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diff --git a/13362-0.txt b/13362-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46c609d --- /dev/null +++ b/13362-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2003 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13362 *** + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 38.] SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * *{113} + +CONTENTS + +NOTES:-- + Meaning of Delighted as used by Shakspeare, by S. Hickson + Authors of "The Rolliad," by Lord Braybrooke + Notes on Milton + Derivation of Easter, by J. Sansom + Folk Lore--Passages of Death, by Dr. Guest--Divination + at Marriages + Francis Lenton the Poet, by Dr. Rimbault + Minor Notes:--Lilburn or Prynne--Peep of Day--Martinet-- + Guy's Porridge Pot +QUERIES:-- + Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding, by John Miland + Stukeley's "Stonehenge," by Henry Cunliffe + Athelstane's Form of Donation--Meaning of "Somagia," + by J. Sansom + Minor Queries:--Charade--"Smoke Money"--"Rapido + contrarius orbi"--Lord Richard Christophilus-- + Fiz gigs--Specimens of Erica in Bloom--Michael + Scott the Wizard--Stone Chalices +REPLIES:-- + Ulrich von Hutten and the "Epistolæ Obscurorum + Virorum," by S.W. Singer + Caxton's Printing-office, by J.G. Nichols + The New Temple + Strangers in the House of Commons + Replies to Minor Queries:--Morganatic Marriage-- + Umbrellas--Bands--Scarf--Jewish Music--North + Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated--"Men are but + Children" &c.--Ventriloquism--Cromwell's Estates + --Magor--Vincent Gookin--All-to brake +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. + Books and Odd Volumes Wanted + Notices to Correspondents + Advertisements + + * * * * * + + +NOTES. + +WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "DELIGHTED," AS SOMETIMES USED BY SHAKSPEARE. + +I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a +peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do not recollect to have met with +in any other writer. I say a "peculiar word," because, although the verb +_To delight_ is well known, and of general use, the word, the same in +form, to which I refer, is not only of different meaning, but, as I +conceive, of distinct derivation the non-recognition of which has led to +a misconception of the meaning of one of the finest passages in +Shakspeare. The first passage in which it occurs, that I shall quote, is +the well known one from _Measure for Measure_: + + "Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; + To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot, + This sensible warm motion to become + A kneaded clod; and the _delighted_ spirit + To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside + In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; + To be imprison'd in the viewless winds + And blown with restless violence round about + The pendant world." Act iii. Sc. 1. + +Now, if we examine the construction of this passage, we shall find that +it appears to have been the object of the writer to separate, and place +in juxtaposition with each other, the conditions of the body and the +spirit, each being imagined under circumstances to excite repulsion or +terror in a sentient being. The mind sees the former lying in "cold +obstruction," rotting, changed from a "sensible warm motion" to a +"kneaded clod," every circumstance leaving the impression of dull, dead +weight, deprived of force and motion. The spirit, on the other hand, is +imagined under circumstances that give the most vivid picture +conceivable of utter powerlessness: + + "Imprison'd in the viewless winds, + And blown with restless violence round about + The pendant world." + +To call the spirit here "delighted," in our sense of the term, would be +absurd; and no explanation of the passage in this sense, however +ingenious, is intelligible. That it is intended to represent the spirit +simply as _lightened_, made light, relieved from the weight of matter, I +am convinced, and this is my view of the meaning of the word in the +present instance. + +_Delight_ is naturally formed by the participle _de_ and _light_, to +make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make +foul. The analogy is not quite so perfect in such words as "define," +"defile" (file), "deliver," "depart," &c.; yet they all may be +considered of the same class. The last of these is used with us only in +the sense of _to go away_; in Shakspeare's time (and Shakspeare so uses +it) it meant also _to part_, or _part with_. A correspondent of Mr. +Knight's suggests {114} for the word _delight_ in this passage, also, a +new derivation; using _de_ as a negation, and _light (lux), delighted_, +removed from the regions of light. This is impossible; if we look at the +context we shall see that it not only contemplated no such thing, but +that it is distinctly opposed to it. + +I am less inclined to entertain any doubt of the view I have taken being +correct, from the confirmation it receives in another passage of +Shakspeare, which runs as follows: + + "If virtue no _delighted_ beauty lack, + Your son-in-law shows far more fair than black." + +_Othello_, Act i. Sc. 3. + +Passing by the cool impertinence of one editor, who asserts that +Shakspeare frequently used the past for the present participle, and the +almost equally cool correction of another, who places the explanatory +note "*delightful" at the bottom of the page, I will merely remark that +the two latest editors of Shakspeare, having apparently nothing to say +on the subject, have very wisely said nothing. Yet, as we understand the +term "delighted," the passage surely needs explanation. We cannot +suppose that Shakspeare used epithets so weakening as "delighting" or +"delightful." The meaning of the passage would appear to be this: If +virtue be not wanting in beauty--such beauty as can belong to virtue, +not physical, but of a higher kind, and freed from all material +elements--then your son-in-law, black though he is, shows far more fair +than black, possessing, in fact, this _abstract_ kind of beauty to that +degree that his colour is forgotten. In short, "delighted" here seems to +mean, _lightened_ of all that is gross or unessential. + +There is yet another instance in Cymbeline, which seems to bear a +similar construction: + + "Whom best I love, I cross: to make my gifts + The more delay'd, _delighted_." + +Act v. Sc. 4. + +That is, "the _more_ delighted;" the longer held back, the better worth +having; lightened of whatever might detract from their value, that is, +refined or purified. In making the remark here, that "delighted" refers +not to the recipient nor to the giver, but to the gifts, I pass by the +nonsense that the greatest master of the English language did not heed +the distinction between the past and the present participles, as not +worth a second thought. + +The word appears to have had a distinct value of its own, and is not to +be explained by any other single word. If this be so, it could hardly +have been coined by Shakspeare. Though, possibly, it may never have been +much used, perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to furnish +other instances from other writers. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + +St. John's Wood. + + * * * * * + +AUTHORS OF "THE ROLLIAD." + +The subjoined list of the authors of _The Rolliad_, though less complete +than I could have wished, is, I believe, substantially correct, and may, +therefore, be acceptable to your readers. The names were transcribed by +me from a copy of the ninth edition of _The Rolliad_ (1791), still in +the library at Sunninghill Park, in which they had been recorded on the +first page of the respective papers. + +There seems to be no doubt that they were originally communicated by Mr. +George Ellis, who has always been considered as one of the most talented +contributors to _The Rolliad_. He also resided for many years at +Sunninghill, and was in habits of intimacy with the owners of the Park. +Your correspondent C. (Vol. ii., p. 43.) may remark that Lord John +Townshend's name occurs only twice in my list; but his Lordship may have +written some of the papers which are not in the Sunninghill volume, as +they appeared only in the editions of the work printed subsequently to +1791, and are designated as _Political Miscellanies_. + +_Names of the Authors of the Rolliad_. + +Dedication to Kenyon Dr. Laurence. +Family of the Rollos Tickell, &c. +Extract from Dedication General Fitzpatrick. +Criticisms from the No. +_Rolliad_ George Ellis 1 & 2. +---- Dr. Laurence 3. +---- Richardson 4. +---- General Fitzpatrick 5. +---- Dr. Laurence 6, 7, 8. +---- General Fitzpatrick 9. +---- Richardson 10 & 11. +---- General Fitzpatrick 12. +Criticisms not in the + original, but probably + written by Dr. Laurence 13 & 14. +Criticisms, &c. Part. ii. George Ellis 1 & 2. +---- Richardson 3 & 4. +---- General Fitzpatrick 5. +Criticisms, not in the +original Mr. Reid 6. +---- Dr. Laurence 7. + +_Political Eclogues_. + +Rose Dr. Laurence. +The Liars General Fitzpatrick. +Margaret Nicholson Mr. Adair. +Charles Jenkinson George Ellis. +Jekyl Lord John Townshend. + +_Probationary Odes_. + +All the Preliminaries Mr. Tickell. +Irregular Ode Mr. Tickell No. 1. +Ode to the New Year George Ellis 2. +Ode Rev. H. Bate Dudley 3. +---- Richardson 4. +Duan John Ellis 5. {115} +Ossianade Unknown 6. +Irregular Ode Unknown 7. +Ode to the Attorney- + General Mr. Brummell 8. +Laureate Ode Mr. Tickell 9. +New Year's Ode Mr. Pearce 10. +Ode by M.A. Taylor Mr. Boscawen 11. +---- by Major Scott Lord John Towns- + hend 12. +---- Irregular(Dundas) Never known to the + Club 13. +---- by Warton Bishop of Ossory + (Hon. William + Beresford) 14. +---- Pindaric General Fitzpatrick 15. +---- Irregular Dr. Laurence 16. +---- Prettyman General Burgoyne 17. +---- Graham Mr. Reid 18. +Letter, &c. and Mount- + morres Richardson 19. +Birthday Ode George Ellis 20. +Pindaric Ode Unmarked 21. +Real Birthday Ode T. Warton 22. +Remaining prose Richardson. + +I am not certain whether Mr. Adair, to whom "Margaret Nicholson," one of +the happiest of the Political Eclogues, is attributed, is the present +Sir Robert Adair. If so, as the only survivor amongst his literary +colleagues, he might furnish some interesting particulars respecting the +remarkable work to which I have called your attention. + +BRAYBROOKE. + +Audley End, July, 1850. