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Mathieu's Life of Sejanus 215 +The Antiquity of Smoking 216 +Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. 216 +Minor Queries:--City Offices--Meaning of + Harefinder--Saffron-bag--Bishop Berkley's successful + Experiments--Unknown Portrait--Custom of selling + Wives--Hepburn Crest and Motto--Concolinel--"One + Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"--The + Norfolk Dialect--Sir John Perrot--"Antiquitas sæculi + juventus mundi" 216 + +REPLIES: +Derivation of "News" 218 +Replies to Minor Queries:--Swords worn in Public--Quarles' + Pension--Franz von Sickingen--"Noll me + tangere"--Dr. Bowring's Translations--Countess + of Desmond--Yorkshire Dales--Sir Thomas Herbert's + Memoirs--Alarum--Practice of Scalping + among the Scythian's--Gospel Tree--Martinet--"Yote" + or "Yeot"--Map of London--Woodcarving, + Snow Hill--Waltheof--The Dodo--"Under + the Rose"--Ergh, Er, or Argh--Royal + Supporters--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow 218 +MISCELLANEOUS: + +Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 222 +Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 223 +Notices to Correspondents 223 +Advertisements 223 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES + +GRAVESEND BOATS. + +While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of "Notes +and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of another +mode of conveyance which has now become very important. I think it may +amuse some of your readers to compare a modern Gravesend boat and +passage with the account given by Daniel Defoe, in the year 1724: and as +it is contained in what I believe to be one of his least known works, it +may probably be new to most of them. In his _Great Law of +Subordination_, after describing the malpractices of hackney coachmen, +he proceeds: + + "The next are the watermen; and, indeed, the insolence of these, + though they are under some limitations too, is yet such at this + time, that it stands in greater need than any other, of severe + laws, and those laws being put in speedy execution. + + "Some years ago, one of these very people being steersman of a + passage-boat between London and Gravesend, drown'd + three-and-fifty people at one time. The boat was bound from + Gravesend to London, was very full of passengers and goods, and + deep loaden. The wind blew very hard at south-west, which being + against them, obliged them to turn to windward, so the seamen + call it, when they tack from side to side, to make their voyage + against the wind by the help of the tide. + + "The passengers were exceedingly frighted when, in one tack + stretching over the stream, in a place call'd Long-Reach, where + the river is very broad, the waves broke in upon the boat, and + not only wetted them all, but threw a great deal of water into + the boat, and they all begg'd of the steersman or master not to + venture again. He, sawey and impudent, mock'd them, ask'd some + of the poor frighted women if they were afraid of going to the + Devil; bid them say their prayers and the like, and then stood + over again, as it were, in a jest. The storm continuing, he + shipp'd a great deal of water that time also. By this time the + rest of the watermen begun to perswade him, and told him, in + short, that if he stood over again the boat would founder, for + that she was a great deal the deeper for the water she had taken + in, and one of them begg'd of him not to venture; he swore at + the fellow, call'd him fool, bade him let him alone to his + business, and he would warrant him; then used a vulgar + sea-proverb, which such fellows have in their mouths, 'Blow + Devil, the more wind, the better boat.' + + "The fellow told him in so many words he would drown all the + passengers, and before his face began to strip, and so did two + more, that they might be in condition to swim for their lives. + This extremely terrify'd the passengers, who, having a cloth or + tilt over them, were in no condition to save their lives, so + that there was a dreadful cry among them, and some of the men + were making way to come at the steersman to make him by force + let fly the sail and stand back for the shore; but before they + could get to him the waves broke in upon the boat and carried + them all to the bottom, none escaping but the three watermen + that were prepar'd to swim. {210} + + "It was but poor satisfaction for the loss of so many lives, to + say the steersman was drown'd with them, who ought, indeed, to + have died at the gallows, or on the wheel, for he was certainly + the murtherer of all the rest. + + "I have many times pass'd between London and Gravesend with + these fellows in their smaller boats, when I have seen them, in + spite of the shrieks and cries of the women and the persuasions + of the men passengers, and, indeed, as if they were the more + bold by how much the passengers were the more afraid; I say, I + have seen them run needless hazards, and go, as it were, within + an inch of death, when they have been under no necessity of it, + and, if not in contempt of the passengers, it has been in meer + laziness to avoid their rowing; and I have been sometimes + oblig'd, especially when there has been more men in the boat of + the same mind, so that we have been strong enough for them, to + threaten to cut their throats to make them hand their sails and + keep under shore, not to fright as well as hazard the passengers + when there was no need of it. + + "One time, being in one of these boats all alone, coming from + London to Gravesend, the wind freshen'd and it begun to blow + very hard after I was come about three or four mile of the way; + and as I said above, that I always thought those fellows were + the more venturous when their passengers were the most fearful, + I resolved I would let this fellow alone to himself; so I lay + down in the boat as if I was asleep, as is usual. + + "Just when I lay down, I called to the waterman, 'It blows hard, + waterman,' said I; 'can you swim?' 'No, Sir,' says he. 'Nor + can't your man swim neither?' said I. 'No, Sir,' says the + servant. 'Well then,' says I, 'take care of yourselves, I shall + shift as well as you, I suppose:' and so down I lay. However, I + was not much disposed to sleep; I kept the tilt which they cover + their passengers with open in one place, so that I could see how + things went. + + "The wind was fair, but over-blow'd so much, that in those + reaches of the river which turn'd crossway, and where the wind + by consequence was thwart the stream, the water went very high, + and we took so much into the boat, that I began to feel the + straw which lay under me at the bottom was wet, so I call'd to + the waterman, and jesting told him, they must go all hands to + the pump; he answered, he hoped I should not be wet; 'But it's + bad weather, master,' says he, 'we can't help it.' 'No, no,' + says I, ''tis pretty well yet, go on.' + + "By and by I heard him say to himself, 'It blows very hard,' and + every now and then he repeated it, and sometimes thus: ''Twill + be a dirty night, 'twill be a terrible night,' and the like; + still I lay still and said nothing. + + "After some time, and his bringing out several such speeches as + above, I rous'd as if I had but just wak'd; 'Well, waterman,' + says I, 'how d'ye go on?' 'Very indifferently,' says he; 'it + blows very hard.' 'Ay, so it does,' says I; 'where are we?' 'A + little above Erith,' says he; so down I lay again, and said no + more for that time. + + "By and by he was at it again, 'It blows a frett of wind,' and + 'It blows very hard,' and the like; but still I said nothing. At + last we ship'd a dash of water over the boat's head, and the + spry of it wetted me a little, and I started up again as if I + had been asleep; 'Waterman,' says I, 'what are you doing? what, + did you ship a sea?' 'Ay,' says the waterman, 'and a great one + too; why it blows a frett of wind.' 'Well, well,' says I, 'come, + have a good heart; where are we now?' 'Almost in Gallions,' says + he, 'that's a reach below Woolwich.' + + "Well, when we got into the Gallions reach, there the water was + very rough, and I heard him say to his man, 'Jack, we'll keep + the weather-shore aboard, for it grows dark and it blows a + storm.' Ay, thought I, had I desir'd you to stand in under + shore, you would have kept off in meer bravado; but I said + nothing. By and by his mast broke, and gave a great crack, and + the fellow cry'd out, 'Lord have mercy upon us!' I started up + again, but still spoke cheerfully; 'What's the matter now?' says + I. 'L--d, Sir,' say's he, 'how can you sleep? why my mast is + come by the board.' 'Well, well,' says I, 'then you must take a + goose-wing.' 'A goose-wing! why,' says he, 'I can't carry a knot + of sail, it blows a storm.' 'Well,' says I, 'if you can't carry + any sail, you must drive up under shore then, you have the tide + under foot:' and with that I lay down again. The man did as I + said. A piece of his mast being yet standing, he made what they + call a goose-wing sail, that is, a little piece of the sail out, + just to keep the boat steddy, and with this we got up as high as + Blackwall; the night being then come on and very dark, and the + storm increasing, I suffer'd myself to be persuaded to put in + there, though five or six mile short of London; whereas, indeed, + I was resolv'd to venture no farther if the waterman would have + done it. + + "When I was on shore, the man said to me, 'Master, you have been + us'd to the sea, I don't doubt; why you can sleep in a storm + without any concern, as if you did not value your life; I never + carry'd one in my life that did so; why, 'twas a wonder we had + not founder'd.' 