have 
left  the  name  of  Ward  to  their  posterity  really 
what  we  now  understand  as  wards?  wards  in 
Chancery,  or  wards  of  their  feudal  superior.  It  is 
well  known  that  the  Crown  had  so  many  wards 
that  there  was  a  special  Court  of  Wards  and 
Liveries  for  the  administration  of  their  affairs. 
Mr.  Lower  makes  no  allowance  at  all  for  this 
origin  of  the  name  of  Ward.  Under  the  name  of 
Wardedieu  or  Wardeux,  however,  he  quotes  the 
author  of  Bodiam  and  its  Lords  as  stating  that  that 
Sussex  name  (of  which  William  de  Wardedieu 
was  living  temp.  Hen.  IH.)  originated  from  a  cadet 
of  the  family  of  Monceux,  Lords  of  Hurstmon- 
ceux,  who  was  a  ward  of  the  Earl  of  Eu :  a 
derivation  that  seems  far-fetched,  and  requires 
corroboration.  Mr.  Lower  derives  the  name  of 
Legard  from  "  Fr.  le  garde^  the  guard,  keeper,  or 
warden."  But  was  le  garde  ever  a  French  word 
applied  to  a  person  P  Oarde  is  in  French  a  femi- 
nine noun,  and  its  meaning  the  same  as  oni  guard. 
(There  is  the  French  surname  De  la  Oarde.)  The 
person  who  guards  is  a  gardienj  our  guardian  or 
warden.  I  entertain  a  doubt,  therefore,  whether 
a  Ward  was  really  an  officer  or  a  person  employed 
in  guarding ;  and  if  Mr.  Lower  is  right,  should  be 
glad  to  have  some  examples  that  will  furnish  the 
information  as  to  the  duty  a  Ward  had  to  per- 
form. J.  G.  r^. 


Bears'  Ears. — ^In  a  collection  of  garden  flowers 
as  early  as  the  reign  of  James  L,  I  find  the  term 
"Bearsears,"  which  I  presume  means  the  au- 
ricula.   Has  that  word  oeen  long  disused  P 

ThOS.  E.  WmNIMGTOK. 

[In  Dr.  Prior's  Popular  Names  of  British  Plants^  s.  r. 
"Bears'  Ears,'*  we  read,  "from  the  former  Latin  name 
Ursi  auricula,  in  allusion  to  the  shape  of  the  leaf."] 

BoiniNE  AND  Croft. — Anthony  Bourne  of  Holt, 
CO.  Worcester,  son  of  Sir  John  Bourne  of  Batten- 
hall,  one  of  the  priucipal  secretaries  of  state  tetnp. 
Queen  Mary  (see  ''  N.  &  Q.,"  4»»»  S.  vi.  216),  is 
said  to  have  had  issue  an  only  daughter  and 
heiress  Mary,  who  married  Edward  Croft  of  the 
Croft  Castle  family,  in  Herefordshire ;  but  accord- 


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257 


mg  to  some,  this  Mr.  Croft  married  Anne  Brown 
fsee  Betham,  ii.  418).    Whicli  ia  correct  ? 

H.  S.  G. 

Bbamhah,  Yorksiiiee. — I  wiah  to  obtain  any 
particulars  relating  to  the  earlj  history  of  the 
parish  church  of  Bramham,  West  Hiding,  York- 
shire, dedicated,  says  Allen  {History  of  the  County 
of  York,  iii.  313,  London,  1831),  to  All  Saints  j 
anything  relating  to  William  James,  who  was 
vicar  there  in  lG8d,  or  to  his  immediate  predeces- 
sor, and  to  a  certain  Richard  Smith,  baptised  in 
this  church  May  10,  1593,  and  buried  there  No- 
vember 19,  lGi7 ;  or  to  his  son  Richard,  of  the 
same  parish,  bom  in  1626^  who  was  one  of  the 
early  proprietors  of  New  Jersey  in  America,  and 
some  of  whose  children  settled  there. 

Thos.  Stewardsow,  Jb, 

L.  Yom  Beethoven. — I  find  in  the  Didionnaire 

huicrique  des  MusicUna,  printed  at  Paris  in  1810, 

the  following :  — 

"Beethoven  (Louis-Van),  que  Ton  a  dit  fils  naturel 
de  Fr^eric  Guillaume  II,  roi  de  Prusse,  ebt  ii^  k  Bonn, 
en  1772.' 

Wliat  was  the  origin  of  this  extraordinary 
statement  about  Beethoven's  parentage?  The 
date  above  given  is  also  wrong.  It  ought  to  be 
Dec.  17, 1770,  as  everybody  knows.     F.  W.  M. 

PoRTKAiT  OF  Camebon  OP  LocHiEL. — ^We  are 
exceedingly  anxious  to  know  if  there  exists  in  anv 
shape  a  portrait  of  Donald  Cameron  of  Lochiei, 
the  hero  of  Campbeirs  well-known  poem,  and 
who  took  a  promment  part  on  behalf  of  Prince 
Charlie  in  the  rebellion  of  1745.  We  have  made 
application  at  various  quarters,  both  in  England 
and  Scotland,  but  without  success;  and  have 
reason  to  believe  that  the  present  representative 
of  the  clan  Cameron  is  not  aware  that  any  por- 
trait of  his  ancestor  exists.  K  any  of  your  readers 
Imow  of  such  a  portrait,  they  would  confer  upon 
us  a  very  great  nivour  indeed  by  letting  us  know 
"^iriiere  it  is  to  be  found. 

By  bringing  the  above  want  under  the  notice 
of  your  readers,  you  will  very  much  oblige. 

A.  Fttllabion  &  Co. 

Stead's  Place,  Lcith  Walk,  Edinbuigh. 

CoTJBT  MoTTBNiNG. — Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  of  a  book  or  books  which  regulate 
mourning  dress  at  court  P  Are  '^weepers"  a  part  of 
court  mourniDK  F     What  and  whence  are  tney  P 

M.A. 

CRESTS.—I  have  been  hitherto  under  the  im- 
pression that  the  assumption  of  more  than  one 
crest  (except  in  the  following  cases)  was  wholly 
incorrect.  The  excepted  cases  are— where  a  per- 
son entitled  to  bear  arms  had  legally  assumed, 
by  Act  of  Parliament  or  otherwise,  the  surname 
and  arms  of  some  other  person  in  addition  to  his 
own   or  inherited  the  right.    If  I  am  not  mis- 


taken, it  is  stated  by  heraldic  authorities  that 
although  an  heiress  might  carry  the  arms  of  her 
family  into  that  of  her  husband,  she  was  in- 
capable of  conferring  the  right  on  him  of  using 
her  father's  crest;  inasmuch  as  ladies  were  not 
supposed  to  use  crests  in  the  place  where  they 
were  the  distinguishing  mark  of  a  knight  or 
leader,  namely,  in  battle.  However  I  lately  found, 
on  looking  over  the  Visitation  of  Leicestershire 
(published  last  year  by  the  Ilarleian  Society), 
several  instances  to  the  contrary.  For  instance, 
Belgrave  (p.  67),  with  six  quarterings,  bore  no 
less  than  four  crests;  Berest'ord  (p.  172),  with 
three  quarterings,  bore  two ;  Ikudnell  (p.  143), 
with  eight  quarterings,  had  three ;  Cave  (p.  121), 
with  three  quarterings,  had  two;  and  Sturton 
(p.  119),  with  three  quarterings,  had  two.  I  am 
not  within  reach  of  any  authorities  on  this  ques- 
tion, but  I  hope  some  of  the  able  and  learned 
correspondents  of  **  N.  &  Q."  will  be  good  enough 
to  enlighten  me  and  very  probably  many  others 
of  its  readers.  l .  S.  M. 

*'  GsoBOB  Cantbbbubt's  Will." — ^During  last 
year  a  new  (?)  stoiy  was  publiijhed  in  Tuidey*8 
Magazim,  called  "  George  Canterbury's  Will," 
but  my  mother  and  I  remember  having  read  s 
tale  containing  all  the  main  incidents  many  years 
ago;  viz.,  the  marriage  of  a  young  girl  to  a 
wealthy  old  man,  who  dies,  leaving  to  her  and  her 
boy  the  bulk  of  his  property,  to  the  exclusion  of 
his  grown-up  daughters  by  the  first  wife;  the 

Eoisoning  of  the  boy  by  the  young  lady's  second 
usband,  who  wants  her  money ;  and  her  secretly 
making  a  will,  by  which  it  returns  to  its  rightful 
owners.  Can  anv  of  your  readers  tell  us  what 
the  storv  was  originally  called,  by  whom  it  was 
said  to  nave  been  written,  and  how  and  when  it 
was  published  ?  .  L.  C.  B. 

Pedigbeb  op  Faibfax. — In  a  note  on  p.  65  of 
A  Memoir  of  John  Meadows^  Clk.,  A.M.,  by  the 
late  Edgar  Taylor,  F.S. A.,  it  is  stated  that  — 
"  there  is  another  pedigree  of  Fairfax  in  MS.  Harl, 
6071,  compiled  in  1055  or  57,  bep^nni^g  ^^^^  John  of 
Noni'ich ;  and  I  have  had  the  bene  lit  of  another,  com- 
piled about  1C59  by  an  Edward  Fairfax,  commanicated  . 
by  the  Hovereud  Joseph  Uuntcr,  F.S.A." 

If  the  present  possessor  of  the  latter  pedigree 
will  kincQy  allow  me  to  inspect  it,  I  shall  be 
much  obliged.  J.  Fuller  Russell,  F.S.A. 

4,  Ormonde  Terrace,  Cegcnt's  Park. 

Bishop  Fullt?r.  —  Wanted  the  parentage  of 
William  Fuller,  Bishop  of  Lincoln.        Y.  S.  M. 

Hauesucssn. — This  word,  in  the  law  language 
of  Scotland,  denotes  (see  Janiieson's  Dictionary) 
the  crime  of  beating  or  assaulting  a  person  within 
his  own  house.  Even  yet  the  punishment  on  the 
criminal  is  very  severe,  and  at  no  very  distant 
period  was  capital.    This  ofience,  it  has  been 


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I 


always  said;  is  entirely  unknown  in  a  specific  sense 
in  the  law  of  England,  and  the  word  does  not 
appear  in  any  English  dictionary.  There  is,  how- 
ever, one  instance  to  be  found  to  the  contraij. 
In  the  Quarterly  Review  (zcii.  300)  it  is  said 
(referring  to  Scrope's  History  of  Castle  Cumbe) : 
•'  quod  Johannes  le  Tayllour  fecit  homsokene  super 
dictum  rectorem  in  ecclesia" — ^followed  by  the 
statement  that  though  the  criminal  was  not 
hanged  he  was  heavily  fined.  Is  any  other  in- 
stance to  be  found  of  the  use  of  the  word  as  an 
English  law  term?  G. 

Edinbargh. 

HoxiffE  Abbey  Kbgisteb. — This  valnable  ori- 
ginal register  has  been  the  object  of  a  long  and 
fruitless  search  by  a  friend  of  the  querist.  This 
register  is  quoted  m  Blomefield*s  Norfolk^  in  Dug- 
dale,  in  Dean  Tanner's  books,  in  Taylor's  Index 
MonasticuSf  and  was  traced  to  a  Mr.  Craven  Ord, 
at  whose  sale  in  Russell  Square,  London,  in 
the  year  1829,  it  was  sold  for  23/.  to  a  dealer  in 
London,  who  afterwards  retired  from  business  to 
Canterbury.  It  is  not  in  the  British  Museum. 
If  any  reader  of  ^'N.  &  Q."  happens  to  know  of  its 
whereabouts,  it  would  doubtless  be  of  great  ser- 
vice to  many  readers  of  *'  N.  &  Q."  if  a  note  of  it 
was  given.  *     S.  E.  L. 

Lynn. 

rXhis  Hegiflter  was  lot  669,  and  sold  to  Mr.  Payne  for 
21 7.,  the  greater  part  of  whose  MSS.  were  purchased  by 
Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  Bart.,  of  Middle  Hill.] 

Elizabeth  Killiqbew,  Viscouwtess  Shait- 
KON.— Whose  daughter  was  Elizabeth  Eilligrew, 
wife  of  Francis  Boyle,  first  Viscount  Shannon  P  I 
find  her  described  variously  as,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Eilligrew  \  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  and 
sister  of  Sir  William  KilUgrew;  and  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Killigrew.  Who  was  her  mother  P 
Lady  Shannon  had  a  danghterby  King  Charles  U., 
and  I  should  be  glad  to  know  if  this  daughter 
(Charlotte  Maria  Jemima,  afterwards  Countess  of 
Yarmouth)  was  bom  before  the  marriage  (the 
date  of  which  I  do  not  know)  of  Elizabeth  Killi- 
grew to  Francis  Boyle :  and  if  she  bore  the  arms 
of  Boyle,  or  those  of  King  Charles  with  some 
abatement.  Edmund  M.  Boyle. 

(Trancis  Boyle,  born  June  25, 16*23,  was  the  sixth  son 
of  Richard  Boyle,  the  first  Earl  of  Coric.  Franci^s  created 
Viscount  of  Shannon,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  Robert  Killigrew  and  sister  of  Sir  VVillinm  Killi- 
prew,  by  whom  he  had  issue  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 
Jacob's  English  Peerage,  IL  482;  Addit.  MS.  (Brit 
Museum),  24,492,  p.  105 ;  and  Wheler's  Guide  to  Strat- 
fvrd-upofirAvon,  ed.  1825,  p.  25.  Graramont  speaks 
of  Elizabeth  Killigrew's  liaUon  with  Charles  If.  under 
her  maiden  name.  The  time  of  the  birth  of  Charlotte 
Jemima  Henrietta  Boyle,  aliaa  Fitzror,  is  not  recorded. 
She  died  in  Ix)ndon,  July  28,  1684,  and  was  buried  in 
Westminster  Abbey.  She  was  twice  married :  first,  to 
James,  only  son  of  Thomas,  second  son  of  Theophilns 
Howard,  Earl  of  Suflfolk;  and,  secondiv,  to  William 
Paston,  son  and  heir  of  Robert,  Eatl  of  Yarmouth.    No 


coat  is  given  to  her  as  Countess  of  Yarmouth,  who  before 
this  marriage  was  sometimes  called  Boyle  and  sometimes 
Fitzroy.] 

Sir  Peter  Lelt's  Life  and  Works.— Where 
can  I  refer  to  a  list  of  the  portraits  painted  by  Sir 
Peter  LeIjP  and  has  a  Life  of  Lely  ever  beea 
published  ?  if  so,  bj  whom  P  T.  M. 

[Consult  Walpole*8  Anecdotea  of  Painting,  edit  1849  ; 
Biographia  Britannica,  edit.  1747-66  ;  and  Biran's  ViC' 
iionary  of  Painters  and  Engravers.  Lely*s  collection  sold 
for  26,000/.;  and  besides  he  left  900/.  yearly  estate  at  his 
death.    Addit.  MS.  23,070,  p.  60^  British  Museum.] 

Michael  Akqelo's  "Last  Judgment." — In 
Michael  Angelo's  fresco  of  the  '^  Last  Judgment " 
there  is,  among  the  group  of  saints  who  have 
suffered  martyrdom,  a  figure  which  I  take  to 
represent  St.  Blaise,  as  he  bears  in  his  hands  as 
the  instruments  of  his  death  two  carding  combs, 
the  insignia  of  that  patron  of  fiax  carders. 

Li  the  painting  as  it  now  exists,  the  saint  turns 
his  head,  which  is  seen  in  profile,  completely 
round|  and  gazes  over  his  rignt  shoulder  at  the 
Saviour,  who  occupies  the  centre  of  the  composi- 
tion. In  a  spirited  copy  of  the  picture  in  the 
chamber  of  the  cameos,  in  the  Umzi  gallery  at 
Florence,  and  also  in  tne  engravings  of  Giorgio 
Mantuano  and  others,  the  same  sunt  appears ;  but 
thouffh  his  hands  and  arms  are  in  the  identical 
position,  his  face,  now  three-quarters  to  the  left, 
looks  down  between  them,  and  apparently  either 
converses  with  St.  Ejitherine,  wno  is  a  little 
below  him,  or  directs  the  attention  of  the  strug- 
gling sinners  below  to  his  faithful  death. 

As  these  latter  bear  internal  evidence  that  they 
were  not  copied  one  from  the  other,  and  as  they 
are  all  taken  from  the  fresco  in  its  earlier  state, 
that  is,  before  Daniel  de  Volterra  was  ordered  by 
Paul  IV.  to  add  drapery  to  the  figures,  it  mav  be 
presumed  that  this  figure  was  then  altered  to 
what  it  now  is. 

I  should  be  interested  in  hearing  if  any  one  can 
give  me  particulars  as  to  the  reason  why  this 
alteration  was  made.         H.  A.  Kennedy,  Jun, 

Eldon  House,  Beading. 

MosariTOES  in  England,  cir,  1760. — ^In  Letters 
of  the  First  Earl  of  Malmesburyy  his  Family,  and 
hiends,  1745  to  1820,  London,  1870  (otr.  1760), 
we  read  in  a  letter  of  Mrs.  Harrises,  describing  a 
visit  to  the  Dean  of  Sarum's  parsonage  in  Can>- 
bridgeshire  in  June :  — 

**  The  Dean's  parsonage  is  surrounded  with  fens,  and 
you  are  teased  beyond  expression  by  the  gnats.  When 
we  got  hero,  the  Dean's  butler  came  to  your  father  with 
a  pair  of  leather  stockings  to  draw  on  so  as  to  protect  his 
legs,  which  in  hot  weather  is  dreadfuL  Besides  this,  the 
beds  have  a  machine  covered  wiUi  a  silk  net,  wliich  lets 
down  after  you  are  in  bed  and  covers  you  all  over.  With- 
out this,  there  could  be  no  deeping :  for,  notwithstanding 
these  precautions,  we  were  most  miserably  stung." 

Could  these  have  been  ordinary  gnats? 

John  Piggot,  Jun, 


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259 


Philosophical  Nakedness. — In  Hogg's  Life 
of  Shelley  (ii.  292)  it  is  said  that ''  much  has  been 
said  and  written,  by  wise  men  and  by  foolish 
ones,  on  the  subject  of  going  naked."  Is  refer- 
ence made  here  to  any  special  controversy  ?  What 
has  been  written  at  all  on  this  subject  P 

By  the  way,  has  any  one  else  been  known  to 
follow  the  ''  philosophical  nakedness  "  of  Shelley's 
friendS;  of  whom  Hogg  gives  so  amusing  a  story  P 

An  ARAB. 

St.  AuGiTSTpE. — By  several  writers,  as  Bishop 
Saunderson,  Bishop  Li^e,  and  Archbishop  Trench, 
this  father  is  stated  to  have  spoken  of  the  noble 
deeds  of  the  heathen  as  splendida  peccata.  Is  this 
expression  to  be  found  in  St.  Augustine,  or  how 
did  it  arise  P  The  common-places  from  St.  Au- 
gustine which  illustrate  the  matter  in  other  terms 
are  known.  It  is  the  SQurce  of  these  words 
which  it  is  desired  to  ascertain.  No  assistance  is 
to  be  gained  from  the  authors  above  mentioned; 
in  whose  works  the  words  occur. 

E.  Marshall. 

Sandford. 

ScENA  :  Scen£.  —  To  vary  your  matter  and 
meet  various  tastes,  may  I  ask  by  what  analogy 
it  is  that  if  the  Latin  scena  comes  from  the  Greek 
(TKfiyrj^  the  final  n  becomes  a,  while  the  first  one 
remams  e?  But  if,  as  I  suspect^  the  termination 
a  points  to  an  earlier  stage  ot  derivation  than  the 
Chreek  q,  how  is  it  that  the  Latin  a  becomes  i} 
in  the  Greek;  and  that  the  Latin  e  remains  rt  in 
the  first  s^'llable?  I  fancy  some  clue  to  this 
seeminff  discrepancy  may  be  found  in  the  com- 
mon origin  of  both  words.  Myops. 

Sir  William  Stakhope,  1040-1680. — Some 
twenty  years  ago  I  purchased  at  Oxford,  mainly 
for  the  sake  of  its  handsome  carved  frame,  a  fine 
old  portrait  which  was  said  to  have  been  turned 
out  of  Blenheim.  On  sending  it  to  be  cleaned 
and  lined,  the  names  of  Sir  Wiuiam  Stanhope  and 
Sir  Peter  Lely,  inscribed  on  the  back  of  the  can- 
vas, emerged  from  beneath  the  old  stretcher. 
Can  any  one  acquainted  with  the  Stanhope  pedi- 
gree enable  me  to  identify  the  original  of  my 
portrait?  Sir  Peter  Lely  died  in  1680,  aetat. 
sixty-three.  The  companion  portrait,  in  a  frame 
to  match,  was  that  ot  Anne,  daughter  of  John 
(Wilmot)  Earl  of  Rochester,  married  to  Sir 
Francis  Greville.  This  Earl  of  Rochester  suc- 
ceeded to  the  title  in  1659,  and  died  in  1680— 
the  same  year  as  Sir  Peter  Lely,  whose  name  was 
also  inscribed  on  her  portrait. 

T,  Herbert  Notes,  Jxtn. 

Stedman  FAMiLY.-^ohn  Stedman,  the  first  of 
tbia  familv  who  owned  Strata  Florida  Abbey  in 
Cardiganshire,  is  said  to  have  come  from  Chepsey, 
near  Chartley,  in  Staffordshire;  then  the  property 
of  Devereuz;  Earl  of  Essex. 


In  the  Gentleman^ s  Magazine  of  November,  1840 

^p.  402),  mention  is  made  of  John  Stedman  as 

loUows :  — 

**  Statement  of  Accounts  on  the  death  of  Walter  Earl  of 
Essex.    (From  the  original,  penes  £.  P.  S.) 

<' Walter  Devereux,  Earl  of  Essex,  died  at  Dublin 
Sept.  22,  1576 :  his  body  was  brought  for  interment  to 
Carmarthen,  and  some  of  the  items  of  the  ensuing  ac- 
count relate  to  the  expenses  then  incurred :  — 

'*  *  Due  to  John  Stedman,  bis  L'p  [Lordship's]  officer 
as  money  lent  to  the  Earl  at  his  goin^^c  into  Ireland  by 
bill  to  be  repaid  at  Mic'elms  last,  c^<>. 

**  *  Accompte  of  John  Stedman,  surplusage  of  John 
Stedman*sacc*  uponhispaymeutby  worraut,  xij^t>  ix^  vl<>.' " 

Can  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  kiiidly  inform  me 
where  the  original  document  containing  these 
accounts  is  deposited,  and  who  was  the  writer 
under  the  initials  *'  E.  P.  S."  P 

One  branch  of  the  Stedman  family  possessed 
lands  at  Aston,  in  the  county  of  Shropshire,  in 
1230,  which  still  remain  the  property  of  their 
descendants  in  the  maternal  line. 

Hubert  S^ith. 

St.  Leonard's,  Bridgenortb. 

Watches  op  Distjotquished  Men. — In  1836 
there  was  in  possession  of  Alderman  Charles 
Carolin,  of  the  city  of  Dublin,  a  very  curious  old 
silver  watch  and  brass  chain.  On  the  dial  of  the 
watch  was  engraved  "Lieut.-Gen.  Cromwell  to 
Lieut -Gen.  Fairfax."  The  key  was  of  curious 
workmanship,  and  on  it  the  cipher  in  relief  of 
"  0.  C."  Can  any  of  your  Dublin  correspondents 
give  any  information  as  to  what  became  of  this 
watch  after  Alderman  Carolines  death  (circa 
1846) ?  H.  H. 

"The  Wobld  tuened  upside  down,"  oe  the 
Habes  taking  Vengeance  on  Mankind. — In 
the  last  number  of  The  Herald  and  Genealogist^  a 
remarkable  caricature— to  apply  that  term  to  oil- 
paintings — ^is  noticed,  ofwvhich  the  subject  is 
above  stated.  Hares  are  represented  hunting 
coursing,  and  slaughtering  the  human  race ;  and 
afterwards  hanging,  drawing,  quartering,  roasting, 
and  jugging,  and  feasting  upon  their  disjointed 
members.  It  is  stated  that  such  a  picture  is  pre- 
served at  New  House  near  Down  ton,  Wilts,  one 
of  the  old  mansions  of  the  Eyres  j  and  that  another 
was  formerly  at  the  Duke  of  Buckingham's  at 
Avington,  near  Winchester,  and  sold  there  by 
auction.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  what  became 
of  this  picture. 

There  was  also,  it  is  s^d,  a  similar  picture  at 
Hampton  Court  in  Herefordshire,  the  seat  of  the 
Coningsbyes;  but  the  triumphant  animals  were 
there  conies,  or  rabbits,  which  that  famUy  bore 
in  their  arms.  Does  this  picture  remain  at  Hamp- 
ton Court  durinff  the  Arkwright  dominion  ? 

J.  G.  N. 

"Capeicious  Wbat."— W5l  some  correspondent 
be  kind  enough  to  reply  to  the  following  query 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES.  [4*  s.  vii.  Mabch  25,  'ju 


about  a  sonnet  which  has  lingered  in  a  memory 
for  more  than  fifty  years  ?  The  only  lines  remem- 
bered are  the  following :  — 

**  Capricious  Wray  a  sonnet  needs  must  have — A  sonnet ! 
Why,  fourteen  fines  must  then  be  spent  upon  it. 
•  ••••••• 

Tis  well,  however,  to  have  conquered  the  first  four. 
«••••■•• 

I  want  to  know  who  "Capricious  Wray"  is, 
who  is  the  author  of  the  sonnet,  and  where  it 
may  be  found.  W.  D.  B. 


JOHN  KXOX'S  HOUSE  AT  EDINBURGH. 
(A^  S.  vi.  227.) 

As  no  Edinbiirgh  correspondent  has  replied  to 
Mb.  G.  J.  De  Wilde's  remarks  on  the  inaccurate 
version  of  the  inscription  on  John  Enoz's  house^ 
and  the  perpetuation  of  "  an  absurd  popular  error 
with  reference  to  a  figure  near  the  window .... 
described  as  a  rude  eifigy  of  the  Heformer  preach- 
ing/' permit  me  to  state  a  fact  or  two,  perhaps 
worth  putting  on  record  in  your  columns. 

Until  1850,  when  Knox  s  house  was  rescued 
from  destruction,  after  the  order  for  its  demolition 
had  been  issued  by  the  Dean  of  Guild — as  the 
Scottish  civic  sedile  is  called^the  inscription  was 
concealed  by  a  sign-board^  and  known  only  by 
local  tradition.  The  inaccuracies  of  the  popular 
version  have  thus  found  their  way  into  the  guide- 
book quoted  by  Mb.  De  Wilde.  If  the  sculp- 
tured figure  on  the  angle  of  the  building  is  now 
as  it  originally  was.  there  can  be  no  question  as 
to  its  meaning  ana  relation  to  the  inscription. 
Moses  kneels  and  receives  from  God — as  repre- 
sented by  the  blazing  disc  inscribed  **  BE02 .  bevs  . 
eoD. — ^the  Lawy  as^fiTen  from  Sinai;''  while 
under  the  cornice  running  round  the  building  is 
inscribed  the  summary  of  the  Ten  Command- 
ments : — 

"  LVFE  .  GOD  .  ABVFB  .  AL  .  A»D  .  TI  .  irrCBTBOVB  . 

AS  .  TI  .  SELF." 

But  the  figure,  as  older  Edinburgh  citizens  re- 
member it,  up  to  the  above-named  date,  was 
enclosed  in  a  pulpit  and  canopy,  within  which 
a{|peared  only  the  upper  part  of  the  present  figure 
with  uplifted  hand,  as  in  the  attitude  of  preach- 
ing 'j  and  the  whole  was  painted  so  as  to  seem  to 
be  carved  out  of  the  same  block.  It  is  accordingly 
described  in  Dr.  Robert  Chambers^  Minor  ArUi^ 
qtUties,  1833,  as  "  an  effigy  of  Knox  in  the  attitude 
of  nreaching/'  and  it  was  universally  regarded  as 
sucn. 

The  restoration  of  the  old  house  to  its  present 
condition  was  carried  on  under  the  supenntend- 
ence  of  the  late  Master  Mason  for  Scotland,  Mr. 
James  Smith,  F.S.A.  Scot,  in  conjunction  with 


myself,  then  Secreta^  of  the  Society  of  Antiqua- 
ries; his  services,  1  may  add,  being  rendered 
gratuitously.  The  removal  of  various  wooden 
additions  restored  to  light  the  inscription,  and  the 
sculptured  arms  and  initials  described  by  your 
correspondent  On  removing  the  pulpit,  which 
also  proved  to  be  a  modem  wooden  addition,  it 
was  found  that  the  lower  part  of  the  figure  had 
been  chiselled  away  to  admit  of  this  spurious 
supplement.'  Its  restoration  was  entrusted  to  me. 
A  block  of  stone  was  inserted  in  the  mutilated 
space,  and  on  this  the  late  Mr.  Handjside  Ritchie, 
the  well-known  sculptor,  a  pupil  of  Thorwaldsen, 
carved  the  lower  part  of  the  n&^ure  from  a  sketca 
I  supplied.  The  space,  as  will  be  seen,  was  only 
sufficient  for  a  kneeling  figure,  if  the  lower  limbs 
were  to  be  shown ;  and  though  necessarily  a  con- 
jectiiral  restoration,  I  believe  it  to  be  correct. 

The  house  is  believed  to  have  been  occupied 
by  Geor^  Dune,  abbot  of  Dunfermline,  before 
luiox's  time ;  but  no  ancient  titles  exist,  nor  is 
there  anv  description  in  later  deeds  to  furnish  a 
clue  to  tne  original  occupant  The  arms  are  not 
those  of  the  abbot  Tho  double  initials  indeed 
rather  point  to  some  wealthy  citizen,  who  has 
placed  nis  wife's  alongside  of  his  own.  The  arms 
are  not  to  be  found  in  Nesbit,  but  ought  to  admit 
of  interpretation  by  some  of  your  heraldic  cor- 
respondents. "A  chevron  between  three  treeg, 
three  crowns,"  is  Mb.  De  Wilde's  description; 
but  according  to  a  sketch  made  by  me  when  the 
arms  were  first  exposed  to  view,  the  so-called 
trees  are  flowers — quatrefoils  or  roses;  and  the 
three  crowns  are  on  the  cheyron.    The  initials  are 

IM  •  MA. 

The  perpetuation  in  the  local  guide-book  of  the 
old  inaccurate  version  of  the  inscription,  twenty 
years  after  its  correction  by  the  disclosure  of  the 
original,  is  no  novelty  in  antiquarian  experience. 
A  remarkable  instance  came  imder  my  observa- 
tion when  writing  the  life  of  Chatterton.  His 
satirical  will,  first  printed  by  Cottle  in  1603,  with 
many  inaccuracies,  contains  the  inscription  dic- 
tated by  him  for  a  monument  to  himself;  and 
idthough  the  original  MS.-  is  preserved  in  the 
Library  of  the  Phuosophical  Institution  at  Bristol, 
and  accessible  to  all,  the  incorrect  version  of  the 
inscription,  according  to  Cottle's  miin>rint,  was  cut 
on  the  poet's  monument  erected  in  1840  in  Red- 
difie  churchyard.  As  that  inscription  disappeared 
on  the  removal  of  the  monument  in  consequence 
of  the  restoration  of  Redclifie  church,  if  it  has 
not  yet  been  recut,  a  reference  to  the  original  MS. 
is  advisable.  Daihel  Wilsok. 

Univenity  ColUge»  Toronto. 


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PAKODIES. 
{4}^  S.  vi.  470;  rii.  16,  105,  177.) 

In  1810  was  published,  without  author's  name — 

"  Hamlet  Travestie :  in  Three  Acts.  With  AnnotA- 
tions  by  Dr.  Johnson  and  Geo.  Steevens,  Esq.,  and  other 
Commentators."    London,  12mo. 

The  writer  was  John  Poole  of  Pmd  Pry  cele- 
brity. It  was  Tery  popular,  and  ran  through  six 
editions  in  about  as  many  years.  A  private  and 
beautiful  reprint  was  produced  in  New  York  so 
late  as  1866.  Other  parodies  of  Hamlet  have 
appeared,  viz. :  Hamlet;  a  Neio Burlesque,  London, 
1838, 12mo :  and  Hamlet  Travestie^  in  Two  Acts, 
1849,  12mo.  Mr.  Hall  will  find,  from  AUibone's 
JDtct  Authors  (vol.  ii.),  that  most  of  Shakespeare's 
plays  have  been  burlesqued. 

I'here  is  an  article  on  **  Parody  "  in  the  West- 
nwuter  Review  iot  July,  1854.  C.  W.  S. 

**  Giles  Jollup  the  Grave,   and  Brown  Sally 

Green,"  is  a  parody  on  the  universally  known 

**  Alonzo  the  Brave,  and  the  Fair  Imogene.*'*  The 

author  of  both  original  and  parody,  M.  G.  Levris, 

in  the  introduction  to  "Giles  Jollup,"  &c.  {Tales 

of  Wonder,  written  and  collected,  by  M.  G.  Lewis, 

second  edition,  1801,  p.  27)  thus  remarks :  — 

'* I  roust  acknowledge,  however,  that  the  lines 

printed  in  italics,  and  the  idea  of  making  an  apothecary 
of  the  knight,  and  a  brewer  of  the  baron,  are  taken  from 
a  parody  which  appeared  in  one  of  the  newspapers  under 
the  title  of  *  PU-Garlic  the  Brave,  and  Brown  Celestine.'  " 

Who  is  the  author  of  the  last-named  parody, 
and  in  what  "newspaper"  did  it  appear? 

At  p.  105  of  the  same  volume  there  is  a  ballad 
entitled  "  The  Cinder  King,"  with  a  few  intro- 
ductory observations  by  M.  G.  Lewis :  — 

**  The  following  was  sent  to  me  anonymously.  The 
reader  will  of  course  observe  that  it  is  a  burlesque  imita- 
tion of  the  ballads  of  '  The  Erl  King '  and  '  The  Cload 
King.'  *» 

The  latter  ballads,  as  many  of  your  readers 
are  aware,  may  bo  found  in  the  above-mentioned 
work. 

"Hamlet's  Soliloquy  Imitated,"  by  Jago,  is 
lather  an  ingenious  satire  affecting  those  persons 
whose  fingers  are  continually  itching  to  scribble ', 
and  with  whom,  to  only  have  their  works  on  the 
same  shelf  with  Quarles,  &c.,  is  "  a  consummation 
devoutly  to  be  wished."  See  Elegant  Extracts, 
second  edition,  London,  1790,  book  iv.  appendix 
p.  251.  J.  Perbt. 

Waltham  Abbey. 

Dr.  Maginn  concluded  "  Christabel "  in  Black- 
wood.  Can  it  be  had  in  a  separate  form  ?  I  think 
the  parody  quoted  by  A.  J.  Dunkin  was  called 
ChridabesSf  and  was  an  8vo,  with  "  lots  of  fat,*' 
f.  e.  wide  margins  to  the  pages.    It  was  very 

•  •'This  was  first  published  in  the  third  volume  of 
Ambrono, or  the  Monk** 


funny — Hartley  Coleridge  evidently  was  cogni- 
sant of  the  author.,  S.  T.  Coleridge  used  to  say  that 
the  burlesque  version  of — 

**  Christabel  saw  the  lady*s  e>'e,"— 
was  admirable.  Another  word  was  substituted 
for  "eye,"  and  the  sequent  line  was  the  same  aa 
in  the  original  The  author  of  Chnstabess  was 
never  divulged ;  but  it  is  supposed  that  it  was  a 
coin  from  the  same  mint  as  the  parody  on  Peter 
Bell,  which  came  out  almost  simultaneously  with 
the  real  "Simon  Pure."  There  is  a  German 
parody  on  Christabel,  but  I  know  nothing  about 
Its  merits.  Stephen  Jackson. 


I  possess  a  copy  of  the  parody  inquired  for  by 
Mb.  Hall.    It  is  entitled  — 

«  Hamlet  Travestie :  in  Three  Acts.  With  Bnrlesque 
Annotations,  after  the  Manner  of  Dr.  Johnson  and  Geo. 
Steevens,  Esq.,  a^d  the  various  Commentators.  By  George 
Poolc,  Esq. 

'  Quantum  mntatus  ab  illo.* — Virgil, 
*  Commentators  each  dark  passage  shun, 
And  hold  their  farthing  candle  to  the  sun.' 

Ymtng. 
^  Third  Edition.   London :  Printed  for  J.  M.  Richard- 
son, No.  3,  Comhill,  opposite  the  Royal  Exchange.  1811." 

It  contains  the  well-known  lines :  — 

**  Three  children  sliding  on  the  ice, 
All  on  a  summer's  day,**  &c.  &c. 

R.  Mc.  C. 

Liverpool.  

ANTIQUITY  OF  LADIES'  CHIGNONS. 

(4}"*  S.  vu.  93.) 

The  quotation  from  Artemidorus  given  by  Mb. 
Mac  Case,  as  cited  by  Dr.  Pfaffe,  is  quite  correct 
In  the  original  *  the  passage  is :  — 

rplx^s  txMf  fivydXas  leol  koK^ls  icol  iV  abrais  oy^- 
KtoBai  ieyoBhif  fiixiera  yw^ti'  Mp  yhp  tiffiop^ias 
ierivf  8rc  koI  kWorpUus  epi^lf  n!  ywaucMt  xP*^rratf 
ir.T.A. 

From  the  very  sparing  mention  of  the  addition 
by  Greek  and  Boman  ladies  to  their  head-dress  of 
borrowed  locks,  it  would  seem  that  the  prac- 
tice was  but  little  known  until  the  days  of  general 
corruption  and  extravagance  under  the  Csesars. 
That  a  great  variety  of  iair-dressing  fashions  ex- 
isted before  this  time  there  is  abundant  evidence, 
but  these  seem  to  have  been  all  based  on  the  prin- 
ciple of  makingthe  very  best  of  the  covering  which 
nature  had  ^ven  to  the  ladies'  heads,  whether  by 
dveing,  curbng,  plaiting,  or  rolling,  or  by  the  ad- 
dition of  various  ornaments,  nets,  bands,  hllets^and 
tiaras.  Ladies'  hair  was  artificiallv  cr^p4  {"  nis^s 
de  mille  noeuds,  creu^s  et  tortillas  ^'  t)  m  the  time 
of  the  empire,  ana  even  earlier,  and  by  that 

•  Artemidorus,  Oneirocritiea,  i.  19,  ed.  1603.     Lutet., 
4to,  p.  21. 
t  Konsard,  Le  second  Livre  des  Amours,  2. 


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means,  and  bj  the  use  of  the  substructures  so  well 
understood  and  so  extensiyelj  used  at  the  present 
day,  there  is  no  doubt  that  a  large  apparent 
Tolume  of  hair  was  produced  without  any  actual 
addition  of  the  raw  materiaL  No  references  to 
passa^s  in  which  the  latter  practice  is  mentioned 
are  giyen  in  Smith's  Dictionary  (art. ''  ComsB  "), 
and  the  only  allusions  which  I  can  find  are  in  Ma- 
nilius:* 

'*  niis  cura  sol  yaltus  frontisqne  decbr» 
Semper  erit,  tortosqne  in  fleznm  ponere  crines, 
Aut  nodis  revocare,  et  Tunas  yertice  denso 
Figere  et  appositis  caput  ematare  capilliB :  *' 

and  in  Clement  of  Alexandria.t  ^  this  passage, 
after  ridiculing  the  deyices  of  forming  artificial 
chains  and  plaits  of  hair,  which  were  of  so  curious 
and  complicated  a  nature  that  a  lady  dared  not  to 
touch  her  back  hair  lest  the  hair-pins  should  fall 
out  and  the  whole  afiair  come  to  grief,  nor  go  to 
sleep  lest  she  should  spoil  the  general  effect  of 
her  coiffure^  he  declares  that  the  addition  of  the 
hair  of  others  is  entirely  to  be  condemned,  and 
that  it  is  the  height  of  impiety  to  attach  false 
locks  to  the  head,  thus  clothing  the  skull  with 
dead  treeses. 

"  For  upon  whom  does  '  the  priest  then  lay  hands  ? 
▼horn  does  he  bless  ?  Not  the  woman  who  is  so  adorned, 
forsooth,  but  the  hair  of  some  one  e/se,  and,  throagh  this 
hair,  some  unknown  person.  If  the  man  be  the  head  of 
the  womsn,  and  Christ  the  head  of  the  roan,  is  it  not  most 
impious  that  the  women  should  fall  into  this  double  sin  ? 
In  that  they  deceive  the  men  by  the  excessive  mass  of 
hair,  and,  as  far  as  in  them  lies,  cast  shame  on  their  Lord, 
whilst  they  adopt  false  and  meretricious  adornments,  and 
make  that  head  accursed  which  is  originally  beautiful." 

The  passage  in  Juvenal  mentioned  by  Mr. 
Mac  Cabe  refers  apparently  to  that  method  of 
dressing  the  hair  in  which  a  mass  of  little  curls 
rose  to  a  great  height  from  the  forehead,  but  were 
not  carried  back  fai-ther  than  to  the  centre  of  the 
head,  where  they  were  suddenly  terminated  by  a 
JUlet  or  mitra,  the  hair  at  the  back  of  the  head 
being  drawn  oack  tightly  and  confined  in  a  knot. 
The  efiect  of  this  arrangement  would  be  exactly 
that  described  by.  Juyenal :  the  body,  as  seen 
from  behind,  would  seem  to  be  of  her  real  height, 
as  the  anterior  structure  would  hardly  be  visible, 
whilst  from  the  front  she  would  have  a  most  im- 
posing and  stately  appearance.  The  celebrated 
gem  of  Evodus,  representing  Julia,  the  daughter 
of  Titus,  exactly  illustrates  this  metnod  of  dressing 
the  hair.t  John  Eliot  HonoKm. 

West  Derby. 

•  Aitronomiear,  lib.  v. 

t  FadoffoguSf  lib.  iii.  ed.  1616,  fo.,  Luffd.  Bat.,  p.  182. 
X  Described  and  engraved  in  King*s  Handbook  of  En- 
graved  Gemt, 


THE  BOOKWORM. 
(4t»»  A  vL  527  J  yii.  66, 168.) 

The  ravages  of  the  bookworm  have  attracted 
the  attention  of  bibliographers  in  all  ages.  Stray 
notices  of  the  insect  may  oe  found  in  many  works, 
but  as  yet  I  have  not  come  across  anything  satis- 
factory ;  and  as  the  subject  merits  the  attention  of 
all  who  either  possess  or  have  charge  of  large  col- 
lections of  books,  I  propose  to  lay  before  the  readers 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  my  own  gleanings  respecting  these 
little  pests. 

The  mistake  that  most  observers  have  feJlen 
into  is  in  supposing  that  there  is  only  one  insect, 
the  bookworm  propf 'i  which  attacks  books.  Thus 
Dibdin,  in  the  jDioliographical  Decameron,  gives  a 
long  and  amusing-enough  description,  but  which 
only  suffices  to  prove  that  neither  he  nor  his  in- 
formants at  the  great  public  libraries  to  which  he 
applied  were  aware  that  there  was  more  than  one 
insect 

Again,  some  of  your  correspondents  in  their 
recent  replies  evidently  refer  to  tne  ravagS^  of  dif- 
ferent pests;  for  one  of  them  talks  of  the  Uttle  worm 
going  only  so  far  into  a  volume  and  then  stopping 
and  excavating  a  circular  cavity.  Now  the  worm 
proner  never  does  this ;  he  goes  on  steadily  in  a 
straight  line,  his  thirst  for  literature  unabated  till 
he  has  gone  through  an  entire  shelf,  if  undisturbed. 
We  read  (Hannett,  Bibliopeffia,  quoting  Peignot) 
of  twenty-seven  folio  volumes  perforated  in  a 
straight  Ime,  in  such  a  manner  tnat  on  passing  a 
cord  through  the  perfectly  round  hole  made  by 
the  insect,  the  whole  twenty-seven  could  be  raised 
at  once.  This  must  have  been  done  by  the  worm 
proper.  I  have  often  observed  similar  perfora- 
tions running  through  several  consecutive  folios 
of  divinity  in  my  father's  library.  Hannett  states 
distinctly  enough  that  there  are  several  insects. 
He  mentions  uie  Aglossa  pttiffuinalis,  which  de- 
posits its  larvsB  in  books  m  the  autumn,  which 
S reduce  a  kind  of  mites;  but  says  that  the  most 
estructive  are  the  little  wood-boiing  beetles, 
Anohium  pertinax  and  A,  striatum,  Mrs.  Gatty, 
in  a  note  to  one  of  her  most  charming  ''  Parables,'' 
says: — 

**  A  bookworm  —  the  larva  of  Hypothenemui  eruditus. 
Not  but  that  there  are  several  other  larrse  of  the  race 
which  bore  minute  holes  through  wood,  leather,  and 
paper." 

Here  we  have  at  least  four  insects  named,  so  we 
must  trust  to  some  of  your  readers  who  are  skilled 
in  entomology  to  give  us  more  detailed  accounts 
of  them,  and  of  the  readiest  way  of  distinguishing 
their  traces.  No  doubt  one  or  two  of  these  are 
much  more  frequently  met  with  than  the  others. 

The  following  most  interesting  account  of  the 
particular  insect  pests  which  have  inflicted  serious 
damages  on  the  rare  and  curious  books  in  Hereford 
Cathedral  has  been  kindly  communicated  to  me 


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by  the  Rey.  F.  T.  Havei^ali  the  librarian,  who 
has  also  favoured  me  with  some  specimens  of 
ancient  wood  and  paper  perforated  m  the  most 
extraordinary  wa]r*  I  am  sure  m^^  brother  readers 
•f  <'  N.  &  Q.''  will  be  as  much  interested  in  its 
temsal  as  I  have  been,  so  with  Mr.  Hayergal's 
uid  permission  I  lay  it  oefore  them : — 

'*0n  taking  charge  of  our  Cathedral  library  in  1858  I 
found  that  some  fifty  or  axty  volnmefl  were  being  de- 
stroyed by  some  very  energetic  little  insects.  In  order  to 
save  the  books  so  attacked,  I  determined,  after  turning 
oyer  every  leaf  to  make  sure  there  were  none  of  the  in- 
sects left  in  them,  and  after  brushing  awa^  all  the  accumu- 
lation of  (dust  formed  within  them,  to  isolate  the  books 
oompletdy.  After  immense  trouble,  by  giving  the  in- 
fected books  a  good  shaking  every  time  I  went  to  thorn, 
I  hope  I  have  at  last  eradicated  the  little  pests  from  our 
library.  Some  volumes,  indeed,  which  I  had  rebound, 
wen  afterwards  attacked  by  the  worms,  so  I  am  con- 
vinced that  nothing  but  the  vigilance  of  the  librarian  will 
keep  them  down. 

**  After  obseryations  extending  over  eighteen  yean  I 
came  to  the  following  conclusions : — 


skio,  and  are  of  a  4&i'k-l>rown  colour.  They  perforate 
wood,  no  matter  how  old  or  hard.  I  have  never  found 
these  insects — worms  they  are  not — ^alive  and  at  work, 
but  I  have  found  the  remains  of  hundreds  of  dead  ones. 
Probably  the  wooden  covers  of  the  old  books  harboured 
them  in  the  first  instance,  whence  they  proceeded  into 
the  interiors  of  the  books.  Sometimes  they  seem  to  have 
gone  right  through  the  book,  but  generally  they  inflict 
the  greatest  damage  on  the  thirty  or  forty  leaves  next 
the  wooden  covers. 

The  second  kind  of  insects  seem  to  me  to  be  genuine 
bookworms.  I  have  found  at  least  a  dozen  of  them  alive 
and  as  active  as  possible.  They  are  exactly  like  the 
little  worms  or  grubs  found  occasionally  in  hazel-nuts. 
These  worms  have  white  bodies  with  brown  spots  on  the 
heads.  They  generally  go  right  through  a  volume,  never 
stopping  to  make  a  cavity  in  one  place. 

"  2.  That  it  is  easy  to  tell  whetner  the  worm  has  been 
recently  or  is  then  in  the  yolume.  Some  books  had  been 
piercea  ages  ago :  from  these  the  dust  was  altogether 
gone.  Other  books,  which  had  been  pierced  p^iape 
within  forty  or  fifty  vears,  had  the  worm  holes  with  dust 
of  a  lisht-brown  colour ;  but  books  recently  perforated 
retained  the  dust  pure  white.  Thus  in  a  moment  I  could 
tell  if  a  worm  was  actually  in  a  yolume,  or  if  it  had  been 
recently  at  work. 

"3.  That  the  eradication  of  these  little  pests  from  a 
library  is  an  exceedingly  difficult  matter.  You  may  rest 
quite  assured  that  the  bookworm,  next  to  fire  and  damp, 
is  the  greatest  pest  that  can  enter  a  library. 

**  i.  That  the  insects  do  not  relish  any  modem  paper  in 
the  same  way  as  they  do  the  far  better  paper  which  was 
made  from  1470  to  1530.  INdther  do  they  penetrate 
modem  mill-boards,  but  they  take  special  delight  in  the 
old  wooden  bookoovers,  principally  in  those  wnic^  have 
been  made  of  soft  or  sappy  wood.  The  worthy  men  of 
old  did  the  right  thing  when  they  bound  their  grand 
MSS.  in  heart-of-oak  covers  with  vellum  oyer  all.  But 
in  the  fifteenth  century  bookbinders  and  their  employers 
became  less  careful  in  their  choice  of  materials  for  covers, 
and  used  softer  wood,  which  became  a  sure  haunt  for 
destractive  insects.  In  very  rare  instances  have  the 
insects  attempted  to  penetrate  our  MS.  volumes  of  parch- 
ment or  yeUum,  no  real  injury  having  been  done  to  a 


single  volume  out  of  240.  They  have  in  some  volumes 
tasted  a  few  of  the  vellum  leaves,  but  they  never  seem  to 
have  relished  the  material  in  the  same  way  they  did  the 
ancient  paper." 

In  a  Bubseauent  communication  Mr.  EEavergal 
informs  me  tnat  he  thinks  he  has  foond  both 
descriptions  of  insects  alive  and  at  work. 

As  regards  the  ravages  of  the  bookworm  — 
using  the  word  as  descriptive  of  the  class  of  insects 
which  drill  holes  in  our  most  precious  volumes — 
the  above  lucid  account  leaves  nothing  to  be  de- 
sired. But  I  hope  it  may  be  the  means  of  eluci- 
dating some  entomological  notes  from  those  of 
your  readers  who  are  followers  of  Eirbv  and 
Spence.  F.  M.  S. 

I  had  often  wished  to  see  a  bookworm^  when, 
about  twelve  years  ago,  while  examining  in  the 
Bodleian  some  old  black-letter  fragments  at  that 
time  kept  loose  in  a  drawer^  I  disturbed  a  plump 
little  fellow  whose  ravages  were  but  too  apparent 
He  was  about  the  size  of  a  full-grown  grub,  such 
as  we  find  in  nuts,  white  all  over,  with  very  glossy 
head;  hard  to  the  touchy  and  slow  in  motion.  I 
made  a  small  paper  cage  for  him,  intending  to 
watch  carefully  nis  habits  and  development. 
Seeing  the  chief  librarian  approach,  I  turned  cut 
my  little  captive  upon  the  table.  ''  Haye  you 
met  with  many  of  tnese  fellows.  Dr.  Bandinel  P  " 
I  inquired.  "  Oh,  yes,"  he  replied }  ''  they  have 
Idack  heads  sometimes,'* — and  before  I  could  say 
a  word  my  biogpraphical  intentions  were  frustrated, 
for  down  came  the  doctor's  thumb-nail,  and  all 
that  was  left  of  my  little  protege  was  an  elongated 
smear.  William  Blidbs. 

11,  Abchurch  Lane. 


BAPTISM  FOR  THE  DEAD. 

(4»»»  S.  vii.  107.) 

A  few  weeks  ago  I  heard  an  excellent  clergy- 
man notice  this  subject,  in  one  of  a  series  of  lec- 
tures on  the  chapter  1  Corinthians  xv.  As  he 
brought  together  various  explanations  of  this 
"  most  difficult  passage,"  some  of  the  readers  of 
^  N.  &  Q."  maj  oe  interested  to  read  his  remarks 
as  they  were  written  down  afterwards  from 
memory :  — 

" .  .  .  .  The  words  of  this  verse  are  certainly  difficult. 
If  I  were  to  try  and  give  you  all  the  explanations  of 
various  writers  on  it,  it  would  occupy  all  day.  I  will 
only  name  a  few.  According  to  some,  (1)  by  *  the  dead ' 
is  intended  Messiah,  *the  dead  one*;  an  instance  of 
the  plural  being  used  for  the  riogular.  (2^  Others  say 
baptizing  is  to  be  taken  as  an  allusion  to  the  custom  of 
f-<i8hing  and  purifying  the  dead,  that  they  might  be 
prepared  for  the  Resurrection,  (i)  Others,  that  it  sig- 
nifies to  be  baptized  as  dead  into  Unrist  by  baptism,  and 
r^arded  as  dead  by  immersion.  ^4)  Others  reftr  it  to 
the  custom  of  a  vicarioufl  baptizmg  of  some  one,  for 
such  as  might  have  died  without  hope.  This  view  was 
held  by  Ambrose.  ....  and  is  referred  to  by  Qrotius 


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[4»»»  S.  VII.  March  25,  '71. 


as  a  custom  of  that  time.  Bat  here  are  obvious  difficul- 
ties  It  IB  very  dear  from  history  that  it  was  not 

a  custom  of  Apostolic  days.  Nor  can  we  suppose  Paul 
would  countenance  such  a  practice.  The  custom  more 
probably  arose  from  enoneous  interpretation  of  this 
verse.     And  here  I  may  observe  that  many  erroneous 

gractices  have  arisen  from  false  interpretation  of  Holy 
icripture. Two  other  ideas  seem  to  me  more 

plausible.    (5)  One  from  a  similar  use  of  the  same  word 
m  Matthew  xx.  22, 23,  regarding  it  as  meaning  suffering, 
being  overwhelmed  with  trials.   It  was  certainly  so  with 
the  Apostles,  because  they  spoke  of,  and  expected,  that 
the  dead  would  arise.    It  is  dear  Uiis  bdief  did  expose 
them  to  danger,  and  that  it  was  the  faith  of  all  who  pro- 
fessed Christ.    And  they  would  be  slow  to  bdieve  tneir 
sufferings  were  for  naught.    This  suits  somewhat  with 
the  following  verse.    But  then  it  is  not  the  literal  mean- 
in^  of  the  word.   (6)  Others  say  the  meaning  is,  baptized 
with  the  hope  of  resurrection  from  the  dead.    It  was 
certainly  a  leading  article  of  the  Gospd  .  .  .  and  if  any 
denied  this,  they  denied  an  essential  truth,  and  struck  a 
blow  at  Christianity.    Thus,  the  Apostle  as  it  were  asks, 
*  were  all  the  hopes  of  beUevers  to  be  vain  *  ?     (7^  Tyn- 
dale*8  version  says  *  baptized  over  the  dead.'    (<6)  Dod- 
dridge says : '  Such  are  our  hopes  and  views  aa  Christians, 
else,  if  it  were  not  so,   what  ihovld  thev  do  who  are 
baptized  in  token  of  thdr  embradng  the  Christian  faith 
in  the  room  of  the  dead,  who  are  first  fallen  in  the  cause 
of  Christ,  but  are  yet  supported  by  a  succession  of  new 
converts,  who  immediately  o£fer  themsdves  to  fill  up 
their  places,  as  ranks  of  soldiers  that  advance  to  the 
combat  in  the  room  of  thdr  companions,  who  have  just 
been  slain  in  their  sight?    ij^the  doctrine  I  oppose  be 
true,  and  the  dead  are  not  raised  at  ally  why  are  they 
neverthelesB  thus  baptized  in  the  room  of  (he  deadf  as  cheer- 
fully ready  at  the  peril  of  thdr  lives  to  keep  up  the 
cause  of  Jesus  in  the  world  ? '    There  are  many  other 
views  on  the  subject.     I  do  not  say  any  are  exactly 
satisfactory  to  my  mind.    The  idea  seems  literally  that 
of  substitution ;  the  same  word  is  used  in  this  sense, 
Philemon  13,  and  2  Cor.  v.  2.    And  this  seems  in  accord- 
ance with  Doddridge :  that  the  baptism  was  vicarious, 
vet  not  for  the  individual  deceased,  but  for  Uie  position 
he  had  occupied,  to  fill  up  his  place  in  (he  Church  and 
the  world." 

Is  not  the  passage  illustrated  familiarly  to  us 
all  when,  dn  tne  death  of  one  who  has  been  active 
in  religious  or  philanthropic  efforts,  we  offer  or 
seek  others  to  offer  to  take  up  the  %oork  of  the 
deceased?  This  falls  in  with  the  idea  of  Dr. 
Doddridge  as  above  quoted.  S.  Ilf.  S. 


The  Baltimore  and  "OldMortalitt"Pater- 
flONS  (4*»»  S.  vi.  187,  207, 290, 854  j  vii.  60,218.)— I 
regret  not  to  be  able  to  give  Dr.  Craufxtrd  Tait 
Eakaoe  the  information  he  wishes  to  have  with 
regard  to  the  Pattersons  of  Baltimore.  When  I 
'  was  there,  for  a  short  space  of  time  only,  in  1828,  a 
French  gentleman,  now  dead  unfortunately,  did 
me  the  honour  of  presenting  me  to  the  venerable 
and  last  survivor  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration 
of  American  Independence — Charles  Caroll  of 
CaroUton,  as  also  to  his  maternal  grandson  Mr. 
Jerome  B.  Patterson ;  but  our  acquaintance  was 
tranment^  and  I  had  no  occasion  to  make  any 
inquiry  respecting  their  connection  with  the  old 


country.  Probably  the  Dowager  Duchess  of  Leeds 
could  and  would  graciously  eive  the  information 
desired,  and  corroborate  Madame  Bonaparte^s 
answer  transmitted  by  Mr.  James  L.  Baylies. 

P.  k,  L. 

[We  ave  sure  all  our  readers  will  join  .us  in  a  heart/ 
welcome  to  our  valued  correspondent  on  his  re-appearaihJe 
in  these  columns ;  and  in  our  hope  that  tbe  new  troubles 
wluch  threaten  his  adopted  home  ma^'  be  happilv  averted. 
— Ed."N.&Q."] 

Macaulat's  Ballads  (4""  S.  vii.  235.)— I  never 
before  heard  of  a  ballad  by  Lord  Mjicaulay  on 
^'  The  Siege  of  Rochelle,"  nor  do  I  believe  one 
was  ever  written  by  him.    The  line  quoted — 

•  **  And  thou,  Roohelle,  our  own  Rocbelle,"  dec, 

is  a  line  in  the  first  verse  of  the  ballad  of  '^  Ivry.*' 

H.  M.  Tbeveltan. 
8,  Grosvenor  Crescent,  S.W. 

Lines  on  the  Human  Ear  (4**»  S.  vii.  235.) — 

These  lines,  entitled  "  St.  Pancras'  Bell,"  whicli 

E.  L.  is  good  enough  to  call  clever — I  know  that 

their  author  thought  them  so  when  he  wQA.mak- 

ing  them — ^were  mine.    These  two  facts  are  all 

that  I  can  give  at  present.    I  cannot  remember 

where  the  verses  appeared,  and  I  have  no  copy  of 

them.    They  began  —  , 

'^  A  sound  came  booming  through  the  air : 
*  What  is  that  noise  ? '  said  I. 
My  blue-eyed  pet,  with  golden  hair, 
Made  answer  presently,'*  &c,  kc 

"  Lethe  is  a  brave  river/'  If,  however,  I  suc- 
ceed in  fishiug  out  of  his  waters  anything  else  to 
the  purpose,  I  will,  with  the  Editor's  permission, 
present  it  to  the  "  N.  &  Q."  museum. 

Shirlet  Brooxs. 

Punch  Office. 

Plon-Plon:  Ltj-Lit  (4*'*  S.  vi.  233.)— These 
nicknames,  like  so  many  others,  originated  with 
the  persons  themselves  when  they  first  began  to 
mpeak,  and  could  not  pronounce  their  own  names. 
Thus  our  celebrated  painter  Paul  de  la  Eoche 
was  baptised  "  Hippolyte,"  but  used  when  quite  a 
child  to  call  himself*'  Pol,"  which  he  kept  through 
life,  and  ultimately  used  to  sign  his  name  "  Paul," 
although  when  he  h^d  a  legal  sign-manual  to  nve 
he  wrote  it  Hippolyte.  P.  A.  jL 

«  fes"  AND  "En"  (4»»»  S.  vi.  396,  514;  vii.  6D, 
193.)  — A  French  physician,  a  professor  in  a 
government  scientiEc  establishment  in  Paris,  lately 
staying  at  my  house,  tells  me  that  h$  is  never  used 
except  with  a  plural  noun,  thus,  "  Bachelier  kB 
Lettres,**  ''te  Arts,"  '^Docteur  en  Droit,"  not  *'&? 
Drdt."  Any  one  using  the  latter  on  his  card,  he 
says,  would  be  vnx)ng.         P.  Le  Neve  Foster. 

Vwimer  in  his  Bietitmnaire  grammatical  says : 
«  &,  article  pi^posltif,  pour  en  les,  et  qui  n'efit  d'usage 
qu*en  atvle  univeraitaire,  on  de  palais.    Mattre-ei-artM, 
poor  maiue  en  les  aiti^  dans  les  arts.*' 


4"»  S.  VII.  March  25, 71.]  NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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Noel  et  Chapsal,  Nouveau  DictUmnaire^  de  la 
Lan^ue  fran^ise,  say  the  some  thing.  ^^JEs,  con- 
traction de  en  et  de  lea,  dans  lea,  usit^e  seule- 
ment  dans  Maitre-6s-arts.  On  dit  Docteur  en  ThS&' 
hgie,  en  JDroiiJ^  P.  A.  L. 

P.S.  An  engraver^s  work  cannot  and  ought  not, 
I  think,  always  be  taken  as  '*  proofs  of  holy  writ." 
How  often  do  we  not  see  heraldic  blunders  in 
coats  of  arms,  [albeit  they  were  engraved  con- 
formably to  the  **  copy ''  given  them  for  that 
purpose  by  persona  who  knew  no  better  ? 

Ariij?icial  Fly-fishing  (4**»  S.  viL  161.)— I 
fear  Pelaoxtts  must  satisfy  himself  with  the 
Book  of  St  Albans  as  the  tdiima  Thule  of  fly- 
fishing lore  in  England.  From  thence  he  may 
flity  without  a  pause,  to  the  classic  lands — ^to 
Martial  and  iEIIian.  In  the  latter's  '*  History  of 
Animals"  he  will  meet  with  the  fly  hippurus, 
and  learn  how  it  was  made  by  the  Macedonian 
anglers  on  the  banks  of  the  river  Astreus. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  invention  of 
the  aiUficial  fly  is  of  very  ancient  date.  Who 
shall  say,  indeed,  how  soon  after  the  fall  of  man 
this  cunning  lure  of  the  fisherman  first  fell  on  the 
rivers  outside  Eden  P  How  old  is  the  sport  P  is 
a  question  continually  asked.  Probably  as  old  as 
hunger.  T.  Westwood, 

Bnmsels. 

Captain  John  Mason  (4*  S.  vi.  299.)— Capt. 
Mason  died  in  London  between  Nov.  2Q,  1635, 
and  Bee.  23,  1636.  His  will  bears  the  fonner 
date.  In  it  is  a  request  that  he  shall  be  ^  buried 
in  the  coUegiate  church  of  St.  Peter's  in  West- 
minster." He  states  that  be  was  bom  in  Kinglyn, 
CO.  Norfolk,  and  mentions  his  ''  cousin  Dr.  Hoblert 
Maaon^  Chancellor  of  the  diocese  of  Winchester,'' 
and  hifi  brother-in-law  John  WoUaston.  I  wish 
some  one  could  give  me  more  particulars  of  Capt. 
Mason  and  his  anceetois.  C.  W.  Txtttle. 

BostoB,  U.S.A. 

Manslaughieb  and  Gold  Iron  (4^  S.  i.  147.) 
On  June  13,  1716.  General  Macartney  was  tried 
for  being  concemea  in  the  murder  of  the  Duke  of 
Hamilton  La  a  duel,  and  was  acquitted  of  the 
manslaughter  ''by  tne  formality  of  a  cold  iron 
used  immediately  afterwards  to  prevent  appeal." 
Your  correspondent  inquires  for  the  nature  of  this 
ceremony. 

By  an  Act  of  Parliament  which  remained  un- 
repealed until  1822;  the  crime  of  manslaughter 
was  punished  by  burning  the  hand  of  the  perpe- 
trator. And  by  another  Act^  remaining  in  force 
until  1810,  it  was  lawful  for  the  person  injured 
by  an  oiFence  to  prosecute  the  supposed  oflender 
at  his  own  cost,  and,  as  we  shall  presently  see,  at 
his  own  risk,  independently  of  any  other  proceed- 
ings which  might  have  been  instituted  as^ainst 
him.  This  process  was  called  an  appeal,  and  was 
resorted  to  only  in  three  cases — by  a  man  for  a 


wrong  to  his  ancestor,  by  a  wife  for  the  death  of 
her  husband,  and  for  a  wrong  received  by  the 
appellants  themselyes.  Consequently  a  person 
accused  of  murder,  manslaughter,  cutting  or 
wounding,  though  acquitted  by  a  court  of  juaticey 
was  liable^  to  be  tried  afresh  at  the  suit  of  the 
descendant  or  widow  of  the  ill-nsed  individual| 
or,  supposing  him  to  have  escaped  with  a  whole 
slon,  at  the  suit  of  the  iU-used  individual  himself 
The  acquittal  of  the  supposed  offender,  after  all 
this  lend  machinery  had  been  set  in  motion 
against  him,  was  a  very  serious  affair  for  the  pro- 
secutor, who,  by  a  statute  of  Edward  L,  was 
obliged  to  restore  damages,  pay  a  fine  to  the  king, 
and  suffer  imprisonment  for  a  year.  To  sum  up, 
it  would  appear  that  in  the  case  of  General  Mac- 
artney, in  order  to  prevent  the  occurrence  of  this 
oppressive  mode  of  prosecution,  the  sentence  of 
the  law  was  carried  out,  a  cold  iron  being  used 
instead  of  a  hot  one.  Julian  Shabman. 

"  Skerrtng  upon  a  Glave  Glatten  "  (4*  S. 
vii.  121.)— Wedgwood  gives,  "  To  «A»>.  To  gUde 
or  move  quickly. — B.  To  graze,  skim,  or  touch 
lightly. — ^Hal,"  The  latter  is  a  Somersetshire  use. 
The  word  is  also  in  Peacock's  Lonsdfile  Glossary, 
edited  by  me,  with  the  meaning  *'  to  slide  on  the 
ice,"  and  the  derivation  "  Gael,  sgtorr,  slide;  Manx 
skiTf  slip,  slide."  I  do  not  find  it  in  the  Leeds, 
Fumeee,  Whitby,  Craven,  Cleveland  glossaries  or 
in  Brockett  Glave  is  given  in  Halliwell,  ^^Glafe^ 
smooth,  polite. — North,"  and  is  the  Dan.  dial. 
fflapf  smooth.  Molbeck's  example  is  ''Hestene 
ere  glappe,  og  ikke  broddede"  (the  horses  are 
8mooth(shod)  and  not  roughed;  in  Cleveland, 
"sUipe-shod  and  not  frosted.")  Glatten  is  from 
Swed.  glaitj  Dan.  glaty  Germ,  glattf  smooth,  slip- 
pery— a  word  applied  specially  to  ice  by  the 
Ihuies.  J.  C.  Atkinson. 

Danby  in  Cleveland. 

LoBD  Pltjnket  (4*»»  S.  vii.  93,  196.)— Your 
correspondent  Mb,  P&owett  agrees  vrith  Lord 
Brou^iam,  the  Quarterly  reviewer,  and  (of  course) 
with  Lord  Plunket  in  maintaining  the  sense  of  the 
image  of  Time  with  the  hour-glass  and  the  scythe. 
Mb.  Peowett  \a  therefore  in  worshipful  company. 
He  will,  however,  pardon  me  for  assuring  him 
that  the  image  is  nonsense,  and  that  he  fails  in 
his  attempt  to  vindicate  it  from  that  imputation. 
The  statutes  of  limitation  have  nothing  to  do 
with  the  loss  of  the  original  grant  or  of  any  grant, 
but  were  enacted  to  protect  the  man  in  posses- 
sion, and  he  (the  man  in  possession)  does  not  lose 
his  estate  by  reason  of  the  loss  of  any  grant 
which  the  scythe  of  time  has  destroyed,  but^  by 
the  production  of  some  grant  by  an  adverse  claim- 
ant, which  the  scjthe  has  omitted  to  destroy.  If 
Me.  Peowett  will  ask  any  competent  property 
lawyer  on  the  point,  he  wUl  not  persist  in  defend- 
ing what  is  demonstrably  indefensible. 

G.  H.  C* 


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Pebestbiak  Feat  op  Fabadat  (4'*'  S.  vii.  140.) 
The  most  extraordinair  thing  in  this  walk  appears 
to  me  to  be  the  fact  that  so  great  a  man  as  Fara- 
daj  should  have  scampered  through  some  of  the 
most  avrful  and  grand  scenery  in  Switzerland  with 
the  fipeed  that  might  excusably  have  been  used 
by  a  letter-carrier  or  a  flying-post.  I  passed  over 
the  same  ground  in  a  single  day  a  few  years  ago, 
starting  at  six  a.h.  on  foot,  from  Leuk  in  the 
valley^  a  greater  distance  from  Thun,  and  break- 
ing my  fast  at  Leukabad  at  the  foot  of  the  Gemmi. 
But  I  loitered  some  time  in  making  that  marvel- 
lous ascent;  and  a  still  longer  time  about  the  dead 
'sea  at  the  summit,  where  I  lunched  in  a  wayside 
inn ;  and  after  dining  at  Eundersteg  or  Frutiffen, 
I  forget  which,  set  off  for  Thun,  which  1  reacned 
late  m  the  evening,  having  had  the  good  fortime 
to  meet  with  a  lift  for  the  latter  part  of  my  soli- 
taxT  walk.  I  certainly  felt  no  ill  effects  from 
fatigue,  but  I  did  not  race  agfunst  time.  W.  H.  S. 

Prince  Pueckleb  Mttskau  U^  S.  vii.  77.)-!— 
IvAK  will  find  a  list  of  Prince  Fuckler-Muskau's 
works  in  Vapereau^s  Diet,  des  Contemporaitu  and 
in  the  Convereattons  Lexicon^  from  which  I  have 
condensed  the  following  notes: — 

Prince  Hermann  of  Jruckler-Muskau,  the  well- 
known  German  traveller  and  horticulturist,  was 
bom  in  1785,  according  to  the  Almanac  de  Ootha, 
and  served  in  the  army  of  the  King  of  Saxony. 
During  the  German  war  affainst  Napoleon  he 
entered  the  Russian  service,  distinguished  himself 
in  the  Netherlands,  and  was  appointed  military 
governor  of  Bruges.  After  tne  restoration  of 
peace  he  passed  a  year  in  fbgland,  and  then  de- 
voted himself  on  a  grand  scale  to  the  embellish- 
ment of  his  property  of  Muskau  in  Sileda,  which 
was  sold  in  1845  to  Prince  Frederic  of  the  Nether- 
lands. His  illustrated  work  on  landscape  garden- 
ing (1834)  was  the  first  of  these  horticultural 
labours.  In  1817  Prince  Puckler-Muskau  married 
a  daughter  of  Prince  Hardenberg,  but  divorced 
her  in  1826,  and  travelled  during  several  years  in 
.  Europe,  Egypt,  and  Syria.  He  now  usually  re- 
sides on  his  estote  Branitz,  in  the  circle  of  Kotbus, 
where  splendid  gardens  have  been  planned  under 
his  direction.  In  1863  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Prussian  House  of  Lords.  He  has  no  chil- 
dren, and  his  cousin  is  heir  to  the  title.  The 
best-known  works  of  Prince  Puckler-Muskau  are 
the  Bnefe  eines  Verstorbenen  (1881),  in  4  vols. ; 
TtUtifnUlif  3  vols.  1835;  Semuasso  in  Africa,  ^c, 
in  which  he  has  described  the  aristocratic  society 
in  which  he  moved  in  every  part  of  Europe,  in  an 
easy,  conversational,  off-hand,  jovial  tone,  from 
the  point  of  view  of  a  German  nobleman,  in  a 
style  bristling  with  wit,  incorrect  grammar,  and 
Gallicisms.  A.  R. 

Ancient  Buildings  in  Kasemib  (4**  S.  vi. 
627;  vii.  110.) — The  query  about  Ealee,  the 


Hindu  goddess,  will  receive  a  partial  answer  from 
the  extract  I  supply.  It  is  from  an  anonymous 
work  entitled  First  Impremons;  or,  a  Day  in 
India,  1841 :  — 

**  I  ought  to  have  mentioned,  as  a  regular  ornament  of 
almost  every  shop  in  the  bazaar,  a  paltry  woodcut,  framed 
and  glazed,  with  a  wreath  of  tawdrv  red  flowers  h^ng 
round  it — a  representation  of  the  goddess  Kcdee.  She  is 
the  tutelary  deity  of  Calcutta,  which  is  named  from  her ; 
and  she  is  the  great  object  of  adoration  among  the  Thugs 
and  Phansegars,  whose  systematic  and  wonderful  plims 
of  murder  and  subsequent  robbery  have  so  lately  been 
brought  to  light  This  idol  is  represented  black  in  colour 
(JuJa  signifies  black),  with  four  hands.  In  one  she  holds 
a  knife ;  in  one  a  lotus,  I  think ;  in  another  something 
else;  and  in  the  fourth  a  human  head,  the  streaming 
blood  firom  which  she  is  lappinff  with  her  outstretched 
tongue — an  emblem  but  too  typical  of  the  bloody  rites 
connected  with  her  worship.  Sue  stands  on  a  prostrate 
fieure,  meant,  I  believe,  for  that  of  Seeta^  the  Destroyer, 
whom  she  thus  prevents  from  annihilating  the  world." 

All  this  I  knew  before,' but  what  does  it  all 
mean  P    Of  what  is  Kalee  the  symbol  ? 

Querist. 

P.S.  Who  is  the  author  (an  Indian  surgeon) 
of  this  little  work  of  forty-two  pages  printed  at 
Yarmouth  P  My  copy  bears  the  inscription  "  To 
B.  Holme,  Esq.,  this  letter,  originally  addressed 
to  Sir  Francis  Palgrave*s  children,  is,  it  is  felt, 
presented  with  peculiar  propriety  by  the  editor." 
Added  in  another  hand,  **  Dawson  Turner,  Esq.^  of 
Yannouth." 

Asms  op  BEirvENTTTO  Okliihi  (4*  S.  vi.  336.) 
Since  I  wrote  the  note  at  this  reference  I  have  6n- 
tained  the  edition  of  1830,  published  by  Giuseppe 
Molini,  which  Mr.  Roscoe  used  for  his  re-issue  of 
his  translation  in  1850.  I  find  that  the  passage 
which  I  mention  in  the  second  ^lumn,  on  p.  335, 
containing  the  words  '^  col  campo  di  dette  arme/' 
stands  thus— 

**  Tomando  a  quella  che  io  feci  fare  nel  sepolcro  del  mio 
fratello,  era,"  &c.,  **  col  campo  di  detU  arme  partito  in 
quattro  ouarti,  e  quell*  accetta  che  io  feci  fu  solo  perehfe 
non  mi  si  scordassi  di  fare  le  sue  vendette." 

It  turns  out,  therefore,  that  Molini  had  been 
able  to  complete  this  passage  from  the  MS.,  and 
that  a  change  had  been  made  in  the  text.  But 
Mr.  Roscoe's  translation  in  1850  does  not  give  the 
meaning  of  the  passage.  Mr.  Boscoe  says,  '^  with 
a  field  of  the  said  arms  divided  in  four  quarters." 

This  rendering  does  not  nve  the  meaning  of 
CelHni's  statement.  In  his  Italian  it  is  quite  in- 
telligible—  "co/  campo  di  detta  arme  partito  in 
quattro  quarti " ;  that  is  to  say,  not  with  a  field, 
but  ''with  the  field  of  the  said  arms  divided  into 
four  quarters.'' 

ThSs  is  correctly  stated,  although  Cellini  omitted 
to  give  the  tinctures  of  the  quarters.  It  is  curious 
to  observe  how  thoroughly  the  Cellini  seem  to 
have  treated  their  arms  as  liable  to  be  altered  at 
their  own  pleasure.  "  La  quale  io  V  alterai  da  quel 


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clie  V  d  propria/'  he  says  of  himaelf;  and  of  others 
'*  mio  padre  me  la  mostrd,  la  quale  era  la  zampa 
sola  con  tutto  il  restante  delle  dette  cose :  ma  a 
me  piu  piacerebbe  che  'si  osservassi  quella  del 
Cellini  di  Ravenna  sopradetta.^'  Then  he  goes  on 
to  describe  the  change  which  he  made  in  the  arms 
on  his  brother*s  monument, ''  Tomando  a  quella," 
&c.,  as  I  have  already  quoted.  D.  P. 

Stnarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

Tub  Oldest  Iots  m  Enolaicd  (4**»  S.  vi.  606.) 
There  is  an  old  inn  or  tavern  at  the  foot  of  Shude 
Hill  in  Manchester,  called  <<The  Seven  Stars,'* 
-which,  it  is  said,  has  been  a  licensed  house  since 
A.D.  1360-60,  the  proof  of  which  lies  in  Lancaster 
Castle,  where  are  deposited  the  records  of  the 
yarious  licences.  I  presume  country  licences  were 
granted  at  this  early  period.  There  is  also  a 
tradition  that  the  worWen  at  the  old  church 

inow  the  cathedral,  formerly  a  collegiate  church 
rom  its  foundation,  opening  of  the  mteenth  cen- 
tuiy)  had  a  penny  a-day,  and  got  their  dinners  and 
other  meals  at  "  The  Seven  Stars.''     T.  Hslsbt. 

Sttppolk  Rood  Screens  (4**»  S.  vii.  143.) — Add 
to  list.  Kersey,  Suffolk.  At  this  church,  dedicated 
to  St.  Mary,  are  remains  of  a  fine  rood  screen, 
partly  now  painted  to  correspond  with  the  pews ; 
but  fortunately  the  figures,  consisting  of  three 
ecclesiastics  and  three  kings,  have  been  left  nearly 
tmtouched.  These  wore  considered  so  fine  and 
perfect  that  they  were  etched  and  published  for 
the  Suffolk  ArcnsBological  Society,  in  Ipswich,  in 
1848.  The  engravings  of  them  are  well  done,  and 
the  six  are  shown  in  colours.  C.  GoLDure. 

PaddiDgton. 

The  Seven  Wonders  op  Wales  (4**»  S.  vii.' 
143.) — Why  Overton  churchyard  was  one  of  the 
wonders  is  little  known  to  this  generation.  Fifty 
years  ago  it  was  a  local  joke  to  task  the  ability  of 
strangers  to  count  the  yew-trees  in  the  church- 
yard, seldom  accomplished  correctl}',  as  there  was 
one  on  the  top  of  the  church  tower.      U.  0 — ^N.' 

CirsTOHS  AT  Marriages,  Births,  and  Fune- 
rals (4*  S.  vii.  60.) — The  customs  common  in 
Fifeshire  thirty  years  ago  so  closely  resemble  those 
of  the  West  Highland  districts,  that  the  interestiog 
notes  of  your  learned  correspondent  Cuthbert 
Bede  might  be  accepted  as  a  general  account  of 
them. 

A  brief  description  of  the  difference  between 
them  may  be  worth  inserting  in  ''  N.  &  Q." 

Mmriage  Ctutonu. — On  the  eve  of  the  wedding- 
day  the  most  intimate  friends  of  the  happy  pair 
met  at  the  bride's  father's  house  to  take  part  in 
the  "  feet- washing,"  which  was  looked  upon  as 
great  fun. 

A  tub  of  water  was  placed  in  the  best  room 
and  the  bride's  feet  washed  by  her  female  friends^ 
the  men,  standing  outside  the  door,  making  jokes 


and  endeavouring  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  opera- 
tion. As  soon  as  this  washing  was  finishect  the 
bridegroom  was  brought  in,  and,  amidst  much 
merriment,  made  to  sit  at  the  tub ;  his  stockings 
were  then  pulled  off,  his  legs  grasped  in  any  but 
a  tender  manner,  and  unsparingly  daubed  by  all 
who  could  get  near  with  a  mixture  of  grease,  soot, 
ashes,  and  a  few  cinders. 

There  was  great  struggling  to  avoid  this  part 
of  the  performance ;  however,  it  did  not  slacKen 
the  energies  of  the  company,  and  lucky  was  the 
man  who  escaped  with  only  slight  scratches.  The 
''real  washing"  followed,  and  a  supper,  songs, 
and  whisky  ended  the  evening. 

On  the  wedding-day  there  was  no  ''washing 
of  the  bride,"  nor  were  any  pipers  seen  at  the 
ceremony. 

Baptismal  Customs, — Before  starting  for  the 
kirk  the  "  christening-piece,"  consisting  of  short- 
bread, cheese,  and  oatcake,  was  made  up  into  a 
white  paper  parcel  tied  with  ribbons;  this  the 
mother  held  m  her  right  hand  as  she  left  the 
house  and  presented  to  the  first  person  met  by 
her,  whether  stranger  or  friend,  gentle  or  simple. 
The  "  christening  piece  "  was  always  gladly  ac- 
cepted, and  in  return  kind  wishes  were  expressed 
for  the  future  happiness  of  the  child. 

Ftmeral  Customs, — ^The  same  as  those  described 
by  your  correspondent,  with  the  exception  of  the 
bagpipe-playing,  which  is  seldom  heard  in  this 
part  of  the  country^  Another  curious  custom 
may  be  added  to  the  foregoing : — 

If  a  wife  deserted  her  husband,  he  would  never- 
theless have  his  table  spread  for  her  at  each  meal, 
and  going  to  tiie  door  of  the  room,  audibly  invite 
her  to  join  him  in  partaking  of  the  food  prepared. 
Wben  ne  had  repeated  this  form  for  twelve  months 
and  a  day  the  marriage  bonds  were  annulled,  and 
the  man  could  take  unto  himself  another  wife. 

G.  J.  S.  Lock. 

Richard  Twissr/'TouR  in  Ireland4'.<4? 

S.  vu.  163.)—  •;^  <: 

**  Wboe*er  offends,  at  some  unlucky  tifSS 
Slides  into  vene,  or  hitches  in  a  rby^i^'' 

as  did  Mr.  Pinkbrton's  "  Tourist  "j  oV^-hom^ 
Irish  susceptibilities  fulfilled  their  Nemesis  oy  the 
agency  of  a  speculative  tradesman,  with  his  Iront- 
faced  and  open-mouthed  p(h)otograph  at  the  fond 
of  a  household  implement,  which  assured  its  sub- 
stantiRl  as  well  as  its  nominal  success.  Some 
years  ago  I  saw  one  of  these  in  a  private  museum, 
where  it  is  still  perhaps  exhibited  to  the  favoured 
few,  with  its  epigraphic  couplet  —  the  last  line 
whereof,  and  its  rhymal  '*  hitch  " — 
«'  Upon  lying  Dick  Twiss," 

though  I  could  plead  my  kinsmanship  with  the 
very  reverend  rhymer  who  more  than  once  verified 
and  versified  its  Jirst  in  his  Satires— is  all  that  I 
venture  to  transcribe  for  "  N.  &  Q."       E.  L.  S. 


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KOTES  AND  QUERIES.         l^^  s.  vii.  Mabch 25/71. 


On  referring:  to  Lowndea*  Bibliograjihers^  Manual^ 
I  find  that  your  correspondent's  copy  of  the  above 
work  is  the  second  edition.  Lowndes  gives  the  fol- 
lowing description :  "  The  Grete  Herbal,  London 
in  South wark  \ij  me  Peter  Treveris.  1510.  Folio." 
Frequently  reprinted.  The  1520  edition  is  the 
second.   It  was  purchased  at  the  Inglis  sale  for  3/. 

C.  R.  P. 

The  PncEXix  Throne  (4»»»  S.  vii.  102.)  — 
Herodotus  does  not  connect  the  phcenix  with  any 
tree  (ii.  73.)  Shakespeare  may  nave  derived  this 
legend  about  the  phoenix  from  Philemon  Hoi? 
land*8  translation  of  Pliny's  Natural  History, 
book  xiii.  chap.  iv.  :— 

"  I  myself  have  heard  straunge  things  of  this  kind  of 
tree,  and  namely  in  regard  of  tho  bird  phcsnix,  which  is 
supposed  to  have  taken  that  name  of  this  date  tree  ;  for 
it  was  assured  unto  me  that  the  said  bird  died  with  that 
tree,  and  revived  of  itself  as  the  tree  sprung  again." 

Or  from  Lyly's  Euphuea : — 

^  As  there  is  but  one  phoenix  in  the  world,  so  there  is 
but  one  tree  in  which  she  buildeth.*' 

Or  from  Florio's  Italian  Dictionary  (1598) : — 

"  Raisin.  A  tree  in  Arabia,  whereof  there  is  bat  one 
found,  and  upon  it  the  phcenix  sits." 

Shakespeare  makes  half-a-dofcen  other  allusions 
to  this  fabulous  bird;  but  none  that  bears  on  this 
passage  so  much  as«> 

"  Let  the  bird  of  loudest  lay 
On  the  »ole  Arabian  tree," 

in  The  Pamonate  Pilyrim  (xvii.  or  xx.) 

It  will  be  interesting  to  the  readers  of  "N.  &  Q." 
to  know  that  in  these  verses  (first  printed  with 
Kobert  Chester's  Rosalynde)  Malone,  on  the  ad- 
vice of  a  learned  friend,  hiad  intended  to  moke 
the  alteration : — 

"  *  Sole  on  the  Arabian  tree  * ;  as  there  are  many  Ara- 
bian trees  and  bat  one  Arabian  bird.  But  <  nulla  unquam 
cunctatio  mao:na  est/  for  this  passage  in  The  Tempest 
supports  the  old  copy." 

J.  II.  I.  Oaklet,  M.A. 
Croydon. 

In  Chalmers'  edition  of  Shakspeare  I  find  the 
following  note,  which  may  be  of  interest  to  your 
correspondent  Makrocheir  :  — 

<*  Our  poet  had  probably  Lyly's  Euphues  and  kit  Eng- 
land particularly  in  his  thoughts,  sij^nat.  q  3  :  *  As  there 
_  ifl  but  one  phoenix  in  tlie  world,  so  is  there  but  one  tree 
in  Arabia  wherein  she  buikleth.'  See  also  Florio's  Italian 
Dictionary y  1598:  *  Kasin,  a  tree  in  Arabia,  whereof 
there  is  but  one  found,  and  upon  it  the  phoenix  sits,' " 

This  note  is  attributed  to  Malone.       C.  K.  P. 

Becket's  Murdebbbs:  Somersetshire  Tra- 
ditions (4»»'  S.  vii.  33, 171,  i95.)^Of  the  graves 
on  the  Flat  Holms  mentioned  by  Mb.  Townshekd 
Mater  I  have  not  heard,  but  the  "  abbey"  he  in- 
quires for  was  Worspring — now  improperly  called 
Woodspring—priory,  founded  about  1210  by  Wil- 
liam de  Curtenai  for  Austin  Canons  who  aban- 


doned a  house  at  Dodelynch  in  the  same  county. 
The  church  was  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity, 
the  blessed  Mary,  and  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr ;  and 
the  tradition  has  survived  that  it  was  in  expiation 
of  the  murder  of  St.  Thomas  a  Becket,  the  foimder 
J*  being  descended  from  William  de  Traci  (which 
is  incorrect,  as  will  be  shown),  and  nearly  related 
to  the  three  other  '  assassinators '  of  the  canonized 
archbishop." 

In  the  Mon.  Angl,  (vi.  416)  will  be  found  a  letter 
to  "  J(oscelin^  bishop  of  Bath  "  (1205-24),  from 
William  de  C!urtenai,  detailing  his  intention  of 
founding  a  convent  ^'  where  a  diapel  dedicated  to 
St.  Thomas  the  Martyr  stood  in  his  own  demerae 
of  Worspryng,"  for  the  benefit  of  the  souls  of  his 
father  Kobiert  (whose  body  rests  there)  and  mother, 
his  own,  his  wife's,  his  ancestors*,  and  successor's. 

This  William  de  Cou^tenai,  although  doubtless 
related,  was  not  one  of  the  Devon  family,  as  gene- 
rally supposed.  (Pedigree  by  late  Dr.  Oliver  and 
Mr.  Htman  Jones  in  voL  x.  of  ArehaoL  Journal, 
wherein  really  neither  he  nor  his  father  occur.) 
But  I  have  identified  him  with  that  William  de 
Courtenay  who  inherited  the  honour  of  Mont- 
gomery, and  of  whom  some  account  may  be  found 
in  tlie  best  of  all  county  his tories—Ey ton's  Shrop- 
shire (xi,  128),  although  he  is  not  there  recognised 
as  the  founder  of  this  priory.  lie  was  dead,  without 
issue,  1214;  and  Ada,  his  widow,  was  remarried 
to  Theobald  Lnscelles.  He  was  the  only  child  of 
Robert  de  Courtenay,  by  Matilda,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Ecginnld  Fitzurse,  one  of  the  assassins, 
from  whom  he  inherited  Worspring. 

And  I  may  further  add,  because  it  is  also  not  in 
Collinson's  Somersetshire,  that  the  mother  of  Re- 
ginald was  Matilda,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Bald- 
win de  Boilers,  lord  of  Montffomery,  by  Sybil  de 
Falaise.  Now  in  the  Domesaay  Book  (06 *b.)  we 
read :  *'  William  de  Faleiae  himself  holds  Wor- 
spring by  consent  of  King  William.  Serlo  de 
liurci  gave  it  him  with  his  daughter." 
'  Curiously  enough  I  cannot  show  that  William 
de  Courtenay  was  even  related  to  William  de 
Traci,  although  I  find  that  he  waa  connected  with 
the  families  of  the  two  other  assassins — Hugh  de 
Morvile  and  Richard  Brito.  Margery,  a  sister  of 
Reginald  Fitzurse,  widow  of  Richard  Engaiue, 
was  remarried  to  Geofirey  Brito,  and  Hugh  de 
Morevile  inherited  his  manor  of  Burgh-upon-Sands 
in  Cumberland  from  his  grandmother  Ada  £n- 
gaine.  A.  S.  Ellis. 

Brompton. 

Cistercian  Monasteries  (4^  S.  vii.  141.)— 
The  finest  Cisteixuan  abbeys  in  England  are  — 
Fountains  (described  in  Walbran*s  jkipwi) ;  Tin- 
tern  (Potter's  Monastic  Architecture)'.  Rievaulx 
{ChmUm!B  Abbeys  of  Yorkshire,  Add.  MS.  27,764) ; 
Fumeas  (Beck,  and  West,  ed.  by  Close,  1805) ; 
Buildwas  {Arch,  Assoc,  Journal,  Add.  MS.  27,706)  -, 
Scarborough   (Britton's  Arch.  Antig,),  an  alien 


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abbey,  no  monastic  buildings  left;  Old  Cleve 
(Rev.  T.  Hugo,  in  Somerset  Arch.  Soc,  Jour., 
Ti.  17, 54 ;  vii.  72 ;  Kirkstal  (Dr.  Whitaker's  Leeds, 
and  an  account  with  Mulready's  drawings,  1827 ; 
Netley  (Wilts' ^«m/s),  GiUaume's -4rcA.  Vietos; 
Dore  {O.  M.  Ixii.  396;  xdx.  497)  ;  Valle  Crucis 
(Aich.  Camh.  xiL  401) ;  and  Whalley  (Dr.  Whit- 
aker). 

Ford,  Merevnle,  and  Croxden  are  described  in 
the  Journal  of  the  Bj-it.  Arch.  Association,  xxi. 
204,  "vil.  324,  and  Ford  in  Somerset  Arch.  Soc, 
Jour.  xiU;  49.  Beaulieu  has  the  monastic  build- 
ings well  preserved.  Sallay,  Jorevalle,  Byland 
(Jour.  Assoc.  Soc.,  yii.  220),  and  Roclie  retain 
only  small  portions.    (See  Ghurton's  Abbeys.') 

In  my  Sacred  Archeology  I  have  indicated  the 
special  peculiarities  of  the  rule  as  it  afiected  the 
furniture  and  arrangement  of  Cistercian  abbeys, 
and  also  the  rare  and  later  deviations  from  the 
rigid  uniformity  and  sparing  decoration  insisted 
upon  by  this  secludea  order.  The  History  of 
Meaux,  edited  by  Mr.  Bond,  the  keeper  of  the  MSS. 
of  the  British  Museum,  with  the  Nomasiicon, 
should  bo  consulted  as  well  as  Martene.  The 
churches  of  Fountains,  Tintern,  Netley,  Fumess, 
Kirkstal,  Buildwas,  Dore,  Whalley,  and  Valle 
Crucis  are  more  or  less  complete ;  but  all  these 
must  yield  to  the  unrivalled  beauty  of.  the  choir, 
and  the  grandeur,  even  in  ruin,  of  the  fratry  of 
Kievaubc,  which  imfortunately  is  the  least  ac- 
cessible. 

Melrose,  Scotland  (Wade),  and  Arch.  Camb., 
N.  8.,  viii.  74 ;  Morton's  Teviotdale. 

'M.kCKEszTB  E.  C.  Walcott,  B.D.,  F.S.A. 

The  latest  and  most  correct  account  is  A  Guide 
to  Fumess  Abbey,  fourth  edition,  1870,  edited  by 
Dr.  Barber,  with  illustrations  and  ground  plan, 
published  by  D.  Atkinson,  TJlverston.        Anon. 

Foimtains  Abbey,  near  Ripon,  is  probably  the 
finest  Cistercian  monastery  in  England,  and  there 
is  a  good  account  of  it  in  Walbran's  Guide  to 
Ripon  and  Neighbourhood. 

J.  T.  FowuBB,  F.S.A. 

Hatfield  Hall,  Durham. 

The  editorial  note  refers  the  querist^  A  FoR- 
EIGNEB,  to  a  description  of  the  Cistercian  abbey 
of  Fumess.  I  would  also  refer  him  to  the  Gentle- 
viand's  Magazine  for  March,  1790,  where  he  would 
find  a  full  history  and  description  of  another 
famous  Cistercian  abbey,  thatof  Kirkstall  in  York- 
shire. The  article  is  illustrated  by  a  well-exe- 
cuted engraving  of  the  plan  of  the  abbey.  There 
are  several  fine  picturesque  ruins,  more  or  less 
extensive,  of  other  famous  Cistercian  abbeys  in 
England,  of  which  the  following  are  the  most 
noted,  which  I  place  in  the  order  of  their  former 
value  and  importance  : — ^Fountains,  in  Yorkshire ; 
Stratford  Langthom,  in  Ess^;  Buckfastre,  in 
Devonshire;  Joreval and Melsa, Yorkshire;  War- 


den and  Wobum,  Bedfordshire ;  Rivaulx  and  By- 
land,  Yorkshire :  and  Stonely,  in  Warwickshire. 

F.  C.  H. 

Bills  actually  pbesbntbd  (4}^  S.  vii.  32, 
132.) — The  following  particulars  wei-e  attached 
to  a  County  Court  summons,  about  a  year  ago,  in 
a  not  veiT  benighted  part  of  the  cojintry.  I  copy 
them  verbatim  et  literatim  as  they  appeared,  with- 
out stop  or  break  of  any  kind :  — 

<*  M'  Isiah  Morgan  boat  of  M''  Emma  Morgan  68  years 
of  stoon  at  wone  shilling  pear  years  £38  rent  of  ground 
£17  receivd  15  shilling  and  four  half  bushil  of  flooer  at 
10  shilling  pear  bushil  £10  lam  of  the  Edge  18  shilling 
the  fool  a  Mount  £416" 

The  sum  claimed  was  21.  28.  C.  6. 

SiVE  AND  THB  Whitebots  (4'**  S.  vii.  124.) — 
I  cannot  answer  the  question  which  H.  puts  on 
this  subject,  but  I  can  give  him  an  illustration 
which  may  perhaps  clear  the  matter  a  little. 

I  have  before  me  a  copy  of  The  Guardian  of 
June  7,  1831  — a  paper  published  at  Belfast. 
Several  columns  of  this  paper  are  occupied  with 
accounts  of  the  outrages,  either  accomplished  or 
expected,  of  the  Terry  Alts,  a  secret  society  which 
at  that  time  confined  its  operations  to  the  county 
of  Clare ;  but  what  I  wish  to  call  attention  to  ia, 
the  variety  of  names  by  which  the  members  of 
this  society  are  indicated  in  the  successive  para- 
graphs of  one  issue  of  a  newspaper.  They  are 
called  "Terry  Alts,"  "Terries,'^  "Mrs.  Alt  and 
Children,"  <'  Lady  Clare's  Children,"  "  Terry  Alt's 
Men."    The  state  of  affairs  in  co.  Clare  at  this 

?eriod  must   have  been  terrible.     The  Dublin 
tlvening  Mail  says :  "  We  protest  to  God,  we  know 
not  what  is  to  become  of  Clare."  W.  H.  P- 

Belfast. 

The  Veto  at  Papal  Elections  (4}^  S.  vii. 
103.)— It  is  observed  in  an  interesting  and  care- 
fully written  French  work  on  the  Conclave,  that, 
"  by  long  custom,  the  cardinals  of  Austria,  France, 
and  Spain  have  the  right  of  excluding  any  person 
whose  election  they  consider  injurious  to  the  in- 
terest of  their  respective  countries ;  but  this  right 
they  can  exercise  only  once."  This  remains  in 
full  force ;  but  I  believe  there  has  been  no  exer- 
cise of  it  in  late  elections.  F.  C.  H. 

St.  Wuleban  (4»»»  S.  vii.  162.)— Notwith- 
standing  the  caution  of  A.  O.  V.  P.  that  the  St. 
Wulfran  for  whom  he  inquires  must  not  bS 
confounded  with  his  namesake,  whose  feast  is 
March  20,  he  may  rest  assured  that  thev  are  both 
one  and  the  same,  the  well-known  Archbishop  of 
Seas.  In  the  course  of  his  search  in  the  Acta 
Sanctorum  and  many  other  books,  how  came  he 
to  overlook  our  own  old  English  calendars  and 
Liturgy  ?  There  he  would  have  found  that  St. 
Wulfran's  feast,  though  kept  in  foreign  churches 
on  March  20,  was  observed  in  the  old  English 
rite  on  October  15.    In  the  very  early  calendar 


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printed  in  Maskell's  Monumenta  ItUuaUa  (iL  180), 
we  £Lnd  no  St.  Wulfran  on  March  20;  but  on 
October  16  ve  have  '^S.  Wolfran  biflchop  and 
confessour.''  And  in  the  more  copious  calendar 
which  follows  it,  March  20  has  only  St.  Cuthbert, 
just  as  we  keep  him  now  in  the  Catholic  Ordo ; 
but  on  October  15  we  find  "  Wulfranni  episcopi." 
Again,  in  a  fine  old  folio  MS.  *'  Missale  ad  usum 
Sarum"  of  the  early  part  of  the  fifteenth  centuir, 
in  my  possession,  St.  Wulfran's  office  occurs  only 
on  October  15.  It  is  impossible  to  suppose  that 
the  Archbishop  of  Sens  was  not  celebrated  in 
England  \  and  we  mcty  fairly  conclude  that  it  was 
he  who  was  honoured  on  October  15.     F.  C.  H. 

The  parish  church  of  Qrantham  is  dedicated  to 
this  samt,  the  only  one  that  is  so,  I  believe,  in 
England  ]  and  as  there  is  a  fair  held  on  Oct.  26, 
which  is  Oct.  15  O.  S.,  I  suppose  it  is  the  St. 
Wulfran  whom  your  correspondent  A.  0.  V.  P. 
inquires  about.  Frobably  local  histories  say  who 
this  saint  was.  R  L.  Blenkhtsopp. 

Springthorpe  Rectoiy. 

Cablo  Cbitelli  (4"»  S.  vii.  161.)— The  earliest 
painting  known  by  this  master  is  an  altar-piece  in 
the  church  of  San  Silvestro  at  Massa,  dated  1468  ,* 
his  latest  work  known  is  in  the  Oggioni  Collection 
at  Milan,  dated  1493. 

Mr.  John  Pig  got  may  consult  the  foUov^ng 
works  for  information  respecting  this  great  mas- 
ter:— 

Rldolfi  (Carlo),  Le  Maraviglie  ddl*  Arte,  plates,  4to, 
Venetia,  1648 ;  another  edition.  2  vols.,  plates,  8vo,  Padaa. 
1835-7. 

Oraini  (^dassare),  Descrizione  delle  Pittara.  .  .  . 
Citth  di  Ascoli,  8vo,  Peru^^a,  1790. 

Bicci  (Amico),  Memone  storiche  delle  Art!  e  degli 
Artisti  della  Murca  di  Ancona,  2  vols.  8vo.  Macerata, 
1834. 

Our  National  Gallery  possesses  six  (not  four) 
works  by  Crivelli.  W.  Mabsh. 

7,  Red  Lion  Square. 

Information  about  this  painter  and  his  works 
may  be  gleaned  from  Carboni,  Letterati  e  Artisti 
Ascolani,  Had  your  correspondent  consulted  Mr. 
Womum's  excellent  catalogue  of  the  pictures  in 
the  National  Gallery,  he  would  have  found  re- 
ferences to  this  and  other  authorities.  This  cata- 
logue, by  the  way,  is  a  most  useful  manual  of 
reference  for  the  biographies  of  painters  of  all 
ages  and  schools.  George  M.  Greek. 

27,  King  William  Street,  Strand. 

Wrong  Dates:  Cigoli  (V^  S.  vii.  133.)— 
Among  the  pictures  mentioned  in  The  Times  of  the 
13th  March,  as  having  been  saved  by  extraordinary 
exertions  from  the  fire  at  Holker  Hall,  is  a  "  St. 
Francis"  by  Cigoli.  A  member  of  my  faraily 
possesses  a  "  St.  Francis "  by  Cigoli  -which  is  a 
puzzle  to  us.  The  style  of  the  painting,  its  great 
merit,  and  the  seal  of  the  grand  ducal  arms  of 
Tuscany,  seem  to  concur  in  attesting  its  genuine- 


ness. The  damaging  hand  of  restorer  or  cleaner 
has  touched  it  but  lightly  and  the  careful  re- 
moval of  a  veil  of  dirt  has  revealed  to  us  the 
signature  of  *'  L.  0.  C"  (t.  c.  of  Ludovico  Cardi 
da  Cigoli),  1619."  Now,  all  the  biographies  I 
have  access  to  give  1613  as  the  date  of  Cigoli's 
death.  These  biographies,  it  is  true,  are  mostly 
compilations,  and  copied  the  one  from  the  other ; 
yet  the  narrative  of  Ci^^oli's  last  illness,  last  hour 
even,  is  so  circumstantially  told,  that  it  is  hard 
to  believe  it  an  invention.  On  the  other  hand, 
how  unaccountable  would  be  a  foraery  with  an 
impossible  date  on  a  work  of  sucn  superlative 
merit  I  In  this  dilemma  I  would,  with  your  per- 
iftission^  inquire  of  your  many  readers  whether 
ax)y  pamting  of  Cigoli's  is  known  to  exist  of  a 
later  date  man  1613.  or  whether  any  biography 
gives  a  later  date  for  nis  decease.  H.  D.  G. 

Dozdey. 

Balloons  and  the  Siege  of  Paris  (4^  S.  vii. 
207.) — The  last  balloon,  G^n^ral  Cambroime,  was 
sent  up  on  January  28,  and  not  the  20th.  The 
mistake  is  owing  to  an  imperfectly  printed  copy 
of  the  Daily  Tekgraph,  Thos.  Katgliefe. 

Workaop. 

GuizoT  AND  Guise  (4'*»  S.  vii.  142.) — It  is  true 
that  among  the  educated  classes  in  Paris  the  first 
name  is  pronounced  (as  we  should  say)  Gwee-zo, 
and  the  latter  Oheeze,  It  is  equally  true  that 
there  is  no  common-sense  reason  for  the  difference. 
But  some  people  have  fancies  about  the  pronunci- 
ation of  their  names,  and  other  people  gratify 
their  follies  without  any  regard  for  the  rules  of 
their  own  language.  That  alone  accounts  for  the 
difierence.  Tne  world  is  very  tolerant  of  these 
fancies,  and  so  they  are  permitted  and  winked  at 
even  by  those  who  are  well  convinced  of  their 
absurdity.  This  is  the  case  not  merelv  with  the 
pronunciation  of  names  (as  to  which  t  could  re- 
late a  funny  illustration),  but  also  as  to  the  as- 
sumption of  titles  of  all  sorts.'  The  love  of 
notoriety  is  a  common  foible,  and  they  who  have 
really  a  right  to  titles  are  the  last  to  make  a  fuss 
about  them.  The  fuss  is  generally  in  the  inverse 
proportion  to  the  right.  0.  C. 

Leig?  Hunt's  "Leisube  Hours  in  Town" 
(4»»»  S.  vii.  26, 132, 108.)  —I  think  the  book  eii- 
quired  for  must  be  The  Town,  by  Leigh  Hunt, 
published  by  Smith,  Elder,  and  Co.  in  1848. 

Charles  Wtlie. 

«  The  Conctliad  "  (4S^  S.  vii.  IGl.)  —  The 
author  of  this  poem  was  W.  Samson,  a  surgeon 
at  Sheibome,  iJorsetshire ;  but  I  do  not  know 
who  the  initials  refer  to.  It  is  not  mentioned  in 
Lovmdes,  W.  P.  Russell. 

Bath. 

The  "Angels"  op  Stocewell:  the  last  op 
THE  Family  (4«»»  S.  vi.  371.)  — Happening  to 
mention  this  notice  in  "  N.  &  Q.''  in  the  hearing 


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of  my  father,,  who  lived  at  Stockwell  upwards  of 
eighty  years  ago,  he  narrated  the  following  anec- 
dote of  the  last  member  of  that  family: — Mr. 
Angell  having  been  much  annoyed  by  boys  rob- 
bing his  orchard  and  playing  him  other  tricks, 
one  night  went  out  with  his  gun,  and  shot  some 
unfortunate  wight  who  was  lurking  about  his  pre- 
mises. The  shock  to  this  gentleman  was  so  ex- 
cessive, when  he  found  his  gun  had  taken  fatal 
effect,  that  he  condemned  himself  to  live  the  life  of 
a  recluse  ever  after,  and  remained  a  prisoner  in  his 
own  house  to  the  day  of  his  death,  denying  him- 
self to  all  but  one  or  two  of  his  old  and  most 
intimate  acquaintances,  and  at  last  none  but  my 
grandfather  was  admitted  to  his  room.  Not  only 
was  he  a  prisoner  to  the  house  but  even  to  one  par- 
ticular spot,  where  he  sat  all  day,  and  took  no 
further  exercise  than  could  be  obtained  by  stamp- 
ing bis  feet  on  the  floor  as  he  sat  in  his  chair, 
and  the  boards  were  quite  worn  away  by  the  feet 
of  the  unhappy  recluse. 

The  **  Angel  estate,"  and  that  of  my  grandfather 
and  one  or  two  other  gentlemen,  at  that  time 
comprised  the  parish  of  Stockwell,  which  since 
has  grown  up  into  a  populous  district. 

C.  T.  J.  MooBS. 

Frampton  Hall,  near  Boston. 

"Paljsologia  CHBomECA"  (4*  S.  Tii.  143.;)— 
I  have  a  copy  of  Dr.  Gary's  PaUeologia  Chronica^ 
which  is  correctly  described  in  your  reply  to  Sp.'s 
query.  There  is  not  a  particle  of  personal  gene- 
alogical information^  nor,  so  far  as  I  have  seen^ 
any  reference  to  his  own  times  in  Dr.  Gary's 
work.  Your  correspondent  is  in  error  ns  to  his 
relationship  to  Sir  H.  Gary.  He  was  a  brother 
and  [not  a  son  of  that  unfortunate  royalist.  He 
was  six  years  old  at  the  date  of  the  heralds'  yisi- 
tation  of  Devon  in  1620,  and  died  at  his  rectory 
of  East  Portlemouth,  Devon,  Sept  IGdd.  Haying 
deyoted  much  attention  to  the  genealogy  of  the 
Carys  of  Deyon,  I  should  much  like  to  be  placed 
in  communication ^vith  your  correspondent;  for 
my  particulars  of  this  branch  of  the  family  are  as 
yet  imperfect,  and  he  mentions  the  probability  of 
being  able  to  throw  ligbt  upon  it. 

EoBEBT  Dtmond. 
Bampfylde  House,  Exeter. 

Cbitxcism  02T  "  Mebchaxt  op  Venice  "  (4**>  S. 
vii.  142.) —The  anecdote  reminds  me  of  the  late 
Mr.  VandenJioff's  final  visit  to  Glasgow.  Behind 
me  in  the  crowded  stalls  was  a  Glasgow  lawyer, 
who  was  BO  much  impressed  with  the  great  actor's 
Shylock  as  audibly  to  say  when  the  Jew  went 
off  discomfited  at  the  wing — the  actor  had  oyer- 
come  us  all — '^  Well,  Shakespeare  has  used  Shy- 
lock  too  bad."  This  struck  me  at  the  time^  a 
splendid  bit  of  criticism.  I  hare  not  since  heard 
it  excelled.  W.  H. 

Copar-Fife. 


Ghildben's  Games  (4'»»  S.  vii.  141.)— I  fre- 
quently took  part  in  the_  game  mentioned  by  S. 
when  a  child  at  Looe,  in  Gornwall,  fifty  years 
ago.  The  rhymes  appear  to  have  differed  slightly 
from  those  mentioned  by  S.,  and  were  as  fol- 
low:— 

"  *  How  many  miles  from  this  to  Babylon  ?  * 
*  Three-score  and  ten.* 
'    *  Can  we  get  there  by  day  light  ?  ' 
<  Yes,  if  yoar  legs  are  long  and  strong. 
'  Thia  one*s  long,  and  this  one's  strong ; 
Open  your  gates  as  high  as  the  sky, 
And  let  King  Geoi^ge  and  me  pass  by.* " 

^m^  was  not  unfrequently  substituted  for  king, 

Wic.  Pexqelly. 
Torquay, 

"The  Last  of  the  PLAjfTAOEXBTs"  (4**"  S.  yii. 
160.) — Your  correspondent  Mr.  Ward  is  in  error 
when  he  names  1839  as  the  date  of  the  publica- 
tion of  the  aboye  romance.  I  can  speak  on  this 
point  with  authority,  having  myself  assisted  in  its 
transcription  for  the  press  so  far  back  as  (1  be- 
lieve) 1826,  between  which  and  1829  it  was 
originally  published.  Jt  was  written  by  the  late 
William  Ueseltine,  a  gentleman  of  distinguished 
literary  attainments,  at  that  time  residing  at  Tur- 
ret House,  South  Lambeth,  heretofore  the  home 
of  the  Tradescants,  whose  collection  of  curiosities 
was  tHe  wonder  of  the  age. 
Keswick.  WiLLIAM  GasPEY. 

"  GhAteafx  en  Espaqnb  "  (4»»»  S.  vii.  168.)— 
Long  before  Francois  de  Sales  we  find  the  pro- 
yerb  recorded : — 

Thirteenth  Century. 

<*  Lors  feras  chastiaus  en  Espaigne, 
Kt  auras  joie  de  noient, 
Tant  cum  tu  iras  foloiant 
Kn  la  pens^  delitable, 
Oil  il  n*a  fors  men^onge  et  fable." 

GuiUaame  de  Lorris,  Roman  de  la  Rose^ 
2452. 

Fifteenth  Century. 
".Tout  h  part  raoy,  en  mon  penser'm'enclos, 

£t  fais  chasteaulz  en  £spaigne  et  en  Francs ; 
Oultro  les  monts,  forge  mainte  ordon nance  ; 
Chascnn  jour,  j*ay  plus  de  mille  propos." 

Charles  d'Orl^an?),  Bond, 

Whence  the  saying  arose  is  a  point  whicb  haa 
neyer  been  settled,  as  we  see  the  proverb  was  used 
as  far  back  as  the  thirteenth  century. 

Now,  in  the  fifteenth  century  we  find  "  Gha- 

teaux  en  Asie,  chateaux  en  Albanie." 

Fifteenth  centun'. 
*'  £t  le  sonffer  fait  chasteaux  en  Asie ; 
Le  grand  d^sir  la  chair  rassasie." 

Pierre  Gringoire,  Menus  propos, 

Je  vays,  je  viens,  le  trot  et  puis  le  pas, 
Je  dis  ung  mot,  puis  aprds  je  le  n}'e, 

£t  si  bastis  sans  reigle  nc  compas, 
Tout  fin  scullet  les  chasteaux  d'Albanve." 

IP 

Le  Verger  d'HotmeurJ^  ■ 

Hence  it  would  appear  that  the  expressions 


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quoted  above  meant  to  build  castles  in  foreign  far- 
off  lands,  otherwise  to  feed  one's  mind  on  silly 
fancies.  Spain  being  nearer  and  more  Jcnown  on 
account  of  the  '^  Chanson  et  E^cits  de  Roland/' 
^'  Faire  des  chateaux  en  Espagne  "  prevailed  over 
''  Faire  des  chateaux  en  Asie,  en  Albanie." 

Mabctelliii-Pagnt. 
Bath. 

Db  Saye  or  Sat  (4'>»  S.  vii.  123.)— Lamar- 
tinidre  {^Gr,  Diet  g6og,  et  cnt.)j  under  "  Say, 
Saia,  Sajum,  ou  Sadium,  a  parish  of  Normandy, 
dioc.  S6ez/'  after  speaking  of  the  church  ana 
property  of  Say,  says : — 

"  Pour  la  maison  de  Say,  encore  plas  connue  en  Angle- 
terre  qu'en  Normandie,  elle  est  ^teinte  il  y.  a  longtenu. 

"On  en  commence  la  g<$ndaIo^e  dans  le  baronnage 
d*AngIcterre,  h  Picot  de  Say,  qui  vivoit  sons  Guillaume  le 
Gonqudrant,  et  qai  fit  sea  donations  It  TAbbaje  de  S.- 
Martin de  S^ez ;  entre  autres  il  lui  oonfirma  le  tiers  de 
r^lise  de  Say»  qa'0->melln  dc  Say  y  avoit  donn^.  II 
^toit  nn  des  Barons  de  Ro^er  de  Mont'^ommeri,  fondateur 
de  ce  monast^rc ;  il  le  suivit  en  Angleterre.  C'est  ap- 
paremment  k  cause  de  lai  on  de  quelaue  autre  de  son 
nom  qn'il  y  a  aussi  dans  ce  pays-Ik  an  lieu  appel^  Say; 
cependant  on  doute  s'il  n'y  aardt  pas  encore  une  terre 
de  ce  nom  vers  le  Cottentui*  ce  que  quelqnes  litres  font 
pr^Bomer ;  et  en  ce  caa  il  ponrroit  y  avoir  eu  deux  fa- 
milies de  Say :  et  il  seroit  asa^s  k  croire  que  Jonrdain  de 
Say,  qui  fonda  en  1131  l'Abbaye\d'Aunay,  au  dioc6se  de 
Bayeux,  et  dont  la  fiUe,  Agnha  de  Say,  dpousa  Richard  du 
Hommet,  conn^table  de  .Normandie,  auroit  6t6  d'uno 
famille  diffdrente:  aussi  leur  attribue-t-on  des  armes 
diverses;  TAbbayo  d'Aunay  fait  porter  h  son  fondateur, 
d'Aigent,  sem<(  de  billettes  de  Sable  an  lion  de  meme,  et 
]'on  donne  au  Say  d'Angleterre,  de  Gueules  h  deux  faces 
de  vair ;  sur  quoi  on  pent  voir  VHistoire  de  la  Maison 
iTUarcourt,  tome  ii.  p.  1952,  et  tome  4  dans  TAppendioe, 
p.  22." 

The  geographical  name  is^  without  doubt,  de- 
rived from  saxum,  -       K.  S.  Chabnock. 
Gray*s  Inn  Square. 

Presuming  your  correspondent  to  have  already 
searched  sucli  books  as  the  publications  of  the 
Kecord  Commission,  or  Sims's  Index  to  PedigreeSy 
in  the  British  Museum,  for  mentions  of  the  Say 
family,  I  can  inform  him  that  there  is  a  brass  to 
Sir  John  Say,  in  Broxbume  church,  Hants  (a.b. 
1473),  and  also  a  curious'  Latin  verse  inscription 
to  a  William  Say  in  Denchworth  church,  county 
Berks,  dated  1403.    A  Thomas  Say,  Esq.,  accom- 

?aniea  Sir  Arthur  Hyde,  of  the  latter  place,  to 
reland  in  168G,  and  obtained  a  grant  of  5,775 
acres  there.  Henry  de  Say  was  for  three  years 
sheriff  for  Berkshire  in  Henrv  IH.^s  reign.  Thomas 
Say,  Esq.,  held  the  same  office  under  II enry  Vn.'8 
reign.  IIbj^rt  Babky  Htdb,  Jun. 

2i,  Edge  Lane,  Liverpool. 

Bismarck  anticipatbd  :  "  Stewtno^iw  teste, 
OWN  Gbavt  "  (4"»  S.  vii.  187.)— The  French  have 
the  same  expression,  *'  Cuire  dans  son  jus."  Talk- 
ing of  culinary  art,  a  great  epicurean  once  snid — 
'' Avec  une  pareille  sauce  on  mangerait  son  pere  I  " 


If  the  poor  Parisians  could  but  have  had  some  of 
it  during  this  horrible  siege  to  malce  their  nause- 
ous food  somewhat  more  palatable  I        P.  A.  L. 

Is  not  the  proverb  equivalent  exactly  to  ''  fry- 
ing in  their  own  grease  "  P  If  so,  we  can  go  a 
little  further  back  than  the  London  Spy, 

Shakespeare  has  two  allusions  to  it  in  The 
Merry  Wives  (Globe  edit.  ii.  i.  69,  and'  ni,  v. 
115.) 

John  Heywood  has— 

**  She  fxyeth  in  hir  owne  grease,  but  as  for  my  parte 
If  she  be  aufi^ry,  beshrew  her  angry  harte.*' 

Dialogue,  &c  I.  xi.,  Spenser  Soc,  p.  37. 

Chaucer's  Wyf  of  Bathe  says — 

"  But  certevnly  I  made  folk  such  chere. 
That  in  his  owne  grees  I  made  him  frie 
For  anger,  and  for  verraie  jalousie." 

Frolomte  of  \Vyf  of  Bathe,  1.  487, 
ed.lAorris. 

John  Addis. 

Rustington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sussex. 

I  think,  in  differing  forms,  this  saying  will  be 
found  as  old  as  the  hills,  and  that  some  of  the 
classic  mineH  into  the  domains  of  heathendom 
may  send  us  specimens  from  Plautus  or  Aristo- 
phanes. Shakspere  has  twice  availed  himself  of 
its  use  in  one  play,  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor, 
Falstaff  describes  himself  as  nearly  in  that  plight 
in  his  purgatory  of  the  buck-basket,  from  which  he 
was  only  delivered  by  its  being  emptied  in  Datchet- 
mead.  But  the  closest  use  of  the  proverb  he 
(Shakspere)  puts  in  the  mouth  of  Pord's  wife, 
who  thus  energetically  expresses  her  honest  in- 
dignation at  the  bold  profligacy  of  the  lascivious 
fat  lecher  to  her  gossip,  Mrs.  Page : — 

**  What  tempest,  I  trow,  threw  this  whale  with  so  manj 
tons  of  oil  in  hi.s  belly  ashore  at  Windsor  ?  How  shall  I 
be  revenged  on  him  r  I  think  the  best  way  were  to  en- 
tertain him  with  hope,  till  the  uridked  ftre  of  lust  have 
melted  him  in  his  own  grease"  . 

^  But,  certainlv,  for  cool  heartiiessness  of  applica- 
tion to  two  millions  of  suffeiinff  fellow-creatures, 
Count  Bismark  haa  made  it  mA  own  by  patent, 
unless  The  Times  can  persuade  posterity  that  it 
was  only  the  frank,  open-hearted  pleasantry  of  the 
astute  German  statesman,  with  wnich  he  loved  to 
season  his  hard  sayings  to  those  who  he  considered 
were  at  his  mercy.  J.  A.  G. 

Carisbrooke. 

**  That  in  his  owen  grcse  I  made  him  frie." 

Chaucer,  Wif  of  Bathes  Tale,  y,  6069. 

The  Saturday  Heview,  Jan.  28,  1871,  in  an 
article  on  Ayrton,  says  the  above  expression  has 
now  become  classical !  J.  Wethebsll. 

Inkstand  op  Wedgwood  Wabe  (4***  S.  viL 
163.) — These  dolphin-footed  inkstands  were  great 
favourites  at  one  time.  I  have  had  two,  and  have 
just  oeen  looking  at  the  remi^ns  of  one  of  them : 
red,  with  Egyptian  designa  in  black.  The  cavitv 
of  the  hemispherical  body  used  to  be  filled  with 


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-wet  sponge  for  the  purpose  of  wiping  the  pens 
through  the  smaller  holes.  A  larger  one,  or 
rather  socket,  was  for  the  reception  of  a  wax 
taper.  A  still  larger  aperture  contained  a  per- 
forated vessel  for  the  blue  and  silver  sand  once  in 
vogue  for  drying  the  ink.  The  central  receptacle 
for  the  latter  had  usually  a  plug  to  raise  the  fluid 
by  atmospheric  pressure. 

W.  J.  Bbbkhabd  SltlTH. 

Ladt  Grimstok's  Grave  in  Tewdt  Chtjech- 
TABD  (4**»  S.  vii.  76,  128, 172.)— In  reference  to 
the  recent  cbrrespozidence  respecting  Lady  Anne 
Qrimston's  tomb  at  Tewin,  the  Herts  Guardian 
states : 

<*  In  Eiu-1  Cowper'a  Park,  Paiuhaiufer,  one  mile  from 
Tewin  cbarch,  may  be  seen  several  dumps  of  six  to  ten 
trunks  of  ash-trees  springing  from  one  root ;  and  the 
foUowing  from  the  Herts  Gtutrdian  of  May  16tb,  1869, 
shows  that  there  are  at  least  two  cases  of  trees  growing 
out  of  tombstones  in  the  locality  of  Tewin — ^foar  miles 
from  Hertford.  Noticing  the  demolition  of  St.  Andrew's 
Old  Ctinrch,  Hertford,  it  is  stated :— <  On  the  south  side 
the  church  is  a  tomb  after  the  style  of  Lady  Anne  Qrim- 
ston's at  Tewin :  two  sycamore  trees  and  a  lot  of  young 
sprigs  are  growing  out  of  it,  and  have  displnced  the  stone- 
work, and  twisted  and  broken  the  iron  railings :  dose  by 
is  a  young  birch  tree  growing  out  of  a  buttress,  and  it 
has  pushed  away  the  brickwork.'  It  is  a  subject  for 
regret  that  the  tomb  was  obliged  to  be  demolished  to 
make  room  for  the  transept  of  the  new  church.  Again, 
on  the  south  side  of  Watford  church  is  a  tomb  with  a 
fig-tree  growing  out  of  the  interior ;  and  there  is  the 
absurd  tale,  resembling  that  of  Lady  Anne  Grimston, 
that  the  lady  buried  bdow  did  not  believe  in  a  Supreme 
Being;  and  9aid  Mf  there  was  a  God,  a  fig-tree  would 
grow  out  of  her  heart.'  This  fig-tree  has  borne  fruit; 
but  no  wonder  that  the  iigs  were '  not  very  good  to  eat.' " 

"NV.  Pollabd. 

Old  Cross,  nertford. 


1 1) 


Hash  Statements  :  Gibbon's  "  DECLn? r  "  (4** 
S.  vii.  232.)  —  According  to  my  copy  of  Gibbon 
(Longman  &  Co.,  1848),  it  is  MR.  Tew  who  is 
guilty  of  a  rash  statement    The  passnge  is :  — 

•*  Tho  advantaio^es  of  military  science  and  discipline 
cannot  be  exerted  unless  a  proper  number  of  soldiers  are 
united  into  one  body,  and  actuated  by  one  soul.  With  a 
handful  of  men  such  an  union  would  be  inefluctnal ;  with 
an  unwieldy  host,  it  would  be  impracticable ;  and  the 
X>owera  of  t^e  machine  would  be  alike  destroyed  by  the 
extreme  minuteness  or  the  excessive  weight  of  its  springs. 
To  Siostrate  this  observation,  wc  need  only  reflect  that 
there  is  no  superiority  of  patural  strength,  artificial 
weapons,  or  acquired  skill  wliich  could  enable  one  man 
to  keep  in  constant  subjection  one  hundred  of  his  fellow 
creatures  :  the  t3'rantof  a  single  town,  or  a  small  district, 
would  soon  discover  tliat  a  hnndroi  armed  followers  wero 
a  weak  defence  against  tea  thousand  peasants  or  citizens; 
but  a  hujtdred  iJtotttand  well  disciplined  soldiers  will  com- 
mand with  despotic  sway  ten  millions  of  subjects,  nod  a 
bod,y  of  ten  or  fifteen  thousand  guards  will  strike  terror 
into  the  most  numerous  populace  that  ever  crowded  the 
streets  of  an  immense  capital.*' 

^  The  context  will  «how  that  Mr.  Tsw*8  qnota- 

tion,  *^an  hundred  disciplined  eoldiera/'  is  wrong. 

I  have  not  Fuller  hy  me,  so  I  cannot  refer  to 


the  other  instance.  If  I  could  get  at  Tilman 
Bredenach,  I  hare  no  doubt  I  should  find  that 
Fuller,  like  Mr.  Tew,  had  not  quoted  correctly. 

Clabby. 

["  But  an  hundred  thousand  well-disciplined  soldiers/' 
&c  This  is  the  text  of  Gibbon,  according  to  the  edition 
"  with  notes  and  a  memoir  by  F.  A.  Gnizot.**"] 

Hampdsn  Fahily  (4*  S.  vii.  189.)— Dr.  Hamp- 
den, the  late  Bishop  of  Hereford,  claimed  descent 
"from  a  junior  branch  of  the  same  stock  as  the 
patriot  John  Hampden."  {Afemorials  .of  Buhop 
Hampden^  P*  ^O  ^^®  bishop's  ancestors  are  said 
to  hare  left  England  at  the  Restoration,  and  to 
hare  settled  with  other  parliamentary  families  in 
the  West  Indies.  The  assertion,  or  family  tradi- 
tion, or  whatever  it  may  be  called^  deserves  some 
consideration,  inasmuch  as  the  bishop's  brother, 
John  Hampden  of  Leamington  (who  died  in 
1860)  was  an  antiquary  of  some  repute,  and  had 
doubtless  investigated  the  point.  C.  J.  K, 

A  branch  of  this  family]  (of  which  the  late 
Regius  Professor  was  one)  flourished  in  Bar- 
bados, and  the  name  was  originally  spelt  without 
the  Pf  but  that  letter  was  afterwards  assumed. 
In  an  old  black-letter  account  of  Buckingham- 
shire, the  great  patriot's  name  is  given  without 
the  I? ;  and  can  you  inform  me  which  is  the  cor- 
rect way  of  spelling  it  P  There  must  be,  I  presume, 
many  of  his  signatures  remaining,  but  they  may 
vary,  like  Shal^peare's.  G.  E. 

Hebaldic  (4**  S.  vi.  458.)— The  arms  which 
W.  H.  M.  C.  wishes  to  identify — Azure,  a  crose 
patt6e  between  four  fleurs-de-lis  or  —  probably 
belong  to  some  family  of  Ward  in  Cheshire.  The 
arms  of  Ward  of  Copleetone,  co.  Chester — B,  a 
cross  patt^e  0. — are  borne  with  various  difierences 
and  augmentations  by  several  families  of  that 
name.  The  nearest  approach  to  the  blazon  given 
in  "N.  &  Q."  that  I  have  been  able  to  find  is, 
Azure,  a  cross  patt^  erminois  between  four  fleurs- 
de-lis  or.  Betekley  R.  Belt??, 

Librarian  of  Columbia  College. 

Samplers:  Rev.  John  Newton  (1*^  S.  vi. 
500;  vii.  21,  120,  220.)— The  lines  given  by 
J.  A.  Pn.  were  composed  by  the  late  llev.  John 
Newton  for  the  pampler  of  his  niece,  IMias  Eliza- 
beth Catlett  As  such  they  have  been  handed 
down  and  worked  in  our  family  for  his  sake.  My 
grandmotbier  was  honoured  with  the  friendsliip  of 
this  excellent  man  during  his  later  years  while 
rector  of  St.  Mary  Woolnoth,  London,  and  I  have 
often  heard  her  children  recall  with  pleasure  the 
genial  playfulness  which  made  him  ponular  "mth 
the  young,  and  indeed  with  all  who  knew  him. 
He  ever  endeavoured,  too,  to  convey  and  fix  some 
profitable  thought  by  all  his  verses  and  inter- 
course. Several  instances  of  these  may  be  found 
appended  to  a  little  volume  of  letters  his  addressed 


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NOTES   AND   QUERIES.  [4»».  S.  VII.  March  25, 71. 


to  the  above-named  relative  (1779-1783),  entitled 
Twenty-One  Letters  written  to  a  near  Relative  at 
School  (London,  65,  St.  Paul's  Churchyard). 

I  should,  however,  add  that  our  copy  of  the 
lines  varies  in  a  slight  degree  from  those  worked 
by  Arabella;  the  second  line  was  evidently  al- 
tered to  suit  her  own  name.  Our  lines  stand 
thus — 

«*  Jesns,  permit  Thy  gracioas  Name  to  stand, 
A»  thefint  effort  of  an  infant's  hand ;     . 
And  while  her  fingers  o'er  the  canvass  move, 
Engage  her  tender  thoughts  to  seek  Tby  love ; 
With  Thy  dear  children  let  her  have  a  part, 
And  write  Thy  Name,  Thytdf,  upon  her  heart," 

S.  M.  S. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Rambles  of  an  Archaalogiit  among  Old  Books  and  Old 
Places ;  being  Papers  on  Art  in  relation  to  ArehaoUtgy, 
Painting t  Art  Decoration,  and  Art  Manufachtre.  Jvy 
Frederick  William  Fairholt,  F.S.A.  Illustrated  with 
259  Wood  Engravings,    (Virtue  &  Co.) 

The  late  Mr.  Fairholt  was  not  only  a  painstaking  and 
well-informed  antiquary,  but  an  accurate  and  accom- 
plished draftsman,  so  that  when  be  brought  his  pen  and 
pencil  to  bear  on  any  subject,  the  combination  ox  archie- 
ological  knowledge  and  artistic  skill,  as  in  the  case  of  his 
Dictionary  of  Costume,  was  attended  with  the  happiest 
results.  This  was  strongly^  exemplified  in  sever^  in- 
teresting series  of  papers  which  he  communicated  to  The 
Art  Journal}  and  we  agree  with  the  editor  of  the  book 
before  us,  that  the  merit  and  value  of  these  Essays — the 
lesult  of  80  much  labour  and  research— entitle  them  to  a 
more  lasting  form  than  is  afforded  in  the  pages  of  a 
magazine.  Some  idea  of  the  variety  of  interesting  gossip 
in  the  book  may  be  formed  from  a  glance  at  its  contents. 
After  an  opening  Essay,  in  which  Mr.  Fairholt  treats  of 
almost  every  department  of  Ornamental  Art,  there  is  a 
carious  paper  ''On  Grotesque  Design  as  exhibited  in 
Ornamental  and  Indnstrial  Art.'*  This  is  followed  by 
**  Facts  about  Finger  Rings,"  and  an  essay  ^  On  Ancient 
Brooches  and  Dress  Fastenings;"  and  the  book  ends  with 
a  pleasant  article  on  ''Albert  DUrer;  his  Works,  his 
Companions,  and  his  Times;"  while  nearly  300  Illus- 
trations add  at  once  to  the  interest  and  value  of  the 
letter  press.  We  are  promised  a  second  volume,  and 
we  shall  welcome  it,  and  even  more  cordially  if  it  is  ac- 
companied by  what  the  book  will  really  require — a  good 
Index. 

Crowland  and  Burgh,  A  Light  on  the  Historians  and  on 
the  History  of  Vrowland  Abbey  ;  and  an  Account  of 
the  Monastery  at  Burgh  (now  Peterborough)  in  Pre- 
Norman  Timet,  ctnd  to  the  Time  of  KinSitichard  the 
First  (1193).  By  Henry  Scale  English.  In  Three 
Volumes,    (Longmans.) 

The  work  before  us  famishes  fV^sh  proof,  if  that  were 
needed,  of  the  truth  of  Wordsworth's  dictum,  that  the 
child  is  father  of  tbe  man.  In  his  preface  Mr.  English 
states,  with  reference  to  a  somewhat  similar  effort  that 
appeared  in  1830 :  "  That  Book  does  the  Writer  v^tj  little 
credit.  I  am  sore  he  owes  humble  apologies  to  any  one 
who  honoured  it  with  a  perusal,  for  it  was  badly  ar- 
ranged, full  of  mistakes,  and  the  meaning  sometimes  so 
awkwardly  expressed,  that  the  arguments  (such  as  they 


were)  were  not  properly'  understood.  The  Author  of  that 
book,  who  has  since  had  more  than  sufliciont  time  for 
reflection,  has  now  written  these ;  the  subjects  are  often  the 
same,  but  he  has  avoided  a  great  number  of  the  mistakes 
which  disgraced  the  book  of  1830."  This  we  think  forms 
a  very  fair  criticism  of  the  volumes  whose  title  we  have 
transcribed  above. 

Books  receivbd.  —  Peveril  of  the  Peak,  By  Sir 
Walter  Scott ;  being  Vol,  XV,  of  the  Centenary  Edition 
of  the  Waverley  Novels.  (A.  &  C.  Black.)  We  can  do 
little  more  than  chronicle  the  regularity  with  which  the 
volumes  of  this,  certainly  the  most  complete  edition  of 
Scott's  admirable  fictions,  are  brought  before  the  world. 
— Poems  in  the  Craven  Dialect,  By  Tom  Twisleton. 
Second  Edition,  (Wildman  Settle.)  We  can  well  un- 
derstand why  these  little  poems,  written  in  the  Craven 
dialect,  should  be  popular  in  the  district  to  which  they 
belong;  they  have  a  pleaaant  cheeiy  ring  about  them.— 
FolA-Songand  Folk-Speech  of  Lancashire  in  the  Ballads 
and  Songs  of  the  CousUy  Palatine,  with  Notes  on  the  Dia- 
lects in  which  many  of  them  are  written,  and  an  Appendix 
on  Lancashire  Folk  Lore.  By  W.  E.  A.  Axon,  F.R.aL. 
Ac.  (Tubbs  &  Brook,  Manchester.)  A  small  but  valu- 
able addition  to  the  now  long  list  of  works  on  English 
Dialects  and  Folk  Lore. 

Dbath  of  Professor  De  Moboak.— Our  readers 
will  hear  with  deep  regret  of  the  death  of  this  accom- 
plished gentleman,  who  was  for  many  years  a  frequent 
contribotor  to  these  columns,  which  took  place  on 
Saturday  last.  Professor  de  Morgan,  who  has  been  for 
many  years  intimately  connected  with  University  Col- 
lege, I/>ndon,  was  bom  at  Madura  in  Southern  India  in 
1806,  and  coming  to  England  proceeded  to  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Cambridge,  where  he  took  his  B.A.  degree  in  1827, 
being  fourth  wrangler,  Mr.  Cleasby,  now  a  Baron  of  the 
Exchequer,  being  the  third  wrangler  of  that  year.  On 
leaving  Cambridge,  Mr.  de  Morgan  entered  at  Lincoln's 
Inn  and  commenced  his  legal  studies,  but  almost  imme- 
diately afterwards  abandoned  them  on  being  appointed 
to  the  Professorship  of  Mathematics  in  the  University  of 
London.  Since  that  time  he  has  written  largely  on  the 
principles  and  history  of  mathematics,  as  well  as  on 
arithmetic,  algebra,  trigonometiy,  double  algebra,  the  dif- 
ferential calculus,  the  calculus  of  functions,  the  theorv  of 
probabilities,  life  contingencies,  the  gnomonic  projection, 
formal  logic,  has  been  a  very  large  contributor  to  The 
Athenaum,  where  the  series  entitled  "  A  Bundle  of  Para- 
doxes," created  a  considerable  sensation,  and  wrote  also 
man^  papers  in  The  Transactions  of  the  Cambridge  Philo- 
sophical Society,  He  was  a  fellow  of  the  Royal  Astro- 
nomical Society,  and  for  eighteen  years  one  of  its 
secretaries. 

Death  of  Robert  Ch a scbers,  LL.D. — Scotland  has 
lost  a  son  to  whom  she  owes  a  large  debt  of  gratitude. 
Robert  Chambers  died  on  the  17th  instant^  in  the  sixty- 
ninth  year  of  his  ageH  Not  only  will  he  be  long  remem- 
bered as  the  author  of  many  valuable  works,  especially 
illustrative  of  the  history  and  literature  of  his  native 
country,  but  fqr  the  share  which  he  had  with  his  elder 
brother  William  in  the  production  of  the  popular  journal 
which  bora  their  name,  and  the  appearance  of  which,  be 
it  remembered,  preceded  that  of  tne  Penny  Magazine  by 
six  weeks.  The  books  written  bv  Robert  Chambers,  like 
those  of  his  no  leas  diatiognished  orother  William,  form  a 
long  list. 

A  History  of  the  Wbald  of  Kekt,  with  an  out- 
line of  the  Early  History  of  the  Oountv,  bv  Robert  Fur- 
ley,  F.S. A. ;  also,  a  Sketch  of  the  Physical  Features  of 
the  District,  by  Henrr  B.  Mackeaon,  F.Q.S,  in  two 
volumes,  is  announced  ror  early  publication. 


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275 


Balloo!!  LETTBRS.~Me8sre.  Letts  of  the  Royal  Ex- 
change have  just  issued  an  admirable  fac-simile  of  a 
Balloon  Letter,  as  a  lasting  memorial  of  the  late  unhappy 
war. 

The  Old  River  Wall. — It  may  be  as  well  to  place 
on  record  in  **  N.  &  Q."  (sajs  a  valued  correspondent), 
that  during  the  trenching  operations  at  present  going  on 
in  the  Inner  Temple  Garden,  part  of  the  foundations  of 
this,  the  old  frontage  of  the  Thames,  have  been  laid  bare. 
They  are  in  a  right  line  with  the  old  tree  under  which 
Johnson  and  Goldsmith  used  to  meet.  The  usual  **  re- 
jectamenta*' found  in  breaking  old  ground  in  London 
have  turned  up — fragments  of  grey  beards  and  of  glass, 
old  pipes,  the  so-called  **  pipes  "  used  for  curling  wigs,  and 
yesterday  (March  20)  portions  of  two  human  skeletons, 
^hese  were  about  five  feet  below  the  garden  turf  on  the 
outside  of  the  wall,  and  were  no  doubt  those  of  persons 
drowned  in  the  Thames  and  embedded  in  its  mud.  They 
consist  of  fragments  of  the  cranium,  vertebne,  pelvis,  and 
the  halves  of  two  lower  jaws, 

Don  Quixote.— It  is  said  that  Don  Fabian  Hernandez, 
of  Santander,  a  well-known  bibliopole,  is  about  to  pub- 
lish a  new  edition  from  the  original  MS.  of  Cervantes, 
which  he  is  reported  to  have  had  the  good  fortune  to 
discover. 

M.  Becquerel. — The  death,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  of 
this  celebrated  electrician  is  reported.  He  died  in  Nor- 
mandy during  the  siege  of  Paris. 

Lichfield  Cathedral. — *<A  wall  painting,*'  says 
The  Builder,  **  has  been  recently  discovered  at  the  east 
end  of  the  south  side  of  the  choral  aisle,  a  portion  of  the 
edifice  which  is  thought  to  have  been  a  chapel  dedicated 
to  St.  Chad.  The  existence  of  other  iUuminations  in  the 
immediate  vicinity  of  the  picture  would  fix  it  as  a  speci- 
men of  the  art  in  the  thirteenth  century.  The  subject  is 
the  Crucifixion,  the  centre  figure  being  Christ  upon  the 
Cross.  The  groundwork  is  of  a  greenish  tint,  studded 
with  white  stars.  The  predominating  colour  of  the 
drapery  of  the  figures  is  a  lightish  red,  the  Cross  also 
being  of  that  colour.  In  some  of  its  details  the  painting 
is  curious,  if  not  grotesque.  An  inscription  in  doubtful 
cliaracters  can  be  traced  on  the  wreath." 


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the  gentleman  by  whom  it  li  required,  whose  name  and  addrea  are  given 
for  that  purpoM: 

Adxioal  Shtth's  Cxlbstial  Cyclx.    Vol.  IT. 

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MackLney,K.£. 


fiatiui  ia  CarreifiJontrcuU. 

S.  E.  L.  (Meihwold  Register,)— We  do  not  know  into 
vhat  county  papers  it  may  have  been  copied,  but  it  weu 
printed  in  **  N.  &  Q."  of  Nov,  5  last,  p.  384. 

W.  H.  S. — Lowndes*  Bibliographer,  and  all  the  recent 
editions  of  Shakespeare,  show  Vie  dates  of  the  first  prinithig 
of  the  several  plays, 

Baopipks.— J.  S.  (Edinburgh)  should  constdt  Chap- 
pelVs  Mujiic  of  the  Olden  Time  and  the  eaithorities  there 
quoted. 

»  Forgive,  blest  shade,  the  tribntaiy  tear." 

Our  Correspondent  unU  find  the  history  of  this  jpopular 
inscription  in  our  1"*  S.  is.  542,  and  z.  94, 183, 152,  214. 


NoMKX.— For  Rovd  as  a  local  name,  see  "X.  &  Q."  3'* 
S.  xi.  414,  494. 

Rbv.  E.  L.  H.  Tew,  B.A.— 7%e  Rev.  Dr.  Walker  of 
Londojtderry  was  only  a  bishop  designate,  see  "  N.  &  Q.^' 

2"<*  S.  X.  106. For  nolicet  of  tlte  Rev.  John  Evans,  tee 

oi«rl»«S.  V.  611;  S"^*!  S.  xi.  97. 

W,  P. — 77kc  phrase  ** Sixes  and  Sevens  "  is  noticed  in  our 
1»»  S.  iii.  118,  425. 

RooERS  Family.— We  must  adhere  to  our  decision. 

Emily  will  find  the  phrase  **  Lords  o'  the  creation  "  in 
"  The  Twa  Dogs''  of  Bums. 

Errata.— At  pages  169, 173,  and  245  of  the  present 
volume/or  «  J.  G.  Walter  "  read  "  J.  G.  Waller." 

Mr.  William  Bates.  —  A  Correspondetit  states  that 
he  cannot  find  the  review  of  the  third  series  of**  Essays  on 
Natural  History,^*  by  George  Waterton,  alluded  to  by 
you  in  your  article  on  Ecstatics  (p.  193)  in  Frascr*s  Maga- 
zine/or December,  1858.  WUl  you  kindly  set  the  matter 
right? 

Our  Correspondents  wW,  we  trust,  excuse  our  sug- 
gesting  to  them,  both  for  their  sokes  as  well  as  our  own — 

I.  That  they  should  write  clearly  and  distinctly-^and  on 
one  side  of  the  paper  only— more  especially  proper  names 
and  words  and  phrases  of  which  an  explanation  may  be 
reared.  We  cannot  undertake  to  puzzfe  out  what  a  Cor- 
respondent does  not  tfiink  worth  the  trouble  of  writing 
plainly, 

II.  TTtat  to  all  communications  should  be  ({ffixed  the  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication, 
but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith, 

III.  That  Quotations  should  be  verified  by  precise  re- 
ferences to  edition,  chapter,  and  page  ;  and  references  to 
**  N.  &  Q.'*  by  series,  volume,  and  page. 

lY.  Correspondents  who  reply  to  Queries  would  add  to 

their  obligation  by  precise  reference  to  volume  and  page 

where  such  queries  are  to  be  found.     The  omission  to  do 

this  saves  the  writer  very  little  trouble,  but  entails  much  to 

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being  worn  round  the  bodyiwhile  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
plil^bythe  HOC-MAIN  FAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fittlngwith  so 
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during  sleep.  A  descriptive  drcular  xaaa  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
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sing every  other  medicine.  Food,  irregularity  of  llvinj;.  ellmates.  Mid 
other  causes  are  constantly  throwing  the  liver  Into  disorder,  but  that 
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healthily  adjusted  by  HoUoway's  Pills  and  Ointment,  which  act  di- 
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MDetrates  immediately  to  the  liver,  whose  blood  and  nerves  it  rociilies. 
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Choice  Sherry— Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown . . . . 48s.. 64s. , and  t>os . 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  t4s.,  SOs.,  36s.,  4Xs.,  4Bs.,  00s.,  and  81s. 

Fortfroro  first-class  Shippers aOs.36s.4ts. 

VeryChoioeOld  Port 48s. 60s. 7as. 84s. 

CHAMPAGNE, 
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Hochheimer,  Mareobrunner,  Rndeshaimer,  Steinberg,  Liebfranmilch 
60s.;  Joha'hnlsbergcr  and  Stelnbergcr,  TSs.,  84s..  to  180s. <  firaunberger. 


and  other  nire  wines.   Fine  old  Pale  Cognac  Brandy,0Os.and7Ss.per 
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Brii^tont  SO,  King's  Rood, 

(OriginaUy  Established  A.D.  1667.) 


•  36s.  per  doz. 

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Bordeaux,  ISs.,  ISs.,  Sis.,  SOs.,  36s.,  to  98s.  per  doz.  {  Chablis.  S4s.;  Mar- 
sala, 24s.  per  doz.  (  Sherry,  24s.,  30s.,  36s.,  42s.,  48s.,  to  06s.  per  doz.  \  Old 
Port,  Sis.,  SOs. ,  36s. ,  42s.,  to  1 44s.  per  doz. ;  Tarragona,  18s.  per  doz.,  the 
finest  imported  \  Hock  and  Moselle,  S4s.,  30s.,  86s.,  4&f .  per  doz.  i  Spark- 
ling Hock  and  Moselle,  48s.  and  60s.  per  doz.;  fineold  Pale  Brandy,  48s., 
60s.  and  72s.  per  doz.    At  DOTESIO'S  DepOt.  19,  Swallow  Street,  Re- 

Knt  Street  (suocessor  to  Ewart  and  Co.,  Wine  Merchants  to  Hex 
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BT  BOTAL  COMMAND. 


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LAUPLOUGH'S 
FTBETIC     SALINE 

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C50NTENTS.— »•  170. 


IfOTE9:»The  Autobiography  of  Lord  Brougbam;  tfrs. 
NightingUe'a  Tomb.  277  -~  On  the  Absence  of  any 
French  Word  signifying  *'  to  stand."  278— Gbattertoniana. 
lb, — Barker  ana  Burford's  Panoramas,  279  —  Lord  Camp- 
beU's   "Life  of  Lord  Lyndfanrst "  —  Old  Customs  at 

.  Cathedrals,  fto.  —  Curious  Epitaph  —  Longevity  —  Bail- 
ivay  Match  —  History  repeating  itself —Arthurian  Locali- 
ties —  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  280. 

QUEEIES:  — Dugdale's  "fiistoir  of  St.  Paul's  Cathe- 
dral/' 281- Arabic  Numerals  in  Wells  Cathedral  —  Sir 
Bobert  Boyle  —  Burff  —  Clergy  In  Stepney  Parish  after 
1660  —  Consecration  of  Regimental  Colours  —  Lord  and 
Lady  Dome— Fairy  ChangeTings— John  FdJ.  Bishop  of  Oz- 
Ibrd— Hanese  Oanthe  and  Thomas  lappage— -  Henry  VIIL 
and  the  Golden  Fleece— Bev.  John  Maa^wan,y.D.M.— 
Spenser's  Panope  —  Sturt's  Edition  of  the  Book  of  Com- 
mon Prayer— Wife  of  John  Tradeaeant— Sir  Alexander 
Thomson  —Old  Volunteer  Corps—  Yoyageur  Pigeons  — 
Welsh  Wedding  Custom  — Mrs.  Catherine  Zephyr,  282. 

AEPLIBS :  —  Longs  and  Palmers  of  Bath.  285  —  "  Whether 
or  no,"  286  — "Baron "Nicholson,  i&.— The  Swan-Song 
of  Parson  Avery,  288  —  Marriage  of  English  Princesses  — 
Industries  of  England- Bash  Statements- Why  does  » 
newly  born  Child  cry  ?  —  King's  College,  New  York  —  Mrs. 
.  Downing  —  Chepstow  ■•  Estrighoiel  —  Deacendants  of 
-  Jeremy  Taylor  —  Hair  growing  after  Death  —  Moor  Park 
—  Clan  MacAlpin  —  Babies'  Bells  — Letter  from  Oliver 
Cromwell,  1656  —  "The Crazy  Tales "  — Cryptography — 
Bacon's  Queen's  Counselship— Pigeon  Post— Hobert  Pita- 
barneys,  or  Harveia  —  *'Et  ftioere  ScribeudOk"  fto.— The 
Print  of  Guido's  "  Aurora,"  &c..  289. 

Notes  on  Booka.  fto. 


THE  AUTOBIOGRAPHY  OF  LORD  BROUGHAM : 

MRS.  NIOHTtNOALE'S  TOMB. 

The  first  volume  of  the  autobiography  of  this 
distinguished  man,  just  issued  firom  the  press,  con- 
tains a  few  anecdotes  and  statements,  the  aocuiacy 
of  which  is  more  than  doubtful.  No  one  would 
for  a  moment  impute  to  the  noble  author  any 
wilful  misstatement  or  intention  to  deceive. 
Those  who  have  enjoyed  the  company  of  tiie 
veteran  statesman,  orator,  and  philosopher  wiU 
linger  with  pleasure  on  ^e  remembrance  of  the 
copious  flow  of  lang^uage,  the  rich  stores  of  aaec^ 
dote,  and  the  vast  variety  of  subjects  poured  out 
fay  the  '^  old  man  eloquent " ;  but  if  a  man  defers 
the  writing  of  hia  memoirs  imtil  nearly  ninety 
years  of  age,  when  the  memory  must  have  failed 
to  some  extent,  and  the  judgment  has  lost  its 
vigour,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  events  in 
the  far  distant  perspective  of  early  life  become  so 
confused  and  mmgled  together  in  the  mind  as  to 
lead  in  many  cases  to  distortion  and  mistake. 

The  Saturday  Heview  was  the  first  to  cidl  atten- 
tion to  the  tale  ''Memnon;  or.  Human  Wisdom," 
p.  58  of  the  memoirs^  given  by  Lord  Brougham 
as  a  specimen  of  his  early  composition,  which  is 
.really  a  translation  from  Voltaire.     The  story 

g'lven  at  p.  201  of  an  agreement  with  his  college 
,  iend  Q ,  written  in  their  blood,  that  which- 
ever died  first  should  appear  to  the  other,  and 


the  apparition  of  the  ghost  of  G consequent 

thereon,  very  much  resembles  a  sensational  tale 
of  Edgar  AUan  Poe.! 

My  object  at  present  is  to  notice  an  anecdote 
ascribed  by  Lord  Brougham  to  his  father  (p.  205), 
in  which  the  narrator  says  **  his  imbelievrng  obr 
stinacy  had  been  the  meaoa  of  demolishing  what 
would  have  made  a  very  pretty  ghost  story  " :  — 

-**  He  had  dined  one  day  in  Dean*8  Yard,  Weattninater, 
with  a  party  of  young  men,  one  of  whom  was  hia  inti- 
mate friend  Mr.  Calmel.  There  was  some  talk  about  the 
death  of  a  Mrs.  Nightingale,  who  had  recently  died  under 
some  melancholy  circumstancee,  and  had  been  that  day 
buried  in  the  Abbey.  Some  one  of  the  party  offered  to  bet 
that  no  one  of  those  present  would  go  down  into  the  grave 
and  drive  a  nail  into  the  coffin.  Calmel  accepted  the 
wager,  only  stipulating  that  he  might  have  a  lanthom. 
He  was  accordingly  let  into  the  cathedral  by  a  door  out 
of  the  cloisters,  and  then  left  to  himself.  The  dinner 
party,  after  waiting  an  hour  or  more  for  Calmel,  b^^aa 
to  think  something  must  have  happened  to  him,  and  that 
he  ought  to  be  looked  after ;  so  my  father  and  two  or 
three  more  got  a  light,  and  went  to  the  grave,  at  the 
bottom  of  which  lay  the  apparently  dead  body  of  Mr. 
Calmel.  He  was  quickly  transported  to  the  prebend's 
dining-room,  and  recovered  out  of  his  fainting  fit.  As 
soon  as  he  could  find  his  tongue  he  said,  *  Well,  I  won 
my  wager,  and  you^ll  find  the  nail  in  the  coffin ;  but, 
by  Jove  I  the  lady  rose  up,  laid  hold  of  me,  and  pulled  me 
down  before  I  could  scramble  out  of  the  grave.'  Calmel 
stuck  to  his  story  in  spite  of  all  the  scoffing  of  his  friends ; 
and  the  ghost  of  Mrs.  Nightingale  would  have  been  aH 
over  the  town  but  for  my  father's  obstinate  incredulity. 
Nothing  would  satisfy  him  but  an  ocular  inspection  of  the 
grave  and  coffin  ;  and  so,  getting  a  light,  he  and  some  of 
the  party  returned  to  the  grave.  There,  sure  enough, 
was  the  nail  well  driven  into  the  coffin,  but  hard  fixed  by 
it  was  a  bit  of  Mr.  Calmel*s  coat-tail!  So  there  was  an 
end  of  Mrs.  Nightingnle*s  ghost.  This  grave  afterwards 
became  remarkable  for  a  very  beautiful  piece  of  sculp- 
ture by  some  celebrated  artist,  representing  Mr.  Night- 
ingale vainly  attempting  to  ward  from  his  dying  wife  the 
dart  oi  death." 

This  of  course  alludes  to  the  celebrated  monu- 
ment by  Koubiliac  in  the  north  transept  of 
Westminster  Abbey.  A  similar  story  has  been 
frequently  told  with  a  change  in  the  locality  and 
in  die  dramatis  peraotus.  As  applied  in  the  pre- 
sent case,  one  might  remark  on  the  inherent 
improbability  of  the  whole  narrative — ^the  open 
fltave  or  vault  in  the  Abbey ;  the  idea  of  a  person 
left  to  himself  to  ramble  about  the  building  at 
midnight  without  any  attendant;  the  church  left 

Xn  for  the  roysterere  to  go  in  and  out  as  they 
ised.  But  ^e  simplest  answer  to  the  whofe 
IS  the  fact  tiiat  Mrs.  Nightingale  died  on  August 
17,  17^,  and  that  Loid  Brougham's  father  was 
bom  in  June,  1742— eight  years  after  the  tran- 
saction in  which  he  is  allesed  to  have  performed 
so  prominent  a  part.  It  is  not  difficult  to  con- 
jecture how  Lord  Brougham  was  led  into  the 
mistake.  As  a  boy  he  had  doubtless  heard  the 
story  told  by  his  father,  which  would  naturallv 
make  a  deep  impression  on  his  youthful  mind. 
Looking  back  through  the  dim  vista  of  eighty 


278 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I4»fc  S.  VII.  April  1.  71. 


yeara'  memory,  it  was  Teiy  natural  to  identify  Ids 
father  aa  the  hero  as  well  as  the  narrator  of  the 
incident. 

As  a  cotmterpart  to  the  similar  mistake  as  to 
the  story  of  Memnon,  it  may  he  worth  preserving 
in  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q."  J.  A.  Pictok. 

Sandyknowe,  Wavertree,  nesr  LiverpooL 


ON  THE  ABSENCE  OF  ANT  FRENCH  WORD 
SIGNIFYING  **T0  STAND." 

I  do  not  claim  it  as  an  ohservation  of  my  own, 
hut  I  offer  the  following  as  one  made  to  me  the 
other  day  hy  a  friend,  whom  I  shall  not  name, 
but  only  say  that  he  is  one  highly  accomplished  in 
literature  and  well  known  in  public  life.  It  was 
new  and  interesting  to  me,  and  may  probably  be 
regarded  in  the  same  light  by  many  readers  of 
"N.  &  Q." 

He  stated  that  the  French  language  alone, 
among  idl  other  languages,  had  no  word  in  it  ex- 
pressiye  of  the  wora  ''  to  stand."  This  is  cer- 
tainly a  very  remarkable  £act .  in  the  way  of 
etymology. 

Opening  Richardson's  Dtdionary  I  observed  the 
Greek,  Latin,  Dutch,  German,  and  Swedish  equi- 
valent to  tiie  word,  but  nothing  in  the  French. 

Being^urious  to  see  how  the  verb  was  managed 
in  the  Trench  yersion  of  the  Bible  and  Testa- 
ment, I  looked  at  a  few  passages  there — e,  g, 
Deut.  xviii.  6,  <'  God  hath  chosen  him  to  dand  to 
minister."  The  F^nch  is  ''  afin  qu'il  assiste  pour 
faire  le  service."  We  all  know  that  the  French 
''  assister  "  has  a  far  more  general  and  less  dis- 
tinct meaning  than  "  to  stand.'*  Again  (Joshua 
zx.  4), ''  When  he  shall  tiand  at  the  entering  in 
of  the  gate  of  the  city."  The  French  is  ''  ^uand 
il  s^arretera  ^  Tentr^  de  la  porte."  So  m  the 
New  Testament,  "  When  ye  stand  praying  "  {cr^ 
Knrt),  Mark  xi.  25,**  Quand  vous  vous  pr^senteriez 
pour  faire  votre  pridre."  Once  more  (Key.  iii.  20), 
"  Behold  I  stand  at  the  door  and  knock  "  (c^myica;. 
The  French  can  render  it  no  more  accijrately  than 
"  Je  me  tiens  k  la  porte." 

Looking  over  a  well-known  French  dictionary, 
I  could  only,  find  phrases  and  circumlocutions  for 
tiie  verb,  though  these  were  very  numerous. 

Strange,  therefore,  as  it  may  seem,  etymolo- 
gically  speaking,  I  believe  it  may  be  conduded 
that  it  would  be  simply  and  absolutely  impossible 
to  say  in  French  "he  stands"  contradictory  to 
"  he  sits  "  or  *^  lies  down."  I  mean  of  course  as  a 
contmued  act  The  French  for  rising  or  standing 
up  is  current  enough.  Should  this  view  be  incor- 
rect and  any  word  brought  forward  by  better 
French  scholars  than  u.yself,  I  shall  be  much 
obliged  by  the  discovery  and  correction  of  these 
views  on  the  subject 

In  illustration  of  the  inconveniences  and  losses 
in  expression  which  must  often  result  from  this 


destitution,  as  to  the  word,  I  may  yenture  to 
quote  a  passage  of  deep  and  grand  doctrinal  in- 
terest in  the  tenth  chanter  of  St.  Paul's  Epistle  to 
the  Hebrews,  11th  ana  12th  verses.  He  is  con- 
trastmg  the  cowtinuous  ministry  of  the  priests 
under  the  Mosaic  dispensation  with  the  jSmshed 
ministry  of  Jesus  Chnst  our  Lord : — 

**  Every  priest  Mtandeth  daily  ministering  and  offering 
oftentimes  the  same  sacrifices  which  can  never  take  away 
sins,  but  this  man  after  He  had  offered  one  sacrifice  for 
sin  for  ever  aat  down  on  the  right  hand  of  God." 

The  argument  depends  on  the  strict  use  of  the 
word  standing  as  opposed  to  sitting  down  after  a 
fimshed  work,  but  all  this  is  lost,  or  at  all  events 
seriously  weakened  or  damaged,  by  the  absence 
of  any  word  in  the  French  version  beyond  "as- 
siste "  for  the  c0-n}ffc,  or  stand,  of  the  onginal. 

Frascis  Trekch. 

Idip  Rectory.; 

CHATTERTONIANA. 

Chattbrton's  Evowlsdgs  of  Akglo-Saxon. 
In  the  paper  written  by  Rowley  on  the  "  Rise  of 
Painting  m  England  in  1468,"  and  communicated 
by  Chatterton  to  Walpole,  are  several  Anglo- 
Saxon  words.  Most  of  these  are  used  wrongly ; 
but  if  we  rightly  explain  them,  and  tabulate  theok 
in  alphabetical  order,  they  are  as  follows : — 

Aady  a  heap. 

Adronctf  drowned. 

Adrifene  (fatu),  embossed  (vessels.) 

jEcced'ftet,  an  add- vat,  vessel  for  vinegar. 

jEsCf  a  ship:  Ut.  an  ash. 

AEtellicef  nooly. 

Afagrody  coloured,  adorned. 

Afgodf  an  idoL 

Agrafen,  engraven. 

Mrered,  reared  up. 

It  thus  appears  that  Rowley  was  possessed  of  an 
Anglo-Saxon  dictionary  (the  earliest  was  printed 
in  1659),  and  he  only  succeeded  in  acquiring  some 
knowledge  of  the  language  as  far  as  Ah.  Chat- 
terton's  letter  on  <' Saxon  Achievements,"  printed 
in  Southey's  edition,  vol.  iii.  p.  89,  exhibits  pre- 
cisely the  same  singular  result  He  there  explains 
the  words  Aadoel,  Afgodf  A fgodod,Afratenf  Amem. 
with  the  addition  of  Thunder-JUsgod,  The  last  of 
these  he  expUdns  by  **  thunder-blasted,"  but  he 
has  mistaken/  for  s.  The  word  which  suggested 
this  notion  to  him  is  Thtmder'sUsge,  a  dap  of 
thunder.  The  exception  in  Rowley's  letter  is 
HeofnaSy  which  he  uses  for  the  colour  asure.  This 
is  how  he  came  by  it :  he  looked  into  Bailey,  and 
found  **  Asure,  blue  (in  heraldry),"  &c.,  and  again 
**Axure,  the  sky  or  firmament"  This  suggested 
the  idea  ot  heaven.    He  then  found  that  Bailey 

g'ves  h^ian  as  the  derivation  of  the  word.  Thia 
d  him  to  look  into  an  Anglo-Sax<m  dictionaiy, 
and  he  accordingly  found  heofon,  pi.  heofenas, 
and  he  adopted  the  plural  as  quainter-looking. 


»  <!■  ^»  n^^m 


.4««»  S.  YII.  April  1, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


279 


Afrafen  is  either  misoopied  fiom  ^^Afsetanf  to 

appoint,  design/'  or   simply  made  up  from  the 

heraldic  word  freC,     Afnezz  is  misoopied  from 

'*  AmeU^  decked,  adorned."    It  thus  appears  that 

Chatterton  knew  no  more  Anglo-Saxon  than  he 

miffht  hare  picked  up  in  an  hour  jRrom  a  glossary, 

and  was  unable  to  distinguish  between  s  and  /, 

and  probably  nusread  other  letters  also. 

Waltbb  W.  Skbat. 
1,  Cintra  Terrace,  Cambridge. 


Chatterton^s  Monuhxnt  at  Bbistol:  Un- 

PUBLISHXD  OklGINAL  LeTTEBS. — 

Sir, — ^To  be  thought  wortl^y  of  writing  the 
Epitaph  of  Chatterton  for  a  publick  monument  to 
be  erected  in  his  natiye  City  is  indeed  a  high  dis- 
tinction, and  I  do  not  allow  a  single  hour  to  pass 
away  without  acknowledjnng  the  honor  ;|^ou  have 
thus  conferred  on  me.  fiut  when  I  consider  that 
the  most  illustrious  writer  in  existence  is  your 
townsman,  and  that  his  zeal  for  Chatterton  has 
been  manifested  long  affo  to  the  benefit  of  that 
unfortunate  youth's  family  and  to  the  glory  of  his 
birthplace,  I  must  entreat  you  to  think  a^ain  and 
again,  not  only  how  greatly  more  able,  but  also 
how  greatly  more  proper,  is  Southey's  pen  on  this 
occasion. 

I  acknowledge  your  judgement  in  preferring 
our  tongue  to  the  latin,  for  nothing  can  be  ab- 
Burder  than  to  call  the  attention  to  that  which  the 
generality,  when  they  are  called  to  it,  cannot  un- 
derstand. This  is  barbarism  in  the  last  tatters  of 
condition.  It  is  equally  an  evidence  of  jour  j  udge- 
ment,  nor  less  indeed  a  proof  of  your  integrity,  to 
commemorate  by  statues  and  inscriptions  men  of 
exalted  genius  rather  than  the  restless  adventurers 
and  unprincipled  parliamentarians  to  whom  other 
commercial  Cities  have  erected  the  costly  memo- 
rials of  a  perishable  popularity. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be 
Sir, 

Your  obed'  Serv*, 

W.  S.  Landob. 

St.  James'  Square,  March  19, 1838. 


Sir,— The  instant  I  had  written  my  last  letter 
to  you,  I  wrote  one  to  Dr.  Southey. 

Yours  of  this  evening  is  highly  satisfactory  to 
me,  rince  I  find  that  tout  first  application  was  to 
this  great  ornament  of  the  literary  world.  I  hope 
he  may  yet  be  induced  to  do  wf  at  is  so  easy  for 
him.  In  my  opinion  his  Inscriptions  are  incom- 
parably the  most  classical  productions  of  our  con- 
temporaries, and  particularly  the  earliest — ^that, 
for  instance,  on  Henry  Marten.  He,  however, 
Boay  have  some  objections  to  what  you  propose ;  I 
myself  certainly  nave ;  I  could  neither  **  point  a 
moral  nor  adorn  a  tale"  upon  a  tombstone }  and 
seither  the  life  nor  the  death  of  Chatterton  affords 


the  materials  which  I  should  be  denrous  of  em* 
ploying  on  such  an  occasion. 

I  am,  Sir, 

Your  very  obed*  Serv*, 
W.  S.  Lakdob. 
Bath,  March  21. 

BARKER  AND  BURFORD'S  PANORAMAS. 

I  Have  been  for  some  time  collecting  the  de- 
scriptive books  of  Burford*s  Panoramas,  and  for- 
ward the  following  list  as  the  result  of  my 
labours,  thinking  it  may  be  worth  preserving  in 
"  N.  &  Q."  I  should  like  to  know  if  1814  was 
the  first  exhibition,  likewise  anything  relative  to 
the  artists,  &c.  G.  J.  Nobkan. 

180,  St.  John  l^treet  Road,  Clerkenwdl. 

Barker  ahd  Borford's  Panorasias. 

Saldtct.                        Artbt.  D»te.         Flue. 

Vittoria  H.  A.  Barker  1814  Leicester  Sq. 

Waterloo  No  artist's  name  1816           „ 

Athens  Barker  and  Barford  1818  Strand. 

Spitsbergen  Barker  1819  Leicester  Sq. 

Venice  Barker  and  Burford  1820  Strand. 

Naples                             M  1820           „ 

^^™j^*jj*^«  J  Barker  1821    LeicesterSq. 

NapTes  Barker  and  Barford   1821    Strand. 

Corfu  ..  1822 


Pompeii 

Do.  2nd  View 

Kdinburgh 

Mexico 

Madrid 

Geneva 

Genoa 

Calcutta 

Sydney 

Florence 

Milan 

Antwerp 

Thebes 

Boothia 

Jemsaleoi 

Lima 

Lago  Maggiore 

Mont  Blanc 

Dablin 

Rome 

Benares 

Damascus 

Cabal 

Waterloo 


Barford 


>f 


M 


J.  and  R.  Barford 


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Vienna  „  1848 

Cashmere  »  1849 

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[4«k  S.  VII.  April  1, 71. 


Barker,  and  opened  in  1794  with  a  picture  of  London, 
taken  by  no  less  eminent  an  artist  than  Thomas  Girtin, 
from  the  Albion  Floor  Mills.  Robert  Barker  died  at  his 
house  in  West  Square,  Soothwark,  on  April  8, 1806,  aged 
sixty-seven.  His  son,  Henry  Aston  Barker,  succeeded 
his  'father  in  the  property,  and  John  Burford,  the  pupil 
of  the  second,  came  next,  leaving  it  in  turn  to  his  son 
Bobert  Burford,  the  last  proprietor.  The  building  is  noir 
a  Frsnch  ohapeL — ^Ed.] 

LoBD  Cakpbell^s  "Lifb  of  Lobd  Ltnd- 
HTTBST.*' — I  have  only  just  read  a  book  more 
famous  for  its  entertamiiiff  qualities  than  its  ac- 
curacy— Lord  Campbell's  IaU  of  Lard  Zofnclhutst, 
At  p.  156,  the  author  says  that  in  1846  he  intro- 
duced a  Bill  for  compensating  the  families  of  per- 
sons killed  by  negligence ;  that  he  carried  it  in 
1846  (p.  161);  and  that  it  has  been  a  very  successful 
measure. 

The  latter  part  of  this  statement  is  true,  the 
fomser  untrue.  The  Bill  was  suggested  to  me  in 
1845  by  the  late  Mr.  Gollis,  a  Stourbridge  at- 
torney. He  drew  it;  I  brought  it  in,  got  it, 
with  much  trouble,  against  the  opposition  of  all 
the  Judges,  through  a  Select  Committee,  through 
the  House  of  Lords,  and  down  to  the  third  reading 
in  the  House  of  Commons.  Then  the  present 
Lord  Chelmsford,  who  was  Attorney-General,  got 
it  thrown  out ;  thereby,  as  I  have  often  told  him, 
destroying  one  of  my  small  hopes  of  immortality. 

The  next  year  Lord  Campbell — ^I  being  in  office 
and  unable  to  attend  to  it — took  it  up  and  carried 
it  without  difficulty.  "  Hunc  ego  biUiculum  feci, 
tulit  alter  honores."  It  has  been  called  Lord 
Campbell's  Act  oyer  since. 

It  is  hard  that,  haying  reared  to  maturity  so 
large  and  flourishing  a  flock  of  parliamentaxy  pro- 
ductions, he  should  thus  attempt  to  rob  me  of^my 
poor  little  embryo  ewe  lamb.  Ltttblioit. 

Old  Customs  at  Cathedrals,  Eia — ^I  think 
old  Aubrey  says  that  where  **  laudable  customs 
vanish,  learning  decayeth,"  and,  as  Dean  Gais- 
ford  said  of  St.  Paul,  "I  partly  agree  with 
him."  It  is  within  the  recollection  of  old  fre- 
quenters of  Durham  Abbey,  that  at  the  words 
"0  come  let  us  worship  and  fall  down,  and 
kneel  before  the  Lord  our  maker,"  the  dean  and 
canons  used  to  kneel  down  in  their  stalls.  My 
informant  remembers  Dean  Comwallis,  Dr.  Durell, 
and  Dr.  Prosser  doing  this.  Their  immediate 
successors  only  bowed,  and  then  the  custom  disap- 
peared entirely.  At  St.  John's,  Edinburgh,  about 
twenty-five  years  ago  the  whole  congregation  knelt 
at  the  above  words,  and  the  well-known  chant 

iPurcell  in  G)  was  changed  into  the  minor  key 
or  that  verse  only.  The  dean  and  canons  of  | 
Durham  (with,  I  believe,  but  one  exception),  and 
the  minor  canons,  still  keep  up  the  ''  laudable  cus- 
tom "  of  bowing  towards  the  Altar  as  they  leave 
the  choir.  A  vulgar  notion  has  prevailed  that  it 
is  done  to  thank  the  ohoir  for  their  MrvieeS.    But 


with  reference  to  iiiis  I  have  heard  the  late  Arch- 
deacon ITbiorp  say,  that  in  his  yoxmg  days  every 
one  bowed  on  leaving  the  choir ;  that  they  would 
as  soon  have  thought  of  putting  their  hats  on  as 
neglecting  to  bow ;  and  that  when  he  was  a  little 
boy  the  height  of  the  taUe,  his  father,  who  was 
archdeacon  before  him,  would  have  boxed  his 
ears  if  he  had  not  bowed  to  the  altar  as  a  good 
Christian  should.  This  vigorous  exercise  of  pa- 
rental and  archidiaconal  functions  might  perhaps 
be  remembered  with  advantage  by  some  at  the 
present  day.  DuNELiusirsis  OLnr. 

CiTMOUS  Epitaph. — ^The  following  is  from  a 
tombstone  in  Midnapoie  burial-ground :  — 

**  Stop,  naden,  uid  lament  the  loss  of  a  departed 
beauty,  for  here  ere  laid  at  rert  the  earthly  reiicks  oT 
Mra.  'Susanna  Bird,  who  bade  a  long  adiea  to  a  most 
affectionate  basband  and  three  loved  pledges  of  their 
union,  on  the  10th  of  Septe^ibcr,  1784,  aged  twenty-four 
years. 

'*  The  Bird  confined  within  this  cage  of  gloom, 
Tho*  faded  her  fine  tfaits,  her  youthftil  bloom, 
Tho'  no  soft  note  drop  firom  her  syren*s  tongue, 
Bv  sleep  refiresh*d,  more  beauteous  gay  and  young, 
T^ill  rise  from  earth,  her  seraph's  wings  display, 
And  chaunt  her  anthems  to  the  God  of  day." 
From  the  Manche»ter  Guardian  of  Dec.  14,  1870. 

Thos.  Ratclipfe. 

LoKGicviTT. — I  was  at  the  funeral  of  a  good 
old  lady  of  eighty-seven  the  other  day,  who 
pointed  out  to  me,  the  last  time  I  had  the  pleasure 
of  being  with  her,  that  she  was  great-great-great 
aunt  to  a  certain  child.  I  believe  this  to  be  so 
uncommon  a  relationship  between  living  persona 
as  to  be  worthy  of  a  note.  C.  W.  Binghah, 

Railway  Matoh. — ^We  are  apt  to  think  Ae 
speed  was  always  slow  on  early  railways.  A 
cutting  from  the  Mark  Lane  JSxpress  for  1841 
states  that  Mr.  I.  E.  Brunei,  the  engineer  on  the 
Great  Western  Railway,  was  about  to  perform  a 
match  from  Bristol  to  London  by  the  engine 
called  the  *' Hurricane,"  within  two  hours,  for 
lOOOil,  or  nearly  sixty  miles  an  hour.  Did  this 
match  ever  ti^e  place  ?         JoHir  Pioqot,  Jtts. 

HiSTOBT  BEPEATINO   ITSELF.  —  The   following^ 

quotations  from  Whitelocke's  Afwnormfo,  changing 
dates  and  names,  might  have  been  lat^y  written 
firom  Paris,  with  perfect  truth,  and  almost  in  the 
same  words.  W.  C.  Tbbvxltait. 

«  July  7tb,  1648.— A  Letter  from  Coldiester  Leaguer, 
that  Butter  and  CAetaewere  at  6t.  a  poimd. 

July  22nd.— Thoee  in  the  Town  have  begun  to  eat 
HorseJIeeh,  and  have  provided  store  ot  Fitch  and  Tar,  to 
fire  and  throw  upon  the  Besiegers. 

July  26th.— The  Soldiers  in  the  Town  bad  lived  upon 
ffarte-fleth  five  days  together,  and  at  a  Court  of  GuarA 
they  roasted  a  whole  Horee. 

August  4th. — ^Whan  some  of  the  Town  complained  of 
want  of  Yictoals,  Lord  Goring  fthe  Governor)  told  them 
they  must  not  complain  ^Xi  Hor9e-fie^  was  at  10«.a- 
pound. 

August  5tb.— Seventeen  of  the  Enemy  came  out  of  the 


■  *  ^b« 


4«k  a  VII.  April  1, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES, 


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Town,  oomplaining  that  their  aUowance  of  Bread  was 
abated  Anom  14  to  10  oonoes  a-dav,  and  that  their  Horte- 
fieth  was  mnch  tainted. 

AoguBt  8th.— They  killed  80  JTortea  to  powder  them 
up  [t.  e.  to  convert  into  8aM9»age»'\. 

Sept.  19th.— Those  who  come  ont  of  the  Town  affirm 
that  all  the  Dogs  and  Gate,  and  most  of  the  JETontM  there 
are  already  eaten. 

Sept.  22nd.-^ne  of  the  JTbrsesof  the  Parliament  Gen- 
tries being  killed,  many  of  the  Town  came  forth,  to  fetch 
in  the  dead  horse,  and  divers  of  them  were  killed,  yet  got 
not  the  Horse :  the  next  day  they  eame  again,  and  wn- 
tored  their,  lives,  {o  eat  oS  pieces  of  the  stinking  dead 
Horse,  to  satisfy  their  hanger." 

ABTETJBLUir  LocALiTiss. — I  Can  add  two  places 
to  the  Arthurian  localittea  in  Northumbevland 
given  hy  Mr.  Stuart  Qlennie.  On  the  beach  to 
the  north  of  Cresswell  Point  there  was  a  large 
cixcular  rode,  called  King  Arthur's  TaUe.  This 
is  now  destroyed.  One  of  the  outward  Fern 
Islands  is  called  Ajrthur's  Seat,  and  is  so  named 
in  surveys  of  the  coast  A  Sexaoenabiait. 

AusAGB  AKB  LosBAimE.  —  Laicly  I  read  in 

papers,  both  English  and  foreign,  that  in  Alsace 

and  Lorraine,  in  the  population  of  which  tiie 

military  element  is  predominant,  the  worship  of 

Napoleon  L,  including  that  of  his  dynasty,  was 

yery  deeply  rooted.    Such  an  account  is  far  from 

being  correct,  and  the  feeling  alluded  to  has  long 

ceased.     On  March  15,  1816,  the  Marquis  de 

Puisaye,  a  French  political  agent,  was  writing 

from  South  Lambeth  Lawn,  \^uxhall,  to  Louis- 

Fhilippe,  then  Duke  of  Orleans  :r- 

'  "Hon  mtiecin  a  va  hier  one  personne  venant  de 
France,  qa'il  dit  capable  de  bien  observer,  et  qni  a  par- 
eonm  les  provinces  d' Alsace  et  de  Lorraine  et  de  Franche- 
Comtd.  L*opinion  que  cette  personne  a  rapport^  de  ces 
pays,  est  qu'ils  sont  oitiferement  d4gofit4a  da  goaveme- 
ment  actael,  et  qu'il  est  probable  que  toate  la  population 
s'empresserait  de  seconder  tont  dessein  dont  Tobjet  serait 
de  le  renverser.     EUe  croit  m^me  qu'il  existe  d^k  on 

Sirti  en  favear  da  petit   Napol^n."— Puwaye  Pcpert, 
ritish  Museam,  ii.  793 ;  J*lut.  cxxvi.  c.  fol.  14  recto. 

FbA2?CI8QT7E-MiCHEL. 
AthenflBom  Club,  Pall  Mall. 


<aurrki{* 


DUGDALE'S  "  HISTORT  OP  ST.  PAUL'S 
CATHEDRAL." 

Can  any  of  your  learned  correspondents  help  me 
to  discover  the  *^  local  habitation  "  of  some  of  the 
documents  quoted  in  Dugdale's  Histonf  of  St, 
PauTs  Cathedral  f  Sir  Henry  Ellis,  in  his  edition 
of  Dugdale  (fol.  London,  1818),  throws  no  light 
whatever  upon  the  particular  points  in  which  I 
am  interested.  He  gives,  indeed,  in  the  exceed- 
ingly brief  preface  a  few  details  as  to  certain 
sources  of  information,  and  refers  to  documents 
whicb  he  bad  obtained  from  the  cathedral  archives, 
from  the  Augmentation  Office,  from  Heralds'  Col- 
lege, and  from  the  libraries  at  Lambeth  and  at 


Oxford.  But  as  to  the  source  from  which  several 
important  pieces  were  obtained  I  have  been  un- 
able to  procure  any  certain  information,  although 
I  have  bestowed  some  little  pains  in  searching. 

At  p.  342  of  the  appendix,  article  xxxvii.,  a 
series  of  statutes  are  printed,  extending  over  about 
twelve  closely  printed  pages,  in  double  columns. 
These  axe  said  to  be  taken  in  part ''  ex  Cod.  MS. 

Eends  WilL  Pierpont  Arm.,"  and  I  think  that  this 
eading  is  simply  reprinted  from  the  earlier  edi- 
tion of  DuAdale.  But  who  was  "  Will.  Pierpont 
Arm.,"  and  where  is  this  "  Cod.  MS."  now  de- 
posited P  I  have  in(][uired  at  Heralds'  College, 
but  I  think  I  may  sajr  it  is  not  there,  Garter  King- 
at- Arms  himself  having  kindly  assisted  me  in  my 
search ;  nor  is  it,  I  think,  amongst  tibe  MSS.  at 
Lambeth. 

At  p.  344  of  the  appendix  it  is  said  that  the 
sreater  part  of  the  above  article  is  taken  ^'  ex  alio 
Uodice  MS.  pen^  prcefat,  W.  Pierpont  Arm." 
WhereistysMS.P 

At  p.  360  a  very  interesting  document  is  found, 
intituled  ''  Exhibita  &  Johanna  Collet  Decano,  re- 
verendissimo  Patri  et  Domino  Cardinali  Ebor.  ac 
Apostolico  Legato  h  latere,  pro  Eeformatione 
status  Residentiariorum  in  fScclesia  8.  Pauli, 
primo  Septembris,  A°.  D.  1518."  This  is  said  to 
be  taken  "  ex  cartaceo  registro  penes  prtef.  Dec.  et 
Cap.  Ecd.  Cath.  S.  Pauli  Lond."  The  article 
extends  over  some  seven  pages.  Where  is  this 
document  P    Certainly  not  now  ''  penes  prsef.  Dec. 


Statutes,"  says  Dean  Milman  m  his  Afinals  (2nd 
edit.  p.  124),  *'  were  never  accepted  by  the  chapter, 
nor  confirmed  by  the  bishop."  Still  they  merit 
careful  attention,  and  form  a  not  uninteresting 
item  in  the  history  of  the  cathedral. 

A  littie  further  on  in  the  appendix,  p.  401, 
article  Ivi.,  we  arrive  at  a  list  of  *'  Books  apper- 
taining to  the  Cathedral  Church  of  S.  Paul  in 
London,  delivered  by  Mr.  Henry  Cole,  late  Dean 
of  the  same  Church  to  M^  D^  Mey,  now  Dean 
there,  xx"*  Day  of  September,  An**  1569,"  whidi 
list  is  said  to  have  been  taken  "  ex  vet.  membr. 
penes  Dec.  et  Cap.  Eccl.  Cath.  S.  Pauli."  Now 
m  this  catalogue  I  find  no  less  than  three  books 
about  which  I  should  be  most  thankful  to  receive 
information.  The  first  a  book  intituled  '^  Statutes 
used  in  Dean  Collet's  Days  " ;  the  second,  '<  Liber 
visitationis  Johannis  Colet  Decani  Ecclesisd  S. 
Pauli  Lond.  sub  anno  Dondni  1506";  the  third, 
"  a  book  written  in  parchment  of  certtan  Statutes 
collected  by  Dean  Colet,  being  bound  in  boards 
and  covered  with  black  leather."  Now,  where 
are  these  books  to  be  found  P  Of  course  it  is  easy 
at  once  to  dismiss  the  question,  and  to  eay,"Oh, 
they  were  burnt  in  the  Great  Fire."  But  such  an 
answer  will  not  meet  the  case,  for  one  book  at 


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[4«k  S.  VII.  April  1, 71. 


least  out  of  the  thirteen  enumerated  in  the  cata- 
logue is  still  under  my  care ;  and  besides,  I  think 
that  Knight,  in  his  Life  of  Colet,  refers  to  the 
parchment  book  ''covered  with  black  leather/' 
which  forms  the  third  item  above-mentioned,  as 
slill  in  existence.  I  have  not  Knight's  book  at 
hand,  nor  perhaps  is  an  exact  reference  necessary. 
Pray,  Mr.  Editor,  help  me  if  you  can.  There 
are  several  points  in  these  documents  which  I 
desire  to  verify,  and  I  am  especially^  anxious^  to 
determine  whether  the  originau  are  still  in  exist- 
ence. Whether  any  one  of  them  may  be  dis- 
covered amongst  the  archives  of  the  Cit^  of 
London — a  mine  of  wealth  as  yet  but  partially 
explored — or  whether  they  may  lurk  in  secret 
amongst  the  papers  of  some  City  oompanv,  or  may 
even  rest  amonpt  the  multitudinous  MSS.  of  the 
national  collection  (in  which  case  they  have  eluded 
my  search  hitherto)  I  am  unable  to  determine.  I 
do  not  think  that  Colet^s  MSS.  now  inquired  for 
will  be  found  either  at  St  Paul's  School  or 
amongdt  the  archives  of  the  Mercers'  Company, 
although  at  either  place  I  believe  that  other 
MSS.  of  the  dean  stul  remain.  The  Rev.  J.  H. 
Lupton  has  lately  published  Two  Treatises  of  the 
Hierarchies  of  Dtonyeiiu  and  the  Opus  de  SSacra- 
mentis  JScdesia,  botii  hj  Dean  Colet,  from  the 
original  MSS.  preserved  m  the  library  of  St.  Paul's 
School ;  but  he  has  not  discovered  in  the  school 
library  any  of  the  volumes  that  form  the  subject 
of  the  present  inquiry. 

W.  Sparrow  Simpson. 


Arabic  Nihcxrals  in  Wells  Cathedral. — 
Since  the  restoration  of  the  west  front  of  WeUs 
Cathedral  beffan  it  has  been  discovered  that  in 
the  line  of  suojects  representing  the  resurrection 
of  the  dead  each  group  has  had  a  number  marked 
on  it  In  the  space  over  end  of  north  aisle  of 
nave  the  figures  of  A.  8. 0.  occur,  which  are  Arabic 
numerals  almost  precisely  as  used  at  the  present 
day.  These  sculptures  are  of  early  date,  and  not 
like  those  of  the  three  top  rows  containing  the 
figure  of  our  Lord,  the  row  of  apostles,  and  that 
of  angels — all  of  which  are  of  Perpendicular  date, 
though  evidently  not  the  work  of  one  artist 

The  rising  figures  of  kings,  queens,  and  bishops 
have  crowns  or  mitres  on  uieir  heads ;  otherwise 
they  are  naked.  The  tomb-slabs  are  all  plain, 
but  from  their  general  shape,  together  with  those 
of  crowns  and  mitres,  the  sculptures  cannot  date 
later  than  tke  early  Decorated  period.  The  gene- 
ral character  of  the  other  numerals  seen  does  not 
agree  with  the  figures  used  during  the  Perpendi- 
cular period. 

As  the  restoration  proceeds  a  greater  variety  of 
the  figures  will  be  seen,  and  perhaps  further  in- 
formation obtained.  The  material  used  is  the 
local  Doulting  stone,  so  that  the  work  was  exe- 
cuted at  or  near  the  spot ;  but  the  use  of  these 


figures  seems  to  raise  a  doubt,  in  so  far  as,  if  the 
artists  were  local  men,  their  numerals  of  this  sort 
were  used  commonly  much  earlier  than  is  gene- 
rally supposed ;  or,  if  otherwise,  the  carvers  were 
brought  mm  a  district  where  these  numbers  were 
known  to  a  country  where  tibey  were  not  generally 
used  or  known  to  execute  the  sculptures. 

No  letters  have  as  yet  been  seen  on  any  of  them, 
nor  masons'  marks,  though  masons'  banker  marks 
are  abundant  on  the  cathedral  and  in  the  bed- 
joints  of  the  stones  of  west  front 

Would  any  of  your  readers  kindly  inform  me 
of  any  very  early  examples  of  which  the  date  can 
certamly  be  obtained,  or  at  least  approximated  to, 
in  England  P  Jas.  T.  Irvine. 

Coomb  Down,  Bath. 

Sir  Robert  Botle. — It  is  stated  in  the  Lives 
of  the  Irish  Chanceilars  by  Mr.  O'Flanagan,  vol.  i. 
p.  881,  that  Sir  R.  Boyle  was  sent  from  Ireland 
with  despatches  for  Queen  Elizabeth  announcing 
the  success  of  her  majesty's  forces  at  Eansale  in 
1601-2,  and  that  he  left  Shandon  Castle,  Cork,  on 
Monday  morning,  and  the  next  day,  Tuesday, 
supped  with  Sir  R.  Cecil,  Secretary  of  State,  at  his 
house  in  the  Strand."  What  authority  is  there 
for  this  apparently  incredibly  rapid  journey  F    P. 

BuRFF. — What  is  the  original  meaning  of  the 
word  burff  or  hurff  From  whence  is  it  derived, 
and  how  comes  it  to  be  locally  used  for  an  emi- 
nence P  Thokas  E.  WnnnKexoK. 

Clerot  in  Stepney  Parish  after  1650. — 
If  any  of  your  readers  will  refer  me  to  any  allu- 
sions to  the  ministers  mentioned  below,  who 
officiated  in  this  parish  during  the  time  stated 
against  their  names,  and  to  any  works  they  may 
have  published,  I  shall  feel  greatiy  obliged. 

Thomas  Walton,  1654  to  1666.  In  Palmer*s 
edition  (1862)  of  Calamy's  Nonconfomuds*  Memo^ 
rial  mention  is  made  of  a  ''Mr.  Walton,"  the 
vicar  of  West  Ham,  Essex,  who  was  «)}ected  from 
that  living.    Are  these  the  same  persons  ? 

Thomas  Marriot,  1656  to  1665  or  1670.  He 
was  also  lecturer  of  this  parish  in  1664-5. 

Samuel  Peck,  about  1665  or  1670  to  16|;. 
After  1690  he  was  at  Ipswich. 

Any  further 'particulars  than  those  which  ap- 
pear in  the  editorial  notes  to  my  queries  in  4^^  S. 
V.  120, 199  regarding  the  Rev.  John  Whelef  and 
Rev.  Henxy  Higginson  (aa  to  their  curacies  in 
Surrey  and  St.  Maiylenone)  would  be  most 
acceptable.  ^  Charles  Mason. 

3|  Gloucester  Crescent  Hyde  Park. 

Consecration  of  REencENTAL  Colours.— 
The  following  passage  appears  in  several  his- 
torical accounts  of  Shrewsoury :  — 

**  1759.  A  Regt  of  Foot  was  raiaod,  and  rendesvoad 
here.  Thev  were  called  the  < Royal  Volunteers*  (85th 
Foot,  ndsei  1759,  disbanded  1763).  Col.  Crawford  com- 
manded them.    On  Dec  21, 1759,  the  ooloon  were  rec< 


4«h  S.  VII.  Apbil  1,  71.] 


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with  great  pomp,  being  carried  in  proceaaion  to  St. 
Chad's  Church,  where  a  sermon  was  preached  by  the 
Hev*  Bowland  Chambre." 

Can  any  reader  give  me  further  particulars  of 
this  ceremony  P  The  procession  of  the  colours  to 
church  was  certainly  an  innovation  in  a  military 
point  of  view,  and,  considering  how  little  atten- 
tion was  then  given  to  ritualistic  ceremonial,  I 
am  inclined  to  think  in  an  ecclesiastical  sense 
also.  H.  M.  C. 

[Some  notices  of  the  oonseoration  of  Rttrimental  Co- 
lours may  he  found  in  •«  N.  &  Q.,"  I*  S.  x.  10, 76 :  2«*  S. 
iv.  267,  $78;  8'*  S.  iu.  229.] 

LoBD  AND  Ladt  Dobhs. — Thomas  Whitby, 
Esq.,  of  Hounslow,  Middlesex,  a  widower,. aged 
eighty,  had  a  licence  from  the  Bishop  of  London, 
May  4,  1621,  to  marry  Lady  Alice  Dome  a^s 
Pennycooke,  aged  fifty,  widow  of  the  late  Lord 
Dome.  I  should  be  gkd  to  know  who  was  this 
Lord  or  Lady  Dome.  J.  L.  C. 

Fairt  Ghangxukos.  —  The  superstition  re- 
specting fairv  changelings  still  liners,  I  believe, 
in  some  of  the  remoter  mral  districts  of  Ireland. 
Nor  is  it  wholly  without  foundation,  for  that 
sudden  and  unaccountable  changes — which  simple- 
minded  people  take  to  be  preternatural — do  often 
occur  in  the  health,  appearance,  and  temper  of 
infants  is  an  undoubted  fact  My  query  is, 
whether  medical  science  has  yet  given  a  full  ex- 
position of  the  physical  causes  of  those  changes  ? 
If  such  exposition  exists^  where  is  it  to  be  found  P 

D.  Blaib. 
Melbourne. 

JoHK  Fjcll,  Bishop  of  Oxford,  ob.  1686,  set. 
sixty-one ;  born  at  Longworth,  Berks.  Can  any 
of  your  readers  give  the  pedigree  of  this  divine  P 
I  am  anxious  to  know  if  he  came  of  an  old  family 
of  Fell  of  Redmayne  Hall,  in  Fumess,  Lancashire, 
which  resided  there  for  nineteen  generations. 
Thomas  Fell,  a  barrister-at-law^  a  learned  judge, 
and  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  during 
the  ComnKmwealth,  was  of  the  same  stock.  The 
arms  of  Judge  Fell  and  Bishop  Fell  are  different. 
^  H.  Babbbb,  M.D, 

[Samuel  Fell,  dean  of  Christ  Church,  the  father  of 
Buhop  John  Fell,  is  said  to  have  been  bom  in  the  parish 
of  St  Clement  Danes,  London  (Bioc,  BritanmeOf  ed.  1760, 
p.  1912)  ;  but  the  pedigree  in  the  Heralds'  Cottcve,  which 
commences  with  tne  dean,  states  **  Samoel  Fell,  S.  T.  P. 
of  flail  Court  in  the  parish  of  Much-Marde,  oo.  Her»- 
fonl,"  who  married  Marearet,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wyld 
of  Worcester,  Eaq.  John  Warburtoo,  Somerset  Herald 
{London  and  MuUUeiex  lihutrated,  ed.  1749.  p.  44),  has 
assigned  the  following  arms  to  Bishop  Fell :  "Fell,  Esq., 
Or,  three  locsnges  eoniolned  in  fess  azure,  on  the  midme 
one  a  Catherine>wheei,  thereon  a  eroes  patty  fitched  or, 
in  chief  a  rose  between  a  portcullis  and  a  leopard's  face 
azure,  within  a  border  gules,  charged  with  four  lozenges 
and  four  esealops  alternate  argent.  These  are  borne  ^ 
John  Fell,  Esq.,  citizen  of  London,  br  virtue  of  an  old 
grant  of  them  given  to  bis  ancestor,  bishop  Fdl,  now  in 
his  possesiioii*" 


Tom  Brown,  the  witt^  and  facetious  writer  of  Dialogues 
of  the  Deadf  in  imitation  of  Luciano  ^c,  being  about  to 
be  expelled  the  UniverBity  of  Oxford  for  some  fault,  was 
pardoned  by  Samuel  Fell,  the  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  on 
the  condition  that  he  should  translate  extempore  the  epi- 
gram from  Martial,  xxxiii. :-~ 

"Non  amo  te,  Zabidi,  nciQ  possum  dicers  quare ; 
Hoc  tantum  possum  dicere,  non  amo  te,-—^ 
which  he  instantly  rendered : 

*<  I  do  not  like  thee,  Dr.  Fell, 
The  reason  why  I  cannot  tell ; 
But  this  I  know,  fhll  rarely  well, 
I  do  not  like  thee,  Dr,  Fell.** 
Some  brief  notices  of  the  Fells  of  Lancashhre  may  be- 
found  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  I*  S.  iii,  142;  iv.  266;  vi.2a3, 
279.] 

Haitbsb  Gakthb  and  Thomas  Lappaox. — 
Can  any  of  yonr  German  readers  give  me  infor- 
mation  concerning  Hanese  Ganthe  and  Thomas 
Lappage.  who  were  inhabitants  of  Dantzig  in 
1528  ?  They  were,  Tsuppose.  merchants^  as  they 
are  described  in  a  document  oefore  me  as  factors 
to  John  Paiys  and  Reynolde  LdtUprowe,  who 
were  English  subjects.  Eowabd  Peagock« 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

HeNBT  Vm.  AKD  THB  GOLDXN  FlSBCS.— Did 

Henry  VUL  ever  possess  the  Order  of  the  Golden 
Fleece  P  Are  there  any  representations  of  him  as 
wearing  that  order  P  Albbbt  Buttery. 

Rev.  JoHir  Maooowab^,  V.D.M.,  author  of  The 
Shaver.  A  short  time  since  a  very  quaint  like- 
ness in  ink  of  this  gentleman  came  into  my  pos« 
session,  but  I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining  who 
he  was  or  when  he  lived.  In  his  right  hand  he 
holds  a  roll  of  paper,  inscribed  *^  Letters  to  Dr. 
Priestley."  His  dress  appears  to  be  that  of  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  tell  me  who  this  gentleman  was, 
and  the  meaning  of  V.D.M.  P  T.  A.  H. 

[John  Macgowan  was  bom  at  Edinbuigh  about  the 

rr  1726,  and  was  placed  out  to  the  trade  of  a  weaver. 
September,  1766,  he  became  pastor  of  a  Particular 
Baptist  congregation  meeting  in  Devonshire  Square, 
London,  where  he  continued  nearly  fifteen  years,  and 
died  on  Kov.  25, 1780,  in  the  fifty-fifth  year  of  his  age, 
and  was  buried  in  Bunhill  Fields.  V.D.M.  is  Verbi  Dei 
or  (Divini)  Minister,  a  Minister  of  God's  Word.  It  is 
remarluble  that  W.  Tooke,  in  his  annotated  edition  of 
Charles  Churchill's  Works,  has  not  taken  any  notice  of 
ChurchilVs  poem  Night,  with  notes  by  7%«  Shater,  1786. 
For  a  list  of  Macgowan's  Works,  consult  Wilson's  His^ 
torg  of  Dissenting  Ckmrehes,  i.  458  s  to  which  add  a  col- 
lected edition  of  his  Works,  widi  a  portrait,  in  two  vols. 
8vo,  1826.  He  is  also  noticed  in  G.  H.  Pike's  Ancient 
Meeting  Houses,  1870,  p.  65.] 

Spxnssb's  Pakopb.— In  the  Faery  QueenefS,  8, 87^ 
Panope  is  introduced  as  an  ''old  nymph  "  who  kept 
the  house  of  Proteus.  Is  this  Panope  the  Nereid 
(Tug.  jEh.  y.  240,  828) ;  and  if  so,  had  Spenser 
any  classical  authority  for  thus  representing  ner  P 

C*  St  J* 

StUBT^S   EdITIOK  of    THB  BoOK    OF    GOMMOK 

Pratxb. — I  possess  a  copy  of  this  book — 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


14^  S.  VII.  April  1, 71. 


"  Engraven  and  printed  bv  the  permission  of  Mr.  John 
Baskett,  printer  to  the  King's  most  excellent  Majesty, 
1717.  Sold  by  John  Sturt»  Engraver,  in  Golden  Lion 
Court  in  Aldersgate  Street" 

I  am  anxious  to  know  if  there  are  many  copies 
of  this  beautiful  work  extant.  It  must  have  been 
published  at  great  expense.  Every  page  is  printed 
from  a  separate  copper-plate.  The  text  throughout 
is  in  running  hana,  delicately  executed.  The  ini- 
tial letters  are  highly  ornamented.  Each  page 
has  rich  and  varied  borders,  well  designed  and 
engraved. 

The  Epistles  and  Gospels  have  head  pieces  illus- 
trating tnem ;  some  are  very  good  and  admirably 
etched,  reminding  one  of  B^taux's  and  Morti- 
mer's etchings,  particularly  those  which  relate  to 
oar  Lord's  Pasolon.  The  headings  and  tail  pieces 
to  the  separate  Church  Offices  are  ver^  good.  In 
one  of  the  front  pages  is  a  profile  of  King  George, 
within  a  circular  band  of  three  inches  in  diameter, 
with  this  inscription :  — 

■<  The  effigies  of  King  George  contains  the  Lord*8 
Prayer,  the  Creed,  the  Ten  Commandments,  the  Pravers 
for  the  King  and  the  Royal  Family,  and  the  2l8t  Psalm." 

By  the  aid  of  a  microscope  everv  word  may  be 
clearly  read.  There  is  a  list  of  subscribers  to  the 
work,  numbering  between  three  and  four  hun- 
dred. Bbnj.  FsfiBBY,  F.S.A. 

[Horace  Walpole  {Anecdotes  of  Painting,  ed.  1849, 
ill.  958)  thus  notices  this  painful  work  of  art :  ''Stnrt'a 
capital  work  was  his  Gammon  Prayer  Book,  published  by 
aooscription  in  1717 :  it  is  all  engraven  very  neatly  on 
silver  plates  in  two  colamns^  with  borders  round  each 
nUte,  small  histories  at  top,  and  initial  letters.  It  is  a 
ULTge  octavo,  and  contains  166  plates,  besides  twen^-two 
in  the  beginning,  which  consists  of  the  dedication,  table, 
pre&oe,  calendar,  names  of  snbseribers,  &&  Prefixed  is 
a  bust  of  Greor^  I.  in  a  round,  and  facing  it  those  of  the 
prince  and  Princess  of  Wales.  On  the  King's  bust  are 
engraven  the  Lord's  Prayer,  Creed,  Commandments, 
Prayers  for  the  Royal  Famil^%  and  the  2l8t  Psalm,  but 
so  small  as  not  to  be  legible  without  a  magnifying  glass.*' 
lliere  are  at  least  three  copies  in  the  British  Museum. 
For  the  various  sums  it  has  fetched  at  sales,  see  Bohn's 
LowndeSf  p.  1942.] 

Wipe  of  John  Tradescant. — C.  K.  wishes  to 
ascertain  the  date  of  the  death  and  place  of  burial 
of  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  John  Tradescant  the 
elder.  They  were  married  at  Meopham  in  June, 
1607 ;  and  their  son,  also  named  John,  was  bom 
in  August,  1608.  They  flpp^&i*  to  have  been  in 
the  employ  as  gardeners  of  Kobert  Cecil,  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Shorne,  who  died 
in  1612,  and  of  Robert  Lord  Wotton  of  Boughton 
Malherbe,  who  died  in  1608.  We  next  find  them, 
Dather  and  son,  settled  at  Lambeth,  at  some  period 
previous  to  1629,  as  gardeners  to  King  Charles  I. 
and  his  queen  Henrietta  Maria ;  but  no  record  of 
the  wife  Elizabeth  having  accompanied  them,  and 
her  name  does  not  occur  either  in  the  Lambeth 
register  or  on  the  family  tombstone.  j 


Sib  ALEXA17DEB  Thokson.  —  I  should  feel 
obliged  to  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q.''  who 
can  tell  anything  of  this  gentleman,  and  of  the 
services  which  obtained  for  him  the  honour  of 
knighthood.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Thomson, 
town-clerk  of  Glasgow,  1620-26;  was  bom  in 
1606-7,  and  was,  1  think,  the  brother  of  Elizabeth 
oc  Bessie  Thomson,  wife  of  James  Peadie  of 
Roughill — a  family  which  for  three  or  four  gener- 
ations held  a  leadmg  position  in  Glasgow,  filling 
the  highest  civic  offices ;  and  of  which,  I  believe. 
Grizel  Peadie,  wife  of  Sir  William  Maxwell  of 
Calderwood,  Bart,  became  the  heiress  of  line  about 
1740,  M'Ure,  who  styles  Sir  Alexander  "  Major," 
at  p.  -209  of  his  Hiiory  of  Olasgow,  transcribes 
the  epitaph  on  his  monument  in  the  cathedral 
churchy  ard  of  Glasgow  as  follows :  — 

**  Memoris  sacrum  D.  Alezandri 

Thomsoni  Eqnitis  aumti. 

Quondam  in  regio  pnssidio 

G«iturionis  fldissimi,  fortias: 

Yigilantiss :  qui  pie  ac  placide  in 

Domino  obdormivit, 
Octob.  18,  anno  1669,  aaUtis  63." 

To  this  epitaph  are  subjoined  some  verses, 

probably  incorrectly  copied  by  M'Ure,  but  which, 

as  he  gives  them,  exhibit  the  peculiar  combination 

of  two  consecutive  hexameters  followed  by  a 

single  pentameter :  — 

**  Gentis  hones,  virtntls  amor,  fama  Integra,  candor, 
Thomsonum  omabant  vivum ;  nunc  asre  perenni 
Firma  magis  famao  stant  monumenta  ducis,"  etc. 

The  name  Thomson,  common  as  it  is  in  Scot- 
land generally,  is  of  singularly  rare  occurrence  in 
the  old  Glasgow  registers.  NoBTHKAir. 

Old  Volukteeb  Coeps.  —  Can  any  reader  of 
''N.  &  Q.'*  inform  me  where  I  can  find  particulars 
of  the  volunteer  corps  formed  about  the  year 
1745,  more  particularly  of  one  formed  in  London 
in  1744,  and  stated  by  the  Omtietnan^a  Magasine 
for  that  year  to  be  composed  of  Swiss  residents, 
and  by  Wade's  British  Hilary  to  be  composed 
of  two  hundred  Swiss  servants,  and  commanded 
by  Colonel  Desjean  P  H.  L. 

VoTAGEUB  Pigeons.  —  Being  very  much  in- 
terested in  "  voyageur  pigeons,  or  rather  in  the 
;  discovery  of  the  faculty  by  which  they  seek  their 
homes  from  extreme  distaiices,  I  should  feel  y^ry 
grateful  to  any  of  your  readers  who  will  furnish 
,  me  with  their  views  upon  the  subject.  The  Bel- 
I  gians,  who  may  be  saia  to  have  reduced  ''  pigeon- 
flying"  almost  to  a  science,  term  this  facul^ 
*'  orientation.''  Now  the  nearest  rendering  of  this 
term  I  take  to  be  '^  the  power  of  finding  the  car- 
dinal points."  The  English  Pigeofi  Amateur  be- 
lieves they  shape  their  course  by  '^  landmarks.'' 
I  have  many  cases  which  cause  me  to  doubt  this 
theory.  The  first  is,  a  bird  only  nine  weeks  old 
returned  from  a  distance  of  seventy  miles.  It  had 
never  before  been  half  a  mile  from  its  home;  and 


«»fcS.VII.  Apbil1,7L] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


285 


a  Belgian  correspondent  of  undoubted  veracity 
had  lately  an  old  oird  that  had,  without  the  least 
training,  returned  home  from  a  distance  of  two 
hundred  and  seventy-six  miles.  Whether  this 
faculty  be  "instinct,"  "by  the  stars,"  "land- 
mark," or  yet  undiscovered  means,  is  the  question 
I  am  anxious  to  have  solved* 

R.  W.  Alldbidob. 
Old  Charlton,  Kent 

[Oar  correspondeot  will  find  some  interesting  notices 
^  the  early  use  of  the  carrier  pigeon  in  the  Feimy  Cydo* 
ptediot  yii^372,  art.  **  Cdambiaa  ";  Encvclopadia  Britam- 
nica,  vi.  176,  art,  **  Carrier  Pigeon  "  ;  Chambers's  Ency- 
elapadm^  ii.  633 ;  Blackwood's  Edintmrgh  Magazine,  vL 
214 ;  and  Ripley  and  Dana's  Neio  American  didopaidkh 
iy.  48d-48d.  Dr.  Zachary  Grey,  in  his  notes  on  Hudibnu^ 
Part  n.  canto  i.  line  65,  has  a  cnrioos  one  on  these  early 
mails  — 

**  With  letters  hang  like  eastern  pigeons." 

After  all,  perhaps,  the  best  works  to  consult  are,  W.  B. 
Tegetmder  s  Pigeone,  their  Structure,  Varietiee,  Habits,  and 
Management,  with  Representations  by  Harrison  Weir, 
chaps.  viiL  and  ix.  Lond.  1868,  4to,  and  Orbigney,  2>tc- 
tumnaire  d*ffiatoire  NatureUe,  x.  167,  dro.] 

Welsh  Wedding.  CrsTOK. — ^There  is  a  curious 
custom  in  North  Wales  of  sending  a  small  quan- 
tity of  ginger,  or  in  some  places  a  hazel  stick,  on  the 
day  of  the  wedding  of  some  fair  one,  to  tlie  man 
or  men  who  were  supposed  to  have  been  refased 
or  jilted  by  her.  Can  any  one  tell  me  the  origin 
of  this  custom,  or  if  it  is  practised  elsewhere  P 

Y  BiJLIDD. 

Mbs.  Catherine  Zephtb. — Amongst  a  number 
of  old  prints  I  have  discovered  one  which  I  be- 
lieve to  be  rather  scarce.  It  is  dated  June  30, 
1784,  and  represents  a  woman  holding  in  her  hand 
an  open  fan,  the  pattern  of  which  she  is  atten- 
tively examining.  It  is  entitled  ''  Mrs.  Catherine 
Zephyr,  the  celebrated  Fan  Vender,"  and  under- 
neath are  the  following  lines : — 


"A  Face  disguis'd  without  a  Mask, 
A  Waist  as  round  as  any  Cask, 
A  Double  Chin,  a  short  Pug  Nose, 
And  like  a  Duck,  spreads  out  her  Toes, 
Two  Pawe  for  Arms,  a  Pair  of  Fists, 
Well  lin'd  with  Fat  about  the  Wrista, 
A  great  Protuberance  behind. 
Blown  out  with  either  Flesh  or  Wind, 
Then  such  a  Tongue  I  to  hear  her  speak, 
Twould  drown  vour  Hearing  for  a  Week. 
To  sum  the  whole,  search  thro*  her  Sex, 
To  miutch  her  wonld  Old  Nick  perplex." 

I  should  like  to  know  whether  this  scurrilous 
production  is  a  caricature  upon  some  great  per- 
sonage of  the  time,  or  whether  there  was  any  such 
person  as  Mrs.  Zephyr.  If  she  were  a  real  cha- 
racter, I  should  M  glad  to  hare  any  particulars 
about  her.  Sandaltom. 

[We  would  advise  our  correspondent  to  submit  this 
curious  caricature  to  the  officials  of  the  Print  Room  of 
the  British  Museum.  It  had  certainly  escaped  the 
pionmtge  of  the  late  Edward  Hawldna,  Esq.] 


LONGS  AND  PALMERS  OF  BATH. 
(4»»'  S.  viL  76.) 

In  leply  to  that  portion  of  H.  P.'s  inquiry  rela» 
tive  to  the  relationship  between  Mr.  Walter  Long 
of  Bath  and  John  Palmer,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  that 
dty,  and  stated  to  be  through  the  Baynton  family 
of  the  Longs,  I  beg  to  offer  a  few  remarks.  They 
were,  as  your  correspondent  has  quoted  from 
Burke,  settled  at  Baynton— an  estate  purchased 
torn  Danvers's  by  John  Long  of  Little  Ghevrill, 
who  died  1676;  and  Baynton  continued  in  the 
poasesdon  of  Longs  till  sold,  soma  years  auice^ 
to  the  trustees  of  Mr.  Watson  Taylor.  No 
match  appears  in  the  pedimes  of  Long  of  Wrazall 
(from  which  family  Mr.  Walter  Long  is  proved 
to  have  descended)  which  could  have  produced 
relationship  between  Mr.  Palmer  and  the  wealthy 
commoner ;  and  therefore  I  confine  mvself  to  the 
Baynton  family  of  Long,  which  H.  P.  represents 
as  the  channel  of  the  reliMionship  which  he  asserts 
to  have  existed.  This  information  may  be  of  use 
in  helping  his  future  investigation.  There  is  a 
monument  in  Edington  church,  in  which  parish 
Baynton  lies,  to  the  memory  of  a  Long  of  feayn- 
tpn,  with  these  arms :  Long  of  Wraxall,  quartering 
2  and  3  Onedert  quarterly  az.  and  gules,  an  escar* 
buncle  of  eight  staves,  or. 

Another  branch  of  the  same  line  of  descent  as 
the  Longs  of  Baynton  quartered,  with  the  coat  of 
Longs  of  Wraxall,  Hubbard  vert,  a  chevron  be- 
tween three  eagles'  heads  erased  argent,  ducally 
gorged  or.  Through  these  matches  H.  P.  may 
perhaps  establish  relationship  between  Longs  of 
^ynton  and  Palmers.  I  do  not  notice  the  inooneot 
information  he  gives  as  to  the  ultimate  disposal 
of  Mr.  Walter  Long's  great  wealth,  because  it 
seems  a  matter  of  private  concern,  and  the  cuzioua 
may  obtain  all  particulars  by  referring  to  Prer^ga* 
iwe  JP^obates/or  1807. 

Mr.  Jones  Long  had  only  a  participation  in  the 
income  of  the  estates,  certainly  not  testamentary 
heirship  to  Mr.  Walter  Long's  entire  fortune :  he 
also  did  comply  with  the  condition  which  H.  P. 
tells  us  was  made  to  Mr.  Palmer,  and  which  he 
80  imaccountably  refused  to  accept.  H.  P.  will 
find  an  elaborate  pedigree  of  Long  of  Wrazall 
and  of  Littie  Chevrill  (same  as  of  Baynton)  in 
Walker's  HUtory  cf  WraxaU  Home,  compiled  by 
Mr.  Beltz  and  Mr.  Charles  Edward  Long,  author  of 
Royal  Deicents,  The  late  Mx.  Long  of  Preshaw^ 
for  more  than  fifty  years,  assiduously  collected 
every  fact  connected  with  the  Long  pedigree.  He 
has  given,  in  Burke-s  Latided  Oer£y,  all  the  evi>« 
deuce  which  can  be  produced  in  support  of  the 
traditional  connection  between  the  Longs  of 
Wraxall  and  those  of  Littie  GhevrilL  I  am  not 
aware  of  any  other  sources  of  information  spe- 
cially relating  to  Longs  of  Baynton. 


286 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[4«k8.VIL  ApbilI/71. 


I  may  mention  as  an  instance  (perhaps  the 
oldest)  that  the  Longs  of  Little  Chevrill  used  the 
same  arms  as  those  of  Wrazall,  that  the  will  of 
Thomas  Long,  father  of  the  purchaser  of  Baynton, 
is  sealed  with  a  shield  bearing  a  lion  rampant 
within  an  orle  of  cross  crosslets,  and  impaling 
Floyer^  a  chevron  between  three  arrows.    £.  W. 

"  WHETHER  OR  N0.»' 

(4«'»  S.  vii.  142.) 

Being  among  those  who  would  rather  be  wrong 
with  Shakespeare  than  right  with  the  rest  of  the 
world,  I  cannot  allow  that  the  above  expression 
is  ''corrupt  English,"  nor  even  that  ''there  may 
be  two  opinions  on  the  subject."  Let  me  refer 
M.  A.  B.  to  King  John,  Act  ll.  Sal.  167:— 
**  Shame  upon  you,  whether  eha  does  or  no.*' 

And  in  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windwr  (Act  IV. 

8c.  6),  Simple  is  sent  with  two  messages  to  Sir 

John  FalsttdBTfrom  Slender — 

" to  know,  sir,  whether  one  Nym,  sir,  that  be- 

gniled  him  of  a  chain,  had  the  chain  or  no." 

And  further — 


M 


.  .  .  abont  Mistrefs  Anne  Page ;  to  know  if  it  were 
my  maater*8  fortune  to  have  her,  or  no." 

C.  G.  Prowett. 
Garrick  Qub. 


I  hasten  to  give  my  support  verv  decidedly  to 
the  view  taken  bv  M.  A.  B.  as  to  tne  impropriety 
of  saying  "  Whether  or  no  "  instead  of  not,  I  have 
been  for  years  declaiming  against  this  slovenly^ 
im^prammatical  way  of  speakmg.  The  phrase  is 
plamlv  ellipticd,  and  needs  only  to  be  drawn  out 
m  full  to  show  its  absurdity  on  its  fiftce.  I  wish, 
for  instance,  to  tell  a  person  that  I  shall  go  to  such 
a  place,  whether  some  other  event  happens  or 
does  not  happen.  Certainly  then  I  ought  to  tell 
him  that  I  snail  go  "  whether  (that  hwpens)  or 
notf  that  is,  or  does  not  happen."  Tne  phrase 
''  whether  or  no"  is  rank  nonsense  in  the  opinion 
of  P.  C.  H. 

The  epithet "  slip-shod  "  should  properly  be  ap- 
plied to  the  Englisn  of  those  who  anfframmaticaUy 
and  iUogicaUy  employ  the  phrase  "  wnether  or  not  ^' 
instead  of  "whetner  or  no/'  which  from  Alfred 
the  Great's  time  down  to  the  present  day  has  been 
used  (with  some  slight  change  of  form)  by  the 
best  native  writers,  and  is,  therefore,  thoroughly 
English,  quite  gra^tioJ,  and,  wU  U  more, 
lofficaUy  exact 

1.  Whether  contains  a  comparative  suffix  'ther, 
and  originallv  signified  whu^  of  two  (cp,  other '>» 
one  of  two,  the  ust  or  the  second  in  Old  JSnglish). 
It  implies,  therefore,  two  statements— an  affirma- 
tive as  weU  as  a  negative  one ;  though,  in  the 
phrase  tohether  or  no^oolj  the  negative  is  expressed, 
yea  or  ye$  being  understood. 


2.  Conjunctions  join  sentences ;  inwhether  or  no 
the  two  sentences  are  contracted,  yea  being  the 
contraction  of  an  affirmative  sentence,  and  no  of  a 
negative  one. 

The  complete  phrase  then  is  whether^  yea  or  no, 
by  which  we  see  that  naif  instead  of  no,  would  be 
incorrect  on  fframmatical  and  logical  grounds.  It 
may  be  asked,  however,  is  not  all  this  a  mere  lin- 
guistic theory  P  Do  the  facts  of  the  written  lan- 
guage furnish  sufficient  proof  that  whether  orno^r. 
whMeryea  or  not  The  following  extracts  must, 
we  think,  satisfy  all  reasonable  mmds : — 

''  First  it  18  donbtAiIl  whether  thoee  barbarous  Tartariane 
do  know  an  unicoroes  home,  yea  or  no"  (Hakluyt'e 
Voyages,  1600,  voL  iU.  p.  20.) 

** •  .  .  whether  it  wem  an  uniooraes  home^ yea  or  no** 
(lb.  p.  21.) 

Rt  M. 

King's  College,  London. 


«  BARON »'  NICHOLSON. 

(4«»S.vL477;  vii  18.) 

The  AutMoyraphy  of  this  well-known  public 
character  is  an  interesting  vet  painful  record  of 
misused  abilities,  discm^table  adventures,  and  a 
generally  wasted  life;  but  is,  nevertheless,  worthy 
of  preservation  from  its  racy  and  humorous  style, 
and  its  graphic  pictures  of  London  life.  Its  pages, 
moreover^^wiU  be  found  to  afford  a  rich  hairvest  of 
anecdotes  of  well-known  characters  about  town, — 
such  for  instance  as  Sir  John  Dean  Paul ;  Harry 
Holt ;  "  PearGreen  "  Haynes  ;  Bobert  Taylor,  the 
<<l>evU's  Chaplain";  Hughes BaU,  of  <' golden" 
notoriety;  Charles  Molloy  Westmacott,  of  the 
Age ;  Edward  Oxford ;  *^  Ephemera  "  fltzgibbon ; 
Haydon  the  painter;  Meshach  Rowley;  John 
Minter  Hart;  Dufirene;  ''Stunning"  Joe  Banks; 
and  a  host  of  others  who  strutted  and  fretted  their 
brief  hour  upon  life's  stage  at  the  same  period  as 
our  hero. 

.  It  is  perhaps  with  the  once  celebraited  weekly 
serial,  The  Toum,  that  the  name  of  Nicholson,  its 
founder  and  manager,  is  most  intimately  associated. 
The  first  number  of  this  appeared  June  3, 1837 ; 
the  price  weekly  vras  2c?.,  and  it  was  long  con- 
tinued with  great  success.  The  chief  contributors 
were  the  editor ;  Henry  Pellatt,  the  '^  Brougham" 
of  the  Judge  and  Juiy  Society;  the  clever  but 
profligate  John  Dalnrmple ;  J.  G.  Canning;  Ed- 
ward Blanchard  ;  and,  not  unfrequently,  no  less  a 
person  than  the  '<  Doctor  "  himself,  the  late  Wil- 
liam Maginn,  LL.D, 

Of  the  origin  and  establishment  of  this  paper 
our  author  gives,  in  his  AutMograpihy,  so  hu- 
morous and  interesting  an  account,  that  I  am 
inclined  to  transfer  it,  in  a  condensed  form,  to 
these  pages.  With  a  young  wife  depending  upon 
him,  and  utterly  devoid  of  means,  SMdy,  hungry* 
and  penniless^  I^icholaon  cnunmed  some  ''  copy  " 


if 


4«fcS.  VII.  Apbil  1,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


287 


in  his  pockety  and  proceeded  to  the  office  of  a 
printer,  whose  name  had  been  given  to  him — 
Mr.  Joseph  Last,  of  Edward  Street,  Hampstead 
Road.  Here  he  had  to  leaye  the  MS.  for  the 
great  man's  pemsal  at  leisure;  and  here,  returning 
at  nightfall,  the  packet  was  handed  to  him  by  a 
senrant,  with  the  curt  intimation  that  **  Master 
said  it  wouldn't  do."  Here  foUow  some  philo- 
sophical reflections,  which  I  am  tempted  to  quote 
as  a  spedmen  of  the  author's  style.  Thepermmnd 
of  the  worthy  ^  Baron  "  is  familiar  to  many  of  us. 
His  figure  was  rotund  and  portly,  as  that  of  one 
who  was  wont  to  "  do  himself  well,"  and  it  was 
doubtless  his  own  feelings,  as  he  *'  tottered  down 
the  steps  "  after  this  cruel  repulse^  that  suggested 
the  remarks  I  am  about  to  transcribe : — 

**0h!  fiutidioas  reader  .  .  .  did  yoa  evsr  look  upon 
a  Medy  fat  man  ?  .  .  .  .  Fat  in  poverty  excites  no  sym- 
patby.  The  thoughtless  aay,  *  A  mat  tat  fellow  like 
that  to  talk  about  being  starving!  Why  don't  he  work, 
and  get  some  of  the  flesh  off  his  bones,  the  lazy  vaga- 
bond t  People  will  not  allow  that  any  fat  man  is  Indus* 
trions.  The  appearance  of  a  lusty  man  in  rajgs  is  ex- 
tionely  ludicrous.  The  hat  will  not  assume  its  jaunty 
and  knowing  look  when  stuck  on  one  side,  if  old,  battered, 
and  mis-ehapen;  the  coat  won*t  meet  anyhow,  though 
strained  and  pulled  to  the  button  ;  the  button  holes  have 
withoed,  and  notwithstanding  that,  they  seem  to  breathe 
a  detennination  with  violence  something  like,  *  I  won't 
oome  to ! '  .  .  .  .  Like  a  drunken  obstinate  fellow  in  cus- 
tody, the  button-holes  slip  down,  and  the  buttons  slip  oft, 
and  no  amount  of  fortitude  can  ever  sustain  a  seedy  fat 
man  unbuttoned.  The  very  straps  struggle  with  the 
shabby  trowaers  to  control  them,  vt  et  armit,  over  the 
shabbier  highlows,  commonly  called  Bluchers.  The  waist- 
coat has  a  most  aggravating  practice  of  rising  up,  in 
consequence  of  the  broadness  of  the  abdomen,  four  inches 
above  the  front  of  the  waistband,  and  exposing  the  un- 
bleached calico  of  the  under  garment  in  a  manner  enough 
to  make  the  lustj  man  despair.  Oh,  amiable  reader ! 
don't  get  fat  if  you  are  poor." — AvUMoffraphy,  page  232. 

But  enough  of  this,  perhaps;  a  ^'cool  half- 
pint^"  stood  oy  a  sympathetic  friend,  restored  the 
poor  author's  courage,  and  later  in  the  day  he 
renewed  the  Mtack  on  the  printer.  This  important 
personage  was  busy;  he  had  not  had  time  to  read 
the  MS.,  &C. ;  and  so  his  hungry  visitor  inmsted 
on  giving  him  a  taste  of  its  quality  himself.  He 
selected  the  story  of ''  Mr.  Sam.  WiUdns  and  Miss 
Molly  Baggs,"  and  commenced  to  read  it  in  his 
ridi  and  meUow  voice.  The  printer  listened  per- 
force, and,  in  spite  of  himself,  became  interested ; 
he  strove  long  to  maintain  his  dignity,  but  the 
reader  came  at  last  to  '<a  passage  so  irresistiUy 
comic,  that  Joe  could  stand  it  no  lonoer."  He 
sank  back  in  a  fit  of  uncontrollable  laughter ; 
compositors  and  pressmen  heartily  joined ;  and  the 
author  knew  tlwt  he  might  dose  ms  reading^.  The 
parties  at  once  proceedMl  to  business,  and  it  was 
ananoed  that  tne  series  of  tales  was  to  be  pro- 
duced as  a  weekly  periodical ;  the  author  to  con- 
tribute twelve  columns  a  week,  and  receive  SI. 
every  Saturday  night    More  than  this,  the  man 


of  business  told  him  that,  ''  as  he  was  going  to 
leave  the  manuscript,"  he  might  draw  a  pound  on 
account.  Hear  his  own  description  of  nis  emo* 
tions: — 

^  As  soon  as  I  heard  this  I  had  great  difficulty  in  re- 
straining myself  from  leaping  up  and  cutting  six  in  my 
soleless  Wellingtons.  I  was  oveijoyed;  I  could  not  walk 
home ;  I  jumped  home,  every  inch  of  the  way,  grasping 
the  sovereign  in  my  clenched  fist  A  sovereign  is  a 
handy  thing  when  there  are  no  coals  in  the  cupboard,  and 
that  was  the  case  with  me  before  I  got  the  pound.** — 
Ibid,  page  289. 

These  humorous  town  sketches  wore  issued  in 
a  separate  form  under  the  title  of — 

*<  Cockney  Adventures  and  Tales  of  London  Life.  By 
Renton  Nicholson."  8vo^  London  (CUirk,  Warwick 
Lane),  1889,  pp.  168. 

The  volume  conrists  of  twenty-one  penny  num- 
bers, with  woodcuts  to  each,  in  the  marked  and 
vigorous  style  of  '^  G.  J.  G.,"  by  which  initials 
many  of  them  are  signed.  These,  like  the  tales 
which  they  illustrate,  are  laughably  comic ;  but 
truth  compels  me  to  add,  though  Mb.  Jackson 
has  forgotten  this,  that  both  are  marked  by  a  fre- 
quent coarseness  (not  to  put  too  fine  a  point  upon 
It),  which  necessitates  the  relegation  of  the  volume 
to  an  upper  shelf. 

Bound  up  with  these  tales,  and  illustrated  also 
by  "  G.  J.  G.,"  are  two  other  ephemeral  imitations 
of  Dickens,  which  appeared  about  the  same  period. 
One  is  entitled — 

-  The  Posthumous  Papers  of  the  Cadgers'  Club,  con- 
taining the  Lives,  Characters,  and  interesting  Anecdotes 
of  the  Members  of  that  celebrated  Body.  With  Eighteen 
superior  Engravings."  London  (Lloyd),  8vo,  1838, 
pp.92. 

The  othei 


««The  Sketch-Book.  By  'Bos.'  Containing  a  great 
number  of  highly  interesting  and  original  sketches,  Ac, 
ice"    London  (Lloyd),  pp.  88. 

I  have  always  considered  these  to  be  the  pro- 
duction of  Nicholson :  but^  as  he  does  not  men- 
tion them  among  his  literary  achievements,  I  am 
thrown  into  doubt.  I  collected  them  at  the  time 
of  their  publication,  and  imagine  that  it  would 
now  be  impossible  to  recover  copies.  They  are 
not  devoid  of  a  certain  talent,  but  this  is  not  suf- 
ficient to  stimulate  much  curiosi^  as  to  theit 
origin.  The  initials  **  G.  J.  G."  indicate  the  cari- 
caturist, Gharles  Jameson  Grant,  an  artist  who,  in 
his  narrow  walk,  though  coarse  in  sentiment,  and 
mannered  in  execution,  was  not  vrithout  a  certain 
amount  of  ready  vifforous  power.  Of  his  artistic 
career  veiy  little  is  known. 

I  must  not  forffet  to  chronicle  a  slender  and 
not  iU- written  booklet — 

''The  Cigar  and  Smoker's  Conpanion,"  8vo,  London 
(C.  Vicken),  pp.  16. 

But  at  this  period  the  cares  of  the  "Garrick's 
Head"  and  toe  midnight  duties  of  the  "Judge 


288 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  C****  s.  vii.  apml  i,  71. 


and  Jury  Society  "  monopolised  our  author's  ener- 
gies, and  left  no  time  for  the  cultivation  of  liteiar 
tuxe.    About  five  years  later  we  have  — • 

*<Dombey  and  Daaghter :  a  Moral  Fiction.  ByRenton 
Nicholson,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Celebrated  Judge  and 
Jury  Socie^,  held  at  the '  Garrlck's  Head  Hotel/  Bow 
Street,  London.  Published  by  Thomas  Farris,  840,  Strand. 
Sold  by  the  Booksellers."    Boyal  8vo,  n.  d.  pp.  94. 

Here  ends  my  knowledge  of  the  literary  doings 
of  Ronton  Nicholson,  for  whom,  without  respect 
•  to  his  private  character,  I  claim  a  record  in  these 
columns  as  a  journalist  and  author. 

"William  Baibb. 

Birmingham. 


THE  SWAN-SONG  OF  PARSON  AVERY. 
(4«»  S.  vL  483 ;  vii.  20, 148.) 

Your  correspondent  E.  W..  is  wide  of  the 
truth  in  his  surmises  ahout  Newbuzy.  New- 
beme  in  North  Carolina  is  more  properly  New 
Berne.  ''It  derives  its  name  from  Bern,  the 
place  of  nativity  of  Christopher,  Baron  of  Graaf- 
fenreidt,  who  in  1709  emigrated  to  this  state  and 
settled  near  this  place.  The  colonists  were  Pala- 
tines and  Swiss.  (Wheeler's  Stdory  of  North 
Carolina,  p.  110.)  The  true  Newbury  of  the 
ballad  is]  a  seaport  on  Massachusetts  Bay,  and 
derives  its  name,  as  Cotton  Mather  says  in  his 
Magnaiia,  from  the  fact  that  the  first  minister  of 
the  town,  Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  had  resided  in 
Newbury,  England.  ''FVom  thence  removing 
with  several  devout  Christians  out  of  Wiltshire 
into  New  England,  he  was  ordained  their  nastor 
at  a  town  (on  his  and  their  account^  called  New- 
berry. Thomas  Parker  was  the  only  son  of  Rev. 
Rohiert  Parker,  a  nonconformist  divine  of  note, 
was  admitted  to  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  but 
went  thence  to  Dublin  and  finally  to  Leyden.  He 
died  unmarried,  April  1677^  aged  about  eighty- 
two  years. 

As  to  Parson  Avery,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Avery 
was  a  worthy  minister,  who  was  coming  to  found 
a  church  at  Marblehead,  another  seaport  in  Mas- 
sachusetts Bay.  Sailing  from  Newbury  in  a  pin- 
nace, Aug.  14,  1636,  on  this  brief  trip^  having  on 
board  his  family  and  that  of  his  cousm  Anthony 
Thatcher,  the  vessel  was  lost  in  a  sudden  storm, 
and  only  Thatcher  and  his  wife  escaped.  The 
next  island  is  called  Thatcher's  Woe^  and  the 
rock  Avery's  Fall.  The  story  is  one  known  to 
all  who  have  examined  our  colonial  annals ;  and 
Whittier  has  only  followed  the  current  authorities 
in  his  version.  The  title  ''  swan-song  "  is  given 
by  Mather. 

As  we  know  nothing  of  Joseph  Avery's  ante- 
cedents, anv  information  about  nim  which  E.  W. 
can  furnish  would  be  gladly  received  here. 
Anthony  Thatcher  (Averys  cousin)  was  brother 
of  Rev.  Peter  Thatcher,  rector  of  St.  Edmund's, 


Salisbuiy.  whose  son.  Rev.  Thomas  Thatcher,  also 
came  to  Kew  Englsjid  and  founded  a  prosnerous 
and  distinguished  family  here.  Thomas  nad  9t 
brother  Paul  living  at  Salisbury  in  1676,  and  a 
brother  John  who  had  died  there  about  1673» 
These  American  Thatchers  used  a  coat-of-arma  of 
<<  a  cross  moline,  on  a  chief  three  grasshoppers." 

There  were  several  early  colonists  named  Avexy, 
one  being  WilUam  Aver^,  a  phyudan,  who  settled 
at  Dedham,  Mass.  His  immediate  descendants 
used  as  arms  ''  a  chevron  between  three  bezants ; 
crest,  two  lion's  yambs  supporting  a  bezant." 

If  E.  W.  has  access  to  the  parish  register  at 
Newbury,  co.  Berks,  and  can  give  a  list  of  the 
names  appearing  therein  about  1620-1635, 1  shall 
gladly  try  to  identify  any  of  our  settiers  here. 

W.H,Whitmorb. 

Boston,  U.S.A.  


The  name  of  Avery,  orEveiy,  is  found  at  Bodmin 
at  an  eariy  date,  and  exists  there  at  the  present 
time.  Whether  or  not  the  names  are  distmct,  or 
whether  the  di^rencein  the  orthography  is  simply 
a  variation  in  writing  the  same  name^  seems  some- 
what uncertain.  I  incline  to  the  former  view. 
The  first  notice  of  the  name  with  which  I  am 
acquainted  is  in  1310;  in  which  year  Thomas 
Auiey  was  associated  with  the  prior  of  Bodmin 
and  others  in  a  suit  concerning  five  hundred  acres 
of  land  at  Halgaver,  near  Bodmin  (see  my  Hist,  of 
Trigg^  p.  127).  The  name,  however,  does  not 
occur  in  the  accounts  for  rebuilding  the  parish 
church  in  1470,  to  which  work  most,  if  not  all,  of 
the  inhabitants  contributed.  Michael  Avery  was 
mayor  of  Bodmin  in  1544  (Hid,  of  Trigg,  p.  236), 
and  died  in  1569;  thougn  the  name  does  not 
occur  among  those  of  the  burgesses  in  Parliament 
or  their  manucaptors.  The  parish  registers  com- 
mence in  1559,  and  the  name  of  Avery  is  among 
the  first  found  therein :  — 

1660.  Johan,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Avery,  was  bap- 
tized May  26th.  . 

1663.  Thomas,  the  son  ofThomas  Avery,  was  baptised. 

1669.  Walter  Aveiye  and  Orige  Williams  were  mar- 
ried Sept.  6th. 

1669.  MicheU  Avexye  was  buried  Sept.  28th. 

There  are  many  other  entries  of  the  name. 

The  name  of  Averv  is  found  also  in  the  records 
of  the  borough  of  Liskeard,  of  which  bosough 
Thomas  Aveiy,  a  Royalist,  was  appointed  mayor 
in  1669.  He  made  some  charitable  bequest  to 
the  town.  The  name  is  also  found  at  Boscastle 
and  Camelford.  To  the  former  place  the  late 
Mr.  Avery,  a  merchant,  was  a  great  benefactor  in 
improving  the  harbour  and  trade  of  the  port. 

The  present  family  of  Every,  of  Bodmin,  is  be- 
lieved to  be  descended  from  a  family  of  the  same 
name  formerly  settted  at  St.  Neot  in  Comwfdl, 
respecting  which  entries  occur  in  the  parochial 
registers  of  that  parish  as  soon  as  they  commence. 
John  Every  and  Thomas  Every,  respectively,  had 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


289 


children  baptized  between  the  years  1567  and 
1577.  The  present  representative  of  the  family  of 
Every  of  Bodmin  is  the  Rev.  Nicholas  T.  Every, 
Vicar  of  St  Kew,  co.  Cornwall. 

I  will  not  trespass  farther  on  Mr.  Editor's 
kindness,  but  shall  have  pleasure  in  answering  as 
far  as  1  can  any  inquiries  which  Hebmentbube 
may  desire  to  make  direct         JoHir  Maclean. 

Mammersmith. 

Maeriage  op  English  Pbincesses  (4***  S.  vii. 
203.) — ^I  suppose  the  last  instance  of  a  princess 
marrying  a  British  subject,  rmthout  the  royal  assenty 
was  the  Princess  Mary,  sixth  child  of  Henry  VII. 
and  sister  of  Henry  VIII.,  who  clandestinely 
married  Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk,  in 
Clugny  Abbey  in  1516. 

Tlie  princess,  who  was  also  queen-dowager  of 
France,  was  re-married  to  the  duke  at  Greenwich 
in  the  same  year;  and  becoming  by  him  the 
firandmother  of  the  imfortonate  Lady  Jane  Grey, 
departed  this  life  June  25,  1538,  at  her  manor  of 
Westhoipe  in  Suffolk.  W.  H.  S. 

Indxtstbies  oe  Enoland  (4*  8.  vii.  209.) — 
B.  J.  T.  is  doubtless  aware  that  a  very  curious  list 
of  books  about  special  ^*  industries  "  might  easily 
be  compiled,  ana  I  could  make  a  curious  cata- 
logne  even  from  my  own  shelves.    His  querjr  is 

Sobably  meant,  however,  for  general  treatises, 
e  will  remember  many  well  worth  reading  in 
Lardner's  Cabinet  Cydop€ed%a^  especially  the  three 
volumes  on  ''  Manufactures  in  Metal,"  the  one  on 
**  Silk,"  &c.  &c.  A  most  interesting  and  valuable 
example  was  set  after  the  visit  of  the  British 
Association  to  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  when  a  small 
volume  was  published,  and  afterwards  expanded 
into  the  following  work : — 

"The  Industrial  Resources  of  the  three  Korthern 
Rivers,  the  Tpe,  Wear,  and  Tees,  including  the  Reports 
on  the  Local  Manufactures  read  before  the  British  Asso- 
ciation in  1863,  edited  by  Sir  W.  G.  Armstrong,  J.  Low- 
thian  Bell,  John  Taylor,  and  Dr.  Richardson.  With  Notes 
and  Appendices,  illustrated  with  Maps,  Plans,  and  Wood- 
engravings.  London :  Longmans  5c  Co.  (2nd  ed.)  1864. 
(Pp.  xlii.  362.) 

The  meeting  of  the  British  Association  at  Bir- 
mingham in  1865  produced  a  similar  volume  under 
the  title  — 

**Thc  Resources,  Products,  and  Industrial  History  of 
Birmingham  and  the  Midland ,  Hardware  District.  A 
Series  of  Reports  collected  hy  the  Local  Industries  Com- 
mittee of  the  British  Association  at  Birmingham  inl8<(6. 
Edited  by  Sam.  Timmins.  London:  Robert  Hardwicke, 
1866.    [Pp.  iv.738.] 

These  two  volumes  give  so  much  original  and 
valuable  information  that  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  the  example  has  not  been  followed  in  otiier 
localities,  and  that  the  largo  mass  of  facts— often 
flMt  perishing— concerning  the  industrial  history  of 
Enirland  have  not  been  collected  and  preserved. 

^  Earn 


Rash  Statbmbjtts  (4'»»  S.  vii.  232^  273.)— 
All  that  I  have  to  say  to  Clajlbt*s  stnctuies  is, 
that  in  m^  edition  of  Gibbon^  London^  1818|  at 
voL  i.  ch.  V.  p.  168,  the  words  stand  as  I  have 
quoted  them.  This  is  styled  a  ''new  edition," 
and  was  published  only  twentv-four  years  after 
the  author's  death.  So,  after  all,  it  is  only  edition 
against  edition;  and  with  no  show  of  justice  can 
I  be  charged  as  ''  guilty  of  a  rash  statement." 
Dear  old  Fuller's  accuracy  and  honesty  are  too 
well  established  to  be  shaken  easily,  and  I  have 
very  grave  doul^ts  as  to  their  having  failed  him 
here.  My  edition  of  the  Holy  and  Prophane  State 
is  that  of  Tegg,  London,  1841,  with  notes  by 
James  Nichols.  The  reference  is  not  given  in  the 
text,  but  in  a  foot  note  by  the  editor.  In  addition 
to  Tilman  Bredonbach,  De  BeUo  Liwm,,  he  gives 
Fits-Herberty  Gf  Policy  and  Rdigiony  pt.L  ch.xiv. 

Edmukd  Tew,  M. A. 

Why  bobs  a  nbwly  bobn  Child  ort  ?  (4**^  S. 
viL  211.)  —  Goldsmith  says  somewhere,  ''  We 
wept  when  we  came  into  the  world,  and  every 
moment^tells  us  why."  I  have  tried  to  find  it, 
but  without  success.  Some  one  will  perhaps  re- 
collect the  passage  and  give  the  reference.  My 
disa^ointment  was  however  compensated  by  th!e 
refreshing  pleasure  of  looking  at  old  Goldy  again. 
I  would  supplement  the  query  by  asking,  do  our 
young  men  ever  read  the  old  authors  ?  My  ob- 
servation  is  that  a  penny  paper  is  their  chief 
pabulum,  colouring  a  meerschaum  their  amuse- 
ment, with  an  occasional  glance  at  the  Saturday 
Jteview  aa  a  higher  intellectual  effort.      Clabbt. 

Enro's  CoiLEGE,  New  Yobe  (4**  S.  vi.  522.) — 
A.  J.  M.  asks,  what  is  known  of  the  history  and 
fate  of  the  King's  College  at  New  York  ?  It  is 
impossible  to  answer  him  in  a  letter ;  and  I  can 
only  say  that  the  King*s  College  still  exists  under 
the  name  of  Columbia  College. 

I  have  sent  to  you  by  mail  the  statutes  and  the 
last  University  Catalogue  which  contain  the  in- 
formation for  which  he  asks. 

Beverley  R.  Belts. 
Librarian  of  Columbia  College. 

New  York. 

Mrs.  Downing  (4'**  S.  vii.  142.) — Mrs.  Down- 
ing C'Christabel ")  is  not  dead ;  she  is  still  living, 
with  her  husband,  who  has  been  for  many  years 
one  of  the  parliamentary  corps  of  the  DaihfNew8, 
and  was  for  tiie  greater  part  of  the  time  of  the 
sitting  of  the  late  council  at  Home  the  Roman 
correspondent  of  that  paper.  His  brother,  Mr. 
MacCarthy  Downing,  M.P.,  sits  in  the  House  of 
Commons  as  representative  for  the  county  of 
Cork.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Downing  until  lately  uved 
at  Cumming  Street,  Pentonville,  but  I  oelieve 
their  address  now  is  Hildrop  Crescent,  Camden 
Town.  Mrs.  Downing  was  bom  at  Kenmare  in 
the  county  of  Kerry.    I  am  unable  to  give  any 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k  S.  VII.  April  1, 71. 


dates,  nor  can  I  say  whether  her  poems  have 
been  published  in  a  collected  form.         W.  0*C. 

P.S.  I  have  learned  that  Mrs.  Downing's  poems 
were  published  about  twenty  years  ago  oy  Alex- 
ander Thorn  of  Dublin,  under  the  title  of  Scr<q9» 
from  the  Mountains  by  Christabelle. 

Ch]spstow=E8IBIohoiel  (4**  S.  vii.  84.)  — 
This  is  no  doubt  the  place  intended  by  the  passage 
in  Domesday  Book,  out  how  it  came  to  have  two 
names  no  one  has  yet  explained.  Leland  calls 
the  founder  of  Tinteme  '^Dominus  de  Stroghill 
alias  Chepstow."  Castell  Trogey,  some  ten  miles 
from  Chepstow,  is  sometimes  ctuled  Strigoil  Castle, 
but  I  do  not  know  on  what  authority,  although  I 
believe  within  the  honour  of  Strigoil. 

As  to  the  derivation  of  this  name,  without  at- 
tempting one  myself^  I  can  onljr  refer  0.  £.  W.  to 
an  explanation,  which  I  fear  is  sufficiently  far- 
fetched, given  by  Leland  (Itm.  ix.  101),  quotmgan 
annotation  on  the  poet  Necham  (abbot  of  Ciren- 
cester, 1215-25):  "Strato  Julia,  cujus  pontem 
construxit  Julius  (Cn.  J.  Agricola  intendea)  quod 
vulffd  Strigolium  dicitur.'*  In  this  passage  a 
bridge  at  Chepstow  is  of  course  meant ;  however^ 
this  appellation  of  the  Roman  road  which  un- 
doubtedly crossed  the  Wye  here  is  as  old  as 
Necham,  for  he  mentions  it  more  than  once,  but 
it  is  now  generally  confined  to  the  way  from  Bath 
to  St  David's,  in  consequence  of  the  stetement  of 
the  dubious  Richiurd  of  Cirencester  (xi  Iter.  '*  per 
viam  Juliam.'')*  A.  S.  Ellis. 

Bxomptoo. 

DESCBKBAirrs  OF  Jebeht  Tatlob  (4^  S.  vii. 
1430 — ^Thers  can  be  no  persons  living  of  the  name 
of  Taylor  who  are  Unetd  descendants  of  Bishop 
Taylor,  as  that  eminent  divine  left  no  male  issue. 
One  of  the  bishop's  daughters  and  co-heiresses, 
Manr,  married  Dr.  Francis  Marsh,  subsequently 
Archbishop  of  Dublin.  The  present  Francis 
Marsh,  Esq.,  of  Springmount,  Queen's  County,  a 
descendant  from  that  mairiage,  might  be  able  to 
^ve  J.  some  further  particukus  as  to  the  Taylor 
family.  ^  Mr.  Marsh  possesses,  as  an  heirloom  in 
his  familv,  a  very  good  portrait  of  his  ancestor 
Jeremy  Taylor.  C.  8.  K, 

8t  Peter*B  Square,  Hammenmitb,  W. 

Haib  obowikg  afteb  Dbath  (4'''  S.  vi.  524 ; 
viL  66,  83,  laO,  222.)— When  the  remains  of 
Napoleon  the  Great  were  about  to  be  transferred 
from  St  Helena  to  France,  according  to  his  wish, 
to  repose  on  the  borders  of  the  &ine,  on  the 
various  coffins  being  opened,  to  the  astonishment 

*  In  my  note  on  the  *'Bobnn  Family  **  {4f^  S.  vl  455), 
the  names  of  the  noble  twina,  Edward  and  William,  wero 
accidentally  omitted.  Th^  were  bom  at  Caldeoott  Castle, 
near  Chepetow,  about  1818.  This  fact,  although  the  only 
one  to  prove  the  ooenpatioa  of  this  very  interesting  mia, 
is  nnnotioed  in  the  ezoeileDt  account  of  the  castle  by  Mr. 
O.  Morgan,  M.P.,  and  Mr.  Wakeman.— A.  S.  £. 


of  all  bystanders,  omonff  whom  were  his  old  com* 
panions  in  captivity,  nis  corpse  appeared  in  a 
wonderful  state  of  preservation,  and  the  beard 
and  nails  were  founa  to  have  grown  after  he  had 
been  inhumated.  P.  A.  L. 

''  The  old  Gentleman  at  Turvey  "  makes  a  re- 
spectful bow  to  the  young  gentleman  who  favoured 
'^N.  &  Q.*'  with  remarks  on  the  above-named 
subject  on  February  11  last  The  lady,  the  growth 
of  whose  beautiful  hair  after  death  the  old  gen- 
tleman had  the  pleasure  of  seeing,  was  the  second 
wife  of  one  of  the  Lords  Mordaunt  of  Turvey, 
who  lived  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  She 
was  buried  in  a  grave,  the  bottom,  sides,  and  top 
of  which  were  composed  of  thin  stones  taken  from 
a  neighbouring  quarry,  and  which  had  been  tooled 
roughly  with  tike  hammer  on  their  upper  and  under 
surfaces.  The  lady  probably  had  lon|^  hair  during 
her  life,  as  the  young  gentleman  interestingly 
suggests.  The  upper  part  of  the  coffin  around  the 
head  was  filled  with  hair,  which  had  pressed  itself 
into  all  the  irregularities  and  indentations  of  the 
stones,  taking  their  form  almost  as  completely  as 
plaster  of  Paris  would  do  that  of  the  mould  into 
which  it  was  poured ;  or,  as  may  be  often  seen, 
the  roots  of  plants  that  of  the  flower-nots  in  which 
they  have  been  long  growing.  The  hair  had  also 
insinuated  itself  through  the  interstices  between 
the  stones,  and  was  found  outside  the  coffin  in 
rather  long  spiral  filaments. 

Thb  Old  Oxntlkxan. 

Turvey  Abbey,  Bedford. 

MooE  Paek  (4«»»  S.  vii.  209.)— The  Moor  Park 
described  by  Sir  William  Temple  is  in  Surrey, 
between  Famham  and  Waverly,  and  not  in  Hert- 
fordshire. He  removed  to  that  place  when  he  left 
Sheen.  V. 

[If  oar  correspondent  refers  to  Kr  William  Temple's 
statement  {JForka,  iU.  827-8,  ed.  1770),  he  will  find  that 
our  querist  was  correct    **  The  perfectest  figure  of  a 

Srden  I  ever  saw,  either  at  home  or  abroad,  was  that  of 
oor  Park,  in  Hertfordshire,  when  I  knew  it  about  thirty 

years  aeo. It  was  made  by  the  Countess  of 

Bedford,"  &c-»  are  the  words  of  Sir  William  Temple ; 
and  his  description  of  it  is  snch  as  mav  well  excite  a 
wish  for  farther  particulars.— Ed.  **  K.  &*Q."1 

Clan  McAlpik  (4**»  a  viL  180.)— The  descend- 
ants of  King  Alpin  are  supposed  to  have  formed 
the  clan  Alj^in.  According  to  Douglas's  Baron^ 
age^  the  ancient  seat  of  the  clan  was  DunstafiT- 
nage.  At  present  the  dan  Alpin  is  represented 
hv  its  branches,  the  Macgregors,  Maddnnons,  &c. 
The  Macalpins  of  the  present  day  (by  no  means 
a  numerous  sept)  I  believe  to  be  descended  from 
Maqgreffors,  and  to  have  assumed  the  name  when 
that  of  Mac^gor  was  proscribed. 

Who,  knowmg  the  histoty  of  the  Highlands 
and  its  dims,  and  of  the  clan  Qiegor  in  particular^ 
with  all  its  forfeitures  and  proacriptionsy  would 
expect  to  find  in  the  charter*room  of  the  present 


4*  a  VIL  April  1, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


291 


chief  a  series  of  title-deeds  and  other  maniments 
estahlishing  the  descent  of  the  Tarious  chie&from 
'  Kenneth  Macalpin  P  Mao. 

In  the  notes  appended  to  CUm^Alpin^s  Vow  (by 
Alex.  Boswell)  rereience  is  made  to  the  genealogy 
of  this  mysticad  race,  which  may  be  of  service  to 
ENQirntEB  (note  1) : — 

*'The  genealogist  of  the  Macalpins  and  Macgregora 
tells  OS  in  the  JBmnage  of  Scotkatd  that,  in  common  with 
the  other  descendants  <n  King  Alpin,  they  considered 
themselyes  as  one  people ;  and  that  those  who  had  pre- 
vionsl^  assumed  the  name  of  Macalpin,  doubtless  to 
propitute  the  aid  of  the  more  nnmerous  Ma<;gregors, 
adopted  their  name,  and  were  thus  united  to  that  dan, 
and  all  distinction  lost" 

There  are  several  co{>iou8  notes  given  in  the 

same  work  relative  to  this  clan.     W.  WuriBBS. 
Waltham  Abbey. 

Babies'  Bells  (4**  S.  vL  '476 :  vii.  21,  138, 
201.)- 

"Her  infant  grandame's  whistle  next  it  grew. 
The  bells  she  jingled,  and  the  whistle  blew." 

Jlape  of  the  Lock,  canto  v.  93. 

W.  J.  BeBNHABD  SlUTH. 
Temple. 


Letteb  pbom  Outer  Geohwell,  1665  (4*^  S. 
vii.  190.) — Your  correspondent  Elan  mentions 
his  havinff  a  copy  of  a  letter  that  Cromwell  pro- 
posed sendinff  to  the  ''Emperour  Sultan  Mahomet," 
and  of  which  the  death  of  Sir  Thomas  Bendish 
prevented  the  delivery.  Would  Elan  object  to 
the  publication  of  the  letter?  for,  though  the 
sultan  never  received  it,  one  would  like  to  know 
Old  Noll's  views  regarding  the  Turkey  of  the 
period.  W.  H. 

"The  Cbazt  Tales"  (4*  S.  vii.  154.)-This 
work  was  most  certainly  written  by  John  Hall 
Stevenson,  as  stated  by  the  Editor  of  <<  N.  &  Q.'' 

i'ut  wprd).  Some  account  of  the  author  may  be 
bund  in  Holland's  PoeU  of  Yorkshire.  About 
thirty  years  ago  an  edition  of  the  Talet  was  pub<> , 
lished  in  London  by  some  obscure  bookseller, 
whose  name  has  escaped  me.  On  the  title-pa^ 
was  ^by  Rich«d  Bnnsley  Sheridan" — an  evi- 
dent mistake.  The  tales  are  not  without  merit 
and  wit,  but  many  of  them  are  very  licentious ; 
in  fact  much  worse  than  anything  to  oe  met  with 
in  Kabelais,  fipom  whom  many  of  the  stories  are 
derived.  I  have  seen  an  ecution  (without  any 
name  on  the  title)  printed  at  the  close  of  the 
last  century.  The  publisher  was  one  Griffits  or 
Griffiths.  N. 

CBTPToenAPHT  (4»*»  8.  vii.  166.) — The  paper 
by  J.  R.  0.  is  both  mteresting  and  instructive. 

He  cryptographs :  — 

"Don't  back  black  horse.  I  have  leamtthat 
he  will  be  scratched." 

''Send  immedistely  three  reprs.  Inf.,  one  Cav., 
two  F.  Batteries,  to  relief  of  N." 


And  concludes  his  communication  with  an  artifice, 
instead  of  thus  correctly  involving  (8) :  — 

28,29,32,20—42,28,23—26,26,21,21,28,32. 
which  deciphered,  is — 

"  Find  the  deceit" 

Ab  J.  K.  C.  is  evidently  an  adept  in  crypto- 
paphy,  I  shall  be  pleased  if  he  can  explain  the 
mvolution  and  evolution  of  this  cryptogram — 

0618210710170817060721 
2608231821061826141406 
1817121007  — 
which  I  have  constructed  on  the  basis :  — 

ABCDEFGHIJKLM   NO 
1   2  3  4   6  6  7  8    9  10  11  12  13  14  16 

P  Q  R    8    T   U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  26  26 

as  he  will  thereby  testify  to  the  value  and  utility 
of  experts  in  cryptic  evolution. 
The  cryptologue  is  — 

''  The  Spirit  searcheth  all  things." 

(See  1  Cor.  ii.  10.) 

J.  Bealb. 

Bacon's  Queen's  Counselship  (4***  S.  vii.  188.) 

The  first  Queen's  Counsel  was  Francis,  afterwards 

Lord  Bacon,  on  whom  the  dignity  was  conferred 

honorU  causd  in  1690 — he  receiving  neither  fee 

nor  patent.^  S)iortly  after  the  accession  of  James  L 

he  was  appointed  Kind's  Counsel — this  time  with 

a  salary  or  forty  pounas  and  a  premium  of  sixty. 

It  is,  doubtless,  upon  the  former  distinction  that 

his  biographer  enlarges  in  the  passage  quoted  by 

your  correspondent;  for  at  the  time  of  its  being 

conferred  Bacon  was  only  in  his  thirtieth  year, 

an  age  at  which  a  banister  was  not  considered  to 

haye  finished  his  legal  education.    According  to 

the  jurists  of  the  time,  barristers  were  slyled 

apprentices  (appretiHcii  ad  l^eni),  and  not  thought 

qualified  to  execute  the  full  office  of  an  advocate 

until  of  sixteen  years'  standing,  when  they  miffht 

be  called  to  the  degree  of  serjeant,  and  thus  oe- 

came  ierviente$  ad  legem.    Bacon  could  scarcely 

have  been  selected  on  account  of  his  eminence, 

for  we  know  that  at  this  time  he  was  quarrelling 

with  his  profession ;  and  that  in  1694,  when  he 

was  refused  the  SoUdtorship,  the  queen  expressed 

a  very  poor  opinion  of  his  ability,  remarking  that 

he  was  a  showy  lawyer  rather  than  a  profound 

one.    I  may  here  observe,  that  the  Encydopeedia 

Britanmca  falls  into  the  jrapular  error  of  saving 

that  the  present  Queen's  Cfouns^  receive  a  sauiry. 

Julian  Shabman. 

Pigeon  Post  (4«»  S.  vii.  186.)— Other  birds 
besides  pigeons  have  been  used  as  letter-carriers, 
as  witness  the  following  from  .Elian's  Hidory  of 
AmmaU,  book  i.  diap.  viL  I  spare  your  space 
the  Qreek,  and  give  Addison's  translation :  *• 


292 


NOTES  AND  QUEMES. 


ttf*  S.  VII.  ApRtt  1, 71. 


**  In  Egypt,  hmt  tbe  lake'MoeriSy  where  sUnds  the  dty 
of  Crocodiles,  they  show  the  tomb  of  a  jay  {icopAmi^,  of 
-which  the  natives  relate  this  histoiy : — Thejr  tell  70a 
that  this  jay  was  brought  up  by  one  of  their  kings, 
called  Marrhes,  whose  letters  it  CBrried  wherever  he 
pleased  to  send  them ;  that  when  they  gave  it  direetions, 
it  readily  understood  which  way  to  turn  its  flight,  what 
places  it  should  pass  over,  and  where  to  stop.  When  it 
was  dead,  Marrhes  honoured  it  with  an  epitaph  and 
tomb." 

MlBUX. 

ROBEBT  FlTZKASlTBTS,  OB  HaXYXIB  (4""  S.  Tl. 

414,517;  vii.  222.)  —  Nnotos  must  surely  be 
jokiJQg  when  he  asks  whether  all  the  {>ei8on8 
Dearing  the  Christiaxi  name  of  Hervey  in  the 
Index  of  Duchesne's  'Norman  Chronickrs  are  ''  of 
the  same  or  different  families."  He  mi^t  as  weU 
ask  the  same  question  about  all  the  Koberts  or 
Williams  in  the  same  Index.  The  Dukes  of  Or- 
leans, with  whom  he  seems  so  familiar^  are  com- 
pletely unknown  to  the  learned  authors  of  Art 
de  Verifier  les  Dates,  who  are  reputed  to  be  the 
best  authority  on  such  a  subject.  On  the  other 
hand,  Robert  Fitz  Emeis,  his  ancestry  and  de- 
scendants, are  perfectly  well  known  to  all  who 
are  Acquainted  with  Anglo-Norman  genealogies, 
and  there  is  ample  proof  that  neither  his  father 
nor  grandfather  were  the  sons  of  any  Duke  of 
Orleans  or  of  Burgundy.  It  would  seem  that  all 
Nimbod's  speculations  have  arisen  out  of  a  ludi- 
crous misprint  of  Fitz-Herveis  for  Fitz-Hemeis. 
The  Herveys  of  Ickworth  have  long  enjoyed  too 
high  a  rank  and  position  in  England  to  require  a 
fictitious  genealogy,  to  which  tiaey  haTe  no  his- 
torical pretensions.  Tjbwabs. 

''Et  7A0BBE  8<3BIBHI!n)A,BTC"  (4'"»  8.  vii.  209.) 
R  will  find  these  words  in  the  younger  Pliny's 
celebrated  letter  to  Tacitus  describing  the  death 
of  his  uncle,  the  elder  Pliny.  After  adverting  to 
the  eternal  fame  to  which  the  writings  of  Tacitus 
were  destined,  the  writer  proceeds  thus : — 

*'  Equidem  beatos  pnto,  qnihus  deorom  mitnere  datum 
est,  ant  facere  scribenda,  ant  scribere  legenda :  beiUi8>i> 
moe  vero,  qoibns  ntramqne :  horwm  m  nrntnero  aommomlmi 
flMtu  tt  auiM  libris  et  tuia  erit" 

The  italics  an  miae.  J.  R. 

Glasgow. 

The  subjoined  epigram  (the  46th)  by  Owen  is 
perhaps  the  passage  to  which  B.  refers : — 

"AdP,  Sidneium, 

**  Qui  scribenda  facit,  scribitve  legends,  beatna 
Ille  ;  beatior  es  tn,  qnod  utmmqae  fads. 
Digna  legi  scnbis,  ftds  et  dignissima  scriU ; 
Soripta  probant  doctom  te  toa,  flMsta  probam." 

P.  J.  F.  Gaktillon. 

The  Pbint  of  Guido's  '*  Aitbora."  (!•»  S.  ii. 
391 ;  2»*  S.  ill  296;  4»*  S.  Tii.  18, 113,  221.)— I 
regret  to  inform  your  correspondent  S.  R,  that 
Hju  Dawson  Txibneb  of  Yarmouth  was  so. far 
from  being  able  to  mention  the  author  referred  to, 


or  where  the  lines  are  to  bo  found,  that  he  asks 
the  very  same  question,  and  adds : — 

"  I  should  have  supposed  (this  passage)  might  have 
been  written  for  the  oooasion,  had  I  not  been  told,  upon 
anthority  in  which  1  put  confidence,  that  it  is  to  be  found  in 
some  dassic  author.  If  so,  the  lines  may  possibly  have 
given  rise  to  the  painHng,  and  not  the  painting  to  the 
lines." 

In  reply  to  the  second  c^uery,  "  Would  he  fur- 
ther oblige  me  by  informing  me  who  Alexander 
i^tolus  was  and  when  he  lived?"  I  have  the 
pleasure  to  furnish  him  with  the  following  ex- 
tracts £rom  my  unpublished  catalogue : — 

**  Alexander  ^tolns,  a  Greek  poet  and  grammarian,  who 
lived  in  the  reign  of  Ptolemieus  Phlladelphus. — Versus  de 
Flanetis,  v.  Gralens  ad  Partheninm  Nicieensem,  Addenda, 
149-61  (quoted  in  '  K.  dc  Q.*  2^*  S.  iii.  296).  Chalcidins 
in  Timteum  (p.  307  in  Hippolyto),  Elegantissimnm 
carmen  de  Antheo  ex  ejus  ApoUine,  v.  Parthenius 
c.  xiv." 

**  Parthenius  (here  referred  to),  a  native  of  Nicsea,  lived 
in  the  reign  of  Augustus. — Erotica,  v.  Gale,  HiUoruB 
Poeiicctf  pp.  843-402.  The  eif^hth  of  these  love  stories  is 
translated  in  ToUnd's  Hiatory  of  ike  Druids,  pp.  125-28. 
Also  the  story  of  Hercules.  'On  pent  cpnsulter  pour 
plus  de  details  le  curieux  article  que  Fabriclus  a  oon- 
sacr^  k  ce  pofete,  dans  le  tome  iL  de  sa  Biblioth,  Gntc. 
pp.  €76-79,  ^Biogr.  Unwers.    (Bee  also  Bayle. 

BlBUOTHBCAB.  OhETHAIC. 

"  Oke  Swallow  dobs  itot  uaxe  a  Suxkeb  " 
(S'*  S.  V.  53,  83.)— Me.  Heath's  inquiry  has 
already  been  answered  from  Dr.  Forster's  Cirele  of 
the  SeaaoM.  Perhaps  the  following  extract  from 
the  same  author's  JReeaarchea  dboSU  Atmospheric 
Phanommay  p.  166,  will  also  be  acceptable : — 

*<The  occasional  early  appearance  of  a  single  9waUow 
has  been  proverbially  noticed  as  not  being  indicative  of 
summer.  (Note.)  It  is  lemaricable  that  most  countries 
have  a  similar  proverb  relating  to  the  swallow's  acciden- 
tal appearanee  before  its  usual  time.  The  Greeks  have 
Mia  x"^^^^  ^^  o^  irotft;  the  Latins,  'Una  hirundo  non 
&cit  ver';  the  French,  'Une  hirondelle  ne  fait  pas  le 
printemps' ;  the  Grermans,  'Cine  Schwalbe macht  keincn 
Frilling ' ;  the  Dutch,  *■  £en  swalnw  maakt  geen  corner ' ; 
the  Swedes,  *  £n  svala  gor  ingen  sommar*;  the  Spanish, 
*  Una  gokmdrina  no  haoe  verano  * ;  the  Italians,  '  Una 
rondina  non  fa  primavera ' ;  and  the  English,  *  One  swal- 
low doth  not  make  a  snnuner.' " 

BiBLIOTHECAB.  CfiETHAlL 
"  Owl  I  THAT  LOTBST  THE  BODINe  SkT  "  (4«**  S. 

yii.  190.) — I  think  this  poem  will  be  found  in  the 
Oentleman^B  Magaame  between  1890  and  1840,  as 
it  was  inserted  there  by  its  author,  the  Key.  T. 
Blitford,  the  editor.  I  haye  no  index,  therefore 
cannot  state  in  which  yolume.  G.  A. 

Epitaph  oif  Sir  Thos.  STAiOiBT  (4*  S.  yii. 
190.) — The  lines  referred  to  are  without  doubt 
still  legible  on  the  monument  They  are  quoted 
by  Mr.  Walter  White  in  AU  Bound  the  Wrekm, 
p.  14  (1800),  among  a  few  particulars  conoeming 
the  singularly  interestinir  old  church  at  Tong. 

X.  P.  D, 


4*  S.  VII.  Apbil  1, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


283 


800 

400 


500 


1100 


^Aniphibaliu 
Garmanns    . 
Conindtcus. 
Romalus. 
Machntus    . 
Conanns. 
Michael. 
WimuDdus 
Jobn. 

Michael  II. 

Nicholas  de  Meaax  1200 
Bcgioald. 

Simon. 

Laurence. 

Bichard. 


^'ThS  8irK  ITKTEB  SETS  ON  THE  BbITIBH  Do- 

VINI0I7S  "  (A*^  S.  vii.  210.)— A  similAr  idea  occuis 

in  Tiballus,  liber  ii.  elegia  y.  < — 

"Boma,  taam  nomen  tenia  fiitale  legendis, 
Qnji  raa  de  coelo  proapidt  arra  CareB ; 
Qnltqne  patent  ortus,  et  qa&  fluitantibna  nndis 
Solis  anhelantes  ablnit  amnia  eqnoe." 

Thomas  £.  WxEoriNGTOK. 

Ladt  M.  Wortlbt  Montagu's  Lzttebs  (4"» 
S.  yii.  124.) — In  Mt.  Hunter's  yaluable  collection 
of  MSS.  24,488^  British  Museum,  may  be  found 
much  of  an  interesting  kind  relatiye  to  this  lady's 
literary  productions.  Mr.  Hunter  introduces  the 
subject  of  these  letters  by  stating  that — 

"The -member  of  the  family  to  whom  I  was  indebted 
for  the  original  notices  of  this  lady  inserted  in  the  second 
yolnme  of  South  Yorksfure,  was  Lady  Lonisa  Stuart,  her 
grand- daughter,  an  unmarried  daughter  of  the  Countess 
of  Bute.  They  were  obtained  fbr  me  by  the  kind  inter- 
yention  of  my  friend  the  Bey.  Dr.  Corbet  of  Wortley,  to 
whom  I  was  mtrodooed  in  the  sammer  of  1826,  spending 
a  few  days  with  him  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Bimiagton  at 
Biomhead  Hall." 

"W.  Winters. 

Waliham  Abbey. 

Manx  Bishops  (4*»»  S.  yii.  184.)— The  following 
list  of  bishops  of  Sodor  and  Man  is  giyen  by  Dodd 
in  lus  Church  History,  yol.  i.  I  copy  it  as  I  find 
it,  as  it  may  be  of  some  use  to  those  who  are  in- 
terested in  determining  the  names  and  order  of 
suocesflion  of  these  bishops : — 

Itanus. 

Mauritius. 

Mark         .        .    1800 

Alan. 

Gilbert 

Bernard. 

Thomas. 

William  Bnssel. 

John  Duncan. 

Bobert  VValdby. 

John  Green        .    1400 

Thomas  Burton. 

Bidiard. 

Huam  Blackleach  1500 

Thomas  Stanley. 

Henry  Man." 

F.  C.  H. 

''HiLABION'S    SsByANT,     THE    SaOB    CbOW  " 

(4«»  S.  yii.  11,  112,  178.)— At  the  last  of  the 

aboye  references  A.  G.  wishes  to  learn  something 

about  his  old  yolume,  The  lAves  of  the  Saints, 

which  he  describes.    On  referring  to  TrSaor  de 

Livrea  rares fjiw  J.  G.  T.  Graesse  (Dre8de,1863),  iy. 

18, 1  find  a  copy  of  this  book  noticed  as  occurring 

in  Bohn's  Catahoue  [1841,  art  18861].    The  fol- 

lowing  is  ihe  title  giyen  by  Bohn : — 

"  Kinesman,  Edw.,  Lives  of  the  Saints  gathered  out  of 
the  works  of  the  Bev.  Father  Peter  Bibadeneyra,  D. 
ABRnuas  Yillegas,  and  other  authentic  Authon,  with  an 
Appendix  of  the  Saintes  lately  oanonised.    Donay,  1628.'* 

Bohn  describes  it  as  <'  in  2  toIs.  sm.  8yo  [^u. 
4to],  a  fine  copy,  elegantly  bound,  price  3^  10«.'' 


In  our  Uniyersity  libiary  (Cambridge)  we  haye 
an  edition  of  this  work  m  small  4to,  1628,  pp. 
(after  the  Preface  and  Table)  047  +  181.  The 
ApprohaUo,  at  the  end  of  '^  An  Appendix  of  the 
8aints  lately  canonized,"  corresponas  exactly  with 
that  giyen  by  A.  G.,  with  these  exceptions :  for 
Apprijhatar  read  Approbatio  ;  for  hngius  read  Un- 
ffMs,  and  for  Andomarcp.  read  Audofharop,  [St. 
Omer].  These  were  doubtless  errors  of  transcrip- 
tion. The  extract  of  the  famous  miracle  of  the 
crow,  giyen  by  A.  G.,  occurs  in  this  edition  under 
January  15,  in  « The  Life  of  S.  Paule  the  first 
Hermite,"  at  the  bottom  of  page  25.  As  Bohn's 
title  is  an  abbreyiated  one,  A.  G.  will  perhaps 
like  to  have  the  whole  title  of  this  later  edition, 
which  I  here  transcribe : — 

"  The  lives  of  Saints.  Written  in  the  Spanish  by  the 
B.  F.  Alfonso  Villegas,  Dominickan.  Tranalated  out  of 
Italian  into  English,  and  diligentlie  compared  with  the 
Spanish.  Whereunto  are  added  the  lines  of  sundrie other 
Saints  of  the  yniuersall  Church.  Extracted  out  of  F. 
Bibadeneira,  Svrivs,  and  other  approued  authors.  This 
last  edition,  newly  perused,  corrected,  amplefied,  & 
adorned  with  many  nire  Brasen  images  *  representing 
the  principal  Saints  of  eaery  month.  Also  a  table  of  the 
augmentea  Saints  added  in  the  beginning  of  the  Book, 
and  in  the  end  the  liues  of  6.  Patbicke,  S.  Bbiooit,  4e 
S.  CoLVUB,  patrons  of  Ireland. 

**  Wee  Btneelea,  etteemed  their  life  auufaes,  and  their 
end  without  honor :  behold  how  they  are  counted  among  the 
children  of  God,  and  their  ht  i$  among  the  Saints.  Sap* 
6.4. 

*'  With  permission  fbr  W.  H. 

"  M.D.CJULyUI." 

E.V. 

"  Still  gudes  the  gentle  Stbeahlet  on  " 
(4^  S.  yi.  6.) — The  author  of  the  piece  beginninfi^ 
thus  is  Hood.  See  p.  193  of  Poems,  thirteenth 
edition,  1861.  P.  J.  F.  Gantillon. 

Smoking  Illegal  (4^**  S.  yi.  384,  485;  yii. 
198.) — ^The  citation  (p.  485^  is  correctiy  giyen 
from  the  Cokmial  Records  of  Qmnedictit,  edited 
by  J.  Hammond  Trumbalt,  JBsq.,  yol.  i.  p.  558.  In 
the  same  yolume  the  original  Act  is  g^yen  at 
p.  163,  and  its  terms  are  still  more  quaint.  It 
should  be  added  that  this  Act  is  connected  with 
one  aimed  at  intemperance  in  drinking  wine  and 
strong  waters.  W.  H.  Whiimobb. 

Boston,  U.  8.  A. 

Smokers  (at  any  rate  in  England)  are  under 
the  impression  that  they  already  pay  a  yery  heayy 
tax  on  their  luxury,  in  the  form  of  the  laige  duty 
on  tobacco,  and  would  not  see  any  justice  in  the 
additional  tax  advocated  by  N.,  nor  any  analogy 

*  Our  copy  is  without,  and  appears  never  to  have  had, 
the  brasen  image$.  The  title-page  is  adorned  with  me- 
dallion busts  of  the  Saviour  and  the  Virgin,  vis-ct-vis^ 
with  the  Holy  Spirit  descending  as  a  dove  from  above, 
and  a  cherub's  head  below,  with  palm  branches,  Ac. 
There  are  three  Approbatiomsi  to  the  Lives  of  S6.  Patrick, 
Bridget,  and  Columb^  dated  respeetiyaly  Aug.  20,  Oct  10  , 
and  Aug.  16,  aU  hi  1625.; 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**  S.  VII.  April  1, 71. 


V 


) 


between  such  a  tax  and  those  on  guns  and  armo- 
rial bearings.  N — v. 

ADORinifG  Wells  at  Lichfield  (4**  S.  vii. 

107.) — ^The  extract  from  A  Short  Account^  ^c, 

1831|  is  merely  a  reproduction  of  a  note  to  a  — 

"  History  of  the  City  and  Cathedral  of  Lichfield, 
chiefly  compiled  from  Ancient  Authoia,  &c^  by  John 
Jackson,  Jun.,  1805.*' 

The  author  was  the  son  of  a  bookseller  in  Lich- 
field, and  had  resided  in  that  city  all  his  life ;  he 
therefore  speaks  with  the  authority  of  an  eye- 
witness. He  says^  p.  26,  note  (he  has  been  quot- 
ing Dr.  Plot)  :— 

**  This  ancient  custom  of  adominc;  wells,  &c  and  all 
places  at  the  boandaries  of  the  different  parishes,  is  to 
this  day  observed  ia  Lichfield  and  many  neifrhboorinf; 
towns ;  where  the  dern^man  of  each  parish,  attended  by 
the  churchwardens  and  other  officers,  and  a  numerous 
concourse  of  children,  with  green  boughs  in  their  hands, 
reads  the  gospel  for  the  day." 

The  interesting  fact  is  the  reading  the  gospel 
at  the  wells.  This  was  a  custom  of  extreme  an- 
tiquity. Pleasant  old  Aubrey,  in  his  MS. ''  He- 
maines  of  Gentiltsme/'  says : — 

"In  procenions  they  used  to  reade  a  gospell  at  the 
springs  to  blesse  them :  which  hath  been  discontinued  at 
Sunny  well  in  Berkshire  but  since  1688." « Brand's 
Popular  Antiquitiea;  Ellis,  WeUs  and  Fotutmns, 

Can  any  inhabitant  of  Lichfield  remember  such 
a  custom  ?  J.  Henbt  Shobthouss. 

Edgbaston. 

The  Plawt  LiKGirA  Akseris  (4*  S.  viL  162.) 
Is  not  the  Lingua  aiueris,  inquired  for  by  Mb. 
Britten,  PotmtiUa  aruerma  f  tne  leaves  of  which 
are  more  or  less  like  fern  leaves,  though  it  would 
require  a  great  stretch  of  the  imagination  to  see 
any  resemblance  in  its  "  rote  "  to  a ''  goos  bylL" 


N— K. 


Dis-spiBiT  (4"»  S.  vii.  186.)— Mr.  Tew  is  mis- 
taken in  thinking  that  Fuller  meant  to  use  this 
word  in  the  sense  of  to  infuse  spirit''  DU-spirU 
always  means  to  pour  or  take  spirit  out ;  and  so 
in  the  passage  quoted,  Fuller,  with  his  wonted 
quaint  and  pre^ant  use  of  words,  says,  ''<£«- 
MiTflte  the  b(X)k  into  the  scholar  " — i. «.  pours  out 
the  spirit  of  the  book  into  the  scholtf  . 

J.  H.  L  Oaxlet. 
The  Prioiy,  Croydon. 

War  Medals  (4«»  S.  vii.  13,  131.)— Will 
J.  W.  F.  transmit  to  posterity  in  the  lastmg  pages 
of  '^N.  &  Q."  the  names,  reagents,  and  Dattles 
of  the  dx  men  who  received  toe  Peninsular  medal 
with  fifteen  daspsP  0.  P.  L 

ComnviAL  SoKOS  (4«»  S.  vii.  151.)— The  fol- 
lowing is,  I  conceive,  the  song  derired  by  Mb. 
James  Gilbert.  It  is  in  Mr.  J.  R  Planch6*s 
English  version  of  Wilhelm  Aug.  Wohlbruck's 
Gennan  opera,  Der  Vanrnyr^  which  was  produced 
at  the  English  Opera  HousOi  Lyceum,  on  Au- 


^st  25, 1829.  The  mumc,  by  Heinrich  Marschner, 

IS  for  four  male  voices : — 

*^  In  Autumn  we  should  drink,  boys, 
Ton  need  not  sure  be  told, 
Tis  then  the  overladea  vine 
Its  purple  burden  sheds  in  wine. 
In  Autumn  we  should  drink,  boys  \ 

In  Winter  we  should  drink,  boys^ 

For  Winter  it  is  cold, 
And  better  than  capote  or  hood 
The  bright  Toklyer  warms  the  blood. 
In  Winter  we  should  drink,  boys  I 

In  Summer  we  should  drink,  boys, 

For  Summer's  hot  and  dry ; 
The  very  earth  is  thiniitv  then. 
And  thirsty  surely  shoiud  be  men. 
In  Summer  we  should  drink,  boys ! 

In  Spring  time  we  should  drink,  boys ! 

It  don^  much  matter  why ; 
But  having  drunk  for  seasons  three, 
To  blink  the  fourth  would  folly  be. 
So  round  the  year  we^ll  drink,  boys ! " 

W.  H.  Husk. 

Vese  :  Feese  :  Feazb  (4^  S.  vi.  105, 421, 553 ; 
vii.  109,  224.) — ^I  thank  A.  L.  for  his  note  iipon 
this  word.  His  reference  to  the  use  of  it  in  Fife 
is  valuable.  I  must  state,  however,  that  his  in- 
terpretation of  the  passage  quoted  by  me  from 
Signa  ante[Jttdicium  (Philological  Society)  is  un- 
doubtedly wrong.  Let  him  refer  to  the  whole 
poem  either  in  the  Philological  Society's  Works 
or  in  AUengluche  Spraehprobeny  ^e»  (where  it  is 
affain  printed) ;  and  he  will  see  that  the  meaning 
of  the  word  fentis  is  **  fiends  "  and  nothing  else. 
Within  a  few  lines  we  get — 

<<al  )>e  fendis  )>at  be)»  in  hel 

hou^A  fentis  sul  men  har  mone.'* 

A«  L.  requotes  my  quotation  with  some  incor- 
rectness. Valuable  space  of  '^N.  &  Q."  will 
scarcely  afford  a  third  repetition.  My  last  two 
lines  mean  deddedlv  and  unmistakeably — ''  that 
all  the  fiends  shall  thereof  be  tenx>r'>stricken,  and 
be  ifemd(?)  into  hell''  The  next  lines  go  on— 
''for,  will  the^,  nill  they^  they  shall  fiee,  and 
that  into  the  pme  of  helL^  To  satisfy  A.  L.  still 
more  of  the  meaning  of  fenHs  in  my  former  quo- 
tation, I  refer  him  to  a  parallel  passage  in  Small*s 
EngUsh  Metrical  HonUheSf  which  runs  thus : — 

'*Tban  sal  the  raynbow  decend 
In  hew  of  gall  it  sal  be  kend. 
And  wit  the  windes  it  sal  md, 
Drif  them  donn  in  to  the  hel. 
And  dmnt  the  deudu  thider  m. 
In  thair  bal  al  for  to  brin."— (P.  ziL) 

A  mistake  of  this  kind  demands  corxectiou  at 
once ;  but  on  the  meaning  of  vese,  feete,  feaae, 
I  still  hope  that  A.L.  wul  give  us  further  in- 
formation. JOHE  ASDIS. 

Buitington,  near  littkhampton,  Sussez. 

Mepical  Order  of  St.  Johe  (4^^  S.  vii.  285.) 
The  Congregation  of  St  John  of  God  is  not  a 


4*  S.  VII.  Apbil  1, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


295 


medical  order,  nor  in  any  way  connected  with 
the  profeadon  of  medicine.  Ita  founder  waa  St 
John,  who  waa  bom  in  Portu^  in  1495.  He 
never  intended  to  found  a  rehgioua  order,  but 
began  by  hiring  a  house,  in  which  he  himself  at- 
tended the  sick,  begging  alms  for  their  support. 
After  his  death  in  16^,  some  of  his  bretnren 
went  to  Borne,  and  their  congregation  waa  ap- 
proved and  erected  into  a  regular  order  of  charity 
by  St.  Pius  v.,  who  gave  them  a  habit  of  a  dark 
ash  colour.  The  brethren,  of  this  order  do  not 
become  clerics,  nor  do  they  pursue  any  course  of 
studies,  but  wholly  devote  themselves  to  the  care 
of  the  poor  and  the  sick.  A  very  full  account  of 
this  Older  may  be  seen  in  the  AbhUdungen  der 
vonuffHehden  UetttUchen-Orden  of  C.  F.  Schwan ; 
and  a  very  good  account  in  the  work  df  Bonanni, 
Ordmum  Mdipiosorum  in  Ecdesia  ndUUmU  Cata" 
logua :  as  also  m  the  copious  '^  Life  of  St.  John  of 
God,"  in  Alban  Butler  s  Uves  of  SamU,  March  8. 

F.C.H. 

"Thb  Bbokkw  Bridge"  (4»>»  S.  vii.  160.;)— 
Whatever  cltdm  the  Celestials  may  have  regarding 
the  invention  of  the  so-called  '*  Chinese  shades  " 
or  '^  shadows,"  I  am  indined  to  credit  the  Euro- 
peans, and  especially  the  English,  with  the  honour 
of  perpetuating  this  kind  of  exhibition  for  many 
years,  perhaps  centuries. 

I  nnd  in  William  Hone's  Ancient  Mygteries 
DMcribed,  London,  1893,  that^ 

*'0n  a  Twelfth-night,  in  1818,  a  man  making  the 
usual  ChriBtmas  ciy  of '  Gallantee  Bhow/  was  called  in  to 
exhibit  hJa  performances  for  the  amusement  of  my  yonng 
folks  and  their  companions.  Most  nnexpectttdly,  he 
*  compassed  a  motion  of  the  Prodigal  Son ;  *  bv  dancing  his 
transparencies  between  the  magnifying  glass  and  the 
cuidle  of  a  magic  lanthom,  the  oolonied  flares,  greatly 
enlarged,  were  reflected  on  a  sheet  spread  against  the 
wall  of  a  darkened  room.  The  Prodigal  Son  was  repre- 
sented carousing  with  his  companions  at  the  Swan  Inn, 
Stratford;  while  the  landlady  in  the  bar,  on  every  fresh 
call,  was  seen  to  score  doable.  There  was  also  Noah*s 
Aikf  with  *  Pall  Devil,  Pall  Baker,'  or  the  jost  Judgment 
npon  a  baker  who  sold  short  of  weight,  and  was  carried 
to  bell  in  his  own  basket 

**  The  manager  informed  me  that  his  show  had  been 
the  same  during  many  3*ears,  and  in  truth  waa  in- 
variable.'' 

"The  Broken  Bridge"  (pp.  230,  281)  I  con- 
cave to  be  the  remnant  of  a  medieval  motion,  or 
puppet  mystery,  similar  to  the  one  just  quoted, 
altnough  in  the  course  of  time  additions  may  have 
been  made,  obscuring  the  traces  of  its  ori^al 
plot  Its  universality  in  Europe  can  be  expluned 
by  the  fact  that  mysteries,  both  by  actors  and 
puppets,  >vere  performed  in  many  parts  of  Eng- 
land, France,  and  Italy,  in  some  cases  with  dis- 
crepancies, in  others  correctly.  And  here  I  may 
mention  that  I  have  also  attended,  when  a  boy, 
a  shadow  exhibition  of  the  "  Broken  Bridge,"  on 
several  occasions,  and  the  tune  was  without  ex- 
ception the  "  Mataeillaiae."    My  visits  were  not 


I 


confined  to  one  showman.  The  idea  of  adopting 
the  "  shades  "  may  not  have  been  coeval  with  the 
invention  of  ''The  Broken  Bridge:"  the  latter 
having  probably  been  a  puppet  play  long  before 
the  introduction  of  the  ''  shades"  (query,  by  whom 
and  whenP  and  have  the  Chmese  a  shadow 
exhibition  P^  J.  J.,  Juh. 

derkenwelL 

Chablbs  n.  AT  Malpab  (4*  S.  V.  421.)— I 
never  heard^  the  storv  Mb.  EIdtdt  mentions  be- 
fore ;  but  it  is  a  fact  that  there  are  two  rectors  at 
Malpas,  who  divide  the  parish  between  them,  and 
occupy  the  church  and  pulpit  on  alternate  Sun- 
days. In  1837  (not  1857)  the  names  of  the  two 
rectors  Twho  were  also  brothers-in-law)  were 
George  lyrwhitt  Drake  and  John  A.  Partridge. 
The  former  died  in  1840;  and  the  latter,  in  tne 
same  year,  moved  to  Baeonsthorpe,  co.  Norfolk, 
where  he  died  in  1861.  W.  T.  T.  D. 

Kings  of  Scotland  (4"»  S,  vi.  283.)— The  only 
authoritv  at  all  to  be  trusted  as  to  the  Celtic 
kings  of  Scotland  is  the  learned  Dr.  Reeves  of 
Armagh.  If  J.  A.  Pn.  consults  his  Life  of  St. 
Cohmba  he  will  find  an  appendix  ffiving  all  that 
he  requires.  Betbam's  Tawes  on  this  suDJect  are 
useless,  as  they  represent  a  state  of  knowledge 
which  was  only  dense  ignorance  of  Celtic  archie* 
ology.  Magitus. 

Bellast  

SSLiitttTUntaui. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

The  WorhM  of  Alexander  Pope,  New  EdUkm,  indrndittg 
eeverai  Htmdrtd  Ui^ntbtithed  Lettert.  CoUecUd  in  part 
by  the  laU  Right  Hon.  John  WiUon  Croker.  With  In- 
troduetkm  and  Notee  by  the  Bev.  Whitwell  Elwin. 
V(A,  VI.  Correapondence.  Vol.  I.  With  PortraiU  and 
other  Ilbtttrutions,    (Murray.) 

A  hundred  and  forty  years  ago  Pope  was  biuy  plotting 
and  contriving  how  best  to  awaken  an  interest  in  his 
Correspondence,  and  how  to  prepare  that  Correspondence 
for  the  pnblic  in  snch  a  form  aa  should  best  secnre  for  it 
that  admiration,  of  which  no  poet  waa  ever  more  greedy. 
Mr.  Elwin  has  in  the  introduction  to  the  first  volume  of 
the  present  edition  laid  open  aU  the  tricks,  contrivances, 
and,  it  most  be  added,  meannesses  of  which  Pope  waa 
guilty  for  the  purpose  of  awakening  an  interest  in  those 
letters  which  he  professed  to  give  to  the  press  only  in 
self-diffence,  bat  which  he  doubtless  published  in  order  to 
gratify  his  personal  vanity.  There  may  poniblv  have 
been  another  motive.  Was  he  conscious  of  nis  defects  as 
a  letter-writer ;  and  being  so,  was  he  anxious  to  prevent 
the  publication  of  his  letters  as  originally  written,  with 
all  their  want  of  ease,  earnestness,  and  sincerity  ?  Did 
he  seek  to  ibrestall  by  the  publication  of  his  correspond- 
ence,  carefully  oookeci  up  and  prepared  for  bis  admiren, 
any  chance  of  the  pablication  of  his  correspondence,  snch 
as  it  really  was  ?  Be  that  aa  it  may,  Pope's  letters  in 
their  genuine  form  are  now  before  the  world  for  the  first 
time ;  and  however  much  the  student  of  Pope  may  be 
pleased  to  have  them,  the  admirers  of  Pope  will  feel 
that  their  publication  does  not  tend  to  increase  his  repu- 
tation aa  a  writer,  while  unfortunately  it  goes  far  to' 
lower  him  in  our  estimatioQ  as  a  man.    In  the  latter 


296 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.VII.Apbil1,'71. 


respect  many  of  them  an  poeitively  painful  to  read. 
While  their  uteraiy  merita  are  well  and  concisely  summed 
up  in  Mr.  Elwin  in  one  brief  sentence :  **  The  ungaibled 
letters  can  now  be  eoonted  by  hondreds,  but  they  are 
little  less  barren  than  the  garbled,  and  when  not  arti- 
ficial, are  feebler  in  composition." 

La  Parodie  chez  les  Greea,  ehez  let  Romaint,  et  eka  Us 
Modemet,    Par  Octave  Delepierre.    (Trllbner  &  Co.) 

If  what  M.  Delepierre  writes  reflects  what  he  reads  it  is 
dear  that  he  sympathises  with  Charles  Lamb  in  his 
fondness  for  **  books  with  some  diverting  twist  in  them. 
His  versatile  and  ready  pen  has  already  given  us  a  moet 
amusing  little  volume  on  Macaronic  Literature  ;  which 
was  followed  bv  his  Hittoire  de»  Fou»  Uttemires,  and 
more  recentl}'  by  his  Bemu  ancdytupte  det  Ouvraget 
ecriu  en  CerUone.  Those  who  have  tnreaded  these  by- 
paths of  literature  under  the  guidance  of  our  author, 
stopping  every  now  and  then  while  he  calls  attention 
to  some  happy  passage  or  striking  example,  will  readily 
understand  what  a  pleasant  hour  or  two's  reading  they 
will  find  in  the  present  Essay  on  Parodv — a  species  of 
composition  which,  to  our  mind,  is  thus  fiappily  defined 
fov  Le  Pfere  de  Montespin,  as  we  learn  from  M.  Dele- 
pierre :  *'  La  Parodie,  fille  tdn^e  de  la  Satire,  est  aussi 
ancienne  que  la  Po^aie  m^me.  II  est  de  Tessence  de  la 
Parodie  de  substituer  toujours  un  nouveau  sujet  h  celui 
qu*on  parodie;  aux  snjets  s^rieux,  des  sujets  lagers  et 
badins,  en  employant  autant  que  possible  les  expressions 
de  Tauteur  parodi^.'* 

Tins  Royal  Albkrt  Hall  was  opened  on  Wednesday 
by  Her  Majesty  in  the  presence  of  aU  the  members  of  the 
Royal  Family,'  the  great  officers  of  state,  and  some  eight 
thousand  spectators,  among  whom  were  many  of  the  most 
distinguished  for  rank  and  attainments.  The  whole  pageant 
passed  off  most  successftdly.  The  incident  which  probably 
proved  most  interesting  was  Her  Migesty's  little  ini- 
piomptu  speech :  '*  I  have  great  ^eaanre  in  testifying  to 
my  admiration  of  this  beautiful  Hall,  and  in  expressing 
my  earnest  wiahes  for  its  complete  snocess."  That  success 
is  very  much  in  Her  Majesty's  hands,  and  we  may  hope 
after  this  expression  of  her  feeling,  that  the  Queen  will 
again  and  again  meet  thonaands  of  her  loving  subjeota  in 
the  Royal  Albeit  Hall. 

Thk  Newspaper  Press  Fujcd.— The  Earl  of  Car- 
narvon will  take  the  Chair  at  the  Annual  Dinner  for  the 
benefit  of  this  useful  institution,  which  will  take  plaoe 
on  Saturday,  May  18. 

The  first  portion  of  the  stock  of  Books  and  Manuscripts 
of  the  late  Mr.  Jos.  Lilly,  the  eminent  Bookseller,  has  just 
been  sold  by  Messrs.  ^otheby,  Wilkinson,  and  Hodge. 
It  comprised  the  first  four  fouo  editions  of  Shakespeare, 
many  early  printed  Books  and  MSS.,  County  Histories, 
ninstrated  Books,  &o.,  and  realized  7208/.  7«.  6</. 

The  Xsw-  Khiohtb.— Who  can  say  that  in  these  days 
men  eminent  in  art  are  not  among  those  whom  the  sover- 
eign delights  to  honour,  seeing  Uiat  on  Thursday  week 
Mr.  William  Boxall,  Mr.  Stemdale  Bennet,  Mr.  Benedict, 
and  Dr.  Elvey  received  the  honour  of  knighthood  at  the 
hands  of  Her  Majesty  ? 

The  Ammkroai;  Passioxis-Spibl  will,  it  is  stated, 
be  repeated  this  year  on  Jnne*24,  July  2,  9, 16, 28,  and  80  $ 
August  6, 14,  20,  and  22  ;  and  Sept.  3,  9, 17,  and  24. 

Archdeacon  Hale.— The  library  of  the  late  Master 
of  the  Charterhouse  has  been  purchased  by  Messrs. 
Beeves  &  Turner  of  the  Strand. 

LOHDON     iNTBBMATfOKAL    EXRIBITIOir    OF     1871.— 

The  musical  arrangements  for  the  opening  of  the  Bzhi- 
bition  on  May  hun  noaily  oomplaCad,  and  new  oompoil» 


tions  representative  of  France,  Italy,  Grermany,  and 
England  respectively,  will  be  produced  for  the  ooeasion 
by  M.  Gounod,  Chevalier  Pinsuti,  Dr.  Ferdinand  Hiller, 
and  Mr.  Arthur  Sullivan.  M.  Gounod  will  produce  a 
Psalm,  Chevalier  Pinsuti  a  Chorale  to  English  words, 
Dr.  HJller  a  March,  and  Mr.  Arthur  Sollivan  a  Cantata. 

'  Mr.  George  Morgan  Green,  a  frequent  contributor 
to  **X.  4e  Q.,"  is  about  to  retire  from  the  house  of  MoUni 
&  Green,  and  to  join  Mr.  F.  S.  Ellis,  of  King  Street, 
Covent  Garden. 

Mb.  Carltlb. — ^At  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Mem* 
hereof  the  Edinburgh  Philosophical  Institution,  held  on 
Tuesday  evening,  Mr.  Thomas  Carlyle  was  unanimously 
re-elected  President  for  the  ensuing  year. 


BOOKS    AND    ODD    VOLUMES 

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ere  given  fbr  ttant  porpoeet  — 

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Kauki.aih'  Works.    5  Vols.    1737. 

Guco>r8  Sbpulcural  MoKUMRirrs.    5Toli.  fot!o. 

CiiAD.NOY'H  History  op  IIbbtpordshibb.    Folio. 

Eytox's  History  op  Shropsiiibs. 

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Wanted  by  Mr.  Thomtu  BteU  BookKller.  15,  Conduit  Street, 
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^tictji  to  Correjiiianlrentt. 

*♦  Gqt^  tbmpbrs  thb  Wind,"  Ac— T.  D.  wUl  find  thu 
pauage  in  "N.  &  Q."  !•«  S.  i.  211,  236,  &c 

*     M.  T. — Surely  tiure'i»  eome  mistake  in  the  date  of  the 
line,  "  March  16fA,  1871." 

D.  J7.  T. — Have  you  cantnlted  volt,  iiL  iv.  tmd  V.  of 
ourpretent  terietf 

Continuation  of  "  Christabbl." — C.  W.  S.  wUlJSnd 
one  in  Blackwood  for  1820,  by  Maginn ;  nnoiher  in  the 
European  Magazine  for  1815.  See  "  N.  &  Q.**  !•<  S.  vii. 
292  ;  ix.  629,  && 

D. — Protestant  Popery  wot  written  by  Amheril^  author 
ofTerrtd  Filius. 

W.  (Keswicic.>-On  the  au^ntidty  of  the  worh  attri- 
hnted  to  Richard  of  Cirencetter  contult  "  N.  &  (i."  1"*  & 
i.  93, 128,  206  ;  v.  491 ;  vi.  37  j  4*«»  S.  ii.  106 ;  vi.  868. 


pRAND  PUMP  ROOM  HOTEL,  BATH,  opposite 

IT     the  Abbey  Church.     FIRST-CLASS    ACCOMMODATION. 
WaonMineml  Water  Battie  under  tlia  Mne  roof. 

MISS  HAWKSSWORTH. 


TEETH, 


R.  HOWARD,  Snigeon-Dentist,  52,  Fleet  Stieet, 

haa  introdueed  an  entixely  new  deaeriptlon  of  ARTIFIGIAIj 

:TH,  flxed  without  iprlngs,  wlrea,  or  llsatureiii  they  ao  perftetir 

reeeroble  the  natnxml  teeth  aa  not  to  be  dlattngniilied  flrom  the  oriilaBii 
by  the  cloaeit  otMerrer.  They  will  nerer  change  colour  or  decay,  and 
wiU  be  ibund  sunerior  to  any  teeth  over  before  used.  Tliia  mttfaod 
doe*  not  require  tno  extraction  of  roota  or  any  painftd  operation,  and 
wilt  lupport  and  proaerve  teeth  that  are  looae,  and  is  guaranteed  to 
lestoie  artlcalatioB  and  masHcaHoo.  Decayed  teeth  stopped  aadxm- 
dexed  Bound  and  oaeftil  In  maatlwtlon.— 31,  rbet  Btieet. 


4'»  S.  VIL  Apjul  1, 71.] 


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«annot  lUl  to  fit)  forwarded  by  poet  on  tne  drcumftrence  of  the  body, 
two  inches  below  the  hipa,  being  sent  to  the  ICanulketurer. 

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[4«fcaVII.  ApbilI.TI. 


The  Judges  of  EnglancL 

Now  mdj,  Oomptele  in  1  Tolame  (BOO  pi».),  8to,  lU. 

BIOGRAPHIA  JURIDIC^;   a  Biographical 

DicUonuy  of  the  Jodgw  of  EDglaad,  from  th«  Oonaoert  to  &•  Pr^ 
■Rit  Time,  lom-MTO.  A  new  and  thoroachljr  rtriied  Bditloo.  B7 
EDWARD  F088,  F.8.A. 

•*  Mr.  Tom  •ennired  a  oouldena)le  repntadoii,  darlnc  hit  lUb^M.  bgr 
hl«  Tolnmlaoiu  work  entltlod  *  Th«  Jodgw  of  Bnc Imad.'  ^  To  ft^m 
refticnoe  to CTcry  nune  In  thii Judicial  nooriand  to  redaoatlM  bulk 
to  one  oonvenient  volume,  the  imbUcation  of  a  Btocraphioal  DIetlonaiT 
of  the  Jndgei  of  Enclaad  wea  oonildered  adTliablc.  This  new  work  la 
limited  to  the  biographleal  portkm  of  the  langer  one.  adding  to  them 
the  Jndsei  who  have  blMn  appointed  rinoe  1864:  the  whola  number  ex- 
eeedlnc  1600  Utc*.  Itiiiomepreaumptlonoftheearewith  whid&thM 
notieea,  manj  of  them  neceiiarily  venr  brief,  are  eompUed,  that  the 
aathoritiei  on  which  the  writer*!  stoteraente  are  bawl  are  oon- 
•dentioualy  quoted."—  Wtttrnkuur  Review. 

**  Thle  volnme  wttl  }»mBecp/tM»  to  thow  who  iitiwwi  the  more  eom» 
plete  workt  but  Its  valoe  will  be  mainbr  Air  thoee  who  want  mean;  to 
procure  or  leianre  to  itody  the  more  elaboiale  ^oraei  that  preceded  it. 
Aa  a  contribution  to  Uocraphloal  Uteiatute  It  wUl  be  eordially  wel- 
comed} and  aa  a  book  of  refbrenoe  it  will  ooonpy  a  prominent  plaoe  in 
the  lawyer*!  library."— Low  TimeM, 

JOHN  ICUBBAY,  AlbemaiteSlMet. 

Hindoo  Fairy  Legends. 

Now  ready.  New  and  Cheaper  Editloa,  wifli  ninetmlkaa, 

email  8To,6e. 

OLD   DECCAN    DAYS;    or,  Hindoo  Fairy 

JjUBtnAB  Current  in  Sontliem  India.  Collected  ftom  Oral  Tradition. 
By  M.  FRE&B.  With  an  Introduction  and  Notes  by  SIB  BABTLE 
FRERJS. 

**  This  ooUeetton  of  Fairy  I«iends  is  in  many  respects  a  remarkable 
publication.  In  the  flrrt  place,  it  bears  on  the  title-paice  a  name  with 
wkJch  is  associated  mudi  of  wliat  has  prored  Iteelf  most  wlie  and  good 
in  our  Ooveroment  of  India  Ibr  many  years  past.  While  one  memlxr 
of  the  Frere  IkmUy  prorldes  ns  with  a  ehanning  version  of  the  legends 
gathned  from  oral  tndltloo,  and  a  seoond  adorns  tlw  work  with  several 
clever  lltde  drawings.  Sir  Bartle  Frere  himself  fkunlshes  the  introduce 
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JOHN  HX7RRAT,  Albemarle  Street. 

The  Mutiny  of  the  Bounty. . 

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SOME  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  MUTINEERS 

OF  THE  BOUNTY,  AND  THEIB  DESCENDANTS ;  In  Plloaira 
and  Nodblk  Islands,  down  to  1810.    By  LADY  BELCUEB. 

**  Few  narratives  can  equal  the  story  of  the*  Bounty*  in  portrayfaig 
cither  the  darker  crimes  or  the  softer  Ikellngs  of  human  natnre.  The 
tide  ts  not  new,  but  It  will  never  be  oldi  and  vre  must  thank  Lady 
Belcher  tar  again  calling  attention  to  It.  and  for  pladag  belbre  ns  a 
more  complete  and  Impartial  aecount  than  has  ever  belbre  been  puh- 
llshed.  Lady  Belcher  has  been  able  to  make  use  of  a  valuable  eoileo- 
tlon  of  documents,  some  of  wlileh  have  come  to  lier  from  her  stMilkther, 
Captain  Heywood,  and  some  from  Admiral  Sir  FaliAut  Moresby  and 
other  naval  friends."— JLtoiMMr. 

JOHN  ICUBBAY,  Albemarle  Street. 

Iieslie'8  ArtiBt*8  Handbook. 


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eannot  fldl  to  be  most  charming  and  instructive  to  all  who— withoat 
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the  sort  of  book  which  ought  to  be  included  in  the  reading  of  any 
liberaUy-odnoated  man}  audits  illustrations  are  admirable." 

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Iioekhart'8  Spanish  Ballads. 

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need  not  edd  that  the  translations  made  by  Um  possess  all  the  spirit 
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297 


LONDON,  BATURDAr,  APBIL  6, 1871. 


GONTENT&— N*  171. 


KOmS:— Facts  In  nnezpeotedFbuM.  297— "Hictory  of 
Bdward  XL,"  Fol.  1680,  296 -Folk  Lore:  Usams  at  a 
Gflveland  Funeral  Forty  Yean  Ago^  Ac, /&.- AnoiBnt  Sig- 
net found  at  BalSi  800— ItaacDimeli, /&.— Tenojaon  and 
the  **  Plain  Dealer  *'— James  Cayan  a  Centenarian— Small- 
Pox  —Seizure  of  Chattels  under  a  "Heriot"  — Chap- 
Books—  A  Mountebank  of  the  last  Century,  801. 

QUBBIBS:- William  BaUol— Character  of  Constantine 
-De  Lomdne  — "Dooumentos  Arabicos"  —A  German 
Btymological  Dletionaiy  ~  Handel's  "  Messiah  **-  Har- 
row School:  John  Ijon— Hogarth  Book-plates— Lord 
Jertsolder  or  Tertsolder — Ber.  Timothy  Lee :  Aokworth 
Church  — Montagu  Queries— Priory  of  St.  Bthemao  — 
Metrical  Yersions  of  the  Psalms  —  Putting  to  Death  by 
Torture  for  imputed  Heresy  —  Saints'  Bmblems  —  Ser- 
mon of  St.  Bloy.  or  Bligius  —  Sewell  —  Wrecks,  808. 

lUSPLIBS:— Ombre:  Boston,  809  — Mourning,  or  Black- 
edged  writing  Paper,  807 —Adam  de  Orleton,  808  —  Mar- 
riages of  Princesses— Lady  Orimston's  Grave  in  Tewin 
Churefayard  —  The  White  Tower  —  '*  The  Hob  in  the 
Well "  —  Arms  of  Flemish  Families  —  Cookes :  Cookesey : 
Cooke  — QuoUtion  — A  Spitten  Laird —  **  Aprta  moi  le 
Dtioge"- Furness  Abbey  and  the  Chetbam  Society  — 
Lancashire  Witches  —  "  A  Monsieur,  Monsieur  A.  B.  '*  — 
^he  Schoolmaster  Abroad  in  Stoffordshire-"  The  Straight 
Gate  and  Narrow  Way"  — The  Priory  of  Coldingham  — 
Letter  of  Edward  lY.  —  Albaney  and  Amondeville  —  '*  Pen 
of  an  Angel's  Wing  " :  Wordsworth,  Constable,  Ac.—  Jan- 
ney  Family— G.  Oamphausen  —  ** Yeritas  in  Puteo"— 
Punning  and  Jesting  on  Names—  BallasaUey  —  Findeme 
Flowers — SmQ  th,  Ac,  809. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ao. 


FACTS  IN  UNEXPECTED  PLACES. 

To  the  reiulers  of  <*N.  &  Q.''  there  can  be 
nothing  new  in  the  assertion  that  many  curious 
and  often  really  valuable  notes  and  details  are 
found  in  books  where  they  are  least  likely  to  be 
«ought.  Of  course  to  any  one  investigating  a 
fl}>ecial  period,  or  the  life  of  any  individual,  cer^ 
tain  volumes  would  speedily  occur  for  examina- 
tion for  his  object.  But  how  many  and  important 
gleanings  lie  unknown  and  unsought  in  books 
which  would  seem  little  likely  to  yield  such  trea- 
sure ! 

It  has,  therefore,  often  occurred  to  me  that  it 
might  be  of  real  service  to  future  writers  to 
chronicle  such  memoranda  in  various  biographies 
«nd  general  books;  and  where  could  references  to 
these  be  more  fitly  accumulated  than  in  the  pages 
of  '<  N.  &  Q."  P  Its  most  valuable  indexes,  I  doubt 
not,  are  of  inestimable  service  to  our  present 
writers  on  all  sorts  of  subjects,  and  will  become 
increasingly  so. 

The  hou£e  in  which  James  III.  of  Scotland 
was  assassinated  was  not  long  ago  referred  to  by 
a  correspondent  (p.  90).  At  the  period  this  was 
mentioned  I  had  just  met  with  tiie  following 
illustrative  passage  in  the  Memoir  of  Dr,  James 
Hampton,  by  Rev.  W.  Amot  (Nisbet^  London). 
It  will  be  seen  that  it  yields  also  an  interesting 
gleaning    concerning    &nnod(bam    and   ''the 


Brace."  Daring  an  ezeonloii  in  1886,  Dr.  Hamil- 
ton writes: — 

**  At  Beaton  Mills,  saw  the  old  cottage  where  James  III* 
was  murdered,  and  was  shown  part  of  the  upper  and 
nether  mill-stones,  with  mariu  of  the  spindle-soekets 

which  had  been  in  use  at  the  time. The  room 

where  James  expired  is  a  small  place,  with  a  roof  too  low 
to  admit  of  your  standing  upright  The  comer  where 
he  lay  is  still  pointed  out  by  the  side  of  the  fire.  Then 
proceeded  to  the  field  of  Bannockbum.  The  Brnee's  fiag- 
stone  still  remains.  A  weaver  had  it  built  into  the  wall 
of  his  boose,  bat  the  laird  very  properly  made  him  take 
down  the  wall  and  surrender  the  stone,  which  is  now  de- 
fended ttom  further  perils  Vf  a  strong  iron  grating.  Tlie 
cows  were  feeding  veir  peaceably  in  the  morass  where 
Edward's  cavalry  maae  such  stumbling  amongst  Bmee's 
q>ikes  and  pit&lla."--P.  67. 

Two  years  later  Dr.  Hamilton  mentions  that, 
among  other  curiosities^  he  saw  in  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Greffor^,  ''widow  of  the  late  Dr.  G.  of 
famous  dassical  and  medical  memoir,  the  bones 
and  coffin  nails  of  Robert  Bruce  "  !  (P.  101.) 

We  have  also  memoranda  of  ''the  famous 
'46 "  (1746).  When  the  rebels  were  in  Edin- 
burgh, one  night  a  Hiffhland  follower  of  the 
prince  was  taken  up  by  uie  guard  because  it  was 
plain  he  could  not  take  care  of  himself.  When  in 
the  guard-house  he  came  somewhat  to  his  senses ; 
his  first  ejaculation  was,  '*  Hech,  sirs !  it's  sair 
wark  flitting  thae  kings.'^  (P.  381.) 

**  Foit^  years  ago  Stnthblane  (the  early  home  of  Dr. 
H.)  retamed  traces  of  primitive  simplicity.  The  name 
of  Kob  Roy  fiUed  a  larger  place  in  the  imagination  of  the 
people  than  the  Duke  of  Wellington ;  and  all  who  had 
reached  fourscore  could  recall  the  thnes  of  the  Pretender. 
Mrs.  Proven  was  eight  yean  old  when  a  detachment  of  the 
rebel  army  passed  through  the  Muir  of  Fintry,  and  as 
she  was  uie  only  one  left  at  home,  the  Highlanders 
coaxed  and  threatened  her  by  turns  to  reveal  the  hiding- 
place  of  the  meal  and  cheeses ;  but,  although  she  had  seen 
them  buried  in  the  moss,  the  little  maid  was  firm,  and 
neither  swords  nor  *  sweeties'  could  extort  her  secret 

The  airiral  of  the  first  umbrella  was  a  compir 

latively  recent  and  well-remembared  era."»Pp.  13, 14. 

Many  details^  coirespondence,  &c.,  are  given  of 
the  disruption  of  the  Free  Kirk  of  Scotland, 
pp.  OB,  168,  IKX),  209,  211,  281.  Among  them  is 
a  description  by  Dr.  Hamilton  of  the  memorable 
-withdrawal  from  the  General  Assembly.  May  18, 
1848. 

We  have  also  a  reminiscence  of  Sir  Francis 
Burdett^  p.  91;  Lord  Jeffrey's  account  of  the 
system  by  which  he  remembered  his  speeches, 
and  his  failure  in  his  ''  maiden  speech  "  in  Parlia- 
ment, p.  400 ;  and  sundry  particulars  of  the  Kev. 
Edward  Irving  in  his  early  days,  and  especially 
in  London,  pp.  65, 175, 184 :  also  reminiscences, 
letters,  &c.,  of  the  late  Rev,  K.  M*Cheyne  of 
Dundee,  pp.  148.  148,  158,  285,  287,  289,  816 ; 
the  late  Kev.  W.  Bums,  pp.  148, 147, 148|  152, 
809 ;  of  Dr.  (now  Archbisnop)  Tait,  pp.  45, 465, 
466. 

In  hia  early  days^  under  the  lectures  of  Sir  W. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  &  VII.  AraiL  8,*7l. 


Hooker,  Dr.  Hamilton  studied  botany.  See  pp.  92- 
97  for  details  of  intercourse  with  Sir  W.  and  his 
famil;^,  and  of  **  old  George  Don,"  the  Scotch 
botanist 
Dr.  Hamilton  writes  in  1887:— 

<*  All  know  the  stoxy  of  Kongo  Park  and  the  mosL 
When  ha  came  home  he  gave  it  to  his  brother-in-law,  Mr. 
Dickfloa,  and  told  him  *  that  is  the  moes  that  saved  my 
life  in  Africa.'  Mr.  D.  gave  it  to  Sir  William,  who  keeps 
it  among  a  maltitnde  of  other  enrioeitiea.''— Pp.  95,  96. 

Let  me  also  add,  that  sundry  explanations  and 
details  respecting  the  common-plabe  books,  in- 
dexes, &c.,  whereby  Dr.  Hamilton  made  avail- 
able the  stores  accumulated  by  his  extensive 
reading,  may  be  interesting  ana  suggestive  to 
other  students:  pp.  d87«404:  alsa  pp.  77-80. 

o.  JUL  o. 

[The  only  oUeetlon  to  the  suggestion  of  oar  valoed 
correspondent  is  the  difficulty  of  carrying  it  oat.  Unless 
all  the  namea  mentioned  in  each  papers  as  are  proposed 
are  entered  in  onr  Index,  the  object  aimed  at  would 
not  be  attained  $  and  if  so  entered  we  fear  onr  Index 
would  be  increased  to  a  very  inoonvenient  extent— -£d. 


«  HISTORY  OF  EDWABD  IL,"  Fol.  1680. 

In  the   first  volume  of  the   first    series   of 
'*  N.  &  Q.''  the  question  is  raised  as  to  the  autiior- 
ship  of  this  history,  which  in  the  abridged  edi- 
tion of  it,  printed  m  the  same  year,  is  represented 
as  ''  found  amon^  the  papers  of,  and  supposed  to 
be  writ  by,  the  Rip;ht  Honourable  Henrv  Viscount 
Faulkknd,  sometime  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland.'' 
To  the  folio  edition  is  howeyer  prefixed  ''the 
author's  preface  to  the  readen"  signed  "  E.  F.," 
and  dated  February  20,  1627 — manifestly  dis- 
agreeing with  the  attribution  to  the  first  Lord 
Falkland.    On  the  other  hand,  the  same  work  is 
ascribed  to  Edward  Fannant  by  the  compilers  of 
the  British  Museum  Catalogue,  but  on  what 
grounds  I  am  unable  to  say.    JBut  whoever  might 
hAve  been  the  author,  I  wish  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact — which,  I  believe,  has  not  been  before 
noticed — that  the  npeeches  interspersed  in  it,  and 
occasionally  fMrt  of  the  narrative,  are  in  blank 
verse,  suggesting  the  probability  that  the  history 
was  transprosed  or  worked  up  into  its  present 
shape  from  some  old  play.  I  wul  give  a  specimen 
or  two  from  the  yolume,  it  being  understood  that 
the  following  extracts  are  print^  in  it  as  prose. 

The  Queen's  expostulation  with  Mortimer  on 
Ills  proposing  to  make  away  with  the  King 
(p.  163):  — 

**  Stay,  gentle  Mortimer,  I  am  a  woman. 
Fitter  to  hear  and  take  advice  than  give  it. 
Tliink  not  I  priie  thee  in  so  mean  a  fashion 
As  to  despise  thy  saft^  or  thy  eonnseL 
Must  Edward  dye,  and  is  there  no  prevention  ? 
Oh  wretched  state  of  greatness,  frail  condition. 
That  is  preserv'd  by  blood,  seenr'd  by  nuirder  I 


I  dare  not  say  I  yield  or  yet  deny  it ; 

Shame  stops  the  one,  the  other  fUt  forbiddeth : 

Only  I  beg  I  be  not  made  partdcer. 

Or  privy  to  the  time,  the  means,  the  manner.*' 

The  King's  angry  reply  to  his  council  (p.  13)  :— 

"  Am  I  your  king  ?    If  so,  why  then  obey  me ; 
Lest  while  yon  teach  me  law,  I  learn  yon  duty. 
Know  I  am  firmly  bent,  and  will  not  vary. 
If  you  and  all  the  kingdom  tnmn,  I  care  not : 
Ton  must  enioy  your  own  aiKBctions» 
I  not  so  much  as  question  or  oontronl  them ; 
But  I,  that  am  your  sovereign,  must  be  tntor'd 
To  love  and  lilce  alone  by  your  discretion. 
Do  not  mistake,  I  am  not  now  in  wardship, 
Kor  will  be  chalk*t  out  wave  to  guide  my  fimcy. 
Tend  you  the  kingdom  and  the  public  errours; 
I  can  prevent  mine  own  without  protection. 
I  should  be  loth  to  let  you  tel  my  power; 
But  must  and  wUl,  if  you  too  much  enforoe  me. 
If  not  obedience,  yet  your  loves  might  tender 
A  kind  consent  when  'tis  your  Ung  that  seeks  it. 
But  you  perhaps  oooodt  you  share  my  power? 
Ton  neither  do  nor  shall,  while  I  command  it. 
I  will  be  stOl  myself,  or  less  than  nothing.** 

Jas.  Cbosslet. 

FOLK  LORE. 

USAQES  AT  A  CLEVELAND  FUNERAL  FORTT 

TEARS  AGO. 

An  a^ed  man,  wealthy,  but  haying  liyed  a. 
miserly  life,  who  died  at  Kedcar  about  forty  years 
since,  ordered  his  funeral  as  follows : — 

**  A  great  public  breakfast  was  held,  such  eating  and 
drinking  having  never  been  witnessed  in  the  old  man's 
lifetime.  The  coffin  was  carried,  slung  upon  towels 
knotted  together,  and  borne  by  relsvs  of  men  to  Marshe, 
up  the  old  *  Corpee-way '  [see  **  Church-road "  in  my 
Cleveland  Glossary],  bumpisd  three  times  on  a  heap  of 
stones  (an  ancient  restin^-plaoe  at  the  top  of  the  hill) ; 
*  The  Lamentation  of  a  Sinner'  was  then  sung,  and  toe 
procession  moved  on  to  the  churchyard,  every  man» 
woman,  and  child  receiving  a  dole  of  6a.  as  they  entered." 
[See  **  Dole  **  as  above]. 

My  correspondent,  in  illustration  of  the  bum{^ 
ing,  adds  that  not  long  since,  in  an  account  of  a 
Jewish  funeral  at  Brugtf,  she  met  with  the  foU 
lowing  sentence : — 

**  During  the  procession  to  the  buiyinp^-gronnd,  the 
coffin  was  put  down  on  the  road  three  times,  and  the 
mourners  repeated  verses  from  Ps.  xci.  with  the  object  ef 
driving  away  evil  spirits." 

''The  Lamentation  of  a  Sinner,"  mentioned 
aboye,  copied  from  a  Bible  of  the  date  1612,  said 
to  be  composed  temp,  Henry  VIII.,  and  with  tha 
music  in  the  old  angular  notation,  runs  thus : — 

'*  O  Lorde,  tume  not  away  thy  face 
From  him  that  Ueth  prostrate. 
Lamenting  sore  his  sinrall  life, 
Before  thy  mercy  gate. 

Which  gate  thou  openest  wide  to  those 

That  doe  lament  their  sin ; 
Shut  not  that  gate  against  me.  Lord, 

Bvt  let  me  enter  in. 


4tt  &  TU.  Apbu.  8, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


299 


And  call  me  not  to  mine  aeoonnta^ 

How  I  bane  lined  here ; 
Por  Chen  I  know  right  well,  O  Lord, 

How  vile  I  shall  appeare. 

I  need  not  to  confesse  my  life, 

I  am  sare  thoa  canst  tell 
What  I  haae  beene  and  what  I  am, 

I  know  thoa  knowest  it  well. 

0  Lord,  thon  knowest  what  things  be  past. 

And  eke  the  things  that  be; 
Thoa  knowest'  also  what  is  to  come. 

Nothing  is  hid  from  thee. 

Before  the  heanens  and  earth  were  made. 
Thou  knowest  what  things  were  then. 

As  all  things  else  that  hath  beene  since, 
Among  the  sonnes  of  men. 

And  can  the  things  that  I  haae  done 

Be  hidden  from  thee  then  ? 
Nar,  nay,  thoa  knowest  them  all,  0  Lord, 

Where  they  were  done  and  when. 

Wherefore  with  teares  I  come  to^thee. 

To  beg  and  to  entreat : 
Enen  as  the  child  that  hath  done  eniU, 

And  feareth  to  be  beat. 

So  come  I  to  thy  mercy  gate, 

Where  mercy  doth  aooand, 
fieqairing  merde  for  my  rinne. 

To  heale  my  deadely  woond. 

O  Lord,  I  need  not  to  repeate 

What  I  doe  beg  or  crane : 
Thoa  knowest,  0  Lord,  before  I  aske^ 

The  thing  that  I  would  haae. 

Mercy,  good  Lord,  mercy  I  aske. 

This  is  the  totall  summe ; 
For  mercy,  Lord,  is  all  my  sate : 

Lord,  let  thy  mercy  come." 

J.  0.  Aixnrsoir. 

Danby  in  Clereland. 

Irish  Folk  Lobs.  —  The  following,  whicli  I 
take  from  a  report  of  a  case  in  the  Court  of  Pro- 
bate which  occurred  very  lately  in  Dublin,  is,  I 
think,  well  worth  preserratlon  in  the  pages  of 

**OnuoUjf  T.  Crawhy, 

*<  The  deceased  Thomas  Crawley  was  a  farmer  resid- 
ing at  CarriokmaonMs,  in  the  coantr  of  Monaghan.  He 
died  in  May  last,  having  on  the  Snd  of  Dec  lb69  made  a 
will,  which  having  been  daly  executed,  was  placed  in  a 
nf^  of  which  the  wife  kept  the  key  by  the  testator's  direo- 
tkm ;  bat  on  the  night  of  his  death,  when  there  were  a 
nnmber  of  people  in  the  place,  some  of  the  women  present 
•oggested  thai  ttwaawrong  to Aave any  door§  or  drawtn m 
the  place  loeked  when  a  penem  woe  tfying,  and  accordfaigly 
aU  locks  were  anboltea,  the  safs  amongst  other  places 
being  left  open.  In  the  morning  it  was  discoyered  that 
the  will  was  removed  and  coald  not  be  found. 

''Mr.  Houston,  who  appeared  for  the  plaintiiT,  exa- 
mined a  nnmber  of  witnesses  as  to  the  contents  of  the 
BBissing  document,  and  as  to  the  circumstances  under 
which  it  had  been  loet,  and  his  Lordship  (Judge  Warrsn), 
who  heard  the  case  without  aiury,  being  satisfied  that 
the  will  was  not  destnred  by  tne  testator  in  his  lifetime^ 
and  that  it  must  have  been  taken  by  some  of  the  persons 
in  the  house  on  the  night  of  the  decease^  granted  probate 
«riU  contents." 

|«e«ghFea,GanrlekauMroM.      Er.  Ps.  Shiblbt. 


Sheffield  Folk  LoBB.^It  is,  I  believei  an 
admitted  fact  that  the  scene  of  Bir.  Charles  Resde's 
2Sd  yourself  m  his  Place  is  laid  at  Sheffield ;  and 
that  the  author  spent  some  time  in  that  neigh- 
bourhood when  engaged  on  the  composition  of  the 
work.  It  seems  to  me,  therefore,  that  the  follow- 
ing scraps  of  folk  lore,  put  into  the  mouth  of 
Jael  Dence,  ''a  villager  of  unbroken  descent,"  are 
worth  extracting  for  **  N.  &  Q.''  I  quote  from, 
the  edition  in  one  Tolume :  — 

1.  ''If  a  gifl  was  in  church  when  her  banns 
were  cried,  her  children  would  all  be  bom  deaf 
and  dumb  *'  (p.  120). 

2.  The  '<  Qabriel  hounds,"  called  by  Jael 
''Qabble  retchet"  What  is  the  meaning  of 
''  ratchet "  P  '*  They  are  not  hounds  at  all ;  they 
are  the  souls  of  unbaptised  children,  wandering 
in  the  air  till  the  day  of  judgment.''  The  ''  Oa- 
briel  hounds  "  are  explained  as  ''  a  strange  thing 
in  the  air,  that  is  said  in  these  parts  to  foretell 
calamity,''  sounding  like  *'  a  great  pack  of  beagles 
in  full  czy":  they  are,  of  course,  connected  with 
the  Qerman  wild  Jdger  (pp.  166,  157). 

3.  "  If  you  sing  liefore  breakfast,  you'll  cry  be- 
fore supper"  (]>.  157).  In  London  the  version 
commonly  used  is :  ''Laugh  before  breakfast,  cry 
before  night." 

4  Is  the  reason  for  the  "unluckiness  "  of  meet- 
ing a  magpie  generally  known  P  I  have  never 
met  with  it  elsewhere.  "That's  the  only  bird 
that  wouldn't  go  into  the  ark  with  Noah  and  his 
folk  ...  a  very  old  woman  told  me  ...  .  She 
liked  better  to  perch  on  the  roof  of  th'  ark,  and 
jabber  over  the  drowning  world.  So  ever  after 
that,  when  a  magpie  flies  across,  turn  back,  or 
look  to  meet  ill  luck  "  (p.  172). 

6.  "I  like  you  too  well  to  give  you  a  pin." 
"  What  would  be  the  consequence  P  "  "  HI  luck, 
you  may  be  sure.    Heart  trouble,  they  do  say  " 

(p.  144). 

6.  Martha  Bence  marries  FhiL  Davis.  Jael 
says :  "  I  went  to  church  with  a  heavy  heart  on 
account  of  their  both  bennning  with  a  U — Denco 
and  Davis :  for  'tis  an  old  saying — 

'  If  yon  cbange  the  name  and  not  tbe  letter, 
Yon  change  for  the  worM  and  not  for  the  better.' " 

(p.  883). 

I  have  purposely  omitted  sooie  examples  which 
are  widely  distributed.  Jahbs  i^BiiriK. 

Kew. 

A  Wbathbb  Satdto.  —  A  Huntingdonshire 
cottager  (an  octogenarian)  told  me  the  other  day, 
"  There's  a  sayinff  that  a  dark  Christmas  sends 
a  fine  harvest.  I've  known  that  sayinff  from  a 
boy,  and  I've  alwars  found  it  to  hold  good."  The 
dark  OhristmaSy  of  course,  referred  to  "no  moon." 

CiTTBBBBT  BbBB. 

Nbw  Tbab  SuFXBSxinoB.— In  East  Lanca- 
manj  boaseholdeiB  avaTeiy  anxious  that  a 


soo 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»*S.Vn.  Ap«m8,71. 


dark*liaired  peraon  should  be  the  first  to  enter 
tiieir  houses  on  New  Year's  Day.  Some  go  so 
far  as  to  hire  a  person  to  do  this  in  order  to  prevent 
a  mistake.  A  curious  yariation  of  this  super- 
stition occurred  last  New  Year's  Day,  for  a  gen- 
tleman who  was  anxious  to  avoid  bad  luck  actually 
turned  his  black  cat  out  of  doors  shortly  before 
midnight,  and  did  not  allow  it  to  return  until  he 
was  quite  sore  that  the  New  Year  had  com- 
menced. T.  T.  W. 

This  Great  Beab  ajtb  Sttmxeb  Rainfall. — 
A  skilful  old  gardener,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  has 
just  assured  me  that  the  coming  summer  will  be 
a  dry  one,  and  for  the  following  reason : — '^  The 
Ghreat  Bear  is  on  this  side  of  the  North  Pole,  and 
88  longas  he  remains  there  the  summers  will  be 
dry.  Me  has  been  on  this  side  for  the  last  three 
years,  and  the  summers  have  all  been  dry.  If  he 
could  get  the  other  side  we  should  have  a  wet 
summer,  especially  as  he  would  then  be  in  con- 
nexion with  Venus  and  Jupiter.*' 

Though  famUiar  with  the  popular  ''  sayings 
about  the  weather  "  in  Devon  and  Cornwall,  the 
foregoing  is  new  to  me.  Can  anj  writer  of 
''N.  &  Q.*'  say  whether  it  is  known  in  Yorkshire 
or  elsewhere,  and  whether  my  ancient  Mend  has 
in  any  way  metamorphosed  itP 

Wm.  Psngelly. 

Torquay.  

