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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 and Queries, Number 48, Saturday, September 28, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: September 15, 2004 [EBook #13463] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals, Jon Ingram, David +King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 48.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {273} + + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- + Riots in London. 273 + Satirical Poems on William III. 275 + Shakspeare's Grief and Frenzy, by C. Forbes. 275 + Etymological Notes. 276 + Mistakes in Gibbon. by Rev. J.E.B. Mayor. 276 + Minor Notes. History of Saracens--Hippopotamus--America--Pascal's + Letters--Parson's Epigram. 277 + +QUERIES:-- + "Orkneyinga Saga". 278 + Minor Queries:--Incumbents of Church Livings--York + Buildings Company--Saying ascribed to Montaigne--"Modum + Promissionis"--Roman Catholic Theology--Wife of Edward + the Outlaw--Conde's "Arabs in Spain". 278 + +REPLIES:-- + Cave's Historia Literaria, by Rev. Dr. Maitland. 279 + Sir Garamer Vans. 280 + Collar of SS., by Dr. Rock. 280 + Joachin, the French Ambassador, by S.W. Singer. 280 + Remains of James II. 281 + Handfasting. 282 + Adam of Bremen's Julin, by Dr. Bell. 282 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Bess of Hardwick--Bishop + Andrewes--The Sun Feminine--Carpatio--Character + "&"--Walrond Family--Blackguard--Scala Coeli--Sitting + during the Lessons--Aerostation--Pole Money--Wormwood + Wine--Darvon Gatherall--Angels' Visits--Antiquity of + Smoking--"Noli me tangere"--Partrige Family--City + Offices--Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. 283 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 287 + Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 287 + Notices to Correspondents. 287 + Advertisements. 288 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES. + +RIOTS OF LONDON. + +Seventy years having passed away since the riots of London, there cannot +be many living who remember them, and still fewer who were personally in +contact with the tumultuous throng. Under such circumstances, I venture +to offer for introduction into your useful and entertaining miscellany +some incidents connected with that event in which I was either +personally an actor or spectator--things not in themselves important, +yet which may be to some of your readers acceptable and interesting as +records of bygone days. + +The events of 1780, in themselves so terrific, were well adapted to be +written indelibly on the memory of a young, and ardent boy. At any age +they would have been engraved as with an iron pen; but their occurrence +at the first age of my early boyhood, when no previous event had claimed +particular attention, fixed them as a lasting memorial. + +The awful conflagrations had not taken place when I arrived in London +from a large school in one of the midland counties in England, for the +Midsummer vacation. So many of my school-fellows resided in the +metropolis, or in a part of the country requiring a passage through +London, that three or four closely-packed post-chaises were necessary; +and to accomplish the journey in good time for the youngsters to be met +by their friends, the journey was begun as near to four o'clock A.M. as +was possible. + +The chaises, well crowned with boxes, and filled with joyous youth, were +received at the Castle and Falcon, then kept by a Mr. Dupont, a +celebrated wine merchant, and the friend of our estimable tutor. The +whole of my schoolmates had been met by their respective friends, and my +brother and I alone remained at the inn, when at length my mother +arrived in a hackney-coach to fetch us, and from her we learned that the +streets were so crowded that she could hardly make her way to us. No +time was lost, and we were soon on our way homewards. We passed through +Newgate Street and the Old Bailey without interruption or delay; but +when we came into Ludgate Hill the case was far different; the street +was full and the people noisy, permitting no carriage to pass unless the +coachman took off his hat and acknowledged his respect for them and the +object for which they had congregated. "Hat off, coachee!" was their +cry. Our coachman would not obey their noisy calls, and there we were +fixed. Long might we have remained in that unpleasant predicament had +not my foreseeing parent sagaciously provided herself with a piece of +ribbon of the popular colour, which she used to good effect by making it +up into a bow with a long, streamer and pinning it to a white +handkerchief, which she courageously flourished out of the window of the +hackney-coach. Huzzas {274} and "Go on, coachee!" were shouted from the +crowd and with no other obstruction than the full streets presented, we +reached Beaufort Buildings, in the Strand, the street in which we +resided. + +There a new scene presented itself, which was very impressive to our +young minds. The street was full of soldiers, and the coachman said to +my mother, "I cannot go down." A soldier addressed my mother: "No one, +ma'am, can go down this street:" to whom my mother replied, "I live +here, and am going to my own home." An officer then gave permission for +us, and the coachman with our box, to proceed, and we were soon at our +own door. The coachman, ignorant of the passport which the handkerchief +and ribbon had proved, said, on setting the box down, "You see, ma'am, +we got on without my taking off my hat: for who would take off his hat +to such a set of fellows? I would rather have sat there all the day +long." + +The assembling of the military in this street was to defend the +dwellings of Mr. Kitchener and Mr. Heron, both these gentlemen being +Roman Catholics. Mr. Kitchener (who was the father of Dr. Kitchener, the +author of the _Cook's Oracle_) was an eminent coal merchant, whose wharf +was by the river-side southward, behind Beaufort Buildings, then called +Worcester Grounds[1], as the lane leading to it was called Worcester +Lane: but Mr. Kitchener, or his successor Mr. Cox, endeavoured to change +it by having "Beaufort Wharf" painted on their wagons. Thus the name +"Worcester Grounds" got lost; but the lane which bore the same name got +no advantage by the change, for it received the appropriate title of +"Dirty Lane," used only for carts and horses, foot passengers reaching +the wharf by the steps at the bottom of Fountain Court and Beaufort +Buildings. + +But to return to my narrative. My parents soon removed us out of this +scene of public confusion, to the house of a relative residing at St. +Pancras: and well do I remember the painful interest with which, as soon +as it got dark, the whole family of my uncle used to go on the roof of +the house and count the number of fires, guessing the place of each. The +alarm was so great, though at a distance, that it was always late before +the family retired to rest. I remained at St. Pancras until the riots +had been subdued and peace restored; and now, though very many matters +crowd my mind, as report after report then reached us, I will leave them +to record only what I personally saw and heard. + +Before the vacation was ended, the trials of the prisoners had +proceeded, and I went to a friend's house to see some condemned ones +pass to execution. The house from which I had this painful view has been +removed; the site is now the road to Waterloo Bridge. I believe it was +because a lad was to be executed that I was allowed to go. The mournful +procession passed up St. Catherine's Street, and from the distance I +was, I could only see that the lad in height did not reach above the +shoulders of the two men between whom he sat, who, with him, were to be +executed in Russell Street. Universal and deep was the sympathy +expressed towards the youth from the throng of people, which was +considerable. As it was long before the street was sufficiently cleared +to allow us to return home, the report came that the execution was over, +and that the boy was so light that the executioner jumped on him to +break his neck: and such was the effect of previous sympathy, that a +feeling of horror was excited at the brutality (as they called it) of +the action; but, viewing it calmly, it was wise, and intended kindly to +shorten the time of suffering. While thus waiting, I heard an account of +this boy's trial. A censure was expressed on the government for hanging +one so young, when it was stated that this boy was the only one +executed, though so many were guilty, as an example, as the proof of his +guilt was unquestionable. A witness against him on the trial said, "I +will swear that I have seen that boy actively engaged at several +conflagrations." He was rebuked for thus positively speaking by the +opposite counsel, when he said, "I am quite sure it is the active boy I +have seen so often for I was so impressed with his flagrant conduct that +I cut a piece out of his clothes:" and putting his hand into his pocket, +he pulled out the piece which he had cut off, which exactly fitted to +the boy's jacket. This decided his execution: yet justice was not +vindictive, for very few persons were executed. + +I will trespass yet further on your pages to recite one other incident +of the riots that occurred in connexion with the attack on the King's +Bench prison, and the death of Allen, which made a great stir at the +time. The incident I refer to happened thus:--At the gate of the prison +two sentinels were placed. One of these was a fine-built young man, full +six feet high: he had been servant to my father. On the day Allen was +shot, or a day or two after, he came to my father for protection: my +father having a high opinion of his veracity and moral goodness, took +him in and sheltered him until quiet was restored. His name was M'Phin, +or some such name; but as he was always called "Mac" by us, I do not +remember his name perfectly. He stated that he and his