'Why,' says I, 'friend, for that you know I left + it all to you; I did not doubt but you would take care of + yourself;' but after that I told him my other reason for it, the + fellow smil'd, but own'd the thing was true, and that he was the + more cautious a great deal, for that I took no thought about it; + and I am still of opinion, that the less frighted and timorous + their passengers are, the more cautious and careful the watermen + are, and the least apt to run into danger; whereas, if their + passengers appear frighted, then the watermen grow sawcy and + audacious, show themselves vent'rous, and contemn the dangers + which they are really exposed to."--p. 130. + +We are not bound to suppose that this is plain relation of matter of +fact, any more than the _History of Robinson Crusoe_; but it is a +graphic sketch of life and manners worth the notice of those who study +such things. It forms at least a little contribution to the history of +travelling in England. A passenger who had just landed from a Gravesend +boat, to pursue his journey by land, might well be thankful to "be +received in a coach" like that which had been started at York near half +a century before. + +Alpha. + + * * * * * {211} + +NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON. + +Mr. Cunningham's work on London is a book of such general interest, that +the additions and corrections, which I shall continue from time to time +to offer to your readers, will not, I think, be deemed impertinent or +trifling. Let it not be imagined, for one single instant, that I wish to +depreciate Mr. Cunningham's labours. On the contrary, his book is one of +the most delightful publications relative to our great city which we +possess. And let me candidly say, if I were to select only half-a-dozen +volumes for my own reading, _Cunningham's Handbook of London_ would most +assuredly be one of that number. + +The quaint and learned old Fuller, in his address to the _Worthies of +England_, says: + + "The bare skeleton of time, place, and person, must be fleshed + with some pleasant passages; and to this intent I have purposely + interlaced (not as meat but as condiment) many stories, so that + the reader, if he do not arise _religiosior_ or _doctior_, with + more piety or learning, at least he may depart _jucundior_, with + more pleasure and lawful delight." + +This remark has been well understood by Mr. Cunningham, whose pleasant +quotations, and literary and artistic recollections, have made his book +a _readable_ one to the many, and an instructive companion for the +_initiated_. + +The "bare skeleton" sometimes wants "fleshing," and hence the following +list of additions and corrections: + +1. _Dobney's_, or, more correctly, _D'Aubigney's Bowling Green_, was a +celebrated place of amusement "more than sixty years since." It is now +occupied by a group of houses called _Dobney's Place_, near the bottom +of Penton street, and almost opposite to the Belvidere Tavern and Tea +Gardens. + +2. _Bridge Street, Westminster._ The Long Wool-staple was on the site of +this street. Henry VIII., in 1548, founded, "in the Long Wool-staple," +St. Stephen's Hospital, for eight maimed soldiers, who had each a +convenient room, and received an allowance of 5l. a year from the +exchequer. It was removed in 1735, and eight almshouses rebuilt in St. +Anne's Lane, bearing the inscription "Wool-staple Pensioners, 1741." In +1628, in the Overseer's books of St. Margaret's is rated in the +Wool-staple "Orlando Gibbons ij d." + +3. _Campden House, Kensington._ Built by Sir Baptist Hickes in 1612; +pulled down about 1827. Nicholas Lechmere, the eminent lawyer, was +residing here when he was created a peer. + + "Back in the dark, by Brompton Park, + He turned up thro' the Gore, + So slunk to _Campden House_ so high, + All in his coach and four." + + Swift's Ballad of _Duke and no Duke_. + +4. _Finch's Grotto._ A place of amusement, similar to Vauxhall Gardens, +much in vogue at the end of the last century. The "Grotto Gardens," as +they were sometimes called, were situated partly in Winchester Park, or +the Clink, and partly in the parish of St. George, Southwark. + +5. _Leicester Square._ Mr. Cunningham does not mention the fine house of +Sir George Savile, in this square. It was subsequently Miss Linwood's +_Exhibition of Needlework_; and has latterly been used as a +concert-room, casino, &c. The statue in the centre of the square is +George I., not George II. + +6. _Thavie's Inn._ A small brass plate fixed up against the first house +on the west side, has the following inscription: + + "Thavie's Inn, founded by John Thavie, Esquire, in the reign of + Edward the Third; Adjudged to be extra-parochial, in the Court + of King's Bench, Guild-hall, in the causes Fraser against the + Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, on the 7th day of July, 1823, and + Marsden against the same parish, on the 17th day of October, + 1826. This memorial of the antiquity and privileges of this inn, + was erected during the Treasurership of Francis Paget Watson, + Esq., Anno Dom. MDCCCXXVII." + +7. _Old Bailey._ Peter Bales, the celebrated writing master of Queen +Elizabeth's reign, was master of a school "at the upper end of the _Old +Bailey_" in 1590. It was here he published his first work, entitled, +_The Writing School Master_. + +8. _Islington._ During the reign of James I. and Charles I., Islington +was a favourite resort, on account of its rich dairies. In that part of +the manor of Highbury at the lower end of Islington, there were, in +1611, eight inns principally supported by summer visitors. See _Nelson's +History of Islington_, p. 38, 4to., 1811. + + "--Hogsdone, _Islington_, and Tothnam Court, + For cakes and creame had then no small resort." + + Wither's _Britain's Remembrancer_, 12mo. 1628. + +9. _Seven Dials._ The Doric column with its "seven dials," which once +marked this locality, now "ornaments" the pleasant little town of +Walton-on-Thames. + +10. _Mews (the King's)._ The fore-court of the royal mews was used in +1829 for the exhibition of a "monstrous whale." The _building_ (which +stood upon the site of the National Gallery) was occupied, at the same +time, by the _Museum of National Manufactures_. The "Museum" was +removed, upon the pulling down of the mews, to Dr. Hunter's house in +Leicester Square, and was finally closed upon the establishment of the +_Royal Polytechnic Institution_. + +Mr. Cunningham, in his _Chronology_, says the mews was taken down in +1827. In the body of the book he gives the date, perhaps more correctly, +1830. {212} + +11. _Brownlow Street, Holborn._ This should be "Brownlow Street, _Drury +Lane_;" George Vertue the engraver was living here in 1748. + +12. _White Conduit House._ The anonymous author of _The Sunday Ramble_, +1774, has left us the following description of this once popular +tea-gardens: + + "The garden is formed into several pleasing walks, prettily + disposed; at the end of the principal one is a painting, which + serves to render it much larger in appearance than it really is; + and in the middle of the garden is a round fish-pond, + encompassed with a great number of very genteel boxes for + company, curiously cut into the hedges, and adorned with a + variety of Flemish and other painting; there are likewise two + handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, as well as several + inferior ones in the dwelling-house." + +"White Conduit Loaves" were for a long time famous, and before the great +augmentation in the price of bread, during the revolutionary war with +France, they formed one of the regular "London cries." + +13. _Vauxhall Gardens._ A curious and highly interesting description of +this popular place of amusement, "a century ago," was printed in 1745, +under the title of _A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall, in a +letter to a Noble Lord_, 8vo. My copy is much at Mr. Cunningham's +service for any future edition of his _Handbook_. + +Edward F. Rimbault. + + * * * * * + +DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN KATHERINE PARR. + +In your Number for August 10th, I observe an inquiry regarding a MS. +book of prayers said to have belonged to Queen Katherine Parr. Of the +book in question I know nothing, but there has lately come into my +possession a volume of early English printed devotional works, which +undoubtedly has belonged to this Queen. The volume is a small duodecimo, +bound red velvet, with gilt leaves, and it has had ornamental borders +and clasps of some metal, as the impressions of these are still +distinctly visible upon the velvet covering. The contents of this volume +are as follows: + + 1. "A sermon of Saint Chrysostome, wherein besyde that it is + furnysshed with heuenly wisedome and teachinge, he wonderfully + proueth that No man is hurted but of hym-selfe: translated into + Englishe by the floure of lerned menne in his tyme, Thomas + Lupsete, Londoner, 1534." + +At the bottom of this title-page is written, in the well-known bold hand +of Katherine Parr,--"Kateryn the Quene, K.P.," with the equally +well-known flourish beneath. + + 2. "A svvete and devovte sermon of Holy Saynet Ciprian of + mortalitie of man. The rules of a Christian life made by Picus, + erle of Mirandula, both translated into Englyshe by Syr Thomas + Elyot, Knyght. Londini, Anno verbi incarnati MDXXXIX. + + 3. "An exhortation to yonge men, &c., by Thomas Lupsete, + Londener, 1534. + + 4. "A treatise of charitie, 1534. + + 5. "Here be the Gathered Counsales of Sainete Isidorie, &c., + 1539. + + 6. "A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye + of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men + of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose + sowle Jesu have mercy. 