ANCIENT  SIGNET  FOUND  AT  BAIM, 

Some  twenty  miles  south  of  Psdstum  there  is 
a  small  village  called  Fordle,  at  the  foot  of  Mount 
Stella.  Here  I  happened  to  be  benighted  in  my 
wanderings  through  Italy,  and  thereby  became 
acquainted  with  its  respectable  padre,  Pietro 
Zammarella,  whom  I  found  to  possess  a  small 
collection  of  curiosities  of  various  kinds — coins, 
cameos,  but  the  most  interesting  to  me  was  a 
signet  which  had  been  picked  up  at  Baias.  Any 
closer  approach  to  our  printing  type  could  not 
well  be  iniagined,  and  when  I  covered  the  raised 
tvpe  with  ink  and  stamped  it  on  mj  note  book  I  got 
the  letters  as  clearly  printed  as  if  they  had  been 
formed  by  one  of  our  most  accurate  type-founders. 
The  material  seemed  to  be  bronze,  the  characters 
were  raised,  and  I  should  imagine  that  it  had 
been  formed  in  a  mould.  There  was  a  ring  at- 
tached to  it  The  letters  had  been  made  with 
great  exactness  and  wonderfully  similar,  the  let- 
ters being  very  slender.  It  was  in  inches  2*1  in 
leng^,  *9  in  breadth,  and  the  height  of  the  letters 
was  *d.    The  inscription  was — 

SIX  POMPO 
TALENIZS. 

A  fac-simile  of  this  signet  will  be  found  in  my 
Nooks  and  By^wayM  of  Italy  (p.  20).  I  do  not 
pretend  to  have  investigated  this  subject  at  all 
carefully,  and  therefore  if  I  say  that  this  is  one  of 


the  earliest  approaches  to  printing  among  the 
Romans  that  has  yet  been  found,  it  must  be  un- 
derstood that  I  do  so  with  considerable  reserve. 
Can  any  one  who  hss  investigated  this  point  tell 
us  the  earliest  spedmen  that  has  yet  been  found 
of  this  attempt  at  printing  amon^  the  Romans  ? 
There  are  specimens,  I  believe^  in  the  Britlah 
Museum.  Can  any  approximation  to  the  age  of 
any  of  these  specimens  be  made  ?  In  regud  to 
Sextus  Fomponius  Valens,  to  whom  this  signet 
belonged,  I  would  inquire  if-  the  names  of  the 
admirals  (prsefecti)  ox  the  fleet  which  was  sta- 
tioned during  the  imperial  period  of  Rome  at 
Misenum,  close  to  Bai»,  are  known.  Whoever 
this  Fomponius  was,  he  must  have  been  of  high 
rank  to  possess  such  a  signet-ring.  The^  only 
Sextus  Fomponius  who  is  mentioned  in  history 
is  the  celebrated  jurist,  some  of  whose  worlra 
have  been  preserved.  If  we  could  imagine  that 
this  was  the  seal  of  the  jurist,  it  would  be  a  valu- 
able relic,  but  we  do  not  know  that  his  cognomen 
was  Valens. 

The  family  of  Valens  came  into  notice  in  the 
imperial  period,  and  from  the  reign  of  Augustus 
we  find  several  of  some  celebrity.  None  of 
them,  however,  have  the  names  Sextus  Fompo- 
nius. One  of  the  principal  generals  of  the 
Emperor  Vitellius  in  A.D.  w  was  Fabius  Valens, 
whose  character  is  drawn  in  the  blackest  colours 
by  Tacitus.  Li  the  ro^^al  museum  at  Naples  I 
recollect  seeing  an  inscription  rather  remarkable, 
as  it  is  in  both  Greek  imd  Latin.  It  was  found 
near  Id^senum,  and  on  it  is  the  name  Val.  Valens, 
commander  (prssfectos)  of  the  fleet,  the  same 
office  that  was  held  by  the  elder  Fliny  when  he 
fell  a  victim  to  the  eruption  of  Vesuvius,  a.i>.  79. 
I  have  been  reminded  of  this  seal  by  the  interest- 
ing paper  of  Mb.  Holt  on  early  Block  Books 
(4«*»  S.  vii.  13.)  CEAxnFTJBD  Tait  Ramagb. 


ISAAC  ifisRAELI. 

The  following  notes  may  interest  the  admirers 
of  the  DisraeUs,  father  and  son.  In  the  pariah 
church  at  Bradenham,  where  the  former  so  lonj 
resided,  and  where  his  memory  is  still  cherishc 
there  is  a  tablet  of  white  marble  let  into  the  wf 
with  this  inscription :  — 

Sacred 

To  the  Memories 

of 

Isaac  Disraeli,  Esqoirb,  D.CL., 

of 

Bradfinham  House, 

Author  of  *'  Curiosities  of  Literature," 

Who  died  January  19^^  1848,  in  his  82°<i  year, 

and 

Of  his  Wift  Maria, 

To  whom  he  was  united  for  Forty-five  years. 

She  died  AprU  21^  1847,  in  the  72p^  year  of  her  ase. 

Their  remains  lie  side  by  side  in  the  vault  of  the  adjoin^' 

ing  chancel." 


4a  &  TII.  Apbil  8»  71.] 


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301 


A  few  yean  ago  the  present  Yisooimtefle  Be»- 
oonsfield  caused  a  moniimeatal  column  in  honour 
of  her  father-in-law  to  be  erected  upon  the  farow 
of  an  eminence  closely  adjacent  to  that  unon 
which  Hughenden  Manor,  the  residence  of  her 
husbandy  is  situated.  It  towers  amidst  scenery  of 
surpassing  loyeHnesSy  is  plainly  visible  for  many 
miles  round,  and  bears  the  annexed  inscription, 
which,  those  who  know  tmything  of  the  sponti^ 
neouB  gracefulness  of  his  ''happy''  style  will 
scarcely  hesitate  to  .attribute  to  the  pen  of  the 
Right  Hon.  B.  Disraeli.    It  runs  thus :  — 

**  In  memory  of  Isaac  Disbabu,  of  BradenhAm  House 
in  this  eoimty,  Esq.,  and  Hononiiy  D.G.L.  of  the  Uni- 
vexaity  of  Oxford,  who,  by  his  happy  genios,  diHuaed 
amongst  the  multitude  that  elevatins  taste  for  literatnre 
which  before  his  time  was  the  pnrilege  only  of  the 
learned.  This  monument  was  erected  by  Mary  Anne, 
the  wife  of  his  eldest  son  Right  Honbie.  B.  Disraeli, 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  1852,  1868-9,  Lord  of  this 
Manor,  and  now  for  the  sixth  time  Knight  of  this  Shire." 

Isaac  Disraeli  was  bom  at  Enfield  in  May  1768, 
and  was  married  Feb.  10,  1802.  Mrs.  iMsraeli 
was  a  daughter  of  George  Basseyi,  Eb^i.,  of 
Bric^hton.  Benjamin  Disraeli  the  elder  died  at 
Stole  Newington  Not.  28,  1816,  in  his  eigh^- 
seventh  year.  P.  M. 

Tekhtbok  AirD'  THB   "PLAnr  Dealer.** — 

The  author  of  the  Plain  Dealer  and  of,  perhap, 

some  of  the  most  corrupt  and  corrupting  comedies 

that  are  to  be  found — although  by  no  means  the 

coarsest — can  have  little  in  common  with  the 

sweet  puritf  of  our  Laureate,  and  jret  in  one 

instance  he  has  fairly  anticipated  the  more  popular 

of  his  beautiful  quatrains ;  nor  has  he  only  done 

this,  but  he  has  done  it  with  a 'tenderness  and 

elegance  few  prose  men  of  his  day  could  have 

rivalled.    Tennyson's  words  are  these : — 

« I  hold  it  tme,  whate'er  befall, 
I  feel  it  when  I  sorrow  most: 
Tis  better  to  have  loved  and  lost. 
Than  never  to  liave  loved  at  all.*** 

In  Memoriam,  xxvii. 

Congreve's  pretty  thought  is  not  quite  a  parallel 
in  woras,  but  is  exactly  so  in  feeling.  Mrs,  Mar- 
wood,  who  is  not  of  necessity  either  a  widow  or  a 
young  married  woman,  but  simplv  Mistress  Mar- 
wood,  with  whom  Fainall  is  in  love,  talking  of 
that  passion,  says : — 

"Tme  'tis  sn  unhappy  circnmstance  of  life,  that  love 
should  ever  die  before  us ;  but  say  what  you  will,  *tis 
better  to  have  been  left,  than  never  to  have  been  loved," — 
flToy  of  the  Worlds  Act  II.  Sc.  1. 

If  Mrs.  Marwood  had  been  a  widow  sighing 
over  her  lost  husband,  the  pandlel  had  been  closer 
and  the  pathos  more  perfect  How  thoroughly 
different  the  feeling  of^  these  two  men  of  letters, 
Tennyson  and  Congreve,  is  in  regard  to  their  art 
may  be  seen  by  oontraatang  the  noble  estimate  of 


the  poet  of  the  former  with  these  lines  of  Con- 
greve from  the  prologue  to  this  play : — 

**  Of  those  few  fools  who  with  ill  stars  are  curst. 
Sure  scribbling  fools  call'd  PoeUftm  the  worst; 
For  they're  a  set  of  fools  which  Fortune  makes, 
And,  after  she  has  made  'em  fools, /brfoAet  /  " 

May  I  take  this  occasion  to  beg  of  your  readers 
to  do  me  tjbe  favour  of  sending  any  quotations  or 
celebrated  savings  they  may  light  upon,  to  form  a 
supplement  tor  my  Familiar  IrbrdSf  as  I  wish  to 
make  that,  as  feur  as  possible,  a^  model  dictionary 
of  quotations.  All  cases  in  which  m^  firiends  aid 
me  1  shdH  be  happy  to  acknowledge  in  my  booli^ 
which  I  am  alreaay  preparing ;  and  they  will  add 
to  the  obligation  if  to  every  citation  they  apnend 
an  exact  reference  of  poem,  canto,  verse  and  line, 
act  and  scene,  or  volume,  chapter,  page,  and  edi- 
tion. HaikTbiswell. 

74,  Great  Russell  Street,  Bloomsbnry. 

Jakes  Cavan  a  Cektenabiait. — Some  notices 
in  your  pages  on  the  subject  of  centenarianism 
suggested  to  me  to  make  inquiries  as  to  the  actual 
age  of  an  old  man  named  James  Cavan,  who  is 
at  present  living  near  Newtown  Ards,  in  the  county 
of  Down.  For  some  years  I  have  known  that 
this  man  was  "  generauy  believed  "  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood to  be  about  one  hundred  years  old,  but 
I  feared  that,  as  is  usual  in  such  cases,  the  proofs 
would  not  be  forthcoming. 

The  following  facts  seem  clearly  to  prove  that 
James  Cavan  is  now  102  years  old : — In  the  year 
1775  Alexander  Stewart  of  Newtown  Ards,  Esq. 
(great-grandfather  of  the  present  Marquis  of 
I^donderry),  granted  a  lease  of  part  of  the 
townland  of  Bally  wittycock,  in  the  parish  of  New- 
town Ards,  to  James  Cavan,  the  father  of  our 
centenarian.  The  lease  was  for  three  lives — namely^ 
James  Cavan,  the  father,  aged  about  fifty  yearsi 
and  his  two  sons  Andrew  and  James,  a^ed  re^- 
spectively  eleven  and  six.  This  James  is  still 
alive,  and  is  therefore  102  years  old  this  year. 
The  lease  is  now  before  me,  and  the  land  is  still 
held  under  it 

I  am  told  that  Cavan  was  when  young  a  very 
active  and  powerful  man.  He  was  a  United  Irish- 
man, and  was  in  hiding  for  a  considerable  time 
after  179B.  He  has  always  been  an  industrious 
hard-working  man,  and  still  works,  though  he  is 
very  feeble  aud  his  eyesight  is  nearly  gone.  I 
saw  him  about  eighteen  months  ago  engaged 
collecting  seaweed  for  manure  on  the  oeadi 
about  a  mile  south  of  Newtown  Ards,  near  his 
cottage.  He  has  no  descendants,  and  is  poorly 
enough  off,  but  is  kept  from  actual  want  by  the 
of  a  few  families  living  in  the  neighoour- 


Wm.  H.  Pattbesoit. 


kindness 
hood. 
Strandtown,  Belfast. 

Small-Fox.— The  subjoined  cutting  from  the 
Wedgm  Maa  for  March  13, 1871,  seems  to  merit 
preservation  in  "  N.  &  Q." : — 


302 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


14*  8.  Til,  Afbil  8, 11. 


«•  Walu  akd  the  Small-Pox.— At  the  present  time, 
when  the  spread  of  the  small-pox  epidemic  is  occasioniDg 
mnch  alarm  in  London  and  thronghoat  the  oountrjr,  the 
mibjoined  note  from  an  old  magazine  wQl  possess  some 
interest :— '  Newport,  in  Wales,  claims  the  merit  of  having 
practised  inoculation  of  the  small-pox  from  time  imme- 
morial, before  it  was  even  known  to  the  other  counties  of 
Britain ;  for  while  the  London  phrsicians,  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  a  Turkish  practice  by  Lady  Mary  Wortley 
Montagu,  were  cautiously  ventunng  to  experiment  on 
some  condemned  criminals,  the  more  hardy  native  of 
Pembrokeshire  dared  to  inoculate  himself,  without  the 
assistance  of  either  phvMdan  or  preparation.  This  was 
as  early  as  the  rear  1722.  The  method  had  been  con- 
stantly attendee  with  great  success;  and  though  it  had 
not  acquired  the  name  of  inoculation,  yet  it  was  carried 
on  much  in  the  same  manner.  They  called  it  bajfimg  th§ 
smaU'pox^  as  it  was  the  custom  to  purchase  the  matter 
contained  in  the  pustules  of  each  other.*  We  should  be 
-glad  if  any  of  our  readers  could  throw  more  light  on  a 
•circumstance  so  honourable  to  Wales.*' — Qirdiff  amd 
M§rthwr  GwanHm  of  Uueh  10, 1871. 

R.&M. 

Seizitbb  ov  Ohattslb  vkdxb  a.  '^  Hbbiot."— 
The  accompanying  catting  is  worth  preserving  in 

^SnrotJLAR  Custom  nr  Exolasd.  —  In  the  rapple- 
nentary  estimate  a  vote  of  76,0<H)/.  is  asked  for,  for  the 
pictures  collected  by  the  late  Sir  Robert  Peel.  In  con* 
nection  with  Sir  Bobert*s  celebrated  picture,  the  '  Cha- 
peau  de  Paille,'  a  curious  story  was  once  told  by  the  late 
Lord  Cranworth  in  the  House  of  Peers.  His  lordship,  in 
moving  the  second  reading  of  the  Copyhold  Enfranchise- 
ment Bill,  alluded  to  that  strangest  of  all  anomalies  in 
English  custom  which  passed  under  the  name  of  herioL 
Thu  existed  in  verv  many  manon,  and  by  it,  on  the 
death  of  a  person  holding  land  subject  to  the  custom,  the 
lord  might  seize  the  best  chattel  of  which  the  tenant  died 
possessed.  It  was  within  the  late  Sir  R.  Peel's  know- 
ledge that  the  famous  horse  Smolensko,  worth  2,000£  or 
8,000/.,  was  seized  under  a  heriot,  and  that  when  the 
first  Lord  Abinger,  as  Mr.  Scarlett,  was  at  the  bar,  cfalse 
report  of  his  death  having  been  circulated,  the  first  inti- 
mation which  Mrs.  Scarlett  had  of  it  was  the  seizure  of 
three  of  the  learned  gentleman's  best  horses  by  the  lord 
of  the  soiL  Sir  Bobert,  lieing  the  tenant  of  a  manor  to 
which  a  heriot  attached,  was  in  the  greatest  apprehension 
that  if  anything  happened  to  him  the  picture  above  men- 
tioned might  be  taken,  and  in  order  to  Aree  himself  from 
that  risk  he  bought  the  manor  of  which  the  copyhold  was 
held.— 2%n7yiVea(Ff."— i>Mb  Mercury,  March  1*7. 

K.  P.  D.  R 

Chap-Booxs. — The  following  are  the  short 
titles  of  cliap-books  printed  at  Hull  by  J.  Fer- 
raby.  They  are  in  three  sets — all  without  date. 
The  first  set  I  am  inclined  to  conmder  somewhat 
earlier  than  the  second,  which  is  about  1709-1800, 
and  the  third  some  years  later.  Mr.  Ferraby 
informs  the  public  on  some  of  these  choice  speci- 
mens of  typoffraphy,  that  he  has  *'  The  greatest 
choice  of  old  baltadc^  f^^J  pfttters,  histories,  and 
children-books,  printed  in  as  neat  a  manner  and 
With  as  good  ents  as  at  any  other  place  in  Eng- 
land;" so  that  we  may  conclude  his  issues  to  have 
been  very  numerous.  Those  detailed  below  are 
all  I  have  yet  been  able  to  recover.  All  are  in 
12mo,  ranging  from  eight  to  twenty-four  pages, 


and  are  occasionally  adorned  with   cuts  which 

match  the  printing  and  paper  in  workmanship  and 

xoughnefls:— 

The  Cruel  Cooper  of  RatoUITs  Garland ;  The  Isle  of 
Wight's  Garland;  The  Oxfordahire  Tragedy,  or  the 
Virgin*s  Advice ;  The  New  West  Country  Garland ;  The 
Strand  Garland;  Nixon's  Cheshire  Prophecv  at  larg«>; 
The  History  of  the  Blind  Beggar  of  Bethnal  &reen ;  The 
Crown  and  Glory  of  Christianity,  to  the  8aint*s  Everla^- 
ing  Rest,  by  Robert  Ross,  D.u. ;  David's  Lamentation, 
or  the  Christian's  Reliance  upon  God ;  The  History  of 
that  Holy  Disciple  Joseph  of  Arimathea ;  The  WeepinjX 
Christian,  or  the  Righteous  Man's  Godly  Sorrow;  A 
True  and  Faithfhl  Account  of  the  Manner  of  Christ  com- 
ing to  Judgment  on  the  Last  Day ;  A  Divine  Dialogue 
between  John  Williams  of  G^loucester  and  Squire 
Wright;  The  Atheist  Converted,  or  the  Unbeliever's 
Eyes  Open'd. 

'The  Friar  and  Boy,  or  the  Toung  Piper's  Pleasant 
Pastime  (two  parts) ;  'The  Merry  FroUes,  or  the  Comical 
Cheats  of  Swalpo,  a  notorious  Pickpocket.  And  the 
Merry  Pranks  of  Roger  the  Ckmn ;  The  Sleeping  Beauty 
of  the  Wood;  The  Art  of  Courtship,  or  the  School  of 
Love;  The  Cries  of  a  Wounded  Consdenoe;  The  Life  of 

William  Nevison,  a  notorious  Highwayman and 

Generosity,  a  Tale. 

Partridge  and  Flamslssd's  New  and  Well-experienred 
Fortune  £>ok ;  The  Cries  of  a  Wounded  Conaaenoe  [as 
before]. 

W.  C.  B. 

Hull. 

A  MonriXBAra  of  thb  last  CxirTURT. — Any 
memorials  of  an  extinct  race  will  be  appropriate 
to  ''  N.  &  Q.''  In  Wheler's  Sislory  and  AtUigui' 
tiei  of  Stratfordruwm-Avon  Twhich  I  know  to  have 
been  printed  in  1806|  thougn  it  has  no  date  on  its 
title-psge)  is  (p.  66)  the  following  memorial  from 
a  gravestone  on  the  floor  of  the  church : — 

« Nicholas  Vangabla,  Gent,  died  the  11th  of  i^ril, 
1774,  aged  87," 

and  from  Mr.  Wheler*s  annotated  copy  of  that 
volume,  which  was  presented  to  the  Snakespeare 
Museum  at  Stratfora  by  the  author's  surviving 
sister  in  1862^  I  transcribe  the  following  parti- 
culars : — 

**  Mr.  Yangable  waa  a  Mountebank ;  but  having  thereby 
acquired  a  sufficient  propertv  to  support  htm  retired  t** 
Stratford,  where  he  died.  His  manners  were  remiectful 
and  genteel,  and  his  person  waa  tall  and  remarkably  well 
shaped.    I  have  heard  he  waa  of  Dutch  extraction.*' 

J.  G.  N. 


tkvxxM. 


William  Baliol.— Will  any  of  the  readers  of 
''  N.  &  Q.''  give  me  some  account  of  Sir  William 
Baliol,  the  brother  of  John  king  of  Scotland,  and 
son  of  the  founder  of  Baliol  College  F  Weever, 
in  his  Ftmerai  MomanmU^  states  that  he  was 
buried  at  the  monasteiy  of  Whitefrian  Observants 
at  Canterboxy.  Who  did  he  marry  P  by  what 
means  did  he  escape  the  doom — ^banishment  and 
exile— of  those  of  his  name  P  and  whether  a  change 
of  name  was  in  those  earl j  times  resorted  to^  to 


4A  a  YU.  Afbil  S,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES; 


S03 


escape  the  paiiis  and  penalties  attaching  to  the  ez- 
oommiinicants  and  outlawed  P  Can  Mb.  Sinclajb, 
or  Mb.  Laotg,  or  any  other  gentleman  enlighten 
me  on  the  subject,  as  it  is  a  link  in  a  chain  of  in- 
quiry I  much  want  P 

The  name  of  Baliol  became  extinct  after  the 
Tear  1880,  and  affcer  the  surrender  of  Edward 
ilaliol,  the  son  of  John  the  unfortunate  king  of 
Scotland,  although  issue  of  some  of  the  hea&  of 
the  fiunily  of  that  name  were  living  both  in  Eng- 
land and  Scotland  at  that  time.  Did  tiiey  assume 
any  other  name  P  and  if  so,  what  name  P  and  on 
what  authority  can  such  assertion  be  supported  P* 

J.    XV.    St 

Chabactsb  ov  CoirsTAiTTiirB. — ^Amelius  Victor 
describes  Constantino  as  ''  Trachala  decem  annis 
prestantissimus ;  duodecim  sequentibus^ro;  de- 
cem noyissimis  pupiUus  ob  immodicas  profusiones." 
I  know  not  how  Trachala  can  apply  as  an  epithet 
to  Constantine,  except,  as  at  the  hands  of  some 
he  has  not  escaped  the  charge  of  sUpperinesa,  he 
may,  in  the  earher  part  of  his  career,  naye  framed 
his  policy  a  little  too  much  on  the  following 
model : — 

Arifltoph.  EqmUUf  490. 

Edmvhd  Tbw,  M.A. 

De  LoBBAnrB. — I  should  be  much  obliged  for 
any  correct  information,  or  for  any  clue  to  obtain- 
ing such,  concerning  the  history  of  the  family  of 
De  Lorraine  (of  Durham  and  Northumberland) 
during  the  eleventh,  twelfth,  thirteenth,  and  four- 
teentn  centuries;  especially  as  to  whether  the 
descent  of  Edward  tionune  of  this  family,  who 
acquired  the  estate  of  Kirkharle  in  Northumber- 
land by  marriage  in  the  reign  of  Henry  V.,  can 
be  traced  through  them  to  Kobert  de  Lorraine 
or  Walcher  de  Lorraine,  who  lived  temp,  William 
I.  and  H.  Concerning  these  two  persons  I  should 
also  be  glad  of  information  on  the  following 
points :  — From  what  family  each  was  descended, 
and  what  arms,  if  any,  were  borne  by  Robert  P 
How  and  when  each  of  his  ancestors  came  to 
England,  and  whether  Kobert  is  likely  to  have 
been  identical  with  the  '^  Delarotme  "  of  the 
Battle-Abbey  RollP  rSee  Grafton's  Chronicle.) 
Whether  they  or  any  ox  th^ir  successors  (previous 
to  1416)  held  property  in  Durham^  and  if  so 
where  P 

.   In  some  private  accounts  in  my  possession 
Robert  de  Lorraine  is  stated  to  have  come  to 

[*  "lliere  wen  leveral  oollmtend  branchM  of  this  sir- 
name  of  Baliol  in  Scotland,  donors  and  witnesses  In  onr 
cloister  registen;  and  in  the  Bagman  Boll  there  are 
fonr  or  five  of  them  of  arood  account.  Some  say  that  the 
Bafllies  are  descended  from  the  Baliols,  which  last  name 
being  odions  to  the  nation,  they  changed  it  to  BailUe^  and 
it  seems  thdr  arms  too,  for  they  are  very  differsnt  ftom 
the  Baliols."— Kisbet's  fftraUtrg,  I  178^£d.] 


England  with^the  Conqueror,  to  have  been  a 
great  soldier  and  scholar,  and  to  have  been  re- 
warded with  lands  in  Durham  by  Rufus.  He  is 
mentioned  in  Baker's  Chronicle,  p.  41,  ed.  1660, 
as  having  epitomised  the  Chronide  of  Marianue 
Scotus,  and  I  believe  he  was  made  Bishop  of 
Hereford.  Walcher  de  Lorraine  was  Bishop  of 
Durham  and  Earl  of  Northumberland. 

LOTHAIB. 
94,  Piccadilly. 

**  DocuMSNTOs  Ababicos.'' — 

**  In  a  collection  of  |Mipers  published  in  1790,  called 
Documentoi  Arubico$,  from  the  Boval  Archives  of  Lis- 
bon, chiefly  consistinff  of  letters  between  the  kings  of 
Portugal  and  the  tribotary  princes  of  the  East  in  the 
sixteenth  century,  the  Zeqne,  Sheik,  or  King  of  Melinda^ 
with  whom  De  Gama  afierwards  made  a  treaty  of  alllaoce,. 
and  whose  ambassador  he  carried  into  Portugal,  was 
named  Wageraje.**  —  Clark^  1.  486-7}  Kerr's  Voyage» 
and  TraveU,  ii.  843. 

The  work  above  mentioned  was  translated  into 
Portuguese  by  Father  John  de  Souza*  in  1790. 
Does  it  throw  any  light  upon  the  parenU^  or 
history  of  Timoia,Timoja,  or  Tim-K&j,  the  Hindu 
ally  of  the  great  Albuquerque  P  Has  it  ever  been 
tnmslated  into  English  or  French  P  and  if  so,  under 
what  name  or  title  is  it  to  be  asked  for  P 

R.  R  W.  Ellis. 

Starcroes,  near  Exeter. 

A  GBBUAir  Ettxological  DionoNABY.  ^  Can 
you  or  any  of  your  numerous  and  learned  corre- 
spondents reconmiend  to  me  a  good  German  etymo- 
logical dictionary  in  a  small  compass  P  I  possess 
Qiimm!%Deuteche8  Worterhuch^'wiih.  the  continua- 
tions by  Hildebrand  and  Weigand,  as  far  as  itgoes ; 
but  such  a  work  is  too  bulky  for  my  purpose.  Xnave 
bought  several  German-English  aictionarieS|  but 
they  none  of  them  give  the  German  derivations. 
What  I  want  is  something  after  the  fashion  of 
your  Chambers'  EngUth  Stymchgical  Dictionary^ 
or  even  Pick*s  French  Etymological  Dictionary. 
If  any  one  can  reconounend  such  a  work  in  a  smiul 
compass  they  will  greatly  oUige 

A  FoBEieviB. 

[We  are  not  aware  of  any  etjrmological  dietionairy 
of  the  German  language,  with  the  exception  of  that  re- 
ferred to  above,  as  commenced  by  Grimm  and  continued 
by  Hildebrand  and  Weigand.  German  beinf  for  the 
neater  part  an  original  language,  it  is  impossible  to  show 
its  derivations  in  the  same  manner  as  can  be  done  with 
English  or  French,  the  former  of  which  is  mainly  derived 
from  Gothic  and  Latin,  through  the  media  of  Anglo- 
Saxon  and  flench,  and  the  latter  from  Latin  and  Celtic. 
The  only  thing  that  can  be  efibctsd  in  such  a  case  is  to 
show  the  afflnities  between  the  language  In  question  and 
the  other  branches  of  the  Aryan  fiunily  of  tongues  to 
which  it  is  attached  as  a  common  stem.  Such  an  un- 
dertaking, moreover,  is  one  requiring  immense  powers  of 
leaminff  and  research,  such  as  could  only  have  been  la- 
stituted  by  men  of  the  calibre  of  Grimm.  Bopp's  VtrgUi- 
tikemdM  GrammOik,  and  Pott*s  E^mologiaehM  For$ektmgm 
may  be  advantageously  oonsnlted.] 

—      ■   -I  I  T  ■  ■      I       ■  ■     I  ■        I  ■  ■ 

*  James  Murphy,  TVovcb  m  Portugal^  p.  235,  Loiidoii» 
1796. 


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[4m8.YILAmL^'7l. 


Havssl's  <<Mb8xah»''— >At  performaneeB  of 
this  oratorio  audiences  inyariably  rise  at  the  fiist 
notes  of  the  <'  Hallelujah  Chorus/'  and  remain 
standing  until  the  chorus  has  been  sung  thiou^j^. 
Can  any  of  your  readem  supply  a  note  as  to  the 
origm  of  this  custom  P  F.  8. 

Habbow  School  :  Jomr  Lton. — ^In  the  Timu 
newspaper  of  March  2  is  a  brief  notice  of ''  Harrow 
Sdiool  Tercentenary/'  in  which  it  is  stated,  with 
reference  to  this  famous  seminarpri  that  the  pre- 
sent is  the  three  hundredth  year  since  its  charter 
of  foundation  was  granted  to  John  Lyon.  Is  any- 
thing Imown  regarding  the  personal  history  and 
fJEunuy  of  this  John  Lyon,  and  was  he  in  any  way 
connected  with  the  Lyon  who  gave  his  name  to 
the  inn  of  Chancery  long  known  as  ''Lyon's 
Inn  "  P  It  occurs  to  me  that  the  sign  aimonal  of 
Hurow  School  )s  identical  with,  or  at  least  some 
modification  of,  that  of  the  Scotch  earldom  of 
Strathmore ;  but  my  memor^  in  regard  to  this  is 
not  by  any  means  distinct  What  history  giyes 
the  best  account  of  its  foundation  P 

Babbibibb. 

[We  fear  but  litUe  is  known  of  the  parentage  of  John 
Lyon,  the  founder  of  Harrow  SchooL  He  resided  at 
Fteston,  in  the  parish  of  Harrow,  in  the  condition,  as  is 
said,  of  a  *'  wealthy  ^man,*'  and  had  considerable 
landed  property,  acquired  by  his  own  industry.  Ac- 
cording to  his  mQnumental  orass  he  died  Oct.  8,  1592. 
Ko  wiU  nor  administration  of  his  effects  has  been  found 
cither  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  or  in  the 
Bishop  of  London's  office.  His  widow,  Joan,  was  buried, 
aooording  to  the  register,  Aug.  80,  1608.  Their  only 
ehild,  Zachaiy,  was  buried  May  25.  1588.    The  letters 

Eitent  for  the  endowment  of  the  school  were  procured  by 
yon  13  Eliz.  1571.  It  has  been  oonjectared,  with  some 
probability,  that  a  kinsman  of  the  founds  of  Harrow 
School  was  John  Lyon  (son  of  Thomas  Lron  of  Peiy- 
finre  or  Perivale\  <*  a  dticen  of  credit  an^  renown,"  a 
member  of  the  Groeera'  CompaDy,  Sheriff  in  1560,  and 
Lord  Mayor  in  1554.  During  his  shrievalty  he  had  a 
grant  of  aims,  viz.  Azure  a  fees  or,  charged  with  a  lion 
passant  between  two  dnqaefoils  gules,  between  three 
pUktes,  each  charged  with  a  griffin's  head  erased  sable. 
We  are  indebted  for  these  particulars  to  two  interesting 
Jaspers  in  the  Harrow  Gazette  of  March,  1861,  one  dgned 
•*£.,"  [Geor^  Edward  Long,  Esq.],  and  the  other  with 
the  familiar  initiab  ^  J.  G.  N."  For  the  history  of  Harrow 
School  consult  Carlisle's  Endowed  Grammar  Schools,  ed. 
1818,  ii.  125-161 ;  7^  History  of  the  CoUegee  of  Win- 
Chester,  Eton,  Harrow,  &C.,  ed.  1816,  4to ;  and  Howard 
Staunton's  Great  Schooh  of  England,  1865,  8vo,  pp.  802- 
849.— Lyon*8  Inn,  Holywell  Street,  was  anciently  a  com- 
mon inn  of  the  sign  of  the  Lion  {felis  leo),  king  of  beasts^] 

HoGABTH  BooK-?LA.TBS.— Will  any  correspond- 
ent of  yours  tell  me  what  are  the  characteristics 
of  the  book-plates  which  are  said  to  have  been 
engrayed  by  Hogarth  P  I  belieye  that  he  executed 
some  for  John  Wilkes  and  Heaton  WUkes;  but 
what  are  the  means  of  idoitification  P  Also,  what 
otiiers  did  he  enflxaye  P  Perhaps  your  learned  cor- 
respondents J.  G.  Nichols,  Esq.  or  Db.  Howabd, 
botn  of  whom  are  well-known  experts  in  heraldiy 
and  book-plates^  can  tell  me.         G.  AxEorBoir. 


LoBD  Jbbxsouubb  ob  YniTM)iuaB.— Could  yoa 
inform  me  where  I  could  meet  with  an  account 
of  the  lands  h^  by  Lord  Jertaolder  or  Yertsolder 
in  Scotland  P  He  emigzated  to  France  with  the 
king,  James  IL,  for  the  Catholic  religion  in  or 
about  the  jwt  1689.  He  was  Lord  of  England, 
and  after  being  in  IVance  he  went  and  estabushea 
himself  in  Antwerp,  where  he  remained  and 
married  himself  witn  Miss  Lathomyer  of  Dender- 
monde  ^Belgium);  he  than  changed  his  name, 
and  took  that  of  De  Heyder,  and  had  seyen 
children.  Gitbiatb  BxiryxB. 

Rsy.  TncoTHT  Lsb  :  Acxwobte  Chitboh. — ^Is 
there  any  monumental  inscription  in  Ackworth 
church,  near  Pontefract,  to  Bey.  Timothy  Lee 
and  his  wife  Penelope,  who  were  liying  there  in 
the  middle  of  the  last  century  P  C.  D.  C. 

MoKiAGV  QtnEBiES. — ^Liformation  is  requested 
respecting  some  memoirs  said  to  haye  been  pub- 
Hahed  by  a  Lady  Montagu,  wife  of  one  of  the 
ViBcounts  Montagu,  of  Cowdray  and  Battie  Abbey, 
Sussex.  Also,  whether  the  crest  or  badge  borne 
by  Sir  Anthony  Browne,  Great  Standard  Bearer  of 
^gland  (father  of  the  first  Viscount)  was  a  blade 
greyhound  P  C.  L.  W. 

Pbiobt  of  St.  'EassBXHS, — I  shall  feel  exceed- 
ingly obliged  by  jour  permitting  me  to  use  your 
columns  in  cleanng  up  an  anachronism.  I  am 
engaged  in  ''  A  Sketch  of  the  Religious  Houses 
of  fSigland  and  Wales,''  and  haye  met  with  a 
difficulty  which  I  beg  to  propose  to  your  readers 
for  solution.  During  the  reign  of  Dayid  I.  of 
Sootiand,  the  priory  of  St  Etheman  in  the  Isle  of 
May  was  giyen  by  that  soyereign  to  the  abbey  of 
Reading;  out  during  the  rule  of  Abbot  de  Buigh- 
gate  (according  to  Cotes)  it  was  alienated  and  sold 
to  Bishop  de  Lamberton  of  St.  Andrews.  F.  de 
Burghgate  was  Abbot  of  Reading  from  1268  to 
1287,  and  Bishop  Lamberton  was  not  consecrated 
till  1298.  Did  the  transfer  of  May  take  place 
duiinff  the  episcopate  of  Bishop  Frazer  or  Bishop 
Gamelin,  or  Bishop  Wishart  ndl  of  whom  were 
contemporaries  of  Abbot  de  Buighgate),  or  was 
it  during  the  reign  of  his  successor,  Abbot  deQuap- 

Slede,  who  found  the  abbey  of  Reading  much  m 
ebt  P  and  this  is  by  no  means  improbable,  as  he 
succeeded  in  liqui&ting  the  debt.  I  know  that 
Bishop  Wishart  witneaM  two  charters  in  his 
episconacy — (1)  of  a  grant  of  a  piece  of  land  by 
PatricK  Earl  of  Dunbar  to  God  and  the  saints  of 
the  Isle  of  May,  and  the  monks  there  serying 
God ;  and  (2)  a  grant  of  a  cow  yearly  to  the  same 
monks  by  tne  same  nobleman,  but  we  also  have 
an  injunction  from  Bishop  de  Lamberton  ordering 
the  prior  of  St  Etheman  to  pay  sixteen  marks 
annually  to  the  Prior  of  St.  Andrews,  which  had 
been  preyiousljr  paid  to  its  former  suporior,  the 
Abbot  of  Readmg.  Wilfbio  ov  Galwax. 


4»  a.  YH.  apbil  8, 71.]  NOTES  AND  QUEBIEa 


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MsTBiGAL  Vebsioks  ov  THE  PsALXs. — Oan  any 
Gonespondent  tell  me  who  wrote  the  following 
lines  "  On  the  Versions  "PI  found  them  on  the 
fly-leaf  of  an  old  Greek  Testament  and  Prayer- 
book;  intended  apparently  as  a  kind  of  relish 
after  ^'The  Whole  booke  of  Psalmes:  Colbcted 
into  English  Metre,  with  apt  Notes  to  sing  them 
withall": — 

•<OiitAe  Venumi. 
^  When  the  Boyal  Psalmist  stnmg  his  golden  Lyn» 
God  smiljod  upon  him  and  he  sang  with  flie ; 
The  Voice  of  Music  lent  snblimer  aid 
To  hreathine  thoughts  in  burning  words  arrayed. 
O  what  a  fiul  is  here  when  Brady  palms 
His  limping  dcMrgrel  off  for  David's  Psalms  I 
AU  sin  alike ;  the  same  dull  scrannel  grates 
In  Tliomas  Stemhold's'as  in  Nahum  Tate's. 
One  with  crude  baldness  sets  the  teeth  on  edge, 
One  creeps  meandering  girt  with  slimy  sedge ; 
Unmeaning  platitudes  the  sense  impede. 
As  sluggish  rivers  with  the  noisome  weed. 
Shall  we  who  boast  of  intellect  refined. 
Of  social  progress  and  the  march  of  mind, 
Still  use  such  jargon  in  Jehovah's  praise. 
And  shine  in  any  but  religious  lays  ? 
And  shall  men  retrospect  in  time  to  oome. 
And  own  that  with  us  saored  song  was  dumb  7^ 

T.  Feltoit  Falkkbb. 

PuTTDfe  TO  Death  by  Tobtube  for  impxtted 
Heebst. — What  execntionB  of  this  kind,  by  formal 
consignment  from  the  church  to  "the  secular 
ann/'  are  recorded  between  the  period  of  the  per- 
secutions by  the  Koman  emperors  and  the  insti- 
tution of  ^  the  inquisition  by  Gregory  IX.  about 
1233,  besides  that  of  Amola  of  Brescia,  who  was 
delirered  over  by  Adrian  IV.,  our  countryman,  to 
the  civil  governor  of  Rome,  and  by  him  executed, 
and  his  body  burnt,  in  1155  P  Zbtetbs. 

Saints'  Emblems. — In  the  course  of  some  re- 
pairs made  in  the  year  1839  in  the  parish  church 
of  Ste.  Marie  du  Castel,  in  the  Island  of  Guernsey, 
some  rude  fresco-paintings  were  discovered  on 
the  north  side  of  the  chancel  vault.  Three  dis- 
tinct subjects  are  depicted.  The  one  nearest  the 
eastern  window  is  either  the  Last  Supper  or  the 
supper  in  the  house  of  Simon  the  leper ;  probably 
the  latter  is  intended,  as  there  are  traces  of  a 
figure  with  long  hair  lying  at  the  feet  of  the 
Saviour.  A  flat  vault-rib  separates  this  from  the 
next  picture,  which  is  a  representation  of  the 
medieval  legend  known  as  "  Le  fabliau  des  trois 
morts  et  des  trois  vifs.''  On  the  vault-rib  itself  a 
angle  figure  is  depicted,  probably  some  saint  or 
martyr.  The  figure  is  attired  in  a  long  dark- blue 
robe,  with  a  close-fitting  white  cowl  and  tippet, 
from  the  back  of  which,  over  the  right  shoulder, 
hangs  a  red  lappet :  this  may  be  intended  to  re- 
present blood.  The  right  hand,  which  has  some- 
thing like  a  maniple  depending  from  it,  holds  a 
flagon  painted  yellow,  the  left  a  chalice  coloured 
red.  Across  the  neck  is  laid  a  huge  hatchet,  the 
head  of  which  is  over  the  right  shoulder  oi  the 


figure,  and  is  painted  blue,  with  stains  of  red 
towards  the  edge.  There  is  no  nimbus  round  the 
head.  Do  these  emblems  afibrd  any  due  as  to 
the  person  intended  to  be  represented  P  A  great 
authoritvin  matters  of  ancient  costume,  the  late 
Colonel  Hamilton  Smith,  to  whom  I  sent  sketches 
of  these  paintings,  pronounced  them  to  be  of  the 
first  quarter  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

Edoab  MacCullooh. 

Oiisnissy. 

Sbbmok  op  St.  Eloy,  ob  ELienj8.--I>r.  Mait- 
land*s  readers  will  remember  the  famous  sermon 
of  St.  Eloy,  which  was  so  strangely  misrepre- 
sented by  Bobertson.  Has  any  EngUsh  transla- 
tion of  this  sermon  ever  been  published  P 

C.  D.  0. 

Sbwbll. — Wanted  the  parentage  of  Sir  Thomas 
Sewell,  Master  of  the  Bollfl,  and  that  of  his  first 
wife  mss  Heath(P).*  '  Y.  S.  M. 

|,It  appears  from  that  compendious  storehouse  of  1ml 
biography,  Foss's  BuHfnquhical  Dictumaty  of  the  Jw^ 
afEnakmd,  that  Thomas  Sewell  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
Sewell  of  West  Ham,  Essex;  and  his  first  wife  was 
Catherine,  daughter  6f  Thomas  Heath,  Esq.  of  Stansted 
Mountfichet,  in  the  same  county.  Mr.  Foss  quotes  among 
other  authorities,  **  N.  &  Q."  1*  S.  viL  888,  621,  621 ;  ix. 
86;  2»dS.x.896.] 

Wbecks. — Wanted,  1.  Name  and  publisher  of 
the  book  giving  an  account  of  the  wreck  of  the 
Anson  about  Christmas,  1807,  on  the  bar  near 
Porthleven,  Cornwall. 

2.  Any  details,  &c.,  connected  with  the  wreck 
of  the  Susan  and  Rebecca  transport  lost  on  Qun- 
wakoe  Hocks,  about  the  same  date,  on  her  return 
from  Buenos  Ayres  with  the  7th  Dragoons,  part 
of  General  Whitelock's  army,  T.  H.  B. 

ITKe  Lon  of  tiie  Anson  Frigate  on  Dec,  28,  1807,  with 
a  plate,  was  published  by  Thomas  Tegg,  111,  Cheapside, 
about  the  year  1810, 12mo.  Consult  also  Narrativea  of 
SkipwredkM  of  the  Royal  Navy  between  1793  and  1849,  By 
W.  0.  S.  Qilly,  Lond.  1860, 8vo,  pp.  126-185.  We  cannot 
discover  any  details  of  the  wreck  of  the  Susan  and 
Rebecca.] 

OMBRE:  BOSTON. 

(4*  S.  viL  36, 167.) 

Your  correspondent  Z.  Z.,  under  the  heading 
''  Ombre,''  inquires  "  what  was  the  game  of  Bos- 
ton P ''  Boston,  as  I  have  seen  it  played  (I  believe 
there  are  variedes),  is  a  ^me  standing  midway 
between  whist  and  quadnlle.  Four  players  hold 
thirteen  cards  each,  the  value  of  the  cards  being 
as  at  whist.  The  suits  are  arranged  in  an  order 
of  value,  diamonds  being  the  highest  The  simple 
form  of  the  game  is  called  '^  Boston,"  or  ''  Aak 
and  Answer."  The  eldest  hand,  or  failing  him, 
the  next  eldest  and  so  on,  if  he  sees  he  can  make 
five  tricks — a  certain  suit  being  trumps — ^^'pro- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4*8.vii.afbil8,ti. 


poses"  in  that  suit  Any  other  player  able  to 
make  three  tricks  in  the  same  suit  answers  him, 
and  if  nothing  higher  is  declared,  the  game  pro- 
ceeds, the  two  being  bound  to  make  eight  tricks, 
and  Uie  play  being  as  at  whist,  except  that  the 
partners  are  nut  necessarily  opposite  each  other. 
A  proposal  in  a  higher  suit  puts  out  a  previous 
'^  ask  and  answer  "  m  a  lower.  Honours  and  extra 
tridcs  are  counted  after  a  prescribed  scale.  If 
there  is  no  answerer,  the  proposer  is  bound  to  play 
alone  against  the  three  others,  and  to  make  his 
five  trices. 


any  suit,  or  a  ''  great  independ 
make  eight  A  ''little  independence ''  puts  out 
an  ''ask  and  answer,"  and  is  put  out  itself  by  a 
"great  independence."  In  these  cases  also  one 
plays  alone  against  the  other  three,  the  suit  named 
neing  trumps.  Of  course  a'player  playing  alone 
receives  or  pays  the  stake  three  times  over  to  the 
other  players,  the  stake  being  arranged  on  a  gra- 
duatea  scale  according  to  the  value  of  the  suits. 
But  the  most  interesting  variety  of  the  game  is 
the  "  misdre."  A  player  may  challenge  the  other 
three  to  make  him  torn  a  tnck,  in  which  case  he 
declares  a  "  misdre."  A  declared  "  misdre  "  puts 
out  any  independence  whatever,  and  in  playing 
for  the  "  misdre  "  there  are  no  trumps,  the  suit 
declared  in  merely  determining  the  amount  of  the 
stake.  A  misdre  can  only  be  put  out  by  declar- 
ing a  slem^  L  e.  that  a  certain  suit  being  trumps, 
the  declarer  will  win  thirteen  tricks.  As  tne 
game  is  sometimes  played,  a  "  petite  misdre " 
may  be  declared,  in  which  case  the  player  de- 
clares that  he  will  make  one  trick  and  no  more. 
A  little  misdre  puts  out  a  little  independence, 
but  not  a  great  one. 

The  origin  of  the  name  "  Boston  "  may  be  in- 
teresting to  Z.  Z.  The  Gomte  de  S^gur,  in  his 
Mimoires,  <m  SoNvenin  et  Anecddes,  i.  77  (3rd 
edit),  speaking  of  the  interest  taken  amonff  the 
company  assembled  at  Spa  in  the  success  of  the 
Americans  in  the  early  days  of  the  war  of  inde- 
pendence, writes  :-— 

**  L'intorrection  amtfrieaine  prit  partout  eomme  mie 
mode:  le  Bsvant  Jen  anfflais,  le  wiak,  le  vit  tont-k-ooup 
rempUotf  dans  tons  lea  tuaonM  par  im  jen  n<m  moins  gimve 
qn'oB  nomma  /«  bottom,  Ce  moavvment,  qaoiqnil  semUe 
bim  l^ger,  ^tait  vn  notable  prteige  dee  graodee  oonvnl- 
aioiis  auzqaellee  le  monde  entier  ne  devait  pu  tarder  k 
%tn  livr^  et  j'^taie  Men  loin  d'etre  le  aenl  dont  le  coeiir 
alors  palpitAt  an  bmit  da  rtfvefl  nai«ant  de  la  liberty, 
cherchant  k  aeoouer  le  Jong  da  poavdr  arbitraire." 

I  do  not  wish  to  impugn  this  hermc  orisin  for 
the  game,  but  if  less  emnnU  than  wlust,  boston 
is  also,  ms  tetUf  momt  ffrave.  The  various  com- 
binations I  have  endeavonxed  to  describe  make 
the  game  a  very  lively,  not  to  say  a  noisy,  one. 

0.  A.  L. 


The  following  description  oC  the  game  of  ombre 
is  drawn  from  the  eighth  edition  of  the  Compleat 
Gamester  f  which  devotes  no  less  than  eighty-eight 
pages  to  tne  game),^  and  is  confirmed  and  supple- 
mented by  infonnation  from  other  sources : — 

Ombre  is  an  improvement  on  the  Spanish  game 
of  "  Primero,''  and  derives  its  name  from  the  Spanish 
JSi  Hombre — ^The  Man — ^in  allusion  to  the  thought 
and  attention  required,  or  perhaps  referring  to  him 
who  undertakes  to  play  the  game  against  the  rest 
of  the  gamesters.  Ombre  may  be  played  by  two, 
by  three,  by  four,  or  by  five.  Ombre  by  three 
(the  favourite  game)  was  played  with  forty  cards, 
the  eights,  nines,  and  tens  being  thrown  out 
Ombre  packs  were  sold  for  the  purpose.  The  card9 
counted  in  their  natural  sequence  in  spades  and 
dubs,  the  two  black  aces  being  alwajs  trumps. 
In  hearts  and  diamonds  king,  queen,  and  knave 
kept  their  natural  rank,  but  of  the  ordinary  cards 
the  lowest  in  number  counted  highest. 

To  find  the  dealer,  give  one  card  round,  and  one 
to  bank.  Whoever  has  the  highest  card  of  bank 
suit  deals.  The  dealer  deak  from  riffht  to  left^ 
instead  of  from  left  to  right,  as  in  all  ouer  games, 
and  the  players  play  in  like  manner.  Nine  cards 
are  dealt  to  eacn  player,  three  and  three  round, 
the  remaining  thirteen  from  the  bank.  After 
dealing,  if  none  thinks  himself  strong  enough  ta 
attempt  for  the  stake,  all  pass^  and  contribute  to 
the  former  stake,  then  deal  again.  Whoever 
fimdly  attempta  is  called  the  ''  ombre,"  and  plays 
a^^ainst  the  other  two ;  the  winner  must  take  five 
tncks,  or  four  when  the  other  five  are  divided. 

Ombre  chooses  which  suit  shaU  be  trumps, 
but  it  must  be  borne  in  mind  the  ace  of  spades 
is  always  first  trump,  or  Spadille ;  the  ace  of  clubs 
always  third  tramp,  and  is  called  Basto;  the 
second  trump  is  always  the  worst  card  of  trump 
suit  in  its  natural  order — that  is,  ih%  seven  in  red 
and  the  deuce  in  black  suits,  and  is  cdledManille. 
If  either  of  the  rdd  suits  is  trumps,  the  ace  of  that 
suit  is  fourth  tramp,  and  called  Pnnto. 

Spadille,  Manille,  and  Basto  are  called  mata- 
dores  or  murderen^  as  they  never  give  quarter : 
it  is  their  privilege  never  to  be  obbsed  to  follow 
inferior  tramps — as,  suppose  I  hold  Basto  and  no 
other  tramp,  and  king  of  tramps  is  led,  I  need 
not  follow  with  Basto,  but  may  renounce  trampa 
and  play  from  another  suit;  but  it  must  pay 
deference  to  its  superiors,  and  come  out  if  Spa- 
dille or  Manille  are  led. 

Ombre  may,  if  he  will,  discard  aor  number  of 
his  hand  he  chooses  in  exchange  for  an  equal 
number  from  the  bank,  as  also  may  the  other  twc^ 
or  he  may  trust  to  his  own  hand,  which  is  caUeft 
Sans  Prendre.  If  ombre  fiuls  he  is  bested,  and 
if  one  of  the  defenders  of  the  stake  wins  more 
tricks  than  he,  he  is  said  to  win  Codille,  and  takea 
up  the  stake  the  omlve  played  for. 
Quadrille,  or  ombre  by  four,  was  invented  by  ilia 


4*  S.  VII.  Apbxl  8, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


307 


French/  and  differs  from  the  former  game  in 
having  all  the  forty  cards  dealt  out — to  each  per- 
son ten,  twice  three  and  once  four. 

In  Quintille,  or  ombre  by  fiye,  each  person  has 
eight  cards  dealt  him.  There  is  no  marking  at 
omb^.    Every  deal  decides  the  game. 

John  W.  Fobb. 


MOUBNIKG,  OR  BLACK-EDGED  WRITING 

PAPER. 

(4**  S.  yii.  209.) 

W.  H.  S.  is  not  quite  correct  in  his  conjectures 
as  to  the  time  when  blade-edged  quarto-sized 
paper  came  into  use.  He  is  not  aware  that  there 
was  any  before  1840.  But  I  have  a  distinct 
recollection  of  quarto  letter  paper  with  black 
edges  many  years  before  1840,  though  I  cannot 
state  the  exact  time  of  its  introduction.  I  can, 
howeyer,  produce  letters  written  on  sheets  of 
quarto  size,  with  black-edged  borders,  in  1836  and 
1837.  The  maker  of  that  paper  in  1836  was 
C.  Penny,  London.  There  is  no  date  in  the  water- 
mark; but  we  may  fairly  conclude  that  the  P&pe' 
had  been  made  a  year  or  two  earlier  than  J  836. 
The  water-mark  on  the  paper  of  1837  is  ''  Eich"^ 
Turner,  Chafford  Mills.''^  It  might  perhaps  be 
ascertained  on  inquiry,  how  soon  either  or  both 
of  these  nmkers  had  bc^un  to  supply  black-edged 
naper;  but  it  appears,  at  least,  that  the  manu- 
lacture  was  not  confined  to  any  particular  places. 
Indeed  I  am  persuaded  that  the  use  of  such  paper 
had  become  common  many  years  earlier. 

Nor  do  I  consider  that  uie  use  of  note  paper 
was  so  connected  as  W.  H.  S.  supposes,  witn  the 
establishment  of  the  penny  posta^,  or  rather  the 
substitution  of  weight  for  quantity  of  paperi  as 
the  regulating  principle  of  cnarge.  The  first  re- 
laxation of  the  postage  took  place  on  December  6, 
1839,  when  a  oniform  rate  of  fouxpence  was  fixed 
for  weight  under  half  aa  ounce:  then  on  Janu- 
ary 10, 1840,  the  rate  was  made  a  penny  for  the 
same  weight,  which  has  continued  ever  since. 
Before  these  changes^  letters  were  most  unequaUy 
charged.  If  a  letter  was  on  a  single  sheet  or  piece 
of  paper,  no  matter  how  large,  it  was  charged 
only  with  single  postage;  but  if  it  contained  any 
enclosure,  however  smul,  it  was  charged  double. 
But  in  those  days  Members  of  Parliament  had  the 
privilege  of  franking  ten  letters  of  any  weight 
nnder  an  ounce,  and  of  receiving  fifteen  letters 
also  free  under  that  weight.  So  the  custom  pre- 
vailed of  tearing  down  a  sheet  of  letter  paper, 
folding  one  half  of  it  to  note  size,  to  write  upon, 
and  endosing  it  in  the  other  half^  which  curved 

*  **  Who,"  ssya  the  Ommkai  GamuUr,  <<evsr  fond  of 
WPnUtY  and  eqamlly  fickle  In  their  dros  and  diTenions, 
have  moeolated  lefecal  scjods  (nc)  upon  the  Spaniih 
not" 


for  the  envelope.  This  was  the  real  origin  of  note 
paper  and  envelopes,  which  I  remember  many 
years  before  the  penny  postage. 

The  French  are  doubtless  inventive  and  inge- 
nious, and  an  instance  in  the  matter  of  envelopes 
deserves  a  record  in  '^  N.  &  Q."  Who  has  not  been 
annoyed  again  and  again  at  the  difficult  of  opening 
letters  witn  envelopes  gummed  up  all  along  the 
top,  as  if  they  never  were  to  be  opened  P  X  re- 
ceived about  a  year  ago  from  France  some  packets 
of  envelcppes  perlesj  as  they  are  called,  ingeniously 
contrived  to  obviate  the  aoove  inconvenience.  A 
thread  passes  along  the  inside  of  the  lower  part  of 
the  envelope,  with  a  small  bead  {perle)  projecting 
out  of  each  end.  The  following  direction  appears 
just  over  the  sealing  place  of  the  envelope: 
''Baissez  une  perle.  iJn  fil  coupe  le  has  de  1^- 
veloppe.*'  The  enclosed  letter  is  thereby  at  once 
set  free.  I  enclose  this  communication  in  one  of 
these  ingenious  contrivances,  which  I  think  well 
deserving  of  the  attention  of  our  stationers. 

F.  C.  H. 


To  asdst  your  correspondent  W,  H.  S.  in  his 
inquiry  I  have  looked  over  a  great  mass  of  cor- 
respondence now  in  my  possession,  from  May  10, 

The  first  letter  I  found  sealed  with  black  wax 
was  one  from  the  Prince  de  Cond^  to  my  grand- 
father, the  Right  Hon.  William  Wickham,  dated 
June  17. 1706. 

The  first  letter  I  found  written  on  black-bor- 
dered paper  was  one  from  the  Avoyer  de  Steiffuer 
of  Berne  to  my  grandfather,  dated  March  31, 1796. 
The  paper  is  a  small  quarto,  the  black  border 
rather  deeper  than  that  which  stationers  call 
'<  Italian  border,"  carried  round  both  sides  but 
not  down  the  division. 

I  have  found  a  letter  from  the  Duchess  of 
Wurtemberg  (Princess  Boyal  of  Enyfland)  to  my 
grandmother,  Mrs.  Wickham,  dated  May  27, 1801, 
on  a  sheet  of  letter  paper  with  a  blade  border  a 
trifle  wider  than  the  Italian  border,  but  rather 
less  deep  than  the  letter  of  the  Avoyer  de  Steiguer ; 
it  is  put  on  the  paper  in  the  same  manner  as  in 
that  letter,  and  m  both  the  black  border  is  rough 
and  irregular.  It  will  be  noticed  that  all  these 
letters  are  foreign.  The  first  English  letter  witii 
a  black  border  which  I  have  come  upon  is  one 
from  the  Marchioness  of  Downshire  to  Mr.  Wick- 
ham, dated  February  22, 1802 :  in  that  letter  the 
border,  about  the  Italian  width,  goes  round  the 
first  page  only  of  a  sheet  of  letter  paper. 

It  would  seem  from  what  has  gone  before,  that 
the  black  border  is  older  than  a  mere  black  edge, 
and  was  used  at  first  very  sparingly.  It  is  certain 
that  whilst  mournings  and  all  trappings  of  woe 
have  mdually  grown  less  severe,  the  depth  of 
black  Dorders  on  writinff  paper  has  increased :  we 
now  often  see  paper  for  widows  so  deep,  that 


806 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


C4*&TILAFKL8»*n. 


fitlile  sMoe  is  left  far  wiiliiig.  I  xemember  seeing 
in  a  Bnop  at  Maneilleo,  in  Oct  1865^  a  Tiritinff 
cazd  entuelj  bladk,  wiUi  the  name  onlj  pzintea 
in  white  I  Certainly  the  dinnal  ingenaitjf  of  8ta- 
tiooen  could  no  further  go. 

I  imagine  the  increased  depth  of  black  borders 
to  be  due  primarily  to  the  stationers,  and  that 
from  various  causes  it  has  found  &Tour  with 
**the  public."  William  Wigceail 

Clab. 


There  is  evidence  of  mourning  or  black-edged 
writing  paper  having  been  employed  much  earner 
than  your  querist  seems  to  suppose  was  the  case. 

In  Addison's  comedy  of  Thel)nimmer  (Act  IV. 
Be.  I)  there  is  mention  of  ^my  lady's  mourning 
paper— that  is,  blacked  at  the  edges."  The  Drum- 
mer came  out  in  1715.  w.  F.  Pollock. 

I  have  in  my  possession  a  letter,  written  on  a 
guarto-sized  sheet  of  letter  paper,  by  John  fifth 
Earl  of  Corke  and  Orrery,  witia  a  black  border  a 
Quarter  of  an  inch  in  depth.  The  letter  is  dated 
Jan.  12.  1760.  Lord  Corke's  second  wife  had 
died  in  i^ovember,  1758.      Edmukd  M.  Botle. 

Bock  Wood,  Torquay. 


ADAM  DE  ORLETON. 
(4«»  S.  viL  53, 151.) 

The  Isst  line  of  my  cooununication  to  '^  N.  &  Q." 
should  rather  have  been  readilv  '' deduced"  than 
'^  ascertained  "  by  those  who  felt  interested  in  the 
subject.  I  did  not  intend  to  suggest  that  I  poe- 
sessed  any  source  of  information  which  was  not 
common  to  every  other  in<}uirer;  but  I  submit 
that  history,  as  we  know  it,  discloses  sufficient 
facts  to  fully  justify  my  declaration,  that  Adam  de 
Orleton  haa  notbmff  whatever  to  do  with  the 
Latin  missive  relied  on  to  his  prejudice  by  Mb. 
Tsw. 

Adam  de  Orleton  has  in  turns  been  shrled  ^'  an 
Achitophel,"  "  an  i^tful  and  unprincipled  church- 
man," ^<  a  pitiless  traitor,"  *'  a  master  fiend,"  and 
other  hard  names ;  but  despite  these  appellations^ 
when  iiidged  by  the  standard  of  truth,  and  con- 
adered  in  reference  to  the  eventful  and  troubled 
times  in  which  he  lived,  it  will  be  found  that  he 
merely  proved  himself  to  iouneasurably  surpass 
all  his  compeers,  not  only  as  a  man  of  consum- 
mate ability,  but  as  one  absolutely  superior  to 
all  the  influences  by  which  he  was  surrounded. 
Endowed  by  nature  with  the  keenest  powers  of 
perception,  tact>  and  prudence— indomitable  in  his 
purpose,  and  self-reliant  to  the  last  degree — 
Adam  de  Orleton  was  enabled  to  turn  every  phase 
of  public  and  political  existence  to  his  own  ad- 
vantage, and,  notwithstanding  he  lived  in  tiutt 
momentous  period   of  Englttid's  history  when 


''every  man's  life  hung  at  his  girdle,'*  he  never- 
theless contrived  to  hold  his  own  without  refer- 
ence to  whichever  party  was  for  the  moment  in 
the  ascendant;  and  desj^te  the  power  and  malice 
of  his  numerous  enemies,  he  ended  a  long  and 
active  existence  as  the  oceunant  of  one  of  the 
most  coveted  sees  in  the  kinffaom. 

It  has  been  alleged  that  ne  wrote  to  Sir  John 
Maltravers  and  Sir  Thomas  Gumev,  at  Berkeley 
Castie,  umng  them  to  increase  tne  miseries  of 
their  rovaf  prisoner ;  and  to  hie  pen  is  incorrectly 
ascribea  the  repetition  of  those  well-known  Latin 
lines  referred  to  by  M&.  Tbw,  but  which  are  de- 
dared  to  have  been  written  at  a  long  anterior 
date  by  an  archbishop  of  Strimonium,  with  refer- 
ence to  Gertrude  Queen  of  Hungary. 

Bearing  in  mind  this  character  of  Orleton,  and 
his  policy  at  this  period  of  his  life,  it  seems^  to 
me  to  be  incredible,  even  to  the  extent  of  being 
impossible,  that  he  could  have  written  either  the 
supposed  letter  or  the  Latin  doubie  entendre.    To 
have  done  so  would  have  been  to  have  placed 
himself  irrevocably  and  hopelessly  in  the  power 
of  the  kinff*s  murderers  and  of  those  who  directed 
the  foul  deed,  and  to  have  subjected  himself,  at 
any  moment,  to  certain  and  condign  punishment : 
about  the  most  improbable  course  so  subtie  a 
diplomatist  as  Orleton  undoubtedly  was  would 
have  adopted.     Contrast  that  charge  with  the 
fiict  that,  at  the  very  moment  of  Edward's  mur- 
der at  Berkeley  Castie  (Sept.  22,  1327),  Adam 
de  Orleton  was  at  Valenciennes  at  the  court  of 
the  Coimt  of  Hainault,  selecting  a  bride  for  the 
murdered  king's  son.     Add  to  that  undeniable 
truth  that  Orleton,  then  Bishop  of  Hereford,  was, 
in  the  course  of  the  same  month  of  September, 
consecrated  by  the  pope  *'  Lord  Bishop  of  Wor- 
cester " ;  that  he  continued  to  hold  that  office  in 
spite  of  the  opposition  of  the  queen-mother  and 
her  unworthv  favourite ;  that  ne  stood  high  in 
the  favour  of  Edward  IH.,  and  in  April,  1329, 
was  appointed  one  of  his  ambassadors  to  France 
for  the  purpose  o^  demandins^  the  crown  of  that 
country  in  Edward's  behalf;    that,  by  a  con- 
tinuation of  the  royal  favour,  he  was  in  1333 
translated  from  Worcester  to  Winchester,  with 
Famham  Castie  as  his  princely  residence,  and 
that  he  died  there  in  July,  1345 ; — and  I  believe 
that  from  such  facts  it  may  be  "  readily  deduced, 
or  ascertained/'  that  the  memory  of  Adam  Orleton 
ought  to  be  altogether  free  from  any  stain  or 
blame  in  connection  with  the  death  of  Edward  11. ; 
and  that  the  course  of  conduct  adopted  towards 
Orleton  by  Edward  IIL  is  equally  void^  of  even 
one  suspicion  tiiat  he  rewarded,  or  even  intended 
to  do  so,  a  man  privy  to,  stiU  less  directly^  recom- 
mending in  writing,  tiie  murder   of  his  royal 
fatiier. 

Heitbt  F.  Holt. 

King's  Road,  Clspham  PariL 


^&YI)LAnB8^*n.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


S09 


MAXBi^esB  ov  FBnrGBBSM  (j^  S.  yiL  203.)— 
Tkwabs  says  he  can  only  find  thxee  inataaoes  of 
dMighten  or  sisters  of  the  reigniDg  sovereiffn  mar- 
lyiDgBiilaahBaljectB.  Isxiotthecaaeof  Ikuivarety 
younj^peat  daughter  of  Edward  m.^  a  fourth  r  She 
macned  John  Haatinga,  Earl  of  Peml»oke.  Then 
also  Joan,  daughter  ca  Edward  L,  whose  mar- 
nage  with  Gilbert  de  Glare  is  recorded,  mairied 
seModly  Kalph  de  Monthermer.  This  would 
appear  to  be  another  case.  Haxe  all  the  de- 
acendants  of  a  royal  piinee  or  princess  the  right 
to  quarter  royal  arms  r  P. 

Lady  Obhutoh's  Gbjlts  nr  Tswnr  Ohxtbch- 
TABD  {4^^  S.  yn.  76,  128,  172,  278.)— It  seems 
strange  that,  in  two  accounts  of  this  tomb,  one 
should  state  that  there  was  a  single  ash  tree 
^'growing  out  of  the  tomb,"  and  another  that 
^  seyen  An  trees  have  sprung  up  through  the  solid 
tomb.''  We  seem  to  want  tne  accurate  fact  of 
present  appearance,  for  the  mmh  ehns  within  the 
enclosure  of  a  single  tomb  would  be  a  curiosity 
independent  of  any  legend.  If  the  common  elm 
(  Ulmus  eampeetriSy  or  suberosd)  be  intended,  there 
must  have  been  elm  trees  formerly  planted  in  the 
churchyard — scions  from  which  must  have  pene- 
trated imdergTound  beneath  the  tomb,  as  this  tree 
never  springs  from  seed  naturally  in  Enffland; 
while  the  keys  or  seed-yessels  of  the  ash,  blown 
about  by  winds,  settls  and  vegetate  wherever  they 
can ;  and  I  have  seen  ash  troes  growing  within 
neglected  tombs  in  several  country  churchyards. 
A  few  years  since  I  noticed  an  altar  tomb  m  the 
churchyard  of  Perivale,  Middlesex,  within  the 
iron  nuls  sunounding  which  had  sprung  up  two 
hawthorns,  a  tall  ash  tree,  and  a  scrubby  elm, 
with  a  fringe  of  brambles  all  round  the  railing, 
and  ivy  twining  about  the  trunks  of  the  trees. 
With  difficulty  I  made  out  the  date  of  the  tomb, 
1721,  and  that  it  commemorated  Elizabeth  Colle- 
ton, daughter  of  Sir  Peter  Colleton,  Bart., ''  and  by 
her  own  appointment  buried  here.''  The  appear- 
ance of  this  vegetation  was  so  remarkable  that  I 
made  a  sketch  of  it,  and  a  few  more  years  I  should 
think  would  entirely  hide  all  but  the  bulging 
iron  railing  about  the  tomb.  May  I  ask  if  any- 
thing is  known  about  this  banmet's  daughter,  and 
why  she  made  the  ''  appointment "  to  oe  buried 
at  Perivale  P  Curiously  enough,  there  is  no  record 
of  the  maiden's  age^  which  it  would  thus  appear 
ahe  wished  to  be  concealed. 

While  on  Uus  subject  of  vegetation  sponta- 
neously or  self-sown  rising  on  or  over  tombs,  I 
may  mention  that  in  the  chancel  of  Kempeev 
churdi,  near  Worcester,  is  the  monument  with 
recumbent  figure  placed  against  the  north  wall  of 
Sir  Edmund  Wylde,  Knt,  who  died  when  high 
aheriffof  Worcestershire  in  1020,  ^  solemnly  in- 
terred with  great  lamentation,"  and  by  some 
means  a  nengiing  hone-cheatnut  haa  farced  its 


way  through  the  wall  from  the  churchyard,  and 
its  digitated  leaves  now  canopy  the  effigy  of  the 
knight  in  a  very  elesant  manner,  ana  have  a 
curious  appearance  within  the  churdi. 

Enwnr  Ijkmb* 

Green  Hill  Summit,  Worcester. 

[The  case  of  Perivale  chtirohyard  has  been  already 
mentioned,  see  p.  172 ;  and  the  three  elm-tieea  springing 
from  Kyrle's  pew  in  Boas  ohnidi  are  weU  knofwn  to  afi 
touriste^ — ^£d.J 

The  Whhs  Toweb  (4»*  S.  vii.  211.)— -In  reply 
to  RoiCAir  1  would  remark,  1.  The  Roman  camps 
were  merely  earthworks,  strengthened  sometimes 
by  palisades;  and  the  site  of  the  Tower  being 
a  decided  mound  or  eminence,  amounting  probably 
to  a  hill  originally,  there  seems  no  reason  why 
the  Romans  should  not  have  regarded  it  as  a 
hold  or  citadel,  quite  sufficient  to  contain  a  gar- 
rison competent  to  overawe  ancient  London. 

2.  The  White  Tower  never  could  have  been 
built  under  two  or  three  years'  time,  at  the  least 

8.  The  supply  of  water  from  the  Thames  must 
always  have  been  available  for  the  inhabitants  of 
the  Tower,  without  any  need  of  a  well;  since 
the  river  had  free  influx  into  the  old  ditdi,  and 
came  also  under  the  arch  at  Traitors'  Gate  until 
some  thirty-five  years  ago. 

St.  John's  Chapel,  on  the  second  floor  of  the 
White  Tower,  is  one  of  the  finest  and  simplest 
specimens  existing  of  Norman  architecture,  and 
from  its  massive  proportions  must  have  been  an 
integral  portion  of  tne  original  structure,  in  the 
style  and  form  of  which  nothing  Roman  can  be 
traced.  The  exterior  havul|  been  unfortunately 
disfigured  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  aflbrds  no 
criterion,  but  there  is  nothing  Roman  in  the 
character  of  the  Tower. 

4.  Whether  or  no  the  Textus  Boffensis  contains 
evidence  of  Gundulph'shand  in  the  White  Tower, 
it  seems  admitted  that  he  built  Rochester  Castle, 
and  that  he  was  the  great  military  builder  of  his 
day.  Tradition  has  always  ascribed  the  White 
Tower  to  him,  and  there  seems  no  cause  for 
doubting  it. 

5.  The  composition  of  Roman  mortar  depended 
probably  on  the  materials  at  hand,  but  no  doubt 
they  used  neat  care  and  skill  in  preparing  it. 
Blood  would  be  a  veiy  bad  and  temporary  ingre* 
dient  for  tempering  mortar.  It  may  be  doubted 
whether  the  *'  preparation  "  of  the  Tower  for  the 
Conqueror's  habitation  did  not  mean  interior 
arrangements,  hangings,  bedding,  kitchens,  and 
domestic  objects,  rather  than  any  sudden  improve- 
ment of  the  defences. 

The^  description  of  the  Tower,  as  '^  washed  by 
the  T£ames  when  the  tide  rose,"  need  by  no  means 
apply  to  the  actual  base  of  the  White  Tower, 
whidi  stands  a  lonff  way  back.  When  the  ditch 
of  a  foitreoo  is  filled  from  a  river  flowing  past  it, 
nothing  is  more  cosomon  than  the  expression, 


310 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[^  S.  ¥11.  April  8,  *n. 


*^  Its  walls  are  washed  by  such  or  such  a  river/' 
and  that  was  most  likely  the  way  in  which  the 
Tower  was  alluded  to.  De  K. 

"Thb  Hob  m  the  Well"  (4«»»  S.  xii.  201, 
220.) — John  Laguerre,  son  of  Louis,  whom  Pope 
immortalised  in  verse  •— 

"  Where  sprawl  the  saints  of  Yerrio  and  Laf^erre,*' 
engraved  a  set  of  prints  of  '*  Hob  in  the  Well,"  a 
copy  of  which  is  at  Stanford  Court,  and  attached 
to  each  print  some  ludicrous  verses  in  Somerset- 
shire dialect,  possibly  very  popular  in  their  day. 

Thos.  E.  Wiknihotow. 

SUmford  Goart,  Worcester. 

I  have  heard  it  suggested  that  this  alehouse 
sign  at  Lynn  was  the  name  of  a  character  in  some 
popular  play.  Hob  was  a  nickname  formed  from 
ilobert,  and  conveyed  the  idea  of  its  owner  hemg  a 
country  clown  (Lower's  Patronymica  Britannicd), 
In  Larwood  and  Hotten*s  Higtory  of  Signboards 
(third  edition),  the  name  of  this  sign  is  said  to 
be  borrowed  from  an  old  nursery  fable.  If  this  is 
right,  can  any  reader  of ''  N.  &  Q."  give  a  version 
of  the  fable,  or  the  name  of  any  books  where  it  is 
to  be  found  P  S.  £.  L. 

Iiynn. 

E.  L.,  King's  L]pn,  is  perhaps  aware  that 
'<Hob  in  the  Well"  is  the  name  of  an  old  ballad- 
opera,  which  was  a  popular  favourite  in  the  last 
century.  In  country  mns  we  frequently  find  a 
set  of  comic  pictures  representing  the  various  events 
of  the  piece.  An  amateur  actor  (Mr.  Richard 
Garrs  oi  Grassington),  who  many  years  ago  emi* 
grated  to  Americik  used  to  boast  (x  his  perform- 
ance of  Hob,  and  ne  would  occasionally  volunteer 
a  ''  recitation  "  of  some  fiskvourite  passage. 

SiBPHEur  Jloebov. 

Arxs  of  Flbxish  Faxilibs  (A^  S.  vii.  11.) — 
Lablacb  wiU  find  such  a  work  in  the  Koyal 
Library,  Brussels.  Sp. 

CooKBS:  Coocbset:  Oooke  (4^  S.  vii.  11.) — 
Your  correspondent  will  find  a  notice  of  the 
second  name  in  MemoridU  of  the  Surname  Archer, 

^  ^    Sp. 

QuoxAnoir  (4**  a  iv.  176.)— 

**  Friends  part, 
Tis  the  snrrivor  dies." 

To  be  fomid  at  the  end  of  Night  V.  of  Youfig's 
Night  Thoughts.  T.  P.  F. 

A  Spittbk  Laibd  (4*^  S.  vii.  100.)— The  anec- 
dote related  by  S.  L.  u  somewhat  differently  told 
by  Dr.  Eobert  Chambers  (Picture  of  SooUandy 
i.  287).  The  duchess  is  there  said  to  have 
^  called  ont  in  her  usual  lusty  way  to  the  coach- 
man to  drive  with  all  his  migh^  'else  Tarn  o' 
Closebum,'  she  exclaimed, '  will  get  in  before  us 
and  lick  the  butter  off  our  bread.'^"  The  duke's 
observation  being:  '''Why,  my  Lady  Daehaas, 


let  me  tell  you  this  gentleman's  ancestor  was 
Knight  of  Closebum,  while  mine  was  only  Gude- 
man  of  Drumlanrig  V" 

But  I  doubt  the  truth  of  either  version.  The 
first  Douglas  of  Drumlanrig  was  a  bastard  son  of 
the  doughty  earl  who  fell  at  Otterboume,  and  he 
had  obtained  this  important  barony  before  his 
father's  death:  for,  on  Dec.  6,  1^9,  he  was 
guaranteed  in  its  possession  bv  a  charter  from  his 
grandmother,  the  Countess  of  Douglas  and  Mar, 
and  her  second  husband  Sir  John  Swinton  of 
Swinton  (Drumlanrig  Charters) ;  and,  as  "  Sir  " 
William  Douglas  of  Drumlanrig,  he  obtained  a 
ver^  remarkable  charter  from  King  James  I., 
while  this  prince  was  a  state  prisoner  in  England. 
It  is  dated  at  Crovdon  last  of  November  1412, 
and  holograph  of  the  king,  and  confirms  to  Sir 
William  all  Ids  lands  in  Scotland,  viz.  Drumlanrig, 
Hawick,  and  Selkirk  (Queensberry  Charters) ;  and 
see  art.  *'  Hawick  **  in  Orig.  Par.  Sootus  (vol.  L), 
where  there  is  a  very  interesting  account  of  Sir 
William's  successors  and  their  tenure  of  that 
barony  firom  the  crown.  As  the  term  '^  gudeman'' 
was  never  applied  to  the  owner  of  a  barony  or  hold- 
ing under  the  sovereign,  which  these  Douglasses 
were  ab  origine,  the  anecdote,  like  many  similar 
traditions,  must  be  incorrectly  given.  At  the 
same  time  the  Kirkpatricks  were  undoubtedly  of 
much  older  standing  m  Dumfriesshire,  dating  from 
the  twelfth  or  th&teenth  century;  and  even  a 
maffnate  like  the  Duke  of  Queensberry  might, 
without  detracting  from  his  own  importance, 
mildly  rebuke  the  lady  duchess  by  telling  her 
that  there  were  Knifhts  of  Closebum  long  before 
there  was  a  Laird  of  Drumlanrig. 

A2?GL0-S00TT78. 

« APBits  Moi  LB  DfiiroB"  (i^  S.  vii.  188,)— 
I  find  in  Ed.  Foumier's  L Esprit  dans  VHietoire:-^ 

**  Jpre§  mous  U  deluge!  disait,  mime  dans  sa  pins 
grande  prosptfriU,  madame  de  Pompsdour  (^JSaeai  eur  ta 
marquise  de  Pompadour^  en  tSte  des  Mimoiree  de  nM> 
dame  du  Saueeet,  ISH,  io-Sro,  p.  ziz),  qui  voyait 
poindre  d^k  toot  an  loin,  i  Thoriaon  de  la  royaate,  le 
grain*  rtfvolntionnaire.  Cette  parole  de  nonchalani 
crnisme  dans  la  proph^tie  a  4w  souvent  ^ft^  ^ 
chaqne  fois  on  Ta mise  sar  ie  compie  de  Louis  Xv.  Ella 
^tait  fi  bien  le  moi,  rezpreseion  de  ce  r^e  an  ioar  le 
Joor,  qtt*on  pensait  qae  le  roi  bien  tnme  pouvait  seal  Vavoir 
dite.  Personne  ne  vit  mieox  qne  loi,  qui  ^tait  au  som- 
met,  venir  de  loin  ce  grand  orage." 

P.  A.L. 

FuBVBSs  Abbbt  abb  thb  Chbihax  SociBtr 
(4?^  S.  vu.  74.)  —  The  Coucher  Book  of  this  abbey 
has  long  been  known  to  the  ooandl  of  the  Chat- 
ham Sc^ty ;  but  it  is  not,  as  A.  E.  L.  concludefl, 
in  the  possession  of  the  Didce  of  Devonshire.  The 
infofmation  contained  in  ''detached parchments" 
in  the  duke's  muniment  room  at  HolBer,  supnosed 
to  be  fragments  of  the  Fumess  Coucher  fiook, 

-    *  (Tram,  as  a  nanlleal  term,  miaiis  a  whiriwind. 


4*  S.  VIL  April  8, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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will  probably  be  found  to  have  been  utilised  by 
Dugdale,  West,  and  Beck.    The  original  volume 
is  in  the  Record  Office,  and  is  briefly  named  in 
the  ''Deputy-Keeper's  zxxth  Report/'  p.  4.    It 
may  interest  jour  correspondent  to  know  that  it 
consists  of  680  pages  of  Tellum,  and  that  the 
writing  is  not  later  than  the  fouiieenth  century. 
The  first  portion  consists  of  the  chartulary,  and 
the  latter  of  popes'  bulls  granting  privileges  to 
the  abbey,  and  the  expense  of  a  transcript  of  the 
entire  volume  would  amount  to  67/.  ld«.,  which 
is  beyond  the  means  of  the  Chetham  Society. 
The  cost  of  obtaining  the  transcripts  of  the ''  Royal 
Commissioners'  Reports  of  the  I«ancAshire  Chan- 
tries," printed  by  tne  Chetham  Society  in  1862, 
and  referred  to  by  A.  E.  L.,  was  defrayed  by  a 
few  personal  fiiends  of  the  editor,  and  not  by  the 
society.  F.  R.  R. 

Lakcashibb  WrrcHiM  (4'*"  S.  viL  237.) — I 
Imagine  the  gallants  of  all  English  counties  speak 
of,  and  maybe  toast,  the  ladies  as  witches.  In 
my  county  I  have  often  heard  a  song  the  chorus 
of  which  I  give :  — 

**  They  are  handome,  they  ara  ehannJng, 
They  are  lovdj,  gay,  aod  fair : 
The  prettiest  rirla  in  England  are— 
'      The  girls  of  Derbyshire.'* 

The  last  two  lines  frequently  given  as  a  toast 

^08.  Raiclittb. 

"  A  MOFSIKUB,  MOHMBTIB  A.  B."  (4**  S.  vii 
138.)—.!  cannot  agree  with  Mb.  Fbavcisqub- < 
Mtchbl,  though  I  take  him  to  be  a  Frenchman, 
as  to  his  interpretation  of  this  matter.  Sieur  does 
not,  and  never  did  mean,  momeiffneur.  All  the 
old  works,  legal  instruments,  books;  and  novels, 
alike  mark  the  strongest  distinction  between  them. 
The  repetition  is  a  mere  form  of  respect,  as  if  we 
were  to  write  — 


I  heard  it  at  Stourbridge  in  1835,  was:— Two 
colliers  reading  a  notice  that  the  new  church 
would  be  consecrated  by  the  bishop.  "  What's  a 
bishop,  Jem  ?  "  ''  Dunno,  but  I'll  lay  a  shillin  as 
our  Rose  pins  un,  whatever  un  is." 

The  Lye  Waste  is  a  common  near  Stourbridge. 
Its  population  then  was  very  rough,  and  had 
grown  up  without  instruction  or  police.  From 
neglect  of  the  lord  of  the  manor  man^r  freeholders 
had  obtained  their  estates  by  occupation,  without 
recognising  his  rights,  for  twenty  years.  Those 
who  had  not  completed  their  time  were  veiy 
lealous  of  strangers,  whom  ihey  suspected  to  be 
lawyers  looking  out  for  defective  titles.  I  was 
told  that  if  I  went  there  alone  I  might  hear, 
"  Dost  knaw  un,  Jem  ?  "  •<  Naa."  ''  Hull  a  stun  at 
un  then."  Accompanied  by  one  who  was  known 
to  the  natives,  and  not  a  lawyer,  I  looked  at  them 
and  the  place,  and  was  not  molested.  I  did  not 
admire  either.    Probably  both  are  now  improved. 

Dining  here  about  twenty  years  ago  with  Leech, 
Albert  Smith,  and  Hanulton  Reynolds,  I  told 
these  stories  as  above,  and  Leech  said  he  could 
make  something  of  them.  He  did  so  in  I^nck, 
I  am  the  only  survivor  of  the  party,  but  I  men- 
tion the  names  of  m^  friends  as  men  of  extensive 
knowledge  in  faeetm,  to  whom  the  stories  then 
were  new.  I  said  nothing  that  would  haTa^Mf/i  ^. 
ranted  Ihmeh  in  putting  "  Fact"  ^''^(^  /^  ^ 

Gairiek  Qah.  \%  f^ 

How  far  the  schoolmaster  ffoes  abroad'^^Lan- 
eashire  and  an  instance  of  '<  filial  piety  "miry  be 
in  a  story  which,  I  believe,  is  not  an  '*  old 


**  To  the  Gentleman, 

Mr.  A.  B." 

Iifaus9uer,  if  at  all  a  recognised  word  (which  I 
doubt),  must  be  a  substantive  of  itself,  made  from 
mouMM,  with  a  termination  indicating  a  man,  and 


joke,"  and  which  was  related  as  known  to  my 
mformant  A  man  who  had  a  buU-terrier  pup 
went  out  with  his  son  to  blood  it,  which  is,  I  sup- 
pose,  to  make  it  draw  and  taste  the  blood  of  some 
wild  animal  They  came  to  a  hedge,  when  the 
father  took  one  side  and  the  son  and  tne  dog  the 
other.  As  they  found  nothing,  the  father  put  bis 
head  to  the  ground,  and  imitated  the  noise  of 
some  creature.  The  dog  was  unexpectedly  through 
the  bedffe  in  an  instant,  and  fastened  on  the  man's 
nose.  The  affectionate  son  seeing  it,  was  greatly 
excited,  and  called  out,  ''Bide  it,  feyther  I  bide 
it!  it'll  bee  th'  makkin  o'  th'  pup."  Ellobb. 
Craven. 

''Thb  Stbaioht  Gatb  abb  Nabbow  Wat" 
(4^  S.  vii.  98.) — ^A  hundred  years  hence,  when  the 

F Pinter's  devil  is  dead  and  buried,  ''N.  k  Q."  will, 
fear,  unless  you,  l£r.  Editor,  enter  your  timely 
protest,  be  dted  as  an  authority  for  spelling 
''strait"  "stwight"  C.  S. 

Trb  Pbioby  07  OoLBnreHAx  (4*^  S.  viL  187.) 
Cant*s  Kirk  is  the  appellation  given  l^  fishermen 
to  a  church  in  Aberdeen  (parish  PitsHffo),  after 

the  celebrated  Andrew  Cant  There  is  auo  Canty 

8HXBB  (4*^  8.  ?iL  131, 180.)— The  first  stoxy,  as    Bay,  a  little  east  of  North  JBerwick.    The  sumama 


in  writing.  Mb.  Michbl  womd  have  son^e  ap- 
pearance of  support  for  his  theory  by  referring  to 
**  Monsieur  "  as  the  title  given  to  the  eldest^  son 
of  the  king  or  his  heir  (apparent  or  presumptive), 
but  this  was  one  of  the  conveniences  of  court 
speech:  for  Mon  Sewneur  would  aptly  designate 
tne  king  himself,  while  Montteur  might  well  be 
applied  to  the  prince,  and  would  be  then  employed 
as  the  equivalent  to  the  Scotch  "The  Master,''  or 
to  our  form  of  address  to  a  prince  of  the  blood  as 
"Sir."    The80verwgnis"Sire.''  C.  C. 

Thb  Sohoolxabtbb  Abboab  nr  Stattobb-  | 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[41k  &  YIL  Apbil  8»  71* 


Gaat  may  be  from  BritiBh  oarUf  a  drcle^  the  rim 
of  anythmg  round.  Conf.  the  German  name 
Kant  {kaiUj  era,  margo^  extremitaa  rei,  orbia,  cir- 
colufly  angulus  ).  There  are,  however,  the  Franch 
surnames  Canet,  Canot,  Canut,  Canty,  which  may 
be  diminutiTee  of  Cann,  Canne  (Eogliflh  Cane, 
Cann),  doubtless  the  same  as  Uaney,  Cheney, 
Chesney,  from  the  old  French  chime,  modem 
French  Mne,  an  oak  tree  {quercwL  querckus,  quer- 
11148,  quesmUy  queme,  chime).  Canty  Bay  may 
derive  its  name  from  the  Ghelic  Ueann^Tathaf 
head  of  the  Tay  (perhaps  the  ori^al  appellation 
of  the  Forth),  a  name  which  might  be  given  to 
any  river,  seeiag  that,  etymologically,  it  means 
simply  river.  One  of  the  chief  tributaries  of  the 
Forth  above  Stirling  is  the  Teth,  t.  e.  the  Tath 
or  Tay.  Cant's  Bridge  may  simply  mean  bridge 
of  the  Cant,  i.  e.  the  Can,  i.  q.  Cam. 

R.  S.  Chabitogx. 
Gray's  Inn. 

LXTTBB  OF  EnwABD  IV.  (A^  S.  vii.  229.>-It 
is  much  to  be  hoped,  in  the  interests  of  history, 
that  the  purchaser  of  the  MS.  letter  purporting 
to  be  wntten  by  Edward  IV.  in  1406  may  act 
upon  the  suggestion  of  Mb.  Gaibbiosb,  and  may 
send  the  MS.  to  the  British  Museum  to  have  the 
signatures carefuUy  examined  by  experts;  for  the 
genuineness  of  this  letter  involves  the  doubt  as  to 
whether  the  historical  details  of  EEalFs  C9iromcle 
are  as  accurate  as  thdy  are  precise.    In  the  mean- 
while those  who  have  not  mspected  the  MS.  can 
oxdy  form  their  judgment  or  its  value  from  t&e 
internal  evidence  of  its  style ;  and  with  all  defer- 
ence to  Mb.  Gaxbdkbb,  I  would  ask  whether 
there  are  not  expressions  in  the  body  of  the  docu' 
ment  to  excite  grave  suspicion  of  its  genuneneas  P 
Does  he  find  in  any  contemporary  letters  of  un- 
doubted authenticity  that  the  King  of  England  at 
this  period  ever  styled  himself  '' Kegia  Majestas 
nostra  "  or  ^  Sacra  B^^  Majestas,"  or  that  the 
Duke  of  Milan  was  usually  addressed  in  state 
papers  as  *'  Excellentia  Vestra "  ?    There  is  no 
difficulty  whatever  in  positively  answering  these 
two  questions  to  any  one  who  has  access  to  the 
Bodleian  Library,  for  amonnt  the  Ashmolean 
MSS.  rNo.  789)  is  preserved  the  letter-book  of 
Bishop  Beckington,  secretary  of  state  to  Henry  VI., 
which  includes  the  forms  and  set  phrases  of  his 
official  correspondence,  "  colores  verborum  et  sen- 
tentiarum."    The  style  of  the  Dukes  of  Milan,  and 
the  mode  in  which  they  were  addressed  in  formal 
letters,  will  ajypear  from  the  DoeumetUi  Difio- 
matici  lately  printed  from  the  Milanese  Archives 
by  Signer  £uigi  Orio.  Tswabb. 

Albahby  ahb  Axokdbvujlb  (4<^  S.  vii.  234.) 
In  answer  to  part  of  BL  S.  G.'s  query — "  Did  Uve- 
dale  marry  an  heiress  of  Amondeville  P  " — ^it  is 
very  probable  one  of  that  name  did,  for  at  the  end 
of  the  sixteenth  century  the  Uvedales  (whose 


aims  aie  ''Argent,  a  cross  moline  gules,"  as  H.  S. 
G.  rightly  supposes)  are  found  to  quarter  (inter 
aUa)  "  Azure,  a  fret  or,"  whether  AmondeviUe  or 
not  For  this  statement  there  is  the  following 
evidence,  which  H.  S.  G.  will  find  in  the  second 
volume  of  Hutchins'  Hiriory  of  Dorset : — la  the 
church  of  More  Crichel,  Dorset,  appear  the  armo- 
rial bearings  of  the  Uvedales,  wherein  the  fourth 
quartering  is  ^'Ory  a  fret  aeure  "  (reversmg  the  tinc- 
tures). And  in  Wimbome  Minster,  in  the  same 
county,  there  is  a  very  fine  monument  to  Sir 
Edmund  Uvedale,  who  died  circa  1606  (which  I 
myself  have  seen,  though  I  did  not  at  the  time 
particularly  notice  the  quarterings),  in  which 
the  fifth  quartering  is  pioperlv  given  as  ''  Azure, 
a  fret  or."  And  asain,  Robert  Uvedide,  writing  to 
the  Oent.  Map,  voL  Ixxx.  part  ii  p.  31  (as  he  more 
than  once  did  on  the  same  subject),  nves  the 
quarterings  of  lus  family  as  copied  from  the 
church  at  Wykeham  (the  seat  of  the  Hampshire 
and  elder  branch),  and  the  fourth  is  there  ''Azure, 
a  fret  or." 

In  the  pedigree  given  by  Hutchins  I  can  find 
no  mention  of  the  name  of  Amondeville,  though 
there  is  a  blank  or  two  left  where  a  wife*s  name 
should  come  in.  Neither  can  I  in  the  one  re- 
corded by  Beny  in  hia  County  Oenealoyies  of 
HanU. 

Edmondson  g^ves,  in  his  Olover*»  Ordinary f 
under  the  head  of  "  Frets,"  "  Azure,  a  fret  or,  for 
Mtmdevitt,"  though  at  the  same  time  I  cannot 
find  that  he  specifies  the  arms  of  AmondeviUe  or 
MundeviU  amongst  the  host  of  others  he  com- 
piled. J.  S.  Ubal. 
Junior  AthanAvm  Qnb. 

«  Pkk  op  aw  Akgbl's  Wnro  " :  Wobdswobth, 
CoNSTABLB,  BTC.  (4*  S.  viL  233.) — The  same 
beautiful  thought  is  expressed  by  John  Evel^,  in 
his  Life  of  Mrs,  Qodotphin  (London,  W.  Picker- 
ing, 1&48,  p.  4)  :— 

«It  would  become  a  steadier  hand,  and  the  penn  of  an 
Angelb  wing,  to  describe  the  life  of  a  Saint,  who  is  now 
amongst  those  lUostrioas  oiden." 

T.  W.  0, 

Janbbt  Family  (4«*  S.  vi.  276,  856.)— I  am 
well  acquainted  with  John  Janney,  a  retired 
civil  service  servant.  I  have  not  as  yet  been  able 
to  communicate  with  him,  but  in  a  short  time 
shall  be  able  to  do  so.  In  the  interim  anything 
addressed  to  him  may  be  forwarded  to  my  care. 

G.  T.  FULLAJC. 
18,  Osborne  Street,  Hull. 

G.  Caxphattsbk  (4*  S.  vii.  188.)— Adolphe 
Siret's  valuable  work,  DictUnmaire  hietorique  des 
Peintres  (2nd  ed.  Paris,  1866),  may  be  useful  to 
T.  S.  A.  G.  M.  T. 

"Vbbitas  m  PuTBo"  (4»^  S.  vi.  474;  vii. 
108.) — Diogenes  Laertius  records  this,  ^ying  of 
Democritus  in  }nB  Life  of  Pyrrho,  lib.  ix.  segnu 


4^S.yiI.  ArBiL8,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


313 


72.  "Erfov  8^  ol9k9  XS^cr"  4p  0v$m  yip  ^  ax^Offitu  Of. 
Cioera,  Academioa,  i  13.  Tumebua  in  CommenL 
xemarks : — 

"Cicero  in  LoeoUo  [^Aeademieorum,  libro  weando], 
Natoram  accnsa  qiue  in  profnndo  veritateniy  ut  ait  De- 
mocritna,  penitoa  abstnuerit.  Simile  est  illud  Senecs 
N.  Q.  vii  82.  Fix  ad  fundum  venirehirf  in  quo  Veritas 
potifa  est,  quam  nunc  in  tumnta  term,  et  levi  manu  qtueri- 
nuu.  Verba  sunt  Democriti,  Ac  See  also  Fabri  Cimment. 
in  loc, 

TU  8^  n4\Xei  ^piwa  Sior 

Nam  quis  possit  mentem  magni 
Spectare  Jovis  ?  ftuido  ilia  caret" 

^schylus  et  Grotins. 

Btbliothegab.  Chsihav. 

PT7KlfIN0  AKD  JBBTllTa  ON  NaKBS   (4^*>  S.   vl. 

d64,  581 ;  Til.  106.)— Dr.  Samuel  Gbodenough^ 

Bifihop  of  Carlisle,  preached  before  the  House  of 

Commoiu  in  1795,  and  before  the  House  of  Lords 

in  1809.    On  one  of  these  occasions  the  following 

lines  were  penned : — 

**  Tis  well-enongh  that  Goodenongh 
Before  the  Hoiue  should  preach  ; 
For  sare-enongh  full  bad-enough 
Are  those  he  has  to  teach." 

The  lines  are  giren  in  Nichols'  HhutratUma  of 
ZHenOwre,  vi.  251.  H.  P.  D. 

Ballasallby  (4^  S.  vi.  475,  583 ;  vii.  176.)  — 
There  are  two  places  in  the  Isle  of  Man  called 
Ballasalla ;  one  a  smaU  village,  and  the  other  an 
estate.  They  are  both  low-lying  places  near  Ijlie 
sea-coast.  May  not  the  word  be  derived  from 
BaUey,  Manx  for  place^  and  saiUef/,  Manx  for 
sea-water?  Moneksis. 

FXKDBENB  Flowsbs  (4^  S.  VI.  544;  viL  194.) 
Although  the  quotation  furnished  by  Miss  Has- 
BISON  is  to  be  met  with  in  the  first  volume  of  The 
MeU^fuaryy  1860-61,  page  123,  no  one  will  dispute 
its  nght  to  be  reproduced  in  your  pages.  It  is 
exoeeain|;lj  interesting,  and  calls  for  Kirther  re- 
search ;  t.  e.,  am  I  in  error  in  supposing  that  the 
plant  alluded  to  is  the  Pulmcnaria  macuhsa, 
spotted  limgwort,  or  cowslips  of  Jerusalem  P  ''  It 
is  planted  in  gardens,  and  nowers  in  May." 

Miss  Harbison  mentions  (in  Quotation)  "  Tal- 
bury  Castle."  Should  this  not  be  Tutbury  Castle  ? 

Anent  findem  fires,  commonly  called  tindles. 
Does  this  custom,  mentioned  by  Brand  in  his 
Popular  AnHquUieSy  still  exist,  or  has  it  been  put 
an  end  to  ''for  want  of  the  wonted  materials '' r 

J.  BIahubl. 
Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

I  greatly  admire  the  poetry  of  the  prose  extract, 
but  ^oula  very  much  nke  to  ask  the  question,  is 
the  anecdote  true  ?  for  on  referring  to  my  scrap- 
book  I  find  that  a  predsely  similar  anecdote  of 
"  Aylmer's  Flower  "  was  quoted  in  Pleasant  Hours 
of  Jnne  1868,  out  of  the  LUerary  Churchman. 

W.H. 


Sujrm  (4tt>  S.  vi.  474 ;  vii.  43, 175.)— I  should 
be  glad  to  have  an  explanation  of  L.  N.  O.  N.'s 
meaning  in  the  following  (which  at  present  seems 
to  be  some  play  upon  Sp.  sad  s.p.'^  sine  prole; 
but  until  I  clearly  understand  the  sentence,  I 
could  not  pretend  to  replj) :  "  There  is  a  .  .  . 
family  name  of  Sp.'s  wnich  often  appears  in  pedi- 
grees of  families  with  whom  Sp.'s  have  wtermar* 
ried — I  mean  obiit "  P  Sp. 

Babtolokao  Diaz,  thb  Disoovbbbb  of  ihb 
Capb  Roxjtb  (4«>»  S.  vii.  102, 195.)— BouiUet,  in 
his  DictUmnaire  universel  tPHistoire  tA  de  OSo^ 
graphie,  gives,  like  Galvano,  1486  as  the  year  of 
this  important  discoveiy ;  and  he  adds,  at  the  word 
Cap :  '*  La  colonie  du  Cap  fut  fondle  en  1650  par 
les  HoUandais  (164  ans  aprds  la  d^couverte  dn 
Cap  de  Bonne-Esp^rance) ''  which  makes  it  in  fact 
A.D.  I486. 

The  great  navigator  was  coirect  in  giving  it 
the  name  of  Cap  des  Tourmentes,  for  on  a  sub- 
sequent voyage  his  vessel  foundered.  Still  there 
are  times,  as  I  have  myself  witnessed  on  my  re- 
turn from  China  in  May  1833^  when  the  sea  off 
the  Cape  is  as  smooth  as  a  lookmg^lass. 

P.  A.  L. 

SiOKLB  BoTVB:  BoTBB  MoBBY  (4^^  S.  vii. 
236.) — ''Sickle  boyne''  seems  to  be  personal  ser- 
vice— that  of  a  reaper  or  shearer  (as  of  com  iif 
autumn)  with  the  sickle,  who,  in  the  character 
of  cottiu*,  tacksman,  vassal,  &&,  was  bounden  to 
perform,  such  service  to  his  over-lord,  under  con- 
tract, or  by  some  well-established  custom  of  the 
manor.  Boyne  is  probably  not  anywise  different 
from  houn  or  boon,  the  more  usual  form ;  and  a  cor- 
ruption, as  seems  the  opinion  of  Bishop  W.  Kemiet, 
of  bounden,  or,  if  not,  of  at  least  biddan  (Sax.),  to 
pray  or  entreat  (Glossary  to  Par,  AnUq,  voce 
**  Preoaria*').  "  Boyne  money,"  or  "  boon  silver," 
seemingly  the  same  in  import,  was  the  money 
commutation  paid  by  the  obugee  for  such  personiu 
service.  The  expression,  "  boon  of  shearers,''  is  yet 
quite  common  m  Scotland;  and  says  Blount,  in 
mentioning  the  services  and  customs  of  certain 
manors  in  Nottingham :  ^- 

**  On  the  day  of  the  Great  Bidrepe^  which  was  called 
the  Prior*§  Boon,  every  native  was  to  find  three  work- 
men, and  (evexy)  cottager  one." — Antient  Tenures,  edit. 
ofl784,p.262. 

Boon  services  were  the  same  with  those  per- 
formed under  tiie  names  of  hidrepe  and  precariaj 
which  last  is  simply  the  Latin  form  of  bidrMe, 
which  is  supposed  to  be  derived  from  bidaan 
above-mentioned,  and  repe,  to  rip  or  cut  conu 
Hence,  a  reaping  on  a  certain  day,  on  the  prayer 
or  entreaty  dv  the  lord  or  his  steward,  of  Ids 
servile  dependents — of  those  who  owed  him 
customary  services — was  called  bidrepe.  These 
assembly  days  wero  called  Mu^days,  i.  e.  biddan 
days, — ^Uiose  on  which  the  customary  tenants 


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NOTES  AND  QTJEBIES. 


[4*k  8.  VII.  Afml  8,  Tl, 


attended  ad  pr^cm  dommL  (Eenoet'a  Glo$8ary, 
y.  <<Bidrepe"  and  ^Precaria";  Blount's  Tmurw^ 
pp.  226,  260,  254,  256,  262, 264;  and  the  same 
author's  Law  DicUonaryf  y,  *'  Bidrepe.") 

"Solttta"  m  Pabish  IlEeiSTEBS  (S**  S.  iii. 
61, 151, 196, 236.)— In  a  MS.  called  the  Stoneley 
Ledger,  written  temp,  Richard  II.  (1392),  p.  5, 
ad  Jin,,  we  find :  **  Qui  Bohertua  genuit  de  Arlota 
eoluta  predictum  WillelmuB  Bastard.''  Does  not 
the  word  here  clearly  mean  single  woman  P 

£.  H.  KvowLBS. 

Kenilworth. 

The  Nils  aitd  thb  Bible  (4«»  S.  vii.  186.)  — 
I  was  always  under  the  impression  that  the  pas- 
sage Eccles.  xi.  1,  '<  Osst  thy  bread  upon  the 
waters :  for  thou  shalt  find  it  after  many  days," 
had  ite  origin  in  the  custom  of  the  Egyptians  of 
casting  seed  on  the  waters  of  the  Nile  when  they 
overflowed  the  neighbouring  lands,  which  sinking 
in  the  still  pools  that  overflowed  the  fields,  was 
covered  with  a  rich  alluvial  deposit  when  the 
waters  receded,  and  subsequently  sprung  up  under 
the  influence  of  the  sun.  The  passsge  in  the  LXX 
is  worth  noting:  — 

'AvfNTrffiXoy  rhf  tfrw  eo»  M  wpSffrnwatf  rev  85arof, 

Jiri  Ir  vxi^tfci  liuMpmif  fffip»/<rcit  tMriw,  (Compare  Herod. 
EuUrpe,  xiv.) 

Of  offrc  hfir^  jb^o^iyyrrfrrff  otfXoMat,  tx,wai  v^rotff , 
o0rff  CK9iKKo¥mf  otfrc  &AXo  4pya[6ti»¥Oi  ovt^p  rmv  IkKKoi 
Mpttwoi  W9fii  X^Zor  voyffovm  *  Axx'  hrtdv  a^  6  woroftht 
tdnSfAoros  IrcX^Mir  &p<n|  t^  iipovpas,  Upcas  8«  kroXthni 
5t(0'«,  r^<  ntlpat  tiaums  rip^  imnov  ipovpeoff  c.r.A. 

On  referring  to  Schults,  Scholia  m  Vdus  Teda- 
nimUtm  continuata  a  Oeorg,  Laur,  Bayer,  I  find 
the  common  aoceptetion  of  the  verse  with  another 
intorpretotion  which  has  some  allusion  to  the  one 
under  consideration  :-^ 

*"Mitte  psnem  tuam  tnuu  mare,  nam  post  midtos 
dies  reperies  illam.'  Hsc  et  seqaeotia  vd  da  eleemosynis 
dandis,  etc,  vel  de  satione  ftumeoti  explicant.  Qoi  pa- 
nem  s.  bona  saa  in  aqaas  prqjidt,  amtttit  ifla.  Sic  da  tais 
ftenltatibiis  erga  panperiDos,  qal  rependere  beoefida  non 
poasnnt,  Deos  remanerator  erit^  Lao.  xiv.  14 1  Sirae.  xzlx. 
12.  Van  der  Palm,  **  Fmmentom  dlstribua,  Le.  semen- 
tern  fae  jazta  aquas,  i.  e.  in  lods  fertilioribas^  nbi  poet 
mnltoe  dies  invenies,  quod  oolligaa.' "  (Vol.  v.  p.  827.} 

The  passage  is  worthy  of  some  further  inquiry. 
Coik. 

''SaPIBITS    BBT   FlLIlTB    QUI    JTOVIT   PaTBXX '* 

U^  S.  vi.  324,  422.)  —  AthensBus  says  that  at 
Athens  Cecrops  was  the  first  person  who  manied 
a  man  to  one  wife  only,  for  before  his  time  men 
had  their  wives  in  common ;  on  which  account  it 
was,  as  some  people  state,  he  was  called  8i^r.  AA 
Ml  980^4  rwi  Zt^i^s  POfuff^^nUf  oinc  ciMn«r  rdr  9p6» 
r^poif  8iA  rh  9?ai0o$  r^  waT^ptu^^De^moecpK.  ziii.  2. 

O.P.L 


Stobt  ascbibei)  to  Thbodobv  Hook  (4*^  S. 
viL  73, 196.)— This,  I  think,  must  be  older  than 
the  time  of  Hook.  I  met  with  the  following 
American  version  of  the  story  about  half  a  cen- 
tury ago :« 

''As  two  divines,  thdr  ambling  steeds  bestriding. 
In  meny  mood  o*er  Boston  neck  were  riding. 
Sudden  a  simple  strnctnre  met  thdr  dght,  • 

From  which  the  convict  takes  his  hempen  flight ; 
Where  sailor-like  he  bids  adieu  to  hope. 
His  all  depending  on  a  ringle  rope. 
'  Say,  brother,'  cned  the  one,  *  pray,  where  were  yon. 
Had  yonder  gallows  been  alloim  its  due  ? ' 
'  Where  ? '  cried  the  other,  in  aareastie  Cone, 
<  Why,  where  but  ridiag  into  town  alone."* 

Ukbda. 

Phfladelphia. 

Stilts  =  Cbutohbs  (3-^8.  vii  478 ;  viii.  178, 
239,  278;  4*  S.  vii.  243.)— The  aocounte  of  the 
overseers  of  the  poor  for  the  parish  of  Leverton 
near  Boston,  a.i>.  1569,  contain  the  following. 
The  Christian  name  has  jbeen  left  blank  by  the 

writer: — "Given  to Thompson  w'tn  pne 

stUto,  vj«."  (Archaoloffia,  xU.  369.) 

EowABD  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Elboaxpahb  (4«^  S.  ▼.  596;  vi.  103,  206, 264; 
viL  248.)— Of  this  plant,  ffekmumjnula,  or  Euula 
campofui,  aU  the  old  herbals  speak  in  high  terms 
of  commendation.  In  Germany  a  wine  made  of 
it  is  in  great  esteem.  It  was  accounted  warm, 
opening,  detersive,  and  efficacious  in  diseases  of 
the  lungs.  Dr.  Hill  even  says  that  hardly  any 
plant  has  more  virtues,  but  that  its  greatest 
virtue  is  in  curing  coughs.  An  infusion  of  the 
fresh  root  with  honev  was  found  very  successful 
in  hooping-cough.  For  these  purposes  it  wss  also 
made  into  candy,  and  so  gradually  became  a  mere 
sweet  thing  for  chUdren.  So  that  now  its  medi- 
cal virtues  are  forgotten,  and  it  is  sold  merely  as 
a  candy  in  confectioners'  shops,  with  no  more  of 
the  pliant  in  it  than  there  is  of  barley  in  what  is 
now  sold  as  Imrley-sugar. 

The  virtue  of  elecampene  was  celebrated  in  an 
old  distich : — 

"  Enula  oampana  reddit  pmoordia  aana.*' 

The  Gtonan  name  is  AlantwurzeL  In  an  old  Ger- 
man herbal  of  1589  it  is  proclaimed  good  against 
the  plague  and  pestilential  diseases.  The  author 
seeks  to  identify  it  with  the  herb  mo^.  He  says 
that  many  valuable  ^ledicines  may  be  prepared 
with  elecampane,  and  principally  for  asthma,  hard 
breathing,  and  dry  couffh,  for  which  he  directs 
the  comnoeition  of  an  electuazy;  and  adds  in  his 
quunt  old  German : — 


Latweige  sertheilet  die  groben  Flagma  an 
maeht  Idcht  aoaswerfren.  Heilet  alao  genUtxet  inerlich 
GrMchwer  der  Lnngen,  u.  a.  w.** 

He  further  recommends  it  to  be  candied  like 
I,  and  eaten  morning  and  evening  for  asth- 


4*k  8.  TIL  Aran,  8«  71 J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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matical  oomplftinta.  He  vexy  amuaingly  tells  bis 
readers  that  it  has  Iod?  been  customary  in  Swit- 
zerland, Sualnay  and  &Taria  to  keep  a  piece  of 
elecampane-root  in  the  mouth  in  the  morning 
fasting,  and  that  the  same  is  customary  on  the 
Rhine  and  other  waters,  against  poisonous  exhala- 
tions and  bad  air.  He  hu  seTeral  more  medical 
uses  for  elecampane,  but  all  these  old  real  or  sup- 
posed yirtues  are  now  forgotten ;  and  we  may  oe 
content  with  Dr.  Thomton*8  brief  summing  up  in 
bis  Jicrftn/;— 

**  Theroot  is  SBteemed  agood  peetonilt  andt  ^'^  angtUes- 
root,  is  eaodJcd  $  aad  thsM  hsTe  become  now  s  sweetmest 
for  childreD.** 

F.  C.  H.  a  Murithian. 

Hatbl  esowiKO  afteb  Dxa.ih  (4^^  S.  vi.  624; 
Tii.  66, 83.  laO,  222, 290.)— I  meant  no  disrespect 
to  <<  The  Old  Gentleman  at  Turrey,"  when  I  de- 
signated bim  by  that  title  in  my  paper  of  Feb- 
ruary 11.  I  merely  repeated  the  expression  made 
use  of  1^  his  fnend  Mb.  Pxguobd.  The  retort 
of  "youn^  gentleman"  proTokes  a  smile  from  one 
who,  thirty^years  ago,  was  already  teaching 
anatomy.  What  it  was  uiat  the  (not  old)  gentle- 
man saw  in  the  tomb  of  Lady  Mordaunt^  whe- 
ther it  was  really  human  hair  or  not,  and,  if  hair, 
bow  it  had  come  there,  I  cannot  say ;  but  that  it 
was  hair  wlucb  had  grown  from  a  dead  body  is 
simply  impossible. 

I  suppose  that  to  a  person  ignorant  of  physio- 
logy, and  of  the  laws  whicb  govern  the  formation 
of  animal  tissues,  all  yital  phsBUomena  ^VV^^ 
equally  probable,  or  equally  improbable.  Tnere 
can  be  no  standard  of  probability.  A  hair  hss 
no  life  in  itself;  it  is  a  mere  secretion,  formed 
within  AfoUiclej  or  little  bag,  in  the  skin  from  the 
blood  which  is  carried  to  it  The  hair  rows  by 
the  addition  at  its  root  of  fresh  material,  which 
gradually  pushes  onwards  the  hard  dry  portion 
aboye  the  skin,  and  so  increases  its  length.  But 
once  let  the  connection  between  the  htai  and  the 
bloodyessels  at  its  root  be  seyered,  or  let  the 
animal  die,  and  these  yessels  perish — the  hair 
becomes  as  dead,  and  as  incapaole  of  any  fiurther 
growth,  as  a  piece  of  wire.  If  hairs  had  inde- 
pendent powers  of  growth,  wigs  would  grow. 

Does  It  not  occur  to  the  gentleman  at  Turyey 
that  if  hair  continued  to  grow  after  death,  every 
coffin  would  exhibit  an  instance  such  as  he  belieyes 
occurred  in  tbat  of  Lady  MordauntP  And  what  a 
display  the  Egyptian  mummies  ought  to  make ! 
They  have  surely  had  time  enough  to  develope  a 
ehevehtre. 

Let  me  in  all  seriousness  recommend  your  cor- 
respondents who  have  hitherto  believed  in  the 
post-^nortem  growth  of  hair,  to  refer  to  some  ele- 
mentary book  on  physiology,  and  learn  bow  hair 
is  formed.  If  they  can  get  some  friend  with  a 
microscope  to  show  them  an  injected  hair-follide, 
s^  muG^  the  better.  J.  Dixof. 


MxAirao  OF  "  Naooabikb  "  (4"»  S.  viL  236.) 
In  reply  to  R  H.  Khowlbb,  naeearme  is  the  name 
of  a  colour  of  a  crimson  hue,  similar  to  that  of  the 
robe  of  the  Order  of  the  Bath,  or  more  properly 
the  reddish  hue  of  the  mother-o'-pearl  shell,  it 
is  derived  horn  the  Spanish  naear,  the  lustre  of 
mother-o*-pearl,  or  the  French  nacre^  which  means 
the  shell  as  well  as  the  pearly  lustre  of  it  There 
are  Muivalent  words  in  the  Arabic,  from  whicb 
the  Spanish  may  possibly  have  derived  ti^eir 
word ;  they  are,  nosgru  and  noogru.  An  Arabic 
scholar  may  contend  these  to  be  qmonymous;  if 
so,  I  am  perfectly  agreeable. 

The  word  in  English  I  have  seen  spelt  itoc- 
karme:  ihe  affix,  as  most  would  know,  is  the 
Latin  -mua  »  belonging  to. 

Allied  to  naeoarms  is  naearat^  which  means  a 
fine  linen  fabric,  dyed  fugitively  of  a  pale  red 
colour,  which  ladies  used  to  rub  upon  their  faces 
to  give  them  a  delicate  roseate  bue.  We  have 
also  naereouSf  applied  to  a  suxfiBoe  which  reflects 
iridescent  light.  J.  J, 

MiittlUntttui. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  BTC. 

Efu^amd  in  the  Reiffn  of  King  Henry  the  Ei^tk,  A 
IHalogue  between  Ceamtal  Pole  and  Tkomae  Lnpeei^ 
Lecturer  in  Bhetoric  at  Oxford^  bjf  Thomae  Starhey^ ' 
Quxptain  to  the  King,  JSdited,  with  Frefacef  Notee,  and 
GUmary,  hg  J.  M.  Gowper.  (Early  Eogliah  Text 
Society.) 

A  Supplicacgon  for  the  Beggare,  WriUtn  ahout  the  gear 
1529  bg  Simon  fhh.  Now  edited  bg  F.  J.  Farnivall. 
W^ith  a  Snpplgcaeion  to  Onre  Motte  Sovereigne  Larde 
Kvnae  Henrg  the  Eigh^  (A.D.  1544).  A  Swmlication 
of  the  Poore  Commtme  (a.d.  1546).  The  Iheage  of 
England  bg  the  grete  mnltiinde  of  Shepe  (a.d.  16505. 
EtUted  bg  J.  M.  Gowper.  (Early  English  Text  Society.) 

If  the  study  of  onr  early  language,  its  history  and 
monuments,  does  not  become  general,  it  will  not  be  from 
any  lack  of  zeal  and  intelligence  on  the  part  of  many 
eminent  scholars  who  devote  their  time  and  knowledge 
to  the  editing  of  the  publications  of  the  Early  English 
Text  Society.  It  is  little  more  than  a  month  since  we 
noted  the  appearance  of  Joenth  ofArimathea  and  Alfred'e 
Weet  Saxon  Vereion  of  Gregor/e  Faetoral  Gsre^the 
first  two  books  issued  oy  the  Society  in  return  fbr  the 
present  year*s  subscription ;  and  now  we  have  to  call 
attention  to  two  more  volumes  of  the  extra  series.  Of 
the  first  of  these,  *'The  Dialogue  between  Pole  and 
Lupeet,"  the  editor  (who  considers  it  hardly  of  less 
interest  and  leas  importance  than  More's  Uhpia') 
anyn:  ''Its  nnimpassioned  statements  respecting  men, 
its  jud|;e-like  suggestions  for  imnrovement,  its  keen  ap- 
preciation of  what  would  profit  the  country^and  make 
men  wiser,  happier,  and  better— nve  it  a  value  which 
few  works  of  the  time  possess."  Mr.  Gowper  has  done 
bis  duty  as  an  editor  very  satisftctorily,  ana  the  abstract, 
in  which  he  gives  in  modem  English  the  most  interest- 
ing points  of  the  book,  will  prove  of  great  use  to  the 
general  reader ;  who  wUl  look  very  anxiously  for  Pro- 
fessor Brewer*s  promised  Introduction  to  it.  The  four 
tracts,  which  form  the  second  of  these  volumes,  well  de- 
serve the  attention  of  all  who  would  know  the  real  state 
of  the  eoontiy  at  the  period  of  the  BefonnaUoo. 


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[4tt'&VU.  Apbil8^'71. 


piamgrapkioal  Dieikmary  and  Orammar,  Bw  Anton 
BMshnuder,  Pmidant  of  th«  Patigniphkal  Society  of 
Monicb. 

PoMigraphiMkea  WtrUrhmeh  stem  O^bnatdtt  fUr  dk 
Deuitehe  Sprathe,    Vtrfa$ai  vom  Anton  Baehmaier. 


Dietionnaire  Pangrapihiqiie,  pHddi  de  la 
Bedigi  par  Antoine  Bachmaior.  (Trttbner.) 
Some  of  onr  readers  may  not  be  aware  of  the  exact 
nature  of  parigraphy :  **  Pasigrapby,*'  says  the  editor  of 
thoe  little  vtunmes,  ^teaches  people  to  oommnnicate 
with  one  another  in  writing  by  means  of  numbers, 
which  convey  the  same  ideas  in  all  languages,  thus  it 
rennites  people  whom  languages  separate."  Although 
this  system  cannot  possess, all  thejadvantages  of  a  lim- 
gnage,  it  is  a  faithnil  interpreter  of  all  languages  that 
accept  it,  as  any  one  wiH  feel  convinced  who  will  take 
the  trouble  to  test  it  bymeans  of  these  three  dictionaries ; 
and  the  principle  will  apply  as  equally  to  three  hundred 
as  to  three  languages,  provided  diraonaries  be  prepared  for 
the  purpose.  The  utility  of  such  a  system  is  evident,  and 
no  less  so  the  ingenuity  with  whidi  M.  Bachmaier  has 
overcome  its  difficulties.  The  conceptions  communicable 
an  4^884 ;  and  when  it  Is  remembered  how  few  are  the 
words  in  ordinarv  use,  it  will  be  seen  what  great  pro- 
gress M.  Bachmaier  has  made  in  solving  the  problem  of 
an  nnivenal  language,  or,  at  all  events,  an  universal 
means  of  intercommunication  for  ordinary  purposes  be- 
tweto  all  nations  and  languages. 

The  Suildert  of  Babel.    By  Dominick  IfCausland,  Q.C., 
D.aL.,  &C.    (Bentley.) 

TUs  is  a  book  whidi  mav  safely  be  recommended  to 
those  who  are  honestly  ana  earnestly  seeking  for  the 
harmony  that  must  exist  between  the  well-ascertained 
ftets  or  science  and  the  rightly  understood  words  of 
revelation.  Mr.  M'Caudand,  in  the  conviction  that  pr»- 
historie  arclueologv,  like  every  other  science,  only  serves 
to  set  Vl^e  seal  oi  truth  on  the  sacred  record,  in  the 
volume  before  us  brings  the  recent  disooveries  which  this 
new  science  has  won  for  history  to  bear  in  bridging  over 
the  misty  gulf  which  has  hitherto  intervened  between  the 
history  of  the  Hametic  and  Japhetic  branches  of  the 
mat  human  family  in  the  Book  of  Genesis,  and  the 
Grecian  Era. 

BmiijMceacee  of  Fifty  Teare,    ^y  Mark  Boyd.    (Long- 
mans.) 

When  an  intelligent  man  who  has  passed  fifty  years  of 
a  busy  life,  which  nas  brought  him  in  contact  with  men 
high  in  both  services,  active  politicians,  and  intelligent 
men  of  business,  sits  down  to  write  his  reminisceoces,  he 
«an  hardly  fail  to  record  a  good  deal  which  is  amusing, 
and  a  good  deal  which,  if  not  amusing,  is  worth  know- 
ing. Such  is  Mr.  Boyd*s  book;  which,  though  certainly 
not  equal  to  Dean  Runsay's,  which  suggested  it,  contains 
some  very  interesting  anecdotes;  whue  in  many  cases, 
if  the  anecdotes  are  not  very  remai^ble,  they  derive 
interest  and  value  from  the  remarkable  men  of  whom 
they  are  related. 

Books  received.— Pcpitliir  TahUt  by  ChaHee  M.  WU- 
Ueh.  Seventh  edUion,  edited  ftyMontague  Marriott,  Bar- 
rister-at-Law.  (Longmans.)  The  great  value  and  utility 
of  these  Tables  have  been  so  generally  recognised  that 
we  may  content  ourselves  with  calling  attention  to  this 
eeventh  edition,  in  which  the  various  Tables,  &c.  have 
been  brought  down  to  the  present  day. 

The  Mac  Callum  More.  A  MisUnry  of  the  Argyll 
Family,  from  the  earHeei  Timee,  By  the  Rev.  Hdy 
Smith.  (Bemrose.)  A  well-timed  little  book  full  of  the 
information  which  the  recent  manriage  of  the  Piinoees 


Looise  to  Lord  Lome  natnrany  leads  many  to  inquire 
after. 

BmdUdgee  Ilhutrated  Natxral  HUtory.  By  the  Rev. 
J.  G.  Wood,  MJL.,  F.L.S.  Fart  L  (Routledge.)  Ther« 
can  be  little  doubt  that  this  new  issue  of  Mr.  Wood's 
pleasantly  written  and  beautifully  illustrated  Natural 
History  will  share  the  popularity  which  so  deservedly 
attended  the  original  edition. 

Tbb  condusion  of  Lord  Da]]ing*s  Biography  and 
Letters  of  Lord  Palmerston,  will,  it  is  ttndentood»  ap- 
pear in  the  oonrse  of  the  present  year. 

Report  speaks  very  favourably  of  the  approadmur 
Exhibition  of  the  Royal  Academy,  which,  it  is  said,  will 
contain  a  considerable  number  of  woriis  by  eminent 
French  artists. 

Wb  ars  rsquested  to  state  that  the  titles  <*  Won— ^ot 
Wooed,"  which  designates  a  **  serial "  novel,  commenced 
in  (^ambere*e  Journal  on  November  29, 1870,  was  notified 
in  connection  with  a  **  drama  in  five  acts,  and  in  verse," 
in  The  Athmtmum  of  October  80, 1869— having  originated 
with  the  writer  of  the  play  referred  to. 

The  Rotal  Albert  HALU^This  structure  occupies 
about  one  quarter  of  tiie  area  of  the  Colosseum,  and  is 
much  less  elliptical  than  that  building,  being  less  than 
half  the  length,  and  a  little  more  than  half  the  breadth. 
The  external  dimensiotis  of  the  hall  are  272  against  IM4, 
and  288  against  468. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WAirZBD  TO  PUBOHASB. 

Fartloulwi  ofFriee,  a«.,  of  ttio  fbUowinc  Bodki  to  be  ant  direet  to 
thogentloinen  br  whom  they  an  nqoired,  whow  naniM  and  •ddrMWO 
u«.i^v«ii  te  that  poipoMi  — 


Joeara  TaAUi*s  AsnQixAaiAv 

Waatad  \ff  Mr.  Jwmn  MeKie,  KiloumodL 

Booth's  Abut  jjto  its  Taxumcae. 
Wanted  hjr  Sumttm-Mitjor  Ftemingt  113.  Marine  Parade,  Brixton. 

A  List  of  ths  OmosBS  glaixiso  ths  Szxtt  Tbousastd  Pomnw 
OHAirraD  BT  His  Sacbbo  Mxrasrr  vob  thb  Sbubf  of  ms 

TBULT  LOTAL  AHD  IBDIOBBT  PABTT.    4to.     ISSS. 

List  of  Jubticbs  of  Fbaob  ooBFiBiao  at  thb  Rbstobatxos. 
itonOcm.    ISmo.    1640. 

Wanted  br  Edward  Peaeoek,  Esq.,  Bottedbrd  Manor,  Brigg* 

A  ProclannHon  of  Sfptanber  7,  lasi,  callinc  in  the  Conmnnwealth** 

Money. 
Another  ProelaaiBUon,  aln  oTGhartof  II.,  dated  Deoember  7,  ISU,  and 

alto  xelatinff  to  the  Coini  of  the  Commonwealth. 
Another  on  the  ■uaunih)eet,da«MlJaaiiai7  S,  ISHL    Stfaer  toseiher 

or  wpazmlelj. 

Wanted  by  Mr,  H.  W.  Henfirtif^  Mnrkham  Howe,  Oolkge  Boad, 

Brighton. 


iBvtittir  to  CormCpoidrmtt. 

M.  P.  C.  (Hokitika,  New  Zealand.)— T^e  &V 

"A  temple  to  fHendship,"  Ac, 
are  by  Moore,  and  unU  be  found  ai  p.  14o  of  th«  1-eo/. 
edition  of  hie  Poems  (edit.  1869.) 

M.  E.  B.-— TAe  baronet  referred  to  was  not  emntMed  aa  a 
phyeieianf  but  amooeeded  hie  father-in^kao  under  a  tpecitd 
limitaiion  m  the  patent.  We  believe  that  there  exiete  autre 
than  one  inetanoe  of  a  nobleman  praetieing  as  a  phyeidan. 

"Naacimur  poeta,  fimue  oratoree  "  is  the  eaying  of  Cicero, 
which  it  yenenlly  mtequoted  aa  **Poeta  naacitur,  nonjfii.** 

T.  R.  i$  right.  The  couplet  **  Immodeat  worda,'*  §fv.^  ia 
from  Boacommon*a  Essay  on  Translation. 

T.  A.  H. — Queriat  about  Rev.  J.  Maegomm.  When 
can  we  direct  to  thia  Oorreapondentf 

'E.C.^Weahould,i^comraa,bagladtora99kathtfmmlt 
of  your  inquiry. 


1 


4f^  s.  VII,  APBiL  8, 7L]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ACClDBBrrS   CA17SB   IiO«0   OF   IflFB. 

Aooldento  oanae  "Lomm  of  Tlm«. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF  MONEY. 

Provide  aganut  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 
Mt  mnnuvQ  with  ths 

Bailway  Passengers'  Assurance  Company, 

An  AnniuJ  FajmeBt  of  C8  to  CO  5/  Inmint  IBlfOOO  at  DMth, 
or  an  aUowanoeafctharatooftfeparira^ftnrlnJajy. 

AS68^00  have  been  Paid  as  Gompensatioii, 

Om:  ont  of  ererr  TWELVE  Annnal  FoUct  Holder*  bcoomlDg  a 
claimant  EACH  YSAB.  For  swtlealari  apnlx  to  the  Qerlu  at  thio 
Bailvay  Statloni,  to  the  Local  Amenta,  or  at  the  Offlcef. 

M.GOBNHILL,  and  10,  SBOSNT  STREET,  LONDON. 

WnXIAM  J.  YLAJf ,  Steretarw, 


XrOTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMAKET.T.A 

ll  reftores  the  Hmnaa  Hair  to  iti  prif tine  hoe,  no  matter  at  what 
mmt.  MESSRS.  JOHN  OOSNELL  ft  CO.  have  at  lenfth,  with  the  aid 
^  tbm  most  eminent  Chemiite,  raooeeded  in  pcritectinc  this  wonderftil 
liquid.  It  is  now  offlbred  to  the  PubUe  in  a  more  concentrated  form  t 
and  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Bottles, a*.  ead&,  alao  6f., 7fl.  6<2.,  or  16f. ead&,  with  bnuh. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  Is  greatlf  raperlor  to  any  Tooth  Powder.  flTee  the  teeth 
•  pearl-like  whitencM,  proieeta  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  Imparti  a 
Iiicaainf  flucranoe  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  a  G0.*8  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
HURSERT  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  Ferfamere  and  Chemlita  thronghoat  the  Kliifdom, 
and  at  Angel  Paange,  98,  Upper  Thamee  Street,  London. 


w 


RITFTURES^JBT.ROTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 


allowed  by  npwarda  of  aoo  Medical  men  to  be  the  moet 
tlTc  fnvention  in  the  cnrattve  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
Bteel  eprlng,  to  often  hnrtAil  in  iti  eflbeta,ii  here  aToldedi  a  loft  bandage 
b(ring  worn  ronnd  the  bo^,  while  the  requiiite  reatiting  power  le  eup* 
pUed  by  the  MOC-MADf  PAD  and  PATENT  LEYER  fitting  with  to 
mneh  eaee  and  eloetnem  that  It  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  be  worn 
during  deep.  A  deierlptiTe  drenlar  m^  be  had,  and  the  TroH  (which 
aannot  lUl  to  fit)  fbrwarded  by  poet  on  the  drcnmlbrence  of  the  body, 
twoinehM  below  the  hipe,  beliig  nnt  to  the  MannflMturer. 


U. 


MR.  JOHN  WHTTB,  IM,  PIOCADILLT,  LONDON. 

P)rkaofaSin^eTniai,lSf.,fll«.,l6«.6el.,aadSl«.6d.  FM 
Doable  Trate.  Sl«.  6<f.,  4tf .,  and  Mi.  6ci.   Poitage  If.  u^ 
AnUmbllio2TniM.41f.andMi.6ci.   Poctage  1j.  lOd. 

Poet  Office  ordaapayiUe  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Poet  Office.  Piccadilly. 


ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c..  for 
YARIOOSE  VEINS,  and  aU  caMe  of  WEAKNESS  and  S  WEL- 
(O  of  the  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  ftc  They  are  poroae,  light  in  texture, 
and inezpenilTe.  and  are  drawn  on  Ukeaa ordinary  etoekiag.  Pileee 
U.  6<f.,  7fl.  6cf.,  lOi.,  and  l«f.  each.   PCatage  6d. 

J  JHN  WHITE.  MANUFACTURER.  W.  PICCADILLT.  London 

GENTLEMEN  desirous  of  having  their  Linens 
dreseed  to  perfiKtion  ahonld  aupply  their  LaundrcMes  with  the 

MQ&BWZB&B    STAB  OS**' 

which  Impartf  a  briUiaaey  aadeUwtleltygratiiyfag  alike  to  the  MBae 
of  fight  and  touch. 

A   FACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

X\  the  hair  with  thi«  beautlAilly  perAimed  Waah,  in  two  days  grey 
Mir  becoDMi  lt«  original  colour,  and  remain*  ao  by  an  ocoHional  unng. 
ThU  is  guaranteed  by  MR.  ROSS.  IDs.  ej.,  sent  for  stampe.— ALEX. 
R0S8,lft.HItfi  Holbom.  London. 

PANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Albx. 

ROSS'S  CANTHARIDES  OIL.  It  is  a  sure  Restorer  of  Hair,  and 
^--odneer  of  Whiskers.  Its  eflbet  Is  speedy.  It  is  patronised  by  Romy. 
The  price  of  it  Is  a«.  M.,  sent  for  M  stamps. 

IT OLLO WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
1  DISKA8B8  or  Woianr.~Mcdical  science  In  all  ages  has  been 
rected  to  alleviate  the  many  maladies  Incident  to  ftmales,  but  Pro. 
fossor  Holloway.  by  diligent  study  and  attentive  observation,  was  in- 
duced to  believe  that  nsiture  had  provided  a  remedy  for  these  special 
diseases.  After  vast  research  he  sncoeeded  In  compounding  hb  cele- 
brated Pills  and  Ointment,  which  embody  the  jprinclple  naturally 
dfaigned  for  the  relief  and  ewe  of  disorders  pccuUar  to  women  of  sJl 
SUMS  Md  constitutions,  whether  residing  in  warm  or  cold  climates. 
They  have  repeatedly  corrected  disordered  Amctfons  which  had  deSed 
the  usual  drugs  prescribed  by  medical  men,  and  with  the  still  more 
eatisltactoryresaU  that  the  BMhidy  haa  been  oomplatdy  and penaan- 
9&tly  removed. 


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GOOD  DINNER  SHERRY. 
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TO 

SERIES   THE   THIRD 

(VOLS.  I.— XXL) 

OF 

NOTES     'AND     QUERIES. 

A  Medinm  of  InterGOnmiTiiiication 

FOB 

LITERARY   MEN,   GENERAL   READERS,   ETC. 


**  And  in  sach  Indexet*  tlthongh  imall  prides 
To  their  anbiequant  Tolumes,  there  is  seen 
The  hebj  figure  of  the  giant  mess 
Of  things  to  oome  at  luge." 

Tnibu  amd  Oreanda,  Aet  L  8c  8. 

Extract  wbou  Pbevaob. 

Six  txasb  havinff  elapsed  sinoe^  following  the  example  of  other  Joint  Stock  Companies— for  what  is  Notes  and 
Qdbkibs  but  a  Joint  Stock  Company  for  the  promotion  of  historical  truth  ?— we  rendered  to  oar  sabscribers  an 
acooant  of  oar  stewardship,  we  haye  called  in  once  more  the  assistanoe  of  our  highly  skilful  literaiy  accountant, 
and  in  the  following  pages  submit  to  public  inspection  his  balance  sheet,  which  will,  we  trust,  show  most  satiafac- 
torilv  how  mat  has  oeen  the  gain  to  historical,  biographical,  literary,  antiquarian,  and  philological  knowledge  in 
the  fast  twelye  volnmes  of  Kotbs  ahd  Qubribs. 

The  late  Lord  Brougham,  whose  name  can  nerer  be  mentioned  by  us  without  grateful  acknowledgment  for  many 
unsolicited  acts  of  IHend^p,  was  once  good  enough  to  declare  to  us  his  opinion  that  *'Notbs  asd  Queries  was 
most  usefiil,  most  valuable,  and  made  ten  times  more  so  by  its  admirable  Indexes."  Lord  Brougham  was  peifocUy 
right.  Intrinsically  valuable  as  the  contents  of  the  many  volumes  of  Notes  ahd  Queries  must  be  for  the  mfonna- 
tion  they  contain,  they  would  be  comparatively  useless  but  for  the  ready  means  wfadch  the  Indexes  afflird  of  turning 
the  information  stored  up  in  them  to  instant  amount    Without  such  Index  they  would  form 

"  Om  gUtflDc  diWM  and  wild  Imv  of  wit** 

But  with  such  an  Index  as  is  here  set  before  the  reader,  which  well  deserves  Bayle's  definition  of  an  Index,  **  the  soul 
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NOTES:  *-  Spenser,  the  Poet  of  Ireland,  817  —  Fendlee: 
BeMchamp.  818  ^  "  PravlDelal  CbanuileriaiiOB,"  m»  •• 
Poetry  of  Uie  Glouda»/&.^  Another  Old  Jenkins— Snr* 
names  in  Domesday  Book  —  Biniboards  —  Baron  Ue- 
bi^  Testhnony  to  the  Taluable  Senrioes  of  dlstingnisbed 
Frenofa  SdeotHlc  and  Literary  Men  —  Jobn  Kempe, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  ~-  The  Libraries  and  Museoms 
of  Pkris  —  An  Old  Oxford  Bpigram,  820. 

QTTBILIES:— Anarkala,  Favourite  Wife  of  Akbar,  821  — 
'*  AniBtia  Chrlsti "  —  Bfademoiselle  AnretU— Old  Ballad— 
«  Brides  of  flnderby*'—  Bemarkable  Clock —*' Coutumier 
of  the  Order  of  the  visitation  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  " 
— A  Gem  Qnery  —  Wew  German  Flsff  —  Gorse  —  Holcns 
lanatus  —  Irish  House  of  Commons'  Usts  —  Jobn  Kersey 

—  ** Kilmeny"  —  *' La  Belle  Dame  sans  Merd " — PortnUt 
Paintincr  — jCedlBTal  Seal  found  in  the  Isle  of  BIy.Ac  — 
Bong,** Laoriger Horatius "  -  Styring Family  —  fitemhold 
and  Hopkins  —  8nn-dial  Queries— A  ToaitatoDe  lUng— 
ITmbiqrore  —  French  Wesleyan  Magaiiiie  —  Choice  of 
"Words:  "Wink "or "Blink"? 8227^ 

SBPLIBS:  -Old  Sandown  Castle.  Isle  of  Wight.  886  — 
Trapp's  "  Virgil,"  lb.—  Chignons,  828—"  Baron  "  Nichol- 
son, 827  —Who  is  a  Laird  f  828—  Lord  Brougham  and  Mrs. 
Nightiufsle's  Tomb  — Fraaer:  Frisel  — Bows  and  Curt- 
seys —  Bfgnitary  and  Signataries  —  Samplers— K^bes- 
The  Block  Books  —  Patronymic  Prefeoe  <*  Mac  "  —  British 
Scythed  Charioto  —  Sbeerwort  —  "  Though  lost  to  Siaht, 
to  Memory  dear  "—On  the  Title  of  King  or  Queen  of  Man 
— De  Saye  or  Say — Hampden  Family — Guisot  and  Guise 
— Treveris'"Grete  Herball— The  Plant  Lingua  Anseris 

—  Churches  within  Boman  Camps  —  Lines  on  the  Human 
Ear — Ballad  of  Lady  Ferrers,  Ac.,  830. 

Notes  OB  Books.  Ae. 


SPENSEB,  THE  POET  OF  IRELAND. 

No.  m. 
It  mav  be  a  mere  fancy  of  mine,  but  I  have 
always  felt  inclined  to  regard  Spenser  as  being 
the  real  poet  of  Ireland,  for  it  is  only  in  bis  poetry 
that  we  meet  with  Irish  scenery  and  Irish  man- 
ners. As  he  spent  the  early  part  of  his  life  mostly 
in  London,  and  in  reality  knew  veiy  little  of  any 
part  of  England  but  Kent,  he  naturally  described 
what  fell  under  his  eyes  in  Ireland,  with  whose 
people  and  scenery  he  seems  to  have  been  well 
aocroainted.  Of  this  I  find  the  following  proofs: — 
When  he  would  describe  the  force  oi  the  tide 
running  up  a  river  (iv.  3,  27),  it  is  the  Shannon, 
in  which  he  had  seen  it,  and  not  the  Thames  or 
Severn,  in  which  he  had  not  seen  it,  that  he  in- 
troduces ;  when  the  colKnon  of  two  adverse  bil- 
lows (iv.  1,  42),  it  is  in  the  "Irish  Sounds"  that 
it  occurs^  when  he  in  a  simile  (ii.  9, 16)  describes 
a  doud  of  gnats,  it  is  '^  out  of  the  fens  of  Allan/' 
a  boff  in  the  county  of  Cork,  that  they  rise.    The 
eimue  of  the  south  wind  dispelling  the  mist 
(iiL  4, 13)  is  evidently  taken  from  what  the  poet 
must  often  have  witnessed  at  Kilcolman.   Nature 
hdds  her  court  (vii.  6)  on  the  hill  of  Aelo  in  the 
same  county,  the  change  of  which  hill  is  the  sub- 
ject of  a  pleaaing  mytnologic  legend ;  and  in  his 
Colin  CKcwf «  come  Mome  offom,  he  relates  the 
loves  of  the  two  neighbouring  streams,  the  Mulla 


and  the  Bregog^^a  legend  perhi^  coneerted  be* 
tween  the  poet  and  Sir  Walter  Baleigh,  when  the 
latter  visited  him  at  Kiloolman.  I  fiitalhr  think 
that  it  was  the  Lakes  of  Eillamey,  which  he 
must  have  visited,  that  made  him  place  the  bower 
of  Acrasia  in  a  lake,  and  not  in  the  sea  like  the 
palaces  of  Alcina  and  Armida. 

In  yarious  parts  of  the  poem  we  seem  to  meet 
with  the  aboaes,  the  maiinen,  and  ihe  habits  of 
the  rude  and  burbarous  Irish.  We  may  inetaace 
the  cottage  and  the  occupation  of  Corcsdoa  and 
her  daughter  (i.  3,  10  Mq.^ ;  the  Witch's  abode 
(iii.  7, 5),  and  that  of  Sclaunaer  and  her  own  pexeon ; 
and  the  ford  where  the  "  fosters  "  waylay  Timias 
(iii.  6,  17).  Perhaps  even  the  abode  of  Bel- 
phoebe  and  her  nymphs  (iiL  5,  39)  may  have  had 
its  prototype  in  the  woods  of  Muneter. 

When  we  read  the  description  of  tha  ^oom- 
mune  hall "  in  the  Palace  of  Pride  (i.  6>  3),  with 
its  minstrels,  its  bards,  and  its  chromders,  we  are 
reminded  at  once  of  the  abode  of  an  Irish  chie^ 
or  even  the  castle  of  an  Anglo-Irish  lord :  for  in 
such  the  poet  must  often  have  been  a  guest  He 
surely  must  have  been  more  than  once  at  that  of 
Kilkenny.  We  may  observe  that  while  in  the 
Orlando  the  knights  frequently  stop  at  inns, 
nothing  of  the  kind  occurs  in  The  Faerie  Queene^ 
where  at  nightfall  they  always  repair  to  castles  or 
other  private  dwellings.  Now  in  the  View,  ^c, 
we  are  told  more  than  once  that  ''  there  be  no 
Lmes"  where  'Modging  or  horse  nteat  or  man's 
meat "  were  to  be  had.  And  such,  I  have  reason 
to  think,  was  the  case  in  remote  parts  of  Kerry 
even  within  the  present  century,  wnen  the  travel- 
ler or  tourist  was  always  a  welcome  guest  in 
private  houses.* 

But  it  may  be  sidd — ^Is  not  Moore  the  poet 
of  Ireland?  Just  as  much,  in  my  opinion,  as 
Byron  is  the  poet  of  Israel  Moore— though,  I 
believe,  of  Celtic  origin — in  reality  knew  little  of 
Ireland.  He  was  bom  and  reared  in  Dublin,t 
and  therefore  never  mingled  with  the  peasan- 
try, who  must  be  known  if  we  would  know 
the  Irish  character.  He  had,  I  think,  little  or  no 
taste  for  natural  scenery^  and  hence  his  Irish 
Melodies  do  not  contain  a  single  description  of 
Irish  scenery  or  a  trait  of  Irish  manners.     He 

*  In  1818  one  of  the  guides  at  Killamey  proposed  to 
me  to  make  a  pedestrian  toar  througli  the  moontains  of 
Kerry.  **  But,*^  said  I,  •*  there  are  no  inns."  "  Oh,  never 
mind  that,"  said  he ;  "  for  every  day  I  will  brine  you  to 
the  house  of  some  gentleman  or  other,  who  will  be  right 
glad  to  give  von  your  dinner,  bed,  and  breakfast  next 
morning  for  t£e  pleasure  of  your  company." 

t  Many  many  years  ago,  when  I  was  a  very  young 
student  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  I  chanced  to  become 
acquainted  with  the  successor  of  Moore's  father  in  the 
grocer's  shop  in  Aungier  &|t reet,  and  I  remember  spend- 
ing an  evening  drinlung  tM,  lUa^ing  cards^  and  eating 
oysters  in  the  little  parlour  behind  the  shop,  in  which 
the  poet  must  often  have  sat  composing  his  eariy  verses. 
But  I  was  not  then  aware  of  it. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fc  8.  VII.  April  15, 71* 


merelj  took  Bome  names  of  persona  and  some 
fabulous  legends  from  the  so-called  histories  of 
Keating  and  D'Halloran.  and  when  these  legends 
were  really  beautiful,  ne  spoiled  them  by  his 
light  trifling  mode  of  nairating  them.    Premiamg 
that,  in  nay  opinion,  the  finest  verses  ever  pro- 
duced in  Ireland  are  Wolfe's  on  "  The  Burial  of 
Sir  John  Moore,"  I  would  say,  though  many  of 
the  Melodies  are  pleasing  and  some  really  spirited, 
that,  as  a  national  poet,  he  was,  in  my  mind,  far 
inferior  to  Davis  — the  Tyrtaeus  of  that  wild 
band  of  hot-headed  enthusiasts  led  by  infatuated 
but  honourable  and  well-meaning  Smith  O'Brien, 
some  twenty  or  five-and-twenty  years  ago,  who 
dreamed  of  such  an  utter  impossioility  as  that  of 
exciting  the  Irish '  Romanists   to  rise  in  arms 
against  the  power  of  Eoffland.     I  say  so;  for, 
\nth  all  their  ignorance  and  enthusiasm,  the  Irish 
are  not  absolute  fools,  and  therefore  an  insurrec- 
tion in  Ireland  is  just  as  probable  an  event  as  one 
in  Wales  or  Cornwall.    Will  our  statesmen  ever 
get  rid  of  their  dread  of  this  noisy  unsubstantial 
bugbear  P    Let  them  do  strict  justice,  and  expect 
no  thanks.    An  imaginative  race,  conscious  of 
inferiority,  never  will    be  contented,   but  will 
always  have   imaginary  wrongs  to  brood  over, 
and  on  which  they  may  display  their  national 
eloquence.  Thos.  Ksightlst. 


FENDLES:  BEAUCHAMP. 

The  first  of  these  names,  spelt  in  various  ways, 
has,  I  suppose,  always  been  a  puzzle  to  Enghsh 

genealogists.  I  mentioned  it  (iiL  409)  when  I 
ad  something  to  say  about  the  Mortymer  pedi- 
gree. But,  although  I  am  not  yet  able  to  decide 
what  the  real  name  is,  I  think  that  Hebkisn- 
TRT7DE  (4***  'S.  vii.  223)  would  like  to  know  that 
the  probability  still  seems  to  incline  to  its  being 
a  Spanish  name  barbarized  into  its  present  shape. 
There  are  in  existence  two  copies  in  MS.  of  the 
lives  of  the  Berkeleys  by  Smyth  of  Nibley.  One 
is  at  Berkeley  Castle.  I  have  never  seen  that 
MS. :  it  was  the  one  used  by  Fosbrooke  for  his 
Extracts  from  Sm^ftfC^  Lives  of  the  Berkeleys, 
The  other  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Berkeley  of 
Spetchley  Park,  Worcestershire.  By  his  kindness 
I  have  been  allowed  to  have  this  precious  MS.  in 
my  own  house.  It  is  a  magazine  of  Gloucester- 
shire history.  At  the  end  of  it  is  this  state- 
ment :~^ 

**  The  end  of  the  third  and  last  volnme,  conteyninge 
the  aeaaen  last  ancestors  of  the  antient  and  honorable 
familye  of  the  Berkeleis  (incladinge  the  lord  Qeorge  that 
yet  l3meth)  wherein  127  yeares  are  taken  np,  viz*  from 
the  vii<^  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  E^nge  Henry  the  VII***, 
Anno  1491,  till  the  zy)*i>  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  King 
James  of  England  &&  Anno  1618." 

I  give  these  particulars  that  HxBMENTBimx 
and  other  genealo^sts  may  see  exactly  what  the 
authority  is  to  which  I  am  asking  them  to  assent. 


This  "  third  and  last  volume  "  is  bound  up  with 
the  two  preceding,  which  give  the  early  history 
of  the  &mily.  The  three  volumes  or  parts  now 
form  one  large  folio.    The  date  1618,  no  doubt^ 

S'ves  the  time  when  Smyth  finished  his  work  at 
e  end  of  the  third  volume  or  part.  But  I  found 
other  dates  in  places,  as  1684,  1635,  which  were, 
I  presume,  insertions  made  by  him  afterwards. 

Of  course  he  comes  to  this  puzzling  name, 
which,  however,  seems  not  to  have  puzzled  him. 
At  p.  704,  Smyth  is  showing  how  Qeorge,  first 
Lord  Berkeley  of  that  Christian  name,  Uie  lord 
who  was  living  when  he  wrote,  could  claim 
several  nationalities.    He8a3rs: — 

"  By  Margaret,  wife  of  Thomas,  the  third  daughter 
of  Roger  Mortimer,  first  Earle  of  March,  sonne  of  Edmond 
Mortimer  Lord  of  Wigmore,  and  of  Margaret  ffendles  his 
wife,  daughter  of  William  de  ffendles,  a  Spaniard  Co- 
zen to  Qaeene  Elleanor,  first  wifs  to  Kinge  Edward  thci 
first." 

And  in  the  dexter  mar^  ^'a  Spaniard." 

This  is  a  very  positive  statement,  but  it  ia 
worth  listening  to  when  mode  by  a  man  such  as 
Smyth  was.  1  have  searched  the  Noblesa  del  Afkr- 
dahaUa,  in  Sevilla,  1688,  but  found  nothing  which 
English  ingenuity  or  blundering  could  have  re- 
duced to  Fendles. 

However,  a  possible  name  is  given  by  Gibbon 
in  his  '<  Introauctio  ad  Latinam  Blasoniam  "  in 
the  list  of  "  Vredi  Blasoniie.''    At  the  end  of— 

"  Sigilla  Comitam  Flendrin cam  expositione 

historic^  Olivarl  Vredl  Ivrisconsvlti  Brrg Bmgis 

Flandrarum  apud  Joannem  Baptistem  Kerchoviam  vi& 
alta,  snb  signo  fiibliomm.    Anno  1639," 

is  a  list  of  arms  collected  by  Julius  Chifflet,  son 
of  John  James  Chifflet.  It  is  in  Latin  and  French. 
I  know  Vredius*s  book  very  well,  but  I  do  not 
possess  it,  and  cannot  here  refer  to  it.  Wherever 
it  may  be  that  the  name  occurs,  Gibbon  gives  it, 
as  I  have  said,  under  "Vredi  Blasoni®.'  The 
name  is  Fienlbs.  He  gives  the  name  and  arms 
thus : — 

**  Fienles.  Scutom  argenteum  farvo  Leone  impressnm. 
Aig.  a  Lion  rampant  Sab.  (a  place  giving  surname  to  a 
Family)." 

This  name  certainly  brings  us  very  near  to 
Fendles.  It  is  most  likely  that  in  England  the 
name  Fienles  could  not  have  existed  long  without 
getting  a  d  inserted.    Where  is  Fienles  r 

Now  the  JRecueil  Ghiiahgimie  de  Families  origin 
naires  des  Fays  Bas,  Rotterdam,  1775,  gives  at 
p.  3^f  and  elsewhere,  the  name  and  coat  of  De 
Fiennes.  Gilles  de  Fiennes  occurs  at  the  very 
beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  as  "  Cheva- 
lier, Seigneur  de  Renauville,  fils  de  Maximilien 
Seipfneur  dudit  Lieu."  The  arms  on  p.  363  to 
which  p.  365  refers,  are  "  d'argent  au  lion  de  sable, 
arm^  et  lampass^  de  gueules.  This  is  the  coat 
of  Henles,  as  given  bv  Vredius.  It  is  not  the 
coat  of  the  ancient  Norman-English  family  of 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Fiennes,  who  bear  Azure,  three  lions  rampant  or, 
armed  and  langued  g. ;  and  Elias  Reusner,  part  v. 
p.  82  of  his  0pm  Genealogicum  Catholicunif  1502, 
gives  ''  Stirpis  Lucemburgicsa  stemma  secundum, 
Comitum  rani  S.  Pavli  ac  Lignii,  Fiennad  Bomi- 
Dorum,''  but  no  arms.  D.  P. 

Staarto  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 


"PROVIXCIAL  CHARACTERISTICS." 

The  above jieti  d esprit,  which  appeared  originally 
in  the  Milesian  Magazine  of  Dr.  John  Brennan  of 
Dublin,  and  which  derived  much  of  its  point  from 
the  fact  (hitherto  unmentioned^  that  it  was  impro- 
vised in  a  company  that  fairlv  represented  the 
literature  and  scholarship  of  the  four  Irish  pro- 
vinces, has  been  reprinted  by  Mr.  T.  Crofton 
Oroker  in  his  Popular  Songs  of  Ireland,  and  by 
Mr.  Charles  Gavan  Duify  in  his  Casket  of  Iritk 
Jewels,  with  an  accompanying  hint  that  it  may 
have  been  written  by  Dr.  Brennan  himself.  Both 
Mr.  T.  C.  Croker  and  Mr.  Charles  Gavan  Duffy 
aie  entirely  wrong  in  this  conjecture,  the  pun- 
gent bagatelle  in  question  having  been  extem- 
porised by  my  father,  a  naval  brother  Medico  and 
mend  of  the  Doctor's,  who,  many  years  ago,  gave 
me  the  original,  from  which  1  made  the  accom- 
panying Latin  translation,  such  as  it  is. 

Croker,  though  a  clever  man,  makes  another 

decided  mistake  in  quoting  the  humorous  Irish 

•ong  — 

**  I'm  kin  to  the  Callaghaiu,  Brallaghans, 
Xowlans  and  Dowlings  likewiae," — 

as  if  it  formed  part  of  a  totallv  different  song, 
called  "  1  was  the  boy  for  bewitching  them." 

He  is  also,  I  think,  wrong  in  explaining  the 
vulffar  Anglo-Irish  curse,. ''Bad  cess  to  you''  by 
** Heavy  taxation  to  you*'  (I!) — an  Irisn  curse, 
no  douDt,  but  I  think  interpreted  with  ''  bad  suc- 
cess "  by  Mr.  Croker. 

'*  PKOVmCIAL  CHARACTERISTICS. 

{In  the  third  line  Crofton  and  Daffy  have  **  miat-all,*' 
erroneoosly  for  "missed  all."] 

*'  A  Connaaght  man 

Gets  all  that  he  can, 
His  impudence  never  has  missed  all ; 

He'll  seldom  flatter, 

But  bully  and  batter. 
And  his  talk's  of  hia  kin  and  his  pistol. 

<*  A  Munster  man 

Is  civil  by  plan, 
Again  and  again  he'll  entreat  you  ; 

Though  you  ten  times  refuse, 

He  his  ODJect  porsnes, 
Which  is,  nine  oat  or  ten  times,  to  cheat  yon. 

*'  An  Ulster  man 

Ever  means  to  trepan, 
He  watches  your  eye  ana  opinion ; 

He'll  ne'er  disagree. 

Till  his  interert  it  be. 
And  insolence  marks  his  dominion* 


"  A  Leinster  man 
la  with  all  cup  and  can; 

He  calls  t'other  provinces  knaves ; 
Yet  each  of  them  see. 
When  he  starts  with  the  three. 

That  his  distance  he  frequently  saves." 

*'  CRARACTERBS  PROVIXOIARUU. 

"  Connadse  natus  qnie  possit  cnncta  lacratur ; 
Nee  semper,  audax,  fallitur  omne  petens; 
Rams  adulator,  bacchans  plerumque  ferocit ; 
Armaque  magniloquens  prosapiamque  crepat. 

"  Mononite  natus  civilis  com  poai toque 
Urbanus  rogitat,  saepe  subinde  rogat ; 
Si  decies  negitas,  quod  vult  prosequitur  ardens  ; 
£x  decies  novies  fallere  quemque  parat. 

"  UUoniK  natus  deceptor  semper  ocellis 
Inhiat  et  menti,  callidus  advigilana  ; 
Ni  sua  res  agitur  nunquam  dissentit  amlco ; 
Spiritus  insnltans  imperiumque  notat. 

*'  Lagenin  natus  calices  et  pocula  partit, 
Ataue  alios  nequam  furciferosque  voeat ; 
Ast  ubi  contendit  triplex  provincia  cursu, — 
Qussqne  sibi  videat, — occupat  ilia  locum." 

Thohas  Staitlet  Tracet,  A.B., 

Ex-Scholar  Trin.  Coll.,  Dublin. 
Limerick. 

POETRY  OF  THE  CLOUDS. 

De  Quincey,  in  his  essay  on  Wordsworth's 
poetry,  says,  *'it  is  singular  that  the  gorgeous 
phenomena  of  cloud  scenery  have  been  so  little 
noticed  by  poets."  He  considers  Wordsworth  to 
be  the  only  poet  who  has  satisfactorily  observed 
the  beauty  of  clouds  and  their  weird  fantastic 
shapes ;  and  he  naturally  selects  this  point  for  his 
eloquent  admiration.  Natundly  I  say,  for  who  is 
so  fond  of  building  '^  castles  in  the  air "  as  Be 
Quincey? 

With  his  usual  display  of  pyrotechnic  rhetoric 
he  dazzles  the  reader  into  Hie  oelief  that  the  two 
01^  three  passages  which  he  ''  devolvit  ore  pro- 
fundo  "  contain  the  onlv  known  allusions  to  these 
'*  vapoury  appearances.''^  This  statement,  support- 
ing the  theory  that  the  ancient  poets^were  insen- 
sible to  natural  beauty,  I  am  anxious  to  disprove. 
The  following  are  a  few  quotations,  which  I 
should  be  glad  to  see  largely  supplemented. 

In  Theocritus  (xxv.  88)  there  is  a  passage 
similar  to  that  quoted  by  De  Quinoej,  in  which  a 
flock  of  sheep  is  compared  with  '^  rainy  douds." 

Secondly,  in  the  '^  Clouds "  of  Aristophanes 
there  are  many  allusions,  and  especially  in  one 
passage  {Nvhes,  345-348)  where  clouds  are  likened 
to  a  panther,  a  wolf,  a  centaur,  a  bull,  a  stag,  and 
a  woman. 

Again,  Lucretius,  treating  of  emanations  (iv. 

136),  speaks  thus  of  the  forms  seen  in  clouds : — 

**  sKpe  Gigantnm 
Oia  volare  videntur,  et  nmbnm  duoere  late : 
Interdum  magpii  montes  avolsaime  saza 
Montibos  anteire  et  aolem  snooedere  prater ; 
Inde  alios  trahere  atqne  indaoere,  buoa  nimbos.** 


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[4*  S.  VU.  Ama  15, '71. 


In  Hamlet  De  Quinc^  allows  tbat  there  are 
some  *'  gleams  of  evanescent  allusions."  I  find 
more  than  that — ^namely,  clouds  with  the  form  of 
a  camel,  a  weasel,  a  whale. 

I  cannot  retrain- firom  quoting  a  beautiful  de- 
scription from  a  poet  whom  De  Quinoey  has 
styled  a  '^ barbarian" — John  Keats;  although, 
perhaps,  in  point  of  time  the  quotation  is  imper- 
tinent : — 

..."  before  the  crystal  heavens  dadcen 
I  watch  and  dote  apoa  the  silver  lakes 
Pictured  in  western  loveliness,  that  takes 
The  semblance  of  gold  rocks  and  bright  gold  sands, 
Islands  and  creeks  and  amber-fpetted  strands. 
With  horses  prancing  o'er  them,  palaces 
And  towers  of  amethyst,"  Ac.     • 

In  fine,  I  do  not  find  that  Wordsworth,  "if  he 
did  not  first  notice,  certainlv  has  noticed  most 
circumstantially  "  what  Be  Quincey  cumbrously 
terms  ''the  pageants  of  skybuUt  architecture." 

H.  B.  COIXEBILL, 
The  Philberdfl,  Maidenhead. 


Akothsb  Old  Jvsxtns. — I  enclose  a  cutting 
from  Berroto'a  Worcester  Journal  of  April  1,  1871, 
in  the  hope  that  some  correspondent  of  "N.  &  Q." 
resident  m  the  neighbourhoood  wiU  investigate 
the  case  as  thoroughly  as  Mb.  Polb  Cabew  did 
that  of  Edward  Couch  of  Torpoint,  stated  to  be 
one  hundred  and  ten,  but  clearly  proved  (anti 
p.  200)  by  Mb.  Polb  Cabxw,  upon  mvestigation, 
to  be  ninety-five  t  — 

**  In  our  obitnarr  this  week  we  record  the  death,  on 
the  25th  nit.,  of  Jonn  Jenkins,  of  Goddington,  near  Led- 
hory,  Herefordshire,  at  the  extraordinary  age  of  one 
handred  and  seven  years.  The  deceased  lived  with  his 
daughter,  who  is  now  abont  eigh^^-five  years  of  age,  in 
a  small  mud  hut  near  Coddington  Cross^  and  was  formerly 
a  fiirm  laboorer  of  very  indostrions  habits.  For  many 
3'ean,  however,  he  has  own  supported  by  parochial  rehef. 
Some  few  years  ago  Mr.  Trebeme  and' Mr.  Andrews,  6f 
Bosbniy,  visited  the  old  man,  and  were  surprised  to  find 
him  in  want  of  many  neoessaiy  artiples,  such  as  bed- 
clothing,  Ac,  whereupon  th^  made  an  appeal  to  the 
inhabitants  on  his  behalf,  and  sufficient  money  was  raised 
to  buy  such  necessaries  as  he  stood  in  need  o£  The 
deceased  was  in  possession  of  all  his  faculties  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  freely  indulged  in  the  habit  of 
smoking." 

Perhaps^  looking  at  the  date  and  the  nams^  it  is 
only  a  hoax  played  off  upon  the  Woroeder  JoumaL 

A,0. 

Sttbitahbs  nr  Dohbssat  Book. — In  going 
through  the  index  to  the  Domesday  Survey,  I  find 
the  names  ''Rogems  Deue  ealvet  dommas"  and 
**  Adam  filius  Durandi  MaHs  opibus"  1  presume 
that  these  were  the  surnames  of  the  persons  re- 
ferred to,  and  think  them  sufficiently  curious  to 
make  a  note  of  them. 

The  name  of  Boger  appears  to  have  been  sin- 
gularly associated  with  gallantly  and  politeness, 
for  I  have  the  impiesBioa  of  a  meduBval  seal 


bearing  the  device  of  a  man  carrying  a  roee^  with 
the  legend,  ^  SigiUum  Bogeri  quasi  rosa  g^erens." 
Agam,  Sir  Boger  de  Goverley  is>  and  will  ever 
be,  our  beau4deal  of  the  gallant  gentleman* 

M.D. 

SiGinsoABDS. — The  latest  phase  of  the  temper- 
ance movement  is,  as  your  readers  are  probably 
aware,  the  institution  of  public-houses  witnout  the 
drink.  One  or  two  of  these  houses  have  been 
opened  in  Liverpool,  and  have  been  attended  with 
a  tolerable  amount  of  suooess.  The  foUowing  is 
a  copy  of  a  signboard  over  one  of  these  temper^ 
ance  publichouses,  and  some  future  historian  of 
signboards  may  perhaps  be  grateful  for  its  pre- 
servation in  the  columns  of  '^  jN.  &  Q." :  — 

**  A  puUichouse  without  the  drink. 
Where  men  miy  read  and  smoke  and  think. 

Then  sober  home  return. 
▲  stepping-stone  this  house  yonll  find ; 
Gome,  leave  your  ram  and  Mer  behind, 

ibid  truer  pleasures  learn. 

**  WoAman's  Best  Admission  Id  per  week.  Open 
from  6  to  10." 

F.  S. 

BaBON  LlEBia*S  TSSTDCOKT  TO  1KB  VALtTABLB 

Services  of  dibtjsqvibkvd  French  Scientific 
AND  LiTEBABT  Men. — Llebig,  the  celebrated  che- 
mical investigator  and  author,  to  whom  agricul- 
tural science  and  progress  are  so  much  indebted, 
pud  a  handsome  compliment,  the  other  dav;  at  a 
meeting  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  at  Munich, 
to  the  scientific  and  literare  men  of  Paris,  when 
he  stated  how  much  he  (forty-eight  years  ago) 
and  other  Germans  had  been  indebted  to  Parisian 
men  of  science  and  others,  when  first  visiting^ 
Paris  for  the  purpose  of  prosecuting  t&eir  studies, 
amidst  the  abundant  mdans  aflfbrded  by  that  great 
city.  Baron  Liebig  mentioned,  in  particular,  the 
names  of  Gay-Lussac,  Arago,  Dulong,  Thdnsrd — 
all  men  of  first-rate  eminence— to  whom  he  and 
other  Germans  were  deeply  grateful  for  taking^ 
them  bv  the  hand,  and  givingthem  every  pos- 
sible aid  and  encouragement.  The  Baron  said  he 
could  mention  many  of  his  countrymen — surgeons, 
naturalists,  and  orientalistsr— who,  like  himself, 
thankfully  remember  the  active  support  which 
they  met  with  from  the  savans  and  tne  literati  of  . 
Paris.  A  warm  sympathy  for  all  that  is  noble 
and  good,  he  said,  and  an  unselfish  hospitality, 
are  among  the  finest  traits  of  the  French  cha- 
racter. The  French,  the  Baron  said,  will  soon 
again  be  actively  engaged  on  the  neutral  ^und 
of  scientific  pursuits,  in  which  the  best  minds  of 
both  nations  must  meet;  and  by  this  means  the 
efforts  of  both,  united  in  a  common  cause,  will, 
by  degrees,  help  to  calm  down  the  bitter  feelings 
of  the  French  against  Germanv  —  feelings  of 
deeply  wounded  national  pride — ^the  consequences 
of  tne  war  which  was  fenced  upon  G^eimany. 


4«»  S.  VII.  April  16, 71,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


321 


Such  notes  of  peace  and  goodwill,  proceeding 
from  80  eminent  a  qnarter,  mnet  have  a  happy 
effect^  and  will  be  hailed  with  satiafaction  on  ereiy 
hand.  The  new  ^' reign  of  terror"  which  now 
prevails  cannot  last ;  and  the  voices  of  the  elo- 
quent successors  of  Guizot,  Cousin,  and  ViUe- 
main,  of  Cuvier  and  Blainville,  will  soon  again 
be  heard  by  admiring  and  thronging  audiences, 
without  fear  of  being  drowned  by  the  thunder 
of  cannon.  Johk  Macra.t. 

Oxford. 

John  Kemps,  Ahchbishop  op  Cantbrbukt. — 
It  may  interest  your  correspondent  Mb.  W.  J. 
LoFHB,  who  makes  mention  of  the  arms  of  this 
archbishop  at  p.  254  of  the  present  volume  of 
'^N.  &  Q./'  to  say  that  they  are  emblazoned  in 
the  fine  east  window  of  Bolton  Percy  church.  He 
was  Archbishop  of  York  from  1426  to  1452, 
when  he  was  translated  to  Canterbury.  The 
aims  are  those  of  Kempe — Held  gules,  three 
garbs  or,  [.two  and  one,  and  round  the  sliield  a 
**  bordure  engrailed  or/'  impaling  those  of  the  see 
of  Canterbury.  Above  is  the  ^ure  of  the  arch- 
bishop,  the  size  of  life,  habited  m  chasublC;  dal- 
matic, embroidered  stole,  sandals,  and  jewelled 
gloves,  his  left  hand  holding  a  crozier,  whilst  his 
right  hand  is  raised  in  the  act  of  benediction. 
His  head  is  surrounded  by  a  nimbus  or  glory. 
The  window  in  question  is  said  to  contain  some 
of  the  finest  fifteenth-century  glass  in  the  county 
of  York.  JoHK  ricxPOBD,  M.A. 

Bolton  Percy,  near  Tadcaster. 

The  Libbabies  aitd  MusETTirs  op  Paris. — 
The  following  extracts  from  some  French  news- 
papers now  before  me  may  be  welcome  to  some 
of  your  readers  who  take  an  interest  in  the  fate 
of  the  splendid  libraries  and  museums  of  Paris: — 

Ze  TempB  of  March  7^  quoting  from  the  Ccn- 
tUMumnd,  says : — 

**  Ancun  de  not  splendidea  ^tabUssements  artiatiqaes  et 
seieDtifiqaiis  n*a  s^rieosement  aoaffert  du  bombardement 
barbare  dea  Pmssieiifl. 

''La  coapole  de  la  chapelle  de  la  yieree,  h  Saint-Snl- 
piee,  peinte  par  Lemoyne  et  restaiir^  apraa  on  incendie 
par  Callet,  n^a  re^  qa'one  ^ratigntire. 

**  Le  palais  do  Luxemboarg,  tout  rempli  d'ooavreB  d'art, 
n*a  R^a  ni  un  obos  ni  nn  Mat  d'obua.  Toates  lea  statuea 
da  grand  jardin  sont  intactes. 

**  L*£ooIe  dee  mines  a  re^a  un  obaa,  qui  a  oaas^  dans 
Im  ooUectiona  mio^ralo^ques,  nn  d^&t  qai  est  ^valnd  i 
nne  qoinzaine  de  mille  francs. 

"La  coorertore  da  dOme  du  Panth^n  a  Men  4\j6 
travBTB^  par  an  obos,  mais  oet  obns  ayant  lencontrtf  sous 
la  ooavertare  one  seconde  ooapole  en  plerra  de  taille,  il 
a'eat  arrdttf  et  n*a  pas  touchd  anx  peintares  du  baion 
Gros. 

"  La  serre  da  Jardin  des  Plantes  qui  a  M  toach^  est 
d^li  r^par^  si  Men  qa*en  ce  moment  on  ne  volt  plos 
trace  de  I'aoeident 

"Notre  incomparable  ddme  des  Inralides,  leLonvre, 
la  Sainte-Cbapelle  du  Palais,  lacathMrale  de  Paris,  notre 
vieille  ^^Use  romaine  de  Saint-Germain-dea-Pr^,  sont 
entiferement  saofe. 


^  **  £n  Hsomij  il  n*y  a  eu  que  des  constractions  par- 
ticali^ras,  en  grande  qaantitd  malhenreusement,  qai  ont 
sooffert.  En  moins  de  six  mois,  noa  macons  aaront  toot 
i^par^" 

The  same  newspaper  of  March  10  gives  the 
following  paragraph  from  the  Journal  officid: — 

"On  s'occupe  activement  aa  Mustfe  da  Loavre  de 
r^ablir  les  collections  daas  T^tat  oil  elles  ^taient  avant 
le  si^ge.  D*ici  k  pea  de  joors,  plasieors  salles  pourront 
etre  onvertes  aa  pablic. 

Again,  the  Temps  of  March  14,  says : — 

"  Plasienrs  salles  da  mus^  da  Loavre  viennent  d'etre 
r^rganisees.  Le  pablic  pourra  les  visiter  h  partir  du 
maioi  14  mars,  de  dix  beares  da  matin  k  aaatre  beureii 
da  soir.  On  entrera  par  Tescalier  de  Henn  II,  pavilion 
de  I'Horloge." 

Henbt  W.  Henpbet. 

Markham  Hoase^  Brighton. 

Ah  Ou)  Oxfobd  Epi&ram. — Cyril  Jackson  was 
Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  and  Nathan 
Wetherell  (Master  of  University  College),  Dean 
of  Hereford,  about  the  beginning  of  this  century. 
Wetherell  when  elected  to  the  headship  of  Uni- 
versity was  veiy  poor.  At  that  time  the  Oxford 
Canal  was  not  completed,  and  the  shares  in  it  were 
selling  at  almost  nominal  sums.  Wetherell,  be- 
ginning to  receive  an  income  from  his  college, 
bought  shares  in  the  canal,  which  ultimately  were 
worth  six  hundred  pounds  per  share,  and  became 
very  rich. 

Dr.  Burton,  a  canon  of  Christ  Church,  had  a 

daughter  who  was  very  clever,  and  wrote  some 

very  pretty  verses.    She  was  known  by  the  name 

of  ''Jack  Burton."     Among  other  little  poems 

was  the  following,  on  the  above  little  history  of 

Cyril  and  Nathan : — 

**  As  Cyril  and  Nathan  were  walking  by  Qaeen's, 
Says  Cyril  to  Nathan, '  We  two  are  both  deans, 

And  bishops  perhaps  we  shall  be.* 
Says  Nathan,  'Ton  mar,  bat  I  never  shall ; 
I  will  take  care  of  my  little  canal. 

And  leave  yoa  to  look  after  the  sea '  (<ee)." 

I  was  a  member  of  University  College  before 
1800,  and  remember  the  production  of  this  eni- 
gram.    I  never  saw  it  in  print  F.  C.  P, 


fftuftM* 


ANARKALA,  FAVOURITE  WIFE  OF  AKBAR. 

**  His  angradona  son  (Selim),  holding  fast  his  former 
impiety,  and  being  at  the  bead  of  an  army  of  seventy 
thousand  men,  upon  whom  he  had  conferred  many  com- 
mands, refused  to  do  it,  unless  he  would  give  a  general 
amnesty  to  all  the  conspirators,  whose  lives  and  well- 
beings  were  as  dear  to  him  as  hu  own.  This  answer 
incensed  his  father  to  a  denial,  whereupon  he  dislodges 
his  army,  and  marched  to  Elabssse,  where  he  commanded 
aU  sorts  of  cola,  of  gold,  silver,  and  brasa  to  be  stampHl 
with  bis  own  name  and  motto ;  which,  to  vex  bis  father, 
he  sent  to  him,  and  besideB  courted  his  father's  wile 
Anarkala."— Sir  Thomas  Heriwrt*s  Travda  tato  Atm  and 
Africa,  vol.  i.  p.  419 ;  Harris's  Voyaget  and  7Vaoe2f. 
"Tec,  notwithstanding  that  long^^xyntinued  custom 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fc  S.  VII.  April  15,  71. 


there  for  the  eldest  son  to  socceed  the  father  in  that 
great  empire,  Achabar  Cha,  father  of  the  late  king,  apon 
high  and  just  displeasure  taken  against  his  son,  for 
climbing  up  into  the  bed  of  Anarkelee,  his  father's  most 
beloved  wife  (whose  name  signified  the  Kernel  of  a 
Pomegranate),  and  for  other  base  actions  of  his,  which 
stirred  up  Us  father's  high  displeasure  against  him, 
resolved  to  break  that  ancient  custom  ;  and  therefore  in 
his  lifetime  protested  that  not  he,  bat  his  grandchild. 
Sultan  Coobsurroo  (Khnsru),  whom  he  always  kept  in 
his  court,  should  succeed  him  in  that  empire.'" — A  Voyage 
to  East  India,  by  Mr.  Edward  Terry,  Chaplain  to  Sir 
Thomas  Roe,  printed  with  the  Travel*  into  East  India  of 
Sig.  Fietro  Delia  Valle.    London,  1665. 

An&B  Kali,  meaning  the  pomegranate  bud,  is 
supposed  to  have  been  the  pet  name  given  by 
Akbar  to  his  favourite  wife  Donna  Juliana,  of 
Portuguese  extraction,  with  reference  to  Granada,* 
the  last  Moorish  stronghold  in  Spain,  which  has 
a  split  pomegranate,  its  armorial  bearing,  carved 
or  painted  on  its  public  buildings,  from  the  in- 
troauction  of  which  fruit  into  Europe  the  name 
is  said  to  be  derived. 

When  Abul  Fagl,  the  enlightened  minister  of 
Akbar,  was  basely  murdered  by  order  of  the  Prince 
Selim,  in  a.I).  1603,  the  Selima  Begum  was  sent 
on  an  embassy  to  Il&-iib^,  tbe  modem  Allah- 
6bfid,  to  bring  him  to  court  at  Agra,  when  re- 
ported to  be  sincerely  penitent  for  this  execrable 
murder.  According  to  one  accountf,  the  Begum, 
or  Sult&ia  Selima,  was  only  the  adoptive,  and 
not  the  real  mother  of  Selim,  afterwards  Jahin- 
gir ;  but  either  way  she  would  appear  to  have 
been  the  same  as  An&r  Kali^  supposed  to  be  the 
Poppa,  or  Papi  Bai,  proverbial  for  misrule,  among 
the  R&jputs. 

Were  Selim,  Murad  and  Danial,  tbe  sons  of 
Akbar,  all  three,  the  sons  of  one  and  the  same,  or 
by  different  mothers  P  and  in  what  Hindu  works 
is  any  account  given  of  the  misdoings  for  which 
the  Poppa  Bai  has  become  proverbial  among  the 
RAjputs  P  R.  R.  W.  Ellis. 

Surcross,  near  Exeter. 

^  "AwiMA  Christi."— This  prose  is  usually  as- 
signed to  St.  Ignatius.  Some  say  that  St.  Thomas 
Aquinas  was  the  writer.  Ramboch,  I  believe, 
makes  it  doubtful,  only  so  far  committing  himself 
as  to  say  that  it  is  found  in  a  book  of  devotion  of 
the  fourteenth  century.  Is  it  to  be  found  in  the 
works  of  St.  Thomas  P  and  if  not  by  that  saint,  to 
whom  is  the  Catholic  world  indebted  for  such  a 
devotion  ?  H.  A.  W. 

Mablle.  Axtretti. — I  have  an  engraving,  date 
1745,  of  Madlle.  Auretti,  a  theatrical  personage,  of 
whose  history  I  should  be  glad  to  Jknow  some- 
thing. A.  E.  Barrett. 

[There  are  two  engraved  portraits  of  this  once*famed 

*  Pomarium  Briiimmcum,  Henry  Phillip^  F.H.S., 
p.  312. 

t  Mountstuart  £lphinstone*s  History  of  India,  vol  vL 
p.  807. 


dancer  in  the  British  Musenm,  one  by  Scotin  and  the  other 
by  T.  Ryley.  Of  her  personal  history  very  little  is  known . 
Horace  \Valpole,  in  a  letter  to  Sir  Horace  Mann,  dated 
Dec  23. 1742,  sa3-s,  *<  We  are  making  great  parties  for  the 
Barberina  and  the  Auretti,  a  charming  French  girl."] 

Old  Ballad. — Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
inform  me  if  the  ballad  of  which  I  give  the  first 
verse  (it  consists^of  seven)  is  printed  P  I  have  it 
in  black  letter  12mo,  and  the  heading  is  ''  A  Plea- 
sant Song.''  The  words  seem  familiar  to  me,  yet 
I  cannot  at  this  moment  trace  it  to  any  printed 
source: — 

"For  earthly  chance,  for  joy  or  paine 

I  neither  hope  nor  doe  despare  : 
In  sicknesse,  health,  in  losse  or  gaine. 

My  God  I  praise,  and  doe  not  care 
For  wealth,  for  want,  for  well,  for  woe. 

I  force  no  friend,  I  feare  no  foe." 

Jab.  Crosslet. 

"  Brides  op  Enderbt."— What  is  the  legend 

which  gave  its  name  to  the  tune  of  the ''  Brides 

of  Mavis  Endorby,"  referred  to  by  Jean  Ingelow 

in  her  poem  of  the  '*  High  Tide  on  the  Coast  of 

Lincolnshire,  1571  '*P  and  why  was  this  tune  used 

as  an  alarum  P  A.  K.  K. 

[This  qnery  appeared  in  onr  3'<i  S.  v.  496,  without 
eliciting  a  reply.  An  account  of  the  remarkable  high 
tide  in  1571  is  printed  from  Holinshed  in  Pishey  Thomp- 
son's Higtory  ofBotton,  edit  1856,  p.  68.] 

Rekarkable  Clock. — ^I  have  been  informed 
by  a  correspondent  at  Barcelona  that  there  is  for 
sale,  or  has  been  lately  sold  in  London,  a  very 
curious  and.  valuable  astronomical  clock,  made  by 
a  watch  and  clock  maker  of  the  name  of  Billeter 
of  Barcelona,  and  said  to  be  worth  5,000/.  or  6,000/. 
Being  desirous  of  discovering  whether  the  said 
clock  is  still  offered  for  sale,  I  shall  be  much 
obliged  if  you  can  elicit  any  particulars  concern- 
ing it ;  and  if  it  is  in  London,  where  it  is  to  be 
viewed.  A.  L.  McEwajt. 

61,  Threadneedle  Street,  London. 

"  COTJTUMIER  OP  THE  OrBER  OF  THE  VISITA- 
TION OF  THE  Blessed  Viroin  Mary.''— I  have 
been  trving  for  some  time  to  see  or  to  purchase  a  < 
copy  of  the  above  book.  I  have  not  met  with  it 
at  the  British  Museum  or  Sion  College  Library. 
Could  any  of  your  readers  help  nie  P     H.  A.  W. 

A  Geu  Qt7SRT. — I  have  a  very  beautiful  in- 
taglio representing,  I  believe,  the  head  of  Perseus. 
It  is  signed  a.  niXAEP.  Is  this  the  name  of  a 
modern  rrench  or  German  artist,  written  in  Greek 
letters  P  Was  there  an  ancient  Greek  gem-cutter 
of  this  name  F  and,  if  so,  what  does  the  initial 
stand  for  ?  P.  W.  S. 

Hdtel  de  Luxemhourg,  Nice. 

New  German  Flag. — ^In  the  Timei  of  March  1, 
1871, 1  read  what  follows  :— 

''The  German  Empire. — The  new  German  imperial 
flaghaejnst  been  decided  upon,  and  is  adopted  alread}- 
by  Bavaria,  Wttrtemberg,  and  Baden.    It  is  nu-'partie  or, 


4*8.  VII.  April  15, 71.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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CO 


sable,  gules,  and  argent,  and  has  for  supporters  the  two 
Indians  armed  with  maces  of  the  Prossian  crest.^-  Globed 

Mi-parti  is  not  used  in  England.  Guillim,  edi- 
tion 1/24,  p.  26,  gives  the  shield  of  Panowitz  as 
a  rare  coal^  ''  Parted  per  pale  and  base,  gules, 
argent  and  sable."  It  is  given  in  the  Wappen-' 
buck  as  the  coat  of  Panwitz,  and  is  so  quoted  by 
Spener.  But  this  is  not  mi-parti.  The  bearing 
ie,  as  far  as  I  know,  rare  everywhere.  It  is  seen, 
tor  instance,  in  the  coat  of  Falier  of  Venice : 
<'  Spaocato,  Remipartito  d'  oro  e  di  azzurro  nel  capo, 
sopra  r  argento '' ;  and  of  Foscari :  '^  Spaccato, 
semipartito  nel  capo,  1.  di  azzurro  col  S.  Marco 
di  Venezia,  2.  d'  argento :  sopra  1'  oro."  Here,  in 
Foscari,  1.  is  the  dexter  side  of  the  upper  half, 
2.  the  sinister :  the  whole  lower  half  is  gold. 

But  what  is  this  new  German  imperial  flag  ? 
Will  some  one  who  knows  put  it  into  intelligible 
language  P  It  would  also  be  interesting  to  near 
what  position  is  occupied  by  the  supporters  of  a 
flag?  D.P. 

Stuarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

GoBSE, — A  young  lady  trusts  that  the  learned 
ntributors  to  "  N.  &  Q."  will  not  find  it  beneath 
alike  their  dignity  and  their  knowledge  to  ac- 
quaint her  with  the  emblematic  meaning  of  the 
shrub  gorse.  Before  venturing  to  appeal  to  them, 
she  has  searched  for  it  in  vain  in  all  the  Languages 
of  Flowers  and  other  similar  authorities  to  which 
she  has  access.  Mokte  db  Alto. 

[A  suggestion  occurs  to  us,  we  may  say  isjust  on  our 
lips  that  gorse  is  an  emblem  of  a  good  old  English  cus- 
tom, which  is  said  to  go  "  out  of  fashion  when  the  gorse 
is  out  of  blossom/*] 

IIoLCUS  LANATrs.  —  Apropos  of  "  Fog,"  why  is 
this  grass  cdled  Yorkshire  fog 'f 

Ja3££s  Britten. 

Irish  House  of  Commons'  Lists.  —  Is  there 
any  book  published  in  which  I  can  find  complete 
lists  of  the  Irish  Houses  of  Commons? 

Ebmttro  M.  Botle. 

[Lodge's  *♦  Parliamentary  Register  of  the  Irish  House 
of  Commons  from  1585  to  1769  "  is  printed  in  the  Liber 
Munerum  Publiconim  Hibemitty  being  the  Report  of 
R.  Lascelles,  published  bv  the  Record  Ck>mmission,  2  vols. 
1824,  fol.  See  Part  I.  pp.  1-40.  For  a  continuation  of 
the  list  to  the  year  1800,  consult  The  Joumala  of  the 
House  of  Commoni  of  Ireland,  vols.  viii.  to  xix,  Dublin, 
1796-1800,  fol.] 

3 own  Kebsbt. — Kersey's  Elements  of  Algebra 
(folio,  London,  m.dc.lxxiii.)  is  very  affectionately 
dedicated  by  the  author  to  his  patrons  the  Den- 
tons.  This  dedication,  doubtless  familiar  to  many 
mathematical  scholars,  I  have  given  in  extenso, 
with  the  hope  that  it  may  elicit  some  information 
from  your  learned  correspondents  concerning  two 

foints  connected  with  the^  same^  which  hitherto 
have  been  unable  to  obtain. 
The  following  is  in  accordance  with  the  original, 
with  the  exception  of  some  of  the  capitals : — 


**  To  Alexander  Denton  of  HUlesdon  in  the  county  of 
Bucks,  Esquire,  and  M'  Edmund  Denton  his  brother; 
the  hopeful  blossoms,  and  only  offspring  of  the  truly  just 
and  vertuous  Edmund  Denton,  Esq.  ;  son  and  heir  of  S' 
Alexander  Denton,  Knt.  A  faithftd  patriot,  and  eminent 
sufferer  in  our  late  intestine  wars,  for  his  lovalty  to  his 
late  Majesty  King  Charles  the  First  of  ever-olessed  me- 
mory: John  Kersey,  in  testimony  of  his  gratitude,  for 
signal  favours  conferr'd  on  him  by  that  truly  noble 
family ;  which  also  gave  both  birth  and  nourishment  to 
his  mathematical  studies,  humbly  dedicates  his  labours  in 
this  Treatise  of  the  Elements  of  the  Algebraical  Art." 

I  have  searched  several  biographical  works,  but 
cannot  find  any  mention  made  of  Sir  Edmund 
Denton,  Knt,  and,  as  a  matter  of  course,  neither 
of  his  troubles.  A  reference  to  where  such  may 
be  found  will  be  gratefully  accepted.  Also,  what 
were  the  circumstances  which  sufficiently  inter- 
ested the  Denton  family  in  the  author's  behalf  as 
to  influence  them  to  give  **  both  birth  and  nourish- 
ment "  to  his  algebraical  studies  ? 

J.  Perky. 

Waltham  Abbey. 

[Sir  Alexander  Denton,  Knt  (bom  1596.  died  in  Jan. 
1644-5),  resided  at  Hillesden  House,  Bucks,  which  was 
garrisoned  in  1641  for  King  Charles  I.,  and  its  situ- 
ation, about  fifteen  miles  firom  Oxford  and  eight  from 
Aylesburj',  rendered  it  a  place  of  importance.  In  1643 
it  was  taken  by  the  Parliamentary  forces,  of  which 
Vicars,  in  his  ParUmnentary  Chronicle,  1646,  U.  131, 133, 
has  given  the  following  account : — **  It  was  taken  by  a 
party  that  went  from  Newport  Pagndl,  and  some  from 
about  Banbury,  they  being  in  all  not  above  an  hundred; 
yet  there  were  in  the  house  140,  many  whereof  were 
then  taken  prisoners,  and  about  100  arms,  but  Sir  Alex- 
ander himeelf  escaped."  ....  '••  The  taking  of  Hillesden 
House,  which  a  week  before  the  garrison  of  Aylesbury 
attempted,  but  could  not  take;  after  which  time,  and 
before  we  endeavoured  it,  the  enemy  had  sent  in  two  or 
three  loads  of  ammunition,  where  were  taken  above  200 
prisoners,  about  twelve  barrels  of  powder,  and  propor- 
tionable match,  all  their  arms,  and  about  fifty  horse, 
which  service  waa  much  to  the  ease  and  comfort  of  the 
poor  inhabitants  of  the  almost  wasted  county  of  Buck- 
inghamshire, which  was  oppressed  by  them  ;  and  by  the 
countenance  of  which  house,  great  sums  of  money  and 
contributions  were  raised  boUi  for  themselves  and  Oxford, 
and  a  regiment  of  foot,  and  a  completing  Col.  Smith's 
regiment  of  horse,  was  speedily  intended,  where  also  were 
taken  Sir  Alexander  Denton  and  the  said  Col.  Smith, 
besides  two  field  officers  and  divers  captains.*'  The  pedi- 
gree of  the  Denton  familv  of  Hillesden  is  given  in  Lips- 
comb's Bucke,  ill  17.— the  works  of  John  Kersey  are 
better  known  than  his  personal  history.  He  was  bom  in 
1616,  and  died  about  1690.] 

«  KiLMEHY."  —  In  what  collection  of  ballads 
shall  I  find  one  bearing  the  above  name  P  ^  It  gave 
a  name  to  and  apparently  suggested  the  idea  of  a 
novel  by  William  Black,  published  about  a  year 
ago.  ■*^'  ^' 

r'*Kilmeny"  is  the  thirteenth  Bard's  Song  in  Night  11. 
of  The  Queen's  Wake,  a  Legendary  Poem,  by  James 
Hogg,  the  Ettrick  Shepherd. 

»  Bonny  Kilmeny  gaed  up  the  glen ; 
But  it  wasna  to  meet  Duneirrs  men,''  &c.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«tS.VII.APBiLl5,71. 


"  La  Belle  Daub  baits  Mekcl*'— From  what 
flouroe  did  Keats  derive  the  original  idea  of  this 
poem  ?  F.  Glsbsxaios  Wauoh. 

[Most  probably  from  the  poem  of  the  same  name, 
ff8Deral]y  altribated  to  Alain  Chartier;  hot  which  M. 
Paulin  Wris  {Mamtucrita /ranQou,  yn,  2b2)  regards  as 
having  been  written  by  Jean  Marotl 

PoBTBAiT  PAurnKO. — ^Wanted  the  name  of  any 
writer  on  portrait-nainting  in  water-colours  who 
treats  more  diffuBely  on  the  subject  of  draperies, 
&c,,  than  Mr.  Merrineld  does.  T.  H.  B, 

Mbdijival  Sbal  poitnd  is  the  Isle  of  £lt  : 

KOBEBT  WmSON  OP  MaBCH,  IK  THE  ISLE  OF  ElT. 

A  friend  of  mine  has  sent  me  an  impression  from  a 
seal,  about  three  quarters  of  an  inch  in  diameter. 
In  the  centre,  on  an  heraldic  rose,  lica  a  lion 
curled  up  and  asleep ;  and  round  him  is  the  in- 

SCription,  EN  LE  B08E  LB  UTS  BEP08E. 

The  brass  seal  from  which  this  is  taken  was 
found,  I  am  told,  in  the  rectory  garden  at  Went- 
worthy  near  Ely.  From  its  genersl  appearance  and 
the  lettering,  I  should  be  inclinea  to  place  its 
date  about  the  fourteenth  century. 

I  have  also  an  octavo  print  representing  a  man, 
in  the  dress  of  sixty  years  a^,  resting  his  left 
arm  on  a  couped  pillar,  on  which  the  word  '^  Pro- 
vidence'' is  mscnbed,  and  holding  in  his  ri^t 
hand  a  scroll  bearing  this  inscription :  — 

**  I,  Robert  Wilaon  of  March,  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  Cam- 
bridgeshire, am  of  opinion  that,  take  England,  Scotland, 
and  Ireland,  the  West  Indies  and  America,  aea  and  land 
together,  I  have  seen  more  of  those  parts  of  the  world 
than  any  man  exiating." 

Can  any  of  jour  Cambridgeshire  correspondents 
inform  me  whether  the  seal  mentioned  belonged 
to  any  county  family  there,  or  was  merely  a  per- 
sonal badge  and  motto  of  some  long-distant 
rector  ?  Lysons  says  the  manor  was  annexed  to 
the  office  of  sacrist  to  the  monastery  of  Ely. 
And  secondly,  as  to  who  Robert  Wilson  of  March 
was,  and  on  what  grounds  he  rested  his  some- 
what nretentious  daim  P  Samuel  Saitdabs. 

28,  Gloater  Place,  Hyde  Paik. 

SoKG,  ''Laubigbb  Hobatius.'' — Can  you  in- 
form me  where  I  can  find  the  words  of  a  song 
called  "  Lauri^r  Horatius ''  P  It  used  to  be  sung 
at  one  of  the  American  universities. 

T.  J.  Waddinoham. 

SiTBiNe  Fahilt. — ^Any  genealogical  or  other 
information  respecting  the  following  persons  vrill 
oblige:  —  Nathaniel  Styling  and  Jane  Watson, 
married  in  Rotherham  1663;  Thomas  Styring,  bom 
1726;  John  Styring,  bom  1726;  Robert  Styring, 
bom  1729;  WQliam  Styring,  bom  173d,--all  of 
Misson.  C.  W.  Sttbing. 

Eldon  Mount,  Leeds. 

Stebhhold  akd  Hopkins. — ^Is  there  any  tmth 
in  the  statement  made  by  a  writer  in  the  lUiutrated 


Revieio  of  March  1,  that  the  following  vene  was 
the  joint  product  of  these  twin  poets  P  — 

"  And  how  did  he  commit  their  fruits 
Unto  the  caterpillar. 
And  eke  the  labour  of  their  hands 
He  gave  to  the  grasshopper." 

By-the-bye,  it  is  a  little  curious  that  the  Psalms 
should  have  been  twice  versified  by  a  combination 
of  poetic  talent.  The  task  was  not  too  great  for 
one  writer,  and  we  cannot  compare  the  success 
achieved  by  Messrs.  Stemhold  &  Hopkins,  or 
Messrs.  Tate  &  Brady,  with  that  which  MM. 
Erckmann-Chatrian  have  won.  C.  J.  R. 

[In  the  first  edition  (1548-9)  of  Certayne  PgaimeM  by 
Thomas  Stemhold  (without  Hopkins),  the  verse  reads  as 
follows: — 

**  Nor  how  he  did  commit  their  frnttas 
Unto  the  caterpyller : 
And  all  the  labour  of  thor  handes 
He  gave  to  the  grassehopper  ** 

Psalm  IxxviiL  ver.  46. 

The  same  reading  is  given  in  the  folio  edition  of  1586 
by  Thomas  Stemhold,  Jotm  Hopkins,  and  others.] 

Sxtn-sialQuebies. — 1.  What  is  the  best  prac- 
tical book,  in  English,  French,  or  Latin,  on  the 
construction  of  sun-dials  P 

2.  Where  shall  I  find  the  most  complete  ac- 
count of  mottoes  suitable  for  sun-dials  ?  I  ifiiow 
those  quoted  in  "  N,  &  Q," 

8.  Where  can  I  find  picturesque  designs  for 
mural  sun-diak?  I  suppose  these  are  not  to  be 
^ound  in  a  collected  form.  Reference,  therefore, 
to  even  one  will  oblige. 

4.  Will  not  some  of  jour  correspondents,  in 
England  or  on  the  Continent,  who  know  of  quaint 
or  picturesque  sun-dials,  oblige  the  readers  of 
"N.&  Q."  by  a  list  of  them  ?  P.  W.  S. 

Hotel  de  Luxembouig,  Nice. 

A  ToADSTOKE  Ring. — I  have  a  ring  containing 
a  stone  of  a  brownish-fawn  colour,  set  in  gold. 
The  stone  is  about  five-eighths  of  an  inch  by  half 
an  inch  in  size,  and  two-eighths  of  an  inch  thick ; 
and  has,  according  to  the  story  in  the  famUy,  been 
in  our  possession  for  many  generationa  We  have 
always  held  it  to  be  a  toadstone,  and  tradition 
says  it  was  efiicacious  in  preventing  miscarriages. 
I  should  be  grateful  for  any  information  on  the 
subject  H.  S.  C. 

Arts  Club. 

TJhbgbove. — There  are  several  families  of  that 
name  in  Holland,  and  they  say  that  their  ances- 
tors were  Scotchmen.  A  branch  of  the  Umbgrove 
&mily  must,  then,  have  emigrated  from  Scotland 
in  1600  or  afterwards. 

Some  years  ago,  one  of  these  Dutch  Umbgroves 
happening  to  be  in  Edinburgh,  saw  his  very  name 
written  on  the  plate  of  some  doors  in  that  city. 
If  any  Scotch  Umbgrove  can  confirm  tiie  above 
statement,  and  give  some  information  that  would 
throw  light  upon  it,  I  shall  feel  much  obliged. 


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I  should  ako  like  to  know  what  arms  the  Scotch 
family  bean,  and  if  it  can  retrace  its  ancestry 
back  till  1600.  A  Dtttch  Lady. 

Bierbaven. 

Fbbnch  Wbsletak  Magazine. — Can  any  one 
inform  me  whether  there  has  been  published 
during  this  century  a  Wesleyan  or  Methodist 
magaxine  in  French  P  I  desire  to  see  the  numbers 
for  1830, 1831, 1832.  I  have  reason  to  believe 
such  a  magazine  has  been  published,  but  cannot 
find  it  in  the  British  Museam.  J.  F.  H.- 

Choiob  op  Words  :  "Wink  "  ob  "  Blink "  P — 
The  word  innk  is  so  often  used  instead  of  biinkf 
when  the  meaning  ib  that  a  person  purposely 
blinds  himself,  or  shuts  his  ejes  to  any  transac- 
tion, that  I  tliink  the  expression  must  be  em- 
ployed simply  from  imitation,  and  without  a 
thought  that  the  word  blmkf  while  being  more 
elegant,  really  expresses  in  its  symbolical  sense 
the  meaning  intended  to  be  conveyed  by  the 
term  wink;  which,  being  associated  with  the  habit 
known  as  '^  ogling,"  had  better  be  left  solely  to 
express  its  own  vulgar  meaning. 

iicxioographers  give  the  same  definition  in  the 
esse  of  each  word ;  but  I  think  that  good  taste 
and  symbolical  analogy  both  seem  to  sanction 
the%xclusive  use  of  the  term  blink  in  the  sense  of 
"shutting  out  of  sight,"  or  "purposely  evading" 
any  question  or  allusion.  .       M.  A.  S. 


Steplitii* 


OLD  SANDOWN  CASTLE,  ISLE  OF  WIGHT. 
(4»'»S.vi.6e9j  vii.  103, 176.) 

H.  H.  will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  the  very 
fine  old  carved  oak  chio^ney -piece,  to  which  he 
judiciously  drew  attention  (p.  175),  has  not  been 
doome4  to  the  destruction  he  deprecates. 

The  armorial  bearings  to  which  H.  H.  alludes 
are  those  of  Bichard  Weston,  first  Earl  of 
Portland,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  L,  Governor  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight,  &C.,  which  are  boldly  and^  artistically 
carved  upon  this  interesting  relic,  which  formerly 
stood  in  the  banqueting  hfdl,  but  which,  on  the 
demolition  of  the  castle,  was  carefully  preserved 
by  the  Boyal  Engineer^  at  Sandown;  until  at 
length,  application  naving  been  made  officially  to 
Government,  the  carviog  in  question,  after  due 
investigation,  was  made  over  to  Lieut.-Colonel 
G.  Weston,  a  collateral  descendant  of  the  said 
Richard  Weston,  whose  family  became  extinct  in 
the  direct  male  line  on  the  death  of  Thomas, 
fourth  Earl  of  Portland.  B.  E. 


died  at  Wallingford  House,  near  Whitehall,  on 
March  18, 1684  (0.  S.),  not  in  March  1635. 

My  authorities  in  support  of  this  correction 
are — 1.  The  certificate  m  the  College  of  Arms, 
signed  by  Jerome  Weston,  second  Eiurl  of  Port- 
land, son  and  heir  of  the  deceased,  a  copy  of  which 
is  appended  to  the  Westonorum  antwtamm^  et 
equedrisfatniUtB  Oenealoyia,  by  Sir  William  Segar, 
Garter  King-at-Arms.  2.  Harleian  MS.  1137,  in 
which  the  armorial  achievement  borne  at  the 
funeral  of  Bichard  Earl  of  Portland  is  delineated. 
3.  The  inscription  on  his  magnificent  monument 
in  Winchester  Cathedral,  which  runs  as  follows: 

'<  Depotitum 

RiGABDi  WaerroN,  Comitis  Poa^ukim, 

Mogni  Anglis  Thesanrarii 

quo  mnnero  fhngi 

ccepit 

anno  Begis  uaroli  quarto, 

idqne  simnl  cum  vita  exnit 

aono  predict!  domini  regia 

decimo, 

annoqne  Domini  Redemptoris  1684, 

decimo  tertio  die  MartiL" 

I  may  add  that  King  Charles,  ''who  dearly 
loved  him,''  visited  the  dying  earl  in  his  last 
moments,  and  commanded  the  court  to  wear 
mourning  for  him.  His  son  Jerome,  second  Earl 
of  Portland,  was  appointed  to  succeed  him  as 
Lieutenant-Gteneral  of  the  province  of  Southamp- 
ton, Captain  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  Governor 
of  Carisbrooke  Castle  and  of  lOl  the  fortresses  in 
the  said  island;  but  he  lost  these  appointments 
under  the  Commonwealth.  L  A.  N. 


Tour  correspondent  G.  will,  I  trust,  permit  me 
to  set  him  ri^t  as  to  the  date  of  the  demise  of 
Bichard  Weston,  fint  Earl  of  P(»tlaiid.     He 


TKAPFS  "VIRGIL." 

(4*»»  S.  vii.  237.) 

Having  read  Trapp's  translation  of  the  jEneid 
with  satufaction,  I  offer  mv  opinion  that  it  has 
been  unduly  depreciated.  1  cannot  deny  the  ap- 
plicability of  "  cold "  to  Trapp ;  but  he  has  the 
merits  oi  fidelity,  pains^teking,  and  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  his  author.  I  know  no  translation 
so  faithful,  and  none  in  blank  verse  more  smrited. 
Mr.  Collins,  in  his  Ancient  Classics  for  jEnpUsh 
headers,  has  givlBU  an  excellent  essay  on  Virgil, 
and  has  generally  used  the  translation  of  the  late 
Professor  Conington,  as  good  a  scholar  as  Trapp, 
and  perhaps  a  better  poet  I  limit  my  comparison 
to  four  passages :  — 

"  Dixit,  et  Kvartens  rosea  oervioe  refblsit 
Ambroeieqiie  ooms  divinam  vertioe  odor«m 
Spiravere;  pedes  yeBtis  deflnzit  ad  imoe; 
£t  vera  incessu  pattdt  dea.** — JEn.  i.  402-6. 

<*  She  said ;  and  as  she  turned,  her  rosy  neck 
Shone  bright :  her  hair  a  firagrancj  divine 
Ambiosiaf  breathed.    Down  faUs  her  waving  robe. 
And  by  her  walk  the  goddeas  moves  ooafMMd." 

Trapp. 

"  Ambroeial  tresses  ronnd  her  head 
A  more  than  earthly  fragrance  shed; 


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Her  falling  robe  her  footstep!  swept, 

And  showed  the  goddess  as  she  stepC— Oratfi^toii. 

**  Sic  pater  ^neas,  intends  omnibns,  nnns 
Fata  renarrabat  divdm,  curBusque  docebat : 
Conticttit  tandem,  factoque  hie  fine  qoievit." 

JEn.  lii.  716. 

*<  Thus  Prince  ^neas,  while  all  silent  sate, 

*  Alone  related  the  decrees  of  heaven. 
And  his  own  Toyases  described :  he  stopped 
At  length,  and  en<Ung  here^  retired  to  rest." 

7roj!)p. 

'<  So  King  iEneas  told  his  tale. 

While  all  beside  were  sUU— 
Rehearsed  the  fortunes  of  his  sail. 

And  Fate's  mysterions  will : 
Then  to  its  close  his  legend  l^rought, 
And  gladly  took  the  rest  he  sought."-*- Omti^lDii. 

**  His  medium  dictis  sermonem  abrumpit,  et  auras 
JSgra  fugit,  seqne  ex  oculis  ayertit  et  aufert; 
Linquens  mnlta  metn  cunctantem  et  multa  parantem 
Dicere :  suscipiunt  famulce  conlspsaque  membra, 
Marmoreo  refemnt  thalamo,  stratisque  reponnnt." 

JEn.  iv.  388-392. 

**  This  said,  she  in  the  middle  of  her  speech 
Breaks  off  abrupt,  and  sickening  shuns  the  light ; 
With  loathing  turns  her  eyes  from  his,  and  leaves 
Him  wavering,  and  a  thousand  things  to  say 
Irresolute  in  fear.    Her  maids  support 
Her  body  as  she  sinks  into  their  arms, 
And  lay  her  fainting  on  the  royal  bed."— TVapp. 

'*  Her  speech  half-done,  she  breaks  away, 
And  sickening  shuns  the  eye  of  day. 

And  tears  her  from  his  gaze. 
While  he,  with  thousand  things  to  say, 

Still  falters  and  delays. 
Her  servants  lilt  the  sinking  fair, 
And  to  her  marble  chamber  bear." — Canington. 

**  Discs,  pner,  virtntem  ex  me,  verumque  laborem, 

Fortunam  ex  alils."— vEn.  xii.  435-6. 
"  True  toil  and  virtue  learn,  dear  youth,  from  me. 

Fortune  from  others." — Trapp, 

**  Learn  of  your  father  to  be  great. 
Of  others  to  be  fortunate." — Conington, 

Mr.  CoIUdb  8ft j8  :  — 

"  The  recent  admirable  translation  of  the  JEntid  into 
the  metre  of  Scott  by  Mr.  Conington  will  undoubtedly 
take  its  place  henceforward  as  by  far  the  most  poetical, 
as  it  is  siso  the  most  scholarly  and  faithful,  rendering  of 
the  original"— P.  7. 


I  have  taken  the  specimens  of  Conington's  ver- 
sion from  Mr.  Collins.  I  do  not  think  that  in 
fidelity  or  poetry  Trapp  suffers  by  the  comparison. 

Trapp's  preface  to  the  jEneid,  and  **  Introduo- 
toiT  Kemarks ''  prefixed  to  the  fourth  book,  are 
well  worth  readingi  and  his  notes  are  learned  and 
useful.  He  was  Professor  of  Poetry  at  Oxford, 
and  published  his  PreeledioneB  Poeticte,  Oxon, 
1711-10 ;  London,  1736,  2  tom.  The  last  edition 
is  neither  scarce  nor  dear ;  and  I  think  that  those 
who  buy  and  read  it  will  not  feel  that  their 
money  or  time  has  been  misspent.  H.  B.  C. 

U.  U.  Clnb.  

In  Chalmers'  Biog,  Diet,  the  following  curious 
statement  is  made :  — 


<*  When  he  (Trapp)  preached  his  assize  sennon  at 
Oxford,  1789,  it  was  observed  that  the  late  Rev.  Dr. 
Theophilus  Leigh,  Master  of  Baliol  College,  and  then 
Yioe-Chancellor  of  Oxford,  stood  up  all  the  time  of  his 
preaching,  to  manifest  his  high  sense  of  so  respectable  a 
character." 

An  anonymous  epigram,  found  in  The  Festoon^ 
1767  (p.  39),  is  severe  upon  Trapp  as  a  translator 
of  Virgil,  but  shows  that  his  pieaching  was  held 
in  estimation :  — 
**  Mind  but  thy  preaching,  Trapp,  translate  no  further : 

Is  it  not  written,  *  Thou  shalt  do  no  murther '  ?  " 

Anok. 


CHIGNONS. 


{^^  8.  vii.  93,  261.) 

No  doubt  your  learned  correspondents  Messrs. 
MacCabe   and  HoneKiN    rightly  assume    that 
ladies'  chignons  are  to  be  tnu^  far  back  in  anti- 
quity.   There  is,  indeed,  proof  enough  of  this  in 
German  and  Roman  engraved  gems,  and  on  the 
walls  of  the  Pompeian  houses  there  is  a  picture 
of  a  Roman  lady  putting  on  the  paUOf  and  a 
mother  about  to  nurse  her  child,  in  the  picture  of 
a  Roman  farmyard,  in  which  the  ladies  wear 
perceptible  ckignonsy  but  much  smaller  than  those 
now  won.     I  have  also  seen  many  mediaeval 
illuminations  in  which  a  full-sized  chignon  M  ap- 
parent. There  need  surely  be  no  wonder  expressed 
at  this ;  there  are  so  few  ways  possible  of  dressing 
the  hair,  that  evei;y  way  has  surely  been  over 
and  over  again  anticipated.    But  now  for  the 
word: — ^I  have  a  copy,  which  was  made  a  pre^ 
sent  to  me  by  one  utterly  ignorant  of  the  nature 
of  the  book,  of  the  Mimoires  de  Casanova.    It 
belonged  to  Thackeray,  and  has  his  autograph  in 
two  volumes,  and  his  crest  and  monogram  stamped 
on  all  six.    It  was  purchased  at  his  sale,  ana  in 
spite  of  its  "  unutterable  baseness,''  as  Carlyle  has 
it,  has  been  diligently  read  by  its  late  owner, 
perhaps  as  an  historical  study.  In  voL  ii.  chap.  xxi. 
the  Cnevalier,  speaking  of  one  of  his  many  con- 
quests, says : — 

"  EUe  ^tait  coiffee  en  cheveux  avec  un  superbe  chignon  ; 
mais  je  glissais  Ik-dessus,  tant  Tid^  d'une  perruqne 
m'offusqnait." 

Here,  then,  is  a  chignon  proper  in  the  early 
days  of  Voltaire  and  Rousseau — a  false  chignon, 
which  the  delicate  Chevalier  removed.     It  is 
difficult  to  assign  the  exact  date  to  this  extract  ^ 
but  Casanoya  was  bom  in  1725,  and,  as  ^is  oc- 
curs in  a  very  early  period  of  his  career,  we  may 
put  it  down  to  about  1747  to  1750.    The  word 
chignon  occurs  in  Hamilton  and  Legros'  excellent 
IVench  Dictionary  (1864)  before  the  fashion  was 
resuscitated,  but  it  is  explained  as  un  chignon 
(chez  les  femmes),  back  hair  twisted  in  a  knot, 
and  therefore  not  necessarily  false  hair.    By  the 
way,  can  any  of  your  readers  tell  me  whether 
these  memoirs  of  Casanova  are,  as  Carlyle  and 


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327 


others  believe  them,  authentic ;  or  whether,  like 
the  memoirs  of  the  Dubarry,  they  are  only  partially 
true,  founded  on  fact  ?  Haik  Friswsll. 

74,  Great  Russell  Street,  Bloomsbury  Square. 


"  BARON  "  NICHOLSON. 
(4^  S.  vi.  477 ;  vii.  18, 286.) 

As  one  who,  throughout  a  lon^  association  with 
all  sorts  and  conditions  of  periodicals,  has  scrupu- 
lously abstuned  from  writing  anything  which 
should  "  necessitate  the  relegation  of  the  volume 
to  an  upper  shelf,''  I  should  like  to  explain  that 
my  contributions  to  The  Toum,  written  at  a  very 
early  age,  were  not  of  a  kind  that  need  make  me 
in  later  life  ashamed  to  own  their  authorship. 
When  The  Tmon  came  out  (June,  1837)  I  had 
not  attained  my  seventeenth  year,  but  some 
sketches  of  metropolitan  life  I  had  sent  the  editor 
procured  me  an  introduction  to  Renton  Nicholson 
and  a  regular  engaffement,  which  continued  for 
about  two  years.  Th.^  social  essays  and  the  dra- 
matic notices  through  the  volumes  for  1838  and 
1839  were  mine,  and  my  acquaintance  with  Nichol- 
son enables  me  to  state  that  he  had  much  more 
delicacy  of  fancy  than  many  would  suppose  who 
only  judge  of  tne  man  from  the  "  CocKney  Ad- 
ventures ''  and  the  afterwards  notorious  ^'  Judge 
and  Jury."  His  excessive  kindliness  of  heart 
made  him  the  constant  resource  of  the  '^  hard-up," 
and  the  half-sovereign  or  the  half-crown  was  sure 
to  be  elicited  by  any  applicant  with  a  tale  of  woe. 
He  was  a  Falstaff  witn  Bardolph  and  Nym  at 
every  comer.  To  the  list  Mb.  Bates  has  given 
of  his  ''  works  "  one  may  be  added,  whilst  one  at 
least  must  be  subtracted  from  the  catalogue. 
Nicholson^ s  Nodes,  published  in  a  serial  form  in 
1843,  contained  some  clever  and  utterly  unobjec- 
tionable sketches.  With  '^Bos"  he  was  never 
identified ;  and  the  ''  slender  and  not  ill-written 
booklet "  of  The  Cigar  and  Smoker's  Companion — 
often  reprinted  with  and  without  my  sanction 
under  a  diversity  of  titles — was  one  of  my  own 
early  effusions.  Some  fourteen  years  sgo  Mb. 
Batbs  inquired  through  "N.  &  Q.^'  what  autho- 
rity there  was  for  a  statement  that  Old  Parr  had 
coloured  his  skin  by  an  absorption  of  the  juices 
of  tobacco.  I  may  now  tell  him  that  I  am  re- 
sponsible for  the  assertion,  but  I  can  by  no  means 
guarantee  its  accuracy. 

It  may  be  worth  recording  that  a  high-priced 
and  hign-church  newspaper  called  The  Crown, 

Sublished  in  1839  at  the  present  office  of  the 
.  fechanics  Magazine,  in  Fleet  Street,  was  for  some 
time  edited  by  Renton  Nicholson,  who  under  the 
name  of  '*  Censor "  attacked  in  The  Crown  the 
immorality  of  The  Town,  and  replied  in  The  Town 
to  the  onslaughts  of  The  Crown,  The  artist  of 
The  Town  was  Archibald  Henning,  son  of  John 


Henning  the  sculptor,  and  who  died  aged  fifty- 
nine,  July  4, 1864.  Renton  Nicholson  died  aged 
fifty-two,  May  18, 1861.         £.  L.  Biakchabd. 

Rosherville. 


I  did  hope,  after  the  judicious  editorial  note 
(vi.  477),  we  should  not  have  heard  any  more  of 
this  ^  well-known  public  character  " )  and  it  is 
with  great  regret  that  1  now  see  the  columns  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  used  as  the  means  of  preserving  the 
name  of  one  who  plied  a  profligate  and  prostituted 
pen.  And  for  what  reason  P  Simply  because  the 
details  of  '*  misused  abilities,  discreditable  ad- 
ventures, and  a  generally  wasted  Ufe,''  are  told 
'^  in  a  racy  and  humorous  style.''  .If  the  writer 
was  a  friend  of  the  Baron  1  pity  the  writer.  If 
he  has  only  a  cacoethes  scribeiuh,  induced  by  the 
"  racy  and  numorous  style,"  I  pity  "  N.  &  Q." 

Does  the  writer  know  that  *^  the  once  celebrated 
weekly  serial,  The  Tovm,'*  obtained  its  popularity 
by  invading  private  life  and  holding  up  respect- 
able men  to  ridicule  and  obloquy  to  gratify  the 
evil  propensities  of  their  neiffhlioursr  Does  he 
know  that  T?ie  Town  was  used  as  a  means  of  ex- 
tortion ?  Can  he  say  that  money  was  not  paid  for 
the  suppression  of  articles  that  might  have  blasted 
the  peace  and  happiness  of  many  a  virtuous 
family  ?  Does  the  writer  know  it  was  notorious 
that  the  degraded  being  who  aped  a  distinguished 
advocate  and  orator,  had  been  clerk  to  one  of  the 
city  companies,  and  having  been  guilty  of  fraud, 
sank  to  the  low  level  of  uttering  the  filth  and 
nastiness  that  made  the  "  Judge  and  Jury"  enter- 
tainment so  popular  P  Was  tms  person  not  a  type 
of  all  the  actors  that  assisted  at  those  indecent 
or^es  P  It  is  the  first  time  I  have  heard  that 
Dr.  Maginn  was  one  of  the  profligate  gang.  I 
verv  much  doubt  it,  but  as  there  is  the  writer's 
authority  for  it,  I  can  only  say  that  had  Grantiey 
Berkeley's  bullet  taken  effect,  virtue,  morality, 
and  public  decency  would  have  been  benefited. 

The  writer,  **  without  respect  to  his  private 
character/'  claims  a  record  for  *'  Renton  Nichol- 
son as  a  journalist  and  an  author."  If  the  claim 
of  the  Baron  be  admitted,  there  was  another  con- 
temporary literary  ruffian  about  whom  the  writer 
can  exercise  his  sympathy — Barnard  Gregory.  He 
was  '*  racy  and  humorous,"  but  I  sincerely  hope 
he  will  not  be  allowed  to  be  enshrined  id 
"  N.  &  Q." . 

The  editor  of  The  Satirist  met  with  too  stem 
an  opponent  in  the  Duke  of  Brunswick,  who 
brought  that  ''author  end  journalist"  to  justice, 
and  effectually  stopped  the  fount  of  his  calumnies 
and  iniquities. 

There  was  another  celebrated  weekly  serial 
which  appeared  about  the  same  time — Paul  Pry. 
This  perhaps  may  invoke  the  writer's  ingenuity 
to  extenuate.  How  the  editor  of  that ''  racy  and 
humorous"  journal  was  incarcerated  for  an  in- 


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[4*i>  3.  TII.  Abbxl  15»  71. 


famouB  libel  on  his  own  xelative,  the  law  pro- 
ceedings of  the  time  will  show. 

Did  the  character  of  the  Baron  diffsr  fi0m  these 
two  men  P  What  is  there  that  he  ever  did  or  said 
over  which  decency  would  not  wish  to  draw  a 
▼eilP  Such  periodicals  have,  I  trust,  passed  away 
for  ever:  and  the  trials  during  the  past  week 
show  that  there  is  a  stronger  feeling  than  ever 
with  the  ^British  Juiy"  to  protect  the  sanctity 
of  private  life ;  and  a  desire  to  teach  ''journalists 
and  authors  "  that  they  may  not  calumniate  with 
impunity.  Reference  to  such  papers  must  and 
ought  to  be  made  in  the  cause  of  history  as  an 
illustration  of  the  taste  and  morals  of  a  certain 
period ;  but  to  drag  mto  prominence  an  unblushing 
autobiography  of  a  shameless  Hfe,  is  to  make 
**  N.  &  Q.^'  a  **  medium  "  which,  in  my  huml^e 
opinion^  was  never  intended  at  its  foundation. 

I  firmly  believe  that  ''journalists  and  authors  " 
of  the  present  day  are  of  a  much  better  stamp 
than  the  notorious  Baron,  or  woe  upon  society, 
which  is  now,  through  the  cheap  press,  addressed 
and  led  by  so  many  of  them.  Clabbt. 


WHO  IS  A  LAIRD  ? 


(4«'  S.  vi.  482  5  vii.  12, 176,  243.) 

C.  S.  K.  asked  whether  "every  portioner  of 
land  "  might  be  called  a  laird,  and  Du.  C.  Rogbbs 
has  replied  after  a  manner  which,  as  it  humbly 
seems  to  us,  shows  that  he  has  given  the  subject, 
which  he  admits  to  be  "an  interesting  one,'' 
almost  no  investigation,  for  a  greater  number  of 
misconceptions  could  hardly  have  been  announced 
in  less  space. 

Of  the  import  of  "portioner  "  there  can  be  no 
doubt,  being  one  that  owns  a  portion,  not  the 
whole,  of  a  certain  estate,  property,  or  pendicle. 
Portioners  of  land  were  not^owever,  necessarily 
domini  or  lairds,  although  I)b.  Rooebs  says  this 
title  was  in  nrocess  of  time  applied  to  "luid- 
owners  generally."  Dominus,  lord,  and  laird  were 
no  doubt  anciently  synonvmous ;  so  were  the 
denominations  baron  and  freeholder,  and  in  the 
Scottish  Acts  of  Parliament  and  in  formal  writ- 
ing the  two  latter  titles  were  used  indifferently 
with  the  former.  Properly,  however,  a  baron 
was  one  whose  lands  were  erected  by  the  crown 
into  a  free  barony,  with  the  jurisdiction  of  "  pit 
and  gallows  "  {cum  fossa  etfurca^,  SfiU,  although 
the  lands  were  not  thus  erected,  if  only  the  owner 
held  them  immediately  under  the  crown  or  prince, 
or,  in  other  words,  mi  ctqnte,  by  ward  and  relief, 
or  blench  (not  in  feu-farm,  fsodo-Jirma),  he  was 
entitled  to  a  seat  and  vote  in  Parliament,  and 
was  on  that  account  a  veritable  daminus,  laird, 
boron,  or  freeholder.  (Act  of  1  James  L  c.  8, 
1426)  J  Thomson's  "  Memorial  for  Oranstoun."  in 
Case  V,  Gibson,  decided  1818.  {Fae.  nqwris.) 

The  barons  or  lairds  were,  however,  classified : 


there  were  the  greater  and  lesser  barons.  No  one 
was  a  laird  who  did  not  hold  immediately  of  the 
crown  or  prince ;  all  others  were  isubvassals  by 
having  a  subject  superior  interjKMsd  between 
them  and  the  crown.  The  distinctive  title  of  this 
latter  class  was  "  goodman." 

"And  this  remembera  me,*'  savs  Sir  6.  Mackenzie, 
Advocate  to  Gharifls  II.,  *<tliat  soeh  as  did  hold  their 
lands  of  the  prince  were  called  lairdt ;  bat  sach  as  held 
their  lands  of  a  mhjeetf  thoagfa  thev  were  large  and  their 
superior  very  noble^  were  only  called  poodmen,  from  the 
ola  French  word  bonne  homme,  which  was  the  title  of  the 
maister  of  the  family." 

Elsewhere  the  same  learned  author,  in  referring 
to  the  leaser  barons,  mentions  that  they  were 
commonly  called  "  lairds,"  adding  that  "a  laird  in 
effiaet  is  but  the  corrupt  form  of  a  lord.''  {Ussay  an 
Precedem^  and  on  &e  Science  of  Heraldry,  edit. 
1680.)  And  Sir  G.  Mackenzie's  view  is  con- 
firmed by  the  ancient  rhyme  relating  to  the  ducal 
family  of  Hamilton : — 

**  Doik  Hamflton  and  Brandon, 
£rl  Chatelrow  and  Arran, 
The  Laird  of  Kinneill, 
The  Gudeman  of  Draffen." 

The  Hamiltons  were  immediate  vassals  of  the 
crown  in  respect  of  Kinneill  on  the  Forth,  but 
only  vassals  of  the  abbots  of  Kelso  as  to  Draffen 
and  other  lands  belonging  to  them  situate  in  the 
parish  of  Lesmahago.  The  same  distinction  of 
title  is  observed  in  many  of  the  Scotch  Acts,  but 
it  will  only  be  necessary  to  mention  two  of  these, 
that  of  26  Ghas.  I.  (July  24,  1644),  and  another 
passed  in  the  same  reign  of  July  2, 1646.  In  the 
former  are  named  the  following  noblemen  and 
gendemen,  as  forming  portion  of  a  war  committee 
within  the  presbytery  of  Lanark : — 

''The  Earl  of  Lanark,  the  Lord  Orbistoun,  the  L*nrd 
of  SflvertonhiU,  the  Good$afm  of  Ham,  Sir  James  Hamil- 
ton of  BromehiU,  the  Goodman  of  Dalserf,  the  Goodman 
of  Saplodi,  the  Laird  of  Carphin,  the  Goodman  of  Allan- 
ton,  Buieloch,  Woodhill  T',  Sir  James  Somervell,  the 
Laird  of  Clelandtown,  the  Laird  of  Terrens,  the  Good- 
man of  Oodatoun  Boi^s," 

and  various  others. 

One  of  the  greatest  legal  authorities  of  which 
Scotland  can  boast  (the  late  Mr.  Thomas  Thom- 
son, Advocate  and  Deputy  Clerk  Register)  has 
observed  that  by  the  origmal  constitution  of  the 
Scottish  Parliaments^  "  eveiy  man  of  lawful  age 
holding  his  lands  in  capite  of  the  crown,  however 
small  Ids  freehold,  was  bound  to  give  suit  and 
presence  in  parliaments  and  general  coundls." 
Hence  they  were  domini  or  lairds,  in  as  much  as 
parliaments  were  composed  only  of  three  dassesj— 
the  dignified  clergy,  the  barons,  and  commis- 
sioners  of  burghs.  At  another  place  Mr.  Thomson 
says  that  the  terms  "freeholder"  and  "baron" 
were  eynonymous. 

**  There  is  no  reason  to  suppose  (his  words  are)  that  the 
word  freeholder  was  used  in  any  more  extended  aenae 


4»  S.  Til.  Aran.  16, 71.] 


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(in  Um  Act  upon  which  he  was  commoitiiig)  than  its 
€^jparent  gynonime  baron  " ; 

and  6t  the  same  time  he  explains  that  '^  the  teim 
baion,  or  small  baron,  never  was  applied  to  those 
whoee  tenure  was  of  tma  sort '' ;  t.  e,  was  a  holding 
in  fea-£arm  Q*  Mem.  for  Granstoon,"  aupr^  i  and 
reference  is  also  made  to  Thomson's  JxaU  of  P. ; 
Sir  G.  Mackenzie's  Oh$,  <m  the  Statutes)  the  same 
author's  Criminal  Law ;  Hope's  Minor  Praetidcs ; 
Rescinded  Acts;  Skene.  Be  Verb,  Siff,;  Nisbet's 
Heraldry,  vol.  ii> ;  and  Seaton's  Law  and  I^wUce 
of  Hercddry),  No  matter,  then,  whether  a  man's 
landed  estate  was  great  or  small,  the  whole  or 
a  portion  of  one ;  he  was  not  a  laird  if  he  did  not 
hold  immediately  of  the  crown  by  ward  and  relief 
or  blench — tenures  known  both  as  mUitary, 

Db.  RoeBBS  goes  into  the  explication  of  other 
titles  or  terms,  out  in  that  is  equally  unhappy. 
Dominus  was  given  to  the  greater  as  well  as  to 
the  lesser  barons,  to  knights  A  all  kinds,  and  even 
sometimes  disparagingly  to  the  derieSf  as  the 
pope's  knights ;  but  it  was  never  properly  applied 
to  gentiemen  in  general.  In  the  case  of  the  greater 
barons,  or  those  ennobled,  it  always  preceded  the 
name,  and  often  also  succeeded  it  when  it  was  in- 
tended that  the  party  should  be  designed  by 
both  his  title  and  estates  or  some  leading  one  of 
the  latter.  As  regards,  however,  the  lesser 
barons,  the  lairds,  or  freeholders,  even  those  of 
them  who  had  grants  of  free  barony,  it  never  is 
found  to  precede  their  names,  bein^  used  c^fter  them 
to  denote  that  they  were  aomint,  lords,  or  lairds 
not  in  general,  bat  only  of  such  a  property  named. 
For  example,  Itobert  Lord  Sempill  was  called 
'' Dominus  Robertus  Sempill,  dominus  de-Elziots- 
toun,"  because  he  was  both  Lord  Sempill  and 
baron  or  laird  of  Elziotstoun,  which  was  over 
many  centuries  his  chief  rendence.  If,  however, 
he  had  only  been  a  lesser  baron — a  laird — dommus 
in  the  latter  place  alone  would  have  been  used. 

Then  as  to  '<  master,"  Db.  Koobbs  says  that 
'*  a  graduate  in  arts  was  so  styled,  oftd  no  other" 
But  surely  in  this  he  is  wrong.  Were  not  all  the 
beneficed  clergy  called  ''  ma^istres  "  as  well  as 
the  heirs  apparent  of  the  nobles,  as  the  Master  of 
Epplintoun,  the  Master  of  GlencairD,  the  Master 
of  Sempill,  &c.  P  And  then  as  to  the  retention 
of  territorial  designations,  after  disposal  of  the 
lands,  that  should  and  did  not  take  place  except 
under  some  especial  transaction  in  each  separate 
case,  a  few  of  which  are  known  and  could,  if^space 
had  permitted,  have  been  mentioned.  Espbdabb. 

Db.  RoeBBS  seems  to  entertain  exceptional  no- 
lions  on  the  subject  of  territorial  designaitiona.  In 
my  view  a  portioner  of  church  lands  or  of  anv  other 
lands,  unless  his  possession  had  subeequentfy  been 
erected  into  a  barony,  would  have  no  better  liile 
to  the  designation  of  laird  in  its  legal  and  re- 
evicted  sense  than  would  the  master  or  skipper 


of  a  Newcastle  coal-ship  to  the  title  of  captain. 
As  an  exception  to  this,  I  remember  indeed  the 
owner  of  a  small  thatched  cot   in  an   obscore 
Scotoh  village,  whose  holding  was  divided  into 
two  compartments.    One  of  these  was  tenanted 
bj  a  neighbour,  while  in  the  other  the  owner  re- 
sided, and  followed  his  occupation,  which  was 
that  of  a  hand-loom  weaver.    This  wortiiy — an 
octogenarian  when  I  firat  made  his  acquaintance — 
had  ''from  time  immemorial,"  as  Db.  Roobbs 
has  it,  been  dignified  by  the  villagers  with  the 
imposing  title  of  ''laird,"  although  I  fancy  this 
is  nardlv  the  kind  of  lairddup  to  which,  in  the 
view   ox   *' constituting  a   sept,''   Db.  Rogbbs 
aspires.    The  Rev.  Db.  instances  Lord  Colville 
of  Culross,  Sir  James  Menteth,  Bart.,  of  Close- 
bum,  Sir  John  Ogilvy,  Bart,  of  Inverquharity, 
&c.,  which  (what  would  have  been  quite  as  much 
to  the   purpose)  he  might  have    supplemented 
with  Lord  Napier  of  Magdala,  whose  xamily  nor 
himself,  as  we  all  know,  never  had  any  interest 
in  the  country  whence   he   derives  nis   titie. 
Surely   Db.  Rogebs    can    distinguish   between 
titles  of  nobility  and  baronetcy  granted  by  patent 
to  a  man  and  his  lysirs  for  ever,  and  the  eqmvocal 
designation  accruing  to  a  mere  portioner  of  land 
in  virtue   of  his  migmentary  poflsession.     Mr. 
Campbell  of  Islay  to  the  end  of  his  life  was  con- 
ventionally so  designated,  but  after  the  alienation 
of  his  estate  would  not  have  been  described  "  of 
Islay  "  in  any  legal  instrument,  nor  has  his  son  the 
smallest  claim  to  the  title.    If,  then,  the  objection 
holds  as  regards  this  once  princely  proprietor,  by 
what  rule  does  the  "representative,''  real  or  sup- 
posed, of  an  obscure  "portioner"  daim  exemp- 
tion? 

Db.  Rooebs  is  scarcely  more  fortunate  in  resard 
to  the  title  "  Master,"  which  he  teUs  us  had  an 
academic  origin.  Dr.  Jamieson  derives  this  from 
a  Gothic  wora  meaning  "landholder."  Does  not 
Db.  Rooebs's  statements  as  regards  the  Inver- 
quharity property  admit  of  some  modification  P  la 
not  Sir  John  at  this  moment  in  possession  of  the 
messuage  and  old  castle  of  Inverquharity  P  Db, 
RoeBBS  does  not  appear  to  have  been  lately  in 
communication  with  his  "  relative." 

W.BBATnB. 


The  Rbv.  Db.  Roqbbs  states  that  the  Grange, 
or  Home  Farm  of  the  abbey  of  Coupar,  was  at 
one  time  divided  amongst "  twelve  lay  impropria- 
tors "  or  portioners,  and  from  the  statistical  ac- 
counts ana  elsewhm  we  learn  that  each  of  these 
portions  changed  hands  ver^  frequentiy.  If  Db. 
RoGBBS  has  a  xiffht  to  the  titular  designation  "  of 
Coupar-Grange,'^  the  descendants  of  these  numbe^• 
less  proprietors  would  have  all  an  equal  daim  to 
thetitie;  and  should  his  pretensions  stir  the  am- 
bition of  a  tithe  of  the  Scotchmen  who  aie  able  to 
clidm  descent  equally  noble,  the  probability  is 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4«fc  s.  vii.  apwl  is.  m. 


that  yery  soon  those  actually  in  possessioa  of  pro- 
perty would  disuse  entirely  the  ''territorial  desig- 
nation/' and  that  "  of  "  would  be  understood  as 
the  equivalent  of  "  off  "  in  the  sense  of  '^  at  a  dis- 
tance from/' 

Cttlrossy  Glosebum^  &&,  are  personal  titles 
granted  by  the  sovereign  to  the  individuals  and 
heirs  male  of  their  bodies  in  the  line  of  primo- 
geniture, and  of  which  they  cann5t  be  deprived 
except  by  forfeiture.  C.  S.  S. 


Lord  Bbottghah  aitd  Mrs.  Nightikoale's 
Tomb  (4»'»  S.  vii.  277.)— The  story  of  a  nocturnal 
visit  to  Westminster  Abbey,  in  the  Autobiography 
of  Lord  Brougham^  in  which  he  represents  his 
father  to  have  been  one  of  the  actors,  may  be 
found  in  a  work  entitled  ApparitionSj  or  the  Mya- 
tery  of  GhosU,  HobaohlinSy  and  Haunted  Houses, 
developed,  by  Joseph  Taylor;  2nd  ed.  London, 
1815.  It  occurs  at  pp.  45-50,  and  is  headed 
"  Remarkable  Instance  of  the  Power  of  Imagin- 
ation." No  information  is  given  of  ^e  source 
whence  Taylor  derived  this  story,  but  the  inci- 
dents are  said  to  have  occurred  on  the  occasion  of 
the  interment  of  Queen  Caroline  (the  consort  of 
George  II.,  which  took  place  on  Saturday  evening, 
November  28, 1737.  j 

A  wager  was  laia  among  a  party  of  five  or  six 
gentlemen,  who  had  been  dining  together  at  a 
tavern,  that  one  of  the  party  should  at  midnight 
enter  the  abbey  alone  and  go  down  into  the  royal 
vault,  and  as  a  proof  that  he  had  done  so  should 
stick  his  penkmfe  into  the  floor  of  the  vault  and 
leave  it  there.  The  verger  was  bribed  to  obtain 
admittance,  and  the  result  was  similar  to  that 
described  hj  Lord  Brougham  —  the  adventurer 
was  found  in  a  fainting  fit  at  the  bottom  of  the 
stairs  leading  into  the  vault,  with  the  penknife 
stuck  through  the  tail  of  his  coat. 

Some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  may  perhaps  trace 
this  anecdote  to  its  original  source.  E.  V. 

Mrs.  Nightingale  died  Aup.  17, 1731,  not  1734, 
and  was  Buriea  in  Westminster  Abbey  on  the 
26th  of  the  same  month.  This  makes  the  case 
still  stronger  against  Lord  Brougham,  as  the  date 
is  eleven  instead  of  eight  years  before  his  father 
was  bom. 

^  There  are  other  points  in  the  story  equally  in- 
digestible. If  it  were  possible  for  a  party  of  gay 
youn^  men  to  walk  unmolested  into  tiie  abbey  at 
midmght,  and  if  it  were  the  custom  to  leave  open 
graves  at  that  period,  my  study  of  the  history  of 
the  abbey  for  the  last  seven  years  has  been  a 
failure.  Lady  Nightingale,  according  to  the 
abbey  records,  was  buried  in  a  vault,  which  was 
probably  hermetically  closed  immediately  after 
ner  interment,  and  not  re-opened  untU  the  burial 
of  her  husband  in  1752. 

JosspH  Lexusl  Chxsteb. 


Fraosb:  Fribel  (4*  S.  vii.*55,  179.)— Fresel 
or  Frasier  seems  to  nave  been  indifferently  used 
by  this  ancient  family  till  about  the  cjose  of  the 
thirteenth  century,  when  the  latter  became  the 
more  common  form.  In  the  Origines  Pinrochiales 
ScoUa  (i.  203-6)  there  will  be  found  some  in- 
teresting notices,  drawn  up,  I  believe,  by  the  late 
Dr.  Joseph  Robertson,  who  gives  his  authorities, 
among  which  the  "  Battle  Abbey  Roll "  is  cer- 
tainly not  numbered.  The  shire  of  Peebles,  of 
which  they  were  sheriffs,  seems  to  have  been  the 
first  settlement  of  the  Erasers  in  Scotland.  Their 
arms,  the  three  fraises,  are  quartered  by  the 
Flemings  of  Biggar  and  the  Hays  of  Yester,  who 
acquired  them  with  the  two  co-heiresses  of  the 
patriotic  Sir  Simon,  executed  by  Edward  I.  The 
Kkight  of  Morar  says,  "  they  may  be  seen  on 
the  ancient  cross  of  Peebles.''  Can  he  tell  us 
where  this  relic  is  now  to  be  found  P 

Dr.  Robert  Chambers,  writing  in  1827,  says 
that — 

**  the  deer's  head,  the  Eraser  crest,  was  lately  visible  on 
the  archway  of  their  castle"  [of  Neidpath'l  and  also 
I*  carved  on  the  cross  of  Peebles,  a  eurioos  pillar  spring- 
ing from  an  octagon  of  maaonwork,  about  the  centre  of 
the  town,  but  which,  for  reasons  inexplicable,  was  re- 
moved about  Ji/leen  years  ago  from  the  street  which  it 
adomed."~Ptc^re  of  Scotland,  i.  188. 

It  is  to  be  feared  that,  as  the  ''Haly  Rud  of 
Peblis,"  by  which  its  ancient  burghers  swore,  is 
among  the  things  of  the  past,  so  is  its  Market 
Cross  sacrificed,  like  that  of  many  a  Scottish 
burgh,  to  "  improvements." 

The  mention  of ''  the  last  of  the  French  Frazers, 
the  Marquis  de  la  Frezeli^re,*'  reminds  me  of  a 
curious  account  (evidenUy  legendary  in  the  his- 
torian's opinion)  given  by  M.  Michel  in  his  trulv 
valuable  work,  Les  Ecossais  en  France,  L  50.  It 
is  there  stated  that  Sir  Simon  Fraser,  the  beau-- 
ph'e  of  Gilbert  Hay,  I'etired  to  France  after  the 
defeat  of  Bruce  by  Edward  L,  and  founded  the 
family  of  "  Frezeau  or  Frigel  de  la  Frezeli^re." 
The  knight  is  also  credited  with  being  one  of  the 
ancestors  of  the  ^  Hays  of  Ncrmandie."  So  far 
from  this  being  true,  it  is  undoubted  that  the 
gallant  Scotsman's  head  was  then  set  up  on 
London  Bridge.  While  the  "French  Frasers" 
and  "Hays  of  Normandie "  were  more  likely  to 
be  the  ancestors  of  those  of  Scotiand,  at  least  to 
be  credited  with  this  distinction. 

Anglo-Scotus. 

Bows  AND  CuBXBETB  (4*  S.  vi.  568 ;  vii.  100, 
220.)— In  reply  to  £.  V.,  I  beg  to  say  that  the  ex- 
pression he  refers  to  in  Gen.  zli.  43  will  not  suit 
his  purpose.  The  meaning  of  the  original  word 
is  very  uncertain.  Various  explanations  have  been 
vffoposed,  but  the  most  probable  is  that  it  was  an 
£)gyptian  title  of  honour  conferred  on  Joseph,  but 
the  exact  meaning  of  which  has  not  been  ascer- 
tained.   All  sch^ars,  I  believe,  are  agreed  that 


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331 


the  English  Tereioii  is  wrong,  both  text  and 
margin.  T.  K  T. 

Edinburgh, 

SiGNITAKT  AND  SlQKATABIES   (4^*»  S.  Ti.  602 : 

Til.  44, 176.) — ^Makbocheir  writes :  "Mr.  Tbbkch 
will  find  signatory  in  Richardson."  1  confess 
myself  unable  so  to  do,  and  hope  that  I  am  not 
careless  or  inaccurate  in  making  tiiis  remark.  Mj 
edition  is  1855.  As  a  prudent  man,  I  avoid  the 
*'  universal  negative/'^but  do  not  think  it  is  there. 

Francis  Tbbnch. 

Islip  Rectoty. 

Siffnitary  is  a  barbarous  word ;  but  mynatary  is 
a  peifectlj  good  word,  being  an  English  form  of 
the  French  siynataire,  Thos.  Austin,  Jun. 

Hitchin. 

Samplers  (4»»»  8.  vi.  600;  vii.  21,  126,  220, 
278.) — ^I  enclose  another  specimen  of  the  kind  of 
sentiment  worked  on  samplers  in  the  early  part  of 
this  century  (1804) :  — 

"  Tell  me,  je  knowing  and  discerning  few, 
Where  I  may  find  a  friend  both  finn  and  tme. 
Who  dares  stand  hy  me  when  in  deep  distress. 
And  then  his  love  and  friendship  most  express  ?  " 

W.H. 
Newcastle-on-Tjne, 

As  a  sampler  in  our  possession  is  older  than 
those  described  byyOur  correspondents,  perhaps 
(though  unfinished)  you  may  think  it  worth  a 
note.  It  is  handsomely  worked  in  silk  on  coarse 
orange-coloured  linen ;  but  looks  a  confused  mass, 
from  the  letters  being  in  difierent  colours,  prin- 
cipally in  capitals  and  arranged  to  fit  the  spaces, 
so  that  you  must  spell  it  over  to  find  what  the 
words  are — each  word  being  divided  from  the 
next  by  a  cross  of  five  stitches  x .  At  the  top  of 
the  sampler  is — ''Hannah  Tanner,  May  the  29, 
1719."  Under  the  centre  of  this,  is  a  crown  be- 
tween two  Coronets;  below  the  crown,  "fl  GR"j 
from  this  descends  a  kind  of  waved  oval,  within 
which  is — 

**  Christ  was  the  word  that  speak  it, 
He  took  the  bread  and  break  it, 
And  for  that  word  did  make  it. 
That  I  beUeve  and  take  it." 

Within  the  oval  (resting  on  the  verse)  are  two 
larger  crowns  of  difierent  patterns:  under  the 
right-hand  one  is  D,  under  that  to  the  left  is  M. 
Below  the  verse  is  a  much  larger  crown,  but  the 
space  round  it  is  empty,  though  a  single  letter 
begun  shows  it  was  to  have  been  filled  in.  The 
oval  is  double,  and  between  the  lines  are  larger 
letters,  the  same  on  both  sides,  thou^  reversed. 
Theyare  "F.h.L. I.P.N. t.V.P."  Have 
they  any  meaning?  Projecting  from  the  outer 
line  of  tne  oval,  in  each  comer,  are  two  diamonds 
crossed  by  squares,  containing  I,  H,  T,  7,  reversed 
at  the  bottom  of  the  sampler ;  next  to  these  ia  an 
oval,  containing  somethinig  like  an  acorn,  and  an 
empty  triangle  in  the  middle — ^in  all,  fourteen 


projections.  In  the  spaces  left  by  these,  capital 
letters  are  arranged  as  in  the  middle,  which  lorm 
this  verse :  — 

"  See,  friend,  how  fast  the  years  do  fly. 
The  time  will  come  when  joa  and  1  must  die. 
The  world  farwell " 

The  rest  is  wanting.  I  have  omitted  to  say  that 
each  line  of  letters  is  divided  from  the  next  by  a 
row  of  eyelet  holes. 

We  have  another  sampler  worked  by  a  friend 
of  my  mother's,  containing  several  alphabets,  be- 
low which  is  the  couplet :  — 

**  Honor  and  shame  from  no  condition  rise, 
Act  well  your  part,  there  all  the  honor  lies." 

L.  0.  R. 

KfiBES  (4"»  S.  vii.  93,  226.)— It  is  a  singular 
circumstance  that  writers  who  lived  in  or  close 
upon  the  time  of  Marcus  Aurelius,  as  for  instance 
Lucian  *  and  Diogenes  Laertius  and  Tcrtullian,t 
should  none  of  them  speak  of  Kebes  as  a  cotem- 
pjorary,  but  evidently  as  one  long  before  their 
time,  as  far-famed  and  of  a  world-wide  reputation. 
Such  fame  and  such  reputation  is  not  usually  the 
growth  of  a  generation,  as  in  this  case  it  must 
have  been,  if,  as  is  assumed,  Eebes  lived  and 
wrote  in  the  reign  of  Aurelius.  Lucian  lived 
in  this  reign,  and  died  a.d.  180,  ten  years  before 
the  emperor  j  Diogenes  Laertius  probably  in  the 
latter  part  of  it,  as  he  died  a.d.  z22.  The  same 
may  be  said  of  TertuUian,  as  he  was  a  Father  of 
the  second  century. 

What  each  of  these  has  said  of  Kebes  may  be 
found  by  turning  to  the  references  here  given — 
Lucian,  De  Mercede  Cunductis;  Diogenes  Laertius, 
lib.  n.  c.  125 ;  TertuUian,  JDe  Prteacriptime,  c.  39. 
Lucian's  words  are  clearly  retrospective^  6  Kc3i7f 
iituvos^  K.  T.  X.,  and  the  whole  passage,  the  closing 
one  of  this  treatise,  is,  to  my  mind,  evidence  more 
than  presumptive  that  Kebes  was  no  cotemporary 
of  Lucian. 

I  am  aware  of  the  objections  which  have  been 
raised  against  the  authenticity  of  the  piece  in 
question,  but  see  no  force  in  them,  nor  yet  any  in 
tne  chai|;e  of  its  being  "cooked"  or  "borrowed 
from  Scnpture,"  at  all  events  from  the  writings 
of  the  New  Testament.        Edxtjitd  Tew,  M.A. 

*  This  writer  contrasts  K^bes  with  Sophocles  and 
Euripides,  who  both  flourished  in  the  same  century  as 
K6be8  the  Theban. 

t  Diojgenes,  in  his  lives  of  the  ancient  philosopher^ 
places  ELcbes  amongst  the  intimate  friends  and  associates 
of  Socrates,  as  Crito,  Simon,  Simmias,  Menedemus,  and 
Plato.    (See  the  Fhado.)    He  also  mentions  his  three 

Ineces,  fl/vo^,  'E096iiii,  and  ^pivixos,  AU  this  is  quito 
nconsistent  with  the  suppoeiUon  that  Kdbes  was  a  cou- 
temporarj  or  lived  so  near  his  own  time.  The  placing 
his  name  immediately  after  that  of  Simmiaa  is  very  ob- 
servable, as  these  two  took  such  a  prominent  part  in  the 
dialogue  of  Phiedo,  and  are  both  spoken  of  as  Thebans. 
Xothmg  could  show  more  clearly  what  was  the  opinion 
of  Diogenes  as  to  the  identity  of  Kdbes  and  the  authen- 
tieity  of  his  writings. 


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[4«>»  8.  TIL  April  15, 71. 


Thx  Block  Books  (4^  S.  ii.  pasikm;  vii.  IS, 
151,  217.) — ^At  present  i  stnnd  upon  my  articles . 
in  the  Scdenologist  and  Building  Ifew$,  Sec.  upon 
Mb.  Holt's  seyeral  assertions.  I  see  no  good  in 
Ids  present  challenge  any  more  than  I  did  in  hia 
mare's  nest  of  nimbuses  and  emblems.  When 
his  book  comes  out  will  be  the  time  for  ezamin- 
inff  his  opinions.  I  for  one  expect  much  valuable 
information^  and  trust  he  will  have  given  up 
several  untenable  positions.  J.C.J. 

Patbontmic  Pbeface  *'Ma.c  "  (4t^  S.  vL  330; 
vii.  220.) — A  Middle  Texplab  might  among 
other  names  have  added  McOscar,  McCaskill,  Mac- 
Hittericj  MacOtter.*  Armstrosg  mentions  Mac 
an  Luin  as  '*  the  name  of  Fingal's  sword,  so  called 
from  its  maker  Luno,  an  armourer  of  Scandi- 
navia." 

But  these  names  do  not  prove  anything,  unless 
the  owners  brought  them  from  Scandinavia.  It 
would  seem  probable,  however,  that  the  prefix 
'^  Mac  "  is  of  Gothic,  or,  at  all  events,  of  Teutonic 
origin.    In  confirmation  compare — 

Gothic— mo^iM,  puer,  faiabe,  r4iapw ;  thiutnaguSf 
wcusf  diener,  knecht;  magaihtf  puella,  wapdiyosf 
jungfrau;  ma^o^A^,  iroptfcWa,  jungfrauschaft;  ma- 
gviay  puerulus,  iroisipioy,  knablein;  magan,  konnen^ 
vermoffen. 

Su.-uothic  and  lal.— <maft6,  sooiusi  par;  Dan. 
mage. 

Ang. -Saxon — maca,  maecoj  meca,  id.  (gemacay 
maca,  gefnmcoa^  genuca ;  D.  trnthker,  a  mate,  equal, 
companion,  wife.  Bosworth),  macg,  megy  a  man.t 

Old  Qer. — mo^  (Francic,  gimah),  natura;  mag, 
pjarens,  filius^  conjunctus,  cognatus,  conjux,  puer, 
famulus,  par,  similis,  ffiqualis ;  Francic,  maga-zogo 
(Tout  zog,  tog ;  Gr.  rory-of^,  rector  pueritiaD.J 

In  Luke  ii.^  43,  vtur,  which  Beza  renders  puer, 
is  in  the  Gothic  version  magus;  and  in  John  vi.  9, 
'^euZdpioy,  which  Beza  renders  puendus,  is  in  the 
Gothic  version  magula.  Pughe,  however,  derives 
the  Welsh  mooctcy,  a  youth,  a  page,  from  mag,  the 
act  of  rearing,  bringing  up^  or  educating ;  rearing, 
education,  nurture.  B.  S.  Chabnock. 

Gray's  Inn. 

BbitishSoxthbb  Chabiots  (4"'  S.vii.  96,240.) 
In  «N.  &  Q."  4«»»  S.  i.  414, 1  asked  whether  the 
possibilitv  of  a  scythed  chariot  as  an  oflensive 
weapon  nad  ever  been  discussed.  I  received  no 
answec^  and  infured  that  on  examination  the 
vehicle  and  its  uses  seemed  too  absurd  for  serious 
oonskLeration.  Historians  as  trustworthy  as 
Richaid  of  Cirencester  repeat  the  story  of  the 
Trojan  horse.  Thev  were  not  at  the  siege  nor  he 
at  the  battles;  and  had  they  been,  their  testimony 
would  not  avail  to  prove  what  could  not  be. 

U.  U.  gab.  H.  B.  C. 

*  Gonf.  FeTgaMn  on  Surnames. 

t  Conf.  Waohter,  GlotB.,  and  Scfaolze,  Goth.  Ghm. 

X  Conf.  Wochter,  alao  Schiltenxa. 


It  may  be  open  to  argument  whether   the 
Britons  used  or  cud  not  use  chariots  with  scythes 
attached  to  their  wheels,  but  it  certainly  is  not 
fair  to  quote  Kichard  of  Cirencester  in  the  oon<- 
trovexsy.     A  lawyer  might  as  well  cite  the  comic    ' 
Blackstone  in  the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench,  as  an 
antiquary  put  the  false  Bichard  in  evidence  in    I 
the  pages  (2f  N.  &  Q."    If  any  one  in  England  < 
has  yet  a  shred  of  faith  left  in  Charles  Julius 
Bertram's  forgery,  let  him  read  and  ponder  well 
upon  the  preface  to  vol.  ii.  Of  the  true  Richard  of 
Cirencester's  Speculum  Sistoriale,  edited  by  Mr. 
John  E.  B.  Mayor,  M.A.         Epwabd  Peacock. 
Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Shebbwobt  (4^  S.  vi.  502 ;  viL  26, 161, 244) 
I  believe  I  can  now  satisfy  Mb.  Bbitten  as  to 
this  plant.  It  is  the  Arabmt  or  wall-cress,  called 
by  withering  *^  Turkey  pod  *'  {TetradgtMmia  eiU^ 
gmaea).  1  had  a  strong  suspidon  that  this  was 
the  plant ;  and  on  my  taking  a  small  piece  from 
my  own  gwden  to  show  to  the  Dorsetshire  man 
mentioned  in  a  former  communication,  he  at  once 
said,  ''That  is  what  we  call  ^feerwort.**  Its  some- 
what hot  and  pungent  taste  has  led  to  its  use  in 
salads,  especially  by  the  gypsies.  F.  C.  H. 

AMurithian. 

**  Thovoh  lost  to  Sight,  to  Mbicobt  dbab  " 
(1*'  S.  iv. ;  8"*  vi.  viiL  ;  4*  S.  i.  iv.  passim ;  viL 
56,  173,  244.)~The  line  quoted  by  Mb.  Smith 
at  the  last  reference  appears  in  Pope*s ''  Epistle  to 
Robert  Earl  of  Oxfoid  "  (1721),  but  is  not  quite 
correctly  given.  The  passage  £h>m  which  it  is 
taken  runs  thus : — 

"Absent  or  dead,  still  let  a  friend  be  dear, 
(A  sigh  the  absent  claims,  the  dead  a  tear).** 

H.  F.  T. 

My  object  at  present  is  to  certify^  that  with 
respect  to  the  line — 

*'Tbe  absent  claims  a  sigh — the  dead,  a  tear," 

I  have  been  familiar  with  it.  for  many  years,  and 
have  seen  it  connected  with  other  lines  in  scraps 
of  poetry,  but  never  with  thfo  line — 

**'  Though  lost  to  sight,**  &c. 

F.  C.  £L 

Ok  thb  Title  of  Eiko  ob  Quxbh  of  Mak 
(4^  S.  vii.  249.)— Mb.  Williah  Habbisoh,  in 
his  very  interesting  note,  omits  to  mention  Mac 
Manis,  who  was  Qi^vemor  of  the  Isle  of  Man, 
otrc.  1098,  and  who  in  that  year  founded  a  Cis- 
tercian abbey  at  Bushen  in  the  island — a  foundi^ 
tion  which  continued  for  some  time  after  the 
geneoral  suppression  of  the  monastic  houses  in 
England.  Mac  Manis  was  probably  a  member  of 
the  powerful  and  distinguiahed  sept  of  the  Mac 
Manuses,  "^ose  head  was  descended  from  the 
ancient  Kings  of  Connaught,  and  whose  strong- 
hold  and  home  was  at  Bally  Mac  Manns,  now 


4*  8.  VII.  Apwl  16, 71.] 


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called  Bellislei   an  island  in  Lougli  Eme,  co. 
Fermanagh.  Chablbb  Sotejolsjsu 

6,  Meadow  Street,  Moss-side,  near  Manchester. 

Db  Sate  ob  Say  (4**  S.  vii.  123,  272.)— Eus- 
tachia  de  Say,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.,  built 
and  endowed  at  Westwood,  in  the  county  of 
Worcester,  a  FonteTiftuld  nunnery,  which  was 
granted  30  Henry  VIII.  to  John  Pakington. 

^Isabell,  d.  and  coheir  of  S'  Wm.  Saye," 
maorried  at  a  very  early  date  *^  Robert  ELarbottell 
of  BasingUioi^pe,  in  Com'  Lincon.,"  the  great- 
grandson  of  <'S'  Widyard  Harbottle  of  Com' 
Northumbland,  Knight,"  who  was  the  great- 
great-great-grandson  of  ''  Eoger  Harbottell,  Lord 
of  Harbotte]]^  ten^.  H.  I."  Vjde  <<  The  Harbottell 
PedijgiTee''  in  The  Vuntation%f  EuOand,  1618-9, 

Snblished  by  the  Harleian  Socie^.  ''  Winifride, 
.  of  Francis  Say  of  Wilby,  in  Com'  North'ton," 
was  the  wife  of  ''  Kenelme  Cheselden  of  Upping- 
ham," whose  grandson  Kenelme  was  aged  fifteen 
in  1618.  Vide  '<The  Cheselden  FecQgree"  in 
same  Visitation. 

The  arms  of  Say  are  the  fourth  quartering  on 
the  Harbottell  shield  in  Harl.  MS.  1558,  and  are, 
''  Per  pale  azure  and  gules,  three  chevrons  chargea 
with  as  many  couped  and  counterchanged." 

Chablbs  Sothbban. 
6,  Meadow  Street,  Moss-side,  near  Manchester. 

Hampden  Family  (4*»»  S.  vii.  180,  278.)— I 
possessed  an  autograph  letter  of  John  Hampden 
(of  the  signature  to  wnich  I  enclose  you  a  tracing), 
which  was  lent  for  exhibition  at  the  Crystal 
Palace,  and  unfortunately  destroyed  in  the  fire 
which  took  place  some  few  years  ago.  The  name 
is  usually  spelled  with  a  />,  and  was  so  in  my 
autograph.  It  is  also  so  spelled  in  a  letter  (en- 
grayed  from  an  original)  at  vol.  i.  p.  160  of  the 
late  Lord  Nugent's  Memorials  of  Hampden. 

Fbbbebicx  Geobob  Leb. 
6,  Lambeth  Terrace. 

GmzoT  AjfD  Guisa  (4<»>  S.  viL  142, 270.)— 

^<?Kfso<^  gw^  or  gtt-^zd.* 

M  «  (^ote.)  So  pronoonced  by  M.  Goizot  himself,  as 
stated  in  a  letter  from  him,  now  before  us.  He  says, 
•  Dansmon  pays  natal,  la  ville  de  Nimes,  on  prononce 
mon  nom  ghi-xo,  A  Paris  on  dit  en  g^n^ral  ffwi-zo ;  et 
Je  crois  oette  pronondation  pins  eorrecte.' 

"  A  near  relative,  however,  of  the  great  French  historian 
and  statesman  takes  a  different  view  of  the  question.  He 
aays  the  name  of  his  fiimily  is  always  pronounced  gki-xo 
in  the  south  of  France,  where  the  name  originated ;  and 
he  maintains,  with  great  appearance  of  reason,  thit  the 
invariable  usage  of  the  people  of  Ximes  ought  to  be  de- 
cisive as  to  the  pronunciation  of  m»  nam Nimou" — Pro- 
noMNctira  Dictionary  of  Biografhy,  Sfc,  By  J.  Thomas, 
AJf .,  M.D.,  Philadelphia,  1870.  (t.  v.) 

Thos.  Siewabbsok^  Jb. 

C.  C.  says,  "It  is  true  that  among  the  edu- 
cated classes  in  Paris  the  first  name  is  pronoimced 
(as  we  should  say])  Owee-xo,  and  the  latter 
GheeseJ*^    Now^  is  this  true  as  regards  Cfuigef  I 


was  taught  by  a  Frenchman  singularly  accurate 
and  fastidious  about  his  language;  that  Qui  in 
Guise  formed  an  exception  to  the  rule  governing 
the  sound  of  «&,  and  tnat  the  historical  family  of 
Guise  ought  to  be^caUed  Qweeze.         J.  Delon. 

Tbbvbbis'  "Gbbtb  Hbbball  "  (4**  S.  vii.  162, 
268.)— Who  was  Treveris?  There  seems  to  he 
but  little  trustworthy  evidence  on  this  point. 
Pritzel  {Thesaurus  LUeraiura  Botamca,  p.  341) 
informs  us  that  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Oxford 
Library  the  Cfrete  HerhdU  is  attributed  to  a  Jere- 
mias  Treveris,  professor  at  the  University  of 
Lou  vain ;  but  Meyer,  in  his  Geschichte  der  Botanik 
(vol.  iv.  b.  XV.),  maintains  that  this  is  an  error, 
ttid  that  the  mistake  probably  arose  from  the 
similarity  of  the  professor's  name  with  that  of  the 
publisher  of  the  herbal. 

Meyer  says  of  the  book : — 

<*  England  was  content,  for  a  long  time,  to  stndv  plants 
IB  translations  from,  or  imitations  of  French  ana  JDutch 
works.  The  earliest  book  on  the  subject,  the  Grete 
HerbaU,  was  first  published  (aocordins  to  Pulteney)  in 
1516,  bv  Peter  Treveris,  and  afterwaids  passed  through 
five  editions,  in  1626,  1529,  1589,  and  1561,  with  wood- 
cuts, and  in  1551,  without  woodcuts.  Pulteney  believes 
it  to  have  been  fabricated,  with  alterations,  from  a  French 
translation  of  the  Ortus  Samtaiitt  printed  in  Paris  by 
Caron  in  1499 ;  but  this  cannot  be,  as  Caron  published  no 
such  translation,  but  a  different  though  similar  work, 
Xe gnmt  Herb4er  en  Fram/foys* " 

Pritzel  makes  no  allusion  to  the  editions,  either 
of  1516  or  1661,  and  states,  in  opposition  to  Pul- 
teney, that  tibiose  of  1689  and  1661  are  without 
woodcuts.  The  last  lines  of  the  book  ave:  *^ Thus 
endeth  the  grete  herball,  which  is  translated  out 
of  Frensshe  in  to  Englysshe." 

If  Mb.  Jambs  BBiiTBir  could  refer  to  a  co])y 
of  the  Grete  HerbaU,  and  would  send  me  *  his 
address,  we  might  be  able  to  decide  whether  it 
and  the  Grant  Herbier  above^  alluded  to  (a  cony 
of  which  is  at  my  disposal)  are  not  one  and  the 
same  work ;  and  also,  perhaps,  whether  the  Grant 
Herbier  was  not  made  out  of  tne  Ortus  Sanitatis. 

H.C. 

Thb  Peawt  Liwgtta  Aksbbis  (4*  S.  vii.  162, 
294.) — ^I  can  find  nothing,  in  m^r  old  botanical 
authorities,  with  a  diagnosis  answering  to  Treveris* 
description.  The  only  plant  named  <' goose- 
tongue  "  is  the  AchiUaa  Ptamtica  (Prior,  Popular 
Names  of  Brit.  Plants,  p.  96.) 

Paiacnim  leporis.'-ThhB  would  appear  to  be  the 
atparaguSf  for  in  the  index  to  Parkmson's  Theatre 
of  Plants  I  find  *'PalacMm  kporis,  t.  SontJtus  levis 
vutgaris.—C€Bsalpino,  i.  Atpara^us  syhestns.^^ 

13.  C* 

Bmasels. 

CmiBCHES  wiTHiw  BoMAN  Camps  (3**  8.  V. 
Ti.  vii.  viii.  ix.  ^.passim;  4*  8.  viL  24.)  —  In  A 


*  Address,  T.  Westwood,  Esq., 
Brussels. 


72,  Bne  de  la  Loi, 


334 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»iiS.VII.ApRiLl6,'71. 


Handbook  for  Lewes,  M.  A.  Lower,  under  the  head 
*^  Church  of  St.  John  Sub  Castro/'  is  this  sen- 
tence :  — 

**  While  in  the  churchjard  the  visitor's  attention  maj 
be  called  to  the  canons  fact,  that  it  occupied  part  of  the 
site  of  a  very  small  camp,  supposed  to  be  Boman,  the 
vallum  of  which  may  still  be  traced." 

A  note  says :  — 

"  Several  coins  of  the  Imperial  era  have  been  found 
here." 

Xj»  C  XV. 

Ld7ES  on  thb  Humabt  Eau  (4**'  S.  vii.  235.) — 
The  "Philosopher  and  his  Daughter"  appeared 
in  the  Phonetic  Journal  for  June  25,  1853,  where 
it  was  given  as  an  extract  from  the  lUudrated 
News,  but  at  what  time  it  appeared  in  the  latter 
periodical  I  am  not  aware.  If  E.  L.  wishes  a 
transcript  of  the  poem,  I  shall  be  happy  to  supply 
one  if  he  will  communicate  his  wish  to  me. 

WiLLiiJC  R  A.  Axon. 

Joynson  Street,  Strangeways. 

Ballad  op  Lady  Ferrebs  (4*'»  S.  vii.  209.) — 
What  ballad  is  it  P  The  date  (1811)  impHes  that 
it  is  some  modem  composition.  I  shall  be  glad 
to  have  further  particulars. 

Jakes  Hxitrt  Dixon. 

Bishop  Algoox^  circa  1486  (4'**  S.  vii.  122.) — 
The  arms  borne  by  Bishop  Alcock  were :  Argent, 
on  a  fess  (not  a  chewon)  between  three  cocks 
heads  erased  sable,  combed  and  wattled  gules,  a 
mitre  or;  sometimes  within  a  bordure  gules 
charged  with  eight  crowns  or.  Crest :  On  a  coro- 
net ...  a  cock  .  . .  (see  Glive's  Marches  of  Wales ; 
Bedford's  Blazon  of  Episcopacy ;  Nash's  History 
of  Worcestershire;  Berry's  JEncyclopadia  Herat" 
dica,  ^c.)  H.  S.  G. 

Anne  (Chapmai^  Kniohtlet  (4*»»  S.  vii.  234.) 
It  is  to  be  feared  tnat  the  note  appended  to  this 
query  may  prevent  0.  D.  0.  from  getting  an 
answer,  as  it  implies  a  doubt  of  the  existence  of 
the  lady  whose  husband  is  inquired  for.  The 
pedigree  of  Chapman  in  Burke  and  other  baron- 
etages is  very  imperfect  A  fuller  pedigree,  with 
the  proofs  from  wills  and  registers,  is  printed  in 
Part  I.  of  Howard's  Monthly  MisceU,  GeneaL, 
from  which  it  appears  that  Sir  John  Chapman 
had  two  wives.    By  the  first  he  had  Anne,  the 

wife  of Knightley ;  by  the  second  he  had 

two  sons,  and  the  ^o  daughters  mentioned  in  the 
note.  Sir  John  Chapman  died  in  his  mayoralty, 
March  17,  1688^  (not  on  May  7,  1737).  The 
circumstances  of  his  illness  and  death  are  gra- 
phically described  by  Lord  Macaulay  in  his 
History  of  England:  but,  with  characteristic 
inability  to  tell  a  plain  story  in  a  plain  way, 
Macaulay  omits  from  his  narrative  the  name  of 
the  person  about  whom  he  is  writing.    Tswars. 

The  Oldest  Inns  in  England  (4**  8.  vi.  505 ; 
vii.  267.) — One  of  these  ''oldest  inns"  may  be 


found  in  Philip's  Norton,  Somerset  -  I  forget  the 
sign  by  which  it  is  distinguished,  but  it  stands  at 
the  top  of  the  hill  on  which  the  village  is  situate. 
May  I  sujB^st  that  it  mi^ht  be  quite  worth 
while,  as  bein^  likely  to  pay  its  expenses  as  well 
as  for  antiquanan  reasons,  to  take  pnotographs  of 
these  ^*  oldest  inns  "  and  publish  them.  1  would 
also  suggest  that  the  same  might  be  done  with 
our  ancient  manor  houses.  In  another  half  cen- 
tury, the  present  rage  for  improvement  (P)  and 
piillmg  down  vrill.  most  probably,  have  swept 
away  all  traces  of  these  precious  relics  of  our 
domestic  architecture.  W.  M.  H.  C. 

ScENA :  ScENfi  (4'*»  S.  vii.  250.) — ^As  a  probable 
help  to  the  solution  of  his  difficulty,  I  would 
recommeud  to  your  correspondent  Myops  a  care- 
ful study  of  the  Doric  and  JStCiMc  dialects.  For 
these,  says  the  author  of  the  Fort  Eoyal  Gram- 
mar,—' 

"  have  been  almost  entirely  followed  by  the  Latins ; 
insomnch  that,  if  the  writings  of  those  who  used  this 
dialect  (^olic)  had  been  transmitted  down  to  us,  we 
should  in  all  appearance  discover  therein  a  very  great 
agreement  with  the  Latin,  not  only  with  regard  to  the 
words,  but  moreover  with  respect  to" the  phrase." 

Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Patching  Rectory,  Arnndel. 

Myops  will,  I  hope,  for^ve  me  for  saying  that 
his  query  appears  to  be  in  keeping  with  his  name, 
short-sightea. 

1.  As  the  Bomans  got  most  of  their  dramatic 
literature  at  second-hand  from  the  Greeks,  they 
naturally  adopted  many  of  their  dramatic  terms 
from  the  Greek ;  e.  g.  tragosdia,  comosdia,  cothur- 
nt*s,  syrma,  8^c.  Scena,  which  at  first  they  seemed 
inclined  to  spell  sctcna,  is  one  of  these.  Myops 
may,  therefore,  rest  assured  that  aicrjyii  is  the 
earlier  form. 

2.  This  word,  taken  from  the  Greek  a  declen- 
sion, the  Latins  placed  of  course  in  their  own 
first  or  a  declension,  in  which  the  termination  is 
invariably  a  short  They  treated  scena,  in  fact, 
as  they  did  zona  (from  i^wri)  and  many  other  like 
words.  The  explanation  of  the  short  Latin^  a 
lies  in  the  fondness  of  that  language  for  abbrevia- 
tion. See  on  the  whole  subject  Donaldson*s  New 
Cratylus,  chap,  ix.,  ed.  1860. 

J.  IL  L  Oakley,  M.A. 
Croydon. 

Portrait  of  Cameron  op  Lochiel  (4**  S.  vii. 
257.) — Bromley,  in  his  Catalogue  of  Engraved 
British  Portraits,  1793  (p.  313),  makes  mention  of 
a  portrait  of  Donald  Cameron  '*  whole-leM^h,  in 
a  Highland  dress,"  but  omits  the  names  of  artist 
and  engraver.  G.  M.  T. 

Hamestjcken  (4"*  S.  vii.  257)— (from  Saxon 
Hamsocen) — ^is  the*  liberty  or  privilege  of  a  man's 
own  house ;  also,  a  franchise  granted  to  lords  of 
manors,  whereby  they  hold  pleas  and  take  cog- 
nisance of  the  breach  and  violation  of  that  im- 


4»>'S.VII.  April  15, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


335 


munity;  and  likewise  ^'siffiiificat  quietantiam 
misericoidise  intrationis  in  alienam  domum  Ti  et 
injuate  "  (Ihta,  lib.  i.  cap.  47).  In  Scotland  viola- 
tions of  this  kind  are  eauallj  punishable  with 
rape  (Skene) ;  and  "  our  old  records  express  bur- 
glary under  the  word  hamwcne'*  (Jacob,  Law 
Did.)  G.  M.  T. 

This  word  surelj  was  not "  entirely  unknown 
in  a  specific  sense  m  the  law  of  England/'  and  it 
'' appears''  explained,  and  with  its  derivation 
given,  in  many  dictionaries  or  treatises,  though 
variously  spelt :  e,  g,  it  appears  (1)  in  N.  Bailey, 
8vo,  1735;  (2)  in  Ash,  8vo,  1775;  (3)  in  JacoVs 
Law  Dtctionarg,  fol.,  1786 ;  (4)  in  Cunningham's 
Law  Diettomtrg,  fol.,  1771 ;  (5)  in  Coweli's  Inter- 
preter, London,  small  4to,  1637,  in  two  places; 
(6)  in  Selden's  Fleta,  London,  4to,  1647,  lib.  i. 
cap.  47,  §  18,  p.  63 ;  (7)  in  Bracton,  <][uoted  by 
Cowell  [lib.  III.  tract.  2,  c.  23J,  where  it  is  thus 
defined — '^  Homesoken  dicitur  mvasio  domus  con- 
tra pacem  domini  regis.''  Cunningham  quotes 
also  a  charter  of  donation  by  Kin^  Edmund  to 
the  church  of  Glastonbury,  in  which  he  grants 
amongst  other  privileges,  '^Burgherith  .  .  .  . 
infangtheofas,  hamsocne,  et  fridebiice,"  &&;  and 
other  instances  most  likely  are  to  be  found  in 
ancient  writers  and  in  charters.  It  was  in  fact 
the  old  word  to  express  burglary^  which  has 
superseded  it ;  but,  as  Cowell  tninks,  it  also  ex- 
pressed a  franchise  or  privilege  '*  granted  by  the 
king  to  some  common  person,"  whereby  he  took 
cognizance  of  and  punished  such  a  transgression 
of  the  law.  E.  A.  D. 

ShiUingstone  Rectory. 

In  Blount's  Lata  Dictionary  (by  Nelson,  1717) 
it  is  said :  — 

"  HOMSSOKEN  (or  Hanw^uen) — (Vom  Sax.  ham^  i.  e. 
domutf  habitation  and  tocne^  libert€u,  immnnitat — is  the 
privilege  or  freedom  which  every  roan  has  in  his  house ; 
and  he  who  invades  that  freedom  is  properly  said  facere 
homesoken.  This  is  what  I  take  to  be  now  called  Burglary, 
which  is  a  crime  of  a  very  heinous  nature,  because  it  is 
not  only  a  breach  of  the  king's  peace,  but  a  breach  of 
that  liberty  which  a  man  hath  in  his  house,  which  we 
commonly  say  should  be  his  castle,  and  therefore  ought 
not  to  be  invaded. — Bracton,  lib.  in.  tract.  2,  cap.  23 ; 
Dueange." 

E.V. 

St.  WiTLFBAN  (i^  S.  vii.  162,  269.)— I  think 
there  is  considerable  reason  for  hesitation  ere  we 
say  positively  that  the  St.  Wulfran  of  the  Eng- 
lish calendar  is  the  same  person  as  St.  Wulfran, 
Archbishop  of  Sens.  I  did  not  always  think  sO; 
and  in  my  English  Church  Ftemiture  (p.  88)  have 
given  a  note,  in  which  I  state  that  Grantham 
church  is  dedicated  to  the  archbishop.  A  shrine 
called  '^  Senct  Wulfiram  shryne  "  existed  at  that 
plaoe  till  the  year  1566;  and  Gervaise  Hollis 
states,  on  the  authority  of  Leland,  that  St.  Wal- 
jbtm  was  buried  there.  Unless  this  is  a  mistake, 
arising  from  the  church  possessing  some  of  his 


ftlics,  we  must  conclude  that  there  are  two  Wul- 
firans  honoured  by  canonization,  for  certdnly  the 
Archbishop  of  Sens  did  not  find  sepulture  in  Eng- 
land. If  tne  St.  Wulfran  of  the  English  calendar 
is  the  same  person  as  the  French  archbishop,  it  is 
singular  that  he  appears  in  our  old  calendars  as 
bishop  only.  The  cfdendar  of  the  **  Black  Book '' 
of  the  receipt  of  the  Exchequer,  as  published  by 
Mr.  J.  J.  Bond  in  his  Hand-Book  of  Utiles  and 
Tables  for  verifying  Dates,  gives — 

**  Wulfran  Archiep.  Mar.  20. 
**  Wulfran  Ep.  et  Ck>nf.  Oct.  15." 

An  early  fifteenth-century  calendar  in  my  pos- 
session, once  the  property  of  the  family  of  fairfax 
of  Deeping  Gate,  does  not  contain  the  archbishop, 
but  under  October  16  we  have  "  Sci  Wlfranni  ep. 
&  conf." 

Is  it  not  possible  that  our  English  saint  may  have 
been  some  holy  Englishman  of  early  days  who 
became  a  bishop  in  heathen  lands,  and  returning 
home  to  die,  has  been  forgotten  except  in  his 
native  land  P  Edwabd  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Stedmaw  Familt  (4»»»  S.  vii.  269.)  — Mb. 
HuBBBT  Smith  inquires  as  to  the  whereabouts  of 
a  MS.  which  was  printed  in  theGentleman's Maga- 
zine of  Nov.  1840,  p.  492,  and  which  I  communi- 
cated to  that  periodical  under  the  initials  ''E.  P.  S." 
The  MS.  is  still  in  my  library,  but  it  is  evidently 
but  a  portion  of  a  much  longer  account,  and  has 
been  mutilated,  though  the  writing,  which  is  of 
the  period,  is  easy  to  be  read.  The  whole  of  the 
fragments  in  my  possession  were  printed  in  the 
Gentleman's  Magazine.  Ev.  Fh.  Shiblet. 

Lower  Eatington  Park,  Stratford-on-Avon. 

Geoboe  London  (4***  S.  vii.  236.) — Has  your 
correspondent  seen  the  following  lines  in  Felton's 
Portraits  of  JEngUsh  Authors  on  Gardening,  ^c, 
8vo,  1830,  p.  40  P— 

"No  monument  has,  I  believe,  been  erected  to  Mr. 
London*8  memory.  .  .  .  Nor  can  I  find  out  even  where  he 
was  born  or  buried.  If  one  could  obtain  a  resemblance  of 
him,  on»  hopes  his  picture  or  his  bust  may  not  deserve 
the  censure  of  our  noble  poet." 

On  p.  89  he  states  that  London  "  died  towards 
Christmas  in  the  year  1713."  W.  P. 


MiittlUintaui* 

KOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

Deaeriptive  Catalogue  of  Materials  relating  to  the  History 
of  Great  Britain  and  Irttflnd,  to  the  Knd  of  the  Rem 
of  Henry  VII.  By  Sir  Thomas  Duffus  Hardy,  D.C.L, 
Deputy-Keeper  of  the  Public  Becords.    (Longmans.) 

If  there  cannot  be  two  opinions  as  to  the  value  and 
importance  of  a  work  which  should  give  full  and  trust- 
wortbv  notices  of  the  fountains  of  our  national  history, 
as  little  can  there  be  that  the  accomplished  scholar,  who 
was  selected  on  the  death  of  the  late  Mr.  Petrie  to  com- 
plete the  Monumenta  Historica  Britannica^  is  the  one 
especially  fitted  to  undertake  the  great  and  onerous  duty 
of  compuin^  a  descriptive  catalogue  of  the  anthois  m 


336 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[ji^  S.  VII.  April  16,  *71. 


«> 


these  original  workfl  and  the  MSS.  inwhich  th«^,«"  *2 
be  found;  Could  any  doubt  have  existed,  it  woidd  ^Te 
bSen  ^ieuid  by  th^  portions  of  Six  Thomas  Hardy's 
"S^ic^O^tn^  CVoL  I.  and  Vol.  II,  Parts  I  «ad 
II.),  vhich  have  already  appeared;  no  le^L than  by  the 
third  volume  which  is  now  before  ns.  What  an  im- 
Dortont  aid  the  book  wiU  prove  to  students  of  English 
Cfltory,  is  made  patent  by  Ae  ftfit,  that  the  ^^^^ 
alone  contains  notices  of  nearfy  seven  hmidred  d^eient 
works,  some  seventeen  fawiimilee  ittustrative  of  the 
vexed  question  as  to  the  handwriting  of  Matthew  Pans, 
and  a  preface  of  nearly  one  hundiipd  pages,  «  which  Sir 
Thomas  presents  us  inter  alia  with  some  most  mtepestmg 
pictures  of  so  much  of  monastic  lift  «  relates  to  the 
Sompflation  of  chronicles  in  monasteries.  This  prefluse 
will  well  repay  pemsal  by  the  general  reader. 

Synonyms  dttertmimOed,  A  Om^^U  (kidb^i^of  Sy 
^Z^  wardM  in  the  EngUA  f^^  u^  Dt^cj^ 
tioM  of  their  various  Shades  of  Meantng,  «"^/"«^''?- 
thUif  their  Usages  and  SpeciaiUies.  i^ustra^hy 
QuotaLns  frofTStandard^ers.  ^yC.  J.  Smith. 
m!I.,  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  Vicar  of  Enth,  &c. 
(Bell  &  Daldy.)  ^  ^,  u  a 

Much  as  has  already  been  wntten  on  English  »y- 
nonyms,  there  is  yet  room,  as  Mr.  Smith  beUeves,  for  a 
new  b<»k  on  the  subject,  writtoi  m  some  respects  from 
fresh  points  of  view,  and  of  a  fuller  character  than  the 
narrow  limits  in  which  such  works  are  commonly  con- 
fined. We  commend  the  book  before  us  to  those  who  ajre 
intensted  in  precision  of  language— a  thmg  much  to  be 
aeaiTed  We  had  hoped  it  would  have  solved  our  oor- 
^dent  M.  A.  B.'s  mTeiy  (a«te\p.  325)  as  to  the  words 
«•  Wink"  and  "Blink;'  but  must  wait  for  that  second 
edition  of  it,  which  may  reasonably  be  antic^ated  for  a 
book  of  thia  character. 

UwivBBSiTT   OF   LoTOON.  -  Mr.  Julian  Goldsmid 
rM  JP.  for  Kochester),  who  is  a  Master  of  Arts  ofthe 
University  of  London,  has  just  made  his  University  a 
handsome  present  of  1000/..  to  be  paid  in  aanmil  instal- 
ments distributed  over  ten  years,  towawte  the  formation 
5  a  good  Classical  Library  in  the  New  Building.    The 
Senate  have  accepted  the  offer,  with  a  hearty  acknow- 
ledgment of  its  generosity;  and  a  Committee  has  al- 
rewly  been  appointed  to  begm  the  ««ree»We  task  of 
fwming  a  CliSical  Library.    Wo  trust  Mr.  Goldsmid  s 
generc^ty  may  be  infectious     Would  it  be  imP««{bH 
bv  the  wav,  to  secure  for  the  University  the  late  Pro- 
fessor De  Morgan's  unique  Mathematical  Librarv,  which 
orobaWy  conteins  the  most  curious  coUecUon  ofbooks  on 
the  History  of  Mathematics  to  be  found  m  England  ? 
The  value  of  this  collection  is  besides  greatly  enhanced 
bv  Mr.  De  Morgan's  own  numerous  and  charactenstic 
annotations. '  Whether  the  Library  is  to  be  disposed  of 
or  not,  we  do  not  at  present  know;  but  if  it  could  be 
•obtained,  there  would  be  a  special  fitness  in  securing  it 
for  the  University  of  London,  which  would  then  have  a 
really  good  start  towards  the  formation  of  a  fine  Classical 
and  Saentific  Library.— -^pecto tor. 

Thk  Peel  collection  of  pictures,  lately  purchased  for 
the  National  Gallery,  has  beftn  removed  to  the  budding 
in  Trafalgar  Square,  and  will  shortly  be  exhibited  there. 
Among  them  will  be  found  Wilkie'*  well-known  "  John 
•  Knox  preaching  before  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  which, 
says  the  Athenaum,  wiU  be  one  of  the  most  popular  of 
our  new  possessions. 

Cambrido*.— The  represenUtives  of  the  late  Arabic 
Professor,  the  Bev.  H.  G.  Williams,  have  joj*  pwMp^d 
the  Univeieity  with  102  vols,  of  Oriental  MSS.,  ehiefly 
Arabic  and  Persian. 


A  Phii/>i:x>oiOAi.  Socibtt  has  been  formed  in  Cam- 
bridge, consisting  ofthe  following  members:— Professors 
CoweU.  Kennedy,  and  Munro;  Mr.  W.  G.  Clark  and 
Mr.  Jebb,  of  IVinity;  Mr.  F.  A.  Paley,  Mr.  J.  E.  B- 
Mayor,  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Sandvs,  of  St.  John's;  Mr.  W.  W. 
Skeat  and  Mr.  John  Peile  of  Christ's ;  and  Mr.  Fenndl, 
of  Jesus  College.  The  society  limits  itself  to  the  lan- 
guages and  literatures  of  the 'Indo-European  family,  as 
there  has  been  for  some  time  back  a  "  Hebrew  Society,'* 
which  would  not  readily  amalgamate  with  the  society  in 
question. 

The  University  of  Cracow  is  publishing  its  original 
documents  (Codex  Diplomatiems)  from  the  year  of  its 
foundation,  1364,  to  the  present  day,  in  five  vdoiiMS. 
The  first  reaches  to  1440.  The  struggle  between  the 
German  and  Polish  elements  in  this  University  is  note- 
worthy, as  also  the  part  played  by  the  Jews.  Our  own 
Universities  might  follow  the  example  of  Cracow  with 
advantage,  and  a  good  beginning  was  made  by  Anstoy'a 
Mummenta  Academica, 

Mb.  T.  G.  Stetbhboh,  of  Edinburgh,  is  reprinting  in 
a  veiy  limited  impression  chiefly  for  subscribers, «  Satan^a 
Invisible  World  discovered,  by  George  Sinclar,"  Professor 
of  Philosophy  and  Mathematics  in  the  University  of 
Glasgow,  from  the  original  edition  published  at  Edinburgh 
in  1686,  with  a  Bibliographical  Notice,  &c 

Those  who  are  interested  in  Ceramic  Art,  may  be  glad 
to  have  their  attention  called  to  a  work  by  J.  Houdoy, 
entitied,  "  Histoim  de  la  CAramique-Lilloise  pr^o^d^  de 
documents  in^its  oonstatant  la  fabrication  de  oarreanx 
points  et  dmaill^  en  Flandre  et  en  Artois  au  quatorzitoe 
siMe." 

BOOKS   AND   ODD   VOLUMES 

'WAiriBD  TO  PTJBCHABB. 

Parlleiilan  of  Price,  ac,  of  the  mxfwing  boota  ^  bewrt^dtogrtte 
thegttitlainfu  hy  whom  they  are  requued,  whow  name  ud  tOOnm 
are  givea  liMr  that  puzpoie:  — 
GRASGIII'B  BIOQBAPHIOAL  HISTORT^^^ 
TUHIUCLIFF'B  SuaVBT  OF  STAFlWDraXllB. 

AiKSWORTH'B  MAOAZOtf,  Voli.  V.  VH.. VIIl.  and  IX. 
BBKTLIT'B  MAOAZura.    vol«.  V.  and  XII.  «     .  «. 

Wanted  by  the  JCev.  D.  J.  Draluford,  i.  Copen  Cope  Road,  New 

BeeiBndiain«  Kent. 


fMai  to  Cottf iliioiitiratt. 

E.  T.  G.  (Oxfbrd.)— 7%e  slips  are  probtAly  fromThe 
Guardian.  Noting  on  tite  stdiject  has  appeared  tn 
"N.  &  Q."  eince  2»*  S.  viiL  470,  616. 

Thb  Red  Cross  Knight.— Brittain's  Ida  w  imposed 
hu  Mr,  Grosart  to  have  been  written  by  Phineas  tjetcher. 
See  his  essay  Who  wrote  Brittain's  Ida  ?  noticed  by  us 
in  "  N.  &  Q.*^  4«»  S.  iii.  117. 

A.  X.  E,'-'Dyce's  or  the  Cambridge, 

C  B  T  — JJiM  our  Correspondent  consulted  Mr.  Ash- 
jHteTs  'article  on  "  Wren"  in  the  last  editionof  theEn- 
cylopedia  BriUnnica? 

J.  E.  (Duibam.)— Te  /or  the.  I%e  Y  is  a  printer  s 
substituUfor  the  Saxwi  or  old  English  th.  On  themeamng 
and  derivation  o/ Ampers  and  (§•)  there ^are  no /ew  «Aa« 
nS^  articles  in  our  1-*  S.  iL  280,  284.  Q18 ;  vii.  178,  228. 
264,  827, 876,  624 ;  ix.  48. 

T.  McGbath.— Apollo's  Cabinet ;  or,  the  Muses'  D<^ 
lieht,  1756, «  twff  «  The  Muses'  Djdight,  1764.  ors  boOi 
Jiicid  m  BoAb's  Lowndes^  art  «  5on^,"  ^  2440.    The 

latter  work  at  Beer's  kale  sold  for  4«. 

Erratum^-4*  S.  vi  p.  169,  ool.  L  line  84,  /or  •*  John 
F.  M.  Doraston  "  read  «  John  F..M.  Dovaston." 


4*  8.  VII.  April  15,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


ACCimilTS  CAOtB   IiOM   #V  IiIM. 

▲oeldmta  oaaas  XiOM  of  Tlmt. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF  MONEY. 
Frmride  agamai  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BY  IICBUBIXO  WITH  THB 

Bailway  PaMengen'  ABsnrance  Company, 

An  Anaual  Faannent  of  iBS  to  SB  5/  InnirH  C1,000  at  Death, 
or  an  aUowanoe  at  th*  rata  of  JB«  per  week  for  Injury* 

AS6SffOOO  haye  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

OHE  oat  of  everr  TWELVE  Annual  Policy  Holden  beeomlnf  a 
elatmant  EACH  TEAR.  For  partlealan  apply  to  the  Clerka  at  the 
Bailway  Stottont,  to  the  Local  Agcnte,  or  at  the  Offloee. 

•4,OOBIIBILL«  and  10.  BBOEKT  STREET.  LONDON. 

WUJAAM  J.  YIAK.  S$erHmnf' 


w 


^OTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE.— AaUA  AMARELLA 

ftetoxw  the  Human  Hair  to  Ite  iniatine  hoe,  no  matter  at  what 
ase.  MSS8B8.  JOHN  006NSLL  *  CO.  hare  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  moit  eminent  Chemiate,  lucoeeded  in  perftcting  thli  wonderful 
liquid.  It  It  now  ofllMd  to  the  Publlo  in  a  more  ooncentxatedformt 
and  at  a  lower  prioe. 
Sold  in  Bottlee.  U.  each,  aleo  te..7«.  6d..  or  ISe.  each,  with  hmeh. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  If  greatly  nipeiior  to  any  Tooth  Fowder.gtrea  the  teeth 
a  poarUlike  whitencM,  protaete  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  imparta  a 
pin  ring  fragrance  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  O08NELL  *  GO.'B  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
NURSERY  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  FerfumAe  and  Chemiete  throughout  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  Faaiage.  9S,  Upper  Thamee  Street.  London. 


w 


BUPTUIIE8.-3T  ROYAL  LETTBBS  PATENT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 


allowed  by  npwardi  of  aoo  Medical  men  to  be  the  moct 
tlTe  Inrentlon  In  the  enratlTe  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  uie  of  a 
iteel  iprlng.  to  often  hurtftil  in  Ita  efteti,ii  here  aToided;  a  eoft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  body,  while  the  requidte  reeieting  power  ia  lup- 
plied  by  the  MOC-MAIN  FAD  and  PATENT  LEYERiltttaigwlth  to 
much  eaee  and  doeeneae  that  it  eannot  be  detected,  and  may  oe  worn 
during  aleap.  A  deaeriptlve  drctalar  may  be  had.  and  the  Truaa  (which 
cannm  fldl  to  flt)  forwarded  by  poet  on  the  dreumfrreoca  of  the  body, 
two  inoiioa  below  the  hipa,  being  aant  to  the  Manafoatvrer. 

IfB.  JOHN  WHITE.  HB.  PICCADILLY.  LONDON. 

Priea  of  a  Stngli  Tmaa.  16a..  Sla.,  Ma.  6d.,  and  Sla.  6d.   Poafaga  la. 
DoabMTrnaa. Sla. 6<f .. 41i.. and asa. ed.   Foalage laTadT 
An Umbttlad Truaa. 41a. and flaf.6d.   Pbat^eU.10d. 

PoflOafleoidara  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE.  PoetOfke.PiooadiUy. 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &e.,  for 
TABIOOSE  TEXNS,  and  all  oaaea  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWBL- 
(G  ofthe  LEGS,  SPRAINS, *e.  They  arenmrna. light  in  texture, 
and  inoocpenaive.  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  orduiairy  atoeking.  Pilcea 
«a.  •€<.,  7a.  6if.,  Ida.,  and  Ma.  eadu   Poatage  ed. 

JOHN  WHITE,  MANUTACTUEBB.  OB.  PICCADILLT.  London. 

'  "  ■■■■■■  111  Willi  »,  ,   , 

GENTLEMEN   desirons  of  baving  their  Linens 
dreaaed  to  perfection  ahould  anpply  their  Laundreaaea  with  the 

•«0&BVrZB&B    STAmCB/' 

which  imparta  a  brilliancy  and  elaatidty  gratifying  alike  to  the  aenae 
of  eight  and  touch. 

4  PACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  W45H.--By  damping 


B08S,>tt.  High  Holbom,  London. 


SPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Albx. 
ROSS'S  CANTHARIDES  OIL.  It  ia  a  aure  Reatorer  of  Hair,  and 
rodnoerofWhlskera.  Ita  effect  iaipcedy.  It  ia  patroniMd  by  Royalty. 
The  price  of  it  ia  3«.  8d.,  aent  for  M  atampa. 

HOLLO  WAY'S  P  I  L  L  S.  —  Prostration  of 
STRENGTH — When  from  known  <»>  nndiaoovered  cauaea  the 
eyatcm  la  weak,  and  the  mnrea  umrtrung,  diaease  ia  certain  to  preaent 
Haeu;  unleaa  meana  be  reaorted  to,  to  arreat  the  threatened  miadiief. 
In  anch  cawa  no  treatment  can  equal  theae  excellent  pilla.  No  other 
plan  can  be  puraued,  ao  well  dcviaed  for  dccting  all  Imporltlea  ttam 
the  blood,  without  atialning  or  weakening  the  conatitutlon.  Hol- 
loway*a  pilla  ao  fortifV  the  atomach  and  regulate  the  liver  that  they 
raiae  the  capabiUty  of  digeation.  They  create  new  power,  raiae  up  a 
barrier  agamat  the  detertoratinir  influence  of  noxioua  vapoura,  and 
throw  a  great  proteetionagainatiilncaaafiaingflrom  expoanreto  if9iim 
cold. 


RATIONAL   PROVIDENT    INSTITUTION, 

Xl  Oraoeehurch  Street,  London. 

Batablidied  December,  18». 
Matnal  Aaauranoe  without  indiridual  liibillty. 

Direeton. 

Chaimum-JCBAXLEB  GILPIN,  ESQ..  M.P. 

Htfimty-CtotraMm    CHABTiES  WHBTHAH,  ESQ. 


Henry  White  Caatle.  Eaq. 
Thomaa  Chambens  Eag.  Q.C.  MJ. 
Joaeph  Fell  ChriatfTEaqT 
Henry  Conatable.  Eaq. 
William  Jamea  Uaalam.  Eaq. 


Charlea  W.  C.  Hutton,  EaQ* 
Sir  BenJ.  8.  FhlUipa,  Knt.  Aid. 
Charlea  Reed,  Eaq.  F.S.A.  M.P. 
John  Soott,  Esq. 
Jonathan  Thorp,  Eaq. 


Mtdioal  0#oera~Thomaa  B.  Peacock,  Eaq.  M  J>.,  and  John  Gay,  Eaq. 

F.R.CB. 


5olte<lop— Septimua  Davidaon.  Eaq. 
Comultimg  ^c<«ary--Charlea  Anaell,  Eaq.,  F  JI.S. 


Groaa  Annual  Income..... MttgBTO  5a. 

Accumulated  Capital ajffiJV  la. 

Total  Claima  paid n,77*.46e  la. 

Froflta  diatributed «1.746,S78  Sa. 


ad. 
fid. 

Od! 


The  whole  of  the  Froflta  are  dirided  araongat  the  aaanred.  The  next 
Diviaion  of  Froflta  will  be  made  on  the  Mth  of  Norember,  UTS. 

In  conformitT  with  the  **  MARRIED  WOMEN'S  PROPERTY 
ACT.  1870."  Polidea  may  now  be  aflbcted  for  the  aeparate  benefit  of 
wifo  and  children.  Theae  Polidea  are  not  aubiect  to  the  control  of  the 
hnaband  or  of  credlton,  and  are  tnt  from  FrdMte  Duty. 

Forma  of  Fropoaal  maar  be  had  on  application  at  the  Sodety*a  Ofllcea. 
48.  Giaoechurch  Street.  London,  or  of  the  Agenta  of  the  Inatitutlon. 

SAMUEL  SMILES,  Secretary. 

WATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  cnaianteed 
the  flneat  imported,  free  fkom  addity  or  heat,  and  much  aupe- 
rior  to  low-priced  Sherry  Un'di  "Dr.  Dniitt  on  Cheap  Wine*).  One 
Guinea  per  doaen.  Selected  dry  Tairagona,  IHa.  per  dosen.  Terma 
eaah.  Thiee  doaen  rail  paid.  — W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merchant. 
S73,  Oxford  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  T^p^ftn.  W.  ~ 
bliahed  IMl.    Full  Price  Liata  poat  fkae  on  application. 


36s. 


S6s. 


At  aSa.  per  doaen,  flt  flv  ajQentleman'a  Table.  Bottlaa  lndiided,and 
Carriage  paid.  Oaaea  la.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 

CHARLES  WABD  ft  SON, 

(Poet  OlBee  Ordera  on  PtaadUly ).  1,  Ghapal  Street  Weet, 
MAYFAIB,  W..  LONDON. 


S«s. 


9«fl. 


HEDGES  &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PURE  ST.  JULIEN  CLABET 
At  18a..  iaa..S«a.,Slla..and3Ba.  per  doaen. 
CholeeClaretaofvarlonagrowtha,41a.,48a.,eoa.,71a.,84a.,  B6e. 

GOOD  DINNEB  8HEBBY. 
At  Sla.  and  aoa.  par  doaen. 

8npetl«rGoId«n8h«iTy... ^ .a6a.and4fla. 

Choloe Sherry _FaIe. Golden,  or  Brown. ..  .48a.,Ma.,and 80a. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE. 
At  Ma.,  Sto.,  38a..  4ta.,  4Ba..  6fle.,  and  84a. 

Portfiromflrat-daaaShippets aoa.a8a.4la. 

YaryCholoeOld  Fort 48a.8ea.7la.84a. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  asa.,  4Ba .,  4Ba.,  and  80a. 
Hoefahelmer.  Maroobrenner,  Rudedidmer,  Steinberg,  Liebftanmllch 
80a.  I  Johanniaberger  and  Stdnberger,  7f«.,  84a..  to  iaOa.t  Braunbexger, 
Gmnhauaen,  and  Scharaberg,  48a.  to  84a^  aparUhif  Moael]e,4Ba.,60«., 
86a.,  78a.  I  TOT  choice  Champagne,  86a.,  78a. i  flue  old  Sack,  Malmaey, 
Fnmtlcnao,  Vermuth, Conatantia|Lachryma  Chxlati. Imperial  Tokay, 
and  other  rare  wlnea.  Fine  old  Pale  Cognac  Brandy.  80a.  and  71a.  per 
doaen.   Foreign  Liqneura  of  eve^deaeription. 

On  receiptor  a  Poat  Ofltea  order, or  reftrence.any  quantity  will  be 
ibrwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON!  U6,  BEGENT  STBEET«  W. 

Brighton:  80,  Kfaig'a  Boad. 

(Originally  EatabUahed  iuD.  1687.) 


40B* 


o  c: 

And  all  the  noted  Brand*  at  the  loweat  caah  pricea. 


Bordeaux,  l&a.,I8a..  Ma.,  aoa.,  a6a.,  to  68a.  per  doe.  i  ChabUa,  94a.|  Mar^ 
aala,  S4a.  per  doi.i  Sherry,  i4«.,  aoa.,  a6a.,  4Sa.,  48a.,  to  98a.  per  doa.  i  Old 
Port,  14a.,  a0a..a6a.,  4aa.,  to  144a.  ner  dox.i  Tarragona,  Ma.  per  dos.,  the 
ilneat  imported  i  Hock  and  Moaelle,  Ma.,aQt.,  86*.,  48f._per  dos.;  Spark- 
ling HooL  and  MeeeUe,  48a.  and  80*.  per  doa.  t  flne  old  nile  Brandy,  48a., 
60a.  and  7U.  ner  dos.  At  D0TESI&8  DepOt.  19,  SwaUow  Street.  Re- 
sent Street  Caacoaaaor  to  Bwart  and  Ca.  Wine  Merdianta  to  Her 


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LONDON  INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION  of 
1871  .-An  INTERNATIONAL  CONCERT  wiU  be  glveD  In  the 
.ral  Albert  HaU  nX  the  Opening  of  the  Intenietlooal  Exhibition  ou 
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OPENING  CEREMONIAL.— LONDON  INTER- 
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for  the  latemational  Coneert,  on  the  lit  Mar  next,  in  the  Royal  Albert 
Hall. 


T  ONDON  INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION  of 

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Concert  after  the  Opening  of  the  Fine  Arts  and  Industrial  Exhibi- 
tion. The  choice  of  podtlan  will  be  given  according  to  priority  of 
^plication.  ^ 

By  Order« 

HENRT  Y.  D.  SCOTT.  lient-COl.  R.E., 

Secretary. 

SEASON  TICKETS,  admitting  to  the  International 
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lert  Hall,  to  the  Flower  Shows  and  Gardens  of  the  Royal  Hortieul- 
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By  Order, 

HENRT  T.  D.  SCOTT,  lieuL-CoI.  R.E.. 
,  Secretary. 

AT  THE  LONDON  INTERNATIONAL   EXHI- 
BITION of  1971 ,  will  be  shown  in  Ftomanent  Buildings*  Selected 
Specimens  as  Allows  u. 

1.  Pictures  I  Oil  and  Water  Ookms. 

2.  Sculpture. 

9.  DeooratiTe  Furniture,  Plate,  Deslgna,  Mosaics,  ftc 

4,  Stained  OVmm. 

ft.  Aschitectore  and  Models. 

5.  EMcrarina. 

7.  lithography. 

8.  Photography  as  a  Fine  Art. 

9.  Poreelaln. 

M.  Earthenware  of  all  kinds. 
11.  Terra-Cotta  and  Stoneware. 

15.  Machinery  used  i;ir  Pottery  of  all  Kinda. 
13.  Woollen  Manuihcturcs. 

M.  Carpets. 

16.  Worsted  Mannlhetures. 

N.  Madiinery  in  Motion  used  in  Woollen  and  Wonted  Manufhe- 

tlllW- 

17.  Live  Alpacas,  remarkable  Ibr  their  hair  and  wooli  and  other 

aaimau. 

18.  SdentUe  Inventions  and  DIseoTarics. 

19.  Hortleultore. 

10.  Mnsleal  Art  will  be  represented  dally  in  the  Royal  Albert  TIi  11. 

B.  The  Exhibition  will  be  opened  by  a  State  Crresaony  on  1st  May, 
aad  be  eoDtinned  dally  until  Miih  September. 

C.  Beaaen  TIdiels  adndttfng  to  tha  Opening  Ceremony,  with  a  nom- 
ha«d  Kserved  seat  in  the  Raynl  AlbertUaU,  the  Royal  HortkaUural 
Qiidwii,and  to  all  the  Plover  Shows,  Tluct  Oninew 

By  order, 

HENRT  T.  D.  800TT.T.ic«<.-qpl..  RJE.. 
8«eretarytoB.M. 

Im  S.  No.  178. 


J  ONDON  INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION. 
J  t«71  .—Selected  nerimens  of  Paintings,  Sculpture,  Plate,  and  »U 
lids  of  Deooratlve  Art,  Pottery,  Woollens,  Wor^cds,  New  Inven- 
tioas,  with  machinery  in  motion,  will  be  contrUmted  by  the  IbUowIng 
Couitries:.. 


I.  Austria, 
t.  Baden. 

5.  Bavarin. 
4.  Belgium. 
A.  China. 

6.  Denmark. 

7.  Egypt. 
».  France. 
9.  Greece, 

10.  Uosn. 

11.  India. 
IS.  Italy. 
M.  Japan. 

14.  NethnrUmds. 
ift.  Norway. 
10.  Penin. 


17.  Pern, 
n.  Pwtngal. 
19.  Pmatia. 

90.  Rome. 

91.  Russia. 

99.  Saxe- Weimar,  «•  •/ 

93.  Saxony.  \i^>L  i 

94.  Spain. 

95.  Sweden.   ,  ^ 

96.  Switaerlan£ 

97.  Taogiers.    - 

98.  Tunis.        "-, 

99.  Turkey,    v '  > 

80.  United  Stat^i-.' 

81.  Wurtemberg;  >,^ 


/ 


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pnyaUe  at  the  Poet  Office,  Charing  Cross,  London,  W.C. 
By  order, 

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Secretary  to  H.  M.  Commissioners. 

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III.  THIRD  FRBMCH  RFPUBLIC,  AND  SECOND  GERMAN 
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LONDON^  SATUEDAF,  APRIL  M.  1871. 


CONTENTS.— N«  178. 


N0TB8 :  —  Isles  of  the  Sirens,  837  —  The  Date  of  Ohaueer's 
Birth.  338  — An  Old  Dutch  Newspaper.  389  —  Verses  by 
QenerAl  Bincoyne  on  Lord  Palmenton's  Manrtee.  340  — 
"The  BoUiad"  — Kippis's  Copy  of  the  "Biofn^bia  firi- 
taDnioa"~8ibba-DaT  Houses,  or  Noon  Houses  — "The 
Dream  of  Holy  Mary  *'  —  Prench  Wood-pigeons  driven  by 
the  War  to  EoslAod  — '*  Gontlenien  of  the  Pavement." 
340. 

QUBKISS :  —  Austin  Family  —  Authors  wanted  —  '*  ^sop's 
Yablea  ** :  Bewick  —  "  Arbuthnot " :  **  Ruthven  " :  how 
pronounced— Joannes  Baptista's  "Oonmeiitaij  on  Aris- 
totle"—Beauchamp--  Bev.  Thomas  Brooks  —  Charles  I. 

—  Ohevisaunee  —  Cornell  Family  —  Craufurds  of  Newark, 
BavDoeto— Bpitheto  of  the  Montiis  —  Grantham  Ion  Sivns 

—  tfaids  of  Honour— **Hes8ag«r  das  Bciences  et  dee 
Arts  "  —Old  Families  without  Coat  Armour— Portufuese 
Copper  Coin— Earhr  Queens  of  Scotland  —  Rokeslqr  the 
i^ies— Stow-in-the-Wold.  oa  Glouoester  —  Tetragonal  In- 
scription —  Vulgate.  A.D.  1516  —  Walthamstnw  Parish 
Imnd- **  Witty  as  Flaminius  Flaccus  "  —  The  Zodiac,  842. 

BEPLIBS:— The  Completion  of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral. 344 

—  Orders  of  Knighthood,  845 -The  Bookworm.  846  — 
Origin  of  the  Surname  Cunningham,  347  —  Rosemary 
used  at  Funerals,  348  —  English  Descent  of  Daniel  OCoii- 
nell.  340  —  Character  of  Constantino :  Trachala — Handel's 
**  Messiah  "  —  Two  Passa^res  in  **  Timon  of  Athens  "  —  The 
Origin  of  Ardibishop  Stafford  —  Bemarkable  Clock  —  Ety- 

^  mology  of  •*  Ward  *'  as  a  Personal  Name  —  "  As  Cyril  and 
Nathan"  —  Eo&tatios:  the  *'Etftatica"  of  Caldaro  — 
Bear's  Ears  — Skedaddle -Bishop  Fuller- Lord  Hyron's 
"  Bnclish  Bards."  Ac.  —A  Scripsit.  or  Christmas  Piece  — 
Heraldic  or  Heraldric.  Ac.  8|0. 

Notes  on  Books,  Ac. 


ISLES  OF  THE  SIRENS. 

I  could  Bcaicelj  be  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Naples  without  paying  a  visit  to  the  celebrated 
islands  of  the  Sirens  (''  Insulae  Sirenusfe  "),  which 
later  geographers  have  placed  on  the  north  side 
of  the  BftY  of  SalemOi  about  ten  miles  from 
Amalfi.  It  b  Homer  (Od.  xii.  39,  &c.)  that  first 
sings  of  these  mythical  beings ;  and,  according  to 
the  poet,  Ulysses  in  his  wanderings  through  the 
Mediteiranean^when  he  approadied  the  island^  on 
the  lovely  beach  of  which  the  Sirens  were  sitting, 
by  the  advice  of  Circe,  stuffed  the  eaxs  of  his 
companions  with  wax,  and  tied  himself  to  the 
mast  of  the  vessel,  that  they  might  not  be  allured 
to  land  by  their  melodious  singing.  If  the  islands 
still  continue  in  the  same  state  that  they  were  in 
ancient  times,  it  is  difficult  to  understand  how 
they  should  have  been  selected  as  the  residence  of 
these  £ur  ladies.  They  are  three  rocky  islets, 
now  called  I  Galli,  beiog  a  little  more  tban  a 
mile  £rom  the  shore,  without  herbage,  treeless, 
and  even  destitute  of  water. 

I  approached  them  from  Sorento,  the  birth- 
place 01  Tasso,  crossing  the  ridge  that  runs  down 
to  the  point  opposite  to  the  island  Capri,  and 
descendmg  by  a  night  of  steps  to  Scaritojo.  This 
ridge  is  blown  to  Ovid  (Met,  xv.  710)  as  <'  Sur- 
rentini  Colles,"  and  produced  what  was  considered 
by  the  ancients  as  excellent  wine.     The  islets 


lie  tc^etfaer  in  a  kind  of  circle,  and  along  with 
two  sharp-pointed  rocks,  are  of  the  same  minera* 
logical  structure  as  the  neighbouring  continent. 
The  largest  islet,  ealled  Isola  Limga,  about  half  a 
mile  in  drcumference,  is  situated  to  the  east  of 
the  smaller  ones.  There  is  no  regular  Idii  ding- 
place,  BO  that  you  have  to  climb  up  a  precipitous 
rode  of  nearly  one  hundred  feet.  You  then  find 
Tonrself  on  a  rugged  ridge,  and  bn  proceeding  a 
little  to  the  south  you  come  upon  a  level  piece  of 
BTound,  where  the  remains  of  buildings  are  seen. 
This  plot  of  ground  is  about  twenty  yards  in 
breadth  and  sixty  in  length.  There  is  a  vault 
remaining,  which  seems  to  have  been  added  to 
some  older  edifice,  and  the  bricks  are  of  the  same 
kind  as  are  found  in  Roman  buildings ;  so  that 
I  have  little  doubt  that  this  was  the  site  of 
some  ancient  villa,  though  in  summer  it  must, 
have  been  nearly  uninhabitable  from  the  heat 
The  extreme  southern  point  is  entirely  rock,  and 
nev&t  had  any  building  upon  it  On  the  highest 
point  there  is  an  old  tower,  to  which  there  is  now  no 
entrance,  but  by  dint  of  scrambling  I  manatred  to 
get  in  at  one  of  the  windows.  Two  half-niined 
rooms  are  all  that  now  remain.  On  the  western 
part  of  the  island  you  find  a  small  part  of  a  build- 
ing, and  around  it  a  few  bumt-up  plants  and 
fiowers,  but  trees  do  not  seem  ever  to  have  existed 
on  it.  I  then  rowed  to  the  higher  of  the  other 
two,  called  II  Castelletto,  which  lies  about  a  qun*  - 
ter  of  a  mile  distant,  and  ascended  to  a  tower  Ly 
a  regular  road :  it  looks  like  a  carriage-road,  which 
had  never  been  finished,  as  you  mount  the  last 
forty  feet  by  steps.  This  is  evidently  a  mediieval 
building,  and  we  know  from  history  tliat  it  was 
used  as  a  state  prison  by  the  republic  of  Amalfi, 
where  they  confined  their  doges  when  they  had 
become  intolerable  by  their  tyranny.  Rowing  to 
the  most  southerly  island,  Isola  Rotonda,  I 
scrambled  to  the  highest  point :  it  is  much  more 
level  and  better  adapted  for  building  than  either 
of  the  other  two,  yet  there  is  not  the  slightest 
vestige  of  an  edifice  of  any  description.  Such  is 
the  present  appearance  of  the  celebrated  Islands 
of  the  Sirens ;  one  of  them  bold  and  picturesque, 
the  other  two  of  a  tame  and  uninteresting  cna- 
racter. 

VirgU  (^H,  V.  864)  speaks  of  them  in  the  fol- 
lowing terms : — 

**  Jamqne  adeo  scopalos  Sirenum  advecta  subibat. 
Difficiles  quimdam,  multommqae  ossibos  albos. 
Turn  rauoa  assiduo  longe  sale  saxa  sonabant" 

During  summer  they  must  always  be  subject 
to  intense  heat,  as  thev  are  sheltered  by  the  lofty 
ridge  of  St  Angelo  from  every  wind  except  the 
south  and  west 

These,  however,  are  not  the  only  islands  thnt 
have  had  the  honour  of  being  connected  with  the 
name  of  the  Sirens.  I  once  found  myself  on  tlve 
opposite  peainanla  to  the  south  of  the  Bay  of 


338 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kS.yil.  Apbil22,'71. 


Salerno,  and  had  climbed  to  the  highest  peak  of 
Mount  Stella  in  search  of  the  ruins  of  Petilia. 
As  I  reached  the  pinnacle,  the  sun  was  approach- 
ing the  sea  horizon,  and  shed  a  golden  liflfnt  over 
the  precipitous  shore  beneath,  and  there  I  looked 
down  on  an  islet,  now  Licosa,  the  ancient  Leu- 
coaia.  It  shone  Hke  gold  from  the  refracted  rays 
of  the  sun,  and  I  could  believe  would  be  a  plea- 
sant residence,  as  it  stands  out  into  the  sea  about 
a  quarter  of  a  milefirom  the  mainland,  and  catches 
the^breese  from  whatever  direction  it  blows. 
Strabo  (vi.  262)  says  that  it  derived  its  name  from 
one  of  the  Sirens  who  had  perished  here.  I 
heard  afterwards  that  both  on  the  island  and  on 
the  land  around  the  promontorv  there  are  re- 
mains of  ancient  buildings,  and  I  can  readily 
believe  it  to  have  been  a  favourite  residence  for 
the  wealthy  Romans.  On  every  nleasant  spot  as 
I  travelled  to  the  south  I  founa  traces  of  the 
Romans,  who  had  in  imperial  times  the  same  love 
of  the  '^dolce  far  niente*'  that  the  Neapolitans 
have  inherited  from  them. 

Again :  on  the  coast  of  Calabria,  two  hundred 
miles  south  of  this  spoty  I  came  upon  another 
islet,  known  to  the  ancients  as  Ligeia,  which  was 
also  regarded  as  an  island  of  the  Sirens.  It  is 
found  aoout  a  mile  from  the  shore  in  the  Gulf  of 
Terina,  and  is  now  called  Pietra  de  la  Nave.  It 
is  a  mere  rock,  and  I  was  told  by  an  intelligent 
gentleman,  Don  Michele  Procida,  who  had  a  laige 
property  in  Calabria,  and  spent  the  summer  very 
pleasantly  on  the  shore  close  to  the  ruins  of  Terina, 
that  there  are  no  remains  of  buildings  upon  the 
rocL  CsAiTTXTBJ)  Tait  Rahaob. 


THE  DATE  OF  CHAUCER'S  BIRTH. 

The  Saturday  Review  of  April  16  contains  an 
article  which,  relating  as  it  does  to  one  of  the 
iirst  and  one  of  the  greatest  of  our  English  poets, 
must  attract  a  good  deal  of  attention.  I  have 
read  it  with  great  interest^  for  it  discusses  the 
date  of  Chaucer's  Inrth. 

Some  thirtjr.five  or  forty  years  since,  when  a 
few  encouraging  words  from  that  distinguished 
antiquary,^  my  ever  kind  friend  Mr.  Douce, 
Mwmkened  in  me  the  ambition  (long  mnce  extin- 
guished) of  connecting  my  name  with  the  Com- 
turhfry  jTolM-r-those  marvellous  pictures  of  social 
life  in  England  in  the  fourteenth  century — I  took 
considerable  pains  to  examine  the  question  whether 
Chaucer  was  bom  in  1328,  as  generally  believed 
"  horn  some  inscription  on  his  tombstone,"  to  use 
tha  words  of  Tyrwhitt,  or  about  1846,  as  recorded 
in  the  report  of  his  evidence  in  the  great  Scrope 
and  Grosvenor  controversy. 

As  the  conclusion  at  which  I  arrived  was  in 
favour  of  the  earlier  date,  and  consequently  the 
reverse  of  that  of  the  Saharday  Reviewer,  l  trust 


the  columns  of  ^  N.  &  Q."  may  not  be  considered 
wastefullv  occupied  by  a  note  on  the  subject  for 
the  consideration  of  any  future  biographer  of 
Chaucer. 

In  matters  of  this  nature  tradition  is  of  no 
slight  authority ;  and  for  four  hundred  years  tra- 
dition has  coincided  with  the  statement  that 
Chaucer  died  in  1400  at  the  age  of  seventy*two. 
It  was  not  until  1808,  when  Gk)dwin  published 
his  life  of  the  poet,  and  in  it  Chaucer's. cieposition 
made  at  Weetminster  in  October  1386  in  the 
Scrope  and  Grosvenor  controversy,  in  which  docu- 
ment it  is  said  that  he ''  was  of  the  age  of  forty  and 
upwaids,*'  and  ''  had  been  armed  twenty-seven 
years,"  that  any  doubt  arose  upon  the  subject 

If  this  new  evidence  could  be  trusted,  it  would 
make  Chaucer's  age  at  his  death  about  fiftj-two 
instead  of  seventh,  and. his  entry  into  military 
service  at  about  thirteen. 

As  it  is  admitted  that  there  certidnlj  are  errors 
as  to  the  ages  of  other  witnesses  in  this  matter,  I 
venture  to  thiiUc  that  there  is  a  very  palpable 
error  in  the  case  of  Chaucer. 

That  a  man  who  died  at  or  about  fifty-two  years 

of  age  should  in  one  of  his  poems,  ''  The  Cnckow 

and  the  Nightingale,"  descrioe  himself  as  ''olde  and 

unlusty,"  18  not  what  qpe  would  expect.    While 

Spenser,  whose  intense  admiration  of  Chaucer'a 

genius  must  undoubtedly  have  led  him  to  inquire 

mto  the  circumstances  of  his  life,  &c,  would 

scarcely  write  of  him,  had  he  died  at  the  earlier 

age,  as 

**  (Hd  Dan  GeflOrey  (in  whose  gentle  sprinf? 
The  pare  well-head  of  poetry  did  dwell)." 

And  these  are  instances,  be  it  remembered,  which 
might  be  greatly  multiplied. 

Moreover,  is  not  this  theory  of  the  death  of 
Chaucer  at  this  early  ape  contraaicted  by  Occleve's 
well-known  and  strikmg  portrait;  as  well  as  by 
Green's  description  of  him,  probably  derived  from 
tradition,  in  which  he  speaks  of  Chaucer's ''  silver 
haires  both  bright  and  sheen,"  and  adds,  ''his 
beard  was  white  "  P 

Again:  from  his  earliest  biogra^er,  Leland,  to 
one  of  the  latest  of  his  editors,  Mr.  Wright,  all  have 
concurred  in  speaking  of  Chaucer  as  a  scholar: 
^  He  was  certainly,''  savs  Mr.  Wright,  "  a  man  of 
extensive  learning,  and  had  the  education  of  a 
gentleman." 

But  if  he  ''was  armed"  at  thirteen,  or  there- 
about, how  and  where  was  he  to  acquire  thia 
learning?  What  becomes  of  his  residence  at 
Oxford  or  Cambridge,  or  at  any  Inn  of  Court? 

These  are  difficulties  which  may  well  cause  some 
hesitation  in  receiving  implicitly  the  statements 
which  Chaucer  is  supposed  to  have  made.  As,  on 
the  other  hand,  this  record  is  inconsistent  with 
all  that  has  hitherto  been  received  and  believed 
with  respect  to  the  poet's  age,  is  it  poerible  to 
leooneile  the  two  statements?    Peihaps  an  ex- 


4*  8.  vu.  afbil  22, 71.]  NOTES  AND  QUERlls. 


S39 


aminatfon  of  the  passa^,  not  in  a  translation,  but 
as  it  stands  in  the  oriffinal,  may  help  us. 

The  passage  which  has  raised  all  this  coil  about 
the  date  of  Chaucer's  birth  runs  as  follows.  My 
transcript  is^  no  doubt,  sufficiently  accurate ; 
though,  it  having  been  made  so  many  years  since, 
I  cannot  speak  very  positively.  In  the  essential 
points  I  know  it  is. 

It  will  be  seen,  in  the  first  place,  that  Chaucer 
does  not  himselr  say  that  he  is  ^^  forty  and  up- 
wards." That  is  recorded  of  him,  and  not  de- 
clared by  him ;  but  let  that  pass :  — 

^'  Gefiray  Chaucere,  Esquier,  del  age  de  xl.  ans 
et  plus;  armeez  par  xzvij  ans,  pioduit  &c."  . 

Perhaps  the  sight  of  this  entry  will  suggest  to 
the  reader^  as  it  did  to  me,  what  is  a  very  easy 
solution  of  the  difficulty.  It  requires  the  mere 
transposition  of  two  letters.  The  age  is  recorded 
not  in  Arabic,  but  in  Roman  numerals.  Suppose, 
and  the  supposition  is  not  very  farfetched,  that 
the  scribe  wrote  xl.  (forty)  inaavertently  for  LX. 
(axty).  This  would  make  the  year  of  his  birth 
1326  instead  of  1328,  only  two  years  earlier,  instead 
of  eighteen  years  later,  than  has  hitherto  been  sup- 
posed, and  allow  time  for  the  education  which  he 
clearly  had  received;  aud  by  this  very  simple 
change  I  venture  to  think  we  arrive  at  somethmg 
like  the  real  truth  as  to  "  Old  Dan  Geffrey's " 
age,  and  remove  a  stumbling-block  out  of  the  way 
ox  the  future  biographers  of  the  poet 

William  J.  Thoms. 


AN  OLD  DUTCH  NEWSPAPEB. 

I  have  had  in  my  possession  for  some  short 
time  a  typographical  curiosity  in  the  shape  of  an 
early  Dutch  newspaper,  entitled  "  Ordmarise  Mid- 
delrweeckte  Vcwranie,  Anno  1652,  No.  2/'  which 
i^-stated  at  the  end  to  have  been  ^'  Ghedruckt  tot 
Amsterdam  Voor  de  Weduwe  van  Francoys  Ldef- 
hoodt,  Boeck-vsrkoo^fter  op  den  Dam,  int  Groot 
Boeck  den  9  Januaiij,  Anno  1652.*'  This  news- 
paper consists  of  a  single  sheet  of  large  octavo 
paper,  being  about  the  size  of  an  entire  page  of 
the  ComhiU,  and  printed  close  up  to  the  margins. 
It  is  printed  in  two  columns  on  ooth  sides  of  the 
paper,  and  in  black  letter.  It  contains  news  from 
Naples  of  Dec.  8, 1651,  from  Rome  of  12th  ditto, 
from  Vienna  Q^  Weenen  ")  of  20th  ditto,  from 
London  of  29th  ditto,  from  Paris  of  dOth  ditto, 
&c.  &c.  The  London  paragraph  contains  allu- 
sions to  the  state  of  Irelaud,  to  ^'  de  Generael 
Cromwel,"  "  Generael  Major  Overton,"  "  Mar- 
quya  Hontley,"  &c  &c. 

The  history  of  this  ancient  scrap  is  a  little 

curious.    I  happened  one  dAj  to  purchase  at  an 

old  bookHdiopa  uttleDutch-Englisn  phrase-book, 

entitled  (in  Dutch  and  English) — 

« The  En^^lsh  Sehole-master :  or  Ortaine  Roles  and 
Helpes  whereby  the  Natives  of  the  NsthsrUndes  may  bee 


in  a  short  time  tansht  to  read,  understand,  and  speaks 
the  Kngliah  tongue.^ 

This  book  is  a  12mo,  published  at  Amsterdam 
in  1646.  It  had  been  more  recently  bound,  how* 
ever,  as  I  found  the  newspaper  I  have  described, 
in  two  pieces,  naide  the  boards,  as  one  sometimes 
sees  music  and  printed  matter  incorporated  witli 
binding  even  now.  I  extracted  it  and  got  it  care- 
fully mounted,  and  it  is  now,  with  the  exception 
of  one  or  two  lines  about  the  middle,  so  pexfecc 
that  anyone  acquainted  vrith  the  Dutch  tonguo 
would  easilv  be  able  to  read  the  whole  of  it 

I  take  the  liberty  of  sending  you  this  short 
notice  of  the  Middet-toeeckse  CouraiUe,  in  case  it 
may  be  of  int^est  to  some  of  your  antiquariati 
readers ;  and  I  shall  be  hapny,  if  any  one  doe(« 
take  any  interest  in  it,  to  affora  such  opportunities 
for  examination  of  it  as  may  be  arranged. 

I  may  add  that  the  little  phrase-book  is  in  itself 
a  very  curious  production.  It  contains  at  the  end 
some  "forms'^  of  mercantile  writs,  of  which  I 
append  that  for  '<a  bill  of  lading  after  the  Hol- 
land manner,"  and  "  a  bill  of  exchange."  Thn 
form  of  the  latter  is,  I  believe,  nearly  identical 
with  that  still  in  use.  You  will  imderstand  that 
the  Dutch  and  English  are  printed  in  parallel 
columns. 

1.  ''I,  J.  P.  of  Amsterdam,  master  under  God  of  my 
ship  called  the  Saint  Peter  at  this  present  lying  ready  i<i 
the  river  of  Amsterdam  to  aaile  with  the  first  good  wlnde 
which  God  shall  give  toward  London,  where  mv  right 
unlading  shal  be,  acknowledge  and  confes  that  I  have 
receaved  nnder  the  hatches  of  my  foresaid  ship  of  you 
S.  J.  merchaunt,  to  wit,  four  pipes  of  oile,  two  chests  of 
linnen,  sixteen  bots  of  currents,  one  ball  of  can  vase,  fivo 
bals  of  pepper,  thirteen  rings  of  brasse  wyer,  fifde  bars 
of  iron,  ai  dry  &  wel  conditioned,  marked  with  thi.i 
marke  standing  before,  all  which  I  promise  to  deliver  (if 
God  give  me  a  prosperons  voyage  with  my  said  ship)  at 
London  aforesaid,  to  the  worshipful  Mr.  X.  J.  to  his  fiic- 
tour  or  assignes,  paying  for  the  fraight  of  the  foresaid 
goods  20  fs  by  the  tan.  And  for  the  performance  of  this 
before  written  I  bind  myself  and  all  myne  estate  and  my 
foresaid  ship  with  all  its  appartenances.  In  witnes  whereof 
I  have  signed  three  instruments  hereof  with  my  name  or 
my  parser  in  my  behalf  al  of  one  contents,  the  one  being 
performed  the  other  to  be  of  no  force. 

Written  in  Amsterdam  the  fift  day  of  September,  in  the 
yeare  1646. 

J.  P." 

2.  **  In  Amsterdam  the  5  September,  1645. 
For  li  100  sUrlinge. 

At  usance  not  having  my  first  pay  this  my  second  of 
exchange  to  Mr.  P.  L.  or  assignes  one  hondu^d  pounds 
sterling,  the  valew  received  here  of  Mr.  J.  H.  make  good 
payment  and  place  it  to  accompt  as  per  advise. 

Tour  loving  friend, 

J.N, 
To  Mr.  J.  G. 
Herchaant  in  Amsterdam.** 


340 


N^TES  AND  QUERIES.  [4-"  s.  vii.  afril  22, il 


YSSSSS  B7  GENERAL  BURGOTNE  ON  LORD 
PALMERSTON'S  MARRIAGE. 

I  was  rummag^g  among  some  old  papers  the 
other  day,  and  found  tlie  following  copy  of  verBos, 
written  by  the  late  General  Biirgoyne  ^author  of 
The  Heiress  and  other  works),  and  adorefised  to 
his  Mend  Viscount  FaJmerston  (father  of  the 
Premier)  on  his  first  marriage  with  Frances, 
daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Poole.  They  belonged  to 
a  remtion  of  mine,  who  was  an  intimate  friend  of 
General  Burgoyne,  and  used  to  sneak  of  his  con- 
versation as  the  most  delightful  tning  possible  in 
the  small  hours  of  the  morning  (1  and  2  a.k.)  : 
he  was  very  fond  of  late  hours  when  he  could  get 
any  one  to  sit  up  with  him,  and  few  were  found 
to  object.  These  verses  appear  to  me  to  be  very 
weU  worth  preservation.  I  nave  never  seen  them 
in  any  collection  of  his  works,  nor  in  any  maga- 
sine,  nor  do  I  believe  they  have  ever  been  printed. 

I  have  often  seen  it  stated  that  General  Bur- 
goyne  was  a  natural  son  of  Liord  Bingley;  an 
assertion  perfectly  unfounded  in  fact,  and  I  have 
wondered  that  it  has  not  been  contradicted  by  his 
son  the  present  Field-Marshal.  His  descent  from 
the  family  of  Burgoyne,  baronet,  is  clearly  given 
in  Burke's  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  and  the  rela- 
tionship was  always  acknowledged  by  the  late 
Sir  Roger  and  Lady  Frances  Burgoyne. 

Perhaps  you  may  think  the  verses  too  long  for 
insertion ;  if  eo,  mute  what  use  of  them  you  vnll. 
I  have  another  copy  of  verses  addressed  to  his 
wife,  Lady  Charlotte  Buigoyne,  on  her  endea- 
vouring to  dissuade  him  nrom  going  on  a  dan- 
gerous expedition. 