fellow-soldier, +while standing as sentries at the prison, were attacked by an uproarious +mob, and were assailed with stones and brickbats;--that his companion +called loudly to the mob, and said, "I will not fire until I see and +mark a man that throws at us, and then he shall die. I don't want to +kill the innocent, {275} or any one; but he that flings at us shall +surely die." Young Allen threw a brick-bat, and ran off; but Mac said, +his fellow-soldier had seen it, and marked him. The crowd gave way; off +went Allen and the soldier after him. Young Allen ran on, the soldier +pursuing him, till he entered his father's premises, who was a +cow-keeper, and _there_ the soldier shot him. Popular fury turned upon +poor Mac; and so completely was he thought to be the "murderer" of young +Allen that 500l. was offered by the mob for his discovery. But my good +father was faithful to honest Mac, and he lay secure in one of our upper +rooms until the excitement was over. + +Allen's funeral was attended by myriads, and a monument was erected to +his memory (which yet remains, I believe) in Newington churchyard, +speaking lies in the face of the sun. If it were important enough, it +deserves erasure as much as the false inscription on London's monument. + +As soon as the public blood was cool, "Mac" surrendered himself, was +tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted. + +Should it be in the power of any of the readers of your interesting +miscellany, by reference to the Session Papers, to give me the actual +name of poor "Mac," I shall feel obliged. + +SENEX. + +September 9. 1850. + +[Footnote 1: Mr. Cunningham, vol. i. p. 69., gives an interesting +quotation from Strype respecting Worcester House, which gave the name of +"Worcester Grounds" to Mr. Kitchener's property.] + + * * * * * + +SATIRICAL POEMS ON WILLIAM III. + +Some years since I copied from a MS. vol., compiled before 1708, the +following effusions of a Jacobite poet, who seems to have been "a good +hater" of King William. I have made ineffectual efforts to discover the +witty author, or to ascertain if these compositions have ever been +printed. My friend, in whose waste-book I found them,--a beneficed +clergyman in Worcestershire, who has been several years dead,--obtained +them from a college friend during the last century. + + "UPON KING WILLIAM'S TWO FIRST CAMPAGNES. + + "'Twill puzzle much the author's brains, + That is to write your story, + To know in which of these campagnes + You have acquired most glory: + For when you march'd the foe to fight, + Like Heroe, nothing fearing, + Namur was taken in your sight, + And Mons within your hearing." + + + "ON THE OBSERVING THE 30TH OF JANUARY, 1691. + + "Cease, Hippocrites, to trouble heaven + How can ye think to be forgiven + The dismall deed you've done? + When to the martyr's sacred blood, + This very moment, if you could, + You'd sacrifice his son." + + + "ON KING WILLIAM'S RETURN OUT OF FLANDERS. + + "Rejoice, yee fops, yo'r idoll's come agen + To pick yo'r pocketts, and to slay yo'r men; + Give him yo'r millions, and his Dutch yo'r lands: + Don't ring yo'r bells, yee fools, but wring yo'r hands." + +GRENDON. + + * * * * * + +SHAKSPEARE'S GRIEF AND FRENZY. + +I have looked into many an edition of Shakspeare, but I have not found +one that traced the connexion that I fancy exists between the lines-- + + _Cassius._ "I did not think you could have been so angry." + + _Brutus._ "O Cassius! I am sick of many griefs." + +or between + + _Brutus._ "No man bears sorrow better.--Portia is dead." + + _Cassius._ "How 'scaped I killing when I crossed you so!" + + _Julius Caesar_, Act iv. Sc. 3. + +which will perhaps better suit the object that I have in view. The +editors whose notes I have examined probably thought the connexion so +self-evident or insignificant as not to require either notice or +explanation. If so, I differ from them, and I therefore offer the +following remarks for the _amusement_ rather than for the _instruction_ +of those who, like myself, are not at all ashamed to confess that they +cannot read Shakspeare's music "_at sight_." I believe that both +_Replies_ contain an allusion to the fact that _Anger, grafted on +sorrow, almost invariably assumes the form of frenzy; that it is in +every sense of the word "Madness," when the mind is unhinged, and +reason, as it were, totters from the effects of grief_. + +Cassius had but just mildly rebuked Brutus for making no better use of +his philosophy, and now--startled by the sudden sight of his bleeding, +mangled heart--"Portia is--Dead!" pays involuntary homage to the very +philosophy he had so rashly underrated by the exclamation-- + + "How 'scaped I _killing_ when I crossed you so!" + +I wish, if possible, to support this view of the case by the following +passages:-- + + I. Romeo's address to Balthasar. + "But if thou ... roaring sea." + + II. His address to Paris. + "I beseech thee youth ... away!" + + _Romeo and Juliet_, Act v. Sc. 3. + + III. "The poor father was ready to fall down dead; but he + grasped the broken oar which was before him, jumped up, and + called in a faltering voice,--'Arrigozzo! Arrigozzo!' This was + but for a moment. Receiving no answer, he ran to the top of the + rock; looked at all around, ran his eye over all who were safe, + one by one, but could not find his son among them. Then seeing + the count, who had so lately been finding fault {276} with his + son's name, he roared out,--'Dog, are you here?' And, + brandishing the broken oar, he rushed forward to strike him on + the head. Bice uttered a cry, Ottorino was quick in warding off + the blow; in a minute, Lupo, the falconer, and the boatmen, + disarmed the frantic man; who, striking his forehead with both + hands, gave a spring, and threw himself into the lake. + + "He was seen fighting with the angry waves, overcoming them with + a strength and a courage which desperation alone can + give."--_Marco Viconti_, vol. i. chap. 5. + +IV. A passage that has probably already occurred to the mind of the +reader, Mucklebackit mending the cable in which his son had been lost: + + "'There is a curse either on me or on this auld black bitch of a + boat, that I have hauled up high and dry, and pitched and + clouted sae mony years, that she might drown my poor Steenie at + the end of them, an' be d----d to her!' And he flung his hammer + against the boat, as if she had been the intentional cause of + his misfortune"--_Antiquary_, vol. ii. chap. 13. Cadell, 1829. + + V. "Giton praecipue, _ex dolore in rabiem efferatus_, tollit + clamorem, me, utraque manu impulsum, praecipitat super + lectum."--Petron. _Arb. Sat._ cap. 94. + +The classical reader will at once recognise the force of the words +"rabiem," "efferatus," "praecipitat," in this passage. The expression +"utraque manu" may not at first sight arrest his attention. It seems +always used to express the most intense eagerness; see + + "Ijecit utramque laciniae manum."--Pet. _Arb. Sat._ 14. + + "Utraque manu Deorum beneficia tractat."--Ib. 140. + + "Upon which Menedemus, incensed at his insolence, + answered,--'Nothing is more necessary than the preservation of + Lucullus;' and thrust him back _with both hands_."--Plutarch, + _Life of Lucullus_. + + "Women have a sort of natural tendency to cross their husbands: + they lay hold _with both hands_ [a deux mains] on all occasions + to contradict and oppose them, and the first excuse serves for a + plenary justification."--Montaigne, _Essays_, book 2. chap. 8. + + "Marmout, deceived by the seemingly careless winter attitude of + the allies, left Ciudad Rodrigo unprotected within their reach + and Wellington jumped _with both feet_ upon the devoted fortress + of Napier," _Pen. War_, vol. iv. p. 374. + +Any apology for the unwarrantable length of this discursive despatch, +would, of course, only make matters worse. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + + * * * * * + +ETYMOLOGICAL NOTES. + +1. _Gnatch._--"The covetous man dares not gnatch" (Hammond's +_Catechism_). From this, and the examples in Halliwell's _Dictionary_, +the sense seems to be "to move." Is it related to "gnake?" + +2. _Pert._--I lately met with an instance of the use of this word in the +etymological sense _peritus_: "I beant peart at making button-holes," +said a needlewoman. + +3. _Rococo._--A far-fetched etymology suggests itself. A wealthy noble +from the north might express his admiration for the luxuries of Paris by +the Russian word [Cyrillic: roskosha], or Polish _roskosz_. A Frenchman, +catching the sound, might apply it to anything extravagant enough to +astonish a barbarian. + +4. _Cad._--The letters from Scotland ascribed to a Captain Burtt, +employed in surveying the forfeited estates, give an account of the +"cawdies," or errand boys, of Edinburgh. + +5. _Fun_, perhaps Irish, _fonamhad_, jeering, mockery (Lhuyd, +_Archaeologia Britannica_). + +6. _Bumbailiff._--The French have _pousse-cul_, for the follower or +assistant to the sergeant. + +7. Epergne, perhaps _epargne_, a save-all or hold-all. Here seems no +more difficulty in the transfer of the name than in that of chiffonier, +from a rag-basket to a piece of ornamental furniture. + +8. _Doggrel._--Has the word any connexion with _sdrucciolo_? + +9. _Derrick._--A spar arranged to form an extempore crane. I think +Derrick was the name of an executioner. + +10. _Mece_, A.-S., a knife. The word is found in the Sclavonic and +Tartar dialects. I thinly I remember some years ago reading in a +newspaper of rioters armed with "pea makes." I do not remember any other +instance of its use in English. + +F.Q. + + * * * * * + +MISTAKES IN GIBBON. + +The following references may be of use to a future editor of Gibbon; Mr. +Milman has not, I believe, rectified any of the mistakes pointed out by +the authors cited. + + In the Netherlands ... 