1541." + +Almost all these treatises are printed by Thomas Berthelet. I know not +if any of these treatises are now scarce. On the fly-leaf opposite the +first page we find the following scriptural sentences, which are, in my +opinion, and in that of others to whom I have shown the book, evidently +written by the hand of the queen. + +It will be only necessary to give the first and last of these sentences: + + "Delyte not in Þe multytude of ungodly men, and haue no pleasure + in Þem, for they feare not God. + + "Refuse not Þe prayer of one yt is in trouble, and turne not + away thy face from the nedye." + +We need not quote more; but on the opposite side of the fly-leaf are +some verses of a different character, and which I suspect to be from the +royal pen of Henry VIII. The writing is uncommonly difficult to +decypher, but it bears a strong resemblance to all that I have seen of +Henry's handwriting. A portion of the verses, as far as I can make them +out, are here subjoined: + + Respect. + + "Blush not, fayre nimphe, tho (nee?) of nobell blod, + I fain avoutch it, and of manners good, + Spottles in lyf, of mynd sencere and sound, + In whoam a world of vertues doth abowend, + And sith besyd yt ye lycens giv withall + Set doughts asyd and to some sporting fall, + Therefoor, suspysion, I do banyshe thee" + +Then follows a line I cannot decypher, and at the bottom of the page is + + "You will be clear of my suspysion." + +Are these verses from some old poet, or are they composed as well as +written by the royal tyrant? for no other would, I think, have addressed +such lines to "Kateryn the Quene." + +I have only to add that the volume was given me by the sister of the +late President of the English college at Valladolid, and that he +obtained it during his residence in Spain. It is not unlikely it may +have been carried thither by some of the English Catholics, who resorted +to that country for education. In 1625 it seems to have belonged to John +Sherrott. + +I should be glad of any information about the verses. + +E. Charlton, M.D. + +Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 18. 1850. + + * * * * * {213} + +SUGGESTIONS FOR CHEAP BOOKS OF REFERENCE. + +Although your space is generally devoted to the higher and more curious +inquiries respecting antiquities and literature, I am sure you will not +grudge a little room for facilitating and improving the means of popular +information and instruction. + +For every man, almost in any station in society, I submit that the +followings works for reference are indispensable, in the most convenient +corner or shelf of his library:--1. A Biographical Dictionary. 2. A +Gazetteer. 3. A Statistical or Commercial Dictionary. With works of that +description the public have been very indifferently supplied during the +last thirty years: at least, at the _moderate prices_ calculated to +bring them within the reach of students in humbler life, forming the +great mass of readers. Mr. Constable, of Edinburgh, published in 1817 an +abridged Gazetteer, price 18s., but there has been no such work since. +Mr. A.K. Johnston's _Geographical Dictionary_, at 36s., lately +published, supplies to a certain class of readers one of the works +wanted. + +I beg to suggest a few observations for the improvement of works of this +description through your valuable channel. + +I. I submit that none of the dictionaries of reference now specified +should be published without promise of a _periodical supplement_ every +five or seven years, containing later matter and intelligence. For +example, how easily could this be given in the case of a Biographical +Dictionary! Say that such a work has been published in 1830 (which, it +is believed, is the date of Gorton's excellent _Biographical +Dictionary_), the compiler of a supplement has only to collect and +arrange monthly or annual obituaries of the common magazines since 1830 +to make a good and useful supplemental volume. + +II. I would suggest to skilful authors and booksellers publishing +Biographical Dictionaries to follow the French and American custom of +including in them the more eminent _contemporary_ living characters. +That would add greatly to the use of the book; and the matter could +easily be collected from the current Books of Peerage and Parliamentary +Companions, with aid from the numerous magazines as to distinguished +literary men. + +III. The supplements for Gazetteers could be easily compiled from the +_parliamentary papers_ and magazines of the day. I would refer +particularly to the supplements published by Mr. McCulloch to his +_Commercial Dictionary_ as an example to be followed; while the conduct +lately adopted in the new edition of Maunder's _Biographical Treasury_ +should be avoided. The old edition of that collection consisted of 839 +pages, and it is believed it was _stereotyped_. A new edition, or a new +issue, of the old 839 pages was lately published, the same as the +original dictionary, with a supplement of 72 pages. That is not sold +separately; so that the holders of the old edition must purchase the +whole work a _second_ time in 1850, at 10s., to procure the supplement. +The public should not encourage such a style of publication. Any one +might publish a supplemental dictionary since 1836, which would equally +serve with the old edition. This hint is particularly addressed to Mr. +Charles Knight. + +These hints are offered to the publishers and encouragers of _popular_ +works for general readers, at economical prices; and they might be +extended. For example, dictionaries of medicine for family use have +great sale. Sometimes, it is believed, they are stereotyped. Why should +not later practice and discoveries be published in a cheaper +_supplement_, to preserve the value of the original work? Thus, in my +family, I use the excellent _Cyclopædia of Popular Medicine_ published +by Dr. Murray in 1842; but on looking into it for "Chloroform" and "Cod +Liver Oil," no such articles are to be found, as they were not known in +1842. The skilful will find many other omissions. + +IV. There might be a greater difficulty in constructing a popular +commercial or statistical dictionary, at a moderate price, to be +supplied with supplements at later intervals. But even as to these, +there is a good model in Waterston's _Small Dictionary of Commerce_, +published in 1844, which, with a supplement, might afford, for a few +shillings, to give all the later information derived from the free-trade +measures and extension of our colonies. Waterston's original work is +advertised often for sale at 10s. or 12s., and a supplement at 3s. would +bring it within the reach of the great bulk of readers. + +These suggestions are offered without the slightest intention to +depreciate or disparage the greater and more elaborate works of Mr. +McCulloch, and others who compile and publish works worthy of reference, +and standards of authority among men of highest science. No man who can +afford it would ever be without the latest edition (without the aid of +supplements) of large works; but it is manifest that there has been a +great neglect to supply the mass of readers in ordinary circumstances +with books of common reference, at moderate prices; and I hope that some +publishers of enterprise and sagacity will see it to be their interest +to act on the advice now offered. + +PHILANTHROPOS. + + * * * * * + +RIB, WHY THE FIRST WOMAN FORMED FROM. + +Allow me to request a place for the following curious and quaint +exposition of the propriety of the selection of _the rib_ as the +material out of which our first mother Eve was formed; and the ingenious +illustration which it is made to afford of the relation between wife and +husband. {214} + + "Thirdly, God so ordered the matter betwixt them, that this + adhæsion and agglutination of one to the other should be + perpetuall. For by taking a bone from the man (who was _nimium + osseus_, exceeded and was somewhat monstrous, by one bone too + much) to strengthen the woman, and by putting flesh in steede + thereof to mollifie the man, he made a sweete complexion and + temper betwixt them, like harmony in musicke, for their amiable + cohabitation. + + "Fourthly, that bone which God tooke from the man, was from out + the midst of him. As Christ wrought saluation _in medio terræ_, + so God made the woman _è medio viri_, out of the very midst of + man. The _species_ of the bone is exprest to be _costa_, a rib, + a bone of the side, not of the head: a woman is not _domina_, + the ruler; nor of any anterior part; she is not _prælata_, + preferred before the man; nor a bone of the foote; she is not + _serva_, a handmaid; nor of any hinder part; she is not + _post-posita_, set behind the man: but a bone of the _side_, of + a middle and indifferent part, to show that she is _socia_, a + companion to the husband. For _qui junguntur lateribus, socii + sunt_, they that walke side to side and cheeke to cheeke, walke + as companions. + + "Fifthly, I might adde, a bone from vnder the arme, to put the + man in remembrance of protection and defense to the woman. + + "Sixthly, a bone not far from his heart to put him in minde of + dilection and loue to the woman. Lastly, a bone from the left + side, to put the woman in minde, that by reason of her frailty + and infirmity she standeth in need of both the one and the other + from her husband. + + "To conclude my discourse, if these things be duely examined + when man taketh a woman to wife, _reparat latus suum_, what doth + he else but remember the maime that was sometimes made in his + side, and desireth to repaire it? _Repetit costam suam_, he + requireth and fetcheth back the rib that was taken from him," + &c. &c.