VaXtA  ADDRESSED  TO  VISCOUST  PALMERSTOV  ON  HIS 
HARRIAOB  WITH  FRASCES  POOLE,  OCT.  6,   1767. 

**  While,  Palmerston,  the  public  voice 
Displays,  in  commenta  on  thy  choice. 

Praise,  ceDsnre,  or  surprise. 
Blames  thy  disinterested  par^ 
Or  interest  finds,  in  warmth  of  heart* 

Where  Fanny's  treasure  lies. 

<*  Fain  would  my  muse,  tho*  rude,  stRcere, 
One  humble  artless  wreath  prepare 

To  bind  her  lovely  brow ; 
With  thee,  would  hail  th*  aaspicioos  mom, 
Attend  the  bride  she  can*t  adorn, 

And  bless  the  nuptial  vow. 

**  Let  the  doll  claims  of  due  egUem 
To  Inkewarm  crowds  be  praise  supreme, 

/ibiind  pretensions  higher: 
For  know,  the  heart  now  taught  to  beat 
With  iriendship'a  saervd  temperate  heat. 

Has  once  been  tried  in  fire. 

<<  Twas  mine  to  see  each  opeuing  charms 
New  graces  rise^  new  beauties  warm, 

Twas  mine  to  feel  their  power  : 
Nature  and  morals,  just  and  pure. 
For  thee  have  made  the  fhut  mature. 
Since  I  adored  the  flower. 


''  Aft«r  hard  conflict,  passion  cooled ; 
Discretion,  reason,  honour  ruled 

0*er  the  subsiding  flame ; 
And  Charlotte,*  to  my  vacant  breast. 
With  kindred  charms  and  virtues  blest,  . 

A  sweet  successor  came. 

**  Some  years  of  love  weVe  numbered  o'er; 
And,  oh !  to  many  many  more 

May  Heaven  the  term  extend. 
To  try  with  thee  the  pleasing  strife. 
Which  boasts  the  most  deserving  wife. 
Who  proves  the  truer  friend.'* 

H.  W.  L. 

[We  shall  be  glad  to  receive  them.— Ed.  "  N.  k  Q."] 


'^  The  RoLLiAD." — Will  no  competent  hand  he 
tempted  to  give  us  a  new  edition  of  The  Itolliad 
with  such  explanatory  notes  as  are  now  needed 
bj  ordinary  readers,  but  the  competent  writers  of 
which  are  now  rare  and  every  day  becoming 
more  so,  so  much  so'  that  the  class  will  soon  be 
extinct?  When  the  task  was  suggested  to  Mr. 
Wilson  Croker,  he  mentioned  the  late  Lord  Lana- 
downe  and  Samuel  Rogers  as  better  qualified  than 
himself,  and  that  his  hands  were  otherwise  full. 
Could  Lord  Stanhope  be  induced  to  condescend 
so  to  employ  the  special  knowledge  of  that  period 
of  English  political  life  with  which  he  must  be 
more  amply  provided  than  any  other  man  ? 

J.  11.  O. 

[We  are  sure  that  all  the  readers  of  <'  X.  &  Q."  will 
join  with  us  in  acknowledging  the  value  of  the  suggestion, 
in  recognising  Lord  Stanhope's  peculiar  fitness  for  the 
task,  and  in  most  eaxnestly  hopiag  that  he  may  find  it 
consistent  with  other  claims  upon  his  tin^e  to  undertake 
what  in  his  hands  would  become  a  very  important  con- 
tribution to  the  history  of  political  satire  in  EnghuBd. — 
Ed.  "N.  &  Q."] 

Kippis's  CoPT  OS  THX ''  BioeitAPHiA  Britajt- 
NICA." — I  have  recently  discovered  that  I  havt^ 
been  for  some  time  the  unconscious  possessor  of 
a  copy  of  the  first  edition  of  the  Biograpkia  Bri-* 
tatmica,  which  proves  unmistakably  to  have  been 
the  working  copy  of  Dr.  Kippis,  the  editor  of  the 
unfinished  second  edition.  The  mar^fins  of  many 
of  the  pages  are  literally  covered  vnth  the  Doc- 
tor's notes  in  shorthand,  and  I  have  taken  out  oi 
the  volumes  a  sufficient  number  of  loose  memo- 
randa to  make  a  small  volume,  some  of  which  are 
in.  his  handwritinff,  and  others  notes  commuat- 
cated  to  him.  The  manner  in  which  the  second 
editioa  was  to  be  completed  is  clearly  indica^tod 
by  the  marginal  notes.  I  shall  be  meet  happy  to 
show  the  volumes  to  any  one  interested  in  uLom. 

Josspa  Lbkttkl  Chxbtsb. 

16,  Linden  Villas,  Blue  Anchor  Boad,  Benaoadie^  S.B. 

Sabba-Dat  Housbs,  ob  Noov  Eovbeb,  —  A 
recent  number  of  7^  Traoe&er  (Boston,  Maasa- 
chuaetts)  furnishes  the  following  account :-— 

*  Lady  Charlotte  Stanley,  daughter  of  Edward  eleTaoth 
Earl  of  Derbr. 


4«k  S.  VII.  Aphil  22, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


341 


"At  Towiisend  Centre  there  is  still  BUnding  one  of 
these  relics  of  a  former  time,  a  Sabba-day  or  ISoon  Hoase. 

**  Before  the  modem  cotiTemenoes  of  stoves  and  famaoes 
for  warming  chprebes^  it  was  very  deainble,  after  at- 
tending service  in  a  eold  meeting-house,  to  have  some 
place  doling  the  intermission  where  the  soiFererB  conld 
go  and  warm  themselves  and  eat  their  lunch.  S<une  used 
to  go  to  neighbouring  houses  that  were  kindly  opened 
fbr  particular  friends ;  others  went  to  the  tavera,  which 
always  kept  an  open  door  and  an  open  bar ;  others  built 
for  themselves  what  were  called  Sabba-day  or  Noon 
Houses. 

**  The  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Town- 
send,  in  a  recent  historicid  discourse,  describes  these 
houses.  Like  the  one  now  standing  at  Townsend,  they 
consisted  of  four  rooms  ten  or  twelve  feet  square,  with  a 
fireplace  in  each  room.  They  were  generaUy  built  at  the 
united  expense  of  four  or  more  persons,  to  be  occupied 
only  on  the  Sabbath  by  their  respective  families  and  such 
guests  as  they  invited  to  join  with  them.  Dry  fuel  was 
kept  on  hand  ready  for  kindling  fires,  and  usually  a 
barrel  of  cider  for  each  family  was  placed  in  the  cellar. 

"  On  the  morning  of  the  'Sabbath,  the  owner  of  each 
room  deposited  in  his  saddle-bags  the  necessary  refiresh- 
ments  for  himself  and  family,  and  took  an  early  start  for 
the  sanctuary.  He  first  called  at  his  noon-house,  built  a 
fire,  deposited  his  luncheon,  warmed  himself  and  funilv, 
and  at  the  hour  of  worship  they  were  all  ready  to  sally 
forth  and  to  shiver  in  the  cold  during  the  mpming  ser- 
vice at  the  house  of  worship.  At  noon  thev  returned*  to 
their  noon-house  with  invited  friends,  where  a  warm 
room  received  them.  The  saddle-bags  were  now  brought 
forth,  and  their  contents,  discharged  on  the  table,  of 
which  all  partook  a  little.  Then  each  in  turn  drank 
from  the  pitcher  or  mugs  of  cider  which  had  been  brought 
from  the  cellar.  This  service  being  performed,  and  thanks 
returned,  the  remaining  time  was  spent  in  reading  notes 
and  discussing  the  morning  sermon,  a  chapter  firam  ^e 
Bible  or  from  some  other  book  of  a  religious  character ;  not 
unfreqnently  prayer  was  offered  before  retiring  again  to 
the  sanctuary  for  the  afternoon  worship.  At  the  dose  of 
the  services  of  the  afternoon,  if  the  weather  was  severely 
cold,  the  fkmily  returned  to  the  noon-house  to  warm 
themselves  berore  going  home.  The  fires  were  then 
extinguished,  the  saddle-bags  gathered  up,  the  house 
locked,  and  all  returned  home." 

UmEDA. 
Philadelphia.  * 

«*Tke  Dream  of  Holt  Mary."— -The  fol- 
lowing, which  I  extract  from  the  Church'*  Times, 
(March  17, 1871),  shows  how  old  customs  are  kept 
up  in  out-of-the-way  districts  among  the  Welsn. 
Ilie  writer  says  there  are  old  peo^e  who  never 
retire  to  rest  without  saying  their  leader  and  the 
Breuddvoyd  Mair,  or  Bream  of  the  B.  V.  Mary. 
He  gives  this  translation  of  the  latter: — 


«( 


« 


Holy  Mother  Mary,  whv  art  thou  weeping? 
I  am  not  weeping,  roy<<don,  but  dreamug. 
Holy  Mother  Mary,  what  is  thy  dream  ? 
I  see  Thee  taken,  my  Son,  and  crucified. 
And  the  son  of  perdition,  blinded  and  deceived. 
Thrusting  his  spear  point  into  Thy  side. 
And  Thy  most  Holy  Blood  flowing  a  stream. 

Holy  Mother  Mary,  art  thou  sleeping  ? 
No,  my  beloved  Son,  but  I  am  drHunmg  ? 
What,  Holy  Mother,  dost  thou  see  in  thy  dream  ? 
I  see  Thee  peneenfted,  iasuHed,  and  despised, 
And  hnng  on  the  cross  and  omcified, 


The  blind  and  the  stubborn  Jew  Thee  betraying. 
Wine  to  nourish,  water  to  cleanse. 
He  who  repeateth  this  thrice  before  sleeping 
Need  fear  no  unholy  thought  or  dreaming. 

"  Holy  Mother  Mary,  art  thou  sleeping  ? 
Yes,  beloved  Son,  and  dreaming. 
What  seest  thou  in  thy  dream 'T 
I  see  Thee  persecuted,  caught,  and  to  the  cross  nailed. 
And  a  blinded  man,  by  the  wicked  one  deceived, 
Thy  holy  left  side  with  spear  piercittg. 
And  Th^  beloved  and  blessed  Blood  flowing. 

True  IS  the  dream  of  Holy  Mary : 

He  who  knows  it  and  repeats  it  thrice  before  sleeping, 

No  unholy  dream  shall  disturb  him. 

He  shall  never  tread  the  regions  of  hell." 

JOHK  PlGGOT,  JUK. 

French  Wooihpigboks  driyxk  bt  the  Wab 
TO  EiroLAiri). — Fluellen  told  us  tiie  connection 
between  Macedon  and  Monmouth ;  and  a  writer 
on  the  doings  of  the  Pytchley,  in  Land  and  Water 
for  March  25,  has  pointed  out  the  possibility  of  a 
connection  between  the  siege  of  l^aris  and  the 
flocks  of  wood-pigeons  in  England.    He  says : — 

"The  woods  are  still  wintry-looking,  the  primroses, 
violets,  and  anemones  only  just  beginning  to  open ;  the 
golden  catkins  of  the  sallow  are  the  only  conspicuous 
flowers.  There  have  been  unusually  large  flights  of 
wood-pigepns  this  winter ;  they  have  come  in  search  of 
the  acorns  which  have  been  so  plentiful ;  but  the  popular 
belief  is,  that  they  are  natives  of  France,  driven  across 
the  Channel  by  the  noise  of  the  war,  or,  as  one  old  man 
expressed  it,  by  the  loombering  over  there.  I  have  also 
seen  more  stock  doves  and  more  hooded  crows  than  I  have 
ever  noticed  before.  Old  Perkins,  the  Drayton  keeper, 
who,  in  his  eighty-fourth  year,  was  oat  on  a  pour,  and 
thoroughly  enjoying  the  sport,  told  me  that  he  had  never 
seen  so  many  pigeons  before.  He  is  a  good  authority, 
having,  before  he  became  a  gamekeeper,  spent  more  days 
and  nights  in  the  woods  and  seen  more  sport  in  an 
irrtgtdar  way  than  any  man  in  the  county." 

This  extract  seems  to  me  to  be  worthy  of  pre- 
seryation  in  these  pages.  Cuthbsrz  Bede. 

"  Gbnilembn  of  the  Pavemekt."  —  This 
phrasO;  used  by  Count  Bismarck  in  December, 
1870;  scornfully  to  designate  the  ProT^sioiial 
Government  of  France,  is  of  course  a  figuralaTe 
expreseion  common  enough.  '*£txe  surUe  pa^d '' 
is  to  be  houseless,  on  the  streets.  '^  Un  batteur 
de  pav4  "  ia  one  who  has,  in  our  slang  phrase, 
the  '<  hey  of  the  street'^  The  "  Messieurs  et 
Madames  du  pav^/'  those  gentlemen  and  ladies 
whose  respectability  is  of  uie  smallest  kind,  al- 
most in  fact  inappreciable.  We  too  have  some 
such  slang  in  our  tongue,  i.  e, ''  nymphs  of  the 
pavBy* — a  phrase  not  noticed  by  the  ingenious 
compiler  of  Hotten's  Slang  Dictionary,  It  is. 
however,  curious  to  find  an  almost  exact  paraUel 
to  Bismarck*s  phrase,  which  in  its  contemptuous 
vigour  struck  the  British  public  as  something 
new,  in  the  works  of  one  of  the  most  eloquent  dt 
our  statesmen.  In  Burke's  scathing  attack  upon 
some  of  his  noble  antagonists  he  uses  a  veiy 
similar  phrase,  e,  g, : — 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*^8.  VII.  April  28, 71. 


<*  If  I  should  fan  in  a  single  point  I  owe  to  the  illns- 
trioos  persons,  I  canoot  be  supposed  to  mean  the  Duke 
of  Bedford  and  the  Earl  of  Lauderdale  of  the  House  of 
Peers,  but  the  Duke  of  Bedford  and  the  Earl  of  Lauder- 
dale <^  Palace  Yard !  then  they  are  on  the  pavement^  there 
they  seem  to  come  nearer  to  liiv  humble  level." — Bnrke*s 
tTorke,  Bohn's  edition,  1861,  vol.  v.  p.  114.  »•  A  Letter 
to  a  Noble  Lord." 

Hath  Fbwwbll. 
74,  Great  Russell  Street,  Bloomsbnry  Square. 


€LUtxM. 


Austin  Faxilt. — Since  sending  my  first  query 
on  this  subject;  I  find  from  a  reliable  source  that  in 
1658  Richard  Austin  was  a  freeman  of  the  city  of 
London.  His  will  was  proved  at  the  Court  of 
Probate,  Middlesex,  in  1704,  "  when  Samuel  and 
Joseph  appraised  the  estate  of  their  honoured 
father  Kichaid,  and  Samuel  administered  thereon." 
I  have  already  given  William  Austin  '^of 
Surry/'  the  father  of  Mary,  as  ascertained  hj 
Mary's  monument  in  Kencott  church,  Oxon.  This 
Bfary  was  bom  in  1616,  and,  so  far  as  dates  are 
concerned,  she  might  be  a  sister  of  the  aboye- 
named  Hicha^d.  Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
show  whether  this  Richard  was  the  son,  or  any 
relation,  of  William  Austin  "  of  Surry"  P 

W.  M.  H.  Chtoch. 

Authors  wanted.  — 

"  But  as  for  Jenny  Jeeaamy^  Betty  Bamn,  and  their 
compeers,  I  never  buy  any  of  them,  though  1  bare  looked 
over  the  two  last  I  have  named,  in  their  passage  between 
Lady  Northumberland  and  Mrs.  Rinii^om.'* — Letter  from 
the  Duchese  of  Somenet  to  Lady  Luxboronyh,  Decem- 
ber 81,  1751. 

Who  wrote  those  two  works  named;  or  are 
they  the  names  of  writers  of  the  time  P      W.  P. 

•  [7%e  History  of  Jemmy  and  Jenny  JeMMamy,  in  8  vols. 
17&8,  is  by  Mrs.  Eliza  Haprwood,  who  for  the  looseness  of 
her  earljr  productions  is  gibbeted  in  The  Ihmciad,  book  ii. 
lines  157-166.— rA«  BUtory  of  Betty  Bamee,  2  vols. 
12mo,  1752,  is  an  anonvmous  novel,  written  (says  the 
MnMy  Review,  vii.  470)  for  the  kitchen.] 

^'Msor's  Fables"  :  Bewick.— I  have  a  volume 

of— 

"  Fables  of  .£sop  and  others,  Ac,  by  S.  Crozall,  D.D. 
The  Sixteenth  Edition,  carefully  revised  and  improved." 
1798,  pp.829.    Woodcuts,  195. 

Are  the  woodcuts  by  Bewick  P  W.  S. 

[The  woodcuts  in  this  volume  do  not  appear  to  be 
from  the  graver  of  the  Bewicks.  There  wss  an  edition  of 
The  FahUe  of^Xeop  published  at  Newcastle  in  1818,  8vo, 
with  desig^ns  on  wood  by  Thomas  Bewick ;  but  the  greater 
number  of  cuts  in  this  volume  were  designed  by  R.  John- 
son.] 

"  Abbuthitot  " :  "  Ruthvek  " :  how  pro- 
vomsrcsD  P — Will  some  well-informed  Scotchman 
tell  me  where  the  accent  ought  to  he  laid  in 
the  name  Arbuthnot  P  I  have  heard  natives  of 
Scotland  place  it  on  the  second  syllable ;  but  in 
England  it  is  commonly  laid  on  the  first    The 


famous  wit  was  evidently  called  Ar'buthnot  by 
his  friends.    Pope,  in  his  Epistle,  says  — 

''To  second,  Arbuthnot,  thy  art  and  care.** 
More  than  six  years  ago  (<<  N.  &  /Q.''  3'^  S.  vi. 
207),  1  asked  for  the  original  and  true  pronuncia- 
tion of  ^^Ruthven,"  but  I  have  never  had  an 
answer.  I  mentioned  that  an  English  friend  of 
mine,  who  bears  it  as  a  Christian  name,  calls 
himself  and  is  always  called  *^  Riven  "  (rhyming 
to  given,)  The  name  Ruthven  is  historiciJ,  and 
one  likes  to  know  how  to  pronounce  it  correctly. 

Jatbbb. 

rLady  Bhen  is  the  title  by  which  Lady  Ruthven  is 
called  by  her  Scotch  fHends.1 

JOAKNES   BaPTISTA'S   '<  CoM MBNTABT  OIT  ABIS- 

totlb."— The  full  title  of  the  work  is— 

**  Phtlosophia  Aristotelica  restitnta,  et  illustrata.  Qua 
experimentis,  quit  ratiocinils  nuper  inventis,  k  Joanne 
Baptists,  Presbvtero  Congregationis  Oratorii  Sancti 
Philippi  Nerii  Ulyssipponensis,  Philosophue  ac  Sacral 
Theoiogis  Professors.    Ulyssippone.  1748,  fol.*' 

Can  any  of  ^rour  readers  give  me  anv  informa- 
tion respecting  it,  especially  as  regards  the  number 
of  .volumes  P  It  does  not  appear  to  be  in  the  British 
Museum  library,  nor  do  1  find  reference  to  it  in 
any  available  bibliography.  W.  J.  F.  T. 

Beauchamp.  —  May  1  ask  Hebmentbudb 
whether  she  really  means  (4*'*  S.  vii.  219)  to 
blazon  the  coat  of  Beauchamp  of  Warwick  as 
showing  only  three  cross  crosslets  P  If  so,  will  she 
kindly  say  where  she  finds  the  coat  so  given?  And 
may  I  presume  to  suggest  to  HERHENTKrnE  that 
her  inexperienced  readers  might  require  to  be  told 
that  the  coat  Gules,  a  lion  passant  ffuardant  (not 
rampant)  or,  crowned  ardent,  is  reauv  the  coat  of 
Gerard  or  Gerald  assumed  by  the  De  rlsle  family, 
as  was  customary  P  Their  own  coat  was  Or,  a  fesse 
between  two  chevrons  sable.  They  both  lippear 
repeated  together  several  times,  on  the  tomb  of 
Ambrose  Dudley,  Earl  of  Warwick,  in  the  Beau- 
champ  Chapel,  Warwick.  D.  P. 

Stoarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

Rev.  Thoxas  Brooks. — Where  is  any  account 
to  be  found  of  '^Master  Thomas  Brooks,  Preacher 
of  the  Gospel  at  Margaret's,  New  fish  Street,*'  in 
1667  P  I  nave  reason  to  believe  that  a  family  in 
this  dty  is  descended  from  him.  He  was  the 
author  of  several  works.  Ukeda. 

PhUadelphia. 

[An  aceoant  of  Thomas  Brooks,  with  a  Ibt  of  hin 
works,  may  be  fband  in  Calamy's  Abridyment^  or  in  Pal- 
mer's NotteonformiefB  Memorial^  edit  1802,  i.  150-16.". 
The  Rev.  A.  B.  Grosart  has  announced  a  Memoir  of 
Thomas  Brooks  for  a  collective  edition  of  his  Worb.  See 
«  N.  *  QV'  8^  S.  iv,  228.] 

Charles  L — Can  anv  one  inform  me  into  whose 
hands  pieces  of  the  ribbon  of  the  Qarter  worn  by 
Charles  the  Martyr  at  his  executioa.  may  have 
come  P   I  l^ave  one  piece  in  my  posaeaaion  with 


4*8.VIL  Apiul22,*71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


34S 


its  descent  traced  to  about  1745.  It  seems  that 
when  Juzon  handed  over  the  jewel  to  its  lawful 
owner  he  kept  the  ribbon  for  himself. 

W.  J.  Makbet. 

CasYiSAimGE.  —  Sir  Bulwer  Ljtton,  in  two 
passages  of  his  King  Arthur  (I  quote  from  2nd 
edit.  1840)^  uses  the  word  '<  chevisaunce "  in  a 
peculiar  manner — 

''  Frank  were  those  times  of  tnutful  cheTisaonce." 

Bk.  Yiii.  St.  11. 

**  Stand  forth^bold  child  of  Christian  cheTisaance !  *' 

Bk.  XII.  St  196. 

It  would  seem  almost  as  if  the  poet  used  the 
word  as  synonymous  with  '*  chivalry/'  or,  at  all 
events,  were  ignoring  the  difference  between  caput 
and  cahaQus.  To  tho9&  accustomed  to  the  ordi- 
nary mercantile  use  of  the  word  in  Chaucer,  Lang- 
land,  Qower,  &c.,  the  effect  is  somewhat  ludicrous. 
Chaucer's  Merchant^  *'  with  his  bargayns  and  with 
his  chevy saunce ''  {Froloffue,  1.282), and  Langland's 
Avarice^  yviih  his  *' eschaunges  and  cheuesances '' 
(Text  B.  pass.  v.  L  249,  ed.  Skeat),  are  so  directly 
Hutipodal  to  Sir  Lancelot  and  the  Arthurian 
times. 

Sir  Bulwer  Lytton,  at  the  first-quoted  line, 
refers  to  Spenser;  and  I  find  a  passage .(-^^'^^ 
Queene,  bk.  ii.  canto  ix.  st.  8)  where  the  word  is 
used  in  a  sense  somewhat  similar  to  that  of  the 
modem  poet's — 


**  *  Fortane  the  foe  of  famous  chevisaunce, 
Seldom,'  said  Guyon,  *  yields  to  vertne  aide.' 


ft 


Todd  here  glosses  "  enterprise  ** ;  and,  expressly 
qualified  as  it  is  by  the  adjective  '*  &mous,"  the 
word  is  easily  to  be  understood. 

In  another  passage  (ShepheartTs  Calendar^ 
^^  May,"  1.  92),  Spenser  uses  the  word  in  its  com- 
mon mercantile  sense — 

**  They  maken  many  a  wrong  chevisaunce." 

Cotgrave  g^ves — 

*'  Otevhtancet  f.  An  agreement  or  composition  made  ; 
an  end  or  order  set  down  between  a  creditor  and  debtor.** 

I  ask,  is  "  chevisaunce "  used  in  the  sense  of 
knightly  achievement  by  any  other  of  our  early 
poets  ?    I  can  recall  no  instance. 

JoHir  Addis. 

Bastington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sussex. 

Cornell  Family.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
kindly  furnish  me  with  a  brief  genealogical  his- 
tory of  the  Cornalls  or  Cornells  ?  Can  the  families 
bearing  these  names  be  traced  to  the  same  paren- 
tage? The  Hon.  Ezra  Cornell,  founder  of  the 
Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  U.  S.,  says  that  his 
aiicestors,  Thomas  and  Rebecca  Cornell,  emigrated 
in  or  about  the  year  1638  from  England  to  Ame- 
rica; but  he  knows  nothing  of  their  parentage. 
Can  a  genealogical  connection  be  traced  out  be- 
tween the  Cornells,  Comalb,  Cornwells,  Corn- 


walls,  and  the  French  ComeiUes  P  Did  the  ancient 
district  of  Cornwall  give  rise  to  these  names? 

Replies  to  these  queries,  sent  to  the  Rev.  R.  C, 
34,  Portland  Square,  will  be  thankfully  received. 

Craufubdb  of  Nswaxk,  Babonsts.  —  In 
Burke's  Baronetize  for  this  year^  the  arms,  crest, 
and  motto  of  this  family  are  nven  as  those  of 
Craufurd  of  Auchenames,  Kilbimie,  and  of  the 
Kerse  family,  descended  from  Sir  Gregan  Crau- 
furd.   Is  not  this  combination  erroneous  P 

The  family  of  Craufurd  of  Newark  is  clearly 
deduced  from  Auchenames  by  George  Crawfurd^ 
the  well-known  Scotch  antiquary. 

Is  there  any  reason  to  doubt  the  accuracy  of 
his  judgment  r  M. 

Epithets  of  the  Moitths. — I  was  speaking  to 
a  countryman  the  other  day  in  East  Lancashire 
about  the  weather.  '^  Aye,'' he  said,  ^'it's  March 
manyioeathers"  The  expression  struck  me  be- 
cause it  was  evidently  a  proverbial  and  alliterative 
epithet  for  the  month.  So  I  asked  him  if  there 
were  similar  names  for  the  other  months.  ''Well," 
he  said,  'there's  February ,/S/^<fyA:6;  but  I  know 
no  more  than  that"  This  epithet  is  also  allitera- 
tive, and  I  cani^t  doubt  the  other  months  have 
their  correspondmg  sobriquets.  He  said,  more- 
over, that  there  was  a  rhyme  to  the  February 
one,  which  ran  thus : — 

**  February  fill-dyke 
Either  with  black  or  white  " ; 

that  is,  as  he'^xplained,  either  with  rain  or  snow. 
Perhaps  the  other  epithets  may  be  known  to  some 
of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  G.  R.  K. 

Gbanthak  Inn  Signs. — There  is  one  remark- 
able circumstance  connected  with  Grantham  which 
I  noticed  while  spending  an  hour  in  the  town — the 
signs  of  some  of  the  inns.  There  was  the  Blue  Man, 
the  Blue  Lion,  the  Blue  Horse,  the  Blue  Bull,  the 
Blue  Cow,  the  Blue  Ram,  the  Blue  Sheep,  and 
the  Blue  Pig;  lastly  I  observed  a  small  street 
called  the  Blue  Gate.  There  may  be  other  blue 
things  which  I  did  not  notice.  Whence  this  curious 
penchant  for  the  blues  P         E.  L.  Blensinsopp. 

Maids  op  Honour. — Can  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents inform  me  whether  there  is  in  ex- 
istence a  list  or  memorandum  of  the  various 
''msdds  of  honour"  to  the  queens  of  England 
from  the  year  1688  to  the  present  time  P  If  there 
is  such  A  list,  how  and  where  can  it  be  seen  P 

Erik. 

'^Messaobr  des  Sciencbs  et  dks  Arts," 
vol.  ii.,  Gand,  1823-4.-1  should  be  obliged  if  any 
reader  can  tell  me  where  I  can  see  the  above, 
besides  the  copy  in  the  British  Museum;  or  if 
any  correspondent  could  lend  me  the  same  for  a 
week  I  would  be  very  grateful,  and  return  with 
all  expenses  paid.  W.  ^Tarsh. 

7,  Red  Lion  Square. 


344 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


t4«kS.Tn.AFML»,*71. 


Old  FAmLTES  withoijt  Coat  Asscoxtb.  —  Are 
aajr  of  your  readeis  aware  of  such  a  case  as  that 
of  a  family  which  has  held  the  same  estate  for 
two  centuries,  and  the  head  of  which  was  a  hun- 
drad  and  fiftjr  years  ago  high  sheriff  for  the  county, 
the  Mdd  family  not  possessing  any  armorial  hear- 
ings? !*• 

•PoBTuexTisx  GoppxB  OoDr. — ^I  have  a  Portu- 
guese copper  coin^  weighing  about  1^  oz«,  with 
the  following  inscriptionau  &c. : — 

Obv,  Arms  of  Portugal  —  Jossphxts  .  i  .  d  .  g  . 

BXX .  P.  T  .  J)  .  OUIKXJB. 

Mm.  Maouta  1 .  1770.  Africa  .  Pobtxtgubza. 

Am  I  right  in  my  conjecture  that  this  is  a  coin 
struck  for  the  speciid  use  of  the  West  Coast  of 
AMca  ?  I  can  find  none  such  in  any  list  to  which 
I  have  access.  Any  account  of  it  will  he  accept- 
able. C.  W.  BmeHAx. 

Eablt  QuBBifs  ov  SooTLAKD. — Mlss  Strick- 
land begins  her  lives  of  these  queens  with  Mar- 
garet Tudor,  the  sister  of  Henry  VIII.  Have  the 
fives  of  the  earlier  queens  been  published,  and  by 
whom  P  C.  D.  C. 

RoKESBT  THE  Spi£8. — There  were  two  English 
spies  in  1667  whose  names  were  Christopher  and 
Anthony  Rokesby.  They  are  mentioned  at  p.  362 
of  Mr.  Hosack's  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  and  her  Ac- 
cusere,  and  elsewhere  in  the  volume.  Is  it  known 
of  what  family  they  were  ?  Can  it  be  that  these 
scotmdrels  were  scions  of  the  knightiy  house  of 
Rokeby  of  Rokeby  and  Mortham  P 

A.  0.  V.  P. 

Stow-xk-the-Wold,  Co.  Glottcester.  —  In 
what  diocese  was  Stow-in-the-Wold  included  be- 
fore the  see  of  Gloucester  was  erected  by  Henry 
VnL?  Cf.  D.  C. 

TsTRAOONAL  INSCRIPTION. — The  accompanying 
and  beautiful  tetragonal  inscription  was  found 
ong  the  papers  of  a  clergyman  recently  de- 


**E.  Port  tenebrta,  Inx. 
S.   In  luce,  apes. 
W.  In  obitu,  pax. 
N.  Port  obitum,  salos." 

A  friend  informs  me  that  it  is  found  upon  a  cross, 
inscribed  on  the  four  sides  of  the  pedestal  and 
facing  the  four  winds,  on  the  Hinois  Hill,  near 
G^odaSming,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  said  cross 
replaced  a  gibbet  on  which  the  mandarins  [PI,  who 
murdered  an  English  sailor,  were  huns;  in  caains. 
If  you  could  discover  the  origin  of  &e  words,  I 
afaould  be  greatly  obliged.  H.  M.  I. 

[The  way-side  cross  on  the  summit  of  Hindi  Hill 
was  erected  in  1851  by  Sir  William  Erie,  and  is  oon- 
stmcted  of  Cornish  granite.  The  murder  alluded  to 
wn  committed  by  three  milort  on  S^t  24, 1786,  and  the 
body  rolled  into  the  hollow  of  the  "  Devil's  Punch-bowl.' 
In  the  neighbouring  churchyard  of  Thurslev  is  a  head 


stone  with  a  rode  seolptiire,  rsprasenting  the  three 
niBiiiis  kflting  tiieir  victim,  and  a  rhyming  huoriptiDn 
below.    See  liiiRay's  Mtmdbook  of  Surrq^J] 

YtTLeiLTE,  A.]>.  1516. — ^Having  a  fine  and  nearly 

Srfect  copv  of  the  Vul^te,  printed  by  John 
oylin  at  London  on  Apnl  12, 1516, 1  should  be 
much  obli^ped  if  any  librarian  can  refer  me  to  any 
copy  of  this  edition  which  has  a  title-page.  The 
Bntiih  Museum  copy  has  no  title. 

Yravcib  T.  Havkbgal. 

UeiBIDIu. 

Walthamstow  Pabish  Lakd.  —  There  is  a 
long  dip  of  land  belonging  to  this  pariah  running 
parallel  with  the  entire  southern  boundary  of  the 
main  portion,  but  dividing  the  adjoining  paiiah 
of  Leyton  into  two  parts  y  and  there  is  a  tradition 
that  {he  nieoe  of  land  was  acquired  by  Waltham- 
stow on  nie  occasion  of  a  dead  body  being  carried 
along  it.  Now  this  is  very  uncertain  and  vague, 
and  I  have  searched  in  vain  in  the  county  nis- 
tones  for  any  reference  to  it  I  shall  be  greatly 
obliged  if  any  correspondent  could  find  any  old 
reference  to  it  in  print  Walthbof. 

'^  WiTTT  AS  FLAKnrnTS  Flaccus.'' — ^Who  wrote 
the  following  lines  F  on  whom  were  they  written, 
and  when  P — 

**  Witty  as  Flaminius  Flaccus, 
As  great  a  Jacobin  as  Gracchus, 

As  fat,  but  not  so [I  cannot  remember  the  word 

here]  as  Bacchus, 
Riding  on  a  little  jackass." 

H.  n. 


Thb  Zodiac. — ^It  is  aaid  that  ihe  omB  denoting 
the  seven  planets  are  of  unquestionably  high  an- 
tiquity, and  figures  resembling  them '  are  found 
on  Egyptian  monuments.  Can  any  reader  of 
'*  N.  &  Q."  say  when  or  by  whom  the  present  ab- 
breviated or  curt  signs  of  the  zodiac  were  formed 
(as  it  seems)  from  the  respective  animal  represen- 
tations P  J.  F. 

Winterton. 


IBitplM* 


n    I 


THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S  CATHEDRAL. 
(4*  S.  vi  passim;  vii.  186,  241.) 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  remarks  so  justly 
made  in  reference  to  this  great  undertaking  came 
just  too  late,  as  it  would  appear  bv  a  paragraph 
m  The  Times  a  few  days  since  that  the  committee 
charged  with  the  duty  of  carrying  out  the  pro- 
jected works  have  come  to  a  resolution  by  which 
the  objectionable  arrangements  mentioned  by  Mr. 
SoKEBs  Clabks  are  really  to  be  carriea  into 
effect.  Let  us  hone,  however,  that  it  is  not  yet 
too  late  to  induce  the  committee  to  reconsider  the 
matter,  and  that  another  scheme  so  ably  treated 
in   the    first   number  of  The  Sacristy  may  be 


^8,vii.apiiil«2,7i.]  K013S&  AND  QUJBSIBS. 


HkS 


thoroughly  veatilAted  before  anjaetiye  operatiooB 
are  began* 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  contracting  the 
chancel,  and  by  the  erection  of  two  nde  organsy 
would  most  seriously  damage  the  interior  e£fect  of 
the  building.  The  plan  proposed  in  The  Sacristy 
of  retaining  the  present  choir  arrangements  for 
ordinary  daily  seryioes,  and  the  construction  of  an 
ante-choir  with  elevated  altar  and  baldachino 
slightly  advanced  under  the  dome,  seems  to  meet 
all  the  reauirements.  The  great  organ  might 
remain  in  tne  transept;  all  the  worshippers  in  the 
dome  area,  transept,  and  nave  could  then  join 
heartily  in  the  services,  and  not  preaching  only, 
but  the  whole  of  the  church  services  would  be 
performed  in  the  presence  of  aioimous  congre- 

Sations.  The  details  of -this  scheme  are  admirably 
escribed  in  the  pa^es  of  The  Sacrittyy  and  it  is 
greatly  to  be  desired  that  the  committee  will  not 
decline  to  reconsider  the  subject  simply  because 
it  is  suggested  by  outsiders.  It  will  be  matter 
for  lasting  re^t  if  so  great  an  opportunity  is  lost 
for  carryinjg^  mto  effect  the  very  best  plan  which 
can  be  devised. 

Let  it  not  be  forgotten  that  ^in  the  year  1847, 
when  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster 
made  their  great  alterations  in  the  Abbey,  how 
sadly  they  missed  the  opportunity  of  doing  the 
light  thing,  and  instead  of  removing  a  modem 
screen  ana  shifting  two  monuments,  whereby  the 
entire  area  of  the  nave  might  have  been  used  for 
congregational  puiposes,  they  preferred  seating  the 
transept,  placing  people  in  such  positions  that  the 
greater  number  can  see  neither  the  altar,  the 
clergy,  nor  the  capitular  choir ;  in  fact,  dividing  the 
great  body  of  worshippers  into  three  separate 
congregations. 

I  have  now  before  me  No.  20j  of  The  Parish 
Choir :  or,  Church  Music^Book,  in  which  the  de- 
fects of  tlus  arrangement  are  most  forcibly  shown, 
and  a  plan  given  to  show  how  easily  the  nave 
might  nave  been  used  and  eveiy  ecdedastical 
rule  followed.  Arj^uments  of  the  most  convinc- 
ing kind  accompamed  the  plan,  which  was  advo- 
cated in  a  very  able  manner  by  the  Rev.  W. 
(now  Sir  William  Cope,  Bart.)  Cope,  then  precen- 
tor; and  yet,  in  spite  of  all  the  most  sensible 
recommendations,  other  counsels  prevailed,  and 
we  now  see  in  consequence  the  present  uncom- 
fortable arrangements.  Circumstances,  however, 
have  even  now  compelled  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
to  throw  open  the  nave  for  special  services.  How 
infinitely  better  the  effect  would  be  with  the 
modem  screen  removed,  and  the  clergy  and  choir 
in  their  right  places  1 

I  refer  any  of  your  readers  who  take  an  interest 
in  this  subiect  to  the  admirable  article  in  The 
Parish  Choir  to  which  I  have  alluded.  I  have 
travelled  a  little  beyond  my  purpose  in  referring 
to  Wost minster  Abbey  when  the  question  imder 


diacaasion  relates  to  St.  Paul's,  but  the  cases  are 
similar,  and  the  mistake'  made  in  the  former 
building  should  be  a  warning  to  the  committee 
at  St  Paul's.  Benj.  Fkeret,  F.S.A. 


ORDERS  OF  KNIGHTHOOD. 
(4»»»  S.  V.  yI passim;  vii.  100, 197.) 

HoMTTircuLiTS,  osstwhile  my  approved  good  com- 
rade and  ever  my  valued  friend,  has  for  years 
permitted  his  sword  to  rust  in  its  scabbard-^haa 
taken  to  the  healing  of  wounds  instead  of  the 
making  of  them — and  bids  fair  for  canonisation ; 
whilst  1,  not  finding  the  world  to  be  yet  good 
enough  to  roll  on  smoothly  without  some  fighting 
occasionally,  am  content,  like  the  Black  Douglas, 
to  let  my  hands  defend  my  face  and  to  remain  a 
man  of  war  as  of  old. 

When  the  £nglish  Knights  of  St.  John  were 
attacked  anew,  on  apparently  fixed  principles,  by 
the  Roman  clique — which  of  late,  under  orders 
from  the  Propaganda,  has  striven  to  foice  itself 
into  notoriety,  and  to  usurp  a  position  to  wMdi, 
although  favoured  by  papal  patronage,  it  has  in 
this  kingdom   but  the  shadow  of  pretension  — 
HOMUKOITLUS  and  I  differed  as  to  the  course  to 
be  pursued  by  those  interested  in  the  cause  of 
progress.    He,  good  man,  in  apite  of  all  I  could 
urge,  must  needs  in  your  columns  preach  peace 
and  union  and  other  U  topianisms ;  whilst  I^  be- 
lieving bloodletting  to  be  advisable  under  the 
circumstances,  womd  fain  have  let  the  men  fight 
out  their  quarrel  by  themselves.    Not  that  1  like 
their  style  of  fighting ;  for  more  than  one  of  these 
Ultramontanes  deal  strange  underhanded  blows, 
and  withal  are  scant  of  courtesy.     Instructed, 
doubtless,  by  ghostly  advisers  and  by  the  clever 
advocate  whose  professional  ability  I  admire,  their 
plan  would  seem  in  this,  as  in  other  quarters,  to 
De  agjgressive,  self-asserting,  and  uncompromising; 
trusting  by  dint  of  subtilty  of  argument  and 
fieroeness  of  attack  to  make  good  t£eir  footing, 
and  to  prevent  their  opponents  from  cairving  the 
war  across  the  border.  Their  tactics,  so  onen  auc- 
oeasful,  may  on  this  occasion  have  deceived  many 
who,  ignorant  of  facts,  are  carried  away  by  loud 
talkhig;  and  this  the  more,  since  the  English 
knights,  forbearing  to  culpalnlity,  would  seem  to 
be  suffering  from  an  onslaught  of  railing  prieets 
or  of  scoldmg  women,  and  aye  acting  on  the  de- 
fensive of  a  consequence,  have  never  once  charged 
home  nor  have  striven  to  tum  the  tide  of  battle 
in  the  opposite  direction.     No  one  can  admire 
courteous  forbearance  more  than  I  do ;  for  I  hold 
it  to  be  unseemly  to  l)atter  out  the  brains  of  a 
braggart  with  a  bludgeon,  when  he  can  be  deli- 
cately despatched  with  a  small  sword.    By  such 
observances  the  man  of  refined  feeling,  in  matters 
military,  is  ever  careful  to   avoid  unnecooaary 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4** s.  vii.  apbil  22, 71. 


violence,  And  to  mark  the  great  galf  fixed  be- 
tween the  knif^ht  and  the  butcher  or  the  burglar. 
Let  the  Englinh  order  beware,  however,  leet  the 
charity  and  forbearance  of  its  membera  degene- 
rate into  weakness.  True,  their  good  deeds  have 
hitherto  enlisted  our  sympathies  in  their  favour, 
but  we  like  men  to  have  stiff  backbones  for  all 
that. 

HoxmrcuLtrs  had  his  own  way  with  me  as 
usual,  and  he  wrote  to  "  N.  &  Q."  whilst  I  re- 
mained silent  His  excellent  oil  fell  into  fire 
rather  than  upon  troubled  waters,  and  the  com- 
batants went  at  it  again,  attack  and  defence,  as 
hard  as  ever.  And  what  has  this  peace  policy, 
this  self-restraint,  brought  upon  these  English 
knights  ?  A  Bunyan  has  arisen  to  plague  them 
(4'**  S.  vii.  100):  an  apologue  has  been  brought 
to  bear  upon  them,  and  the  jesters,  marotte  in 
hand,  will  beat  them  out  of  the  lists,  unless  they 
pluck  up  heart  o'  grace  and  at  least  silence  D.  P., 
who  with  his  allegory — that  ill-conceived  and 
fearfully  and  wonderfully  made  instniment  of 
self-destruction — has  already  done  himself  a  mis- 
chief, and  may  be  easily  disposed  of  by  anv  single 
knight  who  won't  mind  about  closing  with  him. 

As  for  the  deformed  representative  man,  who 
has  taken  to  call  himself  St.  John  since  he  has 
come  recently  to  England  on  a  mission  from 
Rome,  his  pretensions  would  have  provoked  but 
a  smile,  had  he  not  proved  so  pertinaciously 
aggresnve.  Should  he  fail  to  amend  and  to  disarm 
public  criticism  by  imitating  the  charitable  ex- 
ample of  the  good  knight  whose  name  he  has 
aesumiBd,  let  him  look  for  small  mercy  from  all 
who  wear  nineteenth- century  spectacles — who, 
viewing  with  distrust  and  dislike  any  symptom  of 
a  return  to  the  bigotry,  intolerance,  and  spiritual 
terrorism  of  the  Middle  Ages,  mean  to  keep  Eng- 
land for  the  English ;  and  who,  in  comparison 
thereto,  care  but  little  by  what  name  a  body  of  their 
countrymen,  long  united  for  purely  philanthropic 
purposes,  may  choose  to  be  known,  or  what  ancient 
confraternity  they  may  legitimately  represent 
'    I  challenge  D.  P.'s  representative  man  to  sub- 
mit, if  he  dare,  to  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
proof  of  the  claim  he  has  so  loudly  taken  upon 
oimself  to  assert ;  after  which  (to  borrow  a  sen- 
tence from  the  great  allegorist),  it  will  *'  remain 
to  be  seen  what  Opinion  will  do  for  the  new  Mr. 
St  John."  MiLBB. 


Sir  6oBeEOT7s  Tintack  regrets  that  his  name 
should  have  been  introduced  into  a  discussion 
relative  to  the  claims  of  a  Mr.  St  John,  who  has 
recently  arrived  in  this  country  from  Italy. 

D.  P.  is  informed  that  Mr.  St.  John  must  ad- 
duce evidence  before  the  constituted  authorities 
in  support  of  his  alleged  descent  from  the  ancient 
family  whose  name  he  has  assumed,  ere  he  can 


legitimately  bear  the  arms  of  that  illostrioui 
houae,  or  can  with  propriety  question  the  rights 
of  others. 
Garter  Lodge. 

THE  BOOKWORM. 

(4»'»  S.  vL  627;  vu.  66, 168,  262.) 

The  following  elegant  lines  will  be  read  by  the 
scholar  with  interest,  alike  from  their  merit  and 
the  excellent  cautions  they  give.  The  author  was 
Pierre  Petit,  a  phvsician  of  Paris,  who  cultivated 
Latin  poetry  with  such  success  as  to  earn  for 
himselr  a  place  among  the  eminent  men — Rapin, 
Gommire,  JLa  Rue,  Santeuil,  Menage,  and  Duper- 
rier  who,  with  him,  were  held  to  constitute  the 
celebrated  poetical  **  Pleiade '' : — 

**  In  Blattam, 
Insect!  genus,  libris  infestum. 

Inyisnm  Mnsis  pecos,  andax  bestia,  pestis 

Cbartamm,  immondo  quam  parit  umbra  51' u ; 
Tune  sacroB  andes  corrumpere,  Blatta,  labonrs  ? 

DivinsB  egregiaa  perdere  mentis  opea  ? 
Qnas  non  ira  Jovis,  non  ulla  abolere  vetastas 

Sustinuit,  ssvo,  per6da,  dente  petis  ? 
Atoni  debebas  solos  non  tangare  libros, 

Nascendi  spea  est,  et  gen  as  unde  tibi. 
Te  poUus  dites  Una*,  te  purpura  paaeat, 

Quodcumqne  et  mulier  Dardana  pingit  opus. 
Te  vastare  favoe  divini  Musa  Maronis 

Admonnit  docto  carmine,  parva  querent; 
At  tu,  proh  facinas !  longe  meliora  Deomm 

Dona  rapis :  quanto  hac  fraude,  soelesta  magia  I 
Quid  juvat  in  libris  tantos  poaniaae  laborea  ? 

Si  quoa  condidimua  perdere  blatta  potest 
Qaid  loquor?  aut  quia  nunc  mihi  mentem  inaania 
turbat? 

In  rapidoe  abennt  improba  dicta  aotoa. 
Non  tu,  Blatta,  aed  est  culpanda  ignavia  nostra, 

Tu  licet  ipsa  nooea,  at  prior  ilia  nocet 
Non  residea  chartas  tenebria  damnamus  opacia ; 

Tu  male  oompositas  aadula  carpia  opea. 

0  utinam  infossoa  poases  quoque  rodere  nummoa, 
Abdita  quoe  pare!  atrangulat  area  aenis. 

Quia  damnet,  quod  aic  spretas  uldaoeris  artes  ? 

Mnaamm  iropulan  foraitan  ore  moves. 
Hand  aliter  vatea  faatu  irritata  tyranni, 

Didtnr  Anaoniis  fata  dedisse  focia. 
Si  tamen  in  te  aliqua  est  pietas,  venerare  priorea 

Cnraa,  nen  sedis  scripta  veranda  pete. 
Nngacea  potiua  qui  prostant  undiqne,  libroa 

Contere,  aunt  digni  dente  peiire  tuo. 
Hiec  etiam  qvm  lusi  in  te,  maU  carmina,  fidens 
Abaumaa  per  me :  sunt  tua  namque ;  licet** 

Petri  Petiti,  Pfailoaophi  et  Doctoria  Medid. 
SeUetonm  Poemahim,  libri  duo,  8re.,  8ro, 
Pariaiis,  1688,  p.  41. 

1  have  lonff  been  in  the  habit  of  marking  with 
a  small  pencil "  tick  "  any  vermicular  perforations 
that  I  have  found  to  exist  in  a  ne^y  acquired 
book,  and  have  thus  been  able  to  ascertain  be- 

Sond  a  doubt  that  this  insatiable  marauder  has  not 
eld  the  contents  of  my  own  shelves  sacred  from 
his  depredations.  Moreover,  I  have  observed  that 
certain  old  books,  which  I  have  had  rebacked 


4a&vilapbil«8;7io       notes  and  quebies. 


347 


myselfy  have  suffered,  eflpeciallj  at  the  internal 
flexure  of  the  ''end-papers,"  and  tikis  when  I 
could  not  find  a  corresponding  external  aperture 
of  entrance.  The  maggot  itself  I  have  often 
seen  "cribh'd,  cabin'd,  and  confined"  in  a  pri- 
son of  his  own  constructioni  and  thus  causing 
adherence  of  several  pages  together.  The  only  pre- 
vention is  the  frequent  taking  down  of  your 
hooks,  removing  the  dust  from  the  top  edge  and 
the  headband  with  a  brushy  and  beating  them 
well  together  out  o'  window. 

William  Bates. 
Binniogham. 

So  Mb.  Blades  caught  a  worm,  and  I  ^'  nipped 
it  in  the  bud"!  I  regret  to  have  frastratect  nis 
biographical  intentions,  but  am  consoled  by  the 
reflection  that  his  plan  of  making  a  paper  cage  for 
his  prisoner  was  almost  as  likely  to  answer  its 
purpose  as  would  be  an  attempt  to  confine  an 
elephant  in  a  cobweb. 

The  Shade  of  I)b.  Bakdikxl. 
Elyaian  Fields. 

In  the  very  interesting  account  given  by  the 
Hey.  F.  T.  Uavergal  of  these  pests,  he  says : 
'*  They  have  a  hard  outer  skin,  and  are  of  a  dark- 
brown  colour.  I  have  never  found  these  insects — 
worms  they  are  not — alive  and  at  work."  I  beg 
to  inclose  one  of  the  second  kind,  mentioned  by 
Mr.  HATEBeAi,  which  I  have  just  caught  **  alive 
and  at  work,"  underneath  a  small  heap  of  saw- 
dust of  its  own  making,  on  an  old  book-shelf, 
which  I  fear  I  shall  have  to  consign  to  the  flames, 
as  every  year  I  find  a  greater  number  of  holes  in 
it.  As  to  the  first  kind  of  insects,  with  a  hard 
outer  d(in,  and  of  a  dark  brown  colour,  the  wood- 
boring  beetle,  with  wings,  I  cannot  but  help 
thinking  it  is  one  and  the  some  species,  only  at  a 
different  period  of  the  year.  As  the  caterpillar  is 
changed  first  into  a  chrysalis  and  then  into  a  outter- 
fly,  so  I  fancy  these  small  white  worms  vrith  a 
hard  brown  substance  at  head  and  tail  are  after- 
wards turned  into  the  small  brown  beetle.  This 
conjecture  arises  from  the  fact  that,  going  habitu- 
ally to  the  country  later  in  the  season  than  this 
year,  I  have  always  seen  the  beetle,  and  neyer 
the  worm  before,  at  work.  P.  A.  L. 


There  is  a  verv  interesting  poem  on  the  ''  Book- 
worm "  by  Dr.  Thomas  Pamell,  but  which  is  said 
to  be  (in  one  of  my  copies  of  the  works  of  this 
poet),  an  '' unacknowledged  translation  from  a 
Latin  poem  by  Beza."  Is  this  statement  affecting 
the  onginality  of  the  poem  correct  P     J.  Febbt. 

WalUuun  Abbey. 

The  bookworm  being  now  fairly  hunted  ''to 
earth,"  is  it  not  time  to  refer  to  Pamell's  pleasing 
little  poem  upon  the  subject?  W.  (1.) 


ORIGIN  OF  THE  SURNAME  CUNNINGHAM. 
(A^  S.  m. passim:  iv.  62, 179 ;  vii.  221.) 

It  may  be  necessary  to  recollect  that  this  term, 
besides  being  a  personal  surname,  is  also  the  name 
of  one  of  the  three  great  divisions  of  the  county  of 
Ayr — ^that  which  is  separated  from  Kyle  by  the 
Irvine,  as  Kyle  is  from  Garrick  by  the  Doon. 
W.  F.  (2),  quoting  an  entry  in  the  Kirk  Session 
records  of  JDundonald  P.  of  21  June,  1607,  in 
support  of  the  coney  theory,  adopted  by  him,  as  it 
would  appear,  in  the  wake  of  the  author  of  Cale^ 
donioy  has  evidently  misread  that  entry.     Stein 
Wilson  in  Ghules  (now  generally  written  Gayles, 
a  farm  well  known,  situated  a  mile  and  half  dt  so 
south  of  the  burgh  of  Irvine,  and  in  Dundonald 
P.)  is  given  up,  or  reported  to  the  Kirk  Session 
as  having  transgressed  the  discipline  of  the  kirk 
in  having  shot,  with  a  hackbut,  '<at  ye  connyngis 
in  Corsbie's  Conyngam  in  St  Madanes,"  on  a 
Sunday,  fifteen  days  before.    W.  F.  says,  that 
"  Corsbie's "  means  the  laird  of  Corsby's  Con-    ^ 
yngam ;  that  is,  we  presume,  the  laird  of  Gorsbjr's 
lands  caUed  Conyngam,  and  which  lie  in  or  within 
St.  Madanes.    Either  that  is  the  meaning  which 
W.  F.  puts  on  the  entry,  or  he  may  possibly  sup- 
pose that  the  Laird  of  C.  was  sumamed  Conynaam. 
In  the  latter  case,  however,  the  entry  would  have 
stood  Corsbte^Conyngam — meaning  land  called 
Corsbie,  owned  by  Conyngam — and  not "  Corsbie's 
Conyngam,"  which  can  only  import  land  of  the 
name  of  Conyngam  belonging  to  the  Laird  of  Cors- 
bie. Neither  couiecture  will  stand  an  examination. 
Dundonald  parish,  including  Gailes,  a  three  pund 
land  of  old  extent,  is  in  Kyle,  not  in  the  Cun- 
ningham, district  There  is  no  land  in  Dundonald 
par&h,  or  even  in  Kyle,  called  Conyngam ;  and 
none  of  the  lairds  of  Corsbie  ever  bore  such  a 
surname.  That,  on  the  other  hand,  was  FuUerton, 
designed  genendly  of  Fullerton,  or  Of  that  Ilk^ 
but  yet  sometimes  of  Corsbie,  and  of  Dreghom. 
Corsbie  was  a  twenty  pund  land  of  old  extent,  on 
which,  prior  to  the  Reformation  of  religion,  was 
an  ancient  chapel  dependent  on  Dundonald.    W. 
F.'s  mistake  arises  simply  from  reading  Conynyam 
instead  of  Conyngair  (gair  or  gare),  signif^g  a 
rabbit-warren,  one  that  was  "  in  "  or  within  a 
pendicle  of  land  belonging  to  the  laird  of  Corsbie 
called  St.  Madanes,  lying  contiguous  to  the  chapel 
of  Corsbie,  and  also  to  Troon,  a  flourishing  sea-port, 
where  is  a  way  or  street  now  called  St  Meoans. 
And  as  the  old  religious  houses  were  always  dedi- 
cated to  some  holy  person,  there  is  much  reason 
for  believing  that  Cforsbie  Chapel  had  St  Medan 
for  its  tutelar  saint    Several  Parish  kirks  were 
dedicated  to  him,  as  for  example  Toskertoun,  called 
also  Kirkmedan,  in  the  presbytery  of  Stranraer,  and 
that  of  Kirkmaiden  (the  cell  or  kirk  of  St.  Medan), 
Bums'  '<  Maiden  Kirk  "  in  the  l^ns.  of  Qalloway. 
In  forming  an  opinion  of  the  origin  of  Ctmin^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4^8.VII.ArBa22,7l. 


han%f  it  may  not  be  impzoper  for  W.  F.  to  con- 
sider the  earliest  forms  in  whicli  the  name  ap- 
pears.    Taliesiny  a  .Welsh  bard  of  the  serenth 
oentmji,  calls  it  Ctmoutm.    "  Gaxawg  (savs  Mr. 
W.  F.  Skene),  taken  in  combination  witn  Coel 
and  Oanauon  in  line  28,  shows  that  the  three 
proyinces  of  Ayzshire— Canicki  Gyle,  and  Gunin^ 
ham — are  meaat."    (Four  Anc.  Books  of  WaleSj  iL 
407.)    The  Ven.  Bede,  in  his  Eoc  SiJlorv,  which 
was  finished  in  Hie  beginning  of  the  eighth  cen- 
tury^ calls  it  Inounemnffum,    (Mon.  Mist,  Brit, 
b.  V.  c.  12.)    The  chroniclers  Boyeden,  and  Ben: 
Abfaas;  speaking  of  a  well  near  the  Kiik  of  St 
Yinnin  runniog  blood  for  eiffht  sucoessive  days 
an#  nights  donng  the  year  1186,  sa^s  this  well 
li^  <'  infra  Gmiinham  " ;  (t.  e,  in  the  lower  part  of 
G.y)  and  near  to  the  GasUe  of  Irwine.    And  in 
many  charters,  copies  of  which  are  preserved  in 
the  monkish  registers  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth 
centuries  and  later,  although  the  orthography  is 
▼ezy  various,  it  is  generally  found  f^MM">'"g  the 
r.    forms  of  Koninpham  and  Cunigkam.     Keeping, 
these  early  forms  of  the  name  in  view,  it  may 
be  a  proper  subject  for  inquiry  and  consider- 
ation, whether  names  of  places  in  Ayrdiire,  in 
the  time  of  Taliesin,  Bede,  Hoveden,  Benedictus 
Abbas,  &c.,  could  be  other  than  for  the  most  part 
Geltic  (British^  Welsh,  Erse,  or  Gaelic),  or  at 
least  Celtic  with  some  little  admixture  of  the 
speech  of  the  Scandinavian  population  of  the  so- 
i»Ued  kingdom  of  Northumbria,  in  which  the 
western  _  shires  of  Scotland  were  sometimes,  and 
for  periods  greater  and  lesser,  included.    (Bedels 
Hist,  V.  12 ;  Robertson's  £arfy  Kings.) 

£SPEnABS.  * 


'<  Chalmers  points  out  that  Cuning  is  the  British 
*  rabbit,  and  that  (kmingham  simply  means  '  the 

Slace  where  rabbits  abound.'  "  Tne  Saxon  word 
Zanindhm,  rabbit,  or  m  it  was  formerly  spelt, 
Caninchen  (see  N.  Bailey's  Didionary)  has  a 
f  amify  likeness  to  CmUngham.  '^    '    ' 


F.  A.  L. 

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BOSEMART  USED  AT  FUNERALS. 
(4«»  S.  vu.  206.) 

In  South  Lancashire  the  use  of  rosemary  in 
funeral  rites  is  still  observed.  Theinjunction  of 
the  Friar  may  yet  be  heard  (albeit  in  other 
words) : — 

**  Dry  np  your  tean.  and  stick  your  rosemaiy 
On  this  ftdr  eome.** 

Sprigs  of  rosemary  are  placed  on  the  corpse  as 
it  lies  receiving  the  last  visits  of  old  friends ;  and 
it  is  also  usual  to  scatter  them  in  the  grave  as 
the  parson  reads  the  most  solemn  words  of  the 
solemn  burial  service.  Mr.  Brierley,  whose  pic- 
tures of  Laneashire  life  are  generally  marvels  of 


photographic  accuiacy.  has  not  omitted  this  fea- 
ture. In  describing  tne  Old  Huntsman's  funeral 
he  says : — 

«The  old  hontsmea  gatbend  roand  the  gcavs  in  a 
solid  ring,  each  hoLding  his  dog  by  the  -slip,  and  when 
the  final  aghes  to  ashei,  dust  to  dust  was  prononnoed,  the 
whole  strewed  their  sprigs  of  roaemanr  over  the  ooiBn, 
then  rairing  their  heads,  gave  a  simultaneous  <  Yo-ho! 
tally-ho  I '  Ute  sound  of  which  became  lieightened  by  tlw 
dogajoining  their  voices  as  they  mng  the  last  cry  over 
their  *  earthed*  companion." — Chnmiclu  of  WaveHow, 
p.  164.) 

It  is  also  alluded  to  in  Mr.  Edwin  Waugh's 
poem  of  "  Owd  Enoch  ^ : — 

**  An*  when  they  put  Enoch  to  bed  down  i*  th*  gieawnd* 
A  rook  o'  poor  neighbours  stoode  bare-yedded  nawnd ; 
They  dropt  sprigs  o*  rosemary,  an*  this  war  their  text, 
Th*  owd  crayters  laid  by — we  may  haply  be  th*  next.' 

Rosemary  was  one  of  poor  Eirke  White's 
favourite  flowers ;  and  one  of  his  poems,  tinged 
with  that  melancholy  which  pervaded  his  writingB 
and  seems  almost  prophetic  of  his  untimely  end, 
is  addressed  to  that  sad  herb : — 

"  Come,  funeral  flower,  who  lovest  to  dwell 
With  the  pale  corse  in  lonely  tomb, 
And  throw  across  the  desert  gloom 

A  sweet  decajring  smell. 
Come,  press  my  lips,  and  lie  with  me. 
Beneath  the  lonely  alder  tree. 
And  we  shall  sleep  a  pleasant  sleep, 
And  not  a  care  shall  dare  intrude 
To  break  the  marble  solitude. 
So  peaceful  and  so  deep.'* 

In  a  little  volume  entitled  Ftowers  and  their 
Poetry,  edited  by  J.  Stevenson  Bushnan,  M.D., 
London,  1851,  and  which,  from  its  pleasant  sub- 
ject and  the  poetic  and  artistic  taste  it  displays, 
would  del^ht  your  correspondent,  I  find  another 
poem  dedicated  to  the 

"  ROSKKART. 

'*  Sacred  to  sorrow  and  the  dead; 

Sighs  are  called  up  where*er  we  see 
Thy  blossoms  strewed  upon  the  bed 
Of  Silence,  Roe-Marie ! 

■*  We  look  upon  a  cold  still  face, 

Tet  calm,  resigned  to  Heaven*s  decree; 
And,  sprinkled  o'er  the  shroud  we  traoe 
Thy  blossoms,  Ros-Harie ! 

**  Thy  verv  odour  to  the  sense 

Freac^es  of  scenes  where  sorrows  be^ 
And  of  some  spirit  summoned  hence 
To  judgment,  Roe-Marie ! 

**  Better  by  far  the  house  of  woe. 

Than  that  of  laughter ;  and  through  thee 
Nature  would  to  the  thonghtiess  show 
That  homily,  Ros-Mariet " 

It  was  formerly  used  for  bridals  as  wall  as 
burials,  and  to  these  **  two  ends  "  there  is  an  allu- 
sion in  Herrick's  "  Hesperides,**  as  well  as  in  a 
poem  with  which  Mb.  Eikdt  is  nrobably  familiar, 
«  Das  Madchen  uad  die  Blumen,^  by  A.  Schniber, 
in  which  the  Kosemary  thus  addresses  the  Maiden: 


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<*  Wfthle  mich,  denn  holfeiid  bindet 
Mich  die  jang«  Brant  ins  Hmut, 
Wlhle  micb,  denn  hoifend  windet 
Midi  die  Tuner  am  die  Bahr\" 


Joynson  Street,  Strangeweys. 


W.  E.  A.  A. 


ENGLISH  DESCENT  OF  DANIEL  O'CONNELL. 

(4«'»  S.  ill.  76  J  vii.  242.) 

I  anee  with  jonr  correspondent  H.  as  to  the 
ao-called  "  Irish  pure  Celt "  (if  in  Irelisnd  or  else- 
where there  be  such  a  thmg  as  ''pure  Celtic 
bloody**  which  I  very  much  doubt),  that  no  one 
man  of  that  race  ever  attained  ''real  greatness  in 
literature,  science,  art,  political  or  muitaiy  life." 
That  a  uiffe  Gothic  element  exists  in  the  raoe  of 
modem  Insh  is  past  all  doubt.  Celtic  philolo- 
gists may  say  what  they  please  about  the  "  antique 
purity  of  the  Celtic  language.'*  Their  views  on 
this  subject  are  to  me  as  irrational  as  the  specu* 
Istions  of  Lord  Monboddo  on  the  primitive  elon- 
gation of  the  vertebrse  in  the  human  species,  or 
the  more  recent  vagaries  of  Professor  Darwin. 
We  find  even  Lord  Brougham,  great  man  that 
he  was,  attributing  his  success  in  Hfe  to  the  (sup- 
posed) Celtic  blood  inherited  from  his  mother: 
just  as  the  eminent  Chief  Justice  Hale  entertained 
the  belief  of  witchcraft,  which  shows  that  even 
men  of  ffenius  are  not  always  superior  to  the  pre- 
vailing delusion  — 

**  The  one  hero  besring  a  Celtic  name  of  whom  the  Irish 
Celts  are  most  proud,  gloiring  in  him  as  their  representa- 
tive  man — *  Insh/  sayv  Mr.  Lenihan, '  in  erefy  element 
of  his  being,  head,  heart,  blood !  J  is  no  *  pure  Irisb  Celt ' 
at  all.'* 

So  writes  your  correspondent  H.  Whatever 
be  his  lineage  (and  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt  the 
account  given  by  your  correspondent),  it  is  at 
least  certain,  that  the  name  O'Connell  is  as  Norse 
as  Norse  can  be,  and  affords  a  strong  presumption 
of  a  Gothic  element  in  the  blood  of  the  "  great 
liberator,'*  apart  from  that  of  the  "  Kentish  and 
Yorkshire  coloniBts  " :  — 

"  Might  we,*'  says  Fergoson,*  "eTen  go  on  to  aak^ 
but  here  we  tread  on  tender  ground — ^whether  O'Connell 
was  more  than  half  an  Irishman  ?  Konall  seems  to  have 
been  a  common  name  among  the  Norsemen:  there  are 
six  of  that  name  mentioned  ia  the  LandHOmaMk,  or  list 
of  original  settlers  in  Iceland.  The  name  itself  appears 
in  form  to  be  Scandinavian,  and  to  have  a  clear  etympn  in 
Old  Norse — himr,  a  noble  or  illustrioos  person,  a  king ; 
and  aUr,  all—'  all  king,'  an  appropriate  title  enough  for 
the '  king  of  all  Ireland.'  The  name  ConnelV  continues 
this  writer,  **  is  by  no  meana  an  uncommon  one  in  the 
North  of  England,  where  it  might  most  naturally  be  sup- 
posed to  be  derived  from  the  Danes  or  Northmen.  The. 
respective  prefixes  *0'  and  *Mc'  in  Ireland  and  Scot- 
land, might  indicate  a  eroas  between  the  natives  and  the 
Kortbem  settlers,"  &c 

*  The  NorAmtn  m  Cumbtrkmd  and  JTettmoreland,  by 
Bobert  Ferguson,  London,  1856. 


It  has  already  been  shown  in  the  pages  of 
"N.  ft  Q."  that  the  patronvmic  prefix ''  Mac  "  is 
not  Celtic,  but  Gothic.  Thomson,*  speaking  of 
the  settle'iient  of  the  Scots  in  Ireland,  whom  he 
holds  to  be  of  the  same  Gothic  origin  with  the 
Picts,  says  that  "  much  of  their  language  pervades 
the  Insh  or  Erse,  where  the  verv  terms  of  £uaily 
descent,  such  as  'Mac'  and  '0,'  are  apparently 
GK>thic."  Anotiier  writer  of  credit,t  in  regard  to 
Irelaiid,  informs  us  on  the  authority  of  Taoi^u,  and 
"on  every  evidence,  historical  or  traditional,"  of 
"the  introduction  at  some  very  remote  period, 
either  by  conquest  or  colonisation,  of  a  ustinct 
race  from  its  original  inhabitants  ';  in  proof  of 
which  he  mentions  the  peasantry  of  the  eastern 
and  midland  districts,  who  exhibit  the  "  blue  eyes 
and  flaxen  hair  peculiar  to  the  German  tribeis." 
In  fact,  the  doctrine  of  Celtidsm  seems  to  me  a 
species  of  popular  delusion,  which  in  Scotland  at 
least  has  been  kept  alive  through  the  gratuitous 
assumptions  and  nnsatiafactory  conjectures  of  such 
writers  as  George  Chalmars,  I^.  Daniel  Wilson^ 
Dr.  John  Stuart,  and  a  few  otiiers  who  follow 
in  their  track.  Dr.  Petrie,  of  "round  tower'* 
celebrity,  was,  I  suppose,  the  great  Irish  apostle 
of  Celticism.  That  the  nomendatures  of  Ireland 
and  Scotland  poasess  much  in  common,  it  would 
be  idle  to  deny ;  but  that  that  element  is  abori- 
ginid,  and  not  merely  early  Gothic,  is  the  ouestion 
still  to  be  proved.  Bilbo. 


Characteb  of  Constab^tdte:  Trachala  (4*"*  S. 
vii.  303.) — See  my  Lectures  on  the  History  of  the 
Eastern  Church,  p.  186,  third  edition.     A.  r.  S. 

[The  passage  referred  to  runs  thus :  —  ''He  (Constan- 
tine)  had  a  contemptuous  habit  of  throwing  back  his 
head,  which,  by  brincpng  out  the  full  proportions  of  his 
thick  neck,  procured  lor  him  the  nickname  of  Trachala," 
—Ed.] 

Handel's  "  MkssiAH  "  (4^  S.  vii.  304.)— This 
question  is  one  of  curious  simplicitv.  The  audi- 
ence stand  up  during  the  "  HaUefujah  Chorus  " 
because  of  the  peculiar  solemnity  of  the  words.  I 
have  known  it  done  during  the  preceding  chorus, 
«  For  imto  us  a  Child  ia  bom.''  It  is  like  the 
custom  in  most  churches  of  standing  (or  kneeling) 
when  the  Lord's  Prayer  occurs  in  tne  Lesson. 

Ltttbltok. 

Hagley,  Stourbridge. 

At  the  first  performance  of  the  "Messiah"  in 
Westminster  Abbey,  such  was  the  efiect  of  the 
rendering  of  the  words — "  For  the  Lord  God  Om- 
nipotent reigneth,"  that  the  king  (George  II.), 
^no  was  present,  started  to  his  feet,  and  remainbd 
standing  till  the  conclusion  of  that  portion  of  the 
oratorio.    His  example  was  instantly  followed  by 

•  Eifmoiu  of£ugliak  Word;  bv  the  late  John  Thom- 
son, M.B.I,  and  A.S.,  Edinburgh,  1826. 
t  Mr.  J.  R.  Planch^  (^British  Quhane), 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[4*S.VII.  Apbil22,*71, 


the  endre  congregation:  hence,  I  believe,  it  has 
been  customary  for  audiences  to  stand  during  the 
singing  of  the  '<  HaUelujah  Chorus"  ever  since. 

J.  D.  Li. 

Two  Passagbs  in  "  TncoN  of  Athbks  *'  (4*  S. 
vi.  43, 164,  269,  366, 446.)— Not  being  a  constant 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q.*'  I  have  only  to-day  seen  the 
reply  of  A.  H.  to  my  suggestion :  "  you  want  muck 
of  me."    Without  comofbntinjg  on  his  own  ex- 

Elanation,  and  still  less  on  the  language  which 
e  has  thought  fit  to  employ.  I  only  beg  leave  to 
lay  before  your  readers  the  following  passage  from 
the  well-known  ballad  of  "Qemutus"  in  Percy's 
Reliques:  — 

**  His  heart  doth  thinke  on  many  a  wile, 
How  to  deceive  the  poore  \ 
His  moath  is  almost  fal  of  maccAe, 
Tet  still  he  gapes  for  more." 

Nobody,  I  think^  will  deny  that  mticA;  here  means 
ffold.  Now,  ffold  it  was,  not  meat,  which  the  ban- 
ditti wanted  from  Timon,  who*  had  dug  up  a  large 
quantity  of  i%  but  after  his  experience  contemns 
it  as  the  merest  and  most  abominable  trash.  Com- 
pare OtheBo  III.  3:  ''  Who  steals  my  purse  steals 
trash."  The  repetition  of  much  in  the  two  suc- 
ceeding lines,  far  fiom  confirming  the  reading  of 
the  foUo,  is  in  itself  rather  suspicious  and  pro- 
bably owing  to  the  carelessness  of  the  compositor. 

K.  Elze. 
Dresden. 

The  Obigik  of  Abchbishop  Stafford  (^^^  S. 

vii.  263.)— 

*'John  Stafford  was  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and 
Chanoellor  of  England  doring  some  of  the  most  troubled 
years  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VI." 

This  note  gives  me  some  hope  I  may  be  on  the 
f^cent  of  a  Stafford,  whose  large  signature  '^  Staf- 
FOBD  "  (I  shall  give  it  more  correctly  when  once 
I  get  U>  Paris,  if  ever  we  can  ^t  there,  and 
recover  our  goods  and  chattels)  is  on  a  large 
<1ocument  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VL  headed  with 
the  name  of  the  Duke  of  Bedford  (not  John  the 
Regent  in  France,  but  his  brother  [and  successor 
as  governor  of  Normandy.)  Why  it  is  signed 
Stafford  I  have  never  been  able  to  make  out 

P.  A.  L. 

Rbmarkable  Clock  (4«»  S.  vii.  322.)— The 
clock  referred  to  is  being  exhibited  at  the  Crystal 
Palace  at  Sydenham,  where  all  particulars  may 
be  learned  respecting  it    It  is  still  for  sale. 

J.  H.  J.  Oaklet. 

The  Priory,  Croydon. 

Ettmoloot  of  •'  Ward  "  as  a  Pebsokal  Name 
(4<^  S.  vii.  266.)— Mb.  Nichols  has  answered  lus 
own  question.  Ward  is  guard,  and  both  have 
much  the  same  signiiication  as  herd,  i.  e,  keeper ; 
cf.  hoard  =  a  treasure ;  something  guarded  with 
care.  Thus  the  gate-keeper  is  the  gate-ward,  or 
the  warder.    Wards^  in  Chancery,  imply  the  pos- 


session of  property;  such  persons  would  have 
hereditary  or  temtorial  designations;  a  ward, 
living  in  a  private  family,  say  with  his  uncle, 
would  have  a  name  otherwise  than  in  his  legal 
capacity  of  ''a  ward."  Supposing  a  minor,  or 
person  under  the  care  of  a  guardian,  to  become 


from  his  adopted  empWment,  and  that  he  would 
lose  the  name  of  "  ward  "  when  the  term  had  lost 
its  significancy  as  regards  himself,  and  never  be 
able  to  transmit  it  to  his  posterity.  A.  H. 

J.  G.  N.  (for  whose  knowledge  and  acquire- 
ments,  if  I  guess  him  rightly,  I  have  much  respect) 
says,  ''Mr.  Lower  derives  the  name  of  Legard 
from  '  Fr.  legarde^  the  guard,  keeper,  or  warden.' " 
But  was  k  garde  ever  a  French  woid  applied  to  a 
person  P  Garde  is  in  French  a  feminine  noun,  and 
its  meaning  is  the  same  as  our  guard.  (There  is 
the  Ftencn  surname  De  la  Garde,)  The  person 
who  guards  is  a  gardien^  our  guardian  or  warden. 
I  entertain  a  doubt,  therefore,  whether  a  Ward 
was  really  an  officer  or  a  person  employed  in 
guarding.  Did  the  writer  recollect  the  case  of 
La  sentmeUe  f  W.  (1.) 

"  As  Cyril  and  Nathan  "  (4"'  S.  vu.  321.)— 
Another  version — 

'*  As  Cyril  and  Nathan  were  passing  by  Qaeen\ 
Says  Cyril  to  Katbsn,  *  NVe^re  both  of  as  deans 

And  both  of  us  bishops  may  be.* 
Says  Nathan  to  Qyril,  'I  certainly  shall 
Stay  here,  to  look  after  my  little  canal. 
And  yon  may  look  after  the  see." 

A.  P.  S. 

ECSTATICS  :     THE     "  ESTATICA "    OF    CaLDARO 

(4*S.  vi.475;  vii.  21.  123,  193.)— The  review 
of  the  Third  Series  of  Waterton's  Ewnys  on  Nat, 
JBietarg  is  in  Fraser's  Magazine,  Dec.  1S57  (noi 
1858),  and  is  the  first  article  in  the  number.  My 
memorandum  is  to  this  efiect,  and  1  have  verified 
the  correctness  of  it.  William  Bates. 

Birmingham. 

Bears*  Ears  (4^**  S.  vii.  256.)  —  The  auricula 
was  called  bears'  ears  in  Suffolk  in  1830,  and,  for 
anything  1  know  to  the  contrary,  is  called  so  still. 

G.  F. 

Or  as  pronounced  haiziers,  is  still  the  popular 
name  of  JVimtito  auricula  in  this  district,  and  in 
South  Lancashire  generally.  I  believe,  however, 
that  the  plant  is  not  known  by  that  name  in  North 
Lancashire.  Jakes  Pearson. 

Milnrow,  near  Bochdale. 

It  is  asked  if  this  name  for  the  auricula  has 
long  been  disused.  I  reply  that  it  has  never  been 
disused.  It  is  the  common  name  of  the  auricula 
in  the  Eastern  Counties;  and  a  clever  Scotch 
gardener  assures  me  that  he  was  &miliar  with 
uie  same  name  in  his  youth  in  Scotland.    The 


Jk  *  ^^V  ^^^^^immvmfmt 


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flower,  Loudon  saja,  was  cultivated  by  Gerard  in 
16d7y  under  the  name  of  *'  bears*  ears,"  or  moun- 
tain cowslips.  'The  French  call  it  bv  a  similar 
name,  Oreille  ffourSf  and  so  do  the  Italians,  OreC" 
chio  dorso.  Of  course,  the  name  was  given  to 
the  plant  from  the  resemblance  of  its  leaves  to  the 
ears  of  a  bear ;  but'  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  so 
uglj  a  name  should  have  so  fixed  itself  upon  this 
very  beautiful  species  of  primrose,  that  in  many 
places  it  is  known  by  no  other.  F.  C.  H. 

SxEDADDLB  (3'*  S.  ii.  (526;  4?^  S.  i.  498.)  — 
The  attempt  to  derive  English  words  from  the 
Qreek  so  very  seldom  succeeds  that  I  hesitate 
much  before  sending  a  most  doubtful  origin  of  the 
above  word ;  but  the  following  sentence  of  Pausa- 
nias  (iv.  14, 1),  referring  to  tiie  dose  of  the  first 
Messenian  war,  6  Zk  6x^os  6  iro\bs  Korii  rkt  warplias 
€KaffToi  rhs  ofix'^^^  iffKMaBriffeaf,  pictures  a  ske- 
daddle so  well  that  I  wonder  whether  the  word 
can  possibly  come  from  trxMifrvtu, 

JoHK  BxTsrs  Gabbneb. 
Chatteris. 

Bishop  Fuller  (4»'»  S.  vii.  257.)  — William 
Fuller,  Bishop  of  Limerick  and  Lincoln,  was  the 
son  of  Thomas  Fuller  of  London,  merchant.  I 
make  this  statement  on  the  authority  of  the  Ful- 
ler Pedigiee,  communicated  by  James  Franklin 
Fuller,  Esq.,.  to  Miscellanea  Oeneahgi^  et  He^ 
raldica,  vol.  i.  p.  216.  Chahles  Sothekast. 

6,  Meadow  Street,  Moss-side,  near  Manchester. 

Lord  Btron's  "English  Bards,''  etc.  (4<^  S. 
vi.  passim:  vii.  23, 106, 197.)— "311 »'  wiU  find  the 
lines  "0  Gemini,"  &c.  (as  given  by  me  in  a 
former  communication)  in  an  8vo  edition  of  Byron 
edited  by  Gait  and  printed  at  Fans.  Not  having 
the  volume  at  hand  I  cannot  state  whether  the 
lines  occur  in  the  memoir  or  amongst  the  poems. 
I  am,  however,  certain  that  they  were  headed 
^' Versiclee,''  and  were  amongst  some  similar 
trifles  on  Wordsworth's  JVhite  Doe,  the  "curst 
old  woman,''  See.  &c.  The  very  personal  and  ob- 
noxious epig^ram  on  the  Prince  Regent  was  in  the 
same  volume,  which  was  a  scraping  together  of 
everything  Byron  had  written  or  was  supposed  to 
have  done.  The  "  O  Gemini ! "  reminds  me  that 
the  Italian  peasants  frequently  swear  by  the 
twins  (GemJU)^  who,  I  presume,  are  the 

**  Great  twin  brethren  *' 
Romulus  and  Remus.    Can  our  vulgar  exclama- 
tion have  a  similar  origin? 

James  Henrt  Dixon. 

A  SCRIPSIT,  OR  ChRISTV AS  PlECB  (4*^^  S.  vi. 

567 ;  vii.  145,  201.)— Most  of  your  veaders  have 
heanl  of  the  great  painter  Joseph  Wright  of 
Derby,  and  some  have  doubtless  seen  his  works. 
He  was  for  a  short  time  at  Repton  School,  about 
the  year  1745.  It  is  aaid,  when  there,  he  saw  a 
*'  ChristmaB  piece ''  the  property  of  one  of  his 


schoolfellows^  and  was  so  struck  with  it  that  he 
determined  to  try  to  draw.  This  would  corro- 
borate F.  C.  H.'s  statement  of  a  picture  of  some 
kind  forming  a  portion  of  the  Christmas  piece, 
whilst  we  may  also  suppose  the  central  portion 
of  the  sheet  filled  with  specimens  of  writing; 
hence  called  a  '*  scripsit"  The  anecdote  of  the 
origin  of  the  formation  of  Wrippht's  taste  for  paint- 
ing is  to  be  found  in  a  memoir  of  him  in  the  HeH" 
quary,  iv.  177.  JoHK  Pigktord,  M.A. 

Bolton  Percy,  near  Tadcaater. 

Heraldic  or  Hsraldric  ^4**"  S.  vi.  458 ;  vii. 
273.) — ^Instead  of  CoplesUne  m  the  county  of 
Chester  read  Cmegthomef  once  the  property  of 
the  old  family  of  Ward,  and  now  of  Arthur  Henry 
Davenport,  £sq.  Johk  Pigkford,  M.A. 

Bolton  Percy,  near  Tiulcaster. 

Sturt's  EDinoir  of  the  Prater  Book  (4^  S. 
vii.  283.) — 1  have  seen  a  copy  of  this  book  in  the 
library  of  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum,  Cambridge ; 
but  not  being  a  resident  in  that  town,  I  cannot 
say  whether  the  university  or  any  of  the  college 
libraries  may  also  possess  a  copy  or  not 

Saxitel  Sakdars. 

28,  Gloucester  Place,  H3'de  Park. 

MEAKmo  OF  "Foo"  (4*  S.  vii.  96,  216.)— 
Upon  reading  and  considering  the  remarks  of  your 
correspondents,  James  Pearson,  J.  Ck.  R.,  D. 
Geddes,  T.  a.,  and  Mr.  £.  Marshall  on  this 
word,  they  appear  to  me  deddedly  to  lead  to  the 
etymology  and  meaning  of  another,  which  is  of 
pretty  constant  use  in  a  certain  district,  though, 
as  far  as  I  am  aware,,  it  has  not  yet  got  into  Uie 
dictionaries.    I  mean  the  word /o^er. 

There  was  some  time  since,  and  without  doubt 
continues  still  to  be,  hardly  a  farm  in  the  western 
puts  of  Berks,  and  along  the  adjoining  parts  of 
Wilts  upon  the  river  Kennett,  whieh  does  not 
number  amongst  its  labourers  a  fogger ;  and  his 
duties  are  understood  to  be,  in  ad£tion  to  his 
acting  as  the  odd  man  of  the  family,  to  look  after 
and  take  care  of  the  cattle  in  the  farm-yard,  and 
supply  them    with  what  is  necessary — hay,  if 
needed,  cavings  and  other  things  firom  the  bam ; 
the  latter  before  the  flail,  as  now,  alas!  was  silent. 
To  explain  his  connection  with  the  fog,  or  coarse 
grass,  I  am  supposing  that  before  parishes  were 
generally  enclosed,  and  the  whole  common  field 
thrown  open  after  harvest,  being  then  cultivated 
in  small  long  strips,  so  the  feed  which  grew 
upon  the  banks  dividing  them  valuable,  the  fogger 
was  the  man  to  see  that  his  master's  cattle  were 
safe  and  had  their  share,  and  was  so  called  for  this 
reason.    There  was  also  a  naiish  officer  called  a 
hayward,  and  whether  we  aerive  this  name  from 
heord^ward  or  hais-ward,  his  duties  must  still 
have  been  to  look  after  the  fenoea^  see  that  no  one 
overstocked,  and  keep  the  beasts  from  straying 
into  other  parishes. 


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352 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4*fc  S.  VII.  April  22,  71. 


If  you  aak,  as  stnngera  are  apt  to  do,  what  is  the 
etymology  and  meaning  of  jogger,  the  answer 
ffeneially  is  that  it  is  a  corruption  of  podderer.  This 
IS  hardly  satiafactorjr-  Surely  the  simpler  and 
natnral  explanation  is,  that  it  is  a  ref^utar  noun 
descriptiYe  of  the  office  of  the  man  who  found 
fog  for  the  cattle,  as  there  seems  little  doubt  that 
in  early  times  he  did.  W.  (1.) 

P.S.  Will  your  correspondent  T.  A.  forgive  me 
for  saying  that  the  latter  grass  is  called  lattennath, 
not  lattermouth  f 

Gkatb  (4^*"  S.  yii.  258.)— A  few  years  ago  I 
lived  in  the  Marshes  of  East  Kent,  and  was  com- 
pelled to  adopt  a  plan  similar  to  that  described  by 
Mb.  PieooT  to  keep  the  gnats  from  biting  me 
during  the  night.  At  times  the  bite  (I  believe  I 
am  right  in  calling  it  by  this  term)  is  very  poi- 
sonous. One  evening  I  observed  a  gnat  between 
the  knuckles  of  the  third  and  fourth  fingers  of 
my  right  hand,  and  killed  it.  The  next  day  I 
observed  my  hand  was  swollen  a  little.  Inflam- 
mation rapidly  set  in,  extending  up  the  arm,  and 
nothing  but  a  severe  cauterising  just  below  the 
elbow  prevented  it  going  above  that  joint,  when 
probably  erysipelas  would  have  followed.  As  it 
was,  I  earned  my  arm  in  a  sling  for  about  a  week. 
My  doctor  had  a  similar  case  under  his  care  at 
the  same  time,  also  arising  from  the  bite  of  a 
gnat.  J.  M.  C. 

"Thb  Woeld  TUBJTBI)  upsisb  doww,**  btc 
(4'''  S.  vii.  259.) — ^In  one  of  the  copies  of  Dug- 
dale's  Warwickshire  at  the  British  Museum, 
amongst  other  MS.  additions  is  a  representation 
of  an  ancient  seal  of  the  Uinberslade  Archers,  on 
which  the  same  idea  of  "  the  hare's  ven^ance  " 
is  made  use  of  as  a  pun,  A  hare  on  its  hmd  legs 
is  carrying  off  a  dead  dog,  dangling  at  the  end  of 
a  stick  ove&  its  shoulder;  and  on  the  piece  of 
parchment  which  unites  the  seal  to  the  docu- 
ment (grant  of  free  warren  f)  are  written  the 
letters  cher = hare-cher  !  Sf. 

LOBD   BBOUeHAK    AFB   VOLTAIBB    (4^*  S.  vil. 

277.) — ^Mb.  Pictob  says — 

**  The  Saturday  Review  was  the  first  to  call  attention 
to  the  tale  *  Memnon ;  or  Haman  Wisdom/  p.  58  ot  the 
memoirsy  given  by  Lord  Brougham  as  a  specimen  of  his 
early  composition,  which  is  really  a  translation  from 
Voltaire." 

Permit  me  to  say  that  the  Inverness  Courier 
pointed  out  the  error  or  misstatement  on  the 
Thursday  mgining  previous  to  the  publication  of 
the  Saturday  Rsview,  having  thus  the  priority  by 
two  or  three  days.  Though  a  small  matter,  I 
trust  you  will  insert  this,  as  showing  attention  at 
least  on  the  part  of  the  provindu  press.  The 
blunder  about  the  Nightingale  monument  was 
pointed  out  at  the  same  time.  C. 

Sib  RicniABB  {not  Bobbbt)  Eons  {4t^  S.  vii. 
282.) — ^I  hasten  to  inform  your  conespondent  P. 


that  I  gave  the  statement  of  Sir  Richard  Boyle's 
apparently  incredibly  rapid  journey  irom  Cork  to 
London,  contained  in  my  Lwes  of  the  Lord  Chan^ 
eeUors  oj^  IrehmLw^n  the  authority  of  Sir  Richard 
Boyle  himsel£  The  passage  from  his  TVtie  J2em«fy»- 
brancer,  containing  this  statement,  is  quoted  in 
Lodge's  Peerage  Sf  Ireland^  edited  bv  Archdall 
(L  155)  \  also,  under  the  head  of  ^'  Boyle's  Speedy 
Journey  to  London,"  in  Gibson's  Hitiory  of  Corky 
ii.  29.  J.  R.  O'FLANAOAir. 

18,  Summer  Hill,  Dublin. 

Jomr  Fbll,  Bishop  op  Oxpobb  (4**  S.  vii.  288.) 
For  once  tiie  Editor  of  "N.  &  Q."  is  in  error. 
It  was  not  Dean  Samuel  Fell,  but  his  son  Dean 
John  Fell,  to  whom  Tom  Brown  presented  the 
witty  rendering  of  Martial's  distich.  Samuel  Fell 
died  Feb.  I,  l£l8-9.  Brown  was  bom  (according 
to  the  Penny  Cydopadia  Supplement)  in  1668. 
John  Fell  was  promoted  to  the  deanery  in  1600, 
which,  from  1675  to  his  death  in  1686,  he  held  in 
commendatn  with  the  bishopric  of  Oxford. 

There  are  several  versions  of  the  translation  of 
the  epigram.  The  one  g^ven  in  Tom  Brown's 
Works,  edited  by  Dr.  Drake,  1760  (iv.  100),  differs 
slightly  from  the  version  in  *'  N.  &  Q."    It  runs 

thus :  — 

*<  I  do  not  love  thee,  Dr.  Fell, 

Bat  why  I  cannot  tell ; 
'  Bat  this  I  know  fuU  well, 
I  do  not  love  thee,  Dr.  Fell." 

H.  P.  D. 

SMOKDie  iLLBeAL  (4*^  S.  vi.  384, 485 ;  viL  198, 
293.) — The  annoyance  from  smokers  is  not  now 
for  the  first  time  felt.  Some  forty  years  ago  I 
happened  to  be  at  Gastellamare,  on  the  Bay  of 
Naj^es,  when  a  diplomatic  squabble  arose  on  the 
subject  with  the  court  of  Naples.  Prince  Leopold, 
the  king's  brother,  had  a  palace  therewith  guards 
at  the  gate,  when  Mr.  Erskine,  our  aUach^,  and 
Captain  Lushington,  son  of  Sir  Henry,  who  was 
at  that  time  our  consul-general,  happened  to  stroll 
past  the  palace  quietly  smoking  their  cigars,  hav- 
ing no  knowledge  that  they  were  transgressing 
the  law  of  court  etiquette.  The  sentinel  pounced 
upon  them,  and  in  spite  of  their  remonstrances  a 
guard  carried  them  off,  and  they  were  kept  in 
durance  vile  for  the  night.  Mr.  Hul,  our  minister, 
interfered,  and  I  believe  that  an  official  apology 
was  made  for  the  contreten^i  L.  K. 

Jbsuit  MSS.  (4*  8.  V.  580.)— W.  T.  will  find 
the  MSS.  at  Stonyhurst  CoUege,  St  Peter's,  near 
Blackburn,  Lancashire.  ^        D.  Powbb. 

Pimlico. 

Mabx  Bishops  (4^  S.  vii.  184,  293.)  —  In  the 
list  of  Manx  bishops  given  at  the  last  referenoe 
appears  Machutus,  with  the  approximative  date 
of  500.  A  saint  of  this  name  appean  to  have 
been  highlv  venerated  in  the  south-westem  parts 
of  Scotland,  and  espedally  in  the  andoat  pxmd- 


■*^«l 


^m 


4*  S.  VIL  Afrii  22, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


353 


pftlil^  of  Galloway.  Saint  Malo,  the  Latiii  foim 
of  WBose  name  is  MaeloTius  and  Machutua,  and 
wbo,  tinder  the  latter  designation,  finds  a  place  in 
the  calendar  of  the  English  church  on  the  16th  of 
NoTembery  is  said  to  haye  been  a  natiye  of  Mon- 
mouthshire, afterwards  bishop  of  the  city  of  Aleth 
in  Brittany^  now  Icnown  as  the  town  of  St.  Ma- 
loes,  and  to  have  died  in  the  year  627.  The  Manx 
bishop — if  any  one  of  this  name  ever  did  exist — 
must  De  »  different  person,  and  it  certainly  seems 
more  probable  that  the  saint  who  was  worshipped 
in  Scotland  should  be  a  bishop  of  Man  than  a 
lushop  of  Brittany.  Can  any  of  your  correspon- 
dents throw  any  light  on  the  subject  P 

EnoAii  MacCitixogs. 
GneroBtiy, 

Great  Max  alluded  to  bt  Abxold  ik  a 
Sbbmok  (4*^  S.  vii.  209.)— The  reference  ought  to 
have  been  to  yoL  iv.  p.  404  (not  y.)  of  Dr.  Ar- 
nold's Sermons,    Text  from  EzeMel  xx.  49. 

J.  rim  B. 

Sib  William  Stanhope,  1640-1680  (4*»»  S.  yii. 
269.)— Probably  Sir  William  Stanhope  of  linby, 
CO.  Nottingham,  son  of  William  Stanhope  of 
Linby,  who,  being  gentleman  usher  and  daily 
waiter  to  Queen  Catherine,  was  knighted  at 
Whitehall,  July  26,  1688;  and  dying  without 
issue,  left  his  estate  at  Linby  to  the  Earl  of  Har- 
rington.* (See  Brydges'  Coiiins,  iii.  421.) 

Ev.  Ph.  Shiblby. 

Cbbsts  (4,*^  S.  yii.  257.)— The  following  notes 

may  be  of  use  to  Y.  S.  M.     Josenh  Edmondson 

in  his  Heraldry  (2  yols.  folio,  Lonaon^  1780)  says 

(i.  189)  :- 

**  Occasionally  we  meet  with  persons  bearing  two  crests 
on  their  carxiages ;  but  this  practice  is  to  be  condemned, 
since,  by  the  strict  rales  of  annory,  wheneyer  any  man 
assumes  a  crest  which  belonged  to  another  family,  he 
should  lay  aside  that  which  is  borne  by  his  own,  except 
for  the  purpose  of  a  badge  or  device.  The  Germans  in- 
deed have  long  been  accustomed  to  bear,  in  a  row  over 
their  shields  of  arms,  the  crests  of  all  the  families 
whose  arms  they  quarter ;  but  in  this  they  are  not  fol- 
lowed by  any  other  nation,  and  in  troth,  the  absurdity 
and  impropriety  of  such  a  practice  is  remarkably  strik> 
ing,  the  mstant  we  recollect  the  purpose  for  which  crests 
wera  originally  designed.  Heraldic  writers  universally 
agree  that  a  woman  cannot  bear  a  crest.'* 

This  is  confirmed  in  Burke's  General  Armory , 

edit.  1844,  p.  ziL  : — 

**The  emt  or  eognizance  (derived  from  the  Latin  word 
criataftk  comb  or  tuft)  originated  in  the  thirteenth  Century, 
and  serrvd  to  distinguish  the  combatants  in  the  battle  or 
tournament:  for  this  reason,  no  crest  is  aflowed  to  a 
female." 


Mr.  J.  E.  Cuasans,  in  his  Handbook  of  Heraldry 
(1869^,  holds  the  same  opinion  as  that  ezpiessed 
by  EduBondBon : — 

*  Sir  WtlHam  Stanhope  married  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Bicbard   Lcrd   Byzoo,   according  to  Bdmoadson's 


"  Soma  writeis  haye  aasorted  that  if  a  man  should 
marry  an  heiress,  bo  and  his  descendants  are  permitted 
to  bear  her  paternal  crest  as  well  as  arms ;  but  this  can 
scarcely  be,  for  a  lady  is  not  entitled  to  a  crest,  and  ahe 
surely  cannot  confer  on  another  that  to  which  she  has  no 
right  herseH*'— Page  172. 

Hbkbt  W.  HcrvBXT. 

Maridiam  House,  Brighton. 

L.  yoir  BEBTHoyxN  (4***  S.  yii.  257.) — In  the 
Imperial  Dictionary  of  UniDersdl  Biography^  pub- 
lished by  W.  Mackenzie  of  Paternoster  Row,  kic, 
Mr.  G.  A.  Macfarren  states  in  his  valuable  contii- 
btttion  about  this  celebrated  musician  (i.  462) :  — 

*' A  groundless  rumour  for  some  time  prevailed  that  he 
was  the  natural  son  of  the  King  of  Prussia ;  and,  at  con- 
siderable pains,  he  proved  himself  to  be  the  lawful  child 
of  Johann  Beethoven,  a  tenor  singer  in  the  chapel  of  the 
electoral'  prince  in  his  native  town,  in  which  establish- 
ment his  grandfather,  after  whom  he  was  named,  and 
who  was  ateo  a  composer,  sang  bass.*' 

The  irregularities  in  the  priyate  life  of  Frederick 
William  II.  were  so  notonous  that  public  opinion 
credited  every  wicked  story  told  of  him. 

Ghabcbs  Natlob. 

John  Dyeb  (4**  S.  viL  232.)— Whateyer  John- 
son may  say  to  the  contrary,  Dyer  is  regarded  as 
a  fine  poet  by  many  writers  who  are  better  judges 
of  poetry  than  he  who  was  such  an  enthusiastic 
admirer  of  Hoole's  Ttuao.  Wordsworth  said  that 
Dyer  was  *'  too  much  neglected.''  I  know  ''  The 
Fleece  "  welL  It  is  a  genuine  English  poem^  re- 
dolent of — 


**  Flora  and  the  country  green.*' 

And  then  what  noble  poetry  do  we  find  in  the 
''  Ruins  of  Home,''  and  in  that  uniyersal  favourite 
^'  Grongar  Hill '' — »  poem  only  equalled  by  Shel- 
ley's '^  Lines  written  on  the  Euj^ian  HiUs,''  its 
reflex.    Have  we  any  modern  edition  of  Dyer  P 

Stbphbv  Jacksov. 

[There  are  two  modem  editions  of  John  Dyer's  Poetm, 
Willmott's,  in  Boutledge's  BritUh  Poet$,  1853,  and  Gil- 
Allan's,  1859.] 

CoBNiSH  Spoken  ik  DEyoNSHiBE  (4*"*  S.  yii. 
11, 126.)— R.  C.  A.  P.  will  find  the  statement  he 
refers  to,  and,  I  presome,  the  authority  for  the 
statement,  in  Polymele's  ffietorical  View  of  Devon- 
shire. I  haye  only  the  first  volume  at  hand,  so 
can  only  quote  from  the  contents.  In  yoL  iii. 
chap.  4,  ^  The  Norman-Saxon  Period  from  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror  to  Edward  the  First,''  in 
section  ix.  he  giyes — 

**  Normans  attempting  to  suhstitute  Norman-Frencfa 
for  the  Anglo-Saxon — the  English  attached  to  the  Saxon 
lang^iage—the  Comu-British  m  Devon  and  Cornwall,  the 
vulgar  tongue — spoken  also  hy  the  higher  ranks  of  people 
in  Comwi£,  and  a  great  part  of  Devonshire." 

A^rain,  in  yoL  iy.,  "The  Saxo-Lancastriaa- 

Yorkish  Period/'  in  section  ix.  he  says : — 

**The  French  language  very  generally  adopted  in  Eng- 
land — the  Anglo-Saxon  still  the  vernacular  tongue-^the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«^  8.  VII.  Apbil  f2,  71. 


Comu-Brituh  almost  lost  in  Exeter— retainod  in  a  great 
part  of  the  Sonthams." 

John  Banvistsb. 

St  Day,  Cornwall. 

P.S.  I  Am  afraid  my  OUmary  of  Comisk  Names 
juat  completed  will  not  be  considered  condusiTe 
endence  in  the  way  Mb.  Piggot  (p.  126)  would 
suggest.  I  would  also  correct  an  error  in  his 
statement  for  which  I  am  responsible.  The  num- 
ber of  Cornish  names  I  have  collected  beginning 
with  Ros  should  be  200,  not  400. 

Devasius  of  Dbttsits,  Sew.  (Seniob)  (4**»  S. 
TiLOSy  148,223.)— The  coin  inquired  after  is  not  of 
Drusus,  but  of  Nero,  described  by  Cohen,  No.  66, 
and  valued  by  him  at  20  francs.  The  legend  on 
the  reyerse  written  in  fall  is  "  sagebdos  ooopta- 

TT78    nr  *    OMKI    OONLEeiO    SUPBA.    WXEBUM    BX 

SBNATUS  ooirsuLTO.     For   the  meaning  of  the 

legend,  see  Eckhel,  DoH.  Num.  vi  261. 

John  Eyakb. 
Nash  MiUa,  Hemel  Hempsted. 

Paslet  OB  Paslewb  {A^  S.  vii,  210.)— Mb. 
HsLSBr  says  "  the  last  abbot  of  Whitley  was  a 
Paslewe."  Is  not  this  a  misprint  for  Whdliey, 
of  which  John  Paslewe  was  the  twenty-fifth  and 
last  abbot  P  HEBMEirxBUBE. 

'^FibstImpbessiovs;  ob,  a  Dat  in  India" 
(4*^  S.  vii.  266.)— The  author  of  this  book  was 
Gumey  Turner,  Esq.,  surgeon  in  the  Bengsl  army, 
and  son  of  Dawson  Turner,  Esq.,  of  Great  Tar- 
mouth.    He  died  in  India  in  1848.       F.HaH. 

Judicial  Oaths  (4^  S.  vii.  209.)  —What  does 
G.  mean  by  this  query  ?  I  believe  "  the  class  who 
object  to  taking  oaths  in  courts  of  justice  "  object 
just  as  much  to  <<  call  any  man  their  father  upon 
earth."  Our  Blessed  Lord's  command  has  no  re- 
ference to  the  natural  epithet  ^ven  by  a  child  to 
its  parent.    I  thought  this  was  a  truism. 

Hebventbude. 


iBiiittlUntani. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

A  History  of  the  JSSngdom  of  Kerry.  By  M.  F.  Caaack, 
Author  of  the  lUustrated  Hietory  of  Ireland^  ^c. 
(Longman.) 

If  it  is  a  good  sign  for  Ireland  that  one  of  her  sons 
sbonld  devote  himself  to  the  preparation  of  a  county  his- 
tory, it  is  a  no  less  favourable  sign  that  the  author  should 
not  only  be  able  to  exhibit  such  a  good  list  of  Sub- 
scribers as  graces  his  volume,  but  to  acknowledge  the 
ready  assistance  which  he  has  received  from  all  who  have 
made  Kerr>'— its  histoiy,  its  geolog>',  its  natural  re- 
sonroes— the  subject  of  their  inquiries.  The  Men  of 
Kerrv  will  not  think  the  worse  of  Mr.  Cusack's  book  for 
his  sharp  critidsm  on  Mr.  Fronde;  and  he  certainlv  de- 
serves credit  for  originality  in  including  in  the  volume 

*  This  Is  Cohen's  version.  Perhaps  it  would  be  more 
ooneot  to  say  m  oxhia  ooztlboia. 


(from  whieh  pedigrees  of  the  county  fiunilies  have  been 
advisedly  omitted)  a  number  of  blank  pages  in  which 
the  ■  subscribers  may  insert  such  fkmily  records  or  pedi- 
grees as  they  may  desire  to  preserve. 

The  Camden  Mieeelkmy.     Voluma  the  Sixth.    (Printed 

for  the  Camden  Society.) 

The  volumes  of  The  JUiMceUamy,  occasionally  put  forth 
by  the  Camden  Society,  have  always  been  among  tho-n 
which  found  most  favour  with  the  members ;  and  thou;;U 
this  sixth  volume,  containing  as  it  does  onlv  three  sepa- 
rate articles,  exhibits  less  variety  than  nsual,  a  glance  at 
the  nature  of  the  several  papers  will  show  that  it  dueti 
not  lack  the  interest  of  its  predecessors,  and  we  doubt  not 
it  will  be  equally  acceptable.  The  first  of  these,  "The 
Life  of  Mr.  WiUUm  Whittingbam,  Dean  of  Durham," 
a  well-known  Puritan,  has  been  very  carefully  edited  by 
Mrs.  Ajine  Everett  Gnen  flrom  the  original  in  Anthony 
Wood's  collection  in  the  Bodleian,  and  illustrated  bjr  a 
number  of  original  documents  in  the  Record  Office,  is  an 
illustration  of  the  life  of  an  accomplished  PuriUn  divirn. 
The  next  article, "  The  Earl  of  Bristol's  Defence  of  his 
Neffodations  in  Spain,"  valuable  as  it  is  in  itself  for  the 
light  it  throws  upon  Bristol's  conduct,  and  the  secret 
history  of  the  negociations  in  which  he  was  engaged,  is 
made  still  more  valuable  and  interestin«f  by  Mr.  Gar- 
diner's admirable  introduction.  The  **Jounial  of  Sir 
Francis  Walsingham  ftom  Dec.  1570  to  April  1583,"  from 
the  original  in  the  possession  of  Lieut-Colonel  Carew, 
may  somewhat  disappoint  the  reader  from  its  brevity  and 
terseness;  but  there  can  be  no  doubt  that,  brief  as  the 
entries  are,  thev  are  of  a  nature  to  be  of  such  assistance 
to  students  of  Elizabethan  history  as  to  justifv  the  Gouu- 
cil  of  the  Camden  Society  in  committing  them  to  the 
press,  under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  C.  T.  Martin,  who  has 
executed  his  work  very  carefhlly,  and  made  it  available 
to  all  who  desire  to  use  it  by  a  capiul  index. 

Books  bkcbived.  —  JTcnopAoii.  By  Sir  Alexander 
Grant,  Bart,  LL.D.,  Principal  of  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh. (Blackwood.)  This  new  volume  of  '^The  An- 
cient Classics  for  English  Readers,"  with  its  admirable 
introductory  sketch  by  Principal  Grant,  is  well  calculated 
to  maintain  the  character  of  this  useful  series.— Q«en^ 
Ihirward.  ITy  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart  (A.  &  C.  Black.) 
This  is  the  sixteenth  volume  of  the  *<  Centenary  Edition 
of  the  Waverley  Novels."  QvenHn  Durward  was  even 
more  warmly  received  on  the  Continent,  at  its  first  ap- 
pearance, than  in  England,  from  the  greater  familiarity 
of  the  readers  there  with  the  scenes  and  historical  allu- 
sions contained  in  it— -TAe  Proiogwt  to  Chaucer^s  Can- 
terbury Tales^  with  Exphtnatory  Notee  and  Ghewary^  and 
a  Life  oftht  Poet.  For  the  Use  of  OoUeyei  and  Schools. 
Edited  by  Walter  M^Leod,  F.RG.S.,  Ac.  (Longmans.) 
This  little  book,  calculated  as  it  is  to  fadlitote  the  read- 
ing of  Chaucer,  and  so  popularise  the  Father  of  English 
Poetry,  deserves  the  good  word  of  all  Chaucer's  admirers. 

Wb  learn  from  the  Guardian  that  the  Hittory^  Kent, 
for  which  large  collections  were  made  by  the  late  Rev.  Mr. 
Streatfeild  and  our  late  valued  friend  and  frequent  con- 
tributor to  "  N.  dk  Q.,"  the  Rev.  Lambert  B.  Larking,  neither 
of  whom  lived  to  see  their  work  in  the  printer's  hands,  is 
now  to  be  brought  out  under  the  auspices  of  the  Kentish 
ArohsBological  Society,  by  Mr.  Godfray  Faussett  F.S.A., 
a  gentleman  in  every  way  qualified  for  the  work.  He 
soudts  information  especially  from  landowners  and  clergy- 
men of  the  county,  regarding  not  only  historical  and 
genealogical  facts,  but  even  local  phrases,  proverbs,  or 
superstitions.  His  address  is  **  The  Prsdncta,  Canter- 
bury.**    We  wish  him  and  his  coaqluUns  all  snooess. 

DAaTK.-^rhe  very  valuable  librair  of  Baron  Sevmour 
Kirknp»  of  Florence,  has  been  constgned  to  Lonooii  ibr 


4«k  8.  VII.  April  22, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


355 


gil6  hj  avctioii  dnring  the  praieot  Ma^n.  The  edlee- 
tion  is  partienlarly  rich  in  Dante  literature,  and  com- 
priaee  aerend  M88.  of  the  **  Diviiia  CommedU  **  of  great 
importance. 

''Lkbob  9A  Huidbb.**— The  Ro^  Iriiih  Academy 
has  latelT  published  a  fac-timila  of  this  great  collectioo 
of  Irish  legends  of  the  tenth  and  eleventh  centuries. 

IroMTDoir.— A  uniaue  manuwript  of  this  prose  ro- 
mance has  been  lately  seen,  in  a  handsome  vellum 
volume  of  about  1440  a.d.  The  same  volume  contains, 
among  other  things^  a  poetical  versioo,  in  twclve*Iine 
stanzas,  of  many  of  the  books  of  the  Old  Testament  and 
the  Apocrypha,  and  is  probably  trandated  from  Petrus 
Comestor. 

Hakluas  Socibtt.— The  early  Heralds*  Visitation 
of  Oxford,  and  part  of  the  Visitation  of  Nottingham,  are 
fti  the  press. 

Dr.  Hookes.— The  Director  of  the  Botanical  Gardens 
at  Kew  has  left  for  Moroooo,  with  a  view  to  collecting 
the  plsnts  of  that  country. 

BOTAL    IhSTITVTIOV,    AlbSMABLB    STKBBT.«~The 

arrangements  for  the  Friday  evening  lectures  have  been 
issued  and  the  foUowing  are  announced  as  lecturers: 
Fraf,  Blackie,  Prof.  OdUng,  Mr.  Ralston  (Cambridge), 
Fnt  Huzler,  GoL  Jervms,  Sir  J.  Lubbock,  Prof.  T. 
Andrews,  snd  Prod  TyndalL 

BiBMiHOBAM.— It  is  reported  that  an  inhabitant  of 
Birmingham  has  given  the  munificent  sum  of  d,000/.  as 
a  nucleus  of  a  fhnd  for  investment  for  the  purchase  of 
pictures  to  be  exhibited  there. 

LOBDON  iNTBRBATIOlfAI^  EzHlBITIOB  OF  1871.— We 

understand  that  at  the  State  Opening  on  the  1st  of  May, 
the  Chief  Municipal  Authority  of  each  City  and  Town 
of  the  United  Kingdom,  the  <[}faairmen  of  Chambers  of 
Commerce,  the  Masters  of  City  Companies,  the  Coundi  of 
the  Society  of  Arts,  the  Coundi  of  the  Royal  Horticul- 
tural Society,  the  Offidal  Staff,  the  Reporters  for  the 
Exhibition,  and  members  of  Committees,  will  be  invited 
to  take  part  in  the  Ceremony,  and  to  inspect  the  Fine 
Art  and  Industrial  Galleries ;  after  which  the  Exhibition 
of  Musical  Art  will  take  place  in  the  Royal  Albert  Hall, 
under  the  general  direction  of  Sir  Michael  Costa,  when 
will  be  performed  a  Chorale  representing  Italian  Music, 
composed  and  conducted  by  Chevalier  Pinsuti ;  a  Psalm 
representing  French  Munc,  composed  and  conducted  by 
M.  Gounod ;  an  Overture  representing  German  Music, 
composed  by  Dr.  F.  Hiller;  a  Cantata  representing 
British  Musi&  composed  and  conducted  by  Mr.  Arthur 
Sullivan ;  and  **  God  Save  the  Queen "  by  the  Chorus 
and  Audience. 

Mb.  Crafpell  and  all  other  lovers  of  Old  Popular 
Music  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  a  Series  of  "  Unpublished 
Traditional  Ballad  Airs,  arranged  and  harmonised  for  the 
Pianoforte,  &c.,  from  Copies  procured  in  the  Counties  of 
Aberdeen,  Banff,  and  Moray :  to  be  edited,  with  Words 
for  Singing  and  Illustrative  Notes,  by  W.  Christie,  A.M., 
Dean  of  Moray,"  is  in  preparation. 

Messrs.  Macmillah  &  Co.  announce  the  second  vo- 
lume of  Proftssor  Masson*s  **  life  of  Milton,  narrated  in 
connection  with  the  Political,  £odesiastical,and  Literary 
History  of  his  Time  " ;  <<  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Charies 
M.  Toung,  Tragedian,  with  Scraps  from  his  Son's  Jour- 
nal, by  Julian  Charles  Young,  Rector  of  Ilmington " ; 
Canon  Kingsley's  **  At  Last,  or  a  Christinas  in  the  West 
Indies,  witn  numerous  Illustrations'*;  and  a  '^Life  of 
Anthony  Ashley  Cooper,  First  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  1621- 
1688,  by  W.  D.  Christie,  MJL" 


BOOKS   AND   ODD   VOLUMES 

wanted  to  PITBCHASB. 

.FartioDlin  oTFriot.  ae.,  of  llM  ftUofwtacbooks  to  teM&t  dfasetlo 
thamBttaMn  bTwhamtfai87u«rMiiur«d,wlioN  uuam  maA  ttMrutm 
•i«  givm  te  tliK  pupoMi  — 

Bbbvxabxitx  LaoDnom. 

£nmrtacs  by  Snydcriioof,  8too^  Albert  Doer,  tad  Lqcm  Yen 

BncIuhMMMHeripta. 
Tllinninatinl  iltttff. 

Waatad  Iqr  Jfer.  J.  C.  Jackatm,  IS,  ICanor  Terraoe,  Amhvnt  Boad, 

Hackney,  N.B. 

W.   B.  J.  WaiUI,   CATAJXWOa    DU   ICUltB    Oa    L'ACADiKIB   DB 

Bauoas.   Noooai  at  dcaeripcioini  avee  mouMgramiiiai,  ate.   Brocet, 
IWl.   Anr  other  works  bjr  the  caina  anthor. 

Wanted  by  Mr.  W.  ManH,  7.  Bed  XJon  Sqnaic. 


^tUtitn  Cormrpmarcntir. 

.  We  art  oompdUd  to  poeipom  unHl  next  week  A  Word 
for  Moore,  Gainsborough's  **  Blue  Boy,"  tmdeeteral  oAtr 
papere  of  imtereti, 

W.  H. — **I>raaaimg'room^  was  ori^maUy  thewUhdrawu^ 
room,  a  room  to  wAieA  ihefamUy  wttkdremfrom  Uugemend 
dinmg  or  common  room. 

M.  D.— Parslejr  Piert,  or  Parsley  Break-stone,  u,  oc- 
cording  to  Mr.  Prior'e  Popular  Names  of  British  Plants, 
AlduainUa  arventig, 

J.  A.  3.—DetMned  wUh  Aankt. 

flODOB  AHD  Mak.— W.  Spknbr  wtB  find  Ae  origin  of 
the  see  of  Sodor  and  Man  m  our  2^^  b.  iii.  129,  and  the 
arms  of  the  biahope^  tame  eeriee  v.  814. 

BRADFOROIEH8I8. — Bridegroom  literally  meant  bridge 
manjfrom  A.S.  Bryd,  bride,  and  Gum,  man. 

The  Royal  Asseht. —  We  have  received  aeveral  com" 
munieationa  with  reference  to  a  aillg  paragraph  on  the  sub- 
ject of  the  Inth  Church  BiU  beina  "*  null  and  void,"  beoauae 
the  biahopa  were  not  preaent  wntn  the  Rogai  aaaent  was 
given  to  it.  If  the  Advertiser,  Daily  News,  and  Standard 
did,  as  is  tisserted,  print  such  a  paragrcph  (we  sag  itad- 
viaedig\  it  would  be  curioua  to  team  how  the  writer  pro- 
cured  tts  insertum. 

T.  B. — In  the  German  farces,  Pickdherring  is  the  name 
of  the  Droll  or  Merry  Andrew, 

AtsnuL—J.  H.  L.'8  orHde  appeared  in  <<  N.  &  Q."  oj 
Jan.  15, 1870. 

H.  M.  it  referred  to  the  late  Sir  G.  C.  Lewises  admirable 
Essay  on  the  Romance  Langusges. 

Ignoramus. — On  Ifte  firat  use  of  blotting-paper  oonsuU 
«•  N.  &  Q."  1"»  S.  viii.  186,  and  8'*  S.  iv.  497. 

J.  B.  C-^Fhr  the  rustic  bdief  that  pigs  can  see  the 

wind,  aee  »  N.  &  Q."  1">  S.  viil.  100. 

Bbrtie. —  We  doubt  whether  the  engramngs  of  **  TTue 
Dance  ofDeath^^  m  The  Portfolio,  vols.  iii.  and  iv.  are 
from  the  graver  of  the  Bewicks,  as  they  have  no  resembkmee 
to  Utose  by  these  artists  which  illustrate  the  Dance  of 
Death,  published  in  1789.  The  blocks  of  the  latter  work 
were  ahortly  afterwards  destroyed  by  fire  in  London. 
Another  edition  of^  latter  work,  with  woodcuts  imitating 
Bewick,  bmt  much  inferior,  was  published  in  London  at  a 


JosATHAH  BovcaiKE.'— Edward  FhiUMs  **lJfe  of 
Milton  "  Iff  prefixed  to  MiUon's  Lettere  <^  State,  Lond . 
1694, 12mo.  The  press  mark  of  the  BriL  Mus.  copy  is  699, 
b.16. 

Kbratum.— 4<h  8.  viL  p.  882,  col.  L  line  11,  >br  <^  Pre* 
fcce  "  read  ••  PrrfiE." 


356 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k  S.  Vn.  April  22,  71. 


TIHSLET  BSOTEESS'  HEW  BOOKS. 


AI  ALL  LIBaAKIES. 

LETTERS  ON  "INTERNATIONAL  RELATIONS 

BEFORE  and  DURING  the  WAR  of  WfO.  By  Hm  "  TIMES  " 
COBBSSFONDSKT,  at  Berlin.  Reprinted,  by  peimlnion,  from 
The  Tima,  with  eonilderable  Additioiu.    S  roll.  Bro. 

'*  The  oontente  of  these  two  Tolamea,  when  earsftdly  «ad  eonaecn- 
iiynly  read,  not  aa  oocadonal  newspaper  letten,  but  ar  a  continaotii 
reeotd  and  eomaiant  of  public  «fliin,will  be  ftmnd  a  veiy  iaatmetive 
•tud7/*-.Z>cn7y  ITewa. 

**  We  hail  with  the  otmoct  aatlaflwtion  the  anpeannoe  of  then  two 
CODdlr  ■lioil  Tolnmei,  in  which  the  aeriee  from  Auoiit  1108  to  the  pre* 
•enttfane  ii  ineorpurated,  Inannuch  aa  they  enable  thoae  who  are  dia- 
poaedto  aaoertain  the  eanaea  of  anch  eflbeta  aa  hare  of  late  attoniahed 
the  world,  to  traee  moil^ea  and  to  inveatigate  oondnet,  both  on  the  part 
of  nzlnoea  and  peoples,  which  elae  would  remain  obacure  and  inexplic- 
able. For  aoch  a  reaaon'tiieae  Tohimea  will  be  of  incalculable  aerrice 
At  the  present  time.**.-iBeir«  Weekly  Meatenotr. 

**  No  good  Ubranr  can  be  without  this  work  ;  it  will  be  absolutely  In- 
dispenaabte  to  many,  and  we  think  it  may  be  aa  fUrly  quoted  fltnn  as 
aa  authority  aa  are  many  of  our  atanding  works  of  lererenoe." 

Ootirt  Journal. 


FAMILY  PMDE.    Br  the  Author  of  «  Olive 

Varcoe.*'  "  Simple  as  a  Dove,   ftc.    3  roia. 

THE  FOSTER  SISTERS :  a  Novel.    By  Ed- 

MOND  BRSNAN  LOnOHNAN.    8  vols. 

BLANCHE  SEYMOUR :  a  Novel.    3  voU. 
THE  MONARCH  OF  MINCING  LANEt  a 

Noval.   By  WILLIAM  BLACK.  Author  of ''  In  Silk  Attixe,"  *c 
3  Tola. 

GONE   LIKE    A  SHADOW:    a  Novel.     Bj 

the  Author  of  **  Beoommendcd  to  Mercy,"  kc    3  vols. 

FAIR  PASSIONS:   a  Novel.     By  the   Hon. 

MRS  FIOOTT-CARLETON.    3  vols. 

DESPERATE    REMEDIES:     a    Novel. 

3  Tola. 

ONLY  A  COMMONER :  h  Novel.    By  Hbnbt 

MOBFOBD.   3  tola. 

THE  CANON'S  DAUGHTERS :  the  Story  of 

a  Love  Ouue.   By  B.  St.  JOHN  CORBET.   S  toIs. 

HARRY  DISNEY:    a  Novel.    Svok. 

[fTust  ready. 

MADAME  LA  MARQUISE.    By  the  Author 

of  "  Dada  Singleton,"  "  Altogether  Wrong,"  ftc  3  vols. 

ifTtut  ready. 

TINSLEY  BB0THEB6,  M,  Oatherfae  Street.  Strand. 


THE   NEW  VSLItHM-WOVE   CLUB 
HOUSE  FAFEB. 

Mannlhctnred  and  aold  only  by 

PARTRIDGE  AND  COOPER,  192,  Fleet  Stieet, 

Comer  of  Chancery  Lsne. 


■ufejcct 


_. aa  certain  that  extreme  ezeallenoe  had  been  attatiwd  ;  but  thia 

eoBdnaion  did  not  aeem  aatiafcetoiy  to  MeaHa.  Pabtbiinw  ft  Coopnt, 
of  Fleet  Street,  who  detewniaedto  continue  operatioaa  until  eome  new 
reenlt  waa  attained.  Sheer  peiaeyeranoe  haa  neen  rewarded.  Ibr  they 
hKV  at  laet  been  able  tontodnee  a  new  ieeeilptlon  of  paaar,  which  they 
4aU  Clubhoitu  Non,  that  MBpaena  anything  of  the  loaa  In  ovdinaqr 
use.    The  new  paper  la  beautifttlly  white,  ita  aurfhoe  la  aa  amootii  aa 

EUahed  ifory,  and  ita  aubatanoe  nearly  reaemblea  that  of  vdlmn*  ao 
at  the  WTitiJagtheiMii  preaentaan extraordinary  cleaneiaand  beaaly. 
Aateri  pen  can  be  used  upon  It  with  the  teUltrof  a  fooaeiiuill^and 
thai  ooe  gnalaooiue  of  aBnoyanoe  has  bean 


DIGESTION.— THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION 

adopt  KOBSCOrfl  FBBPABATmH  of  FBFSIinB  aa  the  true 
nedy.   Bold  In  Bottlea  and  Boaaa,  fktnn  t$,  M.,  tar  w  Phaimanwi- 

tkaJi^emlBts.  and  the  ManuflMsturen,  THOIiAfl  MOBMOr*  BOK, 

IM,  SottthaapCoa  Bow«  BnaeeU  Square,  London. 


FASTBIBOE    AEB    COOFXE, 

MANUFACTURING  STATIONERS, 
192,  Fleet  Street  (Comer  of  Chanoeiy  Lane). 

CABRIAGE  PAID  TO  THS  OOUNTBT  OH  OSIHEBB 
XXGBEDmo  Ma. 

MOTE  PAPER, Orcam  or  Blue,  a«.,4a.,  U.,  andet.  perreaa. 

ENVELOPES,  Cream  or  Blue,  4«.  id.,  i$.  6cf .,  and  6a.  6<f.  per  1 ,0M. 

THE  TEIIPLE  ENVELOPE,  with  High  Inner  Flap,  1«.  per  MO. 

STRAW  PAPEB-^Jraprored  quality,  ta.M.  per  i 

FOOLSCAP.  Haad-made  Ontaiaaa,  8a.  U.  per  i 

BLACK-BOBDEBED  NOTE,  4a.  and  6a.  ed.  par icam. 

BLACK-BOBDBRXD  ENVELOPES,  U.  per  IW-8nper  thick  quaUty 

TINTED  LINED  NOTE,  Ibr  Hioaia  or  ForefgaConeapoadenee  (H^ 
odoura),  A  quirea  for  1«.  td. 

COLOURED  STAMPING  (Belief),  reduced  to  4*.  6<f .  per  ream,  or 
8a.  etf.  per  1,000.  PoliAed  Steel  Great  Dtoa  engraved  from  &a. 
Mottogiama, two  letterav  ftom  6a.i  three  letten,  fkuia  7a.  Bnaineaa 
or  Adoreaa  Diee.  from  8*. 

SEBMON  PAPER,  plain,  4a.  per  reamt  Ruled  ditto,  4a.  «tf. 

SCHOOL  STATIONERT  luppUed  on  the  moat  liberal terma. 

niuatrated  Price  liat  of  Inkatanda,  Deepeteh  Boxea,  Btattooery. 
OaUneta,  Poetege  Soalee,  Writing  Caaea,  Purtiait  Albuna,  Ac,  poet 

(EnABLUBSD  1841.) 


BT  BOTAL  OOKKAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PKNS. 

SOLD  by  aU  8TATIOMSB8  thxonghont  the  World. 


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HERALDIC,  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICAL 

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A  Oatalogne  aent  by  poat  on  applieation. 

Paxoela  delivered  free  at  aU  principal  Battway  Stationa. 


LAXPLOVGH'S 
PTBETIC     SALITB 

Haa  peeoUar  and  lematfcabie  prgpertlee  In  fi 
Bidmaak  mnrenting  and  curing  Hay,  Scarlet, 
admittod  ny  all  uaera  to  form  the  moat  agre4 
SumflMrBoverag 

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Headaflhe.  Beft.orBUIoua 

t,  and  other  Feirera,  and  b 

to  form  Ihe  moat  agreeeUe,  portable,  ▼itallaiD' 

Sold  by  moat  ehymlata,  and  thai 


The  beat  remedy  FOR  ACIDITY  OF  THE  STOMACH,  HEART- 
BURN, HEADACHE,  GOUT,  AND  INDIGESTION:  and  the  beat 


mild  weriant  for  deUcate  ooBBtitationa,  eapedally  adapted  for  LADIB9, 
CHILDRBN,  and  INFANTS. 

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ABk  for  *<IaBA  AZTD  PaBBUTB'"  BAXTOO. 

BEWARE     OF    IMITATIONS, 

aadaee  the  Namaiof  LEA  AND  PERRINSonaU  bottles  and  laMa 


Agenta-JCROSSE  A  BLACKWELL,  London,  and  aold  by  all 
Dealenin  Saueea  thxooghoiit  the  werid. 


4*  S.  VIL  ArniL  22,  71.] 


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orftB  auovaiieeattlwnitoofiBepcrwMkforlidarsr. 

AS€a/MO  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

ONC  out  of  eirerr  TWELVE  Anniud  Pttley  HoUtan  teeomlac  a 
daimant  EACH  TEAR.  For  particulan  apply  to  the  Clerk*  at  the 
Railwagr  SlatloaM,  to  the  Local  Agenta,  or  at  the  Offloea. 

M.COBMHnX,  antf  10,  BEOEKT  8TBEET.  LOKDOK. 

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VrOTHING  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMAKELLA 

Ijl  trntana  the  Human  Hair  to  Its  iwiatlBe  hoe*  no  matter  at  what 
•fe.  MESSES.  JOHN  GOBNELL  *  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
or  tJbenxMt  eminent  Chemist!,  suooeedcd  in  perftcting  this  wonderfkil 
Uqoid.  It  Is  now  oiBued  to  the  Public  in  a  more  concentrated  form* 
aad  at  a  lower  pride. 
Sold  in  Bottka« it*  anch. ftlso  a«..7s.  6<f ., or  16s.  each,  with  brueh. 


JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  gnatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  girei  the  teeth 
•pearl-like  whiteness,  promts  tlie  enamel  firom  decay,  and  imparts  a 
pleaslns  ftacranoe  to  tbe  breath. 

JOHN  OOSNELL  a>00.'8  Eztm  Highly  Scented  TOILET  aad 
NUBSEBT  FOWDEB. 

To  be  had  of  all  Ferteners  and  Chemists  thxo«cb<Mit  the  Klnfdom, 
and  at  Angel  Passage,  9S,  Upper  Tliames  Street,  London. 


w 


"VTATIONAL   PROVIDENT    INSTITUTaeN, 

X 1  OnoeAnrch  Street,  Loadon* 

EsUbllshed  December,  ms. 
Mutual  Assurance  without  indiridual  UabiUty. 


BUFTUBEB.-BT  BOYAL  LETTEBS  PATENT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

allowed  by  upwards  of  500  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  eflbo- 
tiTO  Inrentien  in  the  curative  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
steel  spring,  so  often  hnrtAil  In  its  eflbcts,is  here  avoided  i  a  soft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  body,  while  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
plied by  the  MOC-MAIN  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  ittinc  with  so 
much  eaee  and  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  oe  worn 
during  sleep.  A  descriptJTe  drcnlar  maar  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
cannot  fill  to  fit)  fiirwanled  by  poet  on  the  dreumibrcnee  of  the  body, 
twoinchos  below  the  hips,  bemc  sent  to  the  Manuibeturer. 

MB.  JOHN  WHTTB,  OS,  PICCADILLY,  LONDON. 

Price  of  a  Sinrie  Truss,  16s.,  9U.,  Ms.  td„  and  Sis.  6d.   Postage  Is. 
Double  Truss,  31s.  6<f.,«b.,  and  Mt.ed.    Postage  Is.  6d7 
AnUmbi]kiaTruss,41s.aBda8s.6(f.   Postage  Is.  IQri. 

Post  Office  orders  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE.  Poet  Offlee.  Ploendllly . 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 
VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  aU  cases  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 
rO  of  the  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  Ac  They  areporoua,  li«^t  in  texture, 
nnd  inezpenstre.  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  orduiary  stooUac*  Prices 
it.  8d.,  7s.  6</.,  10s.,  and  16f .  each.    Postage  6d. 

JOHN  WHITE.  MANUFACTUBBB,  08,  PICCADILLY,  London. 

GENTLEMEN   desirous  of   hanng   their  Linens 
dnsied  to  perfection  should  supply  their  Laundresses  with  the 

«a&aama&B  btasch," 

which  imparts  a  brilliaooy  and  elasticity  gratiiyins  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sidit  and  touch. 

A   FACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

J\  the  hair  with  this  bcantlAilly  peifbmed  Wash,  in  two  dars  grey 
hair  becomes  its  original  colour,  and  remains  so  by  an  oeeaaional  nnng. 
This  is  guamntced  by  MR.  ROSS.  10f.6d.,  sent  for  stamps.— ALEX. 
ROS8,S4S,  High  Uolbom,  London. 

SPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  At.tol. 
ROSS'S  CANTHARIDES  OIL.  It  &  a  sue  Restorer  of  Hair,  and 
reducer  of  Whiskers.  Its  elfcct  is  speedy.  It  is  patronised  by  Royalty. 
Thepileeof  It  is  9t.  Sd.,  sent  tat  M  stamps. 

HOLLOWAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
COMFORT  FOR  ALL— The  prevalence  of  external  diseases  is 
moumAilly  attested  Inr  thousandi,  whom  riches  cannot  gladden,  and 
hr  wliom  poverty  with  soundness  would  be  hailed  as  an  inestimable 
ilearinc.   To  all  thus  unlbrtnnalely  aSUcted,  It  should  be  knoem  that 


this  oooUnfr  Ointment  will  arrest  nny  outward  Inflammation,  stay  tbe 
prociesa  of  ooasumption  and  many  terriiyingr  wounds.  After  innumer- 
able trials  by  thousands  of  sulfcrers,  not  onenas  ever  yet  complained  of 
its  hnving  once  failed.  HoUoway's  Ointment  has  conquered  and  cured 
iiiSaiiiinatiMj  disorders,  and  saved  the  predous  Uvim  of  muUtaides. 
In  dbeases  which  have  aActed  the  frame  ibr  a  looc  tine,  or  con- 
tamkiatad  the  blood,  HoUonray *s Pills  ■hooid^waiyi lwialBi&. 


JHreeUm. 

Chairmnu    CHABT.EH  OILPIM,  ES<>.,  M.P. 

Depufy-ClkflrinNan-jCHABLES  WHEnLASf,  ESQ. 

CharlM  W.  C.  Hutton.  Eaq. 


Henry  White  Castle.  Esq. 
TkoBMBflhanibeia.  EmJ^X).  M.P. 
Jooqdi  Pdl  Christy,  Esq. 
Hemr  Oonstable.  Esq. 
WnUam  James  fiaslam,£e«. 

Medieed  Qtffeen— Thomas  B.  Peacock,  Esq.  M.D.,  and  John  Gny,  Esq. 

^BlMtor—S^timns  Doivid«m,  E«i. 
CommdHiio  ileteary-jClMVles  AnaeU,  Esq.,  TJLB. 


Sir  BsQJ.  S.  FhilUps.  Knt.  Aid. 
Charles  BeedjEaq.  F.6JL  M.P. 
John  Sflott,  Esq. 

hanTlioip,EM|. 


Gross  Annual  Income £4f5370  &s. 

Accumulated  Capital rs,974J37  Is. 

2?^J^lf*SlI**^ £lJ7i,4«  Is. 

ProAts  diatrlbated «l,7«6,l»  Is. 


atf. 

bd. 

9d. 

The  whrie  of  the  Proflts  are  divided  amongst  the  — nied.  Ttenext 
Division  of  Profits  will  be  made  on  the  SOth  of  November,  M7I. 

^In  conlbrmltv  with  the  "MARRIED  WOMEN'S  PBQFBBTY 
ACT.  U7<k*'  Polleies  may  now  be  eflbefeed  for  the  sepamle  banaflt  of 
wifo  andehlldien.,.  Thaee  PoUdes  are  not  suWoot  to  theeonteolof  the 
husband  or  of  creditOTs,  and  are  free  from  Probate  Duty. 

Forms  of  Proposal  may  be  had  on  application  at  the  Society's  Oflloes, 
46,  Qraoeehurch  Street,  London,  or  of  the  Agents  of  the  T"'t'^rt*fr 

SAMUEL  SMILES,  Seeratary. 

WATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  ffnaranteed 
tiie  finest  imporled,  flee  from  aeidltyorliaat,aaS  mnoli  amw- 
rior  to  low-mioed  Bhmy  (vidi  Dr.  Druitt  on  Cfteop  IFmes).   Out 


Onlneajeer  dosen.  Selected  dry  TarrMona^  18b.  ner'doaen.  Terms 
cash.  Three  doien  rail  pald._W.  D.  WATSONTWine  Merahant, 
ITS,  Ozfixrd  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  London,  W.  Bitn- 
bllshedlMl.   Full  Rice  Lists  ^  free  on  application. 

At  Ms.  par  .doam,  fit  for  n  0«ntlemaa*s  TaUa.  Bottlea  *^'^v^HiVtfi 
OaiTlacepald.  Omss is. per doaen extra (retunabla).  ' 

CHABLE8  WABD  a  BON, 

(FoetOBce  Ordan  on  PkondiUy),  1.  Chapel  Btnet  WgaC. 


MAYFAIB,  W.,  LONDON. 


3«B. 


HEDGES   &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
FUBB  8T.  JULIEN  GLABBT 
At  Us.,  10s.,  Ms.,  aos.,  and  IBs.  per  doaen. 
CliolceClaretaofTarloas«rowtha,4ls.,«s.,Ms.,71s.,64s.,  fU, 

GOOD  DINNEB  8HEBBY, 
At  Ms.  and  aos.  per  doMB. 

Snperior  Golden  BherxT a8s.aad4ls. 

CfaoloeSharry-JIda,  Ooldea.  or  BiowB« ..  «Ms.,Ms..Mid  6ge. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  Ms.,  a6s.,  ibsm  4Ss..  «s.,  oiki.,aadMs. 

Portfrom  fint-clMsShippers S0s.M«.4Ss. 

YeryCholoeOld  Port 4Bs.aos.7Ss.MeI 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  Ms.,  4SS.,  48s.,  and  Ms. 

Hoehheimer.Maroobrunner,  Itade^imer,  Stebiben.  LMArananeh 
Ms.  I  Johannisberger  end  Steinberger,  7Ss.,  84s..  to  UOs.i  Brannbener, 
Gmnhnnaen,  and  Seharsberg,  48«.  to  84s^  sparkling  Meeella  iOi  .Ms! 
Ms.,  TSs.t  verr  dioiee  Champagne.  Ms.,  7is.|  fine  cldSMk,  Mabaeiarl 
Froatlfnao, Vennnth, OmstantiajsM'hTymss  Chileti, ImnfUrSv. 
and  other  rarewlnee.  Fine  old  nie  Cognac  Biandj .  Ms,  ami  llTiiti 
dosen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  evny  description. 

On  reoeintof  a  Post  Office  order,  or  z«te«iue,aay  qnantltF  will  be 
forwardedlmmedlately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDONt  IM,  BEOSNT  BTBBET.  W. 

Brichtont  10,  King's  Boad, 

<GxlgteaUy  BeTaMtAed  AO.  wao 

BPABX&ZVO  CBJLaEPACMnii  SCik  9«r  «os. 

And  all  the  noted  Brands  at  the  lowest  cash  pilooi. 

aordeaoz,  I6s.,  Us..  Ms.,  Ms.,  »s..  toMs.perdoB.|  ChabUa,  Ms.i  Mai^ 
aaln,14e.pcrdaB.i  Sbonr,  Ms., Ms.,  Ms..  tt».,  Ms.,  to  Ms.  perdoa.}  OM 
Port.  Ms., Ms.. Ms^ Ms.,  to  144s.  oer  doi.i  Tarragona,  Us.  per  doa.,  the 
finest  imported  i  Hock  and  Moodle,  Ms..  Me.,  Ms.,  Ms._oer  doB.|  Spask- 
ling  Hot&aadMoailk,  Ms.  nndfilk.  per  doa.;  fineoid  lUeBnadr,  Mk, 
MR.aiid»s.per  doa.  AtDOTBSIO^  ])oM^,8|naioirflS«Kl»- 
gnt  gtowt  Omoomot  to  IwKt  nd  0».7W1bo  lioMhHili  to  fir 


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GONTENTS^N*  174. 


NOTBS:— A  Word  top  Moore. 8&7— Two  Cenieiuurluii  of 
the  nme  N«me.  8S8  —  Sir  Bdwin  SMdji  and  the  Bishops, 
S69  —  Remarkable  Altar-slab  in  NorwToh  Cathedral,  860— 
Names  of  Norsemen  in  Cumberland  and  Westmorefaind  — 
Jests-^  Btadyhoof  or  llecUough  -  Bast  Anglian  Folk  Lore : 
Sneesmg—  The  Souter  and  his  Sow — Extraordinary  Uar- 
riages  —  Chaucer :  -  Rchoo  " — A  Forgotten  Homerist — 
The  Cry  of  **  Treason."  880. 

QI7BBIB8 :  -  "Heart  of  Heart  [s].-  868  -*  The  Attio  IMent 

—  The**  Bear  "to  Drury  Lane -General  Bauer's  Order 
agatost  the  Ladies  of  NewOrleans  — Oanius  — The  Car- 
melites—Competitors for  the  Crown  of  Scotland  —  Con- 
grove's  **  Doris  "  —  Danby  and  Arlington  -  Dover  Cfestle 

—  John  Erskine,  Professor  of  Law,  Edinburgh —  '*  But 
Father  Anselmo  will  never  again,"  Ac — Glatton  —  Sydney 
GodolpUn— Rubens'  **  Judgment  of  Fkris  "-Leavenworth 
Family  — Duke  of  Manobester:  Fleet  Marriages— Maca- 
roon —  Marriage  Service  not  allowed  to  oommenoe  after 
Twelve  o'clock  —  Sir  John  Mason  —  Moli^re's  **  Come- 
dies" —  Quotations  wanted,  Aa.  868. 

RBPUB8:  —  Gainsbonrogh's  "  Blue  Boy,"  866  —  Moral 
Quntiug  in  Stanton  Churoh.  Norfolk,  868  -  lanes  on  the 
Human  Bar,  869  —  Henry  YIIL  and  the  Golden  Fleece, 
370— Realm,  ift.—CaprieiottS  Wray,  872 -Mount  Calvary. 
/».— Lord  Campbell's  **Life  of  Idrndhurst,"  Ac.,  878  — 
Measotint  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  once  the  Property  of  Brad- 
shaw  the  Regldde— **  Anima  Christi  "—The  Schoolmas- 
ter abroad  in  Staflbrdshire  —  The  Ode  of  Arthur  Grey — 
Philoaophical  Nakedness—  Enxlish  Queen  buried  at  Porto 
Fino  — Arabic  Numerals  in  Wells  Cathedra]  —  Priory  of 
Stb  Btheman— Sir  Thomas  Scwell  — The  Rhombus  and 

,  Scarus,  Ao.,  874 

Notes  on  Books,  Ae. 


A  WORD  FOR  MOORE. 

In  the  note  headed  ''  Spenser  the  Poet  of  Ire- 
land" ("N.  &  Q."  4*  S.  vu.  317),  intereetinff  aa 
£ar  as  relates  to  Spenser  himselfl  one  cannot  help 
regretting  that  the  writer  should  have  gone  out 
of  his  way  to  depreciate  Moore,  and  to  offer  an 
opinion  on  the  political  condition  of  Ireland  in  a 
manner  calculated  to  raise  controversy^  unless, 
indeed,  one  suffers  judgment  to  go  by  default, 
which  is  not  to  be  thought  of  in  the  case  of 
Moore. 

Mb.  Kbighilbt's  speculationB  on  the  impossi- 
bility of  an  insurrection  in  Ireland  are  disposed 
of  by  the  fact  that  one  occurred  ti^ere  rix  or  seven 
years  ago;  but,  believing  that  Moore's  IrM  Jlfe- 
lodies  (most  of  them)  rax£  among  the  finest  poems 
we  possess,  I  hope  to  be  allowed  to  say  a  few  words 
in  his  behalf.  Mb.  Kbighixvt  does,  to  be  sure, 
admit  (for  which  we  dionld  be  fnJbeivl)  that 
''many  of  the  Melodies  are  pleasmg  and  some 
really  spirited*';  but  he  is  disaatiafied  because 
they  *'  do  not  contain  a  single  description  of  Irish 
scenerv  or  a  trait  of  Irieh  manners."  And  pray 
why  should  th^  P  Irish  soenery  and  manners  in 
the  Melodies/  Who  then  would  have  read  them  P 
Moore  painted  the  emotions  of  the  soul,  which 
are  common  to  all  the  civilised  world — and  the 
uncivUised,  too,  for  aught  I  know — and  that  is 
the  cause  of  his  universal  popularity.     When 


Moore  wrote  words  to  Irish  tunes,  he  was  under 
no  obli^tion  to  describe  Irish  scenery  and  man- 
ners. He  has  sometimes  described  the  tone  of 
what — ^not  having  time  to  seek  another  phrase — 
I  will  call  national  feeling;  but  that  was  because 
the  melodies  themselves  suggested  it.  Hear  what 
Moore  himself  said  upon  tiiis  point  in  his  letter 
to  Sir  John  Stevenson,  consenting  to  undertake 
his  share  of  the  work :  — 

**  The  task  which  yon  propose  to  me,  of  adapting  words 
to  these  airs,  is  by  no  means  easy.  The  poet  who  would 
follow  the  various  sentiments  which  they  express,  must 
fisel  and  understand  that  rapid  fluctuation  of  spirits, 
that  unaccountable  mixture  of  gloom  and  levity  which 
composes  the  character  of  my  countrymen,  and  has 
deeply  tinged  their  music.  Even  in  their  liTeliest  strains 
we  find  some  melancholy  note  intrude — some  minor  third 
or  flat  seventh — ^whieh  throws  its  shade  as  it  passes,  and 
makes  even  mirth  interesting." 

If  Moore  ought  to  have  written  descriptions  of 
Irish  scenery  and  manners,  when  he  wrote  songs 
to  Irish  tunes,  it  must  have  been  equally  incum- 
bent on  him  to  give  descriptions  of  tiie  scenery 
and  manners  of  the  various  countries  to  whose 
tunes  he  wrote  songs  for  the  National  MelotUes, 
How  thankful  we  ought  to  be  for  having  got 
such  exquisite  songs  as  **  All  that's  bright  must 
fade,"  <<  Those  evezung  bells,"  '<  Should  those  fond 
hopes,"  "Fare  thee  well,  thou  lovely  one,"  "Oft 
in  the  stiUv  night,"  "  Take  hence  the  bowl,"  and 
twenty  others,  instead  of  sketches  of  landscape 
and  traits  of  manners  peculiar  to  India,  Russia, 
Sicily,  Scotland^  and  Naples,  to  whose  tunes  the 
immortal  verse  is  wedded. 

I  venture  to  think,  that  though  aUudons  to 
manners  can  be  introduced  with  much  effect  into 
humorous  songs,  as  we  see  is  done  in  those  of 
Bums  and  others  written  in  local  dialects,  parti- 
cularly of  the  northern  counties  of  Englano,  and 
also  in  Irish  comic  songs— of  which  there  are 
manv — ^they,  equally  with  descriptions  of  scenery, 
would  be  intolerable  in  songs  of  another  character. 
The  reference  to  Bums  fortunately  supplies  me 
with  an  illustration  in  support  of  my  argument. 
There  is  a  fragment  consisting  of  these  four  lines : 

M  My  heart's  in  the  Hielands,  my  heart  is  not  here. 
My  heart's  in  the  Hielands  a-chasing  the  deer ; 
A-chasinff  the  wild  deer,  and  hunting  the  roe— 
My  hearrs  in  the  Hielands  wherever  I  go." 

This  is  poetry:  it  touches  the  feelings,  and 
appeals  to  tiie  imagination.  We  behold  the  ban- 
iwed  man  turning  with  fond  regret  to  the  scenes 
and  sports  of  his  youth ;  we  see  his  eve  kmdle  as, 
for  the  moment,  he  fancies  himself  once  more 
''  with  his  foot  upon  his  native  heather,"  and  then, 
the  illusion  past,  he  feels  that  it  is  in  imagination 
only  he  can  hope  ever  to  look  upon  the  much- 
loved  land  again.  Bums  took  it  into  his  head  to 
make  a  complete  song  of  this  fragment,  and  this  is 
how  he  did  it  To  follow  the  four  lines  above 
given  he  wrote :  — 


358 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«*S.VII.  APR1L29,  71. 


**  Farewell  to  the  Hielands,  farewell  to  the  North, 
The  binh-place  of  Talour,  the  country  of  worth ; 
Wherever  I  wander,  wherever  I  rove, 
The  hUls  of  the  Uielandd  for  ever  I  love. 

**  Farewell  to  the  mountains  high  covered  with  snow; 
Farewell  to  the  straths  and  green  valleys  below ; 
Farewell  to  the  forests  and  high  hanging  woods ; 
Farewell  to  the  torrents  and  loud  pouring  floods." 

Now,  if  Barns  wfis  obliged  to  write  a  song 
contiuning  descriptions  of  scenery,  he  cannot  be 
blamed  for  the  result ;  but  surely  it  is  not  of  a 
nature  to  incline  others  to  take  the  same  course. 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  contrast  Bum8*8 
lines  with  Moore's  "  Vale  of  Avoca,**  which  con- 
tain a  certain  amount  of  description  of  scenery. 
All  that  genius  could  do  is  here  done.  The  first 
two  verses  are  charming  as  a  landscape  by  Claude : 
bat  you  are  not  really  interested  until  the  chord 
of  human  feeling  is  touched  in  the  third  and 
fourth  Terses.  C.  Ross. 


TWO  CENTENARIANS  OF  THE  SAME  NAME. 

The  following  paragraph  appeared  in  The  Comet, 
a  newspaper  publbhed  m  Guernsey,  on  Wednes- 
day, Nov.  30, 1870  :— 

"  A  Ckktexartax. — In  the  course  of  the  present  week 
Mrs.  Lenfestey,  nee  Beancamp,  a  native  of  the  Castel 
parish,  and  at  present  residing  near  the  district  church  of 
St.  John's,  completed  the  hundredth  year  of  her  age. 
Her  mental  facaitiea  are  good,  and  her  eyesight  is  so  an- 
impaired  that  she  is  able  to  read  and  sew  without  the 
aia  of  spectacles.  She  still  moves  about  the  house,  and 
were  it  not  for  an  injury  to  a  leg  sustained  some  time  ago, 
is  still  hale  and  hearty  enough  to  enjoy  herself  in  visiting 
her  acquaintances.  Her  crippled  state,  however,  oom- 
pela  her  to  remain  at  home.  A  daughter,  seventy  years 
of  age,  resides  with  her.  Their  circumstances  may  be 
described  as  indigent.  Judging  from  appearances,  the  old 
lady  may  live  a  few  years  longer.  Her  lifetime  forms  a 
link  connecting  the  present  with  that  period  of  history 
when  Great  Britain  struggled,  unsuccessfully,  to  rsduce 
the  American  colonists  to  subjection  to  the  mother 
country.  She  saw  the  light  before  the  birth  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott  and  Louis  Philippe ;  was  well  in  her  *  teens  *  be- 
fore the  Reign  of  Terror  had  horrified  the  civilised  world, 
and  has  lived  during  some  of  the  most  momentous  events 
recorded  in  modem  history. 

On  the  Wednesday  following,  December  4,  the 
same  newspaper  contained  this  notice : — 

**  A  CoiNCiDKNCB.— In  The  Comet  of  November  dOth 
it  was  stated  that  Mrs.  Lenfestey,  nee  Beauchamp,*  a 
native  of  the  Castel  parish,  but  residing  in  the  district  of 
St.  John's,  had  that  week  completed  her  hundredth  year, 
and  we  now  learn,  by  a  singular  coincidence,  that  another 
person  of  the  same  maiden  name,  and  a  native  of  the 
same  parish  (Castel)  —  namely,  Susan  de  fieancbamp, 
relict  of  Samuel  le  Bair,  was  baptised  in  the  Castel 
parish,  16th  December,  1738,  and  buried  in  St.  Peter- 
Port,  12th  June,  1885,  aged  101  years  and  fully  six. 
months." 


*  The  name  has  never  been  written  thus  in  Guernsey. 
In  the  Norman  dialect,  still  spoken  in  the  island,  the 
French  word  champ  invariably  takes  the  form  of  camp. 


As  the  question  of  longevity  is  one  which  has 
attracted  a  good  deal  of  attention,  and  has  been 
very  much  discussed  in  '*  N.  &  Q.,"  I  thought  it 
would  not  be  uninteresting  to  the  readers  of  this 
useful  periodical  if  I  were  to  verify  the  facts ;  and 
in  so  doing  I  became  more  than  ever  convinced 
how  easy  it  is,  unless  great  CAre  is  used,  to  fall 
into  error  in  matters  of  this  nature,  which  require 
a  cautious  sifting  of  the  evidence  adduced.  I  will 
show  that  although  the  fact  of  the  great  affe 
attained  by  these  two  individuals  is  substantially 
correct,  the  writers  of  the  above  notices  are  wrong 
in  stating  that  they  were  natives  of  the  Castel 
parish;  and  that  this  assumption  has  been  the 
cause  of  Mrs.  le  Bair  being  credited  with  six 
months  more  age  than  she  actually  attained. 

One  of  the  venerable  centenarians  being  still 
living,  I  began  by  visiting  her.  I  found  her  won- 
derfully clear  in  her  memory  and  intellects,  very 
upright  in  person,  and  with  eyesight  and  hearing 
apparently  unimpaired.  Our  conversation  was 
carried  on  in  the  old  Norman  dialect,  still  spoken 
in  Guernsey,  but  the  venerable  dame  speaks  and 
reads  both  English  and  French.  She  told  me 
that  what  had  appeared  in  the  newspap|er  was  in- 
correct, inasmuch  as  she  was  not  a  native  of  the 
Castel  parish,  but  of  the  parish  of  St.  Peter-Port ; 
that  her  family  had  come  originally  from  the 
Castel,  but  that  her  father  hiul  inhabited  the 
parish  of  St  Martin  until  he  had  come  to  reside 
m  the  town  where  she  was  bom.  She  produced 
a  copy  of  her  baptismal  register,  whicn  I  have 
since  verified  by  a  personal  examination  of  the 
parish-books  of  St.  Peter-Port.  It  is  as  fol- 
lows :— 

<* Suzanne,  fiUe  do  Daniel  Beancamp*  et  de  Judith 
Bond,  sa  femme,  n^  le  29*  de  Novembre  1770,  et  batlai^ 
le  2*  de  D^mbre  suivant  a  ea  pour  Parrain  Hellier  de 
Beancamp  et  pour  Marraines  Suzanne  de  Beaucamp  et 
Charlotte  Manger." 

I  looked  through  the  register  of  baptisms  for 
thirteen  years  subsequent  to  this  date,  and  could 
find  no  other  Suzanne  de  Beaucamp.  I  asked  her 
at  what  age  she  had  married.  She  told  me  at 
the  oge  of  twenty-four.  I  sought  for  the  record 
of  her  marriage,  and  found  the  following  entry  in 
the  register  of  St.  Peter-Port  ;— 

"  James  Lenfestey,  fils  de  Pierre  Lenfestey  et  Suzanne 
de  Beaucamp,  fille  de  Daniel  de  Beaucamp,  tons  les  deux 
de  cette  paroisse,  ont  ^t^mari^  ensemble  le  8«  de  Septem- 
bre  1794." 

I  inquired  of  her  whether  she  had  known 
Mrs.  le  Bair,  whose  maiden  name  was  also 
Susanna  de  Beaucamp,  and  who  had  died  about 
thirty  years  ago.  She  answered  immediately  that 
she  haa  known  her  well,  as  she  was  her  aunt  and 

*  It  is  not  -unusual  for  persons  in  the  lower  ranks  of 
life,  especially  in  town,  to  drop  the  particle  de,  DanicFs 
true  name  was  de  Beaucamp,  out  he  was  evidently  better 
known  as  plain  Beaucamp. 


\ 


4«k  S.  VIL  April  29, 71.] 


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359 


ffodmother.  I  asked  her  no  more  questions  at 
that  time,  but  being  desirous  of  testing  the  accu- 
racy of  the  flACts  in  respect  of  the  age  of  Mrs.  le 
Bair,  ^  J»^^  permission  to  examine  the  registers 
of  the  Castel  parish,  and  found  the  baptism  of  a 
Susanne  de  loeaucamp,  daughter  of  I)enys  de 
Beaucamp  and  Esther  Ahier,  his  wife,  entered  on 
December  16, 1783.  Thia  appeared  to  yerif^r  the 
statement  made  in  the  second  paragraph  which  I 
have  copied  above  from  TheComet ;  but  a  few  days 
after  1  called  again  on  Mrs.  Lenfestej,  and  in  the 
coarse  of  conversation  told  her  that  I  had  dis- 
covered her  aunt's  baptismal  register  in  the  books 
of  the  Castel  parish.  She  appeared  astonished 
and  begged  to  near  it  read,  wmch  I  proceeded  to 
do,  when  she  immediately  stopped  me,  saying— 

**  Ohl  that  was  not  my  aont;  her  father's  name  was 
Nicholas  de  Beaucamp,  and  her  mother's  Olympe  Robert 
I  am  their  granddaoghter ;  they  lived  at  St.  Martin's, 
where  I  believe  my  aunt  was  l>om,  as  1  remember  that 
on  the  day  she   attained    her  hundredth  year  many 

e arsons  called  to  see  her,  end  among  them  the  Rev. 
ichaid  Potenger,  rector  of  that  parisn,  as  he  said  that 
-«he  was  the  oldest  of  his  paiishionen." 

This  information  was  very  precise,  and  I  saw 
at  once  that  the  writer  of  the  second  paragraph 
had  confounded  one  Susanne  de  Beaucamp  with 
another.  A  day  or  two  afterwards  I  met  the  Rev* 
Charles  Robinson,  the  present  rector  of  St.  Mar- 
tin's, and  requested  him  to  search  the  register  of 
hia  parish  for  the  baptism  of  a  Susanne  de  Beau- 
camp about  the  year  1734.  The  next  day  he  sent 
me  the  following  extract  duly  authenticated  :— 

**  1784,  Juln  4.  Suzanne,  Fille  de  Nicolas  de  Beaucamp 
et  d*01ympe  Robert  a  4i4  baptist.  Daniel  Tourtel, 
Parain,  et  Frani9ois6  Maugeur  et  Rachel  de  Beaucamp, 
Uaraines." 

In  the  note  which  accompanied  this  extract 
Mr.  Robinson  added : — 

**  As  I  have  examined  the  register  for  twenty  subse- 
quent yearSi  I  thiuk  this  must  be  the  person  you  are  in- 
quiring about" 

The  discovery  of  the  error  that  had  been  com- 
mitted by  supposing  Mrs.  le  Bair  to  have  been  a 
native  of  the  Uastel  reduces  her  age  at  the  time  of 
her  decease  by  six  months.  She  must  have  but 
just  completed  her  101st  year  when  she  died, 
naving  been  baptised  on  June  4,  1734,  and  buried 
on  June  12, 18o6,  as  the  following  extract  from 
the  register  of  burials  in  the  parish  of  St.  Peter- 
Port  will  show : — 

*'1835.  Susanne  de  Beaucamp,  veuve  de  Samuel  le 
Bair  a  4t4  enterr^  le  12*  de  Jnin,  h  Vkge  de  101  ans." 

The  de  Beaucamp  family  is  of  very  ancient  date 
in  Quernsey.  By  the  Placita  Coronce,  A**  6  Ed- 
ward III.,  it  appears  that  Radulphus  de  Bello 
Gampo  was  one  of  the  j  urate  of  the  Koyal  Court  at 
that  time ;  and  in  the  extent  of  the  crown  revenues 
in  the  island  of  the  same  date  (1331)  we  find  that 
he  held  lands  in  the  parishes  of  St  Peter-Port 


and  St.  Andrew.  At  the  same  time  Richard  de 
Beaucamp's  name  appears  as  tenant  in  St.  Peter- 
Port,  and  John  de  Beaucamp's  in  St.  Peter-Port 
and  St.  Martin.  In  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  we 
iind  them  established  in  the  Castel,  where  a  con* 
siderable  .tract  of  land,  formerlv  in  their  posses- 
sion, bean  the  name  of  ^  Les  Beaucamps.'^  The 
family  being  looked  upon  in  the  island  as  belong- 
ing to  this  parish  will  account  for  the  errors  into 
wnich  the  writers  in  The  Comet  have  fa^en. 

Instances  of  longevity  are  far  ftom  rare  in 
Guernsey.  In  passing  through  the  churchyard  of 
the  Castel  I  found  two  tombstones  within  a  few 
feet  of  each  other,  from  which  I  copied  the  follow- 
ing inscriptions  :— 

"Id  repose  le  corps  de  Dame  Catherine  Gohu,  femme 
du  Sieor  Pierre  le  Roy,  dn  Friqnat,  d^oM^  au  Seigneur 
le  17b«  Aoust,l'an  1819,  ftg^  de  101  Ans,8  Hois  et  4 
Jours." 

*<  Elizabeth  Robert,  veuve  d'El^zar  Ingrouille,  d^c^^ 
le  14*  Janvier,  1860,  ig^  de  99  Ans  et  2  Mois." 

Edgar  MacCuxlooh. 

Guernsey.         .„....,______ 

SIR  EDWIN  SANDYS  AND  THE  BISHOPS. 

Mr.  Spedding  (Sacon^i  lAfe^  iiL  264)  speaks  of 
Sir  Edwin  Sandys  as  ''  a  man  whose  relations 
to  the  bishops  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that 
on  the  2nd  of  Nov.  preceding  ft.  e,  1605]  his  books 
were  burned  in  Paul's  Churcn  Yard  by  order  of 
the  High  Commission."  For  proof  of  die  fact  he 
refers  us  to  a  letter  of  Chamberlain's  to  Carleton 
dated  Nov.  7, 1606.  (Stat.  Pap.,  Dom.  Ser.^  It  is 
strange  that  the  son  of  an  archbishop  should  have 
proved  thus  violently  hostile  to  the  Dishops,  so  as 
to  make  them  foivet  all  forbearance  towards  the 
son  of  an  old  colleague.  And  it  seems  stranger 
still,  if  we  recollect  what  kind  of  man  Sir  Edwin 
Sandys  was.  Throughout  his  whole  career  he  has 
diown  himself  a  very  intelligent  man  of  moderate 
views ;  and  for  a  Protestant  of  the  beginning  of 
the  seventeenth  centurv,  he  was  remancably  free 
from  intolerancy,  and  by  no  means  given  to  vio- 
lence of  any  l^d.  He  was  large-minded  enough 
to  find  some  good  points  even  in  Roman  Catho- 
lics. Thus  he  praises  them  in  his  Europ€B  Specu^ 
lum  ^written  1609  and  dedicated  to  J.  Whitgiffc, 
Archoishop  of  Canterbury,  published  1637.  pp.  8, 9^ 
for  their  adorning  their  temples.  And  ne  is  suf- 
ficiently clear-headed  and  just  to  see  that  '' Pro- 
testants and  Papists  seeme  generaUy  in  the  greatest 
part  of  their  stories,  both  to  blame,  though  both 
not  equally,  having  bv  their  passionate  reports 
much  wronged  the  trutn ; "  and  ne  freely  acknow- 
ledges that  even  some  of  the  other  part  have  dis- 
charged themselves  "nobly."  (Cf.  p.  99.)  Of 
course  this  is  not  indifference  to  rdiffion  in  general* 
On  the  contrary.  Sir  Edwin  is  a  zealous  Christian. 
It  grieves  him  to  speak  ''what  a  multitude  of 
Atheists  doe  brave  it  in  all  places,  there  most 


aeo 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIESL 


l^^  8.  yih  Ap«u.  29,  *7U 


iv4i«re  TwMnev  is  moet  in  his  piime.^'  (P.  100; 
cf.  also  p.  161.)  In  the  same  hook  he  openly  and 
cbacidedly  dedares  his  pieferenoe  for  the  English 
Church  with  its  government  of  hishops.  (P.  214.) 
And  he  does  not  appear  in  the  coiuse  of  years  to 
have  changed  his  opinions.  Thus  on  May  26, 
1614,  in  a  debate  on  the  Bishop  of  lincobi,  who 
had  incurred  the  heaYv  displeasure  of  the  Com- 
mons in  consequence  of  a  speech  made  by  him  in 
the  House  of  Lords,  he  warns  them  **  not  to  tax 
the  reyerent  Degree  of  Bishops  by  One  Man's 
Enror."  It  was,  he  says,  an  *' Order  of  Angels 
not  Men,  where  [sic']  none  of  them  without  error/' 
But  be  this  as  it  may,  we  have  the  testimony 
of  a  usually  well-informed  newsman,  writing  a 
few  days  after  the  event,  and  positivelv  assertmg 
that  his  books  were  burned.  The  mot  of  the 
burning,  therefore,  can  hardly  be  doubted ;  but  it 
may  admit  of  an  explanation,  and  this,  1  think, 
will  be  found  in  the  following  extract  from  the 
Publisher's  Preface  to  the  JEuropcB  Speculum : — 

'*  Whereas  not  manv  yeares  past,  there  was  published 
in  Print,  a  Treatise  iotitnled  <  A  Relation  of  Religion  of 
the  Westeme  parts  of  the  World,  Printed  for  one  Simon 
Waterford,  1606.  Whithont  name  of  Author,  vet  gene- 
-  rally  and  currantlypassing  under  the  name  of  wr  Edwin 
Sandys.  Knight ;  Kjiow  all  men  by  these  present  that 
the  same  Booke  was  bat  a  spurious  stolne  Copy,  in  part 
epitomized,  in  part  amplined,  and  throughout  most 
flbameftilly  falsified  and  false  Printed  from  ue  Authors 
Onginall;  In  so  much  that  the  same  Knight  was  in- 
finitely wronged  thereby :  and  at  mxme  as  it  came  to  his 
knowledffBf  that  tuch  a  thing  wa$  Printed  andpaned  under 
hie  name,  he  caused  it  (though  somewhat  late,  when,  it 
seemes,  two  Impressions  were  for  the  most  part  vented) 

TO  BB  PBOBIBITED  BT  AUTBOBITT;  AND  AB  I  HAVX 
BBABD,   AS  MAMT  AS    COULD    BB    BBCOVaBBD,    TO  BB 

DBSEBVEDLT  BUBNT,  wlth  power  also  to  puuish  the 
Printers :  And  yet,  nevertheless,  since  that  time  there 
hath  beene  another  Impression  of  the  same  stolne  into 
the  world." 

An.  BuJTF. 
Munich,  Germany. 

REMARKABLE  ALTAR-SLAB  IN  NORWICH 

CATHEDRAL. 

When  I  was  latelv  in  the  Cathedral  of  the 
Most  Holy  Trinity^  Norwich,  I  saw  an  ancient 
altar-slab  which  seemed  to  me  of  more  than  usual 
interest.  It  was  found  not  long  since  in  the  pave- 
ment of  the  apse  of  the  Norman  Chapel;  which  is 
dedicated  to  the  Blessed  Jesus,  and  which  opens 
to  the  north  side  of  the  choir,  and  has  recently 
been  undergoing  restoration.  * 

A  small  portion  of  one  (the  north-west)  comer 
of  the  stone  having  been  broken  off,  it  has  been 
skilfully  replaced,  and  the  slab  is  now  duly  re- 
stored to  wnat  is  supposed  to  be  its  former  posi- 
tion in  the  centre  of  the  apse  of  the  chapel. 

The  material  of  the  slab  is  stated  to  be  stone 
from  Clipsham,  Rutland.  The  dimensions  are  5  feet 
9  inches  in  length,  3  feet  3  inches  in  breadth, 
and  perhaps  7  inches  in  thickness. 


4  plain  mottldinff,  with  chamfer,  is  Ottnied 
round  three  of  its  sioes.  On  the  fourth  side,  that 
is  to  say  in  its  surface  on  the  east  side,  tiieve  are 
three  long  mortises  alx)ttt  five  inches  deep,  with  a 
round  hole  drilled  from  the  side  lAto  each.  The 
mortises  I  suppose  to  hssve  icsrmatly  sapported  a 
nredoe. 

£very  altar-slab  was  formerly  marked  with 
five,  oocasionally  with  nine^  crosses.  In  this  skb^ 
howevOT,  no  cross  is  to  be  discerned  at  the  north- 
west comer,  which  has  been  repaired;  and  that 
in  the  north-east  comer  is  worn  away;  but  a 
cross  may  still  be  seen  both  in  the  south-east  and 
in  the  south-west  comers.  The  oentral  cross  does 
not  appear,  and  may  have  been  supplanted  by 
the  remarkable  feature  in  this  altar  sow  to  b& 
described. 

}n  this  fine  slab  there  is  inserted,  not  in  its 
centre,  but  considerably  towards  its  north-weat 
comer,  another  slab  of  smaller  size.  It  is  a 
squarish  piece,  I  believe  of  Purbeck  marble,  mea- 
suring 20^  inches  from  east  to  west,  and  22^  inches 
from  north  to  south.  When  lately  discovered, 
the  Purbeck  was  seen  to  be  not  flush  with  the 
surrounding  surface,  rising  above  it,  in  fact,  about 
one  quarter  of  an  inch. 

This  Purbeck  inlay  is  marked  with  one-inch 
crosses,  five  in  number ;  the  extremities  of  which 
are  drilled,  unlike  those  of  the  two  crosses  visible 
on  the  larger  slab. 

The  smaller  slab  is  supposed,  by  a  veiy  learned 
Norwich  authority,  to  cover  certam  relics ;  which 
may  be  the  relics  of  a  saint,  or  the  blessed  sacra- 
ment, if  the  former  were  not  to  be  obtained  at 
the  consecration  of  the  altar. 

I  have  myself  observed  many  old  altar-slabs  in 
our  churches,  but  have  never  biefore  met  with  one 
like  this ;  and  therefore  hope  that  ecclesiologists 
who  read  "  N.  &  Q.''  may  feel  disposed  to  enrich 
these  pages  with  their  views  respectinff  i^  and 
tell  us  of  any  other  examples  that  are  Known  to 
exist 

Perhaps  the  archives  of  the  cathedral  may  h& 
found  to  throw  some  light  upon  it,  if  a  Norwich 
archteologist  would  kindly  consult  them. 

W.  H.  S. 

Yaxley. 

Naues  of  Nobse  Men  ik  Cttkbeblaio)  ani> 
Westmoreland.— Mr.  Ferguson  carries  his  theory 
too  far  when  he  considers  that  Eagle  Crag,  Raven 
Crag,  Bull  Crag,  &c.,  are  the  personal  names  of 
Efiil,  Bafn,  BoUi,  &c. 

There  are  four  Eagle  Crags  in  the  district :  Bor- 
rowdale,  Buttermere,  Patteraale,  Eesedale.  How 
can  it  be  that  the  personal  name  Egil  should  be 
given  to  such  crags  cfUy  as  are  suited  for  the 
occupation  of  eagles  (some  of  which  have  been  in 
their  possesion  within  a  oenturv)  P 

Otley,  in  his  old  and  excellent  Otdde  Book, 


4^  3.  TIL  Afbil  29, 71.] 


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361 


aays:  ''There  is  a  Raven  Crag  in  almost  eveTj 
dale."  Is  it  likely  that  Rafii  gave  name  to  nome- 
lOQS  crags,  of  not  the  aUghtest  use  to  any  one  but 
a  laven?  Bull  Crag  (Far  Easedale)  has  a  Calf 
Crag  not  fiir  firom  it  The  names  of  these  crags 
must  have  been  given  by  shepherds  after  the 
district  had  become  pastoral,  ana  it  besame  neces- 
sary to  distinguish  certain  points  of  rook.  Hence 
the  repetition  of  the  same*  names.  In  Grasmeze 
aad  Langdales  are  three  Blake  Bias,  four  Raven 
CragSy  two  Thrang  Crags,  two  J&iW  (Erne  ?) 
Crags,  three  lamf  Urags  or  Rigs,  two  x  ew  Crags ; 
and  Great  and  Little  Langdale  nave  each  a  AUrt 
Ciag,  a  Ghreen  Crag,  a  Black  Crag,  and  Swine 
Soar  and  Swine  Crag. 

The  rock-pigeon  is  sapj^osed  to  be  the  pro- 
genitor of  our  domestic  pigeon,  and  there  are 
numerous  Dow  Crags;  but  I  observe  that  the 
hybrid  form  DAv-craff  has  been  lately  applied  to 
the  principal  crag  of  mat  name. 

It  is  not  neceasary  to  press  these  to  aid  Mr. 
Ferguson's  views,  which  are  confirmed  sufficiently 
otibterwise.  W.  G. 

Jests. — The  following  havcy  I  believe,  not  ap- 
peared in  print: — ^The  late  Professor  Wilson  on 
one  of  his  Lake  angling  excursions  was  accom- 
panied by  a  North  countryman,  a  Mr.  Angus. 
When  about  tp  start,  after  a  rest  on  the  slopes  of 
Helvellyn,  Mr.  Angus  was  non  est,  '^  Where  is 
Anffus  P  "  was  inquired.  '^  There  he  is ! "  said 
Wilson,  pointing  to  a  slumberer  in  some  long 
grass,  ''  latet  angus  in  herba  I "  This  joke  was 
told  to  me  by  an  elderly  lady  whose  brother  was 
one  of  the  party. 

A  professor  at  a  Scotch  university,  while  ascend- 
ing tiae  steep  road  to  the  village  of  Morches,  in 
Switzerland,  kept  fiur  behind  the  rest  of  the  party. 
^' March  quicker!  or  we  shall  never  get  to  the 
inn,"  called  out  an  English  clergyman.  ''  My 
legs  are  tired,''  said  the  professor.  ''  Never  mind 
your  legs ;  push  on  I —  necessitas  non  habet  legs^* 
was  the  reply  of  the  clerical  wit  I  was  by  when 
this  joke  was  perpetrated.  It  occurred  about  four 
years  ago.  Viatob, 

RsADTHOOF  OB  Rbdiovoh. — One  of  the  corre- 
spondents of  Land  and  Water  of  April  1,  writing 
of  '-Mr.  G.  Watson's  harriers"  (which,  by  the 
way,  ought  to  be  spelt  "hariers  "),  says : — 

**  On  Friday,  the  24th,  my  horse  was  brought  to  me  by 
A  most  worthy  man.  named  sinf^olarly  enouffh  Ready- 
hoof.  He  is,  I  believe^  a  descendant  of  Sir  Thomas 
Bedioogb,  of  Ormakirk  in  Lancashire,  who  was  attahited 
in  the  Wars  of  the  Roses,  and  took  refuge  in  the  sane- 
toaiy  of  Gcetton  in  Rockingham  Forest." 

This  seems  to  me  to  be  worthy  of  prsservation 

in  the  pages  of  '<  N.  &  Q."        Cuthbkbt  Bsbb. 

East  AKeuAK  Folk  LoRi:  SKBBznre.-^Ifyoii 
sneeze  three  times  on  Mondav  morning  you  are 
sure  to  have  a  present  before  tbe  week  is  oat 

Htbb  Claskv. 


The  SoiTTEB  and  his  Sow. — The  following 
humorous  lines  were  often  heard  in  Scotkmd  long 
ago,  but  seem  to  be  now  forgot.  It  mav  be  neces- 
sary to  explain  that  touter  is  the  Scotch  word  for 
shoemaker : — 

**  The  sonter  gae  his  sou  a  kiss. 
*  Gromph '  (quo*  the  sou),  *  it's  for  my  birse'  j 
'  And  wha  gae  ye  sae  sweet  a  mon'  V 
Quo'  the  sonter  to  the  son. 
'  Gmmph '  (quo*  the  sou),  *  and  wha  gae  ye 
A  tongue  sae  sleekit  and  sae  slee  ?' " 

G. 

Edhibuigh. 

ExiRAOBDiKAET  Mabbiaoes.  —  On  a  tablet 
against  the  north  wall  of  the  church  of  St  Augus- 
tine, Birdbrooke,  Essex,  are  the  following  inscrip- 
tions:— 

^  MaiT  Bkwitt,  of  the  Swan  Inn,  at  Bathome  End  in 
this  parish,  buried  May  7, 1681.  She  was  the  wife  of  nine 
husbands  snocessiyely,  but  the  ninth  outlived  her. 

**  Also,  Robert  Hogan,  of  thisparish,  was  the  husband 
of  seven  wives  successively.  He  married  Anne  Liver- 
men^  his  seventh  wife^  Jan.  1, 1789.^ 

F.G.L. 

CHArCSB:  ''SCHOO." — 

<*  For  though  a  widewe  hadde  but  oo  schoo. 
So  pleaaunt  was  his  Inprindpio, 
Yet  wolde  he  have  a  ferthing  or  he  wente." 

Morris,  Prologue  C.  7.,  L  253. 

It  has  been  suggested  (Temporary  IVefaee  to 
Six-Textf  p*  04,  Gnaucer  Soc.'^  that  echoo  here^ 
8(H*s.  Mr.  f^umivall  knows  or  no  such  early  use 
of  the  latter  word  in  English,  and  seems  inoined 
to  interpret  9choo^dout,  from  lYon^,  Parv,, 
p.  447.  It  seems  to  me  to  mean  8hoe  and  nothing 
else.  In  all  the  MSS.  of  the  Six-Text  the  read- 
ing is  '^noth  schoo,"  which  puts  out  of  court  the 
dimculty  raised  as  to  what  use  the  fourth  part  of 
a  shoe  (fertkmg)  could  be  to  the  Frere.  Ferthing 
simply  a  farthing,  the  coin. 

In  Morris's  Aldine  edition  (  Wife  of  BaiK$  Pro- 

logue,  1.  706),  we  haye — 

**  The  clerk  whan  he  is  old,  and  may  nought  do 
Of  Venus  worlds,  is  not  worth  a  scho." 

But  Tyrwhitt  reads  here  ^'  not  worth  his  old  sho." 
In  the  ''Song  against  the  Friars*'  (Political 
PoemBf  temp,  jEdw.  Ill,  to  Pick,  III,  i.  266. 
Record  Pub.)  there  is  an  apposite  passage  to 
that  of  the  Prologtiie-^ 

«  For  had  a  man  dayn  al  his  kynne^ 
Go  shnnre  him  at  a  flrere, 
And  for  lesse  then  a  payre  of  shone 
He  wyl  assoil  him  clone  and  sone." 

The  whole  of  this  poem  (I  am  not  sure  of  the 
date  of  it)  should  be  read  with  Chaucer's  descrip- 
tion of  the  Frere.    Compare 

'*  Hud  dde  with  pnrses,  nynnes,  and  knyres. 
With  gyidles,  gloyee*  lor  wenches  and  wyves," 

^th  Chaucer's 

^  His  typet  was  ay  AnoA  ftd  of  knyfefl 
And  pyanes,  Ar  to  yive  fiiir9  wyfes  *'  { 


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and  again — 

**  Tham  felle  to  lyve  al  on  purchace, 
witli  Chaucer's 

**  His  parcbace  was  bettor  than  his  rente." 

John  Addis. 

Bastington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sosaez. 

A  FoBGOTXEN  HoiiEBisT. — A  few  days  ago  I 
obtained  from  Mr.  Salkeld's  monthly  catalogue — 
obiter,  well  worth  a  reading-man's  regular  per- 
quisition— a  blank-yerse  translation  of  Homer's 
iirst  lUad  by  the  Reverend  Samuel  Langley,  D.D., 
and  published  by  Dodsley  in  1767.  In  a  preface, 
occupying  twenty-nine  quarto  pages  of  peiissology, 
{^Anglich,  twaddle),  italicised^  emphasis  ffrtUid,  at 
an  average  of  one  hundred  words  in  every  page, 
the  learned  D.  D.  sets  forth  his  having  been  in- 
duced by  Pope's  Rhymes  and  his  Non-Hotnerism 
to  translate  the  entire  IHad;  experimenting  its 
reception  by  the  publication  of  its  first  canto. 

For  this  purpose  he  tells  us  that  he  had  speedily 
thrown  aside  Pope's  version,  and  wholly  abstained 
from  reading  the  elder  translators;  expecting  bj 
the  adoption  of  Milton's  heroic  metre — in  his 
hands  decasyllabic  prose— to  extinguish  Pope's 
Iliad  altogether. 

Has  this  experiment  been  noticed  by  any  of 
Pope's  subsequent  translators  or  commentators  P 
"Was  it  followed  by  the  version  of  the  other  twentv- 
three  cantos,  annonnced  as  ready  to  meet  the 
public  demand?  In  1767  Pope's  rhymed  Iliad 
Bad  been  in  everybody's  hand  auring  forty  years. 
What  portion  of  that  period  had  Doctor  Langley 
devoted  to  his  own  blank  verse  P  Did  he  survive 
to  compare  and  compete  it  with  Cowper's  P  Has 
it  been  holocausted  to  Vulcan  P  or  is  it  slumbering 
in  the  Langleian  archives  P 

£ut  let  not  our  zealous  Philhomeric  be  deprived 
of  his  rightful  commendations.  Appended  to  his 
translation,  and  independent  of  its  preface,  he  has 
illustrated  the  opening  of  the  Pelidssan  Epos  by 
abundant  references  to  the  Seripturee^  to  Hesiod, 
to  Pindar,  to  the  Qreek  dramatistSi  to  Virgil,  to 
Ovid,  and  to  our  Nesdo  quid  imj/tM— the  Paradise 
Lost  of  Milton.  E.  L.  S. 

The  Cbt  op  "  Tbeisoit."— In  all  the  accounts 
of  the  siege  of  Paris  and  of  the  insuxrection  which 
followed^  the  writers  notice  as  a  peculiarity  the 
constant  use  of  the  word  treason:  do  they  know 
that  the  same,  in  the  middle  ages^  was  the  most 
common  outory  to  intimate  danger,  the  most 
proper  summons  to  arms  P  It  occurs  constantly  in 
Froissart's  Chronicles.  Thus^  relating  how  Sir 
Peter  Audley  led  a  party  of  Navarrois,  in  the 
night,  to  take  Chalons,  he  says  that  the  citizens 
were  exceedinglv  alarmed  becauae  there  were  cries 
from  all  parts  of  ''  Treason,  treason  t  To  arms,  to 
arms !«'  *   Further  on,  we  read  that  the  defenders 

*  Sir  John  Froiasart's  Chromdut  Av.,  translated  bj- 
Thomaa  Johnes,  vol.  ii.  p.  440, 8rd  edit,  London,  1808, 8  vo. 


of  the  castle  of  Berwick,  finding  that  it  had  been 
scaled  and  taken,  began  to  sound  their  trumpets, 
and  to  cry  out,  ''  Treason,  treason ! "  *  When 
Aymerigot  Marcel,  an  English  captain  on  the 
borders  of  Auvergne,  takes  by  stratagem  the  castle 
of  Marquel,  the  inmates  who  passed  through  the 
court,  seeing  his  followers  climbing  over  the  walls^ 
instantly  cried  out, ''  Treason,  treason  !  "  t  The 
same  alarm  was  given 'by  the  guards  of  one  of  the 
gates  of  Oudenarde  when  that  place  was  retaken 
by  the  Lord  Destoumay  %,  and  occurs  twice  in 
another  chapter,  where  Qeronnet  de  Maudurant, 
one  of  the  captains  of  Perrot  le  Beamois,  finds 
means  to  put  him  in  possession  of  Montferrani.§ 

We  may  quote,  as  additional  instances,  the  fol- 
lowing passages  from  the  metrical  life  of  Bertrand 
du  Guesclin  by  Ouvelier :  — 

**  Adont  a  escrid  alarme  k  nne  fois : 
*Tray,  tray !  aeigneor,  armez-voas  demnnoia.**' 

L.  19188,  vol.  ii.  p.  210. 

**  Moult  fort  fii  Ii  assans  qa*k  ce  joar  commen9a. 

Aux  armes  ont  cri^  11  £ngIot«  par  delk, 

£t  crioicnt :  *  Tray ! '  que  bien  on  Tescouta." 

L.  20018,  p.  230. 
**  La  gent  de  ce  pals  sont  k  PoitierB  alil, 
£t  vont  criant :  *Tray !  nous  sommM  tuit  fin^.*  ** 

L.  20933,  p.  260. 

FfLAircisaTrx-MicnBi;. 

Atheoeum,  Pall  Mall. 


€lurrtetf. 


"HEART  OF  HEART[SJ." 

Can  you  tell  me  what  has  led  to  the  universal 
use  of  the  expression  *'  Heart  of  hearts  "  in  the 
plural,  which  appears  to  me  to  be  not  only  incor* 
rect  but  nonsensical  P  I  have  never  met  with  a 
single  writer  of  modem  date  who  has  not  adopted 
this  form  of  expression,  implying  that  a  person 
may  have  more  hearts  than 'one,  and  one  espe- 
cially warmer  and  more  cordial  than  the  rest.  Is 
it  assumed  to  be  derived  from  Shakespeare  ?  If 
so,  a  reference  to  the  passage  from  which  it  must 
be  taken  will  show  its  incorrectness.  In  the  scene 
betweoi  Hamlet  and  Horatio  in  the  third  act  of 
HamUitf  the  Prince  of  Denmark  says  — 

.  ''Give  me  that  man 
That  is  not  nasnon's  slave,  and  I  will  wear  him 
In  mv  hearths  oore^av,  in  my  heart  of  heart, 
As  I  do  thee.** 

Here  ''  heart  of  heart "  is  evidently  used  as  a 
more  forcible  (though  synonymous)  expression 
than  ''  heart's  core,"  and  means  the  innermost  part 
of  the  heart,  or,  in  modem  phrase,  the  depth  of 
the  heart.  AH  this  seems  so  obvious  that  it  can 
hardly  be  supposed  to  have  escaped  the  many 
able  writers  and  speakers  and  preachers  who  in- 
variably use  the  form  of  expression  which  appears 

*  Fro]58art*8  Ckrtmklu,  vol.  iv.  p.  887. 

t  Ibid.  vol.  vi.  p.  821.  %  Ibid,  p.  863. 

§  Ibid.  vol.  ix.  pp.  116, 117. 


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to  me  80  objectionable.  I  am,  theTefore,  appre- 
henaiTe  that  if  there  is  an^  mistake  in  this  matter 
it  must  be  my  own;  and  if  so,  I  shall  be  thankful 
to  be  set  right  Chelhsfobs. 

Eaton  Square.         

The  Attic  Talejtt.— I  find  mention  of  an 
Attic  talent  paid  for  the  ransom  of  a  captive  lady 
in  an  anecdote  of  the  war  between  the  Romans 
and  Gauls,  b.c.  663,  when  the  latter  were  totally 
defeated  on  Mount  Olympus.  Can  any  one  inform 
me  what  sum  of  money  the  Attic  talent  repre- 
sents ?  Thos.  Ratcupfb. 

[After  Solon  had  remodelled  the  coinage,  the  Attic 
silver  money  was  celebrated  for  its  parity.  The  chief 
coin  was  the  drachma  of  silver,  the  average  weight  of 
which,  from  the  time  of  Solon  to  thst  of  Alexander  the 
Great,  is  found  to  be  66'5  grains.  From  this  we  get  the 
following  values  in  avoirdnpoise  weight : — 

lbs.   oz.       gr. 
Obol    ....        0      0      1529 
Drachma     ...        0      0      91-77 
Mina   .        .        .        .        1      4|    9fi-69 
Talent         .        .        .      76      Of    14*69 

But  for  historical  information  relating  to  the  Attic  talent 
we  most  refer  onr  correspondent  to  Smith's  Dictionary  of 
Greek  and  Moman  Antiquities,  ed.  1849,  pp.  812,  983  ; 
Bockh,  Metrolog,  Untersuch.;  Humphrey,  Coin  Collec- 
tor's Manual,  1853;  and  The  English  Cyclopadia,  "Arts 
and  Sciences,"  viii.  9.] 

The  "Beab"  ik  Dbttbt  Lanb  figures  con- 
spicuously in  Sir  George  Etherege's  comedy  of 
She  Wou'd  if  She  CouW  (London:  printed  for  the 
company,  n.  d.)  CourtalL  one  of  the  dramatis 
personaf  to  reassure  Lady  Cockwood  in  the  prac- 
ticability of  haying  a  jollification  on  the  morrow 
apart  from  scrutinous  observers,  speaks  thus : — 

**  Then  'tis  but  going  to  a  house  that  is  not  haunted 
by  the  company,  and  we  are  secnre ;  and  now  I  think 
on%  the  *  Bear '  in  Drury  Lane  is  the  fittest  place  for  our 
purpose."— Act  IIL  Sc.  1,  p.  37. 

Sir  Joslin  Jolly  also,  in  persuading  Sir  Oliyer 

Cockwood  to  accompany  him  to  a  bacchanalian 

revel,  as  a  final  clinching  to  the  argument,  says : 

'*  I  bespoke  dinner  at  the  'Bear,*  the  privat'st  place  in 
town  ;  there  will  be  no  spies  to  betray  as :  if  Thomas  *  be 
bnt  secret,  I  dare  warrant  thee,"  &c. — ^Act  III.  Sc.  2,  p.  41 . 

I  should  like  to  know  if  there  is  any  account  of 
this  tavern  extant,  giving  when  first  built,  and 
also  its  demolition.  J.  Pebbt. 

Waltham  Abbey. 

Gekbbax  Butleb's  Obbeb  aoainst  thb  Ladies 

OP  New  Obleaks. — 

'*  Everybody  knows  about  the  order  by  means  of  which 
be  pot  an  end  to  anything  like  insult  being  offered  to  his 
solmers  by  the  ladies  of  Mew  Orleans.  An  Englishman  who 
met  Butler  some  time  after,  in  a  railway  car,  spoke  to  him 
of  this.  *  Do  yon  know,'  said  he,  *  where  I  got  that  famous 
order  of  mine  ?  I  got  it  from  a  book  of  London  Statntcs. 
I  changed  **  London  "  into  "  New  Orleans,"  that  was  all. 

*  Sir  Oliver  Cockwood*8  servant. 


The  rest  I  copied  verbatim  et  literatim,*  " — Macrae's 
Americans  at  Home,  L  165. 

Is  there  any  truth  in  this  statement  of  Butler's  P 

JOSEPHUS. 

CA^aus. — Are  any  fragments  extant  of  the 
writings  of  Canius  the  poet,  Martial^s  £riendP 
According  to  Epigrammata  (iii.  20,  and  yii.  68), 
both  Canius  Rufus  and  his  wife  Theophila  must 
have  been  uncommonly  pleasant  people. 

Mabbocheib* 

The  Gabmelites. — ^Where  is  to  be  found  the 

best  account  of  the  Carmelites  in  England  before 

and  at  the  Dissolution  P  J.  R.  B. 

[Pierre  Helyot  in  his  Histoire  des  Ordres  Mdnastiques^ 
1714, 4to,  has  given  an  excellent  account  of  the  Carme- 
lites, or  White  Friars.    Consult  also  Dagdale's  Mon€U' 
ticon,  edit.  1880,  vol.  vi  pt.  iii.  pp.  1568-1582;  Fuller's 
Oiurch  History,  edit  1845,  iii.  272-277 ;  Newcourt's  Re- 
pertorium,  i.  566-568;    Fosbroke's  British  Monachism^ 
etlit,  1848,  pp.  78,  287 ;  and  for  other  works,  Brunet, 
Manuel  du  Libraire,  edit.  1865,  vL  1170.    John  Bale^ 
Bishop  of  OsiBory,  who  was  himself  a  Carmelite  friar, 
wrote  a  History  of  this  Order,  now  among  the  Harleian 
manuscripts.  Mo.  1819.     Of  Bale,  W^ver  thus  speaks  in 
his  Funeral  Monuments,  p.  140,  quoting  some  lines  firom 
his  poem  **  Oe  Antiquitate  Fratram  Carmelitarum : " — 
"  He  speaks  much  in  the  honoar  of  this  religious  order,  of 
which  he  was  a  member  in  the  monastery  of  the  Cannes 
within  the  city  of  Norwich,  and  finds  himself  much  ag* 
grieved  at  a  certain  Lollard,  as  he  calls  him,  and  a  friar 
mendicant,  who  made  an  oration,  and  composed  certain 
virulent  metres  against  this  and  other  of  the  religions 
orders,  which  he  caused  to  be  spread  abroad  throughout 
most  parts  of  England  in  the  year  1888."! 

COMPETITOBS  FOB  THE  CbOWW  OP  SOOTLAITD. — 

Where  shall  I  find  a  statement  of  the  pedigrees 
of  the  twelve  claimants  of  the  crown  of  Scouand 
temp,  Edward  I.,  with  the  precise  grounds  oa 
which  each  claim  was  based  P  C.  D.  C. 

Covgbbvb's  "Dobis." — In  a  work  entitled  The 

Life,  Writinge,  and  Amours  of  Williain  Congreve, 

JBiflr.,  published  without  any  printer^s  name^  1730, 

I  nna  it  stated  in  a  note  at  p.  156  that  the 

''  Doris ''  of  Gongreve's  poem  of  that  name^  com* 

mencing — 

**  Doris,  a  nymph  of  riper  age. 
Has  werj  grace  and  art," 

was  the  Viscountess  F .     At  p.  62,  to  which 

the  reader  is  referred  in  the  above  note^  the  Vis- 
countess F is  alluded  to  as  a  notorious  lady 

of  intrigue.    Is  it  known  who  this  Viscountess 


F- 


wasP 


Tekplab* 


Dakbt  AiTB  Ablington. — In  the  catalogue  of 
the  London  Library  is  entered  a  book,  ''  Letters 
of  Dtmbg  {Duke  of  Leeds)  to  Lord  Arlington. 
ovo,  1710."  I  have  lately  inqcdred  for  the  book 
at  the  London  Library ;  it  is  not  to  be  found.  Is 
there  such  a  book  in  existence,  or  is  the  entry 
in  the  catalogue  a  mistake  P  The  library  pos- 
sesses   the  two  well-known  Tolumes,  Danby'a 


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relatwe  to  hu  Impeachment^  and  hia  Z«^- 

ters  written  1676-8.  0. 

[The  following  is  probably  the  work  inqaired  afler  \^- 
Copteff  amd  ExtracU  of  tome  Letters  written  to  and  from 
ihe  Earl  o^  Danby  {ytow  Duke  of  Leeda),  in  the  Yeare 
1676,  1677,  and  1678,  with  particular  Remarks  tmon  tome 
of  <ft«m.  Second  Edition.  Lond.  1710,  8vo.  Both  edi- 
tions are  in  the  British  Mogemn.] 

DoTBR  Cabtls.— May  I  ask  if  the  followiDg  is 

a  fact  ?— 

**  In  1822  three  men  were  still  to  be  seen  hanging  in 
front  of  Dover  Castle."— Victor  Hugo's  Bif  Order  of  the 
King,  i  85.  (English  edition.) 

Writiiig  on  the  subject  of  taxiing  of  smugglers. 

R.  J.  F. 

John  Ebskikb,  Pbotessob  ov  Law,  Edik- 
BUB6H. — ^1.  The  fiist  edition  of  The  Institutes  of 
the  Law  of  Scotland  was  printed  and  published  in 
1778,  after  his  death,  by  a  finend  of^  the  family. 
Who  was  that  friendly  editor  P 

2.  Is  there  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Erskine  in  exist- 
ence P    If  so,  in  whose  possession  P  *  Z. 

*'Bttt  Fathbe  Aksslko  will  txsvjsr  agadt/' 
ETC.:  Abchbishop  op  Caittebbxtbt.  —  In  the 
Rojal  Academy  Catalogue  for  1846,  picture  No. 
516  is  described  by  the  following  lines  on  An* 
selm's  death : — 

**  But  Father  Anselmo  will  never  again 
Penance  impose  npon  ladie  or  swaine ; 
His  feeble  stei^  and  his  sandal'd  tread 
Will  never  again  the  forest  thread ; 
His  welcome  voice  in  cottage  or  hall 
Will  never  more  bless  nor  knight  nor  thrall." 

^  Can  you  inform  me  who  is  the  author  of  these 
lineSy  and  from  whence  they  are  taken  P  The 
picture  was  painted  by  Fanny  Mclan. 

C.  G.  H. 

Glaiion. — What  is  the  meaning  of  the  name 
"  Glatton  "  P  R.  C. 

Stditet  Gobolphtn. — I  cannot  find  in  any 
peerafle-biography  the  date  of  the  birth  of  Sydney 
Godotohin,  afterwards  Earl  of  Godolphin,  and 
Lord  High  Treasurer,  and  a  famous  minister.  I 
should  he  ^lad  if  any  of  your  readen  could  supply 
me  with  this  date. 

I  am  also  anxious  for  particulars  of  another 
Sydney  Godolphin,  a  relative*of  the  former,  who 
was  one  of  the  wits  and  poets  of  Charles  lL*s 
reigo.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  Memoirs  of  the 
Dike  of  Buckii%gham,  prefixed  to  the ''  Rehearsal," 
4ks  one  of  Buckingham's  intimates ;  and  I  suspect 
him  to  be  the  ''  litde  Sid.  for  simile  renowned  " 
of  Lord  Mulgrave's  Eseay  on  Satire,  and  not  Sir 
Charles  Sedley  or  a  brother  of  Algernon  Sydney, 
as  different  emtors  of  Dryden,  to  whom  the  poem 
was  attributed,  have  supposed.  W.  D.  C. 

[*  An  engraved  portrait  of  John  Erskine  of  Cardross, 
advocate,  4to,  appears  in  Evans's  Catalogue  of  Fortraiis, 
voL  i.  p.  116. — Kd.] 


RuBKire*  ^'JiTBexBzrrovPABia." — Anengsav^ 

ing  of  this  subject,  executed  by  Adrien  Tiominelin 

about  1690,  bears  the  following  dedication :  — 

**  D.  Jaoobo  Doarte  nobili  domeetico  Begis  Ang^a, 
singnlari  pictoris  artis  cultori,  hajas  archetym  tabolam 
inter  plorima  possidenti,  L.  M.  D.  C  Q.  .£gidias  Hen- 
dricx.** 

Who  was  this  Duarte,  and  is  there  any  record 
of  his  collection  of  pictures,  or  of  its  ultimate 
destination  P  R.  R  G. 

Leatbnwobth  Faxilt.— Can  any  reader  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  tell  me  where  this  family  sprung  from, 
and  who  was  Sir  Lewis  Leavenworth,  who  is  men- 
tioned in  Russell's  Xiom  of  Eccentric  Personages,  in 
the  Hfe  of  Sir  Gerald  Massey,  where  a  party  giv^i 
by  Sir  Lewis  Leavenworth  of  London  is  spokea 
of  P  The  date  was  about  1740-50.  Any  infor- 
mation respecting  the  above  will  be  thankfully 
received  by  H.  A.  Bajnbbiikie, 

24,  Rnssell  Road,  Kensuigton,  W. 

DlTKE  OF  MAKOHBSTEB  :  FlVET  MABBIAeES. 

Bum,  in  his   Hietory  of  Parochial  Registers,  in 

reference  to  these  marriages,  says: — 

''All  dasaes  flocked  to  the  Fleet  to  marry  in  haste ;  the 
register  contains  the  names  of  men  of  all  ranks  and  pro- 
fessions. Among  the  aristocratic  patrons  of  its  nnlieensed 
chaplains,  we  find  Edward  Lord  Aberffavennv,  &c.  dkc.» 
and  Lord  Montagne,  afterwards  Dnke  of  Manchester." 

Which  Duke  of  Manchester  was  this  P  and  whom 
did  he  marry  P  T.  P.  F. 

[This  was  unquestionably  Robert  third  Dnke  of  Man- 
ehester,  who,  according  to  Sir  Egerton  Brydges*  editioa 
of  CoUins*s  Peerage,  S.  67,  **m  AprU  8,  1735,  wedded 
Harriot,  daughter  and  coheir  of  Edmand  Dnnch,  of  Little 
Wittenbam  m  Berkshire,  Esqnire,  Master  of  the  Hoose- 
hold  to  Queen  Anne."  This  is  the  marriage  which  took 
place  at  the  Fleet ;  for  in  Bom's  Flett  Regieten,  p.  75,. 
we  read  as  follows :— **  1785,  April  8.  Robert  Mcmtaga,  of 
Grosvenor  Sqoare,  and  Miss  Parritt  Donch,  B.  and  S."] 

Magaboon.  —  What  is  the  deriyation  of  the 

word  macaroon,  the  best  of  dessert-cakes  P  In  my 

opinion  a  dish  of  macaroons,  a  dish  of  walnuts^ 

and  a  decanter  of  '84  port  is  a  dessert  fit  for  an 

emperor— aye,  were  he  Emperor  of  Germany  at 

Versailles  before  a  starving  Paris.  M.  i). 

[Italian  maeanmit  introduced  through  the   French 
macarotu"} 

MaBBIAGE    SEByJCB  NOT  ALLOWED    TO    CoiC- 

KENCB  AFTBB  TwBLyE  o^Clook.  —  A  lady  com- 
missions me  to  ask  the  reason  of  this  prohibition. 
I  thought  it  might  haye  originated  when  mass 
was  performed  at  the  marriage.  Will  some  one 
kindly  pacify  the  fair  inquirer's  mind,  who  evi- 
dently considers  that  a  very  substantial  reason 
should  be  given  by  the  clergyman  why  he  should 
defer  the  making  two  loyen  happy  at  any  reason- 
able hour  P  J.  A.  G. 
Carisbrooke. 

[A  reply  to  this  query  will  be  found  in  **  N.  &  Q."  2^* 

S.  X.  14«.J 


41^  S.  VII.  Apml  29,  '71.] 


IfOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


365 


Sir  Johit  BCusinr.— <Hay  I  aak  wbetber  Mfi. 
Samttxl  TvcncBB,  wbo  made  Tarioiu  inquirieft  in 
'*  N.  &  Q."  in  1865  as  to  the  descendaats  of  Sir 
Jolm  Maeon,  is  still  desisouaof  obtaining  infbrma- 
lion  rei^ectmg  tfanm  P  P.M. 

« 

MoiJkiEB*8  ''ComDiBB."— le  anytiiinff  known 
of  the  translator  of  Sdect  Comedks  of  Molidre  in 
8  Tolfl.y  printed  in  both  French  and  English,  date 
1732  P  '^  London :  panted  for  John  Watts  at  the 
Priatinff  Office  in  Wild-Court  near  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields/^  There  b  a  separate  d^cation  prefixed 
to  each  plaj.  It  is  nuther  amusing  to  see  Mon- 
sieur Jourdiun  figuring  as  Mr,  Jordan^  and  still 
more  amusing  in  the  advertisements  of  books  and 
music  at  the  end  of  the  volumee  tx>  read  of  Mr, 
Shakespeare  and  Mr,  Handel ! 

JoHAIHAlf  BOVGHIBB. 

QtOIATtOirS  WAKTBD. — 

<*Rsttle  his  homes 
Over  the  stones, 
He*8  <ml J  a  paaper  that  nobody  owns." 

W.  P.  P. 

[The  remarkable  poem,  "The  Pauper's  Driv«,"  whidi 
bss  often  been  attribnted  to  Thonas  Hood,  is  by  T.  Noel, 
and  WM  first  pubUdied  hi  his  B^fmn  and  Bmmi^Mfn^ 
1841,  p.  200.  ItiBieprintedhiCaaeia'sPasMyiZtedM^ 
Series  L  p.  195.] 

Where  are  the  following  lines  to  be  found  P— 

'*  When  Itolie  doth  porson  want. 
And  travton  are  in  England  soant. 
When  France  is  of  commoCian  free, 
The  ivorld  witfaoat  an  eaith  abiOl  be." 

£•  Sk  £• 

Whence  comes  the  following  line  concerning 
the  affection  of  a  dog  for  its  dead  master  P — 

'*  It  did  not  know,  poor  fool,  why  love  shonid  not  be 
trne  to  death." 

A.  0.  V.  P. 

What  piece  of  poetij  begina  with —  * 
''The  wind  has  a  language  I  wish  I  ooaU  lean." 

P.  J.  F.  GAHiiLLOir. 

Where  is  the  following  quotation  taken  from  P — 

<<  When  phiiotophedi  hnre  done  their  worst,  two  and 
two'still  make  ibnr." 

A. 

A  few  days  since  I  heaid  a  gentleman  quote 
ihe  following  couplet  >— 

"Talk  not  to  me  of  fongitade  or  latitude. 
Bat  tell  me  rather  where  to  look  for  gratitude." 

Can  any  of  your  conespondents  tell  me  where 
the  lines  occur,  and  who  is  their  author  P 

E.  A.  D. 

'*  The  more  I  learn  the  less  I  think  I  know." 

About  fifty  yean  sinee  I  met  with  this  sen* 
tence.  1  haye  always  titoudit  it  was  in  the 
writings  of  Bishop  Berflridge,  Out  vecently  looked 


unsuccessfully   for   it    Can   any  correspondent 
oblige  me  with  a  reference  to  its  source  P 

James  Gilbert. 

'^Tranqoil  its  spirit  seemed  and  floated  slow ; 
Even  in  its  very  motion  there  was  rest" 

H.  D.B. 

Sir  John  Habuait  Whitpibld. — ^In  the  Oen- 
ti&num*8  Maaasme  for  1734,  p.  60,  occurs  a  notice 
of  tiie  death  of  "  Sir  John  Herman  Whitfield, 
aged  101."  It  is  also  stated  that "  he  took  the 
name  of  Whitfield  in  1700  by  Act  of  Parliament 
on  succeeding  to  the  estates  of  John  Whitfield, 
Esq.,  of  Yorkahire.''  I  incline  to  the  belief  that 
tills  must  be  the  celebrated  Admiral  Sir  John 
Harman,  who  waa  flag-captain  under  Admiral 
Penn  of  the  ship  which  earned  the  Duke  of  York 
(afterwards  Jamea  II.)  to  the  West  Indies  in 
1664^.  In  the  life  ef  AdmiialHarman  in  Biogrth 
Ma  JVovafis,  it  is  stated  that  the  time  and  place  of 
nis  death  were  unknown,  which  may  perhaps  be 
aeoounted  for  by  this  change  of  name.  Should  any 
of  joat  correspondents  be  able  to  confirm  this,  or 
show  how  Admiral  Sir  John  Harman  and  John 
Whitfield  were  connected,  a  Tery  interesting 
question  would  be  solTod,  and  probably  some 
authentic  eyidence  as  to  his  age  .might  be  useful 
in  settling  the  point  of  longevity  so  often  diaousMd 
in  your  columns.  As  commanding  a  ship  of  war 
in  166^  and  ndt  dying  till  seventy  years  after- 
wards, a  strong  approach  to  the  age  assigned  him 
is  actually  amved  at  There  were  a  family  of 
Whttfields  near  Canterbury,  but  I  did  not  sue- 
ceed  in  finding  any  will  of  a  John  Whitfield  ad 
Yotk  anywhere  about  the  fame  mentioned. 
Junior  United  Sefviee  Onh.  W.  NvwBOMB* 

Wkeck  of  Tmc  Templb. — As  my  query  re- 
specting the  wreck  of  the  brig  Temple  cannot  be 
of  genezial  interest,  I  write  to  give  my  address, 
according  to  the  notice  at  the  end  of  "  N.  &  Q" 

I  know  who  the  passengeis  were,  but  then  I 
have  no  proof,  and  cannot  refer  to  any  record. 

The  former  were,  1.  George  Archer,  M.D.,  who 
afterwards  died  in  Scinde,  while  surgeon  of  the 
64th  Regiment,  he  being  then  married  to  his 
second  "mfe  Louisa  Hartwell,  daughter  of  tbe 
Yicar-General  of  the  Isle  of  Man.  (His  widow 
married,  secondly,  at  Allahabad,  Major  Greathead 
of  the  8th  Foot,  now  Sir  E.  H.  Greathead,  K.C.B.  ; 
and  on  her  death,  the  second  husband  again  mar- 
ried.) 

2.  Elizabeth,  his  first  wife,  and  who  was  after- 
wards drewned  when  the  Great  Liverpool,  re- 
turning from  Bombay,  was  wrecked  off  the  coast 
of  Spain  in  1846  or  '6. 

3.  Their  son  (only  child)  W.  M.,  aftelwards 
Capt.  in  78th  Highlanders,  and  who,  after  ex- 
changing to  10th  Regiment,  died  at  Clifton  in 
1861  from  the  effects  of  the  campnign  of  1857-8 
in  India.  T.  H.  qIam.  Abcueb. 

%  Wellin^on  Termce,  Aylesbury. 


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NOTES  AND  QUEBIEa 


[4«k  &  VII.  Apbil  29, 71. 


GAINSBOROUGH'S  "BLUE  BOY." 


(4«'  S.  i 


OROUGH'S  "BLUE  BOY." 

ui.  676 :  iv.  23,  41, 80,  204,  287:  v. 
86 ;  vii.  237.) 


17, 


The  history  of  the  original  ''Blue  Boy,"  in  the 
LandB  of  an  able  art-author,  would  make  a  popu- 
lar and  interesting  volume.  The  feud  between 
the  two  great  painters  to  which  the  origin  of  the 
picture  is  due;  the  feelings  of  triumpn  on  one 
side  and  of  discomfiture  on  the  other  at  its  success- 
ful dSlnd  in  1770 ;  the  cold-colour  sermonjpreached 
against  it  in  1778 ;  its  purchase  by  the  ranee  of 
Wales,  and  its  sojourn  in  Carlton  House;  the 
dinner  over  which  it  was  sold  by  the  prince  to 
John  Nesbitt,  Esq.,M.P.;  its  presence  amongst 
the  first-class  pictures  by  foreign  masters  in  Nes- 
bitfs  collection,  and  its  appearance  at  his  sale  in 
1802;  its  sojourn  with  Hoppner  and  others  during 
the  unsettled  state  of  Nesbitt*s  afiairs ;  its  restora- 
tion to  Nesbitt  in  1816 ;  its  sale  by  Nesbitt  about 
1820 ;  its  purchase  by  Hall,  at  whose  sale  in  1868 
it  appearea  as ''  a  portrait  of  the  Prince  of  Wales," 
and  its  subsequent  struggle  to  regain  its  right 
position  in  ^ncturedom,  would  supply  ampJe  ma- 
terials for  such  a  volume. 

Here,  however,  we  must  be  as  brief  as  possible. 
During  the  last  century  there  arose  two  great 
painters  in  England — 8ir  Joshua  Reynolds,  able, 
cool,  and  diplomatic:  and  Thomas  Gainsborough, 
talented,  impulsive,  and  non-diplomatic. 

The  forte  of  Sir  Joshua  was  portnuture,  and  it 
became  a  part  of  his  policy  to  depreciate  Gains- 
borough's portraits,  but  to  praise  his  landscapes. 
Carey  tells  an  anecdote  illustrative  of  this  policy. 
He  states  that  at  one  of  the  meetings  of  the 
R.A.8  Sir  Joshua  proposed  **  the  health  of  Gains- 
borough, our  bed  landscape  painter,"  whereupon 
Wilson,  whose  forte  was  landscape,  retorted  wnen 
bis  turn  came,  ^'Hhe  health  of  Gunsborough,  our 
bedpcrtrait  painter." 

To  show  by  an  example  that  Sir  Joshua's 
policy  was  not  well  founded,  the  '*  Blue  Boy " 
was  painted  by  Gunsborough — a  work  in  which 
genius  to  conceive  happily,  and  skill  to  execute 
admirablv  are  so  harmoniously  combined  that  it 
admittedly  <*  rises  mto  the  ideal  of  portraiture." 

Tradition  says  the  "  Blue  Boy  ^^  got  a  capital 
position  at  theK.A.,  which  contributed  to  its  suc- 
cess, but  gave  annoyance  to  Sir  Joshua  that  was 
not  foi^otten  when  Gainsborough's  application  for 
a  special  place  for  a  special  picture — the  group 
of  the  three  royal  princesses— painted  for  his  life- 
long patron,  George  Prince  of  Wales,  was  arbi- 
trarily refused.  There  seems  to  be  no  doubt  this 
refusal  was  resented  by  the  king  and  heir  apparent 
as  well  as  by  Gainsborough.  The  I^rning 
HerM  (April  22  and  28, 1784)  strongly  censured 


the  council  of  the  R.A.  for  refusing  this  applica- 
tion, as  if  royally  inspired,  for  it  thus  condudes  :^ 

**  In  the  name  of  charity  what  offence  has  been  com- 
mitted bjr  the  three  prinoesBes  that  they  are  refnaed  a 
situation  in  which  their  charms  might  appear  in  a  proper 
light  ?  It  is  a  point  which  cannot  be  easily  detennined, 
whether  the  condact  of  the  council  of  the  R.A.  be  not 
a  greater  affront  towards  majesty  than  to  the  artist." 

The  offence  did  not  lie  in  the  princesses,  bat 
solely  in  the  able  manner  in  whicn  their  charms 
had  been  transferred  to  the  canvas.  . 

The  defence  of  the  council  which  appeared  in 
the  FMic  Advertieer  (April  24,  1784)  reads  as 
if  from  the  pen  of  Reynolds,  for  it  breathes  his 
policy  throughout  It  begins:  <' That  the  Exhi- 
nition  should  be  deprived  of  the  landscape  pencil 
of  such  a  painter  as  Mr.  Gainsborough  is.  not  a 
littie  to  be  lamented  " ;  but  there  is  no  lamentatiou 
about  the  loss  of  his  portrait-pendl  or  the  exclu- 
sion of  the  group  of  i^oyal  portraits  about  which 
the  difference  arose. 

Was  there  a  lively  apprehension  that,  from  the 
exalted  rank  of  the  pnnoesses  and  the  patronage 
of  the  king  and  the  Prince  of  Wales,  these  por- 
traits would  have  proved  to  be  even  a  greater^ 
success  for  Gainsborough  in  fashionable  society 
than  the  ''Blue  Boy"  had  been,  and  votes  were 
influenced  accordingly  against  any  relaxation  of 
the  hanging  rules  ? 

The  study  for  the  group  of  princesses  was 
No.  24  in  the  late  winter  exnibition  of  the  RA., 
and  it  showed  that  Reynolds  had  cause  for  the 
jealousy  he  was  opemy  charged  with  by  the 
Morning  Herudd,  The  picture  itself,  but  in  a 
mutilated  state  which  spout  its  effect,  was  No.  119 
in  the  previous  winter  exhibition.  This  mu- 
tilation, we  have  been  told,  was  the  act  of  a 
re-arranger  of  the  royal  collection  to  make  it  fit 
some  odd  place  or  other. 

Upon  the  various  phases  of  the  Reynolds  and 
Gainsborough  controversy,  one  is  almost  forced  to 
conclude  that  their  <]^uanel  in  1772,  only  two 
years  after  the  exhibition  of  the  ''Blue  Boy," 
which  led  Gainsborouffh,  to  his  own  detriment, 
to  send  no  pictures  to  tide  R.  A.  during  the  ensuing 
four  years  \  the  motion  carried  in  1775  to  strike 
Gainsborough's  name  off  the  list  of  RjLs,  but 
afterwards   rescinded;    the    cold-colour   sermon 

f reached  against  the  offending  "Blue  Boy''  in 
778,  the  year  after  Gainsborough  once  more 
began  to  send  pictures  to  the  R.A. ;  and  the  arbi- 
trary refusal  of  his  request  in  1784  for  a  particular 
position  for  the  group  of  princesses,  if  not  all  steps 
in  the  depreciatory  policy  of  Sir  Joshua,  afford 
food  for  tnought  at  any  rate.  Yet  when  death 
had  removed  his  great  and  gifted  rival,  Sir  Joshua 
paid  a  handsome  tribute  to  his  memory,  as  "a 
foeman  worthy  of  his  steel,"  even  if  the  deprecia- 
tory policy  does  pop  through  in  places. 
The  king  was  a  staunch  patron  of  Gainsborough, 


4*  S.  VII.  Apbil  29,  '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


367 


bat  be  disliked  Reynolds ;  and  tbe  policy  of  tbe 
latter  towards  the  king's  fayourite  was  almost 
certain  to  bring  both  the  king  and  the  Prince  of 
Wales  to  the  side  of  Qainsborough  at  tbe  time. 

If;  then,  the  cold-colour  discourse  of  1778  did 
not  lead  to  the  purchase  of  the  "  Blue  Boy ''  for  a 

Salace.  the  event  of  1784  was  almost  certain  to 
ave  Drought  about  such  a  result  as  a  special 
mark  of  royal  patronage.  When,  therefore,  we  hear 
from  a  subsequent  owner  of  the  picture,  Mr.  Nes- 
bitt,  that  it  once  belonged  to  the  Prince  of  Wales 
(George  IV.)y  it  is  nothing  more  than  under  the 
circumstances  was  to  be  expected.  In  a  similar 
spirit  the  prince  afterwards  "  crowded  the  studio 
of  Hopjpner  with  princes,  peers,  and  fine  ladies  in 
opposition  to  Opie,  Owen,  and  Lawrence.**  •  But 
if  the  cold-colour  discourse  did  contribute  to  place 
the  **  Blue  Boy  "  in  a  royal  collection,  so  now 
it  is  proposed  to  cite  it  as  affording  cogent  evi- 
dence that  the  green  "  Blue  Boy  "  was  the  rery 
offender  against  which  that  sermon  was  carefully 
prepared  and  delivered  to  the  rising  generation  of 
art  students. 

The  "  Blue  Boy"  appeared  as  a  novelty  in  the 
art-world  which  formed  a  contrast  with,  and  made 
a  greater  impression  than,  an  ordinary  portrait  of 
the  boy  would  have  done.  Grace  ana  aignity  are 
conspicnous  features  of  the  '^  Blue  Boy,"  and 
simplicity  of  treatment  was  Gainsborough's  forte. 
Masses  of  light  in  a  cold  colour  on  the  principal 
figure  in  the  middle  of  the  picture  are  other 
features  of  the  "  Blue  Boy." 

^  Now  these  features,  which  then  gave  and  still 
giye  celebrity  to  the  picture,  form  the  chief  head- 
ings discussed  in  that  sermon.  Novelty  and  con- 
trasts, as  a  means  of  producing  a  *'  more  forcible 
expression"  than  ordinary  procedure,  are  con- 
demned; grace  and  dignity  added  to  the  repre- 
sented are  also  condemned  in  strong  language  as 
betraying  ^vulgarity  and  meanness";  simplicity 
is  treated  as  often*  **  disagreeable  and  nauseous 
affectation  " ;  masses  of  light  in  one  colour  is  said 
to  resemble  "  an  artistes  first  essay  in  imitating 
nature  " ;  the  position  of  a  principal  figure  in  the 
midst  of  a  picture  under  the  principal  light  is 
commented  on  as  creating  *'  needless  aifficiuties  " 
if  generally  acted  on ;  and  a  cold-coloured  central 
figure,  with  warm  colours  surrounding,  are  con- 
demned as  ''gross  heterodoxy  involving  difficulties 
beyond  the  power  of  art,  even  in  the  hands  of 
Kubens  or  Titian,  to  make  a  picture  splendid  and 
harmonious  "  (far  less  Gainsborough,  who  was  no 
doubt  implied).  Then  follows  the  application  of 
the  sermon  to  the  offender  in  the  preacher's  ''mind's 
eye,"  which  has  been  so  long  assigned  as  the  cause 
of  the  "Blue  Boy's"  prcduclion.  Descending 
from  generalisation  to  particularisation,  Sir  Joshua 
apologises  for  the  step,  and  says  :— 


*  Livtt  ofPaintertf  by  Allan  Canninghaui,  v.  242. 


"  Though  it  is  not  my  business  to  enter  into  the  detail 
of  our  art,  vet  I  must  take  this  opportunity  of  mention- 
ing one  of  tbe  means  of  producing  that  ^reat  effect  which 
we  observe  in  the  works  of  the  Venetian  painters,  as  ; 
think  it  is  not  generally  known  or  observed.  It  ought, 
in  my  opinion,  to  be  indispensably  observed  that  the 
masses  of  light  in  a  picture  be  always  of  a  warm  mellow 
colour,  yellow,  red,  or  yellowish-white;  and  that  the 
blue,  the  grey,  and  the  green  colours  be  used  only  to 
support  and  to  set  off  these  warm  colours,  and  for  this 
purpose  a  small  proportion  of  cold  colours  will  be  suffi- 
cient" 

Now  the  two  chief  colours  condemned  hero  as 
too  cold  for  portraiture,  green  and  bkte — ^for  grey 
is  more  of  a  cozy  than  a  cold  colour — ^are  pre- 
cisely the  leading  colours  of  the  green  "Blue 
Boy's  "  costume. 

In  short  this  discourse  appears  to  prove,  almost 
to  demonstration,  that  the  *'  Blue  Boy  "  was  then 
an  offender  or  heretic  of  standing,  or  no  such  ser- 
mon would  have  been  launched  against  his  hetero- 
doxy, and  that  the  original  picture  was  a  green 
blue-dad — consequently,  that  the  green  "Blue 
Boy  "  must  be  the  original  picture. 

The  history  of  the  original  picture,  which  has 
passed  current  for  so  many  years,  is  the  version 
embodied  in  the  j^edigree  of  the  Grosvenor  or  pale 
"  Blue  Boy,"  as  it  appears  in  Young's  Illustrated 
Catalogue  of  the  Grosvenor  Oaliery,  published  in 
1821. 

Young,  after  mentioning  the  influence  which 
the  *'  Blue  Boy's  "  success  exercised  in  enhancing 
the  reputation  of  Gainsborough,  says :  "  The  pic- 
ture was  purchased  at  Mr.  Buttall*s  sale  by  Mr. 
Nesbitt;  it  became  afterwards  the  property  of 
Mr.  Hoppner,  who  disposed  of  it  to  Earl  Gros- 
venor " — but  whether  to  the  first  or  the  second  earl 
IB  not  stated. 

In  a  more  or  less  modified  form  this  pedigree 
appears,  with  all  its  errors,  in  subsequent  works 
on  art  In  one  of  the  latest  of  them,  Fulcher's 
Life  of  Gainthorough  (18^6),  it  is  given  in  these 
somewhat  different  words:  "At  Mr.  Buttall's 
death,  the  '  Blue  Boy'  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Nesbitt ;  the  picture  was  afterwards  in  the  pos- 
session of  Mr.  Hoppner,  the  painter,  who  sold  it 
to  the  first  Earl  Grosvenor."  Thus  supplying  the 
information  that  the  pale  "  Blue  Boy  "  was  bought 
by  the  first  Earl  Grosvenor,  who  died  in  1802. 
Such  is  what  may  be  called  the  official  pedigree 
of  the  pale  "Blue  Boy";  but  it  is  erroneous,  as 
has  been  pointed  out  to  the  efiect  that  Nesbitt 
did  not  obtain  the  "Blue  Boy"  at  Buttall's  sale, 
but  from  the  Prince  of  Wales ;  and  that  Hoppner 
did  not  sell  the  original  "Blue  Boy"  to  Earl 
Grosvenor,  as  the  Grosvenor  picture  was  bought 
from  a  dealer  ("  N.  &  Q. "  4'»»  S.  iv.  237 ;  y.  17.) 

The  trade  history  of  the  pale  "Blue  Boy"  has 
also  appeared  to  the  effect  that  it  was  first  heard 
of  at  an  auction-room  sale,  without  a  frame  and 
with  a  hole  in  it;  and  that  after  passing  through 
the  hands  of  several  dealers,  who  had  it  repaired 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[^•»»  S.  VII.  April  2^ '71. 


and  framed,  it  was  sold  for  the  Qrosvenor  collec- 
tion C'N.  &  Q.,"  4«'  S.  iv.  237.) 

The  trade  Histoiy  seems  to  he  confirmed  by  tlie 
picture  itself,  if  it  does,  as  it  is  said  to  do,  cany 
on  its  face  and  back  evidence  of  a  hole  having 
been  repaired;  and  of  its  having  been  lined  as  a 
consequence. 

When  this  picture  was  hung  at  a  right  height 
last  year  at  Bnriington  House,  a  repaired-lookmg 
patch  of  an  irregular  triangular  outline^  with  iU 
different  shade  of  colour — toe  too  sweet  juvenHitj 
of  the  face,  more  especially  the  lower  portion  of 
it;  for  a  mtmlj  youth  of  five  feet  in  stature— and 
sundry  un-Oamsborough-like  manipulations  in  the 
detail — were  readily  seen,  and  led  some  judges 
to  think  it  was  not  a  Gkdnsborough.  Even 
noW;  when  hung  about  three  feet  too  high  at 
South  Kensington;  through  a  good  glass  the 
above  drawbacks  may  be  seen. 

But  it  may  be  asked  why  it  has  be«^n  hung  so 
hiffh  there;  and  in  contrast  with  the  big  brown 
fiE^ed  portrait  of  Mrs.  Siddons  as  the  "Tragic 
Muse  "  by  Reynolds,  as  if  in  revival  of  the  olden 
feud;  instead  of  having  been  himg  in  contrast  with 
an  untouched  Gainsborough  of  the  same  land- 
scape back^und  class,  or  tne  green  "Blue  Boy  '^ P 
Let  any  vuitor  to  the  Museum  compare  the  sky 
of  the  "Blue  Boy"  there  with  that  of  '♦Musi- 
dora"  or  "The  Watering  Place;"  both  by  Gains- 
borough, in  an  adjoining  room,  and  the  contrast 
can  hardly  fail  to  oe  interesting  and  suggestive. 

We  now  come  to  Neebitt*s  histinry  of  the 
original ''  Blue  Boy,"  and  a  better  authority  can- 
not be  referred  to :  for  he  is  the  admitted  owner 
of  the  picture  formerly,  and  also  the  gentleman 
from  whom  the  pale  "Blue  Boy"  claims  its 
originality.  J.  Sbwbli,;  Assoc.  Inst»  C.£. 

The  Lombard,  £.C. 

(7b  be  concluded  in  our  next*) 

MURAL  PAINTING  IN  STARSTON  CHURCH, 

NORFOLK 

(4*  8.  vi.  542;  577  J  vii.  40, 172,  245.) 

In  answer  to  G.  A.  C.  I  beg  to  slate  that  the  soul 
is  never  represented  in  medissval  art  as  having  ser. 
When  I  wrote  upon  this  subject;  in  answer  to 
F.  C.  H.,  I  had  not  the  drawing  by  me,  and  trusted 
entirely  to  the  description  given  by  that  writer. 
Since  I  have  studied  the  details  minutely,  I  find  that 
description  inaccurate,  and  therefore  all  deductions 
thereon  fail.  The  details  show  us  an  aUar  with 
representation  of  cniciiixion;  a  priest  in  chasuble, 
not  cope,  standing  by,  and  reaching  towards  a  tonr 
sured  figure  to  receive  (apparently)  the  scroll  or 
schedule  which  he  holds,  sad  on  which  is  an  in- 
scription. At  this  end  of  the  painting,  it  is  dear 
that  the  squares,  and  all  beloW;  are  parts  of  an 
earlier  decoration  underneath,  and  form  no  part 
of  the  present  subject.  That;  which  has  been 
called  a  shield  is  certainly  no  shield  at  all,  and  I 


have  heard  from  the  Bev.  Lee  Warner  that  the 
markings  upon  it  were  exceedingly  obscure,  and 
I  was  further  confirmed  in  my  opinion  that  in 
minute  detaDs  the  drawing  is  not  to  be  entirely 
trusted.  Behind  the  figure  with  the  scroll  is  one 
with  clnsped  hands,  and  certainly  from  the  treat- 
ment; one  of  importance  in  the  composition. 

Theu;  there  is  the  lady  who  forms  the  centre 
figui-e,  evidently  one  of  rank;  even  if  it  is  not 
certain;  as  G.  A.  C.  assertS;  that  she  wears  a 
coronet.  If  thiS;  however,  be  tiie  case,  it  will  tend 
to  strengthen  my  opinion;  now  entertained;  of 
the  subject  Kear  her  is  a  veiled  figure,  seem- 
ingl}'  holding  a  book;  but  this  is  doubtfm ;  then 
a  miscellaneous  group  coming  in.  There  is  a 
diapered  covering  which  I  cannot  think  is  in- 
tended for  a  bed ;  in  fact;  what  I  pronoonce  to  be 
an  altar  has  evidently  been  mistaken  for  a  pillow. 
In  front  of  this  covering  is  what  appears  to  be  a 
carved  tomb.  The  angels  with  the  soul  completes 
the  picture. 

NoW;  if  this  were  merely  the  record  of  abenefsc- 
tress — a  subject  possible;  but  I  must  say  not  in 
accotd  with  our  experience,  although  Dr.  Rock 
does  countenance  such  a  view — there  would  either 
be  less  circumstance,  or  the  true  reading  would  be 
easy  and  simple ;  but  this  is  by  no  means  the  case. 
In  MS8.  sueh  subjects  are  found;  but  this  is  a 
different  matter  to  placing  in  a  church  what 
really  is  something  complimentary  to  an  indivi- 
dual. We  want  the  strongest  evidence  before  we 
can  admit  such  a  view.  All  our  experiences  of 
mediaeval  art  point  to  one  governing  idea—viz. 
the  laity's  instructbn  in  religion  through  the  eye. 
It  was,  indeed;  the  principle  laid  down  at  the 
second  Council  of  Kicea.  It  therefore  appears  to 
me,  that  this  picture  would  more  naturally  belong 
to  a  passage  in  the  life  of  some  saint  That  it  re- 
presents the  Assumption  is  so  utterly  untenable 
a  proposition  that  it  is  mere  waste  of  time  to 
consider  it  The  legend  to  which  it  seems  to 
me  to  refer  is  that  of  S.  Mary  Magdalene.  This  is 
too  long  to  insert  at  length,  but  it  is  full  of  in- 
terest, and  has  been  very  fully  entered  into  in  a 
German  work.  It  is  rarely  that  you  find  all  the 
incidents  in  one  writer.  In  my  opinion  the  paint- 
ing represents  the  death  of  8.  Mary  Magdalene, 
the  bare  details  of  which  are  as  follows : — She 
preached  at  Marseilles,  and  converted  the  prince 
of  the  province;  together  with  his  lady,  through 

g'ving  tliem  a  promise  of  offspring  by  her  prayers. 
I  a  vovage  they  then  undertook  to  visit  S,  Peter, 
the  wife  Drought  forth  a  child  and  died.  The 
body  was  put  ashore,  and  the  child  laid  by  her 
side,  having  no  means  of  subsistence.  On  the 
fhther  returning,  he  visited  the  spot  where  the 
body  had  been  laid;  and  found  both  wife  and 
child  alive.  This  is  the  firat  part  of  the  legend. 
S.  Mary  Magdalene,  living  in  the  desert,  fre- 
quently had  the  communion  of  angels.  Feeling  her 


4«'  8.  VII.  Apbil  29, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


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end  to  be  near,  she  sent  word  to  Maximin,  bishop 
of  Aix,  that  she  wouM  appear  at  a  certain  hour 
in  the  oratory,  in  which  he  performed  his  deyo- 
tions.  Maximin  accordingly  assembled  the  clergy, 
and  went  into  the  oratory  at  the  time  appointoa, 
and  there  fonnd  the  saint,  who,  haTing  partook  of 
the  sacrament  of  our  Lord's  body,  afterwards  fell 
down  dead  in  front  of  the  altar.  Maximin  after- 
wards ordered  his  tomb  to  be  made  close  to  the  spot 

Now  to  appl}r  this  to  the  painting.  We  have 
an  altar  and  priest  in  euchmriAiQ  vestment;  the 
diapered  ooyerm^  is  doubtless  over  the  dead  body, 
and  the  tomb  is  m  front  What  has  been  called  a 
shield  I  should  imagine  to  have  been  a  chalice :  I 
cannot  trust  the  drawing,  especially  as  I  hear  that 
this  part  was  vexy  obscure,  and  my  experience 
teaches  me  how  easy  it  is  to  err  in  such  details. 
Then  the  lady  with  coronet  (P)  would  be  the  prin- 
cess; the  veiled  figure  by  her  side  Martha,  who 
also  belongs  to  this  legendary  history;  the  crowd, 
the  assembled  clergy,  and  people ;  the  figure  with 
clasped  hands  plainly  attired,  the  pil^m  prince. 

Now  the  inscription  must  be  considered.  The 
scroll  has  ikree  words,  each  sepaivkted  by  a  con- 
ventionol  colon  (:).  The  draughtsman  is  hardly 
likely  to  have  erred  in  this.  It  was  not  an  uni- 
versal convention ;  sometimes  it  is  a  single  stop ; 
more  often  there  is  none  at  all.  We  have  therefore 
three  words  to  deal  with.  The  drawing  gives 
<<  PBOCE : . . .  NE  (P) :  KABiA.''  If  we  admit  the  evi- 
dence of  three  words,  we  cannot  allow  of  the  union 
of  the  first  and  second  to  make  the  word  ^  precede'' 
or  "  procedente,"  nor'  can  we  admit  "  pro  te  "  on 
account  of  the  want  of  the  stop  between.  Nothing 
is  more  conunon  than  eircns  in  drafts  of  inscrip- 
tions when  the  letters  are  at  all  obscured;  and 
there  are  certain  characters  in  Longobardic  capi- 
tals thus  frequently  confounded :  a  and  E,  and  e 
and  0,  and  k  and  u,  &c  If  we  reject  the  read- 
ings as  above,  we  cannot  accept  ''  pboce  "  as  a 
correct  rendering. 

My  suggestion  is  that  the  inscription  should 
read  "prece  :  tita  :  uabu."  If  this  be  admissible, 
then  we  have  confirmatory  evidence  in  the  le^nd 
to  which  I  refer.  ^  Prece  tua ''  occurs  three  times 
in  reference  to  the  prayer  of  S.  Mary  Magda- 
lene through  which  offspring  was  obtained  by  the 
prince.  But  there  is  even  another  part  of  the 
legend  to  which  this  might  refer:  a  sinner  in- 
scribed his  fflns  upon  a  schedule,  and  placed  it 
beneath  the  cover  of  the  altar  of  S.  Mary  Magda- 
lene. On  retaking  it,  it  was  found  to  be  blank. 
The  inscription  would  be  pertinent  here.  I  have 
omitted  to  mention,  that,  on  the  decease  of  the 
saint,  angels  were  seen  to  carry  away  her  soul 
with  songs  and^hymns ;  and  I  may  further  add, 
that  in  a  woodcut  illustration  to  her  life  in  a  copy 
I  have  of  Fetrus  de  NataUbus  the  soul  is  being 
borne  to  heaven  as  in  the  Starston  painting. 

68,  Bolsover  Street.  0 .  G.  WALLER. 


LINES  ON  THE  HUMAN  EAR. 

(4«»  S.  vii.  236,  334.) 

Your  correspondent  Mr.  W.  E.  A.  Axon  hay- 
ing afforded  a  clue  to  the  discovery  of  these  lines, 
the  kindness  of  my  friend  Mr.  Latey,  of  the  lllw-' 
trated  London  News,  has  done  the  rest.  They 
appeared  in  that  journal  (vol.  xx.),  Jan.  17, 1862. 
Perhaps  as,  like  Mrs.  Bardell  in  Pickwick^  they 
are  '^  lively  and  sought  alter,"  your  courtesy  may 
give  them  a  new  circulation,  especially  as  they 
are  of  a  most  instructive  character. 


u 


THE  PHILOSOPHER  AND  HER  PATHER. 


"  A  soQDd  came  booming  through  the  air — 
*  What  is  that  Bound  ?  '  quoth  I. 
My  bine-eyed  pet,  with  golden  hair, 

Made  answer,  present!}'', 
*  Papa,  you  know  it  Yery  well — 
That  sound — ^it  was  Saint  Pancras  Bell.' 

«<  *  My  own  Louise,  put  down  the  cat. 

And  come  and  stand  by  me ; 
I'm  sad  to  hear  you  talk  like  that, 

Where's  your  philosophy  ? 
That  sound'^ttend  to  what  I  tell — 
That  sound  was  not  Saint  Pancras  Bell. 

**  *  Sound  is  the  name  the  sage  selects 

For  the  cencludine  term 
Of  a  lon^  series  of  en^ts, 

Of  which  that  blow 's  the  germ. 
The  following  brief  analysis 
Shows  the  interpolations.  Hiss. 

*'*  The  blow- which,  when  the  clapper  slips 
Falls  on  your  friend  the  Bell, 
Changes  its  eirde  to  ellipse 

(A  word  you'd  better  spell), 
And  then  comes  elasticity. 
Restoring  what  it  used  to  be. 

** '  Nay,  making  it  a  little  more. 

The  circle  shifts  about. 
As  much  as  it  shrunk  in  befoie 

The  Bell,  you  see,  swells  out ; 
And  BO  a  new  ellipse  is  made, 
(You're  not  attending,  I'm  afraid). 

**  *  This  change  of  form  disturbs  the  air. 

Which  in  its  turn  behaves 
In  like  elastic  fashion  there. 

Creating  waves  on  waves ; 
Which  press  each  other  onward,  dear, 
Until  the  outmost  finds  your  ear. 

"  *  Within  that  wt  the  surgeons  find 

A  tympanum^  or  drum, 
Which  has  a  little  bone  behind, — 

Malleutf  it's  called  by  some ; 
But  those  not  proud  of  Latin  Grammar 
Humbly  translate  it  as  the  hammer. 

"  *  The  wave's  vibrations  this  transmits 

On  to  the  inctu  bone 
{Incua  means  anvil,  which  it  hits), 

And  this  transfers  the  tone 
To  the  small  ob  orbiculare. 
The  tiniest  bone  that  people  carry. 

*'  *The  «tt^f  next — the  name  recalls 
A  stirrup's  form,  my  daughter — 

Joins  three  half-circular  canals. 
Each  fiU'd  with  limpid  water ; 

Their  curious  lining,  you'll  observe. 

Made  of  the  auditory  nerve. 


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[*«»  S.  VII.  Aran.  29, 71. 


»f  t 


**  'This  vibrates  next— and  then  we  find 

The  mjstic  work  la  crown'd ; 
For  then  my  daughter's  gentle  Mind 

First  recognises  sound. 
See  what  a  host  of  canses  swell 
To  make  np  what  jon  call  **  the  Bell. 

'*  Awhile  she  paused,  my  bright  Louise^ 

And  ponder'd  on  the  case; 
Then*  settling  that  he  meant  to  tease, 

She  slapp'd  her  father's  face. 
*  Yon  bad  old  man,  to  sit  and  tell 
Soch  gibberygosh  about  a  Bell ! '" 

Shislet  Bbooks. 


HENRT  YIII.  AND  THE  GOLDEN  FLEECE. 
(4'»»  S.  TU.  283.) 

To  Mr.  Buttebt*8  inquiries  I  reply  that 
Henry  VIIL  was  duly  elected  a  iCnight  of  the 
Order  of  the  Golden  Fleece,  and  that  (so  far  as  I 
am  aware)  there  is  no  representation  of  him  with 
the  collar  or  insignia  of  that  order.  The  circum- 
stances  connected  with  his  election,  and  his  reason 
for  abstaining  from  wearing  the  order,  will,  I 
hope,  be  found  sufficiently  interesting  to  merit  a 
pUicein"N.&Q.'' 

On  October  16,  1480,  Maximilian  King  of  the 
Komans  (afterwards  Emperor  of  Germany)  was 
elected  a  K.G.  in  the  stead  of  Henry  Percy,  fourth 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  slain  April  28  previously. 
(Cotton  MS.  Julius,  B.  12^  p.  56.)  On  Sept  1*2, 
1400,  a  commission  was  issued  to  Sir  Cfharles 
Somerset  and  Sir  John  Wriothesley,  Garter,  to 
inyest  Maximilian.  (Bymer,  xii.  403/)  His  inves- 
titure took  place  at  Nuremberg  on  Cnristmas  Day, 
1400,  when  the  book  of  statutes  was  delivered, 
and  the  oath  administered. 

This  investiture  formed  (in  1528)  the  subject 
of  one  of  Holbein's  very  rare  historical  pictures, 
executed  during  his  stay  at  Sir  Thomas  Morels  at 
Chelsea,  the  original  sketch  of  which,  signed  by 
the  artist,  is  in  my  possession ;  and  from  it  Wen- 
ceslaus  Hollar  made  his  engraviDg,  to  be  found 
in  Ashmole,  p.  406. 

Consequent  uponMnximilian*8  proctor,  the  Mar- 
grave of  Bnmdenburgh  (Ashmole,  p.  438),  not 
presenting  himself  for  installation  ana  to  offer  his 
helm,  &c.,  within  the  time  limited  by  the  statutes, 
Maximilian's  reception  into  the  order,  as  well  as 
the  oath  taken  by  him,  became  void  and  of  no 
effect,  much  to  the  annoyance  of  Henry  VH. 

On  August  14, 1502,  upon  the  occasion  of  the 
ratification  of  the  treaty  of  alliance  between 
Henry  and  Maximilian,  tne  emperor  for  himself 
and  his  son  Philip  covenanted  to  accept  and 
wear  the  Garter  publicly,  the  King  of  England 
and  his  son  Henry  Prince  of  Wales  promising  to 
accept  and  wear  the  Golden  Fleece,  (llymer,  xiii. 
35,  86.)  Accordingly,  Sir  Thomas  Brandon  and 
Dr.  West,  attended  by  Norrov  King  at  Arms,  were 
commissioned  on  November  l8  following  to  admit 


the  emperor  into  the  order,  deliver  the  ensigns, 
declare  the  statutes,  and  receive  his  oath  for  the 
observance  of  them.  The  emperor,  however,  de- 
clined to  renew  the  oath,  but  promised  to  send  a 
proctor  on  February  18  to  be  installed  for  him  on 
St.  George's  Day  next  ensuing.  (Cotton  MS. 
Galba,  K  2.) 

On  Nov.  17, 1606,  "Philippe  le  Bel"  held  the 
seventeenth  chapter  of  the  Golden  Fleece  at  Mid- 
delbourg  in  Flanders,  upon  which  occasion  ten 
knights  were  elected,  ana  at  the  head  of  the  list 
was ''  Le  Prince  deGidles,"  afterwards  Henry  VIU. 
(De  Reiffenberg,  HUtoire  de  TOrdre  de  la  ToUon 
d'Or,) 

In  the  absence  of  any  satisfactory  proof  that 
Maximilian  or  Philip  wore  the  Order  of  the 
Garter  publicly,  it  may  fairly  be  assumed  they 
did  not ;  and  such  omission  may  be  accepted  as  a 
good  reason  for  Henry's  declining  to  wear  the 
Golden  Fleece,  and  satisfactorily  explains  why  no 
pictorial  representation  exists  which  shows  >iaxi- 
milian  with  the  Garter  or  Henry  with  the  Fleece. 

Henby  F.  Holt. 

King's  Bofld,  Clapham  Park. 


REALM. 
(4«>»  S.  iii.  a34,  413,  509;  v.  406j  vL  06,  895.) 

Mb.  Patkb  now  asserts  that  such  forms  as 
cheiHiXf  biaXf  viex,  fox^  cannot,  as  I  endeavoured 
to  show  in  my  last  note  (vi.  0(5),  be  intermediate . 
fortM  between  the  older  forms  chevalx,  bialx, 
vielv,  fofXf  and  the  fonns  now  in  use,  chevaur, 
beattXj*  vieux^fous;  but  that  the  forms  in  oi*,  ej*, 
ox  belong  to  one  dialect  (that  of  the  ''  authors  of 
the  French  of  Paris'*),  and  those  in  atur,  e(«.r,  oux 
to  another,  viz.  the  French  of  Normandy  and 
Picardvj.and  that,  therefore,  I  have  been  guilty 
of  confoundii^  distinct  dialects  together.  I  have 
but  little  difficulty  in  meeting  this  objection  of 
Mr.  Patne*8. 

In  the  first  place  let  him  consult  Ampere  {Hist, 
de  la  formation  de  la  lang,franq.,  2nd  ed,,  Paris, 
1860,  p.  371),  where  he  will  find  it  stated  that  the 
forms  m  au$^  eus  originally  belonged  to  the  Parisian 
dialect,t  whilst  those  in  ax  and  ex  primitively  be* 
longed  to  Picardy,  and  were  thence  transferred  to 
Paris.  In  other  words,  that  the  x  and  u  forms  (see 

*  Formerly  also  6iaiMr.  For  the  sake  of  brevity,  I 
shall  call  the  forms  in  ax,  ex,  ox,  the  x  forms ;  those  in 
aux,  evx,  oux,  the  u  foTm»  x  whiiNt  the  forms  ia  tUs,  eh, 
oh,  in  which  the  original  l^tin  /  is  preaorrcd,  and  from 
which  both  the  r  and  u  forms  are  derived,  I  will  call  the 
/  forms.  It  must  be  remembered  that  finnl  s  is  in  old 
French,  both  in  the  singular  and  plural,  xtry  frequently 
replaced  by  x  or  z, 

t  In  Amp^,  Bnrgundian  dialect?  bat  (ibid,  p.  860) 
we  are  told  that  under  Bnrgnndian  in  induded  the  French 
spoken  on  the  banks  of  the  Loire,  and  in  the  Ile-de- 
Franee— that  ia  what  Miu  Patmk  calls  the  <*  French  of 
Paris." 


S.VIL  April  29/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


371 


note*)  both  of  them  occur  in  the  "  French  of  Paria," 
T^hich  is  precisely  the  view  I  hold;  whilst  the 
obyious  corollary  to  Mr.  Pati7E*8  present  position 
is^  that  the  two  sets  of  forms  are  neyer  found  in 
tiie  same  dialect  So  also  Diez  (Oramm.  d.  rotiian, 
Spraehen,  2nd  ed.,  1850),  who  says  (i.  122)  that 
the  language  of  the  Ile-de-France  lies  between 
the  three  principal  dialects  (Burgundian,  Picard, 
and  Norman),  and  is  mixed  up  vfUh  them, 

Agun,  if  Mb.  Payne  will  only  take  the  trouble 
to  examine  the  Roman  de  Hou  and  the  Roman  de 
JSnd,  by  Wace^  and  his  own  favourite  edition 
(by  Michel)  of  the  Roman  de  la  Rose,  or  even  to 
consult  my  last  note  (vi.  06),  he  will  very  speedily 
disooTer  tnat  the  x  forms  are  yery  common  in  the 
Norman  dialect,  and  the  u  forms  rare ;  whilst  in 
the  ''  French  of  Paris  '*  the  u  forms  are  much  the 
more  common,  and  the  x  forms  more  rare — facts 
which  are  in  direct  contradiction  to  his  assertions. 
In  each  dialect,  too,  both  fortns  are  used — which 
is  again  in  opposition  to  Mb.  Payi7s.§ 

I  haye  examined  a  great  many  other  books,  and 
exceptbg  in  the  oldest,  where  scarcely  any  but 
the  I  forms  are  met  with,  I  haye  always  found 
both  the  X  and  u  forms,  the  x  forms  predominat- 
ing in  the  older  books.  But  even  in  the  oldest 
books  of  all  the  dialects  I  find  the  x  forma  as 
(  =  aux)y  hSf  and  dea.  As  far  as  I  can  see,  as  seems 
to  haye  come  into  use  as  early  as  the  eleventh 
century  (see  a  yersion  of  the  Psalms  of  that  cen- 
tury edited  by  Fr.  Michel,  Oxford,  1860),  and  to 
haye  been  used  exclusively  until  it  was  superseded 
by  the  more  modern  forms  aus  and  aux.  If  this 
is  so,  will  Mb.  Patns  explain  how  aus  and  aux 
can  hare  been  formed,  if  not  by  the  change  of  the 
aoi  as  into  au  f 

My  theory  finds  great  support  also  in  the  words 
^paiikf  sauhf  gaule  (pole,  switch),  and  I  think 
also  in  Gaule  (Gaul).  In  the  firsst  three  words  the 
/  of  the  root  has  been  retained,  and  yet  the  a  has 
become  au — and  this  au,  being  constantly  found 
in  the  oldest  writers,  has  evidently  not  lleen  in- 
serted by  Mr.  Patnk's  grammarians.  See  Diez, 
op.  cit,,  p.  193.  II     Diez  himself  yirtually  allows 

X  Mr.  Payne  may  object  that  Wace  was  only  an 
ADglo-Xormao ;  bat,  as  he  was  bora  in  Jersey,  educated 
at  Caen,  and  seems  to  haye  passed  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  in  Normandv,  his  Norman-French  must  have  br<»i 
pure,  and,  indeed,  Ampere  frwW  quotes  from  him,  and 
speaks  of  his  works  as  texts  *'  dont  Torigiae  Normande 
n'est  pas  douteuse.** 

The  authors  of  the  Soman  de  la  Rote  both  lived  on  the 
banks  of  the  Loire,  and  their  language  belongs  to  the 
Burgundian  dialect,  which  is  dassed  bv  Am^re  (and 
Fallot)  with  the  *•  French  of  Paris.*'    See  note  f. 

§  I  sometimes  find  the  x  and  u  forms  in  the  same  line. 
Thus,  in  the  Jioman  de  la  Rote,  I.  5394,  there  is  **  Certes, 
biaus  amis,  fox  es  ta";  and  so  frequently  in  the  Roman 
du  Renart  (ed.  M^d,  Paris,  1826),  e.  g.  biau  tret  doz, 
11.  4044,  7578 ;  biax  doux^  I  2872 ;  witli  which  compare 
bkuc  dox,  L  1427. 

II  Diez  says  that  tamU  and  gauie  (switch)  come  from 


my  theory  to  be  possible;  for  he  states  in  the 

Sassage  iust  quotea  (note  *)  that,  in  the  Burgun- 
ian  dialect,  aul  not  infrequently-  cornea  from  al^ 
and  he  quotes  as  examples  vaulo  (yalet),  maulai- 
droi  (maladroit).  But,  if  in  the  Burgundian  dia* 
lectj  why  not  in  the  other  dialects  of  France? 
Besides  y^hich  it  is,  according  to  Ampere  and 
Fallot  (see  note  t),  precisely  from  the  Burgun- 
dian dialect  that  the  French  of  modem  times  has 
BpniDg. 

•  Mr.  Payne  asks  why  u,  and  not  any  other 
yowel,  should  have  come  in  before  I  in  French  P  I 
can  only  say  that  the  addition  of  u  before  /,  whe- 
ther the  /  drops  or  not,  is  not  peculiar  to  F^nch. 
Let  him  examine  the  English  words  salt,  malt, 
false,  halt;  and  the  Scotch  a'  («all),/a'  («fall), 
faut  (  a  fault),  saut  (  »  salt)  ;^  and  the  Northum- 
brian awmaist  (  »  almost),  quoted  by  Diez,  he,  cit. 
So  again,  in  out  falcon,  balk,  calk  (  »  caulk),  chalk, 
talk,  ioalk,  the  /  has  yirtually  dropped,  and  the  a 
is  nronounced  au, 

in  conclusion,  I  will  just  notice  Mr.  Patke*3 
attempt  to  turn  me  into  ridicule,  because  forsooth 
I  assumed  the  old  French  form  of  the  Lat.  dulcis 
to  be  duls]  and  Mr.  Pattte,  relying  no  doubt 
upon  Scheler,  chooses  to  assert  dogmatically  that 
it  is  dols,  and  dols  only.  Scheler  and  Mr.  Patxb 
are  both  wrong;  for  dols  and  duls  both  occur,  and 
duls  is  older  than  dols.  See  a  yeraion  of  the 
Psalms  of  the  eleyenth  century,  edited  by  Fr. 
Michel  (Oxford,  1800),  Psalms  xviii.  11,  xxiy.  9 ; 
and  the  Chanson  de  Roland  {^A,  G^nin,  Paris,  1850), 
Chant  I.,  11.  109,  360,  672;  Chant  ii.,  11.  42,  46, 
394,  &c.  &c.  Nor  is  Mr.  Patne  more  fortunate 
in  asserting  that  dols  "  was  at  once  superseded  by 
dous,"  for  I  haye  many  times  met  with  what  I 
regard  as  the  intermediate  form,**  yiz.  doz,  e.  ff. 
in  the  Roman  du  Renart,  11. 750, 1048, 1059, 1179, 

taluha  and  valut,  and  if  so  the  a  must  have  become 
aUf  though  he  endeavours  to  explain  the  au  othorwise. 
As  to  Gaule^  Diez  says  the  first  /  of  Gallia  became «,  whilst 
the  second  remains.  I  prefer  to  thiuk'  that  the  first  / 
dropped,  which  would  (^ive  us  Ga/e,  and  that  then  the  a 
became  aw,  as  in  taule  and  gaule  (switch).  I  find  Gates  ^ 
Galtet  (Wales),  from  the  same  root  as  Gdltia,  in  the 
Roman  de  Brut,  11. 1314, 1315, 1817 ;  and  it  is  well  known 
that  in  old  French  one  of  two  Latin  Ft  is  commonly 
dropped,  as  in  bele,  nuleffoUr^bellej  nulle,fofle, 

f  The  /  does  not  always  drop  in  Scotch  when  the  a 
becomes  au.  Thus,  we  find  aula  (  a  old),  cauld  (  » cold), 
would  (power);  and  these  words  are  also  written  alJ, 
eald^  wafiif  though  doubtless  even  then  the  a  is  pro- 
nounced au.    See  Jamieson*s  Scottith  Etymological  Diet, 

**  One  reason  that  the  intermediate  forms  do  not 
always  occur  is  no  doubt,  that  the  final  It  was,  even 
when  written,  ultimately  not  pronounced,  as  Mb.  Patnb 
himself  allows.  Dolt  and  bialt  would,  therefore,  be  pro- 
nounced precisely  in  the  same  way  as  doz  and  biax,  and 
hence  the  forms  lloz,  biax,  though  nsefhl  as  showmg  that 
the  /  was  not  pronounced,  were  not  absolutely  necessary ; 
and  hence  such  intermediate  forms  were  frequently  dis- 
pensed with,  and  the  /  forms  seem  to  pass  duectly  into 
the  » ibrms. 


372 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**8.Vn.  APHiL29,7i. 


1427,  See.  (see  note  §) ;  and  he  caimot  say  this 
form  belongs  to  a  different  dialect,  as  in  the  same 
book,  n.  3872,  7962,  he  wiU  also  find  the  form 
doux.  Mb.  Patnb  will  do  well,  therefore,  to  be 
more  acenrate  and  less  poeitiye  in  future. 

F.  Chajtcb. 
BydtohammSL 

CAPRICIOUS  WRAT. 

(4*»»  S.  yu.  269.) 

W.  B.  B.  will  find  this  sonnet  in  Dodslej's  Col- 
lection of  Poems,  vol.  ii.  p.  821,  ed.  London,  1775, 
with  tne  title,  ''A  Sonnet  Imitated  from  the 
Spanish  of  Lopez  de  Vega.  Menngiana,  torn.  iv. 
p.  176.  By  the  same."  W.  D.  B.  will  see  that 
nis  memory — and  no  wonder  after  fifty  yeais-* 
has  not  retained  the  lines  quite  accurately : — 

*'  Capricioafl  W.*  [  jie]  a  sonnet  needs  most  have ; 

1  ne*er  was  so  put  to 't  before  ;~a  Sonnet ! 

Why  fourteen  verses  must  be  spent  upon  it ; 
Tis  ffood  howe'er  t*  have  oonquerxl  the  first  stave. 
Yet  I  shall  ne'er  find  rhymes  enough  by  half, 

Said  I,  and  found  myself  i*  th'  midst  o'  the  seoond. 

If  twice  four  verses  were  but  fairlj  reckon'd 
I  should  turn  back  on  th*  hardest  part  and  lancb. 

Thns  far  with  good  success  I  think  I've  scribbled, 

And  of  the  twice  seven  lines  have  dean  got  o*er  ten. 
Connge!  anotherll  finish  the  first  triplet 

Thanks  to  thee,  Muse^  my  work  beffms  to  shorten. 
There's  thirteen  lines  got  through  driblet  by  driblet 

Tis  done  I  count  how  you  will,  I  warr*nt  there's 
fourteen." 

In  the  EkffinU  Extracts,  edited  by  Viceeimus 
Knox  [Verse,  B.  ly.  p.  838,  ed.  London,  1790]  the 
first  line  is  given  thus : — 

**  Gapridons  Wray  a  sonnet  needs  nuist  have,"  Ac 

and  the  authorship  is  assigned  to  *' Edwards,'' 
meaning  no  doubt  Thomas  Edwards,  of  Turrick 
in  Buckmffhamshire,  author  of  the  Canons  of  CW- 
tioismj  and  of  whom  there  is  a  biographical  notice 
by  Nichols  in  his  Collection  of  Poems,  yol.  yi. 
pp.  103-4,  ed.  London,  1780.  But  there  is  a 
uttle  doubt  in  the  matter  of  authorship,  which  I 
should  lilro  to  see  solved.  Knox  assigns  the  sonnet 
to  Edwards,  prohahly  correctly,  but  Nichols  says 
of  Edwards,  *'  thnieen  of  his  sonnets  are  printed 
in  Dodsley's  Collections^  and  in  that  coUection 
we  find  '^  Sonnets  hy  T.  E."  thirteen  in  number 
[yoL  iL  pp.  322-334],  but  ik%yfoUow  the  sonnet 
above  quoted,  not  precede  it  It  would  seem  then 
that  Nichols,  though  well  acquainted  with  what 
Edwards  had  written,  and  with  Dodsley*s  ColUc- 
tion  especially,  did  not  know  this  sonnet  as  his. 
The  words  m  Dodsley's  title,  *^  By  the  same/' 
which  vaguely  ix)int  to  an  author,  when  traced 
back,  land  us  either  at  the  name  of  a  *'  Mr. 
Roderick"  fvoL  ii.  p.  309],  or  at  a  poem  on  "  The 

Female  Right  to  Literature,  by ''  f.  e,  some 

one  anonymous  [voL  ii.  p.  294.]  Perhaps  a  refer- 
ence, which  I  have  no  present  means  or  making. 


to  The  Canons  of  QriUeitm,  in  which  Nichols  am 
there  are  twenty-seven  other  somiets  of  Edwaros, 
or  to  Peaxch's  CeUection,  in  which  he  says  there 
are  eight  more,  may  hdp  to  solve  the  question. 

Who  "  Capricious  Wray  "  was,  I  cannot  tell ; 
but  it  may  have  been  <<  Daniel  Wray,"  the  aichss- 
ologist,  who  was  living  at  the  time  the  sonnet 
was  written,  and  oi  whom  George  TTardinge  pub^ 
Ushed  Biographient  Jneodoies,  London,  1816,  dvo, 
with  a  portrait.  Vide  Lowndes'  JBibl.  Man.,  vol.  v. 
p.  3000.  £.  A.  D. 

Shillingstone  Bectoiy. 

This  was  Daniel  Wray,  Depnl^-teller  of  the  Ex- 
chequer from  1746  to  1782,  the  intimate  friend  of 
many  of  the  literary  celebrities  of  his  day.  There 
is  a  lonff  and  interesting  memoir  of  him  by  his 
friend  Mr.  Justice  Hardinge,  in  Nicholses  lUuatra" 
Uons  of  Literary  History,  vol.  i.,  and  some  account 
of  him  may  be  found  in  the  biomphical  diction- 
aries. The  sonnet  is  by  Richard  Koderick,  Fellow 
of  Magdalene  College,  Cambridge,  who  died  in 
1756.  It  is  given  in  Nicholses  itkidratums,  i.  18, 
and  in  Dodsley's  CoUection,  u.  336, 1782.  It  is 
stated  to  be  an  imitation  from  the  Spanish  of 
Lopez  de  Vega.  H.  P.  D. 

MOUNT  CALVARY, 
(4«»»  S.  vi.  642 ;  viL  62, 103,  215.) 

Not  only  '^  because  the  historian  Sozomen  tells 
us  that  the  enemies  of  tibe  Christian  name  walled 
in  the  holy  sepulchre  and  the  ploce  of  Calvary, 
&c.,''  do  I  ^'  dismiss  all  this  copious  testimony  of 
St.  Cyril  as  valueless,"  but  from  a  more  cogent 
reason  still,  which  is,  that  I  entertain  very  grave 
doubts  indeed  of  St  CyriPs  ^ving  anjr  such  tes- 
timony at  all.  The  words  rehed  upcm  in  support 
of  this  position  are,  drepwccprcif,  ^atw6fUPot,  and 
al  fr€Tpai — rendered  respectively,  superemment.  con^ 
ancuous,  and  rocks,  of  which  last  there  can  be  np 
difierence  of  opinion. 

Now  admitting,  for  the  sake  of  argument,  that 
supereminent  is  the  true  equivalent  oi  dircparccrrwf, 
is  that  word  significant  of  nothing  but  height  in 
the  sense  of  measurement  by  feet,  yards,  or  miles  ? 
Is  it  hardly  ever  used  in  this  sense  P  Do  we  speak 
of  a  tall  man,  a  high  mountain,  a  lofty  tower,  as  a 
supereminent  man,  a  supereminent  mountain,  a 
st/^terenrntent  tower  P  I  think  not  And  when  we 
do  append  this  participle  to  either  of  these  nouns, 
I  fancy  the  qualifying  notion  conveyed,  and  almost 
universally  accepted,  would  be  that  of  excellence, 
superiority,  in  point  of  something  or  other,  over 
otner  individuals  of  the  same  class.  I  believe  this 
to  be  equally  true  of  the  Greek  equivalent  Of 
tw^pavivrofuu.  Scapula  gives,  as  renderings,  ^<9^, 
supero,  excello,  valde  antecello,  and  as  example  in 
support  of  these  meanings,  Greg.  ZAy/ia  'wdvruy 
9cyfidTup  ttr^pwwn/iKos — a  dogma  all  other  dog- 


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373 


mata  ezoelliog.  Hedrick/and  Liddell  and  Soott 
give  similar  renderings — ike  latter,  as  example,  a 
quotation  from  Philostratus,  rh  riis  yv^nt  ^^p- 
ayff«myictfs,  intellectual  ezeellenee  or  auperiority. 
Is  it  not  possible  then,  is  it  not  yenr  probable,  is 
it  not  more  in  keeping  with  the  whole  gist  of  the 
passage,  that  tiiis  should  be  the  meaning  intended 
by  St.  Cyril  P  For  after  describing  Golsrotha  as 
tiroi  b  &7iof,  would  it  not  have  been  Bat,  and 
tame,  and  jejune  to  speak  of  its  heit/ht,  rather  than 
of  the  pre-efnmence  attaching  to  it  from  the  won- 
derful and  all-imposing  scene  of  which  it  had 
been  the  theatre  r  And  as  this  is  the  common, 
the  most  generally  received  meaning  of  the  word 
he  U£e8,  may  we  not  fairly  conclude  that  he  does 
80  use  it,  and  understand  him  as  speaking  of 
Calvary,  not  as  a  mountain — ^the  term  having  no 
such  exclusive  reference — ^but  as  a  locality  sacred 
above  all  others,  and  of  surpassing  dignity,  on 
account  of  the  ^;rand,  and  solemn,  and  momentous 
transaction  which  had  been  there  consummated  ? 

That  ^y6fA€yos  should  be  rendered  conspicuous, 
I  do  not  complain ;  but  of  the  inference  drawn 
from  it,  I  do.  Because  a  thing  is  conspicncusy  it 
does  not  follow  that  it  is  elevated  in  the  sense  of 
height.  The  sea  is  conspicwmSy  and  I  look  upon  it, 
at  this  moment,  from  the  room  in  which  I  am 
writing,  not  because  the  sea  is  higher  than  tjbis 
room,  but  because  this  room  is  higher  than  the 
sea.  But  ^9Uf6fMMvos — for  it  is  better  to  keep  to  the 
original — is  a  term  of  wide  extent.  It  is  expres- 
sive of  anything  that  may  be  sesn,  and,  meta- 
phorically, of  anything  that  is  remarkable.  In 
this  latter  sense  the  Greeks  often  used  it,  and  we 
perhaps  mare  often  so.  Of  Calvaiy,  therefore, 
whether  mountain  or  valley,  if  its  true  site  were 
known  and  could  be  seen,  ^au^fiwot  ml^ht  justly 
be  predicated  of  it.  And  that  it  is  predicated  of 
it.  ^ves  not  a  whit  stronger  support  to  the  belief 
of  its  being  a  mountain,  than  to  the  opposite  one 
of  its  being  a  plain. 

I  consider  ^^conspicuously  testifies ''  astoo  strong 
a  rendering  for  fioprvpti  ^tupifitpos^  and  scaroely 
borne  out  by  the  Qreek. 

As  to  a/  w4tpai,  1  do  not  see  its  bearing  upon  the 
argument.  Bocks  exist  apart  from  mountains— 
en  the  surface  and  below  it.  Hence  the  rending 
of  the  rocks,  and  their  after  rent  appearance,  as 
mentioned  by  St.  Cyril,  is,  to  my  mind,  quite 
beside  the  question.  That  '<  the  veiy  stone  or  tiie 
aepulchre  was  still  Ijing  there,''  is  even  more  so ; 
as  this,  if  adduced  m  proof  of  anything,  must  be 
of  our  Lord's  burial,  as  it  could  add  nothing  to 
the  evidence  of  Calvuy  being  a  mountain. 

In  concluding,  I  would  repeat  what  I  said  in  my 
former  short  paper,  that  I  am  competent  to  give 
no  opinion  on  tne  question  itself,  nor  have  I  any 
bias  either  way.  1  have  only  spoken  to  the  evi- 
dence brought  forward,  and  of  this  I  see  no  reason 
to  alter  my  view,  that  it  falls  short  of  supporting 


the  fact  which  is  based  upon  it.  I  think  we  have 
nothing  to  do  with  what  St.  Cyril  was  as  a  man, 
or  his  residence  at  Jerusalem,  or  his  catechising 
on  the  very  spot  in  question.  All  that  we  have 
to  do  with  18,  what  he  soys,  and  to  decide  upon  it, 
as  matter  of  evidence,  whether  it  be  sufficient  to 
establish  the  fact  of  Calvary's  being  a  mountain, 
or  whether  it  be  not.  Some  may  conclude  it  is ; 
others,  with  myself^  may  jud^  it  not  to  be  so. 
We  may  agree  to  difier ;  and  differing,  be  friendly 
none  the  less. 

I  thank  Mb.  M'GsiooBTor  his  kindly  notice  of 
my  former  remarks.  I  thought  he  would  not  take 
it  amiss  to  be  set  right  as  to  the  quotation  ftom 
Soaomen.  We  are  all  liable  to  such  inaccuracies, 
and  for  myself  I  have  nearly  always  found  that  in 
quoting  at  second  hand  I  have  become  the  uncon- 
scious and  unintentional  propagator  of  some  siUy 
blunder  or  other.  EncimD  Tsw,  M.  A. 

P^. — ^I  have  coDsalted  a  near  neighbour,  an 
eminent  Greek  scholar,  on  the  pfnaffe  from  St. 
Cyril ;  and  he  says,  '^  out  of  wnich  iittlar3te«t 
the  '  Mount '  can  be  gathered."  t^^^T" , 


LOBD  CAMPBELL'S  **  LIFE  OF  LORD  LTND-  -^ 

HURST":  •♦  / 

TUB  U^UMAY  ACCIDBNIB  COI^BBSATIoViUU. 

(4«»  S.  viL  280.) 

I  was  onee  nlaintiff  in  a  case  tried  before  Lord 
Campbell,  ana  the  hearing  had  not  pitxseeded 
very  far  when  ''  my  Lud  "  tumed  round  to  the 
jur^,  and  made  some  remarks  damaging  to  my 
claim.  I  did  not  get  a  verdict,  but  I  was  con- 
soled by  the  assuranoe  of  those  about  me  that 
the  defendant  would  never  be  able  to  hold  hifi 
verdict  Such  proved  to  be  true.  I  obtained  a 
new  trial  immeaiately,  and  ultimately  my  cause. 
The  future  biographer  of  this  chancellor  will  be 
able  to  find  plenty  of  like  oases  illustrative  of  hifi 
anticipation  of  tiie  oases  before  him. 

So  much  for  his  character  as  a  jud^.  LoBS 
LTTTBLtroK  has  described  him  as  a  biogranher; 
and  now  a  few  words  upon  him  as  a  legislator. 
I  believe  that  his  Bill  lor  compensating  railway 
aoddents  has  been  the  source  of  more  frandi^ 
falsehoods,  and  legal  chicanery  than  any  other 
enactment  that  was  ever  passed.  By  ihe  last 
Report  of  the  Brighton  Rauway,  it  appears  that 
the  New  Cross  accident  cost  74,010^.,  and  there 
was  not  a  nngle  person  killed.  The  eomifeaaj 
have  since  convicted  one  vroman  who  obtamed 
compensation;  and  they  have  attempted  to  get 
back  the  amount  of  compensation  and  eo6t&  but 
''no  money  returned  "  is  the  motto  of  ''  the  hon- 
ourable profession." 

How  many  cases  of  the  same  oharactw  there 
were  of  which  tiie  company  had  suspicion, 'but 
which  they  could  not  bring  to  justiee,  I  cannot 
say,  but  I  am  quite  sure  that  if  LoBS  LnrBLTOir 


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[4A8.VII.  Aprii.29,71. 


would  take  the  trouble  to  inquire  of  the  several 
companies  thej  would  give  nim  such  facts  as 
would  soon  make  him  cease  to  regret  that  his 
**  little  embryo  pet  lamb  "  was  taken  from  him, 
and,  I  will  even  venture  to  saj,  make  him  blush 
for  the  part  he  took  in  ori^nating  it. 

For  the  accident  that  occurred  at  Ascot  some 
few  years  ago  the  South  Western  Company  paid 
over  60,00(ML  There  were  500  persons  in  the 
train,  and  they  compensated  600.  llie  reason 
given  for  this  was  that  the  company  knew  from 
experience  that  the  noble  institution,  the  British 
jury,  would  never  give  a  verdict  in  favour  of  the 
comnany.    Fine  work  this  for  the  lawyers. 

There  was  a  man  who  lived  at  Worthing  prose- 
cuted some  time  affo,  and  it  was  shown  that  he 
made  a  business  of  getting  compensation  when- 
ever an  accident  occurred.  I  have  no  doubt  there 
are  many  '*  black  sheep  '*  now  who  are  working  the 
''  pet  ewe  lamb  "  to  get  money  out  of  the  London 
and  North  Western  Company  for  clients  who  never 
were  near  Harrow  when  the  accident  occurred. 

I  hope  and  believe  that  Lord  Ltttelton's 
memory  will  be  respected  and  revered  for  his  cha- 
racter and  abilities,  and  he  need  not  envy  the 
fame  of  one  who  was  so  partial  a  judge,  and  so 
unscrupulous  a  biographer,  for  carrying  a  Bill 
fraught  with  so  mucn  wrong. 

If  LoBn  Ltttelton  wisnes  for  immortality^^in 
connection  with  this  measure,  let  him  introduce  a 
Bill  to  amend  it  in  such  a  way  as,  without  i«liev- 
inff  railways  of  their  liabilities  in  case  of  neglect, 
will  prevent  poor  shareholders  beinff  robb^  by 
the  dishonest  The  ancestor  of  his  Lordship 
threw  some  light  on  the  law :  let  his  Lordship 
do  something  to  purge  it  of  one  of  its  black  spots. 

Clabbt. 

Mezzotint  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  once  the 
Property  op  Beadshaw  the  Regicide  (4***  S. 
vi.  846,  445.) — A  copy  of  your  interesting  paper 
of  October  22, 1870,  has  been  sent  to  me  oy  a 
friend  of  mine,  on  account  of  the  notice  of  a 
curious  print  of  Oliver  Cromwell.  I  possess  a 
similar  print,  or  rather  mezzotint,  which  has  a 
verjr  valuable  history  attached  to  it  This  mez- 
zotmt  belonged  to  bradshaw  the  regicide,  who 
possessed  Bradshaw  Hall,  near  Bolton-le-Moors, 
and  has  never  been  but  in  two  houses,  that  of 
Bradshaw  Hall  and  my  own.  My  mezzotint  was 
purchased,  alon?  with  some  other  matters,  by  the 
late  James  Hardcastle,  who  for  some  years  resided 
at  Bradshaw  Hall,  and  he  pve  it  to  my  father. 
The  print  in  my  possession  is  considered  the  best 
specimen  of  mezzotint  engraving  known,  and  is 
the  most  beautiful  work  of  art  of  that  kind  I  ever 
saw,  possessing  now  a  freshness  and  depth  com- 
bined with  a  softness  of  toning  of  the  shadows,  as 
if  it  had  just  issued  from  a  publisher's  hands.  It 
differs  in  nothing  from  the  one  described  by  Mr. 


Lenihan,  and  is  well  known  by  antiquaries  and 
others  as  a  perfect  gem  of  its  kind. 

I  never  heard  of  another  similar  one,  but  am 
informed,  on  reliable  authority,  that  there  is  also 
a  copy  of  this  print  engraved  by  Charles  Turner, 
but  I  have  not  seen  any  of  these. 

L.  G.  Starkie,  Lt-CoL  Q.L.II.V. 

Huntroyal,  Bornley,  Laocathire. 

"Anima  Christi'*  (4**  S.  vii.  822.)  — This 
prayer  is  generally  supposed  to  have  been  com- 
posed by  St  Ignatius  of  Loyola.  It  has  always 
oeen  a  favourite  with  his  society,  and  finds  a  place 
in  all  their  books  of  devotion ;  which  would  not 
probably  have  been  the  case  had  it  been  written 
by  St.  Thomas  of  Aquin;  for  the  Jesuits  have 
never  been  found  to  prefer  the  compositions  of 
the  Dominicans.  In  that  well-kuown  prayer- 
book,  the  Calede  Palmetum^  it  is  called  ''  Brevis 
et  pia  Oratio  S.  Ignatii":  but  in  the  Ftarvum 
Calede  Palmetum^  of  whicn  I  have  the  edition  of 
1764,  the  ''  Anima  Christi "  is  introduced  as  only 
«  S.  P.  Ignatio  oUm  famUiaris."  F.  C.  H. 

The  Schoolhaster  abroad  in  Stapford- 
8HIRB  (4'»'  S.  vii.  121,  180,  311.)— To  sajr  "  The 
Lye  Waste  is  a  common,*'  gives  rather  an  inexact 
impression.  It  was  a  common,  a  waste  of  the 
manor  c^  the  Foley  family,  as  the  name  still  im- 
plies, but  that  was  a  great  many  years  ago.  There 
18  hardly  any  common  or  waste  there  now,  as  it 
is  all  covered  with  buildings,  pits,  and  works  of 
all  sorts,  much  of  it  freehold  acquired  as  Fxiz- 
H0PXIN8  states. 

The  place  had  begun  to  improve  even  at  the 
date  he  mentions.  The  improvement  is  almost 
wholly  due  to  an  excellent  gentleman  named  Hill, 
who  many  years  ago  built  and  enclosed  a  church, 
parsonflffe,  and  schools  there.  It  had  loag  been 
singulany  happy  in  the  character  of  the  incum- 
bents of  the  church,  two  of  whom  were  Mr.  HilFs 
own  Sims.  Ltitelton. 

Hagley,  Stonrbridge. 

Elloee,  I  humbly  opine,  is  wrong  both  in  date 
and  locality,  in  afhxm^  the  olooding  of  the  ''poop" 
to  his  Lancashire  neighbours.    I  heard  the  fact 

J 'ears  ago,  fathered  on  the  Black-country,  from  the 
ips  of  a  distinguished  RA.,  and  almost  ipsimmU 
verbis.  Furthermore,  I  have  been  credibly  in- 
formed by  a  leading  ironmaster  of  that  district  of 
Cimmerian  gloom,  that  such  is  the  hold  which 
''  the  dawg  "  has  taken  upon  the  native  mind  in 
and  around  Bilston,  that  on  one  occasion,  when  a 
pitman's  wife  had  lost  her  child,  she  voluntarily 
adopted  her  husband's  (or  neighbour's)  bull-pup 
bereft  of  maternal  solicitude,  and  actually  herself 
suckled  the  interesting  creature  until  it  was  suffi- 
ciently advanced  in  life  to  maintain  its  own  rights 
and  consequence,  and  in  a  fair  way  to  prove  by 
its  prowess  the  illustriousness  of  its  descent  and 
the  unusually  tender  care  bestowed  on  its  mature 


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375 


and  early  education.    I  can  hear  more  than  one 
of  jour  readers  exclaim,  '*  Credat  Judeeua  Apellal " 

MooBLAKs  Las. 

Thb  Odb  or  Abthitb  Gbet  (4**  8.  tU.  207.)— 
The  chief  point  of  cruelty  in  liady  M.  W.  Mon- 
tagu's authorship  of  the  above  lay  perhaps  in  her 
ladyship's  intimate  knowledge  of  the  hard  fate 
of  Mrs.  (afterwards  Lady)  Murray.  Both  ladies 
had  frequented  Tery  much  the  same  circles  of 
society.  The  heads  of  their  fiftmilies  held  office  in 
the  same  department  in  the  earliest  administzations 
of  Geoi^  L 

Mrs.  Murray's  hushand  used  to  introduce  her  to 
partners  at  a  hall,  and  then  threaten  to  kill  her  for 
dancing  with  them.  At  last  it  became  absolutely 
necessary,  from  his  unreasonable  conduct,  for  his 
wife  to  return  to  her  father's  house.  It  was  under 
these  circumstances  that  the  rascally  Talet  as- 
saulted her,  and  that  Lady  Mary  wrote  her  aggra- 
yating  ode,  if  not  the  coarse  street  hallad  also. 

Li  the  ode  she  professes  to  give,  as  the  result 
of  the  footman's  observation  of  his  mistress's  life, 
a  series  of  coarse  amours.  Lady  Mary  describes 
her  friend  as  ringing  in  the  morning  for  the  foot- 
man to  bring  her  tea  into  her  bedroom.  These 
might  be  the  fashions  her  ladyship  was  accus- 
tomed to  witness  amonff  her  acquaintances,  but 
were  probably  most  unlike  those  permitted  in  the 
nearly  Puritan  household  in  which  Mrs.  Murray 
lived,  and  a  whisper  of  scandal  never  rested  on 
her  name. 

It  is  true,  indeed,  that  Mrs.  Murray's  family  is 
supposed  to  trace  its  origin  to  a  race  of  kings  of 
Scotland  (the  Balliols^  who  were  not  lucky.  Her 
grandfather,  Mr.  Baillie  of  Jerviswood,  was  the 
protomartyr  in  Scotland  of  the  short  but  final  re- 
volution which  rid  the  country  of  the  old  Stuarts ; 
and  even  in  song  and  jest  the  name  has  been  gene- 
rally unlucky  in  England  also.  But  was  that  a 
reason  why  Lady  Mary  should  crucify  her  friend 
with  an  ode  or  stab  her  with  a  ballad  P  The  wit 
and  its  place  on  the  list  may  perhaps  justify  or 
explain  its  retention,  but  its  original  offensiveness 
and  its  indecency  might  exclude  it.  The  editors 
employed  by  a  great  publisher  might  scruple  to 
interfere  with  it,  but  perhaps  a  noble  great-grand- 
son of  the  author  might  be  more  inclined  to  be 
critical  for  his  relatives*  sake.  E.  C. 

PflTLOSOPHiCAL  NAKEDNESS  (4**»  S.  vii.  269. W 
I  would  refer  your  correspondent  to  Carlyle's 
Sartor  MesaHus,  where  society  is  represented  in  a 
state  of  nudity  in  order  to  show  the  influence  and 
emblematic  meaning  of  those  garments  in  which 
decent  people  have  generally  thought  it  necessary 
to  array  themselves.  In  this  work  we  have  a  pic- 
ture of  a  naked  duke  addressing  a  naked  House 
of  Lords,  nsJced  kings  wrestling  with  naked  carmen, 
and  other  vagaries  of  fancy,  which  will  be  ex- 
plained by  the  following  remarks  of  the  author : — 


"  CoDsidering  <mr  present  advanced  state  of  caltnre,  it 
might  strike  the  reflective  mind  with  some  surprise  that 
hitherto  little  or  nothing  of  a  Aindamental  character, 
whether  in  the  wav  of  philosophy  or  history,  has  been 
written  on  the  subject  of  clothes.  In  all  speculations, 
man  has  figured  as  a  elotked  amimal,  whereas  he  is  by 
nature  a  naked  animalf  and  onlv  in  certain  circumstanoes 
bj  purpose  and  device  masks  himself  in  dothes." 

The  author  endeavours  to  show  that  the  first 
purpose  of  clothes  was  not  warmth  or  decency, 
out  ornament.  He  introduces  us  to  the  aboriginal 
savage,  with  his  beard  hung  round  him  like  a 
matted  doak,  and  his  body  sheeted  in  its  thick 
natural  fell.  Hunger  he  satisfies  by  the  chase, 
warmth  he  finds  among  dry  leaves  or  in  the 
hollow  tree,  but  for  decoration  he  must  have 
clothes. 

For  another  exponent  of  the  literature  of  the 
fig-leaf,  I  will  turn  to  some  of  Addison's  papers 
in  The  Guardian,  In  No.  100  he  censures  the 
scantiness  of  female  dress,  and  advises  his  fair 
readers  to  "imitate  the  innocence  and  not  the 
nakedness  of  their  mother  Eve."  Nos.  116, 134, 
140  also  treat  of  bare  necks  and  shoulders;  and 
the  propensity  of  the  ladies  of  that  time  to  dis- 
pense with  clothing  is  apparent  from  the  follow- 
ing :— 

''In  the  beginning  of  the  last  century,  there  was  a 
sect  of  men  among  us  who  called  themselves  Adamites, 
and  appeared  in  public  without  clothes.  This  heresy 
may  spring  up  in  the  other  sex  if  we  do  not  put  a  timely 
stop  to  it,  there  bein^  so  many  in  all  public  places  who 
show  BO  great  an  inclmation  to  be  Evites.*' 

Jttlian  Shabuak. 

6,Frederick*s.Place,  £.C. 

Foolish  notions  of  this  sort  were  refuted  long 
tiffo  by  St.  Thomas  A<]^uinas  (obit  1274)  in  his 
PostUU  on  OeneBiSf  cap.  lii.  v.  21.  W.  H.  S. 

English  Qiteek  bttbied  at  Porto  Fino  (4**"  S. 
vii.  208.)— Isabel,  daughter  of  King  John,  and 
wife  of  Friedrich  II.,  ^peror  of  Germany,  died 
at  Foggia,  Dec.  1, 1241.  Is  she  the  "  English 
queen  '*  concerning  whom  your  correspondent  in- 
quires? Hebmvntbxtde. 

Arabic  Numebam  is  Wells  Cathedral  (4**» 
S.  vH.  2820— The  Rev.  Alban  Butler,  in  a  note 
to  his  Life  of  St,  Tereta^  Oct  15,  mentions  an 
instance  of  the  figures  1000  having  been  dis- 
covered in  the  window  of  a  house  in  Colchester, 
part  of  which  is  &  Roman  wall ;  and  another  firom 
a  chimney-piece  in  the  parsonage  of  Helendon  in 
Northamptonshire,  where  is  inscribed  "  M°  133," 
being  the  date  1133.  He  also  states  that  Dr. 
Wallis  has  proved  that  these  figures  were  known 
in  England  before  1150.  They  are  seldom  met 
with  at  the  end  of  the  thirteenth  century,  and  very 
rarely  in  ^e  fifteenth  and  even  sixteenth. 

At  a  meeting  of  th^  British  Archieological  As- 
sociation, April  1, 1846,  Mr.  Wright  made  some 
interesting  remarks  on  these  numerals,  exroneoualy 


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[i*»  S.  VII.  Afbxl  29,  '71. 


called  Arabic,  referring^  ilieir  introduction  to  Pope 
Sylvester  II.  at  the  be^ning  of  the  eleventh 
century.  In  liie  notice  in  the  Literary  Gazette 
of  these  remarks  examples  of  the  earliest  forms  of 
these  figures  are  given.  (See  Literary  GaeeUe  for 
April  4, 1846,  p.  3180  F.  G.  H. 

These  are  not  very  uncommon  in  mediffival 
woric.  For  examples  see  the  plate  at  the  end  of 
Qodvrin's  ArchaohpBPe  Handbook,  I  have  lately 
seen  two  at  Fountains  Abbey,  and  two  in  Ripen 
Minster : — 

1.  Above  the  great  west  window  of  Fountains, 
with  rebus  of  Abbot  Demton.  1494. 

2.  In  the  interior  arch  of  an  east  window  in 
the  Lady  chapel  at  Fountains,  angel  bearing  scroll 
with  "  Anno  Domini  1483." 

3.  On  miserere  by  dean's  stall,  Bipon  Minster. 
1480. 

4.  At  the  end  of  stalls  near  bishop's  throne. 
1494. 

In  all  these  the  4s  ne  made  of  a  line  doubled 
and  crossed  like  a  figure  8  incomplete  at  bottom. 
I  have  examined  hundreds  of  eculy  bell-inscrip- 
tions, but  do  not  remember  any  pre-ieformation 
Arabic  figures  in  them.  When  dated,  which  is 
seldom  the  case,  the  date  is  expressed  in  numerals 
or  in  words.  J.  T.  F. 

Hatfield  Hall,  Durham. 

[On  thb  subject,  and  in  r«^7  to  a  timiUr  query,  The 
Builder  for  April  15  sa^  :^"  We  know  o^  none  on  atone 
earlier  than  the  beginning  of  the  fifteenth  centnxy :  the 
date  1445  in  Heatbfield  Church,  Susaez,  is  an  example 
vn  hare  often«quoted.  The  numerals  occur  in  MSS.  of 
the  preceding  century.*'] 

PftioKT  OF  St.  EnmoriK  (4""  S.  vii.  804.)  — 
If  WiLTRiD  07  Qalwat  considts  tlie  prefece  to 
The  Becords  of  the  Pnory  tfthe  Trie  of  May,  an 
elegant  little  work,  ably  edited  by  Dr.  John 
Stuart  for  the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries  in 
1868,  he  will  find  ample  information  as  to  its 
transfer  by  the  abbot  of  Beading  to  the  see  of 
St.  Andrews.  Abbot  Kobert  de  Surghgate  seems 
to  have  been  the  sdler  and  Bishop  William 
"Wishart  the  purchaser.  Akglo-Sootus. 

Sir  THoatAS  Sbwbll  (4*»'  S.  vii.  805.)— Hobert 
Sewell  of  Chatham,  co.  &ent,  whose  will  is  dated 
April  6,  1660,  had  by  his  wife  Judith  two  sons; 
the  eldest,  John,  a  merchant  in  London,  whose 
will  is  dated  July  3, 1692,  had.  by  his  wife  Aln- 
gail  four  sons;  of  these  sons  the  second,  Thomas, 
appears  to  have  been  afterwards  the  Right  Hon. 
Sir  Thoa.  Sewell,  Kt.,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  &c. 

ErnsssBA* 

Thb  Rsohbxts  Ain)  Soabtts  (4'*"  S.  vi.  584;  vii 
132.) — ^There  seema  no  doubt  the  rhombus  is  the 
turbot,  but  the  scarus  can  hardly  be  tibe  char,  as  I 
was  taught  at  Eton  that  it  was  a  fish  that  chewed 
its  cud,  as  the  cow.  I  apprehend  it  is  a  fish  now 
unknown.  Ebobaoitx. 


BiBHOP  MoBDBCAi  Cabt,  1731  (4«>>  S.  vii.  S34.) 
The  following  scrap  of  pediflree,  compiled  chiefly 
from.  paiticiUBM  furnished  by  a  member  of  this 
biaoch  of  the  Carya,  may  possibly  supply  a  chie 
to  the  information  sought  by  Y.  S.  M. :  — 

John  Ca^,  meitbaiitr  of  Lendon  ■• 

! 

Hoidecai  Caiy,  Bbhop  of  EJIlala,  died  1751  »  r!.w»»«nf 
Henry  Cary  (eldest  son)  Archdeacon  of  Killala  » 

—      -    -  — ■ —     -  —  -      —  .  _  1  ■  * 

William  Caiy  (a  voanger  son),  of  Bev«re»  near 

'Worcester  B 


Bev.  Henry  Francis  Cary  a ,  dan.  of  Joha 


(eldest  son),  baptized  Fran- 
eia  Henry,  the  translator  of 
Dante* 


Orrnaby,  Esq.,  of  Dublin  ? 


Capt  Gary,  of  Woodland  House,  F.S.  Gaiy. 

Leamington. 

Was  the  John  Cary  who  heads  this  fist  iden- 
tical with  John  Caiy  who  was  buried  at  PutneT, 
1701,  cot  d7P||See  Lysons'  EniMrem  of  Lmdmij 
tL  413,  and  Aubioy's  JSRdory  of  Siarrey^  li.  139. 

Exeter. 

Hymit:  ''The  Lahbktation  op  a  SurarKft" 
(4**  S.  viL  298.) — ^Accordin^  to  Roundell  Palmer's 
Book  of  Praise  this  hymn  is  by  Mardley,  and  is  of 
the  date  1562.  Part  of  it  is  given  as  a  hymn  in 
JTymns  Ancient  and  Modem. 

Thos.  AxmnSy  Jim. 

Hitehin. 

"  'Tl8  BBTTRfi  TO  HAVH  LOTSD  Ain)  LOST,"  BTC. 

(4^  S.  yii.  301.) — ''Magisgauderea  quod  habaeras 
[amieum],  quam  moereres  <}iiod  amisenn."  -^ 
Seneca,  Epiat.  99.  This  sentiinent,  upon  which 
the  philosopher  enlarges  in  his  usual  style,  is  a 
more  exact  as  well  as  an  earlier  anticipation  of 
Tennyson's  lines  tiban  the  quotation  mm  Con*« 
greve.  G.  F.  a  R 

LoBD  Bboxtgham  ajstd  his  Collbob  ¥bjxst> 

G (4^*'  S.  Tii.  277.)-~The  stoir  at  p.  201  of 

Lord  Brougham^ 8  Autohwyrtq^hy  of  an  Agreement 

with  his  college  friend  G that  whicherer  £ed 

first  should  appear  to  the  other,  and  the  appari- 
tion of  the  ghost  of  G— ^  consequent  thenson,  is 
certainly  not  new.  In  ike  MhnSiree  du  Comte  de 
Sochefort  (ed.  Cologne,  1688,  p.  419^  a  similar 
compact  is  stated  to  have  be^  maae  between 
the  Marquis  de  Rambouillet,  the  eldest  son  of 
the  celebrated  Marquise  and  the  Marquis  deF^«ci. 
The  former  (known  only  as  the  Marqttis  de  Plsam, 
his  fhther  being  alive)  predeceased  his  Mend,  and 


4^  &  VII.  Apbil  29, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


377 


WM  killed  at  tba  batUe  of  Nordlingen  in  1645,  at 
thirtj  yean  of  aae. 

The  author  of  the  MSnunres  du  Comte  de  Roche- 
fort  is  supposed  to  be  Gratien  de  Gourtilz^  who, 
after  suffering  a  lengthened  imprisonment  m  the 
Bastille,  died  in  Pam,  May  6, 1712. 

S.  W.  T. 

CBTPToaKAPHT  (4**  S.  ^ii  165,  291.)— Mb. 
BsAUB  has  made  a  mistake  in  his  evolution  of  the 
last  eryptogzam-  given  by  J.  R.  0.  at  p.  155,  and 
coriouily  J.  R.  0.  has  also  made  a  slight  mistake 
in  one  symboL  The  third  letter  of  the  first  word 
should  be  symbolized  by  30  instead  of  32,  and 
then  the  whole  sentence  reads  '^  Hang  the  bearer.'' 
The  method  on  which  this  cipher  is  constrocted 
is  very  ingenious,  and  sufficiently  simple  in  work- 
ing to  make  it  worth  knowing.        J.  H.  Ellis. 

How  Mb.  J.  Bbale  gets  ''  Find  the  deceit "  out 
of  J.  R.  O.'s  last  cryptogram  is  a  mystery.  Though 
there  is  an  error  in  the  first  word  (28. 19,  32,  21 
being  printed  for  28, 19,  30,  21),  yet  the  meaning 
is  obvioas  from  J.  R.  C.'s  third  equation— <'Haog 
the  bearer."  LABciEDBir. 

The  key  to  J.  Bbalis*b  cryptogram  is — 

ABCBEFOH 
25  24  23  22   21   20  19    18, 

&c.  &C.;  or,  to  put  it  in  the  form  of  an  equation, 
x=s26-P. 

But  1  think  he  overlooks  the  essence 'of  J.  R.  C.'s 
system,  which  is^  that  the  value  of  x  changes 
with  the  value  ox  a  and  6,  so  that  in  the  case  of 
double  letters,  or  of  a  letter  oocuxring  twice  in  a 
word,  the  value  of  x  is  not  the  same  each  time, 
thus  taking  away  a  great  aid  to  any  one  trying  to 
decipher  the  crypt<^am.  I  dif^  firom  J.  B&Lls 
about  (3)  in  J.  R.  C.'s  article,  which  I  think  is 
correctly  involved  (with  one  exception),  and  means 
''  Hang  the  bearer.^  The  first  word  should  be  28, 
19, 30,  21,  instead  of  28, 19, 82,  21.  WiU  J.  R.  C. 
let  me  know  if  I  am  rightP  P.  R.  H.  P. 

SUK-DIAL   iNSCBI^nONS    (4**»   S.    Vll.    256.)  — 

Allow  me  to  add  one  to  P.  W.  S.'s  sun-dial  in- 
scriptions :— 

On  a  Clock  at  Pita, 

**  Yado  e  vengo  ogni  giorno ; 
Ma  ta  andrai  aenza  ritorao.*' 

Where  is  this  common  inscription  originally 
found— 

"  Pereunt,  et  impatantur  ?  " 

W.  (1.) 

Chjbpstow=Estbiohoihl  (4*^  S.  vii.  34,  290.) 
There  is  no  difficulty  in  the  explanation  of  these 
names  themselves,  or  in  their  application  to  the 
same  locality. 

The  Cambrian  names  of  places  are  usually  de« 
rived  from  the  natural  features  or  phenomena  of 
the  neighbourhood.  At  the  embouchure  of  the 
Wye,  where  Chepstow  is  situated,  the  tide  rashes 


with  gnat  impetiioai^  through  tiie  narrow  en- 
trance of  the  nver,  rismg  at  the  full  and  change 
of  the  moon  not  less  than  fif^  feet.  Hence^e 
Cymric  name  "  Estrig-hoewal,'^  the  rapid  eddv  or 
whirling  tide,  oomi^ed  into  Strig-oii,  Strognill, 
&c.  The  situation  oeing  a  fiivourable  one  for 
trade,  at  the  confluence  of  two  navigable  rivers, 
the  eariy  English  settlers  oonfeirea  on  it  the 
name  of  Ceap-stowe,  modernised  into  CheiMitow, 
the  market  or  place  of  tnde.  J.  A.  Picroir. 

Sandykaowe,  wavertne,  aaar  Liverpool. 

The  derivation  of  SHfofkm  from  Strata  Julia 
seems  reasonable  enough.  Oon£  Fritdi  firom 
Forum  JuUi.  The  name  may  also  be  derived  from 
another  appellation  of  the  Wye,  from  the  Celtic 
y  («)  dwr  ffowel,  the  transparent  or  clear  stream. 
Conf.  the  Gaelic  ffeal,  white,  fair,  bright,  clear. 
Chepstow  of  ooume  means  simply  maiket-place. 

Ph  S.  Chabitook. 

Gray*8  Inn. 

DiB-«FiBrr  (4,^  8.  viL  186,  294)---It  is  remark- 
able that  while  thinking  to  comet  me  Mb.  J.  H. 
I.  Oaxlxt  did  not  observe  that  he  was  saying 
exactiy  the  same  thing,  with  a  littie  more. 
'^  Pours  out  the  s^t  of  the  book  into  t^e 
scholar."  What,  then,  is  pouring  one  thing 
mto  another  but  ii^umg it?  Pouring  into  one 
thing  necessarily  implying  pouring  out  of  another. 
But  now  as  to  the  premd  meaning  of  the  word : 
when  we  say  of  any  one  that  such  or  tsaek  a 


thing  die-apiriti  a  person,  or  tiiat  he  is  cUtpiritedf 
do  we  mean  that  the  spirit  is  poured  out  of  him 
into  another,  and  that  what  lie  loses  the  other 
ffokut  I  think  not,  but  the  rather  as  I  have 
already  stated,  the  meaning  is  ^'deprived  of  snirit,'' 
or,  as  the  dictionarissaay,  **  to  exhaust  the  spirits." 
A  similar  change  is  to  be  found  in  the  word  pre- 
vent  =  formerly  to  go  before  or  to  direct,  now  to 
hinder  or  obstruct.  Enxuin)  Tew,  M.A. 

Patching  Rectory,  Amndel. 

Baphbm  pob  thb  Dbad  (4^  S.  vii.  107,  233.) 
If  not  intruding  too  mucn  on  the  pages  of 
''  N.  Sn  Q,"  perhaps  the  following  extract  from 
Thomas  Godwyn's  Moses  and  Aaron  may  be  worth 
citing:— 

**  It  may  be  demanded,  what  manner  of  Baptitme  this 
was  ?  Wiui  Bubmission  of  my  judgement,  I  undexitand 
this  place  with  S,  Ambrose  of  a  SacramentcU  wathvug^ 
appljed  nnto  aome  living  man  in  the  name  and  behalf  of 
his  friend,  d3riDg  without  Baptiame,  ent  of  a  sapentitiooa 
concdt,  that  the  Sacrament  thua  conferred  to  one  alive, 
in  the  name  of  the  dectaaad,  might  be  available  for  the 
ether  dying  unbaptized.  As  if  the  A^tle  did  wound 
those  superstitions  Corinthians  with  their  owne  qail5y  and 
prove  the^  resurrection  of  the  dead  from  their  own  erro* 
neons  practise ;  telling  them  in  effect,  that  their  saper- 
stitiona  cnstome  of  baptiaiag  the  living  for  the  dead,  were 
vaine  and  bootless,  if  there  were  no  resairection.  And 
therefore  the  Apostle  naeth  an  emphatical  distinction  of 
Uie  persons t  in  the  next  immediate  verse,  saying,  Wh3' 
are  we  also  in  jeopardy  every  hour,  he  inferreth  the  re- 
iurrection  by  force  of  a  doMbU  argument,  the^rs^,  drawnc 


378 


NOTE  S  AND  QUERIE  S.  [*«»  s.  vii.  ai-wl  »,  71. 


fh>m  tkeir  supentitious  bapthaiion  for  the  dead ;  the 
Beeond,  from  the  hourly  jeopardy  and  perill  wherem  wee, 
that  is,  himself  and  other  Chrigtiatu  are.  So  that,  as 
that  Fitter  noteth,  the  Apostle  doth  not  hereby  approve 
their  doing,  bat  evineeth  their  hope  of  the  resurrection 
from  their  own  practice,  though  erroneous.  That  there 
was  Vicarium,  tale  haptitme  (^as  Teriullian  calleth  it, 
lUntr,  Camis)  in  use  amon^  the  MdreumiieSf  is  evident, 
yea  and  among  the  Cerinthumt  also  (JE^jp^pAon.  de  Ceriu- 
tkianu  heerei.  28)  the  manner  thereof  is  thus  described 
(Chryaost.1  Cor.  15):  When  any  CaUchMmenist  died,  tome 
Itring  person  placed  under  the  bed  of  the  deeeated,  they 
came  unto  the  deceased  party,  and  atked  him  whether  he 
would  he  baptized  f  then  he  replying  nothinp,  the  party 
under  the  bed  answered  for  him,  saying,  that  ife  would  be 
baptized;  and  thus  ihey  baptized  him  for  the  dead,  as  if 
they  acted  a  play  tqMm  the  stageJ*  (P.  240,  edit.  London, 
1655.) 

RO. 

Cork. 

The  Bones  akb  Oorwnt-VhTiA  of  Robert 
Bbucb  (4»»»  S.  vii.  297.)— It  is  surely  a  "  fact " 
which  had  been  better  left  to  oblivion,  that  in 
1838  <<  the  widow  of  the  late  Dr.  Gregory,  of 
famous  classical  and  medical  memory/'  was  pos- 
seseed  of  ''  the  bones  and  coffin  nails  of  Robert 
Bruce "  I  But  I  think  your  esteemed  corres- 
pondent G.  will  for  once  agree  with  me  in  think- 
intr  that  such  an  imputation  as  this,  against  the 
memory  of  the  eminent  physician,  cannot  be  true. 
He  who  took  such  relics  as  the  bones  of  the  hero 
from  their  resting-place  must  have  been  a  thief 
forthieving's  sake.  Let  us  hope  that  the  authen- 
ticity of  these  same  ^*  bones '  is  on  a  par  with 
that  of  the  rowelled  ''  spurs ''  traditionaUy  be- 
lieved to  be  those  of  the  king,  but,  according  to 
Mb.  Bebnhard  Smith  (4***  S.  vi.  120),  of  a  seven- 
teenth century  pattern  I  Such  "facts"  must  be 
well  verified  oefore  admission  to  the  Index  of 
"N.  &  Q."  Anolo-Scotus. 

Albaket  and  Amondeville  (4**'  S.  vii.  234, 
312.) — Azure  a  fret  or  is  quartered  by  the  Uve- 
dales  of  Wickham  for  "  Scurea,"  the  lords  of  the 
manors  of  Nately  Scures  and  of  Wickham,  cO. 
Hants.  John  de  Uvedale,  Esq.  (son  and  heir  of 
Sir  Thomas  de  Uvedale),  married  Sibilla,  only 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  de  Scures, 
Knight  The  arms  of  the  Uvedales  will  be  found 
blazoned  in  Baigent  and  Russell's  Radical  Marwal 
of  Heraldry,  1864,  p.  83. 

Sir  Edward  Grifim  of  Braybroke  and  Dingley, 
CO.  Northam.  Knt.,  married  Frances^  one  of  the 
daughters  and  coheiresses  of  Sir  Wilham  Uvedale 
of  Wickham.  She  died  1659.  A  complete  pedi- 
gree of  the  Uvedales  of  Wickham  will  be  round 
in  the  Surrey  Arch.  Soc.  publications,  vol.  iii. 

C.R. 

"  Whetheb  or  no  "  (4*»»  S.  vii.  142,  286.)— 
The  Bible  also  is  in  favour  of  no.  See  £xod.  z?i. 
4,  and  Deut.  viii.  2. 

With  the  Bible  and  Shakespeare  in  its  favour 
the  phrase  stands  exonerated  from  the  charges  of 


being  ''  slip-shod,"  "  slovenly,"  and  "  ungrani- 
matical."  J«  M!.  Cowpbb. 

Ben  Jonson,  in  his  Execration  againd  Vulcan, 
tells  us  he  wrote  — 

**  A  Grammar  too. 
To  teach  some  that,  their  nurses  could  not  do ; 
The  parity  of  language." 

And  as-  he  was  most  careful  of  his  own  style,  and 
often  revised  his  words  and  sentences,  it  may  not 
be  amiss  to  supplement  the  examples  given  by 
R.  M.  with  these  which  I  have  casually,  and  with- 
out looking  for  them,  oome  across : — 

**  Fallace  (a  lady).  I  know  not  whether  yon  received  it, 
or  no^^Every  Man  out  of  His  Humour,  Act  V.  Sc.  ID. 
•♦  Kitely  (npeaking  alowly  and  with  deliberation). — 
Bnt,  whether  hia  oath  can  bind  him,  yea,  or  no  ; 
Being  not  Uken  lawfaUy  ?  ha  1  aay  yon  ?  *' 

Every  Man  in  His  Humour t  Act  III.  Sc.  3. 

B.N. 

MOUBNING,  OR  BlACK-EDOBD  WBITIirQ-PAPEE 

(4**»  S.  vii.  209, 309.)— Black  wax  no  doubt  came 
into  use  at  least  as  early  as  black-edged  paper. 
I  have  letters  sealed  in  black  by  Charles  Carr, 
Bishop  of  Killaloe  in  1721,  and  by  Thomas  Smyth, 
Bishop  of  Limerick  antk  1725,  with  a  nomination 
to  the  Vice- Chancellorship  of  the  University  of 
Dublin,  sealed  in  black  by  the  great  Duke  of 
Ormonde  in  February  1714-5.  The  latter  may  have 
.been  owing  to  Queen  Anne^s  death.  Gobt. 

I  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  hit  upon  an 
early  reference  to  this  article  m  Allan  Ramsay's 
poems,  with  which  I  am  making  acquaintance  for 
the  first  time,  and  they  are  worth  being  known. 
On  p.  34,  vol.  ii.  of  the  edition,  Edinburgh,  1780, 
occurs  the  following  stanza : — 

*<  Thou  8able-border*d  sheet,  begone, 
Harbonr  to  thee  I  must  refose ; 
Sare  thou  canst  welcome  find  from  none. 
Who  carries  sueh  ungrateful  news." 

The  "sable-bordered  sheet"  summoned  the 
poet  to  attend  the  burial  of  a  friend,  and  was  in 
use  150  years  ago,  fbt  the  next  date  in  the  volume 
is  1724. 

One  of  Max  Miiller*s  discoveries  seems  antici- 
pated in  pnge  37 : — 

**  0  Daphne,  sweeter  than  the  dawn, 
When  rays  glance  on  the  height, 
D!ffasing  glndness  oVr  the  lawn. 
With  strakes  of  rising  light.*' 

LoBD  Brougham  and  thb  Niohtikoale 
MoNUMEKT  (4»»»  S.  vii.  277,  330.)— Why  is  this 
lady  perseveringly  called  Mre,  Nightingale  ?  As 
daughter  (and  coheiress  indeed)  of  the  second 
Earl  Ferrars  she  is  surely  entitled  to  be  called 
Lady  Elizabeth  Nightingale  P.  P. 

ILady  Nightingale  died— at  least  so  says  the  inscrip- 
tion on  the  monument— Aug.  17, 1784,  thereby  confirming 
Mb.  Pictoh's  statement.] 


4tfc  S.  VII.  April  29, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


379 


TSTBAeOXAL  IVSORIPTION  (4*^  S.  Tii.  844.)  — 
The  words  attached  to  the  letter  E.  in  the  in- 
scriBtion, "  Posttenebras,  lux/'  are  from  the  Latin 
Vulgate  of  the  Book  of  Job,  xvii.  12 :  '<  Noctem 
verterunt  in  diem,  et  past  tenebras  »pero  lucem^ 
The  other  three  sentences,  I  suspect,  were  com- 
posed as  appropriate  accompaniments,  pursuing 
the  hopeful  j>ro6pect  opened  by  the  first  sentence 
to  its  close,  m  secure  salvation.  F.  C.  H. 

Bupp  OB  Bimp  (4»»»  S.  vii.  282.  WThe  original 
meamng  and  the  local  usage  of  tnis  word  as  an 
eminence  may  perhaps  be  illustrated,  if  not 
reached,  from  the  following  words,  which  appear 
to  be  congeners  : — ''  Baare^  the  point,  head,  or  top 
of  a  hill ;  birragh,  pointed ;  brogh,  the  bresst  or 
heights  of  mountains ;  byrjey,  high,  elevated,  emi- 
nent ;  byrragh^  sharp-pointed.''  (felly's  Manx  Diet, 
Douglas,  1866.) — ^'  J9arr,  point,  top^  tip,  end,  ex- 
tremity, head;  bruthachy  an  acclivity,  ascent,  a 
steep,  a  hill-side,  a  pi'ecipice."  (McAlpine*s  0<Mc 
DicL  Edinb.  1866.)— ''Bapp,  the  top,  head,  or 
summit  of  a  thing ;  ''  bapjian,  the  tojps  of  moun- 
tains ;  beappab',  the  tops  or  cliflb  of^  mountains, 
or  rocks;  bpuxac',  an  ascent,  face  of  a  hilL' 
(O'ReiUv's  Iriih  Diet.  DubUn,  1817.)— Add  to 
these,  "  berg,  mons,  Ulphilas,  bairg  ....  Wach- 
terus  berg  dictum  putat  k  b€er€^  elevare."  (Ihre, 
Glost.  SmogaUUcum,  vol.  L  col.  168,  fol.  Upsal, 
1769.)—"  Bar,  culmen,  Isl."  (Junius,  .El^.  fol. 
Oxon,  1743,  «.  v.  "Barrow."^  But  in  Cleasby's 
led.  Diet,  by  Mr.  Gudbrand  Vigfusson  (Oxford 
Clar.  Press,  1868,  p.  60),  berg  is  said  to  have  ''a 
special  name:  a  rock,  elevated  rocky  ground." 
Compare  also  berg  Qerm.,  Igarrg  Dan.,  and  bioph 
Ang.-Sax.  (Somner's  DicL)  Halliwell,  in  his  Dust, 
of  Archaic  and  Prov.  Worde.  gives  ^  barf,  a  hilL 
Yorkshire." 

From  all  these  authorities  it  seems  reasonable 
to  infer  that  the  word  burff,  bwfj  or  barf  derives 
its  meaning  of  an  eminence  from  the  root  bar 
or  b€utref  which  is  found  in  so  many  languages, 
e9pe<nally  in  those  of  the  Celtic  and  Gaelic  fami- 
lies, in  the  sense  of  top  or  head*  £.  A.  D. 

Sbiningstone  Rectory. 

Doubtless  the  same  as  the  Lincolnshire  word 
Btxrff^  used  of  a  long  low  ridse — e.  g,  Howsham 
Barn,  Metheringhiun  Barff.  Atkinson  (CZei^.O'/oM.) 
connects  it  with  barghj  bamgh,  baurgkf  berg,  &c., 
the  gutturals  being  clumged  to  j^,  as  in  thrwffiox 
through,  &c.  J.  T,  F. 

Hatfield  Hall,  Dorbam. 

GoRSB  r4*  S.  vii.  32a)— The  voung  lady  who 
writes  imder  the  signature  of  I^onte  de  Alto 
must  not  expect  \^  find  manv  flowers  with  em- 
blematic sigmfications  attached  to  them.  Indeed, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  very  obvious  ones, 
such  as  the  lily,  the  rose,  the  amaranthus,  &c.,  the 
emblems  given  to  flowers  are  very  arbitrary  and 


fandful.  The  gorse  is  not  at  all  a  likely  shrub  to 
have  any  marked  emblematical  meaning;  nor  do 
I  believe  that  any  has  ever  been  affixed  to  it  I 
could  agree  with  the  editor  in  the  hint  given  in 
his  note ;  but  moved  by  a  very  different  reason. 
The  prickly  nature  of  the  plant  is  a  sufficient 
waminff  to  keep  awav  from  contact  with  it :  and 
so  far  the  gorse  may  be  emblematical  of  the  con- 
sequences of  indulging,  not  what  I  could  consci- 
entiously call  "  a  good  old  English  custom,*'  but 
what  I  must  stigmatise  with  a  holy  Father  as 
«  morsus  diabolL'^  F.  C.  H. 

Tbekoh's  Hulsean  Lectubes  (4*^  S.  vii.  78, 
188.) — Having  noticed  the  inquiry  as  to  "the 
gjeat  poet  of  our  modem  world,''  and  the  quota- 
tion from  him  made  in  '^  N.  &  Q."  accordmg  to 
the  reference,  I  am  enabled  to  supply  the  informa- 
tion from  the  original  source.  Tne  Archbishop  of 
Dublin  writes  to  me  that  ^'  the  great  poet  is 
Goethe,  and  the  great  passage  is  at  the  opening 
of  his  Faust.^*  Fbanois  Tbenoh. 

Islip  Rectoiy. 

BiSHABCK  Anticipated  :  '*  Stewing  in  theib 
OWN  Gbavt  "  (i^  a  vii.  187,  272.)— 

**  My  father's  ghost  comes  thro*  the  door, 
Though  shut  as  sure  as  hands  can  make  it, 
And  leads  me  such  a  fearful  racket, 
I  stew  all  night  in  my  own  gmaie.** 

Cotton's  VirgU  TnnsttU,  p.  85,  i807,*14th  edition. 

LomsA.  Julia  Nobxan. 

I  think  I  can  give  a  closer  parallel  from  Thomas 

Fuller's  "  Life  of  Duke  d'Alva":  — 

**  And  lest  the  maintainiog  of  garrisons  might  he  har- 
densome  to  the  king  his  master,  he  laid  heavy  imposi- 
tions on  the  people :  the  duke  affirming  that  these  coun- 
tries Jftnfat  emtmgk  to  be  ttewtd  m  their  own  liquor,  and 
that  the  soldiers  here  might  be  maintained  by  tne  profits 
arising  hence.  Tea,  he  boasted  that  he  had  found  the 
mines  of  Pern  in  the  Low  Countries,  though  the  digging 
of  them  never  quitted  the  ooaL^—The  ffolw  State  amd 
the  Profane  State,  by  Thoe.  Fuller,  D J).  (London,  W. 
Pickering,  1840),  p.  896. 

T.  W.  0. 

Mbs.  Oox  (4^  8.  vii.  210.)— Mrs.  Oom  was  a 
lady  well  known  to  many  persons  still  living  for 
her  musical  talents  and  numy  accomplishments. 
She  married  secondly  the  lught  Hon.  Joseph 
Flanta,  some  years  M.  r.  for  Hastings. 

Akicub. 

Thb  Gbbat  Bbab  and  Sitmmbb  'Rusvlll 
(4**  S.  vii.  300.) — It  would  be  satisfactory  to 
know  what  the  "  skilful  old  gardener,  a  native  of 
Yorkshire/'  means  by  saying  that  ''the  Great 
Bear  is  on  this  side  of  the  "Sorth  Pole." 

W.  M.  Shbwell. 
Rustington. 

The  Prioby  op  Coloivghah  (4«*  S.  vii.  187, 
311.) — I  regret  that  I  did  not,  as  I  mtended,  write 
the  present  note  on  the  appearance  of  the  former 


380 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**  S.  VII.  Ann. »,  Tl. 


notice  in  p.  187,  as  I  might  Iiare  eaved  some 
etymological  speculation  in  the  latter  (p.  311). 
Canty's  Bridge,  near  Berwick,  a  well-known  an- 
gling rendezvotu  by  reascm  partly  of  a  roadside 
pd^chouse  there  situated,  dbriyes  its  name  from 
a  former  occupant  of  the  said  house,  whose  name^ 
if  I  mistidce  not,  was  Swan,  but  who  was  univer* 
sallY  known  as  Canty^lu  e,  Uvely,  cheerful,  Jamie- 
son's  Scot,  IHdiionary,  sub  voce).  In  fact  to  this  day 
the  locality  is  most  commonly  mentioned  without 
the  bridge  altogether  j  e.  a.  (schoolboy  lomiitw) : 
''Where  are  you  going  on  Saturday,  JackP^'  '^Oh, 
out  to  Canty's." 

It  is  rather  a  curious  coincidence  that  m}r  in- 
formation regarding  Canty's  Bridge  was  derived 
from  ''a  person  of  the  name  of  Filmore/'  men- 
tioned by  your  correspondent  J.  M.        P.  E.  N. 

QVBMAJS  EmOLOQIGAL  DICTIONARIES    (4^  S. 

w.  SOS.) — ^There  are  two  books  that  would  suit 
A  Fobeigner's  purpose:  Sanders'  Worterbtwh 
der  Deui9chen  Spracne,  and  Schwendc's  Warter^ 
buck  der  DeutBOhen  J^ache,  in  Beadehmg  auf 
Abstammung  und  BegHfftibildung,  Frankfurt  am 
Main,  Vierte  Auflage.    1856,  8». 

The  former  is  a  large  work  only  known  to  me 
by  title,  but  the  Htmdworteiinich  by  the  same 
author  is  not  etymological  Schwenck's  is  a 
Tolume  of  778  pages,  of  considerable  merit,  though 
occadonally  rkther  crotchety. 

For  the  information  of  Mb.  Ghabnock  I  take 
this  opportunity  to  mention  that  the  Suia^Oothi- 
cum  01  Ihre  means  nothing  else  than  Swedish,  as 
Ihre — ^the  fans  et  origo  as  regards  Swedish  ety- 
mology— entertuned  the  notion  that  the  ori|^al 
5opaubtion  of  Sweden  consisted  of  the  Suiones  of 
'adtus  with  an  admixture  of  Goths. 

J.  H.  LuKBaBSK. 

Point  de  Vice  (4***  S.  vii.  265.)— In  Johnson 
and  Walker's  Dictionary  I  find  '^  Point  devUe  or 
device  (in  one  word).  In  its  primary  sense,  work 
performed  by  the  needle;  and  the  term  point' 
JaceiB  still  familiar  to  every  female :  in  a  secondary 
sense^  point  devite  became  applicable  to  whatever 
was  uncommonly  exact,  or  constructed  with  the 
nicety  and  precision  of  stitches  made  or  demed 
by  the  needle."  P.  A.  L. 

HoLCus  LAiTATUS  (4**  S.  viL  323.) — ^Mb.  Jahbs 
Bbitten  inquires  why  this  grass  is  called  ''  York- 
shire fog."  He  must  be  aware  that  the  word  fog 
in  Scotland,  and  in  our  northern  counties,  signi- 
fies moss.  May  not  then  the  Soleus  lanaitUf  mm 
its  soft  woolly  nature,  have  obtained  the  name  of 
fog,  particulfirly  in  yorkshireP  In  Ash*s  JXc* 
tionary  we  find  the  name  derived  from  the  low 
Latin  fogagium,  and  he  gives  for  its  meaning 
''after-grass,  not  eaten  in  summer."       F.  G.  H. 

False  QuAimTEM  (4**  S.  vii.  319.^— -Allow 
me  to  suggest  to  the  authenr  of  the  Latin  vwEsion 


of ''  I^vindal  Characteristios"  the  subetitatiaa  of 
'^  JS'i^  alios "  for^'Atque  alios''  in  the  last  stanza 
of  his  tranriation.  He  would  thus  attain  the 
desirable  uniformity  of  a  ftlse  quantity  in  every 
stania,  whereas  at  present  the  distinction  has  been 
conferred  upon  the  first  three  only.  A  ''  Scholar" 
who  could  be  guilty  of  ^  semper  andax,"  "  prose- 
quitur," and  **  inhiat,"  might  vefy  well  have  given 
us  ''  et  alios,"  or  "  at  ubi."  Is  there  no  such  thing 
as  a  Gradus  in  all  Dublin  P 

Of  certain  eccentricities  of  rendering,  which  it 
might  not  require  a  ^  fynx-eyed  critic  "  to  dis- 
cover, I  desire  to  sav  notlung.  The  rendering 
"ex  decies  novies"  tor  "nine  out  of  ten  times" 
wUl  be  readily  accepted  by  your  readers^  if  for  no 
other  reason,  at  least  on  the  score  of  novelty. 

C.  S,  J.,  M.A.  OxoN. 

The  gentleman  who  signs  himself  "  A  B.,  Ex- 
Scholar,  Trin.  Coa  DubHn,"  should  look  at  his 
Latin  verses  again,  and  send  to  "  N.  &  Q."  an 
amended  copy. 

1.  In  the  second  line,  the  second  syllable  of 
"semper"  is  ^ort,  e.  g.  "SempSr  ego  auditor 
tantum"  (Juv.  Sat,  i,  1.  1).  It  may  stand  if 
altered  thus :  "  Audax,  nee  semper,"  &c. 

2.  In  line  three,  "ferodt"  is  scarcely  classical 

3.  In  the  fourth  line  occurs  "  prosapiam,"  whose 
second  syllable  is  always  given  as  long,  e.  g.  — 

**  Quid  peccatorom  prosftpia  oorpore  in  illo." 

Pruoekt.  in  ApoUi.,  v.  1006. 

4.  In  the  seventh  line  the  writer  makes  the 
second  syllable  of  "  prosequitur "  Umg,  but  it  is 
thort,  e.  g. :  — 

**  ProsSquitar  sargens  a  pappi  ventas  euntes." 

Tiro.,  JEn,  8, 130. 

6.  In  the  last  line  it  is  too  great  a  licence  to 
msJie  the  last  syllable  of  "videat"  long,  before 
"  occupat." 

The  tutors  of  Trin.  Coll.,  Dublin,  would  never 
pass  over  four,false  quantities  in  sixteen  lines,  nor 
would  an  A.B.  of  mat  distinguished  coUese  be 
likely  to  make  them,  and  therdbre  most  probably 
the  copy  is  incorrect  K  A.  D. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

WUhelmi  JdalmeAiriennB  Monaehi  De  GeUis  Ponti/ictim 
Anghrum  Libri  Quinmu,  Edited  from  the  Autograph 
Mmmecr^  6y  N.  £.  o.  A  Haaulton. 

Hi»toric  and  Muniewal  Doeuments  of  Ireland,  A.D.  1172- 
1820,  from  the  Archive*  of  Uu  City  of  DuhUn^  ttc. 
Edited  b»  J.  T.  GUbert,  F.^A.  Seeretery  of  the  Pablic 

.  Record  Offioe  of  Ireland. 

These  two  new  volnmes  of  the  important  aeries  of 
«  ChronideB  and  Memorials  of  Great  Britain  and  Irelaad 
during  the  Middle  Agei»"  now  In  oonm  of  paUieation 


4*  &  YIL  AmiL  29, 71.3 


NOTES  AND  QUBEIES. 


381 


nader  ike  difeetton  of  the  Master  of  the  RoHs,  differmg 
60  widely  as  they  do  in  scope  and  object,  are  yet  alike  in 
one  thinig— the  strong  claun  th^  put  forth  to  public 
recognition.  The  fir^  not  only  on  me  ground  that  it  is 
the  work  of  one  of  the  most  trustworthy  of  our  £nglisfa 
Chroniclers,  William  of  Mabnesbury,  and  that  it  is  the 
foundation  of  the  early  ecolwriastical  history  of  En^and, 
at  least  down  to  a.d.  1122,  on  which  all  writers  have 
chiefly  relied ;  but  further  because,  having  hitherto  been 
printed  in  a  very  inaccurate  and  unsatisfiictory  manner, 
it  is  now  put  forth  with  great  care  and  judgment  by  Mr. 
Nicholas  Hamilton,  and  that  from  a  MS.  which  he  shows 
good  reason  for  beUeving  to  have  been  the  author's  auto- 
graph, and  to  contain  his  latest  additions  ai^d  amend- 
ments. On  the  good  service  which  the  editor  has  rendered 
to  historical  students  by  its  publication,  it  is  needless  to 
insist. 

So  little  has  been  done  up  to  the  present  time  to  throw 
light  upon  the  history  of  the  municipal,  middle,  and 
trading  classes  in  Ireland  in  connection  with  the  rule  of 
England  in  the  twelfth  and  four  following  centuries,  that 
a  volume  like  Mr.  Gilbert's  wiU  be  sure  to  find  a  ready 
welcome.  It  contains  a  series  of  documents  from  a.d. 
1172  to  A.D.  1820,  mainly  connected  with  North  Leinster, 
which,  as  induding  DnbUn  and  Dh>glieda,  constituted 
a  principal  portion  of  the  Anglo-Norman  settlement  in 
Ireland.  If  the  Documents  have  been  widdy  dimendd 
and  consequently  far  to  seek — and  the  notice  of  their 
nature  and  places  of  deposit  are  b^  no  means  the  least 
interesting  portion  of  Mr.  GUbert's  introduction — and  if 
when  found  many  of  them  present  great  difficulties  fh>m 
being  written  during  the  early  periods  in  oontracted 
cuw  Latin  or  law  lirench,  replete  with  archaic  teohni- 
calities  now  long  obsolete,  still  the  search  and  labour 
have  not  been  wasted,  sinoe  they  have  produced  a  volume 
which  throws  much  light  upon  a  condition  of  society  in 
Ireland  of  which  as  yet  scarcely  anything  is  known. 

Books  regetved. — lUmmiMcences  tfStrWaUer  Scott 
By  John  Gibson,  Writer  to  the  Signet.  (A.  k  C.  Black.) 
An  unpretending  little  volnmef  in  which  Mr.  Gibson, 
who  became  the  lawyer  of  Sir  Walter  in  1822,  and  was 
his  firimd  and  adviser  through  all  his  pecuniary  difficul- 
ties, records  his  recollections  of  him,  and  in  so  doing 
increases  our  S3rmpathy  and  respect  for  the  great  novelist. 

A  Caution  to  An^a^  or  "  Th9  FracHecU  Angler*^  and 
<*  TkM  Modem  Practical  Angkr  "  compared.  By  W.  C. 
Stewart  (A.  &  C.  Black.)  Mr.  Stewart,  the  author  of 
The  Practical  Angler,  who  feels  aggrieved  at  Mr.  Pen- 
nell's  dose  imitation  of  his  title,  has  written  this  little 
book  to  point  out  that  the  similarity  in  the  two  books  is 
eonflned  to  the  title-page,  as  no  two  sjrstems  of  fly-flshing 
could  be  more  distinct  than  those  recommended,  by  Mr. 
PenneU  and  himself. 

Monument  to  the  Socini. — ^A  marble  monument  by 
the  cdebrated  sculptor,  SaraceUi,  is  shortly  to  be  erected 
at  Sienna  in  memory  of  Lielius  and  Faustus  Sodnus, 
who  were  natives  of  that  Italian  dty.  This  tribute  has 
nothing  of  a  rdigious  movement  about  it :  it  is  an  honour 
to  two  Italian  noblemen,  who  were  distinguished  for  their 
learning  and  virtues.  The  Catholics  of  the  munidpality 
of  Sienna  have  contributed  40/.  towards  the  expense.  The 
Socini  died  at  Zurich,  in  Switzerland,  and  are  believed 
to  have  been  buried  in  the  cathedral  there,  but  the  pre* 
i:^  spot  is  unknown. 

Death  ow  Mr.  Halkett  of  the  Ad>vooatb8' 
LiBBABT,  Edibbiiboh. — ^Not  Only  the  private  friends  of 
this  accomplished  scholar,  but  all  students  of  biblio- 
graphy, have  sustained  a  great  loss  by  his  death,  which 
took  place  last  week.  He  was  enga^  at  the  time  in 
the  Herculean  task  of  preparing  a  printed  Catalogue  of 


the  two  hundred  thousand  volumes  under  bis  ebaige ; 
and  had  made  oonsiderable  progress  with  a  Dictionary 
of  Anonymous  and  Pseudonymous  Books,  &c.,  which  it 
is  to  be  hoped  will  not  be  lost  to  the  world.  Mr.  Halkett 
was  an  occasional  contributor  to  these  psges,  and  we 
have  received  several  warm  tributes  to  his  unvarying 
oouite^y,  whioh  was  no  less  remarkable  than  his  gr«at 
attainments. 

In  our  obituary  w«  have  to  ftotice  the  death  of  Mr. 
James  Whiting,  a  gentleman  once  wdl  known  in  the 
printing  profession.  He  died  at  Taunton  on  the  lOtii  of 
this  month,  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety-four.  His  name 
will  be  remembered  by  many  in  connection  with  The 
AUae  newspaper— a  journal  that  in  its  time  was  most 
popular  and  successAiL  He  was  an  elder  liveryman  of 
the  Stationers'  Company. 

Those  who  have  just  ivad  the  aitide  a  few  pages  for- 
ward (ante,  p.  870)  wUl  hear  with  surprise  and  regret 
that  the  writer,  Mr.  Henry  F.  Holt,  whose  name  must 
be  familiar  to  them  in  connection  with  The  Block  Booka^ 
The  Fairford  Windowe,  &c,  died  on  the  16th  instant. 
Mb.  Holt,  who  was  an  enthnsiaatic  admirer  of  Albert 
Durer,  is  understood  to  have  made  laige  collections  for  a 
new  biography  of  that  remarkable  artist. 

At  a  sale  of  old  silver  plate  which  occurred  last  week 
by  Mr.  Frayberg,  at  the  Bdgrave  Auction  Mart,  two  re- 
markable old  Saxon  cups  of  carved  wood,  embedded  in 
silver,  height  about  10  inches,  with  handles  and  base  of 
silver,  of  a  veiy  early  date,  laaliaed  82/. 

Some  fine  spedmens  of  Bristol  china  were  sold  during 
the  past  week  at  the  Booms  of  Messra.  Sotheby,  Wilkin- 
son, and  Hodge.  There  were  twenty-aeven  lots,  which 
produced  in  the  aggregate  1,052/.  14«.;  of  which  a  tea- 
pot given  to  Mrs.  Burke,  the  wife  of  the  great  orator  and 
statesman,  brought  190/.,  and  a  milk-jug  of  the  same 
fabric  115/.  respectively. 

London  and  MrooLESEx  Archjeolooioal  Socibtt. 
A  general  meeting  of  the  sodety  will  be  held  at  the  hidl 
of  the  LeatherseUers'  Company,  St.  Helen's  Place,  on 
Thursday,  May  4,  when  toe  following  papers  will  be 
read : — **  Remarks  upon  the  Charters,  Records,  and  His- 
'  tory  of  the  Leathersellers'  Company,*'  by  W.  H.  Black, 
Esq.;  *<The  Hospital  of  Le  Pap^,  Bishopsgate,'*  by 
Rev.  T.  Hugo.  Numerous  drawings,  prints,  &c.,  of 
Leathersdlers'  Hall  and  the  ndghbourhood,  will  be  ex- 
hibited by  J.  E.  Gardner,  Esq.  The  society  will  then 
proceed  to  the  churoh  of  St.  Andrew  Undershaft,  when 
the  following  papers  will  be  read: — *^K  brief  Notice  of 
the  cdebrat^  painter,  Hans  Holbdn,  as  a  parishioner  of 
St.  Andrew's  Undienhaft,"  by  W.  H.  Black,  Esq. :  "*  Re- 
marks ni)on  the  Records  of  the  Church,"  by  W.H.  Overall, 
Esq.  From  thence  the  sodety  will  go  to  the  church  of 
St  Peter's,  Cornhill,  where  the  rector,  the  Rev.  R.  Whit- 
tington,  M.A.,  will  make  remarks  upon  the  history  of 
the  church  and  the  archives  of  the  parish. 

The  British  Museum  will  be  dosed  from  May  1  to  7 
indusive. 

