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diff --git a/old/13521.txt b/old/13521.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05e9d50 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/13521.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2229 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 9, Saturday, December +29, 1849, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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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