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON MILTON. + +(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 53.) + +_Il Penseroso._ + +On l. 8 (G.):-- + + "Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd, + Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue; + They make no noise, but right resemble may + Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play." + +_Sylvester's Du Bartas._ + +Cælia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Humorous Lieutenant_, says,-- + + "My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous." + +Act iv. Sc. 8. + +On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his +argument in Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i. Sc. 3.:-- + + "Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow + their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought + stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a _black cyprus_." + +--Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33. + +On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is +from Donne:-- + + "If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not + embarred." + +--_Poems_, p. 249. Ed. 4to. 1633. + +On l. 43. (G.):-- + + "That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye + Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly." + +_Sylvester's Du Bartas_ + +On l. 52. (G.):-- + + "Mounted aloft on Contemplation's wings." + +_G. Wither_, P. 1. vol. i. Ed. 1633. + +Drummond has given "golden wings" to Fame. + +On l. 88. (G.):-- + + Hermes Trismegistus. + +On l. 100. (G.):-- + + "Tyrants' bloody gests + Of Thebes, Mycenæ, or proud Ilion." + +_Sylvester's Du Bartas._ + + * * * * * + +_Arcades._ + +On l. 23. (G.):-- + + "And without respect of odds, + Vye renown with Demy-gods." + +_Wither's Mistresse of Philarete_, Sig. E. 5. Ed. 1633. + +On l. 27. (G.):-- + + "But yet, whate'er he do or can devise, + Disguised glory shineth in his eyes." + +_Sylvester's Du Bartas._ + +On l. 46. (G.):-- + + "An eastern wind commix'd with _noisome airs_, + Shall _blast the plants_ and the _young sapplings_." + +_Span. Trag. Old Plays_, vol. iii. p. 222. + +On l. 65. (G.) Compare Drunmond--speech of Endymion before Charles:-- + + "To tell by me, their herald, coming things, + And what each Fate to her stern distaff sings," &c. + +On l. 84. (M.):-- + + "And with his beams enamel'd every greene." + +_Fairfax's Tasso_, b. i. st. 35. + +On l. 97. (G.):-- + + "Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't." + +_Drayton_, 1447. + +On l. 106. (G.):-- + + "Pan entertains, this coming night, + His paramour, the Syrinx bright." + +_Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess_, Act i. + +J.F.M. + + * * * * * + +DERIVATION OF EASTER. + +Southey, in his _Book of the Church_, derives our word _Easter_ from a +_Saxon_ source:-- + + "The worship," he says, "of the goddess _Eostre_ or _Eastre_, + which may probably be traced to the Astarte of the Phoenicians, + is retained among us in the word _Easter_; her annual festival + having been superseded by that sacred day." + +Should he not rather have given a _British_ origin to the name of our +Christian holy day? Southey acknowledges that the "heathenism which the +{116} Saxons introduced, bears no [very little?] affinity either to that +of the Britons or the Romans;" yet it is certain that the Britons +worshipped Baal and _Ashtaroth_, a relic of whose worship appears to be +still retained in Cornwall to this day. The Druids, as Southey tells us, +"made the people pass through the fire in honour of Baal." But the +_festival_ in honour of Baal appears to have been in the _autumn_: for + + "They made the people," he informs us, "at the beginning of + _winter_, extinguish all their fires on one day and kindle them + again from the sacred fire of the Druids, which would make the + house fortunate for the ensuing year; and, if any man came who + had not paid his yearly dues, [Easter offerings, &c., date back + as far as this!] they refused to give him a spark, neither durst + any of his neighbours relieve him, nor might he himself procure + fire by any other means, so that he and his family were deprived + of it till he had discharged the uttermost of his debt." + +The Druidical fires kindled in the _spring_ of the year, on the other +hand, would appear to be those in honour of _Ashtaroth_, or _Astarte_, +from whom the _British Christians_ may naturally enough have derived the +name of _Easter_ for their corresponding season. We might go even +further than this, and say that the young ladies who are reported still +to take the chief part in keeping up the Druidical festivities in +Cornwall, very happily represent the ancient _Estal_ (or _Vestal_) +virgins. + + "In times of Paganism," says O'Halloran, "we find in _Ireland_ + females devoted to celibacy. There was in Tara a royal + foundation of this kind, wherein none were admitted but virgins + of the noblest blood. It was called Cluain-Feart, or the place + of retirement till death," &c ... "The duty of these virgins was + to keep up the fires of Bel, or the sun, and of Sambain, or the + moon, which customs they borrowed from their Phoenician + ancestors. They both [i.e. the Irish and the Phoenicians] adored + Bel, or the sun, the moon, and the stars. The 'house of + _Rimmon_' which the Phoenicians worshipped in, like our temples + of Fleachta in Meath, was sacred to the _moon_. The word + '_Rimmon_' has by no means been understood by the different + commentators; and yet, by recurring to the Irish (a branch of + the Phoenician) it becomes very intelligible; for '_Re_' is + Irish for the moon, and '_Muadh_' signifies an _image_, and the + compound word '_Reamhan_,' signifies _prognosticating by the + appearance of the moon_. It appears by the life of our great S. + Columba, that the Druid temples were here decorated with figures + of the sun, the moon, and stars. The Phoenicians, under the name + of _Bel-Samen_, adored the Supreme; and it is pretty remarkable, + that to this very day, to wish a friend every happiness this + life can afford, we say in Irish, 'The blessings of _Samen_ and + _Bel_ be with you!' that is, of the seasons; Bel signifying the + sun, and Samhain the moon." + +--(See O'Halloran's _Hist. of Ireland_, vol. i. P. 47.) + +J. SANSOM. + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Presages of Death_.--The Note by Mr. C. FORBES (Vol. ii., p. 84.) on +"High Spirits considered a Presage of impending Calamity or Death," +reminded me of a collection of authorities I once made, for academical +purposes, of a somewhat analogous bearing,--I mean the ancient belief in +the existence of a power of prophecy at that period which immediately +precedes dissolution. + +The most ancient, as well as the most striking instance, is recorded in +the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis:-- + + "And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves together + _that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last + days_.... And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, + he gathered up his feet into his bed, and yielded up the ghost, + and was gathered unto his people." + +Homer affords two instances of a similar kind: thus, Patroclus +prophesies the death of Hector (Il. [Greek: p] 852.)[1]:-- + + [Greek: "Ou thaen oud autos daeron beae alla toi aedae + Agchi parestaeke Thanatos kai Moira krataiae, + Chersi dament Achilaeos amnmonos Aiakidao."][2] + +Again, Hector in his turn prophesies the death of Achilles by the hand +of Paris (Il. [Greek: ch.] 358.):-- + + [Greek: "Phrazeo nun, mae toi ti theon maenima genomai + Aemati to ote ken se Pharis kai phoibus Apollon, + Esthlon eont, olesosin eni Skaiaesi pulaesin."][3] + +This was not merely a poetical fancy, or a superstitious faith of the +ignorant, for we find it laid down as a great physical truth by the +greatest of the Greek philosophers, the divine Socrates:-- + + [Greek: "To de dae meta touto epithumo humin chraesmodaesai, o + katapsaephisamenoi mou kai gar eimi aedae entautha en o malist + anthropoi chraesmodousin hotan mellosin apothaneisthai."][4] + +In Xenophon, also, the same idea is expressed, and, if possible, in +language still more definite and precise:--{117} + + [Greek: "Hae de tou anthropou psuchae tote daepou theiotatae + kataphainetai, kai tote ti ton mellonton proora."][5] + +Diodorus Siculus, again, has produced great authorities on this +subject:-- + + [Greek: "Puthagoras ho Samios, kai tines heteroi ton palaion + phusikon, apephaenanto tas psuchas ton anthropon uparchein + athanatous, akolouthos de to dogmati touto kai progignoskein + autas ta mellonta, kath hon an kairon en tae teleutae ton apo + tou somatos chorismon poiontai."][6] + +From the ancient writers I yet wish to add one more authority; and I do +so especially, because the doctrine of the Stagirite is therein +recorded. Sextus Empiricus writes,-- + + [Greek: "Hae psuchae, phaesin Aristotelaes, promanteuetai kai + proagoreuei ta mellonta--en to kata thanaton chorizesthai ton + somaton."][7] + +Without encroaching further upon the space of this periodical by +multiplying evidence corroborative of the same fact, I will content +myself by drawing the attention of the reader to our own great poet and +philosopher, Shakspeare, whose subtle genius and intuitive knowledge of +human nature render his opinions on all such subjects of peculiar value. +Thus in _Richard II_., Act ii. sc. 1., the dying Gaunt, alluding to his +nephew, the young and self-willed king, exclaims,-- + + "Methinks I am a prophet new inspired; + And thus, expiring, do foretel of him." + +Again, in _Henry IV., Part I._, Act v. sc. 4., the brave Percy, when in +the agonies of death, conveys the same idea in the following words:-- + + "O, I could prophesy, + But that the earthy and cold hand of death + Lies on my tongue." + +Reckoning, therefore, from the time of Jacob, this belief, whether with +or without foundation, has been maintained upwards of 3500 years. It was +grounded on the assumed fact, that the soul became divine in the same +ratio as its connection with the body was loosened or destroyed. In +sleep, the unity is weakened but not ended: hence, in sleep, the +material being dead, the immaterial, or divine principle, wanders +unguided, like a gentle breeze over the unconscious strings of an Æolian +harp; and according to the health or disease of the body are pleasing +visions or horrid phantoms (_ægri somnia_, as Horace) present to the +mind of the sleeper. Before death, the soul, or immaterial principle, +is, as it were, on the confines of two worlds, and may possess at the +same moment a power which is both prospective and retrospective. At that +time its connection with the body being merely nominal, it partakes of +that perfectly pure, ethereal, and exalted nature (_quod multo magis +faciet post mortem quum omnino corpore excesserit_) which is designed +for it hereafter. + +As the question is an interesting one, I conclude by asking, through the +medium of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," if a belief in this power of prophesy +before death be known to exist at the present day? + +AUGUSTUS GUEST. + +London, July 8. + +[Footnote 1: For the assistance of the general reader, I have introduced +hasty translations of the several passages quoted.] + +[Footnote 2: (And I moreover tell you, and do you meditate well upon it, +that) you yourself are not destined to live long, for even now death is +drawing nigh unto you, and a violent fate awaits you,--about to be slain +in fight by the hands of Achilles, the irreproachable son of Oacus.] + +[Footnote 3: Consider now whether I may not be to you the cause of +divine anger, in that day when Paris and Phoebus Apollo shall slay you, +albeit so mighty, at the Scaean gate.] + +[Footnote 4: Wherefore I have an earnest desire to prophesy to you who +have condemned me; for I am already arrived at that stage of my +existence in which, especially, men utter prophetic sayings, that is, +when they are about to die.] + +[Footnote 5: That time, indeed, the soul of man appears to be in a +manner divine, for to a certain extent it foresees things which are +about to happen.] + +[Footnote 6: Pythagoras the Samian, and some others of the ancient +philosophers, showed that the souls of men were immortal, and that, when +they were on the point of separating from the body, they possessed a +knowledge of futurity.] + +[Footnote 7: The soul, says Aristotle, when on the point of taking its +departure from the body, foretells and prophesies things about to +happen.] + + * * * * * + +_Divination at Marriages_.--The following practices are very prevalent +at marriages in these districts; and as I do not find them noticed by +Brand in the last edition of his _Popular Antiquities_, they may perhaps +be thought worthy a place in the "NOTES AND QUERIES." + +1. Put a wedding ring into the _posset_, and after serving it out, the +unmarried person whose cup contains the ring will be the first of the +company to be married. + +2. Make a common flat cake of flour, water, currants, &c., and put +therein a wedding ring and a sixpence. When the company is about to +retire on the wedding-day, the cake must be broken and distributed +amongst the unmarried females. She who gets the ring in her portion of +the cake will shortly be married, and the one who gets the sixpence will +die an old maid. + +T.T.W. + +Burnley, July 9. 1850. + + * * * * * + +FRANCIS LENTON THE POET. + +In a MS. obituary of the seventeenth century, preserved at Staunton +Hall, Leicestershire, I found the following:-- + + "May 12. 1642. This day died Francis Lenton, of Lincoln's Inn, + Gent." + +This entry undoubtedly relates to the author of three very rare poetical +tracts: 1. _The Young Gallant's Whirligigg_, 1629; 2. _The Innes of +Court_, 1634; 3. _Great Brittain's Beauties_, 1638. In the dedication to +Sir Julius Cæsar, prefixed to the first-named work, the writer speaks of +having "once belonged to the _Innes of Court_," and says he was "no +usuall poetizer, but, to barre idlenesse, imployed that little talent +the Muses conferr'd upon him in this little tract." Sir Egerton Brydges +supposed the copy of _The Young Gallant's Whirligigg_ preserved in the +library of Sion College to be _unique_; but this is not the case, as the +writer knows of _two_ others,--one at Staunton Hall, and another at +Tixall Priory in Staffordshire. It has been reprinted by Mr. {118} +Halliwell at the end of a volume containing _The Marriage of Wit and +Wisdom_, published by the Shakspeare Society. In his prefatory remarks +that gentleman says, + + "Besides his printed works, Lenton wrote the _Poetical History + of Queene Hester_, with the translation of the 83rd Psalm, + reflecting upon the present times. MS. dated 1649." + +This date must be incorrect, if our entry in the Staunton obituary +relates to the same person; and there is every reason to suppose that it +does. The _autograph_ MS. of Lenton occurred in Heber's sale (Part xi. +No. 724.), and is thus described: + + _Hadassiah_, or the _History of Queen Hester_, sung in a sacred + and serious poeme, and divided into ten chapters, by F. Lenton, + the Queen's Majesties Poet, 1638. + +This is undoubtedly the _correct_ date, as it is in the handwriting of +the author. Query. What is the meaning of Lenton's title, "the Queen's +Majesties Poet"? + +Edward F. Rimbault. + + * * * * * + +Minor Notes. + +_Lilburn or Prynne?_--I am anxious to suggest in "Notes and Queries" +whether a character in the Second Canto of Part iii. of _Hudibras_ (line +421), beginning, + + "To match this saint, there was another, + As busy and perverse a brother, + An haberdasher of small wares, + In politics and state affairs," + +Has not been wrongly given by Dr. Grey to Lilburn, and whether Prynne is +not rather the person described. Dr. Grey admits in his note that the +application of the passage to Lilburn involves an anachronism, Lilburn +having died in 1657, and this passage being a description of one among + + "The quacks of government who sate" + +to consult for the Restoration, when they saw ruin impending. + +CH. + +_Peep of Day._--Jacob Grimm, in his _Deutsche Mythologie_, p. 428., ed. +1., remarks that the ideas of light and sound are sometimes confounded; +and in support of his observation he quotes passages of Danish and +German poets in which the sun and moon are said to _pipe_ (pfeifen). In +further illustration of this usage, he also cites the words "the sun +began to peep," from a Scotch ballad in Scott's _Border Minstrelsy_, +vol. ii. p. 430. In p. 431. he explains the words "par son l'aube," +which occur in old French poets, by "per sonitum auroræ;" and compares +the English expression, "the peep of day." + +The Latin _pipio_ or _pipo_, whence the Italian _pipare_, and the French +_pépier_, is the ultimate origin of the verb _to peep_; which, in old +English, bore the sense of chirping, and is so used in the authorised +version of Isaiah, viii. 19., x. 14. Halliwell, in his _Archaic +Dictionary_, explains "peep" as "a flock of chickens," but cites no +example. _To peep_, however, in the sense of taking a rapid look at +anything through a small aperture, is an old use of the word, as is +proved by the expression _Peeping_ Tom of Coventry. As so used, it +corresponds with the German _gucken_. Mr. Richardson remarks that this +meaning was probably suggested by the young chick looking out of the +half-broken shell. It is quite certain that the "peep of day" has +nothing to do with sound; but expresses the first appearance of the sun, +as he just looks over the eastern hills. + +L. + +_Martinet._--Will the following passage throw any light on the origin of +the word _Martinet_? + + Une discipline, devenue encore plus exacte, avait mis dans + l'armée un nouvel ordre. Il n'y avait point encore d'inspecteurs + de cavalerie et d'infanterie, comme nous en avons vu depuis, + mais deux hommes uniques chacun dans leur genre en fesaient les + fonctions. _Martinet mettait alors l'infanterie sur le pied de + discipline où elle est aujourd'hui._ Le Chevalier de _Fourilles_ + fesait la même change dans la cavalerie. Il y avait un an que + _Martinet_ avait mis la baionnette en usage dans quelque + régimens, &c.