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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/13521-0.txt b/13521-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f72596 --- /dev/null +++ b/13521-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1837 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13521 *** + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 9.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1849 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {129} + +CONTENTS + +Our Progress + +NOTES:-- + Sir E. Dering's Household Book, by Rev. Lambert B. Larking. 130 + Berkeley's Theory of Vision, by Rev. J.H. Todd. 131 + Bishop Barnaby. 131 + Mathematical Archæology. 132 + Song in Style of Suckling, &c. 133 + Gothic Architecture. 134 + Dr. Burney's Musical Works, by E.F. Rimbault. 135 + Ancient Alms' Basins, by Dr. Bell. 135 + Minor Notes:--Prince Madoc--St. Barnabas--Register + of Cromwell's Baptism--The Times--Rowland + Monoux--Wassail Song--Portrait of Charles I.--Autograph + Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester + and Henry Duke of Buckingham. 136 + Notes in answer to Queries:--Lord Erksine's Brooms--Scarborough + Warning--Gray's Elegy--Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth. 138 + +QUERIES:-- + The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke. 139 + The Dore of Holy Scripture. 139 + Turner's MS. History of Westminster. 140 + Talisman of Charlemagne. 140 + Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c. 141 + Minor Queries:--The Strand Maypole--To Fettle--Greek + Verse--Dr. Dee's Petition--Vondel's Lucifer--Discurs + Modest--Ptolemy of Alexandria--Vanbrugh's + London Improvements--Becket's Grace-Cup--Sir + Herbert's Office-Book. 142 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 143 + Notices to Correspondents. 143 + Advertisements. 144 + + * * * * * + +OUR PROGRESS + +We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither our best +friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having failed in our +endeavours to supply by other means the increasing demand for complete +sets of our "NOTES AND QUERIES," we have been compelled to reprint the +first four numbers. + +It is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we record +the fact of a large impression of a work like the present not having +been sufficient to meet the demand,--a work devoted not to the +witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance, but to the +illustration of matters of graver import, such as obscure points of +national history, doubtful questions of literature and bibliography, the +discussion of questionable etymologies, and the elucidation of old world +customs and observances. + +What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with reference to archæology, our +experience justifies us in applying to other literary inquiries:-- + + "On every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest + co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special + pursuits; and not only does this tend of itself to widen the + general basis, but it supplies the individual thinker with an + ever widening foundation for his own special study." + +And whence arises this "earnest co-operation?" Is it too much to hope +that it springs from an increased reverence for the Truth, from an +intenser craving after a knowledge of it--whether such Truth regards an +event on which a throne depended, or the etymology of some household +word now familiar only to + + "Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?" + +We feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our "NOTES AND QUERIES" +with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that + + "Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry + of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it--the + knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it--and the belief + of Truth, which is the enjoying of it--is the sovereign good of + human nature." + +We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have +flocked to our columns--that the sentiment has found its echo in the +breast of the public, and hence that success which has attended our +humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may well be pardoned if +we boast that we have had both hand and heart in it. {130} + +And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this happy +season, when + + "No spirit stirs abroad; + The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes, + No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, + So hallow'd and so gracious is the time," + +do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, with the +good old English wish, + +A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! + + * * * * * + +SIR E. DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK. + +The muniment chests of our old established families are seldom without +their quota of "household books." Goodly collections of these often turn +up, with records of the expenditure and the "doings" of the household, +through a period of two or more centuries. These documents are of +incalculable value in giving us a complete insight into the domestic +habits of our ancestors. Many a note is _there_, well calculated to +illustrate the pages of the dramatist or the biographer, and even the +accuracy of the historian's statements may often be tested by some of +the details which find their way into these accounts; as for the more +peculiar province of the antiquary, there is always a rich store of +materials. Every change of costume is _there_; the introduction of new +commodities, new luxuries, and new fashions, the varying prices of the +passing age. Dress in all its minute details, modes of travelling, +entertainments, public and private amusements, all, with their cost, are +there: and last, though not least, touches of individual character ever +and anon present themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable +truth. Follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife +and children, his household, his tenantry, nay, with himself, and you +have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able to +furnish. In this view, a man's "household book" becomes an impartial +autobiography. + +I would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might sometimes +be profitably reserved for "notes" from these household books; there can +be little doubt that your numerous readers would soon furnish you with +abundant contributions of most interesting matter. + +While suggesting the idea, there happens to lie open before me the +account-book of the first Sir Edward Dering, commencing with the day on +which he came of age, when, though his father was still living, he felt +himself an independent man. + +One of his first steps, however, was to qualify this independence by +marriage. If family tradition be correct, he was as heedless and +impetuous in this the first important step of his life, as he seems to +have been in his public career. The lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir +Nicholas Tufton, afterwards created Earl of Thanet. + +In almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the charges +of this marriage, the different dresses he provided, his wedding +presents, &c. As to his bride, the first pleasing intelligence which +greeted the young knight, after passing his pledge to take her for +"richer for poorer," was, that the latter alternative was his. Sir +Nicholas had jockied the youth out of the promised "trousseau," and +handed over his daughter to Sir Edward, with nothing but a few shillings +in her purse. She came unfurnished with even decent apparel, and her new +lord had to supply her forthwith with necessary clothing. In a +subsequent page, when he comes to detail the purchases which he was, in +consequence, obliged to make for his bride, he gives full vent to his +feelings on this niggardly conduct of the father, and, in recording the +costs of his own outfit, his very first words have a smack of bitterness +in them, which is somewhat ludicrous-- + + "Medio de donte leporum + Surgit amari aliquid." + +He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a gallant +bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly. + +"1619. + +"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas +unto New Year's Day. + +5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a + doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard, 4£. 4s. +5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, to + make hose cassocke and cloake [sic] 14£. +7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per yard, 9£. +22 ounces of blacke galloune lace 2£. 15s. +Taffaty to line the doublett 17s. +5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse 1£. 4s. +pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye + copell 8s. +ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and scarfe, 2£. 10s. +5 dozen of small buttons 1s. 8d. +Stickinge and sowing silke 14s. +ffor cuttinge ye scallops 2s. +holland to line the hose 5s. 6d. +Dutch bays for the hose 4s. 6d. +Pocketts to ye hose 10d. +2 dozen of checker riband pointes 12s. +drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake 5s. +canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett 3s. 6d. +ffor makinge ye doublett and hose 18s. +making ye copell 1£. 8s. +making ye cloake 9s. + +Sum of this suite 40£. 2s." + +I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these +extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, they shall +have, in some future number, the remainder of the bridegroom's wardrobe. +In whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord's arms, he, at +{131} least, was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young +gallant, an exquisite of the first water, for this was only one of +several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit; and then +follows a list of costly gloves and presents, and all the lavish outlay +of this his "desperate quarter." + +In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you shall be +furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from +this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as Clarendon depicts him, +the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of better fame than is yet been +his lot to acquire. + +He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He had his +foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of high and +enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary speeches has +elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them therefore now were +superfluous. The noble library which he formed at Surrenden, and the +invaluable collection of charters which he amassed there, during his +unhappily brief career, testify to his ardour in literary pursuits. The +library and a large part of the MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the +former, all that remains to tell of what it once was, are a few +scattered notices among the family records, and the titles of books, +with their cost, as they are entered in the weekly accounts of our +"household book." Of the latter there yet remain a few thousand charters +and rolls, some of them of great interest, with exquisite seals +attached. I shall be able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on +these heads, from the "household book," and, in contemplating the +remains of this unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the +sympathy of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the +lament which has often been mine--"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint +reliquiæ!" + +LAMBERT B. LARKING. + +Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED. + +In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg to say +that Bishop Berkeley's _Theory of Vision Vindicated_ does not occur +either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected works; but there is +a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, from which I +transcribe the full title as follows:-- + + "The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate + Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By + the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher. + + "Acts, xvii. 28. + + "_In Him we live, and move, and have our being_. + + "Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. + + "MDCCXXXIII." + +Some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his +collected works; but, as I am now answering "a _Query_," and not making +"a _Note_," I shall reserve what I might say of them for another +opportunity. The memory of Berkeley is dear to every member of this +University; and therefore I hope you will permit me to say one word, in +defence of his character, against Dugald Stewart's charge of having been +"provoked," by Lord Shaftesbury's _Characteristics_, "to a harshness +equally unwonted and unwarranted." + +Mr. Stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon which he +pronounces this most "unwarranted" criticism. The tract was not written +in reply to the _Characteristics_, but was an answer to an anonymous +letter published in the _Daily Post-Boy_ of September 9th, 1732, which +letter Berkeley has reprinted at the end of his pamphlet. The only +allusion to the writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of +severity occurs at the commencement of the tract. Those who will take +the trouble of perusing the anonymous letter, will see that it was +richly deserved; and I think it can scarcely, with any justice, be +censured as unbecomingly harsh, or in any degree unwarranted. The +passage is as follows:-- + + [After mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his + noticing this letter sooner, the author adds,] "This would have + altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either + personal or purely speculative, or from entering the lists of + the declaimers, whom I leave to the triumph of their own + passions. And indeed, to one of this character, who contradicts + himself and misrepresents me, what answer can be made more than + to desire his readers not to take his word for what I say, but + to use their own eyes, read, examine, and judge for themselves? + And to their common sense I appeal." + +The remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical discussion +of the subject of debate, in a style as cool and as free from harshness +as Dugald Stewart could desire, and containing, as far as I can see, +nothing inconsistent with the character of him, who was described by his +contemporaries as the possessor of "every virtue under heaven." + +JAMES H. TODD. + +Trin. Coll. Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--Allow me, in addition to the Note inserted in your 4th +Number, in answer to the Query of LEGOUR, by your correspondent (and I +believe my friend) J.G., to give the following extract from Forby's +_Vocabulary of East Anglia_:-- + + "Bishop Barnabee-s. The pretty insect more generally called the + Lady-bird, or May-bug. It is one of those highly favoured among + God's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton + injury. Some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name + {132} of it. It has certainly no more relation to the companion + of St. Paul than to drunken Barnaby, though some have supposed + it has. It is sometimes called _Bishop Benebee_, which may + possibly have been intended to mean the _blessed bee_; sometimes + _Bishop Benetree_, of which it seems not possible to make any + thing. The name has most probably been derived from the + _Barn-Bishop_; whether in scorn of that silly and profane + mockery, or in pious commemoration of it, must depend on the + time of its adoption, before or since the Reformation; and it is + not worth inquiring. The two words are transposed, and _bee_ + annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a + connection than fly-bug or beetle. The dignified ecclesiastics + in ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their + habits. Bishops had scarlet and black, as this insect has on its + wing-covers. Some remains of the finery of the gravest + personages still exist on our academical robes of ceremony. + There is something inconsistent with the popish episcopal + character in the childish rhyme with which _Bishop Barnabee_ is + thrown up and dismissed when he happens to light on any one's + hand. Unluckily the words are not recollected, nor at present + recoverable; but the purport of them is to admonish him to fly + home, and take care of his wife and children, for that his house + in on fire. Perhaps, indeed, the rhyme has been fabricated long + since the name by some one who did not think of such niceties." + +G.A.C. + + +Sir,--In the explanation of the term Bishop Barnaby, given by J.G., the +prefix "Bishop" seems yet to need elucidation. Why should it not have +arisen from the insect's garb? The full dress gown of the Oxford +D.D.--scarlet with black velvet sleeves--might easily have suggested the +idea of naming the little insect "Dr. Burn bug," and the transition is +easy to "Dr. Burnabee," or "Bishop Burnaby." These little insects, in +the winter, congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber till +the reappearance of genial weather, and it is not impossible that, from +this circumstance, the country people may have designated them "Barn +bug," or "Barn bee." + +L.B.L. + + +Sir,--I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the seven-spotted, +_Coccinella Septempunctata_, is the most common) is called in some +places "Bishop Barnaby." This little insect is sometimes erroneously +accused of destroying turnips and peas in its larva state; but, in +truth, both in the larva and perfect state it feeds exclusively on +aphides. I do not know that it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that +burneth," may allude to something else; still there appears some popular +connection of the _Coccinellidæ_ with _cows_ as well as burning, for in +the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called _Cush Cow Ladies_; and in +the North Riding one of the children's rhymes anent them runs:-- + + "Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame, + Thy[1] house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean, + And if thou means to save thy bairns + Take thy wings and flee away!" + +The most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow, believing +if they did evil would inevitably befall them. It is tenderly placed on +the palm of the hand--of a girl, if possible--and the above rhyme +recited thrice, during which it usually spreads its wings, and at the +last word flies away. A collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects +would, I think, be useful. + +W.G.M.J. BARKER. + +[Footnote 1: _Thy_ is pronounced as _thee_.] + + + [We have received many other communications respecting the + epithet of this insect--so great a favourite with children. + ALICUI and several other correspondents incline to L.B.L.'s + opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance of its + bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble. J.T. + reminds us that St. Barnabas has been distinguished of old by + the title of _bright_, as in the old proverbial distich intended + to mark the day of his festival according to the Old Style (21st + June):-- + + "Barnaby bright! + The longest day and the shortest night." + + While F.E. furnishes us with another and happier version of the + Norfolk popular rhyme:-- + + "Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, + Tell me when _my_ wedding be; + If it be to-morrow day, + Take your wings and fly away! + _Fly to the east, fly to the west_, + _Fly to them that I love best_!" + + The name which this pretty insect bears in the various languages + of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other cases, the + Virgin has supplanted Freya; so that _Freyjuhaena_ and + _Frouehenge_ have been changed into _Marienvoglein_, which + corresponds with _Our Lady's Bird_. There, can, therefore, be + little doubt that the esteem with which the lady-bird, or Our + Lady's cow, is still regarded, is a relic of the ancient cult.] + + * * * * * + +MATHEMATICAL ARCHÆOLOGY. + +Sir,--I cannot gather from your "Notes" that scientific archæology is +included in your plan, nor yet, on the other hand, any indications of +its exclusion. Science, however, and especially mathematical science, +has its archæology; and many doubtful points of great importance are +amongst the "vexed questions" that can only be cleared up by +_documentary evidence_. That evidence is more likely to be found mixed +up amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors than +amongst the papers of mere mathematicians--amongst men who never destroy +a paper because they have no present use for it, or because the subject +does not come within the range of their researches, than amongst men who +value nothing but a "new theorem" or "an improved solution." + +As a general rule I have always habituated myself to preserve every +scrap of paper of any remote (and indeed recent) period, that had the +appearance of being written by a literary man, whether I {133} knew the +hand, or understood the circumstance to which it referred, or not. Such +papers, whether we understand them or not, have a _possible value_ to +others; and indeed, as my collections have always been at the service of +my friends, very few indeed have been left in my hands, and those, +probably, of no material value. + +I wish this system were generally adopted. Papers, occasionally of great +historical importance, and very often of archæological interest, would +thus be preserved, and, what is more, _used_, as they would thus +generally find their way into the right hands. + +There are, I fancy, few classes of papers that would be so little likely +to interest archæologists in general, as those relating to mathematics; +and yet such are not unlikely to fall in their way, often and largely, +if they would take the trouble to secure them. I will give an example or +two, indicating the kind of papers which are desiderata to the +mathematical historian. + +1. A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the +restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing from +an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to near the +close of Simson's life. The missing letter, as is gathered from a +subsequent one, is Feb. 5. 1753. A mere letter of business from an +author to his publisher might not be thought of much interest; but it +need not be _here_ enforced how much of consistency and clearness is +often conferred upon a series of circumstances by matter which such a +letter might contain. This letter, too, contains a problem, the nature +of which it would be interesting to know. It would seem that the letter +passed into the hands of Dodson, editor of the _Mathematical +Repository_; but what became of Dodson's papers I could never discover. +The uses, however, to which such an unpromising series of letters have +been rendered subservient may be seen in the _Philosophical Magazine_, +under the title of "Geometry and Geometers," Nos. ii. iii. and iv. The +letters themselves are in the hands of Mr. Maynard, Earl's Court, +Leicester Square. + +2. Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one of the +scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to decide upon the +plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760. + + "It is probable," says Dr. Hutton, in his Life of Simpson, + prefixed to the _Select Exercises_, 1792, "that this reference + to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously + to this subject, so as to form the design of composing a regular + treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he + laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and + was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to + them that this work, when published, would procure him more + credit than any of his former publications. But he lived not to + put the finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this + subject probably fell, together with all his other remaining + papers, into the hands of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, + in the service of the India Company, being in all a large chest + full of papers. This gentleman had been a pupil of Mr. + Simpson's, and had lodged in his house. After Mr. Simpson's + death Mr. Watson prevailed upon the widow to let him have the + papers, promising either to give her a sum of money for them, or + else to print and publish them for her benefit. But nothing of + the kind was ever done; this gentleman always declaring, when + urged on this point by myself and others, that no use could be + made of any of the papers, owing to the very imperfect state in + which he said they were left. _And yet he persisted in his + refusal to give them up again._" + +In 1780 Colonel Watson was recalled to India, and took out with him one +of the most remarkable English mathematicians of that day, Reuben +Burrow. This gentleman had been assistant to Dr. Maskelyne at the Royal +Observatory; and to his care was, in fact, committed the celebrated +Schehallien experiments and observations. He died in India, and, I +believe, all his papers which reached England, as well as several of his +letters, are in my possession. This, however, is no further of +consequence in the present matter, than to give authority to a remark I +am about to quote from one of his letters to his most intimate friend, +Isaac Dalby. In this he says:--"Colonel Watson has out here a work of +Simpson's on bridges, very _complete_ and _original_." + +It was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of Hutton, that so +unscrupulous a person as Colonel Watson is proved to be, was deterred +from publishing Simpson's work as his own. + +The desideratum here is, of course, to find what became of Colonel +Watson's papers; and then to ascertain whether this and what other +writings of Simpson's are amongst them. A _really good_ work on the +mathematical theory of bridges, if such is ever to exist, has yet to be +published. It is, at the same time, very likely that his great +originality, and his wonderful sagacity in all his investigations, would +not fail him in this; and possibly a better work on the subject was +composed ninety years ago than has yet seen the light--involving, +perhaps, the germs of a totally new and more effective method of +investigation. + +I have, I fear, already trespassed too far upon your space for a single +letter; and will, therefore, defer my notice of a few other desiderata +till a future day. + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, Dec. 15. 1849. + + * * * * * + +SONG IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING--THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. + +The song in your second number, furnished by a correspondent, and +considered to be in the style {134} of Suckling, is of a class common +enough in the time of Charles I. George Wither, rather than Suckling, I +consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to that age, as "Shall +I wasting in Despair" may be regarded as the type of this class of +poems. The present instance I do not think of very high merit, and +certainly not good enough for Suckling. Such as it is, however, with a +few unimportant variations, it may be found at page 101. of the 1st vol. +of _The Hive, a Collection of the most celebrated Songs_. My copy is the +2nd edit. London, 1724. + +I will, with your permission, take this opportunity of setting Mr. Dyce +right with regard to a passage in the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, in which he +is only less wrong than all his predecessors. It is to be found in the +second scene of the fourth act, and is as follows:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling: + Just such another wanton Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative "he" after +"Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after "afire." Mr. Dyce saw +that both these must be wrong, as a comparison between two wanton +Ganymedes, one of which sat in the coutenance of Arcite, could never +have been intended;--another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, +and he, therefore, has this note:--"The construction and meaning are, +'With just such another _smile_ (which is understood from the preceding +'smiling') wanton Ganymede set Jove afire." When there is a choice of +nouns to make intelligible sense, how can that one be understood which +is not expressed? It _might_ be "with just such another _Love_;" but, as +I shall shortly show, no conjecture on the subject is needed. The older +editors were so fond of mending passages, that they did not take +ordinary pains to understand them; and in this instance they have been +so successful in sticking the epithet "wanton" to Ganymede, that even +Mr. Dyce, with his clear sight, did not see that the very word he wanted +was the next word before him. It puts one in mind of a man looking for +his spectacles who has them already across his nose. "Wanton" is a noun +as well as an adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an +epithet applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place +after it a _comma_, when the passage will read thus:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling. + Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) "Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +The third act of the same play commences thus:-- + + "The duke has lost Hippolita; each took + A several land." + +Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of +lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not understood now, +we must fall back on the general sense of the passage. When people go a +hunting, and don't keep together, it is very probable that they may take +a several "direction." Now _hand_ means "direction," as we say "to the +right" or "left hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should +read "a several hand?" + +SAMUEL HICKSON + + * * * * * + +"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE + +It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, to +explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of the +introduction of the term '_Gothic_,' as applied to pointed styles of +ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of Winchester, in +your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the term was used at +first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to +imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival +of classical literature. But, without citing many authorities, such as +Christopher Wren, and others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old +mediæval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing +that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the +celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled _The Elements of +Architecture_, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This work was +so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed to the works +of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's _Parallel of the Ancient +Architecture with the Modern_. Dufresnoy, also, who divided his time +between poetry and painting, and whose work on the latter art was +rendered popular in this country by Dryden's translation, uses the term +"_Gothique_" in a bad sense. But it was a strange misapplication of the +term to use it for the pointed style, in contradistinction to the +circular, formerly called Saxon, now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These +latter styles, like Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course +belong more to the Gothic period than the light and elegant structures +of the pointed order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author +of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two +distinct kinds--the _massive_ and the _light_; and as the latter +superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally +applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the +latter only. As there is now, happily, no fear of the word being +understood in a bad sense, there seems to be no longer any objection to +the use of it in a good one, whatever terms may be used to discriminate +all the varieties of the style observable either at home or abroad. + +J.I. + +Trinity College, Oxford. + + * * * * * {135} + +DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS. + +Mr. Editor,--On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is made for +Burney's _Treatise on Music_ (not his _History_). Before correspondents +trouble you with their wants, I think they should be certain that the +books they inquire for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or +wrote, a _Treatise on Music_. His only works on the subject (the +_General History of Music_ excepted) are the following:-- + + "The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771. + + "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and + United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775. + + "An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, + and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. 1785. + + "A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d." + +As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of reference, +strict accuracy on all points is the grand desideratum. + +EDW. F. RIMBAULT. + +P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the _Life of +Metastasio_, which, although not generally classed among musical works, +forms an admirable supplement to the _General History of Music_. + +E.F.R. + + * * * * * + +ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES. + +Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the dishes +and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., &c., pp. 44. 73. +87., are likely to cause as much speculation here as they have some time +experienced on the continent. They were there principally figured and +discussed in the _Curiositãten_, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted +from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of Göthe, librarian +to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, Judge of the +Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbüttel, first noticed them from a +specimen belonging to the church of a suppressed convent at Sterterheim +near Brunswick, and they were subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. +Hammer (now v. Purgstall), the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of +the principal proofs which he adduced in his _Mysterium Baphometis +Revelatum_ in one of the numbers of the _Fundgruben (Mines) des +Orients_, for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, +and others, falsely attributed to the Templars. Comments upon these +dishes occur in other works of a recent period, but having left my +portfolio, concerning them, with other papers, on the continent, I give +these hasty notices entirely from memory. They are by no means uncommon +now in England, as the notices of your correspondents prove. A paper on +three varieties of them at Hull was read in 1829, to the Hull Literary +and Philosophical Society. In Nash's _Worcestershire_ one is depicted +full size, and a reduced copy given about this period in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_, and Nash first calls them "Offertory Dishes." +The Germans call them Taufbecken, or baptismal basins; but I believe the +English denomination more correct, as I have a distinct recollection of +seeing, in a Catholic convent at Danzig, a similar one placed on Good +Friday before the tomb of the interred image of the Saviour, for the +oblations for which it was not too large. Another of them is kept upon +the altar of Boroughbridge Church (N. Riding of Yorkshire), but sadly +worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright, and the attempt at a copy of +the Inscription in a Harrowgate Guide is felicitously ludicrous: it is +there taken as a relic of the Roman Isurium on the same spot. Three +others were observed some years ago in a neglected nook of the sacristy +of York Cathedral. At the last meeting of the Institute at Salisbury, a +number of these were exhibited in St. John's House there, but I believe +without any notice taken of them in its Proceedings; and another was +shown to the Archæological Society, at their last Chester Congress, by +Colonel Biddulph, at Chirk Castle; when more were mentioned by the +visitors as in their possession, anxious as your correspondents to know +the import of the inscriptions. They are sometimes seen exposed in the +shops of Wardour Street, and in other curiosity shops of the metropolis. + +On their sunken centres all have religious types: the most common is the +temptation of Eve; the next in frequency, the Annunciation; the Spies +sent by Joshua returning with an immense bunch of grapes suspended +betwixt them, is not unfrequent; but non-scriptural subjects, as the +Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, mentioned by L.S.B., is a variety I have not +before observed. + +The inscriptions vary, and are sometimes double in two concentral rings. +The most usual is that alluded to by your correspondents, and though +obviously German, neither old nor obsolete; having been viewed even by +native decipherers, through the mist of a preconceived hypothesis, have +never yet been by them satisfactorily accounted for. It is always +repeated four times, evidently from the same slightly curved die; when, +however, the enlarged circumference of the circle required more than +this fourfold repetition to go round it, the die was set on again for as +much of a fifth impression as was necessary: this was seldom more than +four or five letters, which, as pleonastic or intercalary, are to be +carefully rejected in reading the rest; their introduction has confused +many expositors. + +The readings of some of your correspondents who understand German is +pretty near the truth. {136} I have before said that the centre type of +Eve's Temptation is the most common, and to it the words especially +refer, and seem at the place of their manufacture (most probably +Nuremburg) to have been used for other centres without any regard to its +fitness. The letters, as I can safely aver from some very perfect +specimens, are + + DER SELEN INFRID WART; + +in modern German "_der Seelen Infried wort_." To the German scholar the +two latter words only require explanation. _Infrid_ for Unfried, +discord, disturbance, any thing in opposition to Frieden or peace. The +Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, and Hexham, still bear the old theotise +stamp. _Wart_, or _ward_, may be either the past tense of _werden_, to +be (our was), or an old form of _währen_, to endure, to last: our +English _wear_ is the same word. The sense is pretty much the same in +both readings alluding to Eve. In the first: + + (By her) the soul's disturbance came (was). + +By the second: + + (Through her) the soul's disturbance continues. + +I may here observe that the words ICH WART are particularly distinct on +a helmet, pictured in the Journal of the British Archæological +Association, which the Secretary, Mr. Planche, in such matters the +highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. It may there have been +in the original ICH WARTE, meaning I bide (my time). + +But the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty. A second, +frequently met with, is by far more puzzling. I could not give your +readers any idea of it without a drawing: however it is found +imperfectly depicted on the plates I have before mentioned in Nash's +_Worcestershire_, and the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and I think I +recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of Hearne's _Miscellaneous +Works_, which I examined in the Gottingen Library, but whether belonging +to the work or a MS. addition I cannot now call to mind. The fanciful +and flowery form of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in +assigning them their particular position in the alphabet, and the +difficulty of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of German +archæologists whether they are initials or component parts of a +sentence. Herr Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, however, in his version +RECORD DE SCI GNSI, or in full _Recordamini de sancta Gnosi_, deduces +thence his principal proof of Gnostic heresy amongst the calumniated +Templars, in which I am sorry to say he has been too servilely followed +in England: e.g. by Mr. Godfrey Higgins, in his posthumous _Anaclypsis_ +(p. 830 note), as well as by E.G. Addison, _The Temple Church_ (p. 57), +and by Mr. R.W. Billings more especially, who tacks to his account of +this building an "Essay on the symbolical Evidences of the Temple +Church, where the Templars are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged by +Edward Clarkson, Esq." Had the learnedly hypothetic Austrian seen the +engravings of the Crypt at Canterbury Cathedral (_Archæologia_, viii. p. +74.), and Ledwick's remarks on it in conjunction with the carvings at +Glendalloch (_History of Ireland_, p. 174.), or those of Grymbald's +Crypt at Oxford, he might have been expected to have attributed their +monstrosities to his order, with as little hesitation and as thorough a +contempt of chronology, or proved connection, as he has the curious and +innocent sculptures of the church at Schöngrabern in Bohemia (vide +_Curiositäten_, vol. viii. p. 501.). + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES. + +_Prince Modoc._--At p. 57., "ANGLO-CAMBRIAN" refers to the report of the +Proceedings of the British Association at Swansea, in Aug. 1848, +extracted from the _Athenæum_ newspaper. In the course of a discussion +which took place on Prof. Elton's address, it was observed (if I +recollect rightly) by the learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the +so-called Welsh-Indian dialect has been formed, and that it contains _no +trace_ of any Celtic root. + +J.M.T. +December 10. 1849. + + +_St. Barnabas._--About the time of the Reformation, it was strongly +debated whether the festival days of St. Paul and St. Barnabas should be +admitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book of K. Edward, the +conversion of St. Paul is put down in _black_, and St. Barnabas is +_omitted altogether_! No wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, liberties +were taken with the name of St. Barnabas, and it was transferred to +doggerel rhyme, to be repeated by children. + +J.I. + + +_Register of Cromwell's Baptism._--The communication of your +correspondent C.W.G. at p. 103. of your last number, induces me to offer +you the inclosed copy from the _Register_ of All Saints' Church, +Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of Oliver Cromwell:-- + + "Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Cromwell generosi et + Elisabethæ huxoris ejus Natus vicesimo quinto die Aprilis et + Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis." + +Then follow the words "England's plague for many years," written in a +different hand. + +R.O. + + +_The Times._--A correspondent (NASO) informs us of the following fact in +the history of this widely circulated and influential journal; namely, +that it is stated in that the paper of the 12th of March, 1788, that it +was printed "Logographically!" We wish our correspondent had furnished +us with the precise words of this very curious statement. {137} + + +_Roland Monoux._--I have in my possession a brass monumental plate, +said to have been taken from some church in Middlesex, and bearing +the following lines, engraved in _black letter_:-- + + "Behold what droupinge Dethe maye doe, consume + y'e corse to duste, + What Dethe maie not shall lyue for aye, in spite of + Dethe his luste; + Thoughe Rouland Monoux shrowdeth here, yet + Rouland Monoux lives, + His helpynge hand to nedys want, a fame for ever + geves; + Hys worde and dede was ever one, his credyth never + quaylde, + His zeall' to Christ was stronge, tyll' dethe w'th latest + panges asaylde. + Twyse thre and one he Children had, two sones, one + kepes his name, + And dowghters fyve for home he carde, y't lyve in + honest fame. + What booteth more, as he be kynde dyd come of + Jentyll race, + So Rouland Monoux good Desertes this grave can + not Deface." + +I should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of this +Rouland Monoux, and when he died. I may also add; that I should be very +willing to restore the brass to its original site, did I know the spot +from whence it has been sacrilegiously torn. + +M. + + +_Wessel Cup Hymn._--The following Wassail Song is taken from a little +chap-book printed at Manchester, called _A Selection of Christmas +Hymns_. it is obviously a corrupted version of a much older song:-- + + "Here we come a wesseling, + Among the leaves so green, + Here we come a wandering, + So fair to be seen. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel too, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + "Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley. + + "We are not daily beggars, + That beg from door to door, + But we are neighbours' children, + Whom you have seen before. + + "Call up the butler of this house, + Put on his golden ring, + Let him bring us up a glass of beer, + And the better we shall sing. + + "We have got a little purse, + Made of stretching leather skin, + We want a little of your money, + To line it well within. + + "Bring us out a table, + And spread it with a cloth, + Bring us out a mouldy cheese, + And some of your Christmas loaf. + + "God bless the master of this house, + Likewise the mistress too, + And all the little children, + That round the table go. + + "Good master and mistress, + While you'r sitting by the fire, + Pray think of us poor children, + Who are wand'ring in the mire. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel to, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley." + +It is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved. Its +insertion will at least have that effect, and may be the means of our +discovering an earlier and purer text. + +AMBROSE MERTON. + + +_Portrait of Charles I._--In Sir Henry Ellis's _Original Letters_, 2d +series, vol. iii. p. 254., amongst the prefatory matter to the reign of +Charles I., there is a notice of a sermon, entitled "The Subject's +Sorrow, or Lamentations upon the Death of Britaine's Josiah, King +Charles." + +Sir Henry Ellis says it is expressly stated, in this Sermon, that the +King himself desired "that unto his Golden Manual might be prefixed his +representation, kneeling; contemning a temporal crown, holding our +blessed Saviour's crown of thorns, and aspiring unto an eternal crown of +happiness." + +Note _b_. upon this passage is as follows:-- + + "This very portrait of King Charles the First, engraved by + Marshall, adorned the original edition of the [Greek: Eikon + Basilikae]. 8vo. 1648. _The same portrait, as large as life, in + oil painting, was afterwards put up in many of our churches._" + +When I was a boy, such a portrait, in oil painting, hung upon the south +wall of the body of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, between the pulpit +and a small door to the west, leading into the south aisle. + +Out of the window of the chamber in which the King was kneeling was +represented a storm at sea, and the ship being driven by it upon some +rocks. + +A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to St. +Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so familiar to me +in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken down, and was in the +vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, on the floor against the +wall. {138} + +You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly +destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is established +to arrange its restoration. + +Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the +fate of this picture? + +R.O. + +Dec. 17. 1849. + +P.S.--I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of the frame of +the picture a board, on which was painted, in conformably large +letters-- + + "LORD, remember David and all his trouble." + + _Psalm_ cxxxii. 1. + +The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine. + + +_Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of +Buckingham._--In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. marked Vespasian F. +XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, upon which is written by the +hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the +following couplet:-- + + "Loyaulte me lie + Richard Gloucestre + + "Souente me souène + Harre Bokingh'a'm." + +A fac-simile is engraved in _Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and +Remarkable Personages in English History_, engraved by C.J. Smith, and +edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., where the editor suggests +that this slip of parchment was "perhaps a deceitful toy," or it may +have been attached to some present offered by the Duke of Gloucester to +his royal nephew Edward the Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is +perfectly free from misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the +crown, which he soon so flagrantly outraged--"Loyalty binds me." In the +work above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these +words, in modern French:--"Souvent me souviens." This does not appear to +me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the opinions of such as +are conversant with old manuscripts, whether the true meaning, or even +the true reading, of the Duke of Buckingham's motto has as yet been +ascertained? + +H. + + * * * * * + +NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES. + +_Lord Erskine's Brooms._--"G.B." informs us, that the anecdote about +Lord Erskine's brooms, and the apprehension of his servant for selling +them without a licence, will be found in his Life by Lord Campbell +(_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. vi. p. 618.). Erskine himself attended +the sessions to plead the man's cause, and contended that the brooms +were agricultural produce, or, as he jocosely observed, "came under the +_sweeping_ clause." The _when_ is about 1807, and the _where_ an estate +in Sussex, which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its owner, +as it produced nothing but birch trees, and those but stunted ones. To +which information "W.J." adds, that about the same period Lord Erskine +printed, for private circulation, _An Appeal in favour of the +agricultural Services of Rooks_; a production probably scarce now, but +full of humanity, and very characteristic. + +_Scarborough Warning._--In a postscript to a letter written from court +on the 19th January, 1603, by Toby Matthew, Bishop of Durham, to Hutton, +Archbishop of York, I find the term _Scarborough warning_. Can any of +the correspondents of your valuable paper inform me of the origin and +prevalence of this saying? The postscript is-- + + "When I was in the middest of this discourse, I received a + message from my lord chamberlaine, that it was his majesty's + pleasure that I should preach before him upon Sunday next; which + _Scarborough warning_ did not perplex me, but so puzzled me, as + no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted, which otherwise I might + have better remembered." + +Quoted in Caldwell's _Conferences_, p. 166. + +W.M.C. + + + [NARES tells us, that Ray, on the authority of Fuller, states + that this saying took its origin from "Thomas Stafford, who, in + the reign of Mary, A.D. 1557, with a small company, seized on + Scarborough Castle (utterly destitute of provision for + resistance), before the townsmen had the least notice of their + approach;" but shows that it was probably much older, as, in a + ballad written by J. Heywood on the taking of that place by + Stafford, the following more probable origin is given to the + proverb:-- + + "This term _Scarborow warning_ grew (some say), + By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare. + Who that was met, but suspect in that way, + Straight he was trust up, whatever he were." + + This implies that Scarborough imitated the Halifax gibbet law. + Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or + exercised by the men of Scarborough? We should be glad to hear + from any local antiquary upon this point.] + + +_Gray's Elegy._--In answer to your correspondent, J.F.M. (p. 101.), who +asks for information respecting the competition for the best translation +of Gray's _Elegy_, in which Dr. Sparke was a candidate, I would beg to +refer him to the satirical poem attributed to Mr. T.J. Matthias, +formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled _The Pursuits of +Literature_, in which a ludicrous account is given of the affair. It +does not appear who offered the prize, but Mr. Nares, the editor of _The +British Critic_, was the judge, and the place of meeting "The Musical +Room in {139} Hanover Square," which was decorated for the occasion with +appropriate scenery--at least so says _The Critic_. He thus describes +the solemnity (p. 174 8th edit. 1798):-- + + "Lo, learned clerks in sable stole, + Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal. + Old Norbury starts, and, with the _seventh-form_ boys, + In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys, + With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew, + In dismal dance about the mournful yew. + But first in notes Sicilian placed on high, + Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony; + And in sad cadence, as the bands condense, + The curfew tolls the knell of _parting sense_." + +The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being +apparently the "conqueror:"-- + + "Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done, + To Weston, Taylor's Hymns and Alciphron, + And Rochester's Address to lemans loose; + To Tew, Parr's Sermon and the game of goose; + To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief + A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief + He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury's back + The Sunday suit of customary black. + The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look + Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, COOK." + +W. +Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 17. + + +_Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth._--Your correspondent "R.O." +inquires what modern author suggests the probability of coffee being the +black broth of the Lacedæmonians? The suggestion, I think, originated +with George Sandys, the translator of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. Sandys +travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first published his _Notes_ +in 1615. The following is from the 6th edit. 1652, p. 52.:-- + + "Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their + coffa-houses, which something resemble them. Their sit they, + chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of + the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot + as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much + unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the + Lacedæmonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, and + procureth alacrity," &c. + +Burton also (_Anatomy of Melancholy_) describes it as "like that black +drink which was in use among the Lacedæmonians, and perhaps the same." + +E.B. PRICE. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS. + +It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last bondsman +by blood--_nativus de sanguine_--who lived in this country. The +beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to +as the date of the extinction of personal villenage. In the celebrated +argument in the case of the negro Somerset (_State Trials_, vol. xx. p. +41), an instance as late as 1617-18 is cited as the latest in our law +books. (See Noy's _Reports_, p. 27.) It is probably the latest recorded +_claim_, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that the +supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man. I can supply the names +of three who were living near Brighton in the year 1617, and whose +thraldom does not appear to have been disputed. Norden, from whose +unpublished _Survey of certain Crown Manors_ I have extracted the +following notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to think that the times +were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the lord of the manor to put +his rights in force. + + "There are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor, + never known to be anie way mannumissed, namely, Thomas Goringe, + William and John Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, + William at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean. What + goods they have the Jurie know not. All poor men. Thomas hath + the reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye. + But mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; + yet, were they men of ability, they might be, upon some + consideration, infraunchized." (_Survey of the Manor of Falmer, + Sussex_.) + +I shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be pointed +out. + +E. SMIRKE. + + * * * * * + +THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. + +In Herbert's edition of Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_, 1785, vol. +i. p. 492., is noticed _The Dore of Holy Scripture_, 12mo., printed by +John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. 494., a reprint of the same work is +mentioned in 1540, by the same printer, and a description of a copy +given from one then in the possession of Herbert himself. In the preface +prefixed by the printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste +translatoure of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end +of the work is this note:--"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor Barons, +Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As I am much interested in the subject +to which this publication refers, may I ask for information on three +points?--1. What evidence is there of this edition of 1536, beyond the +statement in Ames? 2. What has become of the copy of the edition of +1540, formerly belonging to Herbert? and, 3. Who are the persons who +_peruse_ and revise the latter edition? There is not copy of either +edition, as far as I can trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, +or at Lambeth. + +I may add to these queries the following remarks:-- + +1. Ames asserted that _The Dore of Holy Scripture_ was among the books +prohibited to be read {140} by the injunctions of Henry the Eighth, and +refers, as his authority, to Foxe's _Acts and Monument_, ed. 1562, p. +574. Herbert, in a note, questions the fact, and raises a doubt as to +the existence of the passage in Foxe, since it is not in the edition of +1641. I have, however, the first edition now before me of 1563 (_not_ +1562), and at p. 574., among "the names of certen bokes whiche after +this injunction [namely, of 1539], or some other in the said kinges +dayes were prohybited," occurs, "Item, _the doore of holy scripture_. +made by Jhon. Gowghe." + +2. This work was again printed by Crowley in 1550, 12mo., under a +different title, namely, _The Pathway to Perfect Knowledge_; and in the +preface, he falsely ascribes it to John Wycliffe, and adds, "the +original wherof is in an olde English Bible, betwixt the Olde Testament +and the Newe, which Bible remaineth now in the Kyng his Majesties +chamber." This Bible appears to be the identical manuscript copy of the +later Wycliffe version of the Scriptures, now preserved in the +University Library, Cambridge, and marked Mm 2. 15. A copy of Crowley's +edition is in the British Museum, but the orthography and language of +the tract are modernised. + +F.M. +B.M., Dec. 19. + + * * * * * + +TURNER'S MS. HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER--CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. + +On April 6. 1708, Henry Turner was elected, by the vestry, organist of +St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the room of the famous "Father Smith" +(Bernard Schmidt). As regards his musical capabilities, Hawkins does not +assign him a niche in his _Temple of Worthies_, although he names some +of his predecessors and successors in that office. One merit we must +accord him, that of true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters +regarding "this renowned city." "Great materials are said to have been +collected for a full description (of Westminster), by a parish-clerk of +St. Margaret's. I presume this is Henry Turner, mentioned in Widmore's +_Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster Abbey_.... His +book was only a survey of the city of Westminster, purposely omitting +the history of the (collegiate) church."--Gough, _Brit. Top._ vol. i. p. +761. Lond. 1780. "The man's natural parts were very good; he was also +very diligent in making enquiries relating to his subject, and he had +collected a great deal."--Widmore's _Acc. of Writers of the Hist. of +Westm. Abbey_, pp. 6, 7. Lond. 1751. As regards his personal history, I +alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a transcript of a +register: "Henry Turner, borne at Yearely, Derbyshire, 12. July, 1679: +married Eliz. Sabin, of Clement Danes, in St. Margrts. Westmr. Feb. 26. +1701. by Dr. Onley." + +In 1697 it was discovered that some valuable MS. records belonging to +the parish, and taken out of the Tower of London, had been lost by their +keeper. This history in its time appears to have suffered the same fate. +However, there is this entry in the _Harleian MSS._ 7045. fol. 361.: +"From the learned Dr. Kennet, Dean of Peterborough's Collection. MSS. +MS. H. On Aug. 2. 1708, at Windsor, I read over the _History of the +Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster_, drawn up in MS. by one of the +parish clerks." Some interesting extracts follow. Compare _Aysc. Add. +MSS. Brit. Mus._ 4163. fol. 5. Bishop Kennet resided in St. James's +Street, in this parish, and died there on Dec. 19. 1728. I have applied +in vain for any account of this MS. to the librarians of Windsor Castle +and Eton College. + +Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? Are any aware that +this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? There is an +instance, as early as the fifteenth century, of the union of the offices +of lay-clerk and organist in St. Margaret's, in the person of one +Metyngham, and H. Turner also held them at the same time; since, on July +28th, 1713, he was elected parish-clerk by the vestry, in "consideration +of the experience they had of fitness and diligence in executing the +office of deputy-clerk of this parish for several years last past;" and +he did not resign the place of organist until 2nd October, 1718. + +May I make another Query?--The gold chain and crucifix, laid in the +grave of K. Edward the Confessor, were removed by Charles Taylor, and +given into the hands of King James II. On the reverse of the same cross +was pictured a Benedictine monk, in his habit, and on each side of him +these capital Roman letter,-- + +On the right limb thus: and on the left thus: + (A) P. + Z. A. X A. C. + A H. + +_Antiq. of St. Peter's_, vol. ii. App. n. iij, Ed. 1722. + +What does the inscription mean? Is the former portion to be understood +"[Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? What is the import of the latter? + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + + * * * * * + +THE TALISMAN OF CHARLEMAGNE. + +Many years back, "Prince" Louis Napoleon was stated to be in possesion +of the talisman of Charlemagne;--"a small nut, in a gold filigree +envelopment, found round the neck of that monarch on the opening of his +tomb, and given by the town of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) to Buonaparte, +and by him to his favourite Hortense, _ci-de-vant_ Queen of Holland, at +whose death it descended to her son," the present President of the +French Republic. {141} + +The Germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman. It was +framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors of +Aaroun-al-Raschid to the mighty Emperor of the West, at the instance of +his spouse Fastrada, with the virtue that her husband should be always +fascinated towards the person or thing on which it was. The constant +love of Charles to this his spouse was the consequence; but, as it was +not taken from her finger after death, the affection of the emperor was +continued unchanging to the corpse, which he would on no account allow +to be interred, even when it became offensive. His confessor, having +some knowledge of the occult sciences, at last drew off the amulet from +the inanimate body, which was then permitted to be buried; but he +retained possession of it himself, and thence became Charles's chief +favourite and prime minister, till he had been promoted to the highest +ecclesiastical dignity, as Archbishop of Mainz and Chancellor of the +Empire. At this pitch of power, whether he thought he could rise no +higher, or scruples of conscience were awakened by the hierarchical vow, +he would hold the heathen charm no longer, and he threw it into a lake +not far from his metropolitan seat, where the town of Ingethüm now +stands. The regard and affection of the monarch were immediately +diverted from the monk, and all men, to the country surrounding the +lake; and he determined on building there a magnificent palace for his +constant residence, and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial +residences, even to the distance of Ravenna, in Italy, to adorn it. Here +he subsequently resided and died: but it seems the charm had a passive +as well as an active power; his throes of death were long and violent; +and though dissolution seemed every moment impending, still he lingered +in ceaseless agony, till the Archbishop, who was called to his bed-side +to administer the last sacred rites, perceiving the cause, caused the +lake to be dragged, and, silently restoring the talisman to the person +of the dying monarch, his struggling soul parted quietly away. The grave +was opened by the third Otto in 997, and possibly the town of Aachen may +have been thought the proper depository of the powerful drug, to be by +them surrendered to one who was believed by many, as he believed himself +to be, a second Charlemagne. + +So much for the introduction to the following Queries:--1. Can any of +your readers say whether this amulet is still in possession of the +President of the French Republic? 2. If so, might not the believers in +the doctrines of Sympathy attribute the votes of the six millions who, +in Dec. 1848, voted in favour of his election, to the sympathetic +influence of his "nut in gold filigree," and be justified in looking +upon those who voted for his rivals as no true Franks? It was originally +concocted for a Frankish monarch of pure blood, and may be supposed to +exercise its potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted +lineage. + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +DICK SHORE--ISLE OF DOGS--KATHERINE PEGG. + +I entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent, Mr. P. +Cunningham, that Pepys's _Diary_ is well deserving all the illustrative +light which may be reflected upon it from your useful pages. In +submitting the following Query, however, my object is to glean a scrap +of information on a point connected with the neglected topography of the +east end of London, taking Pepys for my text. In the _Diary_, the entry +for January 15th, 1660-61, contains this passage:-- + + "We took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the Dock and + the new west Dock which is newly made there, and a brave new + merchantman which is to launched shortly, and they say to be + called the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to _Dick Shoare_, and + thence to the Towre, and so home."--Vol. i. p. 178. new Ed. + +I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of the +northern bank of the river, between Blackwall and the Tower, was called +_Dick Shore_. It is not marked on any of the old maps of London I have +been able to consult; but it was probably beyond the most easterly point +generally shown within their limits. The modern maps present no trace of +the locality in question. + +The dock-yard visited by Pepys was long one of the most considerable +private ship-building establishments in England. For may years it was +conducted by Mr. Perry, and subsequently, under the firm of Wigram and +Green, the property having been purchased by the late Sir Robert Wigram, +Bart. The extensive premises are still applied to the same use; but they +have been divided to form two distinct yards, conducted by separate +firms. + +The origin of the name (Isle of Dogs), given to the marshy tract of land +lying within the bold curve of the Thames between Blackwall and +Limehouse, is still undetermined. The common story is, that it receives +its name from the king's hounds having been kept there during the +residence of the royal family at Greenwich. This tradition is wholly +unsupported; nor is it very probable that the king's hounds would be +kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient place, while they could be +kept on the Kentish side of the river, in the vicinity of Greenwich +Castle, then occupying the site of the present Observatory. + +The denominations "isle" and "island" appear to have been bestowed on +many places not geographically entitled to them. The Isle of Dogs, +before the construction of the canal which now crosses its isthmus, was +in fact a peninsula. Pepys {142} spent a night in the "isle of Doggs," +as appears by his entry for July 24th, 1665, and again, on the 31st of +the same month, he was compelled to wait in the "unlucky Isle of Doggs, +in a chill place, the morning cool and wind fresh, above two if not +three hours, to his great discontent." + +To the account of Katherine Pegg, given by your correspondents, pp. 90, +91, may be added, that, besides Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl of Plymouth, +she had, by Charles II., a daughter, who died in her infancy. Mrs. Pegg +was one of the _three_ wives of Sir Edward Greene, of Sampford (not +Samford), near Thaxted, Essex, created a baronet 26th July, 1660 (within +two months of the Restoration), to whom she seems to have been not +unfitly matched; for it is recorded of him that, "by his extravagancy +and love of gambling, he entirely ruined his estate, and his large +inheritance passed from his family." He had issue two daughters, who +married.--See Burke's _Extinct Baronetage_. + +I do not think that Katherine Pegg, whose son by the King was born in +1657, was "the pretty woman newly come called Pegg," saluted by Pepys, +7th May, 1668, as Mr. Cunningham surmises. + +J.T. HAMMACK. + +December. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_The Strand Maypole._--"E.F.R." inquires what was the ultimate fate of +the "tall Maypole" which "once o'erlooked the Strand"? It was taken down +about the year 1717, when it was found to measure a hundred feet. It was +obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, and borne on a carriage, for timber, to +Wanstead, in Essex, the seat of the Earl of Tylney, where, under the +direction of the Reverend Mr. Pound Breton, it was placed in the Park, +for the erection of a telescope, the largest then in the world, +presented by a French gentleman to the Royal Society. + + +_To Fettle._--What is the derivation of the verb "to fettle?" In the +North it means to amend--to repair--to put a thing, which is out of +order, into such a state as to effectuate, or to be effectual for, its +original, or a given purpose; e.g. a cart out of order is sent to the +wheelwright's to be fettled. It has been suggested that the word is a +verbalised corruption of the word "effectual." Bailey, in his +_Dictionary_, has designated it as a north country word: but it is +evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning; for he has merely "to +fettle _to_," and seems to have been ignorant of the use of the word +"fettle" as a verb active. To revert to my former example of its use--An +injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the +injured cart. + +L.C.R. + + +_Greek Verse._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of +the line-- + +"[Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d' athanatoisi]?" + +C. + + +_Dr. Dee's petition to James I._--"E.F.R." states that he has lately +discovered, in the lining of an ancient trunk, two or three curious +broadsides, one of which purports to be Dr. Dee's petition to James I., +1604, against the report raised against him, namely, "That he is or hath +bin a Conjurer and Caller, or Invocator of Divels." He would be glad to +know whether this curious broadside has been printed in any memoir of +Dr. Dee. + + +_Vondel's Lucifer._--"F." desires to be informed whether the tragedy or +dramatic poem _Lucifer_, of the Dutch poet Vondel, which has been said +to bear some analogy to _Paradise Lost_, has ever been translated? and +if not, why not? The French writer, Alfred de Vigny, in _Stella_, calls +Vondel (Wundel in his spelling) "ce vieux Shakspeare de la Hollande." + + +_Discurs Modest._--In Bishop Andrewes' _Reply_ to the _Apology_ of +Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, 1610, certain jesuits in +prison are reported to have confessed, _Rem transubstantiationis patres +ne attigisse quidem_; as authority for which is quoted _Discurs Modest_, +p. 13. From this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor, +_Real Presence_, sect. 12. § 16; _Dissuasive_, part i. chap. 1. § 5, and +part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin on _Transubstantiation_, chap. +6. § 17. Can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the _Modest +Discourse_? + +A.T. + + +_Ptolemy of Alexandria._--"QUERY" wishes to be informed what works of +Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in an English translation. + + +_Vanbrugh's London Improvements._--In the _London Journal_ of March +16th, 1722-23, there is the following paragraph:-- + + "We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new + paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, + proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels + in the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and + common sewers under ground." + +Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of noblemen's and +gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply me with a reference +to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the general improvement of the +metropolis? + +B.M. + + +_Becket's Grace-Cup._--The inscription round the neck of this so-called +cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. of Mr. Scott's +_Antiquarian Gleanings_, is thus printed by him--GOD FERARE--: to which +he adds, in explanation, "probably the name of the goldsmith." {143} At +the foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given +thus--FERARE GOD--and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's version, I had +considered the former word as an accidental error of the engraver, +instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, suiting the SOBRII +ESTOTE round the lid.--As Mr. Nichols, in his recent interesting work on +_Pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury_, noticing the misnomer of the +cup (p. 229, n.), indicates its date to be of "the early part of the +sixteenth century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could +state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be known. + +ALICUI. + + +_Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book._--I should be glad to know if any of +your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir Henry Herbert's +Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by Malone, Chalmers, and +Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the Revels to King James the +First, and the two succeeding kings, and the said MS. contains an +account of almost every piece exhibited at any of the theatres from +August, 1623, to the commencement of the rebellion in 1641. Malone, in +his _Historical Account of the English Stage_ (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), +says, in a note-- + + "For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am + indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in + Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the + Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which + contained the manuscript _Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury_, + from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, printed the life + of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir Henry Herbert." + +In another place, Malone adds:-- + + "This valuable manuscript, having lain for a considerable time + in a damp place, is unfortunately damaged, and in a very + mouldering condition; however, no material part of it appears to + have perished." + +Such being the case, it becomes more than ever desirable that this +interesting volume should be sought after, and the _whole_ of its +contents put on record before its total decay. Surely, if its depositary +is known, and accessible, it is well worth the attention of the +_Shakespeare Society_, or some other learned body instituted for the +preservation of documents of this nature. + +A biographical account of the various persons that have held the +appointment of "Master of the Revels," with such particulars of the +stage as would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable _Prolegomena_ +to the publication of Sir Henry's Office-Book. We have, it is true, much +information upon this subject, but in a very scattered form. + +I have now before me a list of the "Masters of the Revells," with the +dates of their patents, which I beg to transcribe. It is of more than +ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir Henry Herbert himself, +and copied at the back of the worthy knight's "Petition to Charles the +Second against the Grant to Killegrew and Davenant to form Two Companies +of Players." + +"_Masters of ye Revells_. + +"Sir Richard Guilford - not on record. +Sir Thomas Cawerden - [1544] 36 Henry VIII. +Sir Thomas Beneger - not on record. +Sir John Fortescue - not on record. +Edmund Tilney, Esq. - July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz. +Sir George Buck - June 23 [1603] I Jac. +Sir John Astley - [1612] 10 Jac. I. +Benjamin Johnson - [1617] 15 Jac. I. +Sir Henry Herbert, and} +Simon Thelwall, Esq. } - Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE + +(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos_.) + +1. DR. BROOK TAYLOR'S PERSPECTIVE. 1st edit. 1715. + +2. DR. AUSTIN'S CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF EUCLID. +(Date not known.) + +3. DR. 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Dering's Household Book, by Rev. Lambert B. +Larking</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page130">130</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Berkeley's Theory of Vision, by Rev. J.H. +Todd</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Bishop Barnaby</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Mathematical Archæology</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page132">132</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Song in Style of Suckling, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Gothic Architecture</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page134">134</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dr. Burney's Musical Works, by E.F. Rimbault</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page135">135</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Ancient Alms' Basins, by Dr. Bell</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page135">135</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Notes:—Prince Madoc—St. +Barnabas—Register of Cromwell's Baptism—The +Times—Rowland Monoux—Wassail Song—Portrait of +Charles I.—Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester +and Henry Duke of Buckingham</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page136">136</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes in answer to Queries:—Lord Erksine's +Brooms—Scarborough Warning—Gray's Elegy—Coffee, +the Lacedæmonian Black Broth</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page138">138</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">QUERIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">The Dore of Holy Scripture</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Turner's MS. History of Westminster</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page140">140</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Talisman of Charlemagne</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page140">140</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page141">141</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Queries:—The Strand Maypole—To +Fettle—Greek Verse—Dr. Dee's Petition—Vondel's +Lucifer—Discurs Modest—Ptolemy of +Alexandria—Vanbrugh's London Improvements—Becket's +Grace-Cup—Sir Herbert's Office-Book</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page142">142</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Advertisements</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page144">144</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr /> +<h2>OUR PROGRESS</h2> +<p>We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither +our best friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having +failed in our endeavours to supply by other means the increasing +demand for complete sets of our "NOTES AND QUERIES," we have been +compelled to reprint the first four numbers.</p> +<p>It is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we +record the fact of a large impression of a work like the present +not having been sufficient to meet the demand,—a work devoted +not to the witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance, but to +the illustration of matters of graver import, such as obscure +points of national history, doubtful questions of literature and +bibliography, the discussion of questionable etymologies, and the +elucidation of old world customs and observances.</p> +<p>What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with reference to +archæology, our experience justifies us in applying to other +literary inquiries:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"On every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest +co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special +pursuits; and not only does this tend of itself to widen the +general basis, but it supplies the individual thinker with an ever +widening foundation for his own special study."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>And whence arises this "earnest co-operation?" Is it too much to +hope that it springs from an increased reverence for the Truth, +from an intenser craving after a knowledge of it—whether such +Truth regards an event on which a throne depended, or the etymology +of some household word now familiar only to</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>We feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our "NOTES AND +QUERIES" with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry +of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it—the +knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it—and the +belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it—is the sovereign +good of human nature."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that +they have flocked to our columns—that the sentiment has found +its echo in the breast of the public, and hence that success which +has attended our humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may +well be pardoned if we boast that we have had both hand and heart +in it.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page130" id= +"page130"></a>{130}</span> +<p>And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this +happy season, when</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"No spirit stirs abroad;</p> +<p>The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes,</p> +<p>No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm,</p> +<p>So hallow'd and so gracious is the time,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, +with the good old English wish,</p> +<p>A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SIR E. DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK.</h3> +<p>The muniment chests of our old established families are seldom +without their quota of "household books." Goodly collections of +these often turn up, with records of the expenditure and the +"doings" of the household, through a period of two or more +centuries. These documents are of incalculable value in giving us a +complete insight into the domestic habits of our ancestors. Many a +note is <i>there</i>, well calculated to illustrate the pages of +the dramatist or the biographer, and even the accuracy of the +historian's statements may often be tested by some of the details +which find their way into these accounts; as for the more peculiar +province of the antiquary, there is always a rich store of +materials. Every change of costume is <i>there</i>; the +introduction of new commodities, new luxuries, and new fashions, +the varying prices of the passing age. Dress in all its minute +details, modes of travelling, entertainments, public and private +amusements, all, with their cost, are there: and last, though not +least, touches of individual character ever and anon present +themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable truth. +Follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife and +children, his household, his tenantry, nay, with himself, and you +have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able +to furnish. In this view, a man's "household book" becomes an +impartial autobiography.</p> +<p>I would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might +sometimes be profitably reserved for "notes" from these household +books; there can be little doubt that your numerous readers would +soon furnish you with abundant contributions of most interesting +matter.</p> +<p>While suggesting the idea, there happens to lie open before me +the account-book of the first Sir Edward Dering, commencing with +the day on which he came of age, when, though his father was still +living, he felt himself an independent man.</p> +<p>One of his first steps, however, was to qualify this +independence by marriage. If family tradition be correct, he was as +heedless and impetuous in this the first important step of his +life, as he seems to have been in his public career. The lady was +Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tufton, afterwards created Earl +of Thanet.</p> +<p>In almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the +charges of this marriage, the different dresses he provided, his +wedding presents, &c. As to his bride, the first pleasing +intelligence which greeted the young knight, after passing his +pledge to take her for "richer for poorer," was, that the latter +alternative was his. Sir Nicholas had jockied the youth out of the +promised "trousseau," and handed over his daughter to Sir Edward, +with nothing but a few shillings in her purse. She came unfurnished +with even decent apparel, and her new lord had to supply her +forthwith with necessary clothing. In a subsequent page, when he +comes to detail the purchases which he was, in consequence, obliged +to make for his bride, he gives full vent to his feelings on this +niggardly conduct of the father, and, in recording the costs of his +own outfit, his very first words have a smack of bitterness in +them, which is somewhat ludicrous—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Medio de donte leporum</p> +<p>Surgit amari aliquid."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a +gallant bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly.</p> +<p>"1619.</p> +<p>"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas unto New +Year's Day.</p> +<table summary="Suite" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a +doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard,</td> +<td align="right">4£.</td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, +to make hose cassocke and cloake [sic]</td> +<td align="right">14£.</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per +yard,</td> +<td align="right">9£.</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">22 ounces of blacke galloune lace</td> +<td align="right">2£.</td> +<td align="right">15s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Taffaty to line the doublett</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">17s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse</td> +<td align="right">1£.</td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of +ye copell</td> +<td></td> +<td>8s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and +scarfe,</td> +<td align="right">2£.</td> +<td align="right">10s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 dozen of small buttons</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">1s.</td> +<td align="right">8d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Stickinge and sowing silke</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">14s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor cuttinge ye scallops</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">2s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">holland to line the hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">5s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dutch bays for the hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Pocketts to ye hose</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">10d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">2 dozen of checker riband pointes</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">12s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">5s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">3s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor makinge ye doublett and hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">18s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">making ye copell</td> +<td align="right">1£.</td> +<td align="right">8s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">making ye cloake</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">9s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sum of this suite</td> +<td align="right">40£.</td> +<td align="right">2s."</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending +these extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, +they shall have, in some future number, the remainder of the +bridegroom's wardrobe. In whatever niggardly array the bride came +to her lord's arms, he, at <span class="pagenum"><a name="page131" +id="page131"></a>{131}</span> least, was pranked and decked in all +the apparel of a young gallant, an exquisite of the first water, +for this was only one of several rich suits which he provided for +his marriage outfit; and then follows a list of costly gloves and +presents, and all the lavish outlay of this his "desperate +quarter."</p> +<p>In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you +shall be furnished with a list of other and better objects of +expenditure from this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as +Clarendon depicts him, the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of +better fame than is yet been his lot to acquire.</p> +<p>He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He +had his foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of +high and enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary +speeches has elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them +therefore now were superfluous. The noble library which he formed +at Surrenden, and the invaluable collection of charters which he +amassed there, during his unhappily brief career, testify to his +ardour in literary pursuits. The library and a large part of the +MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the former, all that remains to +tell of what it once was, are a few scattered notices among the +family records, and the titles of books, with their cost, as they +are entered in the weekly accounts of our "household book." Of the +latter there yet remain a few thousand charters and rolls, some of +them of great interest, with exquisite seals attached. I shall be +able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on these heads, from +the "household book," and, in contemplating the remains of this +unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the sympathy +of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the lament +which has often been mine—"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint +reliquiæ!"</p> +<p class="author">LAMBERT B. LARKING.</p> +<p>Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED.</h3> +<p>In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg +to say that Bishop Berkeley's <i>Theory of Vision Vindicated</i> +does not occur either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected +works; but there is a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, +Dublin, from which I transcribe the full title as +follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate +Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By +the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher.</p> +<p>"Acts, xvii. 28.</p> +<p>"<i>In Him we live, and move, and have our being</i>.</p> +<p>"Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand.</p> +<p>"MDCCXXXIII."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his +collected works; but, as I am now answering "a <i>Query</i>," and +not making "a <i>Note</i>," I shall reserve what I might say of +them for another opportunity. The memory of Berkeley is dear to +every member of this University; and therefore I hope you will +permit me to say one word, in defence of his character, against +Dugald Stewart's charge of having been "provoked," by Lord +Shaftesbury's <i>Characteristics</i>, "to a harshness equally +unwonted and unwarranted."</p> +<p>Mr. Stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon +which he pronounces this most "unwarranted" criticism. The tract +was not written in reply to the <i>Characteristics</i>, but was an +answer to an anonymous letter published in the <i>Daily +Post-Boy</i> of September 9th, 1732, which letter Berkeley has +reprinted at the end of his pamphlet. The only allusion to the +writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of severity +occurs at the commencement of the tract. Those who will take the +trouble of perusing the anonymous letter, will see that it was +richly deserved; and I think it can scarcely, with any justice, be +censured as unbecomingly harsh, or in any degree unwarranted. The +passage is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>[After mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his +noticing this letter sooner, the author adds,] "This would have +altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either +personal or purely speculative, or from entering the lists of the +declaimers, whom I leave to the triumph of their own passions. And +indeed, to one of this character, who contradicts himself and +misrepresents me, what answer can be made more than to desire his +readers not to take his word for what I say, but to use their own +eyes, read, examine, and judge for themselves? And to their common +sense I appeal."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical +discussion of the subject of debate, in a style as cool and as free +from harshness as Dugald Stewart could desire, and containing, as +far as I can see, nothing inconsistent with the character of him, +who was described by his contemporaries as the possessor of "every +virtue under heaven."</p> +<p class="author">JAMES H. TODD.</p> +<p>Trin. Coll. Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BISHOP BARNABY.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—Allow me, in addition to the Note inserted in +your 4th Number, in answer to the Query of LEGOUR, by your +correspondent (and I believe my friend) J.G., to give the following +extract from Forby's <i>Vocabulary of East Anglia</i>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Bishop Barnabee-s. The pretty insect more generally called the +Lady-bird, or May-bug. It is one of those highly favoured among +God's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton +injury. Some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page132" id= +"page132"></a>{132}</span> of it. It has certainly no more relation +to the companion of St. Paul than to drunken Barnaby, though some +have supposed it has. It is sometimes called <i>Bishop Benebee</i>, +which may possibly have been intended to mean the <i>blessed +bee</i>; sometimes <i>Bishop Benetree</i>, of which it seems not +possible to make any thing. The name has most probably been derived +from the <i>Barn-Bishop</i>; whether in scorn of that silly and +profane mockery, or in pious commemoration of it, must depend on +the time of its adoption, before or since the Reformation; and it +is not worth inquiring. The two words are transposed, and +<i>bee</i> annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a +connection than fly-bug or beetle. The dignified ecclesiastics in +ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their habits. +Bishops had scarlet and black, as this insect has on its +wing-covers. Some remains of the finery of the gravest personages +still exist on our academical robes of ceremony. There is something +inconsistent with the popish episcopal character in the childish +rhyme with which <i>Bishop Barnabee</i> is thrown up and dismissed +when he happens to light on any one's hand. Unluckily the words are +not recollected, nor at present recoverable; but the purport of +them is to admonish him to fly home, and take care of his wife and +children, for that his house in on fire. Perhaps, indeed, the rhyme +has been fabricated long since the name by some one who did not +think of such niceties."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">G.A.C.</p> +<p>Sir,—In the explanation of the term Bishop Barnaby, given +by J.G., the prefix "Bishop" seems yet to need elucidation. Why +should it not have arisen from the insect's garb? The full dress +gown of the Oxford D.D.—scarlet with black velvet +sleeves—might easily have suggested the idea of naming the +little insect "Dr. Burn bug," and the transition is easy to "Dr. +Burnabee," or "Bishop Burnaby." These little insects, in the +winter, congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber +till the reappearance of genial weather, and it is not impossible +that, from this circumstance, the country people may have +designated them "Barn bug," or "Barn bee."</p> +<p class="author">L.B.L.</p> +<p>Sir,—I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the +seven-spotted, <i>Coccinella Septempunctata</i>, is the most +common) is called in some places "Bishop Barnaby." This little +insect is sometimes erroneously accused of destroying turnips and +peas in its larva state; but, in truth, both in the larva and +perfect state it feeds exclusively on aphides. I do not know that +it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that burneth," may allude +to something else; still there appears some popular connection of +the <i>Coccinellidæ</i> with <i>cows</i> as well as burning, +for in the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called <i>Cush Cow +Ladies</i>; and in the North Riding one of the children's rhymes +anent them runs:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame,</p> +<p class="i2">Thy<a id="footnotetag1" name= +"footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> house is +burnt, and thy bairns are tean,</p> +<p class="i2">And if thou means to save thy bairns</p> +<p class="i2">Take thy wings and flee away!"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow, +believing if they did evil would inevitably befall them. It is +tenderly placed on the palm of the hand—of a girl, if +possible—and the above rhyme recited thrice, during which it +usually spreads its wings, and at the last word flies away. A +collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects would, I think, be +useful.</p> +<p class="author">W.G.M.J. BARKER.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p><i>Thy</i> is pronounced as <i>thee</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="note">[We have received many other communications +respecting the epithet of this insect—so great a favourite +with children. ALICUI and several other correspondents incline to +L.B.L.'s opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance +of its bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble. J.T. +reminds us that St. Barnabas has been distinguished of old by the +title of <i>bright</i>, as in the old proverbial distich intended +to mark the day of his festival according to the Old Style (21st +June):—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i10">"Barnaby bright!</p> +<p>The longest day and the shortest night."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">While F.E. furnishes us with another and happier +version of the Norfolk popular rhyme:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Bishop, Bishop Barnabee,</p> +<p>Tell me when <i>my</i> wedding be;</p> +<p>If it be to-morrow day,</p> +<p>Take your wings and fly away!</p> +<p><i>Fly to the east, fly to the west</i>,</p> +<p><i>Fly to them that I love best</i>!"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">The name which this pretty insect bears in the +various languages of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other +cases, the Virgin has supplanted Freya; so that <i>Freyjuhaena</i> +and <i>Frouehenge</i> have been changed into <i>Marienvoglein</i>, +which corresponds with <i>Our Lady's Bird</i>. There, can, +therefore, be little doubt that the esteem with which the +lady-bird, or Our Lady's cow, is still regarded, is a relic of the +ancient cult.]</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MATHEMATICAL ARCHÆOLOGY.</h3> +<p>Sir,—I cannot gather from your "Notes" that scientific +archæology is included in your plan, nor yet, on the other +hand, any indications of its exclusion. Science, however, and +especially mathematical science, has its archæology; and many +doubtful points of great importance are amongst the "vexed +questions" that can only be cleared up by <i>documentary +evidence</i>. That evidence is more likely to be found mixed up +amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors +than amongst the papers of mere mathematicians—amongst men +who never destroy a paper because they have no present use for it, +or because the subject does not come within the range of their +researches, than amongst men who value nothing but a "new theorem" +or "an improved solution."</p> +<p>As a general rule I have always habituated myself to preserve +every scrap of paper of any remote (and indeed recent) period, that +had the appearance of being written by a literary man, whether I +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page133" id= +"page133"></a>{133}</span> knew the hand, or understood the +circumstance to which it referred, or not. Such papers, whether we +understand them or not, have a <i>possible value</i> to others; and +indeed, as my collections have always been at the service of my +friends, very few indeed have been left in my hands, and those, +probably, of no material value.</p> +<p>I wish this system were generally adopted. Papers, occasionally +of great historical importance, and very often of +archæological interest, would thus be preserved, and, what is +more, <i>used</i>, as they would thus generally find their way into +the right hands.