50,000 in less than fifty years were ... + sacrificed to the intolerance of popery. (Fra Paolo, _Sarpi + Conc. Trid._ 1. i. p. 422. ed. sec. Grotius, in his _Annal. + Belq._ 1. v. pp. 1G, 17. duod., including _all_ the persecutions + of Charles V, makes the number 100,000. The supposed + contradiction between these two historians supplied Mr. Gibbon + with an argument by which he satisfied himself that be had + completely demolished the whole credibility of Eusebius's + history. See conclusion of his 16th book.) [Mendham's _Life of + Pius V._, p. 303. and note; compare p. 252., where Gibbon's + attack on Eusebius is discussed.] + +In Forster's _Mahometanism Unveiled_, several of Gibbon's statements are +questioned. I have not the book at hand, and did not think the +corrections very important when I read it some time {277} back. The +reader who has it may see pp. 339. 385. 461-2. 472. 483. 498. of the +second volume. + +In Dr. Maitland's _Dark Ages_, p. 229. seq. note, a gross blunder is +pointed out. + +See too the _Gentlemans Magazine_, July, 1839, p. 49. + +Dr. Maitland, in his _Facts and Documents relating to the ancient +Albigenses and Waldenses_, p. 217. note, corrects an error respecting +the _Book of Sentences_. + + "Gibbon, speaking of this _Book of Sentences_, in a note on his + 54th chapter, says, 'Of a list of criminals which fills nineteen + folio pages, only _fifteen_ men and _four_ women were delivered + to the secular arm.' Vol. v. p. 535. I believe he should have + said _thirty-two_ men and _eight_ women; and imagine that he was + misled by the fact that the index-maker most commonly (but by no + means always) states the nature of the sentence passed on each + person. From the book, however, it appears that forty persons + were so delivered, viz., twenty-nine Albigenses, seven + Waldenses, and four Beguins." + +The following mistake was pointed out by the learned Cork correspondent +of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, I think in 1838; it has misled the writer +of the article "Anicius", in Smith's _Dictionary of Ancient Biography_, +and is not corrected by Mr. Milman (Gibbon, chap. xxxi. note 14 and +text):-- + + "During the first five ages, the name of the Anicians was + unknown. The earliest date in the annals of Pighius is that of + M. Anicius Gallus, Tr. Plebis A.U.C. 506. Another Tribune, Q. + Anicius, A.U.C. 508, is distinguished by the epithet + Praenestinus." + +We learn from Pliny, _H.N._ xxxiii. 6., that Q. Anicius Praenestinus was +the colleague as curule aedile of Flavius, the famous _scriba_ of Appius +Caecus, B.C. 304, A.U.C. 450. (See Fischer, _Roem. Zeittafeln_, p. 61-2.) +Pliny's words are-- + + "[Flavius] tantam gratiam plebis adeptus est ... ut aedilis + curulis crearetur cum Q. Anicio Praenestino." + +Gibbon's chapter on Mahomet seems to be particularly superficial; it is +to be hoped that a future editor will correct it by the aid of Von +Hammer's labours. + +J.E.B. MAYOR. + +Marlborough College. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES + +_"Ockley's History of the Saracens," and unauthentic Works._--At the end +of a late edition of Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, those "who +feel inclined to peruse further details of the life of Mahomet, or to +pursue the course of Saracenic history," are referred to _Ockley_. +Students should be aware of the character of the histories they peruse. +And it appears, from a note in Hallam's _Middle Ages_ (vol. ii. p. +168.), that Wakidi, from whom Ockley translated his work, was a "mere +fabulist," as Reiske observes, in his preface to Abulfeda. + +Query, Would it not be well, if some of your more learned correspondents +would communicate to students, through the medium of "NOTES AND +QUERIES," a list of such books as are genuine but not authentic; and +authentic but not genuine, or altogether spurious? or would point out +the sources from which such information can be obtained? + +P.H.F. + + +_The Hippopotamus._--Your correspondent L. (Vol. ii., p. 35.) says, +"None of the Greek writers appear to have seen a live hippopotamus:" and +again, "The hippopotamus, being an inhabitant of the Upper Nile, was +imperfectly known to the ancients." Herodotus says (ii. 71.) that this +animal was held sacred by the Nomos of Papremis, but not by the other +Egyptians. The city of Papremis is fixed by Baehr in the west of the +Delta (ad ii. 63.); and Mannert conjectured it to be the same as the +later Xois, lying between the Sebennytic and Canopic branches, but +nearer to the former. Sir Gardner Wilkinson says, several +representations of the hippopotamus were found at Thebes, one of which +he gives (_Egyptians_, vol. iii. pl. xv.). Herodotus' way of speaking +would seem to show that he was describing from his own observation: he +used Hecataeus, no doubt, but did not blindly copy him. Hence, I think, +we may infer that Herodotus himself saw the hippopotamus, and that this +animal was found, in his day, even as far north as the Delta: and also, +that the species is gradually dying out, as the aurochs is nearly gone, +and the dodo quite. The crocodile is no longer found in the Delta. + +E.S. JACKSON + + +_America._--The probability of a short western passage to India is +mentioned in _Aristotle de Coelo_, ii., near the end. + +F.Q. + + +_Pascal's Lettres Provinciales._--I take the liberty of forwarding to +you the following "Note," suggested by two curious blunders which fell +under my notice some time ago. + +In Mr. Stamp's reprint of the Rev. C. Elliott's _Delineation of +Romanism_ (London, 8vo. 1844), I find (p. 471., in note) a long +paragraph on Pascal's _Lettres Provinciales_:-- + + "This exquisite production," says the English editor, "_is + accompanied, in some editions of it, with the learned and + judicious observations of Nicole_, who, under the fictitious + name of Guillaume Wendrock, has fully demonstrated the truths of + those facts which Pascal had advanced without quoting his + authorities; and has placed, in a full and striking light, + several interesting circumstances which that great man had + treated with perhaps too much brevity. _These letters ... were + translated into Latin by Ruchelius_." + +From Mr. Stamp's remarks the reader is led to conclude that the _text_ +of the _Lettres Provinciales_ {278} is accompanied in some editions by +observations of Wendrock (Nicole), likewise in the French language. Now +such an assertion merely proves how carelessly some annotators will +study the subjects they attempt to elucidate. Nicole _translated_ into +Latin the _Provincial Letters_; and the masterly disquisitions which he +added to the volume were, in their turn, "made French" by Mademoiselle +de Joncoux, and annexed to the editions of 1700, 1712, 1735. + +As for Rachelius, if Mr. Stamp had taken the trouble to refer to +Placcius' _Theatr. Anonym. et Pseud._, he night have seen (Art. 2,883.) +that this worthy was merely a German _editor_, not a translator of +Pascal cum Wendrock. + +The second blunder I have to notice has been perpetrated by the writer +of an otherwise excellent article on Pascal in the last number of the +_British Quarterly Review_ (No. 20. August). He mentions Bossuet's +edition of the _Pensees_, speaks of "_the prelate_," and evidently +ascribes to the famous Bishop of Meaux, _who died in_ 1704, the edition +of Pascal's _Thoughts, published in_ 1779 _by Bossuet_. (See pp. 140. +142.) + +GUSTAVE MASSON. + + +_Porson's Epigram._--I made the following Note many years ago:-- + + "The late Professor Porson's own account of his academic visits + to the Continent:-- + + "'I went to Frankfort, and got drunk With that most learn'd + professor--Brunck: I went to Worts, and got more drunken, With + that more learn'd professor Ruhncken.'" + +But I do not remember where or from whom I got it. Is anything known +about it, or its authenticity? + +P.H.F. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +"ORKNEYINGA SAGA." + +In the introduction to Lord Ellesmere's _Guide to Northern Archaeology_, +p. xi., is mentioned the intended publication by the Royal Society of +Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, of a volume of historical antiquities +to be called _Antiquitates Britannicae et Hibernicae_. In the contents of +this volume is noticed the _Orkneyinga Saga_, a history of the Orkney +and Zetland Isles from A.D. 865 to 1234, of which there is only the +edition Copenhagen, 1780, "chiefly printed," it is said, "from a modern +paper manuscript, and by no means from the celebrated Codex Flateyensis +written on parchment in the fourteenth century." This would show that +the Codex Flateyensis was the most valuable manuscript of the work +published under the name of the _Orkneyinga Saga_, of which its editor, +Jonas Jonaeus, in his introductory address to the reader, says its author +and age are equally unknown: "auctor incertus incerto aeque tempore +scripsit." The _Orkneyinga Saga_ concludes with the burning of Adam +Bishop, of Caithness, by the mob at Thurso while John was Earl of +Orkney, and according to Dalrymple's _Annals_ in A.D. 1222; but in the +narrative given by the historian Torfaeus, in his _Orcades_, of Haco, +King of Norway's expedition against the western coast of Scotland in +1263, which terminated in the defeat of the invaders by the Scots at +Largs, in Ayrshire, and the death of King Haco on his return back in the +palace of the bishop of Orkney at Kirkwall, reference is made to the +Codex Flateyensis as to the burial of King Haco in the city of Bergen, +in Norway, where his remains were finally deposited, after lying some +months before the shrine of the patron saint in the cathedral of Saint +Magnus, at Kirkwall. There is not a syllable of King Haco or his +expedition in the _Orkneyinga Saga_; and as I cannot reconcile this +reference of Torfaeus (2nd edition, 1715, book ii. p. 170.) with the +_Saga_, the favour of information is desired from some of your +antiquarian correspondents. The Codex Flateyensis has been ascribed to a +pensioner of the king of Norway resident in Flottay, one of the southern +isles of Orkney, but with more probability can be attributed to some of +the monks of the monastery built on the small island of Flatey, lying in +Breida Fiord, a gulf on the west coast of Iceland. + +W.H.F. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Incumbents of Church Livings in Kent._--I have by me the following MS. +note:--"A list of B.A.'s graduated at Cambridge from 1500 to 1735 may be +found in 'Additional MSS. British Museum, No. 5,585.'" Will any of your +correspondents inform me if this reference is correct, and if the list +can be examined? + +Is there in the British Museum or elsewhere a list of incumbents of +church livings in Kent (with name and birthplace) from 1600 to 1660? + +BRANBRIDGES. + + +_York Buildings Company._--This company existed about the middle of the +last century. I shall be glad to be informed where the papers connected +with it are to be met with, and may be referred to. + +WDN. + + +_Saying ascribed to Montaigne._--The saying, "I have here only made a +nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the +thread that ties them," is usually ascribed to Montaigne. In what part +of his works are these words to be found? I heard doubts expressed of +their genuineness some years ago by a reader of the _Essays_; and my own +search for them has also proved hitherto unsuccessful. + +C. FORBES. {279} + + +"_Modum promissionis_."--Will any of your readers help to interpret the +following expression in a mediaeval author:-- + + "(Ut vulgo loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit?" + +I have reason to think that _modum promissionis_ means "a provisional +arrangement:" but by whom, and in what common parlance, was this +expression used? + +C.W.B. + + +_Roman Catholic Theology._--Is there any work containing a list of Roman +Catholic theological works published in the English language from the +year 1558 to 1700? + +M.Y.A.H. + + +_Wife of Edward the Outlaw._--Can any of your correspondents inform me +who was the wife of Edward the Outlaw, and consequently mother of +Margaret of Scotland, and ancestress of the kings of England? + +The account adopted by most historians is that Canute, in 1017, sent the +two sons of Edmund Ironside to the king of Denmark, whence they were +transferred to Solomon, king of Hungary, who gave his sister to the +eldest; and, on his death without issue, married the second Edward to +Agatha, daughter of the Emperor Henry II. (or, in some accounts, Henry +III., or even, in Grafton's _Chronicles_, called Henry IV.), and sister +to his own queen. + +That Edward the Outlaw returned to England in 1057, having had five +children, of whom three survived: Edgar; Margaret, who in 1067 married +King Malcolm of Scotland, and another daughter. + +Now this account is manifestly incorrect. The Emperor Henry II. died +childless: when on his death-bed he restored his wife to her parents, +declaring that both he and she had kept their vows of chastity. + +Solomon did not ascend the throne of Hungary until 1063, in which year +he had also married Sophia, daughter of the Emperor Henry III.; but this +monarch (who was born in October, 1017, married his first wife in 1036, +who died, leaving one child, in 1038 and his second wife in November +1043) could not be the grandfather of the five children of Edward the +Outlaw, born prior to 1057. + +The _Saxon Chronicle_ says, that Edward married Agatha the emperor's +cousin. + +E.H.Y. + + +_Conde's "Arabs in Spain"_.--In Professor de Vericour's _Historical +Analysis of Christian Civilisation_, just published, it is stated (p. +499.) that Conde's _Arabs in Spain_ has been translated into English. I +have never met with a translation, and fancy that the Professor has made +a mistake. Can any of your correspondents decide? I know that a year or +two ago, Messrs. Whittaker announced that a translation would form part +of their _Popular Library_; but for some reason (probably insufficient +support) it never appeared. Query, Might not Mr. Bohn with advantage +include this work in his _Standard Library_? + +IOTA. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +CAVE'S HISTORIA LITERARIA. + +I do not know whether the notices respecting Cave's _Historia Literaria_ +(Vol. ii., pp. 230. 255.) hold out any prospect of a new edition. It is +much to be desired; and as it may be done at some time or other, you +will perhaps allow me to make a Note of a circumstance which +accidentally came to my knowledge, and should be known to any future +editor. It is simply this: in the second volume of the Oxford edition of +1740, after the three dissertations, &c., there are fifteen pages, with +a fresh pagination of their own, entitled, "Notae MSS. et Accessiones +_Anonymi_ ad Cavei Historiam Literariam, Codicis Margini adscriptae, in +Bibliotheca Lambethana. Manus est plane Reverendiss. _Thomae Tenison_, +Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi." Not to occupy more of your valuable space +than is necessary, I will merely observe that the "Anonymus" was not +Archbishop Tenison, but Henry Wharton. There can be no doubt in the mind +of any person acquainted with the handwriting of the parties; and to +those to whom such a notice is likely to be of any use at all, it is +unnecessary to say that the difference is important. I need scarcely +add, that if ever a new edition is undertaken, Wharton's books and +papers, and other things in the Lambeth collection of MSS., should be +examined. + +S.R. MAITLAND. + + +_Cave's Historia Literaria_ (Vol ii., p. 230.).-- + +1. London, 1688-1698, 2 vols. folio. This was the first edition. A +curious letter from Cave to Abp. Tenison respecting the assistance which +H. Wharton furnished to this work is printed in Chalmers' _Biog. Dict._, +vol. xxxi. p. 343. + +2. Geneva, 1693, folio. + +3. ------, 1694, folio. + +4. ------, 1705, folio. + +5. Coloniae Allobrogum, 1720, folio. + +6. Oxon. 1740-43, 2 vols. folio. Dr. Waterland rendered important aid in +bringing out this edition, which Bp. Marsh pronounces "the best." It +seems from some letters of Waterland's to John Loveday, Esq. (works by +Van Mildert, 1843, vol. vi. p. 423-436.), that Chapman, a petty canon of +Windsor, was the editor. + +7. Basil, 1741-5, 2 vols. folio. This is said to be an exact reprint +from the Oxford edition. + +Watt and Dr. Clarke mention an edition, 1749, 2 vols. folio; but I +cannot trace any copy of such edition. + +JOHN I. DREDGE. + + * * * * * {280} + +SIR GAMMER VANS. + +In reply to C.'s inquiry (Vol. ii., p. 89.) as to a comic story about +one _Sir Gammer Vans_, I have pleasure in communicating what little +information I have on the subject. Some years ago, when I was quite a +boy, the story was told me by an Irish clergyman, since deceased. He +spoke of it as an old Irish tradition, but did not give his authority +for saying so. The story, as he gave it, contained no allusion to an +"aunt" or "mother." I do not know whether it will be worthy of +publication: but here it is, and you can make what use of it you like:-- + + "Last Sunday morning at six o'clock in the evening, as I was + sailing over the tops of the mountains in my little boat, I met + two men on horseback riding on one mare: so I asked them 'Could + they tell me whether the little old woman was dead yet, who was + hanged last Saturday week for drowning herself in a shower of + feathers?' They said they could not positively inform me, but if + I went to Sir Gammar Vans he could tell me all about it. 'But + how am I to know the house?' said I. 'Ho, 'tis easy enough,' + said they, 'for it's a brick house, built entirely of flints, + standing alone by itself in the middle of sixty or seventy + others just like it.' 'Oh, nothing in the world is easier,' said + I. 'Nothing _can_ be easier,' said they: so I went on my way. + Now this Sir G. Vans was a giant, and bottlemaker. And as all + giants, who _are_ bottlemakers, usually pop out of a little + thumb bottle from behind the door, so did Sir G. Vans. 'How d'ye + do?' says he. 'Very well, thank you,' says I. 'Have some + breakfast with me?' 'With all my heart,' says I. So he gave me a + slice of beer, and a cup of cold veal; and there was a little + dog under the table that picked up all the crumbs. 'Hang him,' + says I. 'No, don't hang him,' says he; 'for he killed a hare + yesterday. And if you don't believe me, I'll show you the hare + alive in a basket.' So he took me into his garden to show me the + curiosities. In one corner there was a fox hatching eagle's + eggs; in another there was an iron apple tree, entirely covered + with pears and lead; in the third there was the hare which the + dog killed yesterday alive in the basket; and in the fourth + there were twenty-four _hipper switches_ threshing tobacco, and + at the sight of me they threshed so hard that they drove the + plug through the wall, and through a little dog that was passing + by on the other side. I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the + wall; and turned it as neatly inside out as possible, when it + ran away as if it had not an hour to live. Then he took me into + the park to show me his deer: and I remembered that I had a + warrant in my pocket to shoot venison for his majesty's dinner. + So I set fire to my bow, poised my arrow, and shot amongst them. + I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on + the other: but my arrow passed clean through without ever + touching it, and the worst was I lost my arrow; however, I found + it again in the hollow of a tree. I felt it: it felt clammy. I + smelt it; it smelt honey. 'Oh, ho!' said I, 'here's a bee's + nest,' when out sprung a covey of partridges. I shot at them; + some say I killed eighteen, but I am sure I killed thirty-six, + besides a dead salmon which was flying over the bridge, of which + I made the best apple pie I ever tasted." + +Such is the story: I can answer for its general accuracy. I am quite at +sea as to the meaning and orthography of "hipper switches,"--having +heard, not seen, the story. + +S.G. + +Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. + + * * * * * + +THE COLLAR OF SS. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 89. 194. 248.) + +The Collar of SS. "is to this day a mystery to the most learned and +indefatigable antiquaries," according to Mr. Planche, in his valuable +little work on _The History of British Costume_: what has appeared in +"NOTES AND QUERIES" certainly has not cleared away the obscurity. +ARMIGER tells us (Vol. ii., p. 195.): "As to the derivation of the name +of the collar from _Soverayne_; from St. Simplicius; from the martyrs of +Soissons (viz. St. Crespin and St. Crespinian, upon whose anniversary +the battle of Agincourt was fought); from the Countess of Salisbury; +from the word _Souvenez_; and, lastly, from Seneschallus or Steward, +(which latter is MR. NICHOLS' notion)--they may be regarded as mere +monkish (?) or heraldic gossip." If the monastic writers had spoken +anything on the matter, a doubt never would have existed: but none of +them has even hinted at it. Never having seen the articles in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_, I do not know MR. NICHOLS' reasons for supposing +"Seneschallus or Steward" could have furnished an origin of the SS.; but +I am at loss to think of any grounds upon which such a guess could rest. +From the searches I have made upon this question, it seems to me that +these SS. are taken as a short way of expressing the "SANCTUS, SANCTUS, +SANCTUS" of the Salisbury liturgy and ritual. I hope soon to be able to +lay before the public the documents out of which I draw this opinion, in +a note to the third and forthcoming volume of _The Church of our +Fathers_. + +D. ROCK. + +_Collar of SS._--To your list of persons _now_ privileged to wear these +collars, I beg to add her Majesty's serjeant trumpeter, Thomas Lister +Parker, Esq., to whom a silver collar of SS. has been granted. It is +always worn by him or his deputy on state occasions. + +THOMAS LEWIS, + +Acting Serjeant Trumpeter. +34. Mount Street. + + * * * * * + +JOACHIN, THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR. +(Vol. ii., p. 229.) + +Your correspondent AMICUS will I fear find very little information about +this mysterious person in the writers of French history of the time. +{281} He is thus mentioned in Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_ (ed. 1825, +vol. i. p. 73.):-- + + "The French king lying in his camp, sent secretly into England a + privy person, a very witty man, to entreat of a peace between + him and the king our sovereign lord, whose name was John + Joachin; he was kept as secret as might be, that no man had + intelligence of his repair; for he was no Frenchman, but an + Italian born, a man before of no estimation in France, or known + to be in favour with his master, but to be a merchant; and for + his subtle wit, elected to entreat of such affairs as the king + had commanded him by embassy. This Joachin, after his arrival + here in England, was secretly conveyed unto the king's manor of + Richmond, and there remained until Whitsuntide; at which time + the cardinal resorted thither, and kept there the said feast + very solemnly. In which season my lord caused this Joachin + divers times to dine with him, whose talk and behaviour seemed + to be witty, sober, and wondrous discreet." + +My note on this passage says:-- + + "The name of this person was Giovanni Joacchino Passano, a + Genoese; he was afterwards called Seigneur de Vaux. The emperor, + it appears, was informed of his being in England, and for what + purpose. The cardinal stated that Joacchino came over as a + merchant; and that as soon as he discovered himself to be sent + by the lady regent of France, he made De Praet (the emperor's + ambassador) privy thereto, and likewise of the answer given to + her proposals. The air of mystery which attached to this mission + naturally created suspicion; and, after a few months, De Praet, + in his letters to the emperor, and to Margaret, governess of the + Netherlands, expressed his surmise that all was not right, + alleging his reasons. His letters were intercepted by the + cardinal, and read before the council. Charles and Margaret + complained of the insult, and the cardinal explained as well as + he could: at the same time protesting against the + misinterpretation of De Praet, and assuring them that nothing + could be further from his wish than that any disunion should + arise between the king his master and the emperor; and + notwithstanding the suspicious aspect of this transaction, his + dispatches, both before and after this fracas, strongly + corroborate his assertions. Wolsey suspected that the Pope was + inclined toward the cause of Francis, and reminded him of his + obligations to Henry and Charles. The Pope had already taken the + alarm, and had made terms with the French king, but had + industriously concealed it from Wolsey, and at length urged in + his excuse that he had no alternative. Joacchino was again in + England upon a different mission, and was an eye-witness of the + melancholy condition of the cardinal when his fortunes were + reversed. He sympathised with him, and interested himself for + him with Francis and the queen dowager, as appears by his + letters published in _Legrand, Histoire du Divorce de Henry + VIII_." + +I think it is from this interesting book, which throws much light upon +many of the intricate passages of the history of the times, that I +derived my information. It is in all respects a work worth consulting. + +S.W. SINGER. + + +REMAINS OF JAMES II. +(Vol. ii., p. 243.). + +The following passage is transcribed from a communication relative to +the Scotch College at Paris, made by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones to +the _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, 1841, vol. vii. p. 33.:-- + + "The king left his brains to this college; and, it used to be + said, other parts, but this is more doubtful, to the Irish and + English colleges at Paris. His heart was bequeathed to the Dames + de St. Marie at Chaillot, and his entrails were buried at St. + Germain-en-Laye, where a handsome monument has been erected to + his memory by order of George IV.; but the body itself was + interred in the monastery of English Benedictine Monks that once + existed in the Rue du Faubourg St. Jacques, close to the Val de + Grace. In this latter house, previous to the Revolution, the + following simple inscription marked where the monarch's body + lay:-- + + "'CI GIST JACQUES II. ROI DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE.'" + +A monument to the king still exists in the chapel of the Scotch College +(which is now leased to a private school), and the inscription, in +Latin, written by James, Duke of Perth, is printed in the same volume of +_Collectanea_, p. 35., followed by all the other inscriptions to James's +adherents now remaining in that chapel. + +In a subsequent communication respecting the Irish College at Paris, +made by the same gentleman, and printed in the same volume, at p. 113. +are these remarks:-- + + "It is not uninteresting to add, that the body of James II. was + brought to this college after the destruction of the English + Benedictine Monastery adjoining the Val de Grace; and remained + for some years in a temporary tomb in one of the lecture halls, + then used as the chapel. It was afterwards removed; by whose + authority, and to what place, is not exactly known: but it is + considered not improbable that it was transported to the church + of St. Germain-en-Laye, and there buried under the monument + erected by George IV. Some additional light will probably be + thrown on this subject, in a work on the Stuarts now in course + of compilation." + +Has this work since appeared? + +J.G.N. + + +_Interment of James II._--I remember reading in the French papers, in +the year 1823 or 1824, a long account of the then recent exhumation and +re-interment in another spot of the remains of James II. I was but a boy +at the time, and neglected to make a "Note", which might now be valuable +to you. I have not the least doubt, however, that the fact will be +discovered on reference to a file of the _Etoile_, or any other of the +Paris papers of one or other of the years above named. + +There is a marble monument erected in memory of James, in the chapel of +the old Scotch College, in the Rue des Fosses Saint Victor. An urn of +bronze, gilt, containing the king's brains, formerly {282} stood on the +crown of this monument. The urn was smashed and the contents scattered +over the ground, during the French Revolution. A much more important +loss to posterity was incurred by the destruction of the manuscripts +entrusted by James to the keeping of the brotherhood he loved. The trust +is alluded to with mingled pride and affection in the noble and touching +inscription on the royal monument. + +J.D. + +Earl's Court, Kensington. + + * * * * * + +HANDFASTING. +(Vol. ii., p. 151.) + +Your correspondent J.M.G. has brought forward a curious subject, and one +well deserving attention and illustration. A fair is said to have been +held at the meeting of the Black and White Esks, at the foot of +Eskdalemuir, in Dumfriesshire, when the singular custom of _Handfasting_ +was observed. The old statistical account of the parish says: + + "At that fair it was the custom for unmarried persons of both + sexes to choose a companion according to their liking, whom they + were to live with till _that time next year_. This was called + _handfasting_, or hand-in-fist. If they were pleased with each + other at that time, then they continued together for life; if + not, they separated, and were free to make another choice as at + the first." + +John Maxwell, Esq., of Broomholm, in a letter (dated April 15th, 1796) +to the Rev. Wm. Brown, D.D., of Eskdalemuir, says, in reference to this +custom: + + "No account can be given of the period at which the