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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #13426] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 44, *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team and The Internet Library of Early Journals + + + + + + +</pre> + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page209" name= +"page209"></a>{209}</span> +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, +ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> +<hr class="full" /> +<table summary="masthead" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td align="left" width="25%"><b>No. 44.</b></td> +<td align="center" width="50%"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, +1850</b></td> +<td align="right" width="25%"><b>Price Threepence.<br /> +Stamped Edition 4d.</b></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> +<table summary="Contents" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">NOTES:</td> +<td align="right">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Gravesend Boats</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page209">209</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E.F. +Rimbault</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page211">211</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Devotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine +Parr, by Dr. Charlton</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page212">212</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Suggestions for cheap Books of Reference</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page213">213</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Rib, why the first Woman formed from</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page213">213</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Notes:—Cinderella, or the Glass +Slipper—Mistletoe on +Oaks—Omnibuses—Havock—Schlegel on Church Property +in England</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page214">214</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">QUERIES:</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page215">215</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">The Antiquity of Smoking</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Gregory Norton, Bart.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">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"</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">REPLIES:</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Derivation of "News"</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page218">218</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">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</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page218">218</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page222">222</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes Wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page223">223</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page223">223</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Advertisements</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page223">223</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>NOTES</h2> +<h3>GRAVESEND BOATS.</h3> +<p>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 <i>Great Law of Subordination</i>, after describing +the malpractices of hackney coachmen, he proceeds:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.'</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page210" id= +"page210"></a>{210}</span> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.'</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.'</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>We are not bound to suppose that this is plain relation of +matter of fact, any more than the <i>History of Robinson +Crusoe</i>; 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.</p> +<p class="author">Alpha.</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page211" id= +"page211"></a>{211}</span> +<h3>NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF +LONDON.</h3> +<p>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, <i>Cunningham's Handbook of London</i> would most +assuredly be one of that number.</p> +<p>The quaint and learned old Fuller, in his address to the +<i>Worthies of England</i>, says:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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 <i>religiosior</i> or <i>doctior</i>, +with more piety or learning, at least he may depart +<i>jucundior</i>, with more pleasure and lawful delight."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This remark has been well understood by Mr. Cunningham, whose +pleasant quotations, and literary and artistic recollections, have +made his book a <i>readable</i> one to the many, and an instructive +companion for the <i>initiated</i>.</p> +<p>The "bare skeleton" sometimes wants "fleshing," and hence the +following list of additions and corrections:</p> +<p>1. <i>Dobney's</i>, or, more correctly, <i>D'Aubigney's Bowling +Green</i>, was a celebrated place of amusement "more than sixty +years since." It is now occupied by a group of houses called +<i>Dobney's Place</i>, near the bottom of Penton street, and almost +opposite to the Belvidere Tavern and Tea Gardens.</p> +<p>2. <i>Bridge Street, Westminster.</i> 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 5<i>l.</i> 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 <i>d.</i>"</p> +<p>3. <i>Campden House, Kensington.</i> 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.