</p> +<p>There are, I fancy, few classes of papers that would be so +little likely to interest archæologists in general, as those +relating to mathematics; and yet such are not unlikely to fall in +their way, often and largely, if they would take the trouble to +secure them. I will give an example or two, indicating the kind of +papers which are desiderata to the mathematical historian.</p> +<p>1. A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the +restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing +from an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to +near the close of Simson's life. The missing letter, as is gathered +from a subsequent one, is Feb. 5. 1753. A mere letter of business +from an author to his publisher might not be thought of much +interest; but it need not be <i>here</i> enforced how much of +consistency and clearness is often conferred upon a series of +circumstances by matter which such a letter might contain. This +letter, too, contains a problem, the nature of which it would be +interesting to know. It would seem that the letter passed into the +hands of Dodson, editor of the <i>Mathematical Repository</i>; but +what became of Dodson's papers I could never discover. The uses, +however, to which such an unpromising series of letters have been +rendered subservient may be seen in the <i>Philosophical +Magazine</i>, under the title of "Geometry and Geometers," Nos. ii. +iii. and iv. The letters themselves are in the hands of Mr. +Maynard, Earl's Court, Leicester Square.</p> +<p>2. Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one +of the scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to +decide upon the plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"It is probable," says Dr. Hutton, in his Life of Simpson, +prefixed to the <i>Select Exercises</i>, 1792, "that this reference +to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously to +this subject, so as to form the design of composing a regular +treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he +laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and +was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to them +that this work, when published, would procure him more credit than +any of his former publications. But he lived not to put the +finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this subject probably +fell, together with all his other remaining papers, into the hands +of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, in the service of the +India Company, being in all a large chest full of papers. This +gentleman had been a pupil of Mr. Simpson's, and had lodged in his +house. After Mr. Simpson's death Mr. Watson prevailed upon the +widow to let him have the papers, promising either to give her a +sum of money for them, or else to print and publish them for her +benefit. But nothing of the kind was ever done; this gentleman +always declaring, when urged on this point by myself and others, +that no use could be made of any of the papers, owing to the very +imperfect state in which he said they were left. <i>And yet he +persisted in his refusal to give them up again.</i>"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In 1780 Colonel Watson was recalled to India, and took out with +him one of the most remarkable English mathematicians of that day, +Reuben Burrow. This gentleman had been assistant to Dr. Maskelyne +at the Royal Observatory; and to his care was, in fact, committed +the celebrated Schehallien experiments and observations. He died in +India, and, I believe, all his papers which reached England, as +well as several of his letters, are in my possession. This, +however, is no further of consequence in the present matter, than +to give authority to a remark I am about to quote from one of his +letters to his most intimate friend, Isaac Dalby. In this he +says:—"Colonel Watson has out here a work of Simpson's on +bridges, very <i>complete</i> and <i>original</i>."</p> +<p>It was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of Hutton, +that so unscrupulous a person as Colonel Watson is proved to be, +was deterred from publishing Simpson's work as his own.</p> +<p>The desideratum here is, of course, to find what became of +Colonel Watson's papers; and then to ascertain whether this and +what other writings of Simpson's are amongst them. A <i>really +good</i> work on the mathematical theory of bridges, if such is +ever to exist, has yet to be published. It is, at the same time, +very likely that his great originality, and his wonderful sagacity +in all his investigations, would not fail him in this; and possibly +a better work on the subject was composed ninety years ago than has +yet seen the light—involving, perhaps, the germs of a totally +new and more effective method of investigation.</p> +<p>I have, I fear, already trespassed too far upon your space for a +single letter; and will, therefore, defer my notice of a few other +desiderata till a future day.</p> +<p class="author">T.S.D.</p> +<p>Shooter's Hill, Dec. 15. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SONG IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING—THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.</h3> +<p>The song in your second number, furnished by a correspondent, +and considered to be in the style <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page134" id="page134"></a>{134}</span> of Suckling, is of a class +common enough in the time of Charles I. George Wither, rather than +Suckling, I consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to +that age, as "Shall I wasting in Despair" may be regarded as the +type of this class of poems. The present instance I do not think of +very high merit, and certainly not good enough for Suckling. Such +as it is, however, with a few unimportant variations, it may be +found at page 101. of the 1st vol. of <i>The Hive, a Collection of +the most celebrated Songs</i>. My copy is the 2nd edit. London, +1724.</p> +<p>I will, with your permission, take this opportunity of setting +Mr. Dyce right with regard to a passage in the <i>Two Noble +Kinsmen</i>, in which he is only less wrong than all his +predecessors. It is to be found in the second scene of the fourth +act, and is as follows:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"Here Love himself sits smiling:</p> +<p>Just such another wanton Ganymede</p> +<p>Set Jove afire with," &c.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative +"he" after "Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after +"afire." Mr. Dyce saw that both these must be wrong, as a +comparison between two wanton Ganymedes, one of which sat in the +coutenance of Arcite, could never have been +intended;—another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, +and he, therefore, has this note:—"The construction and +meaning are, 'With just such another <i>smile</i> (which is +understood from the preceding 'smiling') wanton Ganymede set Jove +afire." When there is a choice of nouns to make intelligible sense, +how can that one be understood which is not expressed? It +<i>might</i> be "with just such another <i>Love</i>;" but, as I +shall shortly show, no conjecture on the subject is needed. The +older editors were so fond of mending passages, that they did not +take ordinary pains to understand them; and in this instance they +have been so successful in sticking the epithet "wanton" to +Ganymede, that even Mr. Dyce, with his clear sight, did not see +that the very word he wanted was the next word before him. It puts +one in mind of a man looking for his spectacles who has them +already across his nose. "Wanton" is a noun as well as an +adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an epithet +applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place after +it a <i>comma</i>, when the passage will read thus:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"Here Love himself sits smiling.</p> +<p>Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) +"Ganymede</p> +<p>Set Jove afire with," &c.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The third act of the same play commences thus:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The duke has lost Hippolita; each took</p> +<p>A several land."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old +form of lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not +understood now, we must fall back on the general sense of the +passage. When people go a hunting, and don't keep together, it is +very probable that they may take a several "direction." Now +<i>hand</i> means "direction," as we say "to the right" or "left +hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should read "a +several hand?"</p> +<p class="author">SAMUEL HICKSON</p> +<hr /> +<h3>"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE</h3> +<p>It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, +to explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of +the introduction of the term '<i>Gothic</i>,' as applied to pointed +styles of ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of +Winchester, in your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the +term was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those +who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of +architecture, after the revival of classical literature. But, +without citing many authorities, such as Christopher Wren, and +others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old mediæval +style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing +that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the +celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled <i>The Elements +of Architecture</i>, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This +work was so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed +to the works of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's <i>Parallel of +the Ancient Architecture with the Modern</i>. Dufresnoy, also, who +divided his time between poetry and painting, and whose work on the +latter art was rendered popular in this country by Dryden's +translation, uses the term "<i>Gothique</i>" in a bad sense. But it +was a strange misapplication of the term to use it for the pointed +style, in contradistinction to the circular, formerly called Saxon, +now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These latter styles, like +Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course belong more to the +Gothic period than the light and elegant structures of the pointed +order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author of the +<i>Lives of Architects</i>, divides Gothic architecture into two +distinct kinds—the <i>massive</i> and the <i>light</i>; and +as the latter superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had +been originally applied to both kinds, seems to have been +restricted improperly to the latter only. As there is now, happily, +no fear of the word being understood in a bad sense, there seems to +be no longer any objection to the use of it in a good one, whatever +terms may be used to discriminate all the varieties of the style +observable either at home or abroad.</p> +<p class="author">J.I.</p> +<p>Trinity College, Oxford.</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page135" id= +"page135"></a>{135}</span> +<h3>DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is +made for Burney's <i>Treatise on Music</i> (not his +<i>History</i>). Before correspondents trouble you with their +wants, I think they should be certain that the books they inquire +for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or wrote, a +<i>Treatise on Music</i>. His only works on the subject (the +<i>General History of Music</i> excepted) are the +following:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771.</p> +<p>"The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and +United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775.</p> +<p>"An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, +and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. +1785.</p> +<p>"A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of +reference, strict accuracy on all points is the grand +desideratum.</p> +<p class="author">EDW. F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p>P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the +<i>Life of Metastasio</i>, which, although not generally classed +among musical works, forms an admirable supplement to the +<i>General History of Music</i>.</p> +<p class="author">E.F.R.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES.</h3> +<p>Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the +dishes and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., +&c., pp. 44. 73. 87., are likely to cause as much speculation +here as they have some time experienced on the continent. They were +there principally figured and discussed in the +<i>Curiositãten</i>, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted +from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of Göthe, +librarian to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, +Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbüttel, first +noticed them from a specimen belonging to the church of a +suppressed convent at Sterterheim near Brunswick, and they were +subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. Hammer (now v. Purgstall), +the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of the principal proofs +which he adduced in his <i>Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum</i> in +one of the numbers of the <i>Fundgruben (Mines) des Orients</i>, +for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, and +others, falsely attributed to the Templars. Comments upon these +dishes occur in other works of a recent period, but having left my +portfolio, concerning them, with other papers, on the continent, I +give these hasty notices entirely from memory. They are by no means +uncommon now in England, as the notices of your correspondents +prove. A paper on three varieties of them at Hull was read in 1829, +to the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society. In Nash's +<i>Worcestershire</i> one is depicted full size, and a reduced copy +given about this period in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, and +Nash first calls them "Offertory Dishes." The Germans call them +Taufbecken, or baptismal basins; but I believe the English +denomination more correct, as I have a distinct recollection of +seeing, in a Catholic convent at Danzig, a similar one placed on +Good Friday before the tomb of the interred image of the Saviour, +for the oblations for which it was not too large. Another of them +is kept upon the altar of Boroughbridge Church (N. Riding of +Yorkshire), but sadly worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright, and +the attempt at a copy of the Inscription in a Harrowgate Guide is +felicitously ludicrous: it is there taken as a relic of the Roman +Isurium on the same spot. Three others were observed some years ago +in a neglected nook of the sacristy of York Cathedral. At the last +meeting of the Institute at Salisbury, a number of these were +exhibited in St. John's House there, but I believe without any +notice taken of them in its Proceedings; and another was shown to +the Archæological Society, at their last Chester Congress, by +Colonel Biddulph, at Chirk Castle; when more were mentioned by the +visitors as in their possession, anxious as your correspondents to +know the import of the inscriptions. They are sometimes seen +exposed in the shops of Wardour Street, and in other curiosity +shops of the metropolis.</p> +<p>On their sunken centres all have religious types: the most +common is the temptation of Eve; the next in frequency, the +Annunciation; the Spies sent by Joshua returning with an immense +bunch of grapes suspended betwixt them, is not unfrequent; but +non-scriptural subjects, as the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, +mentioned by L.S.B., is a variety I have not before observed.</p> +<p>The inscriptions vary, and are sometimes double in two +concentral rings. The most usual is that alluded to by your +correspondents, and though obviously German, neither old nor +obsolete; having been viewed even by native decipherers, through +the mist of a preconceived hypothesis, have never yet been by them +satisfactorily accounted for. It is always repeated four times, +evidently from the same slightly curved die; when, however, the +enlarged circumference of the circle required more than this +fourfold repetition to go round it, the die was set on again for as +much of a fifth impression as was necessary: this was seldom more +than four or five letters, which, as pleonastic or intercalary, are +to be carefully rejected in reading the rest; their introduction +has confused many expositors.</p> +<p>The readings of some of your correspondents who understand +German is pretty near the truth. <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page136" id="page136"></a>{136}</span> I have before said that the +centre type of Eve's Temptation is the most common, and to it the +words especially refer, and seem at the place of their manufacture +(most probably Nuremburg) to have been used for other centres +without any regard to its fitness. The letters, as I can safely +aver from some very perfect specimens, are</p> +<blockquote> +<p>DER SELEN INFRID WART;</p> +</blockquote> +<p>in modern German "<i>der Seelen Infried wort</i>." To the German +scholar the two latter words only require explanation. +<i>Infrid</i> for Unfried, discord, disturbance, any thing in +opposition to Frieden or peace. The Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, +and Hexham, still bear the old theotise stamp. <i>Wart</i>, or +<i>ward</i>, may be either the past tense of <i>werden</i>, to be +(our was), or an old form of <i>währen</i>, to endure, to +last: our English <i>wear</i> is the same word. The sense is pretty +much the same in both readings alluding to Eve. In the first:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>(By her) the soul's disturbance came (was).</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>By the second:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>(Through her) the soul's disturbance continues.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>I may here observe that the words ICH WART are particularly +distinct on a helmet, pictured in the Journal of the British +Archæological Association, which the Secretary, Mr. Planche, +in such matters the highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. +It may there have been in the original ICH WARTE, meaning I bide +(my time).</p> +<p>But the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty. A +second, frequently met with, is by far more puzzling. I could not +give your readers any idea of it without a drawing: however it is +found imperfectly depicted on the plates I have before mentioned in +Nash's <i>Worcestershire</i>, and the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, +and I think I recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of +Hearne's <i>Miscellaneous Works</i>, which I examined in the +Gottingen Library, but whether belonging to the work or a MS. +addition I cannot now call to mind. The fanciful and flowery form +of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in assigning +them their particular position in the alphabet, and the difficulty +of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of German +archæologists whether they are initials or component parts of +a sentence. Herr Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, however, in his +version RECORD DE SCI GNSI, or in full <i>Recordamini de sancta +Gnosi</i>, deduces thence his principal proof of Gnostic heresy +amongst the calumniated Templars, in which I am sorry to say he has +been too servilely followed in England: <i>e.g.</i> by Mr. Godfrey +Higgins, in his posthumous <i>Anaclypsis</i> (p. 830 note), as well +as by E.G. Addison, <i>The Temple Church</i> (p. 57), and by Mr. +R.W. Billings more especially, who tacks to his account of this +building an "Essay on the symbolical Evidences of the Temple +Church, where the Templars are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged +by Edward Clarkson, Esq." Had the learnedly hypothetic Austrian +seen the engravings of the Crypt at Canterbury Cathedral +(<i>Archæologia</i>, viii. p. 74.), and Ledwick's remarks on +it in conjunction with the carvings at Glendalloch (<i>History of +Ireland</i>, p. 174.), or those of Grymbald's Crypt at Oxford, he +might have been expected to have attributed their monstrosities to +his order, with as little hesitation and as thorough a contempt of +chronology, or proved connection, as he has the curious and +innocent sculptures of the church at Schöngrabern in Bohemia +(vide <i>Curiositäten</i>, vol. viii. p. 501.).</p> +<p class="author">WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR NOTES.</h3> +<p><i>Prince Modoc.</i>—At p. 57., "ANGLO-CAMBRIAN" refers to +the report of the Proceedings of the British Association at +Swansea, in Aug. 1848, extracted from the <i>Athenæum</i> +newspaper. In the course of a discussion which took place on Prof. +Elton's address, it was observed (if I recollect rightly) by the +learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the so-called Welsh-Indian +dialect has been formed, and that it contains <i>no trace</i> of +any Celtic root.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.T. December 10. 1849.</p> +<p><i>St. Barnabas.</i>—About the time of the Reformation, it +was strongly debated whether the festival days of St. Paul and St. +Barnabas should be admitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book +of K. Edward, the conversion of St. Paul is put down in +<i>black</i>, and St. Barnabas is <i>omitted altogether</i>! No +wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, liberties were taken with the +name of St. Barnabas, and it was transferred to doggerel rhyme, to +be repeated by children.</p> +<p class="author">J.I.</p> +<p><i>Register of Cromwell's Baptism.</i>—The communication +of your correspondent C.W.G. at p. 103. of your last number, +induces me to offer you the inclosed copy from the <i>Register</i> +of All Saints' Church, Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of +Oliver Cromwell:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Cromwell generosi et +Elisabethæ huxoris ejus Natus vicesimo quinto die Aprilis et +Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Then follow the words "England's plague for many years," written +in a different hand.</p> +<p class="author">R.O.</p> +<p><i>The Times.</i>—A correspondent (NASO) informs us of the +following fact in the history of this widely circulated and +influential journal; namely, that it is stated in that the paper of +the 12th of March, 1788, that it was printed "Logographically!" We +wish our correspondent had furnished us with the precise words of +this very curious statement.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page137" id= +"page137"></a>{137}</span> +<p><i>Roland Monoux.</i>—I have in my possession a brass +monumental plate, said to have been taken from some church in +Middlesex, and bearing the following lines, engraved in <i>black +letter</i>:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Behold what droupinge Dethe maye doe, consume</p> +<p class="i4">y'e corse to duste,</p> +<p>What Dethe maie not shall lyue for aye, in spite of</p> +<p class="i4">Dethe his luste;</p> +<p>Thoughe Rouland Monoux shrowdeth here, yet</p> +<p class="i4">Rouland Monoux lives,</p> +<p>His helpynge hand to nedys want, a fame for ever</p> +<p class="i4">geves;</p> +<p>Hys worde and dede was ever one, his credyth never</p> +<p class="i4">quaylde,</p> +<p>His zeall' to Christ was stronge, tyll' dethe w'th latest</p> +<p class="i4">panges asaylde.</p> +<p>Twyse thre and one he Children had, two sones, one</p> +<p class="i4">kepes his name,</p> +<p>And dowghters fyve for home he carde, y't lyve in</p> +<p class="i4">honest fame.</p> +<p>What booteth more, as he be kynde dyd come of</p> +<p class="i4">Jentyll race,</p> +<p>So Rouland Monoux good Desertes this grave can</p> +<p class="i4">not Deface."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>I should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of +this Rouland Monoux, and when he died. I may also add; that I +should be very willing to restore the brass to its original site, +did I know the spot from whence it has been sacrilegiously +torn.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p><i>Wessel Cup Hymn.</i>—The following Wassail Song is +taken from a little chap-book printed at Manchester, called <i>A +Selection of Christmas Hymns</i>. it is obviously a corrupted +version of a much older song:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Here we come a wesseling,</p> +<p class="i2">Among the leaves so green,</p> +<p>Here we come a wandering,</p> +<p class="i2">So fair to be seen.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Cho.</i>—Love and joy come to you,</p> +<p class="i2">And to your wessel too,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year,</p> +<p class="i6">A new year,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree,</p> +<p>So is your beer of the best barley.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"We are not daily beggars,</p> +<p class="i2">That beg from door to door,</p> +<p>But we are neighbours' children,</p> +<p class="i2">Whom you have seen before.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Call up the butler of this house,</p> +<p class="i2">Put on his golden ring,</p> +<p>Let him bring us up a glass of beer,</p> +<p class="i2">And the better we shall sing.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"We have got a little purse,</p> +<p class="i2">Made of stretching leather skin,</p> +<p>We want a little of your money,</p> +<p class="i2">To line it well within.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Bring us out a table,</p> +<p class="i2">And spread it with a cloth,</p> +<p>Bring us out a mouldy cheese,</p> +<p class="i2">And some of your Christmas loaf.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"God bless the master of this house,</p> +<p class="i2">Likewise the mistress too,</p> +<p>And all the little children,</p> +<p class="i2">That round the table go.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Good master and mistress,</p> +<p class="i2">While you'r sitting by the fire,</p> +<p>Pray think of us poor children,</p> +<p class="i2">Who are wand'ring in the mire.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Cho.</i>—Love and joy come to you,</p> +<p class="i2">And to your wessel to,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year,</p> +<p class="i10">A new year,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree,</p> +<p>So is your beer of the best barley."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>It is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved. +Its insertion will at least have that effect, and may be the means +of our discovering an earlier and purer text.</p> +<p class="author">AMBROSE MERTON.</p> +<p><i>Portrait of Charles I.</i>—In Sir Henry Ellis's +<i>Original Letters</i>, 2d series, vol. iii. p. 254., amongst the +prefatory matter to the reign of Charles I., there is a notice of a +sermon, entitled "The Subject's Sorrow, or Lamentations upon the +Death of Britaine's Josiah, King Charles."</p> +<p>Sir Henry Ellis says it is expressly stated, in this Sermon, +that the King himself desired "that unto his Golden Manual might be +prefixed his representation, kneeling; contemning a temporal crown, +holding our blessed Saviour's crown of thorns, and aspiring unto an +eternal crown of happiness."</p> +<p>Note <i>b</i>. upon this passage is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"This very portrait of King Charles the First, engraved by +Marshall, adorned the original edition of the [Greek: Eikon +Basilikae]. 8vo. 1648. <i>The same portrait, as large as life, in +oil painting, was afterwards put up in many of our +churches.</i>"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>When I was a boy, such a portrait, in oil painting, hung upon +the south wall of the body of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, +between the pulpit and a small door to the west, leading into the +south aisle.</p> +<p>Out of the window of the chamber in which the King was kneeling +was represented a storm at sea, and the ship being driven by it +upon some rocks.</p> +<p>A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to +St. Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so +familiar to me in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken +down, and was in the vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, +on the floor against the wall.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page138" id= +"page138"></a>{138}</span> +<p>You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly +destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is +established to arrange its restoration.</p> +<p>Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made +about the fate of this picture?</p> +<p class="author">R.O.</p> +<p>Dec. 17. 1849.</p> +<p>P.S.—I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of +the frame of the picture a board, on which was painted, in +conformably large letters—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"LORD, remember David and all his trouble."</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>Psalm</i> cxxxii. 1.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine.</p> +<p><i>Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry +Duke of Buckingham.</i>—In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. +marked Vespasian F. XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, +upon which is written by the hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, +and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the following couplet:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Loyaulte me lie</p> +<p>Richard Gloucestre</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Souente me souène</p> +<p>Harre Bokingh'a'm."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>A fac-simile is engraved in <i>Autographs of Royal, Noble, +Learned, and Remarkable Personages in English History</i>, engraved +by C.J. Smith, and edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., +where the editor suggests that this slip of parchment was "perhaps +a deceitful toy," or it may have been attached to some present +offered by the Duke of Gloucester to his royal nephew Edward the +Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is perfectly free from +misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the crown, which he +soon so flagrantly outraged—"Loyalty binds me." In the work +above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these +words, in modern French:—"Souvent me souviens." This does not +appear to me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the +opinions of such as are conversant with old manuscripts, whether +the true meaning, or even the true reading, of the Duke of +Buckingham's motto has as yet been ascertained?</p> +<p class="author">H.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Lord Erskine's Brooms.</i>—"G.B." informs us, that the +anecdote about Lord Erskine's brooms, and the apprehension of his +servant for selling them without a licence, will be found in his +Life by Lord Campbell (<i>Lives of the Chancellors</i>, vol. vi. p. +618.). Erskine himself attended the sessions to plead the man's +cause, and contended that the brooms were agricultural produce, or, +as he jocosely observed, "came under the <i>sweeping</i> clause." +The <i>when</i> is about 1807, and the <i>where</i> an estate in +Sussex, which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its +owner, as it produced nothing but birch trees, and those but +stunted ones. To which information "W.J." adds, that about the same +period Lord Erskine printed, for private circulation, <i>An Appeal +in favour of the agricultural Services of Rooks</i>; a production +probably scarce now, but full of humanity, and very +characteristic.</p> +<p><i>Scarborough Warning.</i>—In a postscript to a letter +written from court on the 19th January, 1603, by Toby Matthew, +Bishop of Durham, to Hutton, Archbishop of York, I find the term +<i>Scarborough warning</i>. Can any of the correspondents of your +valuable paper inform me of the origin and prevalence of this +saying? The postscript is—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"When I was in the middest of this discourse, I received a +message from my lord chamberlaine, that it was his majesty's +pleasure that I should preach before him upon Sunday next; which +<i>Scarborough warning</i> did not perplex me, but so puzzled me, +as no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted, which otherwise I might +have better remembered."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Quoted in Caldwell's <i>Conferences</i>, p. 166.</p> +<p class="author">W.M.C.</p> +<p class="note">[NARES tells us, that Ray, on the authority of +Fuller, states that this saying took its origin from "Thomas +Stafford, who, in the reign of Mary, A.D. 1557, with a small +company, seized on Scarborough Castle (utterly destitute of +provision for resistance), before the townsmen had the least notice +of their approach;" but shows that it was probably much older, as, +in a ballad written by J. Heywood on the taking of that place by +Stafford, the following more probable origin is given to the +proverb:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"This term <i>Scarborow warning</i> grew (some say),</p> +<p class="i2">By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare.</p> +<p>Who that was met, but suspect in that way,</p> +<p class="i2">Straight he was trust up, whatever he were."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">This implies that Scarborough imitated the Halifax +gibbet law. Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or +exercised by the men of Scarborough? We should be glad to hear from +any local antiquary upon this point.]</p> +<p><i>Gray's Elegy.</i>—In answer to your correspondent, +J.F.M. (p. 101.), who asks for information respecting the +competition for the best translation of Gray's <i>Elegy</i>, in +which Dr. Sparke was a candidate, I would beg to refer him to the +satirical poem attributed to Mr. T.J. Matthias, formerly Fellow of +Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled <i>The Pursuits of +Literature</i>, in which a ludicrous account is given of the +affair. It does not appear who offered the prize, but Mr. Nares, +the editor of <i>The British Critic</i>, was the judge, and the +place of meeting "The Musical Room in <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page139" id="page139"></a>{139}</span> Hanover +Square," which was decorated for the occasion with appropriate +scenery—at least so says <i>The Critic</i>. He thus describes +the solemnity (p. 174 8th edit. 1798):—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Lo, learned clerks in sable stole,</p> +<p>Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal.</p> +<p>Old Norbury starts, and, with the <i>seventh-form</i> boys,</p> +<p>In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys,</p> +<p>With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew,</p> +<p>In dismal dance about the mournful yew.</p> +<p>But first in notes Sicilian placed on high,</p> +<p>Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony;</p> +<p>And in sad cadence, as the bands condense,</p> +<p>The curfew tolls the knell of <i>parting sense</i>."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being +apparently the "conqueror:"—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done,</p> +<p>To Weston, Taylor's Hymns and Alciphron,</p> +<p>And Rochester's Address to lemans loose;</p> +<p>To Tew, Parr's Sermon and the game of goose;</p> +<p>To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief</p> +<p>A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief</p> +<p>He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury's back</p> +<p>The Sunday suit of customary black.</p> +<p>The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look</p> +<p>Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, COOK."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">W. Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 17.</p> +<p><i>Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth.</i>—Your +correspondent "R.O." inquires what modern author suggests the +probability of coffee being the black broth of the +Lacedæmonians? The suggestion, I think, originated with +George Sandys, the translator of Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>. +Sandys travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first published +his <i>Notes</i> in 1615. The following is from the 6th edit. 1652, +p. 52.:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their +coffa-houses, which something resemble them. Their sit they, +chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of the +berry that it is made of), in little <i>China</i> dishes, as hot as +they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it +(why not that black broth which was in use among the +Lacedæmonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, and +procureth alacrity," &c.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Burton also (<i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>) describes it as "like +that black drink which was in use among the Lacedæmonians, +and perhaps the same."</p> +<p class="author">E.B. PRICE.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS.</h3> +<p>It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last +bondsman by blood—<i>nativus de sanguine</i>—who lived +in this country. The beginning of the seventeenth century is the +period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of +personal villenage. In the celebrated argument in the case of the +negro Somerset (<i>State Trials</i>, vol. xx. p. 41), an instance +as late as 1617-18 is cited as the latest in our law books. (See +Noy's <i>Reports</i>, p. 27.) It is probably the latest recorded +<i>claim</i>, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that +the supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man. I can supply +the names of three who were living near Brighton in the year 1617, +and whose thraldom does not appear to have been disputed. Norden, +from whose unpublished <i>Survey of certain Crown Manors</i> I have +extracted the following notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to +think that the times were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the +lord of the manor to put his rights in force.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"There are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor, +never known to be anie way mannumissed, namely, Thomas Goringe, +William and John Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, +William at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean. What goods +they have the Jurie know not. All poor men. Thomas hath the +reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye. But +mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; yet, were +they men of ability, they might be, upon some consideration, +infraunchized." (<i>Survey of the Manor of Falmer, Sussex</i>.)</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be +pointed out.</p> +<p class="author">E. SMIRKE.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.</h3> +<p>In Herbert's edition of Ames's <i>Typographical Antiquities</i>, +1785, vol. i. p. 492., is noticed <i>The Dore of Holy +Scripture</i>, 12mo., printed by John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. +494., a reprint of the same work is mentioned in 1540, by the same +printer, and a description of a copy given from one then in the +possession of Herbert himself. In the preface prefixed by the +printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste translatoure +of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end of the +work is this note:—"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor +Barons, Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As I am much interested in +the subject to which this publication refers, may I ask for +information on three points?—1. What evidence is there of +this edition of 1536, beyond the statement in Ames? 2. What has +become of the copy of the edition of 1540, formerly belonging to +Herbert? and, 3. Who are the persons who <i>peruse</i> and revise +the latter edition? There is not copy of either edition, as far as +I can trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, or at +Lambeth.</p> +<p>I may add to these queries the following remarks:—</p> +<p>1. Ames asserted that <i>The Dore of Holy Scripture</i> was +among the books prohibited to be read <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page140" id="page140"></a>{140}</span> by the +injunctions of Henry the Eighth, and refers, as his authority, to +Foxe's <i>Acts and Monument</i>, ed. 1562, p. 574. Herbert, in a +note, questions the fact, and raises a doubt as to the existence of +the passage in Foxe, since it is not in the edition of 1641. I +have, however, the first edition now before me of 1563 (<i>not</i> +1562), and at p. 574., among "the names of certen bokes whiche +after this injunction [namely, of 1539], or some other in the said +kinges dayes were prohybited," occurs, "Item, <i>the doore of holy +scripture</i>. made by Jhon. Gowghe."</p> +<p>2. This work was again printed by Crowley in 1550, 12mo., under +a different title, namely, <i>The Pathway to Perfect Knowledge</i>; +and in the preface, he falsely ascribes it to John Wycliffe, and +adds, "the original wherof is in an olde English Bible, betwixt the +Olde Testament and the Newe, which Bible remaineth now in the Kyng +his Majesties chamber." This Bible appears to be the identical +manuscript copy of the later Wycliffe version of the Scriptures, +now preserved in the University Library, Cambridge, and marked Mm +2. 15. A copy of Crowley's edition is in the British Museum, but +the orthography and language of the tract are modernised.</p> +<p class="author">F.M. B.M., Dec. 19.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>TURNER'S MS. HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER—CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD +THE CONFESSOR.</h3> +<p>On April 6. 1708, Henry Turner was elected, by the vestry, +organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the room of the famous +"Father Smith" (Bernard Schmidt). As regards his musical +capabilities, Hawkins does not assign him a niche in his <i>Temple +of Worthies</i>, although he names some of his predecessors and +successors in that office. One merit we must accord him, that of +true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters regarding "this +renowned city." "Great materials are said to have been collected +for a full description (of Westminster), by a parish-clerk of St. +Margaret's. I presume this is Henry Turner, mentioned in Widmore's +<i>Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster +Abbey</i>.... His book was only a survey of the city of +Westminster, purposely omitting the history of the (collegiate) +church."—Gough, <i>Brit. Top.</i> vol. i. p. 761. Lond. 1780. +"The man's natural parts were very good; he was also very diligent +in making enquiries relating to his subject, and he had collected a +great deal."—Widmore's <i>Acc. of Writers of the Hist. of +Westm. Abbey</i>, pp. 6, 7. Lond. 1751. As regards his personal +history, I alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a +transcript of a register: "Henry Turner, borne at Yearely, +Derbyshire, 12. July, 1679: married Eliz. Sabin, of Clement Danes, +in St. Margrts. Westmr. Feb. 26. 1701. by Dr. Onley."</p> +<p>In 1697 it was discovered that some valuable MS. records +belonging to the parish, and taken out of the Tower of London, had +been lost by their keeper. This history in its time appears to have +suffered the same fate. However, there is this entry in the +<i>Harleian MSS.</i> 7045. fol. 361.: "From the learned Dr. Kennet, +Dean of Peterborough's Collection. MSS. MS. H. On Aug. 2. 1708, at +Windsor, I read over the <i>History of the Parish of St. +Margaret's, Westminster</i>, drawn up in MS. by one of the parish +clerks." Some interesting extracts follow. Compare <i>Aysc. Add. +MSS. Brit. Mus.</i> 4163. fol. 5. Bishop Kennet resided in St. +James's Street, in this parish, and died there on Dec. 19. 1728. I +have applied in vain for any account of this MS. to the librarians +of Windsor Castle and Eton College.</p> +<p>Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? Are any +aware that this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? +There is an instance, as early as the fifteenth century, of the +union of the offices of lay-clerk and organist in St. Margaret's, +in the person of one Metyngham, and H. Turner also held them at the +same time; since, on July 28th, 1713, he was elected parish-clerk +by the vestry, in "consideration of the experience they had of +fitness and diligence in executing the office of deputy-clerk of +this parish for several years last past;" and he did not resign the +place of organist until 2nd October, 1718.</p> +<p>May I make another Query?—The gold chain and crucifix, +laid in the grave of K. Edward the Confessor, were removed by +Charles Taylor, and given into the hands of King James II. On the +reverse of the same cross was pictured a Benedictine monk, in his +habit, and on each side of him these capital Roman +letter,—</p> +<pre> +On the right limb thus: and on the left thus: + (A) P. + Z. A. X A. C. + A H. +</pre> +<p><i>Antiq. of St. Peter's</i>, vol. ii. App. n. iij, Ed. +1722.</p> +<p>What does the inscription mean? Is the former portion to be +understood "[Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? What is the import +of the latter?</p> +<p class="author">MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE TALISMAN OF CHARLEMAGNE.</h3> +<p>Many years back, "Prince" Louis Napoleon was stated to be in +possesion of the talisman of Charlemagne;—"a small nut, in a +gold filigree envelopment, found round the neck of that monarch on +the opening of his tomb, and given by the town of Aachen +(Aix-la-Chapelle) to Buonaparte, and by him to his favourite +Hortense, <i>ci-de-vant</i> Queen of Holland, at whose death it +descended to her son," the present President of the French +Republic.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page141" id= +"page141"></a>{141}</span> +<p>The Germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman. +It was framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors +of Aaroun-al-Raschid to the mighty Emperor of the West, at the +instance of his spouse Fastrada, with the virtue that her husband +should be always fascinated towards the person or thing on which it +was. The constant love of Charles to this his spouse was the +consequence; but, as it was not taken from her finger after death, +the affection of the emperor was continued unchanging to the +corpse, which he would on no account allow to be interred, even +when it became offensive. His confessor, having some knowledge of +the occult sciences, at last drew off the amulet from the inanimate +body, which was then permitted to be buried; but he retained +possession of it himself, and thence became Charles's chief +favourite and prime minister, till he had been promoted to the +highest ecclesiastical dignity, as Archbishop of Mainz and +Chancellor of the Empire. At this pitch of power, whether he +thought he could rise no higher, or scruples of conscience were +awakened by the hierarchical vow, he would hold the heathen charm +no longer, and he threw it into a lake not far from his +metropolitan seat, where the town of Ingethüm now stands. The +regard and affection of the monarch were immediately diverted from +the monk, and all men, to the country surrounding the lake; and he +determined on building there a magnificent palace for his constant +residence, and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial +residences, even to the distance of Ravenna, in Italy, to adorn it. +Here he subsequently resided and died: but it seems the charm had a +passive as well as an active power; his throes of death were long +and violent; and though dissolution seemed every moment impending, +still he lingered in ceaseless agony, till the Archbishop, who was +called to his bed-side to administer the last sacred rites, +perceiving the cause, caused the lake to be dragged, and, silently +restoring the talisman to the person of the dying monarch, his +struggling soul parted quietly away. The grave was opened by the +third Otto in 997, and possibly the town of Aachen may have been +thought the proper depository of the powerful drug, to be by them +surrendered to one who was believed by many, as he believed himself +to be, a second Charlemagne.</p> +<p>So much for the introduction to the following Queries:—1. +Can any of your readers say whether this amulet is still in +possession of the President of the French Republic? 2. If so, might +not the believers in the doctrines of Sympathy attribute the votes +of the six millions who, in Dec. 1848, voted in favour of his +election, to the sympathetic influence of his "nut in gold +filigree," and be justified in looking upon those who voted for his +rivals as no true Franks? It was originally concocted for a +Frankish monarch of pure blood, and may be supposed to exercise its +potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted lineage.</p> +<p class="author">WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>DICK SHORE—ISLE OF DOGS—KATHERINE PEGG.</h3> +<p>I entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent, Mr. +P. Cunningham, that Pepys's <i>Diary</i> is well deserving all the +illustrative light which may be reflected upon it from your useful +pages. In submitting the following Query, however, my object is to +glean a scrap of information on a point connected with the +neglected topography of the east end of London, taking Pepys for my +text. In the <i>Diary</i>, the entry for January 15th, 1660-61, +contains this passage:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the Dock and +the new west Dock which is newly made there, and a brave new +merchantman which is to launched shortly, and they say to be called +the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to <i>Dick Shoare</i>, and thence +to the Towre, and so home."—Vol. i. p. 178. new Ed.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of +the northern bank of the river, between Blackwall and the Tower, +was called <i>Dick Shore</i>. It is not marked on any of the old +maps of London I have been able to consult; but it was probably +beyond the most easterly point generally shown within their limits. +The modern maps present no trace of the locality in question.</p> +<p>The dock-yard visited by Pepys was long one of the most +considerable private ship-building establishments in England. For +may years it was conducted by Mr. Perry, and subsequently, under +the firm of Wigram and Green, the property having been purchased by +the late Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. The extensive premises are still +applied to the same use; but they have been divided to form two +distinct yards, conducted by separate firms.</p> +<p>The origin of the name (Isle of Dogs), given to the marshy tract +of land lying within the bold curve of the Thames between Blackwall +and Limehouse, is still undetermined. The common story is, that it +receives its name from the king's hounds having been kept there +during the residence of the royal family at Greenwich. This +tradition is wholly unsupported; nor is it very probable that the +king's hounds would be kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient +place, while they could be kept on the Kentish side of the river, +in the vicinity of Greenwich Castle, then occupying the site of the +present Observatory.