Litbbabt  Inteluoence.— English  life  and  charac- 
ten  have  furnished  many  interesting  subjects  of  discus- 
sion to  German  Essayists  reoently— Dickens,  Bnlwer, 
Byron,  Thackeray.  Walter  Scott,  the  Princess  Charlotte, 
Turner,  Stuart  Mill,  Carlyle,  D'lsraeli,  Cobden,  Lord  Pal- 
merston,  have  stimulated  German  gravity  and  thorough- 
ness to  mora  than  usual  Uvcliness  in  deaUng  with  subjects 
living  and  acting  in  a  land  agitated  far  more  than  most 
countries  by  theconflicting  currents  of  public  lifts  and  eager 
discussion.  Julian  Schmidt  and  Freorich  Althaus  have 
thus  distinguished  themsdves  in  some  new  volumes  of 
Charakter^der* 


382 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [*«  s.  vii.  ap«il  ».  71. 


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eoUeetion  of  music  of  the  highest  class,  embracing  manj 
Operas,  Anthems,  Ac.,  by  the  first  English  and  Foreign 
Mastexs,  with  some  mdsic  and  songs  by  Tom  D*Urfey, 
will  shortly  be  brought  to  the  hammer  by  Laycock  of 
Oxford,  whose  shop  in  the  High  Street  is  well  uown  to 
the  bibtiomane, 

Mb.  B.  Carrutherb  of  iHVEBaiBsa. — The  Senatns 
of  the  University  of  Edinburgh  has  resplved  to  bestow 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  on  Mr.  Robert  Carmthexs  of  the  /»- 
eemetf  Courier^  in  recognition  of  his  knowledge  of  and 
services  to  English  literature.  So  says  ,TAe  Scotchman, 
to  which  we  venture  to  add  that  no  d^ree  was  ever 
better  deserved. 

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ACCIBBBTTS    CAV8B    I^8S    OF    I«IFB. 

AoQldento  oowm  Xkwt  of  Tlm«. 

ACCIDENTS    CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 

Frovide  agaimt  ACCIDENTS  tf  ALL  RINDS 

BT  zvsuBnrq  with  thb 

Bailway  Passengers'  Assurance  Company, 

An  Annual  Furment  of  /HI  to  ••  S/  Infona  B1«0€N»  at  Dwih. 
or  an  aUovanoe  at  tlie  rate  of  JBe  per  week  for  ijury!  "^^* 

£565,000  haye  been  Paid  as  CompeMation, 

ONE  onto|ew7  TWELVE  Annual  Policy  Holden  beoomins  a 
dalmant  EACH  TEAR.  Foriwrtiealan  aroly  to  the  ^SOi^the 
BaUway  Stationj.  to  the  Local  ISnte,  or  attheolSl. 

•4,C0BNHILL,  and  10,  BEOSKT  STREET.  LONDON. 

WILLLIM  J.  VLOr,  SeertUsry, 

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IJOTHING  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMABEULA 

Xl  'Mtorei  the  Hmnan  Hair  to  Iti  prietine  hne.  no  matter  at  what 
a|*.  MESSRS.  JOHN  QOSN^  ft'TO!h!vS«*lSiSr?Sth U,?!Ji 
of  the  mMt  eminent  Chemteti.  soooeeded  In  perltetteg  thl«  wondnfU 
UqnkL  It  b  now  ofltaed  to  thePnbUo  in  a  more  coneentrntedtem. 
ana  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  I9  Bottlcf.89.  each,  alio  S*.>7«.  6<2..  or  Ite.  each,  with  bnuh. 

JOHN   GOSNELL  &  CO.*S   CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  b  craeUy  roperior  to  any  IVwth  Powder,  gfret  the  teeth 
SlSS&^^S^S^^  -ecay;S?imp.rte  a 

Nl^EBYPOWMji  ^'^  ^*^  ^'^^  **"*^  TOILET  and 

To  be  had  of  all  FerftameM  aad  Chemltte  throanhont  the  Klnsdom. 
and  at  Ansel  Faaawe,  88,  Upper  Tkamei  Stnet^LM^.  ^^^* 


RUPTURES 


ROTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LETER  TRtTSS  is 
,  allowedW  ppwardi  of  soo  Medical  men  to  be  the  moet  eflko- 
tive  mirention  fa  tlM  cnatNn treatment  of  HERNIA.  Thenaeof  a 
neu  qtrtns,  lo  often  hnrtftd  In  ite  eflfeete,ia  here  avoldedi  a  lofk  bandaie 

y«h  eaw  and  plMenem  that  It  cannot  be  detected,  and  m  vbe  worn 
dnrine  deep.  A  dewsriptiTi  dxcnlar  ma/  be  had,  and  the  Tru«  (which 
cannot  fkU  to  lit)  towuded  by  poet  on  the  dieumlbienee  of  the  body, 
twolnehei  below  the  Mpe,  bcfiic  tent  to  the  Mauulhotuinr.  ^^ 

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and  inazpenilTe,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  oranary  etoddnc.  PHeee 
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which  imparte  a  brOllaney  and  elaetldty  gratiiyinf  alike  to  the  lenee 
of  light  and  toaeh. 


A  PACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

xy  the  hair  with  thii  beantf  folly  perftimed  Wadi,  in  two  dim  grey 
blur  beoomea  it«  original  colour,  and  nmaint  eo  by  an  oecaeional  onng. 
^da  b  guarantee  by  MR.  ROSS.  l€e.  6tf.,  aent  fcr  etampB.~ALiaC. 
ROSS,  tea.  High  Holbom.  London. ^^ 

SPANISH  ELY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Aua. 
ROSS'S  CA17THARIDES  OHi.  It  is  a  awe  Restorer  of  Hair,  and 
raduoer  of  Whiihart.  Ita  eflbct  ia  speedy.  It  if  pdlnniaed  by  Royalty. 
The  price  of  it  ia  te.  fid.,  aent  for  M  atampa. 


HOLLO  WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
STSTEMATIC  TRE  ATMENT.--Few  atotementa  are  more  wide 
oftmththan  the aaaertiott that. ftr thacore  of  dianiee. the aOlng  part 
alone  demanda  attention,  whereaa  both  local  and  general  mfadilefte- 
quire  redress.  Theae  medicamente  Iwldly  flue  the  erils  they  poroltea  to 
remedy  1  local  relief  and  general  poriflpatlon  progreaa  together j  the 
diaeaaed  portion  iaenred;  the  fool  inioleiaeleansed.  HoUoway'a  Oint- 
ment, rubbed  on  the  tluroaland  eheat,«seraiaes  the  moat  benoflcial  in- 
fluence over  aore  throata,  dlphtheriatand  conch,  whether  reanlttng 
firom  eatarrii,  aathma.  ear  iMmiiflillla  ThtenntuentaetemlncQlowdiyln 
aneatittg  the  extenaion  of  aoreea^haaUqc  ntenftlona,  eniing  aUn  dia- 
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383 


LONOOS,  BATUBBAT,  MAT  t,  1871. 

CONTENTS— N«  175. 

NOTBS:  — Typogimnhicftl  Snon  in  the  "Faerie  Qaeene" 
883— Fourteen  Lines  omitted  ftom**Oomne,''8M— The 
Will  of  Bliiabeth  Howard  or  Talbot?  A.  —  Maasoleum 
and  Town  Unarkullee.  385  —  Hogarth's  Print  of  Lord 
Lorat  —  Memorial  Verses  —  Bums  —  Ayres.  Surname— 
Ohauoer:  ** After  oon":  " Btoor  "  —  GeueraMons  within 
living  Memory  —  Untutorad  Critioinii — Manor  Houses  of 
Herdbrdabire,  88fi. 

QXTBIIIBS:  — Stafford  of  Blatherwiok,  Gretton.  Sudbury, 
Ac.,  887  —  Ballad  wanted  -  Bell-nnging,  Ac.  —  BecU- 
oation  of  Chnrohes— The  Barl  of  Derby  — Geonn  Bd- 
warda,  a.d.  1645— Bpigram  by  Samuel  uogers^^'Foz^s 
Martyrs,"  a  Satire — Dr.  Wm.  King  —  Lord  Kingston  and 
Oldham  —  Lines  on  Mathematics  —  Maidenwell,  near 
Louth  —  Mannseript*  POem  —  Menvils  or  Mennlte — Pedi- 
frees  of  Founden^  Kin  —  Pkoard  —  Portrait  of  Chief 
Baron  Ord  — Pr»yers  for  the  Dead — Pomps — **  The  Maid 
of  Bye"— Old  Sootoh  Newspapers— "Streak  of  SUver 
Sea^—  BngUsh  Veraifloaftioo,  887. 

&BPI1IB8:  —  The  Completion  of  St.  Paurt,  880  —  Gains- 
borough's "  Blue  Boy."  801  —  Why  does  a  newly  Bom 
Child  Cry?  894 -The  White  Tower  of  London,  lb,— 
A'Becket's  Murderers,  89B— Poetry  of  the  Clouds  — A 
Gem  Query :  Pidiler  —  Frenoh  Wealmn  Magaaine  —  The 
Termination  **  -den  "  in  the  Weald  of  Kent  —  Marriages  of 
Bngliah  Princesses — Old  Songs  and  Ballads  —  *'  Laurteer 
Horatius"— "The  San  never  sets  on  the  British  Do- 
minions" —  Ombre:  Boston  —  "  Heart  of  Hearts": 
•«  Light  of  LUhts  "  -  Bemarkable  Altar  SUb — "  La  Belle 
Dame  sans  Merci "  —A  Toadstone  Ring~«un-dial  Queries 

a"  Summum  Jos,  Summa  Injuria  " — **  The  Devil  beats 
Wife  "  —  Arms  of  Charlemsgne — "  Certosino  "  —  More 
Family  —  Thomson  a  Druid,  fto,  807. 

Votea  on  Books,  fte. 

TTPOGRAPmCAL  KBROKS  IN  THE  «FA£BI£ 

QUEENE." 

In  the  Introdaction  to  my  Shakespeare'Expod- 
ior — a  book  which  I  will  presume  to  be  in  the 
hands  of  eveir  stadent  of  our  elder  poetry — I 
have  corrected  oeyeral  errors  in  this  poem,  and, 
for  the  benefit  of  future  editors,  I  will  here  cor- 
rect the  remaining  errors  in  that  poem — the  proofs 
of  which  the  poet  seems  to  have  read  most  negli- 
gently, if  he  read  them  at  all:  for  tiiie  errors, 
eyen  the  most  glaring  ones  in  the  first  edition  of 
the  first  part,  are  nearly  all  to  be  found  in  the 
second.    1  make  the  following  corrections :  — 

**  In  this  gpreat  passion  of  unwonted  lust, 
Or  wonted  fear  of  doing  ought  amiss." — 1. 1,  49. 

Here  we  have  in  *'  Or,''  I  think,  an  instance  of 
the  usual  confumon  of  or  and  and.  See  my  final 
note  on  Milton's  Sam.  AgomsUs. 

**  Who  told  her  all  that  fell  in  journey  as  she  went." 

L  8,  82. 

For  "her"  we  should  probably  read  Atm,  as 
the  change  is  not  unusual;  or  we  might  read  '^all 
that  her.^* 

**  By  her  fierce  servant  ftdl  of  kingly  awe."—!.  8, 41. 
"By  "should  be -Btrf. 
^  On  top  of  gretn  Selinis  aU  alone."— L  7,  82. 
SeUndSf  which  has  baffled  all  the  criticfl^  is 
nothing  bat  a  printer's  blander  for  C^fUemu*    So 


in  Chaucer's  KmgMi  Tale  we  have  ''  Setheron" 
for  CytheroH,  This  is  a  proof  of  the  eyil  of  read- 
ing by  the  eye  only :  for  had  any  critic  read  the 
passage  out,  he  would  probably  have  been  struck 
by  the  similarity  of  sound  in  Selinis  and  Cyllenus. 

**  That  many  emmt  knights  hare  foul  fordone." 

iL  1, 61. 

'^  Haye  "  should  be  hath, 

**  Inflamed  was  toibllow  beauty's  chase."- ii.  2,  7. 

As  the  rimes  are  day^  mayy  ditmay^  the  poet's 
word  must  have  been  rau,  not  "  chase."  See  i.  2, 
38,- iii.8,22. 

**  And  recompensed  them  with  a  better  scorse." 

IL  9y  65. 
''Them"  should  be  Aifii. 

**  For  no,  no  usual  fire,  no  usual  rage."— >iiL  2,  87. 

Perhaps  the  first ''  no  "  should  be  know. 

'*  Or  other  ghastly  spectacle  dismayed." — ^iil.  8,  60. 

We  should  perhaps  read  of^  or ''  hy  other." 

'*  And  coming  to  the  place  where  all  in  gore." 

iiL4,84* 

Perhaps  the  poet  wrote  cotMn, 

**  In  that  aune  garden  all  the  goodly  flowers." 

iiL6,80. 

From,  not  *'In,"  is  the  proper  word. 
**  Or  sent  into  the  changeful  world  again." — ^iii.  6, 88. 
Here  again  we  have  *'  Or  "  for  And. 
«•  Few  tiioUfaig  tears  she  softly  forth  let  £01."— iii.  7, 9. 
Perhaps,  as  the  next  line  seems  to  intimate, 
''Few"  should  be  Two. 

"  Who  loTers  wUl  deceive."— iii  9, 81. 

«  Who  "  should  be  Whom. 

**  That  madeet  many  ladies  dear  lament." — ^iii.  9, 86. 

For  "  madest"  we  should  probably  read  made  so» 

**  There  a  huge  heap  of  singulft  did  oppress." 

iii.  11, 12. 

For  "ongulfs  "  we  might  read  tmguUs. 

^  Then  Tirtoe's  might,  and  Taloe's  oonfidoBoe." 

iiL  U,  14. 

I  would  read  vaiour*$  for  "  value's." 

"  Bears  in  his  boasted  fan,  or  Iris  bright. 
When  her  discoloured  bow  she   spreads   through 
heaven  hight."— iii  11, 47. 

In  the  last  line  we  should  read  "heayen's 
hightf"  as  in  iL  10, 2,  and  elsewhere. 

<*  And  ftiding  vital  powers  gan  to  fade."— iii.  12, 21. 
Here  "fiiding"  should  probably  hefaiiinff, 

**  Dewed  with  her  drops  of  bounty  sovereign." 

iv.  8,  83. 

For  "her  "  it  might  be  better  to  read  the. 

**  So  did  the  other  knights  and  squires  which  him  did 
see."— iv.  9, 11. 

We  should  read  them  for  "Hm." 

**  in  which  be  fbund  gnat  store  of  hoarded  tveasme.'' 

iv.  9, 12. 

"He  "should  be  e%. 


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[4*  S.  VII.  Mat  S,  Tl. 


**  The  Qe,  the  Were,  the  Giumt,  the  Stare,  the  Rowne." 

iT.  11, 84. 

We  should  read  Cfrtmt  or  GframU. 

"  For  wight  against  his  power  themselTeB  to  rear." 

T.  9, 24. 

We  should,  of  course,  read  wights, 

**  And  all  men  songht  their  own,  and  none  no  more." 

▼.  1,  8. 
Perhaps  we  should  read  ''no  one  more." 

**  And  now  the  knighti,  being  srriTed  near. 
Did  beat  npon  the  gates  to  enter  in : 
And  at  the  porter,  scorning  them  so  ftw.** — y.  4,  87. 

Here^  either  ''near''  or  ''few"  must  he  wrcmg. 
Ohurch  reads  new  for  "  near,"  and  new  seems  to 
he  used  in  the  sense  of  dose  in  i.  6,  88,  and  iy. 
1,  88.  We  might  also,  for  **  so  few,"  read  to  fear 
01  to  hear. 

**  Bat  took  her  steed,  and  thereon  moanting  light." 

y.  6, 86. 
So  would  seem  better  than  "  But." 

**  The  rascal  many  soon  they  oyerthrew."— y.  11, 59. 

"  They  "  should  he  he. 

-  Whose  eyeiy  act  and  deed  that  he' did  say."— yi.  2, 8. 

The  edition  of  1609  roads  ''  deed  and  woid." 

In  my  Shakeepeare^Expoeiior  (p.  52^  I  haye 
shown  tnat,  in  iii.  12, 42,  '<  found  delayed  "  should 
be  "  found  allayed,"  and  haye  explained  the  cause 
of  the  error.    The  yery  same  error  occurs  in  — 

**  A  gentle  spirit  that  lightly  did  ddwf 
Hot  Titan^i  beams."— ProMoZamton,  y.  4. 

These  fully,  I  think,  justify  my  correction  of 
'' willow' d  brims"  for  <<twiUed  brims"  in  The 
lempestf  iy.  1. 

As  I  hero  conclude  my  romarks  on  the  Faerie 
Queens,  I  beg  to  romind  the  roader  that  he  will 
find  two  other  articles  *  on  it  in  4.^  S.  iy.  169, 211, 
and  to  adyise  him  to  read  what  I  haye  written  on 
the  '' Life  of  Spenser"  in  Fraser's  Magazine, 

Hero  then  I  conclude  my  self-imposed  and,  I  hope, 
not  quite  useless  task  of  emenmng  and  explam- 
ing  whero  necessair  the  texts  of  our  three  greatest 
poets.  To  these  1  haye  added  (in  <<  N.  &  Q.") 
Ben  Jonson  and  others ;  and  I  haye  by  me  copies 
of  Bell's  Chaucer,  QifTord's  Massinaer^  and  Dyce's 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  in  which  1  haye  corrected 
the  metro  throughout  and  the  sense  when  neoee- 
pary.  These  I  hope  will  come  into  the  hands  of 
those  who  will  make  a  right  use  of  them,  and 

glye  me  any  credit  I  may  seem  to  deserye.  Af  y 
terary  life  has  now  nearly  roached  its  close :  for 
owing  to  the  decay  of  the  two  noblest  of  the 
senses,  roading  and  writing  aro  to  me  now  almost 
irksome  acts,  and  conyersation  is  gradually  be- 

*  In  the  article  on  the  *< Irish  Rivers"  I  have  given 
Gold  Rhotr  as  the  translation  of  Grown;  bat  I  find  that, 
Oir  is  the  Irish  for  furze— a  plant  which  probably  f^rsw 
abundantly  on  the  banks  of  the  Dodder,  especially  in 
the  upper  part  of  its  course. 


coming  the  same.  Still,  being  free  from  disease 
and  paiD,  I  bear  up  dieerfully,  saying  with 
Horace — 

M  Damm,  sed  levins  fit  patientia, 
Quieqnid  corrigere  est  nefas," 

and  with  Malherbe — 

«  Yonloir  ce  qne  Dies  vent  est  la  senle  science 
(^  nons  met  en  repoa." 

Thos.  EsieHTLBT. 


FOURTEEN  LINES  OMITTED  FROM  «  COMUS." 

A  mighty  fuss  was  made  the  other  day  about 
some  mMiocro  yerses  which  certain  people  thought 
might  possibly  be  Milton's,  and  over  the  discoyexy 
of  which  thero  was  a  wondeif  ul  flourish  of  trum- 
pets. I  beg  to  call  the  attention  of  these  gentle- 
men to  fourteen  noble  lines,  undoubtedly  the 
oompodtion  of  the  illustrious  poet,  which  haye 
been  in  print  for  nearly  seventy  years,  but  which 
wero  certainly  unknown  to  Sir  Eoerton  Brydges 
and  Dr.  Mitford,  and  to  all  the  other  recent  edi- 
tors of  the  poet's  works.  They  aro  found  in  the 
oriffinal  Mo.  of  the  glorious  masque  of  Comus, 
and  foUow  after  the  first  four  lines,  as  printed 
below.  In  Uie  MS.  they  aro  crossed  tnrough  with 
a  pen,  evidently  to  point  out  that  they  wero^  to 
be  omitted  in  the  representation.  The  opjening 
speech,  even  after  this  excision,  is  inconveniently 
long  for  the  stage.  F.  CuiviriireHAM. 

"  Cbflms,  a  Masque. 

"  Before  the  starry  thrsshold  of  Joye*s  court 
My  mansion  is,  where  those  immortal  shapes 
Of  briffht  aerial  spirits  liye  insphered 
In  regions  mild  of  calm  and  serene  air, 
Ami&t  th'  Hesperian  gardens,  on  whose  banks 
Bedewed  with  nectar  and  celestial  songs. 
Eternal  roses  grow,  and  hyacinth. 
And  fruits  of  golden  rind,  on  whose  fair  tree 
The  scaly  harnessed  dragon  ever  Iceeps 
His  nnenchanted  eve :  around  the  verge 
And  sacred  limits  of  this  blissful  lake. 
The  jealous  Ocean,  that  old  river,  winds 
His  far-extended  arms,  till  with  steep  fall 
Half  his  waste  flood  the  wild  Atlantic  fills, 
And  half  the  slowunfathomed  Stygian  pool. 
But  soffc,  I  was  not  sent  to  court  your  wonder 
With  distant  worlds,  and  strange  removed  dimes. 
Yet  thence  I  come,  and  oft  from  thence  behold 
Above  the  smoke  and  stir  of  this  dim  spot. 
Which  men  call  £arth,  drc^  ftc.** 


THE  WILL  OF  ELIZABETH  HOWARD  OR 

TALBOT  ? 
In  the  Testamenta  Vetusta,  p.  483,  is  the  will  of 
Elizabeth,  Duchess  of  Norfolk:,  said  to  be  *'  her 
third  will  made  after  her  husband  became  Duke 
of  Norfolk  " ;  t.  e.  Thomas  Howard,  second  duke 
of  that  family.  Should  this  not  be,  or  is  it  not 
the  will  of  Elizabeth  Talbot,  dau^ter  of  John, 
first  Earl  of  Shrowsbury,  by  nis  second  marriage, 
and  widow  of  John  Motcbrag,  last  Duke  of  Nor- 


4*  S.  VII.  May  6,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


385 


folk  of  tliat  line,  ob.  1475  ?  Her  only  child  Ann, 
contracted  to  Richard  Duke  of  York,  eon  of  Ed- 
ward IV.|  died  yery  youngi  and  thus  the  Howards 
came  in. 

In  this  will  she  desires  ''  to  be  bnried  in  the 
Nuns  Quire  of  the  Minories  without  Aldgate  in 
London,  nigh  unto  the  place  where  Anne  Mont- 
gomery is  Duried ;  "  and  one  of  her  executors  is 
*•  Mr.  John  Talbot,  Doctor  of  Physick." 

In  the  wiU  of  <<  Vmfray  Talbott,  Knight,  Mar- 
ch^ of  the  towne  of  UaUs/'  proved  Not.  11, 
1494  :— 

"Itm.  I  beqaeth  my  place  at  Londoo  atoadyng  in 
the  pariah  of  Skinct  Andrawe  with  the  teoiitcies  there- 
vnto  belonging  to  be  amortejsid  to  the  church  of  Saint 
Andrew  therw<  to  hane  an  honeat  preete  to  pray  for  the 
soole  of  my  lord  my  fader,  my  lady  my  moder,  and  for  the 
propite  of  my  body,  my  raster  Elizabeth  dnches  of  North- 
folk,  and  for  the  soule  of  John  Wenlok  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife,  and  for  my  soule  and  for  the  sonle  of  Jane  my  wife 
ppetaally  to  endure.** 

In  the  will  of  ''Dame  Jane  Talbott,  widowe, 

late  the  wif  of  S'  Humfrey  Talbott^  Knyght/' 

dated  Jan.  10, 1604  :— 

«*  My  body  to  be  buried  w*  in  the  inner  ehoer  of  the 
churche  of  the  Mynories  w*  onto  Algate  of  London  nygh 
the  place  and  sepnltnre  where  the  bodye  of  Maiatres 
Anne  Mongomery.  late  the  wif  of  John  Mongomery, 
Bqnyer,  rasathe  and  ys  bnxied  w*  in  the  same  qnece.** 

And  also— 

•«And  in  lykewise  I  beqaeth  vnto  M'  John  Talbott, 
docto'  of  phisike,  for  terme  of  his  Irfe  pcelt  of  the  said 
land  and  other  the  p*ntees  to  the  yeraly  Taloe  of 
iijtt  xiij>  iiiK 

''And  or  yj  score  Arcs  to  be  taken  owte  of  the  vj  c 
mres  abooe  rehersid  ther  may  bee  provided  a  oonvt nyent 
pree^  by  the  discreton  of  the  said  ezecato"  to  syng 
ppetually  for  theaonle  of  me  and  of  my  husband  S'Hum- 
frey  Talbott,  and  for  the  sonles  of  Jolm  Champemon  and 
£lizabeth  his  wif  my  fader  and  moder,  and  for  the  sonles 
of  my  snsler  lady  Blaunche  Willoughby,  davght'  vnto 
the  said  John  and  Elizabeth,  and  for  all  theise  ehilderfl 
Ronles,  and  for  the  soule  of  my  lady  Elizabeth  duchess  of 
Norff.  whan  it  shall  please  God  to  call  her  owte  of  this 
worid.  And  in  hir  iVfe  to  pray  for  hlr  noble  and  proa- 
perons  astate,  and  abo  for  the  aonlea  of  the  right  noble 
lorde  John  erle  of  Shronsbniy,  and  of  the  lady  Margarete 
bis  wi0e  beyng  fader  and  moder  vnto  the  sud  Elizabeth 
duchess  of  Noril^  and  vnto  the  said  S'  Hnmfrey,  and  for 
the  sonles  of  all  theire  cbilderft.** 

The  dttoheas  is  one  of  the  executors. 

I  hope  I  have  not  been  too  copious  in  my  ex- 
tracts, but  I  thouffht  the  error  ought  to  be  cor- 
rected, and  I  thimc  the  most  fitting  place  is  in 
<'  N.  &  Q."  G.  J.  H. 

MAUSOI^UM  AND  TOWN  UNARKULLEE.* 

"Another  remarkable  building  south  of  the  city,  and 
between  it  and  the  river,  is  the  tomb  of  An^-Kaili,  as 
ealled,  concerning  which  is  the  following  popular  story : 
Anir-Kafli  (Anargdl,  probably,  or  the  pomemnate  blot- 
eom)  was  a  very  handsome  youth,  and  the  favourite 

*  Two  miles  sonth-weat  from  Lihor.  Map  of  the  Sikh 
territory  by  John  Walker. 


attendant  of  an  emperor  of  Hindust^  When  the  prince 
would  be  in  company  with  the  ladies  of  his  hiram,  the 
favourite  page  was  not  excluded.  It  happened  that  one 
day  the  emperor,  seated  with  his  females  in  an  apart- 
ment lined  with  looking-glasses,  beheld  from  the  re- 
flected appearance  of  Anir-Kalli,  who  stood  behind  him, 
that  he  smiled.  The  monarch's  construction  of  the  intent 
of  the  smile  proved  melancholy  to  the  smiler,  who  was 
ordered  to  be  bnried  alive.  Anir-Kalli  was  aoooidingly 
placed  in  an  upright  position  at  the  appointed  spot,  and 
was  built  around  with  bricks,  while  an  immense  super- 
structure was  raised  over  the  sepulchre,  the  expense  of 
which  was  defrayed,  as  tradition  relates,  by  the  sale  of 
one  of  his  banglea.**— JbtrmeM  m  B6loehist4ih  Affhanh- 
tan,  and  the  Poiy'-dfr,  by  Charles  MoMson,  Esq^  1842, 
L  418* 

The  Emperor  Jah&n-gir  having  died  at  the  end 
of  Safar,  a.h.  1037  Ta.d.  1627  •),  at  lUjor^  fifty 
miles  south  by  west  nom  Sirinagur,  the  capitid  <n 
Kashmir,  his  widow,  the  celebrated  Nur  Jahim, 
or  Nur  Mahal  (whose  original  name  of  Mher-ul- 
Nissa,  or  the  sun  of  women,  is  corrupted  into 
Meher  Metzia  by  Herbert),  carried  the  corpse 
away  to  L&hor,  where,  having  interred  the  re* 
miuns  of  her  husband  in  her  own  pleasure- 
grounds  on  the  west  bank  of  the  river  Kivi,  she 
erected  a  stately  building  remarkable  for  its  chaste 
style  of  architecture  on  the  spot,  two  miles  west 
from.  Lfthor,  where  the  town  Sh6h  Dera,  or  the 
Einff's  Tent,  has  since  been  established. 

The  SiUlh  Dera,t  or  last  resting-place  on  earth 
of  the  Emj^ror  Jahin-gir,  tiie  coooueror  of  the 
world,  considered  by  the  natives  of  Hindustan  as 
one  ot  their  four  most  wonderful  works  of  archi- 
tecture, is  situated  four  miles  from  Anir-Kalli 
(meaning  the  fpomemnate-bud)  on  the  oppodte 
side  of  the  river ;  and  the  fact  of  the  same  locali^ 
for  the  interment  of  both  having  been  selected^ 
tends  very  much  to  strengthen  the  grounds  upon 
which  Donna  Juliana  or  An&r-Ealli,  the  favourite 
wife  of  Akbar,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
mother  of  Selimi  luterwards  Jah&n-gir:  the 
scandalous  stories  about  her  mentioned  by  Roe 
and  Herbert,  together  with  the  fable  by  which, 
after  changina;  her  sex,  she  is  said  to  have  been 
buried  alive  by  the  humane  and  tender-hearted 
Akbar,  having  apparently  been  invented  by  parties 
opposed  to  her  son's  succession. 

R.  R.  W.Ellis. 

Stareroas.  near  Exeter. 


HooABTH*8  PBnrr  of  Lobd  Loyat.— Trusler 
and  others  in  describing  this  print  tell  us  that  it 
represents  him  ''in  the  act  of  counting  the  rebel 
forces  with  his  fin^rs  " — an  occupation,  it  always 
seemed  to  me,  quite  at  variance  with  the  expres- 
sion of  the  faoe^  which  is  rather  that  of  a  man  tell- 
ing a  good  8t(ny.    This  latter  view  is  borne  out 

*  MwKtaUiab  At-Lnhdb,  by  Khifl  Kh4n  (Perslaa  test) 
t  Masson's  BdlodiiMtdn,  L  412. 


386 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.Vn.  BfAT6,*71. 


bv    tiie  following    letter  torn  the  Bay.  Wm* 
Harna  to  Mn.  Harris:-^ 

<«6ro8venor  Sqiure,  Aug.  28, 1746. 
'*Pni7  exeiue  my  soDding  yon  muh  a  veiy  grotesque 
fisnxe  as  the  inclosed.  It  is  really  an  exact  resemblance 
^the  person  it  was  done  for—Lord  LoTat,  as  those  who 
are  well  acquainted  with  him  assure  me ;  and  as  yon  see 
it  is  neatly  enough  etche4.  Ho«arth  took  the  pains  to 
go  to  St  Alban^  the  evening  Lord  Lovat  came  thither 
on  his  way  ftom  Scotland  to  the  Tower,  on  purpose  to 
get  a  fair  view  of  his  lordship  before  he  was  locked  up  : 
and  this  he  obtained  with  a  greater  ease  than  could  well 
be  expected;  for,  upon  seiraing  in  his  name  and  the 
errand  he  came  about,  the  old  lord,  far  from  displeased, 
immediately  had  him  in,  gave  him  a  salute^  and  made 
him  sit  down  and  sup  with  him,  and  talked  a  ^ood  deal 
yny  faoetiously,  so  that  Hogarth  had  all  the  leisure  and 
opportunity  he  could  possibly  wish  to  have  to  take  off 
his  features  and  countenance.  The  portrait  you  have 
here  may  be  considered  as  an  original.*  The  old  lord  is 
represented  in  the  very  attitude  ne  was  in  while  telling 
Hogarth  and  the  oompany  some  of  his  adventures.'* — A. 
S&rw  vf  Letben  cf  Me  Firtt  Barl  of  Malmednay^  Ifc, 
\xy  his  Grandson,  the  Earl  of  Malmesbury,  1870. 

At  p.  200  of  ToL  L  the  editor  has  overlooked 
s  mispriiit  The  well-known  alderman  Trecothic 
iM  haraly  recogniaahle  as  ^  Ireoothie."     Jatsbb. 

MsxosiAX  Vbrsss. — ^Ih  a  paper  on  '<  Alma- 
nacs" contributed  to  Macmtuan^s  Magmine  in 
January,  1863,  Mr.  Thomas  Wri^t,  F.S.  A.,  makes 
the  following  statement : — 

"  It  is  in  Winder's  Alnumae  fat  1686,  printed  at  Cam- 
bridge^ that  we  first  find  the  now  well-known  popular 
memorial  verses,  difSsringonly  slighdy  in  the  woroizig  :— 

<*<  April,  June,  and  September 
Thirty  dales  have,  as  November : 
Ech  month  else  doth  never  vary 
From  thirty-one,  save  February ; 
Which  twenty-eight  doth  still  confine, 
Save  on  leap-year,  then  twenty-nine." 

Mr.  Wright  seems  to  be  in  error  here,  for  in  a 
copy  of  Grafton's  AJbridgefnent  of  the  Chronicles  of 
Englande,  dated  1570,  and  certainly  published 
before  the  end  of  the  century.  I  find  the  following 
lines^  which  do  not  differ  rrom  t^ose  in  popular 
use  except  in  the  omission  of  leap-year : — 

^  Thirty  dayes  hath  November, 
April,  June,  and  September; 
February  hath  xxvifj  alone. 
And  aU  the  rest  hane  xxxi." 

W.  J.  iMsrnu 

BvBirs. — ^Ten  years  ago,  one  of  your  corre- 
spondents elicited  certain  fi^e  stanzas  which  had 
''  escaped  the  notice  of  all  the  recent  editors  of 
Bums^  iWms"  (2"«  S.  xL  307).  I  wish  to  call 
attention  to  a  stereotyped  blunder  perpetrated  by 

*  Lerd  Malmesburv,  the  editor  of  his  ancestor's  interest- 
ing correspondence,  here  makes  a  mistake.  He  says  in 
a  note  **this  poitratt  is  lost,"  evidently  supposing  that 
Hogarth's  orifl^nal  drawing  was  forwarded  to  Mrs.  Har^ 
ris,  whereas  Mr.  Harris  expressly  states  that  he  sends  an 
impression  of  the  engramng.  This  print,  having  been 
done  by  Hogarth  himself  after  his  drawing  flrom  the  life, 
might  well  be  called  by  Mr.  Harris  <*  an  original." 


an  these  editors,  so  &r  as  I  know,  in  ^  Auld  Lang 
Syne.**    Thus  — 

«  We'll  tak  a  ricfat  gude^unttie  amtcAt,"— 
is  invariably  printed  ''gude  willie-waug^ht" 

Now  it  may  be  excusable  in  Mr.  mcawber  ta 
be  ignorant  of  the  nature  offfowtms;  but  an  editor 
of  Bums  should  know  that  gude-wilUe  or  gude^ 
wiBet  (vide  Jamieson,  eub  voce)  means  good-willed 
or  cordial,  and  totmM  a  draught;  and  ''gude- 
wiUie  waucht"  means  a  heeurty  drink;  while 
''  gude  willie-wanght  '*  has  no  meaning  whatever. 

Every  Scotchman  to  whom  I  have  mentioned 
this  has  received  it  with  surprise,  and  I  myself 
louff  blindly  accepted  the  error,  which  needs  onlj 
to  De  pointed  out  in  ''  N.  &  Q."  that  it  may  bie 
corrected  in  future.  W.  T.  M. 

Amas,  SuBK  AKB. — A  Beeord  of  the  DeecmidamU 
of  Ctqttam  John  Ajfrea,  ^.  In  a  review  of  thia 
work,  which  appeared  in  The  HerM  and  Gtemm^ 
logid  for  October  last,  the  writer  remarks :  — 

**  Ayras*  there  can  be  no  doubt,  is  merely  a  perveraum 
or  corrupti(Mi  of  Eyre,  or  /e  Eyr,  a  name  distingnishing 
the  eldest  son  or  heir  of  a  fkmOy In  other  in- 
stances the  eldest  son  was  designated  as  U  Eyre,  and  th» 
younger  as  h  Frere,  whence  the  common  names  of  £yie 
and  Ayne,  Fiere  and  Friar ;  for  we  rnnil  ttot.  eonetmd*  Ifte 
JatUr  could  be  descended  from  a  holy  friar! " 

On  the  other  hand,  however,  it  ought  to  be 
borne  in  mind  that  the  marriage  of  priests  is 
mentioned,  as  one  of  the  coiruptions  of  the  Churd& 
in  England  in  thnr  time,  by  our  old  chroniclers 
(see  fiohn's  Series,  Matthew  Paris),  and  both 
Hallam  and  Sharon  Turner  notice  the  &ct.  This 
being  the  case,  it  does  not,  after  all,  seem  unlikBly 
that  these  uxorious  priests  originated  many  of  ^nr 
peculiar  surnames.  ^» 

Chattceb:  "Aptkbooh":  *'8toob." — 

**  His  breed,  his  ale,  was  alway  after  oon." 

Morris,  i'ro/flSrw,  1. 341.    * 

This  ''after  oon"  puzzled  me  for  some  time, 
and  may  puzzle  others.  It  means  "  always  after 
one  kind,  always  alike.'^  In  the  Kmight'B  Teie 
(L  928)  we  have— 

«  That  lord  hath  litel  of  disorsdoun 
That  in  such  caas  can  no  divisioun ; 
But  wayeth  pride  and  humblenesse  after  oom,** 

**  His  lordes  sdheep,  his  neet,  and  his  dayeric^ 
His  swyn,  his  hors^  liis  ttoor^  and  his  pulteie^ 
Was  holly  in  this  reeves  govenqmge.^ 

FrohgtUft  Iil99» 

The  glossary  of  Monis's  Aldine  interprete 
^^ steers."  Is  not  this  wrong?  In  this  sense  it 
would  be  a  repetition  of  ''neet "  in  the  line  above ; 
and,  beyond  this,  does  ^stoor  "  ever  mean  '^steefa  " 
anywhere  else  P  It  seems  to  mean  simply  store 
(wliich  Tyrwhitt  &  Lansdowne  MS.  read).  Com- 
pare Wife  ofBath'e(Ei6T  Prdogme,  L  203)^ 
**But»bymyftiy!  I  toldofitnostooc;" 

JoHK  AnnxB. 

Rustington,  near  Littlehampton,  Sussex. 


4«^  8.  VII.  Mat  6, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


387 


GXNEBATIOirS  WITHIN    LIVIH&    MeXOBT. — Mj 

father,  Jonathan  Couch,  who  contributed  to  the 

pages  of  N.  &  Q."  under  the  ngnature  of  Video, 

Baa  this  entry  in  a  MS.  history  of  his  family.    I 

must  premise  that  at  the  time  of  this  note  he 

was  seventy-two  years  of  age,  and  had  spent  all 

the  time  between  his  pupillaffe  and  death  at  Pol- 

peiTO  in  the  practice  of  medicine : — 

**  I  have  thia  day  attended  the  birth  of  a  child,  which 
is  the  eUth  generation  I  have  known  familiarly  both  on 
the  father's  and  the  mother's  side,  and  four  of  these  gene- 
rations I  hatre  attended  in  childbirth." 

Then  follow  the  names.      Thokas  Q.  Cotjoh. 

Uhtutobbi)  Cbxtioibx.--As  a  pendant toW.H.'s 
note  of  criticism  on  the  Merchtmi  afVeme€(^,  271) 
it  may  perhaps  be  within  the  province  of 
''  N.  &  Q.'^  to  record  a  criticism  on  art  made  by  a 
working  man  in  the  fine  Art  fkhibition,  Iduin* 
cheater,  of  1862.  Having  exchanged  sentiments 
Trith  him  aboat  some  of  the  pictures,  he  led  me 
back  to  one  of  Linnell's  landscapes^  and  said,  '*  Look 
at  that!  When  I  saw  it  first  I  thought  I  waa 
looking  out  of  a  window  I ''  No  artist  could  desire 
higher  praise.  A.  L. 

Kewbnrgh-on-Tay. 

Maitob  H0V8B8  07  HsKRTOBDSHiBB.-*!  am  pre- 
paring for  publication  an  illustrated  volume  upion 
the  old  mansions  of  Herefordshire,  and  the  stories 
connected  with  them.  Perhaps  some  of  your 
readers  may  be  in  possession  of  sketches  taken 
before  modem  improvements  had  altered  the  chi^ 
racter  of  some  of  these  buildings,  and  would  per- 
mit me  to  make  \xse  of  the  views.  I  purpose  also 
to  give  tabular  pedigrees  of  the  more  ancient 
county  families,  and  should  be  grateful  for  any 
assistance  in  tracing  the  gradual  descent  into  ob- 
scuri^  or  nothingness  of  those  houses  which,  in 
the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  century,  were  of 
local  importance.  As  a  matter  of  convenience,  as 
well  as  for  other  obvious  reasons,  I  take  the  date 
of  the  dissolution  of  monasteries  as  the  starting 
point  in  tracing  the  fortunes  of  a  manor  house 
and  the  genealogy  of  its  inmates,  although  it  is 
not  possible  in  aU  cases  to  adhere  to  this  rule. 

0.  J.  RoBiRsoir. 

Norton  Canon  Vicarage,  Weobley. 


€iutxiti* 


STAFFOBD   OF   BLATHERWICK,  GRETTON, 

SUDBURY,  ETC. 

A  paper  which  lately  appeared  in  '^  N.  &  Q." 
on  the  mmily  of  Stafford  of  Blatherwick,  co. 
Northampton  (4^  S.  vi.  249),  induces  me  ttf  refer 
to  the  author  for  information  respecting  the 
manor  of  Gretton,  and  some  names  01  persons  and 
places  which  occur  in  his  remarks. 

Amongst  the  names  in  question  axe  a  few  sab- 
sequently  connected  with  Barbadoa,  and  also  with 
the  EngMi  coanties  of  Bedford  and  Suffolk. 


ThuSyin  the  seventeenth  centuiywe  find  the 
name  "Dorcas  Stafford,"  "  Frere,"  "Clopton," 
«  Gidding,"  or  «  Gitting,"  sometimes  ^'  Gyttens  " 
and  "  Gettins,''  ''  Wingfield,"  &c  in  the  paziah 
registers  of  Barbados,  while  '^  Gretton  "  was  the 
fixst  name  given  to  the  original  estate  of  the 
Archer  family  in  that  island. 

In  the  county  of  Bedford  lived  Dr.  Thomas 
Archer,  chaplain  to  E.  James  I.  and  his  '^  cousin  " 
Dr.  Timothy  Areher,  D.D.,  both  originally  from 
Suffolk,  where  they  had  relatives  named  **  Major" 
Bentley  or  Berkeley,  &c  at  Sudbury  and  Bury- 
St-£(Ununds,  and  amongst  others,  Nicholas,  An- 
thony, and  Edward  Archer.  Now  these  latter 
Archers  disappeared  from  that  county  about  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  for  the 
first  time  their  names  then  occur  in  the  Barbados 
records.  Nicholas  and  Edward  are  names  common 
enough,  but  Anthony  was  unknown  amongst 
Archers  before  Anthony  Archer  of  Sudbury,  who 
was  contemporary  vnth  Antiiony  Stafford,  brothet 
of  Humphrey  Stafford,  who  had  the  manor  of 
Sudbuiy,  CO.  Bedford  [query  Suffolk  ?] 

Again :  Humphrey  Areher  of  Umberslade,  00. 
Warwick,  was  the  son  of  Richard  Archer,  by  his 
wife,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Sta^ord  of 
Blatherwick.  (Bichard  Archer  was  an  esquire  of 
the  bodv  to  Henry  VIII.) 

Dr.  Thomas  Archer,  chaplain  to  James  I.,  is 
supposed  to  have  been  a  nephew  of  Humphrey 
Arcner  of  Umberslade,  and  it  is  certain  that  Dug- 
dale  (an  intimate  friend  of  Sir  Simon  Archer  of 
Umberslade)  did  not  interfere  with  the  assump- 
tion by  Dr.  T.  Archer  of  the  arms  of  Umberslade, 
although  his  visitation  of  this  county  was  strict 
The  -mUs  of  Dr.  T.  Archer  and  his  wife  are  xe*> 
corded  at  Northampton. 

Amongst  so  many  coinddences,  I  am  curious  to 
discover  a  clue  to  the  reason  which  the  first  Bar- 
badian Archers  had  for  naming  their  estate  in 
that  colony  Gbetton — an  uncommon  name,  and 
unique  in  me  colonies.  I  believe  this  estate  was 
subsequently  named  Oldbury,  but  for  what  reason 
I  am  quite  at  a  loss  to  conjecture. 

These  Barbadian  Archers  kept  up  the  names 
Anthonj  and  Edward  through  many  successive 
generations.  Amongst  their  marriages  in  the 
seventeenth  centurv  occur  the  names  **  Alice  Shi^- 
ley,"  Elizabeth  lalisson  or  EUetson,  Cullum  (a 
Suffolk  name),  Ashby,  &c. 

Any  information  on  the  subject  of  Gretton  and 
Sudbury  would  much  oblige  me.  A. 

Ballad  waitebd. — Shenstone,  in  a  letter  dated 

1743,  aaks^ 

**  Did  yon  hear  the  song  to  the  tone  of  'The  Coekow? ' 

<*  The  Baron  stood  behind  a  tree, 
In  wofal  plight,  for  nought  heard  he 

But  cannon,  cannon,  £c. 
0  wordoffeart 
Unpleasing  to  a  German  ear. 


388 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kS.VII.MAY6/7L 


Tbe  notes  that  fkll  npon  the  word  eamntm  express  the 
sound  with  its  echo  sdminbly." 

In  a  later  letter  lie  saja,  ''  Do  write  out  the 
whole  ballad  of '  The  Baron  stood  behind  a  tree.' " 
I  ima^ne  that  it  may  be  found  in  The  British 
Orpheiua.  by  what  he  says  previoosly.  What  are 
the  wordi^  and  what  may  have  been  the  special 
cause  for  its  having  been  written  P  W.  P. 

BiLL-BurGiNGy  sia — A  friend  requests  me  to 
ask  information  of  correspondents  on  this  subject 
in  "  N.  &  Q,"  for  the  usage  following.  He  has 
observed  that  at  the  passing-bell,  and  at  funerals, 
before  the  knell,  three  single  strokes  oo  the  bell 
are  given  twicBf  with  a  slight  pause  between  (if 
the  deceased  be  a  female) ;  but  if  a  male,  the 
three  strokes  lure  thrice  given.  What  meaning 
have  these  strokes,  or  are  they  simply  to  denote 
the  sex? 

Again :  at  the  funeral  of  a  soldier,  a  trent  or 
trental,  he  is  uncertain  which  it  is  called,  is  fired 
hy  a  certain  number  of  his  compeers  over  the 
grave.  Has  this  anv  reference*  to  the  trental  ser^ 
vice  of  the  Romish  church,  preserved  in  this 
custom  P  J.  A.  G. 

DBBiOATioir  OF  Chitbches. — Was  the  practice 
of  dedicating  churches  to  (or  rather  is  it  not  more 
correct  to  say.  naming  them  after  P)  some  saint 
universally  followed  in  England  in  early  times  P 
and  if  so,  is  there  any  possibility  of  recoveiing 
the  name  when  all  local  tradition  is  lostP  £ 
there  any  book  which  gives  general  information 
on  the  subject  P  A.  F.  E. 

Thb  Earl  of  Dxbbt. — Many  years  since  I 
remember  reading  an  anecdote  of  the  great  Earl 
of  Derby  (temp.  Queen  Elizabeth).  A  poor  relsr 
tion  came  to  pay  his  respects  to  the  earl  while  the 
latter  was  att^ding  the  aueen.  The  earl  re- 
ceived him  very  courteouuy,  saying  that  every 
noble  oak  had  of  course  lower  as  well  as  upper 
branches.  Can  any  reader  of  '^  N.  &  Q."  kindly 
tell  me  where — naming  edition,  volume,  and 
page — I  may  find  the  anecdote  in  question  P 

H.  W.  C. 

^  Gkorgb  Ebwabds,  A.D.  ISiS.—Any  informa- 
tion respecting  Qwrge  Edwards,  of  the  household 
of  King  Henry  VUl.|  on  or  before  a.d.  1545,  will 
be  very  acceptable.  J.  R.  R 

Epiobax  bt  Saxttbl  Boobrs. — ^Can  you  in- 
form me  whereabouts  in  The  Greek  Anthology  is 
to  be  found  the  original  of  the  following  epigram 
by  Samuel  Rogers  {Poems,  edit  1860,  p.  270)  P— 

*<  WhUe  on  the  diff  with  calm  deli|;ht  Uie  kneeb,  i 

And  the  blae  vtlee  a  thoneaod  joys  raeaU.  | 

See  to  the  but,  last  verge  her  iofiuit  ateels ! 
O  fly— yet  stir  not,  speak  not,  lest  it  fell. 
Far  better  taught,  she  lays  her  bosom  bare. 
And  the  fond  b6y  springs  bade  to  nestle  there.** 

The  same  touching  inddent  is  also  closely  imi« 


tated  by  Eeble  in  his  hynm  on  the  Commination 

Service.  S.  A. 

[In  the  Anikologki  Graca,  by  Bmnck  and  Jacobs,  edit. 
1794,  ii.  180,  epig.  xxiz.  the  original  lines  are  attributed 
to  Leonidas  of  Alexandria  ;  bat  George  Barges,  in  htji 
translAtion  of  Tlu  Ortek  Anthology  (Bohn*s  dassical 
Llbraiy,  p.  102),  aseribes  them  to  Archiias.  Consolt  also 
Bland's  Greek  AnthoU^  edit.  1818,  p.  866,  where  ther 
are  also  attributed  to  Leonidas.] 

"  Fox's  Mabtybs,"  a  Satibb. — ^I  lately  bought 
at  a  book  stall  what  bears  to  be  the^  second  ^i- 
tion,  with  improvements,  of  what  is  called  an 
entire  new  work  called  Fox's  Martyrs ;  or  a  New 
Book  of  the  Sufertngs  oftheFaithfid,  the  date  bein^ 
1784.  It  is  a  satire  on  those  former  members  of 
Parliament  who  lost  their  seats  on  occasion  of  the 
election  of  the  new  Parliament  called  by  Mr.  Pitt, 
after  the  expuldon  from  oflice  of  the  coalition 
ministrv  of  Mr.  Fox  and  Lord  North.  It  begins 
with  a  list  of  the  sufferers  and  their  places  of  mar- 
tyrdom, being  the  places  which  they  had  repre- 
sented in  the  Parliament  which  had  been  disserved, 
and  who  amount  to  nearly  a  hundred.  Next  comes 
an  introduction!  which  I  abridge  slightly  as  fol- 
lows:— 

**  A  foil  conviction  of  the  manv  adTantages  whidi  the 
good  people  of  Enriand  have  derived  from  that  excellent 
work,  a  Book  of  Martyrdom  bv  Mr.  John  Fox,  in  the 
beginning  of  last  oentuTy,  has  inaaoed  as  in  these  critical 
times  to  adopt  the  same  plan  in  politics ;  and  to  compile 
a  complete  system  of  the  political  martyrology  of  the 

E resent  dav,  wherein  the  lives  and  actions  of  those  who 
ave  fooght  ansacoessfally,  and  saffered  nobly  in  their 
disinterested  parsuits,  may  be  commemorated.  To  those 
who  have  the  oouraga  to  go  on  in  the  same  path  we  pre- 
sent the  following  mannal,  hoping  that  it  may  be  an  oaefal 
companion  and  furnish  them  with  plentiful  sonrees  of 
consolation ;  and  while  they  dwell  with  rapture  on  the 
remembrance  of  the  sufltBrings  of  their  brethren,  let  them 
pray  *  That,  when  they  have  served  their  coantrr  widi 
as  much  fidelity  and  zeal,  they  may  meet  their  end  with 
the  same  cheerftil  resignation  and  the  same  picas  hopes 
of  the  day  of  retribntion.' " 

Then  come  the  names  agun  of  the  same  de- 
feated candidates,  with  a  short  statement  after 
each  of  his  merits  in  the  cause  of  martjrrdom, 
almost  all  ending  with  some  reference  to  Ii6.  Fox ; 
and  there  is  prefixed  a  frontispiece,  exhibiting 
Burke  and  Sheridan  at  a  monument  inscribed 
**  To  the  Memoiy  of  the  martyred  Senators^"  with 
the  head  of  Fox  on  the  tablet  which  contains  the 
inscription. 

From  the  similarity  of  style,  the  notices  of  the 
individuals  seem  to  lie  the  production  of  the  same 
pen,  and  are  cleverly  written.  Not  improbably 
the  apthor  may  be  known  to  some  of  your  corre- 
spondents. O. 

Edinburgh. 

Db.  Wx.  Knro,  in  his  rery  Bmusang  Anecdotes 
of  his  Own  Time,  gives  his  elogium  on  Chevalier 
TaykMr,  the  famous  oculist,  but  subjoins  a  note  to 
the  effect  that  a  better  acquaintance  with  the 


4«'^aVIL  May  6/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


389 


Chevalier  had  enabled  him  to  improTe  the  elo- 
giuin,  "  and  add  some  new  features  to  his  por- 
trait, of  which  I  have  printed  a  few  copies  to 
oblige  my  friends.''    Has  the  elogium  ever  been 

SubHshea  with  these  additions  P  I  see  that  Dr. 
Ling's  Original  Works^  with  Historical  Nates,  and 
a  Memoir  of  the  Author j  were  published  in  1776 
by  John  Nichols  in  three  volumes.  Is  this  book 
now  to  be  met  with  P  Does  it  contain  the  once 
famous  poem  The  Toast  f  J.  H.  C. 

[Dr.  WillUni  King,  whose  collected  works  were  edited 
by  .Tohn  Nichols  in  1776,  was  a  different  person  to  the 
author  of  The  Totut  and  Anecdotea  ofJua  Own  Time.  The 
former  was  Judge  of  the  High  Court  of  Admiralty  in 
Ireland ;  the  latter  was  Principal  of  St.  Mary  Hall, 
Oxford.  They  were  both  remarkable  for  their  wit  and 
learning.] 

Lord  Kikoston  and  Oldhav. — Is  there  any 
available  minute  information  about  William, 
fourth  Earl  of  Kingston  (Pierrepoint),  in  whose 
house  the  poet  Oldham  died  in  December  1683  P 
From  his  kmdnoss  to  Oldham  he  must  have  been 
a  man  of  literary  tastes.  He  gave  Oldham  a 
handsome  funeral,  officiated  as  chief  mourner,  and 
erected  a  monument  to  him  at  Hulme-Pierre- 
point.  .  CI. 

Lii7B8  OK  Mathematics. — Can  any  one  infoim 
me  where  I  sbaU  iind  some  not  very  flattering 
lines  on  mathematics,  beginning,  to  the  best  of 
mv  recollection,  thus : — 

^*  There  is  a  squat,  ill-natured  creature. 
With  little  charm  to  boast  in  form  or  feature." 

A.  F.  K. 

MAissvwETiL,  KBAB  LoiTTH.  —  Wanted,  some 
information  about  an  old  house  called  Maiden- 
well.  It  is  situated  near  Louth,  in  Lincolnshire. 
Tradition  says  it  was  originally  a  nunnery ;  after- 
wards, I  believe,  it  became  the  property  of  a 
family  of  the  name  of  Mosely^  during  whose  time 
the  young  Pretender  is  said  to  have  taken  refuge 
there.  The  Moselys  (who  were,  I  believe,  Roman 
Catholics)  left  about  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  when  the  place  was,  I  think,  bought  by 
the  corporation  of  Basingstoke  in  Hants,  in  whose 
possession  it  now  is.  No  relics  have  ever  been 
found.  The  house  is  in  the  form  of  a  cross ;  and 
there  was  a  corresponding  monastery  at  Haugham, 
a  small  village  near.  H.  £.  B» 

Mahuscrift  Pobm, — Can  any  one  tell  me  if 
the  following  poem,  copied  from  a  MS.  of  the 
early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  has  ever 
been  pubUshed^  and  who  is  the  author  ? — 

*'homo  arbob. 

•*  Like  as  a  tree  from  forth  y*  earth  doth  spring. 
So  from  y*  earth  doth  man  his  essence  take ; 
The  tree  shoots  forth,  and  doth  faira  blossoms  bring, 

So  man,  till  youth  his  mansion  doth  forsake. 
The  ti«e  growing  crooked,  if  youl  have  it  mended, 
WhUat  that  it  is  a  twigg  It  must  be  bended." 

Ajtok. 


MxNviLS  OB  Menitils. —  Where  can  I  find  a 
pe^gree  of  the  Menvils  or  Mennils  of  Sledwish, 
CO.  ral.  P  They  are  said  to  have  been  an  oflbhoot 
of  the  Ingleton  branch  of  the  baronial  house  of 
MenilL  Philip  METmsLL. 

Pbdiobees  op  FoimDERs'  Knr.— The  privileges 
attaching  to  founders'  kin  in  the  various  colleges 
of  OxfoM  and  Cambridge  having  been  abolished, 
and  those  societies  no  longer  having  any  interest 
in  withholding  from  the  knowledge  of  the  public 
such  pedigrees  as  have  been  proved  to  their  satis- 
faction, I  take  the  liberty  of  suggesting  that  the 
Sublication  of  sudi  nedigrees  is  on  many  grounds 
esirable.  Practically  the  muniment  rooms  of 
those  societies  are  open  only  to  actusl  foundation 
members.  Will  any  of  them  devote  a  few  days  or 
weeks  to  the  task  of  transcribing  and  digesting  the 
documents  to  which  I  have  fdludedP  If  they 
would  do  so  they  would  doubtless  gratify  a  large 
number  of  persons,  and  contribute  afmoet  as  much 
to  family  lustoiy  as  is  furnished  even  by  the 
heralds'  visitations  themselves.  Labchden. 

Placabd. — ''The  queen's  grace  ^oeth  sometime 
with  plackarde,  and  sometime  with  stomacher; 
and  then  her  grace  goeth  lacyd."  (Lisle  Papers, 
xi.  art  100.)  *'  The  best  and  most  used  fashion 
[for  dresses]  is  large  and  long,  with  double 
placards."  (lb,  xiL  art.  89.)  "  I  have  delivered 
to  Skutt  for  the  upperbodis  and  placard  1}  yard 
lywk  velott  [Lucca  velvet]."  (lb,  loose  at  end  of 
voL  xii.)  ''In  the  flat  trussyng  cofer  .  .  .  zxii. 
placards  for  gownes."  (InvetUwy  of  Lord  Lisws 
Ooods,  wicalendared.) 

Halliwell's  Dictionary  gives  placcard  as  '^a 
man's  stomacher."  Fairholt's  Costume  in  Engkmd 
describes  it  as  *'  a  stomacher  worn  by  men  and 
women."  ^  The  above  contemporary  extracts  make 
a  distinction  between  placard  and  stomacher. 
What  was  the  distinction  P  and  what  were  double 
placards  P  Ubbhekibtjde. 

PoBTBAiT  ov  Chief  Babok  Obd.— There  is  a 
portrait  at  Ravensworth  Castle  of  this  eminent 
Scotch  judge,  who,  I  have  been  told,  was  the 
only  one  honoured  with  the  title  of  Chief  Baron. 
Has  it  ever  been  engraved,  or  does  there  exist 
any  print  of  the  judge  P  C.  J.  R. 

Pbatebs  fob  the  DEA]>.^Will  any  of  yoiur 
many  readers  kindly  oblige  me  with  copies  of  in- 
scriptions on  monuments  containing  a  prayer  for 
the  departed,  put  up  in  churches  or  chunmyards 
of  the  Church  of  England  between  the  years  1700 
and  1800  P       Fbedebigk  Geobgb  Lkb,  D.CL. 

6,  Lambeth  Terraoe,  London. 

Puxps. — ^Why  is  this  name  applied  to  the  thin- 
soled  and  low'heeled  shoes  known  as  "  dancing* 
pumps  "  P  M.  D. 

[Skinner,  in  hia  EtymologieoH  Lingua  AnalieaiuB,  says 
that  pnmp  is  a  shoe  of  one  sole,  and  so  calted,  perhaps, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  &  VIL  May  6,  71. 


beeaufle  used  in  tiipVLdilB  ponmaiieit,  which  we  cftll  masks 
and  balls ;  or  from  the  sound  they  make  in  dancing ;  or, 
it  may  be  added,  from  the  spring  of  the  sole  resembling 
the  elasticity  of  the  sucker  of  the  Dttm;^.  There  appears, 
after  all,  an  obecurity  respecting  the  origin  of  this  word.] 

"The  Maid  of  Rtb." — Can  any  one  state 
who  the  nobleman  is  who  is  mentioned  in  the 
ballad  of 

'<  The  True  Ifavde  of  the  South ;  or,  a  rare  example 
of  a  Mayde  dwdlmg  at  Rie  in  Sussex,  who  for  the  love 
of  a  young  man  of  Lestershire,  went  beyond  the  sea  in 
the  habit  of  a  page,  and  after,  to  their  hearts  content, 
were  both  mamea  at  Magmm,  in  Germany,  and  now 
dwelling  at  Rie  aforeeaid.  Printed  at  London  for  Francis 
Goalee." 

This  is  a  ballad  of  seventeen  stanzas  at  the  end 
of  Holloway's  History  of  Rye^  copied  from  the 
original  in  the  British  Museum,  and  sold  at 
SoSieby's  in  1846.*  I  should  like  to  know  who 
the  nobleman  alluded  to  is ;  who  also  were  Sweet 
Margery  (the  maid  of  Bye);  and  Anthony,  the 
pride  of  Leicestershire.  E.  JB.  G. 

Old  Scotch  Nbwbpapees.  —  1  should  feel 
obliged  if  any  of  your  readers  in  Scotland  can  tell 
me  what  is  the  date  and  title  of  the  oldest  news- 
paper published  in  Scotland,  and  if  a  comnlete 
nle  has  been  preserved  and  can  be  seen.  I  tnink 
it  would  be  a  useful  addition  to  Mitchell's  News- 
paper Press  Directory  if  the  publishers  of  some  of 
the  oldest  established  newspapers  were  to  state 
if  they  possess  complete  files  from  their  com- 
mencement. W.  D. 
Kennington,  Surrey. 

[For  some  account  of  the  early  Scottish  newspapers, 
we  must  refer  onr  correspondent  to  the  Encyclopedia 
SriitumuM,  eighth  edition,  xyi.  185  ;  George  Chalmers's 
L^e  of  Thomas  Buddhutn,  p.  441 :  and  "  N.  &  Q."  !•<  S. 
vuL  57.] 

"Stbbak  op  Silvbr  Sea."— This  phrase,  as 
applied  to  the  Channel,  is  often  used  in  !the  Times* 
leaders  and  parliamentary  speeches.  It  was  placed 
in  inverted  commas  in  the  report  of  Lord  Salis- 
bury's speech  of  March  6.  Whose  is  it  P  I  have 
heard  it  attributed  to  Mr.  Gladstone,  Jun.  But 
in  the  Church  and  State  Review  (edited  by  Arch- 
deacon Denison)  of  April  1, 1868, 1  find  an  article 
beginning :—''  The  Channel  is  that  silver  strip  of 
sea  which  severs  merry  England  from  tiie  tardy 
realms  of  Europe.*'  Makbocheib. 

EffeiJSH  VxBSiFiOATiON.—- Is  there  any  book 
on  Enfilish  versification  explanatory  of  and  giving 
rules  for  the  variona  metres  and  styles  P  I  know 
Carpenter's.  C.  E.  T. 

r*  This  ballad  is  in  the  Rozbnrghe  eollecUon,  i.  422, 
and  in  Evanses  Old  Balladi,  edit.  1810, 1  70.— £o.] 


THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S. 
(4?^  S.  Yi.  passim ;  vii.  185,  241, 344.) 

As  Mb.  Bbn  JAinir  Fsbbkt  and  Mb.  Sombbs 
Clabks  are  men  of  sufficient  eminence  in  the 
architectiural  ptofeaBion  to  justify  the  public  in 
attaching  importance  to  their  opinions  on  ai^ 
question  of  art,  and  as  they  come  forwoxd  in  tkeir 
own  names,  it  seems  only  respectful  to  them  and 
to  the  public  that  some  answer  should  be  given 
to  their  remonstrance ;  and  though  I  have  no  right 
or  authority  to  speak  for  my  colleagues,  I  hope  the 
following  explanation  of  my  own  views  may  not 
be  considered  out  of  place. 

Before  taking  anv  steps  with  reference  to  tho 
alteration  of  l£e  choir  of  St.  Paul's,  the  com- 
mittee for  the  Kestoration  Fund  submitted  the 
question  of  best  musical  arrangements  to  a  sub- 
committee of  twelve  of  the  most  eminent  musical 
authorities  in  England.  They  came  to  the  con- 
clusion that  the  best  position  for  the  organ  wea 
under  the  arch  leading  into  the  choir.  'Hiey  did 
not,  however,  recommend  it  being  placed  in  the 
centre,  where  it  originally  was,  because  *in  that 
]^osition,  and  with  the  soUa  supports  that  would  be 
necessary,  it  must  interrupt  the  vista,  and  would 
cut  the  choir  off  from  the  dome;  and  also  because 
the  on^an,  if  so  placed,  would  for  obvious  reasons 
be  only  available  for  services  in  the  choir,  and 
another  organ  must  be  provided  for  those  under 
the  dome.  They  theretore  unanimously  recom- 
mended that  it  should  be  divided,  and  placed 
against  the  piers  on  either  side,  where  it  would 
not  only  be  as  well  heard,  but  would  admit  of 
considerable  improvements,  and  could  be  made  as 

Csing  and  as  powerful  as  any  organ  in  England, 
des  being  equally  available  for  the  services  in 
the  choir  as  well  as  for  those  under  the  dome. 

Being  satisfied  in  this  respect,  the  committee 
had  drawings  and  models  prepared  to  enable 
them  to  judge  of  the  architectural  effect  of  the 
divided  organ ;  and  I  have  no  hesitation  in  saying 
that,  so  far  from  being  a  blemish,  it  is  just  what 
is  wanted  to  furnish  the  choir  arch,  and  to  give  it 
that  character  and  dignity  which  it  wants.  One 
of  the  great  defects  of  St.  Paul's,  as  it  at  present 
stands,  is  that  the  four  great  ardies  of  the  dome 
are  all  alike.  There  is  nothing  to  distinguish  the 
choir  arch  from  the  other  three ;  but  this,  with 
the  open  screen  it  is  proposed  to  add,  perfectly 
remedies  this  defect.  But,  on  the  other  hand, 
it  has  been  urged  that  it  obstructs  the  view.  This, 
however,  is  exactly  what  it  does  not  do.  Up  to 
the  hei^nt  of  the  top  of  the  present  wood-worK  of 
the  choir-stalls  the  supports  of  the  organ  range 
with  them,  and  are  aotually  only  four  additionid 
stalls.  These  wqjeot  consideraDly  lees  than  the 
stBtues  of  Lords  r^elson  and  Comwallis^  and  there- 


4*^8.YU.MArS,m.'\ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


391 


fore,  to  any  one  standing  on  the  floor  of  the  dome, 
obsfaruct  tne  view  less.  Above  the  top  line  of  the 
choir  stalls  the  two  halves  of  the  organ  project 
five  feet  on  either  aide.  As  seen  in  perspective, 
as  they  always  must  be  seen,  there  is  no  position 
in  which  thev  obstruct  the  view  in  any  appred- 
able  manner  £eom  any  person  standing  on  the  floor 
of  the  church.  The  great  beauty  of  the  arrange- 
ment, however,  is  that  by  it  the  choir  is  brought 
to  the  dome,  and  the  dome  and  the  choir  thus 
form  parts  of  one  great  church,  and  may  be  and 
indeed  must  always  be  used  together  as  parts  of 
one  great  whole. 

The  plan  we  are  invited  to  adopt  in  preference 
to  this  IS,  first,  one  proposed  in  the  Sacndy,  which 
is  to  erect  an  altar  with  steps  and  baldachino,  and 
all  proper  accompaniments  under  the  arch  leading 
into  the  choir,  and  so  making  a  second  church 
under  the  dome.  By  this  anrangement  the  pre- 
sent choir  would  be  reduced  to  the  rank  of  a 
Lady  chapel  entered  from  the  side  aisles.  This 
would  require  the  removal  of  the  stalls  eastward, 
the  retention  of  the  organ  in  the  very  objection- 
able place  where  it  now  is,  and  sundiy  other 
arrangements  by  no  means  desirable.  If  Mr. 
Fesbet  had  taken  the  trouble  to  think  twice 
before  recommending  it,  he  would  have  seen  the 
contradiction  of  his  urging  the  committee  at  St. 
Paul's  to  do  what  he  so  much  blames  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  for  doing  at  Westminster.  At  the 
latter  place  it  onlv  is,  that  when  a  larger  congre- 
gation is  expected  than  can  be  accommodated  in 
the  choir  they  adjourn  to  the  nave,  where  a  service 
appropriate  to  the  locality  is  performed.  At  St 
Paul's  Mb.  Febbet  advocates  two  churches,  wholly 
separate  from  each  other,  with  two  altars,  two 
pulpits,  two  organs,  and  which  can  never  be  used 
together,  but  must  always  be  separate  and  distinct 
churches. 

Another  scheme  which  is  hinted  at  by  Mb. 
Febbet,  and  which  has  been  warmly  urged  on 
the  committee  by  several  distinguished  architects, 
is  to  erect  an  altar  with  steps,  baldachino,  reredos, 
wings,  &C..  under  the  dome,  but  so  as  to  allow 
access  to  tne  present  choir  behind  it.  So  far  it 
certainly  obviates  that  defect ;  but  if  any  one  will 
take  the  pains  to  draw  out  to  scale  the  baldachino 
that  will  not  look  a  toy  under  a  dome  two  hun- 
dred feet  high  and  practically  as  wide  across,  and 
plan  all  the  necessary  accompaniments,  he  will 
find  he  must  spend  more  money  than  the  com- 
mittee possess  if  it  is  to  be  worthy  of  its  position. 
He  will  also  find  that  he  has  occupied  at  least  half 
the  floor  space  of  the  dome,  and  so  dis][>laoed  a 
correspondmff  proportion  of  the  congregation,  and 
got  one  of  tne  most  awkward  and  iU-arranged 
churches  in  Europe  either  for  seeing  or  hearing, 
and  with  all  the  defects  just  pointed  out,  of  having 
two  separate  and  distinct  churches  under  one  lool. 

Will  Mb.  Febbbt  or  any  one  else  suggest  any 


rule  for  deteiminingwhen  the  one  church  is  to  be 
used  and  when  the  other  ?  On  great  state  and 
festival  occasions,  when  the  Judges  go  in  state 
or  the  Corporation  on  any  great  festivals,  the  dome 
church  must  no  doubt  be  used,  as  up  to  the 
west  door  it  would  acconmiodate  more  persons 
than  the  choir  church ;  but  then  there  must  be 
the  biBhop's  throne,  the  dean's  stall,  the  lord 
major's,  and  stalls  for  the  canons,  and  accommo- 
dation for  the  choir.  Are  all  these  to  be  in  dupli- 
cate under  the  same  roof  ? 

It  would  be  easy  to  point  out  fifty  incongruities 
and  inconveniences  that  would  arise  from  uie  two 
church  plan,  but  this  letter  is  already  too  long, 
especially  as  I  feel  convinced  that  if  Mb.  Fbbbst 
or  Mb.  Soxebs  Clabee,  or  any  of  those  ^o 
oppose  the  committee's  scheme  would  ti^e  the 
trouble  to  draw  out  their  own  proposals  or  to 
master  those  prepared  by  the  committee,  they 
would  be  forced  to  confess  that  the  latter  involves 
less  change  from  the  original  design,  and  is  the 
best  way  yet  proposed  of  adapting  the  building, 
on  one  great  whole,  for  all  the  ptuposes  to  whi(3i 
we  can  at  present  see  it  is  likely  to  be  applied. 

Jas.  Febqussoit. 
20,  Langham  Place. 


(4«>S. 


GAINSBOROUGH'S  "  BLUE  BOY."* 

iiL  576;  iv.  23,  41,  80,  204,  237  j  v. 
36;  vii.237.) 

fesbitt's  statement,  made  at 


17, 


According  to  Nesbitt's  statement,  made  at  Hes- 
ton  Vicarage  about  fifty-three  or  fifty-four  years 
ago,  and  reported  by  the  Kev.  Mr.  Trimmer,t  he 
obtained  the  ''Blue  Bc^"  from  the  Prince  of 
Wales  over  a  dinner  for  SOOiL;  and  it  is  no^ 
certain  that  he  had  made  the  same  statement  to 
Hall  afterwards. 

It  is  probable  that  this  sale  took  place  between 
1796  and  1802,  when  the  prince,  to  his  credit, 
paid  off  625,000/.  of  his  liabilities  without  the  aid 
of  a  shilling  from  the  public  puree.^ 

But  Nesoitt,  after  naving  been  an  M.P.  for 
nearly  twenty  years^  was  overtaken  by  serious 
misfortunes  in  1802,  which  elicited  much  sym- 
pathy for  him  firom  the  Prince  of  Wales,  who  con- 
tinued to  be  his  friend,  and  from  others,  among 
whom  were  Messrs.  Goliiaghi,  who  expungfed  their 
claim  against  him. 

A  six  days'  sale  of  his  effects  ensued,  of  which 
the  first  was  of  the  fine  pictures,  induding  the 
''  Blue  Boy" ;  three  of  the  rare  articles  of  vertn, 
&c^  and  two  of  the  choice  wines. 

The  pictures  were  of  the  veiy  highest  class, 
but  chiefly  by  foreign  masters.  They  were  de- 
scribed as — 

•  Conduded  from  p.  868. 

t  Thombuxy'8  Life  of  Tamer,  iL  68 ;  "N.  A  O,"  4«»» 
S.  V.  17. 
X  Mr.  I^rwhitt,  JBoHfe  0/ CbMwmt,  Hay  10,  laOS. 


392 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i«kS.VIL  Mat  6/71. 


**  sdeet,  most  beantifbl,  and  valaable  paindngfl,  the  pro- 
perty of  a  gentleman  long  distlngnished  for  taste  and 
jodjpnent,  eonsistiog  of  the  most  perfect  works,  superior 
for  excellence  Hhd  quality,  well  aathenticated,  of  those 
great  masters— Gnido  Rheni,  Gioigione,  P.  and  A.  Vero- 
nese, Del  Vago,  N.  Ponssin,  Pordenini,  Mignard,  Spag- 
soletti,  Van  Dyck,  Rubens,  Cuyp,  Berahem,  Douw, 
Honcberon,  Canaletto,  Vemet,  Greuse,  Gainsborough, 
and  other  renowned  masters.'* 

The  Tttnes  thus  strongly  recommends  them :  — 

**  To  be  able  to  possess  perfection,  and  miss  the  golden 
opportunity,  would  be  a  crime  against  taste  and  judg- 
ment ;  and  now,  or  never,  may  be  fairly  argued  in  favour 
of  the  inestimable  pictures  that  Mr.  Coze  has  to  sell  this 
day  at  20,  Grafton  Street,  Piccadilly." 

Amongst  the  pictures  selected  for  special  recom- 
mendation the  '*  Blue  Boy  "  was  one,  about  which 
The  Times  inquires :  ^'  Where  so  superior  a  Gains- 
borough in  a  fancied  portrait  P  " 

At  the  sale  several  of  the  pictures,  and  doubt- 
less other  articles,  appear  to  have  been  bought  in 
cheaply;  and  to  have  afterwards  adorned  Nesbitt*s 
residence  at  Heston.  Amongst  them  was  a  por- 
trait by  Gainsborough  of  Nesbitt's  uncle,  Arnold 
Nesbitt,  Esq.,  M.P.,  which  is  still  in  the  family, 
and  the  **  Blue  Boy,''  at  only  sixty-five  guineas. 

NesMtt's  affairs  were  in  an  unsetUed  state, 
which  became  a  yery  protracted  one;  so  that 
whatever  pictures  or  other  articles  were  bought 
in  would  necessarily  be  taken  care  of  pro  tern,  by 
his  Mends,  and  doubtless,  through  the  influence 
of  the  Prince  of  Wales,  Hoppner  became  the  pro 
tern,  holder  of  the  **  Blue  Boy."  Hopjjner  was  a 
ffieat  admirer  of  Gainsborougm,  and  an  imitator  of 
his  portrait  landscapes.*  He  tells  us  himself  of 
''  the  high  admiration  we  have  so  long  cherished 
for  that  distinguished  artist"  (GainBborough).t 
It  was,  therefore,  highly  probable  that  he  per- 
suaded the  prince  to  become  his  guarantor  under 
seal  that,  if  Nesbitt  would  lend  him  the  master- 
piece of  the  man  he  so  much  admired  to  study 
and  perhaps  copy,  it  should  be  duly  returned  to 
Nesbitt,  as  it  was  returned  within  the  memory  of 
one  still  amongst  us. 

From  official  sources  we  find  that  Nesbitfs 
affiiirs  were  settled  about  the  close  of  1814  or  the 
beginning  of  1815,  by  the  sale  of  his  life-interest 
in  an  estate  for  the  benefit  of  hb  creditors,  and 
from  local  sources  that  he  took  up  his  reeiaence 
at  Heston  in  1816,  and  that  the  '« Blue  Boy " 
aniTed  there  shortly  afterwards,  it  was  said,  horn 
the  Palace. 

HappU;^  the  Heston  period  of  the  ''Blue 
Boy's  history  is  a  clear  and  well^authenticated 
one,  for  it  so  Imppens  that  one  of  Neslntt*s  house- 
hold at  Heston  still  surviTes  in  what  may  be 
called  vigorous  health,  both  intellectual  and  phy- 
sical, considenng  her  age. 

This  aged  widow,  having  described  the  ''Blue 


*  PiUdiigtob's/Ketibnaryo/Patfiferf. 
t  Fnlcfaei'a  Idfe  of  Oahaimmgh,  p.  242. 


I 


Boy"  with  much  accuracy  to  some  of  the  pixo* 
chial  officials,  was  asked  to  go  to  London  to  see 
if  she  could  recognise  the  green  "  Blue  Boy  "  as 
the  picture  she  Imew  at  Heston.  This  she  did 
on  March  9,  accompanied  by  her  grandson,  and 
promptly  recognisea  the  "Boy,"  but  not  the 
frame  in  which  he  is  now  set,  and  rightly  so,  for 
the  frame  was  changed  after  Nesbitt's  sale. 

With  this  explanation  we  will  let  the  widow 
speak  for  herself  through  her  grandson  in  the  fol- 
lowing letter: — 

"Heston,  18th  March,  1871. 

**  Sir,— I  am  now  in  the  eighty-second  year  of  my  age, 
but  in  possession  of  both  mental  and  bodily  health,  for 
which  I  am  tmly  thankful  to  God. 

**  I  knew  Mr.  John  Nesbitt  all  the  time  he  was  at 
HestoD,  as  I  was  about  twenty-six  when  he  came  there, 
and  I  went  there  as  a  servant  (working  housekeeper) 
dnriog  most  of  the  time  he  was  at  Heston.  Mr.  Ne^tt 
hsd  a  number  of  fine  pictures,  but  I  only  now  recollect 
*  The  Flower-Girl,*  •  Daniel  hi  the  Lion's  Den,'  and 
the '  Blue  Boy.'  The  last  was  a  great  ftrourite  amongst 
us  in  the  house,  for  the  nice  boy  seemed  always  looking 
at  us,  DO  matter  what  part  of  the  room  we  were  in. 

**  I  remember  the  *  Blue  Boy '  coming  to  Mr.  Nesbitt's 
soon  after  he  came  to  Heston,  and  I  irould  not  say  any- 
thing about  Mr.  Nesbitt  and  his  household  I  did  not 
know  to  be  true.  The  *  Blue  Boy '  came  there  car^taUy 
packed  in  a  large  case  or  crate,  and  was  hung  opposite 
the  fire-place  m  the  parlour  in  the  house  now  called 
*The  Hidl,'  and  the  property  of  Mr.  Hogarth  the  ma- 
gistrate. 

**  Along  with  my  grandson  Bichard  Shortland  I  saw 
the  *  Blue  Bov '  at  No.  1,  Stephens  Square,  Bayawater, 
on  Thursday  last,  March  9th,  and  I  am  confident  it  is 
the  same  picture  which  hung  in  Mr.  Nesbitt's  house  at 
Heston,  but  it  is  now  in  a  broader  frame  than  it  was  in 
at  Heston. 

'*!  also  well  remember  two  strangers  coming  from 
London  to  see  Mr.  Nesbitt  shortly  berore  he  left  Beston, 
and  the  *  Blue  Boy '  being  taken  down  to  examine  bv 
them,  and  its  being  left  down,  when  I  observed  some  chalk 
writing  on  its  back.*  But  soon  after  this  some  vans 
came  from  London  and  took  away  most  of  the  fhmltnre 
and  pictures,  and  a  neighbour.  Farmer  Temple^  took  the 
odds  and  ends  they  left  to  Chelsea, 

**  Mr.  Nesbitt  then  left  Heston,  but  I  do  not  know 
where  he  went  to,  but  he  did  not  look  to  be  an  old  man, 
but  was  tall,  thin,  and  active. 

*'  I  am.  Sir,  &c., 

•*  WlI>OW  SnOBTLASID, 

"  Per  my  grandson, 

*'BiciiAiu>  Shobtlahd.** 

The  interriewy  as  it  may  be  called,  between 
the  widow  and  the  '*  Boj"  was,  it  may  be  added, 
quite  like  the  meeting  of  two  lon^-parted  friends^ 
full  fifty  years  in  this  case.  Evidently  the  long 
earnest  look  at  the  ''Bov"  was  recalling  to 
memory  the  scenes  in  which,  as  one  of  the  beiUee 
of  Heston  at  that  time,  she  had  shared ;  for  after 
a  time  she  said  with  almost  tearful  emotion,  point- 
ing to  the  picture, '<  Ah,  that  face  t  Ifthat'Boy* 
could  speak  he  could  tell  what  stamffe  things  were 
done  before  him  in  the  parlour  at  maton.' 

*  StiU  on  it,  at  Hall's  sale  in  1868,  and  doubtless  tfte 
R.  A.  Exhibition  marking. 


4«fc  8.  Vn.  Mat  6, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


393 


This  important  evidence  shows  oondosively  that 
Nesbitt  had  a  "  Blul  Boy  "  with  him  at  Heston, 
and  that  to  the  best  of  the  widow's  judgment 
the  green  <*  Blue  Boy  "  is  the  same  lecture.  That 
the  Heston  "  Blue  B07  "  was  the  original  picture 
formerly  in  Nesbitt's  nne  collection  there  can  be 
no  doubt,  for  there  was  not  only  his  own  taste, 
judgment,  and  knowledge  of  the  picture,  but  the 
trust  seal  on  it  to  prevent  a  spunous  copy  being 
palmed  off  on  him  as  the  original  after  having 
been  kept  about  thirteen  years  for  him  as  a  pic- 
ture of  great  value.  But  this  is  a  short  period  of 
obscurity  compared  with  the  time — about  forty 
years — in  which  Gainsborough's  celebrated  por- 
trait of  Mrs.  Graham  (Lady  Lynedoch)  remamed 
in  as  great  obscurity,  also  in  trust,  before  it  once 
more  saw  the  light  of  publicity  at  the  British 
Institution  in  1848,  and  again  in  1857  at  Man- 
chester, where  it  fairly  beat  the  pale  '^Blue  Boy" 
on  merits,  and  carried  off  the  nighest  honours. 
The  green  **  Blue  Boy  "  was  then  m  that  year  a 
ward  in  Chancery  after  Hall's  death. 

It  thus  becomes  obvious  that,  except  nominally 
or  temporariljr,  the  ownership  of  the  onginal "  Blue 
Boy"  vested  m  Nesbitt  from  the  day  he  purchased 
the  picture  to  the  day  on  the  eve  of  his  leaving 
Heston,  about  1820,  when  he  sold,  or  placed  in  the 
hands  of  strangers  to  his  household  to  sell  for  him, 
the  "  Blue  Boy  "  and  other  effects. 

From  the  description  given  of  the  unwelcome 
stran^rs  who  were  credited  with  breaking  up 
Nesbitf  s  home,  there  seems  to  be  no  doubt  they 
were  Mr.  Wm.  Hall,  then  an  auctioneer,  and  his 
solicitor  Mr.  Hancott,  professedly  employed  by 
Nesbitt  This  conclusion  is  borne  out  by  the  facts 
already  mentioned  about  Hall's  knowleoffe  of  the 
royal  antecedents  and  originality  of  his  ''Blue 
Boy,"  and  also  b^  the  fact  that  at  his  death  three 
at  least  of  the  pictures  in  hispossession  had  been 
in  Nesbitt's  possession  at  Heston,  namely  the 
"Blue  Boy,"  the  "Flower  Girl,"  and  "Daniel 
in  the  Lion's  Den." 

Curious  enitaphs  find  a  niche  in  your  pages,  and 
here  is  one  by  Hall  on  his  father,  which  is  illus- 
trative of  the  peculiarities  which  made  him  so 
noticeable  wherever  he  went: — 

*•  William  Hall,  who  died  July  12tb,  1852,  aged  75 
yean,  implores  peace. 

**  Kind  reader,  take  voar  choice  to  cry  or  laugh ; 
Here  WiU  Hall  lioi,  bat  where  his  epitai>h? 
If  such  you  seek,  try  Westminster  and  view 
As*  many  J  net  as  fit  for  him  as  yon. 

*'  Fire,  the  electric  spark,  gave  me  lif^    Tims  reclaimed 
it; 
I  Ifv'd,  I  cryM,  I  Ungh'd,  I  lov*d ; 
I  fdt  pain  and  pleasnre^  and  I  was  like  yon, 
And  now  I  am  what  you  soon  will  be. 

*•  Biased  is  the  Holy  Spirit    Amen." 

On  October  28, 1866,  the  son,  also  Wm.  Hall, 
died,  and  was  laid  bende  his  hther  and  hia  third 


wife  in  the  family  grave  near  the  chapel  in  Kensal 
Green  Cemetery,  and  on  the  obelisk  memorial 
there  the  epitaph  can  be  seen. 

Hall  made  a  will,  but  it  was  like  himself,  a 
peculiar  one,  and  was  disputed,  first  in  Chancery 
and  finally  in  the  House  of  Lords.  Under  an 
order  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  his  household 
effects  were  sold  in  March  1868.  Lot  72  was  the 
" Flower  Girl,"  and  lot  78  ''Daniel  in  the  Lion's 
Den."  Lot  75  was  the  "Blue  Boy,"  but  cata- 
logued, a^  formerly  explained,  and  instructively 
so,  as  ^'A  Portrait  of  the  Prince  of  Wales,"  in 
gilt  frame.  This  frame  was,  no  doubt,  the  one  in 
which  the  picture  had  been  ever  since  it  was 
exhibited,  for  the  chalk  writing  noticed  on  it  at 
Heston  thirty-eight  years  before  was  still  on  it. 

At  Hall's  sale  the  ''Blue  Boy  "  was  bought  by 
Mr.  Dawson,  who  took  it  out  of  the  old  frame  and 

Sut  it  into  tne  *'  broader,  flatter,  sloping-off  "  one 
etected  by  Nesbitt's  old  housekeeper.  Shortly 
after  the  sale  Dawson  offered  the  picture  to  the 
late  Marauis  of  Westminster,  quoting  as  its  price 
Hall's  viuuation  of  it  at  1600/.,  but  eventually  he 
sold  it  to  its  present  owner.  ^ 

Through  Nesbitt  the  history  of  the  original 
"  Blue  Boy  "  has  now  been  traced  down  to  the 
present  time,  but  the  history  of  the  pale  "  Blue 
jBov  "  seems  to  resolve  itself  into  its  Grosvenor 
Gallery  history  alone,  for  it  appears  to  have  been 
unknown  and  unheard  of  dunnff  Gainsborough's 
lifetime,  or  for  many  years  after  his  death. 

Its  originality  is  claimed  on  the  plea  that  it  was 
Nesbitt's  picture,  but  the  direct  evidence  that 
Nesbitt  hsd  his  picture  with  him  at  Heston  ef- 
fectually disposes  of  this  plea. 

What  then  P  If  a  copy  of  the  "  Blue  Boy  "  by 
an  unknown  artist  has  not  only  passed  as  the 
original  in  the  absence  of  the  original,  but  has 
been  highly  eulogised  as  a  work  of  art,  it  would 
be  a  feaUier  in  that  artist's  cap,  whoever  he  mi^ht 
be.  Al^ys  subject  to  revision  by  authentic  m- 
formation,  it  is  submitted  that  tiie  original  *'  Blue 
Boy  "  was  painted  at  Bath ;  exhibited  at  the  R  A. 
in  1770 ;  discoursed  against  by  Sir  J.  Reynolds  in 
1778  i  purchased  by  the  Prince  of  Wales  (George 
IV.),  who  sold  it  to  his  companion  John  Nesbitt, 
Esq.,  M.P.  ;  in  Nesbitt's  sale  in  1802 :  in  Hopp- 
ners  hands  for  a  time  in  trust  for  Nesbitt;  in 
Nesbitt's  possession  again  in  1816 ;  sold  by  Nes- 
bitt when  he  left  Heston  about  1820  to  Hall;  in 
Hall's  sale  in  1868  as  '<  a  portrait  of  the  Prince 
of  Wales,"  when  it  was  bought  by  Dawson,  who 
sold  it  to  its  present  possessor. 

Upon  the  whole  subject  the  conclusions  are  — 
(1.)  That  the  pale  <'  Blue  Boy "  is  not  the  ori- 
^nal  pictui^,  and  (2)  that  the  green  ''  Blue  Boy" 
18  the  original  picture,  and  justly  entitled  to  tne 
*'  Blue  RflMnd ''  of  the  Fine  Arts. 


The  Lombard,  E:C. 


J.  Sewxll,  Assoc.  Inst  C.E. 


394 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4«fcs.vn.MAT6,'n. 


The  belief  that  a  foot-note  in  Edwaxds^s  Anec- 
dotsB  of  Painters,  in  1806  or  1807,  is  the  sole 
authonty  for  using  the  name  of  Buttall  either  as 
the  model  or  owner  of  the  original  "Blue  Boy," 
is  certainly  erroneous,  for  "  Jackson  of  Exeter  "  in 
a  notice  of  (Gainsborough  wrote — "Perhaps  his 


Buttall,  near  Newport 
eaote  these  words  from  Cunningham's  Lives  of 
jEmineni  EnffUshmen  (vL  140),  where  the  descrip- 
tion of  Gainsborough  is  mainly  borrowed  from 
*'  Jackson  of  Exeter."  No  reference  is  there  given 
to  the  nature  of  Jackson's  publication,  whence  the 
extracts  are  taken ;  but,  as  Jackson  was  a  personal 
friend  of  Gainsborough,  he  probably  wrote  about 
him  not  long  after  his  death  in  1788.  At  all 
•events,  as  Jaduon  himself  died  in  1803,  the  name 
of  Buttall  in  connection  with  the  ''Blue  Boy" 
clearly  preceded  the  <'  Edwards"  foot-note  of  1806 
or  1807.  A.  B.  Middlexok. 

The  dose,  Salubary. 


WHY  DOES  A  NE  WLT  BORN  CHILD  CRT  ? 

(4«»  S.  viL  211,  289.) 

The  passa^  from  Goldsmith  which  Clabbt 
refers  to  is  from  the  Good-natured  Man  (Act  I. 
Sc.  1),  and  occurs  in  the  dialogue  between  Croaker 
and  Honeywood : — 

*'  Cro,  Life  at  the  greatest  and  best  is  but  a  frowaid 
«hild,  that  moat  be  humoozed  and  coaxed  a  little,  till  it 
falls  asleep,  and  then  aU  the  care  is  over. 

**Hoim,  Very  true,  sir;  nothing  can  exceed  the 
vanity  of  oar  existence  but  the  follv  of  oar  parsnits.  We 
wept  when  we  came  into  the  world,  and  eveiy  day  tells 
OS  why." 

Charles  Wtlib. 

Kichard  Rolle  de  Hampole,  in  his  Brieke  of 
Conscience  (JSHmtdus  Consctenti€s),  has  the  follow- 
ing lines  on  this  subject : — 

476  **  For  annethes  es  a  child  bom  fully 

))at  it  ne  bygynnes  to  goale  and  cry  $ 

And  by  VsX  cry  men  knaw  )>an 

Whether  it  be  man  or  woman, 
480  For  when  it  es  bom  it  ciyes  swa : 

If  it  be  man  it  says '  A.  A.' 

)>at )«  first  letter  es  of  ^  nam 

Of  oar  forme-fader  Adam. 
484  And  if  be  child  a  woman  be, 

When  It  es  bom  it  says  *  £.  £.' 

E.  es  )>e  first  letter  and  )>e  hede 

Of  ^e  name  of  Eve  >at  bygan  oar  dede. 
488  >arfor  a  e\etk  made  on  >is  manere 

pia  vers  of  metre  t>at  es  wreten  here : 

Dicentet  E.  vel  A,  qnut-quot  tiofcmiter  ab  Eva, 

'  Alle  |iaa,'  he  says,  *  |>at  oomea  of  Eve^ 
492  >at  es  al  men  ^  here  byhoves  leva, 

When  )>ai  er  bom  what-«wa  |>ai  be, 

)>ai  say  outher  A  A.  or  £.  E.' 

)yos  ea  here  |>e  bygym^ug 
496  Of  our  1  vft  aonow  andf  gtetyng. 

Til  whilJE  oar  wnohedness  stirrea  as ; 

And  baifor  Innocent  aays  Na : 


Omaes  tuueimur  anclanles^ 
500  Ut  natm^  noetre  miseriam 


He  says,  *  al  ar  we  bom  gretand. 
And  malrand  a  aoiowfal  semUand, 
604  For  to  shew  >e  grete  wreehednes 
Of  oar  kynd  ]>at  in  as  es.' " 

J.  P.  MOBBDB. 

17,  Sutton  Street,  Tua  Brook,  Liverpool. 


These  passages  inEjin^  Lear,  Act  IV.  Sc.  %  have 

not  been  noti^ : — 

"  We  came  crying  hither : 
Thou  know'st,  the  first  time  that  we  smell  the  air 
We  wawle  and  cry," 

*'  When  we  are  bora,  we  crv  that  we  are  come 
To  this  great  stage  of  fbo^" 

Warton,  in  his  ''  Observations  on  King  Lear,^* 
quotes  the  lines  from  Lucretius,  with  Diyden's 
translation.  (See  Drake's  Memorials  of  Shake- 
speare, p.  a36.)  T.  McGsiLTH. 

THE  WHITE  TOWER  OF  LONDON. 
(4»'»  S.  vii.  211,  309.) 

It  has  been  generally  considered  that  the  White 
Tower  was  the  nucleus  of  the  Tower  of  London. 
It  was  known  in  the  twelfth  century  that  during 
the  Saxon  period  there  was  a  tower  in  this  locality ; 
learned  men  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries  termed  it  Cffisar's  Tower ;  and  in  the 
present  centurjr  good  authorities  have  assi^ed  to 
it  a  higher  antiquity  than  the  Norman  period. 

The  importaiice  of  this  tower  has  always  been 
appreciated  by  the  ruling  powers  of  the  nation, 
insomuch  that  from  the  earliest  times  few  of  our 
public  building  have  had  more  real  care  bestowed 
upon  their  mamtenance ;  and  until  within  a  com- 

?aratively  recent  period  the  interior  of  the  White 
'ower  remained  substantially  in  its  primitive  un- 
adorned state.  The  most  extensive  alteration  it 
was  subjected  to,  at  any  one  time,  was  when  Sir 
Christopher  Wren  enlarged  the  windows  and 
faced  tnem  with  Portland  stone.  The  tMckness 
of  the  mortar  joints  allowed  of  small  flints  being 
driven  into  the  joints  when  the  building  was 
pointed;  and  in  other  respects  the  walls  have 
been  repaired,  when  needful,  to  make  good  the 
defects  of  age. 

The  souui-west  angle  of  the  original  wide- 
spreading  basement  remains ;  the  rest  m  the  projec- 
tion has  either  been  removed  for  the  convenience 
of  making  additions,  or  may  possibly  still  exist 
beneath  the  superincumbent  accumulation  of 
raised  ground. 

Although  the  action  of  the  London  atmosphere 
has  corroded  the  surface  of  the  White  Tower,  it 
is  plain  that  the  buttrenes  were  built  of  hewn 
masonry  for  about  twenty  feet  upwards  from  tiie 
plinth,  and  that  two  couaes  ot  hewn  maaoozy 
were  laid  immediately  over  the  plinth. 


■ 

I 


4«*  8.  VU.  Mat  6, 71,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


395 


The  staircaae  (makiiip^  due  allowance  for  the 
addition  of  some  openings,  and  for  the  alterations 
of  others)  is  less  modernised  than  the  rest  of  the 
stracture,  and  affords  a  cine  to  the  general  con- 
struction of  the  masonry  throughout  the  build- 
ings as  must  have  been  perceptible  to  practical 
persons  who  have  had  the  opportunity  of  examin- 
ing the  portions  which,  from  time  to  time,  have 
been  laid  bare  during  the  repairs  effected  within 
the  last  thirty  years. 

The  cha|)el  occupies  one  fourth  part  of  the  area 
of  the  White  Tower,  which  fourth  part  only  was 
vaulted,  and  that  for  three  stories  in  height.  The 
significant  importance  thus  given  to  a  fourth  part 
of  the  whole  building,  raises  a  question  as  to  the 
primary  object  of  the  structure,  and  suggests,  in 
the  first  instance,  a  reasonable  conjecture,  namely, 
that  the  White  Tower  was  built  for  what  is  now 
called  the  chapel,  and  not  the  chapel  for  the 
White  Tower.  On  the  authority  of  Sir  Christo- 
pher Wren  *  the  chapel  is  older  than  the  Conquest, 
and  so  Romanesque  are  its  few  architectural 
features  that  arcnsBologists,  failing  to  find  the 
usual  Gorman  ornaments,  are  driven  to  describe 
its  details  in  terms  appertaining  to  classical  archi- 
tecture, such  as  Ionic  and  Corinthian ;  and  further, 
in  order  to  uphold  the  foregone  conclusion  that 
the  White  Tower  is  a  Norman  buildiog,  the 
attention  of  superficial  readers  is  diverted  by  at 
once  pronouncmg  the  chapel  to  be  the  earliest 
and  simplest,  as  well  as  the  most  complete,  Nor- 
man chapel  in  Britain. 

The  vaulted  apartment  immediately  under  the 
chapel,  now  an  armoury,  is  entered  by  a  wide 
archway  on  the  south,  the  original  entrance  hav- 
ing been  through  a  small  doorway  on  the  opposite 
mde.  This  once  plain  apartment  is  now  decorated 
with  the  ''Norman"  chevron  or  sig-zag  orna- 
ment. The  walls  of  the  small  chamber*  in  the 
thickness  of  the  north  wall  were  bare  in  1857, 
and  showed  the  method  of  their  construction ;  a 
portion  of  the  arch  of  the  vault  was  then  also 
visible. 

The  vaulted  apartment  under  the  armoury  was 
used  as  a  powder  magazine.  The  rest  of  the  base- 
ment was  vaulted  in  modem  time;  the  va^ts 
were  built  around  the  poets  which  previously  sup- 
ported the  floor  over  the  basement,  and  when  no 
longer  required  the  lower  tier  of  posts  was  re- 
moved. 

Whatever  alterations  the  Normans  may  have 
made  in  the  White  Tower,  or  whatever  buildings 
they  may  have  erected  around  it,  their  work  soon 
crumbled  away,  while  that  of  the  fourteenth  and 
^f^eenth  centuries  proved  durable.    The  Boyal 

*  Gwilt  says  (Encife,  Arch.,  8vo,  1864,  LongmaD, 
p.  120,  art  300),  *«  It  ia  the  £uhion  of  modern  halMu- 
<Mited  critics  to  place  little  reliance  on  such  anthodtiee  as 
Wren.  We  have  ftrom  experience  leuned  to  venerate 
them." 


Sappers  and  Miners  of  the  nineteenth  century  had 
experience  of  the  labour  and  difficulty  of  cutting 
a  tunnel  through  twenty-four  feet  of  Roman 
wall.  The  massiveproportions and  the  prodigious 
strength  of  the  White  Tower  are  among  the 
strongest  evidences  of  the  building  being  Boman 
and  Not  Nobmav. 

A'  BECKETS  MURDERERS. 
(4"»  S.  vii.  33, 171, 196,  2(38.) 

Mb.  TowNsmon)  Matbb  refers  to  a  Somerset 
tradition  of  the  assassins,  four  in  number — ^Brito, 
Morwell,  Tracy,  and  Reginald  Fitz  Urse— having 
fied  to  a  remote  part  of  this  shire,  and  there  built 
an  abbey.  We  would  direct  attention  to  another 
Scotch  tradition,  as  contained  in  l^othy  Pout's 
Cuninghame  Topographu»d,  one  of  the  Balfour 
MSS.  in  the  Advocates'  Library,  vmtten  about 
1600.  It  is  circumstantial,  and  seems  in  part 
founded  on  the  register  of  the  monastery  of  Kil- 
vnnning,  Ayrshire,  which,  although  not  now 
known  to  exist,  was  certainly  perused  by  Pont 
duiinff  his  survey,  as  well  as  by  others  at  a  later 
period. 

In  the  first  place,  Pont  says  that  the  ''toun 
and  place  "  where  this  abbey  stood,  considerable 
fragments  of  which  still  remain,  was  formerly 
named  Segdoune,  ''  as  the  foundation  (charter  P) 
of  the  said  monastery  bears  record."  He  then 
adds: — 

**  It  was  foandit  by  a  noble  Englicbman,  named  Sir 
Richard  Morwell,  fugitive  from  hes  oane  Coantry  for  ye 
daughter  of  Thomas  Beckett,  Arch,  of  Canterborrey 
(being  one  of  them),  in  the  Rainee  of  King  Henry  it 
of  England,  quho,  flying  to  ScoUand,  wee  be  the  then 
Scotta  King  velcameo,  and  honoured  with  ye  office  of 
Grate  Constable  of  Scotland,  as  also  inriched  with  ye 
Lordsohips  of  Cnninghameb  Laigis  and  lAoderidailL" 

Pont  adds  also: — 

<<Now  the  fores'!  Richard  being,  as  vald  sdme,  tuoehed 
with  oompnotione  for  ye  saflty  of  hes  sonle  (according  to 
the  cnstome  of  these  tymes),  did  found  this  Abbey  of 
Killvinnin  in  testimony  of  hes  repentance." 

The  author  further  says  that — 

*«  The  founder  thereof.  Sir  B.  Morwill,  layes  interrid 
in  the  new  oemeteiy  of  this  church  mider  a  tome  of 
lymestone  framed  coffinwayes  of  old  pollished  vorke; 
with  this  coate  (a  fret  is  here  figmred)  one  the  stone, 
without  any  snperscriptione  or  epitaphe." 

No w,  what  is  particularly  desirable  to  be  hnown 
is,  what  can  be  alleged  favourable  to,  or  against, 
these  statements  P 

We  may  be  permitted,  meantime,  to  say  that  it 
is  generally  behoved  that  not  Sir  Richard,  but  his 
fatner,  Sir  Hugh,  was  founder  of  this  monasteiy 
at  an  earlier  period  by  thirty  yeazs  or  more, 
namely  about  1140,  than  that  of  the  murder  of 
A'  Becket,  which  is  generally  assigned  to  the  even- 
ing of  Bee.  29, 1170.  It  is  also  known  certainly 
that  Sir  Hugh  held  the  office  of  High  Constable 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*kS.Vn.  Mat6,*7I. 


under  David  L,  bavingr  succeeded  Edwatd  Biorn 
therein.  It  is  also  scarcely  in  doubt  that  Sir 
Hugh  had  a  grant  of  the  three  great  possessions 
mentioned^  which  Pont  says  were  conferred  upon 
the  son  Sir  Richard,  but  to  which  Sir  Richard 
no  doubt  succeeded ;  and  it  must  be  exceedingly 

Suestionable  whether  the  then  Scots  king  (William 
lie  LioUi  the  grandson  of  David)  would  be  inclined 
to  welcome  a  murderer  of  A'  Becket,  and  for  such 
an  act  to  reward  him  overtly  with  various  large 
possessions.  Besides,  it  is  almost  universally  lu- 
iowed  that  the  name  of  De  Moreville,  the  mur- 
derer, was  not  Richard,  but  Hugh.  An  interesting 
query  arises,  which  some  of  your  correspondents 
no  doubt  will  be  able  to  answer,  and  is  this :  In 
what  relationship,  if  any,  did  the  murderer  Mor- 
well  stand  to  Sir  Hugh,  High  Constable  of  Scot- 
land under  David  I.  and  who  died  in  1162  P  As 
appears.  Sir  Hugh  had  a  son,  also  named  Hugh, 
but  of  whom,  as  belief  runs,  next  to  nothing  is 
known  beyond  the  fact  of  his  having  witnessed  a 
charter  recorded  in  one  of  the  monastic  chartula- 
riea  along  with  his  father,  in  which  he  is  designed 
as  his  son.  It  has  been  always  supposed  that  Sir 
Richard  succeeded  his  father  on  his  death  in  1162 ; 
but  since  two  Hughs  are  found  existing,  there  may 
be  some  doubt  wnether  Sir  Richard  was  the  son 
of  the  first  or  of  the  second,  and  which  of  these, 
consequently,  it  was  who  died  in  1162.  Sir 
Richard's  death  took  place  in  USD.  Reference 
is  made  to  Sir  James  Balfour's  ^'  Catalogue  of  the 
Great  Constables  of  Scotland"  which  is  to  be 
found  in  Dalzell's  Fragmmts  of  ScoUM  History, 
annexed  to  the  preface. 

Regarding  the  oriffin  of  Segdoune,  the  ancient 
name  of  the  site  of  we  abbeyi  and  town  of  Kil- 
winning, we  would  much  desire  the  views  of 
J.  Cx.  R.,  Mr.  Chabnook,  Mr.  Piotov,  or 
others,  your  philological  correspondents.  Pont 
says  the  river  Gamodc  "  glyds  betwixt  ye  toune 
and  the  abbey  ** — that  is,  did  so  when  he  wrote. 
Consequently,  the  name,  this  view  being  assumed 
as  correct,  applied  to  both  banks  of  the  Gamock, 
on  the  west  of  which  was  the  abbey,  upon  rising 
^und,  part  of  a  ridge,  situated  in  a  plain  of  con- 
siderable extent,  and  forming  a  promontory  over- 
hanging this  river.  The  abbey  is  also  close  by  St. 
Vinnin^s  Holy  Cell  and  Well,  the  latter  of  which 
was  famous  for  portending  war  or  strife,  inasmuch 
as  Hoveden  relates  that,  in  1184,  it  ran  blood  for 
eiffht  days  and  nights  in  succession.  St.  Vinnin 
(winning)  was  an  Irish  saint,  descended  of  a 
princely  race,  and  whose  arrival  here  is  ascribed  to 
the  bennning  of  the  eighth  century.  Some  have 
held  that  Segdoune  is  corrupted  from  Sanctoun 
(SaintVtown,  or  Sandy-town  P),  but  the  abbey 
site  would  rather  suggest  another  origin  for  the 
aiBx  dotme,  and  point  to  the  existence  of  a  dun, 
rath,  or  hiUfort ;  such  andent  worln  of  a  Celtic 
race  bcdng  by  no  means  uncommon  in  the  district 


There  is  a  Semedun,  or  Segdoun,  on  the  Tay, 
near  Perth,  and  at  one  time  the  site  of  an  ho»» 
pitaL  (Spotiswoode's  Itdigiou$  Houses,)  The 
same  name  was,  it  is  said,  applied  to  Aberbrothoc 
(Arbroath),  where  a  monastery  was  founded  by 
William  the  Lion  in  honour  of  A'  Becket,  and 
colonised  by  the  same  order  of  monks  as  Kilwin- 
ning; and  Seffffiedurorumf  now  Wallsend,  is  at 
the  north  end  of  Hadrian's  Wall.  It  can  hardly 
be  believed  that  this  king  would  so  honour  the 
memory  of  A'  Beckett,  and  also  receive,  protect, 
and  reward  one  of  his  murderers.  So,  doubting 
much  Pout's  views,  we  wait  in  the  hope  of  receiv- 
ing the  opinions  of  others.  Espsdars. 


Your  correspondent  doubtless  refers  to  Wood- 
spring  Priory,  which  is  popularly  associated  with 
tne  murder  of  the  archbishop.  Its  present  rmns 
stand  in  about  the  centre  or  a  small  bay  on  the 
Bristol  Channel^  which  lies  between  Clevedon 
and  Weston-super-Mare,  and  ma^  be  visited  from 
either  of  these  places.  The  rum  is  viable  from 
Anchor-head  at  the  latter.  It  is  thus  spoken  of 
in  Whereat's  Handbook  toWedon'Super-Meare : — 

^  Apart  from  the  abodes  of  xneo,  lone,  aolitazy,  and 
removed  from  all  ftequented  thoroughfare,  with  a  dreary 
plain  on  the  eoath,  and  the  sea  washing  the  remaining 
sides  of  the  eliff,  was  the  stem,  gloomy,  and  uninviting 
site  of  the  Monastery.  Let  us  briefly  glance  at  its 
origin.  The  blood  of  Thomas  A'Becket  stained  the 
▼aulted'payement  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Canterbury^ 
and  in  this  far-off  wild  arose  a  holv  pUe  dedicated  to  the 
murdered  saint,  in  atonement  for  the  saerilegions  crime. 

It  was  about  1210  that  William  de  Coortenay, 

who  was  nearly  allied  to  (qn.  one  of)  the  nwawdnators  ef 
the  canonised  Archbishop,  founded  this  monastery ;  and 
it  was  snbflcquentlr  enriched  by  benefactions  from  all 
the  descendants  of  the  murderers,  that  the  daily  mass 
might  cleanse  the  deep  stain  of  guilt  which  darkened 
thdr  memories,  and,  according  to  the  superstitaona  belief 
of  the  times^  remove  their  souls  from  the  peril  of  pur- 
gatory.'' 

The  monastery  was  one  of  those  depopulated  in 
the  days  of  Henry  VIIL,  and  by  degrees  feU  into 
decay.  The  booK  above  cruoted^  describes  at  eome 
length  the  condition  of  tne  ruins,  now  converted 
into  farm  buildings ;  but  as  it  is  not  of  very  recent 
date,  I  do  not  copy  the  account.  Probably  some 
more  recent  gmde  or  local  topography  may 
aapply  satisfactory  detail. 

I  will,  however,  quote  part  of  an  extract  my 

book  furnishes  concerning  "a  carious  relic   of 

antiquity"  found  in  repairing  the  north  wall  of 

KewstoKe  church,  adjacent  to  Woodspring,  as  it 

is  associated  with  the  archbishop's  murder.    It  is 

from  a  paper  by  the  Bev.  F.  Wane : — 

*'In  the  front  is  carved  a  figure  in  an  arched  niche, 
having  shafts  of  early  English  character.  This  flgore, 
the  face  of  which  seems  to  hare  been  purposely  mutilated, 
holds  something,  probably  a  heart,  in  its  hands.  At  the 
back  was  disoowed  an  arehed  recess,  within  whieh  was 
a  small  wooden  cap,  containing  what  was  sopposcd  to  be 
human  blood.   This  reliquary  was  manifestly  of  earlier 


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397 


4At8  than  the  wan  into  which  it  was  hnilt^and  appean 
from  the  capitals  of  ito  ahafta  nearij  to  correspond  in 
atyle  with  that  in  nse  abont  the  time  of  the  dedication  of 
Woodspring.  The  opinion  of  the  Archsological  Insti- 
tnte  of  Great  Britain  and  IreUnd,  to  which  it  was  sub- 
mitted, was,  that  it  probably  contained  the  most  valued 
r^e  possessed  bj  the  priory— probably  some  of  the  blood 
of  Thomas  A*Becket--and  that  the  monks,  foreseeing 
the  desecration  of  their  conventual  church,  deposited  it 
in  the  parish  church  of  Kewstoke,  hoping  by  thiB  means 
to  preserve  from  profanation  a  relic,  in  their  eyes  of  the 
greatest  sanctity,  being  no  less  than  the  blood  of  their 
murdered  patron,  SL  Thomas  of  Cantert>uxy.*' 

My  extracts  seem  lengthy,  but  I  am  the  more 
anxious  to  supply  them,  nanng  referred  to  Wood- 
spring  Priory  when  unable  to  collect  any  details 
01  it,  in  my  note  on  the  Bfracombe  traditions  in 
connection  with  William  de  Tracy,  one  of  the 
archbishop's  murderers  (4*^  S.  ti.  217,  21S.) 
Permit  me  to  take  this  opportunity  of  correcting 
a  misprint  therein.  Every  one  who  knows  Hfra- 
oomb  will  have  remembered  that  it  is  a  cave  not 
lanef  which  is  traditionally  pointed  out  as  the 
place  of  his  concealment  S.  M.  S. 

PoETRT  07  THE  Olotjds  (4«*  8.  vii.  319.)— Who 
does  not  remember  Coleridge's  sonnet  com- 
mencing— 

<'  O  it  is  pleasant,  with  a  heart  at  ease, 
Just  after  sunset,  or  by  moonlight  skies. 
To  make  the  shifting  clouds  be  what  yon  please,**  &c.— 

or  the  Oxford  graduate's  eloquent  pictures  of 
cloud-scenery,  in  all  its  varieties  of  doud-beauty, 
cloud-balancinffs,  doud-flocks,  cloud-perspective, 
cloud-colours,  &c.  ?  A  Gtermap  writer,  Heinrich 
Motz,  has  treated  of  the  feeling  for  the  beautiful 
in  nature  among  the  ancients  m  a  small  volume, 
publiriied  at  Leipziff  in  1866,*  and  quotes  many 
passages  fh>m  Greek  and  Latin  authors  in  sup- 
port of  his  theme.  Humboldt,  in  his  Cosmos, 
devotes  many  pages  to  '^  Poetic  Descriptions  of 
Nature  by  the  Greeks,  Romans,"  kt,  (see  Col. 
Sabine's  translation,  vol  ii.) ;  and  if  your  corre- 
spondent has  not  chanced  to  meet  with  these 
workS;  I  would  b^  to  refer  him  to  them. 

J.  Macbat. 

De  Quincey,  I  find,  on  reference  to  his  essay, 
has  not  omitted  to  refer  to  the  most  famous  cloud- 
passage  in  Shakespeare  (Aniomf  and  Cieopaira, 
IF.  12).  In  the  Vanorum  of  1821  a  few  narallels 
are  given  from  Chapman  and  others  (xiL  968).  I 
have  no  doubt  that  Shakeeneare  had  this  '^cloud- 
scenery  '*  in  his  mind  when  he  wrote  those  familiar 
Unes  in  The  Tetnped  (IT.  1, 151-8).  Some  editors 
have  altered  ''rack"  to  ''wreck'^in  the  "leave 
not  a  rack  behind."  But  compare  "  the  rack  dis- 
limns''  in  the  AsUonif  and  CieopatrajBamige. 

JoHK  Addis. 

Rustingtoo,  near  littkhampton,  St 


*  UeherdU  EmafMhmg  der  NahtraehJhtkeU  bei  dem 
Ahm.    Yon  Heiorieh  Mots. 


A  Gbm  Qusbt:  Piohlsb  (4^  S.  yii.322.)— 
Pi^er  (probably  a  German)  was,  about  a  cen- 
tury ago,  an  eminent  gem-engraver  at  Rome.  I 
do  not  know  that  he  always  inscribed  his  name  in 
Greek  letters ;  but  a  person  well  informed  on  the 
subject  told  me  that  he  had  seen  A  niXABP  en- 
graved on  several  of  his  works.  B.  T. 

PSchler  appears  to  have  been  a  gem-engraver 
of  some  celeority  in  Bome  about  the  middle  of 
the  last  century :  — 

"  The  demand  for  Defan*8  sulphur  and  paste  impres- 
sions hecame  so  great  at  that  tiine,  and  their  utility  for 
the  scholar,  artist,  and  Jeweller  so  evident,  that  the  art 
of  making  them  rooe  into  hi^h  estimation ;  and  even 
eminent  artists,  each  as  Mr.  Piehler  and  others  of  Borne, 
thought  it  no  ditgraoe,  but  rather  an  advantage  to  their 
art,  to  assist  the  connoisseur  with  sulphur  and  paste  im- 
pressiona  (^the  ancient  gems,  as  well  as  of  tneir  own 
worlES." — A  DnermHv  Catalogue  of  a  General  CoBeetum 
of  Andent  and  Modem  Engraved  Gemt^  ^^  by  James 
Tasde,  &c.   YoL  x.,  Introduc.  IviiL   London,  mdccxci. 

R.C. 

Cork. 

Fbxnoh  Wsslbtak  BIagazivx  (4^  S.  vii.  325.) 
A  Weslevan  weekly  paper,  under  the  name  of 
VBvangmquej  has  contmuously  been  printed  and 
pubUshed  at  Nlmes,  and,  during  the  investment 
of  Paris,  the  MS.  was  sent  there  from  the  capital 
by  pigeon  post  This  has  been  stated  to  me  by 
one  of  the  Weslevan  body,  but  J.  F.  H.  can  satisfy 
himself  about  this  and  the  numbers  he  desires  to 
see  by  inquiry  at  the  Wesleyan  Mission  House  in 
Bishopsgate  Street.  H.  F.  J, 

J.  F.  H.  win  obtain  all  the  information  he  may 
require  from  the  Rev.  Matthew  Qallienne,  Jersey, 
who  is  the  editor  of  such  magaxine. 

Saictsl  WALinm. 
1,  Highfidd  Plaee,  Biadftnd. 

Ths  TiRXiirAnoir  ''den  *'  nr  ihx  Wxaxj>  op 
Ejorx  (4^  S.  V.  560;  vi.  16.WKemble  has  enor- 
mously understated  the  number  of ''  dens  "  in  the 
Weala.  Mr.  R.  Furley,  F.S.A.,  in  the  pre&ce  to 
his  histoiy  of  this  district,  says^  "  The  manor  of 
Aldington  alone  possesses  forty-iour  denes  I " 

Gbobgb  Bkdo. 

Masbiagss  of  English  Pbikcbssxs  (4^^  S.  vii. 
203,  289,  300.)— I  believe  the  following  list  of 
daughters  or  sisters  of  the  reigning  sovereign, 
who  have  married  British  subjects,  is  correct  as 
far  as  it  goes ;  and,  without  being  sure,  I  believe 
it  is  complete.  I  haye  copied  it  from  two  charts 
in  my  possession :  — 

JOBX. 

1.  Eleanor,  daughter,  married  Stronffbow,  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke;  second,  married  Simon  de  lioatibrt.  Earl  of 


RSirRT  xzv 

2.  Beatrice,  daughter,  married  John  de  Dreux,  Duke  of 
Srittany,  Franoa^  and  Bari  of  Riehmond,  England. 


398 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4«>>S.yU.MAT6/7U 


XDWABD  L 

8.  Jottit  dsoghter,  married  Oflbert  de  dan,  Earl  of 
Glovanter ;  aoeond,  married  Bal]ih  de  Monthermer. 

4.  Elizabeth,  daughter,  married  John  Earl  of  Hollaad ; 
second,  marzied  Homphny  Bohan,  Earl  of  Hereford. 

6.  I3eanor,  danehter,  married  Henry  Count  de  Bamv  - 
France  (who,  I  beueve,  held  rights  as  a  British  subject). 

EDWARD  m. 

6.  Isabella,  danghter,   married  De  Cownsy,  Eari  of 
Bedford* 

7.  Margaret,  danghter,  married  John  Hastings,  Earl  of 
Pembroke. 

EDWAHD  rv. 

8.  Anne,    sLster,  married   Henry  Holland,  Doke   of 
Exeter ;  second,  married  Sir  Thos.  de  Leger. 

9.  Elizabeth,  sister,  married  John  de  la  Pole,  Dnke  of 
Suffolk. 

10.  Cecilia,  daughter,  married  John  Viscount  Wells ; 
second,  married  Thos.  Kymbe. 

11.  Anne,  danghter,  married  Thoa.  Howard,  Doke  of 
Norfolk. 

12.  Catherine,  daughter,  married  Wm.  Courtsny,  Eari 
of  Devon. 

HBKBT  VIL 

13.  Margaret,  daughter,  married  second  husband,  Aroh. 
Douglas,  Eari  of  Angus. 

14.  Mary,  daughter,  married  second  husband,  Charles 
Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk. 

JinmNfiPos. 

Alderlcy. 

F.  askfl  if  all  deacendants  of  a  royal  prioae  or 
princess  have  a  right  to  quarter  the  royal  arms  P 
Ceriainlj  not^  unlese  the  royal  penon  waa  an 
heiress,  for  it  is  the  descendants  ot  heiresses  only 
who  hare  a  right  to  quarter  arms.  P.  P. 

Old  Soves  and  Ballads  (4^  S.  tL  47, 811.)— 
Thanks  to  Ms.  Jacksok  for  his  information :  but, 
speaking  under  correction,  I  yenture  to  think  that 
he  ezn^gerates.  No  such  collection  of  old  son^ 
as  he  descrihes,  whether  English,  Irish,  or  Sootdi 
(nothing  approaching  to  it  in  any  degree),  has 
ever  oome  m  my  way.  Take,  for  example,  Mr. 
Bohert  Chambers's  collection  of  ScoUiA  Songs 
before  BunUf  or  the  collections  of  Messrs.  Maid- 
ment  and  Logan,  or  any  of  the  multitudinous 
flocks  of  ^'Linnets,"  ^LtakB,**  and  "  Nightingales," 
which  gave  forth  their  yarying  strains  Sa  the 
amusement  of  the  hygone  generations.  Here  and 
there  one  may  light  upon  a  coarse  patch  in  such 
collections,  but  their  general  character  as  to  morals 
is  perfect  innocence.  None  of  Uie  three  songs 
mentioned  by  Mb.  Jacksov  hare  I  ever  so  much 
as  heard  of  heforo,  still  less  read  in  print  My 
notion  was  that  the  original  songs,  m>m  which 
Bums  and  Moore  borrowed  and  adapted  their  airs, 
were  in  the  main  simply  characteristic  of  the 
homely  joys,  rural  humours^  political  sentiments, 
and  rustic  manners  of  the  peasantry  of  the  two 
countries  respectiyely  during  the  proyious  century. 
In  that  yiew,  popular  sonfls  form  always  a  most 
yaluahls  depaitment '  of  ^e  national  uterature. 
Perhaps  the  tact  of  my  reading  life  haying  been 


speat  for  the  most  part  in  this  part  of  the  woiid 
has  debarred  me  from  enjoying  that  peculiar 
species  of  Uteraiy  study  to  whi^  Mb.  J acksob' 
sUudes.  All  the  same,  I  should  like  to  haye  a 
sight  of  the  printed  words  of  such  songs  as  ^The 
Battle  of  Argan  More^"  <<  The  Humours  of  Castie 
Lyons,"  "The  FanrQueen,"  "The Piper's Dwice," 
"The  Twisting  of  the  Rope,"  and  eyen  "The 
Little  Bold  Fox,"  to  say  nothing  of  "Planxty 
Kelly  "  and  "  The  Humours,  of  Glynn." 

D.  Blaib. 
Melbourne. 

" LAt7Bi«B  HoBAXTDB "  (4<*  S.  yii.  824.)-— 
This  is  one  of  the  German  "  student  songa"  The 
following  are  tiie  words :  — 

''Lanriger  Horstius,  quam  dizisti  Terom ! 
Fngit  Euro  citins  tempos  edaz  lemm ! 

**  UM  eunt,  o  poeaU  dnldora  melle, 
Bixm,  pax  et  osonla  mbentU  paelhe  ? 

**  Greeeit  nya  molliter  et  paella  ereedt ; 
Sed  po6ta  tnrpiter  aitieoa  canesdt. 

**  Qoid  javat  ntemitas  nominiB,  amare 
Nisi  terra  filial  lioet  et  potare  ?  ** 

It  is  sung  to  the  same  air  as  Walter  Mapes'  song 
"Mihi  est  propositum,"  also  a  "student  song.^' 
I  haye  the  music  of  both.  CrwBic 

Forth  yr  Aur,  Carnarvon. 

The  sonff  "  Lauriger  Horatins  "  will  be  found 
in  any  of  the  many  editions  of  the  Commer^ueh^ 
or  book  of  songs  used  by  the  (German  students, 
from  whom  it  must  have  been  adopted  by  the 
members  of  the  American  uniyersi^^  to  which 
your  correspondent  refers.  An  edition  of  this 
book  is  published  by  B.  G.  Teubner,  Leipzig,  with 
music,  for  three  shmings.  E.  C.  Thomas. 

Trin.  CoIL,  Oxford. 

"  ThB  SuK  BSyBB  8STB  ON  THE  BbITISH  Do- 

MiNioirs "  QL^  S.  ii.  636 ;  yii.  210,  298.)  —  Ca- 
moens,  whose  Luaad  was  published  tmrty-six 
years  beforo  Fuller  was  born,  says  of  the  Portu- 
guese empire  that  the  sun  looks  upon  it  when  it 
rises,  it  still  beholds  it  at  midday,  and  when  it 
sets  it  sets  behind  it    The  words  are :  — 

**  VoB,  poderoso  Reit  eujo  alto  imperio 
O  aol,  logo  naacendo,  y6  primeiro, 
Veio  tambem  no  meto  do  hemispherio^ 
B  qoando  desoe,  o  deixa  denadeiro." 

They  occur  in  the  noble  address  to  hia  king,  the 
unfortunate  Don  Sebastian,  in  tiie  eighth  stann 
of  the  first  canto.  Gobt. 

Oxbbb:  Bostob  (4^  S.  yiLd6,  167,  806.) » 
Besides  the  yarieties  of  the  game  of  ombie,  or 
hombre,  mentioned  by  ^ur  ooneoMmdentB,  I  find 
the  followinff  named  m  the  "  Bictionnaire  dea 
Jenx "  of  the  Encydopidie  mStkodique,  Paris, 
1792 : — ^Mouche,  m^Aateur  or  quadrille^  quintille, 
and  solitaire,  also  piqud-m^driUe,  deacnbed  as  in- 
termediate between  m^diataur  and  piquet    In- 


4*k  S.  VII.  BfAT  6, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


39» 


stradioiu  and  rules  for  fhe  serenl  yaiielies  are 

fiTen  at  mat  lengtii.    Boston  is  not  mentioned, 
nt  **  wisnk  bostonien^"  a  yariety  of  whist,  and 
having  no  resemblance  to  ombre.  C.  G.  G. 

^Hbabi  of  Hba.bib'':  *' Light  op  Lights" 
(4*^  S.  vii.  862.) — ^A  still  more  serious  error  of  a 
similar  kind  to  that  noticed  by  Lobd  Chblhbtobd 
is  observable  in  what  ought  to  be  a  book  founded 
on  careful  theology,  in  Mffmns  Ancient  and 
Modern^  No.  137,  we  are  bidden  to  sing — 

** Light  of  lights!  with  mooming  shine  " ; 

and 

«  Light  of  lights !  when  falls  the  even.*' 

One  would  think  the  composer  of  the  hymn  had 
never  seen  the  Nicene  Creed  either  in  Greek  or 
En^ish,  for  there  Mr  iit  ^mrisj  and  ^'  Light  of 
Ld^t,*'  convey  a  very  difierent  meaning  from 
that  ^ven  by  the  plural  of  tiie  hymn.     J.  H.  B. 

LoBD  Chbuespobd  is  nnquestionably  right  in 
objecting  to  this  phrase  as  commonly  used,  though 
I  write  with  the  uneasy  consciousness  of  having 
myself  often  tripped  in  the  matter  in  company 
with  those  of  whom  he  complains.  We  need 
not  look  further  for  the  cause  of  the  blunder 
than  in  the  ignorance  of  the  majority  using  the 
phrase  of  the  passage  from  which  it  is  taken. 
Quoting  at  second  hand  is  the  source  of  much 
of  the  inaccuracy  which  meets  us  everywhere ; 
and  nhrases  sucn  as  the  above  are  quoted  at 
fiftietn  and  hundredth  hand.  Perhaps,  too,  the 
analogy  of  such  phrasea  as  '^  King  of  kmgs,'*  '^  joy 
of  joys/'  where  the  selection  of  one  person  or 
thing  out  of  numy  is  the  sdient  idea,  helps  to 
make  the  error  easier  to  commit  and  less  easy  to 
detect. 

la  quoting  tiiere  is  nothing  more  natural  and 
more  dangerous  than  to  trust  the  memory  too 
far.  Even  such  a  scholar  as  Mr.  Froude,  in  the 
fine  lecture  he  lately  delivered  on  ^Calvinism," 
misquotes  one  of  the  most  fluniliar  lines  in  Words- 
worth's **  Ode  on  Immortality  " ;  and  one  of  yonr 
own  correspondents  recently  wrote  to  complain 
that  a  Saturday  reviev»«r  had  misquoted  a  verse 
of  Thomas  Hood'^  when  it  actnally  ameared  that 
the  corrector  was  in  the  wrongs  and  the  first  cita- 
tion correct. 

»  QiuB  emeadabit  ipses  esModatorei  ?  " 

Altbbd  Aikgxb. 
Temple. 

Rbmaiocabli  Alia3  Slab  (4^  S.  vii.  960.) — 
Is  not  this  the  base  of  a  shrine  P  Compare  that 
of  Bede's  shrine  in  the  nave  of  Durham. 

J.  £u  S. 

^La  Bbile  Damb  SABS  MxBa"  (4*^  S.  vii. 
324) — Keats's  poem  first  appeared  in  The  Indicator 
([1820),  with  tne  8u;nature  "Caviare,"  and  an 
introduction  by  Leigh  Hunt,  firom  which  we  learn 
that  it  was  suggested  by  the  traaslAtion  of  Ahun 


Chartier's  poem,  which  mpetn  amon|^  the  pieoes 
attributed  to  Chancer  in  Speghf  s  edition.  UhMi- 
cer,  however,  died  when  Uhartier  wa»  only  fonz^ 
teen  years  of  age ;  and  if  BL  Panlin  Paiis's  con- 
jecture is  well  founded,  it  is  auite  impossible  that 
the  translation  should  be  oy  Chaucer.  Jean 
Marot  was  not  bom  till  1467,  and  Chaucer  died 
in  1400.  According  to  Tyrwhitt,  in  the  Harleian 
MS.  878,  the  translation  is  attributed  to  Sir 
Eichard  Kos.  G.  J.  Db  Wudb. 

A  ToADSTONB  Ring  (4*  S.  viL  824.)— H.  S.  0. 
will  find  a  full  account  of  the  toadstone  and  ita 
supposed  properties  in  The  Natural  Htstory  of 
Oems  or  iJecorative  Stones^  by  C.  W.  King,  M.A.y 
8vb,  London,  Bell  &  Daldy,  1867^  pp.  43-49. 

Hezvbt  w.  Hbbbbet. 

Msikham  House,  Brighton. 

**  A  toedstone,  a  celebrated  amnlett  idiich  was  never 
lent  to  an^  one  unleae  upon  a  bond  for  a  thousand  merka 
for  its  being  safely  restored.  It  was  soyereign  for  pro* 
tecting  new-bom  children  and  their  mothers  fh>m  the 
power  of  the  fkiries,  and  has  been  repeatedly  borrowed 
from  my  mother  for  this  paipoea" — ^Eztiaet  of  letter 
from  Joanna  BailUe  to  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  1812 :  Simg- 
8trute9  of  ScoUmuL 

I  possess  one.  It  is  a  convex  circular  stone, 
eleven-sixteenths  of  an  inch,  in  diameter,  semi- 
transparent  and  of  dark-grej  colour,  and  seems 
silicious.  It  is  set  in  a  massive  silver  thumb-ring 
of  great  antiquity,  and  has  been  in  the  possession 
of  mv  family  for  man^  generations.  It  was  be- 
lieved to  be  a  specific  in  cases  of  diseased  kidney. 
It.  like  the  Lee  penny,  was  immersed  in  water, 
wnich  was  drunk  by  the  patient. 

"  Le  chieqaaaon,  on  ponloe  de  la  main  deztve*  postaife 
un  groe  et  large  anneau  d'argent,  en  la  palle  dnquel  ^toit 
encbasado  nne  bien  grande  cnwaudineJ"  —  Fantagnuij 
iv.  16. 

The  vulgar  error  of  the  toadstone  ia  of  great 
antiquity,  and  was  ffenerally  believed  in.  SmJce- 
spear  characterises  the  toad  as  bearing ''  a  precious 
jewel  in  its  head."  I  have  seen  several  so-called 
toadstones,  for  the  most  part  dissimilar  to  each 
other.  B.  T. 

Edinburgh. 

Suv-niAL  QuxBiBS  (4**'  S.  viL  324) — As  I  in- 
troduced the  subject  of  dial  mottoes  into ''  N.  &  ^'^ 
in  December,  1861^  by  an  inquiry  under  the  name 
of  HBBKKHy  about  a  dial  at  Karlsbad,  I  venture 
to  answer  tha  queiies  of  P.  W.  S.,  although  I 
cannot  do  so  quite  satisfactorily. 

1.  If  P.  W.  S.  can  ffet  hold  of  a  second-haod 
copy  of  Mechamck  Ditmng^  hj  Charies  Leadbetter, 
London,  1737, 1  believe  it  will  answer  his  pur^ 
nose,  as  it  describes  the  constmclaon  of  every 
description  of  dial.  It  has  also  a  list  of  mottoes, 
among  which  are  those  comical  translations  which 
have  alreadv  appeared  in  ^N.  &  Q." 

2.  This  I  answer  by  saying  that,  when  I  first 
reqaested  the  conespondents  of  ''N.  k  Q."  to  fur- 


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niah  aoy  xemarkable  dial  mottoes  in  their  own 
neighbourhoodi  I  had  myself  been  collecting  them 
for  many  years ;  and  the  list  at  the  present  time 
is  far  too  volominous,  and,  I  may  say,  too  interest- 
ing, to  be  sent  to  '^  N.  &  Q/'  as  a  mere  catalogue. 
I  none  indeed  to  carry  out  shortly  my  long  pur- 
posea  intention  of  publishing  it  in  a  volume,  with 
such  remarks,  archffiological,  historical,  and  poeti- 
eal|  as  have  arisen  .from  a  consideration  of  the 
not  a  little  interesting  subject. 

8.  It  is  part  of  the  plan  of  the  book  to  give 
thirty  or  forty  illustrations  (out  of  perhaps  two 
or  three  hundred)  of  existing  sun-dials.  But  this 
is  a  singular  question  to  come  from  Nice^  where 
so  manv  sun-diids  aie  to  be  seen. 

4.  This  is  partly  answered  by  No.  2 ;  but  I  join 
heartily  with  P.  W.  S.  in  wisninff  that  ''  any  of 
your  corre^Mndents  who  know  of  quaint  or  pic- 
turesque sun-dials'' would  oblige  the  readers  of 
'^N.  &  Q."  by  a  list  of  them,  as  the  longer  I  col- 
lect the  more  imperfect  I  perceive  the  collection 
must  neoeasarilT  be,  from  tne  difficulty  cMf  getting 
people  to  reoora  those  known  to  them. 

Being  upon  the  sulnect,  once  more  I  appeal  to 
the  readexs  of  «<  N.  &  Q.''  to  throw  light,  if  they 
can,  upon  the  introduction  of  the  fly  into  the 
window-dials  at  Marlborough  and  Winchester,  as 
also  into  so  many  of  the  copper-plate  illustrations 
of  sun-dials  in  Leadbetter's  volume. 

Mabgabet  Gatit. 

"SmnruK  Jus,  Sitmha  Injuria"  (4»*  8.  v. 
317, 43d,  688.)— Your  correspondent  G.  A.  B.  has 
been  at  the  trouble  to  collect  out  of  various  Latin 
authors  the  above  adage,  and  he  inquires  if  there 
are  any  other  instances  of  it  being  noticed. 

In  a  sermon  by  Ihr.  Thomas  Sherlock,  an  old 
divine,  and  who  was  at  one  time  Master  of  the 
Temple  Church,  London,  he  will  find  mention 
made  of  the  phrase.  It  is  very  apt  to  be  used  by 
some  persons  as  a  weapon  of^^  offence  against  the 
science  of  judicature,  and  therefore  I  will  give 
tlie  substance  of  Dr.  Sherlock's  interpretation,  as 
I  do  not  happen  to  have  my  own  copy  of  his 
works  at  hana.  I  am  sure  wlmt  is  given  contains 
no  vital  error  of  the  learned  bishop's  words.  It 
cannot  with  coneisteney  be  affirmea  that  what  is 
munmum  jtu  according  to  the  law,  is  according  to 
the  same  law  summa  if^uria,  Smnnrnm  ju»  re- 
gards the  written  law ;  mmma  (//{furia  regttds  the 
original  reason  of  all  law.  He  goes  on  further  to 
say,  attention  must  be  given  to  the  difference 
between  the  reason  of  justice  and  the  rules  of 
justice ;  and  bjr  the  roles  of  justice  he  understood 
the  ffeueral  prindplee  and  mazims  of  justice  by 
whicn  the  laws  of  all  countries  are  governed  and 
directed.  By  the  reason  of  justice  he  understood 
tlie  fountain  £rom  which  all  maxims  and  all  laws 
an  derived,  which  is  no  other  than  right  reason 
itself;  for  laws  are  not  just  as  partaking  of  the 


authority  of  the  lawgiver,  but  as  partaking  of  his 
reason.  HSnce  arises  the  distinction  between 
good  and  bad  laws,  though  both  derived  from  the 
same  authority :  showing  thereby  that  an  autho- 
rity, though  it  may  make  a  valid  law,  yet  it 
cannot  make  a  gooa  one  unless  acting  upon  the 
reason  of  justice.  A.  B. 

Edinburgh. 

"  Thb  Dbvil  bbatb  his  Wife  "  (4**  S.  vL  273, 
356, 427 ;  vii.  25.)—With  regard  to  the  proverbial 
'<  Devil  and  his  dam,"  and  the  question  **  Who  is 
the  devil's  wife  P  "  asked  by  Cuthbbbt  Bbdb  and 
myself,  I  find  illustration  in  — 

^  QriiD,  the  Collier  of  Crovdon ;  or  the  Devil  and  his 
Dame;  with  the  Devil  and  St.  Daaatan."— Doddey's  Old 
Pkuf9t  vol  xL 

The  Satanic  portion  of  the  plot  of  this  play  runs 
thus :  —  Spenser's  Malbeoco  tells  the  stoiy  of  his 
wrongs  to  the  infernal  judges.  They  cannot  be- 
lieve that  wives  are  so  utterl  v  bad ;  and,  to  make 
proof,  send  up  to  earth  the  devil  Belphagor,  who 
IS  to  remain  here  a  twelvemonth  and  a  day,  to 
marry,  and  so  to  take  back  evidence  on  the  matri- 
monial question  to  the  hellish  synod.  Poor  Bel- 
phagor IS  at  the  outset  cheated  of  the  wife  of  his 
choice,  marrying  the  maid  instead  of  the  imstress. 
His  wife,  after  committing  all  the  sins  that  woman 
can  commit,  poisons  him ;  and  he  returns  to  hell 
with  the  new  appendage  of  horns :  — 

^  Bdphagor,  These  are  the  ancient  anna  of  eockoldrr. 
And  these  my  dame  hath  kindly  left  to  me ; 
For  whieh  Belphai^r  shall  he  here  derided, 
UnlMS  your  great  inftrnal  majesty 
Do  solemnly  proclaim,  no  devil  shall  scom 
Hereafter  still  to  wear  the  goodlv  horn. 

**  Pluto,  This  for  thy  service  i  will  grant  thee  freely : 
All  devils  shall,  as  thoa  dost,  like  horns  wear. 
And  none  shall  scorn  Belphagor*s  arms  to  hear.** 

[Compare  the  song  in  Ab  You  Like  It  (iv.  2)  — 

<*  Take  thon  no  scom  to  wear  the  horn."] 

This  portion  of  the  plot  is  taken  from  Machia- 
Y^^%  Marriage  of  B^negor.  How  much  further 
back  can  the  story  be  traced  P         Johk  Addis. 

Abms  07  Ghablbmaghb  (4^  S.  vii.  75, 180.) 
The  sword  said  to  have  been  the  property  of  Charle- 
magne, which,  with  other  regalia,  is  preserved  in 
the  Schatzkammer  at  Vienni^  bears  on  tiie  pom- 
mel an  escutcheon  charged  with  the  ungle^headed 
eagle  displayed;  the  same  bearing  also  appears 
upon  the  scabbaid.  The  rejndia,  however,  are  of 
a  later  date  than  the  time  of  Charlemagne.  The 
eagle  appean  for  the  fint  time  on  the  seal  of  the 
Emperor  Henry  (an.  1056).  Armorial  bearings^  in 
the  modem  acceptation  of  the  term,  were  un- 
known in  the  days  of  Charlemagne ;  but  the  eagle 
might  be  oonndered  the  trtuUUonai  arms  of  tne 
emperor,  and  so  woidd  answer  W.  M.  H.  C.'s 
purpose.  J*  WooDWABD. 

«  CBBiosiiro  "  (4*  S.  vl  475 ;  vu.  19.)  —  May 
not  this  term,  as  applied  to  inlaid  work,  have 


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originated  at  the  celebrated  Certo«a  of  PaviaP 
Abj  one  who  has  visited  that  gorgeously  deco- 
rated monastery  will  remember  how  especially 
rich  it  is  in  work  of  that  kiad.  The  altars  in  the 
chanels  of  the  nave  are  inlaid  with  pidra  dura 
WONT,  comj^osed  of  the  costliest  marbles  and  ciya- 
tals ;  and,  if  I  remember  aright,  there  is  also  a 
good  deal  of  work  in  the  Sagnstia  and  elsewhere 
composed  of  inlaid  wood  and  ivory. 

J.  WOODWABD. 
Montrose,  N.B. 

MoBB  Faxilt  Ok^  a  ii.  iii.  iv.  passim;  vii. 
226.)— Will  Mb.  Moobe  care  for  the  following 
extract^  on  which  I  chanced  the  other  day,  and 
copied  ity  fancying  that  it  might  refer  to  some 
relatives  of  the  great  chancellor  P-— 

«« John  More  died  the  25th  of  April  last  John,  his 
son  and  heir,  aged  24  and  upwarda.  Devon,  Nov.  [qy. 
4],  Anno  8."  {Inqui;  Pott  Mortem,  8  Hen.  TIL,  No. 
11.) 

Hebhbntuudb. 

Thomson  a  Dbuid  (4*«»  S.  vii.  07,  226.)— Mb. 

Jackson  asks  why  the  poet  Thomson  was  called 

a  Druid  by  Collins.    I  have  an  idea  that  the  man 

if     who  wrote  Irish  Eclogues  mi^ht  have  known  a 

little  Irish|  and  so  termed  his  brother  bard  a 

.    draoicht  —  a  singer  or  poet — ^in  that  mother  dia- 

^lect  of  the  Celtic  West  W.  D. 

New  Tork. 

The  Phcenix  Thbonb  (4»*  S.  vii.  162,  268.)— 
Byron  makes  the  phoenix  a  soDg  bird  :— 

"  In  the  desert  a  fonntain  is  springing, 

still  is  a 


In  the  wide  waste  there  still  is  a  tree, 
And  a  bird  in  the  solitnde  singing, 
Which  speaks  to  my  spirit  of  thee." 


P.P. 


SivB  AND  THE  Whitbbotb  (4'*»  8.  vii.  124, 
269.)— W.  H.  P.  may  well  say  ''  the  state  of  Clare 
must  have  been  terrible."  I  resided  in  the  most 
disturbed  part  of  that  county  during  the  whole',  of 
the  "  Terry  Alt "  time,  and  *'  could  a  tale  unfold." 
N.B.  At  present  Westmeath  is  not  much  better, 
which  after  so  many  years'  experiments  in  the 
''  pacification  of  Ireland,''  makes  those  who  are 
acquainted  with  that  country  wonder  a  little  as  to 
what  is  the  principle  (P)  on  which  these  experi- 
ments are  based.  "Terries,"  "  Terry  Alts,"  "Mrs. 
Alt  and  Children,"  all  meant  the  same  persons. 
*'  Lady  Clare  "  was  the  name  used  by  them  when 
extending  their  ravages  into  the  county  Galway. 
I  have  a  very  complimentary  letter  nom  "her 
ladyship/'  addressea  to  a  relative,  a  native  of 
Clare,  who  resided  in  the  county  Qalway. 

W.  H.  P.  will  find  the  true  historv  of  "  Terry 
Alt,"  contributed  by  one  who  knew  him  well,  in 
an  early  volume  of  "  N.  &  Q."  Not  having  the 
book  at  hand,  I  cannot  give  the  volume  and  jpa^ ; 
but  the  Qeneral  Index  to  Second  or  Third  Series 


w  0000  will  give  it*  So  far  as  I  am  aware,  "  Tony 
Alt "  is  still  alive,  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  a 
well-eamed  oompetence,  as  he  must  now  be  nxty- 
five  or  thereabouts.  St.  Johk. 


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NOTES  OH  BOOKS.  ETC.  V*S^ 

The  Works  m  Ferie  and  Prose,  conmUte,  ^>^LSmry 
VoHaham,  SUwritt^for  thejh-tt  time  collected  and  edited. 
With  Memorial  Introduction,  Euay  on  Life  and  Wri- 
tinge,  and  Note;  Fao-eimiUe,  and  Original  lUuetraiiont, 
By  the  Rev.  Alexander  B.  Grosart,  St.  George's,  Black- 
bam,  Lancashire.  In  Four  Volumee,  Vol,  I, : — Me- 
morial Introduction  and  Sacred  Poetry,  indading 
SUex  Scintillana,  1660-1665;  Thalia  Rediviva,  1678, 
Folia  SUvnlo,  1660, 1678. 

7^  same,  VoL  III,,  Prose,  containing :  Mount  of  Olives^ 
Of  the  Benefits  we  may  get  firom  onr  Enemies,  after 
Flataich  and  M.  Tyrins^The  Diseases  of  the  Mind 
and  Bodie,  fh>m  PlaUrch ;  Praise  and  Happinesse  of 
the  Gonntrie  Life ;  Hermetic  Physic,  Jk, 

The  Anatonue  of  Baeeneese,  1616,  by  John  Anderson, 
Edited  with  Introduetian  and  Notes,  by  Rev.  A.  B. 
Grosart,  Ac 

The  Tearee  of  the  Bdooed,  1600,  and  Marie  Mtmdalene'e 
Tearts,  by  Gervase  Markham.  Edited,  with  Mewwrial 
Introduction,  Notet,  ^,,  by  Rev.  A  B.  Giosart,  &a 

Poems  by  Benry  Loh,  Gentleman  (1698-1697).  Edited 
with  Memorial  Introduction  and  Notes,  by  Rev.  A.  B. 
Grosart. 

It  is  not  only  that  these  volamee,  being  part  of  ''The 
Fuller  Worthies  Library"  (the  last  three  forming  por- 
tions of  The  MisceUaniee),  are  **  printed  for  private  dr- 
cnlation,"  and  consequently  by  courtesy,  if  not  of  right, 
may  daim  exemption  from  critical  strictures;  but  chiefly 
because,  in  the  hmited  space  we  could  aUot  to  them,  it 
would  be  impossible  to  enter  into  details,  that  we  con- 
tent oursdves  with  recording  their  appearance,  and  with 
giving  at  length  tbdr  explanatory  title-pages.  By  this 
means  we  bring  the  books  soffidently  under  the  notice  of 
those  likety  to  be  interested  in  them,  and  so  assist  the 
editor  in  his  labour  of  love.  We  believe  he  still  has  on 
hand  some  few  copies  of  the  small  paper  series,  of  which 
it  will  be  remembered  that  the  number  printed  is  very 
limited. 

Thb  Interitational  ExHiBmoir  of  1871. — Another 
Boui^  of  rational  enjoyment  and  recreation  has  been 
provided  for  the  London  public  and  thdr  country  cousins 
on  their  visits  to  the  metropolis,  in  the  International 
Exhibition,  which  was  opened  with  fitting  ceremonies  on 
Monday  last  bv  the  Prince  of  Wales.  The  object  of  the 
promoters  of  this  great  woric,  namdy,  to  do  honour  to 
the  memory  of  the  late  Prince  Consort,  by  carrying  out 
his  dedre  to  encourage  by  a  series  of  Annual  Exhibitions 
the  advancement  alike  of  the  Fine  and  Industrial  Arts 
in  this  country,  is  one  which  none  can  gainsay.  The 
Commissioners  have  done  their  part  regarmess  of  trouble 
and  expcmse.  It  now  remains  for  the  people  themsdves, 
as  exhibitors  and  vidtors^  to  show  their  appreciation  of 
what  has  been  accomplished  by  a  generous  and  hearty 

[•  See  "N.  &  Q."  2«*  a  xi  178, 235 ;  8'*  S.  u.  270.— 
Ed.] 


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oo-opermtion  in  a  work  which  may  do  nmch  to  iafla- 
ence  the  iateUectaal  and  material  progress  of  the  nation. 

'  Thk  Gamdbs  Socxbtt.  —  The  General  Meeting  of 
this  Sode^  was  held  on  Tnedday,  Sir  William  Tite, 
the  President,  in  the  chair,  when  Mr.  W.  F.  Cosens,  Mr. 
Alfred  Kingston,  and  Sir  F.  Madden  were  elected  mem- 
bers of  the  Coondl  for  the  ensaing  year.  The  Report 
announced  for  early  publication  the  Letters  and  Papers 
of  John  Shillingrord,  Mayor  of  Exeter  in  the  first 
half  of  the  fifteenth  oentnrr ;  the  Cheque  Book  of  the 
Chapel  Royal  from  the  reign  of  £lizai>eth  to  the  Ac- 
cession of  the  House  of  Hanover ;  a  second  volume  of 
Trevelyan  Papers,  and  a  volume  of  Forteseue  Papen, 
collected  by  John  Padcer,  Secretary  to  Geoige  Yilliers, 
Duke  of  Buckingham ;  an  unpublished  Life  of  Bishop 
Bedell,  &c  After  announdng  the  satisfactory  progress 
making  in  the  preparation  of  the  General  Index  to  the 
first  hundred  volumes  of  the  Society's  publications,  and 
the  great  falling  off  in  the  number  of  members  owing  to 
the  many  deaths  of  those  who  joined  the  Societv  at  its 
formation,  the  Council  make  an  earnest  **  appeal  to  all 
who  take  an  interest  in  the  study  of  England's  history, 
the  bioepraphy  of  England's  worthies,  and  in  these  the 
sources  of  England's  greatness,  to  add  their  names  to  the 
Sode^,  and  enable  it  to  continue  and  extend  its  useful 
and  honourable  labonn."  We  recommend  this  appeal  to 
the  attention  of  our  readers.  A  suggestion  thrown  out 
during  the  meeting,  that  the  Society  should  okwe  its  pr»- 
eent  series  of  books  and  commence  a  new  one,  is  well 
deserving  the  consideration  of  the  Council. 

Ladt  NxoiRnffCkiJJB.-^n  endeavouring  (omI^  p.  878) 
to  do  justice  to  the  aoonraoy  of  Mr.  Picton  as  to  the 
insoriptioB  on  this  lady's  monuratnt,  stating  that  she  died 
on  **  Aug.  17,  1784,'*  we  have  unintentionally  seemed 
to  throw  a  doubt  on  the  accuracy  of  Colonel  Chester's 
statement  that  she  died  in  August,  1731.  Colonel  Ches- 
ter's care  and  accuracy  in  all  such  matters  are  too  well 
established  to  be  affected  by  any  such  remaric ;  but  it  is 
only  due  to  him  to  say  that  there  is  no  doubt  that  Lady 
Nightingale's  death  really  took  place  in  1781,  asisUted  by 
liim,  and  not  in  1784,  as  lecorded  on  the  monumenL 

Wb  have  received  the  Prefhce  and  a  specimen  of  Mr. 
PluIIips's  Dictionary  qf  Biographical  JMertMce^  eoniam- 
ing  One  Hundred  Tkoutand  Namee,  We  nndentand  the 
book,  wiiich  is  a  veiy  clearly  printed  octavo  volume^  is 
nearly  ready  for  delivery ;  and  we  congratulate  Mr.  Phil- 
lips on  having  brought  to  a  cloee  his  labours  on  what 
promises  to  be,  on  the  ground  of  its  utili^  and  com- 
pleteness, a  most  indispensable  book  of  reference. 

Wb  have  to  iqpobgize  to  a  ladv.  Miss  Cusack,  for  not 
recognising  her  as  uie  writer  of  the  Hiatory  of  Kerry , 
lately  noticed  by  us,  but  attributing  it  to  one  of  our  own 
duller 


LoHDOK  iHarrrunoN. — Mr.  John  CargiU  Biou^, 
F.CS.,  was  on  26th  April,  appointed  principal  librarian 
in  tiie  room  of  Mr.  Edward  William  Brayley,  who  died 
on  Feb.  1, 1870.  We  would  eamestlv  recommend  the 
Committee  of  this  institution  to  complete  the  Catalogue 
of  the  valuable  collection  of  historical  tracts  and  pamph- 
lets. The  first  volume,  including  the  letter  F,  was  pub- 
lished in  1840. 

Tbb  AthLn\»mm  amioanoes  that  the  Earl  of  Shafteibuiy 
has  placed  in  the  lumdaof  the  nation,  through  theBeeord 
Offioe,  the  whole  of  his  fine  ooUections  of  family  and  his- 
torical papen, 

Thb  Ou>  Boin>  Strebt  Gallbrt. — The  summer 
exhibition  will  be  opened  on  the  29th  inst,  at  25,  Old 
Bond  Street,  and  piolures  will  be  raeelTed  on  the  15th 
and  16th. 


Roman  pAVBioaiT.—Some  Roman  pavement  has  been 
discovered,  within  the  last  few  days,  in  the  garden  of 
No.  27,  Mark  Lane.  This  bnildbg  u  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  thegarden  was  well-known fbr its  fomtain 
and  lime  tree.  That  portion  of  the  pavement  nncovend 
is  some  three  or  four  yarda  square^  but  it  is  evideody 
onl^  asmall  part  of  a  large  pavement.  Some  years  sinoe 
a  piece  of  a  similar  character  was  found  upon  the  other 
side  of  the  lane,  directly  opposite.  The  workmen  have 
found  a  quantity  of  animsl  bones,  as  well  as  fragments  of 
Samian  and  Upohnrch  ware.  Meet  of  these  have  found 
ready  customers  in  the  numerous  persons  visiting  the 
spot. — Timee, 

A.  British  Musbum  Readiko-Room  Gribvancb. — 
Under  tliis  heading  a  correspondent  inquires :  "  How  is 
it  that  books  and  MSS.  in  use  in  the  Reading-Room  of 
the  British  Museum  are  kept  so  long  a  time  at  the 
binder's  ? — in  many  cases  six  or  eight  months,  and  even 
longer ;  and  some  collections  purchased  in  18iS2  (nearly 
ten  years  ago)  are  not  even  arranged  for  the  bin<Mr  yet. 
I  have  sent  up  my  tickets  for  books  and  MSS.  month 
after  month,  end  still  they  are  returned  with  the  words 
'  At  the  binder's.'  Surely' one  or  two  months  is  ample 
time  to  bind  a  book  or  MS."  We  think  there  must  be 
some  mistake  in  this ;  and  we  are  sure  that  the  attention 
of  the  authorities  once  called  to  the  subject,  there  will  be 
no  ground  for  fhrther  complaints. 

• 

R4RLT  CLoanroMoVKHBirT.^The  managers  of  theLon- 
don  daily  press  have,  it  is  said,  resolved  to  abandon  the 
practice  of  reporting  t»  exteneo  the  speeches  delivered  in 
the  House  of  Commons  at  unreasonably  late  hours.  Ex- 
cept in  veiy  rare  cases,  where  the  interest  of  the  debate 
justifies  a  deimrtnre  flnom  the  rule,  honourable  members 
who  ckteh  the  Speaker's  eye  after  midnight  will  hence- 
forth find  but  a  brief  epitome  of  their  eloquence  in  the 
morning  papers. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLTTMES 

WAKZEO  TO  PUBOHASE. 

H.  Tatlob'b  STATanmr. 

•«•  Letten  itatlaa  putlealan  and  lowwt  price,  carriagt  /rM,  to  be 
■ent  to  Mk.  Sxith,  Publkher.  **  Notu  asd  QoaaiBS,**  4>,  Wel- 
lincton  Street,  Stxand.  W.C. 

PutlonUtfi  of  Prioe,  ae.,  of  the  followtng  booki  to  be  eent  direct  to 
tfaeKemtlemen  by  wham  tMywgeqmred,  witoee  liiMi  •ad  eddreew 
are  girea  ftur  thai  pvipoee:  — 

Jack  SHiPHasD,  Illnitnited  by  Crnlkahank. 

Wanted  br  Mr,  J,  C.  Uottm,  74  and  75,  FtondiUf ,  W. 

Ncwepapete,  ac,  hatliic  relfciciice  to  the  lato  C.  Didme> 
Waatad  br  Mr.  J.  O,  Tkompt^n,  IS.  Crown  Ttezaee,  AaUbr  Bold, 

Hull. 


We  ewe  conmelled  to  postpone  untU  next  week  omr  noHee 
of  Mr.  T»i9Mon*9  and  Mr.  ChaboVe  elaborate  vohtme, 
The  Handwriting  of  Junius. 

Mblcombb^ — Someacontnt  of  Daniel  Qmare^tkewaiiA' 
maker,  wOL  be  fommd  m  •'N.  &  Q."  i^  S.  vi.  18, 175,  and 
Bone's  Tear-Book,  p.  8U. 

m  JSr.  ^^Ifbre  retimed  hie  wtder-Mher^aUy,  Jnly 
28, 1519.    See  FoMt'$  Judge%  v.  210. 

X.  X.-^Ifb  ekarye  for  the  ineertion  of  QncriM,  bat  ve 
reserve  to  oarsdvei  tke  right  of  judging  what  art  admis- 
sibls, 

Ebbata.-4«»  S.  viL  p.  871,  coL  i.  lines  4, 8,  and  2  from 
bottom  (of  text), /or  •'au" and  '* inserted "  r«nl  ••anl' 
and<*manuliutnred,'*rsBMCtivchr;  p.d74.ooLiLline8^ 
/ir  «*  endond  "  rewi «« endowed.*^ 


4*  S.  VII.  May  6,  Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  Q[J£BI£& 


ACGIDBHVB    CAVffiB    liOW   OV   lilFB. 

Aooidents  oftuie  ZjOM  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 
Provide  offaintt  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  IKftUBHra  WITS  THB 

Kailway  PasMiigen'  AMUXBiioe  Ckuapaay, 

An  Animal  FurmeBt  of  iBS  to  Ml  5/  Innnes  ei,000  at  Soitttu 
oran  aUoiwicofttUitMto  of  M>  per  WMk  for  Injur* 

&56SfOOO  have  been  Paid  as  CompenBatioD, 

OKB  out  of  evwy  TWKLVE  Aaniua  Polter  Holdwi  Jbwwmlnff  a 
claimant  EACH  TEAR.  For  particulan  apply  to  the  Clexlu  at  the 
S«Uway  StatifMif,  to  theI<ooal  Agents,  or  at  toe  OCBce*. 

M.CORNHILL,  and  10,  REGENT  STREET,  LONDON. 

WniLIAlC  J.  VIAN,  Awrelorir. 


NOTHING  IMPOSSIBLK— AaUA  AMAKKTJA 
xeitorecthe  Haman  Hair  to  iti  prlHine  hue,  no  matter  at  what 
ace.  MESSRS.  JOHN  008NELL  ft  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  eld 
of  the  mort  eminent  Chemliti,  soooeeded  in  perfteting  thli  wonderfal 
liQuid.  It  is  now  ofkxed  to  the  Public  in  a  more  concentrated  fonn, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 
Sold  in  BottlcB .  3«.  each,  alio  ft*.. 7«.  6d.,  or  Iftt.  eacb,  with  brush. 


JOHN    GOSNELL  &  CO.'S    CHERBY  TOOTH 
PASTS  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  whiteness,  protoots  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  imparts  a 
pleasing  fragrance  to  iba  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  G0.*8  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
NI7R8ERT  POWDER. 

T^  be  had  of  all  Perftmiere  and  Chemiata  thxooghont  the  Klaffdom, 
and  at  Angel  Ausage,  <B,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 


RT7PTIJRXS.-BY  ROYAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

TITHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

f  T  allowed  by  upwards  of  500  Medical  men  tobe  the  most  eflho- 
ttve  invention  in  the  curative  treatment  of  HEMSIA.  The  use  of  a 
ateel  spring,  so  often kurtAil  in  its  elfccts,is  here  avoldedi  aaoft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  bo^.while  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
pMby  the  MOC-MAXN^  !PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  fitting  with  so 
much  ease  and  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  oe  worn 
dnringaleqK  A  descriptive  drcnlarmnr  be  had,  and  the  Trass  Cwhieh 
cannot  Ml  toflt)  fcfrwaided  by  post  on  the  drenmftrenoe  of  the  body, 
twoindkes  below  the  hips,  beuig  sent  to  the  Manufketaier. 

MR.  JOHN  WHITS,  «B,  PIGCADILLY,  LONDON. 

Price  of  a  Single  Trass,  Ms.,  Us.,  Ms.  gd.,  and  Sis.  6d.   Postage  Is. 
Doable%nssrSU.6d.,«ls.,andfias.6<i.   Postage  Is.  gd; 
An  UmbUioa  Trass,  41s.  and  51s.  6d.  Postage  Is.  lOii. 

Post  OfBce  orders  payaUg  to  JOHN  WHETS,  Post  Ofliee,  Piocadilly. 

ELASTIC  8T00EINQS,  E37EE-CAPS,  fre.,  for 
YARIGOSE  VEINS,  and  all  oases  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 
rO  of  the  LBGS,  SPRAINS,  fte.  Tlwy  are  foroos,  light  in  texture, 
andinwcpenaive,  and  are  drawn  on  Ukaaniwdinaiy  stocking.  Prioes 
4s.  fld.,  7s.  Of/.,  lOs.,  and  Ms.  each.   Poetage  6d. 

JOHN  WHITE,  MANUFACTUSBR,  BB.  PIOGADILLT,  London. 

G£KTLEB£EN  desirons  of  having  their  Linens 
dressed  to  perActton  should  sapply  their  Laundresses  with  the 

wUeh  fanpaets  a  hrillianfty  and  elaetirity  gratifying  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sii^t  and  touch. 

A  FACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 
the  hair  with  this  beantiiUlyperftnned  Wash.  In  two  durs  grey 
bcoomcs  ite  orii^al  oolonr,  aiMl  remains  so  by  an  ofleasionai  unng. 
This  is  guarantee  by  MR.  BOSS.  lOs.  OsE.,  sent  fbr  stamps.— ALEjL 
ROSS,  M8,  High  Holbom,  London. 

SPANISH  ELY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Alex. 
ROSS'S  GANTHARIDES  OIL.  It  is  a  sure  Restorer  of  Hair,  and 
rodueerofWhiBkers.  Ite  effect  Is  speedy.  It  is  patronised  by  Royalty. 
The  price  of  it  is  a».  6d.,  sent  ft>r  &4  stamps. 

EOLLOWATS  PILLS.— Any  dyspeptic  sufferer, 
awanof  thepnrlfrlng,ragu]ntlng,  and  cen^  aperient  powers  of 
\  Pills,  should  permit  no  one  to  doud  his  judgment,  or  to  warp  his 
course.  With  a  box  of  HoUoway's  PiUs,  and  attention  to  its  aeoom- 
panying  directions,  he  may  ftel  tnoron^r  satisfied  that  he  can  salbly 
aadettotnally  ralaaae URMelf fkon his  mfavies  wtttoot  InqMliingi^ 
appetite  or  distressing  his  digestion.  Sy  aiding  natural  nutrition  this 
«xaallaatnMdlalaemlees  the  bodily  strengtii  to  ite  extrsme  limits,  and 
banishes  a  thousand  annoying  Ibnns  or  nervous  complaints.  Any 
oeirarfonal  resort  to  Hdllowv's  ramedy  will  nrove  hlgur  salntaiT  to 
aU pcrams,  whether  weO  or  UI.  whose  digaation  la«toiwor  lipiffciil, 
nenaUy  evidenced  hj  weariness,  ustlesiiMss,  and  de^pondepcy. 


WATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  mnnteed 
the  finest  Imported,  free  fh>m  acidity  or  heat,  ana  much  sino- 
rior  to  low-priced  Sherry  (yidt  Hr.  Sraitt  on  Cheap  Wimea),  One 
Guinea  per  doten.    Selected  dry  Tarragona,  18s.  per  doien.    Terms 

aash.    Tbree  doaen  rail  paid W.  D.  WATSOli;  Wine  Mer^ant, 

S73,  Oxibvd  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  Loadon,  W. 
bUshedlMl.   Full  nice  Liste post  flree  on  eppUaUion. 


AtlSs.  per  doaen,  tt  Ibr  aG«itlflnan*»Table. 
Carriagapald.  Ombs  is.  per  doaen extoaCrelimiattle). 


43HARLB6  WARD  ft  «ON, 

CPost  Office  Orders  on  PieoadlUy),  1,  Ghi^ei  Btnet  W«it, 
MaYPAIR,  W.,  LOHDON. 


HEDGES   &  BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PUBB  ST.  JULEEN  CLASXT 
At  Ms.,  Ms.,  flis.,aQs.,  and  8Bs.  per  doaan. 
GkoleeClaiete  of  various  growths,  4Ss.,4Bs.,60f.,7ts.,  84s.,  Ms. 

GOOD  DXNNBB  BHEHRY, 
At  its.  and  SOs.  per  doaen. 

Superior  OoIdcnSberrT Ms.and4ls. 

ChoiceSherry-^ale,  Golden,  or  Brown. ..  .4Bs.,54s.,and Ms. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  Ms.,  00s.,  aOs.,  41s.,  4Bs.,0Os.,  and84«. 

Port  from  flrst-dassShln>brs 80s.16s.41s. 

TanrCholoeOU  Port 48s.80s.71s.S4e. 

CHAMPAGNE, 
At  88s.,  41s .,  48s..  and  80s. 

Hochheimer.  Mereobmnner,  Rudesheimer,  Steinberg,  Liebfraumiloht 
60s. I  Johannisberger  and  Stetmbecger,  78s.,  84s..  to  110is.(  Bxaunbergert 
Grunhausen,  and  Scharxberg,  Ms.  to  84s^  sparkling  Moselle,  48s.,  Ms., 
86s.,  TSs.ivwT  eholee  Champacne,  88*.,  18s.|fine  old  Saak,  Malmsey. 
Frontignae,  vermuth,  Constanoa^Ladirynus  Chrlsti,  Imperial  Tokay, 
and  otner  rare  wines.  Fine  old  Pale  Oognae  Brandy,  60s.  and  71s.  per 
doaen.  Foreign  Idqueurs  of  eveiT  description. 

On  leoeiptof  a  Post  Oflloe  ordiBr,or  x«ftrenoe,any  qnantity  will  b 
forwarded  Immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDONs  IM,  BJBGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brigbiloni  80.  Klac*»  Bead, 

(Originallg  Establisfaed  AJ>.  18670 

MANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS.  VENNING  &  00. 
of  17,  EAST  INDIA  GHAMBSRSlLONDON,  have  Juet  re- 
»d  a  Consignment  of  No.  S  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  exoellent  con- 
dition, in  Boxes  of  fiOO  each.  Price  K.  10s.  per  box.  Orders  to  be 
accompanied  by  a  remittance. 

N.B.  Sample  Box  of  100, 10s.  6d. 


BY  BOnrAL  OOMHAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

SOLD  by  aU  8TATI0ENSR8  thioughontthe  Wodd. 


G 


ILBERT     J.      FRENCH, 

BOLTON,  LANCASHIBB.    * 
Manulbcturerof 
CHURCH    VURNITUBID. 

CARPETS,  ALTAR-CLOTHS, 

COMMUNION  LINEN,  SURPLICES,  and  BOBflS. 

HERALDIC,  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICAL 

FLAGS  and  BANNERS,  te.  fte. 

A  Oatal(«ue  sent  by  post  on  application. 

Paitels  daltvered  free  at  all  principal  Railway  Stattoni. 


LAMFLOTTOH'S 
PTSETIC    6ALIVS 


Sold  by  most  diymlfta,  and  the  BUftar. 
H.  LAMPLOUGH,  113,  Holbom  HUl,  London. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


£4*  S.  Vn.  Mat  6,  Tl. 


TDTSunr  bkot: 


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HEW  BOOKS. 


LETTERS  OK  INTERNATIONAL  RELATIONS 

OO&tESFOHDEHT,  at  BerUn.  Jfeprinted. tqrpnmiMtoD,  from 

•*Th^  IaHbh  ttnbnMM  tba  emtftil  pariod  between  the  lUMCttfv 

mmiyiaktaDee.   They  bccin  with  the  pfcUmiiuvlM  of  ^  peMe  of 

^'^  ^^  aoeoffdiiigly  into  a  history  of  tho  trinxmih  of  CtermaaTOltar 
jSmSnM  machlBatlona  tbiU  eolminated  ia  the TimA 
^^yNm^  April  15. 

-^*Tlia  omtanta  of  tfaoM  two  'olmn^  'I'SSLif'tJSt  ?i,5SI!ISl 
tHdy  ff4.  not  aa  fflTn-«ir"*'  newapapar  lattera,  bat  aa  a  eonttnDona 
S»Kaado»mimft?piiSio  a^^  be  fraud  a  very  Inatnatlvv 
ftady.**-J>a<ly  JTewt.  _      ^ 

•*  Thaae  ToIamM  wm  be  of  Isealenlabte  aerHoe  at^pnaent  tiow.** 


"Hofoodllbianroan  bewlftfratttila  woiki  Itwmbeabjolntd^ 
dineuSuetomaay.andwe  think  it  nay  be  aa  Mi^noted  from  aa 
an  anthority  aa  an  many  of  onr  atandaid  worka  ^^'^'^^j^^^-^j 

LIVES  of  the  KEMBLES.    By  Pbbot  Frra- 

aeiald,Antliorof**TheLiftofDaTldaanlck,"fte.   STola.8f^ 

CUB  LIVING  POETS.  By  H.  Btotow  Fobmah. 
FBOM  SEDAN  to  SAABBRtJCK,  viA  Veiduii, 

Ora««lotla,aadlfet8.   By  anOFFICEBof  ChcBOTAIi  ARTIL- 
ZJBBY.   1  voL  crown  8to,  7a.  •((. 


At  aU  ]ilM«iiefl« 

NOnCB. — VXW  NOVKL  BT  THB  AXJTHOB  OF  "  OIJTB 

TABOOB." 

FAMILY.  PRIDE :  a  NotoI.    By  the  Author  of 

**OUTeyareoe,**'*8iBipleaaaDoTe,**fte.  StoIs. 

HABRY   DISNEY:    an   AutoWograpliy.     By 

ATHOLL  DB  WALDEN.   StoIi.  IThitdaff. 

CLARA  DELAMAINE :  a  Novel.    In  3  yola. 

C/twl  rtady, 

BLANCHE  SEYMOUR ;  a  Novel    In  8  vola. 
MADAME  LA  MARQUISE :  a  Novel.    By  the 

Author  of**  Altogether  Wrong,"  fee.  Srola.         CAeodhr  tiktit  day . 

THE  FOSTER  SISTERS:  a  Novel.    By  Ed- 

HOBD  BRBNAB  LOUGHNAK.   Svola. 

DESPERATE    REMEDIES:    a    Novel. 

InSToIa. 

ONLY  A  COMMONER :  a  Novel    By  Hsitbt 

HOBTOBD.   8  Tola. 

FAIR  PASSIONS:   a  Novel.     By  the  How. 

MBS  nOOTT-CABLETON.   S  Tcda. 

THE  CANON'S  DAUGHTERS :  the  Stoxy  of 

a I>>T«Chaae.   By B.  St.  JOHN  GOBBET.   Ih9  vola. 
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NOraS :  —  Irish  Legionaries  In  Bio  de  JnieiroJpS^  Napo- 
leon ni..  4M~BnM  in  Boston  Ghuroh,  i&.— UnpoUished 

Letter  of Essex.  4U6  —  Proverbs  —The  fiodleiHi  — 

SuroMnes  of  OlDoisIs  in  the  West  Indies,  Ac.—  William 
OUmore  Bimms—SJale.Mid  Female  Numbers  and  Letters— 
**Tbe  Prodigal  Son"  iu  Greene's  ** Mooming Garment/' 
1S02— More  abont  Cocker— "In  the  BtrMr''— An  Sdi- 
torial  Centenarian,  400. ' 

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Bridgettine  Nuns  —  CfaauTinisme— The  Obevron— 01s- 
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cester —  Dream  of  Elisabeth  de  TArche  —  Eggs  as  an 
Article  of  Food  —  Gates,  Isle  of  Man— "The  Greatest 
Clerks  are  not  tbe  Wisest  Men  '*  —  HeralcUo  —  Joan  d'Aro 
—Kipper  —  Man  Trans  and  Spriiur  Guns— The  Queen  : 
Empress  of  India^**  The  Shrubs  of  Parnassus  "— "  Similes, 
to  Molly  "  -  "  Portrait  of  Lord  Spynie  "  —  Walpole's  Nail- 
brush — Worcestershire  Arms  —  Wrecks  at  Sea :  the  Tem- 
ple, 408. 

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410  —  Date  of  Chaucer's  Birth,  41S  —  The  Memory  of 
fHnells.  418 — Soena :  Scifnf,  414— Children's  Games,  41fr— 
The  Peel  Collection  of  Pictures—  Flag  of  the  New  German 
Empire  — Gnats  r.  Mosquitoes  —  Eiev  Thomas  Brooks  — 
Mrs.  Mary  Churchill.  1876— "The  Hob  in  the  Well" — 
LMioashire  Witches-Letter  of  Edward  IV.-Clan  McAlpin 
—  Chignons  —  Dighton  Caricatures  —  Bash  Statements  : 
Gibbon's  "  Decline  and  Pall "  —  Esssys  Divine.  Moral,  and 
PbUtioal.  1714:  Dean  Swift -Chaucer's  "Col-Foz"  and 
"Oattothed"  —  Ciiss-Cross-A  B  C  —  Latin  Proverb  — 
Beauty  Bleep,  Ac,  4i&. 

Notes  on  Books,  Ao. 


IBISH  LE6I0NABIES  IN  BIO  DE  JANEIBO. 

In  ike  year  1834  there  was  published  in  Berlin 
«  work  entitled  *^A  ConiribuUon  to  the  History  of 
the  War  between  Brazil  and  Buenos  Ayres  in  the 
Years  1826,  1826, 1827,  and  1828,  by  an  Eye- 
witness.'** I  do  not  know  who  was  the  author  of 
this  interesting  book;  but  no  one  can  read  it 
without  being  charmed  by  the  talents  of  the 
writer,  and  fully  eonyinced  of  his  honesty.  My 
main  olject  in  now  directing  attention  to  his 
pages  is  for  the  purpose  of  eliciting,  through  the 
columns  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  some  further  information 
xeepecting  an  Irish  legion,  or  body  of  soldiers, 
which  he  refers  to  as  oeing  organised  for  the  ser- 
Tice  of  the  Emperor  Dom  Pedro  in  the  year  1828. 

The  Irish  are  justly  proud  of  the  achievements 
of  their  valiant  countrymen  who^  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  the  Treaty  of  Limerick,  became 
exiles  from  their  native  land,  and  were  afterwards 
known  in  many  a  battle-field  of  Europe  as  '^  the 
Irish  Legion,"  although  for  many  years  their  de- 
parture uom  the  land  of  their  birth  was  lamented 
as  ''  the  flight  of  the  wild  geese."  Nothing  could 
be  better  Jmown  in  Ireland  than  the  fact  that  in 

*  BeihUae  xur  Getchiehte  des  Krieges  zwischeH  Bra- 
siHen  vnd  BmeHoa-Ayreg  in  den  Jahren  1825,  26,  27,  28. 
Yon  slnem  Angenzengen.  Berlin,  bd  G.  Bsimer,  1884, 
S»,  pp.  8H. 


the  year  1817  several  regiments  of  Irishmen  were 
enrolled  and  took  service  with  the  revolted  States 
in  South  America ;  but  of  a  later  deportation  of 
Irishmen  to  serve  under  Dom  Pedro  in  Brazil, 
little,  if  snything,  has  ever  been  ftiid ;  and  hence 
I  am  sure  that  the  following  extracts  concerning 
the  formation,  the  stone-throwing  prowess,  and 
the  disbandment  of  an  '^  Irish  Legion  "  in  Rio 
Janeiro  will  be  as  strange  and  extraordinary  in- 
telligence to  the  present  generation  of  Irishmen 
as,  icandidly  admit,  it  has  been  to  myself. 

Previous  to  the  engagement  of  Irishmen  in  his 
service,  Dom  Pedro  had  formed  a  legion  of  Ger- 
mans, and  these  were  mainly  picked  up  in  Ham- 
burg and  Bremen,  and  were  chosen  on  account 
of  tneir  physical  development,  and  without  the 
slightest  regard  to  their  moral  qualities ;  and,  as 
our  author  says,  there  was  no  question  asked 
whether  or  not  they  were  outcasts  from  prison  or 
runaways  from  the  police;  on  the  contrary,  one 
agent  undertook  to  send  out  a  certain  number  of 
convicts  from  the  penitentiaries  (eine  ^Anssahl  Straf- 
Unge  aus  den  ZuduhSuserfi),  and  even  these,  bad 
as  thev  were,  had  been  enticed  to  enrol  them- 
selves by  promises  as  false  as  they  were  flattering 
(p.  284.) 

By  such  means  were  Germans  enrolled  under 
the  banners  of  Dom  Pedro,  and  here  is  what  the 
author  says  as  to  those  who  had  been  induced  to 
leave  Ireland  for  the  Brazils : — 

^  The  determination  to  increase  the  number  of  foreign 
troops  which  were  so  easily  handled,  and  constituted 
idmost  the  sole  reliable  support  of  the  executive  power, 
led  to  the  employment  of  Colonel  Cotter,  an  Irishman, 
who  had  been  just  then  named  as  the  cammander  of  the 
third  battalion  of  Grenadiers.  He  was  sent  to  Ireland 
for  the  purpose  of  raising  recruits,  and  about  the  begin- 
ning of  the  year  1828  he  reached  Bio  de  Janeiro  with  a 
couple  of  thousand  of  his  fellow  countrymen.  These  men 
had  been  recruited  by  the  same  deoeitriil  means  that  had 
been  employed  for  entidng  the  Germans  fdKe  er  m  clsr- 
ie/ben  tweidemtieeH  Art,  wie  eUe  ientaehen  Wether  gewor- 
ien),  and  for  the  most  part  were  taken  Arom  the  very 
lowest  classes  of  the  populace,  as  weU  as  from  the  White- 
boys. 

**  Upon  their  arrival,  an  attempt  was  made  to  force  all 
capable  of  bearing  arms  to  enter  the  service  and  at  once 
repair  to  the  military  depote  to  commence  drill ;  but  this 
attempt  was  resisted,  and  when  the  government  sought 
to  compel  the  men  to  become  soldiers,  an  appeal  was  made 
to  Uie  British  ambassador.  Sir  Robert  GPordon,  who  at 
once  declared  that,  unless  these  men  had  bound  them- 
selves to  take  military  service,  they  could  not  be  forced 
to  do  so.  It  is  difficult  to  determine  whether  this  de- 
cision of  the  ambassador  was  founded  on  political,  l^al, 
or  personsl  grounds,  slthongh  all  such  motives  might 
easuy  be  supposed  to  have  contributed  to  his  decision,  by 
reason  of  his  dissatisfisction  with  the  conduct  of  the 
emperor. 

"  Under  these  drcnmstances  an  amicable  arrangemeiit 
was  come  to,  and  from  three  to  four  hundred  Inshmen 
were  enlisted  upon  the  following  conditions,  viz.  that  each 
man  should  receive  the  pay  of  an  English  soldier— a  shil- 
liiu^  a  day — ^which  was  nearly  twice  as  much  as  was 
p^  to  the  Gennaas,  as  weU.  as  double  their  ntions ; 


404 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4««»  S.  VII.  Mat  18, 71. 


next,  that  there  sbonld  be  no  stoppsfi^ ;  and  lastly,  that 
they  Bhoald  not  be  subjected  to  corporal  panUhment. 
They  were  then  incorporated  in  the  tbird  Grenadier  bat- 
talion, commanded  by  their  ooantryman.  Colonel  Cotter, 
and  so  served  to  complete  the  battalions  of  Germans." 
(Pp.  288, 289.) 

And  here  it  is  to  be  remarked  tbat  our  author 
may  be  relied  upon  as  to  whatever  statements  he 
makes  as  "  an  e^e-witness/'  but  that  he  was  liable 
to  mimnformation^  and^  I  have  no  doubt,  was 
misinformed  when  he  asserts  that  these  Irish- 
men were  recruited  in  Ireland^  and  that  some 
of  them  were  ''  Whiteboys."  There  were  no 
"  Whiteboys"  in  Ireland  in  1827  or  1828.  The 
severe  enactments  entitled ''  The  Whiteboy  Acts  " 
were  still  in  force.  Some  landlords  were  still 
ffuilty  of  cruelties,  and  farmers  and  farmers'  la- 
bourers resented  such  cruelties  by  the  perpetration 
of  heinous  crimes ;  but  still  there  were,  with  the 
exception  of  the  co.  Tipperaiy,  fewer  fin^ve  anarian 
offences  committed  in  Ireland  in  1827  and  1828 
than  for  many  preceding  years.  I  entertain  then 
a  very  strong  doubt  that  any  of  the  Irishmen  im- 
ported into  Brazil  were  agriculturists.  And  then 
there  is  this  consideration, — ^how  could  two  thou- 
sand Irishmen  be  recruited  in  Ireland  and  utterly 
escape  the  attention  of  the  tipo  governments  that 
were  then  established  in  that  country  P  It  may 
seem  strange  to  assert  that  in  1827  and  1828  there 
were  ttoo  governments,  but  such  is  literally  the  fact. 
There  was  '*  the  Irish "  ^vemment  established 
at  the  Com  Exchange,  and  called  ''the  Catiiolic 
Association,"  with  Daniel  O'Connell  as  the  pre- 
sident, and  there  was  *'  the  English  "  government 
at  the  Castie,  with  the  Marquis  of  Wellesley  or 
Anglesey  as  Lord-Lieutenant.  The  latter  would 
not  have'  permitted  the  provisions  of  the  Foreign 
Enlistment  Act  to  be  violated ;  and  the  former 
would  not  have  sanctioned  the  deportation  of  so 
large  a  number  of  their  countrymen  for  the  pur- 
pose of  fighting  against  a  state  like  Buenos  Ayres, 
which  had  only  recently  achieved  its  independ- 
ence. My  belief  then  is  that  the  Irishmen  re- 
cruited by  Colonel  Cotter  must  have  been  picked 
up  in  London,  Liverpool,  Manchester,  and  Glas- 
gow, and  were — if  one  may  judge  of  them  from 
their  subsequent  conduct — composed  of  the  refuse, 
riff-raff,  and  the  worst  portions  of  the  Irish  popu- 
lation to  be  found  out  of  their  own  country. 

**  Great  mischiefs,"  observes  onr  author,  *'  followed 
from  having  in  the  same  corps  men  of  two  distinct  nation- 
alities, and  receiving  different  pay,  and  treated  not  in  the 
same  manner.  The  Irish,  being  so  much  preferred  to  the 
Germans,  soon  began  with  riots  in  the  taverns  and 
*  vendas*  of  Rio  de  Janeiro,  and  by  these  riots  gnat  dis- 
turbances were  caused,  and  many  persons  lost  their  lives. 
The  Irish  also  soon  found  out  a  new  amusement  for  them- 
sdves^it  was  by  practising  their  great  skill  in  stone- 
throwing  at  the  expense  of  the  negroes  {ihre  Guehick- 
Uehkeii  iw  SUinwer/en  an  dem  Ntaem  zu  mAch).  These 
poor  negroes  were  thus  molested  as  they  daily  came  to 
draw  water  (torn  the  fountain  in  the  Place  SL  Annc^  in 


which  the  barracks  were  situated.  This  annoyance  added 
to  their  afflictions,  and  served  to  make  both  them  and 
thdr  masters  most  bitter  enemies  of  the  Irish.  And  then 
this  consequence  followed  that  the  Germans,  their  fellow 
soldiers,  who  loved  brawling  and  drinking  as  much  as 
the  Irish,  readily  followed  their  example,  especially  when 
they  saw  that  tnese  disorders  were  followed  b^  no  serious 
punishment,  as  the  colonel  winked  at  the  misconduct  of 
the  Irishmen  in  the  hope  the  remainder  of  their  country  • 
men  would  be  tempted  to  Jobi  the  ranks.*'    (P.  289.) 

It  would  be  a  waste  of  your  space  to  enter  into 
all  the  particulars  of  the  manner  in  which  a  dis- 
regiud  of  discipline  at  length  led  to  open  mutiny. 
In  this  mutiny,  the  Irish  fully  sympatbisinff  with 
their  new  and  cordial  friends  th^  Qerman  soldiers, 
both  broke  out  into.an  open  insnirection,  which  is 
thus  described : — 

**The  marching  of  troops,  the  rattling  of  artiller} ,  and 
the  racing  of  orderl^r  officers,  announced  to  the  inhabi- 
tants of  Rio  de  Janeiro  the  danger  that  was  impending 
over  them.  A  multitude  of  curious  persons,  and  amonycst 
them  many  negroes,  were  coUected  together  on  the 
Place  St.  Anne,  and  it  might  be  about  mid-day,  when  the 
insurgents  without  any  military  order,  but  gathered 
together  like  a  swarm  of  bees,  burst  out  of  the  barrack- 
yuds. 

**  The  first  fight  of  the  insurgents  began  with  the  spec- 
tators, end  was  especially  directed  against  the  negroes. 
The  Irish  threw  stones  at  them,  and  they  retaliated ;  and 
then  followed  discharges  of  musketry.*  Those  who  had 
been  collected  from  curiosity  fled,  and  the  insurgents^ 
incited  by  rage,  and  eager  for  plunder,  broke  into  houeep, 
and  ravaged  the  adjoimpg  streets.  Ruthless  and  savage, 
the}'  spared  the  lives  of  none  they  enconatered.  llie 
inbabitonts,  in  their  despair,  armed  themselves ;  the  ne- 
groes, too,  got  hold  of  weapons,  and  then  began  a  battle, 
or  rather  a  butchery,  in  which  a  mutual  hatred,  surpassing 
sll  belief,  was  exhibited.  No  (quarter  was  given  on  either 
side,  and  the  blacks,  like  cannibals,  tore  with  their  teeth 
the  bodies  of  their  fallen  foes  I  The  battle  raged  for  many 
hours,  until  at  last  the  ammunition  of  the  insurgents  waii 

exhausted A  detachment  of  cavalry  was  sent 

against  them,  but  this  was  encountered  by  a  troop  of 
Irishmen  with  such  a  powerful,  well-aimed  hail-storm  of 
stones,  that  many  of  the  riders  were  knocked  oiT  their 
horses,  and  the  remainder  took  to  flight"  (Pp.  295,  296,) 

This  last  incident  is,  I  belieye,  an  achieTement 
unparalleled  in  modem  warfare.  But  to  hasten 
to  a  conclusion  of  "  this  strange,  eventful  his- 
tory." Hie  mutiny  was  suppressed,  and  *'  all  the 
blame  of  it  was  tnrown  upon  the  Irish"  (man 
die  Schxdd  der  Emporung  aUein  oaf  die  Irldnder  su 
waken  beabsichiige).  The  universal  cry  of  the 
Brazilians  was  '^  Death  to  all  foreigners! "  {MaUt 
todos  OS  estrangeiros/);  and  as  to  this  poor  little 
*'  Irish  legion,"  we  are  told  that  its  members ''  were 
given  over  to  the  English  authorities,  in  order 
that  they  might  be  returned  to  their  own  homes 
as  alike  incorrigible  and  untameable"  {die  Ir- 
ldnder den  engliu^en  BehSrden  vbergeben  werdeny 
umsiein  ihre  ffeimath  stwriieknuckqffmf  die  man 
als  unverhesserUch  tmd  tmzdhmbta^  Mgah\  p.  297. 

But  did  these  Irish  retom  to  Ireland  P  I  doubt 
it    I  should  like  to  know  what  became  of  them. 


4-1 8.  VII.  Mat  18, '71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIED. 


405 


There  must  surely  be  some  record  of  these  trans- 
actions in  our  Foreiffo  Office;  or  perhaps  some 
one  in  Ireland  can  tell  of  Colonel  Cotton  and  his 
Irish  Legion.  Wh.  B.  MacCabb. 

Moooontonr-de-Bretagne^  Cdtes  da  Nord,  France. 


NAPOLEON  III. 

There  are  many  accounts  of  the  life  and  works 
of  Napoleon  III.,  some  of  which,  laudatory 
enough,  were  evidently  written  by  order* ;  but  in 
none  or  them,  as  far  as  I  know,  is  there  any  men- 
tion of  a  contribution  from  his  Majesty  to  a  trans- 
lation begun  by  his  brother  and  published  in  a 
large  collection,  the  Pantheon  UtUraireA  The 
de<£cation,  which  I  beg  to  subjoin,  is  very  curious, 
and  may  give  rise  to  more  than  one  commentary : 

**  A  Son  Altesae  Imp^riale 
Le  Prince  Napoleon  Louia  Bonaparte. 

«  Mon  cber  Piino^— C'eat  k  yona  anrtout  aae  je  deyaia 
offrir  oe  volume.  11  contient  ronvrage  d'un  Jacqaea 
Baonaparte,  homme  de  sens  et  de  coear,  qui  porta  avec 
honnenr  an  xvi*  ai^e  ce  nom  devenn  au  xix*  le  plus 
glorieuz  dea  noma.  Un  autre  membre  de  votre  famille, 
on  homme  d'on  eaprit  droit,  d'un  coBur  g^n^reux,  d'un 
patriotiame  ^prouv^,  qui  fat  votre  ft-^re,  a  fait  de  cet 
ouvrage  une  traduction  ^l^nte  et  facile.  Youa-merae 
vona  avez  bien  vouln,  k  ma  demande,  revoir  lea  frag- 
menta  omia  par  votre  flr^re,  car  je  ne  voulaia  pas  qu*une 
plume  ^trangire  vint  ae  vaSler  a  cette  association  de 
famille.  Je  puis  done  dire  qu'en  bonne  partie  ce  volume 
«8t  tout  vdtre  et  voua  le  d^er  comme  teL  Mais  une 
autre  consideration  encore  m*a  determine  k  vous  le  pr^ 
eenter :  c*e8t  qu*il  contienC;  k  cot^  de  la  narration  niS' 
torique  de  Jacqnea  Buonaparte,  les  M^moirea  sur  Bayard 
«t  Fleurange,  deux  h^roa  de  votre  affection.  Je  ne  aaia 
ai  la  fortune,  favorable  on  contraire,von8  appeUera  jamais 
h  la  vie  d'actlon,  voua  condamn^  en  expiation  de  la 
gloire  de  votre  nom,  k  uaer  jusqu'ici  daxis  Texil  cette 
gen^reuse  ardeur  par  laquelle  voua  eusaiez  su  leaoutenir  $ 
maia  ce  que  je  aaia  bien,  c'est  que  d  jamais  votre  patrie 
r^clamait  le  sacrifice  entier  de  votre  personne,  heureux 
de  vous  expoaer  au  premier  rang,  sans  autre  ambition 
que  celle  de  bien  fidre,  aana  autre  mobile  que  Tint^rSt  de 
votre  pays,  voua  sauries,  comme  Bayard,  capitaine  on 
fioldat,  ma^trat  on  dtoyen,  oonqutfrir  raflection,  le 
respect,  et,  je  me  plais  k  le  croire,  radmiration  de  tous. 

**  Si  qua  fata  aspera  rumpas, 
Tu  Marcellus  eris.' 


''Paris,  27  juiUet  1886. 


AthensBum  Club,  Pall  Mall. 


Yotreami, 

"J.  A-BUCHOH." 

Frahcisqits-Miohel. 


BRASS  IN  BOSTON  CHURCH. 

Pi^hey  Thompson,  in  his  generally  accurate 
History  of  Badon,  alludes  (n.  107)  to  '<  a  most 
brilliantxoat  of  arms  upon  a  orass  nlate  with  real 
metals  and  tinctures  enamelled  as  old  as  the  reign 

*  See  YaperMU,  Dieihmuttre  vmvotnd  dm  conUm>' 
porabUf  ft  Pent.  Hoefiur,  NowMe  Biograpku  gHtdral^,  etc, 

t  Obour  <£b  Ckromiquei  et  Miwunrm  mr  PSiaioire  d* 
Fremce^^lAi  Loyal  Servitenr.  —  Chroniqne  de  Bayard, 
&e.   Ptris,A.I>«nqr»]iJXXXuaacvi,8vo. 


of  Elizabeth,"  which  was  in  1856  (uid  it  is  to  be 
hoped  is  now)  in  the  south  aisle  of  Boston  church. 
It  18  a  memorial  of  Richard  Bolle  of  Haugh,  who 
died  1591  \  and  as  Holies,  while  giving  the  in* 
scription  which  in  1640  existed  in  Latin,  made  no 
mention  of  the  plate,  Thompson,  who  extracts 
from  Lincolnshire  Churches,  Division  Holland,  p.  59 
(1843),  an  account  of  the  blazoning  of  the  sixteen 
quarterings  of  which  it  is  stated  to  consist,  re- 
marks that  it  has  been  probably  renewed  since 
Holies'  time,  particularly  as  the  inscription  is  now 
in  English,  and  not  in  Latin. 

Possibly  in  such  renewal  the  plate  has  suffered, 
or  time  has  caused  the  tinctures  to  appear  other- 
wise than  in  their  proper  colours ;  but  if  the  ac- 
count describes  the  plate  as  it  has  lately  appeared, 
it  is  very  far  from  being  an  accurate  description  of 
the  armorials  of  this  old  Lincolnshire  family. 
For  instance,  the  first  coat  (BoUe)  is  described  as 
''  Sa.  8  lamps  or,  flame  ar.,"  while  the  name  is 
only  attempted  to  be  assigned  to  one  coat,  and 
then  Kyme  is  inserted  instead  of  Haugh, 

In  case  it  should  be  deemed  worthy  of  a  note,  I 
append  a  more  correct  descrintion  of  the  arms, 
and  the  names  of  the  original  oearers  thereof,  so 
far  as  I  have  been  able  to  ascertain  the  latter. 

1.  Az.  out  of  3  cups  or,  as  many  boars'  heads 
couped  arg. — BoUe. 

2.  Arg.  3  maces  sable. — Pidvertoft 

3.  Arg.  2  bars  gu.  on  a  chief  vert  3  besants. — 
Anyevine. 

4.  Arg.  a  chevron  between  2  escallops  in  chief, 
and  a  cross  crosslet  fitchee  in  base,  gu. — jyAl- 
derbie, 

5.  Arg.  a  chevron  between  10  cross  crosslets 
gu. — Haugh. 

6.  Sa.  a  chevron  between  3  bells  arg. — Bdl, 

7.  Party  per  pale  indented  or  and  gu.  a  crescent 
for  difference. — Holland. 

8.  Sa.  a  chevron  ermine  between  3  wings  arg. 
— Nanfan  of  Devon. 

9.  Arg.  3  wolves  courant  in  pale  az. — Nanfan 
of  Cornwall. 

10.  Chequy  or  and  az.  a  chief  arg.  guttte  de 
sang. — CciethiU. 

11.  Gu.  fretty  or,  a  canton  arg. 

12.  Arg.  3  chevronels  sa.,  the  first  charged  with 
a  martlet  or. 

13.  Arg.  fretty  gu. 

14.  Arg.  a  chevron  between  3  cross  crosslets  sa. 
vnthin  a  bordure  of  the  last  bezant^e. — Fits.- 
william$. 

15.  Gu.  a  chevron  between  3  cross  crosslets  or, 
a  lion  passant  in  chief  of  the  second. — Mabldhorp, 

16.  Aj^.  2  bars  engrailed  sa. — 8tayne, 

In  the  account  to  which  exception  is  taken,  the 
plate  is  treated  as  beinff  quarterly  quartered, 
whereas  the  sequence  of  tae  arms  follovTing  the 
order  in  which  they  were  aoquired,  according  to 


406 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


C4AaVn.MArl8,71. 


the  family  pedigree,^  is  from  the  dexter  to  the 
sinister  side  of  the  shield. 

Perhaps  some  correspondent  can  oblige  by  as- 
signing the  names  to  Nos.  11^  12,  and  13.  The 
arms  appear  to  have  accmed,  in  addition  to  Nos.  8^ 
9,  and  10^  bj  the  marriage  of  Eichard    Bolle^ 

gandfather  of  Kichaid  before  mentioned^  with 
Eibel,  sister  and  heir  of  Sir  Richard  Nanfan, 
whose  &thery  John  Nanfan  of  Oomwall,  married 
Jane,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  John  Coleshill. 

W.  E.  B. 


UNPUBLISH£D  L£TTER  OF 


ESSEX. 


[This  letter  U  among  the  papers  in  the  poaeesaion  of 
the  Duke  of  Manchester.  It  has  neither  date  nor  address. 
Is  there  any  reeord  existing  ^f  the  duel  with  Sir  Edward 
Baynton?  Mr.  Hep  worth  Dixon  seems  to  hare  over- 
looked  this  letter  when  seeking  for  matter  for  The  Court 
and  Timet  from  JSlizabeth  to  Amu,  T.  P.  P.] 

Deare  Essex 

The  nuis  is  too  trae  and  sir  edward  Baynton 
who  my  Sonne  fought  with  is  hurt  but  yester- 
night my  Sonne  cam  from    ....   where  they 
fought  and  was  assured  by  dockter  wryght  and 
the  Sirgen  that  searched  the  wond  that  ther  is 
no  danger  there  went  a  post  a  man  of  my  lord  of  Sx 
with  a  leter  from  the  Queen  and  an  other  from 
my  lord  marquis  hartfor  to  ....  his  pardon  and 
secuer  his  future  if  the  other  should  dye  which 
God  forbide  he  shold  you  maye  imagin  how  such 
an  acsedent  as  this  wold  afflicte  me  to  ...   . 
that  I  live  for  the  unne  of  it  is  more  than  anny 
thinge  else  my  Sonne  Ro.  Ijea  concealed  least  he 
shoul  gooe  in  to  a  prison,  this  onfectious  tyme  for 
this  facte  cud  not  adndtt  of  beinge  bay  led  I  trust 
in  God  the  gentillman  shall  live  that  my  Sonne 
be  not  so  unfortunat  as  to  be  gilty  of  murder. 
Your  Sister  knew  nothing  of  it  nor  shall  not  so 
longe  as  I  can  kepe  it  from  hir.    This  will  kepe 
us  from  coming  to  Lease  this  sumer  for  it  will  oe 
fortenday  befor  the  wonde  that  is  green  can  be 
healed)  and  all  that  tpn  your  brower  Bo.  must 
conseale    himselfe.     Therefore  when  you  wold 
have  the  coach  send  for  it.  I  can  not  send  you  the 
pirticulers  for  I  have  leters  to  ryte  to  Simson  and 
my  Lady  Carlile  being  here  this  day  I  waghted 
on  hir  parte  of  the  way  and  came  not  home  till  it 
was  late — my  Sonne  to  your  [?]  Company  your 

SX, 

I  feare  that  when  yor  Sister  knows  of  this 
acsedent  she  will  be  in  great  affliction  though  her 

husband  be  and  I  shal  be  in  fear  a  great 

while. 


Pboyebbs. — "  Turn  coal,  never  be  rich.''  Allu- 
sion to  the  extniya^nt  pactiee  of  turning  oyer  a 
half-burnt  coal.  ''Faint  costs  nothing."  AUusioB 
to  its  protecting  and  preserratrre  emot  on  the 
woodwork  below.  M.  D. 


The  BoDLHEAir. — In  Dauban's  Les  Pirmmt  da 
Parii  tons  la  BivohdiUm  is  a  paper  on  ''La  Mora- 
lit^  de  fieaumarchaiSi"  now  pnnted  for  the  first 
time.  In  this  paper  mention  is  made  of  a  certain 
Abb^  de  Gevigney  employed  in  the  manuscript 
department  of  the  King's  Library.  This  abb^  is 
spoken  of  as  having  been  most  imscrupulous,  and 
as  haying  sold  many  of  the  manuscripts  committed 
to  his  charge.  He  nuide  the  best  ezcusea-hecould, 
but  the  account  says — 

'*  Eh  bien,  le  surplos  ayait  4ti  yendu  ll  dee  Anglais,  et 
forme  aujourd'hai  Tun  des  joyanz  de  la  fiibliothiqne 
Bodl^enne  d'OzfonL*' 

W.H. 

•  SuBNAJiES  or  Officials  in  thb  Wmt  Ltbixs, 
ETC. — On  looking  oyer  the  list  of  office-holders  in 
these  colonies,  one  is  struck  with  tiie  frequent 
recurrence  of  the  same  name  in  the  smaller  as 
well  as  the  larger  islands.  Once  in  office,  a  family 
seems  to  take  deep-  root,  even  fdthough  it  be 
exotic;  and  it  is  perpetuated,  in  the  same  sphere, 
irrespectiye  of  other  local  ties.    Some  of  these 
names  are  scattered  broadcast  while  others  are 
intensely  localised.    This  monopoly,  as  it  were, 
seems  latterly  to  have  been  abanaonied  in  Jamaica. 
In  Barbados,  of  forty-one*  officials,  tibere  are  two 
Gores,  two  Parrys,  two  Clarkes,  and  two  Taylors. 
In    Bermudas    there  are  three  Darrells,    three 
Brownes,  two  Eeons,  two  Tuckers^  two  Gilberts^ 
two  Bowyears,  and  two  Haryeys.     In  British 
Guiana,  of  fifty-two  officials,  there  are  five  Aus- 
tins, two  Walkers,  two  Coxs,  and  two  Pollards. 
In  Dominica,  of  thirty-three  officials,  three  Lock- 
harts,  three  Fellans,  three  Lloyds,  two  Ballots, 
two  Johnsons,  and  two  Tayemers.  In  "Grenada,  of 
twenty-seven  officials,  fbur  Mitchells  and  two 
Wells.    In  Montserrat,  of  twenty-eight  officials, 
five  Dyette,  four  Meades,.two  Peels,  two  John* 
sons,  and  two  Sempers.    In  Nevis,  of  thirty-one 
officials,  four  MimiardS)  two  Dyetts,  two  Burkes, 
one  Semper,  and  one  Wigley.    In  St  Kitfs.  of 
twenty-seven  officials,  three  Burridges,  three  Eve- 
lyns, two  Elridges,  two  Wigleys,  and  one  Semper. 
In  Antigua,  of  thirty-five  officials,  two  Nugents, 
two  Jarvises,  two  Mercers,  two  Thibous,  two 
Coulls,  one  Peel,  three  Baynes,  three  Hyndmans, 
two   Maras,  and  two  Berkeleys.     In  Falkland 
Islands,  of  fifteen  offidalsy  tliree  GMffithjB,  two 
Byngs,  and  two  M^Clintons.  S. 

WA.LIAV  GiLKOBX  SiXBS. — ^The  affixed  cut- 
ting from  the  New  York  corre^ndent's  letter  in 
The  Standard,  June  80,  1870,  may  interest  many 
readers  of  ^'  N.  &  Q.,"which  seems  to  be  Ibe  very 
paper  for  such  a  notice : — 

*^  The  Southern  States  have  lost  their  most  prominent 
and  vefsatile  man  of  letters  in  tho  death  of  Mr.  William 
Gilmore  Simma  of  South  Carolina,  whidi  event  took 

*  These  aie  approximate  figures  (sea  Hiiini3r*i  f  fswi 
nack). 


4«k  8.  VII.  Mat  18, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


407 


place  in  Charleston  on  the  11th  instant  Mr.  Simms  ia 
probably  little  known  in  England,  jet  he  was  the  most 
prolific  of  all  American  authors,  and  the  list  of  his  works 
would  probably  reach  out  to  a  hundred.  He  waa  long 
the  editor  of  tfa»  Souih  Qmurteriy  lUview,  a  pid>licataoB: 
which  ceased  to  eziat  before  the  breaking  out  of  the  was 
of  secession,  and  has  not  since  been  revived ;  but  he  wrote 
histories,  biographies,  poema,  plays,  and  as  manv  novels 
as  the  late  6.  P.  R.  James,  whom  as  a  novelist  he  some- 
what resembled.  Mr.  Simms  enjoyed  at  one  time  a  con* 
siderable  popnlazity  in  the  Northern  States,  and  in  earhr 
life  was  the  personu  firiend  of  Washington  Irving,  W.  0. 
Bryant,  and  other  eminent  Northern  writers.  He  espoused 
with  all  the  energy  of  his  nature  the  cause  of  the  South 
in  the  war  of  the  rsbellion,  and  sent  his  son  into  the  field 
in  Hampton's  cavalry.  His  country  seat  of  Woodlands 
was  burned  in  German's  raid,  and  he  suffered  total  im- 
poverishment in  the  collapse  of  the  Confederacy.  Apart 
from  such  of  his  novels  as  are  based  on  Indian  life  and 
the  revolutionary  period,  which  have  a  permanent  value 
as  presenting  social  phases  that  have  long  passed  away, 
his  best  books  were  probably  his  Hutory  of  South  Caro- 
lina^ Life  of  the  Chevalier  Bayard,  and  Euay  on  the  Doubt* 
ful  Playt  of  Shakeapeare:* 

I  may  add  that  many  of  Mr.  Simms's  novels  of 
New  Orleans,  Soutk  Carolina^  and  West  Ameikan 
life  bave  been  translated  into  German  (Marie  de 
JBemiire,  3  vols. ;  Der  Kaasike  von  Kiawa,  6  vols. ; 
Der  Parteiffanger,  15  vols. ;  Wigwam  und  HOUe ; 
Der  Tetnasaee  Indianer,  &c.),  and  are  read  with 
much  interest  and  pleasure  by  the  lover  of  the 
novels  of  the  more  widely-known  Q.  P.  R.  James 

HxBiLOxr  EnTDi. 
Germany. 

Mali  ajtd  Feicale  Nuhbebs  akd  Lettbbs. — 
Anomalies  have  been  observed  by  many  philolo- 
gists in  the  distribution  among  various  groups  of 
language  of  numeral  roots,  recognisable  as  iden- 
tic^ but  employed  to  express  diverse  numbers. 

My  chief  object  on  the  present  occasion  is  to 
call  attention  to  the  probable  operation  on  nume- 
rals of  the  dual  and  consequently  sexual  ^stem, 
which  prevailed  during  the  Caucaso-Tibetan 
epoch,  and  which  exercises  so  much  influence  on 
the  pidlosophy  of  the  ABsyrians,  tiie  Chaldaeans, 
and  the  Heturews,  and  which  lives  in  the  shape  of 
superstition  even  to  this  day. 

The  decimal  system  of  a  hand  of  five  fingers  is 
relatively  recent,  and  was  preceded  by  a  quater- 
nary system  of  a  hand  of  four  fingers,  and  it  is 
suMequent  to  this  epoch  the  numbers  three  and 
seven  were  introduced.  The  fingers  were  named 
as  in  West  Africa,  and  the  pairs  on  the  right 
hand  were  1  and  2, 4  and  5 ;  on  the  left  hand, 
6  and  8,  9  and  10.  There  were  probably  other 
pairs  on  the  feet,  11  and  12,  14  and  15,  &c. 

The  larger  fiingeirs  would  be  male  and  the 
smaller  female  in  the  development  of  the  dual 
system.  The  larger  fingers  are  inside  on  the 
anatemazy  system,  and  the  smaller  or  female 
nngers  are  outside  in  the  quaternary  and  quinary 
systems.  The  male  fingers  would  consequently  be 
2^  4,  8,  and  9,  and  the  female  fingers  1,  5,  6,  and 


10.  It  can  be  observed  that  there  are  relations 
amon^  what  has  been  here  named  the  male  group, 
and  lu^ewise  among  the  female  group,  and  there 
are  further  linguistic  relations  between  the  pairs. 

Letters,  the  cabalbtic  relations  of  which  to 
figures  are  well  known,  still  maintain  the  relation 
of  solar  and  lunar  in  some  languages,  and  this 
strengthens  the  supposition  of  a  precedent  epoch 
of  male  and  female,  or  solar  and  lunar,  number 
or  finger  names.  Htde  Cjlabks. 

82,  St.  George's  Square,  S.W. 

^THsPBOsieAL  Son  "  ts  GBBBRx'a  '<  Moimir- 
IKG  GABMEirr,"  1592.  —  Those  readers  who  had 
the  rare  treat  of  seeing  in  the  late  Exhibition  of 
Old  Masters  the  fine  series  of  '^  The  Prodigal  Son '' 
painted  by  Murillo  (o6.  1682),  or  who  have 
perused  Dean  Stanley's  description  of  the  six  pic- 
tures at  p.  120  of  the  present  volume  of  '^N.  &Q.," 
will  study  doubtless  vdth  no  small  amount  of 
pleasure  an  earlier  series  of  pictures  of  ''The 
Prodigal  Son  "  to  be  found  in  a  black  letter  pam- 
phlet, supposed  to  be  rare,  entitled  Qreenta  Mourn-' 
%ng  Oarnrnd  ....  both  pleasant  and  prq/kable^  by 
R,  Qreene — a  humorous  poet  who  died  1592,  and 
who  says  of  himself  (k  8) — 

"  If  I  have  been  thooght as  foU  of  amonrs  as 

Ooid,  yet  yon  will  vouchsafe  of  my  Mourning  Garment^ 
for  that  it  is  the  first  fruits  of  my  new  labours,  and  the  last 
farewell  to  my  fond  desires  .  . ".  as  this  is  the  first  of  my 
reformed  passioDS,  so  this  is  the  last  of  my  trifling  pam- 
phlets." 

The  little  work  aboimds  in  wise  aphorisms,  and 
contains  at  least  one  pastoral  poem  of  great  merit, 
termed ''  The  Shepheards'  Wiues'  Song." 

W.  H.  S. 

More  about  Cocker  (See  ^'N.  &  Q"  paasinh) 
Inth< 


**  Parliamentaiy  Intelligencer,  comprising  the  Sum  of 
Forraign  Intelligence,  with  the  Affairs  now  in  Agitation 
in  En^and,  Scotland,  and  Ireland.  For  the  Information 
of  the  People.   July  9  to  July  16, 1660  "— 

I  find  the  following  curious  advertisement: — 

<*  The  Pen's  Gallantry :  a  copy-book  containing  sundry 
examples  of  all  the  curious  hands  now  in  use ;  the  second 
impression,  with  the  additions  of  court-hand  copies,  ex- 
qusitely  performed  by  the  author,  Edward  Cocker,  living 
on  the  south  side  of  St  Paul's  Church,  where  he  teaches 
the  arts  of  writing  and  arithmetick  in  an  extraordinary 
manner.  Sold  by  William  Place  in  Gray's  Inn  Gate 
in  Holbonm,  and 'Thomas  Rooks  at  the  Holy  Lamb  at 
the  east  end  of  SL  Paul's  Churchyard,  London." 

Mattbigb  Lssirah,  M.R.IA. 

Limerick. 

"Lt  the  Stbaw."— I  fancied  this  saying  had 
been  referred  to  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  but  do  not  find  it 
in  the  three  indexes.  The  following  extract  pre- 
sents a  sHght  variation,  possibly  arising  from  the 
poverty  pf  the  mother  referred  to : — 

**  He  has  now  got  the  seventh  child,  and  the  wife  is 
presently  on  Ms  straw,  so  that  the  ten  pound  note  came 
sea80Da6ly."^In  a  note  from  Brechin,  1767,  Jnne. 

W.P. 


408 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*fc  8.  VII.  Mat  18,  71. 


Ak  Ebitobial  Centenarian. — It  is  stated  in 
the  Jointer's  Register,  p.  Ill,  that  Mr.  Lewis 
Dozat,  lately  deceased,  was  108  years  old.  He  is 
reputed  to  nave  heen  bom  in  the  British  West 
Indies,  to  have  been  engaged  on  the  Morning 
Chronicle  newspaper  in  17&,  in  1804  to  have 
become  editor  or  The  Observer,  from  which  he 
retired  in  1857,  and  died  March  8  in  the  pre- 
sent year — 1871.  A.  H. 

I^We  beUeve  it  was  only  in  TVie  Standard  and  the 
Prmter^M  Register  that  the  age  of  Mr.  Doxat  is  said  to 
have  been  108 ;  whereas  in  other  papers  it  is  stated  he 
was  aged  ninety-eight  when  he  died.— Ed.] 

<Etttrriei{« 

MEZZOTINTO  PRINTS. 

I  should  like  much  to  obtain  a  key  to  a  pair  of 
mezzotints  I  possess,  which  may  be  recognised  by 
some  intelligent  correspondent  by  the  following 
unartistic  description  (size  26  in.  by  18  in.) : — 

No.  1.  Scene,  apparently  the  regions  of  Pluto. 
On  the  right,  a  cluster  of  grotesque  demons ;  in 
their  midst  a  saintly  figure,  hands  clasped  as  if 
supplicating  the  mercy  of  a  winged  monster  in 
the  act  of  seizing  him  ;  the  others  pressing  around, 
aidinff  and  abetting;  aboye  their  heads  a  large 
fish,  bestrode  by  a  skeleton  goat-headed  man 
playing  upon  a  pipe,  all  joining  indeed  in  one 
nellish  chorus  directed  at  the  holy  man  they  have 
captured.  On  the  left  the  tliree-headea  dog 
chained,  menacingly  rampant  in  the  same  direc- 
tion ;  a  figure  in  the  comer  holding  a  dilapidated 
birch  broom  over  the  heads  of  Cerberus. 

No.  2.  Scene  the  same.  In  the  centre  a  homely 
elderly  female  passing ;  a  basket  on  her  left  arm, 
containing  apparently  drinking  vessels  ,*  her  apron 
also  filled  and  held  up ;  in  her  right  hand,  ele- 
vated, a  naked  sword ;  nead  turned  and  eyes  bent 
on  the  three-headed  dog,  as  in  No.  1,  straining 
his  chains  to  get  at  her.  In  advance,  on  the  other 
side,  a  group  of  indescribable  demons  crouching 
toother  at  tne  sight  of  the  sword ;  the  principfu 
object  in  this  last  a  monster  with  skeleton-horse 
head,  cloth  thrown  over  the  body,  and  bestrode 
by  an  imp  with  owl's  head,  sash,  sword,  spurs, 
bearing  staff  and  colours  a  la  miUtaire. 

Bats  flying  about  and  reptiles  filling  up  the 
foreground  of  both  pictures,  while  shadowy  mon- 
sters occupy  the  parts  not  illumed  by  the  light 
issuing  from  the  infernal  caverns. 

In  Callot's  engraving  of  the  "  Temptations  of 
St  Anthony,"  where  the  arch-enemy,  overshadow- 
ing the  whdie  picture,  vomits  devils  of  every  oon- 
ceivable  shape  upon  the  poor  saint,  I  find  some 
resemblance  to  my  mezzotint  In  this  and  No.  1 
there  is  notably  the  corresponding  incident  of  the 
hol^  man  in  the  grasp  of  the  winged  demon, 
which  suggest  that  all  may  be  but  varied  concep- 
tions of  St  Anthony's  troubles,  of  which  there 
ave,  I  believe,  many  pictorial  versions.         J.  O. 


AvTHOB  Waittbd. — ^Who  was  the  author  of 
Exercises^  Instructive  and  Entertaining,  in  False 
English,  seventh  edit  8vo,  Leeds,  1799  P  It  is 
stated  in  the  preface  that  '*  the  following  sheets 
were  written  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
author's  own  school."  The  first  edition  probably 
dates  in  1788.  My  copy  having  lost  the  last  page 
or  two  (after  110)  I  ^ould  like  to  complete  it. 
There  is  a  work  with  a  similar  title,  about  the 
same  dates,  by  John  Perrin.  W.  P. 

Bbidobttike  Nuks. — In  what  year  did  the 
nuns  of  Syon  return  to  England,  and  what  num- 
ber of  The  Times  or  Evening  MaU  contained  a  con- 
cise history  of  the  sisterhood,  written  on  the 
occasion  of  their  return  ?  Davib  Rotce. 

[An  acooant  of  the  return  of  twelve  nuns  to  England 
of  the  ancient  Convent  of  Syon  Houae,  or,  as  they  are 
sometimes  called,  Bridgettine  Knns,  appeared  in  the 
Hampshire  Chronicle  of  Sept.  7,  1861,  and  was  copied 
into  The  Weekly  JRegister  of  Sept  14, 1861,  p.  7.  They 
are  now  located  at  Spetisbnry  convent  in  Dorsetshire. 
Consolt  also  Fuller's  Church' History,  book  vi.  sect.  i. 
88-40,  and  Chambers's  Book  of  Days,  iL  105.1 

Chatjvikibxs. — What  is  the  origin  of  the  word 
Chauvinisms  t  It  occurs  in  a  pamphlet  addressed 
by  Mr.  Karl  Blind  and  two  other  Germans  Au 
Jreuple  franqais  et  d  son  Assemble  nationale,  and  is 
dated  London,  Feb.  1871.  L.  V.  S. 

[Littr^,  in  his  admirable  Dietionnaire  de  la  Langue 
franfaise,  defines  Chauvinisme  **  sentiment  da  ChanTin  " ; 
and  explains,  "Chaurin,  nom  d*nn  personnage  de  qoelqaes 
dessins  popolaires,  qui,  exprimant  des  sentiments  d*un 
patriotisme  aveugle  et  ^troit  au  snjet  des  succes  et  des 
revers  de  Napol<$6n  I***,  est  devenu  le  nom  de  oelui  qui  a 
des  sentiments  exag^r^  et  ridicules  de  patriotisme  et  de 
guerre.    C'est  tenir  an  langage  de  Chauvin.''] 

The  Chxvbon. — What  is  the  heraldic  authority 
for  the  belief  that  the  ancestors  of  those  who  bore 
a  chevron  on  their  armorial  shield  visited   the 
Holy  Land  in  the  time  of  the  Crusades  ?      S.  P. 
-£xeter. 

Clehsntine  OtrviEB. — Will  any  correspondent 
of  «  N.  &  Q."  kindly  inform  the  author  of  On  the 
Edge  of  the  Storm  where  the  Memoir  of  Clementina 
Cuvier,  daughter  of  the  great  savant,  citn  be  met 
with  P  It  18  mentioned  and  quoted  from  in  the 
North  British  Review,  but  no  bookseller  can  give 
any  information  respecting  it. 

[The  Memoir  ofdemenHne  Owier,  by  the  Rev.  Mark. 
Wuks,  first  appeared  in  the  Evangelical  Magazine  for 
Feb.  1828 ;  and  this  interesting  memorial  of  the  youn^, 
the  beautiful  Clementine,  was  reprinted  by  John  An^ell 
James  of  Birmingham,  with  **  Reflections.'^  See  his  col- 
lected JForks,  edit.  1860,  iv.  898.] 

GORBETT  OF  ChASBESLET-CoRBBTT,  Go.  WoE- 

0B8TER. — Gan  any  one  tell  me  how  this  family 
was  connected  with  the  Gorbete  of  Gaus  and  Wat- 
tlesborough  ? 

It  appears  that  in  17  Ed.  L  Roger  Gorbet  died 
seised  of  lands  in  Worcestershire  and  Gloucester- 
shire, leaving  William,  his  son  and  heir,  then 


4»'>  S.  VII.  May  18, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


409 


under  age ;  an^bat  Alda,  the  mother  of  the  said 
Roger,  held  a  tmrd  part  of  the  manor  of  Ghaddea- 
ley  in  dower.    (Each.  18  E.  L  27.) 

The  said  Alda  or  Ada  was  tiie  widow  of  a 
William  Corbe^  and  it  appears  from  her  post- 
mortem inquisition  (19  Ea.  I.  8),  that  she  held 
the  whole  of  the  manor  of  ^'Imeneye"  of  Peter 
Corbet  by  reason  of  the  minority  of  William,  the 
son  and  heir  of  Roger  Corbet,  who  was  also  her 
heir.  BL  S.  G. 

Drbah  07  EiizABBiH  BE  l'Abghb. — Can  any 
of  your  correspondents  throw  any  light  on  this 
subject;  and  if  it  be  not,  as  I  rather  suspect, 
altogether  a  myth  P  T.  C.  S. 

Eeos  AS  AK  Abticlb  op  Foob.^!  cannot  call 
to  mind  any  mention  in  the  sacred  writings  of 
this  most  nutritious  of  animal  substances.  I  may 
say  the  same  of  the  profane  authors,  with  the 
exception  of  Plutarch  in  his  MoraUj  I  cannot 
recall  where ;  but  he  records,  either  of  himself  or 
by  the  mouth  of  his  coUoauists,  a  partiality  for 
the  ^^  of  the  domestic  fowl.  Was  there  any 
reason  (religious  or  superstitious)  for  their  avoid- 
ance by  Jew  and  Gentile  P  J.  A.  G. 

CariBbrooke. 

[Oar  correspoadent's  qaery  will,  we  thmk,  be  fhllv 
answered  bv  two  familiar  passages—'*  Or  if  be  shall  ask 
*Q  %^«  "^1  be  offer  him  a  scorpion  ?"  (Lake  zi.  12)  ; 
and  toe  evidence  as  to  the  Gentile  nse  of  ^gs  is  shown 
in  the  Latin  proverb :  **  Ab  ovo  nsqne  ad  mauu"] 

Gates,  Isle  op  Man. — In  Mill's  Ordinances 
and  Statutes  of  the  Isle  of  Man  (ed.  1821,  p.  12), 
mention  is  made  of  ^^  A  Court  of  all  the  Commons 
of  Man,  holden  at  the  Castie  of  Rushin  betwixt 
the  Gates  by  Henry  Byron,  Ldeut.  of  Man,  upon 
Tuesday  next  after  the  xx***  day  of  Christmas, 
anno  domini  1430.''  What  is  the  meaning  of  be- 
twixt the  gates,  and  on  which  day  of  the  month 
was  the  court  held  P  A.  E.  L. 

''  The  Greatest  Clebics  akb  kot  the  Wisest 
Meit." — Who  is  the  author  who  originated  the. 
following  phrase:  "The  greatest  clerks  are  not 
the  wisest  men  "  P  J.  BL 

[The  line  comes  from  Chancer :  — 
*'  The  gretest  derkes  ben  not  the  wisest  men. 
As  whilom  to  the  wolf  thns  spake  the  mare,** — 
and  will  be  fonnd  in  The  Seve^B  Tale  (L  4052,  lyrwhitt's 
edition),  and  not  in  The  MUler^e  Tale,  as  erroneonsly 
stated  by  Mr.  Thoms  in  his  notes  to  6axton*s  lUjfnard 
the  FojA-an  error  which  has  been  repeated  by  other 
writers.     The  phrase  is  also  to  be  fonnd  In  Beynard, 
where  the  indoent  of  the  wolf  and  the  mare,  to  which 
Chancer  refers,  will  be  fonnd;  see  p.  85  of  Mr.  Thome's 
reprint;  and  in  Johnson's  Dictionary  (see  edition  by 
Latham,  «.  o.  <*  Clerk  ")  a  similar  passage  is  quoted  from 
South:   *'The   greatest  clerks   being  not   always   the 
honestest,  any  more  than  the  wisest  men.**] 

Heraldic. — I  possess  an  old  silver  seal,  with 
arms  as  follows : — Or  on  a  chevron  engruled  azure. 


three  Maltese  crosses  argent.    To  what  family  do 
these  arms  belong  P  F.  G.  L. 

6,  Lambeth  Terrace. 

Two  brothers  many  and  leave  issue  male.  The 
elder  line  dies  out  entirely  at  the  end  of  some  two 
hundred  years,  but  in  the  meantime  heiresses  have 
brought  fresh  quarterinss  into  their  coat  armour. 
When  the  younger  son's  descendants  become  the 
representatives  of  both  lines,  do  they  also  bear 
quarterings  brouji^ht  by  the  heiresses  into  the 
elder  line  before  it  became  extinct  P 

W.  M.  H.  C. 

JoAK  d*Abc. — Some  years  back  a  book  came 
out  denying  that  the  Maid  of  Orleans  was  burned 
at  Rouen,  and  affirming  that  she  simply  retired 
into  obscurity.  It  added,  that  *'  The  Maid  "  mar- 
ried and  bore  children,  whose  descendants  did,  for 
severe  generations,  receive  a  pension  from  the 
French  crown  in  acknowledgment  of  the  services 
of  their  ancestress.  Of  the  title  of  this  book  I  am 
totally  ignorant ;  but  I  hajre  been  informed  that 
it  was  reviewed  in  T?ie  Aihenaum^  and  thinking 
it  likely  that  many  persons  may  remember  that 
review,  I  am  tempted  to  aj^peal  to  the  good  nature 
of  any  one  able  and  willing  to  tell  me  in  what 
year  this  review  appeared. 

NOELL  EaDEOIJFFS. 

[The  foronnds  of  doubt  which  of  late  years  have  risen 
among  French  antiquaries  as  to  the  heretofore  unqnes- 
tioned  fact  of  the  death  of  Joan  d'Arc  at  Rouen,  appeared 
in  a  privately-printed  volume  entitled  Dmtte  hittoriame, 
by  M.  Octave  Delepierre,  the  learned  Belgian  consu  in 
England.  An  analysis  of  this  work  will  be  found  in  The 
AtheMtum  of  Sept.  15, 1855,  p.  1047.  Consult  also  Cham- 
bers's Booh  of  Days,  1  702;  and  ''N.  &  Q.,"  2»o  S.  iii. 
447,  512 ;  8"i  S.  iL  46,  98.] 

Kipper. — ^What  are  the  derivation  and  mean- 
ing of  this  word  as  applied  to  salmon  P  It  is 
thought  here  to  be  the  same  as  keeper.  Webster 
defines  it ''  lean  and  unfit  for  use." 

A.  MlSBLETOK. 
School  House,  Kingsbridge,  S.  Devon. 

Mak  Tbaps  and  Spring  Qtjns. — ^When  I  was 
young,  I  was  often  deterred  from  trespassing  by 
the  ominous  warning :  *^  Trespassers  beware  I  man 
traps  and  spring  guns  set  here.*'  I  see  none  of 
sucn  warnings  now.  Are  they  out  of  date,  or  have 
they  been  abolished  by  law  P  If  the  latter,  when  P 

QsoBOE  Llotb. 
Cramlington. 

[By  an  act,  7  &  8  Geo.  TV.  c  18  (May  28, 1827),  any 
person  setting  any  spring-gun,  man-trap»  or  other  engine 
calcnlated  to  destroy  fife,  or  indict  grievous  bodily 
harm,  was  to  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanour.  The  act  did 
not  extend  to  Scotland.  By  the  fourth  clause,  spring- 
guns,  &c.,  might  be  set  inside  a  dwelling-house  for  the 
protection  thereof,  from  sunset  to  sunrise.  J 

The  Queen:  Empebbs  of  India.— What  is 
the  date  of  the  London  Oatette  In  which  Queen 


410 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4a»S.Vn.MATl8,'7L 


Victoria  was  gazetted  "Empress  of  India,"  thus 
officially  assuming  that  title  r  M.  W. 

[We  do  not  believe  that  any  anch  prodamation  has 
been  inserted  in  the  Gazette.  The  Queen,  in  her  pro- 
clamation to  the  people  of  India,  made  known  to  them 
by  the  Governor  General  from  Allahabad,  dated  Nov.  1, 
1858,  describes  herself  as  **  Victoria,  by  the  Grace  of  God, 
^f  the  United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 
and  of  the  Colonies  and  Dependencies  thereof,  in  Europe, 
Asia,  Africa,  America,  and  Anstralia,  Qneen,  Defender  of 
the  Faith.**  While  in  the  proclamation,  constitnting  the 
Order  of  the  Star  of  India  (in  the  London  Gazette  of  June 
25, 1861),  the  Queen  appoints  **  her  Heirs  and  Successors, 
Kings  and  Queens  Regnant  of  the  United  Kingdom,  to  be 
Sovereigns  of  the  Older."] 

"The  Shrubs  op  Paknassus."— Who  was  the 
author  of  The  Shrubs  of  Pamasstu,  a  yariety  of 
poetical  essays  (London,  1760)  P  ''  J.  Gopywell, 
jBleq.  of  Lineoln^s  Inn "  is  named  as  the  author, 
but  that  is  supposed  to  be  a  nom  de  piume,  espe- 
cially as  no  sucn  name  can  be  found  on  the  books 
of  that  society.  H.  T.  £. 

"  Snni.E8,  TO  Molly." — Who  wrote  this  song, 
as  giyen  in  Elegant  Extracts^  8vo,  **  Poetry,*'  b.  iv. 
p.  846  of  edition  1796 ;  and  also  <'  This  Thought ; 
or,  a  Song  of  Similes,"  on  p.  847  P  Since  wntinff 
the  above,  on  opening  an  octavo  volume  entitled 
Antid&te  to  Melancholy,  I  see  the  first-named  song 
is  set  to  a  simple  air  for  two  vocalists;  still  no 
author's  name  appears.  W.  P. 

''Portrait  of  Lord  Sptnte,  who  commanded 
a  Scotch  Hegiment  serving  under  Ghistavns  Adol- 
phus,  by  George  Jameson,  No.  231.  Lent  by  the 
Earl  of  Crawfoid  and  Balcarras  "  (vide  Catalogoe 
of  the  late  Exhibition  of  Old  Masters  in  Burlington 
House).  Of  what  family  was  Lord  Spynie  P  and 
what  is  known  of  his  career  and  adventures 
beyond  the  facts  stated  above  P 

NOBLL  RaDECLITFE. 

[Alexander,  second  Lord  Spynie,  of  the  Lindsay  family, 
succeeded  his  father  in  1607,  and  the  same  year  had  a 
charter  to  him  and  Joanna  Douglas  his  wife  of  several 
lands  in  Forfarshire.  He  fought  in  Germany  under  the 
banners  of  Gastavus  Adolphus,  and  acquired  high  repu- 
tation as  a  brave  and  gallant  officer.  He  married,  first, 
Joanna  Douglas;  secondly.  Lady  Margaret  Hay,  only 
daughter  of  Geoi^ge,  first  Earl  of  Kinnool,  high  chan- 
cellor of  Scotland,  and  by  the  last  had  issue  two  sons  and 
two  daughters. — Douglas's  Peerage,  by  Wood,  ii.  518.] 

Wal70LB*8  Nail-brush. — In  An  Essay  on  the 
Study  of  the  History  qf  England,  by  Major  Samuel 
Dales,  F.S.A.,  London,  1809,  8vo,  this  passage 
occurs  at  p.  103 :  ''  Walpole  was  expelled  the 
house,  on  a  sumstion  tbiat  he  had  not  used  a 
nail-brush."  This  incident  is  said  to  have  hap- 
pened during  the  reign  of  Anne,  about  1710. 
What  can  the  above  statement  refer  to  P  I  will 
be  verv  thankful  for  any  information  on  this  sub- 
ject, if  known  to  *'  N.  &  Q."  Jab.  Thrupp. 

Kilkenny. 


WoBCESTERSHiRE  Abks. — ^I  wish  to  Bscertaiu 
what  arms  were  borne  by  the  undermentioned 
sheriffs  of  Worcestershire: — 

1736.  Isaac  Snow  of  Tredington. 
1739.  John  Hart  of  Shipston-on-Stour. 
1741.  Nicholas  Bennet  of  Belbroughton. 
1749.  Tho.  Watson  of  Bewdley. 
1751.  Geo.  Holland  of  Tenbury. 
1763.  Tho.  PhilUps  of  Stourbridge. 
1779.  John  Foster  of  Wordsley.* 
1781.  John  Daike  of  Bredon. 
1793.  John  Steward  of  Stone. 
1797.  Moses  Harper  of  Astlev. 
1819.  John  Jeffreys  of  BlakebTook. 
1828.  Geo.  Meredith  of  Berrington  Court 

Anv  genealogical  notes  and  a  description  of  the 
'arms  borne  by  the  following,  who  occur  in  a  list 
of  Worcestershire  ffentry  dated  1060,  will  also  be 
thankfully  received :  Carew  of  Littleton,  Kemp- 
son,  Seaton,  Sly,  Tyckridge,  Tyrer  of  Lutley,  and 
Whitney  of  Oroome.    H.  Stdnet  Gbazbbkook. 

Stoorbndge. 

Wrecks  at  Sea  :  the  Temple. — 1  have  made 
many  fruitless  endeavours  to  find  an  account  of 
the  wreck  of  the  brig  Temple,  Midwinter  master, 
about  April,  1829,  off  the  Oaymanas  in  the  Car- 
ribean  sea.  The  passengers  and  crew  escaped,  and 
were  subsequently  brought  to  England,  after  a 
month^s  sojourn  on  those  islands,  by  Capt  Burton 
of  the  barque  Thetis.  The  owners  of  the  former 
vessel  were  John  Bourke  Ricketts,  merehmt  of 
Leaden  hall  Street,  and  C.  N.  Palliner  of  Harbi- 
ton  House,  Kingston-on-Thames.  I  should  be 
much  obliged  to  any  correspondent  who  would 
assist  me  in  obtaining  any  newspaper  report  of 
the  above.  There  ought  to  be  such  a  recoid.  My 
object  is  to  obtain  the  names  of  the  passengers. 

S. 

MURAL  PAIXTIXG  IN  STARSTON  CHURCH, 

NORFOLK. 

(4»»»  S.  vi. passim:  vu.  40,  172,  245,  368.) 

Mb.  Waller  has  invented  a  new  theory  on  the 
subject  of  this  nsinting,  at  the  same  time  dismiss- 
ing my  view  tnat  it  represents  the  death  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin  as  "  so  utterly  untenable  a  pro- 
position that  it  is  mere  waste  of  time  to  consider 
it'*  He  states  that  when  he  wrote  in  answer  to 
F.  C.  H.  he  had  not  the  drawing  by  him,  but  that 
having  since  minutely  studied  its  details  he  finds 
the  description  by  '^  that  writer  "  inaccurate,  and 
that  all  deductions  from  it  ffdl.  But  ''that 
writer  "  has  also  studied  them,  and,  with  the 

*  Mr.  Foster  was  a  member  of  an  andent  Leicester- 
shire  family  noticed  in  Nichols's  histoiy  of  that  county, 
but  the  family  arms  are  not  given. 


f^ 


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411 


drawing  now  before  him,  is  prepared  to  maintain 
the  accuracy  of  his  description. 

The  new  theory  put  forth  by  Mr.  Waller  is 
that  the  details  show  us  an  altar  with  the  cruci- 
fixion, a  priest  in  chasuble  standing  by,  and  reach- 
ing ^  towards  a  tonsured  figure,  apparently  to 
receive  the  scroll  or  sdiedule  which  he  holds,  and 
on  which  is  an  inscription.  But  there  is  no  aliar. 
What  he  calls  one  is  merely  the  head  of  the  bed, 
supported  by  a  thick  square  post  standing  on  the 
groundL  The  long  side-piece  of  the  bed  comes 
close  up  to  it,  and  apparently  fits  into  it  Of  this 
feature  he  takes  no  notice :  it  is  in  fact  subver- 
siye  of  his  whole  theory,  which  will  appear  as 
we  proceed.  I  think  I  Imow  what  a  chasuble  is, 
after  wearing  one  for  half  a  century;  and  the 
figure  reaching  out  his  arms  does  not  wear  a 
chatMsy  but  a  kind  of  cope,  or  a  mere  cloak.  The 
representation  of  the  crucifixion  is  merely  a  pic- 
ture or  tablet,  not  standing  in  the  middle,  nor  even 
near  the  middle  of  his  supposed  altar,  but  at  one 
comer— in  fact  fixed  up  at  the  bedside.  ''  That 
which  has  been  called  a  shield,"  he  continues,  ^^is 
certainly  no  shield  at  alL"  Very  likely,  but  it 
could  never  have  been  meant  for  a  chahce,  as  he 
says  he  "  should  imagine  it  to  have  been."  For, 
at  any  rate,  the  object  is  shaped  like  a  shield,  and 
iax  too  large  for  a  chalice,  and  has  neither  stem 
Bor  foot  The  figure,  remember,  is  stretching  out 
his  hands,  neither  of  which  appears  to  hold  the 
shield ;  and  what  then  could  a  chalice  be  for  P  It 
may  even  be  a  piece  of  embroidery  attached  to  the 
dress  of  the  figure  standing  behind.  But  having 
imagined  an  sitar,  he  of  course  wanted  a  chalice, 
and  so  a  large  Jlat  shield-like  object  is  made  to 
do  duty  for  a  round,  cupped,  stemmed,  and  footed 
chaliee. 

'*  There  is,"  he  adds,  '^a  diapered  covering,  which 
I  cannot  think  is  intended  for  a  bed."  No,  indeed ; 
for  it  is  an  upright  screen  of  wood  or  some  solid 
material  painted  in  diaper,  and  standing  up  as  a 
partition  on  the  side  of  the  bed.  It  has  no  oend, 
nor  fold,  nor  does  it  show  the  least  sign  of  being 
used  as  a  covering.  "  In  front  of  this  covering," 
he  continues,  ''is  what  appears  to  be  a  carved 
tomb."  This  is  simply  the  lower  part  of  the  bed- 
stead, not  standing  at  all  distant  mm  the  object 
just  described^  but  flush  with  it ;  and,  as  I  before 
observed,  joinmg  up  to  the  thick  post  at  the  bed's 
head,  and  not  projecting  before  it  This  puts  an 
extinguisher  at  once  upon  the  idea  of  its  being  a 
carved  tomb  some  way  before  the  altar.  What 
are  we  now  to  think  of  Mb.  Waller's  dogmati- 
cal decision  P  **  What  I  pronounce  to  be  an  altar 
has  evidently  been  mistaken  for  a  pillow."  Who 
ever  saw  an  altar  supported  by  a  thick  square 
post,  connected  with  a  long  side  piece  of  a  bed- 
stead P 

But  now  for  Mb.  Wallbb's  new  theory.  He 
thinks  the  painting  represents  the  death  of  St 


Mary  Magdalen.  She  had  preached  at  Marseilles, 
she  lived  in  the  desert,  and  had  frequently  the 
communion  of  angels.  Feeling  her  end  to  be  near, 
she  sent  word  to  Maximin,  Bishop  of  Aix,  that  ^e 
would  appear  at  a  certain  hour  in  the  oratdry  in 
which  he  performed  his  devotions.  Maximin  ac- 
cordmgly  assembled  the  dergyy  and  went  into  the 
oratory  at  the  time  appointed,  and  there  found 
the  samt,  who,  having  partaken  of  the  Sacrament 
of  our  Lord's  Body,  afterwards  died  in  front  of 
the  altar.  Maximin  afterwards  ordered  his  tomb 
to  be  made  close  to  the  spot  Mb.  Wallbb  pro- 
fesses to  take  this  from  the  old  German  accounts ; 
but  why  did  he  not  quote  them  fairly  and  cor- 
rectly P  To  have  done  so  would  have  been  fatal 
to  his  new  speculation.  The  saint  sent  to  inform 
the  bishop  tnat  he  was  to  go  into  his  church,  not 
his  private  oratory ^  on  the  following  Sunday  at 
the  hour  of  matins,  not  at  the  hour  of  mass,  and 
he  was  to  go  <iUme,  not  assembUng  his  clergy,  as 
Mb.  Wallsb  requiied  for  his  explanation.  Here 
is  the  German  original : — 

'*  Nan  hat  mir  got  g«fordret  zn  den  ewigen  leben  das 
aolt  da  den  biBchoff  Maximino  aa^en  nad  allea  das  da  von 
mlr  ^hdrt  hast  nnnd  sprich  wand  er  an  den  Suntag  zu 
mettu  aafistee,  so  soil  er  aUeyn  in  die  kirchen  geen  so 
findet  er  mich  darind."— Possumui/,  1477. 

Though  Maximin  ordered  his  own  tomb  to  be 

made  near  that  of  the  saint,  he  at  first  had  a 

marble  tomb  made  for  her,  and  laid  her  in  it 

''  Da  hieas  Maximinosein  marmelsteinin  sarch  machen, 
tin  hget  Mariam  Magdalemam  darem*^ — Ibid, 

Mb.  Wallbb  indeed  fails  completely  in  his 
application  of  the  legend  to  the  pamting  at  Star- 
ston.  There  is  no  altar  and  no  priest  in  eudiaris- 
tic  vestments,  as  he  represents,  and  indeed  neither 
could  have  been  usea  at  the  midnight  hour  of 
matins ;  and  though  the  Holy  Communion  was  ad- 
ministered, it  was  not  by  a  priest,  but  by  a  bishop. 
"The  diapered  covering,"  he  says, ''is  doubtless 
over  the  aead  body."  But  it  stands  up  as  straight 
as  a  wall,  and  is  not  calculated  for  any  sort  of 
covering.  Then  he  imagines  the  conspicuous  lady 
to  be  a  princess  converted  bv  St.  Maiy  Magdalen, 
and  afterwards  restored  to  life  by  her  mtercession ; 
but  this  fails  in  every  way.  For  the  scene,  Mb. 
Wallbb  says,  is  the  deOUi  of  the  saint,  and  we 
have  just  seen  that  no  one  was  present  at  that 
but  the  bishop.  Moreover,  St.  Mary  Magdilen 
had  lived  in  a  cave  for  thirty  years  without  seeing 
any  human  being.  Was  it  likely  that  a  lady 
converted  so  long  before  would  have  even  known 
the  time  or  place  of  het  death  P  The  same  objec- 
tions apply  to  his  supposition  that  the  veiled 
figure  near  this  lady  would  be  Martha ;  for  she 
lived  away  from  her  sister  in  her  monasterv  at 
Tarrascona,  had  never  seen  her  sister  for  at  least 
thirty  years,  and  may  even  have  died  before  her. 
I  thmk  we  may  now  apply  to  Mb,  Wallxb's 
new  theory  his  own  words :  "it  is  so  utterly  un- 


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tenable,  that  it  is  mere  waste  of  time  to  con- 
sider it" 

I  adhere,  then,  to  my  original  interpretation, 
that  the  painting  represents  the  death  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin  M arj. 

I  have  two  medisByal  woodcuts  of  her  death, 
the  details  of  which  sufficiently  warrant  the  con- 
clusion that  the  same  subject  b  represented  in 
the  Starston  puntinff.  In  each,  the  three  Apostles 
Peter,  James,  and  J^hn  are  standing  close  to  the 
bed ;  and  in  one  of  them  St  John  wears  a  cope, 
and  extends  his  hands  oyer  the  bed.  In  the  other 
St  James  folds  his  hands  upon  his  breast,  just  as 
he  does  in  the  fresco  before  us.  As  to  the  prin- 
ci])al  female  figure,  she  has  a  yenr  remarkable 
chignon  confin^  in  a  net,  and  a  mndful  head- 
dress with  strings  under  her  chin,  exactly  accord- 
ing with  the  modem  fashion;  but  I  can  see 
nothing  that  could  be  meant  for  a  coronet.  I  take 
her  to  be  one  of  those  devout  females  who  at- 
tended upon  the  mother  of  our  Lord,  and  she  may 
be  Serapbia,  who  was  a  rich  lady  long  intimate 
with  the  Holy  Family.  The  fissure  holding  the 
scroll  agrees  completely  with  the  mediaBval  re- 
presentations of  St.  Peter.  We  may  dismiss  the 
speculation  as  to  the  inscription  on  the  scroll,  and 
the  miracle  which  Mb.  Waller  would  connect 
with  it,  because  the  reading  is  uncertain,  and  the 
miracle  could  not  have  happened  at  tne  death 
scene  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  because  no  one  but 
the  bishop  was  present,  and  also  because  the 
miracle  never  happened  at  the  saint's  tomb  at 
Aix,  but  at  Vezelay  in  Burgundy,  whither  her 
tomb  had  been  transported  many  years  after  her 
death.  So  Mr.  Waller's  new  theory  breaks 
down  completely. 

I  had  adduced  the  two  angels  carrying  up  the 
soul  to  heaven  as  collateral  evidence,  testifying 
to  the  immediate  assumption  of  the  Blessed 
Virgin.  I  know,  as  well  as  Mr.  Waller,  the 
Hastings  brass  and  other  similar  cases;  but  I 
wished  to  protest  against  similar  presumption 
with  respect  to  others  than  saints.  He  told  us  in 
his  former  paper  (p.  178)  that,  as  none  of  the 
figures  have  tne  ntmbus,  the  omission  is  of  itself 
a  fatal  objection  to  its  representing  the  "death  of 
the  Virgm."  Does  he  not  see  wat  it  must  be 
eaually  fatal  to  the  subject  being  the  death  of  St 
MaiT  Magdalen  P  But  in  reidity  it  would  be 
fatal  to  neither,  for  many  examples  are  met  with 
where  even  the  holiest  of  persons-— Jesus  Christ 
himself-— is  represented  even  in  old  cuts  and  sculp- 
ture without  a  nimbus. 

^  I  am  content  now  to  leave  the  reader  to  deter- 
mine whether  my  opponent  has  shown  that  '*  very 
extensive  acquabtance  with  medissvd  art,"  with- 
out which  he  pronounced  it  ^  very  danprerous  to 
dogmatise."  F.  C.  H. 


DATE  OF  CHAUCER'S  BIRTH. 
(4«»»  S.  viL  838.) 

Mr.  Thoms's  argument  would  have  been  allow- 
able twenty  years  ago ;  but  now  that  the  Keeper 
of  the  MSS.  in  the  British  Museum,  Mr.  £.  A. 
Bond,  has  printed  the  entries  in  the  Household 
Book  of  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Ulster,  and  wife 
of  Prince  Lionel,  son  of  Edward  HL,  showing 
payments  to  or  for  Chaucer  three  times  in  the 
years  1356-9,  when  he  was  probablv  her  page— 
and  now  that  modem  criticism,  in  the  persons  of 
Professor  Ten  Brink  and  Mr.  H.  Bradwaw,  has 
shown  that  '<  The  Cuckow  and  the  Nightingale  " 
is  not  Chaucer's — ^itis  rather  hard  to  ask  us  to 
accept  the  old  suppositions  that  satisfied  the  last 
generation. 

I  contend  that  there  is  no  need  to  alter  the  XL. 
of  the  Scrope  and  Grosvenor  roll  to  lt.  Surely 
Chaucer  must  have  told  the  recorder  that  he  was 
forty  and  more,  as  well  as  that  he  had  been 
armed  for  twenty-seven  years.  The  latter  date 
is  assuredly  right,  for  it  gives  us  the  year  of 
Edward  lll.'s  expedition  to  Fraucei  1369,  in 
which  Chaucer  was  taken  prisoner.  Then  why 
should  the  former  date  be  wrong?  Suppose 
Chaucer  bom  in  1340 ;  he  is  then  a  page  to  Pnnce ' 
lioners  wife  in  1366-9;  and,  witn  the  prince, 
joins  Edward's  army  in  1369  at  nineteen  years  of 
age — ^a  much  more  likely  period  for  a  young  fel- 
low in  that  dav  to  take  to  arms,  than  the  thirty- 
one  that  the  1328  date  would  make  him.  The 
poet's  "  residence  at  Oxford  or  Cambridge,  or  at 
any  Inn  of  Court,"  is  all  gammon  and  guess :  there 
is  no  evidence  for  it. 

Next,  one  of  Chaucer's  earliest  poems  is  "  The 
Dethe  of  Blaunche,"  in  1469.  It  is  essentially 
the  work  of  a  young  hand,  of  a  man  under  thirty^ 
and  not  of  a  mature  age  like  forty-one  or  for^- 
two,  as  the  1328  date  would  make  Chaucer  at  the 
time— an  age  at  which  he  miffht  have  written 
7%0  Souse  of  Fame.  The  early  date  for  Chaucer's 
birth  woula  force  us  to  suppose  that  he  wrote 
such  tales  as  the  Reve's  and  Miller's,  brimful  of 
fun  as  they  are,  when  he  was  between  sixty  and 
seventy,  and  would  otherwise  make  a  mess  of  the 
chronology  of  the  poet's  works. 

Occleve's  portrait  of  Chaucer  is  sorely  one  ,of 
a  man  not  above  sixty.  He  doubtiess  pamted  liis 
master  as  he  saw  him,  shortly  before  his  death. 

R  J.  Ftoiovall. 

Will  Mr.  Thoms  allow  me  to  remind  him  that 
Shakspere's  description  of  Chaucer's  Mend  and 

fatron  as  ''old  John  of  Oaunt,  time-honoured 
lancaster,"  is  littie  less  remarkable  than  Chaucer's 
supposed  description  of  himself  as  **  olde  and  un- 
lusty  "  at  tifty-two  P  John  of  Gaunt  did  not  live 
to  see  his  fifty-ninth  birthday.  Is  it  not  a  fact 
confirmed  by  statistics,  that  the  average  dozatioo 


4«»  8.  VII.  Mat  18, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


413 


of  life  is  longer  now  than  in  the  Middle  Ages, 
and  therefore  men  were  then  considered  old  at  an 
earlier  time  than  now  P  HxBimrTRUDE. 

Assuming  that  Chaucer  was  aged  sixty  in  Oct 
1386,  as  suggested  hy  Mb.  Thoms,  it  would  follow 
that  he  was  armed  at  thirty-three  (60—27=38). 
Is  not  thirty-three  somewhat  too  old  for  a  squire 
to  enter  miHtaiy  service  ?  A.  H. 


THE  MEMORT  OF  SMELLS. 
(4''»  S.  vi.  297 ;  vii.  178.) 

Bar-Podtt  quotes  incorrectlj  from  Hazlitt 
That  fine  essayist,  in  his  delightful  disquisition  on 
the  reasons  "  Why  Distant  Objects  Flease/'  re- 
marks that  ^  sounds,  smells,  and  sometimes  tastes 
are  remembered  longer  than  visible  objects,  and 
serve  perhaps  better  for  links  in  the  chain  of 
association.'^   This  is  the  exact  opposite  of  the 
'^  strange  assertion ''  that  '*  it  is  impossible  to  re- 
member smells.''    Hazlitt  was  far  too  acute  an 
observer  of  metaph3rsical  facts  to  meke  any  such 
assertion.    The  illustrations  he  gives  of  his  own 
statement  are  abundantly  amusing.    He  himself 
distinctly  remembered   uie  taste  of   barberries, 
frosted  by  a  North  American  winter,  and  eaten 
thirty  years  before.  He  quotes  from  John  Feam's 
^Mo^  on  Conscioumess  how  this  strong,  solitary 
thinker  never  lost  the  memory  of  the  smell  of  a 
baker's  shop  in  a  by-street  in  the  city  of  Bassorah, 
nor  the  peculiar  flavour  of  kangaroo  eaten  in  New 
Holland,  and  of  some    fruit  eaten  in  Jamaica 
twenty-eiffht  years  previously.  Most  self- observers 
can  corroDorate  these  experiences  of  sensation 
from  their  own  personal  recollections.'    I  onoe 
dined,  twenty  years  snce,  on  a  stew  of  paddy- 
melon — ^the  local  name  of  a  smaller  species  of 
kangaroo— in  a  northern  district  of  New  South 
Wides.    like  John  Feam,  I  can  still  recall  the 

Particular  flavour  of  that  banquet  at  any  moment, 
o,  also,  the  memory  of  my  first  nasal  sensation 
derived  from  a  boiling-down  establishment  in  this 
country  will  ever  remain  with  me.  A  boiling-down 
establishment,  I  may  explain,  is  one  where  sheep 
are  boiled  down  for  their  tallow.  But  of  all  re- 
mimsoences  of  smell  and  taste  commend  me  to  the 
accounts  which  travellers  give  of  their  first  ac- 

anaintance  with  that  extraordinary  fruit,  the 
nrian,  which  grows  so  plentifully  in  the  idands 
of  the  Indian  Archipelago.  When  fully  ripe  this 
fruit  g^ves  out  an  overpowering  stench — something 
quite  indescribable,  and  far  tnmsoending  the  tw(H 
and-seventy  separate  stinks  which  Coleridge  de- 
clared he  counted  up  in  the  city  of  Cologne.  But 
let  the  first  disgust  be  got  over,  and  the  fruit  be 
fairly  fastened  upon,  and  it  yields  to  the  oourage- 
ous  eater  a  flavour  surpassing  in  richness  that  of 
all  other  fruits  in  one  luscious  oombinalion.  I 
have  heard  these  facts  from  trarellorB  myad^  bat 


they  are  fully  stated  in  Wallace's  recent  book  of 
travels  in  the  Indian  Archipelago. 

One  other  personal  illustration  I  shall  add. 
Within  a  short  distance  of  the  place  where  I  write 
these  lines  stands  the  Chinese  quarter  of  Melbourne. 
Let  an^  average  Englishman,  with  all  his  natural 
senses  m  reasonable  activity,  take  a  ramble  through 
that  portion  of  our  city,  and  I  defy  him  ever  to 
forget  the  peculiar  smell  which  will  there  and 
then  regide  his  olfactories.  Even  Shakspeare 
could  not  imagine  anything  in  that  line  going  be- 
yond ''  a  most  ancient  and  fishlike  smell  ^\  but  the 
odour  I  am  speaking  of  beats  this  by  many  de- 
pees.  De  Quincey  would  have  described  it  as 
immemorially  old,  distinctly  Asiatic,  heterogene- 
ous, and  unspeakable.  D.  Bt.atr. 
Melbonme. 


In  opposition  to  Hazlitt  and  Pelaoixts,  and  in 
agreement  with  Bar-Point,  I  think  it  quite  pos- 
sible to  remember  both  smells  and  tastes.  Let 
PELAGIT7S  smell  to  a  bottle  of  eau-de-Cologne, 
and  ask  himself  whether  it  does  notdifler  in  smell 
from  vinegar  or  musty  parchment.  Will  he  not 
say  that  it  does,  and  will  he  not  at  the  same  time 
recall  in  his  memory  the  smell  of  vineffar  or  musty 
parchment  P  Let  him  taste  a  piece  of  su^,  and 
ask  himself  whether  it  does  not  differ  m  taste 
from  salt  or  Spanish  liquorice.  Will  he  not  say 
that  it  does,  and  will  he  not  at  the  same  time 
recall  in  his  memory  the  taste  of  salt  or  Spanidli 
liquorice  P 

If  he  is  asked,  after  being  blindfolded,  to  taste 
or  smell  something  of  whicn  the  name  is  not  told 
him — say  vinegar — ^will  he  not  know  by  the  aid 
of  his  memory  that  it  is  vinegar,  recollecting  the 
taste  and  the  smell  of  the  vinegar  of  which  he 
had  experience  when  his  eves  were  openP  By 
what  other  means  but  by  his  recollection  of  the 
ordinary  smell  and  taste  of  vinegar  can  he  know 
that  wnat  is  offered  to  him  is  vinegar  P 

Does  not  PELAenis  confute  himself  and  Hazlitt 
when  he  says  that  the  odour  of  old  documents 
long  laid  by  m  a  drawer  always  reminds  him  of  a 
certain  brass-bound  mahogany  desk  of  his  P  Does 
he  not  at  the  very  time  compare  the  odour  of  the 
documents  with  the  odour,  which  he  bears  in  his 
memory,  of  the  desk  P  Surely  he  does  not  con- 
ceive that  he  compares  or  associates  the  ndour 
of  the  documents  with  the /orm  of  the  desk  P  The 
odour  of  the  documents,*I  consider,  recalls  the 
similar  odour  of  the  desk,  and  the  odour  of  the 
desk  recalls  by  association  the  form  of  the  desk; 
but  the  comparison  or  association,  in  the  first  in- 
stance, is  not  of  the  heterogeneous,  but  of  the 
homogeneous,  not  of  odour  with  form,  but  of 
odour  with  odour.  " 


I  fear  that  I  must  totally  disagree  with  Hazlitt 
and  his  heretical  backer,  VjkllqixjSj  upoa  this 


414 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*avn.MATi3»7i. 


point ;  for,  though  no  doubt  certiiii  Bmells  are  as- 
sociated with  certain  visible  objects  in  the  memory 
and  inevitably  recall  them,  it  seems  to  me  to  be 
a  perfectly  natonl  and  easy  effort  of  the  memory 
to  recollect  a  scent  without  identifying  it  with 
any  time  or  thing  or  place ;  and  so,  also,  I  £uiey  I 
could  remember  a  certain  peculiar  touch  without 
connecting  it  with  anything  eke.  It  would  be 
often  a  subsequent  process  of  the  mind  to  inquire, 
Where  did  I  smell,  or  where  did  I  feel  this  be- 
fore P  What  was  the  object  that  so  smelt  or  so 
feltP 

If  it  were  otherwise,  I  venture  to  suggest,  by 
way  of  an  escpennmUum  eruds,  that  a  blind  person 
woild  ImyTno  memory   foi   .nything   Scept 

sounds.  C.  W.  BufQRAM. 


If  the  eyes  and  ears  are  the  only  organs  by 
which  we  have  any  power  of  using  memory,  it 
follows  that  persons  both  blind  and  deaf  can  have 
no  memory  at  alL  Would  Pslaoius  assert  this  ? 
I  rememMr  well  the  stink  that  awoke  me  one 
night  some  years  ago  in  Paris,  and  it  was  pitch 
dark  and  perfectly  quiet 

Again ;  if  Pbla.oii78  were  to  receive  a  severe 
kick  behind,  which,  if  administered  adroitly,  he 
might  neither  see  nor  hear,  I  think  he  would  ao- 
knowledfle  that  ''through  the  breach  "  you  might 
''reach  ue  bndn"  and  memory  too. 

'  W.  M.  F. 


I  am  surprised  b^  the  assertion  of  PsLioius 
that  "it  is  impossible  to  remember  smells." 
Surely  this  is  contrarv  to  the  experience  of  every 
man,  woman,  and  child.  He  adds,  "  the  faculty 
of  memory  can  only  be  exercised  upon  objects 
which  have  been  seen  or  impressions  made  upon 
the  organs  of  hearing.''  More  startling  still.  I 
always  hitherto  thought  that  memory  retained 
and  recalled  impresnons  made  upon  any  of  the 
"  five  senses."  Is  it  not  so  P  Nor  can  I  under- 
stand how  "  the  old-world  fragrance  "  of  the  yew- 
trees  in  his  garden  should  r^ssU  the  Derbyshire 
examples,  but  through  the  "  memory  of  smells." 
At  any  rate,  at  this  moment  I  remember  as  dis- 
tinctly the  odour  as  the  fonns  of  the  famous  old 
^ew-trees  in  the  chmachya^  of  Beeley  and  Darley 
m  the  county  above-named.  Pslagittb  mentions 
"  mental  chemistry,"  but  even  that  were  powerless 
to  obliterate  from  memocy  the  memory  of  any 
smell  whatever.  P. 


SCENA :  2KHNH'. 

(4*»»  S.  vu.  269,  334.) 

There  is  no  question  that  of  words  originally 
1t>elonging  in  common  to  both  Latin  and  Greek, 
those  in  the  Latin  are  of  an  older  form,  if  dif- 
ferent, than  the  equivahot  Greek  words,  as  may 


be  seen  by  the  frequent  use  of  the  old  letters, 
digammaf  koppa,  and  mmpi,  as  m  oTros,  vmum: 
ris,  qms;  v^c,  qtUnque;  w49vmfCoquo;  and  vrcp, 
super;  and  the  longer  terminations  of  genitives 
plural,  /MV9S¥  (awr),  fmuarutn;  so  much  older 
that  except  in  the  first  and  second  dedension 
no  circumfiex  accent  marks  the  contraction;  so 
that  probably  the  Greeks  themselves  were  un- 
aware of  the  longer  original  form,  it  not  occoning 
in  any  known  book.  With  respect  to  the  termin- 
ation of  o-mp^  (scetM),  this  word  is  only  a  speci- 
men of  a  class.  The  first  i}  is  in  the  root,  and 
so  tmchanged ;  but  the  termination  was  always 
doubtfiil  in  Greek.  Thus  the  Doric  put  a  where 
the  Attic  had  iv,  and  the  Ionic  had  v  where  the 
Attic  used  a.  These  dialects,  as  the  same  named 
styles  of  ardiitecture,  do  not  mark  only,  or  per- 
hs{>s  mainly,  the  countries  from  whidi  they  took 
tiieir  names,  but  the  dates  at  whidi  they  pre- 
vailed— just,  for  instance,  as  we  may  find  a  certain 
style  of  architecture  or  form  of  speech  of  an  an- 
tique kind  lingerinff  longer  in  one  place  than 
another.  I  take  it  then  that  the  a  termination  of 
ioma  IB  older  than  the  iy,  and  so  retained  in  the 
Latin.  Another  kindred  example  is  wonrrhsy  poeia, 
the  first  V  unchanged,  the  latter  belonging  to  ter- 
mination becoming  a. 

While  writing  of  the  antique  form  of  many 
Latin  words  belonging  doubtless  to  the  originally 
common  languages  of  the  Italian  and  Gre^  im- 
migrants, I  cannot  help  noticing  the  curious  way 
in  which  note  and  lexicon  writers  have  neglected 
or  shbked  the  existence  of  the  koppa  and  soa^, 
and  directed  aU  their  attention  to  tne  digamma. 

Thus  Dr.  Hayman,  in  his  edition  of  the  Oflfytaey, 
supplies  a  dij^amma  at  each  hiatus.  He  gives  for 
instance  Fi^,  ForSc,  whei4  the  omitted  letter  must 
be  a  koppa ;  cf.  rwy  rorSc,  rls,  qms,  ir^c,  qmuque, 
&c,  and  in  lib.  l.  line  262,  iovtof  has  dipamma, 
which  should  be  koppa,  as  is  dear  if  conapared 
with  T6(r9s,  Witm,  and  qwmtas,  the  koppa  in  Greek 
either  being  left  out  or  turned  into  v  or  r. 

Again,  surely  there  can  be  no  diffomma  to  \FUis 
s=  sHts;  the  letter  wanted  here,  as  in  I  or  &,  se, 
aese,  oT,  sAt,  must  be  sampi;  in  aibi  we  have 
both  sampi  and  digamma,  and  ]fossibly  in  Ui 
Onms)  and  Sf.  These  are  only  specimen  examples. 
There  are  many  others  where  the  imssing  letter  is 
certsin,  more  still  where  there  is  no  evidence 
whatever  that  it  was  F  (digaimna).  It  would  be 
just  as  i^iilosophical  to  nut  san^is  or  koppas  to 
all  as  d^wunoi,  though  tne  mistakes  then  would 
doubtless  be  more  numerous,  as  there  are  many 
more  words  where  the  diffomma  can  be  proved 
to  have  been  omitted  than  the  other  two  old 
letters.  Still  tiie  nse  of  4hem  in  the  nmneral 
alphabet,  and  the  evidence  of  their  fonner  exist- 
enoe  in  tiie  common  words,  such  as  prepositions 
andpraBOfuns.  show  that  it  is  quite  as  likely  as  not 
tlMt  aoms  si  least  of  ^e  words  of  doobtfiil  form, 


4*^8.  VII.  Mat  18,  •71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


415 


usoallj  diffammaUd,  may  reallj  never  have  had 
that  letter  as  an  initial.  J.  G.  J. 


I  am  obliged  to  my  two  courteous  correspond- 
ents for  their  hints  and  replies,  but  they  have 
mistaken  the  drift  of  my  m<miiY.  I  look  on 
Greek  and  Latin  as  brother  and  sister  languages, 
not  parent  and  child,  and  wished  to  trace  their 
difference  in  one  specific  word  in  the  direction  of 
their  common  derivation.  I  suppose  the  final  a 
might  be  latent  in  Greek  which  was  expressed  in 
Latin,  and  that  the  latter  mi^ht  more  closely  con- 
form to  a  (say)  Sanskrit  origmaL  Of  this  I  did 
not  know  enough  to  say  positively  wkether  it 
were  so  or  not.  I  must  still,  notwitnstanding  the 
kind  endeavours  of  my  monitors,  sabacribe  myself 
the  purblind  Mtofs. 

CHILDREN'S  GAMEa 

(4»»»  8.  viL  141,  271.) 

It  would  be  interesting  (supposing  it  to  be 
really  an  ancient  rhyme)  to  trace  the  variations 
of  *^  How  many  miles  to  Babvlon  P  "    My  vennon 

8>.  141)  is  the  Edinburgh ;  Mb.  Pbnoelxt's  is  the 
omish ;  and  now,  midway,  I  find  the  Staffoid,  as 
follows : — 

" '  How  many  miles  to  Babylon  ?  * 
'Three  score  and  twent3^K)ne/ 

*  Shall  we  be  there  by  eandle-Ught  ? ' 

*  O  yes,  and  back  again.' 

*  Open  your  gates  as  wide  as  the  sky. 

And  let  King  George  and  his  horse  pass  by  I '" 

If  we  were  to  add  to  ''agiun  "  Unught,  we  should 
have  three  couplets  instead  of  alternate  rhymes. 

'' Candle-lignt ''  reminds  one  of  the  Scotch 
"Lyke  Wake^  {Bwder  Mimtreisy)'-' 

**  Fire  and  aleet  and  oandle-Ught:' 

Three  score  and  ten  is  a  well-known  Biblical 
number;  but  three  scoie  and  tw«nty*one  seems 
almost  scientific.  The  mythioa}  Dragon  of  China 
has  exactly  this  latter  number  of  donal  scales  (or 
vertebrsB  P^ 

The  object  of  visiting  Babylon  and  returning 
by  vespers  suggests  the  quaint  topographical 
knowledge  of  the  period  of  tne  Crusades,  and  the 
allusions  in  medissval  works  to  Prester  John. 

By  the  way,  Marco  Polo  mentions  that  the  two 
friars  who  accompanied  him  into  Armenia,  being 
alarmed  at  the  report  of  the  invasion  of  the  Soldan 
of  Babylonia,  claimed  the  protection  of  the  Master 
of  the  Templars  (in  tiiat  locality),  who  aecoid- 
ingly  escorted  them  back  to  the  coast 

This  traveller,  in  another  place,  describing  the 
Idngdom  of  Prester  John,  says  that  the  kini^  then 
reigning  (1209-71 P)  was  a  descendant  of  Preefcar 
John,  was  named  Gteorge,  and  that  this  King 
Geoige  held  his  kingdom  as  a  fief  under  theGxnd 
Khan! 


I  have  not  seen  the  work  by  Mr.  Chambers  in 
which  this  curious  rhyme  is  noticed,  but  may 
observe  that  no  G^orffe  and  his  horse  occur  in 
an^  Scotch  version,  so  far  as  I  am  aware.  From 
this  it  might  be  inferred  that  '^  St  Geoige  "  was 
the  original  text 

Of  course  it  will  be  apparent  tiiat  I  am  merely 
catching  at  straws,  ana  do  not  fay  any  means 
propose  to  call  this  a  Templar  rhyme,  or  even  a 
Crusader's,  although  our  masonic  brethren  may 
in  certain  diivalric  degrees,  have  appropriated 
and  amplified  the  idea.  I  mean  no  disreqtect  to 
these  degrees,  and  I  may  add  that  one  is  apt  to 
dally  with  loose  ideas  when  most  sceptical  and 
hara  to  be  convinced ;  thus  reversing  the  Ger- 
man's *  apophthegin,  that  the  most  pious  are  those 
who  can  afl&rd  to  jest  on  grave  snbiects. 

The  following  is  from  Dorsetuure,  but  the 
metre  and  rhyme  are  defective.  The  upraising  of 
the  gate  suggests  a  portcullis': — 

**  *  How  many  miles  to  Babylon  ? ' 

*  Eighty-eight.' 
*  Can  we  get  there  by 
Gandle-Ught?' 
<  Hold  up  the  gate*  as  high  bb  the  sky. 
And  let  King  George  and  the  Royal  family  paas  by.* " 

Here,  again,  is  another  Stafibrdshiie  rhyme : — 

**  Green  gravel,  green  gravd, 
The  g^sass  grows  so  green, 
And  all  pretty  maidens 

Are  fit  to  be  seen. 
We'll  wash  them  in  milk/ 
And  clothe  them  in  silit, 
And  write  their  names  down  with  white  pen  and  ink." 

Sp. 


The  Peel  Coleecttow  op  Piotukbb  (4**»  8.  vii. 
228,  336.)— It  is  gratifyyg  to  think  that,  to  the 
many  important  services  rendered  to  lus  country  by 
that  very  eminent  statesman,  the  second  Sir  Robert 
Peel,  tiGiis  ''  clarum  et  venerabile  nomen "  can 
now  be  added  to  the  treasures  of  the  National 
Gallery ;  government  having,  I  am  told,  obtained 
for  half  its  value,  by  desire  of  the  dowaffer  Lady 
PeeL  the  splendid  works  of  art  her  noole  bus- 
banas  refined  taste  had  collected.  Amongst  them 
Rubens'  celebrated,  but  miscalled,  "  Chapeau  de 
PaiUe."  If  I  mistake  not,  it  was  originall;^  named 
in  Flemish  ^'Spansche  Hut" — the  Spanish  hat. 
I  know  that  apanhid  means  chip-hat,  but  it  is 
evidently  not  a  straw-hat 

Wilkie's  iine  picture,  too,  of  John  Knox.  But 
is  The  Athentgwn  correct  in  stating  *'  John  Ejiox 
preaching  before  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  "  P  Ought 
ft  not  to  DC  ^  before  the  Regent  Murray  " — Mary's 
brother P 

I  am  not  sore,  being  away  from  my  books^ 
whether  I  ever  mentioned  in  **  N.  &  Q."  my  visit- 
ing Sir  David  Wilkie  at  Brompton  in  18S1,  whilst 

*  adikgeL 


416 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»k8.VII.MAYl8,'71. 


he  was  busy  piuntioff  this  ])icture,  and  my  lending 
him  a  sword  of  tne  period,  which  he  copied. 
He  had  in  his  studio  a  full-length  portrait  of 
George  IV.  as  large  as  life,  and  twice  as  natural, 
''  in  a  Scotch  kilt  and  tartans,  with  dirk  and  clay- 
more— ^a  stupendous  figure/'  says  Thackeray.  Also 
a  smaU  equestrian  portrait  of  Queen  Adelaide, 
which  was  not  very  remarkable. 

P.  A.  L. 

Flag  ot  thb  Nkw  Gebxait  Emfibb  (4^  S. 
Yii.  322.)— The  extract  from  The  Qkhe,  copied 
into  The  Times  and  thence  transferred  by  D.  P. 
to  '*  N.  &  Q.,**  is,  as  he  implies,  unintelligible, 
and  evidently  the  composition  of  one  who  is  igncH 
rant  of  the  A,  B,  0  of  neraldry. 

My  note  of  the  new  flag  is,  that  it  is  not  mi- 
narttf  but  "Paly  of  four,  or,  sa.,  gu.,  and  arg." — 
out  I  neglected  to  append  a  reference  to  the  source 
from  which  mymote  was  derived. 

Of  course  there  are  no  such  things  as  sup- 
porters to  a  flag:  but  as  the  red,  white,  and  black 
tricolour  of  the  North  German  Confederation  was 
depicted  in  a  shield  tierced  in  fess  on  the  seals  of 
its  consular  and  other  officials,  I  presume  that  the 
new  paly  ensign  will  be  similarly  treated,  and 
supported,  not  by  "  the  two  Indians  armed  with 
maces  of  the  Prussian  crest"  (!),  but  by  the  usual 
savaffes,  or  woodmen,  which  perform  that  duty 
for  the  Prussian  escutcheon. 

This  is  not  the  first  time  that  I  have  heard  of 
persons,  presumably  well  educated,  calling  a  coat 
of  arms  a  **  crest,"  ''  What  a  pretty  crest  Lord 
M.  uses,''  was  said  to  me  only  a  week  or  two  back, 
the  said  ''crest"  being  a  quartered  shield  with 
coronet,  helmet,  crest,  and  supporters — all  com- 
plete I 

Mu-parti, — D.  P.  is  ^te  coirect  in  saying  that 
this  bearing  is  a  Terv  rare  one ;  but  is  mistaken  in 
his  assertion  that  the  coat  of  Panwitz,  given  in 
the  Wappenbuch,  is  not  an  instance  of  it. 

Spener*s  language  (Opus  JBeraidicumf  p.  gen. 
p.  100)  may  appear  a  little  ambiguous;  and  GuU- 
nm's  vensdon,  ''Parted  per  pale  and  base  gules, 
ar^nt,  and  sable,"  may  be  thought  a  fitting  trans- 
lation of  ''  De  gueules  parti  d'arsent  soutenu  de 
sable";  but  when  we  porefer  to  obtain  our  infor- 
mation at  first  hand,  and  consult  the  Wtmenbueh 
itself,  we  find  that  Spener's  examples— Welters, 
Wittem,  Volstedt,  and  Panwitz— are  exactly  in- 
stances of  the  bearing  in  question  (Siebmacher's 
Wtqtpenbttch,  yoL  i.  platee  65, 186, 145, 147,  &c.) 
Rietstap  blazons  the  coat  of  Panwitz  thus: 
«  Coup^;  au  1  parti  d'arp^.  et  de  gu.,  au  2  de  sa 

gein."    Against  such  evidence  we  cannot  accept 
.  P.'a  statement,  ''this  is  not  mi-parti" 
German  heraldry  is  particularly  rich  in  coats 
formed  by  partition  lines,  many  of  tiie  varieties 
of  which  are  unknown  in  the  neraldry  of  other 
naticms.    Before  I  became  possessed  of  Ruddphi 


Heraldica  Curiasa,  I  commenced  a  collection  of 
such  singularities,  and  on  reference  to  it  I  find  I 
have  recorded  upwards  of  thirty  instances  of  mi- 
parti  in  Grermany  and  Switzerland  alone. 

John  Woobwabd. 
St  Maiy*s  Parsonage,  MontroM,  N.  B. 

D.  P.  will  find  a  correction  of  The  Times'  de- 
scription of  the  new  German  flag  in  the  "  Table 
Talk  "  column  of  The  Guardian,  March  8, 1871. 

W.  J.  L. 

Gkats  v.  MosaiTiiOBS  (4^  S.  vii.  852.) — ^During 
the  whole  of  last  summer  I  was  living  in  the 
Essex  Mushes,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Victoria 
Docks,  and  for  four  months  of  yery  hot  weather 
I  was  subject  to  perpetual  annoyance  from  myriads 
of  insects,  which  penetrated  into  the  rooms  when 
doors  and  windows  were  dosed.  The  bite  or 
sting  of  these  insects  was  poisonous,  and  in  many 
cases  as  serious  as  that  described  by  J.  M.  C,  and 
they  existed  in  such  numbers  that  it  was  quite 
impossible  to  enjoy  the  cool  of  the  evening  with- 
out being  bit  severely.  The  people  who  lived  in 
the  marshes  said  thiit  these  insects  were  mo^ 
quOoes,  that  a  few  came  over  in  the  ships  among 
the  goods,  and  that  when  the  ships  were  unladen 
these  came  out,  and  bred  in  the  marshes;  this 
was  confirmed  to  my  knowledge  by  seyeral  sea- 
captains,  who  said  that  the  insects  were  the  same 
as  the  mosquitoes  in  the  East,  but  much  smaller. 
I  should  liKe  to  know  whether  mosquitoes  are 
known  to  breed  in  this  country,  as  I  was  told  that 
the  same  insects  were  seen  in  and  about  South- 
ampton. I  was  not  so  fortunate  as  J.  M.  C, 
for  Dy  no  means  tiiat  I  could  devise  was  I  able  to 
protect  my  skin  from  these  little  marauders. 

W.  G.  D. 

The  wound^flicted  hj  the  gnat  is  rather  a 
sting  than  a  bite,  as  the  insect  is  seen  to  insert 
along  stin^  from  its  mouth,  which  appears  to 
convey  a  poison  similar  to  that  of  a  wasp  or  a  bee. 
It  may  be  useful  to  j^rsons  exposed  to  these  an- 
noying insects,  to  be  informed  of  an  effectual  pre- 
servative from  them  at  night  When  travelling 
in  Germany,  between  fifty  and  sixty  years  ago, 
my  bedroom  at  an  inn  overlooked  a  stable  yara. 
The  gnats  in  the  evening  arose  too  numerous  and 
formidable  from  this  damp  yard  to  allow  any  hope 
of  rest  or  security  from  punctures.  When  I 
complained  of  this  terrible  nuisance,  the  waiter 
assured  me  that  he  could  yery  soon  remedy  the 
evil.  He  brought  up  a  chafing  dish  full  of  small 
chips  of  juniper  wood,  and  t^d  me  to  set  fire  to 
tlds  wood,  the  chafing  dish  beins  placed  in  the 
middle  of  the  room,  and  go  to  bed  immediately  in 
the  smoke.  I  did  so,  and  the  room  was  socm  fiuled 
with  smoke,  but  of  a  pleasant  aromatic  amell, 
which  was  realljr  agreeable.  This  was  fatal  to 
the  gnats :  they  issued  out  from  the  curtains  and 
every  part  of  the  roomi  hurrying  to  the  windows 


^aYII.lUTl8,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


417 


to  escape  saffocation.  These  being  at  firat  closed 
were  quicklj  covered  all  oyer  with  gnats.  Many 
were  glad  to  make  their  escape  when  I  opened 
the  windows^  and  tiie  rest  fell  dead  or  helpless; 
so  that  I  had  a  quiet  comfortable  night.  The 
smoke  of  jnniper  wood  appears  to  destroy  gnats 
very  speedily.  F.  C.  H. 

Rev.  Thomas  Bbooks  (4*^  S.  vii.  842.)  —  My 
memoir,  containing  all  that  has  come  down  rela- 
tive  to  this  illustnous  and  yenerable  Puritan,  will 
be  found  in  my  ooUective  edition  of  his  complete 
works  (6  Tols.  ovo),  published  in  Nicholses  Jkiitan 
JDtimiea,  and  I  should  suppose  readily  accessible 
in  Philadelphia  to  your  correspondent. 

A.  B.  Gbosabt. 
St.  George's,  Blackbam. 

Mbs.  Mabt  Ohtoohill,  1675  (4^»»  S.  vii.  234.) 
I  am  afraid  I  can  only  help  Mb.  C.  W.  Bm ohax 
further  into  the  dilemma  b^  stating  that  some 
time  ago  I  was  rooting  up  this  subject,  and  jotted 
down  (authority  imnoted)  that  her  maiden  name 
was  ^^  Allen/'  and  that  she  died  <' circa  1675/' 
which  is  within  about  eighteen  months  of  the 
time  as  given  in  register  as  quoted  by  Mb.  Bikg- 
HAM.  1  cannot  give  the  date  of  death  or  place  of 
burial  of  Sarah,  nee  Winstan,  but  as  to  the  latter, 
beg  to  suggest  Wootton  Glanvil  as  likely;  or  as 
her  son,  Sir  Winstan  Churchill,  died  March  26, 
1688,  and  was  interred  at  St  MartinVin-the- 
Fields,  London,  it  is  just  probable  that  her  re- 
mains rest  there  also.  Mblcombb. 

"The  Hob  iw  the  Well"  (4«*  S.  vii.  201, 

220,  310.)— I  notice  in  Sotheran*s  Catalogue^  Feb. 

1371 :  — 

**  Hob  in  the  Wrll;  or  the  Guardian  Oatwitted.  A 
Poem,  Humorous  and  Moral.  Plates,  thin  12mo.  (From 
the  Heber  Collection.)    1769.*' 

Is  this  the  ''old  farce"  referred  to  by  G. 
WesilocxP  Thos.  Sxbwabdsok,  Juk. 

Lakcashirb  Witches  r4*  S.  tu.  287,  311.)— 
'' Lancashire  witehes"  and  ''Cheshire  cato"  are 
the  only  county  sobriquets  for  ladies  that  I  know 
oi^  and  certainly  the  Cheshire  ladies  are  not 
toasted  as  cate.  I  do  not  agree  with  Mb.  Rat- 
CLTPFSy  for  I  think  the  ladies  of  other  counties 
would  be  as  likely  to  take  offence  if  given  at  a 
public  dinner  as  "The  Suffolk  witches,**  "The 
Devonshire  witches,"  as  "  The  Lancashire  witches" 
would  be  if  toasted  under  any  other  than  that 
prescribed  form.  Fancy  the  disgust  of  the  Lan- 
cashire fair  ones,  if  some  ignorant  stranger  were 
to  propose  "  The  ladies  I "  P.  P. 

Letteb  of  Edwabd  IV.  (4«»  S.  viL  229, 812.) 
I  am  glad  that  my  paper  has  elicited  further  cri- 
tidsm  of  the  language  of  this  docnment|  thus 
affordinj]^  additional  arguments  why  the  original 
should  be  su\)mitted  to  inspectioii.    I  may,  how- 


tinctly  incompatible  with  the  supposition  that  it 
is  auUientic.  As  to  the  form  "  Kegia  Majestas," 
I  Imow  it  has  been  said  that  the  term  "  Majesty" 
was  not  applied  to  any  King  of  England  before 
Heni^  VIII.  This  may  be  true  as  regards  the 
English  word ;  but  Henry  YU.  was  addressed  as 
"  Sacara  Regia  Majestas  "  by  Cardinal  Hadrian  de 
Castello,"  and  as  "  Mmestas  Vestra  "  by  two  other 
cardinals.  (See  my  Letters  of  Richard  IIL  and 
Henry  VIL,  L  108, 109* ;  iL  112.)  I  suspect  the 
expression  was  first  used  by  Italian  diplomatists 
on  the  revival  of  letters ;  and  if  so,  it  was  not  un- 
likely to  have  been  employed  by  an  Italian  secre- 
tary, who  may  possibly  have  come  to  England 
along  with  the  legate  Copmni.  The  letter  cer- 
tainty is  in  an  It^an  hana.  As  to  the  style  of 
the  Dukes  of  Milan,  I  have  referred  to  the  work 
mentioned  by  Tewabs.  but  it  does  not  come  down 
far  enough  to  decide  tne  question. 

Jaxes  Gaibdioeb. 

Claw  MoAlpiw  (4«*  S.  vii.  189,  290.)— The 
replies  of  Mao.  and  W.  Wintebs,  Waltham  Ab- 
bey, confirm  the  statement  I  made  in  making 
inquiries  concerning  the  existence  and  origin  of 
this  clan ;  namely,  that  all  that  relates  to  them 
is  of  very  vague  and  uncertain  character.  Mag., 
for  example,  says :  — 

"  The  descendants  of  Kmg  Alpin  are  supposed  to  have 
formed  the  clan  Alpin.  .  .  .  The  Macalpins  of  the  present 
day  I  believe  to  be  descended  from  Macgregors,  and  to  have 
assomed  the  name  when  that  of  Macgregor  was  proscribed. 
.  .  .  Who,  knowing  the  history  of  the  Highlands  and  its 
dans,"  and  so  forth,  <*  wonid  expect  to  find  .  .  .  muni- 
ments establishing  the  descent  of  the  various  chi^  from 
Kenneth  Macalpin?" 

It  will  be  seen  that  supposition,  individual 
belief  founded  on  no  cited  authority,  and  an  ad- 
mission of  the  unreasonableness  of  lookinff  for 
documentary  evidence,  are  freely  avowed  by  Mao. 
to  exist  in  connection  with  this  subject  Thus 
far,  then,  the  inquiry  has  not  been  rendered  more 
satisfactory  than  it  was  when  the  query  was 
raised. 

Mb.  WiKTEBfl  has  my  thanks  for  referring  me 
to  the  Baronage  of  Scotland:  but  it  will  be  seen 
that,  in  the  note  to  CUm^AlpMe  Vow,  the  belief 
of  Mao.  therein  receives  a  direct  contradiction ; 
for,  while  he  sunposes  the  Macfdpins  to  have 
formerly  bean  of  Macgregors,  and  to  nave  assumed 
the  name  when  that  of  Macgregor  was  proscribed, 
Boswell's  note  tells  us  that  the  genealogist  of  the 
Macalpins  and  Macgregors  in  the  Baronage  of 
Scotland  states  that  those  who  had  assumed  the 
name  of  Macalpin  adopted  the  name  of  the  Mac- 
gregors, in  order  to  propitiate  the  aid  of  a  clan 
more  powerful  than  taeir  own,  and  thus  lost  their 
sepan^  existence.  To  reoondle  these  discrepan- 
cies I  do  not  make  the  attempt ;  but  I  again  ask — 
Is  there  anything  more  than  a  very  "  foggy  "  kind 


ever,  yenture  to  state  that  I  see  nothing  yet  di»-    of  eiddenoe  in  support  0[  the  idea  that  sndi  a 


4I& 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES; 


[4*8.  VU.  lUxit^^niL 


body  as  the  daa  Maealpiii,  such  a  line  of  chiel^ 
tains  aa  those  of  the  clan,  and  a  permanant  place 
of  residence  for  tiiiem,  ever  existed  ? 

EnuviBEBi 

CHTGiroire  (4*  S.  vn.  93,  281,  826.)— Voltmre 

mentions  the  chignon:  — 

<*  MademoiBeDe,  en  faisant  froide  mine, 
Ne  daigne  pas  aider  k  la  caisine ; 
£lle  at  mkei  ajaste  aon  cki^mmJ* 

The  piimary  meaning  of  the  word  is,  of  conise. 
"  nape  of  the  neck."  But  what  is  the  etymology  r 
I  was  at  fijst  disposed  to  derive  it  from  twor, ''  back 
of  the  head,"  **  nape  of  the  neck  "  (Aporr.  H,  A., 
i.  7,  2),  with  a  prefixed  sibilant  (ipiov — smion, 
cimon,  chignon).  Manage  gives  ''  chignon  du  cou^ 
de  catena:  caUna,  catenum^  caienoj  catenonis, 
ehaignohy  chignon :  chaignon  pour  chignon  se  trouve 
duis  Nicot,  et  dans  la  Ballade  de  Villon,  dans 
laquelle  Villon  crie  merci  k  toat  le  monde." 
Landais  says,  "  du  mot  Fran9ais,  cludne,  on  a  fadt 
dudgnon,  et  enauite  chignon:  le  derri^  da  oou. 
Antrefoia  lee  fsmmes  nommaient  chignon  les  che- 
yenx  i^trousste  qui  oouvraieat  leur  chignon^' 'y 
and  Boquefort  gives, ''  chaigne,  chaignon,  chamg" 
non:  le  chignon  du  col,  de  catena.^*  Littrd  says  of 
the  elymology.  "le  meme  que  chainon,  par  com- 
paraison  au  cnionon  d'une  chaine  avec  lea  nodo- 
sity des  vertdbres;  Beny,  coignon,  chagntm" 

E.  S.  Chabitgck. 

Cbray's  Ina  Sqnaxe. 

F.S.  The  word,  in  its  primitiTe  meaning,  is 
foimd  in  the  thirteenth  century  corrupted  down 
to  coon  and  chaon ;  in  1690  (J.  de  Meun^;^  Test.) 
it  is  written  chaaignon,  and  subsequently  cAoa^imw, 
chinon,  esdngnoHf  and  cheenon, 

DiGHToir  Cjlbio^tubbs  (3^  S.  x.  13,  &c.)-— I 
have  not  yet  seen  anything  further  on  this  subject. 

I  possess  a  book  containing  eighty-two,  the  ad- 
ditional onea  being  Mrs.  H.  Johaatone  in  Ti'mour 
the  Tartar  and  the  Amateur  of  Fashion  in  the 
character  of  Lothario  (Romeo  Goates,  the  Cocky 
Coates  of  his  day.) 

I  have  a  loose  No.  35,  the  "  Lady  of  the  Lake," 
slightly  varied  in  the  details.  All  my  carica- 
tures, or  rather  characters,  are  coloured.  The 
daughters  undertook  this  department,  and  I  have 
often  amused  myself  by  helping  them.  The 
^<  faded  ink  subscriptioiis  "  were  generally  written 
by  one  of  **  Dijfhton  the  younger  a"  sisters. 

I  give  some  mformation  wanting  in  Mb.  Wood's 
numbexSi^ 

No.  30.  The  Duke  of  Qoeensberry. 

No.  49.  The  Duke  ofBiickingham. 

No.  71.  Lord  Fitzroy  Somerset. 

Na  78.  Brooke  Watson,  who  had  his  leg  bitten 
off  by  a  shark,  when  he  in  his  excess  of  poJitenesa 
wished  to  give  precedence  to  the  creature  in  its 
own  element. 

No.  80.  Townsend,  the  Bow  Street  Banner. 


Menu  45.  The  10th  P.  of  W.  Begt  '^  don't 
dance,''  &c. 

There  were  two  Digbtons;  nay,  there  were 
moTBu 

Db.  Dobak  ens  in  the  qf^elling  of  the  name: 
it  was  alwajrs  without  the  e;  and  one  who  oould 
blacken  the  ^  e  "  of  another  would  scarcely  hesi- 
tate to  apply  anything  but  a  detergent  to  his 
character.  Chubchiii.. 

Rase  Statbubbtts:  Gibbok's  "Dboldtb  ahd 
Fall"  (4* 8.  vii.  282, 273, 288.) -Mb.  Tbw  says 
that  his  edition  of  Gibbon,  1818,  has  ^^  an  hundred 
well  disetplined  soldims."  I  find  the  edition  of 
1817  has  the  same,  but  I  have  lately  met  with 
the  edition  of  S.  A.  &  H.  Oddy,  Oxford  Street,  1809, 
or  only  fifteen  years  after  his  death ;  it  aays^  ^  an 
hundred  thousand."  However,  from  the  pava- 
gra^h  which  1  gave  at  length,  the  meaning  is  so 
obvious  that  1  am  surprised  that  so  acute  a  critic 
as  Mb.  Tbw  should  not  have  seen  the  omission  of 
the  printer.  CitABBr. 

EssATB  Divnrs,  Mobal,  and  Political,  1714: 
Deas^  Swift  (2"*  S.  v.  27.) — One  of  your  cor- 
respondents, M  S.,  inquires  at  this  reference  for 
the  name  of  the  author  of  this  pamphlet  against 
Dean  Swift.  Although  many  years  nave  el^ised 
since  this  query  was  printed,  some  one  mav  care 
for  an  answer  to  the  effect  that  there  can  hardly 
be  a  doubt  of  this  tract  having  been  written  by 
Thomas  Burnet,  son  of  the  bishop,  who  was  like- 
wise author  of  the  Second  Tale  of  a  T\ib. 

A  copy  of  the  Eeeays  in  the  Library  of  the 
British  Museum  (12350.  C.)  has  the  following 
memorandum  in  manuscript  of  the  period  of  pub- 
lication, and  on  the  titie-page  :-^ 

"  A  severe  Satire  on  Dean  Swift  and  his  Writings,  par- 
ticnlarly  the  Tale  of  a  Tub.  Probably  by  Bp.  Boxnett^ 
soDj  Tho.  B.  £sqr." 

F.  G.  a 


Chaucbb's  "Col-Fox"  and  ''Gattothbd" 
(4*  S.  iv.  368.)— With  regard  to  the  first,  com- 
pare "  cold  reed  '*  (Oamefyn,  1.  531  and  759.) 

With  regard  to  the  second,  M.  R.  says,  ^*  The 
term  (gag-toothed)  seems  to  have  been  appMed 
only  to  women."  Here  is  an  instance  to  the  con- 
trary:— 

**  With  that  she  bent  her  browes,  and  like  a  Fray  of 
bell  began  to  flic  at  Mm,  saying,  *  Whv  yon  gag-tooth 
Jacke! '  dte.*'— Tboms*B  JEarfy  Engliah  'Proee  Bomances^ 
i.  108. 

Cuthbert  of  K'ftytH^lly  the  man  vitupemted,  is 
notoriously  a  lecher.  John  Adbis. 

«i  Cbisb-Cboss-A  B  C  (4«^  S.  vi.  367.)— An 
illustreted  paper  on  *^  Crisfr-Cross  **  by  Mr.  F.  C. 
Lukis,  F.S.A*,^  is  in  the  Beliquary  for  Oct  1870. 
Mb.  LionHAir  queries  kdn^  and  inquires  if  it  is 
not  Celtic  1  think  not.  The  Kentish  equivalent 
to  "  Griss-Grosa-lain*'  is  "  crias-orass  row.^  Hence 


4iira.VILMirrl8,7L] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES- 


419 


I  oandiade  kmi'^kme, «.  e. a  lane  or  row  of  lettexfl^ 
Tiz.  the  alphabet.  GBOBeB  Bbdo. 

Latin  Pbovbeb  (4*  S.  vii.  56.)— 

"YehemeDterqiiofldBm  homines,  et  eos  maxima,  qui  te 
et  maxime  debnerant,  et  plorimnm  javare  potaenmt, 
invidine  dignitati  tuse :  simillimamque  in  re  dimimili 
toi  temporis  none,  et  nostri  qnondam  faisae  ntiomm : 
ut»  qnoa  tti  raipuhlicn  causa  lieseras,  palam  t*  oppon^ 
narent,  qaomm  anctoritatem,  dignitatem,  vdmitatMiqne 
defenderaa,  non  tam  memores  eseent  virtntia  tnce,  qnam 
landia  inizoicL'*— Cioera,  LmOuhy  Epitt,  Ibm,  L  7. 

C.  P.  L 

Beatttt  Sleep  (4**»  S.  vii.  143.)— Thia  is  a 
yeiy  common  term  in  Scotland,  where  alaol  have 
heud  it  said  yery  often  that  **  The  two  hours 
before  midnight  are  worth  all  that  come  after  it." 

Ebw^sd  Rixbavli  Dibdik. 

Epithxib  of  the  MoiTEHS  (4^  S.  yii.  d43.)~*I 
forward  to  you  the  following  titles  of  the  months 
taken  from  my  copy  of — 

"Flye  Hundred  Points  of  good   Husbandry  newly 
set  foorth  by  Thomas  Tosser,  Gentleman.  Londony  1610." 

"A  kindly  good  Janineere 
Fnezth  pot  by  the  feera. 

February  fill  the  dike 
With  what  thou  dost  like. 

March  dust  to  be  sold, 
Worth  ransom  of  gold. 

Sweet  April  showers 
Do  spring  May  flowers. 

Cold  May  and  windy, 
Bame  filfeth  vp  finely. 

Calme  weather  in  June 
Come  sets  in  tune. 

No  tempest,  good  July, 
Least  come  looke  ruely. 

Drie  August  and  warme 
Both  haraest  no  harme. 

September  blow  soft 
TiU  fruit  be  in  loft. 

October  good  blast 
To  blow  the  hog  mast. 

November  take  fiaile. 
Let  skep  no  more  faile. 

O  dirty  December 

For  Christmas  remember.'^ 

I  haye  frequently  heard  those  for  the  first  eight 
months,  with  hut  little  yariation,  from  agri<nil- 
tnral  labourers  on  the  east  coast  of  Lincolnshire^ 
and  occasionally  that  for  Noyember.  The  word 
skep  is  in  constant  use  for  a  peck  measure. 

Rhymes  for  the  first  seyen  months  are  also 
quoted  in  the  Shepfterd  of  Banbury's  Rides  to 
Jud^  of  the  WeaAeTj  by  J.  Claridge  (London, 
1748),  and  run  as  follows : — 

**  Janiyer  freeze  the  pot  b}^  the  fire. 
If  the  grass  grow  in  Janiveer, 
It  grows  the  worse  for*t  all  the  year. 
The  Welchman  *ud  rather  see  his  dam  on  the  heir 
Than  to  see  a  fair  Febraeer. 
'       March  wind  and  May  sun 

Makes  clothes  white  and  maids  dun. 


When  April  blows  his  horn. 

It's  good  both  for  hay  and  com. 

An  April  flood 

Carries  away  the  fro^  and  her  brood. 

A  cold  May  and  a  wmdy 

Makes  a  ftill  bam  and  a  findy(?) 

A  May  flood 

Neyer  did  good. 

A  swarm  or  bees  in  May 

Is  worth  a  load  of  hay, 

Bat  a  swarm  in  July 

Is  not  worth  a  fly." 

R.  M :  QEAin:^^. 

Qneen's  College,  Oxford. 

VoTAQBint  Pigeons  :  Figeow  Post  (4**»  S.  yii. 
185,  284,  291.) — Looking  oyer  some  old  numbers 
of  the  Bevue  Mtamiique,  I  find  with  regard  to 
these  (yoL  x.  serie  7,  A»  1862)— 

**  De  tons  les  Itres  de  la  creation  il  est  le  quatrifeme 
nomm^  dans  la  Geniwe,  qui  en  fait  mention  ayant  la  fin 
du  Ddluge. 

"No^  envoya  une  oolombe  sept  jours  apr^  le  corbeau, 
pour  voir  si  les  eaux  avaient  cesae  de  couvrir  la  terre. 

"  Mais  la  colombe  n'ayant  pu  tronyer  ob.  mettre  le  pied, 
paroeque  la  terre  4tait  toute  conyerte  d'eao,  ^e  rerint 
alni. 

"  II  attendit  encore  sept  jours  et  il  enroya,  de  nouyeau, 
la  colombe  hors  de  l*arohe. 

**  £Ue  revint  &  Ini  le  soir«  portant  dans  son  bee  un 
rameau  d'oliner  dont  les  feuUIes  ^talent  toutes  yertes. 

"  Cette  colombe  ^tait  probablement  le  pigeon  bleu  des 
roches — ^notrebiset.sauvage.  Quoi  qu*il  en  soit,  les  Arabes 
out  compos(^  sur  le  messager  de  Ko^  une  cfaarmante  1^ 

rude.  'La  premiere  fois,*  disent-ils,  *la  oolombe  retouma 
Tarche  ayec  une  brandie  d'olivier,  mais  rien  qui  indi- 
qn&t  r^tat  de  la  terre ;  la  seoonde  fois  le  limon  ronge&tre 
qui  couvrait  ses  pattes  indiquait  que  les  eaux  s'etaient 
retire  de  dessus  terre ;  et  pour  rappeler  oet  ^v^ement, 
No^  demanda  au  seigneur  que  les  pieds  de  ces  oiseaux 
conservassent  la  cotdeur  rouge  qui  les  distingue  encora 
aujourd*hui.'  L'analogie  des  mots  hdnreux  adoum,  rouge, 
admehj  terre,  avec  Aam,  Adam,  est  remarquable ;  notre 
mot  homme  se  dit  aussi  en  turc a*dam** 

From  this  earliest  example  of  the  jngeon-tra- 
yeller,  it  seems  pretty  eyident  that  the  faculty  they 
haye  of  retummg  home  could  not  be  ''  by  land- 
mark," as  the  whole  land  was  imder  water ;  nor 
''  by  the  stars,"  as  the  sky  only  cleared  up  with 
the  rainbow  when  "No^  was  out  of  the  ark":  it 
must  then  haye  been  ''by  instinct,"  like  the  bird 
Mr.  R.  W.  Alldbidos  mentions,  which  returned, 
when  only  nine  weeks  old,  from  a  distance  of 
seyenty  miles.  P.  A.  L. 

"Abbtjthhot":  "Ruthven":  how  pbo- 
NOxmcoBD  P  (4^  S.  yiL  842.)— I  onee  knew  a  lady, 
one  of  the  danghten  of  Graham  of  Marphie,  who, 
as  it  so  happened,  was  the  maternal  snmt  of  Vis- 
count Arbuthnot.  Thia  lady  pnmounoed  the 
name  Arbuthnot  with  the  accent  on  the  seeond 
syllable.  She  was  a  womsn  of  good  education, 
somewhat  of  the  best,  and  her  husband  had  been 
a-man  of  letters.  I  haye  neyer  heard  this  name 
pronounced  otherwise.  ''Riyen"  for  Ruthyoi 
IS  a  conyentional  departure  or  fashionable  oor» 
ruption  for  ^^db  it  is  difficult  to  aeooant^  just 


420 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  8.  Vn.  Mat  18, '71. 


as  the  English  name  Theobald  is  spoken  Tthbald, 
and  the  Scotch  name  Majoribanks  called  Marsh" 
banks,  J.  Ce.  K. 

Temple. 

In  Scotland  this  name  is  uniformly  pronounced 
with  the  accent  on  the  second  sjllabie.  I  have 
no  doubt  that  Dr.  Arbuthnot  himself,  a  native  of 
Arbuthnot  parish  in  Kincardineshire,  who  did  not 
leave  Scotland  until  after  taking  his  medical  de- 

free  at  Aberdeen,  so  pronounced  it  Nor  is  it 
jtmy  means  evident  that  his  English  friends 
adopted  a  different  use.  It  is  true  that  the  accent 
is  otherwise  placed  in  the  line  quoted  by  Jatdee 
from  Pope's  fJpistle — 

**  To  second,  Ar'bathnot,  thy  art  and  care  " ; 

but,  on  the  other  hand,  we  have  the  same  poet,  in 
his  Farewell  to  London^  thus  writing — 

"FareweU,  Aibath'not*B  raillery 
On  every  learned  sot  I " 

His  other  friend,  the  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  in  his 
poem  On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift,  writes— 

"  Poor  Pope  will  grieve  a  month,  and  Gay 
A  week,  and  Ar'bathnot  a  day  " ; 

yet  the  same  piece  contains  the  couplet  — 

'<  Arbath'not  ia  no  more  my  friend. 
Who  dares  to  irony  pretend  "; 

and  in  Swift's  much  earlier  verses  JVritten  in  Sick- 
ness are  the  lines — 

**  Removed  from  kind  Arbath'not'a  aid, 
Who  knows  his  art  but  not  his  trade." 

The  prologue  to  The  Shepherd's  Week  by  Gay 
gives  another  instance — 

*<  This  leech  Arbath'not  was  yclept,*' 
followed  a  few  lines  further  on  by — 

<<  ril  hie  with  glee 
To  coort,  this  Ar'bathnot  to  see." 

The  above  Quotations  go  far  to  prove  that, 
when  the  rhytnm  did  not  require  a  transference 
of  the  accent,  the  three  firiends  of  the  learned  and 
witty  Scotch  physician  retained  it  in  what  I  must 
call  its  proper  place.  The  ^at  probability  is 
that  by  tnem,  as  well  as  by  himselfand  his  coun- 
trymen, the  genial  Doctor,  as  Gay  has  it,  "  Ar- 
buth'not  was  yclept"  Nobval  Cltjtb. 

Aberdeen. 

Being  a  native  of  the  city  of  Aberdeen,  which 
is  not  far  distant  from  the  ancestral  seat  of  the 
noble  familv  of  the  Arbuthnots,  I  had  frequent 
occasion  to  hear  the  name  pronounced,  but  always 
with  the  accent  on  the  second  syUable.  Whether 
this  is  the  correct  pronimciation  or  not  I  cannot 
pretend  to  say.  J.  Mackat. 

8tow-ow-thb-Wold  (4"»  S.  vii.  8440-— Stow- 
on-the-Wold  was  in  the  diocese  of  Worcester 
before  the  Reformation.  Alicia  Floure  of  Stow 
S.  Edward's  (for  that  is  the  town's  andent  name), 


bequeathed  to  the  "  mother  church  of  Worcester 
xii^  "  by  her  will,  a.d.  1878.         Datid  Rotcb. 
Netherswell  Vicarage,  Stow-on-Wold. 

SiB  Joror  Mason  (4*»»  S.  vii.  365.)— I  shall  be 
sincerely  obliged  if  P.  M.  will  communicate^  with 
me  in  reference  to  Sir  John  Mason  and  his  de- 
scendants. Samuel  Tuckeb. 

Fortis  Green,  Finchley,  K. 

Old  Families  without  Coat  Abmoub  (4*^  S. 
vii.  344)— As  a  herald  of  lone  standing— having 
studied  that  which  has  been  bitterly  but  rightlv 
termed  the  ''  science  of  fools  with  long  memories  ' 
for  more  than  twenty  years— 1  think  I  may  ven- 
ture to  answer  P.'s  query  in  the  affirmative.  No 
doubt  there  are  many  old  families  without  coat 
armour.  What  would  such  esquires  as  Squire 
Western  care  for  heraldry  ?  The  way  in  which 
coat  armour  was  assignea,  it  must  be  remem- 
bered, was  by  the  heralds  in  their  viffltation& 
when  each  gentleman  of  a  very  small  freehold 
estate  was  summoned  and  made  to  pay  for  the 
proper  entry  of  his  arms  and  crest  or  his  coat 
armour  only.  But  oftentimes  the  heads  of  fami- 
lies, to  use  a  slang  expression,  "squared"  the 
matter  with  the  heralds,  and  conveyed  themselves 
away,  not  being  willing  to  have  hpnour  thus  thrust 
upon  them.  Nor  was  it  alone  as  regards  the 
bearinff  of  coat  arms  that  the  retiring  nature  of 
Engli£men  was  shown.  If  P.  will  refer  to  the 
first  pages  of  Evelyn's  Memoirs  he  will  find  that 
gentleman's  father, paying  a  fine  rather  than  be* 
made  a  knight. 

«  Reoeaved  the  29  Oct  1680,  of  Rich^  Evlinge  of  Wot- 
tone  in  the  coantye  of  Sarr*  Esq.  by  way  of  composic'one 
to  the  use  of  hU  Mcfi^  being  appl<^  by  his  M.  collector  for 
the  some,  for  his  Fine  for  not  appearinge  at  the  time  and 
place  apoynted  for  receavinge  order  of  knighthood,  the 
somme  of  fivety  poond.    I  say  receaved, 

•*  Tho.  Cbtkbs." 

And  surelv  a  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  needs  not  to  be 
told  that  m  the  davs  of  Elizabeth,  and  especially 
of  James  I.  and  Cnarles  I.,  '< knights"  were  not 
thought  much  of — dried  apples  were  called 
<'  wiUiered  Sir  Johns."  Honour  was  vended  very 
cheaply,  and  King  James's  notion  of  making 
money  oy  a  batch  of  baronets  was  no  new  idea, 
only  he  held  out  the  bait  and  added  novelty  to  it. 
Before  his  time  gentlemen  were  called  up  to  be 
honoured,  and  fined  heavily  if  they  did  not  sub- 
mit to  be  honoured.  F.  ma^  rest  assured  that 
there  are  many  very  old  families  not  possessing 
coat  armour,  unless  that  which  their  ambitious 
descendants  nave  had  assigned  to  them  by  Messrs. 
Stamp,  Die,  Blazon,  &  Co.,  the  eminent  adver- 
tising ''  heraldic  artists."  Hain  Fribwsll. 
Great  Bossell  Street,  Bloomsbaiy  Square. 

Beabs'  Eabs  (4*1'  S.  vii.  256,  850.)~lfany  per- 
sona in  Suffolk  snU  call  the  awncvda  bears'  ears. 

W.  Mabsh. 


4*  S.  Vn.  Mat  13,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


421 


Saikts'  Emblems  (A^  S.  vii.  305.)— I  think  if 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  had  each  a  copy  of  Dr.  F. 
C.  Husenbeth's  Emblems  of  SamUy  published  by 
Longmans  &  Co.,  price  fiye  shillinffs,  they  wonld 
there  very  often  find  the  information  sought'for 
in  these  passes.  According  to  the  author  of  this 
work  SS.  Mathias,  Matthew,  Wolfgang,  Adjustus, 
have  for  their  emblems  hatcheU,        W.  Mabsh. 

The  Nile  awd  the  Bible  (4«*  8.  vii.  186, 314.) 

Under  this  heading  there  are  some  references  to 

a  paasoge  in  Eocles.  xi.  1  — 

*'  Cast  thy  bread  upon  the  waters,  for  thoa  shalt  find 
it  after  many  days," — 

the  drift  of  which  I  cannot  with  any  certainty 

make  out,  in  consequence  of  the  writer  not  having 

translated  the  Greek  and  Latin  quotations.  What 

I  wish  to  direct  attention  to,  is  the  variety  in  the 

translation  of  the  above  and  some  other  passages 

from  the  Hebrew.    In  a  version  now  before  me — 

*'  The  Holy  Bible  ....  with  Twenty  Thousand  Emen- 
dations."   liondon :  Longmans,  Brown,  &  Co.,  1848,* — 

the  verse  in  question  is  thus  given :  — 

**  Cast  thy  bread-oom  upon  the  watered  ground,  and 
thou  shalt  find  it  after  many  days." 

In  the  Douay  Vernon  (London :  Simms  and  M'ln- 

tyre,  1847)  it  runs — 

**  Cast  thv  bread  upon  the  running  waters ;  for  after  a 
long  time  thou  shalt  find  it  ag^ain.*' 

There  is  perhaps  not  much  dissimilarity  in  mean- 
ing here,  although  one  might  well  desire  to  have 
a  more  exact  agreement  in  translation.    But  what 
is  an  ordinary  reader  to  make  of  the  following  ? 
Job  V.  7 :  — 

**Yet  man  is  bom  unto  trouble,  as  the  sparks  fly 
upward.** — Common  Version, 

**  For  man  is  not  bom  to  trouble,  as  the  sparks  fly 
upwards." — Vernon  1843. 

**  Man  is  bom  to  labour,  and  the  bird  to  fly.** — Douay 
Vertion, 

Job  vi.  &-7 :  — 

**  Can  that  which  is  unsavoury  be  eaten  without  salt  ? 
or  is  there  any  taste  in  the  white  of  an  egg  ?  '* 

**  The  things  that  my  soul  refused  to  touch  are  as  my 
sorrowful  meat.** — Common  Vernon. 

**  Can  an  unsavoury  thing  be  eaten  that  is  not  sea- 
soned  with  salt?  or  can  a  man  taste  that which^ when 
tasted  bringeth  death  ?  '* — Douay  V^tion. 

These  form  a  very  small'sample  of  the  discrep- 
ancies in  translation  I  have  met  with.  Am  I  right 
in  supposing  that,  in  some  cases,  the  exact  mean- 
ing of  the  Hebrew  cannot  be  ascertained  P        F. 

InvemesB. 

Though  the  overflowing  of  the  Nile,  which  in 
itself  would  be  no  novelty  to  the  Israelites,  is  not 
expressly  mentioned  by  Moses,  it  seems  distinctly 
leferred  to  in  Deut.  xi.  10,  11:  where  the  Is- 
raelites are  told  the  promised  land  was  not  like 

[*  By  J.T.Gonqnest,M.D.,  the  well-known  physician, 
who  died  on  Oct  24, 1866.— Ed.] 


Egypt,  but  a  land  that  drank  water  of  the  rain  of 
heaven.  Zechariah  xiv.  17, 18,  distinctly  refers  to 
Egypt's  being  independent  of  rain  for  its  fmitful- 
ness.  P.  P. 

PiOKKLHERRiiTo  (4»>»  S.  vii.  356.)— In  "  Notices 

to  Correspondents  "  it  is  said,  *^  In  the  German 

farces  Pickelherrinff  is  the  name  of  the  Droll  or 

Merry  Andrew.''    It  was  his  name  at  Looe,  in 

Cornwall,  also  in  my  boyhood,  and  was  frequently 

abridged  into  Pickie,  or  rather  Peckle. 

Wm.  Penoslly. 
Torquay.  

MiittTULntaui. 

NOTES  OM  BOOKS.  ETC. 

T%e  Handwriting  ofJumuM,  profeuUmaUy  Invettiaaied  by 
Mr.  Charles  Chabot  (Expert^.  With  Preface  and 
Collateral  Evidence  by  the  Hon.  Edward  Twisleton. 
(Murray.) 

This  handsome  quarto  volume,  with  nearly  three  hun- 
dred file*  similes,  has  a  double  interest.  The  first  from 
the  influence  which  it  is  destined  henceforth  to  exercise 
upon  all  questions  where  identity  of  handwriting  is  con- 
cerned, and  it  will  be  esteemed  a  text^book  upon  that 
subject ;  and  the  second  Arom  its  bearing  on  the  great 
Jnnian  controversy,  and  it  is  with  reference  to  the  latter 
that  it  will  at  this  time  be  more  especiidlj  considered. 
On  the  publication  of  Woodfall's  edition  of  Juniut  in 
three  volumes,  the  late  ingenious  Mr.  John  Taylor,  struck 
it  is  said  by  Junius*  advocacy  of  the  cause  of  young 
Frauds,  then  a  clerk  in  the  War  Office,  was  led  to  inves- 
tigate the  origin  of  this  feeling ;  and  the  result  was  his 
conviction  that  Dr.  Francis,  the  father  of  the  injured 
clerk,  was  Junius.  This  opinion  he  advanoed  in  a  pam- 
phlet entitled  A  Discovery  of  the  Author  of  the  Letter*  of 
Juniui,  which  was  published  in  1813.  It  is  believed 
that,  shortly  after  the  pamphlet  appeared,  Mr.  Taylor 
received  a  hint  from  Mr.  Dubois,  the  secretary  or  aman- 
uensis of  Sir  Philip  Francis,  that  he  was  not  quite  right 
in  his  guess,  but  very  near  it ;  and  that,  consequenUy, 
the  pamphlet  was  suppressed  (for  its  almost  total  disap- 
pearance is  hardly  otherwise  to  be  accounted  for),  and 
another,  entitled  Juniut  Identified,  with  Sir  Philip 
Francis  for  its  hero,  made  its  appearance.  If  this  theory 
has  met  with  many  able  and  vigorous  opponents,  it  has 
on  the  other  hand  been  supported  by  many  well  quali- 
fied to  form  an  opinion  on  this  authorship,  one  of  the  most 
eminent  among  them  being  the  late  Lord  Macaulav. 
Though  less  confident  upon  the  subject  of  late  years. 
Lord  Sroujgham  in  1817,  reviewed  the  latter  pamphlet 
in  the  Edinburgh  Review  ;  and  in  a  note  to  the  article, 
the  whole  tenor  of  which  was  to  prove  the  identity  of 
Francis  and  Junius,  he  remarked : — 

**  We  understand  that  it  is  confidently  stated  in  Lon- 
don that  still  more  precise  evidence  exists  of  the 
similarity  of  hands,  drawn  fh>m  Sir  P.  Francis's  earlier 
penmanship." 

We  have  great  reason  to  believe  that  Lord  Brougham 
here  referred  to  the  documents  now  published  for  the  first 
time  by  Mr.  Twisleton,  and  which  form  the  basis  and 
origin  of  the  large  and  elaborate  work  now  before  us. 
These  documents  consist  of  a  oopy  of  verses,  and  the 
anonymous  covering  letter  sent  to  a  Miss  GUes^  at  a  time 
when  Frands  was  at  Bath  on  a  visit  to  his  father.  Soon 
after  the  publication  of  Woodfall's  three-volume  edition 
of  Junius  with  its  fkc-dmiles,  Miss  6fl«,  then  Mrs.  King, 


422 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4tfcS.VII.  MAYiajTl. 


who  bad  always  beUeved  the  letter  and  enclosure  came 
from  Francis,  recognised  the  identity  of  the  two  hands, 
and  in  consequence  thtfdoenmentB  were  fao-similed.  This 
proceeding,  it  is  said,  gave  ofience  to  Sir  Philip  Francis, 
consequently  but  few  of  the  fac-simUes  were  distributed. 
We  have  not  space  to  detail  how  these  papers  came  under 
the  notice  of  Mr.  Twialeton;  how  he  submitted  the  verses 
to  Mr.  Netherdift,  who  dedded  that  ther  were  not  hand- 
written by  Francis ;  how  they  eventually  proved,  in  the 
judgment  of  Mr.  Chabot,  to  have  been  written  by  Tilgh- 
man,  Francis's  cousin  and  companion  at  Bath ;  now  the 
covering  letter  was  eventually  identified  as  Francis's; 
nor  to  enter  at  length  upon  the  minute  and  searching 
investigation  subseouently  undertaken  by  Mr.  Chabot  to 
establish  that  the  Jnnian  letters  were  handwritten  by 
Francis. 

For  all  these,  and  much  more  curious  matter  that  bears 
upon  the  question,  we  must  refer  our  readers  to  the  book 
itself.  They  must  recognise,  as  we  have  done,  the  earnest 
desire  of  Mr.  Twisleton  to  preaent  his  case  fairlv  and 
impartially,  and  the  careful  manner  in  which  Mr.  Chabot 
gives  the  reasons  on  which  his  judgment  is  founded ;  and 
the  result  will  be,  we  doubt  not,  a  verdict  from  the 
majority,  affirmative  of  the  identity  of  Francis  and 
Junius.  In  our  mind  there  have  always  existed  so  many 
difficulties  in  the  way  of  believing  that  Frauds  could  have 
been  the  writer  of  the  Letters  of  Junius,  that  if  those 
difficulties  have  been  at  all  removed  by  Mr.  Twisleton,  we 
must  record  our  admission  of  that  fact  in  the  well-known 
declaration  of  Tertullian,  *'  Credo,  quia  impossibile.'* 

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N0TB8 :— The  Origin  of  the"  Petter-Lock  "  ss  a  Cognlmnoe 
of  the  Looga  of  Wraxall, 413  —  Tvmval  Flowers:  6ol#- 
amith,  486— QaoUtion  in  *'&obiiiflon  Cruaoe,"  Jb,^  Folk 
Lore,  Sussex:  the  Slow-worm  —  Hy-iiaka  —  Beignlne 
Beauties  in  Pranee  —  Dader  —  Parallel  Faasages  —  A 
North  Lanoaahire  Song  ~-  Folk  Lore :  Thunder  —  An  An- 
cient Custom  —  Mum,  or  Brunswick  Mum,  a  strong  Beer 
>-  A  Cromwell  Note — Midsa.  m, 

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fiaskenrille— The  Cod  Fishery  of  Newfoundland,  and  an 
Boglish  ConTent  in  France  —  ^  Gomes  to  Grief"  ^  Dovon- 
shire  Words —The  Verb  "  Enamoured  *•  —  Gross  Eating— 
Hogsn  —"Killing  no  Murder**  —  May-Daj  Custom;— 
Pnriton  Obanges  of  Names  —  On  the  Absenoe  of  any 
French;Word  for  "  to  Ride  "  —  **  Boughs  "  -  The  Bioilian 
Tyrant— Tenny8oniana  —  ''Tho  Boyhood  of  St.  Thomsa 
TiUaoenve  "  —  Toltairlana,  629l 

SBFLIB8:  —  Bsrker  and  Burford's  Panoramas,  4S2  — 
Wilham  Baliel,  /ft.  —  The  Swan  Song  of  Parson  Avery, 
488  —  The  Completion  of  St.  Paul's,  434  —  On  the  Absenoe 
of  any  French  Word  signifying  **to  Stand."  485  —  Mar- 
garet Feodlfla.  Lady  Mortimer,  437— Pftmphlet:  its  Bty- 
m6l(My,  439— Sheffield  Folk  Lore,  Jb,  —  Mungo  Park  and 
theMoss— Grantham  Inn  Signs— Charles  L— Judicial 
Oaths  —  Hampden  Family—"  Witty  as  Flaminius  FtaMJ- 
ooa  " — The  EoyallAssent — Blaids  of  Honour  —  **  O  Gemi- 
ni ! "— Bobert  Iflair,  the  Author  of  "The  Grave  "-Orders 
of  Knighthood — "  As  Cyril  and  Nathan  " :  an  Old  Oxford 
Epigram  —  Beauchamp  —  Lancashire  Timber  Halis  — 
Eleven  Shilling  Pieces  of  Charles  I.  —  China  Mania  — 
Cliarms  for  Ague— Crests  — "Fuller Worthies  Library" 
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Notes  on  Books.  Ao. 

ON  THE  ORIGIN  OF  THE  "FETTER-LOCK"  AS 
A  COGNIZANCE  OF  THE  LONGS  OF  WRAXALL. 

Sveiy  one  who  is  at  all  aoqwdnted  with  the 
aichieology  of  Wiltshire  is  aware  of  the  badge,  or 
cognizance,  of  the  ''fetter-lock" — a  kind  of  pad- 
lode  used  for  fastening  toother  the  chains  of 
prisoners — borne  by  the  family  of  Lon^  of  Wrazall 
and  Draycote.  They  are  also  familiar  with  the 
aoconnt  of  such  badge  which  they  find  in  Aubrey, 
yiz.  that  **  Draycote  was  held  by  petit  seijeantie, 
namely,  by  being  Marshall  at  the  King's  corona- 
tion; which  is  the  reason  the  Cemes  gave  the 
Marshall's  Lock  for  their  cognizance."  (Jackson's 
Aubrey,  p.  228.)  Canon  Jackson,  while  he  doubts 
the  correctness  of  one  portion  of  Aubrey's  state- 
ment about ''  the  being  Marshall  at  the  Corona- 
tion," nevertheless  enaorses  it  in  the  main,  and 
giv^  this  detailed  explanation  of  it : — 


plying  one  of  tbe  vergers,  orwand-bearers,  to  attend  upon 
the  Marshal^the  third  rod's  post,  according  to  another 
noord  (Tett.  de  N.  147),  being  at '  the  door  of  the  king's 
kitchen^  (ad  o§Hum  oootn'me).  The  Shackle-bolt  would 
accord^Iy  be  the  emblem  of  the  Assistant  Marshal's 
authority  over  all  maraaders,  or  breakers  of  the  peace,  in 
that  department." — Jackson's  Aubrey,  p.  229. 

It  is  somewhat  perilous,  in  the  face  of  such 
authorities,  to  suggest  a  doubt  as  to  the  accuracy 


of  these  etatements,  or  as  to  the  ingenious  eat- 
nlanation  of  the  origin  of  the  badge  of  the  fetter^ 
lock.  But  I  have  long  been  sceptical  on  the 
subject,  and  so  venture  to  submit  my  own  ex- 
planationy  and  the  grounds  on  which  I  have  formed 
my  opinions  respecting  it 

1.  And,  first  of  all,  with  regard  to  the  peculiar 
tenure  under  which  Draycote  Ceme  was  held. 
No  doubt  this  dated  from  ancient  times.  In  the 
Exon  Domesdav  for  Wilts  the  owner  of  Draicote 
is  called  "  Goismdus  Marescattw"  fie  is  included 
among  the  "ministri  regis,"  or  king's  officers,  mem- 
bers of  the  royal  household,  or  principal  officers 
of  the  court,  who  held  lands  onginally  appurte- 
nant to  such  office.  (See  Jones's  Dom^day  fcr 
WilU,  pp.  147, 160.)  This  carries  us  back  to  the 
tenth,  or  eleventh,  century.  In  those  days,  what- 
ever accidental  meaning  may  have  been  acquired 
by  it  afterwards,  the  word  tnart$cal  (the  equiva- 
lent of  our  marshaT)  had  none  which  could  ap- 
propriately be  represented  by  the  '^letter-look" 
as  an  emblem  of  duties  belonging  to  him.  The 
word,  as  Max  Miiller  tells  us,  is  derived  from  the 
German,  where  in  the  old  dialect  Mann^Moie 
meant  a  farrier,  from  march  a  mare,  and  teah  a 
servant  The  care  of  the  royal  stables,  whether 
in  person  or  deputy,  would  seem  to  have  been  his 
duty. 

But,  passing  by  the  question  of  the  appropriate- 
ness of  the  badge  as  i^gards  the  tenure  of  Dray- 
cote, is  there  any  proof  at  all  that  it  was  so  used, 
in  ancient  times,  by  the  owners  of  that  estate  P 
As  far  as  I  have  been  able,  bv  a  somewhat  diligent 
search,  to  asoertaio,  none  whatever.  In  truth,  I 
know  not  of  a  single  example  of  the  use  of  this 
badffe  which  is  neceeaariljr  of  an  earlier  date  thun 
1490,  when  for  the  first  time  Wraxall  and  Drav- 
oote  were  held  by  one  and  the  same  person,  viz. 
by  Sir  Thomas  Longe,  who  having  nrst  of  all 
inherited  Draycote,  on  the  decease  of  his  father 
John  Longe  (c,  1479),  fm  whom  the  estate  had 
been  pundiased,  sucooeded  in  1400  to  Wrazall 
also,  on  the  decease  without  issue  of  his  unde 
Henry  Longe. 

Of  any  earlier  owners  of  Draycote  than  the 
family  of  Ceme,  from  whom  it  derives  its  second 
name,  we  have  no  memorials.  AtDrayoote  church 
there  is  a  lar^e  cross-legged  effigy,  which,  ac- 
cording to  tradition,  is  the  memorial  of  Sir  Philip 
Ceme,  who  is  stud  to  have  built  the  church  about 
the  year  1260 ;  but  on  no  part  of  the  effigy,  nor  of 
the  arched  recess  within  which  it  is  coi^ained,  is 
there  the  least  trace  of  the  badge  of  the  ^^  fetter- 
lock."   Neither,  as  far  as  my  observation  has 
gone,  is  it  to  be  found  on  any  of  the  more  ancient 
portions  of  the  church  or  tower.     Then  again 
there  are,  in  the  chancel,  brasses  of  Sir  Edward 
Ceme  (c.  1393),  and  of  his  daughter  Philippa ;  but 
on  neither  have  we  this  badge,  said  to  be  emble- 
matical of  the  tenure  under  which  Draycote  was 


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[4««»S.V1I.Mat20,'71. 


lield.  Is  it  likely  that  it  would  have  been  missing, 
if  the  opinion,  the  correctness  of  which  we  are 
^cussing,  were  founded  in  truth  ? 

After  the  Liong  family  were  owners  of  Dray- 
cote  we  find  plenty  of  examples  of  the  use  of  tms 
badge.  On  tne  tomb  of  Sir  Thomas  Long,  who 
died  in  1608,  it  is  found,  and  also  on  Draycote 
Mill :  but  there  it  is  in  connection  with  the  coat 
of  lK)nc^  impding  Darell.  which  fixes  its  date  at 
a  period  subsequent  to  1400. 

The  badge  was  seen  in  Aubrey's  time  on  a  large 
monument,  now  destroyed,  in  the  church  of  Box, 
to  the  memory  of  Anthony  Long  (fourth  son  of 
Sir  Henry  Long,  of  Wraxall  and  Draycote),  who 
was  buried  there  in  1578.  The  use  of  it  on  such 
a  monument  would  seem  to  show  that  they  re- 
garded it  now  rather  as  a  family  badge  than  as 
indicatiye  of  the  tenure  of  Draycote.  In  fact  it 
was  at  Box  accompanied  with  the  motto  "  Enyi 
will  lye/'  which  is  found  only  at  WraxalL  (See 
Jackson's  Aubrey ^  pp.  29, 66.) 

The  oondurion  to  which  I  have  come  is  this 
— ^that  there  is  no  evidence  either  that  the  Cemes 
used  this  badffe  of  the  "  fetter-look,"  or  that  the 
Longs  first  adopted  it,  when  they  became  their 
successors  at  Draycote,  as  an  emblem  of  the  tenure 
under  which  that  estate  was  held. 

2.  We  will  now  go  to  Wraxall,  and  see  whether 
we  haye  any  proof  there  of  an  early  use  of  the 
^  fetter-lock  "  as  a  cognizance  by  the  Long  family, 
4md  whether  in  the  histoiy  of  their  estate  there 
we  can  find  any  peculiarity  that  may  account 
for  it. 

Without  doubt  the  eariiest  known  examples  of 
its  use  are  over  the  gateway  leading  into  the 
manor  house,  and  on  an  old  tomb  in  the  church  at 
WraxalL  Judging  from  external  appearances, 
there  certainly  seems  no  reason  for  considering 
the  gateway  otherwise  than  coeval  with  the  older 
portions  of  the  manor  house,  which  would  be 
about  14d0-1460.  At  the  first  glance  we  should 
assign  the  tomb,  which  is  that  of  a  female,  with 
what  are  described  generally  as  the  arms  of 
''Long  impaling  Berkeley  quartering  Seymour," 
to  about  1460.  In  both  instances  the  date  would 
be  certainly  forty  or  fifty  years  before  Wraxall 
and  Draycote  were  held  by  one  and  the  same 
person. 

On  the  supposition  that  the  badge  really  belongs, 
in  the  first  instance  at  all  events,  to  Wraxall,  can 
we  give  any  account  of  it  P  I  think  we  can — as 
the  following  extracts  will  show. 

In  the  Shaftesbury  Chartulary  (Harl.  MS.  61), 
in  its  account  of  "  Wrokesham ''  (as  Wraxall  is 
there  deeignated)  as  part  of  the  manor  of  Brad- 
fofd,  the  whole  of  which  belonged  to  that  re* 
Ugious  hpustf,  we  have,  at  fol.  82,  the  following 
entries  respecting  the  tenants  there : — 

**  WiLLELH us  Bedel  tenet  tmam  hidam  pro  xz  solid, 
pro  omni  serTicio  et  dimid.  virg.  teme  p.  cerric.  dt  Bedel.^ 


T 


*'08BBBTU8  SpKrusio  tenet  dimid.  virgaL  pro  qua 
debet  seqni  handreda  et  comit.  justic.  et  BamonicO&es  per 
tota  handreda,  et  ad  oomit.  tesUficati." 