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Back in the dark, by Brompton Park,</p> +<p>He turned up thro' the Gore,</p> +<p>So slunk to <i>Campden House</i> so high,</p> +<p>All in his coach and four."</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Swift's Ballad of <i>Duke and no Duke</i>.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>4. <i>Finch's Grotto.</i> 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.</p> +<p>5. <i>Leicester Square.</i> Mr. Cunningham does not mention the +fine house of Sir George Savile, in this square. It was +subsequently Miss Linwood's <i>Exhibition of Needlework</i>; 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.</p> +<p>6. <i>Thavie's Inn.</i> A small brass plate fixed up against the +first house on the west side, has the following inscription:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>7. <i>Old Bailey.</i> Peter Bales, the celebrated writing master +of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was master of a school "at the upper +end of the <i>Old Bailey</i>" in 1590. It was here he published his +first work, entitled, <i>The Writing School Master</i>.</p> +<p>8. <i>Islington.</i> 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 <i>Nelson's History of Islington</i>, p. 38, +4to., 1811.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"—Hogsdone, <i>Islington</i>, and Tothnam Court,</p> +<p>For cakes and creame had then no small resort."</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Wither's <i>Britain's Remembrancer</i>, 12mo. 1628.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>9. <i>Seven Dials.</i> The Doric column with its "seven dials," +which once marked this locality, now "ornaments" the pleasant +little town of Walton-on-Thames.</p> +<p>10. <i>Mews (the King's).</i> The fore-court of the royal mews +was used in 1829 for the exhibition of a "monstrous whale." The +<i>building</i> (which stood upon the site of the National Gallery) +was occupied, at the same time, by the <i>Museum of National +Manufactures</i>. 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 <i>Royal Polytechnic +Institution</i>.</p> +<p>Mr. Cunningham, in his <i>Chronology</i>, says the mews was +taken down in 1827. In the body of the book he gives the date, +perhaps more correctly, 1830.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page212" id= +"page212"></a>{212}</span> +<p>11. <i>Brownlow Street, Holborn.</i> This should be "Brownlow +Street, <i>Drury Lane</i>;" George Vertue the engraver was living +here in 1748.</p> +<p>12. <i>White Conduit House.</i> The anonymous author of <i>The +Sunday Ramble</i>, 1774, has left us the following description of +this once popular tea-gardens:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +<p>13. <i>Vauxhall Gardens.</i> A curious and highly interesting +description of this popular place of amusement, "a century ago," +was printed in 1745, under the title of <i>A Sketch of the +Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall, in a letter to a Noble Lord</i>, 8vo. My +copy is much at Mr. Cunningham's service for any future edition of +his <i>Handbook</i>.</p> +<p class="author">Edward F. Rimbault.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN KATHERINE PARR.</h3> +<p>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:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>3. "An exhortation to yonge men, &c., by Thomas Lupsete, +Londener, 1534.</p> +<p>4. "A treatise of charitie, 1534.</p> +<p>5. "Here be the Gathered Counsales of Sainete Isidorie, &c., +1539.</p> +<p>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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It will be only necessary to give the first and last of these +sentences:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Delyte not in Þe multytude of ungodly men, and haue no +pleasure in Þem, for they feare not God.</p> +<p>"Refuse not Þe prayer of one yt is in trouble, and turne +not away thy face from the nedye."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Respect.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Blush not, fayre nimphe, tho (nee?) of nobell blod,</p> +<p>I fain avoutch it, and of manners good,</p> +<p>Spottles in lyf, of mynd sencere and sound,</p> +<p>In whoam a world of vertues doth abowend,</p> +<p>And sith besyd yt ye lycens giv withall</p> +<p>Set doughts asyd and to some sporting fall,</p> +<p>Therefoor, suspysion, I do banyshe thee"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Then follows a line I cannot decypher, and at the bottom of the +page is</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"You will be clear of my suspysion."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>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."</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>I should be glad of any information about the verses.</p> +<p class="author">E. Charlton, M.D.</p> +<p>Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 18. 1850.</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page213" id= +"page213"></a>{213}</span> +<h3>SUGGESTIONS FOR CHEAP BOOKS OF REFERENCE.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>moderate prices</i> 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 18<i>s.</i>, but there has been no such work +since. Mr. A.K. Johnston's <i>Geographical Dictionary</i>, at +36<i>s.</i>, lately published, supplies to a certain class of +readers one of the works wanted.</p> +<p>I beg to suggest a few observations for the improvement of works +of this description through your valuable channel.</p> +<p>I. I submit that none of the dictionaries of reference now +specified should be published without promise of a <i>periodical +supplement</i> 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 <i>Biographical Dictionary</i>), 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.