</p> +<p>The denominations "isle" and "island" appear to have been +bestowed on many places not geographically entitled to them. The +Isle of Dogs, before the construction of the canal which now +crosses its isthmus, was in fact a peninsula. Pepys <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page142" id="page142"></a>{142}</span> spent a +night in the "isle of Doggs," as appears by his entry for July +24th, 1665, and again, on the 31st of the same month, he was +compelled to wait in the "unlucky Isle of Doggs, in a chill place, +the morning cool and wind fresh, above two if not three hours, to +his great discontent."</p> +<p>To the account of Katherine Pegg, given by your correspondents, +pp. 90, 91, may be added, that, besides Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl +of Plymouth, she had, by Charles II., a daughter, who died in her +infancy. Mrs. Pegg was one of the <i>three</i> wives of Sir Edward +Greene, of Sampford (not Samford), near Thaxted, Essex, created a +baronet 26th July, 1660 (within two months of the Restoration), to +whom she seems to have been not unfitly matched; for it is recorded +of him that, "by his extravagancy and love of gambling, he entirely +ruined his estate, and his large inheritance passed from his +family." He had issue two daughters, who married.—See Burke's +<i>Extinct Baronetage</i>.</p> +<p>I do not think that Katherine Pegg, whose son by the King was +born in 1657, was "the pretty woman newly come called Pegg," +saluted by Pepys, 7th May, 1668, as Mr. Cunningham surmises.</p> +<p class="author">J.T. HAMMACK.</p> +<p>December.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>The Strand Maypole.</i>—"E.F.R." inquires what was the +ultimate fate of the "tall Maypole" which "once o'erlooked the +Strand"? It was taken down about the year 1717, when it was found +to measure a hundred feet. It was obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, and +borne on a carriage, for timber, to Wanstead, in Essex, the seat of +the Earl of Tylney, where, under the direction of the Reverend Mr. +Pound Breton, it was placed in the Park, for the erection of a +telescope, the largest then in the world, presented by a French +gentleman to the Royal Society.</p> +<p><i>To Fettle.</i>—What is the derivation of the verb "to +fettle?" In the North it means to amend—to repair—to +put a thing, which is out of order, into such a state as to +effectuate, or to be effectual for, its original, or a given +purpose; <i>e.g.</i> a cart out of order is sent to the +wheelwright's to be fettled. It has been suggested that the word is +a verbalised corruption of the word "effectual." Bailey, in his +<i>Dictionary</i>, has designated it as a north country word: but +it is evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning; for he has +merely "to fettle <i>to</i>," and seems to have been ignorant of +the use of the word "fettle" as a verb active. To revert to my +former example of its use—An injured cart is fettled by the +wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the injured cart.</p> +<p class="author">L.C.R.</p> +<p><i>Greek Verse.</i>—Can any of your readers inform me who +is the author of the line—</p> +<p>"[Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d' athanatoisi]?"</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Dr. Dee's petition to James I.</i>—"E.F.R." states that +he has lately discovered, in the lining of an ancient trunk, two or +three curious broadsides, one of which purports to be Dr. Dee's +petition to James I., 1604, against the report raised against him, +namely, "That he is or hath bin a Conjurer and Caller, or Invocator +of Divels." He would be glad to know whether this curious broadside +has been printed in any memoir of Dr. Dee.</p> +<p><i>Vondel's Lucifer.</i>—"F." desires to be informed +whether the tragedy or dramatic poem <i>Lucifer</i>, of the Dutch +poet Vondel, which has been said to bear some analogy to +<i>Paradise Lost</i>, has ever been translated? and if not, why +not? The French writer, Alfred de Vigny, in <i>Stella</i>, calls +Vondel (Wundel in his spelling) "ce vieux Shakspeare de la +Hollande."</p> +<p><i>Discurs Modest.</i>—In Bishop Andrewes' <i>Reply</i> to +the <i>Apology</i> of Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, +1610, certain jesuits in prison are reported to have confessed, +<i>Rem transubstantiationis patres ne attigisse quidem</i>; as +authority for which is quoted <i>Discurs Modest</i>, p. 13. From +this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor, +<i>Real Presence</i>, sect. 12. § 16; <i>Dissuasive</i>, part +i. chap. 1. § 5, and part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin +on <i>Transubstantiation</i>, chap. 6. § 17. Can any of your +readers favour me with a clue to the <i>Modest Discourse</i>?</p> +<p class="author">A.T.</p> +<p><i>Ptolemy of Alexandria.</i>—"QUERY" wishes to be +informed what works of Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in +an English translation.</p> +<p><i>Vanbrugh's London Improvements.</i>—In the <i>London +Journal</i> of March 16th, 1722-23, there is the following +paragraph:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new +paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, +proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels in +the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and common +sewers under ground."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of +noblemen's and gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply +me with a reference to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the +general improvement of the metropolis?</p> +<p class="author">B.M.</p> +<p><i>Becket's Grace-Cup.</i>—The inscription round the neck +of this so-called cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. +of Mr. Scott's <i>Antiquarian Gleanings</i>, is thus printed by +him—GOD FERARE—: to which he adds, in explanation, +"probably the name of the goldsmith." <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page143" id="page143"></a>{143}</span> At the +foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given +thus—FERARE GOD—and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's +version, I had considered the former word as an accidental error of +the engraver, instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, +suiting the SOBRII ESTOTE round the lid.—As Mr. Nichols, in +his recent interesting work on <i>Pilgrimages to Walsingham and +Canterbury</i>, noticing the misnomer of the cup (p. 229, n.), +indicates its date to be of "the early part of the sixteenth +century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could +state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be +known.</p> +<p class="author">ALICUI.</p> +<p><i>Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book.</i>—I should be glad +to know if any of your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir +Henry Herbert's Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by +Malone, Chalmers, and Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the +Revels to King James the First, and the two succeeding kings, and +the said MS. contains an account of almost every piece exhibited at +any of the theatres from August, 1623, to the commencement of the +rebellion in 1641. Malone, in his <i>Historical Account of the +English Stage</i> (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), says, in a +note—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am +indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in +Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the +Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which +contained the manuscript <i>Memoirs of Lord Herbert of +Cherbury</i>, from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, +printed the life of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir +Henry Herbert."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In another place, Malone adds:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"This valuable manuscript, having lain for a considerable time +in a damp place, is unfortunately damaged, and in a very mouldering +condition; however, no material part of it appears to have +perished."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Such being the case, it becomes more than ever desirable that +this interesting volume should be sought after, and the +<i>whole</i> of its contents put on record before its total decay. +Surely, if its depositary is known, and accessible, it is well +worth the attention of the <i>Shakespeare Society</i>, or some +other learned body instituted for the preservation of documents of +this nature.</p> +<p>A biographical account of the various persons that have held the +appointment of "Master of the Revels," with such particulars of the +stage as would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable +<i>Prolegomena</i> to the publication of Sir Henry's Office-Book. +We have, it is true, much information upon this subject, but in a +very scattered form.</p> +<p>I have now before me a list of the "Masters of the Revells," +with the dates of their patents, which I beg to transcribe. It is +of more than ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir Henry +Herbert himself, and copied at the back of the worthy knight's +"Petition to Charles the Second against the Grant to Killegrew and +Davenant to form Two Companies of Players."</p> +<p>"<i>Masters of ye Revells</i>.</p> +<table summary="Masters of ye Revells" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">"Sir Richard Guilford</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Thomas Cawerden</td> +<td align="left">- [1544] 36 Henry VIII.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Thomas Beneger</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir John Fortescue</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Edmund Tilney, Esq.</td> +<td align="left">- July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir George Buck</td> +<td align="left">- June 23 [1603] I Jac.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir John Astley</td> +<td align="left">- [1612] 10 Jac. I.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Benjamin Johnson</td> +<td align="left">- [1617] 15 Jac. I.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Henry Herbert, and Simon Thelwall, Esq.</td> +<td align="left">- Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I."</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES</h2> +<h3>WANTED TO PURCHASE</h3> +<p>(<i>In continuation of Lists in former Nos</i>.)</p> +<p>1. DR. BROOK TAYLOR'S PERSPECTIVE. 1st edit. 1715.</p> +<p>2. DR. AUSTIN'S CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF +EUCLID. (Date not known.)</p> +<p>3. DR. ABRAHAM ROBERTSON ON RATIO AND PROPORTION. Oxford. +1804.</p> +<p>4. LAWSON'S DISSERTATION ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE ANTIENTS. Edited +by Fryer, and printed in Bristol, 1809.—[The particular copy +wanted is interleaved with thick paper and MS. alterations by the +Editor. 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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. 9, Saturday, December 29, 1849 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: September 24, 2004 [EBook #13521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 9, *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team and The Internet Library of Early Journals, + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 9.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1849 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {129} + +CONTENTS + +Our Progress + +NOTES:-- + Sir E. Dering's Household Book, by Rev. Lambert B. Larking. 130 + Berkeley's Theory of Vision, by Rev. J.H. Todd. 131 + Bishop Barnaby. 131 + Mathematical Archæology. 132 + Song in Style of Suckling, &c. 133 + Gothic Architecture. 134 + Dr. Burney's Musical Works, by E.F. Rimbault. 135 + Ancient Alms' Basins, by Dr. Bell. 135 + Minor Notes:--Prince Madoc--St. Barnabas--Register + of Cromwell's Baptism--The Times--Rowland + Monoux--Wassail Song--Portrait of Charles I.--Autograph + Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester + and Henry Duke of Buckingham. 136 + Notes in answer to Queries:--Lord Erksine's Brooms--Scarborough + Warning--Gray's Elegy--Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth. 138 + +QUERIES:-- + The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke. 139 + The Dore of Holy Scripture. 139 + Turner's MS. History of Westminster. 140 + Talisman of Charlemagne. 140 + Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c. 141 + Minor Queries:--The Strand Maypole--To Fettle--Greek + Verse--Dr. Dee's Petition--Vondel's Lucifer--Discurs + Modest--Ptolemy of Alexandria--Vanbrugh's + London Improvements--Becket's Grace-Cup--Sir + Herbert's Office-Book. 142 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 143 + Notices to Correspondents. 143 + Advertisements. 144 + + * * * * * + +OUR PROGRESS + +We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither our best +friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having failed in our +endeavours to supply by other means the increasing demand for complete +sets of our "NOTES AND QUERIES," we have been compelled to reprint the +first four numbers. + +It is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we record +the fact of a large impression of a work like the present not having +been sufficient to meet the demand,--a work devoted not to the +witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance, but to the +illustration of matters of graver import, such as obscure points of +national history, doubtful questions of literature and bibliography, the +discussion of questionable etymologies, and the elucidation of old world +customs and observances. + +What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with reference to archæology, our +experience justifies us in applying to other literary inquiries:-- + + "On every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest + co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special + pursuits; and not only does this tend of itself to widen the + general basis, but it supplies the individual thinker with an + ever widening foundation for his own special study." + +And whence arises this "earnest co-operation?" Is it too much to hope +that it springs from an increased reverence for the Truth, from an +intenser craving after a knowledge of it--whether such Truth regards an +event on which a throne depended, or the etymology of some household +word now familiar only to + + "Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?" + +We feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our "NOTES AND QUERIES" +with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that + + "Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry + of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it--the + knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it--and the belief + of Truth, which is the enjoying of it--is the sovereign good of + human nature." + +We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have +flocked to our columns--that the sentiment has found its echo in the +breast of the public, and hence that success which has attended our +humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may well be pardoned if +we boast that we have had both hand and heart in it. {130} + +And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this happy +season, when + + "No spirit stirs abroad; + The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes, + No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, + So hallow'd and so gracious is the time," + +do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, with the +good old English wish, + +A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! + + * * * * * + +SIR E. DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK. + +The muniment chests of our old established families are seldom without +their quota of "household books." Goodly collections of these often turn +up, with records of the expenditure and the "doings" of the household, +through a period of two or more centuries. These documents are of +incalculable value in giving us a complete insight into the domestic +habits of our ancestors. Many a note is _there_, well calculated to +illustrate the pages of the dramatist or the biographer, and even the +accuracy of the historian's statements may often be tested by some of +the details which find their way into these accounts; as for the more +peculiar province of the antiquary, there is always a rich store of +materials. Every change of costume is _there_; the introduction of new +commodities, new luxuries, and new fashions, the varying prices of the +passing age. Dress in all its minute details, modes of travelling, +entertainments, public and private amusements, all, with their cost, are +there: and last, though not least, touches of individual character ever +and anon present themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable +truth. Follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife +and children, his household, his tenantry, nay, with himself, and you +have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able to +furnish. In this view, a man's "household book" becomes an impartial +autobiography. + +I would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might sometimes +be profitably reserved for "notes" from these household books; there can +be little doubt that your numerous readers would soon furnish you with +abundant contributions of most interesting matter. + +While suggesting the idea, there happens to lie open before me the +account-book of the first Sir Edward Dering, commencing with the day on +which he came of age, when, though his father was still living, he felt +himself an independent man. + +One of his first steps, however, was to qualify this independence by +marriage. If family tradition be correct, he was as heedless and +impetuous in this the first important step of his life, as he seems to +have been in his public career. The lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir +Nicholas Tufton, afterwards created Earl of Thanet. + +In almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the charges +of this marriage, the different dresses he provided, his wedding +presents, &c. As to his bride, the first pleasing intelligence which +greeted the young knight, after passing his pledge to take her for +"richer for poorer," was, that the latter alternative was his. Sir +Nicholas had jockied the youth out of the promised "trousseau," and +handed over his daughter to Sir Edward, with nothing but a few shillings +in her purse. She came unfurnished with even decent apparel, and her new +lord had to supply her forthwith with necessary clothing. In a +subsequent page, when he comes to detail the purchases which he was, in +consequence, obliged to make for his bride, he gives full vent to his +feelings on this niggardly conduct of the father, and, in recording the +costs of his own outfit, his very first words have a smack of bitterness +in them, which is somewhat ludicrous-- + + "Medio de donte leporum + Surgit amari aliquid." + +He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a gallant +bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly. + +"1619. + +"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas +unto New Year's Day. + +5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a + doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard, 4£. 4s. +5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, to + make hose cassocke and cloake [sic] 14£. +7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per yard, 9£. +22 ounces of blacke galloune lace 2£. 15s. +Taffaty to line the doublett 17s. +5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse 1£. 4s. +pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye + copell 8s. +ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and scarfe, 2£. 10s. +5 dozen of small buttons 1s. 8d. +Stickinge and sowing silke 14s. +ffor cuttinge ye scallops 2s. +holland to line the hose 5s. 6d. +Dutch bays for the hose 4s. 6d. +Pocketts to ye hose 10d. +2 dozen of checker riband pointes 12s. +drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake 5s. +canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett 3s. 6d. +ffor makinge ye doublett and hose 18s. +making ye copell 1£. 8s. +making ye cloake 9s. + +Sum of this suite 40£. 2s." + +I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these +extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, they shall +have, in some future number, the remainder of the bridegroom's wardrobe. +In whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord's arms, he, at +{131} least, was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young +gallant, an exquisite of the first water, for this was only one of +several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit; and then +follows a list of costly gloves and presents, and all the lavish outlay +of this his "desperate quarter." + +In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you shall be +furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from +this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as Clarendon depicts him, +the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of better fame than is yet been +his lot to acquire. + +He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He had his +foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of high and +enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary speeches has +elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them therefore now were +superfluous. The noble library which he formed at Surrenden, and the +invaluable collection of charters which he amassed there, during his +unhappily brief career, testify to his ardour in literary pursuits. The +library and a large part of the MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the +former, all that remains to tell of what it once was, are a few +scattered notices among the family records, and the titles of books, +with their cost, as they are entered in the weekly accounts of our +"household book." Of the latter there yet remain a few thousand charters +and rolls, some of them of great interest, with exquisite seals +attached. I shall be able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on +these heads, from the "household book," and, in contemplating the +remains of this unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the +sympathy of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the +lament which has often been mine--"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint +reliquiæ!" + +LAMBERT B. LARKING. + +Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED. + +In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg to say +that Bishop Berkeley's _Theory of Vision Vindicated_ does not occur +either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected works; but there is +a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, from which I +transcribe the full title as follows:-- + + "The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate + Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By + the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher. + + "Acts, xvii. 28. + + "_In Him we live, and move, and have our being_. + + "Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. + + "MDCCXXXIII." + +Some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his +collected works; but, as I am now answering "a _Query_," and not making +"a _Note_," I shall reserve what I might say of them for another +opportunity. The memory of Berkeley is dear to every member of this +University; and therefore I hope you will permit me to say one word, in +defence of his character, against Dugald Stewart's charge of having been +"provoked," by Lord Shaftesbury's _Characteristics_, "to a harshness +equally unwonted and unwarranted." + +Mr. Stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon which he +pronounces this most "unwarranted" criticism. The tract was not written +in reply to the _Characteristics_, but was an answer to an anonymous +letter published in the _Daily Post-Boy_ of September 9th, 1732, which +letter Berkeley has reprinted at the end of his pamphlet. The only +allusion to the writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of +severity occurs at the commencement of the tract. Those who will take +the trouble of perusing the anonymous letter, will see that it was +richly deserved; and I think it can scarcely, with any justice, be +censured as unbecomingly harsh, or in any degree unwarranted. The +passage is as follows:-- + + [After mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his + noticing this letter sooner, the author adds,] "This would have + altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either + personal or purely speculative, or from entering the lists of + the declaimers, whom I leave to the triumph of their own + passions. And indeed, to one of this character, who contradicts + himself and misrepresents me, what answer can be made more than + to desire his readers not to take his word for what I say, but + to use their own eyes, read, examine, and judge for themselves? + And to their common sense I appeal." + +The remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical discussion +of the subject of debate, in a style as cool and as free from harshness +as Dugald Stewart could desire, and containing, as far as I can see, +nothing inconsistent with the character of him, who was described by his +contemporaries as the possessor of "every virtue under heaven." + +JAMES H. TODD. + +Trin. Coll. Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--Allow me, in addition to the Note inserted in your 4th +Number, in answer to the Query of LEGOUR, by your correspondent (and I +believe my friend) J.G., to give the following extract from Forby's +_Vocabulary of East Anglia_:-- + + "Bishop Barnabee-s. The pretty insect more generally called the + Lady-bird, or May-bug. It is one of those highly favoured among + God's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton + injury. Some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name + {132} of it. It has certainly no more relation to the companion + of St. Paul than to drunken Barnaby, though some have supposed + it has. It is sometimes called _Bishop Benebee_, which may + possibly have been intended to mean the _blessed bee_; sometimes + _Bishop Benetree_, of which it seems not possible to make any + thing. The name has most probably been derived from the + _Barn-Bishop_; whether in scorn of that silly and profane + mockery, or in pious commemoration of it, must depend on the + time of its adoption, before or since the Reformation; and it is + not worth inquiring. The two words are transposed, and _bee_ + annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a + connection than fly-bug or beetle. The dignified ecclesiastics + in ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their + habits. Bishops had scarlet and black, as this insect has on its + wing-covers. Some remains of the finery of the gravest + personages still exist on our academical robes of ceremony. + There is something inconsistent with the popish episcopal + character in the childish rhyme with which _Bishop Barnabee_ is + thrown up and dismissed when he happens to light on any one's + hand. Unluckily the words are not recollected, nor at present + recoverable; but the purport of them is to admonish him to fly + home, and take care of his wife and children, for that his house + in on fire. Perhaps, indeed, the rhyme has been fabricated long + since the name by some one who did not think of such niceties." + +G.A.C. + + +Sir,--In the explanation of the term Bishop Barnaby, given by J.G., the +prefix "Bishop" seems yet to need elucidation. Why should it not have +arisen from the insect's garb? The full dress gown of the Oxford +D.D.--scarlet with black velvet sleeves--might easily have suggested the +idea of naming the little insect "Dr. Burn bug," and the transition is +easy to "Dr. Burnabee," or "Bishop Burnaby." These little insects, in +the winter, congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber till +the reappearance of genial weather, and it is not impossible that, from +this circumstance, the country people may have designated them "Barn +bug," or "Barn bee." + +L.B.L. + + +Sir,--I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the seven-spotted, +_Coccinella Septempunctata_, is the most common) is called in some +places "Bishop Barnaby." This little insect is sometimes erroneously +accused of destroying turnips and peas in its larva state; but, in +truth, both in the larva and perfect state it feeds exclusively on +aphides. I do not know that it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that +burneth," may allude to something else; still there appears some popular +connection of the _Coccinellidæ_ with _cows_ as well as burning, for in +the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called _Cush Cow Ladies_; and in +the North Riding one of the children's rhymes anent them runs:-- + + "Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame, + Thy[1] house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean, + And if thou means to save thy bairns + Take thy wings and flee away!" + +The most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow, believing +if they did evil would inevitably befall them. It is tenderly placed on +the palm of the hand--of a girl, if possible--and the above rhyme +recited thrice, during which it usually spreads its wings, and at the +last word flies away. A collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects +would, I think, be useful. + +W.G.M.J. BARKER. + +[Footnote 1: _Thy_ is pronounced as _thee_.] + + + [We have received many other communications respecting the + epithet of this insect--so great a favourite with children. + ALICUI and several other correspondents incline to L.B.L.'s + opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance of its + bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble. J.T. + reminds us that St. Barnabas has been distinguished of old by + the title of _bright_, as in the old proverbial distich intended + to mark the day of his festival according to the Old Style (21st + June):-- + + "Barnaby bright! + The longest day and the shortest night." + + While F.E. furnishes us with another and happier version of the + Norfolk popular rhyme:-- + + "Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, + Tell me when _my_ wedding be; + If it be to-morrow day, + Take your wings and fly away! + _Fly to the east, fly to the west_, + _Fly to them that I love best_!" + + The name which this pretty insect bears in the various languages + of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other cases, the + Virgin has supplanted Freya; so that _Freyjuhaena_ and + _Frouehenge_ have been changed into _Marienvoglein_, which + corresponds with _Our Lady's Bird_. There, can, therefore, be + little doubt that the esteem with which the lady-bird, or Our + Lady's cow, is still regarded, is a relic of the ancient cult.] + + * * * * * + +MATHEMATICAL ARCHÆOLOGY. + +Sir,--I cannot gather from your "Notes" that scientific archæology is +included in your plan, nor yet, on the other hand, any indications of +its exclusion. Science, however, and especially mathematical science, +has its archæology; and many doubtful points of great importance are +amongst the "vexed questions" that can only be cleared up by +_documentary evidence_. That evidence is more likely to be found mixed +up amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors than +amongst the papers of mere mathematicians--amongst men who never destroy +a paper because they have no present use for it, or because the subject +does not come within the range of their researches, than amongst men who +value nothing but a "new theorem" or "an improved solution." + +As a general rule I have always habituated myself to preserve every +scrap of paper of any remote (and indeed recent) period, that had the +appearance of being written by a literary man, whether I {133} knew the +hand, or understood the circumstance to which it referred, or not. Such +papers, whether we understand them or not, have a _possible value_ to +others; and indeed, as my collections have always been at the service of +my friends, very few indeed have been left in my hands, and those, +probably, of no material value. + +I wish this system were generally adopted. Papers, occasionally of great +historical importance, and very often of archæological interest, would +thus be preserved, and, what is more, _used_, as they would thus +generally find their way into the right hands. + +There are, I fancy, few classes of papers that would be so little likely +to interest archæologists in general, as those relating to mathematics; +and yet such are not unlikely to fall in their way, often and largely, +if they would take the trouble to secure them. I will give an example or +two, indicating the kind of papers which are desiderata to the +mathematical historian. + +1. A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the +restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing from +an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to near the +close of Simson's life. The missing letter, as is gathered from a +subsequent one, is Feb. 5. 1753. A mere letter of business from an +author to his publisher might not be thought of much interest; but it +need not be _here_ enforced how much of consistency and clearness is +often conferred upon a series of circumstances by matter which such a +letter might contain. This letter, too, contains a problem, the nature +of which it would be interesting to know. It would seem that the letter +passed into the hands of Dodson, editor of the _Mathematical +Repository_; but what became of Dodson's papers I could never discover. +The uses, however, to which such an unpromising series of letters have +been rendered subservient may be seen in the _Philosophical Magazine_, +under the title of "Geometry and Geometers," Nos. ii. iii. and iv. The +letters themselves are in the hands of Mr. Maynard, Earl's Court, +Leicester Square. + +2. Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one of the +scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to decide upon the +plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760. + + "It is probable," says Dr. Hutton, in his Life of Simpson, + prefixed to the _Select Exercises_, 1792, "that this reference + to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously + to this subject, so as to form the design of composing a regular + treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he + laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and + was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to + them that this work, when published, would procure him more + credit than any of his former publications. But he lived not to + put the finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this + subject probably fell, together with all his other remaining + papers, into the hands of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, + in the service of the India Company, being in all a large chest + full of papers. This gentleman had been a pupil of Mr. + Simpson's, and had lodged in his house. After Mr. Simpson's + death Mr. Watson prevailed upon the widow to let him have the + papers, promising either to give her a sum of money for them, or + else to print and publish them for her benefit. But nothing of + the kind was ever done; this gentleman always declaring, when + urged on this point by myself and others, that no use could be + made of any of the papers, owing to the very imperfect state in + which he said they were left. _And yet he persisted in his + refusal to give them up again._" + +In 1780 Colonel Watson was recalled to India, and took out with him one +of the most remarkable English mathematicians of that day, Reuben +Burrow. This gentleman had been assistant to Dr. Maskelyne at the Royal +Observatory; and to his care was, in fact, committed the celebrated +Schehallien experiments and observations. He died in India, and, I +believe, all his papers which reached England, as well as several of his +letters, are in my possession. This, however, is no further of +consequence in the present matter, than to give authority to a remark I +am about to quote from one of his letters to his most intimate friend, +Isaac Dalby. In this he says:--"Colonel Watson has out here a work of +Simpson's on bridges, very _complete_ and _original_." + +It was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of Hutton, that so +unscrupulous a person as Colonel Watson is proved to be, was deterred +from publishing Simpson's work as his own. + +The desideratum here is, of course, to find what became of Colonel +Watson's papers; and then to ascertain whether this and what other +writings of Simpson's are amongst them. A _really good_ work on the +mathematical theory of bridges, if such is ever to exist, has yet to be +published. It is, at the same time, very likely that his great +originality, and his wonderful sagacity in all his investigations, would +not fail him in this; and possibly a better work on the subject was +composed ninety years ago than has yet seen the light--involving, +perhaps, the germs of a totally new and more effective method of +investigation. + +I have, I fear, already trespassed too far upon your space for a single +letter; and will, therefore, defer my notice of a few other desiderata +till a future day. + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, Dec. 15. 1849. + + * * * * * + +SONG IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING--THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. + +The song in your second number, furnished by a correspondent, and +considered to be in the style {134} of Suckling, is of a class common +enough in the time of Charles I. George Wither, rather than Suckling, I +consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to that age, as "Shall +I wasting in Despair" may be regarded as the type of this class of +poems. The present instance I do not think of very high merit, and +certainly not good enough for Suckling. Such as it is, however, with a +few unimportant variations, it may be found at page 101. of the 1st vol. +of _The Hive, a Collection of the most celebrated Songs_. My copy is the +2nd edit. London, 1724. + +I will, with your permission, take this opportunity of setting Mr. Dyce +right with regard to a passage in the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, in which he +is only less wrong than all his predecessors. It is to be found in the +second scene of the fourth act, and is as follows:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling: + Just such another wanton Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative "he" after +"Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after "afire." Mr. Dyce saw +that both these must be wrong, as a comparison between two wanton +Ganymedes, one of which sat in the coutenance of Arcite, could never +have been intended;--another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, +and he, therefore, has this note:--"The construction and meaning are, +'With just such another _smile_ (which is understood from the preceding +'smiling') wanton Ganymede set Jove afire." When there is a choice of +nouns to make intelligible sense, how can that one be understood which +is not expressed? It _might_ be "with just such another _Love_;" but, as +I shall shortly show, no conjecture on the subject is needed. The older +editors were so fond of mending passages, that they did not take +ordinary pains to understand them; and in this instance they have been +so successful in sticking the epithet "wanton" to Ganymede, that even +Mr. Dyce, with his clear sight, did not see that the very word he wanted +was the next word before him. It puts one in mind of a man looking for +his spectacles who has them already across his nose. "Wanton" is a noun +as well as an adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an +epithet applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place +after it a _comma_, when the passage will read thus:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling. + Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) "Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +The third act of the same play commences thus:-- + + "The duke has lost Hippolita; each took + A several land." + +Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of +lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not understood now, +we must fall back on the general sense of the passage. When people go a +hunting, and don't keep together, it is very probable that they may take +a several "direction." Now _hand_ means "direction," as we say "to the +right" or "left hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should +read "a several hand?" + +SAMUEL HICKSON + + * * * * * + +"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE + +It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, to +explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of the +introduction of the term '_Gothic_,' as applied to pointed styles of +ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of Winchester, in +your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the term was used at +first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to +imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival +of classical literature. But, without citing many authorities, such as +Christopher Wren, and others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old +mediæval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing +that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the +celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled _The Elements of +Architecture_, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This work was +so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed to the works +of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's _Parallel of the Ancient +Architecture with the Modern_. Dufresnoy, also, who divided his time +between poetry and painting, and whose work on the latter art was +rendered popular in this country by Dryden's translation, uses the term +"_Gothique_" in a bad sense. But it was a strange misapplication of the +term to use it for the pointed style, in contradistinction to the +circular, formerly called Saxon, now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These +latter styles, like Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course +belong more to the Gothic period than the light and elegant structures +of the pointed order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author +of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two +distinct kinds--the _massive_ and the _light_; and as the latter +superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally +applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the +latter only. As there is now, happily, no fear of the word being +understood in a bad sense, there seems to be no longer any objection to +the use of it in a good one, whatever terms may be used to discriminate +all the varieties of the style observable either at home or abroad. + +J.I. + +Trinity College, Oxford. + + * * * * * {135} + +DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS. + +Mr. Editor,--On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is made for +Burney's _Treatise on Music_ (not his _History_). Before correspondents +trouble you with their wants, I think they should be certain that the +books they inquire for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or +wrote, a _Treatise on Music_. His only works on the subject (the +_General History of Music_ excepted) are the following:-- + + "The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771. + + "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and + United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775. + + "An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, + and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. 1785. + + "A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d." + +As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of reference, +strict accuracy on all points is the grand desideratum. + +EDW. F. RIMBAULT. + +P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the _Life of +Metastasio_, which, although not generally classed among musical works, +forms an admirable supplement to the _General History of Music_. + +E.F.R. + + * * * * * + +ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES. + +Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the dishes +and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., &c., pp. 44. 73. +87., are likely to cause as much speculation here as they have some time +experienced on the continent. They were there principally figured and +discussed in the _Curiositãten_, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted +from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of Göthe, librarian +to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, Judge of the +Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbüttel, first noticed them from a +specimen belonging to the church of a suppressed convent at Sterterheim +near Brunswick, and they were subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. +Hammer (now v. Purgstall), the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of +the principal proofs which he adduced in his _Mysterium Baphometis +Revelatum_ in one of the numbers of the _Fundgruben (Mines) des +Orients_, for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, +and others, falsely attributed to the Templars. Comments upon these +dishes occur in other works of a recent period, but having left my +portfolio, concerning them, with other papers, on the continent, I give +these hasty notices entirely from memory. They are by no means uncommon +now in England, as the notices of your correspondents prove. A paper on +three varieties of them at Hull was read in 1829, to the Hull Literary +and Philosophical Society. In Nash's _Worcestershire_ one is depicted +full size, and a reduced copy given about this period in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_, and Nash first calls them "Offertory Dishes." +The Germans call them Taufbecken, or baptismal basins; but I believe the +English denomination more correct, as I have a distinct recollection of +seeing, in a Catholic convent at Danzig, a similar one placed on Good +Friday before the tomb of the interred image of the Saviour, for the +oblations for which it was not too large. Another of them is kept upon +the altar of Boroughbridge Church (N. Riding of Yorkshire), but sadly +worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright, and the attempt at a copy of +the Inscription in a Harrowgate Guide is felicitously ludicrous: it is +there taken as a relic of the Roman Isurium on the same spot. Three +others were observed some years ago in a neglected nook of the sacristy +of York Cathedral. At the last meeting of the Institute at Salisbury, a +number of these were exhibited in St. John's House there, but I believe +without any notice taken of them in its Proceedings; and another was +shown to the Archæological Society, at their last Chester Congress, by +Colonel Biddulph, at Chirk Castle; when more were mentioned by the +visitors as in their possession, anxious as your correspondents to know +the import of the inscriptions. They are sometimes seen exposed in the +shops of Wardour Street, and in other curiosity shops of the metropolis. + +On their sunken centres all have religious types: the most common is the +temptation of Eve; the next in frequency, the Annunciation; the Spies +sent by Joshua returning with an immense bunch of grapes suspended +betwixt them, is not unfrequent; but non-scriptural subjects, as the +Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, mentioned by L.S.B., is a variety I have not +before observed. + +The inscriptions vary, and are sometimes double in two concentral rings. +The most usual is that alluded to by your correspondents, and though +obviously German, neither old nor obsolete; having been viewed even by +native decipherers, through the mist of a preconceived hypothesis, have +never yet been by them satisfactorily accounted for. It is always +repeated four times, evidently from the same slightly curved die; when, +however, the enlarged circumference of the circle required more than +this fourfold repetition to go round it, the die was set on again for as +much of a fifth impression as was necessary: this was seldom more than +four or five letters, which, as pleonastic or intercalary, are to be +carefully rejected in reading the rest; their introduction has confused +many expositors. + +The readings of some of your correspondents who understand German is +pretty near the truth. {136} I have before said that the centre type of +Eve's Temptation is the most common, and to it the words especially +refer, and seem at the place of their manufacture (most probably +Nuremburg) to have been used for other centres without any regard to its +fitness. The letters, as I can safely aver from some very perfect +specimens, are + + DER SELEN INFRID WART; + +in modern German "_der Seelen Infried wort_." To the German scholar the +two latter words only require explanation. _Infrid_ for Unfried, +discord, disturbance, any thing in opposition to Frieden or peace. The +Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, and Hexham, still bear the old theotise +stamp. _Wart_, or _ward_, may be either the past tense of _werden_, to +be (our was), or an old form of _währen_, to endure, to last: our +English _wear_ is the same word. The sense is pretty much the same in +both readings alluding to Eve. In the first: + + (By her) the soul's disturbance came (was). + +By the second: + + (Through her) the soul's disturbance continues. + +I may here observe that the words ICH WART are particularly distinct on +a helmet, pictured in the Journal of the British Archæological +Association, which the Secretary, Mr. Planche, in such matters the +highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. It may there have been +in the original ICH WARTE, meaning I bide (my time). + +But the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty. A second, +frequently met with, is by far more puzzling. I could not give your +readers any idea of it without a drawing: however it is found +imperfectly depicted on the plates I have before mentioned in Nash's +_Worcestershire_, and the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and I think I +recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of Hearne's _Miscellaneous +Works_, which I examined in the Gottingen Library, but whether belonging +to the work or a MS. addition I cannot now call to mind. The fanciful +and flowery form of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in +assigning them their particular position in the alphabet, and the +difficulty of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of German +archæologists whether they are initials or component parts of a +sentence. Herr Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, however, in his version +RECORD DE SCI GNSI, or in full _Recordamini de sancta Gnosi_, deduces +thence his principal proof of Gnostic heresy amongst the calumniated +Templars, in which I am sorry to say he has been too servilely followed +in England: e.g. by Mr. Godfrey Higgins, in his posthumous _Anaclypsis_ +(p. 830 note), as well as by E.G. Addison, _The Temple Church_ (p. 57), +and by Mr. R.W. Billings more especially, who tacks to his account of +this building an "Essay on the symbolical Evidences of the Temple +Church, where the Templars are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged by +Edward Clarkson, Esq." Had the learnedly hypothetic Austrian seen the +engravings of the Crypt at Canterbury Cathedral (_Archæologia_, viii. p. +74.), and Ledwick's remarks on it in conjunction with the carvings at +Glendalloch (_History of Ireland_, p. 174.), or those of Grymbald's +Crypt at Oxford, he might have been expected to have attributed their +monstrosities to his order, with as little hesitation and as thorough a +contempt of chronology, or proved connection, as he has the curious and +innocent sculptures of the church at Schöngrabern in Bohemia (vide +_Curiositäten_, vol. viii. p. 501.). + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES. + +_Prince Modoc._--At p. 57., "ANGLO-CAMBRIAN" refers to the report of the +Proceedings of the British Association at Swansea, in Aug. 1848, +extracted from the _Athenæum_ newspaper. In the course of a discussion +which took place on Prof. Elton's address, it was observed (if I +recollect rightly) by the learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the +so-called Welsh-Indian dialect has been formed, and that it contains _no +trace_ of any Celtic root. + +J.M.T. +December 10. 