These  extracts,  as  we  judge  from  internal  evi- 
dence, relate  to  aoout  the  year  1260.  They  show 
that  two  small  holdings  at  Wraxall  were  appur- 
tenant to  what  are  hereafter  described  as  the 
offices  of  the  <' Bedel"  (or  bailiff),  and  the  •'Ser- 
jeant" of  the  hundred  of  Bradford.  The  duties 
of  these  functionaries  consisted,  amongst  other 
things,  in  carrying  out  the  machinery  of  the  court 
of  the  hundred,  and  enforcing  i^  decisions.  It  is 
not  difficult  to  see  how  appropriate  a  badge  of 
such  an  office  as  the  bailifi^  of  the  hundred  held 
would  be  the  ''fetter-lock.'' 

In  a  survey  of  the  manor,  of  the  date  1690,  we 
find  the  following  entries,  which  mutatis  mutamiis 
seem  but  a  transition,  with  some  additional  par- 
ticulars, of  the  extracts  above  given  from  the 
Shaftesbury  Chartulary.  In  the  index  to  this 
survey,  the  office  held  by  Daniel  Yerbury,  which 
exactly  corresponds  -with  that  held  some  four 
hundred  years  Wore  by  Osbert  Sperling,  is  called 
that  of  the  "  Seijeant  of  the  Hundred." 

Fol.  26:  — 

*<  John  Lovq,  Esq',  is  Baylifie  of  the  Hnodred  ftjr 
imkeriianee  and  Tenure  of  oeftain  lands  he  hoMeth  in 
Wraxall  as  before  is  set  forth.'* 

FoL24:  — 

**  John  Long,  Esq',  holdeth  freely  one  Hide  of  land  in 
Wraxhall  as  of  the  foresaid  Manoor,  mmiefymee  the  land 
of  Wmiam  Bedett^  by  Knight's  Service,  and  xxxv«.  Bent 
and  Sate  of  Court,*'  Ac. 

*'  The  said  John  holdeth  also  freely  one  haif-yard  land 
in  Wraxall,  as  of  the  said  Manoor,  by  Seijeancye^  viz*  to 
make  all  Somona  in  the  Handred  and  Court  of  the  Uanoar 
of  Bradford,  which  belong  to  the  King  as  Lord  of  the 
Manour,  before  the  Kins's  Majesties  Justices  and  at  the 
Countie,  and  to  somon  ul  the  men  of  Wraxall  to  do  the 
Lords  Workes,  and  to  have  his  Drinking  when  the  Lords 
Steward  shall  keep  the  Hundred  Court  and  Courts  of  the 
Manour,  and  to  do  all  Executions  which  pertain  to  the 
said  Hundred  at  his  proper  Costs  and  Charges,"  &e. 

Fol.  25 :  — 

**  Daniel  Yerbubt  holdeth  freely  one  half-gard  Umd 
in  Wraxall  as  of  the  foresaid  Manour  by  Seijeaneye,  viz* 
to  attend  the  Bailiff  of  the  Handred  of  Bradford  to  take 
distresses  throughout  the  Hundred,  to  make  somons,  and 
to  bear  witness  to  the  Bailiff." 

We  can  with  certainty  from  these  extracts  draw 
the  inference  that  the  Long  family  came  into  pos- 
session not  only  of  the  estate  of ''  tme  kuh"  held 
in  Wraxall  about  the  year  1250  by  William  fiedel, 
but  also  into  possession  of  the  smaller  holding  of 
'*one  half -yard  land"  that  was  appurtenant  to 
the  office  of  ''Bedel"  (or  bailiff*)  of  the  hundred 
of  Bradford.  And  as  the  badge  of  the  ''fetter- 
lock" was  adopted  by  them  from  the  earliest 
period  of  their  settlement  in  Wraxall,  it  would 
appear  probable  that  it  was  used  as  an  emblem, 
appropnate  enough,  of  the  honourable  office  they 
held  there  under  the  Abbess  of  Shaftesbury  as 
Lady  of  the  Hundred  of  Bradford. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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8.  A  third  point  naturally  arises, — How  came 
the  Longs  first  into  Wraxall^  and  how  did  they  ob- 
tain-^by  purchase  or  by  marriage — ^the  lands  once 
belonging  to  William  £edel  P  I  do  not  profess  to 
he  ame  to  answer  these  questions  with  any  degree 
of  certainty.  Still,  in  the  hope  that  others  may 
be  able  to  supply  some  additional  materials  whicn 
will  hel^  to  clear  up  what  to  all  who  haye  tried 
to  inyestigate  it  has  proyed  a  yery  difficult  ques- 
tion, I  yenture  to  nut  forth  the  following  con- 
siderations as  posnble  helps  towards  its  solution. 

It  may  be  obseryed  that  the  Lon^  family 
would  seem  to  haye  regarded  this  cognizance  of 
the  '' fetter-lock"  as  an  lionourable  one.  On  the 
tomb  in  Wraxall  church  it  is  repeated  many 
times.  On  the  gateway  to  the  manor  house, 
probably  built  by  Robert  Longe,  the  first  of 
nia  family  known  to  haye  possessed  property  at 
Wraxall,  we  haye  as  the  termination  of  tne  label 
tm  what,  heraldioilly  speaking,  would  be  the  dex- 
ter mde,  the  '< fetter-lock";  and  on  the  other,  in 
Aubrey's  time,  was  a  ^'stag's  head."  The  same  em- 
blems or  badges  are  seen,  and  in  the  same  order, 
oyer  a  door  opening  into  the  Longs'  chapel  in 
Wraxall  church.  No  doubt  the  **  aag't  head  "  is 
the  crest  of  Fopham:  and  so  is  a  record  of  the 
Mcond  wife  of  Robert  Longe,  who  was  of  that 
fiunily.  The  name  of  Yns  first  wife  is  only  matter 
of  conjecture.  May  not  the  ''fetier-lock  "  posmbly 
be  deriyed  from  the  property  which  he  ootained 
through  her?  After  au,  between  the  date  of 
William.  Bedel  and  the  first  settlement  of  the 
Longs  in  Wraxall.  there  would  not  be  necessarily 
a  period  of  more  tnan  one  hundred  and  sixty  years. 
It  would  not  be  too  sanguine  to  hope  that  some 
documentaiy  eyidenoe  may  come  to  light  which 
may  supply  the  missing  links,  and  so  show  the 
descent  of  the  property,  shortly  after  the  com- 
aienoement  of  the  fifteenth  century,  to  the  Longs. 

Leland  and  Camden  both  giye  us  a  few  brief 

notices  of  the  first  '^  setting  up  of  the  house  of 

the  Longes."    The  former  says : — 

**  One  Long  T%mui$,  a  stoote  felow,  was  sette  up  by 
xm«  of  the  olde  Lordes  Hangrefordes.  And  aftet  by  oanse, 
tbu  Thomas  was  canlHd  Eong  Thomas,  Long  after  was 
UBurpid  for  the  name  of  the  family.  This  Long  Thomcu 
master  had  warn  lande  by  Hongrefordes  proenration. 
There  aaccedid  hym  Bobert  and  Heniy." 

The  latter  says :  — 

*^  A  yong  Ctentleman  of  the  hoaae  of  Preux,  being  of 
tin  stature,  atteadinff  on  the  Lord  Hnngerford,  Lord 
Tieasnrer  of  England,  was  among  his  fellows  called 
Lona  £r.,  who  after  preferred  to  a  good  marriage  by  his 
Lord,  was  called  If.  Long,  that  name  continned  to  his 
podterity,  knights  and  men  of  great  worship." 

Without  accepting  all  the  details  of  these  tra- 
ditionary stories  as  quite  reliable,  I  think  we  may 
safely  conclude,  as  all  such  tales  have  some  truth 
in  them,  that  they  probably  g^ye  the  real  state  of 
the  case  as  regiurds  two  facts :  (1)  that  it  was  hy 
marriage  that  the  Longs  first  obtained  propeity  at 


Wraxall;  and  (2)  that  they  werd  indebted  for 
their  adyancement  in  some  way  or  other  to  the 
Hungerfords.  There  is  no  difficulty,  in  truth,  in 
accepting  Camden's  statement  on  the  latter  point 
more  completely :  for  Walter  Lord  Hungerford, 
who  was  High  Treasurer  of  England  and  Anight 
of  the  Garter,  was  a  contemporary  of  Robert 
Lon^,  and  was  yery  well  able  to  do  a  good 
seryice  to  those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  be 
attached  in  any  way  to  his  household. 

There  would  seem  to  be  some  little  reason  for 
belieying  that  lands  once  held  by  the  family  of 
Bedel  came  in  course  of  time  to  that  of  Berlegh : 
the  latter  of  whom,  during  the  fourteenth  century, 
were  no  inconsiderable  landowners  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood. The  following  extracts  do  not  abso- 
lutely proye  the  fact,  but  they  seem  to  show  that 
such  was  not  altogether  improbable :  — 

<*  In  1291  we  find  Thomas  de  Forde  bailiff  of  the  hundred 
of  Bradford,  with  lands  in  Wraxall  in  yirtae  of  hia  office.*' 

"In  1829.  according  to  the  Wilts  fines,  one  Walter 
Harpden  snIs  to  Ridoard  Poyntz  of  Bradford  certain 
lands  to  which  the  office  of  bailifiT  was  attached." 

**  In  1895  Richard  Poyntz  and  others  oonyey  to  Tkoma$ 
Berleahf  Alice  his  wife,  and  John  their  son,  all  the  lands 
they  had  by  gift  of  Thomas  Ford  in  Box,  Twerton,  Ford» 
and  elsewhere." 

^  Of  one  thing  we  are  quite  sure,  that  at  this 
time  members  of  thf  family  of  Berlegh  were  cer^ 
tainly  settled  at  Wraxall :  as  early  as  1333  ^e 
name  of  Roger  de  Berlegh  appears  in  a  subsidy 
roll  under  Wraxall;  and  s&natures  of  yarious 
members  of  it  are  also  appended  to  deeds  relating 
to  property  in  the  neighlx>urhood,  from  that  time 
down  to  about  the  year  1400.  Moreoyer,  there 
was  a  place  in  Wraxall  called  Berley's  for  Bar^ 
ley's)  Court,  which,  according  to  Canon  Jackson, 
passed  to  Blunt  and  then  to  Hussey  (Aubrey, 
p.  26>. 

It  has  struck  me  also  that,  possibly,  the  arms  on 
the  old  tomb  in  Wraxall  church  to  which  reference 
has  been  made  may  afford  some  slight  confirmation 
of  this  conjecture.  The  shield  which  is  said  to  be 
that  of  Berkdey,  and  certainly  it  looks  as  though 
intended  for  it,  differs  both  as  regards  the  number 
of  the  crosses  patt^e  and  the  presumed  charges  on 
the  cheyron,  no  Berkeley  coat  haying  on  the  latter 
either  roses  or  plates.  The  whole  monument  is 
clumsily  executed,  and  the  shield  bearing  the  arms 
in  question  much  mutilated  \  but  a  careful  exami- 
nation has  conyinced  me  that  the  charges  on  the 
shield  are  certainly  not  ^  (as  in  eyery  Berkeley 
coat),  but  nine;  and  that  the  charges  on  the 
cheyron,  judging  from  the  one  of  them  that  re- 
mains most  perfect,  are  aa  likely  to  be  fleurs-de>- 
lis  as  eifber  roses  or  plates,  Bearinff  in  mind  that 
the  most  diligent  search  has  found  &o  match  at 
this  early  period  between  a  Berkeley  and  a  Sey>- 
mour,  the  thought  has  occurred  to  me  thatpos* 
sibly,  after  all,  the  shield  may  be  intended  for 
that  of  Berlegh,  or,  as  it  came  to  be  spelf^  Barky  t 


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[4^  &  TIL  Max  aq,  II. 


which  certainlj  beats  a  strong  xeaemhlaiioe  to  it, 
to  say  the  least,  and  which  is  that  giyen  bj  Burke 
— ^^Uules  on  a  chevron  hUween  nme  crosses  crosdtt 
JUehSe  arffentf  three  Jleurs-de-Us  of  theJieUU^ 

This  of  course  is  mere  conjecture,  and  I  know 
not  whether  between  the  families  of  Berlegh  imd 
Seymour  there  were  any  intermaniages.  Stilly 
-mth  such  a  conjecture,  the  details  of  Camden's 
BtoiT  would  fit  m  without  dificully.  Between 
the  lamilies  of  Berlegh,  Blunt,  and  Hussey  there 
were  close  connections.  In  1384  Thomas  Berlegh. 
of  Bathampton,  was  found  to  be  ''cousin  ana 
heir"  of  "Husee."  John  Blunt,  who  died  1447, 
and  was  of  the  family  that  succeeded  to  Barley's 
Court,  married  Wilhelmina,  daughter  of  Thomas 
a  Berlegh.  When  we  recollect  that  the  second 
wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Hungerford  (the  mother  of 
Walter,  Lord  Hungerford)  was  Joanna,  daughter 
of  Sir  Edmund  Hussey,  and  so  most  probably  a 
kinswoman  of  the  Berlegh  family,  the  stoiy  of  the 
"good  marriage,"  promoted  by  the  ''  Lord  Trea- 
floiec,"  would  seam  probable  enough  after  all. 

Whilst^  as  TegardiB  the  first  two  points — viz. 
(1)  the  mcorrectness  of  attributing  the  badge 
of  the  '' fetter-lock"  to  Draycote  before  the  time 
of  the  Longs,  and  (2)  its  real  origin  in  the  pe- 
culiar tenure  imder  which  they  &ld  some  land 
in  Wraxall  as  bailiffit  of  the  nundred  of  Brad- 
ford— I  am  sanguine  as  to  haying  giyen  the  cor- 
rect account,  I  submit  my  other  condderations 
to  your  readers,  in«the  hope  that  the  few  addi- 
tional particulfljrs  wanting  may  be  supplied,  and 
80  a  matter  be  cleared  up  which  hitherto  has  been 
Tezy  puzzling  to  Wiltshire  archaeologists. 

WnuAX  HsKBT  Josxat 
The  Ticanq^e,  Bxadford-on-AyoxL 


FUNERAL  FLOWERS :  GOLDSMITH. 

**  Th9  Rmhries  in  Hi^&  Placet.— It  is  reported  that  at 
the  ftmeral  of  Hheinftnit  Prinoe  Alemnder,  on  Tnesday, 
the  thne  dao^ten  cf  Mr.  Seek,  the  Pdaoe  of  Widta^ 
land  agent  at  Sandongham,  scattered  white  yioletB,  prim- 
Toses,  and  anemooes  on  the  coffin,  inatead  of  *  earth/  at 
the  sentence  '  Ashes  to  ashes,* "  &c— 7%e  Bock,  April  14, 
1871. 

If  the  matter  were  of  suffident  importance  I 
ihinh  it  would  be  found  that  in  addition  to  would 
be  the  fact,  and  not  '^  instead  of.^  It  is  not  likely 
that  the  clergyman  would  haye  omitted  "earth 
to  earth  "  or  the  sexton  haye  fuled  in  the  usual 
accompaniment. 

The  following  notice  is  in  a  better  spirit,  and  I 
think  worth  preserying : — 

<*  Had  any  of  our  readers  visited  Goldsmith's  tomb  in 
the  Temple  last  week  they  would  have  foand  it,  as  Mre 
did,  rtrewn  with  early  spring  flowers.  Some  loving 
hmd  had  seatteied  primroses  and  violets  and  snowdrops 
upon  the  stone  which  covers  all  that  is  mortal  of  poor 
*  Nolly.'  The  floweis  had  evidently  been  placed  there  on 
the  anniversary  of  the  day  of  his  death  by  some  devoted 
pilgrim  to  the  shrine  of  the  genius  who  gave  ns  The 


yiear  of  Wak^fidd  and  The  Deterted  ViOqge,    It 
pratty  nomage  to  pay  to  departed  greateess.    Perchance 
It  was  an  4nhal^ant  of 

'  Sweet  Attbrnn,  leyeHest  ylllaBe  of  the  pUn,' 
who  had  paid  thetrftnt»-4ome  broken  mldier,  some  pap- 
son  *  to  all  the  ooutry  ^taar,'  «r  fone  Dr.  Priauwae  of 
the  period,  if  indeed  anch  a  woithy  am  exiat;  bat  who- 
ever it  may  have  been  it  was  a  worthy  act,  and  saggerta 
a  onstom  which  we  heartUy  wish  were  naturalised  aaai^ 
ns.**— JT^o,  April  27, 1871. 

Clab&y  (4^  S.  ylL  289)  will  be  pleased  to  find 
that  ''Old  GoMy''  still  has  admirer^  among 
whom  I  reckon  myself,  though  unable  to  help 
him  to  the  rc^rence.*  Such  of  our  young  men 
whose  studies  and  pursuits  he  describes,  it  may 
be  hoped  will  take  more  than  '<«  glanoe  at  the 
Saturday  Meview^^  as  they  will  find  in  it  no  tolera- 
tion for  those  who  neglect  classics,  whether  ancient 
or  modem.  But  many  young  and  even  middle- 
aged  men,  who  are  entitled  tol>e  called  well-reaid^ 
know  little  of  our  standard  authors  of  the  last 
century.  Qreat  books  haye  appeared  and  great 
subjects  haye  arisen  since  we  were  young,  and  the 
pressure  for  them  is  immediate.  I  offer  one  in- 
stance firom  mj  own  experience.  When  Mr. 
Bright  deliyeied  his  deyer  mmile  of  ^the  Scotch 
Terrier ''  I  was  in  the  country  among  men  who 
were  above  the  average  of  careful  readem.  I  said 
that  the  simile  was  in  the  notes  to  The  Dweeiad, 
and  wrote  out  the  lines.  See  <<K.  &  Q."  d^  S.  ix. 
204.  Iwascomplimentedonmyquickneasinliaying 
invented  and  versified  my  ficaen  within  an  hour 
after  the  arrival  of  the  papers.  Of  four  men,  eadi 
at  least  as  much  a  reaoer  as  myself,  only  one  had 
read  The  Dundad,  and  that  in  a  one-yolame  edi- 
tion of  Pone  without  notes. 

Garrick  Clnb. 


QUOTATIONS  m  **  BOBINSON  CBTOOE." 

There  are  two  metrical  quotations  in  JMtMwr 
Onmoe,  Oneisaproposof  the  hero's  joy  on  getting 
Bife  io  shore  on  the  island,  after  his  shipwreck  :— 
**  For  sadden  joys,  like  giiefr,  oonfbiind  at  toff 

Whence  is  this  taken  P 

The  second  occurs  near  the  commencemeint  of 

Part  n.,  and  when  Crusoe  is  settled  in  his  lilitle 

luRn  in  Bedfordahize :  — 

*'  Now  I  thought,  indeed,  that  I  enjoyed  fhe  middle 
state  of  life  that  my  father  so  earnestly  veeommeBded  to 
me,  and  lived  a  kmd  of  heayenly  life,  something  like 
what  is  described  by  the  poet  upon  uie  snbject  of  a  conntry 

'  Free  from  yices,  flree  from  caie. 
Age  has  no  pain,  and  youth  no  snare.*  *' 

I  remember,  some  years  ago,  tbinking  to  find 
this  couplet  in  Cowley  or  Sir  George  Macknuie, 
but  I  searched  in  yam.  The  lines  haye  unex- 
pectedly turned  up  just  now,  while  looking  oyer  a 

*  This  has  been  sappUed  by  Mr.  C.  Wtub,  see  p.  394. 
[t  This  quotation  was  inquired  after,  bat  unsaeceas- 
fully,  in  "  K.  &  Q."  8'*  S.  u.  166.— Ed.] 


4*  s.'wi,  matso,  m."] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES, 


4S7 


curious  old  song  bode  of  last  centurr,  called  The 
British  MtuuMl  MisceBany,  or  the  Dekghtful  Orove, 
London^  n.  d.  Thej  fbxm.  part  of  a  song  of  two 
stanzas  given  in.  yoL  IL  p«.  78 :.  both,  words  and 
music  are  anonjmoiia:  — 


TBRb  09^ 


**  Happy  is  a  ooimtiy  lift^ 

Blest  with  ooDtent,  good  health  and  ease  I 
Free  from  fiustions  noise  and  strife, 

We  only'  plot  onrsrivce^te  please ; 
Peace.  oC  iiuiid'9  our  day's  dalkdity 
And  love  or  welcome  dreams  n  night. 

**  Hall  t  green  fields  and  shady  woods  I 

HailT  crystal  streams  that  still  mn  pmn. 
Nature's  nnoormpted  good% 

Wh«e  Tittoe  only  dwells  seenre  1 
Free  fimnrTiee^  and  free  from  caie» 
Age  has  no  paio^  nor  youth  a  snare." 

I  dare  say  your  learned  correspondent  Db. 
BiHBAiTLT  cooid  tall  me  the  authorship  of  the 
song  and  the  date  of  the  bool^  The  Terses  of 
Sir  George  Mackenzie;  idiich  I  had  in  mind; 
begin  thus :  — 

**  O  happy  coontiy  life !  pue  like  its  air ; 
Free  from  the  rage  of  pride,  the  pangs  of  care. 
Here  happy  sonls  lie  hathed  in  soft  content, 
And  are  at  once  secure  and  innocent." 

ElBTOmfAGH. 

F.S.  I  should  like  to  know  the  date  of  another 
music-book  of  Biine:  Mamumm  8acra^  er  Divine 
and  Moral  &mg»,  with  Mynrne  and  .Anthems, 
Londoui  n.  d.  sm.  4to.  It  contains^  among  other 
songs:  ''The  Character  of  a  Happy  Life/^ by  Sir 
H.  Wotton ;  hymns  from  George  Herbert,  Addi- 
son, Ssc ;  Dr.  Watts' "  Busy  Bee"  j  and  "A  Para- 
phrase on  the  Lord's  Prayer,  from  Oent,  Mag,  for 
Sept.  1764." 

Folk  Lohv,  Susbsz:  the  Slow-wobk. — ^In 

looking  over  Choice  Notes  on  Folk  Lore  extracted 

from  "  N.  &  Q.,"  I  found  on  p.  243  a  notice  of 

the  Sussex  superstition  that  tne  slow-worm  has 

certain  words  written  on  its  belly.    The  version 

there  given  is — 

**  If  I  conld  hear  as  well  as  see, 
No  man  of  life  ahonld  master  me." 

What  I  have  heard  is  somewhat  difierent,  and  I 

venture  to  think  also  worth  recording.    It  is  as 

follows : — 

'^  If  I  could  hear  as  well  as  I  can  see. 
No  man  nor  beaet  should  pass  by  me." 


— In  common   perhaps   with,   the 

multitude.  I  have  been  in  the  habit  of  writing 
this  ''  hign-jinks/'  and  have  conadered  it  to  re- 
present an  exhilaration  of  spirits  issuing  in  a  game 
of  romps,  or  frantic  merriments  Under  that  im- 
pvQsaioii  I  have  even  written  <' highest  jinks"  for 
extravagant  fun. 

But  1  have  been  sltogether  wrong^  as  the  note 
from  Allan  Ramsay  will  show,  **  hy-jinks  "  being 


a  speciic  form  of  iafsj  merriment.  The  Scottish 
poet  thus  ftTniains  it  m  his  JElegy  on  Maggy  Joki^ 
iUm,  L  95,  £din.  17S0:— 

'^  A  dmnkui  game»  or  new  project  to  drink  and  be 
rich:  time  thO'qttsff  Off  eup  it  filled  to  the  brias,  tbenone 
of  the  company  takes  a  pair  ef  dice,  and  after  crying 
'  Hy-jinks,'  he  throws  them  out :  the  number  he  casts 
up  points  out  the  person  that  must  diittk ;  he  who  threw 
beginning  at  liimself  number  one^  and  so  roond  till  the 
number  of  the  person  agree  .with  that  of  the  dice  (which 
mmf  £iU  upon  hinself  if  the  number  be  within  twelve) ; 
then  he  sets  the  dice  to  him,  or  bids  him  take  them  ;  ne 
on  whom  they  fall  is  obliged  to  drink  or  p^y  a  small 
forfeiture  in  money,  then  tiuows,  and  so  on.  But  if  he 
forgets  to  cry 'Hy-jinks*  he  pays  a  ibrfeiture  into  the 
bank.  Now,  he  on  whom  it  mils  to  drink  (ft  there  be 
anrthing  in  the  bank  worth  drawing)  gets  it  all  if  he 
drmka ;  then  with  a  great  deal  of  caution  he  empties  his 
cup,  sweeps  up  the  money,  and  orders  the  cup  to  be 
filled  again,  and  then  throws;  for  if  he  errs  in  the  artU 
cles  he  loses  the  pririlege  of  drawing  the  money.  The 
articles  anH-<l)  Drink,  (2)  Draw,  (8)  Fill,  (4)  Cry  •  Hy- 
Jinka,'  (5)  Count  just,  (6)  Chose  your  doublet,  osan — yiz. 
wlian  two  equal  numbers  of  the  dice  is  thrown,  the  per- 
son whom  you  ehnse  must  pay  a  double  of  the  common 
forfeiture,  and  so  must  you  when  the  dice  is  in  his  hand 
(jne),  A  rare  project  is  this,  and  no  bubble^  I  can  assure 
you ;  for  a  covetous  fellow  may  save  money,  and  get 
himself  as  drunk  as  he  can  desire  in  less  than  an  ho^s 
time." 

This  is  an  explanation  of  what  is  not  really 
worthy  of  it,  save  that  it  may  correct  ignorance 
of  the  same  character  as  my  own.  D. 

BEiGNmrG  Bea^utibs  nr  F&akcb.— No  one  cir- 
cumstance^ in  connexion  with  the  recent  political 
changes  in  France,  has  more  dis^psted  the  jElnfl^h 
than  the  atrocious  libels  and  caricatures  drcuUted 
in  Paris  against  the  Empress  Eugenie.  This 
unmanliness,  in  the  treatment  of  ladies  whose 
husbands  have  for  the  time  been  invested  with 
supreme  power,  it  will  be  seen  by  the  following 
extract  from  the  writings  of  him  who  now  pre- 
sides over  the  destinies  of  France,  has  always 
been  a  oharactezistie  of  the  Fiariolan  populace  and 
their  in&mous  press.  Heferring  to  the  state  of 
F^ce  in  Januazy  1795^  M.  Thiers  thus  expresses 
himself:  — 

**  Madame  Tallien  ^tait  la  femme  du  jour  qu'ib  accu- 
saient  le  plus,  car  k  toutes  les  ^poqnes  on  en  arait  accus^ 
une :  c'^tait  la  perfide  enchanttrtne  k  laquelle  ils  repro- 
chaient,  oomme  autrefois  k  Madame  Koland,  et  plos 
andennement  k  Marie-Antoinette^  tons  les  maux  dn 
peuple." — BiMtoire  dt  la  Bevolution  fixmfoitef  vol.  vii. 
UY.  xzvi.  pp.  54,  66,  Paris,  1845. 

Wx.  B.  Mao  Cabb. 
MonoQotonr-de-Bretagne^  C&tes  du  Nord,  France. 

Daodbb.— 

**  A  certain  Monsieur  Dacier,  two  hundred  years  ago, 
started  the  paradox  that  the  Frendi  writers  of  his  time 
were  as  good  as  the  classics.  The  notion  found  favour 
among  his  ingenkms  countrymen,  and  engendered  a  con- 
troYersyin  which  many  witty  things  were  said  en  both 
sides.  How  many  of  ua  are  there  who  remember  even 
the  names  of  the  French  authors  who  were  handicapped 
with  Homer  and  Virgil  ?  "— PaU  Mall  Chxetie,  April  26, 
1871. 


428 


NOTES  AND  QDERIES. 


[4«kB.VII.MAT20,'7U 


The  aboye  is  part  of  a  Tery  able  article  on  Mr. 
Lowe's  speecli  to  the  Civil  ElDg^eers,  in  which 
he  refNsated  his  depredation  of  dassical  stadias. 
If  Dader  is  not  a  dip  of  the  pen,  the  writer  most 
haye  strangely  forgotten  his  reading  on  the  ques- 
tion, whicn  has  not  fallen  into  such  complete 
oblivion  as  he  supposes.  Dader,  though  he  did 
not  contribute  any  wit  to  the  oontioversv,  was  the 
most  learned  and  vehement  writer  on  the  dde  of 
the  andents.  La  Bioffraphie  ffSniraie  says  of 
him:  — 

**  Amonreox  defl  antenn  qu'il  inteiprtftdt,  U  tftait  in- 
eapable  d'y  aperoevoir  nn  d^faat,  et  pour  diasimoler 
lean  imperfectionfl)  il  soatenait  les  plus  ^tranges  para- 
doxes. D'antree  fois,  il  se  lalssalt  aller  k  des  interpr^- 
tioDS  singtdi^res,  que  Boileaa  appelalt '  lea  niy^tioiia  de 
M.  Dader.'  Un  homme  d'esprit  ra  caraot^ru^  en  disant, 
*U  connaissait  tout  dea  andena  hon  la  grftoe  et  la 
finesae.'  Un  autre  diaait  de  Ini,  'que  c'^tiut  nn  groe 
mulet  chaig^  de  tout  le  bagage  de  Vantiquit^' " 

A  controversy  of  which  Swift's  Po^  of  the  Books 
is  a  part  will  not  drop  out  of  literary  history,  and 
those  who  wish  to  know  the  most  interesting  part 
of  it  may  consult  Rigault's  La  QuertUe  des  Anciena 
et  des  Modemes,  Pans,  1856.  H.  fi.  C. 

U.  U.  Club. 

Paballsl  Passages. — I  do  not  know  that 
Byron's  touching  reference  to  the  ''young  gallant 
Howard,"  in  C^lde  MarM,  has  been  noticed  as 
halving  its  prototype  in  the  Pastor  Fido  of  Guarini. 
Byron's  verse  runs  as  follows :  — 

**  There  have  been  teara  and  breaking  hearta  for  thee^ 
And  mine  were  nothing  had  I  auch  to  give ; 
But  when  I  atood  beneath  the  freah  green  tree. 
Which  living  wavea  where  thou  did*at  ceaae  to  live. 
And  aaw  around  me  the  wide  fidd  revive 
With  fruita  and  fertile  promiae,  and  the  apring 
Come  forth  her  work  of  gladneaa  to  contrive. 
With  all  her  reckleaa  biraa  upon  the  wing, 

I  tum'd  fiom  all  she  brought. to  thoee  ahe  could  not 
bring.** 

Full  of  pathos  and  beautj  as  this  is,  it  is 

scarcely  so  pathetic  as  the  wail  of  the  Italiaa:  ^- 

"  O  Primavera,  gioventh  dell*  anno^ 
Bella  madre  de*  fieri, 
D*  erbe  novelle  e  di  novdli  amori ; 
Tu  tomi  ben,  ma  teco 
Non  toniano  i  aereni 
£  fortunati  d\  delle  mie  gioje : 
Tu  torni  ben,  tn  tomi| 
Ma  teco  altro  non  toma, 
Che  del  perduto  mio  caro  teaoro, 
La  rimembrania  miaera  e  dolente.** 

One  Gilbert,  a  French  poet  of  the  seventeenth 

century,  has  the  following  madrigal,  '^Sur  I'art 

d'aimer  d'Ovide  " :  — 

*<  Cette  lecture  eat  aana  iaiDfi, 
Ce  livre  eat  un  petit  dddale. 
Oh  Teaprit  prend  plaialr  d*erfer; 
Phillia,  auivez  lea  paa  d'Ovide^ 
G*eat  le  plua  agr6ible  guide 
Qn*on  peut  choiair  pour  a'^arer.*' 

This  is  obviously  the  original  of  Prior's  epigram:— 


«  Ovid  is  the  anreat  guide 

You  can  name  to  ahow  the  way 
To  any  woman,  nuid  or  wife. 
Who  reaolvea  to  go  aatray.*' 

More  neat  and  pointed  than  Gilbert,  bat  IMor 

says  nothinff  of  whence  he  got  his  idea. 

I  do  not  know  who  owns  the  incessantly  quoted 

<*  I  do  not  like  thee,  Dr.  FeU,** 

but  it  evidently  comes  from  the  ''Non  amo  te, 

Sabidi/'  of  Martial^  the  unacknowledged  father  oi 

innumerable  witticisms.  G.  J.  Db  Wildb. 

A  NoBTH  Lakoashire  Song.— The  following^ 

humorous  song,  in  the  dialect  of  FumesS|  North' 

Lancashire,  was  formerly  very  popular  in  that 

district  and  also  in  the  adjoining  counties.  It  haa 

never  yet  been  in  print,  except  m  the  columns  of 

a  local  newspaper  to  which  I  sent  it.  May  I  hop& 

to  find  a  home  for  it  in  "  N.  &  Q,"  P  — 

«  Cum  Roger  ta  me  as  thou  ert  mi  son. 
An  tak  the  beat  oounael  o'  life; 
Cum  bidder,  I  aay,  wi*ont  fardiar  delay. 
An  I*U  wam't  U  111  git  tha  a  wife-I  wiUI 
Yea  I  will,  aooa  I  wUl, 
An  I'll  wam't  ta  TU  git  tha  a  wife— I  willt 

*<  Put  on  thi  beat  deaa,  at  iver  thou  hea. 
An  kiaa  ivery  laaa  at  thou  meeta; 
Ther'a  aum  i  11  leak  ahy,  an  tak  it  awry, 
But  uddera  ill  oo  tha  a  aweet — tbaj  inU  i 
Tea  tfaav  will,  aooa  thay  will. 
But  uddera  i'U  oo  tha  a  aweet^-thay  will  t 

"  The  firat  bonny  laaa  that  Boger  did  meet 
Waa  a  farmer*B  fair  donter,  her  neam  it  waa  Kate  ; 
She  didn't  exchange  wi  him  manv  a  woid, 
But  ahe  fetch'd  him  a  alap  i'  the  feaoe — ahe  did! 
Yea  ahe  did,  aooa  ahe  <Ud, 
But  ahe  fetch'd  him  a  alap  i*  the  feaoe— she  did  ? 

'<  Sea  Roger,  if  thia  be  like  laitin  a  wife^ 

I'll  never  ^a  laitin  anudder; 

But  I  will  leve  aing'el  o*  t*  daya  o*  mi  life^ 

An  I'll  away  yam  ta  mi  mndder— I  will  I 

Yea  I  will,  aooa  I  will, 

An  1*11  away  yam  ta  mi  mnddei^— I  will!  ** 

J.  P.  MOBBIB. 
17,  Sutton  Street,  Tne  Brook,  Liverpool. 

Folk  Lohs  :  THuin)EB. — I  pointed  out  that, 
when  thmider  is  heard  the  Greeks  of  Aoa  Minor 
say  the  Almighty  is  moving  his  boxes — that  is, 
famiture.  I  find  that  our  forefathers  attributed 
thimder  to  the  god  Thur  playing  at  ninepins. 

Htdb  ulabxb. 

Ak  AsroneirT  Custoic. — 

EAmg  Davids  B.C.  1016. 
"  Now  the  chUdren  of  larael  after  their  number,  to  »it^ 
the  chief  fathers  and  captaina  of  thouaanda  and  hundreds* 
and  theiroffioera  that  aerred  the  king  in  any  matter  of 
the  couraea,  which  came  in  and  went  out  month  by 
month  throughout  all  the  montha  of  the  year."—!  ChroH. 
xxvii.  1. 

Queen  Victoria^  A.D,  1871. 

«The  courae  of  watta  of  Her  Mi^^^ty'*  household  for 
the  month  of  March,  and  the  dates  on  which  the  duties, 
commence  are  aa  followa :— Lady  of  the  Beddiamber^ 
Ducheaa  of  Boxburghe,  7th.  Woman  of  the  Bedehamber, 


'  ^4»fc  S.  VIL  Mat  20, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


429 


yiflooanteai  Chewton,  7th ;  Hon.  Mrs.  Alexander  Gordon, 
21st.  Maids  of  Honour,  Hon.  Lncv  M.  Kerr,  9tb  ;  Hon. 
Horatia  C.  Stopford,  9th.  Lords  in  Waitiiur,  Lord 
Camojs,  7th ;  Lord  Methuen,  21st  Grooms  in  Waiting, 
Rear- Admiral  Lord  Frederick  Kerr,  7tb  ;  Maior-Geneial 
Sir  Francis  Sevinoar,  Bart.,  2l8t  Equemes,  Colonel 
C  T.  Da  Plat,  Colonel  the  Earl  of  Mounteharles;  Pages 
•of  Honour,  G.  W.  Grev,  Esq.,  Hon.  G.  F.  H.  Somerset." 
Court  Journal  March  %  1871. 

It  18  highl;|^  interesting  to  compaie  the  monthly 
•couraes  contuned  in  the  '^  General  Rota  of  Waits 
of  Her  M^esty's  Household  for  the  Year  1871 " 
veith  the  courses  of  King  David's  household, 
''which  came  in  and  went  out  month  by  month/' 
as  recorded  in  the  27th  chapter  of  the  First  Book 
•of  Chronicles.  Williav  Raykeb. 

Mine,  OB  BBinrswiCK  Muir,  a  stbong  Bbbb. 
Its  etymology  is  given  in  1"  S.  iv.  177  j  3'*  S.  vi. 
434,  503 ;  viL  41,  101,  163,  with  extracts,;which 
-do  not  include  the  following : — 

'*  I  have  not  forgot  to  drink  yoar  health  here  in  mnm, 
which  I  think  very  well  deserves  its  reputation  of  being 
^e  best  in  the  world."— Letter  from  Lady  M.  W.  Mon- 
tagu, dated  Bmnswick,  Nov.  28, 0.S.  1716. 

W.P. 

A  Cbohwbll  Note. — I  found  the  enclosed 
amongst  some  old  Oxford  papers.  It  may  be 
worth  finding  a  place  in  "  N.  &  Q."        J.  R.  B. 

''The  Father  of  the  late  Dr.  Smith,  Master  of  Pem- 
broke Collqge,  was  a  Captain  of  a  Ship.  His  original 
Name  was  Cromw^:  bemg  the  Grandson  of  Bidiard 
CromweU,  son  of  Oliver.  He  changed  his  Name  to  Smiihf 
•ooncetving  it  probable  that  the  Name  of  CromweU  might 
injnre  his  Promotion  in  the  Navy. 

**  Dr.  Smith,  therefore,  was  the  last  Lineal  Descendant 
4>f  Oliver  Cromwell. 

<*This  Story  was  told  me  bv  M'  Dondas  of  Richmond, 
whom  I  met  at  Lord  Howe*s,  November  8**>,  1809. 

**  ScBOPE  Bbbdmoke, 

"  Warden  of  Merton." 

Midas.— Midas  was  the  name  of  more  than  one 
idng  of  Phrygia.  I  wish  to  point  out  that  this 
Aame  is  connected  with  the  Lyoian  Medeus  (God), 
«nd  as  these  languages  have  been  traced  oy  me 
to  the  Falaaogeorgian  stock,  the  Georgian  Tsmida 
•(saint,  holy)  may  also  be  associated.  Midas  is 
an  example  of  the  use  of  the  name  of  a  £[od  as  a 
personal  name  or  title,  such  as  we  have  in  Baal, 
Melech,  and  Adonai.  The  Ph^gian  Balen,  for 
king  (also  represented  by  Up&li  in  Georaian)  is  a 
local  instance.  Hyde  CLABins. 


€infxM* 


EuGSNS  Arah. — ^Will  some  one  kindly  inform 
me  which  was  published  first — the  dream  by  T. 
Hood,  or  the  novel  by  Lord  Lytton  P     Clabbt. 

l"  The  Dream  "  by  T.  Hood  was  published  in  1881,  and 
Lord  Lytton's  novel  in  the  ibllowing  yetr.] 

AuTHOB  WAITTBD. — ^Who  is  the  author  of  the 
following,  and  where  can  I  obtain  the  poem  con* 
taimng  ktf — 


"  No  I  thou  art  nol  my  first  love, 

I  had  loved  before  we  met ; 
And  the  music  of  that  snmmer  dream 

Is  pleasant  to  me  yeL 
fiat  thou,  tbon  art  my  Isst  love, 

Mv  dearest  and  my  best ; 
My  neart  but  shed  its  outer  leaves 

TO  give  thee  all  the  rest" 

Laws.  B.  Thoxas* 

Meroantile  Library, 

AthensBum  Building,  Baltimore. 

Thomas  Basxebvillb. — Can  I  be  referred  ta 
an  engraved  or  other  portrait  of  Thomas  Basker- 
ville,  an  inventor,  circa  1760  ?  G.  C. 

Thb  Cod  Fishsbt  OFNswFonrDLAin),  akd  ak 
English  Convent  in  Fbancb.— In 

**A  Sammazy,  Historical  and  Political,  of  the  First 
Planting,  Progressive  Improvements,  and  Present  State 
of  the  British  Settlements  in  North  America.  By  Wil- 
liam Douglass,  M.D."    Boston,  1755,  Svo, 

this  curious  statement  occurs  at  p.  287,  sect.  vi. 
voL  i.  concerning  the  island  of  Newfoundland  and 
its  cod-fishery : — 

**  King  Charles  I.,  bubbled  by  the  French,  gave  them  a 
libertv  of  fishing  and  curing  fish  in  Newfoundland,  upon 
the  siUy  pretext  oftypplymg  an  English  convent  m  FVmtee 
wUhJIsh:* 

I  will  be  very  thankful  for  the  name  of  this 
convent,  if  known.  D.  BxmKE. 

Teddington. 

^  "Combs  to  Grief."— When  did  this  expres- 
sion first  become  general  in  England?    Brown- 
ing uses  it  in  his  new  poem  Mervi  Bid^  the 
scene  of  which  is  laid  in  lu92,  thus — 
*^  Not  a  spar  that  comes  to  grief." 

Is  the  expresdon  as  now  used  correct  English 
or  simply  slang  ?  E.  A.  D. 

Devonbhibb  Words. — Can  you  give  any  ex- 
planation as  to  the  following  terms  in  common 
use  in  Devonshire? — Clome,  common  crockery; 
Ciome  shop,  crockery  shop;  Matmd,  a  hamper; 
SeatHf  of  hay,  3  cwt. ;  Seam,  of  straw,  2  cwt 
Hay  and  straw  are  commonly  sold  by  the  ''  seam" 
in  Devonshire,  and  not  by  the  cwt.  or  ton  as 
elsewhere.  E.  Gttlson. 

Thb  Verb  "Enamoured." — ^Is  a  lover  enam- 
oured of  his  mistress  or  with  her  P  In  my  courting 
days  the  former  was  the  correct  phrase,  but  now 
the  latter  is  coming  into  use.  I  notice  it  in  the 
article  attributed  to  Mr.  Gladstone  in  the  last 
JEdinburffh  Iteview,  D.  Blaib. 

Melbonrne. 

Gross  Eating. — Is  the  following  extract  from 
a  letter  by  Gray  the  poet  a  joke  or  not  P — 

•*Our  flriend  Dr. (one  of  ite  f  Cambridge]  nuis- 
ances) is  not  expected  here  again  in  a  bnrry.  He  is  gone 
to  his  grave  with  five  floe  mackarel  (large  and  full  of 
roe)  in  his  belly.  He  ate  them  all  at  one  dinner;  but 
his  fare  was  a  turbot  on  Trinitv  Sunday,  of  which  h  e 
left  little  for  the  company  besides  bonesL    He  had  not 


4ao 


ll^OTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[^  &  YIL  llnr  20^  71. 


beta  heartf  all  tiba  nMk;  but  albr  Hda  tizdi  fish  he 
never  held  up  his  head  mofe,  sad  a  Tioknt  looaeoesB 
carried  him  off.    They  »y  he  made  a  yeiy  good  end." 

W.P. 

HoGAK.— Gray,  the  poet,  wxiting  1737,  says — 

**  For  your  repntation,  we  keep  to  ouraelves  your  not 
hunting  nor  drinking  hogan,  dUwr  of  which  here  would 
he  ioffident  to  lay  your  honour  in  the  dust." 

What  was  the  drink  flo  called  P  W.P. 

[This  qnenr  appeared  in  our  1**  S.  iii.  450,  but  elicited 
no  reply.  The  same  oaotation  is  given  m  Sonthey's 
Ommon-Flaae  Book,  iil  66,  to  whic£  the  editor,  J.  W. 
Warter,  B.D.,  has  added  the  following  note  to  the  word 
Hogan:  "Query?  Was  this  in  the  original  MS.  of 
Gray  written  ifcyoy,  L  •.  aiiieA,  very  wmekf*  But  acoord- 
ing  to  Lord  Maeaulay  in  his  ^iq^nyiAief,  p.  62,  he  speaks 
of  Oliver  Groldsmith  having  been  '*  sent  in  his  seventh  year 
to  a  village  school  kept  by  an  old  quartermaster  on  half- 
pav,  who  profeved  to  teach  nothhig  but  readine,  writing, 
an^  arithmetic,  but  who  had  an  inexhaustible  ftind  of 
stories  about  ghosts,  banshees,  and  fidries,  about  the 
mat  Sappatee  cUe&,  Baldeaiqg  O'Dennell  and  gaUcping 
xTooon,  ttc" 

Of  ''Galloping  Hogan,**  one  of  the  chiefs  of  the 
Irish  Rapparees,  we  find  the  following  notices  in  The 
JfHparticU  Hiatory  of  the  Wars  in  Irdamd,  by  George 
Storey.  We  read  at  p.  229,  under  the  date  Sept  24, 1691, 
**  The  same  day  we  had  an  aooount  that  Galloping 
Hogan,  a  fellow  that  had  got  upwards  of  one  hundred 
Bapparees  together,  hone  and  foot,  and  got  much  plunder 
by  robbing  the  Sutlers  and  other  people  that  oame  into  his 
power,  he  was  now  so  bold  as  to  set  upon  a  party  of  carrs 
coming  towards  the  camp  with  little  or  no  guard,  nigh 
Cullen,  and  took  away  with  him  seventy-one  small 
horses,  though  he  dnnt  not  stay  to  do  any  more  mis- 
chiefc'^ 

We  next  meet  with  Hogan  at  p.  270,  on  Oct.  19  :^**Oti 
the  19th,  Hogan  and  most  of  hh  crew  came  in  at  Ros- 
oreagh,  and  had  the  benefit  of  the  proolamation,  being 
allowed  twenty-four  men  by  the  general  to  suppress  other 
Bapparees  upon  occasion,  though  this  was  fatal  to  him, 
for  some  of  that  sort  of  people  murdered  him  after- 
wards."3 

''KiLUNG  Ko  MiTEDBB.'' — In  the  remarkable 
tract  80  called,  I  find  towards  the  end  an  expres- 
sion which  reminds  one  of  Sterne's  om  as  a  desig- 
nation for  man's  animal  natore.  This  was  before 
Sterne^  and  is  probably  botii  much  older  and  by 
no  means  infrequent  in  literature.  Will  any  one 
with  learning  and  leisure  think  it  worth  wlule  to 
hunt  it  up  P 

"^We  have  all  our  beast  within  us^  and  whosoever 
(says  Aristotle,  Fol,  iii  c.  II)  is  governed  by  a  man 
without  law  is  governed  by  a  man  and  by  a  beast" 

The  term  employed  by  Sterne  would  be  very 
likely  to  occur  in  the  productions  6f  some  of  tlie 
burlesque  preachers  of  a  few  centuries  ago. 

Nbxo. 

Mat-Day  Ousioic— It  was  the  custom  at  Ox- 
ford a  generation  ago  for  little  boys  to  blow  horns 
about  the  streets  early  on  May-day,  and  they  did 
it  for  the  purpose  of  ^'calliu^  up  the  old  maids." 
The  same  custom  obtained  m  this  old  town  of 
Lynn^and  thepurposeappears  tohave  been  the  same, 


lor  I  hove  heard  the  Terrphiaae,  ^oaifiagii^llia  old 
maidsi*'  used  amongst  the  bojps  here  on  the  first  of 
this  present  May.  I  asked  an  aged  inhabitant  how 
lonff  the  hom-blowing  had  ceaaed,  and  he  replied 
*^  Ever  since  the  Beform  Bill  came  in  " ;  but  that 
he  remembered  the  time  -when  tiia  'woarkhouse 
children  were  let  out  for  May*day  early  in  the 
morning  with  their  horns  and  gaihmds^  mid  a 
worthy  alderman  whom  he  named  abvaya  kept 
open  house  on  that  day,  and  gave  tiiem  a  good 
dmner.  ''Calling  up  the  old  maids"  rvfen^  I 
oondnde,  to  the  custom  of  calling^  up  the  nwds, 
whether  old  or  young,  to  go  a-maying.  Qitb. 
Lynn. 

[May  has  always  been  considered  the  laeritost  of 
months—"  the  fairest  of  the  year."  The  custom  of  hom- 
blowing  is  thus  noticed  bv  worthy  Tom  fieame  to  his 
preface  to  Robert  of  Gloucester's  CkrmiU,  p.  18 :  '^  TIs 
no  wonder,  therefore,  that  upon  the  jaUitisa  of  the  fiiat  of 
Mav  formerly,  the  custom  of  blowing  witii,  and  drinking 
in  horns  so  much  prevailed,  which,  though  it  be  now 
generally  disused,  yet  the  custom  of  blowmg  them  pre- 
vails at  this  season,  even  to  this  day,  at  Oxford,  to  re- 
mind people  of  the  pleasantness  of  that  part  of  the  year." 
Anbr^  has  this  memorandum  in  his  Remama  of  Oen- 
Hlisme  and  Judaitme,  MS.  Lansd.  266,  p.  5. :  "  At  Oxford 
the  boys  do  Uow  cows'  horns  and  hollow  canes  all  night ; 
and  on  May-day  the  young  maids  of  every  parish  carry 
about  garumds  of  flowens,  which  afterwards  they  hang 
up  in  their  churches.**  At  Newcastle-upon-l^ne,  too,  it 
was  formerly  usual  on  May  mornings  for  the  ^nag  girls 
to  sing  these  lines  in  the  streets,at  the  same  timaecaltar- 
ingwwen:*— 

"  Rise^up  maidens,  fle  for  shame  I 
For  I've  been  four  long  miles  ftom  home^ 
I've  been  gathering  my  garlands  gay. 
Rise  up,  fair  maids,  and  take  in  yonrMsy.*^ 

PuBiTAK  GHAirais  OF  Naxib. — A  note  in 
Hume's  History  of  England  (vb.  290.  ed.  1791) 
saySy  speaking  of  the  Commonwealth,  tnat — 

**  It  was  usual  for  the  pretended  saints  at  that  time  to 
change  their  names  from  Henry,  Edward,  Anthony,  Wil- 
liam, which  they  regarded  as  heathenish,  into  others  more 

sanctified  and  godly. Here  are  the  names  of  a 

jury  said  to  be  enclosed  in  the  ooanty  of  Soasex  about 
this  time.'* 


The  names  I  need  not  repeat,  as  they  axe 
liar  to  most  of  us.  The  list  is  quoted  firom 
Brome*s  Traoeh  in  England,  p.  279--a  iMok  to 
which  I  have  not  aocess  here ;  nut  snsely  we  may 
safely  come  to  the  conduaion,  without  vaoifyiBg 
the  passage,  that  these  eighteen  woodeilial  namea 
are  either  a  forgery  or  a  joke.  I  am  anxious  to 
know  what  contemporary  authority  there  is  for  the 
statement  in  the  early  part  of  the  note.  I  know 
modem  writers  have  repeated  the  same  tbiog 
over  and  over  again,  and  that  noreHsta  have 
ransacked  their  imaginations  to  find  charaoteriatic 
names  far  their  Puritan  characters,  hut  I  do  not 
rememher  any  trustworthy  «videaoe  of  ^theOem* 
monwealth  time  or  that  of  Chades  IL  that  would 
lead  us  to  helieve  that  strange  Chriatian  aamea 
were  more  common  iu  those  days  than  JKwr* 


i*' a  TH.  Mat  2a, '710 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


4St 


Wh&i  pnssBges  have  we  on  this  sul)}eet  iir  t&n 
waricB  of  the  Restoration  playwrights  P 

Ebwabd  F^cogx. 
Bottesfbrd  Manot)  Brigg. 

OV  TBM  AbSBZTCE  OP  AST  FBaSNCK  WoBD  EGA 

'^la  BisB." — There  is  no  one  word  m  French 
which  connotes  the  action  of  riding  on  horse* 
hack.  JkEonier  signifies  the  action  of  mounting  on 
hoiaebadiv  but  hardly  of  the  continuous  action  of 
riding.  To  express  this  the  French  say  Sire  or 
oUeTf  or  aepromeneTf  ^  cheval:  this  properly  means 
riding  for  amusement.  Is  this  the  reason  that 
Frenchmen  generally  decline  to  ride  with  the 
hounds^  because  they  can  only  '^se  promener  4 
cheral "?  just  aa  they  are  too  volatile  to  continue 
the  actioa  of  standing,  and  so  hare  no  word  to  ex- 
press it.  £.  L.  Blehkinsopp. 
Spriagthorpe  Bsotoiy. 

"  RoTraHS," — ^When  was  this  word  first  used  to 
designate  the  scum  of  the  people,  the  '' dangerous 
classes/'  the  remduunif  as  Mr.  Bright  called  them  P 
The  word  was  wanted  as  being  more  specific  than 
mob.  In  a  mob  there  usually  is  a  proportion  of 
rongha,  but  a  mob  may  be  riLylv  a'^mStley  col- 
lection  of  turbulent^  noisy,  but  still  honesty  people ; 
it  need  not  necessarily  be  composed  of  roughs  nor 
even  comprise  any. 

Is  not  the  word  a  mere  abbreyiation  of  rt^iaru, 
and  i^old  we  not  write  ruffs  f  I  fancy  I  first 
saw  the  word  ^  roughs  "  in  psmt  during  the  turbu- 
lent pwiod  of  Ihe  elections  that  followed  the 
first  Reform  Bill,  about  1833  or  1884. 

The  following  ia  from  the  recently  published 
Li/el  of  JBarham,  In  a  poetical  invitation  to  Dr. 
Hume  (Not.  4^  ldS7)  he  says : — 

''Thenll  be  lots  of  new  poHoemen 
To  ODBtroi  the  rognee  and  rougk^ 

Can  any  reader  of  ''N.  &  Q.**  give  me  an  earlier 
instance  of  the  word  P  Jaybbb. 

[[Charles  Dickens  once  said,  **  I  entertain  so  strong  an 
objection  to  the  enphonious  softening  of  ruffian  into 
rough,  which  has  lately  beeome  popular,  that  I  restore 
the  right  word  to  the  headinfc  of  this  paner." —  The 
RujpoHf  by  the  Uneommereial  Traoeiler,  All  Am  Year 
JUnmd,  Oct.  10,  1868.  Dr.  Motley,  however,  in  hia 
United  Nelherlandiy  It.  188,  ascriba  its  use  to  Qneen 
Elizabeth  in  her  last  illness :  '*The  great  queen,  moody, 
despairing,  dying,  wrapt  in  profoundest  thought,  with 
eyes  fixed  upon  the  grooad  or  already  gazing  into  in- 
finity, was  besonght  by  the  counsellora  afoond  her  to 
name  the  man  to  whom  she  chose  that  the  crown  should 
derolve.  'Not  to  a  rough,*  said  £Iizabeth  sententiously 
and  grimly.'*  Dr.  Motley  adds  in  a  note,  apparently 
from  a  lettaa  of  Seerefcuy  SearameUi,  that  the  word 
ron^^  "in  lingua  inglase  significa  peiaona  basM  e 
▼il^ 

THBSnsxiAirTzBAirL— In  The  TTmerof  May  6; 
1871,  p.  9f  coL  5^  we  read — 

**  There  is  too  much  reason  in  the  ooatention  of  Mr. 
Childen^  critics  that  hs  affected  the  style  of  gardening 


of  the  SieUinn  tyrant,*  who  snitched  off  the  heads  of 
the  tallest  poppies,  and  let  the  dwarf  varieties  alone." 

The  switching  is,  I  think,  first  told  in  Greek 
writers  hy  Herodotus  (v.  92)  of  Thrasyhulus, 
repeated  by  Aristotle  (Pol  iii.  13, 17,  ed.  Eaton) 
of  Periander,  and  by  Livy  (i  54)  and  Orid  (Fatti, 
ii.  701)  of  Tarqmnius  Siqperhus.  The  edition  of 
thei^fii^  to  which  I  have  r^efeied  above  gives 
no  reference  to  any  Sidiian  l^rant  Was  the 
'<  Thunderer  "  confusing^  the  story  told  of  Phar- 
huos  with  those  of  the  other  tyrants  to  whom  thse 
''switching''  ia  commonly  ascribed ?  or  is  then 
any  Sicilian  legend  of  the  kind  ?        A  Stusbsx.. 

Teksysosjaisx, — Can  any  of  your  correspond- 
ents tell  me  the  meaning  of  these  two  passages  in. 
Tennyson^  PtincesB  f — 

**  Those  monstrous  males  that  carve  the  Hring  hvtad^ 
And  cram  him  with  the  fragpienta  of  the  grave." 

iiL29aL 
[See«*K.&Q.'»2««S.v.68.] 

<*  She  that  taught  the  Sabine  how  to  mle.*'-.ii.  65. 

T.M. 

[There  appears  to  be  an  aUnaioaia  thia  line  to  Kama 
PompilinSi  the  second  king  of  Home,  whose  name  repre- 
sents the  rale  of  law  and  order.  The  universal  tradition 
of  the  Sabine  origin  of  Noma  intimates  that  the- Romans 
most  have  derived  a  great  portion  of  their  reUgious  sys- 
tem from  the  Sabines,  rather  than  ftom  the  fitroscwB^as 
is  commonly  believed. — Smith's  Dictionary  of  GreehMnt^ 
Soman  Biography,.  U,  1212.] 

"Thb  Bothood  of  at  TfiovAe  Viliahivvb 
(ac),  Bartolomd  EstshMi  Murillo,  No.  266.  Sent 
by  Lord  Ashburtcm  "  (vide  Catalog<Be  of  the  kte 
&hibition  of  Old  Masters).  What  were  the 
adveatnies  of  this  particular  St  Thomas^  the 
second  half  of  whose  name  has  been,  I  ara  apt  to 
think,  misspelled  in  tJie  catalogue  P 

NOELL  BaDBCLIFFB. 

[An  excellent  account  of  St.  Thomas  of  ViUanova, 
Archbishop  of  Yatentia,  will  be  found  is  Alban  fiutier^s 
Liwetofthe  Saints,  Sept.  18.1 

VoLTAiRiAWA.— In  the  "Denunciation  to  the 
Parliament"  of  theKehl*edition  of  Voltaire's  works 
(1781)  there  are  one  or  two  allusions  which  I  do 
not  understand : — 

^  **  Men  who  are  avaricious  rather  than  malicious  had 
discovered  in  a  pUnt  which  ^ras  almost  unknown,  a 
fatal  virtue  fur  enabling  citizens  to  be  sent  to  sleep  and. 

robbed You  thought  you  ought  to  punish  the 

first  attempts  by  chastisement 'suffidently  rigorous  to 
inspire  a  aalntaiy  terror." 

What  does  this  refer  to  ?  Also,  where  can  I 
find  an  account  of  the  young  man  of  Abbeville 
who  was  condemned  to  deatii  for  '^blasphemies 
and  crimes  "  engendered  hy  reacGng  Voltaire  P  I 
qnote  from  a  translation,  as  I  have  never  seen  the 
original.  C.  Ecliot  Bfiowms. 

*  'The  italics  sie  mtes^ 


432 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4««'8.YII.  MatSO,*?!* 


BARKER  AND  BURFORD*S  PANORAMAS. 
(4"»  S.  Tii.  279.) 

Li  reply  to  Mb.  Norman's  general  queries  about 
the  Leicester  Square  Panoramas^  I  should  like  to 
say  a  few  words.  Henry  Aston  Barker  married  a 
daughter  of  Admiral  Bligh  of  the  <<  Bounty/'  with 
whom  my  fiimily  were  yery  intimate.  I  dis- 
tinctly remember  going  to  W  est  Square,  Soutii- 
wark^  where  Mj.  Barker  liyed,  and  seeing  him 
in  his  wooden  rotunda  behina  the  house^  and 
mounted  on  a  moyeable  scaffolding,  pamting 
"  Spitzbergen"  oyer  the  "  Battle  of  Waterloo."  He 
was  then,  with  his  lon^  brush,  obliterating^  a 
charge  of  cuirassiers  with  icebergs  and  white 
bears  that  quite  chilled  you  to  look  at  This  was 
viobably  in  1817,  when  I  was  four  years  old; 
out  I  also  distinctly  remember  '^Athens"  in 
Leicester  Square— the  Acropolis  and  the  beautiful 
atmosphere.  As  the  canyas  of  *^  Waterloo  "  was 
used  as  I  say,  is  it  not  probable  that  Mr.  Barker 
was  the  painter  of  the  great  battle  P  I  am  tempted 
to  go  on  about  Admiru  Bliffk 

At  an  eyen  earlier  date  than  that  named,  I  was 
sent  with  my  nurse  (who  still  liyes  with  my 
family)  to  stay  atFammgham,  where  the  admiral 
liyed ;  and  he  used  to  take  me  on  his  knee,  and 
let  me  play  with  the  bullet  that  was  strung  on  a 
blue  ribbon  round  his  neck,  and  had  been  the 
weight  he  used  for  measuring  the  amount  of 
bread  he  could  allow  himself  and  crew  in  their 
boat  yojage  of  4,000  miles,  Bligh  was  a  small 
man  with  a  hasty  temper.  He  sat  in  a  library 
walled  with  boolo,  and  the  house  had  sea  cun« 
osities  which  he  had  collected  for  Mrs.  Bligh. 
It  was  asked  who  she  was  in  an  early  number  of 
''N.  &  i^"  (2^  S.  iL  411);  but  no  answer  has 
been  given,  I  belieye.  I  haye  heard  the  fpUowing 
romantic  story,  but  without  names. 

Mis.  Bligh  was  the  daughter  of  a  literary  man 
who^  was  associated  with  Adam  Smith  in  his 
writing  on  political  economy,  &c.  The  cause  of 
his  retirement  to  Scotland  was  thus  narrated :  — 
As  a  youth  he  had  been  with  a  private  tutor,  a 
derymnan ;  and  Lord  S.  (Sandwich  P)  was  a  fellow 
pupiL  The  young  nobleman  fell  in  loye  with  the 
tutor's  daughter,  and  was  consequently  removed 
by  his  relations ;  but  the  lovers  agreed  to  corre- 
spond, and  the  pupil  who  remained  was  to  be  the 
medium  of  communication.  Being  however  a 
rival,  he  stopped  the  letters  on  both  sides,  per- 
suading the  writers  that  Jhey  were  faithless  to 
each  other,  and  so  succeeded  at  last  in  winning 
the  lady  for  himsel£  I  have  been  told  that  Mrs. 
Bligh,  who  was  an  intimate  fnend  of  my  mother, 
was  the  only  issue  of  this  unhappy  marriage.  Can 
anyone  dear  or  gainsay  this  tiadition  P 

The  admiral  was  a  domish  man,  and  had  a  scar 


onhischeek.  Georffe  HLaskedhim,  at  a2eo^ii> 
what  action  he  had  oeen  wounded;  and  made  him 
tell  the  story  that  when  a  boy,  he  was  helping  his 
father  to  catch  a  horse  in  their  orchard,  when  the 
father  threw  a  small  hatchet  to  turn  the  animal,  and 
unwittingly  struck  his  son.  Lady  O'Connell,  one 
of  the  a£mraVs  daughters,  was  a  person  of  gjntLt 
spirit,  and  defended  her  &ther  with  a  mstoi 
against  rebels  during  his  governorship  oiVai^ 
]^emen's  Land.  Frances  and  Jane  Bligh  wer& 
twins.  Ann  was  a  beauty,  but  mentally  afflicted. 
The  admiral  was  a  severe  martinet,  even  at  home  ^ 
and  not  a  litUe  was  he  angered  at  finding  hia 
daughters  pursued  from  church  by  a  stranger,, 
who  had  been  told,  in  answer  to  his  advertisement 
for  a  wife,  to  appear  blowing  his  noee  in  the  aisle 
of  Famingham  church,  where  a  lady  £tivounble- 
to  his  views  would  be  present  The  ladies,  unablei 
to  repress  their  laughter,  betrayed  themselvea; 
and  tneir  father  gave  bou  them  and  their  dupe 
some  very  emphatic  broadsides  from  his  eaoly 
exdted  tongue. 

Perhaps  I  have  gone  bevond  my  brief  in  these- 
memoranda;  but  "Bounty^'  Bligh  was  a  man  for 
our  naval  country  to  be  proud  ol  As  a  navigator^ 
shown  in  his  conduct  of^the  great  boat  voyage  ixt 
the  Pacific,  he  may  be  called,  like  Nelson  — 
<*  The  greatest  uilor  since  our  woild  began.** 

Alfbxd  Gatst,  B JX 

[We  ara  also  indebted  to  the  Rev.  H.  T.  Eixaookbr- 
toT  a  refeienoe  to  an  interesting  notice  of  Henry  Aato» 
Barker,  Esq.,  which  appealed  in  the  Gtntlemm*^  Max- 
tor October,  1856.— Ed.] 


I  saw  in  England,  many  years  ago,  two  larg» 
panoramas  which  I  do  not  find  on  this  list  Wer» 
they  not  by  these  artists  P  The  one  in  Leicester 
Square  (anno  1821)  was  truly  a  gorgeous  and  a 
Oearffius  affair,  "  The  Coronation  of  George  IV."; 
whereas  that  of  King  William  IV.  (the  Refovm 
Bin),  which  I  witnessed  in  Westminster  Abbey 
in  1831,  was,  as  "H.  B."  facetiously  termed  it  in 
one  of  his  clever  caricatures,  *'A  JSalf-'crown-' 
ation."  The  other  panorama  I  saw  in  liverpool 
in  1823-4  was  <'  The  Storming  of  Serinwraatam,'^ 
and  deatii  c^  Tippoo-Saheb.  P.  A.  L.. 


WILLIAM  BALIOL. 

(4*  S.  vii.  302.) 

John  Baliol  had  no  brother  named  WUXanr, 
The  competitor  was  the  youngest  son  of  DevoigilliL. 
and  his  three  elder  brothers — Hugh,  Alan^  and 
Alexander— all  died  childless  before  he  claimed 
the  throne  of  Scotiand.  There  is  a  pretty  good 
pedigree  of  the  BallioU  in  Robertson's  Aynkire^ 
FanUUes,  voL  L,  and  of  their  predecessors,  the  De 
MorviUes,  in  voL  iL-  A  Sir  WiUiam  BalHol  waa 
one  of  the  seven  Soots  commissioners  to  Prance 
in  1303.    (Hailes'  AnnaU.)    Whether  he  was  the 


4*  S.  VII.  Mat  20, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


433 


penon  mentioned  by  J.  R.  S.  as  buried  at  Ganter- 
ouiy,  or  William  Balliol  (or  BaiUie)  of  Hoprif^ 
and  Pension  in  East  Lothian,  it  may  be  difficult 
to  sa^.  Tbe  latter  personage,  who  is  said  to  haye 
mamed  a  daughter  of  the  patriot  Wallace,  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  Baillies  of  Lamington  in 
Clydesdale,  where  they  have  flourished  for  five 
hundred  years.  He  is  conjectured  by  the  oon- 
tinuator  of  Nisbet's  JSeraliry  to  have  been  the 
second  son  of  Sir  Alexander  Balliol  of  Cavers,  a 
collateral  relative  of  the  king  of  Scots.  The  same 
authority  states  that  Sir  Alexander  of  Cavers 
married  Isabel,  heiress  of  Richard  de  Chilham,  and 
widow  of  David  de  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Atiiol.  If 
this  be  correct,  it  is  curious  that  this  lady,  who 
died  in  1293,  lies  buried  in  the  east  crypt  of  Can- 
terbury cathedral,  where  I  have  seen  her  effigy. 
Her  estate  of  Chilham  is  within  a  short  distance 
of  that  city.  If  William  Balliol  was  her  son, 
there  would  be  no  unlikelihood  in  his  being  also 
buried  iherey  as  stated  by  Weever.  Though  in 
the  Rev.  Mackenzie  Walcott's  Memorials  of  Can' 
terhery  I  observe  no  notice  of  any  monastery  of 
White  fViars  Observants.  The  truth  is,  that 
there  is  a  good  deal  of  obscurity  about  the  dose 
of  the  Scottish  career  of  this  great  family.  The 
sttmame  does  not  seem  to  have  been  proscribed, 
for  a  Sir  Henr^  de  Balliol  had  a  ffrant  of  Branx- 
holme  in  Roxourghshire  from  Robert  Bruce  him- 
self (Robertson's  Index),  and  Thomas  de  Balliol 
held  lands  in  the  same  county  till  the  dose  of 
David  Brace's  reign.  Yet  their  French  seigneury 
of  BaiUeul,  at  this  very  date,  was  obtained  by  a 
female  descendant  of  Radulphus  de  Coucy.  (See 
Idves  of  the  Lindsays,  vol.  i.  p.  32.)  And  the 
Scottish  Baillies  have  never  been  able  to  explain 
why  their  arms  are  so  different  from  those  of  the 
BaUiols-^the  former  being  nine  stars,  the  latter 
an  orle — though  complaisant  genealogists  have 
done  their  best  to  find  a  resemblance,  or  account 
for  the  discrepancy.  AireLo-ScoTUS. 

Three  pedigrees  of  the  Baliol  family  are  given 
in  The  Patrician,  edited  by  John  Burke,  1847,  iii. 
174,  265,  425.  In  two  of  them  Sir  William 
Baliol  le  Scot  is  mentioned  as  the  youngest  brother 
of  John.  King  of  Scotland.  It  is  also  stated  that 
"  Sir  William  was  buried  at  the  White  Friars 
Observant  at  Canterbuxy,  mentioned  by  Philpot 
in  Weever,  and  died  about  1811."  The  authority 
adduced  for  making  Sir  William  le  Scot  the 
younger  brother  of  the  King  of  Scotland  is  the 
Addit  MS.  5520,  foL  188,  which  purports  to  be 
**  the  true  descent  and  lineage  of  tne  andent  and 
knightly  family  of  Scot,  descended  from  the  noble 
family  of  Baliol,  alias  le  Scot,  of  the  kingdom  of 
Scotland."  Consult  also  Hasted's  Kent,  1700.  iiL 
292,  298 ;  but  his  name  does  not  appear  in  'Dv^ 
dale's  Baronage,  or  Douglas's  Peerage.         J.  Y7 

Bamsbmy. 


'*  Soot*B  Han,  the  ancient  eeat  of  the  Scots,  a  fiimily 
profesaing  descent  from  William  de  BaUiol,  le  Scot*'— 
Murray's  Handbook  of  Kent,  p.  133. 

"  Scott's  Hall,  whose  founders,  the  Scotts,  are  thought 
to  be  descended  from  the  Scottish  kings."— Mackie's  Hit' 
torieal  Accomi  of  Folkestone  and  its  yeighbourhood, 
p.  196. 

In  a  foot*note  to  Fuller's  Worthies,  reference  is 
made  to  a  ballad  on  the  Scotts  in  Pedc's  Beside- 
rata  Curiosa  and  in  The  World, 

Brabourne  church,  in  Kent,  contains  memorials 
of  the  Scott  fiunily  as  early  as  1433.        R.  J.  F. 


THE  SWAN  SONG  OF  PARSON  AVERY. 
(4*»>  S.  Ti.  493  J  viL  20,  148,  28a) 

The  followin|]^  notices  of  persons  of  the  name 
of  Ayery  who  nourished  in  tne  seTenteenth  cen« 
tury  may  be  interesting  to  Mb.  Whituorb  and 
others : — 

Avery,  Amos.  Commissioner  for  [Berkshire  for 
the  assessment  of  sixty  thousand  pounds  per 
month,  1656.  (Scobell,  Acts  and  Ordinances, 
ii.  402.) 

Avery,  Arnold.  Justice  of  Peace  for  Berlcshire, 
1650.  {Names  of  JtuUees  of  Peace  .  .  .  Michael-' 
mas  Terme,  1650,  8vo,  1650,  p.  5.) 

Avery,  Henry.  Soldier  serving  in  Ireland  in 
1654.  (Gent.  Mag.  1863,  ii.  706.) 

Avery,  Joseph.  Petition  for  examination  of  his 
accounts,  and  payment  of  18,0001,  1660.  Had 
been  resident  for  Charles  I.  in  Denmark,  Sweden^ 
and  Germany  for  twenty  years,  during  which 
time  he  chiefly  paid  his  own  expenses.  Lost  an^ 
estate  of  8000/.,  and  the  post  of  deputy*govemor 
of  the- Merchant  Adventurers'  Company  at  Ham- 
burg, worth  400/.  a-year.  (Oal.  Stat.  Pap.  Dom, 
1660-1661,  p.  296.) 

Avery,  Robert.  A  Royalist  officer  during  the 
civil  war.  (A  List  of  Officers  claiming  the  Sixty 
Thousand  Pounds  granted  by  his  Sacred  Maj,  for 
the  JReHef  of  his  truly  Loyal  and  Indigent  Party,, 
4to,  1663.  [The  list  probably  gives  this  personV 
county  and  the  colonel  under  whom  he  served. 
I  have  only  a  memorandum,  not  the  list  itself  to 
refer  to]. 

Avery,  SamueL  Alderman  of  the  City  of  Lon- 
don. M.P.  for  London  in  the  parliament  of  1654. 
(Rushworth,  Hist.  Coll.  part  il.  p.  824 ;  part  m. 
p.  162  J  part  iv.,  vol.  i.  pp.  180. 181, 378.  Scobell, 
Acts  ana  Ord.99.  Commons  Journals,  iii.  398; 
iv.  679.  Cat,  of  Names  of  such  as  were  summoned 
to  any  Pari,  from  1640,  8vo,  1661,  p.  34.) 

Edward  Psaoock. 

Bottesfoid  Manor,  Brigg. 


I  am  much  indebted  to  Mr.  Maclbait  and  Mb. 
Whitmobe  for  the  information  given  me  respect- 
ing the  probable  ancestry  of  the  Averys  of  New- 
bury, Berks.    That  they  were  not  of  the  same 


434 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i^kS-VH-MAYW,*?!. 


stoek  wkk  Wiffiam  Arer^,  »  phyriceian,  who  set- 
tled at  Dedham,  Mass.^  ia  evident  from  the 
difference  of  their  respectiye  coats  of  arms :  Dr. 
Avery's  descendants  oeariDg  a  chevron  hetween 
three  Bezants  (Bocke  mves  it  a  fesae),  and  the 
Aveiys  of  Newburv,  Berks,  the  same  arma  as 
Avery  of  Warwickshirey  '^  Ermine  on  a  pale  en- 
grailed azure,  three  lions'  heads  couped  or."  I 
regret  that  I  have  no  chance  of  examining  New- 
bury registers,  and  thence  collecting  any  probable 
ancestry  of  Parson  Avery,  specially  such  as  would 
establish  his  cousinship  with  Anthony  Thatcher. 
I  have  a  few  baptisms  between  1656  and  1698,  and 
a  memorandum  that  in  1697  Benjamin  Avery, 
Richard  Avery,  and  Timothy  Avery  were  sub- 
scribers to  the  Presbyterian  meeting  there.  If 
the  arms  of  the  respective  families  are  correctly 
borne  they  are  not  identical  with  the  American 
Arerys ;  but  in  those  days,  as  now,  the  practice 
doubtless  prevailed  of  "  send  your  name,  and  your 
arms  shall  be  sent  in  return,"  it  being  a  very 
common  error  that  every  name  ?uu  arms,  and  the 


onljF  thing  aaedfal  ii  to  make  a  cbnai,  alfcBr  Upis 
of  tiae,  treated  as  a  r^ht. 

The  Averya  of  ComwiOl  in  all  molMlnlity 
deace&d  from  a  eooanoB  aoeestor  with  Saaiiiel 
Atery,  a  aomewlMt  conapiaioafl  ebasaotor  in  tiia 
troublesome  times  of  Charles  L    His  pedigree  ia 

S'ven  in  the  Visitation  of  Somerset  (Haileian 
9.  1141),  wd  is  as  imder— the  Samuel  Avoy 
of  London,  merchant,  being  bo  doubt  the  aherin 
of  1047.  and  the  Alderman  Avery  who  i<niied 
in  proclaiming  the  Act  for  aboliahing  lankly 
government.  May  dO,  1649.  He  was  commis- 
noner  fbr  sundry  City  ordinances  about  1645, 
and  the  State  Paper  Office  contains  letters  from 
him  dated  from  Hamburg,  and  addressed  to  Lord 
Digbre  and  Sir  Thomas  B»we,  Jan.  12,  164|. 
Further  notices  of  him  are  found  in  Six's  JFb»- 
conb&rffe  Manorial,  p.  16.  The  pedigree  ia  aa 
follows : — 

Arms :  A  chevron  between  three  aminleta  (or 
bezants  P)  quartering  azure  a  ram's  head  caboeied 
ar.  attired  or,  Dmmford  f 


Wm.  Avery,  of  Congresbury,  co.  Soaianet  =>  Ann,  dau.  and  heir  of  Irish  of  CoDgreabtny. 


Jacob  Avery,  of  Blells,  eo.  Somerset  »  Dorothy,  dan.  of  Hngh  Whitoombe,  of  Sherbofos,  co»  Doneti 
BOW  living,  1628. 


Bttgjaiaia   Joseph  Averya Fnmoes,  dan.  of    Christian,  wife  to 
of  London,        —  Deedes  of  John  Irish,  of 

merchant.  London.  Yatton,  oo. 

Somerset 


Hannah,  wife  to    Samuel  A veiyssMirabella,  dan. 


Edmd.  Hobbs,         of  London, 
of  Gongresbnry.        merchant, 

2nd 


of—  BameC 


Katherine^  aged  8, 1628. 


I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  corresponding  with 
a  clergyman  in  Cornwall,  holding  preferment  in 
the  county,  of  the  name  of  Avery,  who  informed 
me  that  the  name  is  not  an  uncommon  one  in 
particular  localities,  though  he  was  not  able  to 
form  an  opinion  as  to  their  connection  vrith 
Avery  of  Somerset  or  Avery  of  Warwidcshire. 
The  last-named  family  had  a  descendant,  the  Rev. 
Joseph  Avery,  Vicar  of  Kirby  near  Colchester, 


Essex,  from  1688  to  1735.  It  is  not  improbable 
that  tne  original  grant  of  arms  to  Avery  of  War- 
wickshire has  been  mixed  with  documents  rria- 
tive  to  Essex  property,  and  has  thus  come  by 

Surchase  into  the  hands  of  your  correspondent, 
hey  are  precisely  the  arms  borne  by  Kiehard 
Avery  of  the  Newbury  family,  as  engraved  for  a 
book-plate  nearly  180  years  ago.  E.  W. 


THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S. 
(4«>  S.  vi.  passim ;  vii.  186,  241,  344, 890.) 

Mb.  FBRGtrasoK  mar  have  satisfied  himself 
that  Sir  Christopher  Wren  created  '<  one  of  the 
great  defects  of  St.  Paul's ''  in  that  he  made  <^  the 
four  great  arches  of  the  dome  all  alike,"  but  I 
venture  to  think  that  he  will  find  few  men  who 
have  axij  real  respect  for  Sir  Christopher  to 
agree  with  him,  and  that  the  other  very  posi- 
tively expressed  views  in  his  letter,  as  to  the 
wor£s  which  ought  to  be  done,  are  as  little  de- 
serving of  acceptuice. 

(E  nave  not  seen  the  Sacristy  or  the  article  on 


St  Paul's  by  Mbssbs.  Sohbbs  Clabeb  and 
MiOKLSTHWAiiB ;  but  it  is  somewhat  remarkable 
that  shortly  before  its  appearance  I  had  expressed 
to  several  persons  my  very  strong  objections  to 
what  I  was  informed  were  the  intentions  of  the 
committee ;  and  one  of  them  having  asked  me  to 
put  my  views  on  paper,  1  wrote  the  letter,  of 
which  I  enclose  a  copy,  to  Mr.  Richmond/bj 
whom  it  was  laid  before  the  committee.  This 
letter,  which  advocated,  as  I  gather,  very  nearly 
the  same  couse  as  that  suggested  in  the  Sacristy , 
is  at  any  rate  evidence,  I  hope,  that  a  course 
which  is  suggested  from  various  quarters^  in  this 
independent  way,  has  not  been  advocated  without 


4«»  a  VIL  Mat  8Q,  71,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


^5 


bdtler  groimda  thaa  Mb.  Ebbaibuok  seeiOB'to  be 
prepared  to  admit. 

mee  my  letter  to  Mr.  Richmond  was  written 
and  pnated  (bj  direetion  of  tbe  St.  Paul's  com- 
mittee), tbedecifiiQii  as  to  tbe  arrangement  of  tbe 
oi;g«a  kas  been  announced.  In  a  few  words,  tbat 
deciAon  involvte  an  absolute  violation  of  Sir 
Cbristopber  Wren's  own  work,  witbout  any  kind 
of  necessity.  And  tbis  singular  fatality  seems  to 
attend  all  tbe  works  executed  for  tbe  completion 
of  St.  Paul's.  Tbe  works  already  done  bare  been 
confessedly  a  series  of  mistakes — costly^  but  com- 
plete. Tbey  are  now,  all  of  them,  to  be  ondone; 
but  in  tbeir  place  anotber  mistake,  costly  and  un- 
neceasaiy^  is  to  be  perpetrated.  Tbe  organ  is  to 
be  pat  back  en  to  a  screen  between  the  dioir  and 
tiie  dome,  not  after  Sir  Christopher  Wren's 
design  or  according  to  any  scheme  which  he  ap- 
proTed,  but  after  (in  this  country)  a  new  fangled 
plan,  which,  in  spite  of  Mb.  FsBeuseesr's  certifi- 
cate that  it  will  ^'perfectly remedy*'  ''the  de- 
fects" of  Sir  Obristopher  Wren's  work,  will,  in 
my  opinion,  Terr  greatly  damage  what  I  conceive 
to  be  one  of  its  beauties. 

If  Mb.  Fxbgusson  or  tbe  committee  would  ask 
their  organ-builder  for  his  plain  advice,  untram- 
melled by  the  opinions  of  tne  musical  committee 
of  twelve,  I  undertake  to  say  that  it  would  be 
decidedly  to  replace  the  organ  in  its  old  position 
on  ti^e  screen,  and  to  put  su(^  additional  pipes,  &c. 
as  are  required  under  the  western  arches  on  each 
side  tbe  cnoir.  I  am  sore  thait  Mr.  WilHs  would 
at  once  say  that  such  an  arrangement  would  be 
perfectly  practicftble,  and  tbat  the  organist,  being 
placed  at  the  north  or  south  end  of  the  instru- 
ment, would  be  able  to  play  equally  well  for  the 
choir  in  tbe  choir  proper,  or  for  a  choir  placed, 
.18  I  proposed,  under  the  dome. 

So  much  for  the  organ.  But  Mb.  FiBBeussoir 
goes  on  to  say  that  there  is  another  scheme  which 
has  been  '*  warmly  urged  on  the  committee  by 
several  distinguished  architects."  This  scheme  is 
tbat  which  I,  without  concert  with  any  one,  pro- 
pounded to  the  committee  through  Mr.  Rich- 
mond— ^yiz.  tbat  an  altar  under  a  baldachin  should 
be  erected  under  the  dome,  with  a  small  choir  in 
front  of  it  enclosed  with  low  marble  screens,  in  the 
very  midst  of  the  people. 

I  am  delighted  to  have  authority  for  tbe  fact 
that  ^'several  distixig^isbed architects  "  approve  of 
such  a  scheme,  ^txj  I  ask  whether  it  could  be 
equally  said  of  the  ccmimittee's  scheme  that 
'^ several  distmguisbed  architects''  entirely  ap- 
prove of  it  P  I  have  spoken  to  several,  hd  have 
not  found  one  who  does  so  ! 

I  Imow  your  space  is  limited,  so  I  will  conclude 
witii  only  a  few  words  nfore. 

I  protest  against  any  work  being  done  in  St. 
Paul^B  which  in  any  way  altezB  Sir  Christopher 
Wicn's  own  work,  or  own  recorded  intentions  or 


designs.  I  make  this  protest  as  an  artist  who. 
wishes  the  same  tender  care  to  be  shown  for  Sir 
Christopher's  work  and  reputation  that  is  shown 
by  common  consent  for  the  work  of  the  older  and 
generally  unknown  architects  of  our  old  cathe- 
drals, or  for  every  p(dnter  and  sculptor  whose 
work  is  worth  keeping  at  all ;  and  I  do  so  because 
I  conceive  that,  under  pretence  of  completing  St. 
Paul's,  we  shfidl  have  its  interior  so  spoilt  and 
bedecked  that  the  old  inscription  to  its  architect 
will  have  fDrthwith  to  be  obliterated, 

Mb.  FBBGTTSSONsays,  how«rer,  that  if  a  balda- 
chin is  to  be  erected  under  the  dome  ''  it  would 
cost  more  money  than  the  oommittee  possess  if  it 
is  to  be  worthy  of  its  position " ;  and  on  this  I 
will  concede  with  a  practical  suggestion.  All 
the  money  the  committee  possess  spent  on  one 
really  beautiful  work  of  art  would  be  far  better 
esqpended  than  on  picking  out  walls  with  yaried 
colours,  or  erecting  and  re-erecting  organs,  mosaics, 
&c.  The  committee  have  already  omsulted  Mr. 
Burgee  as  to  a  scheme  of  subjects  for  the  possible 
mosaics.  Let  them  now  ffo  to  him  witn  tbeir 
money  (or  half  of  it)  in  their  hands,  saying, ''  De- 
sign us  the  most  beautiful  and  costly  baldachin 
and  altar  that  you  can  contrive ;  employ^  the  best 
artists  on  it,  ana  spare  no  pains  to  make  it  worthy 
of  its  place  under  our  dome."  I  undertake  to  say 
that  xkej  would  have  in  return  a  work  of  whion 
they  might  be  proud,  of  which  all  England 
indeed  might  be  proud,  and  which  would  do  more 
to  redeem  St.  Paul's  from  the  charge  of  being 
unworthy  of  our  Church  and  great  city  tdian  any 
number  of  repetitions  of  mosaics  such  as  we  «ee 
in  the  dome,  or  of  organs  so  contriyed  as  to  con- 
ceal Sir  Christopher  Wren's  so-called  defective 
work,  or  of  other  alterations  which  must  change 
the  whole  character  of  the  interior  of  his  great 
work.  GsoBeE  EDKirKD  S/j^^B^^ 

AthenaBum  Club.  ^^        ''^»\ 

-       1^ 

ON  THE   ABSENCE   OF   ANY   FBEllW  WORD  I 
SIGNIFYING  •«  TO  STAND."  ' 


(4*»»  S.  vii.  278.) 


^/ 


The  peculiarity  of  the  French  language  noted 
by  Mb.  Tbench  is  certainly  worthy  of  investiga- 
tion. Amongst  the  Aiyan  or  Indo-Euronean 
tongues  there  ia  no  radical  so  widely  diffused,  or 
of  such  general  application,  as  .that  of  which  we 
have  the  earliest  form  in  the  Sans.  tOhd.  So  pro- 
lific  has  been  this  root,  that  Professor  Pott  in  ins 
Etymologische  Foreehungen  gives  a  list  of  deriva- 
tives occupying  sixty-three  closely  printed  pi^^es 
from  this  eingle  monosyllable.  The  disappearance 
of  its  primary  appHeation  in  the  French  language 
is  all  the  more  remarkable.  It  is  not  absokitely 
correct  to  say  that  all  traces  of  it  have  disappeared. 
There  is  a  verb  still  in  use,  though  in  a  very  limited 
sense,  etier^  which  is  the  legitimate  descendant 


436 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4>k  S.  Vn.  Mat  90^  71. 


• 

and  reprefleniative  of  the  orig^inal  Latin  ''  state." 
In  the  earlj  stages  of  the  language  it  was  nsed  in 
the  sense  of  '<  to  stand/'  as  in  the  [following  in- 
stances:— 

**  Au  camp  ettez,  que  ne  seions  vaiDCUz." 

(*'  Stand  your  ground,  that  we  be  not  conquered.")  1 

ChamoHjde  Boland^  eleventh  century. 

"Bien  pus  dire  aans  mentir;  jd  fais  tster  vivre  et 
aentir.'* 

C I  can  say  without  untruth,  I  can  make  him  stand 
np,  liye  and  fed." 

Baman  de  la  RoWf  thirteenth  century. 

Gradually,  however,  its  application  was  re- 
■Btrictedy  and  by  the  sixtoentn  century  it  had 
settled  into  a  law  term;  ^^etter  en  jugement/'  to 
pursue  or  defend  in  an  action;  *^ ester  k  droit/*  to 
put  in  an  appearance.  It  is  worthy  of  remark 
that  Cotgrave  (1650)  interprets  ester ^  *^  to  stand, 
endure/*  in  addition  to  ita  application  as  a  law 
term.  Tarver  says,  it  is  still  used  figuratively  in 
the  sense  of  ''  hesitating  **  or  *'  pausing/'  but  I 
•have  never  met  with  it  m  this  sense. 

It  has  been  a  moot  point  with  philologists 
^whether  Hre  is  derived  from  Lat.  stare,  or  from  esse, 
in  low  Latin  essere.  Menage  *  and  Sir  Gomewall 
Lewis  t  adopt  the  former  derivation,  but  the 
preponderance  of  modem  authorities,  Littr^  |, 
Brachet$,  Bailly||,  &Cy  inclines  to  the  latter. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  imperfect  itais, 
(estois),  the  participles  of  the  present  Aant  (estant) 
and  of  the  past  4ti  (est^),  are  derived  from  stabam, 
stanSf  and  status. 

If  the  direct  expression  for  standing  has  dropped, 
in  some  mysterious  way,  out  of  use  in  French,  the 
reverse  has  taken  place  in  Italian,  where  "  stare  " 
is  used  with  almost  eveiy  imaginable  meaning, 
not  onljT  of  standing,  but  that  of  delaying,  tarryiiu^, 
continuing,  ceasing,  passing,  costing,  &c.  "  Stanoo 
pochi  giomi."  A  few  days  since;  ''Quanto  vi  sta 
questo  quacbo  P  "  How  much  did  this  picture 
cost?  '*  Sta  a  voi  a  venire,"  Itisvour  turn  to 
come,  &c  Calling  on  a  friend  in  Korne,  I  am 
informed  bv  the  ''  domestico,"  "  II  Signer  non  sta 
bene,  sta  a  letto,"  literally,  ''Master  does  not  stand 
well,  he  stands  in  bed." 

There  seems  to  be  in  the  French  language  a 
strange  tendency  to  prefer  circumlocutory  expres- 
sions, and  to  drop  tnose  which  express  the  same 
idea  more  directly.  Thus,  down  to  the  close  of 
the  seventeenth  century,  to  ride  on  horseback  was 
expressed  b;^  '' chevaucher/'  a  most  expressive 
word  for  which  we  have  no  equivalent.  This  has 
altogether  disappeared,  and  its  place  is  taken  by 

*  Origmea  de  la  Langu*  fran^we,  1660. 
f  Euap  on.  the  Romance  Languages^  1862. 
i  JDietwnnaire  de  la  Langue  frtmfoiae  (not  yet  com- 
plete.) 
§  Diciionnaire  itymohgiaue,  1870. 
I  Manuel  dee  Rae\ne»,  1869. 


the  dumsy  expressions  ^aller  &  eheyal,"  ''pro- 
mener  k  cheyaL" 

The  numerals  ^septante,"  '^octante,"  or  ^hni- 
tante,"  ''  novante,"  have  within  the  same  period 
been  throven  ouer,  to  be  supplanted  by  the  cum- 
brous forms  **  soixante-dix,^'  ''  quatre-vingts," 
''quatre-vingt-dix,"  which  in  the  ordinal  forms, 
such  as  '' quatre-vingt-dix-septidme "  for  the 
''  ninety-seventh,"  is  about  as  awkward  a  peri- 
phrasis as  can  be  imagined.  J.  A.  FiciOHr. 

Sandyknowe,  Wavertree,  near  LiverpooL 

Mr.  Tbbvch's  remark,  that  the  French  have  no 
word  to  express  our  word  ''  to  stand/'  is  correct 
only  so  far  as  you  might  sa^,  that  the  English 
has  no  word  to  express  '*  to  sit  down,"  because  it 
requires  three  words  to  express  it  I  have  no 
French  Bible  at  hand  for  the  Old  Testament,  but 
the  passage  in  Deut  xviii.  6  does  not  mean  ''  to 
stana,"  in  the  sense  of  being  upright  on  one*a  feet ; 
and  Diodati  translates  it,  '*  si  presenti  per  fare  il 
servigio  nel  Nome  del  Signore.  naptordUcu  tmvn 
Kvpioorw  Hov  (LXX),  means  to  be  present  before, 
and  not  to  stand.  In  this  sense  ''  asttster  "  ia 
better  than  our  rendering,  because  in  French  ''  as- 
sister  "  means,  not  so  much  to  aid  sAtobe  present 
atf  as  ''  assister  k  la  messe."  So  in  Mark  xL  25, 
5ray  <rr^inrrc  is  rather  when  you  shall  happen  to 
be  standing  and  praying,  or  may  be  praying,  or 
when  in  act  of  prayer,  '^  lorsque  vous  prierez." 
Here  it  is  not  so  much  that  the  French  haye  not 
got  the  word,  as  that  we  have  adopted  the  idiom, 
owing  to  the  translators  of  our  Bible  having  ad- 
hered too  literally  to  tiie  Greek  words.  Revela- 
tions iii.  20,  ''M!e  voici  k  la  porte,  et  j'y  frappe," 
is  a  precise  equivalent  for  the  sense  of  the  Greek, 
though  it  does  not  connote  the  unimportant  par- 
ticular of  the  posture  of  the  person  knocking.  If 
that  were  important,  a  Frenchman  could  sav,''Me 
voici  debout  a  la  porte,"  &c.  In  Heb.  x.  11,  the 
passage  contrasts  with  sitting ;  hence,  if  there  be 
validity  in  the  remark  at  all,  it  is  here  or  no- 
where that  it  will  apply.  *'  Every  priest  standeth 
daily  ministering," — '*  tons  les  pretres  se  pr^sent- 
ent  tons  les  jours  {k  Dieu)  sacrifiant."  Tnis  ren- 
dering is  not  nearly  so  correct  as  the  French  lan- 
guage is  capable  of  making  it  It  could  be  done 
thus :  ^'  chaqqe  pretre  se  tient  debout  administraot 
tous  les  jours,  et  ofirant,"  &c  Diodati  evidently 
thought  so,  for  he  gives  it ''  ogni  sacerdote  d  in 
pid  ogni  giomoministrando,"  to  contrast  the  action 
as  strongly  as  possible  with  ^'d  posto  a  sedeie" 
in  V.  12.  "  Se  tient  debout,"  *'  ^  in  pi6  "  are 
exactly  equivalent  in  the  meaning,  and  in  the 
number  of  words  used.  It  seems,  as  I  said  at 
first,  that  the  question  turns  upon  whether  the 
rendering  is  to  be  by  dhe  word  or  three.  The 
French  cannot  express  '^  he  stands  "  by  one  word, 
but  there  is  nothing  we  can  say  vdth  the  verb  "  to 
stand  "  that  a  frenchman  cannot  express  just  as 


4^S,Vn.llAT20/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


437 


well.  Of  ooune  yon  can  call  it  dicumlocutiQiij 
but  this  is  80  trivial  an  issue,  that  nobody,  pro- 
bably, would  care  to  maintain  it  One  JPrench 
word  may  require  three  in  Englidi,  or  vice  vend, 
b  it  circumlocution  that  all  English  infimtiyee 
require  two  words  to  express  them,  whilst  the 
Fiench  use  only  one  (except  in  reflective  verbs), 
as  "  manner,"  « to  eat "  P    I  trow  not. 

^  One  thing  that  comes  out  of  aU  this  minute  pre- 
cision is,  that  the  posture  in  prayer  has  changed. 
An  Oriental  stood  and  stands  to  pray,  a  Jew  stood, 
s  Roman  stood,  a  mystic  falls  upon  tiie  face  flat, 
a  Christian  kneels.  To  <'  stand  and  pray  "  is  the 
English  Biblical  phrase.  In  St.  Giles's  church  they 
used  to  put  a  notice  in  every  pew  as  to  the  pos- 
tares  considered  to  befit  the  English -service:  *<  To 
stand  for  ascription  of  praise,  to  sit  to  hear,  to 
Icneel  to  pray."  In  spite  of  Philippians  ii.  10,  ttom 
y6w  Kifi^y  1  doubt  if  kneeling  be  aught  else  than 
a  feudal  symbol  of  vassalage,  commencing  about 
the  eiffhth  century,  with  the  oasing  of  Leo^  toe,  if 
as  eariy.  In  1275  it  was  ordered  that  every  knee 
should  bend  at  the  name  of  Jesus — ^a  case,  hfor^ 
Won,  if  bent  to  a  baron  or  master.  It  has  grown 
prescriptive,  but  neither  manners,  dignity,  nor 
antiqmt^  recommend  it,  and  also  some  evil  has 
come  of  it,  as  of  every  ill  change.  C.  A.  W. 

M«7  Fair. 

This  curious  fact  has  been  already  remarked 
upon  by  Thomas  Fuller  with,  his  usual  quaint- 
ness : — 

"As  their  (the  French)  language  wanteth  one  proper 
word  to  ezpresa  ttond,  bo  their  natures  mialike  a  settled, 
fixed  poeture,  and  delight  in  motion  and  agitation  of 
boaineflB."— i?o/y  Varre,  Cambridge,  1640,  p.  19. 

W.  RC. 

Glasgow. 

Like  jour  correspondent,  I  have  been  under  the 
impression  that  there  are  no  words  in  the  IVench 
languwfe  to  express  "  tp  stand,"  '*  to  sit,"  "  to  lie 
down  * ;  and  tnat,  from  that  want,  it  would  be 
impossible  to  express  with  the  simplicity  and 
pathos  of  Shakspeare,  Dryden,  and  Byron,  these 
thoughts : — 

**  She  »at,  like  Patience  on  a  monument" 

•<  Upon  the  earth  the  monarch  /ie«." 
**  I  ttood  in  Venice  on  the  Bridge  of  Sighs.*' 

I  have  only  to  add  the  want  (as  far  as  I  know) 
of  three  verbs  expressing  ordinary  locomotion — 
"I walk,"  "I  ride,"  "I  drive."  The  verb  "I 
walk  "  exists,  I  am  told,  in  Sanscrit ;  but  except 
the  Anglo-Saxon,  all  other  Aryan  people  have 
dropped  it  The  French  "  se  promener "  means 
twenty  things ;  *'  se  promener  4  cheval,"  *'  sur  les 
eaux,"  "  en  voiture,"  &c. 

As  for  riding,  the  French  have  allowed  their 
good  old  word  '^chevaucher  "  to  become  obsolete, 
and  I  am  not  aware  that  they  have  adopted  any 


other.  Again,  they  have  no  one  word  to  express 
''driving,*^ in  the  sense  of  motion  in  a  carnage. 
"  I  shall  walk  to  Greenwich,  John  will  ride,  and 
the  ladies  will  tHve^^'  could  only  be  rendered  in 
French  by  three  periphrases. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  be  corrected  by  some  French 
scholar.  J.  C.  M. 


In  Max  Miiller's  Chips  from  a  Oerman  Work» 
shop,  vol.  iii.  p.  176.  in  his  article  on  ''  Joinville," 
who  lived  about  1300,  die  author,  noticing  the 
changes  which  have  occurred  in  the  French  lan- 
guage, uder  alia,  observes :  ^'  We  still  find  ester, 
'to  stand '  (et  ne  povit  ester  sur  ses  pieds, '  he 
could  not  stand  on  his  feet ')."  At  present  the 
French  have  no  single  word  for  ^  standmg,"  which 
has  often  been  pointed  out  as  a  defect  in  the  lan- 
fUAge.  '<  To  stand  "  u  ester  in  Joinville,  "  to  be  " 
IS  estre.  J.  H.  L. 

Cambridge. 

MARGARET  FENDLES,  LADT  MOBTIfiCEB. 
(4»''  S.  vii.  12,  223,  318.) 

Tour  learned  correspondents  ELebicentbitds  and 
D.  P.  have  most  ingeniously  puzzled  themselves 
into  believing  that  there  is  some  mystery  about 
the  parentage  of  ''  Margaret  de  Fendl^  the  kins- 
woman of  Queen  Eleanor,  who  married  Edmond 
Lord  Mortimer  of  Wi^more."  Margaret  was  not 
a  Spaniard  (whatever  tne  erudite  Smyth  of  Nibley 
may  have  said),  but  was  a  daughter  of  the  wel^' 
known  Anglo-French  house  of  Fiennes  or  Fienles ; 
and  she  is  duly  recorded  in  their  fiEunily  (>edigree 
by  French  and  JBnglish  geneal^ists  of  evenr  grade, 
from  P.  Anselme  (vi.  167)  to  Baker  (ii.  273). 

FenoUes  and  Fendles  are  mere  blunders  of  the 
copyist,  but  the  name  was  written  in  a  variety  of 
ways  in  the  English  records;  and  her  father  is 
called  in  his  Ltq.  p.  m.  (30  Edw.  L  33)  <' Wil- 
lielmus  de  Fyenes  als  Fenes  als  Fyenles."  The 
French  seigneurie  of  Fiennes  was  one  of  the 
twelve  baronies  comprised  in  the  county  of  Guis- 
nes,  in  Picardy,  and  was  therefore  in  dose  vicinity 
to  the  county  of  Ponthieu*-the  maternal  inherit- 
ance of  Queen  Eleanor ;  but  the  Sieurs  de  Hennes 
had,  from  the  reign  of  King  John,  possessed  the 
manor  of  Clapham  in  Surrey,  and  other  lands  in 
England.  •  Maigaret  was  prooably  bom  abroad; 
for  when  her  father  Sir  William  died,  in  1302, 
his  eldest  son  John  (then  aged  twenty-five  and 
upwards)  is  said  in  the  line  Roll  to  nave  been 
bom  in  ''parts  beyond  sea."  This  is  the  John 
de  Fienles  whom  Edward  II.  calls  his  kinsman, 
in  his  letter  to  the  town  of  St.  Omer  in  1316 
(jRoL  Clous.,  10  Edw.  U.). 

Margaret's  relationship  to  Queen  Eleanor  is  very 
dear.  Her  father  Sir  mlliam  de  Fiennes,  was  the 
grandson  of  WiUiam  de  Fiennes  by  Agnes  de 
Dammartini  the  dster  of  Simon  de  BammartlD, 


438 


NOTES  AJSD  QUERIBa 


[4^«.  YIL  Mat  90, 7i. 


Conat  of  Aamale  and  Ponthien,  the  maternal 
giandlather  of  Qaeen  Eleanor.  The  queen  had 
evidently  a  strong  affection  for  her  oouBinB  of  the 
house  of  Fiennee,  for  she  gaye  a  rich  dowry  to 
Maud  de  flennes  (the  aunt  of  Margaret  Morti- 
mer) on  her  marria^  with  Humphrey  de  Bohnn 
(Dugdale).    The  brief  pedigree  below  will  show 


cleaily  all  these  coanectiooi^  and  can  be  Terified 
from  !p.  Anselme,  yoIs.  tL  and  Tiii. ;  and  L^Art  de 
Vernier  lea  datm,  Svo,  vols.  zL  and  xiL  It  will  be 
seen  that  Hebkbnxbuds  is  mifltakftn  in  asserting 
that  the  queen's  maternal  gnmdmotSier 
of  Erance. 


fifanon  Daminartiii,  CSoont  d'Aamale  m  Mar^,  GomiteBS 
and  of  Fonthiett,  jure  ux^  died  1239.     I      of  Ponthien. 


ikgnei  Dasmiirtfai  »  WiiHam  de  ItandMS, 

I         diadiaiL 


Jane,  Connten  of  Ponthiea 
and  Anmale,  died  1279. 

Elemor,  QoeaB  of  Edward  I., 
CkmnteiB  of  Fonthiea,  died 

129a 


Ferdinand  III.  King  of  CastUle, 
died  1252. 


Ingelram  de  Fienne^ 
son  and  heir. 


Wm.djeFienDe8,0on  and  luii^  b  Blanche  de 
died  1302.  Brienne. 


Aland,  wife  of  HxuBfbny  de 
Bohnn,  Eari  af  ~ 


Margaret  Fiennes,  sometimes  called  Mary  a  Edmond,  Lord  Mortimer  of  Wlgmore. 


It  is  not  in  the  JSt^iUa  Catmtum  JFTandria,  but 
in  the  Genealoffia  Comitum  JFTandriaj  a  larger 
work  of  Olivier  de  Wxee  (Latinized  «  Vredius^')* 
that  the  name  of  Fienles  occurs.  I  have  both 
folios;  €he  former  (a  particnlariy  fine  copy)  in 
Flemidi,  tiie  latter  in  French.  The  Fienles  pedi- 
gree occurs  st  p.  90,  table  18,  and  from  Jt  I 
extract  the  following  information :  — 

Isabel,  ^uffhter  of  Guy,  Count  of  Fhmders 
(died  1304);  by  his  wife  Isabel  of  Luxemburg, 
married  Jean,  Seigneur  de  Fienles,  Chastehun  de 
Bourbonrgy  Seigneur  de  Tingri,  &c.  Their  seals 
are  appended   to    documents  given  in   yol.  ii. 

Sp.  ISO,  140,  and  are  engraved  on  p.  02.  These 
ocuments  are  dated  1890.  The  inscriptionB  are 
as  follows :  —  *i'  s'  lOHAina  .  vsi .  db  .  tienl«  . 
munB.    On  another  seal :  s\  toHis  dki  ds  Ficir- 

LXS  BT  CASTELLAKI  DE  BOTTBBOBOH  VILrf,      The 

counterHseal  of  this  bears:   <•  Or*  s*  iohib  toti 

DB  7IBZ<B8(mc)  BT  GASTSLLASl  DB  BOVBB  .  MTLIT. 

The  arms  on  the  shields  and  horse-trappings  are 
the  lion  rampant  (Arg.  a  lion  ramp.  sa. ).  See  Burke, 
Oeneral Armory,  s.  t.  '^Fynes"  and  "Fines."  On 
the  seal  of  Isabel,  itenllbs  ;  and  on  the  counter- 
seal,  nsKLiB— are  yariations  in  the  spelling  of 
the  title.  !nie  son  of  John  and  Isabel  was  Bobert 
de  Henles  (^Diot.  Moreau%  Constable  of  France. 
His  seal  is  appended  to  an  agreement  by  which 
certain  exchanges  were  effected  between  himself 
and  Louis  Count  df  Flanders,  Sec,  and  bears  date 
1806.  Its  inscription  is:  lb  sbbl  .  bobert  db 
Here  we  have  the  name  in  the  form 


familiar  to  us.  It  is  thus  spelt  also  in  another 
document :  "  Robert,  Sire  de  flemies,  Connestable 
de  France,"  &c.  Ac.  (dated  Nov.  22, 1368).  The 
seal  beare  iSie  above  arms,  timbred  with  a  helmet 
crested  ^nth  a  stag's  heaa,  and  sun^orted  by  two 
gryphons.   He  died  childless ;  and  his  sdeoe  Maud 


s 


daughter  and  heiress  of  his  neter  Jeanne,  by  Jean 
e  OMtillon,  Count  de  St  Fol)  carried  inemies 
to  her  husband,  Guy  de  Luxembourg,  Oomte  de 
Limy,  St,  Pol,  &c.  Thiebaut,  younger  brofiier 
of  Louis  de  Luxembouig,  Count  de  St  Pol,  three 
generations  later,  had  Fiennes  as  his  appanage, 
and  it  remained  in  the  possession  of  his  descend-* 
ants.  ( Jaqueline,  Duchess  of  Bedford,  was  sister 
of  Guy  and  Thiebaut) 

So  much  for  the  history  of  the  family  of  denies 
or  Fiennes.  I  find  no  trace  of  a  Spanish  ongin, 
or  of  any  connection  with  Queen  Eleanor  of  Cas- 
tile, wife  of  King  Edward  L  But  I  think  the 
inscription  on  one  of  the  seals  quoted  above  may 
explain  the  mystery.  It  occurs  to  me  that  Smyth, 
or  Bome  other  chrbnider  from  whom  he  cppjedl 
has  been  misled  by  that  or  a  similar  inscrqition, 
perhaps  taken  from  on  impOTfect  impression  of  a 
seal,  and  reading  "  D"*  de  Fienles  et  Castellani,'' 
&e.,  has  attributed  to  the  owner  of  the  seal  a 
Spanish  origin — ^mistaking  the  '*  Castellani ''  for 
the  title  of  Castile.  T"  Castell "  appears  on  seyeral 
royal  seals  of  Spanisn  origin  in  tne  volume  before 
me.)  It  was  an  easy  step  then  to  assume  a  oousin- 
ship  between  Eleanor  of  Castile  and  the  contem- 
porary William  de  ffendles,  who  may  hare  been 
a  father  or  brother  of  Isabella's  husband  lean. 

JOHK  WOODWABD. 


In  the  pedifipree  of  the  family  of  Senses,  in  the 
TrophSM  du  Brabant  (i.  853),  we  are  told  that 
Eustace,  who  married  A.dela  de  Fumes  in  1050, 


was  — 


**  Sieur  et  Baron  de  Fiennes,  rone  det  dooie  Batoiiium 
da  la  Gomt^  de  Gaiues,  appeU  andennement  dans  les 
Chartres  Fieides."  * 

The  arms  engraved  are :  Argent,  a  lion  ran^pant 
sable.  GoBT. 


4"iS.TII.  Mat20,71.) 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIESw 


439 


PAMPHLET :  ITS  ETTMOLOGT. 
(2*^  and  8«*  S.  pasBttn.) 

When  I>1L>  DMMJf  quoted  The  Ajhrnumtm,  whate 
'^Faii^>U»t "  is  said  to  hftTB  beaa  th»  namd  of  a 
laiiyy  ^igbtl^  modified,  who  fint  employ ed  lier« 
self  IB  wribng  psmphletSy  &e^  I  supposed  the 
suggestioD  was  oasigiied  aa  a.  joke  agatnst  e^nuo- 
logiste,  becaoBe  he  produced  no  proof  that  this 
Toluminous  authoress  did  write  pamphlets;  but 
xeoently  a  very  xaze  work  haa  come  iato  jut  pos- 
session, which  thus  describes  the  eztiaoxdmary 
merits  of  a  lady  of  this  name:  — 

'^  Ih  Pampkple  areea  Bmnbieig  mwrntt^e.-^'PamptiSltm 
qatadmn  gneam  fendiuua,  que  qnoddam  bennai  rajppub* 
lic»aituik  teoipaoribas  Soi«i]i0ii]&  fuiate-  et  genaroBA  vir^ 
tate  flonune  compertnm.  est,  Hec  quippe  etsi  amplia- 
simis  tHolift  deoorari  non  posrit^  tamen  auoniam  allqaid 
my  pn.  addidlt  boni,  sua  portione  laaais  tacitnmitate 
noatni  frattdari  non  debet  Qne  cam  easet  ingBiitta  in- 
genfi  UMirina :  pritn*-  (nfe  qoidaat  anctons  Tcdiiat)  ex 
•ghiMgwTM  yolatil«m.BombiMm  oallegii :  et  illam  a  saper- 
flaUatibns  mifo  modo  pactme  pvisare  primom  oepttr  et 

Enrgatam.  oolo  apposoit:  atqna  euam  ex  iUa  filum  tra- 
ere  cepit :  et  inde  texere  volmt :  et  alios  itidem  docoit. 
£t  sic  IHam  nsnm  eo  usque  nniversis  incognitnra  intro- 
dnxit  Gtajas  ny  ratio  excogitata  oetendet  facile  qnan- 
to&iik  leliqnis  agendia  deboent  hec  femina  yaiaiaae."— 
Jo,  FkiUgpi  FornH  BergomuuU  de  plurimU  daris 
scel^a^tisqtM  MulieribuM  Opus,  Fo.  xxx^  cap.  xxxiii. 
Ferraric  1497. 

La  ih»  woodeut  whieh  accompaDies  the  text, 
thia  iUastrious  lady  is  represented  as  holding  a 
book  in  her  hand*  pzobablj  her  handbook  teach- 
ing the  art  she  had  invented  (the  rearing  of  silk- 
wonns),  and  bound  with  the  thread  she  had 
maanfiirtnred. 

«<  Although  the  article  now  known  to  ourselves  under 
the  name  of  silk  is  *  familiar  as  household  words/  jet  its 
nature  and  origin  were  but  obscurelj,  if  at  all,  a0cer*> 
taiaad  ia  ancient  timea  Plinj,  whose  judgment  and 
diaodniaation  as  a  compiler  are  not  greatly  to  be  relied 
upon,  reports  that  the  bombyx  (or  aUkworm)  is  a  native 
of  Kos,  an  island  of  the  Mediterranean  archipelago.  It 
is  knoifni  thai  silk  waa  maaafaetttfad  tfaare  at  a  ymy 
eailgr  period ;  bot  Aristotle  had  preTtoosly  explainad  that 
honkbylAif  or  the  stulT  produced  fh>m  the  bomhyx,  waa 
respun  and  rewoven  by  the  women  of  that  island.  Ttie 
inventress  of  this  process  was  Paraphilia.  She  unwove 
the  predoos  material  to  recompoae  St  in  her  loom  into 
fabrics  of  a  more  extended  texture:  thns  converting  the 
suhatantial  ailka  of  the  Serce  into  thin  transparent  gauze, 
obtaining  in  meaauxe  what  was  lost  in  substance.  At- 
tempts luive  been  made  to  rob  the  inventress  of  all  the 
merit  belooging  tffthia  peocess^  br  identif^iaf  the  bom- 
bjfkia  with  the  raw  material,  which  it  ia  said  Pamphyila 
and  her  njrmpha  procured  from  Serea,  and  spun  or  wove 
into  werieum  or  silk.  But  the  fact  of  the  reweaving  rests 
upon  too  good  authority  to  be  doubted."— ^ncyc^tpceefia 
BHtamnctt^  s.  v.  •«  Silk,"  pw  286. 

BZBUOZHBCUB.  CKIXHAir.. 


SHEFFIELD  FOLK-LORE. 
(4!^  a  viL  299.) 

Just  as  ''jannock**  is  another  form  of  the  word 
which  in  modem  English  appears  as  **  even,''  so 
"  retchet  **  is  another  form  of  Old  Engl.  hratM  or 
brachete.  The  forms  hraches,  hrachezy  bracheles, 
ratAoheSf  racket,  are  all  met  with  in  Sir  Qa- 
teuyntf  and  the  Green  Km^,  The  coaneetioa 
is  whh  A.-S.  raooe,  Dan.  diaL  rakke^  O.  N. 
rmMy  &e,f  and  the  ISwnpUnium  entry  is  ^^ratehe, 
hownde."  ''  Oafariel  hounds''  is,  therefore,  only 
a  trandation  (so  to  speak)  of  "  Gabriel  ratchet/' 
The  most  curious  part  of  the  term,  however,  is 
the  i^fix  <<  Oahridl,"  "  Gdbble/'  or,  aa  sounded 
here,  "  Gaab'rl."  For  a  long  time  I  could  obtain 
no  clue  to  either  its  meaning  or  its  deriTationt  and 
notwithstanding  the  Catkolieen  AngL  entry, ''  Ga- 
brielle  rache,  hie  etmwUomj*  I  was  utterly  unable 
to  connect  the  said  prefix  with  the  personal  name 
it  seems  to  reproduce..  At  length  an  entiy  in 
Prompt,  Parv,  gave  me  the  clue,  and  I  was  eneibled 
to  explain  '<  Gabriel "  or  "  Gabble,"  the  ktter 
being  merely  a  coiraption  of  the  former.  The 
entry  referred  to  is  as  follows : — ''  Lyche^^  dede 
body.  Funus,  gabaresj  c.  P.  et  no.  in  Gabriel 
dicit  gdbarenf  vel  gabbaren,"  Gabaren  or  gdbbaren 
then,  which,  by  the  authorities  quoted  {Mtriva^ 
lensis  in  Campo  Florum,  and  Xlguitio  or  UguHo, 
both  ancient  yocabularies),  is  interchangeable  with 
Gabriel,  together  with  g<Aare8y  is  clearly  synony- 
mous with  funtu,  in  the  sense  of  corpse  or  dead 
body  'f  and  if  confirmation  were  required,  Facdo- 
lati  gives  ^*  Gabbaras,  vel  Gabbares,  cadavera  apud 
iEgyptios  pollinctorum  arte  delibuta,  arefacta,  et 
a  corruptione  immunla,  mwmnies.**  "  Gabriel- 
ratchet,^'  or  "  Gabble-retchet,"  therefore,  when 
translated  into  English,  becomes  simply  "  corpse- 
hound,'*  and  chaUenges  comparison  with  Dan. 
Uig-hodlp,  liia-hund,  SdrakJcer  or  Helrakke,  &c. ; 
only  remembering  that,  while  liig  is  the  same 
word  as  0.  Engl  lyohe,  A.-S.  Uc,  lice,  E.  lich  (in 
Uch-^ate),  Jffel,  as  the  name  of  the  goddess  of 
the  dead,  is  stnctly  synonymous.  In  this  district 
the  '^unbaptised  babies"  form  of  the  myth  is 
not  known,  but  there  are  two,  in  a  sense,  dis- 
tinct "  superstitious  "  notions  connected  with  the 
"  Gaab'rl-ratchet,"  one  of  which  corresponds  ex- 
actly with  Dan.  hebrakker  as  defined  by  Thiele, 
"a  sound  heard  in  the  air,  very  like  the  laying  of 
hounds,  and  when  heard,  taken  to  presage  death 
and  wasting  " ;  the  other  is  almost  identical  with 
Old  Dan.  hdnrakke,  described  by  Molbech  as — 

"  A  bird  with  a  large  head,  staring  eyes,  crooked  beak, 
sharp  claws,  which  in  days  of  yore  was  believed  to  appear 
only  asa  harbinger  of  some  neat  mortality,  but  tilea  to 
fly  abroad  by  mght  and  ahriek  idood;" 

I  have  had  sundry  very  curious  commtmicalions 
touching  the  "  GaaVrl-ratchet  ^  nuide  to  me,  is 
ftD  good  faith,  [by  some  of  my  Cleveland  neigh- 


440 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VII.  Mat  20/71. 


boors.  One  inrolyed  the  correct  way  of  averting 
the  omen,  which  I  think  Jael  Dence  was  not  ^'  up 
to."  Of  coursot  as  Mb.  Bbitten  suggests,  the 
connection  is  wiUi  the  mnltiform  as  weu  as  many- 
named  "  WDd  Huntsman  "  legend. 
Daaby  in  CkreUuid.  J,  C.  AzKlKSOV. 


The  word  retehet  in  the  phrase ''  Gabble  retchet" 
(provincial  for  ''  Gabriel  nounds '')  means  "  foot- 
scenting  hounds."  The  A.-S.  form  b  r€Bce ;  R 
Eng.  racehe.  In  Sir  Oawwne  and  Orem  EiUghi 
(£.  £.  T.  S.)  the  word  is  often  used  :^ 

"  &  ay  rachehes  in  a  res  radly  hem  fohes." 

(1. 1164.) 

**  Bsldely  Hy  U*r  piye,  bayed  Pajt  rachehes." 

(L  1862.) 
In  the  OnmUum  (L  13505)  we  get^ 

"Rihht  alls  an  hunnte  taln|>b  dm 
Wi»»  hiie  jape  nMschen." 

The  Ptomff.  Part.  (p.  422)  interprets  "odo- 
rinaecosy  quasi  odorem  sequens/'  &c 

''Raoche''  seems  to  be  a  Northern  form  of 
''Brache";  or,  as  some  say^  '^Bradie"  is  the 
feminine  of  <<  Bacche.''  The  form  "  Brachet"  is 
common.  Johf  Asdib. 

MuvGo  Pabx  ahd  ihr  Moss  (4^^  S.  viL  208.)— 
Tou  may  consider  the  following  littie  incident  as 
worthy  of  insertion  in  your  periodical,  which  I 
always  read  with  pleasure :  — 

You  quote  passages  from  the  Memoir  of  Dr. 
Jame$  MamiUon;  a  small  error  exists  in  one  of  his 
remarks.  He  says  that  Sir  William  Hooker  pos- 
sessed the  moss  which  saved  Mungo  Park's  lire  in 
the  burning  wastes  of  Africa,  and  also  that  it  had 
been  given  by  Dickson  to  Sir  WiUiam.  This  is 
not  predselv  the  fact  The  old  man,  about  the 
vear  1810,  snowed  it  to  the  then  young  and  ardent 
botanist,  who  much  desired  to  purchase  it  Dick- 
son, who  was  a  herbalist,  and  sold  medicinal 
plants  at  his  stall  in  Covent  Garden  Market,  pro- 
bably thought  that  the  jpentleman  might  be  wil- 
ling to  give  a  fiuicy  pnce,  and  accoi^ngly  said 
that  he  "  would  not  part  with  the  specimen  for 
less  gold  than  would  [not  weigh  as  much,  but  as 
would]  cover  it'*  On  which,  Sir  William  Hooker 
drew  a  guinea  from  his  purse,  and  carried  off  the 
prize.^ 

It  is  correct  that  the  tiny  moss  was  always 
shown  to  the  botanical  class  durinff  Sir  William's 
lectures;  and  always  accompanied  with  the  high 
lesson  which  it  conveyed,  and  which  he  woiud 
have  been  the  last  man  to  ondt 

People  have  erroneously  supposed  that  a  moss 
may  have  ''saved Mungo  Parkas  life,"  in  the  same 
sense  as  the  so-called  moss  {tripe  de  roehe)  pre- 
served Franklin  and  Bichardson  from  total  starva- 
tion. But  the  identical  plant  to  which,  and  to 
the  reflections  which  it  suggested,  Mungo  Park 


was  indebted  for  his  life^  is  hardly  bigger  than  a 
man's  thumbnail. 

As  Sir  William  Hooker's  widow,  and  already 
his  wife  when  Dr.  James  Hamilton  was  one  of  his 
favourite  students  and  a  frequent  visitor  at  his 
house,  I  can  attest  the  general  accuracy  of  Dr. 
Hamilton's  statements;  and,  but  for  severe  ill- 
ness, I  should  have  sooner  read  the  ^N.  ft  Q." 
of  April  8,  and  sent  the  above  information. 

MabUlHooxsb. 

Torquay. 

Grahthah  Iim  SifliTB  (4*  8.  vii.  843.) —The 
great  number  of  inn  signs  at  Grantham  having* 
the  prefix  Uue^  arose  out  of  electioneering  con- 
tests about  the  close  of  the  last  or  the  beginning 
of  the  present  century.  Blue,  contrary  to  the 
usage  customary  in  most  parts  (^  the  kingdom,  is 
in  Lincolnshire  the  whig,  or  rather,  in  these  days, 
"  the  advanced  liberal"  pBrty  colour.  Sir  WiUiam 
Talmash.  afterwards  Lord  Huntingtower,  an  ec- 
centric cnaracter,  son  of  Louisa  Countess  of  Dy- 
sart,  by  her  husband  John  Manners,  Esq.,  of 
Grantham  Grange,  inherited  from  his  father  a 
considerable  estate  in  that  borough  and  its  neigh- 
bourhood. At  the  period  referred  to  he  advocated 
^  the  old  blue  cause,"  and^  either  with  a  view  of 
increasing  his  political  i^uence  or  from  caprice, 
he  changed  the  signs  of  all  the  public  houaea  that 
be  owned  into  Blue  Men,  Blue  Lions,  Blue  Boars, 
Blue  Sheep,  &c.  So  great  indeed  was  his  admirar 
tion  for  this  colour  that  he  was  even  chaired  on  a 
blue  bull  with  gilt  horns  and  hoofs.  Grantham, 
besides  being  noted  for  its  excellent  ^fferbread. 
cheese-cakes,  and  ndsed  pork-pies,  did  long,  ana 
possibly  now  can,  boast  of  a  unique  beer^house 
sign  in  the  shape  of  a  living  beehrve  perched  on 
the  top  of  an  old  pollard  tree.  It  may  be  worth 
while  to  add,  that  its  cosy  old  Angel^  well  known 
to  many  a  I^imrod,  was  an  hostelry  m  the  time  of 
King  John,  and  tradition  asserts  ths^  that  monarch 
once  lodged  there.  Ap  Conxus. 

Chaslbs  L  (4^  S.  vii.  842.)— The  Earl  of 
Essex  has  at  Cashiobury  a  smdi  ]^ece  of  the 
ribbon  of  the  Garter  given  to  ^shop  Juxon ;  it 
is  sky-blue.  I  have  heard  that  the  greater  part  of 
the  ribbon  remained  in  the  family  representine 
Juxon  for  several  generations,  and  was  destroyed 
by  a  lady  to  annoy  her  husband. 

Ths  KHiesT  OF  Mobab. 

Judicial  Oaths  (4«»  S.  vii.  209,  364)— I  am 
much  surprised  that  HbbxentbVdb  has  so  com- 
pletely mistaken  my  meaning.  It  is  that  if  the 
mere  words  of  the  Bible,  "Swear  not  at  all," 
are  to  be  taken  in  their  literal  sense,  without  ex- 
phmatioD,  so  are  its  words,  **  Call  no  man  vour 
mther  upon  the  earth  "^  and  how  then  can  uiose 
who  obey  the  one  injunction  pay  no  regard  to  the 
other  P  It  was  most  distinctly  impliea  therefore 
in  what  I  said,  that  as  in  the  one  instance  (aa 


4^  8.  VII.  May  20,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


441 


could  be  shown  from  other  texts  of  Scripture)  it 
was  not  forbidden  to  take  a  judicial  oath,  so  in 
the  other  the  injunction  "  had  (to  use  ILsBHSir- 
TBiTDE^s  words^  uo  reference  to  the  natural  epithet 

S'yen  by  a  child  to  its  father."  I  asked  those 
en  who  objected  to  oaths  of  any  kind,  to  defend 
their  consistency.  In  making  this  demand  then 
my  meaning  was,  I  humbly  think,  quite  clear,  and 
that  Hebmentbxtse  had  no  ground  to  say  that  I 
am  i^orant  of  a  truism.  Q. 

Edinburgh, 

Hampdhst  Famtlt  (4«'  S.  vii.  189, 273,  233.)— 
It  is  interesting,  of  course,  to  know  what  idea 
John  Hampden  had  of  the  true  spelling  of  his 
own  name ;  but  it  setdes  nothing,  or  very  little, 
beyond  that  idea.  I  have  in  my  possession  a 
document,  temp,  Elizabeth,  in  which  Uie  principal 
person  concerned  si^s  his  name  with  one  spell- 
ing, his  own  son  with  another  as  witness,  while 
the  name  is  spelt  differently  from  both  by  the  law 
scribe  who  drew  up  the  deed.  I  am  still  in  the 
dark  as  to  the  descendants  of  all  those  cousins  of 
John  Hampden,  from  some  of  whom  the  late 
Bishop  of  Hereford,  and  the  Alice  referred  to  in 
my  original  query,  must  be  derived. 

W.  M.  H.  C. 

"  Wrrrr  as  FLAMnmrs  Flacctts"  (4**  S.  viL 

344.) — The  lines  alluded  to  were  extemporised 

by  Sydney  Smith  on  seeing  Jeffrey  riding  upon 

the  animal  sj^dfied  at  the  end  of  them.    Tney 

are,  howeyer,  inaccurately  quoted,  and  should,  if 

my  memory  senres  me,  run  as  follows  :— 

**  Witty  aa  Horatiiu  Flacciu, 
As  great  a  Jacobin  as  Gracchus ; 
Aa  diort.  bat  not  as  fat,  as  Bacchus, 
Seated  apoa  a  little  jackass. 

F.  Glsdstakbs  Wattoh. 

Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club. 

The  verses  which  H.  R.  wishes  to  be  informed 
about  are  to  be  found  in  Lady  Holland's  Life  of 
Sydney  Smith,  p.  202,  yoL  i.  L.  A. 

Thb  Royal  Assent  (4*  S.  yii.  365.)— The 
paragraph  referred  to  in  ''  Notices  to  Correspon- 
dents "  appeared  in  an  obscure  sheet  c^ed  the 
EcdesiatHoal  Gazette  (or  Journal),  and  was  copied 
and  acknowledged  thence  by  the  Daily  Netos, 
SXandardf  and  Advertieer,  The  reason  giyen  by 
the  yrriter  for  the  assertion  that  the  assent  to  the 
Irish  Church  Bill  was  null  and  yoid  was  that  no 
peers  were  present  except  the  royal  conmiissioners 
when  the  assent  was  giyen.  If  my  memory  seryes 
me,  the  paragraph  (which  of  course  was  pure 
rubbish)  did  not  rest  the  objection  on  the^  ground 
of  the  absence  of  the  bishops,  I  haye  reason  to 
belieye  the  paragraph  originated  with  a  notorious 
pest  of  neyespaper  editors,  whose  opinion  is  of  no 
authority.  TiLivs  EccLBSiiS. 

Maids  op  Hokottb  (4^  S.  yii.  34d.)^I  am  not 
aware  of  the  existence  of  any  authorised  list^  such 


as  Ebin  inquires  about.  If  he  will  &Your  me 
yrith  an  address,  I  will  try  to  collect  for  him  as 
correct  a  one  as  my  opportunities  allow,  either 
from  1688  or  earlier;  but  I  cannot  guarantee  the 
exact  accuracy,  or  more  especially  the  fulness,  of 
such  a  compilation.  Such  a  list,  moreoyer,  could 
not  be  made  out  in  a  day,  HssinEirTBUDB. 

«  0  Gemiwi  1 "  a^  S.  yii.  861.)— I  am  inclined 
to  think  that  Db.  Dixon  is  wrong  in  his  conjec- 
ture that  the  aboye  exclamation  has  anything  to 
do  yrith  the  ''  great  twin  brethren,"  Romulus  and 
Remus.  I  haye  always  understood  it,  as  well  as 
the  "  Gemelli ''  by  whom  the  Italian  peasants 
swear,  to  refer  to  the  Dioscuri,  Castor  andPoUux, 
who  were  placed  amonff  the  stars  as  Gemini  by 
Zeus.  Being  worshipped  both  in  Greece  and  Italy 
as  the  protectors  of  trayellers  by  sea,  tiiey  would 
of  course  be  frequently  appealed  to  in  sudden 
straits ;  and  although  a  behef  in  them  no  longer 
exists,  we  findjthe  traces  of  it  in  our  now  sense* 
less  exclamation.  Abchb.  Watbow. 

Gla4gow. 

Robert  Blaib,  thb  Attthob  op  "  The  Gbatb  '' 
(4»'»  S.  iv.  28,  120,  164.)— Mb.  W.  B.  Cook 
(p.  120),  in  pointing  out  seyeral  of  Blair's  plagi- 
arisms, mentions  one  passage  as  imitated  from 
Henry  More  of  Cambridge.  It  is,  I  think,  wortiiy 
of  note  that  in  Dryden's  Maiden  Queen  the  same 
idea  oocuri.  Is  it  not  then  yery  likely  that  the 
author  of  The  Grave  copied  not  from  More,  but 
from  ''Glorious  John''  himself.  The  latter  at 
least  is  the  better  known  of  the  two.  The  paa-« 
sage  I  refer  to  is : — 

**  I  feel  my  love  to  PhilodeB  within  me 
Shrink  and  puU  back  my  heart  from  this  hard  tiyal ; 
Bat  it  mast  be  when  glory  says  it  mast. 
As  children  wading  from  some  river*s  bank, 
First  try  the  water  with  their  tender  feet ; 
Then  shadd*ring  up  with  cold,  step  back  again^ 
And  straight  a  little  farther  ventare  on, 
Till  at  the  last  they  plunge  into  the  deep, 
And  pass  at  once  what  thoy  were  donbtinff  long." 

Act  V.  Scene  1. 

Edwabd  Biubaitlt  Dibdik» 

Edinburgh. 

Obdebs  ot  KiriGHTHOOD  (4*^  S.  y.  yL  passim  r 
yii.  100, 197,  S46.)— If  S.  had  read  my  "sugges- 
tion" with  more  attention  he  would  haye  seea 
that  it  contains  the  answer  to  his  first  objection. 
His  tender  feeling  with  respect  to  the  soyereign's 
prerogatiye  is  most  praiseworthy,  and  I  fully  agree 
with  him  in  it,  for  I  haye  come  of  a  race  who 
haye  dntwn  their  swords  and  shed  their  blood  for 
more  than  one  century  whereyer  their  soyereign's 
flag  has  been  unfurlea  by  land  or  sea;  Imt  there 
are  dignities  which  neither  king  nor  kaiser  can 
confer.  "  The  king  can  make  an  earl  or  a  duke, 
but  God  alone  can  make  the  chief  of  Glenroy,'^ 
quoth  the  old  Highlander.  Some  may  Talue  ue 
brand  new  title firesh  from  the  mint;  others  prixft 


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NOTES  AKD  QUEBIES. 


[4*S.VILMat20^T1. 


HbB  "'  bloe  blood  "  and  lonj^  pedi^pne.  Asfac  tlw 
^  modem^antiqne ''  obfectum,  this  fan*  been  dis- 
cnaaed  and  Miy  aaswrnd  in  ^  N..  &.  Q."  and  in 
Tkg  Sptetator  by  an  abler  pen  tium  mine^  No 
doubt  S.  can  fuse  the  ordral  on  Bennef a  Hill 
witiMut  fear,  bat  ^  England  holds  a  hnndsed  sons 
wbA  aie  juBt  aa  good  as  he.''  There  aee  pLsnty  of 
'^  genUemen  "  in  the  United  Kingdom  who  would 
not  find  the  proofs  of  their  seize  quartiers  so  very 
difficult,  much  less  the  *'four  grand  parents, 
unless  the  Heralds'  College  delnands  proofs  such 
as  would  not  be  required  in  the  strictest  judicial 
mTestigation,.  where  life  and  honour,  to  saj 
nothing  of  property,  were  in  the  balance. 

Ctwsk. 
Porth-y]>Ain*,  Csrnarron. 

'^ Ab  CmiL  AKB  Nathan"  :  kv-  Ou>  Oxfobs 
Epxarax  (4*^  S.  viL  321,  3£^0'-^'(^^<^  Tersiona 
of  this  epi^pram  amared  in  <<  N.  &^."  2"^  S.  xi. 
The  beat  is,  I  thuuc,  at  p.  296.  I  gave  this  yer- 
sioin  in  my  work^  The  Epi^ammaUds,  but  placed 
it  amon^t  anonymous  epigrams,  for  I  could  find 
no  sufficient  eyioenoe  that  it  was  the  production 
of  ''  Jack  "  Burton.  It  seems  to  haye  been  the 
conmion  practice  to  ascribe  unacknowled^[ed  Ox- 
ford epigrams  to  that  witty  and  eccentnc  lady. 
Of  the  epigram  on  the  deans,  one  of  your  corre- 
spondents {^  S.  xi.  233),  who  matriculated  when 
it  was  in  circulation,  says : — 

**  It  waa  joandy  attributed  to  the  pen  of  Jack  Bortoo^ 
but  it  came,  I  beliere*  like  many  other  ban  mota  of  that 
day,  from  a  set  of  inveterate  punsters  in  the  common 
rooms  of  different  coUeges." 

H.  P.  D. 

In  regard  to  the  epigram  upon  Doctors  Nathan 
Wetherell  and  Cyril  JacksoD,  it  may  be  interest- 
ing to  add  that  the  late  famous  Sir  Charles 
Wetherell  was  the  third  son  of  the  former.  The 
late  Dr.  Bowdon,  Begistrar  of  tiie  University  of 
Oxford,  matenialljjr  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Wetherell, 
used  to  say  that  it  was  Dr.  Wetherell  who  first 
remarked  the  talents  and  abilities  of  young  Phill- 
potts  (late  Bishop  of  Exeter)  on  his  continually 
stopping  at  the  Bell  at  Gloucester  in  his  journeys 
from  Oxford  to  his  deanery  at  Hereford,  Phill- 
pott's  father  then  being,  as  is  well  known,  the 
landlord  of  that  inn.  Dr.  Bowdon  used  to  give 
the  epigram  as  in  "  N.  &  Q."  of  April  22,  but 
yarying  the  fourth  and  fifth  lines  thus — 

'*  Says  Naiiian  to  CynU '  Ton  certainly  may. 
Bat  leaye  me  onlv  my  little  canal, 
And  yon  may  look  after  the  sea.'  ^ 

Miss  Bose  Barton  was  an  eztraor^arf  person, 
ft  kind  of  Lady  Mairy  Wortley  Montagu  m  Ox* 
ft)fd  of  her  day* 

Any  one  widnng  to  find  pavtienlaiB  of  I^. 
Wetherell  would  do  well  to  Iook  aitSir  Alexander 
Croke's  Sittorffifme  Ctokm  IkmOy,  2  yok.  1828. 
Many  interesting  teta  aA>ent  Br.  OyiB  Jbeinoir 


are  eontained  in  Cose's  Semmiecemees  of  OxfML 
Miss  Burton  is  still  well  remembered  there. 

EOWABD  Bowsov. 
13,  Little  stanhope  StreeL 

Two  errors  (p.  321)  should  be  corrected :  — 
**'  Says  Nathan,  ■  Ton  may,  but  a»  I  neyer  shall ; 

And  leaye  von  to  look /or  the  sea*  (aae).** 

F.  a  p. 

Bbaitchamp  (4*  S.  yii.  219,  342.)— I  beg  D.  P. 
to  accept  my  thanks  for  calling  my  attention  to  a 
clerical  error  (if  it  be  not  a  misprint)  which  had 
escaped  my  notice.  I  did  not  mean  to  blazon 
with  three  cross  crosslets  a  coat  which  either  bore 
six,  or  was  sem^e.  The  honest  truth  is  that  my 
note  was  written  in  a  great  hurry — a  state  of 
things  of  which  I  will  txy  not  to  allow  the  leenr- 
rence  in  writing  to  "  N.  &  Q."  As  respects  tiie 
lisle  coat,  I  must  confess  that  I  am  myself  among 
the  inexperienced  readers  to  whom  D.  F.  aUndes, 
for  I  did  not  know  that  the  bearing  was  assumed 
only.    I  am  obliged  to  him  for  tiie  information. 

Hebmsztceubs. 

Lanoashibb  Tixbbb  HauiS  (S"'  S.  yiL  76^ 
144^  248.) — Some  time  ago  I  made  inquiry  re- 
specting a  series  of  etchings  of  old  timber  houses 
in  Lancashire  published  hj  a  liyerpool  firm.  To 
that  query  no  reply  was  obtained  I  am  now 
able  to  supply  some  items  re8pectin0>  this  scarce 
Limcashire  l>ook  from  a  catalogfue  lately  iasued 
by  Mr.  Henry  Young.  These  etchings  are  there- 
described  as  *^  Views  in  Lancashire  and  Cheshire, 
of  Old  Halls  and  Castles,  intended  as  illustrations 
to  the  County  History ;  from  pictores  by  N.  G. 
Philips."  The  whole  series  consisted  of  twenty- 
four  engrayings,  foUo,  and  are  noted  by  the  book- 
seller as  ''  yery  scarce,"  and  *'  proofs  exceaayely 
rare."  A  ranaller  editi(m  of  the  yiews  was  also 
issued.  They  were  "published  by  Mr.  Philips, 
of  Chatham  Street,  Liverpool,.  1822,"  without  any 
accompanying  letterpress.  T.  T.  W. 

EuiyBir  SmLLoro  Pibceb  or  Ceablbs  L  (4^ 
S.  yiL  66, 148.)— The  words  of  the  will  referred 
to  are  found  in  the  will  of  Dame  EHzabedi  Hil* 
diard  of  Bouth,  in  the  county  of  York^  preyed  on 
January  17, 1639  :—<<  Item  to  Thomaa  Soddeliy 
four  eleven  shilling  pieces  in  a  box." 

Your  correspondent  of  conise  does  not  mean 
that  angels  w»re  a  coin  introduced  by  Charles  L  ^ 
for  the  second  Sur  Christopher  Hildiazd,  in  Qofien 
Elizabeth's  rei^,  leayes  amongst  under  tegateea 
to  this  same  Elizabeth  ffildlaid,  the  wifa  of  hia 
nephew  Christopher, ''  twenty  angeflb."  (no)* 

Chteta  Masia  (ji^  S.  yii.  73.)h-Thi8  taste  ia 
much  older  than  1760.  It  was  introduced  into 
England  by  Queen  Mary  in  1689^  and  apeedSly 
beonne  fiumonable,  aa  nnmberiees  aUnaicna  to  it 


#k  &  VIL  Mat  20, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


443 


in  Pope's  poetry  and  the  Spectator  alone  provB. 
«  Mistreae  of  henelf  tiiongli  china  fall/'  a  fragment 
from  Pope  on  every  one's  tongue,  belongs  to  this 
rage.  It  is  curious  that  Maeavuay  should  stigma- 
tise the  taste  for  old  eiuna  as  ''  a  fnvolous  and  in- 
elegant fSashicQ*'  {MU/tory^  cap.  zL),  and  still  more 
so  that  he  should  have  written— 

**  Even  sUtesmea  and  ganenb  wa«  not  aahamed  to 
be  xenowned  as  judges  of  teapots  and  dragons ;  and 
mturUts  long  continaed  to  Tepeat  that  a  fine  lady  valued 
her  mottled  green  potteiy  qoite  as  much  as  she  valued 
her  monkey,  and  much  more  than  she  valued  her  hus- 
band "  {Hi$t,  cap.  kL)  ^ 

when  we  remember  the  Premier's  speech  on 
Wedgwood  a  few  yenB  ago,  and  the  &ie  collec- 
tion of  chinn  which,  if  report  speaks  true,  he  pos- 
sesses. PELA.GIT7B. 

Chabhs  fob  AeiTB  (1"S  2°'^,  S*^  S.  pasAin.)  — 
Thb  carious  charm,  which  is  copied  fnnn  an  old 
diary  of  1751.  still  preserves  its  traditional  vitality. 
In  April  1871  it  was  recited  in  rimilar  words  to 
a  friend  by  a  postboy  near  Spalding :  — 

**  When  Jens  oame  near  Pikte,  He  trembled  like  a  leaf; 
and  the  judge  asked  Him  if  He  had  the  agae.  He 
answered.  He  neither  had  the  ague  nor  was  he  afraid ;  and 
whosoever  bears  these  words  in  mind  shall  never  fear 
ague  or  anything  else." 

The  same  postboy  presented  my  friend  with 
another  vsluable  cure  for  ague,  which  at  all  events 
is  not  lacking  in  simplicity : — 

**  (So  to  an  alder  tree,  cut  <rff  a  lack  of  your  hair,  bury 
it  under  the  tree,  and  then  fp  into  your  house  by  another 
door  than  that  through  which  you  came." 

PeXiAGITTB. 

Osam  (4^  S.  viL  257,  35a)— WiUi  reference 
to  the  statement  that,  al&ough  an  heiress  might 
carry  the  arms  of  her  family  into  that  of  her 
husband,  she  was  incapable  of  conferriug  the  right 
on  him  of  nsing  her  father's  crest,  &c.,  it  would 
appear  from  the  tomb  of  the  Bey.  John  Richards, 
rector  of  Wyke,  near  Winchester,  who  died 
March  11,  1668-9,  and  was  buried  in  the  cloisterB 
of  Winchester  College  near  the  door,  that  such 
was  not  always  the  case,  as  the  crest  on  the  tomb 
is  that  which  belonged  to  his  wife's  family,  viz. 
a  griifin's  head  erased  for  Orooke ;  he  having  mar- 
ri^  Katharine,  daughter  and  co-heir  of — Grooke, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons. 

In  the  JSerald   and  Geneahffia,  Port  rxni. 
August  1867,  £.448,  will  be  found  two  pe^grees 
by  21t,  W.  S.  Mils,  showing  several  instances  of 
husbands  adopting  their  wives*  crests.         C.  R. 
Camp,  Aldenmot. 

^FUIJUBS    WOBIHIBS    LiSBLAXi"  (4**»    S.  TlL 

40L)— Your  own  inadvertent  reading  of  '^  Ander- 
son "  lor  '^  Andrews,"  author  of  the  Anatomie  of 
JBammtmf  in  your  little  notice  of  my  Series,  si^ 
geato  ^^t  it  may  be  as  well  to  record  two  mi»- 
priats  that  have  caught  my  eye  since  iasne  of 
Yaughan,    viz.,   <'exsoterics"    for  ''^aoteries" 


MLL  p.xziv),  and''' pzeoator ''  for '' peccatar*' 
(yoL  i.  p.  xlv.),  and  the  photo-ohromo-^th  enor 
of  "Seething'  for  "Sce&rog."  These  wiU  be 
noted  in  errata-liflt  at  end  of  voL  iv.,  and  any 
others  that  may  be  discovered :  but  I  trust  you 
will  spare  me  a  comer  in  ''!N.  &  Q."  to  note  thowt 
anticipatively.  The  Editob. 

MOUBKIKG    OB  BlACK-BDGED  WKLTISQ-Tkm 

(4"^  S.  vii.  209,907,81^.)  — From  the  recently 
published  interesting  wox  by  Edward  Dunbftf 
Dunbar,  of  Lea  Park,  Forres,  entitied  Social  Life 
m  Former  Days^  I  copy  a  funeral  letter^  which  was 
edged  with  black  as  follows : — 

**  For  James  Donbar  of  Inehbrok  House,  Castieetewart. 

«  Janvary.ath,  1688. 
"Sir,-^!  doe  iatend  the  fonerall  of  the  Conntese  of 
Horray,  my  mother,  upon  Wednesday,  the  17th  of  January 
instant,  to  whom  1  intreat  your  presence,  -be  eleven  a 
clock  att  Damuay,  from  thence  to  her  boriall  place  hi 
Dyke ;  and  this  last  GhrxBtian  daty  ehall  rerrle  much 
obleldge,  Sir«  yonr  aaeored  to  serve  you» 

«  DOUHB." 

J.  Mb, 

Black  wax  was  in  use  earlier  than  the  time 
ffiven  at  the  last  reference.  1  have  a  letter  from 
Margaret  logleby  of  Bipley  Castle,  dated  Aug.  17, 
1682,  sealed  with  black  wax  with  the  Savile  arms ; 
and  a  reoeint  giinen  bv  her  sister,  Mary  Savile, 
dated  July  8,  1667.  This  mav  have  reference  to 
the  death  of  her  fJEither,  Jonn  Savile,  Esq.  of 
Methley. 

Its  use,  however,  does  not  appear  to  have  been 
universal,  as  her  brotiier  and  sisters,  who  gave 
rimilar  receipts  about  the  same  time,  seal  with  red 
wax.  C.  FoBBEST,  Seit. 

JoHK  Dtbb(4»'»  S.vii.  232, 353.)— Mb.  Btbphbk 

Jaoksoh  says,^  ^l  know  The  Flmoe  welL"     I 

may  aay, ''  I  know  the  country  well  to  which  por- 

tioDB  of  The  jFleece  relate.*'    On  nage  136^  Oil* 

Allan's  edition,  you  will  find  the  fGOlowing  bnes.: 

"  Huge  Breadea's  stony  smnmit  onee  I  climbed 
AfterakidUng:  Daman,  what  a  scene ! 
What  various  views  unnnmber'd  spread  beneath  1 
Woods,  towers,  vales,  dells,  clll&,  and  torrent  floods ; 
And  here  and  there  between  the  spiry  rocke. 
The  broad  flat  sea." 

The  Breidden  is  a  Inll  standing  partly  in  Sfarop- 
shiie  and  psrtiy  in  Montgomeryshire,  on  the  banka 
of  the  Severn.  I  have  been  up  it  a  dozen  times, 
and  on  tiie  clearest  of  days ;  but  as  it  lies  between 
fifty  and  sixty  mUes  from  the  nearest  coast,  and 
other  ranges  oi  hills  intervene,  you  'mil  not  wonder 
when  I  tell  you  that  a  sea- view  is  not  amongst  the 
attractions  of  the  Breidden.  Bver  left  some  spe- 
cimens of  his  artistic  work  in  Montgomeryshire, 
notably  «  copy  of  Da  Vinci's  **Laet  Supper" 
which  formerfy  had  a  place  of  honour  in  the  dd 
ehnrch  at  Newtown.  Weeascascely  wondertbtft 
The  Fkem  is  not  fwy  eKteradveiy  read  n<F 
d^ra,  whan  we  ^nd  in  <'.Tfae  Azginient"  on 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*kS.VIL  MatSO,*!!. 


fint  page  that  one  of  the  subjects  for  poetry  is  '^  Of 
the  Castration  of  Lambs  "  I      Askew  Kobbbts. 
Oswestry. 

Mb.  Jacesok  admires  the  ''noble  poetry"  of 
Grongar  SSU.  The  following  are  the  firat  six  lines. 
What  does  Mb.  Jacksoit  think  of ''  Silent  Nymph, 
who  Ke^*?  And  did  he  ever  see  a  ''  yeUow  lin- 
net"? 

**  Silent  Nymph !  with  carious  eye. 
Who,  the  purple  eyenhig,  Iw 
On  the  mountain's  lonely  van. 
Beyond  the  noise  of  busy  man, 
Painting  fair  the  form  of  things. 
While  the  ytUow  Uimei  sings.*" 

Jatdbe. 

«Pen  of  ak  Awqkl's  Wiko  "  (4*  S.  vii.  283, 
312.)— In  The  Tatter,  No.  163,  AprQ  25,  1710, 
Ned  Softly  reads  the  following  to  Isaac  Bicker- 
staffe :  — 

"  TO  MIBA  ON  REB  IirCOXPABABLB  P0BH8. 

**  When  dressed  in  laurel  wreaths  you  shine, 
And  tune  your  soft  melodiotui  notea^ 
You  seem  a  sister  of  the  Nine, 
Or  Phoobus'  self  in  petticoats. 

^  I  fancy  when  your  song  yon  sing 

(Your  song  you  sing  with  so  much  art), 
Your  pen  was  plucked  flrom  Cupid^s  wing. 
For,  ah !  it  wounds  me  like  his  dart." 

The  poem  is  then  discussed  line  by  line.    Ned 
asksy ''  What  do  you  think  of  the  next  verse  P — 
<  Your  pen  was  plucked  from  Cupid's  wing.' " 

Isaac  replies:  ''I  think  you  have  made  Cupid 
« little  goose." 

I  agree  with  Isaac,  but  think  the  concetto  more 
flufferable  in  Ned's  yerses  than  in  any  of  the 
examples  cited  in  '<  N.  &  Q."  S.  B.  C. 

U.  U.  Club. 

Qeobob  Londok  (4**  S.  vii.  235,  335.>— In 
1707  George  London,  Esq.,  gave  10/.  towards 
building  a  schoolhouse  in  the  parish  of  Kensing- 
ton (Lysons'  Middlesex,  iv.  5311. 

Indenture,  dated  Feo.  19, 1/13,  made  between 
'William  Talman,  of  the  parish  of  St.  Anne's  West- 
minster, Esq.,  and  Richard  Woodward)  of  Little 
Ealing,  co.  Middlesex,  Esq.  (executors  of  the  will 
of  George  London,  late  of  the  parish  of  St  Martin- 
in-the-inelds,  co.  Middlesex,  Gent.),  of  the  one 
pari^  and  Samuel  Lynne  of  the  other  part  (Mid- 
dlesex Begistry,  1713,  No.  183). 

Possibly  the  burial  of  George  London  may  be 
entered  in  the  registers  of  one  of  the  above-named 
parishes.  Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me 
whether  Eebecca,  first  wife  of  Bichard  Wood- 
ward (married  about  1704),  was  a  daughter  of 
George  London  P  T.  D. 

Ihditstbibs  op  Englafd  (4*»»  S.  viL  209.  289.) 
Mr.  J.  R.  M'Calloch,  in  his  preface  to  vol.  i.  of 
Early  and  Scarce  Tracts  on  Commerce,  ^c,  re^ 
printed  by  the  Political  Economy  Cktb  and  by  Lord 
Oventone,  1856-69  (p.  viii.),  remarks  that  Lewis 


Roberts'  tract,  The  Treamre  of  Trajffkk,  1641,  con- 
tains tiie  earliest  notice  of  Manchester  as  a  seat  of 
cotton  manufacture.  I  find,  however,  Manchester 
cottons  already  mentioned  in  a  pamphlet  pub- 
lished as  early  as  1580,  namely,  in  A  Politique 
PloU  for  M«  honour  of  the  Prince^  the  great  profit 
of  the  pddique  state,  ^c.  by  Rob.  £Qtchcocky  Lon- 
don, 1580.    On  p.  26a  ne  says :  — 

<*  At  Rone  in  Fraunce,  which  is  the  chefest  vent»  be 
Bolde  our  English  wares,  as  Welehe  &  Manchester  Cot- 
tons, Northeroe  Caeseis,  Whites,  Leads,  A  Tinne." 

I  may  add  that  the  former  of  the  two  writers, 
Lewis  Roberts,  in  his  Map  of  Commerce,  London, 
1638  (p.  231),  where  he  shortly  speaks  of  Man- 
chester, does  not  mention  its  cotton  manufactures. 
He  says :  — 

"  Lancashire  .  .  .  wherein  Manchester,  an  old  towne 
inriched  by  the  industry  of  the  inhabitants,  by  doth  of 
linnen  &  woollen." 

Ad,  Bittf. 

Munich,  Germany. 

Saikt  Wulpban  (4'»»  S.  viL  162,  269, 335.)  — 
In  a  note  at  p.  23  of  Tumor's  Collections  for  the 
History  of  ihe  Toum  and  Soke  of  Grantham,  4to, 
1806,  there  is  a  reference  to  the  "MSS.  in  the 
Cottonian  Library,  Otho  D.  8.  Vita  S.  Wulfi:anni 
Episcopi."  Mr.  Tumor,  evidently  dearous  to  iden- 
tify St.  Wulfiran  the  bishop,  said  in  the  book  of 
Peterborough  (which  perhaps  was  Leland's  au- 
thority for  his  statement)  to  have  been  buried  at 
Grantham,  was  referred  by  the  Rev.  J.  Brand, 
Sec.  Soc.  Antiquaries,  to  ^'  a  very  scarce  book  en- 
titled Catalogus  Sanctorum  et  Gestorum  eorum, 
folio  1513,  as  containing  some  account  of  ^  Yul- 
phranius  Senonensis  Episcopus."  A.  O.  V.  P.  may 
mcline  to  ascertain  if^the  first  above  relates  to 
other  than  the  Archbishop  of  Sens.       W.  E.  B. 

English  Desgbnt  of  Dakixl  O'Coitnsll  (4^^  S. 
ilL  75;  vii.  242,  349.)— Bilbo,  quoting  from  Fer- 
guson, says  that  six  persons  of  the  name  of 
Konidl  are  given  in  Landndmabdk,  Ferguson 
states  that  ^'one  of  these  was  certainly  from  Ire- 
land "  1  Ak  Ibibbjcak. 

Bows  AWD  CuBTSErs  (4*  S.  vi.  668;  vii.  109, 
220,  aSO.)— I  beff  to  say  in  answer  to  T.  K.  T.  (at 
the  last  of  the  above  references)  that  I  was  omte 
aware  of  the  difierent  opinions  that  have  oeen 
held  as  to  the  meaning  of  the  difficult  word 
Abrech  in  Gen.  zli..43.  The  Authorised  Version 
has  "bow  the  knee";  the  Vuk^ate,  "ut  onmes 
coram  eo  genuflecterent "  (the  oeptua^t  shirks 
the  word  alto^therS ;  Alexander  Geddes  in  his  new 
translation  gives  tne  word  Abrech  untranslated, 
with  ''bow  the  knee"  in  brackets;  and  there 
are  very  ancient  authorities  for  the  common  ren- 
dering. '  Those  who  are  interested  in  the  subject 
may  see  in  Mr.  Barrett's  Synopsis  of  Criticisms 
(i.  105)  a  succinct  account  of  whJat  has  been 
written  upon  it. 


A^  &  Vn,  Mat  20, 71 J 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


445 


The  question  aaked  in  ^'  N.  &  Q.''  was  for  the 
forUed  mention  of  the  cnrtsey ;  and  until  a  gene- 
rally accepted  correction  of  the  present  version 
shall  appear  I  think,  with  all  deference  to  T.  K  T., 
that  the  reference  to  Gfen.  xlL  48  '*  suits  my  pur- 
pose." In  the  words  of  Bishop  Patrick  upon  the 
passage:  — 

**  Unless  we  undentood  the  old  "Egyptian  Unguage^ 
I  think  we  had  as  good  rest  in  the  Hebrew  derivauon  as 
in  any  other,  aooozoing  to  onr  own  translation."    ' 

RV. 

Thb  Zodiac  (4'^  S.  vii.  344.)  —  The  Hindus 
seem  to  have  been  the  earliest  to  g^ve  a  character 
of  the  several  nlanets.  The  Egyptians  and  Ba- 
bylonians copiea  from  them.  The  crosses  in  the 
Hindu  characters  are  the  Buddhist  crosses,  which 
no  doubt  referred  to  the  equinox  and  the  sun 
crossing  the  same.  The  several  planets  have  all 
been  poetised  by  the  Greeks.  But  let  T.  F.  read 
full  accounts  of  these  matters  in  H.  Jennings's 
JRosicruaianSf  their  Mites  and  Mysteries, 

Zadkibl. 

"TBAKauiL  ITS  Spibit,"  etc.  (4»'»  S.  vii.  365.) 
These  lines  are  firom  Professor  John  Wilson's 
sonnet  entitied  ^*  The  Evening  Cloud."        D.  B. 

Ballad  of  Ladt  Ferbsbs  (4'^'  S.  vii.  209, 334.) 
I  have  a  MS.  copy  of  this  ballad.  It  was  com- 
posed, I  believe,  by  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence,  P.B.  A., 
and  inrinted  for  the  benefit  of  a  distressed  person. 

J.RB. 

Jests  (4*^  S.  viL  361.)  —  The  clergyman  was 
anticipated  at  least  eighty  years  ago,  in  the  tale 
of  "  The  Parson-Dealer  " :  — 

**  Unlnckily  but  one  was  in  the  stall. 
And  he  the  very  best  of  all. 

What  should  be  done  ? 
JVeeewtlot  non  habet  hgt. 
So  to  the  priest  he  goes  and  begs 
That  he  wonld  visit  the  old  crone." 
Peter  Pindar's  Worki,  vol.  iii  p.  Ul.  Dnblin,  1792. 

FiTZHOPXINS. 
Garriek  Clab. 

DovBB  Caazlb  (4*^  S.  vii.  3640—1  cannot  re- 
ply as  regards  Dover  Castie,  but  I  well  remember 
on  my  mst  going  to  London,  in  that  very  year, 
1822,  and  visiting  the  docks,  being  shown  at  a 
distance  a  gibbet  with  two  or  three  men  (pirates 
we  were  told)  dangling  underneath.       P.  A.  L. 

Placabd  (4»»»  S.  vii.  889.)--Thi8  word  is  va- 
riously  written, — plackarde,  placard^  or  placket. 
It  signifies  the  lower  part,  or  extension  of  the 
stomacher ;  and  appears  to  derive  its  name  from 
being  a  piece  of  showy  embroidery,  like  Apla^, 
or  plate  of  metaL  See  the  dictionaries  of  Bailey 
and  Ash.  F.  C.  H. 

"  Stbbak  op  Silver  Sba  "  (4«*  S.  vii.  890.;)— 
I  think  Lord  Salisbury  referred  to  this  expression 
as  having  been  used  by  Colonel  Chesney  some 


weeks  before  in  a  military  lecture,  but  I  am 
anxious  to  learn  if  this  phrase,  often  quoted  since^ 
was  original,  or  a  quotation  by  Colonel  Chesney. 

A.S. 

Epithbis  of  ihb  MoiTTHS  (4*^  S.  viL  343, 410.) 
Another  version  of  the  February  proverb,  which 
I  have  heard  in  London,  and  I  think  also  in 
Essex,  is — 

^Febmaiyfin-diteb, 
Black  or  white,  don't  care  whicb." 

JAKBsBBrmor. 

Thb  Nbw  Moon  Ain>  ihb  Maids  (1**  S.  iv.  09.) 
Allusion  is  made  to  a  Devonshire  custom,  which 
may  be  found,  I  believe,  all  over  England,  of  a 
young  girl  addres^g  tne  crescent  moon  when 
she  sees  it  for  the  first  time  after  Midsummer. 
Can  we  trace  the  superstition  in  those  lines  of  th» 
Carmen  Seculare  t — 


**  Sidemm  regina  bioonus,  aodi 

Luna,  puellas." 


Bardem,  Scaflbrdshlrs. 


P. 


BuBFF  OB  BuBF  (4«»  S.  vii.  282,  379.)— Atten- 
tion having  been  drawn  to  this  wora.  the  following 
quotation  m>m  the  opening  of  Hartsnome's  Sal^na 
Antigua  mav  perhaps  possess  some  interest,  what- 
ever may  be  thought  of  the  proposed  deriva- 
tion:— 

**  Abdon  Barf  is  the  most  elevated  of  those  three  Shrop- 
shire mountains  which  are  nsnidlv  termed  the  Brown 
Clee  Hills,  or  the  Clee  Hills,  luey  are  ren>ectively 
called  Abdon  Barf,  or  the  '.Barf,  the  Gee  Barf,  and  the 
Titterstone.  The  present  one  derives  its  distinguishing 
appellative  of  Abdon  from  having  that  little  village  at 
its  foot  It  is  difficult  to  sav  how  the  name  of  Bun  or 
Barf,  as  the  lower  orders  call  it,  originated.  I  am  in- 
clined to  think  that  it  was  acquired  in  consequence  ot 
the  vast  wall  of  stones  which  surrounds  its  summit,  in 
the  same  way  as  the  Clee  Burf  takes  its  title  firom  the 
C.  Brit  BuarAf  an  endosare.  Bar,  in  C.  Brit  Ir.  Com.  and 
QaeL  sisnifles  a  summit  or  top,  but  the  former  derivation 
seems  the  better,  as  applying  more  doselv  to  the  extra- 
ordinary remains  which  are  ibund  upon  tnis  eminence.'* 

And  in  a  note  the  author  adds : — 

"  There  are  two  fortresses  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  period ; 
one  near  Baachnreh,  the  other  Just  on  the  outside  of 
Shropshire,  near  Mere,  called  the  Berth,  haplv  in  allusion 
to  their  being  enclosed.  An  eminence  two  nules  south  of 
Stourport  is  called  the  Burf.  Burva  Bank,  a  large  en- 
campment dose  to  Knill,  co.  Radn.  Birth  Hill,  east  of 
Qadbury  Banks  in  Qbuoesterdiire." 

T.  W.  Webb. 

Ponn?  BB  Vice  (4*^  S.  viL  266,  880.)-It  ia 
desirable  to  note  that  Malvolio  does  not  say 
"point  de  vice,"  but  "point  devise."  (Twelfth 
Nighty  n.  v.  146.)  So  also  in  the  other  two  pasc 
sages  where  the  phrase  is  used  by  Shakesneare 
(Love*s  Labour's  Lost,  v.  i.  16,  and  As  You  Luce  It, 
m.  ii.  864)  we  have  not  "de  vice"  but  "  devise/' 
or  "  device."  According  to  Wedgwood,  the  fidl 
phrase, "  ik  point  devise^"  means  in  tne  condition  of 
ideal  ezcellenoe.    ^  Point " = condition^  as  in  "  en 


AAA 


KOTS3  AKB  QUEBIEa  (;4ti»8.¥n.  illt 90,71. 


IkoB  ijoinf  ^Berise"  10  from  Frenclh  €bmn^^=to 
imagme,  to  plan.    Wedgwood  qvotes*— 

^Un  nobto  chfttoaii  h  d^riab," 
and  from  Chaucer  {Bomaunt  of  Hose,  830) — 
<^WHh  lymei  nvouglit  at  poyntde^Ta.'* 

J992f  AODSB. 

"  The  Musbb*  Delight,''  ed.  1764  (4^  S.  yiL 
886.) — ^I  regret  to  saj  that  the  reference  to 
Lowndes  doM  not  fiuniflh  an  answer  to  my  query. 
I  think  the  Editor  has  been  misled  by  the  nmi- 
laiitj  between  the  title  of  the  wori  which  I 
pOBBem  send  that  mentionod  hj  Lowndea.  My 
oepy  of  T%€  MtieM^  DtUgH  (an  oetayo  yolmne, 
with  engrayed  irontismece,  pp.  323)  waa- ''printed, 
pnbliahed,  and  aoM  oy  John  Sadler,  in-Hazring«- 
ton-  Street,  Liyerpooi>  1754"  The  worir  men- 
tioned br  Lowndea  was  published  in  London  in 
1762. 

The  octavo  copy  of  the  eo^tion  of  1766  (entitled 
jdnoUd's  Cabinet;  &r  the  Mtaea^  DeUght),  when 
euiibited  at  the  January  meeting;  of  the  Historic 
Society  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire,  was  stated  to 
be  ''one  of  the  yeiy  few  extant"  With  the  ez- 
oeption  of  the  addition  to  the  title  this  work  is^  1 
pNBnme,  the  same  as  that  published  in  1764;  and 
my  query  is,  Is  the  editioa  of  1764  alao  asansaP 
As  my  copy  is  imperfect,  1  shall  be  glad  also  to 
know  where  I  can  consult  a  complete  copy. 


CoBSELL  Fahilt  (4^  S.  viL  343.)— He&rring 
to  the  queries  respecting  the  ComeUs  or  ComaUa^ 
it  is  found  that  an  omissixm  oeonra  in  the  atUieaa 
to  which  replies  should  be  sent.  Attentnm  is, 
therefore,  again  called  to  the  queries  i  and  replies 
sent  to  Rev.  R.  0,,  S4,  Portland  Square^  Briatol, 
will  be  thankfttUy  reeeived. 

The  TwELys  Clajmakss  or  the  Cbowe^  oe 
SooxLijn^  temp,  Ebwabd  L  (4*^  S.  yiL  363.)  — 
G.  D.  C.  will  fMi,  m  Rapm's  Migtary  of  M^kmd^ 
a  ^eneriogieal  ts^e  of  tfaa  twelve  SiMta  com- 
petitors. CsAEun  F.  S.  WABSBSf  M.A* 

Over  YiMMgB,  SL  Ivm^  Boats. 

''StatOHWiTTWB  "  (4*^  S.  yii.  206.)— We  hvre  tm 
exact  equivalent  to  this  German  word  (given  by 
HssxAirN  Kjsm  in  hts  aharming  '*  Notelats'')  in 
'^gnaa- widow."  Jamsb  Bbjxies^ 

Glattoe  (4»*»  S.  yii.  864.)— The  word  Oiattm 
is  a  19'orth-couDtry  word  for  Welsh  flannel.  It  is 
so  jnyen  in  Coles'  English  Dictummy^  edition  of 
I68S  ,*  and  in  Kersey's  IHctUmary,  edition  of  1716. 
Aa  a  name,  it  ooeurs  aa  a  paziah  in  the  eountT^  of 
Himtingdon.  C.  GoiJ)]»o. 

^MldlDgtOll. 

litis  name  may  be  compounded  of  A.-d.  <^, 
coDiB,  or  tUn,  septum,  and  gUda^  milvua;  (j^asd, 
amoenus ;  8w.  and  G.  glatt^  la^vis,  or  A.-S.  glade^ 
amnis,  rivulus ;  or  it  may  be  t.  j.  Latton,  Lathom, 
Letton,  Litton,  Lutton,  Olutton ;  perhapa  etymo- 


logically  oonneeted  with  Ludimm^  Ladbn^,  Lud- 

f(MNi,  Lydford;  and  with  Gladbaefa  in  It.  PraaH% 

Glatt^  a  river  and  town  of  Hohenaollem ;  Olatt^  a 

river  of  Switzerland;  fron»  Celtic  lad,  Kd^  htd^ 

aqua.  B.  S.  Chabvogk. 

Qny*s  Ina. 

"It  does  EOT  KEow,  POOB Fool,"  etc.  (4^  S, 

vn.  366.^ — ^Will  be  found  in  a  poam  by  Lara  Lyt- 

ton,  entitled  The  Dead  Qimen. 

T.  K  Tonrioir. 
Ctimberland. 

''WhEE    FhIXOSOFHBBS    HAyE    BOEE    THEIB 

WoKST,"  ETC.  (4«»  S.  viL  366.)— There  was  once 
upon  a  time  a  dever  finandar,.  the  notorious 
Ottvzard,  who  was  not  of  that  opinion.  He  had 
not  the  good  fortune  to  please  that  terrible  genius 
the  first  Napoleon,  to  whom  these  over-opulent 
army-contractors  were  obnoxious,  and  being  one 
day  taken  to  task  by  him,  said:  '^Noua  no  nous 
entendons  pas,  sire,  paroe  que  V.  M.  pense  que 
deux  et  deuz  doivent  n^cessairement  toujours  faue 
quatre,  et  moi  je  suis  d'un  avis  contraire." 

Ouvrard  had  a  fertile  imagination,  and,  like  a 
celebrated  political  writer  of  the  present  day,  he 
had  '^  une  id^  par  jour."  Being  onoe  locked  up 
in  the  fort  of  Vincennes  by  oraer  of  Napoleon, 
and,  by  way  of  making  the  durane&-vile  more 
severely  felt,  not  being  allowed  either  to  read  or 
write,  ne  got  the  gaoler  to  purdiase  for  him  a 
large  number  of  pins,  which,  after  counting  them, 
he  threw  on  the  ground  in  the  dark;  and  stooping 
down,  he  set  to  work  to  pick  them  up,  not  rwtii^ 
satisfied  until  he  had  found  them  all,  and  then 
began  again.    This  he  related  to  me  himself. 

P.  A.  L. 

"When  Italie   doth  Potsoe  waet,"  etc, 

{^^  S.  yii.  366.)— £.  B.  R  wiU  find  the  lines  she 

wants  in  a  singular  book,  the  tilie-page  of  which 

I  copy.  They  are  set  forth  in  French  and  EngUsh: 

the  former  I  give,  for  she  has  the  latter,  as  they 

appear  in  my  copy  of  the  work :  — 

**  Quand  Italie  aera  sans  poisoii* 
Angletcm  aana  trahiaon^ 
Et  la  France  sazia  gnarre, 
Lors  sera  le  monde  sacs  terre.^* 

I  was  reading  the  book  not  long  mnce,  and  the 
oiation  in  regard  to  France  ia  well  worm  atten- 
tion; It  quotes  Montaigne,  who  saj^s :  '^  Mettez 
trois  Fran9q|8  aux  dessert  de  Lybie,  ils  ne  seront 
ensemble  sans  se  harceler  et  s'es  grat^er." 
Also  (^hispar  Coli^i  wrote  in  a  letter  of  hia  to 
Charles  IX.:  '<It  is  given  by  naitnre  to  the  BVaneb, 
that  if  they  cannot  find  an  enemy  abroad  they 
will  make  one  at  home."  Surely  they  aeem  to 
be  little  changed  now  for  the  better. 

**  A  German  Diet,  or  the  Ballance  of  Europe :  whetein 
the  Power  and  Weaknea^  Qlory  and  Ri^rooh*  Yeitnea 
and  Vices,  Plen^  and  Want»  Advantages  and  DeActa» 
Antiqnitv  and  Modemes,  of  all  Kingdoms  and  States  of 
Christenaom  ars  impartially  poiaed,  at  a  Solem  Gonveo- 


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447 


iktt  of  Som  Gflrnum  PrinoM,  in  Sandnr  EUb«nt 
Oimtiom,  Pro  and  Con.  Made  fit  for  the  Motidiui  of 
England  By  Jamas  Howell,  £iq.  <  SeneMo,  non  S^ 
nesoo.'  London:  Printed  for  Humphiey  Moeeley,  and 
are  to  be  sold  at  his  Shop  at  the  Princes  Armes  in  St. 
PatdsOmrch  Yard.    1068." 

E.  Lzmrox  Botd,  F.S.A, 
85,  CSeveland  Sqoan^  Hyde  Park. 

<'ThB   KOBB   I    J^KJLBS    THB    I.SSS  I    IHI27K   I 

KKOw"  (4"»  S.  Tii.  866.)— Was  not  the  fiist 
author  of  this  sentence  the  aUinse  Socrates,  who, 
in  answer  to  some  Sophists  who  pretended  to 
know  eYeiythrng,  said :  ''As  for  me,  all  I  know  is 
that  I  know  nothing  "  ?  P.  A.  L. 

Ghevisattkgb  ob  Chxvisaxob  (4^  S.  viL  ^43.) 
The  derivation  chetir,  to  finish,  to  wM&re,  snffi- 
dently  shows  its  literal  meaning  and  that  in  which 
Lord  Jjjtton  nses  it.  I  am  sure  that  I  have  seen 
it  thus  used  by  Spensei^in  The  Faery  Queen,  bat 
cannot  just  now  find  the  passage  or  passages 
where  it  occurs.  I  am,  however,  corroborated  try 
Webster,  who  ^ves  '*  achievement ''  as  the  pn- 
maiT  siguificationi  and  refers  to  Spenser.  The 
word  IB  certainly  to  be  met  with  m  The  Faery 
Queen,  expressing  knightly  valour.  D.  B. 

Henbi  Masebs  ds  la  Txtss  (4*^  S.  vi.  46, 117, 
248.  349.) — I  had  the  pleasure  of  communicating 
to  "  N.  &  Q."  (p.  849)  some  partioulars  relating 
to  Hemd  Masers  de  la  Tude ;  my  note  including 
a  passage  from  Herder's  New  iHciure  of  PttriSf 
London  edition  of  1800,  to  the  effect  that 
the  bronze  hand  belonging  to  the  statue  of 
Louis  XV^  erected  on  the  place  named  after  that 
monarch  (and  subsequently  ''De  la  Concorde"), 
was  in  the  possession  of  Latude. 

Quite  recently,  on  turning  over  the  pages  of 

vol.  iii  No.  5,  of  I^  JPamphieleer,   prmtod  by 

A.  J.  Yalpy  at  London  in  1814, 1  came  across — 

**  The  life  of  Henri  Masers  de  Latnde,  who  was  im- 
prisoned Thiity-five  years.  To  which  is  added  some  Ac- 
count of  the  Bastille  [never  published  in  this  country]." 

And  on  jperusing  the  pamphlet  thus  designated, 
I  found  it  to  be  a  pride  taken  from  the  French 
publication  of  1793,  mentioned  as  ''now  very 


The  pamphlet,  evidently  written  by  some  one 

who  had   a  personal  knowledge  of  the  famed 

prisoner,  concludes  thus :  — 

"  When  I  saw  Latnde  in  1801,  he  was  scventy-siz 
vears  old,  strong  and  active  for  his  age.  He  had  before 
mm  on  a  table  ul  his  took  and  mosical  instraments,  and 
in  the  middle  of  them  the  hand  of  tlie  bronze  statne  of 
Lonis  XV.,  which  stood  in  the  Place  de  la  Concorde,  and 
he  explained  them,  and  told  the  story  of  his  wonderful 
escape  from  the  Bastille,  in  a  spirited  and  interesting 
manner." 

This  passage  is  confirmatory  of  the  correctness 
of  Mercier's  announcement  of  the  destiny  of  the 
bronze  hand.  The  '^tools''  mentioned  above  I 
assume  to  be  those  which  Latude  and  his  oom- 
panioD,  D*Aldgre,  made  for  use  in  working  their 


way  out  cf  bendage:  the  musioii  instraniaiiB,  no 
doubt,  «a  flageolet  which"  Latode  <<had  con- 
trived to  makcL  and  whicb  helped  to  Eghten  many 
a  weaiy  hour'*'  (see  pamphlet  under  notice)  ^  as  X 


find 


noted  that— 


"  the  rope-ladder  and  the  things  they  wwe  oompeOed  to 
leave  wen  prawrved  in  the  ArBtai?eB  of  the  Bastille,  and 
were  psesented  to  Latude  in  the  year  1789,  flie  day  «fter 
that  fortress  was  taken  by  the  people." 

Gbbscinx,. 

Savannah,  U.8. 

Atbes,  Frxre,  AiH)  Fbiab,  Stjbnamks  (4*  S. 
vii.  886.) — ^Might  I  suggest  to  your  correspondent 
Sp.  the  Norse  personal  names  Art  (a  servant)  and 
I^eyr  (the  name  of  the  deity  symbolizing  the 
sun),  as  affording  a  more  probable  explanation  <tf 
the  origin  of  these  surnames  P  The  former  would 
also  account  for  the  name  Eyre.  It  seems  pro* 
bable  that  the  form  Ayres  may  have  been  denved 
from  a  place-name,  p^erhaps  origuujl^  used  ellip- 
tically  m  the  poassanve  ease.  This  is  what  Fer- 
guson saggeate  in  regard  io  SoaBdiaaviao  proper 

names  supplemented  with  the  letter  a.  why 
should  we  unite  monks  in  holy  wedlock  in  order 
to  produce  spurious  descendants  P 

J.  C.  EooisB. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS*  BTC. 

A  Life  of  Anthony  AMey  Cooper^  Fint  Earl  of 
ShaflnStry,  1621-1683.  By  W.  D.  Christie,  MJL, 
formerly  Her  Mi^esty's  Minister  to  the  Aigentine  Con- 
federation and  to  BraziL  in  Tnn  Volmmu.  (Uao- 
nuUan.) 
In  a  time  liks  the  pressnt,  so  well  describad  in  Can* 

sing's  wen-known  ooa^iet»  which — 

"  finds  with  kesD,  discriminating  sight, 
'  Black's  not  so  black,  nor  white  so  y^ry  white,*' — 

It  Is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  endeavoorBshonld  be  made 
to  do  jnstioe  to  one  to  whom'  scant  Jastioe  has  hitherto 
been  awarded,  Anthony  Ashler  Cooper,  first  Earl  of 
Sbaftesbury.  That  Mr.  Christie  has  sneeeeded  in  Us 
attempt  is  not  matter  of  surprise,  seehig  that  he  came  to 
the  work  with  theadvantagesof  a  politlMa,parfi«raentarv, 
and  fiplomatic  trahring,  a  familiar  acqnamance  with  the 
history  of  the  times  during  which  Shaftesbmy  played  his 
fitftd  part,  and  has  bestowed  infinite  time  and  pains  in 
turning  to  full  account  the  ample  materials  for  ms  woi^ 
which  have  been  placed  at  his  disposal.  So  long  ago  as 
1859,  Mr.  Christie  published  the  first  volume  of  a  similar 
work,  which  brought  down  Shaftesbury's  Life  to  the 
Restoration,  founded  chiefly  on  the  papers  preserved  at 
St.  Giles's,  to  which  the  present  earl  had  given  him  access. 
Instead,  however,  of  completing  that  work,  Mr.  Christie 
has  thouffht  it  advisable  to  prepare  a  connected  lue- 
graphyof  his  beio— foonded  on  the  various  ceUeetieM 
which  he  has  had  the  oppostnnily  of  consulting.  Among 
these,  in  addition  to  the  Sbaftesbury  Papers  akeady  men- 
tioned, are  the  Locke  Papers  in  the  possowion  of  the  Eari 
of  Lovelaoe ;  the  Papers  of  Mr.  Thynne,  afterwards  Lord 
Weymouth,  with  whom  Shaftesbury  ww  neariy  con- 
nected by  marriage,  and  which  are  in  the  possession  of 
the  Marquess  of  Bath ;  and,  lastiyt  the  Archives  of  the 
French  Foreign  Office  and  the  documents  preserved  in 


448 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEa 


C4«k  S.  VII.  Mat  4o,  71- 


our  State  Paper  Office.  It  can  scarceljr  then  be  matter  of 
wonder  that,  with  each  original  sources  of  information, 
and  snch  a  hero  as  Shaftesboiy— of  whom  Charles  II.  said 
that  he  knew  more  law  than  any  of  his  judges,  and  more 
divinity  than  any  of  his  bishops — and  considering  how 
prominently  he  figured  in  the  great  drama  of  his  time — 
Mr.  Christie  should  have  produced  a  book  which  will 
not  only  be  read  with  pleasure  and  interest  at  the  present 
moment,  but  Mds  fair  to  take  a  permanent  place  in  every 
bistoricid  library. 

Th§  Life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart,  Abridged  from  the 
larger  W'ork  by  J.  G,  Loekhart,  With  apr^atorv 
Zetter  by  James  R.  Hope  Scott,  Q.C.    (A.  &  C.  Black.) 

This  new  edition  of  Lockhart's  own  abridgment  of  his 
<ieBghtful  biography  of  his  great  father-in-law— a  work 
bitherto  much  less  known  than  it  deserves  to  be— is  pre- 
ceded by  a  graceful  and  touching  letter  to  Mr.  Glad- 
stone, who,  writing  to  Mr.  Hope  ^tt  in  1863,  speaks  of 
Che  max  delight,  and  under  what  fascination  he  had  been 
readmg  the  laieer  work,  and  expressed  a  wish  to  see  an 
abridgment  of  it  published.  We  trust  this  new  edition 
will  meet  with  the  ciroulation  it  deserves :  for  we  know 
no  book  which  a  father,  anxious  to  develop  an  honest  and 
manly  character  in  a  son,  could  put  into  his  hands  with 
better  hope*  «f  mm 


ne  EUmenii  of  Psychology  on  the  Prineiplet  ofBemAe. 
£<Kted  and  iUugtrated  in  a  mmpU  andoopular  manner 
by  Dr.  G.  Raue,  Professor  in  the  Memcal  College, 
Fhiladelrfiia.  Fourth  Ediiion,  Congiderably  altered, 
improved,  and  enlarged  by  Johann  Gottlieb  Dressier, 
late  Hector  in  the  Normal  School  at  Bautzen.  TnutB- 
latedfrom  the  Oerman,    (Parker.) 

The  translator  of  this  work  finding  himself  suddenly 
Sn  want  of  a  Manual  of  Psychology,  which  should  be  at 
once  flrystematic,  intelligible,  bridr,  plausible,  and  above 
all  thmgs  suggestive,  and  finding  no  English  treatise 
which  fulfilled  all  these  conditions,  selected  the  Lehrbuch 
der  Psychdogie  of  Dr.  Beneke  for  translation ;  but  even- 
tually adopted  the  compendium  of  that  author's  theonr 
by  Kaue  and  Dressier.  The  translator  does  not  identi^ 
himself  with  all  Beneke*s  views,  but  points  out  in  his 
Introduction  the  ingenuitjr  with  which  Beneke  applied 
it  to  the  elucidation  of  Logic,  Metaphysics,  Ethics,  Law, 
Politics,  Mental  Disease,  and  Education. 

Tbb  Rev.  Edward  Wilton. — It  was  with  deep  regret 
that  we  saw  in  The  Guardian  the  announcement  of  the 
death  of  the  Rev.  Edward  Wilton  of  West  Lavington. 
Mr.  Wilton  was  especially  qnalifled  to  write  on  all  ge- 
nealogical and  heraldic  qaestions,  was  a  Arequent  contri- 
butor to  our  colnmns,  and  an  interesting  paper  from  his 
pen  on  the  Swan  Song  of  Parson  Avery  will  be  foond  in 
our  present  number  X^nte,  p.  433).  Bv  Mb.  Wilton's 
death,  which  took  plaee  on  the  4th  of  this  month,  Wilt- 
shire has  sustained  a  real  loss. 

The  UNivERaiTT  of  Stbasburg. — ^Under  the  autho- 
rity of  Baron  von  Ktihlwetter,  civil  governor  of  Alsace,  a 
committee,  consisting  of  Lord  Lytton,  Mr.  Hepworth 
Dixon,  and  others,  has  been  formed  in  London  to  collect 
and  forward  snch  offerings  for  the  library  of  the  Univer- 
aity  of  Strasburg  as  their  literary  and  scientific  brethren 
may  be  pleased  to  make.  All  books  of  a  suitable  sort 
will  be  accepted.  Authors  are  invited  to  present  copies 
of  their  works,  and  publishers  selections  flrom  tlieir  lists. 
R«>orts  of  learned  bodies,  reprints  of  pubUshing  societies, 
and  duplicates  fh>m  old  libraries,  will  be  welcome.  Par- 
cels should  be  sent,  and  communications  addressed,  to 
Mr.  Nicholas  Trtlbner,  60,  Paternoster  Row. 

The  PniLOLoaiOAL  Socibtt.— Professor  Goldstttcker 
is  named  as  the  new  President  of  this  society. 


A  FLA.aTBB  cast  of  the  Tablet  of  Canopus,  with  the 
trilingual  version  in  Hieroglyphs,  Greek,  and  Demotic, 
has  arrived  at  the  British  Museum.  It  has  been  pre- 
sented by  the  Khedive. 

Mb.  James  Gbant,  late  editor  of  the  Morning  Adver- 
tieer,  has  nearly  completed  his  new  History  of  the  News- 
paper Press,  ^e  chapter  upon  the  Morning  Chronicle 
will  be  full  of  curious  revelations. 

Mb.  Andrew  Andbewb,  author  of  **  The  History  of 
British  Journalism,"  is  about  to  publish  in  The  Nevs' 
paper  Frees  a  translation  of  **  Histoire  de  la  Presse,  en 
Angleterre  et  aux  Etats-Unis;  par  Cncheval-Claiigny, 
Anden  R^dacteur  en  Chef  du  ConetUutionnel.^ 

The  Thames  Embankment.— Mr.  W.  H.  Smith,  M.P. 
will  shortly  bring  forward  his  motion  on  the  sulgect  of 
preserving  certun  land,  reclaimed  from  the  river  at 
Whitehall,  as  pleasure-grounds.  It  is  greatly  to  be  de- 
sired that  the  member  for  Westmlxtster  may  be  sappoited, 
as  last  year,  by  a  majority  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
and  to  such  an  extent  as  to  prevent  all  idea  of  any  com- 
promise which  would  sacrifice  the  interests  of  the  public. 

SoGiRTT  op  Antiquabies.— There  is  now  exhibiting 
in  the  rooms  of  the  society  a  large  collection  of  imple- 
ments of  the  so-called  Palsolithic  Age.  They  fbrmed 
the  subject  of  interesting  comments  by  Mr.  Evans  and 
Mr.  Francks  at  the  meeting  on  Thursday  evening. 


BOOKS   AND   ODD   VOLUMES 

WAKISD  TO  PVBOHASB. 

'  FferUenlaya  and  Friea,  ae.,  of  tb«  fblhrnlnff  books  to  be  wnt  direct  to 
the  gentlemen  by  whom  thtj  nn  reqnixed,  inioee  nnme  and  addxen  ere 
glYen  for  that  inupoie. 

Aaa&soLOotA.  YoLXXDC 

Snrtcee  Soelety  Booket— 

Wills  axd  iHyBTro&m  ov  tub  Nobtbbb2I  Gountim.  YoL  L 
Aooouktb  Bollh  or  CoDivouix. 

BOWJM  Ck>BBUPOKDnRni. 
DCBHAM  HODBBHOLD  BOOK. 

Dbpobitioxs  bb8pbotii?o  thb  Rbbklliost  of  IMS. 

iBJUBonovs  or  Riobabd  Babsbs. 

RiOHQioHD  Wills. 

Thb  Bbdb-Roll  ov  Johk  Bubxablt. 

Wanted  hj  Edward  Peaoodk,  Etq.,  Botteafbrd  Uanor,  Biia. 


0atUti  t0  Carreifpanlrattif . 

MlLTON^s  *'CoHUS." — We  have  been  reminded  by  a  Cor- 
respondent  that  <A«  omitted  pauagefrom  Comns  ha*  already 
afipeared  in  *•  N.  &  Q."  (J^^  S.  iL  246),  with  a  Greek  ver- 
sion by  Lord  Lyttelton, 

Sib  John  Mason*s  DbscendANTs. — The  qaery  ap- 
peared at  p.  365,  and  a  rq}ly  at  p.  420  of  the  present  vo- 
lume, 

Eabth  walks  on  Eabth.--Quis  is  referred  to  oar 
3'A  S.  iv.  112,  172;  viii.  93,  for  information  respecting 
this  inscription  at  Melrose  and  its  supposed  author,  WtUiam 
Billinge, 

E.  B.  will  find  a  very  fidl  list  of  Moneys  puhSeations  in 
Bohn's  edition  of  howndes* 

W.  A.  B.  C.-^Dr,  Ginsburg's  work  on  The  Moabite 
Stone  is  published  by  Longmans,  A  new  etEHon  is,  ve 
believe,  nearly  ready. 

Jatdbb  received. 

**Thb  Shbubs  of  Pabnabsus  **  (<m<e,  p.  410)  is  by 
WiUiam  Woty :  see  "  N.  &  Q."  4«J»  S.  ii.  479, 498. 

R.  W.  BiNNS  (Worcestery— 7%e  authorship  of  the 
satirical  parody  Eikon  Basiliae  Dentera,  1694,  wns  in- 
quired after  unsuccessfully  in  **  N.  J^  Q,*'  8''  S.  iy,  410. 


(•8.viiMi»!o,7i.]  KOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


THE  SACRISTY. 

A  Xaganne  of  JEcdeiiatttcat  Art  aitd  LUtra^a-f, 
n  Qnarteclj  Nnmbera,  price  2j.  6d.  eieh, 


COHTKKTS  QV   No.   I. !  — 

Tb»  Complation  of  8t.  Paul's  Caifaednl  (lUiutnted). 
The  BymboUnn  of  Aninulg  in  ChriitUn  Art.  By  Herr 
B.  EcKl,  of  Cologne,  udtbe  Editor.  1.  Tfae  Fox.  The 
Stoij  at  a  Stolvn  MS.  flnm  the  Rojil  Library,  Paru. 
B;  S.  Babdo-Gouui,  H.A.  The  RaveDiu  Moulc*.  By 
B.  W,  TwiQO.  Oa  CerUin  Bepreuntatioai  of  the  BiMied 
Tirglc  Mai7,  with  a  child  on  either  knn.  Sketches  in 
Foreign  Churches.  I.  Diniat.  Some  Thooghts  on  Mo- 
dem Parish  Churches.  The  Proper  Tints  tar  Frascoea 
and  Embroidery.  Hail!  True  Body  (..4m  r>n>n].  The 
Aadeot  Paridan  Melody.  The  Curiosity  Comer.  L  A 
LiUuKical  Curloalty.  The  Empty  Socket:  A  Talmndia 
Lagmd.  Berlews  of  Books,  Aicbllsetml  Notfoea  (fit. 
BanMlMU^  Ozlbrd). 


**^i  ttural  qiuUIr 


fic^ClulIlaudFstcnftirS.  Fiul'iOLhtdcll.     Wllh  ■l-pM<niiu- 
run.  r.BJ.   Tin  Bible  iwl  Pr»j«r 


HODGES,  a.  Btdftrd  Strttl,  Stnad.  LeoAoa. 


Etftj  SfttDTdSTk  TdoTkbp  Qurto.  ud  lo  be  hid,  by  order,  ( 


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Ii  puUIAed  CTST  B>liiid>T,  pris  U.,  «r  Fra  bj  Fosl.  Hd. 
islBliiHd  InMnlU^PHtLHid  [n  HaU-TevlT  Vglmnii,  nit 


NOTES  and  QITSRIES  maf  be  pnCKrtd  bj/ordtro/ 
«(ty  Baolseller  end  NatntOM,  oroflkt  PiMuktr, 


.  Q.  SMITH,  U,  WaUiDgton  Street,  London,  W.C, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[*»avn.  iiA«2o,7i. 


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SJ 


HAHPEB'S    CATALOGUE    of    BOOKS, 


LATE     PROFESSOR    DE    MOHGAN.  - 


GRiSD  PUMP  aOOH  HOTEL,  BATH,  opposita 

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rFDIQESnON.— THE  MEDICAL  PBOraSSIOH 

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mrarVALL^D  for  PII4UAHCY  iSD  rUTOTJB. 
ABk  for  "IiBlA  AND  PEBBIH'B"'  BATTCI!. 
BEWARE     OF     IMITATIONS, 


Et<  Utnq^uut  Ihi 


THE   irarW  VEIiliUM-WOVE   CLUB- 
HOTTSE  FAPEB. 

U>Diifkctiu«il  >sJ^«ld  onlr  W 

PABTBIDGE  ABD  OOOPEE,  1«,  Fk«t  Stmet. 

Conin  of  ChiDoeiy  Line. 


A  Ace]  penfvB  biiHHI  QpoaltwIA  th^  fcamrof  m  Bia«q«JI.Mi 

PAKTB-IDeS    AND    COOPES, 

MANUFACrUBINQ  STATIOHERB, 
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CABBUOE  PAID  TO  TEE  COimTKY  OH  OBDEBa 
Z  PAPER.  C[««llnltBlB».li 


WilSfSw,  Pi 


"OLD  EN6U8H"  FURNITURE. 

HOtaidHaiiadMM. 

OOLIiniTSOZr  and  IXKIK  (iBte  HottIbs), 
CABIKST  KASSBS. 

109,  FLEET  STBEST,  B.C.    BHabliabed  1782. 


TAPESTRY  PAPERHAmiNQS. 


OOZJJFSOS  uad  IXX3E  (late  Hening), 
DECOBATOBS, 

109,  PLEET  STREET,  LOITDON.  EaUbKshed  178S. 


TTOENE'S  POMPEIAH    DECORATIONS. 
ROBERT  HOHNE, 

HODSE  SEOOftATOS  »d  PAPKB-aAKaiX« 


1  HIa  lUntr  th(  Einr  eC  IWt- 


pHE    HEW    GENTUEKAITB    GOLD    WATCH, 


4«t8iTII.MAT20,Tl] 


NOTES  AlCD  QUERIES. 


AC€snmnm  cavsb  ifoss  of 

Awfrtitonti  o«Ma  I^oa*  oT  mine. 
ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MOMCY. 

FrovidM  agaimi  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

vr  nrsuRnro  with  thi 

Passengers*  Assurance  Company, 

rB»n*  of  M  to  IM  •/  la«im«aia»  ■»  n^ 


— it  of  M  to  mm  mf  iamtmnjtmto  «i  SMtth. 

or  SB  «UowaiievatthetstaofC«ptrvedrftrH)vx7.  ^^ 
^•S«8»OO0  have  b«en  P&id  as  Coaipeiisation, 


W^FPgi?  Q^  MARSALA  WINE,  guaranteed 

ilor  to  kSr  S22"SH!i  'J^J*??!  ^I^«y  •f  »»«•%  tod  much  rape- 

mLi^a^  ^£1L&?*'¥V*  ^  Bewick  Street),  LOTidonT^    Erti- 
bUdndlMl,   F«*PrieeUgts  port  free  on  «ppllc«tloii. 


•A«£0&HBIIX,  and  10.  BEGElfT  8TBEET,  LOZTDON. 


T^JOTHIKra  IMEOSfflBLE.— AGUA  am^t^Ijtxa 

XT    JWturee  flw  Hnmm  H«ir  to  Iti  prirtlne  hm.  no  matter  at  trliak 
"^u  M"MB»-  JOHN qOSMELL  ftmhiif  a ki^S^ tiiTSd 

"'tt   ft"  "^  offlbred  to  the  Public  In  a  more  eonoentratedfbrm. 
ana  at  a  lowar  price. 

8oidlaJI<taee»>».eaeh.alatto^ft.ftcL,oriaf.aach.wWhl»nieh. 

JOHK   GOSNELL  &  CO.'S   CHERKY  TOOTH 
PASTE  i>  KTCatly  roperior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gfrei  the  teeth 
'T'j!g.^j*"y^yg*^^^  enamel  from  decay,  and  ixniwrU  a 


idRSL^^^B^^  ^''B  Kx^  BIsUr  8e«&tad  TOILET  and 
XfUnSEBT  POWDEB. 

Tobehadofell  Pttrftmieri  and  Ghambte  thionchoat  tlw  Kiasouui, 


and  at  Angel 


»,  upper 


icMntii 


w 


BTTPTUBES—BT  BOTAL  LXTTEBS  PATBKT. 

HITB'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

aUoired  bjnpward*  of  aoo  Kedieal  men  to  be  the  moat  efhe- 
tLvflL  taErvntlim  fax  tfaa  onratiTe  treatment  of  HBRinA.   The  tue  of  a 

•teeXanciiiSi  M  oAm  ImrtfU  in  ita  •Aets.it  here  aToidadi  a  aoft  beadate 
being vmrnronnd the bodyiwhile  the  regniaite  realatinc power  la  anp- 
pUmTIu  the  MOG-MAm  PAD  and  PATENT  LE^mtllttfaicwith  ao 
mneheaae  and  doaeneaa  that  it  eaanot  be  detected, and  may  bewom 


dnrinf  deep.   A  deacriptlTe  drcolar  may  be  had,  and  the  Trua  (which 
oannw  (Ml  to  jit)  Jarw  aided  by  poat  onthe  drenmftrence  of  the  body. 


U. 


talvw  ttaa  Upa,  beiiifr  mi  to  the 

MB.  JOHN  WHITB.  ns,  PIOGADILLT,  LONIXlir. 

mee  ofa  Sinato  Tmaa,  lea.,  Sla.,  St.  td.,  and  Sl8.6ci.PM 

Doable  TniaB,sla.6tf.,4ti.,  and  5la.6d:   Poatasela.i 

AnUmUlieflTniaa,41f.and&l«.6d.   Foatage  la.  lod. 

Toit  OfllM  ovdvi  viiyiJte  to  JOHN  WHITB,  Poet  OOea,  Ploeadniy. 
ITLASTIO  STOCKINaS,   KNEE-CAPS,  *e.,  for 

M}j   YABIOOSE  YEINS,  and  aU  caaea  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 


j^t>^.^  w—riTill!BH^,8PBAIN8,Jto.  They  are  MRNMfJlgMin  ««»««*, 
and  tattEpenai^,  and  are  drawn  on  I&e  an  ordlnaiy  atodnig*  PUeea 
4a.6(l.,7k.atf.,1lla.,andlBabeaebi   Fiale8a6cl. 

JOHN  WHITB,  UANX7P ACTITBXB,  ns,  PICCADIUiYi  Lpndon. 

GENTLEMEN  desirous  of  baring  tfaeir  Lisens 
dreaaed  to  perfection  ahould  anpply  their  Laundreaaet  with  the 


FIBK 


tt 


wfileU  Iwparta  ateHUeaey  andelaatidtygituying  allka  to  tta  atnae 
of  eight  and  toaeh. 

A  FACT.-~HAIRrG0LOUR  WASH.'-By  damping 

J\  the  hair  with  thla  beautiAiirr  perfumed  Waah.  in  two  daya  grey 
mar  or  whiakera  become  their  original  coloar,  and  remaina  ao-liy  an  oe- 
caaieaal  nlng.  This  is_gaanntead  hr  HB.  ROS0.  u«w  ad.,  mb»  Aw 
Port  Offlce  <nder.-JLLBZ.  HOB6^  MS,  Hi^  Halbam,  Loi^oa. 

PANISJBL  ELY  is  tlM  acting  ingredient  in  Aua. 

BOSSES  C  ANTHABIDES  OIL.  It  la  a  anre  Bealarer  of  Hair,  and 
roducerofWhiikerat  Ra-eflkctlaapeedy.  ItlapatroniaedbyBoyalty. 
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OLLOWAYS   PILLS.— THE   BODITS   BUL- 

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amount  of  auflbringneaees  or  hears  of  around  him,  will  be  Itemed  to 
eonibaa  that  nine-tentha  of  the  nudadlea  afflicting  adulta  depend  upon  a 
diaordered  atate  of  the  alomaeh.  HolKownr'a  PiUa  caneet  tiie  fltrt 
aymptoma  of  indigertian  by  acting  healtU&  on  the  gaatrie  Juice  (the 
Ibod^a  natnral  aolTent),  and  wholeaomely  exciting  the  urvr.  They  dia- 
pel  flatulency,  incipient  indigeation,  and  overcome  heat,  diatention,  and 
pain  aHarnHng  mora  advanoed  or  neglected  caaea.  Theae  PiUa  invi* 
gorato  and  rertore  the  dyspeptic  ftomlhe  gcat  jnd  sudden  demesiion 
of  rtrength  el  ways  aeeompeiiylBg  stcwnadidlaordera  or  biliary  oeraiig^ 
ment. 


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CONTENTS.— N«  178. 


NOTES:  — BeHcs  and  Letters  of  Burns  lately  disooTered, 
448— Lines  bj  Sir  John  Burgoyne,  461  —  Manr  Queen  of 
of  Soots,  Ac..  lb.  —  Hereditary  Genius.  lb.  — ^  The  Gates 
Ajsr  "  —  A  Typographical  Oddity  —  Saoiar  —  A  Ghost 
Story  —  Junius,  462. 

QUERIES  t  —  Franois  and  Junius  463  —  Child  bom  on  the 
AnniTersary  of  its  Pareots'  Weddin9*dsy — Dore— Drum : 
an  BTening  Party  —  ** Everybody's  Bnsineis"  —  "The 
flretltil.Fbrcupine"  — Uode  deriYatur"01adh"P—  Horan 
Arms  —  Sir  William  Jones's  Alcaic  Ode  —  Sir  Robert 
KUligrew:  Bnrlamachi  — Lincolnshire:  Drinkinir Song — 
Ber.  0.  R.  Maturin  —  Miniature  Painter,  temp.  Charles  I. 

—  The  First  Book  of  Napoleon  —  Grid,  *'Metam/'  ziii. 
264:  "Benignior"  —  Sir  8t^hen  Proctor  —  Quotation 
wanted  —  Scottish  Guard  of  Prance—  Pasnges  in  Shelley 

—  Sonnet  Queries— ** The  Thunderer"— Topography — 
**  The  World's  Judgment/'  463. 

REPLIES :— German  Etymological  Bictlonsries,  466  —  Ez- 
traordinaiy  I/egend  from  Gainsburgh,  467 — The  Letter  of 
*'  8X  "  explained,  468  — BUnk  furtiu  Wink,  459  -  British 
Scythe-Armed  Chariots,  400  —  The  Completion  of  St. 
Paul's,  4B0  —  The  Bookworm,  481 — Scripsits  or  Christmas 
Pieoes  —  Sydney  Godolphin  —  Worcester  Arms—"  Baron  " 
Nicholson:  John  Dalrymple— ''Heart  of  HeartCsl"  — 
"Light  of  Lifthts"- "The  Wind  has  a  Language,*^  Ac.— 
Bheerwort — Trereris  "  Grete  Herball "  —Memorial  Verses 
on  the  Number  of  Dsjsio  the  Months— The  Oldest  Inns 
in  England— The  Phoenix  Throne:  Byron— English  Tersi- 
flcation  —  Rosemary  used  at  Funerals — George  Edwards 

—  Bediet's  Murderers  —  The  Sohoolmseter  Abroad  in 
Staffordshire  —  Bishop  Mordecai  Gary  —  Why  does  a  newly 
bom  Child  cry?  —  Sir  John  Powell  —  Samplers  —  Two 
Passages  in  "  Tbnon  of  Athens,"  Ac,  48S 

Noftes  on  Books.  Ac 


RELICS  AND  LETTERS  OF  BURNS  LATELY 

DISCOVERED. 

Mr.  M^owall,  the  aathor  of  the  interesting 
Yolume  entitled  Bttrru  m  Dumfriesshire,  has  lately 
dlBCOvered  a  relic  of  Burns  in  addition  to  the  many 
others  that  he  enumerates  in  his  work.  It  may 
be  worUi  while  to  record  in  *'  N.  &  Q.''  his  state- 
ment, which  is  as  follows :  — 

<*  An  who  are  fiimiliar  with  the  biography  of  Robert 
Bums  know  that  when  at  EUisland  he  used  to  get  Kirsty 
Flint  of  Closebom  to  sing  over  his  songs,  in  order  that 
he  might  test  them  by  her  rich  roice  and  good  musical 
taste.  It  is  well  known,  too,  that  the  bard  entertained  a 
high  respect  for  Kirsty ;  but  we  were  not  aware  till  lately 
that  he  had,  in  evidence  of  this  feeling,  presented  her  with 
the  copy  of  Youna't  Night  Thou^U^  which  he  often  pon- 
dered over,  and  from  which  he  repeatedly  quoted  in  his 
correspondence.  This  yolume  he  gave  to  Mrs.  Flint, 
with  the  remark:  'Tak  that,  Kirs^;  I  hae  got  more 
aentimentalism  from  that  book  than  from  any  work  o' 
the  kind  I  ever  read.'  Kirsty,  as  may  be  well  oonceiyed, 
treasured  the  yolume,  and  when  at  one  time  asked  to  dis- 
pose of  it,  dedaied  solenmly,  <  I  wad  just  as  snne  amaist 
pairt  wi'  the  Bible  itiel',  as  wi'  the  beak  gien  to  me  too 
o'  his  ain  han'  by  Mr.  Bums.'  Bat  to  a  neighbour  who 
knew  her  well,  and  paid  much  attention  to  her  in  her 
old  age,  Mr.  John  Coitart,  she  lent  the  volume  in  ISSS, 
with  the  assurance  that  at  her  death  it  was  to  become  his 
property.  Mrs.  flint  dying  a  few  months  afterwards,  it 
remained  with  Mr.  Cottart,  who  left  It  with  ns  a  few 
days  back,  with  a  reqneet  that  we  would,  in  his  nam^ 
present  it  to  the  Obssmtory  (of  DumfHss).    When 


suitably  inscribed  it  will  be  there  deposited  among  other 
prized  relics  of  the  national  bard.  On  the  inside  of  one 
of  the  boards  is  written,  not  by  Bnms^  but  probably  by 
Kirsty  herseli;  the  words :  *  God  give  me  grace  on  it  to 
read,  and  not  only  for  to  read,  but  truley  for  to  undw- 
stand,  and  always  learn  to  be  at  God's  command.'  The 
book  is  18mo  size,  plainly  bound  in  sheep-skin,  and  bears 
date  Gh^gow,  1764." 

The  following  letter  of  Bums  is  giTen  in  the 
Glasgow  Herald  by  Mr.  Waddell ;  and  as  it  does 
not  appear  to  have  hitherto  been  published,  and 
may  easily  be  lost  sight  of  if  recorded  only  in  a 
daily  paper,  you  may  perhaps  allow  it  to  hie  em- 
balmed m  your  pages :  — 

**  Sanquhar,  26th  November,  1788. 
**  Sir,^I  write  you  this  and  the  enclosed  literally  en 
nossanf,  for  I  am  just  baiting  on  my  way  to  Ayrshire.  I 
nave  Philosophy  or  Pride  enough  to  support  me  with 
unwounded  indifierence  against  the  neglect  of  my  mere 
dull  superiors,  the  merely  rank  and  file  of  Noblesse  and 
Gkntry,  nay  even  to  keep  my  yanity  quite  sober  under 
the  ludin^if  of  their  compliments;  but  fh»m  those  who  are 
equally  distinguished  l^  their  Rank  and  Character— 
those  who  bear  the  true  elegant  impressions  of  the  Great 
Creator  on  the  richest  materials^  their  little  notices  and 
attentions  are  to  me  amongst  the  first  of  earthly  enjoy- 
ments. The  honor  you  did  my  fugitive  pieces  in  request- 
ing copies  of  them  is  so  higmy  uittering  to  my  feelinss 
and  Poetic  Ambition,  that  I  could  not  resbt  even  this  half 
opportunity  of  scrawling  off  for  yoa  the  enclosed  as  a 
small  but  honest  testimony  how  truly  and  gratefully  I 
have  the  honor  to  be^  Sir, 

**  Yoar^deeply  oUiged  humble  Servant, 

•  RoBT.  Burns 

Mr.  Waddell  tells  us  that— 

**  the  original  of  the  document  Is  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
James  Graham,  Mount  Vernon  Cottage,  Carluke— a  most 
enthusiastic  antiquary  of  fully  foarsoore— who  has  very 
obligingly  communicated  a  copy  to  me.  From  subsequent 
inquiries,  I  leam  that  it  came  into  Mr.  Graham's  hands 
firom  those  of  an  old*acauaintance  of  his,  now  resident  in 
England,  but  who  had  formerly  been  confidential  servant 
to  Norman  Lockhart  of  Lee.  Mr.  Lockhart,  when  on  a 
^sit  at  Dumfries,  received  it  frvm  his  brother-in-law, 
Mr.  M'Murdo,  the  Duke  of  Qoeensberry's  representative 
at  Dmmlanrig,  to  whom  it  was  no  doubt  originally 
addressed ;  and  by  Mr.  Lockhart  it  was  bequeathed  as  a 
memorial  to  his  faithful  attendant.  The  poet  at  that 
date  was  frequently  in  Ayrshire,  coming  and  going,  be- 
fore his  final  settlement  at  EUisland,  and  the  letter  must 
have  been  written  on  the  occasion  of  his  Journey  to 
Maachline,  when  he  went  to  bring  home  his  bride.  It 
eives  additional  interest  to  that  Journey,  so  important  in 
his  lifr,  and  shows  him  exactly  as  he  was  upon  the  road. 
It  seems,  in  fact,  to  be  the  only  letter  ever  written  by  him 
firom  Sanquhar,  although  he  was  often  enough  there  both 
proftssionally  and  otherwise^  and  once  in  a  yor  bad 
humour,  as  we  know,  only  two  months  later.  But  its 
chief  literary  interest  is  in  the  proof  it  affords  so  dis- 
tinctly, that  his  friendship  with  M'Murdo  and  others 
of  that  dass  was  courted  by  such  persons  themsdves,  and 
was  in  no  way  brought  aboat  by  any  intnutoa  of  the 
poet" 

Mr.  John  MWuxdo,  who  is  here  mentioned, 
was  Chamberlain  to  Duke  VHlliam  of  Queens- 
beiry  (old  Q.)  from  1780  to  1797,^  oceupying 
during  that  period  a  prominent  pooticm  in  the 


45a 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


[4«k  S.  VII.  Mat  27, 71. 


county  of  Damfriee.  His  grandson,  Major-General 
W.  M'MuidOy  C.B.y  is  Imown  as  a  distinguislied 
officer  of  the  British  armj,  having  attracted  the 
attention  of  the  late  Sir  Charles  Napier  by^  his 
personal  intrepidity  and  great  zeal  in  the  Sdnde 
war,  more  particul^ly  at  the  battle  of  Meeanee. 

To  this  1  may  add  another  letter  of  Bums,  a 
portion  of  which  is  found  in  Chambers's  lAfe 
(toL  It.  p.  266),  but  it  had  neyer  appeared  in  its 
entirety  tiU  it  was  read  by  Mr.  M^iarmid,  secre- 
tary, at  the  anniversary  dinner  at  Dumrries  in 
honour  of  the  poet^  on  January  25,  1870.  It  is  as 
fc^ows : — 

''ROBEBT  burns  to  KB.  FINDLATBR. 

**  Dear  Si^ — I  am  both  much  suiprlaed.and  vexed  at  that 
accident  t/t  Lorimer's  stock.  The  last  sarvey  I  made  prior 
to  Mr.  Lorimer*8  going  to  Edinr.  I  was  veiy  particular 
in  my  inspection,  and  the  quantity  was  certainly  in  his 
possession  as  I  stated  it  The  surveys  I  made  during  his 
absence  might  as  well  have  been  marked  <  key  abtent^  as  I 
sever  found  anybody  but  the  ladv,  who  I  know  is  not  mis- 
tress of  keys.  &c.,  to  know  anything  of  It,  and  one  of  the 
times  it  would  have  rejoiced  all  Hell  to  have  seen  her  so 
drunk.  I  have  not  surveyed  there  since  his  return.  I  know 

the  gentleman's  ways  are,  like  the  grace  of  G ,  past 

all  comprehension  ;  but  I  shall  give  the  house  a  severe 
Bcrutiny  to-morrow  morning,  and  send  you  in  the  naked 
ikcts.  1  know,  Sir,  and  regret  deeply,  that  this  business 
glances  with  a  malign  aspect  on  my  character  as  an 
Officer ;  but  as  I  am  really  innocent  in  the  affair,  and  as 
the  gentleman  is  known  to  be  an  illicit  Dealer,  and  par- 
ticuurly  as  this  is  the  9imqle  instance  of  the  least  shadow 
of  carelessness  or  impropriety  in  my  conduct  as  an  Officer. 
I  shall  be  peculiarly  unfortunate  if  my  character  shall  fall 
a  sacrifice  to  the  dark  manoeuvres  of  a  smuggler. — I  am, 
Sir,  your  obliged  and  obedient  humble  servt., 

**  Sunday  even.  **  Robt.  Burns. 

« I  send  you  some  rhymes  I  have  just  finishfid,  which 
tickle  my  fancy  a  little.^ 

There  is  no  date  to  this  letter,  and  we  cannot, 
therefore,  say  at  what  period  he  first  attracted  the 
attention  of  his  superiors  by  looseness  in  the  per- 
formance  of  his  duties,  but  we  can  easUy  imagine 
that  the  duty  was  irksome  from  the  beginning,  as 
he  sung  on  getting  his  appointment  in  1789  to  the 
following  enect : — 

*  Searching  auld  wives'  banel^ 
Ochfhon!  the  day  I 
That  darty  barm  should  stain  my  laurels.'* 

In  this  letter  he  ''regrets  deeply  that  this 
business  glances  with  a  malip;n  aspect  on  my  cha- 
racter as  an  officer/'  and  this  confirms  what  Mr. 
Eindlater  in  his  testimony  in  favour  of  the  official 
character  of  Bums  states,  as  given  by  Chambers 
(iy.  299),  lliat  '*  he  was  jealous  of  the  least  im- 
putation on  his  vifi^ance."  There  are  anecdotes, 
nowever,  which  wow  that  his  good  nature  in- 
duced him  at  times  to  wink  at  the  peccadilloes  of 
''  auld  wives  "  when  they  attempted  to  cheat  the 
leyenue.  The  Lorimer  here  spoken  of  was  the 
father  of  the  young  lady  whom  the  poet  calls 
Chloric^  and  whose  oeautv  and  charms  he  cele- 
brates in  no  fewer  than  eleyen  of  his  moat  suc- 
cessful lyrics. 


In  addition  to  these  reminiscences  of  Bums,  I 
may  state  that  there  are  some  traditionary  ac- 
counts in  Ciosebum  of  the  fate  of  the  bed  on 
which  the  poet  was  bom.  When]  Gilbert,  the 
brother  of  the  poet,  took  the  farm  of  Dinning  in 
Ciosebum  parish,  it  was  brought  among  his  effects 
from  Ayrshire  to  that  place,  where  it  remained  till 
his  death.  His  goods  were  then  sold  by  public 
roup,  and  as  Bacon  the  landlord  of  Brownhill 
Lm  had  become  known  horn  his  connection  with 
Bums  about  1790,  it  was  bought  by  him,  and 
occupied  by  an  old  groom,  Joe  Langhome,  weU 
known  in  the  early  pi^  of  this  centui^  to  all  who 
were  travelling  along  the  Carlisle  and  Glasgow 
road.  On  the  death  of  Bacon  (his  wife  had  pre- 
deceased him)  in  1824  his  j^oods  were  sold,  and 
Joe,  who  was  a  great  fieivounte  in  the  parish,  let 
it  be  known  that  he  wished  to  purchase  the  bed 
with  which  he  had  been  so  long  associated. 
When  it  was  put  up  no  one  ofiBred  for  it,  and 
Joe  got  it  at  his  own  price.  Joe  spent  the  last 
years  of  his  life  in  Dumfries,  and  on  nis  deatii  the 
bed  came  into  the  possession  of  one  of  his  daugh- 
ters, who  was  married  to  a  shoemaker.  Th& 
bedstead  is  said  to  have  been  cut  up  and  formed 
into  sniifi^-boxes. 

The  following  account  of  another  relic  of  Bums 
appears  in  the  Olcu^^ow  Herald,  and  is  particularly 
interesting : — 

*'A  correspondent  at  Lesmahagow  writes: — In  the 
very  valuable  and  extensive  collection  of  antiquities  in 
the  possession  of  Mr.  J.  B.  Greenshields  of  Kerse,  Lesma- 
hagow, there  is  a  remarkably  interesting  and  curious,, 
perhaps  unique,  relic  of  our  national  poet — or  at  least  of 
the  first  edition  of  his  works,  published  at  Kilmarnock 
by  John  Wilson  in  1786.  It  is  well  known  to  *  book, 
hunters '  that  this  edition  consisted  of  600  copies,  of  which 
about  850  were  subscribed  for.  The  relic  alluded  to  is 
the  'prospectus'  of  this  work,  with  the  autographs  of 
sixteen  of  the  original  subscribers;  it  might  be,  perhaps, 
more  accurate  to  state  fifteen  of  these  snbecribera,  for  ttie 
name  of  one  is  scored  out,  with  the  renuurk— onppoeed 


pBOPOflJkUB  for  publishing,  bv  subscriptum,  Scottish. 
PoKMS,  By  Robert  Bums.  The  work  to  be  elegantly 
printed  in  one  volume  octavo.  Price,  stitched,  threa 
shillings.^  As  the  author  has  not  the  most  distant  mer> 
cenaiy  view  in  publishing,  as  soon  as  so  many  sub- 
scribers appear  as  will  defray  the  necessary  expense^  the 
work  will  be  sent  .to  the  press. 

*  Set  out  the  brunt  side  of  yoxur  shin. 
For  pride  in  poets  is  nae  sin; 
Glory's  the  prize  for  whidi  they  rin. 

And  FataWi  their  joe. 
And  wha  blaws  best  the  horn  shall  wio, 
And  wharefore  no  ? ' 
•—AJlan  Ram§ay, 

We,  undersubscribers,  engage  to  take  the  above-men- 
tioned work  on  the  conditions  specdfied : — Wm.  Murray^ 
one  copy ;  R.  Thomson,  1  copy ;  James  Hall,  one  oopv  ; 
Gavin  Stewart,  ane  ooppy;  John  Hasting,  one  copies 
WilL  Johnston,  3  coppies ;  Jas.  Inglis,  one  copie ;  John 
Boswell,  one  copy;  Gavin  Geddes,  two  copies;   Geo-. 


4«  S.  VIL  Mat  27, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


461 


Howitson,  one  copy ;  Colin  M'Donffall,  one  coppj ; 
Charles  Howitson,  one  cop^ ;  Willm.  M^CaD,  one  coppy, 
«ent  per  Mr.  Dun ;  William  Templeton,  one  cop^ ; 
William  Sommer,  copy  sent  per  Charles  Crichton— The 
blockhead  refused  it ;  John  Miny,  two  coppiea" 

The  following  unpublished  scrap  may  scarcely 
be  worth  recording  except  as  a  proof  of  his  power 
of  impromptu  satire  when  proToked  by  anything 
which  he  considered  mean.  Bums  and  a  reverend 
clergyman  happened  to  call  for  their  horses  at 
the  same  time  at  Brownhill  Inn.  When  the 
ostler  brought  them  the  minister  gave  him  two- 
pence, and  Bums,  handing  him  a  sizpencoi  turned 
round  to  his  companion  and  called  out— 

**  Black's  your  ooat. 
Black's  year  hair. 
Black's  yoar  conscience, 
And  nocht  to  spair.** 

C.  T.  Eahaqb. 


LINES  BY  SIR  JOHN  BURGOYNE. 

I  send  you  the  ''Lines  addressed  by  General 
Burgoyne  to  his  Wife,  Lady  Charlotte,"  on  her 
endeavouring  to  dissuade  mm  from  going  on  a 
dangerous  expedition.  I  am  pretty  sure  tiiev  have 
never  before  oeen  printed.  It  is  not  true  that  he 
eloped  with  her :  ne  married  her  with  her  eldest 
brother's  full  approbation,  and  &om  his  house  in 
London.  The  father  objected,  but  was  afterwards 
reconciled  to  her.  She  died  at  Kensington  Palace 
in  1776;  happily  for  her,  before  his  ill-success  in 
Anierica.  I  see  a  new  edition  of  The  BoUiad  is 
projected — General  Buigoyne  wa0  a  frequent  con- 
tributor to  it :  — 

*^  Still  does  my  obstinate  repine, 
And  reason's  voice  disprove  ? 
Still  think  him  cold  who  would  combine 
Philosophy  and  love  ? 

**  Then  try,  from  yet  a  nobler  soorce, 
To  gam  the  wish'd  relief- 
Faith  gives  to  reason  double  force, 
And  mocks  the  assaults  of  grief. 

**  By  her,  bright  Hope's  enlivening  ray, 
Patience,  and  peace  are  given ; 
Attend  her  call,  resign,  ob^, 
And  leave  the  rest  to  Heaven. 


i( 


That  power  which  framed  my  Charlotte's  heart 

Thus  tender,  thus  sincere^ 
Sball  bless  each  wish  that  love  can  start, 

Or  absence  foster  there. 

^  Safe  in  the  shadow  of  that  power, 
111  tread  the  hostile  ground ; 
Though  fiery  deaths  in  tempests  shower. 
And  thoownda  fall  around. 

*'  And  when  the  happy  hour  shall  come, 
(O  speedy  may  it  be  I) 
That  brings  thy  faithful  soldier  back 
To  love,  content,  and  thee, 

^  Pure  shall  our  gratitude  ascend 
To  Him  who  guides  our  days ; 
Who,  while  He  gives  with  bounteous  hand. 
Accepts  our  busB  for  praise." 

H.  W.  L. 


MARY  QUEEN  OF  SCOTS : 

A  STTinCABT  OF  THB  PLACES  AKD  PSBIODS   07  HEB 
CAPTIVITT  nr  BNGLAVD. 

1568. — Landed  at  Workington  in  Cumberland, 
on  May  17,  after  the  battle  of  Langside,  and  re- 
mained in  Carlisle  Castle  until  July  15,  and  then 
conducted  to  Bolton  Castle,  in  Wensley  Dale, 
where  she  remained  until  January, 

1669, — ^when  she  was  removed,  and  arrived  at 
Tutbury,  in  Staffordshire,  on  February  2.  She 
was  at  Winfield  Manour,  near  I^erhv,  from  June 
to  September,  but  returned  to  Tutbury,  and 
towaras  the  end  of  the  year  was  taken  to  Coventry. 

1670. — ^In  January  was  again  at  Tutbury,  but 
in  the  earhr  summer  was  at  Chatsworth  and  per- 
haps Winneld,  and  about  Christmas  was  sent  to 
Sheffield  Castle. 

1671. — Was  for  a  few  days  sent  from  Sheffield 
Castle  to  Sheffield  Manour,  about  three  miles  off, 
that  her  apartments  might  be  cleaned.  This  was 
at  midsummer  of  this  year. 

1672.— In  Sheffield  Castle. 

1673. — In  the  autumn  visited  both  Chatsworth 
and  Buxton  under  guard,  but  returned  in  No- 
vember to  Sheffield  Castle. 

1674, 1676.— In  Sheffield  Castle. 

1676. — In  the  spring  a  short  visit  to  Buxton. 

1677, 1678, 1679.-.In  Sheffield  Castle. 

1680. — At  Buxton  for  a  week. 

1681. — ^In  the  summer  a  short  visit  to  Buxton, 
and  perhaps  to  Chatsworth. 

1682. — ^In  June  and  part  of  July  at  Buxton,  for 
the  last  time. 

1683. — A  short  visit  to  Worksop. 

1684.— On  September  3,  finally  left  Sheffield 
Castle  for  Winfield  Manour. 

1685. — On  January  13  removed  to  Tutbury. 

1586. — Early  in  this  year  taken  to  Chartley, 
and  in  September  to  Fotheringhay  Castle,  and 
there  beheaded  on  February  7, 1687. 

Having  written  a  short  paper  for  the  May 
number  of  A%ad  Judy's  Magaziiu  on  the  subject 
of  "  Queen  Manr^s  Captivity,''  abstracted  from  ^e 
late  Joseph  Hunter^s  History  of  HaUamshire, 
which  I  have  recently  enlarged  and  edited,  I  have 
thought  the  foregoing  dates  and  names  of  places 
might  interest  some  readers  of  ''  N.  &  Q."  How 
many  railway  travellers  who  pass  by  smoky  Shef- 
field have  the  least  idea  that  Queen  Mary  was 
imprisoned  there  for  more  than  twelve  years? 
Not  one  passenger  in  a  month,  I  suspect. 

Alfred  Gattt,  D.D. 


HSREDITARY  GENIUS. 

George  Villiers,  the  first  Duke  of  Buckingham 
John  Churchill,  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough 
and  William  Pitt,  Earl  of  Chatham,  three  men  of 
pre-eminent  distinction  in  English  lustoxj,  have 


452 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  S.  VIL  Mat  27, 71. 


one  fltrikiiig  point  of  reeemblance.  Their  talents 
were  great,  but  their  brilliant  success  in  life  was 
mainly  owing  to  the  advantages  of  a  fine  person, 
a  noble  presence,  and  a  manner  which  alternately 
fasdnated  and  awed  all  who  came  in  contact  with 
them.  It  has  not  been  hitherto  remarked  by  the 
advocates  of  '^  hereditary  genius/'  that  these  three 
great  men  were  all  of  uie  same  blood ;  for  Marl- 


borough and  Pitt  were  lineally  descended  from 
the  house  of  VlUiers,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  pedi- 
gree below.  In  fuiiher  illustration  of  the  nero- 
ditaiy  eharms  of  this  family,  the  pedigree  has 
been  extended  to  three  famous  ladies  of  the  same 
race,  who  by  their  beau^  and  wit  enslaved  re- 
spectively the  inconstant  Charles  II.,  the  reli^ous 
James  II.,  and  the  saturnine  William  HI. 


I 


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George  Yillien,  Duke  of  Bucks.       Sir  £dw.  YillierB,  President  of  Monster. 


Eliz. 


Yilliers  ■■  John  Lord  Botdsr. 


I 


Wm.  VilUers,  Loid 
Grandison. 


Sir  £dw.  YiUien. 


1 


Audrey  Boteler, 

mar.  Frauds  Leigh,  Earl 

of  Chichester. 


Helen  Boteler  »  Sir  John  Drake,  Kt 


Barbara  Yilliers, 
Duchess  of  Cleve- 
land, mistress  of 
Charles  II. 


I 

Eliz.  Yflliers, 

Countess  of 

Orkney,  mistress 

of  William  m. 


I 


Geoiire  Yilliers  < 
Lord  Grandison. 


_l 
Mary  Leigh. 


1 
£liz.  Drake  m  Sir  Winston 
Churchill,  Kt. 


Edw.  Yilliers,  Brigr.-General. 


I 
John  Churchill,  K.G., 
Duke  of  Marlborough. 


Robt.  Pitt,  Esq..  M.P.  «  Harriet  Yilliers. 


Arabella  Churehi]], 
mistress  of  James  IL 


I 


I 


James  Fits^ames,  Duke  of  Berwick,  K.G. 
William  Pitt,  Earl  of  Chatham. 


Tbwabs. 


''The  Gates  Ajab."— A  practice  has  lately 
come  into  Togue  of  naming  novels  by  some  quaint 
poetical  phrase :  such,  for  instance,  as  Not  Wiiehf, 
out  too  neli^  which  line  is  to  be  found  in  Othelio, 
Or,  again,  Red  a$  a  JRoae  is  She,  which  is  obvi- 
ously taken  from  the  well-known  verse  in  the 
Ancient  Mariner,  The  singular  title  of  the  re- 
markable little  volume  7^  Oatee  Afar,  by  Miss 
E.  S.  Phelps  of  Andover,  U.  8.,  may  probably 
have  been  suggested  by  the  thought  of^  another 
American  writer — namely,  Longfellow ;  for  in  his 
Chlden  Legend,  part  ii.,  one  of  the  characters 
(Elsie)  says : — 

<*  When  Christ  ascended 
Triumphantly  from  star  to  star, 
He  left  the  gaUe  of  heaven  ajar." 

£ff. 

A  Ttpogbaphical  Odditt. — In  a  poem  on 

''The  Milton  GaUer|r"  by  Amos  Cottle  (1802), 

the  brother  of  the  Bristol  pubHsher,  the  friend  of 

Coleridge  and  Southeyi  the  poet,  describing  the 

pictures  of  Fuseli  says — 

'*  The  luhber  fiend  outstretch'd  the  chimney  near, 
Or  sad  Ulysses  on  the  larboard  Steer.^ 


^  Ulvases  steered  to  the  larboard  to  shun  Charyb- 
dis,  out  the  compositor  makes  him  get  upon  the 


back  of  a  young  bullock,  the  left  one  in  the  drove  I 
After  all,  however,  he  only  interprets  the  text 
literally.  '^  Steer,"  as  a  subistantive,  has  no  other 
meaning  than  bullock.  The  substantive  of  the 
verb  "  to  steer"  is  steerage.  "  He  that  hath  the 
steerage  of  my  course ''  (Shakespeare.)  The  com- 
positor evidentlv  imderstood  that  Ulysses  xode  an 
ox :  he  would  hardly  else  have  spelt  Steer  witii 


a  capital  S. 


G.J.  DsW£U>B. 


Saooab. — The  potter's  art  is  probably  one  of 
the  oldest  in  the  world,  and  it  would  be  no  great 
wonder  to  find  an  old  world  name  connected  with 
it  Many  of  the  readers  of  ''N.  &  Q.''  are  no 
doubt  aware  that  the  coarse  earthenware  yeasel 
in  which  the  potteiy  is  carefully  '^  placed  "  before 
it  is  baked  in  the  oven  is  called  a  $aagar,  I  have 
always  considered  this  word  as  an  abbreviation  of 
eqfeffuard.  But  I  have  lately  changed  my  mind,  and 
incline  to  the  opinion  that  it  may  be  deriyed  from 
the  Hebrew  eagtn;  to  shut  up ;  for  the  ovenman, 
in  setting  one  saggar  on  top  of  another,  is  most 
careful  to  lute  the  two  together  so  that  the  sag- 
gars may  be  perfectly  airtight  A  word  in  mudi 
common  use,  each  for  grain,  is  pure  Hebrew. 

Burslem,  StafFordshire. 


4«fc  S.  VII.  Mat  27, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


453 


A  Ghost  Stobt.— The  following  is  an  extract 
from  a  priyate  letter  written  hy  a  lady  of  rank, 
Januaiy  10, 1827:— 

"Have  jovL  heard  a  Rhost  story  about  Lord  Hastings  ? 
Some  years  ago  Ladj  William  Russell,  in  a  merry  mood, 
made  an  agreement  with  her  nncle,  that  which  of  them 
died  first  should  call  on  the  survivor  to  give  tidings  of 
what  had  passed.  Three  nights  before  she  heard  of  Lord 
Hastings'  death,  she  was  visited  by  his  apparition  and 
informed  that  he  had  shaken  off  his  mortal  coil  mote 
easily  than  he  could  have  expected.  For  such  intelligence 
it  was  scarcely  worth  while  to  return  I " 

0. 

^  JxjmvB,  —  There  is  a  letter  in  the  Bfiddle  Hill 
library  which  is  said  to  be  by  Junius,  which  once 
belonged  to  Sir  George  Jackson  of  the  Admiralty. 
It  is  a  violent  tirade  against  an  admiral  or  general 
during  the  American  War  of  Independence,  and 
has  neyer  been  printed.  P. 


FRANCIS  AND  JUNIUS. 

As  the  interest  taken  in  this  long  yezed  ques- 
tion has  now  reyiyed  by  the  publication  of  profes- 
flional  evidence  deriyed  from  handwritingj  perhaps 
the  following  suggestion  may  be  acceptable  m 
reference  to  the  oj^cial  teal  used  by  Sir  Philip 
Francis.  In  the  1a  fe  ofDrands  by  the  late  Joseph 
Parkes,  continued  by  H.  Meriyale,  8yo,  1867, 
yoL  i.  p.  166,  we  are  told : — 

*' At  this  time  ^1767)  the  official  seals  were  the  arms 
of  the  individual  heads  of  the  ;offices,  and  each  chirf,  on 
his  first  taking  office,  had  the  privilege  of  a  gratuitous 
supply  to  him  of  duplicate  etup-aved  BeaU,  for  the  separate 
use  of  the  principal  clerks.  Thus  D'Ojly  [Deputy 
Secretary  of  War]  and  Francis  [Chief  Clerk]  each  had 
a  seal  of  Lord  Barrington's  [Secretary  at  War]  coat  of 


If  true,  this  fact  is  yery  important  in  reference 
to  letters  written  and  sealed  by  Francis. 

^  At  p.  266  we  find  that  two  private  letters  to 
his  wife,  written  from  Manchester  and  Oxford  in 
August  1771,  were  sealed  with  a  large  War  Office 
ieoi.  This  seal  unfortunately  is  not  described  by 
Mr.  Meriyale,  whether  it  bore  Lord  Barrington's 
arms  or  not ;  but  it  is  hence  evident  that  Ftands 
was  in  the  habit  of  carrying  an  official  eeal  about 
tvith  Mm,  and  did  not  soruple  to  use  it  on  his  pri- 
yate letters.  Now  in  the  list  of  letters  addressed 
by  Junius  to  Woodfall  (Appendix,  No.  1),  we 
find:— 

*'No.7.  Written  on  War  Office  paper.  Obliterated 
eofonef  wax  seal  {Barnngton*i)  wtamptd  oner  with  a  watch 
isy. 

<*Ko.  16.  Written  on  War  Office  gilt-edged  paper. 
Large  and  double  impressed  ditgmaed  impreuion  ieal 
(probably  remame  of  Lord  Barrutgton^a  arms),  coronet 
emtuigedJ* 

It  would  be  yery  desirable  to  know  more  about 
these  seals,  and  to  haye  them  compared'with  other 
perfect  impressions  of  Lord  Bsrrington's  office 


seal.  Many  letters  must  exist  signed  by  Lord 
Barrington,  to  which  the  official  seal  was  af- 
fixed, and  it  might  thus  be  proved  whether  a 
*  duplicate  of  this  seal  was  used  by  the  writer  of 
the  letters  to  Woodfall.  If  this  should  prove  to 
be  the  case,  it  would  add  one  link  more  to  the 
strong  chain  of  evidence  which  points  out  Sir 
Philip  Francis  as  the  writer  of  the  Junius  letters. 
It  certainly  seems  strange  that  Francis  should 
haye  risked  discoyery  by  using  such  a  seal  when 
writing  as  Junius,  but  he  probably  thought  that 
by  paHly  defacing  the  impression  he  had  ren- 
dered such  discoyery  impossible.    Is  it  so  P 

F.  M. 

Child  bobn  on  the  Asvtvisbbaxy:  of  its 
Parknts'  WBDDiKChDAT.  —  Do  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents who  wrote  about  the  seventh  son  of 
a  seyenth  son  know  of  some  old  saying  or  legend 
about  a  son  bom  at  the  yery  hour  and  day  on  the 
anniversary  of  his  parents'  wedding-day  P         Z. 

Lueknow. 

DoBB. — ^Eing  Edward  IV.  is  siud  to  have  con- 
ferred the  above  name  upon  the  Worcestershire 
family  of  Mabbe  as  a  ''  mark  of  respect "  for  their 
sufferings  in  his  cause,  and  on  account  of  their 
relationship  to  the  Mortimers,  through  whom  he 
derived  his  claim  to  the  crown.  Whence  the 
name  oiDoref  H.  S.  G. 

^  Dbxtm  :  AH  EyBimf a  Party.— What  is  the  de- 
rivation of  the  word  drum,  meaning  an  eyening 
party  P  Henbt  F.  Ponsohbt. 

"  EysBTBODT's  BuBiKESs.''— The  origin  or  first 
use  of  common  proverbs  is  rather  a  curious  sob- 
ject. 

In  the  opening  of  No.  18  of  The  Tatler  occurs 
(almost  in  these  words)  the  familiar  saying — 
''  What  is  everybody's  business  is  nobody's  busi- 
ness." Query  if  this  is  the  first  time  this  was 
said  P  Ltttblton. 

"Thb  FRETPXHi  PoBCUPHTB." — I  dare  say  hun- 
dreds of  readers  of  Shakspere,  when  they  have 
met  with  the  passage  in  Hamlet,  ''Like  quills 
upon  the  fretful  porcupine,"  have  imagined  that 
the ''  immortal  William  "  intended  to  convey  the 
impression  that  the  porcupine  was  by  nature  of  a 

Seevish  or  fretful  disposition,  but  I  have  some 
oubts  whether  the  word  '' fretful"  was  used  by 
him  in  such  a  sense.  I  find  in  an  old  dictionary 
(published  in  1096)  the  following  :—''i^«f,  f.,  a 
round  yerril  or  ferril."  Was  not  the  word  "  fret- 
ful "  intended  to  describe  the  round  quills  on  the 
back  of  the  animal — '^  the  /rsf-full  porcupine  "  P 

T.  H. 

rSteevens  shows  this  by  quoting  from  SkUatheia,  a 
oollection  of  epigrams,  &&,  1598  :^ 

**  Porpentino-baeksd,  fbr  he  lies  on  thoraes." 

In  the  fourth  iblio,  it  wiQ  be  remembered,  the  words  are 
<•  fretfta  porpentine."] 


454 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[iM»S.  VII.  Mat  27/71. 


Ukdb  deriyatub  "  Gladh"  P — ^The  Celtic  word 
gladh  is  said  to  bear  the  meaDing  of  sword  as 
well  as  river,  meanings  at  first  siffht  very  opposite, 
but  which  I  think  may  be  brougnt  into  harmoni- 
.  ous  relation.    The  radical  idea  seems  to  be  the 
re/iexion  of  UglU  » to  glitter,  to  glisten,  &c.    Thus 
we  often  near  of  glittering  blades  as  well  as  shin- 
ing rivers :  gladius,  glaive^  a  connate  word ;  glade, 
a  dear  space  where  the  sunbeams  play ;  glad 
(Sax.  gl€ed)  ;  gladness » the  light  of  the  soul  re- 
flected in  the  countenance :  all  these  words  seem 
to  spring  from  a  common  radicle,  the  nrimary  idea 
being,  as  I  have  said,  the  reflexion  of  light. 
I  noticed,  in  a  recent  communication  in  these 

E(p.  265)  of  the  word  glatten,  that  glatt 
d.)»  glat  (Dan.),  glatt  (Ger.)  means  smooth, 
,  md  is  apnlied  to  ice.  Here  seems  to  be  the 
«ame  idea.  I  beg  leave  to  ask  some  one  better 
versed  in  philology  than  myself,  whether  Sanscrit 
•affords  any  root  that  bears  out  this  conjectural 
etymology  ?  W.  S. 

HoBAir  Abms. — ^The  arms,  ''Gules  a  chief  bendy 
•of  eight  az.  and  ar.,"  are  ascribed  to  Horan  (Ire- 
land). Information  as  to  who  they  were  granted 
to,  and  when,  would  oblige  S.  B.  F. 

Sib  William  Jones's  Alcaic  Ode. — Every 
schoolboy  knows  this  patriotic  poem.  In  one  line 
of  it  the  author  denounces  ''the  fiend  Discre- 
tion," by  which  phrase  he  obviously  means  arbi- 
trary rule,  or  what  in  these  days  is  called  personal 
government,  I  notice  that  in  recent  manuals  of 
elocution  the  word  "discretion"  is  being  dropped 
out,  and  another  of  the  same  length  substituted 
for  it — e,  g,  "  dissension."  My  question  is,  whe- 
ther the  old  reading  be  not  the  correct  one  ?  and 
whether  the  new  emendators  are  not  taking  too 
great  a  liberty  with  a  standard  English  classic 
poem,  besides  exhibiting  a  trifle  of  real  ignorance? 

D.  Blaib. 
Helboome. 

Sib  Rob.  Ejlligbew:  Bublahachi.— Prof* 
Jorissen  of  Amsterdam,  who  is  engaged  on  the 
Life  of  Holland's  poet,  Constantin  Huygens,  asks 
me  information  about  a  Robert  Eilligrew,  Knight, 
whom  Huygens  often  visited  in  London  in  lo23. 
He  says  he  knows  that  he  had  twelve  children, 
and  that  the  mother  was  drowned  in  1641  or 
1642  under  a  bridge.  He  guesses  that  this  Rob. 
Killigrew  is  a  son  of  Burleigh's  brother-in-law. 

Sir  Rob.  Killigrew  appears  in  the  Calendar  of 
State  Papers  for  the  first  time,  May  13, 1613 ;  he 
is  then  released  from  the  Fleet  May  19  of  the 
same  year  he  is  committed  for  holding  intercourse 
with  Overbury  in  prison ;  Sept  8,  1625,  he  is  to 
succeed  Sir  Dudley  (as  ambassador  to  the  United 
Provinces) ;  and  Jan.  31  and  Feb.  7,  1626,  he 
appears  as  appointed  ambassador  to  the  Stetes. 
We  find  him  further  in  1628-29,  but  no  longer 
as  ambassador :  Jan.  2, 1630,  as  vice-cdiamberlain 


to  the  oueen ;  June  11, 1632,  as  captain  of  the 
fort  of  Fendennis;  and  Nov.  26,  1633,  as  de- 
ceased. Chalmers'  Biog.  Diet,  mentions  three  of 
his  sons — ^William  (afterwards  Sir  William  Killi-  * 
ffrew),  Thomas,  and  Henry ;  and  I  find  one  of  his 
daughters,  Elizabeth,  married  Viscount  Shannon.* 

As  to  the  father  of ^  Sir  Rob.  Killigrew,  I  find 
in  the  Arch<eologia^  xviii.  99,  a  pedigree  of  the 
Killigrews,  in  which  a  Robertus  appears  as  ''fil. 
&  haer.  superstes  1620  of  WilL  !Kuligrew,  who 
obiit  Nov.  23,  1622,"  and  whose  wife  had  been 
^*  Marg.  fil.  Tho.  Saunders." 

Prof.  Jorissen  would  also  like  to  know  who 
the  Burlamachis  were.  The  Calendar  of  State 
Papers  of  James  I.  and  Charles  II,  (1619-1638) 
frequently  mention  a  Philip  Burlamachi,  who 
seems  to  have  been  a  distinguished  merchant  at 
that  time  A  document  of  June  12,  1619,  con- 
tains details  of  the  proceedings  in  the  Star  Cham- 
ber against  160  strangers  accused  of  transporting 
seven  millions  of  money,  among  them  JBurla- 
machi : — 

'*  20  JazL  1620.  The  merchant-fltrangpers  are  still  in  the 
Fleet  ....  Burlamachi  has  made  his  peace  for  10,000/. 
ready  money. — 1685.  Certificate  for  Mr.  PhiL  B.,  mer- 
chant, naturalized.  He  was  bom  in  Sedan  in  France, 
and  has  been  in  England  this  thirty  years  and  more.  He 
has  certain  rooms  at  Mr.  Gonld*s  bouse  in  Fenchnrch 
Street  for  his  neoeasaiy  occasions  of  writing  there  some 
two  or  three  days  in  'the  week,  but  his  dwelling-house, 
with  his  wife  and  children  and  fiimily,  is  at  Putney.** 

1  have  found  also  a  Lawrence  Burlamachi, 
April  20, 1603,  and  a  Jas.  Burlamachi,  Aug.  6, 
1623.  But  I  can  find  no  traces  of  them  else- 
where. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  oblige  me  by  some 
more  definite  information  as  to  Sir  Rob.  ELiUi- 
grew  and  his  parentage,  and  the  Burlamachis  ? 

J.  H.  Hbsssls. 

LnrcoLNSHiBE :  Drinkivg  Sono. — About  the 
beginning  of  this  century  a  drinking  song  was 
popular  m  Lincolnshire,  of  which  I  can  ozuy  re- 
cover what  follows — 

'<  Bring  us  gfood  ale  in  store. 
And  when  that's  done  send  us  more, 
And  the  key  of  the  cellar  door.** 

I  shall  be  much  obliged  if  any  one  can  refer  me 
to  a  perfect  copy.  K.  P.  D.  E. 

Rev.  C.  R.  Matttbdt. —  The  At/^erueum,  in 
enumerating  a  list  of  William  Bewick*s  portraits, 
adds  to  the  name  of  this  gentleman— author  of 
Bertram,  a  once  popular  tra^^y,  and  some  strik- 
inff  romances — the  words  ''  of  barrel-organ  fame." 
What  does  this  mean  ?  D.  Blaib. 

Melbourne. 

MiKiATTTBE  Painibb,  temp,  Chablbs  L — Can 
any  one  suggest  the  name  of  a  miniature  painter, 
temp,  Charles  L,vnth  theinitialB  D.  D.  G.  r    The 

[•  See  "N.  &  Q.-  4»  S.  vii.  268.] 


4«'»  S.  VIT.  May  27, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


455 


ministiure  represents  a  man  in  a  black  dress  with 
a  large  white  falling  collar,  and  with  long  hair 
&lliDg  over  the  shomders.  It  is  painted  on  card- 
board. 0.  C. 

The  Fibst  Book  op  Napoleon. — ^Who  is  the 

author  of — 

"  The  first  book  of  Napoleon,  the  t^nrant  of  the  earth  ; 
written  in  the  5813th  year  of  the  world,  and  1809th  year 
of  the  Christian  era,  by  Eliakim  the  Scribe,  a  descendant 
nf  the  modem  branch  of  the  tribe  of  Levi,  &c.  Longman, 
Hurst,  &  Co.  in  1809." 

Is  this  a  rare  work,  and  was  it  ever  suppressed  ? 

Ovid,  "Metam."  xm.  264:  "Bbnignior." — 
Perhaps  it  is  somewhat  late,  when  one  has  written 
and  published  a  translation  of  a  book,  to  set  about 
finding  out  the  real  meaning  of  certain  of  its 
passages.  But  having  thus  more  or  less  dis- 
counted that  objection,  I  proceed,  if  the  columns 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  will  afford  me  the  space,  to  make 
the  inquiry : — 

"  CcOus  eqaos  pretiam  pro  nocte  poposcerat  hos^ 
Anna  negate  mihi,  fueritque  henigmor  Ajax.*' 

Metam,  ziii.  254. 

What  is  the  proper  meaning  of  the  last  three 

words  ?  The  Delphm  Interpretatio  gvvea  it  thus — 

"  sitque  melius  de  vobis  meritus  Ajax  quam  ego." 

Dryden's  rendering  of  the  lines  is — 

<*  Refuse  me  now  his  arms,  whose  fiery  steeds 
Were  promised  to  the  spy  for  his  nocturnal  deeds ; 
And  let  dull  Ajax  bear  away  my  right. 
When  all  his  days  outbalance  this  one  night  ** — 

a  version  which  in  no  way  helps  to  answer  my 
question.  On  consulting  Burmann's  edition^  I  find 
that  Heinsius  says : — 

**Sed   nil  fortasse  mutandum,  ut  htmgnior  passir^ 
sumatnr,  pro  eo  qui  benignb  habetur.     Cujus  tamen 
significationis  aliud  exemplnm  qunro.    Ita  sit  haiigmor 
gratiosior." 
And  Burmaon  closes  his  note  with  his  own  view — 

**  Immo  bemgmor  est  magis  popularis,  blandns,  ut  ideo 
obtlneat  qnn  velit.** 

I  had  not  seen  Burmann's  note  when  I  ventured 
to  translate — 

«*  Let  Ajax  have  them  !    Te  may  make  at  least 
His  temper  something  sweeter  with  the  gift  "  \ 

And  I  founded  my  interpretation  on  Horace's  use 
of  the  word  henignux  in  the  second  satire  of  the 
first  book — 

*'  Ambubaiamm  collegia,  pbarmacopolsB, 
Hendici,  mimie,  balatrones,  hoc  genus  omne 
Miestum  ac  sollicitum  est  cantoris  morte  Tigelli ; 
Quippe  benignus  erat." 

I  iwree  with  Heinsius  in  doubting  the  passive 
use  ofbenignior,  and  seem  to  differ  from  Burmann 
only  in  this— that  he  says  Ajax  will  be  "  benign 
nior  "  to  get  (ut  obiineat)  the  arms ;  J,  that  Ajax 
may  become  so  if  he  gets  them.  The  Delphin  In^ 
terpretaiio  appears  to  me  of  the  tamest  There  is, 
to  my  mina,  a  manifest  sneer  in  the  words.    I 


should  be  glad  to  hear  the  opinions  on  this  ques- 
tion of  some  of  the  scholars  who  contribute  to 
vonr  pages.  None  of  my  critics  have,  so  far  as  I 
know,  noticed  the  passage. 

If  tills  query  should  succeed  in  attracting  atten- 
tion, I  shall  have  two  or  three  similar  problems 
to  propose.  Henby  Kjxq. 

Of  Paper  Buildings,  Temple. 

Sib  Stephen  Pboctob. — Wanted  some  account 
of  the  above-named  Sir  Stephen,  who  built  Foun- 
tains Hall — of  where  he  was  born,  and  where  he 
died;  also,  information  respecting  his  narentage, 
marriage,  &c.  Edwabd  Mobton. 

[Mr.  Walbran,  in  his  Memorials  of  the  Abbey  of  St 
Mary  ofFotmtaiiu  (1868,  p.  868),  has  the  following  note: 
**  According  to  a  genealogy,  illustrated  by  armonal  im- 
palements, which  was  placed  in  the  windows  of  Foun- 
tains Hall,  by  Sir  Stephen  Proctor,  in  the  time  of  King 
James  I.,  this  family  derived  its  descent  from  *  Sir  Oliver 
Mirewraye  of  Tymbridge,  in  the  conntie  of  Kent ' ;  the 
reason  of  a  change  of  surname  being  perhaps  suggested 
by  the  further  statement  that  *  Thomas  Mirewray,  als. 
Proctor  of  Firehed,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Proctor  of  Winterbom.*  Both  these  places  are  in  the 
parish  of  Gargrave,  adjacent  to  that  of  Kirkby-Malham- 
dale,  and  were  formerly  among  the  possessions  of  the 
abbev  of  Fumess,  in  l^ncashire. —  Val,  EccL  vol.  v. 
p.  270."  For  Sir  Stephen  Proctor's  services,  netitions. 
revenue  projects,  &c.,  consult  Lansdowne  MSS.,  Nos.  153, 
167.1 

Qtjotatiow  wantbd. — A  MS.  copy  of  verses  has 

been  put  into  my  hand^  beginning :  — 

**  Winter's  cold  blasts  have  gone ;  now  spring  appears 
To  cheer  the  saddest  heart,  to  dry  our  tears : 
It  seems  to  carry  on  its  nlent  breath, 
The  music  of  our  lives,  no  sound  of  death ; 
But  still  I  heard  a  drooping  flower  say, 
'  Thy  time's  not  yet,  watch,  and  abide  thy  day.*' 

Can  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  me 
information  whether,  and  if  so,  where  these  lines 
have  appeared  in  print  P  T.  W.  Webb. 

Scottish  GuiiBD  of  FBiiNCB. — In  3"*  S.  iv.  8, 1 
find  a  note  which  seems  to  imply  that  the  Scot- 
tish Guard  of  the  French  kings  existed  in  the 
time  of  Charles  VIL,  but  was  disbanded  in  1430. 
The  Baron  de  Besenval  speaks  of  it  in  his  3/«- 
moiree  (ii.  84),  in  connection  with  a  curious  privi- 
lege which  is  worthy  of  a  note.  He  is  describing 
the  miserable  death-bed  of  Louis  XV.  in  1774, 
when  all  but  four  of  the  crowd  of  assembled  cour- 
tiers fled  from  the  palace  the  moment  that  the 
king  expired,  and  says :  — 

*«  II  n'y  resU  que^  le  due  d'Ayen,  survivancier  de  son 
p^  capitaine  des  Ecoesais,  dont  le  droit  est  de  garder  le 
roi  mort." 

GOBT. 

Passagbs  IK  Shbllbt. — In  Bossetti's  Shelley, 

'^  nnannouted  edition,  Moxon,"  the  second  verse 

in  the  **  Question  "  reads  thus : — 

" ....  and  that  tall  flower  that  wets- 
Like  a  child  half  in  tenderness  and  mirth. 
When  the  low  wind  its  pUynate's  voioe  it  heaiSb 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*»»  8.  VU.  Mat  27,  71. 


The  line— 
" Its  mother's  face  with  heaven-oollected  tears" — 

is  omitted,  but  it  seems  required  as  well  for  the 
sense  as  the  measure.  Is  the  onussion  intentional, 
or  is  it  merely  a  slip  of  the  printer's  P 

In  three  n>rmer  editions  of  SheOey^s  Podieal 
TForife*— that  of  1847  (Moxon)  by  Mrs.  Shelley, 
that  published  by  ''  C.  Daly,  Red  Lion  Square, 
1889/'  and  that  by  '^Milner  and  Sowerby,  1867," 
the  line — 

**  hike  a  ohild  half  in  tendemess  and  mirth  "— 

is  wanting.  Does  it  appear  in  Rossetti's  edition 
for  the  first  time,  and  what  is  the  authority  for 
its  insertion  P  J.  A.  E. 

Whiteabbey*  Belfast. 

SoNNST  QuxRiBS.  —  1.  Where  does  Walter 
Sayage  Landor  say  that  Milton  '' snatched  the 
sonnet  from  the  hand  of  Loye,  who  cried  to  lose 
it,  and  gaye  the  notes  to  Glory,"  or  words  to  that 
effect  P 

2.  Did  Wordsworth  write  his  sonnets  on  '^  Na- 
tional Liberty  and  Independence  "  (amount  the 
noblest  in  the  language)  before  or  after  hia  con- 
yersion  to  Toryism  P 

3.  Whom  does  Archbishop  Trench  allude  to  in 
the  last  two  lines  of  his  sonnet  commendng  ^  A 
counsellor  well  fitted  to adyise," Sec?  1  presume 
Wordsworth. 

4.  Mr.  Rossetti  says,  in  i^note  to  Shelley's  Os^ 
mandiatj  that  this  fine  sonnet  was  wntten  in 
friendly  emulation  with  Keats  and  Leigh  Hunt, 
both  of  whom  also  wrote  sonnets  on  £^;yptian 
subjects.  I  see  one  by  Leigh  Hunt,  entitled  A 
Thought  on  the  Nik,  but  I  cannot  find  one  by 
Keats.  Did  the  latter  eyer  write  one,  and  where 
can  I  meet  with  it  P 

May  I  yenture  to  suggest  to  Mr.  Rossetti  that 
he  has  (to  my  ear  at  least)  ruined  one  of  the 
most  musical  lines  Shelley  eyer  wrote,  by  the 
omission  of  a  single  letter  r  I  allude  to  the  line 
in  Adonai* — 

"  And  the  wild  winds  flew  around,  sobbing  in  thetr  dis- 
may.** 

Mr.  Rossetti's  edition  has  it — 

**  And  the  wild  winds  flew  round,  sobbing  in  their  dis- 
may.** 

The  substitution  of  round  for  around  a  uite  alters 
the. rhythm,  and  causes  the  line  to  halt  lament- 
ably. One  can  only  read  it  by  emphasising '' Ajid," 
which  Shelley  could  hardly  haye  intended.  I 
should  be  glaa  to  hear  the  opinions  of  others  on 
this  point.  Jonathan  Boxtchibb. 

2,  Stanley  Villas,  Bexley  Heath,  S.E. 

<*  TflB  Thtinderbb."— When  was  this  sobriquet 
given  to  the  London  TUnes  f  I  haye  in  my  posses- 
sion some  numbers  of  a  schoolboys'  newspaper 
called  <'  The  Thundeier,  written  in  1822."    The 


heading  and  motto  were  printed,  the  rest  was 
manuscript,  the  copy  serving  for  the  whole  schooL 

Unxda.  . 
PhUadelphia. 

[When  Thomas  Barnes  sncceeded  Dr.  Stoddait  as 
editor  of  7%«  TVmef,  one  of  his  most  able  coadjutors  was 
Capt  Edward  Steriin^,  whose  connection  with  the  paper 
commenced  in  1812,  in  a  series  of  letters  under  the  n^- 
nature  Vetut,  afterwards  published  as  a  separate  work  m 
three  parts.  Capt  Sterling  in  the  latter  part  of  bis  life 
became  well  known  in  London  political  society,  and  to 
him  it  is  said  the  name  of  "  the  Thunderer  of  The  Timet  *' 
was  originally  applied.  His  salaiy,  it  is  stated,  was  two 
thousand  a  year  and  a  share  of  the  paper.  He  died  at 
South  Plaoe,  Knightsbridge,  on  Sept.  8, 1847,  aged  serenty- 
four.  His  accomplished  son  John  was  an  eminent  critic 
and  essayist,  the  friend  of  Wordsworth,  GoleiiiJigi^  De 
Quincey,  and  other  distinguished  men.] 

TopoesAPHT.^-Wanted  the  names  of  two  or 
three  of  the  latest  works  which  for  matter  and 
arrangement  may  be  considered  amon^  tiie  best 
examples  of  local,  especially  parochial,  history. 
I  haye  not  yet  seen  Major  Fishwick's  History  of 
the  Parochial  Chapehy  of  Ooomargh,  mentioned 
with  approbation  in  «N.  &  Q."  for  Feb.  18, 1871. 

Lambda. 

**Thb  Wobld'b  JiTDGiOBNT." — A  lat©  number 
of  the  Quarterly  Review  beg^  with  the  state- 
ment that  **  a  gineat  poet  has  said  that  the  history 
of  the  world  is  the  judgment  of  the  world. 
What  great  poet  P  D.  Blaib. 

Melboumeii 


GERMAN  ETTMOLOGICAL  DICTIOXARIES. 
(4«»  S.  yii  308, 380.) 

It  is  really^  yery  difficult  to  giye  a  plain  answer 
to  this  *^  foreigner  in  distress,*  because  all  depends 
upon  the  exact  meaning  of  a  '^good"  German 
etymological  dictionary,  and  of  ^  small  compass." 
Chambers's  dictionary,  mentioned  by  yoor  cor- 
respondent, is  certainly  deyerly  done.  It  is  made 
up  from  the  latest  et^rmological  information,  and 
although  I  discoyer  in  it  sometimes  queer  and 
foolish  Dutch  and  German  words,  which  make  me 
laugh,  I  must  confess  that  I  should  be  glad  if 
Holland  possessed  so  (generally)  correct  a  yocabu- 
lary  on  such  a  scale. 

Something  like  Chambers's  dictionary  was  is* 
sued  in  Germany  in  1834,  entitled  <'  Schraitthen- 
ner  (Friedr.),  Kurte$  deut9ehe$  Warterhueh  fur 
Etymoloaief  Synonynnk  und  Orthographie,  Darm- 
stadt, Metz." 

This,  I  think,  would  do  for  the  FoBBieNBB, 
especially  as  the  original  price  of  this  book  was 
but  1|  thaler,  or  6«.  The  second  edition,  pub- 
lished in  1837,  cost  2  thalers,  or  6«.    In  1863 

*  Could  he  not  address  himself  to  the  Society  for 
*'  Foreignen  in  Dietreae  "  ? 


4>k  a  YIL  Mat  27, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QT7EBIE& 


457 


Ftof.  Weigand  commeneed  a  third  ''  yollig  um- 
gearbeitete  Auflage  *'  of  diis  dictionaijy  and  it  was 
completed  last  year.  It  is  much  improved,  and 
may  be  said  to  be  a  to  hauteur  of  its  time.  The 
well-known  bibliographical  review,  Literamehes 
CentraJblaU  fur  Deidachland  (1871,  No.  12),  says 
that  it  '^  cannot  be  compared  "»with  any  other  Ger- 
man dictionary  of  late.    It  costs  8  thalers,  or  1/.  4». 

I  do  not  mention  Adelung's  works,  which  were 
marvels  for  their  time,  but  have  lost  mudi  of 
their  value  since  the  science  of  languages  has 
made  such  tremendous  progress* ;  but  ochwenck's 
dictiona|^well  deserves  a  moment's  attention. 

The  Jrorterhuch  der  deuUohen  Spradne  in  Be- 
siehung  auf  Ahttammung  und  BegrtfikMtkmg^  by 
Konr.  Schwenck,  first  made  its  appearance  in  1884 
(Frankfort-on-Main,  Sauerlander),  followed  in 
1886  by  a  second,  and  in  1888  by  a  third  edition. 
The  cost  of  each  issue  was  2|  thalers,  or  8s.  In 
1866  there  was  jmblished  a  fourth  edition  (j^ice 
7jl),  which,  if  I  mistake  not^  is  the  last  of  this 
work. 

Then  there  is  Heyse's  excellent,  but  rather 
antiquated  JSandwarterbuch  der  deuUchen  Sprachey 
mU  Hvnsiekt  auf  Beehtschreibungy  Abetammung 
und  BUdunOy  Biegung  und  Fugung  der  WSrter,  $o 
wie^  auf  deren  Sinnverwandechtft  (Magdeburg, 
Heinrichshofeir),  published  in  parts,  the  first  of 
which  appeared  in  1841,  and  the  last  in  1849.  The 
whole  cost  6  thalers  or  I80. 

I  do  not  know  whether  Dr.  Sanders'  large  TFor- 
terbueh  der  deuUchen  Sprache,  nut  Bel^/en  von 
IJuther  6m  at/  die  Oegenwarl  (Leipzig,  Wigand, 
1869^1866, 24  thalers  =8/.  12s.^,  of  which  there 
appeared  an  abridged  edition  in  1869  (Leipzig, 
Wigand,  2^  thalers  =  7«.  QdX  contains  any  ety- 
molM;ical  explanations,  but  I  should  think  it  does, 
for  GFrasse  prefers  it  to  Grimm's  dictionary,  the 
principal  ingredient  of  which  is  etymology. 

I  must  wind  up  this  dry  but  necessary  enume- 
latbn  by  mentioning  also  W.  Hofi&nann's  big 
▼ooabolary,  entitled  VoOttandiges  Worterhuch  der 
deuMien  Sprache,  me  me  in  der  aUgem.  LUeratur, 
der  Boeeiey  den  Wieeene^aften^  jSvndenf  u,$,w. 
gebrauchUeh  iet,  mil  Angabe  der  Ahdammung,  der 
BeMsehreibungjder  WortformenfU^.w,  (Jiiterbog, 
Colditz,  1861  and  following  years.)  This  dic<- 
taonary  was  published  in  about  sixty  parts  at  9d. 
each.  H.  Tdu>xmah. 

AmstBidsni. 

*  Puhapa  the  Forbtohkr  may  find  a  cheap  copy  of 
his  ^reat  metionaiy  (several  editions),  or  of  hU  smaller 
dictionaiy/iir  die  Au$$praehe,  Ortkojpvpkie,  Btegwngmmd 
AbUkunf  (seveiml  editions  in  1820, 1885, 1846,  Ac),  which 
cost  origmaUy  8f  .  and  less. 


EXTRAOBDINABY  LEGEND  FROM  GAINS- 

BUBGH. 

(4tf»  S.  vii.  251.) 

I  send  some  further  correspondence  concerning 
the  angel  who  is  said  to  have  appeared  at  Qains- 
burgh,  cut  from  the  Oauuburgh  Ivews  of  March  26 
and  April  1.  Edwabi>  Pbaoook. 

Bottesfi>rd  Manor,  Brigg.  ^ 

« THB  LBOBRD  OP  OAIVSBUBOH. 

''Sir,— I  have  not  snceeeded  in  tiadng  *the  legend  of 
Gainsborgh,'  wiiich  has  been  so  laigely  buiered  in  Jersey, 
to  any  sure  foundation.  Mr.  Sandford's  letter  (endo- 
sore  1)  mar  poedbly  explain  its  origin,  althongh  the 
later  facts  orthat  letter  are  incorrect,  since  the  story  was 
current  in  Mr.  Fotheigill's  time,  who  preceded  Mr.  Beckett 
as  Ticar  here.  Of  its  currency  in  1819  I  hsm  sufficient 
evidence  in  the  testimony  of  a  trustworthy  living  witness^ 
Captain  Ward,  of  Cross  Street,  in  tliis  town,  who  saw 
the  account  fkstened  to  the  door  of  a  church,  just  under 
Portsdown  Hill,  a  fbw  miles  ih>m  Portsmouth,  twice 
during  the  summer  of  1819,  and  who  with  his  shipmates 
took  many  copies  of  the  paper.  Captain  Ward  assures 
me  that  there  was  no  foundation  for  the  legend  Imown 
at  Gainsburgfa  at  that  time,  and  he  beUeres  it  to  be  a 
pure  invention  from  beginning  to  end.  I  have  also  had 
a  curious  letter  (endosnre  2)  put  into  my  hands  addressed 
to  the  chnrehwardens  of  Gainsburgh,  by  the  church- 
wardens of  Camborne,  in  Cornwall,  endoeing  an  Eng- 
lish copy  of  the  legend,  and  inquiring  as  to  its  truth. 
This  letter  was  found  amongst  tne  late  Miss  Bellamy's 
papers,  and  its  postage  in  those  days  appears  to  have  cost 
the  churchwardens  of  Gainsburgh  two  shillings  and 
threepence.  The  printer's  name  attached  to  the  English 
account  is  Byers,  i09,  Fore  Street,  Dock,  and  the  account 
tallies  with  the  French  account  now  drculating,  of  which 
I  sent  you  a  translation,  except  in  stating  that  the  ap- 
parition was  seen  on  January  10,  instead  of  April  4,  in 
the  year  1819.  On  the  whole,  then,  I  cannot  hdp  thinking 
that  the  story  originated  in  the  south-west  of  England 
where  it  has  always  had  its  home,  and  that  it  had  no 
foundation  whatever  in  any  event  that  happened  here. 
If  the  drunken  freak  spoken  of  by  Mr.  Chapman  had 
been  improved  by  some  fertile  bram  into  an  angd  visi- 
tation, and  a  warning  to  ivpentance,  the  names  of  the 
witnesses  would  snrdr  have  been  recognisable  u  in- 
habitants or  church  oflsdals,  whidi  is  not  the  case  now. 
I  enclose  copies  of  the  two  letters  I  have  mentioned.  The 
churdiwardens*  letter  has  every  appearance  of  bdng  fifty 
years  old,  but  is  undated,  and  the  poetmark  upon  it  cannot 
be  dedphered  with  certainty. — I  am,  dear  sir,  jours  very 
truly,  J.  Clements. 

«  The  Ylcarsge,  Gaindraigh,  Mardi  18»  187L" 

[Endosnre  1.] 
«Eldon  Vicarage,  Sheffield,  March  15th,  1871. 
*<Rev.  Mr.  Clements.— Rev.  Sir,— I  write  to  yon  by  the 
desire  of  Mr.  William  Chapman,  66,  Oxford  Road,  Shei- 
fidd,  and  formerly  a  member  of  the  choir  at  Gainsburgh. 
He  wishes  me  to  inform  you  that  the '  Angd  stoxy '  was 
all  a  hoax;  caused  by  a  dmnken  man,  who  had  thrown  a 
rope  over  the  church  bell  and  pulled  it  by  night  He 
adds  that  the  Rev.  George  Beckett  was  vicar  at  tttat  time, 
Cain  Bamee  the  clerk,  and  Thomas  Farr,  or  his  son-iiH 
law,  George  Bown  sexton,  and  Mr.  King  the  Baptist 
minister,  and  the  mysteiy  was  fdly  ezplsinid  at  the  tuns. 
1  am,  your  iaithM  servant, 

*«  Geo.  SsdTDFORO,  Vicsr  of  Cldon." 


458 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i*>»  8.  VII.  Mat  27,  'Tl. 


[Knclosare  2.] 

**To  the  Churchwardens  of  Gainsburgh. — Gentlemen,— 
If  the  encloied  account  be  a  fabrication,  designed  to  im- 
pose on  the  public,  donbless  the  printer  ought  to  be  pro- 
secuted. If  correct,  we  shall  be  glad  to  see  it  confirmed 
by  a  letter  to  the  churchwardens  of  Camborne,  Cornwall. 
Gentlemen,  your  obedient  servants,  the  Chubchwahpkhb 
of  Cambornx." 

"We  mav  mention  that  the  file  of  the  Stamford  Mer- 
cury for  1819  has  been  referred  to,  and  that  no  allusion 
to  the  legend  can  be  found.  A  gentleman  well  able  to 
form  an  opinion  on  the  matter  writes :  *  I  think  it  is  very 
probable  the  sheet  alleged  to  have  been  printed  at  Lin- 
coln may  have  been  printed  manv  miles  away.  In  those 
days  »*  patterers "  used  to  wander  from  town  to  town 
selling  calendars  of  prisoners,  and  when  the  calendars 
became  stale  they  got  country  printers  to  print  wonderful 
stories,  to  which  they  contrived  to  give  sometimes  a  local 
and  sometimes  a  distant  habitation.  I  remember  a  won- 
derful story  of  the  kind  being  printed  in  Berkshire,  and 
the  dates  and  places  were  altered,  and  imprints  invented. 
It  would  be  easy  to  substitute  Gainsburj^  for  any  other 
place,  giving  either  fictitious  names,  or  using  names  that 
may  have  been  known  to  the  printer.  I  have  no  doubt 
the  French  broadsheet  is  the  translation  of  an  English 
<'patterer's  "  dodge  to  get  a  living.' " 

'*  Dear  Sir,— I  send  you  a  last  communication  on  this 
subject.  It  is  plain  enough  now  that  Gainsburgh  folks 
never  invented  and  never  believed  in  the  marvellous  fable 
which  has  had  such  a  long  life  in  the  West  Country. 

"  I  am,  yours  faithfully, 

'*  J.  Clemsnts. 

"The  Vicarage,  March  27th,  1871." 

"  Beckingham,  March  25di,  1871.— Sir,— I  felt  no  little 
surprise  to  see  in  the  Gainsburgh  paper  the  story  of  the 
angel  in  the  belfry  of  Gainsburgh  church.  It  brought 
vividly  to  my  memory  the  same  story,  of  which  I  saw 
an  account  in  1819,  when  inv  husband  and  Mr.  Forrest 
were  churchwardens.  Mr.  /urley  received  the  printed 
paper,  and  a  letter  from  a  gentieman  asking  if  it  was 
true.  We  both  read  it.  andf  well  knowing  it  was  *  an 
entire  falsehood,'  no  notice  was  taken  of  it.  Mr.  Fother- 
gill,  I  think,  was  Vicar  of  Gainsburgh,  not  Mr.  King  ; 
and  Cain  Barnes  was  the  derk.  I  have  wished  not  to 
notice  the  storv  again,  but  seeing  it  interests  many,  and 
feeling  sorry  for  any  one  to  believe  in  what  is  really  false, 
I  have  been  induced  to  trouble  yon.— I  am,  sir,  yours, 
Ac,  M.  A.  FuBLBT.— Bev.  J.  dements." 


THE  LETTER  OF  «SX»  EXPLAINED. 

(4«^  S.  vii.  406.) 

The  letter  communicated  by  T.  P.  F.  from  the 
papers  of  tiie  Di^e  of  Manchester  will  appear  yeij 
emgmatical  to  most  readers ;  but  I  thinE^  in  con- 
sequence of  some  inquiries  which  I  made  three  or 
four  years  ago,  I  can  go  a  ffood  way  towards  its 
elucidation.  It  is  written  by  a  person  who  signs 
SX,  to  another  who  is  addressed  as  ''  Deare  Essex/' 
and  in  the  sixth  line  ''  my  lord  of  Sx  "  is  named. 
In  the  eighth  line  mention  is  made  of  ''  my  lord 
marquis  Hertford,'*  which  places  its  date  after 
June  3, 1640^  when  that  title  was  first  conferred 
on  the  loyal  Earl  of  Hertford,  who  in  1600  be- 
came Duke  of  Somerset  His  contemporaiy  as 
Earl  of  Essex  was  the  Parliamentarian  general. 


who  died  on  Sept.  14,  1646,  leaying  no  succes- 
sor to  his  title.  Thus  the  date  of  the  letter  is 
limited  to  the  period  of  little  more  than  six  years 
between  1640  and  1646.  The  next  question  is, 
Who  was  the  writer?  Not,  as  might  be  sup- 
posed, a  Countess  of  Essex ;  but  (as  I  take  it)  a 
lady  who  bore  Essex  as  her  baptismal  name,  and 
who  also  gave  the  same  name  to  her  daughter. 
The  letter  was  written  (as  I  believe)  by  Lady 
Essex  Cheke,  the  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Cfaeke^ 
and  it  was  addressed  to  her  daughter  Essex, 
Countess  of  Manchester.  Her  son  who  had  fought 
the  duel  must  have  been  Robert  Cheke,  ^%'y 
her  eldest  son,  who  in  the  year  1660  preferred  his 
claim  to  the  barony  of  Fitz- Walter  (against 
Henxy  Mildmay)  in  right  of  his  grandmother 
Frances  Ratclilfe,  but  afterwards  died  without 
issue.  His  antagonist,  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  was 
of  Bromham  in  Wiltshire^  and  died  in  1657  at  the 
age  of  sixty-four.  His  wound^.  therefore,  was  not 
fatal. 

Her  other  daughter,  from  whom  Lady  Essex 
Cheke  was  anxious  to  keep  back  all  tidings  of  the 
accident,  was  Anne  (Cheke)  Lady  Rich,  wife  of 
Robert  Lord  Rich,  afterwards  thiid  Earl  of  War- 
wick of  that  family ;  and  ''  Lesse ''  is  Leeze  in 
Essex,  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick.    *^  My 
Lady  Carlile,"  whom  the  writer  had  been  enter- 
tainmg,  I  beUeye  to  have  been  Maigaret  (Russell), 
wife  of  James  Hay,  Earl  of  Carusle ;  and  it  is 
remarkable  that  some  years  after  (the  Earl  of 
Carlisle  dying  in  1660),  she  became  the  Jifth  and 
last  wife  of  tne  Earl  of  Manchester,  Essex  Cheke 
having  been  his  third,    Essex,  Countess  of  Man- 
chester, died  on  Sept  28, 1658,  and  was  buried  in 
Kimbolton  church  on  Oct  13.    Her  mother,  the 
writer  of  the  letter,  had  died  only  one  month 
before  her,  for  she  was  buried  in  the  same  church 
on  Sept.  1  in  the  same  year.    An  artide  in  the 
fifth    volume    of    The   Herald   mid  Oeneaiogistj 
pp.  444-456,  has  for  its  object  to  disentangle  the 
erroneous  statements  into  which  seversl  writers 
have  fiedlen  in  regard  to  ^  The  Marriages  of  Robert 
Rich,  second  Earl  of  Warwick,  Admiral  of  the 
Fleet;  of  Edward  Montague,  Lord  Kimbolton 
and  second  Earl  of  Manchester:  and  of  Robert 
Rich,  fifth  Earl  of  Warwick  and  second  Earl  of 
Holland."    The  first-named  had  three  wives,  of 
which  ladies  the  second  had  two  husbands,  and  the 
third  had  four.    The  Earl  of  Manchester,  as  I 
have  already  said,  had  five  wives,  and  three  o£ 
them  were  widows.  The  fourth  was  already  dow- 
ager Countess  of  Sussex  and  of  Warwidc.  and 
was  the  same  lady  just  now  mentioned  as  oeing 
altogether  the  wife  of  four  husbands.    The  Peer- 
ages generally  are  so  defident  in  dates  as  to 
ladies,  that  I  extended  my  researches  for  that 
artide  in  order  to  show  how  much  there  still 
remains  to  be  done  to  complete  our  genealogical 
histories  in  tiiat  respect    The  letter  printed  in 


4«i  S.  VII.  Mat  27,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


459 


" N.  &  Q"  comes  in  good  sequence  to  exemplify 
the  Talne  of  sach  compilations,  and  what  assist- 
ance they  may  give  in  the  identification  and  illus- 
tration of  historical  documents. 

John  Qoxtgh  Nichols. 


May  not  this  letter  he  from  Essex  (Christian 
name),  third  wife  of  the  second  Earl  of  Man- 
chester, to  her  daughter  Essex,  wife  of  Lord 
Irwyn  ?  "  My  sonne  Ro."  and  "  your  hrother 
Ro."  might  be  Robert  Montague,  the  step-son  of 
Essex,  Lady  Manchester,  and  consequently  half- 
brother  of  Essex,  Lady  Irwyn.  F.  S. 

Froome  Selwood. 


BLINK  vernu  WINK. 
(4«»  S.  vii.  326.) 

A  contributor  in  a  late  number  asserts  that  to 
wink  means  ogling,  and  that  to  blink  at  ought  to 
be  substituted  for  to  vmk  at.  These  suggested 
meanings  I  shall  attempt  to  show  the  woras  have 
not,  and  oughi  not  to  have.  He  proposes  to  re- 
legate wink  to  the  realms  of  vulgarity.  Now,  this 
is  surely  bold,  seeing  that  we  find  its  use  hallowed 
in  such  passages  as  the  following.  Let  us  trust 
that  tiie  new  translators  are  not  of  such  an  opinion, 
and  that  they  will  let  well  alone : — 

'*And  the  times  of  this  ignorance  God  winked  at" 
(tvtpiBitv  6  e^s). — Acts  xvii  80.* 

**  Tou  may  as  well  spread  ont  the  unsannM  heaps 
Of  miser's  treasure  by  an  outlaw's  den. 
And  tell  me  it  is  safe,  as  bid  me  hope 
Danger  will  wink  on  Opportunity, 
And  let  a  single  helpless  maiden  pass 
Uninjured  in  this  wild  surrounding  waste." 

Milton,  Comus, 

Shakspeare  also  has ''  winking-gates,"  t.  e,  gates 
closed  from  fear  of  danger. 

Now,  the  primary  meaning  of  irm^is  that  of  the 
exclusion  or  light,  that  of  hUnk  the  presence  of, 
and  giving  out  of,  light  Let  us  look  at  this  in 
the  cognate  languages : — 

WuTK.  A.-S.,  wmcan,  nivere,  nuere,  nictare. 
Germ.,  Wink,  a  wink,  sign;  toinken,  to  wink,  s^^. 
Dutch,  wenken,  to  wink,  beckon.     Swed.,  vink, 

^  The  last  tnuislators  could  have  written  overlooked, 
but  this  I  fancy  Would  have  been  unidiomatic  and  stiff. 
Luther  has  **ttber8ehen;  the  Swedish  version  **i5(Ver- 
sett"  ;  the  Dutch  ^'overgezien" — all  literal  equivalents. 
The  old  version  of  the  pastors  of  Geneva  has  **  dis- 
simul^";  the  Spanish  *<  dissimulando,"  while  Beza  is 
somewhat  redundant,  **  temporibus  istius  i^orantia  con- 
niveodo  disnmulatis."  Now,  **  oonnivSp^'  is  to  wink  with 
the  eyes ;  so  '^  ad  minima  tonitrua  et  fiilgura  oonnivere  " 
(Suetonius).  It  has  also  metaphorically  the  meaning  of 
to  wink  at  a  matter,  take  no  notice  of;  so  Cicero,  <<ea 
ipsa  concede,  quibusdam  in  rebus  etiam  conniveo."  **  Dis- 
simtdo  **  has  the  lelisame  secondary  meaning  of  to  take 
no  notice  of— e.  g.  in  Flautus,  **  Dissimnlabo  hos  quasi 
non  videam."     The  modem  Greek  version  has  mpcl- 


beck,  sign ;  vinka,  to  wink,  beckon.  Johnson  has, 
to  shut  the  eyes,  to  exclude  the  light.  So  we  find 
such  passages  as  these : — 

**  For  he  that  winketh  when  he  should  see, 
Al  wilfully,  God  let  him  never  the  (thriveV 

Chaucer, 
"  For  ofte,  who  that  hede  toke, 
Better  is  it  to  toynA  than  to  loke." 

Cower. 

Thus  we  say,  "  I  never  slept  a  wink,"  ».  6.  never 
closed  an  eye.    And  so  thus : — 

"Because  it  was  night  wee  staved  in  the  sea,  where 
wee  and  our  shippes  were  not  a  little  troubled,  so  that  all 
that  night  none  of  us  ilept  a  winke,  but  watched  every 
one." — Haeklvyt,  Voyagee, 

Blikk.  A.S.,  6/u;<m,corruscare,micare.  Danish, 
hlik,  also  blink,  a  gleam,  glance ;  bUnke,  to  gl^m. 
Swed.,  bUnk,  twinkling.  Flem.,  blinking,  splen- 
dour ;  bUnk-worm,  glowworm.  Dutch,  bwc,  white 
of  the  eye,  twinkle,  glance,  look;  bUkken,  to 
glisten ;  eefi  blink,  a  clear  spot  in  a  cloudy  sW — 
e.  g.  IjthUnk,  in  the  polar  seas.  Now,  lESnglish 
to  blink  has  in  Dutch,  as  synonymous,  ghtren 
(Scotch,  to  glour),  to  look  steadfastly  at;  also 
oogen,  from  which  is  English  to  ogle,  to  look 
steadfastly  at  and  with  some  sort  of  impudently 
contorted  expres^on  of  features.  (Lat.,  Umis  ocuUs 
intueri,)  Qerm.,  Bliek,  look,  glance,  flash  (of 
light) ;  so  in  Scotch,  bUnkit  milk,  such  as  has  been 
soured  by  lightning;  bUnken,  to  g:lance,  shine; 
die  BUcke,  the  brightest  parts  of  a  picture.  Who 
does  not  know  the  following  P — 

**  Du  Schwert  an  meiner  Linken, 
Was  soil  dein  heitree  BUnken  f 
Schaust  mir  so  freundlich  an  "  $ 

and  further  on — 

''Mich  tragt  ein  wackrer  Reiter, 
Drum  bUnV  ich  anch  so  heiter. 
Bin  fireien  Mannes  Wehr." — Komer, 

Jamieson,  a  beam,  ray ;  to  blink,  to  open  the 
eves,  look  with  a  favourable  eye,  &c.  And  so  I 
close  with  the  following  additional  illustrations: — 

**Than  upon  him  she  kest  up  both  her  eyne, 
And  with  a  blink  it  come  in  till  his  thought 
That  he  sometime  her  face  before  had  seen." 

Complcdnt  of  Creieide, 

«  Baloo,  baloo,  my  wee  wee  thing, 

0  safUy  close  thy  blinking  ee." 

GaU.  Cradle  Song. 

"  The  maid  pat  on  her  kirtle  broon ; 
She  was  the  brawest  in  a'  the  tonn ; 

1  wat  on  him  she  didna  gloom. 

But  blinkit  bonnilie.^' 

Muirland  WVUe. 
**  Now  fiimmer  bUnke  on  flowery  braes, 
And  o'er  the  crystal  streamlet  plays ; 
Come  let  us  spend  the  lighUome  days 
In  the  birks  of  Aberfddy." 


263,  Argyll  Street,  Glasgow. 


Bums. 

John  Cbawtobd. 


460 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[i«»  8.  VII.  MiLT  27, 71. 


The  Tue  of  wmk  for  hlmk  in  an  mipleaaantly 

soggestiTe  manner  is  by  no  means  modem.    The 

pi^  is  that  wmk  has  become  so  nanowed  in  oar 

modem  ears  to  its  vulgar  OjfUnff  meaning.    Here 

are  two  passages  from  Shi^espeare's  Fmis  and 

Adorns  (L  90  and  121)  :— 

"  Bat  when  her  lipe  were  xeady  for  his  pay. 
He  mdb,  and  tana  his  lips  another  way." 

**<Art  thoa  ashamed  to  kiss  ?  then  wink  again. 
And  I  win  wimki  so  shaU  the  day  seem  night.'" 

Adonisy  in  fact,  doses  his  eyes  from  the  sight  of 
her.  JoHH  .AjmiB. 


BBITISH  SCYTHE-ARMED  CHABIOTS. 

(4«^  a  L  414;  YiL  d5,  240, 332.) 

M^.  JKRHifTAH,  who  maintains  in  oppoeition 
to  lir.  Tzollope  that  the  ancient  Britons  used 
scythe-armed  eooim,  appears  to  rely  prindpally 
upon  the  anthority  of  the  work  De  Siu  ^ritannuBj 
attributed  to  Richard  of  Cirencester.  This  being 
the  case,  it  should,  I  think,  be  noted  that  graye 
doubts  exist  as  to  the  genuineness  of  that  produc- 
tion ;  in  fact  it  is  now,  I  beUeTe,  very  generallj 
ranked  with  the  pseudo  Ingulf.  But  suppose  it 
to  be  authentic,  wshat  weight  can  an  assertion 
made  bj  a  monk  in  the  fourteenth  century  hare 
as  against  the  negatiTe  testimony  of  Caasar  and 
Tacitus  F  The  tmtii  is,  howoTer,  that  the  state- 
ment extracted  from  the  so-called  Richard  of 
Cirencester  by  Mb.  JiBxinAH  is  itself  taken  from 
Pomnonius  Mela's  woric,  J)e  SUu  OrbU  (lib.  iiL  6\ 
whicn  was  most  probably  written  about  the  middle 
or  towards  the  end  of  the  first  century.  I  haye 
not  this  treatiBe  at  hand,  so  I  cannot  giye  the 
exact  words  of  the  passage  therein  relating  to 
covmij  ^  falcatis  axibus,''  but  I  belieye  that  the 
parallel  passage  in  the  pseudo  Richard  (lib.  L 
c  iiL  $  14)  is  taken  from  Mela,  almost  if  not  quite 
yerbatim :  and  it  is  dear  that  to  the  testimony  of 
Mela  we  owe  the  "  stereotyped  statement"  re- 
specting British  scythe-armed  chariots.  Whether 
or  not  that  statement  is  correct,  I  do  not  pretend 
to  know;  but  it  seems  reasonable  to  suppose  tiiat 
CsBsar  would  haye  told  us  something  about  the 
covmi  in  question  if  the  Britons  of  his  day  had 
used  them.  He  mentions  the  esseda,  as  eyerybody 
knows,  and  the  confusion  they  caused  — ^  teirore 
equorum  et  strepitu  rotarum  *^;  but  surely,  if  there 
had  been  any  chariots  aimed  witii  scythes,  he 
would  haye  qfwdfied  those  formidable  weapons  as 
sources  of  tenor,  rather  than,  or  at  all  eyents  in 
addition  to,  the  horses  and  the  wheels.  It  does 
seem  probable,  howeyer,  that  scythe-armed  cha- 
riots were  used  in  Britain  subsequently  to  Cesar's 
expedition.  As  I  haye  said,  Mela  expressly  men- 
tions them,  and  though  Tadtus  (in  VUd  Agric. 
S  12)  does  not,  yet  his  notice  of  British  war-cha- 
riots at  all  is  so  cursory  that  no  argument  against 
the  scythe  theoiy  can  MAj  be  drawn  from  it; 


rather  the  oontrazy,  in  fact,  for  the  diariots  men- 
tioned by  Tadtus  were,  at  all  eyents,  covmi,  I 
may  add  (1)  that  a  passage  from  Strabo  (iy.  200) 
is  quoted  in  Camden  (BriUmma,  yoL  L  p.  x.  ed. 
Gk>ugh)  to  the  effect  tt&at  the  Britons  used  cha- 
riots in  war  as  the  Oauls  did ;  and  (2)  that  the 
Btsjiked  oomni  mentioned  by  Mela  and  the  pseudo 
Richard  after  ;him  are  said  to  haye  been  armed 
'<  Gallic^."  Still  the  whde  question  is  inyolyed 
in  doubt,  and  I  yentnre  to  think  that  a  brochoie 
upon  andent  BritlBh  war-chariots  by  some  aooomr 
pushed  aiduBologiflt  b  a  litetaiy  denderatum. 

w.A.a 

Newaifc. 


There  is  a  eertun  amount  of  negatiye  eyidence 
touching  the  question  mooted  in  the  foct  that  at 
least  tluee  interments  inyolring  the  presence  of 
a  buried '' andent  British  chariot  **  haye  been  met 
with  in  Yorkshire.  Two  of  these  are  noticed  in 
Phillips'  YorkMre^  p.  209,  with  a  reference  for 
fuller  information  to  the  Memoirs  of  the  York 
Meeting  of  the  Arch.  LuL  1846.  The  third  was 
discoyered  by  Mr.  KendsU  of  IHckering,  in  a 
tumulus  near  Cawthom  Camps.  He  described  to 
me,  when  showing  me  the  wheel-tires  and  other 
parts  of  the  '<find°'  still  extant,  the  whole  trans- 
action, from  the  first  meeting  with  the  hole  near 
its  extremity  to  the  complete  unearthing  of  the 
whole.  But  the  minute  examination  of  the  en- 
tire interment  seemed  to  haye  reyealed  nothing  to 
lead  to  the  inference  that  scythes  had  existed. 
The  horse-trappings  fdund  showed  that  draught 
from  the  chest,  not  the  shoulder,  of  the  small 
horses  employed  had  been  the  rule.  I  should 
think  Mr.  Kendall  would  giye  any  information 
asked  to  any  **  anxious  inquirer." 

J.  C.  AlKIKSOH. 
Danby  in  devdaBd. 


THE  COMPLETION  OF  ST.  PAUL'S. 
(4<^  S.  yi.  passim  ;  yiL  186,  241,  344, 390,  434.) 

I  am  yery  glad  that  the  few  remariu  which  I 
made  upon  this  contemnlated  work  has  brought 
fon^tfd  so  distinguished  an  architeotiual  writer 
as  Mb.  Jaxsb  FKBeirasoirto  explain  more  fully 
than  has  been  hitherto  known  to  the  public  the 
proceedings  of  the  committee  in  reference  to  this 
great  undertaking,  and  the  definite  anangeraenta 
which  are  to  be  carried  out 

Mb.  FjiBtfUriiby  disclaims  any  antiiority  from 
the  committee  for  the  explanations  which  he  has 
giyen,  but  no  doubt  he  expresses  in  a  great  mea- 
sure the  *  opinions  of  his  colleagues,  though  I 
yenture  to  think  there  are  some  of  them  who 
would  not  altogether  endone  his  yiowa  To  dis- 
cuss all  the  points  raised  by  Mb.  TtamimBaa  at 
proper  length  would  take  up  too  much  apaoe  in 


4*kS.VII.MxT27,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


461 


joarvaluBble  colamnByl  must  therefore  confine 
myself  to  some  brief  replies. 

In  reference  to  the  position  of  the  organ,  in  the 
teeth  of  such  accumulated  authority  as  the 
'*  unanimous  opinion  of  twelve  of  the  most  emi- 
nent musical  men  in  England/'  it  seems  presump- 
tuous to  suggest  that  any  other  arrangement  could 
have  been  adopted,  seeing  that  the  instrument  is 
to  be  available  for  the  services  in  the  present 
choir  as  well  as  for  those  under  the  dome ;  but  I 
can  hardly  think  Mb.  FsBexTSSON  to  be  serious 
when  he  would  make  us  believe  that  an  organ  to 
be  as  powerful  as  any  organ  in  England,  even  if 
the  two  halves  project  only  five  feet  on  either 
side,  can  be  so  placed  as  not  to  obstruct  the  view 
**  in  any  appreciable  manner  from  anv  person  stand- 
ing on  tine  floor  of  the  church.'^  My  humble 
opmion  is  so  utterly  opposed  to  Mb.  FsBaussoir's 
iaea  about  the  oi^^ans  so  plaodd  being  ^  just  what 
is  wanted  to  furnish  the  choir  arch,'*  that  I  must 
decline  to  follow  him  in  that  argument.  It  seems 
to  me,  as  it  does  to  many  ouiers,  that  it  will 
totally  mar  the  architectural  effect  of  that  part  of 
the  cathedral. 

Mb.  FsBexrasoir  next  mentions  the  plan  pro- 
posed in  the  Sacristy y  which  sujggests  the  erection 
of  an  altar  with  steps,  baldachmo,  and  all  proper 
accompaniments  unaer  the  arch  leading  to  the 
choir,  and  dismisses  it  in  a  summary  manner  as 
the  production  of  men  who  have  no  idea  of  scale, 
and  incapable  of  judging  of  the  effect  of  their 
scheme  it  realised. 

I  think  Mb.  FsBaussoir  is  in  this  matter  utterly 
mistaken.  I  have  not  the  pleasure  of  knowing 
the  author  of  the  plan  so  carefuUy  studied  and 
drawn  to  scale  in  the  Sacristy;  but  as  I  know 
something  of  drawing,  and  fancy  I  understand  a 
plan,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that  a  most 
effective  design  might  be  produced  upon  the  lines 
of  that  plan,  and  i  can  scarcely^  imsgine  a  more 
beautiful  position  for  a  well-designed  baldachino, 
crowning  an  altar  properly  raised,  and  surrounded 
by  all  the  necessary  arrangements  under  the  chancel 
arch  (not  under  the  dome),  thus  giving  dignity 
to  the  sanctuary,  and  that  'prominence  which  it 
entirely  lacks  in  its  present  low  podtion  in  the 
eastern  apse.  I  would  not  pass  so  poor  a  com- 
pliment upon  the  aocomplisned  professional  ad- 
viser to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  as  to  suppose  that 
he  is  incapable  of  forming  sudi  an  artistic  grouping 
of  these  essential  features  as  would  be  infimtely 
superior  to  ''  furnishing  the  choir  arch  "  with  any 
amount  of  organ  pipes. 

The  great  difficulty  which  seems  to  present  itself 
to  Mb.  FEBatrssoir's  mind  is,  that  tnere  will  be 
apparently  two  churches  under  one  roof«  I  tliink 
he  attaches  too  much  importance  to  this  idea. 
Virtually  this  is  the  case  in  some  of  our  cathedrals 
and  abbey  churches  at  present,  and  unless  we  are 
disposed  to  destroy  some  of  the  most  interesting 


features  of  our  old  buildings,  these  arranffements 
must  remain.  Mb.  FEBeussoir  asks,  when  one 
part  of  the  Cathedral  is  to  be  used  and  when  the 
other? 

Surelv  the  duly  services  (when  moderate  num- 
bers only  attend)  can  ti^e  place  in  the  present 
choir  as  usual,  and  for  Sundays  and  other  spedal 
services  additional  to  the  great  Festivids  of  the 
Church,  the  aisle,  choir,  transept,  and  nave  would 
most  suitabhr  hold  the  vast  congregations  that 
might  assemble. 

In  calling  attention  to  the  plan  given  in  the 
Sacridy,  1  had  no  intention  or  defending  all  its 
details ;  possibly  the  scheme  mu^t  be  improved. 
The  subject  is  not  without  its  dmkulties ;  but  in 
S{ute  of  Mb.  FBBeussoH's  strictures,  I,  in  common 
with  many  others,  hesitate  in  tiiinking  that  the 
proposals  as  set  forth  by  him  are  the  best  that  can 
oe  cieviaed.  I  see  no  inconsistencv  in  my  remarks 
about  Westminster  Abbey.  The  plans  of  St.  Paul's 
and  Westminster  Abbey  are  so  unlike,  that  dif- 
ferent treatments  in  each  building  are  necessary. 
As  you  will^  receive  other  communications  upon 
this  interesting  subject^  I  will  occupy  no  furtner 
space.  Bxir  jAXiir  Fibbxt. 


THE  BOOKWORM. 

(4«>  S.  vi.  627;  vii.  66, 168,  262, 346.) 

In  looking  over  some  old  gentleman's  diaries  in 
my  possession  I  came  across  the  foUowing  replv 
to  a  query  on  this  subject  propounded  in  1823, 
viz: — 

'*  The  bookwonn  is  a  aoull  white  dlveifflhiBiBg  insect, 
or  moth,  mnch  foand  amongst  books  and  papers,  and  is 
supposed  to  be  that  which  eats  holes  thnnigh  the  leaves 
and  covers.  Its  head  is  bie  and  Uant,  and  its  body 
tapers  firom  it  towards  the  tul  smaller  and  smaller ;  the 
body  is  divided  into  fonrteen  several  partitions^  having 
the  appearance  of  so  man^  shells,  and  each  of  these  parts 
IS  again  covered  over  with  a  xnnltitade  of  thin  trans- 
parent scales,  which,  from  the  nraltipUcitv  of  their  re- 
flecting surfaces,  make  the  whole  uiimal  wpear  of  a 
perfect  pearl  colour.  This  insect  is  famished  on  either 
nde  of  Its  head  with  a  duster  of  eyes^  and  each  of  these 
dusters  is  beset  with  a  row  of  soiaU  bristles  much  like 
the  libsa  or  hairs  on  the  evdids,  and  perhaps  they  serve 
for  the  same  purpose.  It  has  ten  lonff  horns  curiously 
ribbed  or  knotted,  having  at  each  nob  small  hain  or 
bristles,  here  and  there  dispersed  among  them;  besides 
these  it  has  two  shorter  horns  or  feders,  which  are  knotted 
and  fringed^ike  the  former.  It  has  tliree  tails,  in  every 
respect  resembling  the  two  lon^  horns  on  the  head. 
The  legs  of  it  are  scaled  and  haired  just  like  the  other 
parts  of  its  body.  The  body  is  beset  with  small  pointed 
oristles  like  spears.  Dr.  Hook  says  this  animal  probably 
feeds  on  the  paper  and  leaves  of  books,  and  perforates 
small  holes  in  them.  To  prevent  the  depredations  of 
this  little  animd,  books  should  be  frequency  aired,  and 
if  some  strong  smelling  herba^  such  as  rue,  wormwood, 
Ac,  russia  leather  shavings,  or  a  small  piece  of  camphor, 
be  put  among  them,  it  will  tend  greatly  to  preserve 
them." 

Another  correspondent  says :— 


462 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»»S.VII.  Mat  27,71. 


"  The  best  and  only  secnritj  against  bookworms  is  to 
mix  mineral  salts  [which  all  insects  abhor]  in  the  paste 
used  by  the  binders.*' 

Chajllss  Feitet. 

Hammersmith. 


Parnell*8  poem  on  the  "  Bookworm  "  was  no 
doubt  suggested  by  the  lines  of  Theodore  Beza, 
but  he  has  introduced  into  his  paraphrase  so  many 
allusions  to  other  matters,  tnat  the  original  is 
almost  entirely  lost  sight  of.  Pamell  is  much 
more  indebted  to  the  fertility  of  his  own  imagina- 
tion than  to  Beza.  The  following  is  the  poem 
referred  to : — 

" Theodori  BeiuB  Tinea; 
Ad  Mtuau  tinuB  aacrifieium  Imdierum, 

**  Si  rogat  Cereremqve  Libemmque 
Yitie  soUicitus  snsB  oolonns; 
Si  Mavortis  opem  petit  craentus 
Miles,  sollicitiis  snae  salntis; 
Qoidni,  Calliope,  tibi  toisqae 
Jure  sacra  feram,  qaibas  placere 
Est  nnnm  stndiam  mihi,  omnibusqne 
Qui  vatum  h  numero  volant  haben  ? 
Vobis  ergo  ferenda  sacra ;  Mass ; 
Sed  qnc  victima  grata  ?  qnie  CamoBnis 
Dicata  hostia  ?  parcite,  d  Camoenn ; 
Nova  hsBC  victima,  sed  futara  vobis 
Saavis,  arbitror,  admodamqae  grata. 
Accede,  d  Tinea,  ilia  qos  pusillo 
Ventrem  corpoie  tam  geris  voracem. 
Tene  Pieridum  aggre£  ministros  ? 
Tene  arrodere  tam  sacros  labores  ? 
Nee  fiMstnm  mibf  denega.    Ecce  farti 
Toi  ezempla,  tose  et  voracitatis. 
Pene  ta  mihi  passerem  Catalli, 
Pene  ta  mihi  Lesbiam  abstalistL 
Nanc  oerte  mens  ille  Martialis 
Ima  ad  viscera  rosas  osqae  langaet, 
I  mo  et  ipse  Maro,  eai  pependt, 
Josto  CiBsare  sic  Jabente,  flamma, 
Lnsos  dente  tao,  soelesta,  langnet 
Quid  dieam  innameroe  bene  eraditos^ 
Qaomm  tu  monamenta,  ta  labores 
Isto  pessimo  ventre  devorftsti  ? 
Prodi,  jam  tanicam  lelin^ae,  prodi]; 
Yah!  at callida stringit Ipsa sese !' 
Ut  mortem  simalat  I  soelesta  prodi. 
Pro  tot  eriminibos  datara  poenas. 
Age,  istam  jagalo  tao  craento 
Mocronem  ezdpe,  et  istam  et  istnro. 
Vide  nt  palpita^  ut  cniore  largo 
Ans  poUoit  h«c  profana  saoras. 
At  vos,  Pierides,  DonsBqae  Masse, 
Nanc  gaadete ;  jaoet  fera  interempta, 
Jaoet  sacrilega  ilia,  qan  solebat 
Sacros  Pieridom  ventre  servos ; 
Hanc  vero  tanicam,  has  dico,  Camoena^ 
Vobis  exnvias,  nt  hinc  tropnam 
Pamasso  in  medio  locetis  et  sit 
Hsec  inscriptio ;  de  fer&  interemtA 
Beza  dat  spolia  Iubc  opima  Masis.'* 


Cork. 


B.O. 


The  following  extract  seems  to  me  worthy  of  a 
place  amongst  the  various  notes  which  the  cor- 
respondents of  <'  N.  &  Q."  have  furnished  on  tids 


interesting  topic.  I  take  it  from  Thomas  DeQuin- 

cey's  Autcibiograpkic  Sketches^  chap.  vi. : — 

**  That  library  of  120,000  volumes,  which  George  IV. 
presented  to  the  nation,  and  which  has  since  eone  toswdl 
the  collection  at  the  firitish  Museum,  had  been  formed 
(as  I  was  often  assured  by  persons  to  whom  the  whole 
history  of  the  librair,  and  its  growth  from  small  rudi- 
ments, was  familiarly  known)  under  the  direct  personal 
superintendence  of  George  III.  It  was  a  favourite  and 
pet  creation;  and  his  care  even  extended  to  the  dressing 
of  the  books  in  appropriate  bindings,  and  (as  one  man 
told  me)  to  their  health :  explaining  himself  to  mean, 
that  in  any  case  where  a  book  was  worm-eaten,  or  touched 
however  slightly  with  the  worm,  the  king  was  anxious 
to  prevent  the  injury  from  extending,  or  from  infecting 
others  bv  close  neiglibourhood  ;  for  it  is  supposed  by  many 
that  such  injuries  spread  rapidly  in  favourable  situations." 

Efp. 

SCRIPSTTS  OR  CHRISTirAS  PlECES  (4**»  S.  vi.  667 ; 
vii.  146,  201,  861.) — Seeing  that  your  correspon- 
dent Mb.  SHAW  mentions  my  father's  name 
(p.  146),  Dean  and  Munday,  as  publisher  of 
scripsitSy  I  thought  a  few  facts  from  personal  me- 
mory and  knowledge  mi^ht  interest  your  readers. 
As  a  youngster  some  thirty-five  years  ago  in  my 
father*s  establishment,  the  sale  of  ^'school  pieces,'' 
or  '^  Christmas  pieces,''  as  they  were  called,  and 
not  scripsits,  was  very  lar^ ;  my  fatiier  published 
some  thir^  different  subjects  (a  new  one  OTery 
year,  one  of  the  old  ones  being  let  go  out  of  print). 
There  were  also  three  other  publishers  of  them. 
'The  order  to  print  used  to  average  about  five 
hundred  of  each  kind,  but  double  of  the  Life  of  our 
Saviour.  Most  of  the  subjects  were  those  of  the 
Old  Testament.  I  only  recollect  four  subjects 
not  sacred.  Printing  at  home,  we  generally  com- 
menced the  printing  in  August  from  the  copper- 
plates, as  they  had  to  be  coloured  by  hand.  They 
sold  retail  at  sixpence  each,  and  we  used  to  sup- 
ply them  to  the  trade  at  thirty  shillings  per  gross, 
and  to  schools  at  three  shillings  and  sixpence  per 
dozen,  or  two  dozen  for  six  shillings  and  sixpence. 
Charity  boys  were  large  purchasers  of  these  pieces, 
and  at  Christmas  time  used  to  take  them  round 
their  parish  to  show,  and  at  the  same  time  solicit 
a  trifle.  The  sale  never  be^an  before  October  in 
the  country,  and  December  m  London ;  and  earl^ 
in  January  the  stock  left  used  to  be  put  by  until 
the  following  season.  It  is  over  fifteen  years  since 
any  were  pnnted  by  my  firm,  and  the  last  new 
one  I  find  was  done  m  lithography. 

S.  A.  H.  Dbak,  of  Pean  and  Son, 
successors  of  Dean  and  Munday. 

Stdnbt  GoDOLPHiif  (4«*»  S.  vii.  364.)— The 
person  of  this  name  for  whom  W.  D.  C.  inquires 
IS  probably  the  son  of  John  Godolphin,  Judge  of 
the  Admuralty,  who  was  nephew  of  Sir  William 
Gk>dolphin,  the  grandfather  of  the  Lord  High 
Treasurer.  He  was  bom  1661,  and  was  a  colonel 
in  the  army  and  governor  of  the  island  of  Scilly. 
He  married  Susan,  daughter  of  Reese  Tannat  of 


4»«»S.VII.  Mat27,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


463 


A^tertannat^  Salop,  Esa^  by  whom  he  had  seYenl 
cbildien;  and  was  proDably  alive  in  1704,  when 
an  elaborate  pedigree  of  the  family  waa  entered  in 
the  Heralds'  College.  In  this,  however,  the  date 
of  birth  of  the  Lord  Treasurer  is  not  given,  but 
his  monument  states  that  he  was  aged  sixty- 
seven  at  his  death  on  Sept.  16, 1712.     G.  E.  A. 

WoBCESTBB  Arms  (4»*»  S.  vii.  410.) —  If  Mb. 
G&AZBBROOK  had  paid  the  visit  he  promised  to  a 
Worcestershire  antiquary  he  might  have  obtained 
a  clue  to  some  of  the  names  he  is  hunting  for. 

P. 

"  Babok  "  Nicholson  :  Johk  Dalbticplb  (4* 
S.  vii.  286.) — Amongst  the  chief  contributors  to 
The  Towfij  Mb.  Bates  mentions  *^  the  clever,  but 
profligate  John  Dalrymple.*'  To  whom  does  this 
refer  P  I  particularly  hope  Mb.  Batbs  will  reply 
to  this  inquiry.  Si  Qttis. 

«  Heabt  of  HBABxrs]  "  (4**  S.  vii.  362.)— I 
am  quite  unable  to  reply  to  Lobd  Chelvsfobd*s 
inquiry  as  to  what  has  led  to  the  universal  ex- 
pression of  ''  Heart  of  hearts "  in  the  plural.  I 
can  only  satisfy  him  by  quoting  an  old  authority 
for  a  lady  who  appears  to  me,  contrary  to  his 
expectations,  to  have  been  in  possession  of  two 
hearts. 

In  that  graceful  sonnet  which  has  been  attri- 
buted to  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  claimed  bv  Lord 
Chesterfield,  but  written  by  the  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, who  died  in  1630,  he  addresses  Christiana, 
daughter  of  Lord  Bruce  of  Einlos,  thus — 

*'  Wrong  not,  dear  empress  of  my  heart. 
The  merits  of  tme  passion, 
With  thinking  that  he  feels  no  smart 
Who  sues  for  no  compassion.'* 

Having  thus  disposed  of  his  heart  to  his  "  Platonic 
mistress,"  as  many  others  have  done  under  similar 
circumstances,  the  sonnet  concludes  thus — 

**  Then  wrong  not,  dear  Heart  of  my  Heart, 
My  true  though  secret  pasMon  ; 
He  smarteth  most  that  hides  his  smart. 
And  sues  for  no  compassion.'' 

XV.  B*  S. 

"Light  op  Lights"  (4»»»  S.  vii.  899.)— J. H.  B.'s 
criticism  on  No,  187  i[inymM  Ancient  and  Modern^ 

"  Light  of  Lights  1  with  morning  shine," 

and 

**  Light  of  Lights !  when  falls  the  even," 

is  groundless.    He  says, — 

"  One  would  think  the  composer  of  the  hymn  had  never 
seen  the  Nicene  Creed  either  in  Greek  or  English,  for  there 
Mt  iK  *^tr6s,  and  **  Light  of  Light,"  convey  a  very 
different  meaning  from  that  given  by  the  ploral  of  the 
hymn." 

Of  course  they  do,  and  for  this  yery  sufficient 
xeason,  that  the  author  of  the  hymn  intended  his 
words  in  a  different  meaning.    The  Creed,  in  ^As  I 


^ic  ^»r6s,  is  speaking  of  the  iecond  person  in  the 
Trinity;  whereas  the  hynm  is  addressed  to  the 
Trinity  in  Unity.  The  author  may  be  supposed 
to  have  had  in  his  mind  Gen.  i.  16,  "  And  God 
made  two  great  lights,"  of  which  He  is  himself 
the  light;  Psalm  cxzxvi.  7,  [0  give  thanks]  **  to 
Him  that  made  great  lights,  for  his  mercy  en- 
dureth  for  ever '  ;  and  James  i.  17,  "  Cometh 
down  from  the  Father  of  lights."  Mb.  ArPTGSB 
aptly  asks  on  the  same  page, 

*'  Qois  emendabit  ipsos  emendatores  ?" 

E.V. 

"  The  Wind  has  a  Laitouags,"  etc." (4'*  S.  vii. 
865.) — ^In  the  absence  of  information  of  a  more 
definite  kind,  it  may  interest  Mb.  Gantuxon  to 
know  even  this  little,  that  the  lines  appeared  in  a 
magazine  more  than  forty  years  ago;  and  that 
the  first  four,  vividly  impressed  upon  my  boyish 
mind,  and  clinging  wiui  bur-llKO  tenacity  to 
memory,  ran  thus :  — 

**  The  wind  has  a  language  I  woald  I  could  learn  ; 
Sometimes  'tis  soothing,  and  sometimes  'tis  stem ; 
And  sometimes  it  comes  like  a  bw  sweet  song. 
And  all  things  grow  calm  as  the  strain  floats  along." 

Of  the  remaining  lines  I  have  too  imperfect  a 
remembrance  to  venture  attempting  to  give  them. 
I  do  not  remember  the  author's  name,  if  indeed 
it  was  appended  to  the  lines,  nor  the  magazine  in 
which  they  appeared.  J.  L. 

,  Shbebwobt  (4«»  S.  Ti.  502;  vii.  25,  151,1244, 
332.)— I  hope  F.  C.  H.  (a  Murithian)  will  not 
thinK  me  hypercritical,  but  I  do  not  fancy  the 
Arabis  ItaUatta  would  be  used  in  salads,  even  by 

S'psies.  Was  his  plant  the  Cardamine  Mrndat 
y  own  notion  is,  that  the  plant  we  call  Ame- 
rican cress  {Barbarea  pracox),  may  have  been 
the  sheerwort  of  old  writers,  but  1  hare  no  proof 
of  this.  Arahis  Italiana  was  certainly  never  cul- 
tivated, and  I  fijid  sheerwort  in  a  catalogue  of 
''sallad  herbs"  dated  1688.  In  my  very  numer- 
ous lists  I  have  no  plant  so  called,  except  Atier 
TripoUum,  Could  F.  C.  H.  send  me  a  scrap  of  his 
plant?  James  Bbitteit. 

Boyal  Herbarium,  Kew. 

Tbevbbis'  "  Gbbtb  Hebbalt.  "  (4»"»  S.  vii.  162, 
268,  833.)— H.  C.  does  not  quote  Parkinson's 
Index  correctly,  or  he  would  see  that  his  "  Son- 
chus"  and  ''Asparagus,''  although  in  the  same 
line,  have  separate  references,  and  are  quite  dif- 
ferent things.  My  co]^y  reads :  "  Falatium  leporis, 
1.  Stmchu$  tavii  mugaru,  807.  CasalpmOf  L  Aspa- 
ragus vulgaris " — ^which  is  indexed  in  its  place 
under  A.  There  is  no  doubt  that  our  sowthistle 
is  the  ''hare's  palace"  of  most  authors;  but  it 
does  not  seem  to  be  that  of  Treveris. 

I  subjoin  my  address,  and  shall  be  Tery  glad  to 
correspond  with  H.  C.  I  suspect  we  shall  find 
that  the  Orius  Sanitatis  was  the  source  from  which 


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[4«*S.VII.Mat27/71. 


both  the  Orete  SerbaU  and  CfrmU  fferbier  -were 
compiled.    My  edition  (1526)  has  cats. 

James  Bbitiek,  F.L.S. 
Boyal  Herbariam,  Kew. 

MKH ORIAL  VSBSBS  OK  THS  NXTMBEB  OF  DaTS 

IK  THE  MoKTHS  (4**'  S.  viL  886.) — ^It  may  interest 

Mb.  Lofiie  to  nave  his  attention  directed  to 

Brae*8  edition  of  Chaucer's  Treatise  on  the  Agtr<h- 

Me,  published  last  year,  wherein  he  will  find  at 

p.  26  the  following  note :  — 

**  It  is  worthy  of  reniArk  that  Stevios  here  inserts,  by 
way  of  illustrating  the  text,  those  well-known  lines : 
'  Thirtie  dais  hath  September/ &c  Adding  *Lo,  venes  of 
the  nomber  of  the  dais  in  ye  Kalendar.' " 

In  his  introduction  to  the  Treatise  Mr.  Brae 
conclusiyely  shows  that  the  MS.  of  Steyins,  here 
spoken  of,  must  have  been  written  about  the  year 
lo66.  So  that  here  are  the  verses,  not  only  at  a 
much  earlier  date  than  even  Mb.*  Loftie  has  disF- 
coveredy  but.  to  judge  from  the  one  line  quoted, 
a  version  of  them  much  nearer  to  that  we  are 
habituated  to  at  the  present  day.  J.  P. 

The  Oldest  Istks  ik  Ekglakd  (4*^  S.  vL  506 ; 
viL  267,  834.)— The  legend  current  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood is  that,  in  one  of  the  chambers  of  the 
ancient  inn  at  Norton  St  Philips,  Somerset,  the 
Duke  of  Monmouth  slept  the  night  before  the 
battle  of  Sedgemoor.  Should  any  of  your  readers 
wish  for  a  photograph  of  this  inn,  I  can  supply 
them,  and  the  proceidds  will  be  given  to  a  useful 
charity.  Ella. 

Bath. 

The  Phoekiz  Thboke  :  Btbok  (4**  S.  vii.  162, 
268, 401.)— What  ground  has  P.  P.  for  supposinff 
that  in  the  verse  he  has  quoted  Byron  intended 
any  reference  to  the  phoenix  P  To  me  the  mean- 
ing appears  to  be  simply  and  plainly,  that  in  the 
desert — the  wide  waste — the  solitude  of  his  life, 
there  was  still  one  fountain  springing,  one  tree, 
one  Inrd  singing — these  all  typifying  his  siste^ 
Augusta,  to  whom  the  lines  were  addiessed. 

G.  J.  De  Wilde. 

Ekolish  Vebsieicatiok  (4*  S.  vii.  890.)  — 
The  most  copious  rules  and  instructions  for  English 
versification  will  be  found  in  the  Art  of  EngKsh 
Poetry f  by  Bysshe,  first  published  in  1702.  It 
treats  of  the  structure  of  ESnglish  verses,  of  their 
several  kinds,  and  of  the  due  observation  of  accent 
and  pause;  and  contains  rules  conducing  to  the 
beauty  of  our  versification.  It  has  chapters  on 
elisions  and  rhyme,  and  a  dicUonaiy  of  rhymes, 
followed  by  a  very  ample  collection  of  passages 
from  the  TOst  English  poets,  with  the  subjects 
arranged  in  alphabetical  order.  F.  0.  H. 

ROSEMABT  T7SED  AT  FtTKEBALS  (4*'*  S.  viL  206, 

848.) — I  remember,  many  years  ago,  being  once 
at  a  funeral  in  North  Lancashire  of  a  distin- 
guished officer  in  the  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  when, 
a  little  before  the  procession  moved  from  the 


house,  a  basket  containing  rosemary  was  brought 
in ;  firom  which  each  guest  took  a  sprig,  carried 
it  with  him  to  tiie  grave,  and  deposited  it  on 
the  coffin. 

The  custom  of  using  rosemary  at  funerals  is 
thus  explained  by  Wheatly  on  Common  Prtnfsr: — 

^  To  express  their  hopes  that  their  friend  is  not  lost 
for  ever,  each  person  in  the  company  usually  bears  in  his 
hand  a  sprig  of  rowemary ;  a  costom  which  seems  to  have 
taken  its  rue  from  a  practice  amon^  the  heathens,  of  a 
goite  diiferent  import.  For  they,  havue  no  thooghta  of  a 
ratore  lesarrection,  bnt  beUevin^  that  the  bodies  of  those 
that  were  dead  would  for  ever  he  in  the  grave,  made  ose 
of  ejfpresa  at  their  funerals ;  which  is  a  tree  that,  being 
onoe  cut,  never  revives,  bat  dies  away.  Bnt  Christians, 
on  tiie  other  side,  having  better  hopes,  and  knowing  that 
this  very  body  of  their  friend,  which  they  are  now  going 
solemnly  to  commit  to  the  grave,  shall  one  day  rise 
again  and  be  reunited  to  his  soul,  instead  of  cypreit  dia- 
tribute  ro9emarp  to  the  company,  which  (being  always 
green  and  flourishing  the  more  for  being  cropt,  and  of 
which  a  sprig  only  teing  set  in  the  ground  irill  sprout 
up  immeoiatoly  and  branch  into  a  trae)  is  more  proper 
to  express  this  confidence  and  trust." 

It  would  appear  that  the  early'  colonists  of 
America  had  taken  with  them  this  old  custom. 
Br.  Ooze,  the  Bishop  of  New  York,  alludes  to 
the  practice  in  his  beautiful  poem,  I%0  Churches 
Daughter.  Although,  as  he  says  in  a  note,  he  has 
taken  a  quaint  licence  with  the  botanical  name  of 
the  flower,  rosemary  (Bosemarmus) :  — 

**  Then  roses  pale  and  roae-marme. 
She  scatters  o*er  the  marble  dust ; 
And  at  the  last  heartrending  scene. 
As  earth  takes  back  its  precious  trust." 
Mihirow.  Jajces  Peabsok. 

Geobgb  Edwabdb,  A.D.  1545  (A^  S.  vii.  888.)^ 
The  name  of  this  gentleman  appears  as  one  of  the 
twenty-two  veomen  of  the  chamber  of ''  the  ordi- 
nary of  the  Queen's  side  which  have  their  allow- 
ance of  wages,  without  any  meate  or  Bouch  of 
Oourt,''  and  he,  as  well  as  each  of  his  colleagues, 
received  15/.  4s.  2d.  per  annum  (Ordinances  of  the 
Royal  Householdf  p»  170).  This  information  is 
given  in  the  "  Ordmances  made  at  Eltham  in  the 
xviith  year  of  King  Henry  VIII." ;  but  while  that 
year  was  1525-6,  any  person  who  will  read  the 
lists  of  names  there  given  with  any  attention, 
will  see  that  they  must  have  been  kept  corrected 
to  a  much  later  period:  for  they  contain  titles 
which  were  not  conferred  until  quite  the  dose  of 
the  king's  reign.  To  instance  two :  '*  The  Earle 
of  Hertrord,  Ix>rd  Great  Ohamberlyn,"  afterwards 
the  Protector  Somerset,  was  created  earl  Oct  18, 
1587 ;  while  the  title  of  <"  The  Lord  Lisle,  Lord 
Admiral!,'*  dates  ooly  from  Match  12, 1542.  No 
mention  of  George  Edwards  occurs  in  the  Privy 
Purse  Accounts  of  Henry  VHI.,  nor  in  the  Rut- 
land or  Trevelyan  Papen.  Hebmektbuds. 

Bbceet's  Mubdsbebs  (4^  S.  vii.  S3, 171, 195, 
268,  305.)^One  of  the  Hugh  de  Morvilles  men- 
tioned had  no  son,  but  two  daughters  and  co- 


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heiis — ^Adamay  maxried  to  Bichard  de  Lucy  and 
Thomas  de  Multon,  and  Joan,  wife  of  Richud  de 
Gtemon  of  Essex.  De  Gernon  was  pardoned  a 
debt  of  260  marks  owed  to  the  king  for  the  in- 
heritance of  Hagh  de  Morville,  whose  daughter 
he  had  married.    (Bot.  Fin,  15  Joh.,  Feb.  1.) 

Hebmentbttde. 

The  Soeooucabtbb  Abroad  in  Stajtobd- 
8HIBE  (4"'  S.  viL  121, 180,  311, 374.)— Mooblakd 
Lab  tells  of  the  suckling  of  a  **  buU-pup  "  by  a 
pitman's  wife.  Such  nursing  is  not  umque,  as  he 
seems  to  think.  Mrs.  Piozzi,  somewhere  ini  her 
Autobiography  or  Letters  (my  note  is  incomplete), 
speaks  of  the  suckling  of  lap-dogs  by  human  wet- 
nurses  as  a  common  practice  at  Naples;  and  re- 
fers to  a  picture  she  has  seen  of  a  woman  suckling' 
a  cat.  JoHF  Adsib. 

Riuttiigton,  near  LitUehamptan,  Snnez. 

Bishop  Mobdecai  Cabt  (4»'»  S.  vii.  234,  876.) 
B.  Dthond  will  find,  if  he  refers  to  my  recent 
contribution  (4**»  S.  vii.  187),  that  the  Bev. 
Henry  Francis  Gary  married  Jane,  daughter  of 
James  (not  John)  (5rmsby,  Esq.,  oi  Sandy  mount, 
near  Dublin ;  ana  also  that  his  mother  was  Hen- 
rietta, daughter  of  Theophilus  Brocas,  D.D.,  Dean 
of  EiUala.  His  son,  the  Bev.  Henry  Gary,  M.A., 
of  Worcester  GoUege,  Oxford  (not  mentioned  in 
the  pedigree),  was  the  author  of  the  Memoir  to 
whicn  I  referred,  and  in  which  may  be  found,  as 
one  might  expect,  many  biographical  details. 

Abhba. 

Why  does  a  itbwlt  bobk  Ghilb  cbtP  (4"»  S. 
YiL  211,  289,  394.)— If  the  Quotation  made  by 
Mb.  Mobbis  (p.  374)  is  perfectly  reliable,  it  ten<u 
to  throw  much  light  on  the  mature  (as  well  as 
on  the  infantile)  pronunciation  of  the  period.  We 
may  certainly  conclude  that  the  first  letter  of  the 
English  alphabet  was  then  pronounced  as  A  in 
num,  can,  xc, — a  fashion  whicn  is  still  retained  in 
some  old  places. 

There  is  perhaps  more  difficulty  about  the  nro- 
nundation  of  the  second  vowel  £.  It  is  by  Mb. 
MoBBis's  authority  made  to  rhyme  with  the  verb 
be,  and  to  nve  the  tone  to  the  very  ancient  desig- 
nation of  Mve.  Perhaps  a  philosonhical  accoucheur 
or  observant  monthly  nurse  coula  tell  us  whether 
the  incipient  cry  of  a  young  lady  most  resembles 
a  shrill  EE  or  a  broader  A  i  or  EH;  but  we  may 
guess,  wiUiout  such  initiation  into  the  mysteries 
of  the  sick  chamber. 

We  have  no  reason  to  beHeve  that  the  verb  be 
has  alwavs  been  pronounced  in  its  present  shrill 
or  insignificant  way.  In  modem  poetrylt  seldom 
or  never  forms  the  final  reliable  or  heroic  lines,  as 
it  did.  often  in  that  of  Spenser.  And  the  name 
JBve  was  probably  in  old  times  &  word  of  two  syl- 
lables, of  which  the  first  resembled  the  initial 
floond  in  Eveline  or  Evangeline  or  Effie  Deans. 

These  questions  affect  toe  history  of  languages 


very  intimately  in  their  progress  and  decay.  We 
require,  however,  a  proper  scale  of  sounds  even  to 
discourse  of  them.  Might  I  again  suggest  the 
natural  scale  offered  (4^  S.  v.  545)  as  a  oasis  for 
such  speculations,  and  which  I  have  ventured  to 
repeat  here : — 

EE,  AY  I  ^  ^^^  Q^  QQ 

LiTEBA. 

SiB  JoHK  Powell  (1'*,  2*",  4^  S.  paaeim.y- 
When  found  not,  make  a  note  of  it.  I  have  be- 
fore me  the  Biographical  Dictionary  of  Eminent 
Welchmen,  by  the  Kev.  Bobert  Williams,  M.A. 
(London,  Longmans,  1852),  in  which  I  cannot 
find  the  name  of  this  upright  judge  and  Welsh- 
man. 

I  see,  however,  that  vour  first  query  was  pub- 
lished on  March  12, 1853,  and  I  find  in  the  Uergy 
List  that  the  reverend  author  of  the  dictionary  is 
still  living ;  tiierefore  I  venture  to  hope  that  he 
has  alrea(fy  made  a  note  of  the  judge's  name,  to 
grace  some  pages  of  addenda  to  his  original  work. 

Geo.  £.  Fbebb. 

Saicplebs  (4»»»  S.  vi.  600 ;  vii.  21, 126, 220, 273, 
831.) — About  fifty  years  ago  I  was  shown  a  kind 
of  sampler  at  Bacton,  Herefordshire,  in  the  church 
there,  of  exquisite  work,  but  unfortonately  I  took 
no  note  of  it.  I  should  be  very  much  pleased  if 
any  lady  or  gentleman  in  that  neighoourhood 
would  describe  it  I  think  I  was  told  that  it  was 
worked  bv  Blanche  Parry,  chief  gentlewoman  to 
Queen  ^zabeth,  and  who  died  1590.  Perhaps 
an  older  sampler  than  this  does  not  exist 

F.  0.  P. 

Two  Passages  ik  "  Timos  op  Athsits  "  (4'*  S. 
vi.  43,  164,  269,  355,  445;  vii.  350.)— Pbopessob 
Elzs  will,  I  trust,  pardon  my  pointing  out  that 
the  question  is  not  whether  the  word  muck  might 
be  used  for  useless  treasure,  but  whether  Shak- 
speare  has  used  that  word  in  the  passa^  above 
referred  to,  from  Act  IV.  Sc.  3.  The  received  text 
follows  the  first  folio;  HsBB  Elzb  suggests  a 
speculative  emendation.  Now  I  do  protest  most 
earnestly  against  all  such  merely  speculative 
emendations.  Show  a  fault  in  the  text,  and  many, 
perhaps  too  many,  are  ready  to  come  forward  and 
correct  it — and  welcome.  But  here  is  no  fault, 
for  the  text  reads  as  grammatically  correct.  JL 
as  the  Hebb  suggests,  a  faulty  compodtor  had 

f  laced  much  where  Shakspeare  wrote  mMick,  which 
do  not  admit,  we  have  this  ftirther  difflculfy  of 
the  additional  substitution  of  meat  for  me  to  con- 
tend with.  Such  double  inadvertence,  thus  con- 
joined, is  against  all  we  know  of  the  doctrine  of 
chances.  We  are  dealing  with  &  question  of  pro- 
babilities only,  and  the  odds  axe  against  the  muck 
theoiT.  It  m^y  be  said  that  the  printer,  having 
blundered  over  the  word  muck  inadvertently,  has 
substituted  meat  for  me  designedly,  to  make  a 


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[4»k  S.  VII.  May  27,  71. 


false  sense.  It  won't  do ;  and  for  the  following 
reasons:  —  1.  A  compositor,  having  made  a* slip 
inadvertenUy,  would,  as  a  matter  of  course,  pass  it 
unnoticed.  2.  If  noticed  bj  compositor,  reaiaer,  or 
editor,  there  was  the  "  copy''  to  refer  to,  by  which 
means  the  original  error  could  be  corrected,  in- 
stead of  needlessly  piling  Pelion  upon  Ossa  by 
making  a  second. 
Shakspeare  should  be  respected  in  his  grave : 

"  Good  frend,  for  Jeaas'  sake  forbeare," 
lest  we  fall  under  the  consequent  ban — 

"...  curst  be  he  y*  moves  my  bones.** 

A.H. 

The  Accibentb  Coicpbnsation  Bill  (4*»»  S.  vii. 
280,  378.)— As  a  fellow-sufferer  through  Lord 
CampbelPs  shortcomings  as  a  judffe,  I  can  fuUy 
flympathise  with  Clakry.  He  is,  however,  mis- 
taken in  his  censure  of  the  biUundus  of  which 
LoBD  Lyitelton  claims  the  parentage.  The  act 
was  a  most  just  one,  though  extravagant  damages 
have,  no  doubt,  been  recovered  under  it.  But  the 
cases  of  fraud  upon  companies  to  which  Clabbt 
refers,  and  whicn  are  no  doubt  rife  enough,  are 
connected  with  actions  brought  at  common  law 
by  persons  who  allege  themselves  to  be  injured, 
ana  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  statute  in 
question.  C.  G.  Peowktt. 

Garrick  Clab. 

In  such  statements  as  that  at  a  railway  accident 
500  persons  were  In  the  train,  and  that  the  com- 
pany compensated  600,  exact  are  preferable  to 
round  numbers.  Will  Claert  oblice  me  with 
them,  and  also  the  authority  on  whidi  he  relies  ? 
As  no  one  was  MUed  at  the  accident  which  cost 
the  Brighton  Railway  74,000/.,  Lord  Campbell's 
act  inflicted  no  hardship  in  that  case. 