</p> +<p>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 +<i>contemporary</i> 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.</p> +<p>III. The supplements for Gazetteers could be easily compiled +from the <i>parliamentary papers</i> and magazines of the day. I +would refer particularly to the supplements published by Mr. +McCulloch to his <i>Commercial Dictionary</i> as an example to be +followed; while the conduct lately adopted in the new edition of +Maunder's <i>Biographical Treasury</i> should be avoided. The old +edition of that collection consisted of 839 pages, and it is +believed it was <i>stereotyped</i>. 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 <i>second</i> time in 1850, at 10<i>s.</i>, 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.</p> +<p>These hints are offered to the publishers and encouragers of +<i>popular</i> 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 <i>supplement</i>, to preserve the value of +the original work? Thus, in my family, I use the excellent +<i>Cyclopædia of Popular Medicine</i> 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>Small Dictionary of +Commerce</i>, 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 +10<i>s.</i> or 12<i>s.</i>, and a supplement at 3<i>s.</i> would +bring it within the reach of the great bulk of readers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p class="author">PHILANTHROPOS.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>RIB, WHY THE FIRST WOMAN FORMED FROM.</h3> +<p>Allow me to request a place for the following curious and quaint +exposition of the propriety of the selection of <i>the rib</i> 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.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page214" id= +"page214"></a>{214}</span> +<blockquote> +<p>"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 <i>nimium +osseus</i>, 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.</p> +<p>"Fourthly, that bone which God tooke from the man, was from out +the midst of him. As Christ wrought saluation <i>in medio +terræ</i>, so God made the woman <i>è medio viri</i>, +out of the very midst of man. The <i>species</i> of the bone is +exprest to be <i>costa</i>, a rib, a bone of the side, not of the +head: a woman is not <i>domina</i>, the ruler; nor of any anterior +part; she is not <i>prælata</i>, preferred before the man; +nor a bone of the foote; she is not <i>serva</i>, a handmaid; nor +of any hinder part; she is not <i>post-posita</i>, set behind the +man: but a bone of the <i>side</i>, of a middle and indifferent +part, to show that she is <i>socia</i>, a companion to the husband. +For <i>qui junguntur lateribus, socii sunt</i>, they that walke +side to side and cheeke to cheeke, walke as companions.</p> +<p>"Fifthly, I might adde, a bone from vnder the arme, to put the +man in remembrance of protection and defense to the woman.</p> +<p>"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.</p> +<p>"To conclude my discourse, if these things be duely examined +when man taketh a woman to wife, <i>reparat latus suum</i>, what +doth he else but remember the maime that was sometimes made in his +side, and desireth to repaire it? <i>Repetit costam suam</i>, he +requireth and fetcheth back the rib that was taken from him," +&c. &c.—From pp. 28, 30, of "<i>Vitis Palatina</i>, 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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the first series of Southey's <i>Common Place Book</i>, at +page 226., a passage is quoted from Henry Smith's <i>Sermons</i>, +which dwells much upon the formation of the woman from <i>the +rib</i> of man, but not in such detail as Bishop King has done. +Notices of the Bishop may be found in Keble's edition of +<i>Hooker</i>, 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 "<i>Exposition upon the Lord's +Prayer</i>," 4to., London, 1634. See Wood's <i>Athenæ +Oxon.</i>, fol. edit. vol. ii. p. 294.</p> +<p>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, <i>Works</i>, 8vo. +edit. vol. vi. p. 550. And in the Somer's <i>Tracts</i>, vol. iii., +pp. 35, 43., may be found descriptions of the "<i>shewes</i>," 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.</p> +<p class="author">Balliolensis.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR NOTES</h3> +<p><i>Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper.</i>—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 <i>vair</i>, 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 +<i>Cinderella</i> originally marked the dignity conferred on her by +the fairy by her wearing a slipper of <i>vair</i>, a privilege then +confined to the highest rank of princesses. An error of the press, +now become inveterate, changed <i>vair</i> into <i>verre</i>, and +the slipper of <i>sable</i> was suddenly converted into a +<i>glass</i> slipper.</p> +<p class="author">Jarltzberg.</p> +<p><i>Mistletoe on Oaks.</i>—In Vol. ii., p. 163., I observed +a citation on the extreme rarity of <i>mistletoe on oaks</i>, from +Dr. Giles and Dr. Daubeny; and with reference to it, and to some +remarks of Professor Henslow in the <i>Gardeners' Chronicle</i>, 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.</p> +<p>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 <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page215" id="page215"></a>{215}</span> mansion of the Herberts, or +Ab-Adams, of Beachley adjacent, and of Llanllowell.</p> +<p class="author">George Ormerod.</p> +<p>Sedbury Park, Chepstow.</p> +<p><i>Omnibuses.