1849. + + +_St. Barnabas._--About the time of the Reformation, it was strongly +debated whether the festival days of St. Paul and St. Barnabas should be +admitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book of K. Edward, the +conversion of St. Paul is put down in _black_, and St. Barnabas is +_omitted altogether_! No wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, liberties +were taken with the name of St. Barnabas, and it was transferred to +doggerel rhyme, to be repeated by children. + +J.I. + + +_Register of Cromwell's Baptism._--The communication of your +correspondent C.W.G. at p. 103. of your last number, induces me to offer +you the inclosed copy from the _Register_ of All Saints' Church, +Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of Oliver Cromwell:-- + + "Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Cromwell generosi et + Elisabethæ huxoris ejus Natus vicesimo quinto die Aprilis et + Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis." + +Then follow the words "England's plague for many years," written in a +different hand. + +R.O. + + +_The Times._--A correspondent (NASO) informs us of the following fact in +the history of this widely circulated and influential journal; namely, +that it is stated in that the paper of the 12th of March, 1788, that it +was printed "Logographically!" We wish our correspondent had furnished +us with the precise words of this very curious statement. {137} + + +_Roland Monoux._--I have in my possession a brass monumental plate, +said to have been taken from some church in Middlesex, and bearing +the following lines, engraved in _black letter_:-- + + "Behold what droupinge Dethe maye doe, consume + y'e corse to duste, + What Dethe maie not shall lyue for aye, in spite of + Dethe his luste; + Thoughe Rouland Monoux shrowdeth here, yet + Rouland Monoux lives, + His helpynge hand to nedys want, a fame for ever + geves; + Hys worde and dede was ever one, his credyth never + quaylde, + His zeall' to Christ was stronge, tyll' dethe w'th latest + panges asaylde. + Twyse thre and one he Children had, two sones, one + kepes his name, + And dowghters fyve for home he carde, y't lyve in + honest fame. + What booteth more, as he be kynde dyd come of + Jentyll race, + So Rouland Monoux good Desertes this grave can + not Deface." + +I should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of this +Rouland Monoux, and when he died. I may also add; that I should be very +willing to restore the brass to its original site, did I know the spot +from whence it has been sacrilegiously torn. + +M. + + +_Wessel Cup Hymn._--The following Wassail Song is taken from a little +chap-book printed at Manchester, called _A Selection of Christmas +Hymns_. it is obviously a corrupted version of a much older song:-- + + "Here we come a wesseling, + Among the leaves so green, + Here we come a wandering, + So fair to be seen. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel too, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + "Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley. + + "We are not daily beggars, + That beg from door to door, + But we are neighbours' children, + Whom you have seen before. + + "Call up the butler of this house, + Put on his golden ring, + Let him bring us up a glass of beer, + And the better we shall sing. + + "We have got a little purse, + Made of stretching leather skin, + We want a little of your money, + To line it well within. + + "Bring us out a table, + And spread it with a cloth, + Bring us out a mouldy cheese, + And some of your Christmas loaf. + + "God bless the master of this house, + Likewise the mistress too, + And all the little children, + That round the table go. + + "Good master and mistress, + While you'r sitting by the fire, + Pray think of us poor children, + Who are wand'ring in the mire. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel to, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley." + +It is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved. Its +insertion will at least have that effect, and may be the means of our +discovering an earlier and purer text. + +AMBROSE MERTON. + + +_Portrait of Charles I._--In Sir Henry Ellis's _Original Letters_, 2d +series, vol. iii. p. 254., amongst the prefatory matter to the reign of +Charles I., there is a notice of a sermon, entitled "The Subject's +Sorrow, or Lamentations upon the Death of Britaine's Josiah, King +Charles." + +Sir Henry Ellis says it is expressly stated, in this Sermon, that the +King himself desired "that unto his Golden Manual might be prefixed his +representation, kneeling; contemning a temporal crown, holding our +blessed Saviour's crown of thorns, and aspiring unto an eternal crown of +happiness." + +Note _b_. upon this passage is as follows:-- + + "This very portrait of King Charles the First, engraved by + Marshall, adorned the original edition of the [Greek: Eikon + Basilikae]. 8vo. 1648. _The same portrait, as large as life, in + oil painting, was afterwards put up in many of our churches._" + +When I was a boy, such a portrait, in oil painting, hung upon the south +wall of the body of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, between the pulpit +and a small door to the west, leading into the south aisle. + +Out of the window of the chamber in which the King was kneeling was +represented a storm at sea, and the ship being driven by it upon some +rocks. + +A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to St. +Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so familiar to me +in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken down, and was in the +vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, on the floor against the +wall. {138} + +You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly +destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is established +to arrange its restoration. + +Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the +fate of this picture? + +R.O. + +Dec. 17. 1849. + +P.S.--I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of the frame of +the picture a board, on which was painted, in conformably large +letters-- + + "LORD, remember David and all his trouble." + + _Psalm_ cxxxii. 1. + +The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine. + + +_Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of +Buckingham._--In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. marked Vespasian F. +XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, upon which is written by the +hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the +following couplet:-- + + "Loyaulte me lie + Richard Gloucestre + + "Souente me souène + Harre Bokingh'a'm." + +A fac-simile is engraved in _Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and +Remarkable Personages in English History_, engraved by C.J. Smith, and +edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., where the editor suggests +that this slip of parchment was "perhaps a deceitful toy," or it may +have been attached to some present offered by the Duke of Gloucester to +his royal nephew Edward the Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is +perfectly free from misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the +crown, which he soon so flagrantly outraged--"Loyalty binds me." In the +work above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these +words, in modern French:--"Souvent me souviens." This does not appear to +me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the opinions of such as +are conversant with old manuscripts, whether the true meaning, or even +the true reading, of the Duke of Buckingham's motto has as yet been +ascertained? + +H. + + * * * * * + +NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES. + +_Lord Erskine's Brooms._--"G.B." informs us, that the anecdote about +Lord Erskine's brooms, and the apprehension of his servant for selling +them without a licence, will be found in his Life by Lord Campbell +(_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. vi. p. 618.). Erskine himself attended +the sessions to plead the man's cause, and contended that the brooms +were agricultural produce, or, as he jocosely observed, "came under the +_sweeping_ clause." The _when_ is about 1807, and the _where_ an estate +in Sussex, which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its owner, +as it produced nothing but birch trees, and those but stunted ones. To +which information "W.J." adds, that about the same period Lord Erskine +printed, for private circulation, _An Appeal in favour of the +agricultural Services of Rooks_; a production probably scarce now, but +full of humanity, and very characteristic. + +_Scarborough Warning._--In a postscript to a letter written from court +on the 19th January, 1603, by Toby Matthew, Bishop of Durham, to Hutton, +Archbishop of York, I find the term _Scarborough warning_. Can any of +the correspondents of your valuable paper inform me of the origin and +prevalence of this saying? The postscript is-- + + "When I was in the middest of this discourse, I received a + message from my lord chamberlaine, that it was his majesty's + pleasure that I should preach before him upon Sunday next; which + _Scarborough warning_ did not perplex me, but so puzzled me, as + no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted, which otherwise I might + have better remembered." + +Quoted in Caldwell's _Conferences_, p. 166. + +W.M.C. + + + [NARES tells us, that Ray, on the authority of Fuller, states + that this saying took its origin from "Thomas Stafford, who, in + the reign of Mary, A.D. 1557, with a small company, seized on + Scarborough Castle (utterly destitute of provision for + resistance), before the townsmen had the least notice of their + approach;" but shows that it was probably much older, as, in a + ballad written by J. Heywood on the taking of that place by + Stafford, the following more probable origin is given to the + proverb:-- + + "This term _Scarborow warning_ grew (some say), + By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare. + Who that was met, but suspect in that way, + Straight he was trust up, whatever he were." + + This implies that Scarborough imitated the Halifax gibbet law. + Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or + exercised by the men of Scarborough? We should be glad to hear + from any local antiquary upon this point.] + + +_Gray's Elegy._--In answer to your correspondent, J.F.M. (p. 101.), who +asks for information respecting the competition for the best translation +of Gray's _Elegy_, in which Dr. Sparke was a candidate, I would beg to +refer him to the satirical poem attributed to Mr. T.J. Matthias, +formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled _The Pursuits of +Literature_, in which a ludicrous account is given of the affair. It +does not appear who offered the prize, but Mr. Nares, the editor of _The +British Critic_, was the judge, and the place of meeting "The Musical +Room in {139} Hanover Square," which was decorated for the occasion with +appropriate scenery--at least so says _The Critic_. He thus describes +the solemnity (p. 174 8th edit. 1798):-- + + "Lo, learned clerks in sable stole, + Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal. + Old Norbury starts, and, with the _seventh-form_ boys, + In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys, + With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew, + In dismal dance about the mournful yew. + But first in notes Sicilian placed on high, + Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony; + And in sad cadence, as the bands condense, + The curfew tolls the knell of _parting sense_." + +The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being +apparently the "conqueror:"-- + + "Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done, + To Weston, Taylor's Hymns and Alciphron, + And Rochester's Address to lemans loose; + To Tew, Parr's Sermon and the game of goose; + To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief + A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief + He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury's back + The Sunday suit of customary black. + The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look + Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, COOK." + +W. +Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 17. + + +_Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth._--Your correspondent "R.O." +inquires what modern author suggests the probability of coffee being the +black broth of the Lacedæmonians? The suggestion, I think, originated +with George Sandys, the translator of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. Sandys +travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first published his _Notes_ +in 1615. The following is from the 6th edit. 1652, p. 52.:-- + + "Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their + coffa-houses, which something resemble them. Their sit they, + chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of + the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot + as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much + unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the + Lacedæmonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, and + procureth alacrity," &c. + +Burton also (_Anatomy of Melancholy_) describes it as "like that black +drink which was in use among the Lacedæmonians, and perhaps the same." + +E.B. PRICE. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS. + +It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last bondsman +by blood--_nativus de sanguine_--who lived in this country. The +beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to +as the date of the extinction of personal villenage. In the celebrated +argument in the case of the negro Somerset (_State Trials_, vol. xx. p. +41), an instance as late as 1617-18 is cited as the latest in our law +books. (See Noy's _Reports_, p. 27.) It is probably the latest recorded +_claim_, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that the +supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man. I can supply the names +of three who were living near Brighton in the year 1617, and whose +thraldom does not appear to have been disputed. Norden, from whose +unpublished _Survey of certain Crown Manors_ I have extracted the +following notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to think that the times +were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the lord of the manor to put +his rights in force. + + "There are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor, + never known to be anie way mannumissed, namely, Thomas Goringe, + William and John Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, + William at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean. What + goods they have the Jurie know not. All poor men. Thomas hath + the reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye. + But mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; + yet, were they men of ability, they might be, upon some + consideration, infraunchized." (_Survey of the Manor of Falmer, + Sussex_.) + +I shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be pointed +out. + +E. SMIRKE. + + * * * * * + +THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. + +In Herbert's edition of Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_, 1785, vol. +i. p. 492., is noticed _The Dore of Holy Scripture_, 12mo., printed by +John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. 494., a reprint of the same work is +mentioned in 1540, by the same printer, and a description of a copy +given from one then in the possession of Herbert himself. In the preface +prefixed by the printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste +translatoure of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end +of the work is this note:--"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor Barons, +Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As I am much interested in the subject +to which this publication refers, may I ask for information on three +points?--1. What evidence is there of this edition of 1536, beyond the +statement in Ames? 2. What has become of the copy of the edition of +1540, formerly belonging to Herbert? and, 3. Who are the persons who +_peruse_ and revise the latter edition? There is not copy of either +edition, as far as I can trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, +or at Lambeth. + +I may add to these queries the following remarks:-- + +1. Ames asserted that _The Dore of Holy Scripture_ was among the books +prohibited to be read {140} by the injunctions of Henry the Eighth, and +refers, as his authority, to Foxe's _Acts and Monument_, ed. 1562, p. +574. Herbert, in a note, questions the fact, and raises a doubt as to +the existence of the passage in Foxe, since it is not in the edition of +1641. I have, however, the first edition now before me of 1563 (_not_ +1562), and at p. 574., among "the names of certen bokes whiche after +this injunction [namely, of 1539], or some other in the said kinges +dayes were prohybited," occurs, "Item, _the doore of holy scripture_. +made by Jhon. Gowghe." + +2. This work was again printed by Crowley in 1550, 12mo., under a +different title, namely, _The Pathway to Perfect Knowledge_; and in the +preface, he falsely ascribes it to John Wycliffe, and adds, "the +original wherof is in an olde English Bible, betwixt the Olde Testament +and the Newe, which Bible remaineth now in the Kyng his Majesties +chamber." This Bible appears to be the identical manuscript copy of the +later Wycliffe version of the Scriptures, now preserved in the +University Library, Cambridge, and marked Mm 2. 15. A copy of Crowley's +edition is in the British Museum, but the orthography and language of +the tract are modernised. + +F.M. +B.M., Dec. 19. + + * * * * * + +TURNER'S MS. HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER--CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. + +On April 6. 1708, Henry Turner was elected, by the vestry, organist of +St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the room of the famous "Father Smith" +(Bernard Schmidt). As regards his musical capabilities, Hawkins does not +assign him a niche in his _Temple of Worthies_, although he names some +of his predecessors and successors in that office. One merit we must +accord him, that of true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters +regarding "this renowned city." "Great materials are said to have been +collected for a full description (of Westminster), by a parish-clerk of +St. Margaret's. I presume this is Henry Turner, mentioned in Widmore's +_Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster Abbey_.... His +book was only a survey of the city of Westminster, purposely omitting +the history of the (collegiate) church."--Gough, _Brit. Top._ vol. i. p. +761. Lond. 1780. "The man's natural parts were very good; he was also +very diligent in making enquiries relating to his subject, and he had +collected a great deal."--Widmore's _Acc. of Writers of the Hist. of +Westm. Abbey_, pp. 6, 7. Lond. 1751. As regards his personal history, I +alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a transcript of a +register: "Henry Turner, borne at Yearely, Derbyshire, 12. July, 1679: +married Eliz. Sabin, of Clement Danes, in St. Margrts. Westmr. Feb. 26. +1701. by Dr. Onley." + +In 1697 it was discovered that some valuable MS. records belonging to +the parish, and taken out of the Tower of London, had been lost by their +keeper. This history in its time appears to have suffered the same fate. +However, there is this entry in the _Harleian MSS._ 7045. fol. 361.: +"From the learned Dr. Kennet, Dean of Peterborough's Collection. MSS. +MS. H. On Aug. 2. 1708, at Windsor, I read over the _History of the +Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster_, drawn up in MS. by one of the +parish clerks." Some interesting extracts follow. Compare _Aysc. Add. +MSS. Brit. Mus._ 4163. fol. 5. Bishop Kennet resided in St. James's +Street, in this parish, and died there on Dec. 19. 1728. I have applied +in vain for any account of this MS. to the librarians of Windsor Castle +and Eton College. + +Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? Are any aware that +this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? There is an +instance, as early as the fifteenth century, of the union of the offices +of lay-clerk and organist in St. Margaret's, in the person of one +Metyngham, and H. Turner also held them at the same time; since, on July +28th, 1713, he was elected parish-clerk by the vestry, in "consideration +of the experience they had of fitness and diligence in executing the +office of deputy-clerk of this parish for several years last past;" and +he did not resign the place of organist until 2nd October, 1718. + +May I make another Query?--The gold chain and crucifix, laid in the +grave of K. Edward the Confessor, were removed by Charles Taylor, and +given into the hands of King James II. On the reverse of the same cross +was pictured a Benedictine monk, in his habit, and on each side of him +these capital Roman letter,-- + +On the right limb thus: and on the left thus: + (A) P. + Z. A. X A. C. + A H. + +_Antiq. of St. Peter's_, vol. ii. App. n. iij, Ed. 1722. + +What does the inscription mean? Is the former portion to be understood +"[Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? What is the import of the latter? + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + + * * * * * + +THE TALISMAN OF CHARLEMAGNE. + +Many years back, "Prince" Louis Napoleon was stated to be in possesion +of the talisman of Charlemagne;--"a small nut, in a gold filigree +envelopment, found round the neck of that monarch on the opening of his +tomb, and given by the town of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) to Buonaparte, +and by him to his favourite Hortense, _ci-de-vant_ Queen of Holland, at +whose death it descended to her son," the present President of the +French Republic. {141} + +The Germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman. It was +framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors of +Aaroun-al-Raschid to the mighty Emperor of the West, at the instance of +his spouse Fastrada, with the virtue that her husband should be always +fascinated towards the person or thing on which it was. The constant +love of Charles to this his spouse was the consequence; but, as it was +not taken from her finger after death, the affection of the emperor was +continued unchanging to the corpse, which he would on no account allow +to be interred, even when it became offensive. His confessor, having +some knowledge of the occult sciences, at last drew off the amulet from +the inanimate body, which was then permitted to be buried; but he +retained possession of it himself, and thence became Charles's chief +favourite and prime minister, till he had been promoted to the highest +ecclesiastical dignity, as Archbishop of Mainz and Chancellor of the +Empire. At this pitch of power, whether he thought he could rise no +higher, or scruples of conscience were awakened by the hierarchical vow, +he would hold the heathen charm no longer, and he threw it into a lake +not far from his metropolitan seat, where the town of Ingethüm now +stands. The regard and affection of the monarch were immediately +diverted from the monk, and all men, to the country surrounding the +lake; and he determined on building there a magnificent palace for his +constant residence, and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial +residences, even to the distance of Ravenna, in Italy, to adorn it. Here +he subsequently resided and died: but it seems the charm had a passive +as well as an active power; his throes of death were long and violent; +and though dissolution seemed every moment impending, still he lingered +in ceaseless agony, till the Archbishop, who was called to his bed-side +to administer the last sacred rites, perceiving the cause, caused the +lake to be dragged, and, silently restoring the talisman to the person +of the dying monarch, his struggling soul parted quietly away. The grave +was opened by the third Otto in 997, and possibly the town of Aachen may +have been thought the proper depository of the powerful drug, to be by +them surrendered to one who was believed by many, as he believed himself +to be, a second Charlemagne. + +So much for the introduction to the following Queries:--1. Can any of +your readers say whether this amulet is still in possession of the +President of the French Republic? 2. If so, might not the believers in +the doctrines of Sympathy attribute the votes of the six millions who, +in Dec. 1848, voted in favour of his election, to the sympathetic +influence of his "nut in gold filigree," and be justified in looking +upon those who voted for his rivals as no true Franks? It was originally +concocted for a Frankish monarch of pure blood, and may be supposed to +exercise its potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted +lineage. + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +DICK SHORE--ISLE OF DOGS--KATHERINE PEGG. + +I entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent, Mr. P. +Cunningham, that Pepys's _Diary_ is well deserving all the illustrative +light which may be reflected upon it from your useful pages. In +submitting the following Query, however, my object is to glean a scrap +of information on a point connected with the neglected topography of the +east end of London, taking Pepys for my text. In the _Diary_, the entry +for January 15th, 1660-61, contains this passage:-- + + "We took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the Dock and + the new west Dock which is newly made there, and a brave new + merchantman which is to launched shortly, and they say to be + called the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to _Dick Shoare_, and + thence to the Towre, and so home."--Vol. i. p. 178. new Ed. + +I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of the +northern bank of the river, between Blackwall and the Tower, was called +_Dick Shore_. It is not marked on any of the old maps of London I have +been able to consult; but it was probably beyond the most easterly point +generally shown within their limits. The modern maps present no trace of +the locality in question. + +The dock-yard visited by Pepys was long one of the most considerable +private ship-building establishments in England. For may years it was +conducted by Mr. Perry, and subsequently, under the firm of Wigram and +Green, the property having been purchased by the late Sir Robert Wigram, +Bart. The extensive premises are still applied to the same use; but they +have been divided to form two distinct yards, conducted by separate +firms. + +The origin of the name (Isle of Dogs), given to the marshy tract of land +lying within the bold curve of the Thames between Blackwall and +Limehouse, is still undetermined. The common story is, that it receives +its name from the king's hounds having been kept there during the +residence of the royal family at Greenwich. This tradition is wholly +unsupported; nor is it very probable that the king's hounds would be +kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient place, while they could be +kept on the Kentish side of the river, in the vicinity of Greenwich +Castle, then occupying the site of the present Observatory. + +The denominations "isle" and "island" appear to have been bestowed on +many places not geographically entitled to them. The Isle of Dogs, +before the construction of the canal which now crosses its isthmus, was +in fact a peninsula. Pepys {142} spent a night in the "isle of Doggs," +as appears by his entry for July 24th, 1665, and again, on the 31st of +the same month, he was compelled to wait in the "unlucky Isle of Doggs, +in a chill place, the morning cool and wind fresh, above two if not +three hours, to his great discontent." + +To the account of Katherine Pegg, given by your correspondents, pp. 90, +91, may be added, that, besides Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl of Plymouth, +she had, by Charles II., a daughter, who died in her infancy. Mrs. Pegg +was one of the _three_ wives of Sir Edward Greene, of Sampford (not +Samford), near Thaxted, Essex, created a baronet 26th July, 1660 (within +two months of the Restoration), to whom she seems to have been not +unfitly matched; for it is recorded of him that, "by his extravagancy +and love of gambling, he entirely ruined his estate, and his large +inheritance passed from his family." He had issue two daughters, who +married.--See Burke's _Extinct Baronetage_. + +I do not think that Katherine Pegg, whose son by the King was born in +1657, was "the pretty woman newly come called Pegg," saluted by Pepys, +7th May, 1668, as Mr. Cunningham surmises. + +J.T. HAMMACK. + +December. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_The Strand Maypole._--"E.F.R." inquires what was the ultimate fate of +the "tall Maypole" which "once o'erlooked the Strand"? It was taken down +about the year 1717, when it was found to measure a hundred feet. It was +obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, and borne on a carriage, for timber, to +Wanstead, in Essex, the seat of the Earl of Tylney, where, under the +direction of the Reverend Mr. Pound Breton, it was placed in the Park, +for the erection of a telescope, the largest then in the world, +presented by a French gentleman to the Royal Society. + + +_To Fettle._--What is the derivation of the verb "to fettle?" In the +North it means to amend--to repair--to put a thing, which is out of +order, into such a state as to effectuate, or to be effectual for, its +original, or a given purpose; e.g. a cart out of order is sent to the +wheelwright's to be fettled. It has been suggested that the word is a +verbalised corruption of the word "effectual." Bailey, in his +_Dictionary_, has designated it as a north country word: but it is +evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning; for he has merely "to +fettle _to_," and seems to have been ignorant of the use of the word +"fettle" as a verb active. To revert to my former example of its use--An +injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the +injured cart. + +L.C.R. + + +_Greek Verse._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of +the line-- + +"[Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d' athanatoisi]?" + +C. + + +_Dr. Dee's petition to James I._--"E.F.R." states that he has lately +discovered, in the lining of an ancient trunk, two or three curious +broadsides, one of which purports to be Dr. Dee's petition to James I., +1604, against the report raised against him, namely, "That he is or hath +bin a Conjurer and Caller, or Invocator of Divels." He would be glad to +know whether this curious broadside has been printed in any memoir of +Dr. Dee. + + +_Vondel's Lucifer._--"F." desires to be informed whether the tragedy or +dramatic poem _Lucifer_, of the Dutch poet Vondel, which has been said +to bear some analogy to _Paradise Lost_, has ever been translated? and +if not, why not? The French writer, Alfred de Vigny, in _Stella_, calls +Vondel (Wundel in his spelling) "ce vieux Shakspeare de la Hollande." + + +_Discurs Modest._--In Bishop Andrewes' _Reply_ to the _Apology_ of +Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, 1610, certain jesuits in +prison are reported to have confessed, _Rem transubstantiationis patres +ne attigisse quidem_; as authority for which is quoted _Discurs Modest_, +p. 13. From this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor, +_Real Presence_, sect. 12. § 16; _Dissuasive_, part i. chap. 1. § 5, and +part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin on _Transubstantiation_, chap. +6. § 17. Can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the _Modest +Discourse_? + +A.T. + + +_Ptolemy of Alexandria._--"QUERY" wishes to be informed what works of +Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in an English translation. + + +_Vanbrugh's London Improvements._--In the _London Journal_ of March +16th, 1722-23, there is the following paragraph:-- + + "We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new + paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, + proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels + in the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and + common sewers under ground." + +Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of noblemen's and +gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply me with a reference +to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the general improvement of the +metropolis? + +B.M. + + +_Becket's Grace-Cup._--The inscription round the neck of this so-called +cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. of Mr. Scott's +_Antiquarian Gleanings_, is thus printed by him--GOD FERARE--: to which +he adds, in explanation, "probably the name of the goldsmith." {143} At +the foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given +thus--FERARE GOD--and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's version, I had +considered the former word as an accidental error of the engraver, +instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, suiting the SOBRII +ESTOTE round the lid.--As Mr. Nichols, in his recent interesting work on +_Pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury_, noticing the misnomer of the +cup (p. 229, n.), indicates its date to be of "the early part of the +sixteenth century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could +state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be known. + +ALICUI. + + +_Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book._--I should be glad to know if any of +your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir Henry Herbert's +Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by Malone, Chalmers, and +Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the Revels to King James the +First, and the two succeeding kings, and the said MS. contains an +account of almost every piece exhibited at any of the theatres from +August, 1623, to the commencement of the rebellion in 1641. Malone, in +his _Historical Account of the English Stage_ (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), +says, in a note-- + + "For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am + indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in + Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the + Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which + contained the manuscript _Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury_, + from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, printed the life + of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir Henry Herbert." + +In another place, Malone adds:-- + + "This valuable manuscript, having lain for a considerable time + in a damp place, is unfortunately damaged, and in a very + mouldering condition; however, no material part of it appears to + have perished." + +Such being the case, it becomes more than ever desirable that this +interesting volume should be sought after, and the _whole_ of its +contents put on record before its total decay. Surely, if its depositary +is known, and accessible, it is well worth the attention of the +_Shakespeare Society_, or some other learned body instituted for the +preservation of documents of this nature. + +A biographical account of the various persons that have held the +appointment of "Master of the Revels," with such particulars of the +stage as would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable _Prolegomena_ +to the publication of Sir Henry's Office-Book. We have, it is true, much +information upon this subject, but in a very scattered form. + +I have now before me a list of the "Masters of the Revells," with the +dates of their patents, which I beg to transcribe. It is of more than +ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir Henry Herbert himself, +and copied at the back of the worthy knight's "Petition to Charles the +Second against the Grant to Killegrew and Davenant to form Two Companies +of Players." + +"_Masters of ye Revells_. + +"Sir Richard Guilford - not on record. +Sir Thomas Cawerden - [1544] 36 Henry VIII. +Sir Thomas Beneger - not on record. +Sir John Fortescue - not on record. +Edmund Tilney, Esq. - July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz. +Sir George Buck - June 23 [1603] I Jac. +Sir John Astley - [1612] 10 Jac. I. +Benjamin Johnson - [1617] 15 Jac. I. +Sir Henry Herbert, and} +Simon Thelwall, Esq. } - Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE + +(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos_.) + +1. DR. BROOK TAYLOR'S PERSPECTIVE. 1st edit. 1715. + +2. DR. AUSTIN'S CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF EUCLID. +(Date not known.) + +3. DR. ABRAHAM ROBERTSON ON RATIO AND PROPORTION. Oxford. 1804. + +4. LAWSON'S DISSERTATION ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE ANTIENTS. Edited by +Fryer, and printed in Bristol, 1809.--[The particular copy wanted is +interleaved with thick paper and MS. alterations by the Editor. It was +surreptitiously obtained from its owner; but the books of the person who +had it are dispersed.] + +Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be +sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. + + * * * * * + +NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS + +It will be seen by our leading article that having been unable to +procure by any other means sufficient copies of our early numbers, to +supply perfect sets to all who applied for them, we have reprinted Nos. +1. 2. 3. and 4., so that our subscribers have now an opportunity of +completing their sets. + +Our correspondent who inquired respecting the _Life and Diary of Haydon +the Painter_, is informed that its publication is suspended for the +present. + +We have to explain to correspondents who inquire as to the mode of +procuring "NOTES AND QUERIES," that every bookseller and newsman will +supply it _if ordered_, and that gentlemen residing in the country may +be supplied regularly with the Stamped Edition, by giving their orders +direct to the publisher, MR. GEORGE BELL, 186. 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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. 9, Saturday, December 29, 1849 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: September 24, 2004 [EBook #13521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 9, *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team and The Internet Library of Early Journals, + + + + + + +</pre> + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page129" name= +"page129"></a>{129}</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. 9.</b></td> +<td align="center" width="50%"><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, +1849</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">Our Progress</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">NOTES:—</td> +<td align="right">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir E. Dering's Household Book, by Rev. Lambert B. +Larking</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page130">130</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Berkeley's Theory of Vision, by Rev. J.H. +Todd</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Bishop Barnaby</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Mathematical Archæology</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page132">132</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Song in Style of Suckling, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Gothic Architecture</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page134">134</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dr. Burney's Musical Works, by E.F. Rimbault</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page135">135</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Ancient Alms' Basins, by Dr. Bell</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page135">135</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Notes:—Prince Madoc—St. +Barnabas—Register of Cromwell's Baptism—The +Times—Rowland Monoux—Wassail Song—Portrait of +Charles I.—Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester +and Henry Duke of Buckingham</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page136">136</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes in answer to Queries:—Lord Erksine's +Brooms—Scarborough Warning—Gray's Elegy—Coffee, +the Lacedæmonian Black Broth</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page138">138</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">QUERIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">The Dore of Holy Scripture</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Turner's MS. History of Westminster</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page140">140</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Talisman of Charlemagne</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page140">140</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page141">141</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Queries:—The Strand Maypole—To +Fettle—Greek Verse—Dr. Dee's Petition—Vondel's +Lucifer—Discurs Modest—Ptolemy of +Alexandria—Vanbrugh's London Improvements—Becket's +Grace-Cup—Sir Herbert's Office-Book</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page142">142</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Advertisements</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page144">144</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr /> +<h2>OUR PROGRESS</h2> +<p>We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither +our best friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having +failed in our endeavours to supply by other means the increasing +demand for complete sets of our "NOTES AND QUERIES," we have been +compelled to reprint the first four numbers.</p> +<p>It is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we +record the fact of a large impression of a work like the present +not having been sufficient to meet the demand,—a work devoted +not to the witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance, but to +the illustration of matters of graver import, such as obscure +points of national history, doubtful questions of literature and +bibliography, the discussion of questionable etymologies, and the +elucidation of old world customs and observances.</p> +<p>What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with reference to +archæology, our experience justifies us in applying to other +literary inquiries:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"On every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest +co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special +pursuits; and not only does this tend of itself to widen the +general basis, but it supplies the individual thinker with an ever +widening foundation for his own special study."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>And whence arises this "earnest co-operation?" Is it too much to +hope that it springs from an increased reverence for the Truth, +from an intenser craving after a knowledge of it—whether such +Truth regards an event on which a throne depended, or the etymology +of some household word now familiar only to</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>We feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our "NOTES AND +QUERIES" with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry +of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it—the +knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it—and the +belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it—is the sovereign +good of human nature."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that +they have flocked to our columns—that the sentiment has found +its echo in the breast of the public, and hence that success which +has attended our humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may +well be pardoned if we boast that we have had both hand and heart +in it.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page130" id= +"page130"></a>{130}</span> +<p>And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this +happy season, when</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"No spirit stirs abroad;</p> +<p>The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes,</p> +<p>No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm,</p> +<p>So hallow'd and so gracious is the time,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, +with the good old English wish,</p> +<p>A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SIR E. DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK.</h3> +<p>The muniment chests of our old established families are seldom +without their quota of "household books." Goodly collections of +these often turn up, with records of the expenditure and the +"doings" of the household, through a period of two or more +centuries. These documents are of incalculable value in giving us a +complete insight into the domestic habits of our ancestors. Many a +note is <i>there</i>, well calculated to illustrate the pages of +the dramatist or the biographer, and even the accuracy of the +historian's statements may often be tested by some of the details +which find their way into these accounts; as for the more peculiar +province of the antiquary, there is always a rich store of +materials. Every change of costume is <i>there</i>; the +introduction of new commodities, new luxuries, and new fashions, +the varying prices of the passing age. Dress in all its minute +details, modes of travelling, entertainments, public and private +amusements, all, with their cost, are there: and last, though not +least, touches of individual character ever and anon present +themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable truth. +Follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife and +children, his household, his tenantry, nay, with himself, and you +have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able +to furnish. In this view, a man's "household book" becomes an +impartial autobiography.</p> +<p>I would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might +sometimes be profitably reserved for "notes" from these household +books; there can be little doubt that your numerous readers would +soon furnish you with abundant contributions of most interesting +matter.</p> +<p>While suggesting the idea, there happens to lie open before me +the account-book of the first Sir Edward Dering, commencing with +the day on which he came of age, when, though his father was still +living, he felt himself an independent man.</p> +<p>One of his first steps, however, was to qualify this +independence by marriage. If family tradition be correct, he was as +heedless and impetuous in this the first important step of his +life, as he seems to have been in his public career. The lady was +Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tufton, afterwards created Earl +of Thanet.</p> +<p>In almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the +charges of this marriage, the different dresses he provided, his +wedding presents, &c. As to his bride, the first pleasing +intelligence which greeted the young knight, after passing his +pledge to take her for "richer for poorer," was, that the latter +alternative was his. Sir Nicholas had jockied the youth out of the +promised "trousseau," and handed over his daughter to Sir Edward, +with nothing but a few shillings in her purse. She came unfurnished +with even decent apparel, and her new lord had to supply her +forthwith with necessary clothing. In a subsequent page, when he +comes to detail the purchases which he was, in consequence, obliged +to make for his bride, he gives full vent to his feelings on this +niggardly conduct of the father, and, in recording the costs of his +own outfit, his very first words have a smack of bitterness in +them, which is somewhat ludicrous—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Medio de donte leporum</p> +<p>Surgit amari aliquid."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a +gallant bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly.</p> +<p>"1619.</p> +<p>"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas unto New +Year's Day.</p> +<table summary="Suite" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a +doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard,</td> +<td align="right">4£.</td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, +to make hose cassocke and cloake [sic]</td> +<td align="right">14£.</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per +yard,</td> +<td align="right">9£.</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">22 ounces of blacke galloune lace</td> +<td align="right">2£.</td> +<td align="right">15s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Taffaty to line the doublett</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">17s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse</td> +<td align="right">1£.</td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of +ye copell</td> +<td></td> +<td>8s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and +scarfe,</td> +<td align="right">2£.</td> +<td align="right">10s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">5 dozen of small buttons</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">1s.</td> +<td align="right">8d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Stickinge and sowing silke</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">14s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor cuttinge ye scallops</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">2s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">holland to line the hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">5s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dutch bays for the hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">4s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Pocketts to ye hose</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">10d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">2 dozen of checker riband pointes</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">12s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">5s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">3s.</td> +<td align="right">6d.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">ffor makinge ye doublett and hose</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">18s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">making ye copell</td> +<td align="right">1£.