Railway  companies  are  subject  to  frauds  bv 
persons  who  pretend  to  have  been  injured.  Still 
more  so  are  insurance  offices  by  those  who  set 
their  houses  on  fire,  and  I  believe  all  great  estab- 
lishments are  much  cheated,  against  which  there 
is  no  protection  but  vigilance.  I  have  been  pre- 
sent at  manj  trials,  and  do  not  think  that  the 
tendency  of  juries  is  to  give  excessive  damages  in 
railway  cases.  On  the  contrary,  they  are  disposed 
to  take  too  pecuniary  a  view,  and  calculate  what 
a  man  has  lost  by  the  interruption  of  business  and 
the  doctor's  bills,  and  what  he  is  disqualified  from 
earning  by  temporal^  or  permanent  injuries — 
leaving  personal  sufferings  almost  out  of  tiieix 
consideration. 

I  was  a  rather  dose  observer  of  Lord  Camp- 
bell's career  from  1828  to  his  death,  and  espe- 
cially so  of  his  conduct  on  the  bench,  and  I  wish 
to  oner  my  opinion,  in  which  I  boUeve  nearly  the 
whole  profession  will  concur,  that  he  was  a  very 
great  lawyer,  and  at  iitin  priui  an  eminently  fair 
and  patient  jud^. 

I  Jiave  nothing  to  say  in  Lord  Campbell's 


favour  as  a  biographer  or  a  leprislator.  He  knew 
what  was  good,  and  unscrupulously  appropriated 
it  I  believe  Losd  Ltttelton's  bill  to  oe  the 
most  valuable  of  all  his  appropriations,  and  one 
which  would  have  done  honour  to  both  had  his 
vanity  allowed  him  to  say  where  he  got  it. 

Ak  Inkse  Tsmplab. 

Capbiciotts  Weay  (4'^  S.  vii.  269,  872.)— 

Perhaps  some  of  your  readers  may  not  be  sorry  to 

become  acquainted  with  the  French  sonnet  of 

which  the  one  you  have  reprinted,  at  p.  372  of 

the  present  volume  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  is  evidently  a 

translation.    It  is  poseible  that  the  French  jeu 

d'eiprit  may  be  an  imitation  or  translation  from 

the  Spanish :  — 

'*  Doris,  qxd  salt  qa*aax  vera  qaelqnefbis  je  me  plais, 
Me  demande  un  Mnnet,  et  je  in*eo  d^sespere. 
Qaatorze  vera,  grand  Diea  I  le  moyen  de  lea  iaire  ? 
£n  voUk  oepeadant  d^jk  quatre  de  faita. 

**  Je  ne  poavaia  d*abord  trouver  de  rime ;  mais 
£n  faiaant  on  apprend  k  ae  tirer  d*affaire. 
Poursnivons ;  lea  qaatrains  ne  m'^nneront  gu^re^ 
Si  du  premier  tercet  je  puia  faiie  lea  frais. 

**  Je  commence  au  haaard,  et  si  je  ne  m*abiue^ 
Je  n'ai  pas  commenod  sans  Taveu  de  ma  mnse ; 
Pnisqa'eQ  ai  pea  de  temps  je  m*en  tire  ai  net. 

"  J'entame  le  second,  et  ma  joie  est  eztrdme ; 
Car  des  vers  command^  j'ach^ve  le  treizi^e  ;> 
Comptez  8*ila  aont  qaatorze,  et  voiUt  le  sonnet." 

E.  M^C. 

Gaemsey. 

W.  D.  B.  asks  who  was  thus  indicated  in  a  cer- 
tain sonnet  which  he  imperfectly  remembers.  In 
reply,  £.  A.  D.  (p.  372),  after  noticing  that  the 
W  .*  of  Dodsley's  Collection  becomes  "  Wray  "  in 
Elegant  ExtracUf  suggests  that ''  Capricious  Wray 
may  have  been  Daniel  Wray,  the  archaeologist. ' 
H.  P.  D.  is  more  positive ;  he  says  (n.  372), ''  this 
was  Daniel  Wray,  deputy-teller  of  the  Exchequer 
from  1745  to  1782."  Surely  W.*  (whether 
''  Wray  "  or  not)  was  a  lady.  Men  do  not  vmte 
vers  de  tociStS  of  this  kind  to  one  another.  To 
play  with  the  caprice  of  a  pretty  woman,  and 
write  her  a  sonnet,  is  natural  enough ;  but  one 
could  not  flirt  with  a  deputy-teller  of  the  Ex- 
chequer. 

The  name  Wray  is  not  unconunon,  and  no 
doubt  there  have  been  several  ladies  of  that  name 
quite  worthy  of  a  sonnet.  R  A.  D.  quotes  from 
a  copy  of  Dodsley's  Collection^  dated  1775.  My 
copy  of  vol.  ii.  is  the  third  edition,  published  in 
1751.  When  was  the  sonnet  first  printed  P  In 
the  Annual  Begister  for  1770  I  find  recorded  the 
death  of -^ the  "relict  of  Sir  John  Wray,  Bart" 
Would  the  sonnet  fit  her  P  J  i 


MEAirao  OP  «Fog"  (4«»  S.  vii.  96,  216,  S5L) 
My  indistinct  writing  has  led  your  printer  into  an 
error  in  my  remarks  on  the  etymology  oi  fogger. 
The  common  explanation  of  the  word  which  atran- 
gen  axe  sure  to  ask,  is^  that  it  is  a  coiraption  of 


4«ka  VII.May27,*71.] 


NOTES  AND.  QUERIES. 


467 


fodderer  (not  -^odderer^f  or  the  man  who  fodders 
the  cattle.  Bat  this  chan^  of  two  gs  into  two  d$ 
will  hardly  do.  Fogger  is^  I  do  not  douht^  a 
regular  denvatiTe  from  fog,  m  the  sense  attributed 
by  jour  correspondent  to  the  latter  word. 

W.  (1.) 

The  Sotjtbb  and  his  Sow  (4»"»  S.  vii.  361.)— 
It  is  scaroelj  correct  to  say  that  these  lines  have 
been  forgotten.  They  have  been  preserved  by 
C.  E.  Sharpe  in  one  of  his  collections  (reprinted 
in  Four  Books  of  Choice  Old  Baiiad$,  p.  86.  Ste- 
venson, Edin.  1868) ;  and  in  an  Edinburgh  journal 
of  date  Nov.  14,  1868,  a  correspondent  inquires 
after  the  remaining  verses  not  yet  recovered, 
giving  at  the  same  time  the  stanza  preceding 
those  quoted  by  G. : — 

**  There  was  a  soatar  and  a  iow» 
Tanta-rterU'arum, 
An'  for  her  birse  be  kisaed  her  mou, 
Tanta-reerie-arum" 

Sharpens  copy  is  more  exactly  like  the  version  I 
have  heard  in  Forfarshire.  *'  Tantara^  tantara "' 
was  a  favourite  burden  at  the  beginning  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  W.F.  (2.) 

South  Hook,  Kilmarnock. 

Thb  Chevbon  (4*i>  S.  vii.  408.)— S.  P.  asks  a 
ver^  odd  question.  I  think  I  may  venture  to 
positively  assert  that  no  '* heraldic  authority" 
exists  for  the  belief  in  question.  It  is  simply  ab- 
surd. H.  S.  G. 

Is  the  belief  such  as  S.  P.  states  it  to  be  P  I 
had  always  understood  that  the  cockle  shells  or 
palmers'  drinking^^upsy  such  as  appear  on  the 
arms  of  the  Bernards,  Villiers,  and  Itussells,  were 
the  Crusaders'  emblems. 

Heitot  F.  Ponsobtbt. 

Hebvbt  or  Hebbet  (4"»  S.  vii.  142.)— The 
Bible  concordance  in  my  possession  is  signed 
"  Thine  in  the  Ix)rd,  Itobert  F.  ffeny/'  as  exa- 
mined under  magnified  power. 

GEOBes  Wabswobth. 

304.  Oxford  Street,  Manchester. 

The  •'  Plaiw  Dealeb  "  (4*  S.  vii.  301.)— It  is 
singular  that  Mb.  Friswell  should  have  ascribed 
the  authorship  of  the  Flam  Dealer  to  Congreve, 
and  that  G.  F.  S.  E.  (p.  376)  should  have  indorsed 
that  opinion.  It  is  of  course  by  William  Wycher- 
ley.  R.  J.  G. 

SiB  Gboboe  Moobe  (4'*»  S.  vii.  76.) — ^He  was  a 
baronet.  See  Burke's  JExUnct  Baronetage  under 
'*  Moor,  of  Mayd's  Morton.'*  In  Lipscombe's 
HUtory  of  Buckinghamshire y  vol.  iii.  p.  41,  he  is 
mentioned  as  an  intimate  friend  of  Titus  Oates, 
and  his  coat  of  arms  is  given  as  ''On  a  fess  3  fleurs- 
d^-lys  between  3  mullets." 

J.  £.  Jackson,  Hon.  Canon  of  Bristol. 
Ldgh  Ddamere,  Chippenham. 


GoBSE  (4""  S.  vii.  323,  379.)  — In  a  small 
voliyne  on  the  Language  of  Flowere,  published  by 
James  Williams,  London,  1844,  I  nnd  anger  as 
the  emblematical  meaning  attached  to  ''  whin," 
which  is  synonymous  with  goree^  This  is  cer- 
tainly very  appropriate,  and  will,  I  hope,  be  satis- 
factory to  the  fair  inquirer.  J.  Mk. 
St.  Be 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

A  Memoir  of  Dcadel  Maclistf  R.A.  By  W.  Justin 
O'Drueoll,  M.R.I.A.,  Barristex^at-Law.    (LongmaDS.) 

Mr.  0*Driacoll  has  the  first  esaential  qualification  for  a 
biographer— a  thorough  admiration  of  tlie  subject  of  his 
labours;  he  has,  too,  the  advantage  of  having  known 
Haclise  firom  his  boyhood  to  his  grave,  but  as  he  modesUy 
confesses,  he  has  been  long  unaccustomed  to  literaiy 
work,  while  it  is  obvious  he  does  not  possess  that  know- 
led^  of  art,  without  which  no  man  can  possibly  produce  a 
satisfactory  life  of  a  ^^reat  artist.  As  a  mere  record  of 
the  leading  incidents  m  the  artist's  uneventful  life — a  life 
marked  alike  bv  an  honourable  spirit  of  independence 
and  an  earnest  determination  to  excel — and  as  a  record, 
too,  of  the  order  in  which  he  produced  the  noble  works 
which  established  his  reputation,  the  work  is  not  without 
present  interest  By  far  the  most  valuable  portion  of 
the  book  consists  of  Maclise's  letters  to  his  friend,  Mr. 
John  Forster,  which  that  gentleman  most  liberally  placed 
at  Mr.  O'Driscoll's  service.  These,  which  are  genial  and 
pleasant,  with  an  admirable  letter  from  the  Prince  Con- 
sort, give  life  to  the  book,  and  increase  the  value  which  it 
will  unquestionably  be  found  to  possess  for  the  future 
biographer  of  Daniel  Madise. 

Our  SaihM  and  TTelU,  The  Mineral  Watere  of  the 
Sritieh  lelands,  with  a  Liet  of  Sea-Baihing  Placea,  By 
John  MacPherson,  M.D.,  hispector-General  of  Hoe- 
piUla,  H.M.  Bengal  Army  (Retired),  Ac  (Macmil- 
bm). 

This  well-timed  little  volnme  gives  the  results  of  the 
anther's  visits  to  the  health  resorts  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland,  made  for  the  purpose  of  comparing  them  with 
all  the  chief  forei^  ones;  and  it  forms  therefore  not  only 
a  volume  of  practical  nse  to  those  who  for  reasons  of  their 
own  prefer  or  are  compelled,  to  avail  themselves  of  our 
native  balneological  resources,  bnt  also  a  means  of  com- 
Mring  those  resources  with  the  Bathe  and  Welle  of 
jEurope  as  described  in  Dr.  Macpberson's  former  work  so 
entitled.  The  reputation  which  that  little  work  enjoys 
as  a  meet  nseftal  and  discriminating  guide,  will,  we  have 
no  doubt,  be  shared  by  the  intelligent  little  volume  be- 
fore us. 

Books  rvcbivbd.— We  must  content  ourselves,  for 
obvious  reasons,  with  recording  the  appearance  of  the  fol- 
lowing : — Freedom  m  the  Church  of  England.  Six  Sermone 
euggeeted  bg  the  Voysey  Judgment,  By  the  Rev.  Stopford 
A.  Brooke,  f  Henry  S.  King).— 7%e  JuriadictionandMiM- 
non  of  the  Anglican  Epiacopate.  By  the  Rev.  T.  J.  Bailey, 
B.A.  (Parker).— 7%e  EnglUh  Bible,  and  our  Duty  with 
regard  to  it,  A  Plea  for  Revieion.  By  Thomas  Kingsmill 
Abbott,  M.A.  (Hodges,  Foeter,  &  Co.).— ^  Catalogue 
of  AngUh Saxon,  and  other  Antiquities,  bequeathed  by  W'il- 
Ham  Gibbe,  Etq.,  to  the  South  Kensington  Museum,  Com~ 
piled  by  C.  Roach  Smith,  F.S.A.  (Chapman  &  Hall.)— 
The  authorities  of  South  Kensington  deserve  credit  for 
having  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  Roach  Smith  to  turn 
to  good  account  Mr.  Gibbs's  patriotic  bequest 


468 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4**  8.  VII.  Mat  27, 71. 


A  Grakd  Drill  Revivw,  organised  by  the  Sodety 
of  Arts,  of  four  Uionsand  boys,  with  their  Sands,  will  be 
held  by  His  Boyal  Highness  Prince  Arthar  in  the  Royal 
Horticaltaral  Gardens  on  Wednesday,  June  14.  Admit- 
tance to  the  Gardens  only,  one  snilling.  A  musical 
performance  by  the  boys  in  the  Royal  ^bert  Hall  will 
take  place  after  the  Review.  Sabscnptions  in  aid  of  the 
ooflt  of  conveying  the  boys  by  railway,  and  providing 
them  with  refreshments,  will  be  received  by  the  ftiecietaiy 
of  the  Society  of  Arts. 

A  Bookseller  of  the  old  school,  Greorge  May,  died  in 
the  Charterhoose  on  May  13,  aged  sixty-eight.  While 
in  bosiness,  in  1845,  he  wrote  and  published  a  descriptive 
History  of  the  Town  of  Evesham,  where  he  resided.  He 
Bubseqaently  went  to  America ;  but  not  being  snooessful 
he  returned,  and,  like  maov  others,  found  a  resting-place 
in  Uie  house  founded  by  Thomas  Sutton. 

**Who  was  Will,  my  Lord  of  Leicester's  jesting 
Player  ?  "  was  a  question  raised  by  the  late  Mr.  Bruce, 
who  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  Will  Kemp  was  the 
man.  According  to  The  Atkenaum^  Mr.  Hauiwell  has 
discovered  in  the  private  accoimt-book  of  the  Earl  of 
Leicester,  preserved  in  the  Longbridge  Collection  in 
Warwickshire,  confirmation  of  the  accuracy  of  Mr.  Brnce's 
judgment.  Perhaps  further  researches  may  show  that 
the  suggestion,  that  Shakespeare  also  served  with  Leices- 
ter in  the  Low  Countries,  is  equally  well  founded. 

Mr.  J.  H.  HB88EL8,  s  Dutch  gentleman,  well  known 
for  his  acquaintance  with  early  printed  books,  is  engaged 
in  making  a  translation  into  English  of  Dr.  Van  der 
Linda's  work,  entitled  **  De  Haarlemaehe  Costei^LQgende.% 

Outer  Cromwell's  House.— Workmen  have  been 
employed  to  demolish  the  fine  old  large  red-briek  man- 
sion on  Brixton  Rise,  which,  according  to  repute,  was 
once  occupied  by  Oliver  CromwelL  This  is  the  last  spe- 
cimen in  the  locality.  The  property  has  been  purchased 
hy  the  London  Tramway  Company. 

Subscriptions  are  invited  by  Messrs.  Barclay 
Brothers  for  20,000  fully  paid-up  shares  in  the  South 
Aurora  Silver  Mining  Company,  the  price  of  issue  to  the 
investing  public  being  10/.  per  share,  payable  bv  instal- 
ments, extending  over  to  the  1st  August  next.  I'he  mine 
is  situated  in  the  Nevada  district,  and  has  been  worked 
with  very  satisfactory  results,  one  dividend  of  20  per  cent, 
having  been  paid  in  February  last,  while  a  further  quar- 
terly dividena  at  the  same  rate  has  just  been  announced 
payable  on  the  1st  proximo.  These  shares  now  offered 
were  lately  owned  by  the  vendors  of  the  mine,  who  ac- 
cepted them  in  part  parent  of  the  purchase  money. 
One  satisfactory  feature  in  the  terms  of  the  circular  pno- 
lished  is,  that  applicants  will  participate  in  the  dividend 
to  be  paid  at  the  beginning  of  next  month. 


G.  O.  W. —  We  etamot  trace  any  muk  article  ;  perhapt 
the  matter  wot  introduced  ineidentedly  into  a  ptwer  on  eome 
other  tviject.  There  have  been  no  omisaiona  Jrom  any  re- 
printM,    Did  the  writer  tign  hit  name  f 

T.  £.  Q.-^What  ia  the  title  of  the  hoohf 

M.  E.  B.— 5ir  Hugh  SmiAton,  who  had  married  a 

daughter  of  the  Dmhe  of  Samteretty  tueeeeded  hie  father-in' 

law  (under  a  apeeial  liuutation  in  the  patent)  ae  Baron 

JVarhworth  and  Earl  of  NortkumberlamL    Me  wa$  not 

ennMed  heeauee  he  wa$  aphyeician, 

F.  T^On*"  Mad  a$  a  hatter,"*  a€€  **  JX.  &  OT  9^*  Q.  r 
24,64,126.  ^         «    . 


H.  M.  (Tralee.) — Pleate  repeat  ffte  query, 

C.  W. — 7Vm>  artieke  on  burying  aUve  as  a  peadakment 
appeared  in  "  N.  &  Q."  1**  S.  vi.  246,  660. 

P.  (Lncknow.) — On  horae-laughf  or  hoar§o4amgh,  aee 

our  8'*  S.xi.  242. 

A.  O.  y.  P,^  Saint  Sunday,  alias  Saint  Dominic ^  haa 
been  noticed  in  our  2***  S.  vi.  132,  216. 

W.  H.  S.  urill  find  of  p.  443  Cftof  Naeh^dged  writing^ 
puffer  datea  aa  early  aa  1683. 

Richard  Barrinoton. —  We  do  not  reaieai6er  to  have 
received  your  communication. 

Erratum.— 4<i'  S.  viL  p.  433,  ooL  line  84,  liete  •«  of 
before  ^Radnlphus." 


FASTSID6E    ASD    COOPSB, 

MAMUFACTURING  STATIONERS* 
192,  Fleet  Street  (Corner  of  Chanoeiy  Lane). 

CAABIAQE  PAID  TO  THE  GOITHTBT  ON  0BDKB8 
EXCEEDINO  sot. 
MOTE  PAPER,  CrMin  or  Blue,  St.,  4«.,  9«.,  aad 6*.  per rMun. 
EKYELOPES,  Creun  or  Bine,  4t.  6rf.,  te.  Sd.,  and  St.  6d.  per  1,000. 
THE  TEMPLE  ENTELOPE,  with  High  Inner  Flap.  U.  per  100. 
STRAW  PAPEIUImproyed  quality,  St.Stf.  per  ream. 
FOOLSCAP,  Hand-made  OntBldea,S«.  Sd.  per  ream. 
BLACK-BOBDERED  NOTE,  U.  and  St.  Sd.  per  ream. 
BLACK-BORDERED  ENVELOPES,  U.  per  100-finper  thkk  qnality. 

TINTED  LINED  NOTE,  for  Home  or  FordgaCoriefpoBdenee  (tve 
coloun),  6  Quiret  for  U.  id. 

COLOURED  8TAMFINO  (Rdlcf).  redoeed  to  4«.  Stf .  per  nam.  or 
St.  id,  per  IjOOO.  PoUthed  Steel  Creet  DIaa  engraved  fSram  &«. 
MonoKrama. two  letten,  from  At.|  three  lefetera, ftorn 7«.  BnMneat 
or  Addreat  Diea,  fromSt. 

SERMON  PAPER,  plain,  it.  per  reami  Ruled  ditto,  4«.  $d. 
SCHOOL  STATIONERY  auppUed  on  the  moet  Uberel  terma. 

ninatrated  Price  Ltit  of  Inkttanda,  Deapatdi  Bozea,  StatioBcrr. 
Oabineta,  Foetage  Scale*,  Writing  Oaaei,  Portnlt  Albuma,  Jke.,  poet 

(BgTABLIBHSI)  184L) 


P  HAND  PUBfP  ROOM  HOTEL,  BATH,  opposite 

^T    the  Abber  Chuieh.     FIRST-CLASS   AOOOMMOI^TION. 
Warm  Mineral  water  Batht  under  the  tame  roof.  * 

MISS  HAWKSSWORTH, 


ft 


OLD  ENQLI8H"  FURNITURE. 

Reproduction*  of  Simple  end  Artfttlc  Oabliiet  Work  from  Countir 

Maniiona  of  the  XYI.  and  XVH.  Centurlea,  combining  good  taate* 

lound  workmanahlp,  and  eeonomj. 

COIiIiINSON  and  LOOK  (late  Herring), 
OABIITET 


109,  FLEET  STREET,  E.C.    EBtabliahed  1782. 

TAPESTRY  PAPERHANQINQ8. 

Imitatlona  of  mxe  old  BROCADES,  DAMASKS,  and  OOBEUN 

TAPESTRIES. 

OOLXiINSON  and  IiOOK  (late  Herring), 
DEOOBATOBS, 

109,  FLEET  STREET,  LONDON.  EsUbliahed  1782. 


H 


ORNE'S  POMPEIAN   DECORATIONS. 


ROBERT  HORNE, 

HOUSE  DECORATOR  and  PAPER-HANQINQ 
MANUPACTURER, 

41.0RACECHURCH  STREET, 
LO«DOV,K.C. 

Bir  Speolel  AppolataM&t  to  HIa  Kaleitr  Ibe  nocof  Xtalr. 


4*  S.  VII.  Mat  27,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


AGCIDBIVTS   GACSIB   I«OM    OF   I«IFB. 

Aooldenta  oaiue  Iioss  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 
Frovide  against  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  UrSURIRQ  WITH  THB 

Sailway  PasBengen'  Assurance  Company, 

An  Anniua  PaTmeBt  of  CS  to  iBe  5/  bumf  iSl,000  tt  Death, 
or  an  aUowanoe  at  the  rate  of  itO  per  week  for  loiury. 

A868fOOO  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

ONE  out  of  evenr  TWELVE  Aanvel  PoUcjr  Holdere  beeomfiiir  • 
claimant  EACH  YEAK.  For  nurtlealart  apply  to  the  Qerks  at  the 
Railway  Stations,  to  the  Local  Agentt,  ori^  the  Offioee. 

64,CORMHILL,  and  10,  REGENT  STREET,  UHSLOS. 

WILLUlH  J.  VIAN,  SeereUxnf, 


NOTHINa  IMPOSSIBLK— AGUA  AMAREIXA 
reitoret  the  Human  Hair  to  its  prbtine  hne,  no  matter  at  what 
age.  MESSRS.  JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  CO.  have  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  most  eminent  Ghemiste,  raooeeded  in  perftcting  this  wonderful 
liquid.  It  ii  now  offcred  to  the  FuhUe  In  a  more  oonoentzatedfbm, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 

Sold  in  Rottlee ,  3«.  each,  alio  b».,7».  6<2.,  or  Ite. each,  with bnuh. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO>S  CHERRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  raperior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl«like  whiten«M.  protects  the  enamel  ftom  decay,  and  imparts  a 
pleating  ftmgnnoe  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  CO.'S  Extra  Highly  Boented  TOILET  and 
NURSERY  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perftamers  and  Chemists  throughout  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  Passage,  98,  Upper  Thames  Street,  L(mdon. 

RUPTt7RES.~BY  ROYAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 
allowed  by  upwards  of  MO  Me<Ueal  men  to  be  the  most  efflbo- 
ilve  invention  in  the  curative  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
Bte«l  spring,  so  often  hurtfttl  in  its  eiftcts,ls  here  avoided  i  a  soft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  bodyiwhile  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  sup- 
pli«lbythe  MOC-Mi^PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER Sttinir  with  so 
mucheaseand  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  deteeted,and  may  be  worn 
during  sleep.  A  descriptive  dreular  ma/  be  liad,  and  the  Truss  (which 
cannot  Ikil  to  fit)  forwarded  by  post  on  the  drcumftrenoe  oi  the  body, 
two  indies  below  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Manufocturer. 

MR.  JOHN  WHITS,  M,  PICCADILLY.  LONDON. 

Frlee  of  a  8lB|de  Truss,  18s.,  ns., »«.  ad.,  and  lis.  6d.   Postage  1«. 
DoubleTrussL  Sis.  6^.,  4Ss.,  and  Sis.  6<j.    Postage  Is.  M. 
An  UmbilkS  Truss,  4Ss.  and  ati.6<2.   Postage  Is.  lOri. 

Post  Office  orders  payable  to  JOHN  WHITB,  Post  Offloe.  PlooadUly. 

SLASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &c.,  for 
VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  all  cases  of  WE AKNESS  and  8WEL- 
G  of  the  LEGS.  SPRAINS,  ftc.  They  are  p(»rous,  light  in  texture, 
and  ineiqiensive,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  stocking.  Prices 
4«.  6((.,  7s.  6cr.,  lOs.,  and  Ite.  each.   Postage  M. 

JOHN  WHITE,  MANTTTACTUBSR,  OB,  PICCADILLY,  London. 

GENTLEMEN   desirons  of   having  their  Linens 
dressed  to  perftetlon  should  supply  their  Laundresses  with  the 

••OZiBWl>ZMZi»    BTAXO  B/' 

which  imparts  a  brilliancy  and  elasticity  gratifying  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sight  and  touch. 

A  PACT.— HAIR-COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

J:%  the  h^  with  this  beantifhlly  perfumed  Wash,  in  two  days  grey 
haar  or  whiskers  bepome  their  original  colour,  and  remain  so  by  an  oc- 
casional using.  This  b  guaranteed  by  MR.  ROSS.  10*.  M.,  sent  for 
Post  Office  order.-JLLEX.  ROSS,  MS,  High  Holbom,  London. 

QPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Albx! 

Q  ROSS'S  CANTHARIDE8  OIL.  It  is  a  sure  Restorer  of  Hair,  and 
aFroduoer  of  Whiskers.  Its  eflfect  is  speedy.  It  b  patnmised  by  Royalty. 
The  price  of  it  is  3s.  6(f.,  sent  for  54  stamps,  or  Post  Office  order. 

HOLLO  WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
In  angiT  or  indolent  sores,  and  all  skin  diseases,  originating  In 
impure  or  weak  blood,  or  depraved  secretions,  the  Joint  agency  ofuol- 
loway's  pills  and  ointment  is  peribctly  irresistible.  It  is  of  little  con- 
sequence how  long  these  disorders  may  have  lasted,  or  how  sluniah, 
obstinate,  or  malignant  th^mav  seem,  the  dally  application  of  the 
ointment  to  the  parts  affected,  and  a  course  of  these  matchless  piUs,  will 
most  certainly  emct  aeun,  not  tempoiaiv  or  superficial,  but  complete 
and  permanent.  Both  the  ointment  and  pills  are  composed  of  ran 
balssms,  unmixed  with  meroury  or  any  other  deleterious  substances. 
They  ace  aoooKdingly  as  mild  and  n*  as  they  an  powerfhl  and 
cfficaoMyns. 


WATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  V^E,  caaranteed 
the  finest  imported,  f^  flrom  acidity  or  heat,  and  much  supe- 
rior to  low-priced  Sherry  (vidi  Dr.  Druitt  on  Cheap  Wmai).  One 
Guineaper  dozen.  Selected  dry  Tarragona,  I8s.  per  dosen.  Tenns 
cash.  Three  doaen  rail  paid.  ~  W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Men^aat, 
873.  Oxfixid  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  StnetX  London,  W. 
blished  1841.    Full  Price  Lists  post  bw  on  application. 


sea. 


TBB 


3««. 


At  88s.  per  dosen,flt  fbr  a  Gentleman's  Table.   Bottlai  lnelndad,a&d 
Carriage  paid.   Oases  Is.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 

CHARLES  WARD  ft  SON, 

(Post  Office  Orders  on  PloeadHly),  1,  Chapd  Street  West, 
MAYFAIR,  W.,  LONDON. 

3«s.  TBB  VKArmkOL  8BBBBT  S«0. 


HEDGES   &   BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PURS  ST.  JULEBN  CLARET 
At  18s.,  30s.,  34s.,  38s.,  and  38s.  per  dosan. 
ChoIoeClanta  of  varions  growths,  41s. ,  48s.,  80s.  ,7Ss. ,  84s.,  88s. 

QOOD  DINNER  SEIERRY, 
At  34s.  and  80s.  per  doaen. 

Snperlor  Golden  Sherrr .88s.and4S«. 

Choice  Sherry— Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown. . .  .48s.,64«.,and  60s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  34s.,  SOS.,  38s.,  4Ss.,  4as.,  60s.,  and  84s. 

Port  from  first-class  Shippers 30s.38s.4Ss. 

VeryChoiceOld  Port 48s.60s.Vls.84s. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  38«.,  4S«.,  48«.,  and  60s. 

Hoohheimer.Maraobrunner,  Rudesheimer,  Steinberg,  LiebfhMamiloh« 
60s.  I  Johannisbergcr  and  Steinberger,  73s.,  84s.,  to  130s.  i  Brannbergerf 
Gmnhausen,  and  Scharsberg,  48s.  to  84ju[  «parklinxMoselle.4as.,80s.f 
68s.,  78«.ivery  choice  Champagne,  66s.,  78s. i  fine  old  Sack,  Msimsey, 
Frontignae,  Vermuth, Gonstantta^LachrymsB  Cluisti, Imperial  Tokay, 
and  other  ran  wines.  Fine  old  Pale  Cognao  Brandy,  OOs.and  71s.  per 
dosen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  evenr  daseription. 

On  reoeiptof  a  Post  Offloe  order,or  reforenoe,any  quantity  will  be 
forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDONi  U6,  REGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton!  30,  King's  Road, 

(Originally  Established  jld.  1887.) 

MANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS,  VENNING  &  CO. 
of  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS.  LONDON,  have  Just  re- 
ad a  (Xmsignment  of  No.  3  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  excellent  con- 
dition, in  Boxes  of  000  eadu  Prioe  32. 10s.  per  box.  Orders  to  be 
accompanied  by  a  nmittanoe. 


N.B.  Sample  Box  of  100,  IQs.  6d. 


BT  ROTAL  COMMAND. 


TOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 

BOLD  byaU  STATIONERS  thnoghont  the  World. 


G 


ILBERT     J.      FRENCH, 

BOLTON.  LANCASHIRE, 
Mannfhetnrerof 
OHUBCH    FUBNITUBB. 

CARPETS,  ALTAR-CLOTHS, 

O0MMT7NION  LINEN,  SURPLICES,  and  ROBES, 

HERALDIC,  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICSAL 

FLAGS  and  BANNERS,  ftc.  ftc. 

A  Catalogue  sent  by  poet  on  i^plioation. 

Panels  daUvered  ftne  at  all  principal  Railway  Stations. 

LAMFLOXrOH'S 
FTBETIC     SALISE 

Has  peonUar  and  remaiteUe  properties  In  Headaohe,  Sea,  or  Biliooa 
Sickness,  preventing  and  coring  Hay,Scarlet,  and  other  Ftovan,  and  is 
admitted  traUusan  to  fbrm  the  meet  egreeebk,  pcrtahla,  TttalUiB« 
SoBuner  Beverage.  Sold  by  most  ohymlsta,  and  the  maJbar. 

H.  LAMPLOUGH,  IIS,  HolbotnHin.Tiondon. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k  8.  VII.  May  27,  *7h 


SUBSCRIPTION    FOR    20,000    FULLY-PAID    SHARES 

SOUTH    AUBORA    SILVER  MININO    COMPANY  (Limited), 

With  benefit  of  the  Quarterly  Dividend  payable  let  Jane  next,  at  the  rate  of  20  per  cent  per  annam,  declared 
by  the  Directors  of  the  Company  on  the  16th  May  last.    Price  of  Issae  i£10  per  ahare^  being  £5  per  Share, 

and  £5  piemiom. 


MESSRS.  BARCLAY  BROTHERS  an  anthoriaed  to  DISPOSE  of 
10,000  FULLY  PAID  SHARES,  bdiurpart  of  th«  00,000  hharos. 
Ibrmlng  Um  Sharo  Cwital  of  th*  SOUTH  AURORA  SILVER 
MINING  COMFANYOimited).  one  of  the  moit  TBluble  ead  pro- 
mifliiirmliietexlctlnc  in  the  cxtnordlneiily  rldi  district  Inelndedln 
the  Stele  of  Nevedai  Amerlce. 

Theee  iherct,  lately  owned  by  the  Tendon  of  flie  Mine,  were  orl- 
Slnally  iitucd  to  them  in  part  partmcnt  of  tlie 'purchase  money  for  the 
■ame,  and  are  now  oflbrea  Ibr  oablle  milMarlption  at  XIO  per  ahan,  and 
paymeBt  will  be  aeoeptedae  followi ;_ 

XI         per  Shan  on  Applioatioo. 
S  H  Allotment. 

1  lOt.  „  lstJaly,I87I. 

t  lOt.  w  1st  Aucnrt,  1871. 


£10   0 


Doxfaiff  the  short  time  the  Mine  has  been  la  the  pnesesslon  of  the 
Company,  and  althooch  It  has  been  up  to  this  time  only  partially 
woriwd,  in  adiUtlon  to  the  dlTidend  of  SO  per  eent.  per  annum,  deelared 
and  paid  in  Tebruary  last,  a  fbrther  quarterly  dlyioend  of  to  per  oent. 
per  annum,  equal  to  fl«.  per  share,  nas  been  declared,  la  aooordance 
with  the  Inreetors'  Report  Just  issued  (eopy  of  which  is  enclosed),  and 
will  be  payable  by  the  Company  on  1st  June  next. 

Snbsmbers  for  the  shares  now  oflbred  will  be  entitled  to  such  DlTi- 
dend, and  the  amount  of  the  same  will  be  paid  oreron  allotment  of  the 
shares. 

ProTUonal  certlllcatcs  will  be  Issued  In  ezdianie  for  the  Bankers* 
receipt,  and  when  the  final  instalment  Is  p^d.  the  shares  will  be  trans- 
forred  into  the  name  of  each  applicant  ftee  of  stamp  duty  or  reslstim- 

In  the  allotment  of  the  shares  appUeants  who  are  at  picsent  share- 
holders In  the  Company,  and  subscribers  who  wish  to  pay  up  in  ftill  on 
allotment,  for  hivestment,  will  be  first  considered. 

1,  Cushion  Court,  Old  Broad  Street,  London,  May  S4, 1871. 

The  IMiectorsand  Oflleero  oi  the  South  Aurora  Sllrer  Mining  Com- 
pany (Limited)  are : 

SIBSOrOBO. 


L.  Messel,  Esq.,  London. 
A.  P.  Btanibrd,  Esq.,  San  Tran- 
dsco. 


E.  F.  SATTERTH  WAITE,  Esq. 

London,  Chairman. 
C.  8.  Seyton,  Esq.,  London. 

BOLZCITOBB— Messrs.  Harwards,  Keele.  and  SwanB,fttFredeilek*s 

Place,  Old  Jewry. 
SKBKTABT-Xharles  Cadogan,  Esq. 

Offioea~M,  Old  Broad  Street,  London,  E.G. 

The  South  Aurora  Silrer  Mining  Oomoeny,  of  which  an  Original 
(Abridged)  Prospectus  Is  enclosed  herein,  nas  proved  itself  one  <n  the 
most  Tiunable  Sliver  Mines  ever  Introduced  Into  this  country. 

It  has  been  very  forourably  reported  noon  by  Mr.  MelTllle  Attwood, 
well  known  as  an  English  Engineer  of  great  experience  In  connec- 
tion with  mines,  both  in  England  and  America,  who  has  reported  upon 
the  adjoining  fiunous  Eberhaidt  and  Aurora  Mine,  the  shares  of  which, 
<lopard,arenowquotedln  the  market  about  140  per  share,  or  xaopra- 
mlnm. 

The  Company  possesses  a  mill  of  thirtr  stamps,  believed  to  be  un- 
surpasscd  by  any  In  the  State  fin*  solidity  of  construction  or  adapt- 
ability to  the  work  for  which  it  Is  designed,  attadicd  to  which  and 
forming  part  of  the  psoperty  are,  or»-retortinc  and  smelting  furnaces, 
a  well-arranged  assar  office,  a  new  ore-house  80  foet  by  BO  feet,  together 
with  large  sorting  platforms,  which  have  been  Just  reDulIt,  and.  In  faet, 
everything  necesiary  to  render  the  worics  complete. 

Although  a  short  time  only  has  elapeed  slnoe  the  purchase  of  the  pro- 
perty was  ftiUy  completed,  most  satisnctory  results  have  been  attained, 
the  following  amount  of  ore  having  been  extracted  and  shipped  from 
1st  September  last:— 

Amount  realised 
on  Sales. 


1870. 

Oct. 

S.    S 

lvcrre< 

«f 

7. 

do. 

do. 

19. 

do. 

Nov. 

•• 

f. 

do. 
do. 

Dec 

6. 

do. 

9. 

do. 

e« 

19. 

do. 

1871. 

Jan. 

5. 

do. 

99 

XL 

do. 

FeC 

S8. 
14. 

do. 
do. 

«t 

98. 

do. 

March  «. 

do. 

•* 

IS. 

do. 

Silver  received,  oc.  Standard,  11370,99  at 


4;BM*98at 
808'IOat 

10,179-40  at 

Il,9B3-7&  at 

n.OW'S  at 
8.647  S&  at 
8.790*35  at  00| 
8,918'I0  at  00  9-10 

lB;SOmT  at  00  9-I6 
17,09r«  at  60  9-10 
IbMOti  at  ooi 

S^U^-SS  at  60  9-16 
11,194'iS  at  0»i 
IM77'49  at  60  7-16 
21,107*16  at  60  »-16 


£fJ86 

1,169 


13 
8 
8 
1Mb    4 

>,8<4  7 
4,S97  1 
t.176  18 
SJOl  It 
f,S49  1& 


7 
II 
1 
7 
5 
0 
4 
8 
0 


4.617  3 
4J94  6 
4^13  14 

712  1ft  11 
2,801  8  9 
2JB89  II  I 
6401  II    6 


6 
1 

I 


Thelotal  being  of  the  larfs  value  of  146^450  Is.  7iL,  aad  11  is  Ailly  ex- 
pected the   out-turn  will  he  very  much  increased  wlien  flnther  time 
has  allowed  for  the  development  ca  the  Minei  when  looking,  however, 
only  to  the  present  results  sttslncrt  by  the  Mine,  the  returns  an  exoeed- 
ingly  ihvonrable. 


By  the  last  Report  of  the  < 

a  quarterly  dividend  at  the  rate  of '. 


issued  16lh  Mny  (eopy  ondoeed). 
per  cent,  per  annum,  payable  Isit 


June  next,  has  been  declared,  and  after  sodi  payment,  aeednling  to  the 
same  Repwt,  then  will  remain  In  the  hands  of  the  Company  a  balaaen 
of  about  X6,000,  whidi  will  be  available  townrdi  the  next  quarterly 
dlvldnid,  due  in  September  next. 

During  the  thirty-two  days'  working  of  the  mill  In  the  quarter  end- 
ing 31st  Manh  last,  the  amount  of  ore  treated  was  1  Ji6  tons.  The 
bullion  reelised  flie  large  figun  of  a6J0L47  dols.  The  maoagsr  reports 
that,  if  it  had  not  been  for  the  interruption  of  the  work  at  the  mill  by 
the  non-completion  of  the  Eberfanrdt  Tramway  (since  oompleted).  tlio 
net  result  of  the  quarter  would  not  have  been  less  than  lOOyOOO  dols. 

Arrangements  have  been  concluded  with  the  Eberfaaidt  Silver  Min- 
ing Company  for  the  use  of  their  new  win  tramway  before  reforred  to 
and  now  in  fhll  work,  which  is  In  dose  pro^mity  with  the  works  of 
this  Company,  for  the  purpose  of  oonveylng  the  ores  of  this  Company 
flpom  the  mine  to  the  mill. 

The  Manager  states,  under  date  14th  April,  that  1,117  tons  of  ore  were 
at  the  mill,  and  300  tons  dressed,  and  about  4,000  tons  undressed  ore  In 
the  ore-house  at  the  mine,  and  as  the  mill  Is  now  fially  supplied  and  can 
be  worked  continuously  without  any  intermission,  very  large  returns  of 
bullion  may  be  expected  during  the  current  quarter. 

Under  the  date  of  ISth  April  last  the  Manager  reports  that  th* 
**  tailings  "  on  hand  amounted  to  about  11,000  tons,  and  tliat  the  asMy 
value  averaged  II  dols.  to  16  dols.  per  ton;  upon  the  Jewcet  of  these 
estimates  they  would  produce  144,000  dols.,  equal  in  English  currency 
toiS^OO. 

The  shares  of  this  Company  have  riasn,  on  the  fitvonrahle  report  just 
issued  declaring  a  dividend  to  upwanls  of  111  per  atiare.  equal  to  t» 
premiumi  and  there  Is  every  reason  to  believe  that  by  the  time  the  next 
quarterly  dividend  is  due  they  will  still  farther  advance. 

The  present  time  Is  therefore  very  fovourable  for  those  who  wish  to 
mthlse] 


Invest 


I  exocedittgly  rich  and  promising  prc^wrty. 


Applications  for  shares  must  be  made  on  the  aeoompanylngfbirm. 
which  must  be  forwardefi,  together  with  a  Iremittanoe  of  £1  per  share, 
to  the  Consolidated  Bank  (Limited),  U,  Threedneedle  Street.  E.C.. 
London,  or  to  Messrs.  Barclay  .Brothers,  1,  Cushion  Court,  Old  Broad 
Street,  London,  E.C.,  from  whom  forms  of  AppUcaSion,  and  oopiee  oT 
the  original  Prospectus,  CJinularslfte.,  can  be  had. 

1,  Caahlon  Oonrt,  Old  Broad  Street,  London,  May  M,  1871. 


<45,460    1     7 


SUBSCRIPTION  flxr  90.000  FULLY-PAID  SHARES  fai  the  SOUTH 
AURORA  SILVER  MINING  COMPANY  (Limited),  issued  at  XIO 
per  Share. 

vouc  or  AmsOATlOM. 

(To  be  retained  by  the  Banken.) 

Meoers.  Barclay  Brothers,  1,  Cushion  Court,  (ndBnad  Stnet,  E.C 

London. 
Gentlemen, 

Having  paid  to  your  credit  at  the  Coosolidatod  Beak  (limited)  the 
sum  of  pounds,  being  £$  per  share  on 

Shares  of  the  South  Aurom  Silver  Mining  Company  (Llndted),  iMucd 
by  you  at  XIU  per  Share.  I  reonest  you  to  have  transiferred  lo  me  that 
or  any  less  number  of  the  said  8h««s:  and  I  hcnby  agree  to 
such  transfer.and  to  pay  the  balance  In  respect  of  sneli  f 
to  the  terms  of  your  prospectus,  dated  94th  May,  1871. 

NamelnfliU 

Address 

Proftsrion  (If  any) 

Date un. 

Signature 

(Addition  to  be  filled  up  if  the  applicant  wishes  to  pay  up  in  foil  on 

allotment). 

I  derire  to  avail  myself  of  the  privilege  to  pay  up  in  Ml  on  a]1otm«ot 
the  above  Shares,  in  terms  of  prospectus,  entitling  me  to  a  priority  in 
tlie  allotment. 

Slgnaton 


Printed  by  SPOTTISWOODE  fc  CO.   at  6,  New  Street  Square,  in  the  Pariah  of  St.  Bride,  In  the  County  of  Middlesex  i  and  PubUsbod 
by  WILLIAM  GREIG  SMITH,  of  43.  WoUIngton  Street,  Strand,  la  the  said  Connty^^Soiwiiag.  Jtfay  17,  WTL 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES: 

3  gltiiinm  of  3nl(itiiJim»itttali«it 
LITERARY    MEN,    GENERAL    READERS,    ETC. 

•■IVbeii  fttuBd,  mnke  •  aatv  or.-  — Captaih  Cottle. 
No.  179. 


Saturday,  June  3,  1871. 


FBICB  FoURPEncB. 


DNITEESITT  OF   LONDOS. 
TJOnCE  IS  HERiSBY  GIVEN,  That  the  next  Half- 

X;,    7»rllEmilta»UmlteMATWCULATI0;rtathl.UiilrtrtH» 


[BITION    of  tha    SOCIETY    of 

riSTB.     Inorrpunlid  br  Bor^  Chmrltr.— ' 


Jnst  pnUished,  in  13idi).  price  3(.  cloth, 
CHA£ESP£AR£'S  EUPHUISM  {  an  attempt 


I,  BuTiAtar-At-Ikw 


In  Okk  Toldms,  Std.  prica  14«.  cloth, 

AN  HISTORICAL  VIEW  of  LITERATURE 
■nd  ABT  in  GKEAT  BKITAIN  from  tbo  Acces- 
■ioB  of  the  Home  of  Hanorar  to  the  Balga  of  Qnetn 
Vletoiia,    Bj  1.  Uobbat  Qrahax,  M^. 

LoBdSB;  LONOMAHB,  ORKEH.  and  00.  PiMiiarilr  Roir. 


THE  MOULDINGS  OF  THE  SIX  PERIODS  OF 

1.      BBITIM  AHCBrTECTpHe  ftnm  tlM   CONaVEBT  ts  Ito 
BibitaMlea.    Br  XDMUBD  SBABFE,  H.  A 

Tkoe  earoplM.  Mkkn  ftiD-4n  br  duIUUdc  nHthoda  Ovn  the 
iirlndptl  Cuth^Ill,  CmtwiBiiI.  Mahrlili  CTmfflM  ol  tin  KlartMB  , 
£in  bn  turitaUr  ndood,  SilSlr  10  uMUM  thi  dig  oRha^ic^ 
u4  in  Drinttd  to  otlsn.  In  tbg  alHtln  of  Ux  ealanrt  uudxl  u 
th(  dmriBl  Potodi  the  hdw  mi—  bH  Icai  •dovitd  u  tlul  In 
wlikk  thcT  oteur  In  iE  Priutk  BluuIhhi  i  b  Ihu  (  glna  kOodi 
not  «lr  tiiuala  Ite  nitgd  W  wuSoi  McbUIw  Moici,  kat  ilB 

Ix^oBi  K.*  r.  K.  BFOK, «,  CbMlat  CiWL 

ftTB  f.  No.  179. 


BICHABD  BEHTFLEY  ft  SOITS  I.IST 
FOE  JUNE  AND  JULY. 


THE  CAHPAIOir  OF  1670-1.    Beprinted, 


OtTS  ASVKNTURES  DUSIHQ  THE  WAR 

or  lam-l,      Bf  tm  EnfUdi   Lallci.   BHHA    PEAK80N   did 

LOniBA  KACLAUGUUK.    I  nil.  ctosa  BID.  III. 

CHBOinCLES  OF  GOLSEH  FSIABS.    By 

J.  SSEBISAK  IX   FANU,   AsUwr  of  "  Unfit  SUu."  "  Oui 

A   TISSICATIOH     OF    LAST    BTXOIT. 


PICIUXES  of  FASIS  VBBXX  3IESZ  Uld 


A  HEW  AKI)  BRLASeSB  XsmoH  OF 

TEE  KEKOIR  OF  JAITE  AU6TEH.    Con- 

t>Ii:kle.r  ^  CwnpleH  T>U.  catlUnd '^  I^DT  SCUB.'*    ToflTthflTwith 


SHintTFIKFAKIS.  ByHathanSheppard, 

A  RBddcnt  Id  PmxU  dnrlna  (ht  Slefe.    1  vol.  piwl  flvg. 

BOLAHS  TOSXE.    B7  3Cn.  Henry  Wood, 


XtCHABD  BBlfTLr/ K 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«J»S.VU.  JcjtbS;?!. 


THE    AST-JOUSirAL 

For  JUNE  (price  If.  tkL)  oontalni  the  fbllowlnc 
LIKB   BNGBAYINOS: 
I.  TALBOT   AND  THE  COUNTESS  OF  AUVERONE,  after 

W.  U.  0BCHABD80N.  A.R.A. 

H.  THE  CHILDSEN'S  OFFERING,  after  QASi. 
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469 


LONDON,  BATURDAF,  JVNE  S,  1S71. 


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N0TK8 :  ^  The  Arms  of  CrfaspiniM,  ShakeejMare'i  or  Uar- 
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THE   ARMS   OF   CRISPINUS,   SHAKESPEARE'S 

OB  MARSTON'S  ? 

Mb.  T.  ELelsbt's  communication  at  p.  118  has 
reminded  me  of  a  note  I  commenced  some  six 
months  ago.  That  Crispinus  in  the  Poetaster  is 
Marston  undisguised,  or  in  the  fiimdest  of  dis- 
guises, is  as  certain  as  that  Capt.  Theca  is  stut- 
tering Oapt  Hannam,  Demetrius  the  dresser  of 
plays  Becker,  and  the  Horace  of  the  Satiro^MattiXf 
in  make,  dress,  get  up,  and  in  all  his  peculiarities, 
Ben  Jonson  himself.  Decker,  in  his  retort,  ac- 
cepted the  names  of  Demetrius  and  Crispinus  both 
for  himself  and  Marston,  and  put  their  likenesses 
again  on  the  stage.  But  the  author  of  the  article 
<<£en  Jonson's  Quarrel  with  Shakespeare,''  in 
No.  CIV.  of  ih^  North  British  Heview  (July  1870) 
— a  writer  of  much  imagination — while  allowing 
that  Cbrispinus  is  in  the  main  Marston,  thinks  ''  It 
seems  almost  evident  that  the  person  from  whom 
Jonson  borrowed  the  incident  of  the  arms  wss 
Shakeapeaie '' ;  or  m  other  words,  that  Jonson 
was  jeering  Shakespeare  and  Shakespeare's  ][ireten- 
sions  to  gentility.  He  has,  howeyer.  gniyea  no 
probable  opinion  for  this,  and  in  trutn  if  proof 
were  needed,  as  it  is  not,  that  Crispinus  is  Mar- 
atooy  the  satirical  description  of  his  arms  would 
be  in  itself  decisire. 

Of  all  whom  Jonson  attacked  in  his  Poetatier^ 
Maxstoa  was  tiie  only  one  of  genUe  blood*  Partly 


therefore  the  better  to  mark  him  out,  partiy  be- 
cause Marston  seems  to  have  been  fond  or  parading 
it^  and  partiy  perhaps  because  Jonson  would  ex- 
hibit him  as  a  sorry  specimen  of  his  class,  his 
gentility  is  brought  forward,  frequently,  promi-> 
nentiy,  and  distmctively.  On  the  occasion  in 
question  Crispinus,  having  asserted  it,  says : — 

"Ton  shall  see  mine  arms  if 't  please  yoa  . .  .  mis- 
tress, for  I  bear  them  about  me,  to  have  ^eva  seen :  my 
name  is  Crispinus  or  Cri«spinas  indeed ;  which  is  wdd 
exprest  in  my  arms,— a  face  crying,  in  chief ;  and  be- 
neath it  a  bloody  toe  between  three  thorns  pungent." 

Now  this  latter  part  is  merely  a  grotesque 
description  of  the  true  arms  of  Marston — a  fesse 
ermine  between  three  fieurs-de-lis  argent  As, 
however,  it  would  have  been  too  perilous  in  those 
days  of  old  gentility  to  ridicule  too  closely  or 
markedly  an  honoured  heraldic  device,  Jonson, 
with  viciously  spiteful  malice,  added  in  chief  ''  a 
face  crying,"  and  in  so  doing  managed  to  mark 
out  his  opponent  more  distinctively.  It  may  have 
been  suggested  to  him  by  the  long  melancholy 
face  of  the  greyhotiiid  which  is,  I  believe,  the 
Marston  crest;  but  it  was  an  addition  which 
became  as  it  were  a  new  and  personal  grant  to 
the  holder  in  recognition  c^  his  glorious  achieve- 
ment, in  that  he,  the  upholder  of  tiie  honour  of 
an  old  coat,  had  taken,  like  Decker,  a  public 
beating. 


**0r  if  (transported  by  any  sadden  or  despemtB 
Intion)  you  do  [malign,  traduce,  or  detract  the  person  or 
writings  of  Q.  Uor.  f'laccus]  ;  that  then  you  shall  not 
unSer  the  battoon,  or  in  the  nezt  presence,  being  an 
honourable  assembly  of  his  favourers,  be  brought  as 
voluntary  gentlemen  to  undertake  the  forswearing  of  It." 
(Oath  administered,  Foetast.  v.  8.) 

The  satire  of  the  whole  oath  and  of  the  cotmter' 
oath  in  Sattro-Mastix  is,  that  they  swear  not  to 
repeat  certain  acts  and  incidents.  We  learn  also 
from  Drummond  that  Jonson  once  beat  Marston. 

B.  NlCHOLSOK. 


FACTS  AND  FICTIONS  ABOUT  THE  DUCE  OF 
BUCKING^HAM'S  MOTHER. 

I  The  old  story  about  the  mother  of  the  first 
Duke  of  Buckingham  having  been  a  kitchen-msid, 
and  of  her  descent  from  the  Beaumonts  of  Cole- 
orton  beinff  an  invention  of  the  heralds,  having 
been  recently  revived  by  a  popular  writer,  it  may 
be  worth  while  to  ask  how  the  case  really  stands. 
Here  is  the  story  in  its  original  shape  &om 
Coke's  Detection : — 

*<Miuy  Beaumont  was  entertained  in  Sir  George  Yil- 
liers  his  &mily,  in  a  mean  office  of  the  kitchen,  but  her 
ragged  habit  could  not  shade  the  beantifull  and  excdlent 
fhime  of  her  person,  which  Sir  George  taking  notiee  of, 
prevailed  with  his  lady  to  remote  Mary  out  of  the  Utefaea 
into  an  office  in  her  cbainber,  whiob,  with  some  impofte- 
nitgr  on  Sir  GeorRe'e  part,  and  unwilUngntM  of  my  ls4yf 
at  last  was  done." 


470 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«>»  8.  VII.  Jc»B  3,  *7L 


Lady  Villiers,  Coke  goes  on  to  say,  died  soon 
after,  upon  which  Sir  George  married  her  maid. 

Roger  Coke's  authority  for  the  affairs  of  the 
reign  of  James  L  does  not  stand  reiy  hi^h.  In  this 
instance,  however,  he  gives  his  authonty— one  of 
Sir  Edward  Coke's  daughters  by  his  first  mar- 
riage,  who  may  have  been  well  informed,  but  who 
was  certainly  prejudiced  against  the  Villierses 


from  the  opposition  which  sprang  up  between 
Coke's  party  and  the  fEiTOurite. 

Very  different  is  the  account  nven  in  the  pedi- 
grees of  the  two  families  of  Villiers  and  Beau- 
mont, as  given  in  Nichols's  Leicesterghiref  iii,  198, 
744,  the  important  parts  of  which  are  as  ^fol- 
lows : — 


Bichard  Gierke,  Esq. 


Sod  hash.  WilUam  Villiers,  »  Coletta 
of  Brooksby.  I 


William  Beaumont,  Esq.,  of  ColeortoDv  d.  1529. 


^      I 
Eldest  son. 

Ist  biisb.  Richard  Beaumont,  Esq. 

of  Coleorton,  d.  July  9, 1585. 


ZJ. 

Seventh  son. 
Anthony  Beaomoot,  of  Glenfield. 


Sir  G.  ViUiers,  of  Brooksby, 
fkther  of  the  Doke  of  Buckingham. 


I 


Nicholas  Beaumont,  Esq., 
of  Coleorton,  d.  July  9, 1585. 

Sir  Henry  Beaumont,  Ent,  d.  March  81, 1607. 


Mary  Beaumont,  mother  of 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 


According  to  this  genealogv,  therefore,  Sir 
George  Vilhers  of  Brooksby,  tne  father  of  the 
duke,  was  half-brother  to  Nicholas  Beaumont  of 
Coleorton ;  and  that  so  much  at  least  of  the  pedi- 
ffree  is  true  there  can  be  little  doubt,  for  in  a 
deed  dated  Aug.  4, 1579,  eight  years  oefore  his 
first  wife's  death,  which  is  recited  in  his  own  in- 
quisition p.  m,  (Chanc,  Inq,  4  James  I.,  Part  li. 
No.  74\  he  leaves  the  manor  of  Goadby  to  his 
then  wife  Audrey  for  her  life,  and  after  her  death 
to  Nicholas  Beaumont,  Esq.,  and  his  heirs. 

Let  us  now  see  what  external  testimony  there 
is  for  Mary  Beaumont  having  been  one  of  the 
Beaumonts  of  Coleorton. 

Sir  H.  Wotton,  a  first-rate  authority  (Bd, 
Wot.  i.  208),  states  expressly  that  she  was  '*  daugh- 
ter to  Anthony  Beaumont  of  Coleorton,  E8<|.,"  thus 
differing  from  the  pedigree  Kxaij  in  ^vmg  the 
qualification  from  the  abode  of  ms  family  instead 
of  from  his  own.  Goodman  (L  255)  says  **  she 
was  descended  of  the  Beaumonts,  as  andent  a 
family  as  his  "  (».  e,  the  duke's)  «  father." 

Wilson  {Kennet,  ii.  699),  whose  leanings  would 
be  against  the  duke,  speaks  of  the  marriage  in  the 
following  way : — 

^'For  the  old  man  coming  to  Coleorton  in  Leicester- 
ahiie  to  visit  a  kinswoman,  the  Ladv  Beaumont,  found 
a  jonng  gentlewoman  of  that  name  allied  and  yet  a  ser- 
vant to  the  lady,  who  being  of  a  handsome  presence, 
took  hifl  affectionB,  and  he  married  her.*' 

This  in  all  probabili^  is  the  true  account  of 
the  matter.  The  Lady  Beaumont  mentioned  was 
the  wife  of  Sir  Heniy,  who,  by  the  half  blood, 
was  Sir  George  Villiers's  nephew.  Mary  Beau- 
mont, a  poor  cousin,  was  in  the  household,  according 
to  the  custom  of  the  time,  as  a  waiting  gentle- 
woman, iust  as  Margaret  Dakins,  successively 
manied  bv  the  brother  of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  the 
brother  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  and  Sir  Thomas 
Hoby— without  any  idea  of  disparagement— was 


waiting  gentlewoman  to  the  Countess  of  Hunting- 
ton. Even  Weldon,  who  is  scarcely  ever  to  be 
trusted,  and  who  says  that  the  duke's  mother  was 
of  a  "  mean  "  family,  calls  her  *^  a  waiting  gen- 
tlewoman." The  story,  therefore^  of  Mary  Beau- 
mont having  been  a  iatchen-maid  in  Sir  George 
Villiers*s  own  house  may  be  left  to  R.  Coke's  own 
authority,  which,  slight  enough  in  itself,  is  abso- 
lutely worthless  in  the  feu^e  -of  the  concurrent 
testimonies  given  above. 

Another  point,  which  has  been  made  the  most 
of  by  biographers  who  write  for  effect,  is  the  old 
age  of  Sir  George  Villiers  at  his  marriage.  Xo 
doubt  in  this  they  have  Wilson's  authority,  but 
still,  as  Sir  George  lived  some  seventeen  or  eigh- 
teen years  liter  his  second  mamage,  they  might 
have  remembered  that  he  could  hardly  have  been 
so  very  old.  But,  in  point  of  fact,  the  inquisition 
on  his  father  {Exch,  Ifiq.  3  &  4  Eliz.  ^<  War.  and 
Leic."  No.  5)  states  that  he  was  fourteen  years 
and  more  on  Npv.  8, 1661.  Ages  in  inquisitions  may 
not  always  be  quite  accurately  given ;  but  if  we 
ffive  him  seventeen  years  in  1^1,  we  cannot  allow 
nim  more  than  forty-three  in  1587,  when  his  fir^t 
wife  died.  The  date  of  his  second  marriage  is 
uncertain,  but  as  his  second  son  was  bom  in  1502^ 
he  cannot  have  remained  long  a  widower. 

Again,  Lady  Villiers  is  said  to  have  been  left 
in  great  straits  for  money ;  so  that,  according  to 
Sir  Simonds  D'Ewes,  he  first  came  to  court  in 
worn-out  clothes.  As,  however,  she  had  no  less 
than  S60  acres  of  land  with  her  house  at  Goadby 
{Chanc,  Inq,  4t  James  I.  Part  li.  No.  74),  this 
part  of  the  story  may  be  dismissed  at  once, 
though  (as  she  had  only  a  life  interest  in  the 
land)  she  may  have  lived  savingly  with  respect  to 
occasions  less  important  than  her  son's  presenta* 
tion  at  court 

Finally,  what  is  the  truth  about  her  remar- 
riage P  •  The  name  of  her  seooiid  hosband  given 


4*  S.  VII.  Junk  8,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


471 


in  some,  not  in  all  of  the  pedigrees,  is  Sir  W. 
Beyner.  It  appears,  however,  from  the  inqiiisi- 
tion  into  his  death  (  Chanc,  Inq.  6  James  L  Part  ii. 
No.  1^)  that  he  died  Nov.  2,  1606,  aod  this 
gives  little  time,  though  the  objection  is  not  an 
insaperable  one,  for  a  marriage  with  Lady  Vil- 
tiers,  whose  husband  died  only  in  the  preceding 
Januarjr.  Nor  is  there  saij  mention  of  nis  leav- 
ing  a  widow,  either  in  the  inquisition  or  in  the  will 
(dated  Oct  27, 1606)  recited  in  it.  Farther :  in  a 
list  of  tenants  in  capite  in  Leicestershire,  given  in 
Nichols's  Leicestersnire  (i.  cxxxiii.),  Goadby  is  as- 
signed to  "  Maria  Villiers.''  The  list  was  made 
in  1606,  and  corrected  by  one  the  date  of  which 
cannot  be  earlier  than  May  22,  1611.  If,  there- 
fore, the  corrections  were  carefully  made,  this 
would  overthrow  the  marriage  altc^ther,  and  I 
am,  on  the  whole,  inclined  to  disbelieve  in  it 
unless  further  evidence  can  be  adduced. 

Let  me  conclude  with  a  querv — What  was  the 
date  of  the  marriage  with  Sir  f  homas  Compton  P 
Sanderson  implies  that  it  took  place  before  young 
Villiers  became  a  courtier.  Sanaerson  is  not  a  high 
authority,  but  if  his  statement  is  true  it  is  cer- 
tain that  the  step-son  of  a  brother  of  Lord  Comp- 
ton would  find  his  vnty  much  smoother  before 
him  than  one  who  was  merely  the  son  of  the 
widow  of  a  country  knight 

S.  R.  GABDimsB. 


MEMORY. 


The  St  Louis  Jownahof  Speculative  PhUoeophy 
for  January,  1871,  contains  an  account  of  a  person 

fossessed  of  a  most  extraordinary  memory.  Mr. 
)aniel  McCartney,  a  labouring  man,  whicn  has 
been  thus  condensed  by  a  Cincinnati  newspaper : — 

'*  Mr.  McCartney  was  bom  in  Westmoreland  coonty* 
Pennsylvania,  September  10,  1817,  and  is  nearly  blind* 
He  can  read  the  laigest  print  only  by  holding  it  within 
two  inches  of  his  eyes.  His  memory  is  exceedingly  re- 
tentive and  minate,  and  he  claims  that* he  can  recollect 
the  events  of  every  day  since  Jannaiy  1, 1827,  when  he 
was  about  nine  years  and  a  half  old.  He  never  kept  any 
record  of  occurrences,  and  has  no  systeni  of  mnemonics. 

"An  examination  by  D.  W.  Henkle,  commissioner  of 
public  schools  in  Ohio,  showed  that  McCartney's  asser- 
tion was  true.  Mr.  Henkle  has  a  journal  with  him  which 
recorded  the  events  of  forty-five  years  past,  and  found 
that  McCartney's  answers  tallied  with  the  records  of  the 
diary.  His  questions  related  to  the  day  of  the  week,  the 
state  of  the  weather,  and  occurrences  coming  under 
McCartney's  observation.  In  reply  to  an  interrogatoiy 
in  r^^rd  to  October  8, 1828,  McCartney  in  two  seconds 
said :  '  Wednesday.  It  was  cloudy,  and  drizsled  rain. 
I  carried  dinner  to  my  father  where  he  was  getting  in 
coaL' 

''Question:  < February  21,  1829?'  Answer  in  two 
seconds :  *  Saturday.  It  was  cloudy  in  the  morning  and 
clear  in  the  afternoon'}  there  was  a  little  snow  on  the 
ground.  An  uncle,  who  lived  near,  sold  a  horse  beast 
that  day  for  $U:  Question :  *  October  13, 1851  ? '  An- 
swer, after  fifteen  seconds:  *  Monday.  It  was  kinder 
pleasant-like  weather.    I  staid  all  night  Sunday  night  at 


my  brother's,  and  next  day  I  went  to  the  depot  in  Card- 
ington  to  saw  wood.'  Question :  <  May  8,  1846  ? '  An- 
swer, in  two  seconds:  'Friday.  It  rained  some.  The 
Saturday  before  I  attended  a  quarterly  meeting  in  Iberia.' 
(He  is  a  Methodist)  Question :  <  July  16, 1866  V  An- 
swer, instantly:  'Monday.  A  very  hot  day.  I  sawed 
wood  that  day,  and  the  next  day  went  oat  into  the 
country  to  hoe  potatoes.'  The  same  accuracy  and  faci- 
lity was  shown  in  respect  to  many  other  dates,  some  con- 
nected with  important  public  events,  and  others  having 
no  such  association. 

"McCartney  likewise  showed  wonderfhl  quickness  in 
mathematics.  Being  asked  to  multiply  82  by  45,  he 
returned  a  correct  answer  in  two  seconds,  doing  the  sum 
*  in  his  head,'  multiplying  first  by  five  and  then  by  four. 
In  the  same  way  he  multiplied  93  by  97  in  twelve  seconds, 
84  by  53  in  eight  seconds,  456  by  123  in  thuly-five 
seconds,  and  182  by  8,756  in  four  and  a  half  minutes ; 
becoming  confhsed,  however,  in  the  last  attempt.  He 
displayed  a  good  knowledge  of  geography. 

**  On  subsequent  occasions  Mr.  Henkle  again  examined 
him  as  to  dates  and  in  cubic  root.  His  accuracy  and 
powers  of  computation  were  as  manifest  as  on  former 
trials.  His  spelling  was  found  to  be  rather  faulty,  but 
he  knew  something  of  German  by  hearing  neighbours 
speak  it  McCartney  is  certainly  a  curiosity,  and  de- 
serves the  attention  of  those  learned  in  psychobgy  and 
the  collateral  sciences." 

Bab-Pohtt. 

Philadelphia. 


R08C0B*8  ^'LlFB  OF  WlLLIAM  R0800B."---Per- 

mit  me  to  point  out  one  or  two  inaccuracies  in 
the  remarks  in  this  work  which  relate  to  the  sale 
of  Roscoe's  snlendid  collection  of  books.  In 
chap.  xiy.  p.  l(fe  (ed.  18d3)i  the  bio^pher  states 
that ''  a  ciopj  of  tne  Bappreeentimom  Sacre  which 
had  cost  him  (W.  Roscoe)  a  few  shillings  sold 
for  thirty  ffnineas."  And  later  on  in  the  same 
chapter;  *'Uie  splendid  manuscrint  of  the  Bible 
was  purchased  for  the  sum  oi  two  hundred 
guineas.''  Both  of  these  statements  are  in  them- 
selves] slightly  inaccurate:  the  BappresenUasicni 
Sacre  havmff  been  sold  for  82/.  0<.  6c/.,  whilst  the 
price  paid  for  lot  1810,  Biblia  Sacra,  utnwique 
Tedamentum,  was  178/.  10<.  These  fibres  I  have 
ascertained  by  referring  to  a  copy  which  I  possess 
of  the  catalogue  of  the  sale,  in  which  the  prices 
at  whic^  the  various  lots  were  sold  have  been 
neatly  appended  in  ink.  I  picked  up  this  relic 
of  Eoscoe  at  an  old  bookstall  in  Liverpool,  and 
from  the  autograph  it  bears,  it  would  appear  to 
have  been  at  one  time  in  the  possession  of  the 
late  Rev.  Dr.  Raffles,  who  resiaed  at  Liverpool 
for  a  number  of  years.  Whilst  on  this  matter 
I  may  mention  that  the  church  in  which  Roscoe 
was  married — namely,  St.  Ann's,  Liverpool,  is 
shortly  to  be  pulled  down,  probably  in  a  week 
or  two,  for  town  improvements.  Eff. 

Gloucestershibe  Folk  Lore. — Talking  with 
one  of  the  villagers  lately  about  a  sudden  death 
which  occurred  here  last  Friday  night,  she  said 
that  she  knew  that  there  would  be  a  death  in 


472 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


[4«>»S.YII.  JmrnS,*?!. 


the  yillAge ;  there  alwayn  was  one  htfim  a  moM 
VM  out  after  an  opan  grave  on  a  Sunday,  A  grave 
was  dug  on  Saturday^  March  25,  for  the  inter- 
ment on  Monday  morning  of  another  paiidionery 
who  had  also  died  ml^er  suddenly. 

Miffht  not  the  mystery  of  the  blue  signa  in 
Grantham  be  revealed  by  ascertaining  the  Duke 
of  Botland'a  election-coloncs  P 

Davis  Rot«b. 
Ketfaerswdl  Ylcanig^  Stoir<m-Wold. 

"Paddy,  ob  Pbogt,  O'Rapfbbtt." — In  the 
ZodM  Own  Journal  for  January  21, 1871,  occurs 
the  following  note  :— 

*'  In  answer  to  an  inqniry  of  your  correspondent 
*  J.  H.  K./  in  your  *  Notes  and  Qnenes '  colamn,  regard- 
ing Hogg*8  song  entitled  'Paddv  O'RaffertT,'  I  informed 
him  in  your  nomber  of  the  Ladie^  Journal  of  30th  July 
last,  that  I  had  heard  Hogg  say  that  this  song  was  never 
printed,  as  he  had  merely  composed  it  to  sing  himself.  In 
your  journal  of  8Ist  ult.  a  correspondent — I  suppose  the 
same,  but  whose  initials  are  printed  'J.  H.  K* — again  re- 
fers  to  this  song,  and  solicits  any  of  your  contributoxs  to 
gXTe  him  a  copy  of  it  He  also  says^I  suppose  in  refer- 
ence to  my  answer  to  his  first  communication — 'He (that 
is  Hogg)  was  heard  to  say  that  he  would  never  print  it, 
but  keep  it  to  sing  himself ;  but  this  may  have  been  a 
bit  of  his  accustomed  bombast.'  Hogg  has  now  been  in 
his  grave  for  thirty-five  years,  and  has  left  his  memoir 
in  charge  to  bis  countrymen,  expecting  it  would  be  safe 
in  their  keeping,  and  I  much  regret  to  see  *  J.  H.  R.'s ' 
remark,  written,  I  hope,  without  thought  As  I  can 
hardly  think  *  J.  H.  R.'  would  exhibit  so  much  anxiety 
to  poeseSB  the  songs  of  the  £ttrick  Shepherd  unless  he 
was  animated  vritii  some  friendly  feeling  towards  his 
memory,  will  he  excuse  me— who  ought  to  have  known 
him  wdl — when  I  sav  that  he  was  not  a  talker  of  bom- 
bast, and,  moreover,  I  had  the  most  implicit  confidence 
that  he  would  not  state  as  a  fact  that  wmch  he  knew  was 
not  true.  It  is  very  probable,  however,  that  *  Paddy 
O'Kaiferty'  may  have  been  taken  down  from  Hogg*s 
singing  and  printed ;  indeed,  I  am  almost  certain  that  I 
have  seen  it  in  print,  but  I  cannot  recollect  where. 

"  J.  H." 

Are  J.  H.  K.,  J.  H.  R.,  and  J.  H.  auificiently 
conversant  with  the  theme  they  are  diacuasing  P 
The  Bong  "Peggy  O'Raiferty,"  which  I  presume 
the  correspondents  unconsciously  have  in  view, 
was  composed  by  Bobert  Tannahill,  and  is  in- 
cluded in  every  e^tion  of  his  works.  On  this  the 
Ettridc  Shepherd  may  have  written  a  parody,  and 
being  a  parody^  he  would  of  course  not  pnnt  it 
Will  not  this  solution  satisfy  the  question  f 

Charles  Rooebs,  LL.D. 

Staowdoan  Villa,  Lewbbam,  S.E. 

"The  Irish  Coloxtrs  folded,"  bt  Father 
Piter  Walsh. — It  is  rather  surprising  that  Mr. 
Prendergast  did  not  examine  the  libraiy  of  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy  for  the  Irish  Colours  folded 
of  jPather  Peter  Walsh ;  for  there  he  could  have 
found  it  among  the  books  of  his  deceased  friend, 
Mr.  Charles  Haliday,  which  he  has  so  well  de- 
scribed in  the  preface  to  his  CromweUian  Settle- 
menL  They  are  now  catalogued  and  classified  in 
a  manner  that  does  credit  to  this  noble  institution, 


so  that  every  work  among  the  manjf  tbonaaada  of 
Mr.  Haliday's  pampli.eta  is  aoceanble  witiioirt  ft 
moment's  delay.  I  speak  as  a  stximgery  having 
gone  there  this  day  to  look  f6r  the  work  in  ques- 
tion and  found  it  at  once.  Hhhdoeious. 

DubUo,  April  2i,  187L 

"HlBBBiriS  IPSrsHlBERMORES."  — n«pl  «*TOt? 
«a\ov  *AAiri3i(^ov  2e£Vupos  iffroprnf  \4ytrm  (^vrh>)  $ti 
4w  *I«Wf  fihw  &r,  "Ttfiiwr  i^vero  rfVp€purnpos,  4v  e^- 
/ScHf  8^  aufiaffKw^  icol  yvfUfo^Sii/eifOf  r&»  eq/laW  abrmv 
MoAXor  BotAriot,  ....  ^ijniff^  8^  aol  r^w  rStv  epdnm^ 
iutparoToirtcv. — ^Athenssl  Deipnosoph.  12,  47. 

This  sentence  has  been  attributed  to  Girald. 
Cambrensis.  C.  P.  I. 

Popttlab  Method  ov  OBSSRvnra  Eclipses. — 
'ibis,  as  far  back  asl  can  remember,  used  to  be  bj 
lookmg  at  the  reflection  in  a  tub  of  water.  ^  Ter- 
tullian  mentions  the  very  sane  custom  in  hia 
treatise,  Ad  NaUoneSf  ii.  vi. :  — 

**  Jam  majoia  ejus  (Juna)  detrimcnta  aoletis  in  aque 
speenlo  conaiderare.  Ipse  etiara  aol  sspe  defectione  ten- 
Utns  eit." 

''  Nothing  new  under  the  sun." 

Edhuitii  Tew,  M.A. 

Proverb.— "From  dogs  to  clogs  is  only  thrwe 
generations."  A  Lancasnire  proverb,  implying 
that,  however  rich  a  poor  man  maj  eventnallv 
become,  his  great-granason  will  certamly  faU  back 
to  poverty  and  "  clogs."  M.  D. 

Hood's  "Address  to  Mr.  Cross." — ^In  the 
lament  which  the  poet  poms  forth  on  the  death 
of  the  elephant  Chunee,  speaking  of  the  loss  of 
mat  pubhc  characters^  he  expresses  himself  as 
followa :-» 

**  I  should  not  wholly 
Despair  for  six  months  of  another  C  ....  * 

Nor  though  F lay  on  his  small  bier 

Be  melancholy. 
But  when  will  such  an  elephant  appear? ** 

In  a  note  appended  to  tbia  pasaaffe  in  the  ool- 
lected  works  of  Hood,  edited  bv  nia  son  and 
daughter,  C  ...  is  identified  with  the  Rev.  G. 
Crofy,  but  F  .  .  .  .  remains  undiscovered.  I  be- 
lieve the  character  indicated  to  be  Six  Thomas 
FoweU  Buxton,  the  celebrated  philanthiopiat  and 
brewer,  who  died  Feb.  19, 1846.  Eratc 

IiciTATroKs  OF  THE  Old  Bal£A1^:  "Le  Moris 
Arthur." — In  The  Athenteum  of  Majr  20 1  notice 
some  observations  in  which  I  heartily  agrse.  aa 
to  the  oarelesa  licence  in  which  editors  of  what 
they  tenn  old  ballads  constantly  indulge,  by  in- 
serting passages  obviously  adaed  by  modom 
himds,  without  warning  the  reader  of  their  ficti- 
tious character  -,  but  I  am  not  sure  of  the  sound- 
ness oi  an  instance  which  the  writer  alleges.  In 
one  of  tiie  ''Morte  Arthur"  ballada  cocas  the 
following  line— • 

<•  The  Duke,  all  shent  with  this  rebuke." 


4«*  S.  VII.  JuSB  3, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


473 


The  writer  giros  good  reason  for  regarding  this 
M  Bishop  Percy's,  but  proceeds  to  callit "  a  line 
impossible  in  an  old  ballad,"  and  the  addition  of  a 
^  modem  ballad-monger."  U  this  so  P  The  bishop 
evidently  <'cribbed"  itfrom  "  The  Heir  of  linne  "— 
"  Sorely  shent  with  this  rebuke, 
Sorely  shent  was  the  Heir  of  Linne.'' 

"The  Heir  of  Linne/'  Hke  most  ballads  of  re- 

fate,  is,  we  may  presume,  a  piece  of  patchwork  ,- 
at  I  have  always  been  in  the  habit  of  regarding 
this  as  an  old  patch. 

Few  perha^  duly  appreciate  the  genuine  ring 
of  an  authenticated  ballad^  and  fewer  can  imitate 
it  Bums  tried  repeatedly^  and  all-imbued  with 
the  old  rhyming  spirit  as  he  was^  could  never 
keep  it  up  oeyond  a  stanza  or  two.  Scott  (if  my 
own  instmct  does  not  deceive  me)  never  suc- 
ceeded but  once,  and  that  is  in  old  Elspeth's  frag- 
ment of  a  chaunt  on  the  "  Battle  of  Harlaw''  m 
The  Antiquary,  If  that  be  not  without  a  flaw,  I 
at  least  am  at  a  loss  to  suggest  it 

j£Air  LS  TBoirvEirs. 

Last  Days  of  Geoegb  IV.  —  The  following 
bit  of  court  gossip  may  serve  as  an  illustration 
of  past  times : — 

**  I  have  put  off  writing  from  day  to  day,"  says  Lady 
B.  to  a  friend  in  the  oonntry,  **  expecting  each  would  Im 
the  last  of  our  poor  king's  life.  Bnt  to  the  joy  of  his 
well-disposed  snbjeots  he  has  taken  a  tarn  and  reds  him- 
self that  he  will  do.  He  has  suffered  greatly,  gasping  fbr 
breath,  whatever  the  cause  may  be,  for  the  doctors  are  of 
two  opinions— Tiemey  that  it  is  water.  Sir  Henry  Hol- 
land that  it  is  asthma.  However,  his  legs  have  been 
scarified,  and  he  is  reliered.  Violent  spasms  need  to  come 
on,  and  they  thonght  he  most  die.  He  has  often  sent  for 
the  Dnehess  of  Gloucester,  taken  the  sacrament  twice, 
and  talked  very  rdigiously  to  her.  Madame  [Lady  C]  is 
ordered  never  to  come  into  his  presence  but  when  sent 
fbr,  which  is  rarely,  and  then  only  for  five  minutes.  As 
his  death  was  honrly  expected,  Madam,  it  is  said,  had 
packed  np  all  she  could,  out  this  may  be  calumny.  The 
I^achess  of  Clarence  is  so  nervous  at  the  idea  of  the 
change  in  their  mtuation  and  the  responsibility  attached 
to  it,  added  to  the  fear  as  to  the  effect  it  may  have  on  Am 
from  over-excitement,  that  she  shakes  at  hearing  a  knock 
or  a  horse  galloping  up  to  the  door.  She  is  an  excellent 
woman,  very  sensible,  and  would  like  to  have  everything 
respectable.  Bat  how  she  is  ever  to  weed  the  motley 
crew  that  have  been  admitted  to  court  is  hard  to  say. 
Great  lamentations  among  ^e  trades-people  that  nobody 
orders  anything,  supposing  there  must  soon  be  a  moum- 
in|r.  Some  have  bought  moumiag,  bnt  I  will  do  no  sudi 
thing.  I  always  think  of  Mrs.  Crewe,  who  bought  cheap 
mourning  for  George  the  Third,  and  he  lived  fifteen  years 
after,  while  she  caught  cold  and  died,  and  her  cheap 
mourning  was  worn  by  others  for  herself'' 

This  letter  is  dated  May  18^  1880.  George  IV. 
lived  till  June  26.  .  C. 

MncoBLiL  Tablets  at  St.  Beitbt's,  PAia'a 
Whabv. — ^Wandering  to-day  idong  the  new  street 
to  Blackfriars'  Bridge,  I  came  upon  the  recently 
exposed  north  ude  of  Wren's  churdii  of  St  Benet's^ 
Paul's  Wharf.  Whilst  admiring  it,  I  noticed  aom» 


fine  tablets  against  its  wall,  which  are  now  un- 
protected from  the  public,  as  a  roadway  has  been 
n)rmed  close  upon  them.  One  of  them  is  to  the 
memory  of  ''sir  Balph  Bigland,  Knt,  Garter, 
bom  1  May,  1767;  diedl4  July,  1838";  also  to 
his  first  wife  and  a  daughter.  Will  not  the  pre- 
sent "  Garter  "  (if  none  of  the  family  are  livmg) 
place  this  tablet  in  the  church  P  The  vauli^  I 
presume,  has  been  destroyed  for  the  roadway. 
Another  is  to  the  memory  of  Mary,  daughter  of 
Bobert  and  Msry  Moser,  May  31,  1827,  aged 
nineteen;  and  to*^ Bobert,  Sept.  30,  1828,  aged 
fourteen.  Are  these  relatives  or  descendants  of  the 
artist  Marv  Moser,  B.A.,  and  her  father  George 
Michael  Moser,  BlA.-^as  it  is  an  unusual  name  P 
The  Bobert  may  have  been  a  nephew  of  George. 
Why  are  not  all  these  tablets  removed  P  for  they 
win  soon  be  destroyed.  W.  P. 

STRASBimoH  LiBBART.  —  It  may  be  satisfac- 
tory to  know  what  MSS.  have  been  lost  by  the 
fire  at  Strasburgh.  A  catalogue  of  them  was 
printed  by  Haenet.  P. 

La  B^PUBLiaiTE. — ^In  France 'under  the  third, 
as  imder  the  second  republic,  coins  have  been 
struck  on  the  obverse  of  which,  is  the  Greek 
profile  of  a  woman,  representing  the  French  Be- 

gublic,  with  flowers,  wheat,  and  copiously  braided 
air — the  whole  held  by  a  band  round  her  fore- 
head, on  which  is  incompletely  written  the  word 
"Concorde."  (Alas!  it  reads  now-a-days  like 
an  epigrram.)  Above  the  head  is  a  star  (an  ill- 
omened  one,  I  fear).  At  the  exergue  stands  the 
engraver's  name,  Oudin^.  On  the  reverse,  the 
three  sacramental  words :  '*  libwtd,  £galitd,  Fra- 
ternity. "  God  knows  how  "  Les  fin^res  et  amis,  de 
la  Commune  "  have  interpreted  them  both  in  1848 
and  in  1871.  The  whole  reads  now  as  then: 
^'' RSpubUque  Franeauej  d^tresse  (des  tresses)  par- 
tout:  *  Liberty  .  Egalit^  .  Fraternity  .' "  (there  is 
between  each  woi3  a  full-stop  or  powt,  which 
latter  word  in  French  means  none).  ^^La  Conoorde, 
on  n'en  voit  gu^res.  Ottdm4  "  (ou  diner)  ^  sous  la 
B^pubUque  P "  (when  so  manv  are  dying  from 
hunger)  "^k  la  Belle  £toile.'^  It  is  remarkable 
that  the  three  wo^s,  *^  Libert^,"  &c.,  which  ob- 
tain on  the  coins  of  1870,  have  been  suppressed 
on  those  of  1871 — probably  as  being  too  contrary 
to  truth.  Likewise  the  civic  oak-leaves,  which  on 
the  wreaths  were  interwoven  with  laurel,  have 
disappeared,  leaving  the  latter  only :  no  doubt  as 
a  protest  against  the  nefarioua  acts  of  the  Com- 
mune. P.  A.  L. 

A  ComrciDSKCE. — 

**  It  is  amosing  to  hear  of  the  Standard  Napoleon  (pear 
or  apple)  being  planted  on  Coxheath,  a  spot  where,  dar- 
ing the  war,  the  flower  of  the  British  army  were  aaflem- 
bled  to  prevent  raeh  a  reanlt'' — ^Extract  fhun  No.  1  of 
the  Gardeiur's  Magazine  for  Januaiy,  1826. 

W.  P. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4**S.VII.  JUHB8.71. 


AvoKTUOva, — ^Who  was  the  author  of  a  little 
work  entitled  Thirty  Letters  on  various  Subjects, 
2  vols.  12mo.  London,  1783  P  It  contains  an  in- 
teresting^ criticism  on  a  poet  whose  name  has  ap- 
peared in  your  columns  once  or  twice  lately — 
Francis  Quarles,  concerning  whom  the  Kev.  J. 
Pomfret,  in  the  preface  to  his  poems,  truthfully 
remarks  that  ''even  Quarles  and  Withers  have 
their  admirers." 

[Br  William  Jackson,  muaical  composer  of  Exeter : 
Ob.  July  12, 1808.] 

I  should  also  be  glad  to  know  the  name  of  the 
author  of  any  of  the  following  works : — 
Memoirs  of  an  Old  Wig.    8vo.  London,  1815. 
Letters  on  Infidelity,    Second  edition.    12mo. 
Oxford,  1786. 

[By  George  Home,  Bishop  of  Norwich.] 

Confessions  of  a  Gamester,    8to.  London,  1824. 

A  Volume  of  Smoke^  in  Two  PuWs^  with  Stray 

Whiffs  from  the  same  Pipe.    12mo.  Xondon,  1859. 

Essays  on  the  Sources  of  the  Pleasures  received 

from  Literary  Compositions.    Second  edition,  870. 

London,  1813. 

[By  the  Rev.  Edward  Mangin,  of  Bath  ?] 
Edgbaston.  A«  JL  BatbB. 

What  is  a  Babbow  P — Gules,  two  barrows  or, 
is  one  of  the  coats  quartered  on  the  corporate 
seal  of  the  town  of  Droitwich,  in  Worcestershire. 
What  kind  of  instrument  is  a  borrow?  In  appear- 
ance it  is  not  unlike  a  wooden  spoon.     H.  d.  G. 

Bbodbbiox  Fakilt. — ^I  shall  be  glad  to  receive 
any  information  relating  to  a  branch  of  this  fieunily 
settled  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Shap  Fells,  co.  of 
Westmoreland,  in  the  earlypart  of  the  eighteenth 
centuiy.  Were  the  Shap  Fell  Brodericks  cadets 
of  the  house  of  Broderick,  Lords  of  Middleton, 
CO.  of  Cork  P  W.  H.  Cottkll. 

Manor  Rise,  Brixton. 

Lbttei^  op  Oliveb  Cromwell. —  Can  any 
reader  inform  me  where  is  now  preserved  the 
original  of  a  letter  addressed  to  the  Parliament 
by  Oliver  Cromwell,  February  4, 1650-1 P  It  is 
printed  in  the  appendix  to  Harris's  Historical  and 
Critical  Account  of  Oliver  Cromwdl,  1772,  p.  538, 
and  reprinted  in  Gough's  second  edition  of  Vertue's 
Works  of  Thomas  Simon.  It  was  then  (1772)  in 
the  possession  of  John  Baymond^  ^^'t  ^^  Fair- 
ford,  Gloucestershire.  The  letter  is  written  from 
Edinburgh,  «  For  y«  Hono"«  the  Comittee  for  the 
army  these,"  and  relates  to  the  ioumey  under- 
taken by  "  Mr.  Symonds  *\  in  order  to  draw  his 
portrait  for  the  Dunbar  medal.    Oliver  adds — 

**  I  shall  make  it  my  second  suite  unto  you  that  you 
will  please  to  Conferr  upon  him  that  imploym*  in  yo'  ser- 
vice w*^  Nicholas  Briott  had  before  him,'*  &c 

HisiTBT  W.  Hekfbet. 

Markbam  House,  Brighton. 


St.  Eswabd  thb  Cdkfbbsob  avd  thb  Bxsq. 
The  legend  of  the  ring  given  by  King  Edward  the 
Confessor  to  St.  John  the  Evangelist  di^ised  as 
a  beggar,  is  represented  on  an  ancient  window  in 
the  great  church  of  St.  Laurence  at  Ludlow,  to 
which  town  the  pUgrims  who  received  the  ring 
from  the  saint  are  said  to  belong. 

No  mention  of  these  pilgrims'  home  appean  in 
the  various  lives  of  St  Edward  the  King,  pub- 
lished by  the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  though  the  story 
is  there  related.  Dean  Stanley,  in  his  Memorials 
of  Westminster  Abbey  An  his  vermon  of  the  tale, 
describes  the  Ludlow  JPalmers,  and  the  reception 
of  the  ring,  by  the  king  at  Hai^ering-atte-Bower. 
Is  there  any  other  foundation  for  this  legend  being 
connected  with  Ludlow  than  the  window  in  the 
church  P  Thos.  R  WnnoKGTOir. 

[A  tradition  prevalent  at  Ludlow  when  Ldand  visited 
it  m  the  reign  of  Henry  Y III.,  and  which  was  even  then 
ancient,  said  that  the  two  ** palmers"  who  brought  the 
ring  to  Edward  the  Confessor,  were  men  of  Ludlow,  and 
the  leffend  was  itself  represented  in  the  painted  glass  of 
a  window  in  a  chapel  of  St.  John,  to  the  north  of  the 
choir  of  Ludlow  church.  **Tbis  church,'*  says  Leland, 
"hath  been  much  advanced  by  a  brotherhood  therein 
founded  in  the  name  of  St  John  the  Evan^ist:  the 
original  thereof  was  (as  the  people  say  there)  in  the  time 
of  ^inff  Edward  the  Confessor ;  and  it  is  constantly 
affirmed  there  that  the  pilgrims  that  brought  the  ring 
fh>m  beyond  the  sea,  as  a  token  from  St  John  the  Evan- 

Ct  to  King  Edward,  were  the  inhabitants  of  Ludlow." 
vary,  ed.  1744,  iv.  91.  It  is  not  impossible  that  two 
pilgrims,  on  their  return  ttom  Jerusalem,  may  have  been 
received  l^  Edward  the  ConfiBSsor,  or  that  those  two  pil- 
grims may  have  been  men  of  Ludlow ;  the  traditionary 
belief  of  this  early  period  thus  showing  that  the  town  ex- 
isted in  Saxon  times.  Consult  Thomas  Wright's  Histoty 
of  Ludhw,  p.  464 ;  and  his  Ludlow  Sketches,  p.  8,  and 
"N.  fta^l-^S-vii.  16.] 

Etohikgs. — ^A  series  of  fourteen  clever  etchings 
appeared  in  I8I4  in  illustration  of  a  work  entitled 
Something  concerning  Nobody ,  edited  by  Some- 
body, London,  pp.  191.  There  is  no  artist's  or 
engraver's  name  appended  to  the  plates,  and  I 
cannot  find  any  mention  of  the  book  in  Lowndes 
or  elsewhere.  The  idea  is  one  which,  as  might 
have  been  'expected,  George  Cruikshank  has  not 
allowed  to  escape  him,  and  in  his  Omnibus  he  has 
displayed  the  pranks  of  Nobody,  and  the  punish- 
ment likely  to  befall  Somebody  in  consequence. 
He  made  use  of  the  same  idea  as  far  back  as  1815 
(the  year  after  the  publication  of  the  work  I  am 
inquiring  about),  in  the  folding  nlate  to  The 
Scourge  for  Jan.  2  of  that  year  on  tne  subject  of 
the  property  or  income  tax,  one  of  the  ligures 
having  a  label  issuing  from  his  mouth  with  the 
words  "  Nbbody  pities  you,  upon  my  honor."  Per- 
haps some  of  your  correspondents  can  give  me 
some  information  respecting  it.        A.  H.  Batxs. 

Edgbaston.  * 

[This  curious  book  has  now  become'veiy  scarce.   The 
ludicrous  etchings  are  by  that  strange  and  eccentric  cha- 


4»kS,vn.JuiiB8,*710 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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racter,  poor  6.  M.  Woodward,  to  whom  Goofge  Craik- 
phank  !•  indd>ted  for  some  hints  from  the  effigy  of 
"Nobody.-] 

FoBD  Abbbt  Salb. — Can  you  infonn  me  the 
exact  date  of  the  sale  of  about  two  hundred  paint- 
ings (somewhere  about  twen^  years  since)  at 
Ford  Abbevy  near  Axminster,  Somersetshire  [De- 
vonshire! by  auction,  after  the  death  of  the  pro- 
prietor, Mr.  GwynP  also  the  name  of  the  auc- 
tioneer who  sold,  and  his  address  if  living,  and  if 
dead,  who  carries  on  his  business  ?  also,  whether 
there  is  any  catalogue  of  the  paintings  in  exist- 
ence P  I  believe  Itu.  Miles  is  now  the  owner,  by 
purchase,  of  the  pr^jperty.  Paintbb. 

[John  Fraanceis  Gwyn,  Esq.  died  at  Ford  Abbe^', 
Devonshire,  on  Feb.  28,  1846,  aged  eighty-fonr.  His 
paintings  were  sold  on  Oct.  26, 1846,  and  seven  following 
days,  by  Messrs.  English  and  Sons,  whose  local  residence 
Is  not  stated  in  the  Catalogue  (printed  at  Bath).  Some 
account  of  the  sale  will  be  found  in  the  GenilemaH*$ 
Magazhie  for  December,  1846,  p.  625.] 

AjtcibntObebk  ai?d  Rokax  Litebatubb. — ^In 

1809  Mr.  James  Grey  Jackson  wrote  in  his  Ac^ 

count  of  the  Empire  of  Morocco  that — 

"  If  the  present  ardour  for  discoveiy  in  Aftiea  be  per- 
severed in,  the  learned  world  may  expect  in  the  course 
of  a  few  years  to  receive  histories  and  other  works  of 
Greek  and ; Roman  authors,  which  were  translated  into 
the  Arabic  language  when  Arabian  literature  was  in  its 
zenith,  and  have  ever  since  been  confined  to  some  private 
libraries  in  the  cities  of  the  interior  of  Africa  and  in 
Arabia.  Bonaparte,  aware  of  the  political  importance  of 
a  practical  knowledge  of  this  language,  has  of  late  given 
unremitting  attention  to  the  sumect,  and  if  we  may  be- 
lieve the  mutilated  accounts  which  we  receive  occasion- 
ally from  France,  be  is  likely  to  obtain  from  Africa  in  a 
short  period  relics  of  ancient  learning  of  considerable 
value,  which  have  escaped  the  wreck  of  nations." 

Was  this  anticipation  verified,  and  to  what 
extent  P  .  W.  P. 

Length  or  Haib  rs.  Mbk  ajstd  Wombn. — 
You  have  inserted  a  good  many  remarks  of  late 
about  the  hair  growing  after  death.  Can  you  tell 
me  which  will  grow  longer  in  life,  the  man's  or 
the  woman's  P  I  once  saw  a  young  Danish  lady, 
of  middle  height,  shake  down  her  hair,  which 
touched  the  ground  as  she  stood.  The  hair  was 
of  light  colour.  I  have  seen  long  hair  with  Chi- 
nese men,  though  none  so  long  as  that ;  but  I  am 
told  it  will  grow  as  long.  G.  K 

•OuB  Lady  op  Holywell.  —  A  Lincolnshire 
gentleman,  making  his  will  in  the  early  part  of 
the  sixteenth  century^  leaves  something  to  ''  our 
Lady  off  Holywell."  What  place  did  he  meanP 
It  was  almost  certainly  in  Lincolnshire  or  near  its 
borders.  Qobnttb. 

Military  Chevbok.  —  Is  there  any  special 
reason  for  the  heraldic  chevron  being  reversed  on 
the  sleeve  of  the  subaltern  officer  P  M.  D. 

"  The  New  Monthly." — I  should  be  glad  if 
any  of  your  correspondents  could  give  me  a  com- 


plete list  of  the  editors  of  the  New  MonMyMagO" 
one  since  its  commencement  It  was  started  in 
(I  think)  1821  [18141  and  among  its  ccmductors 
were  such  men  as  Campbell,  Theodore  Hook^ 
Horace  Smith  (P),  Tom  Hood,  and  Hanison 
Ainsworth.  F.  Gledstanbs  Waugh. 

Oxford  and  Cambridge  Gab. 

PThe  Neuf  Monthly  Maytume  and  Umvertal  Megitteif, 
Tolis.  i.  toziv.  1814 — 1820,  the  editorship  unknown  to  us. 
The  New  Monthly  Magaxine  and  LiUrary  Journal,  vols. 
XV.  to  XXX.  1821,  &c.,  edited  b^  Thomas  Campbell  and 
Mr.  Dubois;  vol.  xxxi.  to  xlvtii.  unknown.  The  New 
Monthly  Magazine  and  Humorietf  vols.  xlix.  to  IxiL  by 
Theodore  Edward  Hook ;  vols.  Ixiii.  to  Ixviii.  by  Thomas 
Hood ;  vols.  Ixix.  to  Ixxii.  unknown ;  vols.  lxxiii«  drc 
by  William  Ainsworth.] 

I^OBTHAHPTONSHIBE  Feasts. — Can  any  of  the 
readers  of  '*  N.  &  Q."  g^ve  me  a  list  of  the  ser- 
mons preached  at  the  Northamptonshire  feasts 
before  those  citizens  and  inhabitants  of  London 
who  were  bom  within  that  county  P  The  iirst 
was  preached  by  John  Williams,  rector  of  St. 
Mildred's,  Poultry,  November  8, 1683. 

John  Taylob. 

Northampton. 

"Oomered"  ob  "Umbred." — In  Craven,  when 
trees  overhang  a  road  or  garden,  the  spot  is  said  to 
be  too  much  **  oomered  '^  or ''  Hmered,  for  I  am  at 
a{loss  as  to  the  orthography.  The  word  is  evidently 
from  the  Latin  umbra,  Arran  for  a  spider  is 
another  word  that  we  have  from  the  Latin.  Are 
the  above  words  used  in  other  parts  P 

Stephbk  Jacksok. 

EoBEBT  AND  Thoxas  Fabkeb. — Does  the  para- 
graph (p.  288)  imply  that  Thomas  Parker  was 
admittea  to  Magdalen  College  P  His  father  Bobert 
certainly  was.  He  was  admitted  chorister,  a.I). 
1676;  elected  demy,  1680;  fellow,  1686-1698. 
Anthony  Wood  says  he  was  ''  a  divine  sometime 
of  Wilton,  Wilts,  who,  leaving  the  nation  for  con- 
science-sake, died  at  Deusborough  in  Gelderland 
in  1630.  J.  R  B. 

Passion  Plays.  —  Where  'are  Passion  plays 
performed  in  addition  to  Oberammergau  and  Brix- 
legg  P  St.  SwiTHur. 

Plica  Polonica. — ^Is  the  disease  called  Plica 
Polonica  well  authenticated  P  The  common 
opinion  is  that  the  hair  becomes  fleshy,  and  will 
bleed  if  cut ;  but  I  have  heard  a  surgeon  say  that 
he  once  saw  the  disease,  and  that  it  is  not  the 
hair  that  changes,  but  that  the  flesh  at  the  roots 
rises  a  good  deal^  and  that  it  is  that  that  bleeds, 
if  carelessly  cut.  G.  K 

Dante  Eossetti's  Pictube  op  Lady'  Gbeen- 
6LSEVES. — Perhaps  some  of  your  correspondents 
would  kindly  enable  me  to  answer  the  questions 
contained  in  he  following,  which  I  have  received 
from  a  lady  who  has  been  on  a  visit  to  the  dismal 
regions  near  Manchester :— 


4T6 


NOTES  AND  QUSBIES. 


[4tt»A7IL/roraS.7i. 


««We  went  to  Agaew'i  cxhibitioii,  where  I  found 
several  old  Academy  friendB,  and  a  perfect  marvel  hy 
Dante  RoaaettL  A  email  picture  it  was  <rf  a  woman  halT- 
lengtb.  On  the  frame  beneath  was  a  line  of  mnsic  set  to 
the  words— 

*  Greensleeves  is  my  heart  of  gold, 
And  who  bnt  my  lady  Greenskeves  ? ' 
.  On  her  shoulder  she  held  her  knight's  chain  armonr  and 
the  green  sleeves;  and  the  hand  that  grasped  them  was  a 

Sirffect  miracle  of  painting.  It  looked  alive ;  while  the 
ce  and  neck  and  other  hand  were  dead-cold  in  colour— 
unnaturally  cold ;  the  eyes  perfect  green,  the  mouth  hard 
and  crimson,  and  the  ikoe  oui  of  drawing^  and  vet  with  a 
wonderfully  tender  ezpiession  in  it  What  did  it  mean  ? 
Why  did  he  draw  the  fine  wrong  ?  He  must  have  had  a 
meaning.  Why  did  he  paint  one  hand  living  and  the 
rest  dead?  The  picture  was  not  pleasing,  bnt  perfectly 
fascinating.  There  was  a  spray  of  a^ple-blossom  that 
seemed  to  grow.  The  general  compoMtion  was  indescri- 
bable. Do  you  know  anytbing  of  Lady  Greensleeves  ? 
If  not,  could  you  write  to  *K.  It  Q.'  and  ask  for  those 
Itnee,  and  if  there  is  any  old  ballad  ?  It  will  haunt  me 
till  I  know  the  idea  and  what  it  means.  It  was  covered 
with  glass,  though  oils.  It  was  on  a  chair,  not  hung ; 
and  we,  being  airbed,  nearly  sent  two  young  specimens 
of  the  Manchester  *  swell  *  into  serious  fits  by  turning  it 
upside  down  and  all  manner  of  ways.  They  thought  we 
were  mad,  evidently." 

For  myself^  not  having  seen  the  picture,  I  can 
only  suppose  that  the  lady's  hand,  touching  the 
emblems  of  her  lover^  ffains  thereby  a  certain 
mystical  proximity  to  him,  and  ia  represented 
therefore  as  drawing  life  from  thence ;  while  the 
rest  of  her  typifies  utter  loneliness,  with  life,  as  it 
were,  deferred.  But  perhaps  some  one  more  au 
fait  than  myself  with  such  exq[ui8itenes8  of  sym- 
bolism will  kindly  elucidate  the  mystery.  I  take 
the  liberty  of  borrowing  my  fair  correspondent's 
initials  for  favour.  M.  M.  0. 

DESTRXJcnoir  of  Susbey  Chtjhchies,  1668. — 
Visiting  recently  the  parish  church  of  Windles- 
ham^  Surrey,  I  was  told  that  its  date  was  1668, 
when  it  was  rebuilt  after  its  destruction,  with  fif- 
teen others  in  the  neighbourhood,  by  a  storm  of 
thunder  and  lightning.  1  have  failed  to  find  re- 
ference to  such  catastrophe,  which  must  have  been 
noteworthy,  and  ask  your  aid.  W.  T.  M. 

Taatfe  Fakilt. — Is  there  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum a  copy  of  the  Memoirs  of  the  Taaffe  Family, 
published  at  Vienna  in  1856?  Does  this  work 
contain  a  more  extensive  pedigree  than  that  which 
appeared  before  the  Committee  of  Privileges 
aoout  seven  years  ago  ?  If  so,  perhaps  some 
reader  of  "  W.  &  Q.*'  who  may  have  one  would 
allow  me  to  look  over  it. 

Whose  daughter  was  the  Lady  Susanna,  wife 
of  Charles  Taafie,  Esq.,  who  had  a  lease  (July  15, 
1669)  of  the  lands  of  Mansfield,  Ballyclare,  &c. 
(Louth)  from  the  Earl  of  CarUnfffordP  With 
whom  did  the  Taaffe  interest  in  Bulydare  (more 
especinily)  terminate  P 

Christopher  Taaffe  had  these  lands  in  1689 
when  attamted.    When  did  he  die  P    I  do  not 


think  that  he  was  the  lieutenant  of  King  James's 
own  re^:iment,  but  the  lieutenant  was  probably 
the  Christopher  who  died  in  1725. 

I  am  acquainted  with  all  printed  sources  of  in- 
formation on  this  subject,  save  the  Vienna  pub- 
lication, and  my  qaeriescould  only  be  answered  by 
a  correspondent  acquainted  with  unpubhsbed  re- 
cords. S. 


ftfffttyrft 


HAIR  GROWING  AFTER  DEATH. 
(4»>»  8.  vi.  624 ;  vil  66,  83, 180, 222, 290, 315.) 
My  attention  was  called  many  years  ago  to  thu 


My  attention  was  called  many  years  ago  to  this 
subject  bv  reading  Douglas's  stateAent,  in  his 
Nenia  Bntanmca,  about  Lady  Chandos*s  hair  (see 
above,  vii.  222).  I  have  not  the  book  before  me, 
but  the  following  is,  I  belieye,  a  futhful  extract 
firom  it  (p.  57) :  — 

**  Mr.  John  Pitt  assnred  me  that  on  Txdting  a  vault  of 
hia  anoestora  at  Farley  Chapel  in  Son^rsetshire,  to  give 
ordeiB  for  some  neceasair  repairs,  he  saw  the  hair  of  a 
youDg  Lady  Chandos  which  had,  in  a  most  exuberant 
manner,  grown  oat  of  the  coffin  and  hanging  down  tnm 
it ;  and,  by  the  inscription,  she  was  baried  more  than  a 
hundred  years  since." 

By  ^^  Farley  Chapel  in  Somersetshire  "  must  be 
meant  (for  there  is  no  other  in  that  county)  the 
old  chapel  within  the  ruins  of  Farley  Castle,  near 
Bath — a  place  with  which  I  am  very  well  ac- 
quainted. There  is  certainly  an  old  family  vault 
tnere,  and  in  it  are  several  leaden  coffins;  but 
Farley  Chapel  was  the  burial-place  of  the  Hun- 

g»rfords,  and  it  never  belonged  to  the  Lords 
handos,  nor  to  any  ancestor  of  the  Pitt  family. 
The  chapel  meant  by  Douglas  is  most  likely  that 
at  Sudeley  Castle,  near  Winchcomb,  co.  Glouces- 
ter, which  did  belong  to  the  Lords  Chandos.  The 
widow  of  the  last  lord  (Jane,  daughter  of  Lord 
Kivers)  married  G«orge  Pitt  of  Strathfieldsar, 
and  brought  Sudeley  Castle  with  her  in  marriage. 
Douglas's  mistake  in  the  name  is  not  of  much 
importance,  and  I  only  mention  it  in  order  to  be 
able  to  say  that,  wherever  else  the  deceased  Lady 
Chandos's  hair  may  have  grown  after  her  death, 
it  certainly  was  not  out  of  any  leaden  coffin  .in 
Farley  Chapel. 

But  after  Mb.  J.  Dixoh's  letter  (euprd  vii.  315), 
most  of  the  readers  of  ^'  N.  &  Q."  will  probably  hare 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  very  few  instances 
of  alleged  growth  of  hair  after  deatii  may  be 
disposed  of  by  some  more  likely  explanation.  One 
I  can  suggest  from  my  own  experience. 

A  few  years  ago,  whilst  orainingr  a  field  at 
Cla|9Cotle  Farm,  near  Grittleton,  co.  Wilts,  about 
a  mile  from  mv  house,  the  workmen  came  upon  a 
lai^  rough  slab  of  stone.  On  raising  it  they  foond  a 
sepulchral  chamber,  about  dght  fset  long,  six  (eet 
wide,  and  as  many  deep.  The  sides  and  floor 
were  formed  of  aimilar  rough  alabs;  and  on  the 


4^fi.yXL,Ju]i1E9i71.] 


NOTES  JLSD  tiUEEIESa 


477 


floor  lay  ^fallen  apart)  some  oak  planks,  per- 
fectly biacKy  and  albout  three  inclies  thick^  the 
renuuns  of  a  rode  oiiter  cdfBn.  Within  these  was 
a  leaden  ooffin  entue^  but  somewhat  coixoded. 
The  uvper  part  beuag  removedi  a  skeleton  was 
J  whioh,  from  the  length  of  the  figure 
the  smaUiess  of  the  bones,  was  presumed  to 
be  that  of  a  ymtag  female.  The  bones  also  ware 
quite  black,  unbedded  in  a  fine  black  silt  which 
oovered  the  bottom  of  the  leaden  coffin.  Before 
anything  further  was  done,  the  proprietor  of  the 
field  sent  forme,  and  the  messenger  (a country 
labourer^  startled  me  at  my  studies  by  the  intel- 
ligence tnat  they  had  found  a  skeleton  *'  with  hair 
two  feet  long ! " 

With  << Farley  Chapel''  and  ''Lady  Ohandos" 
well  unprinted  on  my  memonr,  I  sped  with  great 
curiosi^  to  see. the  wondernd  sight.  Standing 
on  the  Drink  of  the  sepuldiral  chamberi  the  skuU 
c^  tiie  iJceleton  i^[»peaied  to  me  at  first  sight  to  be 
partly  oyexgrown  with  hair;  but  on  descending 
a^d  examining  more  closely,  it  proyed  to  be 
nothing  moore  than  the  fine  fibres  of.  the  roots  of 
some  moesy  or  other  little  plants  which  had  found 
nourishment  in  the  black  silt,  and  had  spread 
itself  oyer  1^  skuU  to  the  length  of  six  or  eight 
inches.  This  was  all.  Neyertheless,  the  rumour 
of  "  hair  two  feet  long  "  spread  like  wildfire,  and 
next  day,  being  Sunday,  I  saw  hundreds  of  people 
&om  neighbouring  yillages  flocking  to  the  spot  to 
behold  the  phenomenon. 

<'  Lady  MLordaunt's  "  case  at  Turvey  (yii.  290), 
where  ''the  upper  part  of  the  coffin  round  the 
head  was  filled  with  nair,  which  had  pressed  itself 
into  all  the  irregularities  and  indentations  of  the 
otones,  taking  their  form,"  &&,  and  "  insinuating 
itself  into  the  interstices  between  the  stones,^ 
may  perhaps  be  accounted  for  in  a  similar  way. 
I  haye  now  before  me  a  draining-pipe  completely 
choked  with  a  mass  of  fine  fibrous  roots  of  grass 
or  moss,  which  being  taken  out,  preseryes  the 
exact  shape  of  the  pipe,  and  at  a  bttle  distance 
might  be  mistaken  for  a  roll  of  coarse  hair. 

I  would  only  add,  by  the  way,  with  respect  to 
the  Clancote  leaden  coffin,  that  I  caused  the  black 
silt  to  DO  turned  out  upon  the  grass ;  and  a  few 
days  afterwards,  as  soon  as  it  was  dry,  on  raking: 
through  it  with  my  fingers,  I  found  seyeral  small 
coins  much  corroded ;  but  one  of  tiiem,  more  per- 
fect, appears  to  be  Eoman.  In  the  iield  below 
that  in  which  tiie  leaden  coffin  was  found,  I  haye 
nicked  up  tessera  and  other  marks  of  a  Boman 
nabitation. 

J.  £.  JJLCSBOV, 

Hon.  Canon  of  Bristol. 
Leigh  Ddamers,  Chippenham. 


THE  €LEBU»RE  VAMiVT:  BALLYCULLITAN, 
OR  BALLYCOLLICTAN :  PATfilQK  ROXATHE, 
OF  CARBiCK-OK-SUIB. 

(4«»  S.  yii.  122.) 

I  owe  an  apology  to  KucsoD  for  not  ha\dng 
earlier  answered  his  queries. 

1.  The  present  name  of  BallycttQitan,  according 
to  the  Grand  Jury  Books  of  tibe  county  of  Tip* 
perasT,  and  the  TopojfrofMoai  DieUonary  of  Lewis 
(ii.  49),  is  Ballycolletan.  It  is  called  Ballycol- 
latane  in  the  Down  Suryey  and  Book  of  Distribur 
tions,  and  is  a  townland  of  one  hundred  and 
seyenty-one  acres  Lrish,  in  the  parieih  of  Kilbar- 
rane,  or  KUbatrron,  barony  <rif  Lower  Ormonde, 
aboye  county.  Sir  Nicholas  Wfayte,  Ir.^  (Irish 

?apist),  forfeited,  consequent  on  the  dyd  wars  of 
641,  but  he  was  granted  possession  again  in  fee, 
plus  forty-three  acres.  Anagh,  or  Annah  {not 
Arra),  is  a  townland  close  by  Ballycolletan.  It 
was  forfeited  to  Captain  Solomon  Camby,  one  of 
Oliver  Cromwell's  officers,  by  John  Hurly  (Jr.  pa,), 
A^nagh,  or  Annah,  coatHina  two  hundred  and 
forty-three  acres  Irish.  There  is  a  castle  at 
Annah  called  Annah  Castle.  Ballycolletan  is 
remarkable,  among  other  peculiarities,  for  its  co- 
pious spring  wells,  and  ''clear  as  Ballycolletan 
waters '  is  a  proyerb  in  the  district. 

2.  The  inscription  on  the  tombstone  oyer  the 
yault  in  which  the  remains  of  Sir  William  Cleb- 
bume  (as  he  is  called)  He,  in  the  ancient  church  of 
Kilbarron,  is  very  nearly  the  same  as  that  giyen 
by  NiHBon.  The  yault  is  in  the  angle  under  the 
eastern  Rlebe,  as  you  enter.  The  memorial  flag- 
stone, which  is  of  the  usual  size,  lies  flat  along 
the  upper  surface  of  the  yault ;  and,  in  letters  cut 
in  relief,  the  inscription  is  as  follows :  — 

atTLIELKUS  .  CCEBBTT^Ke  .   DE  .  BAIXTCTTLLATAN  . 

ABMI&SB  .  OMIT  .  yieSBSUCO  .  SSCTTITDO  .  DIS  . 

KENSIS  .  OCTOBBIS  .  AXNO  .  BOMINI  .  1684. 

I  read  **  vigessimo,"  your  oorre^ondent  "  yi- 
cessimo." 

There  is  a  small  rude  stone,  inserted  in  the 
front  wall  of  the  yault,  bearing  the  following 
inscription :  — 

HEB3S  LTETH  THS  BODY 

OP 

SLIZABfiTH   OLBHBUKWlfi, 

AGBB   18    BATSy    WHO 

ixnsi)  nr  tee  xbab 
1682. 

As  to  the  exact  locality  of  Kilbarron  church,  it 
is  ffltuated  about  twenty  perches  firom  the  east 
bank  of  the  Shannon,  where  the  riyer  is  exceedingly 
broad,  and  forms  portion  of  the  extensiye  expanse 
called  Lough  Darrigee,  or  the  Lake  of  the  Red 
Eye ;  commonly,  but  erroneously,  named  Lough 
Dergh,  which  stretches  between  Killaloe  and 
Fortumna. 


478 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4<i'aTn.JimB8|71. 


A  XQspected  friend  writes  to  me  as  follows: — 

«  The  coat  of  wms  he  [NocBODlsiTeB  seems  to  me 
the  same  with  one  over  the  door  of  Chbiine  or  CUbome 
Castle,  in  Camberland ;  bat  that  hoa  no  crest  or  motto, 
nor  do  I  recollect  any  other  in  the  old  chnrcih  ther&  There 
are,  I  undentand,  documents  in  the  Records  in  Dublin  re- 
lating to  a  person  of  this  name  who  was  Receiver  General 
in  Qaeen  Elizabeth's  time,  and  who,  I  have  heard,  had 
lai^e  grants  made  to  him  by  the  crown  in  payment  of 
claims  he  made;  and  I  have  heard  of  a  rather  famous 
Dean  of  Kildare  of  this  name,  who  tried  to  make  certain 
Irish  people  steady  by  lending  them  monev  to  trade  in 
cattle,  and  so  help  to  supply  her  majesty's  army  with 
beef;  and  that  thus  he  may  have  had  claims  on  the 
Queen,  and  have  got  land  in  place  of  the  money  so  ad- 
vanced. This  Dean  of  Kildare  seems  to  have  retired  and 
died  in  Gloucester,  where  he  left  his  library  to  the  cathe- 
dral there,  and  otherwise  made  himself  rather  a  useful 
person.  I  have  been  applied  to  several  times  for  historic 
notices  of  this  clerical  Uebome,  but  I  never  had  time  or 
opportunity  to  hunt  them  up." 

My  £riend  goes  on  to  state  that  the  family  tra- 
ditions of  the  Clibboms  (as  the  name  now  is  writ- 
ten) are  not  satisfactory :  — 

<*  We  know,"  he  stotes,  **  that  the  first  Quaker  of  the 
name  was  the  son  of  a  William  Clibbom,  and  we  have  a 
ridiculous  story  of  a  fight  he  had  with  his  father  or 
brother  (William),  whidi  was  the  cause  of  the  total 
break  up  between  the  Tipperary  and  the  Westmeath 
famiUes.^ 

I  may  add  that  in  Tijrpeiary  comity,  barony  of 
Lower  Ormonde,  and  adjoining  the  banks  of  the 
Shannon,  the  name  of  Clibbom  is  frequently  met 
with  at  the  present  day ;  though  it  does  not  ap- 
pear in  the  Down  Survey  or  in  the  Book  of  Dis- 
tributions; and  that,  near  Clonmel  in  the  same 
county,  the  Clibboms  are  a  highly  respectable 
and  affluent  family,  enterprising  for  some  gene- 
rations past  amonj?  the  most  extensive  floui^mill 
owners  and  manuiacturers  of  flour  in  that  great 
wheat-growing  county.  Tfeey  own  Anner  Mills, 
close  by  the  estate  of  Mr.  and  Mr&  Bemal  Os- 
borne. '  * 

8.  As  to  Patrick  Ronayne,  the  exceedingly 
clever  Carrick-on-Suir  artist,  I  am  not  aware  that 
he  was  a  relative  of  Patridc  Konayne  of  Anne- 
brodc,  Queenstown,  co.  Cork.  I  have  written  a 
large  quantity  of  interesting  particulars  in  my 
journal  the  Limerick  BewrUr  and  Tipperary 
Vindicator^  in  reference  to  Patrick  Ronayne,  the 
accomplished  Carrick-on-Suir  artist ;  and  a  gentle- 
man named  Farrell,  a  resident  of  Dublin,  but  a 
native  of  Carrick-on-Suir,  who  knew  Patrick  Ro- 
nayne well,  has  contributed  some  interesting  letters 
to  the  same  journal  in  reference  to  him.  I  have 
heard  that  a  memoir  of  Patrick  Ronayne  is  about 

to  be  published. 

Maueice  LsNiHAir,  M.R.IA. 
Limerick. 


DATE  OF  CHAUCEB'S  BIBTH. 
(4«»>  S.  TiL  838, 412.) 

I  beg  to  say  a  few  words  on  HsBjaorTBUBS's 
suggestions,  which  are  aa  ingenious  as  they  are 
courteously  made.  With  reroect  to  her  referanoe 
to  the  epithet  ''old"  applied  to  John  of  Gaunt, 
who  did  not  live  to  complete  his  fifty-ninth  year,  I 
renture  to  think  tJiat  it  is  used  by  Shakspeare,  not 
in  the  sense  of  ''  aged,''  but  rather  in  thi&t  of  one 
who  lived  in  old  times — in  times  long  Mssed; 
and  if  this  be  so,  I  am  bound  to  admit  that  the 
epithet  mi^  have  been  employed  in  that  sense  by 
Spenser  when  he  speaks  of  "  old  "  Dan  Gefiey. 
Eubrmen^tbitdb'b  second  suggestion,  that  the  dura- 
tion of  human  life  is  longer  now  than  it  was  in 
the  middle  ages,  is  unquestionably  founded  in  &ct. 

I  would  reply  to  A.  H.'s  query — "Is  not  thirty- 
three  somewhat  too  old  for  a  squire  to  enter 
military  service  P"  by  asking  whetner  the  alter- 
native *'  thirteen  "  is  not  more  improbable. 

It  is  possibly  my  own  fault,  but  Mb.  Fub- 
NivALL  nas,  I  think,  rather  misunderstood  the 
object  of  my  note.  I  am  preaching  no  new  heresy. 
I  merely  seek  to  confirm  the  ancient  belief.  That 
belief  unquestionably  was  that  Chaucer  lived  to 
be  an  old  man,  and  that  when  young  he  had  been 
well  educated }  and  I  only  sought  to  clear  up  by 
what  seemed  to  jne  a^rery  simple  and  natural  ex- 

Slanation  the  change' of  xl  (40)  into  Iz  (60)— a 
iflcrepancy  between  what  had  long  been  univer- 
sally believed,  and  the  statement  as  to  the  poef  s 
age  in  the  deposition  in  the  Scrope  and  Gros- 
Tenor  controversy. 
We  are  all  liable  to  error,  and  the  early  biom- 

fhers  of  Chaucer  may  hare  made  mistakes;  but 
protest  agfdnst  their  statements  as  to  Ghaucer^s 
education  and  early  life  being  denounced  as  ''all 
gammon  and  guess/'  whatever  that  may  mean. 

It  is  clear  uiat  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  no  unskilful 
critic,  and  himself  the  editor  of  the  Scrope  and 
Grosvenor  Boll  (in  which  document,  be  it  re- 
membered, othersof  the  witnesses  besides  Chaucer 
are  stated  to  have  been  ten  or  even  twenty  years 
younger  than  ihey  reaUy  were)  beliered  the  gene- 
ral opinion  as  to  Chaucer's  age  was  correct  (see 
his  £ife  of  Chaucer).  I  hope,  therefore,  I  may 
be  pardoned  if  in  the  face  of  Mb.  FuBiayALL^s 
dogma  ''tiiat  Chaucer's  residence  at  Oxford  or 
Cambridge,  or  at  any  inn  or  court,  is  all  gammon 
and  guess :  there  is  no  evidence  for  it,"  I  still,  until 
proof  of  their  inaccuracy  be  produced,  follow  the 
example  of  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  and  *'  accept  the 
suppositions  which  satisfied  the  last  century.'' 

Tnere  is  one  charge  which  Mb.  Fubkitail 
brings  against  me  to  which  I  fear  I  must  plead 
guil^— that  of  ignorance  of  Mr.  Bond's  interesting 
discovery,  and  of  much  that  has  been  doing  of 
late  years  in  the  way  of  Chaucer  illustration.  It 
is  a  third  of  a  century  since  I  looked  into  the 


n 


4*8.VII.  Ju»b8,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


479. 


question  of  Chaucer'e  age,  and  then  to  my  own 
satisfaction  reconciled  the  conflicting  statements 
in  the  way  I  have  pointed  out  Mb.  TiTBiriyALLy 
from  his  connection  with  the  good  work  of  pub- 
lishing a  fittinff  ed^on  of  Chaucer's  writings — ^in 
which  I  should  once  have  been  glad  to  take  a 
part,  however  humble — ^is  of  course  au  courant 
with  the  latest  discoveries  connected  with  the 
poef  s  life  and  works.  In  that  he  has  so  greatly 
the  advantage  over  me,  that  had  I  anticipated 
provoking  his  trenchant  criticismy  I  scarcely  think 
I  should  have  troubled  Chaucer  students  with 
what  I  believe  to  be  a  simple  mode  of  clearing  up 
a  difficulty  in  the  biography  of  our  earliest  and  all 
but  greatest  poet ;  and  it  was  umnly  in  my  de- 
sire to  establish  the  truths  and  not  for  the  purpose 
of  provoking  controversy,  that  I  put  togetner  the 
few  remarks  I  ventured  to  make  on  the  date  of 
Chaucer's  birth.  William  J.  Thoms. 

P.S.  I  have  received  from  a  well-known  man 
of  letters  a  very  flattering  communication,  in  which 
•he  suggests  a  new  interpretation  of  the  words 
*''  armeez  par  xxvii  ans '' — viz.  that  Chaucer  had 
been  cited  bv  the  heralds,  and  had  had  arms 
assigned  to  him  for  or  since  that  period.  Can 
any  correspondent  confirm  the  use  of  the  word 
<<  armeez  **  in  this  sense  P 


ST.  ABBBBVIATED  TO  T. 
(3«»  S.  i.  219,  266,  296.) 

Four  examples  of  this  abbreviation  are  quoted 
by  CuTHBEBT  Bede,  viz.  Tooley '^St  Ooley,  i.  e, 
St.  Olaf ;  and  Tandrew,  Tanihony,  Tawdry  (used 
of  gaudy  finery)  «  respectively  St.  Andrew,  St. 
AnUionv,  St  Audrey.  I  myself  have  but  little 
doubt  that  in  these  cases  the  t  comes  fiom^St, ; 
but,  as  one  of  your  correspondents  sugg^ests  that  the 
t  is  merely  the  £uniliar  rustic  abbreviation  of  the, 
and  as  this  derivation  of  tawdry  is  looked  upon  as 
rather  uncertain  by  Wedgwood,  Miiller,  &c.,  I 
think  it  is  well  to  give  an  example  which  cannot 
be  gainsaid.  Such  an  example  I  find  in  the  Por- 
tuguese Tiago = James.  That  the  t  in  this  case  is 
derived  from  SaaiUo  is  indubitable,  for  the  ordi- 
narv  Spanish  equivalent  of  James  is  Santiago.* 

On  the  road  from  Cambridge  to  Haslingfield, 
and  in  Haslingfield  parish^  I  have  noticed  the  name 
Abraham  Tabraham  on  a  public  house.  Has  the 
t  in  this  name  Tabraham,  which  I  do  not  find 
in  Dr.  Ohamock's  Ludus  Patranyniicus,  also  come 
from  samt  f 

It  is  scarcely  correct  in  these  cases  to  say  that 
St  has  been  abbreviated  to  ^.  It  is  impossible 
fully  to  pronounce  the  mutes  (or,  as  Max  Miiller 

*  I  once  knew  a  Frenchman  of  the  name  of  J)fack,  and 
I  think  this  name  may  have  a  similar  connection  with 
St.  Jacques,  althou^li  the  French  J  has  not  now  the  sound 
of  i  or  y. 


calls  them,  ehedu)  k,  t,  p;  g,  d^  ft;  n,  m,  when 
final  consonants,  without  virtually  doubling^'  them ; 
and  when  the  first  letter  of  the  next  word  is  a 
vowel,  l^e  second  half  of  these  checks  is  tacked 
on  to  it,  if  no  pause  is  made  in  the  pronunciation. 
Thus,  if  we  carefullv  examine  our  pronunciation 
of  sawUf  we  shall  find  that  we  really  pronounce  it 
iomt-tifl  and  this  te,  or  rather  ^,$  is  joined  on  to 
the  following  vowel.  Max  Miiller  calls  attention  to 
this  matter  (Lectures  on  the  Science  of  Language, 
2nd  Series,  1864,  pp.  142, 143),  but  he  does  not 
express  himself  accurately.    He  says :  — 

**  If  we  say  ha,  the  effect  prodnoed  on  the  ear  is  veiy 
different  ftom  ak.  In  the  first  cas^  the  consonantal  noise 
is  produced  by  the  sudden  opening  of  the  tongue  and 
palate ;  in  the  second  by  their  shutting." 

But,  if  the  tongue  is  shut  against  the  palate,  the 
full  sound  of  a3e  is  certainly  not  heard.  We  may 
perhaps  hear  enough  to  tell  us  that  a  A;  is  com- 
mg;  II  but  the  tongue  must  be  drawn  away  from 
tiie  palate  again,  before  we  get  the  full  sound  of 
the  K,  and  &en  we  really  pronounce  ak-ke.  He 
makes  a  similar  mistake  {ibid.  p.  139)  when  he 
says :  '^  If  we  bring  the  root  of  the  tongue  against 
the  soft  palate,  we  hear  the  consonantal  noise 
of  t.*^  This  is  certainly  not  true;  for,  till  we 
separate  the  root  of  the  tongue  from  the  soft 
palate  again,  and  thus  give  vent  to  a  vowel  sound, 
we  hear  nothing  at  ul.  Hence  the  name  con' 
tonant — ^that  which  is  sounded  with,  or  cannot  be 
sounded  without,  a  vowel. 

This  peculiarity  of  the  mutes  has  long  been  felt, 
and  hence  no  doubt  the  circumstance  that  in  Old 
English  we  find  an  e  written  at  the  end  of  words, 
as  in  svooate  (sweet),  roote  (root),  &c.  Sometimes 
the  preceding  consonant  was  doubled  as  well,  as 
ume  (m),  eterre  (star),  &c.  And  so  affain  we  may 
explam  the  double  n  and  double  t,  still  so  common 
in  Gennan,  as  in  Mann,  Bonn,  FeU,  Beit,  &c.ir  Our 
forefathers,  therefore,  expressed  tne  real  pronun- 

t  IkmbU  is  scarcely  correct,  as  the  first  half  of  the 
mute  has  br  no  means  the  same  value  as  the  second  half. 
Yet  the  only  way  of  expressing  my  meaning  in  writing 
is  to  write  the  consonant  doubl^    See  note  H. 

I  The  Sintg'm  the;French  e  in  cfe,  &&— the  Urvocal  as 
it  IS  called. 

§  When  a  vowel  follows,  the  9  is  mexged  in  it. 

II  If  we  do  hear  that  a  A  is  condng^  it  can  only  be  because 
the  toneue  is  not  closelv  pressed  against  the  palate  ;  for 
if  they  be  pressed  together,  to  the  thorough  exclusion  of 
the  breath,  nothiog  at  all  can  be  heard.  In  pronouncing 
kf  and  the  other  consonants  named,  there  are  two  pro- 
cesses. The  first  consists  in  putting  the  necessaiy  organs 
in  position,  and  is  accompanied  by  no  sound;  the 
second  consists  in  separating  these  organs  again,  and  is 
accompanied  by  the  sound  of  the  so-called  consonant. 
Consonants  have,  however,  virtually  no  existence  at  all, 
and  merely  represent  vowels  modified  by  the  different 
organs  of  speech;  whilst  the  vowels  themselves  are 
merely  modincations  of  the  simple  unaspirated  breath. 

f  The  double  consonant  served,  no  doubt,  also  to  show 
that  the  preceding  vocal  was  not  long. 


480 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[4«i'8.yil.  Jini«8»71^ 


flislifm  more  aocnittelj  fiiaa  we  do,  thoagh  we 
•pne  ounelTes  labour  and  ink.         F.  CHAjroSi 

8|f denJunn  H0L 


DEDICATION  OF  CHURCHES. 
(4*  S.  vL  469j  viL  888.) 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  practice  of  dedi- 
cating diurches — not  to  any  Baint;  out  to  Almighty 
God|  in  honour  and  memory  of  some  saint —was 
uniTersally  followed  in  England  in  early  times,  as 
it  was  in  eveiy  other  part  of  the  Church.  It  is 
/  clear  from  the  British  historian  Gildas^  who  wrote 
'  about,  the  year  SCO,  that  the  Britons  had  their 
churches  in  honour  of  the  martyr^  even  at  the 
beginning  of  the  fourth  century :  **  basilicas  sane- 
tonim  martyrum"  (p.  19).  St.  Bede  relates  that 
when  St  Augustin  and  his  companions  were  sent 
to  England  by  the  Pope  St.  Gregory  the  Great, 
in  597,  they  found  an  old  church  near  Canterbury, 
where  the  queen,  who  was  a  Christian,  used  to 
perform  her  deTotions.  which  had  been  buiU  long 
nefore,  in  the  time  of  the  Romans,  in  honour  of 
St.  Martin:  ^in  honorem  Sancti  Martini  aoti- 

guitus  facta,  dum  adhuc  Romani  Britanniam 
icolerent"  (JSKrf.,  lib.  L  c.  36).  The  Anglo- 
Saxons  always  dedicated  their  churches  in  memory 
of  some  samt.  In  every  form  of  consecrating 
churches,  and  even  altars,  as  in  the  Pontificals 
of  Egbert  and  Bishop  hacj  of  Exeter,  the  name 
of  the  saint  in  whose  honour  the  church  or  altar 
is  dedicated  again  and  again  occurs. 

I  fear,  however,  that  when  all  local  tradition 
of  the  name  of  a  church  is  lost,  there  is  hardly 
any  chance  of  recovering  it  Bishop  Challoner, 
in  his  Memorial  of  British  Piefy,  luiB  a  copious 
appendix  of  British  saints,  which  might  be  pro- 
fitably consulted.  F.  C.  H. 

The  practice  seems  to  have  been  universal  in 
the  early  Church.  Among  the  Anglo-Saxons  no 
solemnity  was  celebrated  with  greater  pomp  than 
the  dedication  of  a  church.  It  was  the  custom 
in  the  first  ages  of  Christianity  to  celebrate  the 
Holy  Eucharist  upon  the  tombs  of  the  martyrs 
(Eusebius,  lib.  iv.  c.  15 ;  St.  Cyril  contra  Julian, 
327,  334).  After  the  conversion  of  Constantine, 
the  bishops  either  built  new  churches  over  former 
tombs,  or  removed  the  contents  of  the  tombs  to 
the  new  churches.  Hence  it  became  a  general 
rule  to  require  relics  of  saints  for  tiie  rite  of  con- 
secration, although  we  are  told  that  the  Euohariflt 
was  sufficient  when  relics  could  not  be  procured, 
because  it  was  the  Body  and  Blood  dT  Christ. 
When  such  relics  had  been  brought  in  procession 
to  the  church,  at  the  porch  liie  bishop  stopped, 
and  announced  to  the  people  the  name  of  the  saint 
to  whose  honour  the  church  would  be  dedicated. 
He  then  deposited  three  portions  of  the  Eocharisty 


together  with  the  relics,  in  a  cheat ;  which  waa 
than  pkoed  under  the  altar,  and  the  prayer  d 
dedication  followed.  (For  a  detailed  account  of 
thia  ceremonial  see  lingard'a  Angto-Saxon  Chiareh^ 
1B45^  YoL  iL  pp.  39-43.)  G.  M.  T. 


A  list  of  Engfish  and  Welsh  dedications 
given  by  Ecton,  after  each  church,  in  Themmrui  Re- 
rum  BededcuHcorumf  with  additions  at  pp.'782-4 
(4to,  London^  1742).  The  number  was  made  more 
complete  in  Bacon's  LSber  Begis  (4to,  London^ 
1786).  E.  Mabsha£L. 

«<  idMOISES  D£  CASANOYA." 
(4««»  S.  viL  826.) 

Mb.  Fbiswell  inquires  as  to  the  degree  of 
authenticity  to  be  attached  to  the  famous  or  in* 
famous  memoirs  of  this  adventurer.  The  best 
answer  is  conveyed  in  the  words  of  the  man  who 
first  brought  him  into  notice,  the  celebrated  Prince 
de  ligne^  who  speaks  of  him  frequentiy  in  his* 
MSmoires  et  MilangcB  historiques  et  HttSratres.  No 
man  was  a  better  judge  of  wit  and  genius  than  the 
brilliant  courtier  of '' la  grande  Catherine,''  as  he 
called  the  great  Czarine.  Speaking  of  a  kindred 
spirit — tlie  renegade  Count  de  Bonneval — ^the 
prince  says  of  Casanova : — 

'* Homme  oAebnpar  son  esprit  gai,  prompt,  et  subtil, 
ses  ouvnges,  r^nuBtion  la  plus  profonde,  et  TamiU^  de 
tons  ceux  qui  le  connaissent,  etc." 

Elsewhere,  in  his  Mhnoires  mr  les  Aokomuj? 
GrecSf  the  prince  cites  the  following  clever  retort 
of  Casanova:  '^  Je  n'eetime  pas  ceux  qui  achdtent 
la  noblesse,"  observed  the  Emperor  Joseph  II.  to 
Casanova.  ^  Et  ceux  qui  la  vendent,  sire  ?  "  was 
the  apt  replv.  The  pnncef  fumiahes  most  inte- 
resting^ details  of  the  closing  years  of  Casanova, 
and  Ins  charming  style  would  lose  much  in  ttana- 
lation: — 

**  Je  crois  qae  c'est  alon  (1781)  qa*il  vint  k  Paris  poar 
la  derail  foit.  Hon  neven  Waidstein  ^rit  da  gofit  poar 
lui  dies  rambaBsadeor  de  Y enise  et  lui  proposa  de  I'ao- 
oompagner  en  Boheme.  Casanova,  ^  bout  d'argent,  de 
voyages  et  d'aventnres,  y  consent :  le  voilk  biblioth^caire 
d'un  descendant  da  grand  Waldstahi.    II  a  paastf  en  oette 

Jaalil^  les  qnatorze  demi^res  ■niMtes  de  sa  vie  an  chitean 
e  Dux  prts  de  Toeplits.  iTeos  ocoasion  de  Ty  voir  jpendant 
six  ^t^eons^cati£^  et  U  me  renditv^ritablement  heareox 
par  la  vivacity  de  son  imagination,  qui  ^tait  encore  celle 
d*nn  jenne  bomme  de  vingt  ans,  et  par  sa  profonde  Audi- 
tion. Qa*on  ne  croie  pas  cependant  qae,  dans  oe  port  de 
tnmquilUttf  qae  la  Uenfiiiaaiioe  du  oomte  WaUstsin  lui 
avait  ouvert  pour  le  preserver  contre  les  tempites*  il  n'en 
ait  poa  chercbe.  II  n'y  a  pas  de  jour  qa*il  n*ait  ea  q^iek^ne 
dispute  dans  la  maison.'* 

It  wottUL  t^e  up  too  much  space  to  continue 
the  amusing  detuts.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  his 
capricious  susceptibility  never  wearied  the  friend- 
ship of  Ms  patron,  who  watched  over  him  to  the 
close  of  his  existence,  which  wss  '*  decent  and  edi- 


4*  &  VIL  JoxB  3»  7t] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


481 


J."  Qe  diad  at  Dux  iu  1797,  or  at  Vieoiia 
liBOS.  We  have  tiie  positive  assurance  of  tlie 
Prince  de  Ligne  that  Casanova  wrote  his  memoirs 
with  his  own  hand  while  at  Dux.  It  is  troe  that 
he  spoke  little  ahoat  them,  and  maintained  pro« 
found  sUence  as  to  their  contents.  He  connded 
liie  mannscript  to  Ooont  Waldstein,  irho  read 
them  before  his  nnde  the  nrinoe.  The  latter  was 
80  fitmck  by  them  that  ne  wrote  a  notice  or 
''Fragment  lur  Casanova"  under  the  title  of 
"  Aventuros  "  in  the  fifteenth  volume  of  his  CEkivrea 
mUSm,    Many  efforts  were  made  to  obtain  their 

gublication.  but  it  was  not  before  twenty  years 
ad  elapsed  after  his  death  that  a  truncated  edi- 
tion appewed  in  Germany.  The  original  manu- 
script 18  written  in  French,  and  consists  of  600 
leaves  or  sheets  divided  into  ten  volumes,  and 
each  volume  into  chapters,  comprising  forir  years 
of  his  eventful  career.  It  was  from  this  that  the 
first  French  edition  was  published  in  I8S0,  in  eight 
vols.  8vo,  and  fourteen  vols,  in  I2mo.  Other  edi- 
tions have  appeared  in  1837  and  in  1848,  Paris, 
Paulin,  four  vols.  12mo.  I  have  a  rare  portrait  of 
Casanova  —  a  medallion  with  Latin  mscription 
round  it  and  under  it, "  L.  Berka  del.  et  sc.  Pragse/' 
A  word  may  be  added  concerning  the  work  itself. 
It  is  characterised  by  the  most  outspoken  crudity 
of  detail  in  the  amorous  adventures,  but  in  other 
respects  it  is  invaluable  to  those  who  do  not  con- 
tent themselves  with  official  history,  but  look  to 
personal  memoirs  for  k  des90u»  de$  cartes.  The 
man  who  was  in  personal  relations  with  all  the 
potentates  of  the  age,  the  royal  mistresses  and 
subservient  ministers,  the  associate  of  the  scheming 
adventurers  of  an  age  of  credulity  such  as  Car 
gliostro,  Saint-Gennain,  and  the  Ulnminati,  who 
repeatedly  visited  every  country  in  Europe  in  al- 
ternate affluence  and  poverty,  has  much  to  say 
about  all  classes  of  the  community. 

**Ce  qa'il  raconte  il  I'a  pnflqae  toiOoara  vu  de  ses  pro- 
pTCB  yeux ;  et  c^est  alnsi  qu'il  donae  aar  nne  epoqae  riche 
en  penoimagefl  remarqaables  ane  fonle  de  traits  carae- 
t^ristiqoes  et  indiyiduels  pris  dans  toatee  les  daasee." 

His  two  brothers,  bom  in  London  in  1730  and 
1731,  were  distingiushed  painters. 

J.  B.  DlTOHFIBLD. 


fin< 


(4« 
Mr. 


DiGAKMA  (4'*>  S.  viL  414.) — ^My  opinion  is  that 
the  letter  H  is  the  dipamma,  beinff  a  letter  formed 
to  express  the  guttural  sound  of  the  aspirate,  as 
we  find  among  the  Frankish  kin^  H  Ludovicus 
is  often  written  Chlodovicns,  which  shows  clearly 
the  harsh  or  hard  sound  of  the  H.  P* 

Chionoks  (4'*»  8.  viL  418.)  —  From  the  same 
origin  or  root  comee  our  expression  ''  a  chine  of 
bacon."  P- 

QiBBOK  (4}^  S.  vii.  418.)— The  edition  of  Gib- 
bon dated»1819  is  full  of  errors,  some  of  them 
very  gross.  P. 


Old  Families  :  KviaHia  ov  Cjubim  L,  1630 
4^  S.  vii.  420.) — A  gre«t  number  of  receipts  of 
'  m  for  not  being  knighted  were  discarded  hoax 
the  Record  Offices,  but  fortmuitelv  many,  if  not 
all,  were  entered  in  a  book  still  left  in  theEeoeid 
Office.  P. 

St.  Troxas  of  Villahova  (4*  8.  vii.  431.)— 
Besides  the  admirable  Life  of  this  saint,  refeiied 
to  in  the  editorial  note,  the  inqiiirer  wOl  fiud  a 
great  many  more  particulara  in  his  Biography  bj 
the  late  Dr.  Faber,  published  in  1847  lay  lUciuucd- 
son  and  Son,  Derby.  F.  0.  H. 

Etyxologt  of  ^'  Waxd  "  AB  A  Pbbsoval  Kaxs 
4**'  S.  vii.  256,  SBO.y^la  J.  Q.  N.  acquainted  with 
'  .  Toppfer'e  entertaining  sketches  F  In  his  Sia^ 
toire  de  Mr,  Orepm,  **I^  Garde  Ohampdtre"  is 
introduced  under  a  variety  of  amuung  oonditions, 
but  never  in  the  feminine  gender.  G.  S. 

The  Memobt  of  Smells  (4^^  S.  vi.  297:  vii.  178, 
413.)— Having  lived  many  years  among  Chinese, 
I  can  corroborate  Mb.  Blaib  as  to  the  peculiar 
odour  observable  in  their  shops  and  dwellings; 
the  idea  it  gave  me  (and  still  gives)  was  that  of 
sewage  and  smtdal^wood,  Mb.  Blaib  correctly 
describes  the  durian ;  he  miffht  have  added  that 
it  is  an  aphrodisiac^  as  may  be  guessed  from  the 
exclamation  of  a  decent  old  Scotch  lady,  when  a 
new  arrival  in  Singapore  was  about  to  taste  it  for 
the  first  time : — '^  Maister  Tamson,  lay  that  doon, 
ye  mauna  eat  it ;  it  '11  no  agree  with  ye,  and  be- 
sides that,  it's  a  maist  unchaste  fruit." 

W.  T.  M. 

A  Cbomwell  Note  (4***  S.  viL  429.)  —  Ac- 
cording to  the  pedigree  in  Burke's  Landed  Genfyy, 
the  second  Protector,  Bichard  Cromwell,  onlvleft 
three  daughters;  therefore  no  grandson  of  hie 
would  bear  the  surname  of  Cromwell.  Of  these 
three  daughters  the  first.  Elizabeth,  died  unmar- 
ried in  1781;  the  second,  Anne,  married  Thomas 
Gibson^  M.D.,jphy8ician-general  to  the  army,  and 
died  without  issue  in  1727 ;  the  third,  Dorothy, 
married  John  Mortimer.  Esq.  of  the  county  of 
Somerset,  and  died  in  1681. 

Henbt  W.  Henfbet. 

Markham  House,  Brighton. 

HooAir  (4*  S.  vii.  430.)—Perhap8  from  the 
Dutch. 

"  6ogan  Mogan  (high  and  mighty),  a  title  of 
the  States  of  the  United  Provinces  of  tiie  Nether- 
lande."— J9a&y.  B.  S.  Ckabkocx. 

Gray's  Inn. 

Obeying  Captain  Cuttie,  1  send  the  following 
''  note,"  made  the  other  day  from  that  oddest  of 
odd  old  controversial  boG^  tne  Ifoii- JfoicM  (^1660). 
by  the  twin-brother  of  Heuy  Vanffhan  the  Siluriatf 
In  his  epbtle-dedioatory  to  good  Matthew  Herbert, 
he  vehementiy  disclaims  anycourting  of  the  *^  great 
ones,"  and  thua  puts  it :  ^  The  troth  i%  I  know  no 


482 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*k  &  yn.  Jmn  8|  TL 


use  of  Hoffhens  and  THuladoi ;  if  they  are  in  an 
humor  to  giTe;  I  am  no  begp;ar  to  receire."  Is 
the  Hoffhens  here  the  same  "with  ^  the  flieat  Rap- 
paree  chiefe"  and  ''galloping  Hogan"  of  your 
correspondent  W.  P.,  or  rat£er  of  the  editorial 
reply  r  If  not^  can  any  one  explain  the  word 
Hoghens  as  above  used  r  A.  B.  Gbosabt. 

Wab  Medals  (4«»  S.  vii.  13, 131,  294.)— I  beg 
to  correct  an  error  at  n.  131.  Of  the  six  surriTors 
of  the  Peninsular  War  who  applied  iorjifteen 
clasps  each,  only  two  made  good  their  claims. 
These  were  Private  James  Talbot,  45th  Begt., 
and  Private  Daniel  Lookstadt,  6th  Battn.  OOth 
Regt,  previously  of  the  King's  German  Legion. 
The  former  had  been  present  at  the  battles  of 
Boleia,  Yimiera,  Corunna,  Talavera,  Busaco, 
Fuentes  d'Onor,  Ciudad-Itodrigo,  Badajoz.  Sala- 
manca, Yittoiia,  Pyrenees,  Nivelle,  Nive,  Orthes. 
and  Toulouse.  The  latter  served  at  Albuhera,  ana 
in  all  these  engagements  with  the  exception  of 
Corunna.  The  other  pensioners  were  granted  from 
ten  to  fourteen  clasps  each.  J.  W.  F. 

"  Lsr  THE  Straw  "  (4»>»  S.  vii.  407.)— I  alwavs 
supposed  that  this  phrase  had  reference  to  the 
practice,  very  prevalent  in  London  before  Maca- 
diunized  roads  were  made,  of  laying  straw  before 
a  house  in  which  a  lady  was  confined. 

The  mention  of  Macadamised  roads  reminds  me 
that  I  saw  roads  made  upon  that  principle  in 
Westmoreland  before  MacAdam  introduced  them 
as  a  novelty  in  London ;  and  from  a  passage  in 
Castle  jRackrent  it  appears  that  those  roads  must 
also  have  been  in  use  in  Ireland,  for  in  the  account 
^ven  of  the  overthrow  of  Lady  Rackrent's  jaunt- 
ing car,  it  is  stated  that  ''she  was  dnw^^  I 
can't  tell  you  how  fax  upon  the  road,  and  it  all 
broken  up  with  stones  just  going  to  be  pounded; 
and  one  of  the  roadmslers  with  his  sledge-ham- 
mer in  his  hand  stops  the  horse  at  last,"  &c. 

Another  word  upon  a  kindred  subject.  Long 
before  the  use  of  asphalte  was  introduced  into  this 
oountiT  I  saw  floors  of  farm-houses  and  of  bams 
in  Derbyshire  made  after  that  manner,  with  this 
difference,  that  tlie  material  used  for  binding  the 
mass  together  appeared  to  be  lime  instead  of 
pitch.  C.  Boss. 

The  saying  was  referred  to  in  "  N.  &  Q."  3'*  S. 
X.  321,  403,  in  connection  with  the  song,  ^' Moll 
in  the  Wad"  which  apijears  to  be  onl^  another 
form  of  saving  ** Moll  in  the  Straw"  i.  e.  after 
her  accouchement  Mb.  Skbat  quoted  the  fol- 
lowing from  Nares'  Glossary: — 

**  Wad,  a  boodle  of  hay. 

*  A  wisp  of  rashes  or  a  dod  of  laod. 
Or  aoy  wadde  of  hay  that's  oezt  to  haod, 
•  They'll  steale.'— Taylor's  Worlu,  1640." 

John  Pioqot,  Jtw. 

"The  SrN  neveb  Sets,"  etc.  (4'*'  S.  ii.  636 j 
vii.  210,  293,  398.) — This  idea  occurs  in  James 


Howell's  quMut  and  amusing  FannUar  LdUrs — 
a  book  of  which  we  ought  to  have  a  reprint :  — 

«  lo  Philip  the  Secood^s  time,  the  Spanish  Mooarchv 
came  to  its  bigfaest  comble  by  the  Conqnest  of  Portogal, 
whereby  the  East-Iodies*  soodry  Islands  in  the  Atlan- 
tick  Sea,  and  divers  Places  in  Barbaiy  were  added  to  the 
Crown  of  Spain.  By  these  steps  this  Grown  came  to  this 
Grandeor,  aod  troly  give  the  Spaoiard  his  Doe,  he  is  a 
mighty  Monarch,  he  hath  Domioioos  in  all  Parts  of  the 
World  (which  nooe  of  the  foor  Monarchies  had)  both  in 
Eorope,  Asia,  Afiica,  and  America  (which  he  hUh  solely 
to  himself)  though  our  Heory  the  SeTeoth  had  th«  first 
Proffer  made  him :  so  the  Sod  shines  all  the  foor  and 
twenty  hoars  of  the  natoral  Day  opon  some  part  or  other 
of  his  Coontrey ;  for  part  of  the  Antipodes  are  sobject  to 
him/'^Eigbth  Edition,  171S,  p.  142. 

As  the  letter  from  which  this  ia  taken  was 
written  in  1623,  Howell  applied  the  same  idea  to 
the  same  monarchy  as  diet  Tuller  nearly  twenty 
years  later. 

What  is  the  word  cumhle  in  the  second  Une  ? 
It  is  not  recorded  by  Johnson,  Richardson,  Ogilvie, 
or  Nares.    It  is  perhaps  from  the  Latin  cumulus, 

J.  T.  P. 

Cheltenham  Library. 

[Howell's  FamUiar  LetUrB  are  annoonoed  in  Mr.  Ar- 
ber's  reprints.— Comble  (LaL  cumubu  «  heap),  signifies 
crowning  in  its  archltectiu^  sense ;  the  pinnade.] 

The  following  passage  occurs  in  a  very  able  and 
interesting  book  of  transatlantic  origin : — 

**  Ancient  Rome,  whose  name  is  the  synonym  of  re- 
sistless power  and  boondless  oonqoest,  oomd  not,  in  the 
palmy  days  of  her  Cssars,  vie  with  Great  Britain  in  the 
extent  of  her  possessions  and  the  strength  of  her  re- 
soorces.  Half  a  centory  ago,  her  great  ^atc^man, 
sketchiog  the  resoorces  of  her  territory,  said, '  The  King 
of  England,  on  whose  dominions  the  soo  never  seta.'  An 
Amencan  orator,  of  kindred  eenios,  onfolded  the  same 
idea  in  langoage  which  spaiiles  with  the  very  effer- 
vescence of  poetic  beaoty,  when  he  spoke  of  her  as  *  that 
Eower,  whose  morning  drom-beat,  following  the  son  and 
eeping  company  wiui  thehoors,  eocircles  the  earth  dafly 
with  one  continooos  and  oobroken  strain  of  the  martial 
airs  of  England.*"— 5AefcAe«  of  Reform  and  Rtformen 
of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  by  Henry  B.  Stanton, 
8vo,  Doblin,  1850,  page  18. 

A  similar  sentiment  wUl  be  found  to  pervade  a 
noble  and  spirit-sturing  poem  on  the  ''Enaiish 
Language,"  also  by  an  American  writer,  the  Kev. 
James  Gilbome  Lyons,  LL.D.,  of  Philadelphia : — 

**  It  kindles  realms  so  far  apart. 
That,  while  its  praise  yoo  sing, 
These  may  be  dad  with  aotomirs  froits, 
And  those  with  flowers  of  spring. 

**  It  qoickens  lands  whose  meteor  lights. 
Flame  in  an  Arctic  sky. 
And  lands  for  which  the  Soothon,  Cross 
Hangs  its  orbed  fires  on  high,"  &c 

These  fine  verses  were  republished  some  years 
ago  in  Chambers's  Edinburgh  Jounudf  whence  I 
transcribed  them ;  but  I  have  not,  unfortunately, 
preserved  a  reference  to  the  number. 

WiLulx  Bates, 

Birmingham. 


4*  S.  VII.  JOKB  3,  •Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


483 


Chabvs  pob  Aqtje  (4'*»  S.  Tii.  443.) — A  very 
respectable  eccleaiastic  onoe  told  me  the  following 
fact,  which  had  occurred  within  his  own  expe- 
rience. Having  learned  from  a  young  person  tnat 
she  had  been  subject  to  the  ague,  but  had  never 
had  any  return  of  it  sincd  she  had  worn  a  spell 
for  its  cure,  he  explained  to  her  the  sinful 
nature  of  all  such  superstitions,  and  advised  her 
to  put  away  the  spell.  For  a  long  time  she  de- 
clined, alleging  that  if  she  removed  it  from  her 
neck;  or  opened  it,  she  should  have  a  return  of  the 
ague.  At  length,  however,  she  yielded  to  the 
priest's  exhortation,  took  off  the  spell,  and  handed 
it  to  him.  It  was  a  small  paper^  sealed  up. 
He  opened  it,  and  read  its  contents  to  her,  as 
follows :  — 

"  Ague  farewell  t 
Till  we  meet  in  heU.** 

"There,"  said  he,  "how  do  you  like  the  bar- 
gain?" The  poor  young  woman  was  horrified, 
and  declared  her  decided  preference  for  the  return 
of  her  malady.  I  knew  a  similar  instance  of  a 
spell  for  the  head-ache  which,  on  being  opened, 
presented  the  following  pleasant  arrangement :  — 

**  Good  devil,  cure  her, 
And  take  her  for  your  pains." 

F.  0.  H. 

Mezzotikto  Pbhtts  (4*  S.  viL  408.)— There 
are  certainly  many  pictorial  representations  of 
the  temptations  of  St.  Anthony,  with  devils  of  all 
shapes  and  in  the  most  grote8<][ue  attitudes,  but 
many  other  saints  have  been  painted  with  demons 
annoying  them  in  various  ways.    I  have  several 
old  engravings  of  such  subjects.    Among  them  is 
one  of  St.  Guthlake,  surrounded  by  evil  spirits  in 
the  shape  of  a  cow  with' the  trunk  of  an  elephant, 
a  monster  in  scaly  armour  blowing  a  horn,  and 
other  figures  quite  indescribable ;  but  an  Angel 
stands  by  to  protect  and  encourage  him.  ^  Another 
represents  St  Elphege  coming  out  of  his  cell  at 
night  with  a  lantern,  alarmed  by  the  cries  of  one  of 
his  monks  whom  a  party  of  devils  are  scourging  to 
death  for  having  disregarded  the  holy  man's  ad- 
monitions.   St.  Juan  of  Dalmatia  is  depicted  in 
another  with  infernal  monsters  of  most  terrific 
forms  about  him.    One  tries  to  tear  his  back  with 
a  frightful  double  hook ;  another  blows  a  horn  in 
his  ears ;  a  third  mocks  him  at  his  prayers,  and  a 
fourtii  is  about  to  hurl  down  upon  him  a  huge 
fragment  of  a  rock.    The  saint,  however,  remains 
unmoved,  and  defeats  all  their  attacks  by  recur- 
ring to  his  crucified  Saviour : — 

*'Tartarei8  insessa  feris,  qnas  nthere  missa 
Expolit, — at  pellit  crux  mala  cuncta,— -cmce.*' 

I  will  describe  one  more.  It  represents  the 
cells  of  St.  Peter  Celestin  and  his  monks  in  the 
desert,  set  on  fire  by  exulting  devils,  who  are 
grinning  through  the  windows  and  from  the  top 
of  the  roof  at  the  saint  and  two  monks  who  have 


made  their  escape.    The  saint  by  his  prayers 

obtains  the  extinction  of  the  flames  and  the  fijght 

of  the  demons : — 

"  Te  flammis  urgent  fhriiB  jam  colter  eremi ; 
Sed  cmce,  sed  precibns  flamma,  farorque  perit" 

The  mezzotinto  prints  described  by  J.  O.  cannot 
both  represent  the  temptations  of  St.  Anthony,  as 
in  No.  2  the  principal  ngure  is  a  female.  Nor  do 
I  think  that  either  of  them  refers  to  any  saint  in 
particular,  but  that  each  is  emblematical  of  the 
temptations  and  trials  of  the  Christian's  warfare. 
The  figure  in  No.  1  appears  to  defeat  his  enendes 
by  prayer;  and  that  in  No.  2  holds  up  against  her 
assailants  the  award  of  the  Spirit,  which  St.  Paul 
says  is  the  word  of  God  (Epnes.  vi.  17),  and  her 
basket  and  apron  full  of  provisions  would  seem  to 
indicate  the  efficacy  of  charity  and  alms  deeds 
against  the  potvera  of  detrknesa  and  thesptrita  of 
wickedneaa,  F.  C.  H. 

Thb  Whitr  Toweb  op  London  (4«**  S.  vii.  211, 
d09,  394.)  — On  p.  809  it  is  stated  <4t  seems 
admitted  that  he  (Gundulph)  built  Rochester 
Castle.*'  This  is  a  point  not  at  all  admitted  bv 
many  antiquaries.  If  your  correspondent  wiU 
refer  to  Bev.  C.  H.  Hartshome's  paper  on  Ghm- 
dulph  in  the  volume  for  1863  of  the  Journal  of 
the  Archaohgical  InatUute,  he  will  find  some  in- 
teresting passages  on  the  question. 

As  re^urds  we  White  Tower^the  passage  in  the 
Textua  jRoffenaia,  as  printed  by  Heame  (8vo,  Lon- 
don, 1720)  in  connection  with  Gundulj^h's  name^ 
is  '<ex  prsBcepto  r^;is  Willelmi  magm,  pr»esset 
operi  magnsB  tunis  Londoniss.*'  These  two  ques- 
tions have  been  considered  by  your  esteemed  cor- 
respondent the  late  A.  A.  in  the  Dictionary  of 
Architecture  of  the  Architectural  Publication 
Society,  W.  P. 

[In  otur  8'<>  S.  iv.  321,  will  be  found  a  paper  on  *<  Bishop 
Qondulf  and  his  Architecture."] 

SUBNAKSS  OF  QPFIOIALS  (4'*»  S.  vii.  406.) — ^It 
is  much  to  be  regretted  that  S.  did  not  give  the 
Christian  names  of  the  officials.  They  might  lead 
to  the  identity  of  families.  P. 

Heraldic  (4^  S.  vii.  409.)--In  reply  to  W.  M. 
H.  C.  I  apprehend  that  the  junior  branch  has  no 
right  to  alter  its  own  bearings,  marks  of  cadency, 
&c.,  or  to  adopt  additional  quarterings,  unless  it 
can  show  that  it  inherits  the  blood  of  the  heir- 
esses who  brought  such  quarterings.  In  all  such 
cases  it  is  usual  to  seek  an  inteimarriage — ^for 
most  lines  leave  female  issue  of  some  kind. 

If  it  be  clearly  proved  that  there  is  not  even 
female  issue,  the  armorial  bearinp;s  would  most 
probably  be  assumed  by  the  chief  mheritor  of  the 
estates,  who  in  such  case  would  adopt  the  family 
name  also. 

No  lapse  of  issue  can  convert  a  junior  into  a 
senior  branch.  A.  H. 


484 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


[i'kS.VII.  JinmS^Tl. 


Gatw,  liLB  OF  Maw  (4*  S.  yiL  409.)  — ''A 
CoQxt  bolden  betwixt  tiie  gates."  Without  ao^ 
fact  to  guide  to  a  condusion,  I  would  suggest  as  a 
possible  eacplanadoa  the  Norse  word  (f^a,  a  md 
or  way.  Venwcalar  Sootcb,  gate,  gaet^  git  = 
load,  waji  street.  ^  A  Couct  ox  all  the  Comjnoiis 
of  Maa  "  zaay  have  beeoy  and  probably  was,  aa 
open-air  assemblage  held  between,  certain  roads 
near  to  the  Castle  of  Rosben,  but  this  ou  my  part 
is  entirely  eoDJectnxaL  J.  Cx»  xL 

The  Ass,  fob  Mak's  anqtil  NAitmx  (4^  S. 
YiL  430.) — ^Not  burlesque  preachers,  but  grare 
divines  and  holy  fathers  of  the  church  have  often 
spoken  of  our  animal  nature  as  of  a  beast.  The 
most  remarkable  instance  is  that  of  St.  Bernard, 
who  flourished  in  the  twelfth  century.  He  ap- 
plies the  words  of  Abraham  to  his  servants  (Qen, 
zxiL  5)  in  a  manner  both  ingenious  and  edifying. 
Sj^aking  of  the  preparation  we  ought  to  make  for 
prajrei^  the  holy  father  alludes  to  Abraham  saying 
to  his  young  men :  ^'  Stay  you  here  with  the  as$ ; 
.  .  .  after  we  have  worshipped,  we  will  return  to 
you  " :  and  he  goes  on  thus : — 

<*  When  voa  oome  to  the  church,  lay  your  hand  upon 
your  mouth,  and  say:  stay  yon  here,  evil  thoughts,  in- 
tentions,  and  affections  of  the  heart,  and  carnal  desires : 
but  thou,  my  soul,  enter  into  the  loy  of  thy  Lord,  that 
thou  mayst  see  the  will  of  God,  ana  visit  his* temple." 

F.C.BL 

"A  MoNSiBTm,  MoKSTBtna"  (4*  S.  vii.  138, 
311.) — ^Aa  M.  FBANdsatnB-MiCHEi.  rigbtly  says, 
tbe  word  monsieur,  pronounced  moussii  by  the  Gas- 
cons and  Proven9aux,  is  frequently  given  to  the 
cabin-boy  by  his  fellow-sailors,  playing  on  his 
name  in  French,  numue. 

This  reminds  me  that  the  same  epithet,  in 
English  *'  sir,''  used  frequently  to  be  applied,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  present  century,  by  young 
naval  officers  speaking  to  their  men,  thus :  '<  I  say, 
you  sir,"  which  was  strictly  forbidden  in  the  fleet 
by  Lord  Ci^Hngwood— that  fine  type  of  a  tme 
gnntlemani  a  good  Christian,  and  a  great  captain. 
One  cannot  read  his  Memoirs  and  Carrespondenee 
without  loving  him,  although  an  enemy.  I  dare 
not  say  as  much  with  regard  to  Nelson,  ''the 
sinew  and  the  forehand  of  your  host."    P.  A.  L, 

A  ToAJMTOini  BiN0  (4^  ;S.  vii.  324,  399.)— 
Under  the  name  of  '^  Orapaudine "  several  an- 
swers will  be  found  («N.  &  Q."  3'*  S.  iv.  361, 
423^  443.)  I  took  much  interest  in  the  subject 
then,  ana  collected  all  the  information  I  could, 
which  was  printed  (S^  S.  v.  142.^  I  have  no 
doubt  that  the  toadstone  has  received  its  name 
from  it  being  of  ih»  colour  of  the  toad ;  and  the 
reason  why  any  stone  should  be  named  from  the 
toad  because  it  resembles  it  ixi  colour,  any  moie 
than  a  greenish  stone  should  be  called  a  frogstone, 
is  because  of  the  old  saying  that  "  the  toad  had 
a  jewel  in  its  head,"  which  I  consider  to  be  synony- 


mous with  ^the  Devil  la  not  so  black  aa  he  is 
painted," ;  for  even  the  (reported)  poisonoua  and 
.  tiideous  reptile  the  toad  has  some  reheving  point — 
look  at  the  beauty  of  its  eye. 

It  would  be  an  interesting  thing  to  find  out  if 
all^toadstones  are  of  the  same  materiaL  I  expect 
some  are  plasmas,  some  olivines  (more  especaaUy 
if  siiffhtly  amygdaloidal).  or  even  felspathic  por- 
phTi^  i[na»  o?  whick  iL  Tery  budlTs.  C.  i»8 
nis  stone  has  been  in  the  nossesdon  of  his  famuy 
for  many  fenerations,  and  J.  (3^'  S.  iv.  361)  in 
his  query  about  cre^^tmdines  takes  the  name  out  of 
a  list  of  family  jewels  bequeathed  some  180  veaa 
ago.  So  both  the  toadatones  are  old,  and  I  nave 
no  doubt  the  name  was  used  when  it  was  imagined 
that  the  toad  had  a  real  stone  in  his  head. 
Another  idea  occurs  to  me.  The  name  may  have 
been  given  to  stones  having  iridescence  or  radiat- 
ing light,  like  an  eye.  Has  H.  S.  C.'a  any  such 
properties  for  I  find  the  stone  crapaudme  defined 
"  une  sardoine  oeill^o ''  ?  Nsphbits. 

I  believe  the  true  toadstone,  once  so  highly 
prized  as  an  amulet,  was  the  fossil  palatal  tooth, 
or  possibly  sometimes  the  dorsal  tuberde  of  some 

ries  of  shark  or  ray.    These  teeth  as  found  in 
oolite^  and  especiaUy  in  the  Stonosfield  slate, 
have  uflually  a  rich  brown  colour,  and  the  high 

?oli8h  of  their  enamel  is  as  perfect  as  when  recent 
'hey  are  called  hufonUes  by  the  old  writers  on 
natural  history,  and  in  the  days  when  their  origin 
was  imknown  must  have  struck  people  as  very 
strange  objects  indeed.  The  toad  was  supposed 
to  void  them  when  placed  on  a  red  cloth,  out  as 
they  passed  from  hand  to  hand  their  authenticity 
was  sometimes  called  in  question,  however  the  test 
was  easy  of  application,  in  One  Thousand  NataUe 
Things  we  are  directed  to  set  a  doubtful  orapaudine 
before  a  living  toad,  who  will  disregard  it  if  a 
forgery,  but  endeavour  to  seize  it  if  genuine; 
'^for  he  envieth  much  that  man  shomd  have 
that  stone.'*  When  of  a  circular  and  button-like 
form  these  teeth  were  obviously  well  adapted 
for  setting ;  but  I  remember  seeing  in  Lady  Lion- 
desborough's  fine  collection  a  remarkable  ring 
containing  a  large  corrugated  palatal  tooth  of 
ptychodus,  which  must  have  been  rather  awkward 
to  wear.     This  fossil  was  derived  from  the  chalk. 

W.  J.  Bebkhabb  Shtth. 
Temple. 

EecHS  AB  AK  Abttolb  or  Food  (4^  S.  vii  409.) 
Besides  the  text  referred  to  in  the  £ditor*8  reply 
to  this  query  (Luke  zi.  12)^  tiiere  is  only  one 
passage  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  which  eg^  are 
spoken  of  as  things  eatsoy  and  that  is  in  Isa.  lix.  5 : 
<<^He  that  shall  eat  of  their  eggs  shall  die.**  It 
is  well  known  that  the  Bomans  usually  begun 
thdr  principal  meal  witii  eggs :  hence  the  worde  of 
Horace,  '*  Ab  ovo  usque  ad  mala  dtaret  *'  (Sat  i.  S.) 
And  in  hb  Satire  ii.  4^  his  friend  Catius  begins  hiis 


4»  a  VII.  JusiE  3,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


48A 


aecoont  of  Hke  reqniates  for  a  good  dkmer  by 
recommending  long^shsped  eggs,  rather  than  round 
ones,  as  being  sweeter  and  more  nutritious : — 

**  Longa  qaibus  fades  ovis  erit,  ilU  memento, 
Ut  sncci  melioris  et  ut  magis  alma  rotnndis, 
Ponere :  namqne  marem  cohibent  callo8»  Titelliim.'' 

Cicero  also  speaks  of  devouring  eggs  with  eager 

appetite : —  , 

*^  Integram  famem  ad  ovam  aiferro.** 

Lib.  nc.  tid  Famil,  ep.  zz. 

Fleurr  mentions  in  his  Manners  of  the  Isradites, 
§  zii.y  that  the  Ejgyptians  in  the  times  of  their 
purifications  abstained  even  from  eggs,  which  of 
course  implies  that  they  eat  them  at  other  times. 

F.  C.  H. 

JE!gg6  are  mentioned  seven  times  in  the  Bible, 
the  most  ancient  being  that  of  Job  vi.  6,  "Jb  there 
any  taste  in  the  white  of  an  egg  P  "  J.  D. 

Streatham.  S.W. 

«  Whether  or  ito  "  (4*»'  S.  vii.  142,  286,  878.) 
The  coirespondents  who  write  in  support  of  this 
expression  in  preference  to  *'  whetner  or  not " 
seem  to  miss  tbe  reason  of  the  objection  origin- 
ally urged  against  "  whether  or  no  "  being  used 
indiscriminately.  An  elliptical  expression  cannot 
be  correct  if  the  gaps  will  not  bear  filling  up ;  for 
instance,  "whether  welcome  or  not/*  is  the  proper 
expression;  and  the  [absurdity  as  well  as  incor- 
rectness of  the  other  mode  of  expression  becomes 
obvious  when  the  sentence  is  completed  or  the 
gap  left  after  ''no  "  filled  up. 

Some  of  the  defenders  of  "  whether  or  no " 
give  examples  of  sentences  quite  dififerontiy  con- 
structed, such  as  the  following,  which  is  correct : — 
'*  Whether  his  oath  can  bind  himy  yea  or  no.** 
This  is  the  same  as  saying  '*  whether  is  it^  yea  or 
nay  ?  "  the  propriety  of  which  is  not  disputed. 
At  the  same  time  I  may  say,  that  I  should  not 
consider  either  the  Biue  or  Shakaqware  good 
authority  for  correct  modem  English. 

M.  A.  Bb 

The  following  passage  from  The  Wtnter^a  Tale, 
Act  I.  Sc.  2,  seems  to  oe  in  point : — 

**  CamiUo I  must 

Forsake  the  coart :  to  do%  or  no,  is  certain 
To  me  a  break-neck.*' 

WlLLIAK  WlOKHAK* 

Thomson  jl  Drtttd  (4*»»  S.  vii.  97,  226,  401.)— 
Mrs.  Barbauld  calls  in  question  the  propriety  of 
this  epithet : — 

**  There  is  no  propriety  in  calling  Thomson  a  Draid  or| 
a  pilgrim,  characters  totally  foreign  to  bis  own.  To  the 
aangoinary  and  saperstitioas  Dmid  it  ims  peculiarly  im- 
proper to  compare  a  peet  whose  religion  was  simple  as 
trath,  sublime  as  nature,  and  liberal  la  the  spirit  of  phi- 
loeophy."— £iMy,  p.  48. 

Upon  this,  the  most  able  editor  of  CoUins,  the 
Rev.  Alexander  Dyce,  has  the  following  com- 
ment : — 


*'A  strange  remaikl  The  Dnids  passed  their  days 
amid  rural  soenes:  such  soenee  Thomson  ddigfated  in, 
and  exquisitely  desoribed ;  hence  he  ia  called  a  Dmid* 
Need  I  add,  that  *  woodland  pilgrim'  is  a  beautiful 
poetical  expression  fbr '  a  wanderer  among  woodlands'  ?  " 
FotticcU  Worka  of  QUlim,  8to,  1327,  p.  196. 

Confer  Thomas  Warton's  lines  :— 

**  Or  Druid  priests,  sprinkled  with  human  gore, 
Taught  mid  thy  massy  maase  their  mystic  lore.'* 

*<  Sonnet  written  at  Stonehenge  "  {PoOioai 
WorkM,  by  Mant,  1802,  ii.  146.) 

WiLLiAK  Bahes. 

Birmingham. 

Altar  Slab  in  Noewich  Cathedbal  (4***  S. 
yii.  860,  399.)— The  slab  mentioned  by  W.  H.  S. 
as  haying  been  found  in  the  chapel  of  the  Blessed 
Jesus  in  the  cathedral  of  Norwich  is  no  doubt 
the  mensa  of  an  altar.  The  piece  of  marble  near 
the  centre  no  doubt  coyers  the  sepulchrum  or  cavity 
made  to  receive  a  box  which  should  contain 
relics,  three  grains  of  incense  and  a  parchment 
scroll,  on  which  should  be  written— (1)  what 
relics  are  enclosed,  (3)  the  name  of  the  saint  in 
whose-  honour  the  altar  is  dedicated,  {S)  the  name 
of  the  coBsecrator,  (4)  what  indulgence  the  Pope 
has  granted  for  the  anniversary  of  the  day  of  con- 
secration, (6)  l^e  day,  month,  and  year  of  the  con- 
secration. 

These  particalars  axe  taken  from  the  rubnc^of 
the  offioe  ''  De  Altans  Conseoratione  qu£e  fit  sine 
ecclesiia  dedicaticme  '*  in  the  Ponitficait  Romanmm 
of  the  tune  of  Pope  Pius  IV. 

Many  altar  slabs  may  be  seen  without  this 
sepulchrum;  in  those  cases  it  is  probable  that  in 
and  after  the  twelfth  century  the  sepulchrum  was 
in  the  base  of  the  altar,  as  a  special  office  will  be 
found  in  the  Pontifiealef  in  which  that  case  is  pro- 
vided for. 

The  earliest  instance  which  I  have  noticed  in 
which  a  sepulchrum  exists  in  the  mensa  is  in  an 
altar  in  the  baptistery  at  Ratisbon ;  probably  of 
the  twelfth  century  *- possibly  of  the  eleventh 
century.  In  earlier  altars,  as  of  the  sixth  and 
ninth  centuries,  there  is  no  trace  of  such  a  cavity. 
It  is  uncertain  when  the  practice  of  inserting 
relics  in  altars  became  obligatory.  Moroni  (Dtis.  di 
JBrudissione  EccUsiagticO''8torico)  remarks  that  the 
rubrics  of  some  ancient  rituals  make  provision  for 
the  case  iu  which  no  relics  were  placed  in  an  altax 
about  to  be  consecrated.  A.  N. 

EirouBH  Descent  op  Daniel  O'Conkbll  (4*** 
S.  iii.  76 ;  vii.  242, 349,  444.)- An  Irishman  tells 
the  truth,  but  he  does  not  tell  the  whole  truth. 
Ferguson  does  say  in  regard  to  the  six  persons  named 
KonaU^  mentioned  in  iMndndmahdkf  that ''  one  of 
these  certainly  was  from  Ireland";  but  he  also 
says,  which  An  Ibishican  has  seen  fit  to  suppress, 
that  this  individual  ^*  appeaxa  to  have  been  most 
probably  one  of  the  Northmen  who  had  settled 
there,  as  both  his  wife  and  son  have  Scandina;vian 


486 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kaVn.JinnR8,*71. 


names.  AH  the  othen,"  he  contiiiiiesy  ''seem  from 
the  names  of  their  parents  to  have  been  pure 
Norsemen."  It  is  not.  by  such  shifts  that  the 
dogma  of  Celtidsm  is  to  be  sustainedL      Bilbo. 

ELWEir-SHiLLDre  Pibcbb  of  Chaslbs  L  (4*^ 
S.  TiL  55, 148, 442.) — ^I  may  be  permitted  to  m- 
form  W.  H.  that  aiu;els  were  first  coined  in  Eng- 
land by  Edward  I V.  about  the  year  1465.  They 
were  so  termed  from  the  deocn  on  the  obverse, 
which  was  the  archangel  Micliael  standing  with 
his  left  foot  i^n  the  dragon^  and  piercing  him 
through  the  month  with  a  spear.  They  each 
weighed  eighty  grains  of  nearly  fine  gold,  and 
were  at  first  current  for  six  shiUinjgB  and  eight- 
pence.  Eyeiy  succeeding  sovereign  continued 
their  issue  until  Charles  L,  who  was  the  last  who 
coined  angels.  They  were  then  current  for  ten 
shilling  and  only  weighed  sixty-four  grains  and 
a  fraction.  Hjihbt  W.  Heetfbet. 

Markham  House,  Brighton. 

BuBFF  OB  Bus^  (4*  S.  viL  282,  379,  445.)— 
This  word  may  be  derived  from  A.-S.  betniPf 
which  is  variously  rendered  ''a  bazrow,  a  high 
or  hilly  plao&  a  wood,  grove,  hill  covered  with 
wood."  Con£  Barf  ^  Bede  Barve),  near  Bever» 
ley.  R.  S.  Ohabkock. 

Gray's  Ion. 

CoireBsvs  Ain>  Wtchxblst  (4<^  S.  viL  801.) 
Mb.  Hadt  Fbiswell  gives  a  sentiment  to  Con* 
neve  that  belongs  to  Wycherley,  who  wrote  the 
IlamDeaier.  The  IXwM^  2>0a&r  vras  written  by 
Gongreve.  G.  E. 

''  Stbxax  oe  Silvxb  Sba  "  (4'i>  S.  viL  890, 445.) 
The  quotation,  *'  streak  of  olver  sea,"  oonoeminff 
which  vour  correspondent  A.  S.  mquirea,  and 
which  Lord  Salisburv  was  reported  as  taking  from 
a  lecture  by  Colonel  Chesney,  was  plainly  bor- 
rowed of  a  purnose  by  the  latter  from  the  eulogy 
of  England  m  tne  famous  Gladstone  article  of  last 
October's  Edinburgh  JSeview,  p.  588.  In  Colonel 
Chesney's  printed  lecture  it  appears  between 
conmias,  as  a  quotation  should  be.  R.  £. 

Thoicas  Baskbrvillb  (4^  S.  vii.  429.)  — If 
your  correspondent  means  John  Baskerville,  the 
printer,  who  was  also  an  inventor  and  a  patentee, 
ne  will  find  a  portrait  in  Mr.  Woodcroft  s  collec- 
tion at  the  Patent  Office,  26,  Southampton  Build- 
ings. May  I  ask  what  G.  C.*s  T^itwuu  Baskerville 
invented?  R.  B.  P. 

Ibish  LEeiOKABiES  JN  Rio  PB  Jaitbibo  (4*^  S. 
vii.  403.) — ^Mb.  MacCabe  will  find  a  fuu  and 
very  painful  account  of  the  treatment  of  the  Irish 
Legion  in  Brazil  in  Armflage's  History  of  BrasiL 
2  vols.  Svo,  1836.  W. 

Bbass  DT  Bostob^Chvbch  (4»>»  S.  vii.  405.)— 
W.  E.  B.  says  that  the  brass  at  Boston  is  for 
"  Richard  Bolle  of  Haugh,  who  died  1601."  Burke, 


in  his  JBxtmel  BaronHeiu^  gives  this  Riehaid  aa 
the  husband  of  Isabel  (Elixabeth)  Nanfan,  spell- 
ing the  name  in  error  Nansant.  But  in  the  Bos- 
ton brass  Nanfan  occurs  as  a  quartering.  This 
might  not  prove  that  the  brass  was  not  for 
Ridiard  BoUe.  But  what  are  tiie  quarteiings 
alter  10.  Coledull  ?  No.  8  is  Nanfan,  not  of  Devon 
but  of  Cornwall,  or  Birts-Morton,  Worcestershire, 
to  which  place  the  Nanfans  mi^^ted.  No.  9  is 
Penpons.  No.  10  is  Coleshill,  as  given  by  W.  R  B. 
These  two,  Penpons  and  Cole&iU,  are  Nanfan 
quarterings.  No.  12  certidnly  might  be  Eroedekne 
or  Trecarrel;  the  martlet  being  for  difference. 
But  what  are  the  others  ?  Not,  I  think,  quarter- 
ings of  Nanfan. 

The  lady  is,  I  think^  buried  at  Birtfr-Moiton. 
In  that  church  still  exists  an  unusually  curious 
altar  tomb,  moved  from  its  place  and  mutilated 
as  usuaL  Halnngton  gives  an  account  of  it  in  hia 
MS.,  now  in  the  possession  of  Lobd  Ltttbltob. 
I  have  copied  his  account,  and  have  it  before  me. 
It  is  not  everywhere  quite  oonect ;  but  he  gives 
things  which  have  now  perished.  I  read  a  memoir 
of  it  at  the  tomb,  some  time  ago,  to  a  few  finends, 
among  them  the  present  rector ;  and  I  should  like 
to  be  allowed  to  give  a  note  on  the  subject  some 
da^  in  ^'N.  &  Q.*^;  but  the  detail  is  too  long  for 
this  reply. 

It  is  enough  to  say  here  that  Habington  men- 
tions her,  and  that  her  figure  is  still  to  be  seen. 
He  says:  — 

"  A  ffoitdlwoauui  pr^yinge,  w^  her  halt  tamed  up  as 
a  chamett,  &  wiytten  dUzabeth  BoUys,  sister  to  them 
both.''^ 

None  of  these  words  are  now  to  be  seen.  The 
''both"  refers  to  John  and  Richard  Nanfan  her 
brothezB,  Jolm  Nanfan  being  of  Birts-Morton  Court. 

D.  P. 

Stuarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

Thb  Lokqs  ov  Wbaxall  (4*^  a  viL  423.)— 
Mb.  Johbs  saya  (p.  425)  — 

<*  there  was  a  place  In  Wraxall  called  Berler's  (or  Bar- 
ley^s^  Court,  which,  according  to  Canon  Jackaon,  paaaed 
to  Blont  and  then  to  HnaKy.'' 

The  coincidence  of  these  names  suggests  the  pos- 
sibility of  a  connection  vrith  Verdon :  for  MarveiTy 
the  youngest  of  the  three  daughters  of  Theooald 
de  Yeidon,  by  his  first  vrife  Maude  Mortimer, 
married,  first  (before  June  17, 1327)  William  le 
Blunt;  secondly,  Mark  Husee  (who  died  «./»., 
that  is,  before  July  23,  1349) ;  and  thirdly,  John 
CrophulL  She  lert  issue,  by  her  second  marriage 
*at  least  I  offer  this  suggestion  for  what  it  may 
be  found  worth.  Hebicbbtbudb. 

Thb  Cod  F^shbbt  of  Nbwfoukdland,  and  ak 
English  Coitvent  in  Fbance  (4"*  S.  vii.  429.) — 
The  English  convent  mentioned  in  the  passage 
quoted  by  your  correspondent  was  probably  that 
of  the  Visitation  of  St  Marie  of  ChaiUoty  founded 


4*i»S.VlI.  Juiik8,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


487 


by  Heorietta  Maria,  Queen  of  Charles  I.  Her 
daughter  Henrietta  Anne  was  educated  here,  and 
to  tnia  place  the  unfortunate  queen  retired  when 
OYerwhelmed  with  grief  at  the  loss  of  her  hus- 
band. She  then  resided  at  the  chateau  of  Co- 
lombe,  and  died  there  Aug.  31.  1669.  Bj  her 
express  wish,  her  heart  was  taJcen  to  ChaiUot. 
In  the  archives  of  France  is  an  interesting  account 
of  its  reception,  written  by  one  of  the  nuns.  It  is 
quoted  in  Xivet  of  the  QueeM  of  England  (v.  465). 

JOHK  PiGOOT,  Juw.,  F.S.A. 


MiiittXUiXLtnvLi. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

An  Bisiorical  View  o/LitercUure  and  Art  in  Ortai  Bri- 
tain^ from  the  Accession  of  the  Home  of  Hanover  to  the 
Rdgn  of  Queen  Victoria.  By  J.  Murray  Graham,  M.A. 
(Longmans.) 

The  author  remarks  that  though  an  historical  acoonnt 
of  a  nation's  literature  and  art  is  entitled  to  consideration 
as  an  important  part  of  its  general  history,  it  has  too 
freqaently  been  the  practice  in  historical  compositions,  if 
not  altogether  to  ignore,  at  least  to  treat  in  a  very  sum- 
mary manner  the  literary  and  aesthetic  development  of 
the  national  thought  and  taste.  The  present  volume  is 
an  attempt  to  remedy  this  omission,  and  to  furnish  a 
short  history  of  literature  and  art  in  Britain,  as  developed 
in  the  finer  and  more  popular  forms  during^  the  most 
recent  period  of  her  annab.  After  a  preliminary  view 
of  the  general  condition  of  literature  and  art  and  their 
professors  in  Great  Britain,  at  the  accession  of  the 
House  dT  Hanover,  Mr.  Graham  proceeds  to  consider  the 
state  of  the  various  branches  of  literary  composition  dur- 
ing the  period,  and  the  influence  which  the  different 
writers  have  had  upon  public  taste.  In  the  same  manner 
he  examines  the  progress  of  architecture,  painting,  and 
sculpture  in  this  country.  The  book  gives  in  this  way 
just  the  information  suited  to  those  who  want  a  general 
idea  upon  the  subject,  while  the  writer's  authorities 
point  out  to  those  who  desire  further  information  the 
best  means  of  obtaining  it. 

Parochial  and  Family  History  of  ffte  Deantry  of  Trigg 
Minor,  in  the  CowUy  of  Cornwall,  By  Sir  John  Mac- 
lean, F.S.  A.,  &c.  Part  III,  8t,Breward.  (Nichols  d; 
Son.) 

We  congratulate  the  men  of  Tre,  Pol^  and  Pen,  on  the 
steady  progress  which  Sir  John  Maclean,  is  making  with 
his  history  of  that  interesting  portion  of  their  county, 
the  Deanery  of  Trigg  Minor.  In  the  Part  before  us, 
which  contains  a  deMription  of  the  parish  of  St.  Bruered 
alias  St  Breward  alias  Simon  Ward,  it  is  treated  with  the 
fulness  of  detail,  local,  historic  and  genealogical,  and 
the  same  endeavour  to  attain  accuracy  and  completeness 
which  have  characterised  the  former  portions  of  the 
woric,  and  which  will  ensure  it  a  place  in  the  library  of 
all  Gomish  Antiquaries  and  Topographers. 

Books  bbcbivbd.— ^n  Essay  on  the  Druids,  the  An- 
cient Churches,  and  the  Bound  Towers  of  Ireland,  By 
the  Rev.  Richard  Smiddy  (Kelly,  Dublin)  has  dainu  to 
attention  as  containing  a  new  theorr  of  the  Round 
Towen,  by  a  Oeltie  antiquary,  who  thinks  it  probable 
that  Geltie  was  the  first  language  spoken  by  man^—The 
Passion  Play  of  Ute  Highlands  of  Bavaria,  By  Alexan- 
der Craig  fieUar  (Blackwood),  reprinted  from  Blaeh- 


wootTs  Magaxine,  will  be  found  veiy  useful  to  intending 
visitors  to  Ammergau,  where  the  Passion  Play  is  to  be 
performed  this  year  on  June  24 ;  July  2,  9, 16,  26,  80 ; 
Aug.  6, 14,  20,  27 ;  and  Sept.  8,  9, 17,  24.— jPe/<on'<  (late 
Braehetfs)  Illustrated  Guide  to  Tunhridge  Wells,  ^c.  By 
J.  Radfora  Thompson,  MA.,  venr  foil,  and  with  a  couple 
of  good  maps,  which  in  some  degree  make  amends  for 
very  inferior  woodcuts. — The  Desideratum;  or,  Electri- 
city made  Plain  and  Useful  by  a  Lover  of  Mankind  and 
of  Common  Sense  (Bailliere).  This  is  a  reprint  of  the 
remarkable  tract  on  Curative  Electricity  written  by  John 
Wesl^,  1759,  and  which,  like  his  Itttle  pamphlet  on 
Cold  Water  as  a  means  of  health,  shows  that  he  was  as 
interested  in  the  physical  as  in  the  moral  improvement 
of  his  fellow-creatures. 

Harrow. — ^To  celebrate  and  commemorate  the  tercen- 
tenary of  Harrow  School  a  committee  has  been  formed 
to  raise  a  fond,  to  be  called  the  **  Lyon  Memorial  Fund,** 
for  the  purpose  of  acquiring  land  and  erecting  bmldings 
for  school  j>urposes,  the  first  object  being  the  erection  of 
a  Speech  Koom,  with  an  architectural  devation  worthy 
of  its  splendid  neighbours,  the  (3hapel  and  Yaughan  Li- 
brary. It  is  calculated  that  not  less  than  30,000/.  will 
be  rea  nlred  to  carry  out  all  the  objects  in  view ;  and  the 
first  list  of  subscriptions,  containing  two  donations  of 
1,000/.  each,  affords  good  reason  for  believing  that  old 
Harrovians  will  not  allow  the  committee  to  lack  the 
means  necessary  for  carrying  out  so  laudable  an  object 

Dr.  D9LLnfOER. — In  a  convocation  to  be  holden  at 
Oxford  on  Tuesday,  it  will  be  proposed  that  the  degree 
of  D.C.L.  be  granted  by  diploma  to  Dr,  Joseph  John  Ig- 
natius von  DOllinger. 

St.  Alban'b  Abbbt. — On  March  11  we  called  atten- 
tion to  the  measures  in  contemplation  for  the  preservation 
of  St.  Alban's  Abbey.  We  are  now  glad  to  announce 
that  a  public  meeting  will  be  held  at  Willis's  Rooms  on 
Thursday,  June  22,  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the 
steps  to  be  taken  for  raising  46,000/.  required  for  thia 

Surpose.  The  Earl  of  Verulam  will  preside,  and  we  hope 
e  will  be  supported  in  his  laudable  endeavour  to  pre- 
serve one  of  the  most  important  of  our  an^teetural 
monuments. 

'  Thb  second  volume  of  Lord  Brougham's  autobiogra- 
phy will  shortly  appear.  The  narrative  will  extend  to 
the  passing  of  the  (3atholic  Emancipation  Bill,  and  include 
a  great  iK>rtion  of  the  affairs  of  Queen  Caroline  and  her 
trial. 

Thb  death  is  announced,  in  his  eighty-fifth  year,  of 
Sir  Oswald  Moaley^Bart.,  of  Rolleston  HaU,  near  Bnrton- 
on-Trent,and  formerly  M.P.  for  North  Staffordshire.  The 
proximity  of  his  family  seat  to  Tutbnry  Castle,  one  of 
the  prisons  of  Maiy  Queen  of  Scots,  led  him  to  turn  his 
attention  to  its  story,  and  in  1822  he  published  a  History 
of  the  Castle,  Priory,  and  Town  of  Tutbury, 

Strasbvro  Libbabt. — The  subscriptions  for  the 
Strasburg  Library  are,  according  to  the  Mtional  jSeitung,. 
progressing  so  fiivpurably  as  to  promise  to  leave  the  in- 
stitution neh,  not  only  in  the  number,  but  equally  so  in 
the  literary  value  of  its  volumes.    The  ^orts  made  to- 


wards this  object  in  England  are  highly  appi 
abroad.  Moreover,  the  Grand  Duke  of  Baden  has  con- 
tributed two  thousand  volumes  firom  his  library  at  Carla- 
ruhe,  and  the  universities  of  Heidelberg,  Baide,  Erlangen, 
Greiftwald,  and  Jena,  and  the  royal  library  at  Stnttgardt 
have  made  liberal  promises.  Switaeiland  is  doing  its 
best,  and  the  Austrian  capital,  .though  disclaimed  as  a 
German  city,  proposes  to  add  some  spedmenB  of  peculiar 
value.     Some  appreciable  presents  come  from  private 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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mm,  for  inaUnce,  from  the  Wurtembnig  miniMar,  Hen  THE    NEW    TEU^UH-WOVS    pLTTB- 
Toa  WkchtvT.    Iii»(Uitiooto  thtaegiltagovBrnrnMithaB  HOUSE  PAPER. 

r«olT«d  to  mricli  tha  new  inrtitoUoo  by  pnrcluuee  from  Miumfctwni  •m  Bid  tmlr  br 

goTOTilnmit  (undi.  ProfsMor  Bocking'"  famous  ooU«otioii  PARTEIDGE  AND  COOPER,  192,  Fleet  Street, 

u  to  beminrp<iratad.uidthatafPr(AaHrvoa  Van^iar  ~  -~ 


^  Heidelbeig,  hu  slrudj  been  pnrchued.     Both 
dA  in  veliubk  Uv  boobi  ud  muiiuciipth  the  IMtw 
nninberiag  no  fewer  than  3,360  toIobms. 


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CoTTa^umdaU  toha  icrilc  rttptciing  articia  vAich  Ann 
not  apptartd  $kaiild  ifnte  Iht  inbjecla  lo  ichwh  th^  rtfrr, 
tf^e  cawt  TTcd/Jdcf  aignaltiTa  or  taitiaiaM 

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L3M. 

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BIBLIOtKECA    AMEKICAKA. 


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PARTBISQE    AHD    OOOFES, 

UANUFACIUJUHe  8TATI0NBKS, 
19!,  Ftoet  fltrwt  (Connr  of  Clmneery  Lue). 

CABBIAQE  PAID  TO  TBS  COUHTRT  0«  ORDBSS 


r  of  Chancery  Lane. 


mewdai3^pHiraof5M*T,wUdi  ther 
■an  HirthJiu  Df  tlie  UodlD  didlnAcjr 

rllh  tbv  fkcU^Ir  of  A  MQH  <|Eim.  uid 

'OLD  ENGLISH"  FURNITURE. 


COIJJITSOI7  and  LOCE:  (late  Herrtoe), 

CABINET  MA£EBS, 

109,  FLEET  STEEET,  E.a    Eetabliihed  1788. 


TAPESTRY  PAPERHANGINQS. 

DAMASKS,  ud  dOBEUK 


COLLIKSON  and  Z.OOE  (late  Herziug), 
DEOOBAVOB8, 

toe,  FLEET  6TBE£T,  LOBDON.  EsUbliehri  17S2. 


TTOEKE'S  POMPEIAN   DECOEATIONS. 
ROBERT  HORNE, 

HOCSE  DDCORATOR  lad  PAPUt-HAlHUHa 


9  HI)  Ualaa  Uh  KlH  oflt^- 


rpHB    NEW   G-ENTLOfAira    eOLD    WATOE, 


^DIGESTION.— THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSIOH 

4diipt  MOBSOirS  PRBPARATTON  at  PEPSIKB   H  Ikt  DM 

nudy.    ni  111  til  11  lllii  nil  r  II  III   fl  III  1i   T  '     hi  -n  •"t-iiMlim 


Tin  bart  rtmslT  roR  ACIDITT  OF  ■ 

BURN.  HZADACHE,  QOUT.  AND  n..«v— ,.^.,...  _  ....  .«. 


UKRIVAUiED  FOB  PIIIIIAIICT  AKD  nA.T01TB. 

hak  tat  "lAA  AJIS  PSBBISS"-  SAUOM. 
BEWARE     OF    IMITATIOKS, 


aSfsr** 


4«k  S.  Vn.  JosB  8, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


AGGIDEXT8    GAOSB   IiOSS   OT   liIFB. 

AooldentB  cause  Lon  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 
Fnvid€  agaimt  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  IH8UBIK0  WITS  THJI 

Railway  Passengers'  Assurance  Company, 

An  Annnal  FariMnt  of  C8  to  •<!  5/  laniiet  Jn,qpO  at  Death, 
or  an  allowanoe  at  the  rate  of  iBe  per  week  for  Injury. 

e565vOOO  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 


e4,COBNHILL,  and  10,  BBOBMT  8TREST.  LONDON. 

WnXIAH  J.  TIAN.  ^Secretary. 


XrOTHING  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMAEELLA 

Jl  restores  the  Human  Bidr  to  iti  priettne  hne,  no  matter  at  what 
age.  MESSRS.  JOHN  QOSMELL  *  CO.  have  at  length,  .with  the^d 
or  the  BMMt  eminent  OiemiAta,  sucoeeded  in  pesfbetitnff  thn  wondertm 
liquid.  It  li  now  oOrad  to  the  JhihUe  in  a  more  eonoentxatedform, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 
Sold  in  Bottles .  s«.  each,  eleo  Sf.,7«.  8d., or  ia«. each,  with bnuh. 


JOHN  GOSNELL  &;  CO.'S  CHEERY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  greatly  superior  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gives  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  whiteness,  proleets  the  enamel  from  decay,  and  imparts  a 
pleasing  fragrance  to  um  breath. 

JOHN  QOSNELL  k.  OO.'B  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
SOJBSERY  FOWDEB. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perfbmers  and  Chemists  thronghout  the  Kingdun, 
and  at  Angel  Passage,  IB,  Upper  Thames  Street,  London. 


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BUPTimE8._BY  BOTAL  LETTERS  PATVNT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 

f  I  allowed  by  upwards  of  fiOO  Medical  men  to  be  the  most  eflbe- 
tive  invention  in  the  curatiTe  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  use  of  a 
•teel  spring,  so  often  hnrtfhl  in  its  eflbets,  is  here  avoldedi  a  soft  bandage 
being  worn  round  tlw  bocly^hile  the  requisite  resisting  power  is  •up- 
plied  by  the  MOC-MAJ«^PAD  and  PA^nUTT  LEVER  flttlngwith  so 
much  ease  and  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  deteoted,and  may  oe  worn 
during  sleep.  A  deseriptive  circular  msv  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (which 
oannm  fkll  to  lit)  forwarded  by  post  on  the  dreumftrenoe  of  the  body, 
two  inches  below  the  hips,  being  sent  to  the  Manuftotnrer. 

MR.  JOHN  WHITE,  !»,  FIOCADILLT,  LONDON. 

FrioeofaBbi^TnMs,16s.,91«.,Hs.a<i.,andai«.ad.  Postage  It. 
DoubleTmss, Sis. 6</., tti., and ASs. 6cl.   Postage  U. SO. 
An  UmbUicfl  Trass,  4Ss.  and  fiflis.6tf.   Postage  U.  lOd. 

Post  Offloe  orders  payable  to  JOHN  WBITB.  Post  Office,  PiecadUIy. 
t?LASTIC  STOCKINGS,   KNEE-CAPS,  &c,  for 

Ij/  VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  all  oases  of  WEAKNESS  and  S  WEL- 
X^iNO  of  the  LEOS,  SPRAINS,  fto.  Tliey  are  parous,  light  in  texture, 
and  ineocpensive,  and  are  drawn  on  Uke  an  onUnary  stoeklng.  Pziees 
4«.  M.,  7«.  6(1.,  IQs.,  and  Ms.  eadu   Postage  fd. 

J  OHN  WHITE.  MANUT ACTUBER.  m.  FICCADa<LY.  London. 

j.ENTriKMEN  desirous  of   having  their  Linens 

dreseed  to  perftetlon  should  rapply  their  Laundresses  with  the 

which  Impevte  a  brillianey  and  elaetidty  gratliying  alike  to  the  teBse 
of  sight  and  tondi. 

A  FACT.~HAIR.COLOUR  WASH.— By  damping 

J^  the  hair  with  this  beautlAilly  perfumed  Wash,  in  two  days  grey 
hair  or  wliiskers  bepome  their  original  oolour,and  remain  so  by  >n  oo- 
caaional  using.  Tlila  is  Ruaranteed  by  MR.  ROSS.  lot.  ecT.,  sent  for 
Post  OAoe  order.— ATiETT.  ROSS,  MS,  High  Holbom,  London. 

SPANISH  FLY  is  the  acting  ingredient  in  Alkx. 
ROSS'S  CANTHABIDES  OIL.  It  Is  a  sue  Bestoter  of  Hair,  and 
roduoer  of  Whiskers.  Ite  eiftct  is  speedy.  It  is  patronised  by  Reyal^. 
The  price  of  it  is  Ss.  6c<.,  sent  for  M  stanipB,or  Post  OlBoe  order. 

OLLO WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  Pllis^ 
The  ftmily  medldne  diest  that  Is  ftiniiahed  with  thcee  powerful 
remedies  needs  nothing  more.  Indlgeetion,  general  debility,  liver  com- 
plaint, eruptions,  scnes,  wounds,  nleers,  tumoors,  ftc.,  are  faiiUlibly 
cured  by  tiieir  use.  They  purify-  the  blood,  and  give  tone  and  vigour  to 
tlie  whole  system.  The  Ointment,  when  well  rubbed  into  the  parte 
affected,  enten  the  flesh  Just  as  lait  enters  meat,  and  if  the  PUb  be 
taken  as  an  auxiliary,  (he  cure  is  speedy,  thorousrh.  and  permanent. 
These  mertieaments  axeeoeBpoaedof  rare  ha Isawis  without  the  admix- 
ture of  a  grain  of, mercury,  or  any  injurions  substance.  They  are 
peenlinlrinlkl  aadgeBtla  III 'their aetton,  and  eve  as  aift  artfaeyan 
efflcaeions. 


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ATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  guaranteed 

.  .  the  finest  imported,  free  ttom  acidity  or  heat,  and  much  sope- 
rior  to  low-priced  SlicTry  (vidt  Dr.  Drultt  on  Cheap  Wvut).  One 
Guineaner  dozen.  Selected  dry  Tarragona,  IBs.  oer  dosea.  Terms 
cash.  Three  dozen  rail  paid.  _  W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merchant, 
373,  Oxfbrd  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  London,  W. 
blishedlSil.   Full  Price  Liste  post  free  on  application. 


36s. 


36s. 


At  as*,  per  dosen,  fit  for  a  Oentleman's  Table.   BotUee  lnnladed,anrt 
Carriage  paid.   Cases  S«.  per  doxen  extra  (returnable). 

CHARLES  WARD  ft  SON, 

(FoatOfflee  Orders  en  PkseadiUy),  I,  Chapel  Street  Weat, 
MaYFAIB,  W..  LONDON. 


360. 


36s. 


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At  IBs.,  tOs.,  Its.,  80s.,  and  Ms.  per  dozen. 
OhoieeClarets  of  various  growths,  lts.,48«.,6ca.,7l«.,84#.,  96s. 

GOOD  DINNER  8HEBBY, 
At  Ms.  and  SOv.  per  dosen. 

8  uperior  Golden  Sherrv S8«.and4ls. 

Choice  Sherry— Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown. . .  .48s.,M«.,and  60s. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
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and  other  rare  wines.  Fine  old  Pale  Cognac  Brandy,  60s.  and  71«.  per 
dozen.   Foreign  Liqueurs  of  evenr  description. 

On  receipt  of  a  Post  Offloe  order,  or  refiBrenoe,any  quantity  will  be 
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QUAHPTAN. 

We  know  no  book  of  its  sise  and  bnUc  whJdiiiipplies  the  loftmutloo 
here  given  at  allt  flu  less  which  aappUcs  it  in  sn  snsonment  to  accc*- 
sible,  with  a  completeness  of  inJbrmaUon  so  tiummn.  and  trith  as 
abllty  in  the  treatment  of  ivofbund  sabiecU  so  great  ut.  Hook's  moct 
nseftilTolnme  is  a  work  of  high  calilne,  but  it  is  ths  work  of  a  unsie 
mind.  We  have  here  a  wider  range  of  thought  from  t  Kiester  variety 
of  sides.  We  have  here  also  the  work  of  men  who  evidently  knov 
what  they  write  abont,  and  are  somewliat  more  iirofimad  (to  nr  the 
least)  than  the  writers  of  the  current  Dictkmarles  of  8ect<  ul 
Heresies. 

LITimiAHY  OHUBGHMAN. 

Mere  antiauarianism,  however  intereetlng,  has  little  place  hit  Bnt 
ftir  all  practical  Durposes  its  historical  articles  are  exceuent.  Ther  in 
of  course  and  of  necessity  a  good  deal  condensed,  yet  thcjr  are  yoDder- 
AiUy  complete:  see.  fbr  example,  such  articles  as  **  Atheism,  "^C^^ 
bala,"  **  Calvinism,*^  '*  GanonisaUoa  **  *"  Oonvoeationa."  "  EvunlicaJ. 
**  Fathers.*'  **  Infant  Baptism,"  fte.  tec.  Bnt  the  strength  of  the  book 
lies  in  the  theology  proper,  and  herein  more  partiealarlr  in  vhat  one 
may  call  the  metaphysiaa  side  of  the  docwnet-see  the  artidu  on 
•*Conceptaalism,"  •*Donbt,"  '*Daaasm,"  -Election,"  "Elenutv. 
** Everlasting  Punishment,*'  "Fatalism,"  and  the  like.  We  menuon 
these  as  characteristic  of  the  book.  At  the  same  time  other  more  practical 
mattnv  are  ftilly  dealt  with.  There  are  excellent  and  elabocate  paper* 
on  such  words  as  **  Encharist,**  **  ConlSeesion,"  "  Blood,"  **  Cro*""  A"- 
tie^ist,'*  to  say  nothing  of  the  boat  of  mLoor  matters  on  which  its 
most  eonvenient  to  be  able  to  turn  to  a  book  whieh  cives  rpo  ^  >  fjff ^ 
the  pith  of  a  whole  library  in  a  column  or  a  psfe.  Thusit  viUm 
obvious  that  it  takes  a  very  mndi  wider  range  than  an/  nadotaUnc  ci 
the  same  kind  in  our  language  t  and  that  to  those  of  oar  derqvoo 
have  not  a  fbrtune  to  spend  in  books,  and  would  not  haveOie  lewi» 
to  use  them  if  they  possessed  them.  It  will  be  the  most  Kmaable  lod 
reliable  substitute  for  a  laige  libiarywe  can  think  of.  Andtiiiaur 
eases,  while  keeping  striotly  within  ite  provlnoe  as  a  Dictlooarj-.it  eoo- 
trlTcs  to  be  marvelloosly  suncestiw  of^thought  and, refleetiai.  vhiAa 
serious-minded  man  will  takewith  him  and  ponder  over  to  hu  ova 
elaboration  and  ftitore  use.  As  an  example  of  this  we  may  infr^tM 
whole  article  on  Doubt.  It  is  treated  of  under  the  mmMi.^bt^ 
of._(l)  ite  naftuxet  «)  ite  origin  1  (3^  the  history  of  .the  P^ndpal  pen|>a 
of  Doubts  (4)  the  ctmsdousness— or  actual  experience  of  !>»".  m 
how  to  deai  with  ite  dlflbrentphawss  and  kindsi  (&)j^^k1^<»1*'^ 
Doubt  to  actum  and  to  belief.  To  explain  a  littie  we  wiU  here  quote » 
puragranh  or  two,  whidli  may  not  be  unacceptable  to  our  xeaden..-  ■  ■•  •• 
The  variety  of  the  referenoes  siven  In  the  eoorseof  thisartkle,sBdat  iJ 
oondnsioo,  show  how  eareftally  the  writer  haa  thoooht  out  and  «affiM 
his  suUect  in  ite  various  manllbslations  in  many  vsriou  musd^ 
and  illustrates  very  Ibrdbly  how  modi  reading  joes  to  a  ^  "^' 
amount  of  spaoe  in  anything  worth  the  name  of  'DlclpnarT  of  Tb^j- 
logy."  We  trust  most  sincerely  that  the  book  marbe  !«<«!):  ^; 
For  a presoit  to  a dersyman  on  his  ordination, or  non *E^ll?^'« 
to  his  pastor,  it  would^  most  appropriate.  It  may  indsodbe  called 
**  a  box  of  tools  for  a  working  dergyman." 

LOXTDON'  QUABTSBLT  BBVIBW. 

The  writers  who  are  at  worit  on  it  are  sdhplan jad  ti>M'«'Jg»ir 
earnest  deitoders  of  the  Christain  foith.  They  evidently  hold  fHttt< 
ftmdamental  doctrines  of  Christianitv.  and  have  the  r^lglons  ia^ 
tion  of  the  rlsinjc  mhiistnr  at  heart.  Moreover,  their  sAwne  Is  a  i»w 
onet  it  does  cmfit  not  oiUy  to  their  learning  and  seal,  but  alio  to  tM<r 

tact  and  disovtion. 

STAISTDABD. 

It  wfll  be  found  of  admirable  servke  to  all  «te^t*^(S^«2i 
advancing  and  maintaining  the  Cburah's  vtewi  on  all  nU0»»v»^l 
within  the  range  of  flOr  argument  and  faiquliy.  Bis  wt  oOia  uw» 
work  of  so  oomprdiensive  and  so  profound  a  natmtf  ismapwtt  w^ 
vca7  end  by  so  many  signs  of  wide  and  eareftu  reMHehtSonaa  (Tu>»>» 

and  wdl-fonnded  and  well-«spnised  beUefl 


RTVINaTONS,  Waterloo  Flaoe^  London;  Oxford  and  Cambridge. 

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hj  WILUAX  QBSXO  8MITH.«f  O,  WtUfaudgn  0tifH,8tHnd,  la  the  Mid  0QUt7.-AMiiratort/«K  >i  M^ 


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LOSDOS,  aATUBDAT,  JUNE  10, 1871. 


CONTENTS.-.N*  180. 


NOTBS:  — Jnaius's  Beoret  ftud  "Tka  Timet*'  Bavlever, 
469— NicholM  Femr's  Eulogy  upon  the  Author  of  "  Iic- 
DOfamus/' 490— The  ReDeoUnt  Thief- Anecdote  of  the 
Duke  of  Wellington  —  What  Critict  are  —  Mummy  Hunt- 
ing  —  "Annie  lAurie"  —  Parodies  —  Political  Satirical 
Bramaa  —  True  Bnjejrmeut  *-  Deflnifeton  of  Conaola  — 
Bared  bj  a  Flah— Chanoer'i  Worka,  400. 

QUERIES:  —  Aooointanoe  —  "Adamantine  Chalni"  — 
AnoDTmoaa  *  Antique  Haadi  on  Hedimval  Seab  ^  Baby^ 
Ionian  Brioka  —  A  Oaricatafe  Queir  —  Ckqpafera :  waa  she 
Egyptian  or  Greek  ?  —  Cottle,  the  Poet  —  Lord  Falkland, 
Dr.  Donne,  and  Sir  Edward  Dyer— Fsreyiuga  Saga^Fio- 
tion  and  Fact  —  Fire  at  Metnerini^ham  —  Garrooni  or 
Garrona  —  Glattoa  —  Herbert  —  Jean  de  Mllon  —  Cul, 

Seoul  —  Jewiah  JCarriage  Bings  —  Kalendis— Lituivieal 
uery  —  Maimed  Soldiers  —  Sir  John  Mason  —  Medals  of 
liver  Cromwell  —  Pardon,  1660  —  Parish  Begisters  of 
Barbados  —  Professions  —  Sandtoft  Bister—  Seiden's 
Ballads,  Ac.— Ancient  Senrioe,  402. 

REPLIB8 :— Lord  Palmerston's  Dismissal  from  Oflice,  406 

—  Mural  Painting  io  Starston  Church,  Norfolk,  497  —  The 
Passing  Bell,  489  —  S^oune,  Seg«idun.  Ac^  76.-  The 
Origin  of  Archbishop  Stafford,  500 —Bums :  "  Kicht  Gude- 
willie  waucht,"  SOI—  B.^.  Bonington,  502  —  Flag  of  the 
New  German  Empire,  503— British  Scythed  ChariotflLiS. 
—"Eugene  Aram "  — Lancashire  Witches— Pope's  Epi- 
taph on  Sir  Godfrey  Rneller— On  the  Absence  of  any 
French  Word  for  '*  to  Ride  " — Judicial  Oaths  —  Crests — 
George  London- St.  Wulfkvn  —  Gnats  ««rnM  Mosquitoes* 

—  Margaret  Fendles:  Lady  Mortimer  —  Dedications  of 
Churches  —  Children's  Games  —  Sundials  —  *'  Anima 
Cristi  " — Devonshire  Words,  Ac.  504. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ae. 


JUNIUS'S   SECRET  AND   « THE   TIMES" 

REVIEWER. 

As  at  the  present  moment,  when  Parliament  is 
in  full  work,  and  the  columns  of  The  Times  are 
full  to  overflowing  with  reports  from  Paris  and 
the  Tichbome  case,  it  would  De  vwn  to  expect  the 
Editor  to  find  room  for  the  discussion  oi  a  mere 
literary  question,  I  hope  to  be  permitted  to  call  at- 
tention m  "  N.  &  Q."  to  a  paragraph  in  The  Times 
review  of  Mr.  Twisleton  s  interesting  volume,* 
in  the  hope  that  doing  so  will  help  to  clear  up 
some  doubts  which  can  scarcely  fail  to  strike  such 
of  your  readers  as  have  ever  cared  to  look  into  the 
question  "  Who  was  Junius  P  " 

The  paragraph  is  as  follows : — 

*'  Mr.  Pitt  told  Lord  Aberdeen  (the  late  Praaier)  that 
he  and  his  father  (Lord  Chatham)  knew  who  wrote  the 
Junius  Letters,  and  that  it  was  not  Francis.  Lord  Aber- 
deen repeated  this  statement  to  his  son,  the  Hon.  Arthnr 
Gordon,  now  Governor  of  the  MmrHiiis.  The  Ri^t  Hon. 
Thomas  Gnavilie  told  Lady  Delamereand  Misa  WiUiams 
Wynn  (his  nieces),  and  the  Horn  Mra,  Rowley  (hia  great 
niece),  as  a  matter  of  personal  Icnowledge,  that  Junius 
was  not  one  of  the  persona  to  whom  the  letters  luA  been 
popularly  ascribed.  Sooa  after  tbe  publication  of  the 
Diaries  of  a  Lady  of  Quo^ato,  in  which  the  GrenviUes 
were  mentioned  as  posMsaed  of  the  key.  Lady  Greavillis 

*  **TkeHandtffnimgorjumitM,  proftesionallv  investi- 
gated by  Mr.  Chailes  CMoC  (Expert).  With  Preface 
^d  Collateral  Evidence  by  the  Hon.  Edward  Twisleton." 


sent  a  message  to  the  editor,  through  Dr.  James  Ferguson 
to  say  that  L^rd  Grenville  told  her  he  knew  who  wrote 
the  Junius  Letters,  and  they  were  not  written  by  Francis." 

The  first  thing  that  must  strike  the  reader  of 
this  paragraph  is  the  curious  fact  that  the  myste- 
rious secret  which  Junius  declared  should  die  with 
him  was  known  to  no  less  than  four  persons — Lord 
Chatham,  Mr.  Pitt,  the  Hon.  Thomas  QrenvilWy 
and  Lord  Grenville. 

But  how  was  it  known  to  them  P  Was  it  known 
in  the  strict  sense  of  the  word  P  Was  it  known 
from  the  information  of  Junius  himself,  or  from 
any  other  direct  sources  of  positive  information  P 
Or  was  it  knoton  to  them  (that  is,  confidently  be- 
lieved by  them)  in  the  same  manner  in  which  the 
late  Mr.  Tavlor  mi^ht  have  said  he  knew  that 
Junius  wasfrands^  t.  e,  from  the  conviction  of  his 
own  mind,  from  evidence  which  he  felt  it  was  im- 
pos^ble  to  resist  ? 

How  did  these  distingmshed  persons  become 
possessed  of  the  secret,  which  Junius  declared 
would  perish  with  himP  Lord  Chatham  could 
scarcely  have  received  it  otherwise  than  in  con- 
fidence ;  yet  as  Mr.  Pitt  was  only  eleven  years  old 
when  Junius  ceased  to  write,  but  for  that  difiiculbr 
it  would  be  a  natural  inference  that  Mr.  Pitt's 
knowledge  was  derived  from  Lord  Chatham. 
How,  too.  did  Lord  Grenville  learn  it^  bom  as  he 
was  in  tne  same  year  with  Mr.  Pitt  P  for  if  he 
learned  it  from  Mr.  Grenville,  then  Mr.  Grenville 
could  only  have  received  it  under  cizcumstancea 
which  would  justify  his  divulging  it 

A  very  slight  examination  qf  most  of  the  tra- 
ditions respecting  Junius  shows  of  how  little  value 
they  are  as  evidence  for  the  discovery  of  the 
authorship  of  the  Letters.  And  this  without  the 
slightest  doubt  being  felt  as  to  the  high  ehanieter 
and  thorough  truthfulness  of  those  by  whom  and 
through  whom  they  are  related  and  handed  down. 
Who  can  feel  othwwise  ^n  convinced  that  in 
sending  a  message  to  the  editor  of  The  Diaries  <tf 
a  Lady  of  QuaiUy,  ''  that  Lord  Grenville  toid  hex 
he  knew  who  wrote  Junius^s  Letters,  and  that 
they  were  not  written  by  Francis,"  Lady  Gren- 
ville was  only  anxious  to  contribute  as  far  as  poa- 
sible  to  the  establidbment  of  the  truth  P  In  hk& 
manner  who  can  feel  otherwise  than  convinced 
that  the  Hon.  Arthur  Gordon  is  actuated  by  the 
same  praiseworthy  motive  P 

Yet  assurediv  there  must  have  been  some  de- 
fect in  Lord  Aberdeen's  noemory,  or  Mr.  Gordon 
has  been  under  a  wrong  impression  as  to  the  name 
of  the  mysterious  author )  for  as  Mr.  Pitt  died  in 
1806,  and  Francis's  supposed  connection  with  the 
Letters  was  never  hmted  at  until  1813,  it  is 
scarcely  possible  that  Mr.  Pitt  could  have  told 
Lord  Aberdeen  that  '^  he  and  his  father  knew  who 
wrote  the  Letters,  and  that  U  was  not  Fronds" 

That  Mr.  Grenville,  to  whom  Junius  addressed 
the  private  letters  printed  in  the  Orenviiie  Cor^ 


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reapondence,  did  not  know  the  writer  of  them, 
may  fairly  oe  inferred  from  the  manner  in  which 
he  nad  tied  them  up  as  '^  anonymous '' ;  and  Mr. 
Smith,  the  accomplished  editor  of  that  corre- 
spondence, says  expressly — and  his  testimony  on 
the  point  is  very  important — 

**  It  has  been  sappoeed  that  the  late  Mr.  Thomas  Gren- 
Tille  had  some  pecixliar  knowledge  respecting  the  aothor- 
ship  of  Janius.  I  have  no  reason  to  join  in  that  opinion, 
Ibr  I  never  heard  him  speak  upon  the  subject,  nor  did  I 
ever  hear  it  mentioned  in  his  presence." 

And  it  is  certain  that  Mr.  Thomas  Grenyille 
never  saw  the  Stowe  Letters,  about  which  so 
many  maryellous  accounts  have  been  given,  until 
they  were  shown  to  him  by  Mr.  Smith  in  1840. 

Surely,  in  the  face  of  what  has  here  been  stated, 
it  is  not  unreasonable  to  ask  whaX  proof  is  there 
that  either  Lord  Qrenville,  Mr.  Thomas  Gren- 
yille, Lord  Chatham,  or  Mr.  Pitt  knew — that  is, 
had  positive  knowledge  of — ^who  wrote  the.  Letters 
of  Junius.  QuuESiTOB. 

NICHOLAS  FERRAR'S  EULOGY  UPON  THE 
AUTHOR  OF  **  IGNORAMUS." 

Nicholas  Ferrar,  the  pious  recluse  of  Little 

Gidding,  and  George  Kuggle,  the  author  of  Igno- 

ramtUf  the  well-lmown  comedy  played   before 

King  James  at  Cambridge,  were  both  students  at 

Clare  Hall.    Li  after  life  both  became  interested 

in  the  colonisation  of  Virginia,  and  Ruggle  in  his 

will  made  the  following  bequest :  — 

*'  I  give  and  bequeath  one  hundred  pounds  towards 
the  bnnging  up  of  the  infidels*  children  in  Virginia  in 
Christian  religion,  which  my  will  is  shall  be  disposed  of 
by  the  Virginia  Company  accordingly,  desiring  Almighty 
Qod  to  stir  up  the  charitable  hearts  of  many  oenefdctors 
in  this  kind,  principally  for  the  increasing  of  the  king- 
dom of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ."  * 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Virginia  Company  held 
November  20,  1622,  Nicholas  Ferrar,  as  deputy- 

fovemor,  made  the  foUowinjp  statement,  which 
as  never  before  been  printed  in  England,  and  was 
copied  from  the  company's  MS.  Transactions  in 
the  Congressional  Librarj,  Washington,  U.  S.  of 
America :  — 

"  M'  Deputy  further  acquainted  the  Company  that  M' 
George  Ruggle,  lately  fellowe  of  Clare  Hall  in  Cambridge, 
bdnge  a  Brother  of  the  Company  and  newly  deceased  (w«^ 
he  said  he  could  not  without  great  griefe  mencon),  had 
by  his  will  bequeathed  100*  for  the  Mucacon  of  Infidells' 
children,  w'ch  he  had  caused  to  be  put  into  the  TablB ; 
w«^  the  Court  well  approued  of:  but  seemed  (at  least 
the  most  part)  to  be  utterly  ignqnmt  of  the  person  or 
qualities  m  the  man : 

**  Whereupon  desiringe  to  be  informed  of  both,  M' 
Deputy  told  them  he  was  a  man  second  none  in  know- 
ledge of  all  manner  of  humanity,  leaminge,  and  so 
generally  reputed  in  Vninersity  of  singular  honestie  and 

[*  A  copy  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  George 
Bitfgle  m  extenio  is  printed  in  his  Ignoramus,  edited  by 
J. ».  Hawkins,  edit.  1787,  np.  zd— dr.  Consult  also 
Mayor's  Two  fJvea  ofNichoUu  Ferrar,  1856,  p.  12.1 


integritie  of  life,  sincere  and  zealous  in  Religioii,  and  of 
yerie  great  wisedome  and  nnderstandinge ; 

**  All  w**>  good  partes  he  had  for  these  last  three  yeans 
wholly  almost  spent  and  exercised  in  Virginia  buinneaietk 
hauinge  (besides  continually  assistinge  his  Brothen  aod 
himself  with  Counsell  and  all  manner  of  help  in  theie 
places)  written  sundry  treatises  ibr  the  benefitt  of  the 
Plantation,  and  in  pucular  the  worke  so  highly  oom- 
ended  hj  S'  £dwin  Sandys,  conoeminge  the  Goaerm't 
of  Virginia,  but  such  was  his  modestie  that  he  would 
by  no  meanes  suffer  it  to  be  knowne  during  his  life. 
But  now  being  dead,  M'  Deputy  said  he  could  not  with 
a  good  oonsdenoe  deprive  mm  of  that  Honor  m^  he  ao 
duely  deserued." 

Ruggle  willed  that  all  his  papera  and  note- 
books should  be  burned,  and  ai^ng  these  was 
probably  his  treatise  on  the  Government  of  Vir- 
ginia,  an  abstract  of  which  is  given  in  the  minutes 
of  the  Virginia  Company. 

Edwabd  D.  Nshl. 

Dublin. 


Thb  KisPEVTAVT  Thibf.  —  I  oncs  heard  io 
Jamaica  a  clergyman  of  the  Scotch  kirk,  in  speak- 
ing of  the  Repentant  Thief,  say  ''he  bad  the 
1'  )eculiar  privilege  and  hi^h  honour  of  being  the 
ast  that  was  blessed  by  uie  dying,  and  the  fint 
that  was  redeemed  by  uie  dead  Saviour  "—a  sen- 
timent to  me  original  and  beautiful,  and  worthy 
of  preservation  in  **  N.  &  Q."  G.  E. 

Akscdote  op  the  Dukb  of  Wblliugtos. — 
Many  years  ago,  whilst  shooting  in  Hampshire  with 
a  young  dergynum,  I  was  told  by  him  a  pleading 
anecdote  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  nith  an 
estate  purchased  for  the  Duke  went  the  advowsoo 
of  a  living  for  which  the  clergyman  was  being 
educated.  The  Duke  heard  of  it,  and  one  day 
asked  the  lad  to  be  his  guide  in  a  ride  across  the 
country,  and  finding  what  he  had  heard  to  he 
true,  and  being  pleased  with  his  companion,  the 
Duke  told  him  the  change  of  proprietorship  in 
the  land  should  make  no  difference  as  to  the 
living,  which  he  should  receive  when  he  had 
qualified  himself  for  it ;  and  he  was  in  possession 
of  it  when  I  knew  hiuL  0.  £• 

WHA.T  Cbitigb  ABE. — ^I  do  not  know  whether 
it  may  interest  the  readers  of  ''N.  k  Q."  to  know 
that  tiie  sayinjif,  now  celebrated,  of  D'Israeli,  that 
''  Literary  critics  are  for  tiie  most  pert  men  who 
have  failed  in  original  composition,"  is  not  ori- 
ginal The  idea  is  aptly  exj^essed  in  the  epilogue 
to  Congreye's  Way  efthe  World :^ 

**  Then,  all  bad  poets  we  are  sure  are  ibes, 
And  how  their  number^s  sweU*d  the  town  well  knows: 
In  shoals  I've  marked  'em  Judging  in  the  Pitf 
Tho'  they're  on  no  pretence  for  judgment  fit, 
But  that  they  have  been  damned  for  wtnt  of  wit 
Since  when  they,  by  their  own  ofitecei  ttagfat, 
Set  up  for  spies  on  pUys  and  finding  ftnlt^ 

C  !*•  *• 


4«k  S.  VII.  JUHB  10, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


491 


Mijmmt-Httntino.— The  enclosed  cutting  from 
the  Homeward  Mail  of  April  22,  being  the  first 
notice  of  the  discovery  of  mummies  in  India,  from 
which  important  historical  deductions  may  be 
expected,  may  perhaps  not  be  unacceptable  for 
republication  in  "N.  &  Q.":  — 

*'  MuMMT-HuMTiKO. — Greneial  Cunningham,  the  snper- 
lOtendent  of  the  Archnological  Survey  in  India,  is  now 
in  Lahore,  and  mummy-hnnteiB  are  invited  to  communi- 
cate with  him.  The  Indian  Public  Opinion  says :— <  We 
think  that  eveiything  valuable  that  may  be  found  should 
be  sent  to  Europe,  where  alone  the  men  are  found  who 
have  both  the  learning  and  the  leisure  to  compare  and 
complete  scientiiic  investigations.  Nothing  would  be 
more  ridiculous  and  ephemeral  than  to  attempt  to  create  a 
pseudo- Athens  in  some  comer  of  India.  The  less  General 
Cunningham  trusts  to  subordinate  official  agency,  and 
the  more  he  encourages  independent  inooiry,  the  greater 
will  be  the  results  which  his  mission  will  achieve.' " 

R  R  W.  E. 

"AirwiB  Lattbib." — The  birth  of  this  young 
lady,  80  well  known  to  many  of  your  readers,  is 
quaintly  recorded  by  her  father  Sir  Robert  Laurie, 
of  Maxwelltown,  in  the  family  register  in  these 
words :  — 

**  At  the  pleasure  of  the  Almighty  God,  mv  daughter, 
Anna  Laurie,  was  borne  upon  the  16***  day  of  December, 
16S2  years,  about  six  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  was 
baptised  by  M'  Geo."  [Hunter,  of  Glencairn]. 

And  his  own  marriage  is  given  in  the  same  quaint 

style :  — 

"  At  the  pleasure  of  the  Almighty,  I  was  married  to 
my  wife  Jean  Riddell  upon  the  27*1'  day  of  July,  1674,  in 
the  Tron  Kirk  of  Edinb.,  by  M'  Annans." 

These  statements  I  fbid  in  the  valuable  coUec- 

tion  of  manuscripts  left  by  the  late  Mr.  W.  F.  H. 

Arundell,  and  wnich  his  son,  W.  F.  Hunter  Arun- 

dell,  Fsq.,  of  Baxjarg  Tower,  Dumfriesshire,  has 

kindly  allowed  me  to  examine  and  make  use  of. 

They  contain  a  vast  fund  of  curious  information 

respecting  the  antiquities  and  county  families  of 

Dumfriesshire.    Many  of  your  readers  will  know 

that  Annie  was  wooed  by  William  Douglas  of 

Fingland,  in  Kirkcudbrightshire.   Her  charms  are 

thus  spoken  of  in  his  pathetic  lyric,  '*  Bonnie 

Annie  Laurie  " :  — 

**  Her  brow  is  like  the  snaw-drift. 

Her  neck  is  like  the  swan. 
Her  fiace  it  is  the  fairest 

That  e'er  the  sun  shone  on. 
That  e'er  the  sun  shone  on. 

And  dark  blue  is  her  e'e ; 
And  for  bonnie  Annie  Laurie 

I'd  lay  me  down  and  die." 

She  was,* however,  obdurate  to  his  passionate 
appeal,  preferring  Alexander  Fergusson  of  Craig- 
darrocn,  to  whom  she  was  eventually  manned. 
This  William  Douglas  was  said  to  have  been  the 
hero  of  the  well-known  song, ''  Willie  was  a  wan- 
ton wag."  Though  he  was  refused  by  Annie,  he 
did  not  pine  away  in  single  blessedness,  but  made 
a  runaway  marriage  witn  Mias  Elizabeth  Clerk  of 


Glenboig,  in  Galloway,   by  whom  he  had  four 
sons  and  two  daughters.  C.  T.  Kaicage. 

Pabodibs. — ^The  recent  mention  of  parodies  in 

'^  N.  &  Q."  has  reminded  me  of  some  bnes  which 

originated  in  this  country,  in  imitation  of  the 

w^-known  verse  in  Moore's  LaUa  Bookh: — 

"  I  never  nursed  a  dear  gazelle. 

To  glad  roe  with  its  soil  black  eye. 
But  when  it  came  to  know  me  well 
And  love  me,  it  was  sure  to  die." 

Thus  imitated :  — 

"  I  never  had  a  piece  of  toast. 
Particularly  long  and  wide. 
But  fell  upon  the  sanded  floor. 
And  always  on  the  bntter'd  side." 

And  Hood's  beautiful  little  poem  commencing — 

**  I  remember,  I  remember. 

The  house  where  I  was  bom," — 

has  given  rise  to   an  imitation,  two  verses  of 
which  are  — 

"  I  remember,  I  remember, 

The  day  that  I  was  bom. 
When  first  I  saw  this  breathing  world. 

All  naked  and  forlom. 
They  wrapped  me  in  a  linen  doth. 

And  then  in  one  of  friese; 
And  tho*  I  could  not  speak  just  then. 

Yet  I  contrived  to  sneeze. 

"  I  remember,  I  remember. 

Old  ladies  came  from  far ; 
Some  said  I  was  like  mother  dear. 

But  others  thought  like  par  ; 
Tet  all  agreed  I  had  a  head. 

And  most  expressive  eves ; 
The  latter  were  about  as  large 

As  plums  in  Christmas  pies." 


Unbda. 


Philadelphia. 


PoLiTiGAL  Satirical  Dbakas. — ^I  perceive,  by 
an  advertisement  in  <'  N.  &  Q.,"  that  No.  260  of 
the  Quarterk/  Review  contains  an  article  on  the 
''first' Lord  Shaftesbury."  Not  having  in  this 
remote  locality  an  opportunity  of  seeing  that  pe- 
riodical, I  am  curious  to  learn  if  any  reference  is 
made  in  it  to  what  was  no  uncommon  practice  in 
his  lordship's  time,  that  of  introducing  real  cha- 
racters on  the  stage  for  the  purpose  of  satirising 
them.  Lord  Shaftesbury  was  so  assailed  by  Drv- 
den  in  an  opera  entitled  Albion  ondAXbetnie,  ''The 
subject  of  this  piece,"  as  Baker  says  in  his  J?u>- 
graphia  Dramatical  "  is  wholly  allegoricaL  being 
intended  to  expose  Lord  Shaftesbury  and  his  ad- 
herents;" but  neither  Baker  nor  the  learned  Dr. 
Johnson  seem  to  be  aware  that  a  more  violent  and 
virulent  satire  upon  the  same  individual  is  to  be 
found  in  Otway's  play  of  Venice  Preurved*  Baker 
quotes  Dr.  Johnson  as  truly  describing  those  por- 

[  *  Mr.  Christie  (ii.  429,  et  aeq,)  treats  of  the  attacks  on 
Shaftesbury  by  Diyden,  Butler,  Duke,  and  Otway. — 
Ki>. «  N.  &  Q.*] 


492 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4tk  8.  viL  Jum  lo,  71. 


tions  of  the  play,  now  never  represented,  and  in 
which  the  leaaing  character  is  Antonio,  as ''  des- 
picable scenes  of  vile  comedy."  All  the  vices 
assigned  to  Antonio  were  intended  to  depict 
Anthony  Earl  of  Shaftesbury;  and  it  was  on 
account  of  these  very  scenes  that  the  play  was  a 
favourite  with  Charles  IT.  These  statements  are 
made  from  my  recollection  of  what  I  read  in  (but 
unfortunately  did  not  make  a  note  of  ^  a  periodical 
entitled  The  Drama^  and  published  m  London  in 
1821.  The  probability  of  its  correctness  rests  upon 
the  fact  that  both  parties,  at  that  period  of  Eng- 
lish histoiy,  were  merciless  in  their  treatment  of 
each  other,  and  made  use  of  the  forms  of  a  drama 
to  gratify  their  detestation  of  their  adversaries* 
Look,  for  instance,  to  Baker's  account  of  the  fol- 
lowing pieces :  Abdicated  Prince ;  The  Assembly ; 

BmnMed  Duke  t  Blessings  ofP ;  Bloody  Duke ; 

The  Cabal;  City  Pditiques;  Cola's  Fury,  ^-c.  ^c. 

An  instructive  history  might  be  written  upon 
the  political  satirical  drama  as  founded  by  Aris- 
tophanes, and  perpetuated  in  England  until  the 
last  century.  Wx.  B.  Mac  Case. 

Monoontour-d&'Bretagne,  Gdtes  dn  Nord,  France. 

Tbths  Enjoyment. — That  most  accomplished 
and  kindlv  country  gentleman,  the  late  J.  B.  S. 
Morritt  of  Rokeby,  inviting  a  friend  to  his  house, 
writes  (February  1840)  m  this  courteous  and 
genial  strain : — 

**  Tou  are  not  to  be  in  any  harry,  bnt  obliging  and 
obedient,  and  to  stay  a  long  visit,  and  see  all  my  favourite 
lions,  and  enjoy  what  I  always  prefer  to  all  other  enjov- 
ments  of  society — a  friend's  house  and  fine  weather  in  the 
countrv;  that  which  Sir  William  Temple  says  is  like 
home  but  not  homelv,  and  like  solitude  without  being 
lonely." 

0. 

DEFiNinoN  OF  Consols. — ^Mr.  D'Israeli,  some 
lime  since,  in  the  House  of  Commons,  referring 
to  Sydney  Rmith's  mot  on  the  subject,  spoke  en 
the  *'  sweet  simplicity  of  Consols/'  which  has  gone 
tiie  round  of  the  press.  Unless  my  memory  is  at 
fault,  the  expression  used  by  the  witty  canon  of 
St  PauVs  was  ''  the  eteyant  simplicity  of  the  three . 
per  cents."  U.  A.  Kbnnbbt. 

Eldon  House,  Rea^g. 

Saved  bt  a  Fish. — ^The  following  cutting  firom 

The  Times  of  April  20  is  worthy  of  a  comer  in 

"  N.  &  Q."  :— 

**  That  the  ocean  abounds  with  wonders  is  daily  being 
exemplified,  and  seldom  more  forcibly  so  than' in  the 
expeiience  of  Captain  Ward  of  the  bark  Providence,  of 
Hartlepool,  who  has  just  retnmed  from  Dantsio,  at 
which  port  he  wasfrosen  np  Aoriog  the  latQ  severe  winter. 
He  states  that  daring  his  ootward  voyage  to  that  port,  in 
November  last,  the  ship  sprang  a  severe  leak  daring  a 
^ale  in  the  Baltic,  and  his  crew  were  all  bnt  exhausted 
in  their  efforts  at  the  pumps  to  reduce  it  One  day  she 
suddenly  stopped  making  more  water,  and  eventually 
the  vessel  reached  Dantzic  safely.  After  the  dischaive 
of  the  cargo  a  search  was  made  for  the  leak,  resolting  in 


the  discovQiy  of  a  hole  in  the  centre  of  one  of  Uie  after 
planks  from  the  yielding  of  a  knot  in  the  wood,  sad  ia 
this  aperture  was  wedged  a  dead  fish,  whot^  coUiaon 
with  the  vessel' when  alive  had  been  the  evident  catiw  of 
the  stoppage  of  the  leak,  and  oonsequent  salvatbn,of  the 
ship  and  crew." 

The  name  of  the  ship  is  not  a  litde*  remark- 
able—" The  Providence.^' 

I  remember  reading  some  years  ago  of  a  similir 
act  of  Providence^  but  have  no  further  note  of  it 

GsosGE  Lloyd. 

Cramlington. 

Cjeiatjcer*8  Wobxs,  ed.  Stowe,  1561.— It  is 
worth  notice,  that  in  Stowe*s  SuppLement  to 
Thynne's  edition  of  Chaucer's  Works  (Godfraj, 
1532),  which  Stowe  heads— ''f[  Here  foloweth 
certaine  woorkes  of  Geffray  Chauser,  whichehath 
not  here^  tofore  been  printed,  and  are  gathered 
and  added  to  this  booke  by  Jhon  Stowe,"  the  first 
Balade  of  three  stanzas  on  Gentilnesse,  or  Yirtoes 
not  being  horeditary,  was  not  only  printed  hj 
Wynkyn  de  Wcnfde  (Univ.  Lib.  Cambr.),  and 
by  Thynne  in  his  edition  of  1532,  at  leaf  380, 
Scogan's  moral  Poem  to  the  Lords  and  Gentle- 
men of  the  Kiuff's  House  (where  alone  this  fiakde 
is  preserved),  but  was  also  printed  bj  Stowe 
himself  on  leaf  335,  col.  2,  in  nis  reprint  of  this 
same  poem  of  Scogan's,  leaf  334  back-dS5  btck. 
There  are  a  few  tnfling  differences  in  the  words 
of  the  two  copies  in  Stowe.  F.  J.  F. 


duerinf* 


AccoiKTANCB. — ^Has  thia  word  ever  been  used 
by  English  authors,  as  is  to  be  inferred  from  Mm 
llirale^s  letter  to  her  grand  ftiend,  and  in  the 
French  acceptation  of  its  meaning  (from  the  Lstio 
ad  comitare — 'Uiaison  ordinairement  illicite  d'un 
homme  avec  une  femme  **)  ?  Mra  Thrale,  M« 
which  homely  English  name  we  all  seem  to  pre- 
fer her,  writes  in  Februaiy,  1782 :  — 

'^  Looking  over  some  French  melanges  yesterdar,  I 
observed  that  M.  PAhbd  d*Artigny  used  the  word  accoin- 
iance ;  it  was  a  new  thing  to  me,  and  one  of  which  I 
had  no  notion  hefore.  Pray  how  came  it  iato  oar  lao- 
gnage  ?  "—  Vide  Mrs.  Houi^B  eollection  of  Uttert  to  a«/ 
from  the  late  Samud  Jolmmmf  LL.D^  2  vols.,  Uioiafh 
1788,  vol.  ii.  p.  238. 

There  is  no  answer  to  this  question  in  any  of 
Dr.  Johnson's  subsequent  letters;  which,  by  the 
way,  make  us  love  him  more  than  any  of  his  great 
works,  and  well  deserve  that  little  s^f-praise  of 
himself  and  his  letters:  "Anch'  to  so»o pitiore. 

(Vide  antk,  ibid,  voL  ii.  p.  14.) 

Hebmank  KnrDi. 

Germany. 

«  ADAHAiiTiirB  Csinra.?'— Oan  any  reader  sup- 
ply me  with  examples  <^  tins  fine  ez^resHon  othsr 

than  the  following  ?  •-. 


4«»>  S.  VII.  Ju»B  10,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


493 


JE/KhjlvOf  Prometh€UM,  ]in«  6. 

**  Adamante  texto  rincire." 

Seneca,  Hereulea  FuretUf  807. 

"  Bat  her  in  cbaines'of  Adamant  he  tyde; 
For  nothing  else  might  keepe  her  safe  and  sonnd." 
Spenser,  Faerie  Queene^  book  ii.  canto  xii.  82. 

'*  In  adamantine  chains  and  penal  fire.'* 

Milton,  ParadiMe  Loit,  book  i.  line  48. 

"In  adamantine  chains  shall  Death  be  bound." 

Pope,  Metiiahf  verse  47. 

**  Bound  in  thy  adamantine  chain." 

Graj,  jffymn  to  Adversity, 

TnS  RSDOBOSSB  K17I6HT. 

Airoimcous.'— I  have  now  in  my  possesrion  the 
foUowing : — 

<*  The  Ivdgement  of  a  most  reuerend  and  learned  Man, 
from  beyond  the  Seas,  concerning  a  Threefold  Order  of 
Bishops,  with  a  Declaration  of  oertaine  othef  waightie 
Points  concerning  the  Discipline  and  Govemement  of  the 
Church." 

Who  was  the  author  P  Where  was  it  printed  P 
What  is  its  date?  I  cannot  find  it  in  Bohn's 
Lowndes.  It  is  bound  up  with.  "  A  Lamentable 
Comphiint  of  the  Commonalty,"  "  The  Vnlawf uU 
Practises  of  Prelates,"  and  *'  A  Booke  of  the  Forme 
of  Common  Prayers,  Administration  of  the  Sacra- 
ments, &c,  agreeable  to  Gods  Worde,  and  the 
Vse  of  tiie  reformed  Chyrches." 

J.  M.  COWPXB. 

AwTiQUB  Heads  m  Mbdi-bval  Seals.— In  the 
fifth  volume  of  Archeeologia  Citntiana  are  several 
seals  of  Stephen  de  Thuraham,  Mahel  de  Galton, 
and  Rohert  de  Thumham,  twelfth  and  thirteenth 
centuries,  which  have  an  interesting  feature  which 
I  do  not  think  has  heen  noticed.  Each  of  the 
small  counter-seals  has  in  the  centre  an  antique 
head  or  device,  doubtless  taken  from  Roman  and 
other  intaglios  inserted  in  the  probably  gold  seal. 
The  one  at  p.  208  appears  to  be  an  early  Eastern 
signet  with  inscription.  Could  any  reader  ex- 
plain the  inscription  ?  It  is  not  unusual  to  find 
old  engraved  gems  inserted  in  book  covers,  church 

Elate,  or  such  things ;  but  I  do  not  remember  to 
ave  seen  tiiem  so  early  used  again  as  seals. 

J.  C.  J. 

Babylonian  Bbioks. — ^In  the  sun-dried  bricks 
which  the  Israelites  were  required  to  make  for 
the  Egyptians,  the  chopped  straw  which  they  con- 
tained would  serve  as  a  binding  material,  but. in 
the  kiln-baked  bricks  it  would  be  entireW  burnt 
away ;  yet  we  find  that  the  Romans,  at  a  far  later 
period,  in  Uieir  kilns  at  Castor  (JDurobrvva)  had 
mixed  vegetable  matters  with  the  clay  walls  of  the 
kilns.  What  purpose  was  this  admixture  intended 
to  serve,  and  is  ix  ever  resorted  to  in  the  modem 
manufacture  of  bricks  P  M.  D. 

A  Cabicatube  Qttert. — ^There  is  a  caricature, 
dated  1817,  entitled  ''  The  Horse  Marine  and  his 
Trumpeter  in  a  Squall,"  referring  to  the  appoint- 


ment of  the  Marquis  of  Worcester  as  a  Lord  of 
the  Admiralty.  The  marquis  is  represented  in 
his  hussar  uniform,  riding  a  sea-horse  in  a  turbu- 
lent sea;  beside  him  swims  a  water-rat;  before 
him,  floating  on  a  ^'  Walcheren  log,"  is  his  trum- 
peter, a  bald-headed  Triton  in  a  harlequin's 
jacket  Query :  Who  are  the  trumpeter  and  the 
water-rat?  A.  P. 

Cleopatra  :  was  she  Eqtphan  or  Greex  P — 
In  M.  G^rome's  "  Cl^opatre  apport^e  k  C^sar  dans 
un  tapis,"  now  exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy, 
I  was  astonished  to  find  Cleopatra  represented 
with  the  fleshy  sensual  features  and  yellow  skin 
of  an  Egyptian  woman.  I  had  always  looked 
u|»on  her  as  a  Greek.  M.  G^r5me  must,  no  doubt, 
think  that  he  has  authority  for  representing  her 
as  he  has  done ;  ^but  where  does  he  find  his 
authority  P  I  have  taken  some  trouble  in  inves- 
tigating the  matter,  and  I  cannot  discover  that 
she  had  a  single  drop  of  Egyptian  blood  in  her 
veins;  and  if  sne  had  not,  surely  the  residence  of 
her  family  in  Egypt  for  some  two  hundred  and 
fifty  years  would  not  alone  suffice  to  give  the 
most  notorious  member  of  it  purely  Egyptian 
features  and  Egyptian  skin.  The  Americans  of 
the  United  States  have  not  yet  become  North 
American  Indians,  although  some  maintain  they 
are  upon  the  road. 

It  IS  true  that  Cleopatra  seems  to  have  had  two 
slight  tinges  of  Persian  blood;*  and  that  her 
fauier  rptolemy  Auletes)  and  her  ipother  are  said 
both  01  them  to  have  been  illegitimate  children 
of  Ptolemy  Lathyrus  by  an  unnaown  mother  (or 
mothers).  But  even  supposing  this  imknown 
mother  (or  mothers)  to  nave  been  Ejgyptian-r- 
which  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose — this  and  the 
tinges  of  Persian  blood  would  not  have  converted 
a  Greek  race  into  a  purely  Egyptian  one.f 

The  copies  of  the  coins  of  tine  Ptolemies,  ^ven 
in  Smith's  Diet,  of  Horn,  and  Orec,  Biograpf^  and 
Mythology f  show  us  thoroughly  Grecian  fiices. 
Cleopatra's  face  is  less  Grecian  than  the  rest,  but 
only  because  it  is  more  Roman.  But  perhaps 
these  coins  are  of  little  value.  F.  Change. 

Sydenham  Hill. 

Cottle,  the  Poet. — Joseph  Cottle,  poet  and 
publisher  of  Bristol,  the  friend  of  Southey  and 
Uoleridge^  and  Amos  Cottle  the  poet,  were  brothers. 
From  which  branch  of  the  Cottle  family  did  they 

*  Ptolexny  Epiphanes  married  Cleopatra,  dauffbter  of 
Antiochtu  III.,  or  the  Great.  Her  mother,  Laodice,  was 
daughter  of  Mithridates  IV.,  King  of  Pontas ;  and  An- 
tiocnufl  I.  also  married  a  Perrian  lady  named  A.pama. 

f  The  practice  of  marrying  their  own  sisters,  so  com- 
mon among  the  Ptolemiec^  would  naturally  tend  to  the 
perpetuation  of  the  peculiarities  of  the  founders  of  the 
race.  Cleopatra,  owing  to  the  illegitimacy  of  her  parents, 
had  the  bcmeflt  of  one  and  perhaps  two  crosses:  and  very 
likely,  I  think,  she  owed  at  least  a  portion  of  her  ahflity 
and  beauty  to  this  drenmBtaace. 


494 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[•I'l'S.  VII.  Junk  10.71. 


descend  P  They  used  the  arms  of  the  Cottells  of 
North  Tawton,  Devon ;  but  hitherto  I  have  failed 
to  trace  their  connection  with  thenii  notwith- 
standing that  the  uncommon  name  of  Amias  or 
Aniod  fre<]^uentlj  appears  in  the  pedigree  of  that 
familj  during  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  cen- 
turies. Any  information  connected  with  the 
descent  of  these  brothers  will  be  thankfully 
received.  W.  H.  Cottbll. 

Brixton  Road,  S.W. 

Lord  Falkland,  Db.  Doitkb,  and  Sib  Ed- 
ward Dtbr. — Intending  to  include  in  the  Mis-' 
cellanies  of  the  Fuller  Worthies^  Library  as 
complete  a  collection  as  possible  of  the  hitherto 
uncollected  poetnr  of  Lora  Falkland,  allow  me  to 
ask  readers  of  *'  N.  &  Q.*'  to  favour  me  with  refer- 
ences to  any  preserved  in  manuscript  or  in  unlikely 
books.  I  name  the  latter  because  one  of  his  most 
characteristic  poems  is  found  prefixed  to  an  anony- 
mous funeral  sermon  for  the  Countess  of  Hunt- 
ingdon. I  know  of  course  Lad]r  Theresa  Lewis's 
'^  Memoir  of  Lord  Falkland ''  in  her  admirable 
Lives  ofihe  Clarendon  Family,  and  also  the  pains- 
taking articles  in  the  New  Series  of  the  UenUe^- 
mmCs  Magazine  (1835-1839),  as  well  as  the 
invariable  authorities.  What  I  desiderate  are 
MSS.  (including  letters)  and  books  (either  or 
both)  that  may  be  accidentally  known  to  indi- 
viduals. 

Further :  as  my  work  on  the  FuUer  Worthiei 
edition  of  the  complete  Poems  of  Dr.  Donne 
(with  numerous  additions  from  MSS.  of  rare  value 
and  interest)  is  well  advanced,  I  ask  help  in  eluci- 
dation of  the  many  initials  of  his  poetry;  and 
perhaps  M.  Tisdexan  or  other  Dutch  correspond- 
ent 01  "  N.  &  Q."  may  be  able  to  oblige  me  with 
the  title-page  and  contents  of  a  Dutch  translation 
of  Donne  s  PoemB  very  amusingly  referred  to  by 
Llewellyn  in  his  Man-Miraclee  (1646),  Or  by 
Dutch  is  German  meant?  I  am  curious  to  know 
if  so  early  as  1646  there  really  was  a  translation 
of  Donne's  poetry.  Finally :  can  any  one  inform 
me  where  a  copy  is  preserved  of  Sir  Edward 
Dyer's  SLxe  IdyUia  (1588)  P         A.  B.  Grosabt. 

St.  George's,  Blackburn,  Lancashire. 

F^fiRETiNaA  Saga. —  I  have  seen  in  an  old 
volume  of  one  of  the  quarterly  reviews  (I  forget 
which,  and  am  unable  again  to  find  it)  a  review 
of  this  Icelandic  saga,  ''done  into  English  "  in  the 
year  sixteen  hundred  and  something.  As  the  text 
of  the  sa^  was  not  printed  till  1832, 1  presume 
this  English  translation  must  have  been  made 
from  the  Latin  version  of  Torfasus,  published  at 
Copenhagen  in  1695.  A  reference  to  the  review 
or  any  account  of  the  English  translation,  will 
greatly  oblige.  W. 

FicrnoN  and  Fact. — It  is  not  two  years  since  I 
read  in  a  magazine  a  story,  the  hero  of  which,  a 
jeweller's  assistant,  was  robbed  under  much  tiie 


same  conditions  as  those  attendant  on  the  Torpej 
exploit.  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  reminded  where 
this  highly  ingenious  and  suggestive  iiairatiTe 
appeared.  I  believe  it  was  in  Chambers  s  JoumaL 
I^rhaps  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Torpey  may  have  been 
accustomed  to  improve  their  mmds  therewith. 

St.  Swithik. 

Fire  at  Methbringham.  —  The  Comnum 
Jottmals,  vol.  vii.  p.  680,  eontains  the  notice  of  a 
presentation  to  the  House  of  Commons,  on  Junell, 
1669,  of  the  petition  of  Edward  Shore  and  Wil- 
liam Dickenson,  nn  behalf  of  themselves  and  other 
inhabitants  of  Metheringham,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  praying  for  "  a  publick  contribution  for 
their  loss  by  fire.''  A  certificate  under  the  hands 
of  several  justices  of  peace  was  annexed. 

Can  any  one  inform  me  where  I  shall  find  any 
further  'account  of  this  catastrophe?  Can  the 
original  petition  and  certificate  be  in  existence? 

Edward  Peacoci. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Garroovs  or  Garrons.— Can  anyone  tell  me 
the  meaning  of  this  word — perhaps  Irish?  It 
occurs  several  times  in  Whitelocke's  Memorudf^ 
in  enumerating  the  animals  taken  from  the  Irish 
rebels :  for  instance,  '^  They  took  about  200  gar- 
roons,  300  cows,  and  400  sheep  and  goats";  or 
again,  ''They  took  many  himdreds  of  cows  and 
garrons."  T.  W.  Webb. 

[A  fforron  ia  a  small  horse,  a  galloway,  that  ia,  a  hoise 
not  more  than  fourteen  hands  nigh,  much  nsed  in  the 
North.  Spelman  savs,  '*Jamenta,  sen  caballi  oolooici, 
are  in  Ireland  called  garronM,  a  strong  horse,  a  hackney 
or  work  horse."] 

Glattok  (4»»»  S.  vii.  364,446.)—The«GlattoD^ 

man-of-war,  lately  launched,  is,  I  belieTe,  named 

after  an  armed  merchant  vessel,  called  also  the 

"  Gf atton,"  and  which,  in  the  last  war  between 

England  and  France,  was  engaged  in  a  desperate 

and  successful  action  with  two  or  more  French 

ships.    This  armed  merchant  vessel  was,  I  believe, 

fitted  out  by  some  traders  at  Glatton,  a  place  in 

Cornwall,  I  think.    Perhaps  those  more  fortunate 

than  myself  in  having  boolcB  in  which  to  seek  for 

the  necessary  information    on  the  subject  will 

establish  my  statement  as  true,  or  upset  it. 

a  a:  St.  J.  M. 

Herbert.— On  the  Puddledock  estate  in  Prince 
George  county,  Virginia,  is  a  large  tombstone 
erected  to  the  memory  of  John  Herbert,  bearing 
the  following  inscription : — 

"  Here  lyeth  interred  the  body  of  John  Hcrber^the 
son  of  John  Herbert,  apothecary,  and  grandson  of  Richard 
Herbert,  citizen  of  London,  who  departed  this  life  the  l'" 
daye  of  March  1704,  in  the  46*^  year  of  his  age.** 

Above  the  inscription  is  a  crest  and  coat  of 
arms :  the  former  representing  a  bundle  of  seren 
arrows,  points  downwards ;  and  the  latter  three 
lions  rampant. 


4«»»  S.  VII.  JoNE  10,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


495 


From  whom  was  tliis  Bicliard  Herbert  (circa 
1650)  descended  P  Ndolod. 

Jean  SB  MiLox. — 

"  Jean  de  Milon,  a  famons  physieian,  who  wxote  in  the 
seventeenth  century,  and  addressed  his  aphorisms  to  a 
king  of  England."— ITott  and  Gueai,  by  A.  Y.  Kirwan. 
London,  1864,  p.  261. 

I  shall  be  ^atly  obliged  by  any  information  as 
to  whether  his  works  have  been  published,  and  if 
so,  where  and  when.  T.  W.  C. 

CuL,  CoTTL. — ^This  is  a  common  prefix  to  place- 
names  in  Scotland,  probably  of  Celtic  orinn.  One 
of  the  Ochills  is  called  C'ou/,  and  in  Kossshire 
there  is  a  large  property  of  the  same  designation. 
We  have  Caulbum  in  Strathclyde,  Ctdcaini  in 
the  counties  of  Inverness  and  Ross,  and  Cukhum 
in  Argyleshire.  Are  we  to  consider  OuHoden  an 
example  of  the  same  prefix  P  Is  CuU,  '^rhich  also 
appears,  to  be  considered  of  the  same  origin  P 
(JuUer  appears  in  the  counties  of  Aberdeen, 
Peebles,  and  Lanark.  Can  anyone  give  us  a 
meaning  which  will  be  ap{>Iicable  to  most  of  these 
place-names  P  In  the  Irish  language  we  have 
Ctdian  said  to  mean  **  place  of  hazels.*'  CoU,  Is 
this  connected  with  the  Scotch  CttUen  P 

J.  M'K. 

Jewish  Mabbxaoe  Knros. — ^There  are  certain 
large  rings  which  are  broad  and  much  ornamented 
in  the  hoop,  and  have,  by  way  of  a  bezel,  a  small 
house,  temple,  or  tabernacle  projecting  from  them. 
They  are  generally  called  Jewish  marriage  rings, 
and  have  usually  a  Hebrew  inscription  on  them, 
meaning,  I  am  told,  "  Good  be  with  us."  I  have 
been  very  credibly  informed  that  no  such  rings 
are  used  in  the  Jewish  marriage  ceremony ;  and 
I  should  esteem  it  a  favour  if  any  one  can  inform 
me  whether  they  are  really  Jewish  marriage  rings 
or  not,  and  whether  they  are,  or  ever  were,  used 
in  the  Jewish  marriage  ceremony.  If  they  were 
used  in  former  times,  when  that  usage  ceased  P 
And  if  they  are  not  used  at  such  marriage,  what  is 
their  use  and  meaning  P  The  universal  Hebrew 
inscription  seems  to  favour  the  idea. 

I  have  a  large  and  very  broad  gold  hoop  ring : 
round  the  top  and  bottom  of  the  hoop  is  a  thick 
twisted  cord  or  rope ;  and  the  intermediate  band 
of  the  hoop  is  composed  of  three  groups,  repre- 
senting the  Creation  of  Eve,  the  Temptation,  and 
the  Expulsion  from  Paradise.  These  groups  are 
ornamented  with  translucid  enamel;  and  being 
pierced  work,  there  is  a  lining.  I  am  told  that  it 
IS  a  Jewish  rinfi^.  There  is,  however,  no  Hebrew 
inscription,  and  I  doubt  if  the  Jews  would  have 
made  a  graven  image  of  the  Creator.  Can  any 
one  tell  me  what  the  use  and  intention  of  that 
ring  may  have  been  P  It  is  nearly  an  inch  deep, 
and  an  inch  across. 

I  am  very  anxious  to  obtain  a  sergeant^s  ring. 
They  are  veiy  uncommon,  though  vast  numbers 


must,  or  at  least  ought  to  have  been  made.  What 
becomes  of  them  all  P  for  one  never  sees  them  in 
shops  or  sales.  Where  am  I  likely  to  meet  with 
one  P  GoTAviuB  Mobga  v. 

10,  Charles  Street,  St.  James's. 

Kalendis. — There  is  a  curious  use  of  this  word 
in  Wyclif 's  Sermons,  lately  published  under  the 
editorship  of  Mr.  Thos.  Arnold.  Wyclif  is  speak- 
ing of  the  knowledge  that  shall  be  given  to  the 
blessed :  '^  And  in  tokene  of  kalendis  of  fis  Poule 
telli])  of  himdlf  how  he  was  caught  up  into 
heaven,"  &c.  (ii.  263.)  And  again  (on  the  next 
page^  :  "  pe  biidde  hevene  is  by  undurstonding,  as 
seintis  seen  that  ben  in  blisse ;  and  kalendis  of  piB 
ei3t  hadde  Poul  whan  he  was  ravyshid."  Mr. 
Arnold's  note  is,  that  the  word  ''seems  to  be  used 
in  the  sense  of '  first-fruits '  or  'initiation.' "  Can 
any  of  your  correspondents  give  me  another  in- 
stance of  the  word  oeing  used  in  this  way  P  * 

F.  D.  M. 

LiTUBGiCAL  Query. — Can  any  of  your  Catholic 
readers  inform  me  when  theOffhium  Defunctorum 
in  its  present  form  was  first  used,  and  (if  known) 
by  whom  it  was  composed  P  And  especially,  how 
early  in  the  history  of  the  Church  can  traces  be 
found  of  the  use  of  the  De  Profundis  and  of  lec- 
tions from  the  book  of  .Job,  in  connection  with  the 
obsequies  of  the  departed  P         Sabisbxjbiensis. 

Maimed  Solbiebs. — On  June  13, 1659,  a  com- 
mittee of  the  House  of  Commons  was  ordered  to 
prepare 

*'  A  list  of  the  names  of  maimed  soldiers  and  widows 
now  in  paj-  in  the  Savoy  and  Ely  house ;  and  of  what 
country  each  of  them  severally  are:  what  pensions  are 
payable  to  them,  and  how  they  may  be  provided  for  in 
the  several  counties  or  otherwise." — Com,  Jour,  vii.  682. 

Is  this  document  still  in  existence,  and  if  so, 
where  ?  Edwabd  Peacock. 

fiottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Sib  John  Mason  (4»»»  S.  vii.  365,  420.WI 
would  feel  extremely  obliged  if  P.  M.  could  tell 
me  whether  Sir  John  Mason  married  a  daughter 
of  the  Lord  Audley,  and  how  many  sons  he  had, 
and  what  is  known  of  their  descendants  in  the 
second  generation  P  H.  M. 

Medals  of  Oliveb  Cbohwell. — I  should  be 
pleased  if  any  subscriber  could  throw  any  light 
upon  the  following  paragraph,  as  to  which  par- 
ticular medal  is  referred  to ;  whether  it  was  any 
die  of  Thomas  Simon's,  or  one  engraved  by  the 
Dutch  in  imitation  of  his : — 

*•  Northampton  Mercury^  July  10th,  1788. 

London,  July  6. 

**  A  Cnrions  Dye  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  cut  in  London 
during  his  Usurpation,  was  lately  purchased  in  Flanders, 
and  brought  to  the  Tower,  where  the  Hon.  Richard  Amn- 
deU,  Esq.  has  given  leave  for  a  certain  Number  to  be 
struck  in  Gold  and  Silver  for  the  Curious."— Vide  Numis- 
matic Giromds^  old  series,  vol.  xi.  p.  108. 


496 


NOTES  AND  QUERIEyS.  lA^s.YU.Jmio,m. 


Is  any  medal  known  to  exist  like  that  engraved 
by  Vertue  in  his  Works  of  Simony  plate  XJI : — 
Small  oval,  size  1  inch  by  |  inch ;  one  side  only 
engraved ;  with  three-quajrter  face  bust  to  right| 
in  armour, bare-headed.  Inscription:  ''hitherto. 

HATH  .    THE  .   LORD   .   HELPED  .  VS."     No  medal 

of  the  kind  is  in  the  British  Museum^  and  I  have 
never  seen  or  otherwise  heard  of  a  specimen.  I 
mav  add  that  Vertue's  engraving  is  merely  copied 
by  Pinkerton  in  his  MedaUic  Hidory. 

I  should  also  be  thankful  to  receive  any  other 
information  respecting  unpublished  or  rare  coins 
and  medals  of  Oliver  Cromwell. 

Henbt  W.  Hbnvbbt. 

Markham  House,  Brighton. 

Pardon,  1660. — The  following  fragment  is  from 

the  Oddington  (Qlouc.)  register :  — 

^ as  examples  to  all  the  inhabitants 

.  .  .  who  shall  dnely  subscribe  their  names  hereunto, 
and  .  .  .  acceptation  of  the  said  Gracious  Pardon  to 
be  entered.  ....  Register  booke  of  pish  of  Odington 
aforesaid,  and  hereunto  subscribe  our  names  the  seaventh 
day  of  June,  In  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  Thousand 
size  hundred  and  sixty — 

William  Tray,  Minister  of  the  Gospel  at 
Odinston. 

John  ^len.  Churchwarden. 

Richard  Hickman,  Ck>nstable. 

John  Gardiner,  overseer  of  the  poors. 

John  Guy,  Robert  Grove,  John  Hill,  Jnn'. 

Robert  Henly,  William  Weale. 

Wai.  Barker." 

Can  any  one  supply  what  is  wanting  from  any 
like  entry^  or  give  mformation  on  this  fragment  P 

David  Kotcb. 

Parish  RseisTERs  op  Barbados  (4^  S.  vii. 
387.) — Will  A.  please  give  an  account  of  these 
registers,  their  present  condition,  earliest  dates, 
and  some  of  the  earlier  names  ?  Does  the  name 
of  Cutt  or  Cutts,  of  Iloel  or  Howell,  and  of 
Vaughan,  occur  in  them  ?  T. 

Professions.— I  shall  be  glad  to  be  referred  to, 
or  to  receive  from,  some  correspondent  an  accurate 
definition  of  the  word  profession  as  describing  the 
mode  by  which  a  man  earns  his  livelihood.  I  do 
not  find  it  in  the  newest  dictionaries  orencyclo- 
psddias.  The  '*  learned  '*  professions  are,  I  know, 
divinity,  law,  and  physic;  hut  there  is  also  the 
''profession  of  arms,"  which  applies,  I  suppose, 
equally  to  the  army  and  navy ;  and  many  others 
claim  to  be  included  in  the  class  of  professional 
men,  as  accountants,  architects,  auctioneers,  whose 
status  is  at  present  ill-defined.  W.  G.  J. 

A.  U.  Club. 


Sakdtoft  Kboister.  —  The  register  of  the 
French  chapel  of  Sandtoft,  on  the  level  of  Hatfield 
Chase,  was  in  existence  within  the  last  fiifty  or 
aixty  years.  I  have  made  inquiries  for  it  through 
the  medium  of  *'  N.  &  Q.,'>  ^  of  The  Timss  and 

f  [•  See  S^d  S.  iv.  71,  99 ;  ifi^  S.  r.  505.] 


The  AthentBum,  but  have  not  succeeded  in 
covering  its  present  place  of  deposit  I  think  that 
the  late  George  Pryme,  M.P.,  must  have  consulted 
it  at  some  period  of  his  life,  for  in  his  Autobio- 
graphic  Recolleetums^  p.  4,  are  some  extracts  from 
it  relating  to  his  own  family.  Can  it  be  possible 
that  among  his  pa{>ers  may  be  found  a  memo- 
randum stating  who  is  the  present  owner  P 

Edward  Pbaoool 

Selden'b  Ballads,  etc. — The  last  issue  of  the 
Surtees  Society,  the  Diary  of  Abraham  de  la 
Pryme^  the  Saffkld  Antiquary,  contfuns  a  state- 
ment that— 

"  Mr.  Selden,  the  famous  anti(|aaiy,  nthered  op  ill 
the  old  ballets  he  could  meet  with,  and  would  protest 
there  waa  more  truth  in  them  than  there  was  in  minjr  of 
.iUir  hiatoriane." — P.  67.  ^ 

This  memorandum  was  made  in  August,  16d5. 
Selden*s  books  are  most  of  them  in  the  Bodleian, 
but  I  do  not  think  his  collection  of  ballads  is 
among  them.    Can  any  one  tell  where  it  isP 

It  is  stated  in  another  place — 

'*  that  the  presbiteriana  in  Scotland  have  lately  ctued 
The  fPhoU  Duty  of  Man  to  be  burnt  by  the  common 
hangsman,  and  with  it  Whiatx>n'a  New  Theory  of  the 
Sarthr 

Did  this  really  happen,  or  is  it  but  a  bit  of  idle 
gOBsipP  A.O.y.F. 

Akciskt  Service.  —  In  a  thirteenih-oentu^ 
Psalter — which  has  for  centuries  been  in  EnglaDa, 
being  still  in  its  fifteenth-century  English  binding, 
and  having  as  usual  the  word  '^papa'^  and  the  name 
of  *'  S.  Thos.  Cant"  erased — ^there  are  the  following , 
names,  whose  country  and  dates  I  should  like  to 
know:  Gallicanus,  Momelphus;  Gondulphus  or 
Gundulphus,  Amulphus,  Trudo  Oda,  Foillanus, 
Chumbert,  Glodesandis.  Is  it  Anglo-Norman? 
In  the  Litany  is  a  prayer  ^'Pro  ezerdtu  frsnr 
corum." 

2.  At  the  end  is  a  very  long  serrice— "In 
nativitate  B.  M.  Vii^." ;  in  which,  by  way  of  con- 
versation, we  have :  "  Vox  Christi  ad  ecclesiam"; 
"  Vox  ecclesiRS  ad  Christum  "j  "  Vox  sponea  ad 
adolescehtulos."  Were  these  personified  a3  in 
miracle  plays  F    Is  this  service  known  ? 

J,C.J. 


LORD  PALMERSTON*S  DISMISSAL  FROM 

OFFICE. 

(4'»»  S.  V.  676 ;  vi.  38, 121,  204^  28a) 

If  I  have  not  sooner  replied  to  the  above,  it  i^ 
as  you  well*  know,  dear  Mr.  Editor,  becauw  I »» 
only  now  coming  into  the  pleasing  possession  of 
the  numbers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  which  appewed  dtt^ 
ing  the  war,  and  the  No.  144  I  was  longing  for 
only  just  reached    me  —  God    knows  ""  " 


m 


irhat 


4<k&yii.  Jimxio,'?!.! 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


497 


horrible  dicumstaneee,  when  one's  mind  is  OY«r- 
whelmed  by  tlie  unheard-of  calamities  of  our 
beloved  Paris  !  One  can  think  on  little  else,  as 
you  will  easilj  conceive  when — 

*'  Proziiniu  ardet 
Uca^gonl** 

and  that  at  every  moment  you  mav  learn  that 
your  own  house  is  petroUzed  and  on  nre.  Still  I 
must  needs  seek  ^r  some  diversion  to  my  too 
painful  thoughts. 

In  speaking  (p.  204)  of  Lord  Palmerston's  dis- 
missal, I  did  m  Tact  transcribe  the  note  ''literal  as 
it  isy"  and  I  veiy  respectfully  venture  to  say  to 
your  venerable  oorresnondent  (for,  if  I  err  not,  it 
was  E.  L.  S.  who  saia  somewhere  in  ''N.  &  Q," 
'^  I  have  a  more  than  boyish  remembrance  of  the 
noddy  as  far  back  as  1791 ")  I  see  nothing  in  my 
note  that  could  induce  him  to  think  '*  it  might 
have  been,"  much  less  that  it  could  '^certaimy 
appear  to  him  "  what  the  French  journalists  call  a 
commuMquS:  but  we  are  always  inclined  to  believe 
what  we  wish.  Some  day  I  hope  to  be  able  to 
commwiiquer  to  you,  Mr.  Editor,  Lord  Palmerston's 
original  to  Walewski  by  way  of  proving  my 
**  voucher." 

In  the  first  part  of  £.  L.  S/s  note  (p.  288) 
your  worthy  correspondent  says,  "The  Trench 
ambassador  m  London,  who  was  thereby  made  as 
thorough  a  traiior,*'  &c. ;  but  in  the  second  he 
says,  *' Walewski  (whose  innocence  of  the  coup  is 
a  curious  ingredient  in  the  matter.")  Innocence 
and  treason  are  far  apart — 


**  Utmm  homm  mavii  aedpe ! 


I* 


Now  allow  me  to  transcribe  a  passage  from  The 
Stcmdard  at  that  period.    It  is  intituled 

**  Lord  PaImeritom*§  Ruionation  Explained, — We  have 
xesBon  to  believe  that  the  following  is  a  correct  acconot 
of  the  jcanse  and  manner  of  Lord  Palmerston*!  resigna- 
tion:—On  8rd  of  December,  the  day  after  Louie  Xapo- 
leon's  coup  d'etat,  Connt  Walewski  saw  Lord  Palmerstoo, 
and  in  the  way  of  oonversatioo  entered  into  the  reasons 
whidi  bad  induced  the  President  to  adopt  so  bold  and 
octraordinary  a  measare,  discussed  the  previous  anoma- 
lous state  of  parties  in  France,  and  the  rival  claims  of 
the  L^timiflts,  Orleanlsts,  and  Socialist?,  the  assertion 
of  which  by  either  party  tended  directly  to  a  civil  war, 
and  finally  assured  Lord  Palmerston  of  the  earnest  desire 
of  the  President  to  maintain  friendly  relati<ms  with  the 
English  government.  Lord  Palmerston  replied  that  he 
had  only  heard  of  the  coup  d'etat  through  the  newspapers, 
that  it  was  neither  the  policy  nor  the  intention  of  her 
Hajes^s  government  to  meddle  with  the  internal  aflkirs 
of  trance,  that  no  doubt  the  state  of  parties  in  Franee 
was  inimical  to  the  stability  of  the  Republic,  and  that  it 
appeared  to  him  the  sncoess  of  the  President  would  save 
France  from  a  civil  war,  and  was  therefore  preferable  to 
the  triumph  of  any  of  the  other  parties.  This  conrersa- 
tion  took  place  before  any  of  the  details  of  the  coup  dtitat 
were  Imown  in  England,  and,  we  believe,  Count  Wa- 
lewski iaunediately  oommnnicated  the  substaooe  of  it  to 
his  own  government.  Either  on  the  same  day,  or  within 
one  or  two  days  after,  Coont  Walewski  saw  Lord  John 
Rnssdl,  Lord  Lansdowne,  Lord  Gr^y,  end  Sir  Charles 


Wood»  all  of  whom  ezpressed  themselves  substantially  to 
the  same  effect  as  Lord  Palmerston.  A  despatch  after- 
wards arrived  from  the  Marquis  of  Normanbv,  inquiring 
if  we  were  to  recognise  the  government  of  ii>uis  Napo- 
leon ;  which,  as  a  matter  of  coarse,  was  promptly  replied 
to  in  the  affirmative  by  the  Cabinet.  Lord  Normanby 
formal^  eommnnicated  this  answer  to  the  French  Foreign 
Office  on  Saturday,  6th  December.  The  French  govern- 
ment, which  was  not  too  friendly  with  the  noble  marquis, 
was  nettled  at  the  delay,  and  took  occasion  to  inform  him 
that  they  had  been  aware^  some  days  previously,  of  the 
friendly  dispositions  of  the  English  Cabinet;  at  the  same 
time  conveying  to  him  ¥erbfllUy  their  ambassador's  ac- 
count of  his  Gonveisation  with  Lord  Palmerston.  Upon 
receiving  this  intelligence  Lord  Normanby,  it  is  said, 
wrote  to  Lord  John  Bussell  in  a  tone  of  complaint  A 
correspondence  thereupon  ensued  between  Lord  John 
Russell  and  Lord  Palmerston;  the  former  requiring  to 
know  whether  Lord  Palmerston  had  had  an^  conversa- 
tion with  Count  Walewski  without  the  previous  know- 
ledge of  the  Cabinet,  and  the  latter  avowing  that  he  had, 
ancT  averring  that  it  would  be  impossible  to  carry  on  the 
duties  of  his  office  if  the  Foreign  Minister  had  to  oonsnk 
his  colleagues  prior  to  every  oonve^totion  between  him  aad 
a  foreign  ambassador.  The  result  of  this  correspondence 
was,  that  Lord  Palmerston  was  requested  to  resign  ~an 
event  which  we  believe  was  as  startling  to  eveiy  one  of 
the  Cabinet,  except  the  noble  Premier  (though  afterwards 
submitted  to  by  them),  as  it  was  to  the  whole  of  Europe. 
It  would  appear,  thei^re,  that  Lord  John  Russell  con- 
sidered that  a  Secretary  of  State  for  Foreign  Affairs  is 
not  justified  in  holding  a  conversation  with  a  foreign 
ambassador  upon  a  subject  connected  with  his  depart- 
ment without  the  previous  sanction  of  the  Cabinet;  but 
that  it  is  competent  to  a  first  minister  to  dispense  with 
the  services  of  so  important  a  member  of  the  government 
as  the  Foreign  Secretary,  without  any  previous  commu- 
nication yrith  the  Cabinet;  and  to  dispoise  with  his  ser- 
vices also,  for  doing  precisely  what  the  first  minister 
himself  and  others  of  his  colleagues  ha^  done." — 
Standard, 

Bat,  as  ''one  ffood  turn  deserves  another/'  in 
Feb.  1862,  Lord  John  Kussell,  who  had  thus 
ousted  Loid  Palmexston,  was  beaten  in  the  House 
(see  The  Times)  on  an  amendment  of  Lord  Pal- 
merstoui  and  forthwith  resigned.  P.  A.  L. 


MURAL  PAINTING  IN  STARSTON  CHURCH, 

NORFOLK. 

(4«»  S.  vi  passim:  vu.  40, 172,  245,  808,  410.) 

F.  G.  H.  replies  to  mv  communication  at  p.  410 
with  no  little  heat  were  it  not  so,  I  might  he 
disposed  to  express  a  regret  that  anything  should 
have  fallen  from  me  to  awaken  his  susceptihilities. 
As  it  is,  his  tone,  to  speak  mildly,  is  such  as  to 
relieve  me  from  any  '' ecHnpunctious  visitings.'* 
I  have  "  invented,'*  says  he,  "  a  new  theory  "  on 
this  suhject  The  old  ''theory''  is  not  then,  I 
suppose,  ''invented''  by  himselfl  As  he  still 
clings  pertinaciously  to  it,  it  is  due  to  A»m,  to 
myself,  and  to  your  readers,  that  I  should  now 
provej  what  I  liefore  asserted,  that  it  is  utterly 
^  untenable." 

First,  then,  I  must  refer  to  the  narrative  of  the 
"Death  and  Assumption  of  the  Virgin/'  as  given 


498 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»  g.  VII.  JuKB  10,  *7U 


in  the  Legmda  Awm,  Your  limited  space  for- 
bids me  to  qaote  m  extenao,  I  shall  therefore  only 
take  one  little  passi^  which  is  apt,  and  is  of 
itself  destructive  of  T.  0.  H/s  "  theory,"  as  it 
shows  that  the  soul  of  the  Virgin  was  immedi- 
ately received  by  the  arms  of  Christ,  therefore  not 
as  in  the  Staiston  painting.  Thus  the  legend, 
"  sicque  Marl®  anima  de  corpore  e^preditur  et  m 
tOnoB  JUa  advolaoit"  &c  Of  the  interpretation 
that  art  gave  to  tne  history  I  shall  now  speak. 
The  subject  has  two  phases ;  one,  the  assumption 
of  the  soul,  the  other  that  of  the  body.  It  is  of 
course  the  first  that  F.  C.  H.  refers  to.  In  the 
Guide  of  the  Greek  Church  published  by  M.Didron, 
which  contains  ancient  formuliB  for  the  artist's  use, 
is  found  this  one : — 

"A  boose.  In  the  midst  the  holyYiigin,  dead,  laid 
upon  a  bed,  the  huids  crossed  npon  her  breast.  On  each 
side,  near  the  bed,  fcnat  torches  and  lighted  tapers.  Be- 
fore the  bed,  a  Hebrew,  whose  hands,  cut  off,  are  attached 
to  the  bed,  and  near  him  an  angel  with  a  naked  sword. 
At  the  feet  of  the  holy  Virgin,  S.  Peter  censing  with  a 
censer.  At  her  head  S.  Panl  and  S.  John  the  Evangelist, 
who  embrace  it  All  around  the  other  Apostles  and  the 
holy  bishops,  S.  Denis,  the  Areopagite,  Jerothy  and 
Timotbj  holding  the  Gospels.  Women  in  tears.  Above, 
Chriit  holding  w  hiM  amu  the  soul  of  the  hofy  Vtrgin 
clothed  M  whUe^ 

In  Agincourt's  Htstoire  de   VArt,  etc.,  is^  an 
engraving  from  a  Kuthenic  picture  of  this  subject, 
date  the  eleventh  century.    It  exhibits  a  treat- 
ment very  similar  to  the  above  formula,  having 
the  incident  of  the  Hebrew,  the  angel  with  the 
sword,  tiie  Vimn  on  a  bed  or  bier  with  arms 
crossed  ^bove,  Christ  within  an  irradiated  aureole, 
holding  the  soul  of  the  Virgin.    Thus  the  narra- 
tive, the  formula,  and  the  illustrations   are  in 
accord.    But  to  show  the  persistence  of  eccle- 
siastical art  conventions,  in  my  copy  of  the  Cata" 
hgm  Sanctorum^  date  1606,  is  a  small  woodcut 
having  the  same  general  treatment,  though  with 
the  omission  of  some  minor  details;    the  main 
features  are  the  same,  although  five  centuries 
stand  between  them.  I  cite  tnese  instances  as  ready 
to  my  hand,  but  any  one  having  the  time  will  ada 
plenty  others  to  this  list  in  one  morning's  study 
amongst  the  MSS.  in  the  British  Museum.    In 
France,  the  west  fronts  of  Amiens,  Notre  Dame  at 
Paris,  and  very  many  others,  will  supply  examples 
of  like  character.    In  fact  there  is  no  subject  in 
mediasval  art  upon  which  there  is  less  excuse  for 
error  than  in  this.    But  it  is  a  curious  fact,  and 
apt  on  the  present  occasion,  to  note  that  M. 
Ilidron,  in  his  Iconoffraphie  ChrHunnef  warns  us 
not  to  confound  the  Ajsumption  of  the  Viivin 
with  that  of  St.  Marv  Magdalene.    F.  C.  H.  refers 
to  two  woodcuts  in  his  possesdon  representing  the 
'^  Death  of  the  Virgin,''^  whichihe  says  are  treated 
like  the  Starston  painting.    But  he  does  not  say 
if  he  there  sees  the  soul  being  conveyed  by  angels 
in  a  similar  manner.    In  fact  he  implies  the  con- 


I 


trary  when  he  says  he  merely  referred  to  that 


incident  as  corroborative.    So  far,  however,  from 
it  being  '^  corroborative,"  it  is  of  itself  destmctive 
of  his  "theory."    But  for  that  he  mi^ht  make  a 
case,  though  a  feeble  one ;  with  that  it  is  amply 
impossible,  as  the  narrative  in  the  legend  wiu 
show.    He  tells  us  the  figure  holding  the  scroll 
agrees  with  representations  of  St  Peter.    Witii 
the  exception  of  one  point,  the  tonsure,  it  disagrees 
with  every  example  I  have  seen,  and  with  the 
characteristic  type  so  weU  known  in  medise  val  art. 
For  the  latter  I  refer  to  an  instance  in  Mr.  Win- 
ston's work  on  Painted  Olass,  as  well  as  to  th& 
brass  at  Upper  HardreS|  Kenty  published  by  my- 
self.   Both  agree  with  each  other,  though  of  dif- 
ferent dates,  in  that  typical  treatment  by  whi^ 
this  saint  is  known.     The  figure  with  clasped 
hands  is  St.  James,  but  which  of  tiie  two  he  does 
not  say.    It  is  immaterial;  there  is  no  distin- 
guishing character.    The  figure  in  the  cope  is  St. 
John ;  but  St.  John  is  always  representea,  except 
when  at  Patmos,  as  a  youth  with  flowing  or  curled 
hair.    I  have  two  tracings  firom  painted  glaas,  a 
drawing  from  a  figure  in  Henry  Yll.'s  Chapel, 
and  several  examples  from  brasses,  all  having  th& 
same  character.    The  figure  in  the  Starston  paint- 
ing is  (I  think)  tonsured ;  St.  John^  in  my  ex- 
perience, is  never  so.     But  I  have  called  the 
cope  a  chasuble.     F.  C.  H.  says,  having  worn  one 
for  half  a  century,  he  ought  to  know  what  a 
chasuble  is.    Very  possibly ;  but  if  the  chasuble 
was  that  extremely  u^y,  stifle,  ungainly  vestment 
now  so  usually  worn,  T  could  not  be  surprised  if 
he  did  not  see  one  in  the  Starston  painting.    My 
experiences  are  firom  the  thirteentn,  fourteenth, 
and  fifteenth  centuries.    But  why  does  he  not 

foint  out  the  other  Apostles  P  For  instance,  St. 
^aul — a  figure  never  to  be  mistaken  in  mediseval 
art — and  who,  of  course,  he  knows  should  be  pre^ 
sent  ?  I  will  answer :  because  he  is  not  there. 
Instead  of  St  Paul,  he  points  out  the  lady  "  Ser»- 
phia,"  on  which  I  shall  say  no  more  than  this:  it 
IS  the  first  time  she  has  ever  made  her  appearance 
in  this  subject^  and  I  doubt  not  it  wul  be  the 
last. 

Not  having  the  engraving  by  my  side,  I  muat 
postpone  a  reply  on  the  points  raised  hj  F.  C.  H., 
out  I  win  here  say  that  if  he  succeeds  in  showing 
me  such  weaknesses  in  my  "  theoir  "  as  to  render 
it  as  untenable  as  I  have  shown  ms  to  be,  I  will 
throw  it  away  at  once  to  follow  his.    Probably  we 
shall  then,  by  clearing  the  ground,  be  more  likely 
to  arrive  at  the  truth,  and  by  "  indirections  fin^ 
directions  out.''    I  trust  it  will  be  long  ere  my 
mind  arrives  at  that  unhealthy,  inelastic  state 
which  would  lead  me  to  hold,  for  a  single  second, 
to  that  which  has  proved  to  be  an  error.    I  must 
claim,  a  portion  of  your  space  on  a  future  oocasioii^ 
which  is  the  more  necessary  as  F.  C.  H.,  insinuated 
a  want  of  good  faith,  on  my  part^  respecting  the 


4«kS.VlI.  JusB  10,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


499 


legend  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene.    I  shall  ehow,  by 
a  quotation  from  my  authority,  that  it  is  as  un- 
warranted as  it  is  unwarrantable. 
68,  Bolaover  Street,  W.  J.  O.  WaILKR. 

(7b  6e  conduded  m  our  next.) 


THE  PASSING  BELL. 
(4«»»  S.  vii.  388.) 

The  peculiarities  respecting  the  (now  so-called) 
passing-hell  are  far  more  numerous  than  J.  A;  G. 
can  imagine,  both  as  regards  the  tolling  to  dis- 
tinguish the  sexes,  and  also  the  time,  as  the  fol- 
lowing cases  will  snow. 

At  Bangor  Iscoed,  in  Flintshire,  the  bell  is 
tolled  twelve  hours  after  death,  and  then  the  dis- 
tinction of  five  tolls  for  a  girl,  six  for  a  boy,  seven 
for  a  woman,  and  eight  for  a  mihi ;  and  in  the 
Cheshire  churches  we  find  that  at  Bowdon  a 
minute-bell  is  tolled  at  six  o'clock  every  evening 

E receding  the  day  of  interment ;  while  at  Wren- 
ury  the  bell  tolls  every  morning  in  the  interval 
between  decease  and  interment,  and  at  ten  o'clock 
for  an  hour  on  the  day  of  the  funeral,  if  requested. 
At  Tarvin  the  bell  is  tolled  the  night  before  the 
funeral  for  persons  above  seven  years  of  age,  and 
on  the  morning  for  persons  under  seven ;  at  Lower 
Peover,  the  evening  before  the  funeral  for  an  hour, 
from  seven  to  eight  for  six  months  of  the  year, 
and  from  six  to  seven  the  other  six  months ;  at 
the  end  of  the  hour  the  six  bells  are  tolled  each 
three  times  for  a  male,  twice  for  a  female ;  whilst 
at  Alderley  the  tolling  is  only  for  twenty  minutes 
the  precedinflT  evening,  when  the  same  distin- 
guishing strokes  are  ^ven  as  at  Peover.  At 
firedbury  the  tolling  is  in  the  evening  before  the 
funeral  at  eight  o'clock,  after  which  the  distin- 
guishing tolls  of  five  for  a  child,  seven  for  a 
woman,  and  nine  for  a  man  are  given.  At  Acton 
the  tolling  takes  place  the  preceding  evening,  after 
which,  on  the  smaller  bell,  is  given  one  stroke  for 
a  child,  two  for  a  woman,  and  three  for  a  man. 
At  Church  Hulme  a  bell  is  tolled  the  night  before 
the  funeral  for  an  hour,  after  which  each  of  the 
six  bells  is  struck  three  times,  and  three  times 
round  if  the  deceased  be  a  male,  either  a  child  or 
man,  and  twice  round  if  it  be  a  female.  At  Til- 
ston  all  the  four  bells  are  "  knocked  round "  in 
succession,  beginning  with  No.  4,  three  times  if 
the  death  is  that  of  a  male,  twice  if  that  of  a 
female,  each  bell  being  struck  twelve  or  fifteen 
times  in  succession;  and  on  the  morning  of  the 
funeral,  bell  No.  1  is  tolled  for  a  certain  time 
(according  to  circumstances)  till  the  corpse  is  in 
sight,  when  all  the  bells  aro  chimed  till  the  pro- 
cession stops  at  the  lych  gate.  At  Eastham  the 
distinction  is  given  by  three  times  three  for  a 
male,  and  three  times  two  for  a  female.  AtBrom- 
borough  a  different  introductory  ringing  to  dis- 


tinguish the  sex,  and  then  the  age  of  the  deceased 
in  years  is  tolled ;  while  at  Davenham,  the  evening 
before  the  funeral,  three  strokes  for  a  male  and 
two  for  a  female  are  given  on  the  four  bells,  after 
which  a  number  of  single  strokes  are  given 
amounting  to  the  age  of  deceased. 

At  Audlem  a  peal  of  three  or  four  bells  is 
rung  as  soon  as  the  funeral  cortdffe  is  seen  ap- 
proaching. At  Coppenhall  the  bell  is  tolled  the 
evening  before  a  funeral,  and  chimed  in  the  morn- 
ing when  the  body  comes  within  a  short  distance 
of  the  church.  At  Wettenhall  the  tolling  takes 
place  on  the  removal  of  a  body  from  any  house  on 
the  green  for  interment,  whether  at  the  parish  or 
any  neighbouringchurch :  and  at  Wybunbury  the 

Sassing  Dell  is  not  rung  (L  believe^  except  on  the 
eath  of  one  of  a  family  named  Coobe. 
''  Trentals  or  trigintals  were  a  number  of  masses, 
to  the  tale  of  thirty,  said  on  account,  according  to 
a  certain  order  instituted   by  St  Gregory/' — 
Ayliffe,  Parergon, 

**  At  Mom  and  Even,  besidea  their  anthems  sweet, 
Their  peny  IWasses,  and  their  Ck)mplyne8  meet. 
Their  Diiges,  their  TrentaU,  and  their  Shrifts, 
Their  Memories,  their  Singings,  and  their  Gifts." 
Spenser's  Mother  HvbbenTt  Tale. 
Chester.  ROBEBT  MOBBIS. 

Surely  three  times  three  tolls  for  a  man,  three 
times  two  for  a  woman,  must  have  been  explained 
in  some  of  the  former  volumes  of  *'  N.  &  Q." 

H.  T*  £. 


An  old  homily'foV  Trinity  Sunday  declares  that 
the  form  of  the  Trinity  was  found  in  man :  that 
Adam,  our  forefather  of  the  earth,  was  the  first 
person;  Eve  of  Adam,  the  second  person.  Further, 
at  the  death  of  a  man  three  beUs  were  to  be  rung 
as  his  knell  in  worship  of  the  Trinity,  and  two 
bells  for  a  woman,  as  the  second  person  of  the 
Trinity.  See  Fosbroke,  ed.  1848,  p.  267 ;  Hone's 
Everyday  Book,  voL  i.  p.  724 ;  also  Penny  Cyclo- 
padia,  vol.  iv.  p.  188.)  G.  M.  T. 


SEGDOUNE,  SEGGIDUN,  ETC. 
(4"»  8.  vii.  396.) 

As  one  who  reads  by  what  has  been  called  ''the 
false  light  of  Celtic  resemblances,"  I  hardly  think 
your  correspondent  Espebabe  wiU  be  much  edi- 
fied with  my  views  in  regard  to  the  names  about 
which  he  desires  my  opinion.  Sigge  was  a  title 
of  Odin,  and  was  also  a  proper  name  borne  by  the 
Northmen.  I  Segdoune,  the  site  of  the  abbey  of 
Kilwinning,  Segdoun  or  Seggiedun  *  near  Perth, 

*  The  Nortbmeo,  after  their  conversion  to  Christianity, 
retained  certain  forms  of  their  idolatrous  worship.  It  is 
not  impossible  that  Seggiednn  may  have  designated  the 
hill  or  eminence  on  which  under  this  title  they  worshipped 
their  god  Odin. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*k8.Vn.JuHBlO,*71. 


now  called  Seggieden^  seem  to  contaizx  the  Norsk 
penonal  name  Sigge^  and  Scandinavian  dun  from 
the  Gothic  ttfioi,*  a  momitain  or  precipice.  Fer- 
ffusson  mentions  the  place  called  Siegethwaitefi 
for  which  he  cites  the  authority  of  an  ancient 
charter  of  ^  Shap  Abbej.  Thtoaite,  Norwegian 
thveii,  Danish  tved,  a  piece  of  land  cleared  in  a 
forest.  Li  this  we  find  an  explanation  of  the  ter- 
minal portion  of  the  Pictish  place-name  Forfewof, 
absurdly  called  Celtic.  J  There  is  Sigtmi  in 
Sweden,  probably  derived  from  this  appellative 
of  Odin  used  as  a  personal  name.  "Gamock," 
Gl6nganiock;§  are  also  Norse.  ManyScotch  rivers 
are  designated  ftom  personal  names  of  the 
Northmen.  Some  rivers  were  named  from  the 
adjaoBnt  lands,  more  frequently  place-names  from 
the  rivers.^  There  are  the  Garry  ^  Scand.  personal 
name  Gari,  and  Crummen  =  personal  name  EruiUf 
and  Old  Norse  din,  the  river.  Espedabe  dis- 
courses of  '*  ancient  works  of  a  Celtic  race  by  no 
means  tmcommon  in  the  district"  Where  are 
these,  and  by  what  evidence  has  their  Celtic 
origin  been  determined  P 

Although  not  immediately  related  to  the  sub- 
ject of  inquiry,  I  would  remark,  in  passing,  a  name 
mentioned  bv  your  correspondent,  viz.  "  Edward 
Biom,"  High  Constable  under  David  L,||  this, 

*  It  la  ridionloiu  to  call  a  term  Celtic  which  is  found 
in  every  dialect  of  the  Teatonic  The  Qotha,  Teutons, 
Ficta  or  early  Scandinavians,  Scandinavians  proper 
(Danes  and  Northmen^  and  Anglo-Saxons  (improperly 
so  called),  one  and  all  nsed  this  word ;  the  Goths  and 
Picts  apparently  in  the  forms  o{*idun,  dun,  and  dMoul— 
the  last  identical  with  the  Sanscrit,  from  which,  or  from 
some  dialect  nearly  related,  are  descended  the  Greek, 
€U>thic,  and  Slavomc :  for  example,  the  name  of  the  rock 
(now  removed)  which  gave  its  name  to  the  town  of 
Duidee  was  originally  called  DKiuis  a  Sanscrit,  Gothic, 
dmd,  and  «  or  a,  water,  a  river. 

t  There  is  also  Seggie,  Kinroasshii^ ;  Secpgie,  Fife  $  Seg- 
giehde,  Lanark ;  Seggat,  Aberdeen;  Seg^eorook,  Banff. 

X  The  name  Teviotdale  has  obviously  the  same  origin. 

4  Mr.  Charhock  tells  us  (see  "N.&  Q,"  4*«»  8.  iv. 
522)  that  **  the  word  Glen  can  have  none  other  than  a 
Celtic  origin,"  a  statement  which  I  would  counsel  the 
reader  to  accept  ciein  grano  $(dU.  Gothic  and  Icelandic 
gil,  a  ravine  or  flssare  of  a  mountain,  from  Korse  gilia,  to 
open  out,  to  tear  asunder,  Icelandic  and  Danish  definite 
articles  hinn  (in  composition  inn),  en,  GU-inn,  Gil-en^ 
the  ravine,  in  the  obsolete  Gothic  speech  which  mingles 
with  the  language  called  Welsh,  Gl-yn.  The  old-fashioned 
natives  of  Forfarshiro  pronounce,  or  did  so  in  time  past, 
this  word  in  two  syllables,  Gil-en;  in  England,  and  in 
the  modern  dialect  of  the  Scottish  LowUnoB,  modified  to 
Glen.  Teste :  Gleagonar,  Glen/ocAer,  Glenfoy,  GIenarM-e#, 
Gleq/fnarf,  and  a  host  of  others.  None  penonal  names, 
Gunnar,  Loker,  HnSi,  Arnkell,  Finnr. 

II  Mr.  Cosmo  Innes  says  that,  long  before  this  reign, 
high  officera  of  state  and  attendants  of  the  court  were 
Saxon  or  Danish,  of  whom,  amongothen  during  Uiis  king's 
reign  and  that  of  bis  brother  Edgar,  he  gives  the  names 
Ulf;  Hemming,  Eamulf,  Oter,Tfaor,  Algar,  Osbern,  Cnnt, 
CkA,  Ogga,  Swda,  Eilav,  Hwite,  Alwin  fits  ArkU,  Osolf, 
Onn,  Dodin,  one  and  all  Scandinavian. 


with  scarcely  any  change,  being  the  Scandinavian 
Biom.  J.  Ck.  R. 


Cowel  (Interpreter)  gives  Segedunum  «  Segfaill, 
in  Northumberland  ;|Segelocum  and  Segeloguni= 
Aulert  and  LittleborTow,  co.  Nottingham^  and 
Agle,  CO.  Lincoln;  and  Sigtuna,  Segorbe  (iSs^- 
obriaa).  Segovia,  Segeberg,  Siegberg,  Seddngen, 
Seckenneim,  are  Itx^al  namea  in  Continental 
Europe.  Some  of  these  may  be  from  A.-S.  tigCf 
eege,  sipor,  victory,  triumph ;  0.  Norsk  ngr,  Franc 
et  Alam.  sigo,  fVies.  et  0.  G.  sie^  (wnenoe  the 
proper  names  Sigimerus,  Sigismundus,  Sigebertus, 
Sigericus).  Stge^diHn  might  be  rendered  "  hill  of 
victory ";  but  it  is  more  probable  4;hat  most  of 
these  geographical  names  are  from  a  river  name. 
Siegburg,  in  R.  Prussia,  is  said  to  have  ita  name 
from  the  rive»Sieg  (anc  S^gwi),  Conf.  Siegen,  in 
Westphalia,  on  the  Sie^  or  Siegon  ^  Siegenburg, 
in  Bavaria;  Siegelsbach,  m  Baden.  Sieg,  as  a  river 
name,  may  be  etymdogically  the  same  name  as 
Toy,  the  letteis  t  and  s  and  y  and  g  bmg  reapeo- 
tively  interchangeable.  R.  S.  Chabnock. 

Gray's  Inn. 

P.S.  iiA^  is  the  name  of  two  rivers  of  Algeria ; 
and  Siga  of  a  river  and  town  of  Mauzitaaia. 


THE  ORIGIN  OF  ARCHBISHOP  STAFFOBD. 
(4»»»  S.  viL  263, 350.) 

The  register  of  Canterbury  Cathedral  records 
in  its  list  of  obits  there  celebrated,  "  4  non.  Sept, 
Emma  Stafford,  mater  Dni  Jobannia  Stafford, 
Archpi.^'  Her  name,  then,  was  Stafford ;  and  if 
the  archbishop  was  a  son  of  Sir  Humphrey  Staf- 
ford, he  was  apparently  a  legitimate  one.  Sup- 
posing, then,  that  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford  was 
nis  father,  which  Sir  Humphrey  was  it  of  the 
three  who  follow  in  succession  P 

Humphrey  (1^  married  the  daughter  and  hdr 

of Gremvil,  and  widow  of  John  Cobham  of 

Blakeburgh.  She  was  dead  July  12,  1420,  and 
there  is  a  presumption  that  her  name  was  Kathe- 
rine. 

Hmnphrey  (2),  sumamed  Silverhand,  who  died 
1413,  before  Nov.  28,  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Cefrewast,  and  widow  of  John 
Maltravers,  junior ;  she  died  1413,  the  same  year 
as  her  husband. 

Humphrey  (3)  married  Elizabeth,  dau^ter  and 
coheir  of  Sir  John  Idaltravers  and  Eiiaabel^ 
above-named,  between  1386  and  1396 ;  she  died 
after  1417,  he  in  or  about  1419. 

John  Stafford  was  consecrated  Archbiakop  of 
Canterbury  in  1443,  sucoee^g  Chichele,  and  died 
May  25, 1452.  The  evidence  of  dates  tends  to 
show  that  he  was  the  son  of  No.  2  (if  of  this 
family  at  all) ;  and  that  No.  2  must  have  had  a 
former  wife  before  Elizabeth  (^frewast  ia  len- 


4tt8.VII.Jinf»10,7l.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


501 


dered  certain  from  the  coziaideratlon  that  No.  8 
wotild  otherwise  have  married  hie  own  sister.  I 
have  not  seen  £lizaheth  Cefrewast  called  D*Au- 
marle  before.  How  tiie  younger  Elizabeth  Mai- 
tnyers  came  to  be  called  Vjnnam  was  anparently 
by  confusing  her  with  her  sister;  for  Sir  John 
Maltrayera  and  Elizabeth  Cefrewast  had  two 
daughters— Maude,  who  married  (1)  Sir  Peter  de 
le  Mare,  (2)  1308-1400,  Sir  John  Dynham,  and 
died  s.  p.  1409  or  1410,  and  Elizabeth  Stafford. 
Elizabeth  was  originally  affianced  to  John  Loyel 
(JM.  Pat.  10  Ric  IL  I'art  i.),  and  was  unmar- 
ried Nov.  22, 1386  (•&.)  A  nrant  was  made  to 
Humphrey  de  Stafford  and  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
with  remainder  to  Humphrey  de  Stafford  le  filz, 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Oct.  1,  1397  {Bot,  Pat. 
21  Ric.  II.,  Part  i.)  On  Jan.  7,  1402,  mention 
is  made  of  "  John  Dynham,  Ch7,  et  Matilda  ux' 
ejus,''  with  the  additional  information  that ''  Eliz- 
abeth, wife  of  Humphrey  Stafford  of  Honke,  Chf, 
holds  of  the  heritage  of  the  said  Matilda ''  {Rot. 
Pat.  8  Hen.  IV.,  Part  i.)  Another  grant  to  Hum- 
phrey Stafford,  miL,  and  Elizabetn  his  wife,  ap- 
nearo  Feb.  1, 1417  {Rot.  Pat.  4  Hen.  V.)  On  Nov. 
28, 1413,  we  read  of  the  elder  Humphrey  and 
Elizabeth  as  ''jam  mortui,''  and  of  the  younger 
Humphrey  as  suryiying  {ib.  1  Hen.  Y.,  Part  ly.) 
Lastly,  the  inquis.  p.  m.  of  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
Humphrey  Stafford,  was  taken  14  Hen.  IV. — 
1  Hen.  V.  [1413.] 

Now,  Humphrey^  (No.  2)  can  scarcely  haye  had 
any  wife  after  Ehzabeth,  seeing  that  she  died  in 
the  same  year  as  himself.  Was  Alice  Beyille  a 
former  wife  P  or  was  the  former  wife  the  Emma 
of  whom  we  are  in  search  P 

If  I  do  not  occupy  too  much  of  your  space, 
allow  me  two  further  remarks  to  P.  A.  L.  The 
autograph  of  a  Stafford — ^namely,  Humphrey, 
created  Duke  of  Buckingham  in  1444,  will  be 
found  in  Cott  MS.  Galba,  B.  i,  fol.  249.  One  of 
P.  A.  L.'s  sentences  has  ''exercised ''  me  greatly. 
He  says  the  document  is  "  headed  with  the  name 
of  the  Duke  of  Bedford  (not  John,  the  Regent  in 
France,  but  kU  brother  and  succeswr  as  Goyemor 
of  Nonnandy).''  Will  he  kindly  tell  me  whom  he 
means  by  the  words  in  italics  P  John  Duke  of 
Bedford  had  no  brother  of  his  own  title. 

HSBM£HIBX7I)B. 


BURNS :  «  BIGHT  GUDE- WILLIE  WAUCHT." 

(4*»«  S.  yii.  886.) 

Not  one  of  the  numerous  editors  of  Bums,  and 
not  one  of  hie  annotators,  so  far  as  I  can  see,  haye 
properly  set  up  in  type  this  familiar  expression, 
which  occurs  nowhere  else  in  Scottish  song  except 
in  the  world-famous  "  Auld  Lang  Syne  "  of  BurQs, 
^'  taken  down  from  the  singing  ol  an  old  man." 

It  is  a  matter  of  yery  small  moment  whether 
the  common  Scotch  word  ''waacht"be  spelled 


with  c  or  ^.  I  would  prefer  the  e  in  this  and 
similar  words,  as  showing  the  more  ancient  style ; 
but  either  way  is  quite  proper.  I  might  eo  oyer 
the  whole  alphabet,  and  select  from  each  letter  a 
word  in  the  Scottish  dialect  with  the  same  gut- 
tural sound,  which  may  be  spelled  by  using  either 
eh  or  gh.  For  instance,  auckty  or  aughty  for  eighty, 
bauchlo'ahoon  or  baughle'Shoon  for  shoes  worn  out 
of  shape,  dauM  or  cUntght  for  caught  hold  of, 
dicht  or  dight  for  wipe  up,  fmuM  or  faugkt  for 
fought,  and  so  on.  The  word  loch^  signifying  lake^ 
is  often  spelled  Umghy  and  the  proper  name  Xach- 
lan  or  Mcljachlan  is  just  as  often  spelled  Laughlan 
or  MeLatigkian. 

My  present  object  in  writing  it  to  point  out  to 
your  leaders  that  there  is  no  such  word  in  the 
Scottish  dialect  aa  '*  willie-waucht"  TVue,  it  is 
inyariably  found  so  pxinted  in  all  existing  editions 
of  Bums,  including  eyen  that  of  the  critical  Dr. 
Hately  Waddell ;  but  this  only  showa  how  yery 
ignorant  modern  Scotdimen  are  regrding  the 
ancient  dialect  of  their  countiy.  Had  Bums 
lived  to  edit  the  printing  of  his  own  song,  '<  Auld 
Lang  Syne,"  the  word  "willie-waucht"  would 
neyer  haye  been  seen  nor  heard  tell  of.  It  is  not 
to  be  found  in  Jamieson's  SooUish  Dictionary. 
The  woid  ^'waucht  or  waught,"  a  copious  drink, 
will  be  found  there ;  and  the  word  ''  gudewiUie," 
with  a  good  will,  is  there  also.  A  ^'good-wiDie 
wBught "  therefore  means  a  copious  libation,  taken 
yrith  good  will.    The  great  error  of  editors  and 

Erintm  lies  in  absurdly  placing  the  connecting 
yphen  between  wilUe  ana  wauSu  instead  of  be- 
tween gtfde  and  wHHe.  If  an  Englishman  were  to 
express  in  writing  that  he  took  a  ''  willing  drink  " 
or  a  '*  hearty  drmk ''  of  generous  liquor  on  some 
happy  occasion,  he  woiud  neyer  connect  these 
words  like  Siamese  twins,  as  printers  haye  hitherto 
done  in  recording  this  rich  phraae  of  Bums — 
"  GudeWiUie  waught."  In  like  manner  it  is  per- 
fectly unnecessary — ^nay,  it  is  an  error  to  do  so 
in  transcribing  the  phrase  either  in  Scottish  or 
German. 

I  haye  been  &youred  with  a  glance  at  the  proof 
sheets  of  an  edition  of  Bums  snortly  to  proceed 
from  the  press  of  Mr.  James  M'Kie  of  Eilmiu- 
nock,  and  I  am  happy  to  say  that  the  poet's  happy 
phrase,  which  forms  the  subject  of  this  note,  is 
there  correctly  printed. 

I  may  state  that  in  Johnsan'9  Mtmum,  where 
*'  Auld  Lang  Syne  "  first  made  its  appearance  a 
few  months  after  the  poet's  death,  the  phrase  is 
printed  thus— ''right  gade-willie-waught''  This 
18  better  than  the  usual  rendering,  but  the  last 
hyphen  is  a  printer's  error  calculated  to  mislead 
the  reader.  The  Scottish  epithet  '' ill-willie," 
used  as  a  prefix  to  man,  woman,  baim,  dog^  &c., 
18  quite  as  common  as  its  conyerse  ^'gude-wiUie." 

WX.  S.  DOVQLAB, 

Edinbargfa. 


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[4«*S.VII.JuiElO,71. 


I  liaidly  think  an^  Scot  could  mistake  the 
meaningot^gude-'williewattcht/'howeTer  printed. 
In  a  general  way  English  people  neither  under- 
stand nor  try  to  tmaerstand  Temacular  Scotch. 
'<  He's  rale  gude  willie  "  (he  is  really  good-hearted) 
is  a  most  common  form  of  expression  in  the  Low- 
lands of  Scotland,  and  most  persons  bom  north  of 
tibe  Tweed  know  that  "  a  gude  waucht,"  without 
the  intermediate  term  '^  willie/' means  a  hearty 
drink.  ''  Qudt^wHUe  waucht "  suggests  something 
more.  It  means  a  hearty  drink  accompanied  with 
jovial  feelumra ;  in  the  slang  of  the  day  ''awfully 
jolly/'  overflowing  with  a  sort  of  drunken  kind- 
ness engendered  m  those  who  having  imbibed 
rather  more  than  sufficient  are  disposed  to  be 
friendly  with  every  body.  Men  beicome  senti- 
mental as  the  blood  circulates  with  greater  rapi- 
dity. ''  Auld  Lang  Syne ''  was  seldom  sung  until 
"  sifter  men  had  well  drunk/'  and  just  before  the 
company  broke  up.  J.  Ck.  R. 

W.  T.  M.'s  communication  having  been  quoted 
into  the  Gkugow  Herald,  I  replied  to  it  at  some 
length  there  in  the  first  instance,  and  now  beg 
very  briefly  to  sum  up  the  facts  of  the  case  for  the 
information  of  your  correspondent :  — 

1.  There  were  ori^nally  three  MS.  copies  of 
"  Auld  Lang  Syne/'  m  the  hands  respectively  of 
Johnson,  Thomson,  and  Currie.  In  tneir  several 
editions  the  phrase  stands  thus — '' gude-willie- 
waught,"  "  gude-wiUie-waught"  "  gude  willie- 
waught."  In  Thomson's  second  edition,  1821,  he 
seems  to  have  revised  his  former  reading,  and 
adopted  Currie's ;  at  least  I  find  the  words  quoted 
from  him  as  they  were  printed  hj  Currie,  "  gude 
willie- waught."  Whether  the  original  MSS.  agree 
or  difler^on  this  point,  not  having  seen  them,  I 
cannot  say ;  but  these  editions  are  the  only  public 
authorities  we  now  have  to  rely  upon,  and  al- 
though one  editor  might  give  a  wrong  reading, 
two  would  not,  three  could  not. 

2.  Jamieson  has  been  misquoted  by  your  corre- 
spondent W.  T.  M.  to  some  extent ;  and  Jamieson 
himself  has  misquoted  Bums.  The  extent  of  the 
misquotation  may  be  ascertained  on  reference. 

8.  There  are  such  words  in  Scotch  as  ''  ill- 
willie/'  "  iU-deedie^"  &c.,  but  no  such  word  as 
«  gude-wiUie."  "  111 "  is  an  adverb,  and  may  be 
conjoined  as  above  with  adjectives ;  ''  gude  "  is  an 
adjective  itself,  pure  and  simple,  and  cannot,  or  at 
least  shoidd  not,  be  so  conjoined  with  another  ad- 
jective, as  ''willie"  is.  Bums  certainly  would 
not  have  committed  such  an  error;  and  if  any 
MS.  of  his  should  seem  to  justify  that  reading, 
it  must  have  been,  I  shoidd  think,  by  mere 
accident 

4.  "Willie,"  as  an  adjective,  combined  with 
"  waught "  indicates  the  stronffest  will  or  deter- 
mination to  drink.  "Hearty'^  is,  perhaps,  the 
only  English  word  we  have  for  it ;  but  it  means 


far  more  than  hearty,  and  its  combination  with 
"  waught "  is  perfectly  legitimate. 

6.  W.  T.  M.  writes  "richt"  and  "wancht" 
improperly.  Bums  did  not  use  the  letter  c  in 
such  words;  he  knew  the  power  of  his  oim  Iad- 
guflge,  in  all  its  details,  better. 

Tnese  being  the  simple  fiacts  of  the  cue,  I 
think  proper  to  submit  tnem  in  reply  to  W.  T.  M. ; 
but  beg  leave,  once  for  all,  to  decune  any  contro- 
versy on  the  subject,  more  especially  with  an 
anonymous  correspondent 

P.  H^TKLT  WaDDEU. 
Elmgrove  Place,  Gl«9gow. 


B.  P.  BOmNGTON. 


(4'*'  S.  vii.  141.) 

To  whose  sterling  worth,  may  well  be  applied 

the  lines  of  Oomeille— 

**  Auz  ftmeB  bien  n^ 
**  La  valenr  n'attend  pas  le  nombre  dee  ann^" 

I  think  I  can  imhesitatingly  affirm,  having  often 
been  assured  of  it  by  some  of  his  beet  friends- 
Baron  Rivet,  Mr.  Montfort,  Mr.  A.  Colin— that 
Boning^n  wrote  his  now-renowned  name  with 
one  n  only. 

I  was  mtimate,  too,  some  forty  years  ago,  with 
a  French  gentleman  a  long  time  resident  in  London 
— ^Mr.  John  Lewis  Brown,  jun.,  of  Bordeaux,  who 
was  then  the  fortunate  possessor  of  as  many  as 
168  of  the  finest  water-colour  drawings  bj  that 
admirable  and  fertile  hand,  and  on  none  of  them 
have  I  ever  seen  the  name  written  otberwise. 
Not  so,  however,  with  spurious  ones,  of  which, 
alas  I  but  too  many  have  been  made  "  to  sati^ 
the  avidity  of  collectors,  to  remunerate  the  skill 
of  copyists,  and  gratify  the  cupidity  of  dealers." 

It  was,  if  I  nustake  not,  in  1888  I  saw  an 
exhibition  in  Regent  Street  wholly  of  Boning- 
tons.  I  used  to  go  there  and  study  them  for 
hours,  ''  as  if  increase  of  appetite  had  grown  by 
what  it  fed  on."  So  much  so  that  Bonington's 
father,  who  at  the  entrance  delivered  the  cata- 
logue and  received  the  shilling  fee,  sensible  of 
nay  admiration,  at  last  refused  to  let  me  par. 
He  asked'  me  to  his  lodgings,  where  he  conld 
show  me  many  unfinished  sketches  by  his  dear 
departed  son.  With  these  were  some  copies  bj 
the  father,  likewise  for  sale,  but  so  inferior ! 

Speaking  of  this  gifted  youth,  may  I  be  allowed 
to  relate  wnat  once  passed  between  him  and  the 
French  historical  painter  Baron  Qros,  in  whose 
studio  our  young  Englishman  learnt  to  draw  from 
life,  on  his  first  arrival  in  Paris  P  AfterawWe, 
the  master,  dissatisfied  with  his  new  pnpil's  inde- 
pendent way  of  treating  art,  said  to  nim  one  day 
in  his  rough  and  ready  manner,  "That^s  all  non- 
sense f  you  are  uselessly  wasting  yoor  time  and 
your  parents'  money.  You  had  better  turn  your 
mind  to  something  else."    Fancy  poor  Bwungton, 


4«J»  S.  VII.  JusK  10,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


503 


with  his  mefts  divimor,  hearing  audi  a  condemna- 
tion I  However,  a  short  time  after,  Gros  hap- 
pened to  pass  by  a  then  well-known  and  hand- 
some picture-dealer's  shop,  Mme.  H ,  who, 

unfortunately  for  the  lovers  of  art,  took  too  great 
a  hold  on  dear  Bonington's  heart,  for — 

"  She  talk'd,  she  smil'd,  his  heart  the  wyl'd, 
She  charm'd  his  soul  he  wist  na  how ; 
And  ay  the  stound,  the  deadly  wound. 
Cam  fra  her  een  sae  bonnie  blae." 

There  the  baron  saw  in  the  shop  window  some 
very  cleverly  painted  views  of  Rouen,  Caen,  and 
other  towns  of  France  and  Belgium.  He  was 
much  struck  with  their  wonderfully  bold  touch 
and  true  effect  of  chiaroscuro ;  not  less  astonished 
was  he  on  hearing  from  the  fair  vender  that  the 
author  was  no  other  than  the  young  insulaire  he 
had  judged  so  severely.  So  the  next  day,  sitting 
down  on  Bonington*8  stool,  in  the  studio,  bv  way 
of  correcting  his  work  after  a  living  model,  he 
looked  up  benevolently  in  his  face  (and  he  could 
do  so  wnen  he  liked,  as  much  as  anyone)  and 
said,  '^J'ai  vu  hier,  Rue  de  laPaix,  ole  grands 
dessins,  des  int^rieurs  de  villes  en  Normandie. 
On  me  dit  que  c'est  de  vous  P  **  Bonington,  vrith 
some  trepidation,  owned  them  as  his.  ''  Eh  bien ! 
mon  gar9on,''  retorted  the  master,  ''c'est  bien, 
mais  trte-bien.  Je  vous  en  fais  mon  sincere  com- 
pliment. Aliens,  aliens,  je  vois  que  vous  avez 
trouv^  votre  voie.  Suivez-la;"  and  softening 
down  his  voice,  and  putting  out  his  broad  right 
hand  to  the  astonished  and  delighted  youth,  he 
added :  '*  Dor^navant,  vous  viendres  ici  tant  qu*il 
vous  plaira,  et  je  n'entends  pas  que  cela  vous 
co&te  rien." 

T&is  I  heard  from  an  old  camarade  d'atelier  of 
Bonington,  who  was  present  at  the  time. 

I  am  sorry  to  say  I  am  not  acquainted  with 
Bryan's  Dictionary  of  PainterSf  and  possibly  the 
story  may  there  be  better  told.  I  send  it  you 
tale  quale,  P.  A*  L. 

FLAG  OF  THE  NEW  GERMAN  EMPIRE. 
(4«»  S.  vii.  822,  416.) 

I  have  no  doubt  that  Mb.  Woodward's  account 
of  the  new  flag  is  true,  and  the  readers  of 
''  N.  &  Q."  and  of  the  nonsense  which  I  quoted 
from  The  Olobe  and  The  Times  vrill  be  obliged  to 
him,  as  I  am,  for  answering  my  query.  I  have 
not  seen  the  correction  in  The  (hwrdian  to  which 
W.  J.  L.  refers. 

Mi'Parti, — It  is  a  very  small  matter;  but  I 
cannot  agree  with  Mb.  Woodward  about  Panwitz, 
and  do  not  therefore  think  that  I  am  mistaken.  I 
have  the  Wappenbuch  before  me.  The  extreme 
uncertainty  of  engraving  the  horizontal  line  of 
division  in  shields  makes  it  quite  reasonable  to 
suppose  the  division  which  we  see  in  Panwitz  to 
have  been  made  to  look  nU'parU  in  error.  Spener, 


referring  to  this  plate  at  the  reference  given  by 
Mb.  woodward,  certainly  does  not  cful  it  so. 
His  marginal  note  is  ''  Tnpartita  in  partes  inss- 
quales."  After  saying  '^  Non  aliena  ab  hoc  loco 
est  ilia  divisio  parmse  in  tres  partes,  quss  partes 
non  onmino  sequales  facit,''  ana  giving  instances, 
he  goes  on  — 

<'  Hnjos  exempla  siiccurrant  ilia,  ut  basi  nigra  im- 
positum   caput  dextrft  parte  raheat,  sinistra   aigento 

splendeat et  inveno  tantam  situ  minii  et  argenti 

Weiters  [Hass]  Panwitz  [Silea]." 

He  refers  to  the  Wappenbuch  plates. 

Aiter  this,  the  contmuator  of  Quillim  puts  in 
Panwitz  as  I  auoted  it  at  p.  322,  not  referring 
to  the  WcmpeMuch,  but  giving  authority  later 
than  the  nrst  issue  of  that  work.  I  think  Pan- 
witz may  be  taken  to  be  as  Guillim  gives  it 

I  have  to  add  that  I  have  found,  since  I  wrote 
at  p.  822,  a  note  of  my  own,  made  many  years 
ago,  which  I  had  forgotten,  giving  an  example  of 
mi-parti  in  England.  It  is,  or  was,  for  I  saw  it, 
in  the  spandrels  of  the  porch  of  the  old  parsonage 
at  Milverton,  near  Taunton.  The  ^ield  was— 
Coup6,  chief  tni-varti  sable  and  argent ;  in  dexter 
side  a  flower  of  lour  leaves,  gules  and  argent ;  in 
sinister  a  q  uatrefoil,  or  and  sable ',  the  base  sable, 
a  quatrefou.  I  suppose  the  charge  in  the  dexter 
siae  differed  from  tne  others. 

I  also  have  a  book-plate,  signed  in  handwriting 
with  the  name  '*  Prosser,"  which  shows  mi-parti^ 
all  three  areas  being  without  tincture )  in  dexter 
chief  a  fleur-de-lys,  in  sinister  a  tower,  in  base 
the  sea,  and  a  sea-norse  swimming  pierced  through 
the  ned£  with  an  arrow — all  proper.  Burke  does 
not  give  this  coat.  D.  P. 

Staarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 


BRITISH  SCYTHED  CHARIOTS. 

(4*  a  viL  06,  240,  332.) 

I  looked  up  this  point  some  time  since  on  read- 
ing a  curious  passMpe  in  Mr.  Smiles'  Industrial 
Btograpky,  p.  13  (1863)  :— 

'*When  the  Romans  invaded  (Britain),  the  metal 
(iron)  seems  to  have  been  already  known  to  the  tribes 

along  the  coast We  must,  however,  regard  the 

stories  told  of  the  ancient  British  chariots  armed  with 
swords  or  sc^hes  as  altogether  apooypbal.  The  exist- 
ence of  iron  in  sufficient  quantity  to  be  used  for  such  a 
poipose  is  incompatible  with  contemporary  facts,  and 
unsnppoited  b^  a  single  vestige  remamlng  to  onr  time. 
The  country  was  then  moetiv  forest,  and  the  roads  did 
not  as  yet  exist  upon  which  chariots  could  be  used; 
whilst  iron  was  too  scarce  to  be  mounted  as  scythes  upon 
chariots  when  the  warriors  themselves  wanted  it  for 
swords.  The  orator  Cicero,  in  a  letter  to  Trebatins  then 
serving  with  the  army  in  Britain,  sarcastically  advised 
him  to  capture  and  convey  one  of  these  vehicles  to  Italy 
for  exhibition ;  but  we  do  not  hear  that  any  specimen  of 
the  British  war  chariot  waa  ever  seen  in  Rome." 

Here  is  a  notable  confusion.  The  author  is  sure 
there  was  not  enough  iron  for  scythes — and  rightly 
no  doubt— «nd  so  ne  says  there  could  not  nave 


504 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*k  S.  VII.  JoH»  10/71. 


been  any  chariott,  wluch  is  quite  another  thing. 

He  simply  cannot  have  conaolted  his  authorities 

at  all,  and  he  certainly  misquotes  Cioero.    It  is 

quite  impossible  to  discredit  Caesar's  testimony 

about  the  chariot  (euedum,  essedarif),  B,  O.  iy.  83; 

Y.  10|  for  his  statements  are  plain  and  precise, 

and  upon  a  matter  notorious  to  every  man  in  his 

army.    If  such  testimony  may  not  be  trusted, 

what  mayP     But  then  Caesar  says  nothing  of 

scythes  or  iron.  .  Almost  precisely  the  same  may 

be  said. of  the  testimony  of  Tacitus  (Agricokij 

35,  36^  who  calls  the  chariot  covirim.    He  is  a 

careful  writer,  and  he  must  have  known.  He  says 

(like  Cesar)  *'  covinarii  peditum  se  praelio  mis- 

cuere."     He,  too,  mentions  no  scythes  nor  iron. 

The  ordinary  references  for  the  essedum,  esaeda^ 

easedarH  are  Cicero,  JBpp.  Div.  vii.  6, 7 ;  and^^pp.  ad 

AJtUcum,  vi.  1  (end),  and  Orat,  PhU.  ii.  24 ;  Virgil, 

Qecrg,  iii.  204  (cf.  Conington's note  adloc,)\  Per- 

sius,  vi.  47 ;  Propert.  ii.  1,  86,  and  iii.  24,  6 ;  Sil. 

Ital.  iii.  337.     What  Cicero  does  say  (Epp.  Div, 

vii.  7)  to  Trebatius  is :  *'  I  hear  there  is  neither 

gold  nor  silver  in  Britain ;  if  that  be  so,  I  advise 

you  to  catch  an  essedumj  and  drive  back  to  me  as 

soon  as  possible  " ;  in  another  he  says, ''  Take  care 

you  are  not  taken  in  by  the  charioteers  in  Britain," 

as  if  he  knew  all  about  them.    Elsewhere  he 

speaks  of  the  chariots  in  Rome,  of  a  man  ''cum 

duobus  eesedis";  **  tribunus  in  essedo."   The  covi- 

nu8  is  mentioned  (Xiucan,  i.  426 ;  Martial,  12,  24) ; 

he  couples  it  with  tiie  esaedum  and  curruca  as  a 

pleasure  carriage ;  nowhere  any  mention  of  scythes 

or  iron. 

But  Pomponius  Mela  (iii.  6,  6),  the  gpeographer, 
says,  ''  Covinos  vocant  quorum  falcatis  axibus 
utuntur,"  and  he  is  speaking  of  the  Britons.  He, 
I  suppose,  is  responsible  for  the  story.  Surely  his 
evidence  is  not  good  against  the  eye-witness 
Caesar,  nor  against  Tacitus.  He  compiled  from 
books,  and  probably  made  a  mistake  by  transfer- 
ring the  Eastern  scythed  chariots  to  the  Britons. 
Livy  (xxxvii.41,  5)  speaks  of  the  ''  falcatae  quad- 
rigae "  of  Autolochus,  and  Xenophon  (AnaS.  i.  7 
and  8)  says  the  kinghad  200  and  Cyrus  had  twenty, 
ipfAara  dpnrayii^^  scythe-bearing  chariots.  These 
in  the  battle  were  soon  Ktvk  ifpt6xw  in  the  rout. 
The  Greeks,  he  adds, ''  opened  out "  when  they 
saw  one  coining;  one  man  was  knocked  down 
as  on  ''a  raoe-couise,''  and  it  was  said  that  even 
he  got  no  harm.  If  Livy  and  Xenophon  have 
so  much  to  say  of  the  scythes,  would  Caesar  and 
Tacitus  have  omitted  them  if  they  had  any  exist- 
ence P  Diodorus  Siculus  (vi.  2l)  comnares  the 
British  chariots  to  those  which  were  said  by  tra- 
dition 'to  have  been  used  by  the  heroes  in  the 
lV>jan  war.  Would  not  he  have  known  these 
Eastern  chariots,  and  have  compared  the  British 
chariots  to  them,  instead  of  the  Homeric  diariots, 
unless  he  had  known  that  the  British  chariots 
had  no  scythes.  O.  W.  Tavoook. 


'<£tobkv  ASAJC"  (4«i' a  vii.  429.)^Mr. Edward 
Lytton  Bulwer's  (now  Lord  Lytton)  novel,  Empme 
Aram,  appeued  in  fS^t  after  T.  Hood's  ''The 
Dream,"  of  which  he  sud  ''the  mens  dimmor 
breathes  through  every  line  of  it " ;  but  the  noyel's 
dedication  to  Sir  Walter  Scott  hem  date  London, 
Dec.  22, 1831.  It  is  probable,  therefore,  that  it 
came  out  on  January  1, 1832.  I  have  before  me 
an  American  edition,  with  an  epistolary  preface 
by  the  author,  bearing  the  same  date — London, 
Dec.  22,  1831.  I  bousht  it  at  Muiila  in  1832 ; 
so  Lord  Lytton  can  see  bis  works  made  much  way 
in  a  short  time.  His  FeUutm  I  read  in  America 
in  1828.  P.  A.  L. 

Lawcas&cre  Witches  (4*  S.  viL  287,  31 1> 
417.) — The  Yorkshire  ladies  rejoice  in  the  sobri- 
quet of  "Yorkshire  wenches."  Whilst  partid- 
pating  two  years  since  with  the  Archaeological 
institute  in  the  hospitalily  of  the  Duke  of  Devon- 
shire at  Holker,  I  used  the  phrase  '*  Lancashire 
witches"  to  a  fair  damsel  who  sat  next  to  me. 
''Oh  no!  I  am  not  a  witch,  I  am  a  Yorkshire 
wench."  A.  J.  Dunxtr". 