</i>—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 <i>Volume of Varieties</i>, p. 178., observes:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Had had much experience in cheapening vehicular transit, having +originated and established the Omnibus in +England."—<i>Report</i>, p. 124., 8vo. ed.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">Arun.</p> +<p><i>Havock.</i>—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.:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Item, que nul soit si hardi de crier havoick sur peine d'avoir +la teste coupe."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Cry havock! and let slip the dogs of war."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In a copy of Johnson's <i>Dictionary</i> before me, I find</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"HAVOCK (haroc, Sax.), waste; wide and general devastation." +<i>Spenser</i>.</p> +<p>"HAVOCK, <i>interj</i>, a word of encouragement to slaughter." +<i>Shakspeare</i>.</p> +<p>"TO HAVOCK, <i>v. a.</i>, to waste; to destroy; to lay waste." +<i>Spenser</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">Jarltzberg.</p> +<p><i>Schlegel on Church Property in England.</i>—Fr. +Schlegel, in his <i>Philosophy of History</i>, 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.</p> +<p class="author">S.N.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>P. MATHIEU'S LIFE OF SEJANUS.</h3> +<p>In a letter from Southey to his friend Bedford, dated Nov. 11, +1821 (<i>Life and Correspondence</i>, vol. v. p. 99.), he desires +him to inform Gifford that</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <i>Life of Sejanus</i> by P. Mathieu may not +have been the tract which fell in Southey's way. It is to be found +in a volume entitled</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"<i>Unhappy Prosperity</i>, expressed in the History of +Ælius Selanus and Philippa the <i>Catanian</i>, with +observations upon the fall of Sejanus. Lastly, Certain +Considerations upon the life and Services of <i>Monsieur</i> +Villeroy, translated out of the original [French] by <i>S'r T. +H.</i>[<i>awkins</i>], <i>second edition</i>, 12'o. London, +1639."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"You (Sir) shall therein [in this history] behold, that <i>a +prince ought to be very carefull to conserve his authority entire. +Great ones</i> [court favourites] <i>here may learne</i>, it is not +good to play with the generous <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page216" id="page216"></a>{216}</span> Lyon though he suffer it, +and that <i>favours are precipices for such as abuse them</i>."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p class="author">Balliolensis.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING.</h3> +<p>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</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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 <i>which has not been +recorded</i>, 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." (<i>Loidis and +Elmete</i>.)</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <i>no record</i> 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:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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 <i>tumuli</i>, 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 <i>bathos</i> 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 <i>dudeen</i> of +the Irish in his mouth."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In the <i>Anthologia Hibernica</i> 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>man</i> 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.</p> +<p class="author">Jarltzberg.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SIR GREGORY NORTON, BART.</h3> +<p>I am desirous to be informed of the date and particulars of the +above baronetcy having been created. In <i>The Mystery of the good +old Cause briefly unfolded</i> (1660), it is stated, at p. 26., +that Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. (one of the king's judges), had +Richmond House, situated in the <i>Old</i> Park, and much of the +king's goods, for an inconsiderable value. Sir Gregory Norton has a +place also in <i>The Loyal Martyrology</i> of Winstanley (1665), p. +130.; and also in <i>History of the King-killers</i> (1719), part +6. p. 75. It is unnecessary to refer to Noble's <i>Regicides</i>, +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 <i>Richard</i> Norton, Bart., of Rotherfield, +<i>Hants</i> (Query Rotherfield, <i>Sussex</i>, near Tunbridge +Wells), who is mentioned by Sylvanus Morgan in his <i>Sphere of +Gentry</i>; 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 <i>Mercurius Publicus</i> +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.</p> +<p class="author">D.N.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>City Offices.</i>—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?</p> +<p class="author">A Citizen.</p> +<p><i>Harefinder, Meaning of.</i>—Can any of your readers +kindly give a feasible explanation of <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page217" id="page217"></a>{217}</span> phrase +<i>harefinder</i>, as it occurs in <i>Much Ado about Nothing</i>, +Act i. Sc. 1.? A reference to any similar term in a contemporary +would be very valuable.</p> +<p class="author">B.</p> +<p><i>Saffron-bag.</i>—Having lately read Sir E.B. Lytton's +novel of <i>The Caxtons</i>—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 +<i>saffron-bag</i> 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.</p> +<p class="author">W.C. Luard.</p> +<p><i>Bishop Berkley's successful Experiments.</i>—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?</p> +<p class="author">F.W.</p> +<p><i>Portrait (Unknown).