</td> +<td align="right">8s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">making ye cloake</td> +<td></td> +<td align="right">9s.</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sum of this suite</td> +<td align="right">40£.</td> +<td align="right">2s."</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending +these extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, +they shall have, in some future number, the remainder of the +bridegroom's wardrobe. In whatever niggardly array the bride came +to her lord's arms, he, at <span class="pagenum"><a name="page131" +id="page131"></a>{131}</span> least, was pranked and decked in all +the apparel of a young gallant, an exquisite of the first water, +for this was only one of several rich suits which he provided for +his marriage outfit; and then follows a list of costly gloves and +presents, and all the lavish outlay of this his "desperate +quarter."</p> +<p>In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you +shall be furnished with a list of other and better objects of +expenditure from this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as +Clarendon depicts him, the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of +better fame than is yet been his lot to acquire.</p> +<p>He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He +had his foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of +high and enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary +speeches has elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them +therefore now were superfluous. The noble library which he formed +at Surrenden, and the invaluable collection of charters which he +amassed there, during his unhappily brief career, testify to his +ardour in literary pursuits. The library and a large part of the +MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the former, all that remains to +tell of what it once was, are a few scattered notices among the +family records, and the titles of books, with their cost, as they +are entered in the weekly accounts of our "household book." Of the +latter there yet remain a few thousand charters and rolls, some of +them of great interest, with exquisite seals attached. I shall be +able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on these heads, from +the "household book," and, in contemplating the remains of this +unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the sympathy +of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the lament +which has often been mine—"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint +reliquiæ!"</p> +<p class="author">LAMBERT B. LARKING.</p> +<p>Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED.</h3> +<p>In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg +to say that Bishop Berkeley's <i>Theory of Vision Vindicated</i> +does not occur either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected +works; but there is a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, +Dublin, from which I transcribe the full title as +follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate +Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By +the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher.</p> +<p>"Acts, xvii. 28.</p> +<p>"<i>In Him we live, and move, and have our being</i>.</p> +<p>"Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand.</p> +<p>"MDCCXXXIII."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his +collected works; but, as I am now answering "a <i>Query</i>," and +not making "a <i>Note</i>," I shall reserve what I might say of +them for another opportunity. The memory of Berkeley is dear to +every member of this University; and therefore I hope you will +permit me to say one word, in defence of his character, against +Dugald Stewart's charge of having been "provoked," by Lord +Shaftesbury's <i>Characteristics</i>, "to a harshness equally +unwonted and unwarranted."</p> +<p>Mr. Stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon +which he pronounces this most "unwarranted" criticism. The tract +was not written in reply to the <i>Characteristics</i>, but was an +answer to an anonymous letter published in the <i>Daily +Post-Boy</i> of September 9th, 1732, which letter Berkeley has +reprinted at the end of his pamphlet. The only allusion to the +writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of severity +occurs at the commencement of the tract. Those who will take the +trouble of perusing the anonymous letter, will see that it was +richly deserved; and I think it can scarcely, with any justice, be +censured as unbecomingly harsh, or in any degree unwarranted. The +passage is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>[After mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his +noticing this letter sooner, the author adds,] "This would have +altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either +personal or purely speculative, or from entering the lists of the +declaimers, whom I leave to the triumph of their own passions. And +indeed, to one of this character, who contradicts himself and +misrepresents me, what answer can be made more than to desire his +readers not to take his word for what I say, but to use their own +eyes, read, examine, and judge for themselves? And to their common +sense I appeal."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical +discussion of the subject of debate, in a style as cool and as free +from harshness as Dugald Stewart could desire, and containing, as +far as I can see, nothing inconsistent with the character of him, +who was described by his contemporaries as the possessor of "every +virtue under heaven."</p> +<p class="author">JAMES H. TODD.</p> +<p>Trin. Coll. Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BISHOP BARNABY.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—Allow me, in addition to the Note inserted in +your 4th Number, in answer to the Query of LEGOUR, by your +correspondent (and I believe my friend) J.G., to give the following +extract from Forby's <i>Vocabulary of East Anglia</i>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Bishop Barnabee-s. The pretty insect more generally called the +Lady-bird, or May-bug. It is one of those highly favoured among +God's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton +injury. Some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page132" id= +"page132"></a>{132}</span> of it. It has certainly no more relation +to the companion of St. Paul than to drunken Barnaby, though some +have supposed it has. It is sometimes called <i>Bishop Benebee</i>, +which may possibly have been intended to mean the <i>blessed +bee</i>; sometimes <i>Bishop Benetree</i>, of which it seems not +possible to make any thing. The name has most probably been derived +from the <i>Barn-Bishop</i>; whether in scorn of that silly and +profane mockery, or in pious commemoration of it, must depend on +the time of its adoption, before or since the Reformation; and it +is not worth inquiring. The two words are transposed, and +<i>bee</i> annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a +connection than fly-bug or beetle. The dignified ecclesiastics in +ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their habits. +Bishops had scarlet and black, as this insect has on its +wing-covers. Some remains of the finery of the gravest personages +still exist on our academical robes of ceremony. There is something +inconsistent with the popish episcopal character in the childish +rhyme with which <i>Bishop Barnabee</i> is thrown up and dismissed +when he happens to light on any one's hand. Unluckily the words are +not recollected, nor at present recoverable; but the purport of +them is to admonish him to fly home, and take care of his wife and +children, for that his house in on fire. Perhaps, indeed, the rhyme +has been fabricated long since the name by some one who did not +think of such niceties."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">G.A.C.</p> +<p>Sir,—In the explanation of the term Bishop Barnaby, given +by J.G., the prefix "Bishop" seems yet to need elucidation. Why +should it not have arisen from the insect's garb? The full dress +gown of the Oxford D.D.—scarlet with black velvet +sleeves—might easily have suggested the idea of naming the +little insect "Dr. Burn bug," and the transition is easy to "Dr. +Burnabee," or "Bishop Burnaby." These little insects, in the +winter, congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber +till the reappearance of genial weather, and it is not impossible +that, from this circumstance, the country people may have +designated them "Barn bug," or "Barn bee."</p> +<p class="author">L.B.L.</p> +<p>Sir,—I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the +seven-spotted, <i>Coccinella Septempunctata</i>, is the most +common) is called in some places "Bishop Barnaby." This little +insect is sometimes erroneously accused of destroying turnips and +peas in its larva state; but, in truth, both in the larva and +perfect state it feeds exclusively on aphides. I do not know that +it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that burneth," may allude +to something else; still there appears some popular connection of +the <i>Coccinellidæ</i> with <i>cows</i> as well as burning, +for in the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called <i>Cush Cow +Ladies</i>; and in the North Riding one of the children's rhymes +anent them runs:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame,</p> +<p class="i2">Thy<a id="footnotetag1" name= +"footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> house is +burnt, and thy bairns are tean,</p> +<p class="i2">And if thou means to save thy bairns</p> +<p class="i2">Take thy wings and flee away!"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow, +believing if they did evil would inevitably befall them. It is +tenderly placed on the palm of the hand—of a girl, if +possible—and the above rhyme recited thrice, during which it +usually spreads its wings, and at the last word flies away. A +collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects would, I think, be +useful.</p> +<p class="author">W.G.M.J. BARKER.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p><i>Thy</i> is pronounced as <i>thee</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="note">[We have received many other communications +respecting the epithet of this insect—so great a favourite +with children. ALICUI and several other correspondents incline to +L.B.L.'s opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance +of its bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble. J.T. +reminds us that St. Barnabas has been distinguished of old by the +title of <i>bright</i>, as in the old proverbial distich intended +to mark the day of his festival according to the Old Style (21st +June):—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i10">"Barnaby bright!</p> +<p>The longest day and the shortest night."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">While F.E. furnishes us with another and happier +version of the Norfolk popular rhyme:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Bishop, Bishop Barnabee,</p> +<p>Tell me when <i>my</i> wedding be;</p> +<p>If it be to-morrow day,</p> +<p>Take your wings and fly away!</p> +<p><i>Fly to the east, fly to the west</i>,</p> +<p><i>Fly to them that I love best</i>!"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">The name which this pretty insect bears in the +various languages of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other +cases, the Virgin has supplanted Freya; so that <i>Freyjuhaena</i> +and <i>Frouehenge</i> have been changed into <i>Marienvoglein</i>, +which corresponds with <i>Our Lady's Bird</i>. There, can, +therefore, be little doubt that the esteem with which the +lady-bird, or Our Lady's cow, is still regarded, is a relic of the +ancient cult.]</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MATHEMATICAL ARCHÆOLOGY.</h3> +<p>Sir,—I cannot gather from your "Notes" that scientific +archæology is included in your plan, nor yet, on the other +hand, any indications of its exclusion. Science, however, and +especially mathematical science, has its archæology; and many +doubtful points of great importance are amongst the "vexed +questions" that can only be cleared up by <i>documentary +evidence</i>. That evidence is more likely to be found mixed up +amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors +than amongst the papers of mere mathematicians—amongst men +who never destroy a paper because they have no present use for it, +or because the subject does not come within the range of their +researches, than amongst men who value nothing but a "new theorem" +or "an improved solution."</p> +<p>As a general rule I have always habituated myself to preserve +every scrap of paper of any remote (and indeed recent) period, that +had the appearance of being written by a literary man, whether I +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page133" id= +"page133"></a>{133}</span> knew the hand, or understood the +circumstance to which it referred, or not. Such papers, whether we +understand them or not, have a <i>possible value</i> to others; and +indeed, as my collections have always been at the service of my +friends, very few indeed have been left in my hands, and those, +probably, of no material value.</p> +<p>I wish this system were generally adopted. Papers, occasionally +of great historical importance, and very often of +archæological interest, would thus be preserved, and, what is +more, <i>used</i>, as they would thus generally find their way into +the right hands.</p> +<p>There are, I fancy, few classes of papers that would be so +little likely to interest archæologists in general, as those +relating to mathematics; and yet such are not unlikely to fall in +their way, often and largely, if they would take the trouble to +secure them. I will give an example or two, indicating the kind of +papers which are desiderata to the mathematical historian.</p> +<p>1. A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the +restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing +from an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to +near the close of Simson's life. The missing letter, as is gathered +from a subsequent one, is Feb. 5. 1753. A mere letter of business +from an author to his publisher might not be thought of much +interest; but it need not be <i>here</i> enforced how much of +consistency and clearness is often conferred upon a series of +circumstances by matter which such a letter might contain. This +letter, too, contains a problem, the nature of which it would be +interesting to know. It would seem that the letter passed into the +hands of Dodson, editor of the <i>Mathematical Repository</i>; but +what became of Dodson's papers I could never discover. The uses, +however, to which such an unpromising series of letters have been +rendered subservient may be seen in the <i>Philosophical +Magazine</i>, under the title of "Geometry and Geometers," Nos. ii. +iii. and iv. The letters themselves are in the hands of Mr. +Maynard, Earl's Court, Leicester Square.</p> +<p>2. Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one +of the scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to +decide upon the plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"It is probable," says Dr. Hutton, in his Life of Simpson, +prefixed to the <i>Select Exercises</i>, 1792, "that this reference +to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously to +this subject, so as to form the design of composing a regular +treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he +laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and +was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to them +that this work, when published, would procure him more credit than +any of his former publications. But he lived not to put the +finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this subject probably +fell, together with all his other remaining papers, into the hands +of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, in the service of the +India Company, being in all a large chest full of papers. This +gentleman had been a pupil of Mr. Simpson's, and had lodged in his +house. After Mr. Simpson's death Mr. Watson prevailed upon the +widow to let him have the papers, promising either to give her a +sum of money for them, or else to print and publish them for her +benefit. But nothing of the kind was ever done; this gentleman +always declaring, when urged on this point by myself and others, +that no use could be made of any of the papers, owing to the very +imperfect state in which he said they were left. <i>And yet he +persisted in his refusal to give them up again.</i>"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In 1780 Colonel Watson was recalled to India, and took out with +him one of the most remarkable English mathematicians of that day, +Reuben Burrow. This gentleman had been assistant to Dr. Maskelyne +at the Royal Observatory; and to his care was, in fact, committed +the celebrated Schehallien experiments and observations. He died in +India, and, I believe, all his papers which reached England, as +well as several of his letters, are in my possession. This, +however, is no further of consequence in the present matter, than +to give authority to a remark I am about to quote from one of his +letters to his most intimate friend, Isaac Dalby. In this he +says:—"Colonel Watson has out here a work of Simpson's on +bridges, very <i>complete</i> and <i>original</i>."</p> +<p>It was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of Hutton, +that so unscrupulous a person as Colonel Watson is proved to be, +was deterred from publishing Simpson's work as his own.</p> +<p>The desideratum here is, of course, to find what became of +Colonel Watson's papers; and then to ascertain whether this and +what other writings of Simpson's are amongst them. A <i>really +good</i> work on the mathematical theory of bridges, if such is +ever to exist, has yet to be published. It is, at the same time, +very likely that his great originality, and his wonderful sagacity +in all his investigations, would not fail him in this; and possibly +a better work on the subject was composed ninety years ago than has +yet seen the light—involving, perhaps, the germs of a totally +new and more effective method of investigation.</p> +<p>I have, I fear, already trespassed too far upon your space for a +single letter; and will, therefore, defer my notice of a few other +desiderata till a future day.</p> +<p class="author">T.S.D.</p> +<p>Shooter's Hill, Dec. 15. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SONG IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING—THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.</h3> +<p>The song in your second number, furnished by a correspondent, +and considered to be in the style <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page134" id="page134"></a>{134}</span> of Suckling, is of a class +common enough in the time of Charles I. George Wither, rather than +Suckling, I consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to +that age, as "Shall I wasting in Despair" may be regarded as the +type of this class of poems. The present instance I do not think of +very high merit, and certainly not good enough for Suckling. Such +as it is, however, with a few unimportant variations, it may be +found at page 101. of the 1st vol. of <i>The Hive, a Collection of +the most celebrated Songs</i>. My copy is the 2nd edit. London, +1724.</p> +<p>I will, with your permission, take this opportunity of setting +Mr. Dyce right with regard to a passage in the <i>Two Noble +Kinsmen</i>, in which he is only less wrong than all his +predecessors. It is to be found in the second scene of the fourth +act, and is as follows:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"Here Love himself sits smiling:</p> +<p>Just such another wanton Ganymede</p> +<p>Set Jove afire with," &c.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative +"he" after "Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after +"afire." Mr. Dyce saw that both these must be wrong, as a +comparison between two wanton Ganymedes, one of which sat in the +coutenance of Arcite, could never have been +intended;—another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, +and he, therefore, has this note:—"The construction and +meaning are, 'With just such another <i>smile</i> (which is +understood from the preceding 'smiling') wanton Ganymede set Jove +afire." When there is a choice of nouns to make intelligible sense, +how can that one be understood which is not expressed? It +<i>might</i> be "with just such another <i>Love</i>;" but, as I +shall shortly show, no conjecture on the subject is needed. The +older editors were so fond of mending passages, that they did not +take ordinary pains to understand them; and in this instance they +have been so successful in sticking the epithet "wanton" to +Ganymede, that even Mr. Dyce, with his clear sight, did not see +that the very word he wanted was the next word before him. It puts +one in mind of a man looking for his spectacles who has them +already across his nose. "Wanton" is a noun as well as an +adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an epithet +applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place after +it a <i>comma</i>, when the passage will read thus:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"Here Love himself sits smiling.</p> +<p>Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) +"Ganymede</p> +<p>Set Jove afire with," &c.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The third act of the same play commences thus:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The duke has lost Hippolita; each took</p> +<p>A several land."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old +form of lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not +understood now, we must fall back on the general sense of the +passage. When people go a hunting, and don't keep together, it is +very probable that they may take a several "direction." Now +<i>hand</i> means "direction," as we say "to the right" or "left +hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should read "a +several hand?"</p> +<p class="author">SAMUEL HICKSON</p> +<hr /> +<h3>"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE</h3> +<p>It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, +to explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of +the introduction of the term '<i>Gothic</i>,' as applied to pointed +styles of ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of +Winchester, in your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the +term was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those +who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of +architecture, after the revival of classical literature. But, +without citing many authorities, such as Christopher Wren, and +others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old mediæval +style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing +that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the +celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled <i>The Elements +of Architecture</i>, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This +work was so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed +to the works of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's <i>Parallel of +the Ancient Architecture with the Modern</i>. Dufresnoy, also, who +divided his time between poetry and painting, and whose work on the +latter art was rendered popular in this country by Dryden's +translation, uses the term "<i>Gothique</i>" in a bad sense. But it +was a strange misapplication of the term to use it for the pointed +style, in contradistinction to the circular, formerly called Saxon, +now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These latter styles, like +Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course belong more to the +Gothic period than the light and elegant structures of the pointed +order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author of the +<i>Lives of Architects</i>, divides Gothic architecture into two +distinct kinds—the <i>massive</i> and the <i>light</i>; and +as the latter superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had +been originally applied to both kinds, seems to have been +restricted improperly to the latter only. As there is now, happily, +no fear of the word being understood in a bad sense, there seems to +be no longer any objection to the use of it in a good one, whatever +terms may be used to discriminate all the varieties of the style +observable either at home or abroad.</p> +<p class="author">J.I.</p> +<p>Trinity College, Oxford.</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page135" id= +"page135"></a>{135}</span> +<h3>DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is +made for Burney's <i>Treatise on Music</i> (not his +<i>History</i>). Before correspondents trouble you with their +wants, I think they should be certain that the books they inquire +for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or wrote, a +<i>Treatise on Music</i>. His only works on the subject (the +<i>General History of Music</i> excepted) are the +following:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771.</p> +<p>"The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and +United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775.</p> +<p>"An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, +and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. +1785.</p> +<p>"A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of +reference, strict accuracy on all points is the grand +desideratum.</p> +<p class="author">EDW. F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p>P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the +<i>Life of Metastasio</i>, which, although not generally classed +among musical works, forms an admirable supplement to the +<i>General History of Music</i>.</p> +<p class="author">E.F.R.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES.</h3> +<p>Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the +dishes and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., +&c., pp. 44. 73. 87., are likely to cause as much speculation +here as they have some time experienced on the continent. They were +there principally figured and discussed in the +<i>Curiositãten</i>, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted +from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of Göthe, +librarian to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, +Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbüttel, first +noticed them from a specimen belonging to the church of a +suppressed convent at Sterterheim near Brunswick, and they were +subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. Hammer (now v. Purgstall), +the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of the principal proofs +which he adduced in his <i>Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum</i> in +one of the numbers of the <i>Fundgruben (Mines) des Orients</i>, +for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, and +others, falsely attributed to the Templars. Comments upon these +dishes occur in other works of a recent period, but having left my +portfolio, concerning them, with other papers, on the continent, I +give these hasty notices entirely from memory. They are by no means +uncommon now in England, as the notices of your correspondents +prove. A paper on three varieties of them at Hull was read in 1829, +to the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society. In Nash's +<i>Worcestershire</i> one is depicted full size, and a reduced copy +given about this period in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, and +Nash first calls them "Offertory Dishes." The Germans call them +Taufbecken, or baptismal basins; but I believe the English +denomination more correct, as I have a distinct recollection of +seeing, in a Catholic convent at Danzig, a similar one placed on +Good Friday before the tomb of the interred image of the Saviour, +for the oblations for which it was not too large. Another of them +is kept upon the altar of Boroughbridge Church (N. Riding of +Yorkshire), but sadly worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright, and +the attempt at a copy of the Inscription in a Harrowgate Guide is +felicitously ludicrous: it is there taken as a relic of the Roman +Isurium on the same spot. Three others were observed some years ago +in a neglected nook of the sacristy of York Cathedral. At the last +meeting of the Institute at Salisbury, a number of these were +exhibited in St. John's House there, but I believe without any +notice taken of them in its Proceedings; and another was shown to +the Archæological Society, at their last Chester Congress, by +Colonel Biddulph, at Chirk Castle; when more were mentioned by the +visitors as in their possession, anxious as your correspondents to +know the import of the inscriptions. They are sometimes seen +exposed in the shops of Wardour Street, and in other curiosity +shops of the metropolis.</p> +<p>On their sunken centres all have religious types: the most +common is the temptation of Eve; the next in frequency, the +Annunciation; the Spies sent by Joshua returning with an immense +bunch of grapes suspended betwixt them, is not unfrequent; but +non-scriptural subjects, as the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, +mentioned by L.S.B., is a variety I have not before observed.</p> +<p>The inscriptions vary, and are sometimes double in two +concentral rings. The most usual is that alluded to by your +correspondents, and though obviously German, neither old nor +obsolete; having been viewed even by native decipherers, through +the mist of a preconceived hypothesis, have never yet been by them +satisfactorily accounted for. It is always repeated four times, +evidently from the same slightly curved die; when, however, the +enlarged circumference of the circle required more than this +fourfold repetition to go round it, the die was set on again for as +much of a fifth impression as was necessary: this was seldom more +than four or five letters, which, as pleonastic or intercalary, are +to be carefully rejected in reading the rest; their introduction +has confused many expositors.</p> +<p>The readings of some of your correspondents who understand +German is pretty near the truth. <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page136" id="page136"></a>{136}</span> I have before said that the +centre type of Eve's Temptation is the most common, and to it the +words especially refer, and seem at the place of their manufacture +(most probably Nuremburg) to have been used for other centres +without any regard to its fitness. The letters, as I can safely +aver from some very perfect specimens, are</p> +<blockquote> +<p>DER SELEN INFRID WART;</p> +</blockquote> +<p>in modern German "<i>der Seelen Infried wort</i>." To the German +scholar the two latter words only require explanation. +<i>Infrid</i> for Unfried, discord, disturbance, any thing in +opposition to Frieden or peace. The Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, +and Hexham, still bear the old theotise stamp. <i>Wart</i>, or +<i>ward</i>, may be either the past tense of <i>werden</i>, to be +(our was), or an old form of <i>währen</i>, to endure, to +last: our English <i>wear</i> is the same word. The sense is pretty +much the same in both readings alluding to Eve. In the first:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>(By her) the soul's disturbance came (was).</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>By the second:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>(Through her) the soul's disturbance continues.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>I may here observe that the words ICH WART are particularly +distinct on a helmet, pictured in the Journal of the British +Archæological Association, which the Secretary, Mr. Planche, +in such matters the highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. +It may there have been in the original ICH WARTE, meaning I bide +(my time).</p> +<p>But the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty. A +second, frequently met with, is by far more puzzling. I could not +give your readers any idea of it without a drawing: however it is +found imperfectly depicted on the plates I have before mentioned in +Nash's <i>Worcestershire</i>, and the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, +and I think I recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of +Hearne's <i>Miscellaneous Works</i>, which I examined in the +Gottingen Library, but whether belonging to the work or a MS. +addition I cannot now call to mind. The fanciful and flowery form +of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in assigning +them their particular position in the alphabet, and the difficulty +of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of German +archæologists whether they are initials or component parts of +a sentence. Herr Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, however, in his +version RECORD DE SCI GNSI, or in full <i>Recordamini de sancta +Gnosi</i>, deduces thence his principal proof of Gnostic heresy +amongst the calumniated Templars, in which I am sorry to say he has +been too servilely followed in England: <i>e.g.</i> by Mr. Godfrey +Higgins, in his posthumous <i>Anaclypsis</i> (p. 830 note), as well +as by E.G. Addison, <i>The Temple Church</i> (p. 57), and by Mr. +R.W. Billings more especially, who tacks to his account of this +building an "Essay on the symbolical Evidences of the Temple +Church, where the Templars are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged +by Edward Clarkson, Esq." Had the learnedly hypothetic Austrian +seen the engravings of the Crypt at Canterbury Cathedral +(<i>Archæologia</i>, viii. p. 74.), and Ledwick's remarks on +it in conjunction with the carvings at Glendalloch (<i>History of +Ireland</i>, p. 174.), or those of Grymbald's Crypt at Oxford, he +might have been expected to have attributed their monstrosities to +his order, with as little hesitation and as thorough a contempt of +chronology, or proved connection, as he has the curious and +innocent sculptures of the church at Schöngrabern in Bohemia +(vide <i>Curiositäten</i>, vol. viii. p. 501.).</p> +<p class="author">WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR NOTES.</h3> +<p><i>Prince Modoc.</i>—At p. 57., "ANGLO-CAMBRIAN" refers to +the report of the Proceedings of the British Association at +Swansea, in Aug. 1848, extracted from the <i>Athenæum</i> +newspaper. In the course of a discussion which took place on Prof. +Elton's address, it was observed (if I recollect rightly) by the +learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the so-called Welsh-Indian +dialect has been formed, and that it contains <i>no trace</i> of +any Celtic root.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.T. December 10. 1849.</p> +<p><i>St. Barnabas.</i>—About the time of the Reformation, it +was strongly debated whether the festival days of St. Paul and St. +Barnabas should be admitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book +of K. Edward, the conversion of St. Paul is put down in +<i>black</i>, and St. Barnabas is <i>omitted altogether</i>! No +wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, liberties were taken with the +name of St. Barnabas, and it was transferred to doggerel rhyme, to +be repeated by children.</p> +<p class="author">J.I.</p> +<p><i>Register of Cromwell's Baptism.</i>—The communication +of your correspondent C.W.G. at p. 103. of your last number, +induces me to offer you the inclosed copy from the <i>Register</i> +of All Saints' Church, Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of +Oliver Cromwell:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Cromwell generosi et +Elisabethæ huxoris ejus Natus vicesimo quinto die Aprilis et +Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Then follow the words "England's plague for many years," written +in a different hand.</p> +<p class="author">R.O.</p> +<p><i>The Times.</i>—A correspondent (NASO) informs us of the +following fact in the history of this widely circulated and +influential journal; namely, that it is stated in that the paper of +the 12th of March, 1788, that it was printed "Logographically!" We +wish our correspondent had furnished us with the precise words of +this very curious statement.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page137" id= +"page137"></a>{137}</span> +<p><i>Roland Monoux.</i>—I have in my possession a brass +monumental plate, said to have been taken from some church in +Middlesex, and bearing the following lines, engraved in <i>black +letter</i>:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Behold what droupinge Dethe maye doe, consume</p> +<p class="i4">y'e corse to duste,</p> +<p>What Dethe maie not shall lyue for aye, in spite of</p> +<p class="i4">Dethe his luste;</p> +<p>Thoughe Rouland Monoux shrowdeth here, yet</p> +<p class="i4">Rouland Monoux lives,</p> +<p>His helpynge hand to nedys want, a fame for ever</p> +<p class="i4">geves;</p> +<p>Hys worde and dede was ever one, his credyth never</p> +<p class="i4">quaylde,</p> +<p>His zeall' to Christ was stronge, tyll' dethe w'th latest</p> +<p class="i4">panges asaylde.</p> +<p>Twyse thre and one he Children had, two sones, one</p> +<p class="i4">kepes his name,</p> +<p>And dowghters fyve for home he carde, y't lyve in</p> +<p class="i4">honest fame.</p> +<p>What booteth more, as he be kynde dyd come of</p> +<p class="i4">Jentyll race,</p> +<p>So Rouland Monoux good Desertes this grave can</p> +<p class="i4">not Deface."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>I should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of +this Rouland Monoux, and when he died. I may also add; that I +should be very willing to restore the brass to its original site, +did I know the spot from whence it has been sacrilegiously +torn.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p><i>Wessel Cup Hymn.</i>—The following Wassail Song is +taken from a little chap-book printed at Manchester, called <i>A +Selection of Christmas Hymns</i>. it is obviously a corrupted +version of a much older song:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Here we come a wesseling,</p> +<p class="i2">Among the leaves so green,</p> +<p>Here we come a wandering,</p> +<p class="i2">So fair to be seen.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Cho.</i>—Love and joy come to you,</p> +<p class="i2">And to your wessel too,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year,</p> +<p class="i6">A new year,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree,</p> +<p>So is your beer of the best barley.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"We are not daily beggars,</p> +<p class="i2">That beg from door to door,</p> +<p>But we are neighbours' children,</p> +<p class="i2">Whom you have seen before.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Call up the butler of this house,</p> +<p class="i2">Put on his golden ring,</p> +<p>Let him bring us up a glass of beer,</p> +<p class="i2">And the better we shall sing.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"We have got a little purse,</p> +<p class="i2">Made of stretching leather skin,</p> +<p>We want a little of your money,</p> +<p class="i2">To line it well within.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Bring us out a table,</p> +<p class="i2">And spread it with a cloth,</p> +<p>Bring us out a mouldy cheese,</p> +<p class="i2">And some of your Christmas loaf.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"God bless the master of this house,</p> +<p class="i2">Likewise the mistress too,</p> +<p>And all the little children,</p> +<p class="i2">That round the table go.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Good master and mistress,</p> +<p class="i2">While you'r sitting by the fire,</p> +<p>Pray think of us poor children,</p> +<p class="i2">Who are wand'ring in the mire.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Cho.</i>—Love and joy come to you,</p> +<p class="i2">And to your wessel to,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year,</p> +<p class="i10">A new year,</p> +<p>And God send you a happy new year.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree,</p> +<p>So is your beer of the best barley."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>It is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved. +Its insertion will at least have that effect, and may be the means +of our discovering an earlier and purer text.</p> +<p class="author">AMBROSE MERTON.</p> +<p><i>Portrait of Charles I.</i>—In Sir Henry Ellis's +<i>Original Letters</i>, 2d series, vol. iii. p. 254., amongst the +prefatory matter to the reign of Charles I., there is a notice of a +sermon, entitled "The Subject's Sorrow, or Lamentations upon the +Death of Britaine's Josiah, King Charles."</p> +<p>Sir Henry Ellis says it is expressly stated, in this Sermon, +that the King himself desired "that unto his Golden Manual might be +prefixed his representation, kneeling; contemning a temporal crown, +holding our blessed Saviour's crown of thorns, and aspiring unto an +eternal crown of happiness."</p> +<p>Note <i>b</i>. upon this passage is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"This very portrait of King Charles the First, engraved by +Marshall, adorned the original edition of the [Greek: Eikon +Basilikae]. 8vo. 1648. <i>The same portrait, as large as life, in +oil painting, was afterwards put up in many of our +churches.</i>"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>When I was a boy, such a portrait, in oil painting, hung upon +the south wall of the body of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, +between the pulpit and a small door to the west, leading into the +south aisle.</p> +<p>Out of the window of the chamber in which the King was kneeling +was represented a storm at sea, and the ship being driven by it +upon some rocks.</p> +<p>A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to +St. Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so +familiar to me in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken +down, and was in the vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, +on the floor against the wall.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page138" id= +"page138"></a>{138}</span> +<p>You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly +destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is +established to arrange its restoration.</p> +<p>Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made +about the fate of this picture?</p> +<p class="author">R.O.</p> +<p>Dec. 17. 1849.</p> +<p>P.S.—I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of +the frame of the picture a board, on which was painted, in +conformably large letters—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"LORD, remember David and all his trouble."</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>Psalm</i> cxxxii. 1.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine.</p> +<p><i>Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry +Duke of Buckingham.</i>—In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. +marked Vespasian F. XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, +upon which is written by the hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, +and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the following couplet:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Loyaulte me lie</p> +<p>Richard Gloucestre</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Souente me souène</p> +<p>Harre Bokingh'a'm."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>A fac-simile is engraved in <i>Autographs of Royal, Noble, +Learned, and Remarkable Personages in English History</i>, engraved +by C.J. Smith, and edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., +where the editor suggests that this slip of parchment was "perhaps +a deceitful toy," or it may have been attached to some present +offered by the Duke of Gloucester to his royal nephew Edward the +Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is perfectly free from +misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the crown, which he +soon so flagrantly outraged—"Loyalty binds me." In the work +above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these +words, in modern French:—"Souvent me souviens." This does not +appear to me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the +opinions of such as are conversant with old manuscripts, whether +the true meaning, or even the true reading, of the Duke of +Buckingham's motto has as yet been ascertained?</p> +<p class="author">H.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Lord Erskine's Brooms.</i>—"G.B." informs us, that the +anecdote about Lord Erskine's brooms, and the apprehension of his +servant for selling them without a licence, will be found in his +Life by Lord Campbell (<i>Lives of the Chancellors</i>, vol. vi. p. +618.). Erskine himself attended the sessions to plead the man's +cause, and contended that the brooms were agricultural produce, or, +as he jocosely observed, "came under the <i>sweeping</i> clause." +The <i>when</i> is about 1807, and the <i>where</i> an estate in +Sussex, which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its +owner, as it produced nothing but birch trees, and those but +stunted ones. To which information "W.J." adds, that about the same +period Lord Erskine printed, for private circulation, <i>An Appeal +in favour of the agricultural Services of Rooks</i>; a production +probably scarce now, but full of humanity, and very +characteristic.</p> +<p><i>Scarborough Warning.</i>—In a postscript to a letter +written from court on the 19th January, 1603, by Toby Matthew, +Bishop of Durham, to Hutton, Archbishop of York, I find the term +<i>Scarborough warning</i>. Can any of the correspondents of your +valuable paper inform me of the origin and prevalence of this +saying? The postscript is—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"When I was in the middest of this discourse, I received a +message from my lord chamberlaine, that it was his majesty's +pleasure that I should preach before him upon Sunday next; which +<i>Scarborough warning</i> did not perplex me, but so puzzled me, +as no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted, which otherwise I might +have better remembered."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Quoted in Caldwell's <i>Conferences</i>, p. 166.</p> +<p class="author">W.M.C.</p> +<p class="note">[NARES tells us, that Ray, on the authority of +Fuller, states that this saying took its origin from "Thomas +Stafford, who, in the reign of Mary, A.D. 1557, with a small +company, seized on Scarborough Castle (utterly destitute of +provision for resistance), before the townsmen had the least notice +of their approach;" but shows that it was probably much older, as, +in a ballad written by J. Heywood on the taking of that place by +Stafford, the following more probable origin is given to the +proverb:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"This term <i>Scarborow warning</i> grew (some say),</p> +<p class="i2">By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare.</p> +<p>Who that was met, but suspect in that way,</p> +<p class="i2">Straight he was trust up, whatever he were."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="note">This implies that Scarborough imitated the Halifax +gibbet law. Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or +exercised by the men of Scarborough? We should be glad to hear from +any local antiquary upon this point.]</p> +<p><i>Gray's Elegy.</i>—In answer to your correspondent, +J.F.M. (p. 101.), who asks for information respecting the +competition for the best translation of Gray's <i>Elegy</i>, in +which Dr. Sparke was a candidate, I would beg to refer him to the +satirical poem attributed to Mr. T.J. Matthias, formerly Fellow of +Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled <i>The Pursuits of +Literature</i>, in which a ludicrous account is given of the +affair. It does not appear who offered the prize, but Mr. Nares, +the editor of <i>The British Critic</i>, was the judge, and the +place of meeting "The Musical Room in <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page139" id="page139"></a>{139}</span> Hanover +Square," which was decorated for the occasion with appropriate +scenery—at least so says <i>The Critic</i>. He thus describes +the solemnity (p. 174 8th edit. 1798):—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Lo, learned clerks in sable stole,</p> +<p>Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal.</p> +<p>Old Norbury starts, and, with the <i>seventh-form</i> boys,</p> +<p>In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys,</p> +<p>With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew,</p> +<p>In dismal dance about the mournful yew.</p> +<p>But first in notes Sicilian placed on high,</p> +<p>Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony;</p> +<p>And in sad cadence, as the bands condense,</p> +<p>The curfew tolls the knell of <i>parting sense</i>."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being +apparently the "conqueror:"—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done,</p> +<p>To Weston, Taylor's Hymns and Alciphron,</p> +<p>And Rochester's Address to lemans loose;</p> +<p>To Tew, Parr's Sermon and the game of goose;</p> +<p>To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief</p> +<p>A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief</p> +<p>He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury's back</p> +<p>The Sunday suit of customary black.</p> +<p>The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look</p> +<p>Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, COOK."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">W. Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 17.</p> +<p><i>Coffee, the Lacedæmonian Black Broth.</i>—Your +correspondent "R.O." inquires what modern author suggests the +probability of coffee being the black broth of the +Lacedæmonians? The suggestion, I think, originated with +George Sandys, the translator of Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>. +Sandys travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first published +his <i>Notes</i> in 1615. The following is from the 6th edit. 1652, +p. 52.:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their +coffa-houses, which something resemble them. Their sit they, +chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of the +berry that it is made of), in little <i>China</i> dishes, as hot as +they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it +(why not that black broth which was in use among the +Lacedæmonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, and +procureth alacrity," &c.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Burton also (<i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>) describes it as "like +that black drink which was in use among the Lacedæmonians, +and perhaps the same."</p> +<p class="author">E.B. PRICE.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS.</h3> +<p>It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last +bondsman by blood—<i>nativus de sanguine</i>—who lived +in this country. The beginning of the seventeenth century is the +period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of +personal villenage. In the celebrated argument in the case of the +negro Somerset (<i>State Trials</i>, vol. xx. p. 41), an instance +as late as 1617-18 is cited as the latest in our law books. (See +Noy's <i>Reports</i>, p. 27.) It is probably the latest recorded +<i>claim</i>, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that +the supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man. I can supply +the names of three who were living near Brighton in the year 1617, +and whose thraldom does not appear to have been disputed. Norden, +from whose unpublished <i>Survey of certain Crown Manors</i> I have +extracted the following notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to +think that the times were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the +lord of the manor to put his rights in force.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"There are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor, +never known to be anie way mannumissed, namely, Thomas Goringe, +William and John Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, +William at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean. What goods +they have the Jurie know not. All poor men. Thomas hath the +reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye. But +mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; yet, were +they men of ability, they might be, upon some consideration, +infraunchized." (<i>Survey of the Manor of Falmer, Sussex</i>.)</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be +pointed out.</p> +<p class="author">E. SMIRKE.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.</h3> +<p>In Herbert's edition of Ames's <i>Typographical Antiquities</i>, +1785, vol. i. p. 492., is noticed <i>The Dore of Holy +Scripture</i>, 12mo., printed by John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. +494., a reprint of the same work is mentioned in 1540, by the same +printer, and a description of a copy given from one then in the +possession of Herbert himself. In the preface prefixed by the +printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste translatoure +of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end of the +work is this note:—"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor +Barons, Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As I am much interested in +the subject to which this publication refers, may I ask for +information on three points?—1. What evidence is there of +this edition of 1536, beyond the statement in Ames? 2. What has +become of the copy of the edition of 1540, formerly belonging to +Herbert? and, 3. Who are the persons who <i>peruse</i> and revise +the latter edition? There is not copy of either edition, as far as +I can trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, or at +Lambeth.</p> +<p>I may add to these queries the following remarks:—</p> +<p>1. Ames asserted that <i>The Dore of Holy Scripture</i> was +among the books prohibited to be read <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page140" id="page140"></a>{140}</span> by the +injunctions of Henry the Eighth, and refers, as his authority, to +Foxe's <i>Acts and Monument</i>, ed. 1562, p. 574. Herbert, in a +note, questions the fact, and raises a doubt as to the existence of +the passage in Foxe, since it is not in the edition of 1641. I +have, however, the first edition now before me of 1563 (<i>not</i> +1562), and at p. 574., among "the names of certen bokes whiche +after this injunction [namely, of 1539], or some other in the said +kinges dayes were prohybited," occurs, "Item, <i>the doore of holy +scripture</i>. made by Jhon. Gowghe."</p> +<p>2. This work was again printed by Crowley in 1550, 12mo., under +a different title, namely, <i>The Pathway to Perfect Knowledge</i>; +and in the preface, he falsely ascribes it to John Wycliffe, and +adds, "the original wherof is in an olde English Bible, betwixt the +Olde Testament and the Newe, which Bible remaineth now in the Kyng +his Majesties chamber." This Bible appears to be the identical +manuscript copy of the later Wycliffe version of the Scriptures, +now preserved in the University Library, Cambridge, and marked Mm +2. 15. A copy of Crowley's edition is in the British Museum, but +the orthography and language of the tract are modernised.</p> +<p class="author">F.M. B.M., Dec. 19.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>TURNER'S MS. HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER—CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD +THE CONFESSOR.</h3> +<p>On April 6. 1708, Henry Turner was elected, by the vestry, +organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the room of the famous +"Father Smith" (Bernard Schmidt). As regards his musical +capabilities, Hawkins does not assign him a niche in his <i>Temple +of Worthies</i>, although he names some of his predecessors and +successors in that office. One merit we must accord him, that of +true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters regarding "this +renowned city." "Great materials are said to have been collected +for a full description (of Westminster), by a parish-clerk of St. +Margaret's. I presume this is Henry Turner, mentioned in Widmore's +<i>Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster +Abbey</i>.... His book was only a survey of the city of +Westminster, purposely omitting the history of the (collegiate) +church."—Gough, <i>Brit. Top.</i> vol. i. p. 761. Lond. 1780. +"The man's natural parts were very good; he was also very diligent +in making enquiries relating to his subject, and he had collected a +great deal."—Widmore's <i>Acc. of Writers of the Hist. of +Westm. Abbey</i>, pp. 6, 7. Lond. 1751. As regards his personal +history, I alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a +transcript of a register: "Henry Turner, borne at Yearely, +Derbyshire, 12. July, 1679: married Eliz. Sabin, of Clement Danes, +in St. Margrts. Westmr. Feb. 26. 1701. by Dr. Onley."</p> +<p>In 1697 it was discovered that some valuable MS. records +belonging to the parish, and taken out of the Tower of London, had +been lost by their keeper. This history in its time appears to have +suffered the same fate. However, there is this entry in the +<i>Harleian MSS.</i> 7045. fol. 361.: "From the learned Dr. Kennet, +Dean of Peterborough's Collection. MSS. MS. H. On Aug. 2. 1708, at +Windsor, I read over the <i>History of the Parish of St. +Margaret's, Westminster</i>, drawn up in MS. by one of the parish +clerks." Some interesting extracts follow. Compare <i>Aysc. Add. +MSS. Brit. Mus.</i> 4163. fol. 5. Bishop Kennet resided in St. +James's Street, in this parish, and died there on Dec. 19. 1728. I +have applied in vain for any account of this MS. to the librarians +of Windsor Castle and Eton College.</p> +<p>Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? Are any +aware that this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? +There is an instance, as early as the fifteenth century, of the +union of the offices of lay-clerk and organist in St. Margaret's, +in the person of one Metyngham, and H. Turner also held them at the +same time; since, on July 28th, 1713, he was elected parish-clerk +by the vestry, in "consideration of the experience they had of +fitness and diligence in executing the office of deputy-clerk of +this parish for several years last past;" and he did not resign the +place of organist until 2nd October, 1718.</p> +<p>May I make another Query?—The gold chain and crucifix, +laid in the grave of K. Edward the Confessor, were removed by +Charles Taylor, and given into the hands of King James II. On the +reverse of the same cross was pictured a Benedictine monk, in his +habit, and on each side of him these capital Roman +letter,—</p> +<pre> +On the right limb thus: and on the left thus: + (A) P. + Z. A. X A. C. + A H. +</pre> +<p><i>Antiq. of St. Peter's</i>, vol. ii. App. n. iij, Ed. +1722.</p> +<p>What does the inscription mean? Is the former portion to be +understood "[Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? What is the import +of the latter?</p> +<p class="author">MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE TALISMAN OF CHARLEMAGNE.</h3> +<p>Many years back, "Prince" Louis Napoleon was stated to be in +possesion of the talisman of Charlemagne;—"a small nut, in a +gold filigree envelopment, found round the neck of that monarch on +the opening of his tomb, and given by the town of Aachen +(Aix-la-Chapelle) to Buonaparte, and by him to his favourite +Hortense, <i>ci-de-vant</i> Queen of Holland, at whose death it +descended to her son," the present President of the French +Republic.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page141" id= +"page141"></a>{141}</span> +<p>The Germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman. +It was framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors +of Aaroun-al-Raschid to the mighty Emperor of the West, at the +instance of his spouse Fastrada, with the virtue that her husband +should be always fascinated towards the person or thing on which it +was. The constant love of Charles to this his spouse was the +consequence; but, as it was not taken from her finger after death, +the affection of the emperor was continued unchanging to the +corpse, which he would on no account allow to be interred, even +when it became offensive. His confessor, having some knowledge of +the occult sciences, at last drew off the amulet from the inanimate +body, which was then permitted to be buried; but he retained +possession of it himself, and thence became Charles's chief +favourite and prime minister, till he had been promoted to the +highest ecclesiastical dignity, as Archbishop of Mainz and +Chancellor of the Empire. At this pitch of power, whether he +thought he could rise no higher, or scruples of conscience were +awakened by the hierarchical vow, he would hold the heathen charm +no longer, and he threw it into a lake not far from his +metropolitan seat, where the town of Ingethüm now stands. The +regard and affection of the monarch were immediately diverted from +the monk, and all men, to the country surrounding the lake; and he +determined on building there a magnificent palace for his constant +residence, and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial +residences, even to the distance of Ravenna, in Italy, to adorn it. +Here he subsequently resided and died: but it seems the charm had a +passive as well as an active power; his throes of death were long +and violent; and though dissolution seemed every moment impending, +still he lingered in ceaseless agony, till the Archbishop, who was +called to his bed-side to administer the last sacred rites, +perceiving the cause, caused the lake to be dragged, and, silently +restoring the talisman to the person of the dying monarch, his +struggling soul parted quietly away. The grave was opened by the +third Otto in 997, and possibly the town of Aachen may have been +thought the proper depository of the powerful drug, to be by them +surrendered to one who was believed by many, as he believed himself +to be, a second Charlemagne.</p> +<p>So much for the introduction to the following Queries:—1. +Can any of your readers say whether this amulet is still in +possession of the President of the French Republic? 2. If so, might +not the believers in the doctrines of Sympathy attribute the votes +of the six millions who, in Dec. 1848, voted in favour of his +election, to the sympathetic influence of his "nut in gold +filigree," and be justified in looking upon those who voted for his +rivals as no true Franks? It was originally concocted for a +Frankish monarch of pure blood, and may be supposed to exercise its +potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted lineage.</p> +<p class="author">WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>DICK SHORE—ISLE OF DOGS—KATHERINE PEGG.</h3> +<p>I entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent, Mr. +P. Cunningham, that Pepys's <i>Diary</i> is well deserving all the +illustrative light which may be reflected upon it from your useful +pages. In submitting the following Query, however, my object is to +glean a scrap of information on a point connected with the +neglected topography of the east end of London, taking Pepys for my +text. In the <i>Diary</i>, the entry for January 15th, 1660-61, +contains this passage:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the Dock and +the new west Dock which is newly made there, and a brave new +merchantman which is to launched shortly, and they say to be called +the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to <i>Dick Shoare</i>, and thence +to the Towre, and so home."—Vol. i. p. 178. new Ed.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of +the northern bank of the river, between Blackwall and the Tower, +was called <i>Dick Shore</i>. It is not marked on any of the old +maps of London I have been able to consult; but it was probably +beyond the most easterly point generally shown within their limits. +The modern maps present no trace of the locality in question.</p> +<p>The dock-yard visited by Pepys was long one of the most +considerable private ship-building establishments in England. For +may years it was conducted by Mr. Perry, and subsequently, under +the firm of Wigram and Green, the property having been purchased by +the late Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. The extensive premises are still +applied to the same use; but they have been divided to form two +distinct yards, conducted by separate firms.</p> +<p>The origin of the name (Isle of Dogs), given to the marshy tract +of land lying within the bold curve of the Thames between Blackwall +and Limehouse, is still undetermined. The common story is, that it +receives its name from the king's hounds having been kept there +during the residence of the royal family at Greenwich. This +tradition is wholly unsupported; nor is it very probable that the +king's hounds would be kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient +place, while they could be kept on the Kentish side of the river, +in the vicinity of Greenwich Castle, then occupying the site of the +present Observatory.</p> +<p>The denominations "isle" and "island" appear to have been +bestowed on many places not geographically entitled to them. The +Isle of Dogs, before the construction of the canal which now +crosses its isthmus, was in fact a peninsula. Pepys <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page142" id="page142"></a>{142}</span> spent a +night in the "isle of Doggs," as appears by his entry for July +24th, 1665, and again, on the 31st of the same month, he was +compelled to wait in the "unlucky Isle of Doggs, in a chill place, +the morning cool and wind fresh, above two if not three hours, to +his great discontent."</p> +<p>To the account of Katherine Pegg, given by your correspondents, +pp. 90, 91, may be added, that, besides Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl +of Plymouth, she had, by Charles II., a daughter, who died in her +infancy. Mrs. Pegg was one of the <i>three</i> wives of Sir Edward +Greene, of Sampford (not Samford), near Thaxted, Essex, created a +baronet 26th July, 1660 (within two months of the Restoration), to +whom she seems to have been not unfitly matched; for it is recorded +of him that, "by his extravagancy and love of gambling, he entirely +ruined his estate, and his large inheritance passed from his +family." He had issue two daughters, who married.—See Burke's +<i>Extinct Baronetage</i>.</p> +<p>I do not think that Katherine Pegg, whose son by the King was +born in 1657, was "the pretty woman newly come called Pegg," +saluted by Pepys, 7th May, 1668, as Mr. Cunningham surmises.</p> +<p class="author">J.T. HAMMACK.</p> +<p>December.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>The Strand Maypole.</i>—"E.F.R." inquires what was the +ultimate fate of the "tall Maypole" which "once o'erlooked the +Strand"? It was taken down about the year 1717, when it was found +to measure a hundred feet. It was obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, and +borne on a carriage, for timber, to Wanstead, in Essex, the seat of +the Earl of Tylney, where, under the direction of the Reverend Mr. +Pound Breton, it was placed in the Park, for the erection of a +telescope, the largest then in the world, presented by a French +gentleman to the Royal Society.</p> +<p><i>To Fettle.</i>—What is the derivation of the verb "to +fettle?" In the North it means to amend—to repair—to +put a thing, which is out of order, into such a state as to +effectuate, or to be effectual for, its original, or a given +purpose; <i>e.g.</i> a cart out of order is sent to the +wheelwright's to be fettled. It has been suggested that the word is +a verbalised corruption of the word "effectual." Bailey, in his +<i>Dictionary</i>, has designated it as a north country word: but +it is evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning; for he has +merely "to fettle <i>to</i>," and seems to have been ignorant of +the use of the word "fettle" as a verb active. To revert to my +former example of its use—An injured cart is fettled by the +wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the injured cart.</p> +<p class="author">L.C.R.</p> +<p><i>Greek Verse.</i>—Can any of your readers inform me who +is the author of the line—</p> +<p>"[Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d' athanatoisi]?"</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Dr. Dee's petition to James I.</i>—"E.F.R." states that +he has lately discovered, in the lining of an ancient trunk, two or +three curious broadsides, one of which purports to be Dr. Dee's +petition to James I., 1604, against the report raised against him, +namely, "That he is or hath bin a Conjurer and Caller, or Invocator +of Divels." He would be glad to know whether this curious broadside +has been printed in any memoir of Dr. Dee.</p> +<p><i>Vondel's Lucifer.</i>—"F." desires to be informed +whether the tragedy or dramatic poem <i>Lucifer</i>, of the Dutch +poet Vondel, which has been said to bear some analogy to +<i>Paradise Lost</i>, has ever been translated? and if not, why +not? The French writer, Alfred de Vigny, in <i>Stella</i>, calls +Vondel (Wundel in his spelling) "ce vieux Shakspeare de la +Hollande."</p> +<p><i>Discurs Modest.</i>—In Bishop Andrewes' <i>Reply</i> to +the <i>Apology</i> of Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, +1610, certain jesuits in prison are reported to have confessed, +<i>Rem transubstantiationis patres ne attigisse quidem</i>; as +authority for which is quoted <i>Discurs Modest</i>, p. 13. From +this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor, +<i>Real Presence</i>, sect. 12. § 16; <i>Dissuasive</i>, part +i. chap. 1. § 5, and part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin +on <i>Transubstantiation</i>, chap. 6. § 17. Can any of your +readers favour me with a clue to the <i>Modest Discourse</i>?</p> +<p class="author">A.T.</p> +<p><i>Ptolemy of Alexandria.</i>—"QUERY" wishes to be +informed what works of Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in +an English translation.</p> +<p><i>Vanbrugh's London Improvements.</i>—In the <i>London +Journal</i> of March 16th, 1722-23, there is the following +paragraph:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new +paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, +proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels in +the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and common +sewers under ground."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of +noblemen's and gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply +me with a reference to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the +general improvement of the metropolis?</p> +<p class="author">B.M.</p> +<p><i>Becket's Grace-Cup.</i>—The inscription round the neck +of this so-called cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. +of Mr. Scott's <i>Antiquarian Gleanings</i>, is thus printed by +him—GOD FERARE—: to which he adds, in explanation, +"probably the name of the goldsmith." <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page143" id="page143"></a>{143}</span> At the +foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given +thus—FERARE GOD—and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's +version, I had considered the former word as an accidental error of +the engraver, instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, +suiting the SOBRII ESTOTE round the lid.—As Mr. Nichols, in +his recent interesting work on <i>Pilgrimages to Walsingham and +Canterbury</i>, noticing the misnomer of the cup (p. 229, n.), +indicates its date to be of "the early part of the sixteenth +century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could +state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be +known.</p> +<p class="author">ALICUI.</p> +<p><i>Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book.</i>—I should be glad +to know if any of your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir +Henry Herbert's Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by +Malone, Chalmers, and Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the +Revels to King James the First, and the two succeeding kings, and +the said MS. contains an account of almost every piece exhibited at +any of the theatres from August, 1623, to the commencement of the +rebellion in 1641. Malone, in his <i>Historical Account of the +English Stage</i> (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), says, in a +note—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am +indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in +Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the +Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which +contained the manuscript <i>Memoirs of Lord Herbert of +Cherbury</i>, from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, +printed the life of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir +Henry Herbert."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In another place, Malone adds:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"This valuable manuscript, having lain for a considerable time +in a damp place, is unfortunately damaged, and in a very mouldering +condition; however, no material part of it appears to have +perished."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Such being the case, it becomes more than ever desirable that +this interesting volume should be sought after, and the +<i>whole</i> of its contents put on record before its total decay. +Surely, if its depositary is known, and accessible, it is well +worth the attention of the <i>Shakespeare Society</i>, or some +other learned body instituted for the preservation of documents of +this nature.</p> +<p>A biographical account of the various persons that have held the +appointment of "Master of the Revels," with such particulars of the +stage as would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable +<i>Prolegomena</i> to the publication of Sir Henry's Office-Book. +We have, it is true, much information upon this subject, but in a +very scattered form.</p> +<p>I have now before me a list of the "Masters of the Revells," +with the dates of their patents, which I beg to transcribe. It is +of more than ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir Henry +Herbert himself, and copied at the back of the worthy knight's +"Petition to Charles the Second against the Grant to Killegrew and +Davenant to form Two Companies of Players."</p> +<p>"<i>Masters of ye Revells</i>.</p> +<table summary="Masters of ye Revells" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">"Sir Richard Guilford</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Thomas Cawerden</td> +<td align="left">- [1544] 36 Henry VIII.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Thomas Beneger</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir John Fortescue</td> +<td align="left">- not on record.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Edmund Tilney, Esq.</td> +<td align="left">- July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir George Buck</td> +<td align="left">- June 23 [1603] I Jac.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir John Astley</td> +<td align="left">- [1612] 10 Jac. I.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Benjamin Johnson</td> +<td align="left">- [1617] 15 Jac. I.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Sir Henry Herbert, and Simon Thelwall, Esq.</td> +<td align="left">- Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I."</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES</h2> +<h3>WANTED TO PURCHASE</h3> +<p>(<i>In continuation of Lists in former Nos</i>.)</p> +<p>1. DR. BROOK TAYLOR'S PERSPECTIVE. 1st edit. 1715.</p> +<p>2. DR. AUSTIN'S CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF +EUCLID. (Date not known.)</p> +<p>3. DR. ABRAHAM ROBERTSON ON RATIO AND PROPORTION. Oxford. +1804.</p> +<p>4. LAWSON'S DISSERTATION ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE ANTIENTS. Edited +by Fryer, and printed in Bristol, 1809.—[The particular copy +wanted is interleaved with thick paper and MS. alterations by the +Editor. 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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. 9, Saturday, December 29, 1849 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: September 24, 2004 [EBook #13521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 9, *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team and The Internet Library of Early Journals, + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 9.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1849 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {129} + +CONTENTS + +Our Progress + +NOTES:-- + Sir E. Dering's Household Book, by Rev. Lambert B. Larking. 130 + Berkeley's Theory of Vision, by Rev. J.H. Todd. 131 + Bishop Barnaby. 131 + Mathematical Archaeology. 132 + Song in Style of Suckling, &c. 133 + Gothic Architecture. 134 + Dr. Burney's Musical Works, by E.F. Rimbault. 135 + Ancient Alms' Basins, by Dr. Bell. 135 + Minor Notes:--Prince Madoc--St. Barnabas--Register + of Cromwell's Baptism--The Times--Rowland + Monoux--Wassail Song--Portrait of Charles I.--Autograph + Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester + and Henry Duke of Buckingham. 136 + Notes in answer to Queries:--Lord Erksine's Brooms--Scarborough + Warning--Gray's Elegy--Coffee, the Lacedaemonian Black Broth. 138 + +QUERIES:-- + The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke. 139 + The Dore of Holy Scripture. 139 + Turner's MS. History of Westminster. 140 + Talisman of Charlemagne. 140 + Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c. 141 + Minor Queries:--The Strand Maypole--To Fettle--Greek + Verse--Dr. Dee's Petition--Vondel's Lucifer--Discurs + Modest--Ptolemy of Alexandria--Vanbrugh's + London Improvements--Becket's Grace-Cup--Sir + Herbert's Office-Book. 142 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 143 + Notices to Correspondents. 143 + Advertisements. 144 + + * * * * * + +OUR PROGRESS + +We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither our best +friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having failed in our +endeavours to supply by other means the increasing demand for complete +sets of our "NOTES AND QUERIES," we have been compelled to reprint the +first four numbers. + +It is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we record +the fact of a large impression of a work like the present not having +been sufficient to meet the demand,--a work devoted not to the +witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance, but to the +illustration of matters of graver import, such as obscure points of +national history, doubtful questions of literature and bibliography, the +discussion of questionable etymologies, and the elucidation of old world +customs and observances. + +What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with reference to archaeology, our +experience justifies us in applying to other literary inquiries:-- + + "On every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest + co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special + pursuits; and not only does this tend of itself to widen the + general basis, but it supplies the individual thinker with an + ever widening foundation for his own special study." + +And whence arises this "earnest co-operation?" Is it too much to hope +that it springs from an increased reverence for the Truth, from an +intenser craving after a knowledge of it--whether such Truth regards an +event on which a throne depended, or the etymology of some household +word now familiar only to + + "Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?" + +We feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our "NOTES AND QUERIES" +with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that + + "Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry + of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it--the + knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it--and the belief + of Truth, which is the enjoying of it--is the sovereign good of + human nature." + +We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have +flocked to our columns--that the sentiment has found its echo in the +breast of the public, and hence that success which has attended our +humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may well be pardoned if +we boast that we have had both hand and heart in it. {130} + +And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this happy +season, when + + "No spirit stirs abroad; + The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes, + No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, + So hallow'd and so gracious is the time," + +do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, with the +good old English wish, + +A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! + + * * * * * + +SIR E. DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK. + +The muniment chests of our old established families are seldom without +their quota of "household books." Goodly collections of these often turn +up, with records of the expenditure and the "doings" of the household, +through a period of two or more centuries. These documents are of +incalculable value in giving us a complete insight into the domestic +habits of our ancestors. Many a note is _there_, well calculated to +illustrate the pages of the dramatist or the biographer, and even the +accuracy of the historian's statements may often be tested by some of +the details which find their way into these accounts; as for the more +peculiar province of the antiquary, there is always a rich store of +materials. Every change of costume is _there_; the introduction of new +commodities, new luxuries, and new fashions, the varying prices of the +passing age. Dress in all its minute details, modes of travelling, +entertainments, public and private amusements, all, with their cost, are +there: and last, though not least, touches of individual character ever +and anon present themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable +truth. Follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife +and children, his household, his tenantry, nay, with himself, and you +have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able to +furnish. In this view, a man's "household book" becomes an impartial +autobiography. + +I would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might sometimes +be profitably reserved for "notes" from these household books; there can +be little doubt that your numerous readers would soon furnish you with +abundant contributions of most interesting matter. + +While suggesting the idea, there happens to lie open before me the +account-book of the first Sir Edward Dering, commencing with the day on +which he came of age, when, though his father was still living, he felt +himself an independent man. + +One of his first steps, however, was to qualify this independence by +marriage. If family tradition be correct, he was as heedless and +impetuous in this the first important step of his life, as he seems to +have been in his public career. The lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir +Nicholas Tufton, afterwards created Earl of Thanet. + +In almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the charges +of this marriage, the different dresses he provided, his wedding +presents, &c. As to his bride, the first pleasing intelligence which +greeted the young knight, after passing his pledge to take her for +"richer for poorer," was, that the latter alternative was his. Sir +Nicholas had jockied the youth out of the promised "trousseau," and +handed over his daughter to Sir Edward, with nothing but a few shillings +in her purse. She came unfurnished with even decent apparel, and her new +lord had to supply her forthwith with necessary clothing. In a +subsequent page, when he comes to detail the purchases which he was, in +consequence, obliged to make for his bride, he gives full vent to his +feelings on this niggardly conduct of the father, and, in recording the +costs of his own outfit, his very first words have a smack of bitterness +in them, which is somewhat ludicrous-- + + "Medio de donte leporum + Surgit amari aliquid." + +He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a gallant +bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly. + +"1619. + +"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas +unto New Year's Day. + +5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a + doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard, 4L. 4s. +5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, to + make hose cassocke and cloake [sic] 14L. +7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per yard, 9L. +22 ounces of blacke galloune lace 2L. 15s. +Taffaty to line the doublett 17s. +5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse 1L. 4s. +pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye + copell 8s. +ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and scarfe, 2L. 10s. +5 dozen of small buttons 1s. 8d. +Stickinge and sowing silke 14s. +ffor cuttinge ye scallops 2s. +holland to line the hose 5s. 6d. +Dutch bays for the hose 4s. 6d. +Pocketts to ye hose 10d. +2 dozen of checker riband pointes 12s. +drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake 5s. +canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett 3s. 6d. +ffor makinge ye doublett and hose 18s. +making ye copell 1L. 8s. +making ye cloake 9s. + +Sum of this suite 40L. 2s." + +I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these +extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, they shall +have, in some future number, the remainder of the bridegroom's wardrobe. +In whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord's arms, he, at +{131} least, was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young +gallant, an exquisite of the first water, for this was only one of +several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit; and then +follows a list of costly gloves and presents, and all the lavish outlay +of this his "desperate quarter." + +In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you shall be +furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from +this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as Clarendon depicts him, +the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of better fame than is yet been +his lot to acquire. + +He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He had his +foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of high and +enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary speeches has +elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them therefore now were +superfluous. The noble library which he formed at Surrenden, and the +invaluable collection of charters which he amassed there, during his +unhappily brief career, testify to his ardour in literary pursuits. The +library and a large part of the MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the +former, all that remains to tell of what it once was, are a few +scattered notices among the family records, and the titles of books, +with their cost, as they are entered in the weekly accounts of our +"household book." Of the latter there yet remain a few thousand charters +and rolls, some of them of great interest, with exquisite seals +attached. I shall be able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on +these heads, from the "household book," and, in contemplating the +remains of this unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the +sympathy of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the +lament which has often been mine--"Quanta fuisti cum tantae sint +reliquiae!" + +LAMBERT B. LARKING. + +Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED. + +In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg to say +that Bishop Berkeley's _Theory of Vision Vindicated_ does not occur +either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected works; but there is +a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, from which I +transcribe the full title as follows:-- + + "The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate + Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By + the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher. + + "Acts, xvii. 28. + + "_In Him we live, and move, and have our being_. + + "Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. + + "MDCCXXXIII." + +Some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his +collected works; but, as I am now answering "a _Query_," and not making +"a _Note_," I shall reserve what I might say of them for another +opportunity. The memory of Berkeley is dear to every member of this +University; and therefore I hope you will permit me to say one word, in +defence of his character, against Dugald Stewart's charge of having been +"provoked," by Lord Shaftesbury's _Characteristics_, "to a harshness +equally unwonted and unwarranted." + +Mr. Stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon which he +pronounces this most "unwarranted" criticism. The tract was not written +in reply to the _Characteristics_, but was an answer to an anonymous +letter published in the _Daily Post-Boy_ of September 9th, 1732, which +letter Berkeley has reprinted at the end of his pamphlet. The only +allusion to the writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of +severity occurs at the commencement of the tract. Those who will take +the trouble of perusing the anonymous letter, will see that it was +richly deserved; and I think it can scarcely, with any justice, be +censured as unbecomingly harsh, or in any degree unwarranted. The +passage is as follows:-- + + [After mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his + noticing this letter sooner, the author adds,] "This would have + altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either + personal or purely speculative, or from entering the lists of + the declaimers, whom I leave to the triumph of their own + passions. And indeed, to one of this character, who contradicts + himself and misrepresents me, what answer can be made more than + to desire his readers not to take his word for what I say, but + to use their own eyes, read, examine, and judge for themselves? + And to their common sense I appeal." + +The remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical discussion +of the subject of debate, in a style as cool and as free from harshness +as Dugald Stewart could desire, and containing, as far as I can see, +nothing inconsistent with the character of him, who was described by his +contemporaries as the possessor of "every virtue under heaven." + +JAMES H. TODD. + +Trin. Coll. Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849. + + * * * * * + +BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--Allow me, in addition to the Note inserted in your 4th +Number, in answer to the Query of LEGOUR, by your correspondent (and I +believe my friend) J.G., to give the following extract from Forby's +_Vocabulary of East Anglia_:-- + + "Bishop Barnabee-s. The pretty insect more generally called the + Lady-bird, or May-bug. It is one of those highly favoured among + God's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton + injury. Some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name + {132} of it. It has certainly no more relation to the companion + of St. Paul than to drunken Barnaby, though some have supposed + it has. It is sometimes called _Bishop Benebee_, which may + possibly have been intended to mean the _blessed bee_; sometimes + _Bishop Benetree_, of which it seems not possible to make any + thing. The name has most probably been derived from the + _Barn-Bishop_; whether in scorn of that silly and profane + mockery, or in pious commemoration of it, must depend on the + time of its adoption, before or since the Reformation; and it is + not worth inquiring. The two words are transposed, and _bee_ + annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a + connection than fly-bug or beetle. The dignified ecclesiastics + in ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their + habits. Bishops had scarlet and black, as this insect has on its + wing-covers. Some remains of the finery of the gravest + personages still exist on our academical robes of ceremony. + There is something inconsistent with the popish episcopal + character in the childish rhyme with which _Bishop Barnabee_ is + thrown up and dismissed when he happens to light on any one's + hand. Unluckily the words are not recollected, nor at present + recoverable; but the purport of them is to admonish him to fly + home, and take care of his wife and children, for that his house + in on fire. Perhaps, indeed, the rhyme has been fabricated long + since the name by some one who did not think of such niceties." + +G.A.C. + + +Sir,--In the explanation of the term Bishop Barnaby, given by J.G., the +prefix "Bishop" seems yet to need elucidation. Why should it not have +arisen from the insect's garb? The full dress gown of the Oxford +D.D.--scarlet with black velvet sleeves--might easily have suggested the +idea of naming the little insect "Dr. Burn bug," and the transition is +easy to "Dr. Burnabee," or "Bishop Burnaby." These little insects, in +the winter, congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber till +the reappearance of genial weather, and it is not impossible that, from +this circumstance, the country people may have designated them "Barn +bug," or "Barn bee." + +L.B.L. + + +Sir,--I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the seven-spotted, +_Coccinella Septempunctata_, is the most common) is called in some +places "Bishop Barnaby." This little insect is sometimes erroneously +accused of destroying turnips and peas in its larva state; but, in +truth, both in the larva and perfect state it feeds exclusively on +aphides. I do not know that it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that +burneth," may allude to something else; still there appears some popular +connection of the _Coccinellidae_ with _cows_ as well as burning, for in +the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called _Cush Cow Ladies_; and in +the North Riding one of the children's rhymes anent them runs:-- + + "Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame, + Thy[1] house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean, + And if thou means to save thy bairns + Take thy wings and flee away!" + +The most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow, believing +if they did evil would inevitably befall them. It is tenderly placed on +the palm of the hand--of a girl, if possible--and the above rhyme +recited thrice, during which it usually spreads its wings, and at the +last word flies away. A collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects +would, I think, be useful. + +W.G.M.J. BARKER. + +[Footnote 1: _Thy_ is pronounced as _thee_.] + + + [We have received many other communications respecting the + epithet of this insect--so great a favourite with children. + ALICUI and several other correspondents incline to L.B.L.'s + opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance of its + bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble. J.T. + reminds us that St. Barnabas has been distinguished of old by + the title of _bright_, as in the old proverbial distich intended + to mark the day of his festival according to the Old Style (21st + June):-- + + "Barnaby bright! + The longest day and the shortest night." + + While F.E. furnishes us with another and happier version of the + Norfolk popular rhyme:-- + + "Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, + Tell me when _my_ wedding be; + If it be to-morrow day, + Take your wings and fly away! + _Fly to the east, fly to the west_, + _Fly to them that I love best_!" + + The name which this pretty insect bears in the various languages + of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other cases, the + Virgin has supplanted Freya; so that _Freyjuhaena_ and + _Frouehenge_ have been changed into _Marienvoglein_, which + corresponds with _Our Lady's Bird_. There, can, therefore, be + little doubt that the esteem with which the lady-bird, or Our + Lady's cow, is still regarded, is a relic of the ancient cult.] + + * * * * * + +MATHEMATICAL ARCHAEOLOGY. + +Sir,--I cannot gather from your "Notes" that scientific archaeology is +included in your plan, nor yet, on the other hand, any indications of +its exclusion. Science, however, and especially mathematical science, +has its archaeology; and many doubtful points of great importance are +amongst the "vexed questions" that can only be cleared up by +_documentary evidence_. That evidence is more likely to be found mixed +up amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors than +amongst the papers of mere mathematicians--amongst men who never destroy +a paper because they have no present use for it, or because the subject +does not come within the range of their researches, than amongst men who +value nothing but a "new theorem" or "an improved solution." + +As a general rule I have always habituated myself to preserve every +scrap of paper of any remote (and indeed recent) period, that had the +appearance of being written by a literary man, whether I {133} knew the +hand, or understood the circumstance to which it referred, or not. Such +papers, whether we understand them or not, have a _possible value_ to +others; and indeed, as my collections have always been at the service of +my friends, very few indeed have been left in my hands, and those, +probably, of no material value. + +I wish this system were generally adopted. Papers, occasionally of great +historical importance, and very often of archaeological interest, would +thus be preserved, and, what is more, _used_, as they would thus +generally find their way into the right hands. + +There are, I fancy, few classes of papers that would be so little likely +to interest archaeologists in general, as those relating to mathematics; +and yet such are not unlikely to fall in their way, often and largely, +if they would take the trouble to secure them. I will give an example or +two, indicating the kind of papers which are desiderata to the +mathematical historian. + +1. A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the +restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing from +an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to near the +close of Simson's life. The missing letter, as is gathered from a +subsequent one, is Feb. 5. 1753. A mere letter of business from an +author to his publisher might not be thought of much interest; but it +need not be _here_ enforced how much of consistency and clearness is +often conferred upon a series of circumstances by matter which such a +letter might contain. This letter, too, contains a problem, the nature +of which it would be interesting to know. It would seem that the letter +passed into the hands of Dodson, editor of the _Mathematical +Repository_; but what became of Dodson's papers I could never discover. +The uses, however, to which such an unpromising series of letters have +been rendered subservient may be seen in the _Philosophical Magazine_, +under the title of "Geometry and Geometers," Nos. ii. iii. and iv. The +letters themselves are in the hands of Mr. Maynard, Earl's Court, +Leicester Square. + +2. Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one of the +scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to decide upon the +plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760. + + "It is probable," says Dr. Hutton, in his Life of Simpson, + prefixed to the _Select Exercises_, 1792, "that this reference + to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously + to this subject, so as to form the design of composing a regular + treatise upon it: for his family have often informed me that he + laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death, and + was very anxious to have completed it, frequently remarking to + them that this work, when published, would procure him more + credit than any of his former publications. But he lived not to + put the finishing hand to it. Whatever he wrote upon this + subject probably fell, together with all his other remaining + papers, into the hands of Major Henry Watson, of the Engineers, + in the service of the India Company, being in all a large chest + full of papers. This gentleman had been a pupil of Mr. + Simpson's, and had lodged in his house. After Mr. Simpson's + death Mr. Watson prevailed upon the widow to let him have the + papers, promising either to give her a sum of money for them, or + else to print and publish them for her benefit. But nothing of + the kind was ever done; this gentleman always declaring, when + urged on this point by myself and others, that no use could be + made of any of the papers, owing to the very imperfect state in + which he said they were left. _And yet he persisted in his + refusal to give them up again._" + +In 1780 Colonel Watson was recalled to India, and took out with him one +of the most remarkable English mathematicians of that day, Reuben +Burrow. This gentleman had been assistant to Dr. Maskelyne at the Royal +Observatory; and to his care was, in fact, committed the celebrated +Schehallien experiments and observations. He died in India, and, I +believe, all his papers which reached England, as well as several of his +letters, are in my possession. This, however, is no further of +consequence in the present matter, than to give authority to a remark I +am about to quote from one of his letters to his most intimate friend, +Isaac Dalby. In this he says:--"Colonel Watson has out here a work of +Simpson's on bridges, very _complete_ and _original_." + +It was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of Hutton, that so +unscrupulous a person as Colonel Watson is proved to be, was deterred +from publishing Simpson's work as his own. + +The desideratum here is, of course, to find what became of Colonel +Watson's papers; and then to ascertain whether this and what other +writings of Simpson's are amongst them. A _really good_ work on the +mathematical theory of bridges, if such is ever to exist, has yet to be +published. It is, at the same time, very likely that his great +originality, and his wonderful sagacity in all his investigations, would +not fail him in this; and possibly a better work on the subject was +composed ninety years ago than has yet seen the light--involving, +perhaps, the germs of a totally new and more effective method of +investigation. + +I have, I fear, already trespassed too far upon your space for a single +letter; and will, therefore, defer my notice of a few other desiderata +till a future day. + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, Dec. 15. 