Pope's  Epitaph  on  Sib  Qodfbet  Kstellbr 

(4}^  S.  vi.  176,  262.)— Speaking  of  that  of  Kaf- 

taelle,  D*  P.  righUy  says  — 

**  Bat»  in  or  about  1888,  had  been  added  another  inaerip- 
tion  commemorating  the  discovery  of  the  body  of  fiaf- 
faelle  in  September  that  year.'* 

I  have  a  lithograph,  now  rather',  a  scarce  one, 
made  by  Horace  Vemet  at  Rome.  He  was  at 
that  time  Director  of  the  French  Academy  at  the 
Villa  Medici,  and  with  his  father.  Carle  Vemet, 
accompanied  the  pope  and  Cardinal  Lambruschini 
to-  the  Pantheon,  where,  imder  an  altar,  were 
discovered  the  mortal  remains  of  the  immortal 
d'Urbino.  P.  A.  L. 

Ok  tsx  Absbnce  of  akt  French  Word  fob 
"  TO  RiDB "  (4'>»  S.  vii.  431.)— I  venture  to  say 
Mb.  Blbstkinsoff  is  mistaken  in  supposing  there 
is  no  French  word  for  "  to  ride."  We  say-cAe- 
vaucher,  ''Agn&s  lasse  de  chevaucher,"  Volt. 
"  Chevaucher  court  ou  long " — '*  To  ride  with 
short  or  long  stirrups.'' 

Then,  as  to  Frenchmen  declining  to  ride  with 
the  hounds  because  they  can  only  '*  se  promener 
k  cheval,"  I  fancy  Count  d'Orsay  would  naye  pro- 
tested. Ask  Lord  Chesterfield  or  Sir  G.  Grant, 
the  president  of  the  Royal  Academy.  And  all  I 
can  say,  as  far  as  I  am  concerned,  is,  that  the  first 
time  I  ever  followed  the  hounds  was  in  1829.  I 
was  then  a  mere  lad.  I  kept  on  horseback  finm 
seven  o'clock  a.x.  to  seven  f.x.^  returning  home 
in  the  dark.  I  shall  never  forget  how  much  I 
enjoyed  myself  that  day,  nor  iheffolop  I  got— to  uae 
a  French  expression — ^from  an  uncle  of  mine  (not 
an  Englishman),  who,  thinking  I  must  have  ftilen 
in  some  ditch,  sent  grooms  and  coachman  to  scour 
the  country  after  me.    And  when  he  saw  me  he 


4»a  TIL  JoH«  10/71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


505 


dd:  ''If  7011  do  not  mind  younel^  I  wiah  yon 
would  mind  my  hones;"  Hia  wife,  on  tbe  other 
hand  (« thorough  English  woman),  thought  I  had 
shown  some  spunk,  and  gave  me  an  encouraging 
look.  Then  again,  we  may  he  "volatile,"  and 
probahly  are:  still  methinks  we  can  ''stand"  a 
good  deal  after  all.  See  what  we  are  going 
through  in  France  since  a  year :  first  that  horrihle 
German  war,  and  secondly  this  still  more  hmihle 
social  war.  Who  would  have  helieved  itP  And 
we  may  well  say  with  R  Heine:  — 

*'  Und  ich  ghinbt'  ich  tmg  es  nimmer, 
Und  ich  glanbt'  ich  trng  es  nie, 
Und  ich  hab'  es  docb  getragen, 
Aber,  fhigt  mich  nnr  nicht  wie !  " 

P.  A.  L. 

JuDTOiAX  Oaths  (4*>»  S.  vii.  209,  864,  440.)— I 
heg  that  &.  will  forgive  me  for  misapprehending  his 
meaning,  and  for  my  unnecessaiy  remarks  on  the 
subject  What  he  meant  is  now  plain,  but  he 
must  suffer  me  to  say  that  it  was  not  quite  so 
before,  or  I  could  scarcely  have  so  completely 
misunderstood  him.  The  weapon  which  he  used 
was  capable  of  cutting  two  ways,  and  I  should 
have  held  my  peace  hs4  he  indicated  a  little  more 
clearly,  to  begin  with,  which  side  he  intended  to 
employ.  Herxektbubs. 

Cbmts  (4"»  8,  vii  267, 863, 448.)— With  regard 
to  the  crest  on  the  Hev.  John  Richards'  tomb 
(1668-9)  I  am  inclined  to  think  it  cannot  be  taken 
"  as  proof  of  holy  writ."  I  knew  a  gentleman, 
lately  deceased,  who,  having  no  crest  of  his  own, 
adopted  that  of  his  wife's  family  on  his  plate  and 
carnages,  notwithstanding  the  objections  started 
by  the  latter,  because,  thought  he,  it  looked  well. 
On  his  tomb  has  been  engraved  his  coat  of 
arms  toiih  this  crut^  and  no  doubt  some  hundred 
years  hence  this  will  likewise  be  given  as  a  case 
in  point.  P.  A.  L. 

Gboboe  LoKixnr  (4**  S.  vii.  236,  836,  444.)— 
I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  answer  that  Rebecca,  first 
wife  of  Richard  Woodward  (married  about  1704), 
was  a  daughter  of  George  London ;  and  if  you 
will  refer  to  Noi  620  of  the  Journal  of  J^ortieul- 
tur§  for  the  present  vear  you  will  nnd  a  long 
notice  of  George  London,  relating  many  incidents 
of  his  life,  the  part  he  took  in  effecting  the  escape 
of  the  Princess  Anne  to  Nottingham,  and  also  a 
copy  of  his  autonaph.  It  also  states  that  London 
was  buried  in  Fulham  church  in  the  grave  of  his 
second  wife.  Robert  Hooo. 

99,  St  George's  Road,  Pimlico. 

St!  WuiFBAir  (4«»  S.  vii.  162, 269,  886,  444.) 
The  life  of  St  Wulfran  contained  in  the  Cotton 
MS.  Otho,  D.  viiL,  was  consulted  by  me  when  I 
vnx)te  the  note  concerning  this  saint  m  my  E^lkh 
Church  Ikimihtre,  p.  88.  It  is  a  life  of  Uie  Arch- 
bishop of  Sens^  and  has  been  much  injured  by  the 
fixe  ot  173] .  Ebwabd  Pbacook. 


GiTAis  verwB  MoflaimoxB  (4^  a  viL  862, 416.) 
Our  ancestors  took  wise  precautions  to  preserve 
their  bodies  from  the  assaults  of  these  pests — e.  g, 
among  the  goods  of  the  Abbey  of  Sawtre  there 
was  found  at  the  dissolution  in  the  '^  New  Cham- 
ber.— ^The  bedstedd  with  a  net  for  knattes."  (Ar- 
chaohgia,  xliii.  240.)  Ebwabd  Pbacocx. 

The  fact  of  mosquitoes  being  imported  in  ships 
I  have  myself  witnessed.  I  re<»llect  when  passing 
the  Straits  of  Salayer,  the  captain  causing  the  lid 
of  a  large  water-cask  on  deck  to  be  opened  for  our 
use  —  we  had  hitherto  had  no  mosquitoes  on 
board — when,  lo  and  behold,  myriads  of  these  ne- 
farious insects  sallied  forth,  and  from  that  moment 
we  had  no  rest.  They  must  have  been  bred  spon- 
taneously in  the  water.  P.  A.  L. 

I  have  occasionally  seen  insects  in  the  South  of 
England  which  were  identical  in  appearance  with 
the  mosquito  of  the  East,  bat  I  never  experienced 
their  sting.  The  latter  is  inflicted  by  a  minute 
proboscis,  through  which,  in  attacking  the  human 
subject,  the  ifisect  both  injects  poison  and  with- 
draws blood,  wherewith,  if  crushed  at  such  a 
time,  the  little  vampire  is  usually  found  to  be 
gorged.  This  power  of  drawing  so  thick  a  fluid 
as  human  blood  through  a  microscopic  tube,  not 
exceeding  in  diameter  a  human  hair,  is  one  of 
nature*s  mnumerable  marvels.  It  was  stated  in 
The  Times  of  July  27^  1868,  that  the  use  of  wild 
rosemary  will  keep  ofi^mosquitoes.        C.  W.  M. 

Maroabbt  Fs2n>LS0 :  Lady  Mobthceb  (4^  S. 
vii  12,  228,  818, 487.)— -After  Tewars's  excellent 
reply  no  question  need  be  raised  any  more  as  to 
Margaret  Tendles.    I  had  pointed  out  (p.  818) 
that  Fendles  was  an  impossible  name,  and  that 
the  Noblexa  ffave  no  name  from  which  it  could 
have  been  reduced  by  English  ingenuity  or  blun- 
dering ;  but  that  Fienles,  which  must  soon  have 
gained  &  d  in  England,  brought  us  very  near  to 
Fendles.   This  turns  out  to  be  the  real  name,  with 
the  alternative  of  Fiennes,  which  I  snn;ested.    I 
had  not  access  to  Vredins  nor  to  the  Trophies  to 
which  LoBD  €k)BT  obligingly  refers.    It  stiU  re- 
mains to  inouire'as  to  the  arms.     Fienles,  or 
Fiennes,  carries  the  coat  given  by  Vredius.    But 
I  mentioned  (pp.  818-9)  that  this  was  not  the 
coat  of  the  Anglo-Norman  Fiennes  family.    In 
EhagUmd  they  certainly  bore  three  lions  rampant. 
Can  TxwABS  say  what  coat  was  borne  by  Ingram 
de  Fiennes,  who  married  Sibella,  daughter  of 
Faramus  de  Bolonia,  and  vrith  her  had  the  manor 
ofClaphamP  D.  P. 

Stuarts  Lodge»  Halvem  Well& 

Desicatioks  OF  Chxtbchss  (4«'S.vii.888,480.) 
These  arejnven  in  Ecton's  Thesaurus  and  Browne 
Willises  FarochiaU  AngUcanum,  The  Bishop's 
Begisters  should  be  consulted  where  these  works 
faiL     Mackenzie  K  C.  Walcott,  KD.,  F.S.A. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L4»i»  S.  Vll.  June  10,  71. 


Childrhn's  Gams  (4«»  8.  vii.  141, 271, 416.)— 

**  •  How  manv  miles  to  Babylon  ?  * 

*  Three  score  miles  and  ten.' 

'  Can  we  get  there  by  candle-light  ?  * 

*  Yes,  and  back  again.' 

'  Hold  up  the  gates  as  high  as  the  sky, 

And  let  King  George  and  his  train  pass  by !  * " 

The  aboye  lines  were  those  of  my  childhood, 
which  was  passed  in  London,  Hereford,  and  Can- 
terbury. I  cannot  remember,  therefore,  in  what 
county  I  first  learnt  them.  E.  A.  D. 

Torquay. 

Sundials  (4">  S.  vii.  324,  399.)— A  very  inter- 
esting article  on  sundials  will  be  found  in  the 
Zetmre  Hour  for  June  1, 1870.  W.  Mabsh. 

7,  Red  Lion  Square. 

«  Akima  Oristi  "  (4«>'  S.  vii.  822, 374.)— Who- 
ever was  the  author  of  this  prayer,  it  certainly 
was  not  S.  Ignatius ;  for  in  a  collection  of  prayers 
which  I  have  bound  upwith  a  32mo  copy  of  the 
Sarum  Breviaty  (Pars  Hyemalis,  a.d.  1620),  it  is 
nven  ^  an  ''  oratio  post  elevationem ''  to  the  say- 
ing, of  which  *'  conceduntur  iij  dies  indulgentia- 
rum  a  Joanne  papa  xxij."  As  John  XXII.  was 
Pope  from  ISlo  to  1334,  the  prayer  is  at  least 
two  centuries  older  than  S.  Ignatius.  Whether 
the  comparative  nearness  of  this  pope  to  S.  Thomas 
Aquinas  (died  1274),  and  the  fact  that  it  was  he 
who  canonized  the  saint,  suffice  to  establish  the 
latter^s  authorship  of  the  prayer,  I  must  leave  others 
to  determine.  I  have  heard,  though  I  cannot 
say  on  what  authority,  an  English  origin  assigned 
to  it.  But  it  seems  to  me  much  more  probable 
that  both  S.  Ignatius  Und  Pope  John  should  be 
aoj^uainted  wiui  the  production  of  the  great  Do- 
minican than  with  a  peculiarly  EnglLui  prayer. 
With  all  deference  to  F.  C.  H.,  I  would  suggest 
that  Jesuit  reluctance  to  adopt  Dominicair  compo- 
sitions is  nihil  ad  rem.  If  S.  Ignatius  picked  up 
the  prayer  somewhere,  and  placed  it,  as  he  did, 
in  his  book  of  Spiriiual  JExercises,  its  popularity 
with  the  Jesuits  is  easily  accounted  tor.  It  is 
more  difficult  to  reconcile  its  comparative  disuse 
among  the  Dominicans  with  the  authorship  of  S. 
Thomas.  Barisbttbibnsis. 

Devonshibe  Word8V4">  S.  vii.  429. J — 1.  Clome 
(crockery),  perhaps  another  orthograpny  of  loam. 
[Grose  gives  doam,  coarse  earthenware.  Exm.; 
and  HaUiwell  doam^ earthenware, Devon;  domer, 
a  maker  of  earthenware ;  ehime-bwaaf  an  earthen 
pan.] 

2.  Mound  (a  hamper),  •*.  q.  the  Scottish  mound  « 
a  hand-basket,  from  A.-S.  mand;  Dan.  id. 

3.  Seam  (of  hay  or  straw),  from  the  French 

iomme :  Lat  aumma  for  aaufna,  eougmoj  sagma, 

ffifiMj  iroxa  o-iirTw,  to  load.    In  Essex  a  seam  of 

com  is  eight  bushels.     Blount  renders  gumma 

avencBj  '^a  seam  or  horse-load  of  oats." 

R.  S.  Chabitook. 
.  Qray's  Inn. 


William  Baliol  (4">  S.  vii.  302,  432.)--Alex- 
ander  de  Baliol,  elder  brother  of  the  Bang  of 
Scotland,  who  ^ed  1277-8,  married  Alianora  de 
Genoure, ''  the  king's  cousin,"  who  survived  him. 
(Calendarium  Genealogicum,  pp.  261,  744;  ^oi, 
Pat.  7  Edw.  I.)  She  was  apparently  the  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  de  Geneville,  or  Pierre  de  Geneve,  a 
blood  relation  of  Queen  Eleanor  of  Provence 
through  her  mother,  Beatrice  of  Savoy.  The 
other  Alexander  de  Baliol,  whom  Avglo-Scotus 
calls  Sir  Alexander  of  Cavers,  married  Isabel, 
elder  daughter  and  coheir  of  Richard  Fitzroy  or 
de  Chilham  (natural  son  of  King  John)  and 
Roisia  de  Dovor,  heiress  of  Chilham.  She  was 
widow  of  David  de  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Athole, 
and  died  at  Chilham  Castle  in  1292.  There  is, 
therefore,  nothing  strange  in  her  burial  in  the 
Undercroft  of  Canterbuxy  Cathedral,  where  her 
obit  was  annually  kept  on  April  17  (R^;i8teT  of 
Christ  Church,  Canterbuir,  Arundel  MS.  68). 
She  left  issue  two  sons — John  de  Strabolgi  and 
Alexander  de  Baliol.  Sir  Alexander  of  Cavers 
was  living  on  April  8, 1298,  when  he  was  "  jour- 
neying to. Scotland  in  the  king's  service"  (ItoL 
Fat.  26  Edw.  I.)  I  thought  both  these  Alexan- 
ders were  brothers  of  John  Baliol.  "Who  was 
dementia  de  Balliol,  precentrix  of  Elvestow 
Abbey,  and  afterwards  abbess  P  Her  election  was 
confirmed  by  mandate  of  Edward  I.,  Sept.  22, 
1294  {Eot.  Pat.  22  Edw.  L)        Hebmekt&ube. 

FiTzsTRATHBRms  (4***  S.  ii.  892,  461.)— A  per- 
son bearing  this  name  has  been  inquired  about  in 
'^  N.  &  Q.,"  and  is  thus  written  about  in  the  scan- 
dalous chronicle  of  a  Miss  Cary,  1825,  3  vols.  8yo, 
London : — 

'*  The  son  of  a  grave-digger  at  the  Orkneys  ....  he 
stated  himself  to  1^  the  son  of  the  Dake  of  Kent.  Mr. 
Fitsstratheme  says  he  is  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Knight, 
a  solicitor.  He  *  can  imitate  anv  handwriting,  and  they 
forged  the  letter  to  which  Her  Majesty's  [Qneen  Char> 
lotte*s]  name  was  affixed ;  that  letter  was,  and  I  am 
still  positively  assured  is,  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Knight. 
Mr.  Fitzstratheme  having  recently  suspected  that  some 
of  his  misdeeds  are  likely  to  be  made  public,  said  it  mat- 
ters not  what  a  man's  name  is  while  he  is  virtuous  and 
his  conduct  is  correct.  His  assumed  claim  to  the  blood 
of  royalty  is  best  explained  by  stating  that  bis  mother 
was  never  out  of  SoDtland,  and,  with  the  exception  of 
His  Miyesty  upon  a  recent  occasion,  not  one  of  the  royal 
family  has  ever  been  there.' " — ^Vol.  ilL  App.  xviL 

BOXBTX. 

Old  Songs  and  Ballads  (4^  S.  tL  47,  311 ; 
vii.  398.) — ^I  can  fully  endorse  Mr.  jACXSOir'a 
assertion  as  to  the  wretched  doggrel,  not  to  saj 
filthiness,  of  many  of  the  original  songs  to  the 
melodies  employed  by  Bums  and  Moore.  Doubt- 
less some  few  are  hairmless  enough,  but  as  a  rule 
they  are  better  consigned  to  that  oblivi<Hi  which 
they  now  enjoy.  I  have  a  pretty  good  sprinkling 
of  old  song-books  on  my  snelves,  and  enould  be 
happy  to  convince  any  one,  by  personal  inmection, 
of  the  truth  of  what  I  most  unhesitatingly  arer. 


4«*  8.  VII.  June  10, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


607 


The  ideas  of  our  grandfathers  and  grandmothers  as 
to  {what  was  presentable  and  what  was  not,  dif- 
fered considerably  from  oars  upon  the  same  point. 
I  do  not  think  that  we  should  allow  our  chudren 
free  access  to  the  pages  of  Allan  Ramsay's  Tea- 
Table  Miscellany f  yet  the  editor  expressly  says  in 
his  preface : — 

"  In  my  Composition  and  Collection  I  have  kept  oat  all 
smut  and  ribaldry,  that  the  modest  roioe  and  ears  of  the 
fair  singer  might  meet  with  no  affront." 

Some  few  of  the  originals  of  Moore's  Melodies 
are  j^reserved  in  tran^ations  from  the  Irish.  I 
may  instance  Walsh's  version  of  ^*  The  Twisting 
of  the  Rope  "  in  Lover's  Lyrics  of  Ireland,  p.  819. 

With  regard  to  many  of  the  tunes  mentioned 
by  Mr.  Blaib,  they  were  .ori^ally  dance  tunes, 
and  have  no  old  words.  This  can  not  only  be 
proved  from  various  sources,  but  is  evident  from 
the  structure  of  the  melodies  themselves,  which 
shows  that  they  were  composed  for  some  instru- 
ment. 

The  oldest  Scotch  tunes  are  to  be  found  in  the 
Skene  MS.  (See  Dauney's  ^nctien^  Scotish  Melo- 
dies.) The  earliest  Irish  tunes  (if  we  exclude  two 
or  three  trivial  collections  of  dance  tunes  of  the 
middle  of  the  last  century)  are  those  noted  down 
by  Mr.  William  Bunting,  and  which  supplied  Moore 
with  the  music  for  his  celebrated  Melodies,  Had 
it  not  been  for  Bunting  and  the  late  Dr.  Petrie 
(who  ^ve  the  poet  a  few  tunes),  the  memory  of 
the  Insh  music  would  have  been  but  little  more 
than  as  a  departed  dream,  never  to  be  satisfactorily 
realised.  Edward  F.  Rimbault. 

Stdket  Godoiphin  (4*^  S.  vii.  364, 462.)— The 
poet  of  this  name  was  surely  the  brother  of  the 
Lord  Treasurer,  '*  a  ^oung  gentleman  of  incom- 
parable parts,"  according  to  Clarendon,  who  gives 
nim  a  very  high  character,  both  in  his  Life  and 
in  the  Hutory  of  the  Rebellion,  He  was  bom  in 
Cornwall  in  1669  or  1610,  and  was  educated  at 
Exeter  College,  Oxford.  As  he  was  killed  at  the 
attack  of  Chagford,  in  Devonshire,  Jan.  1642-8, 
he  can  hardly  be  ciEdled  (supposing  it  to  be  him") 
**  one  of  the  wits  and  poets  of  Charles  II.'s  reign." 
He  translated  the  fourth  book  of  the  ^neioj  in 
which  he  was  assisted  by  Waller.  It  was  printed 
in  1668,  and  included  in  Dryden's  Miscellanies 
(edit.  1716,  iv.  134.)  Many  of' his  lyrics  are  pre- 
served in  MS.  They  are  remarkable  for  prettiness 
of  thought,  if  not  for  great  vigour  of  expression. 

Edward  F.  Rikbat7LT. 

Sir  Johw  Powell  (4'»»  S.  vii.  466.)— If  Mr. 

Frerb  has  no  objection,  I  will  answer  his  query, 

as  perhaps  the  author  of  JEminent  Welshmen  maj 

not  see  *'N.  &  Q.''    The  following  extract  is 

taken  from  Dr.  Thomas  Rees'  Description  of  South 

Wales,  p.  382  :— 

''At  a  abort  distance  to  the  westward  of  Langhame 
are  the  remains  of  Boadway  House^  the  seat  of  Sir  John 


Powell,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench, 
who  presided  at  the  trial  of  the  seven  bishops,  in  the 
reign  of  James  II.  The  part  he  took  on  this  occasion 
against  the  Court  caused  his  dismissal  from  his  sitoation. 
He  died  in  1696  at  the  age  of  sixty* three,  and  was  buried 
in  the  church  at  Langhame,  where  is  a  monument  erected 
to  his  memory.    The  inscription  states : — 

"Strennus  ecclesis  defensor  fherit.  Testes  ii  seplem 
Apostolici  Prasalefi,  qnos,  ob  Christ!  fidem  fortiter  vin- 
dicatam,  ad  ipsios  Tribunal  acdtos  intrepidns  absolvit.'* 

Such  is  the  only  notice  I  have  seen  of  this  up- 
right Judge.  If  Mr.  P^re  or  any  other  reader 
of  '^  N.  &  Q.''  would  like  to  test  the  accuracy  of 
the  above,  his  shortest  course  will  be  to  stop  on 
the  South  Wales  Railway  at  Ferryside,  to  cross 
over  to  Llanstephan  by  boat,  to  walk  two  miles, 
when  he  will  find  himself  in  view  of  Langhame 
Castle^  and  an  old  man  ready  to  carry  him  on  his 
back  across  the  river.  T.  S. 

Atres,  Frxre,  and  Friar,  Surnahes  (4^  S. 
vii.  386,  447.) — I  think  Mr.  Roger  indicates  the 
true  source  of  the  above  names,  seeing  that  there 
is  an  English  form  in  the  surname  Are,  north  of 
Ebigland,  and  Scotch  Air  and  Icelandic  ^r«son. 
BLuop  John  Areson  at  Hoolum  established  the 
first  printing-press  in  Iceland.  X.  S.  A. 

Trinity  House. 

Ekeeliko  dt  Prater  (4«*S.  vii.  437.) — A 
Concordance  would  have  satisfied  C.  A.  W.  that 
so  far  from  kneeling  being  a  feudal  custom  which 
came  in  about  the  eighth  century,  we  are  ex- 
horted in  Psalm  xcv.  to  '*  kneel  before  the  Lord 
our  Maker,"  that  Solomon  knelt,  and  that  Daniel 
knelt  three  times  a  day.  I  admit ''  to  fall  down 
before  '^  is  a  commoner  Scripture  phrase  than  to 
kneel;  but  that  standing  was  the  only  Jewish 
posture  no  Scripture  reader  will,  I  think,  allow. 

P.P. 


NOTES  ON  BOORS.  ETC. 

8cotti$h  Liturgiet  of  the  JRagn  of  Jamei  VI,  The  Sooke 
of  Common  Prayer  and  Adminisiration  of  the  Sacra- 
menla,  with  other  Ritet  and  Ceremonies  of  the  Chnrch  of 
Scotland,  as  it  was  eett  downs  atjiratf  before  the  Oumge 
thereof  made  by  ye  Arehb.  of  Canterbunef  and  tent  back 
to  Scotland,  {From  a  MS,  in  the  BriHah  Mueeum,) 
Ai$o  an  earlier  Draft  prepared  More  the  Troubles 
caueed  by  the  Articles  of  Perth,  {From  a  MS,  in  the 
Advocates*  Lthmry),  Edited  wiih  an  Introduction  and 
Notee  by  the  Bev.  W.  Sprott,  BA.  (Edmonston  and 
Douglas.) 

This  ample  title-page  shows  so  fully  the  nature  and 
contents  of  this  little  volume  and  its  bearing  upon  the 
history  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Scotland,  as  to  render 
any  detailed  account  of  it  nnneoessanr.  Our  readers  are 
aware  that,  after  the  Befbrmation,  the  Prayer  Book  of' 
Edward  the  Sixth  was  used  in  public  worship  by  th«( 
Church  of  Scotland  untfl  it  was  superseded  by  the  Book 
of  Common  Order,  or  Knox's  Litnigy.    In  1601  other 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«kS.VII.JomiiO,71. 


dmgM  were  oontempUted«  and  the  progreie  of  theee 
changes  is  well  tidd  in  the  Editor's  introditotioa  to  the 
Lttorgy  which  he  has  printed  in  the  TolanM  before  na. 
That  Liturgy  waa  discovered  in  the  British  Mosenm  hr 
the  Rer.  Alexander  Irwin,  and  described  and  parte  of  it 
printed  hr  him  in  The  Brituh  Magaxbu  for  1646-6.  For 
Its  publication  in  its  present  form,  with  the  aoeompanjring 
letters  throwing  light  upon  the  preparation  of  the  Prayer 
Book  of  16877Mr.  SproU  deserves  the  thanks  of  all  who 
desire  to  study  the  history  of  the  Church  in  Scotland. 

The  WmrhM  of  Alexander  Pope.  New  Edition,  including 
ieveral  Hundred  ufqmblished  Lettertt  and  other  new 
Materials  eolleeted  in  part  by  the  late  Right  Hon.  John 
Wilson  Croker.  Wtik  Introduetione  and  Notee  bw  the 
Bev.  Whitwell  Elwin.  VoL  VIL  Oorreepondence^ 
Vol.  IL  Wiik  Portrait^  and  other  llluetrationM, 
(Murray.) 

This  new  and  important  edition  of  the  writing  of  the 
Bard  of  Twickenham  makes  steady  and  most  satisfactory' 
progress.  Four  out  cf  the  eight  volumes  of  which  it  is 
to  consist  are  now  published.  The  one  before  us  is  the 
second  of  the  *^  Correspondence,"  and  contains,  first,  one 
hundred  and  fifty-six  letters  to  and  from  Swift  and  others, 
from  1713  to  1741 ;  next,  four  letters  between  Pope  and 
Bolingbroke;  thirty  letters  between  Pope  and  Gay, 
dated  between  1712  and  1732 ;  eight  letters  between  Pope 
and  Parnell,  firom  1714  to  1717 ;  and  lastly,  eighteen  let- 
ters between  Pope  and  Dr.  and  George  Arbnthnot,  firom 
1714  to  1743,— and  of  all  these  letters,  it  must  be  ronem- 
beied,  there  are  a  great  number  which  either  in  whole  or 
in  part  are  not  in  the  edition  of  Roscoe.  The  volume 
may  not  perhaps  contain  so  much  new  matter  as  some  of 
those  which  have  preceded  it,  but  it  is  marked  by  the 
same  careful  editing  and  full  and  judicious  illustration. 

Mb.  Ashbbb*8  Oocasiostai.  Fao-sdiilb  Rbpbibts.— 
We  have  already  breught  under  the  notice  of  our  readers 
several  of  the  series  of  Reprints  of  short  printed  tracts  of  a 
misoellaneons  character,  which  Mr.  Ashbee  has  produced 
in  fac^mile  with  a  success  which  makes  them,  to  all  in- 
tents and  purposes,  satisfactory  substitutes  for  the  original. 
We  have  now  five  more  of  them  before  us,  namoTy : — 
The  Debate  and  Str^e  beiwene  Somer  and  Winter,  from 
the  original  black-letter  tract,  **  Imprynted  by  Lawrens 
Andrew."  2.  Treatyse  of  this  GalavMt  with  Vu  Maryage 
of  the  Bo9$e  of  BiUynmgate  unto  London  Stone,  also  In 
black-letter.  8.  A  iVew  Play  called  Canterburie,  hie 
Change  of  Diet,  tfc^  from  the  original  published  in  1641. 
4.  A  Certain  Relation  of  the  ffogfaced  Uenllewoman  called 
Miatrie  Faemaker,  Shmher,  ^c.  1620;  and  5,  and  last. 
The  Merry  Conceited  Humours  of  Bottom  the  Weaver, 
from  Eirkman's  edition  of  1661.  We  believe  if  the 
literarv  history  of  this  droll  was  thoroughly  investigated, 
it  would  throw  considerable  light  upon  a  curious  chap- 
ter in  the  history  of  the  Eng&h  Drama.  Our  readers 
need  scarcely  be  reminded  that  these  reprints,  which  are 
limited  to  100  copies,  are  to  be  procured  for  shillings 
where  the  original  tracts  would  cost  pounds. 

RoTAL  InsTiTUTiosr  OF  Grbat  Beitain. — At  the 
general  monUily  meeting  on  Monday,  Sir  Frederick  Pol- 
lock, M.A.«yioe-Preeident,  in  the  chair,  Mr.  Silas  Kemball 
Cook,  Miss  Elinor  Martin,  Mr.  Charles  Bland  RadcUffe, 
M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Radcliffe  were  elected  members. 

pABia. — ^It  is  reported  that  nearly  all  the  missing 
pieesk  of  the  Gobnne  Y  enddme  have  been  reeovend,  and 
that  it  will  be  no  very  difficult  matter  to  bring  about  its 
complete  restoration.  Meanwhile  a  discussion  nas  ariaen, 
sa^  The  Ttmat '  speeinl  correspondent,  *'  as  to  what  (•  do 
with  the  ruins— -which  shall  be  rebuilt,  which  pulled  down, 
and  which  Ult  standing.  Ose  pioposal,  which  finds  fisyonr, 


is  to  pull  down  all  that  remains  of  the  Tnilcriss,  sad  w 
open  up  the  Louvre  to  the  Champs  Elyate  witiMot  a  bnak 
in  the  vista,  laying  out  the  apaoe  now  occopied  bj  the 
Palace  in  a  public  garden.  The  nniveml  teotimeQl  is 
to  enclose  the  Hdtel  de  Yille  in  a  square,  and  let  it  stud 
a  magnificent  ruin  and  illustretion  of  the  msancr  in 
which  the  most  advanced  philosophical  and  philsBtfanpie 
ideas  of  the  present  age  find  their  highest  ezpremn  aad 
ultimate  development*' 

Thb  chAtean  of  the  Marquis  Laplace  at  Areool  Cschsa, 
which  escaped  the  Prussians,  haa  been  ploodersd  b?  t 
band  of  housebreakers  from  the  Moufletard  district  the 
manuscripts  of  the  celebrated  astronomer  were  tivown 
into  the  BicSvre,  from  Which  the  original  of  The  Mtduudm 
of  the  Heavens,  in  the  author's  handwritiB^  has  nifase- 
quently  been  fished  out.  The  library,  which  wss  rich  ia 
rare  books,  souvenirs,  and  works  of  art,  has  beea  looted 
and  devastated. — Guardian. 

Br  a  fire  at  Alexandria,  Tirginia,  on  the  Idth  alt  wss 
destroyed  the  old  Court-house  of  Fairikx  coaatj,  erected 
of  imported  bricks  in  1748.  In  this  building  the  British 
troops  were  bamcked  after  the  capture  of  Fort  Neoenitj^ 
in  1754,  and  from  it  the  forces  of  Braddock  marched  to  tbeur 
memorable  defeat  in  1755.  For  fiflv  years  it  was  familur 
with  the  footsteps  of  George  Washington,  and  under  its 
roof  he  cast  his  last  vote  in  1799.  The  old  Alexandria 
Museum,  which  contained  many  relics  of  Washing 
was  burnt,  but  the  relics  were  saved. 


BOOKS   AND    ODD   VOLUMES 

WAKTBD  TO  FURCHA8B. 

Pwflenlan  of  Prioe,  aw.,  of  tiie  fUlowlnsbookf  to  betent  dbtctia 
tlMi*aU«iii«B  by  whom  th»y  we  fOQuirod,  whoM  nsnu  ■ndtddnMi 
an  given  ftv  thu  porpoN  :— 

CA0LI08TB0.    cms    DSB     msKwuBoiasm    Auaruiut 
uxaBBS  JAwnajranmam.   I7w. 

MiMOiRBS  ATmnsTiqvna  db  Cagltostbo.   ITSS. 

Enr  Faab  TMrrumm  aub  dbm  Bbunvbh  dbb  WahbbbiTi  tM- 

OBOOBSBK  yob  DBM  SBUBX  THAUICATITBOBH  CAOLIOSnO.    iK. 

CAOLI08TB0  IK  WABSOHAa.  1788.    Or  th«  Frencli  cditko  enutM 

**  Cii«Iio«tro  demaaqu^  b  VanoTfe." 
I8T  CAOLIOaTBO  CHBF  DBB  iLLUXIBATBa?  1790.  _ 

Lmttbi  db  Comna  na  Muubbao  ant  Caouobtbo  it  Lvfon, 

1786. 
LiBBB  MBICOBIALIS   DB  CALBOSTBO,  DUX   BSSBT  BOSOBim.  Or 

the  Qennan  tnyulKtlon. 
Wuted  bj  Jfr.  WiOiamK.  A.  Axon,  b^Jojnww  Street,  StnogeW** 
who  witt  beihankAii  for  early  oftn. 


Rbovbil  db  Stavpbs  du  Cabuot  DB  Ddc  DB  CBODin-  cri' 
MlMib  and  Enfflldi  MSS. 

Wanted  by  Jt€v.  J.  C.  Jaekaon,  IS,  llaaor  'Jenaee.  AihnK BaiA 

Hackney,  1I.E. 


Thb  Lira  ov  Dox  Juab  db  Castbo.  tkb  Tomrm  yic**BaT  or 
IBDIA,  by  Jaeint  Frey  de  Andreda.  Trasalated  by  Sir.  P.  ^J^ 
London.  ISSi. 

Wealed  by  CoLJFUi^ 


£atitti  to  CatTtipavCStttti. 

JOAH  OF  Arc.— ITAaii  referring  Mr.  Kosll  Bad- 
CLIFFE  (^ante,  p,  409)  to  M.  Ddepierres  privatdy  pri^f^ 
Doute  Historique/or  information  respecting  Joan  of  Arc, 
we  omitted  to  staU  that  the  essay  is  publiihed  in  thai  9(^ 
tlenum's  interesting  volume,  entitled  Historical  Dit&euW 
and  Contested  Events,  reviewed  in  "N.  AQ."  <f^P^^ 
1868,  ^  S.  i.  331. 

A.  H.  Batbs  (Edgbaston.)  A  more  correct  ternen*! 
JehyWe  «  TVora  of  the  Cruets  "  appeared  in  "  N.  *  Q.  l" 
8.  £172.  •'  ^"^ 

EHBATA.— 4»«»  S.  viL  p.  479,  col.  i.  line  19  firom  bottja 
(of  text)  dek  '•«";  iMd.  ooL  last  line  (of  not^)  f^ 
*•  vocal'*  rood  "voweL" 


4»>  S.  Til.  3m»  10, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ACCIDBMTS   CAVSB   IjOM   09   IiIFB. 

▲oeidMita  OTimt  Tjmi  of  TIsm. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF  MONEY. 

Provide  agauut  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

«T  XK8UBIXO  WXTK  TKB  - 

Bailway  Passengers'  Assnnyee  Company, 

An  Annual  Payment  of  IBS  t«  Ml  S/  InnurM  d,000  at  Death, 
or  an  aUinranea  at  tba  rata  of  Ml  per  week  for  Injuxy. 

ftSeSfOOO  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

ONE  out  of  eyenr  TWBLVE  Annual  Policy  Holden  beownlng  a 
dainumt  EACH  TEAR.  For  partkulan  ami  j  to  the  Clerks  at  the 
Bailway  StatkMU,  to  the  Loeal  !«•■>••  or  at  the  Ofleaa. 

64,CORNHILL,  and  10,  BEOSMT  BTBXXT.  LONDON. 

WnXIAH  J.  YIAN,  Aeretonr. 


NOTHINa  IMPOSSIBLE.— AGUA  AMABElIiA 
rcctorea  the  Human  Hair  to  Iti  prli^ne  hue,  no  matter  at  wh;^ 
age.  MESSRS.  JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  GOThaTe  at  length,  with  the  aid 
of  the  moft  eminent  C!hemiete,  racoeeded  In  perftettng  thJe  wonderfm 
liquid.  It  it  now  ofltawd  to  the  Publlo  in  a  more  ooneentxaledform, 
and  at  a  lower  price. 
Sold  in  Bottlei .  3«.  each,  aleo  5«.,7«.  td.^  or  1&«. each,  witii  bruih. 


JOHN  GOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHEBRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  is  gnatly  enperior  to  any  Tooth  Powder.  giTea  the  teeth 
a  pearl-like  whitenew,  pxotecti  the  enamel  tnm  decay,  and  imparU  a 
pleaiiug  fragrance  to  the  breatli. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  GO.*S  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
NURSERY  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perftmiere  and  Chemittf  throughout  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  PaMage,  89,  Upper  Thamee  Street,  London. 

RUPTURE6.-3Y  ROYAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVER  TRUSS  is 
allowed  by  upwardi  of  aoo  Medloal  men  to  be  the  mort  eflbe- 
tive  Invention  In  the  curative  treatment  of  HERNLA..  The  um  of  a 
■toel  q>iing,  m  often  hurtflil  in  iti  eiftcti,ia  here  avoidedi  a  wft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  body,  while  the  requldte  reflating  power  a.  mip- 
pUed  by  the  MOC-HAIN  PAD  and  PATENT  LEVER  Ittingwith  lo 
much  ease  and  doeencw  that  It  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  De  worn 
during  deep.  A  deacriptive  circular  may  be  bad,  and  the  Trow  (whieh 
cannot  fUl  to  fit)  ibrwarded  by  poet  on  the  dreumftrenee  of  the  body* 
twolndiei  below  the  hipa,  being  Mat  to  the  Maauftetuier, 

HR.  JOHN  WHITB,  MB,  PICCADILLY,  LONDON. 

Pdoe  of  a  Slngla  Trnae.  16*..  9I«.,  Kf.  «d.,  and  Sle.  8d.   Foatace  U. 
DoubleTruaa,Sla.6(l..4la.,andflgi.6d.    Poatage la. 8d. 
AnUmbUkiiiTruaa,ttt.aadUf.«(l.   Poelage  la.  lOd. 

Poet  Office  oidttfl  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Foat  Offloe.  PlceadiUy. 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  &e.,  for 
YARICOSE  VEINS,  end  all  eaaea  of  WEAKNESS  and  8WEL- 
ro  of  the  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  fttt.  They  areporona,  light  in  texture, 
and  Ineiqiendve.  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  atooking.  Frioee 
4«.  <d.,  7a.  6<f.,  IQa.,  and  Ma.  eadi.   Foatage  8d. 

JOHN  WHITB.  MAITUTACTUREB. »,  PICCADILLY.  London. 

GENTLEMEN   desirous  of  having  their  LinenB 
dreaaed  to  perfection  ahonld  anpply  their  Laundreaaea  with  the 

••a&awza&o  a  t  as  oh," 

which  Imparta  a  brilliancy  and  elaatidty  gratifying  alike  to  the  aenae 
of  light  and  touch. 

LAXPLOUGS'S 
PTEETIC     SALIEE 

Haa  peculiar  and  remarkable  propertlea  In  Headache,  Sea,  or  Btllona 
Sidcneaa.  prerentlngand  curfaig  Hay,  Scarlet,  end  other  Fevcie,  and  ia 
admitted  oy  all  uaers  to  ibnn  tlie  moat  agreeabla,  portaUe,  TttaHaing 
Summer  Beverage.   Sold  by  moat  chymiata,  and  the  maker, 

H.  LAMPLOUGH,  113,  Holbom  Hill,  London. 

HOLLO  WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
RELIEF  AND  REMEDY.-Jt  ia  uadcaa  here  to  enter  into  the 
queatton  how  thia  Ointment  worka  audi  aatounding  cnrea  of  all  de- 
Bcriptiona  of  aorea,  ulcen,  bad  lega,  and  aoorbutlc  or  acrofVilous  erup- 
tiona.  SuiHdent  ia  it  for  all  aullbrera  to  know  that  the  united  teatimony 
of  thonaanda  provea  the  liealing  powera  of  HoUoway'a  CMntment,  and 
eameatly  reeoramenda  Ita  trial  to  all  aflieled  with  theae  maladlea. 
Wlien  thia  treatment  ia  once  commenced,  the  caae  and  comfort  it 
beatowa  will  induce  ita  atoady  eontlnuanee  till  the  cure  ia  completed. 
A  vaat  advantage  in  uaing  Hcuhiway'a  widely  approdated  medteamenta 
ariaea  firam  the  foct  ef  thdr  reqniiing  ndther  cgntnement  nor  mndi 
dumgc  of  diet  to  eanrt  thdr  nnr 


W 


ATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  saaranteed 

.  .  the  daeat  imMied,  fVee  tnn  addlty  or  heat,  and  moch  anpe- 
lior  to  low-ptiaed  Bherry  (vutt  Dr.  Draitt  on  Oiiap  Wmai).  One 
Guinea  per  dozen.  Selected  dry  Tamgoaa,  18a.  per  dosen.  Terme 
caah.  Three  doaen  rail  paid.--W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merdumt, 
373,  Ozfbrd  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  London,  W.  Eata- 
bliahedlStl.    Full  race  Liato  poet  free  on  application. 


At 


Tsa 


ses. 


,  fit  fbr  a  G«Btleman*oTabl«.  BotUM  iDflladed,and 
eictra  (ivtanahU). 


CHABLE8  WARD  ft  SON, 

(FoetOOoe  Ordera  on  PleoadlUy),  1,  Chapel  Street  Weit, 
MAYTAIR,  Wm  LONDON. 

ses.       TBa  MATVAzm  BMmBMx       ses. 

HEDGES  &   BUTLER  solicit  attention  to  their 
PURE  ST.  JULIEN  CLARET 
At  Ua.^  Me.,  tta.,  SOa.,  and  Ma.  per  doien. 
Choice ClaxeU of variouagrowtha,4Sa.,4Ba.,6<la.,7la.,S4a.,  96a. 

GOOD  DINNER  SHERRY, 
At  Ma.  end  10a.  per  doMU. 

B  nperf  or  Golden  Shernr .aB*.and41« 

Choice  Sherry-iAdc  Golden,  ec  Brown. ..  .4Sa.,Ma.,andMa. 

HOCK  and  liOSELLE, 
At  Ma.,  lOa.,  asa.,  4Sa.,  4Ba.,  Me.,  and  84«. 

Portfkvmflrat-daaaShlppcH a0a.Ma.41a. 

VeryChoioeOld  Port 48a.60a.71a.Ma. 

CHAMPAGNE, 
At  36a.,  41a.,  4aa.,  and  60a. 

Hoehhelmer .  Ifaioobrnnner,  Rudedtdmer,  Steinberg.  Liefaftanmilch, 
60a.  I  Johannlabergcr  and  Stdnberger,  71a.,  84a..  to  110a.  i  BrannbcMer, 
Grunhanaen,  and  Scharsberg.  4ea.  to  84a.  i  aparkUnf  HoaeUe.46a.,60a., 
66a.,  78a.  I  very  choice  Champagne,  66a.,  7Ba.i  fine  old  Sa^,  Malmaey, 
Frontignac  Vennutli,  Conatanua^Xachiynua  Chriad,  Imperial  Tekay, 
and  other  rarewinea.  Fine  eld  Pale  Cognac  Brandy,  60a.  and  71a.  per 
doaen.   Fordgn  Liqneura  of  every  deacription. 

On  reodptof  a  Foat  OfBee  order, or  reftieaecaoy  Qvanttty  will  be 
forwarded  immediately  tj 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON!  IAN  REGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton!  SO,  Kfaig*a  Road. 

(Original)^  Bdabllahed  A.O.  Mff  J 


GRAND  PUMP  ROOM  HOTEL,  BATH,  opposite 
the  Abbey  Church.     FIRST-CLASS    ACCOMMODATION. 
Warm  Mineral  Water  Batha  nnder  the  aame  roof. 

MISS  HAWKESWOBTH,  Manageieak 


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C     H. 


ILBERT     J.      FREN 

BOLTON,  LANCASHIRE, 

Mannftctnrerof 

CHUBOH    PUBNITUBB. 

CARPETSf  ALTAR-CLOTHS, 

COMMUNION  LINEN,  SURPLICES,  and  ROBES. 

HERALDIC,  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICAL 

FLAGS  and  BANNERS,  ftc  ftc 

A  Catalogue  aent  by  pod  on  ^vpUcatioa. 

Paroela  delivered  finee  at  all  prindpal  Railway  Statlona. 


IiHE    NEW   GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD   WATCH, 
KEYLESS,  Engliah  Make,  ttmn  aoUd  than  Fordgn,  141.  14a. 
NES*  Manufhctory,  338.  Strand,  oppodto  Someraet  Houae. 

Theae  Watchea  have  many  polnta  of  Spedal  Novdty. 

ILTANILA  CIGARS.— MESSRS.  VENNING  fr  CO. 

ill  of  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS  ^LONDON,  have  Just  re- 
ceived a  Condgnment  of  No.  3  MANILA  ClOARS,  tn  excellent  con- 
dition, in  BoxM  of  flOO  eadi.  Frloe  K.  10a.  per  box.  Ordert  to  be 
aecompanied  by  a  remlttanee. 

N  J.  Sample  Bex  of  IM,  tea.  «al. 


BY  ROYAL  COMMAND. 


J 


OSEPH    GILLOTT'S    STEEL    PENS. 

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World. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[l*S.TlI.Jmi«  10,71. 


TTNIFOKM  SERIES  OF 
WOSES  in  STAHDABJ)  LUEBATUSE. 

Edited  by  W.  Cahew  Hailitt. 


I.  mSTOBY  of  ENGLISH  POETRY  ftwn  tho 

Twtlflk M  tbe SbrtHDUi OctwT.   BrTHOHAfl  W^TON, 


BRAND,  r.S.A.^wlth  TdT  Liuif  Corroctioin  wid  Adiktoin. 
l3Sld),teiii.ani.iIi.lJi,«:Su.V  """^  "^        ™  ' 

HL  ENGLISH    PROVERBS    and   PROVERBIAL 

FHRABEB.   mllHttd    mm   Ibl    imt    Anlhentlc    Soam. 
BoViM  Mly "printed  1,  ir  u.  i  Lhtb  Fvct  looIj  w  priuedt» 
•••  nalArffaFHoEiupniloDlinHTlf  out  of  lulat. 

THE   BOXBUBQEE   LIBBABT. 

Edited  by  W.  Cahew  Hazlitt. 

All  tnatlftiUT  pTiaUd  l>7  TCRiTmnRm  k  WiLun.  hqi.  tta.01 

Luie  FAtvt,  dvEaj  ttA,  ■mlfomil]' b*ir  Nmbd  In  lAQnooD' 

I.  The    ROMANCE  of    PARIS    and   VIENNE, 

IL  The    COMPLETE    WORKS    of    WILLIAM 

BlU>WKE,QfT>TUiack,  AvthoT  of  "BHHianJft**  PHtOftli." 

Ill,  INEDITEDTRACT3(1S79-I618);  ninstniting 

tbe  Mvwen,  <Mnloii>.  and  OcRir*ti«itorEDa]liliiDni  during 
the  IRIi  BBd  ITUi  OtnturiH.  ibow  AM  rtpuubhad  from  tha 
Oriflul  Cogiw.  wlih  ■  Prdkse  ud  IloMa.  Ui. 

IT.  The  ENGLISH  DRAMA  and  STAGE  under 

Iht  TCDOtt  Hid  STTAKT  FIUKCB9.  l.D.  IM9  lo  ^D.  ItU, 

V.  The  POEMS  of  GEORGE  6ASC0IGNE,  now 
VI.  The  POEMS  of  THOMAS  CAREW,  now  first 

oolLocUd  uidEOIlvd,  irllhft  Jdemolrortlic  AuUuv,  uid  fine 
P»tr«1t  «ncr  Vuln.    uu. 

the  Lbct  Paper.  Tbfl  ItoIl  may  be  pDrch'vcd  tontlVF  Jbr 
«!.  Ai,  ud  tAt  lATlt  FaMT  lU  111,  lla.    The  latter  an  not  Bid 

leiMrtHlr,  tM  tbort  ait  wo  A*  l«ft. 

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17.  The  ENGLISH  DRAMA  and  STAQE  under 

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V.  The  POEMS  of  OEORGE  QASCOIGNE,  now 
VI.  The  FOEHS  of  THOMAS  CAREW,  now  first 

Fortnltafta  Tuln.    Ui. 

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fpHE 


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CONTENTS.— N«  181. 

KOTBSs  — 05tx  Yon  Berlfchlngen,  609— A  Printer's  firror, 
lb,  —  Lord  Enkine  -  Sleel  Bngraving -*••HlbblU"- 
IJODd(m  tn  October  —Twenty  PcAnts  of  Ptaiy  —  Mr».  Hbt^ 
riet  Clarke,  aged  106  — HemoriAl  Bells  at  St.  Dautanli 
Stepney  —  T^watry  Portraits  —  May  Day  ait  Oxford,  510. 

QUBBIB8!—'*  Agreeing  to  differ '*  —  Alcestis-'*Arthw'*8 
slow  Wain"— Baml>o:  Clod  Beef— CoUeetiott'for  a  His- 
tory of  Inns,  ftc.  —  "Ex  Luce  LaeeUusA'*  —  Aneient 
Bnigma  —  Flemish  Fishermen  settled  in  BaKland  —  **  The 
Garden  of  the  Soul "  —  **  The  Oreciftn  Bend  "  —  Hebrews 
ix.  16— JohnKingslow.  the  Beoluse— Sanniel  Maunder 

—  Maeaulay  and  Oarlyle  ^  MedaUio  Quen  —  Milton's 
Polk  Lore— Monolith  at  Meams  —  Anoleot  slddlee— The 
Septoagint  —  Thomaa  Simon  —  James  Smyth  of  Whftehill 
—Snap—*'  The  Song  of  Solomon  "  —  Bishop  Jereo^  Tay- 
lor —  Selby  Family,  612. 

RBPLIB8:  —  Bood  Screens  in  Suffolk  Churches,  616  — 
Mural  Painting  in  Stanton  Church,  Norfolk^l7— "  Jaek  ** 
Burton,  618— Poetry  of  the  Olouas,  /d.— Itealm,  819  — 
Marriages  of  English  Princesses,  620 -(Md.  **Metam." 
xiii.  854 :  **  Benignior,"  621  —  Sun-dial  Inscriptions — Pas- 
ley  or  Paalewe — Bismarck  anticipated :  '*  Stefwtng  in  thsir 
own  Gravy "—  Children's  Games- "The  Wind  has  a 
Language,^  Ao«  —  Cookes:  Cookeseyx  Cooke  —  Another 
Old  JenUns  —  Francis :  Junius  and  the  Seals  —  Origin  of 
the  Surname  Cunningham  —  *'  The  Thunderer  "  —  Honn 

—  BeY.  B.  C.  Maturin  of  "Barrel-organ  Fame"  —Mrs. 
Mary  Churchill —John  Dyer— Samplers  — Gone— The 
Doctrine  of  Oeltidsm—'' Thirty  Days  Ittth  Senitember''  — 
St.  Yaleatine- Mary  Queen  of  Boots'  Impnsomnents-^ 
"Comes  to  Grief  "—PuiiUn  Changes  of  Names-"  Drum" 
an  Evening  Party,  Aa,  622. 

Notes  on  Books.  Ac. 


q6t2  von  berlichinqen. 

Gotz  or  Gottfried  von  Berlichingen,  or  Ber- 
lacliingeDy  sumamed  ''  of  the  Iron  Hand,"  is  best 
known  to  ns  hj  Gothe's  drama  or  Sir  Walter 
Scott's  translation  of  H.  Very  lately  the  well- 
known  philologist,  Dr.  W.  H.  J.  Bleek,  has  dis- 
covered a  yery  interesting  historical  docnment 
relatinff  to  him  in  the  shape  of  an  inscription  at 
the  end  of  an  old  mannscnpt  yolume  in  the  Grey 
Library  in  Cape  Town.  The  manuscript  rolnme 
in  question  is  a  Tory  curious  one,  ^  wxittiBn  in  the 
fourteenth  centmy."  I  quote  the  words  of  Dr. 
Bleek  :^ 

"  It  contains  lessons  from  the  Goepds,  and  is  highly 
illuminated  with  very  quaint  miniatwee  and  Initials  in 
gold  and  oeloars.  The  prssent  bin^g  is  e^ently 
original,  and  fhnn  the  word  *  Amorbaeh,'  whioh  appears 
ibur  times  on  the  stamped  cover,  indioatM  that  the  volume 
fonntriy  belonged  to  the  Convent  of  Amokhncii  or  Ammer- 
bach  in  the  Odiewald,  now  the  resideBce  of  the  Prinoe  of 
Leiningen,  a  near  relative  of  Queen  Victoria V 

The  inscription  in  question  fixes  the  precise 
time  during  the  peasant  war  of  his  presence  at 
Amwhach.  A  parchment  leidT  attached  to  the  end 
cover  of  this  volume,  in  the  writing  of  the  first 
part  of  the  siztoenth  oentnry,  bean  the  following 
inscription:-^ 

**  Anno  do.  1.5.26  facta  est  desolatio  bufus  Ubri,  avro 
aignto  f^emmisque  tecti,  in  oigilia  Philips  &  Jaoobi  a 
qnodam  aobmtaria  («tc)  titulo  iaaigiitto  GStk  de  BeiUa* 


gen  nomine  et.aUo  rusticaDe  fesis  ahteskinaao  Qeoigie  a 
Ballenbeigh  lanio  arte,  factis  uero  et  actibus  homine  per- 
fido,  latrone,  et  proprii  honoris  prodigo,  deri,  nobilitatis^ 
ac  proprtt  domini,  contra  evang^cas  tochis  quoque  na- 
tnndis  legis  ssxictfoaes  perseqmitore  inftBtisnmo,  eode^ 
siarom  iasuper  et  rdigfosonaa  looomm  devastatora  et 
eztenninatore  atrocfssimo." 

"  In  the  year  1525»  on  the  eve  of  Philip  and  James^ 
there  took  place  the  spoliation  of  this  book,  which  was 
covered  with  ^H  silver,  and  jewels,  by  one  who  was 
made  conspicuous  oy  the  tide  of  nobility,  G5tz  of  Ber- 
Ixohingen  by  name,  and  another  leader  of  the  rastie  mob» 
Greoige  of  ^Dallenoerg,  a  butcher  by  trade,  bat  in  his 
deeds  and  actions  a  perfidious  fellow,  a  robber,  careless  of 
his  own  honour,  a  most  inimical  penecutor  of  the  deigy, 
nobilltf  and  of  his  own  lord,  contrary  to  the  ordinances 
df  the  Gospel  and  those  of  every  natural  law ;  also  a  most 
atrodons  spoiler  and  destroyer  of  choiehes  and  all  rel^ 
gions  places." 

This  £x^  April  30, 1526,  as  the  date  of  the 
visit  of  Gotz  and  the  insurgent  peasants  to  the 
Convent  of  Amorbach. 

The  volume  in  (j^uestion  is  now  mounted  on 
brass  ornaments,  evidently  antique,  and  probably 
of  the  date  immediately  following  its  spoliation.  . 

It  is  probable,  however,  from  the  veir  tenor  of 
the  denunciation,  that  it  was  the  work,  not  of 
Gotz,  but  of  the  Metzler  or  Butcher  George  of 
Ballenberg  of  Gothe's  drama.  Gotz  was  but  the 
nominal  captain  or  chief  of  the  insurgents,  and 
must  have  been  at  Amorbach  almost  immediately 
after  he  had  accepted  the  captaincy ;  for,  having 
met  the  insurgents  at  Gundelsheim,  he  was  on 
the  following  day  at  Buchen  forced  to  put  himself 
at  their  head.  Thence  they  proceeded  through 
Amorbach,  Mittenberg^  ScCf  on  their  way  to 
Wursburg. 

The  alrave  interesting  particulars  are  condensed 
from  a  communication  by  Dr.  Bleek  to  the  Cape 
MagtOBmey  and  may  be  worthy  of  a  comer  in 
"  N:  &  Q.".  H.  HAXt. 

Portsmouth. 


A  PBINT£B*S  EBBOB. 

The  third  edition  of  my  Mythology  of  GrMce 
and  Rahf  was  printed  iserhatim  from  the  second^ 
except  where  additions  were  made  in  MS.  My 
surprise,  therefore,  was  great  when,  under  ifaie 
hewi  of ''  Fortune/'  in  the  mythology  of  Italy,  for 
''altars  and  fanes"  I  found  ''altars  and  gameSb** 
It  was  a  puzzle  to  me  for  years.  At  last  it  stmck 
me  that,  as  in  the  compositor's  case  the  type  is 
arranged  in  boxes,  each  box  containing  the  type 
of  one  letter,  and  as  the  compositor  works  me^ 
ehanieally,  he  may  stretch  too  far  or  not  ftr 
enough^  and  so  take  up  the  letter  before  or  aftet 
the  one  he  requires,  and  the  reader  seeing  the 
eitor  may  make  the  correctiiMi  in  the  wrong 
place :  thus  fane  may  have  beeome  gone,  vHiioE 
the  reader  changed  to  game.  On  inquiry  t  found  I 
was  right,  and  that  this  is  a  constant  source  of 
erroK. 


510 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES- 


[4«'8.VII.Jtob17,7L 


Now  there  are  tax  places  in  Shakespeare  thus 
oormpted^  and  curious  enough  they  have  all  been 
corrected^  and  rightly,  by  myself  and  others — a 
sure  proof,  by  the  way,  that  emendation,  when 
acting  under  a  true  critiad  sense,  is  no  mere  hap- 
hazara  work.    The  places  are  as  follows : — 

"  Or  for  loae's  sake,  a  word  that  ltme$  all  men." 

Love'9  Lab.  Act  IV.  Sc  8. 

Here  Hanmer  properly  read  moues,  and  to  our 
shame  be  it  said,  no  editor  seems  to  have  fol- 
lowed him. 

**  A  mother,  and  a  miatreBS,  and  a  friend.*' 

AlTt  Well,  Act  I.  So.  1. 

Here  at  the  first  glance  I  saw  that  the  riffht 
word  was  lover,  but  I  supposed  that  a  part  of  it 
had  been  efTaced,  and  the  printer  supplied  the 
want.  I  now  see  that  the  compositor  and  the 
reader  made  the  ordinary  mistake. 

'     «  To  me  she  speaks ;  she  mouet  me  for  her  theme.** 

Cbfn.  o/Errorif  Act  XL  Sc.  2. 

Here  I  saw  plainly  that  the  word  was  loves, 
which  the  context  proves  to  be  right. 

**  My  birth-pUioe  haue  I,  and  my  love's  upon." 

Cbr.  Act  IV.  Sc  4. 

'  Will  it  be  believed  that  the  obvious  correction 
hate  was  left  for  Steevens  P — u  and  v,  being  used 
promiscuously,  were  in  the  same  box. 

*'  And  the  twaggerhig  upspriag  reels." 

Hamlet,  Act  I.  Sc  4. 

For  t  the  compositor  took  up  u  or  v,  which  the 
reader  changed  to  w. 

**  Salt  Cleopatra,  soften  thy  wand  lip." 

An.  <md  CUop,  Act  II.  Sc.  1. 

As  Cleopatra^s  dark  skin  is  frequently  referred 
to,  the  right  word  must  be  tand  (tanned) ,  of  which 
the  compositor  made  uand  or  vatid,  and  the  reader 
changed  it  to  wand  (toan^d),  ^ 

Surely  emendation  is  no  mere  guesswork. 

Thos.  Keiohtlet. 


Lord  Ebsxtnb. — ^I  extract  the  following  from 
an  autobiographical  Memoir  of  Thomas  Mardy, 
whose  trial  on  a  charge  fof  high  treason  in  1794, 
and  his  acquittal  after  nine  clays'  investigation, 
are  well  known.  Speaking  of  Mr.,  afterwards 
Lord  Ghsncellor  Ersmne,  his  counsel,  the  memoir 
states : — 

"  One  disappointment  in  the  legacy  way  is  particolarlj 
worthy  of  remark.  A  gentleman  of  large  fortune  in  Der- 
byshire^ of  the  name  of  Kant,  soon  after  the  State  Trials 
in  1794,  made  his  will,  and  in  testimony  of  his  approba- 
tion of  the  ability,  patriotic  exertions,  and  splendid  elo- 
quence displayed  by  Mr.  Erakine  in  his  defence  of  Hardy, 
Mqneathed  him  an  estate  worth  upwards  of  thirty  thou- 
sand pounds.  Hardy  himself  was  abo  handsomdy  men- 
tioned in  the  will,  to  which  Mr.  Kant  afterwards  added  a 
codicil.  He  died  about  seven  years  afterwards,  and  his 
attorney  came  up  to  London  with  the  will  enclosed  in  a 
letter  written  by  the  gentleman  himself  at  the  time  of 
making  it    After  Mr.  Erskine  had  read  the  letter  he 


asked  the  attorney  if  he  had  taken  the  proper  1«;b1  steps 
to  make  the  oodidl  valid  ?  He  replied  *  No.*  Then  said 
Mr.  Erskine,  *  By  God,  you  have  lost  me  the  estate.'  Mr. 
Erskine  sent  for  Hardy  a  few  days  afterwards,  told  him 
what  had  happened,  and  said  that  the  will  was  Toid 
through  the  ignorance  or  villainy  of  a  stnpid  oonntiy 
attorney.'' 

Not  having  heard  that  this  deplorahle  &ct  is 
mentioned  elsewhere,  or  that  it  is  at  all  known 
generally,  it  humbly  appears  to  me  to  merit  in- 
sertion in  "  N.  &  Q.'*  G. 

Edinbuigh, 

Stbbl  £bf  osAvnro. — A  correspondent  recently 
sug^ted  (4^  S.  vii.  834)  the  photogranhing  the 
old  mns  and  manor  houses  of  England  before  we 
lose  them  for  ever.  May  I  amend  the  suggestion, 
and  propose  that  some  one  with  the  means  and 
the  taste  should  undertake  a  series  of  good  en- 
gravings ?  Experience  has  not  yet  dedded  whether 
photography  will  stand  the  ravages  of  time ;  but, 
apart  from  this  question,  I  have  little  hesitation 
in  saying  that  photography  ousht  not  to  beat  the 
engraver  out  of  the  field,  ^t  read  this  pan- 
graph,  cut  from  our  local  paper  :-- 

*'  The  art  of  steel  engraving  is  dyinf  out  amongst  on 
the  youngest  line  engraver  now  in  EnaTand  being  said  to 
be  over  forty,  and  without  a  pupil.  The  Tarioos  appli- 
cations of  photography  have  successfully  taken  its  place. 

It  strikes  me  with  alarm.  Bather  than  let  it  he 
so,  I  would  devote  my  leisure  to  learning  the  art. 
To  neglect  it  will  be  a  disgrace  to  us,  and  I  do 
hope  tnat  the  statement  I  have  quoted  is  exag- 
gerated. Waitheof. 

"HiBBiTS." — ^My  little  boy  went  out  walking 
in  Devon  with  his  nurse,  a  ^nuine  specimen  of 
the  county,  and  came  home  highly  excited  because 
he  had  seen  ^'  two  hibhits "  on  a  roadside  hade. 
Perhaps  it  is  worth  noting  that  this  wondrous 
word,  which  greatly  puzzled  me,  is  the  West 
Country  mode  of  pronouncing  effet — ^i.  e.  little 
eft  or  newt*  Pelaoius. 

LoKDOir  IK  October. — The  late  Lord  Marrar-* 
John  Archibald  Murray,  the  Scottish  judge— 
thus  writes  to  a  friend : — 

« I  am  much  disposed  to  maintain  what  most  people 
will  think  a  great  paradox,  that  then  is  no  season  of  the 
year  when  yon  may  see  London  society  to  so  much  ad- 
vantage aa  this  time  (October)  or  late*  in  summer.  My 
objection  to  the  late  season  in  summer  is  that  the  heat  U 
excessive ;  but  it  is  only  then  or  in  antmnn  that  yoa  see 
what  I  call  society— 4mall  parties  and  the  same  people 
whom  you  li)ce  or  are  disposed  to  cultivate  from  day  to 
day.  in  April  and  May  there  are  so  many  people  in  tovn 
that  it  distracts  me,  and  I  go  out  to  dinner  eveiy  day  so 
fatigued  that  I  am  unable  to  attend  to  any  thing  tliat 
paases  in  conversation,  and  have  not  sufficient  animal 
spirits  to  take  a  share  in  it." 

Had  the  good-humoured  accomplished  judge 
been  more  abstemious  at  table  he  would  have  felt 
less  discomfort  C. 

Twenty  Poihts  of  Pibtt,  — The  following^ 
which, I  think,  ought  to  find  a  place  in  ''N.&Q/ 


»W9i 


^^^mm 


4«h  8.  Vn.  JoKB  17, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES- 


611 


is  a  short  account  of  our  duty  to  God  and 
neighboor.    It   was   written   in    1567    by 
"  Thomas  Leisser,  a  good  man  " : — 


our 
one 


1. 
2. 
3. 


4. 
6. 
6. 
7, 
8. 
9. 
10. 

11. 

12. 
18. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 


To  pray  to  God  continually. 
To  learn  to  know  Him  rightfollj. 
To  honour  God  in  Trinity, 
The  Trinity  in  unity. 
The  Father  in  Hia  majesty, 
The  Son  in  Hia  humanity. 
The  Holy  Ghost's  benignity : 
Three  persona,  one  in  I^ty. 
To  serve  Him  alway,  guilelessly. 
To  aak  Him  aU  things,  needfully. 
To  praise  Him  in  all  company. ' 
To  love  Him  aliray,  heartily.* 
To  dread  Him  alway,  Christianly. 
To  aak  Him  mercy,  penitently. 
To  trust  Him  alway,  faithfully. 
To  obey  Him  alway,  willingly. 
To  abide  Him  alway,  patiently. 
To  thank  Him  alway,  thankfully. 
To  live  here  alwav,  virtuously. 
To  use  thy  neighbour  honestly. 
To  look  for  death  still,  presently. 
To  help  the  poor,  in  misery. 
To  hope  for  heaven's  felicity. 
To  have  faith,  hope,  and  charity. 
To  count  this  life  but  vanity : 
Be  poena  of  Cbbistianitt. 


•  Some  information  about  the  author  would  be 
acceptable.  Thos.  Ratcliffe. 

Mbs.  Habbibt  Clabxe,  aoed  106. — The  en- 
closed from  the  Sunday  Times  of  May  28  deserres 
a  place  in  "N.  &  Q."  :— 

''Funeral  of  a  Ladt  106  Years  of  AoE.-*On  Mon- 
day morning  the  mortal  remains  of  Mrs.  Harriet  Clarke, 
widow  of  Mr.  Thomaa  Clarke,  fbrmerly  of  Marylebone, 
were  interred  in  Kensal  Green  Ceraeteiy,  near  the  grave 
of  Tom  Hood.  The  deceased  resided  at  Northwol^  and 
had  attained  the  remarkable  age  of  106  years." 

M.  H. 

[What  reason  is  there  for  tupporing  that  Mrs.  Clarke 
was  106  ?  We  fear  it  is  useless  to  ask  what  evidence 
there  la  of  the  reputed  fact— Ed.  "N.  &  Q."] 

Mbmobial  Bells  at  St.  Duestait's,  Stepney. 
Inscriptions  on  the  church  bells  of  St.  Dunstan's, 
Stepney.    On  the  treble : — 

"Cast  by  Mess.  Mears  &  Son,  London,  Fedt,  1806. 
<7eorge  Harper,  D.D.,  Rector.  Mathew  Eaaum,  Bobert 
Turner,  W«  Wade,  W«  Thomson,  Geo.  Everritt,  Church- 
wardens.'* 

Second  bell,  third  bell,  fourth  bell,  fifth  bell 
the  same  inscription. 

Sixth  bell  :— 

"  To  the  Pious  Memory  of  M"  Prisca  Cobom,  a  liberal 
Benefiutress  to  the  Seamen's  Widows  of  the  Parish  of  St. 
Dunstan*8,  Stepney.    J.  Mean  d(  Son  Fedt,  1806.** 

Seventh  bell : — 

**  The  following  inscription  was  «p<m  the  sixth  bell  of 
the  late  peal  :^ 

"  *  Yirginis  agreg^  Tooor,  eampana  maris,  1603.*  T. 
Mean  ft  Son  Fedt,  1806.** 


Eighth  bell  :— 

**  To  the  Honour  of  the  Volunteen  of  the  Parish  of 
Saint  Dunstan*B  Stepney,  the  Ratcliff  Corps  commanded 
by  John  Bowcott,  Esq..  Major,  M.  C.  O.  T.,  by  W»  Thom- 
son, Esq.,  Leu^-CoP,  the  Poplar  &  Blackwall,  by  John 
Wells,  Esq.,  Lcu«  Col»,  1806.*^ 

Ninth  beU:— 

*<  Instituted  to  the  Honour  of  Sir  Charles  Wager. 
K,N,T,  Firat  Lord  of  the  Admiralty,  1729,  Patron  to 
the  Stepney  or  Cocknev*  Feast  at  Ratcliff  in  the  Year 
1674,  &  discontinued  1^84.  John  Mathews,  Treasurer, 
T.  Mean  A  Son  Fecit,  1806.*' 

Tenor  bell : — 

**  The  late  Tenor  (Weight,  49  Cw*)  was  given  to  the 
Priory  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Duke's  Place,  Aldgate,  by 
Nicholas  Chadworth,  renewed  by  Thomas  Marson,  1886, 
was  sold  with  three  othera  bv  Sir  Thomas  Andley  to  the 
Parish  of  Saint  DunsUn*s,  Stepney,  about  the  Tear  1540, 
recast,  1602, 1764,  and  1799,  the  late  peal  of  eight  Bells 
were  Recast  into  Ten  by  T.  Mean  Sl  Son,  1806,  in  pre- 
sanoe  of  Geo.  Harper,  D.D.,  Rector,  Rev<^  Thomas  Thirl- 
wall.  Lecturer,  Mathew  Eaeum,  Rob'  Turner,  W"<^  Wade, 
Geo.  Everritt,  Churchwardens.  J^^  Curtis,  Esq.;  Jno 
Edwards,  Esq. ;  Jeremiah  Snow,  Esq. ;  John  Paulin,  Esq.; 
M'  James  Bamfeild,  W.  M.  Simons,  Mathew  Warton, 
Surveyor:  John  Salter,  Vestry  Clerk. — Weight,  81  cw*. 
Key  D.** 

w.w. 

Tapxstby  Portraits. — At  a  sale  of  ancient 
effects  that  lately  took  place  at  Stanbridge  ErleB, 
Hants,  there  was  sold  a  very  handsome  piece  of 
domestic  tapestry,  worked  on  white  satin,  show- 
ing faded  gold  and  white  beads.  This  was  de- 
scribed in  catalogue  as  — 

'*  Tapestry  Needlework,  representing  Charles  II.  and 
his  Queen  in  the  character  of  a  Shepherd  and  Shepherdess, 
date  about  1670.*' 

This  carious  specimen  of  needlework  may  now 
be  seen  exhibited  in  the  shop  window  of  a  Dook- 
seller  in  Bemond  Street,  Southampton,  and  at- 
tracts the  attention  of  all  those  interested  in  this 
bygone  accomplishment.  It  is  an  elaborate  pro- 
duction, £•  £L 

Nelson  Square,  S.E. 

May  Day  at  Oxford. — ^The  following  account 
(taken  firom  The  TVmes)  of  this  time-honoured 
custom  appears  to  me  to  deserve  a  comer  for  pre- 
servation in  "  N,  &  Q." : — 

**  The  ancient  custom  of  chanting  a  hymn  on  the  top 
of  Magdalen  College  tower,  Oxford,  was  duly  observed 
yesterday  morning  at  five  o'clock  by  the  choir,  under  the 
direction  of  the  organist.  Dr.  Stainer.  For  this  servtoe 
the  sum  of  102.  is  received  out  of  the  rectory  of  Slym- 
bridge  in  Gloucestershire.  Tradition  informs  us  that, 
previously  to  the  Reformation,  a  requiem  mass  waa  cele- 
orated  on  the  top  of  this  tower  every  May-dav  morning, 
at  an  eariy  hour,  for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of  Heniy  TIL** 

J.  S.  USAL. 


AI2 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«k&YU*Jtai9lZ»7t. 


^^  AaBBSure  to  i^mnsB."-^  When  did  this  phraae 
%nk  oome  into  use  P  There  ia  hq  idea  somewhat 
flimilar  in  Sir  Philip  Sidney's  lomanoe,  the  Conm- 
less  of  Pembrok^B  Arcadia^**  in  boolc  L  of  whidi 
the  noble  author  observes :  — 

'*  Between  these  two  penonaeee  (t.  «.  DametM  and 
Miso),  who  nerer  agreed  in  any  iiamoar  but  In  diaagrae- 
ing,  is  issned  forth  Mistress  Mopsa,  a  woman  fit  to  par- 
tiapate  of  both  their  perfections. 

Efp. 

Algestis. — ^From  what  yersion  of  the  story  of 
Alcestis  did  Mr.  Leighton  take  his  picture-^ 
^'Hercules  wrestling  with  Death  for  the  Body  of 
Aloestis^'P  The  critics  refer  to  £uripides,  and 
The  Spectator,  one  of  the  highest  authorities  on 
art^says:  — 

**  Mr.  liCighton  has  ventured,  with  the  best  msuU,  to 
v^iesent  the  overthrow  of  Death  as  produced  by  the 
most  scientific  cross-bnttock,  and  enforced  by  an  irre- 
sistible twist  of  the  right  foot.  The  remaining  gronps 
are  too  numeroos,  or  too  little  massed  together,  althoogh 
graceful  in  themselves  and  generally  pretty  in  sentiment. 
Alcestis  herself,  yet  sleeping  the  sleep  of  death,  is  fairly 
well  portrayed ;  but  there  is  no  one  the  mind  can  ac- 
cept as  a  cleta-fy  iotitfactory  personificeUiom  of  Admetus,  on 
whose  account  all  these  Uiin^  were  done.  Some  baye 
objected  {afttr  refrahing  their  memories  regarding  the 
myth)  that  Apollo  is  not  present  But  he  could  hardly 
with  decency  look  on,  while  his  own  bargdn  with  Death 
(vis.  that  if  Admetna  lived  some  one  shonld  die  for  him) 
was  being  broken  by  a  deity  of  inferior  pQweE."— jSjoeo- 
tator,  May  27, 1871. 

Those  who  obiect  to  the  absence  of  ApoUo  have 
not  ^'  refreshed  tneir  memories  "  with  the  play,  in 
which  he  comes  on  with  Death  to  speak  the  pro- 
logue^ and  appears  no  more.  Deatn  ends  it  by 
showing  the  sword  with  which  he  intends  to  cut 
the  lodk  of  Alcestis'  hair  (v.  76),  and  I  suppose 
does  so,  as  she  dies  at  v.  401.  After  that^  he  has 
no  more  business  with  her  ^  body."  She  is  dead 
before  Hercules  arrives.  He  asks  where  her  tomb 
is,  and  says  he  will  go  there  and  watch  for  Death 
coming  to  drink  the  olood  of  the  victims :  — 

Kibnrsp  Koxheas  aSn^  i^  Hpas  tni6$U 

Otit  t<rrw  Zaris  abrhK  i^aipifiarraii 
Moyowra  vXtvpd,  xply  ywauc*  ifiol  fiMSy, 

w.  862-5. 

It  10  pkdn  that  ywauea  does  not  sisnify  ^'body/' 
as  he  says,  if  Death  do  not  oome,  ne  will  go  to 
Hades  and  intercede  to  bring  Alcestis  back.  When 
he  returns  with  her,  he  tells  how  he  seized  Death 
at  the  tomb  (v.  1161).  The  picture  represents 
the  wrestling  as  before  the  roval  household.  Had 
Admetus  been  present,  the  beautiful  scene  with 
the  veiled  Alcestis  would  have  been  lost. 

I  believe  that  Mr.  Leighton  is  an  accomplished 
scholar,  and  no  journal  is  less  likely  to  be  mis- 
taken on  classical  matters  than  7%e  SpedUxtor:  so 


I  infer  that  the  pietuia  i>  not  fcoBi  Biwrodas^  and 
adi,  firom  whom?  B.  ^  C. 

U.  U.  Club. 

"  Abthur's  slow  Wain  "  (Scott's  Lau^  eanto  L 
y.  i7.)_Why  is  the  constellation  of  Iba  Great 
Bear  called  << Arthur's  Wain"?  I  laioir  what 
Miss  Yonge  {Chruiian  Name$,  i.  125)  sad  Owen 
(quoted  by  Southey  in  introducti<»i  to  Kyuff  Arthur , 
i.  vii.)  say  about  it ;  but  the  information  they  give 
is  not  satisfactory.  C  W.  S. 

Bumbo  :  Glob  Bbbf.— In  an  hotel  bill  of  1769 
I  find— 

a.  iL 

*<aod  beef  about  40  lbi.,oharged  only  20  Um.     5  10 

Bnmbo 10** 

In  another  bill,  about  the  sam»  dats»  ''a  dod 
of  beef"  is  mentioned.  What  part  of  the  ox  wbb 
meant  ?    And  what  vTas  Bumbo  P 

J.  M.  COWPEB. 


TBumbo  we  take  to  be  Mumbo^  a  DsnticaX  dii^.  Sir 
Walter  Scott  saya  ;  **  He  intraded  hiavadf  on  the  avfnl 
presence  of  Hawkins  the  boatawaii^  aad  Denack  the 
quarter-master,  who  were  scaling  themsdvea  with  a  can 
of  rtanbo,  after  the  fatiguing  duty  of  tbe  dajr."  (7^ 
Pirate,  ch.  xxxix.>— CAmI  ia  the  ofumb  psit  of  the  oeck 
of  an  ox.] 

CoLLBcnoir  fos  a  History  ov  Ismif  Era-^An 
'.<  Extensive  and  Curious  Collection  of  Manu- 
scripts. Drawings,  Engravings,  Newspaper  Cut- 
tings^ K)r  a  History  of  Inns,  Taverns,  and  Coffee- 
Houses,  to  be  sold  in  (me  lot  by  Messrs.  Southgate 
&  Barrett,  22,  Fleet  Street,  on  BfiDuday,  May  27, 
1859"  (see  TA6.dtMfim8Mm,Mav21,.1859).  pmn 
very  snxious  to  inspect  the  above  ooUection,  I 
should  |feel  greatly  obliged  if  you,  or  any  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q,,"  can  tell  me  v^ere  it  can  now  be 
seen,  as  I  cannot  find  anything  relating  to  the 
subject  in  the  British  Museum  Library.     W.  D. 

^'  Ex  LuGB  LvcxLLUX." — ^I  cut  the  following 

from  the  JBoenmff  Standard  of  May  1 :  — 

*' '  Ex  LuoB  Ldobllux.'— *  The  Mm  About  Town,'  in 
the  Sporting  GazeUe,  says:— *  Many  as  are  the  retorta 
which  have  followed  and  been  founded  on  Mr.  Lowe's 
DOW  memorable  ex  luce  luceUum,  perhaps  the  most  bitter 
is  that  which  asserts  that  it  is  not  original!  I  am 
a^ared  by  a  venerable  **  Man  About  Town,'*  one  who  has 
not  quite  foxgottea  his  well-stored  lore  anent  the  politics 
of  the  laat  geneiation,  that  be  perfiM}tly  remembers  the 
phnae  heing  appended  as  a  motto  to  a  satiiieal  ooai  of 
arms  devised  for  Mr.  Pitt  on  that  minister  creatiag*  or 
rather  increasing,  the  window  tax.  Mj  informant  adda 
that  he  is  almost  sure  that  he  once  boa^t  a  copy  of  that 
coat,  duly  coloured,  for  sizpenoel  It  la,  howeifer*  vwry 
possible  that  Mr.  Lowe  neyer  heard  of  the  former  aquih, 
and  that  his  classical  fancy  hit  upon  the  idea  quite  as 
original  aa  the  satirist  of  1784.' " 

Perhaps  Mr.  Reid  will  kindly  tell  us  whether 
the  caricature  referred  to  is  contained  in  the  col- 
lection of  which  he  has  charge  at  the  Biitiah 
Museum.  R.  B.  P. 

[Mr.  Rdd  informs  hs  that  nothing  of  the  kind  oocnis 
among  the  caricatures  of  178M  ^  nor  is  tbate  soy  clue 


OOH 


«k&.TII.  Jon  17,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIE& 


513 


to  it  In  th«  General  Index  to  the  coUeetitn  of  f*<r*^! 
prints.] 

Akoieht  Ekioxa.  —  I  ofiar  a  euzioufl  old 
enigma  for  solution  to  the  iogeniona  naden  of 

**  Cadarer  nee  habet  ronm  wpvlehnnn ; 
Sepnlchmm  nee  habet  snnm  cadaver ; 
Sepnlchram  tamen  et  cadaver  intna." 

In  English  thus : — 

**  A  corpse,  withont  a  aepnlchre; 
A  sepnlchre,  without  a  corpse ; 
And  jet  a  aepnlehie  and  corpse  within.*' 

P.O.H. 

FlEHIBH  FtSHERlTEir  SXTTLEB  HT  ElTOLAin). — 

In  Smiles'  Huguenots  I  find  the  observation  that — 

**  Colonies  of  Flemish  fiahermen  having  settled  during 
the  reign  of  Henry  XL  at  Brighton,  Newhaven,  and  other 
places  aloi^  the  Sonth  Ck>88t,  their  lineage  is  still  traoe- 
aUe  there  in  local  wMds,  naoisi^  and  places." 

Can  any  of  yoor  Sussex  readen  giye  any  in- 
stances of  these  P  A.  S. 

^  Thb  Gabbeit  ov  the  Som.." — ^The  history  of 
this  work  is  somewhat  obscure.  .  It  bean  the 
niune  of  Richard  Challoner,  Bishop  of  Debra. 
Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  London  district,  who  died 
on  January  12,  178L  The  boojE,  however,  is 
neither  noticed  by  James  Barnard  in  his  Life  of 
Biehard  ChaUoner  (1784),  nor  in  any  bibli<wra* 
phical  account  of  Challoner's  works.  The  earnest 
English  edition  in  the  British  Museum  has  the  date 
of  1798,  and  was  published  twelve  years  after  the 
death  of  Dr.  Chatloner.  In  1869  tkere  appeared 
at  Vannes — 

"Le  Jardin  de  TAme,  on  Choix  des  Mentations  de 
ChaUoner,  ponr  tons  les  dimanches  et  les  prindpaks  fSCes 
de  l*ann^  Tradnit  de  TAnglais  par  I'sbbe  Bourdy, 
82mo." 

Is  there  an  earlier  French  translation  of  this 
work  ?  J.  Y. 

''  Tax  Gbbcian  Bs!n>." — I  would  ask  my  me- 
dical brethren  what  is,  or  rather  was,  the  true 
Grecian  bend  ["  N.  &  Q.,"  4«»  S.  vii.  123]  P  I  am 
sure  that  it  was  not  the  ungainly  forward  stoop 
which  is  assumed  at  the  present  day,  and  whien 
dearlj  originates  in  the  nips  or  loins^  or  both 
combued.  My  belief  is,  that  it  was  a  natural 
and  national  peculiarity  in  the  conformation  of 
the  cervical  or  humeral  (neck  or  shoulders)  po> 
tion  of  the  spinal  column ;  throwing  the  head  a 
little  more  in  advance  of  the  bust  than  is  usual 
with  our  modem  ladies,  but  at  the  same  time 
curving  it  gracefully  downwards.  In  a  population 
of  80,000  1  only  know  one  young  lady  who  in  my 
opinion  has  this  true  Grecian  Mnd ;  and  I  need 
scarcely  say  that  it  is  neither  the  result  of  art  nor 
afifectation.  M.  D. 

Hbbbbws  IX.  10. — ^The  Committee  on  the  Ee- 
yision  of  the  EngliabBible  is  respectfully  lequeefted 
to  consider  the  following  suggestion  :-^ 


At  Hebrews  ix.  16  the  word  Bio^c/mVov  might, 

without  great  violence,  mean  the  victim  wmch 

attests  the  covenant.    We  should  then  read  :— 

"  For  where  a  covenant  is,  there  mnst  slso  of  necessity 
be  the  death  of  that  which  sttests  the  covenant.  For  a 
covenant  is  of  force  over  the  dead,  since  it  never  has 
force  while  that  which  sttests  it  is  living." 

This  makes  as  clear  as  sunlight  a  passage  which 
the  ordinary  rendering  makes  mexjMicable. 

Jaspbb  S.  MclLyAIHB. 
Am.  PresVn  Mission,  Peking,  China. 

SThe  late  Dean  Alford,  in  his  New  Teatument 
'y  compartd  unA  the  Original  Greekf  and  rented,  1889, 
gives  the  pasuge  in  qnestion  as  follows : — **  For  when  a 
testament  is,  tlMie  mnst  also  of  necessity  be  implied  the 
death  of  him  that  made  it.  For  a  testament  is  of  force  in 
the  case  of  the  dead,  seeing  that  it  is  of  no  strengtb  at  all 
while  he  that  made  it  is  uive.**] 

JoHK  KieresLOW,  thb  Kbgluse. — ^Particulars 
are  requested  respecting  the  life  of  John  j^ingslow, 
who  IS  said  to  nave  been  the  first  recluse  who 
lived  in  the  Hermitage  founded  within  Shene 
Monastery  in  1416,  and  whether  any  record  or 
work  exists  containing  any  account  of  his  life. 

Hubert  Smith. 
St.  Leonardos,  Bridgnorth. 

Saxttbl  Maukbbb. — Can  you  give  me  any  in- 
formation respecting  Samuel  Maunder  P — a  name 
fiimiliar  to  most  people  as  the  author  or  compiler 
of  some  half  dozen  very  useful  Treasuries^  but  I 
have  never  seen  in  print  any  details  of  his  Ufe, 
where  or  when  bom,  and  the  date  of  his  decease, 
A  new  edition  of  the  Biographical  Treasury  has 
lately  been  published,  but  no  mention  is  made  of 
the  original  projector.  Surely  his  name  deserves 
some  notice,  however  brief,  in  that  interesting 
volume  P  Wm.  Wbioht. 

81,  Pepler  Road,  Old  Kent  Boad. 

[Samuel  Mannder  was  the  brother-in-law  of  William 
Pinnock  (who  married  his  sister),  and  had  the  chief  hand 
in  the  preparation  of  the  long  series  of  Catechiemt  for 
schools  to  which  Pinnock's  name  is  attached,  and  to 
him  the^nth  of  England  are  largely  indebtsd  for  their 
instmction.  If  Jost  and  good  actions^  a  modest  self-esti- 
mate and  firm  integrity,  an  absolate  devotedness  to 
literatore  in  its  best  sense  for  edneatioff  the  mass  of  the 
people,  '*  smell  sweet  and  blossom  in  the  dust,"  so  long 
shall  the  memory  of  Samnel  Mannder  be  cherished 
thronghont  the  British  Empire.  He  died  at  his  house  in 
Qibson  Square,  Islington,  on  April  80, 1849.  There  is  a 
brief  notice  of  him  in  Gates*a  JXelioncBry  ofBiography^ 
ed.  1867,  p.  726.] 

Maoaitlat  and  Cab£TUL — ^Who  is  the  author 
of  the  following  parallel  between  Maeaulay  and 
Caxlyle :  — 

*'  To  sum  up  the  leading  characteristics  of  these  two 
great  authors,  I  should  say  that,  whilst  Maeaulay  is  per- 
haps the  greater  writer,  Carlyle  is  beyond  all  question 
the  more  profound  thinker.  Macaulay's  writings,  with 
all  their  brilliancy,  are  nevertheless  of  the  earth,  earthy ; 
whilst  those  of  Csrlyle  are  illnminated  by  a  heavenly 
li^t,  whioh  makes  his  books  the  fountain  of  life  that 
they  are  to  many  a  weary  and  stmggling  pilgrim.  Mao- 
anlay  writes  like  a  transcendently  talented  man  of  the 


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[4«kaVILJoirel7,71. 


worid;  Carlyle  like  a  man  who  '  looks  before  and  after/ 
and  '  hears  the  roll  of  the  ages.'  Macanlay  seldom  gets 
beyond  the  outside  of  a  character,  whilst  Carlyle  pierces 
to  the  verv  heart.  As  an  example  of  my  meaning,  I 
need  only  compare  Macanlay's  brilliant  essay  on  John- 
son with  Carlyle*s  on  the  same  sabject.  Macanlay  has 
given  ns  an  admirable  picture  of  Johnson's  outward  man, 
but  of  Johnson's  heart  he  knew  nothing.  Let  us,  how- 
ever, read  Garlyle's  essay  attentively,  and  we  at  once  see 
that  Carlyle  both  knew  and  understood  Johnson." 

Jonathan  Bouchieb. 

Medallig  Query. — Could  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents kindly  give  me  8ome  infonnation  about 
a  couple  of  silver  medals  which  I  have  lately 
added  to  my  collection  P  The  first  is  a  little 
larger  and  heavier  than  a  halfcrown  piece,  and 
has  on  the  obverse  the  three-quarter  busts  of  a 
young  woman  and  an  aged  man:  the  former  is 
represented  as  suckling  the  latter,  who  is  in  a  very 
emaciated  condition.  In  the  background  is  a 
strongly-barred  prison  window.  The  legend  (which 
begins  with  a  five-pointed  star,  as  a  sort  of  mint- 
mark)  is — '*  ^  I  .  was  .  in  .  prison  .  and  .  ye  . 
came  .  unto  .  me  "  On  the  reverse  are  several 
trumpets  or  bugles,  across  them  being  laid  an 
open  music-book.  The  name  "  Joseph  I'arry  *'  is 
inscribed  in  the  outer  circle.  I  would  be  glad  to 
know  what  is  the  connection  between  the  obverse 
and  reverse  of  this  medal,  or  what  in  the  first 
instance  led  to  its  being  struck  P  I  have  also  a 
specimen  in  copper  precisely  similar,  except  as 
rerards  the  name  that  is  engraved  on  the  reverse. 

The  second  medal  which  I  shall  be  obliged  for 
information  about  has  on  the  obverse  a  full-length 
figure  of  Erin,  represented  with  a  bold  defiant  air, 
holding  in  her  right  hand  a  sheathed  sword,  while 
her  left  hand  rests  on  a  haxp.  An  Irish  wolf-dog 
sits  beside  her;  over  all  bemg  the  legend,  '^The 
Order  of  Liberators.'^  In  the  exergue  (in  two 
lines)  are  the  words  '*  Ireland  as  she  ought  to  be'' ; 
the  whole  surrounded  by  a  double  wreath  of 
shamrocks.  On  the  reverse,  standing  on  a  rock,  is 
a  large  cross,  with  the  leseod,  ^In  hoc  signo 
vinces,"  overhead.  To  the  left  of  the  cross  is  a 
pole,  with  a  cap  (of  liberty P)  thereon;  to  the 
right  are  three  hands  joine<^  the  words  "  Erin  go 
bragh,''  in  Irish  characters,  being  in  the  exeivue. 
In  the  distance  is  a  sun-burst,  the  xays  of  which 
occupy  the  field  of  the  medal.  A  double  wreath 
of  shamrocks  surrounds  the  entire,  as  on  the  ob- 
verse. This  medal  is  about  the  size  and  weight 
of  a  crown  piece,  and  is  of  rather  coarse  work- 
manship. B.  W.  H.  Nash,  B.A. 

Florinda  Place,  Dublin. 

Milton's  Folk  Lobe. — The  vitality  of  our 
common  folk  lore  is  well  known  to  those  who 
have  only  cuRtorily  considered  the  subject;  and 
when  this  has  been  enshrined  in  our  best  poets, 
the  chances  are  that  it  will  remain  unchanged  for 
many  centuries.  Milton  has  a  choice  morsel  in 
his  first  sonnet,  and  it  will  be  interesting  to  ascer- 


tain through  ''N.  &  Q."  in  how  many  comitieB 
this  niece  of  love  lore  still  exists.  When  address- 
ing tne  nightingale,  he  says :  — 

**  Thy  liquid  notes  that  close  the  eve  of  dav, 
First  heard  before  the  thaUow  cuckno't  bill. 
Portend  tueceet  in  love.  O I  if  Jove^s  will 
Has  linked  that  amoroos  power  to  th^  soft  lay. 
Now  timely  sing,  ere  the  rade  bird  of  hate 
Foretel  my  hopeless  doom  in  some  grove  nigh." 

lurAUegro  he  tells  of  the  doings  of  *F&iryMab;" 
the  "Friar's  Lantern,"  or  "  Will  with  the'Wiro"; 
and  the  "drudging  Ooblin," — ^in  terms  all  W 
identical  with  those  by  which  their  pranks  would 
be  described  in  Lancashire  and  YorKshire  at  the 
present  time  by  the  peasants  in  "  the  undLsturbed 
I  nooks  and  corners  "  of  these  counties.  So  iar  as 
I  know,  we  have  no  visits  from  the  nightiDgale 
so  far  north;  and  hence  I  hope  some  of  the 
"  south-country  "  correspondents  will  state  whe- 
ther Milton's  lovo'-token  is  still  extant 

T.  T.  W. 

Monolith  at  Meabns. — On  the  Ingh  ground 
which,  I  believe,  is  the  southern  boundaiy  of  the 
parish  of  Meams,  in  the  county  of  Benfrew,  doee  to 
the  avenue  which  runs  from  the  Rouken  estate  to 
Gapel  Rig,  there  is  a  monolith,  as  far  as  I  can  reckon, 
about  5ft.  9in.  high,  or  more.  The  northern  and 
southern  sides  are  rudely  sculptured,  and  divided 
into  two  sections,  each  filled  with  a  rude  ornament 
resembling  a  plait  of  three.  The  eastern  and  western 
sides  have  h^en  apparently  ornamented,  bat  are 
more  indistinct ;  a  very  deep  groove  is  on  the 
eastern  side.  This  interesting  stone  is  in  a  corn- 
field, carefully  fenced  in.  Can  wij  antiqiiaiy  give 
me  any  information  respecting  its  history?  XHmen- 
sions,  as  far  as  I  could  guess :  height,  6ft.  9in.  by 
6ft. ;  breadth  on  north  and  west  sides,  3ft ; 
breadth  on  north  and  south,  Ift.  Slopes  irregu- 
larly from  base  towards  the  summit         Thus. 

AirciENT  EiDDLBS. — Some  vears  ago  an  old 
friend  of  mine  bought,  at  a  boot  stall  in  London, 
a  MS.  Medical  Receipt  Book  of  the  fifteenth  m- 
tury.  The  volume  had  once  belonged  to,  and 
bore  the  book-plate  of,  "  Sir  Francis  Fust,  Bartf 
1662."  While  looking  over  this  quaint  xelic  after 
it  came  into  my  friend's  possession,  I  discoyered 
on  the  last  leaf  two  attempts  at  rhjine,  mitten  I 
should  say  about  the  date  of  the  R^ormation,  but 
certainly  not  later  than  the  reign  of  Mary.  One 
is  still  very  distinct,  and  runs  as  follows :  — 

<*  The  beaety  of  the  nyght  ys  8hee» 
of  huemoFB  mother  all  that  be, 
and  lyke  wvae  lady  of  the  seys, 
that  tyme  doth  mesore  as  she  fleys ; 
the  soim  she  follows  every  where, 
and  she  ys  changer  of  the  ayer. 
this  ladys  name  fiiyne  woolci  I  know 
that  dwells  so  high  k  roles  so  low." 

This,  I  take  it^  is  dearly  an  enigma,  and  the 
answer  to  it  I  understand  to  be  '*  the  moon."  The 


4^  S.  VII.  JOHB  17, 71.] 


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51S 


other  lines,  perhaps  by  an  older  ecribei  are  written 
at  the  lower  left-hand  comer  of  the  same  leaf. 
This  comer,  owing  to  exposure  to  the  air  and  the 
friction  consequent  on  froquent  turning  oyer  the 
leaves  with  apparently  not-over-dean  liands,  is 
at&iost  illegible.  I  submit  the  following  as  an 
approximate  reading,  but  must  not  guarantee 
every  letter,  the  writmg  is  so  very  indistmct :  — > 

**  Crist  croes  mach  sowte  of  them  that  byde 
fast  by  y*  flode  of  holie  de, 
shal  on  dare  fley  sent  Petrrs  ayde 
and  grouefi  in  y  neder  lee.^ 

This  also  seems  to  be  a  riddle,  but  if  so  I  cannot 
suggest  the  answer.  Some  of  your  readers  may  be 
able  to  do  so.  R.  E.  T. 

Thb  Sbptuagint. — ^Will  you  tell  me  which  is 

the  best  work  published  on  the  LXX.  version,  and 

all  questions  connected  with  it  P       W.  A.  B.  C. 

[As  our  maigin  will  not  admit  of  a  lengthened  dlscas- 
sion  on  this  recondite  subject,  we  mast  refer  onr  corre- 
spondent to  a  valuable  list  of  works  on  the  Septaagint  by 
Dr.  Malcom,  in  his  Theological  Index,  pp.  416,  417, 
Boston,  U.S.  1868, 8vo ;  and  to  the  Preface  to  Sir  Lance- 
lot Charles  Lee  Brenton*s  English  translation.  Consult 
also  Dr.  William  Smith's  Dictionary  of  the  Bible,  I  211- 
213  ;  iii.  1200-1216,  and  Home's  Introduction  to  the  Holy 
Scr^pturei,  ed.  1846,  ii.  203-216,  328-338;  v.  63-69. 
Articles  on  the  Septaagint  have  appeared  in  **  N.  &  Q.** 
3'«>  S.  iv.  807,  379 ;  v.  419, 470,  624  ;  vi.  88.1 

Thohas  Simon. — ^Where  is  now  preserved  the 
original  manuscript  of  Oliver  Cromwell's  ajppoint- 
ment  of  Thomas  Simon  to  the  office  of  chief  en- 
graver and  medal-maker,  dated  July  9, 1656  P  It 
is  printed  in  Gough's  edition  of  Vertne's  Works  of 
Stmonf  from  a  MS.  on  vellum  in  the  library  of 
Thomas  Astle,  Esq.  (p.  86),  containing  the  "  In- 
roUments  of  Instruments  of  State,  Grants  of  Of- 
fices, &c.,  from  June  24, 1654,  to  the  Death  of 
Oliver  Cromwell,"  and  also  during  the  "Pro- 
tectorate of  Richard  Cromwell,  and  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  Parliament." 

Henbt  W.  Hbnfbbt. 

Markham  Houae,  Brighton.  • 

Jahbs  Smtth  of  Whitshill. — ^This  personage 
was  "  Overseer  of  His  Majesty's  Wark  "  in  Soot- 
land  in  1686,  and  achieved  some  notoriety  as  an 
inventor  of  machines  for  supplying  towns  with 
water,  about  which  he  petitioned  the  Scotch 
Parliament  on  several  occasions  (see  Acta  Park 
Scotf  Chambers's  Domestic  Annals,  &c)  I  shaU 
be  glad  if  you  will  allow  me  to  ask  a  question 
respecting  nim,  not  with  the  view  of  saving 
myself  any  trouble  in  searching,  but  only  because 
I  have  exhausted  every  source  of  information  in 
print  or  MS.  without  miding  what  I  am  in  search 
of.  The  following  are  some  of  the  principal  facts 
respectinghim,  which  I  have  succeeded  m  exca- 
vating. He  must  have  been  bom  c.  1646--50; 
for  he  was  married  before  1680  to  Janet,  daughter 
of  Eobert  Mylne  of  Balfaxg,  the  <<  King's  Abater 


Mason."  About  1689  he  purchased  the  estate  of 
Whitehill,  in  the  parish  of  Inveresk,  near  Edin- 
burgh, from  the  Prestons,  and  also  portions  of 
land  at  Parkend  and  the  Magdalen-Bndge  in  the 
same  parish ;  and  received  a  grant  of  arms  (Azure 
three  names  of  fire,  or ;  on  a  chief  argent,  a  thistle,, 
vert)  firom the  Loxd.  Lyon  of  Scotland.  Hepos- 
sessed  at  this  time  a  tenement  in  Niddry's  Wynd 
in  Edinburgh.  In  1686  he  is  assignee  qud  credi- 
tor in  the  testament-dative  of  one  Mr.  James- 
Smyth,  secretary  to  the  Earl  of  Perth,  who  died 
about  this  time.  In  1701  he  is  the  '*  cautioner" 
for  Miss  Marianna  Smith,  apparently  his  daughter, 
on  her  marriage;  and  two  years  later  he  buvs- 
another  piece  of  land  at  Parkend.  In  1705  he 
had  a  son  born,  named  Gilbert.  The  next  year 
he  sold  part  of  Whitehill,  but  l^s  out  some 
money  to  repair  his  ''dykes"  at  Parkend.  In 
1713  his  daughter  Bella  was  married  to  one  Gil- 
bert Smith  in  Edinburgh;  and  thirteen  years 
later  he  assigns  the  remamder  of  his  property  of 
Whitehill  to  his  son-in-law  Gilbert,  m  security 
for  a  debt  of  365A  sterling.  He  was  dead  in 
1729,  leaving  two  surviving  sons,  Gilbert  and 
Clematirick. 

Can  any  one  give  me  any  information  respecting 
his  birth^  parentage,  or  relations?  What  was 
the  relationship,  if  any,  between  him  and  Mr. 
James,  the  secretary  to  Lord  Perdi  P      F.  M.  S. 

Snop. — What  is  the  correct  word  to  express 
the  sound  made  by  a  billiard  or  a  croquet  ball 
striking  another?  In  the  Western  counties  we 
should  call  it  snap,  a  term  that  would  with  equal 
propriety  be  applied  to  the  noise  of  a  shoemaker's 
nammer.  Such  words  as  cUck,  ckuh,  crack,  ckq), 
ring,  rap,  none  of  them  convey  the  same  definite 
idea  as  sn(n}.  Since  the  description  in  The  Times 
of  the  fight  between  Sayeis  and  his  American 
antagonist,  a  very  valuable  provincial  word,  thud, 
has  been  adopted  into  our  vocabulaiy ;  and  I 
humbly  suggest  that,  with  our  poverty  in  terms 
of  sound,  we  should  draw  upon  our  country 
cousins  for  more  of  them.  K.  C.  A.  Pbiob* 

"The  Song  of  Solomon." — The  metrical  para- 
phrases of  this  mysterious  song  are  as  numerous 
as  the  versions  of  the  Psalms  of  David,  and  a  bib- 
liographical list  would  be  curious  and  interesting. 

Here  is  one,  probably  unknown: — "Sacred 
Eclogues,  or  the  Songs  of  Solomon.  Paraphrased 
by  L.  Laurance.  Revis'd  by  F.  L.  1693."— a 
manuscript  apparently  prepared  for  the  press. 
Mr.  L.  is  profuse  in  introauctory  matter:  ''To 
the  well-a£^ted  Reader"; ''  To  the  Hydra-headed 
Vulgar";  and  ''The  Translator's  Invocation"  (for 
his  "Sacred  Eclogues"  are  from  "that  famous 
IVench  poet,  Eemy  Belleau  "),— all  in  the  comic 
vein.  Under  the  second  flattering  designation  the 
author  spears  to  aim  at  his  critics,  and  here  is 
the  style  of  his  defiance :  — 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[4«»8.Vn.JiWEl7,71. 


**  Te  stupid  Asses  of  doll  Midas  brood, 
In  rudeness  learned,  and  in  learning  rude. 
Hands  off,  I  say,  profane  not  this  my  book 
With  y^  Tile  touch,  presume  not  once  to  look 
Over  this  leafe,  for  y'  infections  breath 
Breaths  nought  but  poysons  and  detracting  death. 

lis  not  to  you  y*  i  my  lines  commend. 
Or  do  I  crave  y*  favour  to  befriend 
This  sacred  Poem ;  snarle,  do,  barke  and  bite ; 
Use,  use  y*  utmost  of  y  hate  and  spite, 
Spitt  forth  the  venom  of  y'  sordid  brains ; 
Whip,  jerk,  and  lash  it  w«^  invective  strains. 
You  cannot  wrong  it,  for  the  whole  world  knows 
It*s  slander-proofe,  and  can  repulse  y^  blows : 
It's  full  of  precious  worth,  no  comon  thing. 
The  Penman  was  no  other  v^  a  King. 
Then  do  not  wrong  y«  Lord's  Anoynted  so, 
As  base  aspersiona  on  his  works  to  throw ; 
Bhttw  more  respect,  forbear,  'tis  Holy  Writt, 
No  wanton  fancy  of  a  capering  witt ; 
Ask  fam'd  Belleau,  who  held  it  so  di\4ne. 
Who  in  sweet  numbers  hath  transpos'd  eaoh  line. 
Hel  say  no  less,  for  his  enr-oharmine  Ijrre' 
Gonflms  as  much ;  whose  strains  I  do  attire 
In  Bnglish  gnarb ;  yet  if  so  be  my  quill 
Come  short  of  his,  'tis  want  of  art  not  will. 
Then  cease  y  bawling,  Furyes,  reprehend 
In  milder  terms,  and  the  next  time  wel  mend.'* 

My  query :  Is  the  book  in  print  ?  A.  G. 

Bishop  Jebsxt  Tatlob. — ^I  have  lately  seen 
inquiries  in  the  '^N.  &  Q."  for  descenduits  of 
Bishop  Jeremy  Ta^rlor.  My  object  is  not  to 
answer  those  inquiries,  but  to  make  an  inquiry 
myself.  A  Christopher  Taylor,  son  of  a  James 
Taylor,  ironmonger  in  Dublin  (who  was  dead  in 
1728),  was  bound  apprentice  in  1728  to  a  grocer 
in  London,  and  became  himself  a  grocer^  haying 
a  shop  in  Gracechurch  Street  He  was  bom  in 
1717,  and  in  1737  (or  thereabouts)  married  Anne, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Bart  of 
the  dty  of  Lincoln. 

Christonher  Taylor  resided  in  the  parish  of  St 
Magnus,  London  Bridge,  and  had  a  large  family. 
His  eldest  son,  also  named  Christopher,  was  rec- 
tor of  Selborae  when  White,  the  historian  of 
Selbome,  was  curate  there.  The  family  is  now 
extinct  in  the  male  line. 

I  should  mention  that  Christopher  Taylor,  the 
father,  became  clerk  of  the  hospital  of  St  Bartho- 
lomew, and  died  there  at  the  age  of  fifty. 

There  has  been  a  notion  in  the  family  that 
Christopher  Taylor  descended  from  the  bishop. 
Can  any  of  the  readers  of ''  N.  &  Q."  say  whether 
there  is  any  reason  to  beUeye  that  the  tradition  is 
true  or  not?  Cbcii.  Monbo. 

Consenratiye  Club,  S.W. 

Sblby  Family. — Can  any  reader  of ''  N.  &  Q." 
give  me  particulars  of  tiie  early  life  and  parentage 
of  Charles  Selby,  the  actor  P  If  so,  I  shall  be 
much  obliged  by  communications  addressed  to 
H.  A.  BAnrBBisoE^  24,  Bussell  Boad,  Kensing- 
ton, W. 


BOOD  SCREENS  IK  SUFFOLK  CHUBCHES. 

(4«»»  S.  Tii.  143, 267.) 

I  am  indebted  to  Hamlet  Watiiog,  Esq.,  of 
Stonham,  for  the  following  description  of  Bnm- 
field  screen.  There  are  five  panels  remainioff,  on 
which  are  painted  68.  Mark,  Luke,  John,  Mat- 
thew, Mary  Magdalene. 

S.  Mark  is  vested  in  a  full  white  mantle,  un- 
derdress  of  ^en;  his  right-hand  points  to  a 
scroll  on  which  is  written  cv .  katts  Bsm  ihs 
nr  BEDBLBX  jvBB.  The  background  is  of  gold 
with  the  ^'  Vesica,''  on  which  is  ihs  in  monognm. 
At  the  head  of  this  saint  the  background  ia  blue 
with  gold  Stan,  with  saitctts  habcvs  in  old  Eng- 
lish letters. 

S.  Matthew,  holding  a  pen  in  his  rjght  hand,  is 
vested  in  carmine  mantle,  green  underdreaa,  aeroll 
in  left  hand,  Becvbet  ad  xvm  dibcipal  bemg 
written  thereon;  the  background  same  aa  last, 
but  black  diaper  in  squares,  and  saitotvb  kaihits 
in  old  English  letters. 

S.  John  is  of  a  youthful  countenance,  hair  of 
reddish  brown,  vested  in  white  mantle,  red  un- 
dergarment; he  holds  an  open  book  in  hia  left 
hand.  At  the  dexter  comer  below  is  an  eagle  of 
gold  colour ;  background  same  as  others,  embossed 
gold,  on  which  is  painted  sancta  jroAinas. 

S.  Luke  has  a  gold  nimbus ;  the  mantle  of  green 
lined  white,  the  undergarment  of  a  bright  orange. 
At  the  dexter  comer  below  is  the  head  of  an  ox. 
This  saint  bears  a  scroll,  on  which  is  written 

KISSIS  SST  OABBISL. 

S.  Maty  Magdalene.  This  figure  is  the  finest 
specimen  of  screen  painting  in  Suffolk.  Her  head 
is  surrounded  by  a  nimbus  with  radiatmg  rajs, . 
the  headdress  of  rich  green ;  in  front  a  band  of 
jewels,  in  the  centre  a  quatrefoil-like  ornament 
of  precious  stones.  The  mantle  of  rich  rose  colosr 
lined  green,  looped  up  on  the  right  side  bj  a  cord; 
the  underdress  is  of  gold  colour,  and  ncblj  em- 
broidered with  red  flowers.  In  her  right  band 
she  holds  the  pot  of  ointment,  richly  jewelled 
with  pearls  and  emeralds,  and  surmounted  with  a 
erois   of  pearls;  tiie   background  is  inscribed 

SAirOXA  VAeD. 

Mr.  Watlin^  points  out  the  great  similaritr 
between  the  %iues  of -this  screen  and  tbeillo- 
minations  in  the  Bible,  once  the  property  of  the 
abbey  at  Bury,  now  at  Pembroke  Collegpe,  Cam- 
bridge, and  considers  that  this  proves  this  ecreen 
to  be  the  work  of  the  monks  at  fiuiy  or  Tbet- 
ford. 

Me^fiM^r^The  screen  is  boarded  up,  but  in 
Davy's  MSS.  on  Suffolk  is  tiie  following  :— 

sobtvs  DSin,  AzioiA  vx  • 
JokvB  KAyHves, 

JOXLL  .  PPTA BABVCH  .  F.P.T.i. 


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517 


BadvM  A$k.—l!\ie  following  from  Davy's  MSS. 
relates  to  this  screeD,  now  enturely  destroyed : — 
Orate . .  •  pro . . .  aiabus . . .  Johes .  • .  Boker . . « • 
et . . .  HJCE ....  fil ... .  mvin . . .  hvc .... 

Nate,  On  the  buttresses  of  this  church  are  the 
tools  of  a  blacksmith  deigned  in  flintwork,  with 
the  letter  B  repeated  many  times.  Doubtless  this 
B  is  the  initial  of  the  benefactor  to  the  church, 
perhaps  of  the  name  of  Boker,  as  on  the  screen. 

Bammgham  jcontained  a  good  screen.  On  the 
beam  was  painted — 

FLAGSLLAT  EST  IHS  SCii  TBildTii  YR  BETD 
SSFYLTyS  SST  .  IHS. 

SapitUm, — ^No  trace  of  this  screen  now  iBOudns. 
There  were  some 'thirty  years  a^o  two  ftanels 
remaining,  one  containing  a  paintmg  of  a  bishop 
in  full  pontificals ;  from  nis  mouth  this  legend-^ 

ABOBAMYS  S  DUE  BT  BEKSDICIKY8  TIBI.  The  Other 

panel  represented  a  congregation  in  prayer ;  frpm 
the  mouth  of  one  was  written— qtia  pbb  soah 
CBTCEM  TVAX  BBBBiosTi  UTTrDviCy  the  back- 
ground diapered  with  jb%  in  monogram,  and  H 
with  a  crown  on  the  top. 

In  my  next  I  will  describe  Ufford,  Hitcham, 
and  others  from  information  sent  to  me  direct 
from  many  clergy  and  gentry  in  Suffolk,  to  whom 
I  am  deeply  indented  for  their  kindness  in  answer- 
ing so  fully.  W.  Mabsh. 

7,  Red  Lion  Squan. 


MURAL  PAIKTING  IN  STARSTON  CHURCH, 

NORFOLK.* 

{4.^  S.  vi.  passim :  vii.  40, 172,  245,  868,  410.) 

I  am  now  in  a  position,  haying  the  engraving 
by  my  aide,  to  complete  my  reply  to  the  strictures 
of  F.  0.  H.,  which  I  shall  do  as  briefly  as  possible, 
first,  as  to  the  altar,  or  head  of  the  bed.  Witli 
me  such  details  are  decided  by  precedents.  I  haye 
examined  twenty  medisoyal  examples  of  beds  from 
the  nindi  to  the  fifteenth  centmry,  with  almost  an 
equal  number  of  altars,  and  find  that  the  fall  of 
drapery  in  the  painting  is  like  the  latter ;  and  I 
haye  only  one  instance  of  the  former  which  at  all 
resemUes  it,  and  that  rather  remotely.  Unbappaly, 
the  upper  part  being  effaced,  it  is  now  impossible 
to  decide  absolutely  either  way.  It  is  important 
to  note  that  the  effaced  portion  show  us  a  sub- 
stratum of  paintinff,  and  this  coincides  in  character 
witii  that  panellea  work  beneath  the  figure  hold- 
ing the  scroll.  This,  with  the  form  resemblinff  a 
stump  of  a  tree  of  a  bright  red  colour,  and  uso 
the  Mght  red  "  post "  to  which  F.  C.  H.  refers 
as  beinff  part  of  the  bedstead,  is  so  different  in  its 
manipulation,  proportion  of  parts,  colours,  ftc,  to 
the  rest,  that  it  mu^  all  be  referred  to  apreyious 
decoration  beneath.    It  is  obvious  that  such  has 

*  Concluded  from  p.  499. 


existed,  and  it  complicates  the  explanation  of  the 
details.  The  base  of  the  bedstead  F.  C.  H.  says 
''  apparently ''  fits  into  this  post ;  that  is  to  say, 
we  nave  a  scarlet  post  to  a  stone-coloured  base. 
A  very  original  combination !  But  to  my  eyes  it 
does  not  fit  in,  for  there  is  a  gap  between,  showing 
a  diapered  pattern,  somewhat  similar  to  that  of 
the  *^  covering"  of  which  I  shall  now  speak.  Thia 
F.  C.  H.,  in  a  tone  of  authority,  declares  to  be  ''a 
screen  of  wood  or  other  solid  substance  painted 
in  diaper."  It  is  therefore  inevitable  that  tne  bed 
must,  for  the  greater  part,  be  behind  the  screen. 
So  an  artist,  representing  a  death-bed,  places  all 
but  the  head  behind  a  screen.  In  the  whole 
range  of  art  there  will  not  be  found  a  parallel. 
Now  as  to  the  "  chalice."  Here  I  entirely  apee 
with  F.  C.  H.'s  observations.  If  the  form  given 
in  the  engraving  is  a  correct  delineation,  there  is 
no  chslice;  neither,  by  that  same  evidence,  is 
there  a  shield,  for  its  shape  is  at  least  a  hundred 
and  fifty  years  too  late ;  nor,  by  the  same  rule,  ia 
it  ''apiece  of  embroidery  "  belon^ng  to  the  figure 
behind.  The  ''cope,"  with  all  deference,  is  no 
cope.  It  is  difficult  to  ima^e  how  such  a  con- 
clusion could  be  arrived  at.  A  cope  is  open  in 
front,  and  is  fastened  by  a  morse  on  the  oreast. 
This  is  not  so,  but  is  indeed  a  chasuble,  F.  G.  H.'a 
experience  notwithstanding — one  of  the  period, 
however,  ample  in  folds,  fEtlling  down  over  the 
arms  beyond  the  elbow,  and  showing  slso  an  in- 
dication of  the  amice  above  it  It  is  a  matter  to 
be  decided  by  the  evidence  of  examples.  All  the 
rest  of  the  figure  thus  attired  is  obscure.  Now  as 
to  the  absence  of  the  nimbus.  F.  G.  H.  says  it 
equally  militates  agaiiffit  my  ''  theory ; "  at  the 
same  time  he  tells  you  it  is  often  omitted.  Now 
the  objection  is  a  just  one,  and  although  against 
my  views,  I  will  not  allow  of  a  fallacious  argu- 
ment The  "  nimbus  "  is  omitted  by  some  schools 
late  in  medisBval  art,  but  in  the  thirteenth  centniy 
it  is  not  so ;  and  the  total  absence  of  it  in  the 
Starston  painting  is  very  remarkable.  I  was  not 
unaware  of  this  weak  point,  but  thought  I  had  a 
good  arpiment  in  this  case.  Unless,  however,  1 
can  fortify  it  by  good  precedent,  I  shall  allow  it 
to  stand  against  me. 

Having  replied  to  those  objections  I  considered 
most  material,  I  now  proceed  to  the  legend  of  St 
Manr  Ma^idene.  F.  G.  H.  tells  you  I  profess  to 
''  take  this  from  an  old  German  account"  My 
''German  account"  was  one  of  many,  and  was 
only  alluded  to.  He  then  proceeds  to  state  tiiat 
"  no  one  was  present  at  that  (her  death)  but  the 
bishop,"  and  that  it  was  in  his  church  and  not  in 
an  oratory.  He  then  italidses  a  passage  of  mine 
relating  to  the  congre^tion  of  toe  clergy,  with 
the  evident  intention  of  showing  a  want  of  good 
faith  on  my  part,  and  that  the  passage  was  my 
invention.  Were  F.  C.  &.  the  only  one  to  lie 
considered,  I  should  ^^Mida  4o  'reiply,  but  your 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«»8.VILJoti17,7L 


leadew  require  it    Thus  then  shall  my  authority 
(JSermoneB  Dorm  tecuri)  answer : — 

**  Qmoocato  igitor  unwerao  cUro  et  predieto  iaeerdoU 
Maria  Magdalenft  corpus  et  sangninem  com  mnlta  inim- 
datione  lachrymaram  ab  episcopo  snaoepit:  deinde  pros- 
trmto  rate  altare  sanctlBsima  gas  anima  ad  dominam 
migravit :  et  angeli  ejus  animam  cum  hymnis  et  craUcia 
in  oelnm  perdnxeront :  in  cujna  exitn  tantns  snaviasiiniu 
odor  ibidem  ranansit :  nt  per  septem  dies  ab  ingredienU- 
bus  oraitfrium  sentiret,*'  Ac 

Anj  comment  is  unnecessary^  as  I  shall  leave 

Sour  readers  now  to  judge  between  us.  As  regards 
[artha's  death,  &c.,  I  counsel  F.  0.  H.  to  further 
research ;  for  I  am  not  called  upon  to  give  autho- 
rities to  one  who  has  so  indiscreetly  challenged 
my  veracity.  Should  I  pursue  the  subject,  I  shall 
not  fail  to  substantiate  what  I  have  uttered. 

The  rest  of  F.  C.  H.*s  remarks  refer  to  the  ob- 
serration  of  the  unities.  Now,  are  they  not  con- 
stantiy,  even  upon  prindple,  I  would  say,  violated 
in  legendary  art  P  it  is  well  known  it  is  so?  Nor 
is  there  any  subject  in  which  the  unities  are  more 
violated  than  in  the  "Death  of  the  Virgin"  and 
the'"  Assumption,"  as  any  one  can  convince  him- 
self of  by  the  smallest  amount  of  research.  I  have 
left  many  points  urged  by  F.  C.  H.  unnoticed 
because  I  am  really  indifferent  to  the  issue,  and 
also  consider  them  of  secondary  importance.  It 
is  not  my  "  theory,"  nor  that  of  F.  0.  H.  which  is 
of  consequence,  but  truth,  which  is  only  to  be 
obtained  by  the  collision  and  expression  of  opinion. 

J.  G.  Wallbb. 

68,  Bolflover  Street,  W. ' 


"JACK"  BURTON. 


(4«»  S.  viL  821, 360,:442.) 

Your  correspondent  Edward  Eowdbn  is  in 
error  when  he  speaks  of  the  celebrated  Miss  £ose 
Burton,  daughter  of  Dr.  Burton,  Canon  of  Christ 
Church,  better  known  by  the  name  of  ''Jack" — 
her  name  was  "Rachel.^'  I  was  very  well  ac- 
quainted both  with  her  and  her  father.  I  should 
tnink  she  never,  in  youth/ was  more  than  "good 
looking  and  fresh."  She  was  certainly  vey  clever. 
Her  misfortune  was  to  have  chiefly  lived  in  the 
society  of  men.  She  used  to  have  freauent  en- 
counters of  wit  with  the  late  Lord  Dudley,  Can- 
ning, and  others,  in  which  she  sustained  her  part 
well.  Her  verses  were  nearlv  all  satirical.  I  have 
copies  of  several:  one  is  addressed  to  the  Hon. 
Charles  Bagot,  "  My  Apology  on  his  obiecti^  to 
the  Manners  of  a  certain  Nobleman,  whom lat- 
tempted  to  vindicate,"  One  of  the  stanzas  runs 
thus:  — 

"  Then,  shocking  to  the  ear  refined, 
Whene'er  h^a  pleased,  he  speaks  his  mind ; 

And  not  like  jon  and  Moore, 
Displeased  with  eveiy  thing  yon  see, 
From  plays  and  balU  and  oonoerts  flee. 

And  vote  them  aU  a  boreJ* 


Another  is  addressed  (conveying  ironical  comj^li- 
mente)  to  Lord  Garlies,  and  eveir  verse  ends  with 
"  Lord  Galloway's  son."  The  last  stanza  Lb  the 
following :  — 

«  In  a  word,  then,  this  yonth  has  so  gained  on  my  heirt, 
That  if  fate,  cruel  ikte,  shonld  ordain  ns  to  part,  | 
In  the  world  111  not  tarry,  but  quiekhr  torn  mm, 
And  in  prayers  end  my  lift^  for  Lord  uaUoway's  am.** 

All  her  verses  are  ngned  "  Hachael  Burton.*' 
Dire  feuds  existed  between  Bachel  and  Lad? 
Pegge,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Pegge,  afterwards  kmghted, 
and  Regius  Professor  of  Medicine.  Whoi  the 
Oxford  Volunteer  corps  were  formed  of  the  dtinDB 
and  members  of  the  Universilv,  and  Rachel  and 
Lady  Madcworth  presented  the  heroes  with  oolonn, 
Rachel  produced  the  following  squib,  which  I 
send  you  as  it  is  short :  — > 

"  THE  RT^AL  COIX>ini8. 

{Mba  Burton  lo^Uur.) 

"  Twice  twenty  sons  of  peers,  in  bri^t  amy, 
Formed  a  proud  line,  and  bore  my  flags  away; 
Seized  my  gay  banners  with  a  decent  pride. 
And  swore  to  keep  them,  fighting  by  theii  nde  *, 
For  these,  they  crv,  we  every  toil  will  bear— 
And  braveiy  and  beauty  filled  the  air." 

{Lady  Mackmorlh  loqidbtr^ 

**  Twice  twenty  tradesmen  formed  into  a  row, 
Made  at  m^  feet  a  fine  and  comely  show ; 
A  son  of  Galen,  stationed  at  their  head. 
Who  swears  hell  strike  the  sons  of  Gallia  dead  r 
Not  all  yonr  nobles^  in  the  firont  or  rear. 
Can  fell  a  Frenchman  with  a  greater  fear ; 
For,  panio-stmck,  at  once  they  snre  would  stop, 
If  shown  the  phials  in  my  captain's  shop ; 
And,  coward-uke,  would  scamper  in  a  trice, 
If  threatened  e'en  with  Major  regge's  adoice. 

You  have  conjured  up  the  remembrsnces  of 
more  than  half  a  century.  I  have  a  caricatoie 
drawing  too  of  her,  very  Eke ;  but  that  I  will  not 
send  you.  She  was  a  sight  to  see  at  the  declara- 
tion of  the  poll  at  Lord  Qrenville's  election  as 
Chancellor,  in  1809,  embracing  the  doctors  of  her 
party  in  the  midnight  convocation.  Her  father,  too, 
a  very  worthy  man,  was  an  original.  She  had  a 
younger  sister,  who  married  a  Fellow  of  Mag- 
dalen (I  think),  of  whidi  body  her  unde  Jeimer 
was  a  member.  H-  W.  L. 

Rome. 


POETRY  OP  THE  CLOUDS. 

(4«»  S.  viL  319,  397.) 

The  following  passages  from  Antony  and  G^ 
patra,  if  known  to  De  Quincey,  might  have  canaed 
liim  materially  to  modify  his  ertravagant  notion 
of  Wordsworth's  poetry.  Shakespeare  seems  to 
have  exhausted  the  subject  in  a  single  passage, 
and  one  can  hardly  imagine  how  this  pawagd)  ^ 
much  to  the  point,  could  escape  the  recollection 
of  De  Quincey :  — 


4*^»S.VII.  JuiiKl7,'71.3 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


519 


**  Sometime  we  see  a  doad  that's  dragoniah ; 
A  vapoar  sometime  like  a  bear  or  lioD, 
A  tower'd  dtadel,  a  pendent  rock, 
A  forked  mountain,  or  blae  promontory 
With  trees  npon't,  that  nod  mito  the  world. 
And  mode  oar  eyes  with  air:  thou  hast  seen  these 

signs; 
They  are  blade  vesper's  pageants.*' 

**  That  which  is  now  a  korae^  eyen  with  a  thought 
The  rack  dialimns." 

But  other  poets  have  not  been  unobservant  of 
cloud  scenery,  and  I  have  no  doubt  the  following 
extracts  can  be  largely  added  to.  Milton,  in 
ParfuUse  Losty  has  the  following :  — 

«  Snch  a  frown 
Each  east  at  the  other,  as  when  two  black  donds 
With  heav'n's  artillery  fraught,  come  rattling  on 
Over  the  Caspian,  then  stand  front  to  front. 
Hovering  a  space,  till  winds  the  signal  blow 
To  join  their  dark  encounter  in  mid  air." 

Book  ii.  1.  714-8. 

In  Comus  we  find — 

*'  Did  a  sable  cloud 
Tom  forth  her  silver  lining  on  the  night."  * 

And  in  his  ode.  "  On  the  Morning  of  Christ's 

Nativity  " :  — 

'*  So,  when  the  sun  in  bed, 
Curtained  with  cloudy  red. 
Pillows  his  chin  upon  an  orient  wave." 

In  Quarles'  Emblems  we  find :  — 

<'  To  dissolve  a  rock 
Of  marble  clouds  into  a  morning  shower.** 

Book  V.  5. 
And  in  his  HieroglyphicB  (xiv.  1) :  — 

'•Bright  Titan's  hair; 
Whose  westttn  wardrobe  now  begins  t'unibld 
Her  purples,  fringed  with  gold 
To  clothe  his  ev'ning  glory."t 

Beattie,  in  the  Minstrd  (Book  i.),  has  the  fol- 
lowing passage :  — 

"  Oft  when  the  winter  storm  had  ceased  to  rave. 
He  roam'd  the  snowy  waste  at  even,  to  view 
The  doud  stupendous,  from  th'  Atlantic  wave 
High-towering,  sail  alon^  th'  horizon  blue : 
Where,  'midst  the  changeful  scenery,  ever  new, 
Fancy  a  thousand  won<rrou8  forms  descries. 
More' wildly  great  than  ever  pencil  drew : 
Rocks,  torrents,  gnlfis  and  shapes  of  giant  size. 
And  glitt'ring  cliffs  on  difi^  and  fiery  ramparts  rise." 

Young,  in  his  Ntffht  Hwughts  (iz.  L  664-7)  has, 

as  follows :  — 

**  Clouds,  in  heav'n's  loom 
Wrought  through  varieties  of  shape  and  shade. 
In  ample  folds  of  drapery  divine, 
Thy  flowing  mantle  form." 

•  Imitated  by  Young :  — 

**  Once  I  behdd  a  sun,  a  sun  which  gilt 
That  sable  doud,  and  turned  it  all  to  gdd." 

Nighi  ThoughU^  vii.  1.  815. 

t  See  Collins's  Ode  to  Evening:^ 

<*  The  bright-hair'd  sun 
Sits  in  yon  western  tent,  whose  dondy  skirts, 
With  brede  ethereal  wove 
O'erhang  his  wavy  bed." 


But  it  is  to  Shelley,  with  his  exquisite  fimcy 
and  felidty  of  description,  we  must  award  the 
palm  as  the  poet  of  the  clouds.  A  cluster  of  de- 
Iijp;htful  passages  are  found  in  the  opening  lines 
of  his  Queen  Mab  (book  IL),  firom  wnich  I  may 
select  the  following :  — 

^  the  billowy  douds 
Edged  with  intolerable  radiancy, 
Towering  like  rocks  of  Jet^ 
Crowned  with  a  diamond  wreath." 

<*  Far  douds  of  feathery  gold. 
Shaded  with  deepest  purple,  gleam 
Like  islands  on  a  dark  blue  sea." 

**  Golden  islands. 
Gleaming  in  yon  flood  of  light." 

*'  feathery  curtains. 
Stretching  o'er  the  sun's  bright  couch." 

**  fertile  golden  islands, 
Floating  on  a  silver  sea." 

And  in  a  poem  entitled  The  Cloud: — 

**  With  wings  folded  I  rest,  on  mine  airy  nest. 
And  still  as  a  brooding  dove." 

But  it  would  occupy  too  much  space  here  to 
j[uote  all  the  jjassages  one  finds  in  Shelley  relat- 
ing to  this  subject  If  Mil  Cottebxll  will  read 
The  Witch  of  Atlas,  he  will  find  other  passages  to 
add  to  his  list;  and  he  will  also  be  rewarded  in 
reading  Marianne^s  Dreamy  A  Vision  of  the  Sea^ 
and  Evening,  T.  M'Qbath. 

REALM. 

(4**»  S.  ill  v.  vi,  passim ;  vii.  870.) 

It  is  with  some  reluctance  that  I  return  to 
this  discussion,  inasmuch  as  Mb.  Chance,  instead 
of  meeting  the  main  argument,  still  dwells  on 
irrelevant  points.  The  real  question  is,  whether 
the  «  found  in  reatdme  of  the  sizteentii  century 
is  intrusive  or  oiganic.  I  have  shown  by  re- 
ference to  the  analcjgies  of  the  lS»nch  language, 
and  in  conformity  with  all  the  philological  autho- 
rities— Diez,  BurguY,  Scheler,  Jurachet,  &c. — ^that 
it  is  the  /,  and  not  ue  «,  that  is  intrusive — ^the  u 
which  in  this  class  of  words  is'  organic,  simply 
representing  the  softening  of  the  /—as,  e,  g,,  in  haut, 
from  alius.  Until  Mb.  Chakcb  can  prove  that 
this  automatic  phenomenon  was  not  a  feature  of 
the  earliest  French,  it  is  quite  beside  the  question 
to  quote  instances  from  later  times,  when  theories 
had  superseded  natural  laws,  ana  the  language 
had  become  corrupted,  to  show  that  /  appeared 
alongside  of  the  organic  u.  The  fact  is  not 
disputed,  but  it  is  maintained  that  it  was  dae 
to  the  scribe's  ignorance  of  the  original  laws  of 
formation,  to  a  fantastic  spirit  of  innovation,  or 
to  an  absurd  ambition  to  mend  what  required  no 
mending.  Thb  is  the  real  question  between  me  and 
Mb.  Chavgb.  Whether  the  word  chevals  was  spelt 
ohevax,  cheoaus,  or  chevauXf  is  really  no  part  of  the 
argument    The  first  form  is  probably  tne  earliest 


520 


NOTES  AND  QIIERIES- 


[^8.VII.JoHil7,7L 


in  point  of  time.  Sabsequently^  or  even  contempo- 
raneoualy — for  the  point  is  doubtful — x  'was  used 
(see  Burgujy  i.  01)  as  a  contraction  of  Is  or  us, 
hence  ohevax ;  then  the  proper  meaning  of  the  x 
being  misunderstood,  it  was  frequently  employed 
for  simple  Sj  and  hence  ehevauxi^ehevaus.  So 
in  regard  to  dois  or  duis  (which  I  do  not  deny 
to  be  a  variant  of  the  word,  though  I  have  not 
seen  it),  also  found  as  douSf  dozj  with  the  femi- 
nine forms  dulce,  duce,  douse,  dciice,  it  is  evident 
that  there  is  no  trace  of  *4he  insertion  of  o 
[or  u]  before  the  /  dropped."  The  organic  I  is 
simply  superseded  by  an  organic  u,  or  £  is  con- 
tracted into  z  =  «.  In  no  one  of  these  forms  cAe- 
vaus,  chevauXf  cheoax^  doz,  &c.  is  ti ''  interpolated." 
Doubf  quoted  by  Mb.  Chaitce  from  Machault^  is 
reallv  a  case  in  point,  and  can  only  be  explained, 
as  I  nave  before  shown,  by  considering  the  dou  as 
a  phonetic  spelling  .of  the  fourteenth  centurv  (at 
which  time  u  had  universally  become' om),  of  du. 
I  have  in  the  preceding  remarks  designedly  gone 
over  ground  already  trodden  in  order  to  keep  the 
real  point  of  the  argument  from  being  lost  m  ir- 
relevant discussion. 

Mb.  Chakck,  in  quoting  from  Ampdre,  seems 
not  to  be  aware  that  Ampdre  is  simply  stating 
Fallot's  views,  not  his  own.  Ampdre's  book, 
though  veiy  interesting  in  many  respects,  is  of 
no  authority  on  dialects.  It  appears  to  me  that 
Mb.  Chai^ce  has  not  examined  for  himself  Fal- 
lot's and  Burgtiy's  elaborate  discussions  of  the 
matters  which  he  treats  in  his  last  paper.  If 
I  have  been  " inaccurate  "  and  "positive^'  in  re- 
nresenting  their  views,  no  one  wiU  regret  these 
faults  more  than  myself;  but  Irefrain  fr»m  entering 
on  [them  again,  as  bearing  onlv  very  remotely  on 
the  question  before  us,  and  leading  to  an  intermin- 
able controversy  on  old  French  dialects.  I  simply 
beg  to  remariE  in  reference  to  Wace's  works  as 
specimens  of  Norman  French,  that  the  best  judges 
are  of  opinion  that  they  very  inadequately  repre- 
sent that  dialect*  Fallot  says  (p.  466)  of  the 
Moman  de  JRou,  ^'Le  dialecte  de  Normandie  y 
est  m61aQg6  en  bien  des  parties ;  il  y  a  de  longs 
fragmens  ou  il  n'en  rests  que  fort  peu  de  traces," 
ana  he  states  his  opinion  that  '^la  eopie  n'est  pas 
ancienne :  on  ne  voit  plus  la  correction  et  la 
rigide  observation  des  r&gles  qui  oaractdrisent  les 
bons  manuscrits."  Indeed,  u  Wace's  writings 
are  compared  with  genuine  Anglo-Norman  texts, 
snoh  as  Charlemagne,  The  Conquest  of  Irdand,  and 
The  Life  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  it  will  be  seen 

*  ThMe  who  desire  to  know  what  the  ehameteristics  of 
Anglo-Konnan  were  may  be  nfemd  to  a  paper  l^  the 
pnMAt  writer  in  the  TranmuHmu  of  the  PhiMogUal 
Society,  1868-9,  '*  The  Norman  Element*  in  the  fi^ken 
and  written  Eogliah  of  the  Twelfth,  Thirteenth,  and 
FoQTteenth  Centuries,  and  in  onr  Provineial  Dialects 
(with  an  Examination  of  Ghaneer's  use  of  the  final  e.) 
BMt  I.  Fronancimtion,  pp.802<449l 


at  once  that  Wace  is  no  Anglo-Normin  writer  in 
the  proper  sense  of  the  term.  Amp^'s  opinion 
to  the  contrary  is  of  no  value. 

I  renuirk,  with  some  surprise,  that  Mb.  Cha5cs 
seems  to  consider  that  the  Scottish  smd  for  Mfi, 
matit  for  maltf  &c.  confirm  his  hypothesii.  They 
apnear  to  me  to  confute  it 

Ms.  Ohakob  will  probably  pronounce  me  craven 
because  I  decline  to  ffo  through  Mb  essa  in 
detail,  and  defend,  as  I  best  could,  my  ''iIU^ 
curacies."  I  am  well  content,  however,  to  gire 
him  the  benefit  of  such  a  victory,  and  flimplj  aik 
him  to  render  it  complete  by  refuting  the  propo- 
sitions at  the  dose  of  iny  last  paper  (4*^  S.  tL 
S96.)  J.  PAm. 

Kildare  GardeoB. 


MABRIAGE8  OF  ENGLISH  PRINCESSES. 

(4«»  S.  vu.  203,  289, 809, 897.) 

If  one  of  the  most  famous  belles  and  accom- 
plished women  of  the  fourteenth  century— elie 
who  was  pronounced  in  Committee  of  tke  wliole 
House  of  Court  ladies  to  be  ''la  mieux  dansant et 
mieux  chantant" — could  read  the  list  of  Jnn 
Nepos,  her  train  of  rayed  bandekyn  would  stand 
on  end  in  indignation  at  the  presumption  that  it 
could  be  complete  without  her.    He  will  allov 
me  to  present  nim  to  the  Lady  Elizabeth  of  Las- 
caster,  second  sister  of  Henrv  IV.,  who  bestowed 
her  hand  in  succession  on  three  British  sabjects. 
She  married  (1)  in  1879-80,  John  Hastings,  of 
his  line  third  and  last  Earl  of  Pembroke,  from 
whom  she  was  divorced ;  (2)  ab<Mit  1384^  John 
de  Holand.  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and  Me  of 
Exeter,  beheaded  Jan.  7,  1400;  (8)  in  1400-1 
John  Cornwall,  Lord  BVmhope.    Elizabeth  died 
Nov.  24,  1426.    Her  first  and  third  maniages 
were  issueless,  but  by  tiie  second  she  was  the 
mother  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  I^ 
Kegisters  of  John  of  Gaunt,  her  father,  record 
numerous  items  of  provision  for  the  comfort  uA 
dignity  of   "  nffe  me    de  Penbrok " :  and  her 
brother,  King  Henry,  exhibited  in  achaxieteiutic 
manner  his  attachment  to  this  his  fsvourite  nster 
by  a  grant  dated  Dec.  13, 1400,  bestowiuif  m 
her  an  exquisite  collection  of  the  goods  of  h^ 
deceased  and  attainted  husband  the  Dnlce  ot 
Exeter :  to  wit,  one  old  bed  of  bandekyn,  with  an 
old  celer  and  tester  of  silk,  seventeen  anaent 
carpets,  eleven  towels,  and  **  manuteigia  TaWa 
et  fracta,''  an  old  pewter  basin,  and  sundry  other 
valuables  of  the  like  character.    Anyone  ww 
wishes  to  peruse  his  majesty's  noble  ^  ^  &? 
to  his  sister  will  find  it  in  JBef.  Pat.  2  H.l>  j 
Part  1.    I  ought  to  add  that  he  gSTe  her  other 
things  better  worth  having  on  later  oocaaons. 

There  are  two  other  princesses  whose  dafflw  to 
appearance  on  the  list  should  At  least  be  taken  into 
consideration.    Marv,  daughter  of  Sdw«  -in-* 


4«k  &  VII.  Jotb  17,  'Tl.] 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


621 


married  Jean  de  Bretagne,  Duke  of  Bretesne  and 
Coant  of  Direux^  who  had  been  Earl  of  Buuimond, 
and  though  he  had  resigned  his  earldom  before 
marriage,  he  neyerthelesa  continaed  a  British  sub- 
jecty  and  received  a  second  grant  of  the  earldom 
m  1896.  Again,  Mary,  daughter  of  Georve  III.,  in 
marrying  her  cousin  William  Duke  of  Oloucestor, 
surely  married  a  British  subject,  though  a  prince. 

HSBMSXTTBTJDB. 


Gundreda,  married  to  William  de  Warrenne, 
Earl  of  Surrey,  from  which  union  is  descended 
the  house  of  Howard,  is  included  by  some  his- 
torians and  genealogists  amongst  the  daughters  of 
William  the  Conqueror.  A.  S. 


OVID,  '•METAM.»'Xin.2M:  « BENIGNIOB." 

(4«'  S.  vu.  455.) 
Planudes  translates  the  passage : — 

ov  roufvy  rohs  Imrovs  iv^p  T^f  KareurKOinfirMos  y4pas  6 
iroK4fJuos  IJT^ty  roinov  /aoi  rh  2hrXa  iircryopcvcrorc^  Koi 
ieytMrtpos  6  Afay  ^oKtnu, 

BoiBsonade  says  in  a  note : — 

^  Latins,  *  fu«ritqae  benignior  Ajax,'  valde  simt  ob- 
scnra,  sensiu  fonan  hie  est : — ipse  Ajax  vobis,  ai  anna 
negaveritis,  poterit  esse  beoxgnior,  nee  ea  mihi  recnaare : 
tantmn  mihi  est  in  ea  jaris." 

Voss  translates : 

*'  Schlagt  dess  Waffen  mir  ab,  und  es  sei  der  Terdienten 
Ajaz." 

The  obscurity  of  the  passage  is  shown  by  the 
yiolent  efforts  to  mend  it  Muretus  prc^poses 
'^forat  heec  ut  dignior  Ajax,"  and  Koeppenius 
substitutes  Hector  for  Ajaz.  I  agree  with  Mb. 
Enre  that  there  is  *^  a  manifest  sneer  in  the  words," 
and  I  offer  a  very  moderate  alteration — 

'<  Arma  negate  mihi :  fitnim  bemgniar  Ajax  ?  ^ 

I  quote  from  Lemaire's  edition,  tomes  iv.  and  v. 
Paris,  1822.  H.  B.  0. 

U.  U.  Club. 


**  CaJQS  eqnos  pretiam  pro  nocte  poposeerat  hostSs, 
Arma  negate  mihi,  Aieritqne  benignior  Ajax.** 

Mr.  Enre  deserves  great  praise  for  his  solidtude 
regarding  accuracy  in  tlus  passage,  as  weU  as  in 
all  other  parts,  of  his  yersion  of  the  MetamarphoieSf 
and  for  his  modesty  in  requesting  the  judgment  of 
others  on  a  point  on  which  he  is  so  well  able  to 
judge  for  himself.  In  my  opinion  he  has  giyen  a 
yery  satisfactory  sense  of  tne  word  hetngmor  in 
his  translation.  It  signifies,  I  consider,  '^  better 
pleased,  better  satisfied^  more  kindly  disposed  to- 
wards you/'  IkurU  IS  taken  by  the  Dolphin 
editor  and  others  in  an  imperotiye  sense,  as  in 
Sail.  Juff.  c.  81 :— ; 

*'Scd  sane  fnerit  regni  ]>aratio  plebi  loa  reatitnere; 
qnicqnid  sine  sanguine  civinm  nldsd  neqnitar,  jueiius 
tnm  sit." — (Let  the  restoration  of  their  rights  to  the 


peojple  haye  been  an  aspiration  to  sorereignty ;  let  that 
which  cannot  be  avenged  without  shedding  tne  blood  of 
citizens  have  been  done  with  justice.") 

The  sense  of  Ovid's  words  will  then  be,  ^'  and 
let  Ajaz  (by  this  means— when  this  is  done — 
when  the  arms  haye  been  given  him)  haye  been, 
or  haye  become,  better  contented  " ;  or  they  may 
be  turned  optatively,  ''may  Aiaz  haye  thus  been 
(rendered)  more  fayourably  disposed."  But  it 
may  be  considered  whether  fuerit  may  not  be 
taken  as  a  future,  "  and  (perhaps)  Ajax  will  by 
thismeaiM  haye  'become  ktter^di^ed  toward 
you,''  that  is,  ''will  be  in  better  temper  with  you." 
There  is  no  doubt,  as  Mb.  Enre  observes,  a  sneer 
or  sarcasm  in  the  words  of  Ulysses :  "  Refuse  me 
the  arms  of  him  whose  horses  the  enemy  had 
demanded  as  his  reward,  and  then,  possibly,  Aiax 
will  feel  more  fiiendly  towards  you ! "  The  Delpnin 
editor,  who  is  at  all  times  a  weak  staff  to  lean  on, 
goes  away  from  the  sense  with  his  sit  melius  de 
vobis  tnarUua:  but  he  was  fully  sensible  of  the 
irony.  In  taking  benignior  in  tne  sense  which  I 
haye  suggested,  and  in  which  indeed  Mb.  Eikg 
had  already  taken  it,  no  violence  is  done  to  the 
word,  but  it  is  kept  to  its  ordinary  si^fication, 
"  kind,''  such  as  it  has  in  Hor.  Sat,  i.  2,  4,  to 
which  Mb.  Kore  refers.  J.  S.  W, 


According  to  the  old  Homeric  account  of  the 
contest  between  Ajax  and  Ulysses  for  the  arms  of 
Achilles,  Ulysses  obtained  them  by  the  fraud 
practised  by  tiie  Atreidce.  See  Sonhodes'  Ajax, 
1135,  and  Fbxdsj^a  Nemean,  yiii  26-32,  who  says : 

"  By  secret  ballots  the  Danal  paid  court  to  Ulysses ; 
and  so  Ajaz,  deprived  of  the  golden  armonr,  grappled 
with  slaughter,  i  et  venr  different  were  the  woonds  they 
dave  the  enemies  on  theu*  warm  flesh,  when  rebuffed  by 
the  man-repelling  lance,  partly  in  fighting  over  Achilles 
when  newly  slain,  and  in  other  hard  struggles  on  death- 
dealiog  days." 

Now  the  object  of  Oyid  was  to  remoye  the 
coarse  deyice  of  fraud,  and,  without  denying  that 
Ajax  was  stronger  and  brayer  than  Ulysses,  to 
prove  by  argument  that  Ulysses  was  the  more 
meritorious.  We  must,  therefore,  understand  tiie 
ingenious  argument  put  by  Oyid  into  the  mouth 
ofUlysses. 

If  the  steeds  of  the  Trojans'  ally.  Rhesus,  had 
not  been  captured  by  the  Greeks  "  before  they  had 
tasted  the  fodder  of  Troy,  or  drank  of  the  riyer 
Xanthus"  (JEneid,  i.  469-73).  or  (Euripides' 
Hhemsy  498-609)  if  the  Oreeks  aid  not  obtain  the 
Palladium,  or  statue  of  Pallas,  which  the  Trojans 
possessed,  Ilium  would  haye  oeen  surrounded  by 
acharm  whicii  all  the  prowess  and  valour  of  Ajax 
and  Achilles  could  not  break  through.  Ulysses 
planned  and  parfoimed  tiie  capture  A  tiie  horses 
the  JRhmus)  by  learning  the  wateb-woid  of 

tesus'men;  aind^  disffiusedaB  a  beggar,  he  made 
his  way  into  Ilium  and  stole  the  Pi 


522 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«>»  s.  vii.  JuHB  17,  ni. 


latter  exploit  was  the  subject  of  the  old  epic  called 
«  The  Vagrant."  . 

Consequently  the  argument  of  Ulysses  is:  Ajax, 
although  stronger  and  braver  than  I,  has  never 
removed  any  £fficulty  without  the  removal  of 
which  Ilium  could  not  be  captured;  I  have  re- 
moved two ;  in  the  fiice  of  these  facts,  will  you 
esteem  Ajax  benignior,  "  a  greater  benefactor, ' 
than  I P  Thos.  L'Ebxkakgb. 


Sim-DiAL  Inscriptions  (4**»  S.  viL  266, 877.)— 

The  following  inscription  is  engraved  on  a  dial 

projecting  from  the  cill  of  the  library  window  at 

Arley  Hall,  Cheshire : — 

"  May  the  dread  book  at  our  last  trial. 
When  open  spread,  be  like  this  dial ; 
May  Heaven  forbear  to  mark  therein 
The  hours  made  dark  by  deeds  of  sin ; 
Those  only  in  that  record  write 
Which  virtue  like  the  sun  makes  bright" 

Anon. 


u 


Vado  e  vengo  Qgni  giomo ; 
Ma  tu  andrai  senza  ritomo." 


By  some  accident  the  letters  n  and  g  in  the  third 
word  are  transposed.  It  should  have  been  printed 
vegno. 

It  may  be  a  bold  thing  for  an  Ihiglishman  to 
find  fault  witi^  an  inscription  in  Italian,  set  up  in 
an  Italian  city^  but  has  not  the  little  word  ne  here 
been  omitted,  which  would  have  given  the  second 
line  thus — 

*^  Ma  tn  n*  andrai  aenza  ritomo," 

I.  c. — 

"  I  go  away  and  come  again  every  day, 
But  thou  (the  reader)  ahalt  go  away  and  never  re- 
turn." 

The  other  inscription — 

'*  Pereunt  et  imputantur," 

appears,  amongst  other  places,  under  the  Inner 
Temple  clock,  under  that  in  All  Souls  College, 
Oxford,  and  (I  think)  of  the  Cathedral  at  Exe- 
ter. It  is  so  truly  religious  and  Christian — 
i,  e,  '<  Though  hours  slip  by  us  idly  and  unprofiV 
ably,  but  are  carefully  wntten  up  against  us  " — 
tiiat  upon  once  asking  an  excellent  scholar  where 
he  thought  it  was  to  be  found,  he  replied  without 
hesitation  that  he  supposed  in  Lactaintius  I  It  is, 
however  (who  would  think  it  P),  in  Martial — 

^Ad  JuUmm  Martmlem. 

''Nunc  vivit  sibi  neuter  heu,  bonosque 
Soles  effugere,  atqne  abire  senUt ; 
Qui  nobis  pereunt,  et  imputantur." 

MarOaUa  Epig.  v.  21. 11. 

But  this  is  not  the  only  extraordinary  passage  in 
Martial's  writings,  who,  although  he  can  be  not 
unfrequentiy  naughty  and  dirtv,  has  in  the  fol- 
lowing Unes  to  the  memory  of  Aldmus,  his  youth- 
ful slave,  so  completely  expressed  in  their  fullest 
extent  ul  the  tenderness  and  delicacy  of  the 


Gredan  muse,  that  I  am  sure  the  Editor  wiU 
be  disposed  to  forgive  me  for  calling  attention  to 
them,  by  causing  them  to  be  reprinted  in  hia 

pages:— 

*^®  **Ad  Aidmum. 

"  Aldme,  quern  raptum  domino  crescentibus  annia 

Labicana  levi  ceepite  velat  humus, 
Accipe  non  Pliario  nutantia  pondera  sazo* 

Quaa  dneri  vanus  dat  ruitura  labor, 
Sed  fragilee  buxoa,  et  opacas  palmitis  umbras, 

QuflBque  virsnt  laciymia  humida  prata  meis. 
Acdpe,  care  puer,  nostri  monumenta  laboria : 

Hie  tibi  perpetuo  tempore  vivet  honor. 
Cum  mihi  supremos  Lacnesis  pemeverit  annofl» 

Hand  aliter  cineree  mando  jaoere  meos.** 

JSpig*  1.  o9> 

W.I, 

Paslet  OB  Paslbwb  (4«»  S.  vii.  210,  354.)— I 
am  much  obliged  to  Hbsmxstrvdb  for  her  very 
kind  correction  of  the  error— Whalley  is,  of 
course,  the  abbey  meant  I  am  under  the  im- 
piession  that  there  was  a  Sir  Christopher  Pasley, 
Knt,  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Probably  I 
have  seen  it  in  some  old  Lancashire  charters  re- 
latins  to  Cockersand  Abbey  once  lent  me  b;^  a 
friend,  whose  ancestors,  it  seems,  had  possesdon 
of  some  of  its  land  at  the  dissolution,  ^  I  should, 
however,  be  glad  of  a  solution  of  this  renster 
mystery — the  marriage  or  burial  in  1639  of  "Hen- 
rietta Maria Christopher  Pasley 

etkh.  of  Tarbock'' — as  appears  in  the  transcripts 
of  Hayton  parish  church.  I  may  remark  that 
from  1017  to  1643  the  vellum  leaves  have  been 
cut  (evidentiy  ages  smoe)  from  the  register,  and 
about  tiie  same  period  the  transcripts  at  Cheater 
appear  very  much  obliterated  bv  other  means  than 
damp  or  vermin.  It  may  be  dv  accident,  but  a 
story  of  generations  hanss  to  facts — ^relating  to 
the  loss  of  a  manor  in  uie  neighbourhood,  and 
which  adds  considerable  interest  to  this  register 
question — ^romantic  and  antiquarian. 

I  should  abo  feel  exceeoingly  obliged  to  any 
correspondent  who  could  inform  me  oi  the  title- 
page  and  date  of  a  book  written,  I  believe,  the 
last  or  beginning  of  this  century  by  a  Mr.  Tarbock 
on  "Carpentry.  I  believe  such  a  book  was 
catalogued  for  sale  within  this  last  quarter. 

T.  HXLSBT. 
BiSXABOK  A3IIICIPATED  :  "  StBWIKG  UX  TBXOi 

owK  Gravy"  (4*»»  S.  vii.  187,  272,  379.>-Your 
correspondent  J.  A.  C.  (p.  272)  is  right  in  hb 
conjecture  that  this  saying  (in  different  forms^ 
yriJI  be  found  in  "  the  domains  of  heathendom. ' 
If  he  will  turn  to  Plautus's  play  of  The  Cc^oea 
he  will  find  in  the  first  act  the  parasite  Ei]g^lus 
lamenting  to  Viimaftif  the  miserable  state  of  that 
class  of  men  when  their  entertainers  are  gone  to 
the  country,  and  parasites  have  no  dinner  to  eat, 
comparing  them  to  snails  shut  up  in  their  sheUs, 
&C.    He  says : — 


^■^ 


4«>'8.VII.  JoMlT.Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


523 


**  Qtuisi  qnom  caletnr  cochles  in  occnito  latent, 
Suo  sibi  snco  uinont,  ro8  si  non  cadit : 
Item  parasiti  rebus  prolatis  latent 
In  occnito,  miseri  nictitant  snco  sno, 
Dnm  rnri  rarant  homines  qnos  lignrriant*' 

Act  I.  ver.  80  to  84«  ed.  Tenbner. 

As  Plautus  is  the  most  sncient  Latin  author 
extant,  having  lived  above  2000  years  ago,  unless 
the  idea  be  found  also  in  some  more  ancient 
Greek  author  or  in  the  Old  Testament,  we  may, 
I  presume,  consider  him  the  source  from  which  it 
originated ;  at  least  as  the  first  author  in  whom 
the  idea  is  found,  though  he  may  have  taken  it 
from  the  Greek  Anaxandrides. 

It  does  not  necessarily  follow  that  an  idea 
found  in  a  succession  of  authors  has  been  adopted 
by  the  later  from  the  earlier ;  and  this  one  may 
have  been  as  original  with  Bismarck  as  with  the 
first  that  used  it. 

Would  it  not  be  well  to  record  in  "  N.  &  Q."  on 
what  occasion  the  great  statesman  employed  it  ? 

RiCHABD  BABBIKeTOK. 

Childben's  Games  (4«'  S.  vii.  141,  271, 416.) 
The  following  version  of  the  Babylon  (?)  rhyme, 
appurtenant  to  a  girFs  play,  was  picked  up  many 
years  ago  in  Chorlton-upon-Medlock,  Manches- 
ter:— 

**  Query,  *  How  many  miles  to  Bnrdem  ?  ' 
"Ans.  *  Three  score  an'  ten.' 
''Query,  •  Can  I  get  there  by  candlelight  ? ' 
**A7u,  *YeB,  and  back  again.' 
**  Open  the  gates  as  wide  as  yon  can, 
And  let  King  Charles  and  his  family  throngh."* 

See  also  Halliwell's  Nursery  Hhynws,  No.  328. 

Halliwcdl  also  includes  a  stanza  of  the  "Green 

Gravel "  song  or  nominv  among  his  relics  (No. 

651),  but  tiie  following  Gorton  version,  as  ]^layed 

'  by  tiie  school-girls  thirty-five  years  ago,  is  the 

most  complete  we  have  seen : — 

^  Green  gravel,  green  gravel,  the  grass  is  so  green. 
The  fairest  young  d&msel  that  ever  was  seen. 

*  0  Mary,*  O  Mary  your  true  love  is  dead  t 
He  sent  yon  a  letter  to  torn  round  your  head.* 

*  0  mother,  O  mother,  do  von  think  it  is  true  ? ' 
'  O  yes,  O  yes,  and  what  shall  I  do ! 

Ill  wash  you  in  milk,  and  dress  you  in  silk. 

An'  write  down  yonr  name  with  a  gold  pen  and  ink.* " 

JOHH  HiesoN. 
Lees,  near  Oldham. 

"The  WiFD  HAS  a  LAWGUAeE,'*  etc.  (4**  S. 
vii.  865,  463.)--This  poem  is  to  be  found  in 
Honeys  Even/day  Book  (1830,  p.  1286).  From  the 
sentimental  melancholy  of  tiie  manner  I  should 
imagine  it  was  written  by  L.  £.  L.  or  some  clever 
imitator  of  ihai  poetess  Tin  spite  of  all  the  strong- 
minded  spinsters^  I  hold  to  this  useful  word). 
The  verses  are  signed  "  Improvisatrice."  J.  L. 
misquotes  the  third  line.  He  should  delete  the 
"  And."  Walter  Thobhbtjbt. 

Dorking. 

*  Or  whatever  the  girrs  name  was.  I 


CooKSS:  Cookbsxt:  OooKB(4^S.viLll,dlO.) 
I  am  afraid  the  book  to  which  Sp.  has  referred  your 
correspondent  will  afford  him  but  little  informa- 
tion. It  is  stated  in  p.  17  tba^  Thomas  Archer 
«  married  Agnes,  daugnter  of  Sir  Walter  Coke  of 
Cokesey,  in  the  county  of  Worcester,  and  grand- 
dauffhter  of  Hugh  Cokesey  " ;  but  Coke  should 
be  Cokesey.  There  are  numerous  errors  *  of  a  like 
description  in  the  book:  ''Ha/field,  co.  Herts," 
should  be  *'  Ha^eld,  co.  Hereford  " ;  "  Bancroft " 
should  be  ''  B^orcroft,"  &c. 

Your  correspondent  will  find  a  carefully  com- 
piled pedigree  of  Cooksey  of  Cooksey  in  a  recent 
number  of  the  Herald  and  Genealogist " ;  but  I 
feel  sure  that  any  attempt  to  graft  the  Cookes 
family  upon  that  stock  will  be  a  signal  failure. 

H.  S.  G. 

Another  Old  Jenkiks  (4**'  S.  vii.  320.) — I 
have  waited  to  see  whether  some  one  with  more 
information  than  I  have  would  say  something 
about  John  Jenkins  of  Coddington.  I  write  now 
to  assure  A.  0.  that  no  '^  hoax  nas  been  nlayed  off 
upon  the  Worcester  Journal "  and  in  the  hope  that 
further  details  may  be  sent  to  '*  N.  &  Q."  by  some 
one  else.  It  is  believed  in  the  neighbourhood 
that  John  Jenkins  did  reach  the  a^  specified. 
He  had  been  well  known  as  approachmg  the  age, 
and  had  attracted  attention  by  his  protracted  life. 
A  daughter  of  his  is  living^  and  is  said  to  be 
eighty-five.  But  the  following  statement,  if  it 
can  be  confirmed,  will  go  very  far  to  settle  the 
question  of  Jenkins's  age.  In  or  about  1770  a  new 
bell  was  hung  in  the  tower  of  Colwall  church,  a 
^ace  adjoining  to  Coddington,  both  being  on  tiie 
Hereforoshire  side  of  .the  Malvern  £QlIs.  Jenkins 
constantly  affirmed  that  he  was  put  into  this  bell 
at  the  time  of  its  being  hung  in  the  tower.  Modem 
bells  are  usually  dated.  Is  any  bell  in  Colwall 
dated  about  1770  P  I  hope  the  subject  will  not  be 
allowed  to  drop  without  further  inquiry.  D.  P. 
Stnarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

Frakcis  :  JiniTTJS  aitd  the  Seals  (4^  S.  vii. 
452.)^ — F.  M.,  who  is  looldng  into  the  curious 
question  of  the  seals  used  by  Junius,  may  be  glad 
to  be  referred  to  a  passage  in  which  that  writer 
speaks  of  the  care  whi(£  an  anonymous  writer 
would  observe  with  respect  to  the  seals  he  used. 
It  is  in  the  IMvate  Liters  to  WoodfaUy  I^o.  10 
(Bohn's  edition,  iL  23) :  ^ 

<*  I  shall  be  glad  to  see  the  packet  yon  speak  of.  It 
eannot  come  from  the  Cavendishes,  though  there  be  no 
end  of  them.  They  would  not  be  so  siUy  as  to  pat  their 
arms  on  the  cover." 

F.J. 


*  It  is  stated  on  p.  10  that  in  Conghton  ehurch  are 
eight  shields  of  Throckmorton  "on  their  rich  monu- 
ment," in  all  of  which  are  quartered  the  arms  of  Andier. 
This  is  an  error.  Hie  three  arrows  in  these  shields  are 
the  arms  of  Bontm, 


594 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


t4*  8.  VII.  Joam  17,  TU 


Quem  OF  tbs  SumtAxa  OunwoBVAX  (4^  S. 
iii.,  ir.,  pcMwi;  yii.  221,  847.)  — I  am  nvch 
oWtoed  l^  Ebfibabs's  conectioxi  of  my  zoadiiig 
in  me  extract  from  Dimdonald  Kifk-SeBmon  le- 
eords.  Not  having  made  up  my  mind  as  to  which 
is  t^  coireet  ^eory  of  the  origin  of  this  name,  I 
had  no  intention  of  reopening  a  discusBion  abeady 
si^ciently  protracted,  much  leaa  did  I  mean  to 
make  the  extraordinary  snpporitions  so  clearly 
shown  by  Espbdabb  to  be  untenable.  I  wiehed 
merely  to  give  what  seemed  to  me  a  sew  hct, 
Tiz.y  me  occurrence  of  the  word  eonynffam,  where 
it  could  only  signify  '^a  place  where  rabbits 
abound."  Perhaps  I  was  a  httle  too  credulous  in 
believing  I  had  round  a  new  word:  for  on  a^;ain 
referring  to  the  MS.,  with  the  additional  light 
afforded  by  Espedabb,  it  appears  I  should  have 
quoted  ^  in  corsbies  conungan  '* — either  that  or 
conyngair.  As  however  the  former  of  these  words 
is  unJoiown  hitherto,  it  is  more  likelv  that  Espb- 
HAJLR  is  right,  and  that  I  should  have  written 
eonynffoir.  As  to  the  earlier  focms  of  the  name, 
to  wluch  EsPBBABB  kindly  directs  me,  although  I 
admit  that  he  is  here  on  the  ri^ht  track,  I  need 
scarcely  point  out  how  little  satisfieustion  can  be 
derived  &om  such  different  forms  as  Canonan  and 
JhGtm&nmgumy  given  by  writers  so  nearly  contem- 
porary as  Taliesin  and  Bede.  Does  Espbdabb 
know  that  the  chapel  of  Corsbie  was  used  for 
divine  service  long  after  the  Reformation  ? 

W.  F.  (2). 

«Thb  Thotdbbbb"  (4«'  S.  vii.  456.)  — In  one 
of  the  leading  articles  of  The  Time$.  the  writer 
said,  <'We  thundered  out,"  &c.,  referring  to  a 
former  artide.  Henoe  the  appellation  of  ''The 
Thunderer  "  was  applied  to  the  paper.  The  wrker 
of  the  article  may  nave  been  Capt.  Staling;  of 
that  I  know  notlung,  nor  can  I  recollect  its  sub- 
ject. IX 

HooAJT  (4*  S.  vii.  430,  481.)  — Bailey  says 
hoganr^nogan  is  a  comiption  of  hough-magedige, 
high  and  mishty,  Belg.  Suppoiinff  the  word  to 
have  the  double  sense  of  aUuSf  we  should  get  tiie 
^  deep  dzinkingi"  an  every-day  expressvni.  ThAne 
is  an  old  Qreek  word,  *Oiynv  =  *niGiaii^  which,  but 
for  the  eoft  instead  of  the  rougJi  breathing,  might 
suggest  a  derivation*  Could  the  first  use  of  the 
wora,  howevor,  be  traced  to  Warwickshire,,  this 
difficulty  mi^ht  be  surmouated.  Every  one  has 
heard  of  *'  <iwnlritig^  the  sea  dry.'' 

EDMUif o  Tbw,  M.A* 

Ebv!  R.  C.  Matttbik  of  "  Basbjsl-o^qas 
Famb''  (4«»>  S.  vii.  454)  —  The  allusion  of  The 
AiheruBumf  in  speaking  of  this  gentleman  as  of 
''  barrel-organ  fame,''  is  to  a  stanza  in  some 
sportive  verses  of  Dt;  Ttfaginn  on  Lord  Byrcm's 
JOon  Juan ;  tiiey  are  eatitled  "  Don  Juan  Unread," 
and  are  a  parody  on  Wordsworth's  <^  Yaziow  Un- 
visited  " :  — 


•  Let  Colbnfii's  tomi^Nnd  «ttl»  flBBff 

The  gwrartt  of  Lady  M(M«aa ; 
Let  Matnrin  to  amoroos  tfaemes 

Attune  his  baml-oigaD ; 
W«  will  not  haar  than,  will  not  read 

Tho  parson  or  the  granny; 
And,  I  dara  8ay,as  bad  as  they, 

Or  worae,  is  Don  GiovannL" 

Tha  whole  piece  may  be  seen  iu  Murray *s  seveiir- 
taea-voluma  edition  of  Byron,  voL  xt.  p.  39. 

J.  S.  W. 

Mb8.  Mabt  Chtochill  (4*>»  S.  viL  234,  417.) 
I  have  received  from  a  learned  friend  a  confinna- 
tion  of  the  reply  givoi  by  vour  correspondent 
ItHLOOMBB  respecting  this  laay.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Bm.  Margaret  Allen,  whose  monu- 
ment at  GUanvilie's  Wootton  is  sormcunied  by  the 
following  coats  of  arms:  ^A  chevron  between 
three  leopards'  heads  erased,  impaling  in  abordure 
six  lioncols  rampant  3,  2,  and  1,"  which  may  pro- 
bably lead  to  the  discovery  of  who  she  was. 

Mrs.  Mary  Churchill  made  her  will  in  1675, 
wherein  she  desires  to  be  buried  near  her  late 
husband  John  Churchill,  if  her  son-in4aw.  Sir 
Winston  Churchill,  will  give  permission ;  but  if 
not,  then  near  her  mother,  Mrs.  Margaret  Allen. 
She  was,  therefore,  undoubtedly  the  second  wife 
of  John  Churchill,  graijdfiEither  of  the  great  Duke 
of  Marlborough. 

My  friend  adds — and  I  know  of  nobody  more 
experienced  in  such  matters — ^that  the  pedigrees 
of  the  duke  are  the  most  mendacious  he  has  ever 
met  with,  being  all  apparently  taken  firom  one 
drawn  up  for  himself  by  the  herslds. 

Any  hght  that  can  be  thrown  upon  the  subject 
by  your  useftd  pi^s  would  be  yeny  acceptable 
for  the  next  part  of  the  new  edition  of  Hatchina, 

C.  W.  BiKGHAX. 

JoHH  Dtbe  (4"»  S.  vu.  232,  363,  443.)-^ambe 
surely  does  not  suppose  that  T)jeT,  a  learned 
clergyman,  was  i^orant  of  the  English  language 
and  its  flrammatical  construction  I  Had  '*  lies  " 
been  used  it  must  have  rhymed  with  *^  eyes,"  and 
the  poet  would  have  found  a  sibilant  termination 
to  each  line.  To  avoid  this  his  nymph  has  tme 
ege,  and  we  have  a  very  excusable  oit  of  bad 
grammar.  Jatdse  is  acquainted  with  Shake- 
weaza  Has  he  ever  examined  the  first  verse  of 
''Hark,  the  lark  '^  ?  or  if  he  patronises  Pope,  what 
is  his  omnion  of  the  grammar  in  the  verse  '*  Thou 
Great  Fiist-cause/'  &&  P  Any  ornithologist  can 
inform  Jatdbe  that  there  are  different  sorts  of 
Unnets.  Amongst  them  is  the  green  linnet,*  which 
probably  is  what  Dyer  meant,  or  he  might  mean 
&e  bird  known  as  tL  "yeOa^  ^owring.'>^wfaich,  I 
believe,  is  one  of  the  linnet  tnbe.  Ii  Dyer  has 
erred  in  his  ornithology,  which  1  do  not  aomit,  or 
if  he  has  committed  a  grammatical  error,  whidi  I 

*  I  thiuk  that  Sbsneaer  Bfllot  has  a  giMn  linnet. 


4*8wVU.Jto»17,710 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


SX 


do  admits  I  aasert  that  Bach  hlowithee  do  not  de- 
tect from. hiB  meiits aa ftpoet  What doaa  Jat- 
nsB  think  of  the  '^  theie  let  him  lay  "  of  BjKm  P 

SispuxN  Jagksoh. 

SAicsuota  (4'>*  S.  TiL  465.>--The  emhioidenr 
at  BactoB  ia  mentioBed  in  '<  N.  &  Q.,"  Dec.  19, 
1868,  p:.579.  This  is  douhtless  what  your  coire- 
apondent  alludes  to.  W.  Mabsh. 

7,  Bed  Lion  Square. 

GoBSB  (4*  S.  vii.  8S3,  379,  467.)— The  eve  of 
May  Dav  was    formerly  known  as   ^  Mischief 
Night"  thioughout  South  Lancashire,  and  prior 
to  the  epoch  of  the  ^*  new  policeman,"  many  were 
the  Strange  pranks,  rude  practical  jokes,  and  mor- 
tifying depredations  committed.    JBut  there  was 
also  another  custom,  certainly  in  some  respects 
more  poetical,  but  liable  to  be  made  equally  as 
annoymg.    Thia  waa  the  depositing  on  the  tnrea- 
hold,  or  affixing  to  the  doo^-handle,  sprigs  or 
branches  of  certain  shrubs  and  trees,  as  emble- 
matical of  the  traits  of  character  of  some  damsels 
there  residing.    As  might  be  expected,  early  on 
May  morning  the  young  women  would  axise  not 
only  to  hive  their  Dlo<»ning  faces  in  "  May  dew," 
and  so  beautify  themselves  for  twelve  months  to 
come,  but  also  to  ascertain  what  compliments 
their  smtors  had  paid  them.    But  alas,  it  often 
happened  that  some  mischievous  lad  or  rival  fe- 
male had  ^'  laid  something  at  their  door "  not 
pleasant  to  moralise  upon.    The  popular  reading 
of  these  vernal  symbols  bore  no  relationship  to 
any  fancied  resemblance  between  them  and  the 
personal  characteristics  of  the  persons  honoured, 
but  were  formed  out  of  an  attempt  to  rhyme.  The 
following  are  the  chief: — 

Sprig  of  quicken  (or  wieken)nmy  dear  (or 
sweet)  chicken. 
Sprig  of  oak  »  fond  of  a  joke. 

owler  (i.  e,  alder)  ->  a  scowler  (scolder). 

ash  »  a  swearer  rash. 

nut  (hazel)  «  a  slut. 

thorn  B  scorn. 

bramble  » likes  to  ramble. 

holly  ai  great  folly. 

gorse  in  full  bloom  ■>  a  w —  at  noon. 

JOHH  HlQSOK. 
heeSf  near  Oldham. 

Thb  Doctrinb  op  Celtioisu  (4»*  S.  vii.  349.) — 
Your  correspondent  Bilbo  says,  **  the  doctrine  of 
Celticism  seems  to  me  a  species  of  popular  delu- 
sion." In  Scodand  we  hold  Celticism  to  be  a 
great  fact.  It  is  established  by  a  variety  of  proofs 
that  need  not  be  entered  into  here.  Nay,  more, 
there  is  reason  to  think  that  there  is  a  much 
greater  amount  of  Celtic  blood  among  English- 
men than  is  commonly  supposed.  But  my  chief 
object  here  is  to  refer  to  me  popular  notion  that 
the  fair  or  blond  race,  in  the  British  Isles,  denotes 
only  a  Teutonic  ancestry,  and  that  the  dark  raaea 


9f 

n 


are  the  Celts.   This  ia  not  supported  by  ethnolo- 
gical authorities. 

Nott  and  Gliddon,  in  TjfPfs  of  Mankind,  after 
an  analysis  of  the  works  of  Thierry  and  Edwards, 
conclude  that  — 

**  Ancient  Gaol  was  occupied,  some  1500  yean  B.C.,  by 
at  least  two  distinctly  marked  Caucasian  raoos  the  Celts 
and  tbe  Iberians :  the  one  fiuj>Bkinned  and  light-haiied, 
and  the  other  a  dark  race." 

BodidKHi,  in  his  Aude$  8ur  rAigMOfiplaooB  the 

Celts  (whom  he  divides  into  Gaelic,  ^Igic,  and 

Cymbnc)  in  his  great  division  entitled  **  The  ^ond 

lUce."    Professor  Huzlev,  in  his  lecture  at  St 

(George's  Hall  (March,  1870),  coincides  with  the 

above  statements,  and  emphatically  says^- 

**  TaU  stature,  fair  hair,  and  blae  eyes,  in  a  native  of  Bri- 
tain, ace  no  evidence  of  his  descent  rather  from  the  pri- 
mary Celtic- speaking,  than  from  the  immigrant  Teutonic- 
speaking  element  of  our  population,  or  the  reverse.  He 
18  as  likely  to  be  a  Celt  as  a  Teuton ;  a  Teuton  as  a 
Celt."«*Report  in  FaU  MaU  Gazette. 

Whence,  then,  the  dark  races  in  .the  BritiiBh 

Isles  ?    There,  as  in  other  parts  of  the  West  of 

Europe,  they  are  descendants  of  the  Iberians,  who 

seem  to  have  been  spread  over  Europe  before  the 

arrival  of  the  Celts.    Alfred  Maury,  late  librarian 

to  the  f^rench  Institute,  says :  — 

'*  These  Iberians — a  nation  lively  and  impressionable, 
vain  and  stirring — ^may  well  have  infused  into  the  Keltic 
blood  that  element  of  restlessness  and  levity  which  one 
perceives  in  the  Gauhi,  but  which  is  alien,  on  the  oon> 
traxy,  to  the  true  Kelt." 

Professor  Huxley  adopts  the  same  view  as  to 
our  dark  races,  that  they  are  of  Iberian  descent ; 
referring,  as  authorities,  to  Thumam  and  De 
Belloguet 

I  must  add,  for  the  information  of  Bilbo  and 
your  English  readers,  that  in  Scotland,  without 
adhering  to  them  slavishly,  we  look  upon  George 
Chalmers,  Dr.  Daniel  Wilson,  and  Dr.  J  ohn  Stui^ 
as  gentlemen  who  have  done  good  service  in  Seot^ 
tish  history  and  anti(|[uities,  and  whose  views  on 
these  subjects  are  entitled  to  respectful  considera- 
tion. H.  R, 

Dunbar. 

"  Thiett  Days  hath  September  "  (4«*  S.  vii. 

886,  484.) — Your  correspondent  J.  P.,  who  refers 

for  an  early  examnle  of  these  ^  memorial  lines  ** 

to  my  edition  of  Cnancer*s  Trea^  on  the  Astro- 

lobe,  and  who  seems  to  regret  that  the  extract 

from  Stevins's  MS.  should  have  been  confined  to 

the  one  line  ouoted,  may  be  ideased  to  have  a 

transcript  of  all  four  lines,  as  follows : — 

*«Thirtie  dales  hath  September, 
Aprili,  June^  and  November ; 
Februarie  twentie  and  eight  alone. 
And  all  the  rest  have  thirtle  and  one." 

This  example  is  certainly  not  later  in  date  than 
1555,  and  may  be  a  year  or  two  earlier. 

A.KBBA&. 

Leeds. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»k  S.  VIL  Joaw  17,  •71. 


St.  VAunrTDTE  (4««'  S.  vi.  570;  viL  132.)— 
**  Ut  moriens  Yivent,  vixit  at  moritonu," 
reminds  me  of  the  following  diBtichi  which  my 
master  wrote  in  my  Stammbuch  when  I  left  school 
in  Germany  (1821) :— - 

'*  Lebe  jetzt  wie  wenn  da  stirbst 
WUnachen  wixst  gelebt  za  hAben.*' 

P.A.L. 

Mart  QuESif  of  Scots'  Ikpbisonxents  (A*^  S. 
vii.  461.) — Does  Db.  Gatty  mean  that  Mary  Stuart 
was  never  in  charge  of  Elizabeth  Shrewsbury  at 
Hardwicke  Hall ;  and  that  the  chamber,  bed,  and 
arras  shown  there  are  all  a  myth  as  far  as  Marie 
Stuart  is  concerned  P  W.  D. 

"Combs  to  Gbibf"  (4»»»  S.  vii.  429.— T  fanc^ 
that  it  is  quite  within  my  own  memory  that  this 
slaug  phrase  has  obtained  currency.  I  have  al- 
ways regarded  it  as  an  adaptation  of.  those  most 
solemn  words  in  Isaiah  liii.  10,  '<  He  hath  put  him 
to  grief;  and  have  eschewed  and  repro  Dated  it 
accordingly. 

It  is  certainly  not  twenty  years  ago,  that  I 
remember  a  friend  of  mine— and  by  no  means  a 
strait-laced  one — ^who  expressed  to  me  his  horror 
at  hearing!  it  at  a  bishop's  table  from  the  lips  of 
one  of  his  daughters.  C.  W.  B. 

PTTBiTAir  Chaitobs  OF  Naxbs  (4^  S.  vii.  430.) 
Were  my  memory  better,  I  am  sure  I  could  nve 
other  quotations.  The  following  is  from  the  first 
act  of  Jonson's  Bartholomew  Fair : — 

"  John.  He  was  a  baker,  sir,  bat  he  does  dream  now, 
and  see  visions ;  he  has  given  over  his  trade. 

Quar.  .  .  .  his  Christen-name  is  Zeal-of-the-land. 

John.  Yes,  sir,  Zeal-of-the-land  Basy. 

fFinw,  How  t  what  a  name's  this  ? 

John,  Oh,  they  have  all  such  names,  sir ;  be  was  wit- 
ness for  Win  here  (they  will  not  be  called  god-fathers), 
and  named  her  Win-the-flght ;  yoa  thought  her  name 
had  been  Winnifred,  did  yon  not  ? 

Winw.  I  did  indeed. 

John.  He  would  ha'  thought  himself  a  stark  reprobate 
if  it  had." 

Some  years  ago  the  name  of  an  omnibus  pro- 
prietor in  Sheffield  was  pointed  out  to  me  as  being 
the  contracted  unification  of  one  of  these  Puritan 
names,  but  what  the  contraction  iS;  or  what  the 
original  name  was,  I  now  forget  B.  N. 

"Dbtth  ":  AN  EvBBriNO  Pabtt  (4*  S.  vii.  468.) 
I  presume  the  ori^  of  the  term  *'  drum,"  as 
applied  to  an  evenmg  party,  is  merely  from  the 
circumstance  of  the  company  beinff  assembled  or 
drummed  together,  as  soldiers  are  by  the  military 
instrument  of  music  in  question.  In  reference, 
however,  to  this  particular  application  of  the  word 
''drum,"  the  following  quotation  from  fleldhig'B 
Tom  JoneB  may  not  be  without  interest  It  seems 
to  show  that  at  the  period  when  that  work  was 
first  published  (1749)  the  phrase  was  of  recent 
introauction  in  England,  and  not  much  known 
beyond  the  bounds  of  London : — 


**  That  lady  [Sophia  Western]  was  most  nBlnckily  to 
dine  this  very  day  with  her  aont  Westm,  and  in.  the 
aftomoon  they  were  all  three,  by  appointment  to  go 
together  to  the  opera,  and  thenoe  to  Lady  Thomsa 
Hatchet's  •dram.  .  •  .  Having  in  this  chapter  twice 
mentioned  a  <  dram,* — a  word  which  oar  posterity,  it  is 
hoped,  will  not  anderstand.in  the  sense  it  is  here  applied — 
we  shall,  notwithstanding  oar  present  haste,  stop  a  mo- 
ment to  describe  the  entertainment,  and  the  rather,  as  we 
can  in  a  moment  describe  it. 

**  A  dram,  then,  is  an  assembly  of  well-dressed  persons 
of  both  sexes,  most  of  whom  pla^  at  cards,  and  the  rest 
do  nothing  at  all ;  while  the  mistress  of  the  house  per- 
forms the  part  of  the  landlady  at  an  inn,  and 'like  the 
landlady  of  an  inn,  prides  henelf  on  the  number  of  her 
guests,  though  she  doth  not  always,  like  her,  get  any- 
thing by  it 

**  No  wonder,  then,  as  so  much  spirits  mast  be  required 
to  support  any  vivacity  in  these  scenes  of  dalneas,  tliat  we 
hear  persons  of  fashion  eternally  comphuning  of  the  want 
of  them,  a  complaint  confined  entirely  to  upper  life.  How 
insupportable  must  we  imagine  this  round  of  imperlinenoe 
to  have  been  to  Sophia  at  this  time ! " — Tom  Jonety  book 
xviL  chap.  vi. 

We  have  improved  somewhat,  I  doubt  not^  since 
the  days  of  Fielding,  but  a  cynic  might  even 
now  find  some  points  of  resemblance  between  the 
fashionable  entertainments  of  the  present  time 
ai^d  those  of  our  ancestors  as  described  above.  I 
think  the  term  kettledrum  i»rnow  the  one  mare  in 
vogue  than  drum,  but  Fielding's  anticipation  has 
scftfoely  been  realised.  D.  B. 

Compare  Dutch  c^rom,  ''crowd'';  dromm^ 
verzamden,  ''to  crowd  together."  A  crowded 
party;  a  rout  A.  H. 

NuMiBXATio  (4^  S.  vii.  473.)--The  follovrii^ 
notes  on  the  numismatics  of  the  French  Bepublic 
of  1870-71  may  be  worth  insertmg  in  addition 
to  the  communication  of  P.  A.  L.  on  ^La  B^ 
publique." 

A  bronze  ten-centimes  piece  is  said  t^  have 
been  struck,  bearing— obverse,  a  balloon  with  two 
flags  and  rigspng :  ''  lUpublique  Fran^use."  Re- 
verse, ''1870"  in  the  centre,  with  the  legend 
"  Gh>uveniement  de  la  Defense  Nationale." 

Also,  in  the  Ilbutrated  London  News  for 
March  11, 1871,  is  engraved  a  small  gilt  medal 
commemorating  the  meeting  of  the  French  Na- 
tional Assemblv  at  Bordeaux.  On  the  obverse 
are  the  arms  of  the  citv,  crowned  with  a  mural 
crown,  and  surrounded  hj  a  wreath  of  laurel  and 
oak.  Above  is  the  inscription  "  Assemble  Na- 
tionale  k  Bordeaux,  12  f(5vrier  1871."  Reverse, 
the  foUovring  words  in  four  lines :  "  flections  du 
8  fdvrier  1871." 

I  have  not  vet  been  successful  in  obtaining  the 
originals  of  these  jpieoes,  and  therefore  I  eannot 
guarantee  the  entire  accuracy  of  the  abore  de- 
scriptions. H^fBT  W.  HSBTFBET. 

16,  Eaton  Place,  Brighton. 

Walpolb's  Natl-bbitsh  (4"»  8.  viL  410.)— I 
take  it  that  Major  Dales'   meaning,  although 


4«k  S.  VII.  JoHB  17, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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figuratiyely  expressed,  was  that  Walpole  had  not 
kept  his  hiaiids  clean  in  office,  which  undoubtedly 
he  had  not.  It  was,  at  the  time  when  Walpole 
was  expelled,  a  very  rare  thing  for  a  man  in  office 
to  do  so. 

I  have  not  seen  Major  Dales'  work,  and  do 
not  know  whether  the  name  and  rank  are,  or 
whether  either  is,  assumed ;  but  Major  Dales  wrote 
in  1809,  and  I  have  very  considerable  doubts 
whether  nail-brushes  were  in  use  in  1712.  I 
think  that  was  the  date  of  the  expulsion,  not 
1710.  Jailbs  Enowles. 

LiNCOLKSHiBE :  Driwxing  Sonq  (4*'*  S.  viL 
454)— I  think  that  K  P.  D.  E.  is  mistaken  in 
supposing  the  lines  he  quotes  to  have  been  part  of 
a  drinking-song.  I  remember  a  similar  Terse  in 
vogue,  as  ne  says,  at  the  beginning  of  the  present 
century.  But  it  was  merely  a  single  verse  which 
used  to  be  tacked  on,  rather  profanely,  to  the 
national   anthem,   ^God  save  the  King,"  and 

grayed  gifts  for  his  majesty,  which  I  always 
eajrd  thus  particularised : — 

*'  Send  him  roast  beef  ia  store  ; 
When  that's  gone  send  him  more, 
And  the  key  of  the  cellar  door. 

God  save  the  king." 

F.  C.  H. 

Shbkbwobt  (4t»»  S.  vii.  25,  151,  244,  832, 468.) 
The  plant  I  mentioned  as  bearing  this  name  is 
certamly  not  the  Cardamine  hirmta,  nor  any  other 
Cardamine.  This  plant  I  knew  before  I  was  live 
years  old.  What  1  described  is  the  Arabis,  but  I 
did  not  call  it  ItaUana :  it  is  what  'Withering  calls 
•*  Turkey-pod  "  and  "  waU-cress."  My  authority 
for  calling  it  sheerwort  was  an  old  but  very  intel- 
ligent native  of  Dorsetshire,  who  recognised  the 
specimen  1  showed  him  as  common  in  that  county, 
and  eaten  as  a  salad  by  the  gypsies.  I  will  send 
Mb.  Bbitten  a  slip  of  the  plant  now  in  blossom 
in  my  garden.  F.  C.  H. 

What  is  a  Babbow  ?  (4f^  S.  vii.  474.)  —  The 
meaning  of  the  barrow  on  the  corporate  seal  of 
the  town  of  Droitwich  is  exactly  explained  in  the 
following  quotation  from  Kennett  MS.  Lansd. 
1088,  given  in  Halliwell's  Diet,  Arch.  Words : — 

**  At  Nantwich  and  Droitwich  the  conical  baskets 
wherein  they  put  the  salt  to  let  the  water  drain  from  it 
are  called  barrows.  A  barrow  contained  about  six  pecks." 

JoHK  PieeoT,  JxTir. 


«    m 


NOTBS  ON  BOOKS.  ETC. 

Shaketpeart^a  EmhuiMm,    By  William  Lowes  Rnshton, 
of  Gray*8  Inn,  Barrister-at-Law.  &c.    (Longmans.) 

Mr.  Hnshton  has  already  pubh'shed  many  Small  Books 
on  a  Great  Subject — Shakespeare ;  but  among  them  not 


one  more  amusing  or  instructive  than  the  present,  in 
which  he  applies  Lvly's  well-known  work  to  the  illustrar- 
tion  of  the  Great  Master.  The  Euphue9  was  pnblidied 
before  Shakespeare  began  to  write  for  the  stage ;  and,  as 
it  has  been  said  *'  that  all  the  ladies  of  Uie  time  were 
Lyiy's  scholars,  she  who  spoke  not  Euphuism  bdng  as 
little  regarded  at  court  as  if  she  could  not  speak  French," 
it  is  reasonable  to  believe  that  Lyly  could  not  have  been 
without  his  influence  on  Shakespeare;  and  the  object  of  the 
present  volume  is  to  show  that  the  origin  of  many  of  his 
famous  passages  are  to  be  found  in  the  Euphuea,  and  that 
Shakespeare  and  Lyly  have  often  the  same  thoughts,  use 
the  same  language  and  phrases,  and  play  upon  the  same 
words. 

HultoTif  of  Engluih  Poetry  from  At  Tiodfih  to  the  Close  of 
the  Stxteenth  Ctntm.  By  Thomas  Warton,  D.D., 
Fellow  of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxford,  Profiissor  of  Poetrv  in  the 
Univeisify  of  Oxford.  Wiih  a  Preface  by  kichaxd 
Price,  and  Notee  Variorum,  Edited  by  W.  Carew 
HasUtt.  With  new  Notee  and  other  Additions  by  Sir 
Frederick  Madden,  K.H.,  F.R.S.;  Thomas  Wright, 
M.A.,  F.aA.;  W.  Aldis  Wright,  M.A.;  Rev.  Walter 
W.Skeat,  M^A..;  Richard  Morris,  LL.D. ;  F.  J.  Fumi- 
val,  M.A.,  and  the  Editor.  TFUh  Indexes  of  Names 
and  Places.    In  Four  Volumes.    (Reeves  &  Turner.) 

In  much  the  same  spirit  in  which  Fabtaff  declared  of 
himself,  **  1  am  not  only  witty  in  myself  but  the  cause 
that  wj^  is  in  other  men,'*  the  Oxford  Professor  of  Poetry 
might  claim  the  credit  of  beinsf  not  only  learned  himself^ 
but  the  means  of  calling  forth  the  learning  of  others ; 
for  Warton's  invaluable  History  of  English  Poetry  has 
assuredly  been  the  means  of  drawing  forth  much  curious 
illustration  of  the  subject  fh>m  other  scholars,  which  but 
for  it  mieht  otherwise  never  have  been  given  to  the 
world.  Ihe  first  edition  of  Warton's  celebrated  work 
appeared  at  intervals  between  1774  and  1781 ;  and  when 
it  was  reprinted  in  1824  under  the  editorship  of  that 
accomplished  scholar  Mr.  Richard  Price,  the  value  of  his 
work  was  greatly  enhanced  by  the  liberal  use  made  by  him 
of  the  illustrations  of  Joseph  Ritson,  Dr.  Ashbee,  Mr. 
Park,  that  ripe  and  rare  scholar  Francis  Douce,  and  other 
eminent  antiquaries.  Sixteen  years  served  to  exhaust 
Mr.  Price's  edition,  and  in  1840  it  was  reproduced  under 
the  superintendence  of  the  printer,  the  late  Richard 
Taylor,  a  man  of  no  ordinary  learning.  This  edition  in 
like  manner  received  a  large  accession  of  valuable  notea 
from  Sir  Frederick  Madden,  the  late  John  Mitchell 
Kemble,  the  Rev.  R.  Gamett  of  the  British  Museum, 
Mr.  Thomas  Wright,  and  other  students  of  our  early 
literature.  The  present  edition  presents  the  same  claims 
to  public  favour.  Mr.  Hazlitt's  own  labours  upon  it 
are  supplemented  by  many  of  the  best  scholars  and  phi- 
lologists of  the  present  day ;  Sir  Frederick  Madden  brings 
his  varied  stores  of  learning  to  bear  on  the  illustration 
and  correction  of  Warton.  So  does  Mr.  Thomas  Wright, 
who  contributes  a  Dissertation  on  the  *'  Romance  of  the 
Seven  Sages  "  ;  the  Rev.  Walter  W.  Skeat— than  whom 
no  one  ia  so  competent— has  revised  and  partly  rewritten 
Warton's  account  of  Piers  Ploughman ;  whilst  Mr.  Aldis 
Wright,  Dr.  Richard  Morris,  Mr.  Fumivall,  and  many 
other  gentlemen  have  laboured  zealously  in  their  several 
spedal  departments  to  promote  Mr.  Hazlitt's  object  of 
producing  an  edition  of  The  Hietory  of  English  Poetry 
which  should  be  worthy  of  Warton,  and  do  justice  to  the 
present  state  of  English  scholarship  so  far  as  relates  to 
this  interesting  sul^ect. 

Reparation  of  St.  ^lban's  Abbet.^AII  true  anti- 
(piries  wiU  reioice  to  learn  that  reparation,  not  restora- 
tion, is  the  object  of  the  committee,  presided  over  by 
Lord  Verulam.    The  arrangements  for  the  public  meet- 


528 


NOTES  AND  QtJfiRIES. 


[4tt8.Vn.Jcwin,*7L 


iiig,  to  be  held  on  Thmsdej,  to  promote  endli  r^parafson, 
an  going  on  satisfactorily,  and  will,  ire  hope^  prodnoe  a 
a  eood  lesnlt.  It  is  not  generally  rememberea  that  this 
abbey,  of  loyal  foundation,  has  at  intervals  sinoe  the 
Reformation  received  the  consldente  care  of  varions 
sovereigna.  In  a.i>.  1612,  for  example,  from  James  I.,  by 
brief— *  That  monardi  took  a  personal  view  of  the  stme- 
tttre  M  he  made  his  progress  into  the  North, '  and  ont  of 
Us  princely  zeal  and  pioas  indinadon  to  preserve  so 
antient  a  monument  and  memorable  witnease  of  the  first 
conversion  of  this  kingdom  from  Paganisme  to  Chri»- 
thinitv,  granted  a  brief  ror  collections  to  be  made  through- 
out England  and  Wales  for  the  speedy  repair  of  the 
same.'  "—(Old  MS.) 

1681.  Charles  lU  bv  brief. 

1689.  William  and  Ifaiy  by  grant  oat  of  oertain  eoofe- 
eiaatical  funds. 

1721.  George  I.  by  brief. 

1764.  Geoi^  III.,  by  brief. 

1882.  William  lY.,  by  voluntary  contribvtiotta,  raised 
under  his  an^oea. 

The  example  thus  set  will,  we  dare  say,  not  be  lost 
sight  of  on  the  present  occasion. 

Abokjbou>oioal  Ihstitutb  of  Grxat  B&itadi. — 

The  preliminary  arrangements  have  been  made  for  the 
congress  of  this  sodety,  to  be  hdd  this  year,  towards  the 
latter  end  of  July,  at  Cardiff.  The  Marquis  of  Bute  will 
be  preddent ;  the  Duke  of  Bedford,  Lord  Tredegar,  the 
Earl  of  Cawdor,  Mr.  C.  R.  Mansel  Talbot,  H.P ,  and  the 
Bishop  of  Llandaff,  the  local  patrons. 

Thb  Oflkial  Beporta  of  the  various  seetioDs  of  the 
London  lotematienal  Exhibition  are  already  nearly  com- 
pletod.  Fart  I.  of  the  Fine  Arts  Pivisioa,  comprising 
Paintiiw  in  Oil,  by  Sir  Coutts  Lindsay ;  Painting  in 
Walar  Colonr.  1^  Mr.  S.  Bedgrave;  Misoellaneona  Paint- 
ing, by  Sir  M..  Digby  Wyatt;  and  Mosaics  and  Stained 
Glass,' by  Mr.  T.  GamUer  Parry,  will  appear  in  a  few 
di^ys.  Lord  HooKhton  is  the  general  editor.  The  Reports 
are  to  be  published  by  Messrs.  J.  M.  Johnson  and  sons, 
and  will  be  sold  in  the  Exhibition  at  popular  pricea. 

LiKOOLK  Catridbal  Libkart.  —  Dr.  Jereniie,  the 
present  Dean,  has  presented  upwards  of  a  thousand  woiks 
to  the  cathedral  library.  Great  improvements  have  latd v 
been  made  in  this  library.  The  whole  collection,  which 
contains  many  rare  and  valuable  books  and  manuscripts) 
is  now  open  to  all  the  dergy  of  the  dlocem,  and  a  cata- 
logue, very  carefully  drawn  up  by  the  Librarian,  baa 
biNtt  published. 

Thk  remains  of  Dgo  Foaoolo,  the  celebrated  Italian  poet 
and  patriot,  were  hat  Wednesday  week  disinterred  at 
Chiawick  chunshyard,  in  the  presence  of  the  Italian 
Minister  and  a  number  of  disttngnished  Italians,  for  the 
purpose  of  being  removed  to  Italy,  to  be  reinterred  in  the 
churdi  of  Ia  Santa  Croce,  at  Florence.  Although  the 
body  has  been  under  ground  for  forty-four  years  the 
form  was  intact  and  the  fSuttures  still  perfecL 

The  late  Mn.  Charies  Madaren,  widow  of  Charies 
Madaren,  at  one  time  editor  of  Tht  Seotwrnm^  has  be* 
queathed  2,500/.  to  found  a  achdarship  connected  with 
the  University  of  Edinbnigh,  to  he  called  *The  Charies 
Madaren  Scholarship." 

Arcel£olootcal  DisooYSRias  AT  FnrRLET. —  Dr. 
J.  Stevens,  of  St  Man*  Bourne,  Hants,  has  just  discovered 
a  Roman  villa  at  Finkley,  Sir  C.  Hoare's  site  of  Vin- 
domis.  It  is  situated  400  vards  west  of  the  Poctway. 
There  are,  he  say%  at  least  three  others  dose  by. 

Tens  AoADtfioB  Fhav^asbk  resumed  its  rittingi  on 
Tuesday ;  its  Dletionaiy  will  appear  this  year. 


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Viswn  ov  Rmadixo  Abbbt  CapKcawL   YaL  11. 
HooLB*a  OsLAno  Fuaioeo.  VoLm.  sro.  Ti 

179B. 

Mot  to  Mb.  8ftRH.^&HUhttr,  "NOIBS  AVO  QUBanB."  O,  Wa> 

lliigtoa8tiwt,8tiBBd.W.C. 

Putieolan  of  Prioe,  *e..  of  the  Mlovliic  books  to  bt  MBt  dinet  to 
ttegaBtlanea  hr  whom  <hy«BBiBquiiBd,  who— —ti  ^wfaddp—i 
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Btllbb's  aoooukt  ov  thb  pAmniE  ov  8r.  Joer  is  Pbbwivh. 

HUBBBT'S    NOTBB    OS    THB    CHUBOHBB    OV  KBBT, 

8DI0BX. 
WAXXU'a  BODMIH  Rboibtbb. 

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ABH1C01.B*8  HffiTORT  OV  BBBBSaiBS.    S  Vok. 

Rdbki9*s  Modbrx  Paixtbbs.    Vols.  IV.  and  V. 
Olitbr  Twiiit.   s  Vob.    CnifkshMk*s  PhBes. 
FBB0U80X*B  Abohitbcturr.    S  Vols. 

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0oUtti  to  C0ttff|i0iitaitt. 

Charlss  Rogers,  LhJD.—Sir  Andrew  Agnmc,  Bart. 
died  on  Apnl  12,  1849.  (Gent.  Hag.  Jme,  1849,  p.  647.) 

W.  (Keswick,  Cumberland.)  ^  HIU  W.  iet  ns  Aaow 
where  a  oommnmeaHon  weiU  find  himf 

To  aU  eammnKnieaHam  shomid  be  ajffbted  the  name  and 
addreti  of  the  eender,  not  neoeuarily  for  pmblioation,  bmt 
at  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

Erratum.— 4<k  S.  viL  p.  853,eoL  ii.  line  24  from  bottom, 
for  •*  Eaganian  "  read  "  Enganean." 

The  Vellum  Wove  ClulhlLonse  Paper, 

ManiiftctDxedezoressfar  to  meet  an  vnbcmUyexperieiieed  wnt,  i.  e.  a 
'Baipet  whk^  mil  in  itnlf  combiaa  »  pBdtotfy  «i&oocb  aBtflBaa  with 
total  ftwdom  ftom  gwasB 

The  Hrew  Vellum  Wore  Ohib-Honse  Baper 

will  be  ftMund  to  pawesi  then  peealiarttlM  eompletelr,  befnir  i 
the  best  Unea  n^  oolf,  poansslnB  great  tenadtr  and  dm 
pieienttoe  a  smitee  eqnalhr  well  aouted  fbt  qnlU  or  steel  j 
The  NEW  VXLLUM  WOVE  CL0B-HOUSE  PAli 
all  others  for  smoothneai  of  sorlhoe,  delleaer  of  coloar,  fimuicss  i 
tore,  entin  absenee  of  any  eohmriac  maher  or  Inlarieaa  cbsina 
tending  to  impair  its  dnrabultx  or  in  any  war  ailbeting  its  writing 
pertiea.— A  Sample  Padtet,  fontalning  an  ABwniiacBt  of  tito  wb 
Siies, pot  ftee torn Stampe. 

PARTBIDOB  a  COOPER.  HBavflKtamB  BSd  Bole  VcadoiB. 
19S,  Fleet  Street,  E.C. 

PAST&IDGS    ASD    COOPUft, 

HANUFACrrnBIKG  8TATI0KEBS, 

192,  Fleet  Street  (Comer  of  Oianoeiy  Lan^. 

GARRZAOB  PAID  TO  TBE  OOVHTIIT  ON  OBUEKS 
EXOKBDniO  Mfc 


BOTE  PAnEB.  Cream  «r  Blwo,  ii.,4s.,  &#., aadet.  peri 

BirVSL0PB8,OreaaB  or  Hoe,  4s.  td^  to.  ed.,aBd  to.  ed.  ] 

THE  TEMPIiB  SNVSLOPB,  witb  HIsfa  Imier  nay,  U.p«r  lee. 

STRAW  PAPER-Jmprored  qnaUty,  Ss.6d.  per  leam. 

FOOLSCAP.  Haad^maaa  Oolaldea,  to.  td.  par  ream. 

BLACK-BORDERED  BOTE,  4s.  and  ts.  8d.  per  ream. 

BLACK-BORDERED  EBTEIX>Plft,  to.  per  lOO-Siipar  thick  onlHy . 

TOTTED  LTNBD  NOTE.  Itar  Home  or  Foreign  Corraspondaaoe  cfliv 
colours),  6  quires  tor  li;  ed. 

COLOURED  STAlfPINO  ORelleO,  xedaeed  to  4s.  M.  per  ream,  or 
es.  «d.  per  l/ne.  Polisl^  Steal  Crest  JMae  aagra^ed  fivmto. 
MononamSjitwo  letters,  llram  te.|  thiae  iMton, ftom 7s.  Bnaimes 
or  Adoress  Dies,  from  Is. 

8BBM0N  PAPER,  piflin.  to.  per  x«MB|  Balid  ditto,  4a.  esL 
SCHOOL  8TATZ0NEBT  e«pltedontkem4MtlibamltanBa. 

ninstrated  Prioe  List  of  Lakstands,  Despateh  Bone,  8tatl( 
OMMte,  PpelHi  floriee,  Willtog  ~ 


CBarAKiBRBn  ML) 


4*  S.  TIL  Josw  17, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ACC1DBMT8    GAC8H   I«088    OF   IiIFB. 

AooMsnts  twnuft  XgouB  of  TIsm* 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF   MONEY. 

Frovide  agaitut  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 
vr  DMiTBiaa  with  tsh 

Kailway  Passengen'  Amraaoe  Compaaiy, 

Aa  AubmI  Pinncnt  of  CS  to  fl«  S/  tamirai  m^0#0  at  Dtath, 
or  m  iHarmnee  «fc  the  nrte  of  ••  iMTwetk  fnr  Ial«a7« 

£56S«000  have  been  Paid  as  Compensation, 

ONE  oat  of  evanr  TWELVE  Aaiiiud  FoUer  HoMen  beoomlnc  * 
dahnant  EAOEL  TEAS.  Far  purtimlMB  amir  to  the  Clailuat  the 
Bailvay  Stations,  to  the  Local  Agents,  or  at  the  OBIen. 

e4,COBNHILL,  and  10,  SEOENT  STREET.  LONDON. 

WILLIAM  J.  YIAN.  Aeritety. 


NOTHIKa  IMPOSSIBLR— AaUA  AMARtTJiA 
reslem  the  Human  Hair  to  Ita  yrlatlne  hne,  no  naMer  at  what 
a«.  MESSRS.  JOHN  OOSNELL  it  (X>.  have  at  length.^with  the^ 
of  \h»  most  eminent  Chemists,  snoeeeded  In  perftctint  this  irondernil 
liquid.  It  is  now  oflhzed  to  thePuhUe  in  a  more  oonemtntedform, 
and  at  a  lower  prloe. 
Sold  in  Bottles .  as.  each,  also  Ss.,  7s.  6<{.,  or  ISs.  tech.  with  brush. 

JOHN  ChOSNELL  &  CO.'S  CHEBRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  Is  greatly  supeilui  to  any  Tooth  Powder,  gf-res  the  teeth 
a  pearl-lilce  whiteness,  protects  the  enamel  ftom  decay,  and  impaiti  a 
pleadncflragraaoe  to  um  breath. 

JOHN  OOSNELL  *  OO.'S  Eztn  Highly  Scented  TOILET  and 
NUBSERT  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  Perftimera  and  Chemists  thronchoiit  the  Ktngdnm, 
and  at  Angel  Passage,  93,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 

RUPTURES.-BT  ROYAL  LBTTEBS  PATENT. 

WHITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVEB  TEUSS  is 
allowed  by  npwards  of  500  Medical  men  to  be  the  moet  elfte- 
tlTc  inventlen  In  the  cnxative  treatment  of  HERNIA.  The  na»  of  a 
ateel  siuring,  so  often  hnrtftil  In  its  elfcets,ls  here  aTolded}  a  soft  bmidace 
being  worn  round  the  bodyLwhUe  the  requisite  resistioc  power  Is  sap- 
plied  by  the  MOG-MAIN  PAD  and  PATENT  LEinSRSMncwith  so 
much  ease  and  closeness  that  it  cannot  be  detected,  and  may  be  worn 
during  sleep.  A  descriptive  circular  may  be  had,  and  the  Truss  (whidi 
cannot  fhU  to  lit)  forwarded  by  post  on  the  drenmibrence  of  the  body, 
two  indies  below  the  hips,  belnc  sent  to  the  Manuftoturer, 

MR.  JOHN  WHITE,  SU,  PICCADILLY.  LONDON. 

Price  of  a  Single  Truss,  I6s.,  91s.,  Ms.  td.,  and  81«.  6d.  Postage  U. 
DoableTnus,tIs.a(f.,4Ss.,andM».M.   Postage  Is.  SdT 
AnUmfamcidTnias,4Ss.andflSs.6d.   Postage  Is.  IM. 

Post  Office  orders  payaUe  to  JOHN  WBIZB.  PeetOflocPlonAUly. 

ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS,  fr&,  for 
VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  aU  eases  of  WEAKNESS  and  8WEL- 
ro  of  the  LEOS,  SPRAINS,  ftc.  They  are jporous,  light  in  textun, 
andinesqwnsive,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordinary  atockinf.  Prieas 
4s.  8d.,  7s.  6d.,  Ids.,  and  Ms.  each.   Poetage  Sd. 

JOHN  WHITB,  MANUrACTOBBB,  S».  PICCADILLT.  Leaden. 

GENTLEHEN  desirous  of  having  their  Linens 
dressed  to  perftetioa  should  snnily  their  Lanndreases  with  the 

•^O&aWiajbB    8  T  AS  OB,"* 

whleh  imparts  a  brilllaney  and  elastifilty  gratUying  alike  to  the  sense 
of  sight  and  touch. 

LAHPLOUOH'S 
PTBBTIC     SALIVS 


Has  peeoUer  and  remartable 


admitted  1^  aU 
BnaiBMr  Bererage 


to  ftrm 


In  Headache,  Sea,  or  Bilious 


Sickneas,  pieventlnc  and  eurlnc  Hay,  Searlet,  and  other  Peven,  and  Is 
..T-7«~    ..  .   —^t,^  ,BM>«t  tumble,  inrrtfrtrftt  T**^*«*"g 


Sold  by  moet  ehymisle,  and  the  maker, 
LAMFLOUOH,  lis,  Holbom  HOI,  London. 


HOLLO  WAY'S  OINfMENT  AND  PIU/J.— 
BOWEL  COMPLAINTS,  DTABRHQEA^When  these  diseases 
prevail  JTnmfwHate  recourse  sitould  be  had  to  this  Ointment,  whidi 
should  be  weU  rubbed  two  or  tliree  times  a-day  upon  the  abdomen,  and 
the  tntesttaiellnllatioawlllgiadnaUy  subside.  AU  Iniammation  will 
be  subdued  and  exaesslve  eetlon  restrained.   This  treatment,  assisted 

HoUoway's  FlUs,  is  appUosMe  to  all  Ibms  of 


hy  judidotts  doees  of 


diarrhoea  and  dysentery,  attended  by  heart  slcVhess,  griping,  flatulence, 
and  other  distressing  and  dangerous  symptoms.  After  rubbing  in  the 
Ointment  a  flannel  binder  sliould  be  worn,  and  the  patient  should  be 


restrieted  toafkrinaoeoos  diet  tw  a  few  days,  till  the  urgency  of  the 
disease  has  been  dimlnidied  by  the  pmerwlug  gimduywut  of  tlww 
rcmediee. 


WATSON'S  OLD  MARSALA  WINE,  giuumnteed 
tiieilnastteMrted^fteeflrom  acMtyer  heat,  and  raudi  supe- 
rior to  low-priced  Bherry  (vidi  Dr.  Drultt  on  Chee^  ITiaes).  OtM 
Guinea  per  dosen.  Selected  diy  Tarragona,  I8«.  per  dosen.  Terms 
cash.  Three  dosen  rail  paid — W.  D.  WATSON,  Wine  Merdumt, 
873,  Ozfi>rd  Street  (entrance  in  Berwick  Street),  London,  W.  Esta- 
blished 1841.   Full  Rice  Lists  post  free  on  ap^intion. 


r       S6s. 

At ass.  per  down,  fit  fte  a  OenHeman's TWde.  BotUei  iodQddd,«nd 
Canlagepald.   Oases  Is.  per  doaen  extra  (returnable). 

0HABLB8  WARD  ft  SON, 

(PostOfflfl*  Ordera  on  Pkoadllly),  1,  Chapel  Street  Weat. 
MAYT AIR,  W.,  LCHDON. 

S6s.  TBS  XATVAZm  BBSB&T  S68. 


HEDGES  &  BUTLEB  solicit  attention  to  their 
TUIIB  ST.  JtJLIEN  CLARET 
At  18s.,  SOS.,  Ms.,  aos.,  and  SSs.  per  dosen. 
ChoIoeGIai«taofTarlousgrowths,4Ss.,48s.,60a.,7Ss.,84«.,  96s. 

GOOD  DINNER  SHERRY, 
At  Ms.  and  aos.  per  doaen. 

Soperleir  Golden  Bhenr.^. a8s.aad4f8 

CholeeShaETy-.Pale,  Golden,  or  Brown....4es.,Ms.,and  Ms. 

HOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
Ati4sMails..aBs.,41s.,48s.,B0a.,and8«s. . 

Port  from  Siat^elassShlppan aos.ass.ile. 

▼eryCholoeOld  Port 48s.eos.7ls.84s. 

CHAMPAGNE. 
At  SBs.,  4Ss.,  4Bs.,  and  SOs. 


Feveign  Litiuenre  of  evenr  di 
^  On  reodntof  a  Port  QfBoa  oraeriOr  iete«noe»aay  qotDtlty  will  be 
forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LOHDONt  Uft,  REGENT  8TBBBT,  W. 

Brightont  80,  Ktaag's  Bead. 
(QdglnaUy  EstaWIshed  AJ>.  18870 


BT  BOTAL  COMMAND. 


JOSEPH    GILLOTT'S     STEEL    PENS. 


BOLD  by  all  STATIONERS  thronghont  the  World. 


SAUCE.— LEA   AND   PERKINS. 


TBB  ••  WOl 

^fOBBQBeed  by  * 

*'THI  ONLY  GOOD  SAITCB." 

Improves  the  eppetlte  and  aids  digestion. 

UNRIVALLED  FOR  PIQUANCY  AND  FLAVOUR. 

▲sk  for  "IiXA  ABB  FBBBIB8'**  BAI70B. 

BEWARE     OF    IMITATIONS, 

Id  eee  the  NaaMS  of  LBA  AND  PEBBINS  on  all  boltias  and  hdMkb 


AccntSbuqM>MB  ft  BLACinvn^j^Londea.  and eold  by  all 
"*'**"        ithnMghouithe  WcriiL 


IGESnON.— THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION 

M0B8(»rS  PREPARATION  of  FEPSINE  ae  the  true 
_     Sold  In  Bottles  andBoxes,  ftom  Is.  %d,,  by  all  Pharmaeen- 
tieal  Cfiemlsia,  and  tibe  Maunfteturers,  THOMAS  MORSC^ft  SON, 
IM.  Southampton  Row,  Russell  S^inaie,  London. 


The  best  remedy  FOR  ACIDITY  OF,  THE  STOMACH,  HEART- 
BURN, HEADACm:,  GOUT,  AND  INDIGBSTIONt  mA  the  test 
mild  aperient  tor  ddicrte  eoostltntiona,  especially  adapted  Jbr  L  A  DTESt 
OHILDBEN,  and  INFANTS. 

ODOmrOBD  ft  Ca,  n^NjMrBan4Btn8l,L0BdOB, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4«*8.vil Jt™.!?,"?!. 


WHO    WAS    JUNItrSP 

Now  B«ad7,  with  Fao-iimiles  and  Woodcuta,  4(o,  63i. 

THE  HAHDWItlTINa  OF  SJJSIJJS. 

FBOFEBBIOHALLY  IKVESTIOATED. 

By  MK.   CHABLES  CHABOT,  Expert. 


By  Ihe  HON.  EDWARD  TWI3LET0N. 


rt  ■[fpcu«d,  1q  Iba  EncUih  !■ 


ud  liunmnf  nln  on _. ,^ 

nariu  at  licml  pnnuju.  uui  ouiiit  lo  ted  a  plxa  la  tnrT  w(U-«r- 
pOlBUd  lUmrr."— Qwirttrll  Jierinir,  ArU  UTI  . 


ra  BCRfl  Tlth  lh«  '  Qu4rFer1j-'    j 
kntlKl  eirid«LC«  on  beh»lf  of  u: 


taken  and  hA  ]ut  E«l^lj'  do  Wm^utlon  to  mUJHd.  . 
9glH**»f  ■  DUH  of  pn»f  miut  mtTullJ'  tlBbonUad  And 
Kir.  npodii  tht  iniliud  nitlhod  br  vhlcb  lie  wr 
tan  M  flRIUds  on  Ihc  hUki.     tll>  dlMiUtJon 


JOHX  HUESAY,  Alb«mirU  Street. 


MACMILLAN  4;  CO.'S  NEW  BOOKS. 
THE  LIFE  OF  AITTHOHY  ASHIET 

COOPER,  Flnt  Eurl  of   BhiltabtiTT.  ^mi-lW.      Bi.    W,    D. 

■*  A  nrr  ftilL  ud  Unrioqa  tegaoBt  of  ana  of  the  mcA  rirCklDr  du- 
»  pvUerr  of  Eulith  poUUduu.    ICr.  Cbiiatit  Iwi  nmlled 


HIHOIS  of  CEABLXS  XAYHX  TOTIHS, 

Tramdian.    WHh  Ejtlnaitlnai  hij  Scg'i  Jmnul.    BrjruAIT 
CHABLia  TOn»0,M-A..B»cti)niHlinlllil«.    Willi  PoKnili 

Hn«ti)<™dlUk-Ute^u'S^(UjUidulUIof  nnt  ptinul^       j 

FE0FE8S0S  HASSON'S  LIFE  of  HILTOIT. 


AT  LAST :  A  Chriatmu  in  tlie  West  Indiei. 

ffliuUntloiu.  sttot  HI.  ITlLiiila,. 


HBW  AMD  CHBAP  BDinOU  WITH  ITEW  PREFACE. 

THE  SEVEIT  WEEKS'  WAK:  ita  Antece- 


H.  aron.s.  ctorini  b«. 


Thil  di;.  U  BlU  elotll.  tl.  lit 

iPENSER    AND    HIS    POETRY.      Vol.  I. 


FBOTOQKAFHa—XEW  C, 

MABION  &  CO.,  22  &  S3  Soho  Sgasre. 

CATAUMueS  of  PORTRArra-ThRa  to 


AKCQITBCTURE— Fenii  Bumpa. 

OMFimrisor. 


NOTES  AND  aUERIES: 

^  HtMam  Jif  Intewiimiiiuniralum 

Ton 

LITERARY    MEN,    GENERAL    READERS,    ETC. 

"TPtoen  ninna,  mak*  «  note  of."  —  C*rT*iH  CrTTLB. 


Satuedat,  Jdne  24,  1871. 


Pniom  FouBFiHOE. 


ffXHraiTION    of   the    SOCIETY    of_BMTISH 


la   KKIETy  li  HOW 


THE  NEW  AZTD  POPUI.AB  ITOVBLB. 

Mov  iwdr  al  ill  Dm  IiU>BlW,IKk  In  I  toU. 

fiflUISE   ASSEN.       By     Kn.  Olipluuit, 

Aalliniir'ChKulelMorGUUiizfecd,"*!!.  Inli. 

RESTORED.  By  Aathor  of  "  Son  and  Heir." 


TKS    QVAJITBBX.T    XSVISW. 

ADVERTISEMENTS  for  imtiUon  ia  tba  POBTH- 
COMINC  NIJHBEB  of  the  aboTS  Periodical  mtat  be 
fbrwatded  to  tba  PublUut  bv  the  Ith,  and  Bllla  by  the 
6th  Julj. 


A  ZT«w  Volume  of  Hr.  Elwin's  Pops. 


THE  WORKS  OF  ALEXANDER  POPE. 

,  K(w_Hlltaa.  Eilud.  w1(h  Istndiictlgna  ud  NoUi.  br  BET. 


SALVE  THE  HEZB.   By  Anthony  TroUope. 
ABTISTK     By  Karia  K.   Qnuit. 

BUnsT  >  HLAUIJtTT.  11.  Oiwt  UuDmancli  Stmt . 


HT  EXPEBIENCB8  of  the  WAB  between 

FRANCE  AND  QEItHAMT.  Jr  ABCHIBALI)  FORBES,  ent 
BCBBT  a  BLACKKTT,  IiiOnU  Ibittoncb  atiMt. 


-Mr.  Biwti  tai  JiIumImJ  Id  dbdum  hb  datla  i 

ssrs.-sjsf^SjsSefs.ss'.; 

kuovledfa  ef  Fun."— OnardiH. 


VBlUnfffbttUalooff-nHuiHifldlllDnD 
^tlD(i  whiCb  proBiiH  u  Ion  urn? 


-OnloTUH  BuMn^ililanitFlbliaDUlgEDgUlb  UHrurhUetT 

'  WIUisol  riHu  wu  (a  Ihl  mnU  cf  UDOMUcni  br  wUcli  •ma 

Slonhan  bHfi  iUIUcH(CICf.  Elwln  LMirM  BD  alliulon  DbcizjplAlncd, 
DUftHBliiivteverT  nl±UBOteT,A1Hl  keep*  llu  mJar  fVQin  mlt- 
■lu  Iha  itobl  of  >U  uw  Bvlcnnu  wtaJdi  rovfl  ipfliLklci  QvtJ  thfi  lurika 


"Tlili  Ml  aAlUriaiif  ■SHU  GeeIMi  clHiU  pmslHi  Ig 
nth  W  UK  «Ular  ud  mblOber.-'-AiU  JHaU  0<i«lU. 


Prioe  Om  ShllUng  HoitUj. 

macjullan's  magazine. 

No.  141  for  JCLT  CMtahu :— 


l._ 

ARMOABT."  A  TRAQIC 

POEM.    Bt  OEOROE  EUOT. 

a_ 

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MACMILLAN  &  CO,  L 
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MjrOOr,  BATUUtAT,  JUSS  H  XS7I. 


If 


KCXTES :  ^  Bains  of  TarfiM  sod  Naeeri»  in  Bkvttfum.  S29— 
Gigantio  Tin  SInginK  Tmupem,  880  —  Note  nMoff  in 
K^tk^s  Smtlcm  or  Miltoa^t  Po«mi»  881  —  A  Pla^Mism, 
i&. — Bomrell's  **  life  of  Johmon  **  —  Absalom  and  Aohito- 
phel  —  Maiy,  Qomd  of  Booti— BUBo  and  PUBn  —  Bar- 
wlu'a  19160119  in  J**%  tt& 

QT7BSIES:  —  Bkigravintof  Aimeof])eniiiark,888— Birdi 
Family— The  Boeaae  Tree — BuoUof ,  at  Oxford — "  Gandor 
iUnraa"  —  Dan^  Rolla  —  BngHih  Bible ^"The  Four 
Liat  Things"  —  Helionbalaa  —  HeiaUUo  —  Hone  — 
Honninent  of  Star  FisteKJMy  by  Gibbons—  Harbury  Dun 
—  Haxy  Banfs  Propheoy  —  Louis  Vires  — Periodicals  — 
Walton's  "Lifeof  Dr. Donae*'— Philip  WiUiama's  Meta- 
phor — **  Wreck  of  the  Xiondon,"  a  Poem  by  FitibaU,  684. 

BEPLIB8 :  —  The  "Fetter-Lock  "  as  a  Oogniianoe  of  the 
Longs  of  WfSBhaU,  08*—  Plica  Polooicak  689— The  Tsad- 
8tone»  640  —  Pkqpheeiesby  Nostnulamus  and  others  on  the 
FaO  of  Bris^  64dP-AI«irth  LMMifalre  Sooa  OSB— Spper. 
A.  — The  Duke  ef  BnckiBgfaHi'a  Miother»  6M— Soanet 
i^neries^  646  —  German  Lutheran  Ohuroh,  Bublhi.  ift.— 
Ancient  Biddke— EKin-dial  Inseriptioos— John  JDyer— 
Bood  BatesMln  atfWk  OhHrolMB-- "  The  GiMtasfe  Glefks 
aee  not  the  WlMSfc  Men  "—Busses  Folk  Lora&  The4Bloir- 
worm  — "  Fsom  OlMs  to  Clogs/*  Ac.  -Date  of  Qhaooer^ 
Birth--"  BHuriof  Hearts" --GMtaa^  IbMsBHrelL  near 
Loutk^OianAvds  of  NewsvlL  Banmels— '^Tbs  Sfambs 
of  Fsmassus  "  —  Old  Bootoh  Newspajwrs — "OaDterbuiy 
TaleSk"  edition  of  1081 — John  Foster  of  Werdsley.  1779 — 
La  Osweole— Biilinnntal  BadgsaLlIottsefc  Ae.— tanov 
Arms  —  Lsdy  QEeenslfiefeB- ''OQDsrQd"or"T7mnral! 
*Cn64B. 

Kotes  on  Books.  A«. 


BUINS  OF  TEBUTA   AND  NUCEBIA  IN 

BBUTTIUM. 

I  approached  the  die  whera  these  andent  oiSm 
are  supposed  to  have  been  nlaeed,  from  the  dizeo- 
tion  of  Coaeoza,  the  ct^tal  of  one  of  the  Cakr 
brias,  having  passed  the  night  at  the  small  Tillage 
of  Diaao^  which  o^erideks  a  beautifiil  wooded 
valley^  Inii  which  I  found  from  the  offidal  au- 
thoritiaB  to  be  0015  adecmtfal  cloak  of  brigaadage^ 
and  that  I  was  in  ikct  ezamplifyxng  the  saying  of 
Horace  (Cor.  iL  i.  7) — 

''Inoedispsrignss 
Soppesitos  eised  *dolo80»" 

As  the  least  daagermos  course^  I  was  adTised  to 
make  straight  fbr  the  coast^  walMnflr  along  the 
banks  of  the  Savuto^  the  ancient  SabbatuBy  and  I 
was  the  mora  inclined  to  do  this,  as  it  brought 
me  to  the  floot  wheie  I  knew  these  ancient  cities 
are  supposed  to  have  been  situated.  Road  there 
was  none,  but  I  passed  without  much  difficulty 
down  the  bed  of  the  Savuto.  which  rises  in  the 
table  land  of  La  Sila  iSrom  a  msore  in  the  hiU,  at 
a  spot  called  La  Fontana  del  Labro,  and  becomes 
at  once  a  large  stream.  In  the  beginning  of  May 
it  had  a  considerable  body  of  water,  and  in  the 
winter  season  it  must  be  quite  impassable.  Heniy, 
eldest  son  of  Eredmck  XL,  was  drowned  in  at- 
tempting to  cross  the  river,  and  on  looking  at  its 


winter  channel  I  could  believe  that  such  ai 
ddent  could  assily  take  place.  After  a  fatigaing 
walk,  and,  I  confess^  with  considerable  trepida- 
tion, I  got  safely  to  the  village  of  Nooen,  which 
is  believed  by  some  to  represent  the  ancient  Nu- 
ceriAy  onitv  known  to  us  by  its  ooins^  whidbi 
have  the  Greek  iaaaiption  NOTKPiNaN.  The  coins 
have  on  the  obverse  a  head  of  Apollo  erowaed 
with  laurel;  en  the  reverse  a  lioirs  head;  and 
what  iseuxioos^  thoae  of  Teiina  diifer  in  no  reepeet 
but  in  the  epigraphy  which  ie  tbpena  and  tepw 

NAIXIN. 

The  villaf^e  of  Noeera  is  prettily  situated  ea 
the  declivity  of  a  hOl  a  short  distance  from  the 
banks  of  the  Savukv  wioch  &11b  into  the  sea 
some  three  milea  furthet  down.  This  le  the  first 
intermption  in  that  menntam  lidge,  which  be- 
gins a  little  Borth^  Faola.  The  valley  is  abouik 
a  mile  ki  bceadth,  when  the  moontaina  again  rise 
suddenly  to  a  fnawderabte  height,  and  are  wooded 
to  the  top.  Nothing  ceuld  exoeed  the  beauty 
e£  the  sjjiet,  and  it  may  very  weU  be  the  site 
of  an  aaaient  village ;  but  though  I  made  diligent 
inquixT  of  the  inteUigeat  inhabitants,  both  k^ 
and  dbrieail,  I  oonld  hear  of  noaneaent  remains 
that  had  ever  been  diecoiwnd  at  Nooem.  Yet  the 
modem  name  and  the  andttit  coins  render  it  dif- 
enlt  not  to  believe  that  some  such  city  mast  have 
been  placed  hi  this  a^hbourhood.  mxt  morning 
I  proceeded  with  the  oyndie  of  Noeem,  who  had 
promised  ta  shew  me  the  miaB  of  an  ancient  city 
about  three  nrilee  ctiataat.  dose  to  the  sea.  We 
paoed  down  tiielelt  bank  of  the  Savuto  tiE  we 
reached  a  iq^t  called  Torro  del  Piano,  where  it 
waa  evident  that  the  eztmne  pcnnt  of  the  hill  had 
been  levelled.  A  few  bricks  were  scattered  here 
and  there,  while  the  fbundationa  of  houses  were 
dearly  to  be  traced.  What,  however,  showed  the 
imsortaiice  of  the  city  was  the  aqueduct,  which 
had  conveyed  water  to  it  from  the  Savuto,  and 
which  is  soil  to  be  seen  in  toloaUe  preservation. 
May  not  this,  therefoTB,  be  the  site  of  the  andent 
Nuceria^  as  we  know  the  piratical  attacks  of  th 
Saracens  during  the  Middle  Ages  drove  the  in- 
habitants on  the  coast  to  seek  safer  positions  in 
the.intexior  P  and  it  might  be  thus  that  the  present 
Nooera  took  its  rise.  It  may  be  asked,  if  this 
be  so,  where  ore  we  to  find  the  position  of  Terina. 
We  know  it  to  have  been  a  dty  of  considerable 
note,  as  it  gaveXname  to  the  bay  now  known  as 
Sta.  Euphemia,  being  called  by  Thuirf  dides  (vi. 
104)  rhit  Tepimubr  it6Kww,  where  C^lippus  the 
LaoedsBmonian,  b.o.  418,  was  driven  by  advene 
winds  from  the  coast  of  Sicily.  Strabo  (vi.  255) 
informs  us  that  it  waa  destroyed  by  Hannibal 
about  B.O.  20^  when  he  could  no  longer  retain  it, 
and  it  probably  never  recovered  from  this  blow, 
though  it  is  mentioned  by  Pliny  and  Ptolemy. 

I  uiink  we  must  go  some  twelve  miles  farther 
south  to  look  for  tiie  ruioa  of  Terinai  to  the  neck 


530 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4* 8.yU.  Jon  ti^^K 


of  Iflid  which  Flinj  (iiL  15. 1)  mentioiis  in  eon- 
nectaon  with  the  bay  oif  Terina.  He  says :  ^  S^lla- 
cimn  •  •  •  <][tieiii  locnn  occmrens  Tetioflras  fliniM 
peoijMiiIam  efficit''  This  nanow  oecfc  of  land, 
about  twenty  miles  in  brc«dth  between  the  seas, 
it  was  proposed  by  Dionyans  the  Elder,  abont 
B.&  890,  io  cat  throogh  and  fortify,  in  order  to 
defend  tiie  coantxrto  the  sooth  from  the  barbarous 
Brattu  of  the  Sila.  The  nte  of  Terina  has  been 
sought  at  SUl  Bupkemia  VeeekiOf  bot  I  would  go 
B  few  miles  fivther  inland  to  the  Tillage  of  7Viio20| 
where  I  found  the  rains  of  a  oonsidefable  town. 
It  may  be  said  this  is  too  ftr  inlsnd  to  hare  given 
name  to  the  bay,  but  it  will  be  observed  that  this 
bay  was  called  in  later  times,  after  Terina  had 
in  a  great  measure  disappeared  from  history, 
Ifippooiatefl^  from  the  dty  <k  Hippouium  or  Vibo, 
the  modem  Mcmie4mmef  which  is  nearly  at  an 
equal  distance  from  the  sea.  hi  fret  it  wodld 
leoeiye  its  name  frmn  the  laigest  dty  within  a 
moderate  distance  of  the  coast;  Terina  in  early 
times,  snd  Vibo  latterly,  seem  to  have  been  so. 
The  Tillage  of  Tiriolo  is  ntnaled  on  a  ste^  de- 
cliTity  of  the  Apenninei^  where  the  mountams  of 
the  Kla  come  to  an  abrupt  dote,  and  where  the 

JIains  of  ICdda  are  found,  famed  for  tiie  batde  on 
uly  4, 1806,  between  the  EbgHsh  troops  under 
Sir  John  Stuart  and  the  fVench  under  General 
Begnier.  The  ruins  of  the  andent  titf  are  a  mile 
below  the  present  Tillage,  and  are  of  considerable 
nze.  If  this  be  not  Terina,  ^e  know  of  no  other 
andent  dty  in  this  neighboinhood«  It  was  here 
that  a  bronze  tablet  was  found  in  1640,  on  which 
is  inscribed  a  decree  of  the  Roman  senate,  n.c  186, 

r'nst  a  sodety  deToted  to  the  worship  of  Bac- 
I,  which  had  ezdted  their  alarm  from  the 
licentious  and  profligate  chsiacter  of  its  devotees. 
This  decree  is  refemd  to  by  Livy  (xzziz.  18), 
and  it  is  surprising  that  a  copy  of  it  should  have 
been  found  in  this  remote  part  of  Italy  in  the  ruins 
of  a  town  respecting  whose  nsme  there  should  be 
any  doubt  This  taUetis  io  be  seen  in  the  Royal 
Museum  of  Vienna,  and  its  enacting  danses  I 
found  to  be  the  following: — 

''CEirSTERS  .  HOaflHES  .  PLOTS  •  T  .  ODTYOafEI  . 
TIBEI  .  ATQVS  .  MTURRBS  .  SACRA  .  ITS  , 
^TIBQVAM  .  FSCUSB  .  TXLBT  •  VSTE  .  UTTBB  • 
IBKI  .  VIBEI  .  PLOYS  .  mrOBTS  .  MYLIEBXBTS  . 
PLOYS  •  TBIBYB  .  ADFYI88B  .  YELET." 

The  present  inhabitants  of  Tiriolo  are  a  race  of 
sturdy  mountaineers,  and-  its  women  were  par- 
ticularly striking  for  their  Amazonian  figures.  I 
ascended  to  the  summit  of  a  lofty  hill  behind  the 
village,  from  which  Mount  iEtna  and  Stromboli 
can  easily  be  distinguished  when  the  horizon  is 
undouded.  Thougn  my  Tiew  was  not  so  exten- 
uTe,  I  was  amply  repaid  for  the  fatigue  of  the 
ascent.  I  was  standing  on  the  last  of  that  lofty 
range  of  mountains  which  runs  down  through  the 
centre  of  Italy,  and  here  sinks  abruptly  nei^y  to  a 


lerd  with  the  sea.  The  plains  of  Maida  and  Catan* 
zero  lay  before  me,and  beyon^  them  the  moontaina 
again  rose  with  the  same  abruptness,  and  continued 
their  coune  to  the  extreme  point  of  Itsly.  T<» 
the  north  my  Tiew  waa  confined  by  the  monntaina 
of  the  Sila  towering  one  abore  another;  to  the 
east  my  eye  rested  on  a  point  of  land  which  F 
knew  to  form  the  promontoiy  of  Capo  deDe  Co- 
lomie,  to  which  I  hare  abeady  (4*^  &  t.  415> 
xefrned.  At  my  foot  la^  the  rums  of  the  dty, 
which  I  belisTe  to  be  Tenna. 

CsAmruBD  Tait  Raxaob. 


GIGANTIC  TIN  SINGING  TBUMPET& 

I  think  there  is  no  donbt  that  the  following: 
extracts  fromi'^sble  Talk  "  in  The  GmartKan  ought 
to  haTe  that  ftniher  dicnlation  which  '<N  &  Q.'" 
alone  can  give  them,  and  which  may  probably 
diww  fovth  further  information  of  interest  in  con* 
nection  widi  the  sulject  I  may  premise  that 
your  leaaed  coneipondent  Mb.  £L  Pxacoce 
sent  a  notioe  of  the  willougfaton  trumpet  to  Syl- 
Tanus  Uzban,  which  mar  be  seen  iUusteated  b y  » 
woo&mt  in  the  OemU  Mag^  December,  1806,  but 
nothing  fturther  was  asoertoined  at  the  time.  The 
following  wpeared  in  Tkt  Omardim  for  April  5, 
1871:— 

''At  the  parish  duneh  of  East  Leake*  Notte, ss  ftr 
bade  SB  iiz^  yean  at  ksit»  and  till  within  the  last 
twenty  yean,  a  gigaatie  qMakinff^raaqiet  was  naed  for 
the  bitM  doger  to  mg  thnnigfa.  Itisnowhi  the  keeping- 
of  the  parish  dcaik,  and  measnrea  whea  drawn  ont(it  ha» 
one  diia  like  a  teleseope)  7ft.  6in^  with  a  bcU  aioath 
1ft.  4Hn.  in  diameter.  Can  any  ef  the  leaden  of  *  Table 
Talk '  infoim  me  of  the  existence  of  kbj  similar  inatru- 
ment  ?  The  paridhiooen  say  there  is  bat  one  more  in 
the  kingdom^-a8.MiuABD»GostodEReeloiyyLoQgi^ 
iMMoagfa." 

In  the  succeeding  number  Tras  this: — 

<«The  Ber.  C.  &  Minaid,  ef  Gestodc,  mey  that,  in 
saswsr  to  Us  qnertion  in  lastwwk'k  'Table TUk,'  he  baa 
reoctTed  letters  deseribing  four  aiagiag-tnimpeta  ahnilar 
to  the  one  at  East  Leake.  Ibe  Rev.  G.  Kevue,  of  fled- 
borongh  Reetorr,  Newaii^;  mentiona  one  ibrmerly  at 
Tliomey,  Notts,  lost,  he  ftais,  when  the  chnreh  waa  re- 
built forty  years  ago,  Traditioii,  he  says,  did  not  asso- 
ciate it  wiOi  the  singers.  The  old  chrl's  atoiy  wa»->it 
waa  to  call  the  people  to  church  6^^br«  Mb  wen  unemied  ! 
Mrs.  Nicholson,  of  Willoiighton  Grange,  Lincolnshire,, 
describes  one  in  her  poesession  with  two  slides  meaanriog 
when  at  foil  length  Sft,  and  Ift,  Sin.  across  the  montli. 
It  Ss  said  bytraditjon  to  have  been  used  in  Wiikni^htom 
church  in  giving  ont  the  hymns^  thoogh  no  one  living  ia 
the  parish  can  remember  seeing  it  in  the  chnrch.  Mr.  F. 
H.  Sutton,  of  Theddingworth  Rectory,  mentions  two — 
one  at  Harrington,  the  other  at  Braj^moke,  neigfaboup- 
ing  villages  in  Northants.  The  Harrington  one  ii«  in 
bM  order,  but  the  Braybrooke  one  is  in  good  condition, 
with  a  stand  about  five  feet  liigh  to  rsst  it  on.  He  ears, 
'  I  have  heard  the  voice  through  it,  and  it  is  rendered 
very  powerful  in  singing.  They  say  in  the  village  that 
it  was  used  for  leading  the  singing  within  memoiy.  .  .  . 
I  fancy  from  the  look  of  the  tmmpeta  snd  stand  that 
they  are  seventeenth-oentaiy  things,  bnt  may  be  ddcr. 


4*S.Vn.  JosEJi.Tl.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


631 


The  effect  is  rather  like  that  of  the  ophideides  one  hears 
abroad,  and  they  rait  Gregoriana  capitally.'  Mr.  Field, 
the  rector  of  Bra^bfooke,  gives  the  dimensions  of  this 
trumpet  as  5ft,  8m.  in  length,  and  2ft.  lin.  across  the 
bell-moaUi.  It  has  no  slide  like  a  telescope.  Are  the 
lovers  of  Grogorians  prepared  to  adopt  Mr,  Sutton's 
hint  ?  " 

It  seems  quite  certain  that  these  instroments 
were  used  in  order  to  make  the  most  of  the  voice 
of  the  principal  yilla^  Tocaliat,  whether  in  ''lead- 
ing/'generally  hy  ain^g  the  melody,  or  in  lead- 
ing the  basses.  When  these  trumpets  were  in 
common  use,  tunes  for  -village  nsalmody  were 
for  the  most  part  arranged  wiSi  tne  meloay  as  a 
tenor  part;  then  those  who  sang  by  ear  could 
easily  take  it  up,  whether  boys,  women,  or  men ; 
while  for  such  as  could  read  music  or  had  a  sense 
of  harmony  there  was  a  second  treble  or  counter- 
tenor ^''alto  ")  part,  and  also  a  bass  part.  How- 
ever tne  trumpets  may  have  been  used,  we  maj 
well  believe  tnat  the  trumpeter  would  be  in  his 
greatest  glory  in  such  passages  as  the  bit  of  bass 
solo  in  "Cambridge  New,"  or  in  Clarke's  psalm, 
''Lord,  'tis  a  pleasant  thing  to  stand,"  where 
"like  a  young  cedar"  comes  in.  I  have^mder- 
stood  that  in  Lincolnshire  the  chief  bass  singer 
often  never  attempted  to  pronounce  the  words  at 
all,  but  devoted  all  the  energies  of  body,  soul,  and 
spirit  to  the  enunciation  of  the  notes.      J.  T.  F. 

Hatfield  Hall*  Durham. 

NOTE  MISSING  IN  KEIGHTLEfS  EDITION  OF 

MILTON'S  POEMS. 

To  my  very  great  surprise,  in  looking  over  my 
poems  of  Milton  after  they  had  been  published,  1 
found  there  was  no  note  on  the  well-lmown — 

"  Millions  of  spiritual  creatures  walk  the  earth,"  &e. 

Par,  Lo9tj  iv.  677. 

Now,  that  I  should  have  left  it  so  is  an  utter 
impossibility,  and  it  at  last  struck  me  that,  as  I 
wrote  mv  notes  on  small  paper,  the  leaf  contsuung 
it  must  have  been  lost  at  tne  printing-office,  and 
never  missed  by  the  printer  or  by  myself.  To 
remedy  the  evil  as  far  as  possible,  I  have  added 
the  following  ]^aragraph  in  MS.  to  the  section  on 
Pneumatology  in  my  Xt/e,  ipo,  of  MiUon : — 

**  These  good  and  evil  angels  were,  according  to  Mil- 
ton's ideas,  the  only  animated  and  rational  beings  in 
existence  when  God  resolved  to  create  the  world,  and 
place  on  the  earth,  its  centre,  the  first  hnman  pair.  It 
may,  therefore,  surprise  to  meet  in  PartadiBe  La$t  the  two 
following  passages.  In  the  first,  speaking  of  the  stars,  he 
says: — 

*'  *  Or  other  worlds  they  seemed,  or  happy  isles. 
Like  those  Hesperian  gardens  famed  of  old. 
Fortunate  fields  and  groves  an^  fiowery  vales, 
Thrice-happy  isles,  M  who  diodt  happy  Ihere^ 
He  stayed  not  to  inqnire."— iiL  567. 

"  The  next  is  :— 

« *  Millions  of  spiritoal  creataies  walk  the  earth 
Unseen,  both  when  we  wake  and  when  we  sleep ; 
All  these  with  ceaseless  praise  his  works  behold. 
Both  day  and  night'— iv.  677. 


"  The  first  of  these  is  an  instance  of  what  we  have 
already  noticed,  the  poet's  baiting  between  the  Ptolemaic 
and  Gopemican  systems;  the  second  is  a  remarkable 
proof  or  the  power  the  imagination  possesses  of  over- 
riding and  controlling  the  other  mental  faculties.  Milton's 
imaguiation  being  full  of  a  well-known  beautilhl  passage 
in  Hesiod,*  he  resolved  to  imitate  and  snrpass  it,  utterly 
forgetful  of  how  completely  it  was  at  variance  with  his 
whole  sjrstem  of  pneumatology.  What  could  he  have 
replied,  if  asked  who  or  what  those  spiritual  creatures 
were,  or  wlftre  they  came  from  ?  But  this  question  never 
seems  to  have  entered  his  own  mind,  or  those  of  his  com- 
mentators. It  may,  no  doubt,  be  said  that  they  were 
good  angels  (see  v.  547)  ;  but  these  were  the  residents  of 
heaven  luone,  which  thus  rarely  if  ever  left,  unless  when 
dispatched  on  special  errands." 

Having  thas  cured  as  weU  as  I  could  the  only 
defect  of  any  importance  to  be  found  in  my  PoemB 
of  MiUoHf  i  venture  to  claim  for  it  the  character 

g'ven  it  by  one  of  our  most.  disUnguished  pze- 
tes,  that  of  being  by  far  the  best  edition  or  an 
English  classic  in  the  language. 

The  beautiful  Variorum  Edition  of  Shakespeare 
now  coming  out  at  Philadelphia,  U.  S.,  will  dis- 
pLav  the  number,  variety,  and  value  of  my  notes 
STd  emendations  as  oompaied  with  those  of  my 
predecesson;  and  I  feel  convinced  that  for  many 
years  to  come  my  name  will  appear  in  constant 
union  with  tiiose  of  our  two  (may  1  not  say  thxee  P  > 
greatest  poets. 

A  parasitic  immortality !  it  may  invidiously  be 
sud.  Even  be  it  so:  it  contents  me.  I  have, 
however,  written  other  works  which  may  be  reach 
for  many  a  year  to  come.    Thox^  Keightlist.. 


A  PLAGIARISM. 


Whilst  recently  perusing  a  book  containing  se- 
lections firom  flemish  authors  (Leeaoefeninffm  voor 
de  Jeugdj  by  K.  F.  Stallaert,  Ghent,  1865),  1: 
found  an  alleged  incident  in  the  life  of  Louis  van 
Male,  Count  of  Flanders,  as  having  occurred  in 
1361  at  the  French  court  of  John  the  Good,  where 
the  burgomasters  and  sheriffs  of  Bruges,  Ghent, 
and  Ypres  had  presented  themselves,  with  their 
county  to  pay  homage  to  the  new  king  on  the 
occasion  of  his  coronation.  It  is  therein  recorded 
(p.  47)  that  at  the  grand  tourney  held  in  comme- 
moration of  the  event,  Louis,  who  was  a  stately 
knight,  carried  off  all  the  honours.  Notwith- 
standing the  magnificent  display  of  the  surround- 
ings of  royalty  at  the  festive  board  on  the  same 
evening,  the  narrative  proceeds,  there  was  some- 
thing, however,  which  displeased  the  natives  of 
Bruges :  it  was  their  seats,  which,  whether  simply 
of  wood  or  not  so  costly  as  those  they  had  been 
used  to,  seemed  to  make  them  uncomfortable. 
Perhaps  they  had  hardly  imagined,  at  the  French 
court,  that  tney  were  too  common  for  Flemings. 

*'  It  was  enough ;   the  men  of  Bruges  spread  their 
splendid  thickly  gold-covered  scarlet  mantles  upon  their 

*  See  Hesiody^Efry.,  120. 


532 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES.  [4*  s.  vii.  Ju»«  24, '7L 


seats,  and  foUowiog  the  advice  of  SSmoea  Tan  Aartiyke, 
their  bniigomaster,  left  them  there  upon  their  departure. 
This  astonished  the  king  as  well  as  all  his  oomtien  and 
guests ;  and  mesaengen  were  sent  after  them  to  infiHon 
them  of  what  had  been  linqgotten.  But  SimoeD  spake 
smilingly  to  the  jioUte  master  of  oeremonies :  *  Fnend, 
when  we  Flemings  leave  the  dinin^-table  we  never  oan7 
away  our  seats  with  ns." 

Now  it  happens  that  this  tale  is  told  of  Bol>ert 
of  Normandy  in  his  tiavelsy  some  luindieds  of 
years  before,  to  the  Holy  LandL  Maisixe  Waee, 
the  Norman  trauvire,  in  his  metrical  chronides 
follows  tJbe  duke  to  Oonstantinopley  where  tiie 
emperor  gave  him  an  invitation  to  meet  him  at 
his  palace,  hut  never  as  much  as  offered  him  a 
chair.  The  following  linee,  giren  as  an  English 
version  of  the  passage  refemd  to,  are  taken  (I 
helieve)  from  BlackwoocPs  mSaganne  for  August, 
1836  :— 

**  Then  from  his  shoulders  off  he  drew 
His  mantle ;  on  the  ground  he  threw 
It  down,  and  sat  hinudf  therson. 
The  converse  ended»  when  each  one 
Rose  to  depazt,  he  left  it  there. 
One  of  the  Greeks,  with  courteous  care, 
Reminded  him,  and  to  him  brought 
That  mantle  rich  and  fair  ywrought. 
That  he  mifffat  put  It  on ;  out  he 
Replied— with  tame  nofailitie — 
*  Where  I  have  left  it  let  it  lay,  [mo] 
I  cany  not  my  seat  away.' " 

History  is  said  to  repeat  itself  hat  I  cannot 
think  the  two  pictures  a  coincidence.  The  only 
question  is,  under  how  many  forms  and  under 
what  varied  circumstances  has  the  incident  been 
misrecited  ?  H.  W.  K. 

Jersey.  


Boswhll's  Lixb  67  J0HH8OV.  — There  is  an 
error  in  Boswell  which  neither  Croker  nor  any 
later  commentator  has^I  think,  detected.  Thus 
dates  of  the  various  epochs  of  the  career  of  the 
great  conversational  gladiator  of  the  lastoentorj 
are  the  very  vertehm  of  his  Life.  Now  one  of  this 
chief  of  these  dates  BoeweU  has  evid^itlv  set 
down  incozreetlyi  At  page  30  of  the  1860  edi-» 
tion,  Boswell,  in  his  list  of  Johnson's  London  resi- 
dences, writes  ^Staple  Inn,  1758,"  whereas  in 
Eage  118  he  inserts  a  letter  of  Johnson's  to  Mrs. 
•ucy  Porter,  dated  March  23, 1758,  which  con« 
tains  the  following  conclusive  passage : — 

<*  I  have  this  day  moved  my  things,  and  yon  are  now 
to  direct  to  me  at  SiapU  Itm,  Lamkmt  Ao. ....  I  am 
going  to  publish  a  littJie  stonr  book  (^RoMtelas),  which  I 
will  send  yon  when  it  is  out.'' 

In  1759  Johnson  was  My  years  old.  His 
mother  had  heen  huried  on  the  23rd  of  Januazr 
of  the  same  year.  Saseeiag  was  written  in  March 
1759,  and  published  in  April  Johnson  received 
100/.  for  the  first  edition,  and  261,  for  the  second. 
He  told  Reynolds  that  he  wrote  it  in  seven  con- 
secutive evenings.    With  the  1001  Johnson,  like 


a  good  son,  defrayed  the  expense  of  his  mother's 
fiineral,and  paid  off  some  small  dehts  she  had  in- 
curred in  Licnfield.  Voltaire's  CtmtSde,  also  » pro- 
test against  the  comfortable  doctrines  of  optimism^ 
appeared  about  a  month  before  MasselM,  but  John- 
son had  not  seen  it  Two  passages  in  jRasaeloB, 
alluding  to  the  deoth.  of  the  author's  mother,^  al- 
ways seem  to  me  peouUarly  touching  illustmnona 
of  what  a  tender  heart  the  big  bear-Uke  man. 
had,  The  fimt  is  in  chapter  xlv.,  where  Imlac 
the  sage  says:  '*  I  have  neither  mother  to  be  de- 
lighted with  the  iep«tation  of  her  aon,  nor  wi& 
to  partake  the  hoaouu  of  her  hosbaad."  In 
another  place  Imlac  says:  ^'That  the  dead  are 
seen  no  more  I  will  not  undertake  to  maintain 
against  the  ccmcurrent  and  unvarying  testimony 
of  all  ages  and  of  all  nations" 

Johnson,  at  tiie  time  he  was  in  Stafde^  InnL 
vras  carrying  on  the  JEider,  which  he  began  April 
15, 1758,  and  mded  Am15,  1760.  He  seems  to 
have  left  Staple  Inn  in  Peeember  1759,  Hat  Gray's 
Inn»  It  was  as  nearly.'aa  possible,  too,  about  the 
same  time  that  Jehnsoib  formed  the  acyiaintanee 
of  Gk^ismith,  then  a  bookseUer's  hack  in  Green- 
arbouf  Court,  Old  Bailsy.  in  1760  he  had  cham- 
bers at  No.  1,  Inner  Twaple  Lane^  and  in  1777 
he  went  to  Bolt  Court  I  ^1  a  new  pleaaoBB  ia 
passing  along  Hdbom  when  I  think  of  Jobnaoai 
reading  the  proofe  of  BassdM  or  writing  the  Idler 
in  his  chambers  ift  Staple  Inn. 

WAIffiKE  THiUMJHlBl. 

5,  Fumivars  Iipi. 

Abbaxml  AMD  AuuiTOMLJiL.— Is  a  noteto  the 

following  lines,  which  occur  in  the  well-knorwn 

deseriptmn  of  SfaafUMsbnry  (Achitophel)— 

**  David  for  him  his  tniMftii  harp  had  rtnmg, 
And  Haavni  had  wanted  one  mimortal  song,'* 

Mr.  Christie,  the  editor  of  the  ^  Globe  Ediiion  " 
of  Dryden,  makes  l^e  following  singrdar  re- 
marit:— 

"This  arrogant  boast,  vhidi  has  been  justified,  conld 
only  have  been  made  in  an  anonymous  pnuication.** 

_  Sui^  this  is  entirely  to  mistake  Dryden's  allu- 
siott.  The  poet  has  been  drawing  (whether  just^j 
or  the  reverse  is  not  here  the  question)  am 
severe  portrait  of  Shaftesbury,  and  goes  on  to  say- 
that  had  he  been  as  loyal  a  subject  as  he  was  aa 
upright  judge,  David  would  have  composed  a 

Sialm  in  his  honour,  and  Heaven  (to  whose  glory 
avid's  psalms  are  vrithout  exception  devoted) 
would  have  been  without  at  least  one  of  the 
number. 

It  is  true  that  on  this  explanation,  equally  with 
Mr.  Christie's,  the  allegory  halts;  for  Uhazles  11., 
who  represents  David  in  the  satire,  vras  not  in 
the  habit  of  addressing  hymns  to  the  Almighty ; 
but  such  occasional  lapse  axe  ^uite  in  Diyden's 
manner ;  and  it  is  certainly  most  improbable  that, 
arrogant  or  not,  Diyden  should  speak  of  a  satirical 


4*8.  VII.  Jukk24,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


533 


poem  as  (me  hy  the  writing  of  wUch  "HeaTw" 
conld  be  either  pleased  or  honoured. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  know  if  anj  more  plausible 
ezplanation  of  the  passaffe  has  been  suggested. 
Sir  Walter  Soott's  edition,  like  many  othersy 
passes  oTer  the  difficnltr,  *^  siocissimis  pedibus." 

Mabt^  Qttsbn  of  Soo2B.— ^  tragedy  on  this 
eyer^ttractiye  theme  has  just  appealed  in  Ger- 
many, the  autiior's  name  Lotibar  MvOi  a  native  of 
Austria.  The  scoie  of  action  is  placed,  not  in 
England,  but  in  Scotland^  and  Mary  is  not  r^e- 
sented  as  in  piisan,  but  as  a  reignmg  soTereign. 
The  play  is  said  to  possess  dedded  dzamatic 
power,  and  was  reoeiYM,  on  its  representation  in 
Weimar,  with  ffreat  applause.  Li  the  present 
dearth  of  natave  dramatic  talent,  here  is  a  fine  sub- 
ject for  our  playwrights  to  work  from;  and  I  freely 
throw  out  the  hint,  as  suggested  to  me  by  a 
fayonrable  critique  in  a  German  periodicaL 

JoHH  Maobat. 

BrrviN  AWD  Pmmr. — ^As  I  was  walking  some 
two  or  three  years  a^  through  the  strei^  of 
Cambridge  with  my  wife,  we  noticed  in  a  grocex^s 
shop  some  pears  flattened  out  and  dried  after  t^ 
manner  of  biffins.  "  What  do  they  call  them,  I 
wonder/'  said  my  wife.  "Prffins  of  course/'  I 
replied,  jokingly.  We  went  into  the  shop  and 
asKed.  *'Pifui8,  ma'am/'  was  the  reply,  to  my 
great  amusement.  The  originator  of  these  dried 
pears  had  eyidently  followed  ezxMtly  the  same 
train  of  thought  that  I  myself  had.  l)ried  apples 
are  called  brffms ;  the  word  pear  begins  with  a  i? ; 
therefore  dried  pears  should  be  called /)£^^.  JNo 
logic — ^but  concise  and  oouTenient  And  so  tiie 
word  has  passed  into  the  English  lan^^uage.  It  is 
the  fiashion  now-a^-days  for  philologists  to  deny 
that  A  word  can  be  manufactured  in  this  way  out 
of  two  or  more  other  words,*  and  the  word  piffin 
is  therefore  Taluable  as  showing  how  convention- 
ally a  word  may  sometimes  be  formed.  If  pijfin 
has  thus  been  formed  in  our  own  days,  is  it  not  pos- 
able  that  a  few  words  may  have  been  thus  formed 
in  former  daysP  And  if  so,  this  mode  of  word- 
formation,  utterly  illogical  uid  ixradioal  (if  I  may 
coin  the  word)  as  it  is,  should  be  borne  in  mind 
as  possible. 

1  know  one  other  instance  in  which  a  word  has 
been  manufactured  in  a  similar  manner.  A  young 
lady  of  my  acquaintance  has  for  her  Christian 
names  Jane  Emma,  and  for  some  little  time  she 
was  called  Jane  Emma.  Some  one,  however, 
soon  discoyered  that  Jane  Emma  was  rather  long, 

*  Thus  the  wofd  J^komth  is  aomrnonly  believed  by  the 
Jews  to  have  been  similarly  made  iip  oat  of  the  past, 
present  participle  and  fhtnre  of  the  Hebrew  verb  luiyah 
or  hetcah ;  and  this  ooaventionel  derivation  is  regarded 
as  altogetiier  imposaUe,  and  ridiculed  by  Hebrew  scholars 
of  the  modem  sdiooL 


and  that  Jemma  would  answer  the  purpose 
equally  welL  The  idea  found  favour,  and  now 
no  intimate  friend  of  the  young  lady  ever  cidls 
her  anything  else  but  Jemma  * ;  and  if  she  ever 
marries  and  has  daughters,  I  doubt  not  but  that 
one  of  them  will  be  christened  Jemma,  and  then 
some  day  the  origin  of  this  name  mav  be  a  puzzle 
to  her  descendants  and  to  other  people  also. 

F.  Ckakob. 
Daswin's  Thibobt  IK  Java.-— 

<*  Hundreds  of  anecdotes  are  told  concerning  these 
'  doubles'  of  the  Javanese.  If  yon  question  a  native  on 
the  subject,  there  is  not  one  who  will  not  tdl  yoo,  *  The 
monkeys  are  men  just  like  ourselves,  but  they  are  much 
cleverer,  and  have  never  chosen  to  speak,  so  that  they 
mtf ht  not  be  made  to  woric" — A  Voffag*  Rovmd  <Ae 
World,  by  M.  De  Beavoir. 

This  is  precisely  the  opinion,  and  expressed  too 
in  the  same  words,  which  is  attributed  to  the 
natives  of  Lidia  by  Europeans.  But  because  in 
Hindu  mythology  there  happens  to  be  a  monkey- 
ffod,  there  is  no  reason  whysuch  a  belief  should 
be  attributed  to  them.  They  are  scarcely  suf- 
ficiently enlightened  to  entertain  it  seriously. 
Perhaps  travellers  do  not  give  semi-civilised  ori- 
entals sufficient  credit  for  their  satirical  talents. 
There  may  be  many*a  Domast  in  Java.  S. 


fftttftint* 


^NGIUlYING  of  ANNE  OF  DENMARK. 

I  have  recently  met  with  an  engraved  portrait 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  (P)  three-quarter  length.  As 
I  am  desirous  of  knowing  if  it  is  of  an^  value.  I 
will  endeavour  to  describe  it  The  size  of  the 
engraving  is  10  by  6f  in.  The  iaa^  is  certainly 
not  young;  the  hmr  in  roDs,  leaving  the  forehead 
bare.  Between  the  fifth  and  sixth  rolls,  which 
are  traasverae  in  their  direction  and  powdered, 
are  what  seem  to  be  abort  rolls  of  a  darker 
coikmr,  so  disposed  as  to  resemble  an  embattled 
eoNDet^  and  quite  9±  the  back  is  a  dark  feather ; 
on  the  left  side  is  a  long,  narrow,  tapering  phut 
of  hair  with  the  ends  free.  She  wean  a  necklace 
of  three  rows,  end  a  locket  appended  to  them. 
On  each  aide  <n  the  neck  is  a  broad,  ombroidered, 
ribbed  •  reverted  raff.  The  low  dress  has  a  rosette 
on  eacn  shoulder,  and  one  in  the  centre ;  on  tibe 
left  arm  is  a  scarf  with  very  broad  ends  of  fringe. 
The  long  sleeves  end  each  in  a  deep  richly  em- 
broider^ reverted  cuff;  on  each  wrist  is  a  triple 

*  My  wife,  who  is  a  relation  of  theyoong  lady,  tells  me 
that  the  name  is  now  always  spelled  Grismma.  This  makes 
its  origin  still  more  obsenre  and  puzzling,  for  there  is  a 
genuine  Italian  woman's  name  Gemma. — See  Miss  YoDge*s 
Mkt,  of  (^ri$tian  Names, 

t  Immaa  being  asked  by  a  rade  fellow  (with  reference 
to  his  complexion)  who  his  father  was,  replied  **  A 
negro.**— ** And  your  grandfather?**— "A monkey,  sir. 
My  pedigree  begins  where  yours  ends.** 


534 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4»fcS.VlI.  JuxB2i,'71. 


row  of  beads ;  in  the  left  hand  ia  a  handkerchief, 
and  in  the  ri^ht  a  fan  (P)  of  three  large  oatrich 
feathers  fixed  in  a  handle.  The  waist  is  long,  end- 
ing in  a  hoop.  Unfortunately  the  drees  has  been 
daabed  over  with  dull  red  paint.  At  the  bottom 
of  the  engraying  are  the  following  two  yerses  of 
eight  lines  each,  placed  side  by  ade.  in  manuscript 
cluuracters.  There  is  no  date,  buttnis  inscription : 
— *'  Sould  hy  John  Ouerton  at  the  White  Horse 
neere  the  Fountaine  Taueme  without  Newgate. 
Are  to  be  sould  by  .  .  .  .,•  Peter  Stent" 

Before  the  first  Terse  is  a  large  A,  and  after  the 
second  a  large  C,  done  in  pale  green  water-colour, 

"  The«  to  invite,  the  great  Grod  sent  a  starre, 
Whoee  friend  and  neerest  kyn  good  Princes  are, 
For  though  thej  run  the  race  of  men  and  dye, 
Death  seems  bat  to  refine  their  M^festie : 
So  did  the  Qaeene  from  hence  her  court  remoye^ 
And  left  the  Earth  to  bee  enthron*d  above ; 
There  she  is  chang'd,  not  dead— no  good  Prince  dies, 
Bat  as  the  day  snnne^  ondy  setts  to  rise. 

**  And  now  that  dond  of  death  is  onor  blowne. 
To  heav'n  her  native  soyle,  her  sonle  is  flowne 
Where  her  Redeemer  lives,  with  him  to  raigne^ 
Millions  of  Angells  waiting  on  the  traine ; 
No  more,  as  here,  half  mortaU,  half  devine, 
Bnt  in  pure  glory  in  her  sphere  to  shine^ 
From  whence  shee  sends  a  brighter  lustre  downe 
Then  Csesars  locks,  or  Ariadnes  crowne." 

T.  P.  Febhie. 

[The  engraving  of  which  Ma.  Fernib  has  ftimished 
us  with  a  rough  tracing  is  Anne  of  Denmark.  A  fine  im- 
pression, but  without  uie  lanre  letters  A.  C.  and  the  line 
oeginning  **  Sould,^  is  in  the  British  Museum.  It  is  thus 
described  in  Granger  (ed.  1824),  ii.  9  :— 

**  In  a  rich  dress,  laige  feather  fan  in  her  left  hand, 
sixteen  English  verses,  *  Thee  to  invite,*  &c  No  name 
of  engraver,  &c. ;  small  sheet ;  rare." 

Judging  by  the  style  and  extremely  delicate  working 
of  the  face,  it  is  very  probably  the  work  of  Pass.] 

BiBCH  Family. — In  the  church  of  South 
Thoresby^  Lincoliiahirey  ia  a  tablet  to  the  memory 
of  the  Rev.  Thomaa  Birch,  who  died  in  1806,  and 
who  had  been  rector  there  for  upwarda  of  fifty 
years.  I  ehould  feel  obliged  to  any  of  the  namer- 
0U8  readers  of  *'  N.  &  Q?'  if  they  could  sive  any 
account  of  the  ancestors  of  the  above.  Mr,  Bixeh 
left,  I  believe,  five  sons — ^riz.  Thomaa,  Jonathan, 
William,  Neville,  and  Charles.  Any  mfoimation 
of  the  descendants  of  these  would  likewise  be 
esteemed  a  favour.  F.  M.  Datkut, 

48,  Glasshouse  Street,  Nottingham. 

The  Bocase  Tbee.^Li  Farming  Woods,  Rock- 
ingham Forest,  Northamptonshire,  stands  an  old 
stone  about  three  feet  high,  with  the  following 
inscription : — 

**  Here  in  this  plaes  stood  fiocase  tree.** 

If  Touwould  giveanyinfonnationabouf  Bocase 
tree ''  you  would  greatly  oblige  F.  R.  A. 

Thrapston. 

[The  bocase  tree  signifies  probably  the  chestnut-tree, 
from  the  old  French  word  boehcuMj  a  wild  chestnut  (See 

*  An  erasure  here. 


Cotgrave's  Dieiumary.)  In  Anglo-Saxon  ftoe  or  bocce^ 
in  modem  Swedish  bok,  denote  a  beech-tree ;  but  the 
common  root  in  all  these  is  evidently  the  same  as  in  the 
French  6ou,  a  wood,  boeage,  a  grove  of  trees,  and  the 
English  wood,  which  is  doubtless  merely  a  metathesia  of 
letters.  The  word  book  also  comes  from  the  same  source, 
from  the  circumstance  of  thin  layers  of  wood  or  bark 
having  in  former  times  been  the  materials  on  which 
recor£  of  any  kind  were  kept  From  the  primaiy  signifi- 
cation of  the  root  in  boe  or  boehaue,  the  word  by  a  natural 
law  of  metonymy  oame  to  be  appUed  to  particular  trees 
as  well  as  to  wood  in  generaL  What  tlus  significaUon 
orighially  really  was  would  be  difficult  to  pronounce  on 
positively,  and  at  least  would  entail  a  lengthened  and 
wearisome  disquisition.  Bescherelle  derives  boU  from 
the  Greek  $6<ntmf  to  graie,  from  woods  being  the  pasture 
gnmnds  of  cattle ;  but  tills  ezplanatioo,  though  it  doubt- 
1(088  carries  some  truth,  is  manifestly  imperfect  In 
**  ^.  &  Q.*'  2»o  S.  viii  498.  will  also  be  found  some  con- 
jectures as  to  the  origin  of  the  Bocase  tree.] 

BucKLSTy  AT  OxFOBB. — Some  years  ago  there 
waa  a  young  man  at  the  Univeruiy  of  Oxford  of 
the  name  of  Baddeyi  who  gave  pomiae  of  g^reat 
eminence  in  claaaiMU  and  general  literature,  had 
hia  life  been  apared ;  but  he  waa  cut  off,  by  fever, 
I  believe,  before  he  had  reached  his  thirtieth  year. 
He  waa  inde&tiffable  in  editiog  new  and  imnrored 
editions  of  atancuud  school  ana  college  booka,  and 
I  am  anxious  to  procure  a  list  of  all  toat  he  did  in 
this  way.    Can  any  of  your  readers  assist  me  F 

Young  Buckley  was  a  prot4g^  of  the  well-known 
Greek  scholar^  George  Burgee.  Querist. 

[The  Bev.  Theodora  Ak>U  William  Buckley,  MJL, 
late  one  of  the  chaplains  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  was 
bom  July  27,  182o,  and  died  Jan.  30,  1856.  He  was 
buried  in  Woking  cemetery  with  this  inscription  on  his 
tomb:— 

**  The  love  of  learning  made  thee  early  knowm 
But  Death  as  early  struck  the  flower  half-Uown.** 

The  works  he  edited  or  translated  attest  his  diUgenoe, 
accuracy,  and  aocomplishments  as  a  dassioal  scholar.  A 
list  of  them  (too  long  for  quotation)  is  printed  in  the 
Gent,  Mag.  for  March,  1856,  with  some  account  of  his 
personal  mstoxy.] 

'^Casdob  illjkus." — ^What  family  used  the 
motto  **  Candor  illsBSus  '^  in  the  early  part  of  the 
seventeenth  centuiy,  say  from  1020  to  1^0  ? 

Gbo.  WnxiAJcs. 

Daitdt  Rolls. — ^I  am  a  maker  of  dandy  rolls. 
Can  any  of  your  correspondents  tell  me  the  mean- 
ing or  derivation  of  tne  adjective  in  this  case? 
I  suppose  its  application  is  not  anterior  to  the 
making  of  paper  oy  machine.  R  Amies. 

Ekglish  Bible. — ^Will  one  of  your  learned 
correspondents  he  so  kind  as  to  favour  me  with 
dates  of  the  editions  of  the  Englidi  Bihle  pub- 
lished in  the  reign  of  King  James  L  P  and  also  to 
inform  me  whicn  is  the  most  authentic  histoiy  of 
the  English  Bible  ?  E.  Gbiffithb. 

Molleston  House. 

[The  following  list  of  the  English  Bible  printed  itmp. 
James  1.  is  taken  from  Bolm*s  Xovrnfes  and  the  Cata- 
logues of  the  British  Museom  :~Lond.  4t^  black  letter. 


4«>  S.  VII.  June  24, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


535 


4to  and  8yo ;  1605,  Lond.  black  letter,  4to ;  1606,  Lond. 
4to  and  8to;  1607,  Lond.  fol. ;  1607-8,  Lond.  4to ;  1608, 
Lond.  4to  and  8vo ;  1609,  Lond.  4to ;  1610,  Lond.  foL,  4to» 
and  8vo;  Edinb.  fol.;  Doway,  2  vols.  4to;  1610-11, 
Lond.  4to;  1611-1613,  the  Anthorised,  Lond.  fol.,  4to, 
8ro,  and  12mo ;  1612,  the  Royal,  4to ;  1618,  Lond.  fol. 
and  4to  ;  1618-14,  Lond.  4to ;  1614,  Lond.  8yo ;  1615, 
Lond.  4to ;  1616,  Lond.  foL ;  1617,  Lond.  ful.,  8to,  and 
12mo;  1618,Lond.  12mo ;  1619,  Lond.  4to  and  8to;  1620, 
Lond.  12nio ;  1621,  Lond.  4to  and  8vo ;  1622,  I^nd.  4to; 
1622-3,  Lond.  4to ;  1625,  Lond.  4to.  Consult  also  the 
Lists  by  Pettigrew,  Cotton,  and  Lea  Wilson. 

The  standard  work  on  The  History  of  the  Bible  in  that 
by  Thomas  Stackhonae,  eapedally  the  editions  corrected 
and  improved  by  Dr.  Geoige  Gldg  (Lond.  8  rob.  4to, 
1817),  and  that  by  Dr.  Dewar  (Glai^w,  toy,  8^0, 1838, 
1846,  1850).  The  following  works  may  also  be  profltobly 
consulted  :—(l.)  A  General  Survey  of  the  Hieiory  of 
the  Canon  of  the  New  Tettament  durmg  tkefintfomr  Cemr- 
turiee,  by  B.  F.  Weetcott,  M.A.  1855,  8to  ;  and  by  the 
same  author  (2.)^  General  View  of  the  HiaUtry  of  the 
English  Bible,  1868,  8to.  To  which  may  be  added  Dr. 
Wm.  Smith's  Students  Old  and  New  Testament  History, 
2  vols.  1865-6.] 

"  The  Fotjb  Last  THnras." — ^A  late  acquisitioa 
to  my  libranr  is  Poems  on  the  Four  LatA  Thmge : 
viz.  JDeathf  Jttdgment^  Hell,  Heaven,  12mo,  pp.  122, 
Betsworth^  1706.  In  the  catalogue  of  the  collec- 
tion it  came  from  it  is  called  Ureen's ;  but  on 
looking  up  that  name  I  find  the  Four  Last  Things 
of  the  Key.  T.  Gieenei  Bishop  of  Ely,  are  in  prose. 
John  Bunyan  wrote  a  book  in  yerse  under  the 
title,  but  it  is  not  his ;  nor  is  it  The  Four  Last 
Things  of  Br.  Traj^p.  "  The  Author  to  his  Booke, 
in  Imitation  of  Ovid/'  introduces  himself  and  work 
in  thirty- two  lines,  oeginning  — 

'•  Qo,  little  book,  whUst  I  lament 
My  wretched  fiite  and  banishment,** — 

and  ending — 

"  bat  keep  my  name 
From  the  malicious  breatn  Of  Fame.*' 

A  prohibition  which,  considering  the  time  of  day, 
the  possessor  of  the  secret  may  without  any  breach 
of  confidence  now  reveaL  A.  G. 

HsLioeiJBALUB. — Upon  what  occasion  was  it 
that,  or  for  what  purpose  did,  '<  Heliogabalus  col- 
lect ten  thousnud  pounds  weight  of  cobwebs  in 
Kome"P  as  I  have  just  found  stated  on  the  au- 
thority of  Lampridius  in  an  edition  of  the  works 
of  Horace.  W,  P. 

[The  following  passage  occurs  in  the  life  of  Helioga- 
balos  by  Lampndius :—"  Jocabatnr  sane  ita  cam  serns, 
nt  eos  jaberet  millena  pondo  sibi  aranearum  deferre,  pro- 
posito  pncmio ;  coll^gisseqae  dicitor  decern  miUia  pondo 
araneamm,  dicens  et  hinc  intelligendum  qnam  magna 
csset  Roma,"] 

Heraldic. — Can  any  readers  of  '*  N.  &  Q."  in- 
form me  to  whom  the  crest  of  a  lion  rampant 
holding  an  oliye  branch  in  his  mouth  belongs? 
also  a  coat  of  arms  with  a  coronet  and  two  chey- 
ronelsP  Also,  I  am  deurous  of  ascertaining 
antecedents  of  a  family  named  Greenoway  liying 
near  London  1030  to  1640.    The  family  waa  con- 


nected with  that  of  Millet  Any  information 
respecting  the  aboye  will  greatly  oblige  H.  A, 
BAHTBBiDeB,  24,  Russell  Road,  Kensin^n. 

HoBiB. — ^I  shall  be  much  obliged  if  any  of  your 
correspondents,  learned  in  ritusl  matters,  can  tell 
me  in  what  part  or  parts  of  a  MS.  Book  of  Hours 
to  look  for  the  differences  which  distinguish  one 
Use  from  another,  as  the  Use  of  Sarum  from  the 
Use  of  Rome  or  Parisl  I  haye  one  before  me  in 
which  there  are  no  words  such  as  we  frequently 
find — ^<  Incipiunt  Hores  h.  y.  M.  secundum  usum 
Romanes  curiss,''  or  the  like.  The  workmanship 
is  apparently  French;  of  the  few  saints  which 
the  Calendar  contains  there  are  none  but  St.  Ed- 
mund the  king  which  are,  I  suppose,  distinctiyely 
British ;  but  the  fact  that  there  are  large  minia- 
tures of  St  George  and  the  martyrdom  of  St. 
Thomas  of  Canterbury  might  lead  one  to  conjec- 
ture that  if  one  knew  where  to  look  for  the  proof 
the  yolume  might  be  found  to  be  a  Sarum  one. 

Henbt  H.  Gibbs. 

rWe  are  indebted  to  a  kind  friend  for  the  following 
reply  to  our  correspondent's  query : — 

**  The  particular  Use  after  which  the  Manuscript  Hours 
were  written  is  to  be  looked  for  at  the  commencement. 
Wh4n  not  thus  speci6ed,  the  diocese,  monastic  order,  and 
even  the  church  and  monastery  where  it  was  recited,  may 
be  gathered  from  the  saints  named  in  the  Calendar,  the 
Commemorations,  and  the  Utanis  Sanctorum.  The 
Sarum  hours  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  differed  from 
the  Roman  in  psalms  and  lessons.  At  present  the  Roman 
is  alone  in  use.  Consult  also  De  Officw  Parvo  B,  Maria 
Virginie;  Radulph,  Decan.  Tongres.,  De  Canonum  Ob- 
servantia,  propositio  21,  at  p.  1146  of  Melchlor  Hittorpius, 
De  Ditims  OathoUe.  Ecel,   OJiciis,  Paris,  foLl62d.^ 

fl.  a"] 

MOKITHENT  OP  SiR  PETER  LeLT  BT  GiBBOKS. — 

It  is  stated  in  the  Art  Journal  for  January  1865 
that  Sir  P.  Lely  was  buried  in  the  church  of  St. 
Paul's,  Goyent  Garden,  on  Bee.  7, 1680,  by  torch- 
light He  left  one  hundred  pounds  for  a  monu- 
ment, which  waa  executed  by  Grinling  Gibbons. 
The  fire  of  1705  destroyed  the  church.  Does  any 
drawing  or  engraying  of  this  monument  exist  ? 

JoHK  PieaoT,  J\nr, 

Mabbttrt  Dun. — ^Near  Marbur3rHaU,  Cheshire, 
is  a  knoll  or  tumulus  crowned  with  trees,  and  a 
stone  bearing  the  inscription :  — 

*'  Here  lies  MarbuTv  Don, 
The  best  mare  that  ever  run,** 

Where  shall  I  find  the  true  history,  or  eyen  the 
legend  of  this  famous  horse,  which  is  said  to  have 
been  buried  with  silver  shoes  P  M.  D. 

Mart  Rant's  Pboprect. — In  Langius'  preface 
to  that  curious  alchemistical  book  An  Open  En-- 
trance  to  the  Shut  Palace,  there  is  an  allunon  to 
'<  Mary  Rant  (an  Englishwoman),  who  by  inward 
reyelation  promised  concerning  the  making  of 
gold|  that  it  would  become  yulgar  or  common  in 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIE&  [4»k8.vu.JTOB24,*n. 


the  year  1661."  Who  was  she,  and  wh^e  is  the 
prophecy  to  be  seen  ?  Similar  antidpatioiia  haTe 
been  ascribed  to  many  modem  phrsicistB. 

C.  Ellis  Browite. 

[Mary  Rant's  work  is  extremely  rare,  and  ia  not  to  be 
found  in  the  Britiah  Masenm  or  the  Bodleian.  It  ia  en> 
titled  davit  Ajoocalyptica  Maria  Bante,  Angl,  qua  auri 
facturum  Brem  Vuifforem  futurum  fore^  ut  note  tmno 
l66i,promitHL  ToloBie,8vo.  See"^.&Q."2°<i3.T.  130.1 

Loins  ViVES. — ^Who  was  J.  B.,  the  traaslator 
of  Vives*  Commentaiy  on  the  treatise  of  Saint 
Augustine,  **  De  Civitate  Dei  *^?  In  what  works 
can  I  find  any  information  as  to  his  (YiTes*) 
sojourn  in  England  ?        Em.  Yanbest  Busaexs. 

"Bruges. 

[J.  H.,  the  translator  of  Yives*  OommetUary  (1610)  was 
John  Healey,  of  fimmannel  College  Cambridge,  of  whom 
9ome  notices  will  be  found  in  *«N.  &  Q."  B*^  S.  il  203, 
334, 479 ;  iiL  236.  The  best  account  of  John^  Louis  Vives 
(ob.  1540)  is  the  Memoire  but  la  Vie  et  le$  JBerits  deJean- 
LovM  Vivet,  par  A.-J.  Nameche,  printed  in  Memoiret 
Courtmnea  efa  rAcadtmie  Royaie  det  Scimuse*  et  Belie*' 
Lettree  de  BruxeUetf  184 1,  tome  zy.  Consult  also  Wood's 
AthetuB  Oxonientee  by  Bliss,  L  141,  and  Fiddes,  Life  of 
Cardinal  JFolsey,  ed.  1724,  p.  218.] 

Pbriodigals. — A  lady  will  be  obliged  to  you 

or  your  correspondents  for  .information  as  to  the 

names  aad  nitmbafs  of  periodicak  published  in 

Great  Britain,  Lond(Mi  excepted. 

[Our  correspondent  will  find  a  copious  list  of  maga- 
zines, reviews,  and  periodicals  published  in  the  United 
Kingdom  and  the  British  Isles  in  the  ITewspaper  Frees 
Directory  for  1871  (London,  C.  Mitchell  i  Co.,  Red 
Lion  Court,  Fleet  Street,  price  one  florin),  pp.  123  to  135.] 

Waltoh's  "  Life  of  Db;  DoiniB."— In  Wal- 
ton's Life  o/Dr,  John  Dorme  there  is  an  extract 
from  a  letter  written  by  the  latter,  in  which  the 
following  passage  occurs :  ^*  It  is  now  Bpring^  and 
all  the  pleasures  of  it  displease  me ;  every  ot^er 
\x%&  blossoms  and  I  wither,"  &c.  The  date  of  the 
letter  is  Sept.  7.  Can  any  of  your  readers  aecoust 
for  this  ?  Alpha. 

[What  appears  as  one  letter  in  the  Life  of  Dr.  Domu 
consists  of  extracts  from  several  othera,  as  stated  by 
Walton  in  the  preceding  paragraph:  "Thus  he  did  be- 
moan himself;  and  thus  m  other  lettere,"  Some  of  the 
passages  we  have  traced  in  Donne's  Lettere,  edit  1651, 
pp.  36,  60.  51,  78,  &c] 

Philip  Williams's  Mbtaphob.— In  the  Mecol- 
lections  of  the  hte  John  Adolphue,  by  his  daugh- 
ter Mrs.  Henderson^  just  published,  are  many 
interesting  extracts  irom  his  diary.  In  one  dated 
Christmas  Day,  1840,  he  mentions  dining  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Hall  and  hearing  — 

"A  strangely  mixed  metaphor  used  by  Phil.  Williams 
in  a  lecture  delivered  by  him  as  Tinerian  Professor,  I 
believe.  It  wais  somethmg  like  tills  :--<  Thus  is  the 
student  launched  into  the  wide  ocean  of  the  Law  without 
rudder  or  compass,  jumping  like  a  squirrel  from  bough 
to  bough,  and  endeavonriag  to  fish  up  the  disjointed 
members  of  the  polypiis."^pk  21^ 

I  remember  Philip  Williams,  KG.,  about  thirty- 
fiye  years  ago^  as  the  tallest  man  at  the  bst.    I 


tiliink  he  was  on  the  Western  Circuit.    He  had 

little  practice,  but  was  reputed  to  be  a  competent 

lawyer  and  good  scholar.    He  held  the  Vinerian 

Professorship  at  Oxfbrd,  and  was  so  well  satisfied 

with  his  Inaugural  Lecture  that  he  had  alew  copies 

printed  lor  priTate  distzibution.     Lord  Denman 

reo^yed  one,  and  told  me  the  meti^hor,  which 

was  so  striking  that  I  wrote  it  down,  and  asked 

him  if  I  had  it  correctly.  He  said  yes,  and  offered 

to  lend  me  his  copy  far  perusal,  but  as  he  said 

there  was  nothing  eke  rcunazkable  in  it  I  did  not 

trouble  him.    My  yersion  is : — 

"  Launched  in  the  wide  ocean  of  legal  stndy  without 
rudder  or  compass,  he  leaps  ISce  a  sqnirrdi  from  twig  to 
twig,  vainly  endeavouring  to  collect  the  scattered  limbs 
of  £uppoljtuB." 

I  commend  these  variations  to  the  consideration 
of  those  who  believe  that  the  text  of  Homer  was 

Sreseryed  in  its  purity  through  so  many  oentoxies 
efore  the  invention  of  letters.  Should  any  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  possess  a  copy  of  the  lecture,  I  shaU 
be  glad  to  have  the  exact  passage,  if  it  dideis  from 
the  above.  Air  Initbb  Tsxplab. 

'*  Wbbck  of  the  London,"  a  Poev  by  Fitz- 
BALL. — ^Where  can  this  be  obtained?  X, 


^BitfUiti* 


THE  "FETTER-LOCK"  AS  A  COGNIZANCE  OF 
THE  LONGS  OF  WRAXHALL. 

(4*  S.  vii.  423,  486.) 

The  communication  by  the  Vicar  of  Bradford- 
on-Avon  about  a  monument  in  Soutii  Wfaxhall 
church,  CO.  Wilts,  will  not  fail  to  catch  the  atten- 
tion of  any  Wiltshire  archoBologist  acqumnted 
with  the  place;  for,  as  he  most  truly  says,  it  has 
been  for  a  long  time  a  yery  great  puzzle.  It  may 
be  well  just  to  mention,  m  aid  of  any  reader  of 
"N.  &  Q."  who  may  wish  to  try  his  hand  at  an 
opinion,  that  small  engravings  of  it  (with  an 
elaborate  description  by  the  late  0.  £.  Long,  Esq.) 
may  be  found  in  the  Gent.  Mag.^  June,  1835, 
p.  688 ;  also  in  Walker's  South  Wraxh^  (p.  6), 
and  in  Wiltshire  CoUeotionSy  Aubrey  and  Jacason, 
nlate  iL  and  p.  28.  The  effigy  is  certainly  that  of  a 
lady,  apparently  the  wife  of  a  "  Long."  That  the 
''  fetter-lock  "  badge  on  the  cornice  and  panels  had 
refiarence  to  the  tenure  c^  the  inanor  Jt  Brajoote 
Oeme  (a  manor  some  miles  off,  and  in  a  different 
Hundred  from  that  in  which  Sout^  Wrazhall  lies) 
was  John  Aubrey's  story,  not  mine.  At  the  time 
I  wrote  the  observations  on  Aubrey  which  the 
Vicar  quotes  from  me,  the  matter  had  not  been  so 
fully  inauired  into  as  it  has  been  since  both  by 
him  and  othen;  and  I  &eie£»e  did  B»t  &el 
raysdf  quite  in  a  position  to  contradict  or  oorract 
Aubiejr  (who  lived  two  hundred  yean  ago),  except 
on  a  minor  point.  It  is  now,  I  think^  Mmost  c»- 
tain  that  the  «< fetter-lock"  badge  haa  no^^  to 


4«fcS.VII.  Jumk24,*71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


537 


do  with  the  teniue  of  the  uumor  of  Bsayoote 
Geme. 

That  this  badge  was  more  likely  to  haye  been 
adopted  by  the  LoDg  &mily,  aa  an  emblem  ef 
their  heraditeiy  office  of  <<  Bedell  or  Bailiff  of  the 
himdred  of  Bradford/'  tmder  Shaftesbury  monas- 
tery^ is  a  good  idea  of  the  Vioar'a  own,  «nd  it  is 
the  best  selntion  of  the  ^ffienlty  yet  put  fordi. 
He  wiU^  I  am  sare,  not  object  to  my  smkiDg  one 
remark  vpen  it,  fiz.  tha;^  from  the  anthoiities  he 
quotes^  thero  eeem  to  have  been  ttDo  quantities  of 
lands  attached  to  tJie  efioeof  Bedell:  one  which 
passed  through  the  hands  of  "  William  Bedell, 
A.D.  1260,"  to  **  John  Long,  Esq.,  A.©.  1630  " ;  the 
other  through  those  of  tiie  families  of  ^  Ford"  to 
"Berlegh''  (above,  p.  426,  col.  2).  Now  that 
this  second  parcel  of  ground,  with  office  ,of 
Bedell  attached,  ever  came  to  the  Long  family,  I 
think  doubtful;  because  the  Ford  and  Berlegh 
estates  in  that  part  of  Wilts  and  Somerset  cer- 
tainly passed  to  a  different  family — the  Husseys ; 
from  uiem  to  Sir  Wm.  Button  of  Alton,  now 
represented  by  Heneage  of  Gompton  Basset  Sup- 
nosing  that  somehow  or  other  these  Berlegh  lands 
nad  come  to  the  Longs,  they  must  have  been 
insignificant  in  quantity,  not  enough  to  constitute 
what  IB  generally  understood  by  "an  heiress^'; 
to  say  neuung  of  the  fact,  that  of  any  such  heiress 
there  is  no  record,  nor  eyen  tradition,  in  the 
*'  Long  "  family. 

The  Vicar  of  Bradford  suggests  that  the  arms 
on  the  tomb  may  perhaps  bear  out  his  conjecture 
about  an  heiress  of  the  name  of  Berlegh,  or  Bar- 
ley. Ilie  question  turns  upon  the  1st  and  4th 
quarteiing  of  the  sinister  (the  wife's)  dde  of  the 
snield  carried  b^  the  fissure  of  the  angel.  This 
quartering  has  hitherto  been  commonly  supposed 
to  be  the  arms  of  Berkeley.  But  as  the  Ticar 
counts  ''only  nine  crosses"  noon  it, ''  whereas  every 
Berkeley  coat  has  ten,^  ana  as  he  considers  the 
charge  on  the  chevron  ''to  be  fleurs-de-lys  as  likely 
as  roses  or  plates,  which  two  latter  no  Berkeley 
coat  has,"  he  is  led  to  tlunk  that  the  quartering 
may  be  the  arms  of  "  Barley  or  Berlegh" ;  because 
Burke's  Armory  gives,  under  the  name  of  "Bar- 
ley," "nine  crosslets  fitch^e,  and  on  a  chevron 
wee  fleurs-de-lys.^' 

Li  reply  to  this  there  is,  first,  this  objection: 
the  crosses  given  in  Burke  to  "  Barley  "  are  crosses 
fitcMe  (pointed  at  the  foot),  whereas  those  on  the 
monument  are  assuredly  crosses  ^^aUe — ^and  such 
are  Berkeley  crosses. 

Again :  as  to  the  number  "nine."  Ten  is  cer- 
tainly the  proper  number  on  the  shield  of  the 
principal  house  of  Berkeley;  but  Papworth  (Or- 
dinary of  British  Armoriale)  and  other  authoritieB 
show  that  the  number  ten  was  not  imiformly 
adhered  to  by  all  the  hranches  of  the  house  of 
Berkeley.  We  iind  "sem^e  of  crosses"  or  "field 
crusilly'''  (where  the  nnmber  is  indefinite),  and 


other  varieties,  as"three,"^8iz,""seven,"  "eight," 
and  "nine"  (Papworth^  pp.  412,  41^.  So  that 
had  there  been  only  nine  at  South  Wrazhall,  it 
miffht  still  have  been  a  yariety  of  Berkele;^;  but 
I  think  the  Vicar  will  find,  at  his  next  visit  to 
the  church,  that  he  has  counted  wrong.  I  had 
often  examined  the  monument,  but  (since  reading 
his  comnnmication)  I  examined  it  again,  taking 
with  me  other  eyes  besides  my  own;  and  we 
declare  "fe»»  crosses  patt^,  without  a  doubt." 
The  quarter  No.  1  is  damaged  and  indistinct ;  but 
the  quarter  No.  4  contains  imdeniaUy  ten^  six  in 
chief  and  four  in  base. 

As  to  the  charge  on  the  cheyron.  whether  Roses, 
Plates,  or  Fleurs-de-lys.  Generally  speaking,  the 
Berkeley  dievron  was  plain ;  but  (as  before  stated) 
the  subor^&iate  houses  used  distinctions.  Boutell 
{Meraidryj  p.  172)  and  Papworth  (p.  424)  name 
"roses";  the  latter  (p.  609)  "three  torteauxes" 
(whfdi  are  merely  plates  gules).  On  the  glass 
windows  el  old  South  Wraxhall  manor  house, 
Aubrey  copied  three  varieties  (see  WiUMre  Col- 
letftions,  pkiteii.  Noa  16  and  17;  also  plate  iii. 
No.  S2) :  one  chevron  ''  plain,"  anolher  "  ermine  " 
(for  B^keley  of  Botetourt,  in  Edmondson's  Baro- 
nagiwm,  y.  40),  and  another  cbaroed  with  ^  three 
ter6eauxes  or  plates."  Boutell  use  g^yes  an  in* 
stance  of  ^ three  fleurs-de-lys"  on  the  chevron  of 
Berkeley;  so  that  whether  they  be  Roses,  Plates, 
or  Elenrs-de-lye  on  the  monvment,  any  one  of  them 
is  to  be  found  (aoeording  to  the  authorilies  alboye 
naimed)  on  Benceley  sidelds.  But  upon  the  kite 
careful  inspeotiein  (jnet  referred  to)  my  compamon 
and  myses  were  decidedly  of  opimon  that  the 
^dbam  "  was  never  meant  for  Fleurs-de-lys,  nor 
(as  I  Mnaerly  thought,  and  indeed  once  printed) 
Isr  Plates,  but  certainly  for  «'J2(we»."  This  is  just 
one  of  those  very  difficult  nrnwtitB  of  an  old  worn- 
out  stone  which  would  puzzle  the  whole  Koyal 
Society  of  Antiquaries  itself,  every  member  with 
his  best  spectacles  on,  to  pronoimce  for  certain 
whether  the  thing  is  this  or  thai.  All  that  my 
fiiend  and  I  haye  to  say,  versus  the  Vicar  of 
Bradford,  is,  that  100  "  go  in  "  for  "  Roses  " ! 

But,  there  remains  upon  Hhis  Wraxhall  monu- 
ment one  peculiarity  (not  hitherto  taken  notice 
of,  so  far  as  I  am  aware),  which,  if  admitted 
to  be  correct,  ought  to  go  a  long  way  towards 
detennininff  the  lady's  effigy  to  be  that  of  a 
Berkeley.  In  front  (seethe  engraving  above  referred 
to)  sfe  two  large  lions  as  supporters,  the  sinister 
one  oniy  being  erowned  The  crown  is  a  yeiy 
clumsy  one,  ^uito  oyerlap]nng  the  animal's  head; 
but  its  dumsmess  is  the  more  nseful  as  [Rowing 
(to  our  eyes  at  least)  that  upon  the  dexter  lion 
there  has  neyer  been  any  crown.  Now,  it  is 
emious  enough  that  (as  may  be  seen  in  any  illue* 
trated  Peeroffs)  the  "  supporters  "  of  Berkeley  are 
two  lions,  f  A«  sinister  one  onfy  crowned,  I 

I  observed  aboye  that^  in  the  family  of  Long  of 


538 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[4«fcS.VU.JuHKM/7U 


CO.  Wilts  there  is  so  record,  nor  even  tradition, 

of  a  marriaffe  with  a  ladj  of  the  name  of  Berlegh 

or  Barley ;  out  it  is  otherwise  as  to  Berkeley.    In 

a  letter  printed  in  Kimber's  Banm^ape  (ii.  2^)t 

Sir  James  Long  of  Praycote,  writing  in  ▲  j>.  1668, 

speaks  of — 

**  an  ancestor  who  married  Berkeley,  of  Beverston,  and 
an  heiress;  by  whom  we  quarter  Fitzharding's  coat, 
now  Earls  of  Berkley,  with  distinction  of  three  roeea^  on 
the  cheveron,  between  the  crosses  pat^." 

In  support  of  this  tradition,  the  arms  of  Berkeley 
(according  to  Aubrey's  drawinffs)  were  in  his  time 
on  the  windows  of  South  Wrazhall  old  manor 
house ;  and  they  are  still  to  be  seen  on  a  tomb  of 
Long  in  Draycote  Ceme  church:  also,  impaled 
with  Long  (let  the  Vicar  note  this),  next  to  a 
shield  of  Long  impdUng  Popham^  on  a  window  in 
the  hall  of  Lacock  Abbey;  also,  with  the  arms  of 
Long  and  the  '^  fetter-lock"  badge,  on  the  font  in 
I^ifiton  church,  near  Bath.  All  this  leads  me  to 
think  that  the  lady  on  the  Wraxhall  tomb  must 
haye  been  a  Berkeley. 

And  why  not  a  Berkeley  of  Beverstone,  accord- 
ing to  the  family  tradition  mentioned  above  in 
Sir  James  Long's  letter  ?  For  it  helps  my  noti<m 
of  the  case,  to  say  that  Walter  Lord  Hungezford, 
K.G.,  Treasurer  of  England  temp.  Hen.  \L,  who 
according  to  Camden  ^*  preferred ''  om  of  the 
early  Longs  to  a  ''good  marriage,''  had  himself 
mauled  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Berkeley 
of  this  very  Beyerstone  (a  castle,  the  ruins  of 
which  are  still  remaining  near  Tetbury,  co.  Glou- 
cester). In  deeds  in  my  possession  relating  to 
this  Lord  Hungerford,  of  A.i>.  1480  and  thereabouts, 
I  find  "  Bobert  Long  "  as  his  feoffee  and  confiden- 
tial friend,  associated  with  Wm.  Lord  Botreaux, 
Sir  Humphrey  Stafford,  Sir  John  Stourton,  and 
oilers.  I  belieye  this  << Robert  Long"  to  be  the 
earliest  to  whom  that  pedigree  has  been  traced 
with  certainty.  He  was  M.P.  for  Wilts  in  1433, 
and  as  the  names  of  his  two  wiyes  are  on  record,  I 
would  suggest  (and  it  is  simply  a  suggestion)  that 
it  may  haye  been,  not  he,  but  his/Metf  who  was 
the  <<  Long,"  said  to  haye  been  brought  out  by  the 
then  all  powerful  influence  of  the  Hungexfords  in 
the  county  of  Wilts,  Lord  Hungerford,  the  Trea- 
surer, may  have  introduced  the  father  to  Beyer- 
stone  Castle,  there  to  take  unto  himself  a  wife 
out  of  the  same  nest  of  young  ladies  from  which 
he  had  chosen  one  for  himself.  It  may  assist  the 
solution  of  this  obscure  question  to  add,  that  this 
Eleanor  Berkeley  (Countess  of  Arundel,  and 
widow  of  Lord  Hungerford),  being  sister  of  Sir 
Maurice  Berkeley  of  Beverstone,  by  her  will, 
A.D.  1455  (Nicolas'  Test.  Vet.,  p.  279),  bequeathed 
money  to  Thomas  Berkeley,  a  younger  son  of  her 
brother  Sir  Maurice;  and  there  is  a  Thomas 
Berkeley  named  in  a  pedigree  by  Le  Neve  (Boris., 
yol.  i.  Coll.  Arm.)  as  the  husband  of  ''  Elizabeth 
Seymer,"  granddaughter  of  **  Edmund  Seymer, 


Ghiyaler/'    These  are  all  the  hints  that  I  can 

supply  towards  the  explanation  of  the  shield  on 

this  tomb,  viz.  Long  impaling  (as  I  must  maintain) 

Berkeley  quartering  Seymer. 

Of  "  sum  lands  had  for  Long,"  as  Leland  says, 

^'  by  Hungreforde's  procuration,"  I  haye  one  or  two 

notices,  but  not  at  South  WraxhalL    The  Hun- 

gerfords  had  nothing  in  South  Wraxhall  except 

sixteen  acres  adjoining  Atworth,  and  an  '^adyow- 

son  worth  5/."    The  first  notice  I  have  of  the 

Lon^  haying  land  in  Wraxhall  is  in  the  Rolls  of 

Parhament  (ly.  467),  which  contain — 

**  11  &  13  H.  YI.  (A.D.  1438).  A  Petitkm  to  the  Crown 
from  the  Abbess  and  Convent  of  Sbaftesbuiy  [to  wbora 
Wraxhall  belonged]  and  Robert  Long  for  License  to  Bober 
Long  to  give  to  toe  Abbess  and  Convent  lands  worth 
X  marks  per  annum  in  Attewarde,  Bradeforde^  and  Wrox- 
hall,  which  he  held  under  the  Abbess  and  Convent  in 
exchange  for  certain  other  lands  and  tenementt  in  Wiox.- 
hall  and  Bradefbrd  worth  x  marks  per  annum,  to  be 
'  given  to  the  said  Robert  Long  by  the  Abbess  and  Con- 
vent in  exchange  for  ever  by  the  same  service  as  he  held 
before." 

I  had  always  supposed  that  the  Longs,  haying 
been  tenants  of  Wraxhall  manor  under  the  abbej 
of  Shaftesbury,  had  paid  far  it  at  the  dissolution ; 
but  a  novel  idea  has  occurred  to  me,  which  I 
throw  out  for  the  consideration  of  the  Vicar  of 
Bradford.  He  will  find  in  Hutchins's  Dcreet  ^Ist 
edit,  App.  to  yoL  ii.  pp.  616,  617)  several  notices 
of  propeitjT  belonging  tn  moieties  to  the  monasteir 
of  Shaftesbury  and  the  Berkeley  family.  Is  it 
possible  that  the  Berkeleys  may  also  haye  had 
some  moiety  interest  in  WraxhaJl  which,  by  the 
marriage  with  a  lady  of  the  Berkeley  family,  came 
to  the  Longs  ?  If  this  point  could  be  established, 
my  explanation  of  the  South  Wraxall  *'  difliculty " 
would  stand  thus:  yiz.,  That  the  lady  was  a 
Berkeley  of  Beverstone ;  that  the  Berkeleys  had 
some  joint  interest  with  Shaftesbury  Abney  in 
the  manor  of  Wraxhall :  That  Lord  Hungerford 
(from  his  ovm  ydfe's  famOy)  had  (delicately)  ob- 
tained a  partner  for  Master  Long  (the  father  of 
Robert,  the  M.P.  for  Wilts,  in  a.d.  1^) ;  and 
that,  by  some  arrangement  yrith  the  Abbey,  the 
Berkeleys*  joint  interest  in  Wraxhall  was  finally 
severed  from  that  of  the  Abbey,  and  became  the 
lady's  fortune.  In  this  way  the  meaning  of  the  very 
cursory  notes,  both  of,  Leland  and  Camden,  about 
the  onginal  rise  of  a  well-known  Wiltshire  family 
still  owners  of  Wraxhall  manor,  would  be  made 
out;  and,  after  four  hundred  years'  interyal,  it 
would,  at  last,  appear  how  '^Long"  was  not  only 
**  preferred  to  a  good  marriage,"  but  also  "  had  sum 
lande  by  Hungreforde's  procuration." 

With  the  small  exceptions  of  such  trifling 
matters  as  Abury  and  Stonehenge,  I  do  not  know 
anything  in  Wiltshire  that  has  tormented  the 
ardiseoloffists  of  the  county  more  than  this ''  South 
Wraxhall  monument." 

J.  E.  Jacksok,  Hon.  Canon  of  Bristol. 
Leigh  Ddamen^  Chippenham. 


4«>  a  VII.  JuxB  24, 71.] 


KOTES  AND  QUERIES- 


539 


PLICA  POLONICA. 
(4«»  S.  Tii  476.) 

I  saw  a  woman  suffering  from  this  affection  in 
I3erlin  in  1868,  and  I  heara  a  clinical  lecture  de- 
livered upon  the  case  by  Prof,  l^rensprung,  a 
man  of  high  reputation.  Her  hair  was  matted 
and  felted  together  in  t^e  most  intricate  manner. 
4md  formed  a  land  of  natural  pad  or  cushion  several 
inches  in  thickness  and  symmetrically  placed  upon 
the  top  of  her  head,  but  projecting  beyond  it  to 
•a  considerable  distance  lul  round.  A  milkmaid 
would  have  found  suc^  a  pad  invaluable.  Be- 
hind, however,  the  hair  was  gathered  into  two 
tails,  one  of  which  was  three  or  four  inches  long, 
and  the  other  perhaps  ten,*  Bi.  Barensprung 
bade  us  particularly  note  tiiat  the  hair  for  an  incn 
and  a  half  or  two  inches  above  the  scalp  was  not 
matted  together,  but  that  for  this  distance  every 
individual  hair  was  normal  and  free,  whilst  there 
was  no  exudation  of  any  kind  visible,  and  the  scalp 
itself  presented  a  penectly  natural  appearance. 
When  the  hair  wss  taken  hold  of,  there  was  no 
complaint  of  tenderness,  either  in  the  hair  itself  or 
in  the  scalp. 

Br.  Barensprung  then  told  us  that  he  had  re- 
cently been  to  Prussian  Poland  for  the  express 
purpose  of  investigating  the  so-called  disease; 
that  he  had  seen  some  hundreds  of  cases  of  it,  and 
that  they,  one  and  all,  had  presented  the  same 
characters  as  the  case  then  before  us.  Some 
writers  had  described  the  Plica  as  an  affection  of 
the  scalp  which  furnished  an  exudation  glueing 
the  hairs  together,  but  this  we  had  seen  to  be  in- 
correct Otners  considered  it  to  be  a  disease  of 
the  hairs  themselves,  from  which  a  glutinous 
matter  exuded ;  but  this  he  had  never  found  to  be 
the  case.  Others,  again,  regarded  the  presence  of 
tungi  as  the  real  source  of  tne  whole  mischief  but 
no  fungi  had  ever  been  discovered  b^  him.  In 
Poland  he  had  found  the  general  opmion  to  be 
that  there  was  an  intern^  disease,  the  Plica- 
polonica  disease  (Weichselzopfkrankheit),  of 
which  the  matted  and  felted  state  of  the  hair  was 
merely  the  outward  and  visible  sign,  or  rather  con- 
stituted the  crisis.  Whenever,  therefore,  anybody 
living  in  a  part  of  Poland  where  the  Plica  was 
common  felt  a  little  out  of  sorts,  het  immediately 
rushed  to  the  conclusion  that  he  either  was  going 
to  have,  or  had  already  got,  the  Plica-polonica 
-disease.  He  would  then  go  to  some  old  woman, 
shepherd,  or  parson  in  the  neighbourhood  who 
had  ^ined  a  reputation  for  skill  in  the  treatment 
'of  this  affection  (for  medical  men  in  Poland  seldom 

*  Hence  the  German  name  of  the  diteaae,  Weiehtehopf; 
WeichMd  meaning  Vistnla,  and  Zopf,  pigtail,  though  it 
would  seem  that  the  flnt  part  of  the  word  is  sometimes 
written  Wichid. 

t  Or  she.  Both  males  and  females  appear  to  snffer 
Aromit 


cared  ixi  interfere  in  cases  of  the  sort),  and 
would  beg  to  be  told  if  he  had,  or  were  liKely  to 
have,  the  dreaded  disease.  A  lock  of  hair  Clog's 
or  horse's)  would  then  be  given  him,  with  oirec- 
tions  to  wear  it  next  his  sMn,  either  on  his  chest 
or  in  one  of  his  armpits,  for  a  certain  length  of 
time.  If  the  lock  of  hair,  at  the  expiration  of  the 
time,  was  found  to  have  become  tangled  and 
matted  (as  of  course  it  almost  invariably  would 
be  found,  in  consequence  of  the  constant  friction,, 
and  of  the  moisture  of  the  parts  in  which  the  hair 
was  placed)— then  the  patient  was  declared  to  be 
suffering  m>m  tiie  disease,  and  he  was  told  he 
could  not  be  cured  unless  the  disease  were  brought 
to  a  crisis — ^in  other  words,  unless  a  Plica  could 
be  produced  upon  his  head.  For  this  purpose  his 
head  was  kept  constanUy  covered  up,  his  hair  was 
never  cut,  and  sudorifics  were  freely  administered ; 
so  that,  as  might  be  expected,  he  found  himself  ere 
long  in  possession  of  his  much-coveted  Plica.  But, 
when  he  had  it,  it  was  not  long,  the  professor  con- 
tinued, before  he  quite  as  eagerly  wisned  to  get  rid 
of  it  again,  thougn  he  but  seldom  gave  effect  to  his 
wish,  as  he  was  afraid  to  have  the  mass  of  hair  re- 
moved, lest  the  internal  disease  *  should  return  with 
redoubled  violence  and  kill  him.  Dr.  Barensprung 
had  nevertheless,  he  said,  removed  the  hair  in 
several  cases  without  the  occurrence  of  any  ill 
effects ;  he  had  always  taken  the  precaution,  how- 
ever, of  cutting  off  the  hair  little  by  little.  If 
this  account  of  the  disease  were  correct,  the  lec- 
turer continued,  it  was  evident  that  the  Plica 
could  be  produced  at  will,  and  accordingfly  he  had 
succeeded  in  producing  it  in  several  of  ms  hospital 
patients.  The  means  he  had  employed  were  pre- 
cisely those  mentioned  above  as  adopted  in  Poland; 
and  if  the  Plica  occurred  only  or  chiefly  in  Poland, 
it  was,  he  said,  merely  because  it  was  only  or 
chiefly  in  Poland  that  pains  were  taken  to  pro- 
duce it 

In  conclusion.  Dr.  Barensprung  observed  that 
we  had  daily  before  our  eyes  genuine  instances  of 
Plica,  although  we  were  probably  unaware  that 
they  were  such.  He  alluded  to  the  matted  state 
of  the  hair  so  common  in  long-hured,  imcared-for 
dogs,  and  to  that  of  the  wool  in  sheep. 

if  this  is  the  true  view  of  the  matter — and  I 
believe  that  it  is  the  true  view — how  can  we 
account  for  the  fact  that,  even  by  recent  eminent 
'medical  writers,!  the  hfur  is  described  as  being 
glued  together  by  a  secretion  exudine  from  the 
scalp ;  that  the  hair  and  scalp  are  said  by  one  or 

*  The  patient  whom  I  saw  complained— although  she 
had  a  very  fine  Plica,  and  onght  to  have  been  cured— of  a 
number  of  aches,  pains,  disagreeable  sensations  and  feel- 
ings, which  Dr.  Barensprung  observed  might  well  be  re- 
ferred to  hysteria,  dyspepeia,  or  botlL 

t  See  Devergie,  Mtdadua  d»  la  Peau  (Paris,  1857, 
p.  558),  and  Holmes*  Surgerp  (London,  1864,  iv.  762.) 
It  does  not  appear  that  these  writers  had  themselves  ever 
seen  a  case  of  the  disease. 


540 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[4*"»  a.  Vn.  JuKB  24,  Tl, 


cAet  of  tkeae  wx&iers  to  become  acutely  seneible 
sod  tender,  and  tkattheecalpui  eaid  to  **  Ueed  on 
liie  sligltteet  toucli  "?*  Bt.  Banaaprang  did  not 
enter  tmonthiepait  of  the  qneetion;  he  contented 
huneelt  with  deseriinng  what  he  hhioeelf  had  seen 
in  hmdnds  of  cases.  M7  own  inf  reesion,  how- 
ever, is  that  eometunes  an  ovdinarr  inflammatory 
flfieetioa  of  the  ecalp  aooomjpanied  hy  exndation 
(aodi  as  EoMma)  comeB  on  in  a  penon  who  haa 
abwt^  become  possessed  of  a  Plica  in  the  way 
aboye  described  1 9  or,  again,  that  a  poison,  alieady 
having  such  an  afiection  of  the  scalp,  fancies  he 
has  the  Plica  disease,  and  aHows  his  hair  to  be- 
come matted.  In  -either  oase  theve  would  be  an 
exudation  glueing  the  hairs  together,  and  theve 
woold  be  tenderness  of  the  scal^  which  would 
aeadily  bleed;  and  yet  the  ezodation,  the  tender- 
ness, and  the  bleeding  would  have  nothiiig  in  the 
M  to  do  with  the  fomnation  of  the  Plica. 


If  I  send  this  account  of  Dr.  Banospruag's 
view^  to  ''  N.  &  Q."  it  is  because  I  look  i^n  it 
zather  as  the  record  of  a  singular  popalar  supersti- 
tion than  as  the  history  of  a  seal  disease. 

P.  Chamb. 

£^ydMuuu&  Hill* 

la  Hiis  disease  (Pol.  Otoaukiee,  Ger.  Weichte^ 

aopfj  Judenaajsf)  the  hair  also  is  diaracterised  by 

unusual  length,  by  becoming  thickened,  and  by 

loss  of  lustre.    The  disease  is  not  confined  to  ^e 

soa^. 

«*Th6  hair  loses  its  histre,  and  appetts  tUckened, 
softeaady  or  distended  by  a  gintkiaas  flnid  of  a  reddish  or 

bieiroish  colonr. Tbe  hair  is  matted  or  agelati" 

nated  in  different  ways— sometimes  in  shigle  USks  of 

yarioos  thickness  and  length,  resembling  ropes .' 

Occasionally  the  hair  is  stndc  together  in  one  mass  or 
cue.    In  other  instances  it  is  lUled  into  a  mass  oi^  eake 
«f  yazAitis  siaes.  .....  The  hair  often  aeqntres  a  great 

leqgth.    Instaaoes  of  its  reaching  the  leiigth  of  aoaie 
yards  have  been  adduced.**  (Copdand.) 

It  occurs  principally  in  Warsaw,  Cracow,  and 
Landomir ;  most  xre^ently  on  the  banks  of  the 
Vistula  and  Dnieper,  it  is  also  found  in  Lithuania, 
Yolhyniay  the  Ukraine,  Tartary,  and  Hunsary; 
but  is  very  rare  in  France,  Germany,  HoUand^  and 
Switzerland.  There  are  two  cases  of  plica  polo- 
nica  in  England ;  the  first  in  the  middle  or  the 
last  century,  the  last  (discovered  by  Dr.  Beigil)  in 
1866.  A  memoir  of  these  is  recorded  in  PAa^- 
phical  Trmuadums,  May  28, 171^  and  in  rnm- 


*  That  the  hair  itself  becomes  fleshy  and  bleeds  when 
cut,  as  mentioned  by  6.  £.,  may,  I  think,  be  dismissed  at 
once  as  a  popular  exaggeration. 

t  The  process  adopted  for  the  formation  of  the  Plica 
would,  I  think,  have  a  tendency  to  prodoce  anch  a  skin 


sacUons  of  Pathoiogieal  Society ,  voL  zviL  I  doubt 
much  whether  any  one  of  the  diseases  of  the  hur 
mentioned  by  Ghden  is  represented  by  plica  polonica. 
loL  this  disease  I  haw  seen  seveEsl  apeeunens  of 
haiir  in  which  the  whole  grow&  (adhered  together) 
has  been  removed  etftire.  B.  S.  Ohabvook. 

Gray'elan. 

THE  TOADSTONE. 

(4*  a  viL  324,  89d,  484.) 

An  oeoonat  of  the  toadatene,  its  genemtia^ 
nature,  Mtd  properties,  will  be  fEnmd  under  ha 
Latin  appellation-— .OimTfitftf  iSt9M---or  i^  variona 
synonyms  in  most  of  t»e  old  treatises  De  Chmmis 
0t  LapiiSbm,  The  foUowii^  pasHffies  are  intereat- 
ittgin  themselves,  send  mav  sav«  £  S.  C.  the  time 
md  trouble  of  seeking  kt  mre  and  unfindable 
hooks: — 

^  Borax,  iHosa,  Orapondimifl,  are  sy uoay mons  names  of 
Am  same  atone,  nUdh  iseAtoiietadfroaa  toad,  <if  which 
these  are  two  speQie»--the  white,  wUch  is  the  best,  and 
rarefy  found ;  the  other  is  black  er  ^liia,  with  a  oem- 
lean  glow,  haTing  in  the  middle  the  ehnilitiide  of  an  eye, 
and  mast  be  taken  out  while  the  dead  toad  is  yet  pant- 
ing, and  these  are  better  than  those  that  an  extracted 
ftSm.  it  after  a  long  CCTstransaee  ia  the  gfioimd.  Hiey 
hcfe  awenderftd  efioacyia  palsona.  For  whoever  haa 
taken  pdson,  lei  him  sfnallow  this ;  whioh  being  down, 
rolls  ^nt  the  bowels,  and  drives  out  every  poisonova 
quality  that  is  lodged  in  the  intestines ;  and  then  passes- 
tnro'  the  fhndament  and  is  preserved.  It  is  an  exeaUeat 
remedy  for  the  bites  of  reptiles,  and  takes  away  fera& 
If  It  be  made  into  a  lotion  and  taken,  it  ia  a  gnat  help 
indisordenofthestomaehandieiaa;  and  soma  aay  it  has 
the  same  eflfeet  if  carried  about  one."— Tie  Jftrror  of 
Stone»f  8f^^  by  Camillas  Leonardos,  ILD.  London,  8ro, 
1760,  p.  77. 

I  trausdibe  another  account  from  the  curious 
English  translation  of  the  Thaumatop-t^fhia  iVa- 
turaiia  of  Johannes  Jonstonns^  a  Poliui  phym* 
dan: — 


X  This  view  has  never,  I  believe,  iq^Mared  in  print, 
for  Dr.  Barenn>ran^  died  very  shortly  —  I  think  within 
a  year— afber  the  delivery  of  this  lectore  of  his.  I  took 
copioos  notes  at  the  tim^  and  it  is  from  these  notes  that 
I  have  drawn  up  the  above  summary. 


**  Toads  produce  a  atone ;  with  their  own  image 
times.  It  never  grows  but  in  those  that  are  reiy  old. 
Lihao,  1.  8.  amgul.  In  the  CunHv  of  Lomnvs  then  is 
one  kept  titat  is  greater  tiian  a  hasd  nat.  Lemmku  dt 
6eoKlL  I.  2.  c.  80.  It  ia  proved  to  dissolve  tomoofs  that 
arise  from  bitings  of  venomons  beasts,  if  yon  mb  it  on 
often.  The  Ltq}it  Bufoaiut,  called  trraHsriaM,  tbe  Swedes 
chronicles  write  of  it,  it  w^hed  6  physicall  pounds  and 
8  ounces,  2  drams  lesse ;  VnuUu  AnnaL  Suevie.  I.  12, 
p.  8,  c.  87.  The  words  are  these: — ^* After  the  joyfbll 
biith  of  our  LOfd  JesusChrist,  of  the  Yiigin  Mary,  the 
Mother  of  Ood,  anno  UTS;  after  the  birth  of  SL  John, 
the  27  of  June,  Berehtoldus  Grattenia,  dwelling  then  at 
Hopstacb,  in  the  afternoon  went  into  a  wood,  whidi  they 
call  the  Yale  of  Dipacbia,  to  cut  poles  to  make  hoops  for 
vessdls.  In  that  place  1m  heard  a  hissiaff  and  a  great 
noise  by  a  river  in  that  vaUcy,  and  wiistt  ne  stood  a  fair 
off  to  aee  what  the  matter  was,  he  saw  an  incredible  heap 
of  aerpents  and  vipers,  and  tosda  lying  twined  together. 
As  nere  as  he  could  eoojeotnre,  it  was  a  imater  qoaatity 
than  a  great  washhig  tub  ooold  contain,  fie  waa  nigged 
and  durst  go  no  neerer,  yet  he  cut  a  boagfa,  and  marked 
the  place  there  in  the  confinea ;  that  day  ha  came  twice 
back,  and  beheld  that  oonventide  of  aerpents,  and  he 


4*  a  Vll.  Jum  24, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


141 


~  foand  them  aU,  allmost  ttgtthar  npoo  a  heap :  wherefore 

he  left  them  and  went  home,  eonoealing  the  matter  for 

three  dayes ;  when  he  returned  to  the  wood,  he  found  that 

those  water  snakes  were  goo,  and  none  of  these  venomons 

creatures  were  left,  bat  only  one  toad  that  was  killed,  and 

a  snake  in  a  white  glmtsnons  hnmovr,  and  thick,  shining 

like  to  frog-spawn,  and  neere  to  it,  that  toadstone^  Bn- 

i<»iiu8,  whieh  he  eateht  ap,  and  wiped  it,  and  carried  it 

with  him  home,  keeping  it  for  some  forther  profit.    Bat 

after  that  Grattems  came  into  the  town  (about  a  lOO  jeores 

sinoe),  the  stone  was  used  sncoessAUly,  for  a  man  and 

beast,  as  it  fd^wea.  The  eldest  senne  of  the  house  of  Grat- 

teriaofl  keeps  this  toadstone,  and  he  will  not  lend  it, 

especially  to  strangen,  under  a  pawn  of  60  or  100  liven.' 

Amongst  the  other  vertues  it  is  observed  that  it  haith 

▼ety  great  tojte  against  malignant  tamows,  that  are 

▼enemeos.    ChoIenekyOreEisipeiaB^apestemarend  bubos, 

and  for  cattel  that  are  bewitched.    They  are  used  to  heat 

it  in  a  bag^  and  to  lay  it  hot  without  anything  between  to 

the  naked  body,  and  to  rub  the  afibcted  pbce  with  it. 

They  say  it  prevails  agidnst  inelHuilmentB  of  witches, 

eepMlally  fbr  great  bellied  women  and  dii^ren  bewitched. 

So  seen  as  yon  apply  it  to  one  bewitched,  it  sweats  many 

4jops.    In  the  pugne  it  ia  laid  to  the  heart  to  strengthen 

it.    It  draws  poyson  out  of  the  heart,  and  out  of  carbun^ 

des  and  peatuent  sores.     It  consumes,  dissipates,  and 

floftene  an  haidnease,  tumowrs,  snd  varioes.'* — JmHktimf 

of  tfc«  WtmdtrM  Tkemm  of  Naimn^  kc.    Btmtnd  imio 

JEtt^fHtk  ky  a  Pvwm  of  QnMty,  fi3.»  London,  I6d7, 

p.  11& 

AnotlMrphysicnBi  of  tke  sBine  ptxiod — ma  esprU 


fgrt  in  Ms  way — -me  not  Hatkfiwi  with  haamnr, 
bat  dMed  put  the  matter  to  the  teal  of  actual  o&- 
flervation  and  ezpenmeDt    TUb  is  his  acoonnt : — 

"La  pierre  de  crapaut  que  qaelqaes-vns  appeOent 
ix>riix,  ehdionite,  batrachite,  ou  crapaadine,  au  mot 
firan^ots  crapaut,  et  les  autres  gaeatroiBe,  est  aj^iell^par 
les  GermaiBa  CnUmMUiau  Csr  c'cst  vn  bmit  vnigatn, 
qn'elles  sent  jottrfes  boss  par  des  vienx  csanaota :  quoy 
que  les  autres  estiment  que  e'en  est  le  crane.  Je  me 
sounlens,  lore  que  J'estois  enfant,  d'auoir  prix  vn.  vieux 
crapaut,  et  Tanoir  mis  sur  vn  drap  rouge,  affln  de  poouoir 
aooir  ceste  pierre :  (carl'on  raeonte  qail  ne  rend  point  sa 
pierrs^  que  lore  qn'il  est  lepos^  sar  vn  dm|»  ravgs,)  mais 


de  Mn  origine'.  II  me  semble  qu'oh  la  peat  repporter 
commodement  entre  la  pienre  stellaris  pins  obecnre: 
<c8r  elle  a  dee  taches  ebsoirsB,.  ek  la  cooleur  de  la  pierre 
steUario,  si  ce  n'eet  qne  sa  eealeiir  cendc^  et  grise  retire 
ssr  le  rouge)*  £lls  est  connexe  covime  nn  ceil,  et  de  Tautre 
cost^  eUe  est  applanie,  on  crenel.  Quelques-vn  appellent 
ceUe-I2i  batrachite,  les  autres  brontia  ou  ombria." — Le 
Parfaxct  JoailRer,  ou  JBiaioire  dn  Pivrtntt^  9fe,  €}om- 
pose  parAnselme  Bo<toe  de  Boot,  8vo.  A  Lyoo,  1644^ 
p.8d& 

See  also  a  long  aoeonnt  ef  the  stone  ui  JoasntB 
De  Laet  D&  €femmi$  et  LapuUbu^  Ubri  duo,  8fc,, 
BtO;  Logd.  Bat.  1647.  This  writer  considen  ^at 
Boetius  (De  Boot)  has  wrongfoDy  eoofonnded  the 
**-  toadstone  "  with  the  '^  garatronium."    He  adds : 

*'PnBcipuam  illias  virtutem  pradicat  contra  vertigi- 
nem  capitis,  si  parti  dolinti  appKcetnr,  ant  braebio: 
minus  compcrtam,  oontia  plenritidem,  d^qoia  anind  et 
nofbum  cadneom.  Doeoit  me  Y ir  Nrt)ih'Bsimne  Wilhel- 
mns  Boswellus  Serenisrimi  Bsans  Mag.  Britan.  lee  agou 
apud  niust.  et  potentiaeimos  D.i).  Ordines  generales  Con- 


foedemti  Belgii,  banc  gemmam  si  ardenti  Candalffi  pro- 
plus  objiciatnr,  eam  sensim  extinguere,  quod  ssBpius 
fuerit  expertus,  sed  gemmam  paulatim  nonnihil  corrumpi 
et  velnti  mgas  contrahere."— p.  99. 

Many  similar  passages  might  be  trsnscrihed, 
the  authcNTS  often  doing  little  mure  than  citing  or 
referring  to  the  statements  of  their  predecessors. 
I  may,  however,  before  concluding,  summon  a 
Danish  physician  to  give  us  the  results  of  that 
rare  ana  difficult  process,  especially  where  the 
marvellous  is  concerned — personal  ooservation  :— 

"Bufonins  Lapis,  ah  aliis  Chefonitis,  Batnchites  et 
Crapaudina  voeatur ;  Germanis  Krotten-Stein,  quia  fama 
fert  ab  antiquis  bufonibus  eructari,  qood  experientia 
falsum  ease  docait  Anshelmo  BoStio  II  Boot.  .  .  .  Xasci- 
tur  fungi  instar  in  saxis  et  petris»  non  verb  in  capitibus 
bufonam,  ut  vulgo  crednnt. 

**  Commendatnr  ad  tumores  et  inflationes  h  venenatb 
aaimalibas  illatas,  qnas  eoatactu  et  adfHctu  diseutft^ 
ei^u&  exemplom  in  contubemali  vidi,  qui  cum  inter  aliaa 
plantas  Esulam  mjUerem  ooUegisset,  ac  inter  eradicafr* 
dum  saccus  ejus  difptis  adhfflsisset,  quibos  incante  faciem 
fricnit ;  subito  Intumuit  ad  miraculum  usque,  sed  petito 
annulo  ab  astante  qui  lapidem  huae  tenebat,  et  looe 
tumido  aliquoties  affiietOi  intra  horam  detumntt  inflatioi 
PiSBssnte  veneno  sadam  et  eolorem  motare  femnt,  q|n»> 
cirea  contra  venena  ejus  pulvis  exhibetnr.  Contra  cal- 
culoa  vim  habere  insisnem  exiatlmant,  adea  ut  enm 
generari  non  permittat.' — JUiMeuaa  Wormiaaum^  ten  JbRi- 
toras  Btrum  narioruwi,  §(v^  ab  Olao  Worm,  Med.  Doct,  Ac 
£blb.  AmsteL  (apat  L.  and  D.  Elzevirios),  1655,  p.  107.) 

But  the  possessor  of  the  ''toadstone  ring" 
seems  somewhat  dnhioQS  as  to  the  natnia  and 
Talue  of  his  gem,  and  may  wish  to  he  assniad  ef 
its  genuineness — ^for  belief  is  a  peat  thing  in  these 
matters — before  he  invokes  its  virtues  to  preventthe 
formation  of  caktilus,  to  dissipate  a  tumew,  or  to 
''give  forewarning  against  venom."  A.n  old  writer, 
copying  from  others  still  older^  indicates  the  meane 
by  which  the  character  of  the  stone  may  be  setded 
beyond  question,  and  which  your  correspondeot 
wul  haye  no  difficulty  in  puttang  into  requisition  :— 

**  Yon  shall  know  whether  the  tode-afone  be  the  right 
and  perfect  atone  or  not.  Hold  the  stone  before  a  tode, 
so  that  he  may  see  it,  an^if  it  be  a  right  and  true  stone 
the  tode  will  lei^  toward  it,  and  make  as  tbonah  he  would 
snatch  it.  Heenviethse  much  that  man  diould  have  that 
stone."— jl  TkouMnd  Notable  ThingMf  by  T.  Lupton,  4to. 
London,  1586,  booki. 

I  need  not  remind  H.  S.  C.  that  the  stona  in 
his  ring  is  that  **  piecioiia  jewel,"  which,  worn  in 
the  head  of  the  "  ngir  iJod  v^iomous  toad,'*  is 
used  by  ^akespeare  (Aa  You  Like  U,  Act  II. 
Sc  1)  as  an  apt  symbol  of  the  sweetness  of  ^  the 
uses  of  advem^.'^  The  analogy  is  unfortunately 
not  based  on  soMBtific  truth.  In  an  amusing  little 
work  the  Key.  R.  H.  NeweU  remarks  upon  this 
passage:—- > 

*'The  stone  distinguished  bv  the  n.ime  of  the  reptile 
and  called  Toad-^tome^  Crapamd&nie^  Krottmatein,  has  been 
discovered  to  be  nothing  but  the  fossil  toeth  of  the  sea* 
wol^  or  some  flatptoethed  fish  not  nafrequent  in  oar 
island,  as  well  as  several  other  countries." — The  Zoology 


542 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«fc  S.  VII.  Jus*  2^  Tl, 


oflht  Engliih  Poets  corrected  hy  the  Writinge  of  Modem 
Jyahtralists,  small  Svo,  London,  1845,  p.  180. 

See  also  on  the  same  point  Pennant*8  British 
Zoology,  iii.  16. 

Some  further  remarks  npon  the  supposed  yirtues 
of  the  toadstone  will  be  found  in  The  Hitiory  and 
Poetry  of  Finger  BingB,  by  Charles  Edwards,  8vo. 
Eedfield  (}JA),  1865,  p.  107. 

William  Batss,  B  A. 

Birmingham, 

PROPHECIES  BY  NOSTRADAMUS  AND  OTHERS 
ON  THE  FALL  OF  PARIS. 

{4.^  S.  tL  324,  870, 896,  606.) 

The  subject  of  French  ]K>pular  j^ropheciefl  of 
impendinff  national  calamities  remains  still  un- 
exhausted, although  tiiere  has  been  a  good  deal 
of  writing  about  it  of  late.  If  I  mistake  no^  the 
fixst  reference  to  it  in  '*  N.  ft  Q.**  bore  my  si^a- 
ture.  My  attention  was  attracted  to  the  subject 
by  a  little  hrochure  which  I  picked  up  on  a  six- 
penny stall  here  in  Melbourne.  The  title  of  this 
volume,  which  is  obyiously  a  pedlar's  chap-book. 