custom of + _handfasting_ commenced; but I was told by an old man, John + Murray, who died at the farm of Irvine (as you go from Langholm + to Canobie), and had formerly been a proprietor in Eskdaldemuir, + that he was acquainted with, or at least had seen an old man, I + think his name was Beattie, who was grandson to a couple who had + been handfasted. You perhaps know that _the children born under + the handfasting engagement were reckoned lawful children, and + not bastards_, though the parents did afterwards resile. This + custom of handfasting does not seem to have been peculiar to + your parish. Mention is made in some histories of Scotland that + Robert II. was _handfasted_ to Elizabeth More before he married + Euphemia Ross, daughter of Hugh, Earl of that name, by both of + whom he had children; his eldest son John, by Elizabeth More, + viz., King Robert III., commonly called Jock Ferngyear, + succeeded to the throne in preference to the sons of Euphemia, + his married wife. Indeed, after Euphemia's death, he married his + former handfasted wife Elizabeth." + +Sir J. Chardin observes that contracts for temporary wives are frequent +in the East, which contracts are made before the Cadi with the formality +of a measure of corn, mentioned over and above the stipulated sum of +money. + +Baron du Tott's account of "Marriages by Capin," corroborated by Eastern +travellers, corresponds with the custom of _Handfasting_. He says: + + "There is another kind of marriage which, stipulating the return + to be made, fixes likewise the time when the divorce is to take + place. This contract is called _capin_: and, properly speaking, + is only an agreement between the parties to live together _for + such a price, during such a time_." + +This contract is a regular form of marriage, and is so regarded +generally in the East. + +The Jews seem to have had a similar custom, which perhaps they borrowed +from the neighbouring nations; at least the connexion formed by the +prophet Hosea (chap. iii. 2.) bears a strong resemblance to +_Handfasting_ and _Capin_. + +JARLTZBERG. + + * * * * * + +ADAM OF BREMEN'S JULIN. + +In reply to V. from Belgravia (Vol. ii., p. 230.), I am partially at a +loss to know the exact bearing of his Query. Adam of Bremen's account of +Julin is no _legend_, nor does he mention it at all as a _doomed city_. +On the contrary, his description is that of a flourishing emporium of +commerce, for which purpose he selects very strong superlatives, as in +the following account (_De Situ Damae_, lib. ii. cap. ii.): + + "Ultra Leuticos qui alio nomine Welzi dicuntur Oddera Flumen + occurrit; amnis dilectissimus Slavonicae regionis. In cujus + ostro, qui Scythicas alludet paludes, nobilissima civitas + Julinum celeberrimam Barbaris et Graecis qui in circuitu praestet + stationem. De cujus praeconio quia magna et vix credibilia + recitantur, volupe arbitror pauca inserere digna relata. Est + sane maxime omnium quas Europa claudit civitatum, quam incolunt + Slavi cum aliis gentibus Graecis et Barbaris. Nam et advenae + Saxones parem cohabitandi legem acceperunt, si tamen + Christianitatis titulum ibi morantes non publicaverint. Omnes + enim adhuc paganicis ritibus aberrant, ceterum moribus et + hospitalitate nulla gens honestior aut benignior poterit + inveniri. Urbs illa mercibus omnium septentrionalium nationum + locuples nihil non habet jucundi et rari." + +As Adam is supposed to have been a native and a priest at Magdeburg, +whence he was translated by Archbishop Adalbert to a benefice in the +cathedral of Bremen, he must, from his comparative proximity to the +spot, be supposed a competent witness; and there is not reason to +suppose why he should not have been also a creditable one. He died about +1072, and the _legends_, if any, concerning this famous place, here +described as the most extensive in Europe, must have been subsequently +framed. + +For about one hundred years later (1184) we have from Helmold, the +parish priest of Boesan, a small village on the eastern confines of +Holstein, a repetition of Adam's words, for a place which he calls {283} +"Veneta," but always in the past tense as, "quondam fuit nobilissima +civitas," etc.; so that it is plain from that and his expression +"excidium civitatis;" as well as, "Hanc civitatem opulentissimam quidam +Danorum rex, maxima classe stipatus, fundetus evertisse refertur." The +great question is, Where was this great city? and, are the _Julin_ of +Adam and the _Veneta_ of Helmold identical? Both questions have given +rise to endless discussions amongst German archaeologists. The published +maps, as late at least as the end of the last century, had a note at a +place in the Baltic, opposite to the small town of Demmin, in +Pomerania:--"Hic Veneta emporium olim celeberr. aequar. aestu absorpt." +Many, perhaps the majority, of recent writers contend for the town of +Wallin, which gives its name to one of the islands by which the Stettin +Haff is formed,--though the slight verbal conformity seems to be their +principal ground; for no _rudera_, no vestiges of ancient grandeur now +mark the spot, not even a tradition of former greatness: whilst Veneta, +which can only be taken to mean the _civitas_ of the Veneti, a nation +placed by Tacitus on this part of the coast, has a long unbroken chain +of oral evidence in its favour, as close to Rugen; and, if authentic +records are to be credited, ships have been wrecked in the last century +on ancient moles or bulwarks, which then rose nearly to the surface from +the submerged ruins. But the subject is much too comprehensive for the +compressed notices of your miscellany. I hope to have shortly an +opportunity of treating the subject at large in reference to the +Schiringsheal which Othere described to King Alfred, about two hundred +years earlier. + +An edition of Adam and Helmold is very desirable in England, even in a +translations as a part of Bohn's _Antiquarian Series_. + +WILLIAM BELL, PH. D. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Bess of Hardwick_ (Vol. i., p. 276.).--The following particulars in +answer to this Query will, I hope, elicit some further information from +other quarters. I have, in my answer, attempted to be as brief as +possible. + +John, the fifth recorded Hardwick, of Hardwick, left issue, by Elizabeth +Leake, six children: of whom JAMES (or John) was thrice married, and +died _sine prole_, and DOROTHY died an infant: the four remaining +daughters became coheiresses. + +Of these MARY HARDWICK married (his first wife) Richard Wingfield, of +Wantisden, seventh son of Sir Anthony Wingfield, of Letheringham, co. +Suffolk, K.G. His will was proved in London 14th August, 1591. Their +eldest son _Henry_ was of Crowfield, co. Suffolk. His great-grandson, +_Harbottle Wingfield_, of Crowfield, was living 1644, and his +descendants, if any, may quarter Hardwick. Their second son, _Anthony +Wingfield_, was the well-known Greek reader to Queen Elizabeth; and +their third son, _Sir John Wingfield_, married Susan Bertie, Countess +Dowager of Kent, and left _Peregrin Wingfield_, of whom nothing is +recorded. + +JANE HARDWICK, next daughter, married Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite and +Beighton, co. Ebor. His will is dated 22nd July, 1580. Their eldest +child, _Francis Bosvile_, left only daughter, Grace Bosvile, who died +young. His three sisters became coheirs, but the estate of Gunthwaite +went to an uncle, ancestor of the present Godfrey Bosvile, Lord +Macdonald. Of these sisters, _Frances Bosvile_ married John Savile; +_Dorothy Bosvile_, John Lacy; and _Elizabeth Bosvile_, John Copley: +either they had no children, or these died young. _Mary Bosvile_, the +second daughter and coheir, married Richard Burdett, of Derby, living +1612. Their son, _George Burdett_, had by his first wife a son, whose +issue failed; and by his second wife two daughters, eventually coheirs. + +Of these. _Mary Burdett_ married, first, Richard Pilkington, and second, +Sir T. Beaumont, of Whitby: and _another sister_ married--Ramsden. No +issue of either are recorded. The third sister, _Elizabeth Burdett_, +married, at Hoyland, 6th Feb., 1636, the Rev. Daniel Clark, A.M., and +died 27th Aug., 1679, at Fenney-Compton. Their great-grandson and sole +male representative was the late _Joseph Clark_ of Northampton, whose +descendants also quarter Hardwick. + +ELIZABETH HARDWICK, the next daughter, was the celebrated Countess of +Shrewsbury. Her _representatives_ are all noble, and their pedigrees may +be found in the Peerages. They are-- + +1. _The Duke of Devonshire_, representing Wm. Cavendish, first earl. + +Certain descendants of Sir Charles Cavendish, of Welbeck Abbey, or +rather of his grandson, Henry, second Duke of Newcastle, namely, + +2. The _Duke of Portland_, representing Margaret Pelham, the Duke's +eldest coheir; + +3. The _Marquis of Salisbury_ from Catherine, and second coheir; + +4. The _Earl De la Warr_; and + +5. The _Earl of Aboyne_, are the coheirs of Sir Charles Cope, Baronet, +of Orton; who represented Arabella, Countess of Sunderland, third +coheir. These five all quarter Hardwick. + +ALICE HARDWICK, next daughter, married Francis Hercy, according to some +pedigrees. No issue recorded. + +There are therefore descendants certainly known of only two of the +children of John Hardwick. Possibly some of your correspondents can +supply those of Wingfield and Hercy. + +The crest and arms of the Hardwicks may be found in Edmondson. They only +quartered Pynchbeke. I am not aware of any motto. {284} + +Miss Costello, and other biographers of the Countess of Shrewsbury, have +quite overlooked all the descendants of her sisters. Possibly, should +these lines meet the eye of the Duke of Devonshire, who possesses the +estates and papers of the Hardwicks, it may lead to more particulars +concerning the family being made public. + +ERMINE. + +Torquay. + + +_Quotations in Bishop Andrewes_ (Vol. ii., p. 245.).