</i>—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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p class="author">T.W.</p> +<p><i>Wives, Custom of Selling.</i>—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.</p> +<p class="author">G.L.B.</p> +<p><i>Hepburn Crest and Motto.</i>—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."</p> +<p>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?</p> +<p class="author">R.E.</p> +<p><i>Concolinel.</i>—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 <i>Concolinel</i> 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.</p> +<p class="author">R.</p> +<p>"<i>One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.</i>"—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.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.W.</p> +<p><i>The Norfolk Dialect.</i>—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:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>Mawther</i>, a girl, a wench.</p> +<p><i>Gotsch</i>, a stone jug.</p> +<p><i>Holl</i>, a dry ditch.</p> +<p><i>Anan? An?</i> an interrogation used when the</p> +<p>speaker does not understand a question put to him.</p> +<p><i>To be muddled</i>, to be distressed in mind.</p> +<p><i>Together</i>, an expletive used thus: where are</p> +<p>you going <i>together?</i> (meaning several +persons)—what</p> +<p>are you doing <i>together?</i></p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Perhaps some reader can explain the origin of these words.</p> +<p class="author">Icenus.</p> +<p><i>Sir John Perrot.</i>—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 <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page218" id="page218"></a>{218}</span> ever been +published, or where I can meet with the best account of him?</p> +<p class="author">E.N.W.</p> +<p>"<i>Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi.</i>"—Mr. Craik +in his admirable little work on <i>Bacon; his Writings and his +Philosophy</i>, after quoting the paragraph containing this fine +aphoristic expression, remarks that,</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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.)</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Mr. Craik adds in a note,</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In Basil Montagu's edition of <i>The Advancement of Learning</i> +it is marked as a quotation. Query. Has the expression, or the +thought, been traced to any writer previous to Bacon?</p> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>REPLIES.</h2> +<h3>DERIVATION OF NEWS.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the course of this argument I have seen that if <i>news</i> +were originally a plural noun, it might be taken for an ellipsis of +<i>new-tidings</i>. My objection to this would be twofold. First, +that the adjective <i>new</i> 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 <i>new-tidings</i> would be found to express no more than +<i>tidings</i>, still requiring the <i>new</i>, if the idea of +<i>new</i> were required, as in the instance Mr. Singer cites of +<i>new newes</i>.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Taking up Bailey's <i>Dictionary</i> by accident a day or two +ago, I turned to the word, which I there find as derived from +Newes, <i>Teut</i>.; Bailey using the term <i>Teutonic</i> for +German.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p class="author">Samuel Hickson.</p> +<p>I have read with much interest the respective theories of the +derivation of <i>news</i>, 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,</p> +<blockquote> +<p>Some say, <i>this news</i> IS good in which case the word is +singular. More rarely we find the expression, <i>these news</i> ARE +good; in which case the word "news" is plural. In the word "news", +the -<i>s</i> (unlike the -<i>s</i> in <i>alms</i> and +<i>riches</i>) is no part of the original singular, but the sign of +the plural, like the -<i>s</i> in "trees." Notwithstanding this, we +cannot subtract the <i>s</i>, and say "new," in the same way that +we <i>can</i> 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.—<i>Eng. Grammar</i>, p. 62.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <i>The English Language</i>, by the same +author.</p> +<p class="author">T. C.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Swords worn in public</i> (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 <i>there</i>." 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>there</i>"—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 <span class="pagenum"><a name="page219" id= +"page219"></a>{219}</span> St. James's Park, of about that date, in +which all the men have swords.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Quarles' Pension</i> (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' +<i>pension</i>), 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.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Franz von Sickingen</i> (Vol. i., p. 131.).—I regret +that I cannot resolve the doubt of H.J.H. respecting Albert Durer's +allegorical print of <i>The Knight, Death, and the Devil</i>, 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.</p> +<p>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 +<i>Peintre Graveur</i>, vol. vii. p. 107. Schoeber, in his <i>Life +of Durer</i>, p. 87., supposes that it is an allegory of the nature +of a soldier's life.</p> +<p>It was this print that inspired La Motte Fouqué with the +idea of his <i>Sintram</i> as he thus informs us in the postscript +to that singularly romantic tale:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">S.W. Singer.</p> +<p>Mickleham Aug. 13. 1850.</p> +<p>"<i>Noli me tangere</i>" (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.