--Voltaire, _Siècle de Louis XIV._ c. 10. + +C. Forbes. + +July 2. + +_Guy's Porridge Pot._--In the porter's lodge at Warwick Castle are +preserved some enormous pieces of armour, which, _according to +tradition_, were worn by the famous champion "Guy, Earl of Warwick;" and +in addition (with other marvellous curiosities) is also exhibited Guy's +porridge pot, of bell metal, said to weigh 300 lbs., and to contain 120 +gallons. There is also a flesh-fork to ring it. + +Mr. Nichols, in his _History of Leicestershire_, Part ii. vol. iii., +remarks, + + "A turnpike road from Ashby to Whitwick, passes through Talbot + Lane. Of this lane and the famous large pot at Warwick Castle, + we have an old traditionary couplet: + + "'There's nothing left of Talbot's name, + But Talbot's Pot and Talbot's Lane.' + + "Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, died in 1439. His eldest + daughter, Margaret, was married to John Talbot Earl of + Shrewsbury, by whom she had one son, John Viscount Lisle, from + whom the Dudleys descended, Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick." + +It would therefore appear that neither the armour nor the pot belonged +to the "noble Guy"--the armour being comparatively of modern +manufacture, and the pot, it appears, descended from the Talbots to the +Warwick family: which pot is generally filled with punch on the birth of +a male heir to that noble family. + +W. Reader. + + * * * * *{119} + + +QUERIES. + +NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDING. + +Dr. Peckard, in his Preface to the _Life of Nicholas Ferrar of Little +Gidding_, says the memoir he published was edited or compiled by him +from "the original MS. still in my possession" (p. xi.); and in the +Appendix adds, that "Mr. John Ferrar," the elder brother of Nicholas, +was the author of it (p. 279.). + +How he compiled or edited "the original MS." he states with much candour +in his Preface (p. xv.): + + "The editor's intention," in altering the narrative, "was to + give what is not observed in the original, a regular series of + facts; and through the whole a sort of evenness and simplicity + of stile equally free from meanness and affectation. In short, + to make the old and the new, as far as he could, uniform; that + he might not appear to have sewed a piece of new cloth to an old + garment, and made its condition worse by his endeavours to mend + it." + +Again, at page 308., he says, + + "There is an antient MS. in folio, giving an account of Mr. N. + Ferrar, which at length, from Gidding, came into the hands of + Mr. Ed. Ferrar of Huntingdon, and is now in the possession of + the editor. Mr. Peck had the use of this MS. as appears by + several marginal notes in his handwriting; from this and some + loose and unconnected papers of Mr. Peck.... the editor, as well + as he was able, has made out the foregoing memoirs." + +Can any of your numerous correspondents inform me if this "antient MS." +is still in existence, and in whose possession? + +Peckard was related to the Ferrars, and was Master of Magdalen Coll., +Cambridge. + +In "A Catalogue of MSS. (once) at Gidding," Peckard, p. 306., the third +article is "Lives, Characters, Histories, and Tales for moral and +religious Instruction, in five volumes folio, neatly bound and gilt, by +Mary Collet." This work, with five others, "undoubtedly were all written +by N. Ferrar, Sen.," says Dr. Peckard; and in the Memoir, at page 191., +he gives a list of these "short histories," ninety-eight in number, +"which are still remaining in my possession;" and adds further, at p. +194., + + "These lives, characters, and moral essays would, I think, fill + two or three volumes in 8vo., but _they are written in so + minute_ a character, that I cannot form any conjecture to be + depended upon." + +I have been thus particular in describing these "histories", because the +subjects of them are identical with those in Fuller's _Holy and Profane +State_, the first edition of which was published at Cambridge, in 1642. +"The characters I have conformed," says Fuller in his Preface, "to the +then standing laws of the realm (a twelvemonth ago were they sent to the +press), since which time the wisdom of the King and state hath" altered +many things. Nicholas Ferrar died December 2, 1637, and the Query I wish +to ask is, Did Fuller compose them (for that he was really the author of +them can hardly be doubted) at the suggestion and for the benefit of the +community at Gidding, some years before he published them; and is it +possible to ascertain and determine if the MS. is in the handwriting of +Ferrar or Fuller? + +Is there any print or view in existence of the "Nunnery," at Little +Gidding? + +In the _Life of Dr. Thomas Fuller_, published anonymously in 1661, it is +stated, that at his funeral a customary sermon was preached by Dr. +Hardy, Dean of Rochester, "which hath not yet (though it is hoped and +much desired may) passe the presse," p. 63. + +Query. Was this sermon ever published? and secondly, who was the author +of the _Life_ from which the above passage is quoted? + +John Miland. + + * * * * * + +STUKELEY'S "STONEHENGE." + +May I request a space in your periodical for the following Queries, +drawn from Dr. Stukeley's _Stonehenge and Abury_, p. 31.? + + 1st. "But eternally to be lamented is the loss of that tablet of + tin, which was found at this place (Stonehenge) in the time of + King Henry VIII., inscribed with many letters, but in so strange + a character that neither Sir Thomas Elliott, a learned + antiquary, nor Mr. Lilly, master of St. Paul's school, could + make any thing out of it. Mr. Sammes may be right, who judges it + to have been _Punic_. I imagine if we call it Irish we shall not + err much. No doubt but what it was a memorial of the founders, + wrote by the Druids and had it been preserved till now, would + have been an invaluable curiosity." + +Can you or any of your contributors give me any further information +about this inscription? + +2. The Doctor continues, + + "To make the reader some amends for such a loss I have given a + specimen of supposed Druid writing, out of Lambecius' account of + the Emperor's library at Vienna. 'Tis wrote on a very thin plate + of gold with a sharp-pointed instrument. It was in an urn found + at Vienna, rolled up in several cases of other metal, together + with funeral exuviæ. It was thought by the curious, one of those + epistles which the Celtic people were wont to send to their + friends in the other world. The reader may divert himself with + trying to explain it." + +Has this inscription ever been explained, and how? Stukeley's book is by +no means a rare one; therefore I have not trusted myself to copy the +inscription: and such as feel disposed to help me in my difficulty would +doubtless prefer seeing the Doctor's own illustration at p. 31. + +Henry Cunliffe. + +Hyde Park Street.{120} + +ATHELSTANE'S FORM OF DONATION.--MEANING OF "SOMAGIA." + +Tristram Risdon, in his quaint _Survey of the Co. of Devon_, after +mentioning the foundation of the church of High Bickington by King +Athelstane, + + "Who," he says, "gave to God and it one hide of land, as + appeareth by the donation, a copy whereof, for the antiquity + thereof, I will here insert: 'Iche Athelstane king, grome of + this home, geve and graunt to the preist of this chirch, one + yoke of mye land frelith to holde, woode in my holt house to + buyld, bitt grass for all hys beasts, fuel for hys hearth, + pannage for hys sowe and piggs, world without end,'"-- + +adds presently afterwards, that + + "Sir John Willington gave _Weeksland_ in this tything, unto + Robert Tolla, _cum 40 somagia annuatim capiend in Buckenholt_ + (so be the words of the grant) in the time of K. Edw. I." + +The Willingtons were lords of the manor of Umberleigh, where +Athelstane's palace stood, with its chapel dedicated to the Holy +Trinity, formerly rich in ancient monuments, and having a chantry near +to it. Some of the monuments from this chapel are still preserved in the +neighbouring church of Atherington. + +My Queries upon this Note are: + +1. Whence did Risdon derive his copy of King Athelstane's form of +donation? 2. What is the precise meaning of the word _Somagia_? + +In _Ducange_ (ed. Par. 1726, tom. vi. col. 589.) I find: + + "_Somegia_. Præstatio, ut videtur _ex summis_, v. gr. bladi, + frumenti. Charta Philippi Reg. Franc. an. 1210. Idem etiam + Savaricus detinet sibi census suos, et venditiones, et quosdam + reditus, qui _Somegiæ_ vocantur, et avenam, et _captagia_ + hominum et foeminarum suarum, qui reditus cum una Somegiarum in + festo B. Remigii persolverentur; deinde secunda Somegia in + vicesima die Natalis Domini, et tertia in Octabis Resurrectionis + Dominicæ, ei similiter persolventur; caponum etiam suorum in + crastino Natalis Domini percipiet solutionem: unaquæque vero + somegiarum quatuor denarios bonæ monetæ valet." + +Ducange refers also to some kindred words; but, instead of clearing up +my difficulty in the word _somagia_, he presents me with another in +_captagia_, the meaning of which I do not clearly understand. Perhaps +some of your more learned contributors will obligingly help me to the +true import of these words? + +J. Sansom. + + * * * * * + +Minor Queries. + +_Charade_.--Can any one tell who is the author of the following charade? +No doubt, the lines are well known to many of your readers, although I +have never seen them in print. It has been said that Dr. Robinson, a +physician, wrote them. It strikes me that the real author, whoever he +be, richly deserves to be named in "Notes and Queries." + + "Me, the contented man desires, + The poor man has, the rich requires; + The miser gives, the spendthrift saves, + And all must carry to their graves." + +It can scarcely be necessary to add that the answer is, _nothing_. + +Alfred Gatty. + +July 1. 1850. + + +"_Smoke Money_."