-- + + "Minutuli et patellares Dei." + +is from Plautus: + + "Di me omnes magni minutique et patellarii." + _Cistell._ II. 1. 46. + +and + + "Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem + Collibus, imperii Roma Deumque locus." + +is from Ovid (_Trist_. I. 5. 69.). + +J.E.B MAYOR. + +Marlborough College. + + +_The Sun Feminine in English_ (Vol. ii., p. 21).--MR. COX may perhaps be +pleased to learn _why_ the northern nations made the sun feminine. The +ancient Germans and Saxons-- + + "When they discovered how the sun by his heat and influence + excited venereal love in creatures subserviant to his dominion, + they then varied his sex, and painted him like a woman, because + in them that passion is most impotent, and yet impetuous; on her + head they placed a myrtle crown or garland to denote her + dominion, and that love should be alwaies verdant as the myrtle; + in one hand she supported the world, and in the other three + golden apples, to represent that the world and its wealth are + both sustained by love. The three golden apples signified the + threefold beauty of the sun, exemplified in the morning, + meridian, and evening; on her breast was lodged a burning torch, + to insinuate to us the violence of the flame of love which + scorches humane hearts."--_Philipot's Brief and Historical + Discourse of the Original and Growth of Heraldry_, pp. 12, 13. + London, 1672. + +T.H. KERSLEY + +King William's College, Isle of Man. + +_Carpatio_ (Vol. ii., p. 247.).--Your Querist must be little versed in +early Italian art, not to know that Vittore Carpaccio (such is the +correct spelling) was one of the morning stars of the Venetian school; +and his search must have been somewhat careless, as Carpaccio and his +works are fully described in Kugler's _Handbook_, p. 149., and in Lanzi. +Some exquisite figures of his, of which Mrs. Jameson has given a St. +Stephen in her _Legendary Art_, exist in the Brera at Milan. He is a +painter not sufficiently known in England, but one whom it may be hoped +the Arundel Society will introduce by their engravings. I cannot assist +J.G.N. in explaining the subject of his engraving. May _Cornubioe_ be by +error for _Cordubioe_? + +CLERICUS. + + +_The Character_ "&".--This character your correspondent will at once see +is only the Latin word "et", written in a flourishing form; as we find +it repeated in the abbreviation "&c.," for "et cetera". Its adoption as +a contraction for the English word "and", arose, no doubt, from the +facility of its formation; and the name it acquired was "and-per +se-and", "and by itself and," which is easily susceptible of the +corruptions noticed by MR. LOWER. + +[Greek: PHI]. + + +_Walrond Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 206.).--Burke, in his _History of the +Commoners_, only gives the name of George, _one_ of the sons of Colonel +Humphry Walrond. He also states that the colonel married _Elizabeth_, +daughter of Nathaniel Napier, Esq., of More Critchel. Now Colonel +Walrond appears from his petition (Royalist Comp. Papers, State Paper +Office) dated 12th February, 1648, addressed to the Commissioners for +Compounding with Delinquents, to have had _nine_ other children then +living. He states: "Thus his eldest sonne George Walrond did absente +himselfe for a short time from his father's house, and went into the +king's army, where he unfortunately lost his right arme. That he having +no estate at present, and but little in expectancy after his father's +death, _he having ten_ children, and all _nine_ to be provided for out +of y'e petitioner's small estate." In a similar petition, dated about +two years later, from "_Grace_, the wife of Humphry Walrond, of Sea, in +the county of Somerset, Esquire," she states "herself to be weake woman, +and _having_ TEN children (whereof many are infants) to maintain." That +he was married to this _Grace_, and _not to Elizabeth_ (as stated by +Burke), as early as 1634, is clear from a licence to alienate certain +lands at Ilminster, 10 Ch. I. (_Pat. Rolls_.) + +That they were both living in 1668 is proved by a petition in the State +Paper Office (Read in Council, Ap. 8, 1688. Trade Papers, Verginia, No. +I. A.):--"To the King's most excellent Ma'tie and the rt. hon'ble the +Lords of his Maj. most hon'ble Privy Councel," from "Grace, the wife of +Humphry Walrond, Esq." In this petition she states that her husband had +been very severely prosecuted by Lord Willoughby, whose sub-governor he +had been in Barbadoes. "He had contracted many debts by reason of his +loyalty and suffering in the late troubles, to the loss of at least +thirty thousand pounds." "That his loyalty and sufferings are +notoriously known, both in this kingdom and the Barbadoes, where he was +banished for proclaiming your Ma'tie after the murder of your royal +father." Colonel Walrond is mentioned by Clarendon, Rushworth, +Whitelock, &c.; but of the date of his death, the maiden name of his +wife, and the Christian names of all his ten children, I can find no +account. + +The arms S.S.S. inquires about on the monument {285} of Humphry Walrond, +Esq., in Ilminster Church, are those of the family of Brokehampton. +Humphry Walrond (who died 1580) married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir +of John Brokehampton., of Sea, and so obtained that estate. + +W. DOWNING BRUCE. + +Middle Temple. + + +_Blackguard_ (Vol. ii., p. 134.).--An early instance of the use of this +word occurs in a letter from Richard Topcliffe (Aug. 30, 1578), printed +in Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. ii. p. 188. I quote from Mr. Jardine's +_Criminal Trials_, vol. ii. p. 13.: "His house, Euston, far unmeet for +her Highness, but fitter for the _Black Guard_." + +It also occurs in Fuller's _Church History_ (Book ix. cent. xvi. sect. +vii. Sec. 35. vol. v. p. 160. ed. Brewer):--"For who can otherwise conceive +but such a prince-principal of darkness must be proportionably attended +with a _black guard_ of monstrous opinions?" + +J.E.B. MAYOR. + + +_Scala Coeli_ (Vol. i., pp. 366. 402. 455.).--Maundrell mentions, "at +the coming out of Pilate's house, a descent, where was anciently the +_Scala Sancta_." (_Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem_, p. 107.) This holy +or heavenly stair was that by which the Redeemer was led down, by order +of Pilate, according to the legend, and afterwards was, among other +relics, carried to Rome. It is now in the Church of St. John Lateran, +whither it is said to have been brought by St. Helena from Jerusalem. +Pope Alexander Vl., and his successor Julius, granted to the Chapel of +St. Mary built by King Henry VII., in Westminster Abbey-- + + "Easdem indulgencias et peccatorum remissiones ... quas + Celebrantes pro Defunctis in Capella _Scala Coeli_ nuncupata in + Ecclesia Trium Fontium extra muros Urbis Cisterciensis Ordinis + ... consequuntur." + +This indulgence of Pope Julius was dated in the year 1504; and its +intention of drawing thither pilgrims and offerings was fully realised, +we may believe: for in the year 1519 we find the brotherhood of St. Mary +of Rouncevall by Charing Cross paying:-- + + "To the keper of Scala Celi in the Abby ... vjd." + +(See Rymer's _Foedera_, tom. v. pt. iv.; and Dugdale's _Monasticon_, +vol. i. p. 320.) + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. Oxon. + + +_Sitting during the Lessons_ (Vol. ii., p. 46.).--With respect to L.'s +Query respecting sitting during the Lessons, I can venture no remarks; +but the custom of standing during the reading of the Gospel is very +ancient. In the mass of St. Chrysostom the priest exclaims, "Stand up, +let us hear the holy Gospel." (Goar, _Rituale Graecorum_, p. 69.) The +same custom appears in the Latin Liturgy of St. Basil:--"Cumque +interpres Evangelii dicit 'State cum timore Dei' convertitur Sacerdos ad +occidentem," etc. (_Renaudot_, vol. i. p. 7. Vide also "Liturgy of St. +Mark," _Ren_. vol. i. p. 126.) The edition of Renaudot's _Liturgies_ is +the reprint in 1847. + +N.E.R. (a subscriber). + + +_Sitting during the Lessons._--There is no doubt, I believe, that in +former times the people stood when the minister read the Lessons, to +show their reverence. It is recorded in Nehemiah, viii. 5.: + + "And Ezra opened the Book in the sight of all the people (for he + was above all the people), and when he opened it all the people + _stood_ up." + +Why this practice should have been altered, or why our Rubric should be +silent on this head, does not appear quite clear, though I find in +Wheatley (_On the Book of Common Prayer_, chap. vi. sec. vi.) that which +seems to me to be a very sufficient reason, if not for the sitting +during the Lessons, certainly for the standing during the reading of the +Gospel, and sitting during the Epistle:-- + + "In St. Augustine's time the people always stood when the + lessons were read, to show their reverence to God's holy word: + but afterwards, when this was thought too great a burden, they + were allowed to sit down at the lessons, and were only obliged + to _stand_ at the reading of the Gospel; which always contains + something that Our Lord did speak, or suffered in His own + person. By which gesture they showed they had a greater respect + to the Son of God himself than they had to any other inspired + person, though speaking the word of God, and by God's + authority." + +WALTER MONTAGUE + + +_Aerostation, Works on_ (Vol. ii., p. 199.).--To the numerous list of +works on Aerostation which will no doubt be communicated to you in +answer to the inquiry of C.B.M., I beg to add the following small +contribution:-- + +"Saggio Aereonautico di Giuseppe Donini Tifernate," 8vo. pp. 92. With +four large folding Plates. Firenze 1819. + +Signor Donini also published in 1823 (in Citta di Castello per il +Donati) the following pamphlet:-- + +"Circolare Areonautico (sic) Guiseppe Dolini d Citta di Castello a tutti +i dotti, e ricchi nazionali, stranieri. 