</p> +<p>There is a beautiful engraving of it by Sherwin.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.G.</p> +<p>Worcester.</p> +<p><i>Dr. Bowring's Translations</i> (Vol. ii. p. +152.).—Besides the anthologies mentioned by Jarltzberg, Dr. +Bowring has published <i>Poets of the Magyars</i>, 8vo. London, +1830; <i>Specimens of Polish Poets</i>, 1827; <i>Servian popular +Poetry</i>, 1827; and a <i>Cheskian Anthology</i>, 1832.</p> +<p class="author">H.H.W.</p> +<p>"<i>Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke</i>" (Vol. ii., p. +135.).—The lines about which X. asks, are</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue</p> +<p>That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals hold</p> +<p>Which Milton held," &c.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>They are in one of Wordsworth's glorious "Sonnets to Liberty" +(the sixteenth), and belong to <i>us</i>, and not to the +New-Englanders.</p> +<p class="author">G.N.</p> +<p><i>Countess of Desmond</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 186.).—In +reply to K., I have an impression that Horace Walpole has a kind of +dissertation on the <i>Old Countess of Desmond</i>, 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 <i>Works</i>, 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 +<i>any</i> 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 +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page220" id= +"page220"></a>{220}</span> 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.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Yorkshire Dales</i> (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 <i>A Tour in Teesdale, including Rokeby +and its Environs</i>. The author was Richard Garland, of Hull, who +died several years ago.</p> +<p class="author">Δ.</p> +<p><i>The Yorkshire Dales</i> (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.</p> +<p class="author">J.H. DIXON.</p> +<p>Tollington Villa, Hornsey.</p> +<p class="note">[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.]</p> +<p><i>Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs</i> (Vol. ii., p. +140.).—The information MR. GATTY wishes for, he will find in +Dr. Bliss's edition of the <i>Athenæ</i>, 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.</p> +<p class="author">Δ.</p> +<p><i>Alarum</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 151. 183.).—There can be no +doubt that the word <i>alarm</i> (originally French) comes from the +warning war-cry <i>à l'arme</i>. So all the French +philologists agree; and the modern variance of <i>aux armes</i> +does not invalidate so plain an etymology. When CH. admits that +there can be no doubt that <i>alarm</i> and <i>alarum</i> are +identical, it seems to one that <i>cadit questio</i>,—that +all his doubts and queries are answered. I will add, however, that +it appears that in the words' original sense of an <i>awakening +cry</i>, Shakspeare generally, if not always, spelled it +<i>alarum</i>. Thus—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Ring the <i>alarum</i> bell!"—<i>Macbeth</i>.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i10">"—Murder</p> +<p>"<i>Alarum'd</i> by his sentinel the wolf."</p> +<p><i>Macbeth</i>.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"When she speaks, is it not an <i>alarum</i> to love?"</p> +<p><i>Othello</i>.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"But when he saw my <i>best-alarum'd</i> spirits roused</p> +<p>to the encounter."—<i>Lear</i>.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>In all these cases <i>alarum</i> means incitement, not +<i>alarm</i> 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 <i>Othello</i>, an "alarum to +love"—incitement to love—is nearly the reverse of what +an "alarm to love" would be taken to mean.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Practice of Scalping among the Scythians, &c</i>. (Vol. +ii., p. 141.).—Your correspondent T.J. will find in Livy, x. +26., that the practice of scalping existed among the Kelts.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">W.B.D.</p> +<p><i>Gospel Tree</i> (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.</p> +<p class="author">GRIFFIN.</p> +<p><i>Martinet</i> (Vol. ii., p. 118.).—There is no doubt the +term <i>martinet</i> is derived from the general officer <i>M. de +Martinet</i> 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 <i>martinets</i>: but is it also from this restorer of +discipline that the name of what we call <i>cat-o'-nine-tails</i> +is in French <i>martinet</i>? This is rather an interesting Query, +considering how severely our neighbours censure our use of that +auxiliary to discipline.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>"Yote" or "Yeot"</i> (Vol. ii., p. 89.).—You may inform +B. that <i>Yote</i> or <i>Yeot</i> is only provincial pronunciation +of <i>Yate</i> or <i>Gate</i>, a way or road. The channel made to +conduct melted metal into the receptacle intended for it, is called +a gate.</p> +<p class="author">GRIFFIN.</p> +<p><i>Map of London</i> (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.</p> +<p class="author">R.</p> +<p><i>Wood-carving, Snow Hill</i> (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 <i>was</i>, 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. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page221" id= +"page221"></a>{221}</span> 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 <i>Caleb +Williams, Political Justice</i>, &c. It was here he opened a +bookseller's shop, and published his numerous juvenile works, under +the assumed name of Edward Baldwin.</p> +<p class="author">E.B. PRICE.