--Under this name is collected every year at Battle, in +Sussex, by the Constable, one penny from every householder, and paid to +the Lord of the Manor. What is its origin and meaning? + +B. + +"_Rapido contrarius orbi_."--What divine of the seventeenth century +adopted these words as his motto? They are part of a line in one of +Owen's epigrams. + +N.B. + +_Lord Richard Christophilus_.--Can any of your readers give any account +of Lord Richard Christophilus, a Turk converted to Christianity, to +whom, immediately after the Restoration, in July, 1660, the Privy +Council appointed a pension of 50l. a-year, and an additional allowance +of 2l. a-week. + +CH. + +_Fiz-gigs_.--In those excellent poems, Sandys's _Paraphrases on Job and +other Books of the Bible_, there is a word of a most destructive +character to the effect. Speaking of leviathan, he asks, + + "Canst thou with _fiz-gigs_ pierce him to the quick?" + +It may be an ignorant question, but I do not know what fiz-gigs are. + +C.B. + +_Specimens of Erica in Bloom_.--Can any of your correspondents oblige me +by the information where I can procure specimens in bloom of the +following plants, viz. Erica crescenta, Erica paperina, E. purpurea, E. +flammea, and at what season they come into blossom in England? If +specimens are not procurable without much expense and trouble, can you +supply me with the name of a work in which these plants are figured? + +E.S. + +Dover. + +_Michael Scott, the Wizard_.--What works by Michael Scott, the reputed +wizard, (Sir Walter's _Deus ex Machina_ in _The Lay of the Last +Minstrel_), have been printed? + +X.Y.A. + +_Stone Chalices_.--Can any of the readers of "Notes and Queries" inform +me whether the use of _stone chalices_ was authorised by the ancient +constitutions of the Church; and, if so, at what period, and where the +said constitutions were enacted? + +X.Y.A. + + * * * * *{121} + + +REPLIES. + +ULRICH VON HUTTEN AND THE "EPISTOLÆ OBSCURORUM VIRONUM." + +(Vol. ii., p. 55.) + +I have never seen the article in the _Quarterly Review_ to which your +correspondent H.B.C. alludes: he will probably find it by reference to +the index, which is not just now within my reach. The neat London +edition, 1710, of the _Epistolæ_ was given by Michael Mattaire. There +are several subsequent reimpressions, but none worth notice except that +by Henr. Guil. Rotermund, Hanover, 1827, 8vo.; and again, with +improvements, "cum nova præfatione, nec non illustratione historica +circa originem earum, atque notitia de vita et scriptis virorum in +Epistolis occurentium aucta," 1830, both in 8vo. + +The best edition, however, is that given by Dr. Ernst Münch, Leipsic, +1827, 8vo., with the following title: + + "Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum aliaque Ævi Decimi sexti Monimenta + Rarissima. Die Briefe der Finsterlinge an Magister Ortuinus von + Deventer, nebst andern sehr seltenen Beiträgen zur + Literatur-Sitten-und-Kirchengeschichte des xvi'n Jahrhunderts." + +This contains many important additions, and a copious historical +introduction. Both the editors write in German. + +That this admirable satire produced an immense effect at the period of +its publication, there can be no doubt; but that it has ever been +thoroughly understood and relished among us may be doubted. Mr. Hallam, +in his _Literature of Europe_, vol. i., seems to have been disgusted +with the monkish dog-Latin and bald jokes, not recollecting that this +was a necessary and essential part of the design. Nor is it strange that +Steele, who was perhaps not very well acquainted with the history of +literature, should have misconceived the nature of the publication, when +we learn from an epistle of Sir Thomas More to Erasmus, that some of the +stupid theologasters themselves, who were held up to ridicule, received +it with approbation as a serious work: + + "_Epist. Obs. Viror_. operæ pretium est videre quantopere + placeant omnibus, et doctis joco, et indoctis serio, qui dum + ridemus, putant rideri stylum tantum, quem illi non defendunt, + sed gravitate sententiarum dicunt compensatum, et latere sub + rudi vagina pulcherrimum gladium. Utinam fuisset inditus libello + alius titulus! Profecto intra centum annos homines studio + stupidi non sensissent nasum, quamquam rhinocerotico + longiorem."[8] + +Erasmus evidently enjoyed the witty contrivance, though he affects to +disapprove it as an anonymous libel. Simler, in his life of Bullinger, +relates that on the first reading Erasmus fell into such a fit of +laughter as to burst an abscess in his face with which he was at that +time troubled, and which prevented the necessity of a surgical +operation. + +The literary history of the _Epistolæ_ and the _Dialogue_ is involved in +obscurity. That Ulrich von Hutten had a large share in their concoction +there can be no doubt; and that he was assisted by Crotus Rubianus and +Hermann von Busch, if not by others, seems highly probable. The +authorship of _Lamentationes Obscurorum Virorum_ is a paradox which has +not yet been solved. They are a parody, but a poor one, of the +_Epistolæ_, and in the second edition are attributed to Ortuinus +Gratius. If they are by him, he must have been a dull dog indeed; but by +some it has been thought that they are the work of a Reuchlinist, to +mystify the monks of Cologne, and render them still more ridiculous; +yet, as the Pope's bull against the _Epistolæ_, and Erasmus's +disapproving letter, find a prominent place, and some other +well-grounded inculpations occur, it appears to me that some +slender-witted advocate of the enemies of learning has here shown his +want of skill in handling the weapons of the adversary. + +How much Sir Thomas More was pleased with the writings of Hutten we may +gather from the opening of a letter which Erasmus addressed to Hutten, +giving an interesting account of his illustrious friend, in August, +1519: + + "Quod Thomæ Mori ingenium sic deamas, ac penè dixerim deperis, + nimirum scriptis illius inflammatus, quibus (ut verè scribis) + nihil esse potest neque doctius neque festivius; istue mibi + crede, clarissime Huttene tibi cum multis commune est, cum Moro + mutuum etiam. Nam is vicissim adeò scriptorum tuorum genio + delectatur, ut ipse tibi plopemodum invideam." + +The Dialogue (Mire Festivus), which in the edition of 1710 occurs +between the first and second parts of the _Epistolæ_, bears especial +marks of Hutten's manner, and is doubtless by him. The interlocutors are +three of the illustrious obscure, Magisters Ortuinus, Lupoldus, and +Gingolphus, and the first act of the comedy consists in their +observations upon the promoters of learning, Reuchlin, Erasmus, and +Faber Stapulensis, who afterwards make their appearance, and the +discussion becomes general, but no impression can be made upon the +stupid and prejudiced monks. The theme is, of course, the inutility of +the new learning, Hebrew and Greek and correct Latinity. One short +passage seems to me admirable:{122} + + "_M. Ging_. Et Sanctus Ambrosius, Sanctus Augustinus, et alii + omnes zelossimi doctores non sciebant ipsi bene tot, sicut iste + Ribaldi? _M. Ort_. Ipsi deberent interponere suis. _M. Lup_. Non + bene indigemus de suo Græco. _M. Ging_. Videtur eis, qui sciunt + dicere _tou, tou, logos, monsotiros, legoim, taff, hagiotatos_, + quod ipse sciunt plus quam Deus. _M. Ort_. Magister noster + Lupolde, creditis, quod Deus curat multum de iste Græco? _M. + Lup_. Certe non, Magister noster Ortuine, ego credo, quod Deus + non curat multum." + +Ranke, in his _History of the Reformation_, has very justly estimated +the merits and character of these remarkable productions: + + "We must not look for the delicate apprehension and tact, which + can only be formed in a highly polished state of society, nor + for the indignation of insulted morality expressed by the + ancients: it is altogether a caricature, not of finished + individual portraits, but of a single type;--a clownish sensual + German priest, his intellect narrowed by stupid wonder and + fanatical hatred, who relates with silly _naïveté_ and gossiping + confidence the various absurd and scandalous situations into + which he falls. These letters are not the work of a high + poetical genius, but they have truth, coarse strong features of + resemblance, and vivid colouring." + +Ranke mentions another satire, which appeared in March, 1520, directed +against John Eck, the opponent of Luther, the latter being regarded in +the light of a successor of Reuchlin, under the title of _Abgehobelte +Eck_, or _Eccius dedolatus_, "which, for fantastic invention, striking +and crushing truth, and Aristophanic wit, far exceeded the _Literæ Obsc. +V._, which it somewhat resembled." I have not yet been able to meet with +this; but such high praise, from so judicious a critic, makes me very +desirous to see and peruse it. + +S.W. Singer. + +Mickleham, July 3. 1850. + +[Footnote 8: "Ubi primum exissent _Ep. Ob. V._ miro Monachorum applausu +exceptæ sunt apud Britannos a Franciscanis ac Dominicanis, qui sibi +persuadebant, eas in Reuchlini contumeliam, et Monachorum favorem, serio +proditus: quamque quidam egregie doctus, sed nasutissimus, fingeret se +nonnihil offendi stylo, consulati sunt hominem."--_Erasm. Epist._ 979.] + +_Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_.