--From pp. 28, 30, of "_Vitis Palatina_, A sermon + appointed to be preached at Whitehall, upon Tuesday after the + marriage of the Ladie Elizabeth, her Grace, by the B. of London. + London: printed for John Bill, 1614." + +The marriage actually took place on the 14th of February, 1612. In the +dedication to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I., the Bishop +(Dr. John King) hints that he had delayed the publication till the full +meaning of his text, which is Psalm xxviii. ver. 3, should have been +accomplished by the birth of a son, an event which had been recently +announced, and that, too, on the very day when this Psalm occurred in +the course of the Church service. + +The sermon is curious, and I may hereafter trouble you with some notices +of these "Wedding Sermons," which are evidently contemplated by the +framers of our Liturgy, as the concluding homily of the office for +matrimony is by the Rubric to be read "if there be no sermon." It is +observable that the first Rubric especially directs that the woman shall +stand on the man's left hand. Any notices on the subject from your +correspondents would be acceptable. + +In the first series of Southey's _Common Place Book_, at page 226., a +passage is quoted from Henry Smith's _Sermons_, which dwells much upon +the formation of the woman from _the rib_ of man, but not in such detail +as Bishop King has done. Notices of the Bishop may be found in Keble's +edition of _Hooker_, vol. ii. pp. 24, 100, 103. It appears that after +his death it was alleged that he maintained Popish doctrines. This his +son, Henry King, canon of St. Paul's, and Archdeacon of Colchester, +satisfactorily disproved in a sermon at Paul's Cross, and again in the +dedication prefixed to his "_Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer_," 4to., +London, 1634. See Wood's _Athenæ Oxon._, fol. edit. vol. ii. p. 294. + +As for the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards celebrated for +her misfortunes as Queen of Bohemia, it was celebrated in an +epithalamium by Dr. Donne, _Works_, 8vo. edit. vol. vi. p. 550. And in +the Somer's _Tracts_, vol. iii., pp. 35, 43., may be found descriptions +of the "_shewes_," and a poem of Taylor the Water Poet, entitled +"Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy," all tending to show the great +contemporary interest which the event occasioned. + +Balliolensis. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES + +_Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper._--Two centuries ago furs were so +rare, and therefore so highly valued, that the wearing of them was +restricted by several sumptuary laws to kings and princes. Sable, in +those laws called _vair_, was the subject of countless regulations: the +exact quality permitted to be worn by persons of different grades, and +the articles of dress to which it might be applied, were defined most +strictly. Perrault's tale of _Cinderella_ originally marked the dignity +conferred on her by the fairy by her wearing a slipper of _vair_, a +privilege then confined to the highest rank of princesses. An error of +the press, now become inveterate, changed _vair_ into _verre_, and the +slipper of _sable_ was suddenly converted into a _glass_ slipper. + +Jarltzberg. + + +_Mistletoe on Oaks._--In Vol. ii., p. 163., I observed a citation on the +extreme rarity of _mistletoe on oaks_, from Dr. Giles and Dr. Daubeny; +and with reference to it, and to some remarks of Professor Henslow in +the _Gardeners' Chronicle_, I communicated to the latter journal, last +week, the fact of my having, at this present time, a bunch of that plant +growing in great luxuriance on an oak aged upwards of seventy years. + +I beg leave to repeat it for the use of your work, and to add, what I +previously appended as likely to be interesting to the archæologist of +Wales or the Marches, that the oak bearing it stands about half a mile +N.W. of my residence here, on the earthen mound of Badamscourt, once a +moated {215} mansion of the Herberts, or Ab-Adams, of Beachley adjacent, +and of Llanllowell. + +George Ormerod. + +Sedbury Park, Chepstow. + + +_Omnibuses._--It may be interesting to your readers at a future time to +know when these vehicles, the use of which is daily extending, were +introduced into this country; perhaps, therefore, you will allow me to +state how the fact is. Mr. C. Knight, in his _Volume of Varieties_, p. +178., observes: + + "The Omnibus was tried about 1800, with four horses and six + wheels; but we refused to accept it in any shape till we + imported the fashion from Paris in 1830." + +And Mr. Shillibeer, of the City Road, the inventor of the patent funeral +carriage, in his evidence before the Board of Health on the general +scheme for extra-mural sepulture, incidentally mentions that he + + "Had had much experience in cheapening vehicular transit, having + originated and established the Omnibus in England."--_Report_, + p. 124., 8vo. ed. + +Arun. + + +_Havock._--Havock is a term in our ancient English military laws: the +use of it was forbidden among the soldiery by the army regulations of +those days; so in the Ordinances des Batailles in the ninth year of +Richard II, art. x.: + + "Item, que nul soit si hardi de crier havoick sur peine d'avoir + la teste coupe." + +This was properly a punishable offence in soldiers; havock being the cry +of mutual encouragement to general massacre, unlimited slaughter, that +no quarter should be given, &c. A tract on "The office of the constable +and Mareshall in the tyme of Warre," contained in the black book of the +Admiralty, has this passage: + + "Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he + that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that + doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... + and his body in prison at the king's will." + +And this appears to answer well to the original term, which is taken +from the ravages committed by a troop of wild beasts, wolves, lions, +&c., falling on a flock of sheep. But some think it was originally a +hunting term, importing the letting loose a pack of hounds. Shakspeare +combines both senses: + + "Cry havock! and let slip the dogs of war." + +In a copy of Johnson's _Dictionary_ before me, I find + + "HAVOCK (haroc, Sax.), waste; wide and general devastation." + _Spenser_. + + "HAVOCK, _interj_, a word of encouragement to slaughter." + _Shakspeare_. + + "TO HAVOCK, _v. a._, to waste; to destroy; to lay waste." + _Spenser_. + +Jarltzberg. + + +_Schlegel on Church Property in England._--Fr. Schlegel, in his +_Philosophy of History_, says, p. 403., "in England and Sweden church +property remained inviolate:" what the case may be in Sweden I do not +know, but it appears strange that a man of such general knowledge as F. +Schlegel should make such an assertion as regards England. + +S.N. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +P. MATHIEU'S LIFE OF SEJANUS. + +In a letter from Southey to his friend Bedford, dated Nov. 11, 1821 +(_Life and Correspondence_, vol. v. p. 99.), he desires him to inform +Gifford that + + "In a volume of tracts at Lowther, of Charles I.'s time, I found + a life of Sejanus by P.M., by which initials some hand, + apparently as old as the book, had written Philip Massinger. I + did not read the tract, being too keenly in pursuit of other + game; but I believe it had a covert aim at Buckingham. I have + not his Massinger, and, therefore, do not know whether he is + aware that this was ever ascribed to that author; if he is not, + he will be interested in the circumstance, and may think it + worthy of further inquiry." + +As others may be led by this hint to enter on such an inquiry, I would +suggest that it may save much trouble if they first satisfy themselves +that the _Life of Sejanus_ by P. Mathieu may not have been the tract +which fell in Southey's way. It is to be found in a volume entitled + + "_Unhappy Prosperity_, expressed in the History of Ælius Selanus + and Philippa the _Catanian_, with observations upon the fall of + Sejanus. Lastly, Certain Considerations upon the life and + Services of _Monsieur_ Villeroy, translated out of the original + [French] by _S'r T. H._[_awkins_], _second edition_, 12'o. + London, 1639." + +This was just eleven years after Buckingham met his fate at the hands of +Felton. How long the interval between the first and this, the second +edition, may have been, I cannot tell. Nor do I know enough of the +politics of the time to determine whether anything can be inferred from +the fact that the translation is dedicated to William Earl of Salisbury, +or to warrant me in saying that these illustrations of the fate of royal +favourites may have been brought before the English public with any view +to the case of George Villiers. A passage, however, in Mathieu's +dedication of the original "to the king," seems to render it not +improbable, certainly not inapplicable: + + "You (Sir) shall therein [in this history] behold, that _a + prince ought to be very carefull to conserve his authority + entire. Great ones_ [court favourites] _here may learne_, it is + not good to play with the generous {216} Lyon though he suffer + it, and that _favours are precipices for such as abuse them_." + +Having referred to this work of Mathieu's, I shall feel obliged to any +of your correspondents who will favour me with a notice of it, or of the +author. + +Balliolensis. + + * * * * * + +THE ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING. + +I feel much interested in the Query of your correspondent Z.A.Z. (Vol. +ii., p. 41.) I had a "Query" something similar, with a "Note" on it, +lying by me for some time, which I send you as they stand.