</p> +<p><i>Waltheof</i> (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 <i>Saxon Chronicle</i> +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.</p> +<p class="author">DAVID STEVENS.</p> +<p>Godalming.</p> +<p><i>The Dodo</i> (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, <i>Historia Religionis Vet. +Persarum</i>, p. 312.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Et ut de Patre (Zoroastris) conveniunt, sic inter omnes +convenit Matris ejus nomen fuisse Dôghdu, quod (liquescente +<i>gh</i> ut in vocibus Anglicis, <i>high</i>, <i>mighty</i>, +&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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">T.J.</p> +<p>"<i>Under the Rose</i>" (Vol. i., p. 214.).—I find the +three following derivations for this phrase in my +note-book:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>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 <i>signs of two +taverns</i>; 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."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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."</p> +<p>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."</p> +<p class="author">JARLTZBERG.</p> +<p><i>Ergh, Er, or Argh.</i>—Might not these words (queried +by T.W., Vol. ii. p 22.) be corruptions of "<i>burgh</i>," +aspirated <i>wurgh</i>, and the aspirate then dropped; or might not +<i>ark, argh</i>, &c., be corruptions of "<i>wark</i>:" thus +Southwark, commonly pronounced <i>Southark</i>? I merely offer this +as a conjecture.</p> +<p class="author">JARLTZBERG.</p> +<p><i>Royal Supporters</i> (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, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page222" id= +"page222"></a>{222}</span> 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.</p> +<p class="author">E.K.</p> +<p><i>The Frog and the Crow of Ennow</i>.—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 <i>point</i> 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.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>The Frog and the Crow</i>.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"There was a jolly fat frog lived in the river Swimmo,</p> +<p>And there was a comely black crow lived on the</p> +<p class="i8">river Brimmo;</p> +<p>Come on shore, come on shore, said the crow to the</p> +<p class="i8">frog, and then, oh;</p> +<p>No, you'll bite me, no, you'll bite me, said the frog</p> +<p class="i8">to the crow again, oh.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"But there is sweet music on yonder green hill, oh,</p> +<p>And you shall be a dancer, a dancer in yellow,</p> +<p>All in yellow, all in yellow, said the crow to the frog,</p> +<p class="i8">and then, oh;</p> +<p>Sir, I thank you, Sir, I thank you, said the frog to</p> +<p class="i8">the crow again, oh.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Farewell, ye little fishes, that are in the river Swimmo,</p> +<p>For I am going to be a dancer, a dancer in yellow;</p> +<p>Oh, beware, Oh, beware, said the fish to the frog</p> +<p class="i8">again, oh;</p> +<p>All in yellow, all in yellow, said the frog to the fish,</p> +<p class="i8">and then, oh.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The frog he came a-swimming, a-swimming, to</p> +<p class="i8">land, oh,</p> +<p>And the crow, he came a-hopping to lend him his</p> +<p class="i8">hand, oh;</p> +<p>Sir, I thank you; Sir, I thank you, said the frog to</p> +<p class="i8">the crow, and then, oh;</p> +<p>Sir, you're welcome; Sir, you're welcome, said the</p> +<p class="i8">crow to the frog again, oh.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"But where is the music on yonder green hill, oh;</p> +<p>And where are the dancers, the dancers in yellow,</p> +<p>All in yellow, all in yellow? said the frog to the</p> +<p class="i8">crow, and then, oh;</p> +<p>Sir, they're here; Sir, they're here, said the crow to</p> +<p class="i8">the frog, and eat him all up, <i>Oh</i>," +(screamed.)</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The moral is obvious, and the diction too recent for the song to +have any great antiquity. I have never seen it in print.</p> +<p class="author">T.I.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2> +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</h3> +<p>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 <i>Sacred and +Legendary Art</i>, 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 <i>Sacred and Legendary Art</i>, +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 <i>Legends +of the Monastic Orders</i>: 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: <i>all</i> 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. It is a volume +highly suggestive both of Notes and Queries, and in such forms we +shall take occasion to return to it.</p> +<p>Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will commence, on +Monday next, a four-days sale of the <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page223" id="page223"></a>{223}</span> library of the late Rev. +Dr. Johnson, Rector of Perranuthnoe, consisting of a good +collection of theological and miscellaneous books.</p> +<p>We have received the following Catalogues:—John Leslie's +(58. Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn) Catalogue of English and +Foreign Theology, including several works of very rare occurrence, +and forming the largest portion of the valuable library of the Rev. +W. Maskell, M.A.; C. Gancia's (73. King's Road, Brighton,) Second +Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Foreign Books, MSS., Books +printed upon vellum, many of them great rarities, and seldom to be +met with; J. Miller's (43. 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