^Le  livre  de  toates  lea  Proph^ties  et  Pi^ctiom, 
Pasitf— Pr^entp-«t  Avenir.  (4im«  ^).  Gonsid^ble- 
ment  angroent^  et  solTie  d'ime  Lettre  snr  la  Proximity 
de  la  Fin  dn  Monde,  par  M.  le  Chanoine  R^iuat,  et  de 
UPri&rodePielX.    Paria,  1849.** 

Perhaps  a  brief  account  of  this  curious  little 
budget  of  oracka  may  be  of  some  intereet  to  your 
reatoB. 

The  collection  raugea  from  Isuah's  prophecy 
a^iainat  Jerusalem  (caap.  zxiL)  down  to  the  pre- 
diotiona  of  the  seers  of  the.reyolutionaiy  year 
1848.  All  the  beat-lmown  oracular  utterances  of 
these  latter  days — such  as  those  of  Cazotte,  Ma- 
dame Lenormand,  tiie  Nun  of  Bloi^  Lady  Hester 
Stanhope,  and  Chateaubriand— are  mdnded ;  and 
taken  as  a  whole,  and  read  by  the  light  of  recent 
events,  it  is  impossible  to  deny  that  there  is  a 
strange  reality  and  an  atzesdng  interest  in  the 
little  book.  Take  the  prophecy  from  Isaiah,  for 
example.  In  our  Engush  version  the  title  of 
chapter  xxii.  is  ''The  Burden  of  the  VaUey  of 
VisioD,''  and  it  is  <]^uoted  with  an  obvious  sub-re- 
ference to  the  commff  doom  of  the  proud  and  gay 
capital  of  France,  in.  your  last  volume  (p.  640), 
Mb.  G.  a.  Sala.  has  shown  how  strikingly  the 
predictions  contained  in  the  sixth  chmter  of  Joq^ 
miah  would  apply  to  the  siege  of  Paris  bv  the 
Prussians;  but  there  is  a  stiU  move  remarkable 
coincidence  of  statement  in  Isaiah's  prophecy  of 
the  sack  and  fall  of  "  the  tumultuous  dly,  the 
joyous  dty,"  whose ''  mien  are  all  fled  together,'' 
and  of  which  ''  the  houses  have  been  broken 
down  to  fortify  the  wall«"  Another  remarkable 
dveumstance  which  the  book  presents  is  that, 
thoueh  it  has  been  evidently  compiled  for  popular 
cjzculation  in  France,  it  everywhere  predicts  the 


decline  of  the  national  glory  and  the  ruin  of  IIm 
empire.  This  is  exactly  the  opposite  of  what  one 
would  be  sore  to  find  in  a  spurious  collection  of 
oracles.  Thus,  the  fall  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  is  indicated  in  these  terms : — ^After  Piua 
the  Ninth  there  shall  be  ten  more  popes,  who  are 
each  indicated  by  a  Latin  symbolical  designation, 
and  then — 

"In  penecatione  eztremi  Romann  EodesbB  sedebU 
Petms  Bomaniu,  qui  paecet  oves  in  mnltis  tiibiiUtioii>- 
bus,  qmbns  tnmsactis,  ctvitas  septicolUs  dimetar,  ei 
judex  tremendiu  Jndicabit  popnlam.'' 

Agun,  Jean  de  Vatigueno  in  the  thirteentk 
centuzy  predicts  ''  the  spoliation,  devastation,  and 
pillage  of  that  most  famous  dty  which  is  the 
capital  and  mistress  of  the  whole  kioffdom  of 
France."  At  the  same  time,  ''toute  V&gaai^,  dana 
tout  TuniTers,  sdra  peia^eut^e  d'une  maoifeie  la- 
mentable et  douloureuse,  et  sdra  d^uillte  ei 
priy^  de  tons  ses  biens  teraporels."  The  diief 
of  the  Church,  moreover,  is  to  change  his  red- 
denoe,  and  (this  is  striking)  ''  r£glise  n'anrapdnt 
de  d^fenseur  pendant  vmgt-dnq  mois  at  plus^ 
parce  ^ue  pendant  tout  oe  temps,  il  n'y  aora  ni 
nape  m  empereur  k  Rome,  ni  resent  en  FVanoe.'' 
It  is  spedaDv  mentioned  that  ''Lomine  ahall 
shudder  over  her  spoliation,  and  Champagne  shaH 
be  pilla^  and  devastated."  But,  when  all  these 
calamities  shall  be  overpast,  ''a  young  captive 
prince  shall  recover  ih»  crown  of  the  uli^  and 
shall  extend  his  dominion  over  all  the  univezseL 
Once  established,  he  diall  destroy  the  sons  of 
Brutus  and  their  isle,  so  that  their  memory  ahaU 
pass  into  everlasting  forgetfulne8s"—aneTilaiigary 
for  England. 

This  young  prince,  who  is  to  deCver  France 
from  her  uttermost  depths  of  tribulation,  reap- 
pears in  veiy  many  of  these  prophedes.  In  seven! 
of  them  he  appean  as  the  last  remaining  sdon  of 
the  "vieil  sang  de  la  Cap,"  which  would  seem 
to  noint  to  a  restontion  of  the  Bourbons. 

Madame  Lenormand,  the  -seeiess  of  the^xat 
Napoleon's  days,  predicted  in  very  powerful  lan- 
guage the  utter  destruction  of  the  "modem  Car- 
thage, modem  Babylon,  the  gmlty  dty  of  Paris:" 
It  should  fall  a  prey  to  ''a  crafty  oonoueror,'^ 
whom  its  cowardice  and  indifference  would  render 
more  resolute  to  ruin  it ;  and  tiie  end  should  be 
that  Paris,  destroyed  by  fordgn  invadem  and  in- 
ternal dissendons,  would  fall  once  more  into  the 
''  narrow  limito  of  the  ages  of  barbarism." 

The  general  tenor  of  the  predictions  is  of  the 
same  cast,  and  the  last  impression  left  on  the 
mind  of  llie  reader  of  the  i)ook  is  tiiat,  all  sur- 
plusage^ of  undedgned  ezror  idlowed  for,  there  is 
always  in  the  worjEd  a  large  floating  mass  of  unin- 
spired but  nerfectiy  authentic  prophecy.  It  is, 
however,  only  after  its  fulfilment  that  any  pro- 
phecv  can  be  proved  genuine.  D.  Blajb» 

Melboame. 


«p 


4«k  S.  VII.  Jdwe  24, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


543^ 


A  NORTH  LANCASHIRE  SONG. 

(4:^  S.  YU.  428.) 

This  quaint  and  humorous  ditty  was  formerlj 
yery  poj^ular  in  South  Lancashire  and  in  Chesldre. 
Even  still  it  is  frequently^  sun^  by  farmers'  sons 
and  daughters  whilst  driving  m  spring  carts  on 

Sic-nic  excursions  to  Dunham  Park;  Itostheme 
(eer.  Belle  Vue,  &c.  Indeed,  only  a  few  months 
ago  I  saw  a  gentleman  make  his  dibut  before  a 
West-Hiding,  Yorkshire,  audience  at  a  '*  Penny 
Beading,"  smoing  this  song  to  the  best  of  his 
ability.  So  tnorough  was  the  appreciation  and 
hearty  the  laughter  at  song  and  singer,  one  or 
both^  that  he  declared  he  would  never  appear  in 
pubhc  again.  The  South  Lancashire  yersion  is 
much  like  the  one  given  by  Mr,  Mobrib,  allowing 
for  the  difference  of  dialect,  except  that  the  anxious 
mother  advises  him  to  '^put  on  his  fine  clothes 
and  his  new  yellow  hose,^'  in  order  to  captivate 
the  affections  of  the  fair  sex.  But  the  Cneshire 
yersion,  obtained  from  Nantwich  seventeen  years 
ago,  which  I  ^ve  verbatim,  is  by  far  the  best  I 
have  seen.    It  is  entitled — 

**  Bohm  m  aeareh  of  a  Wife, 

^  'I  am  thee  mother,  and  thee  art  my  son. 
Come  listen  to  parent's  advice* 
Put  on  thy  best  clothes  and  thy  sweet  yellow  hose. 
And  go  oat  and  seek  thee  a  wife— thee  most ! 

Aye  thee  must,  sore  thee  must. 
Go  ont  and  seek  Uiee  a  wiib— thee  must  I ' 

**  So  Robin  he  pnt  on  his  holiday  clothes, 
Which  were  neither  tatter'd  nor  torn, 
His  sweet  yellow  hose,  as  well  as  his  dothes ;' 
He  looked  like  a  gentleman  bom — ^he  did ! 

Aye  he  did,  sare  he  did* 
He  looked  like  a  gentleman  bom — he  did  I 

"  He  had  not  gODe  along  veiy  far, 

When  he  met  a  former's  fat  daughter  called  Qrace ; 
He  had  only  iost  spoken  bat  two  or  three  words. 
When  she  hit  him  a  slap  in  the  fiiM--she  did  I 

Aye  she  did,  sare  she  did, 
She  hit  him  a  slap  in  the  fiice— she  did ! 

**  As  Robio  was  walking  the  street  one  day. 
Thinking  of  nolfaintf  bat  folks. 
He  happened  to  kiss  the  wife  of  a  priest  s 
She  had  him  pat  into  the  stocks— she  did  I 

Ave  she  did,  sare  she  did. 
She  had  him  pat  into  the  stocks— she  did ! 

**  Now  Robin  sat  sobbing  and  siehing  fall  sore. 
And  kicked  np  a  terrible  bother ; 
'  If  tUs  is  the  way  the  men  get  their  wives, 
III  go  home  and  live  with  my  mother— I  will  I 

Aye  I  will,  sure  I  will, 
I'll  go  home  and  live  wiUi  my  mother — I  will  1 ' 

"  So  oome  take  down  the  tabor,  and  [day  ns  a  tane. 
And  take  down  the  meat  fiom  the  shelf. 
For  we  shall  have  music  and  dancing  in  taUl, 
For  Robin's  a  man  of  himself— he  is ! 

Aye  he  is,  sore  he  is, 
For  Robin's  a  man  of  himself— ^he  is  I 

'"  ru  tell  thee  now,  mother,  it's  no  soch  nice  thing, 
I  was  never  more  shamed  in  my  life ; 


I've  spoiled  my  best  clothes  and  my  sweet  yellow  hose,. 
And  111  never  more  seek  for  a  wife — I  won't ! 

No  I  won't,  sure  I  won't  I 
m  never  more  seek  for  a  wife— I  won't  I  * " 

John  HipsoN- 
Lees,  near  Oldham. 


KIPPER. 
(4"»  S.  viL  409.) 

Our  lexicographers  have  been  sinffularly  unfor- 
tunate in  their  treatment  of  a  class  of  words 
closely  allied  to  kipper.  The  idea  of  something 
crooked,  or  something  turned  suddenly  or  sticking 
out  abruptly  from  a  normal  direction,  is  conunon 
to  the  wnole  class.  Thus  we  have,  from  the  form 
of  the  things  named,  Mbet  vmijib-hoom  ;  and  to 
Jibe,  from  the  action  of  a  horse  or  boat  in  starting 
aside  from  a  direct  course.  On  both  sid^  of  the 
common  border  of  England  and  Scotland,  a  cow 
with  a  crooked  horn,  that  is,  with  a  horn  abruptly 
bent  upwards  or  downwards,  is  called  a  k^pptd 
cow;  the  tumed-up  plate  of  a  man's  shoe  is  a 
h^[^  toe-plate;  a  tumed-up  nose  a  hippit  nose> 
&C.  A  stick  with  a  turned  handle  is  always  a 
"  gibby  "  stick. 

HalUwell  g^ves  gib-jflsh  as  the  name  of  the  milter 
of  the  salmon  in  the  North.  Jamieson  (Mym, 
Did,  of  Scot,  i^oxig,  Suppl.)  says  g%b  (g  hard)  is 
used  m  Ettrick  Forest  to  denote  the  beak  or 
hooked  upper  lip  of  the  male  salmon. 

I  think,  tiien,  it  may  be  fairly  concluded  thai 
the  word  Atjpp^  is  only  a  corrupt  form  oi  gibber*. 
A  h^aper  salmon  is  a  salmon  with  a  k^tpH  nose. 

Those  who  know  how  the  word  hpper  is  pro-** 
nounced  in  Scotland  wiU  recognise  it  in  the  fol- 
lowing verse,  wluch  I  have  met  with  in  Watson's 
Choice  Collection  of  Comic  and  Serious  Scots  BDcme 

giroe,  1700,  1711),  in  a  description  of  ''The 
lythesome  Wedding,"  which  is  said  to  be  ''  the 
first  of  tiie  sangs  of  the  Lowlands  to  be  met  witk 
in  print " : — 

*<  And  there  will  be  sow-Ubber  Peattie, 
and  ploaekie-fac't  Watt  i'  the  Mill ; 
Capper-nosed  GibMe  &  Frande, 
that  wins  i'  the  howe  o'  the  hill." 

Though  Jamieson  fsiled  to  see  the  true  meanings 
of  the  word  kif^ter,  his  explanation  of  it  contains 
matter  of  interest  He  says  (Supplement):  — 
"  SSpper  originally  denoted  salmon  m  the  state  of 

? pawning,  and  was  synonymous  with '  reid  fische.'  ^ 
he  title  of  an  Act  of  James  IV.  (1503),  c.  72*, 
is ''  of  dauchter  of  redde  fish,  or  kipper." 

Skinner  thinks  the  word  denotes  youngsalmon, 
or  fry,  from  Belg.  ftt/spen  =  to  hatch.  Kwper  ib 
properly  the  name  given  to  the  male  fisn ;  the 
female  is  called  a  roan,  or  roaner,  on  the  Border. 
We  read  in  Acts,  Hen.  VH.  c.  21,  «  Thatno  jiersoa 
take  and  1^1  any  salmons  or  trowtes  not  beymg  in* 
season,  bung  kepper  salmons,  or  kepper  trowtes^ 


544 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


Li"*  S.  VIL  Juji«  U,  '71. 


ekeAdBT  salnums.  or  ehedder  trowtea";  and  in 
JRot.  Park  m  Edward  UI.  (Cowel),  "  that  no 
aalmon  l^  taken  between  Qrayeaend  and  Henley- 
upon-Thames  in  Mpper-time,  yiz.  between  tbe  In- 
vention of  the  Gross  (3  May)  and  the  Epiphany." 

Thoicas  DoBsoir,  BJL 


KippeTf  according  to  Webeter,  is  '^  a  term  ap- 
plied to  salmon  wiiaa  [unfit  to  be  taken,  and  to 
the  time  when  they  are  so  considered."  Kip- 
pered salmon  are — 

''Sahnon  split  open,  aaTted,  and  dried.  The  word 
k^aper&t  first  denoted  a  ftsh  immediate^  after  tbe  spawn- 
tDg^  Boason ;  and  a*  sveh  fisk  me  not  good  for  food  whtlo 
fteah,  they  wen  mnaXfy  eiind  and  hung  np.  Wheaoe 
the  word  properly  deootiac  a  apawning  Mlmoa  eame  to 
maaa  a  saltea  ana  dried  salmon." — Jamieson'a  Scot,  Diet, 

Dr.  J.  further  sumits  that  the  word  kippgr 
m»y  UteraUy  mean 'Moeaked '' fisk  from  the  Scotch 
w<nd  kipf  a  hook,  a  jutting  point  f  and  I  suppose 
thai  thus  construed  the  name  ezpceoBes  tlus  i^ 
yearanoe  of  the  fiah  out  of  seaaon. 

It  ia  hardlv  likely  that  this  woid  has  any  oqbh 
joaetion  with  tna  Eagliab  woid  '*  kaepei." 

D.B. 

Paisley. 

JESpe  (kooL  the  Saxoa  Q/pa)f 

**  A  badcet  or  engine  mada  ef  0Bi«n»  broad  at  the  ead» 
and  narrower  by  «UgreaB,  need  ia  Oxfoidahiie  and  other 
parts  of  England  for  the  taking  of  fish,  and  fishitt^;  with 
those  engines  is  called  k^ppimg.  We  road  that  no  salmon 
«hall  be  taken  between  Gravesend  and  Henley-apon- 
Thames  ia  kifptr  timm,  yia.  between  the  8rd  of  May  and 
the  £pif  hany.  Bot  Ftad.  60  £d.  IIU'  (Jacob's  Lam 
J>kL) 

G.M.T. 

THE  DUKE  Off  BUCKINGHAM'S  MOTHEB. 

(4*  8.  Tii.  400.) 

It  has  lonff  been  redconed  amongst  the  ex- 
ploded scandalB  of  history  that  this  brilliaat  and 
nocomplished  countess^  who  played  so  prominent 
«  part  in  the  court  of  James  Lj  waa  originally 
«kitchenmaidof  meaadefloent.  Thia  ^Mord  story 
has  lately  bean  leprodnoed  by  Mr.  fiepword^ 
Dizon  with  ao  many  dreumitantial  detatiawitii- 
out  a  shadow  of  foundation^  that  one  ia  ahneat 
afcaid  of  cozrectiag  one  of  the  Uundem  in  hjaaar- 
ntire^  for  fear  of  bainf  au^posed  to  aequiesaa  in 
the  rest.  Thoaa  who  writ»  on  hiatoiieaf  aiAjecta 
in  the  spirit  of  the  song  at  the  music  halliv  *^  th*t 
'eyeiy  dodge  is  fair  which  will  make  a  good  sanai^ 
tion^"  acaraely  dsaarre  serious  lefotation.  The 
padigraea  of  Villiara  and  TL>^""rwBt  in  the  thiid 
Tolnme  of  NichoJa'a  Lm0§terskit$  are  inffimi 
plate  and  xequiie  son*  cofzeetiona;  bat  th»pM«ttt- 
age  of  Anthony  Beaumont^  1^  laihM  af  ths 
cpptess^  appean  in  the  ViaitadoB  of 
^shiiiaofl61&. 


Mb.  Gaedihbb  is  mistaken  in  supposing  that 
there  is  any  doubt  about  the  marriage  of  Lady 
Yilliers  to  Sir  William  Beyner;  for  the  marriage 
took  place  at  Goadby  on  June  19, 1606,  and  is 
dul^  recorded  in  the  parish  register.  Peck,  the 
antiquaiy,  extracted  from  ihe  Goadby  r^;isten 
all  tne  entriea  of  the  Villiers  family,  and  they 
were  reprinted  by  Nichols  (toL  iL  p.  196).  Tho 
following  extract  from  these  registers  supplies  an 
amusiug  illustzation  of  Mr.  Dixon'a  reckleaanasa  o£ 
statement :  — 

•^  1607^  April  8.  Sir  William  Fielding  and  Mza.  SoaBi 
TiUien  maraed." 

It  is  clear  from  thb  entry  that  Susan  VHfieri 
married  Sir  WQliam  fielding,  one  of  the  principal 
knights  in  Leicestershire,  and  affcerwarda  fJari  of 
Denbigh,  in  the  next  year  after  the  death  of  her 
father^  ^r  Geoi;^^  Ylmers,  and  some  time  Iwl ore 
her  mother  mamed  her  third  husband,  Sir'niomas 
Compton.  Bat  what  does  Mr.  EE^worth  IKx(» 
[^abont  itf  — 

**  A  *  little  man,  a  dmnkard,  and  a  fooV  Sir  Thomas 
Compton  was  the  butt  (if  his  county,  and  the  makespoit 
of  his  village  green.  Bat  what  were  such  things  to  a 
parent  with  her  four  tmall  children — John,  George,  Kit, 
and  Stuan,  to  feed  and  clothe  ?  She  knew  that  he  was 
rich,  and  that  waa  enough  for  heiJ* 

I  should  like  to  know,  by  the  bye,  wbafc  evidaoce 
there  is  of  the  great  riches  of  Sir  Tkomas  Oompton. 

TXWABS. 


Since  my  note  waa  writteOi  I  haye  found  eTi- 
dence  of  the  second  maniage  of  Lady 'VIlliez&  In  a 
pedigree  (State  Papen^Domutic,  x&  lOX  which  is 
proved  by  internal  evidence  to  have  been  drawn 
up  as  early  as  1617,  Buckingham's  mothor  ia  said 
to  haye  been  married  the  second  time  lo  Sir  W. 
Banger.  There  axe  other  misspellinga  in  the 
pedigrea,  so  that  the  name  may  be  identical  with 
Sir  W.  Heyner.  If  it  ia,  she  must  have  mazried 
very  soon  after  her  husband's  death,  and  the 
«!•*»«/»  « Maria  Yilliers"  ia  the  list  referred  to 


name 


must  have  been  left  uncorrected*  Aa  aha  had  no 
special  bequest  in  Sir  W.  Reyz^s  will,  she  mnat, 
ir  he  is  the  husband  in  question,  hare  been  en- 
titled to  her  dower  out  of  his  lands — another 
argument  against  her  extreme  poverty.  ^ 

1  would  take  this  opportumty  of  pointing  out 
two  misprints  or  miswntmgs  in  my  note  at  p.  470. 
In  the  pediipee  there  should  be^  of  eourse,  no 
horizontal  Ime  connecting  Nidic^aa  Beammont 
with  Mary  Beaumont ;  and  the  date  at  yMth  Sir 
Qeor^  Villiera  waa  aaad  to  be  foortaeo  yeaia  and 
more  is  Noy.  23,  not  Noy.  8, 1661. 

S.  B«  Oaknbxb. 


4*48.Tn.JTOB  84,71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUSSIES. 


545 


(4*^  S.  TiL  466.) 

Mb.  BoTJcmiEB  wHI  find  the  sonnet  on  the  Nile 
in  7%e  Life  and  Letters  of  Keats,  by  R.  Monckton 
jySlnea  (Mozon.  1848X  I  d9.  In  a  letter  to  hiB 
broihezs  from  Mampstead,  Feb.  16^  ^^^i  Keats 
writes:  ''The  Weonesday  before  lasl^  Shellejy 
Hont,  and  I  each  wrote  a  sonnet  on  the  river 
Nile."  The  sonnets  of  Sh^ej  and  Hunt  are  wdl 
known  as  magnificent  specimens  of  their  class  of 
poetiy.  Keats',  which  was  certainly  least  socr 
cessful  of  the  three,  and  is  not  included  in  his 
PoemSf  runs  as  follows :  — 

**  TO  TSB  mUE. 

**  Son  of  the  old  moon-mountains  African, 
Stream  of  the  P^^ramid  and  crocodile  t 
We  caU  thee  frnitfol,  and  that  ^17  while 
A  desert  fills  our  seeing's  inwaid  span: 
Nurse  of  swart  nations  since  the  world  began. 
Art  thou  80  fruitful  ?  or  dost  thou  beguile 
Those  men  to  honour  thee,  who  worn  with  toQ, 
Eest  them  a  space  'twixt  Cairo  and  Deean  ? 
O  may  dark  fancies  err  I   They  snrsly  do  $ 
'Tis  iffnosanoe  that  mains  a  banen  waste 
Of  aabeyond  itself.    Thou  dost  bedew 
Green  rushes  like  our  rivers,  and  dost  taste 
The  pleasant  sun-rise.  Green  isles  hast  thou  too. 
And  to  the  sea  as  happily  dost  haste.** 

This  would  seem  to  have  been  not  <3ie  uniaue 
instance  of  a  poetical  tournament  of  ^e  kind 
between  these  nighly-gifted  men.  Both  Leigh 
Hunt  and  Keats  wrote  a  sonnet  each  on  the  grass- 
hopper and  cricket ;  Leigh  Hunt's  beginning :  — 

"  Green  little  vanlter  in  the  sunny  gxas^** — 
and  Keats' — 

**  The  poetiy  of  earth  is  never  dead." 
I  quite  agree  with  Mb.  Bot7CHIEB  that  Mr. 
Kossetti's  version  of  the  line  from  the  Adonais  of 
Shelley  is  a  mistake.    The  emphasis  belongs  to 
the  word  "wild,"  not  to  the  conjunction  "And." 

Q*  J.  Db  WaBB. 

Mb.  JoiTATEAK  BoTTCKiBB  questions  the  cor- 
rectness, as  regards  ihythnK  of  Mr.  Roosotti^B 
alteration  of  around  to  round.  In  defence  of  Mr. 
Bossetti's  reading,  if  it  requires  any,  in  the  first 
place  I  beg  leave  to  say  that  this  accomplished 
editor  has  a  precedent  in  earlier  editions.  1  have 
one,  publbhed  by  Milner  and  Sowerby,  ^ving  the 
line  m  question  the  same  as  Mr.  BossettL  And  in 
the  second  instance,  I  cannot  afree  with  Mb. 
BoiTCHiBB  in  his  correction,  and  I  do  it  with  the 
less  reluctance,  as  Mb.  Bottchibb  is  so  far  nnde- 
dded  himself  as  to  ask  other  opinions.  The  line 
in  debate  is  a  most  perfect  Alexandrine;  and 
ihroufi^hout  the  whole  poem  Shelley  has  preserved 
the  dose  of  his  stanzas  unvaried  by  increase  or 
decrease  of  syllables.  If  a  had  been  prefixed  to 
round,  it  would  have  been  an  exception;  and  I 
cannot  help  thinking,  with  due  deference  to  Mb. 
BoucHiXB,  an  unpleasing  one.    Hie  emphasis  on 


^And,**^  as  i&e  fine  howthdb,  is  sliglxt,  and  its 
weight  is  on  the  "  wild  winds,"  then  on  the  panse 
at  round)  the  first  syllable  of  the  second  member 
of  the  vene  answen,  but  with  a  modi  stranger 
aeoeBrt,tothe"And"oftfaefirBt  Thusitrans:^ 

"  Andihe  v3<f  wmdt  flew  round,  «o8bing  in  their  SiBmay,*^ 

It  is  the  only  instance  in  the  elegy  of  two 
monosyllables  sounded  long  coming  together— 
''wild  windsy"  and  t^  superflnous  a  to  romd, 
would  to  my  ear  be  very  inharmonioiis. 

J.  A.  G. 

Caiisbrooke. 

GEBMAN   LUTEtERAN  CHUECH,  DUBLIN. 
.  (3'd  8.  X.  802,  484.) 

B^  the  kiadiieas  ef  a  friend  I  have  been  lately 
fnnushed  wit^  a  copy  of  the  following  document 
which,  as  I  have  been  ixrformed,  has  never  8p« 
peared  in  print,  and  which,  onless  I  am  mistaken^ 
will  be  deemed  interesting  by  many  of  your 
readers : — 

"A  Short  Statement  of  i!he  German  Church  and 

Cbngr^atunu 

«It  was  about  the  year  1698  that  a  Mr.  lichtensCeui 
came  to  DnhUn  to  try  if  he  oonld  find  a  congregation  of 
Grermans.  He  snooeeded  in  collecting  a  snutll  namber, 
who  agreed  to  receive  him  as  their  minister,  and  pay  him 
a  aalaiy  by  volnntaiy  snbecription ;  bnt  as  the  most  of 
them  were  poor,  they  were  not  ahle  to  give  him  as  mndk 
as  was  neoeasary  to  support  himself  and  ftnnily.  Mr. 
Lfaiitenstein  offered  to  go  to  London  and  the  Ccintiaent, 
and  tiT  to  raise  subscriptions^  which  he  did ;  and  received 
a  good  deal,  which  was  afterwards  applied  to  tlie  bnildtaf 
of  the  church  and  dwelling-honse  for  the  minister  in 
PooIb€|r.8treet.  In  the  year  1706  a  Mr.  Kellinghmsn 
sneceemd  him ;  and  under  his  directing  the  chnr3i  and 
honae  were  huUt  about  the  year  1725.  It  appears  <hat 
about  this  time  he  got  a  yeany  gnat  Aram  the  Sang  by 
royal  patent,  which  was  renewed  to  his  snooessora^  bait 
was  never  granted  by  Parliament  or  the  Irish  Govern*- 
ment.  As  before  stitted,  the  ceqgregation  has  been  con- 
txnnally  small,  and  most  of  them  poor :  only  one  or  twa 
wave  sole  to  contribate  for  the  opholdiag  the  eluneh  Hid 
ministry;  of  which  was  a  Mr.  Felster,  who  oootribated 
liberally  nearly  fifty  years,  and  at  last  left  in  his  will 
600/.  for  the  poor  of  the  German  church ;  by  which  he 
could  not  mean  only  what  are  called  paupers,  but  tiie 
poor  who  attended  the  draich  service,  but  could  contri- 
bote  wy  little  for  upholding  it.  The  fbre-meat&aned 
beqnest  came  to  the  oinroh  in  the  veor  1770,  when  a 
Mr.  Moller  was  minister;  who  had  also  been  appointed 
by  Mr.  Felster  executor,  to  act  after  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Febter,  which  happened  in  1769.  From  that  time  the 
interest  of  said  money  has  been  used  by  minister  and 
churoh  warden,  as  it  has  been  wanted,  for  charity  and 
upholding  said  church.  In  the  year  1806 1  was  appointed 
minister^  and  was  promised  lOOf.  salaiy  per  year,  as  these- 
was  no  one  who  would  engage  for  less.  This  same 
shoidd  be  made  up  in  the  following  way ;  that  is  to  say, 
Mf.  h9VpL  OenMmment,  the  other  iiy  subseviption;  and 
what  was  wantii^  should  be  added  trom  the  interest  of 
said  money.  This  was  Icept  up  until  1814 ;  but  from  that 
time  the  contribution  ceased,  as  most  of  the  oongr«ation 
had  died,  and  no  new  settlers  did  come ;  so  that  I  could 
not  receive  my  fell  salary  any  move,  only  what  em& 


546 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*  8.  VII.  Jtnm  2^  •71. 


irom  Goverxunent  and  the  interest  I  had  alao  from  this 
to  keep  the  charch  and  hoiue  in  repair;  hy  which,  if  I 
bhonld  be  paid,  there  would  not  be  saffident,  if  I  should 
get  the  whole  of  said  600/. ;  bnt  I  do  not  claim  it,  and 
wieh  not  to  deprive  the  charch  of  it;  only  I  have  taken  a 
loan  of  it,  to  finish  some  hoasea  belonging  to  my  iiunily." 

Appended  to  this  document  there  is  a  note  to 
the  followiDg  effect : — 

<*  This  is  my  father's  own  writing.  I  have  only  to  add, 
that  when  the  other  grants  to  chanties  finom  Government 
were  stopped,  my  father's  salary  was  likewise  withdrawn. 
— C.  M.  Shulz£." 

Abhba. 

Akchwt  Riddmb  (4*  8.  vil  514.)— The 
•answer  to  the  first  riddle  is  certainly  the  moon,  as 
sugp^ested.  The  second  is  rather  a  prophecy  than 
a  nddle.  and  refers  to  the  orerthrowy  soon  after 
the  Heformationy  of  the  celebrated  '^Rood  of 
Ghester/^'formerly  a  favourite  object  of  pilgrimage. 
This  cross^mentioned  in  Piers  the  Fhtomanf  pass.  y. 
L  469  (B  text),  stood  beside  the  <<  sacred  Dee/' 
as  Tennyson  calls  it,  in  a  spot  to  which  it  gave 
the  name  of  Hood-eye  or  cross-island,  now  cor- 
rupted into  Roodee  in  the  attempt  to  assimilate 
the  latter  part  of  the  word  to  the  name  of  the 
riyer.  The  prophecy  merely  asserts  the  downfall 
of  this  cross,  and  was  probably  written  soon  after 
the  event.  Walxke  W.  Sitsai. 

1,  Cintra  Terrace,  Cambridge. 

SiTW-MAi.  Insckiptioks  (4*  S.  vii.  256,  877, 
522.)  —  At  Middleburg,  the  capital  of  Zealand, 
in  the  island  of  Flushing,  there  is  a  fine  old  town- 
hall,  built  14C8  by  Charles  the  Bold,  ornamented 
with  twenty-five  colossal  statues  of  counts  and 
countesses  of  Flanders.  Above  the  face  of  the 
dock  afiixed  to  this  building  there  is  the  inscrip- 
tion— 

**  Pneterennt  et  impntantor." 
No  doubt ''  Periunt  et  imputantur"  already  quoted 
in  "N.  &  Q."  is  to  be  preferred. 

It  has  struck  me  that  part  of  the  tenth  yerse  of 
the  ninetieth  pealm  might  form  another  solemn 
inscription  for  a  clock  or  sun-dial— 

**  Soon  passeth  it  away,  and  we  are  gone  " ; 
or— 

"Irrevocable!  Irreparable." 
Round  the  dock  at  Keir  House,  near  Dunblane, 
^e  seat  of  Sir  William  Stirlmg  MaxweU,  the  fol- 
lowing striking  inscription  appears  :^ 

**  Hours  are  Time's  shafts,  and  one  comes  winged  with 
death." 

R.B.S. 
JoHK  Dybb  (4*  S.  vii.  232,  863,  443,  524.)— 
^B.  Jackson  knows  the  old  proverb,  that  *'  two 
l>lacks  don't  make  a  white,"  and  it  is  needless  to 
bring  forward  instances  of  bad  grammar  in  Shake- 
speare, Pope,  and  Byron  to  excuse  the  same  fiuilts 
in  Dyer.  If  he  had  written  such  poetry  as  theirs 
we  miffht  pardon  him  a  slip  in  grammar  now  and 
■then;  but — to  quote  another  yulgar  adage— Mb. 


Jacksov  '<£dlB  out  of  the  fiying-pan  into  the 
fire  "  in  suggesting  an  amendment  of  Dyer's  vc^fo. 
'^  Thou  who  lies  "  would  be  just  as  bad  as  "  thou 
who  He," 

As  for  the  linnet,  of  course  Dyer  used  the  ward 
yeihw  as  an  epithet  without  any  intention  of  omi* 
thologicall]r  distinguishing  the  bird  from  the  green 
or  brown  kind.  The  twittering  of  the  linnet  sug- 
gests nothing  poetical  or  pensive,  in  harmony  with 
the  ''purple  eyening,"  and  the  bird^  being  an 
early  rooster,  does  not  sing  at  that  tune  at  all. 
And  now  I  think  we  had  better  let  poor  Dyer  rest 
in  his  obscurity.  Jatbee. 

Rood  Sobxens  nr  Supfolk  Chubches  (4^  S. 
vu.  143,  267,  516.J— Allow  me  to  remind  Mr. 
Mabsh  with  regard  to  his  kindly-intended  con- 
tribution, that  it  will  be  most  desirable  (as  indeed 
he  will  have  learned  from  the  endless  contxoyeray 
on  the  unhappily  destroyed  Staiston  fresco,  the 
orig^al  copy  of  which  is  now  known  to  be  of 
doubtful  accuracy)  to  verify  the  statements  and 
inscriptions  sent  to  him  before  printing  them,  since 
skilful  dnuightsmen  like  Mr.  Watling,  and  eyen 
clergy,  are  not  always  quite  accurate  in  copying 
legends  or  skilled  in  reading  the  contracted  and 
indistinct  words. 

Possibly  Mb.  Mabsh  might  obtain  yaluable. 
asfflstance  from  Mr.  £.  L.  Blackburn,  F.A.S.,  who 
in  his  professional  duties  as  architect  has  for  many 
years  oeen  compiling  the  History  of  the  Rood- 
screens  of  Suffolk  and  other  counties  from  personal 
inspection,  and  some  time  since  issued  a  prospectus 
of  a  forthcoming  and  eyidently  yery  careful  work 
on  the  subject.  Suffolk  Ajthqitabt. 

''  The  Gbeatest  Clbbks  abb  not  thb  Wisbst 
Mbn"(4»»»S.  vii.409.)— 
'^  The  gretest  clerkes  ben  not  the  wyeest  men. 
As  whilom  to  the  wolf  thoa  spake  the  mare." 

This  is  the  only  passage,  so  far  as  I  can  remem- 
ber, in  the  Canterbiry  TakSf  containing  an  allusion 
to  any  inddent  in  The  Hidory  of  JUynard  the 
Foxe.  Mr.  Thomas  Wright^  in  bis  note  on  the 
aboye  lines,  says :  — 

**  The  faUe  of  the  wolf  and  the  niare  is  found  in  the 
Latin  iBsopean  collections,  and  in  the  early  French  poem 
of  Henard  le  Contrefait,  from  whence  it  appears  to  have 
been  taken  into  the  English  Reynard  the  J''ox." 

Now  it  is  quite  true  that  the  story  occurs  in 
Beynard  le  ContrefaU  and  in  other  early  poems; 
but  it  certainly  did  not  come  into  the  English 
Eeynard  from  the  French  poem  just  mentioned. 
Caxton  trandated,  as  we  all  know,  from  the  Dutch 
prose  Historie  van  Heffnaert  de  VoSf  printed  at 
Gouda  in  1479,  and  his  trandation  is  for  the  most 
part  fdthful,  fully  justifying  his  own  statement: 
"  I  haue  not  added  ne  mynusshed,  but  haue  fol- 
owed  as  nyghe  as  I  can  my  copye,  whiche  was  in 
dtttche  "i  and  this  fieible  of  the  wolf  and  the  mare 
forms  no  exception  to  the  fidelity  with  whicli  he 


4«»»8.VII.  Joji»24,'71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIE8, 


547 


has  <*fblowed  his  copj^e."  It  may  be  olMerved 
that  Chaucer  appeals  either  to  have  had  an  im- 
perfect acquaintance  with  the  fable,  or  to  have 
2 noted  from  memory ;  for  it  was  not  the  mare  at 
lli  but  Reynaid  himself  who  thua  addreaaed  the 
wolf,  the  mare  having  quietly  trotted  awa^y  with 
her  foal  aa  soon  aa  she  had  shown  Isegnm  the 
price  which  was  written  on  her  hoof. 

F.  NoBeAZB. 

Montaigoe  {JBsb.,  liv.  i.  ch.  xziv.)  quotes:  — 

**  Magis  magnos  dedcM  non  sunt  magit  magnos  aapi- 

entes," —    . 

And  his  editor  (ed.  Didot,  Paris,  1802),  the  poet 
Kegnier'a  translation :  — 

"  Les  plas  grands  dercs  ne  aont  pas  lea  dlua  fins.** 

Jamss  AirOWLES. 

Sussex  Folx  Lobe  :  The  Slowwobm  (4?^  S.  vii. 
427.) — ^In  Norfolk  the  saying  is — 

**  If  snakes  could  hear  and  dows  oonld  tee. 
Nor  man  nor  beast  woold  ever  be  free." 

The  slow-worm  is  known  as  the  &/m<l-worm 
everywhere,  G.  A.  C. 

"From  Clogs  to  CLoe8,"ETC.  (4"»  S.  vii  472.) 
M.  D.  has  sentyou  a  refined  copy  of  the  proverb 
in  question,  llie  original,  I  venture  to  toink,  is 
the  better  of  the  two:  "There's  nobbut  three 
generations  atween  dogs  and  clogs." 

HBBHSNXRXrDE. 

"  ICs  "  AHD  «  Ek  "  (4"»  S.  ylpauim  j  vu.  69, 193, 
264.)  —  I  have  been  prevented  by  a  long  illness 
from  noticing  Dsu  Dizoi^'s  replv  to  me  before.  My 
''  language,"  of  which  he  complains,  is  simply  that 
of  the  facts.  I  am  sorry  thev  do  not  accommodate 
themselves  to  Db.  Dixok's  hypothesis,  but  surely 
that  is  no  fault  of  mine.  It  appears,  however,  that 
the  real  combatant,  conveniently  i^eltering  him- 
self under  Db.  Dixoir's  buckler,  is  ''  the  author  of 
several  learned  works  and  the  professor  at  a 
foreign  university.''  and,  moreover,  ''one  of  the 
most  distinguishea  scholars  and  philologists  of  the 
age."  Well,  "non  omnes  omma  scimus."  This 
gentleman  mav  perhaps  be  a  professor  of  geology 
or  of  oriental  languages,  but  certainly  not  of 
French;  and  theretoro  (especially  as  we  do  not 
know  who  he  is)  I  hope  one  may^  without  want 
of  courtesy,  question  his  authority  when  it  is 
opposed  to  that  of  all  the  philologists  of  France. 
It  will  be  romembered  that  I  \mare  asked  Db. 
Uaas  whero  he  "  discovered  "  "  ^  science,"  ''  ha 
droit"  And  ''5s  philosophie."  He  now  informs 
us  that  these  phenomena  aro  "  very  common  in 
French  Switzerland  and  elsewhere,"  as  well  as  on 
the  visitbg  cards  of  some  of  his  acquaintance  (bad 
'cess  to  the  engravers  I) ;  and  adds  that  "  Docteur 
h  droit,"  in  the  newspapers,  is  aa  frequent  as  "  Boo 
teur  en  droit"  In  the  presence  of  these  statements 
I  admit  Db.  Dixon's  rights  as  a  discoverer,  but 


demur  to  the  value  of  the  discoveries;  especially 
as  the  accomplished  littr^,  after  working  inde* 
fatigably  on  his  great  dictionary  for  twenty-four 
yean,  seems  to  have  beeoi  entiroly  ignorant  of 
them.  Perhaps  the  wammt  professor  would  ob- 
ligingly communicate  them  to  him  for  insertion 
in  the  "Supplement"  I  have  often  read  with 
great  interest  Db.  Dixoh's  valuable  contributions 
on  ballad  literature  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  but  I  submit, 
that  this  case  of  "  h  and  en  "  comes  under  quite 
another  category.  J.  Fatkib. 

Kildare  Garaens. 

In  the  Bovdier  de  la  Foy^  ov  dSfenee  de  la  con^ 
feeeion  de  foy  dee  BgUeee  riformSee  de  France^  by 
Pierro  du  Moulin  (1619),  this  word  and  its  com- 
pounds are  very  frequently  met  with.  Thus,  in 
sec  z.  p.  85,  "lis  nous  ont  laiss^  I'Euangile  ie 
Escritures,  pour  estro  colomne  &  appuy  de  nostra 
foy/'  is  ^ven  as  a  translation  of  the  passage, 
'<  Evangelium  m  scripturis  nobis  tradiderunt,  fun- 
dament um  &  columna  fidei  nostrse  futurum" — 4e 
plainly  meaning  "  dans  les."  But  I  have  not  ea 
yet  noticed  any  roference  in  your  columns  to  the 
words  ieguehj  iequeUee^  &a,  Qompounds  of  Se^  and 
implying  ^' done  i^uels."  Hero  is  a  line,  from 
the  same  work,  which  shows  its  own  significa- 
tion:— 

<*  lis  s^auent  que  le  iSitr  n'est  pas  pins  oontraire  !^  la 
Duict  qae  les  anciens  conciles  atix  noaueaux,  etmuh  le 
pape  teglie  tout  &  ozdonne  de  tout . . .  dans  lesquels,"  etc. 

Then  again:  — 

*<  Une  ^lise  particuli^re  est  sujette  k  errer,  mesme  en 
ce  dont  il  s*u^t,  k  89aaoir  k  faire  des  remonstrances,  et 
vser  (user)  de  censures,  esqtullet  (dans  lesquelles)  se 
commettent  des  fautea." 

^H.  W.  R. 

Jeney. 

Datb  op  Chaxxcbb'8;Bibth  (4^  S.  vii.  412, 478.) 
Mb.  Fubnivall  speaks  of  Chaucer*s  "  Boke  of  the 
Duchesse  "  as  "  essentially  the  work  of  a  young 
hand,  of  a  man  under  thirty."  I  will  not  pause 
to  consider  how  few  men  of  such  an  age  could 
have  written  one  of  the  most  melodious  and  haunt- 
ing  poems  that  ever  was  penned,  but  I  ask  per- 
mission to  call  the  attention  of  your  correspond- 
ents to  a  difficulty  in  the  chronology  of  this  poem. 
Chaucer  describes  the  duke 


*'  A  wonder  wdfaring  knight,  .  .  . 
Of  good  mokell,  and  right  jong  therto. 
Of  the  age  of  four  and  twentie  yere.*' 

The  Duchess  Blanche  died  in  1369— an  undis- 
puted date ;  and  in  that  year  John  ^  of  Gaun^ 
according  to  the  received  date  of  his  birth,  would 
be  twenty-nine,  not  twenty-four.  His  friend 
Chaucer  can  hardly  have  failed  to  know  his  age, 
which  is  attested  oy  Froissart  and  other  histo- 
rians^ but  not  (so  far  as  my  researches  have  in- 
formed me)  by  any  State  document  otherwise  than 
Inferentially.  The  first  mention  that  I  find  of 
him  is  in  one  of  the  IMM  ContraroMoMrtB  jBm- 


M8 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [4^*  a  vil  Jmoc  24,  71. 


£jBg  Biwnid,  ^wko  wm  Bometmiw  ^ilfltoiy  iniiis 

iar  tin  lUixigi  of  Ub  ton's  mrtli  (winch  Huee 
ladies  Ittd  te  divide  wmmst  them)  until  Joly, 
1342  (Jte^..S[rcLlfM.  16  idv.HL)  These  two 
edtries  an^,  howeveCy  be  taken  as  coiifirmstoiy 
erfideaoe  A  John  of  Cknat's  birth  in  1840.  con- 
aidoring  also  that  Edmund,  wIm  wn  oertahu  j  his 
jomxiS^  bfother^was  bom  in  1341.  How  shall 
we  aoooant  for  the  five  years'  discreqpsney  betwwn 
the  dates  P  HESXSNistnM. 

*HBiJtT0»!Hi5ATrre"  (4«»S.TiLtW2,8»,488.) 
Among  the  able  writen  who  hare  asristed  to  g^e 
cnrrenqy  to  this  phrase,  is  1&.  Anthony  Trollope, 
ex.  gr. :  — 

^  In  her  heart  of  hearts  Mn.  Grantly  hated  ffrs.Pron- 
die—that  te,  with  the  sort  of  hatreA  one  Ohristian  huty 
aimn  iMKMif  to^el  itoiwids  •nether.'^— ^Vomiey  Panmt- 
sutm  ehspi»xi9L 

CUXKBE&X  BSRE. 

OXiATTOir  (4*  S.  Tu.  364^  446.) — Perinps  tite 
tfneiist  meant  to  ask  wliy  an  iron-bt^  tanet- 
ship  was  called  ^'Olatton.''  If  so,  he  will  find 
ftat  his  qneaj  has  already  been  aaawwed  by  my- 
self and  otiiers  inprerioos  yolnmes  of  ^  N.  ft'Q.," 
but  as  I  haye  not  now  got  them  at  hand  1  am  m- 
able  to  g^e  the  exact  TCfeienoe.  1  may,  howerer, 
briefly  say^  that  the  name  of  ^'  Glatton^'  has  been 
preservea  in  the  navy  since  the  beginning  of  the 
century,  when  Mr.  Wells  built  at  Onatham  a  ship 
of  fifty  gvns,  which  he  named  ^Olatten,''  after 
the  Huntingdonshire  perish  of  that  mane,  near  to* 
Stilton,  of  which  he  was  the  lord  of  the  manor. 
The  gvsater  portion  of  the  parish  of  Glatton  still 
belongs  to%is  descendant,  W.  Wells,  Esq^  M-P., 
of  Holme-wood.  A  full  description  of  the  Glat- 
ton wiU  be  found  in  Mr.  Heed's  Our  Ironclad 
8h^,  I  have  often  been  amused  at  seeing  the 
word  nnsprinted  '<  the  Glutton.*' 

C^iTTHBXRi  Beds. 

Glarfton  is  a  parish  in  Huntinffdonsfaize,  and 

Ename  to  H.M.S.  Glatton,  56,  m  which  Capt 
rwazds  Sir)  H.  Trollops  engaged  a  Fitnch 
te  squadron  on  July  13, 1796^  off  Golee.  (See 
James's  If^avdl  HitLj  L  334.)  I  remember,  as  a 
yery  littiebov^  occasional  visits  paid  to  the  gallant 
old  man  in  his  quiet  home  at  I^teehfor^  near 
Bath,  where  he  prided  Idmsel^  with  justice,  on 
the  beauty  of  his  garden. 

Was  not  Lard  Sandwich,  First  Loxd  of  the 
Admiralty;  connected  with  HuntsP 

sSxcKssuR  E.  WAI.COTI,  BD.,  F.S.A1 

MimmvwxLL,  irsAS  Loins  (4^  S.  yii.  366.)-. 
The  firrt  of  the  family  of  Mcsely  living  at 
Maidenwell  in  the  ei^iteentii  century  w«s  an  ad- 
heront  of  the  House  of  Stavt,  i^rho  ndasd  a  troop 
of  hone  in  1716,  and  was  made  prisoner  «t  Pres- 
t».     AJter  many  adyentnres  he  soooeedM  in 


ewwqmig  to  fbnmoe,  when  lie  sesided  fmr  some 
time,  but  nltimatoly  came  badk  to  England,  and 
not  yentnring  to  retom  to  tii»  scsth,  settled  at 
Maidenwell  under  tiie  assumed  nsme  of  Mosefy, 
which  has  •desoendants  retwiiod.  A  diort  time 
beisfe  ike  nsing  of  1745  Prinoe  Chaxies  Edward 
visited  Mr.  Moeely  at  MaidenwaU,  The  prince 
was  landed  from  tlie  yessel  wMeh  had  brought 
him  ten  France  somewhero  about  Saltfleetby  by 
a  men  who  vras  known  to  the  writer's  grand- 
father. During  this  vint  the  prince  went  to  Lin- 
coln, and  with  nn  usual  reckteamesa  appeared  at 
an  entertainment  where  his  presence  excited  sus- 
pksion,  and  would  have  led  te  lus  detention  had  it 
not  been  for  the  vi^lance  of  his  host^  who  aeoom- 

Janied  him  itom  MaidenwelL  Amongst  o&er 
acobite  relics  which  have  been  handed  down  in 
his  £unily^  the  writer  has  in  his  ]joBBdMion  an  old 
tky-hhe  nbbon  of  the  Garter  which  was  worn  by 
the  prince,  and  left  by  him  at  Maidenwell.  Mr. 
Mosely  died  suddenly  about  the  time  of  the  ridn^ 
of  1746,  from  the  mortification  of  an  old  wound 
received  in  1716.  The  authorities  thinking  that 
his  coffin  had  been  filled  with  stones,  and  that 
Mr.  Mosely  himself  had  Aone  to  join  the  insur- 
gents, had  him  dirinteireci  and  exposed  to  public 
view.  The  Moselys  being  Catholics,  it  is  not  likely 
that  the  parish  books  will  contain  any  register  of 
baptisms,  though  they  may  of  buriius.  About 
thirty  years  a^  there  was  a  stone  in  the  wall  in 
the  inside  of  Faiforth  church  recording  the  death 
of  one  of  Mr.  Mosely 's  dauf^ten.  £.  S.  D. 

OBATJi^nuw  OT  NswAfis,  Babovsis  (4*^  S.  yii. 
343.) — I  faaye  not  seen  Bmke's  Sarmukige  for 
this  year,  and  do  not  precisely  understand  irsm 
M.'s  oommuniosition  what  arms  ai«  now  attributed 
to  the  above  fanrily ;  but  in  the  yolume  for  1866 
thejr  are:  Quartern,  1st  and  4th,  gules,  a  fesse 
ermine;  2nd  and  oid,  a  «heyron  between  three 
croBDSopatt^.  Great:  aU'emnBe,  beariius wlndi 
can  only  apnertain  to  the  descendants  mmi  the 
marriage  of  Malcolm  OrauAnd  of  Greenock  vrith 
Marjoz]^,  daughter  and  heiresB  e(  John  Barclay  of 
Ejlbimie. 

I  notice,  toe,  that  tiie  present  baronet  is  B^yMi 
''of  Kilbirnie";  and  in  <3ie  ''lineiffie"  Quentin 
Oraufiird  of  Newaric,  the  fkther  of  the  first  baro- 
net (created  17^,  is  called  ^  a  descendant  of  1^ 
Craufurds  of  KiiMrme."  The  ermine  fesse  and 
the  chevron  and  crosses  patt6e  are  quarterod  by 
Sir  Hew  Orawfurd-PoUok,  Bart.,  who  it  appears 
to  me  is  alone  entrtied  to  the  dessnation  ^of 
Kilbirnie  ";  but  1  write  under  oorrecfaon. 
Betham,  in  his  Baronetage  (yoL  iy.,  Appendix, 
.  16),  rives  a  short  account  of  the  Newark  famUy^ 
>ut  although  t&e  then  baronet  is  called  ''of  KD- 
bumey,*'  the  pedigree  ia  not  carried  beyond  the  first 
baronet,  and  liie  arms  aro  fiiere  given  as  Aigent, 
a buc&%  head  erasedgules, i^di  aro no^  I  think, 
tiie  bearings  of  the  ^Ibirme  fiimily. 


I 


4*  S.  VII.  JuH*  2i,  '710 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES 


549 


The  Hey.  C.  H.  CranfiiTdy  rector  of  OldBwInfoid, 
in  WoicestevBhiie  (whose  father,  the  famous 
Major-General  Robert  Craufurd,  was  a  son  of  Sir 
Alexander,  the  first  baronet),  in  a  (published) 
sermon  preached  '*  on  the  occaaon  of  his  second 
marriage,''  made  the  f)llowmg  extraordinary  state- 
ments respecting  his  fiunily:  — 

"  As  regards  mj  ancestry,  I  will  now  only  say  that, 
not  unconnected  with  the  heroic  Wallace,*  I  am  at  least 
coOaterallj  allied  to^  if  not  lioeaUj  denanded  ftonv  tin 
ancient  Lords  of  Ciianfiii4»wbo  mled  theix  broad  domaloa 
in  all  the  majes^  of  £Midal  state  before  tbA  many  mtuk- 
rooms^  who  now  swarm  the  peerage^  had  sprouted  firom 
their  native  dnnghiDB." 

H .  8.  a. 

"The  Shbtjbs  oy  Pabkassto"  (4""  S.  vii.  410, 
448.) — The  author  of  this  little  volume  was  Wil- 
liam Woty.  ^See  my  communication  to  "  N.  &  Q.," 
4^^  S.  ii.  ^8.)  Perhaps  the  most  interesting  poem 
in  the  Toluae  is  ''A  Descnntion  of  Bupjgge 
Wells."  In  the  same  wihot^s  mIoswim  cfJELd&n^ 
1763.  we  ha?e  a  poem  on ''  YaaxhaU,"  and  another 
on  ''  White-€onduit  House."  Wotj  was  fond  of 
writijig  about  these  old  plaoee  of  amusement,  and 
his  descriptienft  aze  valuable  records  of  the  past. 

ElXWAXB  P.  BnCBAULT. 

OiJ>  SooTCB  NxirsFAPSBS  (4^"  &  viL  390.)^ 
The  oldest  erittfng  Seoteb  newspaner,  barring  tbe 
official  Edinkmffh  Gkautb^y  is  the  Jadmhwrgh  Evtw^ 
mg  Courauty  whoeh  was  established  on  Decem- 
ber 15, 1718:—         , 

«'  It  was,"  saya  Aadiewa*  ia  his  HUiory  of  Brkuh 
Journalism  (L  287),  *'tho  property  of  three  partners, 
John  Hossman,  Jsoms  M*£wen,  and  William  Brown,  and 
'sold  at  the  thoM  of  the  said  JamM  M'£wea  and  Wil- 
liam Bvown.'  The  piivilsge  was  cranted  to  James 
H*£wen,  slatioBer,  bwgess,  of  exclusively  printing  news 
in  Edinburgh  on  Moadays,  Tuesdays,  and  Tbondays,  on 
condition  tast  ho  shoald  <  give  ane  coppie  of  his  went  to 
the  magistntaa*  prior  to  pablioatiao.  An  Miinlmrffk 
Comraui  had  bean  in  ezistaMe  for  some  yean  prior  to 
this  date.  The  Sooteh  paper  wbieh  staaos  next  on  the 
list  is  the  Aberdeem  Jmtnu^  which  was  established  in 
1746  after  the  battle  of  CuUoden,  of  which  Nou  1  oontains 
an  account.  The  pablication  was  snspended  for  about  two 
years,  hot  it  haa  been  pabUahed  regularly  since  1748." 

AUBXAHDBB  PAXBBSOBIi, 

Bsmaley. 

"CajsttbrbttrtTaibs,"  EDinow  OP  1561  (4*  S. 
vii.  422.) — PsLAQivs  can  he  referred  to  a  copy  of 
this  edition,  if  he  will  oomunfiieate  with  me. 

GXK  CXITXOW. 
87,  Cavenham  Roa^  If  .W. 

JoHK  FosziR  oj  Wb&ssxET^  1779  (4**  S.  vii 
410.>--To  the  BaaiB  of  John  Foster  of  Woidsley 
there  ie  ad4ed  a  note,  that  he  was  a  membw  of  an 
ancient  Leicestershire  family,  noticed  by  Nxi^oLi 
in  hifi  history  of  that  connty.  Are  tLe  ILeicester- 
ahire  Fosteze  related  to  the  Fosters  of  Byhall, 
who  int^nnankd  with  tli»  BanaUsi  and  whose 

*  WalUce'a  aatfacr  was  a  daughtar  of  Hngh  Czanfiud 
of  iAodoa* 


pedigvee  is  given  in  lore's  Butiandf  In  Bloce 
the  arms  of  the  Biuidla  are  given,  bnt  not  those 
of  the  Fosters*  F. 

La  Caraooiv  (4^  B.  vii.  34, 149,  34a)— From 
the  Spanish  cearttcok  J^nson  and  Wa&er  girsi 
it  as  ^'  an  oblique  tread  of  a  horse."  Noel  and 
Ohapsal  say :  '*  Tenne  de  man^,  mouvement  en 
rond  ou  demi-rond  qu'on  fait  faire  &  nn  chevaL'' 

Motley  probably  made  use  of  thb  hippie  term 
to  denote  tne  custom  which  obtains  at  courts,  never 
to  turn  one's  back  upon  the  sovereign ;  and  thenoe 
the  awkward  obligation,,  when  initiate,  to  with- 
draw performing  a  semi-circle  alter  making  the 
usual  *'Salam  aLukum^  alwdnmi  sidam."  This 
mode  of  retirement  is  sometimes  attended  with 
ludicrous,  if  not  serious  consequonoos,  as  I  once 
witnessea:  an  unfortunate  foreign  military  attachS 
(one  of  his  spurs  having  got  entangled)  taking 
what  the  Fieneh  call  hmioioiialy  ''  un  billet  de 
MKteEre^"  to  the  no  small  glee  of  the  mischief- 
loviag  yonag  piiariwian  pnaant 

I  hare  seen  the  taBsa  eawecefer  used  otherwise 
than  in  ^e  mmAge,  When  that  brilliant  voang 
naval  office]^  the  Prince  de  Joinville,  appeared  wita 
hia  fingate  befbro  San  Juan  d^Ulloa  at  the  taking 
of  Vera-Craz^  a  fVancb  newspaper  said:  ^'Le 
pousa  eat  venu  crliiementiiBic»  caroosfar  LaBellfr- 
Pouls  en  vne  des  fortSL" 

There  waa  another  kind  of  evolution  in  dancing 
mock  in  vogue  at  the  court  of  Catherine  de  Ma- 
dias. It  was  of  Italian  origin,  as  its  name  imp^es. 
La  Ihmtmt  (from  Paso  for  Pnimi).  It  oaasisted 
in  a  slow  majestic  step:  hence  we  aaj  in  Frfwich, 
^se  pavaoer,  asaicher  d'nne  manitee  grave." 

RxozKXircAL  BAsess,  Montos,  xtc.  (S"'  S. 
passim;  4«^  S.  iii  194.  812,  SOO.)— I  have  not 
noticed  any  rej^ly  to  tne  inquiry  respecting  the 
meaning  and  origin  of  the  pigtail,  sua  by  Ssbab- 
TiAN  (p.  312)  to  be  worn  bv  the  officers  of  the 
21st  Begiment.  I  understana  that  it  is  the  28rd 
Hoyal  Welsh  Fusiliers  who  wear  this  peculiar  ap- 
pendage, and  not  the  21st  Nortii  British  FasOiers. 

Tbe  28th  Regimeni^  familiarly  known  as  the 
"  Slashers,"  beinff  attacked  in  front  and  rear^  &c»A. 
about,  and  in  &at  novel  position  repelled  the 
enemy,,  and  tiius  acquired  the  distinction  of  wear- 
ing the  number  in  front  and  leai.  (See  Stoo- 
queler's  BrUisK  Soldier,  p.  85.) 

The  84th  Regiment  have  had  confirmed  to  them 
the  laurel  wreath,  but  were  unable  to  prove  its 
origin,  as  the  regimental  records  were  lost  aboot 
17^ — tradition  assocntes  rt  with  Foatenoy. 

H.  MoRPHnr. 

Jennottr  Arms  (4*  S.  vi.  468,  663.)— The 
aoBB  of  Or.  Edmid  Jeonar  of  Berkeley,  accord- 
ing to  Foslnooke  in  yuikJBu^aphicd  JiecdoUs  of 
Dr,  Jemier,  were — '^  Az.  twa  sworda  eiact  in  cheV'- 
10%  aqpBttty  Kii^  •nA  poQuiMla  oc,  between  thzae 


550 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.VII.  Ju5b24,T1. 


coTored  cnps  of  the  last"  I  haye  seen  a  oopj  of 
Dr.  Jexmeins  book-plate — ^Azure,  a  cross  flory  or. 
between  four  flears-de-lis.  Crest:  a  greyhound 
sejant,  sable.  Motto:  ''In  pretiom  persevero." 
On  hu  other's  tomb,  in  Berkeley  church,  same 
arms  impaling  Head.  H.  Mobphyk. 

Last  Gbsekslkeybs  (4^  S.  tH.  475.) — The 
ballad,  with  its  music  and  histonr,  is  printed  in 
Ghanpell's   Popular  Music   of  the  OMen  Time 

S2a0^.  The  picture  b  not  explained  by  it,  unless 
e  ''  aead-cold  colour  "  of  the  lady's  face  be  con- 
sidered to  typify  her  coldness  to  her  lover :  — 

**  They  set  thee  up,  the^  took  thee  down. 
They  served  thee  with  humility  $ 
Thy  foot  might  not  once  touch  the  gronnd» 
Aad  yet  thou  wouldst  not  love  me/' 

Hebmektbtos. 

''  Ooiifflira) "  OB  <•  UxBBBi>"  (4*»»  S.  vii.  475.)— 
A  word  with  a  similar  siffuifieation  as  the  above, 
viz.  ''to  be  overshaded,'^  and  pronounced  as  if 
written  owmered,  is  in  common  use  in  North  Lan« 
cashire.  Jaxxs  Pbabsov. 

Mihirow. 

"St."  abbbbviatbd  to  "T."  (8«*  S.  pamm: 
4*^  S.  vii.  479.)— In  Norfolk  parlance  "it"  is 
generally  abbreviated  to  ^  or  tl.  I  was  waiting 
xor  a  train  at  a  railway  station  this  afternoon:  as 
soon  as  it  came  in  sig^t,  a  boy  called  out  "Here 
U  come."  G.  A.  C. 

EoGEB  BB  LoGBS  (S'*  8.  vi.  634.)— It  may  pro- 
bably interest  F.  P.  to  know  that  Bernard  Kjrk- 
bride  of  Ellertoa,  in  Hesket,  oo.  Cumberland,  who 
died  in  1677,  was  the  last  descendant  of  Adam, 
second  son  of  Odard  de  Loges,  second  baron  of 
Wigton  (ctrca  1206).  Nimbod. 

Thb  Chbvbon  (4»»«  8.  viL  408,  467.)— Robson, 
in  vol.  iii.  of  his  British  Herald,  after  describing 
a  bezant,  which  is  believed  to  represent  a  coin  of 
Byzantium,  states — 

**  That  its  iotfodnctioa  into  ooat  armour  b  tupposed 
to  have  taken  place  at  the  time  of  the  First  Cmsadk  or 
Holy  War,  and  rinoe  borne  by  the  descendants  ot  the 
Champions  of  Christianity  in  that  and  the  snooeeding 
crusade.'' 

8.  P.  mi^  have  had  this,  or  a  similar  passage, 
in  his  mind,  when  he  asked  his  chevron  queir. 

Fleub-be-Lts. 

EVBBTB0BT*S  BuSIKB88  IB  NoBOBT's  BuBIKBSS 

(4*  8.  vii.  463.)— I  often  wish  that  a  list  were 
made  &om  vour  earliest  pages  downwards,  of  que- 
ries which  have  never  been  in  any  way  answered. 
The  truth  of  this  proverb  would  abundantly  ap- 
pear thereby. 

As  to  its  antiquity,  I  can  carry  it  back  at  least 
fifty  years  before  Lobb  LTTTBMOir's  lefexence — to 
Walton's  Con^flete  Angler ^  where,  part  i.  a  it,  he 
say^  "  I  remember  that  a  wise  Mend  of  mine  did 


usually  say,  'That  which  is  everybody's  business 
is  nobody's  business.' "  Yhtobki  S.  Leajt. 

Sib  Rob.  KiLuaBBW :  Bvblakachi  (4^  S.  vii. 
454.) — ^The  State  Papers,  domestic  and  foreipii, 
especially  the  latter,  ox  the  latter  part  of  the  reign 
of  James  L  and  the  early  part  of  Charles  I.,  are 
full  of  notices  of  Philip  BurlamachL  He  waa  a 
great  cajjitalist,  with  correspondents  in  di^^rent 
commercial  centres  in  Europe,  who  was  much 
emploved  by  the  govenunent  to  tzansmit  con* 
ffiderable  sums  of  monev  abroad  for  the  use  of 
ambassadors  and  for  tne  pavment  of  tR>ops; 
occasionally  also  to  advance  the  sums  required. 
In  this  way  his  name  is  frequently  to  be  found  in 
the  issue  lKK>kB  of  the  Exchequer* 

S.  R.  Oabbiheb. 

ItilheJournaljyftheBoyalLtMutionofC^^ 
just  issued  to  the  members  and  subscribers^  is  a 
*<  Memoir  of  the  Family  of  Eillignw,"  written  by 
Mr.  Martin  KOligrew  in  1737  or  17S8.  This  may 
perhaps  afford  some  information  which  may  be 
acceptable  to  Mb.  HBSSBia.  After  dii^x)ang  of  the 
elder  branch  of  tiie  funily,  ;th6  writer  proeaedi 
to  speak  of  the  younger;  and  inasmuch  as  the 
Journal  has  not  a  very  wide  drculation,  and  may 
not  be  easily  obtsinable  by  non-members,  perhaps 
Mr.  Editor,  with  his  usual  courtesy,  will  allow 
me  to  trespass  upon  his  space  with  we  following 
extract:-"  \ 

**  Conoerninp:  the  younger  branch  c/t  the  fanSSr/'  fhe 
writer  Bays  **That  Thomas  and  Svmon,  eons  of  Sir  John 
Elilligrew,  2"^  Governor  of  Pendennis  Gaatk,  were  in 
great  esteem  with  Queen  ;Elizabeth  and  aoqoiied  m  great 
esUte.  Sir  Robert  KiUierew.was  aty*  head  of  the  2»^ 
branch,  Vioe  Chamberlimi  to  King  CSiarlea  y«  first's 
Queen,  and  left  his  great  possessions  to  his  eldest  sod. 
Sir  W">  Killigrew :— several  younger  sons  making  great 
figures  in  y  world,  and  four  fine  daughters,  fiuned  for 
their  Wit  and  Beauty,  and  from  thenoe  preferred  in 
marriage,  one  to  y  Earl  of  Yarmoutli,  another  to  Lord 
Shannon,  a  third  to  Berkeley  Lord  Fftz-Hardin^,  and  y* 
other  to  Qodolphin  of  CorawaU.  T«  said  younger  sons 
of  yf  said  Sir  Robert  maUng  thdr  way  at  Court  by  their 
Wit,  w«k,  for  want  of  prudence,  was  y  ruin  of  y  seoond 
branch  of  this  ikmily,  still  excepting,  with  just  n^BxA 
to  his  memory,  Henry,  one  of  y  yoni^est  sons  of  y  said 
Sir  Robert,  bred  to  y  Church  and  of  gnat  Esteem  therein, 
Goyemor  to  y  Earl  of  Devonshire's  sons,  since  by  King 
William  created  Duke  of  Deronahire,  also  Precsptor  to 
y^late  Duke  of  York,  King  James  y  2»*,  by  slyle  of  D' 
Killigrew,  Master  of  y«  SaToj  and  Prebend  of  West- 
minster, who  bad  two  sons,  Heaiy  and  James,  both  br«d 
to  the  Sea.  His  son  Henry,  a  man  of  strict  honor,  by 
long  service  arrived  to  command  y  Fleet  of  £nglas<l 
under  King  Wm^  in  y«  late  war  with  Eranee,  well  known 
by  y«  name  of  Admiral  Killigrew,  whose  younger  brother, 
James,  at  21  years  of  age^  was  honoured  with  y  command 
of  5  men  of  war  in  y  Straights;  where  about  the  height 
of  Leghorn  he  met  with  and  engaged  2  French  men  of 
war.  Digger  than  any  of  his,  and  yet  tho'  two  of  his  Cap- 
tains proved  Cowards  and  would  not  come  to  his  aasiafe> 
ance,  he  took  one  of  the  Frenchmen  and  sonk  y  other, 
but  at  the  expense  of  his  own  lifis,  and  that  of  meet  of  his 
ship's  crew,  so  glorious  an  End  did  y«  same  James  Killh 


4*  &  VII.  JoKK  24, 71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


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grew  make ;  "w^  two  CWaid  Captains  for  y  present  from 
y  death  of  y*  said  Commander  escaped  Pmishment ;  but 
aome  years  after,  upon  a  second  misbehaviour,  were  con- 
demned and  shot  at  Plymouth.  Kirby  was  the  name  of 
one  of  them/'* 

Hammersmith.  JoHir  Maclbait. 

«  Rough  "  (4^  S.  TiL  431.)— That  ihia  word 
(which,  as  I  said  in  my  query,  first  became  popular 
About  foxiy  years  ago)  snouid  have  been  used  in 
its  modem  sense  Inr  Queen  Elizabeth,  passes  all 
bounds  of  belief.  WitL  all  her  faults  she  did  not 
make  silly  unmeaning  remarks;  and  surely  it 
would  have  been  utterly  aiUy  in  her  to  say  she 
did  not  wish  a  low  rufOan  to  succeed  her  on  the 
throne.  One  cannot  accept  the  ItsJian  Softramelli 
as  good  authority  for  explaining  an  obscure  saying 
of  the  dying  queen.  Does  any  English  writer  of 
the  time  mention  that  Elizabeth  used  the  word 
rouffh,  as  reported  by  Mr.  Motiey  P  (  Umt&d  Nether^ 
landSf  iv.  138.)  Had  the  word  been  common  in 
her  daj^  we  should  surely  meet  with  it  in  writings 
of  the  period ;  it  would  not  haye  lain  dormant  for 
more  tnan  two  hundred  years.  A  word  that  has 
escaped  the  notice  of  NareSi  Wright,  and  Halli- 
well  ^see  Nares*  Ohaatry,  ed.  1859)  cannot  haye 
been  in  use  during  the  seventeenth  century ;  and 
unless  some  ffood,  English  authority  be  produced 
for  Queen  Elizlibeth  having  used  this  word  rouffh. 
I  must  altogether  disbelieve  that  she  did  so.  Ii 
she  uttered  any  word  having  that  sound,  it  might 
possibly  have  been  n^.  The  ^'ruff/'  although 
worn  by  men  of  the  upper  class,  was  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  time  an  espedally  female  article  of 
dress,  and  the  queen  might  haye  said  ''  I  will  haye 
no  ruf  to  succeed  me,  just  as  now-a-days  one 
might  say  "I  will  haye  no  petticoat  goyemmenf 
I  must,  however,  wait  for  some  better  authority 
than  that  of  the  Italian  ScarameUi  before  I  can 
believe  that  Queen  Elizabeth  used  either  the  word 
rough  or  ruff'  when  consulted  as  to  her  wishes 
respecting  her  successor  on  the  throne.     Jatdee. 


N0TB8  ON  BOOKS,  BTC 

77ke  ffofy  BihU^  according  to  the  AuAoriaed  VertUm 
(A.D.  1611);  tPiM  an  ExpltmaioTy  and  Critieai  Om»- 
mentarVf  and  a  Eeviium  of  f^  TTamlaiion  by  Bi$kop$ 
and  othfir  Clem  of  the  An^iean  Ckureh.  Jsdited  by 
F.  C.  Cook,  ALA.,  Canon  of  Bzeter.  VoL  /.,  Fart  J. 
GeneetM,  ExoduM.  Vot,  1^  PaH  II,  Leoiiiens,  Nam- 
ben ,  Deuteronomy.    (Murray.) 

The  Speaker  did  good  service  to  the  cause  of  religious 
truth  when  he  brought  under  the  notice  of  the  heads  of 
the  Church  the  adyisabHity  of  providing  a  Commentary 
upon  the  Sacred  Boohs,  In  which  the  latest  information 
might  be  made  accessible  to  men  of  ordinaiy  culture : 
so  that  every  educated  man  should  have  access  to  some 

*  "  Wade  was  the  name  of  the  other.  Thej  were  shot 
in  Plymouth  Sound  in  1702  for  cowardice  in  Benbow's 
Action  with  Du  Casse,  in  the  West  Indies,  and  were 
bnried  hi  Charles  Church,  Plymouth." 


work  in  which  he  might  find  an  explanation  of  any  diffi- 
culties which  his  own  mind  might  suggest,  as  well  as  of 
anj  new  obiections  raised  against  any  particular  book  or 
nasesge.  The  want  of  such  Commentary  has  indeed  been 
long  and  deeply  felt  by  laige  classes  of  intelligent  Church- 
men. But  it  is  a  far  easier  matter  to  point  out  a  want  than 
to  devise  the  means  of  supplying  it ;  and  it  was  not  until 
after  long  and  anxious  consideration  that  the  Archbishop 
of  York,  and  the  companv  of  divines  who  were  asso- 
ciated with  him  in  the  endeavour  to  organise  a  plan  for 
the  effectual  carrying  out  of  the  great  oQect  proposed  by 
the  Speaker,  saw  their  way  to  overcoming  the  oimcQlties 
with  which  the  undertaking  was  encompassed.  Not  the 
least  of  these  was  the  necessity  of  keeping  the  Commen- 
tary within  the  limits  which  woidd  make  it  accessible  to 
those  for  whom  it  was  more  especially  intended;  and 
boundless  as  is  the  subject,  it  has  been  decided  to  com- 
prise the  Text  and  Commentary  in  eight  volumes. 
Another  difficulty  arose  from  the  neoessi^  of  treating 
subjects  requiring  a  good  deal  of  resMrch,  historical  and 
philological,  at  a  length  disproportionate  to  ihh  interest 
which  could  be  felt  by  those  not  specially  prepared  for 
such  studies.  This  has  been  overcome  by  remitting  such 
notes  or  essays  to  the  end  of  the  boou  or  chaptsrs  to 
which  they  refer,  where  they  can  be  found  by  those  who 
desire  them.  To  a  Committee,  fonned  for  the  purpose^ 
was  left  the  selection  of  the  writers  of  the  various  sections 
of  the  whole,  being  dirided  into  eight  sections— and  of  the 
general  editor.  The  .latter  important  duty  was  entrusted 
to  the  Rev.  F.  C.  Cook,  Canon  of  Exeter  and  Pnaeher  of 
Lincoln's  Inn,  with  whom  are  associated,  as  a  small  Com- 
mittee of  Reference  in  cases  of  difficulty,  tiie  Archbishop  of 
Tork,  with  the  Regius  Professors  of  Divinity  of  Oxford 
and  Gambiidee.  The  text  sdected  as  the  basis  of  the  Com- 
mentary  is  ike  Authorised  Yersion  ftom  the  edition  of 
1611.  The  first  section  of  the  Commentary  is  now  before 
us,  forming  a  volume  (in  two  Parts)  of  upwards  of  nine 
hundred  pages.  The  Book  of  Oemetia  has  been  the  work 
of  the  Bishop  of  Ely;  ExodiUf*Jto  the  twentieth  chapter, 
of  the  editor;  the  remainder  of  that  book,  and  Lemticutf 
of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Chirk,  Vicar  of  Bred  warden:  while 
Nwnbere  and  Deuteronomy  have  been  the  joint  labour  of 
the  Rev.  T.  E.  £s^,  Warden  of  Queen's  College^  Bir- 
mingham, and  the  Kev.  J.  F.  Thmpp,  M.A.,  late  Vicar  of 
Barrington.  From  what  we  have  thus  stated,  it  will  be 
readily  seen  how  great  are  the  claims  of  this  New  Bible 
Commentsry  to  general  acceptance,  and  the  satisfiustion 
with  which  its  appearance  cannot  fail  to  be  hailed  by 
those  earnest  Churchmen  who  have  long  felt  the  want 
of  such  a  guide  to  tlie  profitable  stu^  of  the  Holy 
Scriptures. 

A  Dietkmary  of  BJoaraphieai  Reference,  contaitung  One 
hoMJbred  thontand  MmeSf  together  with  a  CUueified  Index 
wTOie  Biographiad  IMertUnre  of  Europe  and  America. 
By  Lawrence  B.  Phillips^  FJBULS.,  &c  (Sampson 
Low.) 

There  is  one  fact  stated  in  this  title-page  which  must 
commend  the  book  to  general  attention,  namely,  that  it 
contains  one  hundred  uousand  names,  so  that  whoever 
consults  it  for  information  respecting  any  man  who  has 
ever  msde  himself  a  name  ftom  Julius  CsBsar  to  Edmund 
CurU,  may  be  pretty  sure  of  finding  in  it  the  morepro- 
mment  datee  and  facte  in  the  life  of  the  individual  in- 
quired after,  and  m  addition  a  reference  to  the  works  of 
a  more  recondite  natureu  in  which  fhUer  information  may 
be  found  if  needed.  It  is  this  which  gives  a  peculiar  and 
most  useftal  diaracter  to  the*  Dictionary,  not  of  simple 
Biography,  but  of  Biographical  Rsferenoe.  How  great 
has  be^  the  labour,  and— what  is  of  yet  higher  import- 
ance—the care  which  Mr.  Phillips  has  bestowed  upon  its 


552 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4«i>  8.  TII,  JcHB  S4.  71. 


pnparation  may  belMini«d  from  bl9|mfaoe,  wMeh  should 
be  carefti]^  reM.  But  the  boek  has  snothlinr  very  JuML 
feature.  It  is  snpplementeA  by  a  Bibiiogisphy  of  Bio* 
giaphr  in  Use  shape  of  three  daesed  Indexes  of  Works 
npon  Biographr.  The  fint  is  an  Index  of  General  Bi^ 
gnphies  dassea  aoeordisg  to  the  lancnages  inirhkih  tfaey 
are  written ;  the  next  of  National  Bfographies  amnged 
in  Countries,  and  snbdiTided  into  IVo^noes  and  GitMs; 
and  the  last,  of  Class  or  Particnlar  Biographies  arraoaed 
alphabetically  and  according  to  Ooantries  and  Cines. 
After  laying  before  onr  naders  these  notes  illnstiative  of 
the  dfajecta,  scope,  and  extent  of  the  work  in  question,  tt 
is  scarcely  necessary  that  we  should  give  onr  opinion 
that  it  is  a  book  which  Is  destined  to  take  a  pennanaat 
and  foremost  place  among  biograpfaioal  text  hooks  and 
anthorities. 

7%<  iVt2t  wHkout  a  JDnuoman.  By  Frederic  £dea. 
(King  &  Co.) 

Written  in  a  Iwight  and  pleasant  sl^leu  and  full  of 
piaetlodl  cnomon  aenss^  this  book  will  be  leand  a  most 
Tataulbla  oonpanokm  to  any  who^  ohiUed  by  the  oold,  and 
weaiied  by  the  lengtii  of  onr  English  winter,  may  wish 
to  pass  ens  in  Egypt  withont  indulging  in  that  most  ex- 
peuBlvis  Inxniy-^  Bragoman. 

JEt^UA  md  Scotch  ^atorical  Ballads.  Edited,  with  an 
idrodmctum^Notet^aMd  GloMmryforthe  U$e  of  SchooU, 
2y  Arthur  Milnun,  JUL  Ablate  Student  of  Christ  Church, 
Osted.    (Longmans.) 

▲  wnlkdonaldeMd  aswy  on  the  nature  of  popular 
poetry  prspans  the  ssader  for  the  explenatoiy  dkc^es 
with  idiich  the  saveinl  ballads,  selected  by  the  editor, 
are  Intndneed.  Thtee,  with  the  illustrated  notes  and 
glosHuy,  fonn  a  little  Tolame  for  which  ereiy  school- 
boy into  whose  hands  it  may  be  plaoed  will  acknowledge 
his  obBgationa  ttt  Mr.  Milman. 

BcmarkM  and  8vggetthn$  on  the  Sohomo  for  the  CbnpJb- 
tum  of  8t,  FauTt  Gdkedml.  By  Geoige  Edmund 
Street,  A.B.A.  te    (Rivhigtons.) 

A  Ldtor  to  the  Very  Beo,  the  Dean  of  St,  PauTs,  printed 
mt  the  Boouest  of  the  ExecuUve  Committee  for  the  Comr 
flMsa  <^  St  PauVa  OathedraL  By  F.  H.  Sutton, 
V  ioar  of  Theddingworth.    (Bivingtons.) 

The  ibtmer  of  these  pamphlets  teeats  of  the  proposed 
miital  dsoorathm  of  St.  Panl'a;  and  who  has  a  better 
rieht  to  be  heard  on  snoh  a  subject  than  Mr.  Street  ? 
whilst  Mr.  Sutton's  letter  is  piindpally  taken  up  with 
discttsshig  the  style  of  painted  glass  that  should  be  Intro* 
dnoed  into  the  Cathedral.     Both  oontribntions,  as  well  aa 
our  own  columns,  testify  to  the  variety  of  opinion  that 
exists  on  these  subjects.     We  thoroughly  agree  with 
Mr.  Street  when  he  asserts  that  no  one  knows  what  Wren 
intended  to  do  in  the  way  of  decoration,  otherwiw  how  is 
this  variety  of  opinion  to  be  aooonnted  for  ?  nay,  the 
very  works  carried  on  during  the  last  few  years  within 
the  bniiding— now,  happily,  to  be  all  undone— witness  to 
not  a  fiw  and  b;^  no  means  inexpensive  leaps  in  the  dark. 
Without  endorsing  all  Mr.  Street's  opinions— we  confess 
to  fearing  that  the  oUection  stated  at  p.  18  tothecanying 
ont  of  his  design  would  prove  insuperable— we  earnestly 
trust  that  the  Committee  will  listen  to  his  words  of  warn- 
ing.   For  our  own  part  we  should  like  to  see  the  works 
at  present  confined  to  freeing  the  walls  of  their  wretched 
coats  of  paint,  cleaning  the  windows,  and  the  removal  of 
the  organs;  for,  only  when  these  operations  shall  have 
been  completed,  will  it  be  known  how  ^r  the  Cathedral 
will  admit  of  mural  deeoratlon  and  the  exdnsion  of  broad 
daylight. 

SociKTT  OP  BniiTCAL  AncRsoLOOT.— At  the  last 
meeting  of  this  socie^.  Dr.  Samuel  Birch  in  the  chair. 


Mr.CkMHmSmithfOf  the  British  Muaaai^  read  a  paper 
on  the  ^fiariy  H&story  of  Babylonia,"  oommencing  with 
a  ratMWMf  of  &cts  already  saoertained  by  the  laboon  of 
Sir  Heniy  Bairiinson  and  othare.  Mr.  J.  W.  Bosanqoet 
read  a  paper  **  On  the  Date  of  the  Nativity,"  oonsidenng 
in  detail  the  facts  of  that  occurrence,  and  the  government 
of  Cyrenius  and  the  Census  of  Coaar,  as  recorded  in  the 
Gospel  and  by  ^osephns.  The  various  eclipses  and  aatfo- 
noBtloal  data  teddsntallr  aonnectod  with  these  events 
were  enumerated,  and  tne  author,  reasoning  from  all 
togethei^  was  disposed  to  beliew  taat  the  birth  of  oor 
Lord  took  place  either  in  the  autumn  of  the  year  S,  or  the 
spring  of  2  before  the  Christian  Era. 

Straabusoh  Librart.— The  tTnivenlty  of  Oxfbrd, 
bv  a  decree  in  convocation,  has  authorised  the  delegates 
<n  the  press  to  contribote  copies  of  snoh  wviks  ptinted  by 
them  as  they  may  think  fit  to  the  Itbimiy  of  the  Univei^ 
dty  of  fitresbnigh,  and  that  the  volame  w  preaented  by 
them  be  bound. 

Trb  Histoucal  Socubtt*— This  Sodetv  held  its 
sixth  Meeting  ibr  the  Session  in  the  Soottisb  Corpon- 
tion  Hall,  Crane  Court,  Fleet  StreeLon  MouAa^  evening. 
Sir  John  Bowring  in  the  dbtAr,  The  feflowmg  papers 
were  read :  *•  Notes  from  the  Reoofds  of  Fcvenham,  1560 
to  1600,"  by  3.  M.  Cowper,  Esq.,  Fellow  of  the  Society ; 
and  «  An  Official  Inaccuna^  Bespeoting  the  Death  and 
Burial  of  Pfinosos  Mary,  Daughter  of  King  James  L", 
b^  Colonel  Chester,  Fellow  of  the  Society.  An  interesting 
discussion  followed.  The  papers,  it  was  agreed,  should 
be  included  in  the  Society's  Iransactions. 

Mr.  S.  R.  Tow^nshbkd  Mjitrr  has  resigned  the  edi- 
torship of  the  Illustrated  Review, 

Mr.  Grots.— It  has  been  truly  said  that  hv  the  death 
of  Gkoige  Qrote  this  oountiy  has  been  robbed  of  one  of 
its  chief  literary  ornaments.  Bom  in  1794  at  BeekcB- 
ham  in  Kent,  and  having  been  edoaatodat  Charter  Hoaaeb 
the  ftatnra  historian  of  Grseoe  entered  his  father's  eount- 
iag-house  in  his  riartefmth  year,  devoting  all  his  spare 
time  to  classical  studies.  How  profbund  a  Grsek  sclwlar 
he  became  his  History,  as  well  known  in  Germanr  as 
England,  and  of  which  the  firet  vohime  appeared  in  1846, 
sufficiently  testifies.  Plato  and  Ae  othm-  Oommuoms  of 
Socrates  waa  completed  and  published  in  I860,  but  nn- 
fbrtunately  the  Aristotle  will  remain  an  nnfinished  work, 
only  one  volume  being  ready  for  the  press.  Mr.  Grote 
was  a  trustee  of  the  British  Museum,  and  his  portrait  by 
Millais,  in  this  year's  exhibition  of  the  Bojral  Academy, 
as  Vioe-Chancellor  of  London  University,  testifies  to  the 
gratitude  felt  by  members  of  Convocation  for  their  cham- 
pion. 

Mr.  Boltok  CoRTTiT'a  LiBBlST«—The  ssle  of  the 
libraiy  of  the  lato  Mr.  Bolton  Coraqr  was  eondnded  on 
Saturday,  at  the  Booms  of  Messn.  Sotheby,  Wilkinson,  & 
Hodge.  One  of  the  chief  features  was  the  collection  of 
early  voyaces  and  travels  and  wmks  relating  to  America, 
all  of  whi(£  eaceited  much  oompetition  and  oroQ^t  verv 
high  priees,  aa  will  be  seen  from  the  following  quota- 
tion :--<216)  Basanier,  Histoire  Notable  de  la  Floride, 
1686,  86/.-<710)  Champlain,  Voyages  en  la  Nonvelle 
France,  1627,  85/.  10s.—(8I3)  The  oelebnted  Letter  of 
Columbus,  being  the  firet  printed  document  known  relat- 
to  America,  consisting  of  four  leaves,  1493, 116iL-~<814) 
Historie  del  Fernando  Colombo^  1571, 162. 16«.~(1191) 
Enciso,  Suma  de  Geogr^hia  que  trata  de  todas  las  Par- 
tidas  del  Mnndo,  the  first  book  printed  In  Spanish  relatiz^ 
to  America,  1519,  66/.— (Ii04)  £rondeUe,Nova  Francia. 
1609, 87/.— (1205)  Escobar,  Romanoerod^Cavallero  el  ad, 
1612,  45/^(1842)  Frobisher,  True  Disoonrse  of  the  late 
Voyages  of  Discoverie,  1578, 67/.— (1412)  Gilbert's  Dis- 
course of  aDiscoverieforaNewPassagetoCataia,  1576,46/. 


4«iiS.TU.Jmni24»71.] 


irOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


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^1407)  Goldniiiih,  inda»  Seaeeliin  Ladiifl,  tmatLtMiby 
Dr.  Gol^ith,  and  in  his  antograph,  88/.— (1796)  James, 
Strange  and  DangeniaaToyage»  881, 10«.— (2140)  Mar- 
tyria  Anglerii  Opiu  EpistoUnmv  1580,  49/.— (2164) 
Haximiliani  TranssrlTani  Casaris  a  Secretia  Ematola, 
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WILLIAM  PATEB8QN,  74,  FHneee  Street,  Edlnbugh. 

History  and  Iiegenda  of  London  Streets. 

Chapter  the  Fint    Bbookb  Sbkbt,  Holborn. 

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11.  The  Ingoldsby  Legends. 

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BLACK-LETTER^OOKSiDR.  DIBDHTS  WORKS,  BIBLIO- 
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librarlei  pvrdiand. 

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liberally  treated  with.  Ettimatoi  ftimtohed  Ibr  huge  qnantitica. 
Binding  tat  the  Trade.-J.  R.  SHELLEY,  No.  9,  Old  Bailey,  Lndgate 
umtLondon.  EetaUfalMd  Wl. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4>k  &  YIL  Jun  24^  *71. 


UNIFORM  SEBIES  09 

WOBKS  in  STAHDABD  LITERATUBE. 

Edited  by  W.  Caskw  Hazlitt. 

JqitpnhlMifrt, 


I.  HISTORY  of  ENGLISH  POETRY  from  the 

Twclitti  to  the  sixteenth  Century.  Br  THOMAS  WARTOIT. 
With  rrloe'f  Prefkoe  «ad  Notei  ▼•lionnn.  A  New  Edition, 
with  ftarther  NotM  nid  AMltioiM  bgr  Sir  F.  llMldaa,  T.  Wricht, 
EiQ.,  Ber.  W.  W.  Skcat,  Dr.  BJdutfd  Monik  F.  J.  FnjniTmll, 
Bml»  mA  the  Editor  t>  end  eeipbwe  hukeam,  4  Tobk  Sro,  eztn 
doBh,  91.  flki  «r  I^me  Fiver  (anl7  ao  printedD  tf.  6f. 


n.  POPULAB    ANTiaUITIES    of    GREAT 

BBITAIK,eoiBpiMii(  NoCioM  of  the  Morahle  end  ImiBovattle 
Feeeta,  dutooii.  Snpentitioiie.  end  AmoMments,  Fait  «nd 
Freient.  BCUted  from  the  ifattcriBb  eoUected  Iqr  JOHJT 
BRAND,  F.8.A.|_wlth  Terr  Iftise  OonreettoiM  and  AddlHone. 
In  t  volf.  8ro.   Fi&lod  ti  the  Ghkwkk  Ftcm.  .  dplh,  100 


eopiee  only  mteted,  tf.  lOi.  i  or  Lvfe  Biper  eoplei  (fmir  M 
printed),  intp.  8to,  dotlw4L  M«.  6(f. 

m.  EN0LISH   PROVERBS   and    l^kOVMtt'RTAT, 

PHRASES,  eolleeted  thm  tiie  moet  Anthntle  Sonreee, 
AlDhabeUeeUramMrtaadAnnolaeed.  A thkdtiwL Bro (SOO 
coptei  only  printed),  U.  6t,  i  Lvfe  Paper  (onl/  00  printed), 
Is^  8T0,  Gloih*  Jl.  Mb 

••*  The  LWBO  Faptt  liineiiduii  bnoMly  owt  of  print. 


THE   BOZBTTEOEE   UBEABT. 

Edited  by  W.  Cabew  Hazlitt. 
Alt  b— ullfViT|y  printed  hy  "WKimmtAX  k  Wiucnn,  ftep.  4lo,  of 


L  The  BOMANCE  of    PARIS   and  VIENNE, 
from  the_17niqae  OoB]i[jriated_by  W.  Oexlon,  in  ittft,  wUh  m 


.  IL  Tlia    COMPLETE   WORKS    of    WILLIAM 

BROWKBaOfTMiiloduAnilMir  of '^Britauiln'e  FMonat,** 
now  Ibet  eoineled.  Wtm  »  Mtnabe  end  Notoi.  Ffee-iiinilee. 
InlTolfcll.ll«.«tf. 

m.  INBDITEP  TRACTS jl679;1618j;  jEHnstfating 

tlie  lethvDd  iTthOentnriea,  now  flxvt  repuu^cd  ftora  the 
(MstnalCopiet,  with  nPrefltoe  end  Notei.   18t. 

IV.  The  ENGLISH  DRAMA  and  STAGE  nnder 

the  TUDOR  aoA  SfFITABT  EBOMBS,  jld.  1S4S  to  Jl.v.  1064, 
iUnitrated  hrn  Sttlee  of  Dponmrata  end  Treetleee,  chiefly 


Inedlted.  inili  en  Tn^nrnlmlliiB  tmi  Tiwki    ia«. 
V.  The  POEMS  of  OBOBGE  Gil^OOIONE,  now 

or  and  Notee. 


flnt  Qolleeted  with  ItaBoir  and  Notee.   PlortiBlta,  Flatai,  and 


VL  The  POEMS  of  THOMAS  CABEW.  now  first 

Mrfleeted  and  Edited,  with  a  Memoir  of  tte  Avfluir,  and  flue 
fwuait  aner  Yann*    bk 


Only  170  eopiee 


piliiiidef  the  anall,  andio 


theLamPapacb  Tlie  Ovola>.niy  be  nnrtheeed  togther  tor 
6<.fl«.aiidtfaeLarfePaperftMilurUi;  ^nMlhttaraienotioid 


of 


KBBTK  mH  TYJERIB,  101,  Stnnd,  W.a 


The  Tenum  Wove  Chtb-bmse  Paper, 

MannAMtonHleaqiready  to  meet  an  nnlYwaally  ejtpericDoed  wantvi. «.  n 
Flqcr  wMdK  ihaJl  In  iteelf  eomUae  %  perihetly  anooth  eodhoe  witih 


Tli#  Kaiw  VdUnm  Wove  dab-Souta  Papor 

will  be  found  to  poeMai'tiieae  peenliaritiei  oompIeteljF;  brincnudeflrom 
the  beet  linen  in«  only,  POMMrinn  gnat  tenMltar  end  dnnbUity,  and 
preienttog  a  nirmoe  eguallywell  adaoted  fbr  gulll  or  iteel  pen. 

The  NEW  VELLUM- WOVB  CLUB-HOUSE  PAPER  anrpaane 
•UotliarilbraiMiotiinewofeari!Me,deUeaarof  eolenr,  flrmneee  of  t«c- 
tnre.  entire  ahaenee  of  any  ooloadnf  matter  or  ininzioui  chemioda, 
tending  to  Impair  Ita-dnrriilmy  or  In  any  way  aSlolIng  ita  writing  pn>- 
\  jS«an>le  Fadieti  fiwitoinlng  an  AaegdrtaMat  of  the  ti 
fkee  te  14  Stampe. 


FABTBXDGB  h  OOOFER,  MttmdhfltmtEtnd  SotoTlBdaVii 
in.  Fleet  Street,  B.C. 


ITNIVERSAL    LIFE    ASSUBANCE    SOCIETY, 

U  1,  KINO  WILLIAM  8TKEBT,  LONDON.  K.C. 

EatahUahed  I8M. 

_Ainmmeae  lamed  on  Lima  In  Englaadorlbdi*  atmfyBcoooealad 
Picmioma, 'entitling  to  Annual  GaahBooaaea.  The  *i«i"«wT  Bctoreof 
Preibhuna  iw  the  laet  Bi^  Tcan  hm  been  ao  per mnt.  P»oim.liMW. 
Thlfty-mmnth  Annual  llepart,  and  Balanee  Sheet,  may  be  iMd 
ehore^  or  al  the  Bnadh  OflloM  of  the  Society  In.  Galcatta. . 


FH0T0GBAFB8.-IIXW  CATALOGUES. 

MABION  &  00^  82  »  28  Soho  S^i 


CATALOOVEB  ef  F(»rBAITg,Jnwi  Wmiup 

CATALOGUES  of  PICTURES  and  BTATUAB Y-Three  i 

CATALOGUES  of  ENGLISH  and   FOREIGN  8GENERT  and 
ARCHITECTURB-^oar  r 


AllPhotognphaniaybemenand  aeleeted  fromntB, 

the  Firat  Floor. 


PAETBIDfiE    AND    C007XX. 

MAinTFAGinBINa  STATIOSEBS. 
UM,  Fkst  StMii  (Cwnsr  aiCbmotry  Lana). 

CABBIAOS  PAID  TO  THE  QBOHTSF  OV 


NOTE  PAPER,  Cream  or  Bine,  l«.,  4e.,  &f .,  and  0«.  per  ream. 
BNVELOFES,Creem  or  Bine,  4t.  Orf.,  Be.  Oct.,  and  St.  6d.  per  t^MO. 
TBI  TBMPIiB  XKVXI^EB,  with  BIgfc  laser  ¥!■».  la.  ittlie. 
STRAW  PAPER-Jbnpmred  quality,  li.6A  per  reaeew 
F0OL8CAP,Hand-mede  OatridM,  l«.f<l.  per  remn. 
BLACX4M>BDSIISD  NOTE,  4i.  mid  te.  OA  per  mem. 
BLACK-BORDERED  ENYELQgM,  U.  pee  I00u.8apmthiek  qvality. 
TiaiyP  UBBD  NOTE,  te  Homi  or  FoErigaOonmiQadmwe  Cttve 

COLOURED  STAMPINQ.CBellef).  redoeed  to  4a.  %d.  parraen^or 


fla.  Bd,  per  1,000.  Pollahed  Stml  Omi  Dtoa  engmved  from  to. 
Monograma.two»letten,  from  A«.i  tktm  lottace,  fremll« 
or  Aooreai  IHea,  from  1*. 
8IBM0N  PAFBR,  plefB,  4*4  porxtn^  Bated  dUtob  4a.  M. 
SCHOOL  STATIONERY  aupplled  on  the  moet  Uhenltem 
muatnted  Prioe  IM  of  Tnkatandt,  DeqMtch  Boom,  Staaonery. 
~  "   "     mitlBs~        ~ 


ie4L> 


St 


OLD  ENQLtBH"  FURNITURE. 

Beproduetlona  of  Simple  and  Artirtie  Cabinet  Work  from  Ooantiy 


eoond:  workmandiip,  and  economy. 

COIJIJKSON  and  LOCK  (late  Herring), 
CABIKBT  MAingBf^ 

109»  FLEVr  STREET*  &I&   lateblidwdL  1782. 


TAPESTRY  PAPERHANQINQ8. 

ItadtiUioni  of  ram  old  BROCAIUS,  DAMASKS,  end  QOHEUN 

TAPESTRIES. 

COIJJirSOH  and  UtOCK  date  Haaneing), 
DECOBATOB8, 

109,  FLEET  STREET,  LONDON.  EstaUiahed  1782. 


H 


ORNE'S  POMPEIAN   DECOBATIONS. 


ROBERT  HORNE, 

HOUSE  DECORATOR  and  PAPEIUHANQINO 

MANUFACniB  R. 

41,GRACECHURCH  STREET, 

LoaD02i,EfaG. 


Br 


J 


4ft  S.  VII.  JusiE  24,  71.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


ACCIDBWTS    GAUfllS   liOSS   OF   I*mB. 

Aooideiita  cftTuio  Zioas  of  Time. 

ACCIDENTS   CAUSE  LOSS  OF  MONEY. 
Provide  agaifut  ACCIDENTS  of  ALL  KINDS 

BT  IVSUBINQ  WITH  THB 

Bftilway  Pasfiengen'  Afisuranoe  Ccmpany, 

Aa  AnniiAl  Ftmnent  of  J58  to  £e  S/  inrarei  £1,000  st  Dostli* 
or  an  »llow«iioe  st  tb«  rata  of  iBO  per  week  fi»  Injury. 

fi50B|OOO  hare  been  Paid  as  Compezisatioii, 

ONE  oat  of  erery  TWELVS  Asinial  FoUcy  HoMen  beeominc  a 
clAimant  EACH  TEAR.  For  partkolftn  apply  to  the  Clerki  at  the 
Bailmqr  Stationa,  to  the  Local  Agents,  or  at  the  (MBcm. 

M.OO&NHZLL,  nd  10,RBOENT  STREET,  LOHDOR. 

Wn<LIAM  J.  YIAN,  Jteretory 

^■^— ^t  111!  I 

XrOTHINO  IMPOSSIBLR— AGUA  AMAKKTJ.A 

Aa  laatonw  the  Hnnum  Hair  to  ke  ivrfctine  hoe,  no  matter  at  vhat 
aae.^  UE88R8.  J(fflM  OOSNELL  fe  CO.  have  at  leiwth.  withtheald 
of  the  nxMt  eminent  Chemieti,  meeeetlcd  in  parftetlag  Ihii  ▼oaderftil 
liqnid.  It  ie  now  oObied  to  thePobUa  in  a  more  ooneentiaftedftnA* 
and  at  a  lower  priee. 

Sold  in  Bottlee ,  9;  eaeh,  alw  a«..  7«.  Ed.,  or  Ue.«eflh,  wtthteWk. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  Sb  CO.'S  CHEBRY  TOOTH 
PASTE  if  creatly  raperior  to  any  Tooth  Powder^girea  the^eeth 
apearl-Uke  wUteneMuprofecto  the  enamel  ftom  decay,  and  imparta  a 
pieaclngikagnuieB  to  the  breath. 

JOHN  GOSNELL  ft  OO.'S  Extra  Highly  Scented  TOILXT  and 
NTTRSStT  POWDER. 

To  be  had  of  all  Ferftaraen  and  Chemivts  Uuonghont  the  Kingdom, 
and  at  Angel  FaaMge,  88,  Upper  Thames  Street.  London. 


w 


RUrTnRSS.-JBT  BOTAL  LETTERS  PATENT. 

HITE'S  MOC-MAIN  LEVEB  TEITSS  is 

.  .  allowed  by  npwarda  of  600  ICedioal  men  to  be  the  most  eifte- 
tive  inveniioin  la  the  enrative  treatment  of  HEKf^IA.  The  nse  of  a 
ateel  qiring,  am  oflea  hnrtAil  In  Its  eflbeta,  b  here  avoldedi  a  aoft  bandage 
being  worn  round  the  body  iWMle  the  nqnisite  reajattog  power  ia  tnp- 
plied  by  the  MOC-UI^  FAD  and  PATENT  LB^Rflttinrwith  ao 
mndi  eaae  and  Oloaeneia  that  It  eaanot  be  detected,  and  may  aa  worn 
during ileei».  A  deMrli>tiTe  cizonlar  may  be  had,and  the  Tmai  (whldi 
eaanot  Ml  to  lit)  Hxrwarded  by  poet  on  the  drcnmihienee  of  the  body, 
iwo  indwB  bdow  the  hipa,  being  aent  to  the  Kannftetnrer. 

MR.  JOHN  WHITE.  HB,  PICCADILLY.  LONDON, 


single  Tmaa,  16«.,  9I«.,  »$.  6dr.,  end  Sl«.  (ki. 
leTniaB,8U.e<f.,41i.,andaat.«c~    ~ 
AnUmbaioatTniaa,4at.aad&tt.8d.   Portage  la.  IM. 


Price  of 

Doable 


Poatagel*. 

Poatage  la.  BdT 


,  81a.  e<f.,  Oa.,  and  sat.  9d. 
[  Tmaa,  4aa.  and  &ta.8d.   1 

Poit  Offloe  orderi  payable  to  JOHN  WHITE,  Peat  0ffiee.7ieeadUly. 


ELASTIC  STOCKINGS,  KNEE-CAPS.  &c.,  for 
VARICOSE  VEINS,  and  aU  ooaea  of  WEAKNESS  and  SWEL- 
ro  of  the  LEGS,  SPRAINS,  fto.  They  are  porooa,  light  in  textnre, 
and  inexpenaive,  and  are  drawn  on  like  an  ordlaary  atooUng.  Prieu 
4«.  6<i.,  7«.  6c/.,  10a.,  and  16a.  each.  Poatage  6d. 

JOHN  WHTTB.  ICANUF  ACTUBBB,  SO,  PICCADILLT.  London. 

pENTLEBCEN  denrons  of  having  their  Lioans 

\X  dreaaed  to  perfection  ahouldaniDpIytlielrLettndreaaea  with  the 

wMch  imparta  a  farUUaaoy  and  elaitlfllty  giatJfting  alike  to  the  aenae 
of  aifffat  and  touch. 

LAXFLOirOH'S 
TYBETIC     SALIITE 

Haa  peenllar  and  remarkable  propertiea  in  Headache,  Sea,  or  BHiow 
Sickneaa,  prereotlng  and  coring  Hay,  Scarlet,  and  other  Ferera,  and  ia 
admitted  by  all  vMn  to  ibim  the  uMMt  agieeable,  pertable>  wHaliaiag 
Summer  Beverage.   Sold  by  moat  chymlata,  and  the  maker. 

H.  LAMFLOUOH,  113,  Holbom-Hill,  London. 

^ I  ■■---. ^ 

TTOLLO WAY'S  OINTMENT  AND   PnXS.— 

Jl  JL  No  aufferera  need  deapair  of  being  releaaed  from  their  Inflnnltiea 
tUl  they  have  given  a  ftill  and  Ikir  trial  to  theae  incomparable  remediea. 
Diaeaaea  vf  the  moot  formidable  character  have  been  cured  by  HoUo- 
way'a  medicamenta.  TTloeratlons,  which  have  proved  themaelvee  In- 
cn»ble  by  any  other  meant,  have  healed  kindly  under  the  porifying 
and  reeencratlng  influence  of  thia  excellent  Ointment  Spndna,  eiy- 
aipelas,atiffjointa,  contracted  muadea,and  glandular  awellinga  can  be 
moat  safely  and  efibetlvely  treated  by  Holloway'a  Ointment  and  PlUa, 
which  can  do  no  harm  nndar  any  eircomatanoea.  Neither  of  theae 
medicamenU  haa  anytMng  deleterioua  in  ita  oompoaitkm,  both  are 
Boothing.  searching,  yiTBentle  in  operation,  and  eaaentially  pnrlfting 
and  atrengtheniag  in  their  nature. 


WATSON'S  OLD  MAKSALA  WINE,  guaranteed 


^^^**J^  dwen.  Selected  dry  Tarragona,  Wa.  per  doaen.  Terma 
S5!S^_1^5^i***°>  '**^  '"^^.•-^W.  D.  WATSONTWine  Merchant. 
SSli.^^^  ^SKf  iff*'^^*  hi  Berwick  Street),  London,  W.  " 
hUahadlMl.  Pull  fHob  liata  poat  free  on  agvUoUion. 


3«s.      Tvm 

AKlla.  fer.doaw,flt  for 


OantleM^'iTaMe.  BotUea  iii«lQde4,a&d 
"  *■ ^.  CMtnmahle).  ^^ 


CANrtiOfllee  Qrden  OB 


8  WAJED  *  SON, 
Pimdiny),  1,  Chapd  Btievtlf ett, 
~  W^  LONDON. 


HEDGES  ^  BUTLEB  solicit  attention  to  theip 
PTTRB  ST.  JDLISN  CLARET 
At  n*^  IQv.,  Ila.,sae..aad96«.  per  doaen. 
Ghoiea  Oaaata  ofyackma  growthi,  4la.«48a.,fl0a^yaaM  M«.,  ««. 

GOOD  DINNER  BHEBRT. 
▲*aa*.Hidaoa.pardoMtt. 

Chrfre  Wierry—Pale,  Qoldan,  or  Brown...  .Oa^*ia.,and6ea. 

BOCK  and  MOSELLE, 
At  9to.,  MO.,  S8a.,  4San  ISa..  SBa.,  and  Sla. 

Portfitymflrat-claaaShippen S0a.a6a  4e« 

GBAMPAONE. 

At  ate.,Oa.,«a.,endMa. 

r,  Stelnbevv.  Liebfrmmileh* 


Bd  ISa.  per 

itttywtUbe 


On 


PoieUm  LiQiiearBof , 
alvt^a  Peat  OAae 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

JJOmXXSt  U6,  BSOBNT  8XSBST,  W. 

Bxii^ton:  90,  nng*i  Boad. 

(OrighiaUy  EatahUahed  A.l>.  1667.) 


nBAND  PUMP  EOOM  HOTEL,  BATH,  opposite 

\J    tiw  Abbgr  Chnreh.     FIRST-CLASS    AGC(»iMODATIOJC 
WannMhieiiirWaterBathannder  the  aame  roof:  ^^'^'Axvjn. 

MISS  HAWKESWORTH,  Manageren. 


G 


N    C    H. 


ILBERT     J.      PRE 

BOLTON.  LANCA8HIBE, 
Mauuftxsturcr  of 
OJStJBOH    FUSNITUBX. 

CARPETS,  ALTAR-CLOTHS, 

COMMUNION  LINEN,  SITBTLICES,  and  ROBES. 

HERALDIC.  ECCLESIASTICAL,  and  EMBLEMATICAL 

PLAQB  and  BANNERS.  *c  fto. 

A  Getalogne  aent  by  poat  on  application. 

Faroela  dellvcied  free  at  all  prin(4palRailway  Stationa. 


THE   NEW   GENTLEMAN'S    GOLD   WATCH, 

I     KZTLBSf ,  Engliah  Make,,  more  aolid  than  Foreign,  Ml.-  14a. 
Jones*  Manufactory,  838,  Strand,  oppoaiteSomeraetHonae. 

Theae  Watchca  have  many  pointa  of  Special  Novelty. 


MANILA  CIGAES.— MESSRS.  VENNING  &  CO. 
of  17,  EAST  INDIA  CHAMBERS  ^LONDON,  have  Juat  re- 
jd  a  Conalgnment  of  No.  8  MANILA  CIGARS,  in  excellent  con- 
dition,  in  Boxea  of  600  each.  Price  XI.  10*.  per  box.  Ordera  to  be 
aeeompanied  by  a  remittance. 

N3.  SaBAple  Box  of  lOOb  IQa.  6d. 


BT  ROTAL  COMMAND. 


TOSEPH    GILLOTT'B     STEEL    PENS. 

•OLD  taraU  STATIONERS  fhraathoat  the  Woild. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[4*S.V11.  JinrE84,*7U 


A  TEW  OF  THE  CHOICE  BOOKS  OH  SALE  BT 

ELLIS    &    GREEN, 

83,  KING  STREET,  COVENT  GARDEN,  LONDON. 


3ABNABEE  ITINERABIUM,    or    BABNABEES 

JOURNALL.  nnder  the  NaniM  of  Mirtrlnfl  and  Famtnlaa  Am- 
dowcd :  for  the  trmTeDcr'i  nlaoe  latelr  jnibUihed,  to  mcMt  99i  nmii- 
ben  ndnoed,  sad  to  the  old  tuie  of  Banuibe  eommonl  j  dianted 
ri«48].  Banai*  Itmo,  F  iRflT  Editxos.  fine  clean  uid  taU  eonr,  wHh 
the  extremelr  rare  origliial  ftantffpieoe  %r  ManhalU  red  moraoeo 
•nper  extra,  Boger  Fufntt  ^It^hr  F.  Bedford,  UL  Ite. 

€ASTELL    (W.).    8H0BT    DISCOVERIE  of   the 

OOABTSand  OONTIMEMT  of  AMERICA,  Ae.  1644.  4to.  Ywr 
rare,  flue  cop7t  S4i* 

CHAMPLAIN  (SIEUB  DIE),  VOYAGES  DE  LA 

KOUYXLLE  FRANCE  OCCIDEKTALE  DICTE  CAHABA, 
ek  toatee  les  d^eouvertei  qn'U  afldtei  en  ee  pabdeimb  IflOS Jnaqa^en 
tarn.  Farie,  MB.  4to,  with  the  mr  me  folding  map,  mofoeeo 
eztim,tli. 

ClCERONlBEPiarrOlJE^libri^^u  <(adfiiiein.)M.T. 
CICERONI8  EPI8TOLARUM  fomlllanim  MztiM  deelmiu  et  nl- 
tlmna  ezpUdt  folJelter  per  Johaanem  da  Creana.  M8.  of  the  xrth 
oentOTT,  heaotlftallj  vrittea  on  174  pagoi  of  flne  Italfam  voUnm. 
Folio,  in  hcaatlftilly  dean  andperfoeTitate,  the  eaipltala  "iTrntmrttd 
In  gold  and  eoloiin,la  the  ofigmal  atamped  hlndlng,  ill. 

CLUTTEBBUCaa:  (R),  HISTORY  and  ANTIQUI- 
TIES of  the  OOnKTT  of  HERTFORD.  eoopUod  from  the  beat 
aathorltieg  and  original  reeofda.  ni5-17.  9  mob.  Mio,  large  peper, 
an9««iMl  flne  ^atoa,  n  aplcodid  copgr  in  nurfn  enper  extra*  noad 
hand*  of  gold,  M. 

DANTE.— -LA  COHEDIA  di  DAiriHE,  poeta  ex- 

eeilentiarimoLeol  eomeato  di  Chrlato^ioro  Landino.   impream  la 
inm  de  Bonlnis,  1487.   Folio,  flne  woodeata,  and 


the  flrit  page  of  each  of  the  three  dlTMoni  of  the  poem  enridied 
irtth  Ml  lUnmiaated  border  and  iaitltlal  letter.  MoM  rlchlr 
bound  in  brown  moroeoo  inper  extra  bgr  Riviere,  ridea  eofered 
vlthgold tooling  to  a  OioUer pattern, tU.    (Mr.  Blade'i  oopj aold 

DIBDIN  ILLUSTRATIONS.— A  most  valuable  and 

anioue  eolleetlon  of  108  of  the  lUnatiatianf  to  Dr.  IHbdIn*t  Works, 
in  (£oiee  proof  iMg.  for  the  moct  part  on  India  paper,  before  let- 
ter*, 142. 

This  cholao  eeBeeHoirirM  bronght  together  with  great  tronble,  and 
during  a  number  of  7Mrs,by  the  lirte  Sir  Charles  niee.  rHpudless  of 
coat.  At  nia  sale  it  prodniDea  (with  on]/  one  more  plate)  4w.  To  any 
one  Ulnakrating  IHbdin's  woriks  it  would  be  inyaluable.  ibr  it  would  be 
quite  Impossible  to  make  sueh  a  eolleetioa  in  these  days  at  eren  double 
theeost. 

DUGBALE   (SIR  W.),  THE  ANTIQUITIES  OF 

WARWICKSHIRE  lUnstrated.  Seeond  edition,  printed  from  a 
eopy  eorrectcd  by  the  Anthorhlmself  i  the  whole  rcrlaed,  augmented, 

gaad  eontinued  br  W.  Thoma*.  1730.  t  vols,  folio,  portrait  br 
oUar,  maps,  and  many  plates,  floe  copy,  brown  morooeo  extra,  gift 
aTet,  411. 

EBONDELLE  (PX  NOVA   FRANCIA ;    op,    the 

Deaeriotion.of  that  nirt  of  New  France  whloh  Is  oae  Continent 
with  Virginia,  ftc,  translated  out  of  French  Into  Engllah,  by  F.  E. 
Ifoe.  4to,  flne  copy,  with  the  rare  folding  nm»,  russia,  gilt  leaTeB,4li. 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE  from  the  oommence- 
nent  ibOi  mi  to  June. "■•♦..OgMPirte  aet  with  flra  Indaxea.  ai4 
Tols.  8TO,  numerous  plates,  rndflirm  set  in  half  calf,  iSL 

GOLDSMITH.— ORIGINAL    MANUSCRIPT    OF 

OI4VER_Q0.Ll)8MITH!8.TRAN»LATION  of  VIDA'8  GAME 


[JEWELL  (Bp.)], 
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HO  ARE  (SIR  RICH.  COLT),  HISTORY  of  MODERX 

WTLTSHIRE.  lflB-43.  •  rols.  in* 7  nqr.  folio,  large  p^er,  por- 
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FIRST  EDITION  OF  BISHOP  JKWBI.l.*8  APOIX>OT. 

AN   APOLOGIE  op  ANSWEB 

the  CHURCH  of  ENGLAND,  fte.  newly  set 
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by  F.  Bedflnd,  an  cxeeedlngly  ran  book,  101.  Ite. 

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'  ]  copy,  except  tteUln  the  British  Mwseiiin.whidi  te  very  uwi.  thoitth 
Eer  in  tife  margins  than  thia.    I  think  it  highly  probable  that  tUs 
Herbert's  eopy,  bought  by  Dr.  Farmer  at  hb  sale,  and  by  Heber  c?  i 
at  Dr.  F.*8  auction,  whcra  he  was  an  extenatra  pBrrhaser.'*--Jfr.  W.  C. 
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SPEARE'S  (XIMEDIES,  HISTORIES,  and  TRAGEDIES.  Pob- 
Ushed  acoorAng  to  the  trae  Original  Copiea.  Londoa.  printed  by 
Isaac  Jageard  and  Edw.  Blount,  laiB.  Fblio,  title  and  picUminary 
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rente,  nowe  collected  and  newly  pnbUdied  anno  ues.  Imprfaxted  at 
London  by  Thomas  Marshe.  llmo,  blade  letter,  misia.  gut  Itmrtu 
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INDEX. 


FOUETH  SEEIES.— VOL.  VII. 


[For  cluslfled  articles,  tee  Anohthous  Works,  Books  rrckntlt  pdbuihio.  Epigrams,'  Epitaphs,  Folk  Lore, 

PBOTBRBS  AMD  FBBASBS,   QoOTATIONS,  SBAKSPRRIASIA,  and  SoMOS  AMD   BaLLAOS.] 


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A.  on  SUfford  faimily,  387 

A.  (A.  M.  B.)  on  ^  It's  a  far  cry  to  Loch  Awe,"  42 

liake  dwellings  on  Loogh  Much,  42 
Abhba  on  the  BeT.  H.  F.  Gary,  137 

Cary  (Bishop  Mordecai),  465 

German  Lutheran  chnrcb,  Dublin,  545 

Irish  car  and  noddy,  23 
Accidents  Compensation  Bill,  280, 373,  466 
Accoiutance,  the  use  of  the  word,  492 
A.  (D.)  on  Domesday  representatiyes,  208 
Adam  of  Orleton,  bishop  of  Winchester,  53,  SOS 
Addis  (John)  on  blink  ecr.  wink,  460 

Chaucer^s  *<  Shipman,"  208 ;  "  Schoo,*  361 ; 
"After  oon,"  "  Stoor,"  386;  "  Col-Fox,^'  and 
**  Gattothed,"  418 

CherisauDoe,  343 

**  Dolopathos,  the  King  and  Seren  Wise  Men,"*  1 1 1 

Devil  beating  his  wife,  400 

Merks,  bishop  of  Carlisle,  190 

Poetiy  of  the  cloads,  397 

Point  de  vice,  445 

Betehet,440 

Schoolmaster  abroad  in  Staffordshire,  465 

**  Stewing  in  their  own  gravy,'*  272 

Story  of  a  statue,  200 

Vesa:  feeze:  feaze,  294 

Warm  »  wealthy,  84 
Advent  Hymn,  its  tune,  41,  133,  217 
iBiolos  (Alexander),  Greek  poet,  221,  292 
A.  (G.)  on  *<  Owl!  that  lovest  the  boding  sky  ^  292 
A.  (G.  E.)  on  Sydney  Godolphin,  462 
AInger  (Alfred)  on  **  Absalom  and  Achitophel,"  532 

'*  Heart  of  hearts,"  399 
A.  (J.)  on  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  209 
Albaoey  and  Amoodeville  family  arms,  234,  312,  378 
Albert  (Prince),  a  practical  engraver,  20 
Alcestis,  Mr.  Leighton*s  picture  of,  512 
Aloock  (Bp.  John),  family  and  arms,  122,  334 
Alford  (Dr.  Henry),  dean  of  Canterbury,  death,   67, 

87 
Alldridge  (R.  W.)  on  voyageur  pigeons,  284 
Alsace  and  Lorraine  and  Napoleon  aynasty,  281 


Altars  of  stone  in  the  Anglican  church,  162 
AJtilinm,  a  coin,  143 
American  literary  men,  their  wealth,  47 
Amies  (E.)  on  Dandy  rolls,  534 
Ammergau  passion  play,  296,  487 
Anarkala,  fiivourite  wife  of  Akbar,  321 
Anir-Kalli,  page  of  the  emperor  of  Hiodu6ta:i,  385 
Angek)  (Michael),  "  Last  Judgment,"  258 
Anglesey  (Marquis  oQ,  anecdote,  196 
Anglo-Scotus  on  William  Baliol,  432 

Bothwell  (Francis,  Earl  of),  177 

Bruce  (Robert),  bones  and  coffin-nails,  37? 

Fraser:  Frisel,  830 

Laird,  who  is  one?  243 

Priory  of  St«  Etheman,  376 

Boger  (Sir  WUIiam),  Knt.,  242 

Spitten  Laird,  310 
"  Anima  Christi,"  its  author,  322,  374, 506 
Anne  (Queen),  fifty  new  cb  arches,  112;  correspondence 

with  Madame  de  Maintenon,  188 
Anne  of  Denmark,  consort  of  James  L,  engraving,  53^ 

Anonymous  Worki: — 

Barnes  (Betty),  her  History,  342 

Bertrand,  or  Memoirs  of  a  Northumbrian  Noble- 
man, 95 

ConfiMsious  of  a  Gamester,  474 

Conciliad,  satirical  poem,  161,  270 

Essays  on  the  Sources  of  Pleasure  from  Literary 
Compositions,  474 

Essays,  Divine,  Moral,  and  Political,  418 

Exercises,  Instructive  and  Entertaining,  40S 

First  Impression,  or  a  Day  in  India,  266,  354 

Fox's  Martyrs,  a  satire,  388 

Histoiy  of  Edward  IL,  1680,  298 

Jessamy  (Jenny),  her  History,  342 

Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  Life,  43 

Judgment  on  a  Threefold  Order  of  Bishops,  493 

Lay  of  the  Scottish  Fiddle,  16 

Lexiphanes,  15 

Mary  Magdalen's  Tears  wip't  off,  95 

Mela  Britannicus,  76 

Memoirs  of  an  Old  Wig ,  474 

Napoleon,  the  First  Bwk  of,  455 


556 


INDEX. 


f  Index  Supplement  to  the  Notes  mnd 
I  Queries,  with  No.  185,  Jul/  15, 1871. 


Anonymous  Worki  :— 
Pleasing  Melsncholj,  54 
PoeniB  on  the  Foar  Last  Things,  535 
Borne  in  the  Nineteenth  Centuiy,  33 
Shrubs  of  Parnassus,  410,  448,  549 
Thirty  Letters  on  Various  Subjects,  474 
Thoughts  of  Patricins,  97 
Volume  of  Smoke  in  Two  Pufis,  474 
Warreniana,  15 
Whitehall,  or  the  Days  of  George  IV.,  15 

Anselm,  abp.  of  Canterbury,  lines  on  his  death,  364 

Anson  frigate,  accounts  of  its  wreck,  305 

A.  (0.  S.)  on  Badger,  166 
La  Caracole,  34 

Ap  CoUlttS  on  Grantham  inn  signs,  440 

Applegath  (Augustus),  his  death,  153 

Arabic  numerals  in  Wells  cathedral,  282,  875 

Arbnthnot,  its  prvDunciation,  342,  419 

Arbuthnofc  (Dr.  Alexander),  8 

Are  (Joan  d'),  her  death,  409,  508 

Archaological  Institute,  collection   of  early  printed 
books,  422 

Arche  (Elizabeth  de  T),  her  diwun,  409 

Archer  family,  387 

Archer  (George),  M.D.,  his  family,  365 

Archer  (T.  H.  S.)  on  the  wreck  of  the  "  TempV 
365 

Archer's  Court  in  Kent,  its  owners,  41 

Arden  family  of  Wilmcote,  ca  Warwick,  118,  169 

Argyll  family,  its  history,  316 

Armour,  old  families  without  coat,  344,  420,  481 

Arnold  (Dr.  Thomas),  allnsion  to  a  great  man,  209. 
353 

Art,  the  modem  use  of  the  word,  89,  224,  247 

Arthurian  localities,  281 

Arthur's  Wain,  constelktion  of  the  Great  Bear,  512 

Arundel  castle,  origin  of  the  name,  234 

Arundello  castle  in  Piedmont,  234 

A.  (S.)  on  epigram  by  Samuel  Rogers,  388 

Bogers  (Kehemiah),  77 
Ashbumer  family  of  Funiess,  131,  227 
Ashmolean  Museum,  lecture  on  it,  67 
A.  (T.)  on  the  meaning  of  fog,  217 
Atheist's  prophecy  fulfilled,  76 
Atkinson  (G.)  on  Hogarth's  book-plates,  304 
Atkinson  (J.  C.)  on  British  scythed  chariots,  460 
Cleveland  funeral  usages,  298 
Sheffield  folk-loro,  439 
*'  Skerring  upon  a  gbve  glatten,"  265 
A.  (T.  S.)  on  R.  P.  BottingtOD,  artist,  141 
G.  Camphausen,  artist,  188 
"  The  Prodigal  Son,"  a  print^  150 
Attic  talent,  its  ^ue,  363 
A.  (T.  V.)  on  the  veto  at  papal  elections,  169 
Audley  (Ralph)  of  Sandbach,  1 1 
Auretti  (Madlle.),  dancer,  portrait,  822 
Aurora  borealis,  106 
Austin  family,  342;  arms,  75 
Austin  (T.)Jan.,  on  "The  Lamentation  of  a  Smaer* 
376  ' 

Automaton  chess-player,  63 
Ayery  family  pedigree,  161,  288 
Aveiy  (Parson),  «  Swan  song,"  20,  148,  288,  433 
A.  (W.  £.  A.)  on  automaton  chess-pl^er,  63 
Roeemary  used  at  funerals,  348 
Simooides  and  the  "  Codex  Sinaitaona,"  77  | 


A.  (W.  E.  A.)  on  tea,  early  notice  of,  139 

Witchcraft  in  1868,  53 
Axon  (W.  E.  A.)  on  the  first  book  printed  in  Man- 
chester, 64 

"  Hierosaleml  my  happie  home,"  151 

Lines  on  the  human  ear,  334 

Reasons  for  going  to  church,  99 
Ayres  family  surname,  386,  447,  507 

B 

B.  (A.)  on  "  Snmmum  jus,  anrnmn  ii^^uria,"  400 
Babel,  the  builders  of,  316 

Babies'  bells,  21,  45,  133,  201,  291 

Bacon  (Francis),  Baron  VemUun,  his  Queen's  oouomI- 

ship,  188,291 
Badger,  a  corn-dealer,  166,  245 
Badwttll  Ash  choroh  ecreea,  517 
Bailes  (John),  kngefity,  254 
Baily  (J.)  on  Rev.  Nehemiah  Rogers,  179 
Bainbridge  (H.  A.)  on  LeaTenworth  family,  364 
Heraldic  crest,  535 
Selby  family,  516 
Baker  (Mis.  Berwick)  on  Wffl.  Fenwick,  235 
Bafiol  (Sir  Wm.),  302,  432,  506 
Balkd  airs,  tradiUonal,  355 
Ballad  printers'  soooessioo,  187 
BaUasaUey,  origin  of  the  name,  176,  SIS 
Balloon  post  and  the  siege  of  Paris,  207,  270,  275 
Balloons  and  newspapers,  141 
Ballycollitan,  co.  Tippenuy,  122 
Bannister  (J.)  on  Cornish  spoken  in  Devonshim,  853 
Baptism  for  the  dead,  107,  263, 377 
Baptismal  customs  in  the  Highlands,  51,  267 
Baptists  (Joannes),  ^  Commentary  on  Aristotle,"  842 
Barbados  parish  raters,  387,  496 
Barber  (H.),  M.D.  on  Bishop  John  Fell,  288 

Lancashire  funeral  customs,  281 
Barber  (John),  king  of  Throstio  Hall,  1 19 
Barben'  forfeits,  22 

Barker  and  Buzford's  panoramas,  279,  432 
Baikley  (0.  W.)  on  churches  in  Roman  campi^  24 
Barnes  (Dr.  Albert),  his  death,  47 
Bamingham  church  scraen,  517 
Bams,  medisBval,  95,  224 
Baron  BaiUie,  his  duties,  72 
Bar-Point  oo  an  extnuvdinaiy  memoiy,  471 
Barrett  (A.  E.)  on  Madlle.  Anntti,  822 
Barrington  (R.)  on  '*  Stewing  in  their  own  grayy,"  522 
Barrow  in  heraldry,  474,  527 
BaskerriUe  (Thomas),  portrait,  429, 486 
Bates  (A.  H.)  on  anonymous  works,  474 

Etchings,  474 
Bates  (Wm.)  on  the  aurora  bonnHs,  106 
Bookwonn  israges,  346 
"  Eikon  BasUike,"  its  author,  225 
Eestatiea  of  Caldaro,  198,  850 
Fraser's  gallery  of  pGrtxiahs,  211 
Hair  growing  alter  death,  181 
Hervey  (Bev.  James)  and  Hogurth,  256 
Mont  Val^rim,  185 
Nicholson  (Renten)  *'  Bano,"  286 
Parodies,  works  on,  15,  177 
Royal  topography,  20 

Sun  nerer  sets  on  British  dominions,  482  J 
Thomson  (James),  a  DraSd,  485 
loadstone^  540 


Index  Sappleraent  to  the  Kotes  and ) 
Qneries,  wltii  Vo.  18S,  July  15, 1871.  f 


INDEX. 


557 


Baths  and  wells  of  Britain,  467 

Baxter  (Charles)  on  a  Dutch  newspaper,  339 

B.  (0.  W.)  on  **  Comes  to  grief"  526 

B.  (D.)  on  Chensannee  or  cherisanoe,  447 

Ihmm,  an  erening  parly,  526 
Beale  (J.)  on  Ballasalley,  176 
Chawban  exphuned,  74 
Cryptography,  291 
Tyiiwald  Hill,  Isle  of  Ufan,  92 
Bear-baiting,  138 
Bears'  ears,  a  plant,  S56,  350,  420 
Beattie  (W.)  on  Laird,  329 
Beanchamp  fiimily  arms,  219,  342,  442 
Beanclerk  (James  LorA^  3 
Beanmont  (Maiy),  mother  of  the  Ist  Duke  of  Bnolcing- 

ham,  469,  544 
*<  Beaaties  of  England  and  Wales,"  plans,  34 
Becket  (Thomas  k),  mnrderetB,  33,  171,  195,  268, 

395,  464 
Beckford   (Wm.).  Henley's  tnmslatioii  of  ^'Vathek," 

35,113,  174,244 
Becqaerel  (IL),  his  death,  275 
Bede  (Cnthbert)  en  Christmas  mummers,  &&,  52 
French  pigeons  driTcn  to  England,  341 
Glatton,  a  ship,  548 
''Heart  of  hearts,"  548 
Beadyhoof  or  Redioagh  £umly,  361 
Wea&er  saying,  299 
West  Highiand  costoms,  50 
Bedell  (Bp.  Wm.),  descendants,  104,  199 
Bedfield  chorch  sereen,  516 
Bedo  (George)  on  Criss-cross  row,  418 
Den,  a  local  termination,  397 
Fishermen  of  the  olden  time,  174 
Beethoven  (Louis  Ton),  parentage,  S57,  353 
Belgique  on  Medical  Order  of  St.  John,  235 
Bell,  the  pasnng,  388, 499 
Bell-harp,  a  musical  instrument,  208 
Ben-ringing,  110,  388 

Bells  of  St.  Peter's  at  Bome;  Kremlin  at  Moeoow;  and 
St.  Paul's,  London,  their  weight,  1 1 ;  St.  Michaers, 
Coventry,  45;  legend  on,  95;  anecdote  of  one  at  the 
Boyal  E^hange,  110;  memorial,  at  St.  Danatan's, 
Stepney,  511 
"  Belle  Cia)  Dame  sans  Merei,"  poem,  394,  399 
Belts  (B.  R)  on  King's  college,  New  Tork,  289 

Ward  fiunily  arms,  973 
Berkeley  fiunily  arms,  537,  588 
Berllohingen  (Q6ti  too),  509 
Bewick  (John),  engraviogs,  355 
Bezant,  a  coin,  208 
B.  (F.)  on  the  Paterson  family,  60 
B.  (H.  E.)  on  Maidenwefl,  near  Loath,  389 
Bible,  the  Bishops'  versioo  naed  bj  the  translators  of 
the  authorised  version,  74;  itivisioii  of  the  authorised 
version,  181;  the  Vulgate,  ed.  1516,  844;  list  tea^. 
James  L,  534;  works  on  its  history,  535;  Critical 
Commentary,  551 
Bible  illustrations,  11 
Biblical  Arehsologieai  Sodety,  902,  559 
Bibliothecar.  Chetham,  on  baptism  ibr  the  dead,  107 
Guide's  Aurora,  print,  113, 292 
<*  One  swallow  does  not  make  a  summer,"  292 
Pamphlet,  its  etymology,  439 
*<  Veritas  in  puteo,"  312 
Biffin  and  piffin,  583 


Bilbo  on  the  descent  of  Daniel  O'Goonell,  349,  485 
Bills  actually  presented,  32, 132,  269 
Bilston  legend,  71,  197,  246 
Bingham  (C.  W.)  on  the  bookwonn,  65 
Churchill  (Mrs.  Mazy),  234,  524 
Longevity,  280 
Memory  of  smells,  413 
Portuguese  copper  coin,  344 
Samplers  poe^,  126 
Thread  buttons,  94 
'*  Biographia  Britamiica,"  1747-66,  Ejppb's  copy,  340 
Biographical  Beferenee  Dictionary^  181,  402,  551 
Biographies,  wrong  dates  in,  46,  80, 133,  970 
Biroh  famUy,  534 
Birt  (Peter),  pedigree,  129 
B.  (J.),  Okugow,  on  the  Ifiltonio  epttai^,  94 
B.  (J.  H.)  on  **  Heart  of  hearts,"  399 
B.  (J.  M.)  on  Parson  Avery's  Swan  song,  148 
B.  (J.  R)  on  Arnold's  allusion  to  a  great  man,  209 
353 
Carmelites,  863 
Cromwell  note,  429 
Dryden's  agreement  for  Ins  Virgil,  197 
Edwards  (George),  388 
Ferrers  (Lady),  ballad  of,  445 
Jamieson  (Ahsander),  219 
Parker  (Bobert  and  Thomas),  475 
Blackett  (Henry),  his  death,  228 
Blackfriars'  theatie,  183 

Blackie  and  Son  on  dates  in  biogimphies,  46,  133 
Blaekleach  (Bp.  Huan),  of  Sodor  and  Man,  34 
Blades  (Wm.)  on  the  bookworm,  263 
Blair  (D.)  on  Enamoured,  as  a  verb,  429 
Ewidd's  inews  on  the  Apocalypse,  175 
Fairy  ohangelii^  283 
Hampshire  country  churchyard,  174 
HSlty,  the  German  poet,  174 
Jones  (Sir  William)  **  Alcaic  Ode,"  454 
Maturin  (Bev.  C.  R.),  454 
Memory  of  smells,  413 
Prophecies  by  Nostradamus,  &&,  542 
Songs  and  ballads,  398 
**  The  woiid's  jndgment,"  aeo.,  456 
Blair  (Bobert),  "^  The  Grave^"  441 
Blanchard  (E.  L.)  on  Baron  Hlohobon,  327 
Bleakley  fiimily,  141 

Blenldnaopp  (E.  L.)  on  George  Daniel,  63 
Curious  engraving,  95 
Eastern  story,  131 
French  word  for  **  to  ride,"  431 
Grantham  inn  signs,  343 
St  Wn]fifto,970 
Simonides,  179 
*<  Blink,"  or  *^  wink,"  their  oorract  nse,  395,  459 
Block  books,  their  history,  13,  151,  217,  832 
Blood,  a  shower  of,  47 
Bluebeard,  origin  of  tiie  story,  29 
Blue  books,  122,  199 
Blue  Laws  of  Connecticut,  16,  64, 191 
B.  (M.  A.)  on  corrupt  English,  149 
"  Whether  or  no,"  485 
Wbk  or  blink,  825 
Boase  (G.  C.)  on  the  Bev.  John  Enty,  55* 

Foote's  «  Piety  in  Pattens,"  161 
Bobadil,  Ben  Jonson's  bully,  208 
Bocasetree,  534 


558 


INDEX. 


f  Index  8aiq;»leiDeiit  to  the  Kotee  and 
1  Qaerlce,  with  Ko.  lU,  Jnlj  16, 1871. 


BodldiD  libnry,  donations  to,  47;  stolen  MS&  406 

BooYOj  family,  11,  179 

BSbme  (Jaoobl  **  Threefold  Life  of  Man/'  66 

Bolle  (Bicbard)  of  Hangb,  his  brass,  405,  486 

BomliTX  on  Fitsstrathenie,  506 

Bonaparte  (Napoleon),  *"  The  First  Book,"  455 

Bonington  (B.  P.),  vtist,  141,  502 

Boowicke  (Ambrose),  his  Life,  114 

Book  ornamentation,  111,  147,  243 

Books,  notes  on  flj-leaTcs.  232 

Books  priTstely  printed,  the  earliest,  13 

Books  reeently  pablisbed : — 

Abbott  on  the  Bevision  of  the  English  Bible,  467 

Alfred  (King),  Version  of  Gregoij's  Pastoral,  201 

Andrews's  .^Datomie  of  Basenesse,  401,  443 

Anson's  Draraatio  Almanack  for  1871,  86 

Asbbee's  Occasional  Beprinti,  508 

Axon's  Lancashire  Folk-Song,  274 

Bailej  on  tbe  Anglican  Episcopate,  467 

Bartholomew's  Student's  Atlas,  25 

Bible,  the  Anthorised,  with  a  Commentary,  551 

Bloomfield  (Bobert),  Correepondence,  422 

Bonwicke  (Ambrose),  his  Life,  114 

Bookworm,  115,  154,  227 

Boyd's  Beminiicences  of  Fifty  Tears,  31 6 

Brooke  on  the  Voysey  Judgment,  467 

Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Domestic,  Elisabeth, 

1601>1603;     Foreign,  Elizabeth,     1564-5; 

Foreign  and  Domestic,  Henry  YIII.;  Colonial, 

Esst  Indies,  China,  and  Japan,  1617-1621, 

180 
Camden  Mbcellany,  vol  vi.,  354 
Carr's  Story  of  Sir  Bicbard  WhitUngton,  25 
Chanoer's  Canterbury  Tales,  the  Prologue,  354 
Chronicles  and  Memorials  of  Great  Britain  and 

Inland;  Hardy's  Catalogue  of  Ifaterials,  335; 

William  of  Malmesbnry ;  Historic  Documents  of 

Ireland,  380 
Claude  the  Colporteur,  47 
Cusack's  History  of  Kerry,  354 
Dame  Europe's  School,  181 
Dayenport,  Lord-Lieutenant  and  High-Sheri£^  422 
Debrett's  Illustrated  House  of  Commons,  153 
Debrett's  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  114 
Delapierre,  La  Parodie  cbez  lee  Orecs,  &c^  296 
Descbanel's  Treatise  on  Katural  Philosophy,  134 
Dictionary  (Library)  of  English  Language,  25 
Early  English  Text  Society:  England  in  tbe  Beign 

of  Henry  VIII.  A  Snpplicacyon  for  the  Beggars, 

315 
Eden,  Tbe  Nile  without  a  Dragoman,  552 
English's  Crowland  jind  Burgh,  274 
Fairholt's  Bambles  of  an  Arcbaologist,  274 
Felton's  Ghiide  to  Tunbridge  Wells,  487 
Fish  wick's  Chapelry  of  Goosnargh,  153 
Foreyth's  Novels  and  NoTelists,  246 
Gibbe'tt  Catalogue  of  Anglo-Saxon  Antiquities,  467 
Gill's  Notices  of  the  Jews,  86    ^^ 
Goddard's  Wonderful  Stories  from  Northern  Lands, 

46 
Graham's  Historical  View  of  Literature,  487 
Haydn's  Dictionary  of  Dates,  115 
Haydo's  Dictionary  of  Science,  67 
Herald  and  Genealogist,  227 
Here  and  There  in  England,  422' 


Book!  reeently  published  :— 

Hood's  Poetical  Works,  by  BassetU,  181 

Ihne's  EUstory  of  Bome,  133 

Jesse's  London,  its  Bemarkable  Places,  114 

Johnston's  AUas  of  British  History,  86 

Joseph  of  Arimatbie,  201 

Junius'  Handwriting,  421 

Keble's  Christian  Tear,  67 

Kent,  a  new  History  of,  354 

Lok  (Henry),  Poems,  401 

M'Cansland's  Builden  of  Babel,  316 

Macdooald's   Napoleon,   Empress   Eugdnie,   See, 

116 
liacfie's  Colonial  Questions,  115 
Maclean's  History  of  Trigg  Minor,  487 
MacPherson  on  Our  Baths  and  Wells,  467 
Markham's  Teares  of  the  Beloved,  401 
Milman's  English  and  Scotch  Ballads,  552 
Mitford's  Tales  of  Old  Japan,  227 
More — The  Household  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  47 
New  Testament,  with  Analysis,  Notes,  &c.,  46 
CDriscoIl's  Memoir  of  Daniel  Madise,  467 
Palissy,  The  Provocations  of  Madame  Palissy,  47 
Pangraphical  Dictionary  and  Grammar,  316 
Parker's  Lecture  on  the  Ashmolean  Museum,  67 
Phillips's  Dictionary  of  Biographical  Refiersnce, 

181,  402,  551 
Pliny  the  Younger,  Letters,  86 
Pope  (Alex.),  Works  by  Elwin,  86,  295,  508 
Powell  (Maty),  Maiden  and  Married  Life,  47 
Quincey's  Sequel  to  the  English  Opium  Eater,  152 
Bane's  Elements  of  Psychology,  448 
Boss's  Parliamentary  Beoord,  47 
Bnshton  on  Shakespeare's  Euphuism,  527 
Scottish  Liturgies  of  the  reign  of  James  VI^  507 
Scott  (Sir  Walter),  **  The  Pirate,"  25;  "  Fortnnea 

of  Nigel,"  153 ;  "Peveril  of  the  Peak,"  274; 

*'  Quentin  Durward,"  354 ;  Gilbert's  *•  Beminis- 

cenoes,"  381 ;  Lockhart's  Life  of  him  Abridged, 

448 
Sellar^s  Passion  Play  of  Bararia,  487 
Shaftesbury  (Ist  Earl  oQ.  Life  by  Christie,  447 
Shipton  (Mother),  Life  and  Death,  25 
Smiddy'a  Essay  on  the  Druids,  &&,  487 
SmiUi's  Synonyms  Discriminated,  336 
Stewart's  works  on  Angling,  381 
Street  on  the  Completion  of  St.  Paul's,  552 
Stubbs's  Charten  of  English  History,  246 
Sutton  on  tbe  Completion  of  St  Paul's,  552 
Timbs's  Year  Book  of  Facts,  181 
Tdllemache's  Spanish  Towns  and  Spanish  Pictures, 

134 
Transactions  of  the  Historical  Society,  227 
Twiselton's  Poems  in  the  Craren  Dialect,  274 
Vaughan  (Henry),  Silurist,  Works,  401 
Warton'b  Histo^  of  English  Poetry,  by  Hazlitt, 

527 
Wesley  (John)  on  Curetiye  Electricity,  487 
White's  Civil  Serrice  History  of  England,  86 
Winn's  Battles  of  Speicheren,  Gorze,  &c.,  1 12 
Wratidaw's  Diary  of  the  Embassy  of  George  of 

Bohemia  to  Louis  XI.,  227 
Xenophon,  by  Sir  Alex.  Grant,  354 
Yorkshire    Ardueological     and     Topographical 

Journal,  67 
Bookworm,  ite  ravages,  65,  168,  262,  346,  461 


Index  Sopplement  to  the  Notes  and  > 
Qnerica.  with  No.  185,  Jnlj  18»  1871.  i 


INDEX. 


559 


Boston,  a  game,  35,  167,  305,  398 
Boston  church,  Bichani  Bolle's  bnua,  405,  486 
Bothwell  (Francis  Stewart,  Earl  of),  62,  177 
Bonchier  (Jonathan)  on  Afaeaolaj  and  Carljle,  513 

Moli^re's  "  Comedies,"  365 

Sonnet  qneries,  456 
Bonghs  before  doors,  107 
Boome  and  Oroft  famiiits,  256 
Borey  (John),  family,  11,  179 
Bowers  Hall  estates,  Essex,  199 
Bowman  (Robert),  an  alleged  centenarian,  38,  87 
Bows  and  curtsies,  109,  220,  330,  444 
Boy  bishop  of  the  Propaganda,  21 
Boyd  (E.  L.)  on  *<  When  Itah'e  doth  poyaon  want,"  446 
Boyle  (E.  M.)  on  John  Bovey,  11 

Irish  House  of  Commona'  Hits,  323 

Eilligrow  (Elizabeth),  258 

Mourning  paper,  308 

Slawkenbergins' "  Treatise  on  SToses,*  125 

Terrick  family  arms,  104 
Boyle  (Sir  Bobert),  viait  to  Ireland,  282, 352 
B<7ne  money,  236,  313 

Brae  (A.  £.)  on  **  Thirty  days  hath  September,"  525 
Brabam  ehuidi,  Yorkshire,  257 
Bzmmfield  ohnn^  screen,  516 
Bnda^  its  «ege  in  1 624,  53 
B.  (B.  H.  D.)  on  the  catacombs  of  Paris,  22 
Briant  (F.  D.)  on  the  62nd  regiment,  46 
Bricks  of  Babylon,  493 
Bridgetine  nuns,  408 

British  Museum  Beading-room  giierance,  402 
Britten  (James)  on  "Douglas  I  Douglas  I  tender  and 
true,"  23 

Epithets  of  the  months,  445 

"  God's  baby,"  236 

Grimston  (Lady),  her  grave,  129 

Holcus  lavatna,  323 

Sbeerwort,  a  plant,  244,  463 

Sheffield  folk-lore,  299 

Strohwittwe,  446 

TreTeris'  <'  Greta  Herban,"  162,  463 

Voodonism,  origin  of  the  term,  210 
Brocas  (Dr.  TheophQus),  dean  of  KillsU,  137 
Broderid^  &mily,  474 
Broken  bridge,  an  exhibition,  160^  295 
Brooks  (John)  on  Grantham,  olku  Bluetowi^  44^ 
Brooks  (Shirley)  on  lines  on  the  human  ear,  264 

**  The  Philosopher  and  her  Father,**  369  ^ 
Brooks  (BeT.  Thomas),  biography,  342,  417 
Brongh  (John  Cargill),  librarian  ii  the  London  Institu- 
tion, 402 
Brougham  (Lord)  and  the  story  cl  Mo.  IbTighU^gale, 

277,  830,  352,  376,  378,  402;  hU  bust,  202 
Brown  (Tom),  epigram  on  Dr.  Fell,  283 
Browne  (Sir  Anthony),  crest,  304 
Browne  (C.  E.)  on  Maiy  Bant*s  pro]^ecy,  535 

Voltairiana,  431 
Browne  (l^ir  Thomas)  of  Archer's  Court,  41 
Bruce  (Bobert),  bones  and  coffin-nsils,  297,  378 
Brnyke  (La)  and  the  bookseller's  daughter,  207 
B.  Cr.  H.)  on  wrecks,  305 

Portrait  painting,  324 
Buckingham  (Geo.  Villiers,  Ist  Duke  of),  his  aotlier, 

469,  544 
Buckley  (Rev.  T.  A.  Wol)  classical  scholar,  534 
Buckton  (T.  J.)  on  Zodiac  of  Deadersli,  65 


Buff  (A)  OD  Sir  Edwin  Sandys  and  the  bishops,  359 

Industries  of  England,  444 
Bumbo,  or  Bumbo,  a  drink,  512 
Burff,  its  deriyaUon,  282,  379,  445,  486 
Burford's  panoramas,  279,  432 
Burgoyne  ^Sir  John),  lines  to  Lord  Palmerstoo,  340 ; 

lines  by  nim,  451 
Burlamaehi  (Philip),  noticed,  454,  550 
Burnet  Thomas),  satire  on  Dean  Swift,  418 
Bums  (Bobert),  relics  and  letters,  449 ;  error  in  "  Aaid 

Lang  Syne,"  386, 501 
Burton  (Wm  Bacbel),  satirist,  442,  518 
Bussche  (Eiu.  Vanden)  on  J.  Louis  Vives,  536 
Butler  (Charles),  Blue  and  Bed  Books,  122,  199 
Butler  (Gen.),  order  against  the  ladies  of  New  Orleans, 

363 
Butler  (Mrs.  Maiy),  a  centenarian,  160 
Buttery  (Albert)  on  Christ's  portrait,  24 
Huury  VIII.  and  the  Golden  Fleece,  283 
Stamp  on  picture  canyas,  195,  243 
Buttons,  laws  relating  to,  73;  thread,  94 
B.  (W.  C.)  on  John  Deniaon's  Sermons,  162 
Beauty  but  skin-deep,  177 
Chap  books,  302 
FreniBh  mystery-play,  184 
B.  (W.  D.)  on  '*  Capricious  Wray,"  2S9 
B.  (W.  £.)  on  a  brass  in  Boston  church,  405 
SL  Wnlfnan,  444 
Wolphnoa,  222 
B.  (W.  H.)  on  a  whale's  i^  at  Sorrento,  36,  84 
Byron  (George  Gordon,  6th  Lord),  the  young  gallant 
Howard  in  "Chnde  Harold,"  428;  re?iew  of  kis 
"  English  Bards,"  23,  106, 197,  351,  441 


C.  CD  cathedral  bells,  11 

Brougham  (Loid)  and  Voltaire,  352 

Danby  (Eari  of)  and  Lord  Arlington,  863 

Ghost  stoiy.  453 

Kingstoi  (Earl  of)  and  Oldham,  889 

London  ia  October,  510 

True  ei^ioyment,  492 
Calais  and  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot  in  1512, 139 
Caldaro,  the  EcsUtica,  21, 123, 193,  851 
Caliban,  origin  of  the  name,  56,  175 
Calvary,  caUed  the  Meant,  62,  103,  215, 372 
Calyin  (John)  and  Serretus^  141 
Cambridge,  new  edition  of  the  Uniyersity  "Ordifia- 

tiones,^  153 
Cambridge  Philologtcal  Society,  336 
Camden  Society,  general  meeting,  402 
Cameron  (Donald)  of  Lochiel,  portrait,  257,  334 
Campbell  (Lord),  life  of  Lord  Lyndhnrst,  280,  373, 

466 
Camphausen  (G.),  artist,  188,  312 
Canadian  ooyel,  26 
Can-can,  a  dance,  108 
Canius  the  poet,  his  fragments,  363 
Canning  (George)  and  Losd  Dudley,  121 
Cannon,  its  denViiion,  58, 150 
Canterbury  (GoorgeX  hU  "  Will,"  a  tale,  257 
Capers  and  mutton,  190 
Caracole,  its  meaning,  34,  149,  243,  549 
Carew  (W.  H.  P.)  on  Edward  Couch,  200 
Caricatures:  "  The  Horse  Marine  aad  bis  Trumpeter," 
493;  <*  Ex  luce  Incellam,"  512 


560 


INDEX. 


r  Index  Bnpplementto  the  Kotei  and 
\Qnerie«,  with  No.  185,  July  16,  lerL 


Carlyle  (Tbomaa)  and  Lord  Macaulaj,  513 

Carmelitos,  hiatorical  notices,  363 

Carrickblacker,  relies  at,  102 

Csrrier  (Dr.  Benj.),  conversion  to  Bomanisni,  97,  130, 

223 
Carmthers  (Robert),  diploma  of  LL.D.,  382 
Garter  (John),  his  drawingSi  35 
Carthew  (G.  A.)  on  legal  terms  temp.  James  I.,  5 
Car/  (BeT.  Henry  Francis),  137 
Caiy  (Mordecai),  bishop  of  KUlala,  234,  376,  465 
Caiy  (Dr.  Bobert),  "  PalsBologia  Chronica,"  143,  271 
CasanoTa  (Giacomo),  **  Memoirs,"  326,  480 
Catacombs  of  Paris,  22 
Cathedrals,  old  customs,  280      , 
Catley  (Ann\  actress,  41,  217 
CaTan  (John),  a  centenarian,  301 
C.  (C.)  on  a  scripsit,  201 

Gnizot  and  Guise,  270 

Jamieson  (Aleicander),  219 

La  Caracole,  243 

Monsieur,  monsieur,  311 
C.  (C.  D.)  on  Anne  Chapman,  234 

Competitors  for  the  Scottish  crown,  863 

Lee  (Rev.  Timothy),  monument,  304 

Stow-in-the-Wold,  344 
C.  (C.  G.)  on  Boston :  Ombre,  398 
C.  (C.  H.)  on  Lord  Plunket  and  the  hour-glass,  93 
C.  (E.^  on  curious  precursors  of  the  Pretender,  139 
-  MonUgu  (Lady  Mary  Wortley),  ballad,  207 

Ode  of  Arthur  Grey,  375 
C  (E.  B.)  on  "  The  Maid  of  Bye,**  390 
Cellini  (Benyennto),  arms,  266 
Celticism,  the  doctrine  of,  349,  525 
Centenarianism.    See  Longevity 
Ceramic  art,  work  on  it,  336 
CertOiino,  its  meaning,  19,  400 
Cenrantes,  new  edition  of  **  Don  Quixote,"  275 
G.  (F.  W.)  on  La  Caracole,  149 
C.  (G.)  on  T.  Baskeryille's  portrait,  429 
•C,  (G.  A.)  on  folk-lore,  the  slowworm,  547 

L«gal  commonplaces  temp.  James  L,  83 

Painting  in  Starston  church,  245 

St.  abbreviated  to  T,  550 
C.  (G.  H.)  on  Lord  Plunket,  265 
C.  (H.)  on  the  plant  Lingua  Anseris,  333 

Treveria*  <*  Crete  Herbal!,"  333 
duurmen,  hints  to,  55,  176 
Chalkmer  (Bp.  Bichaid), "  Garden  of  the  Soul,"  513 
Chamben  (Bobert),  LLD.,  bis  death,  274 
Chance  (F.)  on  Bi£Bn  and  piffin,  533 

Cleopatra,  493 

PUca  Polonica,  .539 

Bealm,  its  difl^rent  forms,  370 

St.  abbreviated  to 'T,  479 
Chap-books,  808 

Chapman  (Sir  John),  his  daughters,  234,  834 
Chappell  (Wm.)  on  ^^  Hierusalem  I  my  happie  home," 

41 
ChaiboD  de  Terre,  a  Liege  legend,  7 
Chariots,  British  scythed,  95,  240.  332,  460,  503 
Charlemagne  family  arms,  75,  180,  400 
Charles  L  and  the  "  Eikon  BasUike,"  9  ;  his  eleven- 
shUIing  pieces,  55,  148,  442,  486;   growth  of  his 
hair  after  death,  66,  83,  130;    his  ribbon  of  the 
Garter,  342,  440 
Charles  IL,  porcelain  memorial  of,  37;  at  MalpiP,  295 


Chamock  (B.  S.)  on  Burff  or  burf,  486 
Chepstow=Strigoliom,  377 
Chignons,  418 
ColSngham  prioiy,  311 
De  Saye  family,  272 
Cucumber,  its  derivation,  19, 108 
Devonshire  words,  506 
Don,  as  a  local  prefix,  104 

Ss  and  En,  59 

Falls  of  Foyers  and  Glamma,  178 

Glatton,  its  derivation,  446 

Ho(^  Mogan,  481 

Lothlng  land,  19 

Mac,  a  patronymic,  332 

Pennytersan,  &c,  60 

Plica  Polonica,  540 

Saracen,  a  surname,  206 

Segdoone^  Seggidon,  &c,  500 

Trethanap,  113 
Charters  of  English  hutory,  246 
Chatterton  (Thomas)  knowledge  of  Anglo-Saxon,  278; 

monument  at  Bristol,  279 
Chaucer  (Geoffrey),  line  in  the  "Shipman,"'  208;  pro- 
logue to  his  <*Canterbai7  Tales,"  354;  edit.  1561, 
422:  "Schoo,"  361;  "After  oon."  "  Stoor,'*  386; 
"Col-Fox"  and  "Gattothed,"  418;  Works,  adit. 
Stowe,  1561,  492;  date  of  his  birth,  338,  412,  478, 

547 
Chauvinisme,  origin  of  the  word,  408 
Chawban  exphuned,  74 
C.  (H.  B.)  on  picture  of  Alcestis,  512 

Bookworm,  65 

British  scythed  chariots,  332 

Daoier,  427 

Daniel  (George),  118 

French  war  songs,  10 

Ovid,  **  Metam."  xiii.,  254,  521 

"  Pen  of  an  angel's  wing,"  444 

Trapp'a"  Virgil,"  325 
C.  (H.  C.)  on  a  contrut,  1869  and  1871, 121 
C.  (H.  D.)  on  Cigdli*s  painting  of  St.  Frauds,  270 
Cheers  (Sir  Henry),  the  sUtuary,  46 
Cheke  (Lady  Essex),  nnpublished  letter,  406,  458 
Chelmsford  (Lord)  on  **  Heart  of  hearts,"  362 
Chepstow,  called  Strigoielg,  34,  377 
Ch«i7  (J.  L.)  on  « the  bitter  end,"  23 

Print-dealers^  catalogues,  148 
Chess  in  England  and  China,  34, 127 
Chester  (J.  L)  on  B.  HarUnd's  long  ineumbency,  99 

^ppis*s  copy  of  "  Bi<^graphia  Britannica,"  340 

Nightingale  (Lady),  330 
Chesterfield  (Lord),  ballad  on  the  Order  of  the  Bath, 

207 
Chetham  Society  and  the  Fnmess  Coaeher-bodk,  74, 

310 
Chevisaunce,  its  meaning,  843,  447 
Chevron  on  armorial  shields,  408,  467,  550;  the  mili- 

Uiy,  475 
Chignons,  antiquity  of  hidies',  93,  261,  326,  418,  481 
Child,  why  does  a  newly-bom  one  cry  ?  211,  289,  394, 

465 
Child  bom  on  the  anniversary  of  its  parenta'  wedding, 

453 
Children's  games,  141^271, 415,  506,  523 
China,  introduction  of  chess  intr,  34,  127 
China  manis,  73,  442 


Index  Supplement  to  the  Notei  and ) 
Queries,  witb  Na  185,  July  15, 1871./ 


INDEX. 


561 


Chinese  rudders  of  ships,  162 

C.  (H.  M.)  on  oonaecnting  regimental  colours,  282 

Chowder,  a  saToury  dish,  85 

Christ  (Jesus),  portrait,  24 

Christ-cross  A  B  C,  418 

Christinas  momroers  and  plough-witchers,  52,  245 

Christoias  carol,  23 

Christmas  schoolboy  pieces,  145,  201,  351,  462 

Chronicle  of  events  in  1870,  25 

Chrooologer  of  the  City  of  London,  133 

C.  (H.  S.)  on  toadstono  ring,  324 

Church,  some  reasons  for  going  there,  99 

Church  (W.  M.  H.)  on  Austin  fkmily,  342 

Arms  of  Jennour,  55 
Churches,  dedication  of,  388,  480,  505;  fifty  new  ones 
in  London,  112;  in  Surrey,  destroyed  in  1668,  476; 
within  Roman  camps,  24,  333 
Churchill  (Lord)  on  Digbton  caricatures,  418 
Churchill  (Mrs.  Mary),  memorial  in  Mioterne  church, 

234,  417,  524 
C.  (U.  W.)  on  a  Latin  proverb,  56 
Cigoli  (Lewid),  painting  of  "St.  Francis,"  270 
Cinderella  and  the  glass  slipper,  196 
Cipher  writing,  155,  291,  377 
Cistercian  monasteries  in  EngUnd,  141,  268 
0.  (J.)  on  Bishop  John  Alcock,  122 

Keyill  (Geo.)i  Lord  Latimer,  his  wife,  96 

Noel  (Theodosia),  124 
C.  (J.  H.)  on  Dr.  VMUiam  King,  388 

"  Bolliad,"  with  notes,  340 
C.  (J.  L.)  on  Lord  and  Lady  Dome,  283 
C.  (J.  M.)  on  gnats  biting,  352 
C.  (J.  B.)  on  cryptography,  155 
Churke  (Mrs.  Harriet),  her  longevity,  511 
Clarke  (Hyde)  on  lion  shillings,  187 

Male  and  female  numbets  and  letters,  407 

Bfidas,  origin  of  the  name,  429 

Sneezing,  361 

Thunder,  429 
Clarke  (Somers),  jun.,  on  completion  of  St.  Paul's,  241 
Clarry  on  a  newly-bom  child  crying,  289 

Campbell  (Lord),  Life  of  Lord  Lyndhnnt,  373 

Hood  and  Lord  Lytton,  429 

Nicholson  (*'  Baron"),  327 

Bash  statements,  273  ' 

Cleburne  (Wm.),  of  Tipperary,  arms  and  family,  122, 

477 
Cleopatra:  was  she  Egyptian  or  Greek?  493 
Cleveland  (Barbara,  Duchess  oQi  66  ^ 

Cleveland  funeral  usages,  298 
Clive  (Kitty),  letter  to  Miss  Pope,  2 
Clock,  an  astrooomical,  322,  350 
Clod  beef  explained,  612 
Clome  shop  a  crockery  shop,  429,  506 
Clouds,  the  poetry  of  the,  319,  397,  518 
Clyn^  (Norval)  ou  pronunciation  of  Arbnthnot,  420 
C.  (M.  M.)  on  picture  of  Lady  Greensleevea,  475 
C.  (0.)  on  governors  of  Jamaica,  189 

Miniature  painter  femp.  Charles  L,  454 
Cobblers'  lamps  in  lUly,  11,  132,  245 
Cocker  (Edward),  "  The  Pen's  Gallantly,"  407 
Codd  (Mrs.  Shirley  Morse),  a  centenarian,  160 
CoffiBe-bouses  of  London,  5 

Coins,  eleven-shilling  pieces  of  Charles  L,  55,  148, 
442,  486;  denarius  of  Drusus,  sen.,  95,  143,  148; 
altilium  and  obulus,  143;  Portuguese  copper,  344 


Coldingham  priory,  1538,  187,  311,  379 
Cole  family,  124,  201 
Coleridge  (S.  T.),  noticed,  209 
Colet  (John),  de;in  of  St.  Paul's,  281 
CoWile  (F.  L.)  on  Robert  Keek's  portrait,  12 
Common  Prayer  Book  of  the  Church  of  England,  edit. 
1722,  109;  the  Sealed  Book  photo-zinoographiaed, 
47;  Stnrt's  edition,  1717,  283,  351 
Cock-fighting  a  century  ago,  108 
Congressional  library,  153 
Congreve  (Wm.),  who  was  " Doris"?  363 
Connecticut,  its  "  Blue  Laws,"  16,  64, 191 
Consols  defined,  492 
Constable  (Henry),  passage  in,  233 
Constanttne,  bis  cbiiracter,  303,  349 
Constantinople,  the  Hall  of  Waters,  112;  a  new  Otto- 
man dub,  181 
Conway,  origin  of  the  name,  61 
Cook(Capt),  his  thrushes,  187 
C3olca(Cbr.)  on  London  churches,  112 
Cookes,  Cookesey,  and  Cooke  families,  11,  310,  523 
Cookes  (H.  W.)  on  Cookes  families,  1 1 
Corbett  family  of  Chaddealey,  406 
Cor  Caroli,  a  double  star,  18 
Cork  Cuvierian  and  Archssological  Society,  4? 
Cornell  family,  343,  446 
Corney  (Bolton),  sale  of  his  library,  552 
Cornish  spoken  in  Devonshire,  11,  126,  353;  Glossary, 

126 
Conmb.  on  Our  Lady  of  Holywell,  475 
Cottell  (W.  H.)  on  Broderick  family,  474 

Cottle  the  poet,  493 
Cotterill  (H.  B.)  on  the  poetry  of  the  clouds,  319 
Cottle  (Amos),  poem,  '*  The  Milton  Gallery,"  452 
Cotile  (Joseph)  of  Bristol,  his  family,  493 
Couch  (Edward),  his  longevity,  120,  200 
Couch  (T.  Q.)  on  generations  within  living  memory, 

387 
Coartenay  (Wm.  de),  268 
Courtney  (W.  P.)  on  Rev.  Samuel  Henley,  174 
**  Coutumier  of  the  Order  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary," 

822 
Coventry,  belbi  of  St.  Michael's,  45 
Cowper  (J.  M.)  on  Benjamin  Carier,  150 

Anonymous  work,  493 

Bumbo  :  clod  beef,  512 

"  The  Times*  Whistle,"  by  R.  C,  97 

"Whether  or  no,"  378 
C.  (R.),  Corifc,  on  baptism  for  the  dead,  377 

Bookworm,  462 

Nile  and  the  Bible,  314 

Pichler,  a  gem  engraver,  397 
C.  (R)  Gent.,  author  of "  The  Timeo'  WhisUe,"  97 
Cracow  university,  its  original  documents,  336 
Crag,  a  local  affix,  360 
Craufurds  of  Newark,  baronets,  343,  543 
Crawford  (John)  on  blink  vtr.  wink,  459 
Crawley  ver.  Crawley,  a  probate  cose,  299 
Creighton  (Dr.  Robert),  on  the  Council  of  Florence,  142 
Crests,  assumption  of  more  th.in  one,  257,  353,  443, 

505 
Crisplnus,  his  arms,  469 
Criticism,  untutored,  271, 387 
Critics  described,  490 
Crivelli  (Carlo),  life  and  worki,  161,  270 
Croft  family  of  Croft  castle,  256 


562 


INDEX. 


J  Index  Supplement  to  the  Hote«  md 
\  Qneries,  with  Ho.  185,  Joljr  u,  ISTL 


Cromwell  famil/,  429,  481 

Cromwell  (Oliver),  letter  to  the  Emperor  Sultn  Ka- 
homet,  199,  291 ;  mezzottnt,  374;  faooM  on  Brixton 
Bise,  468;  letter  of  Feb.  4,  1650-1,  474;  soppoBed 
descendants,  246,429;  medals,  495;  appointment  of 
Thomas  Simon  as  medal  maker,  515 
CnqiDB  (Alfred),  ue.  Daniel  Madise,  218 
Croeslej  (James)  on  an  old  hsllad,  322 

Goldsmith  (Oliver),  inedited  elegj,  66^  131 

"  History  of  Edward  II.,  1680,*'  298 
Crowland  abbey,  its  history,  274 
Crowqoill  (Alfred),  {.e.  Alfred  Henry  Forrester,  214 
Cmikahank  ^George),  illustrations  in  BoBOoe's  "Novel- 
ists' Library,**  40 
Cryptography,  155,  291,  877 
C.  (T.)  on  Bp.  Gibson's  wife  and  mother,  76 
C.  (T.  E.)  00  the  canal  of  Xerzea,  97 
C,  (T.  W.)  on  Hoelty,  the  German  poet,  244 

Millon  (Jean  de),  495 

"  Pen  of  an  angel's  wing,"  312 

^  StewiDg  in  their  own  gravy,"  379 
Caonmber,  its  derivation,  19, 108 
Col,  Cool,  a  local  prefix,  495 
Gamble,  its  derivation,  482 
Cmmingham,  origin  of  the  snmame,  221,  847 
Conningham  (F.)  on  lines  omitted  in  **  ComoSy"  384 
Con-stone,  its  derivation,  61 
Cnvier  (Clementine),  biography,  408 
0.  (W.),  Richmond^  on  London  coffee  hooses,  5 
C.  (W.  A.  B.)  on  "^  Bos  hoe  vocari  debet,"  &&,  149 

The  SeptOBgint,  515 
C.  (W.  D.)  on  Sydney  Godolphm,  364 
C.  (W.  M.  H.)  on  Aostin  family,  75 

Average  of  human  life,  10 

Charlemagne  arms,  75 

Daubygn^  monnment,  54 

Hampden  family,  189,  441 

Heraldic,  409 

Mortimer  pedigree,  12 

Monument  in  Kencott  chorch,  140 

Pipe  Boll,  5  Stephen,  236 
Cywrm  on  orders  of  knighthood,  101,  441 

Song,  *'  Laoriger  Horatios,"  398 


D.  on  High-jinks,  a  tipsy  merriment,  427 

Memory  of  smells,  414 

Mooming  writing-paper,  378 

Thunderer  of  "  The  Times,"  524 
Dacier  (Andrew),  noticed,  427 
Dalby  (J.  W.)  on  George  Dauiel,  63 
D'Almeyda  (Don  FrftD9ois),  lOl 
Dalrymple  (John),  noticed,  286,  463 
Dandy  rolls,  534 
Daniel    (George),  editor    of    Comberhmd's    "British 

Theatre,"  63,  84,  113 
Danish  court  head-dress,  34 
Dante  literatore,  354 
Darwin  (C.  B.),  his  theory  in  Java,  533 
Dates,  dijserepancies  in,  9 

Daubygn^  (Sir  John),  monument  at  Brize-Norton,  54 
Davies  (T.  L.  0.)  on  pronunciation  of  Greek  and  Latin, 
173 

"  The  Poetic  Mirror,"  177 
Dawes  (Abp.  Wm.),  fond  of  punning,  106 
Daykin  (F.  M.)  on  the  Birch  family,  534 


D.  (E.  A.)  on  Borff  or  boif,  379 

False  qnintitieB,  880 

Hamesncken,  335 

Phrase,  *"  Comes  to  grief,"  429 

Song,  *'  Old  woman,  old  woman,"  196 

Wiay  (Daniel),  372 
Deacon  (Wm.  Frederick), "  Warreniaiia,"  15 
*'  Deaf  old  woman,"  lines  on,  75, 196 
Dean  (S.  A.  H.)  on  Christmas  pieces,  462 
Death  by  tortors  for  impoted  heresy,  305 
De  Bohun  family,  24,  150 
Deed,  ancient  Scottish,  19 
De  Foe  (Daniel),  quotations  in  ''BolHnsoD  Onuoe,'* 

426 
Defoe  (Mercy)  of  Manchester,  34 
De  la  Smo  (G.)  on  the  marine  rose,  46 
Demoniacs,  works  on,  109 
Den,  as  a  local  tenmnation,  897 
Denarius  of  Drosos,  sen.,  coin,  95, 354 
Denbigh,  origin  of  the  name,  61 
Denisoo  (Jo&),  his  works,  162 
Denney  (Andrew),  Greek  couplet,  76 
Dentoo  (Sir  Alexander),  loyalist,  323 
"*  De  pnrf^ondis,"  its  early  use,  495 
Derby  (Henry  Stanley,  4th  Earl  of),  anecdote,  888 
Derby  (Thomas  Stanley,  2nd  Earl  oQ,  filth  Cog  of 

Man,  250 
**  Der  relegirU  Kobbold,"  55 
D.  (E.  Sw)  on  Maidenwdl,  near  Loutb,  548 
Deril  beats  his  wife,  25,  400 
Dexter  (Timothy),  American  merchant,  174 
D.  (F.  H.)  on  "  Pigs  may  fly,"  Ac,  41 
D.  (G.  F.)  on  epiUph  b  Wing  church,  53 
D.  (H.  P.)  on  Epigram:  <<  As  Cyril  and  Nathan,"  442 

Epigram  on  the  Walcberen  expedition,  18 

Fell  (Dean  Samod),  352 

Punning  and  jesting  on  names,  313 

Titlers  of  sugar,  224 

Winter  saying,  18 

Wiay  (Danid),  372 
D.  (H.  W.)  on  China  mania,  73 

Derby  porcelain,  75 
Diaz  (Baitolomao),  discoverer  of  the  Cape  Boots,  102, 

195,  313 
Dibdin  (£.  R)  on  Beauty  sleep,  419 

BUur  (Bobert),  •*  The  Grave,"  441 
Dibdin  (Dr.  T.  F.),  «  Bibliognphical  Decameron,"  256 
Dickens  ((Tharles),  copyrights  of  his  works,  134 
Dies  (Dbnna  Juliana),  Portuguese  beauty,  34 
Digamma,  414,  481 
Dlghton  (Bobert).  caricaturist,  418 
Disraeli  (Isaac)  and  family,  300 
Dis-spirit,  its  old  and  modem  meaning,  IS6,  294,  877 
Ditchfield  (J.  B.)  on  **  M^moires  de  Casanova,"  480 
Dixon  (S.)  on  "  After  me  the  deluge,"  188 

Ballad  of  Lady  Ferrers,  834 

Gniaot  and  Guise,  333 

Hair  growing  after  death,  130,  315 
Dixon  (James  Henry)  on  Ballad  printers*  sue 
187 

Byron's  **  English  Bards,"  106,  851 

Certosino,  its  meaning,  19 

Cobblers'  lamps  in  Italy,  11 

Convivial  scngs,  58 

••Es"  and  "En,"  193 
Geronde  convent,  255 


Index  Snpplement  to  the  Notes  and  ) 
Queries,  with  No.  185,  July  15, 1871.  / 


INDEX. 


563 


DixoD  (James  Henry)  on  Manchester  diap-books,  110 

Missale  ad  nsnm  Lansannensem,  184 

Potters  of  the  northern  counties,  96 

Seripait,  146 

Swiss  spring  song,  231 

"  The  Heaving  of  the  Lead,"  55 

War  song:  An  Imperial  Letter,  145 
D.  (M.)  on  Babjlonian  bricks,  493 

Bear-baiting,  138 

Beantj  sleep,  143 

Chinese  rudders  of  ships,  162 

Delineations  of  the  dragon,  12 

Estatica  of  Galdano,  123 

Gipsj  cookery,  121 

Heraldry  of  Smith  families,  43 

Inkstand  of  Wedgwood  ware,  163 

Kay  (John),  portrait,  173 

Macaroon,  its  derivation,  364 

Marbnry  Dnn,  a  famed  hone,  535 

Military  chevron,  475 

P.  A.  L.'s  communication.^,  158 

Pools,  or  mouths  of  streams,  12 

Proverbs,  406 

Pumps,  low.heeled  shoes,  389 

Scripsit,  201 

Surnames  in  Domesday  Book,  320 

The  Grecian  bend,  513 

Tom  Tiddler's  ground,  57 

Yorkshire  Prayer-book,  13 
Dobson  (Thomas)  on  the  meaning  of  Kipper,  543 
**  Documentos  Arabioos,"  303 

DSninger  (Dr.  J.  J.  Ignatius  von),  Oxford  degree,  487 
"  Ddopathos;  or,  the  King  and  the  Seven  Wise  Men," 

111 
Domesday  Book,  its  surnames,  330;  ita  landowner's 

representatives,  208 
Don  on  Eastern  story  of  a  heavy  slab,  12 

War  medals,  13 
Donne  (Dr.  John),  ""Poems,**  494;  letter  in  Walton's 

Life  of  him,  536 
Dore,  a  family  name,  its  derivation,  453 
Dome  (Lord  and  Lady),  283 
DougUs   (W.    S.)   on   Bums'    ""Richt    Gnde- Willie 

Waucht,"  501 
Dour,  or  Dur,  a  local  prefix,  22,  152 
Dover  castle,  smugglers  hung  in  front  of  it,  364,  445 
Downing  (Mrs  Harriet),  Irish  poetess,  142,  289 
Doxat  (Lewis),  his  age,  408 
Doyll  on  English  queen  buried  at  Porto  Finok  208 

Spenser's  **  Hymn  of  Heavenly  Beauty,"  220 
Dragon,  earliest  delineation,  12,  125, 174,  200,  244 
Dramas,  political  satirical,  491 
Dramatic  Almanack  for  1871,  86 
Drennan  (W.  R.)  on  gipsies  in  Ireland,  1 10 
Druidical  history,  487 

Dram,  an  evening  party,  its  derivation,  453,  526 
DramUnrig  (the  Laird  oQ,  190,  310 
Drary  Lane,  the  Bear  tavern,  363 
Dryden  (John),  passage  in  "  Absalom  and  Achitophel," 

532 
D.  (T.),  on  Qforge  London,  444 
Dnarte  (D.  Jacobo),  collection  of  pictures,  364 
Dublin,  German  Lutheran  church,  545 
Dudley  and  Ward  (John,  2nd  Viscount),  portxait,  235 
Dngdale  (Wm.),  allusiops  in    his   **  History  of   St. 
Paul's,"  281 


*"  Dolce  Domum,"  140 

Dud,  as  a  local  prefix,  104 

Dunkin  (A.  S.),  on  barbers'  forfeits,  22 

BaUooDs  and  newspapeHs.  141 

Door  or  Dur,  a  local  prefix,  152 

Lancashirs  witches,  504 

Parodies,  work  on,  105 

Bederiffe,  in  Surrey,  25 
Donkin  TEdwin)  on  prints  of  Stooehenge,  36 
Dunkin  (E.  H.  W.)  on  Feock  church  registers,  232 
Dunn  (Sarah),  a  centenarian,  159 
Dur,  or  Dour,  a  local  prefix,  22,  152 
Dutch   newspaper,    1652,    339;    periodical,    "*  Onzo 

Eeow,"  153 
D.  (W.)  00  collections  for  history  of  Inns,  512 

Maxy  Queen  of  Scots'  imprisonments,  526 

Scotch  newspapers,  390 

Thomson  (James),  a  druid,  401 
D.  (W.  G.)  on  the  Gla^ow  noddy,  165 

Gnat  r.  mosquitoes,  416 

D.  (W.  T.  T.)  on  Charles  II.  at  Malpas,  295 
Dyer  (Sir  Edward),  "Sixe  Idyllia,"  494 
I^er  (John),  poet,  232,  353,  443,  524,  546 
Dyer  (Samuel),  his  portrait,  232 

Dymond  (B.)  on  Gary's  "  Palaologia  Chronica,"  271 
Bishop  Mordecai  Gary,  376 

E 

Ear,  lines  on  the  human,  235,  264,  834,  369 
Eastern  story  of  a  heavy  sUtb,  12,  131 
Eating  to  excess,  429 

Eboracnm  on  the  Rhombus  and  Scarus,  376 
Eclipses,  popular  method  of  observing,  472 
EcsUtics,  works  on,  21,  123,  193,  350 

E.  (D.  C.)  on  Robert  de  Corny n,  19 
Edward  I.,  marriages  of  hia  daughters,  204 
Edward  U.,  "  HUtory,"  298 

Edward  IV.,  letter  dated  Dec  10,  1460,  229,  312,  417 
Edward  the  Confessor  and  the  ring,  474 
Edwards  (George),  A.D.  1545,  388,  464 
Eff  on  «  Agreeing  to  differ,"  512 

Bookworm,  462 

Phelps  (E.  &), ''  Gates  Ajar,"  452 

Rosooe's  "  Life  of  William  Roscoe^"  471 
Efiessea  on  Sir  Thomas  Sewell,  376 
E.  (G.)  on  Bobadil,  208 

Congreve  and  Wycherley,  486 

Hampden  family,  273 

Milton  and  homosopathy,  54 

NUe,  its  orerflowings,  186 

PUca  Pdonica,  475 

Length  of  hair  in  men  and  women,  475 

Repentant  thief,  490 

Wellington  (Duke  of),  anecdote,  490 
E.  (G.  F.  S.)  on  **'Ti8  better  to  have  loved  and  lost," 

376 
Egerton  (Sir  Charles),  Knt.,  12 
Eggs  as  an  article  of  food,  409,  484 
E.  (H.  T.)  on  "  The  Shrubs  of  Parnassus,"  410 
"  Eikoo  BasUike,"  authorship,  9,  225 
Eirionnach  on  quotations  in  "  Robinson  Crusoe,"  426 
E.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  centenarians,  159 

Diaz  (Bartolomao)  and  the  Cape  route,  195 

Indexes,  their  utility,  42 

Lincolnshire  drinking  song,  454 

Seizure  of  chattels  under  an  heriot,  302 


564 


INDEX. 


/  Index  Bnpplementto  the  HMtem  md 
\  Qneilee,  with  No.  les.  July  16»  1871. 


Eleanor,  daaghter  of  King  John,  her  marriagt,  203 

Elecampane,  a  plant,  243,  314 

Elizabeth,  diraghter  of  Edward  L,  marriage,  204 

Eliaabeth  of  lAncauter,  maniage,  520 

Ella  QD  the  oldest  inna  in  England,  464 

Elkcombe  (H.  T.^  on  legend  on  bella,  95 

Ellcee  on  oobbW  lamps  in  Italy,  245 

Parkee  (Joseph)  memoin  and  eorreapondenee,  74 

"Point  da  T]0^"  265 

Song:  "  Goodj  bottled  ale,"  44 

Scfaoolmaater  abroad  in  Lancaahire,  311 
Ellis  (A.  &)  on  Becket's  mvdenn,  266 

ChepstowimEstilg^el,  290 
Ellis  (J,  H,)  on  ciypt^phj,  377 
Ellis  CJohn),  BBiaoeUaneoos  writer,  5 
Ellis  (B.  B.  W.)  OB  Anarkala,  wile  of  Akbar,  321 

Barbarons  massacre,  221 

Bibliotheca  Indica,  54 

Donna  Joliaoa  Dies,  34 

«  DocomentOB  Arabioos,"  303 

Manaoleom  and  town  Uiarkiillea,  385 

Poppa  Bai^  or  Qoeen  of  Mtsmle,  190 
Elze  (Dr.  Karl)   oB  <<Mstchant  of  Yeoiee;"   Mrs. 
Downing,  142 

"  Timon  of  Athens,"  two  passages,  350 
Enamoarsd,  as  a  verb,  429 
Engra?ing,  a  canons,  95;  earlj,  13,  151,  217,  332; 

steel,  510 
Enigma:  "  Cadaver  nee  faabet  snnm  scpalehmm,"  513 
En^  (Bey.  John),  biogn^j,  55 

Epigram*  :*» 

Brown  (Tom)  on  Dr.  Samnel  Fell,  288 

French  cock,  54 

Jackson  (Cyril)  and  Nathan  WethereD,  821,  350, 

442, 518 
Walcheren  expedition,  18 

Epitaphs  :— 

Bailes  (John)  of  Northampton,  254 
Bird  (^Mp.  Sosannah),  at  Midnapore,  280 
Cotes  (Thomas),  in  Wing  church,  53 
Havers  (Bey.  Thomas)  at  Stoke  Holy  Cross,  94 
Heversham  church,  Westmorelaod,  32 
Portland  (Richard  Weston,  Ist  Earl  oQ,  325 
Stanley  (Sir  Thomas),  190»  292 
R  (B.)  on  "Streak  of  sUver  sea,"  486 
Eric  on  the  Doke  of  Kent  in  Canada,  86 
E.  (B.  B.  W.)  on  mnmmy-hnnting,  491 
Erse  (Lothar),  tragedy  on  Mary  Qneen  of  Scots,  533 
Exskine  TJohn),  editor  of  his  "  Institates,"  364 
Erskine  (Thomas,  Lord),  disappoloted  of  a  legacy,  510 

ia  and  En,  59, 193,  264,  647 
Espedare  on  A'Becket's  muderers,  395 

Cnnningham  surname,  347 

Laird  or  lord,  328 

Penny tersan,  Cnnstone,  etc.,  219 

Sickle  Boyne:  Boyne  Mooaj,  313 
Este  on  Industries  of  England,  289 
Eyans  (John)  on  coin  of  Denarius,  354 
Ewald  (H.  a  A.)  and  the  Apocalypse,  175 
Exhibition,  IntemaUonal,  of  1867,  67, 153,  181,  202, 

296,  355,  401 
E.  (T.  C.)  on  tte  completion  of  St  Panrs,  185 
Ey<*  (Brothers  Van),  «  Adoratiott  of  the  Lamb,**  150 


F.  on  Calvin  and  Serveins,  141 

Foster  (John)  of  Wordsley,  549 

Nile  and  the  Bible,  421 
F.  2  (W.)  on  the  bookworm,  168 

Cunningham,  origin  of  tlie  snmame,  221,  524 

<'  The  Sonter  tfidhls  Sow,"  467 
Facts  in  unexpected  pUu^  297, 878 
Faidherbe  (CMn^ral),  noticed,  121 
Fairfax  conrt-honse  destroyed,  508 
Fairfax  family  pedigree,  257 
Fairford  windows,  47 
Fairy  changelings,  283 
FalkUmd  (Lord),  noticed,  494 
Falkner  (T.  F.)  on  metrical  yiniaB  of  the  Psalms,  305 
Falls  (Mr.),  his  pun,  107 
Families  witbont  coat  armour,  344,  420,  481 
Faraday  (James),  pedestrian  feat,  140,  266 
'*  Farceur  (le)  du  Jour  et  de  h  Nnit,"  12 
Famham  (Lord),  memoir,  227;  mannsoripCs,  246 
Farren  (EHza),  boose  in  Qnen  Street,  189 
Faussart  (Sister  Gnillemette),  135 
Fell  (John),  bishop  of  Oxford,  283, 352 
Fell  (Samuel),  dean  of  Christ  Church,  288, 352 
Female  saint  rfpnsented,  56, 150 
Fondles :  Beanchamp,  318 
Fenolles,  or  Fondles  (Sir  Wm.  de),  daughter  Margaret, 

12, 223,  318, 437,  505 
Fenwick  fiumly,  33 
Fenwick  (Lady),  her  disinterment,  33 
Fenwick  (Wm.),  mi^for  of  Holl,  biogn^yy  235 
Feigusson  (J.)  on  the  onnpletion  of  St.  PanFs,  390 
Femie  (T.  P.)  on  engraving  of  Anne  of  Denmark,  533 
Ferrar  (Nicholas)  and  Geoige  Boggle,  490 
Ferrers  (Lady),  baUad,  209,  334 
Feney  (B.)  on  St  PauTs  cathedral,  its  coB^ktion,  344, 
460 

Stortfs  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  283 
Fert  in  the  Savoy  arms,  22, 104 
Fetter-lock,  a  cognizance  of  the  Long  fiunily,  423,  536 
F.  (G.)  on  bears'  ears,  350 
Fictkm  and  fact,  494 
Fiennes  fiimily  pedigree,  438 
Filial  piety,  121, 180,  199 
Ilndene  flowers,  194,  313 
Unkley,  arohftological  discoveries,  528 
Fish  and  the  bark  "  Providence,"  492 
Fishermen  in  the  olden  time,  174 
Fishwlck  (H.)  on  Badger,  245 

Froat  on  the  shortest  day,  73 

Saarbrfick  custom,  174 

StUts^scrutches,  243 
Fitz-Hameys  (Bobert),  genealogy,  222,  292 
Fitahopkins  on  a  blade  country  legend,  197 

Fofleal  flofers:  Goldsmith,  426 

Jests,  445 

01dj(dces,]21 

Sehoolmaster  abroad  in  Stafibidshire,  311 

Story  and  its  expansion,  32 
Fitz-Bichard  on  punning  and  Jesting  on  names,  107 

Biohard  Plantagenet,  150 
Fitzstratheme  (Mr.),  506 
F.  (J.)  on  the  signs  of  the  Zodiac,  344 
F.  (J.  T.)  on  babiea'  bells,  21 

Book  of  Common  Prayer,  ed.  1722, 109 


Index  Baniement  to  the  Kotet  and  > 
QnerlM,  with  5o.  las,  JoJy  15»  1871.  | 


INDEX. 


565 


F.  (J.  T.)  OD  bnrff  or  barf,  379 

Cobblers'  Umps  io  lUlj,  132 

Gigantic  tin  singing  trompets,  530 

Gnn,  its  derivation,  58 
*  "*  Maij  Ifagdalen's  tears,"  ita  author,  95 

Moral  painting  in  Starston  diarch,  40 

Print  of  the  Prodigal  Son,  56 

Shard,  or  sham,  105 

Wells  cathedral,  its  Arabio  nnmerals,  376 
F.  (J.  W.)  on  New  Zeaknd  medal,  197 

War  medals,  131,  482 
Flag,  the  new  German  imperial,  322,416,  503 
Flemish  fiunilies,  thehr  arms,  Ut  310 
Flemish  fishermen  in  England,  513 
Flenrj  (Abbd  de),  letter  to  Card.  Goalterio,  69 
Florin,  the  golden,  208 
Flj.fishing,  arUficial,  161,  265 
Fljn  (David)  on  the  buy-bishop  at  Christmas,  21 
F<^,  meaning  of  the  word,  96,  216,  351,  466 

Folk  Lore : — 

Agne  charms,  443,  483 

American  folk  lore,  91,  92 

Blackbirds  singing  before  Christmas,  186 

Frost  on  the  bhortest  daj,  73 

Fnneral,  51,  63,  231,  298 

Gabriel  hoanda,  299 

Garlic,  its  anti-witchcraft  propertiea,  206 

Graves  open  on  Sandays,  471 

Irish:  Crawlej  ver.  Crawley,  299 

Kintyre  sopentitions,  93 

New  moon  and  the  maids,  445 

New  year  superstition,  299 

Sheffield  folk  lore,  299,  439 

Slow  worm,  427,  547 

Sneezing^  361 

Staffordshure  folk  lore,  91 

Summer  rainfall  and  the  great  bear,  300 

Teeth  folk  lore,  85 

Thnnder,  428 

Toads  cnre  glandolar  swelling,  210 

Weather  sayings,  299,  300,  343,  419,  445 

Winter  eajing,  18 
Foote  (Samnel)  MS. of  "Piety  in  Pattens,"  161;  cha- 
racters in  his  "Chtysal,"  186 
Ford  Abbey  sale  of  paintings,  475 
Ford  (J.  W.)  on  the  game  of  Ombre,  306 
Foceigner  on  a  German  Etymological  Dictionary,  303 
Forrest  (C.)  sen.  on  black  wax,  443 
Forster  (Dr.  Thomas),  *<Anthologia  Borealis  et  Aus- 

tralb,"  160 
Fortnne  theatre,  183 

FoBOolo  (Ugo),  removal  of  his  remains,  528 
Foster  (John)  of  Wordsley,  410,  549 
Fonnders'  kin,  pedigrees  of,  389 
Fonntains  abbey,  141,  269 
Fowler  (J.  T.)  on  Fonntains  abbey,  269 
*' Fox's  Martyre,"  a  satire,  388 
Foyers,  the  falls  of,  62,  178 
Fra  (Gaston)  on  schoolboy  words,  44 
France,  its  reigning  beauties,  427 ;  coins  of  the  Repub- 
lics, 473,  526 
Francis  (Sir  Philip),  a  Junius  claimant^  421,  453,  489 
Franklin  (Benjamin),  laurel  wreath,  189 
Frsser  or  Frisel  families,  55,  179,  330 
■'Fraser^s  Magazine,"  portraits  circa  1835, 81,  211 


Frederick  king  of  Prussia,  his  alleged  letter  to  Prince 

Charles  Stuart,  >17 
Frere  (G.  £.)  on  Sir  John  Powell,  465 
Fretton  (W.  G.)  on  belU  of  St  Michael's,  Coventry,  45 
Friday  tree,  or  non-success,  123,  199 
Fritwell  (Hain)  on  Chignons,  326 

"  Gentlemen  of  the  Pavement,"  341 

Old  fiamilies  without  coat  armour,  420 

''Stewiog  in  their  own  gravy,"  187 

Tennyson  and  Congreve^  801 
F.  (R.  J.)  on  Dover  castle,  364 

Soot's  Hall  in  Kent,  433 
Frock  church  regbter,  its  recovery,  232 
Frosts,  severe  ones,  18 
Fruits,  wild,  in  Germany,  233 
Fry  (Francis)  on  Tyndale's  New  Testament,  30 

Bishopa*  verrion  of  the  Bible  used  by.  the  trans- 
laton  of  the  Authorised  Version,  74 
F.  (S.  B.)  on  Horan  family  arms,  454 
F.  (T.  P.)  on  the  marriage  of  the  Duke  of  Manchester, 
364 

Unpublished  letter  of Essex,  406 

Fulham  porcelain  dishes,  37 
Fulkm  (G.  T.)  on  the  Janney  family,  312 
Fuller  (Wm.),  bishop  of  Lincoln,  parentage,  257,  351 
Funeral  customs  in  the  Highlands,  51,  267;  in  Lan- 
cashire, 231 ;  at  Cleveland,  298 
Funeral  flowers,  426 

Fumess  Abbey  and  the  Chetham  Society,  74,  810 
Fumivall  (F.  J.)  on  Chaucer's  birth,  412;  Works, 

492 
Fust  (Sir  Edward),  his  sword,  77 
Fust  (H.  Jenner),  jun.  on  Jennour  family,  152 
F.  ( W.  G.)  on  pUns  in  **  Beauties  of  England  and  Wales,' ' 

34 
F.  (W.  M.)  on  the  memory  of  smells,  414 


G.,  Edinburgh^  on  Lord  Erskine,  510 

*'  Fox's  Martyrs,"  a  sature,  388 

Hamesucken,  a  legal  term,  257 

Judicial  oaths,  209,  440 

Mar's  year,  186 

"  The  Deaf  Old  Woman,"  75 

The  Souter  and  his  Sow,  361 

Wdfe  (Gen.)  and  the  20th  foot,  53 
G.  (A.)  on  Dr.  Benjamin  Carier,  130 

Hilarion's  servant,  the  sage  crow,  178 

"  Poems  on  the  Four  Last  Things,"  535 

"  The  Song  of  Solomon,"  515 

Weaver's  art,  244 
Gabriel  hounds,  299 

Gainsborough  (Thomas), ''  Blue  Boy,"  237, 366,  391 
Gainsbnrgh  legend,  251,  457 
Gairdner  (James),  on  letter  of  Edward  IV.,  229,  417 
Galileo,  his  letter,  12,  113 
Galimatias  =3  nonsense,  174 
Games,  children's  141,  271,  415,  506,  523 
Ganthe  (Haneae)  of  Dantzig,  283 
Gantillon  (P.  J.  F.)  on  Denny's  Greek  translation,  76 

Epigram  by  Owen,  292 

Hood's  poem,  293 

Trench's  Hulsean  Lectures,  78 
Gardiner  (S.  B.)  on  Philip  Burlaroachi,  550 

Duke  of  Buckingham's  mother,  469,  544 
Gardner  (J.  D.)  on  Skedaddle,  351 


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INDEX. 


f  Index  8app1em«nt  to  the  ITotet  mni 
(Qaeriet.  with  No.  185,  July  is,  1871 


Garlic,  its  anti-witchcnifi  properties,  206 

GuTOD,  «  small  hone,  494 

Gaspey  (Wrr.)  on  the  last  of  the  Plantngenetf,  271 

Gates,  Isle  of  Man,  409,  484 

Gattj  (Dr.  A.)  on  Barker's  panoramas,  432 

Mary  Qneen  of  Scots'  captiritj  in  England,  461 
Gattj  (Margaret)  on  babies'  hells,  45 

Ballad  of  Lady  Ferrers,  209 

Sea-dragon  delineated,  125 

Snn-dial  qaeries,  399 
Geddes  (D.)  on  the  meaning  of  fo;;,  216 
Gem  query,  322,  397 
Gemini,  351,441 

Generations  within  living  memory,  387 
Gentlemen,  as  used  in  the  army,  75 
"  Gentlemen  of  the  Parement,"  341 
George  IV.,  his  last  days,  473  . 
Geraian  Etymological  Dictionary,  303,  380,  456 
German  imperinl  flag,  322,  416,  503 
Genrnm  prince  inquired  after,  235 
Germans  of  the  first  and  nineteenth  centuries,  87 
Geronde  convent,  255 
**  Geschicbte  des  berUhmten  Berggeists  Gnome  anf  den 

Sudeten,"  55 
Gg.  on  Arundel  and  Arundello,  234 
G.  (G.  M.)  on  Strasburg  library,  223 
Gheel  iu  Belgium,  the  home  of  madmen,  21 
Gherkin,  its  derivation,  19, 103 
G.  (H.  J.)  on  arms  of  Counts  of  Perche,  1 1 1 
Ghost  story:  Lord  Hastings,  453 
G.  (H.  S.)  on  Albaney  and  Amondeville,  234 

Alcock  (BLihop),  his  arms,  334 

Bourne  and  Croft  families,  256 

Chevron,  467 

Cookesey  family,  523 

Corbett  family,  408 

Craufurds  of  Newark,  baronets,  548 

Dore,  a  family  name,  453 

Heraldry,  the  barrow,  474 
Gibbs  (H.  H.)  on  babies'  bells,  133 

Bovey  (John),  179 

Manuscript  Hone,  535 

Ombre,  a  game,  167 
Gibson  (Bp.  Edmund),  mother  and  wife,  76 
Gibson  (William  Sidney),  his  death,  48 
Gilbert  (James)  on  convivial  song,  151 

Hamel  (Nicholas),  64 

Pianofoi^e,  its  first  public  exhibition,  143 

Reform  bill  in  1831,  113 

Local  tournaments,  105 
Gipsies  in  IreUnd,  110;  their  cookery,  121 
G.(J.  A.)  00  bell-ringing,  388 

Coinoidenoe  of  thought,  93 

Oreighton  (Dr.  Robert),  142 

Eggs  as  an  article  of  food,  409 

Gigantic  oz,  159 

Marriages  before  twelve  o'clock,  364 

Sonnet  queries,  545 

"Stewing  in  their  own  gravy,"  272 

Thomson  (James)  a  Druid,  225 
Gladb,  its  derivation,  454 
Ghimma  waterfall,  62,  178 
Glan  on  the  English  invasion  of  Switzerland,  36 
Glatten,  a  provincialism,  121 ;  its  meaning,  364,  446, 
40  4y  94o 

Glencaim  ( Jsmes,  Earl  of),  letter  to  James  VL,  90 


Gnats,  their  bite,  258,  352,  416,  505 
Godolphin  (Sydney),  364,  462,  507 
Godolphin  (Sydney,  Earl  oQ,  364 
"  God's  baby,"  its  meaning,  235 
Golding  (C.)  on  Glatton,  its  meaning,  446 

SuflTolk  rood  screens,  267 
Goldsmid  (Julian),  present  to  the  University  of  London, 

336 
Goldsmith  (Oliver),  Elegy  on  J.  F.  Sleigh,  9,  66,  84, 

131;  his  tomb,  426 
^  Good  night,"  &r.,  stanzas  on,  96 
Goosnargh  chapelry,  its  history,  1 53 
Gors,  erected  on  fivers,  113 

Gorse,  its  emblematical  meaning,  323,  379,  467,  525 
Gort  (Viscount)  on  the  family  of  Fiennes,  438 

Mourning  writing  p%per,  378 

Scottish  guard  of  France,  455 

Smyth  family  of  Ireland,  122 

**  Sun  never  setting  on  the  British  dominions,"  393 
Grantham,  alias  Bluetown,  44;  inn  signs,  343,  440 
Grazebrook  (H.  S.)  on  Worcestershire  sherifis'  anns,  4 10 
G.  (R.  C.)  on  "  This  ean  night,"  &c,  133 
G.  (R.  E.)  on  Rubens'  "  Judgment  of  Paris,"  364 
Grecian  bend,  origin  of  the  term,  123,  513 
Greek  and  Roman  literature,  475 
Greek  pronunciation,  13,  173 
Green  (G.  M.)  on  book  ornamentation,  147 

Carlo  Crivelli,  270 

Carrier  (Berjamin),  150 

Galileo's  letter,  113 

Simonides  and  the  Codex  Sinaiticns,  179 
Greene  TLady  Katherine),  temp,  Charles  IL,  2 
Gr«ene  (R.),  "  The  Prodigal  Son, '  407 
Greenoway  family,  535 
Greensleeves  (Lady),  her  picture,  475,  550 
Gregory  (Baruard),  editor  of  **The  Satirist,"  327 
Gresley  (Sir  Nigel),  porcelain  manufactory,  75 
Grey  (Arthur),  ode  to,  207,  375 
Griffiths  (B.)  on  Bibles,  temp.  James  I.,  534 
Grimston  (Lady  Anne),  grave  in  Tewin  cburclivard, 

76,  128,  172,195.273,309 
G.  (R,  J.),  on  *'  The  Plain  Dealer,"  467 
Grosart  (A.  B.)  on  the  Rev.  Thomas  Brooks,  417 

Egerton  (SirCbaries),  knt,  12 

Falkland  (Lord),  Dr.  Donne,  and  E.  Dyer,  494 

Hogan,  or  Hoghens,  481 

Vaughan  (Henry),  allusion  in  his  poem,  11 
Grote  (GMrge),  his  death,  552 
Gualterio,  (Card.),  papers  in  the  British  Museum,  69 
Guide  Canlassi,  lines  on  his  **  Aurora,"  13,  113,  221, 

292 
Guild  of  Literature  and  Art,  26 
Guise  and  Guizot,  their  pronunciation,  142,  270,  333 
Gulson  (E.)  on  Dievonshire  words,  499 
Gun,  its  derivation,  57,  149 
G.  (W.)  on  Medieval  bams,  224 

Norsemen  in  Cumberland,  &&,  360 

Punning  and  jesting  on  names,  106 
Gwyn  (John  Fraunceis),  sale  of  paintings,  475 
Gwyn  (Nell),  letter  to  Mr.  Hyde,  2 

H 

H.  on  English  descent  of  Daniel  O'Coonell,  242 
H.,  DubUm,  on  Sive  and  the  Whiteboys,  124 
H.,  TVtnr^,  on  the  long  rectorship  of  R.  Samson,  56 
H.  (A.)  on  Chaucer's  birth,  413 


Index  Bapplement  to  tbe  Kolae  and  \ 
Queries  wItJi  S<k  iss^  Jnly  15»  1971.  / 


INDEX. 


567 


H.  (A.)  on  aditerial  oenteoarian,  406 

Gherkin  tnd  cacomber,  108 

Heraldic,  483 

**  TioMD  of  Athens,"  two  paaaegM,  465 

Wtrd,  as  a  peraonal  namc^  950 
Habeas  Corpus  Act  passed  as  a  jeat»  161 
Hair  growing  after  death,  66,  83,  130, 28S,  390,  815, 

476;  its  length  in  hmd  and  woomo,  475 
Halkett  (Samoal),  his  death,  381 
HaU  (H.)  on  QiitE  Ton  Bcriiehing«i,  509 
Hall  (J.  C.  T.)  on  parodies,  177 
Hall  (Wm.)  anctiooaer,  393 
HaUiweU,  (J.  0.)  on  MS.  nol«  in  ''BaWgh's  HisUvy 

of  tbe  World,**  36 
Haxnel  (Nichobs),  Fraoch  aatfaor,  64 
Hamehi,  tbe  pied  piper  oC  84 
Hamesncken,  a  law  tenn,  857, 334 
Hampden  family,  189,  273,  333, 441 
Hampshire  oonntrj  chnrehyaidy  174 
Hancocks,  family  of  Combmartin,  189 
Handel  (a  F.),oonoerto  Hor  the  harp,  207;  *'  Meniah,** 

304,349 
Haroonrt  (Yen.  Charles  George  Vemos,  his  daatbX  25 
Hares  taking  Tengeaace  on  mankind,  259, 352 
Harknd  (BeV.  Bobert),  his  kngerity,  99 
Harman  (Sir  John),  his  death,  365 
Harper  (Thomas)  on  Mothar  Bed  Gap,  233 
Harris  (Joseph),  actor,  3 
Harrison  (Anna)  on  Amariftan  national  song,  11 

Findeme  flowers,  194 
Harrison  (Joseph),  jnn^  on  baOad  *"  Nntting,"  162 
Harrison  (Wmi)  on  king  or  quBen  of  the  bla  of  Man, 

249 
Harrow  School,  Its  fonnder,  304;  teresntsnaiy,  487 
Hart  (JUn.)f  actress,  3,  198 
Hanreis  (Bobert),  geneakgy,  222 
Harrey  (Lady  Elizabeth),  3 
Hastings  (Lord),  a  ghost  sUny,  453 
Hanr^  (F.  T.)  on  the  Samm  miaal,  65 

Volgate  Bible  of  1516,  344 
Haydon  (B.  B.),  painter,  pedigree,  55,  143 
Haydon  (Frank  SooU)  on  B.  B.  Haydoo,  143 
Haym  (N.  F.),  '*  History  of  Moaio,"  23 
H.  (C.  G.)  on  lines  on  Ahpk  Ansehn,  364 
H.  (E.)  on  Upestiy  portraits,  511 
Heanley  (B.  M.)  on  epithets  of  the  months,  419 
"  Heart  of  hearts,*  tbe  phrase,  362,  399,  463,  548 
Hearth  tax,  112 
Heaven  letters,  189 
Hebrews  iz.  16,  a  new  reading,  513 
HeliogabalQs  and  cobwebs,  535 
Hehnsley  tnne,  41,  133,  217 
Helsby  (T.),  on  Ashbnmers  of  Fazoeas,  227 

Pasley  or  Paslewe  fiunily,  210, 522 

"  Seven  Stan  **  inn,  Manchester,  267 

Shakspeare  and  Arden,  118 

Smith  fiuniliea,  175 
Hcnfrey  (H.  W.),  on  Charles  I.'s  eleven  shilling  pieces, 
486 

Chess  in  China,  128 

Crests,  their  proper  nse,  353 

Cromwell  (Oliver),  474,  481 

Nnmisroatic,  526 

Paris  libraries  and  mnsenms,  821 

Simon  (Thomas),  medallist,  515 

Toadstone  ring,  399 


Henley  (Bev.  Samnel),  35,  113, 174,  244 
Heniy  VIL,  marriage  of  hia  danghtar  Mary,  289 
Henry  VIII.  and  the  Golden  Fleeoe,  283,  370 
Heraldic  queries,  12,  146,  409, 483 
Heralds'  Visitation  of  Oxford,  355 
Herbert  family  of  Mncknus,  12 
Herbert  (Bichard)  of  London,  ancestry,  494 
Herbs  and  leaves,  notelets  on,  205,  348,  446 
Herefoidshire  manor>honaes,  387 
Heriot,  seizore  of  chattels  under  one,  302 
Heriz  family  of  Withcote,  qql  Leicester,  125 
Hermentmde  on  the  Advent  Hymn,  133 

Avwy  pedi^^M,  161 

BaUol  (William),  506 

Beanchamp  arms,  442 

Becket*8  mardenrs,  464 

Bows  and  curtseys,  220 

Clarence  family,  150 

Chaucer's  birth,  412,  547 

DeBohun  family,  150  I 

Bdwarda  (George),  464 

English  queen  buried  at  Porto  Fino,  375 

English  princesses,  their  maniages,  520 

'*  From  dogs  to  dogs,*'  etc.,  547 

Judicial  oaths,  354,  505 

**  Lady  Greensleevee,"  a  balhd,  550 

Latimer  (Gea  HeviUa,  Lord),  his  wUe^  219 

Long  family  of  WtazsJl,  486 

Macduff,  Thane  of  Fife,  132 

Maids  of  honour,  441 

More  family,  401 

Mortimer  pedigree,  223 

Paslewa  fimiily,  354 

Plaeardssstomacher,  389 

St  Jane  of  Valois,  201 

Smith  (Bev.  William),  a.d.  1539-1555,  77 

Stafibrd  (Abp.),  origin  of,  5G0 

Sofiblk  (Chariea  Brandon,  Bnke  oQ,  deBoendant 
220 

Wulfiruna,  13 
Herrey  (Bobt.  F.),  "  Concordanoes,"  142,  467 
Hervey,  Duke  of  Orleana,  anoeatry,  &&,  123 
Hervey  (Bev.  James)  and  Wm.  Hqgaith,  255 
Hesketh  (Bp.  Huan),  of  Sodor  and  Man,  34 
Hessels  (J.  H.)  on  Sir  Bobert  EUligiew,  3bo.,  464 
H.  (F.  C.)  on  American  national  song,  78 

Anecdotes,  196 

"  Anima  Ghristi,"  374 

Bears'  ears,  350 

Bill  aotnally  presented,  132 

Bookworm,  its  ravages,  65 

Butler's  Blue  and  Bed  Booka,  199 

Carrier  (Benjamin),  223 

Charms  for  ague,  483 

Christmas  carol,  23 

Cisterehm  abbeys,  269 

Deaf  old  woman,  196 

Dedication  of  churches,  480 

Dragon  delineations,  125 

Eggs  as  an  article  of  fbod,  484 

Ecstatica  and  Addolorata,  198 

Elecampane,  314 

English  versification,  464 

Enigma,  ancient,  513 

Filial  piety,  199 

Gnats' stmgs,  416 


568 


INDEX. 


r  Index  Supplement  to  tbe  Motes  ntd 
\  Qneriea,  with  Ko,  186,  Jaly  ia>,  lft7L 


H.  (F.  0.)  on  Gone,  its  emblematic  signification,  379 

Hair  growing  after  death,  83 

Helens  lanatns,  380 

Hole  in  the  Wall,  an  inn  agn,  201 

La  Caracole,  149 

Lincolnshire  drinking-song,  627 

Man's  animal  nature  called  a  beast,  484 

Manx  bishops,  293 

Medical  Order  of  St  John,  294 

Mezzotinto  prints,  483 

Moont  Galyaiy,  62,  215 

Blonming,  or  black-edged,  writing  paper,  307 

Mural  painting  in  Starston  church,  40,  410 

NatiTitj  of  our  Lord,  feast  of  the,  225 

Kelson  (Lord),  opinion  of  German  generals,  74 

"  Parson  and  Bacon,**  a  song,  171 

Post  prophecies,  151 

Placvd,  its  signification,  445 

Prophecies  of  Thomas  Martin,  32 

Prophecj  of  Onral,  53 

St  Augustin's  Sermons,  17 

St  Jane,  or  Joanna,  of  Valois,  150 

St  Paul,  the  fint  hermit,  112,  245 

St  Thomas  of  Villanora,  481 

St  Wulfran,  269 

Scripsits,  146 

Sheerwort,  a  plant,  25,  332,  527 

*<  The  Heaying  of  the  Lead,"  148 

'*  Though  lost  to  sight,  to  memory  dear,"  173, 332 

Tetrsgonal  inscription,  379 

Titlers  of  sugar,  110 

Veto  at  papid  elections,  269 

Wells  cathednd,  its  Arabic  numerals,  375 

"Whether  or  no,"  286 
H.  (F.  H.)  on  "First  Impressions,  or  a  Daj  in  India," 
354 

Samm  l^fiasal,  177 
H.  (G.  J.)  on  the  will  of  Elizabeth  Talbot,  384 
H.  (H.),  Porttmoiah,  on  Oliyer  the  Spy,  66 

Punch-ladle  of  George  III.,  236 

Sandown  Castle,  Isle  of  Wight,  175 

Watches  of  distinguished  men,  259 
HibbiUs  little  eft  or  newt,  510 
Hie  et  ubique  on  book  ornamentation,  147 

Superstition  in  Suffolk,  210 
Higden  (Balph).  <*  Poljcronioon,"  422 
Highland  customs  at  births,  marriages,  and  funerals, 

50,  267 
Higson  (John)  on  children's  games,  523 

Gone,  525 

North  Lancashire  song,  543 
"  Hilarion's  servant,  the  sage  crow/*  11, 1 12, 178, 245, 

293 
Hill  (Lord  Arthur),  pun  on  him,  107 
Hind's  Hill,  near  Godalming,  inscription,  344,  379 
Hinton  (Charles),  on  Dr.  Johnson's  watch,  151 
Historical  Society  meeting,  552 
History  repeating  itself,  280 
H.  (L  W.)  on  the  Bleakley  family,  141 
H.  (J.)  on  Lord  Byron's  "  English  Bards,"  23 

Cancan,  a  dance,  108 

Mental  equality  of  the  sexes,  223 

"  The  greatest  clerks  not  the  wisest  men,"  409 
H.  (J.  F.)  on  a  French  Wesleyan  Magazine,  325 
H.  (M.)  on  Harriet  Clarke's  longerity,  511 
Hnh  in  the  W«ll  an  inn  siau  128.  201, 220, 310, 417 


Hodgkin  (J.  £.)  on  the  antiquity  of  chigoons,  261 
Notes  on  fly-leaves,  232 
St  Valentine,  132 

Hogan,  galloping  and  drinking,  430,  481,  524 

Hogarth  (Wm.),    book-plates,  304  ;  print   of   Lord 
Lovat,  385  ;  vignette,  255 

Hogg  (James),  song  "  Eilmeny,"  323 

Hogg  (Robert)  on  George  London,  505 

Holcus  lanatns  =a  Yorkshire  fog,  323,  380 

Holt  (H.  F.)  on  Adam  de  Orleton,  58,  308 
Block  Books,  13,217 
Henry  VIIL  and  the  Golden  Fleece,  370 

Holt  (H.  F.),  his  death,  881 

Hblty  (L.  C.  H.),  German  poet,  174,  244 

Holywell :  Onr  Lady  of  Holywell,  475 

Homoeopathy  noticed  by  Milton  and  Hippocrates,  54, 109 

Hood  (Thomas),  "  Addross  to  Mr.  Cross,"  472;  ''  Lee 
Shore,"  32,  197;  Works,  181 

Hodk  (Theodore),  story  ascribed  to  him,  73,  196,  314 

Hooker  (Maria)  on  Mungo  Park  and  the  moss,  440 

Hopkyns  (D.  D.)i  oa  Lady  Grimston's  grave,  128 

Horan  fiunily  arms,  454 

Hoskyns-Abraliall  (John)  on  lothing  land,  19 

House  of  Commons,  speeches  after  midnight,  402 

"  House  that  Jack  built,"  its  original  model,  23 

Housset  (Jean)  of  Mont  Val^rien,  135 

Howlinson  (Robert),  a  centenarian,  120 

Hoxne  abb^  register,  258 

H.  (R.)  on  "  Cold  as  a  dog's  nose,*'  114 

H.  (&)  on  the  meamng  of  Fog,  96 

H.  (S.  H.  A.)  on  B.  F.  Herrey,  142 

H.  (T.)  on  the  "  fretfiil  porcupine,"  453 

H.  (T.  A.)  on  Rev.  John  Macgowan,  283 

H.  (T.  C.  G.)  on  the  patronymic  "  ing,"  105 

Hume  (David),  pedigree,  71 

Hungerford  fiunily,  425,  426,  538 

Hunadon  church,  co.  Hertford,  250 

Hunsdflo  house,  ca  Hertford,  250 

Hunt  (J.  H.  Leigh)   "  Leisure  Houni  in  Town,**  26, 
132,  198;  "  The  Months,"  226 

Hunterian  Club,  26 

Husband  (H.  A.)  on  negro  proverbs,  43 

Husbandman,  its  meaning,  255 

Husk  (W.  H.)  on  Convivial  songs,  294 
Cromwell  (Oliver)  medals,  495 
"  The  Golden  Pippin,"  218 
"  The  Heaving  of  the  Lead,"  200 

H.  (W.)  on  the  Bodleian  MSS.,  406 

Criticism  on  "  Merchant  of  Venice,"  271 
Cnxnwell  (Oliver),  letter,  291 
Eleven-shilling  pieces  of  Charles  I.,  442 
Sampler  poesy,  331 
Science  and  art,  224 

H.  (X.)  on  the  Hall  of  Waters,  1 12 

Hyde  (H.  B.)  on  I>e  Saye  fiunily,  272 

Hy-jiuKs,  a  tipsy  merriment,  427 

Hymndogy :  •**  Guide  me,  0  thou  great  Jehovah,"  33 ; 
"Advent,"  41,  133,  217;  "Jerusalem !  my 
happy  home,"  41,  151 ;  "  The  Lord  is  my  Shep- 
herd," 210;  "The  LameuUtion  of  a  Sinner," 
298,  376 


L  (C.  P.)  on  Latin  proverb,  419 

"  Sapiens  est  filius  qui  novit  patrem,"  314 
War  medals,  294 


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mm 


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Index  Supplement  to  tbe  Kotea  tnd ) 
guerles,  with  No.  185»  July  1A>  isn.  / 


INDEX. 


569 


I  (H.  H.)  OQ  %  tetragoiuil  ioscription,  3i4| 

Indexes,  tb«r  ntilitj,  42, 149 

Industries  of  Eogland,  209,  289,  444 

Infants,  their  maniage,  105 

"  log,?  a  local  termiDation,  105 

Inkstand  of  Wedgwood  wars,  163,  272 

Inner  Templar  on  tbe  accidents'  oompensaiion  bill,  466 

Williams  (PhiUp),  meUphor,  536 
Inns,  ancient,  in  England,  267,  334,  464,  510 
Inscription  at  Hinds  Hill,  near  Godalmiog,  344,  379 
Ion  on  tlie  Roger  family,  244 
'*  Ipomydon,**  a  prose  romance,  355 
Irish  House  of  Commons'  lists,  323 
Ireland,  historic  documents,  380;  Boand  Towers,  487 
Ireland  (Alex.)  on  Leigh  Hunt's  "  Leisure  Hours,"  198 
Irish  bi^ops,  strange  fee  paid  bj  them,  161 
Irish  car  and  noddj,  23,  163 
Irish  forfeitures,  21, 109 
Irish  legends,  ^  Lebor  na  Hnidre,"  355 
Irish  legionaries  in  Bio  de  Janeiro,  403,  486 
Irish  manuscripts  belonging  to  Lhwyd,  4^ 
Irish  ''  provincial  characteristics,"  319,  380 
Irvine  (Aiken)  on  Paul  V.  and  the  Venetians,  236 
Irrine  (J.  T.)  on  Arabic  nnmerabi  in  WeUs  cathedral, 

282 
Isles  of  the  Sirens,  337 
lulj,  antiquarian    excavations  in,  47;    its  didactic 

poetry,  149 
Ivan  on  an  anonymous  work,  33 
Muskan  (Prince  Pueckler),  77 


J.  on  George  London,  gardener,  235 

Taylor  (Bpi  Jeremy),  descendants,  143 
J.  (A.)  on  chowder,  a  savoury  disb,  85 
Jatucson  (C.)  on  Sickle  Boyne,  or  Boyne  money,  236 

Smith  &mUy,  176 
Jackson  (J.  £.)  on  the  fetter-lock  as  a  cognizance,  536 

Hair  growing  after  death,  476 

Moors  (Sir  George),  467 
Jackson  (St^en)  on  the  Broken  Bridge,  160 

*'  Aliquando  dormitat  bonus  Homeros,'*  54 

Craven  saying,  187 

Cumberland's  Britbth  Theatre,  84 

Dyer  (John),  the  poet,  353,  524 

Hob  in  tbe  well,  310 

Kashmir,  its  ancient  buildings,  110 

Names,  significant,  30 

Nicholson  (Benton),  ^  Baron,"  18 

Oomered  or  Umered,  475 

"  OwU  that  lovest  the  boding  sky,"  190 

Parodies,  261 

"Pigs  may  fly,"  &C.,  41 

Beasons  for  going  to  church,  100 

Sawney  Beane,  the  maa-eater,  77 

Thomson  (James),  why  called  a  Druid,  97 

Trapp's  "Virgil,"  237 
Jamaica,  governors  of,  1720-1760, 189 
James  I.,   legal  common-places  In  his  reign,  5,  83; 
Earl  of  Glencaim's  letter  to  him,  90;  Scottish  litur- 
gies of  his  reign,  507 
James  III.  of  S<^land,  house  of  his  assassination,  297 
Jamieson  (Alex.),  mathematician,  142,  219 
Janney  family,  312 

Jarvis  (J.  W.)  on  book  onuimentation,  HI 
Jaydee  on  John  Dyer's  "  Gropgar  Hill,"  444 


Jaydee  on  Hogarth's  print  of  Lord  Lovat,  385 

Pfx>nunciation  of  Arbotbnot  and  Buthven,  342 

Boughsfuffian,  431,  551 

"  Well-nigh  "  for  "  almost,"  232 

Wray  (Capricious),  466 
J.  (B.  T.)  on  Industries  of  England,  209 
J.  (C.  S.)  on  false  quantities,  380 

Spenser's  Paoope,  283 
Jenkins  (John),  a  centenarian,  320,  523 
JennouT  family,  55.  152,  549 
Jeremiah  (J.)  on  British  scythed  chariots,  240 

Tenby,  its  derivation,  60 

Vese:  feeae,  109 
Jertsolder  or  Yertsolder  (Lord),  304 
Jesters  on  ship-board,  209 
Jests  unrecorded,  361 
Jesuit  manuscripts,  352 
Jewish  marriage  rin^,  495 
J.  (H.  F.)  on  French  Wesleyan  Magazine,  397 
Jingle,  an  Irish  hackney-coach,  164 
J.  (J.)  jun.  on  badger,  166 

Derivation  of  cucumber,  108 

Naccarine,  its  meaning,  315 

"  The  Broken  Bridge,"  295 
J.  (J.  0.)  on  the  Block  Books,  151,  332 

Book  ornamentation,  243 

Dudley  and  Ward  (Lord),  portrait,  235 

MedisBVal  seals,  493 

Picture  of  a  female  saint,  56 

Porcelain  query,  210 

Scena:  soentf,  414 

Service  book,  496 
J.  (L.)  on  belUharp,  208 
Joan,  daughter  of  Edward  I.,  marriage,  204 
Jobson  (Mary),  her  marvellous  case,  76 
Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  watch,  55,  151,  243;  anecdote, 

207;  residence  at  Staple  Inn,  532 
Johnson  Club  at  St.  John's  Gate,  Clerkenwell,  87 
Jokes,  some  old  ones,  121 
Jones  (Sir  Wm.),  "  Alcaic  Ode,"  454 
Jones  (Wm.  Henry)  on  the  fetter-lock  cognizance,  423 
Jonson  (Benj.)  and  the  Bbtckfriartt'  theatre,  183;  tbe 
conjoint    proprietorship    in  his   Works,   230;    the 
Crispinus  of  "  The  Poetaster,"  469 
Joseph  of  Arimathea,  201 
Josephus  on  Gen.  Butler's  order  against  ladies,  363 
Joy  (Edmund)  on  ecstatics,  21 

Sampler  poetry,  220 
Julien  (Mons.),  letter  to  Cardinal  Gualterio,  70 
Junius  handwriting,  421,  453,  489,  523 
J.  (W.  C.)  on  professions,  496 


K.  on  folk  lore  in  Sussex,  427 

K.  (A.  C.)  on  the  modem  use  of  the  word  Art,  89 

K.  (A.  F.)  on  dedication  of  churches,  388 

Lines  on  matbematics,  389 
Kalendls  «  first  fruits,  495 
K.  (A.  R.)  on  tbe  "  Brides  of  Eoderby,"  322 
Kashmir,  its  ancient  buildings,  1 10,  266 
Kay  (John)  of  Bury,  portrait,  142, 178 
K.  (C.)  on  the  wife  of  John  Tradescant,  284 
K.  (C.  S.)  on  descendants  of  Bishop  Bedell,  199 

Irish  forfeitures,  109 

Laird,  a  portioner  of  land,  12 

Taylor  (Bp.  Jeremy),  descendants,  290 


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570 


INDEX. 


f  Index  Bopptement  to  Cbe  lloceg  and 
IQoerie*,  with  Koi  lai^  Jnlju,  wn. 


Keats  (John),  "  La  Belle  Dame  sana  Mens,"  324,  399 
Kfibes,  a  Tbeban  phfloBopher,  93,  226,  381 
Keck  (Bobert),  portrait,  12 

Keightlcy  (T.)  on  allegory  of  «  The  Faerie  Qaeen,"  1 ; 
real  perrons,  49,  317;  typographical  etron,S83 

Milton's  Poems,  note  missing,  531 

Milton's  "Rivers,  arise!"  &c,  137 

Phoenix  Park  and  Fontainebkan,  207 

Printer's  error,  509 
Kelly  (Wm.)  on  Maclise's  picture  of  the  Fhmriana,  21 4 
KelsaU  (Charles),  "  Mela  Britannicns,"  76 
Kempe  (John),  abp.  of  Canterbury,  arms,  S2I 
Kenoott  church,  Oxfordshire,  monmBcnt,  140 
Kennedy  (H.  A.)  on  Chess  in  Bngla&d  and  China,  127 

Angelo  (Michael)  «  Last  Judgment,"  258 

Consols  defined,  492 

Singular  fee  paid  by  Irish  bishops,  161 
Kent,  a  new  histoiy  of,  354 
Kent,  hLstory  of  the  Weald  of,  274 
Kent  (Charles)  on  "  Ch&teaux  en  EbMgne,**  158 
Kent  (Duke  oQ  in  Canada,  86 
Kerry,  Histoiy  of  the  Kingdom  of,  854 
Kersey  (John),  mathematician,  323 
K.  (Q.  B.)  on  epithets  of  the  months,  343 
Killigrew  (Elizabeth),  Viscountess  ShannoB.  258.  454 
KUligrew  (Sir  Robert)  family,  454,  550 
Kindt  (Hermann),  on  Accointaooe,  492 

Fruits,  wild,  in  Germany,  233 

Hunt  (Leigh),  *•  The  Months,"  226 

Notelets  on  herbs  and  leaTce,  205 

^ms  (Wm.  George),  his  death,  406 
&ng  (Henry)  on  Ovid,  "  Metam.  xiH.  254,»  455 
King  (P.  S.)  on  Mont  Cenis  tnnne],  10 
Kmg  (Dr.  Wm.),  Judge  of  the  Irish  Court  of  Admiralty, 
389 

King  (Dr.  Wm.)^Principal  of  St.  Mary  Hall,  Oxford,  389 
King's  College,  New  York,  289 
Kingsloir  (John),  the  Richmond  recluse,  513 
Kingston  (Wm.  4th  Earl  of),  biography,  389 
Kinsale  (De  Courcy,  Lord),  descendants,  75 
Kutyre  superstitions,  93 
^pper,  its  deriTation,  409,  543 
Kirk  Santon,  origin  of  the  name,  44,  148 
K.  (J.  A.)  on  passages  in  Shelley,  465 
Kneeling  in  prayer,  437,  507 

Knight  of  the  Body  and  Esquire  of  the  Body,  their 
duties,  55 

Slight  of  Inishowen  on  Macaulay's  ballads,  235 
Knight  of  Morar  on  the  Garter  of  Charlci  L,  440 
Knight  (Mrs.),  celebrated  singer,  2 
Knighthood:  "Ordre  Imi^riale  Asiatique,"  Ac,  78; 

and  foreign  orders,  100 
Knights  of  Malta,  100,  lOl,  197,  345,  441 
Knowles  (E.  H.)  on  Hoelty,  the  German  poet,  244 

Naccarine,  its  meaning,  236 

Sdttta,  in  pariah  registers,  814 

Walpole's  nail-brush,  626 
Knox  (John),  house  at  Edinburgh,  260 
Kobold  of  Gi6ben,  96 


t.  (A^  on  untutored  criticism,  887 

Vese:  feese:  feaze,  224 
L.  (A.  E.)  on  Bp.  Huan  Blackleach,  34 

Bezant  and  florin,  208 

Pnmess  Abbey  and  the  Chetham  Sodety,  74 


L.  (A.  E.)  on  Gates,  Isle  of  Man,  409 

Kirksanton,  148 

Manx  bishops,  burial  places,  123,  184 

Plough-bote,  190 

Sodetaa  Albertorum,  56 

Stanley  (Thomas),  bishop  of  Sodor  and  Man,  96 

Winter  saying,  84 
Laird,  or  lord,  12,  175,  243,  310,  828 
Lamb    (Oliarles),    **  Goraplete    CorrsspQiidflDoe    and 

Works,"  85 
Lapb  (J.  J.)  on  Phi-Beta-Kappa  Society,  96 
Lambda  on  topographic^  works,  456 
Lancashire  funeral  felk-lore,  68,  231 :  iti  old  timb« 

halls,  442 
Landgren  (J.  H.)  on  German  etjnsdagiQri  dtfltJOBarki, 

380 
Landor  (W.  S.),  letters  on  Chattarton*^  moimmeBt,  279 
Lane  (Vice-admiral  Lionel),  death,  76 
Langley  (Rot.  Samuel)  D.D.,  tranafaition  of    *  The 

Iliad,"  862 
Lappage  (Thomas)  of  Jhmtzig,  288 
Larchden  on  crypti^graphy,  877 

Pedigrees  of  foander'is  kin,  389 
"  Last  Man,"  two  works  so  entitled,  141 
LaUmer  (Geoiige  Nerill,  Lord),  his  wife,  96,  198,  219, 

442 
Latin  pronunciation,  18, 25,  178 
Laurance  (L.)t  '*  The  Song  of  Solomon,'*  515 
Laurie  (Anne),  attu  Mrs.  Fei|;n8Son,  491 
Lausanne  Missal,  124 
"  Law,  physic,  and  divinity ,"  compared,  99 
L.  (C.  A.)  on  Ombre:  Boston,  305 
L.  (E.)  on  lines  on  the  human  ear,  285 
Lean  (Vincent  S.)  on  <*  Everybody's  bustness,"  &e,  550 
Leathart  (W.  D.),  MR  Histwy  of  St.  Ptteru,  86 
Leavenworth  family,  864 
Lee  (F.  G.)  oo  Hampden  family,  383 

Prayers  for  the  dead,  889 
Lee  (Rev.  Timothj),  monoment,  804 
Leeds  (Danby,  Duke  oQ,  **  Letten,"  868 
Lees  (Edwin)  on  marine  rose,  45 
Legal  common-places  t&mp.  Jniam  I.,  5,  83 
Ldghton  (Robert),  petition  on  behalf  of  his  fiimily, 

247 
Lely  (Sir  Peter),  life  and  works,  258;  nxmanMat  by 

Gibbons,  635 
Lenfestey  (Mrs.),  a  oentenariao,  358 
Lenihan  (Maurice)  on  Edward  Coeker,  407 

Carokn's  portrait  and  dniUs,  80 

Cleburne  family,  477 
L'Estrange  (T.)  on  Ovid,  « Metam.  ziii.  254,"  521 
Levesell  =  a  lattice,  177 
L.  (F.  G.)  on  extraordinary  roamagee,  861 

Heraldic  query,  409 
L.  (H.)  on  old  volunteer  corps,  284 
L.  (H.  W.)  00  Miss  Fairen's  house,  189 

"Jack"  Burton,  518 

Hart  (Mrs.)  actress,  198 

Lines  by  Sir  John  Burgoyne,  840,  451 
Lhwyd  (Edw.),  Irish  manuseripto,  42 
Lichfield  cathedral,  painting  of  the  Crudfixion,  2 
Liebig  (Baron)  on  Franoh  soientific  men,  820 
Life,  average  term  of  human,  10 
Lightfoot  (Rev.  Joseph  Barber),  canon  of  St  PknPfl, 

153 
'  Light  of  U^ts,"  UM  of  the  phrase,  899,  468 


Index  Sapptomoit  to  the  Notes  mod  \ 
Queries,  with  No.  185,  July  15, 1871.  f 


INDEX. 


571 


Lincoln  cathediml  libnirj,  528 

Liogna  Aneeris,  a  plant,  162,  294,  333 

Lion  shillings,  187 

L.  (J.)  on  "  The  wind  has  a  langnage,"  463 

L.  (J.  D)  on  Handel's  *'  MessUh,"  349 

L.  (J.  H.)  on  French  word  signifying  **  to  stand,"  437 

L.  (E.)  on  sign  of  *•  The  Hole  in' the  Wall,"  123,  201 

Llojd  (George)  on  man  traps  and  spring  guns,  409 

Saved  bj  a  fish,  492 
Lock  (G.  J.  S.)  on  enstoms  at  marriages,  &e.,  267 
Locket's  Ordinary,  112 
Loftie  (W.  J  )  on  Latin  poem  on  weathercocks,  36 

Memorial  verses  of  the  mootha,  386 

Stafford  (Abp.),  family,  253 
Loges  (Roger  de),  descendants,  550 
Lok  (Henry),  Poems,  401 

London,  its  fifty  new  churches,  112;    its  celebrated 
characters  and  remarkable  places,  114;  its  chrono- 
loger,  133;  change  in  the  names  of  its  streets,  246 
London  and  Middlesex  ArchsBological  Society,  381 
London  Corporation  Library,  Second  Report,  87 
London  Institution,  its  new  librarian,  402 
London  (George),  gardener,  235,  335,  444,  505 
Long  family  of  Baynton,  76,  285;  cognizance,  423, 

486,  536-538 
Longevity,  remarkable  cases,  38,  56,  97,  99,  120,  159, 

200,  254,  280,  301,  320,  358,  408,  511,  523 
Lorraine  family,  303 
Lothair  on  De  Lorraine,  303 
Lothing  land,  its  derivation,  19 
London  earldom,  abeyance,  204 
Lough  Much,  lake  dwellings  on,  42 
Louis  XIV.,  his  t\ig,  26 
Low  (Sampson),  jun.,  his  death,  228 
L.  (P.  A.)  on  "  Aprte  moi  le  deluge,"  310 

Bonington,  (B.  P.),  502 

Bookworm  ravages,  347 

Crests,  505 

Cnningham  family  name,  348 

Diaz  (Bartolomao),  313 

Dover  Castle,  445 

*«  Es"  and  *•  En,"  264 

**  Eugene  Aram,"  504 

Hair  growing  after  death,  290 

Kneller  (Sir  Godfrey),  epitaph  on,  504 

La  Caracole,  549 

"  Monsieur,  monsieur,"  484 

Mosquitoes,  505 

Pahnerston  (Lord),  diamissal  from  office,  496 

Panoramas  in  London,  432 

Paterson  family,  264 

Peel  collection  of  pictures,  415 

Point  de  vice,  380 

St  Valentine,  526 

Stafford  (Abp.  John),  350 

"  Stewing  in  their  own  gravy,"  272 

•<  The  more  I  kam  the  less  I  think,"  447 

*<  To  ride,"  absence  of  any  French  word  for,  504 

Voyageur  pigeons,  419 

'*  When  philosophers  have  done  their  worst,"  446 
L.  (S.)  on  Spitten  Laird,  190 
L.  (S.  £.)  on  Hob  in  the  Well,  310 

Hoxne  abbey  register,  258 
Lt  (M.  C.)  on  the  mental  equality  of  the  sexes,  224 
Luke  (Sir  Samuel),  leUer  book,  142 
Lydiard  on  a  winter  saying,  84 


Lyon  (John),  founder  of  Harrow  School,  304;  memo- 
rial fund,  487 
Lyttelton  (Lord)  on  "  the  bitter  end,"  23 

Campbell  (Lord),  life  of  Lord  Lyndhurst,  280 

**  Everybody's  business,"  453 

Handel's  **  Messiah,"  349 

Schoolmaster  abroad  in  Staflfordshire,  180, 874 
Lytton  (Lord),  **  Eugene  Aram,"  429,  504 

M 

M.  on  Craufurds  of  Newark,  baronets,  343 

Mae,  a  patronymic  prefix,  220,  332 

McAIpin  elan,  189, 290,  417 

Macaroon,  its  derivation,  364 

Macanhiy  (Lord)  and  Thomas  Carlyle,  513;  ballad.^ 

235,  264 
MacCabe  (W.    B.)  on  Charbon  de  Terre,  a  Liege 
legend,  7 

Chitons,  antiquity  of  ladies*,  93 

Irish  legionaries  in  Rio  de  Janeiro,  403 

Political  satirical  dramas,  491 

Reigning  beauties  in  France,  427 
McCartney  (Daniel),  hia  extraordinary  memory,  471 
M*C.  (E.)  on  Vese:  feese^  109 

Wray  (Capricious),  466 
McC.  (a)  on  Parodies,  261 
MacCnllocb  (Edgar)  on  the  Story  of  Bluebeard,  29 

Manx  bishops,  362 

Saints'  emblems,  305 

Two  centenarians  of  the  same  name,  353 
Maoduff;  Thane  of  Fife,  132 
McEwan  (A.  L.)  on  a  remarkable  clock,  322 
Macgowan  (Rev.  John),  author  of  " The  Shaver,'  283 
McGrath  on  a  newly-born  child  crying,  394 

Poetry  of  the  clouds,  518 

*"  The  Muses'  Delight,"  &c.,  446 
M*Grigor  (A.  B.)  on  Mount  Calvary,  62,  215 
M*Iluraith  on  **  As  cold  as  a  maid's  knee,"  43 

Nursery  tale,  43 
McIIvaine  (Jasper  S.)  on  Hebrews  ix.  16,  513 
M'K.  (J.)  on  Cal,  Coul,  495 
Maclaren  (Mrs.  Charles),  scholarship  in  Edinburgh 

University,  528 
Maclean  (Sir  John),  his  knighthood,  67 
Maclean  (Sir  John)  on  Avery,  or  Every  families,  288 

Killigrew  family,  550 
Maclise  (Daniel),  drawings  in  Eraser's  Magazine,  213, 

214;  Memmr,  467 
Macphail  (D.)  on  cock-fighting  a  century  ago,  108 

Kintyre  superstitions,  93 
Macray,  (J.)  on  Liebig's  testimony  to  French  literati, 
820 

Mary,  Queefl  of  Scots,  533 

Poetry  of  the  clouds,  397 

Pronunciation  of  Arbathnot,  420 

Strasbnrg  library,  120 
Maginn  (Dr.  Wm.),  "  Whitehall,"  15 
Mahommedanism  as  a  branch  of  the  church,  195 
Maidenwell,  near  Louth,  389,  548 
Maids  of  honour,  lists  of,  343,  441 
Maintenon  (Madame  de),  correspondence  with  Queen 

Anne,  188 
M.  (A.  J.)  on  Lady  Grimaton's  grave,  172 
MakrochttT  on  Queen  Argenis,  a  poem,  140 

Bookworm,  168 

Canins  the  poet,  363 


572 


INDEX 


f  Iitd«z  Bapplonent  to  th9  Votes  and 
\  QoerlM,  with  Ho.  itt,  July  15,  isn. 


MakroclMir  on  phanix  throne,  162 

Proonnciation  of  Greek  and  Latin,  13 

Rhombna  and  Scarns,  133 

<<  Stmk  of  sUTflr  sea,"  390 
Male  and  female  nnmben  and  tetters,  407 
Man,  Isle  of,  bnrial  place  of  ita  biabopa,  1S3;  oonrt  of 
the  Gates,  409, 484 ;  sneoeesien  of  ita  bishops,  184, 
353;  title  of  King  or  Qaeen  of,  249,  832;  TTnwald 
Hill,  92 
Man  traps  and  spring  gnns,  409 
Man's  animal  nature,  430,*  484 
Manbey  (W.  J.)  on  Cbarlss  L's  ribbon  of  the  Garter, 

342 
Manchester,  the  first  book  printed  in,  64;  chap-books, 

110;  " The  Sem  Stan"  inn,  267 
Manchester  (Robert,  3rd  Dake  of),  marriage,  364 
Manslaoghter  and  cold  iron,  265 
Mannel  (J.)  on  Elecampane,  243 

Fjndeme  flovrers,  313 
Manx  cats  and  fowls,  96 
Marbnry  Dnn,  a  famed  hone,  535 
March  (Mortimer,  Bail  oO»  bis  sons,  209 
Marriage  coatomi  in  the  Highlands,  50,  267;  in  Aber- 
deenshire, 55;   of  infiuBts,  105;   not  allowed  after 
twelre  o'clock,  364 
Marriages,  extraordinary,  361 
Marriagse  of  English  princesses,  203,  289,  309, 397, 

620 
Marriot(Iiev.  Thomas),  282 
Mar's  year  explained,  186 
Marsh  (W.)  on  the  "  AdormtioD  of  the  Lamb,**  150 

Griyelli  (Garte),  270 

"  Messager  des  Sdenoes  et  des  Arte,"  343 

Bood  screens  in  Soiblk  chnrches,  143,  516 

Saints'  emblems,  421 

Samplers,  625 
MaxBhall  (Edw.)  on  St  Angnstine,  259 

Dedication  of  churches,  480 

Fog,  its  meaning,  216 

Gsarman  prince,  235 

Passage  in  St.  Ignatiaa,  39 
Manton  (John),  aUa§  Grispinns,  469 
Martin  (John),  M.  P^  his  armorial  pnn,  181 
Martin  (Thomas),  his  prophecies,  32 
Mary,  the  Blessed  Virgin,  her  <'Draam,"  341;   MS. 
Hoorsi  535;   painting  representing  her  death,  40, 
173,  245,  368,  410,  517 
Mary  Qaeen  of  Soots,  captivity  in  England,  451,  526; 

Gennan  tragedy  on  her,  533 
Mssey  (P.  E.)  on  Friday  tree,  199 

MedisBTal  bams,  224 

St.  Michaers  MonnU,  200 

Shop  signs  in  Vienna,  206 

Whale's  rib  at  Sorrento,  180 
Mason  (G.)  on  clergy  in  Stepney  parish,  282 
Mason  (Captain  John),  265 
Mason  (Sir  John),  his  descendants,  365,  420,  495 
Massacre,  barbarous  one  in  India,  101,  221 
Maason  (Gustave)  on  the  Gnalterio  papers,  69 

Key  to  "  Le  Grand  Gyms,"  149 
Mathematics,  lines  on,  389 
Matnrin  (Rey.  C.  R.),  noticed,  454,  524 
Maond  s  a  hamper,  429,  506 
Maunder  (Samuel),  noticed,  513 
Maxwell  (James),  Paisley  poet,  244 
May-day  customs,  430,  525;  at  Oxford,  511 


May  (George),  bookseller,  his  death,  468 
Mayer  (&  K  T.)  on  A*Bedket'8  murderers,  33 

Hair  growing  after  death,  66 

Heliotypy,  54 

Henley's  English  **  Vathek,"  35 

Lamb's  Correspondence  and  Works,  35 

QnicksUTer  fountains,  85 

Shakspears's  death:  social  genealogy,  52 
M.  (G.  W.)  on  mosquitoes,  505 

**  Though  lost  t»  sight,  to  memory  dear,"  56 
M.  (E.)  on  a  poem,  «  Let  them  tear  him,"  &&,  111 
Meams,  monolitfa  at,  514 
Medallic  query,  514 

M.  (E.  E.)  on  Trench's  Hubean  Lectures,  19S 
Memory,  an  extraordinary  instaoee,  471 
Mendes  (M.),  «Eplsde  to  John  EUis,"  5 
MeoTU  or  MennU  tenily  pedigree,  389 
Mercer  (Andrew),  deed  of  an  award,  19 
Merks  (Thomas),  bishop  of  Carlisle,  85, 190 
< '  Meesager  dee  Sdiiiees  et  des  Arts,"  34S 
Metheringham,  fire  at,  494 
MeyneU  (Plufip)  on  tiie  Menvite  or  Meanik,  889 
Mezzotlnto  prints,  408, 483 
M.  (F.)  on  Francis  and  Junius,  453 
M.  (F.  D.)  on  Kalendis,  495 
M.  (F.  W.)  en  Beethoven's  parsntaga,  257 

Denarius  of  Drusus,  sen^  223 
M.  (G.  W.)  on  Ralph  Audley  of  Sandhaeh,  11 
M.  (H.)  on  Sir  John  Mason,  495 
M.  (H.  0.)  on  Herbert  of  Muckmss,  12 
Midiel  (Frandsque)  on  Alsaee  and  Lonaine^  281 

Correspondence  of  Queen  Anne  and  Madama  de 
Maintenon,  188 

Monsieur,  monsisur,  138 

Napoleon  IIL,  405 

New  ISong  from  Paris,  72, 158 

Treason,  a  cry  to  arms,  862 
Midas,  origin  of  the  name,  429 
Middle  Tempter  on  the  prefix  "  Mac,"  220 
Middleton,  singular  custom  at,  119 
Middleton  (A.)  on  derivation  of  Kipper,  409 
Middteton  (A.  B.)  on  Gainsborough'a  *  Rlue  Boy,"  394 

Prints  of  Stonehenge,  197 
Miller  (Josiab)  on  Terses  by  James  Montgomery,  251 
Milon  (Jean  de),  physician,  woris,  495 
WlUm  (John)  and  homcsopathy,  54;    epitaph  attri- 
buted  to  him,  94 ;  Poems,  "  BiveiB,  arisal "  &c.,  1 37 ; 
fourteen  lines  omitted  in  "Comus,"  384;  his  folk 
Ion,  514;  Eeightley's  ediUoo  of  bis  '*  Poems,"  531 
Minerra  press,  its  htetory,  141 
Minteture  painter,  D.  D.  G.,  454 
Missale  ad  usum  Laaaannensem,  124 
M.  (J.),  Edinburgh^  on  Dr.  Arbuthnot,  8 

Coldingham  priory,  187 

Frederick  of  Pmnia,  alleged  letter,  117 

Hume  (David),  pedigree,  71 

James  Earl  of  Glencaizn,  tetter,  90 

Loudon  earldom,  abeyance,  204 
M.  (J.),  NeuKtrh,  on  mumraers,  121 
M.  (J.  C.)  on  Fi«nch  word  signifying  '* to  stond,'  437 
M.  (J.  F.)  on  Eraser's  Magazine  portraiu,  31 

'    Lancashire  funeral  folk  lore,  63 
M.  (J.  H.)  on  Denarius  of  Drusus,  sen,  95 
Mii.  on  the  siege  of  Breda,  53 
M.  (M.)  on  GaUleo's  tetter,  12 
Mn.  (J.)  on  gorse,  467 


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Index  fltapplement  to  the  Kotes  nd  \ 
Qnetlet,  wltb  Ka  185.  July  15,  I67i.  / 


INDEX. 


573 


Moli^re  (J.  B.  Poqtielin  de),  traaBlator  oihas**  SelMt 

Comedies,"  865 
Monolith  at  Mearns,  514 
Monro  (OecO)  on  Bp.  Jenmj  Taylor's  desendants, 

516 
Mons  Vnltiir  daseribedy  3 
Monsieor,  monaienr,  its  doable  use,  188,  811, 484 
Mont  Cede  tnnnal  oompletadi  10 
Mont  Valtfrien,  135 
Montaga  fitmUy,  304 
Montagu  (Ladj  Mary  Wortley),  letten,   IS4,  393; 

baUad  on  Arthur  Gray,  207,  875 
Montgomery  (James)  and  Loid  Byron,  23, 106;  his 

early  Twses,  S51 
Months,  epithets  on  the,  843,  419,  445; 

▼ersea,  886,  464,  525 
Montpensier  (Mademoisdla  do),  205 
Moon,  the  new,  and  the  maids,  445 
Moor  Park,  Hertfordshire,  engravings,  209,  290 
Moore  (C.  T.  J.)  on  the  More  &mi]y,  226 

Stockwell  angels,  270 
Moore  (Sir  George),  Ent.,  76,  467 
Moore  (Thomas),  the  poet  of  Ireknd,  317,  357;  poem, 

«  The  Ring,"  125 
Moorland  Lad  on  bill  acioally  pnantid,  83 

Goldsmith*a  inedited  Elegy,  9,  84 

Heveraham  chnreh,  epkaph,  82 

Pretender's  cordial,  53 

Schoolmaster  abroad  m  Staflbrdshira,  121,  874 

Spoon  inscription,  74 
Morales  (Christophonia),  **  Masses,''  159 
Mon  fiunily,  226,  401 
Morgan  (Prof.  Angnstu  de),  his  death,  274 
Morgan  (OotaTins)  on  Dr.  Johnaon'a  watch,  55 

Jewish  marriage  nogs,  495 
Morphyn  (H.)  on  Jennonr  arms,  549 

Regimental  badges,  &o.,  549 
Morris  (J.  P.)  on  Ashbamsrs  of  Facneis,  181 

Kewly  biirB  child  crymg,  894 

Oldland  (John),  a  nistic  poet,  152 

Song,  a  North  Laaeaahiie,  428 
Morris  (Robert)  on  the  passing-bell,  499 
Morritt  (J.  B.  S.)  and  true  enjoyment,  492 
Mortimer  (Sir  Edmund  de),  pedigree,  12,  228,  818, 

437 
Morton  (Edward)  on  Sir  Stephen  Pioetor,  455 
MornUe  (Count  de),  letter  to  Card.  Gnalterie,  69 
Morwell  (Sir  Richard),  notfced,  805 
Mosley  (Sir  Oswald),  bart,  his  death,  487 
Mosely  family  of  Maidenwell,  889,  548 
Mosquitoes  in  Engbod,  258,852,  416, 505 
Mother  Damnable,  or  Bed  Cup^  288 
Mother  Bed  Cap,  a  sign,  288 
Motto:  '*  Candor  illsBSUS,"  534 
Mooming,  court,  257;  or  blackedged  paper,  209,  807, 

378,  448 
Mountebank  of  the  last  century,  802 
k.  (P.)  on  Isaac  Disiaeli,  300 

Mason  (Sur  John),  365 
M.  (R)  on  "whether  or  no,"  286 
M.  (T.)  on  Sir  Peter  Leiy's  life  and  works,  258 

Tennysoniana.  431 
M.  (T.  A.)  on  SaTigny's  '*  Treatise  on  ObligaUons,"  13 
Mum,  a  strong  sort  of  beer,  429 
Mummers,  C^ristmaa,  52,  245 
Mummy  hunting,  491 


*'  Muntakhab  al  Tawiiikh  al  Badauni,"  54 

Murilb  (B.  &),  illustrations  of  the  Prodigal  Son,  120 

MurithUn  on  marine  rase,  45 

Muai^  CO  Oidre  Imperial  Asiatique  de  Monle  Uni- 

toeelle,  78  . 
Muakau  (Prince  PuecUer),  77,  267 
M.  (W.  T.)  OB  BuiBs's  « Auld  hmg  syne,"  386 

Grecian  bend,  123 

«  Hie  liber  est  in  quo,"  &e.,  109 

Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  anecdote,  207 

Memoiy  of  smells,  481 

Post  prophecies,  223 

Scottish  deed,  19 

Surrey  churches  destroyed,  476 

Wcanrer'aart  peesy,  149 
Myopt  on  aoena:  seentf,  259,  415 
M.  (X.  S.)  on  Bishop  Beddi's  desoendaots,  104 

Caiy  (Bishop  Merdecai),  284 

Crests  legally  assumed,  257 

Puller  (Bp.  Wm.),  parentage,  257 

Habeas  Corpus  act,  161 

Hymn:  **  Guide  me,  O  thou  great  Jehovah,"  38 

Neab  net  CNeale,  ftc,  85 

O'Malley  (Sir  Samuel),  hart,,  9 

Marriage  of  m&nte,  105 

SeweU(SirThon.as),305 

Swift  (Godwin),  104 
Mystery  jday  of  the  Resurrection  in  French,  184 

N 

K.  on  American  national  song,  198 

'*  Arise!  BriUnnia's  sons,  arise  1"  75 

Smoking  illegal,  198 
N.  (A.)  OB  altar  slab  in  Norwich  cathedral,  485 
Macearine,  its  meaning,  236,  315 
Nakedneas,  phUosophieal,  259, 375      ^   ,    ^   ^, 
Names,  significant,  80;  changes  of  in  Ireland,  41 ;  pu- 
ritan changes  of,  430,  526 
Napoleon  IIL,  literary  contributioo,  405 
Nash  (R.  W.  H.)  on  medallic  query,  514 
National  Gallery,  Annual  Report,  181 
Natirity.  feast  of  the,  early  notices,  142, 225 
Nay  lor  (Charles)  on  a  barbarous  massacre,  101 

Beethoven  (L.  von),  853 
N.  (B.)  on  Puritan  changes  of  names,  526 

"Whether  or  no,"  878 
N.  (B.  £.)  on  Lhwyd's  Irhth  manuscripts,  42 
Neale,  not  0*Neale  family,  35 
Negro  proverbs,  43 
Neill  (E.  D.)  on  Nicholas  Ferrar  and  George  Bnggle, 

490 
Neill's  "  History  of  Virginia  Company,"  erratunv401 
Nelson  (Horatio,  Lord),  opinion  of  Germsn  generals,  74 
Nemo  on  '*  a  beast  within  us,"  430 
Nephrite  on  the  Blae  Laws  of  Connecticut,  64 
Phi-Beta-Eappa  Society  of  BostCD,  220 
Toadstone  rfaig,  484 
Neebitt  (John),  M.  P.,  366,  391 
Newfoundknd,  its  cod  fishery,  429,  486 
"  New  Monthly  Magaoine,"  its  editors,  475 
Newsome  (W.)  on  Sir  John  Harman  Whitfield,  365 
Newspaper,  an  old  Dutch,  889;  early  Scottish,  390 
Newton  (Rev.  John),  lines  on  a  sampler,  273 
New  ZeaUind  medal,  197 
N.  (1.  A.)  on  Sandown  Castle,  325 


574 


INDEX. 


f  Index  Sopplemeat  to  the  Notes  asd 
\  QaertM,  with  Vo.  18S,  Jnlsr  15»  l^i. 


Nicholfl  (John  Gough)  on  rectorship  of  81  yean,  98 

Shi^wpeue  and  Ardeo,  1 69 

Unpabliflhed  letter  of  "  SX.,"  458 
l^cholaon  (B.)  on  the  arms  of  Crispinns,  469 

Jooson  (Ben),  proprietorBhip  of  his  Works,  230 
Nicholson  (Benton),  **  Baron,"  18,  286,  327 
Nightingale  (Ladj  Elizabeth),  storj  of  her  death,  277, 

330,  352.  402 
Nile,  its  orerflowings,  186,  314,  421 
l^mrod  on  Ballycalitan,  &c.,  122 

FltzhamcTS  (Robert)  or  Harvies,  222 

Henrej,  Doke  of  Orleans,  123 

Herbert  (John),  494 

Logos  (Boger  de),  550 

Neiirs  **  History  of  the  Virginia  Company,"  140 
N.  (J.  6.)  on  Hares  taking  vengeance  on  mankind,  259 

Mountebank  of  the  last  centory,  302 

Ward,  as  a  personal  name,  256 
N-n.  on  the  plant  Lingna  anseris,  294 

Smoking  illegal,  293 
Noble  (T.  C.)  on  Ben  Jonson,  183 
Noddy,  an  Irish  Tehicle,  23,  163,  267 
Noel  (Theodosk),  wife  of  Visconnt  ITimbledon,  124 
Noon  houses,  340 

Norfolk  (Elizabeth,  Dnchess  oQ,  her  will,  384 
Norgate  (F.)  on  *'  The  greatest  clerks  not  the  wisebt 

men,"  546 
Norman  (Edward)  on  coincidence  of  thought,  198 
Norman  (6.  J.)  on  Barker's  paooramas,  279 
Norman  (Lonisa  Jnlia)  on  Bismarck  anticipated,  379 
Norsemen  in  Cumberland  and  Westmoreland,  360 
Northampton,  the  Bode  of  the  Wall,  124 
Northamptonshire  feasts,  475 
Northumberland  (Earhi  of)  their  wires,  57 
Northnmberhind  (Boberi  de  Comyn,  Earl  oQi  18 
Norwich  cathedral,  remarkable  altar-slab,  360, 899,  485 
Nostradamus  (Michael),  prophecies  on  the  fall  of  Paris, 

542 
**  Notes  and  Queries,"  Spanish,  202 
Noutf  (Seraphin  de  la)  of  Mont  Val^rien,  135 
Nous,  a  shuig  word,  85 
Norelists  of  the  eighteenth  century,  246 
Noyes  (T.  H.),  jun.,  on  Sir  Wm.  Stanhope's  portrait, 

259 
N.  (P.  E.)  on  Coldlngham  priory,  379 
N.  (Sw)  on  Hnnsdon  church,  250 
Nnceria,  its  ruins,  529 

Nursery  rhyme,  "  There  was  a  little  man,**  &e,  20 
Nursery  tale,  43 
N.  (W.)  on  shard,  or  sharn,  199 
N.  (W.  L.)  on  '*  Anthologia  Borealis,"  &c.,  160 


Oakley  (J.  H.  J.)  on  a  remarkable  clock,  350 

Dis^pirit,  294 

Phoenix  throne,  268  \ 

Scam:  Scen^  334 

Thomson  (James),  a  Dmid,  225 
Oaths,  judicial,  209,  354, 440,  505 
Obolus,  a  coin,  143 
O'C.  (W.)  on  Mrs.  Downing,  289 
O'Carolan  (Turlough),  portraits  and  skulls,  80 
O'Connell  (Daniel),  his  English  descent,  242, 349, 444, 

485 
October  society  in  London,  510 
"  Officium  defunctorum,"  its  author,  495 


OThmagan  (J.  B.)  on  Sr  Bichard  Boyle,  352 
0.  (J.)  on  mezzotinto  prints,  408 
Oldiland  (John),  rhymester,  152 
Olim  on  00  Saye  or  Say  fiunily,  123 
Oliver  the  Spy,  66 

0*Malley  (Sir  Samuel),  bart,  of  co.  Mayo,  9 
Ombre,  a  game,  35,  167,  302,  398 
Om^a  on  stone  altars  in  English  churches,  162 
0-n.  (U.)  on  the  seven  wonders  of  the  world,  267 
Oom  (Mrs.),  pianist,  210,  379 
Oomered,  or  Umered,  its  meaning,  475,  550 
O'Baffierty  (Paddy),  Hogg's  song,  472 
Ord  (Chief  Baron),  portrait,  389 
Orleton  (Adam  de),  53,  151 
Orval,  the  prophecy  of,  53 
Outas  on  numismatic  query,  143 
Ovid  *<  Metam.  ziii.  254,"  455,  521 
**  Owll  that  lovest  the  hading  sky,"  a  poem,  190, 292 
Oz,  a  gigantic,  159 

Ozfordp  the  Heralds'  Viutation,  355;  May-day  custom, 
511 


P.  on  1^  Robert  Boyle,  282 

Marriage  of  princesses,  309 

Old  families  without  coat  armour,  344 
P.  (^Burslem)  on  new  moon  and  the  midds,  445 

Saggar,  its  derivation,  452 
P.*  on  Chignons,  481 

Digamma,  481 

Gibbon's  *<  DecUne  and  Fall,"  ed.  1 81 9,  48 1 

Junius's  unpublished  letter,  453 

Knights  of  Charles  L,  481 

Strasburgh  library,  473 

Surnames  of  officials,  483 

Worcester  arm*,  463 
P.  (A.)  CO  a  caricature  query,  493 
Pagny  (Marcellin)  on  **  Chateaux  en  Espagne,"*271 
Painting,  a  mural  one  in  Starstoo  church,  40,  172, 

245,368,410,497,517 
Palmer  family  of  Bath,  76,  285 
Palmerston  (Henry,  2nd  Visoount),  lines  on  Lis  mar- 
riage, 340 
Pidmerston  (Henry  John,  3rd  Viscount),  dismissal  from 

office,  496;  visits  to  Paris,  134 
Pamphlet,  its  etymology,  439 
Panoramas,  Barker  and  Burfocd's,  279 
P.  (A.  0.  V.)  on  Bokesby  the  spies,  344 

St.Wulfran,  162 

Selden's  ballads,  496 
Paper,  mourning,  or  blackedged,  209, 307 
Papworth's  **  Ordinary  of  British  Armorials,"  47 
Pardon  in  1660,  a  fragment,  496 
Parallel  paasages,  428 

Paris  catacombs,  22;  pigeon  post,  185,  291,  419;  its 
libraries  and  museums,  321;  prophecies  on  its  fall, 
542 
Park  (Mungo)  and  the  moss,  298,  440 
Parker  (Robert  and  Thomas),  288,  475 
Parkes  (Joseph),  Memoirs  and  Correspondence,  74 
Parochial  registers,  their  history,  98 
Parodies,  works  on,  15,  105,  177,  261,  996,  491 
Parsley  piert,  or  break-stone,  355 
Pasigraphy,  works  on,  316 
Pasley,  or  Paslewe  family,  210,  354,  523 
Psssion  plays,  475,  487 


Index  Bapplemeiit  to  tbe  Votea  and  > 
Queries,  with  No.  185,  Jaly  li,  1871./ 


INDEX. 


575 


Patchin,  its  derivation,  21 

Pateniitj,  24 

Paterson  (A.)  on  a  cnrionfl  mairia^  eustoDi,  55 

Old  Scotch  newspapers,  549 

Shard,  or  shariL  105 
PatenoD  (Bobert),  "  Old  MortaUty,**  family,  60^  264 
Patterson  (W.  H.)  on  J.  Garao,  a  oaDtenarian,  301 
Paul  V.  and  the  VeneiiaDS,  286 
Paolet  family  of  Amport,  20 
Payne  (J.)  on  "  E»»  and  "  En,"  59,  647 

Bealm,  its  proDnnoiatiOD,  519 

Tyndale's  New  Testament,  129 
P.  (C.  a)  on  Bacon's  Qoeen  Gonnselship,  188 

Hilarion*s  servant,  the  sage  crow,  119 

PboBoix  throne,  268 

Treveris'  <"  Grete  HerUU,*  268 

What  criUcs  are,  491 
P.  (D.)  on  the  arms  of  Beaacbamp  fiunily,  842 

Anns  of  Benvennto  Cellini,  266 

Brass  in  Boston  chorch,  486  . 

Fendles:  Beanchamp,  318,  505 

Pert  in  the  Savoy  arms,  104 

German  imperial  flag,  322,  503 

Jenkins  (John),  a  centenarian,  523 

Orders  of  knighthood,  100 

Parish  registers,  197 

Spenser's  ''Faerie  Queen,'  176 
Pear  tree,  God  Almi^^s,  18 
Pearson  fiunlly  of  Cppemoss,  36 
Peck  (Bev.  Samnel),  282   • 
Peel  (Sir  Bobert),  sale  of  his  pictnrss,  228,  836,  415; 

the  *'  Chapeau  de  Paille,"  302 . 
Pehigins  on  agae  charms,  443 

Artificial  fiy.fishing,  161 

China  mania,  442 

Cook  (Captain),  thrashes,  187 

Hibbits,  511 

Mahommedanism,  195 

Memory  of  smells,  178 

Ncwly-bom  ehUd  crying,  211 
Pennytersan,  or  Pennyteraal,  60,  219 
Perche  (Counte  of),  their  arms,  1 11,  221 
Percy  Anecdotes,  allnsions  in,  197 
Periodicals  of  Gnat  Britain,  536 
Persian  mannscript  of  great  beanty,  87 
P.  (£.)  on  eleven  shilfing  peces  of  Charles  I.,  55 
Pearson  (A.  Herford)  on  Bine  Books,  122 
Pearson  (J.)  on  bears*  ears,  350 

Fog,  its  meaning,  216 

Marine  rose,  150  • 

Oomend,  or  Umered,  550 

Pools,  or  moa^  of  streams,  113 

Rosemary  need  at  fnnenUs,  464 

"  Skcrring  npon  a  ghive  glatten,"  121 
Peacock  (Edward)  on  the  Avery  fiunily,  433 

British  scythed  chariots,  .332 

Fire  at  Metheringham,  494 

GainsburKh  l^end,  251,  457 

Ganthe  (Hanese)  and  T.  Lappage,  283 

Gnats  and  mosqnttoes,  505 

Maimed  soldiers,  495 

Poem,  "  Whinny  Moor,"  68 

Poritan  changes  of  names,  430 

St  Wolfran,  335,  505 

Sandtoft  register,  496 

Sheerwort,  its  etymology,  151 


Peacock  (Edward)  on  stilts  =  crutches^  314 
Pengelly  (Wm.)  on  Qaeea  Argenis,  245 

Cbildrsn*s  games,  271 

Gnat  Bear  and  enmrner  rainfall,  300 

Pickelherring,  421 

Story  ascribed  to  Theodore  Hook,  73 
Perry  (J.)  on  the  antfaorshtp  of  "  Bertrand,"  95 

Bear  tavern  in  Drnry  Lane,  363 

Bookworm,  367 

Kersey  (John),  mathematician,  323 

Parodies,  261 
Pettet  (Charles)  on  the  bookworm,  461 
P.  (F.  C.)  on  an  old  Oiford  epigxion,  321,  442 

Samplers,  465 
P.  (H.)  on  the  Long  famify  of  Baynton,  76 
Phelps  (E.  S.),  *"  The  Gates  Ajar,"  452 
Phi-Beta-Kappa  Sociely  of  Boston,  96,  220 
Philip  Norton,  its  ancient  inn,  834 
Phillips  (Sir  Thomas)  on  the  Drsgon,  174 
PhflBuix  Park  m  Irehmd  and  Fontainebleau,  207 
Phoenix  throne,  a  legend,  162,  268,  401,  464 
Photography:  the  war  and  "  The  Times,"  94 
Pianoforte,  eariy  notice,  143 
Pichler  (Mr.),  gem  engraver,  322,  397 
Pickel-herring,  a  droll  or  Merry  Andrew,  355, 421 
Pickering  (B.  M.)  on  book  ornamentation,  147 
Pickfbrd  (John)  on  Lady  Fenwiok's  disinterment,  38 

""  It's  a  far  cry  to  Loch  Awe,"  149 

E^mpe  (John),  abp^  of  Caoterhoiy,  321 

Scripsit,  or  Christmas  piece,  351 

**  She  took  the  enp^"  &&,  63 
Pieton  (J.  A.)  oo  Lmnd  Bnoogham's  AnfiobJography, 
277 

Bine  laws  of  Connecticnt,  16,  191 

Chepstow  s  Estrighoiel,  377 

Can-stone,  Tenby,  &c.,  61 

French  word  signifying  "  to  Btand,**  435 
Pigeon  post  to  Paris,  185,  291,  419 
Pigeons,  carrier  or  voyageor,  284;  driven  fran  France 

by  the  war,  341 
Pjggot  (John),  JQD.,  on  A'Beckett's  marderers,  171 

Barrow  explained,  527 

Cod  fishery  of  Newfomidland,  486 

Cornish  spoken  in  Devonshire,  126 

CriveUi  (Carlo),  life  and  works,  161 

Lel/s  monnment  by  Gibbons,  535 

Mosqvitoes  in  England,  258 

Ombre,  a  game,  167 

Phrase,  '*In  the  stnw,"  482 

Railway  match,  230 

"^  The  Dream  of  Holy  Mary,"  341 
Pinkerton  (Wm.)  on  Irish  car  ioA  noddy,  163 

Porcelain  memorial  of  Chailes  II.,  37 
Pipe  Bon,  5  Stephen,  236 
Pitt  (Mrs.  Mary),  a  centenarian,  159 
Pitts  (Mr.),  baUad  printer,  187 
P.  (J.)  on  verses  on  the  mouths,  464 
P.  (J,  H.)  on  pigeon  poet  to  Paris,  185 
P.  (J.  T.)  on  the  sim  never  sets  in  British  dominioni, 

482 
PUu»rd  or  stomacher,  389,  445 
PUce  (J.)  00  Dar  or  Donr,  22 
Planxty,  its  meaning,  42,  173 
Plica  Polonica,  a  disease,  475,  539 
Plon  ploo,  origin  of  the  phrase,  264 
Plough-bote,  its  meaning,  190 


576 


INDEX. 


r  Index  Sapplementto  the  Hotes  aad 
\  Queriei,  with  So.  18S,  Jaly  ift,  1671. 


Plongh-witcbors,  Christmas,  52 
Plownum's  (Piers),  "  Crede,"  85 
Plamptre  (Rev.  Dr.),  sale  of  bis  librarj,  153 
Plankett  (Lord)  on  Time  and  the  hour-glass,  93,  265 
Pn.  (J.  A.)  on  hearth  tax  ballads,  1 12 

Sampler  poesy,  21 
Pn.  2  (J.  A.)  on  samplen'  poesy,  126 
Poem  in  MS.  **  Homo  Arbor,"  389 
point  de  rice,  255,  380 
Pollard  (W.)  on  Lady  Grimston's  grave,  273 
Pollock  (W.  F.)  on  black-edged  paper,  308 
Ponsonby  (H.  F.)  on  the  CherroQ,  467 

Drum,  an  evening  party,  453 
Poole  (C.  B.)  on  A'Beckett's  murderers,  172 
Pools,  or  months  of  streams,  12,  113 
Pope  (Alex.),  Works  by  Elvin,  86,  295,  508 
Pope  (Miss),  actress,  2 

Popes  of  Rome,  veto  at  their  elections,  163,  269 
Poppa  Bai,  or  Queen  of  Mitfule,  190 
Porcelain  query,  210;  mannfactory  at  Church  Gresley, 

75;  memorial  of  Charles  IL,  37 
Porcupine,  the  fretful,  453 
Portland  (Richard  Weston,  1st  Earl  of),  325 
Porto  Fine,  bnrial-place  of  an  English  queen,  208, 

375 
Portrait  painting  in  water-colours,  324 
Potters  of  the  northern  counties,  96 
Powell  (1^  John),  465,  507 

Power  (C.  W.)  oo  the  strait  gate  and  narrow  way,  226 
Power  (D.)  on  Jesuit  manuscripts,  352 
Power  (E.  R.)  on  Mr.  Wyudham  and  the  reporters,  83 
P.  (P.)  on  a  blaok  country  legend,  245 
Book  ornamentation,  111 
Bookworm,  168 
Cucumber  and  gherkin,  19 
Brougham  (Lord)  and  the  Nightingale  monu- 
ment, 378 
Kneeling  in  prayer,  507 
Knight  and  esquire  of  the  body.  55 
Lancashire  witches,  417 
Kile,  its  overflowing,  421 
Parodies,  work  on,  105 
Phoenix  throne,  401 
Royal  arms,  398 
Royal  Exchange  beU,  1 10 
Stanley  (Thomas),  bishop  of  Sodor  and  Mnn.  201 
Prayers  for  the  dead  in  churchyarda  during  1 700  1800, 

389 
P.  (R.  B.)  on  Thomas  Baaketville,  486 

*'  Ex  luce  lucoHum,**  512 
P.  (R.  C.  A.)  on  Cornish  spoken  in  Devonshire,  1 1 
Prestonieosts  on  Lancashire  witches,  237 
Pretender's  OHfdial,  53 
Princesses,  marriages  of  English,  203,  289,309,  397, 

520 
Print-dealen'  catalogues,  143 
PriiM"  (R.  C.  A.)  on  snop,  a  billiard  ball,  515 
Proctor  (Sir  Stephen)  of  Fountains  Hall,  455 
Prodigal  Son,  a  cottage  print,  56,  150 
Profession  <»  business,  defined,  496 
Projqjoy,  its  meaning,  553 

Prophecies,  by  Thomas  Martin,  32 ;  "  Punch,**  33 ;  post, 
42,  151, 223;  of  Orval,  53;  in  a  register  of  the  six- 
teenth century,  283;  Mary  Rant's,  535;    Nostra- 
damus and  others,  542 
Prosody,  255.    See  various  Rwdrngt 


Proverbs  and  Phrases : — 
Adamantine  chains,  492 
After  me  the  deluge,  188,  310 
Agreeing  to  differ,  512 
Aheml  as  Dick  Smith  said  when  he  swallowed  the 

dishclout,  9 
All  friends  round  the  wrekin,  9 
As  cold  as  a  maid's  knee,  43,  114 
Bags,  or  Bags  I,  44 
Beauty  but  skin  deep,  177 
Beauty  sleep,  143,  419 
Bitter  end,  23,  85 

Bom  on  the  top  of  Radley  without  a  shirt,  221 
Chftteaux  en  Espagne,  158,  271 
Choke  chicken,  more  hatching,  9 
Comes  to  grief,  429,  526 
Dog's  nose  cold,  43,  114 
Et  facere  scribenda,  209,  292 
Everybody's  business  is  nobody's  business,  453, 

650 
Fains,  or  fain  h,  44 

From  clogs  to  dogs  is  only  three  generations,  472, 
547 

Gentlemen  of  the  pavement,  341 

God's  baby,  235 

Good  Sir,  and  Dear  Sir,  235 

He  smUes  like  a  basket  of  chips,  9 

Hibemis  ipsis  Hibemiores,  472 

His  own  opinion  was  his  law,  105 

Horse  dying  of  the  fashions,  221 

It's  a  far  cry  to  Lochawe,  42,  149 

It's  all  one  side,  like  Bridgnorth  election,  9 

Negro,  43 

Noble  as  the  race  of  Shenkin  and  line  of  Harry 
Tudor,  9 

One  swallow  does  not  make  a  summer,  292 

Once  and  again,  232 

Paint  costs  nothing,  406 

Peoca  fortiter,  77 

Pen  of  an  angel's  wing,  233,  312,  444 

Pigs  may  fly,  but  they  are  not  very  likely  birds,  41 

Point  de  vice,  255,  445 

Shropshire  sayings,  9, 131 

Stewing  in  their  own  gravy,  187,  272,  379,  522 

Straw:  In  the  straw,  407,  482 

Streak  of  silver  sea,  390,  445,  486 

Snmmum  jus,  summa  injuria,  400 

The  Devil  beats  his  wife,  25,  400 

The  evidence  of  your  enemy  in  your  favour,  &c., 

.  56,419 

The  greatest  clerks  not  the  wisest  men,  409,  546 

The  sun  never  sets  on  the  British  dominionsy  210, 

293,  398,  482,  * 

,Thunderer,  456,  524 

Turncoat  never  be  rich,  406 

Truth  lies  at  the  bottom  of  the  well,  108,  198 
312 

Useful  as  a  shm  of  beef,  &c.,  9 

"Well  nigh"  for  ^^almoat."  232 

Whether  or  no,  142,  286.  378,  485 

Winnot  there  be  skrikes  i'  Oberon,  187 

Winter  sayings,  18,  84 
Prowett  (C.  G.)  on  Accidents'  Compensation  Bill,  466 

Plunket  (Lord),  196 

"Whether  or  no,"  286 
P.  (&)  on  the  chevron,  408 


Index  Supplement  to  the  Kotea  and ) 
Qaeries,  with  So.  185,  Jalj  16. 1671.  / 


INDEX. 


677 


FialiDi,  lines  on  tha  metrical  Tenions,  305 
Psalter  serrioe-book  of  the  13ih  ceDtoiyi  496 
PnlistOD  (Edward),  his  famil/,  124 
Pomps,  or  daseiog-shoes,  389 
**  Pancb,"  a  prophet,  33 
Pimch-ladle  of  George  III.,  236 
Pnmiiiig  and  jesting  on  names,  106,  313 
Poritan  changes  of  names,  430,  526 
P.  (W.)  on  anonymoos  works,  342,  408 

Ballad,  '*  The  baron  stood  behind  a  trve,"  387 

Bible  UlostratiOns,  II 

Oarter  (John),  his  drawings,  35 

Clumges  of  names  in  Ireland,  41 

Greek  and  Roman  litentnre,  475 

Gross  eating,  429 

Heliogabnlos  and  cobwebs,  535 

Hogan,  hnnting  and  drinking,  430 

**  In  the  straw,"  407 

London  (George),  gardener,  335 
*  Mnm,  a  strong  beer,  429 

Memorial  tablets  at  St.  Beuet*s  cbnrch,  473 

Sawnej  Bean,  the  man-eater,  180 

Songs,  410 

"  Thongh  lost  to  sight,  to  memory  dear,''  56 

White  Tower  of  London,  483 
P.  (W.  H.)  on  Henley's  English  **  Vathek,"  244 

Sits  and  the  Whiteboys,  269 

Witches  in  Ireland,  137 
Pycroft  (James)  on  Dr.  Johnson's  watch,  243 
Pyramids  and  the  Nile,  186 


Q.  (Q.)  OD  British  scythed  chariots,  95 
Qnve  (Daniel),  watchmaker,  402 
"  Qneen  Argenis,"  a  poem,  140,  245 
QoicksilTer  fountains,  85 
Quis  (Lynn)  on  May-day  costoms,  430 

QvotatioBs : — 

A  glowing  iris  bending  o'er  the  storm,  96 

A  party  In  a  parlour,  36 

Aliqnando  dormitat  banns  Homems,  54 

For  sodden  joys,  like  griefs,  confoond  at  first,  426 

God  made  man  and  man  made  money,  41, 152, 

221 
ffic  liber  est  in  qno,  &e.,  109 
In  the  fierce  Ught  that  beats  upon  the  throne,  124 
It  did  not  know,  poor  fool,  365,  446 
Let  t&em  tear  him,  &c..  Ill 
Kg  pent-up  Ithaca  contracts  your  powers,  124 
Kot  thou  art  not  my  first  lore,  429 
Bos  hoc  Yocari  debet,  an  domos  looge?  96, 149 
Sapiens  est  filins  qoi  no?it  patrem,  314 
Still  glides  the  gentle  streamlet  on,  293 
Talk  not  to  me  of  longitode  and  latitode,  365 
The  actions  of  the  jost  smell  sweet,  &c.,  162 
The  history  of  the  world  is  the  judgment  of  the 

world,  456 
The  more  I  learn  the  less  I  think  I  know,  365, 447 
The  wind  has  a  Uoguage  I  wibh  I  could  loam, 

865,  463,  523 
Though  tost  to  sight,  to  memory  dear,  56,  17d» 

244,  339 
Tranquil  its  spirit  seemed  and  floated  slow,  365 
When  Italia  doth  poyson  want,  365,  446 


Quotations: — 

When  philosophers  hsTS  done  their  worst,  365, 

446 
Whose  yesterdays  look  backwards  with  a  smile,  124 
Witty  as  Flaminios  Flaccos,  844,  441 
Winter's  cold  bhuts  are  gone,  455 

B 

R  (A.)  on  Prince  Poeckler  Moskau,  266 

Poet  prophecies,  151 

Seven  wonders  of  Wales,  143 

Shropshire  sayings,  131 
Badedifib  (Noell)  on  Joan  d'Are,  409 

Galimatias,  174 

Mental  equality  of  the  sexes,  97 

Portrait  of  Lord  Spynie,  410 

St  Thomas  of  VillanoTS,  431 

Stella  (Jacques),  77 
Bailway  match  in  1841,  280 
Balttgh  (Sir  Walter),  mar^nalia  in  his  "  Historie  of 

the  World,"  36 
BaneUgh  (Coles,  Barons'  oQ,  124,  201 
Bant  (Mary),  her  prophecy,  535 
Bamage  (C.  T.)  on  Francis,  Earl  of  Bothwell,  62 

Bums's  relics  and  letters,  449 

Isks  of  the  Sirens,  337 

Laurie  (Anne),  aUat  Mn.  Feigusson,  491 

Mons  Vnltor,  3 

Pateraons  of  Baltimore  and  "  Old  Mortality,"  218 

Buins  of  Terina  and  Nnceria,  529 

Signet  found  at  BaisB,  300 

"  Veritas  in  putec"  108 
BatclifB)  (Thomas)  on  the  Attic  talent,  363 

Balloons  and  siege  of  Paris,  207,  270 

Epitaph  oo  Mrs.  Susannah  Bird,  280 

Lancashirs  witches,  311 

Twenty  Points  of  Piety,  510 
Bayner  (Wm.)  oo  an  ancient  custom,  428 
B,  (C.)  on  Albaney  and  Amondeville,  378 

Crests,  443 
&  (C.  J.)  on  Hampden  family,  273 

Ord  (Chief  Baron),  portrait^  389 

Stemhold  and  Hopkins,  324 
Besdings,  various,  in  poets,  32, 197,  255 
Besdyhoof  or  Bedioqgh  family,  361 
Beahn,  its  diiierent  forms,  370,  519 
Bebellion  of  1745,  297 
Bed  Book,  a  manuscript,  122, 199 
Bedsriffb,  ca  Surrey,  25 
Beform  Bfll  hi  1881, 113 
B^giment,  the  sixty  second,  46 
Begimental  badges,  mottoes,  &&,  549 
Begimental  odouis  oonsecrated,  282 
Beid  (James)  on  author  of  "  Pleasing  MeUnchdy,"  54 

Seng,  •'  The  Shan-Van  Voght,"  64 
Betchet,  Its  etymology,  299,  439 
BeuTsr  (Gostave)  on  Lord  Jertsolder,  304  "^ 
Bsynolds  (Sir  Joshua)  and  Gainsborough,  366 
B.  (F.  B.)  on  Fumsss  Abbey,  310 
B.  (H.)  on  the  doctrine  of  Celticism,  525 

''  Witty  as  FUuninius  Flaccns,"  344 
B.  (H.  a)  on  "  The  Fust  Book  of  Napolwm,"  455 
Bhombns  and  Scarus,  132,  376 

R  (H.  W.)on  «Es"and  ««En,"  547 
PUigiarism,  531 


678 


INDEX. 


f  Indaz  SapptaBflitt  to  Um  HoCai  «id 
1  Qaerle«»  witH  Ka  ISfi,  Jaly  li^  itn. 


Bicbard  on  medisTal  banu,  95 

Bicbard  III.,  Autobiography  of  hla  oatiuil  sod,  160,  271 

Bicbard  of  Cirencester,  historian,  332 

Biddies,  andeot,  614,  646 

Bide,  the  abeance  of  any  French  word, ''  to  ria<>/  431, 

436,604 
Bimbaolt  (Dr.  E.  F.)  on  the  Advent  hyinn,  41 

Glerdand  (Barbva,  Docbeaa  of),  €6 

Godolphin  (Sydney),  507 

Haym*8  "  History  of  Moeio,"  23 

Old  songs  and  ballads,  606 

'*The  Shmbe  of  Pamassos,*  649 
lUng,  a  toadstone,  324,  399,  484 
Bings,  Jewish  marriage,  495 
Bio  de  Janeiro,  its  Irish  legionariee,  403,  486 
B.  (J.)  on  *"  Et  facera  aeribenda,"  &c.  292 
B.  (J.  Ck.)  on  Falls  of  Foyenand  Gkunma,  62 

Fog,  its  meaning,  216 

Gates,  Isle  of  Man,  484 

'<Gnde  willie-wancbt,"  503 

PranonciatioD  of  Atbothnot  and  Bathfwi,  419 

Segdoone,  Seggidnn,  &c ,  499 
B.  (J.  B.)  on  AshbDiMn  of  Fameas,  227 
B.  (K.)  on  the  UlUd  '•KibBSBy,"  828 
B.  (L.)  on  tba  doetriae  of  CeMdsm,  526 

Smoking  illegal,  862 
B.  (L.  G.)  on  "  George  Gaatvbvy^  ^^U,"  267 

Ghvnbit  within  Bsmaa  ean^  888 

Jamieson  (Aleiander),  M.A.,  142 

Fott  |n|heeieB,  4S 

Sampler  pmiy,  831 
Boberts  (Askew)  on  John  Dyer,  448 
Bobinson  (C.  J.)  on  Vice-adinlml  Lionel  Lane,  76 

Manor  hooaas  of  HvnlbnUbfav,  887 
Bobinson  (&)  on  Unas  on  Onido'a  "  Anfom,"  13 
Bochester  Gattle  keep,  184;  hospital,  SI 
Bochester  (John  Wilmot,  Karl  of),  3;  portnit  of  bia 

daughter  Anne,  269 
Bochester  (Lnwranea  Hyde,  Enrt  of),  2 
Bode  of  the  Wall,  Nofthamptoa,  134 
Boger  (J.  G«)  on  Ayres,  and  Frsre  sumanies,  447 

Groikshank's  mastraUoas,  40 

Dragon  delinented,  126 

Heraldic,  146 

Bqgar  (Or  WiKam),  166 
Boger  (Sir  WUliam),  Knt^  88,  166, 343, 944 
Bogers  (Dr.  Charles),  on  Wognphioal  daini,  80 

Laird  or  lord,  175 

*<  Faddy  0*Raflhrty,'  a  sonfr,  478 

Boger  (Sir  William),  Knt^  82 

St  Leonard,  108 
BogexB  rNehemiah),  vioar  of  Menqg,  77, 179 
Rogers  (Samnel),  ^gnn,  888 
Bokesby  the  spies,  844 
"  BoUiad,"  snggeatad  anaof  ated  edftioa,  840 
Boman  paTsment  in  Maik  Lane,  Leaden,  403 
Bonayne  (Patrick),  aitlst,  139 
Bood  screens  in  Safiblk  efannehes,  143, 987,  618,  646 
Bcscoe  (Wffl.X  sale  of  his  books,  471 
Base,  the  nuurine,  45, 162 
Bosemaiy  nsed  at  fimerals,  206,  848,  464 
Boss  family  of  Wigtoaabire,  1 10 
Boss  (C.)  on  a  ward  for  T\oanB  Moore,  857 

Phrase,  "  In  the  stimw/  482 
Bossetti  (Dante),  pictnre  of  Lady  GnensleereB,  476 
RossetU  (W.  M.)  on  Shelley's  "  Deaion  ef  the  World,'*  24 


Bongh  -K  roffian,  origia  of  the  word,  481,  561 
Bowdon  (E.)  on  epigran  "  Cyril  and  Nathan,"  442 
Royal  Academy,  Burlington  Honae,  linea  in  the  dammt 

gallery,  96,  220 
Royal  Albert  Hall,  296,  316 
Royal  assent  to  the  Irish  Chareh  bffl,  865,  441 
Royal  households  of  Kiag  David  and  Qnsan  Vietoria 

428 
Royal  typography,  20 
Royoe  (D^vid;  on  BridgeltiBe  nana,  408 

Gloucestershire  folk  lore,  471 

Pardon,  1660,  496 

Stow-on-the^Woid,  420 
B.  (B.)  on  an  old  drinkiag  aoag,  834 

"  Poetic  Mirror,"  177 

B.  (&)  on  "  is  "  and  «  Kb,"  194 

Guido's  Anrera,  print  of,  331 
Ruthven,  its  pronunciation,  343,  419 
Boshworth  (John),  Index  to  his  <*  Historical  Collec- 
tions," 149 
Bossdl  (Charles)  on  Paalet  fanOy  af  Anpact,  90 
Bnssell  (J.  F.)  en  the  pedigree  af  Fairte,  367 
Bust  (J.  C.)  on  Psalm  zziii.,  210 
B.  (W.  F.)  on  ataiy  of  a  statue,  300 
Bussell  (W.  P.)  on  >  The  Concilisd,"  370 


S.  on  ChOdnn's  gamas  in  Seethod.  141 

Darwin's  theory  in  Jsfa,  538 

Disorepandes  in  dates,  9 

EqniTalent  foreign  titles,  113 

Knsale  (Lords),  desomdants,  75 

Orders  of  kaigfathoad,  197 

Somamea  of  offieials  in  the  Weet  Lidisa»40« 

Taafe  family,  476 

Wreck  of  **  The  Temple  "  btig,  410 
S.  (A.)  on  book  omamantalioa,  111 

Friday  tree,  123 

Flemish  fishermen  in  Exigbmd,  513 

St  Joseph's  ave,  96 

"  Streak  of  silver  sea,"  446 
Saarbrtick  onibiB,  107, 174»  894 
fiibb»^y  boosei,  840 
Ssga,  Amyiaga,  494 
Saggar,  its  derivation,  452 
Saint  abbreyiated  to  T,  479,  650 
8t  Albany  Abbey,  its  rsstantion,  SSS.  487,  68? 
St.  Albans  (Oharlas  Beaoderk,  Isi  Daks  of),  3 
St  Anthony,  engravhigs  of  hia  tSBptetteaa,  408.  483 
St  Aagnsllna,  ''aplaadida  pecoata/*  259;  aafUMns,  17 
St  Beoet's  ckBBBh,  Paul's  Whaf^msnuri^  tahWts,  473 
St  Bley,  or  EUg^us,  his  ssTmon^  805 
St  Elphege,  engraiii^  488 
St  Etheman!s  priaiy,  804, 876 
St  Gitthkka,  aagiarviag,  483    . 
St  Igaatias,  [  ■iiitii  attribatad  to  iaaa,  88 
St  Jaa  or  Jsanna  of  VsUs,  66, 150,  SOI 
St  John  on  Sive  and  the  Whiteboys,  401 
6l  John,  OMdical  order  ef,  985,  994 
St  Jeaeph's  era,  aong  aa,  96 
St  Juan  of  Dalmatia,  engraving,  483 
St  T^**"— '^t  twaof  the  naoM,  108 
St.  Michael's  MounU  of  Coniwall  and  Btittsnf ,  125, 20* 
St  PaBenusLeaaait'a  M&  Histaiy,  86 
St  Paul,  the  fiiit  benait^  112, 178, 245 


Index  Sapplement  U>  the  Kolet  and  t 
Qoerles,  with  No.  185,  Jvij  16, 1871.  f 


INDEX. 


579 


St.  Pftol's  cathedral,  ita  oompletion,  18.%  241, 344,  891, 

434,  460,  552 
St.  Swithln  on  fietkn  and  fact,  494 

Paaaioo  plaja,  475 
St.  Thomas  of  Yillanova,  431,  481 
St.  Vakntine,  132,  526 
St  yinnio,  an  Iriah  taint,  396 
St  WoUimn,  162,  269,  335,  444,  505 
Saints'  emblems,  305,  421 
Sala  (Geo.  Angnstns)  on  deriration  of  Gon,  57 
Salkeld  (Wm.),  seijeant^at.Uw,  236 
Sampler  poesj,  21,  126,  220,  273,  331,  465,  525 
Samson  (Bev.  Biohard),  longeYity,  56,  97, 197 
Samson  (W.),  antbor  of ''  The  Goneiliad,"  161,  270 
Sandalinm  on  Bin.  Gatherme  Zephjr,  285 
Sanders  (&)  on  seal  found  in  Isle  of  Ely,  324 

Start's  edition  of  the  Gommon  Prayer,  351 
Sandown  Gastle,  Isle  of  Wight,  103,  175,  325 
Sandtoft  register,  496 
Sandys  (Sir  Edwin)  and  the  bishops,  359 
Sangreal,  or  Holy  Greal,  201 
S.  (A.  P.)  on  the  character  of  Gonstantine,  349 
Becket's  murderers,  195 
Epigram :  <*  As  Gyril  and  Nathan,"  350 
Lady  6rimston*s  graye,  76, 129, 195 
Sapiston  church  screen,  517 
Saracen,  its  deriyation,  206 
Sarisburiensis  on  **  Anima  Gbristi,"  506 

Litnrgical  query,  495 
Sarum  missal,  64,  177 
Satchell  (T.)  on  Index  to  Rushwortb  s  '*  Gollections," 

149 
Savigny  (F.  G.  von),  "  Treatise  on  ObUgations,"  13 
Savile  (Henry))  vice-chamberhdn,  3 
Sawney  Bean,  the  man-eater,  77, 180 
Saye,  or  De  Saye  fsmily,  123,  272,  333 
S.  (G.)  on  bills  actually  presented,  269 

**  The  strait  gate  and  narrow  way,"  311 
Ward,  as  a  personal  name,  481 
Scamels,  its  proYindal  use,  210 
Soena:  scen^,  259,  334,  414 
Scbendel  (Pecrus  Tan),  hu  death,  25 
Schoolmaster  abroad  in  Staffordshire,  121,  180,  199, 

311,374,465 
Scotland,  list  of  its  kings,  295;  early  queens  of,  344; 
competitors  for  the  crown,  363,  446;  Society  of  An- 
tiquaries, 47 
Scott  on  the  case  of  Blary  Jobson,  76 

Kobold  of  Groben,  96 
Scotticisms  in  America,  159 
Scottish  gusrd  of  France,  455 
Scottish  newspapers,  earliest,  890,  549 
Scottish  societies,  73 

Scripsit,  or  Ghiistmas  school  piece,  145,  201,  351,  462 
Scrope  (Sir  Garr),  Bart.,  2 

Scudery  (G.  de),  Key  to  "  Le  Grand  Gyrus,"  44, 149 
Scnddry  (2dademoiselIe  de),  44 
S.  (G.  W.)  on  the  bookworm,  168 
"Arthur's  slow  wain,"  512 
Parodies,  261 
"  Punch  "  a  prophet,  33 
S.  (D.)  on  bell-ringing,  110 
S.  (E.)  on  Winchester  Domum  song,  140 
Seal  found  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  324 
Seals,  antique  heads  in  mediaaval,  493 
Seam  of  straw  and  hay,  429,  506 


Seats  not  carried  away,  531 

Segdoune  monastery,  395, 499 

Sei£Eerth  (G.)  on  <*  A  party  in  a  parlour,"  36 

S.  (E.  L.)  oo  a  forgotten  Homerist,  362 

HowlinsoQ  (Robert),  a  centenarian,  120 

Irish  noddy,  165 

Twiss  (B.)  *<  Tour  m  Ireland,"  267 
Selby  family,  516 

Selden  (John),  collection  of  ballads,  496 
Septuagint,  works  on,  515 
Seven  Wonden  of  Wales,  143,  267 
Sewell  (J.)  on  Gainsborough's  '*Blue  Boy,*'  237,  366, 

391 
Sewell  (Sir  Thomas),  parentage,  305,  376 
Sexes,  their  mental  equality,  97,  223 
&  (F.)  on  "  God  made  man,"  &c,  41, 221 

Handel's  MessUh,  304 

Signboards,  320 

**  The  Heafing  of  the  Lead,"  148 
S.  (F.  M.)  on  the  bookworm,  262 

Dibdin's  "  Bibliographical  Decameron,"  256 

PriTately-printed  books,  13 

Boss  family  of  Wigtonshire,  1 10 

Smyth  (James)  of  Whitehill,  515 
S.  (G.  H.)  on  Hiddleton  custom,  119 
Shadwell  (Thomas),  poet,  3 

Shaftesbuxy  ^Anthony  Ashley  Gooper,  1st  Earl  of),  447 
Shakspeaie  (William),  tradition  of  his  destb,  52 ;  and 
the  Axden  fiunily,  118, 169;  his  acquaintance  with 
Lyly's  **  Eupbues,"  524;  Works,  early  editions,  181 

BhaksperUna  :— 

Merchant  of  Veoice,  142,  271 
Timon  of  Athens,  Act  iy.  sc  3:  "  You  want  much 
of  meat,"  350,  465 

Shannon  (Francis  Boyle,  Viscount  of)^  258,  454 
Shard  a  cow-dung,  105,  199 
Sharman  (Julian)  on  baby's  corals,  21 

Bacon's  Queen's  counselship,  291 

Laws  respecting  buttons,  73 

Manslaughter  and  cold  iron,  265 

Nous,  a  slang  word,  85 

Parodiea,  works  on,  16 

Philosophical  nakedness,  375 
Sharps  (Richard  Scrafton),  noticed,  55,  148 
Shaw  (Samuel),  on  the  bookworm,  168 

Scripeit,  145 
Sheares  (Isaac)  oo  Benj.  Franklin's  laurel  wreath,  189 

War  medals,  131 
Sheerwort,  a  pknt,  25, 151,  244,  332,  463,  527 
Sheffield  kXk  lore,  299,  439 
Shelley  (P.  B.),  ''Demon  of  the  World,"  24;  "Qaes- 

tion,"  455;  "  Ozymandias,"  456;  "  Adonais,"  456 
Shewell  (W.  M.)  on  the  great  bear  and  summer  fall,  379 
Shield  (Wm.),  song/'  Heaving  of  the  Lead,"  55,  148 
ShiUings,  lion,  187 
Ships,  Ghinese  rudders  of,  162 
Shipton  (Mother),  life  and  death,  25 
Shirley  (E.  Ph.)  on  Irish  folk  lore,  299 

Irii^  forfeitures,  21 

Stanhope  (Sir  WilUam),  353 

Stedman  £unily,  335 

**  Thoughts  of  Patricius,"  ito  author,  97 
Shoogles,  its  derifation,  186 
Shop  signs  in  Vienna,  206 
SbcMthooflO  (J.  H.)  on  adorning  wells,  294 


580 


INDEX. 


/  Indez  SopplaMat  to  the  Votes  and 
\  Qwriea,  wtth  Vo.  nsw  J«l7  iSk  UTL 


Shropsfaire  sajings,  9, 131,  221 

SidJuui  tjTMDt,  431 

Sickle  BojBt,  236,  313 

Sigoataries,  an  aajecUva  or  ooua,  44,  176,  S8I 

Si^boaid  ipr  UetoUUcfS,  320 

S^gptt  found  at  fiais,  300 

SiiniDS  (Wm.  Gtlmon),  hia  deatb,  466 

Simoo  (Thomas),  appointment  as  medaUit,  51ft 

Simooides  (Cooataotise)  and  the  **  Codex  g~HiiT' 

77,179 
Simpton  (W.  Sparrow)  on  DngdiOa'a  St.  Fmi%  281 
PnmiiDg  and  jeaUng  on  ubmb,  106 
SammmiBsal,  64 
Teeth  foUi  Ion,  ^ 
Sirena,  the  lake  of  th^  337 
Sire  and  the  Whitdioxs,  124,269,  401 
&  f  J.)  on  Lord  Bjron's  **  English  Bar^*  23 
&  (J.  R)on  William  Baliol,  302 
Skaife  (B.  H.)  on  the  Hon.  Gathenne  Sootbeote,  64 

Terrick  (Bichard),  bishop  of  LoodoD,  104 
Skeat  (W.  W.)  on  De  Bolnm,  24 

Ghattertoo's  knowledge  of  ibiglo-Sazsn,  278 
lis  and  En,  60 
Biddies,  ancient,  546 
Skedaddle,  its  derivatioD,  851 
Skerring  =  sliding,  121,  265 
Sbwkenbergiiis'  **  Treatise  on  Neaes  *  125 
Sleigh  (John)  on  *'  Eikon  Basilike,'*  9 

Whmel,  Of  Wjmwll  (Ber.  Thomas),  191 
Sleigh  (Joseph  Fenn),  Goldsmith's  Ele^  on  him,  9 
Slow-wonn  superstition,  427 
&  (L.  V.)  on  Cbaayinisme,  408 
Si  (M.  A.)  on  aamplen'  poeqr,  126 
Small-pox  in  Wales,  1722,  301 
Smells,  the  memory  of,  178,  413,  481 
Smith  families,  the  heraldry  of,  43,  175,  318 
Smith  (Hnbert)  on  John  Eisgsloir,  the  ndoss^  513 

Stedman  family,  259 
Smith  (W.  A.)  on  »  Thongh  k»t  to  sight,"  Acl,  244 
Smith  (Dr.  Wm.),  tomp.  153971555,  77 
Smith  rW.  J.  fi.)  on  babies'  belln,  291 
Inkstand  of  Wedgwood  wan,  272 
MnmmexB:  waits,  245 
Tosdstone  ring,  484 
Smoking  illogal,  198,  293,  352 
Smyth  family  of  IreUnd,  122,  125 
Smyth  r  James)  of  Wbitebill,  515 
Smyth  (J.  J.)  on  Smyth,  aUas  Hcris  of  Witiioole,  125 
Snaix  on  fcv9  third-pointed  spires,  132 
Snop,  a  aoond  made  by  a  billiard  ban,  515 
Sooetas  Albertomm  Antiqnonmi,  56 
Sodni,  Qumnment  to  the,  881 
Soldisit,  maimed,  in  1659,-495 
SolnU,  in  parish  rvgisters,  314 

Bongi  and  Balladi  :— 

American  national  soig,  11,  78,  198 

Arise!  arisel  BzitannisflB  sons,  ariasi  75 

Arthnrian  ballads,  472 

Ballads,  English  and  Scotch,  552 

Bonnie  Annie  Laurie,  490 

Brides  of  Maris  Enderby,  822 

Bring  ns  in  good  ale,  &e.,  224 

Bomper  Sqnire  Jones,  173 

Ghristmas  carol,  23 

Cdlnmbia'i  ahont  ax«  wide  and  wfld,  II,  78, 196 


8«BgtmdBal]ftdi: — 

Gnm  Boger  ta  me  as  thoo  art  my  acn,  428 

Daniah  baj*B  song,  24 

Death  and  the  Lady,  202 

Dongks!  DongbB!  tender  and  tme^  28 

Drii&ing  song,  454,  527 

DnkeDonmm,  140 

Ferrcrs  (Lady),  209,  334 

French  oonririal,  58;  ^Omon  Dien!  la  fium  me 
prase,"  72, 115;  war,  145, 158 

Goody  bottled  ak^  44 

Gr^  (ArdiiB),  the  ibetman,  207 

GrssnaleefeB  (Lady)^  475,  550 

In  atttmnn  we  shoold  diink,  boys,  294 

Kilmeny,  by  James  Hogg,  328 

Uoiiger  HorstiM,  824,  398 

North  Laaesdiire  song,  428,  543 

Nntting,  162 

G  happf  eoontry  lifel  pore  like  Hs  air,  427 

Grdor  of  the  Bath,  hj  Lord  Chesterfi^,  207 

Paddy,  or  Peggy,  G'Balferty,  472 

ParMO  and  Baeoo,  171 

Fkaantsong,  322 

Bobininaearehofswiii,  543 

Shan  Van  Vogfat,  64 

Simike  to  HoUy,  410 

Songs,  old,  and  baUads,  398,  506 

Swan-SGOg  of  Paraon  Ateiy,  20, 148,  288,  483 

Swiss  spitag  song,  231 

The  Baron  stood  behind  a  tree,  387 

The  Boy  and  the  llantSe,  247 

The  Goontry  lifo,  427 

Hie  Golden  Pippin,  218 

The  Hearing  of  the  Lead,  55, 148,200 

The  Heir  of  Unne,  473 

The  Pauper's  Drirs,  365 

The  Sonter  and  h»  Sow,  361,  467 

The  Thonght,  or  a  Song  of  Sinnks,  410 

The  True  Ifayde  of  the  Sosdi,  390 

The  True  Toper,  58 

War  songs,  10,  145,  158 
Whmny  Moor,  63, 133 
Sonnet  qnerita,  456,  545 
Sothflfan  (C.)  on  De  Saye  or  Say  £unily,  383 
Poller  ([Bishop  Wnu),  351 
Man,  Cqg  or  Queen  o^  382 
Southoote  (Hon.  Gatherine)  m  1736,  64, 177 
Sp.  on  Ayre  fSunily  surname,  386 

Gary's  *'  Palsniogia  Ghnnica,*  143 
Ghildren's  games,  415 
Gooke:  Gookes:  Gookeeey,  310 
Flemish  families  arms,  810 
Fraaer  and  Rrisel  families,  55 
Hsrea  taking  rengeanoe^  352 
Hood  (Thomas),  and  Tariou  leadiBgs,  82 
Pearwxi  nnuly,  of  Kippenross,  36 
Perehe  (Gounts  of),  ttMir  arms,  221 
Prosody,  255 
Scottish  soeietiee,  78 
Smijth  fiunilies,  313 
Spanish  **  Notes  and  Queries,*'  202 
Spenser  (Edmund),  allegory  in  the  "  Faerie  QueeB,"  1 ; 
real  persons  init,49, 176;  ^ypogrsphical  enor8,388; 
the  poet  of  Ireland,  317;  his  Puiqpe,  283 
Spires,  the  five  En^^idi  of  third-pointed  date^  35, 188    . 
Spitten  laixd,  190, 310 


Index  8ai>plement  to  the  Note*  and  i 
QQeiiea,  wltb  Nu  186,  July  16, 1871.  j 


INDEX. 


581 


Spoon  iiueription  at  Etwali  Hall,  Dcrbyahira,  .7^ 
S.  (P.  W.)  on  a  gem  querji  322 

Sun-dial  inscriptioDSy  256,  £24 
Spyni*  (2nd  Lord),  noticed,  410 
S.  (&  B.)  on  '*  Heart  of  bearts,**  463 

Son-dial  inscriptions,  546 
S.  (S.  M.)  OD  baptism  £or  the  dead,  263 
Becket's  mnrderen,  395 
Facta  in  onezpeeted  plaoesy  297 
Newton  (Rer.  John),  linea  on  a  atmpler,  278 
&  (T.)  on  Sir  John  Powell,  507 . 
Stafibrd  family,  387 
SUfford  (Jobn),  abp.  of  Oanterboiy,  fiunilj,  253,  350, 

500 
Stamp  on  Picture  canvas,  97, 195^  843 
Stand,  the  absence  of  any  French  word  ngnifying  *'  to 

stand,"  278,  435 
Stanhope  (Sir  Wm.),  portnik,  259,  353 
Stanley  (Dean)  on  Morillols  ptcturas  of  the  Pfodigal 

Son,  120 
Stanley  (Sir  John),  second  king  of  Man,  249 
Stanley  (Thomas),  bishop  of  Soder  and  Man,  96, 201 
Stanley  (Sir  Thomas),  epitaph,  190,  292 
Starkie  (Lieiit.  Cwl.)  on  mezzotint  of  OliTer  Cromwell, 

374 
Starston  Church,  mural  painting,  40,  172,  245,368, 

410,497,517 
SUtements,  rash,  232,  273,  289,  418, 481 
Statue,  stoiy  of  one,  125,  200 
&  (T.  C.)  on  the  dream  of  Elizabeth  de  YAxtttf  409 
Mutton  and  capers,  190 
Wordsworth,  Constable^  &c,,  233 
Stedman  family,  259,  335 
Stella  (Jacquea),  artist,  77 
Stephens  (F.  G.)  on  **  Essays,  Divine,  Moral,"  &c. 

418 
Stepney  parish,  its  clergy,  282;  memorial  bells  at  St. 

Dunstan's,  511 
Sterling  (Capt.  Edward),  "  Thundeiw  of  *  The  Times/  " 

456,  524,  553 
Stenhold  (Thomas),  versioa  of  Pe.  hoviiL  46,  324 
Stevenson  (John  Hall),  his  **  Cra^  Tales,"  154,  991 
Stewardson  (Thoe,),  jun^  on  Bnniham  dinreh,  257 
Guizot  and  Guise,  833 
Jesters  on  shipboard^  209    ' 
"The  Hob  in  the  WeU,**  417 
Stilts  sscrutchM,  243,  314 
Stockwell  angels,  270 
Stone  (W.  G.)  on  book  oraammtatioD,  147 

Story  of  a  statoe,  200 
Ston^enge,  old  prints  of,  36,  179,  197 
Story  and  its  expansions,  32 
Stow-inthe-Wold,  its  first  diocese,  344,  420 
Strait  gate  and  narrow  way,  98,  226,  311 
Straabuig  library.  Its  lestoratian,  120,  223,  448,  487, 

552;  Haenet's  Catalogue,  473 
Street  (K  E.)  on  "  The  Devil  beats  his  wifo,"  25 
Street  (G.  E.)  on  the  complekioD  of  SL  Paul's,  434 
Stuart  (Charles  Edward),  grandson  of  James  IL,  an 

alleged  letter  of  the  King  of  Prussia  to  him,  U7 
Stuart  (James  Francis  Edward),  aon  of  Jsbmb  IL,  bis 

birth,  191 
Sturt  (John),  edition  of  tha  Commfln  Prayer,  289,  851 
tyxing  family,  824 

ufiblk  (Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of),  220 
ommer  rainfall  and  tha  Great  Bav,  300, 879 


Sun.dial  inscriptions,  255,  324,  377,  899,  506,  522, 

546 
Sumamee  of  officials  in  the  Weat  Indies,  406,  483 
Surrey  churches  destroyed  in  1668,  476 
**  Susan  and  Rebecca,"  its  wreck,  305 
S.  (W.)  on  JEsop's  Fables  by  Bewick,  842 

"  Danish  Boy's  Song,**  24 

Ghidh,  its  derivation,  454 
S.  (W.  A.)  on  British  scythed  chariots,  460 
Sweeting  (W.  D.)  on  reasons  fbr  going  to  churdb,  100 

Beetonhip  of  eightj-oue  jears,  98 
S.  (W.  H.)  on  Faraday's  pedeBtrian  feat,  266 

Marriage  of  English  princeisses,  289 

Mourning  writing  paper,  209 

Norwich  cathedral,  its  altar  slab,  860 

Philosophical  nakedness,  875 

"  The  Prodigal  Son,"  407 
Swift  (Godwin),  104 

Swift  (Dean  Jonathan),  satire  on  him,  418 
Swiss  spring  song,  231 

Switzerland  invaded  by  the  English  In  187  5^  36 
Syon  Hoose  nuna^  408 


T.  on  parish  regiaters  at  Barbadoes,  496 

Taale  fiunily,  476 

Talbot  (Elizabeth),  bar  will,  884 

Talbot  (Sir  Gilbert)  and  Calais  in  1512,  189 

Tancock  (0.  W.)  on  British  soytbed  chariota,  503 

Tapestry  portraits,  511 

Taverns,  inns,  &c.,  collectionB  for  their  history,  512 

Taylor,  not  Taylour,  family,  35 

Taylor  (Bp.  Jeremy),  descendants,  143,  290,  516 

Taylor  (John)  on  Northamptonshire  feasts,  475 

T.  (B.)  on  Pichler,  a  gem  engraver,  897 

Toadstooe  ring,  399 
T.  (C.  B.)  on  <*  Mda  Britannicns,"  76 
T.  (C.  E.)  on  English  versificatioi^,  390 
Tea,  itB  aarly  use,  139 
Teeth  folk-lore,  85 
Teetotalleia'  signboard,  320 
*'  Temple"  brig,  its  wreck,  365,  410 
Tenby,  its  derivation,  60,  61 
Tennyson  (Alfred)  and  Congrsve,  301, 876,  486 
Tennysoniana,  431 
Terina,  its  mine,  529 
Tetriok  (Bp.  Richard),  biography,  104 
Tew  (Edmund)  on  *'  the  bitter  end,"  85 

Constantine,  character  of,  303 

Dis-apirit,  186, 377 

**  His  own  opinion  waa  hia  law,"  106 

Kfibes,  a  Theban  philosopher,  98, 331 

Mount  Calvary,  108,  372 

Orleton  (Adam  de),  151 

Patchin,  ita  meaning,  21 

Pierea  the  Plooghman'a  Gnde,  85 

Popular  method  of  obaerving  ecHpaea,  472 

Pxununctatioa  of  Greek  and  Latin,  178 

Raah  atatementa,  232,  289 

St  IffmHuBj  paaaage  attributed  to  him,  39 

Scena:  Scentf,  334 

Strait  gate  and  narrow  way,  98 

''Varitaainputeo,"  198 
Tewara  on  marriagea  of  English  prinoeews,  208 

Duke  of  Burkingham'a  mother,  644 

Fitahameys,  or  Harriea,  iamilka,  292 


582 


INDEX. 


/  Index  Buitplement  to  Uie  Note*  and 
\ Queries,  with  Ho.  18B,  Jnly  li,  igTL 


Tewara  on  hereditary  geniiUi  451 

KnighUej  (Anne),  334 

Letter  to  Edwud  IV.,  312 

Margaret  Fondles,  Lady  Mortimer,  437 
T.  (G.  D.)  <m  babiea'  bella,  201 

Woodcut  ipitial  letters,  237 
T.  (6.  M.)  on  Badger,  167 

Cameron's  portrait,  334 

Camphaosen  (G.)  artist,  312 

Dedication  of  churches,  480 

GorB,aweir,  113 

Hamesncken,  834 

Kipper,  its  meaning,  544 

Latimer  (George  Nevill,  Lord),  198 

Passing  bell,  499 
T.  (G.  W.)i  New  York,  on  Aveiy's  Swan  Song,  148 
Thames  embankment,  448 
Thames  riyer  wall,  275 
T.  (H.  F.)  on  London  eharches,  112 

Bectorship  of  eighty-one  years,  98 

Stanley  (Dean),  Sermon  on  the  Prodigal  Son,  120 

Terridk  (Richard),  bishop  of  London,  104 

**  Though  lost  to  sight  to  memory  dear,"*  332 
Thief,  the  repentant,  490 
Thiriold  (Charles)  on  Rhyme  to  widow,  62  - 
Thomas  (E.  C.)  on  song,  "  Laariger  HoraUas,"  398 
Thoms  (W.  J.)  on  Robert'Bowman,  centenarian,  38 

Chaucer's  birth,  its  date,  338,  478 
Thomson  (Sir  Alexander),  lioigbthood,  284 
Thomson  (James),  a  Druid,  97,  225,  401,  485 
Thombury  (W.)  on  Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson,  532 

"  The  wind  has  a  language,"  523 
l*hought,  coinddence  of,  93,  198 
Throstle  Hall  custom,  1 19 
Thrupp  (J.)  on  Walpole's  nail-brush,  410 
Thus  on  monolith  at  Meams,  514 
Tiedeman  (H.)  on  German  etymological  dictionaries, 

456 
" Times"  newspaper,  its  *'  Thunderer,"  456,  524,  553 
"  Times  Whistle,"  by  B.  C,  97,  130 
Tintack  (Sur  Gorgeous)  on  Mr.  St  John,  346 
Tito  (Sur  Wm.)  on  letters  of   Nell  Gwvn  and  Kitty 

Clive,  2 
Titlers  of  sugar,  110,224 
Titles,  equiTalent  foreign,  12,  1 13 
T.  (K.   F.)  on  sun  never  setting  on  the  British  do- 
minions, 210 
T — ^n.  on  equivalent  foreign  titles,  12 
Toads  cure  gUindular  swellings,  210 
Tosdstone  ring,  324, 399, 484,  540 
Tobaoeo  taken  medicinally,  53 
Tom  Tiddler's  ground,  57 
Tonbridge  Wells,  "Guide,"  487 
Topography,  works  on,  456 
Tournaments,  local,  105 
Tower  of  London,  the  White,  21 1, 309, 394, 483 
Tracey  (T.  S.)  on  "  Provincial  Characteristics;'  319 
Tradescant  (John),  his  wife  Elizabeth,  284 
Traditions  through  fiow  links,  52 
Trapp  (Dr.  Joseph),  his  **  Virgil,"  237,  325 
T.  (B.  E.)  on  ancient  riddles,  514 
Treason,  a  cry  to  arms,  362 

Trench  (Francis)  on  La  Brnj^re  and  the  bookseller's 
daughter,  207 

Faraday's  pedestrian  feat,  140 

Signitaxy  and  signitaries,  44,  33] 


Trench  (Francis)  on  **  to  stand,"  no  French  word  sig. 
nUying,  278 

Trench  (Abp.)  Halsean  Lectures,  379 
Trench  (Abp.  R.  C),  **  Hulsean  Lectures"  quoted,  78, 

198,  379 
Trethamp^  a  local  suffix,  1 13 
Trerelyan  (E,  M.)  on  Macaulay's  "  Ballads,"  264 
Trerelyan  (Sir  W.  C.)  on  hisUny  repeating  itself,  280 
Treveris's  **  Greto  Herball,"  quoted,  162, 268,  333,  463 
Trigg  Minor,  Cornwall,  its  history,  487 
Trouveur  (Jean  le)  on  ol4  ballads,  472 

Strait  gate  and  narrow  way,  226 
Trumpets,  gigantic  tin  singing,  530 
T.  (S.  W.)  on  Lord  Brougham's  college  friend,  376 

Key  to  *<  Le  Grand  Cyrus,"  44 
T.  (T.  K.)  oo  bows  and  curtseys,  330 
Tucker  (S.)  on  Sir  John  Mason,  420 
Tttde  (Henry  Masers  de  k),  447 
Tnlly  (Thomss,  jun.)  on  Plaoxty  :  "  Bomp^  Squire 
Jones,"  173 

Saarbrtick  custom,  107 
Tuttle  (C.  W.)  on  Oapt«  John  Mason,  265 
"  Twenty  Points  of  Piety,"  610 
Twiss  (Richard),  «  Tour  in  Ireland,"  163,  267 
T.  (W.  J.)  on  the  Bird  Cage  Walk,  95 

Stamp  on  picture  canvas,  195 
T.  (W.  J.  F.)  on  Joannes  Baptista's  "  Aristotle,"  342 
T.  (W.  M.)  on  didactic  poetry  of  luly,  149 

Guise  and  Guiaot,  pronunciation,  142 
Tyndale  (Wm.),  orthography  of  his  •*  New  Teatament," 

30,  129 
Tynwald  Hill,  Isle  of  Man,  92 
Typography,  royal,  20 

U 

Udal  (J.  S.)  on  Albany  and  AmondeTille,  312 

Heraldic,  147 

May-day  at  Oxford,  511 

Ombre,  a  game,  35 
Umbgrove  families,  324 
Unarkullee;  mausoleum  and  town,  385 
Underbill  (Wm.)  on  Shropshure  sayings,  9,  221 
Uneda  on  the  Be?.  Thomas  Brooks,  342 

Heaven  letters,  139 

Hook  (Theodore),  story  ascribed  to  him,  314 

Parodies,  491 

Sabba-day,  or  noon  houses,  340 

Scotticisms  in  America,  159 

Thunderer  of  "  The  Times,"  456 
Upton  (J.  W.)  on  Timothy  Dexter,  174 


Valdrien,  Mont,  135 

Vangable  (Mr.),  a  mountebank,  302 

Vaughan  (Henry),  Silurist,  Works,  401  ;  allusion  in 

his  poem,  11 
V.  (E.)  on  babies'  bells,  133 

Bows  and  curteies,  109,  444 

Hamesncken,  334 

**  Light  of  lighte,"  463 

Nightingale  (Lady),  330 

Rectorship  of  eighty-one  years,  97 

Southcote  (Hon.  Catherine),  177 

Villegas' ''  Lives  of  the  Sainte,"  293 
Veodome  column,  508 
Yemet  (Horace),  lithograph,  504 


Index  SapiAemeot  to  the  Notes  and ) 
goeilM,  irlth  No.  IBS,  Jaly  15,  I8n.  f 


I  ND  E  X. 


583 


Versificatiai,  English,  390,  464 

Verokm  (E«ri  of)  oo  Ladj  Grim&toD's  gimv«,  172 

Vesasfeeae,  109,  224,  294 

Victoria  (Queen),  Enpresa  of  India,  409 

Villegas  (R.  F.  Alfonso),  *'  The  Lim  of  tbs  Saints," 

178  293 
Yillian  &mi^  pedigne^  451,  544 
ViUien  (Sir  Goorge),  noticed,  470 
YirgU,  EogUsh  tnmaiaAoiiB,  937,  325 
ViTW  (John  Loois),  biography,  536 
ViTian  (Charles)  on  Kirk  Santoo,  44 
Yoltairiioa,  431 
Volunteer  corps  in  1744-5, 284 
Vflodanism,  origin  of  the  term,  210 

W 

W.  on  Fsreyinga  Saga,  494 

Iriifa  kgionariee  ia  Bio  de  Jaaeins  486 
Salkeld  (Serjeant),  236 
W.,  BrighUm,  on  *"  Hints  te  Chniimen,"  55 
W.  (1.)  on  the  bookworm,  847 

Fog,  its  meanhig,  351,  466 
;.    Footo'a*'Ghi7sal,"186 
QaoCation,  162 

Son-dial  inflcriptkn,  377,  522 
Ward,  as  a  personal  name,  350 
WaddeU  (P.  H.)  on  *«  Gnde-wUtie  wauoht,"  502 
Waddingham  (T.  J.)  on  song  **  Laoriger  Horatiiis,''  824 
Wagstaffo  (Thomas),  nonjoror,  oonseoration,  10 
Wake  (H.  T.)  on  cobblers'  lamps  in  Italj,  132 
Calais  and  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  139 
Lnke  (Sir  Samoel),  letter-book,  142 
Waloott  (M.  E.  C.)  on  Cistercian  monasteries,  268 
Dedications  fk  chnrohes,  505 
Glatton,  a  ship,  548 
Gnn,  an  engine  ef  war,  149 
Wales,  its  seven  wonders,  148,  267 
Walesby  (Thomas)  on  John  Bailes'  kmgerity,  254 
Wallis  (Geo.)  on  hair  growing  after  death,  83 
Walpole  (Sir  Bobert),  expelled  the  Hoose  of  Comrnone, 

410,  526 
Walsh  (Father  Peter),  «  Irish  Cofonia  Folded,"  472 
Walsingham  (Sir  Francis),  Jonmal,  354 
Walter  (J.  G.)  on  the  bookworm,  169 

Mural  painting  in  Starston  church,  172,  868, 
497,  517 
Walthamstow  parish  bnd,  344 
Waltheof  on  steel  engravings,  510 

Wslthamstow  parish  knd,  344 
Walton  (Bey.  Thomas),  282 
War  medals,  number  of  clasps,  13,  131,  294,  482 
Ward,  its  etjmolo^  as  a  personal  name,  256,  350, 

481  I  family  arms,  273,  351 
Wurd  (S.)  on  Richard  Flantagenet*s  autobiography,  150 
Warm,  meaniog  wealthy,  84 
Warren  (C.  F.  S.)  on  the  claimants  of  the  Scottish 

crown,  446 
W.  (A.  S.)  on  the  Zodiac  of  Denderah,  65 
Wason  (J.)  on  chess  in  England  and  China,  34 
Watches  of  distinguished  men,  259 
Watson  (Archd.)  on  *'  0  Gemini,"  441 
Waugh  (F.  G.)  on  Keats' ''  La  Belle  Dame  sans  Merd," 
324 
<*The  New  Monthly  Magazine,"  475 
"  WiUy  as  Flaminios  Flaccos,"  441 
Waugh  (&)  on  Leathart's  MSb  of  St.  Pancras,  36 


Wax,  bhwk,  its  early  use,  378,  443 

W.  (C.  A.)  on  French  word  signifying  ''  to  stand,"  446 

Signatary  and  Signataries,  176 
W.  (Q.  E.)  OB  Chepstow  aStrigdelg,  34 
W.  (C.  L.)  on  Montagu  Qoeries,  304 
W.  (£.)  on  Longs  and  Palmers  of  Bath,  285 
Pnliston  fiunily,  124 
Bight  to  quarter  aims,  18 
Swan  song  of  Paraoii  ATeiy,  20,  433 
Weale  (W.  H.  J.)  on  a  curious  prophecy,  233 
Weare  (Bev.  Thomas  Wm.^  his  death,  202 
Weathercocks,  Latin  rhyming  poem  on,  36 
Weather  sayings,  18,  84,  299,  300,  343,  419,  445 
Weaver's  art,  allnsioBs  to,  57, 149,  244 
Webb  (T.  W.)  on  Barf,  or  Barf,  445 

Garroons  or  Garrons,  494 

Gentlemen,  as  used  in  the  army,  75 
Webb  (William),  a  centenarian,  120 
Wedding  custom  in  Wales,  285 
Weepers,  worn  at  moomings,  257 
Wellington  (Arthur,  Duke  of),  aneodote,  490 
Wells,  custom  of  adorning,  107,  294 
Welsh  wedding  cnatom,  385 
Wells  cathedral,  Arabic  numerals  in,  282,  375 
Westbrook  (W.  J.)  on  the  Advent  hymn,  217 

Handd's  concerto  for  the  harp,  207 

Com  (Mn.);  pianist,  210 
West  lodieo,  sumamei  of  oflSdab,  406,  483 
Wesleyan  Magaiine  in  French,  325,  397 
Westlook  (G.)  on  "The  Hob  in  the  Well,*  220 
Westmoreland  gunpowder  doggnl,  32 
Westwood  (T.)  on  artificial  fly-ibhing,  265 

Hood's  "Lee  Shore,"  197 

Prints  of  Stonehenge,  179 
W.  (H.)  on  Bobert  de  Comyn,  18 

Hearth  tax,  112 
W.  (H.  A.)  on  Anima  Christi,  322 

Chriiti^oms  Monies^  159  ' 

**  Coatnmier  of  Order  of  the  Virgin  Maiy,"  322 
Whale's  rib  at  Sorrento,  36,  84, 180 
Whifiaker  (Dr.  T.  D.),  iiiUlal  lettan  in  hit "  Bichmond- 

shire  and  Leeds,"  237 
Whitfield  (Sir  John  Herman),  365 
Whiting  (James),  his  death,  381 
Whitmore  (W.  H.)  on  Parson  Avery's  Swan*8ong,  288 

Smoking  illegal,  293 
Whittingham  (Wm.),  Dean  of  Durham,  his  life,  354 
Whittington  (Sir  Richard)^  his  story,  25 
Wickhom  (Wm.)  on  black-edged  writing  paper,  307 

"Whether  or  no,"  485 
Widow,  rhyme  to,  62 
Wilde  (G.  J.  de)  on  "  La  Belle  Dame  sans  Merci,"  399 

Hunt  (Leigh),  <*  Leisure  Hours  in  Town,"  132 

Parallel  passages,  428 

Phoonix  throne,  464 

Bode  of  the  Wall,  Northampton,  124 

Sonnet  queries,  545 

Typographical  oddity,  452 
Wdkie  (Sir  David),  noticed,  415 
Willement  (Thomas),  death,  246 
William  IIL,  his  stirrups  and  other  relics,  102 
William  of  Malmesbury,  "  Chronicle,"  380 
Williams  (C.)  on  a  curious  epitaph,  94 

Hair  growing  after  death,  222 
WUliams  (George)  on  motto,  **  Candor  ilkesas,"  534 
Wilson  (Daniel),  on  Knox's  house  at  Edinburgh,  260 


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INDEX. 


r  Index  Supplement  to  the  Noten  and 
i  Quericf,  with  Ko.  185k  Jnl7 15»  1871. 


Wilson  (John)  on  Richard  Plantagenet,  151 

>yilsoD  (Robert)  of  March,  EIj,  324 

Wilton  (Rev.  Edward),  his  death,  448 

Windham  (Sir  Wro.)  and  the  reporters,  83 

"  Wink"  or  **  blink,"  their  correct  nse,  325,  459 

Winnel  or  Wjnnell  (Thomas),  191 

Winnington  (Sir  "Q^mas  £.)  on  boars'  ears,  256 

Barff,  its  deration,  282 

Carter  (John),  his  drawings,  35 

Edward  the  Odnfessor  and  the  ring,  474 

Good  Sir,  and  Dear  Sir,  235 

Henlej  (Rev.  Samnel),  113 

"  Hob  in  the  Well,"  a  sign,  310 

Stanley  (Sir  Thomas),  epitaph,  191 

Son  nevi    sets  on  the  British  dominions,  203 

Theocritns,  ii.  2,  56 
Winter  (Admiral),  his  pon,  107 
Winter  sayings,  18/84 
Winters  (W.)  on  McAlpin  clan.  291 

Montagu  (Ladj  M.  Wortlej),  letters,  293 

Pear  tree  farm,  18 
\^tchcraft  in  Loudon  in  1868,  53 
Witches  in  Irehind,  137;  in  Lancashire,  237,  311,417, 

504 
W.  (J.  S.)  on  Ovid,  "  Metem.  xiii.  254,"  521 

Matnrin  (Rev.  R.  C),  524 
W.  (M.)  on  Queen  Victoria,  Empress  of  India,  409 
Worcesterahire  sheriffis,  their  arms,  410,  463, 549 
Wolfe  (Gen.  James)  and  the  20th  Foot,  53 
Woodcroft  (B.)  on  portrait  of  John  Kay,  142 
Woodspring  priory,  396 
Woodward  (G.  M.),  *'  Something  concerning  Nobody," 

474 
Woodward  (J.)  on  arms  of  Charlemagne,  400 

Certosino^  400 

Flag  of  the  new  German  empire,  416 

Margaret  Fendles,  Lndy  Mortimer,  438 
Wordsworth  (Wm.),  sonnet  in  Walton's  Lives,  233,  312 
Worley  (G.)  on  Staffordshire  and  American  folk  lore, 

91 
Wrazall  church,  annual  bearingSi  423j  486,  536 
Wray  ("    apridons  "),  259,  372, 466 


Wright  (W.  A.)  on  book  ornamentation,  147 
Wright  (Wm.)  on  Samnel  Maunder,  513 
W.  (T.  T.)  on  "  The  Conciliad,"  161 

Lancashire  timber  halls,  442 

Milton's  folk  lore,  514 

New  York  superstition,  299 
Wulfruna,  a  Saxon  princess,  13,  132,  222 
W.  (W.)  on  bells  at  St.  DunsUn's,  Stepney,  511 
Wylie  (Charles)  on  John  Dyer's  portrait,  232 

Hunt  (Leigh),  "  Leisure  Hours  in  Town,"  270 

Johnson  (Dr.  Samnel),  *'  Life,"  43 

Locket's  Ordinary,  1 12 

Newly  bom  child  crying,  394 

"  That  man's  father,"  &c,  24 


Xerxes,  the  canal  of,  97 

X.  (L.)  on  ^  Le  Farceur  da  Jour  et  de  la  Nnit^"  12 


Y  Blaidd  on  Welsh  wedding  custom,  285 

Yarker  (John)  on  Jacob  B5hme,  65 

Yarmouth  (Charlotte,  Jemima  Henrietta  Boyle,  CountesB 

oOi  258 
Y.  (J.)  on  "  The  Garden  of  the  Son!,"  513 
Yeoman,  its  meaning,  255 
Yeowell  (J.)  on  William  BaUol,  433 

Hippocrates  and  homoeopathy,  109 
Yorkshire  ArehsBological  and  Topographical  Journal, 

67 
Yorkshire  Prayer  Book,  13 
Y.  (W.)  on  quotation  from  Young,  201 


Zephyr  (Mrs.  Catherine),  a  caricature,  285 
Zetetes  on  putting  to  death  by  torture,  305 

Memory  of  smells,  413 
Zodiac,  the  present  signs,  344,  445 
Zodiac  of  Denderah,  65 
Z.  (Z.)  on  the  dragon,  125 

Feast  of  the  Nativity,  U2 

Ombre,  a  game,  167 


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