1849. + + * * * * * + +SONG IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING--THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. + +The song in your second number, furnished by a correspondent, and +considered to be in the style {134} of Suckling, is of a class common +enough in the time of Charles I. George Wither, rather than Suckling, I +consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to that age, as "Shall +I wasting in Despair" may be regarded as the type of this class of +poems. The present instance I do not think of very high merit, and +certainly not good enough for Suckling. Such as it is, however, with a +few unimportant variations, it may be found at page 101. of the 1st vol. +of _The Hive, a Collection of the most celebrated Songs_. My copy is the +2nd edit. London, 1724. + +I will, with your permission, take this opportunity of setting Mr. Dyce +right with regard to a passage in the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, in which he +is only less wrong than all his predecessors. It is to be found in the +second scene of the fourth act, and is as follows:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling: + Just such another wanton Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative "he" after +"Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after "afire." Mr. Dyce saw +that both these must be wrong, as a comparison between two wanton +Ganymedes, one of which sat in the coutenance of Arcite, could never +have been intended;--another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, +and he, therefore, has this note:--"The construction and meaning are, +'With just such another _smile_ (which is understood from the preceding +'smiling') wanton Ganymede set Jove afire." When there is a choice of +nouns to make intelligible sense, how can that one be understood which +is not expressed? It _might_ be "with just such another _Love_;" but, as +I shall shortly show, no conjecture on the subject is needed. The older +editors were so fond of mending passages, that they did not take +ordinary pains to understand them; and in this instance they have been +so successful in sticking the epithet "wanton" to Ganymede, that even +Mr. Dyce, with his clear sight, did not see that the very word he wanted +was the next word before him. It puts one in mind of a man looking for +his spectacles who has them already across his nose. "Wanton" is a noun +as well as an adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an +epithet applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place +after it a _comma_, when the passage will read thus:-- + + "Here Love himself sits smiling. + Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) "Ganymede + Set Jove afire with," &c. + +The third act of the same play commences thus:-- + + "The duke has lost Hippolita; each took + A several land." + +Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of +lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not understood now, +we must fall back on the general sense of the passage. When people go a +hunting, and don't keep together, it is very probable that they may take +a several "direction." Now _hand_ means "direction," as we say "to the +right" or "left hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should +read "a several hand?" + +SAMUEL HICKSON + + * * * * * + +"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE + +It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, to +explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of the +introduction of the term '_Gothic_,' as applied to pointed styles of +ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of Winchester, in +your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the term was used at +first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to +imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival +of classical literature. But, without citing many authorities, such as +Christopher Wren, and others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old +mediaeval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing +that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the +celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled _The Elements of +Architecture_, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This work was +so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed to the works +of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's _Parallel of the Ancient +Architecture with the Modern_. Dufresnoy, also, who divided his time +between poetry and painting, and whose work on the latter art was +rendered popular in this country by Dryden's translation, uses the term +"_Gothique_" in a bad sense. But it was a strange misapplication of the +term to use it for the pointed style, in contradistinction to the +circular, formerly called Saxon, now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These +latter styles, like Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course +belong more to the Gothic period than the light and elegant structures +of the pointed order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author +of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two +distinct kinds--the _massive_ and the _light_; and as the latter +superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally +applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the +latter only. As there is now, happily, no fear of the word being +understood in a bad sense, there seems to be no longer any objection to +the use of it in a good one, whatever terms may be used to discriminate +all the varieties of the style observable either at home or abroad. + +J.I. + +Trinity College, Oxford. + + * * * * * {135} + +DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS. + +Mr. Editor,--On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is made for +Burney's _Treatise on Music_ (not his _History_). Before correspondents +trouble you with their wants, I think they should be certain that the +books they inquire for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or +wrote, a _Treatise on Music_. His only works on the subject (the +_General History of Music_ excepted) are the following:-- + + "The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771. + + "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and + United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775. + + "An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, + and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. 1785. + + "A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d." + +As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of reference, +strict accuracy on all points is the grand desideratum. + +EDW. F. RIMBAULT. + +P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the _Life of +Metastasio_, which, although not generally classed among musical works, +forms an admirable supplement to the _General History of Music_. + +E.F.R. + + * * * * * + +ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES. + +Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the dishes +and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., &c., pp. 44. 73. +87., are likely to cause as much speculation here as they have some time +experienced on the continent. They were there principally figured and +discussed in the _Curiositaten_, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted +from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of Goethe, librarian +to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, Judge of the +Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbuettel, first noticed them from a +specimen belonging to the church of a suppressed convent at Sterterheim +near Brunswick, and they were subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. +Hammer (now v. Purgstall), the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of +the principal proofs which he adduced in his _Mysterium Baphometis +Revelatum_ in one of the numbers of the _Fundgruben (Mines) des +Orients_, for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, +and others, falsely attributed to the Templars. Comments upon these +dishes occur in other works of a recent period, but having left my +portfolio, concerning them, with other papers, on the continent, I give +these hasty notices entirely from memory. They are by no means uncommon +now in England, as the notices of your correspondents prove. A paper on +three varieties of them at Hull was read in 1829, to the Hull Literary +and Philosophical Society. In Nash's _Worcestershire_ one is depicted +full size, and a reduced copy given about this period in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_, and Nash first calls them "Offertory Dishes." +The Germans call them Taufbecken, or baptismal basins; but I believe the +English denomination more correct, as I have a distinct recollection of +seeing, in a Catholic convent at Danzig, a similar one placed on Good +Friday before the tomb of the interred image of the Saviour, for the +oblations for which it was not too large. Another of them is kept upon +the altar of Boroughbridge Church (N. Riding of Yorkshire), but sadly +worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright, and the attempt at a copy of +the Inscription in a Harrowgate Guide is felicitously ludicrous: it is +there taken as a relic of the Roman Isurium on the same spot. Three +others were observed some years ago in a neglected nook of the sacristy +of York Cathedral. At the last meeting of the Institute at Salisbury, a +number of these were exhibited in St. John's House there, but I believe +without any notice taken of them in its Proceedings; and another was +shown to the Archaeological Society, at their last Chester Congress, by +Colonel Biddulph, at Chirk Castle; when more were mentioned by the +visitors as in their possession, anxious as your correspondents to know +the import of the inscriptions. They are sometimes seen exposed in the +shops of Wardour Street, and in other curiosity shops of the metropolis. + +On their sunken centres all have religious types: the most common is the +temptation of Eve; the next in frequency, the Annunciation; the Spies +sent by Joshua returning with an immense bunch of grapes suspended +betwixt them, is not unfrequent; but non-scriptural subjects, as the +Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, mentioned by L.S.B., is a variety I have not +before observed. + +The inscriptions vary, and are sometimes double in two concentral rings. +The most usual is that alluded to by your correspondents, and though +obviously German, neither old nor obsolete; having been viewed even by +native decipherers, through the mist of a preconceived hypothesis, have +never yet been by them satisfactorily accounted for. It is always +repeated four times, evidently from the same slightly curved die; when, +however, the enlarged circumference of the circle required more than +this fourfold repetition to go round it, the die was set on again for as +much of a fifth impression as was necessary: this was seldom more than +four or five letters, which, as pleonastic or intercalary, are to be +carefully rejected in reading the rest; their introduction has confused +many expositors. + +The readings of some of your correspondents who understand German is +pretty near the truth. {136} I have before said that the centre type of +Eve's Temptation is the most common, and to it the words especially +refer, and seem at the place of their manufacture (most probably +Nuremburg) to have been used for other centres without any regard to its +fitness. The letters, as I can safely aver from some very perfect +specimens, are + + DER SELEN INFRID WART; + +in modern German "_der Seelen Infried wort_." To the German scholar the +two latter words only require explanation. _Infrid_ for Unfried, +discord, disturbance, any thing in opposition to Frieden or peace. The +Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, and Hexham, still bear the old theotise +stamp. _Wart_, or _ward_, may be either the past tense of _werden_, to +be (our was), or an old form of _waehren_, to endure, to last: our +English _wear_ is the same word. The sense is pretty much the same in +both readings alluding to Eve. In the first: + + (By her) the soul's disturbance came (was). + +By the second: + + (Through her) the soul's disturbance continues. + +I may here observe that the words ICH WART are particularly distinct on +a helmet, pictured in the Journal of the British Archaeological +Association, which the Secretary, Mr. Planche, in such matters the +highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. It may there have been +in the original ICH WARTE, meaning I bide (my time). + +But the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty. A second, +frequently met with, is by far more puzzling. I could not give your +readers any idea of it without a drawing: however it is found +imperfectly depicted on the plates I have before mentioned in Nash's +_Worcestershire_, and the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and I think I +recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of Hearne's _Miscellaneous +Works_, which I examined in the Gottingen Library, but whether belonging +to the work or a MS. addition I cannot now call to mind. The fanciful +and flowery form of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in +assigning them their particular position in the alphabet, and the +difficulty of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of German +archaeologists whether they are initials or component parts of a +sentence. Herr Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, however, in his version +RECORD DE SCI GNSI, or in full _Recordamini de sancta Gnosi_, deduces +thence his principal proof of Gnostic heresy amongst the calumniated +Templars, in which I am sorry to say he has been too servilely followed +in England: e.g. by Mr. Godfrey Higgins, in his posthumous _Anaclypsis_ +(p. 830 note), as well as by E.G. Addison, _The Temple Church_ (p. 57), +and by Mr. R.W. Billings more especially, who tacks to his account of +this building an "Essay on the symbolical Evidences of the Temple +Church, where the Templars are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged by +Edward Clarkson, Esq." Had the learnedly hypothetic Austrian seen the +engravings of the Crypt at Canterbury Cathedral (_Archaeologia_, viii. p. +74.), and Ledwick's remarks on it in conjunction with the carvings at +Glendalloch (_History of Ireland_, p. 174.), or those of Grymbald's +Crypt at Oxford, he might have been expected to have attributed their +monstrosities to his order, with as little hesitation and as thorough a +contempt of chronology, or proved connection, as he has the curious and +innocent sculptures of the church at Schoengrabern in Bohemia (vide +_Curiositaeten_, vol. viii. p. 501.). + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES. + +_Prince Modoc._--At p. 57., "ANGLO-CAMBRIAN" refers to the report of the +Proceedings of the British Association at Swansea, in Aug. 1848, +extracted from the _Athenaeum_ newspaper. In the course of a discussion +which took place on Prof. Elton's address, it was observed (if I +recollect rightly) by the learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the +so-called Welsh-Indian dialect has been formed, and that it contains _no +trace_ of any Celtic root. + +J.M.T. +December 10. 1849. + + +_St. Barnabas._--About the time of the Reformation, it was strongly +debated whether the festival days of St. Paul and St. Barnabas should be +admitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book of K. Edward, the +conversion of St. Paul is put down in _black_, and St. Barnabas is +_omitted altogether_! No wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, liberties +were taken with the name of St. Barnabas, and it was transferred to +doggerel rhyme, to be repeated by children. + +J.I. + + +_Register of Cromwell's Baptism._--The communication of your +correspondent C.W.G. at p. 103. of your last number, induces me to offer +you the inclosed copy from the _Register_ of All Saints' Church, +Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of Oliver Cromwell:-- + + "Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Cromwell generosi et + Elisabethae huxoris ejus Natus vicesimo quinto die Aprilis et + Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis." + +Then follow the words "England's plague for many years," written in a +different hand. + +R.O. + + +_The Times._--A correspondent (NASO) informs us of the following fact in +the history of this widely circulated and influential journal; namely, +that it is stated in that the paper of the 12th of March, 1788, that it +was printed "Logographically!" We wish our correspondent had furnished +us with the precise words of this very curious statement. {137} + + +_Roland Monoux._--I have in my possession a brass monumental plate, +said to have been taken from some church in Middlesex, and bearing +the following lines, engraved in _black letter_:-- + + "Behold what droupinge Dethe maye doe, consume + y'e corse to duste, + What Dethe maie not shall lyue for aye, in spite of + Dethe his luste; + Thoughe Rouland Monoux shrowdeth here, yet + Rouland Monoux lives, + His helpynge hand to nedys want, a fame for ever + geves; + Hys worde and dede was ever one, his credyth never + quaylde, + His zeall' to Christ was stronge, tyll' dethe w'th latest + panges asaylde. + Twyse thre and one he Children had, two sones, one + kepes his name, + And dowghters fyve for home he carde, y't lyve in + honest fame. + What booteth more, as he be kynde dyd come of + Jentyll race, + So Rouland Monoux good Desertes this grave can + not Deface." + +I should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of this +Rouland Monoux, and when he died. I may also add; that I should be very +willing to restore the brass to its original site, did I know the spot +from whence it has been sacrilegiously torn. + +M. + + +_Wessel Cup Hymn._--The following Wassail Song is taken from a little +chap-book printed at Manchester, called _A Selection of Christmas +Hymns_. it is obviously a corrupted version of a much older song:-- + + "Here we come a wesseling, + Among the leaves so green, + Here we come a wandering, + So fair to be seen. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel too, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + "Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley. + + "We are not daily beggars, + That beg from door to door, + But we are neighbours' children, + Whom you have seen before. + + "Call up the butler of this house, + Put on his golden ring, + Let him bring us up a glass of beer, + And the better we shall sing. + + "We have got a little purse, + Made of stretching leather skin, + We want a little of your money, + To line it well within. + + "Bring us out a table, + And spread it with a cloth, + Bring us out a mouldy cheese, + And some of your Christmas loaf. + + "God bless the master of this house, + Likewise the mistress too, + And all the little children, + That round the table go. + + "Good master and mistress, + While you'r sitting by the fire, + Pray think of us poor children, + Who are wand'ring in the mire. + + "_Cho._--Love and joy come to you, + And to your wessel to, + And God send you a happy new year, + A new year, + And God send you a happy new year. + + Our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree, + So is your beer of the best barley." + +It is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved. Its +insertion will at least have that effect, and may be the means of our +discovering an earlier and purer text. + +AMBROSE MERTON. + + +_Portrait of Charles I._--In Sir Henry Ellis's _Original Letters_, 2d +series, vol. iii. p. 254., amongst the prefatory matter to the reign of +Charles I., there is a notice of a sermon, entitled "The Subject's +Sorrow, or Lamentations upon the Death of Britaine's Josiah, King +Charles." + +Sir Henry Ellis says it is expressly stated, in this Sermon, that the +King himself desired "that unto his Golden Manual might be prefixed his +representation, kneeling; contemning a temporal crown, holding our +blessed Saviour's crown of thorns, and aspiring unto an eternal crown of +happiness." + +Note _b_. upon this passage is as follows:-- + + "This very portrait of King Charles the First, engraved by + Marshall, adorned the original edition of the [Greek: Eikon + Basilikae]. 8vo. 1648. _The same portrait, as large as life, in + oil painting, was afterwards put up in many of our churches._" + +When I was a boy, such a portrait, in oil painting, hung upon the south +wall of the body of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, between the pulpit +and a small door to the west, leading into the south aisle. + +Out of the window of the chamber in which the King was kneeling was +represented a storm at sea, and the ship being driven by it upon some +rocks. + +A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to St. +Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so familiar to me +in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken down, and was in the +vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, on the floor against the +wall. {138} + +You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly +destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is established +to arrange its restoration. + +Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the +fate of this picture? + +R.O. + +Dec. 17. 1849. + +P.S.--I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of the frame of +the picture a board, on which was painted, in conformably large +letters-- + + "LORD, remember David and all his trouble." + + _Psalm_ cxxxii. 1. + +The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine. + + +_Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of +Buckingham._--In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. marked Vespasian F. +XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, upon which is written by the +hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the +following couplet:-- + + "Loyaulte me lie + Richard Gloucestre + + "Souente me souene + Harre Bokingh'a'm." + +A fac-simile is engraved in _Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and +Remarkable Personages in English History_, engraved by C.J. Smith, and +edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., where the editor suggests +that this slip of parchment was "perhaps a deceitful toy," or it may +have been attached to some present offered by the Duke of Gloucester to +his royal nephew Edward the Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is +perfectly free from misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the +crown, which he soon so flagrantly outraged--"Loyalty binds me." In the +work above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these +words, in modern French:--"Souvent me souviens." This does not appear to +me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the opinions of such as +are conversant with old manuscripts, whether the true meaning, or even +the true reading, of the Duke of Buckingham's motto has as yet been +ascertained? + +H. + + * * * * * + +NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES. + +_Lord Erskine's Brooms._--"G.B." informs us, that the anecdote about +Lord Erskine's brooms, and the apprehension of his servant for selling +them without a licence, will be found in his Life by Lord Campbell +(_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. vi. p. 618.). Erskine himself attended +the sessions to plead the man's cause, and contended that the brooms +were agricultural produce, or, as he jocosely observed, "came under the +_sweeping_ clause." The _when_ is about 1807, and the _where_ an estate +in Sussex, which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its owner, +as it produced nothing but birch trees, and those but stunted ones. To +which information "W.J." adds, that about the same period Lord Erskine +printed, for private circulation, _An Appeal in favour of the +agricultural Services of Rooks_; a production probably scarce now, but +full of humanity, and very characteristic. + +_Scarborough Warning._--In a postscript to a letter written from court +on the 19th January, 1603, by Toby Matthew, Bishop of Durham, to Hutton, +Archbishop of York, I find the term _Scarborough warning_. Can any of +the correspondents of your valuable paper inform me of the origin and +prevalence of this saying? The postscript is-- + + "When I was in the middest of this discourse, I received a + message from my lord chamberlaine, that it was his majesty's + pleasure that I should preach before him upon Sunday next; which + _Scarborough warning_ did not perplex me, but so puzzled me, as + no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted, which otherwise I might + have better remembered." + +Quoted in Caldwell's _Conferences_, p. 166. + +W.M.C. + + + [NARES tells us, that Ray, on the authority of Fuller, states + that this saying took its origin from "Thomas Stafford, who, in + the reign of Mary, A.D. 1557, with a small company, seized on + Scarborough Castle (utterly destitute of provision for + resistance), before the townsmen had the least notice of their + approach;" but shows that it was probably much older, as, in a + ballad written by J. Heywood on the taking of that place by + Stafford, the following more probable origin is given to the + proverb:-- + + "This term _Scarborow warning_ grew (some say), + By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare. + Who that was met, but suspect in that way, + Straight he was trust up, whatever he were." + + This implies that Scarborough imitated the Halifax gibbet law. + Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or + exercised by the men of Scarborough? We should be glad to hear + from any local antiquary upon this point.] + + +_Gray's Elegy._--In answer to your correspondent, J.F.M. (p. 101.), who +asks for information respecting the competition for the best translation +of Gray's _Elegy_, in which Dr. Sparke was a candidate, I would beg to +refer him to the satirical poem attributed to Mr. T.J. Matthias, +formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled _The Pursuits of +Literature_, in which a ludicrous account is given of the affair. It +does not appear who offered the prize, but Mr. Nares, the editor of _The +British Critic_, was the judge, and the place of meeting "The Musical +Room in {139} Hanover Square," which was decorated for the occasion with +appropriate scenery--at least so says _The Critic_. He thus describes +the solemnity (p. 174 8th edit. 1798):-- + + "Lo, learned clerks in sable stole, + Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal. + Old Norbury starts, and, with the _seventh-form_ boys, + In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys, + With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew, + In dismal dance about the mournful yew. + But first in notes Sicilian placed on high, + Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony; + And in sad cadence, as the bands condense, + The curfew tolls the knell of _parting sense_." + +The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being +apparently the "conqueror:"-- + + "Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done, + To Weston, Taylor's Hymns and Alciphron, + And Rochester's Address to lemans loose; + To Tew, Parr's Sermon and the game of goose; + To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief + A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief + He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury's back + The Sunday suit of customary black. + The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look + Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, COOK." + +W. +Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 17. + + +_Coffee, the Lacedaemonian Black Broth._--Your correspondent "R.O." +inquires what modern author suggests the probability of coffee being the +black broth of the Lacedaemonians? The suggestion, I think, originated +with George Sandys, the translator of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. Sandys +travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first published his _Notes_ +in 1615. The following is from the 6th edit. 1652, p. 52.:-- + + "Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their + coffa-houses, which something resemble them. Their sit they, + chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of + the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot + as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much + unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the + Lacedaemonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, and + procureth alacrity," &c. + +Burton also (_Anatomy of Melancholy_) describes it as "like that black +drink which was in use among the Lacedaemonians, and perhaps the same." + +E.B. PRICE. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS. + +It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last bondsman +by blood--_nativus de sanguine_--who lived in this country. The +beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to +as the date of the extinction of personal villenage. In the celebrated +argument in the case of the negro Somerset (_State Trials_, vol. xx. p. +41), an instance as late as 1617-18 is cited as the latest in our law +books. (See Noy's _Reports_, p. 27.) It is probably the latest recorded +_claim_, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that the +supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man. I can supply the names +of three who were living near Brighton in the year 1617, and whose +thraldom does not appear to have been disputed. Norden, from whose +unpublished _Survey of certain Crown Manors_ I have extracted the +following notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to think that the times +were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the lord of the manor to put +his rights in force. + + "There are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor, + never known to be anie way mannumissed, namely, Thomas Goringe, + William and John Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, + William at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean. What + goods they have the Jurie know not. All poor men. Thomas hath + the reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye. + But mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; + yet, were they men of ability, they might be, upon some + consideration, infraunchized." (_Survey of the Manor of Falmer, + Sussex_.) + +I shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be pointed +out. + +E. SMIRKE. + + * * * * * + +THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. + +In Herbert's edition of Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_, 1785, vol. +i. p. 492., is noticed _The Dore of Holy Scripture_, 12mo., printed by +John Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. 494., a reprint of the same work is +mentioned in 1540, by the same printer, and a description of a copy +given from one then in the possession of Herbert himself. In the preface +prefixed by the printer, he calls the work "the prologue of the fyrste +translatoure of the byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;" and at the end +of the work is this note:--"Perused by doctor Taylor and doctor Barons, +Master Ceton and Master Tornor." As I am much interested in the subject +to which this publication refers, may I ask for information on three +points?--1. What evidence is there of this edition of 1536, beyond the +statement in Ames? 2. What has become of the copy of the edition of +1540, formerly belonging to Herbert? and, 3. Who are the persons who +_peruse_ and revise the latter edition? There is not copy of either +edition, as far as I can trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, +or at Lambeth. + +I may add to these queries the following remarks:-- + +1. Ames asserted that _The Dore of Holy Scripture_ was among the books +prohibited to be read {140} by the injunctions of Henry the Eighth, and +refers, as his authority, to Foxe's _Acts and Monument_, ed. 1562, p. +574. Herbert, in a note, questions the fact, and raises a doubt as to +the existence of the passage in Foxe, since it is not in the edition of +1641. I have, however, the first edition now before me of 1563 (_not_ +1562), and at p. 574., among "the names of certen bokes whiche after +this injunction [namely, of 1539], or some other in the said kinges +dayes were prohybited," occurs, "Item, _the doore of holy scripture_. +made by Jhon. Gowghe." + +2. This work was again printed by Crowley in 1550, 12mo., under a +different title, namely, _The Pathway to Perfect Knowledge_; and in the +preface, he falsely ascribes it to John Wycliffe, and adds, "the +original wherof is in an olde English Bible, betwixt the Olde Testament +and the Newe, which Bible remaineth now in the Kyng his Majesties +chamber." This Bible appears to be the identical manuscript copy of the +later Wycliffe version of the Scriptures, now preserved in the +University Library, Cambridge, and marked Mm 2. 15. A copy of Crowley's +edition is in the British Museum, but the orthography and language of +the tract are modernised. + +F.M. +B.M., Dec. 19. + + * * * * * + +TURNER'S MS. HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER--CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. + +On April 6. 1708, Henry Turner was elected, by the vestry, organist of +St. Margaret's, Westminster, in the room of the famous "Father Smith" +(Bernard Schmidt). As regards his musical capabilities, Hawkins does not +assign him a niche in his _Temple of Worthies_, although he names some +of his predecessors and successors in that office. One merit we must +accord him, that of true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters +regarding "this renowned city." "Great materials are said to have been +collected for a full description (of Westminster), by a parish-clerk of +St. Margaret's. I presume this is Henry Turner, mentioned in Widmore's +_Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster Abbey_.... His +book was only a survey of the city of Westminster, purposely omitting +the history of the (collegiate) church."--Gough, _Brit. Top._ vol. i. p. +761. Lond. 1780. "The man's natural parts were very good; he was also +very diligent in making enquiries relating to his subject, and he had +collected a great deal."--Widmore's _Acc. of Writers of the Hist. of +Westm. Abbey_, pp. 6, 7. Lond. 1751. As regards his personal history, I +alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a transcript of a +register: "Henry Turner, borne at Yearely, Derbyshire, 12. July, 1679: +married Eliz. Sabin, of Clement Danes, in St. Margrts. Westmr. Feb. 26. +1701. by Dr. Onley." + +In 1697 it was discovered that some valuable MS. records belonging to +the parish, and taken out of the Tower of London, had been lost by their +keeper. This history in its time appears to have suffered the same fate. +However, there is this entry in the _Harleian MSS._ 7045. fol. 361.: +"From the learned Dr. Kennet, Dean of Peterborough's Collection. MSS. +MS. H. On Aug. 2. 1708, at Windsor, I read over the _History of the +Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster_, drawn up in MS. by one of the +parish clerks." Some interesting extracts follow. Compare _Aysc. Add. +MSS. Brit. Mus._ 4163. fol. 5. Bishop Kennet resided in St. James's +Street, in this parish, and died there on Dec. 19. 1728. I have applied +in vain for any account of this MS. to the librarians of Windsor Castle +and Eton College. + +Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? Are any aware that +this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? There is an +instance, as early as the fifteenth century, of the union of the offices +of lay-clerk and organist in St. Margaret's, in the person of one +Metyngham, and H. Turner also held them at the same time; since, on July +28th, 1713, he was elected parish-clerk by the vestry, in "consideration +of the experience they had of fitness and diligence in executing the +office of deputy-clerk of this parish for several years last past;" and +he did not resign the place of organist until 2nd October, 1718. + +May I make another Query?--The gold chain and crucifix, laid in the +grave of K. Edward the Confessor, were removed by Charles Taylor, and +given into the hands of King James II. On the reverse of the same cross +was pictured a Benedictine monk, in his habit, and on each side of him +these capital Roman letter,-- + +On the right limb thus: and on the left thus: + (A) P. + Z. A. X A. C. + A H. + +_Antiq. of St. Peter's_, vol. ii. App. n. iij, Ed. 1722. + +What does the inscription mean? Is the former portion to be understood +"[Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? What is the import of the latter? + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + + * * * * * + +THE TALISMAN OF CHARLEMAGNE. + +Many years back, "Prince" Louis Napoleon was stated to be in possesion +of the talisman of Charlemagne;--"a small nut, in a gold filigree +envelopment, found round the neck of that monarch on the opening of his +tomb, and given by the town of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) to Buonaparte, +and by him to his favourite Hortense, _ci-de-vant_ Queen of Holland, at +whose death it descended to her son," the present President of the +French Republic. {141} + +The Germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman. It was +framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors of +Aaroun-al-Raschid to the mighty Emperor of the West, at the instance of +his spouse Fastrada, with the virtue that her husband should be always +fascinated towards the person or thing on which it was. The constant +love of Charles to this his spouse was the consequence; but, as it was +not taken from her finger after death, the affection of the emperor was +continued unchanging to the corpse, which he would on no account allow +to be interred, even when it became offensive. His confessor, having +some knowledge of the occult sciences, at last drew off the amulet from +the inanimate body, which was then permitted to be buried; but he +retained possession of it himself, and thence became Charles's chief +favourite and prime minister, till he had been promoted to the highest +ecclesiastical dignity, as Archbishop of Mainz and Chancellor of the +Empire. At this pitch of power, whether he thought he could rise no +higher, or scruples of conscience were awakened by the hierarchical vow, +he would hold the heathen charm no longer, and he threw it into a lake +not far from his metropolitan seat, where the town of Ingethuem now +stands. The regard and affection of the monarch were immediately +diverted from the monk, and all men, to the country surrounding the +lake; and he determined on building there a magnificent palace for his +constant residence, and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial +residences, even to the distance of Ravenna, in Italy, to adorn it. Here +he subsequently resided and died: but it seems the charm had a passive +as well as an active power; his throes of death were long and violent; +and though dissolution seemed every moment impending, still he lingered +in ceaseless agony, till the Archbishop, who was called to his bed-side +to administer the last sacred rites, perceiving the cause, caused the +lake to be dragged, and, silently restoring the talisman to the person +of the dying monarch, his struggling soul parted quietly away. The grave +was opened by the third Otto in 997, and possibly the town of Aachen may +have been thought the proper depository of the powerful drug, to be by +them surrendered to one who was believed by many, as he believed himself +to be, a second Charlemagne. + +So much for the introduction to the following Queries:--1. Can any of +your readers say whether this amulet is still in possession of the +President of the French Republic? 2. If so, might not the believers in +the doctrines of Sympathy attribute the votes of the six millions who, +in Dec. 1848, voted in favour of his election, to the sympathetic +influence of his "nut in gold filigree," and be justified in looking +upon those who voted for his rivals as no true Franks? It was originally +concocted for a Frankish monarch of pure blood, and may be supposed to +exercise its potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted +lineage. + +WILLIAM BELL, Phil. Dr. + + * * * * * + +DICK SHORE--ISLE OF DOGS--KATHERINE PEGG. + +I entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent, Mr. P. +Cunningham, that Pepys's _Diary_ is well deserving all the illustrative +light which may be reflected upon it from your useful pages. In +submitting the following Query, however, my object is to glean a scrap +of information on a point connected with the neglected topography of the +east end of London, taking Pepys for my text. In the _Diary_, the entry +for January 15th, 1660-61, contains this passage:-- + + "We took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the Dock and + the new west Dock which is newly made there, and a brave new + merchantman which is to launched shortly, and they say to be + called the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to _Dick Shoare_, and + thence to the Towre, and so home."--Vol. i. p. 178. new Ed. + +I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of the +northern bank of the river, between Blackwall and the Tower, was called +_Dick Shore_. It is not marked on any of the old maps of London I have +been able to consult; but it was probably beyond the most easterly point +generally shown within their limits. The modern maps present no trace of +the locality in question. + +The dock-yard visited by Pepys was long one of the most considerable +private ship-building establishments in England. For may years it was +conducted by Mr. Perry, and subsequently, under the firm of Wigram and +Green, the property having been purchased by the late Sir Robert Wigram, +Bart. The extensive premises are still applied to the same use; but they +have been divided to form two distinct yards, conducted by separate +firms. + +The origin of the name (Isle of Dogs), given to the marshy tract of land +lying within the bold curve of the Thames between Blackwall and +Limehouse, is still undetermined. The common story is, that it receives +its name from the king's hounds having been kept there during the +residence of the royal family at Greenwich. This tradition is wholly +unsupported; nor is it very probable that the king's hounds would be +kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient place, while they could be +kept on the Kentish side of the river, in the vicinity of Greenwich +Castle, then occupying the site of the present Observatory. + +The denominations "isle" and "island" appear to have been bestowed on +many places not geographically entitled to them. The Isle of Dogs, +before the construction of the canal which now crosses its isthmus, was +in fact a peninsula. Pepys {142} spent a night in the "isle of Doggs," +as appears by his entry for July 24th, 1665, and again, on the 31st of +the same month, he was compelled to wait in the "unlucky Isle of Doggs, +in a chill place, the morning cool and wind fresh, above two if not +three hours, to his great discontent." + +To the account of Katherine Pegg, given by your correspondents, pp. 90, +91, may be added, that, besides Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl of Plymouth, +she had, by Charles II., a daughter, who died in her infancy. Mrs. Pegg +was one of the _three_ wives of Sir Edward Greene, of Sampford (not +Samford), near Thaxted, Essex, created a baronet 26th July, 1660 (within +two months of the Restoration), to whom she seems to have been not +unfitly matched; for it is recorded of him that, "by his extravagancy +and love of gambling, he entirely ruined his estate, and his large +inheritance passed from his family." He had issue two daughters, who +married.--See Burke's _Extinct Baronetage_. + +I do not think that Katherine Pegg, whose son by the King was born in +1657, was "the pretty woman newly come called Pegg," saluted by Pepys, +7th May, 1668, as Mr. Cunningham surmises. + +J.T. HAMMACK. + +December. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_The Strand Maypole._--"E.F.R." inquires what was the ultimate fate of +the "tall Maypole" which "once o'erlooked the Strand"? It was taken down +about the year 1717, when it was found to measure a hundred feet. It was +obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, and borne on a carriage, for timber, to +Wanstead, in Essex, the seat of the Earl of Tylney, where, under the +direction of the Reverend Mr. Pound Breton, it was placed in the Park, +for the erection of a telescope, the largest then in the world, +presented by a French gentleman to the Royal Society. + + +_To Fettle._--What is the derivation of the verb "to fettle?" In the +North it means to amend--to repair--to put a thing, which is out of +order, into such a state as to effectuate, or to be effectual for, its +original, or a given purpose; e.g. a cart out of order is sent to the +wheelwright's to be fettled. It has been suggested that the word is a +verbalised corruption of the word "effectual." Bailey, in his +_Dictionary_, has designated it as a north country word: but it is +evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning; for he has merely "to +fettle _to_," and seems to have been ignorant of the use of the word +"fettle" as a verb active. To revert to my former example of its use--An +injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the +injured cart. + +L.C.R. + + +_Greek Verse._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of +the line-- + +"[Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d' athanatoisi]?" + +C. + + +_Dr. Dee's petition to James I._--"E.F.R." states that he has lately +discovered, in the lining of an ancient trunk, two or three curious +broadsides, one of which purports to be Dr. Dee's petition to James I., +1604, against the report raised against him, namely, "That he is or hath +bin a Conjurer and Caller, or Invocator of Divels." He would be glad to +know whether this curious broadside has been printed in any memoir of +Dr. Dee. + + +_Vondel's Lucifer._--"F." desires to be informed whether the tragedy or +dramatic poem _Lucifer_, of the Dutch poet Vondel, which has been said +to bear some analogy to _Paradise Lost_, has ever been translated? and +if not, why not? The French writer, Alfred de Vigny, in _Stella_, calls +Vondel (Wundel in his spelling) "ce vieux Shakspeare de la Hollande." + + +_Discurs Modest._--In Bishop Andrewes' _Reply_ to the _Apology_ of +Bellarmine, chap. i. p. 7, ed. 4to. London, 1610, certain jesuits in +prison are reported to have confessed, _Rem transubstantiationis patres +ne attigisse quidem_; as authority for which is quoted _Discurs Modest_, +p. 13. From this work apparently the passage is copied by Jeremy Taylor, +_Real Presence_, sect. 12. Sec. 16; _Dissuasive_, part i. chap. 1. Sec. 5, and +part 2. book 2. sect. 3. 3: also by Cosin on _Transubstantiation_, chap. +6. Sec. 17. Can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the _Modest +Discourse_? + +A.T. + + +_Ptolemy of Alexandria._--"QUERY" wishes to be informed what works of +Ptolemy of Alexandria are to be met with in an English translation. + + +_Vanbrugh's London Improvements._--In the _London Journal_ of March +16th, 1722-23, there is the following paragraph:-- + + "We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new + paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, + proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels + in the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and + common sewers under ground." + +Sir John Vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of noblemen's and +gentlemen's mansions. Can any of your readers supply me with a reference +to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the general improvement of the +metropolis? + +B.M. + + +_Becket's Grace-Cup._--The inscription round the neck of this so-called +cup, of which a representation is given in No. 1. of Mr. Scott's +_Antiquarian Gleanings_, is thus printed by him--GOD FERARE--: to which +he adds, in explanation, "probably the name of the goldsmith." {143} At +the foot of an earlier print of this relic, the inscription is given +thus--FERARE GOD--and till the appearance of Mr. Scott's version, I had +considered the former word as an accidental error of the engraver, +instead of FEARE; which would present a moral motto, suiting the SOBRII +ESTOTE round the lid.--As Mr. Nichols, in his recent interesting work on +_Pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury_, noticing the misnomer of the +cup (p. 229, n.), indicates its date to be of "the early part of the +sixteenth century," perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could +state if any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, be known. + +ALICUI. + + +_Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book._--I should be glad to know if any of +your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir Henry Herbert's +Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by Malone, Chalmers, and +Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the Revels to King James the +First, and the two succeeding kings, and the said MS. contains an +account of almost every piece exhibited at any of the theatres from +August, 1623, to the commencement of the rebellion in 1641. Malone, in +his _Historical Account of the English Stage_ (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), +says, in a note-- + + "For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am + indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in + Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the + Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which + contained the manuscript _Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury_, + from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, printed the life + of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir Henry Herbert." + +In another place, Malone adds:-- + + "This valuable manuscript, having lain for a considerable time + in a damp place, is unfortunately damaged, and in a very + mouldering condition; however, no material part of it appears to + have perished." + +Such being the case, it becomes more than ever desirable that this +interesting volume should be sought after, and the _whole_ of its +contents put on record before its total decay. Surely, if its depositary +is known, and accessible, it is well worth the attention of the +_Shakespeare Society_, or some other learned body instituted for the +preservation of documents of this nature. + +A biographical account of the various persons that have held the +appointment of "Master of the Revels," with such particulars of the +stage as would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable _Prolegomena_ +to the publication of Sir Henry's Office-Book. We have, it is true, much +information upon this subject, but in a very scattered form. + +I have now before me a list of the "Masters of the Revells," with the +dates of their patents, which I beg to transcribe. It is of more than +ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir Henry Herbert himself, +and copied at the back of the worthy knight's "Petition to Charles the +Second against the Grant to Killegrew and Davenant to form Two Companies +of Players." + +"_Masters of ye Revells_. + +"Sir Richard Guilford - not on record. +Sir Thomas Cawerden - [1544] 36 Henry VIII. +Sir Thomas Beneger - not on record. +Sir John Fortescue - not on record. +Edmund Tilney, Esq. - July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz. +Sir George Buck - June 23 [1603] I Jac. +Sir John Astley - [1612] 10 Jac. I. +Benjamin Johnson - [1617] 15 Jac. I. +Sir Henry Herbert, and} +Simon Thelwall, Esq. } - Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE + +(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos_.) + +1. DR. BROOK TAYLOR'S PERSPECTIVE. 1st edit. 1715. + +2. DR. AUSTIN'S CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF EUCLID. +(Date not known.) + +3. DR. 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