--Was not +smoking in use in England and other countries before the introduction of +tobacco? Whitaker says, a few days after the tower of Kirkstall Abbey +fell, 1779, he + + "Discovered imbedded in the mortar of the fallen fragments + several little smoking pipes, such as were used in the reign of + James I. for tobacco; a proof of a fact _which has not been + recorded_, that, prior to the introduction of that plant from + America, the practice of inhaling the smoke of some indigenous + plant or vegetable prevailed in England." (_Loidis and Elmete_.) + +Allowing, then, pipes to have been coeval with the erection of +Kirkstall, we find them to have been used in England about 400 years +before the introduction of tobacco. On the other hand, as Dr. Whitaker +says, we find _no record_ of their being used, or of smoking being +practised; and it is almost inconceivable that our ancestors should have +had such a practice, without any allusion being made to it by any +writers. As to the antiquity of smoking in Ireland, the first of Irish +antiquaries, the learned and respected Dr. Petrie, says: + + "The custom of smoking is of much greater antiquity in Ireland + than the introduction of tobacco into Europe. Smoking pipes made + of bronze are frequently found in our Irish _tumuli_, or + sepulchral mounds, of the most remote antiquity; and similar + pipes, made of baked clay, are discovered daily in all parts of + the island. A curious instance of the _bathos_ in sculpture, + which also illustrates the antiquity of this custom, occurs on + the monument of Donogh O'Brien, king of Thomond, who was killed + in 1267, and interred in the Abbey of Corcumrac, in the co. of + Clare, of which his family were the founders. He is represented + in the usual recumbent posture, with the short pipe or _dudeen_ + of the Irish in his mouth." + +In the _Anthologia Hibernica_ for May 1793, vol. i. p. 352., we have +some remarks on the antiquity of smoking "among the German and Northern +nations," who, the writer says, "were clearly acquainted with, and +cultivated tobacco, which they smoked through wooden and earthen tubes." +He refers to Herod. lib. i. sec. 36.; Strabo, lib. vii. 296.; Pomp. Mela +2, and Solinus, c. 15. + +Wherever we go, we see smoking so universal a practice, and people +"taking to it so naturally," that we are inclined to believe that it was +always so; that our first father enjoyed a quiet puff now and then; +(that, like a poet, man "nascitur non fit" a smoker); and that the +soothing power of this narcotic tranquillised the soul of the aquatic +patriarch, disturbed by the roar of billows and the convulsions of +nature, and diffused its peaceful influence over the inmates of the ark. +Yes, we are tempted to spurn the question, When and where was smoking +introduced? as being equal to When and where was _man_ introduced? Yet, +as some do not consider man as a smoking animal "de natu et ab initio," +the question may provoke some interesting replies from your learned +correspondents. + +Jarltzberg. + + * * * * * + +SIR GREGORY NORTON, BART. + +I am desirous to be informed of the date and particulars of the above +baronetcy having been created. In _The Mystery of the good old Cause +briefly unfolded_ (1660), it is stated, at p. 26., that Sir Gregory +Norton, Bart. (one of the king's judges), had Richmond House, situated +in the _Old_ Park, and much of the king's goods, for an inconsiderable +value. Sir Gregory Norton has a place also in _The Loyal Martyrology_ of +Winstanley (1665), p. 130.; and also in _History of the King-killers_ +(1719), part 6. p. 75. It is unnecessary to refer to Noble's +_Regicides_, he having simply copied the two preceding works. Sir +Gregory died before the Restoration, in 1652, and escaped the vindictive +executions which ensued, and was buried at Richmond in Surrey. There was +a Sir _Richard_ Norton, Bart., of Rotherfield, _Hants_ (Query +Rotherfield, _Sussex_, near Tunbridge Wells), who is mentioned by +Sylvanus Morgan in his _Sphere of Gentry_; but he does not record a Sir +Gregory. Nor does the latter occur in a perfect collection of the +knights made by King James I., by J.P. (Query John Philipot?), London, +Humphrey Moseley, 1660, 8vo. I have examined all the various works on +extinct and dormant baronetcies ineffectually. In the _Mercurius +Publicus_ of Thursday, 28th June, 1660, it appears that on the preceding +Saturday the House of Commons settled the manor of Richmond, with house +and materials, purchased by Sir Gregory Norton, Bart., on the queen +(Henrietta Maria) as part of her jointure. + +D.N. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_City Offices._--Can any of your correspondents recommend some book +which gives a good history of the different public offices of the city +of London, with their duties and qualifications, and in whom the +appointments are vested? + +A Citizen. + + +_Harefinder, Meaning of._--Can any of your readers kindly give a +feasible explanation of {217} phrase _harefinder_, as it occurs in _Much +Ado about Nothing_, Act i. Sc. 1.? A reference to any similar term in a +contemporary would be very valuable. + +B. + + +_Saffron-bag._--Having lately read Sir E.B. Lytton's novel of _The +Caxtons_--to which I must give a passing tribute of admiration--I have +been a good deal puzzled, first, to ascertain the meaning, and, second, +the origin of the _saffron-bag_ of which he speaks so much. I have asked +many persons, and have not been able to obtain a satisfactory solution +of my difficulty. Should you or any of your contributors be able, I wish +you would enlighten not only me but many of my equally unlearned +friends. + +W.C. Luard. + + +_Bishop Berkley's successful Experiments._--I have somewhere read that +Bishop Berkley succeeded in increasing the stature of an individual +placed in his charge. Will any of your correspondents give me the +details of such process, with their opinions as to the practicability of +the scheme? + +F.W. + + +_Portrait (Unknown)._--A very carefully painted portrait, on an oak +panel, has been in the possession of my family for many years, and I +should be much pleased if any of your correspondents could enable me to +identify the personage. + +The figure, which is little more than a head, is nearly the size of +life, and represents an elderly man with grey hair and a long venerable +beard: the dress, which is but little shown, is black. At the upper part +of the panel, on the dexter side, is a shield, bearing these +arms:--Argent on a fess sable between three crosses patées, Or, as many +martlets of the last. Above the shield is written "In cruce glorior." I +have searched in vain for those arms. On the prints published by the +Society of Antiquaries, of the funeral of Abbot Islip, is one nearly +similar,--the field ermine on a fess between three crosses patées, as +many martlets. The colours are not shown by the engraver. A manuscript +ordinary, by Glover, in my possession, contains another, which is +somewhat like that on the picture, being--Argent on a fess engrailed +sable, bearing three crosses patées, Gules, as many martlets on the +field. This is there ascribed to "Canon George." It is very probable +that the gold crosses on the white field was an error of the portrait +painter. + +The size of the oak panel, which is thick, is seventeen inches wide, and +twenty-two in height. The motto is in a cursive hand, apparently of +about the time of Edward VI. + +T.W. + + +_Wives, Custom of Selling._--Has there ever been any foundation in law +for the practice of selling of wives, which our neighbours the French +persist in believing to be perfectly legal and common at the present +day? What was the origin of the custom? An amusing series of "Notes" +might be made, from instances in which the custom is introduced as +characteristic of English manners, by French and other foreign writers. + +G.L.B. + + +_Hepburn Crest and Motto._--Can some of your numerous readers give me +the origin of the crest and motto of the family of Hepburn, namely, a +horse argent, furnished gules, passant, and tied to a tree proper. +Motto, "Keep Traist." + +I should also be glad to know the name of any book containing the +legends, or authentic stories, relating to the heraldic bearings of +various families? + +R.E. + + +_Concolinel._--I have recently met with a curious manuscript which +contains numerous tunes of the time of Queen Elizabeth, one of which is +stated in a recent hand to be the "tune of _Concolinel_ mentioned by +Shakspeare;" but the old index, if there was one that indicated this, is +now missing. My reason for writing to you is to ask whether Dr. +Rimbault, or any of your other correspondents, can refer me to any +information that will enable me to ascertain whether my MS. really +contains that tune. It certainly does contain several others noticed by +Shakspeare. + +R. + + +"_One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church._"--Can any of your +correspondents inform me how, or why, the word "holy" is omitted in the +above article of the Nicene (Constantinopolitan) Creed, in all our +Prayer-books? It is not omitted in the original Greek and Latin. + +J.M.W. + + +_The Norfolk Dialect._--Mr. Dickens' attempt to give interest to his new +novel by introducing this dialect would have been even more successful +had he been more familiar with the curious peculiarities of that +east-coast language. Many of the words are, I believe, quite peculiar to +Norfolk and Suffolk, such as, for instance, the following: + + _Mawther_, a girl, a wench. + _Gotsch_, a stone jug. + _Holl_, a dry ditch. + _Anan? An?