--Your Querist H.B.C. (Vol. ii., pp. +55-57.) will find, in the 53rd vol. _Edinb. Rev._ p. 180., a long +article on these celebrated letters, containing much of the information +required. It is worthy of remark, that in page 195. we are told + + "In 1710 there was printed in London the _most elegant_ edition + that has ever appeared of these letters, which the editor, Mich. + Mattaire, gravely represents as the productions of their + ostensible authors." + +Now this edition, though neat, has no claim to be termed most elegant, +which is hardly to be reconciled with what the reviewer says in a note, +p. 210., "that the text of this ed. of 1710 is of no authority, and +swarms with typographical blunders." + +The work on its first appearance produced great excitement, and was +condemned by Pope Leo X. See _Dict. des Livres Condamnés, &c._, par +Peignot, tom. ii. p. 218. + +Many amusing anecdotes and notices are to be found in Bayle's _Dict_. +See particularly sub nomine Erasmus. Burton, in his _Anatomy of Mel._ +pt. i. sec. 2. Mem 3 sub 6. citing Jovius in Elogiis, says, + + "Hostratus cucullatus adeo graviter ob Reuchlini librum qui + inscribitur, Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum dolore simul et pudore + sauciatus, et scipsum interfecerit." + +See also _Nouv. Diction. Historique_ in the account of Gratius, O. + +There is also a good article on these letters in a very excellent work +entitled _Analectabiblion_, or _Extraits Critique de divers Livres +rares, &c., tiréz du Cabinet du Marq. D. R. (oure)_. Paris, 1836. 2 +tomes 8vo. + +F.R.A. + +_Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_.--The article inquired for by H.B.C. (Vol. +ii, p. 55) is probably one in the _Edinburgh Review_, vol. liii. p. +180., attributed to Sir William Hamilton, the distinguished Professor of +Logic in the university of Edinburgh. + +CH. + + * * * * * + +CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE. + +(Vol. ii., p. 99.) + +Mr. Rimbault is wrong in giving to Abbot Milling the honour of being the +patron of Caxton, which is due to Abbot Esteney. Mr. C. Knight in his +_Life of Caxton_, which appropriately formed the first work of his +series of _Weekly Volumes_, has the following remarks upon the passage +from Stow, quoted by Mr. Rimbault: + + "The careful historians of London here committed one error; John + Islip did not become abbot of Westminster till 1500. John + Esteney was made abbot in 1474, and remained such until his + death in 1498. His predecessor was Thomas Milling. In Dugdale's + _Monasticon_ we find, speaking of Esteney, 'It was in this + abbot's time, and not in that of Milling, or in that of Abbot + Islip, that Caxton exercised the art of printing at + Westminster.'"--p. 140. #/ + +I have no work at hand to which I can refer for the date of Milling's +death, but if 1492 be correct, perhaps he may have been promoted to a +bishoprick. + +With reference to Mr. Rimbault's remark, that Caxton first mentions the +place of his printing in 1477, so that he must have printed some time +without informing us where, I may be allowed to observe that it seems +highly probable he printed, and indeed learned the art, at Cologne. At +the end of the third book of his translation of the _Recuyell of the +Historyes of Troye_, Caxton says: + + "Thus end I this book which I have translated after mine author, + as nigh as God hath given me cunning, to whom be given the laud + and praises ... I have practised and learned, at my great charge + and dispense, to ordain this said book in print, after the + manner and form as you may here see."{123} + +And on the title-page he informs us: + + "Whyche sayd translacion and werke was begonne in Brugis in + 1468, and ended in the holy cyte of Colen, 19 Sept. 1471." + +This may refer to the translation only; but as Caxton was both +translator and printer, it does not seem unreasonable to regard it as +indicating when his entire labour upon the work was brought to a close. +I might support the view that Caxton printed at Cologne by other +arguments which would make the matter tolerably certain (see _Life of +Caxton_, p. 125., &c.); but as the excellent little work to which I am +indebted for these particulars is so well known, and so easily +accessible, I should not be justified in occupying more of your space, +and I will therefore conclude with noting that the parochial library at +Shipdham, in Norfolk, is said to contain books printed by Caxton and +other early printers. Perhaps some one of your correspondents would +record, for the general benefit, of what they consist. + +Arun. + +Dr. Rimbault has evidently not seen a short article on Caxton's printing +at Westminster, which I inserted in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for +April, 1846, nor the reference made to it in the magazine for June last, +p. 630., or he would have admitted that his objections to Dr. Dibdin's +conjectures on this point had been already stated; moreover, I think he +would have seen that the difficulty had been actually cleared up. In +truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been +occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in +the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into +which the word abbey has passed in this country. Caxton himself tells us +he printed his books in "th' abbay of Westminstre," but he does not say +in the church of the abbey. Stow distinctly says it was in the almonry +of the abbey; and the handbill Dr. Rimbault refers to confirms that +fact. The almonry was not merely "within the precincts of the abbey," it +was actually a part of the abbey. Dr. Rimbault aims at the conclusion +that "the old chapel of St. Anne was doubtless the place where the first +printing-office was erected in England." But why so? Did not the chapel +continue a chapel until the Reformation, if not later? And Caxton would +no more set up his press in a chapel than in the abbey-church itself. +Stow says it was erected in the almonry. The almonry was one of the +courts of the abbey, (situated directly west of the abbey-church, and +not east, as Dr. Dibdin surmised); it contained a chapel dedicated to +St. Anne, and latterly an almshouse erected by the Lady Margaret. The +latter probably replaced other offices or lodgings of greater antiquity, +connected with the duties of the almoner, or the reception and relief of +the poor; and there need be no doubt that it was one of these buildings +that the Abbot of Westminster placed at the disposal of our +proto-typographer. There was nothing very extraordinary in his so doing +if we view the circumstance in its true light; for the _scriptoria_ of +the monasteries had ever been the principal manufactories of books. A +single press was now to do the work of many pens. The experiment was +successful; "after which time," as Stow goes on to say, "the like was +practised in the Abbeys of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, St. Alban's, +and other monasteries." The monks became printers instead of scribes; +but they would not ordinarily convert their churches or chapels into +printing-houses. The workmen, it is true, term the meetings held for +consultation on their common interests or pleasures, their _chapels_; +and whether this may have arisen from any particular instance in which a +chapel was converted into a printing-house, I cannot say. In order to +ascertain the origin of this term these Queries may be proposed:--Is it +peculiar to printers and to this country? Or is it used also in other +trades and on the Continent? + +John Gough Nichols. + + * * * * * + +THE NEW TEMPLE. + +Although I am unable to give a satisfactory reply to Mr. Foss's +inquiries, such information as I have is freely at his service. It may, +at all events, serve as a finger-post to the road. + +My survey gives a most minute extent, of 35 preceptories, 23 "cameræ" of +the Hospitallers, 13 preceptories formerly commandries of the Templars, +74 limbs, and 70 granges, impropriations, &c., and, among them all, not +a single one of the valuation of the New Temple itself. _Reprises_ of +that establishment are entered, but no _receipts_. + +The former are as follows: + + "In emendationem et sustentationem ecclesie Novi Templi, London, + et in vino, cera, et oleo, et ornamentis ejusdem ... x m. + + "In uno fratri [_sic_] Capellano et octo Capellanis secularibus, + deservientibus ecclesiam quondam Templariorum apud London, + vocatam Novum Templum, prout ordinatum est per totum consilium + totius regni, pro animabus fundatorum dicti Novi Templi et alia + [_sic_] possessionum alibi ... lv m. + + "Videlicet, frati Capellano, pro se et ecclesia, xv m., et + cuilibet Capellano, v m., ubi solebant esse, tempore + Templariorum, unus Prior ecclesie et xij Capellani seculares. + + "Item in diversis pensionibus solvendis diversis personis per + annum, tam in Curia domini Regis, quam Justiciariis Clericis, + Officiariis, et aliis ministris, in diversis Curiis suis, ac + etiam aliis familiaribus magnatum, tam pro terris tenementis, + redditibus, et libertatibus hospitalis, quam Templariorum, et + maxime pro terris Templariorum manutenendis, videlicet, + Baronibus in Scaccario domini Regis Domino Roberto de Sadyngton, + militi, Capitali baroni de Scaccario, xl." &c. &c.