8vo." pp. 16. Oxford. + +J.M. + + +_Aerostation._--Your correspondent C.B.M. (Vol. ii., p. 199.) will find +some curious matter of _aerostation_ in poor Colonel Maceroni's +_Autobiography_, 2 vols. 8vo. + +W.C. + + +_Pole Money_ (Vol. ii., p. 231.).--The "pole money" alluded to in the +extracts given by T.N.I., was doubtless the poll tax, which was revived +in the reign of Charles II. Every one {286} knows that at an earlier +period of our history it gave rise to Wat Tyler's insurrection. The tax +was reimposed several times during the reign of William III. and it +appears from a statement of the Lords in a conference which took place +with the Commons on the subject in the first of William's reign, that +the tax, previously to that time, was last imposed in the 29th of +Charles II. + +C. ROSS. + + +_Wormwood Wine_ (Vol. ii., p. 242.).--If, as MR. SINGER supposes, +"Eisell was absynthites, or wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter +medicament then much in use," Pepys' friends must have had a very +singular taste, for he records, on the 24th November, 1660,-- + + "Creed and Shepley, and I, to the Rhonish wine house, and there + I did give them two quarts of wormwood wine." + +Perhaps the beverage was doctored for the English market, and rendered +more palatable than it had been in the days of Stuckius. + +BRAYBROOKE. + + +_Darvon Gatherall_ (Vol. ii., p. 199.).--Dervel Gadarn (vulgarly +miscalled Darvel Gatheren) was son or grandson of Hywel or Hoel, son to +Emyr of Britany. He was the founder of Llan-dervel Church, in Merioneth, +and lived early in the sixth century. The destruction of his image is +mentioned in the _Letters on the Suppression of Monasteries_, Nos. 95. +and 101. Some account of it also exists in Lord Herbert's _Henry VIII._, +which I cannot refer to. I was not aware his name had ever undergone +such gross and barbarous corruption as _Darvon Gatherall_. + +A.N. + + +_Darvon Gatherall_ (Vol. ii., p. 199.), or _Darvel Gatheren_, is spoken +of in Sir H. Ellis's _Original Letters_, Series III., Letter 330. Hall's +_Chronicle_, p. 826. ed. 1809. + +J.E.B. MAYOR. + + +_Darvon Gatherall._--I send you an extract from Southey's _Common-place +Book_, which refers to Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from +Wordworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_, where it is given as quotation +from Michael Wodde, who wrote in 1554. He says:-- + + "Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's Prayer in + English?... If we were sick of the pestilence, we ran to St. + Rooke: if of the ague, to St. Pernel, or Master John Shorne. If + men were in prison, they prayed to St. Leonard. If the Welshman + would have a purse, he prayed to _Darvel Gathorne_. If a wife + were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules; at London, + to St. Uncumber." + +Can any of your readers inform me who St. Uncumber was? + +PWCCA. + + + [Poules is St. Paul's. The passage from Michael Wodde is quoted + in Ellis' _Brand_, vol. i. p. 202. edit. 1841.] + + +_Angels' Visits_ (Vol. i., p. 102.).--WICCAMECUS will find in Norris's +_Miscellanies_, in a poem "To the Memory of my dear Neece, M.C." (Stanza +X. p. 10. ed. 1692), the following lines:-- + + "No wonder such a noble mind + Her way to heaven so soon could find: + Angels, as 'tis but seldom they appear, + So neither do they make long stay; + They do but visit, and away." + +Mr. Montgomery (_Christian Poet_) long ago compared this passage with +those cited by WICCAMECUS. + +J.E.B. MAYOR. + + +_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216.).--On that interesting +subject, "The Antiquity of Smoking," I beg to contribute the following +"Note," which I made some years ego, but unfortunately without a +reference to the author:-- + + "Some fern was evidently in use among the ancients: for + Athenaeus, in his first book, quotes from the Greek poet, + Crobylus, these words:-- + + [Greek: + 'Kai ton larung haedista purio temachiois + Kaminos, ouk anthropos.'] + + 'And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings: + A chimney, not a man!' + + "Now as, in a preceding line, the smoker boasts of his 'Idaean + fingers,' it is plain that every man rolled up his sharoot for + himself." + +H.G. + + +_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., p. 216.).--_Herod_. lib. i. sec. 36. +is referred to for some illustration, I suppose, of smoking through +tubes. _Herodotus_ supplies nothing: perhaps _Herodian_ may be meant, +though not very likely. Herb smoking was probably in use in Europe long +before tobacco. But direct authority seems sadly wanting. + +SANDVICENSIS. + + +"_Noli me tangere_" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 219. 250.).--In a New Testament +published by the Portusian Bible Society is a small ill-executed print, +called "Christ appearing to Mary," copied from a picture by C. Ciguani. + +WEDSECNARF. + + +_Partrige Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 230.).--Mr. Partrige's reference to +Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_ is quite unintelligible to those who +have not access to the Oxford _reprint_ of that work. The reprint (I +wish that in all other reprints a similar course was adopted) gives the +paging of the original folio edition. I submit, therefore, that Mr. +Partrige should have stated that the note he has made is from Strype's +_Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. ii. p. 310. + +The grant to which Mr. Partrige refers is, I dare say, on the Patent +Roll, 7 Edw. VI., which may be inspected at the Public Record Office, +Rolls Chapel, on payment of a fee of 1s., with liberty to take a copy or +extract in pencil gratuitously or a plain copy may be obtained at the +rate of 6d. a folio. + +The act of 1 Mary, for the restitution in blood of the heirs of Sir +Miles Partrige, if not given in the {287} large edition of the Statutes, +printed by the Record Commissioners, may no doubt be seen at the +Parliament Office, near the House of Lords, on payment of the fee of 5s. + +I believe I am correct in saying that no debates of that session are +extant; but the proceedings on the various bills may probably be traced +in the journals of the two Houses of Parliament, which are printed and +deposited in most of our great public libraries. + +C.H. Cooper. + +Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1850 + + +_City Offices._--The best account of the different public offices of the +city of London, with their duties, etc., that I know of, your +correspondent A CITIZEN (Vol. ii., p. 216.) will find in the _Reports of +the Municipal Corporation Commissioners_. + +W.C. + + +_Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--The +claim set up on behalf of Father Paul to the honour of Harvey's +discovery, which is noticed by your correspondent W.W.B., is +satisfactorily disposed of in the life of Harvey in the _Biographia +Britannica_, iv. 2548., note C. Harvey gave a copy of his treatise _De +Motu Cordis_ to the Venetian ambassador in England. On his return home +the ambassador lent the book to Father Paul, who made some extracts from +it. After Father Paul's death, he was thought to be the author of these +extracts and hence the story which your correspondent quotes. It might +occasionally be convenient if your correspondents could make _a little_ +inquiry before they send off their letters to you. + +Beruchino. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +All who love the shady side of Pall Mall, and agree with Dr. Johnson +that the tide of human enjoyment flows higher at Charing Cross than in +any other part of the globe, will gladly welcome Mr. Jesse's recently +published volumes entitled _London and its Celebrities_. They are +pleasant, gossiping and suggestive, and as the reader turns over page +after page of the historical recollections and personal anecdotes which +are associated with the various localities described by Mr. Jesse, he +will doubtless be well content to trust the accuracy of a guide whom he +finds so fluent and so intelligent, and approve rather than lament the +absence of those references to original authorities which are looked for +in graver histories. The work is written after the style of Saint Foix' +_Rues de Paris_, which Walpole once intended to imitate; and is executed +with a tact which will no doubt render it very acceptable to those for +whom it has been written, namely those persons whose avocations of +business or pleasure lead them to traverse the thoroughfares of the +great metropolis; and to whom it points out in a manner which we have +correctly designated gossiping, pleasant, and suggestive, "such sites +and edifices as have been rendered classical by the romantic or literary +associations of past times." + +Messrs. Williams and Norgate have forwarded to us a Catalog of an +extensive Collection of Books, the property of a distinguished +physician, which are to be sold by auction in Berlin on the 21st of +October. The library, which was forty years in forming, is remarkable +for containing, besides numerous rare works in Spanish, Italian, French, +and English Literature, a curious series of works connected with the +American aborigines; and a most extensive collection of works on the +subjects of Prison Discipline, Poor Laws, and those other great social +questions which are now exciting such universal attention. + +We have received the following Catalogues: J. Miller's (43. Chandos +Street, Trafalgar Square) Catalogue No. 11, for 1850 of Books Old and +New, including a large Number of scarce and curious Works on Ireland, +its Antiquities, Topography, and History; W. Heath's (29-1/2. Lincoln's +Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 5. for 1850 of Valuable Second-hand Books in +all Departments of Literature. + + * * * * * + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE + +TRANSLATION OF THE FRENCH LETTERS IN THE APPENDIX TO FOX'S HISTORY OF +JAMES II. 4to. 1808 HUTTON'S (W.) 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