_ an interrogation used when the + speaker does not understand a question put to him. + _To be muddled_, to be distressed in mind. + _Together_, an expletive used thus: where are + you going _together?_ (meaning several persons)--what + are you doing _together?_ + +Perhaps some reader can explain the origin of these words. + +Icenus. + + +_Sir John Perrot._--Sir John Perrot, governor of Ireland in the reign of +Henry VIII., was one of the few rulers over that most unfortunate +country who have ruled it wisely. I believe that he was beheaded in the +reign of Elizabeth. Will any of your readers kindly inform me whether +his life has {218} ever been published, or where I can meet with the +best account of him? + +E.N.W. + + +"_Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi._"--Mr. Craik in his admirable little +work on _Bacon; his Writings and his Philosophy_, after quoting the +paragraph containing this fine aphoristic expression, remarks that, + + "From the manner in which it is here introduced as a Latin + phrase, there would seen to be some reason for doubting whether + it be an original thought of Bacon's. It has much the appearance + of some aphorism or adage of the schools." (Vol. ii. p. 55.) + +Mr. Craik adds in a note, + + "A friend, however, who, if we were to name him, would be + recognised as one of the first of living authorities on all + points connected with the history of learning and philosophy, + informs us that he feels certain of having never met with the + expression or the thought in any writer previous to Bacon." + +In Basil Montagu's edition of _The Advancement of Learning_ it is marked +as a quotation. Query. Has the expression, or the thought, been traced +to any writer previous to Bacon? + +J.M.B. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +DERIVATION OF NEWS. + +I have no wish to prolong the controversy on this word, in which I feel +I, at least, have had my share. I beg room, however, for an observation +on one or two very pertinent remarks by Mr. Singer. + +In the course of this argument I have seen that if _news_ were +originally a plural noun, it might be taken for an ellipsis of +_new-tidings_. My objection to this would be twofold. First, that the +adjective _new_ is of too common use, and, at the same time, too general +and vague to form an ellipsis intelligible on its first application; +and, secondly, that the ellipsis formed of _new-tidings_ would be found +to express no more than _tidings_, still requiring the _new_, if the +idea of _new_ were required, as in the instance Mr. Singer cites of _new +newes_. + +I would not pretend to determine whether the word were taken from the +High German or the Dutch; but Mr. Singer's remark, that our language has +derived scarcely anything from the former, brings back the question to +the point from which I originally started. That there was a political +and commercial connexion between the two countries, I suppose there can +be no doubt and such, I imagine, never existed without leaving its marks +on languages so near akin. + +Taking up Bailey's _Dictionary_ by accident a day or two ago, I turned +to the word, which I there find as derived from Newes, _Teut_.; Bailey +using the term _Teutonic_ for German. + +I think I shall express the feelings of the majority of your readers in +saying that nothing could be more acceptable or valuable to the +consideration of any etymological question than the remarks of Mr. +Singer. + +Samuel Hickson. + + +I have read with much interest the respective theories of the derivation +of _news_, and it seems to me that Mr. Hickson's opinion must give way +to an excellent authority in questions of this kind, Dr. Latham, who +says, + + Some say, _this news_ IS good in which case the word is + singular. More rarely we find the expression, _these news_ ARE + good; in which case the word "news" is plural. In the word + "news", the -_s_ (unlike the -_s_ in _alms_ and _riches_) is no + part of the original singular, but the sign of the plural, like + the -_s_ in "trees." Notwithstanding this, we cannot subtract + the _s_, and say "new," in the same way that we _can_ form + "tree" from "trees." Hence the word "news" is, in respect to its + original form, plural; in respect to its meaning, either + singular or plural, most frequently the former.--_Eng. + Grammar_, p. 62. + +The above extract will probably suffice to show the true state of the +case, and for information on similar points I would refer your readers +to the work from which the above extract is taken, and also to that on +_The English Language_, by the same author. + +T. C. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Swords worn in public_ (Vol. i., p. 415.; vol. ii. p. 110.).--I am +surprised that the curious topic suggested by the Query of J.D.A. has +not been more satisfactorily answered. Wedsecuarf's reply (Vol. ii., p. +110.) is short, and not quite exact. He says that "Swords ceased to be +worn as an article of dress through the influence of Beau Nash, and were +consequently first out of fashion at Bath;" and he quotes the authority +of Sir Lucius O'Trigger as to "wearing no swords _there_." Now, it is, I +believe, true that Nash endeavoured to discountenance the wearing swords +at Bath; but it is certain that they were commonly worn twenty or thirty +years later. + +Sir Lucius O'Trigger talks of Bath in 1774, near twenty years after +Nash's reign, and, even at that time, only says that swords were "not +worn _there_"--implying that they were worn elsewhere; and we know that +Sheridan's own duel at Bath was a rencontre, he and his adversary, +Mathews, both wearing swords. I remember my father's swords hung up in +his dressing-room, and his telling me that he had worn a sword, even in +the streets, so late as about 1779 or 1780. In a set of characteristic +sketches of eminent persons about the year 1782, several wear swords; +and one or two members of the House of Commons, evidently represented in +the attitude of speaking, have swords. I have seen a picture of the Mall +in {219} St. James's Park, of about that date, in which all the men have +swords. + +I suspect they began to go out of common use about 1770 and were nearly +left off in ordinary life in 1780; but were still occasionally worn, +both in public and private, till the French Revolution, when they +totally went out, except in court dress. + +If any of your correspondents who has access to the Museum would look +through the prints representing out-of-doors life, from Hogarth to +Gilray, he would probably be able to furnish you with some precise and +amusing details on this not unimportant point in the history of manners. + +C. + + +_Quarles' Pension_ (Vol. ii., p. 171.).--There should have been added to +the reference there given, viz. "Vol. i., p. 201." (at which place there +is no question as to Quarles' _pension_), another to Vol. i., p. 245., +where that question is raised. I think this worth noting, as "Quarles" +does not appear in the Index, and the imperfect reference might lead +inquirers astray. It seems very curious that the inquiry as to the +precise meaning of Pope's couplet has as yet received no explanation. + +C. + + +_Franz von Sickingen_ (Vol. i., p. 131.).--I regret that I cannot +resolve the doubt of H.J.H. respecting Albert Durer's allegorical print +of _The Knight, Death, and the Devil_, of which I have only what I +presume is a copy or retouched plate, bearing the date 1564 on the +tablet in the lower left-hand corner, where I suppose the mark of Albert +Durer is placed in the original. + +I should, however, much doubt its being intended as a portrait of +Sickingen, and I can trace no resemblance to the medal given by Luckius. +I believe the conjecture originated with Bartsch, in his _Peintre +Graveur_, vol. vii. p. 107. Schoeber, in his _Life of Durer_, p. 87., +supposes that it is an allegory of the nature of a soldier's life. + +It was this print that inspired La Motte Fouqué with the idea of his +_Sintram_ as he thus informs us in the postscript to that singularly +romantic tale: + + "Some years since there lay among my birth-day presents a + beautiful engraving of Albert Durer. A harnessed knight, with an + oldish countenance, is riding upon his high steed, attended by + his dog, through a fearful valley, where fragments of rock and + roots of trees distort themselves into loathsome forms; and + poisonous weeds rankle along the ground. Evil vermin are + creeping along through them. Beside him Death is riding on a + wasted pony; from behind the form of a devil stretches over its + clawed arm toward him. Both horse and dog look strangely, as it + were infected by the hideous objects that surround them; but the + knight rides quietly along his way, and bears upon the tip of + his lance a lizard that he has already speared. A castle, with + its rich friendly battlements, looks over from afar, whereat the + desolateness of the valley penetrates yet deeper into the soul. + The friend who gave me this print added a letter, with a request + that I would explain the mysterious forms by a ballad.... I bear + the image with me in peace and in war, until it has now spun + itself out into a little romance." + +S.W. Singer. + +Mickleham Aug. 13. 