{124} + +enumerating pensions to the judges, clerks, &c., in all the courts, to +the amount of above 60l. per annum. To + + "Magnatibus, secretariis, et familiaribus domini Regis et + aliorum;" + +the pensions enumerated amount to about 440_l._ per annum. + +Then, to the treasurer, barons, clerks, &c., of the Exchequer (140 +persons): + + "Bis in anno, videlicet, tempore yemali, pilliola furrata + pellura minuti varii et bogeti, et quedam non furrata; et + tempore estivali totidem pilliola lineata de sindone, et quedam + non lineata, unicuique de Curia Scaccarii predicti, tam + minoribus quam majoribus, secundum gradus, statum, et officium + personarum predictarum, que expense se extendunt annuatim ad ... + x ii." + + "Item sunt alie expense facte in Curiis Regis annuatim pro + officio generalis procuratoris in diversis Curiis Regis, que de + necessitate fieri oportet, pro brevibus Regis, et Cartis + impetendis, et aliis, negociis in eisdem Curiis expediendis, que + ad minus ascendunt per annum, prout evidencius apparet, per + compotum et memoranda dicti fratris de Scaccario qui per + capitulum ad illud officium oneratur ... lx m." + + "Item in donis dandis in Curiis domini Regis et aliorum magnatum + _pro favore habendo_ et pro placitis defendendis, et expensis + parlialmentorum, ad minus bis per annum ... cc m." + +I have made these extracts somewhat more at length than may, perhaps, be +to the point in question, because they contain much that is highly +interesting as to the apparently questionable mode in which the +Hospitallers obtained the protection of the courts (and probably they +were not singular in their proceedings); annual pensions to judges, +besides other largesses, and much of this "pro favore habendo," +contrasts painfully with the "spotless purity of the ermine" which +dignifies our present age. + +In the "extent" we have occasionally a grange held rent free for life by +a judge. Chief Justice Geffrey de Scrop so held that of Penhull in +Northumberland. + +Putting all these facts together, and bearing in mind that, throughout +this elaborate "extent," there are neither profits nor rent entered, as +for the Temple itself, so that it seems to have then been neither in the +possession nor occupation of the Hospitallers, is it not possible that +they had alienated it to the lawyers, as a discharge for these heavy +annual incumbrances,--_prospectively_, perhaps, because by the entry of +these charges among the "reprise," the life interests, at all events, +were still paid; or perhaps the alienation was itself made to them "pro +favore habendo" in some transaction that the Hospitallers wished to have +carried by the Courts; or it may have been made as a _bonâ fide_ bribe +for future protection. At all events, when we see such extensive +payments made annually to the lawyers, their ultimate possession of the +fee simple is no unnatural result. But, as I am altogether ignorant of +the history of the New Temple, I must refrain from suggestions, giving +the simple facts as I find them, and leaving the rest to the learning +and investigation of your correspondent. + +L.B.L. + + * * * * * + +STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 17. 83.) + +Mr. Ross is right in saying that "no alteration has taken place in the +_practice_ of the House of Commons with respect to the admission of +strangers." The practice was at variance with the old sessional order: +it is consistent with the new standing order of 1845. I do not +understand how any one can read these words of the new standing order, +"that the sergeant-at-arms ... do take into his custody any stranger +whom he may see ... in any part of the house or gallery appropriated to +the members of the House: and also any stranger _who, having been +admitted into any other part of the house or gallery_," &c., and say +that the House of Commons does not now recognise the presence of +strangers; nor can I understand how Mr. Ross can doubt that the old +sessional order absolutely prohibited their presence. It did not keep +them out certainly, for they were admitted in the teeth of it; but so +long as that sessional order was in force, prohibition to strangers was +the theory. + +Mr. Ross refers to publication of speeches. Publication is still +prohibited in theory. Mr. Ross perhaps is not aware that the prohibition +of publication of speeches rests on a foundation independent of the old +sessional order against the presence of strangers,--on a series of +resolutions declaring publication to be a breach of the privileges of +Parliament, to be found in the Journals of 1642, 1694, 1695, 1697, 1703, +1722, and 1724. + +We unfortunately cannot settle in your columns whether, as Mr. Ross +asserts, "if a member in debate should inadvertently allude to the +possibility of his observations being heard by a stranger, the Speaker +would immediately call him to order;" but my strong belief is, that he +would not: and I hope, if there are any members of the House of Commons +who have time to read "Notes and Queries," that one of them may be +induced to take a suitable opportunity of obtaining the Speaker's +judgment. + +"Yet at other times," Mr. Ross goes on to say, "the right honourable +gentlemen will listen complacently to discussions arising out of the +complaints of members that strangers will not publish to the world all +that they hear pass in debate." If this be so, I suppose the Speaker +sees nothing disorderly in a complaint, that what has been spoken in +Parliament has _not_ been published: but I read frequently in my +newspaper that the Speaker interrupts {125} members who speak of +speeches having been published. "This is one of the inconsistencies," +Mr. Ross proceeds, "resulting from the determination of the House not +expressly to recognise the presence of strangers." Inconsistency there +certainly is,--the inconsistency of making publication a breach of +privilege, and allowing it to go on daily. + +As strangers may be admitted into the House to hear debates, and not +allowed to publish what they hear, so they may he admitted, subject to +exclusion at certain times, or when the House chooses. And this is the +case. The House, of course, retains the power of excluding them at any +moment. They are always made to withdraw before the House goes to a +division. This is a matter of practice, founded probably on some +supposed reasons of convenience. Again, on any member desiring strangers +to be excluded, the Speaker desires them to withdraw, without allowing +any discussion. + +I have only to notice one other observation of Mr. Ross's, which is the +following: + + "When I speak of strangers being admitted, it must not be + supposed that this was done by order of the House. No, + everything relating to the admission of strangers to, and their + accommodation in the House of Commons, is effected by some + mysterious agency, for which no one is directly responsible. Mr. + Barry has built galleries for strangers in the new house; but if + the matter were made a subject of inquiry, it probably would + puzzle him to state under what authority he has acted." + +I do not think there is anything mysterious as regards admission. I am +fond of hearing the debates, and my parliamentary friends are very kind +to me. Sometimes I content myself with an order from a member, which +takes me into the hinder seats of the non-reporting strangers' gallery; +sometimes, when I know beforehand of an interesting debate, I get one of +my friends to put my name on the "Speaker's list," and I then take my +seat on one of the two front rows of the strangers' gallery; sometimes, +again, I go down on the chance, while the House is sitting; and if I am +fortunate enough to find any one of any friends there, he generally +brings me, in a few moments, an order from the Sergeant-at-arms, which +takes me also to the front row of the strangers' gallery. Some benches +under the strangers' gallery are reserved for peers, ambassadors, and +peers' eldest sons. The Speaker and the Sergeant-at-arms give permission +generally to foreigners, and sometimes to some other persons, to sit in +these benches. I do not know which officer of the House of Commons +superintends the admission of reporters. Ladies are admitted to the +Black Hole assigned to them, by orders from the Sergeant-at-arms. I have +no doubt that the Speaker and Sergeant-at-arms are responsible to the +House for everything relating to the admission of strangers, and without +taking upon myself to say what is the authority under which Mr. Barry +has acted, I have no doubt that, in building galleries for strangers in +the new house, he has done what is consistent not only with the long +established practice, but, under the new order of 1845, with the theory +of the House of Commons. + +As regards the passage quoted by Mr. Jackson from the _Edinburgh +Review_, the reviewer would probably allow that he had overlooked the +new standing order of 1845; and Mr. Jackson will perceive that the +recognition of the presence of strangers does not legalise the +publication of speeches. The supposed difficulty in the way of +legalising publication is, that the House of Commons would then make +itself morally responsible for the publication of any libellous matter +in speeches. I do not see the force of this difficulty. But the +expediency of the existing rule is not a proper subject for discussion +in your columns. + +CH. + +Whatever the present practice of the House of Commons with respect to +strangers may be, it does not seem probable that it will soon undergo +alteration. In the session of 1849 a Select Committee, composed of +fifteen members, and including the leading men of all parties, was +appointed "to consider the present practice of this House in respect of +the exclusion of strangers." The following is the Report of the +Committee _in extenso_ (_Parl. Pap._, No. 498. Sess. 1849): + + "That the existing usage of excluding strangers during a + division, and upon the notice by an individual Member that + strangers are present, has prevailed from a very early period of + parliamentary history; that the instances in which the power of + an individual Member to exclude has been exercised have been + very rare: and that it is the unanimous opinion of your + committee, that there is no sufficient ground for making any + alteration in the existing practice with regard to the admission + or exclusion of strangers." + +This Report confirms the statement of Mr. Ross (p. 83., _antè_), that +within his experience of thirty-one years no change has been made in the +present rule of the House upon this matter, which, it would seem, dates +very far back. The Speaker was the only witness examined before the +Committee, and his evidence is not printed. + +Arun. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Morganatic Marriage_ (Vol. ii., p. 72.).--According to M., Ducange has +connected this expression with _morgingab_; but I have looked in vain +for such connection in my edition of the _Glossary_ (Paris, 1733). The +truth most probably is, that _morganatic_, in the phrase "matrimonium ad +morganaticam," {126} was akin to the Gothic _maurgjan_, signifying, "to +procrastinate," "to bring to an end," "to shorten," "to limit." This +application of the word would naturally rise out of the restrictions +imposed upon the wife and children of a morganatic marriage. + +C.H. + +_Umbrellas_ (Vol. i., p. 415. 436.; ii. 25.).--In Swift's description of +a city shower (_Tatler_, No. 238., October 17. 1710), umbrellas are +mentioned as in common use by women: + + "Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, + Threatening with deluge the devoted town; + To shops, in crowds, the daggled females fly, + Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy; + The Templar spruce, while every spout's abroach, + Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach; + The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, + While streams run down her oiled umbrella's sides." + +H.B.C. + +U.U. Club, July 2. + +_Bands_ (Vol. ii., pp. 23. 76.)--_Scarf_.--I was glad to read Arun's +explanation of the origin of the bands now worn by the clergy; which, +however, seems merely to amount to their being an adoption of a Genevan +portion of clerical costume. That they are the descendants of the ruff, +there can be no doubt, just as wrist-bands have more recently succeeded +to ruffles. + +I cannot resist mentioning that an ingenious friend suggested to me, +that the broad, stiff, laid-down collar, alluded to in the former part +of Arun's communication, possibly gave rise to the modern band in the +following manner:--When the scarf, still in use, was drawn over the +shoulders and hung down in front, that part of the broad collar which +was left visible, being divided up the middle, presented a shape and +appearance exactly like our common bands. Hence, it was imagined, this +small separate article of dress might have originated. + +Is it Butler, Swift, or who, that says, + + "A Chrysostom to smoothe his band in"? + +Whenever this was written, it must have referred to our modern bands. + +Who amongst the clergy are _entitled_ to wear a scarf? Is it the badge +of a chaplain only? or what circumstances justify its being worn? + +Alfred Gatty. + +July 1. 1850. + +_Bands_ (Vol. ii., p. 76.).--An early example of the collar, approaching +to the form of our modern bands, may be seen in the portrait of Cardinal +Beatoun, who was assassinated in 1546. The original is in Holyrood +Palace, and an engraving in Mr. Lodge's _Portraits_. The artist is +unknown, but from the age of the face one may infer that it was painted +about 1540. + +C.H. + +_Jewish Music_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--See a host of authorities on the +subject of Hebrew music and musical instruments in Winer's +_Realwörterbuch_ vol. ii., pp. 120. _seq._, 3d edit. There is a good +abstract respecting them in Jahn's _Hebrew Antiquities_, sect. 92-96. + +C.H. + +_North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated_ (Vol. ii., p. 55.).--In +illustration of, not in answer to, Mr. Sansom's inquiry, I beg to offer +the following statement. During a long series of years an average of +about 150 corpses has been annually deposited in Ecclesfield churchyard, +which has rendered it an extremely crowded cemetery. But, +notwithstanding these frequent interments, my late sexton told me that +he remembered when there was scarcely one grave to the north of the +church, it being popularly considered that only suicides, unbaptised +persons, and still-born children ought to be buried there. However, when +a vicar died about twenty-seven years ago, unlike his predecessors, who +had generally been buried in the chancel, he was laid in a tomb on the +north side of the churchyard, adjoining the vicarage. From this time +forward the situation lost all its evil reputation amongst the richer +inhabitants of the parish, who have almost entirely occupied it with +family vaults. + +Whether the prejudice against the north side of our churchyard arose +from an idea that it was unconsecrated, I cannot tell but I suspect +that, from inherited dislike, the poor are still indisposed towards it. +When the women of the village have to come to the vicarage after +nightfall, they generally manage to bring a companion, and hurry past +the gloomy end of the north transept as if they knew + + "that close behind + Some frightful fiend did tread." + +I cannot help fancying that the objection is attributable to a notion +that evil spirits haunt the spot in which, possibly from very early +times, such interments took place as my sexton described. As a +suggestion towards a full solution of this popular superstition, I would +ask whether persons who formerly underwent ecclesiastical +excommunication were customarily buried on the north side of +churchyards? + +Alfred Gatty. + +Ecclesfield, June 28. 1850. + +I can only give from recollection a statement of a tradition, that when +Jesus Christ died he turned his head towards the south; and so, ever +since, the south side of a church has the pre-eminence. There generally +is the bishop's throne, and the south aisle of ancient basilicas was +appropriated to men. Simple observation shows that the supposed sanctity +extends to the churchyard,--for there the tombstones lie thickest. + +I find that my source of information for the {127} tradition was +Cockerell's last lecture on Architecture, _Athenæum_ for 1843, p. 187. +col. 3. + +A.J.H. + +"_Men are but Children_," &c.--R.G. (Vol. ii., p. 22.) will find the +line about which he inquires in Dryden's _All for Love; or, The World +well Lost_, Act iv. Sc. 1. + + Dolabella (_loq._): + "Men are but children of a larger growth, + Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, + And full as craving too, and full as vain." + +J.R.M. + +King's College, London, July 12. 1850. + +_Ventriloquism_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--Mr. SANSOM will find some curious +information touching the words [Hebrew: 'or], [Greek: eggastrimuthos], +&c., in Dr. Maitland's recent _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to +Mesmerism_, pp. 55. 81. The Lexicons of Drs. Lee and Gesenius may also +be consulted, under the word [Hebrew: 'or]. The former of these +lexicographers would rank the Pythian priestess with "our modern +conjurers." + +C.H. + +St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. + +_Cromwell's Estates--Magor_ (Vol. i., p. 277. 389.).--As the South Wales +line is now open as far as Chepstow, it may not be uninteresting to V. +to know, that it diverges from the coast between Chepstow and Newport, +in order to pass Bishopston and _Magor_, the last of which he rightly +placed in Monmouthshire. + +SELEUCUS. + +_Vincent Gookin_ (Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii. p. 44.) is +described in a _Narrative of the late Parliament_ (Cromwell's +Parliament, d. 1656), in the _Harleian Miscellany_, as + + "One of the letters of land in Ireland, receiving three hundred + pounds per annum." + +He and three other Irish members, Colonel Jephson, Ralph King, and Bice, +are classed together in this tract, which is hostile to Cromwell, as + + "Persons not thought meet to be in command, though they much + desire it, and are of such poor principles and so unfit to make + rulers of as they would not have been set with the dogs of the + flock, if the army and others who once pretended to be honest + had kept close to their former good and honest principles." + +Vincent Gookin voted for the clause in the "Petition and Advice" giving +the title of "King" to Cromwell. + +CH. + +_All-to brake_ (Vol. i., p. 395.).--The interpretation given is +incorrect. "All-to" is very commonly used by early writers for +"altogether:" e.g., "all-to behacked," Calfhill's _Answer to Martiall's +Treatise of the Cross_, Parker Society's edition, p. 3.; "all-to +becrossed," _ibid._ p. 91.; "all-to bebatted," _ibid._ p. 133., &c. &c. +The Parker Society reprints will supply innumerable examples of the use +of the expression. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +The two of Mr. Hunter's _Critical and Historical Tracts_, which we have +had the opportunity of examining, justify to the fullest the +expectations we had formed of them. The first, _Agincourt; a +Contribution towards an authentic List of the Commanders of the English +Host, in King Henry the Fifth's Expedition, in the Third Year of his +Reign_, Mr. Hunter describes as "an instalment," we venture to add "a +very valuable instalment," from evidence which has been buried for +centuries in the unknown masses of national records, towards a complete +list of the English Commanders who served with the King in that +expedition, with, in most cases, the number of the retinue which each +Commander undertook to bring into the field, and, in some instances, +notices of events happening to the contingents. The value of a work +based upon such materials, our historical readers will instantly +recognise. 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