1850. + + +"_Noli me tangere_" (Vol. ii., p. 153.).--B.R. is informed, that one of +the finest paintings on this subject is the altar-piece in All Souls +College Chapel, Oxford. It is the production of Raphael Mengs, and was +purchased for the price of three hundred guineas of Sir James Thornhill, +who painted the figure of the founder over the altar, the ceiling, and +the figures between the windows. There may be other paintings by earlier +masters on so interesting subject, but none can surpass this of Raphael +Mengs in the truthfulness of what he has here delineated. The exact size +of the picture I do not recollect, but it cannot be less than ten feet +high. + +There is a beautiful engraving of it by Sherwin. + +J.M.G. + +Worcester. + + +_Dr. Bowring's Translations_ (Vol. ii. p. 152.).--Besides the +anthologies mentioned by Jarltzberg, Dr. Bowring has published _Poets of +the Magyars_, 8vo. London, 1830; _Specimens of Polish Poets_, 1827; +_Servian popular Poetry_, 1827; and a _Cheskian Anthology_, 1832. + +H.H.W. + + +"_Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke_" (Vol. ii., p. 135.).--The +lines about which X. asks, are + + "We must be free or die, who speak the tongue + That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals hold + Which Milton held," &c. + +They are in one of Wordsworth's glorious "Sonnets to Liberty" (the +sixteenth), and belong to _us_, and not to the New-Englanders. + +G.N. + + +_Countess of Desmond_ (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 186.).--In reply to K., I have +an impression that Horace Walpole has a kind of dissertation on the _Old +Countess of Desmond_, to whom his attention was directed by her being +said to have danced with Richard III. Having no books at hand, I cannot +speak positively; but if K. turns to Walpole's _Works_, he will see +whether my memory is correct. I myself once looked, many years ago, into +the subject, and satisfied myself that the great age attributed to _any_ +Countess of Desmond must be a fable; and that the portrait of her (I +think, at Windsor) was so gross an imposition as to be really that of an +old man. I made a "Note"--indeed many--of the circumstances which led me +to this conclusion; but they are at this moment inaccessible to me. I +venture however, now that the question is revived, to offer these vague +suggestions. By and by, if the subject be not exhausted, I shall +endeavour to find my "Notes," and communicate them to you. I wonder the +{220} absurdity of the kind of death imputed to the imaginary lady did +not reflect back a corresponding incredulity as to the length of her +life. + +C. + + +_Yorkshire Dales_ (Vol. ii., p. 154.).--No guide or description has been +published that would serve as a handbook to the dales in the West Riding +of Yorkshire between Lancashire and Westmoreland. Should A PEDESTRIAN +wish to explore the beauties of Teesdale he will find a useful handbook +in a little work, published anonymously in 1813, called _A Tour in +Teesdale, including Rokeby and its Environs_. The author was Richard +Garland, of Hull, who died several years ago. + +[Greek: Delta]. + + +_The Yorkshire Dales_ (Vol. ii., p. 154.).--In answer to a recent +inquiry, I beg to state that a guide to the above dales is in +preparation. It will be edited by your humble servant, illustrated by a +well-known gentleman, and published by Mr. Effingham Wilson. + +J.H. DIXON. + +Tollington Villa, Hornsey. + + [We are glad to hear that such a Guide is preparing by Mr. + Dixon, whose knowledge of the locality peculiarly fits him for + the work he has undertaken.] + + +_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs_ (Vol. ii., p. 140.).--The information MR. +GATTY wishes for, he will find in Dr. Bliss's edition of the _Athenæ_, +vol. iv. p. 18. He will perform an acceptable service to historical +inquirers, if he will collate the printed memoir with the MS. in the +possession of his friend, and give to the world such passages, if any, +as have not been hitherto published. + +[Greek: Delta]. + + +_Alarum_ (Vol. ii., pp. 151. 183.).--There can be no doubt that the word +_alarm_ (originally French) comes from the warning war-cry _à l'arme_. +So all the French philologists agree; and the modern variance of _aux +armes_ does not invalidate so plain an etymology. When CH. admits that +there can be no doubt that _alarm_ and _alarum_ are identical, it seems +to one that _cadit questio_,--that all his doubts and queries are +answered. I will add, however, that it appears that in the words' +original sense of an _awakening cry_, Shakspeare generally, if not +always, spelled it _alarum_. Thus-- + + "Ring the _alarum_ bell!"--_Macbeth_. + + "--Murder + "_Alarum'd_ by his sentinel the wolf." + _Macbeth_. + + "When she speaks, is it not an _alarum_ to love?" + _Othello_. + + "But when he saw my _best-alarum'd_ spirits roused + to the encounter."--_Lear_. + +In all these cases _alarum_ means incitement, not _alarm_ in the +secondary or metaphorical sense of the word, which has now become the +ordinary one. In truth, the meanings, though of identical origin, have +become almost contradictions: for instance, in the passage from +_Othello_, an "alarum to love"--incitement to love--is nearly the +reverse of what an "alarm to love" would be taken to mean. + +C. + + +_Practice of Scalping among the Scythians, &c_. (Vol. ii., p. +141.).--Your correspondent T.J. will find in Livy, x. 26., that the +practice of scalping existed among the Kelts. + + "Nec ante ad consules ... famam ejus cladis perlatam, quam in + conspectu fuere Gallorum equites pectoribus equorurn suspensa + gestantes capita, et lanceis infixa ovantesque moris sui + carmine." + +W.B.D. + + +_Gospel Tree_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--In reply to W.H.B., I may mention +that there is a "Gospel Tree" near Leamington. I do not know of one so +called in Gloucestershire. + +GRIFFIN. + + +_Martinet_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--There is no doubt the term _martinet_ +is derived from the general officer _M. de Martinet_ indicated by MR. C. +FORBES, and who was, as Voltaire states, celebrated for having restored +and improved the discipline and tactics of the French army; whence very +strict officers came to be called _martinets_: but is it also from this +restorer of discipline that the name of what we call _cat-o'-nine-tails_ +is in French _martinet_? This is rather an interesting Query, +considering how severely our neighbours censure our use of that +auxiliary to discipline. + +C. + + +_"Yote" or "Yeot"_ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--You may inform B. that _Yote_ or +_Yeot_ is only provincial pronunciation of _Yate_ or _Gate_, a way or +road. The channel made to conduct melted metal into the receptacle +intended for it, is called a gate. + +GRIFFIN. + + +_Map of London_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--The map of London, temp. Edw. VI., +in the Sutherland collection, has been recently engraved. It is of +singular curiosity. I do not know the name of the publisher. + +R. + + +_Wood-carving, Snow Hill_ (Vol. ii., p. 134.).--The carving alluded to +by A.C. is, I believe, of artificial stone, and represents Æsop attended +by a child, to whom he appears to be narrating his fables. It is or +rather _was_, a work of some merit, and is, as A.C. observes, "worth +preserving;" but, alas! of this there is but little chance. The house in +question (No. 41. Skinner Street), and also the one adjoining, have been +tenantless for many years; they belong to two old ladies, who also own +the two deserted houses at the corner of Stamford Street, Blackfriars +Road. It is scarcely necessary to speak of the now somewhat picturesque +condition of the houses alluded to in either locality, for the pitiably +dilapidated condition of them all must have been matter of remark for +many years past to any one at all acquainted with London. {221} The +house, 41. Skinner Street, is also worthy of remark from another +circumstance. It was formerly occupied by William Godwin, the well-known +author of _Caleb Williams, Political Justice_, &c. It was here he opened +a bookseller's shop, and published his numerous juvenile works, under +the assumed name of Edward Baldwin. + +E.B. PRICE. + + +_Waltheof_ (Vol. ii, p. 167.).--I believe that Waltheof (or Wallef, as +he is always styled in Doomsday Book) never appeared at the court of +William the Conqueror in the character of an envoy; but in 1067, little +better than six months after the first landing of the Normans, we find +him, in conjunction with Edgar Atheling and others, accompanying the +Conqueror in his triumphal return to Normandy, as a hostage and +guarantee for the quiescence of his countrymen. At this period, it is +probable he might have first become acquainted with Judith; but this +must rest on conjecture. At all events, we have the authority of William +of Malmsbury for saying that Waltheof's marriage did not take place +until the year 1070, soon after his reconciliation with the king on the +banks of the Tees. Your correspondent errs in ascribing 1070 as the date +of Waltheof's execution; the _Saxon Chronicle_ distinctly states May +31st, 1076, as the date of his death; while the chronicle of Mailros, +and Florence of Worcester, assign it to the preceding year: in which +they are followed by Augustin Thierry. T.E.L.L. has also fallen into an +error as to the cause of Waltheof's execution, which he states arose +from his participation in a conspiracy at York. Now the crime for which +he was accused, and condemned (on the evidence of his wife), was his +inviting over the Danes to the invasion of England. This was the primary +cause; although his being present at the celebrated marriage-feast at +Norwich was doubtless a secondary one. According to Thierry, he left two +children by Judith. + +DAVID STEVENS. + +Godalming. + + +_The Dodo_ (Vol. i., pp. 261. 410.).--I have the pleasure to supply Mr. +Strickland with the elucidation he desires in his Query 7., by referring +to Hyde, _Historia Religionis Vet. Persarum_, p. 312. + + "Et ut de Patre (Zoroastris) conveniunt, sic inter omnes + convenit Matris ejus nomen fuisse Dôghdu, quod (liquescente _gh_ + ut in vocibus Anglicis, _high_, _mighty_, &c.) apud eos + plerumque sonat Dôdu; nam sonus Gain in medio vocum fere + evanescere solet. Hocque nomen innuit quasi foecundidate ea + similis esset ejusdem nominis Gallinæ Indicæ, cujus Icon apud + Herbertum in Itinerario extat sub nomine Dodo, cujus etiam + exuviæ farctæ in Auditorio Anatomico Oxoniensi servantur. + Reliqua ex Icone dignoscantur. Plurima parit ova, unde et + commodum foecunditatis emblema." + +T.J. + + +"_Under the Rose_" (Vol. i., p. 214.).--I find the three following +derivations for this phrase in my note-book:-- + + I. "The expression, 'under the rose,' took its origin," says + Jenoway, "from the wars between the Houses of York and + Lancaster. The parties respectively swore by the red or the + white rose, and these opposite emblems were displayed as the + _signs of two taverns_; one of which was by the side of, and the + other opposite to, the Parliament House in Old Palace Yard, + Westminster. Here the retainers and servants of the noblemen + attached to the Duke of York and Henry VI. used to meet. Here + also, as disturbances were frequent, measures either of defence + or annoyance were taken, and every transaction was said to be + done 'under the rose;' by which expression the most profound + secrecy was implied." + +II. According to others, this term originated in the fable of Cupid +giving the rose to Harpocrates, the god of silence, as a bribe to +prevent him betraying the amours of Venus, and was hence adopted as the +emblem of silence. The rose was for this reason frequently sculptured on +the ceilings of drinking and feasting, rooms, as a warning to the guests +that what was said in moments of conviviality should not be repeated; +from which, what was intended to be kept secret was said to be held +"under the rose." + +III. Roses were consecrated as presents from the Pope. In 1526, they +were placed over the goals of confessionals as the symbols of secrecy. +Hence the origin of the phrase "Under the Rose." + +JARLTZBERG. + + +_Ergh, Er, or Argh._--Might not these words (queried by T.W., Vol. ii. p +22.) be corruptions of "_burgh_," aspirated _wurgh_, and the aspirate +then dropped; or might not _ark, argh_, &c., be corruptions of "_wark_:" +thus Southwark, commonly pronounced _Southark_? I merely offer this as a +conjecture. + +JARLTZBERG. + + +_Royal Supporters_ (Vol. ii., p. 136.).--E.C. asks when and why the +unicorn was introduced as one of the royal supporters. It was introduced +by James VI. of Scotland when he ascended the throne of England, on +account of the Scottish royal supporters being two unicorns rampant +argent, crowned with imperial, and gorged with antique, crowns, with +chains affixed to the latter passing between their forelegs and reflexed +over their backs, unguled, armed, and crined, all or; the dexter one +embracing and bearing up a banner of gold charged with the royal arms; +the sinister, another banner azure, charged with the cross of St. +Andrew, argent. Queen Elizabeth had used as supporters, dexter, a lion +rampant gardant, crowned; and sinister, a dragon rampant, both or. She +also used a lion ramp. gardant crowned, and a greyhound, both or. James +adopted as supporters, dexter, a lion ramp. gardant, {222} crowned with +the imperial crown, or; sinister, an unicorn argent, armed, crined, +unguled, gorged with a coronet composed of crosses patées, and +fleurs-de-lis, a chain affixed thereto passing between its forelegs, and +reflexed over the back, all or. These have been used as the royal +supporters ever since their first adoption, with but one exception, and +that is in the seal of the Exchequer, time of Charles I., where the +supporters are an antelope and stag, both ducally collared and chained. + +E.K. + + +_The Frog and the Crow of Ennow_.--In answer to M. (Vol. ii., p. 136.), +I send you the edition of "the frog and the crow" which I have been +familiar with since childhood. I can give you no history of it, save +that it is tolerably well known in Lancashire, and that the _point_ +consists in giving a scream over the last "oh!" which invariably, if +well done, elicits a start even in those who are familiar with the +rhyme, and know what to expect. + + _The Frog and the Crow_. + + "There was a jolly fat frog lived in the river Swimmo, + And there was a comely black crow lived on the + river Brimmo; + Come on shore, come on shore, said the crow to the + frog, and then, oh; + No, you'll bite me, no, you'll bite me, said the frog + to the crow again, oh. + + "But there is sweet music on yonder green hill, oh, + And you shall be a dancer, a dancer in yellow, + All in yellow, all in yellow, said the crow to the frog, + and then, oh; + Sir, I thank you, Sir, I thank you, said the frog to + the crow again, oh. + + "Farewell, ye little fishes, that are in the river Swimmo, + For I am going to be a dancer, a dancer in yellow; + Oh, beware, Oh, beware, said the fish to the frog + again, oh; + All in yellow, all in yellow, said the frog to the fish, + and then, oh. + + "The frog he came a-swimming, a-swimming, to + land, oh, + And the crow, he came a-hopping to lend him his + hand, oh; + Sir, I thank you; Sir, I thank you, said the frog to + the crow, and then, oh; + Sir, you're welcome; Sir, you're welcome, said the + crow to the frog again, oh. + + "But where is the music on yonder green hill, oh; + And where are the dancers, the dancers in yellow, + All in yellow, all in yellow? said the frog to the + crow, and then, oh; + Sir, they're here; Sir, they're here, said the crow to + the frog, and eat him all up, _Oh_," (screamed.) + +The moral is obvious, and the diction too recent for the song to have +any great antiquity. I have never seen it in print. + +T.I. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +It would, we think, be extremely difficult to find any subject upon +which persons, otherwise well informed, were so entirely ignorant, until +the appearance of Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_, as the one +upon which that lady treated in those ably written and beautifully +illustrated volumes. It seemed as if the Act of Henry VIII., which +declared that the name and remembrance of Thomas à Becket should be +erased from all documents, had had the effect of obliterating from all +memories not only the often puerile, often offensive stories of the +legend-mongers, but, with them, all remembrance of those holy men of +old, whose piety towards God, and love for their fellow men, furnished +example for all succeeding ages. To readers of all classes Mrs. Jameson +opened up a new and most interesting subject: to lovers of Art almost a +new world, from the light which her learning and criticism threw upon +its master-pieces. What wonder is it, then, that the success of her +_Sacred and Legendary Art_, confined as the two volumes necessarily were +to legends of angels and archangels, evangelists and apostles, the +Fathers, the Magdalene, the patron saints, the virgin patronesses, the +martyrs, bishops and hermits, and the patron saints of christendom, +should have led Mrs. Jameson to continue her labours? The first part of +such continuation is now before us, under the title of _Legends of the +Monastic Orders_: and most fitting it is that the three great divisions +of the regular ecclesiastics should be thus commemorated, since of them +Mrs. Jameson aptly remarks, that while each had a distinct vocation, +there was one vocation common to all:--"The Benedictine Monks instituted +schools of learning; the Augustines built noble cathedrals; the +Mendicant Orders founded hospitals: _all_ became patrons of the Fine +Arts on such a scale of munificence, that the protection of the most +renowned princes has been mean and insignificant in comparison." Nor is +this their only claim; for the earliest artists of the Middle Ages were +monks of the Benedictine Order. "As architects, as glass painters, as +mosaic workers, as carvers in wood and metal, they were the precursors +of all that has since been achieved in Christian Art: and if so few of +these admirable and gifted men are known to us individually and by name, +it is because they worked for the honour of God and their community, not +for profit, nor for reputation." The merits of Mrs. Jameson's first +series were universally acknowledged. The present volume may claim as +high a meed of praise. If possible, it exceeds its predecessors in +literary interest, and in the beauty of the etchings and woodcuts which +accompany it. As a handbook to the traveller who wanders through the +treasuries of Art, it will be indispensable; while to those who are +destined not to leave their homes it will be invaluable, for the light +it throws upon the social condition of Europe in those ages in which the +monastic orders had their origin. 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